My ship has come in again!

What's amazing about this is I was contacted just last week about another lost relative of mine who was ALSO killed in a trajic accident and also left me a large sum of money. So sad for them...but I always knew life held great things for me! Thank God for the internet.
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Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:23:52 +0100 (CET)
From: barristerojonla@yahoo.fr
Subject: YOUR RELATIVE INHERITANCE

Dear Matt,

I am Barrister Ojonla Ojo a solicitor at law.I am the personal attorney to ENGR.J.B.Walli, a national of your country, who Work with Shell Petroleum Company and have spent most of his life in my country (Togo) Here in after shall be referred to as my client. On the year 2003, my client, his wife and their only son were involved in a plane crash in a village called Adjarra near Porto Novou after take off from Cotonou in Benin Republic.For more on the plane crash log on to

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3348109.stm

All occupants of the plane crash unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives,this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any Member of his family hence I contacted you.

I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the assets and Capital valued at US$17million left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the management of the Finance/security company, where these huge deposits were lodged declared as Family treasures of Gold Jewelry and personal precious effects. The said finance/security company, has issued me a notice to provide the next of Kin or have the Consignment confiscated within the next twenty Official working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 1 year now, I seek the consent to present you as the Next of kin to the deceased since you have the same last names, so that this Consignment ould be released to you as wished. Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for transfer. I have all necessary information and legal documents needed to back you up for claim. All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through.I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Awaiting to hear from you.

Best Regards,

BARRISTER OJONLA OJO,
CONSULTANT SERVICES
N0 14 RUE LE PRESIDEN
LOME-TOGO WEST AFRICA
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Neocons cry "No More Special Counsels!" here's how they lie

"It is clear that, at least by sometime in January 2004 -- and probably much earlier -- Fitzgerald knew this law had not been violated. Plame was not a 'covert' agent but a bureaucrat working at CIA headquarters"
See, that's a lie. Plame was a covert agent. And there was a lot of covert activity went up in smoke: they outed everyone who had anything to do with her. "Plame? You know Plame? She's in the CIA, you know. Are you?"
Everyone IS entitled to their own opinion: no one is entitled to their own facts. And if you run a newspaper, you have certain responsibilities. Different, I submit, from if you run a comic book.

Big Oil

Cheney Adviser Indicted in CIA Leak Probe

Reminds me of the tear away jerseys the backfield uses. Or the skink that willinging lets you keep its tail while it goes and grows another. Or what was that bird? "Wow, that was fast. He must have shit in your hand and flown off!"
"What that part you got?"
"I dunno. Looks like Scooter."
"Is that all?"
"Looks like it."
"Oh. Well, check for fiber evidence."
In any case, Karl Rove aka Indiana Jones slipped the rope, Cheney is off somewhere hiding some kind of injury and the boy president, Bush: with no one around to guide hiim, he has been assigned just to wait and meet with the leaders of the smaller countries of the UN and make them various promisses.

"Thank you SIR! May I have another?"

Expel Iran from UN

But why should Israel have to make the call?
But how about this: let's take a look at the total plusses and minuses of Iran in the UN and make the call out in the open, instead of just some wacko. I mean, what if we were all judged by the actions of George Bush?

"The world's largest publicly traded oil company, Exxon Mobil said profits jumped 75 percent, to $9.92 billion"

So, umm, rising prices... it isn't just "I pay more so you pay more. The actual profits, real solid money, that got banked.
Meantime, alas, the stock price: it was all over the place, just in case you thought "hey, that's a sure thing, a good investment"... nope. You could get seriously burned. And its not too late (to get burned) in case you can't read the warnings in the volatility.

Iraqi Government Received Oil-for-Food Kickbacks

"'The cumulative impact of this is pretty impressive,' Volcker said in an interview before the report was released. 'Somebody* should have stood up and said, 'Enough.'"
Volker also added that he was "shocked to find that gambling was going on!" and ordered Ricks casino closed.

*if Somebody, who has been named in many recent cases, is ever found, somebody is going to be in deep trouble! Meanwhile, Mr. Nathan P. Somebody has requested that he be allowed to please please change his name.

Red herrings

Did anyone not consider that Miers had NO chance in getting to the supreme court? None? And if she did, well, that was the total end of the court, putting someone in there lower than Thomas (Thomas and Scalia: what pair).
Then too there was something obscene in Miers once again (well, of course that was her job) spreading her legs on behalf of Bush and any one else who wanted a quick push): hey, Harriet, distract these twits for a while. They are all over me with Fema and Iraq and Chency and Halliburton.
When you want to walk past the dogs ( eg, the press) through a piece of meat to them and that will keep them busy while you go about your legitimate business.
Used to be a cowboy put his hat out on a stick to see if it would draw fire: now they put out the village skank. Poor Harriet. Poor sexist Harriet. A nice ugly woman would have told the pres to shove it.

Generalisimo Franco is still dead

A similar lack of movement of George Bush is has proven to be a challenge for the effete Amreican Press.
Disney has deployed time lapse photography hoping to catch some movement in the off hours, and has placed a tv remote close by the president to temp movement.

I agree with the Moose

The level of anger in this country is palpable. I don't give a damn about parties or party politics. It's time for reform because our political class has lost their fucking minds.

speaking about debt....

Gee, what a beatiful ship. I wonder what makes it go?
And look at all those oars!

Panel to Urge Bush to Consider 2 Alternative Tax Plans

How stupid are we?
Yes. That stupid.

Energy Prices to Drag Economy

poor george bush: everything happens to him!

They're just crooks

A nice tirade from "Hunter" at DailyKOS

You don't have far to look, in the Republican Party, to find true conservatives. I may not like the political stances of a John McCain or an Arlen Specter, but nor do I fear for the nation if they come to lead the Republican party. Men of integrity can disagree on the principles of government; men whose sole moral compass is directed by what they can technically get away with, however, aren't political men. They're just crooks.

The West Wing Episode Guide

proposed: the national debate should be focused on the issues being well and fairly addressed by a fictional drama because it has more content and coherent presentation of the issues than the political show which has only reality to recommend it, as seen on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, Hardball, Meet the Press, various print publications, and press releases.

Comrade Dear Leader

And this which reminds me of the Soviet Union

Washington, DC — The National Park Service has started using a political loyalty test for picking all its top civil service positions, according to an agency directive released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Under the new order, all mid-level managers and above must also be approved by a Bush administration political appointee.

[more...]

analysis by expert analysts was doctored by Bush political appointees

I know this is no big surprise but here it is anyway...

The Commerce Department has responded to a half-year-old request by Manufacturing and Technology News for the release a long-awaited study on the issue of "offshore outsourcing" of IT service-sector jobs and high-tech industries. But the 12-page document represented by the agency as its final report is not what was written by its analysts. Rather, it was crafted by political appointees at Commerce and at the White House, according to those familiar with it.

At an estimated cost of $335,000 -- or $28,000 per page -- the document MTN received from the Commerce Department's Technology Administration contains no original research and forsakes its initial intent of providing a balanced view of outsourcing, according to those inside and outside the agency.

[more...]

Laura Bush Joins President's Defense of Miers

Heavy hitters weigh in on serious constitutional matters and the supreme court. The Bush daughters are on deck.
"Mediocre America needs representation too. And the superstitious."

Bush touts immigration and economic benefits of refugees

Gale Norton informed him she had written "refuges", not "refugees". Bush looked at her quizically and said, umm, well, yes! And that is good news!

This is one to remember as in "don't forget"

From the "so you want to be an atheist" dept
Also from the warning section on "Atheism for god dammed doomed to hell Dummies":

Recently departed (for points unknown) Rehnquist noted that the "under god" words were added by a unanimous congress
"'That's only because no atheist can get elected to public office 'elicited so much applause that Rehnquist had to threaten to clear the gallery."

The author is, and I quote, a self professed atheist.
(you could put "communist, trans sexual, eater of human flesh" or that sort of thing.
Oh,I left out pedophilia.

Is this news in the United States?

reported in Europe, BBC, other places...

God would tell me, 'George, go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me, 'George go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did."

Shaath's public recounting of his conversations with Bush on the subject divine missions, good evil, religious wars, crusades and Americans as the chosen people, come two years after the Palestinian delegation publicly refused to acknowledge the US President's remarks to be true when they were published in the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz.

Whining at the Student Union

From Operation Yellow Elephant, a blog dedicated to exposing Hypocrisy.

From the Rocky Mountain Collegian:

The second lie liberals have been spouting lately is that conservatives, most notably the College Republicans, are being hypocritical for supporting the war in Iraq/on terror and the troops serving in those wars without enlisting themselves. This is ludicrous. Supporting the troops means letting them do their jobs and praying for their safety, NOT saying you support them and then holding a rally damning the cause they are fighting for. Also, where exactly do the people spreading this garbage think the military gets their officers and best leaders if not from the ranks of college graduates?

I reply:

As the founder of Operation Yellow Elephant, the movement that popularized the hypocrisy of College Republicans who refuse to fight in the war they demanded, I find it amusing to watch them justify their refusal to match their words with actions.

The College Republicans were among the most vocal proponents of this war. They characterized it as one of the greatest struggles of all time and made ludicrous comparisons to WWII and the Civil War. Yet, at a time when the military faces its greatest recruiting crisis in decades, they hold affirmative action bake sales and attack those who want to bring our soldiers home.

If you really believe in the rightness and the importance of this war, put off college for a couple of years and sign up. Otherwise, shut up. Your whining is pathetic.

Bush: U.S. Has Disrupted 10 Al Qaeda Plots

3 in the US.
Two we already knew about.
One was Jose Padilla, another guy was going to begin by blowing up the Brooklyn Bridge.
The third? Cindy Sheehan?
I see in todays NY Times that 1/3 of Americans believe the bible literally, including creation. So why was I surprised to find 1/3 of the country supports Bush.
The GOP is not the problem.
The news doesn't say how the audience was auditioned/screened/cleansed and checked for loyalty and GOP registration.

Gore Speech

"The invasion of Iraq, I believe, will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history."

- Former head of the National Security Agency, Retired Lt. General William Odom


Our democracy has been hallowed out. The opinions of the voters are, in effect, purchased, just as demand for new products is artificially created. Decades ago Walter Lippman wrote, "the manufacture of consent...was supposed to have died out with the appearance of democracy...but it has not died out. It has, in fact, improved enormously in technique...under the impact of propaganda, it is no longer plausible to believe in the original dogma of democracy."

Like you, I recoil at Lippman's cynical dismissal of America's gift to human history. But in order to reclaim our birthright, we Americans must resolve to repair the systemic decay of the public forum and create new ways to engage in a genuine and not manipulative conversation about our future. Americans in both parties should insist on the re-establishment of respect for the Rule of Reason. We must, for example, stop tolerating the rejection and distortion of science. We must insist on an end to the cynical use of pseudo studies known to be false for the purpose of intentionally clouding the public's ability to discern the truth.

Geroge Will on George Bush on Harriet Miers... where'd this come from?

"He has neither the inclination nor the ability to make sophisticated judgments... "
Here Wills talks about constitutional matters, but hold up: in what area has Bush the inclination or ability to make a sophisticated judgment. Indeed, one may ask all the Georges, when was such ability construed to be a good thing at any place in this administration? Sophisticated, insightful, reasoned, well thought out: none of this is Bush! He'd be bereft of all his charm!
I suggest that the utter lack of sophistication is Bush's calling card, a distrust of sophistication rich among his devotees. Indeed, "born again" bespeaks an innocence humbly extracted from a life of sophistication, a leader who's followers will love him with the same lack of sophistication.
Ah, but would anyone say Rove is without sophistication? So, what is such an attribute doing anywhere near Bush, and what could that mean? surely nothing good. Lay? DeLay?
No, we have an unsophisticated president, fullfilling the roles of the TV heroes of American Idol and sitcoms and where no one works unless there is a laugh track to keep it going and Survival where success falls on the studiously unprepared, master of a stupid dog trick in life, who wins his position with good looks and good likes and good luck: hard work is really such a bore.
Even the 3 stooges have more sophistication in their perfection of the unsophisticated.

'Tis an ill wind... disaster lottery

Local public radio interviewed a local newspaper: the man said he had nine reporters on the case, a web site that would be updated hourly, and he squeezed in at the last minute maybe even more frequently. He expressed some involutary joy as he noted that even the BBC was carrying the story:
21 old people died on Lake George when a boat turned over.
What would happen if say WAMC, this public radio station, might have said "we won't know all the details for a few days so we won't be reporting on this story."
There are other pressing things in this country: it's not just about selling the papers, providing us with unhealthy diversion. Otherwise, I'd just as soon have drugs for my diversion of choice.

oil storm

It's been done. Lousiana and Texas are hit by accidents and tornadoes as the United States moves into autumn and winter.
Two two hour parts, channel 24, FX, about 3 months ago.
The silence on this one is amaaing, absolutely amazing. And very scarey: is the media deliberatelyl avoiding letting us think about what might happen? I think so.

Not since Thomas Paine...

has the nation been called upon to see that the problem is George. The DC Post might wish to be a Paine: that is too much to expect, but it is a start, and it does clear a path.
Last time time there was a revolution. What will it take this time? Now that we know to a certainty that all elections are for sale and those worth buying, like slaves at the market, are.