oh what did papa do now! 25 January 2009
Posted by marisacat in Divertissements, Israel/AIPAC, Italy, Viva La Revolucion!, WAR!.trackback
I actually found that photo at a Catholic Youth site… LOL.. AND! stranger than fiction, when I went hunting for a photo of il papa, using “Benedict 16″, it was first up!
What a hoot! The former Hitler youth has people all riled up. No! Say it is not so! Everybody’s mad!
The Pope has lifted the excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church of four bishops appointed by a breakaway archbishop more than 20 years ago.
One of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s appointees, Briton Richard Williamson, outraged Jews by saying the Nazi gas chambers did not exist.
Two of the other three appointees are French while the fourth is Argentinean.
Israel’s envoy to the Vatican said the papal decision would “cast a shadow on relations with Jews”.
“We have no intention of interfering in the internal workings of the Catholic Church, however, the eagerness to bring a Holocaust denier back into the Church will cast a shadow on relations between Jews and the Catholic Church,” Mordechai Lewy told Reuters news agency. …snip…
The special relationship between the Church and the Jews has room for more shadows? What a euphemism!
Somehow the BBC story manages to leave out that the bishops were in a far right wing faction of the church… quite aside from being classic schismatics.. denying or dissenting from the so called modernisation of the Church under John XXII, and the suppression of the Latin Mass.
LOL Once you are into denial, you can deny all sorts of things! Rooting around online, Bishop Williamson also denies the official story of 9/11, believing (among many beliefs I would imagine) that the WTC buildings were wired and blown up. How anyone is comfortable with that day, how it rolled out, is a mystery to me, but the theory of the wiring and internal blast bombing of the buildings has always seemed a bit extra murky…
Decades ago, being a fallen away Catholic, I had no idea that embrace of the banned Mass was code for being all sorts of looney… and happened to mention once at a luncheon that I missed the Latin Mass. About 20 people proceeded to jump far away from me. I had no idea that factions of the Church were bunkered over the whole thing, with near Neanderthals holding secret celebrations of the Latin Mass in garages on Long Island.
Who knew? Then again I never understood, and still do not, why it was so important to ban the Latin Mass.
But it is loaded with delicious wrinkles…
At first sight the appearance of Richard Williamson, the drawling English leader of a Catholic splinter group, on Swedish television, to deny that Hitler killed anything like 6 million Jews, looks like pure comedy gold – the Producers come to life. The documentary in which Williamson appeared, “the Swedish Crusade” was an attempt to make sinister the activities of a sect which has, in Sweden, 30 members but which proclaims its ambition to reconvert the whole country to Catholicism.
But the Lefevrist splinter group of which he is one of the four bishops does actually matter to the Vatican, because it represents an institutional challenge to the legitimacy of the Second Vatican Council, which turned the church inside out in the 1960s, introducing masses in the vernacular, and opening up to other Christians groups and even to Jews in a quite unprecedented way.
And this little tidbit…
Update: the plot curdles I have now spoken to the Catholic Church’s press officer in Stockholm who has of course seen the film land adds two fascinating twists. The first is that the interview was recorded on November 1 last year, so it wasn’t timed to this week’s rumours.
The second, which makes it even more embarrassing, is that it was recorded at the Lefevrist seminary in Bavaria, where holocaust denial is a criminal offence.
Some of the other Lefevrist bishops are said to be keen on reconciliation with the Holy See. Although the Latin mass was not the only grounds for the schism, the Vatican has been putting out the story recently that Archbishop Lefebvre, who led it, signed all the decrees of the Second Vatican Council to which he later objected, and they have his signature in the archives to prove it. Under the circumstances, a graceful negotiated surrender might well have been possible – but Richard Williamson at least would rather die in his bunker.
Maybe they can all cuddle in bed together.
And I found that photo at a youth site as well…
The World Youth Day 2008 theme, received from The Holy Father is:
‘You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses.’ Acts 1:8
This passage occurs after the death and resurrection of Jesus, just before his ascension to the Father.
It represents the birth of the Church. The disciples had questioned Jesus about the time of the restoration of Israel. His words ‘You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you’ were somewhat surprising – they referred to a new meaning of the word “power”. Jesus promises a different kind of “power” to help the Jews from under the yoke of Roman occupation. The power He promises to give is the very Spirit of God, the dynamic potential for transformation, the very condition of living according to the manner of Jesus’ life.
This Spirit is not a vague ambiguous force, rather it is a Divine Person, the true Self Gift of the Father to the Son, and the Son to the Father, and hence the gift of the Father to us in the Son – with Him we say “Our Father”. Only with the reception of the Spirit of Jesus can we exercise the authentic passion of the Heart of Christ, and hence by being set on fire with it do we as persons become witnesses to Him and everything for which He stands.
The ultimate witness we can make is to follow in the pattern of His life through the total self gift of our lives, lived authentically in truth and love for Him and at the service of others.
What a tangle it all is… Apparently, zooming around the netteries, people are just in a tizzy over this… especially that the lifting of the excommunication includes that the 4 (in particular, Williamson) are bishops again. Not merely restored to priests under the Vatican, but princes of the Church.
Ratzy must laugh a lot…
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UPDATE, 4:51 am Pacific Time
Cooler than cool…way way way cool.
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Obama May Carry Top-Secret P.D.A.
By Sam GrobartNobody’s saying anything official or on the record about this, but reports popping up all across the Web indicate that while President Obama may be able to keep a mobile phone/e-mail device while in office, that device may be something more exotic than a BlackBerry from Research in Motion.
(Cue James Bond theme.)
The nation’s e-mailer in chief may be carrying something called a Sectéra Edge, which is made by the military contractor General Dynamics (you know, the submarine people). …snip…
hmm not to push it too much, but General Dynamics would be the DEFENSE people. Or OFFENSE, to be more precise.
But, carry on. Bombs away! Cool guy!
NYT weighs in… fwiw
Personally, that is what I thought he was hired for… not like his views were unknown.
Yeah not exactly shocking news, what he has done.
We’ll stop them on the high seas! What a scam to scour the seas and the ports for “contraband”… arms to the WRONG people.
LOL As we all fight piracy! I read a few weeks ago that there are less actual incidents of piracy in ’08 thn in ’07… but it makes good cover. For everybody.
hmm i am probably the last to know, just catching a local news report on background on AF 1.. I never knew there are two, a fully matching back up second edition of AF1. And when the pretzel, whoever he is, goes overseas, AF1 second edition goes along.
whew. We are just a load to contend with, in every way.
NOW if he’d like to talk to me about low wage dead end service INDUSTRY jobs being mandated to provide sick days, mandated annual earned vacation and so on, I might listen.
A local activist group here called Wisconsin 9 to 5 pushed through a referendum here in Milwaukee which passed with 68% voting for it. The local business community/lobbies are in an uproar, as are their pet politicians. Surrounding Republicans suburbs are actually passing ordinances that make adopting similar requirements in their shitty little vales illegal. Our Clinton clone gov says he’s “staying out of it”, as there are no kickbacks that he could suck up from either side.
A battle in the courts is promised. The requirement goes into effect in February.
I found this graphic helpful to understand the ridiculous entourage the President travels with.
San Francisco has made those votes as well.. there are fair pay requirements… and as of about a year ago, mandates for the lower wage service industry jobs.. but I have not paid attention to see how it is actually working out. The big problem here is the Golden Gate Restaurant Assoc… they go to court over everything to do with personnel issues…
Australian family caged, detained, starved and deported by US customs
Of course, part of the point of all of this authoritarianism isn’t just to keep people out, but to keep the few Americans who travel IN. They’ve made it much harder and expensive to get a passport over the last few years. It’s easier to demonize those outside if you keep them mysterious.
6 – per this piece from the Chicago Trib:
I always love the howling of business owners, as though all of the other opportunities and considerations for them exploiting a business opportunity are wiped out by this one small requirement, or ANY requirement that requires them to treat workers better.
My favorite argument is the whole “I work hard to build my business … hard work will get you the rewards you deserve.” You work hard, sure, but the business owner has a whole raft of legal protections that lessen his/her risk in return for them contributing to the local economy. They are building equity through their hard work/ownership. Think they’re gonna share any equity with an employee who puts in extra time for no extra pay, who never calls in sick, who never takes vacation?
I don’t either.
5. Madman, I noticed in the helpful graphic that they misspelled “political aides” as “political aids.” Wondering if that is something like “marital aids”?
[snerk]
“Hard work will get you the rewards you deserve.”
Hard work from a server battling bronchitis is likely to get your customer base all kinds of fun “side dishes” they didn’t agree to purchase. Mmmm…. cheeseburger with a delicious coating of a near-strangers’ diseased spit/snot ? Sounds yummy. God bless America.
9 – they’re certainly helping to screw somebody.
10 – it’s been a repeating mantra here in this fight. Interviews w/ business owners, letters to the editor, comments on local blogs. It’s amazing how many people believe that.
From The Page…
Hey, Madman. Tell ‘em that for a fifty cents a sneeze, I’d be happy to come over and snot all over whatever they’re having for lunch. Oh, and I think my shingles might be coming back, too, so an extra quarter will buy them a free rub from one of my open sores, too.
hmm Danny Schechter’s News Dissector has a Sunday update… we may have boarded the Iranian ships headed for Gaza.
Well sorta no-no… I mean it would be a shock if congress were consulted. Seems to me they signed away rights to making an issue of war making, high seas hostilities and whatever else, over Iran, by 97 to ”present”, ”in the john”, ”home with a brain bleed” being the other 3. Pretty sure Obster was a hawkish ”YES, how soon can we do it” vote.
He’s also got a few grafs from Sam Gardiner, a AF colonel who emails him, on Russia issues in this.
Welcome to the new pretzel. And the new SoS…
Watch for the “uptick”. Let’s just say the Guardian is highlighting different things from the FTN appearance Biden made…
Only Israeli children in Sderot matter. Got it. Oh and don’t go making Beanie Bag dolls named after the WH children. Got that too. Tho it would have been OK I guess if J Crew had made the dolls.
ms xeno (10)
indeed…am reminded of a likely “illegal immigrant” who worked at my then boss’ (how should I turn that into the ownership tense, I’ve forgotten amongst larger concerns?) brother’s restaraunt…One of the highly imported if from Asia, or highly welcomed in, despite illegality, if from a walkable distance (in this case, from Mexico) who died on the job trying to prove bootstrap worthiness…and to put a roof over the head, from pneumonia…………….literally dropped dead in the middle of the restaraunt…can one only imagine the TO DO, if one of our elite’s relatives died such a hideous death……..
ahh well …near out of the Sambuca but will save some some for those who are so overwrought it provides a welcome reprieve…..
been meaning to ask Marisa, did you see that Innaugural hardcopy shot of the WA monument from above (a helicopter?) which made the Washingtin Monument look like a penis on steroids with teeny ant resembling bots gathered around in two apropos ballish formations? maybe it’s a good thing some weren’t allowed beyond the tunnel gates, they may not have wanted to partake in that particular photo shoot.
diane
I did see some over head shots of the area… with the bunched, dark masses… but I sort of glossed right by the monuments.. Hyperbolic event, is all I can say.
…yes, it certainly was a Hyperbolic.event…certainly the same ole …with a new paint job,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and I suspect tho hard copy photo I referred to, epitomizes that reality………………..
listening to Nina sing: ..sad deserted show…your fickle freinds are leaving… and pondering the recent hardcopy shots already, of Obama looking far older and weary than the photo shoots running up to the election….
far older and weary
Symptoms of Hyperbolia Syndrome. They say it is common in Washington.
Creeeeepy photos! Who’s the perv?!
Just kiddin!
Is it just me, or does the part In Benny’s hair resemble a surgical scar where a horn or two once grew?
Greetings, opera fans. Just thought I’d drop off this link on our new senator, having let a hint or two slip the other day.
Political legacy arrives on stage . Kirsten Gillibrand received her first experiences in Albany politics from her grandmother, the legendary “Polly” Noonan.
Suck it, Boston! (You too, Boroughs!)
This may qualify as having too much fun, but thought some of y’all might get a laugh out of this one, too:
Guess who!
(BTW, the writer of the T-U article is Paul Grondahl, an Albany journalist and author of the biography, Mayor Corning.)
what a hoot! Thanks for the links… I was jsut reading excerpts from the Larissa McFarquar piece on CKS in The New Yorker ooo tough times.. nasty dem faction fighting. Good enough to head over to the NYer and actually read it. Maybe.
Pretty funny frankly…
better at representing cows than people,” Lawrence O’Donnell says
Larry, Larry, Larry.
Come up and visit sometime.
14 – If true, that’s an act of war.
For those on the West Coast, “60 MInutes” is opening with an incredibly depressing report of the increasing economic disaster in Wilmington, Ohio.
Too bad God isn’t there. Nor is your government. Or your employers … too busy chasing the cheapest workers.
I find myself if that’s what this period will be known as … “Great Crash of ’08″.
60 MInutes link in spam, I think.
by 97 to ”present”, ”in the john”, ”home with a brain bleed” being the other 3. Pretty sure Obster was a hawkish ”YES, how soon can we do it” vote.
Missed 14 entirely. I saw an item in the British press, I think, or maybe AFP, a couple days back, reporting that the US had indeed intercepted and boarded an Iranian ship, but at the time (just pre-inauguration, I think) it was pursuant to Condi’s last-minute deal with Israel. If I remember right, the ship turned out to have artillery on it, which they couldn’t pin on Hamas’ MO, so they couldn’t make much hay of it, and under some authority or other, were doing further document-checking on the provenance and recipients, etc.
Will see if I can find that.
well there ya go, Politics, a twisted state of mind where denigration and humiliation rain supreme………………..don’t even want to hear the backroom version of that quote…………..
over the weekend I’ve been trying to escape something I couldn’t help but to hear on friday, which may as well have been pronounced on a megaphone by the CFO at the comapny I’m currently working at…..for some inexplicable reason..said CFO found the need to pontificate overly loud as a side conversation about his two pet dogs, about how wolves were so promiscuous the female (his tone may as well have said “Bitch”) hadn’t a clue about who’s sperm her pup was a child of….these are the folk making the decisions about the realities in this country…let it be quite clear , they have NO respect whatsoever for FEMALES
wow, and now 60 Minutes, after the depressing story about Ohio, is actually doing a piece about how the Israelis treat the Palestinians on the West Bank.
Jerusalem Post: US seizing of Iranian ship ‘a covert op’.
Gosh, do we have a bilateral agreement for revealing each others’ covert ops now, too?! Let’s get it on!
Dear Officer Krupke . . . . we’re very challenged!
Sorry!.. think I got IB and diane out of Mod… and Madman out of spam…
Re Iranian ships… Debka had a later Jan 25 post as well, that i found after I read News Dissector.. not sure it said much new. Apparently originally it was Tzipi and Condi… but i guess that now.. that means Ob Tzipi and Hillary.
BTW, there is a report in Politco on the “Steroidal WH” or some such… first up on the main page. it calls Mitchell and Holbrook very clearly “Presidential envoys”… aside from other stories on consolidiated power in WH/WW. What else is new… I guess.
…..oopsie, my last comment ( not visible just yet) was in response to Intermittent Bystander’s comment at 24 (currently).
comment 32 (currently), was in reference to Intermittent Bytander’s comment at 24 (currently).
This is the later, Jan 25 Debka file report…
hey hey! Bolivians approve constitution granting indigenous majority more power, Morales re-election
Think everybody out of Moderation, again.. sorry!
Obama to Let States Restrict Emissions Standards
Madman (41)
The sad..under reported realty of that will be that millions, couldn’t (haven’t been able to) afford a polution free car if they wanted to, and our dear politicians in the US have never, ever been concerned with that (till it was too late) nor have they ever really been concerned with ensuring affordable, timely mass transit, certainly not safe pedestrian walkways………what does it tell folk when the special ones have their guests flown in on Brinn’s private Google jets, versus rail, horse or bus.
swiftly to grant California and 13 other states
The political reporting out here, all of it, is that we – California – are in like Flynn with Obama. Quite shamelessly told too.
Not a big shock.. plenty of electeds were with obama… Pelosi may have officially signaled neutrality but her closest CA supports, Miller Tauscher others were wtih obama. I saw Andy Stern took his turn in the viewing box, standing behind Ob, his wife with him…
And DiFi and others who supported Hillary will work any deal … so not supporting him back in teh primaries does nto matter.
….I just know someone out there is sniffing that folks that can’t afford pollution free cars should move to a metro area with abundant mass transit……well I have to say….I tried to do that….the rats nests offered up to me in the metro area were fucking unliveable….but then again, there’s nothing like finding out for one’s own self…so I suggest the blowhards move to Detroit…after all somebody’s got to live ther don’t they? everyone can’t live in the normally freeze free Florida, Texas or Cali…can they?
32 – How fortunate you are to have as your colleague that distinguished zoologist/translator Dr. Doolittle! I read all those books as a child! I can only trust the Doctor wasn’t betraying any confidences from the lady-wolves involved!
(PS: Quote was from Al “Marvin Gaye” Sharpton, at a Gillibrand “listening” event in Harlem the day after her appointment.)
Hey, I keep telling ya, she works hard for the money!
(BTW, Madman – the so-called colleagues who dissed her as “ambitious” can join Larry and the Bostonians in the “suck it’ queue. For a different perspective, try NYBri – a DK poster who ran for state senate in an actual factual, bootstrap-aka-shoestring campaign in overlapping districts with Gillibrand in 06. His diary – with entertaining comment outrage – appears to differ, based on shared county fairs, etc. Another diary, covering her first post-appointment press conference and offering a round-up of her ratings by goo-goo orgs, by longtime Albany political activist devtob is here.)
Whatever. This is all pretty interesting, from a regional perspective, and I’m happy enough to see what happens next.
Disclosure: I did actually help get the vote out in Hudson on election day 06, when Gillibrand first took John Sweeney down. That dude had to go!
(The last time this non-citizen actually beat the street on election day, it was probably as a minor, for McGovern! )
42 (curently)
I guess dinae is my inner voice, that’s how I usually misspell my name on a keyboard (never, in the cursive though)
42 – oh, I so agree with you on that, and found the recent reports that mass transit was being cut to coax Rethugs into “bipartisan” agreement on something or other to be very, very depressing. I’ve had friends in my younger/poorer days who tried all kinds of schemes and quick fixes to get their old cars to pass emmission testing.
Always a double edge in this stuff.
45 – Oh, not picking sides IB, merely passing along and enjoying the flying barbs and brickbats from the various “statespeople” of our political and media classes.
We’ll see how she does, though NRA love automatically makes me suspicious.
well that is why “liberals” who love to pontificate on the Great Need for High Priced Gas… drive me bats.
Fine then make sure like France we have redundancies of transportation.
I read recetnly and wish I could remember what country we were compared to… hmm but we had 5% usage of mass transportation (because we hardly have any but in a few cities – and not in all that even coutns) vs Forget Which Country, where 70% use mass transportation.
They will never build the infrastructure… will nto do it. They are gonna write poetry about repairing pot holes and 50 year old overpasses and call that “transportation infrastructure”.
And so on
45 – Oh, not picking sides IB, merely passing along and enjoying the flying barbs and brickbats.
Me too! Just thought I’d give the Bostonians (and you) a link or two defending the Sweeney-slayer.
BTW, re doors opening and shutting, etc. Couldn’t resist this RT tune (Japanese site, no clue why, but it didn’t crash my browser): One Door Opens. (Lyrics here.)
Intermittent (45)
I did bother to read who made the comment, other that can’t say much cause I’m not totally clear on the intent behind your message to me..
I liked the NYBri diary. It was interesting. We’ll see how she does, if allowed to do anything. Harry seems to prefer groveling inaction …
Found this:
John Rice: BEWARE “RAHNATAKIAS” – CURE FOR OBAMA FEVER IS “INDIAN” HISTORY
And some details from upstate NY, which NYCO has told us about in the past:
put a “:” and a “o” where that smiley face is.
Madman (47)
quick fixes to get their old cars to pass emmission testing
Yeah the EMG Valve scam……….
similiar to a requirement to hand sand, and not let a speck of ancient paint touch the earth, in the dead of winter…any areas with potentially ancient paint on them in order to sell one’s house in some areas of the east coast
52. As an addendum to Madman’s post (thanks for pasting all that!), I should point out that – as always in NY-Haudenosaunee relations – there is always something cooking under the surface, so that this…
Today New York State has a black Democratic Governor, David A. Paterson. He has just signed an illegal document authorizing the destruction of the existing economies of eleven Ongwehonwe communities in the state
is not quite the whole story as it stands at the moment. Paterson actually had included in prepared State of the State remarks (ah, but not delivered…) a completely unprecedented public call for New York to negotiate with “the nations within its borders.” This is a small nicety, but a new one. Despite the public posturing by all the governors, negotiation with Haudenosaunee has been pretty much unofficial state policy since Cuomo days. See this recent column in the Post-Standard for a very good examination of the current sitch. I also posted recently about it.
Anyhow, to get back to Obama, he has no real grasp of America’s original sins any more than the other Town Destroyers did. Maybe I wouldn’t either, if I didn’t believe that they have a legal case to the land my house sits on and that I also believe that eventually they’re going to be in a stronger position to claim authority over it. It’s very crass of me, really.
dinae – pushmepullyou smiley here!
Doolittle crack concerned CFOs arrogance on the inner knowledge of she-wolves, that’s all!
Shorter comeback: Funny, your wife said the same thing about the little ones! Cute kids, by the way!
NYCO out of moderation.. sorry!
Intermittent
Sorry, just really not able to laugh about it….and certainly wasn’t able to respond to that asshole, especially since it wasn’t even directly addressed to me, I just was forced to listen to the loud mouthed prick, sitting at a cubicle busting my ass on some new sick and twisted version of little bu[i]lly gatekeeper microshit trying to make some sense about company records that no one ever gave a rat’s ass about making sense of, and certainly not getting any thinks for telling anyone they were/are totally fucked up
diane – No crickets on Hugh Lofting, right?
NYCO (55)
gee NYCO…not sure what to say but I really feel for you…that’s got to be a really unsettling scenario and I hope you find out real soon, that the home you worked so hard to live in will remain yours unless you decide to move.
Thanks for the links, NYCO.
NO ONE wants to confront these questions. Hell, this country won’t even deal fairly with the decades-long wholesale thefts from the paternalistic Indian Trust, let alone deal with the broken treaties that came BEFORE the citizens of the First Nations were declared children and wards of the Federal government.
60. Thanks diane but it’s really not unsettling. See here for some background-
http://www.peacecouncil.net/NOON/landrights.html
It’s not a volatile situation at all. (not here in this part of the state, anyway)
But I was just pointing out that… if you believed someone else legally had authority over your home and that they might be able to exercise it someday… wouldn’t you educate yourself about them? Wouldn’t you respect them and be friends with them?
Intermittent (59)
Do you mean no grudges against Dr Lofting/Doolittle?…never met the man, although I wouldn’t swear that he wasn’t capeable of being quite the prick, especially if he held humans in total contempt (just thinking that Doolittle was based in part on his own personality). Three marriages aren’t necessarily an indicator of compatibility, though it’s possible that he was great guy who just shouldn’t have married.
At any rate he’s not analagous to the clown I was referring to. Sorry I’m so grumpy but Monday is appraoching rapidly.
62. Re the Federal government, the situation in New York has historically been somewhat different because the Haudenosaunee nations typically have not dealt with BIA on land stewardship. Instead their point of reference with respect to Federal relations tends to center on the last treaty they signed with the U.S., the Treaty of Canandaigua — they sue New York and seek the U.S. to join as a co-plaintiff, etc. Only recently have some nations opted to go the BIA land-trust route. The U.S. government just took over something like 14 acres in trust on behalf of the Oneidas and some non-Indians are freaking out.
So our situation here is somewhat different than out West (plus, we’re not sitting on minerals for the U.S. to steal), but certainly I think a Mohawk’s discontent with Obama could be resonant for any Native American nations around the country. Keep looking for it, I think you might see more of it, for their hopes had gotten really high as well.
63
Thanks for the link, and I’m really glad you’re not in danger of losing your home. I think if I was living on land that I discovered was illegally taken before I purchased it, I would have a number of emotions, anger at the thieves, a desire to make things right for someone who was wronged, yet a conflicting fear of losing my home.
Of course it makes perfect sense to pursue the history of the situation, and certainly honor and respect someone who was treated so hideously, why should they be enemies.
To try to separate cigarette sales from the bigger question is like saying a burning coal is not related to the fire.
Drug Wars and taxes . . . ever the campfire glow!
Cigarettes are at the back-breaking point here, sintaxwise.
At this point, I bet a large constituency of New Yorkers would be happy for a local depot or internet address.
I saw this in Canada, too. Bleed the turnips too much, they’ll self-educate on native – as well as black market – issues before long.
Diane re Lofting upthread : Man, you ARE grumpy! I think this is where the class war requires me to REMIND you that you should be thrilled and grateful that you still have a JOB!!!! Shithead CFO or no.
But I’m still learning the ropes.
(Monday morning smiley here.)
Recently learned Lofting’s descendants are somewhere hereabouts, too, speaking o regional connex.
(Sometimes I think I’m still fighting with HairClub about what “upstate” is all about . . . his misperceptions on that topic were so mind-boggling. Think Stan’s updated his photo pages recentlly, BTW. (We’re allowed to call him Stan, right?)
http://www.rogouski.com/
I think either cigarettes or Stan went to the mod pod, FWIW.
‘Night all. Thanks for all the links and thinks.
Keep looking for it, I think you might see more of it, for their hopes had gotten really high as well.
I really look forward to your updates NYCO, b/c I’m not as familiar with the issues in NY state. Thanks again for the links.
A friend sent me this excellend dkos post … the kind of thoughtful thing I used to like to find there (that many that comment here used to post or comment in themselves), the kind of thing that got supplanted by partisan whoring for the worthless donks: About That Kid in Omelas
I see at Tapper Obster is giving a speech tomorrow, remarks, whatever.. on the emissions waivers..
and on this:
”The president will also deliver brief remarks in the morning that deal with the creation of green jobs in his stimulus package:
* modernizing 75 percent of federal buildings and 2 million homes;
* doubling enough renewable energy generating capacity to power 6 million American homes;
* modernizing the nation’s electricity grid will result in more than 3,000 miles of new or modernized transmission lines and 40 million “Smart Meters” in American homes; and
* launching the Clean Energy Finance Initiative to leverage $100 billion in private sector clean energy investments over three years. ”
From Haaretz:IDF rabbinate publication during Gaza war: We will show no mercy on the cruel
The CBS segment on 60 minutes that aired this evening on the future of the two-state solution is also online. I don’t think it needs any comments other than to say it is surprising to see that on American TV.
Israel vows to back soldiers accused of war crimes
Getting nervous, are they?
If that’s their defense, they’ll have one hell of a time proving it.
AP IMPACT: Lobbyists skirt Obama’s earmark ban
Change you can believe in…or not.
new post..
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