Marcus, born Aug. 3, 1920, in Villa Rica, Ga., was a graduate of Oglethorpe University. He entered the Navy in 1942, obtaining the rank of lieutenant, and was released from active duty in 1945. He was captain of an aircraft rescue boat in the South Pacific. He was employed with Tennessee Vally Authority for 36 years. He also was a member and deacon of First Baptist Church, an original member of Turtle Point Yacht and Country Club, greens chairman for 17 years, president of Southern Turf Association for three terms and an avid golfer and outdoorsman.
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"Seems like everyone I know, is gettin' cancer every year...."
Love you and will miss you, Granddad. I hear there's never a three-putt where you've gone and that all of your drives will be 300+ yards.....
I have a couple of friends who are releasing a movie next week. It's called Randy and the Mob, and it is hilarious. Read a little story about it here.
My friends Ray McKinnon and Walt Goggins have asked me to help spread the word and I am glad to do so - it's a great movie. It's not a big movie, so they really need to have some turnout at the theatres. If you possibly can, go see it! And pass this along to anyone you know who might be interested. Support independent and small films!
If you want more history, continue reading. Otherwise, I'd love it if you'd check out the trailer, and go see the movie in a theatre near you if you like it.
In 2001, Ray McKinnon won an Oscar for his first short film, The Accountant. It was such a great piece of film that my longtime friend Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers wrote one of his best songs about it, a little rocker called "Sinkhole". Ray loved the Truckers' music, and put a couple of their songs in his last film, " Chrystal". Patterson now has a song on the Randy and the Mob soundtrack.
Ray's buddy and co-producer, Walton Goggins, played Detective Shane Vendrell on "The Sheild", and plays a lead role in Randy and the Mob along with Ray (who actually plays two roles - twin brothers). Both men have been in countless movies and TV shows. You probably saw Ray in Oh Brother, Where Art Thou as Holly Hunter's "bonified" new fiancee, Vernon T. Waldrip, or as Reverend H.W. Smith on "Deadwood". His wife Lisa Blount is a main character in Randy and the Mob; you'll recognize her from several movies and shows too (I first noticed her in An Officer and a Gentleman). Tim DeKay, who played Jonesy on "Carnivale", has a great role, and there's even an appearance by Burt Reynolds!
Ray, Walt and the rest are some of the finest people I have ever met. You could do much worse than supporting these fine artists. Personally I think everyone should own a copy of The Accountant; it's a breathtakingly good short film that I show to everyone I get a chance to. I hope you go see Randy and the Mob, too. It'll make you laugh!
Thanks for your time,
-Jenn
If a man builds a machine and that machine conspires with another machine built by another man, are those men conspiring? -The Accountant, 2001
So the new Apple mini iPod commercial has been haunting me for about a week now. My head snaps to the TV screen whenever it comes on. Something about that songs grabs my attention and fast.
I've been trying to guess who the hell it is because I can't see the person on that tiny-ass iPod screen on my tiny-ass TV screen. First I thought it was Bjork.
So, I says to Mable, I says..... (sorry, Simpson's reference). The boob tube was on last night as I'm grading papers and the commercial comes on and my head snaps and I, again, wonder, who the hell is that. I catch one lyric and through the magic of 'Googling' (if you haven't heard of it you should really try it. You can find all sorts of things through the 'Google' oracle) I discover the artist in question and I do believe I have been once again smitten by a foreign chanteuse.
The artist is named Feist (Leslie Feist to be exact) who just came out with a solo album. She is also a member of the Canadian band Broken Social Scene (never heard of them before but they have a nice, retro New Wave type a sound. I grew up on much New Wave, so the sound, if done well, appeals to me).
I dig it. I really, really dig it.
This year we've had DeClinehouse, then Sia, now Feist. Something about these females from another country sangin' all pretty that just eats me up.
I had to start off with some tunes today because the next Tube is about the most depressing thing I've seen in a while. There's hope at the end, though.
Exploring the neurobiology of politics, scientists have found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives because of how their brains work.
Previous psychological studies have found that conservatives tend to be more structured and persistent in their judgments whereas liberals are more open to new experiences. The latest study found those traits are not confined to political situations but also influence everyday decisions. .......
Participants were college students whose politics ranged from "very liberal" to "very conservative." They were instructed to tap a keyboard when an M appeared on a computer monitor and to refrain from tapping when they saw a W.
M appeared four times more frequently than W, conditioning participants to press a key in knee-jerk fashion whenever they saw a letter.
Each participant was wired to an electroencephalograph that recorded activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, the part of the brain that detects conflicts between a habitual tendency (pressing a key) and a more appropriate response (not pressing the key). Liberals had more brain activity and made fewer mistakes than conservatives when they saw a W, researchers said. Liberals and conservatives were equally accurate in recognizing M.
Researchers got the same results when they repeated the experiment in reverse, asking another set of participants to tap when a W appeared.
Analyzing the data, Sulloway said liberals were 4.9 times as likely as conservatives to show activity in the brain circuits that deal with conflicts, and 2.2 times as likely to score in the top half of the distribution for accuracy.
Based on the results, he said, liberals could be expected to more readily accept new social, scientific or religious ideas.
"The body of a 41-year-old man was found in a wooded area next to a guillotine he built and used to kill himself, police said. The man, from the Detroit suburb of Melvindale, was discovered Monday by workers from a shopping center near his home."
The two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina has passed -- and people around the country saw that the people of the Gulf Coast are still in deep crisis. People ask me: what can we do now?
In our recent report Blueprint for Gulf Renewal, we outline concrete steps our national leaders can take to get the Gulf Coast back on its feet and ensure justice for all Gulf residents, not just special interests.
And yesterday, the California state house showed how people across the country can help push a new agenda for the Gulf. After months of mobilizing by students and other activists, the state assembly voted to support passage of a Gulf Coast Civic Works Project -- a visionary plan to create 100,000 good-paying jobs to rebuild the region (and one of the lead recommendations of our report).
"Q: You’re a lifelong Democrat. Who’s your favorite candidate? A: Either Obama or, er . . . Hilton. Q: Paris?! A: Yes! She’d make a great First Lady! No, I mean Hillary. I’ve given to both those campaigns equally."
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This article is about cockfighting. How can I not post something that has 'cockfighting' in it.... and chicks in bikinis firing high powered weapons. I wish I had of come up with the idea first... Probably did come up with the idea first... just didn't do anything about it.
Always more fun to think about doing things than to actually do them.
"MIAMI - Ask Jason Atkins about the Michael Vick dogfighting scandal, and his reaction is anger and disgust. 'I just thought, you know, [he's] gotta be the worst criminal I've ever seen,' he says. 'Girls and Guns' is among the features on Jason Atkins' ToughSportsLive Web site. Animal rights advocates might find that response surprising, because Atkins's Web network, ToughSportsLive.com, features live cockfighting from Puerto Rico — which, while legal there, is banned now in all 50 U.S. states. 'Our ultimate goal is to be a cultural website,' Atkins says of the site. 'To produce and show the world's various cultural sporting events.' So far, those cultural sporting events mostly involve blood and bikinis. In addition to cockfighting (which is shown on LiveCockfights.com, a subchannel of ToughSportsLive), ToughSportsLive offers broadcasts of bare knuckles, no rules Brazilian jujitsu matches dubbed 'Rio Heroes,' and what Atkins says is a sport made for America, 'Girls and Guns,' in which women wearing bikinis accessorized with double-thigh holsters and high-healed combat boots compete in a shoot-off of weapons that could easily outfit an American combat platoon in Iraq — everything from M-249 SAWs to Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifles."
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This is been an amazing (thought sad) story to watch from not too afar. The Sierra Nevada's ain't no joke. They'll swallow you up if given the chance.
An experienced pilot takes off in a single-engine plane on a clear day for a short flight to the Sierra Nevada and is never heard from again. Officials search for him without success, and his family is tormented by questions about his fate that nobody can answer. It's a familiar story, of course, because the headlines have been flooded with the so-far-unsuccessful search for millionaire aviator Steve Fossett, who took to the air Sept. 1 and remains missing in northern Nevada. But this one isn't a week old; it happened 43 years ago. And the massive hunt for Fossett may help resolve the enduring mystery surrounding Charles Ogle, then 41, who lifted off from Oakland in August 1964 but vanished en route to Reno."
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- The 100-pound woman who holds the world lobster-eating title will be trying her hand at burritos in a contest far from the land of TexMex. The diminutive Sonya Thomas of Alexandria, Va., is coming to Maine for the Costa Vida World Burrito Eating Championship on Sept. 22 at the Mexican restaurant."
Burrito eating championship... in Maine. That's like having a pigs-feet eating contest in Napa, CA.
"CBS/AP) The downturn in the housing market appears to have driven two New York homeowners to desperate, illegal measures when their house went unsold. Police say the Westchester County couple, both mortgage brokers, turned their home into a brothel. Robert Werner, 34, and Heather Mazzenga, 32, were arrested at the three-bedroom home Friday night and were charged with promoting prostitution. Four women, ranging in age from 21 to 30, are charged with misdemeanor counts of prostitution and practicing massage without a license. "
"The Iraq War has always functioned as bloody wishing well. You throw Americans down the hole in exchange for a wish: a fervent wish for a region transformed, and a country rebirthed, and a legacy untarnished. If it doesn't work, do it again. American lives continue to be the cold commerce of foreign policy failures, the spent loose change of patriotism."
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I wasn't even going to ever mention the Dawn of the Dead character that's running for prezNit until he popped off with this stupid shite.
He Fred, America was freakin' founded on dissent you gd moron. We wouldn't even be a country with your 'logic' (and I use that term very loosely).
Fred Thompson's alternate reality:
"You know that tea tax seems a bit unfair and it kinda pisses me off and I really want to raise hell about it, but.... If I spoke up and raised hell there may be a 'heavy price' to pay and it may make the British look 'weak' and I don't want to embarrass them in front of the other countries... so I guess I'll just keep my mouth shut and go along to get along" - George Washington (some dude who never amounted to shite a couple of hundred years ago but was a patriot for keeping his gd mouth shut).
Suitcase bombs?!? Really?!? Watch much '24', Freddie? If you want to scare people, Freddie just STFU and put your face on camera. No need to speak.
"In his first interview since declaring his presidential candidacy, Fred Thompson repeatedly warned against the perils of a 'weak and divided' nation, raised the specter of unspecified terrorists with suitcase bombs, and expressed a willingness to employ nuclear weapons against Iran. 'If you're politically committed against this war and to do something to further harm the president, the way the Democrats seem to be in Congress, then anything [in the Petraeus Report] that's a mixed message is going to be seized upon in a negative way,' Thompson told Fox News on Thursday. 'If we look weak and divided in this country, we're going to pay a heavy price for it in the future,' he went on. 'We're living in the era of the suitcase bomb. And they're not going to go away. They're here now, they're armed and dangerous, and they're trying to get weapons of mass destruction.' When asked about Iran, Thompson replied, 'They're killing our people as we speak. ... We cannot allow this to go on forever. ... Within the next few years, most experts think, well on their way to making a nuclear weapon. ... I don't know how much stark the situation could be. They perceive us as being weak, they perceive us as being divided, and they think they could get away with anything.'"
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Crack Tax gets whacked.
Jeebus, just make it legal already then you can actually collect taxes on it. Shite ain't hard to figure out.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee's tax on illegal drugs is "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable," an appeals court declared in ruling the "crack tax" was unconstitutional because it derives revenue from illegal activities.
The law allows the state to go after the belongings of people who are caught with illegal drugs or alcohol that don't bear the special tax stamps, regardless of the outcome of their criminal cases.
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You've got to be pretty damn desperate to get discount plastic surgery.
"A couple were arrested after authorities said they performed illegal and disfiguring cosmetic surgeries in their filthy home, filled with drugs and syringes. Ha Nguyen, 48, and Zbigniew Makowski, 62, were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of practicing medicine without a license and child endangerment. Four children were removed from their home by child-welfare officials, authorities said."
Here's a case where the 'free market' hasn't developed their technological infrastructure and therefore can't service their customers. So what do they do? They drop customers who use too much of their product. And keep in mind that the air ways including TV/Phone/Interent etc are PUBLIC. We the freakin' people own them.
A functioning government with intelligent people running it, applying smart regulation is needed in order to protect the consumer.
For my life I've never understood why anyone would rather put their trust in a business (let the free market decide conservatism) rather than an elected government. I'm the first to admit that both can be pretty incompetent, but at least you can vote stupid mofo's out of government.
Regulation can work. Regulation is needed. Governments can work. Governments are needed.
"The rapid growth of online videos, music and games has created a new Internet sin: using it too much. Comcast has punished some transgressors by cutting off their Internet service arguing that excessive downloaders hog Internet capacity and slow down the network for other customers. The company declines to reveal its download limits"
"Austin Music Source: How do you plan to cope with Austin summer heat, will it cramp your onstage style?
Patterson Hood: I cope by drinking LOTS of water and LOTS of very cold beer. I used to drink the blood of teenaged runaways in the summer, but my wife found that really creepy and made me stop."
"A hit song written by a Shoals native now residing in Nashville has been nominated for The Country Music Association's Song of the Year. Chris Tompkins co-wrote 'Before He Cheats' with Josh Kear and the song became a number one hit on the Billboard country charts for Carrie Underwood. The Song of the Year award goes to the writer and the primary publisher. Tompkins is a former resident of Muscle Shoals and has been working in Nashville as a songwriter since about 2000. 'Before He Cheats' has also been nominated for Single of the Year and Video of the Year."
Donnie Fritts, who was on the ground floor when the Muscle Shoals music industry was launched nearly 50 years ago, has been selected for induction into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.
Fritts, a Florence native who earned fame as a songwriter and music visionary, is one of five people who will make up the 12th hall of fame induction class. The others are Muscle Shoals native Boyd Bennitt, who wrote and sang the first two teenage rock 'n' roll hits; Huntsville native Ernie Ashworth, who was a country music songwriter; Fairfield native Cleveland Eaton, a renowned jazz bassist and composer; and Montgomery native Tommy Shaw, who played guitar with the group Styx.
The formal announcement of the inductees will be made today in Montgomery. The event, which will include performances from numerous individuals and groups with Alabama ties, will be Feb. 22 at the Renaissance Hotel and Spa convention center. The induction banquet will mark the grand opening of the convention center in Montgomery.
"For one month we are a Coca-Cola mycoke.com featured artist. Click on the link above, enter the site and go to 'Media Central' and click on the 'Rock' link. Thanks!"
"Japancakes has two new records coming out this fall, Giving Machines and Loveless. Give them a listen - you won't be disappointed!! The music is beautiful and inspiring. The downloadable version of the first release, Giving Machines, is available now on iTunes for only $7.92!! CD's will be available soon online and in stores for $16.95. Press release from Darla Records: JAPANCAKES' new Giving Machines & cover of MBV's Loveless. 8/25/2007 Darla has two new Japancakes records to offer this Fall. Athens, GA based experimental, instrumental, Americana group, Japancakes will have new album, Giving Machines, out 10/2. Then on 11/13 Darla will release Japancakes' cover My Bloody Valentine's classic Loveless record with pedal steel and cello in place of vocal and lead melodies - and without any distortion. A ballsy move for sure and it turned out great too. Super fun! You can pre-order both titles now. We'll ship mail order customers as early as possible. Giving Machines is available via iTunes 9/3. http://www.darla.com/news/index.asp#53 Please show your support and forward this email on to your friends and family!!"
"This Friday nite, September 7, come and join me at the World Famous Buccanner Lounge on Monroe here in Memphis. I will be on stage at 9pm opening for the Double Shovel, whose sweet sounds I cannot get enough of!! Also, I will be playing in Peabody Park (COoper YOung neighborhood) this Sunday as part of the Six Flags Over Midtown Festival. A family festival with many rides and games for kids along with free food, drink and music. Those Darlins will be the headliners and they are awesome so come and join the fun this Sunday from noon to 5!!!"
"I just caught her secretly listening to DBT! I'm excited and thinking there might be hope for her after all. She's at the age where anything coming from dear ol' mom SUCKS!! Which, unfortunately, to her can even mean the DBT. But I just came home and caught her with 'Sinkhole' blaring and I heard her voice over the music, blaring out every word. Hmmmm . . . how does she know them? Ha! I could definitely think of much worse things to come home to!"
"DALLAS - Jeffrey Carter Albrecht, a keyboard player for the band Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, was shot to death early Monday while trying to kick in the door of his girlfriend's neighbor, police said. ADVERTISEMENT The neighbor believed a burglar was trying to break in and fired a shot through the door around 4 a.m., Dallas police spokesman Sgt. Gil Cerda said. Albrecht, 34, died at the scene. It was not clear why Albrecht went to the house and the case is under investigation. No arrests have been made."
"(CNN) -- Luciano Pavarotti died Thursday at the age of 71 after suffering from pancreatic cancer. I-Report contributors shared their memories of the famed opera tenor. Here is a selection of those stories:"
LONDON (Reuters) - Rock stars -- notorious for their "crash and burn" lifestyles -- really are more likely than other people to die before reaching old age.
"It found that musicians were most at risk in the first five years after achieving fame, with death rates more than three times higher than normal. Hendrix, Bon Scott of AC/DC and punk rocker Sid Vicious all died within five years of hitting the big time, said Bellis. Among British artists the risk of dying remains high until around 25 years after their first success, when they return to near normal life expectancy. That bodes well for rock survivors like The Who's 63-year-old Roger Daltrey, who famously first sang 'I hope I die before I get old' in the song 'My Generation' back in 1965."
"HANOI (AFP) - British pop singer Gary Glitter, jailed in Vietnam for child molestation, will ask the communist government to free him later this month in an amnesty, his lawyer said Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT Click here to find out more! The disgraced 1970s pop star has been behind bars since late 2005 and was sentenced to three years' jail in March 2006 for committing obscene acts with two girls, then aged 11 and 12, in a southern Vietnamese resort town. 'I hope Glitter will be given amnesty later this month to mark national day on September 2,' Glitter's lawyer Le Thanh Kinh told AFP."
"The sea of orange moves with an urgent rhythm as music booms in the early morning light. The dancers twirl in unison, every movement carefully choreographed. But what's most striking about these dancers are that most are accused murderers, rapists and drug dealers. They dance their jig behind prison walls. They are led by a choreographer who is accused of mass murder. One of their biggest stars is a transsexual, awaiting trial on methamphetamine dealing charges. Welcome to the Cebu Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines. Once infamous for its gang violence, the prison is now famous for its dancing prisoners. Their hard work has spawned one of the unlikeliest hits on the Internet -- a reworking of Michael Jackson's 1980s smash hit video 'Thriller.' Filmed by the prison boss, it has drawn more than 6 million hits on YouTube.
"An audience-pleasing riff on the dirty underbelly of the American Idol phenomenon, GREAT WORLD OF SOUND stars Patrick Healy and Kene Holliday as Martin and Clarence, two normal southern guys who get caught up in the excitement of a record industry talent scouting scheme. Unemployed one day and record producers the next, Martin and Clarence have a blast signing new acts and hit the road looking for the next big thing. But what happens once the checks are cashed? Craig Zobel’s independent film bona fides are firmly in place: he served on the crew of David Gordon Green’s early films, and Green serves as executive producer of GREAT WORLD OF SOUND. But it may be more helpful to go into GREAT WORLD OF SOUND knowing that Zobel has recently made a living between films by working on reality TV shows like The Apprentice. “I became fascinated by how desperate people were to get on TV, but how little they seemed to care about how they were portrayed once they got there,” he says"
So I called a old friend and retired B-52 pilot and asked him. What he told me offers one compelling case of circumstantial evidence. My buddy, let’s call him Jack D. Ripper, reminded me that the only times you put weapons on a plane is when they are on alert or if you are tasked to move the weapons to a specific site.
Then he told me something I had not heard before.
Barksdale Air Force Base is being used as a jumping off point for Middle East operations. Gee, why would we want cruise missile nukes at Barksdale Air Force Base. Can’t imagine we would need to use them in Iraq. Why would we want to preposition nuclear weapons at a base conducting Middle East operations?
His final point was to observe that someone on the inside obviously leaked the info that the planes were carrying nukes. A B-52 landing at Barksdale is a non-event. A B-52 landing with nukes. That is something else.
Now maybe there is an innocent explanation for this? I can’t think of one. What is certain is that the pilots of this plane did not just make a last minute decision to strap on some nukes and take them for a joy ride. We need some tough questions and clear answers. What the hell is going on? Did someone at Barksdale try to indirectly warn the American people that the Bush Administration is staging nukes for Iran? I don’t know, but it is a question worth asking.
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It is up to the people because the press is in their pocket.
(September 05, 2007) -- Over the next week, much will be written, pro and con, about General Petraeus’s report on the progress of the “surge” in Iraq and President Bush’s response. Since both men have pretty much already announced, or at least rehearsed, what they are going to say, the suspense is not exactly crippling. I’ll be writing more later, but for now I’d simply like to address the media’s responsibility to address, over the next few days, this key moment in our recent history with a steady gaze – which, as I will recount, was sadly lacking last winter in the weeks before the “surge” was announced.
Essentially, that Bush decision – and his rejection of the Iraq Study Group's recommendations at that time -- was the most tragic turn in this war since the original invasion, and like its overall performance in the run-up to the 2003 attack, the press (with notable exceptions) failed miserably.
Starting last November, some of us warned that Bush was bent on sending more troops to Iraq, but leading pundits and editorialists didn’t seem very alarmed about the prospect, embracing the notion that Bush, instead, would embrace the Iraq Study Group report as a face-saver -- even though the White House was already talking about sending more troops. When they did start to take that seriously, the media largely bought into the White House’s “surge” slogan rather than the more appropriate “escalation,” which some Democrats promoted.
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Unbelievable. Well, believable, but it should be unbelievable.
"The National Security Archive today filed a lawsuit charging that the White House “abandoned an automatic archiving system for its e-mail in 2002 and did not replace it,” resulting in the loss of approximately five million e-mails between March 2003 and Oct. 2005. In May, the watchdog group CREW also filed a lawsuit seeking information about the “missing” e-mails."
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"To the f'ing rich man all poor people look the same....."
"NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The economic expansion that began six years ago has failed to benefit most workers, according to a report from the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute, released Monday. Productivity growth, although slower of late, has been strong since 2000. After a sluggish start in the period, employment has picked up, although at a slower pace than in past recoveries. Yet, that growth hasn't transferred to workers' paychecks, particularly for workers at the lower and middle end of the pay scale, the report found.
Jobless claims rise more than expected After rising quickly in the second half of the 1990s, most workers real wages have been stagnant in the 2000s, especially since 2003."
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Hell yeah! Chimeras. I'm all for it. I want to clone/chimera myself into a human-tiger.
"LONDON (Reuters) - British regulators decided on Wednesday to permit in principle the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for research into illnesses such as Parkinson's, Motor Neurone Disease and Alzheimer's. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) said it had agreed to allow a specific kind of inter-species hybrid, created by injecting human DNA into a hollowed-out animal egg cell. The resulting 'cytoplasmic hybrid' embryo, or 'cybrid' would be 99.9 percent human and 0.1 percent animal. The HFEA is believed to be the first regulator in the world to explicitly approve such human-animal embryos, a spokeswoman for the authority said. Some countries, such as Australia, have banned them."
"What, you hadn't heard this was coming? Apple rolled out a lot of new stuff today. Welcome Apple fanboys and haters alike. Here's the gist of what's new with the iPod, iPhone, and iTunes, straight outta Apple!"
The 'Surge' was a bunch of bullshit to begin with.
But here we are.... months after the surge with no improvement... Not that it was designed to create improvement.... not that any-damn-thing we do will improve the situation over there... many more U.S. soldiers dead for the vanity of some old, white men in Washington who have no problem sending other peoples kids to their deaths.
"As the Bush administration prepares to present its version of 'progress' associated with the president's troop surge that began seven months ago, independent assessments show the surge has failed to catalyze political developments necessary for the country's future. The Los Angeles Times reports that Iraq's parliament has passed none of the major legislation Washington had expected it to approve. The 28,500 additional troops who have filed into the country since February also have failed to substantially decrease civilian deaths in Iraq, and more Iraqis are fleeing their homes now than before the surge began. The best possible summation of the surge's results indicate it has created a 'holding pattern' in the country, which is wholly dependent on US troops to maintain what few decreases in violence have been observed."
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So what is CheneyCo planning to do now?
Double down, bitches.
War with Iran: Coming from the traditional media and conservative 'think-tanks' (which is as oxy-moron as it gets) to a town near you in mere days.
We haven't even attempted any diplomatic talks with Iran.
"Barnett Rubin is the last person to set off wild speculation about war with Iran: the longtime Afghanistan expert is wonky, moderate and thoroughly analytical. But that's exactly what happened on Wednesday, when Rubin blogged that an anonymous, plugged-in friend told him that Dick Cheney's office had issued 'instructions' to conservative think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute to start a drumbeat for attacking Iran. In order to determine precisely what he's alleging, and get a sense of its credibility, I spoke with Rubin, a senior fellow at NYU's Center on International Cooperation this morning. Cheney's likely motivation for issuing such instructions to his think-tank allies would be to win an inter-administration battle over the future of Iran policy. Cheney, an advocate of confronting the Iranians militarily, faces opposition from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where the primary concern is preventing an open-ended Iraq commitment from decimating military preparedness for additional crises. A new war is the last thing the chiefs want, and on this, they're backed by Defense Secretary Bob Gates. 'It may be that the president hasn't decided yet,' says Rubin."
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It's bad when freakin' nuns are speaking out to have your ass impeached.
"A progressive group of U.S. nuns has called on Congress to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney because of their roles in the war in Iraq. “The National Coalition of American Nuns is impelled by conscience to call you to act promptly to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for ... high crimes and misdemeanors,” the group wrote in a letter written on behalf of its board members. The letter says that impeachment is warranted for their “deceiving the public under the false pretense that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction” and “destroying” the reputation of the United States and the good will of other nations."
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What should have been.
His technical analogy for his outrage is a perfect example why he should be Prez.
He knows it 'Google' not 'the Googles' because he sits on their freakin' board.
Oh how ye pine for the days when intelligence is coveted.
"You were often referred to as the most powerful vice president. GORE: That was before Dick Cheney. Point taken. Cheney has made the argument that the vice presidency is not part of the executive branch. Is he right?
GORE: (Laughs) Of course the vice presidency is part of the executive branch! But I fear that I’m losing my objectivity where President Bush and Cheney are concerned. Not much surprises me anymore. I have a lot of friends who share the following problem with me: Our sense of outrage is so saturated that when a new outrage occurs, we have to download some existing outrage into an external hard drive in order to make room for a new outrage."
"The Arctic ice cap has collapsed at an unprecedented rate this summer and levels of sea ice in the region now stand at record lows, scientists have announced. Experts say they are 'stunned' by the loss of ice, with an area almost twice as big as the UK disappearing in the last week alone. So much ice has melted this summer that the Northwest passage across the top of Canada is fully navigable, and observers say the Northeast passage along Russia's Arctic coast could open later this month. If the increased rate of melting continues, the summertime Arctic could be totally free of ice by 2030."
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I was going to start out with this bit of news first but the outrage had to be addressed first.
Halle said that I could break this news first on AAW but she had to go on Access Hollywood and deny me my props.
Yes, Halle Berry is pregnant and yes.... I am the father.
"LOS ANGELES, Calif. (September 4, 2007) – Halle Berry is pregnant, she confirmed exclusively to Access Hollywood’s Nancy O’Dell. The 41-year-old actress revealed the news in an e-mail to Nancy on Tuesday that she is three months pregnant with boyfriend Gabriel Aubry’s baby"
"SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - A man recently released from jail after being convicted of secretly videotaping a woman and a teenage girl has sued a Marin County police department for the return of a massive porn collection taken during the investigation."
"Saturday May 26th the VNN Vanguard Nazi/KKK group attempted to host a hate rally to try to take advantage of the brutal murder of a white couple for media and recruitment purposes. Unfortunately for them the 100th ARA (Anti Racist Action) clown block came and handed them their asses by making them appear like the asses they were."
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“White Power!” the Nazi’s shouted, “White Flour?” the clowns yelled back running in circles throwing flour in the air and raising separate letters which spelt “White Flour”.
“White Power!” the Nazi’s angrily shouted once more, “White flowers?” the clowns cheers and threw white flowers in the air and danced about merrily.
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More from the hypocritical 'values' crowd. This is just from the past 6 weeks.
"Republican Sexual Hypocrite reveals in the last month and a half:
* Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID), cruising for potty sex, somehow 'mistakenly' pleads guilty. * Diaper David Vitter (R-LA) admits he's a 'bad', 'naughty' and 'nasty boy' with hookers.
* Glenn Murphy, Jr., the recently elected chairman of the Young Republican National Federation, caught sexually assaulting a sleeping man.
* former White house spiritual advisor and fallen megachurch pastor Tweaker Ted 'I'm completely heterosexual' Haggard asking whatever fans he has left for money.
* former NC Republican lawmaker and Christian Action League president, Coy C. Privette -- caught at the no-tell motel with a sex worker -- also guilty.
* Mark Foley is back in the news, he won’t turn over his former congressional computer to investigators.
* Rep. Bob Allen, another Republican, caught asking to blow an undercover officer and willing to pay $20 for the pleasure; currently coming up with an excuse for the day (scary black men, thunderstorms) for his same-sex appetite."
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I'll get to this after the holidays.... yeah, that's the ticket.
