DAILY NEWSLINKS
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4/10/09
Today’s newslinks dedicated to
the memory of the great Steve Plesa,
consummate editor, stellar human being, and good pal.
DAILY CONCERT
ETHEL SMITH: TICO TICO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA9qlWyk-7Q
HIDEOUS EVIL PERVERSION OF LENNON SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEo36V2RDPg
LIBERACE: TICO TICO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPAe_uHERy4
ANOTHER HIDEOUS EVIL PERVERSION OF LENNON SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb0nQjRNA1E
NEIL LEVANG: "WHEELS"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvh6Qr9NGek
ETHEL SMITH: PARAN PAN PIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs0nBgHZiTs
XAVIER CUGAT: TICO TICO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJcLUxKUOiQ
CARMEN MIRANDO: TICO TICO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Mf_AfyEt0
ALYS ROBI: TICO TICO (Francais)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRzus0L8xU8
SKYLINES:
ROBBER ROBS
DUNKIN’ DONUTS---
FEELS BAD, RETURNS THE MONEY
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/teen-robbery-dunkin-doughnut-apology-040909.html
FOR SALE:
‘BLADE RUNNER’ BLASTER
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE5391IX20090410
GOING 2 DIVORCE U
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE53858P20090409
DUMBSHIT
COP GETS ONE-DAY SUSPENSION FOR CAUSING WOMAN’S DEATH
This by-the-book authoritarianism is the bane of this whole
society today
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/One_day_suspension_for_Memphis_cop_0409.html
GERMANY TO
STAGE “THE PRODUCERS” FOR FIRST TIME
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/5131450/Germany-to-stage-Nazi-themed-musical-for-the-first-time.html
EXTRA PENIS
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/04/06/child-born-penis-middle/
AND ON TO NEWS AND
COMMENT. . .
OBAMA WANTS TO
USE CHEMTRAILS TO CUT GLOBAL WARMING
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1168637/Obama-pollution-particles-stratosphere-deflect-suns-heat-desperate-bid-tackle-global-warming.html
John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and
Technology, outlined the idea of shooting either sulphur dioxide
particles, aluminium oxide dust or specially designed aerosols into
the stratosphere - the upper level of the atmosphere between ten and
30 miles above the Earth's surface.
It is hoped that this would cool the planet by artificially
reflecting sunlight back into space before it can be absorbed.
U.S.
MILITARY BLOWS UP PIGS---TO TEST BODY ARMOR
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5128412/US-military-blew-up-pigs-to-test-body-armour.html
SO WHEN WE LOCATE REAL
TERRORISTS, WE DO NOTHING
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0410/p99s01-cole.html
Mashed media
MORE CHILDISH
LUNACY FROM AMERICAN MEDIA---
THIS TIME OVER OBAMA’S BOW TO KING ABDULLAH
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/why-cnn-we-wasting-everyones-time-obama
TABIBI:
OBAMA’S TOP ECON ADIVSOR GREEDY AND HIGHLY COMPROMISED
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/136008/obama%27s_top_economic_adviser_is_greedy_and_highly_compromised/
So I guess that $45,000 speaking fee from Merrill Lynch wasn't
technically a bribe because Summers wasn't named to Obama's economic
transition team until Nov. 24 — a full 12 days later. I'm sure Larry
Summers had absolutely no inkling whatsoever that he was going to be
one of the key advisers to the new administration on Nov. 12.
LINDORFF:
AMERICA'S IMPERIAL WARS---THE SICKENING REALITY
http://www.opednews.com/articles/America-s-Imperial-Wars-W-by-Dave-Lindorff-090410-985.html
But another reason is that the media themselves sanitize their pages
and their broadcasts. It isn’t just American dead that we don’t get
to see. It’s the civilian dead—at least if our guys do it. We are
not spared gruesome images following attacks on civilians by Iraqi
insurgent groups, or by Taliban forces in Afghanistan. But we don’t
get the same kind of photos when it’s our forces doing the
slaughtering. Because often the photos and video images do
exist—taken by foreign reporters who take the risk of going where
the US military doesn’t want them.
ENGLEHARDT:
DRONE WARS
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22377.htm
The skies of our world are filling with round-the-clock assassins.
They will only evolve and proliferate. Of course, when we check
ourselves out in the movies, we like to identify with John Connor,
the human resister, the good guy of this planet, against the evil
machines. Elsewhere, however, as we fight our drone wars ever more
openly, as we field mechanical techno-terminators with all-seeing
eyes and loose our missiles from thousands of miles away ("Hasta la
Vista, Baby!"), we undoubtedly look like something other than a
nation of John Connors to those living under the Predators. It may
not matter if the joysticks and consoles on those advanced machines
are somewhat antiquated; to others, we are now the terminators of
the planet, implacable machine assassins.
Iraq and Roll
OBAMA WANTS
ANOTHER $85 BILLION FOR IRAQ
Where are the right-wingers crying “socialism” over the fact that
the U.S. has engaged in one giant giveaway
to this stupid country, bankrupting itself in the process?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_seeks_83.4_billion_for_Iraq_0409.html
ANOTHER BOMB, ANOTHER FIVE
U.S. LIVES WASTED
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/10/iraq-mosul-suicide-bombing-kills-seven
Animal regulation
KARL ROVE IS ON
THE LOOSE
Please round this frothing beast up. . .If no one claims him a
few days. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rove_calls_Biden_liar_says_he_0410.html
MORE MEDIA
BEASTS SNARL AT OBAMA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/09/MN1I16TJEN.DTL
GLENN BECK NEEDS
TO BE CASTRATED, ABANDONED ON DESERT ISLAND
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/glenn-beck-im-obama-ok-douses-actor
Jesus H. Christ!
SAME SEX MARRIAGE
LEADS TO MASS MURDER---RELIGIOUS RIGHT
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/135997/religious_right_group_claims_same_sex_marriage_leads_to_mass_murder/
Lost Angeles
ANGELS MOURN
DEATH OF PITCHER KILLED BY DRUNK DRIVER
While nothing is done to contain the insane Wild West driving
that infests Los Angeles
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090410/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bba_angels_pitcher_killed;_ylt=As4i3B1pJODCePaL8Nj6CAV34T0D
People’s Repugnic
TIBET DEATH SENTENCES
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/04/09/tibetan-death-sentences-get-little-attention-in-china/
Enviro Wacko
SOLAR
COOKER WINS $75,000 PRIZE
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L8609281.htm
Animals in the news!
ANIMAL PICS OF
THE WEEK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/apr/10/wildlife-animals?picture=345762598
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/5131856/Animal-pictures-of-the-week-9-April-2009.html
SCORE ONE FOR THE CROCODILES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/10/crocodile-attack-australia
Pies in the news!
PA. INSISTS ON
INSPECTING HOMEMADE PIES
Repug Rep. Jim Marshall of Big Beaver (really) is pursuing new
law
http://timesonline.com/articles/2009/03/21/news/top_stories/doc49c45d028cfe7503848865.txt
MAN DIES IN PIE
FACTORY EXPLOSION
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5136712/Man-dies-in-pie-factory-explosion.html
Science
CHARLES
DARWIN’S EGG COLLECTION FOUND AFTER 200 YEARS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/evolution/5131017/Egg-collected-by-Charles-Darwin-found-at-Cambridge-University-after-200-years.html
Obit
POP WINANS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7991491.stm
AND IN MORE
IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
TALES OF
MANHATTAN, by Woody Allen
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2009/03/30/090330sh_shouts_allen?currentPage=all
Musique
FRANK ZAPPA’S
LUMPY LEGACY
How his wife’s zealous efforts to guard his legacy have alienated
fans, musicians
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102907874&sc=emaf
DYLAN ON
U.S. GRANT, OBAMA, CIVIL WAR
This is a good read
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6043331.ece
LIES, DAMNED LIES!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article6047121.ece
Film
ISABELLA
ROSSELLINI’S ‘GREEN PORNO’
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1890157,00.html
TOP TEN
JESUS FILMS
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1890518_1890479,00.htm
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Where ya goin’?
CULTURAL CRUISING
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/5135511/Cultural-cruises-All-aboard-for-a-new-perspective.html
And in the end. . .
A WOMAN AND HER CHILES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/10/international/i061742D06.DTL
4/8/09
Today’s newslinks dedicated to
the memory of the great Steve Plesa,
consummate editor, stellar human being, and good pal.
DAILY CONCERT
BITCH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtnxvpIEg8w
WOMAN IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iJC_2Xv2yI
EVIL WOMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R20f-TPKjzc
DEVIL WOMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7YaIhzN_dk
DEVIL WITH THE BLUE DRESS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tbxgw6OfpA
THE PIANO HAS BEEN DRINKING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwhdmll85v4
TOM TRAUBERT'S BLUES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZmqbcBsTAw
AKA TOMBO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKNagdlLbFo
SKYLINES:
OBAMA 1ST PREZ AT WHITE
HOUSE SEDER
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/08/obama-seder/
BIZARRE
CONTESTS, WORLD RECORDS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/photogalleries/weird-competitions-1/index.html
GOOD NEWS:
LINDSAY LOHAN IN “ABSOLUTE HELL”
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Lohan:_Ronson_has_left_me_in_absolute_hell&in_article_id=615121&in_page_id=7
SPOCK GIVES
FANS STAR TREK TREAT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7989146.stm
TENNANT CRIES OVER DR. WHO
DEMISE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/entertainment/newsid_7989000/7989827.stm
MORFORD: GIVE UP, SMOKERS!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/08/notes040809.DTL
Yes, it's the gravelly howl of the nation's livid smokers, AKA "the
last persecuted group in America" (well, except for the obese. And
Catholics, Mormons, dwarves, Hummer owners, gun lovers, vegans,
atheists, lawyers, Wall Street execs, lesbians, Mexicans, working
moms, single moms, obese single Mexican lesbian moms and a few dozen
others, but never mind that now) whose God-given civil rights are
now being trampled by our increasingly oppressive, fascist
government.
AND ON TO NEWS AND
COMMENT. . .
USA IN
GUN-BUYING FRENZY
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1889886,00.html
According to the SportsOneSource, a research firm that tracks the
sports goods industry, firearms sales in large retail outlets are up
39% this year. Shops across the country are reporting ammunition
shortages since stores can't meet demand for bullets. Data from the
FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which the
industry uses as a proxy for overall firearms sales, is also
revealing. From November 2008 through March 2009, FBI background
checks, which are required every time a federally licensed gun
dealer makes a sale, rose 29.3% over the same period a year ago.
4 SHOT, ONE DEAD AT KOREAN
CHRISTIAN RETREAT
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/07/state/n221128D72.DTL
CHINA, RUSSIA
SPIES HACKED U.S. ELECTRICITY GRID
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/US_electricity_grid_hit_by_cyber_0408.html
Chinese and Russian cyber-spies have hacked into the US electricity
grid and inserted programs that could be used to disrupt the system,
a report said Wednesday.
COPS ASSAULTED
MAN BEFORE HIS DEATH AT G20 PROTEST
And the cops tried to pass this off as natural causes
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Video_shows_London_police_assaulting_man_0407.html
The man, 47-year-old Ian Tomlinson, is shown walking with his hands
in his pockets and not resisting or speaking to police before a
baton-wielding officer appears to strike him in the leg from behind,
and then pushes him onto his back and the ground.
FBI SHUTS DOWN ISP SERVER
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/tv/stories/wfaa090402_lj_fbi.96b29611.html
AIDS BECOMING MORE
VIRULENT?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090407105259.htm
Israelity
OBAMA/ISRAEL---WIDENING
GAP?
http://mideast.blogs.time.com/2009/04/08/obama-israel-a-widening-gap/
Mashed Media
COP-KILLER WAS
BIG GLENN BECK/FOX NEWS FAN---
Surprise, surprise. . .
http://www.alternet.org/rights/135592/did_paranoid_right-wing_media_fuel_the_pittsburgh_cop_killer%27s_rage/
---AND
RIGHT-WING RHETORIC GETS NUTTIER AND NASTIER STILL
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/their-power-spirals-downward-rights-
CALLER TO
LIMBAUGH: YOU BRAINWASHED NAZI
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Radio_caller_tells_Limbaugh_hes_brainwashed_0408.html
WATCH: WINGNUTS GONE WILD
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/daily-show-wingnuts-gone-wild
WHY ARE ARMY
RECRUITERS KILLING THEMSELVES?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1889152,00.html
LINDORFF: NO END TO THE SCANDALS
http://thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/292
The US budget has long been a work of fiction. Now the books of the
nation’s banks and of many of its public companies will also be pure
works of fiction.
As columnist Jonathan Weil wrote in Bloomberg.com last month as the
FASB was considering making this change in its rules, “The FASB
ought to change its name to the Fraudulent Accounting Standards
Board.” The road to ruin, it turns out, is not paved with good
intentions after all. It is paved by powerful lobbyists buying
short-term benefits at the public’s expense.
BUCHANAN: KILL THE FED?
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22365.htm
RAIMUNDO:
LIBERALS RALLY AROUND OBAMA’S WAR
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/
As President Barack Obama launches a military effort that promises
to dwarf the Bush administration’s Iraqi adventure in scope and
intensity, the "progressive" community is rallying around their
commander in chief as obediently and reflexively as the neocon-dominated
GOP did when we invaded Iraq. As John Stauber points out over at the
Center for Media and Democracy Web site, the takeover of the antiwar
movement by the Obamaites is nearly complete. He cites MoveOn.org as
a prime but not sole example
People’s Repugnic
CHINA
CRACKS DOWN ON ‘SENSITIVE ANNIVERSARIES’
Time for somebody to crack down on China
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0408/p06s14-woap.html
An elderly retired professor is beaten black and blue by thugs,
under the noses of the police, for stubbornly honoring the memory of
an officially disgraced former leader. . .
CHINA ART MARKET
BUBBLE BURSTS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0407/p06s01-wosc.html
But few people in the art world here are lamenting the end of an
overheated era. "Chinese artists were seen as ATMs," says Jerome
Sans, director of the nonprofit Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
in Beijing. "Maybe now they'll stop creating for the market and
create for the mind."
PAKISTAN ISLAMIST GROUPS
FORM ALLIANCE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,618170,00.html
Animals in the news!
WILD CHIMPS
EXCHANGE MEAT FOR SEX
Just like Madonna!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090407223640.htm
WAVE GOODBYE TO
THE NICE BRITISH BUTTERFLIES!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/08/butterfly-numbers-drop-countryside
Lost Angeles
BANGLADESH/KOREA
NEIGHBORHOOD SMACKDOWN!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/us/07koreatown.html?emc=eta1
The last official count of the Bangladeshi population, in the 2000
census, showed only 1,700 in all of Los Angeles County. But the
Bangladeshi consul general here, Abu Zafar, estimates that there are
now 10,000 to 15,000 in Los Angeles and some 25,000 in Southern
California, making the region the nation’s second-largest home to
Bangladeshis, after New York City. In what the Koreans thought was
Koreatown, a handful of Bangladeshi stores have cropped up, Mr.
Zafar said, and the community is growing as a result of migration
from out of state.
Oh, by the way. . .
TRIPLE GALAXY
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/galaxytriplet.html
AND IN MORE
IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
MARINUCCI ON
BEATLES REMASTERS
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m4d7-The-Beatles-Ring-out-the-old-and-ring-in-the-new-CDs
Full report:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/arts/music/08beat.html
Obit
THE GREAT BUD SHANK
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/arts/music/07shank.html?ref=obituaries
Film
WHY KEATON IS THE KING OF COMEDY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/apr/08/buster-keaton-paul-merton-silent-clowns
BUSTERKEATON.COM
http://www.busterkeaton.com/
The Great Buster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWEo4M8nZQQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsyRhRR5Iu4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kU9BdMRQfA
Books
DAVID DENBY IS
UPSET BY SNARKINESS
http://www.reason.com/news/show/132725.html
Denby wants things as they once were, when American culture was
effectively a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie; when the Ivy League
guardians of “our conversation” ruthlessly protected it from
contamination by the jealous and uncouth. “Whatever its miseries,
the country in the thirties and forties was at peace with itself
spiritually: We were all in the same boat,” he argues. Today we have
“income inequalities and Rovian tactics that exacerbate ethnic and
class differences”; then we merely had Nazism and the Depression.
MORE PINHEAD
WOMEN BUYING MORE AND MORE ROMANCE NOVELS
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-daum4-2009apr04,0,3428708.column
It's not exactly a surprise that the romance novel business would be
pretty recession-proof; as bad as things get, a lot of people -- OK,
mostly women -- can still afford a $5 paperback. It's also no great
mystery why stories of women being wooed by chiseled, robust
millionaires would be extra appealing in an era when a lot of
millionaires are finding themselves downgraded to (if I may dust off
a favorite word from my childhood) "thousandaires."
For Art’s Sake
OH, THAT
ALL SHOULD COME TO THIS. . .
This kind of neurotic, self-indulgent preening is what passes for
art. . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2009/apr/01/mirror-fiona-banner-samantha-morton
And in the end. . .
STEVE PLESA: ADRENALINE RUSH ON
A BORING DAY
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/down-right-left-2353429-street-hard
4/6/09
DAILY CONCERT
FEAR,
HATE, ENVY, JEALOUSY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itBBHYlxHdU
SOLDIER OF LOVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CoAq4nY7Hs
GIVE ME LOVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RChR5DKgY_Y
WAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8C4AIFgUg
U.S. ARMY AD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlzdZqSVbJ4
UKRAINIAN ARMY AD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH_E6YSQqTo
RUSSIAN ARMY AD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOaGgY2yUHw
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NRriHlLUk
UNKNOWN SOLDIER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdfkYe3c5XI
AN UNTITLED PROTEST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV7mDnI16h8
SKYLINES:
RINGO AND PAUL ON STAGE
TOGETHER
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m4d5-Lynch-concert-updates--videos-of-Paul-and-Ringo-rockin-the-house-Saturday-part-3
FAWCETT BACK IN
HOSPITAL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7985008.stm
MEN ROB POP
STAR DRESSED AS PINEAPPLE
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Men_rob_pop_star_dressed_as_a_pineapple&in_article_id=611355&in_page_id=2
BRISTOL PALIN WILL
ADVOCATE ABSTINENCE
Hahahahahaha
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/05/bristol-advocate-abstinence/
VIAGRA FOR VOTES
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/03/30/viagra-buys-votes-bangkok/
ROMEO DEV
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/5114498/Romeo-Dev-the-worlds-smallest-bodybuilder-in-London.html
AND ON TO NEWS AND
COMMENT. . .
GAZA DOCTOR WHO
LOST WIFE, DAUGHTERS
IS NOMINATED FOR NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/04/a-most-nobel-nominee/
Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Ashi is an uncommon man. A Palestinian who
works for an Israeli hospital, Dr. Ashi has been giving Israelis
daily reports on the military campaign in Gaza. "My God ... My girls
..." he cried. "Shiomi ... Can't anybody help us please?"
INDIA CUTS 30 MILLION CELL
PHONES OVER TERRORIST FEARS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/5113710/India-to-cut-off-30-million-mobile-phones.html
OBAMA TO G-20:
‘I TAKE RESPONSIBILITY’
FOR GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,617639,00.html
OBAMA KEEPS BUSH
WIRETAP POLICY
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_follows_Bush_policy_on_wiretapping_0406.html
RAIMUNDO: THE TWO FACES OF OBAMA
One for the masses, one for the elite
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/04/05/the-two-faces-of-barack-obama/
Like Americans, the Europeans want to believe – but they see the two
faces of Barack Obama too clearly, and the contrast is too apparent
to be denied. The gullible Americans, who take things at face value,
still believe their new president represents a real change, a
challenge to the status quo, while the more sophisticated Europeans
are quick to pick up on Obama’s inconsistencies – made all the more
glaring by his habit of pairing two mutually contradictory stances
on the same issue.
Enviro Wacko
RAINFOREST’S
WORST ENEMY: BIOFUELS
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/03/why-biofuels-are-rainforests-worst-enemy
QUAKE IN ITALY IS MASSIVE---
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7984867.stm
---WIPES OUT
HISTORIC TOWN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Italy_quake_kills_92_devastates_historic_0406.html
SCIENTIST WHO
PREDICTED QUAKE WAS REPORTED TO COPS FOR ‘SCAREMONGERING’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5114139/Italian-earthquake-experts-warnings-were-dismissed-as-scaremongering.html
Kim Nook Yoo
BEHIND THE N.
KOREA MISSILE LAUNCH
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1889616,00.html
All-melty dollar
THE HOMELESS
OF. . .MARIN COUNTY?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/06/MNVH16A0PI.DTL&tsp=1
INTERVIEW: BILL BLACK
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/watch.html
With the nation wondering how to hold the bankers accountable, Bill
Moyers sits down with William K. Black, the former senior regulator
who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the
1980s. Black offers his analysis of what went wrong and his critique
of the bailout.
DISNEYLAND, WORLD, LAYOFF
1400
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/disneyland%3A_the_happiest_place_on_earth_fires_1%2C900/#135194
HEY, BLAGO,
YOU’VE JUST BEEN INDICTED---WHERE YA GOIN’?
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/blog-entry/
RIGHT-WING LIE THAT OBAMA
WILL OUTLAW GUNS. . .
FUELS PANIC GUN-BUYING
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/04/right-wing-guns-claim/
MOM KILLS SELF,
SON AT SHOOTING RANGE
Ban all guns
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-asecgunrange06040609apr06,0,5962752.story
Animals in the news!
2ND
ENDANGERED CONDOR FOUND SHOT
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/05/state/n173824D35.DTL
Ban all hunting, ban all guns.
THE BANANA RATS OF
GUANTANAMO
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090403-guantanamo-bay.html
BUTTERFLY
WINGS, AND HOW THEY WORK!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401134417.htm
DOG LOST AT SEA FOUND ON
AUSSIE ISLAND
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/5113781/Pet-dog-survives-four-months-lost-at-sea-off-Australia.html
Mashed Media
BOSTON GLOBE
SHUTTING DOWN?
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003958992
REMEMBERING HERB CAEN
"Who knows how the city's changed?" said Barnaby Conrad. "Herb
Caen's not here to tell us."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/05/LV5016MC6J.DTL
Obits
TOM BRADEN
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/arts/television/06braden.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
EVA EVDOKIMOVA
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/arts/dance/06evdokimova.html?ref=obituaries
AND IN MORE
IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
WANT TO WRITE A
BEST SELLER?
If you are female and write puerile crap about sex, you’ve got a
great shot!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,617599,00.html
Asinine Article of the
Week
ARE WOMEN SEXUALLY LIBERATED OR JUST CONFUSED?
Or just nuts?
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article5967816.ece
n China, vibrator manufacturers are one of the few industries
weathering a global recession. Rampant Rabbit enthusiasts rave about
the latest model, the bumper stickers on their cars proclaiming, “My
other ride is a rabbit”. Sex toys are chic lifestyle accessories.
Recently, a PR punting JimmyJane’s Little Something line of
precious-metal vibrators closed her pitch with “Kate Moss bought the
gold one”.
CHEAP
GOSSIP ABOUT UNIMPORTANT ASSHOLES
Amy Winehouse whips it off
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Babbling_Amys_topless_streak&in_article_id=611404&in_page_id=7
Where are they
now?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/apr/05/television-characters
Musique
VENEZUELA YOUTH ORCHESTRA
VISITS U.S.
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1889570,00.html
Film
TEN QUESTIONS
FOR JACKIE CHAN
http://www.time.com/time/video/?bcpid=1485842900&bctid=18432481001
For Art’s Sake
JAN TROOP
http://www.jan-toorop.com/home
And in the end. . .
GIANT PENIS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/5113928/Pictures-of-the-day-6-April-2009.html
hit 'refresh' for updates
4/3/09
DAILY CONCERT
SAIL AWAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chaP4MCXp4w
PANCHO LOPEZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EwiLREY3wM
HE'S SO GAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phYyyYrfaeM
WOMAN IS THE NIGGER OF THE WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD7of6trC-U
JESUS THINKS YOU'RE A JERK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcE2dq3YD0
SUICIDE CHUMP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51IqPg_HScE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC0impmYmGY
EE O ELEVEN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPhhXqUy_Bw
KILLER QUEEN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8ysQxyqK8k
ATOM AND EVIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjlJ2F646bA
SKYLINES:
Mm-mm! Have a
little edible anti-freeze!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/0702-edible_antifreeze_saves_ice_cream.htm
NO NEW BLACK
KNICK-KNACK FOR MEDUSA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7980951.stm
QUEEN IS
NOT AMUSED BY BERLUSCONI
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/5099649/Queen-is-not-amused-by-Berlusconi-gaffe.html
READ THE LABELS FIRST!
http://digg.com/d1nmwm
WHITE HOUSE
GIVES REPORTERS PHONE SEX NUMBER
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/White_House_gives_reporters_phone_sex_0402.html
ASTOUNDING
UNDERWATER RESTAURANT
http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-trw-offbeattraveler7-pg,0,6549249.photogallery
AND ON TO NEWS AND
COMMENT. . .
Miss Liberty
SF ‘SANCTUARY’
STATUS
GIVES SHELTER TO 185 IMMIGRANT. . .FELONS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/03/MNHM16RKLG.DTL&tsp=1
AT LEAST 90
IMMIGRANTS DIE IN U.S. ‘DETENTION FACILIITIES’
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Revealed_90_immigrants_have_died_in_0403.html
FOR U.S.
IMMIGRATION, LEGAL PARTNERSHIP DOESN’T COUNT
18 years of legal partnership, parenting, and woman still faces
deportation
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/03/MNSF16QV9B.DTL
HEART CELLS
REGENERATE
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090402-heart-cells-regrow.html
ANOTHER MONTH, ANOTHER
663,000 JOBS LOST
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/03/march-jobs-report/
ARCTIC WILL BE ALL
SEA IN 30 YEARS
Or sooner
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090402143752.htm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/03/tech/main4915866.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4915866
World Gone Mad
S. KOREAN
ACTRESS COMMITS SUICIDE---WAS USED AS ‘ELITE SEX SLAVE’
http://pseudoccultmedia.blogspot.com/2009/04/south-korean-actress-comitts-suicide.html
GIRL SEEN WITH
MARRIED MAN, WHIPPED BY TALIBAN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/02/taliban-pakistan-justice-women-flogging
Jesus H. Christ!
MORFORD
ON
THE POPE’S INSANITY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/03/notes040309.DTL
Let me try to be a little more specific: Is it not some form of
strange self-torture, a kind of brutal spiritual immolation, to
believe that God is this gloomy, obsessive micromanager, so petty
and vindictive regarding what you do with your body that you/he will
let people die for the sake of it? Do you have any sort of answer?
Shall we ask the pope?
Israelity
WHY AREN’T MEDIA TALKING
ABOUT CHARLES FREEMAN?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM03V-B5KCY
Kim Nook Yoo
NEWT’S KWAZY N.
KOREA TALK
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/02/gingrich-north-korea-lasers/
Mashed Media
GOOGLE TO BUY
TWITTER
Sounds like a Japanese monster movie
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/twitter/5099047/Google-on-verge-of-buying-Twitter.htm
TWITTER FURTHER
TRIVIALIZES LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/03/26/a-primer-on-twitter/
(Lack of) Health
NEW AIDS THEORY: START
TREATMENT EARLY
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1889251,00.html
GRAPEFRUIT AND
THE PILL DON’T MIX
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5098020/Grapefruit-linked-to-blood-clot-risk.html
POT HELPS BATTLE BRAIN
CANCER
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Marijuana_helps_in_battle_against_c_04022009.html
Oh, by the way. . .
HOT CLIMATE
PRODUCES MORE GIRLS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7972993.stm
HAVING A SISTER
MAKES YOU MORE OPTIMISTIC
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/5089197/Having-a-sister-makes-you-happier-and-more-optimistic-say-psychologists.html
AND IN MORE
IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
Lost Angeles
MORE INSANITY:
FANCY DOWNTOWN HOTEL
TO BE RAZED FOR GIANT HOTEL/CONDO TOWER
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/04/breaking_wilshire_grand_to_be_destroyed_hotel_office_project_coming.php
THE OLD AIRFIELDS
OF WILSHIRE BOULEVARD
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/04/wilshire_boulevards_old_a.php
FAIRYTALE HOMES OF
L.A.
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-fairytale,0,5738616.special
Hey, Be-attle!
WHAT DID JOHN
LENNON WRITE
IN THAT NOTEBOOK IN “A HARD DAY’S NIGHT?”
http://home.att.net/~liveletdie/Movies/hobby.html
Books
A PEOPLE AND THEIR KARMA
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123862874506380449.html
Instructively, too -- at a time when the Indian elections are almost
upon us -- Ms. Doniger trains her light on the use and abuse of
Hindu mythology in modern Indian politics, what she calls "the past
in the present." It will come as no surprise that she is as unloving
of the Hindu Right as she is of the Right in America, and with
greater reason. Unlike India's Hindu Right, the American Right does
not seek to disenfranchise citizens on the basis of religion.
AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY: DID
SHE HAVE ALZHEIMER’S?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/03/agatha-christie-alzheimers-research
Light reading
NELSON ALGREN
TURNS 100
http://newcity.com/2009/03/28/the-ninth-man-out-as-baseball-begins-again-nelson-algren-turns-100/
Gallery
THE WEEK IN
WILDLIFE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/apr/02/wildlife-animals?picture=345425786
WEEK IN PHOTOS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/photogalleries/week-in-news-pictures-124/index.html
Musique
ANDRE PREVIN
LOOKS BACK
http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/issue/article.aspx?id=5184&issueID=332
LEAD POISONING
BLAMED FOR HANDEL’S TEMPER
(Also apparently killed Beethoven.)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tomserviceblog/2009/apr/03/classical-music-handel
Where ya goin’?
BEACHFRONT HAWAII
HOTELS UNDER $100
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/hawaii/detail?&entry_id=37737
And in the end. . .
A MOVIE BY SCOTT WANNBERG
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php?module=see&lang=uk&code=c4aa3e3bfef315a2634c15d4027bfea0
4/2/09
DAILY CONCERT
I THINK IT'S GOING TO RAIN TODAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4c54PAzXrM
THE DAY THE WORLD GETS 'ROUND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7shhoE10Bos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9t571klxlg
PIGGIES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEQeRLT1HNQ
PIGGIES ENCORE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6cr7Trhndw
COMMERCIAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krXP_TUZqsk
BIG YELLOW TAXI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTQubWecuv8
RAINFOREST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAzc1p9Nk08
MR. CREOSOTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlK62rjQWLk
SKYLINES:
MICHELLE OBAMA
HUGS QUEEN
Well, at least she didn’t try to give her a backrub, like
President Cretin did to Merkel
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/04/02/michelle-obama-hugs-queen-breaks-royal-protocol/
Michelle the human
catwalk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/5094551/Michelle-Obama-in-London.html
BUSH TO GET---GASP, COUGH,
WRETCH---AN ENVIRO AWARD!
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/04/01/more-environmental-bombshells/
STEWART TO
LIMBAUGH: “GET THE FUCK OUT OF NYC”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Stewart_to_Limbaugh_Get_fk_out_0402.html
"For years, for years, for years, New Yorkers have done everything
in our power to get this guy to leave town," Stewart said. "We
passed laws making it tougher for hot dog vendors to sell along the
streets. We hold gay pride parades and there are barely any gay
people in the city so we shipped them in."
PRINCE PHILIP TO
OBAMA: “THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/5090842/G20-summit-Prince-Philips-joke-about-world-leaders-at-Barack-Obama-meeting.html
NEVER PICK
YOUR TEETH WITH SCISSORS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5089941/X-ray-shows-how-man-accidentally-swallowed-scissors.html
AND ON TO NEWS AND
COMMENT. . .
CURE FOR DEAFNESS AROUND THE
CORNER?
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Cure_for_deafness_around_the_corner&in_article_id=607158&in_page_id=34
THEY COMPETE TO
EAT AT 100 TOP SF RESTAURANTS. . .
Two of SF's leading gluttons.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/02/DDI616MSBT.DTL&type=food
. . .WHILE THEY
TRY TO SAVE THE STARVING CHILDREN OF HAITI
Americans Sasha Kramer and Sarah Brownell travel Haiti on
motorscooters, bringing fertilizer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/opinion/29kristof.html
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=6206f2ea34833d5535dba63ca962279a
Auto Motive
MORFORD
ON
THE INSANE NEW CAMARO
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/01/notes040109.DTL
What's that you say? You had no idea that Chevy was resurrecting
this rolling mullet from the mausoleum of the '70s because, even
after sucking up billions in bailout money, GM still doesn't really
have a single fresh and forward-thinking idea, and hence the best
they can do is scrape the barrel of macho nostalgia in a desperate
attempt to cater to male Boomers who drink too much light beer and
think Maxim is the height of masculinity and are still debating
which Van Halen vocalist totally ruled?
AUTO EXPERT SHIN
TAKEI ADDS:
The writer fails to mention that the Camaro was conceived and
designed 5 years ago when retro nostalgia design was all the rage
like the Ford Mustang and the Dodge Charger. The Mustang which has
been selling well has been retro upgraded this year and Dodge
released the Challenger. So even if its not a Prius fighter, a
muscle car is American as apple pie and will never go away. We had a
similar period in the mid seventies when the first oil-shock and
emission requirements killed the muscle car and begat the dreadful
Mustang II, the unforgettable Pinto and the Vega and the horrid
Cadillac Cimarron just to name a few embarrasments. The public did
not accept them and the manufacturers eventually dolled up
performance cars that were fuel efficient. Now with electric cars
coming with performance like the Tesla the future is still bright
for muscle car addicts even if it may be powered by alternative
power because we still hunger for horsepower Afterall, pavement
scorching, rubber laying drag racing from signal to signal is part
of American Heritage just like hot dogs, hamburgers, baseball and
titty bars.
NEW 50 MPG
PRIUS DUE IN 60 DAYS
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-neil27-2009mar27,0,6330355.column
OBAMA SUPPORTS
‘CASH FOR CLUNKERS’ LEGISLATION
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/02/BUPI16QS5Q.DTL&type=business&tsp=1
Israelity
PALESTINIAN
ORCHESTRA LEADER DEPORTED FROM WEST BANK---
AFTER CONCERT FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palestinian-orchestra-leader-deported-after-death-threats-1660016.html
The head of a Palestinian youth orchestra who sparked outrage by
performing a concert for Holocaust survivers in Israel has been
deported from the West Bank because Palestinian security forces felt
"her life to be in danger".
CHICAGO FIRM
GETS MILLIONS FOR ‘SECURITY’ IN ISRAEL AND IRAQ
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/134594/obama%27s_blackwater_chicago_mercenary_firm_gets_millions_for_private_%22security%22_in_israel_and_iraq_/
Federal records obtained by AlterNet reveal a multi-million
dollar contract for a private U.S. paramilitary force operating out
of Jerusalem.
The Other War
MARGOLIS:
BEWARE THOSE AFPAKIS!
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22329.htm
ISI is not playing a double game, as Washington charges, but simply
assuring Pakistan’s strategic and political interests in the region.
The Obama administration is making an historic mistake by treating
Pakistan with imperial arrogance and ignoring the concerns and
desires of its people. We seem to have learned nothing from the
Iranian revolution.
SILENCE ON
AFGHANISTAN: IF ONLY IT WERE A JOKE
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/134718/silence_on_afghanistan%3A_if_only_it_were_a_joke/
All-Melty Dollar
G20 PLEDGES
TRILLION BUCKS FOR THE WORLD
Whatever that means.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7979483.stm
REYNOLDS: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CHINA’S
SEATING AT G20
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/
THE G20
PROTESTS IN PICTURES
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=specials/g20-protests/
EX-AIG CHIEF: IT’S
NOT MY FAULT!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ExAIG_chief_says_problems_not_his_0402.html
The Torture Never Stops
COLIN POWELL DODGES TORTURE
ISSUE IN MADDOW INTERVIEW
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/02/powell-maddow-torture/
Kim Nook Yoo
OBAMA WARNS
N. KOREA OVER MISSILE “TEST”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/5093585/Barack-Obama-warns-North-Korea-over-rocket-launch-as-Pyongyang-fuels-missile.html
Technically
YOUTH INVENTS
ITUNES FOR YOUTUBE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/apr/02/you-tube-music-player
Mashed Media
EVEN USA TODAY
IN BIG TROUBLE. . .
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123854670808076289.html#mod=rss_media_marketing
ED SCHULTZ JOINS
MSNBC DAILY 6-7 P.M.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Ed_Schultz_joins_MSNBC_for_67_0402.html
PAUL MOYER
RETIRES
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/04/paul_moyer_retiring_from.php
Animals in the news!
CAN THE WORLD’S
MOST ENDANGERED CAT BE SAVED?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,617077,00.html
Obit
MONTY HALE, SINGING COWBOY
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/movies/02hale.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
AND IN MORE
IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
Lost Angeles
DOWNTOWN’S
‘MOST BEAUTIFUL BUILDING’ GOES BANKRUPT
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/04/downtowns_most_beautiful_building_files_for_bankruptcy.php
PARDON FOR BOXER
JACK JOHNSON?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5090840/Barack-Obama-is-asked-to-grant-pardon-to-boxer-Jack-Johnson.html
Garden
THE KALE
AND TURNIP GLUT
“The abundance of roughage is overwhelming!”
http://www.slate.com/id/2214524/pagenum/all/
PLASTIC BOTTLE
GREENHOUSE!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2009/apr/02/plastic-bottle-greenhouse
I STINK
“Forensic chemists examined my odor print. Here’s what they
found.”
http://www.slate.com/id/2214525/
TeeVee
ANDY RICHTER: BEST
LATE NIGHT SIDEKICK EVER?
Nah. Arthur Treacher.
http://www.slate.com/id/2214729/
REALLY BAD POEMS
FOR NATIONAL POETRY MONTH
Poems are not merely unpunctuated, uncapitalized, fragmented
prose, folks.
http://littleeva.blogspot.com/
Where ya goin’?
CHEAP TURKEY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/familyholidays/5094049/Turkey-The-Med-at-half-the-price.html
TRAVEL PICS OF
THE WEEK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hubs/thebigpicture/5090163/The-Big-Picture-photography-competition-round-44.html
And in the end. . .
STOOGEUM
http://www.stoogeum.com/
4/1/09
DAILY CONCERT
Shangri-La
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4DJ9YUYshE
Shangri-Las
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FxSM88H-G4
Shangri-La
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxJUTnJoc7o
Shangri-La
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYEIS1s5k0c
Lost Horizon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL-kTPSOuZ8
O PARADISO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzEWpvt_m1U
PROMISED LAND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aykoGVMdlSA
SKYLINES:
Lost Angeles
ANGELS’ FLIGHT
BEGINS TESTING
http://www.angelenic.com/6656/history-in-motion-angels-flight-takes-off/
FANS TO NATALIE COLE: TAKE
MY KIDNEY, PLEASE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7976123.stm
DEADBEAT
TAXPAYER
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/breaking/story/634604.html
NEW SPOOF FROM
BORAT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5087607/Borat-comedian-Sacha-Baron-Cohen-records-Band-Aid-spoof-single-with-Chris-Martin.html
AND ON TO NEWS AND
COMMENT. . .
CHENEY HAS
‘MOLES’ IN OBAMA GOVERNMENT
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Hersh_Cheney_has_moles_in_Obama_0401.html
MISS UNIVERSE
VISITS GITMO, PRONOUNCES IT A FUN PLACE!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/01/miss-universe-guantanamo-bay
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25274969-663,00.html
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/miss-universe-visits-guantanamo/?hp
"It was a loooot of fun!" Mendoza wrote on the Miss Universe blog.
She also recounted how she and Stewart met US military personnel and
toured the camp, with its barbed wire fences, minefields and
watchtowers. As well as a bar on the base, the pair also discovered
an "unbelievable" beach in the bay.
G20 PROTESTERS
BREAK INTO BANK OF SCOTLAND
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/35000_protest_G20_in_London_0401.html
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?G20_protesters_break_into_RBS_building&in_article_id=605440&in_page_id=34
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7975597.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/01/g20-summit-protests
REPUGS LIE:
‘GREEN ECONOMY’ MEANS $3100 TAX ON FAMILIES
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/31/3100-lie/
SCHEER: NO BANKER LEFT BEHIND
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090331_in_for_a_penny_in_for_298_trillion/
The good news on the government’s “No Banker Left Behind” program is
that according to the special inspector general’s report on Tuesday,
the total handout to date is still less than 3 trillion dollars.
It’s only 2.98 trillion.
Kim Nook Yoo
N. KOREA HAS
NUCLEAR WARHEADS---CLAIM
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200904/200904010001.html
Mashed Media
U.S.
JOURNALISTS FACE ‘TEN YEARS’ HARD LABOR’ UNDER N. KOREAN MANIACS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/5087982/North-Korea-US-journalists-face-10-years-hard-labour.html
UK GUARDIAN ABANDONS INK,
GOES ALL-TWITTER
April Fool.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology
INTERVIEW: SEYMOUR HERSH ON U.S.
ASSASSINATIONS
http://www.alternet.org/rights/134347/seymour_hersh%3A_secret_u.s._forces_carried_out_assassinations_in_%27a_lot_of%27_countries%2C_including_in_latin_america/
Under President Bush's authority, they've been going into countries,
not talking to the ambassador or to the CIA station chief, and
finding people on a list and executing them and leaving.
Israelity
NETANYAHU SWORN
IN
Wish this was an April Fools’ joke. . .
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/03/31/netanyahu-takes-reins-as-israels-prime-minister/
MADMAN BIBI: IF
U.S. DOESN’T STOP IRAN, ISRAEL WILL
Can you say. . .blackmail?
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/04/01/1004167/netanyahu-if-us-doesnt-stop-iran-israel-will
JEWISH THEATER
DIRECTOR DEFENDS GAZA PLAY
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/27/1004049/jewish-theater-director-in-dc-defends-reading-of-anti-israel-play
Ari Roth is not surprised that his decision to stage a reading of
"Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza" has infuriated some in the
Washington Jewish community.
FEDS SEEK TO REVERSE
CONVICTION OF CROOK TED STEVENS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/01/national/w042746D17.DTL
COURT RULES
IN FAVOR OF PETE TAGLIANI---ER, AL FRANKEN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Minnesota_court_ruling_supports_Franken_may_0331.html
People’s Repugnic
CHINA INTRODUCES
FAKE LAMA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7973684.stm
KARZAI LEGALIZES RAPE
But only in marriage, so that makes it okay
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/5080797/Hamid-Karzai-signs-law-legalising-rape-in-marriage.html
Animals in the news!
6,000 RIVER
DOLPHINS FOUND IN BANGLADESH
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090331-dolphins-found.html
SCIENTISTS TRY
TO SAVE SHREW-LIKE MAMMAL WITH VENOMOUS BITE
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331133537.htm
(Lack of) Health
JENNY MCCARTHY ON.
. .AUTISM?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1888718,00.html
Oh, by the way. . .
SHOPPING SPREES
LINKED TO MENSTRUAL PERIODS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7971578.stm
And in more
important matters. . .
APRIL FOOL ROUNDUP
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,616756,00.html
Four Historic
Science Hoaxes
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/photogalleries/april-fools-day-hoaxes/index.html
OBAMA’S BRITISH
HERITAGE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5077902/G20-summit-Barack-Obamas-English-heritage.html
For Art’s Sake
CHINA’S STRANGE
SUBVERSIVE MODERN ART
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0327/p13s01-alar.html
Books
HOW LINCOLN
LEARNED TO READ
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/03/26/how-lincoln-learned-to-read/
Musique
THE GREAT BERNARD
PURDIE
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/theater/31purd.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
Watch:
Teaching the Purdie Shuffle
(This is great, even if you’re not a drummer.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t0VlzJeNvA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puEVs4g6qyk
And in the end. . .
INDOOR BEACH
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/03/31/japans-indoor-beach-surf/
3/31/09
DAILY CONCERT
Choo Choo ch'boogie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A2pRVyBmOY
Chattanooga Choo Choo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6uK_fpb9Rg
Train Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6uK_fpb9Rg
Downtown Train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OLA6AiZlVw
Last Train to Clarksville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScXXaBu1Ing
Night Train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JWx4dx29II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZSKm0o_rMA
One After 909
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsxQ33TE3fM
People Get Ready
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8NWqO85P6Y
SKYLINES:
Photos of the day
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0330/
THINK YOU
GOT IT BAD?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/5077475/Is-this-the-worst-job-in-the-world.html
15 HOSPITAL
WORKERS CANNED FOR STEALING OCTOPUSSY INFO
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7974072.stm
KHMER ROUGE LEADER ASKS
FORGIVENESS!
Off with his head.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7973463.stm
‘EARTH HOUR’ PICS,
BEFORE AND AFTER
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/photogalleries/earth-hour-2009-pictures/index.html
MADONNA TOURS
POOR MALAWI SCHOOL---IN $3000 CHANEL TRACK SUIT
We think she needs a job working with that guy in the Calcutta
sewers. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/madonna/5079942/Madonna-adoption-Stars-Chanel-tracksuit-raises-eyebrows-in-Malawi.html
related:
MADONNA WANTS
ANOTHER LITTLE BLACK ONE---NOW JOLIE WANTS A LITTLE BROWN ONE!
Every megarich princess should have at least one in every color,
don’t you think?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5080062/Angelina-Jolie-wants-to-adopt-Indian-orphan.html
AND ON TO NEWS AND
COMMENT. . .
HOORAY! R.
CRUMB SATIRIZES THE BIBLE!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/31/robert-crumb-book-genesis
TWO U.S.
JOURNALISTS WILL STAND TRIAL IN NORTH KOREA
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090330/ap_on_re_as/as_nkorea_journalists_held
Euna Lee and Laura Ling, reporters for former Vice President Al
Gore's San Francisco-based Current TV media venture, were detained
by North Korean border guards March 17.
LINDORFF: THE MENDACITY OF HOPE
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/290
Anyone who thought, as I once did out of an excess of optimism, that
this president was positioned to act in this economic crisis as did
the once equally reticent Franklin Roosevelt before him, should see
clearly now that this president is not that same kind of bold
risk-taker as FDR. Obama, rather, is following in the well-worn path
of gutless political hacks before him like President Bill Clinton
and Jimmy Carter, kowtowing to the wishes of the corporate elite and
taking the Democratic grassroots for granted.
MCGOVERN: WELCOME TO VIETNAM, MR. OBAMA
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22307.htm
I had been saying that it would be naïve to take too seriously
presidential candidate Barack Obama’s rhetoric regarding the need to
escalate the war in Afghanistan. I kept thinking to myself that when
he got briefed on the history of Afghanistan and the oft proven
ability of Afghan “militants” to drive out foreign invaders—from
Alexander the Great, to the Persians, the Mongolians, Indians,
British, Russians—he would be sure to understand why they call
mountainous Afghanistan the “graveyard of empires.” And surely he
would be fully briefed on the stupidity and deceit that left 58,000
U.S. troops—not to mention 2 to 3 million Vietnamese—dead in
Vietnam.
SHOPPING MALLS ARE DYING
http://www.theweek.com/article/index/94691/The_vanishing_shopping_mall
UNION
PLUMBERS JEER JOE THE JACKASS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Union_plumbers_heckle_Joe_Plumber_at_0331.html
Dick
CHENEY: BRITAIN
“STABBED US IN THE BACK”
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/03/cheney-used-fascist-mussolini-insult-against-uk/
EX-CHENEY AIDE:
‘ASSASSINATION RING’ IS TRUE
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/30/hersh-hannah-assassination-ring/
KIDS SNORT THE DARNEDEST
THINGS
What will Joe “Drug War” Biden do about daughter’s tooting?
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/134146/kids_do_the_darndest_things%3A_joe_biden%27s_cocaine_dilemma/
Jesus H. Christ!
ASININE COMMENTARY
OF THE WEEK: TEN TERMS TO NOT USE WITH MUSLIMS
Uhhhh. . .if they are in this country, shouldn’t they be adapting
to our language etiquette?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0328/p09s01-coop.html
JAPAN JOBLESSNESS
AT THREE-YEAR HIGH
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/mar/31/japanese-unemployment-taro-aso
People’s Repugnic
NEED A JOB IN CHINA? GET PLASTIC SURGERY
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-chinaplastic30-2009mar30,0,4977370.story
DOES CHINA FAKE
ITS DINOSAUR BONE COLLECTION?
Why not? It fakes athletes’ ages
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1888548,00.html
(Lack of) Health
PILL COULD
SLASH HEART ATTACK, STROKE RISK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/mar/31/polypill-heart-attack-stroke
Spaced Out
MISSION TO
MARS---IN MOSCOW
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/5082585/Volunteers-simulate-mission-to-Mars-in-Moscow-capsule.html
Animals in the news!
BRIT SOLDIERS
HAVE A LITTLE FUN WITH CHICKENS
Ain’t being in the military funny???
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/133895/HENIMALS-British-Army-officer-BITES-the-head-off-a-live-chicken-in-a-sickening-training-exercise-filmed-by-his-own-men.html?postingId=135435
FROG GETS
NEW LEG
The French will eat it anyway. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5082594/Lame-frog-gets-his-leg-back-in-world-first-operation.html
MORE PET OWNERS SERVING RAW,
UNCOOKED FOOD TO ROVER, KITTY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/31/petscol033109.DTL
Oh, by the way. . .
MAN WILL RIDE
AROUND THE WORLD ON ELECTRIC BIKE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5079164/Man-to-travel-round-world-on-electric-bicycle.html
CHILD BAPTIZED
WITH COLA
Our corporate CEO, which art in heaven. . .
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Church_baptises_baby_with_cola&in_article_id=603702&in_page_id=2
AND IN MORE
IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
PUN FOR THE WHOLE
FAMILY
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/opinion/28Tartakovsky.html?_r=1
P. G. Wodehouse, doesn’t use them. Shakespeare, however, does. Many
are bawdy: puns operate, after all, on double entendre. Yet the poet
is guilty less of punning than wordplay, which Elizabethan taste
considered more a sign of literary refinement than humor; hence
“puns” in seemingly inappropriate places, like a dying Mercutio’s
“Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”
Film
GILLIAM HAVING TROUBLE
DISTRIBUTING LAST HEATH LEDGER FILM?
”The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/mar/31/heath-ledger-terry-gilliam-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus
COUPLE SPENDS 20
YEARS BUILDING MODEL OF TOWN WHERE THEY MET
Well, you’ve got to to do something with your life. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5076742/Couple-recreate-town-where-they-first-met.html
NEFIRTITI’S FACE
FOUND
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090331-nefertiti-bust-picture.html
And in the end. . .
NOW WHO DOES THIS PICTURE OF
SARKOZY REMIND YOU OF?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/5079690/Sarkozy-threatens-to-walk-out-of-G20.html
3/30/09
DAILY CONCERT
"Hot 'n' Cold" UKRAINIAN POLKA BAND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_TIOfUEudo
LIL WALLY ON LAWRENCE WELK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV8FW57u_4A
THE WORLDS: LIL WALLY WALTZ MEDLEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Hz1n5uxEo
IN HEAVEN THERE IS NO BEER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GadTn38mDY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z52WG6siQ8
MY CLAM DIGGER SWEETHEART
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEM8gsvVUww
PIZZICATO POLKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5KRqc7Hud4
JOLLY LUMBERJACK POLKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw0FqDgjmMo
ANOTHER JOLLY LUMBERJACK SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg
STRANGE EXPLOSION
OVER EASTERN STATES
http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/article/BOOM30_20090329-234409/244022/#comments
BIDEN’S DAUGHTER CAUGHT
SNORTING COKE ON FILM
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?VP_Joe_Bidens_daughter_filmed_snorting_cocaine&in_article_id=602008&in_page_id=64
TOPLESS VEGAS
REVUE CLOSES AFTER 49 YEARS
Over 1,000,000 breasts served
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/29/entertainment/e151631D60.DTL
related:
HEF’S HOME FOR
SALE---$27 MILLION
http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/la-hm-hotprop28-2009mar28,0,2915938.story
THE FACEBOOK
AENEID
http://gawker.com/5185909/the-facebook-aeneid
DOWNLOAD A NEW
DYLAN SONG FOR FREE
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/neil_mccormick/blog/2009/03/30/bob_dylan_free_download
AND ON TO NEWS AND
COMMENT. . .
SO WHAT DOES IT
ALL MEAN?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY
Israelity
HERSH: OBAMA HELPED END ISRAEL’S GAZA
ATTACK
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Seymour_Hersh_Obama_played_role_in_0329.html
When former Vice President Dick Cheney learned that Obama had been
putting pressure on the Israelis, he angrily disparaged him as
"pro-Palestinian" and described him as someone who would "never make
it in the major leagues."
Israel Sudan
attack killed 39
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22299.htm
Lost Angeles
OUROUSSOFF: REINVENTING U.S. CITIES
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/arts/design/29ouro.html?_r=1&scp=47&sq=%22los+angeles%22&st=nyt
Without an overhaul of the city’s transportation network it is only
a matter of time before the city breaks down, a victim of pollution
and overcongestion. A citywide plan that anchored Los Angeles along
two major axes — the green river and the asphalt boulevard — could
save it from becoming a third world city.
MAUREEN DOWD
ENGAGES IN FLAGRANT
ANTI-WHITE RACIST PROPAGANDA
Got blue eyes? You're evil.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/opinion/29dowd.html?em
VENKATESH: POPULIST RAGE? WHERE?
We have been divided and conquered by iPods, Twitter, and the
Internet
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/opinion/29venkatesh.html?ref=opinion
But these days, technology separates us and makes more of our
communication indirect, impersonal and emotionally flat. With
headsets on and our hands busily texting, we are less aware of one
another’s behavior in public space. Count the number of people with
cellphones and personal entertainment devices when you walk down a
street. Self-involved bloggers, readers of niche news, all of us
listening to our personal playlists: we narrowly miss each other.
Effective rebellions require that we sing in unison.
Auto Motive
WHITE HOUSE TO LET CHRYSLER
FAIL
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/White_House_to_let_Chrysler_fail_0330.html
HERE IS OBAMA’S
PLAN FOR DETROIT
http://thepage.time.com/2009/03/30/auto-aid/
Enviro Wacko
REPUG. REP:
LESS CO2 EMISSIONS TAKE ‘PLANT FOOD FROM THE ATMOSPHERE’
We are not making this stuff up
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/28/shimkus-plant-food/
Iraq and Roll
283 Bases, 170,000
Pieces of Equipment, 140,000 Troops,
and an Army of Mercenaries: The Logistical Nightmare in Iraq
HERE
U.S. SGT. CONVICTED OF
EXECUTING BOUND IRAQI PRISONERS
Mission accomplished.
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_sergeant_convicted_of_executing__03302009.html
PETRAEUS:
CHENEY IS WRONG ABOUT OBAMA
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/29/cheney-petraeus-safe/
Mashed Media
ANOTHER
COLUMNIST SAYS IT: PULL NEWSPAPERS OFF THE WEB
The Rip Post said it first
http://www.businessinsider.com/maybe-newspapers-dont-belong-online-2009-3
HUMAN RIGHTS ATTY.: FEITH
BETTER GET A GOOD LAWYER
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/30/feith-spain-torture/
TEXAS REPUG
THREATENS ‘WWIII’ IF SENATE SEATS AL FRANKEN
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20634.html
People’s Repugnic
CHINA RUNS
(YAWN) GLOBAL COMPUTER SPYING NETWORK (YAWN)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/30/china-dalai-lama-spying-computers
Animals in the news!
SLIDE
SHOW: HELPING ANIMALS
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=specials/aiding_animals/
Cow that escaped
slaughterhouse spent nine months on the run
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5075603/Missing-cow-spent-nine-months-on-the-run.html
WATCH: IN SEARCH OF THE WHITE UAKARI
MONKEY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/video/2009/mar/30/brazilian-amazon-rainforest-wildlife-holiday
Obits
PHOTOG HELEN LEVITT
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/arts/design/30levitt.html?ref=obituaries
Oh, by the way. . .
ASLEEP AT THE
WHEEL? TRY CHILI PEPPER
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/03/27/raw-chili-chinese-drivers-hot-awake/
AND IN MORE
IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
R.I.P. MAURICE
JARRE
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1888336,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Jarre
Sarkozy tribute
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7971223.stm
”Lawrence of Arabia”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irPSvEkQl8Q
“Dr. Zhivago”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X-Q4nmYqc4
LA SALLE: PRE-CODE PICTURES---THE WAY
WE REALLY WERE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/29/PK6S16IUA2.DTL&type=movies
I spent many years obsessed with these films. Their appeal is that,
through them, you get to hear a long-ago era speak with its own
voice, unimpeded by censorship. That voice is surprisingly modern.
You come to realize how much of human nature remains consistent from
one era to the next - and also how all that phony virtue stuff, in
the late '30s and '40s films, was nothing but propaganda.
FANS QUESTION ‘DR. WHO’
PRODUCERS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/7964105.stm
Light reading
THE FRENCH, RUDE?
NO---IMPOSSIBLY POLITE
http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/parisians-rude-pas-du-tout
(Lack of) Health
AGAVE SYRUP:
JUST ANOTHER SUGAR?
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-nutrition30-2009mar30,0,4068006.story
Books
CHAPLIN: THE
TRAMP’S ODYSSEY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/28/charlie-chaplin
Rummaging around among some rubbish, he fished out a bowler hat, a
cane, some absurdly overlarge boots, a pair of outsize pants and an
undersized jacket. Knowing that Mack Sennett, for whom he was
working, wanted an older type for the scene he was about to shoot,
he stuck a little moustache on his upper lip.
The Gardens of
Beverly Nichols
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0327/p19s03-hfes.html
And in the end. . .
GNOMES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/gallery?plckGalleryID=5decae2e-cf60-4779-a1ca-2ccd6a3149b3&type=travel
3/26/09
DAILY CONCERT
IVES PLAYS IVES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXHjeSamzno
THE UNANSWERED QUESTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trkFgIMC-Ks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cImb1wnhIGI
IVES: SYMPHONY NO. 4 FINALE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAjJf45fkTc
IT TAKES TWO TO CONDUCT IVES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIm9rCnY3IQ
SEREBRIER DISCUSSES IVES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN0YLD29Hw4
PUTNAM'S CAMP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aJtkve8jeE
IVE JUST SEEN A FACE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjphAmuAlJs
SEAN PENN, JIM CARREY, BENICIO DEL TORO TO PLAY. . .THE THREE
STOOGES
We are not making this stuff up. . .
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article5978824.ece
World gone mad
BRIT ACTOR APOLOGIZES FOR INNOCUOUS JOKE ABOUT PAKISTANIS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7965058.stm
Musical accompaniment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz4B1FI2uos
OCTOPUSSY LEAVES KIDS, GOES SHOPPING
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/25/state/n134024D50.DTL
Animals in the news!
LEOPARD CUBS!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5051624/Two-endangered-leopards-born-at-US-zoo.html
BRITAIN RUNNING OUT OF COCKS
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Britain_running_out_of_Cocks&in_article_id=598012&in_page_id=2
FIORE: LEVERAGE ME TENDER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/25/fiorelevarage.DTL
AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
shocker: joni
mitchell battling morgellon's syndrome
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/269296?tp=1
WHY AMERICANS MAY NEVER SEE
THE BEST NEW CAR ON THE ROAD
http://www.alternet.org/audits/131747/the_reva%3A_why_americans_may_never_see_the_best_new_car_on_the_road/
The Reva is the world's most successful electric vehicle.
Manufactured on the outskirts of the south Indian city of Bangalore,
it is as popular there as it is on the streets of London.
Cumulatively it has been driven a combined 55 million kilometers in
20 major cities around the world.
HEY, HOMELESS FOLKS! ARNIE INVITES YOU TO THE FAIR!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aKqkjyYkFN8w&refer=worldwide
Israelity
ISRAEL ADMITS KILLING 189 CHILDREN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/5049501/Israel-admits-killing-189-children-in-Gaza-campaign.html
ISRAELI ARMY RABBIS CRITICIZED FOR GAZA STANCE
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-israel-holywar25-2009mar25,0,4876301.story
OLIPHANT CARTOON CALLED ‘HIDEOUSLY ANTI-SEMITIC’ BY ADL
You can’t knock Israel policy without being called an
anti-Semite. . .sickening. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Oliphant_IsraelGaza_cartoon_called_hideously_antiSemitic_0325.html
ISRAEL’S PRAGMATIC THUG
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,615392,00.html
His words have the force of cluster bombs. He spares no one. He once
proposed executing Arab members of the Knesset with ties to Hamas to
Hezbollah as "Nazi collaborators." Later he suggested that Israel
should proceed in the Gaza Strip the way Russia did in Chechnya --
without consideration for losses or civilians. This remark gained
him a reputation as a virulent racist.
For a few minutes, Arabs and Jews united by music
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0326/p01s01-wome.html
Bordering on madness
HILLARY: U.S. DRUG HABITS FUEL MEXICO BORDER VIOLENCE
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29875572
related:
HEMP TO THE RESCUE
http://www.alternet.org/environment/133055/hemp_is_not_pot%3A_it%27s_the_economic_stimulus_and_green_jobs_solution_we_need/
We can make over 25,000 things with it. Farmers love it.
Environmentalists love it. You can't get high from it. So why is it
still illegal?
Kim Nook Yoo
U.S. DEPLOYS WARSHIPS TO N. KOREA
As maniacs ready test-firing of long-range missile
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/5053883/US-deploys-warships-as-North-Korea-prepares-to-launch-missile.html
People’s Repugnic
CHINA FURIOUS AT U.S. MILITARY REPORT
Hell, China is furious about everything. . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7965084.stm
EX-TAIWAN LEADER ON TRIAL FOR GRAFT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7964846.stm
Iraq and Roll
AUDITOR: $3.8 BILLION IN IRAQ WASTED SINCE ‘03
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_risks_Iraq_reconstruction_mistak_03252009.html
SURVIVING IRAQ: AN ARMY GRUNT’S TALE
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/03/25/surviving-iraq-a-us-army-grunt%e2%80%99s-tale/
Spc. Brian Hunsuck is the boy next door on the front lines: He lost
a friend, nearly lost a leg, and still acts like Beaver Cleaver.
Enviro Wacko
ARCHBISHOP: GOD WILL NOT SAVE THE PLANET
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Archbishop:_God_will_not_save_planet&in_article_id=596893&in_page_id=34
JAPAN CHERRY BLOSSOMS THREATENED BY GLOBAL WARMING
Not nice to fool with Mother Nature. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/5052867/Global-warming-hits-Japans-cherry-blossom-season.html
Repugnicans
REPUG. REP. SAYS: WARMING IS NATURAL---
JUST FIND SOME SHADE!
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/25/barton-climate-shade/
CRAZY STEELE: PREZ RUN IS “UP TO GOD”
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/billo-guide
Mashed Media
ANOTHER FEEBLE MOVE BY ENFEEBLED LAT
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/03/la_times_goers_for_brand.php
Animals in the news!
MADAGASCAR COUP THREATENS LEMURS WITH EXTINCTION
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0326/p07s01-wogn.html
VETS SHOOT DOOMED BEACHED WHALES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/5052405/Vets-shoot-last-three-whales-stranded-in-Western-Australia.html
Oh, by the way. . .
SLAIN OFFICERS’ ORGANS SAVE FOUR LIVES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/25/BASR16N0JT.DTL&tsp=1
Obit
MOTOWN DRUMMER URIEL JONES
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/arts/music/26jones.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
And in more important matters. . .
Lost Angeles
MORE INSANE, UGLY L.A. DEVELOPMENT
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/03/curbedwire_previews_at_hancock_lofts_rowan_auction_update.php
THE AMBASSADOR OF BEVERLY HILLS
By (the great) John Rogers
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-beverly-hills-ambassador,0,4356877.story
Musique
IVES RECONSIDERED
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090105/schiff
Long before his death in 1954, at 80, Charles Ives seemed less like
the father of American music than an eccentric uncle whose antic
behavior and uncensored opinions at birthdays and funerals conscript
his relatives into manufacturing an endless series of apologies and
disclaimers. In his songs, symphonies and sonatas, Ives furnished
America's musical past with a future. He linked the sounds of the
nineteenth century--marches and hymns and ragtime ditties--to the
complex new harmonies and rhythms of modern music, and he forced
their fusion with visionary zeal. He also referred to musicians he
didn't respect, or who didn't respect him, as "sissies" and bewailed
the feminization of American musical life.
OF MUSIC AND TIME
http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/723/full
Time is the stuff of music: music manipulates our experience of
time; it plays with the rhythm of experience; it stretches and
complicates our relationship to the passing of time. If the world of
physics is a space-time continuum, music is a pitch-time continuum.
And in the end. . .
4,800 CALORIE BALLPARK BURGER
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_ballpark_to_sell_4_800_calorie_b_03252009.html
CHEER DOWN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd4tugPM83c
3/23/09
DAILY CONCERT
SKYLINES:
DWARF SAVED BY
CHIHUAHUA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5037096/Dwarf-saved-by-chihuahua.html
DON’T TASE ME, BRO
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/national_world&id=6722957
ASTRONAUT WON’T
CHANGE UNDERPANTS FOR A WEEK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5016907/Astronaut-tests-space-age-underpants.html
HOLY LEAPING OWLS,
BATMAN!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5036626/Photographer-captures-rare-shot-of-an-owl-leaping-into-the-air.html
UGLY BALD RICH
BUFFOON MARRIES BIMBO
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5034130/Bruce-Willis-marries-underwear-model.html
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0322/
LISA LING’S SISTER AMONG TWO
U.S. JOURNALISTS HELD BY N. KOREA
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/03/21/2009-03-21_lisa_lings_sister_among_two_reporters_ca.html
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
GORBACHEV: U.S.
HAS IT COMING
And he’s right!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,614877,00.html
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev says the U.S.
is getting a double dose of comeuppance with the
swirling financial crisis and escalating violence in
Afghanistan. Again, Gorbachev sees the turn of events as
the U.S.'s just deserts. "Who created the Taliban? Saudi
Arabia financed it with the political support of the
United States," he said.
AMAZING! CBS'S KROFT
STICKS IT TO OBAMA: "ARE YOU PUNCH-DRUNK?"
Where were questions like this for dry-drunk,
brain-damaged Bush?
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/03/64500771/1
OBAMA CALLS FOR ‘ERA OF
SERVICE’
Too little, way too late. . .
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1886213,00.html
All-melty
Dollar
BAILED OUT J.P.
MORGAN BUYS $120 MILLION IN PRIVATE JETS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bailed_out_JP_Morgan_moves_foward_0323.html
WAMU SUES FDIC FOR FORCED
SALE
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Washington_Mutual_seeks_over_13_billion_0321.html
BAILED OUT
BANKS GIVING MONEY TO CAMPAIGNS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Donating_for_dollars_Bailedout_banks_donate_0322.html
GOODMAN:
NO
BAILOUT FOR THOSE HIT HARDEST
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090317_those_hit_hardest_get_no_bailout/
Obama has surrounded himself with financial advisers who
are too cozy with Wall Street, like Summers and Geithner.
It’s time to direct the stimulus to the people who need
it, to those whose tax dollars are funding it.
LINDORFF:
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CAREENING TOWARDS DISASTER
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/286
What this means is that all the Obama administration,
the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve are doing by
buying the toxic assets off the books of banks like
Citigroup, Bank America or Wells Fargo is giving a
taxpayer handout to those banks' investors and
bondholders--the very people who enabled those companies
to invest in the corrupt credit default swaps and other
shady derivatives in the first place. What should
happen? Citibank, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and
the other financial institutions that made bad bets on
these structured financial instruments, should be
allowed to fail, taking with them the investors who
played this dirty game, and the managers who decided to
gamble instead of run conservative banking operations.
RICH:
OBAMA’S ‘KATRINA MOMENT’
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22rich.html?_r=1&em
The White House seemed utterly blindsided by the
public’s revulsion at the moneyed insiders’ culture
illuminated by Daschle’s post-Senate career. Yet last
week’s events suggest that the administration learned
nothing from that brush with disaster. Otherwise it
never would have used Lawrence Summers, the chief
economic adviser, as a messenger just as the A.I.G. rage
was reaching a full boil last weekend. Summers is so
tone-deaf that he makes Geithner seem like Bobby
Kennedy.
RAIMUNDO:
AMERICAN EMPIRE, FINALE
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14442
The United States is essentially an empire that has gone
bankrupt. We are like some once very grand family fallen
on hard times, who have had their house foreclosed and
sit quietly waiting in the parlor, pretending that
nothing unusual is happening, while the sheriff is on
the way to throw us out on the street. Human beings are
creatures of habit: they still continue to act in the
old ways long after circumstances have changed. The
other day, President Barack Obama announced the next
major phase in the "war on terrorism" he inherited from
George W. Bush: we're sending 17,000 more troops to
Afghanistan, doubling the number of American troops in
that country, and have begun to launch cross-border
attacks in Pakistani territory. The war on terrorism is
expanding even as the American economy continues to
shrink. How will we pay for it?
Israelity
RELIGIOUS WAR
IN ISRAEL’S ARMY
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/weekinreview/22BRONNER.html
A soldier, identified by the pseudonym Ram, is quoted as
saying that in Gaza, “the rabbinate brought in a lot of
booklets and articles and their message was very clear:
We are the Jewish people, we came to this land by a
miracle, God brought us back to this land and now we
need to fight to expel the non-Jews who are interfering
with our conquest of this holy land. This was the main
message, and the whole sense many soldiers had in this
operation was of a religious war.”
PERES CONTRADICTS OBAMA
MESSAGE TO IRAN
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/21/peres-contradicts-obama-iran/
THE ‘UNHELPFUL’ EUNUCHS AND ISRAEL
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22270.htm
For years, US administrations called Israeli settlements
"illegal" and an "obstacle to peace," but in recent
years those terms have been replaced by a mere
"unhelpful." On her first official trip to the region
earlier this month, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton
referred to the Israeli demolition of Palestinian Arab
homes in East Jerusalem as "unhelpful." Earlier this
week, the European Union presidency said that Israel's
demolition of homes in the Silwan neighborhood of
Jerusalem "threatens the viability of a comprehensive,
just and lasting settlement, in conformity with
international law."
ISRAEL’S WAR
CRIMES
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22264.htm
For the first time since the establishment of Israel in
1948 the government is facing serious allegations of war
crimes from respected public figures throughout the
world. Even the secretary general of the United Nations,
Ban Ki-moon, normally so cautious about offending
sovereign states – especially those aligned with its
most influential member, the United States – has joined
the call for an investigation and potential
accountability. To grasp the significance of these
developments it is necessary to explain what made the 22
days of attacks in Gaza stand shockingly apart from the
many prior recourses to force by Israel to uphold its
security and strategic interests.
U.S. furious over
Israel's demolition of East Jerusalem homes
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072813.html
OAKLAND
COP-KILLER’S SISTER: HE’S NOT A MONSTER
Like hell!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/22/MNH016L58R.DTL
Country gone
O’ REILLY: IF
CHENEY HAD ASSASSINATION SQUAD---
HE WOULD HAVE KILLED SEYMOUR HERSH
How has such abominable “discourse” come to be
routine?
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/22/oreilly-cheney-hersh/
Mashed Media
MORE SLAUGHTER
ON SPRING STREET
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/03/layoffs_monday.php
WHAT
HAPPENS WHEN A TOWN LOSES ITS NEWSPAPER?
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1886826,00.html
GOODY: DEATH AS ENTERTAINMENT
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/03/22/jade_goody_death_as_entertainment
Jade belonged to the first generation of Britons who
have been raised without religion and the meaning it
ascribes to death. A streak of callousness goes with
being young, and always has done; but the peculiar
brutality shown by twentysomethings towards the
cancer-stricken Jade, for no better reason than that
they didn't like her, is a miserable and worrying sign
of the times.
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
Lost Angeles
ISN’T IT
WONDERFUL? A NEW HORRID DEVELOPMENT RAPES SAWTELLE IN
‘LITTLE OSAKA’
But this dumbass website touts it---along with all
development---as something grand. . .typical L.A.
obliviousness. . .
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/03/soho_square_part_of_sawtelles_building_boom.php
OLDEST LIVING PERSON TURNS
118
If you call that living
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/03/21/arme-tsering-oldest-living-person/
Animals in
the news!
BORDER COLLIES
GRASP SUBTLETIES
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/41972/title/Dogs_show_a_fetching_communication_savvy
Light
Reading
HENRY VIII WAS A SERIAL KILLER
http://www.historytoday.com/MainArticle.aspx?m=33295&amid=30279171
Yet much of what we think we know about Henry VIII is
just that – fable. We think of him in stereotypes. In
2007, in her column in The Observer, Victoria Coren
wrote with heavy sarcasm: ‘If you type “wife-killing”
into Google, the first listing is a reference to Henry
VIII, of wife-killing notoriety. Oh, that Henry VIII.’
Popular perceptions of Henry VIII, according to focus
groups consulted by the market research agency BDRC for
Historic Royal Palaces, are that he was a fat guy who
had six, or maybe eight wives, and that he killed a lot
of them. In April 2007, next to a tomb in Oxford’s
Christ Church cathedral, where the heads of female
figurines had broken off, I heard one man comment to
another, ‘Henry VIII has a lot to answer for, hasn’t
he?’
DRUIDS
COMMITTED HUMAN SACRIFICE, CANNIBALISM
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090320-druids-sacrifice-cannibalism.html
For Art’s
Sake
STELLA LAI
http://www.internetweekly.org/2009/03/art_stella_lai.htm
l
Musique
“THE COMPOSER IS
DEAD”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/20/PKHI16F2M6.DTL&type=music
With a characteristically morbid text by San Francisco
author Lemony Snicket (otherwise known as Daniel
Handler) and a blithe, vivacious orchestral score by
Nathaniel Stookey, this 30-minute entertainment uses a
murder mystery as a pretext for a guided tour through
the sections of the orchestra. Trying to find the
composer's murderer, the unnamed Inspector searches the
ranks of the players for suspects or clues, while
Stookey's score offers characteristic bits from each of
the instruments and sections. (A book version of the
piece, with WPA-tinged illustrations by Carson Ellis and
an indispensable CD of the Symphony performances, has
just been released by HarperCollins.)
WATCH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMCrZWE_YAU
CANDID BACKSTAGE FOOTAGE OF
HENDRIX COMING
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/mar/23/jimi-hendrix-reality-tv-footage
Spring is
sprung
GNOME SWEET
GNOME
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/21/HO2016ETRU.DTL&type=homeandgarden
And
in the end. . .
PRAYING TO THE TEAPOT
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/03/19/malaysian-woman-jailed-worshipping-tea-pot/
3/20/09
DAILY CONCERT
ATTACK OF THE
GIANT SHRIMP!
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Giant_prawn_was_king_of_crust-ocean&in_article_id=589017&in_page_id=34
ATTACK OF THE
GIANT SEA WORM!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5016366/Giant-sea-worm-that-attacked-coral-reef-caught-by-aquarium-staff.html
COP TOPI
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/03/19/when-nypd-wears-a-muslim-topi/
Old Monty Python
prop causes bomb scare
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5018294/Pub-evacuated-after-Monty-Python-prop-mistaken-for-grenade.html
FAUX SMOKING
HAS PARENTS FUMING
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB123750945477390601-lMyQjAxMDI5MzI3MDUyMDA5Wj.html
FABULOUS NEW
YORKER COVER
Octo-Rush!
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2009/03/23/toc_20090316
‘JOE THE PLUMBER’ IS ‘HORNY’
FOR WASHINGTON D.C.
We are not making this stuff up
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2009/03/_the_republicans_working_man.html
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
Your
Corporatocracy at work!
AIG SUING
FEDERAL GOV’T.
Corporate princes want $306 million in tax money
back---collected from offshore tax havens
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/AIG_in_lawsuit_with_govt_over_0320.html
13 FIRMS THAT
RECEIVED BAILOUT $$
OWE MILLIONS IN BACK TAXES
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/us/politics/20tax.html?ref=us
CONASON:
PUSH BACK AGAINST AIG’S ‘BEST AND BRIGHTEST’
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090318_push_back_against_aigs_brightest/
It should be obvious by now that the AIG traders, along
with many others like them, deserved to be fired and
perhaps prosecuted rather than enriched. The “too big to
fail” argument for saving their firm and their sorry
behinds always amounted to a kind of blackmail. The
threat was stated explicitly in the remarkable letter
sent last weekend by AIG chief Edward Liddy to Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner that sought to justify the
latest bonuses.
Lost Angeles
FOSTER KIDS GO
HOMELESS IN L.A.---
http://www.laweekly.com/2009-03-19/news/rooftop-foster-kids/
The corner of Hollywood and Western is the epicenter of
an underground world: a community outside the collective
vision of club-hoppers and restaurant-goers rushing by,
and one forgotten by public policy. Homeless youth, many
cast off at 18 by the foster-care system, root out lives
in a dim, moldy labyrinth of “abandos” — abandoned
buildings hidden behind storefronts and the busy
boulevard.
---WHILE
ANOTHER HIDEOUS LUXURY TOWER GOES UP
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/03/curbedwire_solair_looking_at_may_moveins_del_rey_traffic_talk.php
Bordering on
madness
CONCENTRATION CAMP, USA: IMMIGRANT ‘DETENTION’ OUT OF
CONTROL
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/real-concentration-camps-usa-our-imm
Obama Nation
OBAMA
APOLOGIZES FOR STOOOPID ‘SPECIAL OLYMPICS’ “JOKE”
What the hell was he doing on the Tonight Show
anyhow?
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/03/64400743/1
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2009/03/obama_likens_his_bowling_game.html
OBAMA PLANS ‘PLEDGE DRIVE’
FOR HIS POLICY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/20/MNMO16JJDF.DTL&type=politics&tsp=1
LINDORFF:
OBAMA’S MOMENT PASSING QUICKLY
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/285
He should promptly demand Geithner's and Summers'
resignations, and should also fire the CEO of AIG,
Edward Liddy (as 80% owner of AIG, the US has the power
to do that anytime). It would also be a good idea at the
same time to fire the CEOs of all the leading banks that
are at this point surviving on government bailouts.
Israelity
ISRAEL
SOLDIERS SAY THEY WERE
ORDERED TO SHOOT WOMEN AND CHILDREN
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-gaza-probe20-2009mar20,0,1821341.story
FISK:
LIEBERMAN THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN TO THE
MIDDLE EAST
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22251.htm
The Iraqis produced the hateful Saddam, the Iranians
created the crackpot Ahmadinejad – for reasons of
sanity, I leave out the weird ruler of Libya – and now
the Israelis have exalted a man, Avigdor Lieberman, who
out-Sharons even Ariel Sharon.
All-melty
dollar
ASININE COMMENTARY
OF THE WEEK:
ETIQUETTE OF ‘FAREWELL E-MAIL’
http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2009/03/16/its-been-such-pleasure-working-you
WILL OUR
ECONOMIC COLLAPSE KILL MILLIONS ABROAD?
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/132523/will_our_economic_collapse_cause_the_death_of_millions_abroad/
DESPONDENT JAPANESE HEAD FOR
“SUICIDE FOREST”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/19/suicide.forrest.japan/index.html
Enviro Wacko
WAVE GOODBYE TO
ALL THE NICE BIRDIES, KIDS!
1/3 OF ALL U.S. SPECIES SET TO DIE
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/03/19/one-third-of-us-bird-species-are-in-peril/
Iraq and
Roll
U.S. BOMBS
BAGHDAD
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Airstrike_kills_11_insurgents_US_military_0320.html
Jesus H.
Christ!
VATICAN INSIDERS: POPE IS A
DISASTER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/5018013/Vatican-insiders-declare-the-Pope-a-disaster.html
Mashed Media
MORFORD
ON
FORECASTS OF DEMISE OF NEWSPAPERS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/20/notes032009.DTL
The grand upshot? They don't really have any idea. But
they have some curious, slippery, hopeful, but
ultimately disappointing theories. Theories that, to my
mind, consistently miss the mark, in at least one or two
vital ways.
TUCKER CARLSON SHOULD GO BACK TO THE BOW TIE
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/tucker-carlson-should-go-back-bow-tie
Animals in
the news!
ANOTHER ONE OF
THOSE SHARK AND SURFER PHOTOS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5017421/Shark-swims-near-surfer-in-Cornwall.html
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
BROADWAY DIMS
LIGHTS FOR RICHARDSON
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7954366.stm
WHAT TO DO TO HERALD SPRING
At least if you live in England
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/mar/20/spring-stephen-moss
Musique
ARCHIVAL
RELEASES FROM MARY HOPKIN
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m3d19-Those-were-the-days--Mary-Hopkin-goes-back-into-her-tape-vaults
Books
OLD
CHILDREN’S CLASSICS, NEW ILLUSTRATIONS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2009/mar/17/classic-childrens-stories-illustrated?picture=344708969
Film
THE GREATEST
MOVIES NEVER MADE
At least a couple that might have been not too bad. . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/mar/20/davidlynch
And in the
end. . .
SPRING
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&q=spring
3/19/09
DAILY CONCERT
TELEPROMPTER
FREEZES---IRISH P.M. GIVES OBAMA’S SPEECH
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/03/18/chaos-in-the-white-house-obamas-teleprompter-blows-up/
Stacy Keach
Recovering From Stroke
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7952177.stm
NUDE HIKING IN THE
ALPS
We are not making this stuff up
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/world/europe/17swiss.html?_r=2&ref=travel
BLACK PRINCESS, WHITE
PRINCE, BIG PR FOR DISNEY
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/films/article.html?Critics_lash_out_at_Disneys_first_black_princess&in_article_id=586707&in_page_id=27
DOG EATS CASH,
MAKES CHANGE
Money ain’t worth shit? Think again. . .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/18/national/a115726D38.DTL
RUSSIA BANS
BABY SEAL HUNTING
Bravo
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/mar/19/seals-hunting-russia-ban
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
Mashed Media
CRAMER: STEWART
ATTACK ON ME ‘NAÏVE’
Just the kind of “naivete” the media need, Jimbo. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Cramer_Stewart_attack_on_me_naive_0319.html
OH, THAT NAUGHTY
JON STEWART IS SOOOO MEAN!!!!
http://sparklepony.blogspot.com/2009/03/richard-cohen-fell-for-it-too-therefore.html
See, our favorite punching bag has decided, unlike
everybody else, that Jon Stewart was terribly, terribly
unfair to poor Jim Cramer, and that's because he was so
busy looking in his couch for spare change that he
utterly, completely missed Stewart's point that there
were, like, a zillion signs that companies like Bear
Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Citigroup were trading on
a dangerously warped and distended bubble.
CRAZY N. KOREA HOLDS TWO
U.S. WOMEN JOURNALISTS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7951982.stm
According to the Associated Press news agency, Laura
Ling, a Chinese-American, and Euna Lee, a
Korean-American - both of whom work for the
California-based online media outlet Current TV - were
arrested late on Tuesday.
MOST VIOLENT
VIDEO GAME EVER
Oh, this will do humanity a lot of good. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5015740/MadWorld-most-violent-computer-game-ever-launched-on-Nintendo-Wii.html
Israelity
ROBERTS:
ISRAEL’S AMERICAN CHATTEL
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22241.htm
How is the United States a superpower when it cannot
appoint the official who oversees the National
Intelligence Estimate without the approval of the
Israeli right-wing government and its American agents?
U.S. WON’T PROSECUTE MEDICAL
POT
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-medpot19-2009mar19,0,4987571.story
Bill to end
mandatory minimum drug sentences introduced
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bill_to_end_mandatory_minimums_for_0319.html
FORMER POWELL
CHIEF OF STAFF: CHENEY IS “EVIL”
And water is wet.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/18/wilkerson-cheney-evil/
Jesus H.
Christ!
IMPEACH THE POPE
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/03/impeach_the_pope.html
Country Over
STUDENTS
OUTSOURCING THEIR ESSAYS. . .TO MANILA, KIEV. . .
http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i28/28a00102.htm
EXCLUSIVE! ACTUAL FOOTAGE FROM TYPICAL COLLEGE
CLASSROOM!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP_xIJFZaoY
COMMENT:
IS
U.S. FACING ‘WEIMAR’-LIKE BACKLASH?
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/132155/does_america_face_the_risk_of_a_fascist_backlash_/
The U.S. faces a similar "Weimar Moment." The
devastating collapse of the economy after eight years of
Republican rule has left the leadership, policies, and
ideology of the right utterly discredited. But, as was
the case with Germany in 1919, Republicans do not intend
to allow the new government to succeed. They will do
everything they can to undermine it. If they are
successful, the U.S. may yet go the way of Weimar
Germany.
LINDORFF:
OPEN GOVERNMENT IS THE ONLY WAY
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/284
For the most part, the American public has adopted an
ovine attitude towards such secrecy, assuming that the
“government knows best.”Now, however, with the economic
crisis, and the collapse of AIG, Citibank, Bank of
America, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers,
General Motors, Chrysler and other leading US firms, and
with bailouts that are putting taxpayers on the hook to
the tune of trillions of dollars, the people are waking
up, or at least are starting to get restless in their
slumber.
Mission
Accomplished
NO DRINKABLE
WATER IN IRAQ
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090318/wl_mcclatchy/3191674
OBAMA WANTS TO DOUBLE U.S.
TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_considers_expanding_Afghan_security_force_0319.html
More Mashed
Media
SAN DIEGO
UNION-TRIBUNE SOLD TO EQUITY FIRM
Now pull it off the web!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/n/a/2009/03/18/financial/f120336D36.DTL&o=
All-melty
dollar
FED NEVER TOLD
OBAMA OF AIG BONUSES
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Fed_knew_of_AIG_bonuses_failed_0319.html
WIFE DIVORCES
EX-CEO---$43 MILLION NOT ENOUGH
36-year-old Swedish babe parts 67-year-old fool from
his money
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/18/financial/f100259D09.DTL
CITIGROUP PIGS
TO SPEND $10 MILLION ON EXECUTIVE OFFICES
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=adLGVE_YzvUU
Enviro Wacko
ROBOT FISH
FIGHT POLLUTION
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5012345/Robotic-fish-are-latest-weapon-in-fight-against-water-pollution.html
Freedom of what?
HOW I HAD MY
GENES DELETED
I've had my DNA struck from police records - now it's
over to the rest of you 799,999 innocents
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/19/dna-database-comment
Spaced out
BAT CLINGS TO
SPACE SHUTTLE ROCKET
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Bat-ronaut_clings_on_for_ride_of_his_life&in_article_id=586983&in_page_id=34
COSMIC TAFFY
PULL!
http://features.csmonitor.com/discoveries/2009/03/17/galaxies-caught-in-cosmic-taffy-pull/
Oh, by the
way. . .
DON’T WORRY---NO MASS GLOBAL
UNREST UNTIL 2030
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?Mass_global_unrest_to_explode_in_2030&in_article_id=588445&in_page_id=64
ROWER AIMING AT
OLYMPICS DIES DURING TRAINING
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/5013154/Olympic-rowing-hopeful-Scott-Rennie-dies-from-suspected-heart-attack.html
’LOST WORLD’
FOUND IN TEXAS CITY
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090318-texas-dinosaurs.html
BOYFRIEND
CIRCULATES NUDE PIC, TEEN KILLS HERSELF
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1161112/Teenager-commits-suicide-sexting-nude-photo-boyfriend-life-misery.html
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
CORLISS: RICHARDSON ALWAYS
WORTH WATCHING
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1886270,00.html
NATASHA RICHARDSON: AN
APPRECIATION
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-appreciation19-2009mar19,0,5255723.story
OBIT
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/theater/19richardson.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
VIDEO RETROSPECTIVE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/video/2009/mar/19/natasha-richardson-life
For Art’s
Sake
IS IT SHAKESPEARE?
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5931174.ece
JAZZY ART
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/mar/19/jazz-age-art?picture=344791015
Light
reading
WHY BRITS
HAVE THE BEST GOSSIP
Or. . .How to hypnotize the public with crap
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4821a5dc-0f5c-11de-ba10-0000779fd2ac.html
We are encouraged to live, in part, in other people’s
private lives and to regard them as models for our own.
Jade Goody, a young woman famous for her flamboyance on
reality TV shows, is dying of cancer in public,
parcelled out in instalments by Max Clifford, her press
agent, for the avid beaks of the news media. Goody’s
story lifts the sales of tabloids and magazines,
fulfilling their need for an emotionally rich, serial
story.
And in the
end. . .
MUTO
http://www.soulpancake.com/view_post/210246/just-remember-this-word-muto.html
hit 'refresh' for updates
3/18/09
DAILY CONCERT
UFO’S OVER
LONDON!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/5007735/UFOs-photographed-over-London.html
TEENS
PHOTOGRAPH SPACE WITH A CAMERA AND BALLOON
Take that, NASA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5005022/Teens-capture-images-of-space-with-56-camera-and-balloon.html
PHOTOS: SIGNS OF SPRING
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/mar/17/signs-of-spring-competition-shortlist?picture=344705967
If a public toilet is good
enough for Miss Kenya,
it should be good enough for the less glamorous citizens
of her nation
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090317-sexy-sanitation.html
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
WASHINGTON ON
$53,000 A DAY
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/03/hbc-90004571
Twenty-eight current members of Congress reported owning
stock in AIG last year, worth between $2.5 million and
$3.3 million. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), one of the
richest members of Congress, was by far the biggest
investor in AIG, with stock valued around $2 million.
Last year AIG and its subsidiaries spent about $9.7
million on federal lobbying, or about $53,000 for every
day Congress was in session in 2008.
SENATE STRIPPED
MEASURE THAT WOULD HAVE CUT BONUSES FROM BAILOUT
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Senate_quietly_stripped_measure_restricting_bonuses_0318.html
AIG BOZO CALLS
BONUSES “DISTASTEFUL”
Are you allowed to say "distasteful" in public?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/18/national/w042523D29.DTL&tsp=1
CARTOON
http://www.reachm.com/amstreet/archives/2009/03/16/fearguths-great-snark-hunt-398/
DOWD:
NO
BOILED CARROTS
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/opinion/18dowd.html
CHUCK HAGEL:
CHENEY’S CLAIM THAT OBAMA MAKES U.S.
UNSAFE---“RIDICULOUS”
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/18/hagel-cheney-rediculous/
MEXICAN DRUGLORDS ARMED WITH
U.S. GUNS
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/132120/mexico%27s_drug_war_bloodbath%3A_guns_from_the_u.s._are_destabilizing_the_country/
OBAMA
WEIGHS TALIBAN STRIKE IN PAKISTAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/world/asia/18terror.html
Kim Nook Yoo
N. KOREA REFUSES U.S. FOOD
AID
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/NKorea_refuses_US_food_amid_missile_03172009.html
Mashed Media
MORE FACEBOOK
FACE-OFF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/18/BU2416GB4F.DTL&tsp=1
POST-MORTEM FOR
THE P.I.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1885819,00.html
CHOPRA:
LET
GO OF THE BLUE SWEATER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/16/chopra031609.DTL
While America was sleeping for the past eight years, it
became clear that the future will take one of two paths.
Either the rich countries will find a way to pull the
poor countries up to a decent standard of living, or the
poor countries will pull the rich down. This didn't used
to be such a stark choice. We've lived for centuries in
a world where the rich countries could preserve an
imbalanced way of life. They had the money, the oil, the
bombs, and the political leverage to keep poor countries
at a safe distance.
Enviro Wacko
JAPAN’S NEW
ECO-FRIENDLY FLAT-SCREENS
Well, friendlier
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1885681,00.html
Jesus H.
Christ!
DEAD SEA SCROLL
ALLEGED AUTHORS NEVER EXISTED
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1885421,00.html
Animals in
the news!
ENGLAND : NOT
ENOUGH BEAVER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5007048/Beavers-could-improve-countryside-claims-Natural-England.html
TERRORIST
CHIMPS ARMED WITH CLUBS BREAK INTO BEE HIVES
Notify Homeland Security
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7946614.stm
Science
WHY
IS IT HARD TO REMEMBER JOKES?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/science/17angi.html?emc=eta1
MICROBES DISCOVERED IN
STRATOSPHERE
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318094642.htm
BRAIN ABNORMALITY
IN ADD KIDS
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317142845.htm
Oh, by the
way. . .
DNA CLEARS
RAPE-MURDER CONVICT—AFTER 27 YEARS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/18/prisoner-hodgson-murder-quashed-miscarriage
OLD SOLDIER
VISITS SUB THAT SAVED HIM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/03/17/BAEV16IBV5.DTL&o=0
WEST’S LARGEST
BUDDHIST STUPA RISES IN SPAIN
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/03/18/the-west%e2%80%99s-largest-buddhist-stupa-rises-in-spain/
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
ART LINKLETTER
IS 96
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123673035387989403.html?mod=article-outset-box
Mr. Linkletter has been married to his wife, Lois, for
73 years, but he says the one woman he always pined for
was Sophia Loren. Grant did have an affair with the
actress, and Mr. Linkletter says he jealously asked:
"'Cary, was she worth it?' And he said, 'Art, you'd
better believe it!'"
THE PRE-FAB HOMES
OF SEATTLE
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/03/prefab_from_seattle_meet_place_homes.php
MORFORD
RELEASES WRITING IN SOMETHING CALLED “BOOK”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/18/notes031809.DTL
Film
HERE THEY
ARE: THE MOVIES’ GREATEST COWARDS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/mar/17/clips-on-the-theme-of-cowardice
Eastwood casts son
in next film
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7950488.stm
Books
AGATHA CHRISTIE’S DESK ON
AUCTION
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/5011113/Agatha-Christie-writing-desk-to-be-sold-at-auction.html
RARE U.S./CUBA
COLLABORATION SAVES HEMINGWAY’S PAPERS
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/03/18/rare-us-cuban-collaboration-saves-hemingways-papers/
LINGERING STENCH:
AIRING THE STALIN ARCHIVES
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-lingering-stench--airing-Stalin-s-archives-4028
TOP TEN NUTTIEST
LAWS
http://www.alternet.org/sex/130073/the_top_10_craziest_sex_laws_in_america/
And in the
end. . .
BIRDIE!
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Golfing_parrot_takes_YouTube_by_storm&in_article_id=584920&in_page_id=34
3/17/09
DAILY CONCERT
‘DAS KAPITAL’---THE
MUSICAL
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/17/china-das-kapital-marx-stage
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0316/
HOW THEY STAIN THE CHICAGO
RIVER GREEN
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/03/16/is-the-dye-in-the-chicago-river-really-green/
Mini-dinosaurs
prowled North America
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090316173218.htm
NEW DYLAN ALBUM
NEXT MONTH
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/neil_mccormick/blog/2009/03/16/bob_dylan_new_album_and_auntie_problems
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/arts/music/17arts-NEWBOBDYLANA_BRF.html?ref=arts
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
Burt's Bees, Tom's
of Maine, Naked Juice: Your Favorite Brands?
Take Another Look -- They May Not Be What They Seem
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/131910/burt%27s_bees%2C_tom%27s_of_maine%2C_naked_juice%3A_your_favorite_brands_take_another_look_--_they_may_not_be_what_they_seem/
Burt's Bees is now owned by Clorox, a massive corporate
company that has historically cared very little about
the environment, but whose main industry is directly
associated with harmful chemicals, some of which require
warning labels for legal sale. Clorox; yes, that's right
-- the bleach company with an estimated revenue of $ 4.8
billion that employs nearly 7,600 workers (now bees) and
sells products like Liquid-Plumr, Pine-Sol and Armor
All, a far cry from the origins of Burt.
REMEMBERING
RACHEL CORRIE---
SIX YEARS AFTER HER DEATH
Amy Goodman interviews her parents in Gaza
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/16/on_trip_to_gaza_parents_of
http://www.riprense.com/soldier.htm
DRUG DECRIMINALIZATION WORKS
FINE IN PORTUGAL
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/14/portugal/index.html
Evaluating the policy strictly from an empirical
perspective, decriminalization has been an
unquestionable success, leading to improvements in
virtually every relevant category and enabling Portugal
to manage drug-related problems (and drug usage rates)
far better than most Western nations that continue to
treat adult drug consumption as a criminal offense.
AFGHAN
OCCUPATION A ‘MISTAKE’---42 PERCENT OF AMERICANS
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090317/1apoll17_st.art.htm
OBAMA’S
SERIOUS ABOUT TAKING AN AXE TO CORRUPTION, WASTE IN
PENTAGON
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/131727/obama%27s_serious_about_taking_an_axe_to_corruption_and_waste_at_the_pentagon/
KUCINICH WANTS PROBE OF
“CHENEY ASSASSINATION RING”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Kucinich_requests_investigation_into_executive_assassination_0316.html
Israelity
'Netanyahu and
Lieberman Are the Gravediggers of the Peace Process'
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,613791,00.html
Jesus H.
Christ!
CRAZY POPE:
CONDOMS WORSEN AIDS CRISIS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/5005357/Pope-Benedict-XVI-condoms-make-Aids-crisis-worse.html
VETERAN ON CROSS-COUNTRY
BIKE TRIP DIES
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/03/ap_vet_bike_031609/
Mashed Media
TEN REASONS
THAT FACEBOOK STINKS
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/131866/10_reasons_why_facebook_now_sucks_/
COMMENT:
THE
COUNTRY NEEDS A CORRECTOR GENERAL
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/03/13/the-country-needs-a-corrector-general/
(Lack of)
Health
DIABETES CURE
CLOSER---
LIVER USED TO REGULATE SUGAR
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5001343/Diabetes-cure-a-step-closer-after-liver-used-to-regulate-blood-sugar.html
CHINESE FOOT
MASSAGE GAINS TOEHOLD IN SAN GABRIEL VALLEY
http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=californianonline&sParam=30359487.story&POE=click-refer
Animals in
the news!
POLAR BEARS
FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL IN MELTING ARCTIC
‘Twas sad as sad could be. . .
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,613637,00.html
FREE THE CHIMPS
http://www.alternet.org/story/131900/chimps_r_us%3A_how_much_longer_are_we_going_to_keep_our_cousins_as_pets/
CRAZY AUSSIES
TO SOLVE ‘ROO OVERPOPULATION---BY SHOOTING THEM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/16/international/i233208D65.DTL
Obit
COY WATSON, ELDEST OF FAMED
WATSON BROS. OF L.A. PHOTOJOURNALISM
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-coy-watson17-2009mar17,0,7619604.story
“MR. MAGOO” CREATOR MILLARD
KAUFMAN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7947692.stm
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
LINDORFF:
HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE---BRING BACK THE THUMB!
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/282
It took us about 10 days to reach Tok Junction in Alaska
at the northern terminus of the Alaskan Highway that
coursed from Whitehorse, Yukon to the Alaskan border. We
then hitched around the state visiting the sights and
the cities of the nation’s last frontier region. It was
the beginning of a decade of hitch-hiking adventures
that took me, and later my wife Joyce and me down the
east coast to Florida, across the country to Washington,
Oregon and California, and to many states and places in
between.
Lost Angeles
MARINA DEL
BOONDOGGLE
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/03/curbedwire_pier_pointe_goes_to_lee_homes_urban_land_institute_tackles_the_stimulus.php
Film
NEW SACHA BARON
COHEN MOVIE PREVIEWED IN TEXAS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/5004047/Borat-star-Sacha-Baron-Cohen-previews-new-movie-Bruno-in-Texas.html
CATS’ DILEMMA:
DANGER OUTSIDE, BOREDOM INSIDE
What’s a catman to do?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/17/petscol031709.DTL
COMMENT BY INSANE FEMALE NARCISSIST
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1162263/They--hard-women-happy.html
Books
BRITISH LIBRARY MISLAYS
9,000 BOOKS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/17/british-library-books-mein-kampf
FRENCH TEENS GO
MAD FOR “WUTHERING HEIGHTS”
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/03/16/wuthering-heights-hot-book-du-jour-for-french-teens/
And in the
end. . .
“MINI-SUPERSTAR”
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/03/15/superstar-huge-heart/
hit 'refresh' for updates
3/16/09
DAILY CONCERT
WOULD-BE MODELS RIOT FOR TYRA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7945775.stm
OLSON GETS OUT TOMORROW AFTER 7 YEARS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/15/state/n134954D02.DTL
DUDLEY MOORE AND PETER COOKE ESCAPED PROSECUTION FOR
OBSCENITY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/mar/16/peter-cook-dudley-moore-dpp
In the most memorable of the sketches, the Worst Job I
Ever Had, Clive [Cook] claims he once nursed Jayne
Mansfield through an affliction he referred to as "lobstericimus
bumbequissimus" - removing lobsters from her rectum.
ATTACK OF THE GIANT SAND WORMS!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4995386/Giant-sand-worms-lived-in-Torbay-scientists-claim.html
MAN GIVES NOTICE ON CAKE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5000243/Man-resigns-from-job-by-handing-in-notice-on-cake.html
AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
SLIDE SHOW: STORES THAT ARE
NO MORE
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1884100,00.html
Israelity
ISRAELI SOLDIER SHOOTS AMERICAN
IN FACE WITH TEAR GAS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Video_of_American_allegedly_shot_by_0314.html
RAIMUNDO:
CHANGE YOU CAN’T COUNT ON
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14405
As a reward for killing 1,400 Palestinians in the Gaza
blitzkrieg, ignoring U.S. demands to stop the building
of "settlements" on the West Bank, and vigorous efforts
to breach our security and steal highly classified
information via its Washington fifth column, Tel Aviv
has been reassured by President Barack Obama that $30
billion in aid will not be cut.
EHRENREICH:
ZIONISM IS THE PROBLEM
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ehrenreich15-2009mar15,0,6684861.story
For the last several decades, though, it has been all
but impossible to cry out against the Israeli state
without being smeared as an anti-Semite, or worse. To
question not just Israel's actions, but the Zionist
tenets on which the state is founded, has for too long
been regarded an almost unspeakable blasphemy.
HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!
MAYHEM RETURNS TO N. IRELAND
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/opinion/16park.html
Animals in the news!
WHY IN THE HELL ARE HUMANS
ALLOWED TO HUNT POLAR BEARS???
This is just so incredibly vile. . .
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/hunters-under-fire-in-battle-to-save-polar-bear-from-extinction-1645731.html
ONE WOMAN’S FIGHT AGAINST ANIMAL SUFFERING
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/16/moneytales031609.DTL
Accompanying music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFHkdpIqIcs
‘GIMME A F----N’ BREAK’---BIDEN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Biden_drops_fbomb_not_realizing_mic_0316.html
All-Melty Dollar
BERNANKE: RECESSION WILL END NEXT YEAR
Eenie meenie, chili beanie, the spirits are about to
speak!
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52E22520090316
OBAMA FAILS TO HALT AIG’S BIG BONUSES
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obama-fails-to-halt-aigs-165m-bonus-payments-1645749.html
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/131721/aig_bonuses_scandal%3A_ceos_take_our_billions_and_are_accountable_to_no_one/
CHENEY: DON’T BLAME US!
(Isn’t it about time for Dick’s big heart attack?)
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Cheney_Dont_blame_Bush_team_for_0315.html
JOB LOSSES HITTING BLACK MALES WORST
http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/03/15/job-losses-hit-black-men-hardest/
IN SF, EVERYBODY’S AN EXECUTIVE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/15/BAFD16F31K.DTL&type=politics&tsp=1
Repugnicans
Mashed Media
CHENEY ON LIMBAUGH: “I LOVE HIM”
Maybe they should have intercourse
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/03/15/limbaugh-gets-big-time-support-from-dick-cheney/
STEELE CALLS HALT TO TV APPEARANCES
Before they call halt to him
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/15/steele-media/
POMPOUS JERK TUCKER CARLSON CALLS JON STEWART ‘POMPOUS
JERK’
At least he’s a funny pompous jerk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
FOX CALLS CNN ‘COMMIE NEWS NETWORK’
Country gone
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Fox_host_says_CNN_could_be_0316.html
TUCSON CITIZEN CLOSES AFTER 138 YEARS
Take the papers OFF the web. . .
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003951589
Enviro Wacko
BYE-BYE, BIG APPLE---
NEW YORK SEAS TO RISE TWICE AS MUCH
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090315-new-york-sea-level.html
(Lack of) Health
CYBERCHONDRIA: DIAGNOSING YOURSELF ON-LINE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/4986309/Online-self-diagnosis-leads-surfers-to-fear-the-worst.html
OLD AGE BEGINS AT 27
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4995546/Old-age-begins-at-27-as-mental-powers-start-to-decline-scientists-find.html
People’s Repugnic
CHINA ATHLETES ROUTINELY FAKE THEIR AGES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7945832.stm
Oh, by the way. . .
PUSSY CLUB OFFERS FLAT-RATE SERVICE TO STIMULATE LIMP
ECONOMY
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,613617,00.html
AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
Lost Angeles
GETTY TO SLASH BUDGET
President
James Wood said the financial stability of the Getty,
the world's richest arts institution,
could "fall off a huge cliff" if it delayed drastic cuts
and hard times continued.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-getty16-2009mar16,0,973987.story
DEATH OF NEIGHBORHOOD
BEFORE:
http://www.riprense.com/Houseoflou.htm
AFTER:
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/03/rent_check_west_las_mississippi_lofts.php
THEY CALL THIS “BOHO LIFE” IN VENICE---FOR $3450 A MONTH
You have to be filthy rich to be “bohemian” nowadays,
it seems
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/03/rent_check_venice_boardwalk_loft.php
WAVE GOODBYE TO THE NICE DICTIONARIES---
HERE COMES ‘WORDNIK’
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/03/16/new-online-dictionary-redefines-look-it-up/
Ms. McKean’s brainchild is called Wordnik, and it
combines the best practices of the old-fashioned desk
reference with Internet innovations. Words can be tagged
like a blog entry, their pronunciation recorded and
replayed like streaming radio, their related words
cataloged like a list of books customers also bought at
an online book depot. When the paper page gives way to
the Web page, everything about the way we think of words
will change, McKean says. “This project,” she predicts
in a quiet voice devoid of bravado, “is going to
completely revolutionize all of dictionarymaking
forever.”
AN APPRECIATION OF TERRY SOUTHERN
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/strange-loves-magic-christians-and-so-much-more-an-appreciation-of-terry-southern/
Film
REVIEW: ‘TOKYO SONATA’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0314/p25s02-almo.html
Books
THE LOST CITY OF Z
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/02/25/the-lost-city-of-z/
For Art’s Sake
EUGENE GRASSET
http://www.internetweekly.org/2009/03/art_eugene_grasset.htm
And in the end. . .
IN MEMORIAM: ALAN LIVINGSTON
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_W._Livingston
BOZO UNDER THE SEA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p4TlNbMBXk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCIZQujBrw8
3/13/09
DAILY CONCERT
A MAN AND HIS
KITTY-CAT
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Bather_cools_off_with_giant_lioness&in_article_id=580750&in_page_id=34
FRIDAY THE 13TH
AGAIN?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090312-friday-13th.html
PLOP STAR
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Beth_looks_absolutely_flabulous_at_Fendi_party&in_article_id=580734&in_page_id=7
THE JOKER IS SHOT AND KILLED
IN FLORIDA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/13/police-shoot-man-dressed-as-joker
DON’T BUY LARGE
EGGS
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article5884068.ece
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
CHINA HAS U.S.
BY THE ASS
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090313/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_us_economy
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/world/asia/14china.html?_r=1&hp
Premier Wen Jiabao's message is unlikely to be
misunderstood at the White House. It is counting on
Beijing to help pay for its stimulus package by buying
U.S. bonds. China already is Washington's biggest
foreign creditor, with an estimated $1 trillion in U.S.
government debt. A weaker dollar would erode the value
of those assets.
Reynolds on
Jiabao’s press conference
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/
Mashed Media
NPR CANCELS ALL NEWSPAPER
SUBSCRIPTIONS
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=13855
FACEBOOK
WANTS TO READ YOUR MIND
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1885010,00.html
TONY CASTRO:
JIM
BELLOWS, HOLLYWOOD, THE HER-EX
http://tonycastro.typepad.com/tony_castro/2009/03/jim-bellows-in-excelsis.html
Newspapers were information dinosaurs in their late
Jurassic period, and Jim may have been the only one
among us who knew it. I always sensed his heart wasn’t
in the Herald Examiner. Not really, and some of us
suspected taking the job at a newspaper that was already
near collapse had been his way of getting closer to
Hollywood where he later became managing editor of
television’s “Entertainment Tonight.”
LATEST JAPANESE
FOOD INSANITY:
GIVE DYING TUNA ACUPUNCTURE---THEY TASTE BETTER
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/03/11/acupuncture-sushi-combination/
Israelity
RAIMUNDO: FREEMAN’S VICTORY
OVER ISRAEL LOBBY
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14394
The nixing of Charles "Chas" Freeman from a post as head
of the National Intelligence Council is not, as is
commonly averred, a victory for the Israel lobby. It is,
instead, a Pyrrhic victory – that is, a victory so
costly that it really amounts to a defeat for them.
Sure, they managed to keep out a trenchant critic of
their Israel-centric and grossly distorted view of a
proper American foreign policy, and, yes, they managed
to smear him and put others on notice that someone with
his views is radioactive, as far as a high-level job in
the foreign policy establishment is concerned. And yet –
and yet ….
WALT ON FREEMAN WITHDRAWAL
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/03/11/on_chas_freemans_withdrawal
First, for all of you out there who may have questioned
whether there was a powerful "Israel lobby," or who
admitted that it existed but didn't think it had much
influence, or who thought that the real problem was some
supposedly all-powerful "Saudi lobby," think again.
DUMBASS HAMAS KEEPS LOBBING
ROCKETS AT ISRAEL
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0314/p25s07-wome.html
LEVY:
WHY
DO THE SWEDES HATE US?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1070657.html
Meanwhile, two pointless wars in two years were not
enough to achieve this. Maybe the time will indeed come
when the world will get fed up with this aggression and
violence of ours, which endanger world peace, and will
say at long last: No more occupation, no more wars
perpetrated by Israel for which the world has to pay.
Perhaps when Israel's dream team of Netanyahu-Lieberman-Ya'alon
faces the American dream team of Obama-Clinton,
conservatives versus liberals, warmongers versus seekers
of negotiation - something will happen then.
War in Error
MADDOW: ARE WE
OVERLOOKING HOME-GROWN TERRORISTS?
Sure. Starting with Rush Limbaugh.
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/maddow-wonders-if-we-have-been-overl
OBAMA TO
SEND GITMO PRISONERS TO SAUDIS FOR “REHAB”
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/obama_planning_to_send_gitmo_prisoners_to_saudi_arabia_for_%22rehabilitation%22/#131474
U.S. SECURITY TO COPY “BLADE
RUNNER”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/mar/13/lie-detector-biometrics-eye-bladerunner
All-melty
dollar
STEWART TO JIM
CRAMER: “IT’S NOT A F---ING GAME!”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Stewart_to_Cramer_Its_not_fking_0313.html
WHO WON?
http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2009/03/13/stewartcramer-whos-this-song-about/
Good news
OREGON TO GROW
AND TAX POT?
Fine idea.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/State_of_Oregon_may_grow_tax_0312.html
People’s
Repugnic
‘GRASS-MUD HORSE’
PAWS AT CHINA CENSORSHIP
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/world/asia/12beast.html?em
Enviro Wacko
AUSSIE BEACHES WIPED OUT BY
SLICK
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Aussie_beaches_disaster_zone_after_toxic_0313.html
Animals in
the news!
4 MILLION-YEAR-OLD
GREAT WHITE
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090312-shark-jaw-picture.html
MONKEYS FLOSS WITH HUMAN
HAIR
Well, we're good
for something. .
.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090312-monkeys-floss.html
OLD PARROT
ENTERTAINED CHURCHILL
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4985813/Parrot-pictured-with-Winston-Churchill-still-drawing-a-crowd-after-67-years.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
WWII SOLDIERS IN UNMARKED
GRAVES TO BE ID’D
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4985619/WWI-soldiers-buried-in-unmarked-graves-could-be-identified-says-historian.html
‘VAMPIRE’ REMAINS
FOUND
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4984727/Vampire-discovered-in-Italy.html
And in
more important matters. . .
REDESIGNING PARIS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/mar/13/architects-reveal-grand-paris-redesign
Today, French president Nicolas Sarkozy will receive the
ten architects selected to create Le Grand Paris.
Richard Rogers is one of them. Earlier this week, they
each gave a 30-minute presentation of their visions (see
it here). The task is herculean, the mission
quasi-impossible, but the challenge absolutely
irresistible for any ambitious architect.
Lost Angeles
ANOTHER BIG BOX
FOR LITTLE TOKYO
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/03/curbedwire_33.php
Musique
THE
CLARINETTIST AS COMPOSER
And the composer as clarinettist
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/mar/13/jorg-widmann-clarinettist-wigmore-hall
For Art’s
Sake
CHAGALL: FROM SHTETL TO CHATEAU
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22471
With the death in 1944 of his remarkable first wife,
Bella, whose loving and stabilizing presence fostered
Chagall's creativity, we can add his name to
twentieth-century art's roll call of egotistical
monsters. Bella's successor, Chagall's British-born
companion Virginia Haggard, would leave him, but not
before he had beaten her to the ground with his fists.
TRASHY ART
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0313/p13s03-alar.html
Film
MARIANNE FAITHFULL’S LIFE TO
BE FILM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7941643.stm
Where ya
goin’?
HAWAII IS CHEAP
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/13/alohafriday031309.DTL&type=travel
WILDFLOWERS IN
NOCAL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/12/SPLM16CJ0V.DTL&type=living
DENMARK, HOME
OF. . .GANG WARFARE?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/08/TRDH1696P7.DTL
And in the
end. . .
YOKO’S REMARKABLE HOME MOVIES
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=244465582&blogId=476198617
3/12/09
DAILY CONCERT
PHISH
BANKROLLED FEDS WHO BUSTED FANS AT REUNION SHOW
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Phish_paid_for_police_presence_at_0310.html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/phish-shows-net-numerous-arrests/
PHELPS WHEATIES
ON EBAY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=55&entry_id=36845
GOD HELP US: HARVEY LEVIN
LECTURES CAL JOURNALISM SCHOOL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/11/MNMJ16DPR8.DTL
OCTOPUSSY BUYS
HOUSE
Being broke, narcissistic, stupid, and insane
apparently pays well
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/09/state/n112950D31.DTL
Photos of the
day:
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0311/
Quotatious:
http://www.time.com/time/quotes
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
THE RIP POST
EMPHATICALLY AGREES:
SOCCER IS RUINING AMERICA
(not that there is much left to ruin)
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1329
Soccer is running America into the ground, and there is
very little anyone can do about it. Social critics have
long observed that we live in a therapeutic society that
treats young people as if they can do no wrong. Every
kid is a winner, and nobody is ever left behind, no
matter how many times they watch the ball going the
other way. Whether the dumbing down of America or soccer
came first is hard to say, but soccer is clearly an
important means by which American energy, drive, and
competitiveness is being undermined to the point of no
return. What other game, to put it bluntly, is so boring
to watch?
HERSH: CHENEY
RAN “ASSASSINATION RING”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Hersh_US_has_been_running_executive_0311.html
"It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and
it’s been going on and on and on," Hersh stated. "Under
President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into
countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA
station chief, and finding people on a list and
executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the
name of all of us."
CAFFERTY: GOP
IS A CARTOON
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/10/cafferty.republicans/index.html?iref=newssearch
FREE THE
SHOE-THROWER!
Brave man's protest gets him three years in jail
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Iraq_court_jails_Bush_shoethrower_for_0312.html
Israelity
DID
ISRAEL LOBBY BLOCK FREEMAN?
Does a home have a TV?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0312/p99s01-duts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/washington/12lobby.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130372
In an angry letter sent to U.S. foreign policy officials
following his announcement, Freeman accused the "Israel
lobby" of deliberately slandering him.
SPIES: ISRAEL
NO FRIEND OF U.S.
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_29820.shtml
Scratch a counterintelligence officer in the US
government and they'll tell you that Israel is not a
friend to the United States. This is because Israel runs
one of the most aggressive and damaging espionage
networks targeting the US. The fact of Israeli
penetration into the country is not a subject
oft-discussed in the media or in the circles of
governance, due to the extreme sensitivity of the
US-Israel relationship coupled with the burden of the
Israel lobby, which punishes legislators who dare to
criticize the Jewish state.
Mashed Media
NYT MEDIA
CRITIC CALLS FOR PAPERS TO GET OFF THE WEB!
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/03/is_collusion_the_answer_f.php
The Rip Post said this first, weeks ago. It’s the only
solution.
http://www.riprense.com/dreamnewspaper.htm
CITIES GO FROM TWO PAPERS TO
ONE. . .TO ZERO?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/business/media/12papers.html?em
WATCH: MATTHEWS
MAKES FLEISCHER LOOK LIKE THE FOOL THAT HE IS
See Ari try to make Bush look good. See Ari lie. See
Ari distort. See Ari smile smugly.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/matthews-smacks-down-fleischer-over-bush-keeping-us-safe
JON CARROLL ON JIM BELLOWS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/11/DD9M16C309.DTL
Enviro Wacko
WAVE GOODBYE TO
THE CALIFORNIA COASTLINE, KIDS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/12/MNTK16DEBF.DTL
CHINA AIMS TO REVERSE
DEFORESTATION?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/mar/11/green-wall-forest-logging
Maybe they'd better get rid
of that brown cloud first
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/brown_cloud.html
WAVE GOODBYE TO
THE AMAZON, KIDS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/4976275/Amazon-rainforest-at-risk-of--ecological-catastrophe.html
Animals in
the news!
NEW GPS HELPS
YOU AVOID ANIMALS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090311-roadkill-GPS.html
CROC EATS SHARK
Bon apetit
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/4976147/Crocodile-devours-shark-in-battle-Down-Under.html
(Lack of)
Health
STATINS STOLE MY
MEMORY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/4974840/Wonder-drug-that-stole-my-memory.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
ARTIFICIAL LIFE
IN FIVE YEARS---SCIENTISTS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4974917/Artificial-life-could-be-created-within-five-years.html
Wait---someone
beat them to it!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/4976051/Michael-Jackson-mania-returns-as-fans-scramble-for-London-concert-tickets.html
And in
more important matters. . .
FANS REJECT NEW ‘POTTER’
FILM AT SNEAK PREVIEW
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4977774/Harry-Potter-fans-of-JK-Rowling-series-disappointed-at-preview-of-latest-film-Half-Blood-Prince.html
All-melty
dollar
OH, THE TRAGEDY OF
IT!
GIGI CAN’T AFFORD THAT $543 DRESS. . .
CAN’T “INVEST” IN THOSE $200 SHOES! OH, WOE!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101758012
Still, she manages to have a fun, exciting lifestyle on
a budget. She has friends who invite her to the
symphony, or events like a networking luncheon on a
rooftop terrace. (OR: How to be a narcissistic
fad-following airhead for less money.)
DEPRESSION
CHIC: EAT YOUR BEANS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0311/p17s01-lifo.html
Fashionism
THE LATEST MADNESS FROM
PARIS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2009/mar/12/paris-fashion-week-chloe-kenzo-john-galliano?picture=344498703
Musique
THE RETURN OF THE
MANDOLIN
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/03/11/a-mandolin-revival-creates-the-montana-sound/
MAN TO GET EYEBALL CAMERA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/4973810/Filmmaker-to-have-Six-Million-Dollar-Man-camera-fitted-in-eye.html
Auto Motive
GENEVA AUTO
SHOW
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/g/a/2009/03/11/Geneva_Auto_Show_2009.DTL&o=27&type=autos
Books
CONLEY ON THE
‘TWITTERATI’
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=agonies_of_the_twitterati
Conley emphasizes four forces that drive contemporary
social change. New technologies create a 24/7, sped-up
work life that continuously intrudes on family time.
Growing income inequality makes those near the top
envious and insecure, leading them to work ever harder.
Women's participation in paid work erodes community
life, breaks down the boundary between work and leisure,
and strains families. And the networked society permits
an almost infinite number of selves -- virtual and
actual -- as people participate in multiple communities
of varying depth and reality, from the anonymous others
who "recommend" films on Netflix, to friends of friends
on Facebook, to the avatars in virtual social universes.
THE ENDURING
CULT OF THE VAMPIRE
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/03/16/090316crat_atlarge_acocella?currentPage=al
Later, between sobs, Mina relates what happened. She was
in bed with Jonathan when a strange mist crept into the
room. Soon, it congealed into the figure of a man—Count
Dracula. “With a mocking smile, he placed one hand upon
my shoulder and, holding me tight, bared my throat with
the other, saying as he did so: ‘First, a little
refreshment to reward my exertions . . .’ And oh, my
God, my God, pity me! He placed his reeking lips upon my
throat!” The Count took a long drink. Then he drew back,
and spoke sweet words to Mina. “Flesh of my flesh,” he
called her, “my bountiful wine-press.”
Where ya
goin’?
POMPEII AND
PIZZA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/mar/11/naples-italy-city-guide
CASS HOUSE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/11/NSRG164K9U.DTL&type=travel
And in the
end. . .
DRACUFISH
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090311-dracula-fish-photo.html
hit 'refresh' for updates
3/06/09
DAILY CONCERT
MANNY RAMIREZ IS HAPPY---ISN’T IT WONDERFUL!
Now we can all sleep.
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/03/manny_im_in_a_happy_place_1.php
AIN’T LOVE GRAND?
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Paris_locks_tongues_with_new_man&in_article_id=571333&in_page_id=7
MAN FALLS OFF CLIFF TWICE
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Man_falls_down_the_same_cliff_twice&in_article_id=571350&in_page_id=34
GIANT SAUSAGE
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/photogalleries/week-in-news-pictures-120/index.html
NAKED MAN FESTIVAL
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/11/23/naked-man-festival/
MORFORD
ON THE WEATHER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/06/notes030609.DTL
AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
HUMANS SEARCH FOR NEW EARTH
This one’s pretty well shot. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/4946877/NASA-Kepler-telescope-to-hunt-for-Earth-like-planets.html
ICELANDERS KNITTING THEIR WAY OUT OF BANKRUPTCY
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0306/p01s03-wogn.html
BABY BOOMERS GOING BUST
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/130361/is_the_future_going_down_the_drain_baby_boomers_going_bust/
Repugnicans
STEELE ON WAY OUT AFTER TRASHING LIMBAUGH?
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/03/05/conservatives-say-limbaugh-steele-feud-could-mean-the-end-for-gop-chair/
ROVE A ‘TWO-HEADED RATTLESNAKE’—FORMER ‘BAMA GOV.
And you thought he was just a pigboy. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Siegelman_Rove_a_twoheaded_rattlesnake_0306.html
Iraq and Roll
U.S. MILITARY OFFICER STEALS $690K IN IRAQ ‘RELIEF
FUNDS’
Hell, it was better spent on him, anyhow. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_officer_charged_with_stealing_Ir_03052009.html
WHY 10,000 UGANDANS ARE SERVING IN IRAQ
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0306/p04s02-woaf.html
Obama Nation
OBAMA’S BUSH LEAGUE DECISION
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/03/06/state_secrets_obama/
The president's lawyers continue to block access to
information that could expose warrantless wiretapping.
Is this change we can believe in?
OBAMA REVERSES BUSH DECISION ON ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/mar/03/obama-bush-endangered-species-act-us
Israelity
CLINTON DRAGS OUT THE “UNHELPFUL” WORD
Oh, such harsh rhetoric! Not since Rumsfeld have we
heard such sharp language!
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/clinton-israels-demolition-plans-unhe
Spaced out
MOONBASE: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/03/05/moon-base-location-location-location/
JAPAN TO PUT ROBOT ON MOON?
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5251rs-us-japan-space/
Mashed Media
SF CHRON TO CUT 225 JOBS
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003948862
(Lack of) health
FLASH! POKEMON ‘CAUSES AGGRESSION’
And humans cause Pokemon
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/children_shealth/4946220/Cartoons-like-Pokemon-can-make-children-aggressive.html
Obit
FOOTBALL HALL OF FAMER GEORGE MCAFEE
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/sports/football/06mcafee.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
Oh, by the way. . .
A MILLION STARVE IN SUDAN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/After_government_retaliation_a_million_face_0305.html
AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
SWISS WATCH FOUND IN 400-YEAR-OLD CHINESE TOMB
Proof that watches get lost!
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/03/05/hundredyear-tomb-reveals-swiss-watch/
Books
SHE KNEW THEM ALL
Ben Franklin, Marie-Antoinette, Louis XVI,
Talleyrand, Hamilton, Napoleon, Madame de Staël,
Washington, Mohawk Indians
http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/adamson_03_09.html
Where is the bailout for book critics?
http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/where-bailout-book-critics
BLUFFING ABOUT BOOKS IS A CIVILIZED ART
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/4944520/Why-bluffing-about-books-is-a-civilised-art.html
Lying and cheating are not normally admirable traits,
but I'd make an exception in the case of literature. A
survey of 1,342 people carried out for World Book Day
yesterday suggested that two thirds of us lie in saying
that we've read books that we haven't. Why ever not?
Fibbing about our reading habits demonstrates a tacit
acknowledgement that there are a number of books we
ought to have read.
MUSICIANS HAVE BIO ADVANTAGE IN ID’ING EMOTIONS
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303161427.htm
Thought for food
THREE SF RESTAURANTS MARK 30 YEARS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/05/DD8M1674S2.DTL&type=food
And in the end. . .
HEAD JOBS
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Artist_re-creates_woodland_scenes_on_his_own_skull&in_article_id=570112&in_page_id=34
hit 'refresh' for updates
3/05/09
DAILY CONCERT
MAN GETS HUNGRY, KILLS AND EATS CO-RIDER ON GREYHOUND
BUS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/4942591/Greyhound-bus-killer-decapitated-man-then-ate-his-organs.html
HIS HEART’S IN THE RIGHT PLACE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4943410/Baby-boy-recovering-after-operation-to-move-heart-from-wrong-side-of-his-chest.html
18-YEAR-OLD WRITES: “I AM ADDICTED TO MASTURBATION”
(No pun intended.) Read the “expert advice” from the
brilliant therapist! And uh. . .when you’re 18, aren’t
you supposed to be addicted to masturbation?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/mar/05/sexual-healing-masturbation
BARBARA BUSH RECOVERING FROM HEART SURGERY
But. . .but. . .she has no heart!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/04/national/a181852S32.DTL&tsp=1
If the moon was made of dung. . .
http://www.internetweekly.org/2009/03/cartoon_man_in_the_moon_of_dung.html
AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
Iraq and Roll
REPUG REP. WANTS TO DECLARE “VICTORY” IN IRAQ
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/04/steve-king-declares-victory/
WHAT IRAQ VICTORY LOOKS LIKE:
http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/4941949/Bomb-kills-10-in-Hillah-cattle-market-south-of-Baghdad.html
LINDORFF:
KISS THE BANKS GOODBYE AND REBUILD THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/279
When former companies like Citicorp and AIG are history,
and when former Lehman Brothers, Citibank and AIG
managers, as well as most of the Pentagon Brass, are out
working at civilian conservation corps camps helping to
restore watersheds or replant forests, we will know that
the government has finally “gotten” it.
FEINSTEIN TOP CALIF. GOV. CHOICE, BROWN SECOND
---AND VILLARAIGOSA THIRD?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/05/MNSH1698RD.DTL&type=politics&tsp=1
47,000 AMERICANS HAVE TAX-FREE SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1883217,00.html
PIGBOY ROVE WILL TESTIFY IN PRIVATE
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rove_agrees_to_testify_under_oath_0304.html
All-melty dollar
COLLECTING FROM DEADBEATS, ALMOST LITERALLY
Good old Uncle Sam. . .no shame. . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/business/04dead.html?em
WYNN’S ASTONISHING ENCORE
Massive hotel opens, while Vegas homes are foreclosed
http://www.time.com/time/travel/article/0,31542,1883151,00.html
Mashed Media
WHY DID FLA. RAMPAGE SHOOTING
OF LATINOS GET SO LITTLE PRESS?
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/what-motivated-florida-gunman-open-f
INTERVIEW: ‘A BANKRUPT
MEDIA COMPANY IS BETTER THAN A GOV’T.-FUNDED ONE’
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,611534,00.html
HOW CAN BILL PLASCHKE CELEBRATE DOGTURDS' SINGING OF
RAMIREZ?
By the way, Bill, paragraphs can be more than
one-sentence long
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-plaschke-manny-ramirez5-2009mar05,0,5384477.column
Obama Nation
THIS AIN’T NO SECULAR WHITE HOUSE. . .
http://www.alternet.org/rights/129920/is_obama_bringing_too_much_religion_into_the_white_house/
People’s Repugnic
CHINA, TAIWAN TALKS TO END ’60 YEARS OF HOSTILITY’
Fat chance.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/taiwan/4943496/China-and-Taiwan-talks-to-end-60-years-of-hostility.html
Animals in the news!
MOST ENDANGERED MAMMAL FILMED
Oh, leave the poor thing alone. . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/mar/05/javan-rhino-wwf-footage
Spaced out
SIDE BY SIDE
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5236EO20090304
Obit
HORTON FOOTE
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/theater/05foote.html?ref=obituaries
AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
REMEMBERING THE SUMMER OF ‘65
http://krlabeat.sakionline.net/issue/28aug65.pdf
SAVANT LEARNS GERMAN IN A WEEK
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,611381,00.html
Tammet can speak Romanian, Gaelic, Welsh and seven other
languages. He learned Icelandic in a week for a TV
documentary, at the end of which he gave a live
interview on television. He felt somewhat nervous, but
was able to speak quite fluently with the show's host.
He even dared to make a joke in Icelandic, which is
generally dreaded for its complexity. He still speaks
the language today.
ATTACK OF THE ROBOT TEACHERS!
They take roll, they get angry. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4942136/Robot-teacher-that-can-take-the-register-and-get-angry.html
Thought for food
CHEF RAMSAY IN THE STEW WITH BANKS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/4942290/Gordon-Ramsay-in-hot-water-with-his-banks-overdue-accounts-show.html
EAT LOCAL, EVEN IN WINTER
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0304/p17s01-lifo.html
Light Reading
LOST IN THE ARCHIVES
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=d485dj23z8vmzltmlxsrl7npgfyv5wwk
When I tell people that the five years I spent
researching and writing my last book included about a
month and a half of work in the French national
archives, they often look skeptical or even laugh,
saying, "Right, research in France. That sounds really
tough." Sometimes they pantomime the copious drinking of
wine. Or they ask why anyone needs to go to the archives
at all, since everything is now on the Internet.
For Art’s Sake
PATTY MILCH, ART SLEUTH
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123621345176235047.html
Musique
RINGO, PAUL TO PERFORM TOGETHER?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7924392.stm
Watch: Dhani Harrison’s
“newnumbertwo”
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=684653890959
Where ya goin’?
THAILAND TATTOO FESTIVAL
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/gallery/2009/mar/05/thailand-tattoo-festival-cultural-trips?picture=344135657
CORK, MY KIND OF TOWN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/citybreaks/4942543/Cork-Ireland-My-kind-of-town.html
WORLD’S FUNNIEST TRAVEL COMPLAINT LETTER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/4344890/Virgin-the-worlds-best-passenger-complaint-letter.html
CROWD-FREE SIERRAS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/01/TRPE15VNR6.DTL&type=travel
And in the end. . .
JAPAN CUTS SILVER CUPS FOR 100-YEAR-OLDS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7922761.stm
3/04/09
DAILY CONCERT
L.A. DOGTURDS PAY CREEPO RAMIREZ
$45 MILLION
Guess it’s okay with America to pay massive amounts
of dough to arrogant cretins who swing bats
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/03/yeah_so_manny_is_back.php
ROBIN WILLIAMS
AILING
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7923089.stm
PENN WANTS
‘HARVEY MILK DAY’
Better to have a Rip Post Day. . .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/04/BAAB168L9U.DTL
Lost
Angeles
VILLARAIGOSA “WINS” ON
MINUTE VOTER TURNOUT. . .L.A. LOSES
That’s the whole story. There is no link.
1 IN 6
TENNESSEANS TELL OBAMA RACE JOKES---POLL
When are the dumbshits in this country going to
realize that the guy is as white as he is black?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/15_percent_of_Tennesseans_have_told_0303.html
STING SUPPORTS
PENTAGON HACKER, CONDEMNS U.S.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/pop-superstar-s.html
YES WE
CAN? NO YOU F----ING CAN’T!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/mar/04/clip-in-the-loop-armando-iannucci
AND
ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
ARE YOU A
REPUGNICAN?
NEED TO APOLOGIZE TO FATBOY RUSH?
http://www.dccc.org/content/sorry
STEELE WORMS, WIGGLES,
SLIMES OVER LIMBAUGH DEBACLE
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/04/steele-my-personal-opinion-doesnt-matter-in-this-only-limbaughs-does/
HEY, KIDS! IF
YOU WANT TO BE A SHITHEAD,
YOU’VE GOT TO START YOUNG
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/wingnut-wunderkind-jonathan-krohn-se
MEXICO COPS
FLEEING DRUG WAR HIT-MEN FOR. . .EL NORTE
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-asylum4-2009mar04,0,1751265.story
WAR CRIMES WARRANT ISSUED
FOR SUDAN LEADER
Can Bush be far behind?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7923102.stm
All-Melty
Dollar
POOR CHICKENS ARE
THE NEW CHEAP MEAT
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aWKabkAcH6M0&refer=exclusive
ANOTHER MONTH,
ANOTHER 697,000 JOBS GONE
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE5232V420090304
SCHEER:
BILLIONS DISHED OUT IN THE SHADOWS
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090303_billions_dished_out_in_the_shadows/
U.S. taxpayers now have ownership of almost 80 percent
of AIG, but with the company’s once solid traditional
insurance business now suffering a steep loss of
consumer confidence, it’s not likely that even the
formerly healthy parts of the company will be worth
much. What we have here is all pain and no gain for the
taxpayers roped into this debacle, which is proving to
be the story of the entire banking bailout.
JIM
CRAMER’S ADVICE SLIGHTLY WORSE THAN COIN TOSS
http://consumerist.com/5116676/jim-cramers-advice-slightly-worse-than-a-coin-toss?skyline=true&s=x
THERE’S GOLD IN THEM THAR.
. .GOLD
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/gold/
Obama
Nation
DEMOCRAT REVOLT MAY SLOW OBAMA
http://www.cqpolitics.com/cq-assets/eap/static/dem-revolt1.html
OBAMA CRACKS DOWN ON TAX
HAVENS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/mar/04/obama-tax-haven-crackdown
MORFORD:
DEFENDING OBAMA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/04/notes030409.DTL
How is it that no one but you and a few manic fringe
writers seem to notice that President Obama is either A)
a thinly veiled socialist commie instigator hell-bent on
destroying America from the inside out, or B) nothing
more than a cleverly disguised corporate-loving Bush
clone because, oh my God, haven't you seen his policy on
H1Bs and faith-based initiatives and his nefarious plan
to take over the banks and, um, something else you can't
quite remember right now but you're sure is really,
really damning?
WATCH: FDR WAS
HATED, TOO
http://newstalgia.crooksandliars.com/gordonskene/welcoming-hatred
PUBLIC DOES NOT
FAULT OBAMA FOR STOCK PLUNGE
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/04/poll-obama-responsible/
Iraq and
Roll
SUICIDE? NO, THIS
SOLDIER WAS RAPED AND MURDERED
http://www.alternet.org/rights/129646/lavena_johnson%3A_raped_and_murdered_on_a_military_base_in_iraq/
LaVena Johnson, a high school honor student, decided to
enlist in the Army to pay for college. On July 19, 2005,
after serving eight weeks in Iraq, she was killed, eight
days short of her 20th birthday.
Israelity
IRAN: WE CAN
HIT ISRAEL NUKE SITES
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSBLA45187120090304
GAZA: FAILED
SIEGE
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22141.htm
People’s
Repugnic
NO JOBS IN CHINA EQUALS
POLITICAL TROUBLE
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2009/03/china_all_about_jobs.html
'I am standing in the middle of a jobs market in
Southern China. It's mobbed. There are thousands of
unemployed people milling around.'
(Lack of)
Health
BIONIC EYE
GIVES MAN GLIMPSE OF LIGHT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7919645.stm
Auto Motive
GERMANY CRITICAL
OF GM BAILOUT
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,611271,00.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE
ARCHIVE COLLAPSES
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,611311,00.html
The collapse of the Historical Archive of Cologne on
Tuesday buried more than a millenium's worth of
documents under tons of rubble. Archivists and
historians hope something can be salvaged, but the
future of the city's past is grim.
AND
IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
Animals in
the news!
HELP! FISH WITH
HUMAN FACES!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4929620/Fish-with-human-faces-spotted-in-South-Korea.html
WILDLIFE
CONTEST PHOTOS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/feb/25/sony-photography-natural-history?picture=343786634
MORE PIX: THE
MAGNIFICENT FOX
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/4938542/Urban-fox-count-readers-photos-of-foxes-in-their-gardens.html
REQUIEM FOR A JAGUAR
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090303-jaguar-update.html
MICHAEL
JACKSON TO PLAY JOKER IN NEXT ‘BATMAN’
Well, he should, anyhow. . .look at him
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Jacko_arrives_for_%A3150m_return&in_article_id=566639&in_page_id=7
Lost
Angeles
GOLD LINE TO EAST L.A.
NEARS OPENING
But will do nothing to relieve traffic
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/03/curbedwire_next_american_city_conference.php
DALEK REMAINS FOUND IN
MURKY POND!
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Dalek_pulled_from_murky_pond&in_article_id=567147&in_page_id=34
ORCHIDS?
DELICATE? PSHAW!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/04/DD2Q163537.DTL&type=homeandgarden
Hey, Be-attle!
UNIVERSITY OFFERS
FIRST MA IN. . .THE BEATLES
http://www.hope.ac.uk/frontpage-news/
RINGO, PAUL TO
PLAY IN NYC APRIL 4
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m3d3-Beatle-news-briefs-Beatles-curriculum-a-degree-of-excellence-old-rockers-Spinal-tap-into-tour
And in the
end. . .
CAT RANCH
(This is wonderful)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwM6f0liHpo
3/03/09
DAILY CONCERT
CHINA BANS
OASIS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/4928856/China-bans-Oasis.html
L.A. TRIES
‘CUSS-FREE’ WEEK
Lotsa fucking luck
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090301/ap_on_fe_st/odd_no_cussing
Photos of the day
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0302/
JOE THE PLUMBER
TO WED OCTOPUSSY
http://www.internetweekly.org/2009/03/cartoon_joe_the_plumber_meets_octomom.html
AND
ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
|
Rush Limbaugh
REPUG CHAIR
STEELE APOLOGIZES TO LIMBAUGH!
Fatboy Rush runs the party
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Limbaugh_lashes_out_at_Steele_over_0302.html
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/129710/steele_loses%2C_bows_down_to_limbaugh/
"My intent was not to go after Rush – I have enormous
respect for Rush Limbaugh," Steele said. "I was maybe a
little bit inarticulate. ... There was no attempt on my
part to diminish his voice or his leadership."
LETTERMAN TELLS
IT RIGHT: LIMBAUGH A 'GANGSTER'
While newswhore Couric frets
it spoils her chances for Rush interview
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Letterman_calls_Limbaugh_bonehead_gangster_0303.html
ASSHOLE
COMMENTARY OF THE WEEK:
THE TIRED WAR ON RUSH LIMBAUGH
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-goldberg3-2009mar03,0,1748845.column
Well, given what Obama wants to do, I hope he fails too.
Of course I want the financial crisis to end -- who
doesn't? But Obama's agenda is much more audacious.
Pretty much every major news outlet in the country has
said as a matter of objective analysis that Obama wants
to repeal the legacy of Ronald Reagan and remake the
country as a European welfare state. And yet people are
shocked that conservatives, Limbaugh included, want
Obama to fail in this effort?
Rush Limbaugh is
the leader of the Republican Party
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/03/01/limbaugh/
MORE
ASTOUNDING REPUG/FOX
TOTAL LIES ABOUT OBAMA
BAILOUT
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/02/franks-lie-red-light-express/
OBAMA OFFERED TO SWAP
‘MISSILE SHIELD’
FOR KREMLIN’S HELP ON IRAN
He should throw in Rush Limbaugh
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Russian_paper_Obama_offers_end_of_0302.html
OBAMA RELEASES
SECRET BUSH ANTI-TERROR MEMOS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_administration_releases_secret_Bush_terror_0302.html
READ MEMOS
HERE
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/129722/secret_bush_memos_released%3A_read_them_here%21/
CRICKET SHOOTERS STILL AT
LARGE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/mar/03/pakistan-sri-lanka-cricket-attack?picture=344050896
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/03/sri-lanka-cricket-shooting
All-melty
dollar
FORMER HP
ROBBERBARON HAS CANCER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/02/BA8D1685C9.DTL&type=politics&tsp=1
MADOFF MAKES
OFF WITH NYC PENTHOUSE, $62 MILLION
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/02/financial/f145525S81.DTL&type=business
DUBAI’S DRAMATIC
DECLINE
http://www.danielpipes.org/6190/dubais-dramatic-drop
The sharp drop in oil prices exposed the country's
inescapable weakness, while Dubai's literary and tennis
debacles confirmed the point. Instead, an entirely
different model now tempts it – what I call the
separation of civilizations. Unable to impose their way,
Persian Gulf Arabs are retreating into a Muslim ghetto
with its own economics (including Shar'i compliant
tools), consumer goods, media, transportation, fast
foods, sports competitions, search engines, and even
systems of keeping time.
IRELAND’S BOOM
ENDS---WITH A VENGEANCE
http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/03/02/irelands-boom-ends-%e2%80%93-with-a-vengeance/
As the economy grew, house construction boomed, bringing
with it an overheated property market. Banks responded
with easy mortgages. Personal debt ballooned. Now that
finance has dried up, the construction sector has
atrophied, and jobs are starting to be lost across the
economy.
WHY U.S. KEEPS
BACKING AIG
http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/03/02/why-us-keeps-backstopping-a-flattened-aig/
A YEAR WHEN
SAVINGS TRUMPS INVESTMENT
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0302/p16s01-wmgn.html
Israelity
ISRAEL LOBBY
PRESSURES OBAMA
TO BOYCOTT RACISM CONFERENCE
http://www.alternet.org/audits/129674/obama_pressured_by_israel_lobby_to_boycott_world_conference_against_racism/
According to this article in the New York Times, the
Administration will boycott the conference to protest
what it deems the unfair equation of Zionism with
racism.
Iraq and
Roll
USA’S GIFT TO IRAQ:
GARISH TATTOOS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0303/p04s01-wome.html
Animals in
the news!
DOG HEALTH-CARE
OVERHAUL
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123600860805510401.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
That commie-pinko Obama, now he wants socialized
veterinary care for pets!
Auto Motive
TOYOTA
WANTS LOAN FROM JAPAN GOV’T.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7920379.stm
Enviro
Wacko
REUSABLE
TOILET WIPES?
This is taking conservation too far. . .
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1882682_1882680,00.html
Obit
CAPTAIN MOLLY KOOL
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/world/americas/03kool.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
AND
IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
Fashionism
MORE PROOF
DESIGNERS ARE INSANE
http://www.metro.co.uk/galleryDetailPage.html?Agatha_Ruiz_De_La_Prada&in_gallery_id=2102&in_page_id=3&in_image_id=25714&in_category_id=2087
NEIL:
REDESIGN OF PEPSI LOGO HARD TO SWALLOW
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-neil3-2009mar03,0,4614913.story
Lost
Angeles
PALMS---THE
OLDEST SUBURB IN L.A.
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/01/curbedwire_everything_you_wanted_to_know_about_palms.php
SMALL TALK IN THE
STONE AGE:
THE MOST ANCIENT WORDS IN OUR VOCABULARY
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5805522.ece
THIRTEEN UNSOLVED
SCIENTIFIC MYSTERIES
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article5797028.ece?token=null&print=yes&randnum=1235858413093
30 YEARS OF
U-2?
How did music ever get so unlucky?
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1881792,00.html
Where ya
goin’?
NOW IS THE
TIME TO GO TO VEGAS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/27/TRSE15Q9U9.DTL&type=travel
And in the
end. . .
CRAIGSLIST
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/all/
3/02/09
DAILY CONCERT
PINK DOLPHIN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4927224/Pink-dolphin-appears-in-US-lake.html
WEIRD PICS OF
DAY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/4927018/Pictures-of-the-day-2-March-2009.html
NAKED MAN
ENTERTAINS L.A.
L.A. Times seems to have missed this story. . .
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_11814920
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/4927018/Pictures-of-the-day-2-March-2009.html?image=1
TINY PLASTIC PEOPLE INVADE
BRITAIN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4904472/Flash-mob-of-Plasticine-Morphs-honours-Tony-Hart.html
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
RAP ACCURATELY
TRANSLATED!
http://www.dailyredundancy.com/video/rap_translated.html
Enviro-wacko
HOW DRY WE ARE
http://www.utne.com/print-article.aspx?id=25495
It turns out that you don't want to be a former city
dweller in rural parts of southernmost Australia, a
stalk of wheat in China or Iraq, a soybean in Argentina,
an almond or grape in northern California, a cow in
Texas, or almost anything in parts of east Africa right
now. Let me explain.
HAARP: WHAT THE
HELL ARE WE DOING TO THE WEATHER?
http://www.haarp.net/
WATCH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnRPZOUVhJ4
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6573594099335358512
HAARP---or---heating
up the ionosphere for military use
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program
The HAARP project aims to direct a 3.6 MW signal, in the
2.8-10 MHz region of the HF band, into the ionosphere.
The signal may be pulsed or continuous wave. Then
effects of the transmission and any recovery period will
be examined using associated instrumentation, including
VHF and UHF radars, HF receivers, and optical cameras.
According to the HAARP team, this will advance the study
of basic natural processes that occur in the ionosphere
under the natural but much stronger influence of solar
interaction, as well as how the natural ionosphere
affects radio signals. This will enable scientists to
develop techniques to mitigate these effects in order to
improve the reliability and/or performance of
communication and navigation systems, which would have a
wide range of applications in both the civilian and
military sectors.
HAVE YOU NOTICED
THAT THE SKY IS ALWAYS STREAKED?
What’s going on up there? Another failure of
mainstream media---virtually no reporting on
“chemtrails”
http://www.chemtrails911.com/intro_to_chem.htm
http://educate-yourself.org/ct/
http://www.bariumblues.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory
LOCAL TV NEWS CONFIRMS:
BARIUM IN THE SKY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okB-489l6MI
INTERVIEW: A MERE 1000
PROTEST COAL USE IN D.C. PLANT
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/2/capitol_climate_action_thousands_converging_on
Obama Nation
PROSECUTE
HANNITY FOR CALLING FOR COUP AGAINST OBAMA
http://www.stinque.com/2009/03/01/how-to-punish-hannity-for-coup-provocation-nail-him-to-a-swastika/
Then fucktard Hannity hosted a poll on his website last
week, asking his readers which revolution they endorsed:
a military coup, armed rebellion, or war for secession.
Every choice in the reader poll is clearly a threat to
the current, duly and legally elected administration.
All-melty
dollar
PORN REVENUE
PLUNGES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/02/DDFB160F55.DTL&tsp=1
THE ‘TIDAL WAVE’
OF HOMELESS STUDENTS
Note: all examples in this article are large latino
families
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29356160/page/2/
Comment
ROBERTS:
A
BANANA REPUBLIC BY 2012
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22128.htm
To whom can the US government turn for $1.75 trillion
for FY 2010, on top of $1.2 trillion for FY 2009? Not to
taxpayers. Obama’s net tax increase comes to $170
billion over 10 years, or $17 billion a year, a drop in
the bucket. A supply-side economist could have told him
that not even these paltry revenues will be realized.
Not to private savers. Americans are over their heads in
debts. Not to foreigners. Thanks to Clinton/Bush
financial deregulation and Wall Street and bankster
greed, the rest of the world is in financial turmoil and
hasn’t $1.75 trillion in savings to lend. Possibly, the
stock market will collapse further, and whatever
remaining wealth Americans have will flow into “safe” US
Treasuries. The only other alternative is the printing
press. Printing press finance would destroy the dollar
as reserve currency and ignite high inflation. The US
would be unable to pay for its imports, and Americans
whose incomes do not rise with the rate of inflation
would be plowed under.
KUNSTLER:
CONSUMERISM IS DEAD---
CAN OBAMA INSPIRE DOWNSIZED LIFESTYLE?
(Not sure about this claim. . .The Rip Post sees
plenty of brand-new SUVs out there)
http://www.alternet.org/story/128920/%22consumerism%22_is_dead_--_can_obama_lead_us_to_a_downscaled_lifestyle/
It's not too late for President Obama to start uttering
these truths so that we can avoid a turn to fascism and
get on with the real business of America's next phase of
history -- living locally, working hard at things that
matter, and preserving civilized culture. What a lot of
us can see now staring out of the abyss is a new dark
age. I don't think it's necessarily our destiny to end
up that way, but these days we're not doing much to
avoid it.
War in error
CIA
DESTROYED 92 INTERROGATION TAPES
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/02/cia-92-tapes/
Repugs
STEELE DENOUNCES
LIMBAUGH
We’ll see how long he keeps his job now. . .
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/02/steele-limbaugh-ugly/
Mashed Media
HEARST DAILIES’
SUICIDE: CHARGE FOR WEB
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003946583
Jesus H.
Christ!
FOR SALE: 15,000 HOURS OF
THE JIM AND TAMMY SHOW
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/28/national/a101840S76.DTL
Israelity
ISRAEL THREATENS ‘PAINFUL’ ATTACK ON GAZA
Guess the last one didn’t hurt too much
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/01/international/i021839S42.DTL
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA RELICS
BUYER REFUSES TO PAY---OUT OF ‘PATRIOTISM’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7918128.stm
(Lack of)
Health
VEGAN?
PREGNANT? BETTER GET B-12
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/4902648/Vegan-diet-increases-the-risk-of-birth-defects-scientists-warn.html
Animals in
the news!
RESCUERS FIGHT
TO SAVE 200 WHALES BEACHED OFF TASMANIA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/mar/02/whales-dolphins-tasmania-australia-rescue
PARROT TEACHES MAN TO SPEAK
AGAIN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/4863000/Parrots-teach-man-to-speak-again.html
Obit
PAUL HARRRRR-VEY. . .GOOD DAY!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/business/media/02harvey.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
Mr. Harvey was unapologetic. “I have never pretended to
objectivity,” he once said. “I have a strong point of
view, and I share it with my listeners. I have no
illusions about changing the world, but to the extent
that I can I’d like to shelter your and my little corner
of it.”
Oh, by the
way. . .
UNSAFE UCLA
LAB COST YOUNG WOMAN HER LIFE
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uclaburn1-2009mar01,0,3624028.story
JAPAN EMPEROR
TO VISIT PEARL HARBOR
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/4918516/Japanese-emperor-to-visit-Pearl-Harbor-for-first-time-since-war.html
And in
more important matters. . .
Lost Angeles
GOOD
NEWS---FRANK GEHRY DISAPPOINTED. . .GRAND AVE. PROJECT
IN DANGER!
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-frank-gehry1-2009mar01,0,7977186.story
FLOWER---THE
PEACEFUL VIDEO GAME
http://www.slate.com/id/2212231
Light
reading
‘WHEN WOMEN STOP
READING, THE NOVEL WILL BE DEAD’
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/02/23/090223fa_fact_zalewski?currentPage=all
All novelists are scholars of human behavior, but Ian
McEwan pursues the matter with more scientific rigor
than the job strictly requires. On a recent hike through
the woods surrounding his new country house—a renovated
seventeenth-century brick-and-flint cottage, in
Buckinghamshire—he regularly punctuated his observations
about Homo sapiens with the citation of a peer-reviewed
experiment.
WILL NEW DEPRESSION PRODUCE A NEW ‘GATSBY?’
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123517583815437521.html
Our own crises of belief are likely just beginning. If
we are fortunate, however, we will have a generation of
artists and intellectuals like those of the 1930s to
help us imagine our way past confusion.
Musique
THE YOUTUBE
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/mar/02/youtube-symphony-orchestra-pilkington
http://www.youtube.com/symphony
LANG LANG A TOTAL
FRAUD
Laughing all the way to the bank as he thrills the
rubes again and again
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/arts/music/27meht.html?ref=music
That was appalling: in the usually restrained E major
section (it’s marked sotto voce), Mr. Lang bounced on
the piano bench as if he were riding a pony. And he
pummeled the work’s louder, more ebullient passages as
if the score had somehow taken human form and kicked his
dog. The standing ovation he received must have been
meant to acknowledge the sheer audacity of the
performance rather than its musicality.
Where ya
goin’?
SNOWTUBING
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/27/TRPE15VUA3.DTL&type=travelreno
TRAVEL PHOTO
COMPETITION
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/gallery/2009/feb/18/photography-travel
And in the
end. . .
BEATLES REUNION IN VENICE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bth_8mW7Jp0&feature=related
hit 'refresh' for updates
2/26/09
DAILY CONCERT
HERE IT COMES: LAS VEGAS. .
.SPAIN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/26/gran-scala-project-spain
OBAMA, SEINFELD
COMPETE FOR FIRST ‘SUPERMAN’ COMIC
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/4838808/Barack-Obama-and-Jerry-Seinfeld-compete-for-Superman-comic.html
HORROR
STORY: MOTHER KILLS NEWBORN WITH A KISS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4839029/Mother-kills-newborn-baby-with-a-kiss.html
OCTOPUSSY GETS PORN CONTRACT
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/25/state/n103410S81.DTL
WATCH: FIORE---ZOMBIE BANK
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/fiore/
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
LINDORFF ON OBAMA’S LAME
SPEECH, INADEQUATE PLANS
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/275
Barack Obama’s first address to Congress provided
Americans with yet another example of competent
speechmaking, and I suppose, given that we’ve just
endured eight painful years of oratorical farce, being
able to listen to your president without wincing is
something. The problem is that the way forward proposed
by the president as laid out in this address was almost
always half-hearted, wrong-headed or doomed.
BOBBY JINDAL IS
A RELIGIOUS LUNATIC
http://www.alternet.org/story/128913/will_revelations_about_bobby_jindal%27s_weird_secret_past_destroy_his_political_career/
How many Americans know that Jindal boasted of
participating in an exorcism that purged the spirit of
Satan from a college girlfriend?
JINDAL FLEES AFTER
STUPID SPEECH
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Jindal_takes_vacation_day_after_panned_0226.html
SUB COLLISION
SHOWS COLD WAR NEVER ENDED
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,610035,00.html
The world is a good and beautiful place, and on the Mull
of Kintyre, it seems as peaceful as Paul McCartney
described it in his 1970s megahit. Sheep graze on the
hills of this peninsula in southwestern Scotland, and
the valleys are filled with the scents coming from small
distilleries that produce some of Scotland's best
whiskey. But two Saturdays ago, that illusion of peace
was shattered when the HMS Vanguard, a British nuclear
submarine, limped past the Mull of Kintyre enroute to
its home port of Faslane. It quickly became clear that a
nuclear catastrophe had almost occurred out at sea --
and that it could happen at any time, because the world
is, of course, not a peaceful place after all.
HERE COMES THE
$3 TRILLION BUDGET
Wow, did Bush and Cheney do a job on destroying this
country. . .
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29392964/
All-melty
dollar
NEW TOYOTA
DEALER IN OAKLAND CLOSES---
Well, Toyota bet the farm on trucks and SUVs instead
of hybrids. . .
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6677200
---AND MORE
JAPANESE CAR DEALERS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/26/BUL0164VE6.DTL&tsp=1
ASSHOLE
COMMENTARY OF THE WEEK!
May this fellow find himself on the street,
wandering, begging, sleeping in alleys, covered in
festering sores. . .
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/02/24/colby-cosh-watching-boomers-suffer-is-worth-a-recession.aspx
Mashed Media
BETTER TO KILL THE
SF CHRON THAN LET SINGLETON GET IT
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003944841
MORE DERANGED
SHOUTING FROM RIGHT-WING MEDIA GOONS
Country over. . .
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/glenn-and-jonah-decry-liberal-fascis
Iraq and
Roll
PELOSI: 50K TROOPS LEFT IN IRAQ IS TOO MANY
(One is too many.)
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/26/pelosi-obama-residual-troops/
Israelity
ARAB ARTISTS PROTEST PAIRING
OF ISRAELI, ARAB SINGERS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/26/israel-eurovison-jewish-arab-duet
For Art’s
Sake
CHINA CONDEMNS
CHRISTIE’S AUCTION---
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7911691.stm
---AND SO DOES
JACKIE CHAN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4839000/Jackie-Chan-adds-to-Chinese-fury-over-stolen-relic-auction.html
Spaced out
EYE OF GOD
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/4805889/Eye-of-God-pictured-in-space.html
Jesus H.
Christ!
PRINCE
CHARLES CALLS FOR ‘BRIDGES’ BETWEEN RELIGIONS
Rotsa. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4837248/Prince-of-Wales-calls-for-bridges-to-be-built-between-faiths.html
(Lack of)
Health
CAFFEINE
SUNSCREEN FIGHTS CANCER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/4839625/Caffeine-in-sunscreen-could-reduce-skin-cancer-risk-scientists.html
Animals in
the news!
BAN ON SALMON
FISHING LIKELY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/25/BADJ164VV1.DTL
THAI CHILDREN
GUARD THE FUTURE OF POOR REMAINING ELEPHANTS
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/02/26/in-the-hands-of-babes-thai-elephants%e2%80%99-future/
NEW THEORY ON HOW
ANIMALS SMELL
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090225132247.htm
And in
more important matters. . .
TOP TEN GOOGLE
EARTH FINDS
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1881770_1881787,00.html
Life of the
mind
KEEP DOING THOSE CROSSWORDS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7912379.stm
GAMES MOVE AWAY
FROM VIOLENCE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/26/open-world-games
PHOTOS: INSIDE BREAKING
WAVES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/4838814/Images-that-show-the-inside-of-breaking-waves.html
Film
RAIDERS OF THE LOST TONGUES
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0227/p18s01-hfes.html
A documentary film about two scientists who roam the
world to record vanishing languages is a vivid reminder
of just how choosing to speak a mother tongue can be a
political act.
REVIEW: RAINER ON “MOSCOW,
BELGIUM”
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0221/p25s01-almo.html
LAST ‘HARRY
POTTER’ DUE IN 2011
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7912088.stm
Auto Motive
WORLD’S FASTEST
STREET-LEGAL CAR UNVEILED
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/4838226/Worlds-fastest-accelerating-road-legal-car.html
Where ya
goin’?
BEST
WHALE-WATCHING SPOTS IN CALIFORNIA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/20/TRFD15T5FV.DTL&type=travel
And in the
end. . .
GREAT BIG TITS
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Chinese_art_is_simply_the_breast&in_article_id=558930&in_page_id=2
2/25/09
DAILY CONCERT
CUTEST MUTT ALIVE:
VOTE NOW
http://www.peta.org/cutest-mutt-alive-vote.asp
‘SLUMDOG’ STARS GIVEN FREE
HOMES BY GOV’T.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/feb/25/slumdog-millionaire-child-stars-homes
CAN YOU SAY
‘HILLARY’ IN MANDARIN?
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/02/22/can-you-say-%e2%80%98hillary%e2%80%99-in-mandarin/
Winehouse looking
sort of healthy, on horseback
Will wonders never cease?
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Amy_goes_to_rehab?_Neigh,_neigh,_neigh&in_article_id=555020&in_page_id=7
PHOTOS OF
THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0224/
PIERCING SAGA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4786930/Worlds-most-pierced-woman-adds-to-her-collection.html
And on
to news and comment. . .
Mashed Media
SF CHRONICLE
SLATED FOR EXECUTION
Hearst wants 'significant' cuts
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/24/MNO2164F73.DTL&type=business&tsp=1
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE51O03Y20090225
Hearst said that if the savings cannot be accomplished
"quickly," the company will seek a buyer, and if none
comes forward, it will close The Chronicle. The
Chronicle lost more than $50 million in 2008 and is on a
pace to lose more than that this year, Hearst said.
Mutter: SF Chron
cost-cut target equals 47% of staff
http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/
Doctor: "Could
the Chronicle indeed go away? Well, don't expect anyone
to buy it."
http://www.contentbridges.com/2009/02/chronicle-crackdown-prompts-question-wheres-the-bay-area-online-startup.html
LIZ SMITH AXED AFTER 33
YEARS
http://www.popeater.com/television/article/liz-smith-fired-new-york-post/357582
HOW LAT WILL WORK
WITHOUT LOCAL NEWS SECTION
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/02/how_the_californialess_la.php
Israelity
HEDGES: PEACE OR PERIL
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090223_a_choice_between_peace_and_peril/
Bibi Netanyahu’s assumption of power in Israel sets the
stage for a huge campaign by the Israeli government, and
its well-oiled lobby groups in Washington, to push us
into a war with Iran.
HILLARY
RAPS ISRAEL FOR DELAYING GAZA AID
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Clinton_raps_Israel_for_delaying_Ga_02252009.html
All-Melty
Dollar
BAILED-OUT BANK
FIRED 450,
SPENT MILLIONS ON LAVISH L.A. PARTIES
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/25/northern-trust-party/
DOWD:
WHY
DID MY TAX DOLLARS GO TO SHERYL CROW?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/opinion/25dowd.html?em
The entertainment Web site TMZ broke the story Tuesday
that Northern Trust of Chicago, which got $1.5 billion
in bailout money and then laid off 450 workers, flew
hundreds of clients and employees to Los Angeles last
week and treated them to four days of posh hotel rooms,
salmon and filet mignon dinners, music concerts, a PGA
golf tournament at the Riviera Country Club with
Mercedes shuttle rides and Tiffany swag bags.
RICH AMERICANS
SUE TO KEEP NAMES SECRET
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/business/worldbusiness/25ubs.html
ARMY CHARITY
HOARDING TENS OF MILLIONS NEEDED BY VETS
http://crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/ap-army-charity-hoarding-money
LINDORFF:
WALL STREET AND BERNANKE: BLIND LEADING THE BLIND
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/274
HOPE AND HEALING FOR DOWNSIZED WORKERS
http://hopehealinghelpfordownsizedworkers.blogspot.com/
Obama Nation
YAWN. OBAMA MAKES
CLICHÉ-RIDDEN, UNCONVINCING SPEECH---
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/We_will_rebuild_we_will_recover_0224.html
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/02/25/citing-crisis-obama-sketches-recovery-plan-lauds-the-american-character/
---BUT IT IS
SHINING ORATORY NEXT TO BOBBY JINDAL’S RESPONSE
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/bobby-jindals-zombie-performance-uses-p
Instead of launching his national political career, he
just about ended it. Some people thought he reminded
them of Kenneth from 30 Rock, but at least Kenneth has
some enthusiasm. Not only was he zombie-like throughout,
but he didn't even have his facts straight. Too much Red
Bull?
Repugnicans
CRAZY REPUGS THINK THEY CAN
TAKE BACK CONGRESS---USING TWITTER
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/25/gingrich-twitter/
WATCH: WHAT CHANCE DOES
OBAMA HAVE AGAINST THIS EVIL INSANITY?
Country broken, country over. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DlTgrMCxPg
Lost Angeles
KOTKIN:
THE
DECLINE OF L.A.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/23/villaraigosa-economy-unemployment-jobs-opinions-columnists_los_angeles_print.html
The only immediate chance of relief for us Angelenos is
if Villaraigosa (who will soon face term limits) takes
off to run for governor. As the sole southern
Californian and Latino candidate, he could prevail in a
crowded Democratic primary. But the idea of this empty
suit running the once great state of California--not
exactly a paragon of good governance--may be enough to
push even more people to the exits or, at very least,
think about taking a very strong sedative.
World gone
mad
EUROPE
‘CREATIONISTS’ TAKE ON DARWIN
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,609712,00.html
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA CRACKS DOWN
ON HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS
Maybe John Yoo could get a job over there. . .
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0225/p01s01-woap.html
THREE SET FIRE TO
SELVES IN TIAN AN MEN SQUARE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7909569.stm
Animals in
the news!
ASSHOLE FACES
FINE OR JAIL FOR CLUBBING 21 SEALS TO DEATH
Just club him to death instead
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/25/wildlife-scotland
TIGER ATTACKS UP
AS SUMATRA FORESTS DISAPPEAR
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7910722.stm
RARE CHEETAH PHOTOS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/cheetah-pictures/index.html
Technically.
. .
THE KINDLE SWINDLE
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/opinion/25blount.html?_r=1
What the guild is asserting is that authors have a right
to a fair share of the value that audio adds to Kindle
2’s version of books. For this, the guild is being
assailed. On the National Federation of the Blind’s Web
site, the guild is accused of arguing that it is illegal
for blind people to use “readers, either human or
machine, to access books that are not available in
alternative formats like Braille or audio.”
Obit
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/books/24nolan.html?ref=obituaries
And in
more important matters. . .
Books
THE BAWDY BARD OF
THE 17TH CENTURY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/feb/25/poetry-wilmot-earl-rochester
THE REED BOATS
OF LAKE TITICACA
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/02/25/last-of-a-breed-who-make-boats-out-of-reeds/
On the shores of famed Lake Titicaca, Demetrio Limachi
and a handful of others toil to preserve the ancient art
of creating crescent-shaped craft out of bundles of
dried reeds.
THE MAN WHO
WARNED BASEBALL ABOUT STEROIDS
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1881350,00.html
For Art’s
Sake
TIMMY MALLETT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/25/timmy-mallett-art
Where ya
goin’?
TAIWAN’S
YANGMINGSHAN FLOWER FESTIVAL
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/gallery/2009/feb/24/cherry-blossom-festival-taiwan
BIG PICTURES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hubs/thebigpicture/4805275/The-Big-Picture-photography-competition-round-39.html
And in the
end. . .
RED MOON RISING
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/nightsky/4804257/Red-moon-rising.html
Musical Accompaniment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPonxmeIWcI
hit 'refresh' for updates
2/24/09
DAILY CONCERT
LATE BEATLES’
CONFIDANTE MEMOIR DUE
Neil Aspinall’s lifelong notes, chronicling his
seduction of four Beatle wives and girlfriends, will be
published posthumously.
http://www.merseycats.com/Neil-Aspinall.html
COMET LULIN ARRIVES TONIGHT
http://features.csmonitor.com/discoveries/2009/02/23/comet-lulin-arrives-tonight-break-out-your-telescopes/
Lost Angeles
TREES CUT
DOWN SO YOU CAN SEE BEAUTIFUL BILLBOARDS
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_11770909
MUST WATCH: THE JOB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGJq8wrw5I
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT:
Israelity
WATCH: ISRAELI SOLDIERS
SHOOT UNARMED
PALESTINIAN FARMER WORKING HIS FIELD
Brave human rights activists try to stop the insanity
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22068.htm
FINKELSTEIN: ISRAEL’S PR
COVER-UP OF GAZA SLAUGHTER BEGINS
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22082.htm
Anthony H. Cordesman, a leading military analyst from
the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has
published a “strategic analysis” of the Gaza
massacre.(1) He reaches the remarkable conclusion that
“Israel did not violate the laws of war.” The report is
based on “briefings in Israeli [sic] during and
immediately after the fighting made possible by a visit
sponsored by Project Interchange, and using day-to-day
reporting issued by the Israeli Defense Spokesman.”
Cordesman omits mention that Project Interchange is
funded by the American Jewish Committee.
RAIMUNDO: THE RISE OF
LIEBERMAN
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14301
The rise of Avigdor Lieberman as the kingmaker of
Israeli politics is a disaster for American supporters
of Israel and for U.S. interests in the region, albeit
not entirely a surprise, at least to regular visitors to
this space.
HOLLAND: GLOBALISM IS DEAD
http://www.alternet.org/story/128412/the_spectacular%2C_sudden_crash_of_the_global_economy/
Worldwide, industrial production has ground to a halt.
Goods are stacking up, but nobody's buying; the
Washington Post reports that "the world is suddenly
awash in almost everything: flat-panel televisions,
bulldozers, Barbie dolls, strip malls, Burberry stores."
A Hong Kong-based shipping broker told The Telegraph
that his firm had "seen trade activity fall off a cliff.
Asia-Europe is an unmitigated disaster." The Economist
noted that one can now ship a container from China to
Europe for free -- you only need to pick up the fuel and
handling costs -- but half-empty freighters are the norm
along the world's busiest shipping routes. Global
airfreight dropped by almost a quarter in December
alone; Giovanni Bisignani, who heads a shipping industry
trade group, called the "free fall" in global cargo
"unprecedented and shocking."
LINDORFF: THE TWO BIG LIES
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/273
The first lie is that the only solution to the nation’s
deepening health care crisis, which now has over 42
million people—roughly one in seven Americans—living
without any health insurance or ready access to medical
care, is a combination of limitations on treatment and
continued reliance on the private health insurance
industry. The second lie is that Social Security, the
single most important economic “safety net” under the
lives of America’s elderly, its disabled, and children
who lose a wage-earning parent, is headed for
“bankruptcy” and needs to have its already skimpy
benefits cut back.
COMMENT: OBAMA IS RIGHT TO
TAKE ON THE RICH
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0224/p09s02-coop.html
Congress is about to begin debating legislation that
would freeze the estate tax at the current
bargain-basement rate set by President Bush. We can't
let that happen. More than ever, America needs its
ultrarich to chip in more.
POLLS:
AMERICANS WANT REPUGS TO GET IN LINE
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/24/polls-obama-bipartisan/
KLEIN: THE PUBLIC’S REBUKE
OF THE REPUGS
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/02/24/state-of-the-union/
I wouldn't be surprised if there were Republican votes
to be found in support of universal health insurance,
especially if the final package offers the business
community relief from that burden. There are also
Republican environmentalists--John McCain comes to
mind--who may favor Obama's energy program (especially
if Obama remains persistent in his quest to clean up
military procurement, a McCain obsession).
Iraq and
Roll
IRAQI “POLICE”
KILL FOUR U.S. SOLDIERS, INTEPRETER
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Iraqi_police_shoot_dead_four_US_0224.html
Spaced out
NASA GREENHOUSE
GAS LAUNCH GOES WRONG, CRASHES IN ANTARCTIC
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/24/oco-satellite-nasa
All-melty
dollar
OBAMA'S AUTO INDUSTRY
TASK FORCE
ALL DRIVE FOREIGN CARS!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/23/AR2009022302586.html?hpid=sec-politics
SENIORS ON THE
BRINK
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/24/MNL51635J8.DTL
BERNANKE SAYS RECESSION WILL
END THIS YEAR
Don’t worry, he polished his crystal ball first
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/23/financial/f035944S38.DTL
Enviro Wacko
HEY, MR. GREEN!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/24/DD4815SL3J.DTL&type=living
In the tradition of Bruce Wayne and Peter Parker,
Berkeley's own Bob Schildgen has an alter ego he
regularly assumes to make the world a safer place.
Animals in
the news!
PROUD IDIOT SLAUGHTERS GIANT
STING RAY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/24/stingray-catch-thailand-fishing
GETTING TO KNOW
INHABITANTS OF EXTINCT VOLCANO
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7861563.stm
AMAZING: FISH WITH
TRANSPARENT HEAD---FIRST PHOTOS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/fish-transparent-head-barreleye-picture/index.html
MAGPIES BUILDING
ON NESTS OF SCRAP METAL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/23/national/a142531S11.DTL
Mashed Media
FACEBOOK
‘INFANTILIZES’ HUMAN MIND
Sign up now!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/24/social-networking-site-changing-childrens-brains
WASHPOST SERIES
HELPED BUST CHANDRA LEVY SUSPECT
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003944318
Oh, by the
way. . .
FIVE SHOT IN SF
Guns! Guns! Guns!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/23/BA36163RJ1.DTL&tsp=1
BARKLEY GOES TO
JAIL
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Ex_NBA_star_Barkley_off_to_jail_for_02242009.html
DON’T TASE ME,
BRO
http://www.ohio.com/news/40156667.html
And in
more important matters. . .
Musings
THE NONPOLOGY
http://happyvalleynews.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/the-nonpology/
Books
DICKENS’ REFUGE
FOR FALLEN WOMEN
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5759585.ece
UNDER THE LITERARY INFLUENCE
http://proof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/under-the-literary-influence/
Soon I found myself devouring every hard-boiled word of
Chandler’s. And then I read them again. I started
talking in similes and metaphors. One day I told a dear
friend that he had a face like a collapsed lung. I
couldn’t help myself. A progression took hold. Chandler
led me to Hammett and from Hammett I staggered to F.
Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald led me to Hemingway.
IS PUBLISHING PERISHING?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/02/24/moneytales022409.DTL
For Art’s
Sake
EDGAR
MULLER’S AMAZING 3-D TRICKERY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/24/edgar-muller-3d-street-art?picture=343706816
A PAINTING
SPEAKS
Or at least someone speaks about a painting
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audioslideshow/2009/feb/23/vanessa-bell-courtauld-institute
THEY DIED FOR HIS
ART
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Artist_guilty_over_inflatable_art_deaths&in_article_id=554495&in_page_id=34
Light
Reading
HOW TO
PROCRASTINATE LIKE DA VINCI
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=zs61txc4kwr4kd1q1rjbfxt41952gdmf
And in the
end. . .
NAKED SAMBA
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?Rio_dancers_undress_to_impress&in_article_id=552351&in_page_id=64&in_a_source=
hit 'refresh' for updates
2/20/09
DAILY CONCERT
Robert Hunter
FEEDING
TIME FOR BABY MEERKATS!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/feb/20/baby-meerkats-australia
PREGNANCY IS
BEAUTIFUL!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7899618.stm
MADOFF IS A SMASH
HIT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7898919.stm
TREE EATS
GOLF BALL
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4731843/Golf-ball-lost-years-ago-found-embedded-in-tree-trunk.html
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
Your
Corporatocracy at work!
THE OIL MONEY
BEHIND THE ANTI-STIMULUS FIGHT
http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/02/the-oil-money-behind-the-anti-stimulus-fight.html
Who is Americans for Prosperity? According to
SourceWatch.org, the group was founded in 2003 with
money from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation,
which is run by the billionaires behind Kansas-based
Koch Industries -- the national's largest privately held
oil and gas company.
All-Melty
Dollar
MORFORD: TAX BOOZE,
LEGALIZE POT---NO MORE RECESSION
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/02/20/notes022009.DTL
Already local governments are quietly proposing jacking
up the alcohol tax and loosening sales restrictions
because, well, why the hell not? Aren't you, right this
very moment, as you prepare your taxes and weep over
your gutted portfolio and stare down one very bleak
2009, more in need of a drink or three than at any time
in recent history except for the entirety of the last
eight miserable, Bush-stabbed years? Well, there you go.
Tax increases on cocktails, here they come.
GOOD TIMES FOR
TAILORS AND COBBLERS
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1880880,00.html
Israelity
RIGHT-WING
HARDLINER NETANYAHU TO HEAD ISRAEL
That 2012
end-of-the-world date is looking better all the time!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/20/israel-binyamin-netanyahu-head-coalition
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL8592809
The Other
War
60,000 TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN
FOR THREE YEARS---U.S. COMMANDER
Here we go again
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/18/AR2009021803373.html
“I WAS DETAINED BY
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT”
http://www.alternet.org/rights/127847/i_was_illegally_detained_by_the_u.s._government_and_held_in_cia-run_%22black_sites%22/
What I do know is that the Jordanian government -- after
torturing me for several days -- handed me over to a
U.S. "rendition team" in Amman, which then abducted me,
forced me onto a plane, and flew me to Afghanistan.
During this, and several other transfers between CIA
prisons, I was subjected to a brutal and deeply
humiliating "preparation" ritual. I was stripped naked,
dressed in a diaper, shackled, blindfolded and hooded,
and then boarded onto a waiting plane. I was forced into
painful positions, often reeling from the blows and
kicks of the men who had "prepared" me for flight.
ANTI-GAY UTAH SEN. KICKED
OFF JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/20/buttars-loses-committee/
Obama Nation
FIVE GOOD MOVES
BY OBAMA THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED
http://www.alternet.org/story/127848/5_great_progressive_moves_by_obama_that_you_might_have_missed/
Repugnicans
CLINTON CONDEMNS
REPUG “JUST SAY NO” POLITICS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bill_Clinton_gives_Obama_A_grade_0220.html
REPUG PHONE SABOTEUR GETS
OFF SCOT-FREE
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Former_RNC_director_convicted_in_phone_0220.html
The Republican National Committee employee convicted of
a plot to jam the phone banks of Democratic
get-out-the-vote efforts in New Hampshire in 2002 has
escaped penalty in his case, after a federal judge ruled
that new charges against him could not be brought.
Globalitis
2500 LANGUAGES
UNDER THREAT
AS MIGRANTS HEAD FOR CITIES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/20/endangered-languages-unesco
THE FRENCH CHEESE
WARS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,609046,00.html
Spaced Out
LOOKING FOR E.T.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/20/MNUP16145U.DTL
Somewhere far out in our Milky Way galaxy, thousands -
perhaps millions - of pale blue dots are orbiting their
suns just as Earth does ours, and in two weeks a new
American spacecraft will fly off to seek them out.
HOLOCAUST-DENYING BISHOP
KICKED OUT OF ARGENTINA
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,608941,00.html
Lost Angeles
STUPID
CRIMINAL TRICKS
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/02/stupid_criminal_tricks_co.php
MAIL FRAUD ATTY.
GETS ONLY THREE HOURS TO VISIT DYING WIFE
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Justice_Department_keeps_political_prisoner_from_0220.html
(Lack of)
Health
ARE WE ABOUT TO
ELIMINATE AIDS?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126966.100-are-we-about-to-eliminate-aids.html
Astonishingly, we could use existing drugs to wipe out
HIV, just as we did smallpox. So what's holding us back?
Mashed Media
THE GRANDFATHER OF
HATE RADIO
You think Limbaugh is new?
http://newstalgia.crooksandliars.com/gordonskene/grandfather-hate-radio
Comment
BELLE:
ABOUT THAT CHIMP CARTOON
Rip Post: Hysterical overreaction to the stupid chimp
cartoon, including denunciation of “white men.” With
reasoned thinkers like this woman, who needs acrimony?
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/about-loaded-imagery-racism-post-part
ON LIMBAUGH AND
SO-CALLED FAIRNESS ON RADIO
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/20/limbaugh-fairness-radio/
When a handful of major media companies control who and
what is allowed to be broadcast on the commercial dial,
how is that not regulation of radio content? When these
same companies then push out one-sided, right-wing
information 90 percent of the time, how does that uphold
freedom of expression?
Enviro Wacko
POWER FROM BUMPS
IN THE ROAD?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090219-shock-absorber-energy-cars.html
HAMSTER POWER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/4731679/Hamsters-in-jackets-harnessed-for-energy.html
Animals in
the news!
GIANT
SNAKE OF BORNEO!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/4701906/Photograph-shows-giant-snake-lurking-in-Borneo-river.html
THE ELEPHANT
WHISPERER
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/feb/18/lawrence-anthony-elephant?picture=343421703
Oh, by the way. . .
FRUIT FLIES SICK FROM MATING
We should all have such problems
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090219081040.htm
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
‘SLUMDOG’ KIDS HEAD FOR
OSCARS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7899978.stm
TeeVee
HEEEERE’S. .
.CONAN O’ BRIEN?
The guy isn’t funny. But then, neither is Leno.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/19/DDVQ1604FT.DTL
For Art’s
Sake
ARTISTS’
MANIFESTO
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7894877.stm
When it appeared, on 20 February 1909, it was the first
art manifesto of the 20th Century, paving the way for
Vorticists, Surrealists, Dada-ists, and Situationists,
as well as more recent cultural agitators like the
Stuckists.
Obit
ELO BASS PLAYER GROUCUTT
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/20/international/i073430S91.DTL&tsp=1
SNOOKS EAGLIN
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/arts/music/20eaglin.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
WHAT MADE THE GREEKS LAUGH?
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5759723.ece
WORLD’S STRANGEST
HANGOVER CURES
http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-strangest-hangover-cures/
Where ya
goin’?
PHOTO
GALLERY: CARNIVAL AROUND THE WORLD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/gallery/2009/feb/17/festivals-carnival-mardi-gras?picture=343390769
And in the
end. . .
MATCHSTICK GORILLA!
(Now I suppose the Rip Post will be accused of
racism.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4733859/Gorilla-modelled-out-of-tens-of-thousands-of-matchsticks.html
2/19/09
DAILY CONCERT
ACLU MAKING BIG CUTS
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/02/aclu_making_biggest_cuts.php
WHO ARE
THESE REVOLTING PRECIOUS PEOPLE?
And why do they all come to L.A.?
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/02/mag_editors_reinvention_i.php
NY POST CARTOON
OF DEAD CHIMP STIRS OUTRAGE FROM REV. AL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/n/a/2009/02/18/national/a072439S85.DTL&o=0
HERE’S A LITTLE
PICK-ME-UP ITEM!
(WARNING: Strong stomachs
required.)
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2008/02/he_loved_pigs_too_much.php
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0218/
WATCH: FIORE---WHERE’S
CHANGE?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2009/02/18/fiorechains.DTL
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
LINDORFF: EMPLOYERS USE
RECESSION TO STICK IT TO WORKERS
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/272
In Upper Dublin, PA, an upper middle-class suburb north
of Philadelphia, according to its employees, has been
laying off cashiers, and slashing its night work
force—the people who restock the shelves and unload the
delivery trucks when the store is closed. The management
is doing this not because sales have slumped. They
haven’t. People may not be buying new cars, but they are
still buying food, and in fact, if they are cutting back
on eating out, as restaurant chains are reporting, they
are probably actually buying more groceries, not less.
Management is making these cuts simply because they can
get away with it.
AN EXPAT’S VIEW
OF AMERICANS
http://crooksandliars.com/nonny-mouse/what-will-it-take
When I went back to the States to visit my dying father,
I arrived with a snootful of scorn at how ignorant and
dogmatic so many Americans I had talked to as tourists
in Europe seemed to be. It took flicking through his 999
channels of satellite television to make me I realise –
so many Americans are ignorant and dogmatic because they
have no real news. There’s nothing on American channels
worthy of the label, the only real news I could find was
BBC World.
PELOSI FORESEES PROSECUTION
OF BUSH OFFICIALS
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/19/pelosi-prosecution-bush-officials/
MUMBAI
ATTACKERS HAD 320 WORLD TARGETS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/19/mumbai-attacks-list-targets
SMALLEST NUMBER OF SALMON
EVER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/19/MN9I160HP4.DTL&type=green
GOOGLE EXPOSES
SECRET U.S. BASE TO LAUNCH DRONES
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Google_exposes_secret_US_base_in_0219.html
SHOE-THROWING HERO DEFIANT AT TRIAL
Bush’s “icy smile” pissed him off
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Iraqi_shoe_thrower_defiant_as_trial_02192009.html
Indonesians throw
shows at Hillary---well, her picture, anyhow
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/02/18/indonesia-welcomes-clinton-with-songs-%e2%80%93-and-a-bit-of-shoe-throwing/
PALIN OWES BACK TAXES ON
NIGHTS SPENT AT HOME
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/02/18/ST2009021803325.html
DID UCLA PROF
FIND OSAMA?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/UCLA_professor_thinks_hes_found_Osama_0218.html
Obama Nation
ROBERTS:
PRESIDENT
OF SPECIAL INTERESTS
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02182009.html
The Bush/Obama bailout/stimulus plans are not going to
work. Both are schemes hatched by a clique of financial
insiders. The schemes will redistribute income and
wealth from American taxpayers to the shyster banksters,
who have destroyed American jobs, ruined the retirement
plans of tens of millions of Americans, and worsened the
situation of millions of people worldwide who naively
trusted American financial institutions.
OBAMA USES
‘WINNABLE’ IN REFERENCE TO AFGHANISTAN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_Afghanistan_still_winnable_0218.html
KLEIN:
HOW THE
WORLD SEES OBAMA
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1880379,00.html
ACQUITTAL IN MURDER OF
RUSSIAN JOURNALIST
They should have convicted Putin in absentia. . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7899472.stm
CHILDREN
FLOCK TO GERMAN SOUP KITCHENS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,608690,00.html
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA KIDS FULL
OF KIDNEY STONES IN WAKE OF MELAMINE SCANDAL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7899031.stm
Spaced Out
WATER SPLASHED
ON PHOENIX LANDER
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16620-first-liquid-water-may-have-been-spotted-on-mars.html?page=1
(Lack of)
health
