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Sticky Blog
Monday, September 27, 2004
Sunday, September 26, 2004
not mean to us
I feel bad for FL. My poor old exState has taken a severe kick in the crotch this season. Mom n dad are fine. Yeah I know you were worried. This is the third hurricane that has ripped through Zephyrhills but mom n dad are still there, relatively unscathed. Not everyone in their park was as luck. I'm just glad they are.
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Saturday, September 25, 2004
SPREAD THE WORD
[1] Congressional Research Service, “Supplemental Appropriations FY 2003: Iraq Conflict, Afghanistan, Global War on Terrorism, and Homeland Security,” updated April 18, 2003; House Budget Committee Democratic Caucus, “The Cost of War and Reconstruction in Iraq: An Update,” September 23, 2003; Committee on the Budget, Appropriations Update, “Fiscal Year 2004 Defense and Iraq and Afghanistan Reconstruction Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Conference Report,” November 5, 2003; Office of Management and Budget, “Estimate #17, FY 2004 Supplemental: Iraq and Afghanistan Ongoing Operations/Reconstruction,” September 17, 2003. Terence Hunt (AP White House Correspondent), “Bush signs defense bill with additional $25 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan,” Associated Press Worldstream, August 5, 2004.
[2] Elisabeth Bumiller, “White House cuts estimate of cost of war with Iraq,” The New York Times, Dec. 31, 2002, p. 1.
[3] Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank, “Al Qaeda-Hussein Link Is Dismissed,” The Washington Post, June 17, 2004, p. 1; The Associated Press, “9/11 Panel Upholds Iraq-al-Qaida Finding,” ABC News website, July 7, 2004. Accessed on Sept. 14, 2004 at http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040707_495.html.
[4] “Iraq casualties,” The Washington Post, Aug. 26, 2004, p. A15. (Source: Defense Department.) Also, unofficial tally of U.S. soldiers killed, updated daily, available at Iraq Coalition Casualty Count website, accessible at http://icasualties.org/oif/.
[5] Phyllis Bennis, Paying the Price: The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War (Institute for Policy Studies, June 24, 2004). Accessed on Aug. 27, 2004 at http://www.ips-dc.org/iraq/costsofwar/costsofwar.pdf
[6] Jonathan Stevenson, Ed., Strategic Survey 2003/4: An Evaluation and Forecast of World Affairs (London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, May 25, 2004).
[7] Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment Statistics survey (National)," (seasonally adjusted figures for total non-farm employment) accessed September 14, 2004 at http://www.bls.gov/ces/home.htm. Click “Most Requested Statistics,” to create a table listing Total Nonfarm Employment (Seasonally Adjusted).
[8] “Working Your Way Down,” The New York Times, September 5, 2004, p. 8.
[9] Mortgage Bankers Association, Press Release: “Mortgage Delinquencies Up, Foreclosures Down,” March 15, 2001. Accessed on Aug. 30, 2004 at http://www.mortgagebankers.org/news/2001/pr0315a.html; Mortgage Bankers Association, Press Release: “Residential Mortgage Delinquencies and Foreclosures Inventory Fall in 2004 Q1, According to MBA’s National Delinquency Survey,” June 14, 2004. Accessed on Aug. 30, 2004 at http://www.mortgagebankers.org/news/2004/pr0614.html.
[10] Current Population Survey, Census Bureau, August 2004.
[11] Carl Hulse, “House Votes to Block Administration's Rules on Overtime,” The New York Times, September 10, 2004, p. 21.
[12] Steven Greenhouse, “Senate Panel Gives Warm Reception to New Labor Nominee,” The New York Times, January 25, 2001, p. 20.
[13] “Insuring America’s Health: Principles and Recommendations, Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance,” Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (Washington, D.C., National Academies Press, 2004) p. 8. Read report at: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309091055/html/
[14] Current Population Survey, Census Bureau, August 2004. Specifically, see: U.S. Census Bureau, Press Release: “More People Have Health Insurance, Census Bureau Reports,” (U.S. Census Bureau, September 28, 2001). Accessed on Aug. 30, 2004 at http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/cb01-162.html; Press Release “Income Stable, Poverty Up, Numbers of Americans With and Without Health Insurance Rise, Census Bureau Reports,” (U.S. Census Bureau, Aug. 26, 2004). Accessed at http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/002484.html.
[15] AARP, “Drug Price Increases in 2003 Nearly Triple the Rate of Inflation According to New AARP Study” (AARP, May 25, 2004). Accessed on Aug. 31, 2004 at http://www.aarp.org/research/press/presscurrentnews/Articles/a2004-05-25-drugs.html.
[16] David E. Rosenbaum, “Bush Signs Law To Cover Drugs For the Elderly,” The New York Times, December 9, 2003, p. A1.
[17] Juliet Eilperin, "EPA Says Millions Are Inhaling Too-Sooty Air," The Washington Post, June 30, 2004, p. A3. Accessed on Aug. 31, 2004 at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15929-2004Jun29.html
[18] Joel Schwartz, Harvard University School of Public Health, “Harvesting and Long Term Exposure Effects in the Relations Between Air Pollution and Mortality,” American Journal of Epidemiology, March 1, 2000.
[19] National Resource Defense Council, www.nrdc.org.
[20] Ruth Ellen Wasem, et al, Border Security: Inspections Practices, Policies, and Issues, Congressional Research Service, May 26, 2004. Accessed on Aug. 31, 2004 at http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/RL32399.pdf.
[21] Barton Gellman, “In U.S., Terrorism's Peril Undiminished,” The Washington Post, December 24, 2002, p. A1.
[22] “U.S. Plants: Open To Terrorists,” 60 Minutes, CBS, June 13, 2004. Accessed on Sept. 1, 2004 at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/13/60minutes/main583528.shtml; Jon S. Corzine, U.S. Senator for New Jersey, “Fact Sheet on Senator Corzine's Chemical Security Legislation.” Accessed on Sept. 1, 2004 at http://corzine.senate.gov/priorities/chem_sec.html (Corzine’s original legislation was changed to only apply to a handful of “high priority” chemical plants, leaving the rest with no federal regulations of any kind).
[23] Robert Block, “The Bush budget proposal: Police, Firefighters to get less, “ Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2004, p. A10; Fox Butterfield, “As Cities Struggle, Police Get By With Less,” The New York Times, July 27, 2004, p. 10. Bush’s budget would cut the three main sources of federal funding for police – Community Oriented Policing Services Program (COPS), the Local Law Enforcement Block Grants Program, and the Byrne Memorial Grant Program – from $1.365 billion in ’04 to $605 million in ‘05.
[24] U.S. Government’s Office of Management and Budget, “Table 1.1. Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and Surpluses or Deficits (-): 1789-2009,” Historical Tables, Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 2005. Accessed on Aug. 27, 2004 at http://a255.g.akamaitech.net/7/255/2422/02feb20041242/www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy05/pdf/hist.pdf.
[25] U.S. Government’s Office of Management and Budget, “Federal Borrowing and Debt,” Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 2005. Accessed on Aug. 27, 2004 at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2005/pdf/spec.pdf.
[26] Isaac Shapiro, “Federal Income Taxes, as a Share of GDP, Drop to Lowest Level since 1942, According to Final Budget Data,” (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Oct. 21, 2003). Accessed on Aug. 31, 2004 at http://www.cbpp.org/10-21-03tax.htm; Edmund L. Andrews, “Report Finds Tax Cuts Heavily Favor The Wealthy,” The New York Times, August 13, 2004, p. A16. Accessed on Aug. 31, 2004 at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50913F73C5B0C708DDDA10894DC404482, referring to an Aug. 13, 2004 report by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
[27] U.S. Government’s Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 2005. Accessed on Aug. 27, 2004 at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2005/budget.html.
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SNAPSHOT OF OUR LAST FOUR YEARS
RESULTS OF WAR
We’ve spent $151 billion[1] on the war in Iraq -- 3 times the original estimate.[2] Yet we’ve found no weapons of mass destruction and no link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda terrorists.[3] The war has killed over 1,000 Americans[4] and 16,000 -- mostly civilian – Iraqis.[5] It diverted us from capturing the 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden and has actually “accelerated recruitment” of his terrorist network.[6] The war was declared illegal by the head of the U.N. and has turned many allies against us.
JOBS AND THE ECONOMY
We’ve lost 1 million jobs since President Bush took office,[7] -- the only administration to see a net loss since the 1930’s Depression.[8] Home foreclosures jumped 50%[9], and 4 million more Americans sank into poverty – now 36 million.[10] But this administration has reduced the occupations eligible for overtime pay[11] and proposed allowing states to opt out of the Federal minimum wage of $5.15.[12]
HEALTH CARE ACCESS
49 people die each day because they lack health insurance,[13] yet 6.3 million fewer people are insured than when Bush took office – now 45 million.[14] Drug prices have risen nearly 3 times faster than inflation.[15] But this administration passed a law barring Medicare from negotiating lower prices from drug corporations.[16]
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
More than 1 in 3 Americans is breathing polluted air,[17] leading to as many as 200 deaths a day.[18] Yet the Bush administration’s Clear Skies Act would repeal key parts of the Clean Air Act and allow more pollution from coal-fired plants.[19]
HOMELAND SECURITY
20,000 shipping containers a day arrive in the U.S., but only 5% get inspected. [20] President Bush refused to fund the Container Security Act[21] and resisted a law that would have secured 15,000 hazardous chemical plants vulnerable to terrorists.[22] The Bush administration has also proposed cutting funds for firefighters and first responders, and cutting funding for police in half. [23]
FINANCIAL STABILITY
President Bush turned a $236 billion annual surplus into a $520 billion deficit – creating the largest national debt in history[24][25] -- mainly by cutting taxes for the wealthy.[26] Paying interest on this debt costs us more than the combined budgets of homeland security, education, transportation, justice and environment. [27]
[1] Congressional Research Service, “Supplemental Appropriations FY 2003: Iraq Conflict, Afghanistan, Global War on Terrorism, and Homeland Security,” updated April 18, 2003; House Budget Committee Democratic Caucus, “The Cost of War and Reconstruction in Iraq: An Update,” September 23, 2003; Committee on the Budget, Appropriations Update, “Fiscal Year 2004 Defense and Iraq and Afghanistan Reconstruction Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Conference Report,” November 5, 2003; Office of Management and Budget, “Estimate #17, FY 2004 Supplemental: Iraq and Afghanistan Ongoing Operations/Reconstruction,” September 17, 2003. Terence Hunt (AP White House Correspondent), “Bush signs defense bill with additional $25 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan,” Associated Press Worldstream, August 5, 2004.
[2] Elisabeth Bumiller, “White House cuts estimate of cost of war with Iraq,” The New York Times, Dec. 31, 2002, p. 1.
[3] Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank, “Al Qaeda-Hussein Link Is Dismissed,” The Washington Post, June 17, 2004, p. 1; The Associated Press, “9/11 Panel Upholds Iraq-al-Qaida Finding,” ABC News website, July 7, 2004. Accessed on Sept. 14, 2004 at http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040707_495.html.
[4] “Iraq casualties,” The Washington Post, Aug. 26, 2004, p. A15. (Source: Defense Department.) Also, unofficial tally of U.S. soldiers killed, updated daily, available at Iraq Coalition Casualty Count website, accessible at http://icasualties.org/oif/.
[5] Phyllis Bennis, Paying the Price: The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War (Institute for Policy Studies, June 24, 2004). Accessed on Aug. 27, 2004 at http://www.ips-dc.org/iraq/costsofwar/costsofwar.pdf
[6] Jonathan Stevenson, Ed., Strategic Survey 2003/4: An Evaluation and Forecast of World Affairs (London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, May 25, 2004).
[7] Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment Statistics survey (National)," (seasonally adjusted figures for total non-farm employment) accessed September 14, 2004 at http://www.bls.gov/ces/home.htm. Click “Most Requested Statistics,” to create a table listing Total Nonfarm Employment (Seasonally Adjusted).
[8] “Working Your Way Down,” The New York Times, September 5, 2004, p. 8.
[9] Mortgage Bankers Association, Press Release: “Mortgage Delinquencies Up, Foreclosures Down,” March 15, 2001. Accessed on Aug. 30, 2004 at http://www.mortgagebankers.org/news/2001/pr0315a.html; Mortgage Bankers Association, Press Release: “Residential Mortgage Delinquencies and Foreclosures Inventory Fall in 2004 Q1, According to MBA’s National Delinquency Survey,” June 14, 2004. Accessed on Aug. 30, 2004 at http://www.mortgagebankers.org/news/2004/pr0614.html.
[10] Current Population Survey, Census Bureau, August 2004.
[11] Carl Hulse, “House Votes to Block Administration's Rules on Overtime,” The New York Times, September 10, 2004, p. 21.
[12] Steven Greenhouse, “Senate Panel Gives Warm Reception to New Labor Nominee,” The New York Times, January 25, 2001, p. 20.
[13] “Insuring America’s Health: Principles and Recommendations, Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance,” Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (Washington, D.C., National Academies Press, 2004) p. 8. Read report at: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309091055/html/
[14] Current Population Survey, Census Bureau, August 2004. Specifically, see: U.S. Census Bureau, Press Release: “More People Have Health Insurance, Census Bureau Reports,” (U.S. Census Bureau, September 28, 2001). Accessed on Aug. 30, 2004 at http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/cb01-162.html; Press Release “Income Stable, Poverty Up, Numbers of Americans With and Without Health Insurance Rise, Census Bureau Reports,” (U.S. Census Bureau, Aug. 26, 2004). Accessed at http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/002484.html.
[15] AARP, “Drug Price Increases in 2003 Nearly Triple the Rate of Inflation According to New AARP Study” (AARP, May 25, 2004). Accessed on Aug. 31, 2004 at http://www.aarp.org/research/press/presscurrentnews/Articles/a2004-05-25-drugs.html.
[16] David E. Rosenbaum, “Bush Signs Law To Cover Drugs For the Elderly,” The New York Times, December 9, 2003, p. A1.
[17] Juliet Eilperin, "EPA Says Millions Are Inhaling Too-Sooty Air," The Washington Post, June 30, 2004, p. A3. Accessed on Aug. 31, 2004 at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15929-2004Jun29.html
[18] Joel Schwartz, Harvard University School of Public Health, “Harvesting and Long Term Exposure Effects in the Relations Between Air Pollution and Mortality,” American Journal of Epidemiology, March 1, 2000.
[19] National Resource Defense Council, www.nrdc.org.
[20] Ruth Ellen Wasem, et al, Border Security: Inspections Practices, Policies, and Issues, Congressional Research Service, May 26, 2004. Accessed on Aug. 31, 2004 at http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/RL32399.pdf.
[21] Barton Gellman, “In U.S., Terrorism's Peril Undiminished,” The Washington Post, December 24, 2002, p. A1.
[22] “U.S. Plants: Open To Terrorists,” 60 Minutes, CBS, June 13, 2004. Accessed on Sept. 1, 2004 at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/13/60minutes/main583528.shtml; Jon S. Corzine, U.S. Senator for New Jersey, “Fact Sheet on Senator Corzine's Chemical Security Legislation.” Accessed on Sept. 1, 2004 at http://corzine.senate.gov/priorities/chem_sec.html (Corzine’s original legislation was changed to only apply to a handful of “high priority” chemical plants, leaving the rest with no federal regulations of any kind).
[23] Robert Block, “The Bush budget proposal: Police, Firefighters to get less, “ Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2004, p. A10; Fox Butterfield, “As Cities Struggle, Police Get By With Less,” The New York Times, July 27, 2004, p. 10. Bush’s budget would cut the three main sources of federal funding for police – Community Oriented Policing Services Program (COPS), the Local Law Enforcement Block Grants Program, and the Byrne Memorial Grant Program – from $1.365 billion in ’04 to $605 million in ‘05.
[24] U.S. Government’s Office of Management and Budget, “Table 1.1. Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and Surpluses or Deficits (-): 1789-2009,” Historical Tables, Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 2005. Accessed on Aug. 27, 2004 at http://a255.g.akamaitech.net/7/255/2422/02feb20041242/www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy05/pdf/hist.pdf.
[25] U.S. Government’s Office of Management and Budget, “Federal Borrowing and Debt,” Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 2005. Accessed on Aug. 27, 2004 at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2005/pdf/spec.pdf.
[26] Isaac Shapiro, “Federal Income Taxes, as a Share of GDP, Drop to Lowest Level since 1942, According to Final Budget Data,” (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Oct. 21, 2003). Accessed on Aug. 31, 2004 at http://www.cbpp.org/10-21-03tax.htm; Edmund L. Andrews, “Report Finds Tax Cuts Heavily Favor The Wealthy,” The New York Times, August 13, 2004, p. A16. Accessed on Aug. 31, 2004 at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50913F73C5B0C708DDDA10894DC404482, referring to an Aug. 13, 2004 report by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
[27] U.S. Government’s Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 2005. Accessed on Aug. 27, 2004 at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2005/budget.html.
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Friday, September 24, 2004
You know sometimes you can just find so much just reading the encyclopedia.
And by encyclopedia, I mean of course GOOGLE.
harumph
Apparently there is SOMETHING to this Stickyness?
I suspect experiment 626.
But while claiming to be 'Sticky' I really have been more slimey or slippery or falls-through-the-cracksy. No matter.
And by encyclopedia, I mean of course GOOGLE.
harumph
Apparently there is SOMETHING to this Stickyness?
I suspect experiment 626.
But while claiming to be 'Sticky' I really have been more slimey or slippery or falls-through-the-cracksy. No matter.
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Does this work better than that panda kidney I had to eat?
RingTones Increase Bust Size. That is just wierd.
"But, incredibly, my 87-centimeter bust grew to 89 centimeters! It was awesome!"
If Russ Meyer had only lived to see it...sniff..
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004
new used purchase - fela
Eat, Drink, and be Merry. For tomorrow you might not have and $USD for CDs.
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Monday, September 20, 2004
misplaced arsenal of democracy
Oh here it is... Hmmm 1958. That was years before they decided that hopped up pilots that flew nuclear armed weapons had to take drug tests...(yeah, this started about the time W went AWOL).
A few things:
The Air Force insists the bomb was being used for practice and did not contain the plutonium trigger needed for a nuclear explosion.
Wouldn't have been more prudent to test it without the nuclear payload if they weren't going to detonate it anyway?
The United States lost 11 nuclear bombs in accidents during the Cold War that were never recovered, according to the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
So if they find any of them in IRAQ, it's just a f$cking coincident? Which also makes you think... If they couldn't find our own sh!t, how did they think they could have found Saddam's imaginary stockpile??
An estimated 50 nuclear warheads, most of them from the former Soviet Union, still lie on the bottom of the world's oceans, according to the environmental group Greenpeace.
THAT's just effin' schweeet. Nicholson is right, I can't handle the truth...
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Sunday, September 19, 2004
reduced for sale
Just in case you wondered...here's someone's Top50 most likely sort of cut out bin CDs. #1 is REM's MONSTER.
Making fun of R.E.M. is about as boring, predictable and tired as this album,..
Fuck. If I see Last Splash in the bin I'm buying every copy.
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Friday, September 17, 2004
Movie of Drunk GW Bush
Six years after he "quit drinking." The Smoking Gun is there.
Yes, learned. Learned to lie about your activities.
Dr Justin A. Frank Author of Bush On The Couch:
Only if he's STILL drinking he's just a "drunk," and a liar.
Six years after he "quit drinking." The Smoking Gun is there.
GWB: "It's become clear to America in the course of this campaign that I have made mistakes in my life, but I'm proud to tell you that I've learned from those mistakes." 11/3/2000
Yes, learned. Learned to lie about your activities.
Dr Justin A. Frank Author of Bush On The Couch:
Even if Mr. Bush abstains completely from alcohol, as he claims, he exhibits many of the worrisome, erratic, and grandiose personality characteristics of the so-called "dry drunk."
Only if he's STILL drinking he's just a "drunk," and a liar.
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todays episode of 'Insult to Injury' brought to you by...
Digital Marauder
Eleven people from across the US were indicted on Wednesday over alleged software piracy offences following the largest seizure of counterfeit Microsoft software to date.
Poor bastards. First they stole a bunch of crappy software, then got arrested for it. Oh the horror...
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Thursday, September 16, 2004
Way to "Support The Troops"
"They said if you refuse to re-enlist with the 3rd Brigade, we'll send you down to the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, which is going to Iraq for a year, and you can stay with them, or we'll send you to Korea, or to Fort Riley (in Kansas) where they're going to Iraq," said one of the soldiers, a sergeant.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Unclean at Any Speed
It's bad enough those RETARDS at FoMoCo are screwing up Volvo designs...What do you expect from a company that made money from both sides in WWII?
It's bad enough those RETARDS at FoMoCo are screwing up Volvo designs...What do you expect from a company that made money from both sides in WWII?
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r e h u m 4 n i z e r
is it strange that we allow our civilization to be shaped by a process that makes no explicit reference to human foresight or ethics?
eno is one, si?
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Tuesday, September 14, 2004
woxy - fm
NOW PLAYING ON 97X
NOW Liars - Mr. You're On Fire Mr.
07:34:33 Material Issue - What If I Killed Your B..
07:26:12 Jeff Buckley - Eternal Life (Road Vers..
07:21:37 Television - Friction
07:17:11 Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life
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And now for a segment I like to refer to as...
Paper or Plastic?
Apparently. The NEW information economy is about SERVICE. You remember SERVICE ECONOMY jobs. Those are what n% of us left to do whatever job we were doing in the INFOrmation economeeeeeeeee....
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the ubiquitous Django Haskins' newest proj
Aside from being himself, and in International Orange, he's got another iron in ye olde fire: The Old Ceremony. And a new blog. Rock! I can live vicariously through this for some time. Anyway, The Old Ceremony has some demo mp3s up. Check 'em out. Sayeth Django:
it's a 'pop-noir' group featuring upright bass, drums, vibes, organ, piano, guitar and violin, among other instruments. imagine a cross between nick cave, early 50's sinatra, bernard hermann (hitchcock's composer), and randy newman, and you've got a reasonable idea.
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Monday, September 13, 2004
Kompashunit Kuntservativs
No decorum. No manners. No patriotism. Just fascist bully boys that only attack women when their Powell Doctrine assures them no harm will beset them or their portfolios.
Wussies.
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So this morning I left a big ole pink bag of pants for:
I don't rightly know how many vets could fit into a size 30 waist, but who knows? One thing is for sure...I no longer fit into a 30" inch waist. Oh well maybe they have some kids that can wear them?
I get solicited regularly from the Kidney Foundation and Amvets for my cast offs. Lately I've been pretty slack. And mostly, I never give up clothes while they still have a few viable threads...but now that I've ballooned into normalcy, I might as well face facts. I'm a 21.6 and I'm probably never going to see a 18.5 again. Heh.
I don't rightly know how many vets could fit into a size 30 waist, but who knows? One thing is for sure...I no longer fit into a 30" inch waist. Oh well maybe they have some kids that can wear them?
I get solicited regularly from the Kidney Foundation and Amvets for my cast offs. Lately I've been pretty slack. And mostly, I never give up clothes while they still have a few viable threads...but now that I've ballooned into normalcy, I might as well face facts. I'm a 21.6 and I'm probably never going to see a 18.5 again. Heh.
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Sunday, September 12, 2004
Wow. Penny Craver is selling Tremont Music Hall
I'm trying to think of all of the great acts I've seen at the Tremont...Southern Culture On The Skids, Stereolab, Superchunk, Jonathan Fire*eater, countless local acts... My old band played there three times.
1) We owned. Triple bill with Rory Lewis (the human dung heap), World Class Fad, and (us) Frocky Jack. It never got as good as that show again. It was like 95deg F in there.
2) I think the 2nd was the "Rage Against AIDS' benny. We played in the big room. I won't say the crowd was small but I knew everyone's middle name in the room. We rocked out with Cyclone Mack later that evening in another club (since closed).
3) I can't even remember who we played with. This was plagued with a few technical difficulties. It was about 41deg F in the club that night. I had fun.
From Creative Loafing: (credit: Radok) -
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Saturday, September 11, 2004
Hallelujah you are saved!
Apocalypse? or A crock of s...?
...Mel Gibson will return very soon to smite the heathens and the gays and the vegetarians and the Francophiles...
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Sirloin Marionettes
From: the Horses Mouth
Volcano
"Volcano, the new band from Bud Gaugh (drummer-Sublime), Curt Kirkwood (singer/guitarist-Meat Puppets), Jon Poutney (bassist-The Ziggens) and long time Sublime/Long Beach Dub Allstars producer/sound man, Miguel, are debuting their newly formed band with a West Coast tour with fellow road warriors, Bargain Music, from Long Beach, CA"
From: the Horses Mouth
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When the 'Oooooh' hit's the Pavement... from 'No Rock&Roll Fun.'
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Friday, September 10, 2004
I'm 60 Minutes you're #%3^@!* Mickey Mouse
My complaint to ABC news (about them pronouncing the papers proving Bush was AWOL as forgeries):
This is in reference to: This and This bullshit
Did Terry Moran just not bother to check with IBM about the Selectric I & II typewriters before he pronounced the recent documents about GW Bush's (lack of) military service as forgeries? Or is this just some more of Mickey Mouse reporting we've come to expect from infoTainment venues such as ABC?
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I've got 5 Gmail invites left. Leave an interesting comment if you want one.
posted by Eric2 @ 1:26 PM
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I'm in a QC producers jag today. I'm listening to (If) I'm a Ham, Well You're A Sausage right now. Next up:
posted by Eric2 @ 9:22 AM
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Thursday, September 09, 2004
man torn new sphincter with common hardball
If I was Chris Matthews in bizarro world...
"...Zell Miller if you are listening, like right now...
It's on Zell, bring it."
I guess that's why I couldn't work one of those jobs. I would have run over there and pasted him on national tv.
posted by Eric2 @ 11:16 PM
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Colin Powell pulls his head out of his ass momentarily
I guess he figured he's toast after November either way. He might as well work on his legacy. Maybe if he works real hard one of his testacles will reappear? Oh well, I hope someone is listening...
At last, the US administration is on the record declaring the situation in Sudan a genocide.
Colin Powell testified this morning to the Senate on the subject of Sudan. He declared that a lengthy study by the State Department has determined the Sudanese government is carrying out "genocide" against its black African population.
Powell cited a "consistent and widespread" pattern of human rights atrocities, including killing and rape. Thousands of Sudanese blacks have also been abducted into slavery.
Powell's testimony adds new energy to our rally this Sunday at the UN. Now more than ever, international leaders need to be pressured to act immediately to stop the genocide.
That's why we are mobilizing hundreds of people to come out to the UN at 2 p.m. on Sunday. We have buses coming in from upstate New York, Toronto, Washington, and Philadelphia. Together, we are going to send a message to world leaders that the time for action is now. People of conscience will not be silent.
I want to encourage you once again to come out to the rally on Sunday. Bring friends and family. And bring signs with you. Stand in solidarity with the Sudanese community.
Every day, our office is receiving new requests for buses, and we need to ramp up our efforts to attract media attention. You have already responded with remarkable enthusiasm, helping us raise over $6,500. Our coalition partners have provided several thousand more dollars to help with transportation and mobilization.
But as costs for the rally continue to mount, I am turning to you one last time with an emergency request to help us raise $1,200 by Sunday. If you haven't given already, please make a contribution now. If you have given, forward this message to friends and family. Together, we can send a message around the world that we will not sit by silently.
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Oh no, not on my watch... I'm sorry. If I get bitchslapped by a supermodel and the fucko doesn't end up in the obits directly afterwards, I'll turn in my badass card. Thanks to NewYorkish for dishing this.
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The positive side of hurricane(s)... are that sometimes they coincide with National Hate Bund meetings.
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Ivan's Coming this is getting tiresome...
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