Safe streets… 25 November 2010
Posted by marisacat in Brazil - Lula, Culture of Death, South America, WAR!.trackback
A policeman runs during an operation at Jacarezinho slum Picture: REUTERS
Rio police and drug gangs in the slums battle it out. Or so the story goes….
Reuters reports 30 dead so far…
“We have no deadline to stop operations. We’re going to continue giving logistical support …… to transport police troops for as long as needed,”
said Colonel Carlos Chagas, commander of the Marine logistics battalion.
more by Carlos Chagas – 3 hours ago – Reuters
Policemen take position during a security operation REUTERS
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Maybe I will hear back.
Gah.
Problem resolved!!
I have a personal policy of never doing any shopping on Black Friday. However, last night my wife asked me to drop by Toys R Us to pick up some toys they advertised in their buyer’s club online. Thinking that maybe this was a special deal, I agreed to drive down to the mall.
When I got there, I saw the longest line I’d ever seen – even longer than the line for Empire Strikes Back I stood in as a little kid. I’d estimate it to be around a half mile, maybe longer, it stretched past three of the massive superstores along this strip mall.
I just went home, totally revolted. I told my wife about it and she didn’t believe me. She decided to go back just before the store closed at 1am. About 1/2 hour later she came back and said the line was still out the door, and she had seen pregnant women, women with 2-3 children, old people standing in line in 35 degree weather at 12:30am on the morning after Thanksgiving, just to get 50% off on some toys.
She was revolted for the same reason. It’s like the corporate owners of this country every year throw some small gold coins into a huge pool of fecal material, and then have a good laugh at our expense as the impoverished masses wrestle in it for crumbs. Only in this case we also give them MORE of our money. As the economy goes down the crapper, more entertainment for them as the pool of shit just gets more crowded every year. I may just give cash from now on after seeing that.
I so agree….
The blither blather this am is all about 500 dollar 46″ TVs and some ridiculous spin on ABC GMA about $3 kitchen appliances somewhere or other..
Appalling.
I looked at the calendar for christmas shopping and this year is not a good one… Christmas falls on a Saturday. About the least desirable, retail wise… and I counted the days from TGiving to Xmas, it runs short.
Good Luck.
I decide that everyone gets “red envelopes” this year in honor of the Chinese custom of giving these as presents for New Year, birthdays, etc. Not going to debase myself anymore.
and those red envelopes are so wonderful….
Good idea.
I’ve never in my life shopped on the Friday following. I DO admit that I have headed out to somewhere small right after New Years to buy up Xmas cards, ribbon and wrap for the next year… about it….
No malls.
I had mentioned this when I picked up our dog from the kennel, and the workers there also added that most of those deals are online, with free shipping to boot.
Was flipping through the channels going from one sesame street to the other and the morning hosts were in sleeping bags, which intrigued me, so i lingered for a few moments.
These were pretty high end sleeping bags – looked like some sort of animal fur lining, oversized, probably provided by CBS, and they were doing their show from inside the bag.
Inside the studio, natch.
And of course they flashed over to people who spend the night on the sidewalk in NYC last night, don’t want to think of the temperature, in probably much less well insulated sleeping material. I feel nothing but shame.
I mostly saw pup tents… and bundled clothing, etc….
I saw that vision on CBS but had the sound off.
Whta a nightmare.
We even have canuck Black Friday deals now.
I have to violate Buy Nothing Day to get some groceries after basically being housebound during the 2010 Deep Freeze™. It’s finally warmed up so I’m up and out.
I ordered most gifts for the grandherbs online this year (homemade stuff still on the to do list). Shopping gets on my last nerve during the xmas season – especially considering the fact that I’m an atheist. So much misery for Xtian people who can’t afford what they think they should get.
I came up with a scheme a few years ago: each year I have a theme. I’ve done the bedroom and bath time gifts for the grandherbs and this year it’s the kitchen genre. Not sure what I’ll do next year…maybe outdoor stuff.
groceries are necessities…
“So much misery for Xtian people who can’t afford what they think they should get.”
I had thought they were getting their reward in heaven. Apparently the rules changed.
That’s so 15th century!
I like the idea of just giving cash, if for no other reason than it becomes a hassle to try to remember who likes what. That, and I just don’t see the point in spectacles such as Black Friday (a bit of hyperbole, perhaps, as I it is pretty obvious that there is a point to it from the perspective of our corporate overlords).
There was some local news of some guys who were camping outside of Best Buy for several days just so they could be first in line when the store opened for its Black Friday spectacle. What I perceived were two individuals needlessly exposed to the elements, and probably nowhere near as prepared for that cold front that came through as they thought they were. As I said, from my perspective, pointless.
please pardon my ignorance, but, what does bokononist mean?
I’ve seen the mask icon used, bloodless, unreal ice white faced, mustachioed, ‘all knowingly’ grinning male …perhaps I am slow ..but I haven’t a clue, what bokonist means, and I doubt many do.
In case James is not around, if you saw th film V Vendetta of a few years ago (I finaly caugh up to it via Netflix) that is where the mask is from.
Use of it, in protests and as avatars and so on, usually indicates an anti Statist stance…
the Guy Fawkes mask is also commonly used by Anonymous, the patron saint of 4chan.
Bokononism is a fictitious religion described in Kurt Vonnegut in his classic novel, Cat’s Cradle. I love the first verse: “All of the true things that I am about to tell you are shameless lies.” When I chose my screen name on wordpress so many moons ago, I had hoped for Bokonon or perhaps Bokononist, but alas those were already taken.
As for the Guy Fawkes mask gravatar, I think Marisacat aptly summarized what it’s about. Among my many comrades were anarcho-syndicalists whose perspective still has some influence on me. The film, V for Vendetta struck a nerve with me when it came out. It’s a bit of a different experience than the graphic novel on which it is based, but I digress.
Do note that I’ve seen the Guy Fawkes mask also coopted by white privileged male “libertarians” over the last couple years – a fact I find most disheartening.
those idiots misappropriate so many things
thanks for responding to that Marisa,…it means a great deal when people attempt to clarify when queried, … that’s one of the reasons why, I feel, you are special …and you respond, even when it’s not you, being queried,…even more special……..
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thank you, thebokononist, for that explanation, now I know!
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the evening news endlessly repeated the film f people streaming smashing their ways into Targets and Best Buys, hither and yon.
Pretty bad.
In England and elsewhere in Europe, people hold mass protests over the hell their corporate overlords are attempting to impose upon them. In our country, we (well not you or I) practically riot over disposable consumer goods. What a country.
I love reading of the protests in Europe – and lately n the UK against fees fr students… … not just against “austerity” but against the US war machine…like at Shannon airport and to oppose the expansion of US bases…
Just now students are protesting at the Leaning Towr and at the Coliseum….
Makes me happy.
The US has not had a functional left in ages – what was left of that had largely faded away by the time I was a teen. It does make me happy to see other places where there is a functional left – it opens up a lot of doors for public expression and action.
James!
J.! What a wonderful holiday gift to “see” you again! How are you?!
HmmK. That was an odd place for that reply to show up! Oh well!
If a comment went astray its because I eithr let the thread get too long (then WP gets confused) OR “replies” exceed 8, I have it set at maximum i think…
I’m doing okay, brinn and catnip.
gotta love it. Laura Rozen
http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/
adds an update ot her report from the AJ-C about the TSA officer alleged to have abducted a woman, raped her at his home then released her to carry his suicide note to the whirled at large. (He was later found in his home iwt a lot of small self inflicted stab wounds.)
Of course not:
..and if they added impersonatung a “law” officer (siren,cuffs and weapons in the trunk, etc.), the problem would likely be solved, there wouldn’t be any eligible candidates.
“pretty upsetting to most of us, including me”. Where does this mittel brow language come from ? They sold him as Gott in Himmel.
From Politico “44″
The news blurb up here is that if we have to go through the pat downs (that sounds so friendly, doesn’t it – “pat downs”?) we have the option of going to a private room. (Queue the bad porno flick music.)
“I’m your private screener, a screener for money, you’ll do what I want you to do…”
you can also have a witness.
And according to a CAIR advisory, muslim women are being advised to tell the screener they will pat themselves down, in what is the area in question that caused them to be diverted only, then present their hands for explsives residue testing.
I sense a camel’s back breaking, somewhere.
Carrying along commens ts made in reply to diane in the alst thread…
madman just sent me this… NO NEED TO GO SHOPPING DROPPING ON BLACK FRIDAY….
… 
What a scream!
Read more: Business Insider
Pepper the halls with balls of holly.
Thanks for the comment heads up hon, I left a response there.
I want one of those dreams ts, at least the part about nailing them in the nuts.
All the more reason to observe “Buy Nothing Day.”
The mandate may be struck down in the courts…oh please oh please oh please!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/us/politics/27health.html
I’m actually hopeful…. the way Democrats trot out mandatory car insurance as validating this is just tedious. Doesn’t strike me as the same thing at all.
Goody, a reason to pop open a left over bottle of Brut from last night …and yeah, just another highly punitive, meant to humiliate, regressive revenue stream.
what is next? A lump of coal?
the link’s not working hon.
oh it’s just his sharp elbow to the face, anonymous no name disclosure of the miscreant, during hoops… got him 12 stitices… that’s all.
Full text:
tough (fuckin “Brits,” ….tuff….) fucking luck huh?
nice to know that he can still feel pain, while unrelentingly bestowing it?
I had stitches in my lip too mother fucker, and I chewed them out …it wasn’t in the major headlines clown …and I got over it, unlike you, who will likely bomb whole villages over it ….get a grip fucker …you are not, all that …..
I ahd 9 over y right eyebrow in a small car accdient. Mostly i was panicked not to have a scar… and got a calendula gel to put on it, stitches and all. I tworked well… there is a dent in the brow bone, whihc cannot be seen, but no scar.
His lip is gonna swell. Maybe he can give some to Gibbs.
I didn’t know you could get calendula gel. The flower is good in salads too.
it was fabulous… I asked a friend who was very into naturopathic and she called a friend who was a specialist. It worked really well.
His lip is gonna swell.
Maybe it’ll finally catch up with his overwhelming sense of self-importance, or Snob’s self-righteousness.
the FUCKer can go have a SYMPATHY PARTY with that CREEPY FUCK, Berlusconi, …or however the fuck it is spelled …
Remember when Billy C broke a bone in his foot? what a fucking crybaby.
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa , they are wounded …. give me some of that titty ..they say…….even though, they offer absolutely nothing in return ……………..not only that, but then, if you are hestitant, they cuff and rape you , because: their needs must be met, NOW
yeah e was so bad, even in public that a disability group actually spoke out abot it.
It happened at the Greg Norman estate in FL…. on a rocky promontory, heavy mature tree cover… he fell at around 11 Pm somwehre outside the main house and the paths to the guest cottages. I laughed outloud when it was reported… I hoped for his sake he was LEAVING her bedroom, rather than enroute.
Wht a scream!!
You are not, and you will never be, Allen Iverson, Obama, YOU MOTHER FUCKER ……now what, fool?
Who is Allen Iverson?
a medium height black man, born in virginia ….., who clowned all the NBC et al sportscasters ….in his small person ability in making a statement for little peeps…….
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not quite sure, but I have a feeling you can grow calendula in the many times cold realm you live in, miss nip. Perhaps toss an eighth inch, or so, amount of fertile soil on that sucker …and it wwill delight you, soon after ..much to your surprise ……
hmmm I will admit, I have no clue as to what “fertile soil” means….maybe I should have written: hopeful soil? …..whatever, I planted calendula seeds, and they sprouted readily, …just think, what you could do with them sweetness! ..
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I did have some in a garden once. They grow like weeds.
yes …they insist, …can’t help but ‘living,’ ..until it is time for them to die…..
who could blame them,…..who willfully dies?
oh what a hoot! A spam comment at IOZ of all places:
Inside the Whitehall kettle
It’s war, basically….
and only getting started.
It’s not ”clear and hold” but ”encircle and hold”.
Beautifully written.
It really puts you there with them.
Protest groups need to publicize the eventual large payouts to lawsuits … there almost always are. NYC payed out MILLIONS to improperly detained protesters after the RNC.
Lenin’s Tomb concludes:
Just watched the doc “Enjoy Poverty” by Renzo Martens. Powerful.
Hey hey… got my answer on the Sikh turbans… they are indeed the specified religious exemption at air port screening.
The boychicks get to keep them on (all wrapped 9 or so feet of it), do self pat and present their hands for examination of explosives residue.
Ain’t that peachy.
There was a heated argument on local talk radio just now (burqa issues) and the host got a hold of an official TSA HLS memo exempting the turban.
For religious reasons. I am so relieved for their tender sensibilities… whew.
That is the biggest load of bullshit I have heard all week.
Thanks for sharing, Mcat!
Have to see how CAIR proceeds, but reading thru a load of their travel advisories to their costituency over the past month… my guess is they want to piggy back (burqa and hijab exemptions) on that finding.
A commenter at TPMMuchraker posted a link to an admittedly CNS news service report on Janet NapNothing being queried Nov 15 on where is the policy o scanning and patdown on observant women muslims going… boy she dodged. Big time. A “yes” asnwer woul have squelched all the speculation going around…
snip:
Of course Abdulmuttalab boarded a plane with no valid passport of any kind. Just a detail.
Oh too too funny!
I am jsut reading that ObRama got his dozen stitches to his UPPER LIP.
To hold it up and stiff, I wonder? Stiff and stitched-up upper lip?
We are so screwedddddddddd.
THE SHOWS:
–NBC’s “Meet the Press“: Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL); Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ); roundtable with Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, Republican strategist Ed Gillespie, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan and Mayor Michael Nutter (D-Philadelphia)
–ABC’s “The Week“: Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffet, Microsoft Founder and Chairman Bill Gates and philanthropist Melinda Gates, CNN Founder Ted Turner and Hedge Fund Manager Tom Steyer
–CBS’s “Face the Nation“: Author Edmund Morris (“Colonel Roosevelt”), author Ron Chernow (“Washington: A Life”), author Bob Woodward (“Obama’s Wars”) and author Arianna Huffington (“Third World America”)
–”Fox News Sunday“: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO); roundtable with the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, NPR’s Mara Liasson, former State Department official Liz Cheney and Fox News’ Juan Williams
–CNN’s “State of the Union“: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); previously unaired segment of taped interview with former President George W. Bush and former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL); outgoing Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and outgoing Rep. David Obey (D-WI); Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza
–C-SPAN: “The Communicators” (SAT 6:30pm ET): Centre for the Study of Democracy Fellow David Eaves, Omidyar Network Investment Director Stacy Donohue and Ushahidi Co-Founder Ory Okollo … “Newsmakers” (SUN 10am ET / 6pm ET): American Action Network CEO and former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), questioned by McClatchy’s Steve Thomma and the Los Angeles Times’ Tom Hamburger “Q&A” (SUN 8pm ET / 11pm ET): Former Secret Service Agents and co-authors Gerald Blaine and Clint Hill (“The Kennedy Detail”)
–Univision’s “Al Punto“: Security expert Joe Gehr; Defense Attorney for Ahmed Ghailani Peter Quijano; Inter-American Development Bank President Luis Alberto Moreno; Actress and Activist Maria Conchita Alonso; roundtable with Poder Magazine Editor David Adams and El Mundo America Edition Director Manuel Aguilera
ugh, on This Week, the Lords and Ladies visit the serfs …
really….
The FIRE Next Time: End-Game for the Elite’s One-Way Class War
Yep, yep and yep…like Hudson says: just watch.
He’s been spot on about pretty much everything over the past 3-5 years, unfortunately the large “information moving machines” don’t pay him any mind, so people can’t hear him making sense and explaining things in very easily understandable terms.
The Irish government is trying to force through an emergency loan and an austerity package “the harshest in Europe” before calling elections.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/world/europe/28dublin.html
This is in a country where the unemployment rate is already around 15% and the economy has shrunk by just as much.
The best solution for Ireland is bail out of the Euro entirely and go back to the punt. The budget deficit doesn’t come from the banking collapse, but the huge drop in income tax revenue that came with the economic collapse. Austerity is going to make this problem worse.
Krugman says (in a weird, dyslexic phrase) “It’s worse than a crime, it’s a mistake.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/opinion/26krugman.html
My guess is we are forcing a lot of whatever direction Ireland takes.
AND there is a chatter around today about Zapatero latest moves… I have not had a chance to read it tho….
BTW I hear there is a piece in the Ecnomist calling for the abolition o the TSA.
Telling, if I’m recollecting correctly, that the Obster appointed Rooney (Pittsburgh. PA Steelers, football team “owner”), Ambassador to Ireland ….way in over your head ‘honey’ Rooney, despite that money (at least my thought). Mr. Rooney was flattered, ….I’m sure…….
New Wikileaks docs are out
German Pirate Party members strip off for Berlin airport scanner protest
Marisa, please note that you aren’t back in the hospital, I just checked the date stamps and the time …….
???????????????????
( …in case you are just needing to be away from it all hon, …I did that yesterday, and accidentally watched a movie titled In Her Shoes.. …it was nice to shed tears that weren’t coinciding with a frightening jolt to the solar plexus ….sweet movie, …..despite, what I take, to be the nasty intent of the channel airing it (Criminal Minds aired thricely every weeknight, to “prove” to us there is a “need” for all the deathly debasing of humanity that is going on) ….
Hi everybody. Marisa sent word through her neighbor that she’s ill again and has been readmitted to the hospital. She had an operation to remove fluid from around her heart is hooked up to something to continue the draining.
I’ll keep everybody posted as I get updates.
Thank you Madman … if able, please send her huge hugs, and ‘get the fuck outta that place, wishes ….
I will.
thanks so much.
Thanks for the update. Will keep the fingers crossed.
Please hang in there Marisa. Sending positive energy your way. Get better soon and stay away from the hospitalists.
Thinking of you, Marisa! Here’s to a speedy release and even speedier recovery!
**hugs**
Be well, Ms Cat. Hope to see you up and snarking soon.
So sorry, but I can’t stand this painful wait, for Marisa to get the fuck away from the hospitalists, so I’m going to change the subject momentarily …..
Is this from one of your PA relatives Boohoohooman? (Since I’m drunk myself I don’t consider the question an insult).:
Security Administration to Begin Driver Pat Downs
Monday, November 22, 2010
jeesh …wish we all lived within a couple miles of each other so we could all get smashed together while waiting for Marisa to kiss off the hospitalists ….. not too mention freeing the ‘spam,’ …as only you dare do, honey!
we love you sweetness, wonderful dreams to you as you recover…..
Update on Mcat. She’s still in the hospital and it would seem will be there for a bit longer. The doctors are flummoxed as to the cause of the heart condition. Hopefully it will get resolved soon as she really wants to get home.
I’ll be in touch with her later in the week and pop in with another update.
Thanks, lucid.
thanks lucid
Yep, love that Ms. Cat.
‘night all.
Somebody call House!
Thanks for the lowdown. Will continue to keep the fingers crossed.
Eric Cantona’s call for bank protest sparks online campaign
BUT!
The Pwogs have Crashed the Gates!!
Surely they have our backs!
It is all so predictable..
Cantona is right, of course, consumer action is where it’s at, and Europe is the lever.
Tho , not naive here, there will be violence.
Apologies for the fragmentary segues, but the run on banks, as it takes hold in the U.S. – as it IS – as global demands for asset withdrawal from our various scam markets, particularly, the looted pensions and the mutual funds and InsCo annuity scams… is playing out how? How else with these unblinking thieves? They are doing what comes naturally: They have their latest spokeshole at the Fed run off more currency.
They try and bluff the Continent out of their Euros while passing dollars to pay EU demand deposits and pensioners. They think the Pacific Rim won’t mind, either.
They do what comes naturally, Lie, Cheat and steal, and hope they can pacify people – oh and this is sure to work out well in Europe too – into accepting draconian austerity measures in order cover the looting.
And Obama, The Banker’s Turd™… – plopped out in steamy pause – yeh and that’s holding the line, that’s werkin out well.. this said to be new and improved Bullshitter issuing “simmer down now” assurances to global depositors and creditors backed by what? More bogus paper and looting of public wealth and well being.
Jeezis…. as people step up looking for their money ..Which THEY ARE…
So it begins.
be well, marisa.
Hi everyone … I just spoke to Marisa, and she asked me to say hi and to thank you all for pulling for her. She said she’s feeling better today, and is hopeful for continued improvement.
That’s good to hear. I hope she’s giving the hospitalists (and all of the other “ists”) a bad time.
Yea!
wonderful! i hope she gets to go home as soon as possible.
Good. I’ll keep sending good vibes her way.
Good to know! Wish we could go visit — hospitals are so horrid!
Thanks for letting us know, madman!
Hope she is back in full form soon. Glad that one of us is in touch with her.
I still don’t know what to make of Assange,
but some delish dish in the WikiLieaks
on Gangster State Israel out of US Embassy Tel Aviv.
Way to go Israel!
What a portfolio!
Diversify! Diversify! Diversify!
And Way to go USA!
By subsidizing them them THERE we won’t have to worry about who will broker strung out sex slaves HERE!
And our pensioners can invest in the Hyped-up IPO!
And if THAT doesn’t work out, THEN they can chose to gamble in a wide selection of burnt out broke-ass skank casinos all across the land that Goldman got their pension funds to invest in – Oh go ahead baby! – Chose the one with a murdered gangster out front! Chose the one where the strung out grandaughter was thrown out the window!
More via our fine reporters via US Embassy Tel Aviv!
Dig the last graf on Israeli Organized crime…
Even their Gangsters are Special!
Thanks for the update Madman. Glad to hear Ms Cat is feeling better.
I see my posts on the WikiLeaks …
The US Embassy Tel Aviv analysis on global Israeli Organized Crime – backed by IDF weapons and computing no less – have..shall we say evaporated…
And not hard to figure…they seem to have downed all roads leading into it…again… for now.
But we carry on!
::
It’s Official!
The Fed is Officially The Piggies private Piggy Bank. Now with New and Improved Private Pigginess!
Anybody see this (Via BBC) assassinating of Iraninian nuclear scientists in Tehran this past Monday?
One killed, one hamburger in two separate attacks with the old magnetic bomb slapped onto car in the motorcycle drive-by trick.
o’ course, it could all be co-inky-dink, right?
A little misunderstanding in the “you go , then I’ll go” tradition. Like Jon Stewart says about how efficient rush hour traffic is here in Jersey trying to get through the Holland Tunnel.
Anyways.
Bah! Concidence! Lousy drivers!
Remember – You go, then I’ll go!™
<blockquoteReports said motorcyclists drove alongside the scientists’ cars, attached magnetised bombs to the side of the vehicles, and then drove away.
~ O k a a a y – So Maybe Not!
the older i get the more i realize i like the world less and less.
marisa is an excellent reason to like the world MORE!
there aren’t many of those about these days.
something, (or someone) to aspire to, yes?
i agree completely. she is a special spirit in this world.
I dig her for her for her intellect, her sense of Justice, her realism in pointing out its absence….and the way she writes, Jeezis.
Many things- her eye for graphics atop her posts.
And her sense of humor. Remember Historic Midterm Slyection 2010 as day and night threads ran into another she kept posting the pic of the gorilla giving the Fuck it all finger?
Oh she’s somethin’ alright. I hope she’s well on the mend and truly miss her. Sometimes I read her archives beginning here and it really is fascinating to see how she called Goddam EVERYTHING with how the Dems would run from their demi-ascendancy.
And her posts on DK going back to the runup to the war are extraordinary.
Yeh, I dig her.
And truth ain’t flattery.
Some things…. just need to be said.
G’night all.
Thanks for sayin’ em, BHHM! I second and fourth those remarks!
Shine On, Marisa! Miss you muchly!
I’ll third them and second yours brinn.
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shit, correction:
I’ll second yours brinn, and third and fifth them.
sorry.
Shit, my correction is caught in spam:
One more as of 5AM Fri EST wikileaks back up courtesy of the Peoples Republic.
There are more popping up:
Wikileaks.org blocked, but mirror sites proliferating: here’s a partial index of indexes
Interesting that when it was a BANK in their crosshairs suddenly the powers that be bring it down …
yup, ……and I find it interesting that Wikileaks has not ‘busted’ more (any?) multinational corporations, from the inception of Wikileaks, I, for one, would love to feel safe having a chat with ‘someone’ able to pop the boil of untold, insidious, corporate mythologies, …and I cannot believe there are others such as me, who actually had verifiable/tangible proof (which I don’t), they gave to Wikileaks ……………
Their next target is allegedly a major US bank.
Have at it!
corrected (sorry):
…at any rate, whatever the case may be, the ‘leaks’ have certainly successfully deflected attention from Ireland’s collapse, and the highly related $60 billion in US revenue lost to tax loopholes.
(will Google do no evil? Or will they demand (along with Intel, et al…) that Ireland maintains those insane giveaways to the multinationals? …. while our ‘fearless bipartisan leaders’ absolutely refuse to address unemployment, and hack away at the social safety net of Social Security and Medicare after they have unrelentingly thieved from those funds we’ve paid into?)
reattempting a post I made a few days ago (jeesh, you are missed honey!), on the fourth, which got caught up in spam:
…at any rate, whatever the case may be, the ‘leaks’ have certainly successfully deflected attention from Ireland’s collapse, and the highly related $60 billion in US revenue lost to tax loopholes.
(will Google do no evil? Or will they demand (along with Intel, et al…) that Ireland maintains those insane giveaways to the multinationals? …. while our ‘fearless bipartisan leaders’ absolutely refuse to address unemployment, and hack away at the social safety net of Social Security and Medicare after they have unrelentingly thieved from those funds we’ve paid into?)
Just adding my best wishes to the “feel better and get home soon Marisa” cheers above. Maybe the hospitalist could arrange for a Visiting Cat?
PS: Well said, BHHM.
wishing you well, marisa
I’m sure missing the post, and resulting comments you would have made, Marisa, about the Baby Fat Hunter’s ‘victory’ against school bake sales.
S.3307 – Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 was brought to the dear kids, in part, by a 2.2 billion reduction in foodstamps (SNAP). Ya just gotta ‘love’ the unapologetic, blatant and brutal irony,…but wait … not to worry, Obama has promised [uh oh] to state his support for SNAP during its reduction ceremony:
(Senate Bill, 3307, Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, transmorphed out of House Bill, 5504, “Improving Nutrition for America’s Children Act.” Of course, one might ask, if Congress were so concerned with hungry children in the US, why have they done nothing to address unemployment,…good luck with a response though, I was informed by a Senator’s DC lackey the other day that all in his family were gainfully employed …no small wonder….)
oh my, looking at that sponsor list, ……..while I’ll admit I didn’t count, looks like a majority of Cali Reps are on it … wonder why they are not addressing the Wooley Mammoths in the ‘living room,’ ……of Cali,.. which ranks third in US Unemployment (parental “Employment” will assure kid’s well being, far far, more times than not ) …..despite the fact that there are still tons of $$$$$$$$$$ money poured into that strategic state of Caliwood ….and despite the top alpha dog techno ‘libertarians’ being obscenely recompensed, …. so much so, that when one does a quick and dirty calc of per capita income, everyone appears to be doing quite fine, …thank you very much …..
Thanks for this, diane! Happily for me, I will be applying for foodstamps, er, SNAP, now that my unemployment is going bye bye, and to be honest, as I have been working part-time the entire time I have drawn UI bennies, food stamps may actually be nearly equal in real dollars because if I qualify for them, my kids will qualify for reduced or free meals at school (as opposed to the $3 x2 I would have to send off 5 days out of 7, kid the elder told me he didn’t get milk because it casts $1!!!)….we shall see though, as they have seemed to have gutted the amount of SNAP monies available as well…whole wheat pizza and “healthy” chicken nuggets (whatever the hell those mean?!) are the “new and improved” choices at my kids’ schools…son the younger is still asking for bananas and tangerines (a couple of his favorites) but they are nowhere to be found….nary an apple, even!
It’s all so stupid.
We miss you Marisa! Hope you are doing well!!
you hang in there sweetness ….(I find sometimes lifting the corners of the lips up in memory of a heartfelt smile, actually helps honey, weirdly enough)
and yeah indeed, come back Marisa!
Thanks, diane! And, no, it’s not weird at all, though these days go for the fully belly laugh! Kid the younger helps with that as he has some contagious laughter/giggle fits and his brother and I can’t help but join in!
We’ll be ok, and I have plenty of experience couch surfing, transience and the like, but I gotta tell ya, it’s a whole different animal with kiddos and some days are just scary as hell!!
But, hey, at least no one is dropping bombs on my house or bribing my children to sell their organs….yet.
Have a great day!
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SHE IS BACK!
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Wishing you well, Marisa. Come back soon!
Tuesday, December something or other.
Hello all….
I survived. In for 6 days, out for 5, back in for 10…. but I made it.
Hell I am probbably more alive than Ob. Having heard him in Bagram adn yesterday and today. Poor baby.
New thread up soon, thanks for all the wishes and thoughts.
MY message to all, avoid the hospital. What a screwed up racecourse.
BTW, I got ever thing out of Mod, will look thru errant spam…
So Happy That You ARE Out OF THE HOSPITAL! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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The Cat is back in town, Cat is back in town! Yippie, Marisa! So glad you got out relatively unscathed!! Miss you MUCH!
**HUGS**
so glad to see you back again. take care.
oh thanks wu ming…. 8)
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new link
whew