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    I'll have a slug of that whiskey with you, fluffanutter. What a bunch of crazy deals goin' down.
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    President Obama's opening salvo of the presidential campaign debuted at 8pm this evening. At 10pm it already had 175,000,000 views on youtube. Tom Hanks does the narration. An ardent supporter of Obama, it left not knowing what to think... The part about the bailout drove me nuts. If the bailouts had gone to every American taxpayer making less than 50k a year it would have done more to stimulate the economy than giving it to the investment banks and the auto industry. Democrats! Who can love them? Republicans! Who can't hate them? The rigged system we live under makes me just want to curl up under the blanket for about ten years and hibernate. Please somebody, pass the whisky round.
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    Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was on a "long-planned" (read - 'rushed like hell to get over there to do damage control') trip to Afghanistan today. As his plane landed an Afghan soldier went berserk and stole a truck and crashed it on the runway. This after 2 of Karzai's brothers were attacked at the village near Kandahar where the killings took place as they were addressing the villagers and paying compensation ($2k each, a rather large sum in Afghanistan, paid by the Afghan government. The US will pony up more bucks to the relatives in a bit). The Obama Whitehouse cabinet is debating the wisdom of continuing the campaign behind his back and he is taking potshots at the president tonight. Panetta says we need to continue the campaign to it's logical conclusion (withdrawal of all combat troops by 2014) to honor all those who have made "the ultimate sacrifice". And, of yeah, because we are winning. Hello Leon, I think you have your head up your ass and you sound like General Westmoreland during the Vietnam war! I think Obama has it right. NATO can't even get the Taliban to sit down and talk with them about surrender. They are laughing at NATO right now. Obama and the British PM are talking this very minute about how the hell they can get the military out of there in one piece. I am imagining scenes from the South Vietnamese capitol in 1975: The last American helicopter taking off with our loyal Vietnamese allies clinging to it and then dropping into the waiting maw of the of the Viet Cong. Those poor Afghan allies... Afghanistan is so corrupt that Karzai will continue to lead a government of loyal opium warlords until the Taliban over-run it with a coalition of their own opium warlords. When, in the last millennium, has it ever been any different over there? One thing I sympathize with Panetta about is all those who have given their life for the sake of the mission over there. Their country called them to duty and they heeded the call, their country right or wrong. Those families here in the US, those Gold Star moms, dads, sisters, brothers, children and close friends. This must be agonizing. It was coming to this anyway, but these freaking Fort Lewis cowboys have now robbed them of their psychological dignity. Heaven knows it's all obscene.
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    Rick Santorum looked supremely pleased last evening in his victory speech. The arch-conservative former Penn. senator looked very sure of himself as he pumped hands working the crowd amidst his Secret Service protection at the Hilton in Baton Rouge. He beat Gingrich and Romney in close races in Alabama and Mississippi. He is the Catholic candidate with very conservative social views and he has a juggernaut rolling right now. It would be a different race right now had he been declared the winner in Iowa instead of the real vote being covered up by the GOP party Chairman in that state (Santorum was declared the victor quietly a week after the vote. The GOP chairman was dismissed.). Now, Santorum has the crowds and adoration and cockiness that comes with being front and center in the limelight. While Romney looks like a bad actor with canned music, Santorum has people singing original folk songs about him! This candidacy is not good for Obama... A Santorum candidacy would pose a more credible threat to Obama than Romney, who is widely seen as an insincere, inept bumbling rich man who doesn't have the karma to be president. Please God, take your faithful servant Rick Santorum away from politics and into the priesthood so he can directly do your work and leave running the country and opposing corporate personhood to Barak Obama.
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    It is quite clear that something is being covered up about the massacre in Afghanistan. Now the "soldier" (still being blamed on a lone gunman) was from Fort Lewis in Washington state, where it seems that all the "problem" soldiers are from, as in involved in other atrocities and committing suicide in droves, 26 in the last year. The lone "special forces" operative (this is now dropped from all domestic news reports) did not give himself up but was found crawling through an orchard trying to sneak back into his base. When found, he remained silent and invoked his Miranda rights. News reporters are now using the word "villages" instead of village to describe where the killings took place but they are not saying explicitly that the incident took place in at least two villages. Probably because the distance involved would mean more than a lone operator. Now it is reported that the soldier wasn't drunk, but that he might have had a bottle of alcohol in his locker... Meanwhile Leon Panetta says that "War is hell" and that these events have happened before and will probably happen again. NPR reports that there isn't much in the way of demonstrations because "The Afghan people are used to these kinds of incidents". I think it's now safe to venture an opinion that this was an unauthorized "black op" carried out by a cabal of special forces operators out of Fort Lewis that went horribly bad. The President and his cabinet and the entire Pentagon is in damage control mode trying to stave off total collapse of the mission in Afghanistan. This is pathetic. Trivializing the loss of life during time of war is despicable. As long as it happens to those people and not to our people it seems to be OK? I want to vomit! C'mon people! I'm starting to feel by the lack of comments here thagt anybody who reads what I am saying is afraid to comment... Comfortably numb are we? Hey, I'm trying really hard to be number than you are but I'm an empath -- it doesn't work with me! Say something, please?
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    The massacre in Afghanistan was a good example of how a story is born and then gets distorted. How the truth is reported and then spun and then the spin becomes the truth. People do not understand this spoon-feeding process or are incredulous that it exists. They shouldn't be... Take the story of the massacre by US soldiers in Afghanistan yesterday. When it was heard on the BBC (a very venerable source of news originating from England) it was reported that Afghans observed multiple soldiers in more than one village. The first reports in the US on NPR said that it was one drunken soldier. CNN reported the BBC version at around 11am EST. By the time it was again reported on network evening news it was back to the original spin put out over NPR. We do not get the truth from our media outlets in this country on sensitive issues. If you really want to know what is going you have to check multiple news outlets around the world. CNN, Reuters and BBC. You should gather as many facts as possible and see how many times they recur in the various stories. It is highly likely that foreign news services will have the real, unvarnished truth. The common facts that among these outlets are probably the truth. The 5th Estate in this country has totally sold out to corporate interests. Reporters know how their stories get edited or buried. It is so sad.
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    Go to the website and register. You can start calling supporters with your own phone immediately. Look to the die-hard Dems. in your local area. They will clue you in to the local office where you can sit with a bunch of old people using DNC cell phones. Or, organize a party of like-minded people and do whatever while making the calls. You need to put out a coherent message though. Stick to the script. Support Obama. The alternative is unthinkable
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    Anybody have any contacts for a push this election? Los Angeles Deadheads want to contribute to the fight against modern conservatism and idiocy. The counterculture is alive and well. Reach out. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Eagle-Winged-Palace/19579729496
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    The US Marine was special forces and operating out of a forward operating base in Kandahar. There was more than one soldier involved in the killing and it happened in more than one village. The apprehended US soldier has no evidence of a mental breakdown. The villagers were dragged out of their home and summarily executed So much for damage control. President Hammat Karzai is calling for a public trial in Afghanistan. Somehow I don't think he is going to get it. The US is bracing for Taliban revenge attacks. This has to be the worst day of the war in ten years. if this was a coordinated special forces action it was stupid beyond belief. Unless, of course, it was designed as an exit strategy.
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    Totally. The GOD Business (Guns, Oil & Drugs) is a tough one. While the planet supports our bloated lifestyle the US has to keep it's population in a total state of fear to continue profiting and propping up that lifestyle. We have to be scared into willingly allocating our tax dollars to the US multinational military-industrial complex. Part of that is the war on terror. The Russians are pretty much finished so we have to create new enemies. This time it's iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and any other Muslim country that dares to oppose our Imperial rule. Where there are people who would plot to cause us harm we have an interest in stopping those people. Unfortunately, we have to vilify an entire religion. And that has led us to the current predicament. We can't seem to distinguish between the bad guys and those people who simply want to live in peace and practice their own religion. So we slaughter them. Slaughtering innocent people is not a human value. Human beings are basically good and when you train them to kill on command their brain's short circuit. And so it goes. You wonder why the US military is trending toward robots and pilot-less drones? Part of it is saving lives but part of it also is that machines will do whatever you tell them to and will not freak out or have moral compunctions or ask questions. We have lost the war on terror. We have become terrorists in the name of stopping terrorism. The entire population is so conditioned with fear that people are becoming irrational. Internal dissent is becoming stifled. it is no longer OK to question authority, which is one of the cornerstones of a free society. Get used to it. This is a major trend with no end in sight. How did our once great country come to this??? Lack of citizen participation and organizing principles (corporations) based on greed. if you plant the seeds you reap the harvest -- plain and simple.
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Nuclear power! Carcinogenic cell phones! The Stanley Cup! and the usual parade of kids dancing and shaking their bones, politicians throwing stones, etc. Discuss.

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Probably closest to Augusta Civic Center, as regards Dead-played venues. Also the location of my first Dead show, by the way (9/2/79)...
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is floating away in floodwaters, and the news just barely mentioned it yesterday. Wonder why that is?
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Yikes TL. I am going to Vietnam on Monday. Hope the Red River will not be flooding too.
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Nobody cares about the Thai people. Climate dislocation is not going to be an orderly thing. The richest countries will take care of themselves the best and the poorer ones will be left to take care of themselves. If ever there was a morality play about greed, this is it. Rich countries won't reel in CO@ emissions and poorer countries are left to fend for themselves and either move or become extinct. What does becoming wealthy mean in this context? It must be like people going around a boat they are on pitying the masses left to swim.
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ha ha! yeah i know all about Ginger Baker; that's a fantastic record by the way. great footage on youtube too.don't see it working out all that terribly badly though! a little smoking action misinterpreted by the usual police and moral silliness. Ginger Baker not the "cleanliness" of individuals!! i'm suggesting a different route!! huge thanks gratefaldean for the info! nice to see a little cosmic synchronicity in the question. first show, eh? good year too. i will imbibe that show as soon as. of course, my post should've included many other countries with individual musical richness, not just Africa; China, India, Romania, Thailand.... i guess no one's interested in Thailand, TL, because there's nothing there we can exploit, at least financially. so who cares? god forbid we learn from their culture, customs and history; support bacteria! it's the only culture some people will ever have.
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I think we had better google a bit about that, and I will be wishing you a safe and dry voyage!
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about Thailand. The very idea of watching life be submerged in water is horrifying!
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oh absolutely!!look at Khöömi; the birthplace of throat (overtone) singing, Mongolia is astonishing. don't forget your water-wings, badger. i've always pictured you in your cozzy; mmmmmmm.......speeedoooooossssss. was being ironic about not caring.
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a badger in a speedo, paddling the river in Thailand would be a sight to behold-for SURE!
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On Monday, will be driving right past the old Augusta Civic Center. And within a mile or so of the Cumberland County Civic Center. Old stomping grounds, it's been a while...and if we could have held the trip off a couple of more weeks I could have picked up a Furthur show at said CCCC and brought back some very fine memories, but nooooo! It was very strange seeing a link to the Bangor Daily News in these parts, especially from YOUR locale, Mr Pancake (wait a minute, have you morphed back into jonapi? Now I'm very confused). I felt one of those little timequakes rumbling under my seat...or maybe that was something else. Good weekend, all!
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In Rome, Auckland, Tokyo and Zurich the "Wall Street Protests" have gone viral and the potential for a strong movement of people is evident. With all the "class war" talk being thrown around by Republican candidates for President it is not surprising that this movement got off the ground in one hell of a hurry. This movement is citing the widening gap between th rich and the poor and the lack of mobility between the classes, as well as corporate greed personified in corporations that buy and sell on Wall Street. Like a wave that went out to sea, the vacuum on the left has sewn the potential for a big wave to come surging. Or not. These things can fizzle out,
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Frankfurt had a few thousand protesters today, in front of the Euro Bank, and tomorrow a larger demonstration is scheduled in Berlin!
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The movement that originally started the "Occupy Wall Street" looks to be in it for the long haul and the momentum built up in scarcely a month belies a very large grass roots movement. The angst of this movement shall not the nuclear sword of Damocles but the Inconvenient Truth of climate change. Everybody tends to get their 15 minutes of fame in America and then the energy to continue is there or it is not.
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this movement doesn't seem to be fearful to me.
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i morph in many ways gratefaldean.a Panquake rumble in the nether regions is just a welcome in the fault line. tectonic or ginandtonic is all the same to me. personally the bowels vibrate to the dark matter leaks of dirk dresselhaus and ilpo väisänen. now there's a paradigm shift....
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TigerLilly, what if 12,500 of them in node-like vessel, sterile colonies in natural cavities, operated as a unified entity; drones and queens in mass support modifying habits, tapping resources and defending themselves, developing mimetic, commensal, parasitic and mutualistic relationships. WOULD YOU BE FEARFUL THEN? oh, wait.......that's "Ants". sorry.
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Not sure, Jonapi. Have my difficulties to think like an ant.
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think yourself lucky! i have difficulties to think such as an anatomically modern species! mental faculties and components a mystery. sapient nomenclature in disarray. i'll stick to the sonic crumbling. that and potato chilie green garlic rösti and roast tomato reduction. it all makes sense to me, so don't worry.....
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I'm not sure what good it will do for the 99%ers to continue occupying Wall St. and other important landmark financial institutions. What is excellent is what is finally coming to the fore, the understanding that the rich and greedy will never give it up, even if they have to completely foul our own nest. The problem, not unlike Anna Huzzare's in India, is how does one face down a social ill that has stood the mark of time. That rich peoples, countries will not share with poor peoples, countries is a sure indication that we have some basic lessons to relearn. I'm not optimistic.
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U.S. coming to the rescue again. one hundred "special operations troops". those pesky terrorists in Uganda causing trouble and someone's got to sort it all out. apparently it's a "humanitarian mission in the interest of America's national security." going to South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo too. so. nothing to do with oil and resources then.
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in South Sudan also-on a "peace keeping" mission. Wanted to post that yesterday and ask what people think about that.
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"peace mission" read "going to war".a response to the recent kidnappings. will just make Kenyans a target for al Shabab. "Our territorial integrity is threatened with serious security threats of terrorism. We cannot allow this to happen at all," Kenya's Internal Security Minister George Saitoti told the media. "It means we are now going to pursue the enemy, who are the al-Shabab, to wherever they will be, even in their country." some believe that it is not about rescuing hostages but securing the border. inexperienced military versus Islamic delusion. either way, it's going to be bloody.
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Is Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner with them? What is so annoying about a story like that is not knowing what the hell the truth is... Are they helping people, hurting? How, why?
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indeed.more hurt than help. conflict old as dirt. vessels like chopped meat. butcher flesh. cheap. passed down to younger generation when the old die. your mantle in our name. rivers of red in the sand. salt on the tongue. Serbia Kosovo Israel Palestine Islam Christian Tribe Tribe Tribe. proceed in leather fashioned. blinkered racehorse. levitate a choice of the few. uneducated? maybe. intelligent? maybe so. brittle construct. cracked pepper bones. snapped sticks and bloodied ground. veins emptied. more plentiful than water. then America enters with it's own agenda. millions for the military. repossession for the citizens. bitter, disillusioned, disenfranchised. marginalised by the marginal. passed down to the younger generation when the old die. levitate a choice of the few. but they ARE growing. i've seen them.

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Right now the political spectrum is quite polarized with many people who are activist not understanding how much they have in common. Obama has talked and talked till he is blue in the face about how we have to get the people making over 250k to pay up so we can afford the lifestyle this country has come to know. Now we have Tea Party monsters financed by the right propagating the interests of people who are more rich than they and playing them like fools. On the other hand we have the Occupy Wall Street folks who are hot on the trail of income inequality. This age-old conundrum is unlikely to be resolved. I don't see compromise or a happy ending here. All that can happen is what history has shown us when the pie is shrinking. The rich people hire the poor people who are out of work and put guns in their hands to protect themselves, their family and their private property. Don't forget, under out system of government, property is more important than people. Many of our generation have no idea of the Great Depression with vigilante gun-men keeping the homeless out of their town. Depending on how far these movements advance, conflict may become inevitable. More people are for peace and stability than they are for change. Which is the shame of it, really. If people could fix this crooked, corrupt, rigged, fixed system that the rich use to rule us, America could once again rise in the world's eyes as an advancer of equality. This is an important movement the proportion of which people do not understand. We need to stand together with our brothers and sisters and take down the crooked politicians, generational rich and reactionary numb-nuts who are traitors to their own class. We are entering a new phase of post-peak capitalist countries with older economies that can no longer give everybody everything and the jungle stands ready for the next emerging countries to claw their way to the top of the hill. Sometimes I wonder if our wonderful country will be so pissed at these events that they will take our vastly superior.military strength and blow up the hill. if we can't have it all, then nobody can. ~ The time has come to weigh these things ~
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refuse to be sucked down into class petty class petty petty.i reach for the red cities at night. internal expulsion sun bleached eradication of familiar tropes. Musick to play in the Dark. always eat your broccoli.
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I am a queen of the circulating libraryI have declared an amnesty All books may be returned without a penalty Return the books to me Return the books Don't burn the books You cut down trees to make paper disease It's in the trees: it's coming Return the book of knowledge Return the marble index File under "Paradox" The forest is a college, each tree a university I am a queen of the circulating library I'm here to answer your enquiry All knowledge resides within me Your membership has expired You are way past expiry dates Words, words, words, words! You may as well listen to the birds
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lest we forget what human beings can do to each other.please nurture your fellow brother and sisters
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Folks in Tripoli are happy with the news Moammar Gadhafi is dead. Good luck to the liberated Libyans. One less military mission for the US to support.
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One less military mission that the US can make money from whilst flaunting their commitment to showing absolutely no regard for human life whatsoever.Cue despicable suits smugly marching into another country to rape their resources. Gaddafi was not a nice man. Yes, that's right G-A-D-D-A-F-I; judging by your spelling and spectacular insensitivity and ignorance to world affairs, i'm guessing you're American. When will the rest of the intelligent world remove the hateful dictators in the U.S.? Here's to endless news waffle of intolerable yank military officials smirking over the corpse of another "victory"; their delivery lurking halfway between John Wayne and an animatronic theme-park dummy employed to entertain queuefuls of impatient visitors by wailing outside the ghost train; he shouts, overemphasises every other word, and punctuates his speech with so many ridiculous hand gestures, he'll have his own eye out if he's not careful. He also has a plastic head, hair like a futuristic combat helmet and was probably spawned in a microwaveable petri dish. Whoever brought him up deserves to be sealed inside a packing crate full of jackals and razor wire and rolled down a hill. Just another chest-beating, histrionic areshole. No doubt shot in close-up with soullessly slick camerawork, with wailing rock guitar and numerable close-ups of them sweatily rolling their eyes around in the manner of a schizophrenic mime artist glaring at a boxful of snakes. All about as easy on the eye as a handful of shattered monkey-nut husks unexpectedly flung in your face by a passing drunk. IGNORE THE NEWS NETWORKS, FOLKS.
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Easy on Ted, Jonapi. He is pretty much a populist and is happy when the good guys win. He has no mind-bending analysis (I know about). Gadaffi, the spelling of whose name in the media changed over the years, retired to his birth place and died there. He probably would have taken exile, if anybody would have accepted him (ie, if he had enough money). Unfortunately the Libyans became pawns in a Nato afterthought. Could NATO really support a rag-tag army to victory? As long as Uncle Sam was in the bushes with laser pointers guiding smart bombs and drone strikes. Otherwise the NATO countries couldn't do close-in air support to save their lives. As long as the US in a pinch for coin right now, let's start charging our allies for our role as policemen of the world. The Kuwaitis and Saudis were willing to pay for Kuwait, what'll Europe pay for protection? NPR's latest: Gadaffi emerged from a bunker in Sirt saying "Don't shoot!" and was shot anyway. Amazing how much animosity can develop in 40 years as a dictator. To think, he had his own tent in Jersey when visiting the UN.
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There's no universally accepted authority for transliterating Arabic names. The good news is the bozo is dead and gone. As President Obama stated today..." a dark shadow of tyranny has been lifted." Perhaps jonapi can take his mindless drivel and take up space on some other forum, as I for 1 am tired of his irrelevant posts. Monkey boy??!! Hardly a respectful term for the POTUS. Listen to Uncle John's Band a few times and go see a football game in London this weekend. Real American football: Chicago vs Tampa.
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Despicable footage of Ghadaffys death splashed across networks everywhere. Hateful scenes which the stupid leaders of the West reveled in, including our own dear Prime Ministerial gimp David Camera on. All of whom deserve to be locked in a cupboard with a genetically engineered mantis that'll shift and itch and scratch its spiny little legs against their weeping faces, for a period of no less than sixteen thousand years.The show of disgust from their insincere faces would have been massively improved by the insertion of a protracted final sequence in which each leader is glued to a deckchair and kicked down a stairwell. Nice wholesome rubberneckers' television, appealing to the sort of closet ghouls who, on spotting the remains of a car smash, gently slow down the Chevrolet for a good slow-motion porno-peer at the limp arm dangling over the side of a stretcher. Then crack open a Budweiser. Footage of that Hilary Clinton drone watching the footage on her phone; absolutely priceless. A walking vacuum with the face of a Little Chef gammon steak, she couldn't be more dislikeable if she strode around in Nazi regalia firing nailguns at ponies. Gadhuffy was a deeply unpleasant man. Nato managed to convince the rebels not to kill him but take him alive. Apparently. Yet they killed him anyway. You bet your sweet buns they did! What, Gaddhiffi in The Hague spilling out all his secrets of the West's dodgy deals with Libya throughout the years? Not on your nelly, missus. Only thing more despicable was those political buffoons rushing to the camera to shout what a blue sky apple pie sunny day it is for "Democracy" with a capital "D". A line up of the most crashingly tedious shop-window dummies on earth. Gidhalfy was not a menace to the West. Still, what's done is done. We can all now concentrate on those special advisors in Uganda as they start the long drawn out task of carving up the African continent and pillaging all those economic goodies. These are dark days, folks. Dark days. Now wash your hands. And that monkey boy title was not aimed at the good ol' Prezzie Wezzie.
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lamagonzo, America is not the policemen of the world. They are the bullies.Too much time spent glued to the games console and television set has created a docile mindless population which will swallow quicker than a hungry hooker at feeding time. Since real life can't compare to fantasy life, you wind up feeling inadequate and miserable - and the more inadequate and miserable you feel, the more television you watch, and the more boring your life becomes. Plus, you're inert, so you start to get fat. Before you know it, your fingers are too chubby to successfully stab the 'off' button on the remote control, and you're doomed to spend the rest of your days in front of the box like a semi-deflated hot-air balloon, occasionally breaking into a sweat as you struggle to open the day's thirtieth packet of potato chips. TV and especially the American News has the same properties as Valium. And if you watch the News, you could become convinced it also exhibits characteristics of heroin, nicotine, cocaine, alcohol and crack, blended together to form the single most addictive, destructive drug the Western world has ever seen, one that's painlessly administered through the eyeball, leaves no visible scars and is killing society dead. Some people will believe anything.
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...and when I use the words "the world's policeman" I am being very sarcastic. But does that mean all of the NY Times is bullocks? Or just a third of it? (And none to do with the Palestinians). The thing I try to point out with these references (mostly lost) is that America produces more weapons than the rest of the world and has armed forces that know how to use them and they keep getting better every year. Not only that but we have war colleges and computer gaming that allow us to use our weaponry to the best tactical advantage. The rest of the world has pretty much given up on trying to match us, though we kind of believe NATO and other allies can sally fourth into the fray with us when the bugle sounds. In reality, in Afghanistan where more than 50 country's armies are assembled they overwhelmingly do the administrative and supportive work just above the hired help. The news does tend to paint an illusion of "us" against "them". All I'm saying is the US is the U.S. and everybody is trailing in our wake. But what happens when we can't afford the latest and the greatest because of budget shortfalls? When our militray empire contracts and we can't bully our way to achieving our "national interests"? Through the natural order of things somebody else will take over. It's a brave, new world. Almost. Give it 30 years/.
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Well, i know where you're coming from, lamagonzo. I believe we're on the same page when it comes to world affairs and moral outlook.People on this forum should not equate criticism of the U.S. government with all of it's citizens. Whenever someone speaks up theres the usual knee-jerk reaction of "now hang on buddy...". It's ingrained naivety that is exceptionally dangerous and damaging to the rest of the world. It is not a case of the good guys versus the bad guys. It is bad guys versus bad guys. The footage being broadcast of Gaddafi's capture and death is horrific. I'm well aware of what he did to other people but it is not up to another human being to take a life and degrade it like that. A homegrown policy of gun ownership seems to continually teach certain people that this is perfectly acceptable. (While clucking on about their God at the same time; God Bless America. Insha'Allah. No difference). It's pathetic. And all this is going to happen all over again in Africa. I am sick of all this bullshit and sick of all these bullies. I'm sick of life being treated as a joke and sick of murder, cruelty, torture and manipulation. And i'm especially sick of this retarded attitude that comes with the death of another accompanied by an extra crisp ironing of the Stars & Stripes, which is then hoisted high outside a stupid person's front porch. I want Western dictators removed permanently. Low intelligence coupled with Religion is ruining our planet. As a human being on this earth, i object.

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Jonapi: Chill out, dude. Take your meds. You talk about chubby fingers on the keyboard, but are you projecting? Your self-loathing is toxic--get it outta here. Here are a few carcinogenic, soul-killing shows that you should begin watching. This is like American herbal medicine: STORAGE WARS (The Wow factor, baby! What will Barry Weiss find next?!?! A cast of oddballs bid on storage lockers in hopes of finding hidden treasures. A Picasso? Or just an old Penthouse? Tune in!) AMERICAN PICKERS (Two guys--Mike and Frank--modern-day Laurel and Hardy/Mutt and Jeff characters--ride around the U.S. looking for lost "mantiques" and folk art treasures--you'll love it--Danielle is a cutey, too) WIPEOUT (Totally mindless--just what you need--better than a mantra--contestants wend their way through a gauntlet of stupidity, often falling into the drink--laughs for all--my son likes it--you have kids?--I get the sense that ain't ever happening) OK--gotta run--picking my older brother up at O'Hare. He is just getting back from Afghanistan. Says he has a duffel-bag filled with fingers and weird trinkets. We're gonna buy a 30-pack of beer, get rowdy, and then hit some strip clubs. WAHOO!!!! Bring on the ladies!!! Tomorrow we are knocking on doors for the Tea Party and drumming up support for increased hydraulic fracturing. Something has to power my TV!!
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Right with ya Los Lonely Boy! You missed out the mutha of all shows though: "Making The Band"; a reality show about a decade ago chronicling the genesis of a manufactured American boy band. They were called O-Town i think - the 'O' apparently standing for Orlando although it may well represent the ice-cold hollow zero lodged in the heart of this absolute shit. They should of course, have used one of the following names instead: a) Puppet Squad, b) Edifice, c) Apocalypse Yo!, d) Attack of the Omen Five, e) Grinning Despair, f) Your Dreams Lie Crushed Beneath Us, g) The Petri-dish Kids. "I Dare You" another classic. Some daredevil jerk-off attempting a bungee jump towards the swirling blades of a helicopter hovering beneath him. To impress his Vietnam-vet father if i recall. Disappointingly, come the jump itself, he didn't lose so much as a fingertip. Still, watching him dangle above the churning rotor prompts an intriguing question; if the stunt went wrong, what kind of exotic, disjointed thoughts would have pulsed through Super Joe's fevered consciousness at the precise moment the top of his head was lopped off and his brain got sliced into a tumbling flock of slippery grey mind-steaks? I have no idea. And yeah, i definitely project; all over the screen when patriots get all hot under the collar.
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Watching a boy from behind a hedge with a pair of binoculars clamped to your face my little apple plucker, one-handed, naturally, does not make him your son. Just as the plastic offspring, brought to life by a foot pump, is a only a naughty toy for use behind pulled curtains.And to think i answered your online adoption ad in all good faith...

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we had a couple of notable earthquakes here in Oakland the other day, not so much because they were huge (they were about 4) but because they were on the Hayward fault rather than the San Andreas, and hence almost literally in the back yard, like a couple miles from my house, the Henry J, etc. To give you an idea, the Greek would be sort of the apex of a triangle between the two of them. From the standpoint of the Hayward letting off steam without doing any damage, this is great. From the standpoint of drama, it was considerable. None of this gentle swaying, just BOOM! Something between an elevator drop and a truck hitting the building. If we'd been at the Greek it would have been quite exciting...
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And good luck with that! I don't talk eartquake to people who live in the prone areas (considering we just had an East Coast quake, what is prone?). It's just one more thing for the actuaries to figure in to insurance policies. Except for those brief few moments of pure adrenaline that hopefully never turn into anything more. It strikes me now that there must be some AWEsome haiku in an earthquake!
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yikes, even those small quakes are scary.Of all the possible hazards in my travels it is quakes that worry me most. I am glad to hear that no harm was done. Also amused to find that you navigate by concert venues :-)
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so navigating by concert venues is not that unreasonable... Normally we're fairly blase about these things, but normally we get the gentle rolling kind. These were a bit more percussive. Also in, as I say, the back yard.
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If you felt a ultrasonic BOOM at the Greek, Mary, it would be no fault line but Phil's bass! caressing our innards in a way only he knew how. Well, that and Mickey's napalm beam!You guys certainly luckier than those people in Turkey. I saw on the news this morning, they have found a young boy still alive. I've experienced many a small earthquake in Japan and it's still one of the eeriest sensations; no warning, no certainty that it's just a passing ripple. just uncertainty until the minutes pass. all the while checking the news to see if it was the same for everyone and not a just milder pulse from part of a mutha destroying somewhere farther away. Even more unnerving since March.
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Tony Blair. Sycophant. Liar. War Criminal. Mass Murderer. Godfather to Rupert Murdoch's daughter. Now employed by Kazakhstan to improve their standing in the West where he stands make around £12 million. If anyone in the Dead organisation is contacted by Blair, tell him NO. Make like the invisible man is at the door and tell him you can't see him. Interestingly, Murdoch's daughter was baptised in the River Jordan. The ceremony was also attended by vacuous idiots Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackoff and some Trump creature and charmingly covered by Hello magazine. Apparently, they had to clear the area of landmines. No wonder Jesus walked on water. "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." - Oscar Wilde.