Persistent Vegetative State

Boston Power

2012-02-10T08:15:00.000-08:00

Side by side comparison of heat loss.

Enjoy yourself

2012-02-10T07:53:00.001-08:00

It's later than you think.

We are down with the coup

2012-02-09T13:50:00.000-08:00

in the Maldives.
We support the drive for climate change.
We are developing plans for a strategic submarine base.

Democracy

2012-02-05T06:25:00.000-08:00

falling from the sky *

The fox's teeth are in the bunny

2012-02-04T18:31:00.000-08:00

and nothing can remove them, honey.
Gavin Ewart

Bomb size

2012-02-02T18:18:00.000-08:00

"atomic" bombs are in the range of 15 KT.
Hydrogen bombs are in the range of 15 MT, 1000 times bigger.

Markets will eliminate world hunger

2012-01-27T12:20:00.000-08:00

The mechanism: starvation.

What does this flag mean?

2012-01-26T16:17:00.000-08:00

It means the Congressman has a lot of veterans in his district.

New Rules

2012-01-24T16:06:00.000-08:00

Glenn Greenwald
(1) If you are a high-ranking government official who commits war crimes, you will receive full-scale immunity, both civil and criminal, and will have the American President demand that all citizens Look Forward, Not Backward.
(2) If you are a low-ranking member of the military, you will receive relatively trivial punishments in order to protect higher-ranking officials and cast the appearance of accountability.
(3) If you are a victim of American war crimes, you are a non-person with no legal rights or even any entitlement to see the inside of a courtroom.
(4) If you talk publicly about any of these war crimes, you have committed the Gravest Crime — you are guilty of espionage – and will have the full weight of the American criminal justice system come crashing down upon you.

Kabul

2012-01-23T19:35:00.000-08:00

Afghanistan

Houston, we have a problem...

2012-01-23T09:45:00.001-08:00

That is what House Resolution 3131 is all about. It is titled, in part, “To direct the secretary of state to submit a report on whether any support organization that participated in the planning or execution of the recent Gaza flotilla attempt should be designated as a foreign terrorist organization….”

Looks like war was not the last resort

2012-01-21T20:18:00.000-08:00

Looks like negotiated settlement was the last resort.

You and who else

2012-01-20T09:05:00.001-08:00

Possibly to be replaced by George Washington Harkins.
Supreme Court Justice John Marshall said "I order you to leave the Cherokee in possession of their traditional tribal lands".
To which Jackson replied "You, and who else ..."

Let's get this criminal off the $20.

Black Bush

2012-01-02T03:48:00.000-08:00

we don't need no
checks and balances.
we it, mofo

Bethany Matta

2011-12-31T03:40:00.000-08:00

in front of the destroyed Presidential Palace in Kabul

Two Tablets

2011-12-31T01:04:00.000-08:00

Separation of Church and State

Three generations of imbeciles are enough

2011-12-24T19:09:00.000-08:00

George Jr wanted to drill in the Caribou calving grounds.
Buck v. Bell(1927)

Funny

2011-12-17T23:44:00.000-08:00

Quick Memes

Today's Geography

2011-12-13T13:25:00.000-08:00

Iran is close to many US military outposts.
We have a base in Herat? Ahh, Shindad Airbase.
I see the base in Kandahar

Popular Memes

2011-12-12T21:20:00.001-08:00

Check it out.

In Dog We Trust

2011-12-11T13:30:00.001-08:00

Georgia adds a motto to its license plate.
It's not "Mmmm, peaches".

There comes a time when

2011-12-05T13:52:00.001-08:00

the opposition is not to be reasoned with,
but to be reckoned with.
That time is a bleak time.

MF - radical fundamentalist

2011-12-04T13:37:00.001-08:00

Everybody has a price.

The Pipeline

2011-12-04T13:08:00.001-08:00

will create thousands of jobs,
good paying jobs.

Me and the Hancock 38

2011-12-04T12:22:00.000-08:00

December 1st in DeWitt town court

Another world is possible

2011-11-30T23:01:00.000-08:00

Another US is necessary
EastBay Social Forum 2012

Intelligence failure

2011-11-28T20:30:00.000-08:00

PDB: Bin Laden determined to strike in the US
OK. You've covered your ass.

Garrison Keilor, William Blake

2011-11-28T11:18:00.000-08:00

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?

And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among those dark Satanic mills?

Bring me my Bow of burning gold,
Bring me my Arrows of desire,
Bring me my Spear; O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!

I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have build Jerusalem
In England's green & pleasant Land.

Elizabeth Warren

2011-11-26T17:57:00.000-08:00

on healthcare
You think if you have health insurance, you are safe.
No.

Truth, Justice, theAmericanWay

2011-11-23T06:32:00.001-08:00

Status update on the never ending battle.

Godspeed You Black Emperor

2011-11-22T03:51:00.000-08:00

lift your skinny fist

Too big to jail

2011-11-20T23:56:00.000-08:00

Glenn Greenwald
and the rule of lawlessness.
Nader remembers 9/11.

Bill of Attainder

2011-11-20T18:00:00.000-08:00

Why are the laws that restrict the releasing of the Guantanamo prisoners who are cleared for release not unconstitutional as bills of attainder?

People Are Prisoners

2011-11-16T23:09:00.000-08:00

remember Troy Davis

Bloomberg shuts down OWS

2011-11-16T20:42:00.000-08:00

but the cat is out of the bag.

The Levellers at the Putney Debates: 1647

2011-11-16T12:58:00.000-08:00

Thus Thomas Rainsborough argued:
For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he; and therefore truly, Sr, I think it clear, that every Man that is to live under a Government ought first by his own Consent to put himself under that Government; and I do think that the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that Government that he hath not had a voice to put Himself under.

The Last Refuge of Scoundrels - the flag

2011-11-12T09:05:00.000-08:00

Too Big To Fail is Too Big.
Q: What did Wall Street get for donating to Obama in 2008?
A: Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury rather than Stiglitz,
and Larry Summers, and JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon's bonus.

The Reign of Terror - 21st century style

2011-11-05T09:12:00.001-07:00

Original Guy

2011-11-05T08:49:00.001-07:00

a penny for the guy?

Bev Rice

2011-11-04T21:53:00.000-07:00

Arrested and jailed for demonstrating in front of the White House.

Drinking in public

2011-11-04T21:29:00.000-07:00

If the boys hadn't come, there would have been plenty of wine.
Pastor: "John's followers fast, but you guys party."
Mary: "Why do You hang around with those people."
Assistant Manager: "Shows frequent lapses of judgement."

Entitlement reform

2011-11-03T12:15:00.001-07:00

French Revolution style

If crucifixion is so bad for you

2011-11-03T11:23:00.001-07:00

why did Christ do it?
blood on the tracks

Pride

2011-11-03T11:22:00.001-07:00

Is a sin.
Pride says, you're exceptional.

Original Sin

2011-11-02T09:33:00.000-07:00

Was it thinking "Am I not God?"
Original and still popular.

Super committee

2011-11-01T20:43:00.000-07:00

Q: Will the super committee's plan differ from the default?
A: Huh?

Tax the rich.
Bring the weapons home.

Boo

2011-11-01T11:23:00.000-07:00

You should be afraid.

The notion that anyone will not be welcome in heaven

2011-10-20T10:28:00.000-07:00

is insane

Tom Perez to speak in Buffalo Oct 27th

2011-10-14T12:19:00.000-07:00

Buffalo Club (388 Delaware at Edward) at noon.
Register in advance at bit.ly/PerezBuffaloClub
$25 in advance, $30 at the door.
See Ray McGovern's report of a previous Perez appearance at bit.ly/q15f7y (War is a Crime)

They Got Bailed Out - Day 13

2011-09-30T07:19:00.000-07:00

We got sold out.
Septemeber 29: awesome.
----
Bloomberg. Bloomberg. Clean up. Wall Street.

Is the Constitution quaint?

2011-09-24T09:33:00.000-07:00

Glenn Greenwald asks.

The lesson of slavery

2011-09-15T13:26:00.000-07:00

What is the lesson of slavery?
That southerners were blinded by self interest?
Or that people can be blinded by self-interest?
-or-
People who are making money
will defend the methods
no matter how vile.

Senior coffee

2011-09-12T18:20:00.001-07:00

Age discrimination.

No middle class

2011-09-12T18:17:00.000-07:00

No Las Vegas

He has guts, has backbone

2011-09-12T13:37:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately, other parts were missing.

Has anyone forgotten

2011-09-11T16:17:00.000-07:00

That on this day, ten years ago, nineteen young male muslims, mostly from Saudi Arabia, and educated in the USA, organized out of Germany, crashed four jetliners into targets in the USA,
and began all the trouble, so they say.

Since that time, the assholes have largely won.

BoA

2011-09-07T17:31:00.000-07:00

The gold standard of white collar crime.

The new middle east

2011-09-05T19:46:00.000-07:00

The old middle east, the second world, is falling.
The corruption has gone too far for too long.
The land is being split between Iran and the USA.
i think

Baths for the homeless

2011-09-05T05:45:00.000-07:00

in Paris. Bains*Douches

Jobless recovery

2011-09-04T10:04:00.001-07:00

If you need a job,
a jobless recovery is not a recovery;
it is the same ol' same old.

If you have a job,
it is still not a recovery,
just you might not be let go.

A jobless recovery is a recovery for business;
for the owners of the means of production.

If you have two coats, give one to him who has none

2011-09-04T09:59:00.000-07:00

I hear many churches are pressing the government
to enact this moral legislation.
Similar law in the works for houses.
KJV Luke 3:11

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

2011-09-04T09:52:00.000-07:00

If you own a boat, you are probably ok.
If you live in a low-lying area, you might be swept away.

For workers, the union is their boat.
The others, ...

The future of America

2011-08-19T08:35:00.000-07:00

Flint, Michigan.
Or Detroit, says Dmitri.

Six Trillion Dollars worth

2011-08-16T19:32:00.000-07:00

30,000 of them, in 1967, at $200,000,000 per.
Yup.
That's less than an F-22 at 3 for a billion

Protecting Missouri

2011-08-16T15:27:00.000-07:00

Stealth technology.
Another great idea
whose time will never come.

Asymmetric Warfare: War 4.0

2011-08-13T09:54:00.000-07:00

This is what is has come down to.

Antarctica - Mostly Dead Continent

2011-08-09T15:04:00.001-07:00

But inside the limestone, green.

Temple Grandin

2011-08-08T02:19:00.000-07:00

has been retained by the Social Security Administration
to design their new processing facilities.

Luis Gutiérrez

2011-07-29T21:04:00.000-07:00

For President.

Chris Hedges

2011-07-24T09:55:00.000-07:00

The sky is falling, and other stories.

If they don't want elections abroad

2011-07-20T21:25:00.000-07:00

what makes you think they want them here?
. Chile - Allende
. Afghanistan - Karzai
. Gaza - Hamas
. Iran - Mosaddegh
. Guatemala - Árbenz
. Egypt - Mubarak
. 2000 Florida - recount
. 2004 Ohio - eight hour lines
. 1897 Indiana
. Haiti - Aristide, Lavalas
. Spain - Franco
more...

Abu Ghraib

2011-07-20T14:45:00.000-07:00

First it was Sadaam's torture chamber.
Then it was Donald's.
The Handover.

General say he need missle

2011-07-20T13:26:00.000-07:00

to protect from big American carrier.
"We feel very dangerous" he say,
"and plus I get missile pin".

The latest on GITMO Uyghurs

2011-07-20T13:16:00.000-07:00

China criticizes tiny Palau for taking Uyghurs.
This make Palau not need Chinese hotel.

Atwar Bahjat

2011-07-20T13:00:00.000-07:00

Reporter for Al-Arabiya, killed after reporting on
the bombing of the Samarra mosque, long ago.

Made in the USA

2011-07-19T16:02:00.001-07:00

Tear gas canisters, and
paper money.

The "Support Our Troops" ribbons
are made in Malaysia.

Why are there officers and enlisted?

2011-07-12T15:44:00.000-07:00

The eldest son inherits the estate,
the second son becomes an officer, and
the third goes into the church hierarchy.

Entitlement reform

2011-07-12T05:37:00.000-07:00

What? What?

Why did the grid fail so badly?

2011-07-11T14:35:00.000-07:00

Sure, the nuclear plants failed, and all that.
But why did the grid fail so badly?
No external power for so long... ?
Isn't that an important question?

All Men Are Created Equal

2011-07-07T15:35:00.000-07:00

All white men. All white males. Not the Irish.
----
This statement is a passive assertion of one consequence
and only one consequence, of that statement:
We are every bit as good as they are.

Is a soldier a citizen?

2011-07-07T15:25:00.000-07:00

Isn't he entitled to a speedy trial then?
Oh, I see, he isn't charged with doing anything.
He is just TDA solitary Levenworth.

The rich are insulated from climate change

2011-07-07T14:26:00.000-07:00

The poor, not so much.

Freedom of the printing press

2011-07-07T12:33:00.000-07:00

Does freedom of the press primarily mean the papers?
Does freedom of speech primarily mean the talk shows?

The First Amendment protects the common man, the little guy; protects him from being prosecuted for his ideas, spoken or written, public or private.
Freedom of the xerox, of the telephone, of the spray can.

The emperor has or has not clothes

2011-07-06T13:16:00.000-07:00

All governments lie.
The issue is not true vs false.
The issue is deniable vs undeniable.

That's why cameras are essential.

Tomorrowland

2011-06-29T19:11:00.000-07:00

Separation of church and state is new, even though
Christ said His kingdom was already somewhere else;
and you can't get there from here, not easily.

Maybe Buddha didn't want to found a church.
He didn't want to live in Tomorrowland.

Feed the homeless

2011-06-28T12:29:00.000-07:00

Oh wait, it was feed the hungry.

Cant see the forest for the trees?

2011-06-28T09:40:00.000-07:00

Sorry, those trees are the forest.
Can't see the government for the politics?
The glorious fruit of our democracy is
to help the rich and powerful at home,
and abroad.

St Teresa, Life

2011-06-25T16:39:00.000-07:00

16. ...

But do we suppose that God is better pleased when men account us wise and discreet persons? We think that there is but little edification given if people do not go about, with great gravity, in a dignified way. Even in the friar, the ecclesiastic, and the nun, if they wear old and patched garments, we think it a novelty, and a scandal to the weak; and even if they are very recollected and given to prayer.

Such is the state of the world, and so forgotten are matters of perfection, and those grand impetuosities of the Saints. More mischief, I think, is done in this way, than by any scandal that might arise if the religious showed in their actions, as they proclaim it in words, that the world is to be held in contempt.

Out of scandals such as this, our Lord obtains great fruit. If some people are scandalized, others come to their senses: anyhow, we should have before us some likeness of that which our Lord and His Apostles endured; for we have need of it now more than ever.

Water

2011-05-24T12:06:00.000-07:00

Water has three states: solid, liquid, gas.
As gas, it is in the atmosphere; about 1% is water.
Liquid water is in the lower places.
Solid water is in the colder places.
The more solid water, the less liquid water, the more land in the lower places.
The more liquid water, the more land in the colder places.

Whistleblower or Enemy of the State?

2011-05-18T08:31:00.001-07:00

What's the difference?
Meyer

Onward Christian Soldiers

2011-05-17T23:21:00.000-07:00

The new Prince of peace.

WW III to be declared, ten years later

2011-05-17T11:39:00.000-07:00

Congress acts.
This is for the war in Pakistan.
They say: No more Lybias. Know what I mean?
They mean we got to be able to do the humanitarian interventions against terrorists, and it just might take more than 60 days.

Supreme Court confirms rendition

2011-05-17T11:13:00.000-07:00

But decides that the program is top secret.
Will the Court get in trouble for revealing a state secret?
Probably not, unless they are tried in a military court,
and sent to Guantanamo before their appeal can be heard.

Fukushima... One line was down?

2011-05-06T22:20:00.000-07:00

I wish I knew Japanese.
The x's in boxes [x] are "transmission towers".

Not proof that Obama is American

2011-05-02T00:02:00.000-07:00

An American would arrest people who boasted in writing of committing a felony, who killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, who subverted the Constitution.

Work on the Yonomori line

2011-04-28T02:34:00.000-07:00

The Yonomori Line is a low voltage line south to a distribution substation near Yonomori. It leaves the Daiichi plant towards the south, going along the first base line of the ballfield. Notice that the insulators differ from one side to the other. The Yonomori Line is not connected to the Fukushima transmission substation. It looks like it might be owned by Tohoku, as it goes South, then West then North to a substation just west of Momouchi 桃内駅.

Fukushima transmission lines and substation

2011-04-07T11:38:00.000-07:00

click image to enlarge
Daini was powered by midnight by the Fukushima substation. Why do we think that all six transmission circuits to Daiichi failed?
[4 circuits on the Okuma Lines (275kv) to units 1+2 and 3+4 and 2 circuits on the Futaba Line (500kv) to units 5+6. The Yonomori Line is not connected.]
Three towers would need to fail for a "station blackout".
Farther north, there were towers damaged or destroyed in the lowland swept by the tsunami, but they were in the path of the tsunami, close to the coast, and there were not many.

Cheney's Secret Energy Task Force

2011-03-16T15:18:00.000-07:00

The documents indicate an investigation is needed.
Palast says it was not about oil; it was about money. We don't like some joker messing up the market. We prefer controlling prices.
But Venezuela in '02, remember?, didn't do the trick.

Hearings on Guantanamo, 12/2007

2011-03-10T19:50:00.000-08:00

Mostly empty chairs.
Looks like Grassley and Leahy, and one other senator.

This American Life - looking for a moral compass

2011-03-10T17:08:00.000-08:00

399 Act 3: Malaria injections induce psychotic breaks - GITMO
363 Act 2: Naked short selling. What the SEC is not doing.
357 Act 2: Lawrence Wright. Can you speak Arabic?
356: A look at the DoJ. The Best Terrorists We Could Find
353: Pope George II, speaking ex catheda
292: Lakhani's sandbox
282. DIY - The Justice System
280: In the country of Falluja with the National Guard
260. Act 1: Show trials.
254: Kunar Province
253: Like Palau
251 Act 2: The West Bank
229. The Dark Side of Hose Padilla