Raced home yesterday, cleaned this, that, the other, ran all the eBay stuff back upstairs, decided that the downstairs vacuum cleaner was awful, used the broom on the stairs, and while all of this was going on, the cable came back on.
What a deal!
So, the front room is looking better, the back room is looking good - tonight and this weekend, I'm shampooing the stairs, scrubbing the floors downstairs (hands and knees, it's a family thing,) and doing the usual - laundry, etc. I have a bunch of wires, extension cords and cables to prettify, which will take a little time tomorrow, especially since the stereo rack needs to come away from the wall, and something positive needs done with the rat's nest back there. If only T were available to help me, NO ONE is better at cleaning up cable runs than is T. Have to hook up the TV in Bram's room and my room to the cable lines. And, after all of this, I think I'm actually done moving in.
I am wondering what's involved in digging out a Wandering Jew....
Had a great time hanging out with Nicole and Nancy last night, we just had a blast sitting around and yammering about stuff and catching up.
DJHJD
Friday, June 08, 2007
Thursday, June 07, 2007
After weeks of trying to find someone to come do it, asking friends to come help me figure out how to plant it, avoiding going out there because as a teenager I HATED being sent out to weed and/or mow, but yesterday I walked out with Jackie and the hateful next door neighbor was walking her daughter's dog, was scowling in the direction of my front door again, and pulled some weeds, turned and THREW THEM ON MY WALK. Lovely Christian woman that she is. Now, after only an hour's effort (I think, it felt like two) and a trash bag full of .. vegetable matter, the front patch is .. cleaned up somewhat.
John and Matticia have both told me that the Wandering Jew needs to come out of there else it take over. Well, fie and fiddlesticks. Maybe it can be put into a pot and take over from a Mount or something. Bring down some clay tablets.
I'm never going out to win the neighborhood association's yard of the month award, but I would like it to look tidier and pleasant. Carla, where are you with your design skills?
I need to do some running around today. Two of my best lady friends are coming over tonight for wine and crackers, and I have to get home early enough to clean the floors and take the eBay stuff (most of which isn't selling at ALL, that's quite the annoyance after investing all that time into it) upstairs.
John and Matticia have both told me that the Wandering Jew needs to come out of there else it take over. Well, fie and fiddlesticks. Maybe it can be put into a pot and take over from a Mount or something. Bring down some clay tablets.
I'm never going out to win the neighborhood association's yard of the month award, but I would like it to look tidier and pleasant. Carla, where are you with your design skills?
I need to do some running around today. Two of my best lady friends are coming over tonight for wine and crackers, and I have to get home early enough to clean the floors and take the eBay stuff (most of which isn't selling at ALL, that's quite the annoyance after investing all that time into it) upstairs.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
A Heart Attack
An elderly man suffered a massive heart attack and his family drove
wildly to get him to the emergency room.
After what seemed like a very long wait, the E.R.
Doctor appeared, wearing his scrubs and a long face.
Sadly, he said, "I'm afraid he is brain-dead, but his heart is still
beating."
"Oh, dear God," cried his wife, her hands clasped against her cheeks
with shock! "We've never had a Republican in the family!"
An elderly man suffered a massive heart attack and his family drove
wildly to get him to the emergency room.
After what seemed like a very long wait, the E.R.
Doctor appeared, wearing his scrubs and a long face.
Sadly, he said, "I'm afraid he is brain-dead, but his heart is still
beating."
"Oh, dear God," cried his wife, her hands clasped against her cheeks
with shock! "We've never had a Republican in the family!"
Monday, June 04, 2007
The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom
by Greg Palast
This Monica revealed something hotter — much hotter — than a stained blue dress. In her opening testimony yesterday before the House Judiciary Committee, Monica Goodling, the blonde-ling underling to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Department of Justice Liaison to the White House, dropped The Big One….And the Committee members didn’t even know it.
Goodling testified that Gonzales’ Chief of Staff, Kyle Sampson, perjured himself, lying to the committee in earlier testimony. The lie: Sampson denied Monica had told him about Tim Griffin’s “involvement in ‘caging’ voters” in 2004.
Huh?? Tim Griffin? “Caging”???
The perplexed committee members hadn’t a clue — and asked no substantive questions about it thereafter. Karl Rove is still smiling. If the members had gotten the clue, and asked the right questions, they would have found “the keys to the kingdom,” they thought they were looking for. They dangled right in front of their perplexed faces.
The keys: the missing emails — and missing link — that could send Griffin and his boss, Rove, to the slammer for a long, long time.
Kingdom enough for ya?
But what’s ‘caging’ and why is it such a dreadful secret that lawyer Sampson put his license to practice and his freedom on the line to cover Tim Griffin’s involvement in it? Because it’s a felony. And a big one.
Our BBC team broke the story at the top of the nightly news everywhere on the planet - except the USA - only because America’s news networks simply refused to cover this evidence of the electoral coup d’etat that chose our President in 2004.
Here’s how caging worked, and along with Griffin’s thoughtful emails themselves you’ll understand it all in no time.
The Bush-Cheney operatives sent hundreds of thousands of letters marked “Do not forward” to voters’ homes. Letters returned (”caged”) were used as evidence to block these voters’ right to cast a ballot on grounds they were registered at phony addresses. Who were the evil fakers? Homeless men, students on vacation and — you got to love this — American soldiers. Oh yeah: most of them are Black voters.
Why weren’t these African-American voters home when the Republican letters arrived? The homeless men were on park benches, the students were on vacation — and the soldiers were overseas. Go to Baghdad, lose your vote. Mission Accomplished.
How do I know? I have the caging lists…
I have them because they are attached to the emails Rove insists can’t be found. I have the emails. 500 of them — sent to our team at BBC after the Rove-bots accidentally sent them to a web domain owned by our friend John Wooden.
Here’s what you need to know — and the Committee would have discovered, if only they’d asked:
1. ‘Caging’ voters is a crime, a go-to-jail felony.
2. Griffin wasn’t “involved” in the caging, Ms. Goodling. Griffin, Rove’s right-hand man (right-hand claw), was directing the illegal purge and challenge campaign. How do I know? It’s in the email I got. Thanks. And it’s posted below.
3. On December 7, 2006, the ragin’, cagin’ Griffin was named, on Rove’s personal demand, US Attorney for Arkansas. Perpetrator became prosecutor.
The committee was perplexed about Monica’s panicked admission and accusations about the caging list because the US press never covered it. That’s because, as Griffin wrote to Goodling in yet another email (dated February 6 of this year, and also posted below), their caging operation only made the news on BBC London: busted open, Griffin bitched, by that “British reporter,” Greg Palast.
There’s no pride in this. Our BBC team broke the story at the top of the nightly news everywhere on the planet — except the USA — only because America’s news networks simply refused to cover this evidence of the electoral coup d’etat that chose our President in 2004.
And now, not bothering to understand the astonishing revelation in Goodling’s confessional, they are missing the real story behind the firing of the US attorneys. It’s not about removing prosecutors disloyal to Bush, it’s about replacing those who refused to aid the theft of the vote in 2004 with those prepared to burgle it again in 2008.
Now that they have the keys, let’s see if they can put them in the right door. The clock is ticking ladies and gents…
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US Attorney Resigns Following Conyers’ Request for BBC Documents
by Greg Palast
June 1, 2007
Tim Griffin, formerly right hand man to Karl Rove, resigned Thursday as US Attorney for Arkansas hours after BBC Television ‘Newsnight’ reported that Congressman John Conyers requested the network’s evidence on Griffin’s involvement in ‘caging voters.’ Greg Palast, reporting for BBC Newsnight, obtained a series of confidential emails from the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign. In these emails, Griffin, then the GOP Deputy Communications Director, transmitted so-called ‘caging lists’ of voters to state party leaders.
Experts have concluded the caging lists were designed for a mass challenge of voters’ right to cast ballots. The caging lists were heavily weighted with minority voters including homeless individuals, students and soldiers sent overseas.
Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee investigating the firing of US Attorneys, met Thursday evening in New York with Palast. After reviewing key documents, Conyers stated that, despite Griffin’s resignation, “We’re not through with him by any means.”
Conyers indicated to the BBC that he thought it unlikely that Griffin could carry out this massive ‘caging’ operation without the knowledge of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Rove.
Griffin has not responded to requests by BBC to explain this 'caging' operation. However, in emails subpoenaed by Conyers' committee, Griffin complains to Monica Goodling, an assistant to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, about the BBC reporter's reproduction of caging lists in Palast's book, "Armed Madhouse."
In the email dated February 5 of this year, Griffin stated that the purpose of 'caging' was to identify "fraudulent" voters. This contradicts one explanation of the Bush campaign to BBC that the lists were of potential donors and not in any way created to challenge voters.
Griffin confidentially wrote: "The real story is this: There were thousands of reported illegal/fake voter registrations around the country, so some of the Republican State Parties mailed letters welcoming new voters to the newly registered voters. … The Republican State Parties ultimately wanted to show that thousands of fraudulent registrations had been completed."
Last Wednesday, Goodling testified under a grant of immunity before the House Judiciary Committee that Gonzales' Deputy Paul McNulty, "failed to disclose that he had some knowledge of allegations that Tim Griffin had been involved in vote 'caging' during his work on the President's 2004 campaign."
Goodling's testimony prompted Conyers' request to the BBC for the Griffin emails.
Last night Palast showed Conyers a Griffin email from August 2004 indicating that Griffin not only knew of 'caging,' but directed the operation.
And check out this story from Slate: Raging Caging - What the heck is vote caging, and why should we care? Here: http://www.slate.com/id/2167284/pagenum/all/#page_start
Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, ARMED MADHOUSE: From Baghdad to New Orleans -- Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild. For information, go to www.GregPalast.com
by Greg Palast
This Monica revealed something hotter — much hotter — than a stained blue dress. In her opening testimony yesterday before the House Judiciary Committee, Monica Goodling, the blonde-ling underling to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Department of Justice Liaison to the White House, dropped The Big One….And the Committee members didn’t even know it.
Goodling testified that Gonzales’ Chief of Staff, Kyle Sampson, perjured himself, lying to the committee in earlier testimony. The lie: Sampson denied Monica had told him about Tim Griffin’s “involvement in ‘caging’ voters” in 2004.
Huh?? Tim Griffin? “Caging”???
The perplexed committee members hadn’t a clue — and asked no substantive questions about it thereafter. Karl Rove is still smiling. If the members had gotten the clue, and asked the right questions, they would have found “the keys to the kingdom,” they thought they were looking for. They dangled right in front of their perplexed faces.
The keys: the missing emails — and missing link — that could send Griffin and his boss, Rove, to the slammer for a long, long time.
Kingdom enough for ya?
But what’s ‘caging’ and why is it such a dreadful secret that lawyer Sampson put his license to practice and his freedom on the line to cover Tim Griffin’s involvement in it? Because it’s a felony. And a big one.
Our BBC team broke the story at the top of the nightly news everywhere on the planet - except the USA - only because America’s news networks simply refused to cover this evidence of the electoral coup d’etat that chose our President in 2004.
Here’s how caging worked, and along with Griffin’s thoughtful emails themselves you’ll understand it all in no time.
The Bush-Cheney operatives sent hundreds of thousands of letters marked “Do not forward” to voters’ homes. Letters returned (”caged”) were used as evidence to block these voters’ right to cast a ballot on grounds they were registered at phony addresses. Who were the evil fakers? Homeless men, students on vacation and — you got to love this — American soldiers. Oh yeah: most of them are Black voters.
Why weren’t these African-American voters home when the Republican letters arrived? The homeless men were on park benches, the students were on vacation — and the soldiers were overseas. Go to Baghdad, lose your vote. Mission Accomplished.
How do I know? I have the caging lists…
I have them because they are attached to the emails Rove insists can’t be found. I have the emails. 500 of them — sent to our team at BBC after the Rove-bots accidentally sent them to a web domain owned by our friend John Wooden.
Here’s what you need to know — and the Committee would have discovered, if only they’d asked:
1. ‘Caging’ voters is a crime, a go-to-jail felony.
2. Griffin wasn’t “involved” in the caging, Ms. Goodling. Griffin, Rove’s right-hand man (right-hand claw), was directing the illegal purge and challenge campaign. How do I know? It’s in the email I got. Thanks. And it’s posted below.
3. On December 7, 2006, the ragin’, cagin’ Griffin was named, on Rove’s personal demand, US Attorney for Arkansas. Perpetrator became prosecutor.
The committee was perplexed about Monica’s panicked admission and accusations about the caging list because the US press never covered it. That’s because, as Griffin wrote to Goodling in yet another email (dated February 6 of this year, and also posted below), their caging operation only made the news on BBC London: busted open, Griffin bitched, by that “British reporter,” Greg Palast.
There’s no pride in this. Our BBC team broke the story at the top of the nightly news everywhere on the planet — except the USA — only because America’s news networks simply refused to cover this evidence of the electoral coup d’etat that chose our President in 2004.
And now, not bothering to understand the astonishing revelation in Goodling’s confessional, they are missing the real story behind the firing of the US attorneys. It’s not about removing prosecutors disloyal to Bush, it’s about replacing those who refused to aid the theft of the vote in 2004 with those prepared to burgle it again in 2008.
Now that they have the keys, let’s see if they can put them in the right door. The clock is ticking ladies and gents…
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US Attorney Resigns Following Conyers’ Request for BBC Documents
by Greg Palast
June 1, 2007
Tim Griffin, formerly right hand man to Karl Rove, resigned Thursday as US Attorney for Arkansas hours after BBC Television ‘Newsnight’ reported that Congressman John Conyers requested the network’s evidence on Griffin’s involvement in ‘caging voters.’ Greg Palast, reporting for BBC Newsnight, obtained a series of confidential emails from the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign. In these emails, Griffin, then the GOP Deputy Communications Director, transmitted so-called ‘caging lists’ of voters to state party leaders.
Experts have concluded the caging lists were designed for a mass challenge of voters’ right to cast ballots. The caging lists were heavily weighted with minority voters including homeless individuals, students and soldiers sent overseas.
Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee investigating the firing of US Attorneys, met Thursday evening in New York with Palast. After reviewing key documents, Conyers stated that, despite Griffin’s resignation, “We’re not through with him by any means.”
Conyers indicated to the BBC that he thought it unlikely that Griffin could carry out this massive ‘caging’ operation without the knowledge of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Rove.
Griffin has not responded to requests by BBC to explain this 'caging' operation. However, in emails subpoenaed by Conyers' committee, Griffin complains to Monica Goodling, an assistant to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, about the BBC reporter's reproduction of caging lists in Palast's book, "Armed Madhouse."
In the email dated February 5 of this year, Griffin stated that the purpose of 'caging' was to identify "fraudulent" voters. This contradicts one explanation of the Bush campaign to BBC that the lists were of potential donors and not in any way created to challenge voters.
Griffin confidentially wrote: "The real story is this: There were thousands of reported illegal/fake voter registrations around the country, so some of the Republican State Parties mailed letters welcoming new voters to the newly registered voters. … The Republican State Parties ultimately wanted to show that thousands of fraudulent registrations had been completed."
Last Wednesday, Goodling testified under a grant of immunity before the House Judiciary Committee that Gonzales' Deputy Paul McNulty, "failed to disclose that he had some knowledge of allegations that Tim Griffin had been involved in vote 'caging' during his work on the President's 2004 campaign."
Goodling's testimony prompted Conyers' request to the BBC for the Griffin emails.
Last night Palast showed Conyers a Griffin email from August 2004 indicating that Griffin not only knew of 'caging,' but directed the operation.
And check out this story from Slate: Raging Caging - What the heck is vote caging, and why should we care? Here: http://www.slate.com/id/2167284/pagenum/all/#page_start
Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, ARMED MADHOUSE: From Baghdad to New Orleans -- Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild. For information, go to www.GregPalast.com
Sunday, June 03, 2007
This is an awesome airplane take-off video!
This was the first 747 passenger flight from Bournemouth Airport, UK, destination New York. Bournemouth has a short runway so this was an incredibly dramatic take off for the 747. Listen for a guy in the background saying "its not gunna make it!" and "Jesus christ!"
This was the first 747 passenger flight from Bournemouth Airport, UK, destination New York. Bournemouth has a short runway so this was an incredibly dramatic take off for the 747. Listen for a guy in the background saying "its not gunna make it!" and "Jesus christ!"
I think I figured it out -
This morning, while searching for articles on a "24" actor, James Badge Dale, I happened across some articles about Jeff Gannon/Jim Guckert, the former gay prostitute/uncredentialed journalist who entered the White House more than 200 times, had public record issues that would have normally prevented him entry, and whose exit was undocumented and unexplained many times.
Basically:
Gannon - gay prostitute (and a hot one, I must add)
White House entry passes which did an end run around security and procedure
White House press corps day passes under a false name, and which no one else could get
Entries into the White House during evenings that the President was not in residence
So, what big fag in the White House that had that much authority and that much support of Geo. W could have waived in a smoking hot prostie and given him (the prostie) a quid pro quo of the press access in exchange for asking the president prepared questions?
(edited) I have my ideas...
If you want some fun, go read ol' Jeff's "political" blog which has no information, just re-hash of Ann Coulter, Rush and other members of the screaming hit parade whose mission it is to sanctify and protect white, heterosexual, Protestant, entitled males. You can find that at http://www.jeffgannon.com
I threw up in my mouth a little when I read the first few articles. At least he's hot looking; little else is offered in the way of substance.
This morning, while searching for articles on a "24" actor, James Badge Dale, I happened across some articles about Jeff Gannon/Jim Guckert, the former gay prostitute/uncredentialed journalist who entered the White House more than 200 times, had public record issues that would have normally prevented him entry, and whose exit was undocumented and unexplained many times.
Basically:
Gannon - gay prostitute (and a hot one, I must add)
White House entry passes which did an end run around security and procedure
White House press corps day passes under a false name, and which no one else could get
Entries into the White House during evenings that the President was not in residence
So, what big fag in the White House that had that much authority and that much support of Geo. W could have waived in a smoking hot prostie and given him (the prostie) a quid pro quo of the press access in exchange for asking the president prepared questions?
(edited) I have my ideas...
If you want some fun, go read ol' Jeff's "political" blog which has no information, just re-hash of Ann Coulter, Rush and other members of the screaming hit parade whose mission it is to sanctify and protect white, heterosexual, Protestant, entitled males. You can find that at http://www.jeffgannon.com
I threw up in my mouth a little when I read the first few articles. At least he's hot looking; little else is offered in the way of substance.
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