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Sorry, no update this week. I only have one of my papers "done" (because, you know, they're never really "done"), one of my art directors is in tears, I've had no time to do much of anything and I have to leave for an accupuncture appointment that I'm dreading (not all accupuncture is painless) AND I just found out my health insurance won't cover it those bastards. (You know I could treat this problem I have with western medicine costing 10's of thousands of dollars. Idiots.) Oh, and I just realized this morning that I'm turning 41 next month. JEEBUS! When the hell did THAT happen!? It's killing me to not update because there's so much to rant about! Alas, I cannot. I'll try to do something soon. Keep checking. I'll be back 'cause with the crew we have running things right now, it can only get bumpier. The Vidiot's weekly blog: What pissed me off this week? 4/11/2005 (A day early this week.) (updated every Monday at some point during the day) ...'cause I'm angry and my friends are sick of listening to me... Track your congresscritters here!
Free stuff can be found here Mirror (in case geocities is wacky or, in case of trouble in New York, check it for messages): http://129.79.148.33/vidiotcontact/ This is going to be a brief update, as will the next few weeks. I have mucho mucho crap to write for my classes. I have one 20-page paper that is a case study on Bush's lead-up to the Iraq war, which has been so interesting that I've put way too much effort into it. The other 20-page paper is about environmental regimes-- what works, what doesn't and why and I've only just begun that one. Both are due May 3 or something. Yikes. List of the Week: The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord Must-Read of the Week: Lurching towards theocracy Gallery of the Week: Ingenious, but perhaps impractical devices How-to of the Week: Instructions for Making a Film Canister Leyden Jar Photos of the Week: Living Jewels Superstar
of the Week: Clinton
goes to Rome. Not Sure It's Safe Site of the Week: Fun with microwave ovens. Story update: Think my paranoia about the coming pandemic is just paranoia? Guess again: Angola's neighbors put on Marburg alert and Marburg Virus Spreads to Zaire and Bird Flu Strains Might Combine and "Hot zone": the Angola Marburg virus outbreak and (yikes) Marburg Airborne Transmission in Angola? (Kinda' makes this list of dead microbiologists oh so scary. ) Story Update: The Schiavo memo was real. But don't wait up for that apology. Story Update: Clint Curtis, the guy that exposed the existence of vote-rigging software to congress (video), passed a lie detector test. Story Update: Plamegate is over. I repeat, Plamegate is over. Novak will remain free. As will Karl Rove, et al. Please return to your sofas. Hero of the Week Gen. Wes Clark for calling Perle out on the carpet.
They're not all bad, they're just drawn that way. Now that I finally understand what PNAC and all that is about, I understand why they want new nuclear warheads.
See, to them, not having shiny and new nuclear warheads is just as bad as not having nuclear warheads at all. Though, just because they're not always malevolent, doesn't mean they're never malevolent.
Whitewash I totally agree with this headline.
If I get an
A on my paper regarding Bush and the Iraq war, I'll post it 'cause I made
quite the diagram of who's who in the OSP. If my prof. pans it however,
I'll climb under a rock and the paper will never again see the light of
day.
Excellent Idea of the Week If you want to do business with Argentina, you better be prepared to be up front and honest.
Of course, with our politicians skirting campaign finance laws using off-shore accounts, don't look for the US to make any similar moves against offshore banking. DeLay is probably thanking his lucky stars that the media was obsessed with the pope's death. Otherwise, they would've had to talk about all the crap going on in DeLay's life right now. (Rumor Mill: Rove is gunning for DeLay.) This can't be good GM was downgraded by Moody's.
(I assume that GM pulled their ad out of the LA Times because the LA Times was writing about how sucky they were doing.) Meanwhile, the chimp opened his mouth and crap came out.
And here's something that can't possibly go wrong.
And this too sounds like a fabulous idea.
'Splain this to me. They're too broke to help out the little people.
But they have plenty of scratch to pay private investigators so they can screw the little people.
News of the Weird Interesting papal facts.
If it's true, it's weird.
I can relate. I hate cockroaches too.
I didn't talk about the finger in the chili thing last week 'cause I had a feeling she was lying. Now, it appears I might've been right.
The question remaining is: where'd she get the finger?
What do we do about all of this crap? I have no idea. Part of me wants to start teach-ins at my local pub. Just go to the bar, rant and rave and inform the idiots who still think Dan Rather is telling them the truth. Another part of me wants to organize a voter observation program to insure that this moron isn't in the White House all the way to 2008. I sincerely believe that if we protected the voting rights of the underprivileged that any Democrat could SWEEP any election. And we'd have to start with the Florida Election for Governor THIS FALL (like these guys!.) I don't think Democrats are the answer. But they are at least a start. At the very least, point your CNN-loving friends to my links page. Just getting started in reading alternate news sites gets people thinking. I have one friend who was very happy-go-lucky, thinking ol' Greta was telling the whole truth until I opened up his eyes a bit. Now, he's all depressed. He'll get over it. You gotta' get depressed before you get angry and you gotta' get angry before you can accomplish anything. We're all in mourning. We have to move through the steps. But we gotta' hurry it up. Read. Inform. Spread the word. Even if it means your friends avoid you for awhile. If they really love you, they'll start to listen.
"POSSE COMITATUS ACT" (18 USC 1385): A Reconstruction Era criminal law proscribing use of Army (later, Air Force) to "execute the laws" except where expressly authorized by Constitution or Congress. Limit on use of military for civilian law enforcement also applies to Navy by regulation. Dec '81 additional laws were enacted (codified 10 USC 371-78) clarifying permissible military assistance to civilian law enforcement agencies--including the Coast Guard--especially in combating drug smuggling into the United States. Posse Comitatus clarifications emphasize supportive and technical assistance (e.g., use of facilities, vessels, aircraft, intelligence, tech aid, surveillance, etc.) while generally prohibiting direct participation of DoD personnel in law enforcement (e.g., search, seizure, and arrests). For example, Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachments (LEDETS) serve aboard Navy vessels and perform the actual boardings of interdicted suspect drug smuggling vessels and, if needed, arrest their crews). Positive results have been realized especially from Navy ship/aircraft involvement. (Tom Ridge has practically said he'd do away with this act.)
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Who am I?: I am a biker chick who lives in NYC. This blog is about current events and my left-leaning, ascerbic spin on those events. Nobody pays me anything to do this. Nobody tells me what to write. I will NEVER tout anything for anybody's money! EVER! These sites are good at culling stories from a multitude of media sites: buzzflash.com
Bartcop
Ilia
Dreams Blog These blogs will be covering the primaries and elections: Salon.com's
War Room media-bias exposed:
onlinejournal.com
whatreallyhappened.com
HIGHLY entertaining:
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for godsakes, stay away if you must succumb to reading a newspaper:
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