tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84178582024-03-07T12:17:03.368-08:00Naked Zoo News ReviewWhat you don't know IS hurting you.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.comBlogger438125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-32639757647986363492008-11-04T04:19:00.001-08:002008-11-04T04:19:11.787-08:00Election 08<div>This one's for you Pops...</div><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/48ff995c49a30ff2/49103dbf1f01105f/490532f277debe70/ebcde65a/widget.js"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-49194017077626107122007-05-27T06:32:00.001-07:002007-05-27T06:50:00.004-07:00Why we love Palast!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.motherjones.com/radio/2006/06/palast_265x332.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.motherjones.com/radio/2006/06/palast_265x332.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052507J.shtml">Greg Palast has done it again</a>. He took a largely de-newsworthy appearance by Monica Goodling and exposed the nugget of damning testimony. <a href="http://judiciary.house.gov/Media/PDFS/goodling070523.pdf">Monica Goodling testified in her opening statement</a> that Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty (Not former Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson as it says in the linked Truthout article) had been apprised of Tim Griffins vote 'caging'. Not ONE Congressman asked what the hell she was talking about. It's alright blogheads. I'm going to email every member of the House Judiciary Committe and see what happens:)<br />Palast tells it best:<blockquote> 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.<br /><br /> Here's how caging worked, and along with Griffin's thoughtful emails themselves you'll understand it all in no time.<br /><br /> 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.<br /><br /> 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.<br /><br /> How do I know? I have the caging lists...<br /><br /> 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.<br /><br /> Here's what you need to know - and the Committee would have discovered, if only they'd asked:<br /><br /> 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 above. 3. On December 7, 2006, the ragin', cagin' Griffin was named, on Rove's personal demand, US Attorney for Arkansas. Perpetrator became prosecutor.</blockquote><br /><br />More to come on this. Tune into the Naked Zoo on 90.5FM KWMR.org for more...<br /><br />Stay smiling and as always...<br /><br />Stay Naked.<br /><br />adAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-35854029299453142182007-01-14T07:24:00.000-08:002007-01-14T07:29:57.742-08:00It was 40 Years Ago today...That Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.morphizm.com/images/observations/mcnichol/lbjgwb.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.morphizm.com/images/observations/mcnichol/lbjgwb.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>This post pretty much speaks for itself. A huge thank goes out to our buddy Chris Breyer for forwarding this along:)<br /> <p class="MsoNormal">LBJ, Jan. 10, 1967: We have chosen to fight a limited war in <st1:country-region st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region> in an attempt to prevent a larger war--a war almost certain to follow, I believe, if the Communists succeed in overrunning and taking over <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">South Vietnam</st1:place></st1:country-region> by aggression and by force. I believe, and I am supported by some authority, that if they are not checked now the world can expect to pay a greater price to check them later.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>GWB, Jan. 10, 2007: Tonight in <st1:country-region st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>, the Armed Forces of the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> are engaged in a struggle that will determine the direction of the global war on terror – and our safety here at home. The new strategy I outline tonight will change <st1:country-region st="on">America</st1:country-region>'s course in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and help us succeed in the fight against terror.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>LBJ, Jan. 10, 1967: I wish I could report to you that the conflict is almost over. This I cannot do. We face more cost, more loss, and more agony. For the end is not yet. I cannot promise you that it will come this year--or come next year. Our adversary still believes, I think, tonight, that he can go on fighting longer than we can, and longer than we and our allies will be prepared to stand up and resist.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>GWB, Jan. 10, 2007: Our past efforts to secure <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:City> failed for two principal reasons: There were not enough Iraqi and American troops to secure neighborhoods that had been cleared of terrorists and insurgents. And there were too many restrictions on the troops we did have.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>LBJ, Jan. 10, 1967: Our South Vietnamese allies are also being tested tonight. Because they must provide real security to the people living in the countryside. And this means reducing the terrorism and the armed attacks which kidnapped and killed 26,900 civilians in the last 32 months, to levels where they can be successfully controlled by the regular South Vietnamese security forces. It means bringing to the villagers an effective civilian government that they can respect, and that they can rely upon and that they can participate in, and that they can have a personal stake in. We hope that government is now beginning to emerge.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>GWB, Jan. 10, 2007: Only the Iraqis can end the sectarian violence and secure their people. And their government has put forward an aggressive plan to do it.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>LBJ, Jan. 10, 1967: This forward movement is rooted in the ambitions and the interests of Asian nations themselves. It was precisely this movement that we hoped to accelerate when I spoke at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore in April 1965, and I pledged "a much more massive effort to improve the life of man" in that part of the world, in the hope that we could take some of the funds that we were spending on bullets and bombs and spend it on schools and production.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>GWB, Jan. 10, 2007: A successful strategy for <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> goes beyond military operations. Ordinary Iraqi citizens must see that military operations are accompanied by visible improvements in their neighborhoods and communities. So <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> will hold the Iraqi government to the benchmarks it has announced.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>LBJ, Jan. 10, 1967: We have chosen to fight a limited war in <st1:country-region st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region> in an attempt to prevent a larger war--a war almost certain to follow, I believe, if the Communists succeed in overrunning and taking over <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">South Vietnam</st1:place></st1:country-region> by aggression and by force. I believe, and I am supported by some authority, that if they are not checked now the world can expect to pay a greater price to check them later.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>GWB, Jan. 10, 2007: The challenge playing out across the broader <st1:place st="on">Middle East</st1:place> is more than a military conflict. It is the decisive ideological struggle of our time…In the long run, the most realistic way to protect the American people is to provide a hopeful alternative to the hateful ideology of the enemy – by advancing liberty across a troubled region.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>LBJ, Jan. 10, 1967: A time of testing--yes. And a time of transition. The transition is sometimes slow; sometimes unpopular; almost always very painful; and often quite dangerous. But we have lived with danger for a long time before, and we shall live with it for a long time yet to come. We know that "man is born unto trouble." We also know that this Nation was not forged and did not survive and grow and prosper without a great deal of sacrifice from a great many men.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>GWB, Jan. 10, 2007: Victory will not look like the ones our fathers and grandfathers achieved. There will be no surrender ceremony on the deck of a battleship…A democratic <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> will not be perfect. But it will be a country that fights terrorists instead of harboring them – and it will help bring a future of peace and security for our children and grandchildren.</p> <em><br /><br />Spooky...<br /><br />Stay dry and as always...<br /><br />Stay Naked.<br /><br />ad<br /></em>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-71634102535136394002007-01-10T04:42:00.000-08:002007-01-10T04:53:15.865-08:00Best On-line Story EVER!This one makes me laugh everytime I read it. Thanks <a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/">McSweeney's Internet Tendency</a>.<br /><blockquote>A REALISTIC<br />ASSESSMENT OF<br />HOW MANY 12-YEAR-OLDS I COULD BEAT UP BEFORE THEY OVERTOOK ME.<br />BY MATT SCHWEIGER<br /><br />- - - -<br /><br />Your average 12-year-old boy is about 5 feet tall, weighs in the area of a buck-fifteen, and has developed little muscle mass.<br /><br />I am 21, approximately 6 feet tall, tip the scales at an even 180, and have a moderately athletic and muscular build.<br /><br />Judging on these statistics and what I assume would be a natural ferocity that would spring forth in a moment of physical danger, I estimate that I could beat up seven 12-year-olds before they overtook me. Of course, these would have to be the aforementioned average-sized 12-year-olds. Future linebackers, NBA players, and all Scandinavian children would throw off this equation. On the flip side, if these were some wimpy, four-square-playing, future-jockey 12-year-olds, I imagine the number would skyrocket to anywhere between 12 and 15. It's simple exponential math.<br /><br />This is also assuming that my opponents are smart enough to organize themselves into a circular attack instead of coming at me one by one. If it were an individual, king-of-the-mountain battle royale, I could endlessly pummel 12-year-olds without mercy. But we're assuming at least a sixth-grade education in a marginal public school as well as some exposure to kung-fu movies, so these kids would form a circle.<br /><br />However, using my quick wits, I would charge one portion of the circle, landing a devastating blow on the unlucky individual, which would make the others proceed with hesitancy. One on one, I feel like I could deliver a lot of punishment to a 12-year-old. There would be one or two brave ones who would jump on my back, distracting me and thus enabling the others to attack. At best, I could fight off the two heroes on my back and maybe take out four on the ground before I was felled by fatigue and numerous kicks to my groin and shins. This would equal a grand total of seven.<br /><br />My friend Brian, who stands about 6 feet 2 inches and is stronger than myself, estimates that he could take down a dozen 12-year-olds. I find this hard to believe, but he has been in a fight with people his own age and is a little taller, making groin shots more difficult. Brian's reach is much longer than mine as well, which is a huge advantage. If you can land solid shots from a distance longer than the 12-year-olds' legs, there is no need to worry about groin kicks.<br /><br />He says he would attack one portion of the circle in a fury, scaring off any would-be heroes who wanted to jump on his back and sacrifice themselves for the group. Then he would deal massive blows until fatigue and the inevitable groin shots brought him to the ground. I told him I'd give him nine or ten, but even for the above-average Brian, taking down a dozen 12-year-olds seems like a lot.<br /><br />If it weren't for the law and my own morals, we could put these pressing questions to rest. Alas, these barriers still stand in our way.<br /><br />I'm a pacifist anyway. </blockquote><br /><br />Stay Pacifistic and as always...<br /><br />Stay Naked.<br /><br />adAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-87994308971007730082007-01-09T06:31:00.000-08:002007-01-09T06:33:29.166-08:00How much did you say this picture cost?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/filelibrary/JAGWB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.citizensforethics.org/filelibrary/JAGWB.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Thank you <a href="http://rawstory.com/">Rawstory</a> via <a href="http://blog.citizensforethics.org/node/478">CREW</a>...<br /><br />Stay Photogenic and as always...<br /><br />Stay Naked.<br /><br />adAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1165008328083188492006-12-01T13:24:00.000-08:002006-12-01T13:25:28.100-08:00Sometimes you just gotta smile.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.salemwebnetwork.com/TownHall/Car/b/06.11.28.Wordup.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://media.salemwebnetwork.com/TownHall/Car/b/06.11.28.Wordup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Stay true and as always...<br /><br />Stay Naked.<br /><br />ad<br /><br />PS. I don't know if it's necessary, but having worked with marketing types helps with this joke as you can see them doing exactly this.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1164740443551076312006-11-28T11:00:00.000-08:002006-11-28T11:25:27.596-08:00The Smiling Face of Facism<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/1600/gingrich.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/400/gingrich.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Good Morning, boys and girls. That smiling and attractive fellow is Newt Gingrich who probably would like to be President of the United States beginning in January 2009. He "hasn't made up his mind" yet, of course, but he does turn up on CSPAN's "Road to the White House" with the rest of the hopefuls and otherwise acts like a presidential candidate.<br /><br />So why are we using the "F" word for Mr. Gingrich ? Easy. Because of a report from the Vermont <a href="http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Gingrich+raises+alarm+at+event+honoring+those+who+stand+up+for+freedom+of+speech&articleId=d3f4ee4e-1e90-475a-b1b0-bbcd5baedd78">Union Leader</a> today in which he calls for "changes to the rules" regarding Free Speech to help fight terror. Changes are needed, he says, "before we lose a city".<br /><br />Mr. Gingrich did not spell out the connection between Free Speech as protected by the Constitution and the loss of a city, nor how his unspecified changes might avoid this result. We don't care.<br /><br />It could not matter less what price in freedom Mr. Gingrich thinks it appropriate for us to pay for some illusory security. Freedom of speech is not a noted feature of Russia and the restrictions did not prevent the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/04/russia.school/index.html">Beslan school</a> outrage.<br /><br />Restrictions on freedom are never to protect the people and always to protect the privilege of the few.<br /><br />Mr. Gingrich had some other dishonest things to say about free speech. He attacked campaign finance reform and said it did little to stem "attack ads". Actually, the ill that campaign finance reform is designed to deal with is corruption of public officials.<br /><br />All right class, take a pen or a pencil or a crayon or a sharpie or whatever you have and draw a clear line through the name "Newt Gingrich" on your list of presidential candidates for 2008. And if any of your mommies or daddies are in a position to have Mr. Gingrich identified as an Al Quaeda operative, subjected to extraordinary rendition and transported to Egypt for a few months, we would all be grateful.<br /><br />StayNaked<br />jdAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1164483659357411892006-11-25T11:00:00.000-08:002006-11-25T11:41:02.533-08:00Iraq: The War of Imagination<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.willthomas.net/images/Losses/3.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.willthomas.net/images/Losses/3.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Captains Log: ZooDate 11.25.2006<br /><br />As promised to our lovely listening audience <a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112206N.shtml">HERE</a> is the link to the <a href="http://www.markdanner.com/index.htm">Mark Danner</a> article posted on Truthout. We spoke on-air about the books that have already been written on the Iraq War that are wonderful. Here's some stocking stuffers:<br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/State-Denial-Bush-War-Part/dp/0743272234/sr=8-1/qid=1164482938/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-9465537-1984868?ie=UTF8&s=books">State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III</a> by Bob Woodward, Simon and Schuster, 560 pp., $30.00</i></span></span> <p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/One-Percent-Doctrine-Ron-Suskind/dp/0743271092/sr=8-1/qid=1164482968/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-9465537-1984868?ie=UTF8&s=books">The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11</a> by Ron Suskind, Simon and Schuster, 367 pp., $27.00</i></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/State-War-Secret-History-Administration/dp/0743270665/sr=8-1/qid=1164483006/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-9465537-1984868?ie=UTF8&s=books">State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration</a> by James Risen, Free Press, 240 pp., $26.00</i></span></span></p><br />Stay Informed and as always...<br /><br />Stay Naked.<br /><br />adAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1161351740995111242006-10-20T06:12:00.000-07:002006-10-20T06:54:16.806-07:00Now They've Spiked the Koolaid<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/1600/koolaid-large.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/400/koolaid-large.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /> It is, of course, possible to have differing opinions about the quality of service that has been provided by Donald Rumsfeld in his role as Secretary of Defense. President Bush is a staunch supporter as is VP Dick Cheney. There are others.<br /><br />Critics, who look at the catastrophe in Iraq, the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, the ongoing scandal of war profiteering among favored defense contractors and the reported overall condition of the Army and Marines as those forces are stretched to meet combat needs while keeping to Rumsfeld's doctine regarding force size, are, well . . . critical.<br /><br />Folks who go along with Rumsfeld are said to have "drunk the Koolaid", a reference to the followers of <a href="http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial4/jonestown/">Jim Jones</a> who loyally drank the poisoned Koolaid in Guyana and died.<br /><br />Evidence that the Rumsfeld Punch has now been spiked with something stronger, possibly hallucinogenic, started coming in last week when Cheney told Rush Limbaugh that matters in Iraq were going "<a href="http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20061019-114620-7602r">remarkably well</a>". Compared to what, he did not say.<br /><br />From the White House to the Pentagon, the I.R.P. (Improved Rumsfeld Punch), is now being more widely circulated. Looking to get ahead at the Pentagon these days ? Have some punch.<br /><br />According to <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061019/pl_afp/usmilitarypolitics_061019193550">AFP</a>, Navy Admiral James Stavridis, who took over Southern Command the other day, said "We're lucky as a nation that he [ that's right, Rumsfeld] continues to serve with such passion and such integrity and such determination and such brilliance." Brilliance ? I wonder if he had the grape or the raspberry.<br /><br />The man he replaced, General Bantz Craddock, was lyrical about what SouthCom had achieved on his watch. "Today I believe that we can say we were successful in our efforts and contributed to ensuring our nation's security through support on the global war on terror, and encouraged regional cooperation to enhance the security and stability in the region," he said. Regional cooperation ? Is he talking about Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales or is he talking about <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/06/06/colombia_says_soldiers_killed_antidrug_police/">Colombia </a>where the Army we trained is murdering the police we support ?<br /><br />Gen. Craddock, for his loyalty, is on his way to become Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe.<br /><br />We wonder if Rumsfeld has actual hickeys on his backside.<br /><br />We are taught that if a man gives his soul and gains the whole world, he profits nothing. What if he only gains the Supreme Command of Allied Forces in Europe or Southern Command ?<br /><br />If Improved Rumsfeld Punch is not yet available for drinking in your area, you can always vote Republican instead.<br /><br />Stay Naked<br />jd<br /><br /><br /><br />Gen. CraddockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1161273014962069662006-10-19T08:16:00.000-07:002006-10-19T08:50:15.246-07:00Hu's on First ?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/1600/hu-bush.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/320/hu-bush.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />When you are the World's Only Superpower engaged in a self-proclaimed Global War on Terror against the Axis of Evil it is easy to view all world events through that lens and have the feeling that everything relates to and revolves around us.<br /><br />Thus, North Korea's decision to test a nuclear weapon is immediately seen as a challenge to President Bush.<br /><br />It is possible, however, to see these matters in different frameworks which is why we like like to drop by <a href="http://www.watchingamerica.com/index.shtml">WatchingAmerica</a> from time to time to sample these other perspectives.<br /><br />In this case we are considering the observations of Rajinder Puri of <a href="http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20061018&fname=rajinderpuri&sid=1&pn=1">Outlook India</a> who sees China in general and President Hu in particular at the focus of the DPRK weapons test furor.<br /><br />You may or may not be persuaded by Puri's argument, but you will doubtless be amused by his crediting Henry Kissinger with assisting China in achieving its 5 to 1 trade advantage with the U.S. and noting that Donald Rumsfeld was a director of the company that sold North Korea its light water reactors. Wrap that around a possible internal Chinese power struggle between the Old Guard and Hu and you have a plausible yarn that reduces Bush to a bit player in the real game.<br /><br />Ponder these plausabilities, consider alternative realities and<br /><br />Stay Naked<br />jdAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1161052318211549972006-10-16T19:04:00.000-07:002006-10-16T19:31:58.233-07:00We Are Shocked ! Shocked !<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/1600/Cordesman.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/400/Cordesman.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The President of the United States won't say it. The President of Iraq won't say it. The Secretary of Defense of the United States won't say it. The main stream media won't say it.<br /><br />Some of these folk will say we are "near" it, or "sliding toward" it, or "approaching" it or "in danger of" it. But they won't say it. Until now.<br /><br />It takes Anthony H. Cordesman, the Arleigh Burke Chair in Stategy at the <a href="http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,3528/type,1/">Center for Strategic and International Studies</a> to say it. Iraq is already in a state of civil war. All right, I didn't put quotes around it because Cordesman actually said, "Iraq is already in a state of <span style="font-style: italic;">limited</span> civil war." Emphasis added. But a limited civil war is still a civil war and this expert thinks we are there now.<br /><br />It's in his recent report entitled <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Iraqi Force Development and the Challenge of Civil War: Can Iraqi Forces do the Job?"</span> His answer is a qualified "yes". The qualifications, however, are pretty serious, e.g., "most units are severely undermanned, have critical problems in officer and NCO quality and leadership, are too lightly equipped and poorly facilitized, and many are Shiite or Kurdish dominated" and " The [Interior] ministry [is] still plagued by "poor planning and fiscal control capability" and it still had "serious problems with corruption," and "most [national police units] still present problems in terms of both loyalty and effectiveness."<br /><br />In summary: "There is no near term prospect that Iraqi force development will allow major reductions in MNF-I forces." The successful development of the Iraqi security forces "can only succeed if the MNF-I provides active combat support well into 2008 and major advisory and aid support through 2010," he stated. "Every element of ISF development still requires years of effort and support."<br /><br /><br />Who is Cordesman ? Among many other things that can be seen <a href="ttp://www.csis.org/index.php?option=com_csis_experts&task=view&id=3">HERE </a> he has formerly served as national security assistant to Senator John McCain of the Senate Armed Services Committee, as director of intelligence assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and as civilian assistant to the deputy secretary of defense.<br /><br />So pay attention to the progress, look on the sunny side, vote Republican and<br /><br />Stay Naked<br />jdAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1160624608837914172006-10-12T20:41:00.000-07:002006-10-12T14:16:29.900-07:00Chad Vader: Episode IVThat's right Zooheads, time for Adams favorite Youtube offering. I'm talking about Chad Vader: Night Shift Manager. Who is Chad Vader? Why he's Darths not so talented younger brother. I love the internet. Enjoy the continuing saga of a supermarket far far away...<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ogIqayRDr4w"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ogIqayRDr4w" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br />Since I'm in a youtube state of mind I thought I'd include something that just flat out touched me. This is a young youtuber doing a cover of Leonard Cohens 'Hallelujah' (Immortalized by Jeff Buckley IMHO)<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gumKBO-a1ac"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gumKBO-a1ac" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br />Stay visual and as always...Use the Force.<br /><br />I mean...Stay Naked.<br /><br />adAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1160588548095305162006-10-11T10:39:00.000-07:002006-10-11T21:24:27.876-07:00News from the Cola Wars Front<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/1600/cokesoldier150ap.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/400/cokesoldier150ap.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Government in India is, of course, different than government here. Of course. Here, you get a little <span style="font-style: italic;">e coli</span> on some spinach and spinach disappears from the market as by magic.<br /><br />In India, as we reported <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8417858&postID=115522647066589878">HERE</a>, the government of Kerala State determined that both Pepsi and Coke contained pesticides at levels 24 times the allowable levels. So they banned the sale of the contaminated beverages.<br /><br />Courts in India must, of course, be different than courts here. We can tell, because the High Court of Kerala State <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D4BC2602-424C-4886-B864-21EA045D7BFB.htm">just ruled</a> that the state didn't have the authority to ban the contaminated beverages. Not that they weren't contaminated, but that the government lacked the power to ban them. Oh, we don't mean that the courts there are different because they ruled in favor of gigantic corporations and against the public interest. Our courts do that all the time.<br /><br />No, its just that they did it so fast ! Our first story was August 10 and 43 short days later the court has overturned the ban. That is speedy justice, well, a speedy <span style="font-style: italic;">ruling</span> anyway.<br /><br />AND IN OTHER COLA NEWS . . .<br /><br />The <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E9FDB56A-C3F7-4698-87FE-969ABE75A8CA.htm">American Journal of Clinical Nutrition </a>reports a study of 1,413 women finding that daily cola drinking (not just any old soft drink, but specifically cola) results in weaker bones and higher fracture risk. Seems to have to do with the phosporic acid in the cola that interferes with calcium absorption and increases calcium excretion.<br /><br />No effect on the 1,125 men in the study, so Pepsi your brains out, boys, and ignore the other pernicious effects of the stuff.<br /><br />Stay hydrated and Stay Naked.<br />jdAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1160531622610950932006-10-10T18:06:00.000-07:002006-10-11T11:07:05.520-07:00More Rights for Terrorists !<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/1600/A_Man_for_All_Seasons.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/320/A_Man_for_All_Seasons.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Speaker of the House of Representatives Dennis (What Emails ?) Hastert (R-Ill) characterized the almost completely Democratic vote against stripping <span style="font-style: italic;">habeas corpus</span> rights from "enemy combatants" detained by the United States as a vote for "<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/28/AR2006092800824.html">more rights for terrorists</a>".<br /><br />Pure Republican spin, of course. What the Democrats did was to vote to preserve rights any person in U.S. custody has had since the founding of the republic, i.e., the right to have an independent judge decide whether his or her confinement was legal and, if not, to order their release. Pretty basic stuff for more than two hundred years.<br /><br />Now, if you are a foreign national and Mr. Bush has labeled you an "enemy combatant" and the CIA has got their hands on you, you are out of luck, period. They can hold you forever. They don't have to tell anybody. If you are thinking "thank God I'm an American citizen", consider Niemoller's famous, "<a href="http://www.serendipity.li/cda/niemoll.html">When they came for the communists</a>, I didn't protest . . . ", but that would be a digression here.<br /><br />Our question is: Why should we give a damn about what Bush does to terrorists ? So what if we deny them their "rights" ? They want to kill us.<br /><br />Fortunately, that question has been perfectly answered and in a movie. <span style="font-style: italic;">A Man for All Seasons. </span>What happens when we would ignore the law to fight evil ? The movie's central character, Sir Thomas More, discusses the point with a young man named Roper.<br /><blockquote><br />Wife: "Arrest him!"<br />Sir Thomas: "For what?"<br />Wife: "He's dangerous!"<br />Roper: "For all we know he's a spy!"<br />Daughter: "Father, that man is bad!"<br />Sir Thomas: "There's no law against that!"<br />Roper: "But there is, God's law!"<br />Sir Thomas: "Then let God arrest him!"<br />Wife: "While you talk he's gone!"<br />Sir Thomas: "And go he should, if he were the Devil himself, until he broke the law!"<br />Roper: "So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!"<br />Sir Thomas: "Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?"<br />Roper: "Why, yes! I'd cut down every law in England to do that!"<br />Sir Thomas: "Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down--and you're just the man to do it, Roper!--do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?"<br />"Yes," Sir Thomas concludes: "I'd give the Devil the benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!"</blockquote>That's why we care. For our own safety's sake. And yours.<br /><br />Stay Naked<br />jd<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">It is our understanding that the use of a single frame of the abovementioned film for noncommercial and educational purposes is a "fair use" within the meaning of the Copyright Act. If we are wrong, you all may be declared enemy combatants. Oops.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1160317574466832672006-10-09T07:14:00.000-07:002006-10-09T07:05:46.333-07:00Most Profound Man in Iraq<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.counterterrorismblog.org/galleries/d/968-2/haqlaniyah-022.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.counterterrorismblog.org/galleries/d/968-2/haqlaniyah-022.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><br /><br />an unidentified farmer in a fairly remote area who, after being asked by Reconnaissance Marines if he had seen any foreign fighters in the area replied...'Yes. You.'<br /><br />This is a great snippet out of a wonderful article just published on Time.com. It's written by an anonymous Marine Officer. It made me smile. It made me cry. It made me want to go fight with the amazing young men and women we have serving in Iraq and it made me pray for their safe return. I'm going to include some excerpts but I encourage you to read the full article <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1543658-1,00.html">HERE</a>.<br /><br />Highest Unit Re-enlistment Rate — Any outfit that has been in Iraq recently. All the danger, all the hardship, all the time away from home, all the horror, all the frustrations with the fight here — all are outweighed by the desire for young men to be part of a band of brothers who will die for one another. They found what they were looking for when they enlisted out of high school. Man for man, they now have more combat experience than any Marines in the history of our Corps.<br /><br />Biggest Outrage — Practically anything said by talking heads on TV about the war in Iraq, not that I get to watch much TV. Their thoughts are consistently both grossly simplistic and politically slanted. Biggest Offender: Bill O'Reilly.<br /><br />Proudest Moment — It's a tie every day, watching our Marines produce phenomenal intelligence products that go pretty far in teasing apart Bad Guy operations in al-Anbar. Every night Marines and Soldiers are kicking in doors and grabbing Bad Guys based on intelligence developed by our guys. We rarely lose a Marine during these raids, they are so well-informed of the objective. A bunch of kids right out of high school shouldn't be able to work so well, but they do.<br /><br />Favorite Iraqi TV Show — Oprah. I have no idea. They all have satellite TV.<br /><br />Most Common Thought — Home. Always thinking of home, of my great wife and the kids. Wondering how everyone else is getting along. Regretting that I don't write more. Yep, always thinking of home.<br /><br />Stay Naked.<br /><br />adAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1160317832120960182006-10-08T07:02:00.000-07:002006-10-11T21:27:16.513-07:00A Little Like a Toy Gun<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/1600/SLBM-a.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/400/SLBM-a.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The story is common enough that the Google search " toy gun killed police" brings 1, 340,000 hits from all parts of the country, from the <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E3DC1739F936A35750C0A965948260">New York Times</a> </span>and<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>the <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/20/BAG4LL8SRV1.DTL">San Francisco Chronicle</a>, </span>from <a href="http://www.legalreader.com/archives/002518.html">Dallas</a> and from <a href="http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_4384458">Pomona.</a> Details vary but the essentials are always the same. Somebody, a child, a criminal, brandishes a gun, the police open fire and later discover the gun was a toy. Oops.<br />You see the police can't always tell at a distance or in the dark or in a hurry that what looks like a deadly weapon is really something else.<br /><br />Now the Pentagon wants to <a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100706X.shtml">raise the stakes</a> in this deadly game. The risks in the toy gun game are pretty much limited to the kid or the perp with the toy gun. Now the generals want to spread the risk. To everybody.<br /><br />The brass hats want to modify our deadliest nuclear missiles to carry conventional (instead of nuclear) weapons for possible use against, oh say, Iran or North Korea. Sounds like a step in the right direction until the experts point out that the Russians will not be able to tell whether the launch they detect is nuclear and aimed at them or conventional and aimed at somebody else. The toy gun problem<br /><br />Add to that the problem that they will have just fifteen minutes to make up their minds. And their satellites aren't as good as ours. And their whole system is badly deteriorated.<br /><br />If all of this additional risk makes sense to you, please send SecDef Rumsfeld an encouraging word and, by all means,<br /><br />Stay Naked<br />jdAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1160054494957456942006-10-05T06:11:00.000-07:002006-10-05T14:40:59.516-07:00There Are None So Blind<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/1600/see_through.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/400/see_through.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Secretary of State (and Lt. Governor of the State of Denial) <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2520465">Condoleeza Rice</a> looks at the recent outbreak of violence in Gaza where Hamas and Fatah fighters have been killing each other and innocent civilians and cries out for peace. Of course, when the Israelis kill innocent Palestinians that is just "collateral damage" in their ceaseless war to "defend themselves" which it is, of course, their right to do.<br /><br />I digress. Let us take Bush Administration compassion where we can find it. Condi says the Palestinians deserve "calm". So she is looking for ways to strengthen one faction (Fatah) against the other (Hamas), the side that happens to be the recently elected side. The whole problem is, you see, an "internal Palestinian problem". There is another view.<br /><br />In that view, found in <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/770053.html">Haaretz</a>, Israel has been conducting a multi-year experiment on the Palestinians. An experiment that includes imprisonment (none enter or leave Gaza but by Israeli permission), destruction of livelihoods and infrastructure, theft of hundreds of millions of dollars due the Palestinians in customs dues and taxes, reduction of food, water and electricity supplies and etc. Add a policy of dividing the political factions, plus assassinations and arbitrary military raids. Stir under hot sun. See if violence results. Decry violence.<br /><br />Secretary Rice may then enter, join in condemning the violence, ask the Israelis to temper a few of these policies, <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=11820">fail in her request</a> and leave, presumably after a ceremonial washing of the hands. Little is asked of Israel, nothing is demanded or required. You'd think <span style="font-style: italic;">they</span> were giving <span style="font-style: italic;">us</span> more than a billion dollars a year.<br /><br />Never doubt, Oh Best Beloved, that when the final accounting is rendered on peace and suffering in Israel and Palestine, the account due from the United States, from you and me, Oh Best Beloved, will be long and detailed.<br /><br />Think about the indictment, prepare your defenses and<br /><br />Stay Naked<br />jdAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1159847361531545802006-10-03T19:10:00.000-07:002006-10-03T14:46:16.866-07:00CHINA DECLARES SPACE WAR ON U.S. !<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/1600/spacelaser.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/400/spacelaser.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The Communist Chinese have openly attacked key U.S. surveillance satellites with ground based laser weapons while the Administration keeps these facts from the public for political reasons and to preserve China's "cooperation" in diplomatic initiatives against North Korea and Iran.<br /><br />Those are the facts, folks, according to a recent piece in the U.K. paper the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/26/wchina226.xml"><span style="font-style: italic;">Telegraph</span></a>. The Pentagon is apparently very concerned with these developments, but was required to limit mention of the problem in its annual review of the Chinese threat to noting that China "could" blind U.S. spy satellites. Omitted was the fact that they have.<br /><br />This is all confirmed by the magazine <a href="http://www.defensenews.com/channel.php?C=asiapac"><span style="font-style: italic;">Defense News</span></a> in an article headlined "NRO Confirms Chinese Laser Test Illuminated U.S. Spacecraft". (Subscription required)<br /><br />Well, of course we are in a space arms race with the up and coming super power. How could it be otherwise ?<br /><br />For me this is just another in the endless series of "what if this were Clinton" questions. This time, WIIWC covering up Chinese aggression ? You'd see a headline like the one above. FOX News would be going crazy. There'd be investigations in Congress and calls for impeachment. For Bush ? A small story in the <span style="font-style: italic;">Telegraph. </span>In England.<br /><br />Watch the skies and<br /><br />StayNaked<br />jdAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1159840625602939882006-10-02T18:23:00.000-07:002006-10-02T18:57:07.890-07:00I wasn't going to say anything about this...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.grassywaterspreserve.com/images/Img64.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.grassywaterspreserve.com/images/Img64.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">But I was asked to by a Zoohead:) What I'm talking about is the story burning up the airwaves right now concerning former Congressman Mark Foley (R-Fl). For those of you who don't know, Congressman Foley resigned after sexually explicit emails that he wrote to </span><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Congressman_accused_of_sending_sick_emails_0928.html">teenage underage Capital Hill pages came to light</a><span style="font-family: courier new;">. The FBI is looking into this and the news is all focused on the political fallout as the ultra-conservative Washington Times appears to be calling for House Speaker Hasterts job. From Drudge "</span><span style="font-family: courier new;color:red;" >'House Speaker Dennis Hastert must do the only right thing, and resign his speakership at once... Mr. Hastert has forfeited the confidence of the public and his party, and he cannot preside over the necessary coming investigation, an investigation that must examine his own inept performance'... -- Washington Times, October 3, 2006"</span><tt><b><span style="color:red;"><br /><br /></span></b><span style="color:red;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Yikes.<br /><br />So here's my problem.</span></span><b><span style="color:red;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> So far no one has alleged he molested anybody, just wrote dirty emails. I'm not condoning that but I don't think any of these pages are scarred for life. My problem is Foleys apology.<br /><br />I just came across an interesting wrinkle. Here's <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2517370">the ABC News quote</a>: </span></span></b></tt><span class="storytext">"I strongly believe that I am an alcoholic and have accepted the need for immediate treatment for alcoholism and other behavioral problems"<br /><br />and here's from an <a href="http://www.wpbf.com/download/2006/1002/9981107.pdf">actual fax received by WPBF</a>, "</span><span class="storytext">"I strongly believe that I am an alcoholic and have accepted the need for immediate treatment for alcoholism and <span style="font-weight: bold;">RELATED</span> behavioral problems"<br /><br />Hm...at first I thought he was saying that his alcoholism and pedophilia were 'related' which is a dangerous connection to make.<br /><br />Stay Sober and as always...<br /><br />Stay Naked.<br /><br />ad<br /><br />just not around Capital Hill Pages;)<br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1159709506876588392006-10-01T06:26:00.000-07:002006-10-01T08:45:39.893-07:00'This is Your Brain on Music'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/1600/BrainonMusic.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/320/BrainonMusic.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>We've been flooded with emails since our show yesterday. They all say the same thing...where can we get more information on that book you guys featured. We really should have put this up yesterday so there's egg on our face:)<br />The book in question is '<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/explorer/0525949690/2/ref=pd_lpo_ase/002-9465537-1984868?">This is Your Brain on Music</a>' written by <a href="http://www.mcgill.ca/">McGill Universitys</a> <a href="http://ego.psych.mcgill.ca/levitin.html/">Associate Professor Daniel Levitin</a>. For those of you that missed the interview yesterday, it was a fascinating conversation about the nature of sound and music, how the brain processes music, how it creates emotion...I want to thank Dr. Levitin for taking the time to come on the show...<br />**You also missed an answer to the age old question: If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one to hear it...does it make a sound? (answer below)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/mas_assets/full/parent-0525949690.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/mas_assets/full/parent-0525949690.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Stay groovy and as always...<br /><br />Stay Naked.<br /><br />ad<br /><br />**No;)<br /><br />Truthtime: We've received one email:)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1159663456340620292006-09-30T16:56:00.000-07:002006-10-01T15:11:45.856-07:00Henry Kissinger and the Old Voodoo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/1600/kissinger_henry.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/400/kissinger_henry.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Doesn't look like an inhuman monster, does he ? But, like a bad dream or a bad penny, Henry Kissinger keeps coming back. Already an accomplished war criminal he has now . . . what ? Excuse me ? Oh, you object to my characterizing the former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to Richard Nixon as a war criminal without evidence. Fair enough.<br />I refer you Seymour M. Hersh's 1983 classic "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Price-Power-Kissinger-White-House/dp/0671506889/sr=1-1/qid=1159660123/ref=sr_1_1/102-4872023-2421767?ie=UTF8&s=books">The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House</a>". Yes, <span style="font-style: italic;">that</span> Seymour Hersch, Abu Ghraib, Iran war planning and etc., etc. So, how about complicity in the overthrow and assassination of an elected head of state, i.e., Salvador Allende of Chile, Chapter 22 ? Satisfied ? No ? How about design and execution of a secret bombing campaign against a country with whom we were not at war, i.e., Cambodia, Chapter 5 ? O.K. ? O.K. Fine.<br />We learn from Hersch that one of Kissinger's principal talents is the ability to tell powerful persons what they want to hear, e.g. that they are smarter than other people and that their controversial decisions are correct.<br />So what is it that President George W. Bush apparently wants to hear, according to Bob Woodward in his new book "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743272234/sr=53-1/qid=1159666823/ref=tr_313801/102-4872023-2421767">State of Denial</a>" ? That "victory is the only meaningful exit strategy" from Iraq, that's what. Music to the Bush ear. And what does he care if the advice comes from an unindicted war criminal ? It is a status he is familiar with.<br />The fact that this advice might contribute to further American and Iraqi deaths as the Administration pursues a failed policy means nothing to Henry who is almost personally responsible for the last three or four years of the Vietnam war.<br />What does Henry get out of this ? Well, he gets close, once again, to the seat of power, a place he dearly loves to be and, by advising the President, he builds credibility for his international consulting firm, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kissinger_Associates%2C_Inc.">Kissinger Associates</a>.<br />Bush may not be the devil, but the moral standing of his chosen associates leaves something to be desired.<br />ZOO UPDATE: The next day's <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000293_5.html">WAPO</a> shows us that this is truly vintage Kissinger. His advice to the President: "Don't give an inch or they'll walk you backwards". Kissinger's private criticism of Bush: "He has no method for considering alternatives". Henry always looks great to whoever he's talking to and doesn't care a damn if he's talking out of both sides of his mouth and his rear.<br />For more on public loathing of this creature and the desire to see him punished, try <a href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Kissinger/HKissinger.html">HERE.</a><br />Stay Naked.<br />jdAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1159492374305347572006-09-28T17:02:00.000-07:002006-09-28T18:12:55.776-07:00Maybe War is a Bad Metaphor<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/1600/statue2_low.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/400/statue2_low.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Since the launch of the Global War of Terror (GWoT ) and the ensuing festivities associated therewith, it has become easy to forget the other wars we have going, so the Zoo is here with a quick reminder of the existence and status of these other vitally important conflicts. Let's take them chronologically.<br /><br />(1964) War on Poverty. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares <a href="http://www.wadsworth.com/history_d/templates/student_resources/0534607411/sources/old/ch29/29.3.stateoftheunion.html">"unconditional war" on poverty</a> in the United States. Various initiatives are proposed including the Head Start Program and lots of money spent. How is it going ? Not so good. According to data compiled at Wikipedia, poverty rates, while lower than at any time since 1980, are still higher than they were in 1970, 6 years after the war was declared. Arguments about measuring poverty rates continue as does, I assume, the war.<br /><br />(1970) War On Drugs. It was a cold January day in 1970 when President Richard M. Nixon declared the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/cron/">war on drugs</a> and it will be a cold day in Satan's sauna when we win it. We have spent billions and billions of dollars in 36 years in this cause, countless police officers have been <a href="http://www.stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/451/police_drug_corruption">corrupted </a>and the drugs we mainly declared war against (heroin and cocaine) have been supplemented with such new favorites as methamphetamine.<br />The "front line" of the WoD, judging by the five billion dollar commitment made in the waning years of the Clinton Administration, is Colombia where, the <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0928/p01s03-woam.html">Christian Science Monitor</a> recently reported, an elite unit of U.S. trained and supported narcotics cops were set up, ambushed and murdered by the U.S. trained and supported Army. The CSM also reports that there is as much coca growing now as before "Plan Colombia" was started and the street price of cocaine in our cities hasn't budged.<br />I suppose we could call the WoD a stalemate, except the other side is making money while we are spending money.<br /><br />(1974) War on Energy Problem. The war on U.S. energy profligacy began with <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/filmmore/ps_crisis.html">President Jimmy Carter's vow</a> that the United States would end its dependence on foreign oil and "never" again import more oil than we did in 1970. How is it going ? Need you ask ?<br />In 1970 were using 13.8 million barrels a day and 23% of that came from imports, so we were importing about 3.174 Mb/d. In 2004 we were using about 20 Mb/d in 2004 and importing about 60% of our usage for about 12 Mb/d, an increase of just under 9 MILLION BARRELS A DAY.<br />Fair to say that we have been utterly defeated in the War on Energy Waste and are enslaved to the Petroleum Industry.<br /><br />(2001) Global War on Terror. In the wake of the attack on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and an empty field in Pennsylvania, President George W. Bush committed the nation to a war against a tactic. How is going ? Read the latest review of the situation at the "central front" of said war at <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=125142">TomDispatch</a>. This is a sickening and tragic summary of all that is presently wrong with the war in Iraq in particular and GWoT in general.<br /><br />I recommend that you not read this latter to soon after eating and that you<br /><br />Stay Naked<br />jdAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1159318955033924462006-09-26T17:36:00.000-07:002006-09-26T19:05:34.066-07:00One Stop Shopping<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/1600/Twin%20Towers%209.11.2001.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/200/Twin%20Towers%209.11.2001.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />I just wish I had the brains, resources, stamina and vision to have created <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline/">Lie by Lie.</a><br /><br />Any question you might have about the Iraq war, from the dim antecedents (like Gulf War I) the sales job that got us in there, the lack of planning for a post-war Iraq and the steady deterioration of the security situation ever since, can be answered with this handy data base.<br /><br /><br />Searchable by a scrolling time line, by full text queries and by special icons, such as "torture", "distraction" and "quaqmire", <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline/">Lie by Lie</a> is also frequently updated and filled in.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/1600/chalabi.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/200/chalabi.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />This will be an invaluable tool during the looming mid-term elections and the Presidential in '08 (providing, of course, there is a Presidential in '08).<br /><br />A place of honor in the Zoo for Mother Jones and the designers, programmers and researchers of <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline/">Lie by Lie</a>, your online infomall on the worst foreign policy disaster in American history.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/1600/powell-anthrax.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8058/569/200/powell-anthrax.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Check it out. Scroll it. Search it. Stay naked.<br /><br />jdAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1159217214568314392006-09-25T13:40:00.000-07:002006-09-25T13:47:54.540-07:00I miss home...<table xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td colspan="2"><embed flashvars="autoplay=true" id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-154770445730862572&hl=en" style="width:400px; height:326px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed></td></tr><tr/><tr><td>ClipID: 623-17<br />To license this clip please go to www.gettyimages.com/film and search using the clip number identified. You can quickly find similar clips by selecting any combination of the following keywords: <br />Transportation, Travel Destinations, Nobody, Color Image, Medium Shot, 10 Seconds or Greater, Film, Real Time, Lockdown, High Angle View, Cinematography, San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, Coastline, Suspension Bridge, Marin County, Cloud, Night, Bay, Dusk, Golden Gate Bridge, City, Water, Hill, International Landmark, Outdoors, Bridge, Traffic, <br />This clip comes from Getty Images, the world's leading creator and distributor of visual content for creative professionals. The high-quality preshot footage found at Getty Images ranges from contemporary art-directed clips to iconic archival footage and computer-generated graphics in categories such as lifestyles, locations, visual effects, and more.<br /> </td></tr></table>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417858.post-1159124920545597292006-09-24T10:47:00.000-07:002006-09-24T20:57:55.973-07:00'Are You Registered to Vote?'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.kutztown.edu/acad/polsci/Vote.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.kutztown.edu/acad/polsci/Vote.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>This is not a hypothetical question. I mean 'Are you registered to vote?' If the answer is 'Yes' my follow-up is 'Are you sure?'. Your recent application may have been lost or rejected. You may have even been purged (<a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=55">HERE</a> is a wonderful article by <a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/index.cfm">Greg Palast</a> on how voter 'purging' cost Al Gore the 2000 Presidential election).<br />I encourage you to check out <a href="http://mydem.democrats.com/">mydem.democrats.com</a>. You can check to make sure you're registered and if not, how to register. (NOTE: You do have to register on the site to use the service)<br />-----------------------<br /><br />A lot of Dems are nervous about this Novembers election getting 'stolen', especially since Edward Felten, a Professor of Computer Science at Princeton, showed how easy it was to <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060924/ZNYT01/609240535/1002/business">hack a Diebold voting machine</a>. The Youtube video below is Feltens own submission, narrated by Prof. Felten, that demonstrates how you too can hack a voting machine:)<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OJOyz7_sk8I"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OJOyz7_sk8I" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br />Hey, if the Repubs can steal an election? Just kidding...mostly....<br /><br />Stay Revolutionary and as always...<br /><br />Stay Naked.<br /><br />ad<br /><br />What if we started a groundswell of hackers and got Captain Kangaroo elected President?<br /><br />Below is a gratuitous picture. I love it. Bubbles and Canines. Courtesy of <a href="http://www.flarsen.com/">Photographer Frederic Larsen</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/photoblogfl/2006/09/21/BUBBLES_GGBRIDGE_0263a_fl668x485.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/photoblogfl/2006/09/21/BUBBLES_GGBRIDGE_0263a_fl668x485.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341806309115828321noreply@blogger.com0