Hey ek!
Hey what?
Hey ek!
Hey WHAT!
Show us how you get down.
NO WAY!
Show us how you get down.
ok.
D-O-W-N and that’s the way you get down.
D-O-W-N and that’s the way you get down.
Tag: Open Thread
Jun 27 2008
Pony Party…….T.I.T.S.,A.S.S.
Thursday, I Think Seriously, About Stupid Shit
Stolen!
I stole this fair & square from an open thread at crooks & liars
Maybe we’re not so different after all…………….
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Have a wonderful evening! Be excellent to each other!
& dont wRECk the pony!
Jun 26 2008
Four at Four
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Reuters reports Bombs kill 40 in Iraq. “Bombs killed nearly 40 people in Iraq on Thursday, including 20 at a tribal council meeting in Anbar province just days before the U.S. military transfers control of security for the vast western region to Iraqi forces. The U.S. military said there were American troop casualties in the attack in Anbar but gave no details.”
The LA Times adds “The mayor and tribal chief of Garma were killed along with 19 others when a bomber blew himself up during a meeting of sheiks and city leaders of the town about 15 miles northeast of Fallouja. Another 20 were injured.”
The Anbar handover ceremony is now on hold, according to McClatchy Newspapers. “The bombing was carried out by a man wearing a suicide vest who struck at a meeting between tribal sheiks and American officials in a municipal building in Karmah… In a separate attack, insurgents targeted the governor of Nineveh province as he left the government headquarters in Mosul… Police said at least 18 Iraqis were killed and 62 injured in Mosul. The governor escaped unharmed, though his bodyguards were among the wounded”.
The NY Times adds nearly 80 people were wounded in the attacks. “The bombings extended a pattern of multiple-casualty attacks in recent days that are clearly intended to kill local Iraqi leaders, in particular the Awakening Councils of Sunni tribal chieftains who have collaborated with American forces against Sunni insurgents.”
According to McClatchy, “The latest bombings capped a bloody week with several attacks on local government offices and security targets that killed at least 10 U.S. service members, four U.S. government civilian employees, and scores of Iraqis.“
The Washington Post reports on some of the Iraqis killed by U.S. forces this week., such as the death of four Iraqi family members. A “man, who sold propane gas for a living, was afraid thieves were in the vicinity.” He fired shots in the air with an AK-47 while “U.S. troops were conducting an operation in the area”.
“U.S. soldiers then retreated and called in an airstrike, [Capt. Ahmed al-Azwawi, a police official in Samra,] said, killing the man, his wife, and two of their children.” The U.S. military said the man refused to comply with their orders.
Azwawi identified the dead man as Afar Ahmed Zeidan. The police official said Zeidan’s wife, Khawlah Talab, and two of their children, Noor Afar Ahmed, 8, and Alaa Afar Ahmed, 6, were also killed. Another child in the house was taken to a hospital in critical condition, the police officials said.
Four at Four continues with more news from Iraq, the Afghan booming opium trade, and habeas corpus.
Jun 26 2008
Pony Party……..ride, dance, blue….
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Have a lovely day! Be excellent to each other!
& dont wRECk the pony!
Jun 26 2008
The Stars Hollow Gazette
Jun 25 2008
The Morning News
The Morning News is an Open Thread
Science to follow.
| From Yahoo News Top Stories |
1 Housing rescue plan passes key Senate test
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, Associated Press Writer
32 minutes ago
| WASHINGTON – A massive foreclosure rescue bill cleared a key Senate test Tuesday by an overwhelming margin, with Democrats and Republicans both eager to claim election-year credit for helping hard-pressed homeowners.
The mortgage aid plan would let the Federal Housing Administration back $300 billion in new, cheaper home loans for an estimated 400,000 distressed borrowers who otherwise would be considered too financially risky to qualify for government-insured, fixed-rate loans. An 83-9 vote put the plan on track for Senate passage as early as Wednesday, but President Bush is threatening a veto, and Democrats are fighting each other over key details. Those challenges will probably delay any final deal until mid-July. |
Jun 24 2008
The Stars Hollow Gazette
So I’ve been driving ’round a bean field. Staring at the sun. Walking in the mud. Talking to people I once knew. Meeting and greeting. Pretending not to pay attention, looking another way.
Hearing about births and deaths. Hanging on. Trafficking in triumph. Who, after all, is better than me? Skulking around after dark hiding from the dreaded vampire mosquitos in clouds of chemicals. Maintaining my own crypt-like pallor with more of the same.
Eating slave food and drinking beer. Top shelf whiskey, but no grilled vegetables. I miss the vegetables, the asparagus would make the bathrooms stink, but I’m best buds with the comfort station guy and he always puts an extra cake in my urinal.
Now all is dust. Actually more mud, but I like my metaphors mixed just like my cocktails- shaken, not stirred to piss off the bartenders. Shrink wrapped in stacks it waits in trailers for a next time that may never come. Winding down partings of missed meetings and tired indifference it drifts away as it came.
Jun 18 2008
The Morning News
The Morning News is an Open Thread.
Surprise! I’m filling in for ek this morning and it’s Mishima’s day off. So to start your day, here’s 28 stories from home and around the globe. What else is happening?
USA
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WaPo – Halliburton Subsidiary Faulted For Hurricane Work
Reports of problems with defense contractor KBR Inc. just keep piling up. The Houston-based company’s efforts to repair Navy facilities following Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina were deemed shoddy and substandard, auditors say, prompting one technical adviser to claim that the federal government “certainly paid twice” for many KBR projects because of “design and workmanship deficiencies,” according to a report (see PDF here) released today by the Defense Department’s inspector general.
The report, released following a Freedom of Information Act request, says the U.S. Navy hired KBR, Inc., then known as Kellogg, Brown and Root, in July 2004 to repair Defense Department facilities after Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina. The federal government agreed to pay the company $500 million over five years.
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Des Moines Register – Some Cedar Rapids residents finally getting back into homes
The record-breaking floodwaters are not holding Cedar Rapids hostage anymore. Water has cleared out of many downtown streets, which resembled rivers just two days ago. The Cedar River has fallen to 20.06 feet and continues to drop. Major highways, including I-380 and U.S. Highway 30, have reopened and so have some neighborhoods. City officials today finally opened some neighborhoods to residents after days of stops and starts. Only neighborhoods where water and debris had been cleared from the streets, and homes had been inspected for safety, were open.
The city remains under a mandatory evacuation order, but residents got into their homes to gather belongings, size up damage and start cleaning up layers of mud and stench.
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WaPo – Red Cross Disaster Fund Is Depleted
The American Red Cross said yesterday that it has depleted its national disaster relief fund and is taking out loans to pay for shelters, food and other relief services across seven Midwestern states battered by floods. Officials at the charity estimated that efforts in the Midwest will cost more than $15 million and warned that the total could surpass $40 million if the Mississippi River creates floods in St. Louis later this week.
On the cusp of hurricane season, Red Cross executives said the charity has raised just $3.2 million for the Midwest floods and painted a dire picture of its overall disaster relief finances.
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The Hill – Clinton takes month off
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is taking a month off from Congress to recuperate after her marathon run for the presidency. She is not expected to return to the Senate until July 7 or July 8 after the Independence Day recess, according to two Democratic sources.
Clinton’s Democratic colleagues in the Senate are taking a sympathetic attitude toward her extended absence, which comes after a grueling 18-month formal bid for the White House and, according to some calculations, a decade or more of planning and positioning since the days when her husband was president.
Jun 13 2008
Sucking on Tailpipes
So for the last little bit on Rush Limbaugh I’ve been listening to Jonathan from Rockwell Tx. (outside Dallas) who picked up a broken compact florescent in a storeroom even though Rush told him the Mercury was toxic. Rush praised him for his self sacrifice like he had fallen on a grenade.
He felt faint and headachy so his boss filled out an accident report and called the (offsite) RN who had him 911 the paramedics that sent him to the emergency room where after a few hours and some Tylenol the headache went away (but make sure you keep monitoring says Rush).
The Loading Dock I worked on was roofed by reinforced concrete decking on steel beams all coated with spray asbestos insulation to meet fire code. I smoked Kools at the time and we ignored the “No Smoking” signs because hey- it’s the Loading Dock and we make our own rules. (Security guy was a smoker too, which didn’t hurt).
Is this bad? Let me tell you what we did for amusement.
Our store occupied 2/3rds of a former retail space and they just left the basement filled with all kinds of fixtures (which we stole) and other exotic (not meaning “African Americans” Pat) leftovers which included boxes and boxes of standard florescents which it would have been unprofitable to pay us to check whether they still worked.
So instead we stood around on our smoking breaks and played Jedi light saber with them or pitched them into the Dumpster like spears.
Jun 13 2008
Pony Party…T.I.T.S.,A.S.S.
Jun 11 2008
The Morning News
The Morning News is an Open Thread
| From Yahoo News Top Stories |
1 Gates begins wartime transition to new leadership
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
35 minutes ago
| WASHINGTON – Anticipating the first wartime change of presidents in 40 years, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday he has begun laying the groundwork to enable his successor to manage the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – and other challenges – from his or her first day in office.
Gates said that over the past two decades it has become more difficult and time consuming to get key officials into Pentagon jobs early in a new administration. Doing it faster will be even more important this time, he said, in light of the complexities of the wars and difficult security issues elsewhere. “I’ve been through a lot of these (transitions) and I’ve seen them up close and I want to see if we can improve on the past,” he said. Gates’ national security career dates to the Nixon administration and includes the transition in January 1993 from President George H.W. Bush to President Clinton. |
Jun 09 2008
Pony Party, “breaking” :)
ha ha…
no, its not breaking news…it’s me. i’m taking a (at least) 3-week hiatus from the a.m. pony.
there’s no definitive yet as to what, if anything, will replace it. but please always remember that ‘Muse in the Morning” and “Docudharma Times” (or any alternate news thread) always function as open threads as well….
We dharminions dont appear to be morning people anyway…at least from my east coast perspective. 😉