tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91911932011-08-03T18:26:46.513-05:00To give you a sense of my tunnel here are some of the walls on my tunnel: anarchism; agnosticism with Taoist tendencies; displaced New Yawkah; Euro-mutt ethnically; married to a great southern guh; Anime; Comics; Kung Fu; Sci Fi; Fantasy; Crappy jobs like everyone else; Monty Python; & stuff. PS-The name Nicky Fingaz is my pseudomafia name originating way back in high school after watching Goodfellas.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02110963256859293410noreply@blogger.comBlogger1691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191193.post-54607907351675842492011-07-20T14:39:00.000-05:002011-07-20T14:39:53.588-05:00

AMERICAN Aardehn - http://www.aardehn.txcomics.com/2008/02/01/page-one/ - writing is meh. Abominable - http://www.abominable.cc/2011/06/08/good-enough/ Butterfly - http://www.tencentticker.com/butterflycomics/2010/07/09/tree-man-butterfly-for-the-gulf/ Butternutsquash - http://www.butternutsquash.net/2007/11/02/a-pampered-man/ ACTUALLY JUST FINISHED 11/15/07, BUT CAN’T GET ARCHIVE TO WORK

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11am-ish.  At work, very sleepy.  I thought I slept well last night.  Did pretty good w/diet/exercise last week.  Feel good about it.  Talking in short sentences.  Feel like Rorschach from Watchmen.  Abandoning superheroes to some extent.  Working on modernized Pulp webcomic mixing Cyberpunk, Hardboiled, Contemporary Fantasy, Kung Fu Movies, some superhero comic influences.  Yes I am weird.

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Obviously I never came back to the journal.  Quick updates.  Crazy snows here in Nashville area this year.  Very abnormal.  Paying close attention to possible democratic revolution in Egypt.  Optimistic on that. Still looming potential next Great Depression due to government's addiction to trickle down economics when comprehensive Keynesan would likely prevent it.  The addiction is of course

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1/24/11, 10AMish.  I'm at work.  Taking very small pieces of time to think into this blog.  Part of it will be routine crap and others will be random thoughts.  I think I'll be posting no articles or pics in the future.  Just routine and thoughts.  LAST NIGHT Been having sinus issues lately.  Not too happy about that but it's not a full on sinus infection to the point of the inability to

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The World Liberal Opportunists Made http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_world_liberal_opportunists_made_20101025/ Posted on Oct 25, 2010 By Chris Hedges The lunatic fringe of the Republican Party, which looks set to make sweeping gains in the midterm elections, is the direct result of a collapse of liberalism. It is the product of bankrupt liberal institutions, including the press, the

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They guys and I are playing  Star Wars, here's a pic of my guy. 

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LAST AFTERNOON/NIGHTHad a long talk w/Jen yesterday and I don’t really have any solutions for her dating issues. Oh well. I gave it the good old college try. I went and bought comics from Rick’s Comic City. Hadn’t been there in a minute. By the time I got home I was beat. I talked about my day and Melissa talked about hers then it was pretty much bed time. BFASTHazelnut coffee, bowl of raisin

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1/12/10JENLast night worked til 6pm [normal 4 day work week schedule]. Talked to Jen at work a little trying to help her with dating & dealing with dudes. [digression: Jen is a co-worker who used to be w/me in Unit 27 and now we’re in Unit 18.] Being a neutered male [aka happily married] I can give man-dvice. I didn’t get very far with her and I’m not a 100% sure I can help much because I don

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1/11/10INTROI haven’t made an entry in awhile. Not sure why, really. I haven’t made the time.WORKI’m still in the RFC Unit which has given me a pleasant break from dealing with claimants. Dealing with claimants isn’t that bad except that they don’t really understand how the process works and they don’t understand how much work we actually have to do. We really need just the facts ASAP and we need

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ARTI’ve been sporadically sketching in blue pencil on newsprint. Still haven’t got off my butt to really draw like I need to. Same ol’ same ol’. POLITICSElection year nonsense. I consider myself an anarchist and so I think both major party candidates are too right wing. McCain/Palin is automatically ruled out as they are Republicans. My main objections to the Republicans are that they are

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A Proclamation by the President of the United States of AmericaSeptember 11, 2001, was etched into America's memory when 19 terrorists attacked us with barbarity unequaled in our history [except perhaps the annihilation of the Native Americans, Slavery, the Civil War and the Jim Crow South]. On Patriot Day, we cherish the memory of the thousands of innocent victims lost, extend our thoughts and

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BBQ & FACEBOOKOn 8/9/08 we’re having our 1st BBQ party as a couple. It’s like a 3 yr anniversary party/BBQ. It should be fun. I’m trying to make myself do a bunch of yard work to get things nice and spiffy for the BBQ, but it’s hard to get moving in this hot and humid weather. We also plan on ordering UFC on pay per view that night. Should be fun. I recently discovered facebook and found old

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SCOOTEROkay, so, the day after I wrote the last journal I crashed the scooter. A little ironic. I’ll do the quick & dirty version for you, my non-existent audience. Going 45-50mph. A yellow light in the distance. Can I brake in time? Start breaking nice and easy and proper. Getting too close to the light & still fast. Squeeze breaks harder. Flip over the front of the bike. Oh this isn’t good.

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SCOOTERI just bought a scooter. I got the red Genuine Scooter Company’s Buddy 125cc link - http://www.genuinescooters.com/scooters/buddy/buddy_3.html. I bought it from East Side Scooters [Nashville, TN], link - http://www.eastsidescooters.com/main.html. It’s cool man. It’s fun. I bought it primarily because of gas prices and so far so good. I’m self taught, so I ain’t that good yet, but it’

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http://lordcreon.free.fr/

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I really dig fighting games and the character designs that come with them. I found this wewbsite with an awesome collection. Go there - http://www.fightersgeneration.com/main.htmHere are some of my favorite pics from that site. For more info, go to the link, ya schmuck.

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7/9/07Still not satisfied with super origination I’ve been playing with. What was the big event in the 1930s that cause the explosion? Azathoth attempted to enter our dimension and was stopped by the 3rd Eye Society and the Pulp Heroes, but it caused the Paranormal Boom. Alien spaceship comes out of hyperspace in our atmosphere and crashes on Earth. Massive atmospheric, electromagnetic, and

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pics 1 & 2 from deviantart.com - not mine, just like them. pic 3 continental US and 2 new locations for my super universe. Optimus, TN & The Legion og Justice HQ and the Skybridge location near Thedford NE. pic 4 Nebraska shot, showing location of LOJ HQ and Skybridge Complex. pic 5 Ground Zero of the disaster that became the location for the new city of Optimus, TN. pic 6 zoomed out

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7/3/07COMIC LINKShttp://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=117458http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=117816http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=117847COMICS INSTRUCTIONALhttp://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=117433RPG LINKShttp://www.atomicthinktank.com/viewtopic.php?t=18957http://www.atomicthinktank.com/viewtopic.php?t=23944PANDHA WORLDDifferent eras of history will

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COMIC IMAGEShttp://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=115675http://www.newsarama.com/dcnew/June07/previews/supes_bats_37.htmlhttp://zubkavich.livejournal.com/165953.htmlhttp://www.makeshiftmiracle.com/Writing.htmlhttp://www.mutantsandmasterminds.com/super-vision/MMGMScreenFinal_1200.jpghttp://greenronin.com/images/product/grr2507_450.jpgBOOKS TO BUYLAWRENCE WRIGHT: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda

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6/7/07Conversations with a Christian Fascist.I work with a Christian Fascist, who is fun, nice and generally a pretty good chick except that she is a Christian Fascist. I, being an anarchist, end up trying to debate some sense into her. I don't want to de-Christian her, just de-Fascist her. Jesus was pretty cool and so if she wants to act like Jesus did, more power too her. On to the convo...

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5/28/07 – 6/1/07Books to buy – “Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change fro Hawaii to Iraq” by Stephen Kinzer. “Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck. ***Potentially cool comic - http://www.newsarama.com/Aspen/IronMaiden/MatMad.html***WRITING PANDHAWriters write and revise aka revision or re-envisioning of the story. I should write a full script and revise it as a piece of writing for Pandha

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5/16/07DAILY GRINDI got into a religio-spiritual discussion with the wife yesterday. She’s been doing a lot of searching in this area and so it comes up now and again. I wander between agnosticism and Taoism myself. It made me want to re-read and re-think Taoist thoughts. Here are some related links. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoismhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/taoism.htmhttp://

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5/15/07DAILY GRINDI stayed home from work yesterday. My allergies were ridiculously bad even with meds. My eyes itched lika a bastid, crusted up and puffed up and got all red. The nose was stuffy & running, sneezes and the usual throat mucus. Vundabar. Went to lunch with Roland and the other Nick in the agency. It was cool. I may want to buy a couple of video games in the future: Silent

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5/11/07DAILY GRINDI cut my thumb the other day. No biggie. But I forget how rough I am sometimes with ordinary stuff. My wife had to make me put the bandaid back on because I kept banging my thumb and reopening the wound…THE WOUNDDD. I guess she doesn’t want blood on the stuff I handle around the house. Picky picky. Allergies acting up. Never had allergies before I moved to Nashville. Yay

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5/10/07DAILY GRINDI’m very sleepy today. Tuesday evening I stayed up too later playing SimCity 3000 Unlimited. I was a zombie yesterday, but made it through. I am a semi-zombie today and will make it through the work day today as well. I really don’t want to be at work today, but you know I gotta. I saw “Thank God You’re Here” http://www.nbc.com/TGYH/ and it’s a pretty funny show. One of

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I hadn't dropped anything here in awhile so I just decided to, what the heck. The job is still incredibly dull and annoying. I should go ahead and look for a new one. I'm trying to engineer a better creative atmosphere in my tiny apartment. I first did that by moving furniture. The dining room table was in the breakfast nook but due to space was primarily used as junk table. And my drafting

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12/29/06So what’s been going on with me. I don’t have a lot of sharey moments since I’m a guy and all. THE JOB…Well, I’m still working at disability, figuring out who will and won’t get it. I’ve discovered certain general rules about disability. 1. Most folks don’t have a clue how messed up you have to be to get disability according to the rules. 2. 10% of folks get allowed. 90% get denied. 3.

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ZNet U.S.Imperialism 101 - The US Addiction to War, Mayhem and Madness Part Iby Stephen Lendman; September 17, 2006The US-led aggression in the Middle East and the three failed attempts to oust Venezuela's Hugo Chavez since 2002 (with a fourth now planned and likely to be implemented soon) are just the latest examples of this country's imperial agenda and the "new world order" it has in mind.

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VACATIONWell I've been back from my vacation. I was in NYC for a week visiting family. The wife and I hit the Village, Chinatown, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and saw my wife's old highschool friend Mari on the Upper West Side/Harlem. In the village we wandered around and had fun. She had Indian food for the first time on 6th St btwn 1st & 2nd ave. She liked it. We hit Chinatown and she

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Published on Friday, August 11, 2006 by CommonDreams.orgThe Authoritarianism of Right-Wing Radioby Guy ReelIn his new book “Conservatives Without Conscience,” John Dean describes his journey to discover why some of today’s right-wingers have drifted so far astray from many of the classic notions of conservatism – limited government, limited executive power, reduced foreign entanglements, respect

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NOTE: Blogger is still very f'ed up by God knows what. I'm lucky if this postsJOE LIEBERMANI'm an ex-NYCer & now a TNean so I had no vote in that primary, but I am very happy that Joe Lieberman lost his primary. He is so right wing he may as well be a Republican. I'm not a Democrat, but its nice to see some kind of sign that the Dems may one day find a backbone somewhere. The right seems to

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I'm going to use my journal as a journal for a change instead of posting articles I find interesting. First thing I'd like to note that the Blogger site is messed up and I just hope this post even works at all. Lemme see what's been going on. It's been hot & humid this summer, but I seem to have the temperment and metabolism for it not to bother me too much. ANNIVERSARYOn Monday 8/7/06 me and

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ZNet EuropeLooking Back After 70 Years… Workers Power and the Spanish Revolutionby Tom Wetzel; August 03, 2006In Spain's national elections in February of 1936, a repressive right-wing government was swept out of office and replaced by a coalition of liberals and socialists. Taking advantage of a less repressive environment, Spain's workers propelled the largest strike wave in Spanish history,

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ZNet Israel/Palestine"Open War" in the Middle Eastby Dahr Jamail; July 19, 2006http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=10594"In my judgment, the best way to stop the violence is to understand why the violence occurred in the first place." That one sentence (a surprisingly rare example of a complete sentence spoken by Cheney spokesman George W. Bush), taken on its own,

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Associated PressJuly 18, 2006 11:53 a.m.WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that President Bush personally blocked Justice Department lawyers from pursuing an internal probe of the warrantless eavesdropping program that monitors Americans' international calls and emails when terrorism is suspected.The department's Office of Professional Responsibility announced earlier

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by Shreema MehtaJuly 14 – The top one percent wealthiest Americans enjoyed an increase in income far greater than the rest of the population's from 2003 to 2004, according an analysis released this week by a progressive think tank.While that richest one-hundredth of Americans saw their income go up by almost 17 percent, everyone else saw an average rise of 3 percent, the Center on Budget and

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by Megan TadySierra Club is going after the EPA for easing the restrictions the Agency imposes on municipal waste combustors that emit dangerous toxins.July 14 – Rosenda Mataka says she is angry that the Environmental Protection Agency failed to pass more stringent emissions standards to stop large trash incinerators around the country from emitting dangerous toxins, such as dioxins, mercury and

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by Shreema MehtaJuly 18 – A congressional investigative report yesterday implicated several federally funded organizations in offering bad information about supposed "dangers" of abortions.The report looks at so-called "pregnancy resource centers" or "crisis pregnancy centers," counseling organizations that often discourage women from having abortions and prompt them toward alternatives such as

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ZNet U.S.Is It Time For A Third World War?by Danny Schechter; Mediachannel.org; July 18, 2006http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=72&ItemID=10592There are screws loose in high places.Elements of the intelligence “community” which have done such a fine job in Iraq, and their Israeli counterparts, along with the cadre of paid and unpaid cheerleaders in the TV punditocracy, seem to

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Published on Friday, July 14, 2006 by CommonDreams.orgWhy Democrats Don't Count - Lessons from the Un-Gore of Mexicoby Greg PalastThe Exit polls said he won, but the "official" tally took his victory away. His supporters found they were scrubbed off voter rolls. Violence and intimidation kept even more of his voters away from the polls. Hundreds of thousands of ballots supposedly showed no choice

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Published on Friday, July 14, 2006 by the Boston GlobeTriumph of the Authoritariansby John W. DeanContemporary conservatism and its influence on the Republican Party was, until recently, a mystery to me. The practitioners' bludgeoning style of politics, their self-serving manipulation of the political processes, and their policies that focus narrowly on perceived self-interest -- none of this

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ZNet Israel/PalestineIsrael in Gaza; Israel in Lebanonby Michael Lerner ; July 17, 2006The people of the Middle East are suffering again as militarists on all sides, and cheerleading journalists, send forth missiles, bombs and endless words of self-justification for yet another pointless round of violence between Israel and her neighbors. For those of us who care deeply about human suffering,

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ZNet Israel/PalestineFleeing Lebanese Speak of Indiscriminate Bombingby Dahr Jamail; Inter Press Service; July 17, 2006ADDABBAOUSIYEH (northern Lebanese border. The bombing has killed more than 100 Lebanese civilians so far.Several border points between Syria and Lebanon are being deluged with refugees. Lebanon has a long border with Syria towards its south, east and north. The refugees include

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ZNet Israel/PalestineIsrael/Palestineby Noam Chomsky and Amy Goodman; Democracy Now; July 15, 2006AMY GOODMAN: We're joined on the phone right now by Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of dozens of books. His latest is Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy. In May, he traveled to Beirut, where he met

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ZNet Israel/PalestineThe Palestinian Catastrophe, Then and Nowby Sandy Tolan; TomDispatch; July 10, 2006Under the pretext of forcing the release of a single soldier "kidnapped by terrorists" (or, if you prefer, "captured by the resistance"), Israel has done the following: seized members of a democratically elected government; bombed its interior ministry, the prime minister's offices, and a

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ZNet Israel/PalestineRacism Plagues Western Media Coverageby Ramzy Baroud; July 13, 2006Racism is "the belief that one 'racial group' is inferior to another and the practices of the dominant group to maintain the inferior position of the dominated group. Often defined as a combination of power, prejudice and discrimination."This is how the British Library defines racism on its Web site. The above

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Published on Monday, July 10, 2006 by the Boston GlobeMy Life in Gazaby Mona El-FarraThe irony is almost beyond belief. Since the capture of an Israeli soldier on June 25, the Gaza Strip has been subjected to a large-scale military operation, what Israel calls ``Summer Rain." Because Israel bombed the power plant, and the area needs electricity to pump water, most of Gaza now has almost no access

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Published on Saturday, July 8, 2006 by the Guardian / UKMexico and Florida Have More In Common Than HeatThere is evidence that left-leaning voters have been scrubbed from key electoral lists in Latin Americaby Greg PalastThere's something rotten in Mexico. And it smells like Florida. The ruling party, the Washington-friendly National Action Party (Pan), proclaimed yesterday their victory in the

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Z Magazine OnlinePrinter Friendly VersionJuly/August 2006 Volume 19 Number 7/8Top Lies About Iraq from the Bush AdministrationCompiled by Andy Dunn(1) Iraq was a “grave and gathering threat”After years of pre-invasion propaganda about the threat from Iraq as “imminent,” “immediate,” “urgent,” “serious,” “real,” and “dangerous,” the Administration fell into line with the studied message of “grave

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ZNet VenezuelaGo To Venezuela, You Idiot!by Jeff Cohen; July 10, 2006I don't usually take the advice of rightwingers. But I did this time. After receiving inflamed email messages from dozens of angry rightists that I should get the hell out of the USA and go to Venezuela, I accepted their challenge and flew to Caracas. "Would you like me to start a fund to ship your ass down there, Comrade

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ZNet U.S.Karl Rove's Scheherazade Strategyby Ira Chernus; TomDispatch; July 08, 2006Karl Rove has a simple rule, they say: When you are falling behind, attack your opponents at their strongest point. In the upcoming election, the Democrats' strongest point should obviously be Iraq. With the spotlight eternally focused on the disastrous war there, Rove has to figure out how to turn its dazzling

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ZNet VenezuelaTen Days in VenezuelaA Visit to the Land of Hopeby Kim Scipes; July 06, 2006Returning to the United States from Venezuela is a strange experience. Spending time with poor people hopeful about their future and the future of their children is a heady experience-and not one I've shared in a long time in the US.I just spent 10 days in Venezuela, participating in a tour sponsored by

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ZNet Electoral PoliticsBush's Thinking Mastersby Adel Safty; July 06, 2006The American fascist ideologist Lawrence Dennis argued in the 1930s that fascism was a worldview that could be imposed by a movement, which did not have to really understand the fascist idea. In trying to comprehend the foundations of the Bush ideology, scholars and analysts linked the Bush ideology to fascist thinkers;

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ZNet U.S.Patriotism & The Fourth of Julyby Howard Zinn; July 03, 2006In celebration of the 4th of July there will be many speeches about the young people who “died for their country.” Let's be honest about war. Those who gave their lives did not die for their country, as they were led to believe but for their government. The distinction between country and government is at the heart of the

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6/30/06 – No More CaffeineThings in my life have slowly pushing me towards healthier living. I started slowly liking healthier foods. Then my ex-wife died of colon cancer and that made me want to be a little more health conscious. My current wife (who will be by far my best and last wife) has muscular dystrophy and she wants to lose weight and has been trying to do so with my help. She has mixed

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Sedition – 1. Conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state. 2. Insurrection; rebellion.I've heard this word bandied about and it really says nothing about democracy. It says nothing about the justness or the validity of the authority of the state. Since the state of democracy is supposed to be of, for and by the people, the state should in theory express the

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What is Patriotism?Love of your country. What is our country? Primarily it is the people that are the country. Granted there is some physicality to it, but it is mainly the people in my eyes. And so, to me patriotism is serving the people of your country. Now since I believe in democracy not elitism,justice not corruption,equality not privilege and hierarchy,freedom not totalitarianism,debate

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6/29/06Flag Burning – the non-issueI am not a big fan of flag burning, it doesn’t make much of a point to me except to annoy those who are blindly patriotic. That is not constructive and will not get the blind-patriots thinking, it will just get them mad at you. I do think it should be perfectly legal to use a flag you bought however you wish, obviously strangling someone with it would be

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Published on Monday, June 26, 2006 by the Rockridge Institute Bush Is Not Incompetentby George Lakoff, Marc Ettlinger, and Sam FergusonProgressives have fallen into a trap. Emboldened by President Bush’s plummeting approval ratings, progressives increasingly point to Bush's "failures" and label him and his administration as incompetent. For example, Nancy Pelosi said “The situation in Iraq and

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ZNet Latin America1491: The Truth About the Americas Before Columbusby Ben Dangl; Upside Down World; June 19, 2006In many high school history classes students are told that before Columbus arrived the Americas were full of untamed wilderness loosely populated with savage Indians. Charles Mann’s book, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus proves that the opposite is true.He draws

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I've followed this dude for a hot minute, but for some reason I am really diggin him right now. He's got a solid Aeon Flux-ey style (which makes sense since he worked on it). Anyhoo... here's some of his stuff.

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Published on Friday, June 9, 2006 by CommonDreams.orgFraming Versus Spinby George Lakoff and Sam FergusonTwo weeks ago, Rockridge published The Framing of Immigration by George Lakoff and Sam Ferguson, an analysis of the framing surrounding immigration used by progressives and conservatives, as well as a discussion of framings not being used, but which would reveal important truths. Late last

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FAILED STATESJune 9, 2006Haiti: Parliament Approves New Government(AP)Parliament overwhelmingly approved a new cabinet that includes members from six political parties. The vote also formally confirmed the prime minister, Jacques-Edouard Alexis, who replaces the United States-backed interim prime minister, Gérard Latortue. Mr. Latortue left the country last month and has not spoken publicly about

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ROVE & GWBPublished on Monday, June 12 2006 by The NationTruth Is for 'Liberals'by Eric AltermanHere we are, five and a half years into the Bush Administration, and the press corps still hasn't figured out how to handle the White House's primary tactic of media management: lying.During George W. Bush's first term, reporters had a powerful confluence of motivations for their difficulty in calling

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SCREWING WORKERSWSJ-High-Tech Titans Unite On Lifting Visa CapsJune 14, 2006; Page A2Bill Gates and Scott McNealy, long-warring titans of the software world, don't agree on much. But they are united in the effort to get the U.S. government to lift the caps on immigration visas for highly skilled workers."The U.S. has succeeded because the right people have come from all over the world to be here,

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OIL NEWSWSJ - Crude Calculations: In Oil's New Era, Power Shifts To Countries With Reserves Middle East Consumes More As U.S. Seeks Security; 'Higher Prices for Years' What Sen. Lugar Saw in LibyaBy BHUSHAN BAHREE and CHIP CUMMINSJune 14, 2006; Page A1There is more to today's oil crunch than temporary jolts to supply and demand. What is also roiling the energy world is an enduring shift in the

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Here are some cool Wonder Woman Revamps from Lesean site. These aren't mine, these are the competition, who probly beat me, but its cool, maybe art vibe shall inspire me. There are a few other pics too.

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Mr. Danger and Socialism for the New MillenniumThe Venezuelan Bolivarian revolution By Maria Páez Victor Throughout most of its history, there has been very little interest in North America about Venezuela except as a supplier of oil. With the election of Hugo Chávez in 1999 all this changed. He ushered in the Bolivarian Revolution, founded on ideas expounded in the 19th century by Simón Bolívar,

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I did these Wonder Woman Revamps for http://www.leseanthomas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=627&start=15 but I admittedly procrastinated way too long and couldn't do a proper color job, so I did it in colored pencils. It's mezzo mezzo to me.

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6/1/06So this last weekend I went and bought some used PS2 games – Onimusha 2 & Prince of Persia 2 (I think – I forget the subtitle). I tried them out briefly and I am stuck pretty much on the 1st screen on Onimusha. I killed some badguys who came running and now I can’t leave the area, nor can I manipulate anything, just running around in circles. PoP on the other hand was very cool and I had

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ZNet U.S.Ron Luce's Holy Warby Sunsara Taylor; May 24, 2006“Do you care more about the pigs around you or God?” BattleCry leader Ron Luce asked the crowd of more than 17,000 youth gathered at Wachovia Spectrum Stadium in Philadelphia on Friday, May 12. No, this wasn't a metaphor. After reading a passage from Luke 15 that mentions pigs, he actually had a bunch of those big, oinking, pink, farm

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Here are some pics from Dave Johnson, Joshua Middleton, Alvin Lee, Carlos Meglia, Cheeks, Ryan Sook & others.

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ZNet BoliviaA Well of HypocrisyOne Man Uses Gas And Oil Money To Help The Poor. The Other Uses It To Buy Guns. Guess Who Gets Vilified.by George Monbiot; May 16, 2006Civilisation has a new enemy. He is a former coca grower called Evo Morales, who is currently the president of Bolivia. Yesterday he stood before the European parliament to explain why he had sent troops to regain control of his

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ZNet U.S.Meet the Shock Troops of the Christian Youth Battle Cry for Theocracy!by Sunsara Taylor ; May 16, 2006If you've been waiting until the Christian fascist movement started filling stadiums with young people and hyping them up to do battle in "God's army" to get alarmed, wait no longer.In recent weeks, Battle Cry, a Christian fundamentalist youth movement, has attracted more than 25,000 to

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Joe Madueira & Cully Hamner Pics

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Latin America's Left TurnBy Jorge G. CastañedaFrom Foreign Affairs, May/June 2006Summary: With all the talk of Latin America's turn to the left, few have noticed that there are really two lefts in the region. One has radical roots but is now open-minded and modern; the other is close-minded and stridently populist. Rather than fretting over the left's rise in general, the rest of the world should

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Central Asia Emerges As Strategic BattlegroundMay 16, 2006; Page A8Central Asia, site of the 19th-century "Great Game" for supremacy between the British Empire and czarist Russia, is emerging with its oil and gas riches as the first strategic battleground of the "Multipolar Era" among the U.S., China and Moscow.The Cold War ended in 1990, and the dominance of the U.S. since then is fast eroding.

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Ecuador Revokes Occidental PactOver Sale of Local Drilling RightsBy DAVID LUHNOW in Mexico City and MERCEDES ALVARO in Quito, Ecuador Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNALMay 16, 2006; Page A12Ecuador Monday expelled Occidental Petroleum Corp., the latest hostile move against foreign-oil companies by a Latin American government.The move by the small, coastal nation, Latin America's

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Published on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 by the Los Angeles TimesBig Corporate Tax Breaks UpheldTaxpayers had no right to fight state incentives in U.S. court, justices say. But the case isn't dead.by David G. SavageWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court threw out a taxpayers' lawsuit Monday that challenged the widespread practice of states giving big tax breaks to lure manufacturers to build new plants within

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ZNet IranU.S. Aggression-Time Once AgainThe Fourth U.S. "Supreme International Crime" in Seven Years Is Already Underway, With the Support of the Free Press and "International Community"by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson; May 16, 2006With the United States having initiated wars in violation of the UN Charter, and hence engaged in the "supreme international crime,"1 against Yugoslavia,

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This stuff is made by liberals/progressives and I am an anarchist, but there is some commonality in opinions between us. So I get a kick out of these. All from oldamericancentury.org.

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Published on Sunday, May 14, 2006 by CommonDreams.orgA Tale of Two Theories: Supply Side and Demand Side Economicsby Robert FreemanIt was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the era of low taxes. It was the age of high deficits. Prices were up. Wages were down. Oil and gold soared. Housing and big cars cratered. Foreign powers threatened. Foreign currencies beckoned. Some saw a

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Terry Dodson, Chris Bachalo, Justiniano, Ed McGuinness, Adam Hughes, Slottie Young, Cully Hamner, Brian Stelfreeze, Michael Avon Oeming, Stuart Immonen, Moebius, Mike Kaluta, Mike Wieringo. Gus Vasquez, Mike Mignola, Adam Kubert, Ryan Sook, Tony Harris, Frank Frazetta, John Romita, Jr, J Scott Campbell, Joe Madureira, Keron Grant, Dave Johnson, and others.

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Published on Saturday, May 13, 2006 by the Guardian / UKChávez is a Threat Because He Offers the Alternative of a Decent SocietyVenezuela's president is using oil revenues to liberate the poor - no wonder his enemies want to overthrow himby John PilgerI have spent the past three weeks filming in the hillside barrios of Caracas, in streets and breeze-block houses that defy gravity and torrential

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Posted on Thu, May. 04, 2006Bush administration refuses to talk directly with its main foesBy Jonathan S. Landay andWarren P. StrobelKnight Ridder NewspapersWASHINGTON - Last month, the chief U.S. negotiator with North Korea wanted to meet privately with his North Korean counterpart, hoping he could persuade Pyongyang to return to talks on eliminating its nuclear weapons program.But the meeting

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Judges Challenge FCCOn Internet WiretappingAssociated PressMay 5, 2006 12:54 p.m.WASHINGTON -- A U.S. appeals panel challenged the Bush administration Friday over new rules making it easier for police and the FBI to wiretap Internet phone calls.The skepticism expressed so openly toward the government's case during a hearing in U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia emboldened a broad

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ZNet ActivismCritics Plan Offensive as IMF-World Bank Crisis Deepensby Walden Bello; Focus on the Global South; May 05, 2006Washington, DC, April 24. The spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund took place this weekend with police barricades ringing the two institutions at the heart of Washington, DC. There were almost no protesters in sight.The action was indoors, a few

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ZNet CultureTeaching The "gentle Arts Of The Spirit" In The Age Of Multinational Capitalismby Benjamin Carson; May 05, 2006A few years ago a seasoned faculty member at the university at which I was a graduate student complained to me in the hallway that the quality of his students has seriously declined over the thirty years he has been teaching. One of only two openly conservative members of

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Published on Monday, May 1, 2006 by Daily KosStephen Colbert's Take at the White House Correspondents DinnerTranscript of Stephen Colbert's monologue at the White House Correspondents DinnerSaturday,April 29, 2006Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Before I begin, I've been asked to make an announcement. Whoever parked 14 black bulletproof S.U.V.'s out front, could you please move them? They are

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