ALBERTO GONZALES:: TOTAL RECALL

ROSIE O’DONNELL IS RESPONSIBLE FOR VA TECH SHOOTING

IN FRANCE THEY KISS ON MAIN STREET

JONI MITCHELL , PAT METHENY , JACO PASTORIUS 1979 Santa Barbara County Bowl

Yes, it’s Joni at the peak of her powers, backed by musicians who would become legends, if they weren’t already. And if you close your eyes you can lose yourself in it.

BILL MAHER REAL TIME FRIDAY APRIL 27

Dennis Kucinich acts presidential, the Republican on the panel admits to not REALLY knowing how it’s going in Iraq, and Bill defends Alec Baldwin’s right to yell at his daughter. The model for “A Few Good Men”, former US Attorney David Iglesias, has a live sitdown with Bill and is promptly and rightly called a hero by Maher. It seemed like Mr. Iglesias was a little emotional and it was a very good moment. Richard Belzer was great, not interrupting with cute jokes right in the middle of great discussions like Dana Carvey did a few weeks back. The Baghdad bureau chief for NPR, Jamie Tarabay, told of how the Green Zone is a myth in that it’s more dangerous than the (red zone) and so she and her staff don’t stay there.

Republican Lisa Schiffren, the former speech-writer for Newt Gingrich among other things, tried to talking point her way out of a discussion involving Iraqi oil revenue and the money supposedly going towards reconstruction of the infrastructure…. “Well maybe things haven’t gone on line as fast…well I haven’t actually been there so I can’t speak for how things are” after the Baghdad bureau chief flatly says: “that’s just not true”

It’s sad how completely and utterly full of SHITE “these” people are.

JT
http://broadcatching.wordpress.com

NEW RULES

DENNIS KUCINICH

REAL TIME PART FOUR

REAL TIME PART THREE

REAL TIME PART TWO

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DENNIS KUCINICH ACTS PRESIDENTIAL ON BILL MAHER’S REAL TIME PART ONE

(Part 1)

DENNIS KUCINICH ACTS PRESIDENTIAL ON BILL MAHER’S REAL TIME.
A very good sitdown with Congressman Dennis Kucinich, vegan presidential candidate.

BILL MAHER REAL TIME PART THREE 4/27

Tom Cruise’s character in A Few Good Men was based on recently fired United States Attorney David Iglesias.
Karl Rove and the White House wanted to influence the outcome of certain close political contests in New Mexico and tried to put pressure on Mr. Iglesias to speed up some so-called “voter fraud” (not to be confused as “election fraud”) complaints that might help Republicans in a few close races.
The Bush administration (and I’m sure some cute pundit has already said this:) CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH…..

BILL MAHER REAL TIME PART THREE 4/27

BILL MAHER REAL TIME PART TWO 4/27

BILL MAHER REAL TIME PART TWO
APRIL 27thThe panel of Richard Belzer, Jamie Tarabay and Lisa Schiffren discuss the quagmire in Iraq, the definition of “lost war” the 120,000 mercenaries that make four times what the soldiers are making,Pat Tillman, the deletion by the U.S. military of “car bombs” in counting sectarian violence…

BILL MAHER’S REAL TIME FOR APRIL 27th PART FOUR

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER

(Part4)
At the very end of this segment Ms. Schiffren declares: “Well, I’ve never been over to Iraq so I can’t speak for the progress of the (infrastructure)

BILL MAHER HAS SOME NEW RULES FOR FRIDAY 4/27 PART FIVE

BILL MAHER’S REAL TIME (PART FIVE)

Mustard, Planets, Yeltsin…New Rules For April 27th

THE MADNESS OF TOM FRIEDMAN

Tom Friedman: “you know what disturbs me Wolf….we’ve got 140,000 troops in Iraq…”

Wolf Blitzer: “…about to go up to 160,000….”

Tom Friedman: “….and it doesn’t seem like we’ve got any (emphasis mine) intelligence…”

RIGGING:: WEB 2.0 STYLE

In light of the news-out last week, I put up some fairly good video including Bill Clinton on Iraq, Obama and his wife; Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment about Rudy Giuliani saying that only Republicans will keep America safe; Al Franken on everything; David Shuster on Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman and a fact-filled segment about Giuliani’s horrible record:

Bill Clinton On the Dems

Franken On Everything

Olbermann’s Special Comment

Giuliani’s Abysmal Record

Jessica Lynch/Pat Tillman

AL FRANKEN ON IMUS, IRAQ AND O’REILLY WITH LARRY KING

Oh Really….

Franken on Imus, Iraq and O’Reilly

CHANGING NEW YORK

NEW YORK CHANGING

IRAQ::DENIAL AND DECEPTION (AT FIRST I THOUGHT I WAS ON A GAG PAGE)

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS UP…

JOE BIDEN LOOKS LIKE HE KNOWS THE SHITSTORM THAT’S COMING

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021016-1.html

BILL CLINTON ON HILLARY, OBAMA AND THE FALSE WAR DEBATE

BILL CLINTON ON HILLARY,OBAMA AND THE FALSE WAR DEBATE.

THE REAL RUDY GIULIANI LIED ABOUT AIR QUALITY TO 911 WORKERS

THE REAL RUDOLPH GIULIANI:
Used 30-yr old emergency plans and never ran an emergency drill after the first Trade Center bombings or ran an inter-agency fire drill in a skyscraper or fixed the 911 call-center operation. Rudy Giuliani lied about the air quality to the emergency workers after the attack on “Ground Zero” (a term his own police commissioner called it after the first attack in 93) and placed the emergency command center in one of the twin towers against all protestations.

NEW RULES FOR FOUR TWENTY

NEW RULES FOR FOUR TWENTY

HARDBALL’S DAVID SHUSTER ON IRAQ/JESSICA LYNCH/PAT TILLMAN

Pat Tillman’s brother, Jessica Lynch and a surgeon from the Army hospital in Germany testified before Congress Tuesday about the assorted lies that the administration has been telling it’s citizens involving the war in Iraq. President Bush once again referred to 9/11 and warned that the Democrats could be emboldening the enemy by seeking a re-deployment strategy.

THE MADNESS OF TOM FRIEDMAN

Tom “Iraqis are going to start paying retail” Friedman with Wolf “Sheep” Blitzer

KEITH OLBERMANN ON RUDY GIULIANI’S TERRORISM

KEITH OLBERMANN’S SPECIAL COMMENT ON RUDOLPH GIULIANI’S STATEMENTS THAT ONLY REPUBLICANS CAN KEEP AMERICA SAFE.
Furthermore, posits Giuliani, Democrats will put the country back on defense and will leave us prone to another attack.
Once again the Republicans who were on duty that fateful day are continuing to use those tragic events to further their political career. Tom Delay stated two days ago that Senate Leader Harry Reid was coming close to treason by stating the obvious: that America has lost the war. The Iraqis certainly know this; can’t we be honest?

JT

HOLY MANOLI!! THE DEMS ARE GETTING STEAMED

Rep. Peter DeFazio tells it like it is.

Training Iraqi troops no longer driving force in U.S. policy

IRAQ

By Nancy A. Youssef

McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON – Military planners have abandoned the idea that
standing up Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming
home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the
insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces.

Training Iraqi troops, which had been the cornerstone of the
Bush administration’s Iraq policy since 2005, has dropped in priority,
officials in Baghdad and Washington said.

No change has been announced, and a Pentagon spokesman, Col.
Gary Keck, said training Iraqis remains important. “We are just adding
another leg to our mission,” Keck said, referring to the greater U.S.
role in establishing security that new troops arriving in Iraq will
undertake.

But evidence has been building for months that training Iraqi
troops is no longer the focus of U.S. policy. Pentagon officials said
they know of no new training resources that have been included in U.S.
plans to dispatch 28,000 additional troops to Iraq. The officials spoke
only on the condition of anonymity because they aren’t authorized to
discuss the policy shift publicly. Defense Secretary Robert Gates made
no public mention of training Iraqi troops on Thursday during a visit
to Iraq.

In a reflection of the need for more U.S. troops, the Pentagon
decided earlier this month to increase the length of U.S. Army tours in
Iraq from 12 to 15 months. The extension came amid speculation that the
U.S. commander there, Army Gen. David Petraeus, will ask that the troop
increase be maintained well into 2008.

U.S. officials don’t say that the training formula – championed
by Gen. John Abizaid when he was the commander of U.S. forces in the
Middle East and by Gen. George Casey when he was the top U.S. general
in Iraq – was doomed from the start. But they said that rising
sectarian violence and the inability of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki
to unite the country changed the conditions. They say they now must
establish security while training Iraqi forces because ultimately,
“they are our ticket out of Iraq,” as one senior Pentagon official put
it.

Casey’s “mandate was transition. General Petraeus’ mandate is
security. It is a change based on conditions. Certain conditions have
to be met for the transition to be successful. Security is part of
that. And General Petraeus recognizes that,” said Brig. Gen. Dana
Pittard, commander of the Iraq Assistance Group in charge of supporting
trained Iraqi forces.

“I think it is too much to expect that we were going to start
from scratch … in an environment that featured a rising sectarian
struggle and lack of progress with the government,” said a senior
Pentagon official. “The conditions had sufficiently changed that the
Abizaid/Casey approach alone wasn’t going to be sufficient.”

Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey, who’s in charge of training Iraqi
troops, said in February that he hoped that Iraqi troops would be able
to lead by December. “At the tactical level, I do believe by the end of
the year, the conditions should be set that they are increasingly
taking responsibility for the combat operations,” Dempsey told NBC
News.

Maj. Gen. Doug Lute, the director of operations at U.S. Central
Command, which oversees military activities in the Middle East, said
that during the troop increase, U.S. officers will be trying to
determine how ready Iraqi forces are to assume control.

“We are looking for indicators where we can assess the extent
to which we are fighting alongside Iraqi security forces, not as a
replacement to them,” he said. Those signs will include “things like
the number of U.S.-only missions, the number of combined U.S.-Iraqi
missions, the number where Iraqis are in the lead, the number of Joint
Security Stations set up,” he said.

That’s a far cry from the optimistic assessments U.S. commanders offered throughout 2006 about the impact of training Iraqis.

President Bush first announced the training strategy in the summer of 2005.

“Our strategy can be summed up this way,” Bush said. “As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down.”

Military leaders in Baghdad planned to train 325,000 Iraqi
security forces. Once that was accomplished, those forces were to take
control. Casey created military transition teams that would live side
by side with their Iraqi counterparts to help them apply their training
to real-world situations.

Throughout 2006, Casey and top Bush administration leaders
touted the training as a success, asserting that eight of Iraq’s 10
divisions had taken the lead in confronting insurgents.

But U.S. forces complained that the Iraqi forces weren’t
getting the support from their government and that Iraqi military
commanders, many who worked under Saddam Hussein, weren’t as willing to
embrace their tactics. Among everyday Iraqis, some said they didn’t
trust their forces, saying they were sectarian and easily susceptible
to corruption.

Most important, insurgents and militiamen had infiltrated the forces, using their power to carry out sectarian attacks.

In nearly every area where Iraqi forces were given control, the
security situation rapidly deteriorated. The exceptions were areas
dominated largely by one sect and policed by members of that sect.

In the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar, which Bush celebrated
last year as an example of success, suspected Sunni Muslim insurgents
set off a bomb last month that killed as many as 150 people, the
largest single bombing attack of the war. Shiite Muslim mobs, including
some police officers, pulled Sunnis from their homes and executed
dozens afterward. U.S. troops were dispatched to restore order.

Earlier this month, U.S. forces engaged in heavy fighting in
the southern city of Diwaniyah after Iraqi forces, who’d been given
control of the region in January 2006, lost control of the city.

U.S. officials said they once believed that if they empowered
their Iraqi counterparts, they’d take the lead and do a better job of
curtailing the violence. But they concede that’s no longer their
operating principle.

Pentagon officials won’t say how many U.S. troops are engaged
in training, though they said that the number of teams assigned to work
alongside trained Iraqi troops hasn’t changed.

Military officials say there’s no doubt that the November U.S.
elections, which gave Democrats control of both houses of Congress,
helped push training down the priority list. The elections, they said,
made it clear that voters didn’t have the patience to wait for Iraqis
to take the lead.

“To the extent we are losing the American public, we were
losing” in the transition approach, said a senior military commander in
Washington.

Military analysts cite a number of reasons that the training program didn’t work.

“The goal was to put the Iraqis in charge. The problem is we
didn’t know how to do it and we underestimated the insurgency,” said
Anthony Cordesman, of the Center for Strategic and International
Studies in Washington.

Said Paul Hughes of the U.S. Institute for Peace: “In our
initial efforts to hand security missions over to Iraqi forces, we took
the training wheels off too early – and the bike fell over.”

Military officials now measure success by whether the troops are curbing violence, not by the number of Iraqi troops trained.

Many officials are vague about when the U.S. will know when
troops can begin to return home. Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, said the U.S. is trying to buy “time for the Iraqi
government to provide the good governance and the economic activity
that’s required.”

One State Department official, who also asked not to be named
because of the sensitivity of the subject, expressed the same sentiment
in blunter terms. “Our strategy now is to basically hold on and wait
for the Iraqis to do something,” he said.

—

A roundup of violence in Iraq is posted daily on the McClatchy Washington Bureau Web site. Go to www.mcclatchydc.com and click on Iraq War Coverage.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Pet food tainted with the chemical melamine was found in feed rations on a California hog farm.

Reuters:

Pet food tainted with the chemical melamine was found in
feed rations on a California hog farm and may show up on other U.S.
farms, state and federal officials said on Friday.[..]

California officials said Diamond Pet Foods sold pet
food to American Hog Co., which used it as a feed ingredient. Tests
found melamine in feed at the farm and in urine from the hogs.

Richard Breitmeyer, the state veterinarian, said it was “not uncommon” for pet food makers to sell scrap material to feedlots.

“In the course of our investigation, we may find similar situations in other parts of the country,”
said Stephen Sundlof, head of the Center for Veterinary Medicine at the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, referring to sales of scrap pet
food.[..]

State and U.S. Agriculture Department officials said there was no
evidence that pork products from the farm entered the food supply but
that they were still tracking the whereabouts of all the hogs produced there since April 3. Some 126 of the hogs are known to have been slaughtered for meat

Crooks and Liars

IMUS STOOGE McGUIRK CANNED BY WFAN

Imus Producer Bernard McGuirk Booted by WFAN-AM

The executive producer for Don Imus’ show ‘Imus in the Morning’ was fired Thursday after-noon by WFAN-AM over his role in the “nappy headed ho’s” incident, CBS Radio spokeswoman Karen Mateo announced on Friday. Longtime Imus sidekick Bernard McGuirk actually started off the whole thing, being the first to name the Rutgers women “ho’s”.McGuirk, who joined WFAN in 1984, was an expected casualty of the Imus fallout. In addition to calling the Rutgers players in the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship “hardcore ho’s,” the producer also characterized the Scarlet Knights’ losing match-up against the University of Tennessee’s Lady Vols as “the jigaboos versus the wannabes.”

The executive producer, derided by Imus as a “bald-headed stooge,” is well-known for his rightwing political leanings, and he was apparently responsible for booking the wide variety of politicians, journalists and other notables that made up the ‘Imus in the Morning’ prominent guest list. Bernard McGuirk joined the ‘Imus in the Morning Show’ as producer in 1987.The station hasn’t yet chosen a permanent replacement for Imus, whose show was nationally syndicated on 60 stations and drew approximately 2.5 million listeners a week.

After the release of Christian Science Monitor reporter, Jill Carroll, who was kidnapped in Iraq, McGuirk stated: “She strikes me as the kind of woman who would wear one of those suicide vests. You know, walk into the tent or try and sneak into the Green Zone.”

Meanwhile, it is still unknown how Imus is to settle his five-year, multi-million dollar contract, which was signed recently. The station hasn’t yet chosen a permanent replacement for Imus, whose show was nationally syndicated on 60 stations and drew approximately 2.5 million listeners a week. It’s unclear what kind of contract McGuirk was under.

According to the MSNBC website, McGuirk is married with two children and resides in Long Beach, N.Y.

Meanwhile, KCAA-AM, a small radio station airing east and south of Los Angeles, was sued by CBS Radio for running reruns of Imus, along with commentary from listeners about the controversy.

The CBS lawsuit is seeking a temporary restraining order as well as $150,000 per violation, according to AP. CBS Radio said in court filings that they asked 1,400-watt KCAA to stop and “have made it clear…that only a judicial decree will prevent them from persisting in their actions.”

On the other hand, the small radio station is saying they will run the show until April 27, in order to educate the public, and after that time, all Imus footage will be destroyed. A hearing in the federal lawsuit is set for Thursday. CBS declined to comment beyond its court filings.

Ayn Rand – Mike Wallace Interview

Ayn Rand – Mike Wallace Interview

1959 part 2

Springsteen/REM Man on the Moon

Springsteen/Rem man on the moon

Springsteen/Rem man on the moon

NBC gets ‘manifesto’ from Va. killer

VA TECH GUNMAN CHO SEUNG-HUI SENDS NBC NEWS VIDEO, PICTURES, MANIFESTO

PLANTING THE STEAL YOUR FACE FLAG ATOP THE GREAT EGYPTIAN PYRAMID

Merry Prankster George Walker Plants a Steal your Face Flag on top of the Great Pyramid While Ken Kesey looks on. Both Men proudly weaing their official 1972 “Feild Trip – Oregon Dead” T-Shirts. Soundtrack is Fire on the Mountain from the Dead’s 1978 Egypt run. Stage footage of the Dead’s performance included + Ken Kesey contemplates training an Egyptian Olympic wrestling team.

It is a book that deals with the great issues of our post-World War world, and does so with humor and wit and tragedy and darkness.

 

KURT VONNEGUT on Audible

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Olbermann Joins NBC Sunday Football

  April 16,2007 | NEW YORK — Keith Olbermann will add a fifth voice to the studio on NBC’s Sunday-night football highlights show in the fall, the network said Monday.

Bob Costas anchors the show, with Cris Collingsworth and now Olbermann as co-hosts. With Jerome Bettis and Tiki Barber as analysts, the former NFL players will outnumber Costas and Olbermann by 3-to-2.

Olbermann, who first became known as a host on ESPN’s “Sportscenter,” has shuffled between news and sports during his career. His “Countdown” show on MSNBC has been hot lately, with Olbermann drawing attention for commetrick’s radio show.

Olbermann, who will keep his weekday work, said he expects the Sunday job to be rewarding and challenging.

“I hope I can hold up my end of the bargain,” he said.

Salon.com

Drumbeat of Shots, Broken by Pauses to Reload

April 17, 2007

By SHAILA DEWAN

BLACKSBURG, Va., April 16 — The gunshots were so slow and steady that some students thought they came from a nearby construction site, until they saw the police officers with rifles pointed at Norris Hall, the engineering building at Virginia Tech.

Bang. Bang. Bang.

They went on and on, for what seemed like 10 or 15 or 20 minutes, an eternity with punctuation.

Bang. Bang. On the third floor of Norris Hall, Scott L. Hendricks, a professor, looked out the window of his office and saw students crawling away from the building.

Bang. Tiffany Otey’s accounting class crammed into an office and locked themselves in, crying in fright.

Every so often, the shots paused for a minute or so. That was the gunman, who was in the midst of the worst shooting rampage in American history, stopping to reload. When it was over, 33 people, including the gunman, were dead and at least 15 more were injured.

“I was terrified,” said Ms. Otey, a junior whose class met in the room above the one where much of the shooting took place.

One student finished the day’s assignment and tried to leave, but returned to tell the others that the hall was full of smoke and that there were police officers everywhere. The class decided to go into a room with a lock. Dr. Hendricks, an engineering and mechanics professor on the same floor, barricaded himself in his office, pushing a bookcase in front of the door. Some students on campus took refuge in the library, searching the Web to find out what was happening. No one knew.

“I was crying,” Ms. Otey said. “I was worried that the guy with the gun was going to come upstairs too.”

The violence began early in the morning in the west wing of Ambler Johnston, the largest dormitory at Virginia Tech, where two people were killed, officials said. But when the first class started two hours later, at 9:05 a.m., many on campus remained unaware of any danger.

“I woke up and I didn’t know anything was wrong,” said Sarah Ulmer, a freshman who lives in the east wing of the dorm. “I went to my first class and my teacher was talking about how some people weren’t coming because there was a gun threat at West A. J. and they were blocking it off. It was like, ‘Oh.’ ”

The school did not notify students by e-mail of the first shootings until 9:26 a.m., said Matt Dixon, who lives in the dorm. Mr. Dixon did not receive the e-mail message until he returned from his 9:05 class. When he left for that class, he said, a resident adviser told him not to use the central stairs, so he left another way.

On dry erase boards, advisers had written, “Stay in your rooms,” Mr. Dixon said.

Other students and faculty members said they had only a vague notion that there had been a shooting at the dorm. Several faculty members said they had reached campus during or just after the Norris Hall shooting and had gone unimpeded to their buildings.

Many were bewildered or angry that the campus had not been locked down earlier, after the first shooting.

“I am outraged at what happened today on the Virginia Tech campus,” wrote Huy That Ton, a member of the chemical engineering faculty, in an e-mail message. “Countless lives could have been saved if they had informed the student body of the first shooting. What was the security department thinking?!”

Campus officials said they believed the first incident was confined to a single building and was essentially a domestic dispute, and had no idea that the violence would spread elsewhere.

The police said they still did not know if the two shootings were the work of the same gunman.

The gunman in Norris Hall was described as a young Asian man with two pistols who calmly entered classrooms and shot professors and students. He peeked into the German class in Room 207, witnesses said, then pushed his way in.

Gene Cole, who works in Virginia Tech’s housekeeping services, told The Roanoke Times that he was on the second floor of Norris Hall on Monday morning and saw a person lying on a hallway floor. As Mr. Cole went up to the body, a man wearing a hat and holding a gun stepped into the hallway. “Someone stepped out of a classroom and started shooting at me,” he said. Mr. Cole fled down the corridor, then down a flight of steps to safety. “All I saw was blood in the hallways,” Mr. Cole said.

The gunman was described as methodical, squeezing the trigger almost rhythmically. “Sometimes there would be like a minute or so break in between them,” Ms. Otey said of the shots, “but for the most part it was one right after another.”

Elaine Goss of Waynesboro, Va., said she first spoke to her son, Alec Calhoun, a student, about 9:30 a.m., after he had leapt from a second-story classroom window as the gunman entered. “I couldn’t understand him. It was like gibberish,” Ms. Goss said. “It took a while to figure out shootings, lots of shootings, and that his whole class had jumped out the window.” He landed on his back, and “we made him go to the emergency room,” she said.

Two of his fellow engineering students were at the hospital with gunshot wounds, Ms. Goss said. “I think they were just wounded,” she said. “He’s counting on them being just wounded.”

As word spread of the shootings, there were first reports of one dead, then 20, then more than 30.

“Every time we turned our heads, the total just kept going up,” said Stuart Crowder, 22, a building and construction major, adding that the tension level on campus was still running high.

“Right now, I’m actually at a house where I can see the edge of campus, which is very close to the place where the incident actually happened,” Mr. Crowder said. “Probably every about 25 yards, there is an officer or some sort of guard right now with a large gun.”

Students, parents and professors jammed phone lines trying to check on loved ones and friends. There were frantic e-mail and text messages, clogged voice mails and busy signals. Kathryn Beard, an education professor at Virginia Tech whose daughter is a student there, said she became frantic when she was barred from entering. “The teacher in me was panicking, and the mother in me was panicking,” she said. “I can’t imagine something like this happening on my campus.”

Students theorized about how an outsider — many assumed it was an outsider — could have committed such violence on their campus.

“All we’ve seen is that patch of blood,” said Matthew Hall, a senior, indicating a red patch on the sidewalk in front of the building.

“It’s weird because this is like the safest place,” Mr. Hall said. “It’s the middle of nowhere,” added his roommate, Ryan Gatterdam.

Jessica Abraham, walking nearby, said anyone could pass for a student here by wearing a maroon cap. Maroon and orange are the school colors. “You always see the police here. It seems so safe,” Ms. Abraham said.

After the shots and fleeing, the SWAT teams and ambulances, the campus returned to a preternatural quiet, with students talking in small groups or consoling each other. Classes were canceled, and some students had their parents pick them up and take them home.

NIGHTLINE ON VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTING

VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTING::CNN EXCELLENT OVERVIEW

VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTING::CNN EXCELLENT OVERVIEW:
An excellent piece from CNN Anderson Cooper’s 360 wrapping up the day’s tragic events in Blacksburg Virginia at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
West Amber Johnston Hall is where the original shooting of two students happened and then continued two hours later at Norris Hall

Imus On 60 Minutes With Mike Wallace 4/15/07

Remember The Outrage 24 hours ago?

EXTRAORDINARY GIRL PLAYS DEAD, ELUDES VA TECH GUNMAN

32 Shot Dead on Virginia Tech Campus

WISE UP

Wise Up

The famous and mesmerizing scene from Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Magnolia’, where the characters all begin to sing Aimee Mann’s ‘Wise Up’

The third of the trio is Meatwad, a shape-shifting meatball who may be a congenital idiot.

Foooooood fight!!!!!!

Michael Ordoña
The San Francisco Chronicle

Sunday, April 8, 2007

PDT Los Angeles –
One is a goateed, flying bag of french fries named Frylock who shoots
bolts of energy out of his eyes. Another, Master Shake, is a selfish, lying
giant milk shake. And the third of the trio is Meatwad, a shape-shifting
meatball who may be a congenital idiot.

Connoisseurs of high-end animation and Lite Brite-fearing bomb squads,
beware: “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” cometh, in a spectacular cinematic vehicle
titled “Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters.” Co-creator Matt
Maiellaro (pronounced “ma-LEHR-oh”) promises that the animation is so good,
“you see every hair on Frylock’s head. We just had to make his hair thicker and
yellow.”

For the uninitiated, the characters have no particular connection to
water, are not obviously adolescent and do not battle hunger despite being
anthropomorphized fast-food products. When they debuted, they dabbled in crime
solving, but most of the 11-minute episodes these days find them just hanging
out, Master Shake torturing Meatwad somehow and Frylock raising a disapproving
eyebrow. Characters often die, only to be resurrected without comment in the
next installment. One particularly nonsensical episode involved the dangerous
hallucinations Shake experienced after contracting “hypno-germs” from a toilet
seat. In another show, Meatwad put on the ancient Egyptian “T-Shirt of the
Dead,” which of course led to a giant part-Godzilla, part-Easter egg monster
torching Santa Claus.

And this is the most popular original program on Cartoon Network’s Adult
Swim lineup.

“If we knew why, we’d be coming up with 20 other ones,” Maiellaro says,
imagining the next big thing: ” ‘They’re lawn furniture that also do … lawn
manicuring!’ “

Although Maiellaro says the movie is already a success because it’s being
released in 800 theaters rather than his expected distribution plan (“We were
going to make three copies and bus it around America”), the team’s other
co-creator has a loftier goal, defining “mission accomplished” as: “If we
receive the Academy Award for best picture,” Dave Willis says. “We don’t have
any dancing penguins or anything, but we’re putting out something that was
produced on three computers as opposed to 3,000.” He grandly boasts that the
movie cost “tens of thousands of dollars.”

Willis and Maiellaro look as regular as guys can, with their layers of
shirts and burgeoning 3 p.m. shadows at the end of a junket at the Four
Seasons Hotel. Maiellaro, born in 1966, is the more engaging, slightly ruddy
faced, bespectacled, with sprinkles of white through his dark hair, a hint of
Wichita Falls, Texas, lilting in his voice. Willis, born in 1970, is more
deadpan, taller, with mussed, dirty-blond hair. The two have known each other
for 10 years and give off a laid-back, slacker vibe. They nonchalantly threaten
to make up responses for any questions to which they don’t know the answers.
And when given the chance, they claim the film, which concerns a rogue exercise
machine that may alter the balance of power in the universe, is based on a true
story.

“Yeah, it happened to Matt when he was 8,” Willis says.

“Yeah, it was all about exercise equipment and church. … I kept it to
myself for many, many, many years. And then, through therapy, I finally told
Dave about it. I felt better.”

“And I said, ‘Let’s exploit it,’ ” They laugh, then Willis adds soberly,
“So there was a rift over that for a while. It still terrifies him in the
night.”

“But I’m OK with it now …”

“That his horrible secret is now a major motion picture.”

If the odd collection of words that forms the TV show’s title rings a
cracked and distant bell, “Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s” network drew the ire of
Boston police for a guerrilla marketing campaign that included posting wordless
electric signs with character images made of tiny colored lights. The signs
sparked fears of Lite Brites of Mass Destruction, leading to a reported $2
million settlement and at least one resignation at the network. And ratings
records.

“They want us to be ‘no comment’ on it,” Willis says, adding, “We wrote an
episode about it.”

“It may never air,” Maiellaro says. “Maybe in a couple of years.”

Frylock, Shake and Meatwad began as supporting characters for an
unproduced episode of Adult Swim’s faux talk show, “Space Ghost
Coast-to-Coast,” hosted by an epically idiotic superhero.

“Space Ghost had bought hundreds of dollars worth of hamburgers and had no
real concept of money, how he would pay for them,” Willis says. “He was
building a fort out of them. So when he was informed he had to pay, he brokered
a deal with the restaurant so the corporate mascots could be on the show all
the time and just get plenty of face time while he interviewed, say, Willie
Nelson. So that’s where the idea came from.”

That episode was never made, but Maiellaro and Willis somehow got Cartoon
Network to green-light an entire series starring the fast-food products.
Maiellaro voices mostly supporting characters, including the insane robot, the
Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past. Willis plays, among others, the
simpleminded Meatwad and the group’s Jersey-stereotype neighbor, bling- and
wifebeater-sporting Carl. The most compelling mystery is what made the show’s
creators think these 11-minute doses of concentrated absurdity could smoothly
expand into a 79-minute movie.

“Our boastfulness,” Maiellaro says. “Our big mouths that won’t shut up
about how great we are.”

The movie does provide the origin of the characters — or rather,
several origins, none of them particularly plausible.

“We did a massive rewrite in the middle,” Willis says. “There’s 30 minutes
of deleted scenes. But that’s sort of how we do it.”

But Maiellaro insists that all audiences need to know before going to the
movie is “that it’s rated R, and they should be prepared to spend $8.”

“Bring the kids,” Willis says. “And your wallet. And we have a picnic
seating area in every theater. Bring a bucket of chicken, sandwiches, a
Frisbee.”

As a bonus, Willis says, the film does have a moral message: “Go to
church.”

Adds Maiellaro: “To get girls!”

Foooooood fight!!!!!!

HERE IS THE IMUS FIRING VIDEO FROM CNN

HERE IS THE IMUS FIRING VIDEO FROM CNN
Donna Brazille, Terry Jeffrey clueless on Wolf Blitzer:

Imus Compilation from 8-29-2006

Imus Compilation from 8-29-2006

My wife is crushed right now. This is a good guy.
He is the ONLY one calling the pharmaceutical companies out on their practices.

Best. Freeway. Blog. Ever.

60
feet long and only lasted about fifteen minutes, but well worth it
according to the artists. Made with cheap latex paint and disposable
plastic tablecloths: about ten dollars for a hundred foot roll. Brilliant.

Greatscat!

LATE NIGHT BROADCATCHING::Paul McCartney & Wings

LATE NIGHT BROADCATCHING::Paul McCartney & Wings

Listen To What The Man Said
::Song taken from the LP called Venus and Mars and Live LP called Wings Over America.
Clip taken from the film “Rockshow”::

BILL MAHER FEELS SORRY FOR THE OLD MAVERICK: JOHN DONALD IMUS

SIMULCAST OF “IMUS IN THE MORNING” TERMINATED BY MSNBC

 ::IMUS FIRED BY NBC NEWS::
NBC NEWS PRESIDENT STEVE CAPUS INTERVIEWED BY DAVID GREGORY ON HARDBALL
APRIL 11 (7pm show)

BREAKING…INSTANT CLASSIC!!::CRAIG CRAWFORD CAN”T HIDE HIS INDIGNATION AT ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS

OBAMA ON IMUS+CRAIG CRAWFORD INDIGNANT AT ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS

OBAMA ON IMUS+CRAIG CRAWFORD INDIGNANT AT ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS

The Discussion starts out with two minutes for Barack Obama to opine on the Imus controversy and then:
INSTANT CLASSIC!
Check out Mr. Crawford at 2:43 when Armstrong Williams’ name is announced!
The Discussion is John Donald Imus

“God bless them, but we were thinking … that this was just bad news”

Published on Saturday, July 3, 2004 by the Los Angeles Times

Army Stage-Managed Fall of Hussein Statue

by David Zucchino

Cpl Edward Chin from New York of the 3rd battalion, 4th Marines regiment, set up the star and stripes flag on the face of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s statue, in downtown Bagdad, Wednesday, April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours) The Army’s internal study of the war in Iraq criticizes some efforts by its own psychological operations units, but one spur-of-the-moment effort last year produced the most memorable image of the invasion. As the Iraqi regime was collapsing on April 9, 2003, Marines converged on Firdos Square in central Baghdad, site of an enormous statue of Saddam Hussein. It was a Marine colonel — not joyous Iraqi civilians, as was widely assumed from the TV images — who decided to topple the statue, the Army report said. And it was a quick-thinking Army psychological operations team that made it appear to be a spontaneous Iraqi undertaking. After the colonel — who was not named in the report — selected the statue as a “target of opportunity,” the psychological team used loudspeakers to encourage Iraqi civilians to assist, according to an account by a unit member. But Marines had draped an American flag over the statue’s face. “God bless them, but we were thinking … that this was just bad news,” the member of the psychological unit said. “We didn’t want to look like an occupation force, and some of the Iraqis were saying, ‘No, we want an Iraqi flag!’ “ Someone produced an Iraqi flag, and a sergeant in the psychological operations unit quickly replaced the American flag. Ultimately, a Marine recovery vehicle toppled the statue with a chain, but the effort appeared to be Iraqi-inspired because the psychological team had managed to pack the vehicle with cheering Iraqi children. © Copyright 2004 Los Angeles Times

Army Stage-Managed Fall of Hussein Statue

The View discusses Imus

The View discusses Imus

The View discusses Imus

Imus Is A Good Person

Imus Is A Good Person Part 2

Imus Is A Good Person

Army confirms Psy-ops staged Saddam statue toppling

 Army report confirms Psy-ops staged Saddam statue toppling – The NewStandard

by Jon Elmer

July 3, 2004 –
An internal Army study of the war in Iraq has confirmed that the
infamous toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square in
central Baghdad on April 9, 2003 was stage-managed by American troops
and not a spontaneous reaction by Iraqis. According to the study, a
Marine colonel first decided to topple the statue, and an Army
psychological operations unit turned the event into a propaganda
moment.

At one point during the stunt Marines draped the statue of Saddam
Hussein with an American flag. When the crowd reacted negatively to
that gesture, the US flag was replaced with a pre-1990 Iraqi flag,
missing the words “God is Great,” by a sergeant from the psychological
operations unit. The Marines brought in cheering Iraqi children in
order to make the scene appear authentic, the study said.

Allegations that the event was staged were made in April of last
year, mostly by opponents of the war, but were ignored or ridiculed by
the US government and most visible media outlets.

Army report confirms Psy-ops staged Saddam statue toppling – The NewStandard

FBI Collected Intel on War Protesters in D.C., LIED ABOUT IT

FBI Collected Intel on War Protesters in D.C., Lied About It
WIRED MAG ONLINE

read more | digg story

Battle of Evermore – Ann & Nancy Wilson

WOW
WOW
WOW
WOW!

WHY DO THE DEMOCRAT PARTY CODDLE TERRORISTS?

LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA) EXCORIATES ST.McCAIN

OLBERMANN::LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA) EXCORIATES ST.McCAIN

Johnson says that McCain and Lindsey Graham are both military guys and should know better than to stage a goddamned photo-op in the middle of a dangerous market so they can score five-dollar rugs from a merchant who will probably be killed for his “collusion” with the enemy.
Sheesh…(department number 55)

Straight-Talk Express::OFF THE RAILS

Straight-Talk Express::OFF THE RAILS

Straight-Talk Express::OFF THE RAILS
McCain attempts a photo-op in Baghdad but is debunked when the military releases more information than he’d have liked.

54-46 Was My Number

Toots & The Maytals 54-46 Was My Number

54-36 WAS MY NUMBER

ROCK BAND “lets you have one guitarist in Germany and another one in Texas”

Harmonix plans to bring something that is ten times what Guitar Hero offered players, with original performances from artists you like.

In a report on USA Today Harmonix co-founder Alex Rigopolus said Rock Band,
which is distributed by EA, “takes the core premise of Guitar
Hero and expands it tenfold… It lets you create a complete
collaborative band.”

Players collaborate online, making music
together with the help of four musical based controllers in the form of
two guitars (lead and bass), a drum kit and a microphone. There will be
online support will include the ability to form bands with people in
other countries.

“You could have one guitarist in Germany and another one in
Texas, a drummer in New York and a singer from somewhere else, and they
can play together online,” said David DeMartini, vice president
and general manager of EA Partners.

Online transactions will be added to the game
as well. MTV, which owns Harmonix, is supporting the game’s production
and negotiating deals with record labels. The plan is to have Rock Band
feature original performances from artists, taking the veridicality of
the game one step further.

Harmonix has previously created Guitar Hero, which used a guitar-shaped
peripheral, plus Frequency, Amplitude and EyeToy: AntiGrav.

The new video game is set to appear on PlayStation 3
and Xbox 360 this Christmas. Rigopulos also promised: “We’ll be
covering a great breadth, from metal to classic rock to Southern rock
to everything in between.”

“Rock band is Harmonix’s most ambitious project to date, and it
will take music gameplay to an entirely new level,” Rigopolous
said.

MTV will establish partnerships with music publishers so that Rock Band
can feature original recordings instead of cover band music that
players are now familiar with in the Guitar Hero franchise. “This
game offers a meaningful way for labels to participate in a segment of entertainment they, for the most part, have not been able to,” MTV’s Jeff Yapp told USA Today.

Guitar Hero II (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane) was one of the winners at the 7th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, in the Audio category.

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