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Thursday, February 03, 2005
FOK last night...
good session...had one uninvited musician sitting in...so it wasn't ideal...
but it was good...some very melodic almost ornette-like moments....bits of ayler...
some real art ensemble bits (the banjo!) and lots of healthy fiery skronk!!!
tonight I may go sit in with "Friendship Bracelet" for a few minutes...
then it's finishing up the CD for Aileen's show at Super Happy.
I'm ready for the weekend already...
got the IBP retreat Saturday,
and then hopefully Danseparc at #'s Sat night...
whoohoo!
good session...had one uninvited musician sitting in...so it wasn't ideal...
but it was good...some very melodic almost ornette-like moments....bits of ayler...
some real art ensemble bits (the banjo!) and lots of healthy fiery skronk!!!
tonight I may go sit in with "Friendship Bracelet" for a few minutes...
then it's finishing up the CD for Aileen's show at Super Happy.
I'm ready for the weekend already...
got the IBP retreat Saturday,
and then hopefully Danseparc at #'s Sat night...
whoohoo!
Thursday, February 05, 2004
The Price of Loyalty: The Bush Files
TODAY IS GREENSPAN DAY!
what do we make of this guy?
some days he says the right things, some days the wrong things, some day no things...
hmm...
TODAY IS GREENSPAN DAY!
what do we make of this guy?
some days he says the right things, some days the wrong things, some day no things...
hmm...
Calpundit: Valerie Plame Update
whoohoo!
I'd love to see Cheney be the one who brings this administration down... Wouldn't that be great?!?!?!
whoohoo!
I'd love to see Cheney be the one who brings this administration down... Wouldn't that be great?!?!?!
Friday, January 30, 2004
BAD ATTITUDES: "Weapons of Mass Destruction-related Program Activities"
"One would presume that the suspect, Asher Karni, would be currently awaiting trial in one of John AshcroftÂs undisclosed holding pens while undergoing 'intensive interrogation,' but one would presume wrongly."
apparently it's just a war on SOME terror...
"One would presume that the suspect, Asher Karni, would be currently awaiting trial in one of John AshcroftÂs undisclosed holding pens while undergoing 'intensive interrogation,' but one would presume wrongly."
apparently it's just a war on SOME terror...
Monday, November 03, 2003
~~~TBOGG~~~
Grrr...
Ok...I went and registered as a Democrat...but this constant harping on Nader really makes me want to go change it back to independent and let y'all fight for yourselves. I'm in Texas, GW has the thing sewed up here,
and I plan on supporting the Dems any way I can, because it's obvoius we have to beat Bush.
Gore lost the election. Nobody lost it for him. It was his to lose. If it wasn't the case that he was so similar to Bush that it made no difference, how come he couldn't make the damn case? He could have offered the Greens something and I bet most of us would have come around...moratorium on the death penalty? repeal taft-hartley? anything? no? nothing...well FUCK YOU! If Nader hadn't run I wouldn't have bothered to vote...
I'm a conspiracy nut and I even didn't think Bush could be THIS bad... I was afraid of his domestic policies. I never even thought about Iraq, Neo-conservatives, any of that stuff...and I don't remember a lot of dialogue about any of that before the election. Anyway I hope you're happy...this time I'll remember politics isn't about voting for the right guy...it's about voting against the wrong one...thank you for making my life more negative, cause that's what I really need...
If you want to talk about somebody costing you the election maybe you could rant & rave about Jeb and Katherine Harris?
Nader is a principled man who has saved a whole lot of lives...and he invigorated the process with his campaign.
Maybe you'd prefer it if folks like me still didn't bother to vote? or get involved at all?
Remember it wasn't just Dems who voted for Nader, but Republicans, and Independents, and oh yeah, GREENS!
If the Democrats want to be able to count on the left wing base they have to play ball...
Where's our John Ashcroft? Why don't any of our NUTS get appointments when the Dems run things?
I could rant all night, but I won't...
I'll go cook dinner and try not to think about it...
I'll really try...till tomorrow when I'm reading some intelligent leftie blog that makes good points and then suddenly remembers it hasn't take a potshot at Nader this week and decides to rectify the situation with comments like the one linked to above...
Mike
Unrepentant Nader Voter
Grrr...
Ok...I went and registered as a Democrat...but this constant harping on Nader really makes me want to go change it back to independent and let y'all fight for yourselves. I'm in Texas, GW has the thing sewed up here,
and I plan on supporting the Dems any way I can, because it's obvoius we have to beat Bush.
Gore lost the election. Nobody lost it for him. It was his to lose. If it wasn't the case that he was so similar to Bush that it made no difference, how come he couldn't make the damn case? He could have offered the Greens something and I bet most of us would have come around...moratorium on the death penalty? repeal taft-hartley? anything? no? nothing...well FUCK YOU! If Nader hadn't run I wouldn't have bothered to vote...
I'm a conspiracy nut and I even didn't think Bush could be THIS bad... I was afraid of his domestic policies. I never even thought about Iraq, Neo-conservatives, any of that stuff...and I don't remember a lot of dialogue about any of that before the election. Anyway I hope you're happy...this time I'll remember politics isn't about voting for the right guy...it's about voting against the wrong one...thank you for making my life more negative, cause that's what I really need...
If you want to talk about somebody costing you the election maybe you could rant & rave about Jeb and Katherine Harris?
Nader is a principled man who has saved a whole lot of lives...and he invigorated the process with his campaign.
Maybe you'd prefer it if folks like me still didn't bother to vote? or get involved at all?
Remember it wasn't just Dems who voted for Nader, but Republicans, and Independents, and oh yeah, GREENS!
If the Democrats want to be able to count on the left wing base they have to play ball...
Where's our John Ashcroft? Why don't any of our NUTS get appointments when the Dems run things?
I could rant all night, but I won't...
I'll go cook dinner and try not to think about it...
I'll really try...till tomorrow when I'm reading some intelligent leftie blog that makes good points and then suddenly remembers it hasn't take a potshot at Nader this week and decides to rectify the situation with comments like the one linked to above...
Mike
Unrepentant Nader Voter
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
Ain't It Cool News - View Article: "*
The first “Smallville” scripted by Drew Greenberg is slated to turn up a week from Wednesday. "
I still haven't watched last weeks Smallville...
I tape it now since it's on before Angel and I'm always making music on Wednesday nights...
I wish I remembered which eps of "Buffy" Greenberg wrote.
Guess I'll have to look that up.
The first “Smallville” scripted by Drew Greenberg is slated to turn up a week from Wednesday. "
I still haven't watched last weeks Smallville...
I tape it now since it's on before Angel and I'm always making music on Wednesday nights...
I wish I remembered which eps of "Buffy" Greenberg wrote.
Guess I'll have to look that up.
The Missouri Review:
"Dear Mr. G.W. Bush / Re: Your recent submission"
Brilliant...
Bush's poem has been rejected...
"We first observe this ambiguity in the third line of the poem: 'Oh my, lump in the bed.' The placement of the comma forces the reader to hesitate. In the context of the opening couplet ('Roses are red/Violets are blue'), we expect the comma to follow the interjection—as follows: 'Oh, my lump in the bed,/How I've missed you.' Note how this would allow the lines to fit the traditional rhythm of a 'rose poem.' Had the line been punctuated in this manner, we might be able to read 'my' as a possessive adjective, the speaker laying claim to (or reclaiming) his lover, which would be in keeping with the dramatic situation. But given the punctuation and awkward placement of the comma, we must ask, does this instability in the phrase signal instability in the relationship? His lover recently returned from the arms of another, is the speaker himself uncertain now of his claim to her love? Or does it indicate a healthy obsession with the morning salute of a 'little Commander-in-Chief' (as one staff member suggested)?"
"Dear Mr. G.W. Bush / Re: Your recent submission"
Brilliant...
Bush's poem has been rejected...
"We first observe this ambiguity in the third line of the poem: 'Oh my, lump in the bed.' The placement of the comma forces the reader to hesitate. In the context of the opening couplet ('Roses are red/Violets are blue'), we expect the comma to follow the interjection—as follows: 'Oh, my lump in the bed,/How I've missed you.' Note how this would allow the lines to fit the traditional rhythm of a 'rose poem.' Had the line been punctuated in this manner, we might be able to read 'my' as a possessive adjective, the speaker laying claim to (or reclaiming) his lover, which would be in keeping with the dramatic situation. But given the punctuation and awkward placement of the comma, we must ask, does this instability in the phrase signal instability in the relationship? His lover recently returned from the arms of another, is the speaker himself uncertain now of his claim to her love? Or does it indicate a healthy obsession with the morning salute of a 'little Commander-in-Chief' (as one staff member suggested)?"
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Press Remarks with Foreign Minister of Egypt Amre Moussa:
"We will always try to consult with our friends in the region so that they are not surprised and do everything we can to explain the purpose of our responses. We had a good discussion, the Foreign Minister and I and the President and I, had a good discussion about the nature of the sanctions -- the fact that the sanctions exist -- not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people, but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction. We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they are directed toward that purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was ten years ago when we began it. And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq, and these are policies that we are going to keep in place, but we are always willing to review them to make sure that they are being carried out in a way that does not affect the Iraqi people but does affect the Iraqi regime's ambitions and the ability to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and we had a good conversation on this issue."
Powell, feb 2001...via atrios...
I really really hope somebody asks some questions about this...
"We will always try to consult with our friends in the region so that they are not surprised and do everything we can to explain the purpose of our responses. We had a good discussion, the Foreign Minister and I and the President and I, had a good discussion about the nature of the sanctions -- the fact that the sanctions exist -- not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people, but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction. We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they are directed toward that purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was ten years ago when we began it. And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq, and these are policies that we are going to keep in place, but we are always willing to review them to make sure that they are being carried out in a way that does not affect the Iraqi people but does affect the Iraqi regime's ambitions and the ability to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and we had a good conversation on this issue."
Powell, feb 2001...via atrios...
I really really hope somebody asks some questions about this...
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Nitpicker
via atrios...
Krugman's right...these guys are revolutionaries with no respect for our national history or traditions...
can't we find a way to take our country back before the elections??
via atrios...
Krugman's right...these guys are revolutionaries with no respect for our national history or traditions...
can't we find a way to take our country back before the elections??
