Toadfish Monastery

Help... I've been reading up on this and I can almost get my head around some of it, but the engineering's working my brain too hard. (The physics just 'sploded my head.)

http://www.strout.net/info/science/polywell/index.html

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/12/1136887.aspx

http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/index.php

And then some bozo asks if a dodecahedron would work better...

So, whadda ya think?

About a gazillion years ago, right after the tumor was found, I called Records Release at MD Anderson. "Plz send me all RR forms for Operative Reports and Pathology Slides." I patiently spell out city, state and ZIP code. and am promised they're on the way.

PBK spells Somerville with an extra M inna middle of the Somer. The computer doesn't recognize it, kicks it to something that corrects errors and sends my paperwork to PO Box 8482 Somerville, MA. I'm in TX. My ZIP code is in TX. My paperwork went to MA. TWICE, maybe three times.

As Griffin and I have discussed, there needs to be a legal charge available of "death by clerical incompetence" as well as "attempted murder by clerical incompetence".

They called me this afternoon to let me know that I have to get the freakin' Path slides and reports in a DIFFERENT manner than what they'd said. I'm considering driving to Houston and just beating random idiots at MD Anderson, and telling them "It doesn't matter who you are. Your system has NO human oversight and you're ALL guilty."

I won't, I wouldn't waste the gas, but I feel like doin' it...

Kucinich. I watched him read in the articles of impeachment last night.

I read the entire thread.

Education was in the last two pages, but it was interesting to watch the Obama discussion progress.

So, education's split out now.

NO MORE TOPIC DRIFT, it upsets Griffin!!!

http://www.alternet.org/democracy/85521/?comments=view&cID=909738#c909738

QuoteThe following is an excerpt from Bill Moyers' new book, "Moyers on Democracy" (Doubleday, 2008).

Democracy in America is a series of narrow escapes, and we may be running out of luck. The reigning presumption about the American experience, as the historian Lawrence Goodwyn has written, is grounded in the idea of progress, the conviction that the present is "better" than the past and the future will bring even more improvement. For all of its shortcomings, we keep telling ourselves, "The system works."

Now all bets are off. We have fallen under the spell of money, faction, and fear, and the great American experience in creating a different future together has been subjugated to individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power -and to the claims of empire, with its ravenous demands and stuporous distractions. A sense of political impotence pervades the country -- a mass resignation defined by Goodwyn as "believing the dogma of 'democracy' on a superficial public level but not believing it privately." We hold elections, knowing they are unlikely to bring the corporate state under popular control. There is considerable vigor at local levels, but it has not been translated into new vistas of social possibility or the political will to address our most intractable challenges. Hope no longer seems the operative dynamic of America, and without hope we lose the talent and drive to cooperate in the shaping of our destiny.

Somebody's finally said it. We've been sold out, and we may not be able to buy our way free--or fight our way free.

BOUT DAMN TIME!!!

http://cjonline.com/stories/040408/loc_264906171.shtml

QuotePublished Friday, April 04, 2008

A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday ordered liens on the Westboro Baptist Church building and the Phelps-Chartered Law office.

If the case presided over by U.S. District Court Judge Richard D. Bennett is upheld by an appeals court, the church, at 3701 S.W. 12th, and the office building, at 1414 S.W. Topeka Blvd., could be obtained by the court and sold, with the proceeds being applied toward $5 million in damages Bennett imposed on church members for picketing a military funeral.

A lien is a legal hold on property, making it collateral against money owed to a person or entity. It can keep the owner from selling the property or transferring title to the property.

The $5 million penalty is the result of a lawsuit filed against three of the church's principals by Albert Snyder, the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder, whose funeral was picketed by church members.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/79318/

Poor Sally Kern...her career as an Oklahoma legislator may be in trouble.

http://www.victoryfund.org/files/listening.html

Pray to EVERY imaginable Deity of choice that she doesn't go back to teaching.

Maybe she just need to be a full-time helpmeet and loving wife to her minister husband.. .http://www.olivetbaptistokc.com/news1.html

Auughhh...stupid THAT BAD has got to hurt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuTqgqhxVMc

It's Hannity and Colmes...OK, their show, but Ann Coulter is running things.

The Coultergeist would support Hillary.

Talk about the kiss of death...

http://www.alternet.org/stories/74389/?cID=815264#c815264

QuoteAuthor David Cay Johnston:  We have created in the United States, largely in the last thirty years, a whole series of programs -- a few of them explicit, many of them deeply hidden -- that take money from the pockets of the poor and the middle class and upper middle class and funnel it to the wealthiest people in America. And among the biggest recipients of these subsidies are the wealthiest family America, the Waltons; George Steinbrenner; Donald Trump; a whole host of healthcare billionaires. And these are policies that either have not been reported on or the news reporting on them generally has not informed people about what they really are.

The big "American Dream" has always been attainable, theoretically, by working your way through college.

Johnston says:

QuoteBetween 1945 and the election of Ronald Reagan, we had a government that was focused on creating and nurturing the middle class. When I was a young man, I was able to go to college only because it was free. It didn't matter that I didn't have any money -- my dad was a 100 percent disabled veteran, and I went to work when I was ten years old and full time since I was thirteen -- because it was free.

Today, the cost of a college education, a state college education, is about $10,000 a year. The average income of the bottom half of taxpayers -- that's not families, that's taxpayers -- is about $15,000. Think you can go to college if two-thirds of your income would have to go to college? I don't think so.

IS our government being used? Yes.

Has it been hijacked by the wealthy, for the wealthy? Yes

OK, so what can we do?

http://www.politicalcompass.org/iconochasms

I missed 6 out of 48.

Did you know that according to ABC's Charlie Gibson, an "average" middle class family of 2 makes $200,000 a year?

He's lost it completely.

Everybody laughs at him...the audience, the candidates, the rest of the media.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200801060004

I do not fit.

It's been building for a long time, I don't fit. I love you all, but the ground assumption is that there is a unifying 'we're not into that Jehovah God thing' and I'm the fly in the ointment.

It's not any one person, it's not one topic, it's me. Round holes, sextagonal peg. Square holes, sextagonal peg. I've thought it through lots of times. I'm not rounding down the edges or cutting off any corners...but I don't fit.

Wanna discuss religion, religiosity, belief, whatever?


http://atheismblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/religious-memes-and-rational-autonomy.html

I got no problems.

Hell, let's get into it deeper.

http://www.religionlink.org/tip_070507.php

But put it where anybody here can have the 'benefit of our wisdom'.

Where I live.

http://www.houstonpress.com/2007-12-06/news/toxic-town/#comments

On Youtube...

http://tinyurl.com/2pvwqp

Candidate selection assistance site:

http://tinyurl.com/2tdnfs

Or

http://www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html

Kucinich, gee...

(Note, it's a 'military humor' site, primarily. Lots of Freeper activity.)

OK, people. The Canadians here need to get on top of this story by finding a way to remind that idiot judge that he's NOT an Bush appointee and is NOT required to behave like an ignorant, unmitigated arse.

http://tinyurl.com/32l8zp

This blog says a lot of what needs to be embroidered on the judges synapses with a jackhammer...

http://tinyurl.com/2nxfbq

And while we're dealing with Canada...

http://tinyurl.com/2odys9

No, it's not really all about religion, it's about CONTROL. Religion is just an excuse for the level of control.

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This is what happens when a culture that devalues women is being encouraged. There's a tie-in between a judge that behaves that way and a father that does what this one did.

Sign the list...

House Judiciary Committee member Wexler wants citizens to sign on, so he can show the rest of the 'boys' that, yes, we DO want Cheney impeached.

http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com/

Sorry, US residents only.

The rest of you, send him a nice e-mail of encouragement or something.

(Website may be busy, there's a challenge on Daily Kos to get the requested 55,000 before the night's over.)

Quote from an Op-Ed refused by NY Times, Miami Herald and Washington Post:

QuoteA CASE FOR HEARINGS

By Representatives and Members of the Judiciary Committee:
Robert Wexler (D-FL), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)


On November 7, the House of Representatives voted to send a resolution of impeachment of Vice President Cheney to the Judiciary Committee. As Members of the House Judiciary Committee, we strongly believe these important hearings should begin.

The issues at hand are too serious to ignore, including credible allegations of abuse of power that if proven may well constitute high crimes and misdemeanors under our constitution. The charges against Vice President Cheney relate to his deceptive actions leading up to the Iraq war, the revelation of the identity of a covert agent for political retaliation, and the illegal wiretapping of American citizens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQBWGo7pef8
Schoolhouse Rock!!

Dan and I have been trying to decide which of the 5,000 or so projects we need to accomplish to even begin to get this house in shape will be the first.

He'll be working 2 days a week, so there will be less time, but more funds...

Decision made. The second bath is a MUST. He had a virus. Now I have it. If one person is in the loo, the other person is left to regurgitate into--whatever. NOT a good idea, especially since it's always me with the whatever...

I'm thinking it would also save laundry costs in the long run.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/12/19210/608/933/420107

QuoteFlorida based Gulfstream II jet aircraft # N987SA  crash landed on September 24, 2007 after it ran out of fuel over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula it had a cargo of several tons of Cocaine on board now documents have turned up on both sides of the Atlantic that link this Cocaine Smuggling Gulfstream II jet aircraft # N987SA that crashed in Mexico to the CIA who used it on at least 3 rendition flights from Europe and the USA to Guantanamo's infamous torture chambers between 2003 to 2005.

The plane has also been used by the DEA.

Gee, any wonder we're so screwed as a nation? The bunglers in charge are REALLY bunglers.