End time: Jul-22-07 05:24:36 PDT

I saw this on Rawstory and it moved from 600 to the current bid very rapidly.  I thought 1776 gave me an even bigger grin...so I took a picture.  I hope he gets up to his dream price of 5 million, but that is a dream.  
Emphasis is mine.

"I disagree with the way the war is being handled," Krasnesky told The Post. "I think we're doing some good things over there but I think the end result is going to be bad."

Larger photo here.
FishOutofWater's Diary: Spirals Deeper

Pakistan Urges Quick Aid For Those Storm Displaced
http://online.wsj.com/...
Pakistan called on the international community to rush aid to one million people left homeless by massive flooding amid forecasts yesterday that still more rain would be dumped on the stricken areas in coming days....
some 20,000 people were rendered homeless after waters from a canal spilled over embankments, ...

Tariq Ayub, Baluchistan's home secretary, who is overseeing the flood-relief operation, said many of the casualties occurred because of drowning and people getting trapped under the debris of their collapsing homes.

Sound familiar?

Cross Promoted at My Left Wing

Cyclone Yemyin Slammed into Pakistan on Tuesday: Bring with it severe rains that have triggered Flooding in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan as well as Iran.

Mercy Corps Mobilizes Staff in Pakistan
Reuters
Hundreds have been killed and hundreds of thousands have lost their homes to recent severe weather.

Pakistan has been particularly hard-hit: earlier this week a cyclone struck the nation's largest city, Karachi, killing at least 230 people. More than 900,000 Pakistanis are affected by the flood and, because roads and bridges have been washed away, dozens of communities are trapped by swollen rivers.

Do to Slow relief efforts: The Pakistan Army is now facing Riots  

This looks like, Serious Trouble... where is our Media?

We have spent the nearly six years, Invested Billions! We Even Held, Fair Elections in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestinian, Lebanon... yet Each of these Countries is no closer to having a Stable Independent State, let alone a Democracy...

In Fact after all that Time, Money and Blood- Each one of those Countries is in
Worse Shape... Why?  
 

BTW- That is a picture of Kashmir, India*

Maybe, they are just too war like, too tribal... to backward?

Yes you read that right, I just heard about it on CNN

TB Patient Andrew Speaker, Father-In-Law Works for CDC. What is even stranger is The Father-in-law Robert Cooksey MD works as Tuberculosis Researchers at The CDC in ATLANTA...

Father-in-law of patient works for CDC on TB
AP

Bob Cooksey said he gave his son-in-law Andrew Speaker "fatherly advice" when he learned he had contracted the disease. Speaker has a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis that has proved resistant to drugs.

Cooksey said that had he know his daughter was at any risk, he would not have allowed her to travel. He said he did not act in any official capacity with the CDC on the case.

More after the fold...

on Col. Patrick Lang's blog Sic Semper Tyrannis Col. Lang describes an
"on the record" chat with Richard Sale a UPI Terrorism Correspondent.

Bruner said of Chalabi(INC):
"He never gave the agency any intel on Iran, never submitted to being debriefed.' adding, "He was Iran’s guy."

It gets BAD...after the fold...Go to the link to Read it ALL!!

The administrators are over worked and tired...  tired of dealing with the problems of the Middle-East Peace Talks.

The administration has issued an proclamation - No more Middle-East talks -
Due to a rouge Banned User that refuses to go. Worse then not going, this Band User has terrorized Kos administrators with threading emails and unlawful reentries, despite continuous deportations.

It seems that Daily Kos security wall has been breached. Where the failure is has yet to be discovered, although it could be a series of tubes?

If this turns out to be True, more unwelcome Trespasser might be able to get In...
This can not be allowed, more diaries would be written by these Trespassers which could cause harm to the whole community; dairies would fly by quicker on the scroll, giving less time for Real Members dairies to be seen.  Worse yet these Trespassers are helping dKos enemies by handing ammunition that might be used on FundamentalistWebsites hell-bent on ruining dKos.  

the ugliness unfolds

Here is a flash back to last year and leveymg Diary
But the time is now.  The NSA has total access outsourced to third parties(private corporations).

http://blog.wired.com/...

May 14th is the official deadline for cable modem companies, DSL providers, broadband over powerline, satellite internet companies and some universities to finish wiring up their networks with FBI-friendly surveillance gear, to comply with the FCC's expanded interpretation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.

Have you heard of this before?
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)

CALEA Compliance for Packet Equipment, And Equipment for Facilities-Based Broadband Internet Access Providers and Providers of Interconnected VoIP

All facilities-based broadband Internet access providers and providers of interconnected VoIP service have until May 14, 2007 to come into compliance with CALEA.

It is a difficult decision, for one to walk away from their home and country: Sure, after the last presidential election, many Americans started dreaming of far way places... But to actually do it, well that is another matter.

Israel was my second Country, not the country of my birth, the country of my Choice. I bought my first home in Israel, after years of living as ether a student or a war gypsy, student again, back to war, I was beginning to look like the constant Traveler. I carried more weight in camera gear then in cloths, my family and friends would laughing tell me they only knew I was alive, when odd books showed up in the post. I only tell you this because for me to buy a home was a big deal, to own more shoes than fit on a carry on. Oh an all my books in one place...

I became active right away, working with different groups trying to bring equality to Israel’s two system schools: Under Law, Israel's Education has separate departments: dividing Israeli-Arabs and Jewish Students. I have always been an Activists, I come from a long line of them. I felt up to the challenges. Bill Clinton was the President and a two state solution looked hopeful.    

more after the fold

Flower Power, the slogan of my lost youth...

Thats right, I am a Child of the ‘70’s. My parents were political activists, the ex Marine Capt and his free spirited wife, standing up to their government, in the country they both loved, and the unjust war of their day. Every spring, I would pick flowers, giving them to anyone that passed: bare feet, great songs, smiling faces.

Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose
Nothin' don't mean nothin' hon' if it ain't free, no no
And feelin' good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues
You know, feelin' good was good enough for me
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee...

I love that song, Thanks Janis Joplin

Tonight is all about Peace, Love and Sharing...

Please be generous and play nice...

http://www.nature.com/...
Just a little more history swept under the rug under the Bush administration.  How can there be a 300 million year old fossilised forest, if the earth was created about 6,000 years ago?

Geologists have found the remains of a huge underground rainforest hidden in a coal mine in Illinois. The fossil forest, buried by an earthquake 300 million years ago, contains giant versions of several plant types alive today.

This is a treasure that needs to be preserved.  
The Senators of Illinois Obama and Durbin need to get up on this.

More after the fold.

The world is going to Shit and I have Mojo For you!!!

I know Nothing but Bad, Sad, Fucked Up News, it looks like the End of the world as we know it and to quote REM... I feel fine, in fact I feel Fabulous.

Perhaps this is just some Jolt of adrenaline and if that’s the case it wont last long. But who cares how long it last?

Make yourself at home, Drinks all around ~ Three Cheers Hip, Hip, Hurray.
Grab a seat and tell me your problems.

Please play nice....

Oxford Professor Dr. James Naughton Emailed me ~ Thanks Professor

Here is a copy of the e-mail I sent to Professor James Naughton head of Czech and Slovak Studies at Oxford University

Dear Dr. James D. Naughton,

There was a post on the Internet to me, in Czech. It has caused me some concern.  I do not think the author speaks Czech, they just want me to think they do. Anyway it very odd and I am looking for an expert that might assist me with this matter.

Here is the massage~

âlen urãit˘ Internovaná osoba encyklopedie vlastnictví v€d€t kdo tebe ar. Ona mít nesporn˘ aÏ k exponovat tvÛj poboÏnÛstkáfiství aÏ k tvÛj upotfiebitel. Nejlépe náhoda aÏ k tebe.

I worked as a photojournalist during the Third Balkan's War: So I am familiar with Slavic Languages. This is what I have come up with?

The Internet  ~ encyclopedia ~ know who you are.
They ~~~ to expose your bigotry to your employer.
Best chance to you.

I must say I am feeling a bit crazy. I guess I am just looking for someone to put my mind at ease.

He was kind enough to get back to me, his two emails-
after the Fold.

No longer necessary today. When hitting delete, is so quick and silent. Virtual Library are growing. Even I use online books, they are convenient.... But at what COST?

Last night, I watched Kingdom of Heaven with my nephews. After it was over, we ended up talking about the real Saladin. I brought up my home in Israel (they were young when they visited) Do you remember seeing crusader fortress? Well the Christians Knights pulled back to Acre after losing Jerusalem, the war counted for years...

Lets go look it up: This is where things turn strange, we went over to the commuter and logged onto Eleventh Edition of Encyclopedia Britannica: we found SALADIN right away. Then the fourteen year old said "I didn’t know there was PALESTINE then?" and I said well lets look it up- A City in Texas...

"What dose a city in Texas, have to do with Saladin?"

I don’t know...

Cross-posted at My Left Wing

and Alberto Gonzales- that Sycophant, the yes man Whore, that Fuckwit, who spent he life enabling Dubya’s crimes ~ sure shit ain’t him, Got it?

The real Gonzo is Hunter S. Thompson ~ the Godfather of Gonzo journalism, inserting him self into the story, with his first person narrative, He was the Literary voice of a god-damb Generation!!!

~~ for the love of all that is all is good in the world~ Hunter S. Thompson has barely been dead 2years, he took his life February 20, 2005 and they Shot his ashes out of a cannon on Sunday August 20, 2005, yep you read that right, his ashes were Blasted into the Aspen sun~~~ because that’s what Gonzo wanted~
Washington Post

cross promoted at My Left Wing

Gonzo's words after fold

It seems people in Washington are watching Stephen Colbert's "Better Know a District" and are not liking what they are seeing?

Emanuel to Dems: Avoid Colbert  don’t do it ... it’s a risk and it’s probably safer not to do it,"

Nancy Pelosi " don't subject yourself to a comic's edit unless you want to be made a fool of." June 30, 2006

Colbert is making a Fool out of Himself and we are laughing with you, Not at You!

Whats wrong with them? Have they been in Washington to long??

Well I say EAT iT dKos that right, lets all go out and buy a Pint!

Of.... Ben & Jerry's "Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream."

"the sweet taste of liberty in your mouth"

More after flip

OMG James Carville did it, he stated my worst fear.

On the Situation Room: With Wolf Blitzer.
rough transcript...see video below.

James Carville: I don't even think the Republican Nominee is even in the race yet...

Wolf Blitzer: So, give me some names

James Carville: JEB [John Ellis] Bush

on no he didn't... oh yes he did...

This is an amazing story. It looks mighty familiar.  
From The Sunday Times March 11, 2007 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/...

A former Iraqi defence minister whose 10 months in office coincided with the disappearance of more than $800m (£400m) from the ministry’s coffers is living openly in Amman and London despite a warrant for his arrest.

Hazem Shaalan, a small businessman in London until Saddam Hussein was ousted in 2003, rose in a year to one of the most important jobs in the interim government that ran Iraq from 2004 to 2005.

A cool $80 million a month.

He left Baghdad before the next government discovered that a fortune had been looted from his ministry’s account in what one senior investigator has called "one of the largest thefts in history".