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I'm trying to find out when the May 23 Finale will be rerun.
Plus this whole http://lost.about.com site is interesting
I hadn't realized how much resistance there was in the armed services
itself.
This probably explains why there isn't a draft for Iraq.
I would like to see this film
Country Joe McDonald
Country Joe and the Fish
Musician, Berkeley resident and father of two teenagers.
Watch video | Read transcript
Michael Rossman
Free Speech Movement leader
Writer who continues to focus on counterculture topics and building a huge poster archive at his home in Berkeley.
Watch video | Read transcript
Tomorrow: Dr. David Smith
Founder of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic
Recently left the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic to start his own practice specializing in addiction medicine.
(video tomorrow) | Read transcript
Getting The Bugs Out Of Hunting - North American Hunting Club:Also I'm ordering "Boot blousers" from Georgia Outfitters:
http://tinyurl.com/285lny
http://www.georgia-outfitters.com/tabs.shtml
Took a while to find a name for these things.
Includes house wrens, robins, tufted titmice, blue jays, and crows.
Hard to believe. I'm not sure what they mean when they say only house
wrens and blue jays have recovered from their 1995 decline. Did West
Nile virus go away? Or What?
And... does this mean I should quit hanging out with the wrens?
Then it flew away. Took me a second to spot it.
Earlier I had seen this wren in a tree near our tool shed, and
wondered why it was watching me and squawking.
The wren's house was about 30 feet away. I think it didn't like my
summer hat competing with it for being hot stuff.
And don't doubt it, wrens are hot stuff.
I must have been so concentrated on the story that I hadn't moved for
a while, & the wren had got brave enough to check me out.
What a charmer.
Her neighbor's tomatoes were eaten by squirrels. He took a gun and shot
them, even though doing so was against community regulations.
Strangely, in all my (not so many) years, I have never seen a squirrel
eating a tomato or tomato product.
I asked her if she had seen a squirrel eating her neighbor's tomatoes...
she reluctantly said she had not actually seen this happening, but her
neighbor had assured her it was true.
I assured her that no such thing happened. That someone was full of "it".
An interesting discussion about whether it is better to teach history
from the past to the present or from the present to the past.
Today is the FIRST time I have ever looked at their website. As a
news site, it's probably the most informing I've ever seen.
Hah. Learn something new every day they say..
Jeff
"All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base" or simply AYB) is an "Engrish" phrase that sparked an Internet phenomenon in 2001 and 2002. The text is taken from the opening cut scene of the English version of the 1989 Japanese video game Zero Wing by Toaplan. Its brief but intense popularity derived in part from its poor translation into English and partly from its near-accidental adoption by a core group of Internet humorists. While the wildfire has died down, "All Your Base" is still a well-known reference among gamers and programmers.
Messenger photo by Gloria Tjaden This 1910 circus poster appears on the side of a building owned by Tanya and Shane Harrison in Vincent. A Chicago circus memorabilia collector, Ken Harck, is planning to have it moved and restored.
[...]
He plans to have them restored to original condition
By GLORIA TJADEN, Messenger correspondent
VINCENT — A recent renovation project has garnered quite a bit of local interest and even nationwide fame. Tanya and Shane Harrison, of Vincent, discovered circus posters from August 1910 while uncovering the side of a building she plans to use for a fabric store. The posters advertise the Ringling Bros. circus coming to town.
http://www.messengernews.net/News/articles.asp?articleID=8823
VINCENT — Crowds gathered in Vincent Saturday afternoon to see the circus.Camels pulling carts, performers in colorful costumes, horses standing inside giant kegs — it all paraded across the side of the old grocery store along County Road P71, the little town's main street.Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows posters were uncovered when the siding and tar paper were pulled off the old building as part of a renovation project.
Bootleg music, not for reproduction. But irritatingly BETTER than
the originals!
Love the music but I'm such a bore... there's no way I'd stay up till
midnight to go to a show.
Could have, maybe, when I was 20.
I have to thank Anne Feeney for Dick Meister's article "The Real May Day", and so, here is a link to all things Feeney...
Welcome to my web page.I'm an activist, organizer, songwriter, folksinger, troublemaker and hellraiser from Pittsburgh, PA. I graduated from high school in 1968 and worked for a year to save up enough money to buy the beautiful Martin D-28 guitar that I still play.The Vietnam war and the Civil Rights Movement shaped my conscience and consciousness. I worked for a dozen years or so as a trial attorney and served as President of the Pittsburgh Musicians' Union. I have two great kids, Dan and Amy Berlin....Now, I'm on the road 200+ days a year... all over the US and Canada, and more recently, Sweden and Denmark. If you're on strike, or in an organizing drive, or doing community organizing for women's rights, the environment, human rights, anti-poverty or anti-racist work, I want to be there.The most current news about what I've been up to is on my blog. You can also email me at unionmaid@annefeeney.com
Celebrated as "labor day" the whole world over....
http://www.dickmeister.com/id183.html
from Dick Meister's labor and other writings site:
Employers responded to the so-called Haymarket Riot by mounting a counter-offensive that seriously eroded the eight-hour day movement's gains. But the movement was an extremely effective organizing tool for the country's unions, and in 1890 President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor was able to call for "an International Labor Day" in favor of the eight-hour workday. Similar proclamations were made by socialist and union leaders in other nations where, to this day, May Day is celebrated as Labor Day.Workers in the United States and 13 other countries demonstrated on that May Day of 1890 -- including 30,000 of them in Chicago. The New York World hailed it as "Labor's Emancipation Day." It was. For it marked the start of an irreversible drive that finally established the eight-hour day as the standard for millions of working people.
http://www.todrumfor.com/tremblin.html
The Wolf strolled into the office one day and offered to bring his band along to help with our work. He told us how he'd been looking around for while for a place to suit his style. He'd got this idea that the division between audience and performer should be broken down and that participation in creative activity could be the saving of the human race.
What could TV news of the future look like? Dave Winer has some ideas...
Dave Winer's original note: http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/04/23/tvNewsOfTheFuture.html
his mock up: http://www.scripting.com/futureNews.html
his "how to" where he calls it Checkbox News:
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/04/24/checkboxNews.html
More of his ideas:
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/04/25/checkboxNewsDay3.html
To all of which I add my fantasy....
We're sitting around with our iPhones in the living room, watching our Apple TV; all of us can set individual news preferences (we can create the Jeff Channel or the Judy Channel or the Dave Channel), answer our phones or make calls, choose music or movies or play games using only the iPhones. We can share our Channels on the internet, add our own commentaries. Etc etc.
I can't imagine that Apple isn't on this already.
Jeff
In a transcript of his interview with Brig. Gen. Gary Jones during a November 2004 investigation, Kauzlarich said he'd learned Kevin Tillman, Pat's brother and fellow Army Ranger who was a part of the battle the night Pat Tillman died, objected to the presence of a chaplain and the saying of prayers during a repatriation ceremony in Germany before his brother's body was returned to the United States.Kauzlarich, now a battalion commanding officer at Fort Riley in Kansas, further suggested the Tillman family's unhappiness with the findings of past investigations might be because of the absence of a Christian faith in their lives.In an interview with ESPN.com, Kauzlarich said: "When you die, I mean, there is supposedly a better life, right? Well, if you are an atheist and you don't believe in anything, if you die, what is there to go to? Nothing. You are worm dirt. So for their son to die for nothing, and now he is no more — that is pretty hard to get your head around that. So I don't know how an atheist thinks. I can only imagine that that would be pretty tough."Asked by ESPN.com whether the Tillmans' religious beliefs are a factor in the ongoing investigation, Kauzlarich said, "I think so. There is not a whole lot of trust in the system or faith in the system [by the Tillmans]. So that is my personal opinion, knowing what I know."Asked what might finally placate the family, Kauzlarich said, "You know what? I don't think anything will make them happy, quite honestly. I don't know. Maybe they want to see somebody's head on a platter. But will that really make them happy? No, because they can't bring their son back."Kauzlarich, now 40, was the Ranger regiment executive officer in Afghanistan, who played a role in writing the recommendation for Tillman's posthumous Silver Star. And finally, with his fingerprints already all over many of the hot-button issues, including the question of who ordered the platoon to be split as it dragged a disabled Humvee through the mountains, Kauzlarich conducted the first official Army investigation into Tillman's death.That investigation is among the inquiries that didn't satisfy the Tillman family."Well, this guy makes disparaging remarks about the fact that we're not Christians, and the reason that we can't put Pat to rest is because we're not Christians," Mary Tillman, Pat's mother, said in an interview with ESPN.com. Mary Tillman casts the family as spiritual, though she said it does not believe in many of the fundamental aspects of organized religion."Oh, it has nothing to do with the fact that this whole thing is shady," she said sarcastically, "But it is because we are not Christians."After a pause, her voice full with emotion, she added, "Pat may not have been what you call a Christian. He was about the best person I ever knew. I mean, he was just a good guy. He didn't lie. He was very honest. He was very generous. He was very humble. I mean, he had an ego, but it was a healthy ego. It is like, everything those [people] are, he wasn't."
