There's nothing like a surprise to break the monotony of life, right?

I think Kieran mentioned it a few weeks ago ... we get so stuck on the dreariness of the economy and the political campaigns and work that anything to break the mindless routine is like a storm wind that rips
through the stagnation of a humid summer afternoon ...

This past week or so I've been somewhat elevated beyond truly caring about all the insanity of this country at this moment in history because of ... new music ... ! music sometimes has that effect on me,
especially something that becomes addicting, like way back in the day The Downward Spiral did, or OK Computer, or In the Aeroplane Over the
Sea ...

or ... Dummy by Portishead ...

I don't know if it's been mentioned on here yet, but Portishead's
first album in like 11 years is called Third ... it came out I think
in the Spring ...

Do yourself a favor, if you've never heard Portishead, go download
Dummy and spend about a year absorbing it into your mind like a bad
hit of acid ...

if you know Portsihead, then you have to check out Third ... it was
astonishing enough to me when I snagged Third that this was even

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/22/AR200810...

Does vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin consider herself intellectual?
You betcha!

You couldn't make this s**t up if you tried.

Kieran

All politics aside, let's acknowledge something we all agree on: F the F-ing Dodgers.

I check the game and see:

1) a very serious Tiger Woods in the crowd (like, can you crack an F-ing smile - your team is winning, a-hole?)

2) the dodger's pitcher throwing the ball squarely at Victorino's head.

3) they've got the Fonz on their side.



7 to 1

This can't be happening...

I've been waiting 25 years for this to come back on the air. The original show was relatively successful as far as ratings go, but at the time the special effects were really expensive, making it the most expensive show to produce on tv at the time. Its a really great story
and if you ever get a chance to watch the intro mini-series to it, go for it. People have been trying to get it aired again since it left the small screen, but it seems this time they are really close to making the dream come to true.

Here's a little background on the original:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_TV_Series

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"V," the 1980s miniseries about alien lizards visiting Earth, will invade primetime once again.

ABC is developing a new adaptation of the franchise — which spawned a
second mini and TV spinoff — written by "The 4400" co-creator/exec

This might be one of the most spine tingling bits of video I've seen this entire election cycle. He spills the beans on his intentions about about 28 seconds into it.

Its very clear. He's out of his f*#&ing mind and no one seems to care.

"I just want to make a comment about the obvious issue and that is the failure of Congress to act yesterday. Its just not acceptable," said McCain. "This is just a not acceptable situation. I'm not saying this is the perfect answer. If I were dictator, which I always aspire to be, I would write it a little bit differently."

Its as clear as day.

With or without Congressional approval, a financial industry bailout will happen. If the President has to declare a national emergency in order to meet what amounts to a margin call by foreign investors, its
going to happen. Guaranteed.

The USA has received global margin call. We either bail out foreign banks or we face a full on collapse of the currency.

"Assests now held in China or London can be sold to US entities on Monday, then sold to the Treasury on Tuesday [...] Hundreds of billions of dollars are going to bail out foreign investors. They know. They demanded it. And the bill has been carefully written to make sure that can happen."

- Rep Brad Sherman (D-CA)

One of the most interesting aspects of the recent defeat of the Economic Stabilization Act is the fact that grassroots surge of
activists were able to quickly mobilize and make their opposition
known in the strongest terms. With such close proximity to the
upcoming election, most politicians were more than hesitant to ignore the people.

From the mainstream media, to government, to the financial
establishment, a near-hysterical chorus of warnings about impending Armageddon was voiced over the past several days, shouting at us that if we did not give nearly unlimited economic power to an office of the executive branch of government, we would be knocked back to the stone age and everything we know and love will be destroyed. All we have to do is trust them and they will protect us.

When have we heard this before?

This time around, when confronted with a demand of a massive expansion of government, sold through fear, the American public stretched out its hand and shouted, "no!"

WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE
Wed Sep 17 14:50:08 GMT 2008

JULIAN ASSANGE (Investigative Editor)

The internet activist group 'anonymous', famed for its exposure of unethical behavior by the Scientology cult, has now gone after the Alaskan govenor and republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

At around midnight last night the group gained access to governor Palin's email account "sarah.gov@yahoo.com" and handed over the contents to the government sunshine site Wikileaks.org.

Governor Palin has come under media criticism in the past week for using pseudo-private email accounts to avoid Alaskan freedom of information laws.

The zip archive made available by Wikileaks contains screen shots of Palin's inbox, two example emails, governor Palin's address box and a couple of family photos. While the emails released so far reveal little, the list of correspondence appears to re-enforce the
criticism that Palin is mixing governmental and personal affairs.

See:

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin_Yahoo_email_hack_2008

for those like me that missed it the first time. this is priceless. i knew fey would be good. but not THIS good

This is disturbing. While Sarah Palin was serving as the Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, the city charged victims of sexual assault between $300 and $1200 for their own rape kits. A rape kit is a sexual assault forensic evidence kit, used to collect DNA that can be used in criminal proceedings to assist in the conviction of those who commit sex crimes. The kit is performed as soon as possible after a sexual assault has been committed. Imagine enduring a physical attack and then having to pay $1200 just so that the perp might be caught.

'Knowles signs sexual assault bill
Published on Monday, May 22, 2000 9:00 PM AKDT
JO C. GOODE / The Frontiersman / May 23, 2000

ANCHORAGE - Gov. Tony Knowles recently signed legislation protecting victims of sexual assault from being billed for tests to collect evidence of the crime, but one local police chief said the new law
will further burden taxpayers.

The governor signed House Bill 270, sponsored by Rep. Eric Croft,
D-Anchorage, outside the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) exam room
at Alaska Regional Hospital. In attendance at the signing were members
of victims advocate groups, law enforcement agencies and legislators.