KUALA
LUMPUR, Malaysia — For years, North Korea has
rattled the world with its nuclear tests and its threats to visit a nuclear
holocaust upon the United States. Now, the finding by the Malaysian police that
Kim Jong-nam was assassinated with VX
nerve agent is a stark reminder of the North’s lesser-known weapons of
mass destruction: a stockpile of chemical and biological weapons. Mr. Kim, the estranged elder brother of North
Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, was killed on Feb. 13 when two
women rubbed his face with the nerve agentat Kuala Lumpur International
Airport, the police said on Friday. If
North Korean nationals were indeed behind the killing, as Malaysian officials
suggest, the use of VX raises several questions: Was the North Korean
government using the attack to signal to the world its fearsome arsenal of such
dangerous weapons? Or was the toxin simply an attempt to avoid detection in
carrying out a brazen killing at one of the world’s busiest airports? “By using VX in an international airport in
the heart of Asia, North Korea has sent a very clear message to the world that
it will strike its enemies anywhere in the world,” said Rohan Gunaratna, an
expert on terrorism at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in
Singapore. “It also demonstrates the North Korean response in the event of an
attack against North Korea.”
Donald Trump spoke at CPAC the other day and made ten glaring errors, falsehoods which have been exposed by a rather lengthly article that's too long to repeat here. Sometimes it takes time to refute a falsehood and people don't have the patience to listen to the real facts of the matter. President Trump has probably told more lies both in the campaign and as President than any other American President.
Apparently there are organizations dedicated to getting marijuana into old folk's homes because a lot of seniors have arthritus and other ailments including Alzheimers that apparently marijuana helps. It seems to be good for a new ailment every day. Of course many counties even in California want to ban marijuana alltogether. And of course you can't sell marijuana on your own. And you can't smoke it in public so in reality the drug isn't completely legal. You should be able to smoke marijuana just like cigarettes, as long as you're not driving a car or opperating machinery on the job or something, where your being stoned could be hazardous to the health of others. Of course President Trump if he wanted to exercising his powers as President could shut down all medical marijuana distribution in the entire country, and there'd be no way to fight it in the courts because it could be considered an "executive action".
Supposed you were saved or "given eternal life" only if you believed in a certain Story. It could be about Jesus but it could just as well be about the right wing version of American History. You know what that entails. There would be nothing about abuse of the Indians or Slavery or the Gilded Age, or the Progressive Era, or Women's Sufferage or anything. But the thing is people like Neil Savedra want to make it kind of a game. Excuse my paranoia and if I'm all wrong about this I ask God's forgiveness. But here's how I see it. You try and "get right with God" and God's on the other side throwing roadblocks to your Faith so that it's impossible for you to believe. A good chess player can think three moved ahead of his opponent. But God knows every move his opponent will make in the entire game and according to Neil, "It's no crime for God to know every move you're going to make, or all of the thought processes behind making each decision." God is pretty smart. But if he has decided you're going to pick B when you only get saved by picking A, then you're pretty much sunk before you begin. It's no longer a contest to see who is rightious, but rather it's a credulity contest. If you don't have sufficient unquestioning blind trust in what the right wing preaches, then you're out in the cold. One of the greatest virtues in this scheme of thing is an unquestioning lack of doubt. That's what it looks like to me. It's pretty hard to "will yourself" (as Neil suggest doing) to believe A when all of your common sense and inner gut feeling tells you that it's B. (Selah)
House Republicans have forged a plan for the future of Medicaid that would temporarily keep federal money flowing to cover almost the entire cost of people already insured through the program’s expansion under the Affordable Care Act but would block the law’s generous funding for any new participants. At the same time, the GOP approach would open a fresh spigot of aid for the 19 Republican-led states that eschewed the ACA’s Medicaid money because of their leaders’ antipathy to the law. This extra aid would probably go to hospitals with a large share of poor and uninsured patients.
Donald Trump spoke at CPAC the other day and made ten glaring errors, falsehoods which have been exposed by a rather lengthly article that's too long to repeat here. Sometimes it takes time to refute a falsehood and people don't have the patience to listen to the real facts of the matter. President Trump has probably told more lies both in the campaign and as President than any other American President.
Apparently there are organizations dedicated to getting marijuana into old folk's homes because a lot of seniors have arthritus and other ailments including Alzheimers that apparently marijuana helps. It seems to be good for a new ailment every day. Of course many counties even in California want to ban marijuana alltogether. And of course you can't sell marijuana on your own. And you can't smoke it in public so in reality the drug isn't completely legal. You should be able to smoke marijuana just like cigarettes, as long as you're not driving a car or opperating machinery on the job or something, where your being stoned could be hazardous to the health of others. Of course President Trump if he wanted to exercising his powers as President could shut down all medical marijuana distribution in the entire country, and there'd be no way to fight it in the courts because it could be considered an "executive action".
Supposed you were saved or "given eternal life" only if you believed in a certain Story. It could be about Jesus but it could just as well be about the right wing version of American History. You know what that entails. There would be nothing about abuse of the Indians or Slavery or the Gilded Age, or the Progressive Era, or Women's Sufferage or anything. But the thing is people like Neil Savedra want to make it kind of a game. Excuse my paranoia and if I'm all wrong about this I ask God's forgiveness. But here's how I see it. You try and "get right with God" and God's on the other side throwing roadblocks to your Faith so that it's impossible for you to believe. A good chess player can think three moved ahead of his opponent. But God knows every move his opponent will make in the entire game and according to Neil, "It's no crime for God to know every move you're going to make, or all of the thought processes behind making each decision." God is pretty smart. But if he has decided you're going to pick B when you only get saved by picking A, then you're pretty much sunk before you begin. It's no longer a contest to see who is rightious, but rather it's a credulity contest. If you don't have sufficient unquestioning blind trust in what the right wing preaches, then you're out in the cold. One of the greatest virtues in this scheme of thing is an unquestioning lack of doubt. That's what it looks like to me. It's pretty hard to "will yourself" (as Neil suggest doing) to believe A when all of your common sense and inner gut feeling tells you that it's B. (Selah)
House Republicans have forged a plan for the future of Medicaid that would temporarily keep federal money flowing to cover almost the entire cost of people already insured through the program’s expansion under the Affordable Care Act but would block the law’s generous funding for any new participants. At the same time, the GOP approach would open a fresh spigot of aid for the 19 Republican-led states that eschewed the ACA’s Medicaid money because of their leaders’ antipathy to the law. This extra aid would probably go to hospitals with a large share of poor and uninsured patients.
I
had another of those dreams last night.
I would take someone’s car and just drive off in it and then some point
down the line I would realize I shouldn’t be doing that and then be worried
about getting back to the start point without having an accident or picked up
by the cops because I didn’t have a valid license. On this night it was around six o clock on a
summer evening when it was still sunny out.
I headed west on the 91 Freeway
in a new car my Dad had just bought, and suddenly it dawned on me that Dad
would be coming home soon. I remember
taking some overpass to the left (headed south) but then getting right off on
an unauthorized side road (?) and I happened on this apartment and went up to
the second floor and just walked in the building. Some other people were coming in and they
seemed not to notice my presence, or didn’t mind. Suddenly I was confused as to what to
do. Just then Paul arrived not knowing
how I had gotten there. This group were
clients of his. There was some “housing
swap” where these poor transients would come and occupy a building and the
people who lived there before would go take their old residence. But the trouble is these people were welfare
bums and the place was filled with trash.
But some of them had portable stereo systems and I didn’t particularly
like thye music they were playing. I
asked Paul when we could leave and he said that he planned to be there all
evening at least till midnight. I got in
other conversations with people.
Here is a resurrected two CD set of material. The contents of disk one are untouched from the December 7th 2006 original. The second CD is modified a little *This AC DC song was swiched to another from the same album by popular request February 25th. A couple others have changed. We're keeping the Devo Track but getting rid of the Weird Al track. *** these tracks are now from the defunct "Bush Babies" album. We removed one BOC track because it was used in January this year. We also moved one track to another slot. ** This track was added from an undisclosed source.
PARTY MIXER ("American Night" The Sequel)
Time and Motion (Rush)
I Get a Thrill (The Honeydrippers)
Change -Nothing Stays the Same (Van Halen)
Rock and Roll Is My Religion (Ozzy Osborne)
Pencil-neck Geek (Fred Vlasee)
Rape Me (Nirvana)
1999 (Prince)
Super Freak (Rick James)
Passion (Rod Stewart)
Even Flow (Pearl Jam)
Don't Speak (No Doubt)
Dr. Feel Good (Motley Crue)
I Need Some Time On My Own (Guns and Roses)
One Burbin, One Scotch, One Beer (George Thorogood)
- - - - disc two
Fire On High (Electric Light Orchestra)
A Tab of Yellow Sunshine LSD (Mushroom Tabernacle Choir) **
Smiling Faces (Undisputed Truth)
Eye of the Tiger (Survivor) ***
Breaking the Law (Judas Priest)
We're Gona Groove (Led Zeppelin) ***
My Love On The Telephone (Foreigner)
Having a Wonderful Time, My Dear (Alice Cooper)
Sharp Dressed Man (ZZ Top)
You Shook Me All Night Long (AC / DC) *
If I Was A Dancer Pt 2 (Rolling Stones)
My Fairy King (Queen)
Pink Pussy Cat (Devo)
Two Little Hitlers (Elvis Costello)
The Cautious Lip (Blondie
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