text:
Primary reform will hurt California democracy
Afghanistan the "forgotten" war?
Braving the nights in Sadr City (Stars N' Stripes report)
US stoking unrest before festival, say Shia
My Dream city.....
why is the system moving soooo slow????
Content Management
'Blair backs Sharon's go-it-alone plan'
Campaign donations question...
190+ Iraqi Dead
Tomorrow is About Condi Rice or A 9/11 Cover-Up By The Commission?
Kerry's battle cry...let's not let it die...
Today, I thought of Clark Ciffords estimate of required troop strength
Is it Bush or Saddam?
Who is Philip Zelikow? The fix is in ...
When was the last bu$h press conference?
Military Letter of Condolence refers to KIA Daughter as Son
How will we answer this one?
Damn, Kennedy said the V word
The drive from Kufah to Baghdad "like a scene from Apocalypse Now."
So there was enough info to prevent 9/11...
Director at Conservative Cato Inst says Time to Bail Out of Iraq
A Letter From A Friend -"This is such a wierd time."
Schmuck of the 21st Century. Envelope Please! Winner is Collin Powell
Michael emailed me hes alive
Compiled update on recent events in Iraq
Governors Call For Presidential Inquiry Into Rising Gas Prices
Battles in Iraq Bring Troubles for Bush and Kerry as Well
SA man killed by Shi'a radicals - report
9/11 Panel: Bush White House Withheld Papers [WaPo]
Dayton criticizes Bush's baseball game appearance in time of battle
Peta uses murder case in anti-meat ads
Bush loses to Kerry in November - Book it!
Do you like aggressive children?
Computer geek help needed
New Padres uniforms.
How many of you...
We Can Make It Happen.....Yeah...We Can Change The World Now
Dissed someone at work today
It is almost officially my birthday!
I just turned 14,000 days old!!!
Man On The Silver Mountain
The Dingbat is.... single.
I just had great mid-rats. Anyone familiar with the term (mid-rats)?
Is it for freedom?
WP: Questions for Dr. Rice
Tiger Force atrocities Vietnam War - Alterman
China licks its wounds as Taiwan holds firm
A Call for an Exit Door from Iraq
Stop the war on the Iraqi people
9/11 Questions ~It would be helpful to ask about Star Wars priorities
MoDo: The Iraqi Inversion (NYT)
Anniversary of Iraq's 1920 Revolt - June 30
How RightWing Faux Populism Exploits The Myth of Liberal Elitism
Tom Toles cartoon: Iraq-A-Mole
New York Daily News - Pitting Black Folk against Air America
Privatization and peril in Iraq (and elsewhere)
'Background' Moves to Forefront (Great bush* quotes)
FRIEDMAN: Are There Any Iraqis in Iraq?
Bush and Blair have lit a fire which could consume them
Novak: Generals weary of low troop levels
WP - Jefferson Morley on Sibel Edmonds' buried story
Molly Ivins: The death of democracy
Transcript of Peter Jennings/Richard Clarke post-Condi talk
W.'s Second Term: If You Think the First is Bad...
The Protection Racket
Al Franken Responds to Lies About Kerry
The Weird Men Behind George W Bush's War
Born-Again Hawks
Osaka government office toilet bomber busted (will the terror never end?)
The U.S. Military Is in Real Trouble - Pravda
Rice appears before the 9/11 commission : fineman
Condi Gets A Reality Check.........(is she a liar?????)
Condi Lousy:Why Rice is a bad national security adviser
Zeroing in on One Classified Document
Blurring the line between soldiers and hired guns
HERBERT: The Empty Room
SLATE: LexiCondi: Decoding Rice's self-serving testimony.
Salon: Performer Lost in Her Performance (Details on Condi's past)
A Letter From Iraq
Salon/Conason: The Artful Dodger
Salon: Be Very Afraid (*'s politics of fear)
Bush's problems in Iraq are piling up
Mistakenly put my love letter to Chimpy in GD, it's here if anybody wants
KRUGMAN: One Good Month
Theologian Charges White House Complicity in 911 Attack
Le scénario du pire - Worst-case scenario
Does Rice Really Know Her Role?
NYT: The Rice Version
Salon: Missing in Action (Kerry)
Anyone from NY area driving to the DC protest on 4/25??
African Americans, Black Folk here @ DU, Please PM me!!!
Emergency Demonstrations Friday 4/9-Mon 4/12
Demand the Aug, 6th PDB, warning of 9/11 Attacks be declassfied
Jay Inslee's Apollo Energy Project - April 13th
Roy Moore For President - DU This Sucker
The Stealth Attack on Reproductive Rights
Does this photo send a message?
Dutch Videos - Iraq
What's with the backdrop at Crawford ranch?? Are journalists set up in
A "landslide poll" for Bush....
Does anyone listen to America Left -- channel 167 - on XM Radio?
Clarke on Nightline 11:30 p.m. EST
March-April 2004: The Date the Media Stopped Liking bushco
mp3 of Condi Rice's 9/11 Commission testimony (04/08/04) here
One Bill O'Reilly article in the NYT
Warning not all anti-Spyware programs are anti-Spyware
Daily U.S. Casualties 4/8/2004
August 6th memo
Verses (Poetry, not Scripture) for Inspiration
Largest Gain U.S. Wholesale Inventories Since NOV 99, Jobs proj only 4 yrs
Why Housing Could Spring a Leak
CRAZY: Anyone can get $100 from Microsoft without receipts
SCO moves for delay in IBM trial
U.S. import prices jump in March
Is the US employment report a turning point?
NYT, p 1: Oman's Oil Yield Long in Decline, Shell Data Show
Greenland is doomed to melt
Renewable Energy Not Relevant, Says ExxonMobil
Australian Insurance Exec. Warns Of Rapidly Rising Climate-Related Losses
Amazon Deforestation In 2003 2X Average For 1990s - 9,100 Square Miles
At Least 8 National Parks Fail New EPA Air Quality Standards - LA Times
Arctic Melt May Dry Out US West Coast - New Scientist
Illinois Removes Peregrine From Endangered List
Dangerous Space Rocks Under Watch: Asteroid protection plan proposed (CNN)
Global warming may melt Greenland's ice
Modern Mars: Latest Spacecraft Findings Redefine Future Missions
Jay Inslee's Apollo energy Project - Is anyone going?
Pole reversal: Feared "flip" of Earth's magnetic field takes 7,000 years
NSB chief called US after attack - TW assassination
Nation-Building Exposes GOP's House Divided
Playground passion on the increase in Chinese schools
"Algerians Vote for New President" (BBC)
"One third of police pursuits end in death of bystander"
Suggestion for the J/PS forum...
Video by yours truly
Guns can be used as a wedge issue- against the Repubs
There's a thread in Politics and Campaigns that is WAY overboard
Now come on
problem with voting in a poll
Accusing a member of being an impostor, etc.
I'm sorry to bother you, but...
Just a sorry for my dirty joke
I KNOW this thread was locked earlier tonight, now it's back
An Iraq thought
"Powell Calls U.S. Casualties 'Disquieting' / *'s Vacation" was locked
Suggestion for the J/PS forum, or "Gungeon".....
To Earl G
Question: When DU started up, were there organized attacks by RWers?
A suggestion for regional activism
Sharon's Victory?
10 Bratslav Hasidim suspected of attacking Arabs in J'lem
Israel has declared war on the Jewish People
Defense of Israeli Assassination Policy by the Bush Administration and Dem
What the 9/11 commission won't ask
Antwerp Diamond Trade Seeks Security After Threats
Two East Jerusalem residents taken captive in Iraq
Retired Special Forces Soldier's Letter to Congress
Where was Thomas Kean when Bush met Buffett on 9/11 ?
Burn them alive
Slanted, or Just Spicy, Language , from the Associated Press?
Roy Moore For President - DU This Sucker
Beer Exec Peter H. Coors to Run for Senate
I thought I had a good idea . . . then I realized it wasn't . . .
June 30 Iraq theory
What is Monkeyboy and Poodle up to now ?
Howard dismisses Iraq-Vietnam link - Australia
Jim Lehrer - Iraq: What Now?
Will Condoleeza be asked about some 9/11 Timeline discrepancies
Victory. (link)
We should be having massive anti-war protests!
Who was/is more evil? Rumsfeld or McNamara?
The Condi Rice Version of History
Citizens find Bush guilty of Afghan war crimes
God help our country
Will TV debates matter that much?
Found out something disturbing the other day
Bush Credibility on 2 Wars -- Iraq, Terrorism -- Under Challenge
We can't pull out of Iraq now.
NARAL Flash Movie
Civil Disobedience
Bill O'Reilly says Iraq might cost Bush re-election, troops should leave
Insurgents vs. Civilians
Coalition losing cities to Shiites( and WH is in denial)
Whadddaya Know Bush is a uniter...
Earth to Bush.. Iraq does not WANT to be a "democracy"..
Daily Reason To Dispatch Bush
The War (p) Resident
For those of us that won't be able to see Condi's
Tax Freedom Day?
Fallujah was a bloodbath -- over 280 Iraqis dead --
It must really suck to be Tom Friedman.
Sistani Fatwa on Insurgency
When Kerry wins.....
Share the blame....please.
who else suspects things are far worse in Iraq than we're being told?
Another success story. Our "ally" to topple the Taliban is now fighting us
Whoops..make that Scarborough spewing lies on Imus
Could Iraq be split up into 3 independent states?
Video conferencing! Thank Goodness!
Imus: "You'll know Condi is lying when you see her lips move"
Condi to testify....and shark attacks
U.S. Housing Market Could Spring a Leak
Get ready for the Media sugarcoating ->Condi Testimony
All Bush Supporters calling CSpan.
Today will be
Will C-SPAN be streaming Condi's testimony today?
Was Mr. Kean
CSPAN to cover Condi testimony?
USAToday: GOP budgets may not match promises
Advocacy "journalism" has completely taken over
CNN poll: - What should the U.S. military do in Iraq?
Everything that Bush should've been impeached for
on C-Span 7:34 a.m.: Richard Clarke allowed Saudis to fly on 9/12?
Coalition News Conference on now: 6:15 EST
Man charged with fatally kicking dog like a football
This is on the Official DNC website
condi taLks - wiLL it be streamed somewhere
Skynews showing video of destroyed Abrams Tank
Bush's No Child Left Behind (Fallujah Redux) Your tax $$$ at work for YOU!
Japanese and Korean nationals kidnapped in Iraq
I get through on CSPAN: "But an OIL tanker named after her?" - bwahahah!
How RightWing Faux Populism Exploits The Myth of Liberal Elitism
From Philly Daily News: 10 Questions for Condi
Gay marriage poll: Please vote
Request about posting on today's testimony
Repubs secretly want a Democrat on Committee to challenge Rice....
Helen Thomas interview on Democracy Now coming up 8:23 am
Should there be a Kurdish state?
I can picture it now !!!!!
CNN showing wounded Americans soldiers climbing out a burning tank
Countdown: T-Minus 30 Minutes and Counting
Is DU being monitored today by external "source" ?
Afghanistan the "forgotten" war?
Time Warner cable out for Condi
Did Whitehouse spokesman Dan Bartlett have the NERVE to say this???
CONdi's haircut costs $150? You've got to be kidding!
Condi's Testimony - Streaming audio link
Should/Will the DNC have investigators ready to challenge Rice testimony?
The Question is Not How Articulate Condi Will Be
Any link to Video of Kidnapped Japanese in Iraq?
George Will wants honesty from the War President
Will Condi say one word that we have not already heard from her?
Political Dynasties; Bushes and Kennedys
And the vote for the Lowest Form of Life goes to:
Can't get the C-Span streaming feed; they have no programming?
And so the lying and spinning begins.
Please summarize Condi's testimony
The menace that is "ClearPlay"
Condi lying to the Commission already....
Condi's Voice
BOMBSHELL: "BUSH'S FIRST NATIONAL SECURITY DIRECTIVE: ELIMINATE Al-QAEDA "
Guardian is transcribing Condi live
BBC tv program on 9/11 timeline aired the other night reveals
1973. The Vietnam War was raging. The Watergate hearings were ongoing.
"...as I said in our PRIVATE session" over and over....
Condi: just lost my live stream! Help.
This interview is NOT going well for us...
What Will Be Today´s Big News Story to distract us from Rice´s testimony?
Convicted murderer Russell Henderson seeks sentence reduction
certainly can take pee break during some of these dudes
August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Brief
Bush to turn Iraq Gov. to who? Do IRAQ even know? We don't and it is
Brown Sugar getting ready for her day in the spotlight!
Iraqi Civil Defense Corps we trained and armed won't fight for us
"The Coalition of the Willing" and unilateralism
what a lying sos and blame it on others
private session
The lost voices of Crystal City
Condi - "To the best of my knowledge
A letter to the Armchair General - PLEASE READ
OFFICIAL THREAD: 9/11 Testimony of Condoleezza Rice
Account of Broad Shiite Revolt Contradicts White House Stand
Listening to AirAm,
Gibson's 'The Passion' a Hit Among Arabs
Saddam needed an army of 400,000, top notch intelligence services...
This is why Air America is great
Rice Questioning Thread
Please note how short Condi's answers are to the Repuke Commissioners!
MSNBC: "Is Bushs base beginning to crumble?"
Dr. Rice's Voice Sounds Stressed. VERY Stressed... Why Is She So Nervous?
WV Public Radio listeners.....
PLEASE photoshop Condi on Halle's Oscar Night Photo
Another O'Neill/Clarke? Bushist Fumes Over Rice's Sabotage of "Road Map"
Pres. PDB Bin Laden determined to attack inside U.S.
Guy from the Cato Institute on Iraq: "It's time to bail out"
Bob Kerrry...YES...
Not watching, but predict media will say Condi did 'stellar job'
I thought Clarke was "not in the loop"
CondiLiar - Answer this
Missile Defense -- help, please!
CONDI: defends failures at home; US should have launched preemptive attack
I can't wait to vote against these jerks!
Condi/Bush inappropriate smiling
Kerry must use 8/6/01 briefing info for commercial
Is there a bucket around here I can puke in?
Anyone else disturbed by the applauding?
Condi using the North Carolina 4 corners stall technique
Isn't the headline, "8/6/01 - Bin Laden Planning Attack Against US."
Need your suggestions - favorite anti-Bush paraphernalia websites!
Dick Clarke Got A LUCKY Break to stop the millenium!
Is there a running transcript of Rice's testimony somewhere?
Missile Defense -- help, please!
Will we go door to door or just level the buildings completely?
What this shows about Clarke
Crap! What was that link just giving on Air American to questions that...
Militiamen Control Parts of 3 Iraq Cities
Which Analogy Is Better For Iraq?
another kick in chimps ass from iraq
Why is the Bush WH hiding Clinton documents about Bin Laden and al Qaeda?
When bush praises condi's "act" he will be confirming
What's the address for the 9-11 commission?
How does she talk sooooooo much...
Any Transcripts up yet?
YOU be the President and choose: 8/6/01
Here is what happened..... The planes were over booked.. more planes on
So, what HUGE story is going to distract us from Condi's lies?
Who is the most offensive 9-11 commissioner?
Didn't Clarke say that the US was on the highest alert status since
David Horsey on Condi and other Bush* criminals
LOL..Canadian TV says she sucked, American TV says she did amazing..
How can this woman sit there...
Open phones coming up on CSPAN
Bush is trying to get the United Nations into Iraq now
Poll....Should Congress have a stronger voice in
Condi's lies thread
afghan city falls to warlord - another failure in the making
Heads up! Dick Clarke to be on ABC in 2 minutes!
The elephant in the room
"We were there (only) 233 days DOES NOT CUT IT
TV vs Radio: How Well Did Rice Do?
9/11 widows respond to Rice testimony on Hardball-"she didn't know
Condi is dandy, but liberals are quicker ...
I know we like to call him Bush*. Shouldn't it be Bush*^ ?
Dave Ross live from Baghdad interviews a neurosurgeon
Text of Condeleezza Rice Statement
Go to CNN and DU the poll
Commission asks white house to declassify 6 Aug PDB
ENOUGH with the "PBD"s. What are you saying?!?!?!?!?
No statement from WH yet. Good (bad) sign?
Iraqui people are committing suicide in Iraq
Re: the PDB Condi: "...it did not warn of attacks in the United States..."
I Nominate The 9/11 Widows for the Time Magazine December Cover..
American heads are firmly in the sand
need site detailing bribes(contributions)to politicians
"Yo, Condi, we need some answers" (Philadelphia Daily News)
Rice testimony about airport security
Rice Testimony in 1 Sentence
Tweety-boy has 9/11 wives on...
Do You Believe The August 6 PDB (if released) Would PROVE LIHOP?
Blocker tag protection from RFID
I can't believe that Tweety just asked this Bennet guy
I DEMAND That The August 6 Memo Be RELEASED In ENTIRETY!!
I want to know what Colleen Rowley thinks of all this
MSNBC: Bush hosts NRA, other groups at ranch
9/11 Committee a farcical
Can someone post an actual working link to Air America?
M Savage's rant yesterday: WHERE is Bush while soldiers are dying?
Where are they now, the cheerleaders for war on Iraq?
is Kerry giving his tax cut to charity?
Some economic perspective from CSM's Clay Bennet
A condi/media question.
"From the President on down, we had NO defensive posturing on that day".
Bottom Line on Condi: She's an Incompetent Bureaucrat
Iraqi insurgents kidnap Japanese, Korean civilians updated 12:00 -PICTURE
Bartcop and Alterman have not been updated for 2 days
Hart "I met with Condolezza Rice on 9/6/01 to talk about the imminent....
CNN is not showing the stock report - is this meaningful?
Another coincidence? PDB Memo and 1 month Bush vacation - same day???
Bob Woodward's book
Karen Hughes on Dubya: "Well, he always has to listen to his mother."
"Structural" & "systemic" - versus "battle stations" & "shaking the trees"
campaign contributions of 9/11 commissioners
Neal Boor(tz) gushing over Rice's testimony...
Offshoring Drains Public Coffers (well DUH...)
Did Condi get asked about Iraq?
Clinton lied about his sex life
Ann Coulter Exposed As Lizard Alien!
Remember this headline?
how will you react if they steal the white house AGAIN?
What's the bottom line ?
Once again with gusto: I LOVE AIR AMERICA!!!! Smart, funny,
The Apparat
Can Sibel Edmonds be called back?
Irony: WP ONLINE story about US Corporate Media ignoring Sibel Edmonds
Anyone have Windows Media link for Air America?
It's heartwarming to know that my life is in the hands of Condi Rice...
Please clarify: What was Clarke's actual answer to the question:
Air America: Accountants without Borders!! for reconstruction of Iraq! n/t
Rices opening statement
"At the request of the Americans, and to preserve the life of our military
Have any American TV stations shown the Kidnappers Video?
Expert warns: Iraq is 'Terrorist Disneyland' Uhhh O!
an inside scoop on employment figures (includes IRS crime)
Why Condi is smiling
Surprisingly, CNN appears to be carrying all of Kerry's speech today
WP Rice Defends Bush Efforts to Combat Terrorism,Preparations Insufficient
Is that Chevy Chase on O'Franken?
DU this poll! CNBC
time to re-visit Symbolman's brilliant 9/11 flash video....
Bottom Line on Condi: She's A Horribly Incompetent Bureaucrat
Condi for president?
Holbrooke on FAUX NOW
12:00 PM est...Looks like a repeat tonight of 9/11 Widows on Hardball
Four 9-11 widows coming on Tweety in a few minutes
Is anyone listening to the caller on the O'Franken Factor...
I wasn't able to watch Condi this morning - how bad was she?
Please listen to AirAmerica NOW!
The League of Women Voters Must be GOP-Driven
WARNING graphic photo of US soldier pulling body of a US soldier from tank
Protecting Bush's Life
Ebook versions of John Dean and Clarke's books
Complete Transcript of Rice Testimony
Check out the DNC's new website.
Free mp3's of hearings
Canadian border wide open in places (you will never guess why)
First Sigthing of Kinky Friedman for Gov. Bumper Sticker
Honest question
In Air America, Condi playing piano to the commission!!! absolutely
My letter to Jay Inslee, (written on behalf of mari333's boy)
oink oink . . . CAGW's annual Pig Book (Congressional pork) . . .
Michael Kinsley on O' Franken Factor.
How long DID they need?
OMG - Don't believe in MIHOP (You Must Read This Interview)
"We'd only been onboard 17% of our term in office."
* Lets Bin Laden family leave the country .....after reading PDB
Rohrabacher blundered on CNN just now
MSNBC Poll - Condi Rice
You know things are bad for Bush when new Fox poll has Kerry leading
Claim vs. Fact: Rice's Q&A Testimony
Unflattering Photograph
will the 'powers-that-be" fire condi now...to protect bush*....?
Anybody just see John Ashcroft on CSPAN? He looked bad
Tired Marines being told they will have "Extended Stay of Duty." Just
Good for Republicans?! anybody else here this?
Clarke's Rebuttal Comments To Rice Testimony
Al ought to be HAMMERING on Condi right now. Instead
Key (R) senator: 9th Circuit to be split up
"We had Bad Intelligence Before 9/11 and We Had Bad Intelligence After"
Randi Rhodes on now
Great Hart v Woolsey interview on CNN QUICK TUNE IN
47% thought Condi did an excellent job!!!
When did Bush go on vacation in August 2001?
Does anyone even care about Padilla anymore?
My e-mail to Chris Matthews
How are the Repubs spinning right now?
Iraqis warned to stay home tomorrow (4/9)
Senate Hearing on the MiCASSA Bill
Awesome graphic on Michael Moore's site...
Some 9/11 Families Angered by No Apology from Rice
Senator Harkin questioning Powell about Haiti CSPAN
Marine says he don't even know what to do with the bodies in Fallujah
Today's Daily Mislead: Condoleezza
it is shameful that soldiers are dying and bush is enjoying easter
Matthews not giving Rice good reviews.
Should we call for an official apology to Clarke?
Andrew Cockburn Analyzes the Turning Mood in Shiite Iraq
"Swatting flies"
Google LIHOP
Caller on O'Franken factor likes Bush mainly because of his
'Soldiers are dying alone; Bush is unable to testify alone.'
CRAZY: Anyone can get $100 from Microsoft without receipt
How many times did Condi perjure herself?
I wonder if Viceroy Bremer has a short-timer stick
I Hate To Jump On Another Thread...But What Is The Difference Between....
Anyone know where to find this video?
Prudential Economist Ed Yardeni not so bullish on Bush prospects
Website Lets You Make Your Own Bush Sign With Your Own Slogan
DID Condi testify under oath?
Does Iraq have Amber Alert system yet?
CNN POLL-Should PDB be declassified
Moveon.org ad just played on Xfire
Randi Rhodes just said * discontinued the Cole investigation!!!
The big story: the August 6 PDB!!
What did AWOL do on the morning of Aug., 6th 2001?
Damn tired of hearing "we did not have clear warnings"...
Meanwhile, in IraqNam..........................
Blumenthal on Rice: "deceitful and derelict, an underhanded lightweight"
Worst 9/11 Commissioner
Bush* tried to cut counter-terror funding AFTER 9/11
Howard Stern accuses Administration of a "Witch Hunt"
Free Speech Zones- the absolute height of bullsh!t...
911 families now on CNN.....should be good, depending
Just On CNN: 5 More Troops Die In Iraq (3 Army\2 Marines) BUT...
What's the number for Air America?
Hardcore Repubs already fed up with Iraq.....but nasty!
CLARKE NPR SEGMENT OVER 5:19p
When Condi says "to the best of my knowledge"
Req for Help: Looking for transcription of Kyle Hence
A Little Military History
O Franken Factor & 911 Short Selling
What would satisy you? A hypothetical.
More on the Risks of Computerized Voting Fraud
Feb.26,1993 (5 WEEKS)....Sept.11,2001 (233 Days)
...and now I'm off to get a frontal lobotomy ...
Terrific Bush Cheney Bumper Stickers
Help on the Fed'l Budget, Spending, "Discretionary spending; Soc Sec'ty
About That Ban On Showing The Coffins
WARNING graphic pic of US soldier pulling body of US soldier from a tank
"Where's the President?"
did Clinton testify privately for 3 hrs before the 911 Commission?
Bush's own words and actions regarding 9/11 are damning.
Did we get 'em?
If you failed miserably at work and then told your boss
Fast talker Cliff May on Xfire
Surprise! Surprise! Paris Bomb Alert After CIA Tip-Off, Nothing Found
Meanwhile, AFGHANISTAN is Going to HELL TOO!
Byrd on C-Span2 now
good piece on 1968 riots and a reprise
Rice has proved that the truth is moot.
CNN Poll - Bring Them Home Now
Uh oh, media now starting to do stories on dead soldiers
9/11 Commissioners discussing today's Clinton testimony - CNN Now!!
Should the US be split into 3 independent states?
The REAL agenda behind the 9/11 Commission
Gary Hart coming up with Lester the Lesser
Air America contact number
If a major cover up of 9/11 or LIHOP can be proved, * is finshed
We all know what happened.
Iraq Summary 4/8/2004 with map
time the press revived the investigation of Bush and Ken Lay
BBV - New electronic scanners miscounted some San Diego votes
Anyone know where the biggest oil refineries are located?
What Would Be More Responsible NOW?
Clinton with 911 commish today?? Just got home & seeing on CNN
A message to Wolf Blitzer
Check out Cnn.com's spin of Condi's testimony
Go Vote against Rice at following site
PREDICTION: John Kerry will lose the popular vote. . .
Is LIHOP getting ready to go public?
Rice Press Briefing (of Lies) from May 16, 2002
Screwing Stern Again
Bush/WTC split screen video on 911: anyone got a link?
Racism on this site... #2
CBS just showed dead children...
In my mind, there's 0 difference between LIHOP & MIHOP
ABC reporting on funerals of deceased U.S. troops.
President's Daily Brief Coverup - Other PDB's have been declassified
Roy Moore For President!!! DU This Sucker!
My biggest objections to Condi's contentions
Iraq Blog: US soldiers hid in a mosque
Expanding Iraqi Council Is Leading Option -Powell
Holy Crap! They Lost FINEMAN!!!
Yahoo: September 11 memo may have warned about hijackings
Deleted message
We need to throw more curve balls at the Republicans.
Jamie Gorelick on Tweety, sorry to be so late
Political Memories
am i paranoid to worry that the 8/6/01 document thing is subterfuge?
I just want to scream...
is it true that condi was the one that warned mayor brown not to fly 911?
Randi Rhodes talking seriously about LIHOP!
Love my BBC ticker. Know where to get other news tickers for the
The STFU truck not running rampant enough on DU?
Condi dances artfully around a Clarke assertion
Air America is coming to Colorado Springs !
Lcpl Boudreaux killed my Dad, th(en) he knocked up my sister!
Communism on DU?
Great link: Condi Rice lies exposed one by one!
How Come Tweety Always Says Rice is "A Beautiful Woman?"
who is fineman? pardon my ignorance
Racism on this site...
looking for old alan bates movie The Fixer
Countdown with Keith Oberman going to talk about Armageddon Plan
John Kerry on O'Franken Factor Friday
Condi's a lousy supervisor--YOU'RE FIRED!
another brilliant movie about the stupidity of war
Projection of power.
I'm watching "Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election"
Air America listeners: has anyone talked about the PNAC?
so how much editing fun is the daily show
OMG...."Iraq Information" Section On Whitehouse Site Is Too Much.
Homophobia rampant at DU?
Did Anyone Listen to So What Else is News Tonight?
If You Dont Want to Be Accused of HOMOPHOBIA
So the large canine (WJC) was also in front of the commission today
Damn it all, anyway
What alternate universe are these boneheads watching from?
I hate to say this but AAR is going to have to get "nastier"...
There is insurrection of various strengths in almost every big Iraq city
Shi'ite revolt runs deeper than just Sadr's army.....
two must see films for the younger generation (40 and below)
Washington Post hasn't written an editorial about the latest Iraq events.
Damn it all, anyway - The Sequel
What does the Republican Party Stand for anyway??? All I hear
Photo of Condi and da boys
Does the War Powers Act need to be revised?
Only thing that would satisfy the Iraqis is if we turned Iraq into utopia
Sent Chimpy a little love note...
Picture of dead or injured american
Now actually watching Condi testimony on CSPAN: getting sick
Website "Stern fans for Kerry"
concern mounts over unrest in Iraq - no shit!!!
Looking for a T. Roosevelt Quote
Richard Clarke: Condi corroborated me...
Are you satisfied with Condi Rice's testimony about 9/11?
breitweiser, cassaza on Norville, right now
What will be the end of Bush?
The Armagadden Plan - Nightline Last Night
Of course there was no silver bullet or fly swatter! That's our point.
Condi's LAMEST Distortion......
Chalmers Johnson on Majority Report now!
Japan says they will not remove their troops, BUT
Are you guys aware that Bill Clinton testified for four hours
Where have all the flowers gone?
OMG...need help re: state national guard
Who's worse, O'Reilly or Hannity?
Newsday columnist accused of faking antigay remarks
I wonder how many deaths shrub is willing to spend on his ego
The O'Franken Factor: Even Fineman not able to defend *
my question with mihop
"Aid" workers in Iraq - what a wacky world we live in
Dan Bartlett just LIED!
And another thing! (Condi's testimony again...sorry)
As if duck hunting with the Veep weren't bad enough...
Favorite form of death, destruction and degredation
CBS showing dead baby
Larry King: Panel to analyze Condi Testimony: Ben Veniste...
Asking Condi the Wrong Questions
Michael "The Clenis is Evil" Isikoff SKEWERING Condi/bushco on Tweety
Hannity: Condi testimony "became nothing more than...
Review this article from the Jerusalem Post reported September 17, 2001
the rnc wants ME to fill out their 'census' form
Gay republican on Air America's Majority Report...
Let me get this straight: Condi's excuse is that,
Dick Santorum: Did anybody hear the comments in Air America
Lou Dobbs on with 9-11 commissioners
Damn, where are the left-leaning businesses?
yet another idiotic RW mass e-mail
Republicans for Kerry
Aaaron Brown!
"Tired of swatting flies"...why didn't one of the commish pounce
What's with all the Hypersensitivity at DU here lately?
Raw footage from Iraq
You know what I think?
Dean vs. Woolsey
what I would ask Rice
Dick Santorum: on Air America The Majority Report
US Casualties up to 635, was 619 yesterday (lists)
OK - Randi Rhodes is up @ 3p to 7p...Discussion Thread #1
Did Kerrey open up a can of worms today?
Found company that hires people to work at home in Central Florida.
NYU students get ready for GOP invasion
Bill Clinton testified today anyone Know
Accountability, Condi-style
AirAmerica scoop?
George Carlin is on Tavis Smiley (Thu 4/8): media and "social hysteria"
New CNN Pole: Are you satisfied w/Condi's testimony?
Over Sensitive PCers Or Agent Provocateurs?
du this poll
Lehrer show shamelfully edits testimony to make Rice look strong
Three Card Condi and the Ghost of Payne Stewart.
Anne Graham Lotz
Randi Rhodes reminds me of Alan Berg....
"Saturation evangelism" (North Carolina News)
LIHOP/MIHOP for Dummies (Self Included)
9/11 Commissioners LOVED Clinton
Bush; "Had we known
Needed: information on Nixon's "Operation Star" re: suspending elections
In times like these ...I miss Mike Malloy the most...
what will it mean for the worlds non Islamic population if the Japanese
Faces of the fallen
CNN poll: Are you satisfied with Condoleezza Rice's testimony about 9/11?
The Thief of Baghdad - Charleton Heston as George W. Bush -
10:33 pm ET Please listen to Air America.SAUDI MONEY GOES TO OVAL OFFICE!
If you EVER watch anything, you MUST watch THIS: tweet/911 widows
shook up a freeper today
"Fun" groups against Bush
This oughta be taken over to Freeperland...
Has Condi lost credibility today?
This may be a dumb question,
I win
"the collective punishment Bremer has ordered"
Will Kerry throw the book at the current admin when he takes office?
Daily Show starting - Ok - it's really starting now
Getting Us OUT
Will the August 6th PDB be declassified?
"Jersey Girls" 9/11 Widows coming up next on Aaron Brown, CNN...
Jon is TERRIFIC on the Daily Show tonight!
Watching Tweety blasting the hell out of Bush and Condi
Hotmail Censoring E-mail?
Wesley Clark? Come on.
Did Alan Colmes say he voted for Lieberman?
Quote needed for argument with a freeper!
Please welcome new DUer Lalo Alcaraz, political cartoonist
Lies and the lying liars that tell them
BBV: List of Who is Cosponsoring the Voter Confidence Act and Who Isn't
TV Alert: Wes Clark w/Greta Van Sustern @10 Eastern
The smoking Gun.
Richard Clarke: Sexiest Man Alive.
Does Bush Take Convenient Vacations?
Mayor's rivals attack 'rant' about Saudis
What Iraq options do you favor???
Help requested with environmental info
New show on Air America: "Ring of Fire" with Robert Kennedy, Jr.
I am SOOOOOO sick of "the world was different before 9/11
Our politicians have got to stop wasting our tax dollars on Iraq!
"The Ballad of Condi Rice" (Oil Tanker Extended Edition Memorial mp3)
Who is accountable?
Why couldn't Clinton testify publicly in today's 9-11 hearing?
Paraphase Condi's testimony in one sentence
Six refinery fires in last 2 weeks!
Holy Joe defends Condi Rice today
all halliburton et al. scandals in the last 5 years
WTF? Tank crew of M1 tank injured by RPG?
Charlie Rose (Thu 4/8): Sanger, Isikoff, and Pincus on Rice's testimony
Powerful words from Howard Stern
It's Time to say it: Iraq is in full blown REVOLUTION Now
Marine commander in Fallujah agrees with Senator Kennedy. Its Vietnam
George & Condi's Excellent Vacation...(reporter's diary ... Aug 6, 01')
Bush is a chicken crap in 3 languages
I wish I could by those Jersey girls a drink
If Condi is not responsible for anything, is her job necessary?
Should Congress pass a law restricting Reserve/NG call-ups?
Nightline's guest: Richard Clarke.
I'm trying to figure out what actually came out of the Condipalooza today
The Weird Men Behind George W Bush's War
War on Terror: A Myth
$10 for change (Ohio)
When did they change the back of the nickle?
O'Reilly Made Some Insane Comments Tonight !
Would you have supported Bush?
Condi zinged Bob Kerrey...
MATTHEWS is ON FIRE!!!
Go to Salon.com's "The War Room" for the Condi Rice Testimony analysis
Even If We Had Done Everything Clark Recommended .
Keith Oberman Lost Me As A Viewer
I want my wedge issue
Oh I am really pissed RE: Iraq and my nephew!!!
Al Quaeda Sleeper Cells in the US: NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT!!
OK, We Got It! They Didn't Have The SPECIFICS!
Liberal redneck: Is there such a thing?
Rohrabacher (R-CA) just let the (LIHOP) cat out of the bag
"Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States"
Condi Rice: SLACKER EXTRAORDINAIRE!
3 or more 9/11 Hijackers needed Clearance from State Department to Train!
Another Idiotic Rice Statement: Aug 6 PDB "Not Threat Reporting"
Claim vs. Fact: Rice's Opening Statement-Center for American Progress
Franken doesn't buy into LIHOP
It's so HARD to be a Republican in 2004.....
In Canada, Christian Bookstore Won't Stock Latest "Left Behind "
If you are ok with STERN being fined- Listen to this mp3
Review this article from the Jerusalem Post reported September 17, 2001
Can anyone give Randi Rhodes a clue?
Is it just me, or is America spinning out of control??
How Strong is the Army of the Hidden Imam?
"They hate us for our freedom"?
Clear channel just dropped Howard Stern under FCC pressure and fines!!
Traitor Joe is on Fox praising Rice
**Emergency Iraq Protests** Friday & Saturday
Am I the only only Janeane is annoying with her insulting...
Were these warnings specific enough, Condi?
A ZombyPeace Thread - Veterans For Peace
Condi admitted they did nothing about the Cole bombing?
Are you aware of the CU (Conservative underground) ?
Powell on Haiti: US "Prevented a Blood Bath and a Coup from Taking Place."
The question is: WHY did they ignore the warnings? The answer is PNAC.
Election dashed Beijing's dream: UCLA professor - TW
Myanmar embassy firebombed
US military spreads its wings in Asia
Pressure on Australian government increases 350 refugees who were drowned
(Montana) OKs legality of proposed gay marriage amendment
Haiti Urged to Stop Rights Abuses
Canadian Prime Minister to Meet Bush
Saudi Qaeda Man Calls for Killing Americans
Rice Plans Unapologetic 9/11 Testimony
Hospital Chief: Over 280 Iraqis Killed (400 Wounded - Fallujah - AP)
Nader calls for Bush Impeachment!!
Account of Broad Shiite Revolt Contradicts White House Stand
CNN showing wounded Americans soldiers climbing out a burning tank
9/11 Panel: Bush White House Withheld Papers
Ex-President Bush Likens Kerry to Clinton
Dozens Dead in Crackdown
Former federal Superfund official indicted on fraud charges
GMA says thousands of protesters at the gates of Fallujah (No story link)
Feds issue threat over money for nuclear-waste cleanup
U.S. Increases Efforts to Put Down Sunni and Shiite Fighters
US loses control of two cities - Guardian Unlimited
Bombs found in U.S.-led authority compound in Iraq
Al-Jazeera airs videotape threat to kill three detained Japanese
Blasts heard from near U.S.-led authority HQ in Iraq - Inside Green Zone
Briton Kidnapped in Southern Iraq Town
Guardian is transcribing Condi live
Pentagon Source Admits 130 US Troops Killed in Insurgence Attacks
Belinda Stronach 'not a career politician': dad - CBC
'We will burn them alive' [ JAPANESE HOSTAGES TAKEN IN IRAQ]
AP: Rice: Nation Ill-Prepared Despite Threats
Cheney's Visit Expected to Boost Sino-US Ties
Unempl. #'s way down, this could hurt
Late by 1 minute - dupe - Gunmen Take Seven Koreans Hostage in Iraq
Gibson's 'The Passion' a Hit Among Arabs
Condi Rice speaks to 9/11 panel - the thread to discuss it
Hotel murder man had 'two names'
Democrats split on Iraq after rise in violence
Bush to Give NRA, Environmental Groups Ranch Tour
Transforming rays into weapons
DU CNN Poll
'Background' Moves to Forefront (Great bush* quotes)
Shiite Militias Control Parts of Three Iraqi Cities;Japan/Korean kidnapped
Judge rejects Enron plea bargain
Iraqi insurgents threaten to burn Japanese prisoners alive
7 S. Korean Nationals kidnapped
Carpet exec named as manufacturing czar
US seeks contributors for new multinational force to protect UN in Iraq
Iraqis march to Falluja armed with aid
Heavy fighting in Afghanistan with Dostum's forces
"Bin Laden determined to attack inside the United States"
CNN: Two reporters ordered to erase tapes during Scalia speech
Remember this headline?
Plea to lift siege as Falluja toll mounts... Al Jazeera
Muslim Brotherhood urges Iraqis to back insurgents
Will Britain hold peace talks with Bin Laden?
Seven hostages freed in Iraq; 5 still held
Rice omits Lockerbie from terror list, praises Libya
Florida voters give Jeb Bush good marks
Rice Defends Bush Efforts to Combat Terrorism,Preparations insufficientWP
Marine killed in Fallujah fighting
U.S. Falling Deeper and Deeper into Iraq Quagmire
Vancouver 'haven' for terrorists: police chief
Ammonium nitrate goes missing in Australia
Pakistani Troops Ready to Launch Fresh Anti-Terror Offensive in Tribal Reg
Chunk of Brazil's Amazon Cut Down in 2003 ..the size of Massachusetts
Bremer: Pilgrims Face Danger if They Attend Shiite Festivals in Iraqi City
Account of Broad Shiite Revolt Contradicts White House Stand
Iraqi Governing Council member threatens to reconsider his participation
Ascroft criminal charges against Reliant in CA
Gas refinery explosion in NM
CNN reports the PBP of August 6th will be released
Kerry Says Bush Should Seek Help on Iraq
Condi Gets A Reality Check.........(is she a liar?????)
Condi Rice Testimony Thread #2
As Violence Escalates, Some Changes of Heart on War
Eight indicted in $68M nationwide tax-fraud conspiracy
Militiamen Control Parts of 3 Iraq Cities
CNN: 6 More Marines Killed in Iraq
D.C. group (Americans United) eyes Darby 'objective origins' fray
Some votes miscounted in primary, officials say (Diebold Fails Again
Iraqi Police Abandon Posts During Uprising
Rice clashes with 9/11 commission (from down-under)
From homecoming to funeral (small town CA story brings war home)
Iraqi Insurgents Threaten to Burn Hostages
Infosys to Create Consulting Jobs in U.S.
US ground forces commander vows to crush insurgents (Sanchez)
STOCK MARKET WATCH, Thursday 8 April
US now the common enemy of Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Iraq: experts
Fallujah is like Vietnam says US commander
Some 9/11 Families Angered by No Apology from Rice
Bush to Rice: 'Great Job' Testifying
Hostage takers threaten to kill 3 Japanese (w/photo from Japan)
Support Eroding For Bush On Iraq (CSM)
Feds Indict First Company for Market Manipulation in California Energy Cri
U.S. Forces Fire At Aid Convoys To Fallujah (update to my earlier thread)
Cook attacks 'American warriors'
Dostum's Forces Capture Afghan Town
A Bureaucrat Testifies (Fineman - Newsweek)
Rice Apologizes For Failure of Mentioning Pan Am Flight 103
Afghan City Falls Despite Troop Dispatch.......9 minutes ago
Violence Threatens to Unravel U.N. Plans for Iraq--New WMW
CNN poll: Are you satisfied with Condoleezza Rice's testimony about 9/11?
State OKs legality of proposed gay marriage (ban) amendment (Montana)
Fox News Poll: Kerry 44, Bush 43
Marchers break through US roadblocks (Fallujah)
General May Bolster Force in Iraq; Militias Kidnap a Dozen Foreigners
Pulaski grad becomes states youngest Iraq casualty
Kerry Urges Bush to be Bold, Honest on Iraq (Reuters)
Clarke Says Rice's Testimony Bolstered His Claims
Manufacturing 'Czar' Named
Group urges end to Haiti human rights abuses
Norwegian Church Aid leaves Iraq
9/11 panel asks White House to declassify key document
9/11 team seeks 'Bin Laden' memo
BBC reporting 7 S. Korean hostages released unharmed in Iraq
Sadr militia says it holds Spanish, possibly US hostages
Concern over 'mystery containers' off Somalia
Al-Jazeera TV - 3 Japanese being held hostage in Iraq.
Afghan warlord on the warpath
'US is bigger threat than terror'
CNN Breaking: Paris train stations evacuated because of bomb threat
Five 18-year-olds among those killed in action in Iraq this month
Former President Clinton Testifies To 9/11 Commission
Contractors Struggle With New Iraqi Violence
DNA Lab: President's Brother Not Father of Child at Center of Slander Case
Fierce Fighting in Fallujah - 40 US Soldiers Killed this week
Anger at Livingstone Saudi rant: "hang Al-Sauds from lampposts"
Powell: Iraq Government May Have Limited Sovereignty
A few Ohio Democrats cross into the president's camp
Afghan City Falls to Commander as Troops Fly In
Tom Watson's caddie, Bruce Edwards, dies at 49 of Lou Gehrig's Disease
Ministry probes how (U.S.-made) IDF choppers got to Colombia
U.S. Jobless Claims Tumble to 328,000
Governor, Mayor Refuse to Offer Official Welcome to Atheist Convention
Calif. Judge Orders Rodney King to Jail
U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq - 642 U.S. service members have died
Breaking on CNNI - Iraqi Interior Minister Resigns
Howard Stern Dropped After FCC Threat
Rice Says Bush Understood al-Qaida Threat
USDA Rejects Meatpacker's Plan to Test All Animals for Mad Cow
US surprised by retaliation - Fallujah
Powell Calls U.S. Casualties 'Disquieting' / *'s Vacation
U.S. Muslims seek Pentagon probe on Iraq photo
ok 2 more acronyms i don't get please help a newbie
Rejection sucks
poetry corner! what verses are running through your head?
Remodeling prob #5687
Question about the XXX channels on satellite TV. Our setup gets several
Is there any way to listen to Coast to Coast online, other than to pay
Who is the greatest old-style Bluesman?
OMG - Did anyone see the video of injured marines (CNN)?
A question for any of our DU Muslims
The Spell-Chequer Poem.......read it before?
10 Points to Ponder
Request for Shopping Assistance
The Royal Tit Watching Society of Britain
From Which network will you be watching Condi Rice?
You folks all gotta check this cartoon series out!!!
guess whose CD is #3 on the amazon.com best seller list . . .
Anyone Here Heard Of A Band Called 'Modest Mouse' ?
A legal question for the Legal Eagles at DU
Dog Kicker Being HOUNDED By Nasty Phone Calls
Bond Girl Poll - Best Name
I just love this MSRNC picture of Ricie
Mind The Gap
For Cube Dwellers and others who can't get C-Span - Replay tonight
Bizarre Holidays in April
What is so great about Maurice Clarett?
Good Bush joke.
What does Condi mean by...
Cartoon:Steve Bell "Major Combat Activity is Over Being Over"
Dr. Rice isn't going to say anything of note today
Don't squeeze the Charmin!
I am home today, Waiting For Condi And I Have Not A THING To Wear!
I'm home sick. Ask me anything.
I Didn't Win the Lottery Last Night...Did You? n/t
Friendship prayer
Any Bruce Campbell fans????
I got a job...a FULL TIME job...with benefits and everything!!!
Eastern European women are da bomb
I watched Spiderman last night, and it suddenly dawned on me
Any "Avengers" fans here?
Lynne's out of chocolate puddin'. What should she do?
Here is a threat on par with terrorists and WMDs
Easter Bunny Hip Hop
So Matcom, was it worth it - taking a day off of work just for Condi Rice
The OFFICIAL Condi Oscar award photo:
Easter, the pagan facts...
Random Nietzche quote and question
Nobody's voting for an end to Pig Brother - Hog webcam
Super Happy Fun List About Your Conservative Neighbor's Mailbox
What does n/t mean??
I need a Philadelphia Flyers avatar!!!
In order to make the world a happier place: I'm eating chocolate puddin'
M.A.T.C.O.M. vs M.A.T.C.O.M. Battle Of The Assholes - Round #3
Come visit Republican America!
Condi is the new Olie North!
I heard they're cancelling Easter this year.
Tell us about your furry family members strange habits...
I voted and all I got was this ruined suede coat
War and Peace
Condi/Clarke poll needs some major DUing!!!
bush's emaiL
Any Campbell soup fans? My favorite is mushroom w/Ritz crackers and
Seeing gay couples on the street, a question ...
You know, I would just like to take this time to point out
On a serious note!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. my wife is gonna stop the pill
Kiddie version of "The Passion"
Can we please not say "asleep at the wheel" RE: 9/11?
Here Comes The Flood
Dio for America
A question for British DUers
After hearing a PSA on AAR the past few days, I have a question...
the cybernaut ship-of-state of all CAPTIONs
Happy Hip-Hop Easter Everyone!!!
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
Anyone know what happened to the Question W site?
Court Case Looming Over Tongue-Vibrator Patent
Give us your Mind-Controlling Caption
Frozen Four today!
How to Make a Chocolate Bunny -- FUNNY!!!
Chemtrail over the White House...
HAHAHA - "The Passion of the Easter Bunny" - Must Read
Condi Photoshopped
Need a Condi break?: Watching Tyson the Bulldog Skateboarding
Need a little help, guys!
Would You Hide If I Came By?
Agghh! Beware the librarian!
Best Bond Girl
Hindu holy man who has buried himself neck down in the ground
Gad zooks
Battle of the Seoul Singers: Uhm Jung-hwa vs. Jo Kyu-chan
ANOTHER Condi Caption!
What is soft and furry and puts you to sleep?
Who else could use a nap right now?
It's official: Air America Has Arrived!!!!
What Republicans would you invite to a BBQ?
The Tele-Conference Call of all CAPTIONS!!!!!
Happy Birthday: Steve Howe, Izzy Stradlin, and Julian Lennon
I just got tix to the Sox/Yanks game on 4/17...
caption condi's 911 pic
Just saw an awesome thing
Time for MOVIE TRIVIA: Here's the first Question
Do you think your average Republican could decode this message?
ATTENTION PET OWNERS: DYSON DC07 Review coming soon
check out this funny patriotic site
Please chech out this (memorial) video by yours truly
Thurston Moore column in Ny Times
Anyone read the Boomer Bible.....
The Condi "Would I lie to you? Come on, now..." Stare of all CAPTIONS
Did anyone see Tim Robbins on TDS last night?
check out this picture
I'm thinking of getting a Papillon puppy
Great new Windows wallpapers I just got.
You ever have one of those days...
Clear Channel Dumps Howard Stern
The thing Freepers are most deluded about
"I'll get you, my little pretty ............. and your little dog too!"
Bumper Sticker Alert!
Call from an ex-boyfriend: "I dreamed my son will be killed in Iraq."
James Bond Villains - Which one are you?
Postcard Arrives At Post Office - 82 Years Late
Earliest domestic cat found on Cyprus -- 7500 BC
Wow, the Tigers are now 3-0!
What Would Be More Responsible NOW?
The Detroit Tigers are now 4-0! If I didn't know better....
I need some quetions for Robert Novak
Cubs lose again....looking for sympathy....
Tennessee Legislature Tackles Tough Problems
Seperated at Birth
Condi Tries Jedi Mind Trick
Attention Unemployed Northern New Jersey DU-ers
Crawfordy Hillbillies song
The 11th Commandment: Thou Shall Not Worship False Pop Idols
Cat people... how does your feline friend measure up
Hurray! The ice is "going out".
lol stupid freeper's bumber stickers
Who's got the link for the Air America "ratings" on Amazon??
Concerning body oils and lotions.
Did anyone happen to see this earlier today?
Favorite pet name for our National (In)Security Advisor?
Help! My Cat's After My Mouse!!!
My retro protest sign: The World is only Black and White ...
Oh Man!!! Why is life so stupid?
Question for DU Cops: What are your thought on the legality of pot?
Now that Condi's through lying: THE MASTERS LEADERBOARD!!
Right Wing Eye for the Liberal Guy
Transcript of Bush August Briefing Revealed!!!
The duality of man
Help with long distance
Gawd, am I lonely!
Police cyber crime pin-up girl busted for hacking site
Whatever happened to "Al Gore In Context"? Great website.
Mom With 14 Kids, One on the Way, Honored
Osaka government office toilet bomber busted (will the terror never end?)
New to me bumper sticker: Exfoliate Bush!
Unofficial Condoleeza Rice Career Advice thread
Condi: "There was no silver bullet."
I Nominate Johnny Damon MLB Player Of The Year!
I'm listening to all of Steely Dan's work, in order
another caption needed
caption condi: "who me? was I supposed to do something?" NYT
After a wonderful and loyal 8 year relationship with a GLBT person
Condi Caption AGAIN!
caption Senator Byrd
Sloganator redux: Make fake Bush-Cheney signs ridiculing the ChimpInChief
WOW!...I was just watching "Steve Harvey's Big Time"
Revealation Chapter 1.
What would you do if I started a joke...
Just saw this bumper sticker
Does the Devil exist?
Personal thoughts on Kurt Cobain (long)
Happy Birthday, Kofi and Betty!
Earthlink DSL? Or Verizon DSL? --- Which Should I Select?
Best guitar duels!
Discovered a good, new way to get pretty da*n wired.
Shaking the trees???
I finally got my new television!!!!!!!
Speaking of brown drinks...Makers Mark vs. Knob Creek
I Watched Them Raise Gas Prices by 15 Cents!
Let's duke it out: Best James Bond!!
Is baby talk common among the 18-25 year old set?
its been what... 36 dead in Iraq since Sunday? (rant)
Howard Stern question
Somebody is messing with the Nader For President website
Battle of the Soul Singers: Bobby Womack vs. Teddy Pendergrass
Condi's HAIR, man!
M.A.T.C.O.M. vs M.A.T.C.O.M. Battle Of The Assholes - Round #4
M.A.T.C.O.M. vs M.A.T.C.O.M. Battle Of The Asshole BULGE - Round #5
Ugh....I didn't know Skeletor was on the 9/11 commission.
Most annoying Condi meme:
i`m a happy guy!!!
I think ER is about to enter the gay marriage debate - spoiler follows
Anyone just see that Spiderman2 preview
did anyone ever write a paper,,
Anyone ever see Steve Odekirk's Thumb movies?
Bush: Dead men tell no tales
Bravo announces Queer Eye for the Straight Girl
Any tricks for cutting down spam from webmail accounts
these store bought glasses are killing me.
What's up with Josh Marshall's site?
Why eat peeps at Easter? How the marshmallow chicks found Jesus
Oh My God! Please Help me RW 5!!!!
Two Marines die: one from my home town, and my previous town
Real men drink BROWN DRINKS!!!
The Apprentice: Quick Question
Good Night DU!
How do you DU
Here's to Hank Aaron
DU College Students: What is up with the Alcopops?
Which Bit Of Condi's Jargon Most Desperately Needs To Be Banned?
whoohoo, my aeroplanes came in the mail
Baseball fans
Elperromagico's in a good mood - Ask him anything!
I'm listening to Logan Whitehurst...ask me anything!
DU chat tonight
Who is this Steve Malzberg?
I am listening to Guns & Roses: Appetite for Destruction. Ask me anything.
Dentist appointment went okay.... one crown and a filling
caption bush
My brain is fried---ask me anything!
Wow! I almost shaved my head!
Is Bunny-Phobia hopping rampant here @ DU?
Some people just shouldn't have children...
Who's got tomorrow off?
20 posts in 19 minutes
SURVIVOR: Rupert is 100% all man
Wow, the new Guns n' Roses album -
If I am lying in the desert, and moaning, my dog will not come.
Glad we didn't give THAT GUY a job.
Have a question for the drinkers....
Just finished shaving my mitts
Any good tips for selling a used car?
Brewers atop NL Central, Tigers Undefeated, What's Next?
eddie guerrero may be worst champ ever
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
done for the night
Oh. My. God. There really is a Freeper Lounge!
Wow. This really works!
Li'l bro's joining the Guard...and I'm half tanked. Ask me anything!
Just finished shaving my bits
Okay, I'm back in Vancouver, got my Hawaii shirt on, the lonely bull on
What song is on that new Nissan commercial
I made enchilada suizas, tacos, and Mexican rice tonight for supper.
Eek! People are spamming my cat's beauty contest!
orioles win
I find myself thinking about Toby Keith a lot lately.
Anyone else remember these?
I drank a jar full of coffee, and then I took some of these...
I can't find the larger sized Peeps, ask me anything!!
How many of you have heard of Sam Kinison?
Detroit Tigers: 4-0, baby!
My middle brother (I'm the oldest) had his day in court today. So-so.
Show of hands: Who has or is taking day off tommorrow?
What does the phrase "get bent" mean to you?
"Wonderfalls" Cancelled
Maine 2, BC 1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm about to kick my cats ASS!
Connecticut has lost its 11th soldier in 13 months.
My MS Internet Explorer has been hijacked.
Marshmallow Peeps or Chocolate Bunnies
Any fans of "Amy's" brand organic foods?
Best James Bond car
My 100 Favorite Songs of 1958
One of the places where I've applied for work has gotten back to me!
Please welcome new DUer Lalo Alcaraz, political cartoonist
implanted eye jewelry...
Arachnophobia rampant on DU?
Canucks take game one..eat that foul Calgary duers!
The Passion of the Easter Bunny
Does God exist?
I applied for a new job and I really, really want it. Ask me anything!
What's your favorite constellation?
CAPTION Condi!
Prayers, Positive Vibes and Karma needed for my Kitty
DU Grad Students ....
Go Orioles
Favorite power pop song
anyone just see the Spiderman II trailer?
Is the thought of a Unicorn a Real Thought?
Its late at night ..sleep evades me
Ginger or Mary Ann?
DU - ROLL UP, ROLL UP! - Sound off on Frank Zappa!!!
Wow talk about irony...
Ok, Ex-Navy DUers, What's wrong with this picture?
This Is JEOPARDY!
Easily the most disturbing thing ever
Decapitated cat video backfires on Ford
Does anybody remember the IBM commercial where....(Condi related)
99 Beers On the Wall Revisited
9-11 and the slam dunk case against Bush
here come the kids! . . .
No core values or principles
The virtue of a good Vice
The Power of Honesty and Leadership
Conservative commentators dissenting on Iraq
Ultimately, Would John Kerry have taken this nation to war with Iraq?
Condi on CSPAN now
Rendell-Street feud may produce more Kerry campaign cash
Would choosing Edwards for VP now be anti-climactic?
Candidates, Coattails and Congress
Kerry-McCain Ticket....the Cons are all abuzz...
Ad ideas.....?
bizarre Bush* campaign criticism/lie: Pell Grant funding
Kerry should run a simple 15 second ad like this:
Say what you want... I'm supporting JFK in 2004.
Dire Threat to Free Speech from Federal Election Commission
The media can lie all they want
Kerry and McCain pledge to end corporate welfare!
Can Someone PLEASE Tell Kerry to Stop Talking About Taxes
Beantown Bash
Fox News Poll: Kerry 44, Bush 43
John Kerry will raise taxes by 100 zillion dollars
Does Kerry have a joke writer?
Randi Rhoades: Book * was reading on 9/11 about a goat was satanic
Why is this man President?
Condi's testimony makes me all the more glad
Tell Bush to Stop Mortgaging Our Children!
Here's a little overlooked gem from the 9-11 Commission Statements.
Which state will be the most democratic this November?
Nader '04 folks - can we talk?
Rasmussen Poll: Generic Congressional Vote 42% D 36% R
Rasmussen Tracking Poll: Kerry 46, Bush 43
Battles in Iraq Bring Troubles for Bush and Kerry as Well
Roy Moore For President - DU This Sucker!
Lurkers: Freep/CU this poll!!
Wesley Clark will be on Greta Van Sustern
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Gipps Airvan: Don't Call It A Caravan
This innovative Australian single emphasizes the principle that less really can be more
|The step for the rear door doubles as an armrest for the backseat.
The fuel system is almost disarmingly simple. There's an on-off pull control on the upper-left panel that goes full-in for "run," full-out for "stop." Fuel is either on or off. Though there are two conventional wing tanks; there's no selector. The Airvan feeds fuel symmetrically from both tanks. On the ground, there's a simple valve in each wing that precludes overboarding fuel if the airplane is refueled and parked on a slanted ramp. (Twenty years ago in Libreville, Gabon, on a trip to South Africa in a Caravan, I lost about $300 worth of fuel when I parked the airplane with one wing slightly downhill on a slanted ramp and neglected to turn off the fuel selectors.)
The Airvan's strut-braced wing employs a modified USA 35B airfoil (reminiscent of the Piper Cub) with a mild 2½ degrees of dihedral and 2 degrees of incidence. Total area is 208 square feet, which generates a wing loading of about 20 lbs./sq. ft. High wing loading is usually indicative of a smoother ride in turbulence.
Moving back to the empennage, the vertical tail is swept, and there's a ventral fin installed below the horizontal stabilizer. Morgan told me the flight tests for anti-spun characteristics were performed by the National Test Pilots School in Mojave, Calif., and the ventral was a result of those tests.
The Gipps GA8 specifies one notch of flaps for takeoff, and you can maintain that setting all the way to cruise. Morgan said flight tests revealed a slight climb advantage with flaps extended, plus a better view over the nose.
Furlong and Morgan designed the GA8 with a flat floor and a quick-change interior that allows you to add or subtract seats in a flash. We left out two seats in favor of mountain bikes and camping gear.Our test airplane was the turbo model that delivers 40 inches of manifold pressure on takeoff and provides a gratifying shove in the back on power-up. Put the left lever against the panel, and the Airvan responds with more enthusiasm than you might expect. The airplane flies off at about 55 knots and starts uphill with a strong positive rate, if not an aggressive one. Book spec is just over 900 fpm at sea level, and certified ceiling is 20,000 feet.
On the way to cruise height, you can't help but notice the visibility. Every seat offers an excellent view. There are windows everywhere, over a dozen in all, including two eyebrow skylights at top cabin above the pilot and copilot. If you need to maneuver in a tight canyon or fly a close-in pattern, the eyebrows give you a look into the turn. The flight crew sits well forward of the wing-leading edge, so normal turns allow you to keep track of the runway threshold on base and final.
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You have schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. What exactly is that? I'll start by saying what schizophrenia is not. It is not multiple personality disorder. It is not split personality. Schizophrenia is when you see and hear things that aren't there. Bipolar disorder is when you get real manic and high — and you crash.
Your psychosis with schizophrenia, you can see things, hear things or even feel things. You might feel pinpricks, or worms.
I was 36 when it started. I didn't get properly diagnosed until I fell into the bottom and got caught in the safety net of the Community Health Center.
And what were the first signs that you were in trouble?
Paranoia. Delusional thinking. I thought that everybody was a child molester. I thought everybody was an abusive husband. I would say I spent the first four years in and out of institutions: jail, Western State Hospital, an assisted living facility. I did the Haldol, the Thorazine, the sedatives — the whole nine yards. It wasn't until 2001 that I was placed by the state guardian in the hospital against my will, and my daughter became my temporary guardian and had me force-medicated with a new medication called Geodon. And after 17 meds and 12 electric-shock therapies that did not work, six days later, I walked out of that place.
It was a pharmaceutical miracle.
Yes. And the stuff is about $395 a month and what they tend to want to do with people is stick them somewhere and dope them. The cheapest meds — the Haldol, the Thorazine — work for some people, but did not work for me. It almost killed me. I drew up into my self. My arms clenched and contorted uncontrollably. My head and my neck drew down, and I drooled, and I lost control of my kidneys and my bowels.
And I quit taking that medication. The Geodon works for me. It's a newer medication. What these people really need to know is that if you start people on the newer, better, more expensive meds first, it will cost less in the long run. Warehousing is very expensive – not to mention the human suffering.
And you were warehoused at Western State?
Well, not for long. I have been at Lourdes; I've been in Western State. But my worst two experiences were being arrested after never having broken the law in my life. I'd never even had a parking ticket.
I was walking in a public park, tossing pennies, trying to plant money trees, and I was arrested for disorderly conduct. I got thrown in with the intoxicated people, because the officers weren't trained to know what was going on. Recently I took part in a CIT training program — crisis intervention training — in Paducah for police officers, to help them know the difference in psychosis and a drug-induced state and also the things a person might do when they're ill.
But I've never been dangerous, except to myself. I attempted suicide.
So the police threw you in jail? How long were you there?
Once I was thrown in jail. The other time I was taken to Western State.
The worst part is that when they put you in jail, they won't let you have your medication, which is your one saving grace. I was there on a concrete floor without a blanket or a pillow or anything for maybe 18 hours before my daughter finally found me. And then they let me out. They didn't wait for her to come get me. They let me out, and I was found wandering up and down the highway without any shoes on.
You said you attempted suicide.
Yes, in 1995, when I first got sick I didn't know what was going on. I was terrified. That scared me.
So what has all of this taught you about the system we have for mental illness?
It's fragmented, broken. The right hand doesn't know what the left hand's doing. There are judicial backlogs that are ridiculous. I was placed in assisted living and was given a state-appointed guardian, pending a competency hearing that was supposed to be in 30 days. This was after I got the Geodon and was doing better. Due to court backlogs, that 30-day wait turned into seven and a half months, during which time I was not getting disability. So they cashed my 401K in and used it to pay the enormous cost of the warehousing.
If you're not poor when you get a mental illness, you will be by the time it's over. Because most people's hospitalization insurance pays only 50 percent on this or that service. Plus there's a huge deductible and co-pay, especially for the newer meds, which are the most effective.
I was upper middle class, married for 18 years. Self-employed, well insured. Two kids, 12 and 14, and I was living in Marshall County – Calvert City. And I was the Kool Aid mom and the cake lady. I was a wedding cake designer and made a good living.
What were the first signs something was going wrong?
Psychosis. Delusional thinking. Paranoia. Uncontrollable crying. Panic.
What did you do about it?
Nothing. Had to close my business. But the really sad part about it was, when I got sick, my ex-husband and his family deliberately kept my children away from me. With my delusions that they were being molested by somebody, when they would intentionally keep them away from me, it made me worse instead of better. I should have had at least visitation.
Were you divorced before any of this started?
No. It started in April of 1995. He filed for divorce that weekend. After that I had the electric shock therapy treatments and was basically a zombie for three months. A year later, I was living here, there and yon — homeless. I was sleeping in a car. And the worse your life situation gets, the more everyone can point their fingers and say, "You're unfit to be around the kids." And I needed to know where my kids were and that they were safe. That would have helped so much.
But it's OK to hit a mentally ill person. It's OK to steal from a mentally ill person. It's OK to abuse and misuse a mentally ill person.
Why do you say that?
Because it's OK in our society. It was all done to me, and nothing was done about it. When my mother passed away, she made me the executrix of her will. My sister, who had already put me in Western State once before, had an order of protection over me, and I was given the choice of "Sign over the papers or you're going back to Western State." So under duress I signed over the papers. They both signed papers that said my parents' home was valued at $60,000. One year later, it sold on the open market for $169,000. My name was not on that deed of transfer. I don't know how they did it, who they went to – I just know my name's not on it.
I went to attorney after attorney, and I was told, "Well, there's a statute of limitations." The bottom line is, they hear the word "schizophrenia," and they don't want to talk to you.
What you have to realize is that a person with a mental illness is five times more likely to be a victim of a violent crime than they are to commit one. That's the first thing you have to understand.
I got on the Internet and did a study. People with schizophrenia are less violent than truck drivers. They're less violent per capita than professional athletes. They're less violent per capita than off-duty police officers. They're less violent per capita than people with blue eyes. The problem is, the public only sees and hears the big horror stories of someone going off and doing something.
I have my own philosophy about that. I have been totally convinced several times in my life that the FBI and the CIA were after me with guns. Never once have I reacted with violence. I hide. I believe that a lot of violence in this country gets laid off on mental illness when it is a personality thing. We're just not violent people. We're generally the ones that have been done unto rather than the doers.
Here's a statistic I know: 82 percent of women who experience psychosis were sexually abused as children. 60 some percent of men with psychosis were sexually abused as children. It kills me, because if 15 people show up with a side effect from a new medication, you've got lawyers jumping on it. These statistics are out there, but no one has come forward and said childhood sexual abuse may lead to psychosis. I was a silent victim of childhood sex abuse, and I also had an 18-year abusive marriage
If people around somebody having a mental breakdown think it's scary for them, they ought to jump in our skin for a little while. It feels like stark terror. You feel like a water balloon in a room full of thumbtacks. And then when you're medicated with sedatives, you feel like you're in a plastic bag.
You feel vulnerable and set apart.
Yes. And you withdraw into yourself because there's just too much stimulation even in a quiet room. The lights are too bright. The noises are too loud. Plus you're hearing things that nobody else is hearing. We made some CDs for people to listen to with earphones, and we temporarily give them schizophrenia. But you've got to bear in mind, they have a volume button and an on-off button.
We did that with some of the officers down in Paducah and some of the jailers — gave them schizophrenia — and they were just blown away.
Try to imagine: I always had kids, lots of kids around me. And you start changing, and everybody else sees it, but you don't. You look up and you look in the mirror and you're this gruesome monster and everybody thinks you're capable of getting violent, when that's the last thing on your mind. What you want to do is hide.
So now you are better.
Yes, but I'm not well. I'm not cured. I see things and hear things that aren't there all the time.
Do you have a job?
I teach for the Department of Mental Health – peer specialist training. But I manage to surround myself with good people who are supportive. And if I hear something, I can say, "Hey, do you hear that?" and they say yes or no, and then we just go on.
It sounds as if you have a healthy attitude.
And a sense of humor helps. Where the CIA and FBI guys used to follow me around with guns and take notes, there used to be a whole bunch of them. There's only one left. I gave him a name, and he no longer bothers me when I see him.
This is private stuff, but you've chosen to talk about it rather than keep it private.
Why would I be private about it? What have I done to ask for it?
Every earth person, as we call them — people that don't have a mental illness — that I interact with and they get to know me, and I see their attitudes changing a little bit, then the next time somebody like me gets sick, maybe their kids won't be ripped from their arms. Maybe they won't be treated with such ignorance and superstition. I had people try to pray the demons out of me.
You're here in Frankfort for two days to testify about so much money being taken from the social services budget. What are you here to say?
They just can't do that. For one thing, most of our community mental health centers have been operating on a 15-year-old budget. They haven't had any new money in 15 years. And their client base has almost tripled. I sit on the board of directors of Four Rivers in Region 1. So I know what I'm talking about.
And they're just doing it wrong; taking people and putting them in expensive institutions and giving them cheap meds where they're not able to function. I'm working with Voc Rehab right now to try to go back to work. It won't be as a wedding cake designer, because I was kind of high profile before I got sick, and my illness was high profile. And there aren't a lot of people in Western Kentucky who would probably eat food prepared by me. But I have another avenue, another idea.
It's very difficult for us to work because we have good days and really bad days, and with me, I travel a lot and do conferences and teaching and everything. But even if I were able to hold down a 40-hour-a-week job, I would have to make $28 an hour to pay the co-pay on my meds. That's if I stay well. Not only that – when you go to work somewhere, even if you try to keep your illness quiet, it's only a matter of time until somebody finds out, and it can be really brutal.
Are you saying you can't afford to go to work?
Absolutely. I get paid a stipend for the teaching I do for the Department of Mental Health, but I'm far from being unproductive. I'm a very productive member of society, whether there's a paycheck assigned to that or not.
How are you productive?
I sit on six different boards, locally and on the state level. I volunteer with people down our way in Region 1. I volunteer to do a lot of things for them.
Being open about your illness can be emotionally exhausting. When I did the training with jailers, I told them, "You guys can ask me any questions you want." I had not a clue about what was getting ready to hit me. "What drugs did you take that caused your mental illness?" "Isn't psychosis the same as psychopathic?" "Are people with schizophrenia less intelligent than other people? Are they mentally retarded?" These were some of the questions a year and a half ago.
That's shocking.
No, it's not. I'll tell you what I believed one year before I got sick: I believed that schizophrenia was split personality. I believed that people with schizophrenia most likely were dangerous. And probably stupid. That's what I thought before I got the opportunity to live it. So all the crap that's been done to me and around me and about me — the unfairness of it all — I don't hold any grudges. The only way to stop what happened to me from happening to anybody else is to be out there talking about it.
How's your relationship with your kids at this point?
Really good with the oldest one. The youngest one — she's coming around.
It must have been frightening to them to see their mother lose a sense of reality, especially at that age: old enough to see what's going on, too young to understand what's happening.
At the same time, they're receiving all this garbage, misinformation from the media. Watch "Law & Order" — although I've got to say, a lot of the programming has gotten better with regards to mental illness. The person with mental illness is not always automatically the guilty one.
You're also planning to visit with legislators in the next two days. Which ones do you see?
Any of them who will listen to me.
What is your message to them?
We need more funding. We need law changes. A lot of us wouldn't be "on the dole" if our assets had been protected. There should be a law that when you put somebody in an assisted living facility for a competency hearing in 30 days, you should not be able to keep them there for seven and a half months and cash their 401K to pay for it. Would you like that? Like I say, if I were a violent person, there would be bodies strewn all over the state of Kentucky.
What about medical insurance?
In most cases, if you have private hospitalization, it only covers 50 percent of mental things. And a lot of the newer meds they won't touch at all, and if they do, there's a huge co-pay. You're going down financially unless you're one of the very few fortunate people who have 100 percent mental health care coverage. It's almost non-existent.
Tipper Gore used to crusade about parity for mental health.
Senator Kennedy is still trying to work on it.
Back to what you asked earlier about why I'm so open and why I do what I do: I've been to my attorney and I've been to my psychiatrist, and when I die my brain is going to Harvard Medical Research for schizophrenia. I tell people all the time, "You don't have anything on me with your fancy degrees. I've been accepted into Harvard." It's called the brain bank.
I have a grandchild. This child is going to be so scrutinized.
Imagine if he has an imaginary friend.
Hey, if they're friends, you're doing OK. It's when you have the imaginary guys that are after you.
One of the best things about being open about your illness is you learn who your friends are. People who aren't your real friends tend to fall away like dead flies. Then you look up and there are those few. I still have friends who were friends of mine before my illness, but not many. What I found out was that I had a huge number of acquaintances.
Both my siblings disowned me. I haven't seen or talked to either of them in nine years.
In a sense, you lost your very identity.
Well, if you're a self-employed mother and daughter and sister, and in two years you lose your business, your marriage, your kids, both your parents die and your brother and sister quit having anything to do with you, you've lost your identity.
You say you once found yourself behind a dumpster.
I got in my mom's car, took off driving not having a clue where I was going, and ended up in St. Louis and I just kind of lost it for a little while.
During the time I was hiding behind the dumpster, everybody who was surrounding my kids was convincing my kids I was a danger to them and I was going to kidnap them. And I was worried about what I was going to eat and how I was going to stay warm that night, and I certainly didn't have the capabilities to be plotting a kidnapping.
I began attending a therapeutic rehabilitation program. That's a day program run by the local community mental health center. You cook, you clean, you become real again. The community mental health centers are state and federally funded. The therapeutic rehabilitation centers operate usually at a loss.
There I met a man who had been man who had been a police officer in Louisville for 20-some years, and he became afflicted with post traumatic stress disorder and moved back to Paducah, where he had come from. He brought me to Frankfort for the first time – literally had to show me how to use a hotel key and had to hold my hand and walk me down the halls at the Department of Mental Health because I was so withdrawn and afraid. He passed away about four years ago. He was doing advocacy work, and he thought that would be a good thing for me to do.
And he turned out to be right.
Just like I went back and took others by the hand and brought them up here. And then they'll go back and take somebody else by the hand and bring them here. It's a chain reaction.
That's what this is about: letting the legislators know. Because the average American has this person in their head who could become mentally ill. And what they need to know is that they need to look in the mirror, because it could be them or their wives or their kids. And despite the fact that they're a legislator, they won't be able to help their kids any more, because it's a level playing field when mental illness comes to town. It levels everybody up.
Almost every horrible thing that happened to me during my illness was a direct result of a lack of funding for programs. A state-appointed guardian may have 50 people on their caseload. That's ridiculous. I had a state guardian for seven and a half months, and I never met her. But she spent $12,000 of my money. And when my court-appointed attorney finally got the judge to sign off to have me evaluated, the PhD. who did the evaluation said that if I was incompetent, so was she. And the bottom line was I was put there because there was nowhere else to put me. She said if I was incompetent, she was, too.
When I did the jailer training in Paducah, for three days I was his instructor. And then a month later, I had to check myself back into the hospital, and he was a part-time security guard on the psych ward. So I taught him for two days and then he guarded me for two weeks. Talk about blowing your credibility.


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The plans were approved by the Springettsbury Township Board of Supervisors Wednesday night. Construction is expected to begin in early spring and should be completed by mid-summer.
The restaurant, which is closed on Sundays, will be built in the Walmart shopping plaza at the corner of Market Street and Northern Way.
The plans call for the demolition of an existing building.
The building will be built in compliance with the town center overlay aesthetics that govern the rest of the shopping plaza.
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"Brad Werner has a simple question: Is the Earth fucked? He also has a remarkably complicated methodology yielding a very simple answer: yes, unless people start a serious global rebellion.
Werner, a complex systems researcher at UC San Diego, spoke on Wednesday at the huge American Geophyiscal Union conference going on in San Francisco. "
The UC system... I'm starting to roll my eyes already...
"Werner, sporting a neon green winter hat over bright pink hair, discussed the nature of interactions between humans and the environment, and what those interactions say about the future. His argument goes something like this: modern culture, with its emphasis on money and economics, is far too focused on short time scales. Capitalist culture tends to encourage decreases in "dissipation of transactions" it is much easier to get food now than it used to be, or to talk to someone not next to you. These changes reduce friction within our system, and a reduction in friction "promotes instability." So we're in the process of destroying things thanks to that instability, and even when we engage in environmental management efforts, we couch them in capitalist terms, like cost/benefit analyses as efforts to deal with climate change. This, Werner says, will inevitably lead those management schemes to fail over a long enough time frame. And he actually created a computer model to study all of this stuff. Broadly, the result is discouraging."
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WASHINGTON — Just a few months ago, the global economy seemed to be stuck in a precarious state. Huge swaths of the world economy were either slowing down or contracting outright, and it wasn't at all clear whether global economic policymakers would have enough gas left in their stimulus tanks to stop things from spiraling into a bad place.
But a wave of reports on the manufacturing sector in nations around the world overnight and Monday morning are just the latest data that point to the world having avoided that fate. The same cannot be said of the United States, however.
China's manufacturing sector expanded in November, with an official manufacturing index rising to 50.6 from 50.2 and an unofficial index from HSBC rising to 50.5, from 49.5. (In those numbers, like all of those cited here, numbers above 50 indicate expansion and the indexes are based on surveys of purchasing managers at manufacturing firms). Other emerging Asian economies also reported increases, including South Korea, India, and Vietnam.
In Europe, the news was also positive, although positive is a relative concept on a continent where many nations are in recession and a few are in depression. For the 17-nation eurozone as a whole, the manufacturing index rose to 46.8 from 45.7, signaling that the contraction continued but is becoming less severe. Manufacturing indexes from Markit Economics rose in the continent's industrial powerhouses of Germany and France, and perhaps most promisingly Spain, land of more than 25 percent unemployment, the index jumped to 45.3, from 43.5.
Italy was the only disappointment among the large European economies, edging down. Other countries with negative results in their manufacturing indexes include Japan, Indonesia and Russia.
But put it all together, and the portrait painted by the manufacturing reports is of a world economy that isn't going off the rails. China's slowdown over the summer was not, so far at least, the start of any broader economic collapse. Europe's recession is bad, but major European economies aren't in free-fall. Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, said in an interview with Europe 1 radio on Friday that a Eurozone recovery "would start probably in the second half of 2013," and the new numbers on Monday seem to fit that forecast; contraction remains under way, but the pace of that contraction is slowing.
This is all good news. One of the major weights that has hung on U.S. companies over the last few months has been a slowing global economy; American exporters have dealt with less actual demand from overseas and with fear that the slump could become an all-out global recession.
The first of those factors remains. While the latest wave of manufacturing numbers represent improvement, they still signal an economic contraction in Europe and weaker growth in emerging Asian economies than everyone had become accustomed to during the last few years.
But it is that second risk that is increasingly off the table. This is a run-of-the-mill recession in Europe, not an all-out economic collapse. The weakness in China and other emerging Asian economies is more a soft patch than an end to two decades of rip-roaring growth.
All of which brings us to the United States. The Institute for Supply Management's purchasing managers' index fell sharply, to 49.5, from 51.7 in October. The details of the number were simply terrible. The level of production activity at American factories rose, but new orders fell 3.9 percent, which bodes ill for the future. The employment component of the survey fell to its lowest level since September 2009, which is hardly an optimistic sign for the November jobs numbers due out on Friday.
For the last several months, U.S. firms have blamed economic weakness abroad for their own hard times. But the combination of improving manufacturing numbers around the world and weakness in America suggests that this is no longer a global story. We have to look inward-particularly to the uncertainty around the resolution of the fiscal cliff to explain what is happening in the U.S. economy.
"The fiscal cliff is the big worry right now," said an unnamed executive of a fabricated metal products company quoted by the ISM in its release. "We will not look toward any type of expansion until this is addressed; if the program that is put in place is more taxes and big spending cuts — which will push us toward recession — forget it."
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Learn more about the fiscal cliff and the risks we face
I know, I know. You are exhausted by the election, the shopping, getting ready for the holidays. But we still need to make our voices heard in Washington.
Do you think the lobbyists for the richest 2 percent and the military contractors are relaxing? The lame-duck Congress has a few short weeks before the Christmas break to avert the fiscal cliff.
Virginia Organizing urges each of you to contact your elected officials. Bob Goodlatte was re-elected. Jim Webb is a "lame duck" who could burnish his legacy. Mark Warner is still our senator.
Tell them:
? Let the Bush tax cuts expire for the richest 2 percent in
America. This will bring in billions of dollars, about the same that will be realized if we "go over the cliff" and automatic across the board cuts are made.
? Make no cuts in safety net programs for "the least of these" citizens. Preserve Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.
Virginia Organizing and Mary Baldwin College are sponsoring a Forum on the Fiscal Cliff Tax Cuts at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Francis Auditorium on MBC campus, at the corner of Coalter and Frederick streets.
Attend and learn, and make your voice heard.


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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- A Boulder-based food manufacturer has issued a voluntary recall of some lots of maple almond butter and chocolate hazelnut butter because of metallic fragments.
The company said Monday no metal has been found in any individual jars, but Justin's of Boulder and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said they wanted to take precautions.
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Retro Rock for Reproductive Rights
We're going back to 1973—when Roe v. Wade was decided and women's rights were advancing. Forget the regressive politics of today! Let's go retro and reclaim the spirit of the 70s. Support NC-based nonprofit Ipas (it's our 40th Anniversary!) and other groups working for women's rights. Wear your platforms. Get out your glam rock garb. Dance to Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band. 1970s costume contest.
Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band
Deeply rooted in Funk and fully committed to the ongoing evolution of the genre, Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band has a sound that is unique yet has the power and soul to create lasting melodies and seismic rhythms.
Doin' It Hard, their sophomore studio release, is a reflection of the Booty Band's approach to music, touring, performing, and to life in general. Recorded at City of Progress Studios in Miami, FL with DJ leSpam, Doin' It Hard is Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band – next-generation, redefined for a new decade. Doin' It Hard hit the streets on March 27th 2012 and is available in 12" vinyl, compact disc, and digital download.
The group has been together for a full decade, performing well over 150 shows and completing three to four national tours each year. With a new album in the works at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, NC (projected release date: summer 2013), a remix album entitled Re-Doin' It Hard debuting this July, and Summer tour in full swing, they are definitely artists to watch. Re-Doin' It Hard will feature some of the band's favorite DJ's and Musicians including Agent 23 (GFE and Secret Agent 23 Skidoo), DJ leSpam (Spam Allstars), Eymarel, Paper Tiger, RBTS Win, Duende Mtn Duo, and Dave Hamilton, adding their distinctive perpectives to select tracks from their new album.
Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band is: Lee Allen (drums), Al Al Ingram (bass, vocals), JP Miller (guitar, vocals), Mary Frances (keys, vocals), and Derrick Johnson (trombone)
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I have a standard road bike - a Specialized Allez Elite III (2004 model) - with 700ccx23 tires. I keep reading that touring requires a stiff bike and other features (wider tires apparently than I have, for instance) and that carbon forks like my Specialized have problems carrying loads on front panniers. Makes me wonder if to go touring for any significant distance whether I have to buy a second (touring) bike.
Anybody have experience with using road bikes for long distance touring? I really don't want to have to buy a separate touring bike.