Mule Jail

TWO MORE YEARS! TWO MORE YEARS!

2006-08-23T19:48:00.000-04:00

Very good data about a very bad thing.The bright side???Probably the demise of the worst part of the Republican Party, much like what occurred during the depression. Meanwhile, Shanghai is looking good. Enjoy!Roubini Global Economics (RGE) Monitor

Forty acres..but no mule

2006-07-30T19:55:00.000-04:00

Sirotablog: Billionaire Scion Tom FriedmanAs the July edition of the Washingtonian Magazine notes, Friedman lives in "a palatial 11,400-square-foot house, now valued at $9.3 million, on a 7½-acre parcel just blocks from I-495 and Bethesda Country Club." He "married into one of the 100 richest families in the country" - the Bucksbaums, whose real-estate Empire is valued at $2.7 billion.Is there

Beautiful

2006-07-05T21:40:00.000-04:00

I knew there'd be some precedent that echoed Nuremburg...Billmon finds it..Whiskey Bar: No Respect for the Struggling Artist

Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine

2006-06-28T19:19:00.000-04:00

Whaa??? Slashdot | ACLU Files for Info on New Brain-Scan Tech

Privacy Protection

2006-06-17T16:25:00.000-04:00

Dr. Stupidlove

2006-06-12T21:09:00.000-04:00

ArmsControlWonk | an arms control weblog: Bombs From Spacevia AgonistWhenever anybody brings up "space based weaponry", rest assured they got their science training from watching the Road Runner.What a bunch of idiots.

My Asymmetric

2006-06-11T07:30:00.000-04:00

Truthdig - Ear to the Ground - U.S. Military: Gitmo Suicides Acts of 'Warfare'"They are smart, they are creative, they are committed," Admiral Harris said. "They have no regard for life, neither ours nor their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us." NYTimesOther examples of Asymmetric Warfare -And just the other day, somebody turned

I mean

2006-06-09T17:05:00.000-04:00

What's the use?Congress just gave everyone in the Executive Branch one of these.Not only are they able to spy on anybody legally. If by chance they do it illegally, IT'S NOT ILLEGAL. Excuse me while I say...huh?America must want it this way.And Glenn Greenwald says it best.And all we got was this stupid picture.

Pre-writing history

2006-05-27T17:32:00.000-04:00

C-Net News via RawStory -AT&T leaks sensitive info in NSA suitAT&T's attorneys this week filed a 25-page legal brief striped with thick black lines that were intended to obscure portions of three pages and render them unreadable (click here for PDF).But the obscured text nevertheless can be copied and pasted inside some PDF readers, including Preview under Apple Computer's OS X and the xpdf

Wired gets the Goods

2006-05-22T13:57:00.000-04:00

So here we are. via TalkLeft and Wired Magazine. This seals the deal as far as collusion between the Internet carriers and the police state.Since the framing of this issue has, despite protestations, turned on "listening to phone calls" and "wiretapping", etc. the major media will not pick this up, since it's NOT "listening to phone calls".I'll dive into this document in more detail after study.

More New School HiJinks

2006-05-20T20:27:00.000-04:00

via The News Blog

Alma Mater

2006-05-19T20:46:00.000-04:00

Well at least my daughter chose a school where the students give a damn.McCain at New School: Honeymoon is Over "I stand that ground because I believed, rightly or wrongly, that my country's interests and values required it." "Wrongly!" one student boomed from the back. Sitting directly behind us, Maureen Dowd and Adam Nagourney of the New York Times, chuckled. As McCain droned on, students

Life Lesson

2006-05-19T06:20:00.000-04:00

Somebody asked me once, "How do you deal with assholes?"Feingold has his own special way. He's getting fed up.Sen. Feingold walks out as Marriage Amendment Hearing moved behind closed doors

The Apotheosis of Capitalism

2006-05-17T17:50:00.000-04:00

Judge: Documents On AT&T Surveillance AllowedU.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker rejected a bid by AT&T Inc. to return the records that were given to the privacy advocate Electronic Frontier Foundation by a former AT&T technician. But Walker said the records would remain under seal until it can be determined whether they reveal trade secrets.Spying on your customers is a trade secret????Amazing

Meet Your New Masters

2006-05-17T16:12:00.000-04:00

Max Boot in the LA TimesForget Privacy, we need to spy more.This archaic law(FISA) should be euthanized. Replace it with legislation that gives the president permission to order any surveillance deemed necessary, subject to only one proviso: If it is later determined that an intelligence-gathering operation was not ordered for legitimate national security objectives — if, for instance, it was

666

2006-05-17T15:32:00.000-04:00

Six month's from now...Any day now...We're turning the corner...

Tiny bubbles

2006-05-17T15:02:00.000-04:00

Dusty Foggo was a bigger ho than the Don himself.

Aesthetics

2006-05-17T09:28:00.000-04:00

Hey you!! Better not be singing our songs on that guitar!LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The recording industry on Tuesdaysued XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., alleging its Inno devicethat can store music infringes on copyrights and transforms apassive radio experience into the equivalent of a digitaldownload service like iTunes.

Sigh

2006-05-16T11:11:00.000-04:00

Never mind.....Greenwald -A front-page article in this morning's The Hill reports that Sen. Specter has finally made enough concessions to secure the support of the more right-wing members of the Judiciary Committee for his legislation that (along with a bill from Sen. DeWine) would render legal the NSA warrantless eavesdropping program.So we're all good Amerikans now. We have now given away the

The Questions

2006-05-14T20:55:00.000-04:00

The Right Questions: Question OneTony Snow: Well, in this particular case, again, we're neither confirming or denying the existence of the program. The President was pretty clear --I mean, I'll just -- this is where I will reiterate the points he made yesterday, which is number one, we don't listen to domestic phone calls without court approval. You have all reported that, that the allegations

2006-05-13T06:19:00.000-04:00

"Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence"Donald RumsfeldAs I had said earlier in the pieces regarding this surveillance program and has been borne out in every detail during it's entire history, phone call surveillance is a crimson red and monstrous herring. Talk about phone conversations is absolutely irrelevant. The real story, the program which this administration and AT&T/Verizon/

2006-05-13T06:16:00.000-04:00

Follow the Words(12/21/05)These fuckers are scared silly about this surveillance story. NYT bonzos called in to the White House. Gonzo and Condi fumbling for the right words. Cheney cuts his trip short.What would be the legal ramifications of one agency, which is forbidden to spy domestically, were to set up the technical apparatus and then hand over the apparatus to another agency who

2006-05-13T06:10:00.000-04:00

Network Architecture of Treason(12/24/05)So how would an agency go about surveillance on overseas Internet traffic on a massive scale? First of all, one has to place monitors, probes or taps on the Internet. Where would one place them? That's pretty simple. Let's look at

2006-05-08T20:00:00.000-04:00

Military coups don't happen in our neck of the woods.Vidiot Speakand now a word from our sponsor.

2004-12-10T14:38:00.000-05:00

WARNING...VERY DISTURBING...GRAPHICAL VIOLENCE DEPICTED But, of course, ultimately for their own good. via the unfiltered lens of Iraq Dispatches: Fallujah Pictures Well...Since there were no "embedded reporters" along, I guess we can simply ignore these for lack of "objectivity." And once again, all I can think about is that clip from Robert Bly's poem The Teeth Mother Naked at Last But if

2004-12-09T13:00:00.000-05:00

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | 'We have to protect people' Yep...Can't have homos doing things like...WRITING!!!!

2004-12-08T08:11:00.000-05:00

Things are looking up in Falluja, eh?

2004-11-28T22:36:00.000-05:00

A very moving "passage", as it were. Eschaton

2004-11-23T09:56:00.000-05:00

Thanks to George and Clear Channel, I can now officially start translating into German. Just a translation mind you. Using your words. via Suburban Guerrilla.. Unserer Fuhrer Has a nice ring to it, eh?

2004-11-23T08:52:00.000-05:00

From the Boston Herald...Chief Economist for Morgan Stanley..."economic Armageddon" BostonHerald.com - Business: Economic `Armageddon' predicted Add that to Volcker's 75% chance of "catastrophe" and what do you get? I'm not worried...I'm 100% into U.S. Bonds...oh...waitaminute

2004-11-19T10:18:00.000-05:00

via Slashdot... Bill Gates patents Aristotle's Square of Opposition, nihilism and the Concept of Being. Next up, Microsoft patents logic...offers to sell it to Bush administration. Slashdot | Microsoft Patents 'IsNot', Enlists WTO

2004-11-16T15:49:00.000-05:00

Hey...Look! A trove of secret inteligence reports!!! USNews.com: The Baghdad files: A trove of secret intelligence reports spells out in chilling detail how Iraq's dangerous next-door neighbor is aiding the anti-U.S. insurgency there (11/22/04) Well...There's the hook...Wonder if anybody takes the bait?? That was quick Make no mistake, people: we are at war with Iran, a conflict that's very

2004-11-16T14:23:00.000-05:00

Your daily dose of Wolcott. Sure to take the edge off the daily hangover we're now suffering through. James Wolcott: Rice and No Beans

2004-11-16T09:42:00.000-05:00

So, just to keep up to date... FCC says "We own/control your PCs" Hollywood says "We own/control your entertainment" Suburban Guerrilla

2004-11-16T09:06:00.000-05:00

You'll Go Blind If You Keep Blogging!

2004-11-16T08:43:00.000-05:00

Michael Powell Wants Your Spam Susan Crawford blog :: Does the White House know? So the FCC wants control over all these radical computers, eh? FCC's position is that its Act gives it regulatory power over all instrumentalities, facilities, and apparatus "associated with the overall circuit of messages sent and received" via all interstate radio and wire communication. That's quite a

2004-11-15T17:33:00.000-05:00

Welcome to Hue v3.1...or as the idiot on CNN called it ..."Hugh." gawd...and they call these guys the liberal media elite???? Concord Monitor Online via First Draft - Operation Al Fajr: When FUBAR Meets War Cirmes BAGHDAD, Iraq - Dr. Ahmed Ghanim's nightmarish week began with a phone call in the operating room of a triage center in downtown Fallujah. On the line was the manager of the

2004-11-10T18:22:00.000-05:00

"Any idea who was slaughtered in those slaughterhouses?" --Wolf Blitzer Since most all the slaughterers have left Fallujah, (oh yeah, like Zarquawi's gonna still be there), watch for this to be the justification of the whole raid. Slaughter...It's what slaughterer's have for breakfast, after their rape rooms, and their mass graves.

2004-01-02T11:12:00.000-05:00

Yahoo! News - Name Mixup Behind Air France Groundings First they came for the Welsh Insurance agents... via AP "Pierre Debue, director of the French border police, said one name on the list turned out to be that of a 5-year-old child. The Wall Street Journal on Friday said two other suspected terrorists turned out to be an elderly Chinese woman and a Welsh insurance agent." I mean, it musta

2003-12-17T22:14:00.000-05:00

MSNBC - Dubious Link Between Atta and Saddam "It's a lucrative business," says Hassan Mneimneh, codirector of an Iraqi exile research group reviewing millions of captured Iraqi government documents. "There's an active document trade taking place … You have fraudulent documents that are being fabricated and sold" for hundreds of dollars a piece. How do I get in on this action?!? "Psssst...Hey

2003-11-13T10:01:00.000-05:00

U.S. Expats in UK Hit by Wave of 'Anti-Bushism' Reuters via Yahoo "Christine Swanson, back home after taking the kids on the morning run to school, said: 'I am frustrated. As horrible as September 11 was, it was a real opportunity to move forward in a positive way. There was a lot of goodwill to tap into and it took the incredible talent of George Bush to

2003-11-12T18:27:00.000-05:00

A friend's family had a place down in the swamp by the river called Mule Jail. All the mules were herded down there during the Civil War battles. Mules...war...quagmire...It's all the same game.