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Ich Ein REPUBlICAN ! Or is it ICK EIN REPUBLICAN ?

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I heard on the news that predominantly black congressional districts get more delegates. Is this true and is it part of the rules or what?

"At this point even if Bush pulled me out of a burning building, I would still give him a cockpunch."

"With a 71% disapproval rating doesn't the whole concept of Bush Derangement Syndrome change? I mean if you still support this asshat would you not be the one deranged??????"

/couple of farkers

Despite all we know about Bushco's intentional incompetence.. the Article at my name.. with tales told by Retired genral Sanchez about Runny... leaves me speachles at the moment

TO THE HAGUE!

Where's the Blog Archives?

To the left on the main page, below the blue ENG ad, Sanford.

Don't forget to click on a banner ad while you're here...

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_mikael___080501_methodists_reject_sm.htm

Methodist Council vote 844-20 to reject Bush Presidential Library at SMU.

/clicky

Hah! Thanks for that, Mojo. I just read an article on ThinkProgress that said the Methodists were having serious second thoughts, but I didn't know they had voted. (TP article at bluename)

From the British comedian, John Cleese, on behalf of her Majesty, the Queen:

To the citizens of the United States of America:

In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent
candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we
hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective
immediately.

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties
over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas, which
she does not fancy).

Your new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a Governor for
America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate
will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to
determine whether any of you noticed.

To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following
rules are introduced with immediate effect: You should look up
revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary.

1 Then look up aluminium, and check the pronunciation guide. You will
be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.

2. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour',
'favour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut'
without skipping half the letters, and the suffix '-ize' will be
replaced by the suffix '-ise'. Generally, you will be expected to
raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (Look up 'vocabulary').

3. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises
such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form
of communication. There is no such thing as US English. We will let
Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be
adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the
elimination of -ize.

4. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.

5. You will learn to resolve per! sonal i ssues without using guns,
lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and
therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns
should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort
things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're
not grown up enough to handle a gun.

6. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything
more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if
you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

7. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will
start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you
will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of
conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you
understand the British sense of humour.

8. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been
calling gasoline) - roughly $6/US gallon. Get used to it.

9. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French
fries are not real chips and those things you insist on calling potato
chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in
animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.

10. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually
beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to
as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be
referred to as Lager. South African beer is also acceptable as they are
pound for pound the greatest sporting Nation on earth and it can only
be due to the beer. They are also part of British Commonwealth - see
what it did for them. American brands will be referred to as
Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of
further confusion.

11. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as
good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to
play English characters. Listening to Gwyneth Paltrow attempt English
dialogue by speaking through her nose in Sliding Doors and Emma was an
experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.
Renée Zellweger wasn't any better as Bridget Jones.

12. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of
proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in
time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American
football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds
or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies). Don't try
Rugby --- the South Africans and Kiwis will thrash you, like they
regularly thrash us.

13. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to
host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played
outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware that there is a
world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn
cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the
sting out of their deliveries.

14. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.

15. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's
Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all
monies due (backdated to 1776).

16. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 pm with proper cups, with
saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and
cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.

Ha! You're welcome Hugh.

Here's a modest proposal for the Bush Monument.

motto:
"Forever In Your Debt"

/pic at clicky

Song for Miss jazzy and the AR B gang..

The Avett Brothers - For Today (at my name)

whoops, trying the blue name again ... this old AR blog machine gets cantankerous after midnight.

Two weeks ago, I got a call at work. UPS had a package, shipped from the UK now in KY and they needed me to sign a form so they could release the package(s).

As we talked they related that the insured value was $17,000.

Given that I hadn't been to the UK in 8 years, nor was I expecting gifts, I was suspicious.

I ignored the form for a week. Today they called back, "now the packages are in US customs and they will need a copy of my passport to release them." "BOGUS" I told the lady, no way she get personal information until I talk to the AR AG. "Let me verify the name" she started and gave me a different NAME AND ADDRESS than she had been using for the last 2 weeks. "Oh sorry, wrong people."

I think she was scamming me.

I called the AR AG. They said "seem like UPS' problem"

Called UPS, sent 40 minutes in TREES and on HOLD. Hint, don't ever hire Amanda unless you want a supervisor who will hang up on someone who doesn't have a tracking number. Never did get hold of a single person at UPS who gave a darned.

Since UPS doesn't care, BE CAREFUL.

Never did get hold of a single person at UPS who gave a darned.<<

Without a tracking number UPS knows immediately it's SCAM or their dealing
with a derelict.
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Got Rice?
Other than the rather generic 2 lb bags of rice Sam's Wholesale did not have their
customary 20 lb bags of basmati rice this week.

While Brazil is Oil-Free (they run on sugar cane) our incompetent unWise leaders had to
fuck up the world food supply and use heavily subsidized corn for fuel oil. One of the worst
mistakes in Am history. Beebe is no exception to the rule of stupid is as stupid does.

I think John Cleese and durangokid have the right idea. I've said it before that we need to give up trying to be an independent nation and will ourselves back to England. A simple look around would tell anyone that the American Experiment has failed. Sure, it took 231 and 3/4 years to come to this conclusion...that America can't stand on its own, but the proof is undeniable.

I enjoyed watching John Adams on HBO the last month, but bless his heart, he and his buddies were wrong. Breaking away from England was a mistake. We can't govern ourselves after all. We had the world by the balls after WWII, we coulda set things right around the globe for all for the rest of time. But instead we FK'ed it all up. All that power, the only world power without a homeland in ruins. We coulda bought the world a Coke and lived in harmony.....

But we FK'ed up. And now though our homeland appears to be intact, we lay in ruins. Our esteemed President will have to look to China if he wants a Presidential Library with his name on it, he is so hated. We're the leaders in terror and torture. We're a warring nation. Our economy is tanking...soon China will call its loans and in a couple of years yer kid will be getting their pictures taken wearing a Coolie hat at Wal-Mart. Not to mention our corrupt Supreme Court, our corrupt Justice system, our corrupt Congress, our corrupt national news media, our corrupt FDA, our corrupt Mega-churches.

I can learn to eat fish 'n chips and drive on the left side of the road....if we can just retire the name America and let it rest in peace. If we give ourselves back to England and the neo-cons and the military-industrial-complex keep acting up the rest of the world will scream Damn you bloody Brits! Death to England! Being cursed under a new name won't hurt my feelings so much. And in a couple of hundred years people will start talking fondly about old America again. And like books on the Roman Empire, future authors will crow about what a wonderful place old America was, how the people were intelligent, hardworking and honorable.

And maybe in 300 years a group of angry, fed up people will found a new nation, good to the core, respectful of all people, based on this legend of the long lost America...and we will have done some good after all. Tell the Queen to send the papers....where do I sign?

DBI,
To paraphrase Linus Van Pelt, I love America. It's Americans I can't stand."

"I shall not submit to injustice from anyone." Mahatma Gandhi

"Justice is Truth in Action." Benjamin Disraeli

" Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
- Martin Luther King, "A Letter from the Birmingham Jail"

Dear Mona and Ron,
Your friends will never cease helping you achieve JUSTICE FOR JANIE.
Only my best wishes to you both,
Roy

Ronward wrote:
From: "Ronward"
To:
Subject: Mike Masterson May 3rd, 2008
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 03:20:32 -0500

Publication: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; Date:2008 May 03; Section:Editorial; Page Number: 23
No surprises here

Mike Masterson

Now that Special Prosecutor Tim Williamson of Mena and his expert, retired pathologist John Pless of Indiana, have released after nine months the "undetermined" findings in the third autopsy on Janie Ward's body, I see that I was darned near psychic with my predictions last year.
Williamson and Pless met with Janie's parents, Ron and Mona Ward of Marshall, on Monday in the presence of their attorney, Jerry Sallings. During that session, recorded by the Wards and filmed by the media, the Wards say that:
Pless agreed with Ron Ward that blood was visible in a close-up photograph that shows Janie's mouth. While agreeing with Ward that the red splotches were blood, Pless did not explain what had caused it.
Pless accused former Arkansas Chief Medical Examiner Fahmy Malak of inexplicably tearing Janie's spinal cord during the first autopsy in 1989. Pless said he didn't know why Malak would do such a thing. Malak initially ruled that Janie had died of an upper spinal cord and neck injury, supported the ruling with a photograph of the frayed spinal cord. He later sent a copy of the photo and others from his post mortem to the Wards, saying they could be used as evidence if it were shown that a crime had occurred.
Besides the heart, the spinal cord was missing at Bonnell's 2004 autopsy as well as Pless' autopsy this past August. In his autopsy report, Pless did not refer to the photo, taken during Malak's autopsy, that revealed the torn spinal cord. Without offering any substantiation, he told the Wards that their daughter might have died from choking, or a maybe a heart ailment, or possibly even by drowning.
Bonnell strongly denies having damaged Janie's nose.
"In the microscopic exam, there is bleeding into the tissue around the nose," he told me. "Dr. Pless said he saw none. Therefore, he alleges [that] I caused the nose fracture . . . even though the nasal fracture and hemorrhage are visible in the original autopsy photos and photos taken at the funeral home."
Ward said it was obvious to him on the night she died that Janie's neck and nose had been recently broken. Earlier this week, he posted photographs showing the abrasion on Janie's nose taken in her casket and at the Crime Lab on lyncho. com under "pictures."
Pless told the Wards that he had not known that in 1992 two pathologists retained by the state to review Janie's case said that the bizarre photograph of a lateral X-ray made at the Malak autopsy-the one with the neck blanked entirely out and missing the inset medical examiner's case number-did not appear to be an X-ray of a teen-age girl. Pless, who a state audit shows received at least $6,000 in compensation for his work on the case, could not explain the unnatural appearance of the X-ray when compared with its companion anterior view. (You compare them for yourself and see other photos at lyncho.com.)
Pless said that the puffy, discolored areas on the outer two knuckles of Janie's right hand and another above her thumb were dirt. When Sallings questioned Pless about the bluish discoloration of that specific area, Pless called it dirt and "liver mortis." Sallings then questioned why liver mortis, a byproduct of noncirculating blood settling to the lowest levels of the body, would settle only in two knuckles and above her thumb, rather than across her entire hand.
Pless could not explain the muddy, torn and threadbare front of their child's jeans, as shown in photographs.
Monday's press conference did not deal with any of the many discrepancies, contradictions and missing time surrounding the official version of Janie's death that has her inexplicably toppling backwards less than 10 inches onto dry ground and dying within minutes at the scene, the Wards said.
Bonnell also told me after the press conference that he did not understand why Pless admittedly did not take tissue samples from the specific areas of hemorrhage that Bonnell said he found, rather than from elsewhere on Janie's body. "That, to me, is like looking for truth under the street lamp only because the light's better over there," said Ron Ward.
Ron Ward wondered why a medical examiner would start dissecting any subject's neck if there wasn't a suspected point of specific injury there to examine. "The X-ray we initially were shown at the Crime Lab showed our daughter's neck was separated in the area where her spinal cord was torn," he said.
"We expected this and aren't buying what was said because it does not add up," said Ron Ward. "Blaming everyone else to try to make this story fit is a continuation of what we have endured for 18 years," said Ron Ward. "To just say she choked, or died of natural causes without any evidence is ridiculous to anyone who examines the truth of what's known. Janie's spinal cord was torn. Her nose was broken. Her mouth was bloody. Those are some facts."
I'll keep you posted on the upcoming ABC documentary on Janie's case. At this point, those following this case for years either believe the truth about her death has been revealed, or it hasn't. Not much middle ground, I'd say.
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Police found a person near the parking lot of the crack motel at Markham & Cedar who was taken away in an ambulance.
Does anyone know what happened?