I never said anything I wanted to say to anyone. I’ve misinterpreted the whole set from the start. That table of data in the nucleotides isn’t about reading at all. It’s about saying, out loud, everything there is, while it’s still sayable. The whole, impossibly complex goldberg invention of speech, wasted on someone who from the first listened only to that string of molecules governing cowardice. Obvious out in the open: every measure, every vertical instant infused with that absurd little theme insisting “Live, live,” and me objecting, “But what if it should be real? What if it all means something? What if someone should hold me to my words?”
Archive for July, 2006
Top five rejected titles for this post about Derek Jeter’s fragrance, “a blend of chilled grapefruit, clean oak moss and spice.”
- And We Thought A-Rod Was The Gay One?
- First There Was The New York Metropolitans, Now There’s The New York Metrosexuals
- From The Makers Of Joe Torre’s “Richard Nixon Makeover” Treatment
- Not Recommended For Injection Into Jason Giambi
- Coming Soon: Johnny Damon’s Unique Money-Scented “Traitor”
It would appear, at least according to I Think We Have A Problem With Our Brain Being Missing, that American Muslims, when informed of their rights as Americans, actually are being informed of their “rights to Jihad”.
Given that said list in essence outlines the various rights enumerated in the United States Constitution — many of which often are touted by, say, conservative and/or Christian organizations to their constituencies as well — one wonders if I Think We Have A Problem With Our Brain Being Missing therefore believes that all Americans possess “rights to Jihad”.
Presumably, however, drawing logical conclusions based upon their own statements isn’t something with which I Think We Have A Problem With Our Brain Being Missing troubles themselves overly much.
Addendum: The link to I Think We Have A Problem With Our Brain Being Missing has been changed to the one to which they moved their post sometime after I linked it here.
“The Bush administration,” says TPM Muckraker, “may have broken over two dozen federal laws and regulations — some of them multiple times — according to an unreleased report from the House Judiciary Committee Democrats.”
Reportedly, the list includes laws against making false statements to Congress; laws and international treaties prohibiting torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment; laws concerning retaliating against witnesses and other government employees; Executive Orders concerning leaking and other misuse of intelligence; regulations and ethical requirements governing conflicts of interest; the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; communications privacy laws; the National Security Act; and the Fourth Amendment.
TPM Muckraker says the report is scheduled for release sometime next week and is “several hundred pages long, with over a thousand footnotes.”
Addendum: Talking Points Memo has the report in advance, although not in easily-downloadable pdf it seems.
Katie Couric demonstrates the profound kinship and respect she feels for the common man which will allow her to be the new face of the CBS Evening News.
“You have heard your servant’s prayer — the uttered part of it. I am commissioned by God to put into words the other part of it — that part which the pastor — and also you in your hearts — fervently prayed silently. And ignorantly and unthinkingly? God grant that it was so! You heard the words ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ That is sufficient. The whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory — must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!”
As we commemorate the 50th anniversary of our national motto and remember with thanksgiving God’s mercies throughout our history, we recognize a divine plan that stands above all human plans and continue to seek His will.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim July 30, 2006, as the 50th Anniversary of our National Motto, “In God We Trust.” I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
Mr. Boyd said he never intended his sermons to be taken as merely a critique of the Republican Party or the religious right. He refuses to share his party affiliation, or whether he has one, for that reason. He said there were Christians on both the left and the right who had turned politics and patriotism into “idolatry.”
He said he first became alarmed while visiting another megachurch’s worship service on a Fourth of July years ago. The service finished with the chorus singing “God Bless America” and a video of fighter jets flying over a hill silhouetted with crosses.
“I thought to myself, ‘What just happened? Fighter jets mixed up with the cross?’ ” he said in an interview.
Every other time that 50FootWave has played Portland, I’ve somehow managed to miss them.
So imagine my self-inflicted chagrin as, over the course of Saturday evening, I began thinking twice about my intention to walk down to Loveland to catch their set during the PDX Pop Now! festival.
If I went early, I thought, I’d have to sit through bands I wasn’t interested in seeing. (No offense to those bands. I just wasn’t in the mood for several hours of live music.) If I went late, surely it would be too crowded even to bother.
That last wasn’t much of a concern, as it turned out, because half the crowd turned out to be ingrates who didn’t know any better and left altogether between Dahlia and 50FootWave. Upside for me, who likes to lurk and linger at the back of crowds: I could do so and more or less still be up front.
No chance of the full cycle, since Throwing Muses won’t be playing here. But at least I’ve availed myself of the opportunities to catch Kristin play solo acoustic (at Mississippi Studios) and now the fucking righteous noise of 50FootWave.
Addendum: FYI: Closing with Dog Days made my night. Nothing at all against any other piece of music on the mini-album, but that was the song that first kicked my ass.
Mr. Lieberman is not just a senator who works well with members of the other party. And there is a reason that while other Democrats supported the war, he has become the only target. In his effort to appear above the partisan fray, he has become one of the Bush administration’s most useful allies as the president tries to turn the war on terror into an excuse for radical changes in how this country operates.
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At this moment, with a Republican president intent on drastically expanding his powers with the support of the Republican House and Senate, it is critical that the minority party serve as a responsible, but vigorous, watchdog. That does not require shrillness or absolutism. But this is no time for a man with Mr. Lieberman’s ability to command Republicans’ attention to become their enabler, and embrace a role as the president’s defender.
Karl Rove invites you to take a look at the color of the sky on his planet.