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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica
Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.
Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors
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31.8.06
30.8.06
Alas, indeed, as well as gosh and my oh my:
Alas for the conspiracy nuts, a joint investigation by Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff and Nation editor David Corn revealed this past weekend that the person who initially leaked CIA employee Valerie Plame's name to columnist Bob Novak was, as many insiders suspected, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, and not, as the conspiracy theorists believed deep in their hearts, White House adviser Karl Rove.Union Leader 30.Aug.06
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Corn further
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Isikoff further
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The phrase "case closed" or one of its variants is getting used throughout the official stories on this. They don't say precisely which "case" that is, though.
It's a semantic trick, and essentially another form of deception, the pattern holding true from the get.
Win one tiny bit of an argument and pretend you won the whole thing.
Is it who told Novak? Done. Not Rove. Or better - not-Rove - Armitage the not-Rove.
Is it whether or not the vicious thugs running the US government followed through on their general behind-the-scenes bluff and swagger and hit the wife of someone who dared refute their lies?
That case is still open.
The moral profile of the Bush Administration purports to be about like that of a high school student body.
I don't think so.
The Israel Lobby is in panic mode, as are their Ultra-Masonic buddies in the public sector - frantically trying to stay ahead of an awakening America.
29.8.06
The Johnstown Calamity - Johnstown, Pa. Flood, 1889 detailThe problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship. The conditions of human life have not only been changed, but revolutionized, within the past few hundred years.
In former days there was little difference between the dwelling, dress, food, and environment of the chief and those of his retainers.
The Indians are to-day where civilized man then was.
When visiting the Sioux, I was led to the wigwam of the chief. It was just like the others in external appearance, and even within the difference was trifling between it and the poorest of his braves.
The contrast between the palace of the millionaire and the cottage of the laborer with us to-day measures the change which has come with civilization.
This change, however, is not to be deplored, but welcomed as highly beneficial.
Wealth
Andrew Carnegie
Cornell Univ. Library - Making of America
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High in the mountains, near the small town of South Fork, the South Fork Dam was originally built between 1838 and 1853 by the State of Pennsylvania as part of the canal system to be used as a reservoir for the canal basin in Johnstown.After the flood, Andrew Carnegie, one of the club's better known members, built the town a new library.
It was abandoned by the state, sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and sold again to private interests.
Speculators had purchased the abandoned reservoir, modified it, and converted it into a private resort lake for the wealthy of Pittsburgh. The changes included lowering the dam to make its top wide enough to hold a road, putting a fish screen in the spillway (that also trapped debris), and raising the lake level. These alterations are thought to have increased the vulnerability of the dam. They built cottages and a clubhouse to create the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, an exclusive and secretive mountain retreat. Members included over 50 wealthy Pittsburgh steel, coal, and railroad industrialists, among them Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, Henry Clay Frick, Philander Knox, and Robert Pitcairn.
Johnstown Flood - Wikipedia
Listen! Can you hear that? Off in the distance...
Spiralfrog was also "in talks" with EMI, Song BMG and Warner Music to sign up more labels.Independent UK 29.Aug.06
The revenue for providing free music to customers will be gained by placing advertising on the site, although questions still remain over how the artists featured on Spiralfrog will be paid.
28.8.06
what there is about mediocre reasoning that makes it so tendentious:
Huffingtonisms:
Today, on this day in which the New York Times reports in a cover story that, although productivity has risen, wages have not, such that "wages and salaries now make up the lowest share of the nation's gross domestic product since the government began recording the data in 1947, while corporate profits have climbed to their highest share since the 1960's," I am relieved to know that Tom Cruise has, indeed, secured funding for his film company...
Andrea Batista Schlesinger
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but Huffington herself has a post on 27.08 about the drugging of children at summer camp - or more accurately the continuation of the medication of children while they're at camp - wherein she quotes stats from the NYTimes, USAToday, and the Guardian:"We now have over a million kids on Prozac and its equivalents and more than seven million on Ritalin."It's creepy aliens-from-outer-space-enslave-the-humans stuff.
Cruise was ridiculed for yelling about the widespread medicating of kids while jumping on a couch on national TV.
Among other things yes, but that primarily.
He should have jumped more, and maybe socked somebody while he was at it.
Compare and contrast those drug statistics with the headlines generated by Greg Landis and try to reconcile the attitudes behind them.
Landis can use the latest technology on his bike, in his clothes and shoes, use the latest scientific formulae in his meals, pay thousands of dollars to people who will present him with the latest research on all that - but no "performance enhancements" allowed.
And it's tacit that the same cultural norms are represented in both issues.
Yes. No.
We're trained to put everything in binaries, so Scientolology's bizarre affection for fascistic defense mechanisms and insect mind-control means they can't be given a voice in the debate about doping kids.
I don't see why not. Yeah they're nuts, but so's everybody else. And it's not getting any better.
Cruise got that one message out there far more effectively than Huffington and her collective can or will.
The danger is Scientology's loopy unhuman stuff hitchikes in on the inarguable obscenity of an issue they're right on on.
But these are risky times all around.
they could mirror:
A leftist candidate won the governor's race in Mexico's volatile southernmost state of Chiapas, edging out a hopeful backed by President Vicente Fox's party by about 6,300 votes, electoral officials said Sunday.de la Cruz/AP/CaChron 28.Aug.06
Juan Sabines, of the Democratic Revolution Party, won 553,270 votes, compared to 546,988 for Jose Antonio Aguilar, who was running with the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which controlled Mexico's presidency from 1929 until 2000, Chiapas' electoral council announced.
Institutional Revolutionary officials said they would challenge the results of Aug. 20 election before the Federal Electoral Tribunal, the country's highest electoral court.
'We are confident that the courts will annul this election given all the challenges and documentation of irregularities,' said Roberto Dominquez.
26.8.06
Kerry Ryan has died at the age of 35:
She was the daughter of a Vietnam War veteran who had been exposed to Agent Orange, the dioxin that the U.S. military widely used in Vietnam and Cambodia. Kerry was born with multiple birth defects. She had a hole in her heart, two cervixes, no anus, a deformed right arm and spina bifida.DemocracyNow! 25.Aug.06
A staunch leftist, Morales was elected in December 2005:
Bolivian President Evo Morales stepped up his nationalization campaign on Saturday by announcing the withdrawal of energy and forestry concessions inside some 20 national parks.reuters 26.Aug.06
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Having leftists around would seem to imply there would be the opposite around, too. And the way it's used would seem to imply that the opposites would be preferable, more decent somehow, more normal. Although geometrically it would be "rightists" and "centrists". It's just that those terms never get used.
So it's "leftists" versus the forces of decency in the world.
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