In 1967 did you ever imagine that someday you would hear the psychedelic "Somebody to Love" by Grace Slick and the Jefferson Airplane played on the "muzak" at a Walgreens pharmacy? For those of us old enough to remember the mind numbing "elevator music" of the 1960's, hearing 'our music' nearly forty years later in the geriatric atmosphere of a pharmacy is a bittersweet irony.It was all about the drugs then and it's all about the drugs now.;)
BTW - Grace is now 67 years old and the combined ages of the Rolling Stones is about 250 years with the youngest Stone being a tender 59.
i think Buddy is renchard.
ReplyDeletehe's smart,plays his hand close to the vest BUT when he gets down, i mean gets down, he starts to sound like a cross between a historical classist and a philosophy professor.
and now we know he can jump
Rufus, I agree, I was just being a turd. It's way to volitile a subject and I really don't think it needs an airing.
I pray, we have all. Accepted that; it is what it is, whatever that is,is what: it should be. As,for if it weren't? As it is then it wouldn't. Be Is, but was, and we, have moved, to: is, not was: so there you have it? surprise in every box!!
Old aircraft
but then again newer aircraft are usually newer
ReplyDeleteNew JET
No, I'm not Runtchard. There I brought it up. Wait, no i didn't.
ReplyDeleteBut, lessee here, how many shape-shifters hang out here?
Of those, how many are capable of writing that Seattle thing awhile back?
Hmmmm...Now, i realize habu has said straight up that he ain't him--but, could that be, disinformation, as in toying with the limits of the medium? Are we an experiment? AM I an ANIMAL?
I report, you decide.
Dozens of literary masterpieces and international bestsellers have been banned in Iran in a dramatic rise in censorship that has plunged the country's publishing industry into crisis.
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Another publishing house has been banned from selling a successful series of books featuring lyrics by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Doors, Black Sabbath, Queen and Guns n' Roses. Stores were told to remove the books or face closure.
Censorship Purge
Iran - gee what a fun country to live in.
ReplyDeleteBook-banning/burning = fascists/communists every time.
ReplyDeleteWhit--you're RIGHT--I'd forgotten about sausage. The styles are really simyilar. That's who it is. My apologies to habu.
Unless habu is sausage--naaah. could never be.
Stayin' on the sunny side,
ReplyDeletethose Iranian women.
Put bandages on their noses, even when they have not had a "job".
pyscho babes from hell, seems to me.
The Students rioted, the transportation workers went on strike, we have not spread enough cash around to the diseffected. Unfortunately I think Mr Hersch lied about our covert fellows working there, in Iran.
To bad, for US.
i saw that, whit--the rhinoplasty segment. Tonight she has a report on stem cell research in Iran. I have to say, the thought of wasting those folks wholesale is horrendous. most of 'em are kids. what ARE we gonna do about that regime?
ReplyDeleteI can't believe that those normal, happy-looking folk, trying so hard to look western, buying our cultural stuff, can be a part of that genocidal regime. It's crazy-making.
ReplyDeletenothin', that's what "we" are gonna do, buddy.
ReplyDeleteThat is what we have been doing and an object at rest tends to stay at rest.
The Pakis tested an 800 mile, nuclear capable missle today, of NorK design, they say.
Stem cells are not human, the Mullahs decided. She mentioned the exact day after conception that allah implants the soul in the fetus, after that, it's human.
No late term abortions girls, sorry.
yep--you're right, rat--they could be nutz as all hell, and just being sweet for the american tv reporter. Think, buddy, THINK. fall for that shit, after railing against it for a lifetime. damn.
ReplyDeleteoddly enough, rat, that 120 day prescription may be exactly what we need here, to prevent a new civil war.
ReplyDeleteBuddy,
ReplyDeleteYou mention an asset we have deployed in Iran already. Whatever advances the Left thinks it makes here, what with its "progress," we don't need any Soros funding to spread the greatest and most prolific culture ever seen by Man.
How to exploit this resource? Well, I don't know. All I'll say is the Kill 'em All option precludes ever using this resource.
Is it possible to design a rational strategy for exploiting these cultural vulnerabilities in Iran?
did you see Mark Furmann gut Alan Colmes like a fresh-caught catfish?
ReplyDeleteTurkey cuts military ties with France..
ReplyDeleteppab, because fascist regimes so often fall, we tend to forget how effective a brutal secret police can be, in the meantime.
ReplyDeleteThey are so status oriented that they pretend to have a nose job. What do their friends think, when the bandages come off, and Jimmie Durante is still protuding from her face? Pretend the nip and tuck was a success?
ReplyDeleteThey are all living in a fanstasy land. From the reports I've seen. Fantasy, projection and denial, Iranian stocks in trade.
Over the Armenian genocide of 1915- 1917.
ReplyDeleteTo deny the genocide is illegal, in France, just like it is to deny the WWII holocaust of Jews and Gypsys by the Axis Powers.
Turkey is in denial about denial.
The Pope visits Turkey soon, wonder if he gets out alive?
ever seen pics of young german women, in the hitler rope lines? orgasmic. fantasy gone wild.
ReplyDeleteMat, here.
Its a good point - one lost on a moment's romantic take on history.
ReplyDeleteWhat alluring bliss that is, the optimism that threatens fear with hope but succumbs to the ineluctable imposition of the sweet surrender.
It was a Turk "right-winger" (from the "Grey Wolves" right-wingers) who shot the last pope. Unless you read the KGB releases.
ReplyDeleteppab, remember winston smith in '1984' finally dissolved in tearful 'sweet surrender', too.
ReplyDeleteHere's something to chew on -
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what the affect of easy access to information is on governance as well as the citizen's involvement in that governance.
But this technology will not only expose US congressman - it will get out on the Internet and expose Iranians, Saudis you name it.
Maybe that's a direction to go in.
Just something that Murtha video made quite unambiguous.
ReplyDeleteTiny information gathering devices can make some compelling media - might even have more of an effect in the unstable political environs of Saudi Arabia and Iran.
That fellow, buddy, the Pope shooter, he was out of jail for a while there. Doin' interviews and such. I do believe the Turks tucked the boy away, it was getting embarassing for them, I think.
ReplyDeleteTalk of a movie deal, as I recall, was the straw that broke that camels back.
yeah but you get some glenn miller go'in down, string of pearl etc and watch all ages bop.
ReplyDeletei really don't care who i am. i use to think i was smart, then i got dumber as i learned i wasn't smart.
i use to be young and flexible. noW i'm old and have to do my tai chi and streching daily to stay flexy.
hairs almost a memory.
blue veiner with a plum ..hah
eyesight aided
still strong but jeez the time between it , this tai chi,grocery shopping, watching options,selling my baseball stuff and gett'in 8-10 rack is a load.
ain't smoked a fatty in 15 years and been out of the rest for longer. put i'm grow'in some poppies in montana..they really like it there. hell my mother-in-law has about 30 growing...I asked if she knew ...clueless
an air-drop of small-arms and ammo over Tehran would help, too. Where's Air America? (no, not that frikken radio show)
ReplyDeleteWillie Nelson still plays at my house, habu. Stop by some time and get in the groove, again.
ReplyDeleteTurkey cut ties with France..did they recall their amb?
ReplyDeleteYəḥezqêl 38
ReplyDeleteGog and Magog are Russia and Turkey.
How long ago was it, buddy, that we discussed how to destabilize Iran, couple of years, anyway, no?
ReplyDeleteRight out of the late 50's playbook, you said. But since the US tanks quit rollin' so did the rest of US, it seems.
No revolution in Iran, the Son of Shah sure let US down. No matter being friendly with the Bush 41 team.
All of the options, short of real War, were not even tried. Sad, so sad.
We will have backed US into a corner, where a whole lot more people are gonna die, to end this "Long War" in a short time.
Rufus...as gauling as it is pick the French..better food
ReplyDeleteBuddy...Inter Mountain Airways,Southern AirWays, Air America ..great outfits..
had a Rhodesian pilot friend had engine trouble and set her down on a nice savanna. woke up with a pride of lions all over his airplane..said he was scared
DR, yeah i thought the shah's son was gonna do some shit and he's nowhere man now
ReplyDeleteTeam America. FUCK YEAH!!
ReplyDeleteYou know you're in the shit when the "All American" heros are porn puppets.
ReplyDelete"Since 1984, the Turkish military has bombed and depopulated more than 3,000 Kurdish villages in its campaign to eradicate the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a militant Kurdish opposition group. As a result, 30,000 people have died, and two million Kurdish refugees have been driven out of their homes into overcrowded urban shantytowns."
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine a country without Black Sabbath? Holy smokes..
ReplyDeleteYeah, mat, but those Turkish bastards were supposed to be "our" bastards, but backstabbed US after 60 years of payola.
ReplyDeleteWho has whose number in that Game?
As their conference nears its end, NATO parliamentarians were united Thursday on the need to bring more stability to war-torn Afghanistan, what they can't seem to agree on is who will do it.
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A second committee report at the conference specifically chastised Germany, France, Italy and Turkey for not dispatching additional troops.
Quebec City Conference
The money quote
ReplyDelete"Despite the turmoil, Konigshaus said he believes NATO will survive as an institution.
The Turks and the 4th ID was but a foretaste of what was to come in the Region, not an isolated incident, at all.
ReplyDeleteShows how woefully unprepared the US really was, and still seems to be, for the politics and such in the Region.
Turkey's massive spending on military modernization began in the 90's just as the Soviet Union fell apart. How does one make sense of that?
ReplyDeleteI'm here to tell ya that if they'd just bombed the hell out of Baghdad until it was rubble we wouldn't be in this mess.
ReplyDeleteWell the can't never could and we didn't...we had Shock and Awe..and I'll say it again when they showed that on TV I said I'm shocked cause that ain't shit..we should have had those sons of bitches, every man woman and child scared to look up at an American.They should have been licking out boots.
We could jammed Al Jeez off the air and had no pics com'in out. We fucked it on strategy and tactics and that's hard to do.
The Soviets were never a threat, to the Turks, a resurgent Iran was and still is.
ReplyDeleteBut the Mohammedans seem to have undercut the Secularists, in Turkey, of late.
The Mohammedans not gaining the Government until '02, have not lost control, yet.
For Rufus:
ReplyDeleteTurkey Power
We need a NITO - (Indian)
ReplyDeleteRufus,
ReplyDeleteLook at the demographics of Iran..Young, they don't remember the Savak or the Shaw...we were told they wanted western ways and were ready to riot....some CIA folks didn't get that place prepared..We know every sewer cover in that town and we should have had HUMINT assets albeit old but still got eyes ears etc. Now were gonna probably let them have nukes, who the fuck nows...we don't have a coherent foreign policy we have an ad hoc diurnal outline written on a scratch pad.
Condi's become a joke too ..the entire administration is FUBARED this..they have two years and it'll be uphill against the world and the Socialist Democrats
Why now, habu, it has only been 42 months and Baghdad remains unsecure. It has never been save to drive from the Airport to the Embassy. Not one day in 48 months.
ReplyDeleteBut we're "winning". It's just going to take another 4 to 6 months, then we'll have a better view and greater understanding of just what Victory will look like.
Just that the metric used to judge has yet to be explained, other than buffed school floors and the election of the Enemy to lead the country against achieving the US Goals. Those are often held up as grand achievements and "mini" Victories along the way, in the "Long War".
Nose jobs but no Black Sabbath. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteRussia lost Kars, Ardahan and Batum by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
ReplyDeleteDR,
ReplyDeleteLike a smack to the kisser and a "snap out of it kid" you got me.
All is sweet over there. And now our President even has his father consigliere aboard who'll surely get a higher buff on those floors..
on a note of no knowledge..do we have any airfields out in the desert of any size? one two, any?
bonus coverage..my Tai Chi inspiration.
ReplyDeleteTai Chi Master
And ya can't beat this...
ReplyDeleteHardbody
Good read on Turkey-Russia Relations:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=71
If those in thrall over their newfound power in Washington really want to change things, they should start their term of office by reading the Medal of Honor citation for Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham. He was killed on April 14, 2004, shielding his men from an enemy grenade with his own body.
ReplyDeleteHeroes like Dunham are people who put themselves at risk to the benefit of others. Our armed forces are full of heroes.
Newfound Power
Had the same thought about Baghdad--huge population, and a few thousand shitheads are ruining the show. there's something bad cooking right now--ambushed convoy, maybe some Americans hauled off.
ReplyDeleteIt was the original "Young Turks" who 'did' the Armenians--who were Christian, BTW.
ReplyDeleteA constipated mathemetician can always work it out with a pencil
ReplyDeleteDHS: Individual Al-Qaeda Operative Assigned To Each American Family
ReplyDeleteNovember 16, 2006 | Issue 42•46
WASHINGTON, DC—The Department Of Homeland Security claimed to have "reliable information" Monday that al-Qaeda is proceeding with a plan to dispatch to the United States 120 million operatives trained to antagonize and disrupt every American household. "These domestic operatives are already highly knowledgeable about their assigned families' daily schedules, eccentricities, and deepest desires," said DHS secretary Michael Chertoff. "All we can say is that they are serious, they are committed, and they have a lot more members than we ever imagined." While Chertoff said people should go about their daily lives as normally as possible, he did urge people to be diligent in reporting any unusual activity or suspicious Arab-looking men in their kitchens, bedrooms, closets or underneath their dinner tables.
bullshit initialisms,
ReplyDeletemost of the second world and third world countries i was in in thr 70's only had a hole in the dirt or floor if that
Say fellas, wanna party?
ReplyDeletethe jolly green rufus: link
ReplyDeletehope there's no "hazing" when we jine up them moo-slims
ReplyDeleteis bull initials a nom de plume for a 'familiar'?
ReplyDeleteDuPont is among the world's leaders in developing and commercializing renewable, bio-based materials; advanced biofuels; energy-efficient technologies; safety and protection products and services; and alternative energy sources. These include high-performance products such as: Bio-PDO(TM), which is made using corn as the raw material, as the key ingredient for DuPont(TM) Sorona(R) polymer used in carpeting, apparel, and other applications; Pioneer(R) seeds, which use advanced plant genetics to develop higher yield, higher quality crops; and personal protective apparel with DuPont(TM) Kevlar(R), Nomex(R) and Tyvek(R) for law enforcement personnel, firefighters and emergency responders.
ReplyDeleteDuPont - one of the first companies to publicly establish environmental goals nearly 20 years ago - has broadened its sustainability commitments beyond internal footprint reduction to include market-driven targets for revenue and research and development investment. The goals are tied directly to business growth, specifically to the development of safer and environmentally improved new products for DuPont's key global markets.
Green Award
Russia is the main gas supplier for Turkey with the market share of 40% minimum. This gives Russia a guarantee of Turkey's political loyalty to Moscow. Russia is worried of "pan -Turkism" in Central Asia and of Turkish Islamic sympathy towards Chechnya. Gasprom provides a check on such moves.
ReplyDeleteGasprom, which just sewed up Italy, too, was a PRIVATE company until Vlad the Impaler wrapped 'em up with "unpaid taxes' and did a USSR* gov't takeover. The western financial institutions which could have prevented it (with a little western gov't help) just stood by and watched, scratching their heads and saying "Go--oo--lly!" like Gomer Pyle.
ReplyDeleteturns out that those big rallys were organized by a few red groups, and la raz, but mainly, fundamentally, by an american labor union, the restaurant and service workers, or something. so much for labor's front against the illegals.
ReplyDeleteOn Monday, Putin is scheduled to meet Vietnam‘s top leadership, including Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Communist Party chief Nong Duc Manh, although trade ties are a ghost of the Soviet-era relationship.
ReplyDeleteRussian-Vietnamese trade volume of about 1.2 billion dollars a year is a fraction of US-Vietnamese turnover forecast to reach 10 billion dollars this year.
APEC Meeting
the "Service Employees International Union" ? was it? link
ReplyDeleteBig old PG&E is moving in with big bucks, too.
ReplyDeleteoil was off 2+ today--off the CPI 'slow-growth' scenario. like clockwork sometimes.
ReplyDeleteRussia's helping Iran build nuclear plants, so Iran can use less oil and gas on internal consumption and export MORE oil and gas to compete with Russia, only makes sense if you know Odysseus and use a Cyrillic alphabet.
ReplyDeleteRufus: AXTI
ReplyDeleteThat's it, I'm sure. Non-unionized, they undermine the union. We need to remember that when we hear the unions being touted as America Firsters. It's the money, in this dust-up.
ReplyDeletesolar com you was askin bout..
ReplyDeleteThe Viking 32, a hybrid car that runs on electricity and biomethane, is a "sweet" car by anyone's standards.
ReplyDelete"It's a hot rod," Eric Leonhardt, director of the Vehicle Research Institute at Western Washington University, told an appreciative group of people crowded around the car during a recent biodiesel workshop at the Alcoa Intalco plant.
The Real Bullshit
mat, it makes sense on the balance sheet, if not the income statement.
ReplyDeleteRufus, I'd say Putin is banking on it.
ReplyDeleteif you are immortal (like a nation) and you have a certain finite amount of the stuff everybody wants, why sell it fast when you can sell it slow and thereby make it more valuable?
ReplyDeleteYes, Buddy. That's why the Meeting with Olmert. Possibly as well an exchange of military info concerning Iran.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking to Ynet, Sneh said he doesn't recommend military action against Iran but that he is aware of the dangers that lie in wait.
ReplyDelete"Iran can harm us and cause great damage, whether through terror it supports, or rockets it fires from Lebanon. We cannot damage it in a symmetrical manner and we need to be able to damage it in a similar manner," he said.
At All Costs
AXT, Inc. (AXT) designs, develops, manufactures and distributes high-performance compound and single element semiconductor substrates comprising gallium arsenide (GaAs), indium phosphide (InP) and germanium (Ge). Its substrate products are used primarily in wireless communications, lighting display applications, and fiber optic communications.
ReplyDelete>>> think gallium arsenide (GaAs) solar cell ;-)
Cramer explained it sometime back as "the stuff that makes fiberoptics flow". back to the flushing meta4.
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Sneh: Curb Iran 'all costs'
Deputy defense minister tells Jerusalem Post about possible military action against Iran 'even the last resort is sometimes the only resort'
what some have been saying--
the energy in the fiberoptic cable is subject to entropy, or somesuch, so AXTI makes some sort of little 'pumping station' actions happen along the line.
ReplyDeleteMy kind of dumbass visualization.
thing is, they're well-known already--so it's a play on numbers of subscribers, more'n anything. The broadband vs cable wars.
ReplyDeleteBuddy, Wish my Chem profs were as articulate. I might have stayed with it.
ReplyDeleteI was on the phone for a long time earlier tonight, with a Russian kid--she's a friend of, graduated with, my daughter & is interviewing for her first 'real' job here, and wanted some mkt info--but we got off into Russia & Putin, and she said that those 80% approval ratings for Putin are manure, strictly manufactured, and that ordinary russians (she and her mom were just there, in Moscow, for a few months) were fearful as hell of all Putin's 'moves' toward the 'old ways'. I know, one person, and an immigrant at that--but, just sayin.
ReplyDeletethanks mat--but that's my total body of AXTI knowledge--
ReplyDeleteAnyhoo, on Russia, people look @ GDP #s ands see that Russia's output is a tenth of ours, and think (*whew*).
But, all that oil & gas in the ground (not to mention the raw mtrls & commodities in Siberia) is appreciating every day.
They're like west Texas ranchers, not much cash flow but tremendous balance sheets, just holdin' & a-waitin'.
Ronald Reagan, back in the day, called 'em "Upper Volta, with missiles", but now, with the global boom & rise in commodities values, they're a helluva lot more than that.
The problem for Empires like Russia China Iran etc, is that the "old ways" is all there is to keep the Empire intact.
ReplyDeleteYou mean, to keep the Nomenclatura in power.
ReplyDeleteWith democracy the Empire breaks apart.
ReplyDeleteyep--and the only loss is the investment in the old system.
ReplyDeleteA lot of blood invested.
ReplyDeleteunless you believe that a Putin is evil, you have to realize he muct have reason to believe that his people are better off with a strongman, than a rule-of-law.
ReplyDeleteWonder why he would feel that way?
Btw, the Canadian stock market been taking hits on account of commodities lately.
ReplyDeleteHadn't thought of that--the history. That's what the russian young lady was trying to tell me tonight--that "the history is just so long, it defeats everything".
ReplyDeleteShe said, "americans cannot possibly understand, the country is too young".
His people comprise of 50 plus nationalities.
ReplyDeleteyeh, I've been watching the canadian dollar back down a little bit.
ReplyDeleteAmerica is very unique. It is a place of national refuge.
ReplyDeleteThe Russian language recognizes these "Russian" nationalities. Russian provides an expression to distinguish these nationalities though they may be considered "Russian".
ReplyDeleteThe Kossacks who pacified Siberia did it almost exactly the way--and same time--as the USA settlers did the west. had to move the indigs outta the way. and the indigs are even the same racial stock on both continents, they look just like the Amerindians who came over the Bering land bridge.
ReplyDeleteYet the USSR commies beat us up over the indians, all the time. bastids, they did it too--and then the euro russians came in and pacified the Kossacks, like the USA did to the Confederate 'horse culture'.
Actually, it was the Lithuanian Poles that pacified the Cossacks. :D
ReplyDeleteThere ya go--too much history, just like the lady said!
ReplyDeleteThe Alamo.
ReplyDelete"During the 14th century, Poland and Lithuania fought wars against the Mongol invaders, and eventually most of Ukraine passed to the rule of Poland and Lithuania. More particularly, the lands of Volynia in the north and northwest passed to the rule of Lithuanian princes, while the south-west passed to the control of Poland (Galicia) and Hungary (Zakarpattya). Most of Ukraine bordered parts of Lithuania, and some say that the name, "Ukraine" comes from the local word for "border," although the name "Ukraine" was also used centuries earlier. Lithuania took control of the state of Volynia in northern/northwestern Ukraine, including the region around Kyiv (Rus'), and the rulers of Lithuania then adopted the title of ruler of Rus'. Poland took control of the region of Halychyna. Following the union between Poland and Lithuania, Poles, Germans, Armenians and Jews immigrated to the country."
ReplyDeleteyou know, we americans get pissed off at russia and iran dealing with each other--but they have been, for more than a thousand years, already. They were already trading and cookin' up trouble, back when the Incas were the the western hemisphere's leading civilization. Or even the Toltecs.
ReplyDeleteThe Russ and Persians shared a common enemy: the Turks and Mongols.
ReplyDeleteMongols pretty much wrote Euro history, for a thousand years or so, didn't they. Mongols did in the first organized jihadis, the Assassins.
ReplyDeleteshould've said, "first recorded terrorist cell", the Assassins.
ReplyDeleteThe Alamo, to most Texans, is where "real" history began, LOL. 1836, barely yesterday.
ReplyDeleteAll that pre 1776 across the ocean stuff, is just too vast to comprehend. yet every string playing today goes back, back, back, as far back as the written word.
ReplyDeleteyikes--2 a.m.--beddy-bye--later, alligator--
ReplyDeleteYou're laughing, but it's 3:20 over here, and I've been listening to Mozart banging a hole in me head for the past 4 hrs. If Putin was such a sadomasochist, we might be in good shape. :D
ReplyDeleteWhit, you are right. It is one interesting eclectic dialectic. One great BS session.
ReplyDeleteWhit! Wow!
ReplyDeleteYou sure look better now than you used to. How old were you in that photo? 19?
: ) Terrific job!
i cry over the indigs, too, bobal.
ReplyDeletebut yesterday, the conversation was on russian history, and in the interests of drawing parallels between russian and american 19th century behavior, i guess i sounded a bit cavalier, a tad too lofty, a smidgen removed, from the sad history of the fall of the indians.
will you be deeding your place back over to Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce, today, bobal?