tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58812602011-04-21T18:00:02.778-05:00barking at birds and buried bonesthe farmernoreply@blogger.comBlogger811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881260.post-1149316120168922792006-06-03T01:24:00.000-05:002006-06-03T02:08:56.920-05:00

it's a good day to give up blogging.*

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spent the weekend poking around under ash trees and thrashing around in old abandoned apple orchards looking for morels. didn't find one single morel. maybe still too cold. lots of rain lately but cold. a little warm weather following all the rain might bring em up.photo at left lifted from HEREspent some time in an old graveyard atop a small knoll with an orchard just beyond. 15 to 20 stones

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this is a harrowing true story. the other day (i forgot which one) i was poking around in the dirt in my salad patch; which is not to far from the edge of the woods (about 20 feet). as i was walking away from the lettuce beds on my way to inspect my fledgling turnips and fucking goddamed snow peas i sensed something strange at my back. me, being seriously paranoid and easily aroused by danger,

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Planting the seeds of a cultivated future:Save Family Farms, Save AmericaBy Willie NelsonAlternet.orgApril 27, 2006It's time to abandon the failed model of industrial agriculture and join the Good Food movement: embrace healthy, delicious food that makes the entire country stronger.As one of the founders of Farm Aid, I have watched with admiration and a good amount of satisfaction the growth of

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Granny gets it rolling. And has the important details! Like this picture here. Which i stole away with in the middle of the night like a chicken thief.May 4th - get involved = Invite Chicken a'la King to your city for a Head of State Dinner.= Always put the chicken before the egg.= Tune in, turn on, chicken out.= If someone calls you a cluck... remind them that at least you ain't no turkey.=

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Jackie Cabasso (Disarmament Activist.org) writes:Bringing Nuclear Disarmament “Home” to the Peace and Justice MovementReaders of this blog have been privy to in-depth information and analysis about the Iranian crisis and what it really means, by my colleagues, Andrew Lichterman, John Burroughs, and Michael Spies. You might wonder about the name of our blog, “DisarmamentActivist.org.” We believe

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earth day 2006photo by me.8 For previous posts - prior to April 22 - including "Divine Strake" posts GO HERE*

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Man the Caffe e Latte Delonghi Magnifica EAM-3200! - Preposition the Catapult! - Alert the Sunday Gasbag Grapevine! - Hoist the Bullyrag of Demostrative Deterrence!... To Battle Stations! To Battle Stations!2 Boobs in a Balloon: Decaying old fool Michael "Benito12" Ledeen is busy frosting his yellow-cake, piloting new folders in his My Documents window, preparing for battle as I write... and

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Apparently it ain't Karl Rove or Hal Lindsey or Marvin Olasky or Terry Southern... apparently...The Washington Post's William Arkin has an answer:NICKA assigns each Defense Department command and agency a series of two-letter alphabetic sequences, requiring each “first word” of a nickname to begin with a letter pair. In the NICKA then, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, formerly the Defense

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"It is abundantly clear, at least to me, that the military has not given up the idea of a nuclear penetrator," said Christopher Hellman, a policy analyst with the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington.From Scripps Howard News Service (bold emphasis below mine):Bush's denial of plans for Iran hit wrong chord before Test Site blast By LAUNCE RAKELas Vegas Sun 11-APR-06 LAS

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Native Americans Want 'Bunker Buster' Test Stopped by Haider Rizvi Published on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 by OneWorld.netUNITED NATIONS - Native Americans want U.S. authorities to cancel plans to detonate 700 tons of explosives on what they say is tribal land in Nevada.The planned explosion, scheduled for June 2 some 90 miles from Las Vegas, is aimed at aiding U.S. efforts to develop ''bunker

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AUGUST 1, 2005Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi, writing in The American Conservative:Deep BackgroundAugust 1, 2005 IssueThe American ConservativeIn Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran. The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United

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NYTimes (login not required):Third Retired General Wants Rumsfeld OutBy THOM SHANKERWASHINGTON, April 9 — The three-star Marine Corps general who was the military's top operations officer before the invasion of Iraq expressed regret, in an essay published Sunday, that he did not more energetically question those who had ordered the nation to war. He also urged active-duty officers to speak out

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"Tyson's rationale is that she is accurately reporting the statements of James Tegnelia, director of the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency, which is conducting the test. There does not appear to be any obligation here to try to understand whether these statements bear any relationship to objective reality." - Global Security.orgThe Nuclear Information Project (NukeStrat.com):Divine

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4 "nuclear weapons in preemptive military strikes":FAS Urges White House to exclude Nuclear Weapons From National Security Strategy in War on TerrorismThursday, March 16, 2006The new “National Security Strategy for the United States” published yesterday by the White House strengthens the role of nuclear weapons in preemptive military strikes against terrorists and hostile states armed with

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How complex is the situation in Iraq? Read this:On the Ground in Iraq The roots of sectarian violenceBy Nir Rosen - Boston Review- - - - - -The State of the Media in Iraq:Baghdad: The Besieged PressBy Orville Schell - New York Review of BooksOne evening while I was in Baghdad, a British security guard mentioned that Fox News was giving a "party" in the nearby Palestine Hotel, once the almost

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Florida Rep. and GOP "sweater girl" Katherine Harris gets tough on immigration -- or is that emigration? -- anyway....From TPM Muckraker:We noted in this a.m.'s Daily Muck that Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL) changed all the locks on the doors of her Senate campaign's Tampa HQ, and posted a security guard at the entrance. Roll Call's Heard on the Hill has this quote, from an unnamed former aide: "

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Ariel Dorfman writing in the Guardian UK: Out of FearIn Memoria del Saqueo (2004) he denounced the way in which previous governments, allied with the multinationals and the International Monetary Fund, had looted land that was once the bread-basket of the world and now could not feed its own people. Many of the "nobodies" documented by Solanas endure an existence on the outer margins of

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Mr. P-Niss goes to WashingtonBREAKING NEWS: Mr P-Niss to replace Ben "Box Turtle" Domenech at the Washington Post.Unidentified "interested" sources near to the Washington Post have potentially verified Mr. P-Niss Genitalia of Pomonkey, Maryland as a replacement for deposed "Red State" blogger Ben Domenech. "The recent hire-n-fire wankoff surrounding the mooncalf Ben could not have come to a

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Janeane Garofalo (Majority Report / Air America radio - dot com) brought up the subject of Salvia's woosie properties on The Majority Report last night. Similarly see this recent excitable bit of boing-eyed banana peel smoking hoo-haa from NPR: the great salvia scare of 2006!Run for your lives!Look. Please, all you college students out there listening to Air America or reading the the wow-wee

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Come you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build the big bombsYou that hide behind wallsYou that hide behind desksI just want you to knowI can see through your masksYou that never done nothin'But build to destroyYou play with my worldLike it's your little toyYou put a gun in my handAnd you hide from my eyesAnd you turn and run fartherWhen the fast

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and irony:"In this conflict, America faces an enemy who has no regard for conventions of war or rules of morality." ~ George W. Bush, address to the nation, March 19, 2003*

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Rob Patterson on the Burns Sisters:At this critical juncture in this nation's history, music to move, inform and inspire the masses was in woefully short supply at folkie central. Hamell On Trial, the subject of my last column, was a notable exception. "This is what I wanted to hear more of here," said Marie Burns of The Burns Sisters, the other notable exception, as Hamell tore it up with

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I can feel all the sadness of the travelerwho has gone far away from his homeand he knows he can never return therefor the place and the people have gone.Now i wish that my heart would ever wanderin the days that will be first and lastin my memories of things to be cherishedlet me live with a touch of the past.~ from: A Touch of the Past, by Gary Williamson Springsteen Does Seeger by David Corn

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...and the giant earthworms of Gippsland. New York Review of Books:4 Ant shepherds drive off aphid predators such as ladybirds, and in bad weather build shelters of leaf particles and soil to protect their livestock. They have even been observed marking their herds with a substance specific to one ant colony; it resembles our branding of livestock,...4 The idea of Australians eating their way

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everthing you need to know about:... frozen mammoths - part 2 - The admiral and the mammoth [...and...] THE FLIGHT TO THE LAND BEYOND...and also: hopefully, soon come, the search for the Nazi Flugscheiben, the Spear of Destiny (not that cheap rusty arrowhead in St. Peter's Basilica neither), and the mysterious South Pole getaway at Base 211!Yes, sure. And if you think all that is awful fuckin'

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Lou Dobbs CNN / Monday Feb. 27, 2006:Dubai Ports World tonight is making what I consider to be a rather astonishing new attempt to silence me and our coverage of this ports deal and our reporting of what at least I consider to be legitimate national security concerns about this transaction. Dubai Ports World has actually refused to grant CNN anymore interviews from Washington or London, and it's

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When logic and proportionHave fallen sloppy deadAnd the White Knight is talking backwardsAnd the Red Queen's off with her head!Remember what the dormouse said:Feed your head!Feed your head! Nir Rosen in Pakistan writing for Mother Jones:Among the AlliesThat day, the union of newspaper sellers in Quetta called a strike to protest the arrest of several of its members for selling publications that

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...and a lot more free time on their hands.Via Gordon at Alternate Brain:FARWOOD"Hello, is this here the Sheriff's Office?""Yes. What can I do for you?""This here is Floyd. I'm calling to report my neighbor, Virgil Smith. He's drillin' holes in his farwood and hiding drugs inside!""Thank you very much for the call, sir."The next day, the Sheriff & his deputies descend on Virgil's house. They

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UAE: an Oiligarchy only a Bu$hCo could envyIf there is any very good reason not to outsource American ports management to the UAE, aside from the UAE's known tangential relationship to racist Qutb-Arabist terrorist networks and strict Taliban styled Islamic theocracy, it is what David Sirota sums up in his recent column: The Dirty Little Secret Behind the UAE Port Security Scandal by David

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Atrios has the following posted to Eschaton. Originally sourced from Rediff.comReads as follows:Jolly Old Pals The Central Intelligence Agency did not target Al Qaeda chief Osama bin laden once as he had the royal family of the United Arab Emirates with him in Afghanistan, the agency's director, George Tenet, told the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States on Thursday.Had

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By now you are all probably familiar with the story of the runaway showgal Bohem C'est La Vie (but some people know her as Vivi). Vivi Whippet to be exact. Familiar with her story especially since MSNBC grocery store tabloid infotainer Rita Crosby is hot on the scent.Vivi, it seems, became tired and annoyed with the strictures of showbiz, the paparazzi, the smell of anti-allergen dog mousse, the

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Painting pictures:retell fairytale - Little red and the wolf:there once was a grey wolf. his eyes were olive green and his fur was luxuriant. his plush tail was almost as long as he was. one day, the wolf was resting in the knoll of a glade. the wolf looked up at the sky, the blue dappled with the green leaves of birch trees. "goodness, i am so sick of eating rabbits and squirrels. if i see

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Bounty on cartoonists:A Pakistani Muslim cleric and his followers have offered rewards amounting to more than $US1 million ($1.35 million) for killing one of the Danish cartoonists, who have been under police protection since the storm of protest broke out. "If the West can place a bounty on Osama bin Laden and Zawahri we can also announce reward for killing the man who has caused this

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Pakistan - Feb. 16, 2006:LAHORE: Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) has announced full support to seminaries in resisting the government’s move to expel foreign students and change in the syllabus.Addressing a convention of various religious seminaries organised by the Ittehadul Tanzimat-e-Madaris-e-Deeniya (ITMD) at Jamia Naeemia Garhi Shahu on Wednesday, MMA President Qazi Hussain Ahmad, MMA

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Richard Neville (Sydney Morning Herald):Okay, so why are the rampaging Muslims so angry? The caricatures of Mohammed are mild--this is the most outrageous. One cartoon is even funny, a first for the Danish Editorial Cartoonist Union, with its depiction of the Prophet standing on a cloud, greeting ascended suicide bombers with the warning, "Stop, stop, we're fresh out of virgins!" It reminds me of

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From New York Times, Saturady Feb. 18, 2006:MOSCOW, Feb. 17 - In a controversy with echoes of the Islamic anger over Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, the authorities in a central Russian city on Friday ordered the closing of a newspaper that published a cartoon showing Muhammad, along with Jesus, Moses and Buddaha.The cartoon, published Feb. 9 in the official city newspaper in

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DARFUR"In Sudan, protests at the cartoons attracted as many as 15,000 people. Politicians then led the crowds in a march on the United Nations offices in Khartoum and called for holy war against any move to send a UN force to Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region." ~ America backs Muslims over cartoons as thousands voice anger worldwide- - - - -DARFUR:Current SituationNearly three years into the

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Many years ago - thirty or twenty years ago (or maybe not that many. Probably not even close to that many) - Anyway, it was long before almost everyone in the blogoshere hated my guts. And back when some people (three or four or nine or ten or even as many a 25) actually were more or less fond of my guts. Sort of. For whatever that is worth. Anyway, I, "the farmer", began writing a book called

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"Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear."Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia where she experienced the oppression of Muslim women first hand. When her father attempted to force her into an arranged marriage, she fled to Holland in 1992. Later, she renounced the Muslim religion. more...""Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of the most sharp- tongued critics of

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death to the apostates!Question the parentage of the Prophet? The outrage! What will we tell the children?!The Sudan Tribune, May 6, 2005:Sudanese prosecutor demand death for editor of suspended newspaperKHARTOUM, May 5, 2005 (Sudan Tribune) — The general prosecutor demanded that the chief editor should face the death penalty in accordance with the Sudanese law, the independent al-Mashaheer

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From CorpWatch:Danish Protests Against Cartoons SpreadCopenhagen, Denmark, Feb. 8 - Danish anger over an Algerian-American cartoonist that satirized the Vikings continued to swell across the Europe and elsewhere in the world on Monday, turning violent in Copenhagen, ...Behold the offending Cartoon.CorpWatch, a non-profit corporate watchdog based in California, originally published the cartoons

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Southern Poverty Law Center; Intelligence Report, Winter 2005:Mark Rushdoony Draped in a stark black suit with a shiny gold cross pinned to its lapel, Mark Rushdoony peered down from the pulpit through glasses tinted the color of hellfire. "We are authorized by God to challenge all that is not godly!" Rushdoony thundered. "God is angry with the wicked every day, and the sins of the wicked

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"Finally he said that men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that men wish to be taken serious but they do not understand how to be so. Between their acts and their cerimonies lies the world and in this world the storms blow and the trees twist in the wind all the animals that God has made go to and fro yet this world they do not see. They

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"The meaning of religious freedom, I fear, is sometimes greatly misapprehended. It is taken to be a sort of immunity, not merely from governmental control but also from public opinion. A dunderhead gets himself a long-tailed coat, rises behind the sacred desk, and emits such bilge as would gag a Hottentot. Is it to pass unchallenged? If so, then what we have is not religious freedom at all, but

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"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier - just so long I'm the dictator." ~ George W. Bush, December 18, 2000 Nixonland:In perpetrating the Watergate affair, Richard Nixon inadvertently performed his greatest service to his country. Thanks to Nixon, the people received an invaluable education concerning their constitutional rights, the criminal justice system, the

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'Liberals as conservatives, conservatives as vandals'Monday, February 06 | by Chris Christensen:Over the past 25 years, as the political pendulum swung to the right after several decades of liberal sway, the left has moved toward the center as the right has moved to the far right. The result? Conservatism--and I say this with the innate caution of a moderate 65-year-old--has been seized by

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Please: Click image for larger detailed display.Tristero recently wrote a post at Hullabaloo (Digby's place) which goes into this whole tantilizing "center/mainstream" debate - and what exactly it is - and where and what perhaps the "mainstream" might actually consist of. I thought Tristero's post was good. I was also surprised by some of the negative reactions he got to it. In any case, read

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"Nixonland is a land of slander and scare, of lay innuendo, of a poison pen and the anonymous telephone call, and hustling, pushing, and shoving - the land of smash and grab and anything to win." ~ Adlai E. Stevenson, 1952Excerpt below: Alexander Kendrick, The Wound Within; America in the Vietnam Years 1945-1974 pages 409-410 (Little, Brown and Co. 1974)Constitutional interpretation aside - and

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trying to fix this place up so i can live in it. or at least visit for 2 weeks a year. or something like that. so please excuse any crap laying around in the sidebar or elsewhere while i make changes.*

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here is an abandoned farmhouse.(posting discontinued between Nov 9, 2005 and Jan 29, 2006)*

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Welcome forgathered. Let us praise the Ford... I mean Lord!Item from the Daily Courier of Charleston, Illinois, 1928:The revival meeting now going on at the Pilgrim Church is progressing nicely.... The evangelist this (Friday) evening will sing a solo, "God's Ford." We are so anxious to see the new Ford on display at the sales room. Now be sure and come tonight and hear the evangelist sing about

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New York Times:Senators of both parties said Thursday that Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., President Bush's choice for the Supreme Court, had told them he believed the court might have gone too far in separating church and state.Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said that Thursday in a private meeting Judge Alito expressed empathy for "the impression that the court's

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Historical perspectives:"Comstockery" and the Legal Suppression of Birth Control, 1873Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use, 1873Tit. 18. Crimes and Criminal ProcedureCh. 71. ObscenitySECTION 1461. Mailing obscene or crime inciting matter.Every obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile article, matter, thing, device or

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(Weird Farm News; Oct 01) On Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Billy "pitch doctor" Frist of Affrontery was found wandering around in a muddle with his pants around his knees after being kicked squarely in the head by an ornery mule owned by Mr. Harry Reed of Accountability. Mr. Frist hemmed and hawed and generally complained loudly about his injury and was subsequently transported to a local hospital where

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"I am going to Washington tomorrow to harangue a meeting of newspaper editors. It is always a depressing job. They are, taking one with another, a very innocent class of men. They always believe, deep down in their hearts, whatever they hear from official bigwigs." ~ H.L. Mencken; letter to Theodore Dreiser, 1939.Rolling in the wake of the Scooter Libby wipeout came the habitual sack cloth and

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I. Lewis Libby takes to pen and the further composition of chivalric poesy:Scooter rider on the stormScooter rider on the stormInto the White House he was borneInto a whirlwind he is thrownLike an arc without a JoanA sling without a stoneScooter rider on the stormThere's a Miller on the roadHer brain is squirmin’ like a toadTake a long and tacit turnWatch the aspens churnIf ya give this witch a

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Justin Raimondo (antiwar.com)The Italian strategy was to enter the factional conflict on the side of the Cheney-ites. As a liaison to those circles, Defense Minister Antonio Martino recommended "an old friend of Italy," one Michael Ledeen – neoconservative ideologue and veteran of "parallel intelligence" work from his days as broker of the Iran-Contra "arms for hostages" deal. Just as Ledeen

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Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Lawyers Report The notes, taken by Mr. Libby during the conversation, for the first time place Mr. Cheney in the middle of an effort by the White House to learn about Ms. Wilson's husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, who was questioning the administration's handling of intelligence about Iraq's nuclear program to justify the war. [NYTimes, October 25, 2005]~ coup de

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*click image for larger view*Barbara Bush named as potential VP in the event of Cheney resignation.(FHN) Washington political insiders are scambling to confirm rumors that former first lady Barbara Bush may be slated to replace current VP Dick Cheney in the event Mr. Cheney decides to resign his office for unhealthy reasons. Or to spend more time with his family in an undisclosed location.The

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Something about Judy:Judy told The Times that she plans to write a book and intends to return to the newsroom, hoping to cover "the same thing I've always covered - threats to our country." If that were to happen, the institution most in danger would be the newspaper in your hands. ~ Woman of Mass Destruction, by Maureen Dowd (NYTimes) October 22, 2005PART ONEWhen Journalists Join the Cover-upsBy

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Separation of Church and State? -- Never! The founding fathers would intend no such thing:The political system of the Islamic Republic of Iran is at once fiendishly complex and extremely simple. Most of the Iranians I met preferred to stress the complexity. The country has at least two governments at any one time: a semi-democratic formal state structure, now headed by President Mahmoud

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...Francesco Pazienza, Italy's P-2 Lodge, Larry Franklin, AIPAC spy nest, Harold Rhodes, Douglas Feith, Office of Special Plans, Manucher Ghorbanifer, Iran-Contra... and on and on and on. Putting the pieces of the puzzle together...What do all these people, organizations, and more, have in common? Just read this Ko's Diary entry for a recent comprehensive rundown: Niger Yellowcake and The Man Who

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“I am the Good Shepherd . . . I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice. So there will be one flock, one Shepherd.”ET lives . . . and he's ChristianThe Times, UK, Ruth Gledhill, Oct. 18, 2005 There is probably intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe, and there is evidence in the Bible to suggest that it could be Christian,

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Originally posted to Corrente on July 16, 2005 - See: "Creative Destruction" in the Rovian Grove"The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread" (Milton)Justin Raimondo (AntiWar.com) writes [July 15, 2005]:When Rove and his shills blabbed to reporters and anyone who would listen, they didn't realize that they

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Casting Call!A WHIG Playhouse Theatre Production presents! (you will have to visit the above link to make sense of the following. Sorry, I know it's complicated, but the show must go on)I'll take Super Dave Osborne as Andrew Card. Juliette Lewis as Condi Rice (Yeah, I know, but it's the slutty part that counts). Bo Dietl as Nicholas E. Calio. Chevy Chase as Stephen Hadley. And Christopher Walken

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Is it just me, or does Harriet Miers look like Yasir Arafat in drag?Speaking of fat: in publishing news... and i'd just like to point out here that if Dick Cheney continues to lose any more blood vessels he's going to eventually come to resemble the dredged carcass of some ghastly giant boilded mutant shrimp. Some gelatinous pink lump with one black artery running from the base of his skull to

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71 Years Ago:"...the old-fashioned farmer has been supplanted by a type to which the term can no longer be applied with accuracy. The new farmer is a grower. He is only semi-rural. Often he regards his farm as a business and has it incorporated. He belongs to a number of wealthy produce exchanges; he is a director of several "protective associations." Moreover, he has a hand in State politics. He

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~ " ~ Back in 1938, when fascism was sweeping Europe, legendary investigative reporter George Seldes observed (in his book, The Lords of the Press) that "it is possible to fool all the people all the time - when government and press cooperate." Unfortunately, we have reached that point. ~ " ~ ( from: The Mighty Wurlitzer Plays On, by Gary Webb )"America's Debt to Journalist Gary Webb"By Robert

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"public diplomacy", propaganda, and the NED"I will send you a proposal to double the budget of the National Endowment for Democracy, and to focus its new work on the development of free elections, and free markets, free press, and free labor unions in the Middle East. And above all, we will finish the historic work of democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq, so those nations can light the way for

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How Rotten Are These Guys?"A gangland killing in Florida is the latest scandal implicating business associates of powerhouse Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff -- and embarrassing the GOP hierarchy in Washington. The murder also is a reminder of the Bush family's long association with underworld characters who have plied the murky world between organized crime and power politics." - (published

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Farm Runoff Homeschooling Heroic Legacy Story Project: a true facts history lesson for heroes of all ages.Many Americans won't remember the great contributions Ronald Reagan made to our nation. Many were too young to remember. Many were too old. Many were either too old or too young but won't remember in any case because they simply can't remember much of anything in the first place. They

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Note to visitors: Please, if you haven't done so already, take some time to read The Real Threat of Fascism by Paul Bigioni and posted to Common Dreams on Friday Sept. 30. And then come back here and read what Anthony Turano wrote in 1934 following his visit to Mussolini's fascist Italy. Or, if you'd prefer, read Turano's observations below first and then go read what Bigioni has written. Either

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Welcome to Obscurity. A quiet place, imperfectly drawn and difficult to understand. The future home of Pete and Kitty Deer, Mr. Peeg, the Great Possum, and Mr and Mrs P-Niss & V-Niss Genitalia. *

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"You know only - A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, - And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, - And the dry stone no sound of water. - Only - There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), - And I will show you something different from either - Your shadow at morning striding behind you - Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you

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Then and Now:I had seen for years how effectively the president could lie about his policies, with the safe assumption that his lies would not be exposed. That assumption was based on his subordinates' loyalty to him, to their bosses, and to their own careers and on the effective strength of their promises and oaths to keep secrets, no matter what was concealed or what the evident impact of the

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Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilize their country. ~ George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2004 I doubt very much that George W. Bush recognized the ironic idiocy contained within his own statement above. Nuance, afterall, is not his thang. Not that I'm surprised. The existence of the entire Bush diktat seems to rely soley upon ironic

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THEN (1950) and NOW (2004)"Homosexuals in Goverment - 1950"I haven't heard too many anti-gay marriage Republicans or pundits or right wing media squawk toys bellowing lately about the God blessed sanctity of the Declaration of Independence. You know, only recently they couldn't shut up about it. Maybe they actually read it and this part made them nervous:"We hold these truths to be self evident:

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The "Law of Godwin Analogies": As an online discussion of fascism grows longer, the probability of someone invoking "Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies"* approaches one. See: *Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."Goodwin's Law of Usenet. Professor Goodwin, U of I, in 1981 made the observation

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I'd like to speak to all of you about an alarming developing trend that has been bothering me for some time. Namely the contagion of kitty cat pornography (aka: "catblogging") coursing its way through the circulatory system of our nation's cultural body politic.First of all let me just say that I have nothing against kitty cats. I like kitty cats too. I too struggle with a bakers dozen, at least,

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Continued from Corrente.....And what the hell does "Judeo-Christian" mean? And is it really anything at all aside from a marketing token? Maybe I missed an issue of the Weekly Standard or a special greeting from David Brickner, I can't be sure, but in any case, wouldn't a more correct term, at the least, be Judaic? As in Judaic-Christian. Or is "Judeo-Christian" some kind of variant of that whole

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