And people ask

'In case I disappear'

NOBODY'S READY – But the clock is still ticking

and no one is off the hook. A compendium.

The harder they fall

apropos of today's top story... this from January.

Quote du jour

Undercover work isn't always popular in Aspen, but "to quote a movie, 'our job is to protect democracy, not to practice it,'" [DEA Agent Jeffrey] Sweetin said.

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Meet the new boss

Have you met the old boss?
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Mit ein spoon

or an ATM for Jesus.

Oh, sure

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This is your government on crack

and they aren't kidding.

Co-Prosperity Sphere?

From hockey to hootenannies to habaneros, one big happy family.

Update: CNN and World Net Daily

Would you expect something different?

It certainly is a wonder that education doesn't seem to improve when there is the constant need for yet more invective and the consequent need for a broader vocabulary to adequately express it.

Reflection

in a golden ass, amen

Magical History Tour

No matter which way you look at it

The Rich Get Richer

One of the basic tenets of a (war) criminal...

is avoid prosecution at all costs
More at War and Piece

Ruminations

Don't defenestrate after reading.

On and on

Click here or here

The pump that swells the breast

that fills the cup that runneth over.

I wonder where they got

that idea?

A different form of Googling

As dedicated readers of this blog who know me know, I'm not going to step near an image for this story. Keep on oogling.
To think we breathe the same air?

Teach your children well

Another inning in the Great Game

Batter UP!

Something we missed yesterday

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See? Do?

Backcloth?

or the dress rehearsal for everywhere else?

Big Brother is shouting at you

Don't look around, clown. We mean you!

Quote du

jour

Imperial Life in the Emerald City

or 'Wishing on a Star in the Magic Green Zone.
from our ongoing series- Money and Lives Down the Rat Hole.

Saying what needs to be said

are you prepared?

Feeling safer

or cooked?

And when you pull the lever

You can rest assured.

Speaking of war crimes

Seemingly there are no parameters beyond which they won't go.

You've been warned

but you'll click anyway.

Spirits Rejoice

Albert Ayler

For about a week.

I just did a Command-F and could not find...

black.
And here I was thinking all the time that Harlem/ 125th Street was a black neighborhood. Silly me. Maybe when I went to the Apollo early this past spring and then out to eat with friends, everyone I saw was an 'extra'?

Thank You Maskman - Lenny Bruce

Hi, I'm.... Fly Me.

Compare your own experience in the friendly skies to Netjets and compare that to this and then conjure up images of what you may have heard.

Interesting commentary

from honest photographers
It's quite long and much data is loading in the background but stick it out.

Don't whine for me, oh, blasphemer

Speaking of this High Holy Day

Confederacy

Until it happens, though, it's probably best if the corporate dreamweavers and the Rovian propaganda technicians keep their bosses in the power. I still believe (call it an article of faith) that a majority of the voters will eventually figure out they've been had -- sold not just a bill of goods but a counterfeit reality, one that is crumbling in front of their eyes. When that happens, they're going to be enraged, in a way that makes this year's discontent look like the passing tantrum of a grumpy two-year old. We can only pray they'll be angry at the right people.

What a way to start the day.

Not for the faint of heart.

Abject

Scum

God's Country

and don't skip the reading list.

Image courtesy.
Note the Frank Zappa resemblance... it can't happen here.

Chairman?

Once a jerk, always a jerk.

A joke, right?

from the bully pulpit.

More on the rot of the right

Who's even gonna care about Mickey Mouse if he's not on YouTube/Myspace/Stardoll/etc in the next year or two? No one.

See image below

Clear eyed

When will they ever learn?

Who's Map?

Such a strange thought that we pay them to think this.

Sheesh!

As they say, you can't make this shit up.

You don't need to know this

Hovering like vultures.

A First

You may not think it of note.......

US Debt far worse than admitted

With no fanfare or media coverage, the US government released its latest financial statement. In the report it is revealed that Bush is lying through his teeth about US debt and deficits and that the USA is in deep, deep trouble.

Bush says the 2005 deficit was $318 billion, the report says it was $760 billion.

Bush says the per-capita share of debt was $28 thousand but the report says it is actually $156 thousand per person.

Bush says the total debt was $8.3 billion, the report says it is $49 trillion.

The White House does not want you to read this book. Although federal law compels U.S.Treasury officials to publish the information in this Financial Report,they hope you will not see it.That's why they issued this shocking news just before a major holiday without a press conference or even a press release. They succeeded.There was no media coverage.
Why This Report Matters to You ]PDF]

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A Fan's Notes

That's Harper's
Here's an old one of mine.

Poseurs