I go to North Beach and stare at Vancouver Island. Perhaps you have seen me waving?

>> ^nanrod:

Hey I'm like Sarah Palin, I used to be able to see you from my front porch. Well, only in the winter when the trees in the cemetery lost their leaves, and only with a decent set of binoculars. Looks like a beautiful little town, closest I've come to it was a roadtrip from Victoria to Seattle via Port Angeles to see Aerosmith.

1. I can dance the tango, amongst other ballroom dances, and have won dance contests.

2. My father is a major part of space history – he was a range safety officer, blowing up missiles that went off course in the early days of the missile program – has destroyed more missiles than anyone else and no one is likely to ever catch up to him, since they know what they are doing now.

3. I love to tell stories, and when I travel, I write stories in my head to tell when I get home (did I ever tell you about spending an hour – at 10 pm in the winter night -- talking to the lone Scottish soldier guarding Edinburgh Castle and what he told me about kilts and Scottish pride?)

4. I am vain about my ears.

5. The only thing I have ever given birth to is a theater company, now defunct for ten years, and I am very proud that folks still mourn its passing. We did GREAT STUFF.

6. I am hypercritical and judgmental of others, but I am hardest of all on myself.

7. Once I moved to hippy haven Port Townsend, I grew out my armpit hair to see if I could blend in with the natives – and then scared myself in the shower because I thought it was a spider.

8. One of my best friends is my Oklahoma cousin, which is remarkable because we have never spent more than a week in each others company in five decades.

9. The precept I try to live by: “Everyone is doing the best they can in any given moment. Their best may stink, and you may need to avoid them, but it is indeed the best they can do.” I’m still hypercritical and judgmental. Even though I believe this to the core of my being.

10. I have cheated at Scrabble online.

11. I have had eight teeth pulled and braces, but my teeth are still crowded.

12. I am vain about my eyebrows.

13. I love telling jokes.

14. I was born in Alaska.

15. My mother died in 1988 and I still miss her terribly. She was funny and caring and smart.

16. Typing number 15 made me cry, which surprised me.

17. I paid $1,500 for a lifetime pass to the local arts cinema 14 years ago, which turned out to be a great investment – they recently sold some more and wanted $5,000 (that did include popcorn for life, but still).

18. I didn’t talk to my father for two years because he was an asshole when I was growing up, and now I call him every single day because he lives in a nursing home. He’s also not an asshole any more – or at least, I can walk him out of being an asshole. This transformation in our relationship is a great blessing in my life.

19. I am very very good at my job.

20. I am quick to anger.

21. I am very generous.

22. The librarians have a nickname for me. They call me The Gale, to differentiate me from all the other mere Gales, Gayles and Gails in town.

23. I have never lived anyplace with so many people named Gale/Gayle/Gail.

24. I am happy on the first day of winter and sad on the first day of summer – because the days are so frigging short in winter and they start to get longer on the Winter Solstice. And verse visa for Summer – it means the days are getting quickly shorter.

25. This list was interrupted by my friend Deb, and we went across the street for lemon drop martinis and baked poblana peppers and cheese. My friend Deb says that #25 should be: Once upon a time, I kissed too many boys.

Good to see Pete Townsend is getting taken care of. 'Course if he just strapped on his guitar he'd do much better . . .

As much a Yellin comes off as being a corporate shill, she still gave Greenwald much more time to talk than Townsend. What she failed to do while Fran was talking is point out the blatant misinformation and lies that were coming out of her mouth. In other words, she didn't do her fucking job.

>> ^ryanbennitt:

The good thing about that interview was that Glenn got to explain his stance clearly and uninterrupted, he wasn't shouted down like you might expect some "journalist" anchors to do, so the arguments he put forth were heard clearly. So even though Jessica had taken sides, she was a fair anchor and I commend her for that.

I understand that by today's really, really, really low standards, having the anchor refrain from shouting down the person who's arguing against the conventional wisdom seems like a positive, but you need to put it in perspective a bit.

Yellin's job isn't to just make sure people give each other a chance to speak, she's supposed to know something about the topic, and to try and correct (or at least call out) falsehoods if she hears them.

As Glenn said in the article gwiz linked, this interview had two big, universal whoppers that any journalist worth their salt should be calling out. Namely, the lie that Assange released everything indiscriminately, and the accusation that releasing the documents was a crime, even though he hasn't been charged with anything for that.

Furthermore, Frauline Townsend is supposed to be a journalist herself now (she's a CNN employee!), and not just a mouthpiece for the powers that be. Hell, even if she sees her job as that of an embedded propagandist, she would be more effective if she made valid arguments against what Assange did, instead of these fraudulent ad hominem attacks.

I had to go back and re-watch the intro to know who the blonde Nazi they put up against Glenn was.

Answer: Fran Townsend, former Bush Homeland Security Adviser.

That explains the following pivot, which literally made me laugh out loud:

Townsend: Even Julian Assange himself has not made the argument that what he's doing is some sort of public service. ... He made no distinctions about the harm he might be doing to foreign governments, to the US government, to diplomats and soldiers around the world, he just wholesale threw this all out there.

Greeenwald: (Crosstalk) That's totally false. That's just a lie. He's published less than 1% of the 250,000 diplomatic cables that he came into possession of. ...

Townsend, shrilly: He has threatened to publish much more than he has, and there isn't any-- You know the notion that we should be grateful he hasn't committed a far larger crime than he's already committed is ridiculous!

...and this is after Glenn explained at length that journalists shouldn't be in the habit of calling people criminals until they've been convicted of a crime, or at the very least charged with one!

Oh, and anyone who's watched a single interview with Assange understands that he does think he's providing a public service. He doesn't use that phrase, but when he says stuff like "I believe it's important for people to know what secrets their government is keeping" he isn't talking about doing it for his own personal gain.

I swear, they have some sort of class they send these people to that trains them to pack as many lies as possible in as few words as possible. That way, anyone who responds won't have the opportunity to refute them all in a cable news interview, and at least some will get through to people unchallenged.

"With the creation of the maser in 1954, the promise of unlocking unlimited sources of fusion atomic energy from the heavy hydrogen in sea water and consequently the availability of unlimited social power was a possibility only decades away."

Energy resources and the ability to control those resources to control populations is the linchpin for those who would maintain power and empire-Since the 50's the planet has had the technological capacity to work to achieve this, yet we still float along using oil, coal, natural gas, and fucking fusion reactors (idiocy) etc., as the primary means of producing energy.
Why?? Did the world suddenly stop spinning in one direction and fall into a retrograde orbit? Do the agencies in control of releasing information to the general public continue to suppress not only this information while feeding us disinformation??-This practice does not suddenly disappear simply because wars are fought and won, they are maintained because they work to keep empires alive and viable.

Compile a list of names of anyone who has introduced theories who have been methodically and systematically repressed or lambasted, and you will find a pattern. Nikola Tesla, Wilhelm Reich, Viktor Schauberger, Thomas Townsend Brown, Eugene Mallove, Stanley Meyer, most of whom were killed or forced into seclusion, are just a short and rather famous list of mavericks in the quest for energy alternatives in use since the onset of the industrial era. What about the average joes who have managed to create from parts in their sheds, devices which increase the efficiency of fuel engines? Most are bought out or disappear shortly after the public manages t oget wind of their successes. Accident?? Coincidence?? TO BELIEVE THIS IS FOLLY, THE WORST KIND....DENIAL-is only there because the information needed to make proper conclusions is repressed, altered, or driven out as insanity or hogwash.

Control energy, control mankind, it's simple. We have had free or incredibly cheap and renewable energy for some time now, but assholes who think they know what is best for the planet hold all the keys, and have put all the locks in place. It is the task of everyone to become locksmiths.

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In reply to this comment by radx:
I'd say this bloke is *British ... and a "h" managed to escape from the title.

Good stuff!

Here's a fun factoid. I live in Port Townsend, a small town of about 8000. Ten years ago, a brave man opened a new cinema in town, hoping to stay alive showing art films. The Rose Theatre. It is fabulous. (And great popcorn.)

The factoid? The single biggest grossing movie -- during a period of Spiderman and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and all those blockbusters -- was March of the Penguins. Second biggest grossing movie? Winged Migration.

This is an amazing small town with a unique population of educated, intelligent creative folks.

Fuck yeah, Devin Townsend.

Assuming you're a Gandhian pacifist...with no sarcasm meant or implied, I really do think that's a wonderful thing. Whether or not you're religious, you perhaps recognize the only real battle worth winning is with one's self.

Unfortunately there are people in the world who don't care whether or not you're a pacifist, they'll try to run you over whether you fight back or not. It's this other type of person that we have laws and police and armies to defend against.

My view is that war, like government, is a necessary evil.

Your view might be that war is never justified--I don't know for sure.

At this juncture, all I can say is my views of what's right and wrong differ from yours and are equally sincere.

Let the fun continue!






In reply to this comment by MINK:
I sincerely wish I knew what you mean by that. Is it some coded proof that in 2003 everyone knew the war would take years and kill thousands of US troops and there wouldn't be any WMD?

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In reply to this comment by quantumushroom:
"All rock and roll is toothless. It's a toothless form." --Pete Townsend

In reply to this comment by MINK:
How's the war going? All over by Christmas as usual?

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2748336820080628

"All rock and roll is toothless. It's a toothless form." --Pete Townsend

In reply to this comment by MINK:
How's the war going? All over by Christmas as usual?

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2748336820080628

>> ^critttter:
Far too short.


Agreed. More please.

>> ^therealblankman:
More, please.


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