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September 2007 archive
Sep 17 2007
Pony Party: Sunday music retrospective
Sep 17 2007
I love you. I’ll see ya later.
A little story of last weekend’s bittersweet visit in Seattle & Whidbey Island.
Sep 17 2007
Breaking: KO’s internal organ outed as GOP operative
(A multi-tasking quickie from T&P while I frantically jump from the Pats to the Red Sox)
According to Democratic Underground and MediaBistro, Keith Olbermann was KO’d by his appendix Friday night. It isn’t often that our internal organs go all partisan on us, but we know for certain that his heart is true blue.
Are these sources reliable? If so, feel better KO.
Sep 17 2007
Impeachement: The Path to Ending the Occupation of Iraq? w/poll
We’ve had a few days to digest the latest utterings by the administration on it’s generals on the ongoing occupation of Iraq. The best news to come out of the spewing is that the surge troops may be coming home by next summer. The bad news is that the pre-surge number of troops is going to remain, and that the Dems look like they’re going to capitulate again on continuing the war. It sounds as if most of our leaders are resignd to remaining in Iraq at least until the next administration comes into office.
Sep 17 2007
In the Beginning
This piece was written over a decade ago. At the time, I was living in Arkansas, where the Southern Baptists are far from the most conservative religious people.
I was generally assaulted by religion, religious tracts, and the religious view of history. Being a taoist didn’t help. That just labeled me as a heathen.
So occasionally I responded with words of my own. This essay was one fo those responses and is one of my favorites, actually. Others will no doubt have their own opinions…
Sep 17 2007
Rudy’s Smoldering Ruins of Bullshit
Since 9/11 there have been many theories as to what really brought those buildings down – from the “official” reports – to the fringe, tin-foil hattery of the paranoid, conspiracy theorists. But there was (and is) a cover-up that has nothing to do with what caused those towers to fall – A coverup in which our government was and is absolutely complicit: The alledged safety of the air around Ground Zero in the aftermath of the attacks in what has been dubbed “The World Plague Center”. More below the imaginary crease…
Sep 17 2007
Dharmaceutical: Your daily dose of outrage
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I’ve been blah-ging a lot about health care. I’m outraged at knowing what happens in the board rooms, in patients’ rooms, in the operating rooms and in the emergency rooms.
But I also try to help people empower themselves so that they have the tools and skills they need in order to make the best decisions about their health for themselves, their families, their communities and our country.
This evening’s offering is simply an introduction, of sorts. Share a little about your own health questions, your questions, and your needs. As a community, it’s important that we identify what’s needed, and then figure out how and where our own talents can support each other and move our agenda forward.
Sep 17 2007
on Armando and civility
The topic has been rehashed to death already, but these diaries, written over the past 2 years, are still pretty much relevant:
Armando is a kind, gentle, caring person
Ultimate meta: civility, dKos ecology and the reclist
Meta: How to discuss constructively with a smart brash kossack
Beyond the text below, I’d like to note one thing: there is nothing that will frustrate a bully more than unflailing civility in the face of continuous aggressivity. Civility actually is very satisfying in fights.
Sep 16 2007
The Falling Dollar — Baby Let Me Follow You Down
Of course, by now we all know that the dollar is losing value at a swift pace. But do we know how that will affect our everyday life in the next 18 months?
More important, is there a way to protect ourselves? Hey, maybe there’s even a way to have fun with it and get rich at the same time.
Just about everything written on this topic is aimed at businesses and institutional investors. There’s never any clues for the little guys. We’re just collateral damage, after all. We share the same status as Iraqi civilians, in that regard.
Sep 16 2007
(Bubbles) Greenspan: “Oops”
Greenspan alert on US house prices
US house prices are likely to fall significantly from their present levels, Alan Greenspan has told the Financial Times, admitting that there was a bubble in the US housing market.
Now he tells us! Now that, after encouraging the bubble, blowing it out of proportion, and claiming that it was not possible to tell if there was a bubble, said bubble is blowing in our faces as many observers have predicted for a number of years now, he claims that it was obvious all along.
What a lying piece of shit.
Exclusive to DD!
Sep 16 2007
The Falling Dollar — Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
Of course, by now we all know that the dollar is losing value at a swift pace. But do we know how that will affect our everyday life in the next 18 months?
More important, is there a way to protect ourselves? Hey, maybe there’s even a way to have fun with it and get rich at the same time.
Just about everything written on this topic is aimed at businesses and institutional investors. There’s never any clues for the little guys. We’re just collateral damage, after all. We share the same status as Iraqi civilians, in that regard.