Tag: Open Thread

Jun 01 2008

Weekend News Digest

Weekend News Digest is an Open Thread

From Yahoo News Top Stories

1 Iraq cites problems with US security pact

By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer

39 minutes ago

BAGHDAD – Iraq’s chief spokesman acknowledged differences with the United States over a proposed long-term security agreement and pledged on Sunday that the government will protect Iraqi sovereignty in ongoing talks with the Americans.

Australia became the latest member of the U.S.-led coalition to pull combat soldiers from Iraq, fulfilling an election promise that helped sweep Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to power in November.

Opposition has been growing in Iraq to the proposed security pact with the U.S., which will replace the current U.N. mandate and could provide for a long-term American military role in this country.

May 31 2008

Weekend News Digest

Weekend News Digest is an Open Thread!

Don’t let the 57 stories intimidate you.

From Yahoo News Top Stories

1 Al-Qaida’s stance on women sparks extremist debate

By LAUREN FRAYER, Associated Press Writer

1 hour, 31 minutes ago

CAIRO, Egypt – Muslim extremist women are challenging al-Qaida’s refusal to include – or at least acknowledge – women in its ranks, in an emotional debate that gives rare insight into the gender conflicts lurking beneath one of the strictest strains of Islam.

In response to a female questioner, al-Qaida No. 2 leader Ayman Al-Zawahri said in April that the terrorist group does not have women. A woman’s role, he said on the Internet audio recording, is limited to caring for the homes and children of al-Qaida fighters.

His remarks have since prompted an outcry from fundamentalist women, who are fighting or pleading for the right to be terrorists. The statements have also created some confusion, because in fact suicide bombings by women seem to be on the rise, at least within the Iraq branch of al-Qaida.

May 30 2008

Pony Party, Phone it in Friday

FRIDAY!!!!   Finally!!!!!!!!

corb lund….’truth comes out’…


May 30 2008

The Stars Hollow Gazette

You know, at one time I aspired to Journalism.  I think any politically active child of an age to have experienced Watergate did as soon as they gave up on being an Astronaut (which I did young because of my poor eyesight ó–ò).  Since l’affair Lewinski though I have become really radicalized about ‘The Press’ and now view 98% with a pure passionate contempt which while white hot is but a dwarf compared to the Rigelian levels they deserve.

The press is a gang of cruel faggots.  Journalism is not a profession or a trade.  It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits – a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.

(I)t (is) a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world full of misfits and drunkards and failures.  The business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.  There’s also a negative side.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.- Hunter Thompson

The transcript of last night’s Hardball is up and it does Gregory no more credit today than his video last night.

May 30 2008

Pony Party…packing

hey y’all!

i nearly forgot about the pony today 🙁

we’re busy sorting & packing too much stuff…. i wish the cleansweep people would show up at my door….i need help!!

i did find a bit of help for packing…

and a little for sorting….

i think if i had a group like this to help, i’d get finished in a timely manner….

any volunteers??

please don’t REC this pony…go visit the front page where all the worthy essays are. any of them is worth RECing, this isn’t

May 29 2008

Pony Party, home stretch

I only have a couple more hectic days here before thing2 has her 8th grade finale and says goodbye to middle school…and then thing1’s year is over, with a little break before summer school starts for her…

and i hope to be around more once things (and ‘the’ things) settle a little…

but for today, another cut-n-paste pony just to say good morning, and an open thread wherein we can prove once again that we’re NOT morning people 😉

May 29 2008

The Stars Hollow Gazette

Finally the Vilage media is being forced to confront some of their sell out stenographic sycophancy.  McClellan’s book, What Happened, is definitely making some of them very uncomfortable.  David Gregory had a melt down of umbrage on Hardball tonight which I hope to write more about tomorrow after the transcript is posted, but here’s a YouTube of it-

Bullshit.

May 28 2008

Pony Party, chillin’

May 28 2008

The Morning News

The Morning News is an Open Thread

From Yahoo News Top Stories

1 Children in Katrina trailers may face lifelong ailments

By JOHN MORENO GONZALES, Associated Press Writer

1 minute ago

BAY ST. LOUIS, MISS. – The anguish of Hurricane Katrina should have ended for Gina Bouffanie and her daughter when they left their FEMA trailer. But with each hospital visit and each labored breath her child takes, the young mother fears it has just begun.

“It’s just the sickness. I can’t get rid of it. It just keeps coming back,” said Bouffanie, 27, who was pregnant with her now 15-month-old daughter, Lexi, while living in the trailer. “I’m just like, `Oh God, I wish like this would stop.’ If I had known it would get her sick, I wouldn’t have stayed in the trailer for so long.”

The girl, diagnosed with severe asthma, must inhale medicine from a breathing device.

May 27 2008

Pony Party, wherein i confess my suckitude

ok, so i really, really meant to find an interesting item to discuss this morning, and post the most inviting pony evah!!!….even though the morning population doesnt necessarily notice or care what i actually put in  😉  (for which i thank you profousely)

May 26 2008

Pony Party, Memorial Day

i didnt make this video, and find it an imperfect tribute….but any memorial day tribute seems to ring false somehow…

May 25 2008

Weekend News Digest

Weekend News Digest is an Open Thread

From Yahoo News Top Stories

1 US probe to attempt perilous landing on Martian arctic

by Jean-Louis Santini, AFP

2 hours, 16 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US space scientists were to attempt Sunday to land a 420-million-dollar spacecraft near Mars’s frigid north pole, but were concerned that the odds for success were less than 50 percent.

If all goes well, Phoenix will become the first spacecraft to land on the Martian arctic surface, digging into the polar ice in a new three-month mission searching for signs of life.

Mission specialists “decided early Sunday not to use the last possible time for a trajectory correction maneuver, eight hours before landing,” NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, which controls the mission, said on its website.

The result of the landing is expected to be known at 4:53 pm Pacific time (2353 GMT), around 15 minutes after the probe makes contact with Mars’ surface, because radio signals take that much time to travel the 171 million miles (275 million kilometers) to Earth, NASA said.

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