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Tuesday, February 28, 2006
American Prospect Online - Just Shoot Me. That's just cold, bro!
Monday, February 27, 2006
Can't tell the fuckups without a scorecard
Probes find plenty of blame to go around. That last sentence is a puzzler, though.
It's okay if people die, as long as they aren't our people
Civil war? The Vodkapundit says well, if it kills some Muslims, that's super! Via TBogg.
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Didn't Chertoff claim to have found out about the prts deal when it hit the media?
ABC News: Homeland Security Objected to Ports Deal. Seems like someone is NOT PAYING ATTENTION AGAIN. Or, you know. Lying.
Things going swimmingly
No, they won't have anything to do with security.
United Press International - Security & Terrorism - UAE terminal takeover extends to 21 ports: "The Marine Transportation Security Act of 2002 requires vessels and port facilities to conduct vulnerability assessments and develop security plans including passenger, vehicle and baggage screening procedures; security patrols; establishing restricted areas; personnel identification procedures; access control measures; and/or installation of surveillance equipment. Under the same law, port facility operators may have access to Coast Guard security incident response plans -- that is, they would know how the Coast Guard plans to counter and respond to terrorist attacks."
"Creating human-animal hybrids"
Stupidest letter to the editor ever? Well, maybe not ever. But even W's faithful are jumping ship after what has obviously been five years of lies, secrecy, domestic spying, secret torture prisons, 2,500 dead soldiers, the outing of covert agents, fealty to special interest lobbyists, incompetent planning, incompetent execution, divisively tarring opposing voices as traitors, slavish service to corporate interests, and, finally, the handover of US port operations to an unstable foreign government. Mrs. Godchaux apparently considers reporting of these shameful, immoral, and unamerican activities as "unfair and biased". Where are your values, Mrs. Godchaux? You must be a fundie. As long as someone is "for the unborn" they can wallow in the whole ugly spectrum of earthly evil, piss on the ten commandments AND the new covenant with the Lord and still be a shining example of Christian morality, right? Right. I did read the text of the SOTU speech. And I did draw my own conclusions: He's a criminal, you're an idiot, get off my fucking planet now. Supporting W on grounds of his "morality" or his "values" is no longer just ignorant; now, it's (as Tbogg says) so divorced from reality that it doesn't even get visitation rights.
Feds help corporations ? I'm flabbergasted.
Friday, February 24, 2006
Dubai company taking over 6 ports?
Lou Dobb on the port controversy
Transcript of the Lou Dobbs show on CNN::
"DOBBS: Absolutely, but why would we turn over control of the operation of terminals in six of our major ports because we want to be pals? PORTMAN: We will never turn over control of security and we don't in this case. As you know, the Coast Guard provides the physical security. DOBBS: That's not, I know that's -- there's some people trying to push that forward, but in point of fact, those terminals do have security requirements and many of those terminal operators are hiring security forces to carry out security at the terminals. I may not be the brightest fellow in the world, but I do understand the issues here."Good stuff.
Dueling officials slowed storm response | csmonitor.com: "Chertoff is by-the-book, a lean, terse manager. Brown is a talkative maverick who believes in leadership from the front lines. "
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Remarks by President Bush After Meeting with Cabinet
Remarks by President Bush After Meeting with Cabinet:
"The management of some ports, which, heretofore, has been managed by a foreign company will be managed by another company from a foreign land. And so people don't need to worry about security. This deal wouldn't go forward if we were concerned about the security for the United States of America."Such a waste.
Proof That God Does Not Exist
The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned
A little light reading for the can. I'm going to spend thte weekend comparing this to the House report, the SE Louisiana Hurricane Plan (The Hurricane Pam report, prepared by IEM), and a couple other little wonders. I hope my blood pressure can take it.
Backwards, ignorant prairie cunts.
I am so goddamn sick of these people. Can you PLEASE just move somewhere -- I hear Afghanistan is lovely -- and set up your little faux-christian theocracy and leave my country alone?
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Fun with math
Is someone handing Jan Risher a rubber biscuit?
"I got tips on how to pace myself with my limited quantity of beads. I learned most float riders spent about $1,000 on beads. By my estimation, members of the Rio krewe spent $200,000 or more on beads."Most float riders spend about $1000 on beads. Uhm ... really? A quick search leads me to conclude that $1000 would buy you over 20,000 strings of metallic beads. At $35 for a case of 60 dozen, that makes 28 cases per rider. So ... If Rio spent $200,000 on beads, they would have 4,000,000 strings. If 50 people were on the float (a very high estimate, I believe), that means each person tossed 80,000 strings. I guess that sounds right, Jan. What do the other Martians think?
Well well well well.
Cue the dancing bears
Sorry-ass W shills: John McCain (I almost voted for you. Phew!) and Joe Lieberman are trotted out to show support for the irresponsible turnover of American port security to a company owned by and located in the United Arab Emirates. I expected as much from Joe; but I'm constantly surprised by McCain's ever more obsequious kow-towwing to George Bush. Bush sat back and let Karl Rove smear McCain's reputation and question his sanity back in the 2000 presidential primaries; why does McCain constantly fall into the party line? I thought maybe his stand against torture was a glimmer of hope, perhaps a chance he would reclaim visitation rights to his balls again, but alas no. Even Corky is up in arms about it. Not everybody in the liberal/left/America-hating side of the aisle is up in arms about it; Glenn Greenwald, for example, is still on the fence. But the issue is clear to me, and to many others: port security has been the poor stepchild of homeland security for years, well before 9/11. It's one of the most vulnerable points of entry into the United States, and an insignificant (at best) amount of money has been earmarked to decrease that vulnerability. So: after leaving this weakness exposed and unfortified for five years, control is suddenly handed over to a country -- not just a foreign company, but a *state-owned* foreign company -- with a track record of financing and supporting terrorism. I'd be as outraged if port control was handed over to North Korea or Pakistan. And I'm not happy to learn that some port functions have been farmed out to China, either.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
New York Daily News: W aides' biz ties to Arab firm
Via 2Millionth: The Dubai firm that won Bush administration backing to run six U.S. ports has at least two ties to the White House.
One is Treasury Secretary John Snow, whose agency heads the federal panel that signed off on the $6.8 billion sale of an English company to government-owned Dubai Ports World - giving it control of Manhattan's cruise ship terminal and Newark's container port. Snow was chairman of the CSX rail firm that sold its own international port operations to DP World for $1.15 billion in 2004, the year after Snow left for President Bush's cabinet. The other connection is David Sanborn, who runs DP World's European and Latin American operations and was tapped by Bush last month to head the U.S. Maritime Administration.
President Discusses Port Security
Oh my sweet baby Jesus. Right from the horse's mouth. How did this happen? How did this gibbering, incoherent, inarticulate imbecile end up the most powerful man in the world? How does "values" translate to "selling out American port security?" Dig it:
"I think it sends a terrible signal to friends around the world that it's okay for a company from one country to manage the port, but not a country that plays by the rules and has got a good track record from another part of the world can't manage the port." "This company operates all around the world. I have the list somewhere." "I really don't understand why it's okay for a British company to operate our ports, but not a company from the Middle East" "I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a Great British [sic] company. I'm trying to conduct foreign policy now by saying to people of the world, we'll treat you fairly." "There is a process in place where we analyze -- where the government analyzes many, many business transactions, to make sure they meet national security concerns. And I'm sure if you -- careful review, this process yielded a result that said, yes, a deal should go forward." "One of my concerns, however, is mixed messages. And the message is, it's okay for a British company, but a Middle Eastern company -- maybe we ought not to deal the same way. It's a mixed message. You put interesting words in your question, but I just view -- my job is to do what I think is right for the country. I don't intend to have a fight. If there's a fight, there is one, but nor do I view this as a political issue."There's a word for guys like you.
Either astoundingly stupid or brazenly treasonous. Or both.
More on the Bush administration's outsourcing of port security to a company owned and controlled by a nation with a history of financing Al Qaeda, as well as other terrorist groups. Think Progress UAE facts here and CNN story here. Firedoglake has some info on exactly which cronies will benefit financially -- oh please. Do NOT act surprised about that at this late date. Also note that 40% of overseas Army equipment passes through two of the ports which will be controlled by a company owned and operated by a terrorist-friendly nation. I just can't ... it's making me woozy. W will use the specter of 9/11 to attack a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, and then hand over homeland port security to a country that helped finance 9/11. It just boggles my mind. Why haven't we broken out the pitchforks and torches yet? The man is obviously a witch. STREGA.
Monday, February 20, 2006
Donald Rumsfeld says we're losing the propaganda war.
Say What?
William Rivers Pitt | The Enemy:
They called it "Cyber Storm," and it was a war-game exercise run last week by the Department of Homeland Security. The war game had nothing to do with testing the security of our shipping ports, borders, infrastructure or airports. "Cyber Storm" was testing the government's ability to withstand an onslaught of information and protest from bloggers and online activists. "Participants confirmed," wrote the Associated Press, that "parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose "Web logs" include political rantings and musings about current events."
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Think Progress quotes Mike DeWine:: "You know, there's been some controversy about whether or not this program is legal or is not legal. I think we need to get beyond that. And the vast majority of American people believe these calls need to be listened to. But we don't want to have any kind of debate about whether it's constitutional or not constitutional. So I think we need to put that beyond us.
Friday, February 17, 2006
Shut up shut up shut up shut up
Bill Decker, breaking it down:
The public good sometimes requires absolute candor between a medical professional and a patient. That's why confidentiality is enshrined in medical ethics and in the law. But you'd have to admit that most of the passion is on the other side of the argument. You can see for yourself at www.theadvertiser.com, where we've posted responses about the handling of the meningitis outbreak. More privacy battles rage. The fight over Roe v. Wade is really about whether a legislature's efforts to limit abortion intrude on a woman's private decision. Because of the 9/11 attacks, the federal government has new access to personal information such as library records, and, without benefit of warrants, it has monitored overseas calls originating in the United States. Google and the Justice Department are battling over Internet search engine records as part of a pornography investigation. It would be tragic if we draw the privacy line in a place where it would prevent public health officials from protecting the public's health.Isn't there a Halo game somewhere that you could be in?
Greenwald on the SIC, the NSA, and the life cycle of a scandal
GWB hands over port security to Dubai
Hey, republican thugs! We know you're all for warantless wiretapping of American citizens -- what do you think about this? Despite Fears, a Dubai Company Will Help Run Ports in New York - New York Times
By PATRICK McGEEHAN Published: February 17, 2006 The Bush administration dismissed the security concerns of local officials yesterday and restated its approval of a deal that will give a company based in Dubai a major role in operating ports in and around New York City. Representatives of the White House and the Treasury Department said they had given their approval for Dubai Ports World to do business in the United States after a rigorous review. The decision, they said, was final. Dubai Ports World is buying the British company that currently operates the cruise-ship terminal on the West Side of Manhattan, one of the biggest cargo terminals in New York Harbor, and terminals in Philadelphia, Baltimore and other big ports. Several lawmakers, including Representative Peter T. King of Long Island, who is chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and Senator Charles E. Schumer, have criticized the administration for its approval of the deal, saying it was done too quickly and without enough scrutiny of the ramifications for security at American ports. 'In the post-9/11 world, there should have been a presumption against this company,' said Mr. King, a Republican. He added that people in the intelligence community had told him they had concerns about how the company operated the port of Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates. 'I'm going to be pushing as hard as I can to slow this down.' Mr. King said. Mr. Schumer said that he was concerned that the company could be infiltrated by terrorists with designs on exploiting the vulnerability of American ports. He noted that the Sept. 11 attacks were financed in part by money that passed through banks in the United Arab Emirates. "This is not going to go through quietly and secretly the way some people might like," Mr. Schumer said, adding that he feared that diplomacy might have trumped national security in this case. In an interview in London, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, a financial adviser to the royal family of Dubai, said yesterday, "We are working closely with the Americans." In mid-January, President Bush nominated a senior executive of Dubai Ports World, David Sanborn, to run the Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration. Mr. Sanborn had been running the company's operations in Europe and Latin America. Mr. Schumer and six other members of Congress sent a letter yesterday to John W. Snow, the treasury secretary, calling for a more thorough review of the deal, in which Dubai Ports World agreed to pay $6.8 billion to acquire a British shipping company, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. A subsidiary of the company, P & O Ports North America, operates the local facilities. Anthony R. Coscia, the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, also wrote to Mr. Snow, seeking information about the security review that was conducted. Mr. Coscia said in an interview that he sent the letter after a few attempts to get answers drew no response. "Clearly, we would expect that information relative to a facility that we operate would be shared with us," Mr. Coscia said. "It is not our role to review and approve this transfer," he said, but added that "given the fact that this is our port and these are employees for whom we feel responsibility, there are issues we would like to become comfortable with." P & O Ports operates the New York City Passenger Ship Terminal and owns a 50 percent interest in the Port Newark Container Terminal, which is the third-largest cargo terminal on the Port Authority's property. The other half-interest is owned by a subsidiary of Maersk Line, which is based in Denmark. The Dubai purchase was approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, of which Mr. Snow is chairman and which does not usually disclose information about its deliberations, said Brookly McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Treasury Department. Ms. McLaughlin declined to say when the committee began or ended its review of the deal or what national-security implications it considered. "We as a general rule do not comment at all on any specific transactions," Ms. McLaughlin said. She added that the review could not be reopened unless the company provided false information or omitted important facts. Stewart Baker, assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security, said his department had no information about Dubai Ports World that justified an objection to the deal. Indeed, he said, the company has cooperated with the department in its efforts to secure American ports and ships in foreign ports. "We did not find derogatory information in our review," he said. But that review, Mr. Baker said, did not involve gathering information from outside sources, like the Port Authority, because the committee must keep a proposed transaction secret. He said the committee's investigation began in November and ended in mid-January. The investigation did not include background checks on the senior managers of the company or an evaluation of how the company screens its own employees, Mr. King said. "Certainly, you would think they would talk to the Port Authority," he added. Mr. Schumer said he believed that pressure for a second review was beginning to mount in Congress, among Democrats and Republicans. Mr. King said he would consider holding a Homeland Security Committee hearing on the matter if the administration refused to reconsider. "This can't be treated in a pre-9/11 way," Mr. King said. "There was a tone-deafness here that indicates they didn't show the level of concern that it warranted."
This is old
And dully obvious in that faux-thoughtful way Glenn Reynolds has, but this was such a marvelously revealing quote that I had to note it: "Most poor people in America can afford food (that's why so many poor people are fat)."
Brendan Loy takes on Popular Mechanics
Debunking PM. I read the PM collection this morning, and was (am) appalled at the inaccuracies, distortions, omissions and the overall tone of the whole crapfest. I will have more to say about it, if I can get over my depression about republican quisling on the NSA issue (with help from Olympia Snowe and her merry band of turncoats). So maybe this weekend.
The curtain is lowering
The Debate - Taking on the Week's Big Issue Read the comments. People just don't seem to like us much.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Morgue for Katrina shuts down - IHT
Are you fucking kidding me?
A deal to fix FISA? FIX IT? The law the administration is accused of REPEATEDLY BREAKING? WHAT NEEDED FIXING? Other than your spine. What is so MOTHERFUCKING HARD about OBEYING THE LAW? The world does not need to be adjusted to fit the Bush administration's whims. Craven, sniveling cowardice. You sorry spineless, treacherous sons-of-bitches. REPUBLICANS OFF EARTH NOW!
Anyone hear Rush today?
It was rich. He accused the democrats of playing race politics by running Sherrod Brown, " who is black." So it's racist. Except Sherrod -- which Rush pronounced "Shur-OD" -- is white. And it's "SHARE-od." Fat drug addled pathological liar.
Your President Speaks!
First Draft - Your President Speaks!: "One way to help control costs is to help people who are poor and indigent get costs in places that are much more efficient at delivery of health than emergency rooms."
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
The Poor Man Institute » Response to Tigerhawk:
"The loyalty "owed" a President, or any government official, or any policy of the same, by a private citizen, is this much loyalty: zero. Let me say that again: the loyalty I, or you, or anyone "owes" to someone in the government, or to some course of action they favor, is none whatsoever. To think otherwise, Teddy Roosevelt might comment, is "unpatriotic and servile". Now, this is not to say you can't give your loyalty to the President or his policies - it's a free country, and you can do any non-treasonous thing you want with your loyalty - but that's your decision, and nobody has to live with it but you (and all the people who suffer from the consequences of your stupid choice of loyalties, of course.) Personally, I think the President is a horrible fucking stupid cunt and his policies are for shit. Your results may vary. But if someone tells me that I "owe" it to the President or his crap policy to act like I don't think that, well, that person can get in the big long line with WPE and the rest of folks who really desperately need to go fuck themselves."It's steamin'. I've been wanting to blog about the levee board and the legislative session, but I think I have to save it for the comic.
Spiking the NSA Investigation
Here's what defines a cynic: I expected this to happen, but I really really wished that someone would show some balls, just for once: It looks like the Senate probe of the NSA domestic wiretapping scandal is falling apart, due in no small part to Karl Rove spearheading a WH pressure campaign to stop it. Don't let them do this. Don't let them get away with breaking the law. I'm writing my Senators; you should too. What does it fucking take to get leadership in this country? Where's the courage?
Quail question
Were the birds on the Armstrong ranch -- where Big Dick snapped and shot Harry Whittington in the face -- wild or pen-raised? Anyone know, and have a citation?
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
I hate to see him go; I had hopes. But you know what? If you don't have the balls for it, then good riddance. Broke my heart is all you did.
Monday, February 13, 2006
Don't tell my wife ...
but I love Reddhedd. The definitive deconstruction of Big Dick's "hunting" "accident".
What's happened to conservatives?
A short course in the degradation of the conservative mindset can be seen here. Note that all the wingers who agree with the author are brave and brilliant while liberals who disagree are hysterical and scurrilous and idiotic, etc. Note also the call to Muslims to solve their problems by accepting Jesus Christ (and note the painting which illustrates the post). Note how liberal blogs are tarred and dismissed as immature and shrill without explanation or rationale. Note the insults applied to liberals while complaining about how full of hate and rage they are. All very typical of today's swinging internet conservative. But be careful if you comment -- the blog owner deletes comments she doesn't like and bans dissenters. Which is, finally, how she and her ilk would like this country to end up: muzzled and under the thumb of a charismatic leader, all serving Christ and enjoying our tax breaks while we watch the poor folk cleanse the earth of the Mohammedan. This is why I have no time to listen to the right any more: even the more intelligent winger apologists can't hold an thought for more than a few sentences without jettisoning facts, slandering opponents, and wallowing in onanistic self-mythologization. You know, it's's taken the right wing neocon generation twenty five years to chip away at the foundations of this country, and the Bush administration only five years to nearly destroy the fabric. You people are done; you're over. The astounding corruption, the unbelievable ignorance, the rejection of science, the pathological lying, the willful dismissal of human rights and liberty: you disgust me, and not just because I'm "liberal." The conservative movement has become a squad of belligerent brown-shirted yes-men following the rank and acrid scent of gang of clownish, craven criminals, either too afraid or too ignorant or too blinded by pseudo-evangelical fervor to accept objective reality, and you have shit on my country long enough. The left has its share of idiots and racists and losers, too; I'm under no illusions about the character of people in general. I have no love for Michelle Malkin; in fact, I think she's a racist crypto-fascist apologist, but you braniacs who pepper other blogs calling her a "Filipina cunt" and a gook aren't doing the grownups any favors and should really just shut up. And you liberal bloggers have to face up and deal with the fact that there are shitheels among us who need to be dealt with; even bloggers who I enjoy, like TBogg, are notoriously silent about the racist and sexist insults -- and I mean bad insults, not just "someone-might-find-that-offensive" insults -- that appear in their comments, and, sometimes, in their posts. I certainly don't think that Glenn Greenwald or Markos or any of the name bloggers are always correct or need to be defended* -- I'd love to see someone lock horns with Greenwald or Jane Hamsher or Juan Cole. Now, if we could only get people off the creationism ... what a world we might might live in ... * Of course, Greenwald posts on this very issue and is, as always, far more articulate and measured than I am, at least when I'm writing at 5:30 a.m. so at least I have and excuse. (cough)
How I could just kill a man
Firedoglake has a good roundup of Dick "Shotgun Blast to the Face" Cheney stories. Too bad Dick got those five deferments; if nothing else, a stint in the service would have taught him how to handle a gun.
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Mardi Gras parades begin tonight.
If any of the national magazines/newspapers apparently still pondering my query letters want me to cover this first post-apocalypse Mardi Gras, y'all better move fast.
Thursday, February 09, 2006
This seems important
Blanco's 'housing trust' conflicts with Nagin's plan. Huh. So the state wants to control any Federal money disbursed for recovery in New Orelans, and New Orleans wants to hold the ATM card. Look, see:
"There's a strong sentiment for legislative involvement," said Sen. Tom Schedler, R-Mandeville, who sponsored a measure to require approval from both houses of the Legislature for every spending decision.I like that: "A stong sentiment for legislative involvement", or as we who live south of I-10 say, "an envie for the cash." They can smell it. Personally, I'd rather see Ruthie the Duck Lady in charge. Other interesting things in this story, though: it seems that Blanco has given up on the Baker bill, which my gut tells me is the wrong thing to do. (Why else would one want to hijack the oil leases? You give us the Baker bill, we give you the oil, simple! But no. We've going to retain the lease out of petulance or something.) Blanco's plan brings the Baker bill responsibilites back on Louisiana, and tries to fulfill the same obligations with a fraction of the money. Louisiana has *never* been able to handle federal funds; most years, we don't get the matching funds we deserve because we can't get the fucking paperwork in on time. I think passing the money through the fewest possible hands is in order; you never know when Bob Odom is going to want to build a 600-ft statue of Cochise out of cane syrup and starts to rifle through the drawers. And then there's this:
Donald Powell, Bush's Gulf Coast rebuilding czar, would not comment Wednesday when asked at a Baton Rouge speech whether the administration would allocate any money for housing in the president's $18 billion supplemental request to Congress for spending in the hurricane region. Powell said that his office will spell out what that money will be for in "15 to 30 days."Pfft. Go home, Comrade. Speaking of Powell:
His staff estimates that 15,000 to 20,000 uninsured homeowners outside the flood plain have severe flood damage, and only 30,000 such homeowners inside the flood plain. Powell said he is negotiating with the Louisiana Recovery Authority on an agreed-upon estimate. "We're close to a number that's based on science," he said.Oh, NOW science is just FINE. YAY for SCIENCE when it gets you off the HOOK. Anyway, The Mouth of Sauron -- as Don was known in college -- has the same message: "That's all the change I have, buddy." ____________________________________________ More Rhodes Scholars. "Flood Control Officials" in Benton and Livingston oppose a single levee board, since they live in a different floodplain and probably wouldn't get a seat on a single levee board and thus would miss out on all of the swag oh geez was that out loud:
Sen. Heulette "Clo" Fontenot went further, turning from the room's witness table and telling the crowd they were being used by the Blanco administration as political pawns. Fontenot said Blanco, who testified in support of the bill before the committee, knows it cannot get enough votes to pass the Senate. "You're being taken for a ride," said Fontenot, R-Livingston.R, huh? Well how about that. ____________________________________________ Okay, fine. Let's sum it up: rioting over cartoons is stupid and proves only that religious fundamentalism breeds intolerance, violence, and by design keeps people ignorant and enthralled. Cartoons portray Mohammed, and by extension all Muslims, as violent terrorists, so the response is to torch everything and stage world-wide riots. I saw one protester with a sign that said, "EUROPE: your 9/11 is coming!" Well, it was totally unfair to give the impression that you guys were violent! I'm not here to follow anyone's religious rules, be they Muslims or Baptists or Evangelicals. You want to live by scripture, fine. This is all so obvious and simplistic, isn't it? Iran and Syria fan the fires by attaching truly degrading drawings to packages of the cartoons. It serves their purposes to encourage the west to view Muslims as terrorists, so they can complain about it and leverage the indignation. So here's the deal: peaceful Muslims of the world? This is your problem. These people *are* Muslims. Don't trot out that "Well, terrorists aren't true Muslims because etc" line. Pat Robertson is an Evangelical problem, child-raping priests are a Catholic problem, and intolerant rioting fundamentalists who would kill over a cartoon is a Muslim problem. Deal with it, and we'll try to get our own Wingnuts out of office.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
More on the Duhé vs. Courtney mash-up
Get the sordid details behind the mp3 hit of the year!
"Believe it or not, I'm tired of the whole affair," Duhé adds. "I would have let it go a year and a half ago if she hadn't waged an aggressive war of slander against me. That's what drove me to report her to the Ethics Board and the Legislative Auditor. In the past two weeks, I have learned that she is trying to slander someone else who is entirely innocent and undeserving of her abuse. That's what got me mad enough to talk to AIM and has brought it all up again. The [Louisiana Educational Television Authority] Board is looking into it, and so is CPB."Is it just me, or does he sound a little like Ignatius J. Reilly? I still have my copy, if anyone wants one.. Right now I'm adding a slammin' techno soundtrack.
Best Bill Decker waffle yet
The Daily Advertiser - www.theadvertiser.com - Lafayette, LA:
On Monday, I put three NetFlix DVDs in my mailbox in the area near Time Plaza.. On Tuesday, they showed up on my NetFlix account Web page as having been returned. On Wednesday, I found the next DVD in my NetFlix rental queue, the Marx Brothers' "The Coconuts," in my mailbox. DVD rentals by mail. Forty-eight hours. It was almost like going back in time. Or maybe it was like moving into the future, when the Web will offer Acadiana people quick access to huge movie catalogs, one way or the other.It's just breathtaking. I wonder what it's like to live in a continual state of Heisenbergian uncertainty, where nothing can ever be up without being down, or red without being green. Still, even big fat middle-aged Halo-playing wafflers caught between eigenstates need to relax, kick back and cruise some MySpace pages. Creeeeeeeeeeeeepy. "Honest, Honey I was just checking out this band I mean doing some research for a column!"
This is what you get for reading books.
Let me tell you about the time someone tossed a copy of "Roberts Rules of Order" into a Lafayette City-Parish Council meeting. It was worse than the day the first flush toilet came to Chauvin, I tell you for true.
Republican Who Oversees N.S.A. Calls for Wiretap Inquiry
Oh, and Dick Cheney says that having a public debate regarding changes to the law will alert Al Qaeda to our movements::
"Members of Congress 'have the right and the responsibility to suggest whatever they want to suggest' about changing wiretap law, Mr. Cheney said. But 'we have all the legal authority we need' already, he said, and a public debate over changes in the law could alert Al Qaeda to tactics used by American intelligence officials. 'It's important for us, if we're going to proceed legislatively, to keep in mind there's a price to be paid for that, and it might well in fact do irreparable damage to our capacity to collect information,' Mr. Cheney said."So shhhh. No talking. We have to play this game in secret. Don't tell mommy about this game or she'll be mad at you. Ssshhhh. ______________________________ Speaking out against illegal wiretaps may be a brave step for republican Heather Wilson to take, but there may be more to it than that. The first wave of republicans seeking to distance themselves from this administration has begun. Speaking of distance, it looks like wunderkind Geroge Deutsch is out at NASA. You remember George. 24-year-old kid who tried to limit public access to a scientist studying global warming, tried to add the word "theory" to every mention of the big bang:
In October 2005, Mr. Deutsch sent an e-mail message to Flint Wild, a NASA contractor working on a set of Web presentations about Einstein for middle-school students. The message said the word "theory" needed to be added after every mention of the Big Bang. The Big Bang is "not proven fact; it is opinion," Mr. Deutsch wrote, adding, "It is not NASA's place, nor should it be to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator." It continued: "This is more than a science issue, it is a religious issue. And I would hate to think that young people would only be getting one-half of this debate from NASA. That would mean we had failed to properly educate the very people who rely on us for factual information the most."Among other things. Tsk, tsk. More lies. More misplaced religious fervor. More cronyism. Watch Katie O'Beirne deliver the republican response to Coretta Scott King's funeral. Which is, essentially, that negroes don't know how to behave in public. I don't know enough about the different levee board proposals to comment here, other than to note this:
The opposition to the Boasso bills breaks down generally into three categories: those who don't want their parishes included in a regional authority, particularly if tied to Orleans Parish; those who say they favor consolidation but want separate east and west bank authorities; and those who want to give more levee project control to the state transportation department rather than to a new regional board.Do not, I mean DO NOT give control of ANYTHING to the DOTD. How someone managed to zero in on the one state organization more useless than the old levee board is a thing of awesome and terrible symmetry, but please. The DOTD claimed to have no responsibility for anything during hurricane response (during the Pam exercise), and their post-K actions have borne out my impression of them as rudderless, ignorant of their own charter, and about as useful as tits on a bishop. And now someone wants to give them the levees? Why don't you just put the NOLA school board in charge? The Village Voice on the stonewalling of White House Katrina papers. Math is hard, especially copying numbers.Math is hard, especially doing payroll. Mardi Gras finds at least one sponsor: Glad Trash Bags. By the way, Beccers (editors), it's not "the search" for a presenting sponsor that "remains elusive", it's the sponsor that remains elusive. Just sayin'.
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Get this crap in the mail
You can now subscribe to this blog via email. Just fill out the tiny form there on the right, and new posts will be sent to your inbox, to the cold, robotic and unfeeling delight of profanity-scanning spamtraps everywhere.
On cartoons and the Muslim world
This pretty much says what I would say, although I'd cut out some of the weasel words and would not have concluded that the best we can do is let the controvery rage. That's too Bill Deckerish, and obscures the very real need for certain people to shut up and sit down.
Pat Robertson to Europe: Start fucking more or the jigs will take over
Media Matters - Robertson: Europe committing "racial suicide." And it's all Jean-Paul Sartre's fault! Of course, the mud races can't read and are thus immune to to the sinister charms of the wily Sartre, so they continue their beastly copulations and pound out more orc babies to bedevil the white race. Come on, you limeys! Come on, you froggy bastards! Stick it in the front for a while and let's see if we can't get this 1000 year reich back on track!
Bush to Elmo: Drop Dead
The always articulate ReddHedd lays it out for us. In that travesty, that trainwreck of a budget, the truth becomes clear: if there's nothing in it for the cronies, then fuck it. Fuck louisiana, fuck public tv, fuck veterans, fuck science, fuck medicare, fuck all you poor, old, young, black, sick, needy people. Quid pro quo, motherfuckers.
More lies. GWB and the FBI both said, in 2002, that wiretaps would not have prevented 9/11. Of course, now they're vital, to something or other, and especially if they're warrantless.
Hey let's all make fun of stupid people!
We can start with Mark Sanford, the Governor of South Carolina:
The idea of there being a, you know, a little mud hole and two mosquitoes get together and the next thing you know you have a human being is completely at odds with, you know, one of the laws of thermodynamics.I had to edit my response, because I just ... this is the stupidest goddamn thing I've read in I don't know how long. I don't know if I should laugh or cry. What a fuck-nosed wetbrained chicken-fried retard. Wow. And I thought Scott Adams was dumb.
Math is hard - let's go shopping!
Doug Gruse takes the pulse of Lafayette's women and addresses a most pressing problem: how to buy jeans that don't make your ass look fat. Harder than the SATs! And you gals know what a screaming blue bitch those SATs were, which is why you all majored in art history and married MBAs! Missing from this otherwise encyclopedic disquisition is advice on the proper tuck and roll needed to create a saucy spring mangina. That bulge can really ruin the line of a good pair of $100 Joujous, you know.
Saturday, February 04, 2006
The more I read about this new Blair-Bush memo, the more I think it's bullshit. I mean, I know the man is stupid, but he's not that stupid. There are just too many things wrong with the whole idea (spy plane would have to fly extremely low, which would be suspicious; the UN doesn't have spy planes anyway; if a "UN Spyplane" were to be shot down, the real UN would publicly note that it had no spy planes; Iraq had refused to shoot at similar planes in preceding months, and had complained through official channels about the overflights, which would lead me to believe that they already suspected funny business). I may be wrong, but I think this is either bogus or just loose talk.
Friday, February 03, 2006
Hybrid Moment
Via Wonkette: Animal-man hybrids are everywhere!
Blood pressure in the red and rising
Hurricane Katrina Aftermath has the surprising news of the day. Apparently Mr. Chertoff is pig-bitin' mad over the GAO report on the DHS Hurricane Katrina response, which apparently paints him as an OUT-OF-TOUCH, INCOMPETENT, UNCARING BLITHERING WATERHEADED MORON WITHOUT THE SENSE TO READ THE INTEL HE'S BEEN GIVEN OR EVEN TURN ON THE FUCKING WEATHER CHANNEL oh god where's my digitalis
Bush told Blair we're going to war, memo reveals
Kung Fu Monkey: I Miss Republicans.
Kung Fu Monkey: I Miss Republicans.
They were the grown-ups. They were the realists. Sure they were a bummer, but on the way to La Revolution you need somebody to remember where you parked the car.Good stuff all around the Kung-Fu Monkey.
Thursday, February 02, 2006
GWB in Minnesota
Idiot:: "People need to be incented to make right choices with their bodies, in what they eat and how they exercise." Read the whole thing, if you can. This is the leader of the free world:
Congress over here, and people say, vote for me, I'm going to make sure the benefits grow faster than the rate of inflation. Listen, Social Security was meant to supplement income, retirement income, initially. And so what I'm telling you is there's a solution to be had. Unfortunately, the atmosphere in Washington appears that there will be solution because there's too much politics.
Dammit, Oyster
I was on my way to note this, but Oyster beat me to it:Mikes Foster, Dave Treen & Buddy Roemer approch the throne, kowtowing all the way:
Three former Republican Louisiana governors sent a letter to the White House on Wednesday making "a friendly appeal" to Bush to take a "second look" at the Baker [housing] bill and "see if something can be worked out."
"Enough is enough."
You should read this too:
Here's a thought for Arlen Specter and Republicans on the Committee: step up to the plate, find out whether you do or don't have the cojones to do your job, and subpoena the documents. If the WH refuses to comply with the subpoena, hold them in contempt of Congress and throw someone's butt in jail until you get what you have requested. I mean, really, enough is enough.
William Rivers Pitt
You should read this.
If there is hope to be found in all this, it is in the words of Thomas Jefferson, written 208 years ago after the passage of the Sedition Act. "A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt. If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake."
See Lieberman jump for joy
CONNECTICUTBlog has a nice clip of Joe Lieberman leading the standing O at the SOTU address, leaping from his seat like the bestest little fan EVER, before a single republican can stand. Way to go, buddy. Speaking of Lieberman, he's in this story too, lobbing softballs to Ray Nagin while the republicans on the committee try to blame him for water being wet. Why not outright opposition? Why "This week's letter pushes those concerns just one step short of outright opposition"? Why is everything one step short. If you're going to oppose something, then OPPOSE IT. Take a stand. I'm all for pissing on the lease sale, but not for almost getting ready to seriously consider pissing on the lease sale. Sad. Get used to it; there's going to be a lot more stories like this. YEE-HAW! More good Christian people banding together to keep the niggers out of town! Way to go, you pricks!
"If Katrina had been a direct hit on Ascension Parish, what would we expect neighboring parishes to do?" Hughes asked. The parish president also made religious references, asking the crowd to think about what Jesus would do. The response to Hughes' question about Katrina making a direct hit on Ascension Parish drew an immediate chorus of catcalls and grumbles of dissatisfaction from audience members. Later, trailer park neighbor Robert Chandler, 41, had an answer for Hughes about what Jesus, the man Christians believe is their savior, would do. "And what would Jesus do? Jesus tells me to help myself, and, Ronnie, if Ascension Parish got flooded, you know what I'd do? I'd go to work somewhere else, and I'd buy a trailer," Chandler said as the audience applauded so loudly in the packed Geismar Community Center that the clapping obscured more of Chandler's comments.What Jesus would do is kick you right in your fucking butt-ignorant redneck ass is what he would do.
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Charges against Sheehan dropped - Politics - MSNBC.com
Do you suppose all the wingnut blogs will post retractions now? HOLDING BREATH HERE.
Murtha's Letter To The President and some other stuff
First, read Congressman Murtha's letter to W. ____________________________________________ I'm working on next week's Suspect Device cartoon, but I had to get this one out of my system before I could do any real work. ____________________________________________ CQ.com raises an intersting point about domestic surveillance:
The distinction between "receiving" and "collecting" seems "to offer considerable leeway for domestic surveillance activities under the existing legal framework," wrote editor Steven Aftergood in Tuesday's edition of Secrecy News. "This in turn makes it harder to understand why the NSA domestic surveillance program departed from previous practice."____________________________________________ Someone buy me one of these and I'll write you a filthy limerick. Or send you an autographed cartoon. Up to you. ____________________________________________ Click to watch Ray Nagin describe the debilitating conditions under which Cowboy Brownie and Count Chertoff worked. Via scout prime.
Joint Chiefs dislike cartoon
Dissent? not on my watch, Bitch
ReddHead sums it up nicely. A battle of symbolic gestures, to be sure, but a telling one nevertheless.
Worst Person in the World Nominee Number 2
Nagin to testify on Katrina response today: "State Transportation and Development Secretary Johnny Bradberry told the Senate committee that he had been assigned the task in April, a little more than four months before Katrina struck, of developing plans to evacuate people with no cars from New Orleans. He conceded that his agency had done nothing to complete the task."
People Get Ready: Just three percent of Bush's attention is focused on Gulf Coast recovery
City opened shelter to Katrina evacuees without food and water
That's right. They did. And it took FEMA three days to notice the calls for help. No surprise to me. At the Hurricane Pam exercise, the DOTD were the most unhelpful, useless, befuddled organization. The whines here are the same as they were then. Did anyone expect anything different? Ignored, marginalized, forgotten. No plan, no committment. I like the Bush water carriers at the end of that story: Mary Landrieu hinting that she hasn't forgotten the bounty she expects from her cloture vote (keep waiting, honey), and Harry Ray, 73, who thinks that if W had spent more time talking about the gulf coast, he would have had to talk about the fires in California and the tornados in Oklahoma. Yeah, the tornados that killed two thousand people, destroyed a major city, left hundreds of thousands homeless and threatens 25% of the country's oil supply. Big Motherfucking tornados with ten-inch cocks. I don't even want to think about Tim Kaine's response to the SOTU speech. This is exactly what is wrong with Democrats. Weak, dispassionate, unwilling to confront and call a liar a liar and a failure a failure. Sometimes I don't know who makes me sicker, the dogpack running the country or the whipped ones cowering under the bed. Nothing new from the president? Nothing new from you, either. Strong response here. Of course, Paul Reickhoff isn't an elected official. And tsk tsk don't you second guess the president, traitor! Eric Benjamin sucks more corporate cock over at the Times. He's such a useless, hamhanded shill that I can barely read him, but I have to ask the nice reasonable folks at Cox: If you are so committed to bringing state-of-the-art internet access to Lafayette, why didn't you do it before LUS got involved? Ghaaaa. Another winning cover story from TOA. I'll deal with this later.


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Days past – 8 days
This time on McE……
1 week,1 day until the battle
The Party began the night with a trip to the Smith and Harp to collect on there reward. Each party member choosing the girl of the liking and settling any bicking with a game of rock paper scissors. Each Girl and party member was pleasantly trilled with thier outcome except for Buttercup. She was paired off with Lane, the fearless paladin.
Lane Spent the night with Butter cup lecuring her on her ways and reciting verses from the Bible of Sabriel. It was not until She began to fall asleep and that's Lane began to probe Buttercup about why she chose her profession. Buttercup explained she enjoyied her job and enjoyed performing more then anything. It was after this confession that Lane vowed to find a Noble house willing to take her as the court bard. The Firewells seemed the most likely canidates.
1 week until the battle
Alicia Droggle explained to the party that she planned on arriving around 2-3 days before the battle. With that in mind the party ready themselves up and began the journey westward to Jane's Plantation. Before leaving Wrieth, the party encountered High Captain Mars coming into town. After a bit of talk, he explained he was in Wrieth to speak with Lord Wrieth about issues involing the nobles. The party then spent a bit of time training with Mars before heading out.
At the plantation the party was greated by Jane. Immediately Trog became infatuated unable to look away from her devilish eyes. Jane then introduced her three daughters. Odette, Sammy, Janus. Despite their lack of family resemblance the three did seem related. Trog then went with Odette to board Eggbert. Once inside the Oddette began to throw herself at Trog, Meanwhile the rest of the party waited outside discussing battle plans and how four woman could run a farm this large on their own. It was about this time that the party rushed in on Trog and Odette before anything major could happen, leaving Trog blue.
The party continued to question the odd behavior of the family, from the lack of farmhands to the pristine condition of the living spaces and even the lack of answers the Ladies could provide. After a bit of questioning the family invited them to a nice Pork Feast. Only Trog and Dogface decided to go while the rest of the party strayed off investigating the farm. Things began to heat up between Trog and the females at dinner until Dogface joined them, once again leaving Trog blue.
That Night it was decided Trog and Dogface would stay inside, while Lane and Ezel Watched the home from the outside. In the middle of the night Ezel gave the warning signal, Once again making Trog Blue who had snuck into Odette's room. after going down with him and dog face, Odette locked the doors. The party then went through the fields to chase a shadowy figure. Dogface stayed behind to stand watch.
Lane became was insistent on the creature being evil and continued his pursuit, following it with the party into the woodline. After doing so however the skys opened up and began to pour down. It was at this point that the party head pan pipes and could see Jane. She was staring upward at the sky with tendrils coming off her entire body dancing in the rain. Lane moved ever so slightly wrong causing his armor to rustle and starled her. There whats a blurr of hair as a saytr rushed by before Jane melded into a tree and the party headed back to Dogface. Only then did they realize she was a nymph and the "daughters" Pixies.
Day of the Battle,
A day Prior Captain. Droggle had arrived with her 30 men at arms. She explained that they'd lost 2 men after an encounter with bandits but not to worry. They went off to prepare the battle field laying down Barricades and oiling the fields.
The Battle itself was fierce. Capt. Droggle lost most of her men, as well Lane was almost slain having his armor sundered. In addition Trog's faithful mount Eggbert passed. Thanks to the AoE spells of both Eliza and Dogface, The battle was won before the Kobold could claim anymore lives. When burring the dead 2 things became apparent to the party. 1) The kobold were member of the Order of the Claw. and 2) Capt. Droggle seemed to have an almost distaste for her Orcish Soldiers. On the ride back the party questioned her to find out that the orcs were prisoners of war. They converted to Mce soldiers after wiping out most of capt. Droggles original troops when she was stationed in O'neal.
Knights of the Dawn
After arriving back with the fresh bounty of the battle the party was met by Warren Stone. He rambled to them about Lord Wrieth wanting to knight. He explained that the main reason for their hasty Knight Ceremony was for political favor. It was an excuse for Lord Wrieth to meet with the Nobles that had been harassing him and find out who was behind the assassination attempts.
After Briefing Lord Wrieth, Capt. Droggle met with the party letting them know Lord Wrieth was waiting for them. Lord Wrieth was busy writing as they entered. He explained that the [[Order of the Claw}] Apeared to be the Kobolds strike force, Where as the Order of the Egg was their dragon hatchery. After a brief conversation on the mission Lord Wrieth Informed them they were to be Knighted that night and a grant party would be thrown in their honor. All they need do is give him the Name of their new order and He would send the plans for their Order's keep to be raised. After much thought the party decided on The Knights of the Dawn, With the crest reflecting Eggbert in a rising sun.
That night the party was well met with Noble families from all across the lands as they were knighted.
What does the future hold for the Order of the Dawn…..?
Is one of the Noble families responsible for the assassination attempts on Lord Wrieth at the party…..?
And what important mission has the elven rouge been on to keep her from the battles at hand……?
All this and more in the next session of Barachiel's Choosen….. Z!!!

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Not quiet the perfection that I'm used to but a functional electronic device that makes phone calls- it looks like something out of Saved by the Bell but it will have to do. A phone, a stand in phone until the new one comes in the mail.
Channeling Zack Morris is not working for me, I need to text message and check my email, this thing does neither one of those. What's the point of something that just makes phone calls? Oh that's right now I'm minorly connected to the world. YAY me.


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I am tapping this out on my phone as I lie In the back bed of the RV between Bear and Pax. Benjamin is sleeping in the front bed, over the cab. Everyone is snoring. We're like a little CPAP commercial on wheels.
We have been out of wifi zone for a few days, but I will go back and type up my journal entries and upload the photos once we are in civilization again.


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Don't miss these two exciting events at the OHSU library this week:
Shreejoy Tripathy, Ph.D., postdoc at the Centre for High-Throughput Biology at the University of British Columbia and founder of NeuroElectro.org will be visiting campus this Wednesday, Jan. 27, as part of the OHSU Library-sponsored Open Insight lecture series.
The Library is hosting a lunch-time event with Tripathy from 12 to 1 p.m. in BICC 429. The session, "More than your results: A roundtable discussion on making data open, smarter and more productive," is open to all and lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Robin Champieux if you plan on attending.
Later that day, Tripathy will also present a talk entitled "A genome-wide approach for identifying novel genes regulating neuronal electrophysiology" from 2 to 3 p.m. in Vollum M1441. All are welcome.
The Open Insight lecture series is organized by the OHSU Library and students. The project is funded by the National Library of Medicine, and aims to prompt discussion around open access, open data, and broader trends in scientific communication and collaboration.


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Since 1983, Dr. Ruddle has offered hands-on participation courses in Santa Barbara, which provided an opportunity for clinical mastery, breakthrough training, and peak personal achievement. The below link offers an overall program update and information concerning future directions.
This on-the-road lecture, live demonstration and hands-on workshop program will help you produce superior endodontic results. Presentations include 3-D Shape•Clean•Pack or Nonsurgical Retreatment. Newest and best techniques are identified and powerfully shown utilizing DVD technology. Available at certain locations, the hands-on workshops afford a unique learning experience.
Identify exactly when, what and how much you want to learn. Dr. Cliff Ruddle will then design an individualized program, just for you, or a small group of your favorite colleagues, to uniquely meet your specific needs. ONE-ON-ONE training accelerates peak personal performance and is conducted in a state-of-the-art simulation laboratory in Cliff's private office in Santa Barbara.


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Powerstore CMS
When I "Enter" a couple times to enter a blank line and start a new paragraph, the blank line is displayed in the Admin side but not when I view the website. When I look at the source code for the new line, it shows as

. I have to manually put in

 for it to work. My clients will not want to do this nor should they have to.
Why doesn't this work?


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By chknwing - September 12th, 2016, 8:05 am
- September 12th, 2016, 8:05 am #90873
Cedar Point didn't win any? uh oh. I am sure they are going to plan something crazy to bring an award back to the park.
tarheel1231 wrote:They got the (Pity) "Park of the Year" award.
I think Amusement Today could add a "Best Coaster Collection" category to future awards. I think it would be a fairly respectable (albeit biased) category.
A team of specialized mechanics have started the 12-week process of disassembling and inspecting every inch of Fury 325- the world's fastest, and tallest giga coaster.


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Avi, 08 May 2011can i get any opreator no. location from while using gps how to get location while using gps
Pankaj, 05 May 2011Where is d inbuilt dictionary in dis fone?I also missed it before,. I updated my phones software,, and got a Collin's Dictionary then.
Hi anybody configured pop3 gmail settings on corby pro if yes wat r the settings.... also i hv configured it but getting DNS failed error... so anybody who knows this then it will gr8 help.
Amar, 06 Apr 2011Hi, This is the best phone to buy if you want a complete handset at a reasonable price. It ha... moreWhere is d inbuilt dictionary in dis fone?
AMar, 13 Apr 2010 * viks
go in ur menu and click instant messenger when it opens in the name of palringo ..... moretnq very much b't how to login in gtalk
vicky, 24 Apr 2011is it a good phone or nt??????????? Don't confuse !it's realy nice phone !
Hey Guys, please help me. I want to exchange media files with my laptop via Wi-Fi. I have already created a new wifi connection and get connected with lap. but how should exchange the files??
I want to exchange files with my laptop via wi-fi. i created a wifi connection & connect with it. but how should exchange files ? any mobile software required?? please help me.
Guys, dnt go 4 the bad reviews! Its one of THE best phones in the market!! Touch screen is gud. Net-superb. Operation is also quite fast and smooth. Only those idiots who download faulty apps or multimedia frm faulty sites wil find "faults" in this masterpiece.
JB, 28 Apr 2011Operating of this phone is the worst 1.. next thing about the camera is that its not help ful... moreoperate the camera in night mode once.....????
Operating of this phone is the worst 1..
next thing about the camera is that its not help ful in dark conditions..
peoples and objects are nearly invisible and next one about the qwerty when texting and writing large e-mails is very good..
they just gave wi-fi features 4 just saying i'm not even not able to connect to my friends tethered hotspot..
touchscreen is the worst part of this phone compared to nokia's basic touch screen..n-5310,
i can't call this phone as a smart phone..
smart phone in which the apps could be install and used, but in case in this phone i couldn't even install a single app..
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the social networking on this ph is also one of the worst 1..
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text: It's officially spring. Something about today seemed to remove a huge amount of stress. Maybe it's that with winter ending I don't feel so trapped as we welcome warmer, fresh air into our days. Or maybe it's just the renewing, fresh start feeling that seems to come every spring. Regardless, it's refreshing. Continue reading


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On This Day
26 February 2018
Alan Biley
Age 61
|Alan Paul Biley is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion, Cambridge United, Derby County, Everton, Portsmouth and Stoke City.
Biley played 121 times for Portsmouth scoring 58 goals between 1982 – 1985
Chase Masterson
Age 55
|Chase Masterson (born Christianne Carafano) is an American actress and singer.
Ed Quinn
Age 50
|Arthur Edward "Ed" Quinn is an American model, musician, and actor who has appeared in several film and television roles, including One Day at a Time, Two Broke Girls, Eureka, Young Americansand True Blood.
Fitzroy Simpson
Age 48
|Fitzroy Simpson is an English-born Jamaican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder and left back from 1988 to 2008.
Simpson played 169 times for Portsmouth scoring 10 goals between 1995 – 1999
Ceri Hughes
Age 47
|Ceri Hughes is a Welsh former footballer who played as a midfielder. His clubs included Luton Town, for which he played for 8 years, Wimbledon, Portsmouth (where he scored on his debut against Stockport County) and, lastly, Cardiff City where he made no first team appearances. He won 8 caps for the Welsh national team, without scoring.
Hughes played 38 times for Portsmouth scoring 2 goals between 2000 – 2001
Erinn Bartlett
Age 45
|Erinn Anne Bartlett is an American actress who also competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant.
Pedro Mendes
Age 39
|Pedro Miguel da Silva Mendes is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a midfielder. Starting his career with home town club Vitória de Guimarães, Mendes won the UEFA Champions League with Porto in the 2003–04 season. He then moved to the Premier League, with Tottenham Hotspur in 2004, where he famously scored a 50-yard goal against Manchester United that was disallowed. He then moved to his second English club, Portsmouth, before a stint at Scottish Premier League side Rangers.
Mendes played 68 times for Portsmouth scoring 5 goals between 2006 – 2008
Teresa Palmer
Age 32
|Teresa Mary Palmer is an Australian actress, writer, and model, best known for her roles in Warm Bodies, Lights Out and Hacksaw Ridge. She starred in, co-wrote and co-produced The Ever Afterwith her husband, Mark Webber.


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The More Things Change...
Jack Stephens at Conservator brings word that the keynote speaker at next year's American Library Association/Democratic National Committee annual conference will be Madeleine Albright.
Nothing against Ms. Albright, whom I'm sure will be an interesting speaker, but this is par for the course. This will be the third straight year in which an anti-Bush partisan will deliver the keynote address at ALA Annual (Richard Clarke in 04, Barack Obama this year). There's really no need for me to repeat what I've already said here and in the Infamous Chronicle Article. I'll simply refer you to an article by Steven Bell that I referenced both on this site and in the Chronicle piece:
As a profession, does our hunger for recognition and positive reinforcement compel us to subject ourselves repeatedly to the same "you're so special and yet so underpaid" spiel? Sitting through these politically overt keynote addresses feels eerily like listening to a Presidential State-of-the-Union address. Librarians stand, cheer, and clap wildly with every word of praise for our causes and every denouncement of conservative policies and practices. Obama barely had to work to get more standing ovations than a classic rock group giving their final reunion concert. Librarianship is supposed to be about balance, recognizing divergent viewpoints, and providing a platform for all sides of issues. But, given ALA's reputation as a bastion of liberalism, I can't imagine any conservative speaker (and please, let's stop shuffling out Colin Powell as an example of our open-mindedness) daring to step into the ALA lion's den. For what? A healthy chorus of boos, catcalls, and derision?


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Ringo, Simpson, While Have NAPA 'Know How'Rick Faeth
PETALUMA, CA – Aug 15
By Rick Faeth
Petaluma Auto Parts – NAPA Night at the races in conjunction with the River 97.7 FM saw unseasonably warm temperatures as well as a fast hooked up track conditions Saturday Night. Round #3 of the Pit Stop USA Shootout Series got under way with Andy Forsberg nabbing fast time with a solid 12.354 lap to outpace the field of 16 winged 360's. Defending track champion Herman Klein and second generation youngster Dave Lindt Jr. were heat race winners. The 25-lap, $2,000 to win feature saw Lindt stall on the first lap with mechanical gremlins and Eli Deshaies loop his mount on the second stanza. Lap three through twelve saw front row starter and visiting driver Nick Ringo III take command of the race. On the move was Bradley Terrell as he went low and then high to displace Jason Toft, Klein, and Forsberg to enter the top three as most of the field struggled with tight conditions. A fantastic wheel-to-wheel battle ensued between Terrell and Jake Haulot for second as Ringo calmly dealt with lapped traffic. A dicey move by Terrell got him to second on lap 22 but time had run out as an excited Ringo parked his mount on the front straightaway to garner his first ever sprint car win. Rounding out the top five were: Terrell, Haulot, Forsberg, and Toft.
The Pit Stop USA Spec Sprints signed in with 14 cars and saw veteran Jimmy Christian top the qualifying speed chart with a solid 14.294 effort. Palo Cedro's Casey McClain, and Martinez' Nick DeCarlo Jr. notched the 8-lap hearts. The $1,000 to win 25-lap feature looked to be going non-stop as everyone was seeing the tail end of Christian's well-prepared #1c. However on lap 23 exiting turn four a gaggle of cars came together that included Brian Azevedo, Brett Barney, Adam Christian, and heartbreakingly collected the leader which cost him an almost assured win. Inheriting the lead on the restart was point leader Klint Simpson who was a solid second behind Christian on the previous long green flag run. At the checkers it was Simpson with the victory over DeCarlo, McClain, Sparky Howard, and then Christian.
The Lumberjack Restaurant Super Stocks saw former track champion Mike Learn and sophomore sensation Danny Naron copping the pair of heat races. The 25-lap finale saw Learn lead thru four circuits. A good battle developed from a recently resurgent Matt While as he first challenged and then bested Learn for the lead. Favorites Mitch Machado, Larry Drew, and Gary Adams were all retired as Paul Hanley spun on lap 10. Next it was Brent Blackwood's turn to draw caution with an engine compartment fire. Setting a fine pace to the Scott Erwin twin checkers was While for his second straight win over Learn, Woody Woodward, Steve Studebaker, and Trevor Brady.
The Larsen Racing Products Dwarfs saw point leader and defending track champion Dave Mosier win the first heat as former track champion Travis Dutra collected the second. In the 20-lap feature it was Mosier incredibly keeping pace with Nick DeCarlo's record setting season in the IMCA Modifieds as they both have 7 wins. Second for the second week in a row was John Peters, over Dutra, Carroll Mendenhall, and Danny Marsh.
The Jake's Performance Hobbies Mini Stocks saw the recent domination of Bullet Bob Davis continue as he captured not only the heat race but also the 20-lap main event over veterans Eden McCormick and Snazzy Duckworth. Fourth and fifth were rookies Sid Hess and Zack Albers.
Petaluma Speedway returns to action Saturday Night, August 22nd featuring the Pit Stop USA Winged 360's the Larsen Racing Products IMCA Modifieds, twin 25-lap dwarf car features and the Jake's Performance Hobbies Mini Stocks. For more information please go to www.petaluma-speedway.com.


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|All Vanna's Choice Lion Brand Yarn - oneof my new favs
I think he is glad I have something I enjoyed to do that is not reading journal articles, writing up research, or collected data. Plus, I am working on my projects often so I am not buying massive amounts of yarn and not using it. I am still working a little each day on my other blanket. I can't wait to see the final result of this one because the photos other blogger's have of theirs are b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l! Happy Hooking!!! (crochet-ers use hooks)
|I haven't decided who I will give this blanket to, but I love working on it a little bit each day


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There's something about rainy days that makes me want to hide in my house and play in the kitchen. Anyone else? A few weeks ago we got a real soaker on a Sunday and
inspiration struck I saw these on Pinterest. I'd been wanting to make homemade Reese's (with a few tweaks) for awhile and here was my opportunity. They're Ross' absolute favorite and I have to admit… I've sort of miss them ever since I changed my diet.
You know that urge you get to just be bad? Usually when it comes on I try to get my rebellious fix in other ways like deleting emails, Netflixing in bed and machine washing dry-clean only clothes (be careful with this one!) rather than sacrificing how great I feel when I stick to my anti-inflammatory lifestyle. But in this moment I just wanted chocolate. So, I've learned the trick to splurging a little without…
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Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream released a new flavor this week aimed at combating climate change. Reaction on social media, however, has been frosty.
The Vermont-based company introduced its 'Save Our Swirled' flavor Wednesday, featuring raspberry ice cream with marshmallow and raspberry swirls, plus dark and white fudge ice cream cones.
"We've advocated for a broad range of causes over the years, and climate change is one we take particularly seriously," a statement on the company's website said. "While we've been working tirelessly at cleaning up our own act and spreading the word around the world, we recognize that there's power in numbers and know that our passionate fans hold the greatest potential for positive change."
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The statement also noted that Ben & Jerry's hopes the 2015 U.N. Climate Summit, which will be held later this year in Paris, will "produce a legally binding agreement to keep global warming in check."
Our stance on climate change and our ice cream is one in the same: If it's melted, it's ruined! Save Our Swirled is more than just our newest 'swirled-class' flavor: it's a climate change message you can't ignore.
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Many on Twitter bemoaned the company's message, however:
.@benandjerrys I disagree with your personal beliefs, so I think your business should be destroyed! Oh wait…no…that's libs. #ChikFilA
— L. North (@LadyLNorth) May 27, 2015
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@benandjerrys Why? WHY?!!? I can usually deal with your far-left wacky politics, but this kills it for me. Never will be purchasing this.
— #StarWarsRebels (@superfanboy108) May 27, 2015
@benandjerrys message is "Dont even Ben & Jerry's" it is GREEN for their GREEDY WALLET
— JackieOH! (@Junebug1952) May 27, 2015
@benandjerrys glad to know your agenda. I will not be buying your product. #climatehoax
— Morals Matter (@dlh8) May 27, 2015
@benandjerrys the climate has been changing for 4.5 billion years. Your ice cream won't stop it.
— Edward (@US395) May 27, 2015
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I had a delightful discovery yesterday, I just have to share.
I stumbled upon a bare bones business calling itself, Bourbon Street Gumbo Company. Located on southbound Gratiot, just north of Nine Mile, in Eastpointe.
Dined in for lunch on a half Shrimp Po-Boy. Very large sandwich with terrific shrimp. Didn't get it fully dressed--only shredded lettuce and aioli. Served on a colorful dinner plate with real silverware. Pricey at $12.95, but a lot of food.
Thinking of dinner, I ordered a 32 oz take out serving of what the proprietors call: Andrea's Famous Jambalaya. This serving size was $19.95. But two of us shared it for dinner, and there's left overs for breakfast this morning. The taste of this jambalaya took us back to New Orleans and the wonderful time we had at Coops Place. It was just that authentic.
Many other cajun/creole choices on the menu so I'm planning a return.
BSGC is at 23043 Gratiot.
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THE DUKE and Duchess of Cambridge are expected to take the United States by storm when the arrive in New York for a three-day trip.
Highlights of William and Kate's brief visit to the US include an appearance at an NBA basketball match, where they are likely to rub shoulders with celebrities, and a meeting for the Duke with president Barack Obama.
The royal couple also plan to pay their respects to the thousands who died during the 9/11 terrorist attacks by visiting the World Trade Centre's Memorial and Museum.
Kensington Palace said: "The couple really are very much looking forward to all the special moments of the visit. They've been an integral part in planning it."
The Cambridges will take their court-side seats at an NBA basketball game in the trendy New York suburb of Brooklyn and watch local team the Brooklyn Nets take on the Cleveland Cavaliers tomorrow night.
Seats so close to the action are priced at thousands of dollars but usually cannot be bought as they are prestige places for celebrity supporters like rapper Jay Z and his wife Beyonce.
The Duke and Duchess are both sporty and competitive and are likely to enjoy watching the towering sportsmen.
Before travelling to Brooklyn William will fly to Washington where he will have a meeting with Mr Obama at the White House and separate talks with vice president Joe Biden.
The Duke and the president will meet at the White House in Washington on Monday ahead of a major speech William will deliver, expected to be about the illegal wildlife trade, at the World Bank Group's International Corruption Hunters Alliance Conference.
The two men last met in 2011 when Mr Obama made a state visit to Britain with his wife Michelle.
While William is attending events in Washington Kate will join Chirlane McCray, wife of New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, on a visit to a local child development centre.


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The Gerontological Society of America has chosen the University of Washington's Linda Teri to receive its 2006 M. Powell Lawton Award. The distinction recognizes a significant contribution in gerontology that has led to an innovation in gerontological treatment, practice or service, prevention, amelioration of symptoms or barriers, or a public policy change that has led to some practical application that improves the lives of older persons.
The award presentation will take place at GSA's 59th Annual Scientific Meeting, which will be held from November 16th-20th, 2006 in Dallas, TX. The actual conferral will occur on Sunday the 19th at 1:30 p.m. at the Adam's Mark Dallas Hotel. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among clinical, administrative, and research professionals who specialize in the study of the aging process.
Teri has done groundbreaking research on interventions for patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD), mainly by using the strategy of training family caregivers in appropriate problem solving and behavior management approaches. The novelty of her work is that it challenges the usual assumption that problem behaviors in AD are determined solely by brain pathology, and that intervention must therefore be pharmacological, or involve teaching caregivers to better accept or adapt to these problems.
Teri's work has demonstrated that caregiver training can effectively decrease AD patients' depression, and that sleep disturbance in AD patients can be improved with behavioral intervention.
The award is named in memory of M. Powell Lawton for his outstanding contributions to applied gerontological research. It also honors an individual for exemplifying one or more of Lawton's outstanding professional and personal qualities. The winner traditionally presents a lecture at the Annual Scientific Meeting the following year. The award is sponsored by the Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish L
Contact: Todd Kluss
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Let me ask you a question. How long do you wish to stay in the world? Did I hear you say "above 30 for sure"? Oh, yes definitely. So do I. (one of the facts)
Nevertheless, can I be straight up with you? Age is just a number! Nothing more! It's an "arithmetic progression" of 365 days to add one.
Do you understand me yet? I mean age is not a determining factor of who you are–what you've achieved, how matured you've become or how much of life experience you've gained.
But age can only be worthwhile with all these factors. A lot ought to be embedded in the "age factor".
Hence, the cause for a long list of expectations (by people from you) as your age increases. For example, most people expect a 2-year-old baby to communicate just as most expect a 14-year-old to be ready for high-school. What is expected of a 30-year-old?
Listed below are 6 life facts you're expected and supposed to have known before you turn 30 years of age:
#1. Comparison to others is failure
Why compare yourself to others? Who can be you better than yourself? You came into the world alone. Even twins came at different moments. That's how unique you are.
Why compare your unique self with an entirely different person? Our paths could cross but we can't walk the same path throughout our lifetime.
Instead of comparing yourself to others, compare your old self to your new self and also, to your aspiring self. That's what makes you a success.
#2. "No" is not a bad word
In one of our previous posts "The power of No", you're made the judge of how to use the word no.
Go through the post and tell me No is a good word. Oh, you don't agree? What do you say about a lady who said No to a guy she doesn't want to be with? I guess you have your answer.
#3. You're a student till you die
We have students, teachers, and lecturers but those are mere names! They are attributed to a particular discipline.
Now the obvious question, what about other disciplines? A professor of chemistry becomes a student when he inquires about advanced mathematics.
Now forget discipline, is there a professor of life? No one is. We'll all keep learning till the day we die.
#4. Failure is a form of success
It sounds awkward! Yes, I know. "We learn from failure, not from success"–Bram Stoker.
Often times we waste time celebrating success when we ought to proceed in life. A success attained is already out of the way. "What's next?" should be the question we ask ourselves.
The little hiccups or failures we experience along our journey in life is what we learn from. It's how we can tell people what to stay away from.
And that's what makes us who we are today. Don't perceive failure as one, rather, perceive it as a learning opportunity–Success.
Related: 5 reasons you've failed and will always fail
#5. There's someone out there with a worse situation compared to yours
Scenario 1
My mother is a drug addict and my father is a drunkard. I don't get to see them often. I only call them when I need cash. We even hardly talk! I wish I had a better family.
Scenario 2
My mother died the day I was born and my father died in an accident on the way home from the hospital that same day. I was raised in a foster home, sent to school and catered for. I wish I had a family.
Trust me when I tell you, no matter how worse your situation is, there's a worst situation out there. Scenario 1 wishes for a better family whereas Scenario 2 wishes for a family.
You know what? Ditch your problems , get on with life and keep your head up!
#6. Money can't cater for your most important problems
A problem is a characteristic of life. Facing challenges is normal and so is to surmount them. But money can't solve every problem. This is one of the facts that can't be overlooked.
If you're highly rich and your money can't solve a problem you have, then the problem becomes your most important problem.
Examples of problems money can't solve are health, addictions, and sadness.
To succeed in life, accept these facts before the age of 30 else they'd dawn on you.


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Indore: A Kingfisher flight, with around 50 passengers on board, suffered a tyre burst during landing at the Devi Ahilyabai Airport here, officials said on Thursday.
Kingfisher flight IT 4397, which came from Delhi, reported the tyre burst during landing at the airport at around 9 pm last night, a senior airport official said.
All the passengers are safe, he said.
The flight was cancelled following the incident and repair works are on, the official added.