That is our question...
White House declines to totally rule out torture
WASHINGTON (AFP) - In an important clarification of President George W. Bush's earlier statement, a top White House official refused to unequivocally rule out the use of torture, arguing the US administration was duty-bound to protect Americans from terrorist attack...
A DEADLY INTERROGATION
Can the C.I.A. legally kill a prisoner?
After September 11th, the Justice Department fashioned secret legal guidelines that appear to indemnify C.I.A. officials who perform aggressive, even violent interrogations outside the United States. Techniques such as waterboarding—the near-drowning of a suspect—have been implicitly authorized by an Administration that feels that such methods may be necessary to win the war on terrorism. (In 2001, Vice-President Dick Cheney, in an interview on “Meet the Press,” said that the government might have to go to “the dark side” in handling terrorist suspects, adding, “It’s going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal.”) The harsh treatment of Jamadi and other prisoners in C.I.A. custody, however, has inspired an emotional debate in Washington, raising questions about what limits should be placed on agency officials who interrogate foreign terrorist suspects outside U.S. territory.
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Monday, November 14, 2005
Friday, November 11, 2005
John Edwards: a portrait in authenticity
The Bright and the Dull.
"Cornbread and Roses" -The Nation
In February Edwards surprised them all, announcing a campaign to "eradicate poverty in America." With a $40,000 annual salary paid by private funds, Edwards became the first director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at UNC, Chapel Hill's law school, largely a think tank designed to bring antipoverty scholars, activists, journalists and politicians together to cook up innovative ways to tackle economic and racial inequities.Edwards is also putting some of his ideas into action, including the College for Everyone program he promised in 2004. In low-income Greene County Edwards this summer announced a pilot program to pay for the first year of college for local high school graduates willing to work at least ten hours a week.
Since launching the center, Edwards has returned to perpetual motion, taking his antipoverty crusade to more than thirty states. Between visits to shelters and job-training centers and delivering his new stump speech, full of ringing challenges to view poverty as "the great moral cause of our time," Edwards has raised more than $4 million for Democratic legislative candidates in mostly red states, trying, as he says, "to build the party back from the ground up." He's teaming with unlikely partners on the left--including local AFL-CIO, ACORN and NAACP chapters--in campaigns to raise the minimum wage in Ohio, Arizona and Michigan. He's praising Big Labor's historic role in "lifting millions of Americans out of poverty." And he's floating serious--and surprisingly liberal--proposals to put his high-flown rhetoric into action. He's touting a controversial "cultural integration" plan to give low-income families housing vouchers to move into better neighborhoods. He's calling for expansions to Bill Clinton's earned-income tax credits, for concerted crackdowns on predatory lenders, and for "work bonds" to help low-income workers build savings and assets. He wants not only to repeal Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent but also to raise capital-gains taxes for those on the top rungs. After Hurricane Katrina he spoke pointedly about how "the face of poverty in America is the face of color" and promoted an ambitious Gulf Coast recovery program modeled on FDR's Works Progress Administration--a touchstone for the kind of big-government liberalism that the old Edwards (like most Democratic leaders today) wouldn't have touched with a ten-foot pole.
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Icky War Crimes are Making Scott McClellan Dance for his Dollars
White House Briefing: McClellan Deflects Questions on Torture Exemption A Couple Dozen Times
It must be tough being an apologist for war criminals and their icky need to torture, especially now that they can no longer claim proprietorship of the so-called American mainstream, which they polluted and left for dead, in their race to the right fringe of Hell.
So much easier to just emulate Jesus or Rumi or Gautama than to emulate power-crazed megalomaniacs -- who could never see beyond their alcohol-emboldened egos.
America should be courageous enough to cough up our own hairballs when they threaten the flow of air. And yet our air is filled with hairballs and nutballs, all hyperventilating shrill emotions, as if amplitude will serve to persuade. But as George Bernard Shaw once observed:
"Not intelligent, only opinionated." Yet some people guzzle opinion as if it were knowledge, thus real food. Only when they die of malnutrition might they realize that one has to eat something more than chicken. Faux chicken.
And that is why anonyMoses Enterprises has created an antidote:
Whenever you are in public, repeat aloud the words: "Rush is bigger than Jesus", which is literally true, although figuratively false.
Before long, the spell will wear off, and dittoheads will be given back their own heads, and sunshine days will return, and sweetness and light will dwell over all the earth. Maybe.
It must be tough being an apologist for war criminals and their icky need to torture, especially now that they can no longer claim proprietorship of the so-called American mainstream, which they polluted and left for dead, in their race to the right fringe of Hell.
So much easier to just emulate Jesus or Rumi or Gautama than to emulate power-crazed megalomaniacs -- who could never see beyond their alcohol-emboldened egos.
America should be courageous enough to cough up our own hairballs when they threaten the flow of air. And yet our air is filled with hairballs and nutballs, all hyperventilating shrill emotions, as if amplitude will serve to persuade. But as George Bernard Shaw once observed:
"Not intelligent, only opinionated." Yet some people guzzle opinion as if it were knowledge, thus real food. Only when they die of malnutrition might they realize that one has to eat something more than chicken. Faux chicken.
And that is why anonyMoses Enterprises has created an antidote:
Whenever you are in public, repeat aloud the words: "Rush is bigger than Jesus", which is literally true, although figuratively false.
Before long, the spell will wear off, and dittoheads will be given back their own heads, and sunshine days will return, and sweetness and light will dwell over all the earth. Maybe.
The Politics of Flu
The relationship between GW Bush, Scooter Libby and the Bird Flu.
[file under pharmaterrorism]
[file under pharmaterrorism]
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Penthouse courts sexual Panther Cheerleaders
Concupiscent Panther Pussycats
Most cheerleaders are celibate, and don't even think about sexual congress. Not so our brave and sexy Panther cheerleaders! And now Penthouse magazine realizes that southern belles have got what it takes to move mags, and we're not talking redneck wheels, which are typically already moving. The magazine is courting Renee Thomas, 20, (who looks a whole lot like Kelly Ripa) and Angela Keathley, 26, to pose nude, although it would generally be better is they were nekkid, since it is sexier to be nekkid than merely naked or nude. Nekkid, you see, has a special meaning down south, with the implication being that hormones are involved.
Go pussycats! You are putting our team on the map!
Oh wait! They are actually called the TopCats? Why not BottomCats?
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
A history of the Iraq war, told entirely in lies
A Revision Thing...
Posted on Monday, November 7, 2005. All text is verbatim from senior Bush Administration officials and advisers. In places, tenses have been changed for clarity. Originally from Harper's Magazine, October 2003. By Sam Smith.
(Thanks to FullThroat and Ra Bourbon for this nugget.)
With such gems as...
-It was absolutely clear that the number-one threat facing America was from Saddam Hussein. -We know that Iraq and Al Qaeda had high-level contacts that went back a decade.
-We learned that Iraq had trained Al Qaeda members in bomb making and deadly gases.
-The regime had long-standing and continuing ties to terrorist organizations.
-Iraq and Al Qaeda had discussed safe-haven opportunities in Iraq.
-Iraqi officials denied accusations of ties with Al Qaeda. These denials simply were not credible. -You couldn't distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talked about the war on terror.
-The fundamental question was, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer was, absolutely.
-His regime had large, unaccounted-for stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons--including VX, sarin, cyclosarin, and mustard gas, anthrax, botulism, and possibly smallpox.
-Our conservative estimate was that Iraq then had a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical-weapons agent. That was enough agent to fill 16,000 battlefield rockets.
-The United States was not interested in the oil in that region.
-We were intent on ensuring that Iraq's oil resources remained under national Iraqi control, with the proceeds made available to support Iraqis in all parts of the country.
-The oil fields belonged to the people of Iraq, the government of Iraq, all of Iraq.
On and on the lies go...
And people are still dying for them.
Posted on Monday, November 7, 2005. All text is verbatim from senior Bush Administration officials and advisers. In places, tenses have been changed for clarity. Originally from Harper's Magazine, October 2003. By Sam Smith.
(Thanks to FullThroat and Ra Bourbon for this nugget.)
With such gems as...
-It was absolutely clear that the number-one threat facing America was from Saddam Hussein. -We know that Iraq and Al Qaeda had high-level contacts that went back a decade.
-We learned that Iraq had trained Al Qaeda members in bomb making and deadly gases.
-The regime had long-standing and continuing ties to terrorist organizations.
-Iraq and Al Qaeda had discussed safe-haven opportunities in Iraq.
-Iraqi officials denied accusations of ties with Al Qaeda. These denials simply were not credible. -You couldn't distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talked about the war on terror.
-The fundamental question was, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer was, absolutely.
-His regime had large, unaccounted-for stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons--including VX, sarin, cyclosarin, and mustard gas, anthrax, botulism, and possibly smallpox.
-Our conservative estimate was that Iraq then had a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical-weapons agent. That was enough agent to fill 16,000 battlefield rockets.
-The United States was not interested in the oil in that region.
-We were intent on ensuring that Iraq's oil resources remained under national Iraqi control, with the proceeds made available to support Iraqis in all parts of the country.
-The oil fields belonged to the people of Iraq, the government of Iraq, all of Iraq.
On and on the lies go...
And people are still dying for them.
Monday, November 07, 2005
Carolina Panther cheerleader arrested for gangbanging team
Cheerleader arrested after alleged sex - NFL - MSNBC.com
OK, so she didn't really gangbang the whole team, or even one of them. She did apparently have sex in a bathroom stall, which is also quite sexy.
For more anonyMoses coverage of the Panther cheerleaders and their foibles, check here.
This will only make people want to see the Panthers more often, so...great going girls!
Saturday, November 05, 2005
Close to the End
(Dedicated to Mr. Bush's last term in office.)
Sung to the music of "Close to the Edge" by YES
[edited to fit on your screen]
Close to the End
(also known as "Kos to the Edge")
by anonyMoses Hyperlincoln
A seasoned bitch could call you from the depths of your disgrace,
And rearrange your liver to match up your boily face,
And achieve it all with music that came quickly from afar,
Then taste the wrath of man recorded, losing all against the hour.
And assessing points to nowhere, leading ev'ry single one.
A Sundrop can exalt us like the blog of Mr. Sun,
And take away the plain in which we move,
And choose the course you're running.
Rough at the edge, found in the corner,
No right of way, no right today...
Close to the ledge, down by a liver,
No right of way, no right today...
Crossed the line around the changes of the Sumer,
Lashing out to dull the color of the sky.
Passed around a moment clothed in mourning sadder than we see.
Getting over all the time I had to worry,
Leaving all the changes far from far behind.
We relieve the tension only to find out the master's bait.
Down at the bend, round by the corner.
Close to the end, just by a liver.
Reasons will pass you by.
I get up, you get down.
Now that it's all over and done,
Now that you find, you're in a hole.
My mind convinced, eclipsed with the younger Moon attained with Rove.
It changed as almost brained amidst clear manna from above.
I crucified by hate and held the world within my hand.
There's you, the time, no logic, or reasons we don't understand.
Sad courage claimed the victims standing still for all to see,
As armoured movers took approach and overtook the sea.
There since McCord, the license, or the reasons we understood would be.
Rough at the edge, closed down my liver.
Kos to the edge, found in the korner.
Close to the end, round by the corner.
Down at the edge, found by the river.
Sudden call shouldn't take away your startled memory.
All in all, the journey takes you all the way.
As apart from any reality that you've ever seen and known.
Causing problems only to receive no mention,
Stupid paths that climb halfway into the void.
As we cross from side to side, we hear the total Bush refrain.
Down at the bend, round by the corner.
Close to the end, down by a liver.
Reasons will pass you by.
I get up, you get down...
In his white face
You can clearly see a Liddy sadly looking.
Saying that he'd take the blame
For the crucifixion of their web domain.
I get up, I get down,
I get up, I'm a clown.
Two million people barely satisfied.
Two hundred women watch one woman cry, too late.
The eyes of hurricanes can achieve.
How many millions does he deceive each day?
You get up, I get down.
I get up, you get down.
In charge of who is there in charge of me.
Do I look on blindly and say I see the way?
The truth is written all along the page.
How old will we be before we come of age for truth?
I git up, I git down.
I git up, I git down.
I git up, you git down...
The time between the votes relates the colors to the schemes.
A constant vogue of triumphs dislocate man, so it seems.
And space between the focus group ascend knowledge of Plame.
Their song and dance envelop time, lost social temp'rance fuels the flame.
Then according to the man who showed his outstretched arms to space,
He turned around and pointed, threat'ning all the human race.
I shook my head and smiled a whisper, knowing all about the place...
On the hill we viewed the silence of the valley,
Called to witness cycles only of the past.
And we reach all this with movements in between the sad remark.
Close to the bend, down by a liver.
Down at the end, found in the corner.
Reasons will pass you by,
Now that it's all over and done,
Call to the seed, write Mr. Sun.
Now that you find, you're in a hole.
Reasons will pass you by,
I git up, I git down.
I git up, you git down.
You git up, I git down...
Sung to the music of "Close to the Edge" by YES
[edited to fit on your screen]
Close to the End
(also known as "Kos to the Edge")
by anonyMoses Hyperlincoln
A seasoned bitch could call you from the depths of your disgrace,
And rearrange your liver to match up your boily face,
And achieve it all with music that came quickly from afar,
Then taste the wrath of man recorded, losing all against the hour.
And assessing points to nowhere, leading ev'ry single one.
A Sundrop can exalt us like the blog of Mr. Sun,
And take away the plain in which we move,
And choose the course you're running.
Rough at the edge, found in the corner,
No right of way, no right today...
Close to the ledge, down by a liver,
No right of way, no right today...
Crossed the line around the changes of the Sumer,
Lashing out to dull the color of the sky.
Passed around a moment clothed in mourning sadder than we see.
Getting over all the time I had to worry,
Leaving all the changes far from far behind.
We relieve the tension only to find out the master's bait.
Down at the bend, round by the corner.
Close to the end, just by a liver.
Reasons will pass you by.
I get up, you get down.
Now that it's all over and done,
Now that you find, you're in a hole.
My mind convinced, eclipsed with the younger Moon attained with Rove.
It changed as almost brained amidst clear manna from above.
I crucified by hate and held the world within my hand.
There's you, the time, no logic, or reasons we don't understand.
Sad courage claimed the victims standing still for all to see,
As armoured movers took approach and overtook the sea.
There since McCord, the license, or the reasons we understood would be.
Rough at the edge, closed down my liver.
Kos to the edge, found in the korner.
Close to the end, round by the corner.
Down at the edge, found by the river.
Sudden call shouldn't take away your startled memory.
All in all, the journey takes you all the way.
As apart from any reality that you've ever seen and known.
Causing problems only to receive no mention,
Stupid paths that climb halfway into the void.
As we cross from side to side, we hear the total Bush refrain.
Down at the bend, round by the corner.
Close to the end, down by a liver.
Reasons will pass you by.
I get up, you get down...
In his white face
You can clearly see a Liddy sadly looking.
Saying that he'd take the blame
For the crucifixion of their web domain.
I get up, I get down,
I get up, I'm a clown.
Two million people barely satisfied.
Two hundred women watch one woman cry, too late.
The eyes of hurricanes can achieve.
How many millions does he deceive each day?
You get up, I get down.
I get up, you get down.
In charge of who is there in charge of me.
Do I look on blindly and say I see the way?
The truth is written all along the page.
How old will we be before we come of age for truth?
I git up, I git down.
I git up, I git down.
I git up, you git down...
The time between the votes relates the colors to the schemes.
A constant vogue of triumphs dislocate man, so it seems.
And space between the focus group ascend knowledge of Plame.
Their song and dance envelop time, lost social temp'rance fuels the flame.
Then according to the man who showed his outstretched arms to space,
He turned around and pointed, threat'ning all the human race.
I shook my head and smiled a whisper, knowing all about the place...
On the hill we viewed the silence of the valley,
Called to witness cycles only of the past.
And we reach all this with movements in between the sad remark.
Close to the bend, down by a liver.
Down at the end, found in the corner.
Reasons will pass you by,
Now that it's all over and done,
Call to the seed, write Mr. Sun.
Now that you find, you're in a hole.
Reasons will pass you by,
I git up, I git down.
I git up, you git down.
You git up, I git down...
News from around the weird
Oil-for-Food Scandal implicates Bush and Cheney
For months, Mr. Limbaugh, and the other overpaid apologists, have been yawping about the Oil-for-Food scandal, since the UN is involved, and since they are knee-jerk haters of anything that goes against their nationalistic bigotry, such as the supranational United Nations.
PUT ON BRAKES! THE BUSHIES ARE INVOLVED. DROP IT! DROP IT! PLUS VITE!
CBS Poll: Bush approval rating at all-time low, 35%! Favorability Rating at 33%!
35% does not a mainstream make...so when you hear the marginalized 35% claim to be the mainstream, understand that you are being lied to, and call them on it.
Vatican says Christians should listen to science and avoid "fundamentalism"
Definition of the day. fundament - buttocks: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. Fundamentalist: Someone who rests on, or has his head up, his buttocks.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Democrats, Don't Ignore the War; It's time for a true opposition party.
Face it. A lie and a bad idea is a hole that needs no further digging.
War protesters close major boulevard in Los Angeles
'Katrina Cough' Floats Around; The storm's residual mold and muck may be causing respiratory illnesses in people who have returned home.
Mark Crispin Miller Talks About the Last Stolen Election, the One in 2004
Meet the New Interrogators: Lockheed Martin
A Flu Plan That's For The Birds
All the King's Media
Are Washington reporters really that close to their sources? For her part, Miller has a "tropism toward powerful men," as Times columnist Maureen Dowd delicately put it. This is well-known gossip in court circles, but let's not go there. Boy reporters also suck up to powerful men with shameful deference, wanting to be loved by the insiders so they can be inside too (shades of the French courtiers). The price of intimacy is collected in various coins, but older hands in the news business understand what is being sold. The media, Christopher Dickey of Newsweek observed in a web essay, "long ago concluded having access to power is more important than speaking truth to it." - William Greider
For months, Mr. Limbaugh, and the other overpaid apologists, have been yawping about the Oil-for-Food scandal, since the UN is involved, and since they are knee-jerk haters of anything that goes against their nationalistic bigotry, such as the supranational United Nations.
PUT ON BRAKES! THE BUSHIES ARE INVOLVED. DROP IT! DROP IT! PLUS VITE!
CBS Poll: Bush approval rating at all-time low, 35%! Favorability Rating at 33%!
35% does not a mainstream make...so when you hear the marginalized 35% claim to be the mainstream, understand that you are being lied to, and call them on it.
Vatican says Christians should listen to science and avoid "fundamentalism"
Definition of the day. fundament - buttocks: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. Fundamentalist: Someone who rests on, or has his head up, his buttocks.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Democrats, Don't Ignore the War; It's time for a true opposition party.
Face it. A lie and a bad idea is a hole that needs no further digging.
War protesters close major boulevard in Los Angeles
'Katrina Cough' Floats Around; The storm's residual mold and muck may be causing respiratory illnesses in people who have returned home.
Mark Crispin Miller Talks About the Last Stolen Election, the One in 2004
Meet the New Interrogators: Lockheed Martin
A Flu Plan That's For The Birds
All the King's Media
Are Washington reporters really that close to their sources? For her part, Miller has a "tropism toward powerful men," as Times columnist Maureen Dowd delicately put it. This is well-known gossip in court circles, but let's not go there. Boy reporters also suck up to powerful men with shameful deference, wanting to be loved by the insiders so they can be inside too (shades of the French courtiers). The price of intimacy is collected in various coins, but older hands in the news business understand what is being sold. The media, Christopher Dickey of Newsweek observed in a web essay, "long ago concluded having access to power is more important than speaking truth to it." - William Greider
Friday, November 04, 2005
WebKorner, Charlotte Internet, now in Spanish!
Charlotte's pioneer in Internet services,WebKorner, now has an online presence in Spanish, in order to better reach out to our new citizens who speak Spanish, and who may want to get on the Internet. Sister company, Charlotte Internet is also heading that way. Both are in beta at the moment.
CharlotteInternet is also going through a design change, as the existing site is sorta blah. As the original owner of Charlotte Internet, I would not have signed off on it, but alas, it is coming around. Good things take time. Great things take lots of time.
Well, sometimes.
CharlotteInternet is also going through a design change, as the existing site is sorta blah. As the original owner of Charlotte Internet, I would not have signed off on it, but alas, it is coming around. Good things take time. Great things take lots of time.
Well, sometimes.
Thursday, November 03, 2005
The Bird Flew: Donald Rumsfeld, Pharma-Terrorism & Fear Profiteering
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld in bed with Tamiflu
NEW YORK (Fortune) - The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it's proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought after drug in the world.
Rumsfeld served as Gilead (Research)'s chairman from 1997 until he joined the Bush administration in 2001, and he still holds a Gilead stake valued at between $5 million and $25 million, according to federal financial disclosures filed by Rumsfeld.
NEW YORK (Fortune) - The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it's proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought after drug in the world.
Rumsfeld served as Gilead (Research)'s chairman from 1997 until he joined the Bush administration in 2001, and he still holds a Gilead stake valued at between $5 million and $25 million, according to federal financial disclosures filed by Rumsfeld.
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The Executioners Thong
A Pithing Contest cursed with imagination. More than a wordsmith, Greensmile is a wordjones. And a darned good one one at that.
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Kiva: Microloans to the 3rd world
Heal the world. Make it a better place. For you and for me and the goddam human race.
(via Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing)
(via Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing)
Monday, October 31, 2005
Sunday, October 30, 2005
Animated Halloween Card - "Psychopumpkin" by Tom Priest
A Halloween greeting from my dear old friend from the coast of Massachusetts, Tom Priest.
Cream at the Royal Albert Hall
The Creams
New Release!
Cream - Royal Albert Concert Hall - 2005 - CD/DVD
Review by Freeway Jam
What do Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack the Bruce have in common?
Answer: They are the shit. They are also back.
I see this as a portent, and highly approve. Can't wait to see the show...
Breaking "The Gilligan Code"
Jesus and Mary Magdalene?
Now that Bob Denver has made it off the island, as we say in spiritland -- where no man is an island, indeed, no island is an island -- we can now begin to unravel the many mysteries presented by the television classic.
For example:
Consider this list...
- Gilligan
- the skipper
- the millionaire
- his wife
- the movie star
- the professor
- Mary Ann
Only the Alpha and Omega have actual names attached to them. Gilligan and Mary Ann.
Is this because they are in fact the Alpha and the Omega?
We know that Alpha is a hurricane, and Omega is a vitamin suppliment made of fish oil.
Hurricanes travel OVER water, and fish swim IN the water. But is this important?
Is the Pope important? We like to think so.
They all have names. Thurston Howell, of course. But Lovey Wentworth, Jonas Grumby (skipper), and Roy Hinkley (professor)? Sound familiar? Granted, Ginger Grant sounds a little familiar, but that might be because we had a president and a Lou named Grant.
But what else is it about Gilligan and Mary Ann? Is it that they were meant to be together from the very start, and that they are the only characters worth their salt? Salt too, remember, is IN the ocean, like fish, but that Salt II is something else entirely.
Or is it???
Were Gilligan and Mary Ann, in fact, desposyni? Did they have olive eyes? Are they the true vitalismen?
Now some will argue that the professor and Mary Ann are the only important characters...since they were first distinguished as being the original "and the rest". Clearly an important title.
But remember, Mary was the name of Jesus' wife and mother, and Ann was the name of Mary's mother, although she spelled it with an "e" although placing in the creative spot in the second space, producing "Aenn"...although she preferred the more friendly "Annie", at least according to dental records.
But such thinking is flawed, since there were no professors in biblical times, and the ones that did profess were considered wiseacres and numbnuts, and were typically forced to eat their falafel without ketchup, so to speak, and were thus rendered toothless, socially. Clearly the professor was not a major player in the Gilligan Code.
"And the rest"
The professor and Mary Ann were, at one time, the proverbial "rest". Requiem is the latin word for rest. Therefore, the professor and Mary Ann were the requiem. But so what? Who isn't these days?
So this leads us back to Gilligan and Mary Ann; the Alpha and Omega.
Were they meant to be an item? Is that what it is all about?
Is this just some fantasy on the part of the writers, anticipating Survivor and Lost?
Gilligan's Isthmus
And speaking of Lost, could it be, as some have said, that the crew were in fact not on an island, but an isthmus? This would make a lot of sense, since Isthmus rhymes with Christmas, and sense rhymes with since...but somehow this seems like a dead-end, since it was all filmed on a soundstage, which only rhymes with roundstage, which was popular during the Albionic Renaissance, as proved by Herr Shakesjoyce, writing between the lines.
As we explore the Gilligan Code, we will discover all manner of wild and wondrous connections.
We hope you will stay with us as the secrets are, at last, revealed.
Many thanks to Jude Camwell, the Iddybud of the Blogosphere, for her inspiration and amazing sleuthwork of this timely and touching matter.
Will Cheney Dick Bush?
As Dick Cheney's fate catches up with him, will he fall on the sword for Bush?
Here are some things being said around the country worth pondering.
TO believe that the Bush-Cheney scandals will be behind us anytime soon you'd have to believe that the Nixon-Agnew scandals peaked when G. Gordon Liddy and his bumbling band were nailed for the Watergate break-in.
Many Republicans say that Mr. Cheney, already politically weakened because of his role in preparing the case for war, could be further damaged if he is forced to testify about the infighting over intelligence that turned out to be false. At the least, they say, his office will be temporarily off balance with the resignation of Mr. Libby, who controlled both foreign and domestic affairs in a vice presidential office that has served as a major policy arm for the West Wing.
A majority of current and former military members surveyed this week in North Carolina disagree with how President Bush is handling the war in Iraq, according to a poll released Friday.
More than 56 percent of military members surveyed in an Elon University poll said they disapprove or strongly disapprove with how the president is running the war.
Nearly 53 percent disapprove or strongly disapprove of Bush's overall job performance.
The results are startling because military members almost always overwhelmingly support wars and the president, said poll director Hunter Bacot.
The incompetence and mediocrity of this administration has been clearly demonstrated time and again. Add to that corruption, greed, and lying...and some Republicans are going to realize that they don't want to fall on a sword for this closed group of global pirates. When you realize you are on the wrong horse...get off. And people are starting to climb down from the crosses they have had to bear for folks to whom a cross is just something one does to a "t" as they are cashing their bloody checks.
Here are some things being said around the country worth pondering.
TO believe that the Bush-Cheney scandals will be behind us anytime soon you'd have to believe that the Nixon-Agnew scandals peaked when G. Gordon Liddy and his bumbling band were nailed for the Watergate break-in.
Many Republicans say that Mr. Cheney, already politically weakened because of his role in preparing the case for war, could be further damaged if he is forced to testify about the infighting over intelligence that turned out to be false. At the least, they say, his office will be temporarily off balance with the resignation of Mr. Libby, who controlled both foreign and domestic affairs in a vice presidential office that has served as a major policy arm for the West Wing.
A majority of current and former military members surveyed this week in North Carolina disagree with how President Bush is handling the war in Iraq, according to a poll released Friday.
More than 56 percent of military members surveyed in an Elon University poll said they disapprove or strongly disapprove with how the president is running the war.
Nearly 53 percent disapprove or strongly disapprove of Bush's overall job performance.
The results are startling because military members almost always overwhelmingly support wars and the president, said poll director Hunter Bacot.
The incompetence and mediocrity of this administration has been clearly demonstrated time and again. Add to that corruption, greed, and lying...and some Republicans are going to realize that they don't want to fall on a sword for this closed group of global pirates. When you realize you are on the wrong horse...get off. And people are starting to climb down from the crosses they have had to bear for folks to whom a cross is just something one does to a "t" as they are cashing their bloody checks.
Brit Hume to Juan Williams: "Someone needs to hose you down."
Montgomery, Alabama
Shredder purveyor FoxNews' white Brit Hume usually just condescends to black Juan Williams by saying "Juan, Juan, Juan" or some other derogatory comment. Today Hume racheted it up a bit when he said "Someone needs to hose you down."
As a white Southerner who still remembers the dark days of our past, where whites would hose down black protesters, I am shocked by the comment, and think he should apologize for his poor taste in words.
34% of Americans think Adam and Eve rode to church on dinosaurs
While watching Weekend Update last night, I was struck by a recent poll which showed that:
66% of Americans think that Bush has done a poor job in Iraq
while the remaining 34% of Americans think Adam and Eve rode to church on dinosaurs.
America: Atavism's Cutting Edge
66% of Americans think that Bush has done a poor job in Iraq
while the remaining 34% of Americans think Adam and Eve rode to church on dinosaurs.
America: Atavism's Cutting Edge
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Friday, October 28, 2005
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
anonyMoses presents...BushWorld Symphony
BushWorld Symphony is finally finished, and now I'm going to have to rest my music bone. BushWorld Symphony is a 16-part symphony composed mostly in the early 21st century, and finally cobbled together into a unified whole only days ago.
Songs with minimal descriptives. (Some have more than one part) . This is what the songs resemble, if only they good...
BUSHWORLD SYMPHONY by Anonymoses Hyperlincoln
March of the Plebeians
The symphony opens with a swaggering, half-drunk, Hindemithian intro with low horns, tympani and percussives.
Spatial Someone
The mudane gives way to the Cosmic. Kitaroesque.
Monks in the Wild
Shades of Arvo Part, Henrik Gorecki and Thomas Tallis.
God Breathing
Blinds of Britten, Vaughan Williams and Mahler.
Monks in Space
Orff on acid.
Human Love
Shades of Copland's "Tender Land".
Wars of Adolescence
John Williams meets Igor Stravinsky who then meets Phillip Glass, gets nervous and then returns to Igor who is now dating Stockhausen.
Love Theme
Shades of Morrocone or Aaberg.
Bold Pavane
Faure on Steroids.
Jeremiad for a Goofy Planet
King Crimsonesque lamentation. (Starless, Lark's Tongue)
March of the Patricians
Mickey Hart meets Arvo Part, has sex with Elliot Carter then roosts with Radiohead.
Songs with minimal descriptives. (Some have more than one part) . This is what the songs resemble, if only they good...
BUSHWORLD SYMPHONY by Anonymoses Hyperlincoln
March of the Plebeians
The symphony opens with a swaggering, half-drunk, Hindemithian intro with low horns, tympani and percussives.
Spatial Someone
The mudane gives way to the Cosmic. Kitaroesque.
Monks in the Wild
Shades of Arvo Part, Henrik Gorecki and Thomas Tallis.
God Breathing
Blinds of Britten, Vaughan Williams and Mahler.
Monks in Space
Orff on acid.
Human Love
Shades of Copland's "Tender Land".
Wars of Adolescence
John Williams meets Igor Stravinsky who then meets Phillip Glass, gets nervous and then returns to Igor who is now dating Stockhausen.
Love Theme
Shades of Morrocone or Aaberg.
Bold Pavane
Faure on Steroids.
Jeremiad for a Goofy Planet
King Crimsonesque lamentation. (Starless, Lark's Tongue)
March of the Patricians
Mickey Hart meets Arvo Part, has sex with Elliot Carter then roosts with Radiohead.
Goodnight sweet princess!
The elegant and brave Ms. Rosa Parks
The voice of Montgomery today...on the death of Rosa Parks. May she rest in peace.
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Jones Theory of the Merry-Go-Blogosphere
How the Blogosphere Works...Really!
Blog veteran and mayor of Blogsboro, Billy (the blogging poet) Jones, explains how the blogosphere is not a sphere at all, but more like a record album, or perhaps, a merry-go-round. A record album is flat, and one starts at the edge and moves to the center over time. But, Mister Jones surmises, a merry-go-round might actually be a better metaphor since the same properties hold true, but the dangerous kickwork of those at the periphery also plays a big part...just as it does in the real blogosphere.
THESE THINGS AND MORE at Billy's new blog, inexplicably called BillysNewBlog. I fail to see the connection.
Blog veteran and mayor of Blogsboro, Billy (the blogging poet) Jones, explains how the blogosphere is not a sphere at all, but more like a record album, or perhaps, a merry-go-round. A record album is flat, and one starts at the edge and moves to the center over time. But, Mister Jones surmises, a merry-go-round might actually be a better metaphor since the same properties hold true, but the dangerous kickwork of those at the periphery also plays a big part...just as it does in the real blogosphere.
THESE THINGS AND MORE at Billy's new blog, inexplicably called BillysNewBlog. I fail to see the connection.
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Get a jump on local internet advertising with CityAdNet
With CityAdNet, you hold the reigns. You decide what to say and how much you want to spend. It is the Priceline of local Internet advertising. It is also the Millard Fillmore of Foosball, but that's a different story.
Want to touch your toe into the net ad waters? Maybe you're ready to plunge right in. Either way, you can get it done, say what you want to say, sell what you want to sell, attract who you want to attract...at whatever price is right for you.
CityAdNet: The Future of the Present
Want to touch your toe into the net ad waters? Maybe you're ready to plunge right in. Either way, you can get it done, say what you want to say, sell what you want to sell, attract who you want to attract...at whatever price is right for you.
CityAdNet: The Future of the Present
Lay and DeLay: Caught and Cauter
The fingerprinting of Tom Delay
Cauterization is the burning of the body [politic] to remove or close a part of it. It is sometimes done for medical reasons, as to treat some kind of wound in an area, for instance, or sometimes performed as a recreational body modification.
Tom DeLay is being cauterized from The Body Politic in much the same way that Ken [de]Lay was cauterized from The Body Business. Getting Layed ain't what it used to be. And today we read that the former exterminator has been served his papers, and will be mugshat and fingerprinted...with Bible black ink, not the fashionable red or purple.
The Hula Hoop & The New Liberal Physical Policy
Ancient Liberating Device
The Hula Hoop (or Hoola Hoop if your brain is bad) is making a liberal resurgence, thus partially justifying a notion once held by the gigantic Robert Reich (not to be confused with the diminutive Robert Reich who was never Secretary of Labor) and ushering in an age of physical liberality which some predict will cause the physical conservatives to finally retreat into their wally white world where one wonders where the yellow went, but not much else, lest one include animadversive gasguzzle shokinah or other oopsishnesses.
According to the author of "Hands of Light", simply making these gyrating motions with the human thorax is juvenative and restorative, or in other words, evolutive -- anathemae to many with conservative physical policies. But such ignorationalistic damming of reality will not stand against the rising waters, the pent-up aching rivers, of Nature, even as she rises in us. And thus the brave Hula Hoop will have saved the day, and the world will, once again, love America, or at least North Carolina.
[Andy Griffith theme]
How A Hula Hoop Helped Save Gay Whales from Rational Nuking
The String Cheese Incident
Wilma Now Most Intense Atlantic Storm Ever
Gathering strength at a fierce pace, Hurricane Wilma swirled into the most intense Atlantic storm ever recorded Wednesday, a Category 5 monster packing 175 mph wind that forecasters warned was "extremely dangerous."
Wilma was dumping rain on Central America and Mexico. A hurricane watch was in effect for the east coast of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, parts of Cuba and the Cayman Islands, and forecasters warned of a "significant threat" to Florida by the weekend.
"All interests in the Florida Keys and the Florida peninsula should closely monitor the progress of extremely dangerous Hurricane Wilma," the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
Wilma's top sustained winds reached 175 mph early Wednesday in the most rapid strengthening ever recorded in a hurricane, said meteorologist Hugh Cobb of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. At the same time Tuesday, Wilma was only a tropical storm with winds of 70 mph.
Wilma was dumping rain on Central America and Mexico. A hurricane watch was in effect for the east coast of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, parts of Cuba and the Cayman Islands, and forecasters warned of a "significant threat" to Florida by the weekend.
"All interests in the Florida Keys and the Florida peninsula should closely monitor the progress of extremely dangerous Hurricane Wilma," the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
Wilma's top sustained winds reached 175 mph early Wednesday in the most rapid strengthening ever recorded in a hurricane, said meteorologist Hugh Cobb of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. At the same time Tuesday, Wilma was only a tropical storm with winds of 70 mph.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Noam Chomsky named top intellectual, passing over Bill O'Reilly who was 76,000,000th.
Noam Chomsky
The man who has spoken more truth to power than just about anyone has been voted the highly prized "top intellectual", according to a recent poll conducted in England, beating out anyone on FOX News by several million points. Or so I would guess.
His lectures at MIT were, and probably still are, a treat for the mind. Highly recommended.
What brave network, though, would dare put him on their payroll?
Any takers? Coresnot.
Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, contemporary issues, international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. His works include: Aspects of the Theory of Syntax; Cartesian Linguistics; Sound Pattern of English (with Morris Halle); Language and Mind; American Power and the New Mandarins; At War with Asia; For Reasons of State; Peace in the Middle East?; Reflections on Language; The Political Economy of Human Rights, Vol. I and II (with E.S. Herman); Rules and Representations; Lectures on Government and Binding; Towards a New Cold War; Radical Priorities; Fateful Triangle; Knowledge of Language; Turning the Tide; Pirates and Emperors; On Power and Ideology; Language and Problems of Knowledge; The Culture of Terrorism; Manufacturing Consent (with E.S. Herman); Necessary Illusions; Deterring Democracy; Year 501; Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War and US Political Culture; Letters from Lexington; World Orders, Old and New; The Minimalist Program; Powers and Prospects; The Common Good; Profit Over People; The New Military Humanism; New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind; Rogue States; A New Generation Draws the Line; 9-11; and Understanding Power.
The Secret IM Conversations: Bush seeks advice from Clinton
The Huffington Post
(Thanks to Rob Urban for this find)
Kickass43: yo bill
Kickass43: u up
LadeezMan42: man im always up
LadeezMan42: whazzup witu
LadeezMan42: aint it past yr bedtime :)
Kickass43: laura kickd me out
LadeezMan42: been there dude...
MORE
(Thanks to Rob Urban for this find)
Kickass43: yo bill
Kickass43: u up
LadeezMan42: man im always up
LadeezMan42: whazzup witu
LadeezMan42: aint it past yr bedtime :)
Kickass43: laura kickd me out
LadeezMan42: been there dude...
MORE
Monday, October 17, 2005
The American Conservative: "Money for Nothing"
Billions of dollars have disappeared, gone to bribe Iraqis and line contractors’ pockets.
When the final page is written on America’s catastrophic imperial venture, one word will dominate the explanation of U.S. failure—corruption.
When the final page is written on America’s catastrophic imperial venture, one word will dominate the explanation of U.S. failure—corruption.
Sunday, October 16, 2005
Dark Clouds Over Toledo
The National Socialist Movement (also called "NSM" or "NSM88") is the largest neo-Nazi Party operating in the United States of America, with "Units" and members in all 50 states and around the world. They co-operate with other "white nationalists", such as the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Skinheads and National Alliance. The "88" in its name is a code word for "Heil Hitler", H being the 8th letter in the alphabet. The name America's Nazi Party is sometimes used, but this should not be confused with the revived American Nazi Party, a different group.
So says Wikipedia about the neo-fascist group that has brought the storms to Toledo.
Art from Faith: North Carolina's Cathy Sigmon
"field of daisies 2" by Cathy Sigmon
Primarily a self-taught artist, Cathy works from her studio in Faith, North Carolina in colored pencil, watercolor and acrylics. She has won numerous awards in local and regional exhibitions and conducts workshops for regional art guilds.
A Signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, Cathy has participated in CPSA international exhibitions in San Diego, Detroit and Houston. Her work is included in "The Best of Colored Pecncil 4", published by Rockport Publishers and distributed in the U.S. and abroad by North Light Books.
Friday, October 14, 2005
The beloved Joanne Shenandoah
Joanne Shenandoah & small friend
Shenandoah has become the most critically acclaimed Native American singer of her time... - Associated Press
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
MacArthur 'Genius' Grant awarded to Harvard's Sue Goldie
Sue Goldie
Physician, researcher applies decision science to global women's health
Public health researcher Sue Goldie, associate professor of health decision science at Harvard School of Public Health, has been awarded a $500,000 MacArthur grant "for genius and creativity" in applying the tools of decision science to evaluate the clinical benefits, public health impact, and cost-effectiveness of alternative preventive and treatment interventions for viruses that are major public health problems.
Goldie's faculty research page
mistersugar: Tar Heel Tavern #34: T-Shirt & Shoes Required
Anton is going to be hosting the Tarheel Tavern this week.
Here is what he says he would like as a theme:
Tar Heel Tavern #34: T-Shirt & Shoes Required
Next week, I’ll again host the Tar Heel Tavern, a carnival of North Carolina bloggers. Here’s the theme: t-shirt tales:
That’s right. I’m asking bloggers to dig into their t-shirt drawers, find a shirt with a story behind it—best if it’s got something to do with North Carolina—and share the tale with the rest of us. (See this post for an example of one of my archived posts.)
If you’ve got the means, post a picture of the t-shirt to your blog or Flickr (tag it “tarheeltavernT”).
Submission deadline is Saturday, October 15 at noon.
BONUS: While you’re at it, why not get rid of the t-shirts you haven’t worn in the last year by donating them to your local clothing bank, a Hurricane Katrina drive, or me (I’ll send them to my Peace Corps village in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu).
UPDATE: I’ll accept other, non-t-shirt posts, too. The more crowded into the tavern, the merrier.
Here is what he says he would like as a theme:
Tar Heel Tavern #34: T-Shirt & Shoes Required
Next week, I’ll again host the Tar Heel Tavern, a carnival of North Carolina bloggers. Here’s the theme: t-shirt tales:
That’s right. I’m asking bloggers to dig into their t-shirt drawers, find a shirt with a story behind it—best if it’s got something to do with North Carolina—and share the tale with the rest of us. (See this post for an example of one of my archived posts.)
If you’ve got the means, post a picture of the t-shirt to your blog or Flickr (tag it “tarheeltavernT”).
Submission deadline is Saturday, October 15 at noon.
BONUS: While you’re at it, why not get rid of the t-shirts you haven’t worn in the last year by donating them to your local clothing bank, a Hurricane Katrina drive, or me (I’ll send them to my Peace Corps village in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu).
UPDATE: I’ll accept other, non-t-shirt posts, too. The more crowded into the tavern, the merrier.
Sunday, October 09, 2005
Narcissistic Graffiti on ConvergeSouth
Excellent coverage on the Herb Everett, Dave Winer, Amanda Congdon and Duncan Black (Atrios) sessions, and more...
John Lennon's Day
John Lennon October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980
Working Class Hero
by John Lennon
As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and class less and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
Speaking of Greensboro, I was in Greensboro when I heard the news about Lennon's death.
There was a nice and moving candlelight vigil at UNCG with good folks like John S. Jones, Bill Poole, Chuck Newman, Maria Robbins, Lucy Biron, David Grogan, John Pope, Eric, Chance, Dayna, Fred and Stan in attendance. Hard to believe 25 years has passed since then...
Good to see Greensboro is still a groovy place, because it certainly was back then. Long live Greensboro!
Long live the memory and music of John Lennon!
Friday, October 07, 2005
The ConvergeSouth Blog
Converge!ConvergeSouth, taking place this weekend in Greensboro, has a blog, featuring some of the speakers.
convergesouth
Thursday, October 06, 2005
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Inheriting the Winds of Tammy
Computer Model shows direct hit on Charlotte
Granted, it is only one several predictions, but there is a prediction that "Tropical Storm Tammy", as she's called , or its remnants, will pass through Charlotte, North Carolina and environs.
Tammy Bakker Testified in Charlotte right before Hurricane Hugo hit Charlotte. You could say she inherited the winds. And now another massive package of wind named Tammy is threatening Charlotte.
Granted, it is only one several predictions, but there is a prediction that "Tropical Storm Tammy", as she's called , or its remnants, will pass through Charlotte, North Carolina and environs.
Tammy Bakker Testified in Charlotte right before Hurricane Hugo hit Charlotte. You could say she inherited the winds. And now another massive package of wind named Tammy is threatening Charlotte.
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Monday, October 03, 2005
Panther Pussycats Don Cat Costumes
The Charlotte, North Carolina Panthers
We at anonyMoses are predicting that the Panther cheerleaders, The "Top Cats" will change their name to "The Pussycats" or "Panther Pussycats", and that they will start wearing cat costumes, and dance to songs from the Eliot play.
We also want to urge the team to study tai chi, judo, ballet, and public speaking. They should also focus on not only being better, but different...like Mohammed Ali, filled with charm and grace. Spiritualized like a cat. Like a Panther and a Pussycat.
Earning one's high pay. Being better than anyone ever.
Gods.
At least more than just a jock.
Sunday, October 02, 2005
Emmanuel Hands Reynolds Arse on Plate
Ass on a plate
Rahm Emmanuel, like Barak Obama, John Edwards, and indeed, Wes Clark, represent the best hope for the future of the Democratic Party, and today, one of them, Mr. Emmanuel, showed how and why the future will be Democratic, and thus a benefit to health and humanity.
On today's "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, Emmanuel was paired with a boring old man named Reynolds, who will doubtless have any impact on the history of our great nation. And yet he had to sit there beside a gentleman whose equals rank among the pantheon of truly great presidents.
Without raising his voice, without losing repose or composure, Mister Emmanuel layed out the future, while all the boring old man could do was ululate and hyperventilate apothegms so barren of meaning as to render its bearer foolish and obsolescent.
He was handed his arse on a plarte, to be polite, passive and neologistic about it.
The five-point plan layed out by Mr. Emmanuel deserve serious consideration. These are bold ideas. They will get us out of the hole which the other guys would have you keep digging.
Here is where Rahm lays out the future:
REP. EMMANUEL: Let me address, though, the future of this country. I'll give you five quick ideas. One, we make college education as universal for the 21st century that a high school education was in the 20th.
MR. RUSSERT: And who pays for that?
REP. EMMANUEL: The American people, because it offers--Let me get to it. Second, we get a summit on the budget to deal with the $3 trillion of debt that's been added up in five years and structural deficits of $400 billion a year. Third, an energy policy that says in 10 years, we cut our dependence on foreign oil in half and make this a hybrid economy. Four, we create an institute on science and technology that builds for America like, the National Institutes has done for health care, we maintain our edge. And five, we have a universal health-care system over the next 10 years where if you work, you have health care. That says fiscal discipline and investing in the American people by reputting people first. The policies that the Republicans have offered have gotten us in the ditch we have today.
Ideas. Good ones. If the Republicans had ideas, they didn't bear fruit. And they've had five years. Staying the course is only digging the hole deeper. And we've already hit Hell.
They carry on:
MR. RUSSERT: (To Reynolds) What do you think of that program?
REP. REYNOLDS (as if to say "O come now, Emmanuel!"): Sounds to me like a liberal agenda: bigger government, raise more taxes to pay for it. That's the failed liberal policies. The last 40 years, the Democrats were in control of the Congress.
REP. EMMANUEL: Tom, in the last five years the government's gotten bigger...
REP. REYNOLDS: And when we look at this...
REP. EMMANUEL: ...under Republican rule...
REP. REYNOLDS: I have not heard...
REP. EMMANUEL: ...than anytime in the history.
REP. REYNOLDS: ...any agenda coming out of the Democrats in Congress. It has been all slash and burn, nay. There has been no debate, Tim. This is not the debate of Dole and Moynihan. This is slash and burn, have no new ideas, and attack.
FULL TRANSCRIPT
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Sunday, September 25, 2005
What would Jesus the Clown do? (WWJTCD)
Jesus the Clown
These are trying times, these are tiring times. These are the times that try men's souls, and the time to change men's tires. These are unctuous times.
At times like these there is no greater hope, no greater voice, no greater emulator of sad sAtisfaction than our very own Jesus the Clown: President of War. A frightful thought now that one thinks of it.
Granted, I am no Lee. I have no ear of JTC, nor any pull. But if'n you were to have a quextion whose answer has undeniable universal appeal, I will see if I can get Red Roverer, his make-up artist, to construct a reasonable simulacrum.
OFFER DOES NOT INCLUDE POSTAGE, BATTERIES, OR HANDLING FEES. IF YOU EXPERIENCE A LIGHTNESS OF WALLET OR DIFFICULTY URINATING, IT MIGHT BE BECAUSE YOU HAD SEX WITH A SLATTERN AND A STRUMPET, AND YOU WILL PROBABLY HAVE TO HAVE THE OFFENDING ORGAN REMOVED. DO NOT TAKE JESUS THE CLOWN WITH A GRAIN OF SALT AS IT MAY INDUCE EXISTENTIAL VOMITING OR A SARTRIAN STRABISMUS. USE ONLY AS DIRECTED.
Fun with words: Glossary of Linguistics and Rhetoric
Hey kids! Loopy about linguistics? Ready for some rhetoric?
Here goes a page with many fun greek terms for oblique ways to tweak what you speak...and make knees weak with wonder.
Here is a sample of what you will learn:
adnoun
the use of an adjective as a noun. Blessed are the merciful. See also: adnominal.
anadiplosis
rhetorical repetition of one or more words, particularly a word at the end of a clause. "Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state; servants of fame; and servants of business." -- Francis Bacon. See also: anaphora, epistrophe, symploce.
anastrophe
transposition or inversion of normal word order; a type of hyperbaton. "Once upon a midnight dreary..." -- Edgar Allan Poe. "The helmsman steered; the ship moved on; yet never a breeze up blew." -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge. See also: hyperbaton, synchysis.
antanaclasis
repetition of a word whose meaning changes in the second instance. "Your argument is sound...all sound." -- Benjamin Franklin.
apophasis
mentioning something by declaring that it shall not be mentioned. Same as "paralepsis" and "preterition." "I need not remind you to get your Christmas shopping done early." See also: autoclesis, parasiopesis.
aposiopesis
a halting or trailing off of speech caused by the speaker seemingly overcome by an emotion such as excitement, fear, or modesty; a form of brachylogy. "When your father finds out...." See also: brachylogy.
asyndeton
lack of conjuctions between coordinate words, phrases, or clauses; a form of brachylogy. "But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground." -- Abraham Lincoln. See also: brachylogy, polysyndeton.
...and those are just some of the A-list.
Here are some I put to use. Can you guess which rhetorical device was used?
- ...like mind from a thought did spring.
- ...til night doth shut our eye.
- Immortal lips from words did spring.
- Let me die, and pierce the blade across my chin.
- Let me live, and ward off sad silence once more.
- I will say nothing of his virtue, though I find him to be courageous of spirit, untiring of conscience and a friend and brother eternal.
- When the victory? When the Peace?
- Thought makes the man; thought is the quintessence of what motivates man.
- Still he chased ambition -- ambition, that trickledown juicecarrot (Judas Carrot) which dangles in perpetuity, yet jangles in but the pocks of few.
- Arrogance took no swipe at Belvedere; and he fed no coin into arrogance.
- Happy is he who calls God love and Love God.
- Raising Hell and my children.
- She charged my senses and my dinner.
- His wisdom will the nation's food.
All entries will be accepted until the ughten on the fortnight of yesternoon.
Here goes a page with many fun greek terms for oblique ways to tweak what you speak...and make knees weak with wonder.
Here is a sample of what you will learn:
adnoun
the use of an adjective as a noun. Blessed are the merciful. See also: adnominal.
anadiplosis
rhetorical repetition of one or more words, particularly a word at the end of a clause. "Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state; servants of fame; and servants of business." -- Francis Bacon. See also: anaphora, epistrophe, symploce.
anastrophe
transposition or inversion of normal word order; a type of hyperbaton. "Once upon a midnight dreary..." -- Edgar Allan Poe. "The helmsman steered; the ship moved on; yet never a breeze up blew." -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge. See also: hyperbaton, synchysis.
antanaclasis
repetition of a word whose meaning changes in the second instance. "Your argument is sound...all sound." -- Benjamin Franklin.
apophasis
mentioning something by declaring that it shall not be mentioned. Same as "paralepsis" and "preterition." "I need not remind you to get your Christmas shopping done early." See also: autoclesis, parasiopesis.
aposiopesis
a halting or trailing off of speech caused by the speaker seemingly overcome by an emotion such as excitement, fear, or modesty; a form of brachylogy. "When your father finds out...." See also: brachylogy.
asyndeton
lack of conjuctions between coordinate words, phrases, or clauses; a form of brachylogy. "But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground." -- Abraham Lincoln. See also: brachylogy, polysyndeton.
...and those are just some of the A-list.
Here are some I put to use. Can you guess which rhetorical device was used?
- ...like mind from a thought did spring.
- ...til night doth shut our eye.
- Immortal lips from words did spring.
- Let me die, and pierce the blade across my chin.
- Let me live, and ward off sad silence once more.
- I will say nothing of his virtue, though I find him to be courageous of spirit, untiring of conscience and a friend and brother eternal.
- When the victory? When the Peace?
- Thought makes the man; thought is the quintessence of what motivates man.
- Still he chased ambition -- ambition, that trickledown juicecarrot (Judas Carrot) which dangles in perpetuity, yet jangles in but the pocks of few.
- Arrogance took no swipe at Belvedere; and he fed no coin into arrogance.
- Happy is he who calls God love and Love God.
- Raising Hell and my children.
- She charged my senses and my dinner.
- His wisdom will the nation's food.
All entries will be accepted until the ughten on the fortnight of yesternoon.
Cats of Peace
Notes on "Darconville's Cat"
protoglottalogical theory that words initially began as shouts
beauty palliates evil
imperscrutible winds of autumn
nomadic gulsar
lugubrious frontispiece
obligate room
spare as the skite of a recluse
archonic wardens of Heaven
blinking anablept
desperviews
sapphonically whisper
strained against their cinctures
sententious ballachers
praeternatural somnolence
astropoetic light
soft as nainsook
intervenient with
the slippered voluptions of his prose
pteriopes wrapped in procinian cloaks
electuaries
projecticians
slonk
a nulliverse of stifling monotony
cattle, skewbald, roan and dappled
rantipole heroes
acromegalic jaw
unijugate ears
chawbacons
klonvocated
klankraft
pantomancing
hypocause of fate
horror dorsifixed him
maidens blushworthily abud
obliviscible
Anti-Peace Rally Draws Over a Hundred Numbskulls
Anti-War & Anti-Peace. Looking Left, Looking Right.
While over a hundred thousand anti-war protestors descended on Washington, DC this weekend, a little over a hundred of the anti-peace clueless also showed up...apparently unaware that there already was no peace in Iraq. Doh!
Blessed are the peacemakers. Cursed are the warmakers...
Songs for Katrina: Sting
Moon Over Bourbon Street
-Sting
There’s a moon over bourbon street tonight
I see faces as they pass beneath the pale lamplight
I’ve no choice but to follow that call
The bright lights, the people, and the moon and all
I pray everyday to be strong
For I know what I do must be wrong
Oh you’ll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there’s a moon over bourbon street
It was many years ago that I became what I am
I was trapped in this life like an innocent lamb
Now I can only show my face at noon
And you’ll only see me walking by the light of the moon
The brim of my hat hides the eye of a beast
I’ve the face of a sinner but the hands of a priest
Oh you’ll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there’s a moon over bourbon street
She walks everyday through the streets of new orleans
She’s innocent and young from a family of means
I have stood many times outside her window at night
To struggle with my instinct in the pale moon light
How could I be this way when I pray to God above
I must love what I destroy and destroy the thing I love
Oh you’ll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there’s a moon over bourbon street
-Sting
There’s a moon over bourbon street tonight
I see faces as they pass beneath the pale lamplight
I’ve no choice but to follow that call
The bright lights, the people, and the moon and all
I pray everyday to be strong
For I know what I do must be wrong
Oh you’ll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there’s a moon over bourbon street
It was many years ago that I became what I am
I was trapped in this life like an innocent lamb
Now I can only show my face at noon
And you’ll only see me walking by the light of the moon
The brim of my hat hides the eye of a beast
I’ve the face of a sinner but the hands of a priest
Oh you’ll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there’s a moon over bourbon street
She walks everyday through the streets of new orleans
She’s innocent and young from a family of means
I have stood many times outside her window at night
To struggle with my instinct in the pale moon light
How could I be this way when I pray to God above
I must love what I destroy and destroy the thing I love
Oh you’ll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there’s a moon over bourbon street
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