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An Angry Female Soldier 's Rants on Iraq War http://fisherwy.blogspot.com/2007/04/angry-female-soldier-s-rants-on-iraq.html What misery story from a pregnant soldier who lose her husband recently! From       Craigist Tuesday, April 24, 2007 What misery story from a pregnant soldier who lose her husband recently! From Craigist ...I'm a Marine and I served my tour in Iraq. My husband, also a Marine, served several. I left the service six months ago because I got pregnant while he was home on leave and three days ago I get a visit from two men in uniform who hand me a letter and tell me my husband died in that fucking festering sand-pit. He should have been home a month ago but they extended his tour and now he's coming home in a box. [...] And you know what the most f*ked up thing about this Iraq sh*t is? They don't want us there. They're not happy we came and they want us out NOW. We f*ked up their lives even worse than they already were and they're pissed off. We didn't help them and we're not helping them now. That's what our soldiers are dying for. [...] And I'm going to go to my husband funeral and recieve that flag and hang it up on the wall for my baby to see when he's older. But I'm not going to tell him that his father died for the stupidty of the American government. I'm going to tell him that his father was a hero and the best man I ever met and that he loved his country enough to die for it, because that's all true and nothing will be solved by telling my son that his father was sent to die by people who didn't care about him at all. F*k you, war supporters, George W. B*h, and all the god damn mother f*kers who made the war possible. I hope you burn in hell. Picture from Tagworld An Angry Female Soldier 's Rants on Iraq War http://fisherwy.blogspot.com/2007/04/angry-female-soldier-s-rants-on-iraq.html

I noticed this release Friday from Regnery Publishing... Washington Post, May 12, 2005: "The Constitution specifies that Congress will set the jurisdiction and budgets of the courts, and Republican lawmakers began agitating to exercise that power after Schiavo's death. DeLay drew wide attention to the issue by declaring that the judges involved in that case would have to 'answer for their behavior.' As a guide to his views on the subject, DeLay has been urging reporters to read Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America, by Mark R. Levin." Yesterday, NewsMax - one of the original backers of the book - picked up the release and ran with it. For those not intimately familiar with this book, this was a review by Dahlia Lithwick in Slate... If a book lands on the best-seller list and nobody hears it, did it really happen? Mark R. Levin's Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America was ranked eighth on the New York Times list this week; it's been on that list for six weeks now, and seems to be leaping off the bookshelves, despite the fact that it concerns constitutional law and the U.S. Supreme Court. Yet it has been reviewed virtually no place and written up by almost no one. True, Charles Lane did a piece about it in the Washington Post a few days ago; he noted that absolutely nobody who writes, talks, or thinks about the high court has even read it. It's selling, it seems, almost entirely due to endorsements by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Fox News. As it happens, Lithwick published that review the day after Tom DeLay started threatening judges, and obviously appropriately in hindsight, drew the connection. In our own universe, it is difficult to tell who should be hurt more by the link - DeLay or the author. In the alternate universe of the Republican filter, a high-profile Republican leader has finally jumped on the bandwagon for one of the greatest books on the judiciary ever written by the perhaps the best Constitutional scholar in the country. Just ask Rush. So having found no support for their radical view of the Judiciary in the respected field of legal and Constitutional scholarship, the extreme right - now indistnguishable from mainstream Republican politicos - simply created an alternate field of their own. And this initiative is being carried out in just about every other field one might think of. Consider this piece on "intelligent design" from the Washington Post recently... The growing trend has alarmed scientists and educators who consider it a masked effort to replace science with theology. But 80 years after the Scopes "monkey" trial -- in which a Tennessee man was prosecuted for violating state law by teaching evolution -- it is the anti-evolutionary scientists and Christian activists who say they are the ones being persecuted, by a liberal establishment. They are acting now because they feel emboldened by the country's conservative currents and by President Bush, who angered many scientists and teachers by declaring that the jury is still out on evolution. Sharing strong convictions, deep pockets and impressive political credentials -- if not always the same goals -- the activists are building a sizable network. And this other Washington Post piece on the counter-attack... The Discovery Institute, the strongest voice behind intelligent design, at one point gathered the names of 356 scientists who questioned evolution. In response, the National Center for Science Education located 543 scientists named Steve -- including a few Stephanies -- who declared the evidence "overwhelmingly in favor of the idea that all living things share a common ancestry." How long before Tom DeLay begins singing the praises of intelligent design, and lending the stamp of government approval to this alternate "scientific" universe? We picked up early on Tom DeLay's tactical shift to hijack the Republican base and use it to hold the Republican Party hostage, a tactic that came into full bloom this week at his dinner "salute." His speech at the dinner was chocked full of outlandish religious rhetoric, designed to put himself to the religious right of anybody else in his party and rally those groups to go on the offensive against any and all comers. If Bush's victory in November and the perhaps erroneous crediting of the religious right for that win emboldened the James Dobsons and Tony Perkinses of the world, Tom DeLay is hoping to consolidate them into one overpowering juggernaut that he can personally wield against Democrats, and especially against any potential Republican defectors. To defend himself, he would create a monster. And so the alternate universe continues to grow, and continues to close of all avenues of penetration for what might be called "the reality-based community." The fundamental psychological enabler of all of this remains what Lakoff and others have described as "identity politics." Before joining the DCCC, during the run-up to war and before Lakoff had made his big splash, I wrote a series of articles discussing how many in middle America had taken on support of President Bush as part of their identity, how once this happened it became a matter of personal pride to defend him, and how once this happened, acceptance of information contrary to their idealized vision of Bush provoked a violent response. An attack on Bush was also an attack on them. Much like the racism in much of America during the Jim Crow era, hatred of "the other" was tied in with a sense of superiority that - like most forms of pride - became a crutch that had to be defended with utmost tenacity. To demonstrate my point, I invited submissions from readers in middle America explaining their experiences. I got dozens of responses, if not hundreds, including tales of people throwing trash at children protesting for peace, people being ostracized at local bars for even the slightest hint of dissent, etc. But perhaps the one burned most in my memory was this from a middle-aged wife in Pennsylvania: I always thought freedom of speech meant one could speak anywhere, anytime. Boy, was I mistaken. One night listening to Bush lie, I said I'd love to go down to Washington and protest the war. My husband of 42 years turned to me and said, "You're a traitor and you're talking treason." ...Part of the problem now is that the Republicans won't admit they are and/or were wrong. Until they do so, their followers aren't going to either. And until that happens, the rift in our marriage isn't going to be healed, instead it just festers. --A Pennsylvania Suburb For a husband to react so violently even to his wife is simply staggering. If he is willing to dismiss even her comments with such fervor, one can imagine how little difficulty he would have dismissing criticism from the loathed Democrats or even "the liberal media." Once an individual has internalized these feelings so thoroughly, they will run with whatever you feed them. The default response for Republicans when faced with accusations or questions for which they have no answer is to dismiss them as "partisan." The logic is this: Any questioning of GOP policies or behavior is automatically partisan, anything partisan can be dismissed as insincere, therefore any criticism of the GOP is insincere. Short, simple, stupid - but enough to latch on to should one desperately be looking for a rationale to avoid cognitive dissonance. A general goal of the GOP is to permanently discredit any potential critics - just consider how in the early run-up to war, most Americans only supported the invasion if condoned by the UN. Since then, Republicans have launched an unrelenting assault on the credibility of the world body, and arguably the world in general in so far as their opinions are seriously considered, culminating in the nomination of John Bolton. Thus can the alternate universe be sustained even under what would seem to be extreme duress with a modicum of effort. So will this be another diagnosis with no cure? Well, the answer of how to penetrate the alternate universe while thousands of talk radio hosts, Republican operatives, and hacktacular right wing "policy groups" guard the border like "the minutemen" in Arizona does indeed defy a simple answer. Certainly Dems are chipping away, establishing their own filters, building a better infrastructure to influence filters like cables news, establishing mouthpieces for the religious left, etc. But ultimately the only hope for a shattering of the foundation of the alternate universe may rest within that universe itself - flaws in the matrix, if you will. And as it turns out, that glitch is free will after all. Tom DeLay has thus far not only had success in holding his party hostage, he has managed to gain the support of some of the more extreme religious right groups despite the fact that he is above all the nexus between the GOP and their wealthy corporate special interests. But as some of the ethical and legal troubles that DeLay, Inc. faces continue to escalate through hearings in the Senate and the trials in Texas, this bizarre marriage will be strained. Will the self-appointed leaders of the "family values" crowd have the stomach to defend ethics breaches in the service of protecting sweatshops? Indeed, the kind of coaltion building that has convinced these divergent groups to put aside so many of their supposed principles for mutual gain has been largely dependent on Grover Norquist as the founder and continuing glue - a man who will find himself in an uttlerly indefensible position when he goes under oath. And while Norquist may escape "in-depth coverage" on CNN by virtue of the fact that he is a strategist, not running for elected office, no such luck for Golden Boy Ralph Reed. The Georgia media are already on his scent, and pieces have been trickling out from Georgia columnists with headlines like "Reed's campaign may generate political tsunami." Last night, Erick of Red State (who have been divided on DeLay, to their credit), wrote this explanatory post on the race between Reed and his GOP primary opponent, State Senator Casey Cagle, without issuing an opinion... In raising his profile, Cagle has thus far made the race about Reed. Cagle already has on the payroll several people who either worked for Reed or with him. They have done more to attack Reed than promote Cagle, except for their handy work at the State Convention (we'll get to that). Joel McElhannon, Cagle's strategic consultant, is a master at earned media and has so far been able to directly and indirectly draw attention to Reed's flaws. Sources at several national media outlets tell me that a lot of national press coverage of Reed lately has come from unnamed Georgia Republicans. The fingerprints, at first glance, appear to be those of Cagle staffers. His report jives with everything I've read, although it fails to mention two other signals. 1) 23 of the 34 Republican State Senators have endorsed Cagle - understandable in light of colleague loyalty, but still eye-raising given that supposedly Reed is on the fast track to become their presiding officer. 2) This from Reed's former mentor, Pat Robertson: Reed's former boss, Pat Robertson, has cited the Biblical warning that you can't serve both God and Mammon as part of Reed's dilemma. The problem, as one Republican consultant put it to me, is that a lot of these stories are causing people to question just how much of the outcry for morality in government is real and how much is just a smoke-screen for raking in big bucks. Having Pat Robertson going around crowing about "two gods" has to be Karl Rove's worst nightmare. One more Republican principle reached its apex in DeLay's salute: the fervent suppression of dissent. "With the exception of Chris Shays, who is a joke anyway, we haven't had any defections," said Craig Shirley of the ACU. It is this suppression of dissent on the Republican side that has allowed them to sustain one coherent alternate universe. This breaks down if suddenly conservative voters suddenly have a variety of opinions to choose from - enter the reality-based community. This process has already begun as a result of diverging interests between the White House, who want a lasting legacy, and Republicans in Congress, who want to be re-elected, in the seemingly dismal failure thus far of the privatization push. If people like Pat Robertson keep talking like that about people inches away from the White House - Cheney called Reed and "old friend" just this month - the universe could go into flux. Tom DeLay's House of Scandal is getting wobbly...http://www.dccc.org/gopauctionhouse/main.html The Crook Factory Posted by Saturday, May 14, 2005 at 11:21 AM At the very least this story eliminates all doubt as to whether Grover Norquist is a bona fide crook - but the Christian Coalition, and of course Ralph Reed, are going to have an uphill battle clearing their names as well. Big bucks... Anti-tax group president says he gave Indian money to Christian Coalition [AP] An $850,000 donation from an anti-tax organization to the Alabama Christian Coalition came from an Indian tribe that runs a casino in Mississippi, according to the president of the tax organization. Americans for Tax Reform also gave $300,000 to an organization formed to fight former Gov. Don Siegelman's proposal to create a lottery in Alabama to fund education programs, the organization's president, Grover Norquist, told The Boston Globe newspaper. Alabama Christian Coalition President John Giles confirmed Friday that his organization received the donation from Americans for Tax Reform in 2000, but he said he was not aware it came from a Mississippi Indian tribe. Jim Cooper, former chairman of Citizens Against Legalized Lottery, said his organization received the donation in 1999 during the campaign leading up to the defeat of the lottery proposal in a statewide vote. He said he had no reason to believe the donation was connected to Indian gambling. "There was no reason to question their donation. They are a large national group, and one part of their message is anti-gambling. It was a perfect fit for our cause," Cooper said. Norquist could not be reached for comment Friday, but Christopher Butler, communications director for the tax reform organization, said the donations were made to the two Alabama groups. He said he could not say if the money came from an Indian tribe in Mississippi. "We do not release information on our donors," Butler said in an e-mail. In the Boston Globe story, Norquist said he sent money to the two anti-gambling groups in Alabama because the tribe wanted to block gambling competition in the state. He said he and his staff never informed the Alabama Christian Coalition about the original source of the funds. Butler said ATR made the contributions to the Alabama groups because it opposes government-run lotteries. Siegelman said Friday he believes the antigambling groups knew that they were receiving Mississippi gambling money. "They took Indian casino money to deny Alabama college students the right to go to college for free," the former governor said. Siegelman's lottery plan would have funded various education programs, including college scholarships for high school seniors similar to the lottery-funded Hope Scholarship program in Georgia. Giles said he plans to ask the coalition's attorney to look into the donation from ATR. "We had no reason to believe it came from Indian gambling," Giles said. "Our board policy and position to oppose all gambling expansion and not solicit or receive gambling funds has been strictly enforced." Questions about whether the Alabama Christian Coalition had received Indian gambling money were raised last year after Ralph Reed, former executive director of the Christian Coalition nationally, said he had taken money from lobbyists representing four Indian tribes with casinos, including the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. Giles said Reed was raising funds for the Alabama Christian Coalition at the time of the ATR donation. But he said Reed assured him no money ever came to the state organization from Indian gambling interests. Reed's statement fueled efforts in the Alabama Legislature this session to pass legislation to require nonprofit groups to disclose the source of money used to buy advertising to influence the outcome of referendums, like the lottery vote. The bill passed the House but was delayed in the Senate after opponents staged a four-week filibuster. The sponsor, Rep. Randy Hinshaw, D-Huntsville, said he believes there may be an effort to revive the bill Monday, on the final day of the 2005 session of the Legislature. "The evidence keeps piling up of what has been a deceitful practice by this one organization," Hinshaw said. "I don't see how anyone can keep a straight face and say this has all been above board."

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Nourbakhsh Table of Contents and Sample Chapters===== Mobile robots range from the teleoperated Sojourner on the Mars Pathfinder mission to cleaning robots in the Paris Metro. Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots offers students and other interested readers an overview of the technology of mobility -- the mechanisms that allow a mobile robot to move through a real world environment to perform its tasks -- including locomotion, sensing, localization, and motion planning. It discusses all facets of mobile robotics, including hardware design, wheel design, kinematics analysis, sensors and perception, localization, mapping, and robot control architectures. The design of any successful robot involves the integration of many different disciplines, among them kinematics, signal analysis, information theory, artificial intelligence, and probability theory. Reflecting this, the book presents the techniques and technology that enable mobility in a series of interacting modules. 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BUT IS IT ART!! ======================== Better than it smells http://www.xs4all.nl/~kazil/index.html http://www.xs4all.nl/~kazil/advart03.html Urban & Adventurous Artists Part 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Urban Garbage ------------ 1. 1968 - Dennis Oppenheim "removed" 4 tons of paper slips from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and "transplanted" it to the roof in Park Area South. -  "By removing this data from a ground level and carrying it up 16 stories,  I am raising the level of the residue that was actively housed on a lower  plane. -  The building will act as a giant pedestal for the piece."  (Removal Transplant - New York Stock Exchange)  2. 1970 > Hans Jascha made urban installations out of garbage and employed sounds (screeches, yells) which were amplified by a radio system (picture from the series The salt of the Earth). In another project he covered the floor of his apartment with the neatly sorted garbage of his own daily life: Cheese-wrappers, Teabags, Hair, Shoes, Vegetable Peels, Newspapers, Toilet-paper ... Refuse of the consumer society.  He then filmed himself while eating breakfast in the middle of this mess. (Schöner wohnen im Gemeindebau, 1978) ======================== WHAT EVER ECAME OF scoey mitchel franklyn aji ======================== http://www.alliedartistsofamerica.org/artists/zimmerman_k.htm chriss mann re bees http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/bees.asp http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=38449 Get with the program: the story of The Jazz Loving "XNazi" with the Carbon1 (from Ground Zero Hiroshima) Tobacco pipe and the micro oxy Acetylene torch who works as a Mathematician for Rockefeller calculating Death on Earth indices . http://www.alaskastories.com/Smoke.html the Carbon 1 Tobacco pipe   http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=the+Carbon+1+Tobacco+pipe+&btnG=Search+Images -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [bunny duck]    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bunny+duck+&btnG=Google+Search     http://images.google.com/images?um=1&tab=wi&hl=en&q=bunny+duck+ http://www.trueswords.com/kill-bill-sword-c-1.html Kill Bill Hattori Hanzo DEMON Sword - Gold Edition [TS-KBDEMONC] Only $39.89 hattori hanzo http://images.google.com/images?um=1&tab=wi&hl=en&q=hattori+hanzo+ Free Knitting Patterns https://www.lionbrand.com/ (2 of 2) [5/24/2007 6:27:34 PM]

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