tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58035572011-07-14T20:41:36.819-04:00Lovin' livin'passhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00620183428351494541noreply@blogger.comBlogger4471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803557.post-1100791859708942032004-11-18T10:27:00.000-05:002004-11-18T10:31:06.690-05:00

I have said that we need to start being concerned about how the world is going to stop us. Well, here's the first rustling of interest. President Bush is going to be visiting Canada, probably later this year. And the Toronto Star wonders out loud if perhaps it should be Canada's job to stop him. When U.S. President George W. Bush arrives in Ottawa — probably later this year — should he be

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linkpic("c793.jpg","r")I would laugh. The Supreme Court will answer the phone personally when it's the White House, and they will say Yes sir, how can we serve you, sir? The Congress will answer the phone, and they will say, What can we do for you today, sir? And Bush and his sharply-adorned Inner Circle will march into the ceremonial Submission Chamber, high-stepping, in their special

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I see where Atrios has a post called "Deja Vu All Over Again." Mmmm, that sounds familiar... Ah yes, this morning Daily KOS had a post titled "Deja Vu All Over Again." linkpic("99ee.jpg","r")But that one sounded familiar, too. Oh yes, last week, Body and Soul had a post titled "Déjà vu all over again" (She, being the more literate type, used the proper marks.) Friday night I went down to the

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linkpic("painted4.jpg","l")Well, I'm not in the mood to link a bunch of stuff today, you can find it easily enough yourself. Colin Powell's leaving, along with a bunch of other cabinet members. Nobody's sorry to see him go. There is loyalty and there is honor, and unfortunately he sacrificed honor to loyalty. His record in history will be one of ineffectiveness and untruth. His speech at the

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So here's John Ashcroft bitching about judges. You'd better pay attention to this, cuz he's showing you which way the wind blows. linkpic("_9.30.04__52_a.jpg","r")Federal judges are jeopardizing national security by issuing rulings contradictory to President Bush's decisions on America's obligations under international treaties and agreements, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Friday. In his

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Hey man, THIS is really a cool site. Y'know, going into the election, I had a sort of feeling, a kind of certainty, that Kerry would win the election and everything would turn out all right. Like, you're in a nightmare, and you know somewhere in the back of your mind that it's OK, things can't really really really be this weird, you'll wake up pretty soon. linkpic("8867.jpg","r")And when I

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Y'know, some of this after-the-election talk is starting to worry me. Like, a comment like this, from Kevin Drum:The abortion point is a good one, for example. Liberals are in favor of choice, not in favor of abortion per se, so why shouldn't we talk more often about policies that reduce the need for abortions while continuing to defend the right of choice itself? This won't impress the hardcore

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I don't really blogroll like some people, but I keep a short list of crazy sumbitches over there on the right. Billmon's kinda not posting any more at Whiskey Bar, but we'll wait on him, and these other sites are OK. I just added The Alternate Brain. I have no idea what they think they are, but they seem like decent guys and their site is kind of fun. Check them out occasionally.

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linkpic("vette2.jpg","r")Wow, it brings ya back to those fine days at the Command Post, when the US was invading Iraq and they were finding cyanide in the rivers, rape-rooms and torture chambers, killing floors, prisons full of children, trailers of mass destruction, buildings full of incriminating documents ... oh wait, none of that stuff turned out to be real, sorry. Ah, yes, today the Normal

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OK, looks like Fallujah is pwn3d. The Marines, having had a great time blowing shit up left and right, now control a third to a half of the city, according to the New York TimesThe battle for control of Falluja, a city of 300,000 some 35 miles west of Baghdad, is widely viewed as the most significant since the Iraqi capital fell to invading American-led forces 19 months ago. linkpic("amgirl1.

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I can remember sitting on my grandpa's knee as he told us stories of the Evil Fallujans. Oh, yes, we trembled in fear at their terrifying deeds. No child wanted to attract the attention of an Evil Fallujan! Oh yes, nightmares followed those hoary stories. ... uh ... no. linkpic("20031206-63355-7.jpg","l")I never heard of Fallujah before a year or so ago. No Fallujan ever did anything to me,

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Something obvious I should mention here, while the rightwingers drool gleefully into their happy-trough. linkpic("Notmybestblouse.jpg","r")Pass the Gas is not a political guy. This persona appeared at the Command-Post when the Bush administration started down the hillside into the mess that is Iraq. I never cared for Republicans or Democrats, there're some things I expect my government to take

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I'm reading here that the exit polls found that a third of the people who voted for Bush voted for "moral" reasons. Ooch -- OK, I see this one coming. Let's put an end to this fake use of the word "moral" and the concept of morality right now. Morality has to do with distinguishing between right and wrong, and with behaving rightly. But you know that in this election, it was a code-word for

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It's amazing to see how many people are thinking about leaving the country. I know the feeling. These gay-hating, Iraqi-slaughtering, Christian-hypocrite rightwingers are going to be nothing but trouble. My thought, actually, is that we are going to bring bad shit down upon ourselves. I saw Richard Perle on TV last night, what can he be up to? Ha, let's attack some other fuckin' countries!

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Being Pass the Gas, I suppose I'm obligated to comment on the election. The America that I love is populated with kind people, funny people who look out for each other, forgive each other, fight a little but mainly get by. Americans don't like to be pushed around, but they don't like to cause trouble, either. We have our beliefs, our principles, that we stick to, but we're not incapable of

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Well, I was going to ignore this one, but I saw it for the N-teenth time, and just had to say something. You've seen this headline all over the Internets... Colo. Teacher Kicks Student for GOP Shirt: DURANGO, Colo. - A part-time college instructor has apologized for kicking a student because he was wearing a Republican shirt. Fort Lewis College student Mark O'Donnell said he was showing

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Aha, ya gotta love this. OK, October surprise, new "terrorist" threat. Drudge runs the flashing gumball-machine. Then Fox News runs the video. Mmm, I didn't see it, but y'know, ya read about it. The guy has an American accent, speaking Arabic. Apparently he's got some kinda sheet over his head. linkpic("mesh2.jpg","l")But the best. The very best: The Freeper Discussion. This shoulda

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Well, this takes a good part of the guesswork out of it. This news station in Minnesota just remembered they have videotape from Al Qaqaa, taken after the fall of Baghdad... and guess what. It's got pictures of those explosives.Using GPS technology and talking with members of the 101st Airborne Division, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has determined the crew embedded with the troops may have been on the

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My buddy David never calls me at work, we hang out on the weekends, go to computer shows, play music, drink espresso. But he called me today from his cell phone, really agitated. He was trying to understand this deal with the explosives, how in the world we let 380 tons of explosives slip away. linkpic("NICEBUTT.jpg","r")I'd been reading about it all morning in my RSS aggregator, so I knew

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The Brad Blog has been keeping track of changes to the White House website, as the Bush administration systematically revises history. linkpic("notbadfor50.jpg","l") After reviewing scores of pages of White House transcribed Press Conferences by George Bush, it seems that the removal of certain audio and video clips has perhaps been strategically or systematically orchestrated. Here's a few

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You gotta believe an old pagan like Pass is gettin' a kick outta this one. Pat Robertson saying:The Lord told me it was going to be a), a disaster, and b), messy."According to the New York Times. But I thought God was talking to Bush, telling him go ahead, grasshopper, go ahead and blow shit up in Iraq, for it is My will. linkpic("T40405090755420.jpg","l")But you know this isn't really a new

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We can imagine that there is a hypothetical day that we'll call "November third." This will be the day that the Presidential votes are counted, and the winner is known. The question is, what happens then? linkpic("Mandy.jpg","r")At first you might think it would matter who wins, right? My first thought was that people like me will simply not sit still for another four years of Bush trashing

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Over a year ago, I started posting comments at the Command Post. I had seen the swell toward war in Iraq, and had reacted to it in my own way. And when that site went up, and I read about "warblogging," I thought, well, shit, I'll just throw in my two bits over there. The reaction I got was amazing to me, a total eye-opener. People hated me. They called me names. They called me a "lefty,"

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Mahablog makes the observation I would make today.On TV, George Stephanopolous is saying current polls show a small gain for Bush. I know that a lot of people on the Left Blogosphere say that the polls do not reflect the electorate. But in a rational world Kerry should be way ahead. I can't help but think there are too many likely voters who are out of their bleeping minds. It's not entirely

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Wow, this is a strange kind of award to win. I just woke up from a nap to find that I've been banned by Michele at her Normal White Lady blog. Seems I've failed the saccharine test. The good news is, as she says, that I "totally defeated" the purpose of her stupid post. That's a brave admission on her part, to be sure.

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I'll tell ya something that struck me as weird in Bush's first State of the Union address. I think that's where he said this. He was listing off all the great things he would accomplish, and one thing was ... hydrogen cars. Just struck me weird at the time, him being an oilman and all. First and last you heard of it, really. Let me point out two news stories. The first comes from

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I gotta comment on this Mary-Cheney-is-a-lesbian thing. My comment: wow. What are the Cheneys thinking? It's no secret Mary Cheney is gay, she has made her living being gay, for instance as the liaison to the gay community for Coors. So Kerry put a face on it, he used a real, out-of-the-closet gay person as an example when he was asked about homosexuality. I mean, he coulda been like the

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Heard Adam Curry on the Morning Source Code today talking about Leadbelly. Played "Black Betty" by Ram Jam and talked about how he first heard about Leadbelly. He said, "I'm pretty sure he's not alive any more." Uh, yeah, he died in 1949. The other day I was driving with my kid and somebody came on the radio -- I found out later it was Nirvana -- screamin' and shriekin' another old Leadbelly

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I wrote recently about Kerry's comment about making terrorism a nuisance. Maybe it's just me, y'know, but I thought his statements made sense. I personally don't want to spend the rest of my life walking around thinking ab0out fuckin' terrorism all day. I mean, there's like about a one in a gazillion chance of anything happening to me or mine, and I live and work in Washington DC. Could

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I have tried podcasting. This weekend I downloaded the Ipodder program, and ran it. I selected a blues show and Adam Curry's Source Code, uh ... radio show? OK, so I listened to it... Adam Curry drives an Audi. He can use the ATM at the airport. He plays "Driver's Seat" by some eighties band I was glad to have forgotten. Well, podcasting has a way to go. I remember several years ago trying

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OK, so the Republicans are going to shame Kerry, humiliate him, dominate him, for commiting the offense of saying that terrorism should not be the central feature of our lives. That we should think about something else once in a while. I may have said this before, but... What if Bill Clinton had taken the Oklahoma City bombings as an opportunity to miake rightwing militias the one and only

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I am finding this one conspiracy theory rather interesting. More than one person has wondered out loud if Bush was wearing a wire in the last debate. Wouldn't it be something, if the reason he paused and stuttered so was that he was waiting for somebody to tell him what to say? linkpic("60767_0.jpg","r")Listen, Pass the Gas would just love that. I love the idea of it.Several things about the

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I was waiting for this. You know how the Bush administration is warning us that schools in blue states are about to be attacked by terrorists? (Mmmm, the voting precinct in my neighborhood is at the school...) You know how they said they found a diskette with American schools' floorplans, in Iraq? Sounded scary, huh? AmericaBlog points out an important comment from the CNN version of the

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I finally did it. After twenty years of blowing through an old Music Man 50-watt amp, which was not bad at all, just not quite enough for outdoor gigs, which we seem to mostly get, I went out last night and bought a shiny new amplifier. linkpic("sub50067.jpg","l")Not just any amp. This is a beautiful piece of equipment. I got a Mesa Boogie F-100. I brought my strat to the music store last

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This morning I was listening to NPR while my oatmeal was cooking, and they were apologizing for misinterpreting Kerry's comments about the "global test." Then they played the tape of what he said in the debate, and it seemed clear to me. Then they invited some expert on to tell us idiots what we'd just heard. Juan Williams. So he sounds quite the Smart Guy, and he tells us that Kerry was

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linkpic("20040521.2101-nr0p.jpg","r")Dude, ya gotta love this, no matter what side you're on. Last night in the debate, Cheney backed up one of his assertions about Halliburton by telling the world to go see for themselves at "factcheck.com." I thought it was pretty ballsy of him at the time, and wondered if maybe it was a website he owned, or some Republican front, or something. Turns out

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This is exactly what it's all about. Comes right down to this, nothing else. Doesn't matter whose shit we're blowing up, whose globe we're warming, whose CEO is putting premium into his Rolls on the tax dollar. In the debate the other day, John Kerry used the phrase "global test." He said:"No president, through all of American history, has ever ceded -- and nor would I -- the right to preempt

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Course, you noticed that just as soon as Pass the Gas pointed out the fact that Bush never puts any dough in the collection plate, he makes sure to go. He goes to an Episcopal church, I guess because it's in the neighborhood. Here's Jesus' General all over Bush about not going to church: Heh heh, did it again. linkpic("IMG_9276.jpg","r")Here are some things that JG suggests you can say back

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I think this is a big political story, and hope that it signals the turning of the tide in these last weeks before the election.United by a deep concern about the mounting failures of the Bush administration's foreign policy, more than 180 former United States Ambassadors who have served under Republican and Democratic presidents endorsed John Kerry for president on Monday. At a news conference

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The other day a guy came by to bullshit with me at work, and he stood in my doorway and announced that he doesn't believe Bush is really a Christian at all. "Naw, he doesn't believe any of it, it's all just bullshit to get people to vote for him," he said. "Why wouldn't his religion be like everything else he does?" "Listen," he said, "Bush says he's born again. Well, I'll tell ya the rules

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Ah, I gotta say, RudePundit aced me with the daughters-on-a-leash comment:The moment passed by in a blur, but did the President really say of his twins, "I'm trying to put a leash on them"? You see, context is a motherfucker. And you can't really talk about leashing humans without invoking Abu Ghraib, now, can you? Tempting an image as leashed Bush daughters down on all fours in the Rose Garden

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The Bush campaign wants to keep saying that "character" is somehow the reason you should vote for their guy, and not for Kerry. Bush stumps on the topic day after day, always bragging about how pious and prayerful he is, questioning the courage and decisiveness of Kerry. So, OK, they're face to face, and Lehrer gives him the chance. Lehrer asks the President: Are there also underlying

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Hey -- No More Mister Nice Blog hits it right on the head today. He quotes a bunch of news sources saying how Bush and Kerry are so much alike on all the issues. "...The candidates have remarkably similar answers ... the two differ only slightly, if at all ..." linkpic("babe9.jpg","r")OK, I've said it myself. Nobody is just coming out and saying the war in Iraq was a horrible thing to do, and

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Well, it looks like the suits have done everything they can to make sure these "debates" are totally fuckin' useless. Is this really a debate, even? When the two guys can't talk to each toher, can't ask each other questions? When we won't be allowed to see them reacting to one another? Well, I saw one guy on TV last night asking some expert, or should I capitalize that? ... asking some

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Dude. I live in Maryland. So this isn't funny. If it happened in ... Texas ... it'd be funny. But not here. People are finding fuckin' electronic voting machines behind bars, on sidewalks, just laying around.Members of the State Board of Elections were surprised to hear reports Tuesday that Diebold touchscreen voting machines similar to those used in Maryland were found abandoned recently on

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And this, from Pandagon:For all our impressive talk about democracy-promotion, we're startlingly unwilling to abide by democracy's rules. We strong-armed governments around this word into going to war against the wishes of most of their electorates and, now in Iraq, we refuse to allow the democracy we've forced into being work in such a way that it might elect leaders we don't support. Generally,

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So, after what I just wrote, I see this, linked by The Agonist to a story in Time: How Much U.S. Help? The Bush Administration takes heat for a CIA plan to influence Iraq's elections:... But U.S. officials tell TIME that the Bush team ran into trouble with another plan involving those elections — a secret "finding" written several months ago proposing a covert CIA operation to aid candidates

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linkpic("assnfeet.jpg","l")The King of Jordan is saying something obvious about democracy in Iraq:"If the elections take place in the current disorder, the best-organized faction will be that of the extremists and the result will reflect that advantage." Iraq Too Unsafe for Elections - Jordan's AbdullahWell, duh. Through this whole Iraq nightmare, I think the worst part, the most disappointing

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Here's a cool phrase to use. When someone accuses your friends of lying, just say that their "assertions are in dispute." Key Bush Assertions About Iraq in Dispute See, this news story isn't saying that Bush has been lying. They're not even saying that people say that Bush has been lying. It's just that, well, he's been saying some stuff, and when you look at what the facts are, it turns out

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Naomi Wolf is the least interesting cunt in the world. Last year I got into a shouting contest over at Lean Left, after she published an article saying that thirty years ago a professor had put his hand on her leg. Those liberal whiners over there were s-o-o-o-o sympathetic that poor little Naomi had been subjected to this horrible abuse. My point was, basically, if nobody ever put their hand

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linkpic("smleinmirror.jpg","r")I have discovered that I am not a fan of organized religion. I started out more or less tolerant of it, like, if you wanna shout hallelulia and wiggle your fingers in the air, fall on your knees praising the lord, pass some rattlesnakes around, hate sinners, whatever. I mean, why would I care? That was how I felt about it. But now, look at this. The Bush

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Does anybody else have a funny feeling about this? Like ... maybe somebody's not telling us everything we oughta know? Is that OK with you guys? We just get fed information like through a slot in the wall? Like a cross between the Chinese Room and a jail cell?

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linkpic("70774_5.jpg","r")Quick one here. The other day I went to the American Enterprise Institute web site and listened to the entire speech that Richard Perle gave, exactly one year ago today, on September 22nd, 2003. Oh, his smugness! As he turned his head to look back and forth across the roomful of true believers, as he complained about those who had said that we would end up in a

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Juan Cole is obviously reading Pass the Gas v-e-e-r-r-y closely. Today he expands on a point that I have grown tired of making. That is, when thinking about Iraq, for instance, when you think about the "insurgence" or resistance there, if you want to understand it, you will have to see it from their point of view. It doesn't mean you agree with them, that you adopt their religion, that you

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A moment fixed in my mind like a photograph. Walking down a street in North Carolina with my buddy Dale. Dale and I were in a band together, Southern rock band, we were the lead guitar players. So we were walking down the street, he was drunker than I was. Dale was the quintessential redneck asshole from Alabama. Called black people "niggers" in ordinary conversations. Hated Northerners in

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linkpic("subv8153.jpg","r")Hey, to check in. I have been refreshing that El Mundo page about the island of Tortuga disappearing, and it has not been updated all day. Also, no other news site seems to have that story. There are reports, though, that the island has been heard from. Like this one from ABC News: Storm Floods Kill More Than 600 in Haiti, says, Although there were fears of many

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No More Mister Nice Blog makes a very interesting observation. Does it seem to you that nobody is getting in too much of an uproar over these Americans gettin' their fuckin' heads cut off by Arab maniacs? Yeah, me too. Here's the clue. Remember when they cut Nick Berg's head off? Hoo, the rightwingers went crazy with that one, because, why, class? Y-e-e-s-s-s, because that was when the news

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I gotta say, I like how Juan Cole put it this morning:I have a sinking feeling that the American public may like Bush's cynical misuse of Wilsonian idealism precisely because it covers the embarrassment of their having gone to war, killed perhaps 25,000 people, and made a perfect mess of the Persian Gulf region, all out of a kind of paranoia fed by dirty tricks and bad intelligence. And, maybe

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This sounds terrible beyond words. From El Mundo Haití teme que la tormenta 'Jeanne' haya provocado la desaparición de la isla La Tortuga:Una expedición de la ONU se trasladará hoy a la isla de La Tortuga, en la costa norte de Haití, para evaluar los efectos de la tormenta 'Jeanne'. Los primeros helicópteros de reconocimiento no han podido avistar la isla, donde viven 26.000 personas, y las

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I just posted something about Buckhead being revealed, and Blogger put it after the previous post. Please scroll down one to see it. Sometimes ... it just acts weird ...

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Petty Things, check this out. You know that Yahoo mail is probably the number one service for people who want to hide in public, create fake identities for spammers and logging into sites that track you, etc. I think a lot of people probably use it for real, too. I know I keep an account under my real name, one under Pass the Gas, and another one for when I really don't want to leave

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Look, the forged-memo thing is just to keep our minds off Iraq and other failed Bush policies. I have acknowledged that it was a virtuoso performance by the Bush campaign machine, by which I mean, "Karl Rove." This morning's Los Angeles Times finds another piece of the whodunnit. Turns out the freeper who first posted the idea that memos were fake, under the name "Buckhead," is an Atlanta

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linkpic("tar7.jpg","r")Woo-hoo! This is neat. Those memos, maybe they were fake, maybe they weren't, I think the Republicans showed their smarts on that one. Mainly by casting doubt on the all allegations that Bush was AWOL from the National Guard, but more subtly, by drawing the discussion away from the content of the memos, and focusing it instead on their origins. But it is kinda weird:

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Well, I said something when Rick James passed away, so I suppose I should mention that they did the autopsy and decided he died of a heart attack. Well, not a regular heart attack, a rock-n-roll heart attack."Toxicology revealed the presence of the following drugs: Alprazolam (Xanax), Diazepam (Valium), Bupropion (Wellbutrin), Citalopram (Celexa), Hydrocodone (Vicodin), Digoxin, Chlorpheniramine

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The polls giveth and the polls taketh away. These days, the momentum is leftward. Where Bush was a clear winner, oh, a week ago, now it's a dead heat. Personally, I will still feel a great sense of loss if anywhere near half of my American people vote for George Bush. Growing up singing in school about liberty, learning about the struggles of the founding fathers, the struggles for decent

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One of my favorite sites is johnny.ihackstuff.com (motto: "I'm Johnny. I hack stuff."). Mainly Johnny hacks Google, if you can even call that "hacking." He dreams up Google searches that, well, it's amazing what you can find out there. You can find passwords, videocam streams, people's backed-up data, all kinds of neat stuff. Other people send in interesting search terms, too, and, well it's

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I have been consistent and clear in my opposition to George Bush as President of the United States. I loathe everything he stands for: blurry thinking, ignorance of important facts, disrespect for truth, egotism, nationalism, cronyism, all of it. The policies that have been spawned by his bad brain seem to me to be demonstrable failures, from Iraq to the economy to the environment, to civil

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So cool. I had heard of this case, but never really looked into it, untiil Boing Boing Blog linked to it today: Want to Fly? Papers, Please. linkpic("rachael11b.jpg","r")Several years ago, this guy John Gilmore went to fly on a plane and was asked for his ID. Why do I have to show you ID? he asked. It's a law, he was told. What law? he asked. It's a secret. Turns out this law, which

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Weird thing. The other day I was coming to work on the Metro. Got off the train at Union Station with several hundred other people, as usual. There are escalators at each end of the station, so as we do every day, we lined up and waited to go above ground. Well, I see a guy that works in my office, he's the only guy in the office who knows how to fill out a requisition, so he's useful. He

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Funny, I thought I'd seen something about pro-Sadr demonstrations in Iraq. Got up Sunday morning, did a couple of easy chores, poured some coffee, and decided to try to find out what had happened. Went to Google News. Put in: demonstrations iraq "al sadr" What I got was report after report with titles like these (these are the actual first ones): Al-Sadr is no longer the hero The besieged

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Yesterday my morning paper, The Washington Post, carried a front-page story warning that the National Guard memos that Dan Rather had shown on 60 Minutes might be fake. They cited "the Internet" as a source. Today, there's a story in The Post, on page A-7, noting that Rathers stands by them, and giving some reasons. Turns out typewriters of the day were able to produce such a font, which was

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This forgery business is pretty good. I am finding it quite interesting. If the memos were forged, it was a clever job ... uh, wait, who forged them? If the Democrats forged them, it was a stupid and inept thing to do. If Rove et al did it, well, they certainly succeeded at muddying the waters, didn't they? Now, I just looked at a test posted at Little Green Footballs, a site I would never

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I read Nicholson Baker's Checkpoint at the beach this week. It's only 115 pages of large type, big line spacing, like one of my kids' school papers. Takes an hour or two to read. The story is: Jay and Ben are old friends. Jay has called up Ben and said he wants to talk to him. Ben comes over. Turns out Jay wants to assassinate President Bush. They talk. As I mentioned below, I have read

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Just a couple of quotes, guys saying what Pass the Gas thinks, but saying it better than I could. From The unwinnable war (James Carroll, Boston Globe):There is the single most troubling aspect of the war in Iraq. We launched it against the wicked Saddam Hussein, yet the majority of so-called "insurgents" against whom our forces are arrayed hated Hussein more than we did. We are killing people

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I did something cool the other day. I edited the Wikipedia. You might have come across this thing. The Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that is written by its readers. A WikiWiki is a kind of web site that you, the reader, can modify. It has a button somewhere that says "Edit," you click on that, and you can change what it says. Now, you would think, in these days of spam and viruses, that

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I saw Redneck Texan's critique of my views, and have given his comments some thought. I could write a long, point-by-point rebuttal, but have some catching up to do here at work, so I'll just skim the surface. We knew very soon after the 9/11 attacks who had done them -- suspiciously soon, some say. We knew it was al Qaeda. We knew it was not Saddam Hussein. Now, RT's argument is, as it has

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Did I miss anything?

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Ah, now I'm starting to get this. Alan Keyes sorta spells out the Christian-hate position for us when he bad-mouths Mary Cheney for being a lesbian.In an interview with SIRUS satellite radio, the Internet's Drudge Report said Wednesday, Keyes called Mary Cheney "a 'selfish hedonist' because she is a lesbian." Keyes said: "The essence of ... family life remains procreation. If we embrace

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We'll be going to the beach over Labor Day weekend, and I just went across the street and bought a book -- I never do get to read a novel, it's always technical nonfiction stuff. So I got Checkpoint, by Nicholson Baker. Baker has been, for years, my very favorite writer. (Though of course I appreciate Crichton using my research in his book...) I have read The Mezzanine, Vox, and The Fermata.

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ALT1040 is one of a hundred or so web sites I check every day through my RSS aggregator (I use Sharpreader) (not perffectly happy with it, but it does the trick). Anyway, yesterday he blogged something I'd never heard of:Llevo meses usando el PubSub, es un servicio sumamente sencillo y al mismo tiempo increiblemente útil. Consiste en buscar palabras claves o keywords y el PubSub las busca en

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Verrrrry interesting, this Republican congressman from an extremely conservative district in Virginia who had to drop out of the race after it was revealed that Congressman Ed Schrock has made a habit of rendezvousing with gay men via the MegaMates/ MegaPhone Line, an interactive telephone service on which men place ads and respond to those ads to meet each other. (blogACTIVE) linkpic("bri1410-

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I like Bruce Schneier. He's a security expert, especially writes about computer security. Last year I read his Secrets and Lies : Digital Security in a Networked World, and it made a lot of sense. He writes about encryption and other complicated things that, well, that I find very difficult to comprehend, even though I did work out a public key encryption algorithm by hand once. Lately he has

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So, this was weird. Flipping the channels last night, somebody, maybe Jay Leno, had this nice-looking redhead on, in a slinky black dress, mmm, pretty nice. Didn't look at the camera much, didn't seem like an actress. I flip channels a little more, and there's the same lady talking to Charlie Rose. Here she's more relaxed, her hair is a little less "done," and I watch for a while and discover

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Funny, I hadn't heard this in the corporate media, and it's hardly mentioned in Outer Blogovia, either. But Mahablog linked to this story about the US Olympic Committee asking the Bush re-election campaign to please stop using the ad that mentions the Olympics. See, Bush wants to show pictures of athletes, and say there are two more free countries, and two fewer terrorist countries, at the

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Last night I dropped my wife at Kaiser to pick up a prescription, and was listening to the radio when they played the recording of John Kerry's 1971 testimony before the Congressional committee. When she came back to the car, we drove around the neighborhood listening to it, in no hurry to go home. It is not hard to see why some people hate him. Those days were tough ones, there was a

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I am at work reading an article about web porn and censorship. I wish I could show you my screen. My workplace uses a net-nanny product called "Websense", which stops us from visiting certain web sites. So, on the screen for this Wired article, at the top of the page, is a big banner that says, "SITE BLOCKED", clear across the top of the page. Then, on the righthand side, a little

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linkpic("bap97x003.jpg","r")We saw Bob Dole on TV when he ran for President, an amiable, good-humored old guy, could laugh at himself, maybe did it a little too much. Outmatched by Clinton, outclassed, beaten. He did the talk shows, and smiled, seemed a little relieved after it was all over. He really did look like a nice old guy. Went on TV and promoted Viagra, and we all thought, what the

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Hey, strange thing on the computer. I noticed the family computer's hard-drive light blinking about once per second, even when nothing was happening. That seemed a little odd to me, so I looked into it. I downloaded the coolest program, called Filemon, which lets you see everything that your computer is doing. You can watch it on the screen or write it to a report, you can filter the output

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I had an insight the other day, which I mentioned in a comment on another site, but have been dwelling on since -- and just saw elucidated at Orcinus blog. He has a very good discussion about religion and politics under George W. Bush, in particular in relation to the Iraq war. Bush's religion is basic to his worldview, he describes things in terms of a struggle between good and evil, and

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linkpic("3f37.jpg","l")Hey, this isn't exactly a ponderous issue, but I wonder what people do. I carry a backpack to work, it's a kind of nice leather one that somebody gave me for my birthday or something a few years ago, and it's wearing out. But here's the problem. These days I carry a Sony Clie PDA, an HP PocketPC, a phone, a pedometer, a little digital Spanish-English tranlator device, a

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Wha? Is this really USA Today asking these questions? As you know, the amazing thing to me has been that the guy with no service record at all has been able to criticize the one with the medals for ... not bleeding enough, possibly having received a Purple Heart for a self-inflicted wound, not having been under actual fire, and such things. I think almost all of these accusations will turn out

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This story has been bubbling under the surface for a few days. Here it pokes its little head up for a breath of air on ABC News. Apparently Bush has a campaign ad where the US and Iraqi flags fly side by side, and a narrator says, "At this Olympics there will be two more free nations -- and two fewer terrorist regimes."But coach Adnan Hamad said Iraq, still plagued by violence daily, remained a

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This Swift Boat bullshit doesn't seem to want to go away. I saw the ad, and I thought Bob Dole looked embarrassed, with his comment about Kerry not bleeding. But somehow we did come to like him when he was running for office, even though we didn't like him enough to vote for him. And this Michelle Malkin, oh boy she's having a big time telling everybody how she was mistreated, and Chris

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OK, yeah, I wrote about this chick, Michelle Malkin, earlier today, but I just came across her article, written after Chris Matthews ripped her to shreds: AMBUSH JOURNALISM...OR MY EVENING WITH CAVEMAN CHRIS MATTHEWS. Wow, it turns out he's a male chauvinist. Proof: he teased her, before the show, about how young she looks. Quote:(I wonder how Matthews' wife, the respected TV journalist

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These days I'm trying to lose some weight. I'm eating Atkins, which isn't bad, if you like meat and cheese, and I do. But it wasn't working. So I'm trying to drink less. When we went to Portugal I discovered wine, which isn't a snob thing or an intimidating thing over there, it's just part of life, and I learned I really liked it, so lately I've been tasting different cabernet sauvignons, and

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Iran warns of preemptive strike to prevent attack on nuclear sites.Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani warned that Iran might launch a preemptive strike against US forces in the region to prevent an attack on its nuclear facilities. "We will not sit (with arms folded) to wait for what others will do to us. Some military commanders in Iran are convinced that preventive operations which the

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I don't really know what AmericaBlog is, it seems to be a site that has a lot of news, but also, some gay guys, but not all of 'em... I don't know. But they've always got a little bit different take on everything. linkpic("4d71.jpg","l")Like the governor of New Jersey the other day, being a "Gay American," ooh, they just about blew a gasket on that one. Well, it was a big, strange story. ('

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This is like one of those Andy Kaufman things, where you can't tell if it's a joke or not. Except for the fact that the guy is a fuckin' comedian. But this one was just too good, I'm stealing the whole thing from Strip Mining for Whimsy. Ten and a half things you need to know if the United States is going to win the war on terror:1) Terrorism is the product of religious fanaticism and

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The new Iraqi puppet government really doesn't want the world to know what's going to happen in Najaf. As America ... I mean, the sovereign Iraqi government ... prepares to unleash its awesome power against the Mighty Cleric and Great Danger to America, Moqtada al Sadr, the junta is threatening to kill every journalist in the city.linkpic("9e55.jpg","r")IRAQI police have threatened to kill every

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Just to let you know, over the past week it seems there are a lot of problems with the Blogger interface. I have had instances of multiple copies of the same post, posts disappearing during publishing, and the general unavailability of functionality. It's not that I have stopped thinking of things to piss people off, I've just been kinda cut off from the blogoverse.

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