Eric Verlo , February 9th, 2010
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In case you thought City Council’s reprieve earlier this winter reflected a soft spot in their heart for the homeless forced to live in tents, in reality the city attorneys advised any purge of the unsightly camps be delayed until a sufficient ordinance could be devised. The suggested legal verbiage was reviewed at Monday’s meeting, to be formally adopted today. It reads “9.6.109. Camping on Public Property Prohibited.” The definition of “camping” to include: “Sleeping or making preparation to sleep, including the lying down of bedding for the purpose of sleeping.”
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Brother Jonah , February 9th, 2010
What does that make Wal-Mart and their seemingly endless resources of Manufacturers pushing products that get recalled not just by the United States Corporate-Owned “watchdog” Lapdog Agencies, products that mostly are marketed as toys or furnishings for Kids? But also by the Chinese agencies, legendary for their diligence in regulating industries. Cadmium in kid’s jewelry, tainted milk, lead based paint on toys, Jesus, why not just give the kids a chainsaw and a blindfold for their birthday, at least it would be faster.
I was at their Customer Service desk yesterday buying a money order, there’s a bulletin board chock full of Recalled Products and most of them NOT voluntary.
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Brother Jonah , February 9th, 2010
Followed a link about the ads during the SuperDuperIncredibleBowl being about Victimized Males. Dodge Ram, “That thing got a Hemi? Sweet!” Homoeroticism campaign turned over to a guy who is so powerless in his own life that he has to drive a car that’s more macho than he is.
Probably not a good idea, because somebody that incredibly dysfunctional might be the next one to drive his car up onto the sidewalk or into a school playground, deliberately, in a fit of road rage caused by Other People not giving him the respect and honor and validation of his Injured Manhood that he paid all that money to buy.
Eric Verlo , February 8th, 2010
Melamine is back in the Chinese food chain, coming from milk product supposed to have been destroyed after the food industry scandal which killed six Chinese infants and left the health of thousands permanently debilitated. International conglomerate Danone was named then among the villains, but at that time, many of those implicated could claim to have been unknowing accomplices. What excuse could there be today for the resurfacing of the tainted stock, sold to Ningxia Tiantian Dairy by “an unnamed company as a debt payment”? International readers have nothing to fear from Ningxia products, but what of the culprit in this transaction? Why is that identity being concealed?
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Eric Verlo , February 8th, 2010
This time when the Japanese whalers came abreast their eco-defense adversary to douse them with water cannons, the Sea Shepherd crew surprised them with a torrent of superior caliber! Yes, it sounds like a pissing match, the essence of swashbucklers. This one is worthy of Patrick O’Brian but we’ll have to wait for Whale Wars Season III for the full adventure. Score: Japanese fleet chaperoned now for three days with no breaking free in sight.
Brother Jonah , February 8th, 2010
Melanie Shouse, a MoveOn Council leader in St. Louis, passed away from breast cancer while still fighting her insurance company for chemotherapy coverage.
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Eric Verlo , February 8th, 2010
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Hands-down the best Super Bowl commercial was the Tebow mother and son soft-sell, where the advance PR hullabaloo delivered the anti-abortion message, leaving the TV-spot, an advocacy theme flag-planting placed at a celebrated cost of three million dollars, to ice the cake. Only its detractors would find the final 30-second message anticlimactic. The “Tebow Ad” was a month long campaign. Count ABC and the NFL also big winners, whose commercial breaks were watched more closely because of the Tebow hoopla, especially lookouts anticipating a multiple Tebow spot. Sunday’s ads might have been watched more closely than the game itself. Second place goes to the Denny’s Grand Slam screaming chicken spots, with another ad-world sophistication, piggybacking on the Tebow jitters with a spot that began with lighting a birthday cake, a Tebow feint, interrupted by the now-recurring alarmed chicken.
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Brother Jonah , February 7th, 2010
30 years too late. Mighty white of them.
Swiss courts delayed announcing their decision, hours before the Earthquake, to reinstate the money stolen from Haiti by the Dvalier family, with the help of the CIA and Pentagon, and Swiss banks along with other multinational banking Corporations, to the Duvaliers. Not to Haiti. One Swiss official said that it’s customary to wait several weeks before announcing court decisions.
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Brother Jonah , February 7th, 2010
A fuel-air explosion. For those who didn’t get the reference, that’s the basis for the Mother Of All Bombs the Bush Regime detonated in a test to “Shock and Awe” (read: Terrorize) Saddam Hussein. The M.O.A.B. had multiple ignition points, was the main difference. It was as powerful as the Nagasaki bomb.THE most powerful non-nuclear blast ever.
In Connecticut, the explosion was a gas pipeline at the Kleen power plant, under construction. Something like that wouldn’t normally happen because gas INSIDE the pipe doesn’t have air. The other component in a Fuel Air Explosion.
To get a feel for what the potential of it is, if you get ten miles to a gallon in a 2 ton vehicle, which is really shitty mileage, in order to go one mile you would need roughly 12 ounces of gasoline. Less than a pound of explosive moves 2 tons One Mile. And that’s assuming really weak conversion of fuel to energy.
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Brother Jonah , February 7th, 2010
It means several things.
first it means that she’s delusional because
she’s counting on the ChickenHawks to back her play on this
It means she’s got the insane notion that all they’ll have to do is show us their guns and we’ll back down and beg them to lead us.
Because they ain’t going to do a Damned thing unless they’re sure they won’t get hurt doing it.
It means, importantly, that they don’t believe they have enough votes to win an election.
For all their head-running about how they’re the majority, they know it ain’t so.
It means she’s willing to have other Americans, doing her fighting for her, kill still Other Americans.
Much like the Mechanical Drones she supports sending to Pakistan and anywhere else.
That’s the same way she feels about the Human Drones, including her own son.
It’s not HER life at stake, so it’s OK with her. And her Demented Disciples feel the same way.
That’s their downfall, if they had the guts to fight, personally, for the power and money they want to steal…
They’d be over in Iraq themselves right now. But they don’t have the guts, so they depend on Others to do it for them.
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Brother Jonah , February 6th, 2010
I know, they’ve been funded with at the very least Free hate television and radio advertising from Fox and Clear Channel. The same ones who get into their Rabid-ass foaming at the mouth frenzy denouncing anybody who dares suggest that they’re bought and paid for, by some of the biggest bank accounts in the world… but also got all Foaming at the Mouth OUTRAGED! about the NY Times giving a discount on a half page, one time deal Newspaper ad… Including Silly Shill Sarah. Well, they like to be lied to, and they’ve got a Professional to do it for errr “TO” them.
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Brother Jonah , February 6th, 2010
There’s a touch of strange to the news reporting about Toyota and their troubles.
Now, one would think that a company that doesn’t actually do business with the Bad Ol’ Wicked Naughty Labor Unions would be a darling of the Far Right Lunatics who run most of the corporate Press in our nation. But, recalling a defective product, repairing the damage that could potentially have happened if they hadn’t done the recall, all voluntarily, and at a big hit to their Stock Prices…<<–Very Important phrase…
Yet the Corporate Mouthpieces uset the term "Tarnished Reputation"
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Eric Verlo , February 6th, 2010
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Photos, videos and links from the Friday rally.
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Brother Jonah , February 6th, 2010
Sure, Iranian space vehicles could deliver weapons into and then out of orbit. So did NASA’s, and the information gleaned from the Manned Moon Exploration program went to the Pentagoons First –the War Department who were the first and only nation to actually USE Nuclear (ok, Atomic…) Weapons of Mass Destruction. The ONLY military on Earth who have used all three classes of WMDs, Nuclear, Chemical and Bioligical. … oopsie, the Smallpox thing is disputed.
Counting in the Depleted Uranium as a Nuclear WMD “our” Military has the distinction of using all three classes of WMDs against AMERICANS. Or, as the “Chemical Ali” accusation went, “against their own people”.
Eric Verlo , February 5th, 2010
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WHO: People of Colorado Springs
WHAT: CFP Rally for the Homeless
WHERE: City Hall
WHEN: Noon Friday FEB 5
WHY: Because homelessness is not a crime!
Coloradansforpeace have a 12-24 person sign and extra placards.
Brother Jonah , February 4th, 2010
With the help of the Swiss Courts… The money that Baby Doc and Family jacked up the Haitian people for, with the help of Le Tonton Macoute and their CIA handlers, and landed in Swiss Banks, well.. the day before the earthquake the Swiss Government decided to rule in favor of the Duvalier Crime Cartel getting the money back. On the technicality that when the suit was filed, the Haitian Government, hampered by the Reagan Crime Cartel from forming an actual government and actual court system… one which the Reagan Regime would recognize… Couldn’t actively pursue Baby Doc or the stolen money.
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Brother Jonah , February 4th, 2010
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For instance, the Right Wing “Agenda? We don’ have no steenkeeng Agenda” Fox News and their Local Mouthpiece the Pueblo Chieftain had their Best Lurid Headline Yellow(belly) Journalism foot forward with “NJ Man Arrested AFTER making threats on AmTrak”
“Facts? We don’ need no Steenkeeng Facts!” I bet their Chieftain Headline is going to be “Terrorist Released! Kill The Democrats!” or something similar. Fox News and Local Hate-Speech Radio are already on it. America is infested with Chickenshits.
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Brother Jonah , February 4th, 2010
Is the difference between a Militia Group (like those commanded by Washington) and the VietMinh or the Taliban “Insurgents” A matter of Semantic Perspective that’s vital to propagandists, espicially if the Propagandists don’t have anything better.
It’s the so-called “difference” between “conqueror” and “liberator” ,
USAF Bomber v Suicide Bomber
Decapitation with a sword and decapitation with a .50 caliber round fired frim a Vulcan electric motorized Gatling gun.
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Marveline , February 4th, 2010
Once again COLORADO SPRINGS STYLE nominates THE FAMOUS for the city’s best burger. It ran against the usual lineup of respectable dining establishments plus King’s Chef, the token dive, but there were notable omissions worth pointing out. At the crux, The Famous grinds their own hamburger from bits trimmed from nonpareil $40 steaks, but we’re talking Iowa corn-fed variety, not prairie grass fed beef. You can find a free-range burger at Adams Mountain, which is listed, and Manitou’s The Keg, which is not. The health aspect is a first omission that might have informed local diners immeasurably.
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Eric Verlo , February 3rd, 2010
TEABAG SPRINGS, COLORADO- How did it feel to hear Diane Sawyer talk about our city, poor as dirt, not for lack of resources, landmarks or climate, but so stupid, so corrupt and tax-averse, to have run ourselves straight out of operating funds? Our future has been painted indelibly: dried up parks, extinguished street lights (misquoted as “1/3 of traffic lights,” they imagine us that dumb), our services and security compromised, and public spaces boarded until we can float another financial bubble. Not mentioned: the war economy is booming, and many of the private war-profiteers are local. Through whose fingers is the military largess escaping? We knew Springs voters were dumb, our teacup overfloweth, now we’re poor folk too.
Eric Verlo , February 3rd, 2010
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Three Cups of Tea, now Stones Into Schools author Greg Mortenson saw stones turned against Americans as the US suffered its first soldier casualties from an IED in the northwest boarder region of Pakistan. The US troops were training the paramilitary Frontier Corps, mercenaries hired to protect the all-girls schools built by Mortenson’s Central Asia Institute and USAID to which local Muslims and the Taliban take such umbrage. Oh, and lots of teenage girls were killed and injured too.
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Eric Verlo , February 3rd, 2010
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Curiously, you and I can’t transfer $250.– without the requisite agencies being notified, but an oligarch can spend $104.3 Million on Alberto Giacometti’s Walking Man I and maintain anonymity. (For an iconic sculpture of a figure divested of possessions.) We can’t take shampoo into the airport, but foreign intelligence operatives can cross borders and assassinate it-doesn’t-matter-who without leaving a trace. Exactly whom is INTERPOL tracking or not tracking? For us there’s a no-fly list. For the 007s and 000,000,007s there’s a can-fly-with-impunity first class lounge.
Eric Verlo , February 3rd, 2010
Time Magazine got caught darkening OJ’s mugshot to make him look menacing, so now the Otero County Sheriff makes sure to art direct the original. Lean into the shadow Mr. Lutalo, let’s see your game face, thank you! Alas, mugshots of even the least of arrestees circulate so widely online, the public can recognize when a suspect is made to look like the Big Bad Wolf. This is 64-year-old Terrorist Ojore Lutalo, the “Amtrak Anarchist” who went one better than Xmas Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab by not even packing combustibles. Ojore is scheduled to go before the Otero District Court Friday. 2/3 UPDATE: ALL CHARGES DROPPED! With apologies I hope. Move along, nothing to see here. As simple as that?
Brother Jonah , February 3rd, 2010
One of their biggest successes was bringing down the Largest Terrorist State in the world, the United States.
The Corporate Management of the Third World has succeeded in putting a billion people in a position they cannot escape through their own enterprise, no matter how well educated or industrious they are or become. A position where they are slowly starving. Where their caloric intake is less than it takes to maintain their lives. Strangely, the Gross National Product of most of the countries affected is far and above sufficient to feed the people.
Instead, the corporate governance strips it away, squanders it on weapons to kill and destroy.
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Eric Verlo , February 3rd, 2010
When you’re an al-Qaeda brand POW, you’re expected to give more than the Geneva Conventions’ name, rank and serial number. From Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, US interrogators want to know the who, what and where about the explosives party in his pants but forget HOW the Christmas concoction was supposed to formulate itself into a terrorist attack. Should Americans be assured with the news today that “Abdulmutallab is cooperating with US intelligence?” His captors going back and forth about whether a pantie bomber is entitled to US civil rights sound like coercion of an American citizen to me. On top of the torture.
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