I drove past this between Salida and Cotopaxi on State Highway 50 in Colorado. I had to turn around and tell whoever that I stood with them totally assuming I was correct. I was and got the biggest hug of appreciation for doing so.
From my understanding, there are close to 3000 children being held around this country after being seized from their parents at the border.
Many will never see their Mom and Dad again because Republicans are totally evil.
Not too long ago got hooked up to the internets in my office. Could have used it two years ago but it's a must now because of new purchasing procedures. Stream what I listen to into the work area with a cheap $15 FM transmitter. So nice and makes a big difference as I'm entertained all day with no commercial shit at all. What I've been listening to is KDNK located in Carbondale, CO. It's listener supported and I'm throwing some their way as I enjoy hearing new music and that's what they're giving me day after day. Carbondale is not too far from Aspen and is the home of Solar Energy International a hands on school for renewable energy and a sustainable future. Been there this is good stuff. Thanks for making my days the last few weeks KDNK. Support KGNU in Bolder also. This is worthwhile because several years ago they were able to purchase with big debt of course a AM station in Denver something that seldom if ever happens. A Progressive AM station that has it all and no commercials. If you're not and if you can support stations like these. It's important.
I don't care what this guy does in his spare time I could fucking care less it's none of my business until you get caught!! Must be nice to spend so much getting who knows what when you've actually done a lot of positive things. Your sex life used to be your own now it's everybody's. Dumb fucker!
Shit like this really pisses me off for several reasons. First Dems are seldom in the news for this kind of behavior. The weird bastards are on the other side and there has been so many outed or caught and since you're a good Catholic if memory serves me it was perhaps straight sex which the poop would approve of.
The problem outside of being any number of negative things is the lame dick pundits and media will spin this like whore at a sheepherders square dance festival. In the end they will have the dumbed down in this country believing those on the left are the most depraved of all when the reality is the opposite. How far did the Jeff Gannon story go? It didn't even make it out of the box before it was dead even though he made at least 100 or was it 200 after hour visits to the White House of sin and squat was said. Is that a story- damn straight it was but yours will be and will make all of us look like sorry sacks of dried up bat shit.
Relive the good old days from someone who told these liars to their face what they are. No one on our side has done that at least like the way George did. Whine and cry a bit then let these bastards move on to the next atrocity. Why can't my side fight like George Galloway. He slapped Sen. Coleman so hard he got arrested for speeding in downtown Baltimore. If only we had fighters like GG telling it exactly like it is maybe just maybe we wouldn't be in the world of shit that we are.
I really like cats but don't have one. You will totally enjoy as I did this article on Dogcat.
UPDATE 2/5/15
Putting the text up of the article. Too good to have to go look at.
Steamboat Springs
— Lestat the cat, also known as "Dogcat," gets invited to parties that
his owners, Allen and Kathy Brandon, are not even invited to.
#"But
we tag along too," Allen said. "Lestat has quite a fan club. He also
gets cards and letters and postcards sent to 'Dogcat', because he is so
much like a dog."
#Lestat
was adopted from the Cheyenne Animal Shelter. He intimidated the dog
and was too playful with the children in the first family he was raised
with. The Brandons think he was named after author Anne Rice's
character, Lestat.
#"I
recall in 'Interview With The Vampire', someone told me the vampire
became more white after he became more nourished and drank blood," Allen
said.
#Lestat
is a white Ragdoll cat, who likes to ride in the car and the backpack
when the Brandons go hiking. He also is "quite the king of watching
magpies," and plays fetch.
#"He
would greet you by bounding in the air and jumping into your arms,"
Allen said. "He would also do pirouettes and stand on his hind legs and
dance around."
#His neighbors are so enamored of him that Lestat received a blue leash as a gift from one of them, to match his blue eyes.
#"I
think it's just because people are so intrigued by him, because he's
kind of like a dog," Allen said. "If he was the size of a Labrador, that
would be really cool because it would fit his personality perfectly."
#Lestat goes on most vacations with the Brandons, and is so personable that he often receives more attention than his owners.
#"A lot of our friends, when we run into them, they ask, 'how's Dogcat?' before they even ask how we are doing," Allen said.
BAGHDAD - Two bombs went off within minutes of each other in a crowded shopping district in the capital Thursday, killing up to 55 and wounding at least 130 — a reminder that deadly attacks are a daily threat even though violence is down. You whore! They've gotten reminded every day for five years asshole.
Like in previous such attacks Yea you smart sonofabitch when bombs go off close to many people there are excellent results sometimes.
Iraqis were enjoying a pleasant spring evening Until the boom huh? There's booms all the time and the booms are never going away that's the fucking point. The booms started for an agenda of a very few with lies that were successful. Stick the pleasant up your ass.
Wounded ‘were crying for help' I bet they fucking were. Loud too do ya think? "I saw a leg and a hand falling near me as I was walking" Show the results over and over again and maybe mom and dad will eventually envision their Ethan or Brianna or both getting blown all to fuck just like the Iraqi insurgents kids and say finally after all this killing- enough! It's a pipe dream.
The U.S.-Iraqi team killed nine suspected insurgents Stick this clear up your ass too! I wish I could cast a similar judgment on the insurgents in my country. It would be easier as there is nothing suspect about ours. The term is wrong because ours are Americans and yours are Iraqi. They hate our fucking guts! They will hate us forever that is the reality. You are owned by by the the dark side and will continue to fuck our country even when it's completely dead and rotting.
This does not even deserve a link. There are some within conventional media that wish to frame stories such as this in a different way but if they do so it does not get printed. The problem of course this is the horse shit the masses see in this country. Just what in the hell is it going to take for us to get out of Iraq? It sure as hell not happening anytime soon. We are so screwed.
Cross posted at the Ornery Bastard who by the way has a new address and is using WordPress so he can be even more ornery. OTC is all for that.
Have become a bit stagnate these last few days. Still don't want an early spring but I'm ready for shorts. This is fun for a bit. There's a phrase something like drive for show putt for dough. All that I know is that you can't make it unless you get it to the fucking hole. That's why Tigger wins so much cause he can putt end of story.
Carbondate over in Guam has been putting up good stuff! Has a video of a new Russian jet but it's the message that I like to hear.
Then there's this. Under water footage all good but the octopus at the end is amazing.
OTC will support whoever the Democratic candidate may be. What I find interesting and disturbing is how the results were framed in the several news sources I looked at quickly this morning. It was like her victory's were a non issue. The players want BO to win so bad! Just waiting to rip his guts out play the fear factor and glorify McCain. Look the fuck out all those who may think this election is anywhere close to a slam dunk. All cards on on the table and they do not plan on giving up power!
Many times it seems on or around my birthday things happen. Born 3/4/50 you figure it out. That number 50 has always made it easy to cypher things out. Recently I found out the house I have lived in for 15 years is being sold. The landlord and I are friends. He would never sell it to me. 10 years ago in partnership bought 90 acres with three houses that will be paid off this April. We saved this old house after five years of weekend work and well over 100 trips 280 one way from here. The reality is no jobs in the area for me. The dilemma is the following.
There is no housing slump here and if it comes a second bedroom added for 5K will add 25K to the value of a 860 sq ft house that will sell for195K a few below market price in this area.
I can swing the payment but the 20% down would require a loan from my 401K and just about tap the credit union out. If I were to rent something it would be close to the same amount as the payment about a K. Nothing cheaper to buy and I like this place a lot. Have hardly ever carried debt. Not many places to live and apartments are out. Don't like moving. Building is out in this market given the price range to work with. I would be able to find another place to live but my lifestyle would take a major hit.
I am of the belief that whether it's now or later and if not now sooner than later millions in this country will be forced to make major lifestyle changes because of economic conditions. The chickens are coming home to roost for sure. Feel very uneasy about carrying debt at this time and wish to know what others may think.
On a lighter note talked to the man with the fish at the top.(picture is gone) Caught twenty some last Friday. Says the picture doesn't do this fish justice. Some people would kill to catch a brown like that. I'm going next time. As the crow flies it's about 40 miles. This time of year about a 100 to get there. Graham told me he and friend made this movie in January skiing deep powder and trees above Fish Creek. Set to music I was impressed so there is no choice but to share it but I can't because I just found out it's been disabled. Just watched it this noon. He's has to put that back up or else I won't let him take me fishing. He just sent it to me-I guess I'll still have to let him take me fishing.
My long time friend and RPCV who I got to know while we both served in Ghana wrote this piece at my request to explain the history of why there is such turmoil in Kenya. In large part what is presented by our media does not begin to tell the whole story as Mr. Rodger does here.
We have been surprised, shocked and dismayed by recent violent events in Kenya; previously perceived as a peaceful nation making good economic progress since independence. Comparisons with Rwanda, Darfur and Biafra have been made; even Iraq, India, Kosovo...and indeed there is a common thread;it is TRIBALISM. Many refuse to acknowledge this and look for other causes only to be caught by surprise when it rears it's ugly head (one often hears on the News '...no one could have anticipated this happening...'). It is deplorable but it won't be wished away. Much of the world is chronically enveloped in tribal strife, though fortunately not always so overtly physical. Also it should be said great progress has been made in many places, So. Africa, No. Ireland, the USA.
I am a retired Electrical Engineer who spent two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching Math and Science in a rural high school in Kenya in the mid '60s, returning to Kenya again for a few months in '72 and '79. I was with the Meru people, one of the three tribes (Kikuyu and Embu being the others) which participated in the Mau Mau insurrection against British colonialism in the early '50s up till independence in late '63. I met many former Mau Mau fighters and heard their stories. As I'm neither Historian,Sociologist nor Anthropologist and each tribal-strife situation world wide is different, I'll confine my remarks to what I know of Kenya. To understand the larger picture some history is in order.
There are two large tribes in Kenya, the Kikuyu and the Luo (interestingly,Barack Obama's father is a Luo), and many smaller tribes. Some of the smaller tribes are related ethnically the larger two, some aren't. In a recent BBC News segment it was suggested that tribes were artificially demarcated; part of a divide and conquer colonial strategy by the British.This is partially true, for example the Merus, while regarding themselves as distinct, are ethnically and linguistically quite close to the Kikuyus but the Luos are not. However defined, the Kikuyu are the majority living largely around Mt. Kenya; the Luo are from the west by Lake Victoria and are ethnically and linguistically different.
As the British moved upcountry from the coast on their way to securing the colony and building a railway to Uganda, the Kikuyu were among the first encountered . They took to 'western ways' more readily than many of the other tribes (e.g. the Coastal peoples and the Masai). Nairobi, became the capital in the early 1900s, it being at the edge of the Rift Valley which runs the length of the continent and was, at the beginning of the last century, set up as a construction site before building the railway down the rift on the way to Uganda. It was not a traditionally important place before colonial times as some believe (the name Nairobi means 'cold swamp' in Masai). No one lived there. Nyanza province, home of the Luo, lay to the west of the Rift. As Nairobi grew, so did the need for labor, mostly of the menial kind. Typist was the highest level 'desk job' available to Africans at the time. Nairobi jobs were taken largely by Kikuyus.
Jomo Kenyatta (born Johnstone Kamau) was a telephone operator in Nairobi.Through a fund started by the Kikuyu elders (KCA, Kikuyu Central Association) he was sent to Britain in '30s to plead for Kikuyu land taken for white settlement (He wrote a book in 1938, 'Facing Mount Kenya', which details traditional Kikuyu life). Kenya, like So. Africa, was a racially segregated society. Many Kenyans served with the British Army during WWII.When they came back home and were treated once again as second class citizens, many rebelled. The Mau Mau started in the early '50s and Kenyatta was considered by the British to be its leader(he had returned to Kenya in'47). He was arrested in '52. Kikuyus in Nairobi were basically kicked out and their jobs given to Luos (the infamous 'Operation Anvil' finally'cleansed' Nairobi of Kikuyus in 1954). When independence was achieved on12/12/63 many of the Kikuyus felt, with considerable justification, thatTHEY had liberated Kenya and many (especially the emerging upper classes)felt that THEY were the rightful successors to British rule. The system wouldn't change but the masters would. Three political parties, KANU (Kenya African National Union, Kenyattas party), KPU (Kenya Peoples Party led by Oginga Odinga, father of Raila Odinga) and KADU (Kenya African Democratic Party, led by Daniel arap Moi, championed by the smaller tribes) had formed and campaigned largely in their respective ethnic areas in spite of the inclusive sounding names. Kenyatta was released from arrest to become 1stPresident in Dec. '62 and remained so until his death in 1978. A charismaticleader, he had been seen as a national figure. His second VP (Odinga was the first, see below) was Moi, (dissolving KADU in '66), a member of a small tribe from the Rift Valley region. Moi succeded Kenyatta for 24 years.During his tenure corruption crept in at an accelerating pace (largely favoring Kikuyus and his own people), the center of power moved west and many Kikuyus followed it, physically and economically, into the Rift Valley and Kenya amassed a large foreign debt. Odinga Sr., author of 'Not Yet Uhuru(independence)'in 1968, always had a populist (some said Socialist) as well as tribal appeal. He ultimately made a shaky peace with Kenyatta and he and a few other Luos were included in the Kenyatta government(briefly as first VP till '66). KPU was ultimately dissolved.
At independence a large education system was instituted. Missionary schools were brought into the Ministry of Education system. People felt this was the key to upward mobility for their children. However the economy didn't grow proportionally. With few jobs in sight, many youngsters having only a few years education (thus loath to do menial tasks), have in recent years joined gangs. Many feel that rich Kenyans (most often Kikuyus) have succeeded through corrupt means (often true). During these two reigns the Luos more or less 'cooled it'. Moi decided not to run in 2002 and Mwai Kibaki (a Kikuyu, perceived as populist) was elected. The Kikuyu were back in power but frustrations among non-Kikuyus grew as massive corruption became epidemic . This last (rigged) election of '07 finally broke the camels back...
The Kikuyus have what they perceive as 'theirs' and don't aim to give it back. Luos feel they've waited long enough. Minority tribes feel the same. Here we see the major causes for the present debacle taking shape;corruption, foreign debt, gangs, Kikuyus moving to and owning property in traditionally non-Kikuyu areas, Kikuyu intransigence, Luo/populist pressure... Recent efforts of Kofi Annan (who, as I am writing this, has brokered a power sharing deal between Kibaki and Odinga) seem to send a note of some hope. If this is the place for optimistic predictions however, I'll have to say I'm not so sure......
Why is this considered news and if it is it's really old disgusting news the same we've been hearing for seven long goddamn years. Will we ever return to a time when there was a bit of integrity in news print? I fucking doubt it! How about this for the lead in to this so called story.
Neocon's plan for continued Iraq and Middle East domination will continue as US forces will not be drawn down.
No shit Cisco tell me something I don't know. It's old fucking news the plan is working quite nicely. World domination designed by a few and allowed by the media because you cocksuckers are with them. Instead of exposing these people as often as you did Clinton's dick my country is now totally fucked up with the prospects of recovery any time soon dismal at best. You sonsofbitches!
Support KGNU in Bolder also. This is worthwhile because several years ago they were able to purchase with big debt of course a AM station in Denver something that seldom if ever happens.
