-Jan 17,2008 My Opera

Weekend Blog Reviews
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/show.dml/1660577


BlueBloggin
History of US-backed dictators redux
Bush said what? US should have bombed Auschwitz ( and Gitmo ? )
Angry Musharraf warns US - he means it this time ( knows what happened to Saddam, a US tool )
If this was the Mafia ( If? )
Fred Thompson surges...backwards
Bush can't help himself
"His weapons are being used to kill our kids so he cannot be an honest mediator."
( Succinct : hopefully obvious )
Blackwater gases US troops
Palestinians: Bush won't pressure Israel ( Sure he will : not for peace,however )
Blue Girl Red State
Friday Catblogging
Consequences of the Surge in Iraq
Let's talk about port security
What do you have to do to get fired around here?
Calm the hell down,people ( Blackwater, gas, overreaction : when Pale says that - I listen )
LTC Jordan 'cleared'
The 'Bush' of the Democrats
A Ron Paul flare-up on RedState equals hilarity
And then there were three .. Bill Richardson drops out
Rather's suit goes forward--Will the truth come out?
Dad 2059's SF Blog
Hubble Update
The BiPartisan Manifesto
The Report from Iron Mountain
( Dad does politics differently : he's off and running with new 'finds': wargaming made operational. Oops : I said that for quite a while - just not on this level of complexity. )
The Branson Borealis - private space enterprises
'Second Life' to keep Mars crews company
Space Daily
Space War
An interview with a Livermore physicist
Daily Galaxy
There are not only more potentially habitable planets, but many more
Radiohead going green
John Stewart on New Hampshire primary
18 Billion Suns - Biggest Black Hole in the known universe discovered - and it's BIG
Ouch - Robots to feel pressure and pain
Do Androids dream of electric sheep?
The Milky Way's X-Factor : Rogue, planet devouring black holes
China 3.0
Could supernova explosions damage Earth ?
Economic Objectorvism
Going nuclear
How does one eliminate plastic shopping bags without inconveniencing customers?
Key economic developments and prospects in the Asia-Pacific region 2008
Violence and excess mortality in Iraq
Evaluating public expenditure: Measuring Outcomes
The French word for taxation
HowTo: The Quantity theory of Inflation. Or. China's idiosyncratic monetary policy at it again
Hypoxia (environmental) : oxygen depletion,a reduced concentraion of dissolved oxygen in a waterbody leading to stress and death in aquatic organisms
"personal protection and personal music for people on the go"
( This is a world-class find for most outrageous - and offensive - commercial offering )
Existentialist Cowboy
Invasion of the vote snatchers - live free: or Diebold
Bush promises to nuke Iran ( s/b another 'He Said WHAT'? )
Princeton University reveals how the GOP steals election
How the GOP benefitted and continues to benefit from Lincoln's assassination
The armies not there, te battles not fought
Bhutto knew too much about Bin Laden, 911,the CIA
George McGovern: George W. Bush is guilty of 'numerous impeachable offences' and Dick Cheney is a Chicken Hawk
An Administration of Lies, BS and Bunkum
The recession is close...and you cut taxes
Fundamental Freedom
Comic relief??
Benjamin R. Barber on PBS' Bill Moyers Journal
Army major blogged about his death
January 11, 2008 is the six-year anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at Guantanamo Bay
Israel to brief Bush on options for Iran strike during visit
Informed Comment
US video of Iran speedboats doctored
Irrepressible Info
Censorship News
Heathlander
Gravel on the presidential candidates
So much for the "Last Resort"
Israel rejected numerous opportunities to avoid confrontation with Hizbollah
"Hiding behind civilians" - a fabrication
Monte Asbury's Blog
France best, US worst in preventable deaths
How Big Business raids the Third World through the World Bank
McCain: "100 years in Iraq is fine with me"
Astrologers 1: Monotheisists 0
"Jesus challenges the nature of religion,which ever threatens to turn us into heartless rule-keepers"
( Monte even surprises me sometimes - though I should know better. It's just that I agree so heartily with him on this that it's hard to keep from cheering - and why should I ? Yaahoo ! )
Norwegianity
Only officer convicted of anything at Abu Ghraib has had his conviction thrown out
whistleblower gagged
Military rape
Politics 'n Poetry
Wall deflecting for Harper?
Isotope crisis has moved US to seek other sources
Linda Keen: What it means to Stand Up for Canada
Ten Percent
A town called Malice: Oh yeah, Jenna ain't racist
Friday Futureama: Bender's Big Score
Civilisation marches on
"Another person killed by police with tasers. And 81 people arrested as the supreme court ponders should the kidnapped and tortured inmates at Gitmo be allowed access to U.S. courts because that's like a really, really hard question - retarded tyranny or civilisation. Yeah, you big learned distinguished geniusesweigh that one up, it's a toughie!"
Operation Phoenix
Gulag Friday! Six years of Gitmo & Binyam Mohamed update
ACLU renews campaign to close down the gulag on rented Cuban land
"this 'security' excuse has become the cover-all brand over any and all government wrongdoing and in a democratic state it is simply not acceptable, it is a meaningless use of words to not actually give a reason while appearing to do so."
Homeland Security...of the vote?
"U.S. officials said they would unveil on Friday reasonable and inexpensive national requirements to implement an identification card program critics call a costly invasion of privacy."
" The Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesdat to uphold the nation's strictest requirement that voters show photo identification before casting a ballot."
Keystone Tonkin Mash-Up and other damn lies
"With winter deepening, Gazans will be forced to live without lights and electric heaters eight hours a day because Israel has cut supplies to the territorys' only electric plant in half"
"The Israeli army stepped up a broad offensive in the Gaza strip starting Thursday and killed at least 11 Palestinians in a 24-hour period after militants fired a rocket that struck deep into Israel."
" U.S. warplanes have dropped more than 18,000kg of bombs on more than 40 targets in the southern outskirts of the capital city, Baghdad."
The Tonkin Commemorative Geography Quiz
Bush: U.S. could 'easily' be in Iraq for 10 years
Blackwater used CS gas on civilians and U.S. troops
Denying the obvious: Th so-called Global Warming skeptics
Top Ten Shock Blogs
Special privileges for Bible classes Hat Tip Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
TomGram: If the GWOT were gone...
Welcome to Pottersville
Histrionic Chutzpah Theater Presents...
"Not your typical bank..." Citizens'... not so much
One way to beat rush-hour traffic OMFG time
San Diego voters confront Board of Supervisors
Clinton's Diebold Bump
Raw footage of Iranian speedboats harassing US warships
What we get if Hillary wins

Weekend Blogging Fix
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/13/weekend-blogging-fix

I just went for it. Links away !


Blogging for kindness
Iraq eases curb on Baath officials
Blue Girl Red State
Go Read This Now
Organ donor overhaul call
Warning on stealthy Windows virus
Al Jazeera
Guantanamo protests worldwide
What if everything you believe is wrong?
Non-attendees find faith outside church
Clipmarks - All Popular Now
FBI Agent : Lack of expertise stymies war on terror
blogTV
Bush tanked the U.S. economy
A second company promises 100mpg engine
Ad Water4Gas
AfroSpear
Super Delegates: The "Undemocratic" Democratic Party primaries
Who is Lovebabz and why should you care
Obamamania : a view from north of the 49th Parallel
Advice Goddess
Jan 10 When 'Science Journalism' is 'National Enquirer' journalism
Agitprop
More big shitpile - Countrywide
All Things Pakistan
Arts Pakistan - a place to visit
Roti in Pakistan
Terrorists hit Lahore with a suicide attack
The colourful Mil vs Dil relationship in Pakistani society
Coconut seller
Being a patient in a Pakistani hospital ( Echoes of Iraq )
Thatta Kedona - a self-help project
Reshma and son: The Voice of the Desert ( no longer available )
More crises in Pakistan - Electricity, flour, sugar, water, sui gas crises - what is the way out?
altmuslim
The arabization of Islam
American Leftist
Haditha: no murder charges
extreme manifestation of the violence and degradation that U.S. troops inflict upon Iraqis as a matter of course
Only 151,000 violent Iraqi deaths?
Death of Philip Agee
exposed the brutality of U.S. covert operations around the world in the 1970's and the men responsible for them
Amused Cynicism
Should Blair get half a million?
Making a profit from user-generated content
Huckabee is unfit to be president
Siemens, Nazi collaborators
Balneus
Rudd incites violence
Cycles and trains
Monkey maths
Should Reserve Bank count smiles?
Obsidian Wings
Obama Christ, Superstar ( forget the allusion for a moment: this is insightful )
AT&T's new love for Copyright
Gender and New Hampshire
( I'm not getting into a comments thread 396 entries long when I arrived. I'll just note DieBold seems the best explanation of how this result appeared. )
Attending the World
U.S. Elections: the AIPAC factor
Balloon Juice
The Macro Embassy as microcosm
Is the reconciliation starting?
Onion editor to move to MoveOn
The Goldberg Principle - you can prove any thesis true if you make up your own definitions of words
Another day in Paradise -- Iranian speedboat theater/scam
I can has unity pony?
( As in dog-and-pony show ? )
Call me Karl Rove
I got what America needs right here
( Not for sensitive ears - but what a righteous send-up ! )
Let their people come: Breaking the deadlock on global labor mobility
Blinded by our Spite (interesting--but quite possibly OTL because vote theft caused change)
Bastard Logic
Twisting the Knife - Women's Rights
Temp agency hell in Ontario
Ceaseless wonders - investigative journalism from an unexpected source
Tad Safran's American Beauty
There's a riot going on ( say what? )
Omar Khadr
Prosecuting a child soldier for war crimes : without due process
But why mustn't we tear down that dirty little house?
Statins for all diabetics urged
Iowa caucus results explained
Jon Swift
Google bombs Jon Swift
Out of Iraq Bloggers Caucus
The Face of War
And still the Baghdad embassy isn't complete
Obama: I was against the war before I became weaselly?
151,000 - The Forgotten Number
David Swanson: "To Nancy with all due respect" ( Catchy phrase, that )
Shell and Total preparing to Loot Iraqi oil field near Syria...what that garners for the rich, who are not like you & I
More on why Iraqi soldier killed two U.S. soldiers - defending woman?
Provocation in the Strait of Hormuz
" If Iranian warships ever made it as close to the American coastline as US warships now lie to Iranian shores, our military would in all likelihood attack them. Iran is not attacking our warships - parked on their doorstep."
The Moral Instinct
Worldwide Sawdust
WA state Senator introduces resolution to impeach Bush and Cheney
John Stewart on Chris Matthews : That guy's insane
Senator's inquiry into mega-church money hypocrisy sparks church-state showdown
A Surge of more lies
Cheney-Bush's billion dollar Baghdad firetrap
Crony capitalists: History's still hangin' around
Seven steps to a Homeland Security campus
Our shameful Guantanamo anniversary
Big Pharma front group launches anonymous blog to publish an 'enemies list'
Doubts grow over Iranian boat threats
No Immunity Deal ( CIA torture tapes destruction )
Levite begone: releasing the Samaritan within
"Contrast to Christ's message...our nation consists of grossly deformed social, political, economic and cultural systems that idoctrinate us into the quasi-religion of "it's all about me" while conditioning us to reflexively reject nearly all things related to the collective 'US' "
Princeton points out Diebold machines extreme vulnerability to fraud
Bagram detention center now twice the size of Guantanamo
Recession -- who cares?
Blackwater - Privatizing gas warfare?
Pentagon,Big Pharma: Drug troops to numb them to horrors of war
Argentine scientist designs low-cost configurable solar roof
FBI finds Blackwater trucks patched
Election can be stolen 'in under a minute' with Diebold machines
$900 gold - what's behind it?
Did mcCain benefit from Bhutto assassination?
Mountain Runner
Predicting counterinsurgency
What's in your reading pile?
First State, now the White House?
America's upper classes have gone AWOL
Galaxy hunting made easy - Quasars light the way
Is your heart racing for the wrong reason?
Culture influences brain function
Heads up, Chris Matthews! Here come the bloggers
I wonder why we have to keep bailing out banks?
Build your own high-res wallpaper with PaperMaker
WallPaperMaker
Starfish for Windows
Humans blamed in coral reef disappearance
BlueBloggin
FBI phone lines cut, critical surveillance missed
No doubt about it
High risk loans - an investigation into the mortgage crisis
Lake Erie UFOs are stars on YouTube
the Real UFO Project

Two more 

Hospital deep cleaning under fire
The ubiquitous unidentifiable 'spokesperson' for the Department of Health has an interesting way of rephrasing the following : There is no excuse for improper sanitation procedures and we don't have one.
Childhood obesity : a lifetime of danger

16 January - Morning Picks
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/16/16-january-morning-picks

 

A few - mostly news - current items

Kongregate : Games
Lengthy volunteer stints burn out military wives
Latest trick from the RIAA: Pissing off reviewers with annoying voice-over anti-piracy messages
Unlawfully wedded wife
Predatory starfish threatens Indonesian waters
Low testosterone, more mens' fractures
Help for intimate pain womens' health
Study shows strides in diabetes care
What the world's healthiest guys know
Is kosher food safer ?
Britain's police balk at plug-in to FBI database
( What odds that position will be overridden within a month ? )
Head of Canadian nuclear regulator fired
( Blame the boss : not the impossible position he was put in. Read "Politics 'n Poetry.WordPress )
Probiotics affect metabolism
BlueBloggin
Pentagon and CIA : authorized for secret ops in Pakistan
John Edwards: America Rising, coast to coast
NBC out of control with Kucinich appeal
Michigan's uncommitted/ Kucinich could help Obama and Edwards
Musharraf speaks to the Democratic Candidates
John Edwards neck and neck in Nevada
What a follow up line from Musharraf
PNG nickel mine under fire
Experts' fear of further flooding U.K.
Existentialist Cowboy
How the CIA created a corporate, ruling overclass in America
The CIA created Al Qaeda and there is 'Probable Cause' to charge George W. Bush with High Treason!
Exit polls: Obama won New Hampshire

Evening News
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/17/evening-news


British Council caught in real life 'absurd episode'
Now we really have a crisis
Russia's man in London leaving the foreign office yesterday
St. Peterburg Times
Russia to assess U.S. democracy
Moscow angered by British council defiance
Thousands protest in Tbilisi claiming election rigging
High global oil prices boost Russia's trade surplus
Italian businesses resist Mafia with Internet site
Jerusalem indicates use of force against nuclear Iran
Say 'No' to tightening control over civil society
Caucasian Knot
No electricity and heat at hospitals and kindergartens of the capital of Dagestan
Red Cross calls for answers to disappearances
Russian railway wins tender in Armenia
Belarus considers buying advanced Russian air defense system
Iranian navy receives stealth-capable submarine
Can Blackwater be prosecuted?
Suzie-Q
Pakistan People's Party wants UN investigation on Bhutto murder
Wexler : Cheney Impeachment stronger than Watergate
U.S. Supreme Court also in complicity of Constitutional Treason
How the Pentagon planted a false story (Hormuz)
Kucinich's "Space Preservation Act" ignored by BushCo
European Press: It wasn't a miracle - Hillary won via a rigged vote

Jan 4 -7,2008 My Opera

4 January - Blogroaming
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/05/4-january-blogroaming

Friday Night in the Blogs

TomGram: How Bush took us to the Dark Side
In-Sourcing the Tools of National Power for Success and Security
Why Musharraf lies about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Welcome to Pottersville
Friday Night Music Video Blogging
Give us ignorance or give us death Iowa
Some thumbtack impressions of the Iowa caucuses
"He will bring them death..." Cult of personality
And now, from the outrageous irony archives...
McClatchy: Bhutto distrusted Bush
What is a fucking caucus?
The unsilent minorities
BlueBloggin
Wall Street's not happy with Iowa winners
Amazing Iowa caucus
Iowa GOP screws up caucus
Some election thoughts from a new voice
Oil hits $100/bbl
Scotland Yard heading to Pakistan
Kenya's humanitarian crisis grows
Food as medicine 1/2
2/2

5 January - Afternoon BlogRoaming
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/05/5-january-afternoon-blogroaming

One thing I have been doing today was grabbing some links from A View from the Bridge at Clapsotronics blogroll. Now if Jerry could get back to blogging, so much the better.

Force Quit
From LOL cat Bible Translation Project
Managing your shared items Attack of the 20%'ers
Huckabee exposed as New World Order puppet
Seeds of Destruction: the hidden agenda of genetic manipulation "Rats fed GMO potatoes had smaller livers, hearts, testicles and brains,damaged immune systems, and showed structural changes in their white blood cells making them more vulnerable to infection and disease...thymus and spleen damage...enlarged tissues including pancreas and intestines, liver atrophy..."
"GM foods today saturate our diet. Over 80% of all supermarket processed foods contain them."
For freedom of expression
The Kings of England
Monbiot Hat Tip Earthpal, who has a post on a blogger protest Jan 6
I've been kicked off Facebook Robert Scoble ( He doesn't seem too worried )
Hat Tip Dave Lucas
Tesla was a bad dude Dec 18 ( I've posted this before : but as to if it's still up... )
Unknown writer
The credit ratings racket
I know what I saw
journey of the minds eye
Dandelion Salad
A drunken night in Baghdad, a soldier is left behind
There will be blood...but no justice for Iraq atrocity
Ron Paul TV ad: immigration
Ron Paul vs. John Edwards - the failures of sectarianism
Iowa Caucus Precinct 21
MIR: Assassination,politics as usual + Who stood to gain from Bhutto's death?
Lying about Mike Gravel
Tortured logic
Olbermann
It's the government's job to shake you down
The Shock Doctrine in action in New Orleans
365 Gay
Syphlis on rise in Europe
Obama accused of using preacher endorsements that were not made
Researchers: Gay men behave like women
Canadian program to ship AIDS drugs criticized
Growing number of Israeli cities recognize gay couples





6 January - PoliSci
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/06/6-january-polisci

I'm finally getting around to reconstituting a survey of political blogs that I've covered in the past. Consider this a samper, as it's far from complete. Tomorrow I'm on the road all day : so I don't expect to be online much - if at all.
I've plugged more entries into Google Reader. See if you can access my page through the feed. I'm already co-listing Len Hart's picks ( The Existentialist Cowboy ).

Twilight of the Psychopaths
If I posted this before on 'Interrupted' - apologies - don't miss this article
The British Library
UK living standards outstrip U.S.
China's farms struggle to meet growing demand ( First 'bon mot' of the day )
Heathlander
Onwards and onwards
B'teslem: annual Israeli report on human rights in the occupied territories
Policy to starve the inhabitants of Gaza en masse
Qassam missiles killed 2 Israelis in 2007
June-Oct Palestinians fired 400 Qassams and 510 mortars towards Israel,injuring 75, killing none
Israeli forces killed 142 Palestinians and injured 293 in the same period
30 December "Death zones" in Gaza
Brig.Gen. (res) Zvika Fogel
"No doubt about it,that nut's a genius"
How to become popular on YouTube without any talent ( No public service announcement )
Drug industry spends nearly twice as much on marketing than on research and development
( What until someone collates the trash they do work on. Government funds useful work. )
IOWA
CIA obstructs 9/11 investigators
Ron Paul not allowed
Doctors say placebo use common
Very telling ( the geek does an interesting backstory here )
Politics 'n Poetry
Chalk River - a disaster waiting to happen
My Obama bubble burst
This was the moment
Nuke news - operation resume at Rabbit Lake
Rolfe Schmidt
Did you really get a raise?
My Supernatural World
Gotta love the campaign calls
Video: Alex Jones' Endgame : Blueprint for Global Enslavement "...plan to eliminate 80% of the world's population"
Reporter Benjamin Fulford interviews David Rockefeller about Illuminati and Asian opposition
Great example why you simply can't believe cellphones and WiFi devices are safe
U.S. dollars no longer accepted at Indian tourist sites
Remedies for Harmful Effects of Chemtrails
Pets abandoned as foreclosures rise
Scholars & Rogues
Star medical examiner's compassion a lesson to splatter film fans
Saturday Video Roundup
School, mall and workplace shootings, why so many? No. Why so few?
Louisiana's wetlands are being lost at the rate of a football field every 38 minutes
Peugeot plans car plant in Russia
Suzie-Q
Bill Moyers: on the Iowa caucus
Bush may claim privilege in CIA case
Lobbying to be partners in crime....errr...leadership
Dumb and dumber playing with national security?
The Spi,I'm in! No fighting; tribute!
Welcome Vet Voice!
It's the war! says Iowa to Hillary - and a Happy Blue Year to all!
McCain flip-flops again! Wants to stay in Iraq for 1,000 years...
Two body blows to the political establishment
Ten Percent
I'm guessing Mrs. Musharraf 'runs' into a lot of 'cupboard doors' ( give it a moment )
Projection Bush to try to keep 'aggressive ambitions' in check ( no, not his )
Lockdown, Class War flavour: Bahrain
The Border and Immigration Agency is not fit for the purpose ( DHS syndrome )
Racists, idiots, authoritarians
Brown rejects No 10 Website Petititon for enquiry into 7/7 bombings ( Not that much anti-Tony )
Immigration Service vs. Adedoyin Fedairo...a 3 year old girl
Corporate Noozzzzzz ( News insider's comments on lack of journalistic integrity )
Droning on : Targets of opportunity
Texas Liberal
Texas Liberal prediction - it's over and Obama will win it all
Organic farming in Vermont
Blogging in Nepal
Overview of Nepal from the BBC
White Coat RantsThey're Heeere ( flu )
Tough Lesson
How long? before schlepping to ED ?
White Noise Insanity
Bill O'Reilly and Obama's Secret Service protection got in a tango tonight in New Hampshire
Maine snowfall ( pictures . I wish I some of our old eye-poppers were around. )
Hillary Clinton gets booed twice in New Hampshire at the same dinner
Glenn Beck bitches about America's healthcare system ! ( Did we just have a blue moon ? )
Will gas reach $4/gal this winter ? (It's close to that here now : and this is where oil comes from. And I was using a 3.74 liter gallon, not a 4.55 liter Imperial )
Why Organic
The reason Huck won
The main reason McCain can't win the general election
You're in your world now

6 January - BlogRoaming
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/06/6-january-blogroaming

250,000 Kenyans driven out of homes
Vomiting bug to get worse
Econ bloggers survey results
Best economics prank evar
Political Compass
Hat Tip Religicritics
Check the PDF link there - The Miracles of Jesus - are they for real? and the post UnChristian
Terrorism
( Looking at the slogan - these are 'eating' acorns )
Tree houses ( Article one today. Enjoy the yuk. Not an unconscious soul though,I guess - see 'Nother meme". )
Military experience for Presidential Candidates no longer an issue?
( Look at how it 'helped' John Kerry )
Trying not to lose my religion
The levees are failing, the levees are failing
Hard rain gonna fall
Michael Greenwell
Left for dead by New Labour, liberal Britain must urgently fight back
2008 : The Year of Garbage
Building interactive economic models in Excel
Zero Carbon Britain 

 

7 January - A few mixed links
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/08/7-january-a-few-mixed-links

 

Citizen J has some nice links
Electronic Iraq
Corp Watch
Center for Media and Democracy
Hey. There are more.
BigSight aims to become White Pages of web, pulls data from Facebook
Keeping an eye on Gradma over the Internet
( Sounds like a redo of "The Prisoner" )
NSW natural disaster zone widened ( as in Oz )
Fun and Games
Cool Avatars
Intute: Social Sciences
Federal report calls for carbon tax, trading in Canada
Sexually active gay men no longer allowed to donate organs
( The incursion of nutzoid Nazi proclamations blossoms in Canada )
Tiny nerves rewire themselves in mice
Neanderthals stitched too little, too late
Smiling you can hear it in the voice
( A basic of voice coaching )
Cocaine vaccine in the works
Lose the blocked Windows Startup dialog
YouTorrent, your new favorite BitTorrent site
Naps may help memory
( DeFragment ? )
WWF Latest NewsSumatra
American Leftist
Obama's success divisive
Book Review: The Whisperers: Private Life in the Time of Stalin
Benedict: Abortion,Birth Control and Same-Sex Marriage a threat to world peace
( Not to mention religious syncophants aligning with tyranny )
AfroSpear
200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the U.S.
Obama win doesn't mean racism lost
January Carnival: The true state of human kind
Blue Girl Red State
A pitiful sight to behold - Clinton campaign coming undone
Red State woes
Michael Scherer does his part to 'dumb down' the national dialog
And so it begins
If this is true, it is earth-shattering ( Hard on self-imposed blinders, too )
Members of the Bar call for investigations into Bush-Cheney
Get that man an ITMFA bumper sticker!
Iraqi soldier turns his weapon on American soldiers, killing two and wounding three 

Jan 1 & 2, 2008 at My Opera

1 January - 2008 Out with the Old

Tuesday, 1. January 2008, 07:16:30

Happy New Year!

It's funny. I had been impressed by an article on "Moving the Overton Window" on how 'framing discussions' works that appeared on

Last Left Turn Before Hooterville, click the picture for blowup, and found she had been writing on that. I had lost track because her blogging had been sporadic for months.Green acres we are there and her book ( in editing ) were about that. I actually had been sparked by an article by Needlenose, and Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, one of which was a Daily Kos reprint. So I had listed the Wikipedia entry and the others in the old blogroll.
However, Alicia is back at blogging and has Capitol Punishment cartoons up.

Another loss is BlueBloggin's post - except I had to send people to the cloud tags - and Berry Street Beacon - where I had posted links to articles on drinking water at hazard. That was first interesting because of a Common Dreams piece in storage : How Iraq's water supply was destroyed. Grist had a post similar to BlueBloggin's.

Berry Street Beacon has a post on James Madison and open Government up right now. On Dec 27 "Arms Suppliers: the real 'weapons' of mass destruction".

Mail is coming from people head-scratching over the Wordpress blog.

Semidi was reading the blog on Google Reader. I need feedback on whether the RSS links on my shared page ( Links List in the sidebar ) are accessible. There's more on Pageflakes and even a few on Netvibes that likely need to be collaborated on to get a group feed going that several of us can use.

While on sharing, play with del.icio.us too. I deliberately left public access open on almost all of it so that we would be good if we played nice. Definitely many will be p.o.'d if we lose that to idiots, so I suggest you do what I did : backup elsewhere. I used Yahoo Bookmarks but that's hardly the only option. I just found it convenient to double-list in both locations in one operation.
Hah. I was able to merge Semidi's del.icio.us links into my network.

If for some reason you want an IE based browser, Avant has played nice for quite a while : and has an online storage/bookmarking service available free.

 

Interrupted
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3arabwy
Police break photographer's arm
Solidarity needed with socialist trade unionist
Solidarity with the Suez strikers + Update
altmuslim
We have to honor the wishes of the Pakistani people
Deception: Pakistan,and the secret trade in nuclear weapons
AfroSpear
What Eddie griffin is grateful for
Agitprop
New Year's Unobtainable French car blogging
Yes,I'm an Alfisti
Science Debate 2008
HT Advice Goddess
American Leftist
Your Revolution Hip-Hop YouTube
The Two Hegenomies
Interview of Tariq Ali



2 January BlogRoaming
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/02/2-january-blogroaming

've been getting messages through StumbleUpon. That's a bit ironic. I had a period when I put it 'asleep' for awhile because I thought it interfering with one of the previous 'del.icio.us' add-ons in Firefox : but it is a growing source of info. Since 'Citizen J' is going to flog my contribution, I'm going to highlight another contributor's picks : just cuz.
Techiechild's website reviews and blog
Unusual hotels of the world : property listing
Eight Irresistable Principles of Fun
Requires Flashplayer enabled ( I didn't peek ) English/French/Spanish
Musicovery Web Radio
Another Flash Enabled - that I didn't
NoScript has been helping lock out Javascript for months. You whitelist sites : by individual services on them !
BBC : Surveys and Psychology Tests
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StopGunDeaths.Org
( Actually, I'm not too excited about guns in the country at all. I haven't ever really made much noise about them : but they seem something that should be kept under lock away from the kids at the very least. That said, I probably have more concern about drunk hunters than criminals: not that the 'help yourself' gang is absent. )
Greenspan book: "GOP swapped principles for power"
Bannaga
Solar carport
Create your own electronics device using 'the bug'
Bastard Logic
The Handmaid's Tale Revisited : Giving birth becomes the latest job outsourced to India
Blue Girl Red State
What do you give the federal agency that already has everything, including your Fourth Amendment Rights? A billion dollar biometric data base
The Countdown Begins
BlueBloggin
Nader rails against Clinton and supports Edwards
Texas Progressive Alliance Best of 2007
( Extensive rundown on what the blogging groups thought the best articles )
Growing concern in India about Pakistan power shifts
Campaign for America's Future
Gauging the fear inside the palace walls
Edwards taking the lead in positions appealing to the general electorate of both parties
Economic Objectorvism
GM, unplanned investment, and what about the environment?
Oil alliances: Gazprom(Russia) offers to take over Serbia'sstate-owned petroleum monopoly
How Britain became party to a crime that may have killed a million people
( One and a quarter million sound perfectly plausible to me )
Can the antiwar movement take advantage of Bush's 'spectacular' failure?
( The biggest 'failure' is for him to say what's really happening - ever. )
Molly's Blog
Total lunar eclipse February 20th
Homeland Security for Sale.Org
U.S. casualties in Afghanistan hit record high
The Daily Galaxy
Most Popular of 2007 ( Wild list )
NASA Mars images reveal a 'doorway' structure ( A-O.K. for the next sci-fi movie ?)
Are there really 'continents' of floating garbage? ( Good report )
Asteroid on target for Mars : Impact may solve mysteries


2 January - Early BlogRoaming
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/show.dml/1636603

Welcome to the Revolution has an interesting-looking YouTube clip on Bolivia's salty desert
Corner of the Sky had posted comments at Blue Girl Red State ( The Lawless Insanity of Mike Huckabee is up there now ) : and has good posts and commenters of her own : including some familiar bloggers.
pole hill sanitarium is not a daily blogger : but several people take an interest in his collection of opinions on music, politics, and personal anecdotes.
An Atheist and a Christian Love Story
( Does this ever clarify what should be obvious to followers of Jesus or Buddha : personal philosophy and conviction that our presence in this world is not the result of chaos is being perverted by "cults" brainwashing people into rigid obedience by doctrines of fear. This purporting to be teachings of leaders who advocated questioning the rigidites of society and using the path of Goodwill to all men. Prayer and Faith means Hope and Strength resisting the depressing conflicts faced in life : not slavery; mental or physical! Don't be hog-tied by small minds: or fear-mongers questioning the social order of Samaritans - wherever they may be.
So. Am I radical and communist? Yeshua was - I'm chicken ; but I don't own allegiance to Pharisees of any stripe.)
With that out of the way, it's time for a look atMonte Asbury's Blog
Newsweek : Bottom line in Candidates ( using Clipmarks )
Can you guess where these photos were taken ?
Why people don't have health insurance (about 47 million in US last time I checked the stats )
The Christmas Story in dark tones
Satire: Top 10 reasons to oppose universal healthcare
People's Geography - Reclaiming Space
(Be sure to check Page 2 for a great links list)
On this day in Peace History: the Greenham Common Women and other inspiring people power episodes
Christmas Week Picking on an Occupied Christmas
More Israelis declare the zionist project dead...as Palestinians continue to suffer
Al Jazeera's Wall of Shame series: West Bank
IPS - Israel-Palestine
IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding

2 January Articles and News
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/03/2-january-articles

 

No time for blogging. The following will be it until tomorrow evening.
Do check the Existentialist Cowboy. Len Hart is playing "Scoop McBlogger".
Another Inconvenient Truth: Bin Laden is dead.
Texas - The Gulag Wasteland Bush left behind.

I don't have time to precis. Don't miss them.

PR WATCH
Classroom propaganda of yesteryear
P.U.-Litzer Prizes
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
WAR STORIES
The Rhetoric Beat
Not worth mentioning?
U.S.A. Today: Pushing John Edwards out of the race?
Huckabee plays religion card, hides hand
ALTER NET
Presidential hopefuls need a reality check on Iraq
Obama, cozy with lobbyists, risks much with Edwards attack
Journalist tells Congress about suicide epidemic among vets
YAHOO!
Ten Saudis return home from Guantanamo
Sanctions hurt Iranians' Dubai business
New York Times
Surge in offroading stirs dust and debate in West
Infection hits a California prison hard
Losing an edge, Japanese envy India's schools
Web playgrounds of the very young
Guardian Unlimited
Russia will supply anti-aircraft missiles to Iran
Solar energy 'revolution' brings green power closer
Patients need inside NHS knowledge
This is the most important election of our lifetime
CBC
Energy efficient bulbs may trigger migraines
Edmonton group blogs its way into Guiness

 

To Dec 31, 2007 Opera

28 December - Topical Comments

Saturday, 29. December 2007, 03:34:38

news views blog

I'm continuing a trend here of commenting in blogs I visit so that people who have shown a past interest in my news picks and shared resources have a chance to keep the ball rolling. Writers don't mind people picking up on important but underreported stories at all.

Blue Girl Red State
Found in comments
Iraq slashes food rations, putting lives at risk
Newshoggers has been recommended by Matt at Bastard Logic for the backstory on the Bhutto killing and situation in Pakistan.
Plus, there are some Pakistan blogs on the Google Reader list, though it is a long way from the programming I have planned.
Matt has some good insight and links going as well.
BlueBloggin has come through with another good article/analysis on power politics as played in the U.S. and affecting the world : Pakistan in this case.
Economic Objectorvism has been busy.
Africa aid wiped out by the rising cost of oil.
Gender quotas in Norway quite the success. Companies required to have women on their boards.
Move Beijing to...somewhere else. Urban planning commentary on a Chinese idea.
New York City. Curb your damn UPS trucks. ( He's obviously never worked deliveries. Generally, facilities for truckers to do their jobs suck unbelievably. )
HIV testing, public health, opting out and civil liberties.
The 'healthy retiree" bias just became stronger.
I'm going to quit here. I just wanted you to know here is a blog where the author generates his own content and thinks things through. Plus he has a tendency to concentrate on doable domestic policies. Listed in Google Reader.

28 December - Late Links

Saturday, 29. December 2007, 06:17:31

news views blog

I'm getting there. Continuing to add to Google Reader.

Did Alan Greenspan illegally manipulate Presidential elections ?

A war crime within a war crime within a war crime
HT The Theroxylander in Flame

Photog describes how he took pictures of Bhutto
HT MTA News
The Video Explosion
Middle East censors seek to limit web access
Boston Public Library seeks to put historical documents online
Clipmarks ClipCast playable on iGoogle or Netvibes demo

Balloon Juice
Derb vs. the World sputtering from sloppy thinkers
Privatize the Profits, Socialize the Costs Healthcare

All Things Pakistan
Heer-Ranjha : The story of the Punjab's first feminist
Benazir Bhutto assassinated
Pakistan after Benazir: Choosing our Future
Benazir Bhutto's Assassination: An International Outpouring of Shock

Agitprop
The Iraqi Navy

altmuslim
Top Ten Good News Stories of 2007
A Pakistani Requiem for A Daughter of Destiny

American Leftist
A Bhutto article which talks no nonsense

Britblog Roundup HT Amused Cynicism

Bannaga
Who killed Benazir Bhutto ? The Main Suspects
Slideshow: Benazir Bhutto: A Timeline

BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com Bush once again refuses to let crisis interrupt vacation
( Can you think of a stronger indicator that he feels 'above the fray' ? )

Campaign for America's Future
Cagey Conservatives by Digby (Hullaballoo)
Denying voting 'privileges' by hook or by crook
Conservatism>High Energy Costs>Foreclosures>Starving Citizens by Bill Scher
Who Killed the FDA? by Rick Perlstein
Conservatives on Infrastructure Maintenance by Rick Perlstein

Is the nighttime the wrong time to be searching houses?
IRS Refunds for over 3 million delayed
Dollar falls for 6th day during turmoil in Pakistan
Bush's torture policy is a cancer
In the holiday news...Did Bush watch the torture tapes?
Surveillance and torture: Bush is making up the rules
Pakistan is 'central front' - not Iraq
( They're playing Dominoes )
Newsweek's prescient Pakistan cover


CIA Torture and other War Crimes

I had a visitor from the locals already. Don't curious people find the best stories ?
Falling Asleep in Church

29 December - First Look at the Web

Saturday, 29. December 2007, 18:11:12

Featuring (mainly) bloggers' articles.

Pilgrims stranded on Red Sea
Hamas is the Palestinian democratically elected government ; and the Resistance, claimed responsible for rocket attacks.
A Little Piece of Google History : Backrub
Amused Cynicism
Music DRM is dead : Movie DRM will die
Balloon Juice
Running for President a Lot Like Hunting Turkeys ( Huckabee Roast
You have to remember Juan is a traditional conservative. He is quite scathing. In Canada, a chap called Day thought he looked quite dashing in a wetsuit. That image likely helped insure 'Day is Done'. )
Barack's New Iowa Ad
Blue Girl Red State
Maybe I should run for President ? ( You'd have to change parties : else you'd just scare them half to death. The GOP use that as their stock-in-trade )
BlueBloggin
Vermont Town Flexes Its American Muscles: Activists look for the Arrest of Bush, Cheney
"Some true Americans are throwing the blanket of deceit on the floor and responding to the truth in front of them. As Texans , we shout "Remember the Alamo". As Americans we should shout, "Remember Battlebro."
Good link information posted as to the nature of the conspiracy overthrowing American government.
Consequences : Foreign Policy or Foreign Fantasy ( Bhutto debacle )
Economic Objectorvism
Inflation in Iraq
Existentialist Cowboy
Benazir Bhutto: US Policy Causes World Terrorism
"...when the United States aligns itself with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation"
"citizens of other nations resent U.S. support of dictators who oppress them."
"War is a racket fought by the masses for privileged elites..."
Frankenstein the U.S. created
Dyncorp
"Now---let's put to rest the idiotic "cover story" that Bhutto's "main death" was a bump on the head. BS!!! It was a mob style hit job and there is unambiguous video of at least two hit men." 

Netscape - End of an Era

Saturday, 29. December 2007, 20:25:16

media buzz

Mozilla is where my online experience started. I used their package browser/mail client for months before switching to Firefox/Thunderbird. Netscape was 'heavy' even compared with Mozilla Suite - then Seamonkey. You could say I've made a habit of not using Internet Explorer and playing with others. Which reminds me. After having a ton of fun with Flock the other day I check security to find more cookies than Panda Security was happy with, at all. They are gonzo.
And I've still got this utility from Brother's MFC-420CN on which I haven't found help for yet. Anyone know how to uninstall drivers in XP?



'A View of the Media from the Sidelines' is the theme for this post. Maybe it even qualifies as an Op-Ed.

R.I.P. Netscape
That's the Browser. The Site has been having identity crisis, having emulated Digg, not happy with that has gone to something similar to what it was before, similar to MSN but somehow not attracting much attention : not that I've checked.
Meanwhile,the spin-off Propellerhas a section devoted to Breaking News which is a bit of a hoot. The last entry was dated a week ago : though a quick rundown of content looked respectable enough.
That rather affirms today's headline from Dandelion Salad "Corporate Media Actually Reports Some News! " - which, sadly, isn't even a stretch.
MSN actually does a fine job of telling the truth and almost making it sound like a lie today.
Bhutto aides accuse government of cover-up
I still find it perfectly credible to believe CIA 'black ops' and some ambitious soul in the Pakistani army did the deed without 'proper authorization' : though if you ask was there deliberate negligence on the part of Musharraf I'll treat it as asking to attest to the obvious : not that I have sources which I haven't shared. Put it this way : if you were in Musharraf's shoes, would you be stupid enough to get in the way?
Meanwhile, you'll notice I use Google and Yahoo News regularly. Actually, I don't use Huffington Post and Daily Kos that much not because I don't think them fine sources : I just don't see much point in running down the same path as everyone else : New York Times excepted ( except for Subscription Articles ). LA Times took up part of the slack while they were being coy.

29 December - Let there be music

Saturday, 29. December 2007, 21:22:44

I'm taking off for a while and will be back late this evening.

Download Uproar: Music Industry goes after personal use
I think I'm typical. I'm not ready to risk rootkits and malware so some corporation can secure their relatively minisule profit - compared to my investment in tools and software. Mostly, I don't play music on my computer ; not that I don't have it. But their greed is a malware hazard to my systems. Piss off! I don't even use RealPlayer. You know the fractured quip : " I don't want some, I've had any."

30 December - First Webroaming Report

Sunday, 30. December 2007, 21:27:11

I figured there was no way I was going to remember my list without doing some revisisting of old haunts. One of my frustrations has been lost contacts online : which is why I have built cross-indexes to posts in varied locations. Good thing ! Why ?
Well, I had heard complaints and worries before about blogs 'disappearing'. Scholars and Rogues moved off the WordPress main site on that account. Dissident didn't and is nowhere to be seen.But I thought things needed reorganizing too. I'm not going to be able to keep this up on a regular basis I should expect : but I do want an index where people can start working through the cascade of information online intil they can find (hopefully) links that work for them.
But that's going to take some adventuring I don't recommend on office machines. Google Reader is what I'm working on - besides this - right now. A shared page of my obscure picks for content.
And while I'm feeling a tad parannoyed I figure going to a European host can't hurt.

Right-Wing Cartoons

Johann Hardi
How safe are Pakistan's nuclear weapons ?

Swan's Politics
Ken's Guide to the Bible ( This guy knows what a proper 'critic' is )

Nothing Ever Changes

Letters to Europe
Iran - not Iraq. Really good comments thread - again. Global Citizen is BlueGirlRedState ( Blogs ).
Another TPM thread : The facts are that obvious

Notes on a disregarded leader
( Heh. Castro and Trudeau - if you get that far - were history professors. This fellow was too dangerous to be allowed to continue. Good government might become habit-forming. Who took him out ? A movie star. Guess Arnie won't be doing a recap. )
Edwards pledges not to hire lobbyists HT In The News
Amygdala 6th Anniversary !
Torture,police brutality addressed in landmark legal case
Agent Orange : A Personal Requiem
Six water brands found unsafe in Egypt
Pakistani plot with an American twist: Three dictators, three lost political generations
Militants, PPP punch holes in Pak government's story of Bhutto's death
A Fine ImbalanceGuest Workers in Iraq ( Kurdistan Like Baghdad ) "She's Gone" is hardly sentimental. Worth a look.
All Things Pakistan
Bilawal Zardari becomes new PPP Chairman and Benazir Bhutto's successor
( Reads just like court intrigue. There has to be a betting pool up on how long the pup will last. )
altmuslim
My first glimpse of this said "puff piece." Maybe so: it still reminded me of some home truths.
Attending the World
Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs : From Peace to War
Balloon Jiuce
Fuck Up, Move Up Bill Kristol
Clinton and the Haters
The Cookie Crumbles Sullivan : The Republican Coalition
Obama : I'll be too out of touch
( Played as potential ad weakness, this is the sort of seeming vulnerability that can differentiate Obama and make him a target of people's projected wants. Rather than a downside, it may be his greatest strength : the JFK image, if you will. It certainly resonates with the boost from Oprah. opit )
Weekend stem cell thread
( BGRS might understand this one best ; or Dad 2059. Ender's Game - Oson Scott Card - is perhaps his most famous work : though the subsequent story as told by the character Bean might be as good [ Ender's Shadow ?]. Regardless - it makes the point. For guys like me - we are living in sci-fi actualized. )
Bastard Logic
PPP opts for "Dynasty-Based Succession"
( 3 pieces here. Matt covers Pakistan )
Beggars Can Be Choosers
2007 Music Roundup
Blue Girl Red State
Fox News excludes Ron Paul from Final Debate ( Kucinich had a similar problem )
What the Hell am I Going to do with my Sunday without the New York Times?
( Discovering Kristol has triggered another redhead outrage attack. LA Times ? )
Rudy! Campaign Official proposes a "Final Solution" for Muslims
BlueBloggin
John Edwards pulls ahead in Iowa
US plays Turkey against Kurds - Explain That
Campaign for America's Future
When the Old Tricks Stop Working - David Sirota GOP outed as working for Big Money in NYT
Kristol Clear ( bit of a zinger at the tail of this )
Existentialist Cowboy
BBC censored Benazir Bhutto's reports that Bin Laden had been murdered
Daily Galaxy
Justice at Sea: Can Dolphins and Whales Sue?
The 'Myth' of Fossil Fuels - The Hot Deep Biosphere
"78 Billion" : A Hubble view of the most profound images ever filmed
Mars Ancient Oceans may aid understanding of Earth's Evolution
Earth's Weather: The Clue to Identifying Habitable Planets
Earth's Movement Triggered Human Evolution
The Cosmos in a Test Tube
Oldest Human Powered means of Transport : Bone Skates
Nobel Prize Winner Creates New 'Microscope' that can take 4-D 'movies' of molecules

31 December - Graffiti

Monday, 31. December 2007, 08:20:04

news

Blogging weird hours after connection problems. This is a more whimsical catch than usual.

Australia joins China in censoring the internet
Vestigal Religious Bigotry
New York Times Magazine
Sockso
Slate: Play Free or Die
Lifehacker: Top 10 Google Products you forgot all about
Twenty top 10's of 2007
BugMeNot
Improbable Research
Anthroblogs
Towards a Rosetta Stone for Microbes Secret Language
Human Genetic Variation: Science Breakthrough of the Year
Scientist find new explanation for superconductivity's 'glue'
Can You Recognize a Terrorist?
The Web Users' Campaign
Chemicals blamed in South african fish kill
Law enforcement cracks down on illegal logging as timber value rises
Electoral abuse - more provisional rejected
Don't watch this film
Cancer referral 'confusing' GPs
France to halt links with Syria

31 December - Potpourri

Monday, 31. December 2007, 19:16:25

This post indicates some serious ambivalence of worldview. What shouldn't be radical science-technology; and conservatives who are painted as "Liberal" ; plus some honest reactionaries who know their historical roots.

Sandia applying thermochemical hydrogen technology to recycling CO2 to liquid fuels
Got to be Green
Water created from thin air
Futuristic Eco-Island City Design
Maglev's Wind Turbine is real
Self-illuminating paint to glow for 12 years
Portable hand crank to clean clothes Neat !
Green Institute Publications
Hip-Hop and the Corporate Function of Colonization
Ballot Access Penalties create chilling effect
The New York Times hires Lord Haw-Haw
The Defects of Top-Down Social Organizations
AS' "Moore" Award
GOP finishes year of obstructionism with veto of military spending bill
Technology Review Update - Do You Know Where You're Going To?
Scroll down to the "Coolest T-Shirt" Contest
Ron Paul in 2008? Just say No to Dr. No
Empire and Revolution : "...powerful forces must be at work if thousands of Mexicans are forced to sneak into the United States and live a dog's live just to eat."
"The Padded Bed" : The Epileptic in Western Medicine
"Free Markets"
Bush strands the troops!
Booman Tribune
Stu Rothenberg: A Corporate Shill Villager
A look at Edward's rhetoric will show that he's angry with corporations for specific reasons : health care coverage, energy emissions, etc.
The Rationale for Bloomberg
the Adminstration is vetoing bipartisan legislation
issues of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, instablility in Pakistan, dismal Israel-Palestine relations : bipartisan solutions require the Republicans changing their tune
Looking at Electability ouch !
Charlie Wilson's War ( again ? Yup. ex-CIA ) Larry Johnson
London is not a Battlefield
Director of Public Prosecutions: "We resist the language of warfare,and I think the government has moved on this."
Lieberman doing no Oversight - Zero Senate investigations
Bill Kristol has a job to do over at NYT's
"large part fo the Democratic party is sympathetic to neoconservatism and don't care about out civil liberties and the balance of powers.
...New York Times editorial board is inclined to amplify the most discredited people in the country rather than there are to push new voices that have proven to be prescient."
About that "Key Ally in the War on Terror Tm Thing" Pakistan snap view

31 December - Channeling Commentary

Tuesday, 1. January 2008, 01:51:11

Still muddling around the web more than targeting a 'read' list. I actually open my 'yawp' on this one.

Articles and Answers - New and Views
Washington's War will have to wait
( MSM are still ignoring the crux of the matter : Field Supervisor Plame was 'outed' and her CIA nuclear threat desk - and MidEast intel networks - effectively destroyed well before it was decided to release more 'manufactured intel' blaming Iran with all manner of specious allegations. The fact that the president of Iran is a rabble-rousing populist ,without the real power over the country,who could safely be painted a 'menace' via 'spun' false translations just goes to show the planning of deception. Der Spiegel was the first to give voice to this. Subsequently, after learning from Blue Girl Red State that this was indeed the case [ to make a long story short, her husband had been stationed in the region and her son learned Persian while there ],I found this Canadian site Quotations from President Ahmadinejad where one man decided to provide alternatives to Washington's "script".
It was another "twofer", raising a ruckus about husband Ambassador Joe Smith's honesty and propriety after his investigation of the ludicrous Nigerian "yellowcake" allegations : something useless to nuke tech and abundant in Iraq! Dr. Bush's Medicine Show. )

Remember when Bush rescinded his Fatwa on Osama bin Laden?
Top Ten Myths about Iraq in 2007 ( Another Juan Cole watcher )

What flavor is your kool-aid?

Timeline of the Bush fantasies : Go back to coverage of Cheney's old explanation of why invading Iraq wasn't a good idea.
Blue Girl Red State
Why is everybody surprised with Huckabee's latest sally?
Huckster very loudly 'not' saying something
Remembering Steve Gilliard
Conservatism preys on fear and thrives on dishonesty.I grew up with honest, decent conservatives and those people have been replaced by the party of greed.It is one thing to want less government interference and smaller, fiscally responsible government. It is another thing entirely to be a corporate whore, selling out to the highest bidder because the CEO fattens your campaign chest.

Opera - New Beginnings

27 December - Online Views and News

Thursday, 27. December 2007, 17:14:26

news views blog

Oldephartteintraining is hors de combat at present : WordPress tech support on vacation ( the nerve ! ) Ha.
Since the Blogroll isn't available I've pointed out the backup bookmarks file : which has controls to show a tag cloud instead of most recent entries.

Technorati Profile

Technorati Profile


China to raise export tariffs on steel, other commodities to curb export surplus

Iraq's Forgotten Population

Call center jobs in India take toll on workers' health

A global trek to poor nations, from poorer ones

Make economic justice an issue this Christmas

Benazir Bhutto killed in blast!
Scholars & Rogues
Benazir Bhutto Forbidding Mourning


Wall Street Wizardry amplified credit crisis

Five Untouchable Symptoms
Lack of progress on these basic issues
End the War on Drugs
End corporate media ownership
End American Empire
End the War Economy
End the cradle-to-prison superhighway

Iraq needs a 'jobs surge'

Striking writers in talks to launch web start-ups

The human sexes: The language of the sexes

Bad Taste

Copywrite
Now that's linking! Added to Opit's bookmarks in del.icio.us



Autoblog

Mazda displays that small lightweight cars can be safe too

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NYPD tries silent running with four Vectrix electric scooters

Ford puts eco-driving tutorial on its Driving Skills for Life Website
Opit's Bookmarks on Del.icio.us

Public transportation around the world: India's Blueline buses dubbed "killer buses"

Chery enters joint venture with Israel Corp.

Mitsubishi's kei cars 'bloom' for Japan's ladies

Japanese car mags run amok: Nissan Silvia revival to get Renault power

Honda readies hybrid attack, calling Civic hybrid a 'mistake'

OnStar goes dark for analog subscribers 1/1/08

From soldier to carpenter: Vet tries to leave Afghanistan behind

Want happiness? Live East

Yahoo!


Queen Elizabeth urges thought for those less well off

Iraqi cabinet passes bill to release prisoners

Iran needs no uranium enrichment: Russia's Lavrov

Company makes clothes for warfare

Saudi arms deal may spark Bush-Congress battle

Jet crash survivors honor airboat hero

Sniffing around for an explanation as to what has happened elsewhere has only revealed a lack of information. 403 Error

27 December - More Browsing

Thursday, 27. December 2007, 22:52:28

More grist for the mill. I don't have anything like my usual quota of links - having wasted a lot of time playing around trying to get things to work. Opera doesn't seem to be adding to my problems, thank goodness. Obviously I have learning to do, but I wasn't running the original preloaded header even on the first post.

Quote Bhutto: "We will not be deterred"

Main suspects are warlords and security forces

Shortcut Keys ABCs

Wash State U gets funds for ag and health research

The Paranoid style in American Politics

EPA throwing in the towel

Cuban Agriculture getting a second wind

Kiko's House: Quotes from around the blogosphere

'Gospel of Wealth' facing scrutiny

How to use a squat toilet
Believe me, it can't be any worse than forgetting to vent your porta-potti, going on the lid because you're in a hurry, and opening it mid dump. Beaver fever ( a parasite ) is seldom fatal : that isn't to say it can't be, ah, inconvenient.

2007: Year of the stem cell

The Limits of Huckabee's outrage
Steve Benen is subbing. He can be assertive than Kevin. Love the first quip in comments "To the MSM, 'populist' means you like watching NASCAR" ( MSM = Main Stream Media )

Japanese PM to meet with Chinese leaders on thorny issues during 4-day visit

Free One-Time Self Destruct Web Messaging Service - for sale

Sharpmail - Anonymous eMail

Aftermath of Bhutto's Death

Friday, 28. December 2007, 13:35:10

This murder could be predicted to cause more upheaval than it's worth for Musharraf. Interesting that police guarding her 'vanished' shortly before the explosion.

Baitullah Mehsud denied killing her after saying he would. It's not as if the boys in South Waziristan wouldn't approve.
Al Qaeda, huh? You do realize that should be regarded as a 'heads up' that CIA 'black ops' may have had a finger in the pie.

Meantime Harper calls for things to proceed just as if a radical change hadn't been made in the situation by violence : and as if everyone won't now believe Musharraf responsible.

MSNBC Bhutto's Death