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2006-09-30
His noodly greatness
I now believe in the spicy noodleness of the Flying Spaghetti Monster . This seems to be the sage choice among the religions of the world. May you be touched by His noodly appendage and be filled with His holy marinara forever and ever. RaMen.
2006-09-05
U.S. deaths in Iraq, war on terror surpass 9/11 toll
(CNN) -- As the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attack on the United States approaches, another somber benchmark has just been passed.
The announcement Sunday of four more U.S. military deaths in Iraq raises the death toll to 2,974 for U.S. military service members in Iraq and in what the Bush administration calls the war on terror.
The 9/11 attack killed 2,973 people, including Americans and foreign nationals but excluding the terrorists. The 9/11 death toll was calculated by CNN.
The comparison between fatalities in the war on terror and 9/11 was drawn last month by Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, during testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
"It's now almost five years since September 11, 2001," Pace said. "And the number of young men and women in our armed forces who have sacrificed their lives that we might live in freedom is approaching the number of Americans who were murdered on 9/11 in New York, in Washington, D.C., and in Pennsylvania."
Of the 2,974 U.S. military service members killed, 329 died in Operation Enduring Freedom and 2,645 in Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to the Pentagon. The total includes seven American civilian contractors working for the military in Iraq.
Of the 329 U.S. military deaths in the Operation Enduring Freedom campaign, 261 occurred in Afghanistan, including many in recent months amid a resurgent Taliban guerrilla campaign. Many British and Canadian troops have also been killed recently as part of the force that is operating against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
The first U.S. service member to die in the Enduring Freedom campaign was Air Force Sgt. Evander Earl Andrew, 36, of Solon, Maine, killed in a heavy equipment accident in the northern Arabian peninsula on October 10, 2001.
Operation Enduring Freedom saw 893 Americans wounded, with 552 not returned to duty.
On March 20, 2003, the United States invaded Iraq to oust the Saddam Hussein regime, which, the Bush administration said, harbored and pursued weapons of mass destruction -- munitions that were never found. While the Hussein regime was swiftly defeated, an insurgency emerged that has proved harder to handle for the U.S.-led coalition.
Of the 2,645 deaths in Iraq, 2,104 have been in combat and 541 were the results of accidents, illnesses, suicides and other factors.
The first deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom were Marines -- four killed in a helicopter crash on March 20, 2003, and two killed in action in southern Iraq the next day.
In Iraq, 19,773 U.S. military personnel were wounded, with 8,991 not returning to duty. Many military and medical observers believe that advanced and prompt medical care saved hundreds, or even thousands, of lives.
Operation Iraqi Freedom casualties include deaths and injuries on or after March 19, 2003, in the Arabian Sea, Bahrain, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Persian Gulf, Qatar, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates. Before March 19, 2003, the casualties in these countries were considered part of Operation Enduring Freedom.
The Bush administration has consistently linked the Afghan and Iraq conflicts as part of an overall war on terror -- a much-debated idea since many critics of the Bush administration say the Hussein regime was never involved in sponsoring the al Qaeda terror network.
In the post-invasion period, though, terror groups -- including al Qaeda in Iraq -- have emerged, regularly conducting ruthless attacks against coalition and Iraqi military personnel and civilians.
Thursday, Bush emphasized that "Iraq is the central front in this war on terror." (Full story)
"If we leave the streets of Baghdad before the job is done, we will have to face the terrorists in our own cities. We will stay the course, we will help this young Iraqi democracy succeed, and victory in Iraq will be a major ideological triumph in the struggle of the 21st century."(From Orange County to al Qaeda)
The death tolls in both conflicts are expected to rise.
"We've come a long way in Afghanistan. We've come a long way in Iraq and elsewhere in the war on terrorism," said Pace. "We have a long way to go. We are a nation at war."
Find this article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/03/death.toll/index.html
(CNN) -- As the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attack on the United States approaches, another somber benchmark has just been passed.
The announcement Sunday of four more U.S. military deaths in Iraq raises the death toll to 2,974 for U.S. military service members in Iraq and in what the Bush administration calls the war on terror.
The 9/11 attack killed 2,973 people, including Americans and foreign nationals but excluding the terrorists. The 9/11 death toll was calculated by CNN.
The comparison between fatalities in the war on terror and 9/11 was drawn last month by Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, during testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
"It's now almost five years since September 11, 2001," Pace said. "And the number of young men and women in our armed forces who have sacrificed their lives that we might live in freedom is approaching the number of Americans who were murdered on 9/11 in New York, in Washington, D.C., and in Pennsylvania."
Of the 2,974 U.S. military service members killed, 329 died in Operation Enduring Freedom and 2,645 in Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to the Pentagon. The total includes seven American civilian contractors working for the military in Iraq.
Of the 329 U.S. military deaths in the Operation Enduring Freedom campaign, 261 occurred in Afghanistan, including many in recent months amid a resurgent Taliban guerrilla campaign. Many British and Canadian troops have also been killed recently as part of the force that is operating against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
The first U.S. service member to die in the Enduring Freedom campaign was Air Force Sgt. Evander Earl Andrew, 36, of Solon, Maine, killed in a heavy equipment accident in the northern Arabian peninsula on October 10, 2001.
Operation Enduring Freedom saw 893 Americans wounded, with 552 not returned to duty.
On March 20, 2003, the United States invaded Iraq to oust the Saddam Hussein regime, which, the Bush administration said, harbored and pursued weapons of mass destruction -- munitions that were never found. While the Hussein regime was swiftly defeated, an insurgency emerged that has proved harder to handle for the U.S.-led coalition.
Of the 2,645 deaths in Iraq, 2,104 have been in combat and 541 were the results of accidents, illnesses, suicides and other factors.
The first deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom were Marines -- four killed in a helicopter crash on March 20, 2003, and two killed in action in southern Iraq the next day.
In Iraq, 19,773 U.S. military personnel were wounded, with 8,991 not returning to duty. Many military and medical observers believe that advanced and prompt medical care saved hundreds, or even thousands, of lives.
Operation Iraqi Freedom casualties include deaths and injuries on or after March 19, 2003, in the Arabian Sea, Bahrain, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Persian Gulf, Qatar, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates. Before March 19, 2003, the casualties in these countries were considered part of Operation Enduring Freedom.
The Bush administration has consistently linked the Afghan and Iraq conflicts as part of an overall war on terror -- a much-debated idea since many critics of the Bush administration say the Hussein regime was never involved in sponsoring the al Qaeda terror network.
In the post-invasion period, though, terror groups -- including al Qaeda in Iraq -- have emerged, regularly conducting ruthless attacks against coalition and Iraqi military personnel and civilians.
Thursday, Bush emphasized that "Iraq is the central front in this war on terror." (Full story)
"If we leave the streets of Baghdad before the job is done, we will have to face the terrorists in our own cities. We will stay the course, we will help this young Iraqi democracy succeed, and victory in Iraq will be a major ideological triumph in the struggle of the 21st century."(From Orange County to al Qaeda)
The death tolls in both conflicts are expected to rise.
"We've come a long way in Afghanistan. We've come a long way in Iraq and elsewhere in the war on terrorism," said Pace. "We have a long way to go. We are a nation at war."
Find this article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/03/death.toll/index.html
2006-08-22
immigration woes
Someone I know fwded this to me... ====================================
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My response
Dont forget the support monies recieved by the white trailer trash in hillsdale and the UP during the off season.. and the farmer who cant sell his crops because the telcos wont provide opportunity of internet anywhere but to big cities while they continue to collect 100% tax on phone service called the universal service fee... The south of the border ppl do all those jobs that white people are too superior to do like pick cotton and scrub toilets and buff the floors at wally/meijer and mow yards and build big box stores.. the ppl building cvs where main stop was are almost all mexican.
And so-called drug plans are a joke. They are confusing. you cant use one card while on another plan and you cant get this plan if you have that plan and the other card. and theyre only good for drugs that are commoditized and worthless to the phizers of the world. its a way to keep everything exactly how it is and not actually address the problems the elderly and retirees face. will a drug plan cover glasses or cancer treatment or help with housing for someone who cant do stairs anymore? nah it feeds big pharma the medicare dole, thats all. the people making these despicable decisions are so far removed from the poverty of the american elderly that they have no clue how to make them right. im amazed that anyone over 50 would ever support these morons let alone not want to bludgeon them all to death with their canes and walkers and slice them to ribbons with their drug cards
LOL..
A few mexicans getting the nutritionally barren iceberg lettuce and air gapped tomatoes out of the fields so that timmy and suzy can have their mcdonalds hamburgers for being good children in walmart is the least of our worries. If we simply had a national health care plan there wouldnt be a problem. Alas, we have leadership that wont even allow people to go fill their 'scrips in canada because of the pharma-co's fist in their you didnt want to know where...
40-50 years ago it was "the negroes" and now its "the mexicans". I dont see any of these neocon hypocrites bitching about china!>? i mean at least they have labor laws in mexico.. china you get thrown in the gulag if you dont meet your quota of IPODs for little Shelly Shakeit to listen to her Usher iTunes on while Joey the captain of the football team feels her up.
Oh and one more thing - the 10th largest contributor to americas failure of a war on terror(im now guffawing uncontrollably)..
Is Mexico.
Puh Lease :)
((
What a country.................................
5 million of our older Americans have not signed up yet for their Medicare, Part D, drug plan------they are old and confused. We are not going to grant them an extension. However, 12 million illegal aliens are in our country and we are going to allow them to stay, protest, procreate, receive support monies, attend schools, avoid paying income taxes, have our teachers take 300 hours of ESL (English as a Second Language) training at our expense, etc. WE MUST REALLY DISLIKE OUR OLD PEOPLE......OR WE MUST REALLY LOVE TACOS!!! If it upsets you, pass it on!!
))
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My response
Dont forget the support monies recieved by the white trailer trash in hillsdale and the UP during the off season.. and the farmer who cant sell his crops because the telcos wont provide opportunity of internet anywhere but to big cities while they continue to collect 100% tax on phone service called the universal service fee... The south of the border ppl do all those jobs that white people are too superior to do like pick cotton and scrub toilets and buff the floors at wally/meijer and mow yards and build big box stores.. the ppl building cvs where main stop was are almost all mexican.
And so-called drug plans are a joke. They are confusing. you cant use one card while on another plan and you cant get this plan if you have that plan and the other card. and theyre only good for drugs that are commoditized and worthless to the phizers of the world. its a way to keep everything exactly how it is and not actually address the problems the elderly and retirees face. will a drug plan cover glasses or cancer treatment or help with housing for someone who cant do stairs anymore? nah it feeds big pharma the medicare dole, thats all. the people making these despicable decisions are so far removed from the poverty of the american elderly that they have no clue how to make them right. im amazed that anyone over 50 would ever support these morons let alone not want to bludgeon them all to death with their canes and walkers and slice them to ribbons with their drug cards
LOL..
A few mexicans getting the nutritionally barren iceberg lettuce and air gapped tomatoes out of the fields so that timmy and suzy can have their mcdonalds hamburgers for being good children in walmart is the least of our worries. If we simply had a national health care plan there wouldnt be a problem. Alas, we have leadership that wont even allow people to go fill their 'scrips in canada because of the pharma-co's fist in their you didnt want to know where...
40-50 years ago it was "the negroes" and now its "the mexicans". I dont see any of these neocon hypocrites bitching about china!>? i mean at least they have labor laws in mexico.. china you get thrown in the gulag if you dont meet your quota of IPODs for little Shelly Shakeit to listen to her Usher iTunes on while Joey the captain of the football team feels her up.
Oh and one more thing - the 10th largest contributor to americas failure of a war on terror(im now guffawing uncontrollably)..
Is Mexico.
Puh Lease :)
2006-08-19
Accordion to sophos antivirus via El Reg, its time to exterminate the vole and get a mac...
Security firm Sophos has issued a call for home computer users to ditch the Windows operating system and switch to Macs for the sake of their safety online.
And this stat from McAfee, 200,000 malwarez in their database, doubled from '04 - and 18yrs for the first 100,000, seems to drive it home.
Face it - Winders is Broke!
Anti-virus firm McAfee released protection for its 200,000th ever malware threat this week.
While bots are still the leading cause of this dramatic growth, exploits and downloaders are a close second (see breakdown here). Email worms saw significantly smaller growth over the last two years compared to types of malware.
Security firm Sophos has issued a call for home computer users to ditch the Windows operating system and switch to Macs for the sake of their safety online.
And this stat from McAfee, 200,000 malwarez in their database, doubled from '04 - and 18yrs for the first 100,000, seems to drive it home.
Face it - Winders is Broke!
Anti-virus firm McAfee released protection for its 200,000th ever malware threat this week.
While bots are still the leading cause of this dramatic growth, exploits and downloaders are a close second (see breakdown here). Email worms saw significantly smaller growth over the last two years compared to types of malware.
Thar gew them thar akt'visst jedges agin', those anti-americans....
from the moron hick prezdint d'partment
NSA wiretaps ruled illegal
Judge orders program halted; U.S. to appeal
By Gail Gibson, Tribune Newspapers. Baltimore Sun; Sun staff writers Julie Davis and Siobhan Gorman and Tribune news services contributed to this report
Published August 18, 2006
A federal judge in Detroit on Thursday struck down the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program, calling it unconstitutional and an illegal abuse of presidential power. The ruling marked the first court rejection of the controversial monitoring program and amounted to a rebuke of the Bush administration's tactics in the war on terrorism.
"In this case, the president has acted, undisputedly, as [federal intelligence law] forbids," U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor said in a 43-page decision that sided with the American Civil Liberties Union challenge to the government system of warrantless eavesdropping. "Plaintiffs have prevailed, and the public interest is clear in this matter. It is the upholding of our Constitution."
Taylor ordered an immediate halt to the NSA's surveillance program, but the order was put on hold after Justice Department attorneys swiftly filed a notice of appeal with the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
In Washington, the ruling quickly became election-year fodder. Republicans said they hoped an appeals court will overturn the decision--with which "we couldn't disagree more," said White House Press Secretary Tony Snow--while Democrats praised it.
"The administration is wrongly convinced that it can run the country without Congress or oversight," said Sen. John Rockefeller of West Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales defended the surveillance program as "very important for the security of the country," adding: "We have confidence in the lawfulness of this program."
The ruling was a major legal setback for the Bush administration. Some legal scholars and analysts said the decision could be vulnerable on appeals, but it was cheered Thursday by the attorneys, journalists and non-profit organizations that claimed the possibility of government eavesdropping had complicated their efforts to communicate with some sources and clients overseas.
Anthony Romero, the ACLU's executive director, called the ruling "another nail in the coffin of the Bush administration's legal strategy in the war on terror."
"It is a flat rejection of secret government," Romero said. "It is a flat rejection of an all-powerful president running roughshod over the judiciary and over the legislative branches. And it is a reaffirmation of a system of checks and balances."
In her decision, Taylor said the NSA program violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a 1978 law that prohibited intelligence monitoring of people inside the United States without a warrant. The judge, appointed to the federal court in Detroit by President Jimmy Carter in 1979, also said the program violated 1st and 4th Amendment protections of free speech and privacy, and she criticized the program as an overly broad reach of executive power.
"It was never the intent of the Framers to give the president such unfettered control, particularly where his actions blatantly disregard the parameters clearly enumerated in the Bill of Rights," Taylor wrote in the decision. "The three separate branches of government were developed as a check and balance for one another."
Justice Department attorneys had argued at a hearing in Detroit last month that the lawsuit should be thrown out because the litigation could expose sensitive state secrets if it went forward. In Thursday's ruling, the judge said the state secrets privilege did not apply in this case. She said she could rule on the program's legality based on statements and information released by the White House in recent months as it has defended the once-secret program made public by New York Times reports late last year.
"The Bush administration has repeatedly told the general public that there is a valid basis in law for the [surveillance program]," Taylor wrote. "This court finds defendants' arguments that they cannot defend this case without the use of classified information to be disingenuous and without merit."
Legal analysts said the ruling marked a shift in the willingness of the nation's courts to challenge the president's broad claims of executive power since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"In the first few years after 9/11, what we saw was extreme deference to the government and an unwillingness in the courts to question the government's claims, and I think this shows the courts are not willing to be closed out," said Meredith Fuchs, general counsel for the National Security Archive at George Washington University. "In that sense, I think it is a turning point."
However, Robert Levy, a legal analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute, said Taylor's findings are at risk of being overturned. He noted that the claims involving 1st and 4th Amendment violations require a court to balance those protections against national security interests, an impossible task without more information about the surveillance program's scope, effectiveness and operational details.
"In order to find out about those facts, you run up against the state secrets prohibition," Levy said.
For the day, though, Taylor's ruling was political grist for Democrats and Republicans.
Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) said the decision "confirms the doubts I have had about the program's constitutionality ever since I first learned about it." He urged the White House to work with Congress to make changes to the program.
"No one is against wiretapping suspected terrorists," Biden said. "The question is how to bring this program within the law." Republican leaders, meanwhile, urged the White House to fight for the program in court.
"Terrorists are the real threat to our constitutional and democratic freedoms, not the law-enforcement and intelligence tools used to keep America safe," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said in a statement. "We need to strengthen, not weaken, our ability to foil terrorist plots before they can do us harm."
Copyright © 2006, Chicago Tribune
Thats right, I didnt write this! its not mine. Don't shoot the messenger.
from the moron hick prezdint d'partment
NSA wiretaps ruled illegal
Judge orders program halted; U.S. to appeal
By Gail Gibson, Tribune Newspapers. Baltimore Sun; Sun staff writers Julie Davis and Siobhan Gorman and Tribune news services contributed to this report
Published August 18, 2006
A federal judge in Detroit on Thursday struck down the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program, calling it unconstitutional and an illegal abuse of presidential power. The ruling marked the first court rejection of the controversial monitoring program and amounted to a rebuke of the Bush administration's tactics in the war on terrorism.
"In this case, the president has acted, undisputedly, as [federal intelligence law] forbids," U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor said in a 43-page decision that sided with the American Civil Liberties Union challenge to the government system of warrantless eavesdropping. "Plaintiffs have prevailed, and the public interest is clear in this matter. It is the upholding of our Constitution."
Taylor ordered an immediate halt to the NSA's surveillance program, but the order was put on hold after Justice Department attorneys swiftly filed a notice of appeal with the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
In Washington, the ruling quickly became election-year fodder. Republicans said they hoped an appeals court will overturn the decision--with which "we couldn't disagree more," said White House Press Secretary Tony Snow--while Democrats praised it.
"The administration is wrongly convinced that it can run the country without Congress or oversight," said Sen. John Rockefeller of West Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales defended the surveillance program as "very important for the security of the country," adding: "We have confidence in the lawfulness of this program."
The ruling was a major legal setback for the Bush administration. Some legal scholars and analysts said the decision could be vulnerable on appeals, but it was cheered Thursday by the attorneys, journalists and non-profit organizations that claimed the possibility of government eavesdropping had complicated their efforts to communicate with some sources and clients overseas.
Anthony Romero, the ACLU's executive director, called the ruling "another nail in the coffin of the Bush administration's legal strategy in the war on terror."
"It is a flat rejection of secret government," Romero said. "It is a flat rejection of an all-powerful president running roughshod over the judiciary and over the legislative branches. And it is a reaffirmation of a system of checks and balances."
In her decision, Taylor said the NSA program violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a 1978 law that prohibited intelligence monitoring of people inside the United States without a warrant. The judge, appointed to the federal court in Detroit by President Jimmy Carter in 1979, also said the program violated 1st and 4th Amendment protections of free speech and privacy, and she criticized the program as an overly broad reach of executive power.
"It was never the intent of the Framers to give the president such unfettered control, particularly where his actions blatantly disregard the parameters clearly enumerated in the Bill of Rights," Taylor wrote in the decision. "The three separate branches of government were developed as a check and balance for one another."
Justice Department attorneys had argued at a hearing in Detroit last month that the lawsuit should be thrown out because the litigation could expose sensitive state secrets if it went forward. In Thursday's ruling, the judge said the state secrets privilege did not apply in this case. She said she could rule on the program's legality based on statements and information released by the White House in recent months as it has defended the once-secret program made public by New York Times reports late last year.
"The Bush administration has repeatedly told the general public that there is a valid basis in law for the [surveillance program]," Taylor wrote. "This court finds defendants' arguments that they cannot defend this case without the use of classified information to be disingenuous and without merit."
Legal analysts said the ruling marked a shift in the willingness of the nation's courts to challenge the president's broad claims of executive power since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"In the first few years after 9/11, what we saw was extreme deference to the government and an unwillingness in the courts to question the government's claims, and I think this shows the courts are not willing to be closed out," said Meredith Fuchs, general counsel for the National Security Archive at George Washington University. "In that sense, I think it is a turning point."
However, Robert Levy, a legal analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute, said Taylor's findings are at risk of being overturned. He noted that the claims involving 1st and 4th Amendment violations require a court to balance those protections against national security interests, an impossible task without more information about the surveillance program's scope, effectiveness and operational details.
"In order to find out about those facts, you run up against the state secrets prohibition," Levy said.
For the day, though, Taylor's ruling was political grist for Democrats and Republicans.
Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) said the decision "confirms the doubts I have had about the program's constitutionality ever since I first learned about it." He urged the White House to work with Congress to make changes to the program.
"No one is against wiretapping suspected terrorists," Biden said. "The question is how to bring this program within the law." Republican leaders, meanwhile, urged the White House to fight for the program in court.
"Terrorists are the real threat to our constitutional and democratic freedoms, not the law-enforcement and intelligence tools used to keep America safe," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said in a statement. "We need to strengthen, not weaken, our ability to foil terrorist plots before they can do us harm."
Copyright © 2006, Chicago Tribune
Thats right, I didnt write this! its not mine. Don't shoot the messenger.
2006-06-29
A friend of mine asked me what a blog was....
So I showed him. My guess, he hasnt signed up yet but prolly will, is that it will likely be named potato or batata or something. We've been best spuds for a long time LOL WAKKA WAKKA.
2006-05-02
mtv...
Original Poster
Today, 2:24am
mtv...
i am so sickened by MTV.
Moreover, the parents who acquiesce to appear on MTV.
Examples:
1. My Super Sweet 16 - this show documents teenage girls (i do not know that there's ever been a boy's party..) whose parents are ridiculously wealthy and throw these exorbitant parties for their teenage birthdays. Tracks the process, including choosing outfits, choreographing entrances, drama over invitations, etc. These parties run well over $50,000 average. Most of the parents, fathers especially, cannot say no, and when a parent tries, he is pouted at until the rich bitch gets her way.
2. Tiara Girls - Follows pageant hopefuls in their trek from average girl to crown winner. Parents are overbearing, constantly pointing out flaws, calling daughter fat when she is barely a size 2, refusing to allow daughters to live and enjoy life. Also spend outrageous sums to ensure daughter wins, daughter is taught to be cutthroat competitive and that 90% of their self-worth is physical.
3. Date My Mom - eligible bachelors meet three moms and choose to date one of the moms' daughters based on the appearance and personality of the mom. Mothers seem to enjoy telling suitors exactly what daughter least wants them to know, making asses out of themselves and daughters.
4. Parental Control - Parents disenchanted with teenager's current choice of significant other choose two suitors to date their daughter. Parents watch the entire date at home with unfavored S.O. Parents are crude, rude, openly disrespectful to teenage partner, and vice versa.
...WTF. Parents aren't like that. People like that don't exist.. do they?
I will admit, my parents are indulgent. They'd like me to casually date more people. Above all, they're the most lax, chilled people when it comes to letting me make my own decisions. But I would be mortified if they acted in any way like the MTV parents, especially the overindulgent ones.
I really don't want to believe people like this exist.
Also, a note on pageants: if I were an interviewer, I'd ask questions like, "What happened after Moses built the ark?" and "What year did Washington write the declaration of independence?" just to fuck with them. :D go linguistics.
person 1, 19M, Straight, Michigan, United States; 70% match, 69% friend, Today, 2:37am:
your right parents like that arent really around to my knoledge either and the sweet 16 thing sad thing is they had a guy on there i think he was gay im not sure and then date my mom theres never any girls going after a guys mom thats gay why not a date my dad also another show damage control pisses me off if my parents were watching something like that with me theyd be pissed at the studio more so than me so what im trying to say is mtv sucks ass and need to just play good shows
person 2, 22M, Straight, Tennessee, United States; 72% match, 72% friend, Today, 2:41am:
I hear you. Then there was that show "Wanna Come In?" Didn't involve any failures of parents, just two teams of "a loser and a player" competing to see which one could get their loser invited into a particular woman's home first. How many people can we be degrading to at once? I like your pageant idea.
person 3, 21F, Bisexual, Flushing, New York, United States; 69% match, 74% friend, Today, 2:48am:
you're awesome. haha..and MTV really should be changed to STV.....for shitastic TV....or maybey just shit would be more accurate....or maybey they could just broadcast an artistic rendering of a pile o poo 24/7. That would be ten times less mind numbing then the crap they have on their now. *pun not intended at first but then self-approved* :-P.
person 4 , 23M, Straight, Los Angeles, California, United States; 66% match, 70% friend, Today, 2:54am:
...yet you WATCH it? I've never heard of any of these shows; but that they exist don't surprise me at all. MTV should change their name to...well...i guess Fox.
person 5, 24M, Straight, Auckland, New Zealand; 68% match, 75% friend, Today, 3:34am:
Not to utterly concur with your musing on television as an entertainment medium (mostly cos I work in TV) but yeah, Im VERY VERY glad my tiny country does not recieve mtv or those shows you have discribed. It also re-affirms my belief that entertainment as television is... crap...
person 6, 25M, Straight, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States; 78% match, 76% friend, Today, 4:30am:
I haven't been able to stand MTV for years. Abotu the time Undressed and Daria went away, I lost interest. THeir programming seems to be vaguelt related to music at best these days and more about about peopel I just want to slap across the face.
person 7, 26M, Straight, Tampa, Florida, United States; 62% match, 67% friend, Today,12:13pm:
You left out "Made" where teenagers get 6 weeks to abandon their personality in favor of one that's more appropriate. Okay, some of the "Made" episodes are well-done, but most are a sad take on what we as a society approve of. Also, I would say Fox is a bit better, if anything for the excellent Family Guy and House.
Moi, 30M, Straight, Michigan, United States; 0% match, 0% friend, 17 minutes ago:
tv outside of mtv is s**t, mtv is lower-than-S**t. If a big putrid chunk of feces had to relieve itself, i mean it was prairie doggin' it, MTV would be the sticky tear cried from the brown eye of mr hankie. When MTV stopped playing Music, they should have been required to change their name to RTV for Rap. and then when That went to the wayside, it should have been just like FTV or something. Fecal Television. All Shit. All The Time. -----
Kudos to #5, #4(Fox is synonymous with Steamy Dung. Fudger trAiles and Poopert Turdoch are the biggest sallet tossers I have ever seen), #3(but #3 when you post something like this, you should lie about your city.. Flushing is much too painfully on topic [No offense intended, rather, Hugs/Kisses for the bellylaughs from the coincidence]). #6, I beat ya. I quit after beavis and Butthead, the last GOOD show on MTV.
Moi! , 30M, Straight, Michigan, United States; 0% match, 0% friend, 12 minutes ago:
Twas with very strong power of will that the short-lived RTV era was not .. lumped(hehe).. in with the era of ordure.. I think 99 percent of rap is manure, being less than reagent grade purity owing to black eyed peas and beastie boys.
Moi! , 30M, Straight, Michigan, United States; 0% match, 0% friend, just now:
But then again (hehe.. I said BUT.. mhe ehhe).. Reality Teevee in general is a Myspace-Esque evidential exhibit of Complete Un-Creativity on the part of the purveyors, and the Complete Incapability of the Mindless Sheep Masses to find more fruitful uses of their time like volunteering, reading, a life, or (gasp) a JOB. It's Evercrack(Everquest) for the Boob Toob! I find that Ron Popeil is more ingenuitive with Just One of his infomercials at 3am than American Idol is in a Whole Season of Simon's blithering, Paula's Butt, or Ruben's bellerin'. Got one word for that genre - BAAAAAAAaaa! Thats my rant an' I'm stickin to it.
Today, 2:24am
mtv...
i am so sickened by MTV.
Moreover, the parents who acquiesce to appear on MTV.
Examples:
1. My Super Sweet 16 - this show documents teenage girls (i do not know that there's ever been a boy's party..) whose parents are ridiculously wealthy and throw these exorbitant parties for their teenage birthdays. Tracks the process, including choosing outfits, choreographing entrances, drama over invitations, etc. These parties run well over $50,000 average. Most of the parents, fathers especially, cannot say no, and when a parent tries, he is pouted at until the rich bitch gets her way.
2. Tiara Girls - Follows pageant hopefuls in their trek from average girl to crown winner. Parents are overbearing, constantly pointing out flaws, calling daughter fat when she is barely a size 2, refusing to allow daughters to live and enjoy life. Also spend outrageous sums to ensure daughter wins, daughter is taught to be cutthroat competitive and that 90% of their self-worth is physical.
3. Date My Mom - eligible bachelors meet three moms and choose to date one of the moms' daughters based on the appearance and personality of the mom. Mothers seem to enjoy telling suitors exactly what daughter least wants them to know, making asses out of themselves and daughters.
4. Parental Control - Parents disenchanted with teenager's current choice of significant other choose two suitors to date their daughter. Parents watch the entire date at home with unfavored S.O. Parents are crude, rude, openly disrespectful to teenage partner, and vice versa.
...WTF. Parents aren't like that. People like that don't exist.. do they?
I will admit, my parents are indulgent. They'd like me to casually date more people. Above all, they're the most lax, chilled people when it comes to letting me make my own decisions. But I would be mortified if they acted in any way like the MTV parents, especially the overindulgent ones.
I really don't want to believe people like this exist.
Also, a note on pageants: if I were an interviewer, I'd ask questions like, "What happened after Moses built the ark?" and "What year did Washington write the declaration of independence?" just to fuck with them. :D go linguistics.
person 1, 19M, Straight, Michigan, United States; 70% match, 69% friend, Today, 2:37am:
your right parents like that arent really around to my knoledge either and the sweet 16 thing sad thing is they had a guy on there i think he was gay im not sure and then date my mom theres never any girls going after a guys mom thats gay why not a date my dad also another show damage control pisses me off if my parents were watching something like that with me theyd be pissed at the studio more so than me so what im trying to say is mtv sucks ass and need to just play good shows
person 2, 22M, Straight, Tennessee, United States; 72% match, 72% friend, Today, 2:41am:
I hear you. Then there was that show "Wanna Come In?" Didn't involve any failures of parents, just two teams of "a loser and a player" competing to see which one could get their loser invited into a particular woman's home first. How many people can we be degrading to at once? I like your pageant idea.
person 3, 21F, Bisexual, Flushing, New York, United States; 69% match, 74% friend, Today, 2:48am:
you're awesome. haha..and MTV really should be changed to STV.....for shitastic TV....or maybey just shit would be more accurate....or maybey they could just broadcast an artistic rendering of a pile o poo 24/7. That would be ten times less mind numbing then the crap they have on their now. *pun not intended at first but then self-approved* :-P.
person 4 , 23M, Straight, Los Angeles, California, United States; 66% match, 70% friend, Today, 2:54am:
...yet you WATCH it? I've never heard of any of these shows; but that they exist don't surprise me at all. MTV should change their name to...well...i guess Fox.
person 5, 24M, Straight, Auckland, New Zealand; 68% match, 75% friend, Today, 3:34am:
Not to utterly concur with your musing on television as an entertainment medium (mostly cos I work in TV) but yeah, Im VERY VERY glad my tiny country does not recieve mtv or those shows you have discribed. It also re-affirms my belief that entertainment as television is... crap...
person 6, 25M, Straight, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States; 78% match, 76% friend, Today, 4:30am:
I haven't been able to stand MTV for years. Abotu the time Undressed and Daria went away, I lost interest. THeir programming seems to be vaguelt related to music at best these days and more about about peopel I just want to slap across the face.
person 7, 26M, Straight, Tampa, Florida, United States; 62% match, 67% friend, Today,12:13pm:
You left out "Made" where teenagers get 6 weeks to abandon their personality in favor of one that's more appropriate. Okay, some of the "Made" episodes are well-done, but most are a sad take on what we as a society approve of. Also, I would say Fox is a bit better, if anything for the excellent Family Guy and House.
Moi, 30M, Straight, Michigan, United States; 0% match, 0% friend, 17 minutes ago:
tv outside of mtv is s**t, mtv is lower-than-S**t. If a big putrid chunk of feces had to relieve itself, i mean it was prairie doggin' it, MTV would be the sticky tear cried from the brown eye of mr hankie. When MTV stopped playing Music, they should have been required to change their name to RTV for Rap. and then when That went to the wayside, it should have been just like FTV or something. Fecal Television. All Shit. All The Time. -----
Kudos to #5, #4(Fox is synonymous with Steamy Dung. Fudger trAiles and Poopert Turdoch are the biggest sallet tossers I have ever seen), #3(but #3 when you post something like this, you should lie about your city.. Flushing is much too painfully on topic [No offense intended, rather, Hugs/Kisses for the bellylaughs from the coincidence]). #6, I beat ya. I quit after beavis and Butthead, the last GOOD show on MTV.
Moi! , 30M, Straight, Michigan, United States; 0% match, 0% friend, 12 minutes ago:
Twas with very strong power of will that the short-lived RTV era was not .. lumped(hehe).. in with the era of ordure.. I think 99 percent of rap is manure, being less than reagent grade purity owing to black eyed peas and beastie boys.
Moi! , 30M, Straight, Michigan, United States; 0% match, 0% friend, just now:
But then again (hehe.. I said BUT.. mhe ehhe).. Reality Teevee in general is a Myspace-Esque evidential exhibit of Complete Un-Creativity on the part of the purveyors, and the Complete Incapability of the Mindless Sheep Masses to find more fruitful uses of their time like volunteering, reading, a life, or (gasp) a JOB. It's Evercrack(Everquest) for the Boob Toob! I find that Ron Popeil is more ingenuitive with Just One of his infomercials at 3am than American Idol is in a Whole Season of Simon's blithering, Paula's Butt, or Ruben's bellerin'. Got one word for that genre - BAAAAAAAaaa! Thats my rant an' I'm stickin to it.
2006-05-01
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Consider these facts:
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* ExxonMobil reported a $36.1 billion in profit, making it the largest corporation in the world and larger than the next four companies on the Forbes 500 list combined.
* Oil prices have increased 240 percent since George Bush’s inauguration in January 2001.
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Nearly eight months ago, I and a group of concerned Governors urged the President to take action to bring down the sky-high prices of gasoline at America's gas pumps. We urged the President to bring the price of gas down for consumers by capping oil profits and using federal anti-trust laws to prosecute any companies pocketing extra profits in the wake of disasters like Hurricane Katrina. We also asked Congress to investigate energy profiteering and pass legislation requiring oil companies to refund excess oil profits to consumers.
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2006-03-19
food of the day
mmm radishes. I L<3VE radishes! especially cold radishes. I got a $.99 for a bunch with leaves and feeder root still attached - I had to 'clean' them - and they were mucho bueno and stuff. i slew like 5 of the 25 while i was cleaning them(oh this one has a blemish - ill have to cut it off and eat it now.. it fell on the plate too hard and will bruise - down the hatch yumyumyum.. and other justifications LOL), and a few more while my supper was nuking (make an even number for the original purpose). I will have 5-7 chopped up on a Massive Salad of ])()()]V[(tm) tomorrow as well! OhYeah!
K O T O K O
Wow! I just watched her 2004 Winter concert in Tokyo and it was teh awesome! She is capable of doing tunes from classic 80s JPop to modern cross-genre electronica to screaming guitar stuff ala Judy and Mary! W00t
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