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I'm so behind, you know, I'm out of the loop - so explain to my drunk Style Counciled arse why the White House wants info from Google, why Bush wants to dig into the privacy of our lives which is protected by the constitution of this country.
Damnit I wanted to keep the same threads we had before but now I feel like I'm at my own "desk", Pixie.
I should have bought more Imperial Stout earlier. Now I only have cheap wine. And the Style Council.
But I swear I'll only play Wire after 3 am.
Wait - why does the White House want information from Google
i figured out why
Why Bush is looking at my googles:
1. He's a voyeur.
2. He can't figure out how to use bulletin boards and chat rooms and really wants to connect with the me.
3. He found out Al Gore had some connection to Google ~ Current, which oddly fascinates me, and he was like uh-uhn, that bastard invented the internet, he's not going to have the largest search engine on his side too. I'm getting some.
4. He wants to know about how to make biodiesel from hemp, and he needs my searches so he can, since it's not legal in his country.
5. He found out I'm hot and wants to research me before asking me out.
6. It's a cooler than Iraq. He figures I'll be more impressed when I learn of the latest invasion because I'm a hip techno junky and I'll be impressed, not by the “I invaded Iraq,†but “I invaded google!â€
1. He's a voyeur.
2. He can't figure out how to use bulletin boards and chat rooms and really wants to connect with the me.
3. He found out Al Gore had some connection to Google ~ Current, which oddly fascinates me, and he was like uh-uhn, that bastard invented the internet, he's not going to have the largest search engine on his side too. I'm getting some.
4. He wants to know about how to make biodiesel from hemp, and he needs my searches so he can, since it's not legal in his country.
5. He found out I'm hot and wants to research me before asking me out.
6. It's a cooler than Iraq. He figures I'll be more impressed when I learn of the latest invasion because I'm a hip techno junky and I'll be impressed, not by the “I invaded Iraq,†but “I invaded google!â€
)Mark, you want to hear something weird about how not powerful gw is and how powerful bill gates is.
It's just a weird little thing but I it think really illustrates the point.
I study media because I teach kids how to interpret media -- so that probably explains how I know a lot of weird shit about the media, ie al gore and google and current television.
So anyway I'm looking through this October issue of Rolling Stone to pick an article that will illustrate a certain style of writing when I see beside it a list of four books on bill gates nightstand:
Guns, germs and steel
The end of poverty
The world is flat
The bottomless well (which is about energy and the greatness of waste or something)
I've already researched the world is flat about june or july because the author was peddling it our governors earlier this summer and it's a shit philosophy, but I won't go into it, but now I see bill gates is on it too, but that's not the really weird thing, the really weird thing is I googled the bottomless well and the first thing that comes up is amazon -- I click on it, the first thing that comes up is: Customers also searched for: the world is flat, the end of poverty, collapse -- that's the power of bill gate's suggestion
Possibly the understatement of the century, but Bill Gates is huge!
It's just a weird little thing but I it think really illustrates the point.
I study media because I teach kids how to interpret media -- so that probably explains how I know a lot of weird shit about the media, ie al gore and google and current television.
So anyway I'm looking through this October issue of Rolling Stone to pick an article that will illustrate a certain style of writing when I see beside it a list of four books on bill gates nightstand:
Guns, germs and steel
The end of poverty
The world is flat
The bottomless well (which is about energy and the greatness of waste or something)
I've already researched the world is flat about june or july because the author was peddling it our governors earlier this summer and it's a shit philosophy, but I won't go into it, but now I see bill gates is on it too, but that's not the really weird thing, the really weird thing is I googled the bottomless well and the first thing that comes up is amazon -- I click on it, the first thing that comes up is: Customers also searched for: the world is flat, the end of poverty, collapse -- that's the power of bill gate's suggestion
Possibly the understatement of the century, but Bill Gates is huge!
You're in luck my drunk friend. I'm a teacher. My job is to simplify this kind of information into terms kids can understand.
It's a scare tactic. It's one of the oldest in the marketing / propaganda book.
You must get on board with our technology or you, your state, and your country will be left behind. It's total bullshit and I've seen the direct effect of it in my state.
Anyway, evidentially the governors in my state didn't have a very savvy English teacher as they could not recognize a piece of bullshit when they see it.
Such is life. I'm going off to be a designated driver for the latest greatest drunk in my life then we're going to see Bela -- woo-hoo. Where's his grammy by the way?
Propaganda, I've never heard of the band.
But Google, GW, Al Gore, Bill Gates, The World is Flat, Current Television, Bono, and AOL, Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews, etc. I could draw you a web that beats seven stages of Kevin Bacon.
Have a good one.
It's a scare tactic. It's one of the oldest in the marketing / propaganda book.
You must get on board with our technology or you, your state, and your country will be left behind. It's total bullshit and I've seen the direct effect of it in my state.
Anyway, evidentially the governors in my state didn't have a very savvy English teacher as they could not recognize a piece of bullshit when they see it.
Such is life. I'm going off to be a designated driver for the latest greatest drunk in my life then we're going to see Bela -- woo-hoo. Where's his grammy by the way?
Propaganda, I've never heard of the band.
But Google, GW, Al Gore, Bill Gates, The World is Flat, Current Television, Bono, and AOL, Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews, etc. I could draw you a web that beats seven stages of Kevin Bacon.
Have a good one.
the show was really good, bela even did this little bit of oh, susannah, my date wanted to see him play dueling banjos by himself, i was like that's impossible. but then the guy who plays sax, continued through his solo while picking up a second sax off of the floor and then played both, without missing a beat. i was like, we may just see bela play with himself.
i could've got rosie a tee-shirt, but i didn't.
i read that the white house is bracing for impeachment, but then someone pointed out how many republicans are in congress, so i was like, nawww google is definitely not going to be the last straw with this asshole, but a lot, i mean a whole lot of average joes are pissed and talking, which i haven't seen since clinton did not have whatever with that woman while getting a blowjob.
i could've got rosie a tee-shirt, but i didn't.
i read that the white house is bracing for impeachment, but then someone pointed out how many republicans are in congress, so i was like, nawww google is definitely not going to be the last straw with this asshole, but a lot, i mean a whole lot of average joes are pissed and talking, which i haven't seen since clinton did not have whatever with that woman while getting a blowjob.
news or snooze
The memory of the Clinton impeachment has already inspired the most delicious sloganeering, beginning with the t-shirt that declares: "Impeachment: It's Not Just for Oral Sex Anymore." But this is about more than t-shirts and fingerpointing. As the chair of the Judiciary Committee, Sensenbrenner has a Constitutionally-mandated responsibility to take seriously the charges of executive lawbreaking and impropriety that are currently in play. If he cannot execute this responsibility in a reasoned and bipartisan manner, then he has a duty to step aside.
That is a serious choice. But, surely, the issues that are at stake demand such seriousness -- as the American people have clearly indicated. A new Zogby Poll shows that 52 percent of Americas believe that, if George Bush violated the law when he ordered security agencies to engage in warrantless wiretaps on the communications of U.S. citizens who were accused of no crimes, the president should be impeached. So widespread is this faith that almost one quarter of those who identified themselves as "very conservative" expressed support for impeachment as a response to the spying scandal.
So far, however, Sensenbrenner has allowed his partisanship to prevent him from even beginning to execute his Constitutional duties.When Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee demanded that the body conduct an inquiry into illegal spying by the Bush administration, Sensenbrenner refused them.
Because of the consequence of the issues involved, Representative John Conyers (news, bio, voting record), the ranking Democrat on the committee, convened an extraordinary session last week without the official sanction that only the committee chairman can convey.
"Last month all 17 House Judiciary Democrats called on Chairman Sensenbrenner to convene hearings to investigate the President's use of the National Security Agency to conduct surveillance involving U.S. citizens on U.S. soil, in apparent contravention of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. As our request has since been ignored, it is our job, as Members of Congress, to review the program and consider whether our criminal laws have been violated and our citizen's constitutional rights trampled upon," explained Conyers, who has played a critical role in investigations of wrongdoing by Democratic and Republican presidents since the days when Lyndon Johnson occupied the White House. "We simply cannot tolerate a situation where the Administration is operating as prosecutor, judge and jury and excluding Congress and the courts from providing any meaningful check or balance to the process."
Members of Congress who attended the hearing -- Conyers and a half dozen other Democrats -- heard George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley refer to the wiretapping ordered by Bush as ''an intelligence operation in search of a legal rationale."Without a doubt, Turley added, ''What the president ordered in this case was a crime," said Turley, who bluntly told the gathering that Sensenbrenner and other House Republicans have set a dangerous precedent by refusing to permit oversight hearings.
That is a serious choice. But, surely, the issues that are at stake demand such seriousness -- as the American people have clearly indicated. A new Zogby Poll shows that 52 percent of Americas believe that, if George Bush violated the law when he ordered security agencies to engage in warrantless wiretaps on the communications of U.S. citizens who were accused of no crimes, the president should be impeached. So widespread is this faith that almost one quarter of those who identified themselves as "very conservative" expressed support for impeachment as a response to the spying scandal.
So far, however, Sensenbrenner has allowed his partisanship to prevent him from even beginning to execute his Constitutional duties.When Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee demanded that the body conduct an inquiry into illegal spying by the Bush administration, Sensenbrenner refused them.
Because of the consequence of the issues involved, Representative John Conyers (news, bio, voting record), the ranking Democrat on the committee, convened an extraordinary session last week without the official sanction that only the committee chairman can convey.
"Last month all 17 House Judiciary Democrats called on Chairman Sensenbrenner to convene hearings to investigate the President's use of the National Security Agency to conduct surveillance involving U.S. citizens on U.S. soil, in apparent contravention of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. As our request has since been ignored, it is our job, as Members of Congress, to review the program and consider whether our criminal laws have been violated and our citizen's constitutional rights trampled upon," explained Conyers, who has played a critical role in investigations of wrongdoing by Democratic and Republican presidents since the days when Lyndon Johnson occupied the White House. "We simply cannot tolerate a situation where the Administration is operating as prosecutor, judge and jury and excluding Congress and the courts from providing any meaningful check or balance to the process."
Members of Congress who attended the hearing -- Conyers and a half dozen other Democrats -- heard George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley refer to the wiretapping ordered by Bush as ''an intelligence operation in search of a legal rationale."Without a doubt, Turley added, ''What the president ordered in this case was a crime," said Turley, who bluntly told the gathering that Sensenbrenner and other House Republicans have set a dangerous precedent by refusing to permit oversight hearings.
Thanks Sarah. I don't read the papers but sometimes it's almost comforting to know what is going on rather than just getting bits and pieces from time to time. It's almost like a missing child situation where it's better to know the truth than be in the dark wondering.
It's also time for another drink - it's been a few hours now since I drank anything. I had a good walk outside though, played one of the best Factory bands ever on my discman - A Certain Ratio (they're in the movie 24 Hour Party People too). I'm proud of myself for getting out and getting some good exercise. I danced around as I walked along briskly in the dark on this trail near my house that is very peaceful and was quite deserted. I feel lucky to live near it. You would never think such a nice place existed in a city. What's more, the city of Seattle just got done paving it properly - before that, it was just a worn trail people had walked down. I thought them paving it would ruin it, but it really didn't, and they're going to plant flowers all along the sides! It's kindof fucking cool as it used to be a lot harder to navigate. It's also right next to a giant, giant cemetary, which adds to the quiet. It reminds me of roads I walked down in the dark in rural suburbs when I was a teenager with my walkman when I would play things like the Smiths and the Cure.
Right where's my drink, damnit?
Sorry I know, we were talking about the evil in the administration. Don't you hate that word "evildoers" now? Isn't it like forever tarnished, that word, because W used it?
Someone used that word in the latest issue of The Stranger and I was like "ugh! don't say that!"
Do you like chocolate Sarah? I am having to do a group project for school about the chocolate industry and a gourmet chocolatier here in town. So I am doing a lot of thinking about chocolate lately!
It's also time for another drink - it's been a few hours now since I drank anything. I had a good walk outside though, played one of the best Factory bands ever on my discman - A Certain Ratio (they're in the movie 24 Hour Party People too). I'm proud of myself for getting out and getting some good exercise. I danced around as I walked along briskly in the dark on this trail near my house that is very peaceful and was quite deserted. I feel lucky to live near it. You would never think such a nice place existed in a city. What's more, the city of Seattle just got done paving it properly - before that, it was just a worn trail people had walked down. I thought them paving it would ruin it, but it really didn't, and they're going to plant flowers all along the sides! It's kindof fucking cool as it used to be a lot harder to navigate. It's also right next to a giant, giant cemetary, which adds to the quiet. It reminds me of roads I walked down in the dark in rural suburbs when I was a teenager with my walkman when I would play things like the Smiths and the Cure.
Right where's my drink, damnit?
Sorry I know, we were talking about the evil in the administration. Don't you hate that word "evildoers" now? Isn't it like forever tarnished, that word, because W used it?
Someone used that word in the latest issue of The Stranger and I was like "ugh! don't say that!"
Do you like chocolate Sarah? I am having to do a group project for school about the chocolate industry and a gourmet chocolatier here in town. So I am doing a lot of thinking about chocolate lately!
i will let you in on a little not so secret about chocolate -- it cues the same chemical reaction in the brain of women that sex does, just a tip, we can go for years on chocolate alone ~ it's like our one biological advantage (i'm teasing) yes, i'm a woman, what woman does not like chocolate? truffles! chocolates from belgium are the best, but i hate fudge, it's too rich. about the cosmetics from the other thread -- i don't know, i've never heard that. i'll have to ask my hunter friends for the exact details on the blood.
i can really relate to your walk in the park. that's really neat about the cemetary. in st. augustine there is/was a cemetary under these beautiful live oaks, just gorgeous on a walk . . .here the trails are so beautiful and a day like yesterday is meant to be spent outside (although i spent it with kids, god that is a long story that i will not retell, but anyway.) there are more and more of them cropping up in virginia, i think people are really looking at charlottesville as sort of a model for city planning. some of our city planners are really working hard to get our downtown area back on its feet. they've built a walking/biking/horseback riding/ roller blade trail that is about ten miles ? long down by the river -- they're expanding it every year . . . it's fantastic, one of the best things about living here. there is a farmer's market near there in the spring and fall that i love. it makes for a nice day, you go get your bike ride on then get a home made fried pie or something to completely undo your hard work.
bush, god, he screwed us over on the nclb, on the firefighters' funding, on everything that i am associated with really . . . but i don't think they're going to impeach him. i wishful think that about once every two weeks -- i'm like, yes he's finally gone too far with this google thing, then as eminem might say it's back to reality.
i can really relate to your walk in the park. that's really neat about the cemetary. in st. augustine there is/was a cemetary under these beautiful live oaks, just gorgeous on a walk . . .here the trails are so beautiful and a day like yesterday is meant to be spent outside (although i spent it with kids, god that is a long story that i will not retell, but anyway.) there are more and more of them cropping up in virginia, i think people are really looking at charlottesville as sort of a model for city planning. some of our city planners are really working hard to get our downtown area back on its feet. they've built a walking/biking/horseback riding/ roller blade trail that is about ten miles ? long down by the river -- they're expanding it every year . . . it's fantastic, one of the best things about living here. there is a farmer's market near there in the spring and fall that i love. it makes for a nice day, you go get your bike ride on then get a home made fried pie or something to completely undo your hard work.
bush, god, he screwed us over on the nclb, on the firefighters' funding, on everything that i am associated with really . . . but i don't think they're going to impeach him. i wishful think that about once every two weeks -- i'm like, yes he's finally gone too far with this google thing, then as eminem might say it's back to reality.
I used to love chocolate a lot more than I do now. But when I do indulge now on those rare occaisions - the Belgian company Dolfin make spectactular chocolate bars. They have an Earl Grey bar and I always get the really dark bar, 80% cocoa or whatever it is - yeah I prefer Dolfin chocolate bars. That is just a personal preference.
Jesus you're really freaking me out now because last night when I went looking at random for internet radio stations, the first one I clicked on was from Charlottesville, Virginia, only I didn't know that when I clicked on it. This station didn't exist when I lived there, but I remember a guy who wanted to start a station real bad he kept handing out flyers whatever and I guess he managed to get it done. I remember one of the last times I went back there, I was driving around and came upon that station and was like wow...he actually managed it. I never thought he would manage it, but he did. Not that I'm so sure it's a great station, but it shows promise. The goth show is at 10 pm tonight.
Right now I'm listening to French chanteuse Isabelle Antena.
I wish I could play the first Everything But The Girl album but my turntable is broken for the moment. I need a new stylus and it will cost me $25 or more, which I don't have.
I can try to dig out the cassette of the U.S. version of it, though, in my giant cumbersome box of random cassettes.
What a chore.
Still can't recommend Isabelle Antena's "Camino Del Sol" album highly enough:
http://www.isabelleantena.com/isabelle% ... raphy.html
Pixie are you out there somewhere tonight? I mean today?
Jesus you're really freaking me out now because last night when I went looking at random for internet radio stations, the first one I clicked on was from Charlottesville, Virginia, only I didn't know that when I clicked on it. This station didn't exist when I lived there, but I remember a guy who wanted to start a station real bad he kept handing out flyers whatever and I guess he managed to get it done. I remember one of the last times I went back there, I was driving around and came upon that station and was like wow...he actually managed it. I never thought he would manage it, but he did. Not that I'm so sure it's a great station, but it shows promise. The goth show is at 10 pm tonight.
Right now I'm listening to French chanteuse Isabelle Antena.
I wish I could play the first Everything But The Girl album but my turntable is broken for the moment. I need a new stylus and it will cost me $25 or more, which I don't have.
I can try to dig out the cassette of the U.S. version of it, though, in my giant cumbersome box of random cassettes.
What a chore.
Still can't recommend Isabelle Antena's "Camino Del Sol" album highly enough:
http://www.isabelleantena.com/isabelle% ... raphy.html
Pixie are you out there somewhere tonight? I mean today?