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Dojo 1.6 introduces a new API for Comet-style real-time communication based on the WebSocket API. WebSocket provides a bi-directional connection to servers that is ideal for pushing messages from a server to a client in real-time. Dojo's new
dojox.socket module provides access to this API with automated fallback to HTTP-based long-polling for browsers (or servers) that do not support the new WebSocket API. This allows you start using this API with Dojo now.
dojox.socket module is designed to be simple, lightweight, and protocol agnostic. In the past Dojo has provided protocol specific modules like CometD and RestChannels, but there are numerous other Comet protocols out there, and
dojox.socket provides the flexibility to work with virtually any of them, with a simple foundational interface. The
dojox.socket module simply passes strings over the HTTP or WebSocket connection, making it compatible with any system.
The simplest way to start a
dojox.socket is to simply call it with a URL path:
var socket = dojox.socket("/comet");
We can now listen for message events from the server:
socket.on("message", function(event){
var data = event.data;
// do something with the data from the server
Here we use the
socket.on() event registration method (inspired by socket.io and NodeJS's registration method) to listen to "message events" and retrieve data when they occur. This method is also aliased to the Dojo style
We can also use
send() to send data to the server. If you have just started the connection, you should wait for the
open to ensure the connection is ready to send data:
socket.on("open", function(event){
socket.send("hi server");
Finally, we can listen for the connection being closed by the server or network by listening for the "close" event. And we can initiate the close of a connection from the client by calling
dojox.socket method can also be called with standard Dojo IO arguments to initiate the communication with the server. This makes it easy to provide any necessary headers for the requests. For example:
var socket = dojox.socket({
headers: {
"Accept": "application/json",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
This will automatically translate the relative URL path to a WebSocket URL (using
ws:// scheme) or an HTTP URL depending on the browser capability.
For some applications, the server may only support HTTP/long-polling (without real WebSocket support). We can also explicitly create a long-poll based connection:
var socket = dojox.socket.LongPoll({
headers: {
"Accept": "application/json",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
We can also provide alternate transports in the socket arguments object. This would allow us to use
dojo.io.script.get to connect to a server. However, a more robust solution is to use the
dojox.io.xhrPlugins for cross-domain long-polling, which will work properly with
In addition to
dojox.socket, we have also added a
dojox.socket.Reconnect module. This wraps a socket, adding auto-reconnection support. When a socket is closed by network or server problems, this module will automatically attempt to reconnect to the server on a periodic basis, with a back-off algorithm to minimize resource consumption. We can upgrade a socket to auto-reconnect by this simple code fragment:
socket = dojox.socket.Reconnect(socket);
Using Dojo WebSocket with Object Stores
One of the other big enhancements in Dojo 1.6 is the new Dojo object store API (supercedes the Dojo Data API), based on the HTML5 IndexedDB object store API. Dojo 1.6 comes with several store wrappers, and the
Observable store provides notification events that work very well with Comet driven updates.
Observable is a store wrapper. To use it, we first create a store, and then wrap it with Observable:
define("my-module", function(require){
var JsonRest = require("dojo/store/JsonRest");
var Observable = require("dojo/store/Observable");
var store = new JsonRest({data:myData});
store = Observable(store);
This store will now provide an
observe() method on query results that widgets can use to react to changes in the data. We can notify the store of changes from the server by calling the
notify() method on the store:
socket.on("message", function(event){
var existingId = event.data.id;
var object = event.data.object;
store.notify(object, existingId);
We can signal a new object by calling
store.notify() and omitting the id, and a deleted object by omitting the object (undefined). A changed/updated object should include both.
Handling Long-Polling from your Server
Long-polling style connection emulation can require some care on the server-side. For many applications, the server may have sufficient information from request cookies (or other ambient data) to determine what messages to send the browser. However, other applications may vary on what information should be sent to the browser during the life of the application. Different topics may be subscribed to and unsubscribed from. In these situations, the server may need to correlate different HTTP requests with a single connection and its associated state. While there are numerous protocols, one could do this very easily be defining a unique connection and adding that as a header for the socket (the headers are added to each request in the long-poll cycles). For example, we could do:
var socket = dojox.socket.LongPoll({
headers: {
"Accept": "application/json",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Client-Id": Math.random()
In addition,
dojox.socket includes a
Pragma: long-poll to indicate the first request in a series of long-poll requests to help a server ensure that the connection setup and timeout is properly handled.
We can easily use
dojox.socket with other protocols as well:
To initiate a Comet connection with a CometD server, we can do a CometD handshake, connection, and subscription:
var socket = dojox.socket("/cometd");
function send(data){
return socket.send(dojo.toJson(data));
socket.on("connect", function(){
// send a handshake
"channel": "/meta/handshake",
"version": "1.0",
"minimumVersion": "1.0beta",
"supportedConnectionTypes": ["long-polling"] // or ["callback-polling"] for x-domain
socket.on("message", function(data){
// wait for the response so we can connect with the provided client id
data = dojo.fromJson(data);
throw new Error(error);
// get the client id for all future messages
clientId = data.clientId;
// send a connect message
"channel": "/meta/connect",
"clientId": clientId,
"connectionType": "long-polling"
{ // also send a subscription message
"channel": "/meta/subscribe",
"clientId": clientId,
"subscription": "/foo/**"
socket.on("message", function(){
// handle messages from the server
Socket.IO provides a lower-level interface like dojox.socket, providing simple text-based message passing. Here is an example of how to connect to a Socket.IO server:
var args, ws = typeof WebSocket != "undefined";
var socket = dojox.socket(args = {
url: ws ? "/socket.io/websocket" : "/socket.io/xhr-polling",
transport: function(args, message){
args.content = message; // use URL-encoding to send the message instead of a raw body
var sessionId;
socket.on("message", function(){
if (!sessionId){
sessionId = message;
args.url += '/' + sessionId;
}else if(message.substr(0, 3) == '~h~'){
// a heartbeat
Comet Session Protocol
And here is an example of connecting to a Comet Session Protocol server (the following example was tested with Orbited, but could work with Hookbox, APE, and others):
var args, socket = dojox.socket(args = {
url: "/csp/handshake"
function send(data){
return socket.send(dojo.toJson(data));
var sessionId = Math.random().toString().substring(2);
socket.on("connect", function(){
socket.on("message", function(){
args.url = "/csp/comet";
Tunguska provides a Comet-based interface for subscribing to data changes. This is a very simple protocol which allows us to communicate with a Tunguska server:
var socket = dojox.socket({
headers: {
"Accept": "application/json",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Client-Id": Math.random()
function send(data){
return socket.send(dojo.toJson(data));
socket.on("connect", function(){
// now subscribe to all changes for MyTable
send([{"to":"/MyTable/*", "method":"subscribe"}]);
Dojo's socket API is a flexible simple module for connecting to a variety of servers and building powerful, efficient real-time applications without constraints. This adds to the array of awesome new features and improvements in Dojo 1.6.


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Atari fights to keep Dragon Ball Z
FUNimation claims deal for games based on popular anime was terminated after publisher violated license agreements.
FUNimation claims deal for games based on popular anime was terminated after publisher violated license agreements.
Marriage of game publisher and toymaker paying off to the tune of 24.2 billion yen; game division sells 23.4 million units worldwide.
Atari details more than 60 of the combatants appearing in its anime-inspired fighting game.
Atari releases more information on the roster for this anime-inspired fighting game.
After years of losses, publisher posts a quarterly profit--of $311,000; revenue slides 26 percent.
Development complete on Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 for Nintendo's upcoming console; launch title status reconfirmed.
Atari releases information on some of the characters that will be appearing in its upcoming Dragon Ball Z fighting game.
Nintendo announces 32 Wii games to be available by end of calendar year; Metal Slug, Super Swing Golf on, Blazing Angels off.
Pokémon Diamond and Pearl selling as well as ever, as seven DS titles set up camp in the top 10.
Final Fantasy V Advance off to a strong start, sandwiched at number two between a pair of Pokémon games.
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 gets off to a roaring start; Pokémon titles continue selling six digits.
How is Atari's upcoming DBZ fighter fusing with the unique attributes of the Wii? We go hands-on to find out.
Nintendo releases roster of games for upcoming console; 30 by year's end, 41 third-party by end of March 2007, more than a dozen confirmed for launch.
Put up your dukes and get ready for our first look at the next Dragon Ball Z game.
Attendees can fill up on DS Lite or wait in a lengthy line to see the Wii; playable Wii games include Super Mario Galaxy, Zelda, Wii Sports.
Alone in the Dark, Test Drive Unlimited, and Dragon Ball Z games on show in LA.
The sequel to last year's Tenkaichi will have 100 playable characters as well as story and tournament modes.
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MySQL for Excel: Import Data
Import Data
MySQL for Excel offers an easy way to pull data from a MySQL table into an Excel Worksheet; with a simplified and friendly interface users can select which columns to import, the starting row and the number of rows to be imported. Default values are set to pull all data so with a single click a table's data is dumped to Excel for data analysis. There is no need to do any ODBC setup or to use intermediate CSV files to get the data into Excel, MySQL for Excel internally uses MySQL Connector/NET to access a MySQL database and perform the querying of the data. With a simple and elegant user interface, a small preview of the data is shown to users before importing it; importing your data to Excel has never been easier!
Tables and Views
MySQL for Excel provides a simple window to preview and import data from MySQL Tables and Views alike, since the querying mechanisms for both are almost identical. This translates to a consistent and easy way to fetch the data from Tables and Views that avoids confusing the users with different screens to achieve the same purpose.
Stored Procedures
A similar interface than the one used for Tables and Views is provided for Stored Procedures where users can pass parameters to the routine and call it to see a preview subset of the returned result sets before pulling the desired result set to Excel.


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Americans Evenly Split on Obama as 69% Back Minimum Wage Hike
By Julianna Goldman
President Barack Obama is rebounding from record-low approval ratings as he remedies the botched rollout of his health-care website and moves past the budget standoffs of the last several years.
Less than eight months before the November midterm elections, Americans are evenly split, with 48 percent approving of Obama's job performance, up from 42 percent in December -- the biggest positive change of his presidency, according to a Bloomberg National Poll. He's also registering an improved favorability rating at 49 percent, the highest since last June.
Even so, majorities still disapprove of Obama's performance across a broad spectrum of issues. They include the economy, a top issue for voters this year, which may threaten his party's chances for retaining control of the U.S. Senate. Republicans need a net gain of six seats in November's elections to retake control of the chamber.
"The six-point increase in Obama's approval rating puts him back in the territory he typically occupies," said Ann Selzer, founder of Des Moines, Iowa-based Selzer & Co., which conducted the March 7-10 poll of 1,001 U.S. adults that has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. "He had a post-election bump in December of 2012 and February 2013 and then a steady decline."
Minimum Wage
The survey is an early test of how Americans are responding to the central themes Obama unveiled in his State of the Union address, including expanding economic opportunity, upward mobility and raising wages. Those issues also will be central themes for Democrats in this year's elections.
Sixty-nine percent of Americans, including 45 percent of Republicans, support the president's call to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 over the next three years. Twenty-eight percent of poll respondents oppose such action.
While the wage-increase proposal resonates with most Americans, the poll indicates that Republicans are finding persuasive counter-arguments.
Asked about a Congressional Budget Office finding that raising the minimum wage would lift the incomes of 16.5 million people while eliminating 500,000 jobs, a majority -- 57 percent -- said that tradeoff is unacceptable.
That sentiment was also evident among people who say they want to see the minimum wage increased. When asked whether the jobs-versus-wages is an acceptable tradeoff, those respondents split evenly, with 45 percent of them saying it wasn't.
Jobs vs. Wages
"I had mixed feelings about that," said Alba Basden, a 72-year-old retiree in Mesa, Arizona, who twice voted for Obama. "Raising the minimum wage to $10 would mean the price of goods and services will go up, more businesses will cut jobs to make up for that loss. People need jobs right now."
On foreign policy, 41 percent of Americans disapprove of the president's handling of the conflict in Ukraine compared with 34 percent who approve. Still, the public isn't embracing Republican charges that Obama's weakness as a world leader contributed to the tension.
Sixty-two percent of Americans and a plurality of Republicans -- 49 percent -- say the movement of Russian troops into Crimea was a result of President Vladimir Putin's aggressive quest for domination over countries formerly part of the Soviet Union. Just 20 percent of Americans and 36 percent of Republicans say the perception of Obama as weak is what emboldened Putin to take action.
Obama will meet at the White House later today with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to show solidarity with the Ukrainian people and discuss possibilities for a peaceful resolution.
Unemployment Benefits
On domestic issues, most Americans also side with the president on his call to reinstate expanded unemployment benefits, although by smaller margins than those behind his proposal to increase the minimum wage.
%VIRTUAL-article-sponsoredlinks%Fifty-two percent of Americans favor extending benefits beyond the current term of 26 weeks. The proposal has the support of 67 percent of Democrats, compared with the 90 percent of Obama's partisan allies who support lifting hourly income.
When it comes to the broader theme of reducing the nation's wealth disparity, 45 percent of respondents think it's better for the government to implement policies designed to shrink the gap compared with 43 percent who said it's best to let the market operate freely even if it gets wider.
Median household income adjusted for inflation has declined every year that Obama has been in office, from $53,644 in 2008 to $51,017 in 2012, the lowest level since 1994, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Income Gap
The richest 10 percent of Americans earned a larger share of income in 2012 than at any time since 1917, according to research by Emmanuel Saez, an economist at the University of California at Berkeley. Those in the top one-tenth of income distribution earned at least $146,000 in 2012, almost 12 times what those in the bottom tenth made, census data show.
"I know there used to be a middle class," said Selma Rudolph, 76, a Democrat who lives in Boynton Beach, Fla. "My own son lost his business and he's working two jobs. It's just tough times for people."
The debate over closing the income gap resonates with demographic groups that could be important to Democrats in the midterms. Majorities or pluralities of nonwhite respondents, women, and young people back the notion that government should intervene to shrink the gap. Letting the market determine income levels is supported by white respondents and seniors age 65 and older.
Stalled Legislation
The Democratic proposal to lift the minimum wage is stalled in Congress, and states are moving ahead with their own increases. Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia had a higher minimum wage than the federal level as of January.
Obama and his partisan allies are already highlighting on the campaign trail the refusal by House Republican leaders to allow a vote on the issue.
Yet it's unclear whether that argument will be persuasive based on the poll results. The country is split as to whether the issue will affect their decisions about which candidates to vote for in November. While almost half of Americans say it will play a part, just 26 percent say it's a major element, 23 percent a minor factor and 46 percent say it's not a factor at all.
Job Approval
The increase in Obama's job-approval rating is being helped by independents, with 42 percent supporting him, up from 35 percent in December. He also is getting a boost from young adults, whose approval of his performance increased 11 percentage points, and women, whose positive rating jumped by 8 percentage points.
Obama's handling of the economy improved by 5 percentage points, while remaining downbeat in general as 53 percent disapprove of his performance compared with 43 percent who approve.
The CBO predicts the federal budget deficit will decline in 2014 to $514 billion from $1.1 trillion in 2012. Yet 57 percent of Americans aren't happy with the president's handling of the deficit compared with 34 percent who approve of it. On the bright side, Obama's disapproval rating on that issue is 6 percentage points lower than it was in December.
A slight majority, 51 percent, are also down on Obama's negotiations with the House Republican majority compared with 37 percent who approve of his performance. Still, that was less than in December, when the president scored a 55 percent disapproval rating on the issue.
"People keep trying to say 'Obama this, Obama that' -- he's not the one responsible for it," said Basden, the Arizona retiree. "It's Congress -- Republicans and Democrats -- who can't agree on anything."
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
bechtel calls it quits in iraq
bechtel corp. went to iraq three years ago to help rebuild a nation torn by war. since then, 52 of its people have been killed and much of its work sabotaged as iraq dissolved into insurgency and sectarian violence.
now bechtel is leaving. - sfgate
god speed arthur hill
born august 1, 1922, in melfort, saskatchewan, canada, hill served in the royal canadian air force and attended the university of british columbia, where he studied law but was lured to the stage. god speed, arthur.
or as we knew and loved him here in santa barbara, owen marshall - counselor at law.
he put compassionate lawyers and our historic courthouse "on the map"
bushco shortchanging the gulfcoast
the interior department has dropped a claim that chevron corp. shortchanged the government $6 million on royalties from some gas it pumped in the gulf of mexico. the department concluded its case would not hold up before an appeals panel.
sen. charles schumer, d-ny, said it was "ironclad proof that this administration sides with big oil over taxpayers. ... there should be no retreat in our efforts to collect what is owed to us."- ap
happy halloween
and the gang at skippy!
requiem for an ant
(apparently avery's partner has been getting so much writing work in the real world that there's just not enough time to do these cyber rants any more.)
we're going to miss the little curmudgeon...he was one of the few in blogtopia (and yes, we coined that phrase!) who knew the difference between snark and actual humor, and who knew the importance of actual humor in cyber-rants.
goodbye, avery, we enjoyed your ranting. good luck in your endeavors, and we hope you continue to be ant-i-everything stupid.
the quality of mercy
i was thinking about this while i was trying to wrap my head around the following article: victim's cousin charged with tattooing killer
columbus, indiana (AP) -- an inmate accused of forcibly tattooing a slain 10-year-old girl's name onto her killer's forehead in an Indiana prison was the victim's cousin, a family friend said.it's cases like this one that are the hardest to hold steady on, and it's one of the main reasons that we have trial by jury, and can't let those who have been hurt by the crimes in question assign the punishment. without at least some level of detachment, there can't really be justice.
i can't feel sorry for a killer who was forcibly tattooed, but i know that it was wrong.
mad about lynne cheney
Monday, October 30, 2006
click the stupid song already so he'll stop sending us emails
please do this, if not for robert, then for skippy, who owes robert for being the first person to tell skippy about osama bin laden (3 years before 9/11, with a song parody to chuck berry's "i'm walkin'." robert was prescient..."bin laden, yes indeed, bin laden, evil screed, bin laden, he's gonna get us all...").
no, and 'f*ck you' isn't profanity when used by the vice president, either
the brad blog has obtained a copy of the profanity-laced letter from sokolowski which includes a closing salutation claiming that he is "from the right 'right". the letter is posted, unredacted in full at the end of this article.
on her popular stephanie miller show this morning, the radio host telephoned "sock" — who included his address and phone number with the letter — to confront him live and on air about the letter.
– you can now listen to this morning's phone call here [mp3].
– the video of miller's h&c appearance that began the whole "kerfuffle" as producer chris lavoie just described it to us is here via youtube. btw, in this appearance miller brilliantly says to colmes: "it's called journalism, fox news should try it sometime."
making fun of disabled people still not popular in america
graphic via crooks&liars' bandwidth...thanka you, boys! anna one, anna two...
Man convicted in terror plot
Robert F. Weiler, Jr., age 25, of Forestville, Maryland pleaded guilty today to possessing a pipe bomb (an unregistered destructive device), being a felon in possession of a firearm and attempting to destroy or damage an abortion clinic located on Greenbelt Road in Greenbelt, Maryland, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein stated, "Mr. Weiler's misguided plan to murder doctors and bomb an abortion clinic could have resulted in deaths or serious injuries. Outstanding investigative work by ATF, the Maryland State Police and the Prince George's County Police prevented a tragedy."
ATF Special Agent in Charge Gregory K. Gant said, "The teamwork displayed throughout the investigation was outstanding. The work of the ATF and other law enforcement agencies does not wait until after a horrific event takes place. Through sound investigative work and diligence, agents and officers prevented what would have been a tragedy had Mr. Weiler not been brought to justice. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank those who made the tough decision to bring their concerns about Mr. Weiler to the attention of law enforcement."
The next day, Weiler advised agents that he was going to use the pipe bomb to blow up an abortion clinic located in Greenbelt, Maryland and that he was going to use the gun to shoot doctors who provided abortions. ATF agents and Prince George's County Police officers discovered the pipe bomb - consisting of a 1" diameter galvanized pipe, end caps, a length of pyrotechnic fuse and black powder - in a first floor closet at the Riverdale home where it had been hidden by Weiler.
If he'd been a Muslim plotting an attack with the same weapons, I have the feeling aWol himself would have been trumpeting the conviction as a victory on the "war" on terrah.
What results?
At least she's honest about her accomplishments.
quote of the day
where's your spell check now, moses?
- in the first book of the bible, guinessis. god got tired of creating the world so he took the sabbath off.
- adam and eve were created from an apple tree. noah's wife was joan of ark. noah built and ark and the animals came on in pears.
- lots wife was a pillar of salt during the day, but a ball of fire
during the night.
- the jews were a proud people and throughout history they had
trouble with unsympathetic genitals.
- sampson was a strongman who let himself be led astray by a jezebel like delilah.
- samson slayed the philistines with the axe of the apostles.
- moses led the jews to the red sea where they made unleavened bread which is bread without any ingredients .
- the egyptians were all drowned in the dessert. afterwards, moses went up to mount cyanide to get the ten commandments.
- the first commandments was when eve told adam to eat the apple.
- the seventh commandment is thou shalt not admit adultery.
- moses died before he ever reached canada . then joshua led the hebrews in the battle of geritol.
- the greatest miricle in the bible is when joshua told his son to stand still and he obeyed him.
- david was a hebrew king who was skilled at playing the liar. he fought the finkelsteins, a race of people who lived in biblical times.
- solomon, one of davids sons, had 300 wives and 700 porcupines.
- when mary heard she was the mother of jesus, she sang the magna carta.
- jesus was born because mary had an immaculate contrapti on.
- st. john the blacksmith dumped water on his head.
- jesus enunciated the golden rule, which says to do unto others before they do one to you. he also explained a man doth not live by sweat alone.
- it was a miricle when jesus rose from the dead and managed to get the tombstone off the entrance.
- the people who followed the lord were called the 12 decibels.
- the epistels were the wives of the apostles.
- one of the oppossums was st. matthew who was also a taximan.
- st. paul cavorted to christianity, he preached holy acrimony
which is another name for marraige.
- christians have only one spouse. this is called monotony.
in case we win, the voting machines are crooked
also at vidiot speak, the sailor expounds on why torture doesn't work.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
weird but catchy
a song built out of lotr dialogue: they're taking the hobbits to isengard
the don mcclone wars
weird al at his best...
sunday night music club
louis armstrong and his all-stars play "indiana"
hey rube!
wait, you didn't sign this "alex trebek"!!
bob said that if you told him 6 months ago he'd be reviewed in the nytimes and newsday, he would have jumped for joy. but now he realizes that book promoting is hard work. skippy and bob agreed on the irony that show buisness is not for the shy or retiring, which pretty much screws them both.
but if you haven't yet, be sure to click on the trebekistan ad on our right hand sidebar and order a copy today! bob's a funny, funny guy, and a great writer, to boot!
playblog after dark
check out the late night mash and give dan some support.
you think american politics are weird? go to italy
fixing virginia
Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium;
atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
"Call it what you will," he said, "but it is a civil war."
Perhaps. But I felt as though I was witnessing something more: the final, frenzied maturity of once-inchoate forces unleashed more than three years ago by the invasion. There was civil war-style sectarian killing, its echoes in Lebanon a generation ago. Alongside it were gangland turf battles over money, power and survival; a raft of political parties and their militias fighting a zero-sum game; a raging insurgency; the collapse of authority; social services a chimera; and no way forward for an Iraqi government ordered to act by Americans who themselves are still seen as the final arbiter and, as a result, still depriving that government of legitimacy.
Civil war was perhaps too easy a term, a little too tidy.
read the whole thing
and we thought "dick armey" was about gays in the military
the answer is simple: republican lawmakers forgot the party's principles, became enamored with power and position, and began putting politics over policy. now, the democrats are reaping the rewards of our neglect — and we have no one to blame but ourselves...
Saturday, October 28, 2006
gandhi goes to hollywood
"peace is essential. whenever we can work for peace ...and plant the seeds in the minds of people... we must do it" - arun ghandi, 2006
gandhi's coming to hollywood! imagine walking down hollywood blvd. alongside gandhi's surviving grandson arun gandhi in the name of peace.
mr. gandhi will be joined by harrison and a growing list of supporters and celebrities; mike farrell, sally kirkland, levar burton, larraine newman, mimi kennedy, and filmmaker aaron rousseau. special guest cindy sheehan will be on hand as well, and many more celebrities are signing up as we speak. all are participating with the endorsement of "harrison's national brain trust" - gore vidal, noam chomsky, kurt vonnegut, dr. howard zinn, ed begley jr., former nj governor james mcgreevey, and congresswoman maxine waters.
where: saturday october 28th join ktlk am 1150's harrison and gandhi's grandson arun gandhi
where: hollywood & vine at 11am. arun gandhi will address the crowd and take his first step for peace barefoot, in full grauman's theater fashion!
ktlk am 1150 is fortunate to be marching in a unified call for peace with the a.n.s.w.e.r. coalition, leaders at the forefront of the peace and social justice movement. a.n.s.w.e.r. will hold a rally at the end of the parade route in front the cnn building at sunset and cole.
map and directions: http://www.goharrison.com/parade_map.html
afterwards, join a celebration of world peace and global unity at plummer park's fiesta hall, 7377 santa monica blvd. west hollywood is opening the park between 2:30 and 5pm. there you will see a special video message from secretary general kofi annan, and hear words from arun gandhi, celebrity co-host hal sparks and peace mom cindy sheehan.
enjoy special performances from chilean singer/songwriter jacqueline fuentes, the balandugu kan african dance troupe, the yuval ron ensemble (sacred music of the middle east), and jonelle romero with red nation. plus, stephen fiske (singer/songwriter performing his earth anthem), ruth gould-goodman (who will lead a tonal prayer), and the "shumei makoto taiko group" led by steven tokunaga.
on the centennial of mahatma gandhi's first non-violent action, march alongside 72 year old arun gandhi.
why now: now's the time to be the change! the southland, where gandhi's ashes were actually laid to rest is the launching point of worldwide peace parades planned for egypt, canada, italy, austria, and japan!
the hollywood parade for world peace is produced and sponsored by:
harrison & linda blake - executive producers,
and co-sponsored by the a.n.s.w.e.r. coalition.
harrison, the award-winning progressive talk-show host of ktlk am 1150's "harrison on the edge" is the creator and executive producer of the parade for world peace. harrison is also the communications media-hub, hosting and covering the parade on october 28th; and all consequential events following the first parade for peace.
bill mccarthy (un association northern california division) - producer/director
joanne tawfilis (un association san diego chapter) - director of visual arts and international outreach
ktlk - la's progressive talk am 1150
the unity foundation art miles mural project
kpfk - pacifica radio
the city of west hollywood
The General endorses Callaghan
(Yes I put this up for cookie jill to enjoy.)
are we sure it was a mask?
charles gardner told police he was on the front steps of his home wednesday when the robber with a gun demanded cash.
police said the robber in the bush mask, who also used a bad southern accent, put the gun barrel to gardner's temple and demanded money.
gardner said he had just been to the bank to cash his $1,000 social security check when he was robbed.
the robber made off with the cash and fled in an older model white car.
big mac o'lantern
Friday, October 27, 2006
roll backs at the wal-mart consulting department
the geeks shall inherit the earth
the housing rental site, hotpads, also has a district map, which does a better job of showing district lines: it fills in the districts, making them easier to see, and color-codes them by affiliation of the incumbent. it also pops up names of incumbents and candidates, but links only to wikipedia--comprehensive, perhaps, but not always accurate, especially on contested political issues.
shut up and watch 1 vs. 100
the weinstein co. distributed documents that appeared to be from nbc's advertising standards division rejecting the spots and with the handwritten remarks about president bush.
an nbc executive declined comment, while cw spokesman paul mcguire said, "the release is flat-out inaccurate."
the weinstein co. distributed a document from cw that referred to "concerns (that) we do not have appropriate programming in which to schedule this spot." cw countered that it had been in conversations with the weinstein co. about taking the spot, but those talks never progressed beyond where on the cw schedule the spot would run…
"it's a sad commentary about the level of fear in our society that a movie about a group of courageous entertainers who were blacklisted for exercising their right of free speech is now itself being blacklisted by corporate america," said harvey weinstein, co-chairman of the weinstein co.
say hello
Happy story campaign
Do you know what would be a really happy story? Replacing a Rubber Stamp, Torture Supporting, Bush Loving, Corruption Enabling Republican like Shelley Moore Capito with a passionate, former federal prosecutor like Mike Callaghan. This is my last pitch for funds. This is a race where every dollar can make a difference.
Won't you help?
UPDATE: And if you can't afford to because you're already contributed to other candidates, please do not feel obligated. This is a long-shot race with the only polling done by Shelley Moore Capito, who did not release the results.
keep it handy 11 days from now
what do you call 100 dead publican congressman at the bottom of the ocean?*
* a good start.
Mean Jean's unintended irony
I am saddened by these recent developments and your unwillingness to make this campaign about issues rather than personal attacks, name calling, and blatant cheap shots.
Now that's rich. It's not Victoria Wulsin's fault that one of the issues in the race is the number of times Schmidt has resorted to personal attacks, name calling, and blatant cheap shots. That's probably not how Schmidt intended in her letter though.
ignore ellsberg at your peril
it seems we aren't a federation planet after all
backlash much?
certainly, fox must have calculated that the imagery in his ad would be unsettling. some viewers, he must have guessed, would object to such an emotionally charged take on a campaign commercial. but others, he probably surmised, would be persuaded that diseases such as parkinson's urgently demand research, including experiments using embryonic stem cells.
then there was rush limbaugh. first and foremost a showman, limbaugh couldn't see beyond the man onscreen. limbaugh seemed incapable of considering that fox has little reason to show his symptoms to the public, beyond advocating for a cure.
only a compulsive showman would fixate not on the disease, the ad or even the issue — but on the fellow entertainer getting some attention. for limbaugh, the instinctive response was to stage an even more disturbing show.
while the right-wing radio host does exhibit most, if not all, of the common characteristics of this behaviour, it's so rare for all of them to coalesce at a single moment that one can only conclude limbaugh's most recent performances are nothing short of fraudulent.
i'm no expert diagnostician, but nobody could be this big a one. limbaugh must be acting.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
skippy loves jon stewart
cookiejill and her hometown of santa barbara love jon stewart, too, but jon stewart gives santa barbarians notice that on 18 november, he's putting us all on the "seat of heat"
now...that's "hot!"
don't dream it...be it
let's get in the mood for halloween...
collect all 17!
lots of set up including mark foley jokes, bob woodward v. charlie rose, and finally, lawyers
a parodies, a pair o' dose...
addendum: even better, ioho, from the same people, it's snakes on the hindenberg...oh the herpetology!
the power of one word
cnn's broken programing
if it's good enough for new hampshire, it's good enough for the freeway blogger
and the fb was a guest on insanity and colmes:
Labels: freeway blogger, protest
we hate to burst your bubble, but...
the lower prices may have worked, as the annual pace of new home sales climbed 5.3 percent to 1.08 million last month, according to the census bureau report. economists surveyed by briefing.com had forecast a reading of 1.05 million, which would have been flat with the initial august reading.
but the median price of a new home tumbled 9.7 percent from a year earlier to $217,100. it was the sharpest drop since december 1970, when prices posted an 11.2 percent decline, and was the fourth largest year-over-year decline on record.
the september price slump also marked a 9.3 percent decline from august and a 15.5 percent drop from the record high price of $257,700 posted in april of this year.
last month the median price of a home fell under the year-ago level in nine markets and sales fell by large amounts in all areas, said the los angeles-based california association of realtors.
"the bottom line is we were expecting some fairly big declines," said robert kenneling, the association's deputy chief economist.
one man's depression is another man's euphoria (or, in this case, blogtoia, and y!wctp!)...
damn those godless commie seniors and negros
via kos, here's publican peter king getting laughed at after he referred to the aarp and naacp as "radical organizations" during a public debate.
The Frighteners
My favorite Michael J. Fox movie is The Frighteners.
The Frighteners is a 1996 horror comedy directed by Peter Jackson, before he went on to Lord of the Rings fame.
Fox plays Frank, a former architect whose wife died under mysterious circumstances in a car crash.
In the crash, Frank received an injury and afterwards could see ghosts and talk with them.
An egotistical, maniacal blow hard federal agent (played by the great Jeffrey Combs) believes Frank is exaggerating. The pill popping, deceitful agent of the federal government keeps up a steady barrage of insults to Frank, trying to get others to not listen to Frank.
Frank, though, is telling the truth. Frank ends up fighting Death at great personal sacrifice to himself. In the end, he wins and they all live happily ever after.
The Frighteners is one of my favorite horror movies and perfect for Halloween viewing. There are gruesome ghosts, some very dark comedy (including sort of a necrophilia scene of undead on dead), and some precursors of scenes and special effects that Jackson would use to great effect in The Lord of the Rings.
Now I'm not saying The Frighteners is by any means a metaphor for the current situation between Michael J. Fox and Rush Limpbaugh, with Rush the crazed, pill popping, egotistical maniac acting on behalf of the federal government in the Jeffrey Combs role. Jeffrey Combs, after all, is much better looking and he's talented.
But the Republicans in the White House and Congress as well as their friends in the right wing corporate media are frightened. They are terrified of Fox's role in this campaign of putting a beloved face to the logical outcome of their anti-science policies. They are terrified of us, the grassroots, who are mobilized and working to mobilize others to take back the people's House on Capitol Hill.
They are frightened of the American people, many of whom have woken up to the danger posed by the right wing ideology to this country. I heard a self-described conservative, Reagan Democrat on the Sam Seder Show this morning filled with a righteous anger. He had once thought he hated liberals and then he realized that the conservative movement had moved so far to the right that he was now on the left. His anger as he spoke of the Republican hypocrisy of recent years.
The fear and desperation coming from the GOP is palpable. They fear Congressional oversight and investigations. They fear people demanding accountability from their representatives in Congress, from our servants in the White House and from the members of the media.
Their world is changing and there is nothing right wingers fear more than change.
In the movie, Michael J. Fox and a group of ghosts he has befriended are The Frighteners.
In reality, we are. With Fox's help, we've put the fear in them.
call it los angelides
the spread is ominous for angelides, who's been unable to consolidate his democratic base as the november seventh election draws near.
schwarzenegger leads angelides 40 percent to 34 percent in the bay area. and in another traditionally democratic region -- los angeles -- angelides leads by the slimmest of margins -- 40 percent to 38 percent.
there's more than one guay to go, there's a paraguay
luis d elia, undersecretary for the social habitat in the argentine federal planning ministry, issued a memo partially reproduced by digital infobae.com, in which he spoke of the purchase by bush of a 98,842-acre farm in northern paraguay, between brazil and bolivia…
d elia considered this bush step counterproductive for the regional power expressed by presidents nestor kirchner, luiz inacio lula da silva, evo morales, hugo chavez and fidel castro.
he said that "it is a bad signal that the bush family is doing business with natural resources linked to the future of mercosur."
the official pointed out that this situation could cause a hypothetical conflict of all the armies in the region, and called attention to the bush family habit of associating business and politics.
hooked on torture
the vice president: it's a no-brainer for me, but for a while there, i was criticized as being the vice president "for torture." we don't torture. that's not what we're involved in. we live up to our obligations in international treaties that we're party to and so forth. but the fact is, you can have a fairly robust interrogation program without torture, and we need to be able to do that.
and thanks to the leadership of the president now, and the action of the congress, we have that authority, and we are able to continue to program.
no brainer? the casual cruelty of torture reveals itself in cheney's casual attitude.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
say hello
still missing him after 4 years
"never separate the life you live from the words you speak"
"i represent the democratic wing of the democratic party."
paul david wellstone (july 21, 1944 – october 25, 2002)
the torturing states of america
it's not easy blogging green
germ fighter works as endocrine disrupter. triclosan, popular in soaps and lotions, perturbs the thyroid system of frogs and humans at concentrations found in north american streams.
rp -- japan accord 'toxic'. a new dump for toxic waste may soon open for japan -- and it has 7,100 islands. the philippines will allow the entry of toxic and hazardous waste from japan in exchange for the export of nurses and caregivers.
chaos uncorked. an ill-conceived plan to clean fouled waters with exotic carp goes awry near chicago, and now - three decades later - the great lakes could pay the price.
will new foods have distasteful problems? just when you thought we were heading toward organic consumption, the federal government is set to flood the marketplace with more frankenfoods
air rule change has a bad odor. the u.s. environmental protection agency reportedly is planning to change the way that ethanol plants are treated under the clean air act, and this can only be bad news for clean air.
An apology
As some of you might know, I've written little else of late. I haven't written a `top comments diary in weeks. I've not shaved or changed clothing in almost as long of a period.
And it's time for me to come clean - metaphysically if not physically.
For example, this diary The most important Lamont-Lieberman diary you'll read tonight wasn't even about Ned Lamont or Joe Lieberman. It was about Mike Callaghan and Shelley Moore Capito.
The numerous references to Wild and Wonderful Connecticut were about West Virginia.
When I wrote this diary The GOP needs our help to scare voters, I never intended to actually help the Republican Party.
I never really believed Is Instapundit a serial killer?.
The GBCW (Jag edition) diary? I actually like the dog ad.
But yesterday I went too far. In this diary I implied that this kitten
that looks like she is pleading for her life would die in a victory celebration should Shelley Moore Capito win.
I was very specific that the kitten would be thrown by Capito into a pool of water filled with sharks equipped with frigging lasers attached to their fins. I lied. I'm the one with the shark-filled pool. And I even lied about the lasers. I couldn't ::sob:: get the lasers to work. ::sob:: They kept shorting out in the water.
I just hope all of you can forgive me.
I blame my problems on my addiction to pistachios and I was sexually abused by Mark Foley's priest.
And I promise to stop so obsessively begging for money and volunteer support for Mike Callaghan. Just because he's a great candidate and everything positive I've written or said about him is true and just because we're running against a well-financed rubber stamp Republican whose been bought and paid for by the oil industry and the pharmaceutical giants as well as every crooked Republican to come down the pike while all Mike Callaghan is wonderful, fantastic people like you and terrible diarists like me to support him doesn't mean you should. Donate - Join the dedicated team of volunteers
This experience has shown me we really need publicly financed election campaigns. If you've never seen a candidate in action you wouldn't believe how much time they have to spend asking for money.
And don't worry. No kittens were harmed in the writing of this diary.
yes we're gonna have a party party
nj supreme court rules on same-sex marriage
the new jersey state supreme court just issued its ruling on same-sex marriage. the court ruled that same-sex couples have the right to marry because of the equal protection clause of the state constitution. they also instructed the legislature to go pass laws that are in line with the ruling. the report on the radio said that the decision was not unanimous and opinions were kind of all over the map on it.
the ruling said that discrimination against gays and lesbians is no longer permitted within the state. this goes beyond previous rulings regarding the state's equal protection clause. in effect, it puts gays and lesbians in the same class as minorities and women when it comes to equal protection and it goes beyond statements made by other state supreme courts in these types of cases.
here's a link to an article on the ruling. the article is somewhat misleading, from what i heard on the radio. the article seems to say that the legislature has to use a word other than "marriage" when it permits same-sex marriage, but what i heard was that the ruling allows the legislature to use a word other than "marriage", but does not require the legislature to use a different word.
a copy of the decision (in pdf format) is here.
emily latella now works for nytimes
the article used a database to analyze hundreds of mr. lieberman's war-related comments since 2001. it pointed out that ned lamont, the democratic nominee for united states senate, frequently criticized mr. lieberman for being a strong supporter of the bush administration's "stay the course" policy on iraq, and said that in the statements reviewed, mr. lieberman had never actually uttered that phrase.
in fact, mr. lieberman has used the phrase more than a half-dozen times over the last two years, during a presidential debate and in television interviews — including several instances that were in the times database. as recently as november 2005, upon returning from a trip to iraq, for instance, he said on cnn's "american morning" that he agreed with the administration's view that it was necessary to "stay the course."
addendum: pub&ed condences the pertinent parts in the rest of the article for us:
mad about awol insisting he never used the words "stay the course"
and it's a losing game, at that
look who is coming to santa barbara on friday!
what kind of society are we becoming?
two sunnyvale brothers are facing federal charges for allegedly assaulting an older golfer whom they derided as "gramps" on the nasa ames research center golf course in mountain view, court records released today show.
the suspects, ryan maxwell alexander, 21, and charles talmage alexander, 20, allegedly attacked edwin j. league, 61, on sept. 18 after the victim asked them if he could "play through" because they were playing slowly at the golf course at moffett field, authorities said. - sfgate
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
we take back what we said about the gray lady...
via our buddy jane at fdl, who checked in w/media matters, we find a blatant piece of laziness posing as reporting in the esteemed pages of that mmm organ:
well, at least they liked bob!
addendum: apropos of nothing, here's a good example of how bloggered blogger can get. we wrote this post twice, because the first time it disappeared.
suddenly it reappeared here, under monday's postings, complete with the last paragraph suddenly morphing into spanish.
blogger: you get what you pay for.
Save this kitten!
I've written once or twice about Mike Callaghan and Shelley Moore Capito.
Many of you have already contributed. Thank you.
Many others are still holding back, maybe because this race is too much of a long shot to win.
1. If Shelley Moore Capito wins, she might celebrate by throwing this kitten into a pool of water filled with sharks with frigging lasers attached to their fins. Now I do not know this for certain, but as Republican Rep. Patrick Henry would say, I have NO evidence that it is not true so here it is. So it is speculation on my part. But as WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan would say, it would be wrong not to speculate.
2. Mike Callaghan loves animals.
3. Shelley Moore Capito has taken money from Tom Delay and Bob Ney. I bet her father has contributed to her campaign too. She's voted more than 80 percent of the time with George W. Bush. Do we need a representative with this many ties to law breakers and suspected law breakers?
4. Mike Callaghan, as a federal prosecutor for nearly a decade, put law breakers in prison.
5. Big oil companies gave Shelley Moore Capito money they took personally from me and many of my friends. The bastards.
6. Mike Callaghan was secretary of the environment trying to make the air and land cleaner.
7. Shelley Moore Capito claims to support the troops. The association representing Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans listed her as C+. That grade might be good enough to become a Republican nominee for president, but it ain't good enough to honor those that served their nation.
8. Mike Callaghan wants to bring the troops home as soon as possible.
9. Shelley Moore Capito is a Republican, although she's trying to keep that a secret by not listing her party on her signs or her campaign web site. She's also trying to keep her position on issues secret by not listing them on her web site. Of course when you were one of the first touting President Bush's privateer plan for Social Security, you'd want to keep your stance secret.
10. Mike Callaghan is proud of being a Democrat. And he wants to protect Social Security from those attempting to loot the treasury.
So hear the pleas of the kitten. Support Mike Callaghan. Donate - Join the dedicated team of volunteers
or else just change the title to "the cbs evening lifestyle report"
master debater
the remarkable exchange took place in the debate monday night at new london's garde theater as the campaign hurtles to its nov. 7 finale…
"of the three men before you i am the only man with a tough stand on immigration," schlesinger said. "… we don't only let them in illegally. many of our refugees get social security."
his comments prompted an incredulous george stephanopolous, the debate's celebrity moderator, to interrupt. "can you restate your question?"he asked mann.
"the question is really focused more on terrorism…" mann said.
schlesinger was undaunted.
"when you talk about terrorism in our homeland, illegal immigration is the spearhead of that," he said. "joe wants to give them amnesty. ned wants to give them scholarships. i want to give them the boot…"that is where our main threat is coming. it's coming from mexico. people can come through with a dirty bomb…"
that's why he doesn't want to "pull out of iraq" without a clear victory, lieberman said – he worries that doing so would encourage terrorists. "i've traveled to just about arab country except iran" and learned the importance of this issue, lieberman said.
from your paper to god's ears
the poll underscores how much of a drag the war threatens to be on republican candidates in competitive races. with debate under way in washington about possible course changes in iraq, more americans polled cite the war as the most important issue in determining their vote next month, and those who do favor democrats over republicans by 76 percent to 21 percent.
independents are poised to play a pivotal role in next month's elections because democrats and republicans are basically united behind candidates of their own parties. the independent voters surveyed said they plan to support democratic candidates over republicans by roughly 2 to 1 — 59 percent to 31 percent — the largest ratio in any post-abc news poll this year.
researchers, start your engines!
in the 90's we used to call 'em 'nerds'
Monday, October 23, 2006
the apocalypse....now
pelosi flunks negotiating 101
i think a better answer would have been:
impeachment talk is a bit premature. republicans have killed all investigations into alleged wrong doing so i can't commit to a course of action until we know the full extent of the illegal wiretapping.
kids, don't try this at home
number 11, the ho chi minh trail goes thru basra
while we're on the subject (the subject being silly political posts) the assimilated press reports that condoleeza rice is pregnant's with awol's love child; and media bloodhound points out that the military is sure that rumsfeld's praise will crush the insurgency.
when filling out a voter registration form
1) write legibly. someone actually has to try to interpret your chicken scratch.
2) provide a phone number or email so that when your chicken scratch can't be deciphered they can actually contact you to ask questions.
3) please remember where you live...provide the proper address of your residence, not a p.o. box.
4) spell your name correctly.
5) sign where the form indicates that you sign.
6) try to remember where you were born.
7) try to remember what day and year you were born.
8) turn in forms on time. when the deadline clearly states on the form "must be submitted to the office by such a date and no date stamps will be accepted..." it means just that.
9) know what a registration form looks like.
10) if you have moved after the last election....reregister.
11) if you have changed your name after the last election....reregister.
12) if you have changed your party affiliation....reregister.
13) if you have changed your signature....reregister.
14) know what county you live in.
15) know what state you live in. (kid you not, kids on this one....)
16) don't swipe someone elses absentee ballot application and fill it out by crossing out their name
17) if you know that you will be out of town on election day, don't wait until the last minute to apply for an absentee ballot
18) if you know that you will be out of the country, don't assume that the elections office will pony up for a fed-ex next day delivery to you to fill out your absentee ballot application
19) you might not be able to vote for those candidates you see advertising on t.v....they might not be running in your district. yelling at the people in the elections office will not change that fact.
and lastly,
20) know when election day is.
the $387,000 question
Plunging the toilet for democracy
Let me begin at the beginning.
The Apple Harvest Parade was Saturdayin Martinsburg. Mike Callaghan's local campaign office is on North Queen Street along the parade route.
We met early to make up signs and even though I suck at sign making (my daughters do better at making the signs than I do since I have trouble making my letters and staying within the lines).
Mike said he needed to wash his truck since his was dirty. When you don't rake in the big money from the DCCC for your campaign, you wash your own truck for the parade.
Jane (injured foot) and I (torn calf muscle, partly torn Achilles tendon) decided to stay at the headquarters to pass out apples and allow parade watchers to use our restroom.
Being nice to parade goers, of course, is part of our nefarious plot to win votes. At least, I'm sure that's how Republican Rubber Stamp Shelley Moore (I never said stay the course!) Capito would describe it.
Afterall, she's the one who calls this ad by Mike Callaghan an "attack" on her.
Apparently those who live in fear of terrorists organizations like Florida Quakers and human rights activists are really weak-kneed when a Democrat criticizes bad decisions to go to war and Republicans protecting a sexual predator to hold on to political power.
When she marched in the parade, she stayed in the center of the road surrounded by her supporters like they were human shields to protect her from harm. When she marched by Callaghan headquarters her smile froze. She went "tharn" as javajunkey aptly described it in the comments Saturday. I burst out laughing and kept laughing as she and her supporters walked by and laughed even louder with some Republican named Raese's supporters marched by. A Raese supporter said "Vote for some first name Raese, our next U.S. Senator." I chuckled loudly and he looked up, and tried to pass out literature to people who wouldn't reach out their hands to take it. Say what you will about Senator Robert C. Byrd (and I've certainly said my share) he's got a lot of supporters among Democrats and Republicans in this state.
Callaghan didn't ride in his shiny and clean truck, which was covered by signs (My "Vote 4 Mike" sign didn't look too bad from the distance). Instead he walked along the parade route, shaking hands with people along the route.
So Jane and I watched the parade route from a table set up with campaign literature and bumper stickers to pass out and when people asked to use our rest room (long parade with no public facilities nearby) I'd show them where it was.
After one use by a young girl, her mother told me the toilet was clogged.
Being a campaign volunteer often involves promoting the lofty ideas of the political party.
And sometimes it means wielding the plunger.
I thanked her for telling me, told her I was experienced at this with three children of my own, and went to work.
You see, even if you're angry at the Democratic Party for whatever reason, this is not the time to bail out on them.
This is the time to roll up the sleeves and do what ever it takes to get Democrats elected.
We have plenty of Torturecrats to oust from office in the future (I'm looking at you Senator Rockefeller), but the only way to put the brakes on this illegal war in Iraq and the on-going corrupt looting of the U.S. treasury by the Republicans.
The only way to protect Social Security and to provide real Medicaid drug benefits for the people instead of the pharmaceutical giants is to elect Democrats. The only way to implement real security measures as recommended by the 9/11 Commission is to elect Democrats.
Get off the computer and go volunteer. Go canvass neighborhoods and march in parades and wave signs and phonebank and yes, plunge toilets when needed.
Because if you believe this administration and Republican-controlled Congress has left us in a world of shit, you've got to roll up your sleeves and unclog the mess. Because a clogged toilet isn't going to plunge itself. And it can't be fixed just by posting on a blog.
Donate - Join the dedicated team of volunteers
Also please freep this poll (on the right) for Mike at the Charleston Gazette.
UPDATE: The DCCC picked Mike today as an emerging race. Huzzah! I also collected most of my race diaries here/
the gray lady gets one right
paper victories
(for the record, so does skippy.)
eric kinda hearts obama
live blogging live blogs
wake up america, it's getting closer.
arianna one anna two...
i'm writing because we thought your readers might be interested in talking with arianna huffington live tomorrow.
huffington will be appearing on blogtalkradio on tuesday, oct. 24, at 5 p.m. eastern / 2 p.m. pacific. blogtalkradio is a new "live podcasting" service that lets listeners call in or im live so hosts can respond to their questions on the air. the call in number for tomorrow's show is 877-548-3376.
you can read more about the interview on huffington's host page at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ariannahuffington, on the btr blog at http://blog.blogtalkradio.com/index.php/2006/10/19/go-fearless-with-arianna-huffington-live-on-blogtalkradiocom/, or at the huffington post at
anyone can be a host at blogtalkradio -- and it's free. if you're interested, you can learn how it works here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/faq.aspx
take care!
scott baradell
the idea grove
he put the "petty" in "petty cash"
the lieberman camp on sunday denied any wrongdoing. lieberman spokeswoman tammy sun said the cash payments were made to campaign coordinators in the field who then distributed money to workers who were involved with canvassing efforts. the payments to workers, many of them students, ranged from $50 to $100 per day, sun added…
the lamont camp cited at least 10 petty cash payments to volunteers from july 25 to aug. 7, the day before the primary. the largest was $135,000 on aug. 4. there was a $75,000 payment on aug. 7.
we take it back what we said about the gray lady...
we keep this post here instead of deleting it to remind you of what we have always mainainted: blogger...you get what you pay for.]
sure, the nytimes gave bob harris a good review for "prisoner of trebekistan," but that doesn't mean, apparenlty, that they've started actually reporting.
via our buddy jane at fdl, who checked in w/media matters, we find a blatant piece of laziness posing as reporting in the esteemed pages of that mmm organ:
change of address card
he has moved from blogger to word press (something we'd do if we cared more about blogging).
as jill sez, change the bookmark before halloween! boo!
Sunday, October 22, 2006
one can always hope
happy bday, ipod
for a little white box that was greeted almost universally with disappointment, apple computer's ipod has come a long way since its debut five years ago. initial responses ranged from warm to openly dismissive. "lame" was the final word of a reaction to the player on slashdot. - businessweek
"if apple ever lowers the ipod's price and develops windows software for it, watch out: the invasion of the ipod people will surely begin in earnest."—david pogue, new york times (2001) - playlist
rip jane wyatt
ms. wyatt was dropped from the new york social register after becoming an actress, but she later reacquired her standing through marriage. meanwhile, she enjoyed an active career on the broadway stage and then in hollywood.
the offer to appear in "father knows best," long a fixture on radio, came as a surprise. the show ran first on cbs, and that network's decision to cancel the program resulted in loud protests. nbc picked it up from 1955 to 1958 before the show returned to cbs.
although ms. wyatt said in later years that she found aspects of the show dated, she took some comfort in its ability to appeal to audiences around the world.
"when we did it we had no idea it would make such a big splash," she told the associated press in 1989. "i went to peru on a botanical trip last year. the stewardesses on the plane were all over us. in lima, we were besieged by people. the show's called 'papa lo sabe todo' there."
no hablamos el voting rights act en condado del orange, california
but the latimes reports that fingers are pointing at the publican:
sunday night music club
imac a point of it
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Brain injury.
Say it with me now.
Brain injury.
Not head injury. Not concussion. Not getting dinged, seeing stars, or having your bell rung.
Brain injury.
That's what it needs to be called. Every time.
The conversation surrounding sports-related brain injuries has never been louder or more widespread. Even so, the language involved in that conversation must adjust to emphasize the topic's gravity.
When someone snaps his tibia, we call it a broken leg. When someone tears her ACL, we call it exactly that. And we know if injuries of this nature occur multiple times, the wounded may very well endure a lifetime of suffering.
Same goes for victims of head, er … brain injuries. Sorry. Force of habit.
This isn't to say that there has been a conscious effort by people to mitigate a brain injury's severity by using more palatable terms. As Illinois-based neurologist Dr. Julian Bailes said, "I think the word concussion is pretty much embedded in people's minds as meaning brain injury."
But Bailes also said that he frequently treats athletes who feel they can play through brain injuries, and as we've learned, that can lead to catastrophic consequences. So let's make an effort to describe the condition as it truly is — to hammer it into people's heads before more heads get hammered.
Hall of Fame offensive lineman Ron Yary said that whenever he goes back to Canton, Ohio, for the HOF induction ceremony, he asks other former players if they still would have suited up knowing what they know now. They all say yes. However, when he asks if they would let their kids play, they generally give a different response.
Brain injuries in sports
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Calkins: Let's call brain injuries what they are
Doctor suggests concussion prevention
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It's not all about CTE and head traumas
To be fair, Yary said that he would still encourage youngsters to play football, which he considers a safe sport. That's awfully debatable, though, because football's dangers have presented themselves in clear, sometimes tragic fashions.
We know that copious ex-NFL players were discovered to have had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a disease linked to depression, memory loss and dementia. We know that Junior Seau and former Bears safety Dave Duerson, both of whom committed suicide, suffered from this very disease.
We know that researchers have found that tens of thousands of high school football players have endured brain injuries, that former college football athletes have claimed that these injuries ruined their lives, and that 2,000 NFL players are suing the league for withholding information on the long-term effects of brain trauma.
Could some of us be overreacting to the data? Maybe. Might some of the NFL plaintiffs see an opportunity for a money grab? Perhaps.
Even so, I have a feeling that if Yary asked a collection of former football players who don't own Hall of Fame jackets if they still would have played, their answers wouldn't be so positive.
There seems to be more precaution than ever when it comes to protecting players' brains, whether it is rule changes in the NFL, or the CIF offering courses on brain injuries and mandating players suspected of sustaining one be removed from a game or practice.
But there is still more that can be done, more awareness that can be raised, more information that can be instilled.
French philosopher Michel Foucault once said that "language constructs reality," meaning the words we use and the labels we choose play a pivotal role in how we see the world.
Well, in this reality, it's becoming more and more apparent that sports-related brain injuries can change lives, and that they need to be treated with utmost caution.
Football isn't going anywhere, but neither are its perils. So say it with me one more time — brain injury.
We can't let that slip our minds.


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Sabine, Calcasieu are giving up some solid trout
The water temperature on Sabine Lake this past Tuesday was 63 degrees and about the same on Lake Calcasieu, two of the hottest trout fishing spots on the entire Gulf coast right about now.
I've spent several days over the past two weeks fishing on Sabine and Calcasieu and can tell you for sure that the trout fishing is great. That's the good news. The bad news is that it's not great every day. For example, Beaumont angler Warren Claybar was on Calcasieu last week and e-mailed me a photo of one of several big specks he and a friend caught while wading a windward shoreline in 3 feet of water. That particular trout weighed 7 pounds.
I was on Calcasieu a couple of days after that and fished 7 hours and caught one small flounder, and two trout in the 2 pound class — not exactly a stellar day on the water.
That was not the case this past Saturday on Sabine Lake. That's where I met Claybar at the new causeway bridge for an afternoon of fishing. The tide was coming in for several hours that afternoon. Although the wind was honking, it was a sunny day and warmed up nicely by 2 p.m. We hit the water at 11 a.m. and headed straight to Lighthouse Cove. That's where we found plenty of mullet and a green tide, but not a single trout willing to take a shot at our lures.
From there we headed to the Louisiana shoreline and found a stretch of clear water that was holding an ample supply of mullet. Our go-to lures were topwater plugs. Claybar had used a Super Spook to catch his big trout on Calcasieu, so that was his first choice. I opted to go with a black/chartreuse Top Dog. It took us about an hour to figure out that if trout were there, they were definitely not on a topwater bite.
We had a blustery southeast wind blowing but the water on the south end of Sabine was clear enough to see bottom in 3 feet of water. At one point we were bump trolling and I looked down and was stunned to see a huge trout, in the 8 to 10 pound class, slowly moving along bottom. Before I could utter the words giant trout she bolted out of sight. That's one of the biggest specks I've seen.
Once we figured out a pattern, we began catching three and four specks per drift. The trick was to motor up to the protected shoreline, and drift with the wind out to 4 to 4-1/2 feet of water. The best bite was in rough but clean water. And the go to bait for about an hour or so was a purple and chartreuse TTF Trout Killer rigged on a 1/4-ounce lead head jig. Later in the day, Claybar switched to a Chicken On A Chain Assassin. We ended up boxing 9 solid trout to about 4 pounds.
The water temperature has been moving up and down with our cold fronts. I caught it one day last week at 67 degrees and the bite was on. But the day after that a cold front moved through. The high pressure on the backside of the front, plus a falling water temperature put the skids to the fishing for a couple of days.Calcasieu has been a big time hot spot for big trout. Waders are catching most of those fish on the north end of the lake. That was the case Saturday afternoon. Sabine Lake hasn't been giving up a lot of big trout, but that could happen any day now. Once the fronts start to slow down, the trout fishing will pop wide open.Claybar said their last stop on Calcasieu last week was their best.
"We found a windward shoreline that was holding a lot of mullet," he said. "We waded the area and found some good trout on a topwater bite. The heaviest trout weighed 7 pounds. I caught that one on a One Knocker Spook while the lure was sitting dead still in the water."
That particular lure is built with a single tungsten rattle contained in a sound-intensifying chamber. It produces a loud thump that can get the attention of trout from a good distance. Plus, the positioning of the rattle in the lure makes a walking-the-dog retrieve a little easier.
There is not a better time to be in the hunt for super-sized trout than right now. The weather is perfect. And with the water temperature in the 60s, it's dead solid perfect for a topwater bite on something like a Spook or Top Dog. But when in doubt, it's always best to try a slow-sinking Corky or Catch 2000. And for sure, never leave the boat without a few rigged and ready jigs.


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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day.
* A reader emails: "Ironic Tiger ads may be played out at this point, but I was in hawaii last week and saw this in the bathroom in a bar in oahu, pretty damn funny." Played out sure, but how did we not see that the guy's entire marketing strategy was based around his virility. People pissing in Oahu bars should have recognized this cry for help.
* The Chargers discover a loophole in the Collective Bargaining Agreement that says teams are not required to demonstrate loyalty by giving the bulk of their carries to hobbled, aging running backs who are mere shadows of their once-great former selves, so they immediately cut LaDainian Tomlinson. [ESPN]
* Allen Iverson leaves the 76ers to take care of his sick daughter, but probably won't be back, ever. He's running out of teams to resurrect his career with.
* As Canada concedes that they will not "own the podium" this year, Martin Brodeur is benched in favor of Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo. No pressure, buddy. [USA Today]
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With a growing out perm and generally very dry hair, I came to the realisation that I was slowly morphing into a scarecrow.
My hair is so hard to style and maintain so I jumped at the chance to try out Global Keratin's (or GKhair) hair straightening treatment, currently exclusive to Cobella in Selfridges, London. My stylist was Mihaly, a handsome Hungarian hairdresser with over 20 years experience and had been specifically trained in the straightening technique. He also shared a mean Goulash recipe with me!
The Juvexin Global Keratin straightening system offers:
– A fairly simple 4 step system (wash, apply, dry, straighten)
– Enhances coloured hair and works best on dyed hair
– Works on all hair types
– Should last 3 months or more
Whilst the product doesn't contain Formaldehyde it's worth nothing that Methylene Glycol is used (it is formed by the reaction of formaldehyde gas with water). Therefore, when high heat is applied to the hair once the product is on, a miniscule amount of free formaldehyde may escape from the vapours. More on the vapours later.
The process went like this for me:
1. Wash.
The wash was 2 shampoos with a cleansing shampoo to really open up the hair cuticle. It was a very vigorous wash I have to say which I quite liked because it reminds me of how they do hair in Asia! The REALLY clean your scalp and hair! I found the shampoo room in Cobella quite cool (funky lights, seats that rise up) but the basin was a bit uncomfy (fussy, moi?).
2. Apply the product.
Apply! The product is like a thick cream and you can actually choose a scent – Almond and Chocolate. For me it was plain because they'd sold out of the other two – boo! I'd have loved a whiff of chocolate. The product is applied root to tip and I felt no discomfort.
3. Rough Dry.
This is the uncomfortable bit – blasting the hair dry whilst the product is still on until it largely evaporates. It doesn't actually take that long despite it being a thick conditioner texture, but I did notice a few things – that there are some fumes – it made my eyes water for a bit and feel a bit of itching where the product got on my skin. Delicate little flower that I am.
Otherwise it didn't stink or anything, but it is worth remembering that if you are sensitive to these kinds of things, you could be a bit uncomfortable.
4. Straighten.
Using good old GHDs, the hair is straightened well. That's it! Done in just under 2 hours.
The hair felt fine right after but as it starts to settle, it feels heavy – obviously with all that product on it feels like when you've used too much conditioner and the hair is weighed down. The finer your hair is, I imagine the worse this feels.
Also you have to leave it for 3 days. As a committed daily hair washer I found this to be complete and utter torture, especially as I was in London at the time and sweating and running about from place to place. Utter torture. I was a good girl though and didn't touch it until the third day (I washed it 3 days later ON THE MINUTE).
Bear this uncomfortableness in mind, because you're not supposed to be putting products in your hair (like dry shampoo) during the three days nor should you be clipping it up or putting the hair into weird shapes. If you do the Keratin straightening choose a time when you don't have too many events to go to!
Here are the photos.
Before – oh shush, this is what my hair looks like washed, brushed and air dried:
Right after:
After the first wash, air dried:
Ahh! Now look at that!
It's not exactly the images we're all so used to seeing when the Brazillian blow dry is advertised is it?
Whilst the treatment has totally made my hair glossier, stronger, softer, and much much much less frizzy and manageable it did not leave it poker straight. It very much still has a curl in it, and a teeny weeny bit of frizz but nothing of the previous levels of monstrosity. I was told I'd be left with a loose curl – its not as loose as I expected I have to say but it is a vast improvement.
I can see why this treatment is so popular if you have frizz bomb hair. It doesn't take too long, and it has left my hair feeling really soft. However, I expected my hair to be straighter than it is after putting up with greasy hair for 3 whole days and I also didn't like the eye watering during the blow dry stage. Also I can't help feeling like it's made the skin on my face a bit flaky (I am VERY sensitive to new chemicals though). Just be careful if you are sensitive too (ie. the wrong face cream makes my face burn and a unsuitable shampoo makes the back of my neck break out).
But I would do it again, up until my perm grows out (it was supposed to have just disappeared on its own back in, ooh April) because it was so unmanageable before and now it isn't. This isn't vanity, this is anti-scarecrowisation.
The GKHair Hair Straightening Treatment at Selfridges 0207 491 1562 – they have a special discounted rate for new customers and prices vary depending on length (mine would be £200 as a new customer).
This was a complimentary treatment.


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Multi Image Group has been a HARMAN Professional dealer and user for nine years. "I've always been a fan of JBL and have used their loudspeakers since 1981," said MIG Audio Department Manager Andy Kakas. "I've been blown away by their VERTEC® line arrays, especially the way they maintain a stable sonic image in a variety of situations. I really wanted to put the newer VTX line arrays through their paces because in my experience JBL loudspeaker systems just keep getting better."
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Gonzalez, Kakas and the rest of the MIG crew are impressed with every aspect of the V20's sound, yet single out the newly refined Radiation Boundary Integrator™ (RBI) waveguide, which provides broader, more stable horizontal coverage and a more seamless transition between the high-frequency and midrange drivers. "The new HF driver throws really far and sounds incredibly clean and smooth," Gonzalez noted. Using the V20 with the Crown I-Tech HD Series amplifiers provides another advantage— the amps' internal processing is designed to optimize the performance of the V20 (and other JBL models) and enables the crew to carry one less piece of external gear.
"With the I-Tech HDs there is a lot of sonic detail. It has a transparent top end, which has an open and natural sound. It maintains the Crown dampening that gives you that punch in your chest. Also, the Cobranet™ integration is quite useful since we have had a need for multiple channels of AES from front of house to the stage and the amp racks," added Kakas.
MIG controls its systems with JBL HiQnet Performance Manager™, which Gonzalez helped beta test and finds a major step forward from the previous System Architect. Performance Manager now provides pre-configured control panels instead of having to build them from scratch – a significant time saver. The built-in JBL Line Array Calculator II loudspeaker setup and calibration software is improved to the point where Gonzalez can predict the locations of where the loudspeakers should be set up and get them almost dead-on to their final placements. He also likes Performance Manager's ability to automatically reconfigure itself. "If the number of amplifiers in the system is changed, I don't have to manually re-address the locations of the amplifiers on the network," Gonzalez noted. "I'm excited to mix on something that sounds so good. It's a very high-fidelity system. It doesn't sound like a PA—it sounds like a high-end audio system you'd have at home."
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