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What pissed me off this week? 8/29/2005

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Another short one this week. Went to Atlantic City. What a gross and disgusting place. Had to be done at least once though.

Of all of the things that pissed me off this week, and the police raid of the rave in Utah was the most huge, followed by Pat Robertson's mouth diarrhea (and Chavez knows who's to blame if anything bad happens and he may even indict Robertson. Sah-lappp!), all has been overshadowed by what's going on in New Orleans. To someone from New Orleans, it's as bad as 9/11. To someone who's from New Orleans who's not there right now, they want to be there. I remember when 9/11 happened and I spoke with a NYC friend of mine who was overseas at the time, he said that of all the things he felt about that day, what he remembers most is how much he wanted to be back here in the city. Well, anyone who calls New Orleans home is feeling a bit like we New Yorkers felt on 9/11. Only, they don't have anyone to blame. That has to be worse. Fortunately, as of this posting, New Orleans didn't get hit as hard as the media blowhards hyped, but it's still going to be bad.

And here's a thought from Mike Rivero over at whatreallyhappened.com:

If you are one of those who believe that all things are ordained by God, then this hurricane must be one of them. Hence, one has to ask why this hurricane (and its numerous predecessors) are aimed at the United States instead of at Iran and Iraq? After all, Bush said his orders to invade the Middle east had come from God. So, if you believe that God charts Katrina's course, then it follows he is sending the US a clear and unambiguous message that the President, who lied about Iraq's WMDs (Thou shalt not bear false witness), to launch a war of conquest (Thou shalt not kill) to grab Iraq's oil (Thou shalt steal, and Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's property), has steered the nation onto an unholy path and all who follow him share the sins. That one should bake your noodle for a while.

Maybe King George, who already short-shrifted New Orleans as far as funding their hurricane protection, should take this opportunity to rethink his lack of respect for nature.

Picture of the Week: Mars from on high

Dumb stuff of the Week: Bad Microwave Oven Ideas

Do-it-yourself of the Week: Make your own bullshit protectors

Spin of the Week: GW Bush: not really on vacation.

Finally! of the Week: Guys are giving up waxing.

Clock of the Week: U.S. National Debt

What will be the Forwarded Email of the Week: Statements You Might Wish You'd Thought Of

So, they fire the guys who had good information about Atta, information never passed on to Clinton and Clarke, by the way

Excerpt:The Right Wing is trying to lay Able Danger dropping the ball on Atta at the feet of Bill Clinton, but as I theorized before it was actually neo-cons in the Pentagon who blocked the ID from going to the FBI and thus Clarke and Clinton. The brass even told the AD team to put yellow sticky pads over the photos and names of Atta and the Gang!!

because they might've pointed a finger or two at George's pet, Condi.

Excerpt: Cyber-sleuths working for a Pentagon intelligence unit that reportedly identified some of the 9/11 hijackers before the attack were fired by military officials, after they mistakenly pinpointed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other prominent Americans as potential security risks, The New York Post reports in registration-restricted Saturday editions, RAW STORY has learned. Excerpts follow.

In-credible.

We all knew this was coming. Tony Blair will most likely take a job with the Carlyle Group.

Excerpt:The PM is being lined up for a highly lucrative position with the Carlyle Group - an American-based investment giant with strong links to the White House and the defence industry

Payback for being the superior poodle I suppose.

And here's another no-brainer.

Excerpt: Black, Hispanic and white motorists are equally likely to be pulled over by police, but blacks and Hispanics are much more likely to be searched, handcuffed, arrested and subjected to force or the threat of it, a Justice Department study has found.

Yeah. It's called getting a DWB - driving while black.

Only on FOX could this be treated as serious news.

Excerpt:Asking for increased vigilance in the wake of the London bombings, the government is warning that terrorists may pose as vagrants to conduct surveillance of buildings and mass transit stations to plot future attacks.

Though, I have to say, FOX's news coverage of the New Orleans thing wasn't too bad. Maybe, as long as a political agenda is not needed, they're fine as a new source. Except for Geraldo. My word he's annoying. Oh, and they kept referring to the bible and stuff while they were reporting. OK, on second thought, they still suck.

Uh, what exactly is NASA salvaging in the Antarctic?

Excerpt:The United States for the first time admitted it is engaged in a "salvage operation" in Antarctica and says that a recently discovered "anomaly" two miles beneath the ice is a NASA Mars module lost during an ill-fated training mission 31 years ago.

Rumor has it the thing had nuclear power, which violate assloads of international agreements regarding nuclear material in the Antarctic region.

I've mentioned Wayne Madsen before. He's a breathless investigative reporter. I mean, he's good, and some of his information is good, but he just does it in such an emotional way, it's hard to swallow everything he dishes out. Anyway, he's dug up some financial connections between Osama and Poppy Bush.

Excerpt: WMR has obtained further paper trails linking George H. W. Bush's longtime mysterious Swiss German money mover (see July 24-25 article below)  to a now defunct bank operated on behalf of Osama Bin Laden, his family, and some of his closest business associates.

No wonder he feels like his life is threatened.

Excerpt:At Wayne Madsen's request we are putting this message to him from a source high in a United States Intelligence agency. Wayne is now in hiding and on the run after his source revealed that a private contractor assassination team had been hired to take him out due to his articles and exposures in Insider-Magazine.com and WayneMadsenreport.com. 

Don't mess with Poppy.

There was a line in this LA Times story that really got my goat. Overall, the article is about Christian being groomed for political positions. Here's the offending line.

Excerpt:Evangelical programs on Capitol Hill seek to mold a new generation of leaders who will answer not to voters, but to God.

If you can't see what's wrong with that, I've taught you nothing.

Yet another reason to not use Google.

Excerpt: The revamped desktop search system is much more active and keeps an eye on what users do and instantly displays relevant webpages, blog entries, documents, messages and photos in a hovering, on-screen panel.

Well, soylent green IS people, after all.

Excerpt: Some religious leaders may be incandescent with rage and public opinion may be inflamed, but two Swedish crematoria say they have no plans to stop heating local homes with the energy from burning bodies.

But at least it's more useful than the eternal reef idea.

Excerpt: Families and friends are invited and encouraged to participate in the creation of their loved ones memorial reef. From placing your handprint in the damp concrete during the casting, making a rubbing of the bronze plaque during the viewing ceremony or placing a flag on your loved ones memorial reef during our military honors ceremony, all Eternal Reefs activities provide peace of mind for everyone involved

What the hell is this thing?

Excerpt: A Texas farmer may have found what some would call a "chupacabra," a legendary animal known for sucking the blood out of goats.

Previous rants

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.

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I am a biker chick who lives in NYC. This blog is about current events and my left-leaning, acerbic 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!

Use this instead of Google:

Clusty.com

These sites are good at culling stories from a multitude of media sites:

buzzflash.com
unknownnews.net
rawstory.com

Here are some excellent blogs:

Bartcop
Daily Kos
Atrios
Tacitus
Josh Marshall
Two Glasses
Brad DeLong
The Wonkette
Urban Survival
Greg Palast
Mark Crispin Miller

Link exchange:

Ilia Dreams Blog
Iraq War Blog
BushVote.com
Dommecile.com
Funny Farm

media-bias exposed:

dailyhowler.com

these are good left-wing journalism sites:

onlinejournal.com
counterpunch.com
thenation.com
inthesetimes.com
tompaine.com
commondreams.org
truthout.com
guerrillanews.com

a little more to the left:

wsws.org
indymedia.org

different:

whatreallyhappened.com
almartinraw.com

more different :

surfingtheapocalypse.com

really different:

goroadachi.com/etemenanki/

and for godsakes, stay away
from FOX NEWS,  MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC.
It's ALL CRAP!!!
w atch the BBC news
or ITN news instead.

if you must succumb to reading a newspaper: 

www.guardian.co.uk 

or any other paper in another fucking country. All of our newspapers are owned by the same idiots that own the TV stations (and whose companies are diversified in industries that support the war machine) so all of the news is all the same CRAP.