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Monday November 28, 2011 · 9:05 PM PST

2011/11/28 · 21:05

I'm in the marine industry, so when a message comes across my desk, lauding the House and Senate for passing H.R. 3321: America's Cup Act of 2011, it caught my interest.

Until today, I had never heard that it took an Act of Congress to hold an America's Cup in the US. So I read the legislation. It turns out that this is a piece of legislation circumventing the Jones Act and probably other legislation to allow one 350' megayacht, one small nondescript cargo vessel, one coastal dredge, and one nondescript smallish container vessel to enter the US. It also allows three (3) named LNG vessels the right to do the same, and specifies that one LNG vessel of Alaskan registry not be allowed to discharge LNG cargo while in drydock. And oh yes, it allows one (1) dated America's Cup trial horse, repurposed as an expensive day charter vessel, also to enter. All the genuine America's Cup vessels and their accompanying support vessels rather obviously do not require such an Act to enter and participate.

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Saturday September 27, 2008 · 9:26 AM PDT

2008/09/27 · 09:26

John McCain was a fighter pilot. Well, fighter-bomber pilot actually but a similar experience. You all know how the training and experiences of our youth mold us. It's very hard to change those deep-seated patterns. McCain retains that fighter pilot mentality.

Commentators say that he rolls the dice. But it's more complicated than that. He has a very high level of situational awareness. We saw that in the debate last night, when he was able to steer the conversation into territory more favorable to him. And he has very fast reactions which we see as a very low time-to-decision and a good sense of decisions that will be temporarily unfavorable to his opponent.

Those reactions served him well as a fighter pilot, but will not serve his country well in the role of chief executive.

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Wednesday June 21, 2006 · 4:30 PM PDT

2006/06/21 · 16:30

Yesterday, the House defeated the Schiff amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2007. This amendment would have prohibited funds from being used to violate FISA, thus using the power of the purse to end This Administration's illegal spying on Americans. It failed, 207 to 219.

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Take action against fear!

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Wednesday December 21, 2005 · 10:26 PM PST

2005/12/21 · 22:26

Kagro X has put up a couple diaries on Guerrilla Marketing. Then Maryscott OConnor put up a diary called Slouching Toward Kristallnacht.

These two diaries intersected somewhere in my head and I had (possibly) an original thought! What Mayer in MSOC's diary points out is that few protested or did anything to stem the rising tide of fear in Nazi Germany. What did people come to fear? Being associated with Jews. Well, it's Muslims this time.

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BBV and the Diebold hack that didn't happen

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Friday December 02, 2005 · 11:28 AM PST

2005/12/02 · 11:28

Hi there, BlackBoxVoting fans and anti-Diebold workers! It's December 2 now and we all know that the BBV/Harri Hursti hack was supposed to go down on November 30. I'm sorry to report that it didn't happen.

You'll have to look below the fold to find out why.
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Is Kaine DLC?

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Wednesday November 09, 2005 · 10:05 PM PST

2005/11/09 · 22:05

James Ridgeway of the Village Voice posits that Kaine's success was due to his ties to Warner and the DLC. Warner of course was a big factor, but this is the first I've heard of a DLC connection. Anything to it?

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ANSWER and the prison camp called Gaza

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Saturday September 24, 2005 · 12:26 PM PDT

2005/09/24 · 12:26

I know it's been a few days since the Gaza pullout, but it takes me a bit to digest things. The ANSWER diaries today galvanized me a bit. Immediately after the Israeli pullout, Palestinians celebrated:

Fireworks lit up the pre-dawn sky, Palestinian gunmen fired in the air in celebration and crowds set a synagogue ablaze in the abandoned Morag settlement. In another synagogue, gunmen climbed on the roof and waved flags of militant groups, including Hamas, shouting, "God is great."

"It is only the first step to more liberation ... tomorrow we liberate all of Palestine," Gaza resident Mohammed Khamish Habboush shouted into a mosque loudspeaker.

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Reuters publishes more lies about Iran

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Thursday August 18, 2005 · 11:30 AM PDT

2005/08/18 · 11:30

You may have noticed that the same media folks who were willingly spoonfed This Administration's lies about Iraq are now devouring and regurgitating the new lies about Iran. Don't these guys ever learn anything?

Gordon Prather has an article over at antiwar.com that documents how This Administration is spinning its latest hate campaign in the war against Eurasia. Dr. Prather is a physicist and noted policy wonk. CV in the article sidebar.

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Democrats must stand untied!

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Saturday April 09, 2005 · 5:05 PM PDT

2005/04/09 · 17:05

The full dyslexic quote from Representative Rick Larsen's (D-WA) letter to my wife is also disingenuous given his support for the Bankruptcy Bill:

It is important that we stand untied in the upcoming election season and it has to start at the grassroots level.

This, while Larsen stands in opposition to his grassroots and to his Party. This week, the Central Committee of the Democratic Party of Washington State unanimously passed a resolution condemning the Bankruptcy Bill and urging all Democratic legislators to oppose it. Representative Larsen, a DLC and NDC member, intends to ignore this resolution and his party.

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Nobody Knows, a film of political allegory

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Monday March 21, 2005 · 6:08 PM PST

2005/03/21 · 18:08

This diary is not about Terri Schiavo. Nobody Knows is a film by Hirokazu Kore-eda that purports to be about 4 children living on their own in Tokyo. However, it's a political allegory about all of us, living in a world in which we are ill-equipped to survive. We lack the discipline, the knowledge, and the skills to stay alive in a world that most of us don't understand and cannot understand. The film is based on a true story.

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More Pentagon PsyOps

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Wednesday February 16, 2005 · 8:28 PM PST

2005/02/16 · 20:28

This appeared as a comment in a previous diary, but in view of the PropaGannon interest, I thought it deserved a more thorough look.

It seems that the Pentagon, in the guise of "public interest" is running a propaganda channel on the DISH Network.

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The Right Wing's Stalingrad

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Friday February 11, 2005 · 10:17 AM PST

2005/02/11 · 10:17

Let's make Bush's attack on Social Security the Right Wing's Stalingrad. Some things have coalesced in my mind after reading this piece by Max J. Castro in the Progreso Weekly.

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ANSWER and the prison camp called Gaza

Reuters publishes more lies about Iran

Democrats must stand untied!

Nobody Knows, a film of political allegory

More Pentagon PsyOps

The Right Wing's Stalingrad