Dalton could sound like Billie Holiday, and she had the striking beauty of a Walker Evans dustbowl portrait. Bob Dylan called her his favorite singer from the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s.
Greetings from the little old librarian.
It was Sen. John McCain's staff who asked security at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts to remove people holding protest signs at the venue -- not U.S. Secret Service agents, who were not involved in Carol Kreck's ouster from the galleria.
It's been quite a week for me, McCain, the police and the Secret Service. While I may write more later, there are a couple issues I would like to address now -- but first, an excerpt from today's Denver Post story by Felisa Cardona:
Suesan Heroux, 63, of Port Townsend, (WA) begged her son to outfit a car for her so she could participate in destruction derbies. "It makes me feel very alive," she said...
..."When I'm waiting out there for them to give me the flag, my whole focus is on the ramp," Heroux said. "I don't want to miss the ramp."
She's never missed it. Known as "Grandma Hook," Heroux showed a knack for "rolling" from the beginning. On her first try, she turned her car all the way around and finished right side up, garnering five points.
She also broke the skin on both of her knuckles...
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But before she could roll, Susan Heroux faced another challenge — she needed to lose about 100 pounds. Because the doors are welded shut, the windows are the only way to enter the car.
"I really had to prove how serious I was, and I was very, very serious," Heroux said. "I needed to get small enough to crawl out of a car window."
The Big Penis Book is out. Bet you didn't know there was a Big Breast book, too, but you're not surprised. Okay, nuff said.
Big shoulders, big lapels, and big hair may come and go, but the big penis never goes out of fashion. With those possessing more than 8 inches (20 cm) making up less than 2% of the world’s population, this rare accessory will always fascinate.
UPDATE BELOW Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said this morning that the House Judiciary Committee may hold hearings on an impeachment resolution offered by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio). Kucinich is expected to offer a "privileged resolution" this afternoon calling on the House to look at whether President Bush should be removed from office for lying to Congress and the American public when he sought congressional approval back in 2002 for taking military action to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein. Pelosi has said previously that impeachment "was off the table," so her comments this morning were surprising, and clearly signaled a new willingness to entertain the idea of ousting Bush, although no one in the Democratic leadership believes that is likely since the president has only six months left in this term. "This is a Judiciary Committee matter, and I believe we will some attention being paid to it by the Judiciary Committee," Pelosi told reporters. "Not necessarily taking up the articles of impeachment because that would have to be approved on the floor, but to have some hearings on the subject." Pelosi added: "My expectation is that there will be some review of that in the committee." A spokesman for the House Judiciary Committee had no immediate comment when asked whether Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the panel's chairman, planned hearings on Kucinich's impeachment resolutions.Copyright 2008 POLITICO
UPDATE II:Once they have called for hearings and they are taking place THEN they have to turn over the documents and they can't claim privilege!!! (from a Daily kos commenter) That means Rove, Meirs, Bolton, not Bush. The House Judiciary Committe can try them for inherent contempt.UPDATE: Quote o' teh day:"If impeachment is off the table, can we at least kick it around the floor a bit?" Also, this might be worth watching. Is impeachment discussion a way to get those Bush administration officials who refused to testify citing executive privilege before a committee?
You liked Barack because you thought he could get us past the old brain-dead politics, right? He talked — and talked and talked — about how there were going to be no more red states and blue states, how he was going to bring Americans together, including Republicans and Democrats. Exactly where did everybody think this gathering was going to take place? Left field?
© UNESCO/Sigurdur Á. ThráinssonThe World Heritage Committee added eight natural sites and 19 cultural sites to UNESCO's World Heritage List of cultural, natural, and mixed properties that have "outstanding universal value."The new natural sites include:
Surtsey, a volcanic island in the North Atlantic, approximately 32 km off Iceland’s south coast, has scientific importance because of the detailed records kept of the eruption that formed it, its modifications by later geological and geomorphic processes, and its ongoing colonisation by plants and animals.
Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
...Experiments demonstrate that readers of ideograms, such as the Chinese, develop a mental circuitry for reading that is very different from the circuitry found in those of us whose written language employs an alphabet. The variations extend across many regions of the brain, including those that govern such essential cognitive functions as memory and the interpretation of visual and auditory stimuli. We can expect as well that the circuits woven by our use of the Net will be different from those woven by our reading of books and other printed works. Sometime in 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche bought a typewriter—a Malling-Hansen Writing Ball, to be precise. His vision was failing, and keeping his eyes focused on a page had become exhausting and painful, often bringing on crushing headaches. He had been forced to curtail his writing, and he feared that he would soon have to give it up. The typewriter rescued him, at least for a time. Once he had mastered touch-typing, he was able to write with his eyes closed, using only the tips of his fingers. Words could once again flow from his mind to the page... Under the sway of the machine, writes the German media scholar Friedrich A. Kittler, Nietzsche’s prose “changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.”
Wash the potatoes thoroughly. Boil in water until ready.Peel the potatoes.Serve hot as a meal with any legume stew, groundnut stew, sour milk, tea, porridge or mashed with beans. It can also be eaten hot or cold as a snack.
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What is most striking is that when the Congress was controlled by the GOP -- when the Senate was run by Bill Frist and the House by Denny Hastert -- the Bush administration attempted to have a bill passed very similar to the one that just passed today. But they were unable to do so. The administration had to wait until Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats took over Congress before being able to put a corrupt end to the scandal that began when, in December of 2005, the New York Times revealed that the President had been breaking the law for years by spying on Americans without the warrants required by law.
What the researchers at MIT found was that even in the U.S. people with the lowest energy usage, a homeless person, a five-year-old and a Buddhist monk, all have a carbon footprint twice as large as the average global citizen. This is because the services provided for every American, including infrastructure and public services, guarantee set a baseline that no American can drop below.
Wolfe, who calls himself “the social secretary of neuroscience,” often turns to current research to inform his stories and cultural commentary. His 1996 essay, “Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died,” raised questions about personal responsibility in the age of genetic predeterminism. Similar concerns led Gazzaniga to found the Law and Neuroscience Project. When Gazzaniga, who just published Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique, was last in New York, Seed incited a discussion: on status, free will, and the human condition.
If so, go here. (No, I haven't. Not enough time. But I will. Soon. Tomorrow, maybe.)Sex with animals is perfectly legal for men in Washington state, as long as the animal weighs less than 40 pounds.The reason I suspect it is because we had a local story in the newspaper I used to work for in which a woman who happened to be holding her cell phone went to the screen door to the call her husband in and found him fucking the family dog. She took his picture with the phone, then called the cops, who arrested him. He was arrested and convicted of animal abuse. Did it weigh less than 40 pounds. I'm not sure. I just don't believe there is such a law in Washington, home of Passado's law.
From David Brody of the Christian BroadcastingImportantly, though, they did not concede that he was not a muslim or that he's not a scary black man.....
One last question on Guantanamo. What to do with all the prisoners? My opinion? Well, seeing as we have all of these gentlemen who have been incarcerated as prisoners of war, before we release them, we ought to thoroughly vet these prisoners to see if any of them have crashed five planes. I've been told that wartime incarceration, when combined with pilot incompetence, makes for the ideal GOP candidate.
2nd Thought: Kerry for veep? Hmm.
">" border="0" alt="" />According to energy policy experts, it was in the late 1980s and early 1990s — during the administrations of President George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton — that things began to go wrong. Before that point, the country reaped the benefits of the first fuel-economy standards, passed in 1975, known as corporate average fuel economy, or CAFE. Between 1974 and 1989, the efficiency of a typical car sold in the United States almost doubled, to 27.5 miles per gallon from 13.8. LARGELY as a result, oil consumption in 1990 totaled 16.9 million barrels, basically on a par with the 17 million barrels consumed in 1980, even as the economy grew substantially. Oil prices were in the middle of a long downward slide that would take them from well above $30 a barrel in 1980 to a low of just under $10 in late 1998 and early 1999, interrupted only by brief spike in 1990 after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.Wait, it's Jesse Helms' and Carl Levin's fault that I paid $4.41 a gallon yesterday? At Costco, mind you. And John Dingell and Newt Gingrich? I like Carl, always peering over those glasses way down on his nose. And I like Dingell. How could they? Detroit, honey, Detroit. And Slade Gorton was one of the good guys. Who knew? The Dutch pay $10 a gallon for gas, more than half of it taxes. But Newt still contends Americans would never accept an attempt to control consumption with heavy taxes. No-o-o, the R's want to open up new drilling fields and so far 70 percent of Americans think they're right, according to polls, despite:
A recent study by the federal government’s Energy Information Administration estimated that under the best-case scenario opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would reduce prices by $1.44 a barrel by 2027. Drilling in broader swaths off the continental United States wouldn’t affect prices until 2030.It's mostly supply and demand (what's sitting in your driveway?), the article says, although it quotes one economist who attributes about 20 percent to the falling dollar. It dismisses speculation, which is unregulated, without examination. But I watched that panel of experts testify a couple weeks ago, and they convinced me. The NYT writer quotes a couple energy company people also dismissing speculation, but there was one, from Exxon, I think, who agreed that speculation played a big role. At the time, they were saying as much as 25 percent. Krugman doesn't buy the speculation argument either and has the numbers to prove his case, basically that there isn't enough hoarding going on to indicate speculation. Nobody seems to be blaming the oil companies except Maria Cantwell. So, okay, it's all our fault. Kind of reminds me of the JFK assassination, when some TV newsman like Howard K. Smith said we were all to blame. Blame everybody, then nobody's accountable.
"If you have an R in front of your name, you better run scared," said Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, who says the party will do well if it holds its losses to three or four seats.Which is why Dino Rossi has registered his affiliation as "GOP Party." Which translates to Grand Old Party Party. Heh.
