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Sunday, September 30, 2007
skippy's sunday nite music club
arcade fire - no cars go (live at rock en seine 2005!)
rock around the clark
general clark will be speaking about his new book; "a time to lead", doing a book signing, and probably taking questions from the crowd as well.
and the good news is... it's free!
i've worked with and supported wes and his efforts for the past 4 years now, and can promise you it will be an enriching experience if you have the time. after 34 years of service, there are very few as well-versed on foreign affairs or the war-- er, the wars... as is general clark.
bring your tough questions.
hope to see you there!
ms in la
Labels: general clark
sam i amnesty
Labels: amnesty day, blogtopia
anything you condo, we condo better
the kitchen, the bathroom, the courtyard fountain outside.
Labels: housing bubble
question of the day, and then some...
for me, it's a three-way tie. try guessing which three...
Saturday, September 29, 2007
skippy's saturday nite music club
the byrds - i'll feel a whole lot better
Labels: skippy's music club
skippy's saturday nite music club - bonus trax!
via susie mandrak, here's
frank zappa - or is it spike jones? - stairway to heaven - live!
Labels: skippy's music club
swift justice
aside from linking to our humble site twice, and one again today on his own site, mr. swift took the approach that both skippy and lambert tried when they were guest hosting the round up, and that is: link to as many smaller, lesser known blogs, in order to create as wide a new audiece as possible for the newer voices in blogtopia, and yes, we coined that phrase!
also, let's hand it to the kids at fdl who have, having been chastized by some, including us, for ignoring some of the big stories, today have written extensively about both updats on the jena 6 and the burmese demonstrations and their bloody consequences.
add that to the recent success against rudy's buddy who wanted to dismantle the electoral college results for california (thanks for letting skippy be a part of the solution, d-day!), and this week is pretty good for blogtopia, and yes, we coined that phrase.
but you already knew that.
awol...becomes a uniter
europeans angry after bush climate speech 'charade'. george bush was castigated by european diplomats and found himself isolated yesterday after a special conference on climate change ended without any progress.forget the speech...awol is a total failure.
..."it was a total charade and has been exposed as a charade," the diplomat said. "i have never heard a more humiliating speech by a major leader. he [mr bush] was trying to present himself as a leader while showing no sign of leadership. it was a total failure."- london guardian
Labels: aWol, climate change
a crude awakening
quote of the day
the republicans are the party of racists.
Labels: gop, racism, republicans
modern day robber baron
Labels: mortgages, robber barons
Friday, September 28, 2007
skippy's friday nite music club
david grimal string ensemble - eine kleine nacht musik - allegro - wolfgang amadeus mozart
our fav mozart...
Labels: skippy's music club
three days of the condo
but new home sales are not merely down: they are the lowest relative to long-term sales rates than they've been since the 1990-91 recession.
in fact, as the chart shows, going back to 1970, when the number of new units sold in a month (the black line) drops this far below its five-year average (the red-shaded area), recession (green stripes) is near at hand.
escrow has closed on a westside la condo and the skippy's are property owners for the first time. the housing slump may be unfortunate for the mortgage companies (see cookie jill's post above about american home mortgage), but the lower prices make it a buyer's market.
the skippy's were able to get the condo for considerably less than the original asking price, as well as some repairs made by the sellar to make the place pristine.
next: new carpet, painting, new appliances, and the big move!
Labels: economy, housing bubble
what does obama have in common with these lobbyists?
answer: his new senior advisor.
kangaroo blogging friday
apparenlty, yes...
thx and a tip of the kangaroo...uh...tail, to reader tabbox for the photo!
Labels: animals, kangaroo, kangaroo blogging friday
when this country gets serious about...
until then... well, i don't dare repeat that here. skippy might kick my tail if i do...
Labels: america
courage the cowardly repubbblican
(our personal argument is, if you want to get rid of the electoral college, you have to do it on a federal level and do it all at once. we've have no quibble for that.)
as first alerted us by c&l, it turns out that we won! the latimes:
unable to raise sufficient money and angered over a lack of disclosure by its one large donor, veteran political law attorney thomas hiltachk, who drafted the measure, said he was resigning from the committee.
hiltachk's departure is a major blow to the operation because he organized other consultants who had set about trying to raise money and gather signatures for the initiative. campaign spokesman kevin eckery said he was ending his role as well.
there remained a chance that the measure could be revived, but only if a major donor were to come forward to fund the petition drive. however, time is short to gather the hundreds of thousands of signatures needed by the end of november. and backers said thursday that they believed the measure was all but dead, at least for the 2008 election.
" 'shambles' is the wrong word," said strategist marty wilson, who curtailed his fundraising efforts weeks ago. "the campaign never got off the ground."
skippy is proud to have had a part, however small, in helping democracy towards this victory.
Labels: blogtopia, california, election, gop
the joy of living in this special community
this weekend is chockful of to do items. but top on my list is the santa barbara book and author festival. a couple of the panels/discussions i have noted in my filo-fax are: "what's next for newspapers" featuring some local bloggers and jerry roberts, the much beloved former editor of the santa barbara news-press and naomi klein's lecture on her new book, the shock doctrine. the best part...it's all free of charge.
what's on your schedule this weekend?
Labels: santa barbara
Thursday, September 27, 2007
skippy's thursday nite music club
human league - don't you want me baby
yes, it's the chocolate chip cookie commercial song...
Labels: skippy's music club
phony human being
Labels: limbaugh
what, it's okay if you're a chickenhawk?
so where's your knee-jerk outrage now?
{*even the crickets are silent*}
"now i remember the reason i still link to kos's website on my own blog" update: jon soltz of votevets.org not only takes exception to limbaugh's "phony soldiers" remark, he issues a challenge to the king of all republican shills:
...you weren't just flat out wrong, you offended a majority of those of us who actually had the courage to go to iraq and serve, while you sat back in your nice studio, coming up with crap like this.
my challenge to you, then, is to have me on the show and say all of this again, right to the face of someone who served in iraq. i'll come on any day, any time. not only will i once again explain why your comments were so wrong, but i will completely school you on why your refusal to seek a way out of iraq is only aiding al qaeda and crippling american security.
ball's in your court.
if you would like to hear mr. soltz school the lard out of limbaugh one fine day, go here. (yeah, i know, the odds are insanely good that hell will freeze over before this happens. but come on, it's an affordable bet. think of the payoff should you actually win...)
[ed. addendum: nicole belle of c&l has contact info for some dems that voted to condemn the moveon ad. why not call them and ask if they're planning to condemn limbaugh?]
Labels: right hypocrisy
going for the gold
following a day in which at least nine people were killed, hundreds of monks were arrested, indiscriminate beatings administered to protesters and automatic weapons were fired into crowds, the deputy foreign minister of the junta told foreign diplomats summoned to its new jungle capital, naypyidaw that "the government is committed to showing restraint in its response to the provocations".
the british conservative mep is backed by the assembly's largest political group - the centre-right european people's party, which includes the governing parties of france and germany - and the liberal grouping within the eu legislature.
"the consensus around the european parliament is that china is the key. china is the puppet master of burma," mr mcmillan-scott said.
"the olympics is the only real lever we have to make china act.
"the civilised world must seriously consider shunning china by using the beijing olympics to send the clear message that such abuses of human rights are not acceptable."
for whom the bell tolls
mychael bell's bail was posted today and it looks as if he will be released soon.thanks to everyone who signed the petition to governor kathleen blanco asking her to intervene.
this is great news. this comes after the governor forced district attorney reed walters to halt his appeal of a 3rd district court decision to move his case to juvenile court.
clearly the pressure has worked and we're well on our way to a complete victory for the jena 6…
master debaters
Labels: blogtopia, debates, gop, prez campaign, republicans
we're all star in the dope show
mit waffled its way into a non-committal condemnation of star's choice of wardrobe. the school's official reaction on the day of her arrest, en toto:
the protest, which took place outside of pritchett dining in walker memorial, consisted of students carrying signs such as "question the media," "wait for the facts," and "support your student." students also carried a protest letter that had been circulated across the campus.
...the mit news office's press release which stated "ms. simpson's actions were reckless and understandably created alarm at the airport" is entirely misguided in its approach. regardless of whether her actions were reasonable, naive, or even "reckless," as the news office put it, mit has an obligation to its students — an obligation to give its students a high quality education, which includes helping students handle matters that might interfere with receiving such an education...particularly when all the facts were not in, it would have been prudent to gather information about the situation and talk directly to star before issuing an unsupportive statement.
the notion that a small exposed circuit board and a handful of play-dou warrants deadly force is foolish given the thousands of large computer circuits which pass through airport security every day. surely, mit cannot be condoning the use of deadly force against an mit student whose behavior may have been a bit eccentric but had no characteristics that were aggressive or dangerous.
whether or not the suffolk county district attorney's office chooses to continue its case against simpson, the institute should support her. mit administrators are in a unique position of authority to tell the police and district attorney, the press, and the general public that the device posed no possible danger, and that, for people here, carrying breadboards, leds, wire, and batteries is hardly unusual. by remaining silent and unsupportive, mit risks losing the good will (and the dollars) of its technically inclined alumni and future alumni. worse, if mit gains a reputation for prioritizing its image over its students' well-being, talented prospective students will be turned off by the institute.
what happened is so grossly wrong on so many levels that i hardly know where to begin. since when did a circuit board on a sweatshirt look like a bomb? since when did suicide bombers walk around with bombs on the outside of their clothing? if the people in charge of protecting us are stupid enough to think this, how hard would it be for real bombers to fool them? more importantly, since when was it okay to blow away someone who posed such an ambiguous threat? and if she really did have an easily-detonated bomb, wouldn't shooting her -- rather than, say, paralyzing her -- pretty much guarantee its explosion?
one could argue that she should have known better. fine, she should have -- boston's already infamous for being stupidly, senselessly scared. but that's not the point. in a world full of science and technology, many more people will merit the same suspicion as her: people who use wearable electronics, researchers who let a test tube fall into their flight bag ... the possibilities are endless, and probably not something that anyone would think of until they'd been hauled off for interrogation or surrounded by trigger-happy cops.
(hell, just the other day i nearly carried a green goo-encrusted test tube through terminal security; it originally contained a novelty drink handed out at a biotechnology conference. and just ask steve kurtz about this sort of thing.)
what is wrong with us? what happened to common sense? will scientists and technologists soon live in fear of someone point a finger at them in a public place?
so, because most people in charge nowadays are luddites when it comes to science and technology, suddenly the rest of us have to keep our heads down and minds firmly ensconsed in the 19th century as well? (make that the 16th century...there were actual machines at work in the victorian age, and who knows how many stereo-optic latern shows could be used to blow up america? the dept. of homeland security doesn't want to take that risk.)
unfortunately for the intelligent among us, there are plenty of people who are ready to side with those who would keep us stupid and in fear. charles memminger of the star (no relation) bulletin of hawaii (where simpson was raised) writes:
if star were one of the code pinks or billionaires against bush or other street theater demonstrators who purposely wore a fake bomb to an airport to make a political statement, we would be less sympathetic. there is, after, common sense that needs to be attached to all communication, even political protest.
but star wasn't making a statement, at least, not to paranoid right-wing america. she was simply wearing her goofy geeky computer art. goodness, if personal fashion is now a reason to get arrested, we can think of a thousand more deserving subjects than an mit geek.
are we all supposed to go back to papayus and stylus just because those in authority can't tell what a bomb looks like? apparently so, according to the monday morning generals in the war on terra.
the students get it. the scientists get it. the luddites don't.
too bad for us the luddites are in charge.
Labels: homeland security, technology, war on terror
$3.5 million for sports security training
the university of southern mississippi will use nearly $3.5 million in federal funds to train key personnel responsible for security management of college athletic events throughout the country, the state's two u.s. senators said thursday.now...how's that katrina rebuilding going
...the funding is provided through the department of homeland security's competitive training grant program - ap
the nonprofit research organization found construction to repair or replace about 60 percent of all damaged housing had begun as of july, though the lack of affordable rental units contributed to the difficulty in attracting construction laborers and other workers needed to rebuild the region's infrastructure. - sunhearald.com 9/27/07seems that $3.5 million could have gone to making the state "competitive" again.
Labels: homeland security, katrina
no win in iowa...no obama in clusterf**k to whitehouse?
guess we'll be seeing oprah doing shows down in iowa.
oh my god-o-meter
Labels: prez campaign, religion
proof the investor class wants
analysts very rarely give out "sell" ratings, but in this case a bank of america analyst did, saying that starbucks' wage increases for all hourly team members and the unit-level manager compensation increases may have had an impact on margins. - starbucksgossip.comwith that line of thinking, wouldn't the immense paypackages of ceo's have an impact on margins?
Labels: starbucks, wall street
the problem with the $9.11 fundraiser
Labels: 9/11, fundraiser, giuliani
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
skippy's wednesday nite music club
morrissey - everyday is like sunday - live!
Labels: skippy's music club
invasion of the stall snatchers, craig's own private idaho
in court, craig's attorneys said the guilty plea lacked a judge's signature and that the evidence did not support the conclusion that a crime occurred…
[craig's defense attorney billy] martin said he is arguing that craig did nothing criminal. looking into a stall to see if it is available or bumping another person's foot is not a crime, he said.
the prosecutor cited the police account of craig's toe-tapping, foot movement and the "repeated stroking of the stall divider with his left hand, each stroke showing more and more of his left hand."
the judge is reported to have indicated he won't make a decision on craig's petition to withdraw his guilty plea till sometime late next week...which, of course, is after the self-imposed (and now rescinded) deadline for craig to step down as senator for the great state of idaho.
say, that reminds us of that gus van sant film my own private idaho. what was that about again?
Labels: gay/lesbian, right hypocrisy, scandals, senate
federal employee is dead duck
...(scott d.) clark, 26, stunned people at the embassy suites hotel in st. paul, minn., on saturday when he cornered the duck against a wall by an atrium pond and ripped its head off, according to a criminal complaint.
he then told onlookers, "i'm hungry. i'm gonna eat it," and carried the headless fowl on the elevator up to the fifth floor, police said. hotel security agents detained him there until police arrived. - rocky mountain news
...when told that he was in trouble for killing the duck, clark told officers, "why, because i killed it out of season? big deal, it's just a [expletive] duck." - governmentexecutive.com's fedblogthis administration's entitlement aires taken to horrific extreme.
Labels: violence
those who voted no
thank these folks
|biden (d-de)
bingaman (d-nm)
boxer (d-ca)
brown (d-oh)
byrd (d-wv)
cantwell (d-wa)
dodd (d-ct)
feingold (d-wi)
|hagel (r-ne)
harkin (d-ia)
inouye (d-hi)
kennedy (d-ma)
kerry (d-ma)
klobuchar (d-mn)
leahy (d-vt)
lincoln (d-ar)
|lugar (r-in)
mccaskill (d-mo)
sanders (i-vt)
tester (d-mt)
webb (d-va)
wyden (d-or)
all the others apparently want to go to war with iran.
nooses just don't appear in jena
the coast guard is launching a criminal investigation into the discovery this summer of two nooses found in the sea bag of a black coast guard academy cadet and in the office of a white faculty member at the new london, conn., campus, a coast guard official said tuesday.
...on july 15 a black third class cadet aboard the training barque eagle found a noose inside his sea bag. on aug. 2, a female diversity instructor found a noose on the floor of her academy office during a break in instruction.
..the july 15 incident occurred less than 24 hours after two members of the eagle's crew — a white third class female cadet and a black enlisted crew member — were allegedly assaulted while on liberty together in veracruz, mexico. - military times
Labels: hate mongering, racism
and reagan didn't want to pay these guys
u.s air traffic controllers used personal cell phones to sort out flights on tuesday when a major communications systems failure in memphis knocked out radio and radar, officials said.oh, and the faa wants to consolidate all these air control centers into one or two giant centers. wonder what would happen if this outage occurred at one of these mega-centers?
..there were 150 planes in the affected air space at the time of the outage around 12:30 p.m. EDT, the faa said. the agency could not say how many aircraft were affected, but the air traffic controllers union said the number exceeded 1,000.
...the outage was the latest in a string of embarrassing air traffic equipment and other problems this past spring and summer that spotlighted the aging system that handles thousands of flights daily. - reuters
and let's see if the faa congratulates the controllers or reprimands them, as they have a relatively new rule of not having personal cellphones in the workplace.
another example of crumbling infrastructure and this administration wanting to run things "on the cheap."
Labels: airlines, infrastructure
politicians and the voters who enable them...
this nuisance stems from a tactic common to virtually all politicians, regardless of whether their names are followed by an "r" or a "d": telling voters exactly what they think we want to hear to make off with our votes, if not our money. what they think we want to hear goes like this: "there is a sky-castle with your name on the front door, and i have the key." crafting the ever-elusive perfect message from this notion is just a small part of the endless campaigning. the messenger must exhibit a fair measure of charisma, much like the way grace radiates from a showhorse. the messenger must also harbor a comparable share of cynicism, since the message itself is obviously intended for public consumption, not the allocation of funds for sky-castle construction. from there it follows that the messenger should possess at least three of these four items: a cast-iron stomach, brass testicles*, a heart of granite, and a barrel-full of gall -- crowds of angry constituents waving deeds to non-existent sky-castles don't materialize over how crappy the redskins are playing again this year. the messenger does not have to be telegenic, but in such an instance, given that we americans are as television-driven as we are easily distracted and bored stiff while waiting for our sky-castles to materialize, the messenger better be amusing, at least in the early stages of the multi-year lie. (consider awol.) and above all, the messenger has to fulfill, repeatedly and convincingly, the three cardinal requirements of campaigning:
all the same (surprisingly), sky-castle talk points to one of the few salient differences between the dems and the gop. we who voted democratic last year got mad when they didn't deliver this year. but think it over -- there they were promising us that they'd pitch in with the construction of our sky-castles last year, and we went and bought that nonsense with little if any afterthoughts! is it the dems' fault we're that freakin' dumb? we knew better than to believe in that tripe, and we believed in it anyway. shame on us!
but at least we're not as pathetic as the republican voters. the democrats merely inferred that they would help up build our own sky-castles. the republicans insisted then (and insist now) that we can actually live in our sky-castles, our whole sky-castles, and nothing but our sky-castles.
here is where it comes down to what politicians think you want to hear in 2008. if you don't really believe in sky-castles, but you're willing to entertain the possibility that they're real if only because you're a sentimental fool at heart, then you're gonna vote democratic. but if you're so desperate to believe that your sky-castle is real that you'll structure the rest of your life on that idiotic premise, then you're gonna vote republican. everything else concerning this two-year root canal is utter moonshine.
if anyone has any ideas about forming a viable third party for future elections, i'm all ears...
(*: hillary owns a pair of brass testicles. they're attached to bill...)
Labels: democrats, infrastructure, politics, republicans, snark
el arbusto del george
"quedan dos semanas. en dos semanas estaremos militarmente listos. estaremos en bagdad a finales de marzo", le dijo a aznar - el pais (espana)josh has more about these leaked "downing 'calle' memos"... en ingles.
Labels: iraq war
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
skippy's tuesday nite music club
los lonely boys w/willie nelson - cisco kid
old school and new school do an old standard
Labels: skippy's music club
down the penrose lane
lost in myspace
los angeles & new york--(business wire)--myspace, the country's most trafficked website, and mtv, the leading global youth brand, today announced details of their first presidential candidate dialogue - featuring former senator john edwards (http://www.myspace.com/johnedwards). the inaugural event will take place on thursday, september 27, at 12:00 pm et on the university of new hampshire campus - an affiliate in mtvu's network of more than 750 colleges and universities - and will be moderated by mtv news correspondents suchin pak and gideon yago as well as washingtonpost.com political reporter, chris cillizza. industry-leading pollsters john mclaughlin and geoffrey garin will oversee the real-time polling data and audience questions being submitted via myspaceim and mtv.com. the kick-off event also marks the first flektor application integration since its acquisition by fox interactive media in may 2007.
Labels: edwards, prez campaign, technology
(really) supporting the troops
we received this email:
these soldiers took a simple oath, they stood up and said that the ideals of america were bigger than they were, and that for those ideals, they would without question sacrifice their lives.
that's what this is all about. from one day to the next we can bicker and argue over whether a certain war is right or wrong, but at the end of it all, there must be an understanding that men and women like sgt. gray and sgt. mora, despite the partisan battles that go on back home, continue to day in and day out perform their duties as soldiers.
remember the closing words of their oped, "as committed soldiers, we will see this mission through."
we as americans have much we can stand to learn from soldiers such as yance and omar. least of which is that this very same spirit of fidelity fuels not only the flame from which this country was born, but exists to this day.
this taken into consideration, i do not wish to honor their service, i am compelled to. i cannot personally look at myself in the mirror unless i have been a part of something to commemorate their passing, and show my gratitude for their service.
as a result, we at comments from left field, in cooperation with conservative thinking, are as of this day beginning a fund drive in honor of sgt. omar mora & sgt. yance t. gray.
after exploring several options, we have decided to donate 100% of the funds to the fisher house charity, an organization we have worked with in the past. fisher house has a simple goal; to build houses near military medical facilities. here loved ones of those who have been injured in the line of duty can stay free of charge while their service member undergoes necessary treatment.
we urge you to give what you can to this noble cause for only in this way can omar and tell continue to make the lives of their fellow soldiers better even after their passing. i can think of no honor more fitting of a soldier.
Labels: blogtopia, supporting our troops
while our troops are being slaughtered
two rappers, sitting side-by-side in a house hearing room, went in different directions tuesday on the need for hip-hop artists to expunge their work of sexist and violent language. - sfgatefisa. blackwater. torture. attorney-gate. katrina...still. healthcare. crumbling infrastructure. occupation of iraq. environmental devastation of the middle east. spreading cholera outbreaks in baghdad. americans losing their jobs; losing their homes. and these congresscritters want to talk about freakin' rap lyrics?
i think we need to expunge some morons in congress.
Labels: congressional testimony
prez-i-duhnt ej-oo-key-shuhn
no, dana. awol is the offensive thing here.
apparently, a marked-up draft of the president's speech popped up on the u.n.'s website as president bush delivered his remarks this morning before the general assembly, usa today's david jackson reports. the draft included phonetic spellings of some names and countries, and the cellphone numbers for bush speechwriters.
press secretary dana perino downplayed the incident, and said phonetic spellings are used to help interpreters. asked if the president has trouble pronouncing some country's names, perino deemed it "an offensive question." - ustoady
Labels: aWol, united nations
what's good enough for moveon....
in the fallout from the ad, rudolph giuliani, the former new york mayor and a republican presidential candidate, demanded space in the following friday's times to answer moveon.org. he got it — and at the same $64,575 rate that moveon.org paid.
according to the new york times' own policy, mr. giuliani should have paid the fixed-date rate instead of the standby rate. therefore, the difference, $77,083 is an in-kind corporate contribution, which far exceeds the limits allowed by law. now that he has knowledge that his campaign is in receipt of an illegal $77,083 contribution from the new york times, it is incumbent on mr. giuliani to repay the difference. if he does not, that is not just a violation of the law but a betrayal of the public trust at a time when americans want integrity from our leaders. - lane hudson on "news from the left"oh, by the way, the sobriquet "general betray us" was also used by a retired u.s. general.
Labels: advertising, moveon.org
general dissatisfaction
the active-duty generals followed procedure, sending reports up the chain of command. the retired generals beseeched old friends in powerful positions to use their influence to bring about a change.
when their warnings were ignored, some came to believe it was their patriotic duty to speak out, even if it meant terminating their careers.
it was a decision none of the men approached cavalierly. most were political conservatives who had voted for george w. bush and initially favored his appointment of donald rumsfeld as defense secretary.
but they felt betrayed by bush and his advisers.
while on active duty, eaton did not criticize his civilian bosses – almost to a man, the generals agree active-duty officers have no business doing that. but he was candid in media interviews. building an iraqi army, he warned, would take years, and the effort might never succeed.
in 2004, he was replaced by gen. david petraeus – now the military commander in iraq – and reassigned stateside. sensing his once-promising army career had foundered, eaton retired jan. 1, 2006.
eaton said he has no regrets.
Labels: iraq war, military, punditry, supporting our troops
mad about giuliani taking phone calls from his wife while making speeches
project censored has their list out
behind blackwater inc.
bush recently hired fred fielding, blackwater's former lawyer, to replace harriet miers as his top lawyer; and ken starr, the former whitewater prosecutor who led the impeachment charge against president clinton, is now blackwater's counsel of record and has filed briefs with supreme court to fight wrongful death lawsuits brought against blackwater. cofer black, thirty-year cia veteran and former head of cia's counterterrorism center, credited with spearheading the extraordinary rendition program after 9/11, is now senior executive at blackwater and perhaps its most powerful operative.
the us neoliberal invasion of india
farmers' cooperatives in india are defending the nation's food security and the future of indian farmers against the neoliberal invasion of genetically modified (gm) seed. as many as 28,000 indian farmers have committed suicide over the last decade as a result of debt incurred from failed gm crops and competition with subsidized us crops, yet when india's prime minister singh met with president bush in march 2006 to finalize nuclear agreements, they also signed the indo-us knowledge initiative on agriculture (kia), backed by monsanto, archer daniels midland (adm), and wal-mart.
privatization of america's infrastructure
we will soon be paying wall street investors, australian bankers, and spanish contractors for the privilege of driving on american roads, as more than twenty states have enacted legislation allowing public-private partnerships to build and run highways. investment firms including goldman sachs, morgan stanley, and the carlyle group are approaching state politicians with advice to sell off public highway and transportation infrastructure. when advising state officials on the future of this vital public asset, these investment firms fail to mention that their sole purpose is to pick up infrastructure at the lowest price possible in order to maximize returns for their investors. investors, most often foreign companies, are charging tolls and insisting on "noncompete" clauses that limit governments from expanding or improving nearby roads.
north invades mexico
the number of north americans living in mexico has soared from 200,000 to 1 million (one-quarter of all us expatriates) in the past decade. with more than 70 million american baby-boomers expected to retire in the next two decades, experts predict "a tidal wave" of migration to warmer—and cheaper—climates. baby-boomers are not simply feathering nests for eventual retirement, but also increasingly speculating in mexican resort property and gated communities, complete with hooters, burger king, and starbucks. the land rush is sending up property values to the detriment of locals whose children are consequently driven into slums or forced to emigrate north, only to face increasing "invasion" charges.
Labels: censorship
bubble blogger
we weren't calling him "crazy."
three years ago, plenty of folks considered patrick killelea to be a loony tune raving about real estate armageddon.
while most americans - and especially people in the bay area - swore by the gospel that investing in real estate was a sure road to riches, killelea, a disenchanted house hunter, peddled a heretical counterview: the housing market was a gigantic bubble ready to burst. through his blog, reality parser (www.patrick.net), he expressed his view that home prices were grotesquely overinflated.
.. "nobody calls me crazy now," killelea said. "i haven't changed; it was just a matter of waiting for the fundamentals to catch up." - sfgate
Labels: blogtopia, foreclosure, housing bubble
Monday, September 24, 2007
skippy's monday nite music club
the dandy warhols - the last high
now, where have we heard that before? oh, yes...
david bowie - ashes to ashes
Labels: skippy's music club
awol doesn't care about global warming
bush to skip u.n. talks on global warming. president bush is skipping all the day's events but the dinner. new york times.
Labels: global warming, united nations
today's question
Sunday, September 23, 2007
angels in the outfield
Labels: sports
skippy's sunday nite music club
phil collins - in the air tonight - live! from his farewell tour
Labels: skippy's music club
marcel marceau, r.i.p.
[ed. note: carnacki took the words right out of our mouths. but we'd also like to give pause for the passing of bewitched star alice ghostley, who is now, well...ghostley]
Labels: passings, pop culture
jena 6, big box bloggers 0
it's not to say that it isn't being covered in the blogosphere at all -- black bloggers have largely been responsible for the high profile of this case, picking up the ball where the melanin-challenged blogs of influence have dropped it. you'd think that the events today, which are being covered by the msm, would mean that the story is now mainstream blogworthy, but you would be wrong. chris:
* talkingpointsmemo, a favorite of the dc wonk set, is similarly incensed about foreign policy, but apparently not about racial justice in the south -- nothing there either.
* long-time progressive blogger atrios doesn't have a lot of posts up,but found time to touch on paul krugman, iraq and the state of the euro -- but not this major issue.
* surely talkleft -- which has positioned itself as the leading progressive blog about criminal justice issues -- would have something? think again -- not a single mention, not even in the quick news briefs!
* what about another progressive favorite, firedoglake? a rant about republicans being "little bitches," but nothing on the jena 6.
[btw, nothing's up at americablog either, to be fair. my guest blogging stint is by and large up.] what is the explanation? oh, i could think of several, but overt racism isn't one of them. i have a couple of theories.
we admit we were late to the party ourselves, at first employing the instapundit excuse (duh! too complicated fer our little brains! hyuk! hyuk!), but then we found (via susie madrak) the great background piece by gil kaufman on mtv news, which was succinct, thorough, well-laid out, and easy to follow.
(commenters on pam's blog also point out msnbc's piece, also quite comprehensive.)
now, it is, to be fair, 4 days after the massive march, but some of those big box blogs have jumped on the bandwagon:
talkleft has three posts, including one "jena six thread";
c&l, our fav bbb, has seven posts, three of which are blog round-up compilations,
tpm has one, count 'em, one story, about how fred thompson is out of the loop on the jena six (hello, pot? this is kettle...)
tpm cafe has one;
dkos (aside from the facing south cross-post pam alluded to) has three front page stories which include the words "jena six," two of which are open threads (but several, upwards to 50, diaries by members, including some asking why blogtopia* is so lax about this story);
fdl has one story, but at least it is from the ground at jena, and pam reports that jane told her there were technical difficulties getting the report from the blogger in jena;
huffpo cross-posted susie's piece, and had another post;
way down at the bottom of the list, americablog has zero, still; and, to a lesser extent, duncan.
go back to the comments section on pam's house blend and there you will find plenty of smaller blogs plugging their own efforts. it does seem to us that here the smaller entities in blogtopia* have picked up the ball dropped by the bbb.
another reason to keep clicking those links to the esoteric blogs you've never heard of before.
now, we're not about to accuse anybody in blogtopia* of unconscious bigotry. that would be easy. and we hate unconscious bigots. we'll never rent to them, or let them into our schools.
but it seems to us, that if we are to call ourselves progressives, it behooves us all to make the extra effort to be inclusive. and for god's sake, how hard can that be in this case? all you have to do is do some reading, and make a frickin' link, and voila! your readers become a little more aware of a tragic situation that the mmm is refusing to delve deeply into.
*and yes, we coined that phrase!
no need to say "alleged"
it is doubtful that foreign security contractors could be prosecuted under iraqi law. a directive issued by u.s. occupation authorities in 2004 granted contractors, american troops and many other foreign officials immunity from prosecution under iraqi law. security contractors also are not subject to u.s. military law under which u.s. troopers face prosecution for killing or abusing iraqis.
Labels: civil rights, criminal, cruelty, iraq
why bother having healthcare insurance
nearly two dozen private hospitals in los angeles and orange counties, accounting for up to 15% of beds in the region, are in dire financial straits and in danger of bankruptcy or closure, according to hospital administrators, industry experts and state data.
the troublesome development follows the closure of community clinics and hospitals in recent years that has left the healthcare system seriously overburdened.
if even a few other hospitals close or reduce costly critical-care services, it could mean longer ambulance rides to hospitals, additional delays in emergency rooms and less access to care, especially for poor and uninsured people. - latte times
Labels: healthcare, public health
less is moratorium
Labels: freeway blogger, protest
they're hellbent on bomb, bomb, bomb
the united states air force has set up a highly confidential strategic planning group tasked with "fighting the next war" as tensions rise with iran.
project checkmate, a successor to the group that planned the 1991 gulf war's air campaign, was quietly reestablished at the pentagon in june. - timesonline uk
project checkmate? geez. didn't they see war games and the message that wopr gave.... "a strange game" where "the only winning move ... is not to play"
mmm knows quality
brett's proud wife monica alerts us to the fact. the online star, unfortunately, doesn't have the toon, so you'll just have to fly to kansas to buy a paper.
congrats, brett!
Labels: multi-millionaire media, penrose, toons
Saturday, September 22, 2007
skippy's saturday nite music club
jill jones - mia bocca
jill was a protege of the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as prince, and it shows.
Labels: skippy's music club
who medicare?
Labels: healthcare
mad about democrats betraying their base
Labels: democrats, mad kane, republicans
documentary time
skippy writes a letter
skippy wrote to headline news:
in fact, according to gil kaufman reporting on mtv news, (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1570075/20070919/id_0.jhtml), the white student, justin barker, was knocked out by one punch thrown by the black students, and then kicked in the head (leading to the assault with a deadly weapon charge; the weapon being the tennis shoe on bell's foot).
yes, that sounds like "badly beaten;" however, barker was treated at the hospital and released, and then attended a party that same night.
sorry, but without that mitigating context, i am afraid that you present a lop-sided view of the confrontation, leading viewers to believe the white student was savagedly attacked, when it was more like a school yard fight.
also, barker precipitated the fight by bragging on campus that the black students (involved in the fight) had been previously "whipped" by a white student in a previous fight.
ms. stouffer's short version, along with most of the media's condensed snippets, fails to provide the hostile acts perpetrated by the white students, and leaves one with the impression that the blacks are simply out of control.
i respectfully request that you do a larger, longer, more in-depth story on the background leading the incarceration of the jena 6.
thank you.
Labels: multi-millionaire media, racism
question of the day...
Labels: questions
my super sweet s.e.c. investigation
a new federal lawsuit reveals more information about the finances of a kentucky oilman who investors say swindled them out of millions at the same time he was throwing his daughter an extravagant 16th birthday party on a reality tv show.
the complaint alleges milby raised more than $19 million from more than 300 investors between february 2005 and september 2006 in a fraudulent oil-and-gas investment scheme that was based out of tennessee and kentucky.
during this time, milby and his daughter ariel were featured on an episode of "my super sweet 16," an mtv reality show about spoiled rich kids and their outrageously opulent birthday parties.investors saw milby on the show giving his daughter a private helicopter ride, a new bmw and a shopping spree. - ap
in addition to the bankruptcy, public records in two states show that milby has multiple tax liens and a civil court judgment."i love oil! oil means shoes and cars and purses!" - ariel milby.
searches of records show three federal tax liens totaling $359,091 in tennessee and kentucky.
...besides arizona and pennsylvania, california also has a cease-and-desist order against milby. texas last year hit him with penalties for failing to maintain an oil well and banned him from owning oil interests in the state for seven years.- arizona republic
my suggestion for little miss milby is that she enroll in the army so she can go fight for some. her father will be waiting for her to come back, wearing the all too fashionable orange jumpsuit.
Labels: corruption, television
when squirrels attack
Flashy Squirrel
Originally uploaded by Sun Chaser
if anyone cares to take notice, it seems to me that the wake up call for doomsday has been given. it's time to roll out of bed and meet your maker. and i think he's pissed. and he may be a squirrel...a great big, grey one, with sharp bitey teeth and maybe a bazooka.kamuston is probably a member of the squirrel defamation league.
Labels: animals
a civil action....two
Labels: ninth u.s. circuit court
is there a chill in the air?
even a stupid clock is right twice a day
but james taranto of the wsj opinion journal makes the assertion that awol was speaking metaphorically, and that, given the context of his entire speech, it was actually quite an astute thing to say.
the problem taranto has to overcome is that, for anybody else in the world, this might be a viable argument. and we are not being snarky here. but awol has proven himself, over and over again, to not be deep enough to comprehend even what a metaphor is, let alone how to make one.
make the pie higher? is our children learning? fool me once, you won't get fooled again? awol has a limited grasp of not how words themselves work, but how the images words are used to create, work.
plus, on more than one occasion the white house transcripts have cleaned up awol's gaffes. so even if this lofty mandela metaphor is what the original speech writer intended, we are quite sure that awol managed to mangle it into the twainistic greatly exaggerated death report of a world leader.
let's suppose awol did say what he meant, and he meant to create a poetic, if sad, image. that still makes him about 1 for 732 in terms of successful metaphor batting average.
so, unfortunately for taranto's argument, even if the blind pig did for once stumble onto a truffle, the table has been set awol by himself to let the world feast on his dinner of malapropisms, which has been 7 years in the making.
yes, we mixed our metaphors terribly in the last paragraph. but, at least, we know what a metaphor is.
Labels: aWol
Friday, September 21, 2007
i'll spare them the trouble
what next....being tagged as a terrorist for reading greg palast? oops...we already know that reading greg could get you "tazed."
the u.s. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining data on the persons with whom they travel or plan to stay, the personal items they carry during their journeys, and even the books that travelers have carried, according to documents obtained by a group of civil liberties advocates and statements by government officials.the personal travel records are meant to be stored for as long as 15 years, as part of the department of homeland security's effort to assess the security threat posed by all travelers entering the country. - wapo
and, who the h**l collects this stuff anyway? have they no shame?
Labels: big brother, government
el arbusto del george
Lorenzo - The Curious Peruvian Paso
Originally uploaded by santa barbarian
Labels: aWol
skippy's friday nite music club
waylon jennings - amanda
Labels: skippy's music club
return of the mooninites invades boston!!
photo ap/lisa poole
even before 9/11, skippy, a stand-up comic by profession, refrained from doing hi-jacking jokes while going thru airline security (he wouldn't even say hello to anybody named jack). tho it's obviously the same out-of-touch paranoia that allowed cartoon characters to bring bean town to a halt earlier this year, one would do well not to tempt or provoke that simmering outrage.
what we are amazed at is the cornucopia of headlines labeling the geek computer art as a "fake bomb." that pre-supposes motivation in simpson's mind, and the commanding officer of logan security said himself that we don't know her motivation.
of course, this would have taken an open mind and sophistication of generational fashion beyond anything any repubbb could achieve, but we like c-net's approach - it was computer fashion:
what's the evidence for this? for one thing, as xeni jardin points out in boing boing's marvelous roundup on the story, simpson is much into making cool, out-there techie stuff, things like a jacket that lights up. her own web site is currently offline -- click here later -- but you can check out some of simpson's handiwork at her instructables profile and look here for one of her recent school projects.
simpson describes herself this way on the web:
in a sentence, i'm an inventor, artist, engineer, and student, i love to build things and i love crazy ideas.a woman from instructables.com who knows simpson tells boing boing that simpson's friends at mit "say she wears the hoodie on a regular basis -- it's just unfortunate that she had it on while trying to pick a friend up at the airport. mit students don't really do mornings, or worry about what they're wearing, so i can't imagine she'd even think about her clothes before heading out to pick up a friend at the airport before 8 a.m."
in a paragraph; i'm currently studying computers and how they work at mit. i play at a student-run machine shop called miters. before that, i lived for a long time in hawaii, while traveling the world and saving the planet from evil villains with my delivered-just-in-time gadgets.
if she did it to provoke a response (and that doesn't seem to be the case), she certainly got one, and we can't really condone her actions. however, if she was just wearing some weird crap that computer geeks wear, then we say, call the aqua teen hunger force as character witnesses for her trial.
addendum: bad tux the snarky penguin has a "bomb not-bomb" visual guide for the law enforcement of boston over at mockingbird's medley.
Labels: homeland security, judicial, war on terror
they all look alike to new yawkers
Labels: 9/11, Iran, war on terror
flunking out of electoral college
the courage campaign wants everyone to be aware of this manipulation.
and skippy wants half the bloggers in the video to be aware of looking in the camera instead of at their lines when doing the speech (exceptions: jane, john, tom, rj and dave).
Labels: blogtopia, california, election, fdl
hey, they asked for wire tapping
Labels: corruption, wiretapping
generalissimo franco
"well, mandela's dead because saddam hussein killed all the mandelas." - awol
ah...actually...nelson mandela is still alive.
Labels: aWol
89.6 million and 82
one-third of people in the u.s. under 65 (89.6 million) went without coverage for some or all of the last two years, reports an advocacy group. - latte times
"for the first time in history, we're leaving billionaires behind," magazine associated editor matthew miller said. "there are 82 american billionaires who do not make the forbes 400 this year." - cbs
Labels: things that make you go hmmmm
one senator is working on serious issues
senator tom harkin (d-ia) today introduced legislation to establish an effective national food safety framework for all fresh produce. the bill comes one year after a large-scale outbreak of food-borne illness caused by a virulent strain of e. coli in fresh bagged spinach sickened more than 200 people and killed three. since then, u.s. consumers have been bombarded with repeated cases of contaminated food – everything from peanut butter to seafood to pet food. just this week, there was a recall of a dole bagged salad product because of e. coli contamination.import standards the same as our national standards. i whole heartedly agree with the senator on this. next step, country of origin labels on everything.
"it seems these fresh-produce recalls have become the rule rather than the exception in the united states – and that is unacceptable," said harkin. "it is increasingly clear that the food and drug administration lacks the resources – and the authority – to ensure the safety of the u.s. food supply. the american people need to have confidence that their fruits and vegetables are produced and handled in a safe and wholesome manner."
...the bill would also require rulemaking to ensure that imported produce has been grown and processed with the same standards that we will have in the u.s. - tom harkin's website
Labels: food safety, senate


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15-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Saturday, March 4, 1911: Things certainly were stale today. Mother was so out of humor this morning and we poor kids received some scathy scoldings. We usually do nearly every Saturday, or I do at least. I have a mania for teasing Jimmie, and when I do I get some growling. If you see any mistakes in this entry, don't let on you see them.
Her middle-aged granddaughter's comments 100 years later:
At least Grandma's mother didn't chase her with a stir stick like she did the previous Saturday. Jimmie is Grandma's 6-year-old brother. Siblings always tease each other but, with more than a 9-year age difference, it's a little surprising that Grandma and her brother apparently routinely annoy each other so much that their mother feels a need to get involved.
It sounds like Grandma believes that someone else is reading her diary. Was it her sister Ruth? . . . her mother?


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Monday, November 16, 2009
Another Conservative $100 Million Boondoggle
5 comments:
- penlan said...
Another waste of taxpayer money. The original plan was best but we all know where Dear Leader Harper wants it to be - in his own backyard. Now that has failed & all this art will continue to sit in storage. Useless.
- Nov 16, 2009, 5:33:00 AM
- Rob Harvie said...
A wasted $500 million for Jean Chretien to escape the previous contract to purchase needed helicopters for our armed forces.
When added costs of maintaining the outdated machines, and the cost of later ultimately replacing them get tallied up - could be a cost to taxpayers of over a billion dollars.
And the Harper plan is to open the contract for transparent bidding and to perhaps consider goverment pork going somewhere OTHER than Ottawa.
- Nov 16, 2009, 10:48:00 AM
- James Curran said...
Chretien? Wtf Rob? Helicopters are going in the national portrait gallery? Really?
Tell me. Was this gallery going into harper's own riding? Cause we all know he'll have no airports named after him any time soon.
- Nov 16, 2009, 11:16:00 AM
- Rob Harvie said...
I guess I'm just saying, I'm getting a little cynical, I suppose, about made-in-Canada politics.
At best, we have two major parties who know where their bread is buttered, and they both go after it with a passion, and they both throw darts at eachother when the other guy is doing the exact same thing.
- Nov 17, 2009, 9:49:00 AM
- John said...
Fair 'nuff Rob. But the Harperites are doing it far more frequently, flagrantly and with far more complete disregard for transparency than the Grits ever managed.
Just check out the pork around the the G-8 summit in Huntsville. Nauseating, really.
- Nov 18, 2009, 8:16:00 PM


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A good time to head south
Talk about good timing. I woke up to the worst snow storm of the winter in Toronto, and am now kicking back at my place in Florida. The conclusion of my day turned out just fine, even if the traveling part was a bit hectic. My flight left Toronto on time, despite the massive snow fall, but I barely made it to my connecting flight in Newark.
The first plane I was on had zero visibility on its first attempt at a landing and it had to pull up at the last minute. So we were put into a holding pattern and our pilot came on the intercom with this message: "We might be able to land in Newark in the next 20 minutes, but if we can't, we're going to have to head to Richmond, Virginia, because we don't have enough fuel."
Thank God that Newark allowed our plane to land 15 minutes later. Once we got to the airport, I ran out and jogged to my connecting gate. When I got there, the lady at the counter said, "Jordan?!" — signaling that I was pretty much the only guy the flight to Tampa was waiting on. Once into the jetway, the woman shut the door behind me. Unfortunately, my luggage couldn't run through the terminal with me.
Everything worked out, though. I got to Tampa — albeit about an hour and a half delayed (could've been worse) — and my bags were dropped off at my hotel later this evening. It's now 12:48 a.m., but I'm here, I have all my stuff, and I'm ready to get this whole Spring Training thing underway.
Toronto's pitchers and catchers aren't required to report in Dunedin, Fla., until Friday, but I'll be heading to the Bobby Mattick Training Center tomorrow morning anyway. I do feel sorry for those of you shoveling yourselves out of the mess back home, but hey, somebody has to bring you all the latest Blue Jays' news down here in the heat of Florida!
There will be daily updates on bluejays.com and I'll try to post on the blog as often as I can. So stay warm, and stay tuned…
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wow, sounds hectic, keep up the good work down there Jordan!


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Video details Afghanistan insurgent group's prowess
GARDEZ, Afghanistan — Sitting in an open field, three Taliban-allied insurgents carefully pore over a map of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
"This is where we will be staying," says one, pointing.
In the next scene from this insurgent propaganda video, one fighter shows the others a video of an empty room with a window. "You will shoot at Karzai from this window," he explains to the others. "We have people on the inside who will help you."
The attempt to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai during a military parade in April 2008 nearly succeeded. Karzai escaped, but three people died.
The fighters in the video, which was purchased in Quetta, Pakistan, had detailed intelligence of the area. They knew how to slip through police checkpoints, and they had people in the Afghan government telling them exactly where Karzai would be standing on the parade ground.
Afghan intelligence officials have identified one of the three men in the video as part of the assassination team. All three are members of Afghanistan's most lethal insurgent group, the Haqqani network, a shadowy outfit that many officials think is the biggest threat to the American presence in the country.
"The Haqqani network has proven itself to be the most capable (insurgent group), able to conduct spectacular attacks inside Afghanistan," said Matthew DuPee, a researcher at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.
The network, which is allied with the Taliban, struck again on May 12, when nearly a dozen fighters stormed government buildings in Afghanistan's southeastern city of Khost. The coordinated attack, which featured multiple suicide bombers, was one of the most brazen in the city in years.
The Haqqani network is also alleged to be behind a raid on a luxury hotel in Kabul in January 2008 and a massive car bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul that left 41 people dead in July 2008.
The group is active in Afghanistan's southeastern provinces — Paktia, Paktika, Khost, Logar and Ghazni. In parts of Paktika, Khost and Paktia, it's established parallel governments and controls the countryside of many districts.
"In Khost, government officials need letters from Haqqani just to move about on the roads in the districts," said Hanif Shah Husseini, a parliamentarian from Khost.
The Haqqani network's leaders, according to U.S. and Afghan sources, are based near Miramshah in the Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan. Pakistani authorities and leading Haqqani figures deny this, but former Haqqani fighters say it's the case.
Haqqani himself has been reported to be dead, ailing or incapacitated. He last appeared in a March 2008 propaganda video of another insurgent attack, and his son Sirajuddin has taken the reins of the organization, according to intelligence officials.
The younger Haqqani has expanded the network and adopted new tactics. He took credit for planning the assassination attempt on Afghan president Karzai in a rare interview with NBC News in July 2008, and in March, the U.S. government raised the bounty on Sirajuddin from $200,000 to $5 million.
"He is not content with his father's methods," said one U.S. intelligence officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "He's a lot more worldly than his father."
"The majority of Haqqani fighters are young," said the former Haqqani commander, "and their fathers had fought for Haqqani during the Russian jihad." Many joined after the Afghan government and the Americans failed to live up to their promises, he added.
Suicide bombings are among Sirajuddin's innovations, according to U.S. intelligence officials, an import from al Qaida in Iraq, and the group is more likely to use foreign bombers, whereas the Afghan Taliban tend to rely on locals.
The Haqqanis also are known for well-orchestrated attacks. U.S. intelligence officials and Haqqani insiders say this is largely a result of close cooperation with Pakistani intelligence — something Pakistani officials have denied.
Every major attack "is planned in detail with the ISI in camps in Waziristan," said a former Haqqani commander, who declined to be named for fear of retribution.
Officials say the Haqqanis use money from al Qaida-linked sources, and also possibly from timber smuggling, to finance their operations.
Unlike most of the Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani network often works closely with foreign militant groups and with the Pakistani Taliban. For instance, the Islamic Jihad Union, an Uzbek militant group, reportedly has ties to the Haqqanis. The IJU brings militants from as far afield as Turkey to conduct attacks in Afghanistan, and it's also allegedly behind plots to attack targets in Europe.
(Gopal is a Christian Science Monitor correspondent.)
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Eric Clapton
Three inductions, three words: "Clapton is God."
Eric Clapton is a consistent hitmaker and one of the greatest guitarists of all time—perhaps that's why he is the only person to be inducted into the Rock Hall three times. His diverse influences ranged from reggae to the blues and established him as a versatile and resilient artist whose relevance never fades.
With Eric Clapton's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist on March 6, 2000, he became the first musician to have been inducted three times.
He was first honored as a member of the Yardbirds in 1992, then with Cream in 1993 and finally as a solo artist in 2000. While his stints with the groups were relatively brief—he stayed with the Yardbirds only a year and a half, and Cream lasted barely two years—Clapton has been a solo artist for three decades, beginning with the release of Eric Clapton in 1970.
Even Derek and the Dominos, the short-lived quartet that cut the classic Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs in 1970, was less a band of equals (à la Cream) than a Clapton-piloted project that bore his highly personalized stamp. As a solo artist, Clapton has brought his singing and songwriting to the fore while maintaining his stature as rock's preeminent guitarist. Demonstrating a remarkable resilience, Clapton has managed to establish himself as a vital, hitmaking presence in every decade.
Eric Clapton was born in the British village of Ripley in 1945. His mother was only 16 years old, and his father was a Canadian soldier who was based in England during World War II. Because his mother was so young, his grandparents adopted him and raised him. He grew up in a musical household. His grandmother played piano. When he was 13, he got his first guitar. Inspired by such artists as Freddie King, B.B. King, Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy, he began focusing on the blues. Then, in early 1963, Clapton joined his first group, the Roosters. After that group broke up, he joined Casey Jones and the Engineers. Then, in October of that year, he was asked to join the Yardbirds.
The Yardbirds' 1964 concert recording, Five Live Yardbirds, announced Clapton's talent as a fiery blues stylist adept at the group's trademark "rave-ups." In 1965, John Mayall asked the budding star to join his group, the Bluesbreakers. He appeared on the remarkable 1966 recording Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton. During his yearlong tenure with Mayall, Clapton earned the nickname "Slowhand" and inspired the scrawling of "Clapton Is God" graffiti around London. Next he joined fellow Mayall alumni Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker in Cream, a trio that proved equally adept at lengthy blues improvisations and arty, blues-based psychedelic pop.
In 1969, Clapton and Baker teamed up with Steve Winwood of Traffic and Ric Grech of Family to form the band Blind Faith. The group made its debut at Hyde Park in London that June and released one album. After that came a brief alliance with American roots-rockers Delaney and Bonnie. This led directly to Clapton's first solo album, Eric Clapton, which exhibited some newfound emphases. ("Betcha didn't think I knew how to rock and roll," he sang in "Blues Power.") Clapton drew from the pool of musicians who played on Eric Clapton in forming Derek and the Dominos, which found him joined by keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, bassist Carl Radle and drummer Jim Gordon. The double album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970) became one of the cornerstone rock records of the Seventies. Clapton became addicted to heroin during this period, and a second Derek and the Dominos album was begun but never completed as he became ever-more reclusive.
A January 1973 comeback concert at London's Rainbow Theatre re-introduced him to public performing, but his solo career really commenced in earnest a year later with 461 Ocean Boulevard (1974). Recorded in Miami, it was influenced by the mellower likes of J.J. Cale and Bob Marley. Striking a chord with the public, 461 Ocean Boulevard topped the album charts in 1974. Meanwhile, Clapton's cover of "I Shot the Sheriff," originally by Bob Marley and the Wailers, helped introduced reggae to a mass audience. Working with a steady band that included guitarist George Terry, Clapton pursued a mellow, song-oriented course that accentuated his husky, laid-back vocals. His Seventies output, including such albums as There's One in Every Crowd (1975) and No Reason to Cry (1976), has been largely underrated and is ripe for rediscovery. Clapton again struck commercial paydirt in 1977 with Slowhand, a strong set that included Clapton's definitive version of J.J. Cale's "Cocaine" and the Number Three hit "Lay Down Sally."
Clapton remained a prolific artist throughout the Eighties, releasing a live double album that reached Number Two (Just One Night [1980]), cutting two albums (Behind the Sun [1985] and August [1986]) with Phil Collins as producer, and launching his own label, Duck Records, in 1983, with one of his stronger studio efforts, Money and Cigarettes (1983). In January 1987, he undertook the first of what would become an annual series of multi-night stands at London's Royal Albert Hall. In 1992, his career received a major boost from his appearance on MTV's Unplugged series. Returning to his roots on the heels of that acoustic folk-blues set, Clapton next cut a long-promised blues album, From the Cradle (1994). Throughout the Nineties, he continued to amass hits—no mean feat, given the shifting musical climate—including "Tears in Heaven," a memorable elegy for his late son Conor; "Change the World," a beatbox-driven collaboration with R&B artist/producer Babyface that won a Grammy for Record of the Year, and "My Father's Eyes," a ballad from his 1998 album Pilgrim.
In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, opened the Crossroads Centre, a medical facility for substance abusers, on Antigua. Since then, he has organized four Crossroads Guitar Festivals to benefit the center. The first was held in 2004 in Dallas. He has also done two in the Chicago area, in 2007 and 2010, and one at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 2013. The festivals feature an amazing array of guitarists.
Clapton has also continued to record and tour on a regular basis. In 2004, he issued two albums of Robert Johnson songs, Me and Mr. Johnson and Sessions for Robert J. In 2012, he released Clapton, which featured a mix of cover songs and originals. The album was a hit in both the U.S. and the U.K. His latest album, Old Sock, was released in March 2013.
Now in his fifth decade as a solo artist, Eric Clapton remains a relevant, creative force in popular music. To celebrate his 50th anniversary as a performer, Clapton toured the U.S. and Europe from March to June 2013. He has won 18 Grammy awards over the course of his career, and Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at Number Two on its list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
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Games of Sept. 22-24, 2011
QB Nate Wara, Jr., UW-Oshkosh
Wara rushed and passed for 357 yards and four touchdowns as UW-Oshkosh defeated UW-Stout, 56-10, on Sept. 22. Wara rushed the football 15 times for 185 yards and two scores. He put the Titans ahead 6-0 with a 52-yard TD run in the first quarter and 20-3 with a 6-yard touchdown run in the second. Wara completed 11 of 16 passes for 172 yards and two scores. He gave the Titans leads of 34-4 and 41-10 with third-quarter TD passes of 36 and 26 yards to Garrie Fox.
OL Anthony Coletta, Art Garvey, Kelvin
Cruz, Kyle Sandy, Brendan Hatlee, Hobart
Hobart controlled the line of scrimmage and posted 14 points in each quarter against a St. John Fisher team that was fourth in D-III in scoring defense, 13th in total defense. Hobart's 491 yards of total offense surpassed the Cardinals' first two opponents' combined total by 80 yards. The Statesmen ran for 213 yards.
RB Ted Delia, Jr.,
Delia rushed for 244 yards and three touchdowns and added a 66-yard punt return touchdown in Gettysburg's 56-55 overtime loss to Susquehanna. Delia had a pair of 1-yard TD runs to go with an 83-yarder. It was the second straight game he scored four touchdowns and had a punt return TD as he finished with 310 all-purpose yards.
RB Ryan Montague, So., Louisiana
Montague had 12 carries for 200 yards and two touchdowns, including a run of 72 yards to set up Louisiana College's first touchdown and a 69-yard run to put the Wildcats up 28-3.
WR Michael Zweifel, Sr.,
Zweifel moved into sixth all-time in career receiving yards in Division III with 16 catches for 232 yards and three touchdowns as Dubuque beat Central 56-28 for its first win in the series since 1987.
WR Adam Kniffin, Jr., Puget
Kniffin caught 12 passes for 216 yards and three touchdowns in the Loggers' 66-48 loss to Whittier. His touchdown catches went for 79, 50 and 25 yards.
TE Adam Farmer, Jr., Castleton
Farmer posted career-highs with six catches and 109 yards in Castleton's 56-52 win against Anna Maria. Five of his six catches went for first downs, but none was bigger than his fourth-and-goal touchdown catch with 15 seconds remaining in the game to give Castleton its first win of the season. Farmer's number was called consistently when the Spartans needed him most, collecting two fourth-down passes and one third down reception.
DE Allen Petros, Sr., Moravian
Petros recorded nine tackles, seven solo, in a 24-12 defeat of Dickinson. Petros spent most of the afternoon in the Red Devils' backfield with two and a half tackles for loss to increase his school record total to 50 for his career. Petros also had a sack. He was around the quarterback on all four passes that Moravian intercepted in the game, and also forced a fumble.
DT Walter Barreda, So., Texas
Barreda forced three fumbles, recovering one in a win against Howard Payne. He had seven total tackles, six solo, with four tackles for loss.
DT Dan Terhune, Sr., Wooster
Terhune keyed a Wooster defensive performance that saw the Fighting Scots limit Ohio Wesleyan to minus-3 rushing yards. He had a season-high two and a half sacks, marking the third game in a row with at least one sack, and was in on two other tackles for loss, for four and a half total.
DE Kevin Eagan, Sr.,
Eagan had a team-high 13 tackles, six solo, four for a loss and three sacks in a 24-17 win against Salve Regina. One sack forced a fumble that resulted in Endicott's first TD on the next drive.
LB Cody Allen, Sr., Cortland State
Allen led Cortland State with 12 tackles, six solo, and broke up a pair of passes in a 31-28 win at Rowan.
LB Ethan Wetzel, Sr.,
Wetzel logged a team-best 11 tackles with one sack for 9 yards to help lead the Muskies to a 27-7 upset of No. Ohio Northern.
LB Cameron Jones, Sr., Worcester
Finished with a team-best 11 tackles (nine solo) with two tackles for loss (3 yards) and one pass breakup in a 42-40 triple overtime triumph over Westfield State. The game was 24-24 at the end of regulation.
CB Tyler Phillips, Sr.,
Phillips had a career-high 13 tackles, nine solo, leading the Augsburg defense. It's the second time Phillips has recorded double-digit tackle totals in a game in his career. Phillips was part of a defense that held the Johnnie offense to just 93 net rushing yards, the first time the Johnnies had been held under 100 rushing yards this season. Phillips had two tackles for loss, had a forced fumble and broke up a pass.
S Justin Brown, Sr.,
Brown intercepted two passes and had three solo tackles in Huntingdon's 34-27 win against Hampden-Sydney.
S Will Morris, Sr.,
Morris had his second pick-six of the year from 29 yards out, recorded seven tackles (six solo), forced a fumble, recovered another fumble and broke up a pass in McMurry's 63-31 win against East Texas Baptist.
CB Tony Gordon, Sr.,
Gordon intercepted a pass and returned it 37 yards for a touchdown in the Student Princes' 41-20 win against Otterbein. He also had four tackles.
Special teams
K Allen Cain, Jr., Texas Lutheran
Cain made all nine kicks Saturday in a 51-13 win against Howard Payne, including field goals of 27, 21, and 21 yards. He was 6-for-6 on extra points and averaged 66.7 yards on kickoffs.
P Justin Bosman, Fr., St.
Bosman averaged 49.0 yards per punt on four attempts in the Saints' 44-19 win against Minnesota-Morris. He also had a 54-yard punt, which is the fourth-longest in program history.
ST Mitch Olson, So., UW-Eau Claire
Olson recovered a fumble on a kickoff as the Blugolds beat UW-River Falls 38-17 in a non-conference matchup. In the first quarter after the Blugolds scored their second touchdown, Olson got down the field quickly on the following kickoff and was able to pick up a loose ball. The drive ended the with a field goal to give the Blugolds a 17-0 lead.
RET Wes Chamblee, Sr.,
Chamblee returned a punt 94 yards for a touchdown in the Little Giants' 49-7 win at Chicago and also had a 6-yard touchdown catch. The return surpassed the previous school and conference record by a yard.


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Gwen Jorgensen: From Accountant to No. 1 Triathlete
America's Best Hope for a Triathlon Gold Medal Used to Be a Full-Time Accountant
Gwen Jorgensen was working as an Ernst & Young accountant when she received an unusual recruiting pitch: Why not try triathlon?
The pitch came from credible quarters—USA Triathlon, the sport's governing body in America. But Jorgensen felt as if the organization must have mistaken her for someone else. She'd never done a triathlon. She wasn't a cyclist. During her swimming and running career at the University of Wisconsin, she had never won gold, silver or bronze at the NCAA championships....


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During this past few days my husband Walt and I have been driving in Maryland and Virginia. Driving south on Route 13 from Salisbury we noticed how far apart homes were (even now). It reminded me why we often find future spouses, or inlaws, near our ancestors. Even with a car, it took time to get from one drive to the next.
With the 1940 census out, still not everyone had cars, or traveled very far. We still need to check out neighborhoods. But we also need to check not just the names on the same page, but also those a few pages before or after our ancestors, keeping in mind how the enumerators went around one block before starting another.
Just things to remember.


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Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Stockport Road View ( Again)
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I'd say it was taken looking down towards Bowlacre from a point near the junction of Enfield Street.
- Wednesday, 07 December, 2011
Spouthouse farm is on your right so Id's say Werneth Low is spot on.
- Wednesday, 07 December, 2011
- Tom said...
That's the spot I'd have said to... only on Tamesides Archives they have a copy and give it as being taken from the junction with Lilly Street looking down Stockport Road...
So far it's 3 for junction with Enfield St. and 0 for Stockport Road
- Wednesday, 07 December, 2011
- JohnT said...
It is definitely looking down Stockport Road towards Gerrads. On the left the row of houses is locally known as Long Row. My Dad was born at the top house in 1918.
- Wednesday, 07 December, 2011
- Tom said...
Hi John..
That's done it for me then.. 4 for Enfield Street, I think we can safely say we have placed it correctly.. :O)
- Wednesday, 07 December, 2011
Where's the row of terraced houses looking down from Lilly Street?? To be honest there are a good number of photo archives which are mis-described on the Tameside MBC website. I guess if its not in Ashton the archivists have never heard of it!
- Wednesday, 07 December, 2011
The road from Lilly Street downwards isn't as straight as this in any case, so it couldn't be there - and, as Werneth Low says, there aren't any terraced houses on that side of the road there. The house that's sticking out on the right just past the row of terraced houses is on the corner of what used to be Ambrose Street, opposite Brabyns Road - have a look on Google Street View from a viewpoint opposite Spouthouse Farm. But what's the gable wall you can see at the far end of the road? Is it the original Gerrards? It doesn't seem to be the existing house that's at the corner of Rosemary Drive. I don't think I'll risk standing in the middle of the road to try to get a photo of how the scene looks now!
- Thursday, 08 December, 2011
- Joyce Howarth Jones said...
this view looks like it is looking down stockport rd with gerrards garage at the bottom.
- Friday, 20 April, 2012


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The 30 Rock actress is spotted with her 9-week-old at the Bronx Botanical Gardens
Tina Fey and 9-week-old daughter Penelope Athena enjoyed a nice New York City outing this week – one borough north of 30 Rock.
Fey, 41, was spotted Monday with Penelope, born Aug. 10, and her elder daughter Alice, 6, taking a stroll around the Botanical Gardens in the Bronx.
It's the first photo of Penelope in public.
Fey initially agonized about having a second child, but has said that she and husband Jeff Richmond "decided that we felt rather than risk having 30 Rock end in several years and feeling like part of our family is missing, that we were going to prioritize our family."
–Tim Nudd


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A few weeks ago I bought a deal from Living Social for Chiang Mai Thai, a Thai Massage place not too far from me (is anyone else finding some of these 'deal' sites impossible in terms of getting appointments and once your there, getting a good level of service?).
I have been dying to try some traditional Thai massage out for a while now so rather excitedly booked an appointment. Well…it was HARD work. You have to call a mobile number and I spoke to them so many times to confirm and re-confirm. It was difficult communicating. Eventually it was sorted.
So I get to Chiang Mai Thai massage and the place is upstairs, opposite a travel agents. It's really quite odd once you get in there – it's like you've stepped back in time and there were 3-4 beds in this room (same place as the waiting area and reception) with just medical screens separating them. Hmm.
Obviously with just screens in place there's plenty of disturbances – a doorbell jingles when someone walks in. Luckily this was NOT the place for massages, or at least not for mine. They have a few rooms across the hall.
Anyway so I'm sat there and naturally, they have no record of my appointment!
Frustrating but they said they could fit me in anyway.
Meanwhile there are lots of customers coming in and asking if they could get an last minute appointment – all burly middle aged men – too many staring and smiling at me quite frankly – and the staff there were somewhat…friendly? Huggy? Strokey?
Ok maybe I'm being picky but what I'm saying is – I didn't think it was that professional to have people feeling each other up in front of customers and I didn't feel at all comfortable.
To the massage! Now – I think there was some kind of electricity problem so the lady had to light some candles. My appointment was supposed to start at 5.15, she spent so long looking for tea lights it was 5.30 before anything happened (and it finished at 6.05 so…do the math!).
Now – the massage itself was skilful, it was quite – ok a very HARD massage and by hard I mean I wanted to shake and cry a bit in the corner of the room after some of her moves.
Nevertheless – I can see why it does appeal to the burly blokes, it's really hard going, deep tissue massage! Like all her might pressed into my thigh – OUCH. (I'm lying there thinking, did I remove necessary body hair? No.)
I can't fault the massage itself but the atmosphere was off. People kept calling to my massage lady through the door during the massage so obviously I couldn't relax.
So that was all ok then half way through – I don't know why, but they swapped people. Perhaps because my appointment hadn't officially been accounted for – but once again, it's disruptive.
Second lady was very good too, she really really did some painful things to my back.
Thai massage is quite different in that they will crawl on top of you, they will move you round a bit (had an urge to keep my legs shut but had to have them open for some of the massage – eek!).
Then at the end – horror of horrors – the lady had to sit behind me as she moved my arms about in an attempt to crack my shoulders. She did something weird which made my neck crack (EEK!).
She then held both of my arms behind me and pulled as she used her feet to kick my back/shoulders out…uh huh.
Let's think about this for a moment. For a man this is no problem. But ladies remove bras when getting massages. If both your arms are behind you, you have to let go of the towel. If you have to let go of the towel then chi-chis are on full display. And if she's pushing your back then not only are the chi-chis free, they are being forcibly thrust into the air. Oh how I cringed and wanted her to stop.
All done, there was one more problem – they couldn't see me on the Living Social records. After much faff, I was found but there was much squawking going on as I wondered if I would be charged full price for having my dignity removed.
There is definitely a certain clientele that likes this massage place and that works for them, so great, because they are nice ladies. But it's really not for someone like me, still a little salon shy who wants things to be professional and as smooth as possible.
Overall, I would rate this experience as more traumatic than going to the dentist and less traumatic then having to have dinner with the mother-in-law.
I paid £18 for this massage which was an offer price from Living Social.


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March 03, 2014
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