Repetition does not transform
a lie into a truth.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The truth
is that Bush just likes to blow things up
-- in Iraq, in the United States and in Congress.
-- U.S. Representative Pete Stark
18 October 2007
Wednesday
7 November 2007
Deep End
News
Container ship hits Bay Bridge tower
baycitynews
Whatta notta surprise . . .Rapture Rescue 911:
Disaster Response for the Chosen
Naomi Klein, thenation
Matt Mathes had been with the U.S. Forest Service for nearly 30 years
Forest Service stalwart
shoots wife, dogs and self
Erin Allday, sfgate
John Edwards for President:
Support the Troops. End the War.
sign up: johnedwards.com
Women for Edwards here
Slow Loc@l link . . .
Tuesday
6 November 2007
"The time for sacrifice has come,
to rise up for the supremacy of the constitution."
Pakistan judge urges
anti-Musharraf uprising
Masroor Gilani, AFP
Major case against private military contractor
Corporation Responsible for Interrogations at Abu Ghraib Will Be Tried by Jury for Torture
Center for Constitutional Rights
Can't tell the players without a programme:dreadlocks, dark makeup and prison stripes was deemed by Myers and two other managers as the "most original" at the party
Myers was installed in her post by Bush after it became clear she might not
win Senate confirmation
niece of General Richard B. Myers, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, married to former chief of staff to Chertoff.
The museum's offices are a mile from the Washington Monument, a mile and a half from the White House and a little over a mile from the Capitol . . .
Robert A. Singer, 49
CEO of National Children's Museum distributed child porn, officials say cnn
Larry Neumeister, AP
About a dozen students stayed at his house periodically as part of an academy program that places students in private homes on weekends.
Chicago police tasered
82-year-old woman
Don Babwin, AP
Romney Gets Major Backer
on the Right
Michael Lui, NYT
Better vote for . . .
John Edwards for President:
Support the Troops. End the War.
sign up: johnedwards.com
Women for Edwards here
Tuesday 4:20p Update:
According to the BOS office, this 3p timed item will soon begin.
Hear it on KMEC
LP FM . . .
Ukiah broadcast: 105.1
Mendocino County
Board of Supervisors . . . .
See 6 November Agenda
Consent Calendar item 8(e)
Criminal Justice Committee
(Supervisors Delbar and Wattenburger)
Timed Item – 3:00 p.m.:
"Discussion and Possible Action Including Introduction and Waive the Reading
of the Marijuana Cultivation Ordinance Adding Chapter 9.31 to Title 9 of the
Mendocino County Code, and in Accordance with SB 420 [link] and Health and Safety
Code Section 11362.77 [link]"
Sunday
4 November 2007
Teevee tonight: 60 Minutes (CBS)
Military land grab in U.S.:"Five million acres is comprable to 7,812 square miles -- an area about the size of New Jersey."
Military land grab in Pakistan:
AP: Police rounded up hundreds of opposition leaders and rights activists Sunday after Pakistan's military ruler suspended the constitution . . .
BushCo "has given Pakistan more than $10 billion in aid, mostly to the military, since 2001."
Military land grab in Iraq:Allawi: 'Martial law needed to get Iraq back on track'
Barbara Bibbo', gulfnews
Lobbyist aims to put Allawi back in the Iraqi prime minister's seat
Elisabeth Bumiller, IHT
Cannabis replaces opium poppies in Afghan province
Kirk Semple,
NYT
It's time to tell the truth. And the truth is the system in Washington is corrupt. It is rigged by the powerful special interests to benefit they very few at the expense of the many.
In Iowa Speech, Edwards Demands Answers From Clinton On NAFTA Expansion
David Sirota, sirotablog
John Edwards for President:
Support the Troops. End the War.
sign up: johnedwards.com
Women for Edwards here
Slow Loc@lJonestown County Journalism:
all the news that's not
"Mendocino County's local newspaper", the right-wing MediaNews clone in Ukiah, again imposes
a half-page of recycled editorial blabla from Boonville on its paying print readers. Adding fluff to filler, UDJ Editor K.C. Meadows, as usual, identifies writer
Mark Scaramella as "a Philo resident" -- not mentioning that Scaramella's a partner in Boonville's
terrorist "newspaper", where the "story" -- rehashing Protection and Advocacy's 2000 report on the Ukiah Police killing (in 1998) of Marvin Noble -- previously appeared (on 24 October, co-credited to the organ's discredited
"editor", now of San Francisco).
Hmmm: what's this? "The LIE is the cornerstone of organized stalking . . .
Call it "an extra-judicial corrections system", or call it "KKK for everyone."
Uh-oh: World's First Nanoradio Could Lead to Subcellular Remote-Control Interfaces . . .
. . . more Slow Loc@lFriday
2 November 2007
Creepy North Coast . . .
Dan Holbrook has been an employee of Potter Valley High School for the last five years ...
The District Attorney's Office is encouraging anyone with information relating to this case to contact DA investigator Christy Conrardy at 463-4523.
Potter Valley High Teacher charged with child molestation
Ukiah Daily Journal
"Check
Megans Website on a weekly basis and know who your neighbors are."
Kirk, who is a married father, is being held on $335,000 bail in the Sonoma County Jail.
Prez pimps press . . .
Der Decider summons reporters for off-the-record
"preview" -- "the speech he was to give later in the day was getting very little attention. "
More on HR 1955 "thought crime bill" (
See 28 October, below)
"The revival of these witch hunts is not being headed up by Republicans, but by Democrat Representative Jane Harmon of California's 36th District."
* 2004 - 2005 --
old but good . . .The DSM and
the Mental Illness of George W. Bush
Poll and notes by Ariadne Unst
George Bush’s mental health must be a consideration in the November elections
Michael Berglin, pravda.ru
Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides
Doug Thompson, capitolhillblue