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Dead Voters still Vote! But we don’t need photo ID’s when voting. That would be a violation of dead people’s rights!

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/04/dead-voters-still-showing-up-on-election-records-puzzling-officials/

Dead Voters Still Showing Up on Election Records, Puzzling Officials
by FOXNews.com
Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Journalism professor Marcel Dufresne, at the University of Connecticut, led a class investigation into dead voters and said his group of 11 students discovered 8,558 deceased people who were still registered on Connecticut’s voter rolls. They discovered more than 300 of them appeared somehow to have cast ballots after they died.

………….more non-”news” from the reich wing.

Isn’t it about time for the science deniers to start their daily posting of lies?

more for you pant shitters-

Of the two cases remaining, only Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich faces charges directly related to the killings. The most serious charges he faces are nine counts of involuntary manslaughter. Curiously, his case has been postponed indefinitely, and was not expected to resume until after both of his military defense attorneys had retired, weakening his defense in a complex case. Late-breaking information from Bruce Kessler of The Democracy Project, who has been covering the Haditha cases in detail, states that Lt. Col. Colby Vokey will delay his retirement again to stay with Wuterich’s defense.

The third case, against commanding officer Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, is said to be tainted by “unlawful command influence” in charging Chessani according to the judge presiding over the case, suggesting that Chessani is a political scapegoat for higher-ranking officers seeking to appease anti-war politicians. His trial is expected to commence June 17.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/vindication-for-marine-charged-in-haditha-cover-up/

Wow, Heckler – thanks a bunchie for that imagery. I’ve been singing “I Enjoy Being a Girl” since I sprang from the womb, and now I can REALLY be proud of bein’ a woman! I guessed I’ve really missed out in life…….

I gotta respond to something another post-er shat upon us yesterday – after the Filmfan was already home and tucked into beddy-bye (to SLEEP – shame on you for what you were thinking, Heckler).

Someone (Nathan, I believe) stated that “liberals love the Carr brothers….” Not to be rude, darling, but what thuh muck???????

The Carr brothers’ bestial crimes were so despicable that I’m forced to abandon my horror of the death penalty in cases like these. Concurrently, I greatly respect the late John Paul II’s passionate proclamations that “every life, no matter how errant, has value.”

A noble view, certainly. An impossible ideal for this world-weary woman, to be sure.

I don’t know how old you are, Nathan. But please learn some discernment before it’s too late. Before you’re a bitter old man, propped up in a rest home with nothing but your memories, your lost dreams and your plundered youth upon which to reflect.

Michael Goldfarb is a neocon blogger at The Weekly Standard and deputy communications director for the McCain campaign and he writes;

“A Message to Ron Paul Supporters
The Washington Times reports:
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Ron Paul says the legions of newcomers his presidential campaign brought to the Republican Party are getting the cold shoulder from John McCain and from the party….

“I don’t think they want them,” Mr. Paul told The Washington Times, adding that indifference doesn’t surprise him because the party’s establishment has deserted traditional conservative principles for big government and foreign intervention.

“We don’t agree with them,” he says. “We agree with the Old Right, and they’re the New Right, which is ‘The Wrong,’ [because] the New Right has morphed into neoconservative.”
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Allah beat me to the punch on this, but let me just say to Ron Paul supporters everywhere, and on behalf of the New Right (by which I assume Paul means the Jew Right), get lost.

There should be plenty of room for the Paulnuts in Obama’s big tent.”

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/03/a_message_to_ron_paul_supporte.asp

This guy has some balls. Shunning 5-25% of the base? Hello president Obama…

Sounds like a bunch of bitter old Republicans that know the day of reckoning is coming.

Lookie, lookie, Bush is doing what we war protestors said he was going to do all along:

From The Independent UK

Bush wants 50 military bases, control of Iraqi airspace and legal immunity for all American soldiers and contractors

By Patrick Cockburn
Thursday, 5 June 2008

A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November.

The terms of the impending deal, details of which have been leaked to The Independent, are likely to have an explosive political effect in Iraq. Iraqi officials fear that the accord, under which US troops would occupy permanent bases, conduct military operations, arrest Iraqis and enjoy immunity from Iraqi law, will destabilise Iraq’s position in the Middle East and lay the basis for unending conflict in their country.

But the accord also threatens to provoke a political crisis in the US. President Bush wants to push it through by the end of next month so he can declare a military victory and claim his 2003 invasion has been vindicated. But by perpetuating the US presence in Iraq, the long-term settlement would undercut pledges by the Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, to withdraw US troops if he is elected president in November.

The timing of the agreement would also boost the Republican candidate, John McCain, who has claimed the United States is on the verge of victory in Iraq – a victory that he says Mr Obama would throw away by a premature military withdrawal.

Here is an eye witness account from the Haditha incident..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSTySN2cHyM

Not so secret Capn. I posted this the other day. How much oil did Bosnia have? How many contracts did Haliburton hold in Bosnia? Follow the money.

Also, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

9/11 happened because we were in the middle east. Now we have ‘The Terrorist Threat’

Al-qeada was not in Iraq until WE were in Iraq. I would put about 7/10’s of the violence in Iraq due to our presence.

Conundrum – we can’t leave until the violence stops. The violence will not stop as long as we are there. Ergo, put up bases to help stop the violence. Our bases lead to more violence.

Haliburton is fat and happy. At some point, American companies take a large percentage of the oil production. All fits nicely doesn’t it?

Heckler
Posted June 5, 2008 at 7:01 am | Permalink
more for you pant shitters-
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Good Morning, Mr. Heckler,
Appreciate your usual charm and civility.
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Mary_Caruso
Posted June 5, 2008 at 8:06 am | Permalink
Is it just me, or does the blog seem unusually full of hate filled, vulgar men these days?
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No, Mary, it is not just you. I think their charming ways are driven by their fear of a humiliating defeat in November. I predict there will be a repudiation of the GOP that we have not seen the likes of since 1964. I think the charmers around here suspect that will happen, too.

The Senate Report that Pat Roberts kept bottled up for so long:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/39963.html

Among the reports conclusions:

Claims by President Bush that Iraq and al Qaida had a partnership “were not substantiated by the intelligence.”

The president and vice president misrepresented what was known about Iraq’s chemical weapons capabiliies.

Rumsfeld misrepresented what the intelligence community knew when he said Iraq’s weapons productions facilities were buried deeply underground.

Cheney’s claim that the intelligence community had confirmed that lead Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta had met an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague in 2001 was not true

Steven

No stevie, my DISGUST is driven by how those Marines have been treated.

The media got a “tip” 2 MONTHS after the incident. They began an immediate blood dance. Then the Murthas of the world crapped themselves and as much as declared them all guilty, military desk jockies somewhere crapped themselves over the political pressure and determined that they must pay.

A few pant shitters here went so far as to demand they be turned over to the Iraqi authorities for a “trial”.

My level of disgust over this incident goes beyond words.

bth
Posted June 5, 2008 at 9:37 am | Permalink
“A US military jury has acquitted a marine of charges that he helped cover up the killing of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha in 2005.”

In other words; the military coverup continues.

I sure with I could have a jury of my buddies if I were accused of a crime.
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Yeah Ben, all military personnel must be liars and conspirators.

Adjust your tinfoil hat Ben, it looks to be a bit crooked today.

Just a word of caution for all. Today is shaping up to be a very rough day weatherwise. Very good chance of VERY SEVERE storms and lots of tornadic activity. Be watchful, be safe.

Heckler – I advocated a civilian trial here in the US. However, I DID note that under international law they should be subject to the justice system of the country in which the alleged crimes were comitted. So, if we claim that Iraq is a sovereign and indepenedent state then we are caught in a sort of catch-22 – our own claims should indicate that we abide by that international law.

Let’s turn the question around heckler: should Israel Morales be extradited back to KS for trial? Or should he be tried in Mexico? I want him tried here – where the murder took place.

“My level of disgust over this incident goes beyond words.”

I susepct the surviving relatives of the 24 dead civilians feel similarly. Too bad you don’t give a shit about them.

“My level of disgust over this incident goes beyond words.”

I susepct the surviving relatives of the 24 dead civilians feel similarly. Too bad you don’t give a shit about them.

“My level of disgust over this incident goes beyond words.”

I susepct the surviving relatives of the 24 dead civilians feel similarly. Too bad you don’t give a shit about them.

Ben

What’s Morales got to do with it? That’s not even a logical comparison Ben.

And when have we EVER allowed our active duty soldiers engaged in military operations to be judged by another nations laws. In most cases we might as well execute them ourselves. You don’t think much of the men who fight for this country do you.

This wasn’t about a druken soilder killing someone in a bar fight. It was a military battle in which the Marines involved followed their rules of engagement to the letter. But if you actually studied the facts of the incident you’d know that. You’d also know that it was set up by the insurgents to look like a massacre. You’d also know that the tipster and the “journalist” who broke the story have a rather dubious history.

But don’t let the facts cloud the little vision thing you got going on.

Will ‘Maverick Reformer’ Mcbush match tit for tat?
Let’s not hold our collective breath!
DNC will no longer take lobbyist, PAC money By NEDRA PICKLER and JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writers
1 hour, 1 minute ago

NEW YORK – In his first order of business as his party’s presumed presidential nominee, Barack Obama is instructing the Democratic National Committee to adopt his policy against accepting donations from federal lobbyists or political action committees.

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The change will make the party and the candidate have a consistent position. Obama often says banning the donations is one way to help keep him free of the influence of Washington insiders.

An Obama spokesman announced the change Thursday as the candidate prepared to fly from New York, where he had been raising money, to campaign in Virginia.

Obama himself planned to discuss the change at a town hall meeting in Bristol, Virginia.

The move indicates Obama will argue Republican rival John McCain is under the influence of special interests because of his advisers’ lobbying ties.

McCain’s senior advisers are former lobbyists, and McCain was stung last month by the disclosure that two advisers worked for a firm that had represented Myanmar’s military junta, which has restricted foreign assistance for cyclone victims.

The Arizona senator instituted a new lobbying policy that says no campaign staffer can be a registered lobbyist, resulting in three more departures from his campaign, including a top fundraiser, former Texas Rep. Tom Loeffler.

Obama’s ban on lobbyists money is not ironclad. He does accept money from lobbyists who do not do business with the federal government and he also accepts money from spouses and family members of lobbyists. He has had unpaid advisers with federal lobbying clients, and some campaign officials also previously had lobbying jobs.

Obama strategist Paul Tewes, who ran the Illinois senator’s successful Iowa campaign, is taking over the DNC and was at party headquarters Thursday meeting the staff.

The new policy will eliminate one source of contributions to the DNC, which has significantly trailed its Republican counterpart in fundraising. So far this election cycle, the DNC has raised $77.6 million and had $4.4 million cash on had at the end of April. The RNC, however, had raised nearly twice as much and had $40.6 in the bank.

The Democratic National Committee received more than $3 million in PAC contributions in this election cycle — a period covering all of 2007 and so far this year, according to its latest report with the Federal Election Commission.

Both parties also rely on lobbyists for money, but their biggest sources of money tend to be donors in the securities and investment industries or in real estate. The DNC raised more than $3 million so far this election cycle from lawyers and lobbyists, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. That was the narrowest category analyzed, meaning much of that money did not come from federally registered lobbyists.

The Republican National Committee raised $1.1 million this election cycle from lawyers and lobbyists, according to the center.

While the DNC has been the least successful fundraising operation in the Democratic Party, its takeover by the Obama camp means it will likely see a dramatic jump in fundraising. Obama has been the leader in the presidential money race, raising a record $264 million.

DNC Chairman Howard Dean set up a joint fundraising committee earlier to amass money for the eventual nominee. Acceding to Obama’s wishes, that committee already was not accepting money from federal lobbyists.

Heckler – Morales is an extradition case. The question of whether a person is tried in his home country or the country where the incident occurred.

From your link:

“But Iraqi witnesses said the US troops shot dead five unarmed men when they approached the scene of the bombing in a car.

The troops were then accused going to nearby houses and killing 19 other civilians”

19+5 = 24. All civilians according to our ally. All dead. I think that makes 24 dead civilians. Of course, since they are Iraqis they don’t matter.

And when have we EVER allowed our active duty soldiers engaged in military operations to be judged by another nations laws

Saw it in Korea first hand.

Yeah Ben, when it’s someone else’s neck, you are more than willing to give up the rights of military people aren’t you?

Throw out constitutional law so you can satisfy your Liberal blood lust because of your hatred of the military?

So Ben, what is it about Constitutional rights that you don’t think military personnel should get?

Should have just let the Iraqi’s hang them without a trial right Ben? I mean, your buddy Congressman Murtha had them tried and convicted before any trial.

You’re liking lynch parties Ben?

Ben

And you believe the “witness” who came forth 2 Months after the fact?

Study the case Ben. Tell me what was seen on the film from the Predator drone that flew over the battle field that day. The footage that military brass at some level didnt want introduced in the case. It tells exactly what happened that day.

I’ll wait.

And you really need to get over that “Appocolypse Now” “Platoon” “Full Metal Jacket” view of our troops as a bunch of thugs. It’s crap.

SolDevVB
Posted June 5, 2008 at 10:53 am | Permalink
Regular,

Can you please cut and paste from the constitution where any American citizen that commits a crime against foreign persons on foreign soil should not be held accountable by that foreign nation?
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Here’s a thorough article on the UCMJ Sol. You do remember that from the military don’t you Sol?

Or do all Army peeps fall asleep during their annual UCMJ briefing?

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ICK/is_3_14/ai_68507686

Thanks, Predestined! I actually remember 6/8/1974! I was not yet sixteen, living in Hays, and my (paternal) grandmother was bestowing upon us a mercifully rare visit. She, my mother and I spent the entire evening huddled in our little half-basement, a horrid, unfinished, dirty little hovel that required our presence because of several tornado warnings.

Luckily, the twisters didn’t touch down in Hays that evening, but I wasn’t cognizant of what happened in Wichita.

I guess my grandmommy’s presence was more scary than the tornado. A mean, mannish woman – she had befouled my father’s funeral by asking how old our wonderful little tabby cat was, and when I answered, “Eight,” – she glared at me and said, “Well…..he doesn’t have long to live, does he?”

This was at a funeral, no less……..

My precious little round-faced feline lived for eight more years. I never saw Grandma in person again after that June evening 34 years ago. But that’s OK. I never saw Tim Curry in “Rocky Horror Picture Show” either……….

So can you cut and paste the part that covers the occupied country not being able to prosecute for crimes committed?

And the UCMJ is not covered in the constitution.

So the soldier tried in Korea for rape, that didn’t happen? He was tried and convicted by the Korean courts.

“allowing the south Korean court jurisdiction over crimes committed by US soldiers”

SolDevVB
Posted June 5, 2008 at 11:12 am | Permalink
So can you cut and paste the part that covers the occupied country not being able to prosecute for crimes committed?

And the UCMJ is not covered in the constitution.

So the soldier tried in Korea for rape, that didn’t happen? He was tried and convicted by the Korean courts.

“allowing the south Korean court jurisdiction over crimes committed by US soldiers”
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You really did sleep through your UCMJ briefings while you were in the Army didn’t ya Sol?

Yes, convictions in countries by civilian authorities where there are no conflicts going on is common place.

What part of combat as it concerns the UCMJ are you not understanding Sol?

I didn’t realize this was going to be a remedial training session for ex-Army troops needing re-indoctrination on the Articles of War and how military personnel are handled in legal affairs when armed conflict is going on.

Perhaps if Vaughn Tolle was around, he could explain it better. He worked in the JAG office for the Air Force.

You do remember what JAG did don’t ya Sol?

One of those stories that makes you shout “Get a rope!”, a Police officer pulls over a car driving erratically.
He get to the driver’s window to discover a woman who has been convicted numerous time for DUI.
Drunk and HAS HER ONE YEAR OLD STEERING THE CAR! along with her eight y.o. and five y.o. in the back seat. Her excuse was she had to run a couple of DVDs down a few blocks and thought it would be fun for the baby to steer!

And, as noted irregular, I did not advocate turning our military over. Only civilians charged with such offenses. Just as I would be turned over if I went to a foreign country and killed someone.

Sol – why do you hate the military?

I never saw Tim Curry in “Rocky Horror Picture Show” either……….

Good grief! Go rent the movie and SEE IT!

Okay, I’ll amend that comment. The first half is worth watching. The second half? Not so much. Once Meatloaf arrives on his motorcycle, it goes downhill for me. But Tim is magnificent as Dr. Frankenfurter, as he always is. And those LIPS!!! That was all I needed to see in Legend to know who it was.

P-destined: But you wouldn’t have wanted to see my paternal grandmommy. Think Roseanne Barr at the Super Bowl……..think Lorena Bobbitt with shoulder pads, a real deep voice, and a sharper knife to boot. To see her and my paternal grandpappy together in the same room could have caused me to 1) have a sex-change operation; and 2) join the Promise Keepers as their mascot.

So, any tornado we be likely to get today couldn’t possibly be as scary……………………………………

Regular,

Thanks for the post on the similar weather conditions. I’d read some about it and decided it was definitely time to get that weather alert radio, after thinking about it for a long time. It’s now sitting in my bedroom. Daytime storms aren’t a big deal. It’s the ones at night that scare me more. I can’t SEE anything! I slept through the storm last Saturday morning, while my son-in-law’s car was getting hammered by golf ball sized hail.

FilmFan, I can see why you remember June 8, 1974 so well! It may have been one of many where I stood by the big picture window and watched the southwest sky, radios turned on in every room to keep updated on what was happening.

I heard the Udall tornado or a tornado spawned from the same storm when I was a little kid. I’ve never forgotten the sounds, and we weren’t all that close to it coming up U.S. 81 (Broadway) from the south of Wichita.

I respect Mother Nature and especially tornadoes.

Well there Ben, let me give you a couple of scenarios.

Let’s put the scenarios in 2005 Iraq.

A U.S. Army mortar crew has been ordered to attack an Al Qaeda position. Unknown to them, the Al Qaeda outpost has been placed on a thousand year old ‘herding’ trail. A shepherd walks by with his family and herd of sheep. They are all killed by the U.S. Army mortar men pre-planned launch when the attack is prosecuted.

another scenario:

A U.S. Marine tank weighing in at about 60 tons is rumbling down the road to an objective ordered by their commander. Without warning an Iraqi van with insurgents pulls in front of them and starts attacking the tank. The Marine tank gunner opens up with a 50 calibur and sprays the van with bullets. Behind the van sets a small outdoor cafe. The Iraqi civilians sitting at the cafe drinking their teas are all killed or wounded.

Now, according to you Ben and Sol, these military people should be prosecuted in a civilian court in Iraq. Er wait…there were no working courts in Iraq in 2005 and certainly no appeal process. The military men and women were acting under orders in a combat zone.

How far should the arrest and confinement by civilian government of Iraq go? To their commanding officer? To his commanding officer and all the way up the chain of command to the POTUS?
(I’m sure you would like that wouldn’t you Ben)

If this were the case that military members should be tried by civilian authorities during times of conflict, then no one would ever enter the military because of the fear they would be held at the mercy of local courts and customs.

Turkey has some very archaic laws when it comes to imprisonment and juris prudence. You do not want to be arrested in Turkey ever! Military members are briefed about it and exercise due caution. However, we are not in an armed conflict in Turkey, so their civilian laws apply. Most acts of violation committed by military members in Turkey would be of non-combatant status, so it is fair that Turkey could try them.

However, when a military member is in combat status, all bets are off. Combat is a very unique situation, boundaries are fuzzy and the fog of war is very confusing.

We simply must not and should not leave our military out hanging in legal no man’s land when they are in combat.

To do so, would mean the end of any military and thusly the defense of the United States.

oops! Most of the state of Kansas is now under a Tornado Watch until 8 p.m. tonight.

Not that I am a big fan of big box stores, but Best Buy has a decent catalog and can get most anything you want (on CD) if you order it.

Also, some of the used CD stores have a pretty good selection.

I used to have some 500 CD’s – lost ‘em to a thief.

And if you’ve never listened to Toni Price at Waterloo Ice House or the Continental Club, well, you havent lived. And you’re too late. She’s relocated to Memphis and has a new “album” heheheh out called Talk Memphis!

Clark, I’m sad for you :(

I had almost a thousand vinyl albums I kept stored at my Mom’s house for climate control purposes. And then she had a flood in the basement and by the time I got to them, they were moldy and destroyed.

Irreplaceable.

Theirs a new store in the Delano district that sells old records, would imagine someone at the village flea market sells them too. as for why their aren’t record stores, or at least very few, could be they haven’t made records for 20 years, cassette tapes are all but extinct too.

“Clark, I’m sad for you.”

My second ex got custody of my vinyl when I divorced her – she promised to bring them back “one day.”

Never happened.

I had original Sgt. Pepper’s, many Beatles, Stones, Hendrix plus a bunch of Detroit rock bands that never hit it nationally. I also had pre-Night Moves Seger, when he was just a regional act in Detroit in the Sixties.

The good old days……………………….

bth
Posted June 5, 2008 at 11:58 am | Permalink
Irregular – and, as you would note if you knew how to read – I only advocated extradition for CIVILIANS – as did Sol.
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Yeah, sure ya did Ben, read what you wrote below.
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bth
Posted June 5, 2008 at 9:37 am | Permalink
“A US military jury has acquitted a marine of charges that he helped cover up the killing of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha in 2005.”

In other words; the military coverup continues.

I sure with I could have a jury of my buddies if I were accused of a crime.

WS,

You defnitely need to get Pandora on your computer. You won’t need 2 windows open, and you can choose your music, making up your own “radio stations”. Easy to use and FREE!

http://pandora.com

I have lots of vinyl, but nothing to play them on. :( Anybody know where I can get a needle/cartridge for a Technics Direct Drive turntable? I know they aren’t horribly expensive, because I replaced it once, several years ago. I just don’t know here to go to get one now. Turntables are so not “in” anymore. Once I get it running, I’ll rip to CD.

Let’s see, 300 dead people voting and it’s a non-news story? Certainly an indication that voter fraud is likely taking place and is not a difficult crime to commit.

What I don’t understand is how the government officials just cite it as a clerical error and think that there was no voter fraud. Was there a formal investigation by law enforcement officials? Not likely.

I wonder if the dead voters cast there ballots to keep the status quo. . .

Chas,

Rectors closed a few years ago.

Al’s is farther west on Douglas, past Seneca and closer to Vine. North side of the street.

Predestined
Posted June 5, 2008 at 12:12 pm | Permalink
Regular, I’ve got a bunch of old 33’s of those big bands. We’re putting them in a garage sale this summer. Want me to give you a heads-up?

Anybody else? There’s some good classical sets, too. 40’s and some early 50’s, before rock & roll hit.
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Thanks for the heads up!

However, I’ve gone totally digital now with CD and DVD. The quality is much better and the storage problem less significant.

bth
Posted June 5, 2008 at 12:17 pm | Permalink
Irregular “9:37 am” – which is consistetn with my statement that their trial should be moved from the military courts to the civilian courts.
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Sure thang Ben (wink,wink)

(insert weasel words here)

gster
Posted June 5, 2008 at 12:18 pm | Permalink
Pre- Go on the web for your cartridge/stylus. I had no problem finding the drive belts for the Teac deck I bought in Nam- every thing’s out there.
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heh heh, I bought a Teac reel to reel back then.
What a monster and obnoxious piece of equipment.

Almost bought some Bose speakers, but settled for Pioneer. Bose were still expensive back then too.

Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions. However…………………….

I JUST WENT TO AMAZON.COM AND LISTENED TO 30-SECOND SOUND BYTES OF CYPRESS HILL’S “TILL DEATH DO US PART” CD! I WANT THAT CD! I WANT IT NOW! THIS CHICK IS KNOWN FOR HER PATIENCE – BUT THIS AIN’T ONE OF THOSE TIMES!

Suffice it to say I couldn’t keep still – or silent – or stand it. Luckily, it was during my lunch break and there was no one around – or so I thought. I was hummin’ (softly) along to the title song, and one of my colleagues marched up to me and said, “WHY AREN’T YOU IN MUSIC????”

I appreciated the compliment, but it and similar kudos just reinforce how I’ve languished my life away, or life has simply passed Big Bertha bye-bye, so……………..

THAT’S ANOTHER KICKIN’ REASON WHY I WANT THAT CD IN MY OPEN PALMS RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE!!!!!!! This is one great CD. Before its release, Cypress Hill was just one more dope-smoking, profanity-spewing rap act whose lead singer, B-Real, gained (brief) fame for cornucopic coupling with Carmen Elektra on Howard Stern’s E! show in 1998.

But this CD stirred my soul. For one thing, I love reggae-influenced music, and “What’s Your Name?” – derived as it was from The Clash’s “Guns of Brixton” – just riveted me.

Please, if anyone knows anyone with a copy of this CD, please let me know. Otherwise, I’m gonna have to order it from Amazon – and this chick is burning with impatience right about now…..

Judge OKs Blackwater Facility at US-Mexican Border

The private military contractor Blackwater is expected to begin holding training sessions today at a new facility in San Diego, California, just blocks from the Mexico border. On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled Blackwater could open its new 61,000-square-foot center, despite attempts by San Diego officials to stall the plan. Blackwater has been accused of secretly setting up the border facility by applying for city permits under the names of affiliated companies.

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/5/headlines

Now we’ll have these a$$holes in our own backyard.

Ex-Bush Health Official Wins $11 Million 9/11 Workers Contract

The Centers for Disease Control has awarded an $11 million contract to a company headed by a former Bush cabinet official to track the health of thousands of workers who worked at Ground Zero following the 9/11 attacks. The company, Logistics Health, is headed by former secretary of health and human services Tommy Thompson. Thompson has previously been criticized for largely ignoring the health risks facing Ground Zero workers. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney said, “It is ironic that former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson’s firm won the contract to provide the services, given the history of delay from the Bush administration when he was secretary and now.”

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/5/headlines

Nuff said?

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey and Iran have been carrying out coordinated strikes against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, a top general said Thursday in the first military confirmation of Iranian-Turkish cooperation in the fight against separatists there.

Gen. Ilker Basbug, Turkey’s land forces commander, said the two countries have been sharing intelligence and planned more coordinated attacks in the future against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and PEJAK, the group’s Iranian wing.

“We are sharing intelligence with Iran, we are talking, we are coordinating,” CNN-Turk television quoted Basbug as telling reporters on the sidelines of a security conference in Istanbul.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,363413,00.html

Rock on. Glad it is sooooo much better over there

BTW, how much money did we give Turkey this year?

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is not trying to set up permanent military bases in Iraq, even surreptitiously, the diplomat leading tense talks with Iraq said Thursday.

U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker rejected the notion that the legal and military agreements he wants this year are blueprints for an everlasting American military presence inside Iraq.

“It is not going to be forever,” he told reporters at the State Department.

Crocker addressed suspicions, including among many Iraqis, that the Bush administration is trying to wrap up deals for an indefinite military presence in Iraq that the next U.S. president could not undo.

“There isn’t going to be an agreement that infringes on Iraqi sovereignty,” and the military agreement will have a provision for periodic review and renewal, as do similar agreements with other countries, Crocker said.

The deals would establish a long-term security relationship between Iraq and the United States, and a legal basis to keep U.S. troops in Iraq after the U.N. mandate expires at the end of the year.

Negotiations are intense, particularly over the longevity of military bases, control of Iraqi airspace and the legal status of civilian contractors such as the Blackwater security guards involved in a deadly confrontation that killed 17 Iraqi civilians last September.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,363465,00.html

Mmmmm Hmmmm

Predestined,

I don’t know of anyplace in Wichita that does sell them, however online I did find the following link:

http://www.gemm.com/c/search.pl?currency=US&seller=NEEDLEFINDER&filt_section_ignore=1&disp_ad_format_mode=0&field=ARTIST+OR+TITLE&wild=panasonic+turntable+needle&S=Search

I’m not certain if this is what you are looking for or not.

FilmFan,

Is it a full CD you’re looking at or one song? I’d be more than happy to download it for you from Amazon and burn it to a CD. That is, if it’s available with Pepsi points. I’ve downloaded a ton of music and have enough points right now for over 20 songs.

Let me go check the title and artist, and I’ll get back to you here on it.

Predestined,

You are welcome.

Sol – thanks for the upadtes. You definitely watch the news well.

No worries Ben. Hardley ever get comment. Didn’t know anyone read them.

Lacker Says Fed Loans to Wall Street Risk More Crises

June 5 (Bloomberg) — Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Jeffrey Lacker said the lending to securities firms that the central bank introduced in March may lay the seeds of further financial crises.

“The danger is that the effect of the recent credit extension on the incentives of financial-market participants might induce greater risk taking,” Lacker said in a speech to the European Economics and Financial Centre in London. That “in turn could give rise to more frequent crises,” he said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aeBFOf_7tKPs&refer=home

What a SHOCKER !!!! OK, my guy was far and away the economist of the whole lot. I already know the McCain is “Not too good on the economy, but I did buy Greenspan’s book”. So, does anyone know how Obama is dealing with the economy?

Nevermind, looks like I get to run and hide too!

Sol – the whole thing about “too big to fail” …

Reminds me of an old saying: “You owe the bank 10 quid and they own you. You owe the bank a million quid and you own the bank”

Veepstakes: Pawlenty Aims to Raise Profile Within GOP

Publicly, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) demurs when asked about his interest in serving as John McCain’s running-mate. Privately, however, Pawlenty is doing all the right things to make sure he keeps his name in the mix as spring turns to summer.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty addresses delegates at the Republican state convention May 31 in Rochester, Minn. (AP Photo via Star Tribune)Last week, Pawlenty traveled to North Carolina to raise money for two congressmen — Reps. Robin Hayes and Patrick McHenry.

Yesterday, Pawlenty keynoted a Republican Governors Association event in Atlanta — one of six GOP governors speaking to a group of well-heeled donors that included the CEOs of UPS, Siemens and Southern Company. His topic was how the party can “pursue environmentally responsible ways to grow business,” according to one attendee. The event collected more than $700,000 for the RGA.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/06/pawlenty_positions_for_veep.html?hpid=topnews

Obama Confronts Lieberman On McCain Advocacy, Tone, on Senate Floor
June 05, 2008 11:27 AM

Sen. Joe Lieberman, the self-described “Independent Democrat” who caucuses with the Democratic party in the Senate even though he has endorsed Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, got some tough talk from Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, yesterday about his advocacy for the presumptive Republican presidential candidate and the general tone of the campaign, Democratic sources tell ABC News.

Returning to the Senate after his securing the Democratic presidential nomination, Obama and Lieberman greeted each on the Senate floor in the Well as they were voting on the budget resolution.

They shook hands. But Obama didn’t let go, leading Lieberman – cordially – by the hand across the room into a corner on the Democratic side, where Democratic sources tell ABC News he delivered some tough words for the junior senator from Connecticut, who had just minutes before hammered Obama’s speech before the pro-Israel group AIPAC in a conference call arranged by the McCain campaign.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/06/obama-confronts.html

Oh, whoops, guess y’all are trying…

AUNTI EM! AUNTI EM! UNCLE HENRY! UNCLE HENRY!

shit…

There’s no place like home… there’s no place like home…….

YIKES!

Uh oh, new storm approaching from the south. I better go feed and water the girls and give ‘em last rites….

Just bolt everything down, KFG, and hand on!!!

Who said I was anywhere near Wichita?

I’m still in the middle of it.

KFG, watch for stampeding elephants!

I’m serious LOL

Windy and murky here in Wichita.

Hey kfg? Don’t hurt the storms unless it’s them or you.

Lists stations, coverage, etc.

‘NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards’
http://www.weather.gov/nwr/

If you need an external antenna (Faq section) follow the instuctions at their page, plus mount the top section horizontally, and at 90 degrees to the transmitter. If the station is due north, run the wires east-west.

I’m still laughing about the elephants.

I guess I wont worry unless they spot a lion, a tin man and a scarecrow chasing after them.

We’re clear, but beautiful mammatus clouds and scuds.

That circus I believe is the same one that was cited for their elephants dying a few years ago due to lack of veterinary care. They’ve been cited many times, I’m surprised they’re allowed to exist.

Tre Burgos, age 2, of Florida, was diagnosed as a baby with optic nerve hypoplasia, a medical condition that results in underdevelopment of the optic nerves and causes blindness. After an experimental adult stem cell treatment in China 2 months ago, his vision improved from severely impaired at 20/1200 to just seriously impaired at 20/200, which means that now he will be able to enjoy mobility and reading.
Meanwhile, useless, unethical embryonic stem cell research still cures or treats nothing, and likely never will, in spite of hyped-up lies about healing the blind and the lame and the sick.
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A baby girl, named May Angel, died after being abandoned in a garbage bin in Lakeland, FL on May 9, 2006. Kami Sargent, the child’s mother according to DNA evidence confirmed this past week, was arrested in November 2007 for driving while her license was suspended, which required the DNA sample. Sargent admitted leaving the full-term baby in the garbage bin to conceal her pregnancy. She is being held in Polk County jail without bond.
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Jill Jones, 21, of Benton, AR, who hid the birth of a girl in 2006 and then gave the dead infant to her boyfriend, who burned and discarded the body in a garbage bin, was sentenced Monday to 22 days in jail and six years’ probation. Jones, who pleaded guilty in Saline County Circuit Court to one count of concealed childbirth, a class D felony punishable by up to six years in prison, will also spend a week in jail on the anniversary of the baby’s birth, and pay a $1 fine.
Jones’ shyster, Bill James, said shame, remorse and embarrassment are sufficient punishment for this crime [though that won’t help protect the dead babies we are finding in our garbage bins].
Jones claimed to have given birth to a stillborn baby in 2006, but the couple was not arrested until nearly a year later, after a tip about boyfriend Christian Helsham, 22, talking about disposing of the tiny body, which was never recovered.
We can’t keep our garbage bins free of abandoned and murdered newborns, folks, without enforcing tough felony sentences for concealed childbirth.

As a Christian, parkay, you should be able to heal the blind, the lame and the sick.

Jesus said you would do greater things than even He could do.

Perhaps you’re holding out on us…or maybe you only SAY you’re a Christian.

Lot of THAT going around these days.

baby girl, named May Angel, died after being abandoned in a garbage bin in Lakeland, FL on May 9, 2006. Kami Sargent, the child’s mother according to DNA evidence confirmed this past week, was arrested in November 2007 for driving while her license was suspended, which required the DNA sample. Sargent admitted leaving the full-term baby in the garbage bin to conceal her pregnancy. She is being held in Polk County jail without bo_______

2 lives ruined instead of one, Parkay is so proud.

And in the third story,he’s advocating that women can’t even hide their pregnancies now???????????????

WTF. There are many women who HIDE their pregnancies in order to PROTECT THEMSELVES.

Newman is so friggin CLUELESS. If you want fewer dumpster babies, you make NON GUILTING programs for women in trouble, more access to BIRTH CONTROL, and more access to their freedom to choose.

Except of course the baby…it’s still dead either way.
But that’s okay, the baby can’t resist, or protest or vote, so what difference does it make.

For that matter what difference does it make whether the baby is left in a dumpster to die, or with “more access to their freedom to choose” killed another way, it still ends up dead in the dumpster either way.

Abortion has colored our view of life as cheap and disposable…what difference does it make how the baby dies to someone who views unwanted innocent life as something to throw away?

Too many women have to actually walk up to a person and hand the baby over, a risk many aren’t willing to take. I’d much rather see a woman have an abortion when the fetus has no feeling rather than wait till they’re born. its also possible that the child was born dead and didn’t know what to do with it. This is how traumatic pregnancy is, they’re in total denial, then when they finally give birth, they’re so freaked out they don’t know what to do.

Well we know that some women who are pregnant are just not suited to the task, so you ruin two lives instead of just one Mary. I will always propose that the woman’s life is more important as long as the child is in her womb and dependent on the woman.

There is so much psychological and emotional warfare going on in a pregnant woman, a man cannot possibly understand how dangerous of a time it is, as well as physically.

Power out for several hours.

Ya didn’t take them storms to task enough kfg.

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