I’m exhausted, and I have exhausted any topic I feel competent to address at the moment. I sure hope y’all got something to say.
Actually I’m sure you do.
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Camp Democracy Video of Gael Murphy on her recent trip to Iraq
Camp Democracy , Washington DC, on Sept 16 2006
Gael is one of the founders of ‘Code Pink’, Women Activists Organization
You can View this HERE
Or at the Camp Democracy Link Above
Camp Democracy Video of Allison Hantschel
Camp Democracy , Washington DC, Sept 17th 2006
You can view this HERE
Or also at the Camp Democracy Link Above
Or I have placed the Players in one post HERE at my site.
These are both roughly 20min. in lenght.
There are also other video links, from Camp Democracy at the Camp Democracy Link.
The ugly face of the Bush base
Posted by Melissa McEwan at 5:25 AM on September 19, 2006.
A couple of good jokes for ya all, from my email…enjoy
Another blond cook sent to me by of all ppl, my lovely blond daughter, who is one terrific cook, btw….;o)
MONDAY: It’s fun to cook for Tom. Today I made angel
food cake. The recipe said beat 12 eggs separately.
The neighbors were nice enough to loan me some extra bowls.
TUESDAY: Tom wanted fruit salad for supper. The recipe
said serve without dressing. So I didn’t dress. What a
surprise when Tom brought a friend home for supper.
WEDNESDAY: A good day for rice. The recipe said wash
thoroughly before steaming the rice. It seemed kind of
silly but I took a bath anyway. I can’t say it improved
the rice any.
THURSDAY: Today Tom asked for salad again. I tried a
new recipe. It said prepare ingredients, lay on a bed of
lettuce one hour before serving. Tom asked me why I was
rolling around in the garden.
FRIDAY: I found an easy recipe for cookies. It said put
the ingredients in a bowl and beat it. There must have
been something wrong with this recipe. When I got back,
everything was the same as when I left.
SATURDAY: Tom did the shopping today and brought
home a chicken. He asked me to dress it for Sunday
(oh boy). For some reason Tom keeps counting to ten.
SUNDAY: Tom’s folks came to dinner. I wanted to
serve roast but all I had was hamburger. Suddenly
I had a flash of genius. I put the hamburger in the
oven and set the controls for roast. It still came out
hamburger, much to my disappointment.
GOOD NIGHT DEAR DIARY. This has been a very
exciting week. I am eager for tomorrow to come so
I can try out a new recipe on Tom. If I can talk Tom
into buying a bigger oven, I would like to surprise him
with chocolate moose.
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Pharmacology
In Pharmacology, all drugs have two names, a trade name and generic name. For example, the trade name of Tylenol also has a generic name of Acetaminophen. Aleve is also called Naproxen. Amoxil is also called Amoxicillin and Advil is also called Ibuprofen.
The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra. After careful consideration by a team of government experts, it recently announced that it has settled on the generic name of Mycoxafloppin. Also considered were: Mycoxafailin, Mydixadrupin, Mydixarizin, Dixafix, and of course, Ibepokin.
Pfizer Corp. announced today that Viagra will soon be available in liquid form, and will be marketed by Pepsi Cola as a power beverage suitable for use as a mixer. It will now be possible for a man to literally pour himself a stiff one. Obviously we can no longer call this a soft drink, and it gives new meaning to the names of “cocktails”, “highballs” and just
a good old-fashioned “stiff drink”. Pepsi will market the new concoction by the name of: MOUNT & DO.
Thought for the day: There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer’s research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.
Thanks for the laughs, Brenda.
Your thought for the day reminded me of one of our favorite Lowell George tunes.
I’m in the middle of moving – an activity I hate more than almost any other. This particular move is made a little worse by the fact I’m leaving an apartment and neighborhood I love for a place, on both counts, I don’t care for quite as much. Granted, it’s only about a mile and a half away, but in an East Coast city like Philadelphia that mile and half may as well be the other side of the world. I can already tell that this is going to be a hard adjustment. Anyway, the topic I chose to return to blogging with was a complete bomb, so it’s probably good I’m busy wrapping my breakables in newspaper and wondering why the hell I ever kept half of the crap that’s lying around this old dump.
We moved 5 times in our first 6 years of marriage. It never stops sucking. Good Luck.
“Anyway, the topic I chose to return to blogging with was a complete bomb…”
Wrong, wrong, wrong! It was extremely important. I had nothing to say, so I didn’t comment. I apologize that a lack of response could lead you to believe that what you wrote was a “bomb.”
I will be passing the info on to friends and others. Thank you.
Best of luck with the move. I think it was William Morris who said something like, “Keep only that which is beautiful or useful.” Others have added sentimental.
I find it is the “potentially” useful stuff that lingers and accumulates – some day or maybe I could… 😉
“If it doesn’t make you happy, get rid of it” — then again, if I paid attention to that I would’ve ditched the spouse about 100 times over the past 15 years… lol
My better half sent me a link to this Reuters article today. Apparently the corporate media would like to marginalize Keith Olbermann as a whacko.
I don’t think it’s gonna fly. I think a better comparison would be to the late great Edward R. Murrow. Just as Murrow stood almost alone in challenging the outrageous conduct of McCarthy a generation ago, Olbermann is almost the only authentic voice in the media willing to speak truth to power today.
Keith Olbermann speaks for me. I think he speaks for all of us.
and expressed their righteous outrage, maybe we wouldn’t be as fucked as we are now:
Maybe I’m crazy
Maybe you’re crazy
Maybe we’re crazy
Probably…
(Gnarls Barkley rocks…)
Listening to Keith, especially on the radio with Dan Patrick, I’ve never heard anyone saner…a voice of reason in a world gone mad with fear…
I have a shocking comment–at least it’s shocking to me. Bush has turned me into an anti-American! My family came to this continent in the SIXTEEN hundreds. I have ancestors who were officers under George Washington in the Continental Army. My American blue blood is as blue as it comes (if you will please remember that blue blood does not always translate into green in the pocket).
In any event, I’ve always regarded myself as an essentially conservative, always Democrat, always Catholic, American PATRIOT! I have always bought into the notion of American exceptionalism (and I still can’t really bring myself to abandon that position–what happened with the early establishment of the American constitution still seems miraculous to me). After 9/11, I took the flag that had been on my grandfather’s coffin at Arlington Cemetary and hung it for months in the front window of my law office.
But tonight I heard the last 30 minutes of the very dramatic Iranian president’s speech to the U.N. General Assembly [sorry don’t have link]. It was delivered on the same day that our asshole preznit gave an asshole speech to the same body–that is, to the world. And of course, our asshole preznit refused to meet the Iranian president, despite plaintive and sincere requests.
I was actually amazingly blown away. I agreed with every single thing I heard from the Iranian (although I guess I would prefer a slightly more nuanced position on Palestine and Israel, but I understand where he’s coming from). I wanted to cheer. And at the end, he spoke for perhaps five minutes, with incredible eloquence, about sincere religious convictions, which he believes are the foundation of international justice. He spoke very movingly about the fact that all humans are created equally by God, with equal dignity and respect, and none of them deserves to be lorded over by hegemonic rulers and masters. Amen!
He’s a sophisticated college professor. An intelligent man. A very sincere religious Muslim and a very sincere Iranian nationalist. He is really speaking the truth to power, with incredible personal courage. By the way, he is not some foam at the mouth jihadist, as he will be smeared. He called for all to revere the teaching of the great prophets: Adam, Moses, Jesus, Mohamed, and the Savior To Come (the Hidden Imam in Shia lore).
I’m a very religious Catholic who majored in religious philosophy. I almost got a Ph.D. in theology. I tell you this: this man’s expression of religious principle is one million times more powerful and true than the crap out of George Bush’s mouth!!!
So I come to the shocking realization: if Bush takes us to war with the Iranians, I’m rooting for the Iranians.
As you can see, I’m kind of worked up about this thought.
I’m sure I’ll enjoy the waterboarding.
Wow.
Bush is retarded. Bush is not eloquent. Bush can no more bring true Democracy to Iran than Khatami could. Bush has ill intentions anyway.
But have you checked out Iran’s society lately? Have you ever read Shi’a theology? I don’t know how anyone would want Iran to prevail in a battle of ideas with America. Even shitty kleptocratic ideas like those espoused by George W. Bush are more authentic that the false piety of the Council of Guardians and their puppets like Ahmedinejad.
Are they a threat? Not really. They’re a manageable threat. They’re a threat a couple of magnitudes below North Korea or Pakistan. But there are no people anywhere that want to be ruled by Iran’s leadership. Even the non-Persian Shi’a want no part of them.
Maybe he gave a good speech…I don’t know. But the guy is no humanitarian. He’s a polemicist and a propagandist. He has his counterparts here. But our government will fall no later than Jan. 20, 2009. His government has no expiration date. His government is run by a mullahocracy that makes a mockery of what could be a vital and dynamic democracy. Every fault that Bush and Cheney have, the Mullahs have ten times over.
Just my two cents.
I don’t claim to be as knowledgable about Iran as you BooMan, but after reading the letter from Ahmadinejad to Bush a few weeks ago, one thing in particular struck me : This administration has given anyone who wants to criticize American policy such a ridiculous amount of rhetorical ammunition that they can’t help but seem credible to anyone who is paying attention, even if they are a whack job.
I suspect this is why the Iranian leader’s speech was so powerful, though I didn’t see it. They’ve got live argumentative ammo against the Bush Administration, while Bush is left firing blanks as he did with Iraq. But now a lot more people are aware that our rounds aren’t live ones.
if you read the rhetoric of bin Laden or Pat Buchanan you will also find a couple arguments that are valid criticisms. Would you rather be ruled by them than Bush and Cheney?
Let’s not get carried away.
I agree Bush gives our enemies lots of ammo and those enemies parrot left-wing talking points because they are effective.
But Ahmedinejad is an asshole. He’s a much bigger asshole than our leadership. He’s an ideologue, and a particularly nasty one. He makes it easy for the right-wing to demonize all of Iran and hype their threat out of all proportion.
No, you misread me. I’m not saying that at all, just remarking on how our own leaders have given people like bin Laden and Ahmadinejad a soap box to stand on where they should have none.
Let me give an oblique comment. I understand where you’re coming from, oh yes I do.
But I’ve recently (last two or three years) increasingly become aware of how hard it is for us to escape the propaganda and conventional-wisdom fog we live in.
I’m an immigration lawyer, as I’ve said here many times. I’ve been doing immigration law for 20 years or more. I’ve represented clients from nearly 100 countries around the world (I need to go consult my records and count this up accurately; I have the records).
Experienced immigration lawyers are used to thinking that they can take on any case, from any country. We’re internationalists, in a way. We’re experts on geography. We can handle any country fact pattern.
There is only ONE country that has always confounded me: Iran. I’ve had a number of Iranian clients, but I usually refer Iranian cases away. Unlike every single other country in the world, Iran is the one country I just can’t get my mind around. The contrast between the modern and the medieval is just too bizarre.
On balance, I think the Iranians are a hell of a lot more civilized than possibly any other country in the world, while at the same time suffering from significant barbarism (but NOT as bad as what the U.S. is recently doing).
I’ll stop here. I could write a whole book on this.
I think Bush is going to attack Iran. I’ve been saying (with Steven D.) for many months that this is likely to happen.
If that does happen, and especially if the evil preznit uses nukes, I’m going to have a REAL hard time not just abandoning this fucked up country. I almost went to Canada after the evil ones stole the 2004 election….
P.S. Try to find a copy of Ahmadinejad’s speech. It was really interesting.
I’ll try to read his speech tomorrow.
I don’t know what Bush intends to do inre Iran. I can envision a circumstance where I would be forced to renounce my citizenship as well. But I would never hope for an Iranian victory over the US. At the very most, and it is unlikely, I would hope for Iran to teach the US some humility that would lead to a more humble foreign policy. I’m hoping Iraq will serve this purpose.
But Iran’s influence is not a positive influence for anyone. In fact, that is one of the larger problems the invasion of Iraq has caused.
My sincere hope is that we will soon have the means to put an end to this horrific nightmare and begin the long climb back toward what we once were as a people.
I shudder to think where our end will be if we continue the moral descent we have experienced over the last 5+ years.
I just wanted to say that I totally understand where you’re coming from Arminius. I can’t say anything about what this man and the group he works for actually DOES. And I didn’t see his speech. But I heard him interviewed by Brian Williams on Hardball and was amazed at how rational and profound he was. I had the same thoughts and reactions that you did.
I also see Booman’s point about what life is actually like in Iran. But it does cause me to pause when I hear the rhetoric. So many people have been demonized by this administration for their criticisms, you begin to wonder where the “white hats” actually are.
My cat’s hairball is finally gone!
in the local bookstore — they only had two copies left.
Unfortunately the other book I was looking for (The Healthy Lunchbox published by the American Diabetes Association) was out of stock; think I’d better put in a rush order for that so I have it in time for school next week (will be packing lunch/dinner twice a week — on campus from 10am to 730pm…).
We definitely had something to say!