Colin is the axis of all media

In the surreal world that is today's media, Colin Powell has no opposition. None. There is no alternative view. None. In this Kafkaesque place, Reps. DeFazio and Paul didn't conduct a press conference yesterday. Nor did they introduce legislation that counters George Bush and Colin Powell's world view...a world view, mind you, that the world doesn't share. from Ruminate This.

501 People Who Don't Want War.

1) Suzanne Dathe, Grenoble, France
2) Laurence COMPARAT, Grenoble, France
3) Philippe MOTTE, Grenoble, France
4) Jok FERRAND, Mont St. Martin, France
5) Emmanuelle PIGNOL, St Martin d'Heres, FRANCE
6) Marie GAUTHIER, Grenoble, FRANCE
7) Laurent VESCALO, Grenoble, FRANCE
8) Mathieu MOY, St Egreve, FRANCE
9) Bernard BLANCHET, Mont St Martin, FRANCE
10) Tassadite FAVRIE, Grenoble, FRANCE
11) Loic GODARD, St Ismier, FRANCE
12) Benedicte PASCAL, Grenoble, FRANCE
13) Khedaidja BENATIA, Grenoble, FRANCE
14) Marie-Therese LLORET, Grenoble, FRANCE
15) Benoit THEAU, Poitiers, FRANCE
16) Bruno CONSTANTIN, Poitiers, FRANCE
17) Christian COGNARD, Poitiers, FRANCE
18) Robert GARDETTE, Paris, FRANCE
19) Claude CHEVILLARD, Montpellier, FRANCE
20) gilles FREISS, Montpellier, FRANCE
21) Patrick AUGEREAU, Montpellier, FRANCE
22) Jean IMBERT, Marseille, FRANCE
23) Jean-Claude MURAT, Toulouse, France
24) Anna BASSOLS, Barcelona, Catalonia
25) Mireia DUNACH, Barcelona, Catalonia
26) Michel VILLAZ, Grenoble, France
27) Pages Frederique, Dijon, France
28) Rodolphe FISCHMEISTER,Chatenay-Malabry, France
29) Francois BOUTEAU, Paris, France
30) Patrick PETER, Paris, France
31) Lorenza RADICI, Paris, France
32) Monika Siegenthaler, Bern, Switzerland
33) Mark Philp, Glasgow, Scotland
34) Tomas Andersson, Stockholm, Sweden
35) Jonas Eriksson, Stockholm, Sweden
36) Karin Eriksson, Stockholm, Sweden
37) Ake Ljung, Stockholm, Sweden
38) Carina Sedlmayer, Stockholm, Sweden
39) Rebecca Uddman, Stockholm, Sweden
40) Lena Skog, Stockholm, Sweden
41) Micael Folke, Stockholm, Sweden
42) Britt-Marie Folke, Stockholm, Sweden
43) Birgitta Schuberth, Stockholm, Sweden
44) Lena Dahl, Stockholm, Sweden
45) Ebba Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
46) Jessica Carlsson, Vaxjo, Sweden
47) Sara Blomquist, Vaxjo, Sweden
48) Magdalena Fosseus, Vaxjo, Sweden
49) Charlotta Langner, Goteborg, Sweden
50) Andrea Egedal, Goteborg, Sweden
51) Lena Persson, Stockholm, Sweden
52) Magnus Linder, Umea, Sweden
53) Petra Olofsson, Umea, Sweden
54) Caroline Evenbom, Vaxjo, Sweden
55) Asa Peterson, Grimes, Sweden
56) Jessica Bjork, Grimes, Sweden
57) Linda Ahlbom Goteborg, Sweden
58) Jenny Forsman, Boras, Sweden
59) Nina Gunnarson, Kinna, Sweden
60) Andrew Harrison, New Zealand
61) Bryre Murphy, New Zealand
62) Claire Lugton, New Zealand
63) Sarah Thornton, New Zealand
64) Rachel Eade, New Zealand
65) Magnus Hjert, London, UK
67) Madeleine Stamvik, Hurley, UK
68) Susanne Nowlan, Vermont, USA
69) Lotta Svenby, Malmoe, Sweden
70) Adina Giselsson, Malmoe, Sweden
71) Anders Kullman, Stockholm, Sweden
72) Rebecka Swane, Stockholm, Sweden
73) Jens Venge, Stockholm, Sweden
74) Catharina Ekdahl, Stockholm, Sweden
75) Nina Fylkegard, Stockholm, S! weden
76) Therese Stedman, Malmoe, Sweden
77) Jannica Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
78) Douglas Bratt, Sweden
79) Mats Lofstrom, Stockholm, Sweden
80) Li Lindstrom, Sweden
81) Ursula Mueller, Sweden
82) Marianne Komstadius, Stockholm, Sweden
83) Peter Thyselius, Stockholm, Sweden
84) Gonzalo Oviedo, Quito, Ecuador
85) Amalia Romeo, Gland, Switzerland
86) Margarita Restrepo, Gland, Switzerland
87) Eliane Ruster, Crans p.C., Switzerland
88) Jennifer Bischoff-Elder, Hong Kong
89) Azita Lashgari, Beirut, Lebanon
90) Khashayar Ostovany, New York, USA
91) Lisa L Miller, Reno NV, USA
92) Danielle Avazian, Los Angeles, CA, USA
93) Sara Risher,Los Angeles,Ca., USA
94) Melanie London, New York, NY, USA
95) Susan Brownstein , Los Angeles, CA, USA
96) Steven Raspa, San Francisco, CA, USA
97) Margot Duane, Ross, CA, USA
98) Natasha Darnall, Los Angeles, CA, USA
99) Candace Brower, Evanston, IL, USA
100) James Kjelland, Evanston, IL, USA
101) Michael Jampole, Beach Park, IL, USA
102) Diane Willis, Wilmette, IL, USA
103) Sharri Russell, Roanoke, VA, USA
104) Faye Cooley, Roanoke, VA, USA
105) Celeste Thompson, Round Rock, TX, USA
106) Sherry Stang, Pflugerville, TX, USA
107) Amy J. Singer, Pflugerville, TX USA
108) Milissa Bowen, Austin, TX, USA
109) Michelle Jozwiak, Brenham, TX, USA
110) Mary Orsted, College Station, TX, USA
111) Janet Gardner, Dallas, TX, USA
112) Marilyn Hollingsworth, Dallas, TX, USA
113) Nancy Shamblin, Garland. TX, USA
114) K. M. Mullen, Houston, TX, USA
115) Noreen Tolman, Houston, Texas, USA
116) Laurie Sobolewski, Warren, MI, USA
117) Kellie Sisson Snider, Irving Texas, USA
118) Carol Currie, Garland, Garland Texas, USA
119) John Snyder, Garland, TX, USA
120) Elaine Hannan, South Africa
121) Jayne Howes, South Africa
122) Diane Barnes, Akron, Ohio, USA
123) Melanie Dass Moodley, Durban, South Africa
124) Imma Merino, Barcelona, Catalonia
125) Toni Vinas, Barcelona, Catalonia
126) Marc Alfaro, Barcelona, Catalonia
127) Manel Saperas, Barcelona, Catalonia
128) Jordi Ribas Izquierdo, Catalonia
129) Naiana Lacorte Rodes, Catalonia
130) Joan Vitoria i Codina, Barcelona, Catalonia
131) Jordi Paris i Romia, Barcelona, Catalonia
132) Jordi Lagares Roset, Barcelona, Catalonia
133) Josep Puig Vidal, Barcelona, Catalonia
134) Marta Juanola i Codina, Barcelona, Catalonia
135) Manel de la Fuente i Colino,Barcelona, Catalonia
136) Gemma Belluda i Ventura, Barcelona, Catalonia
137) Victor Belluda i Ventur, Barcelona, Catalonia
138) MaAntonia Balletbo, barcelona, Spain
139) Mireia Masdevall Llorens, Barcelona, Spain
140) Clara Planas, Barcelona, Spain
141) Fernando Labastida Gual, Barcelona, Spain
142) Cristina Vacarisas, Barcelona, Spain
143) Enric Llarch i Poyo, Barcelona, CATALONIA
144) Rosa Escoriza Valencia, Barcelona, Catalonia
145) Silvia Jimenez, Barcelona, Catalonia
146) Maria Clarella, Barcelona, Catalonia
147) Angels Guimera, Barcelona, Catalonia
148) M.Carmen Ruiz Fernandez, Barcelona, Catalonia
149) Rufi Cerdan Heredia, Barcelona, Catalonia
150) M. Teresa Vilajeliu Roig, Barcelona, Catalonia
151) Rafel LLussa, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
152) Mariangels Gallego Ribo, Gelida, Catalonia, Spain
153) Jordi Cortadella, Gelida, Catalonia, Spain
154) Pere Botella, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
155) Josefina Auladell Baulenas, Catalunya, Spain
156) Empar Escoin Carceller, Catalunya, Spain
157) Elisa Pla Soler, Catalunya, Spain
158) Paz Morillo Bosch, catalunya, Spain
159) Cristina ! Bosch Moreno, Madrid, Spain
160) Marta Puertolas, Barcelona, Spain
161) Elisa del Pino (Madrid) Spain
162) Joaquin Rivera (Madrid) Spain
163) Carmen Barral (Madrid) Spain
164) Carmen del Pino (Madrid) Spain
165) Asuncion del Pino (Madrid) Spain
166) Asuncion Cuesta (Madrid) Spain
167) Ana Polo Mediavilla (Burgos), Spain
168) Mercedes Romero Laredo (Burgos), Espana
169) Oliva Mertinez Fernandez (Burgos), Espana
170) Silvia Leal Aparicio (Burgos), Espana
171) Claudia Elizabeth Larrauri, Argentina
172) Federico G. Pietrokovsky (C.F.) Argentina
173) Naschel Prina (Capital Federal) Argentina
174) Daniela Gozzi (Capital Federal) Argentina
175) Paula Elisa Kvedaras (CapitalFederal) Argentina
176) Antonio Izquierdo (Valencia) Espana
177) Ana Belen Perez Solsona (Valencia) Espana
178) Paula Folques Diago (Valencia) Espana
179) Nestor Alis Pozo (Valencia) Espana
180) Rafael Alis Pozo (valencia) Spain
181) Isabel Maria Martinez (Valencia) Espana
182) Cristina Bernad Guerrero (Valencia) Espana
183) Iria Barcia Sanchez, Spain
184) Elena Barrios Barcia, Uppsala, Suecia
185) Illana Ortiz Martin, Munchen, Alemania
186) Santiago Rodriguez Rasero, Munchen, Alemania
187) David Ags Daz, Pamplona, Espana
188) Juan Luis Ibarretxe, Galdakao, E.H.
189) Rubin Dez Ealo. Galdakao, E.H.
190) Marcial Rodriguez Garcia, Ermua, Spain
191) Imanol Echave Calvo. San Sebastian, Spain
192) Beg Ortiz de ZarateLazcano, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
193) David Sanchez Agirregomezkorta.Gasteiz, Euskadi
194) Alberto Ruiz De Alda, Gasteiz, Euzkadi
195) Juan Carlos Garcia, Espana
196) Jon Aiarza Lotina. Santander, Spain
197) teresa del Hoyo Rojo. Santander, Spain
198) Celia Nespral Gaztelumendi.Santander, Espana
199) Pedro Martin Villamor, Valladolid, Espana
200) Victoria ! Arratia Martin, Valladolid, Espana
201) Javi Tajadura Martin, Portugalete, Euskadi, Spain
202) Lourdes Palacios Martin, Bilbao, Spain
203) JesTs Avila de Grado, Madrid, Espana
204) Eva Maria Cano Lopez. Madrid, Spain
205) Emilio Ruiz Olivar, Londres, UK
206) Maru Ortega Garcia del Moral, CALAHORRA, ESPANA
207) Juan Carlos Ayala, Calvo, Logroo, Spain
208) Rocco Muoz Pino, Logroo, Espana
209) Ximena Pino Burgos, Santiago, Chile
210) Roberto Saldivia Quezada, Santiago, Chile
211) Paola Gonzalez Valderrama, Santiago, Chile
212) Cesar Morales Pey Lillo, Santiago, Chile
213) Denisse Labarca Abdala , Santiago, Chile
214) Maria Paz Gonzalez Garay, Chile
215) Daniela Millar Kaiser, Santiago, Chile
216) Alvaro Wigand Perales, Valdivia, Chile
217) Gladys Bustos Carrasco, Quilicura, Chile
218) Patricio Criado Rivera, Quilicura, Chile
219) Carolina Aguilar Monsalve, Valdivia, Chile
220) Carmen Silva Utrilla, Madrid, Espana
221) Martha Yolanda Rodriguez Aviles,Queretaro, Mexico
222) LAURA RODRIGUEZ, Mexico
223) KATIA HAHN , MERIDA, YUCATAN
224) [Sofia Gallego] Mexicali, B.C., Mexico
225) BEATRIZ CASTA, Mexico
226) VICTOR KERBER PALMA,Monterrey, Mexico
227) Rocco Sanchez Losada, Mexico
228) Lorenza Estanda Gonzalez Luna, Mexico
229) Gabriel Gallardo D'Aiuto,Mexico D.F., Mexico
230) Jose Antonio Salinas, Monterrey, N.L., Mexico
231) Laura Cantu, Mty N.L., Mexico
232) Jossie Garcia, Mty N.L., Mexico
233) Martha Vazquez Gonzalez, Mty, N.L., Mexico
234) Olga Moreno, Monterrey, NL, Mexico
235) Mariana Camargo, Pto. Vallarta, Jal, Mexico
236) Alfonso Villa, Toluca, Mexico
237) Arturo Rodriguez Reyes, Toluca, Edo Mexico, MEXICO
238) Fernanda Villela, Mexico D.F., MEXICO
239) Pilar Jim=C8nez, Caracas, VENEZUELA
240) Erika Rovelo, Mexico D.F., MEXICO
241) ALEJANDRO LECANDA, CIUDAD DE MEXICO, MEXICO
242) Gabriela Diaz de Sandi, Cd. Mexico, Mexico
243) Jorge Bustamante Orgaz, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
244) Jose Bernardo Rodriguez Montes, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
245) Luisa Angela Ario Pelez. Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
246) Ramses Ricardo Rios Zaragoza, CD de Mexico
247) Rosa Mara Lamparero. Ciudad de Mexico
248) Margarita Palomares, Ciudad de Mexico, MEXICO
249) Carlos Anaya. MEXICO
250) Enrique Garcia Menes, Mexico
251) Loren Walker, USA
252) Teresa Mathern, Oregon, USA
253) Linda K. Johnson, Oregon, USA
254) Jennifer Allen, New York City, USA
255) Carla Rudiger, New York City, USA
256) Colleen THomas, New York City, USA
257) Ted Johnson, New York City, USA
258) Youn Hui Jeon, Seoul, South Korea
259) Wendy Perron, New York City, USA
260) Risa Jaroslow, New York City, USA
261) Pam Wise, Los Angeles, USA
262) Michael Joyce, New York, USA
263) Bernadine Colish, New York, USA
264) Kent Lebsock, Albuquerque, NM, USA
265) Charmaine White Face, Lakota Nation
266) Pauline Brooks, Cornwall, England
267) Peter Brooks, Cornwall, England
268) Jan Bogaert, Maldegem, Belgium
269) Marc Brailly, Blankenberge, Belgium
270) Sara De Backere, Blankenberge, Belgium
271) YTska Brailly, Blankenberge, Belgium
272) Nemo Braily, Blankenberge, Belgium
273) Viviane Ceulemans, Heist o/d Berg, Belgium
274) Nina de Bruyne, Brugge, Belgium
275) Sjefke Dooms, Breda, Netherlands
276) Frans Fransaer, Moorsel, Belgium
277) Agnes Abramsen, Brussels, Belgium
278) Dany De Man, Meulebeke, Belgium
279) Patrick Beirnaert, Ronse, Belgium
280) Caroline Grauls, Ronse, Belgium
281) Jacques Bisschop, Leke, Belgium
282) Marianne Blom, Rozenburg, Netherlands
283) Jan Geeraerts, Duffel, Belgium
284) Hel! en Buys, Oudenaarde, Belgium
285) Marc Corvers, Zwevegem, Belgium
286) Ann Labeeuw, Zwevegem, Belgium
287) Frans De Smedt, Hame-Moerzeke, Belgium
288) Aline-Irini Georgiou, Vorselaar, Belgium
289) Chris Peeters, Turnhout, Belgium
290) Tom Van Snick, Zottegem, Belgium
291) Marc Van Wunsel, Wespelare, Belgium
292) Carlos Goedertier, Bottelare-Merelbeke, Belgium
293) Mieke Lammens, Grazen, Belgium
294) Guido Festraets, Grazen, Belgium
295) Kathleen Quirijnen, Vosselaar, Belgium
296) Peter Van Peer, Vosselaar, Belgium
297) Carine Vermeulen, Gent, Belgium
298) Peter Verwimp, Tremelo, Belgium
299) Filip Vissers, Herentals, Belgium
300) Carine Van Wolputte, Herentals, Belgium
301) Vanessa Lecomte, Bruxelles, Belgium
302) Fabienne Havelange, Thuillies, Belgium
303) Claudine Aubert, Estaimpuis, Belgium
304) Leon Degueldre, Thuin, Belgium
305) Pascal Javaloy, Sarralbe, France
306) Martine Roulet, Tours, France
307) Carol A. Bentley, Wales
308) Jean Daines, Norwich, England
309) Julie Gillott, Norfolk, England
310) Christine Hewitt, Burnley, Lancs., England
311) Val Linsey, Swnasea, England
312) Rita Brauner, London, England
313) Ray Foord, Woodford Green, England
314) Sheryl I. Birch, Buxton, England
315) Anne Grecian, Berwick upon Tweed, England
316) Les G. Jones, Kent, England
317) Julie Lynex, Coventry, W.Midands, England
318) Margaret Nicholl, Enfield, England
319) Ian Moore, Norfolk, England
320) Ron Reardon, Spalding, Lincs. England
321) Muriel Reardon, Spalding, Lincs. England
322) Susan E. Naylor, Cornwall, England
323) Alec H. Moon, Gwent, Wales
324) Shirley Wayne, Wantage, Oxon., England
325) Denis Underwood, Bracknell, Berks., England
326) Lotta Haglund, Vaxholm, Sweden
327) Essi Iso-Oja, Helsinki, Finland
328) Sabine Pohl, Baden-Baden, Germany
329) Richard Ziegler, Eurasburg Loisachtal, Germany
330) Poul Kry Poulsen, Ringsted, Denmark
331) Suzanne Hone, Brussels, Belgium
332) Ann Herten, Sterrebeek, Belgium
333) Els Herten, Brussels, Belgium
334) antoinette claypoole, Ashland, Oregon, USA
335) Linda Griffith, Huntingdon Valley, Pa USA
336) David L. Winston, Philadelphia, PA USA
337) Joan Franklin, Philadelphia, PA USA
338) Marianne Malitz, Connecticut, USA
339) Kathy O'Rear, Oklahoma, USA
340) Jodie Evans, Venice, CA, USA
341) Georgia Kelly, Sonoma, CA, USA
342) Larry Robinson, Sebastopol, CA, USA
343) Maury M. Cooper, San Francisco, CA, USA
344) R. Glendon Brunk, Arizona, USA
345) D. Douglas Dancer, Oregon, USA
346) Randall E. Streets, Hood River, Oregon, USA
347) Chandra Radiance, Hood River, Oregon, USA
348) Mary Harmon, White Salmon, WA, USA
349) Jean Fay Harmon, Neskowin, OR, USA
350) Julie Reynolds-Otrugman, Lincoln City, OR, USA
351) Sener Otrugman, Lincoln City, OR, USA
352) Mary Lyn Villaume, Cairo, Egypt
353) Christian Arandel, Cairo, Egypt
354) Dania Rifai, Beirut, Lebanon
355) Nada Awar, Beirut, Lebanon
356) Mouna Schaheen, Olney, MD, USA
357) Nabiha Ayoub, Olney, MD, USA
358) Habeeb Zein, Olney, MD, USA
359) Norah Greenstein, New York, NY, USA
360) Audrey Shahin, Ashtabula, OH, USA
361) Vishali Shahin Oakland Ca, USA
362) Elena Wood, Syracuse, NY, USA
363) Steven Wood, Syracuse, NY, USA
364) Barry Kapke, Petaluma, CA, USA
365) Ann Mari Spector, Petaluma, CA, USA
366) Jim Berns, Sebastopol, CA, USA
367) Beth Gallock, Sebastopol, CA, USA
368) Maikaaloa Clarke, CA USA
369) DeAnna L'am, Sebastopol, Ca, USA
370) Julian Shaw, Sebastopol, CA, USA
371) Katya Miller, Santa Fe, NM, USA
372) Vij! ali Hamilton, Castle Valley, Utah, USA
373) Andrew Beath, Malibu, CA, USA
374) Rebecca Dmytryk, CA, USA
375) Jeffrey Ellis, CA USA
376) Norman Gan, Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
377) Tom Greening, Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
378) Marianne Bentzen, Charlottenlund, Denmark
379) Judyth O. Weaver, Mill Valley, Ca, USA
380) David W. Arehart, Lawrence, KS, USA
381) Kay Foley, Columbia, MO, USA
382) Jan Lysaght, Columbia, MO, USA
383) Mine Ezashi, Columbia, MO, USA
384) Toshihiko Ezashi, Columbia, MO, USA
385) Nobuko Kainuma, CA, USA
386) Karen Leonard, Ireland
387) Kevin Murphy, Ireland
388) Stephanie Kohl, Ireland/Germany
389) Marcel Kostyal, NRW, Germany
390) Florent Didier, Troyes, France
391) Diepart, Sandrine, Brussels, Belgium
392) Marianne Putteman, Gent, Belgium
393) Xavier Bastiaense, Ghent, Belgium
394) Hans Gelaude, Ghent, Belgium
395) Mamoudou Guissé, Belgium
396) Inne Geypen, Brussels, Belgium
397) Guy Cordeel, Beveren, Belgium
398) Veerle Decante, Beveren, Belgium
399) Lucienne Goormans, Beveren, Belgium
400) Marc Van Molle, Londerzeel, Belgium
401) Martine Gheysen, Machelen, Belgium
402) Marie-Anne Straetmans, Belgium
403) W. Patrick De Wilde, Huldenberg, Belgium
404) José Depuydt, Belgium
405) Anne De Smet, Belgium
406) Mark Hongenaert, Leuven, Belgium
407) Bart Feyaerts, Schriek, Belgium
408) Ann Van Meldert, Houthalen, Belgium
409) Kristien Coussement, Kessel-lo, Belgium
410) Griet Van Impe, Holsbeek, Belgium
411) Filip De Bodt, Herzele, Belgium
412) Marnix Schollaert,Herzele,Belgium
413) Tilly Jacobs, ronse, Belgium
414) Eric Devisscher, Hasselt, Belgium
415) Linda Bollen, Hasselt, Belgium
416) Guy Steegmans, Antwerpen, Belgium
417) Lucie Spranghers, Gent, Belgium!
418) Geert Colpaert, Gent, Belgium
419) Nard Besseling, Spijkenisse, The Netherlands
420) Hanneke Wiegers, Groet, The Netherlands
421) Martin Wanzenried, Schiedam, The Netherlands
422) Monique Lansdorp, Utrecht, The Netherlands
423) Rajyashree Ramamurthi, UK
424) Colin Waurzyniak, UK
423) Sophie McDonald, Southampton, UK
424) Ele Carpenter, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
425) Jeff Price Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
426) Louise Hepworth, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
427) Toby Lowe, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
428) Bernie Dodds, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
429) Jeff Cleverly, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
430) Xenia Beliayeva, Hamburg, Germany
431) Mark Moore, London, UK
432) Pascal Gabriel, London, UK
433) Val Boyko, Wayne, PA, USA
434) Hilary Reynell, Raleigh, NC, USA
435) Jackie Benton, Raleigh, NC, USA
436) Sarah Marom NYC NY,USA
437) Nancy Bellamy Upper St. Clair, PA, USA
438) Rose Lord, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
439) Eszter Szabo, Bethesda, MD, USA
440) James H. Kleiger, Bethesda, MD, USA
441) Mary Jo Peebles-Kleiger, Bethesda, MD, USA
442) Peggy Osna Heller, Potomac, MD, USA
443) Kenneth Gorelick, Washington, DC, USA
444) Cheryl Opacinch, Washington, DC, USA
445) Dorothy Gail, Washington, DC, USA
446) Deana Abramowitz, Santa Rosa, CA, USA
447) Liora Brosbe, Santa Rosa, CA, USA
448) Jeffrey R. Brosbe, San Diego, USA
449) James Newkirk, Salem, Or., USA
450) Jeri Fortier, San Diego, CA, USA
451) Naomi Norberg, Paris, France
452) Fabien Tuizat, Paris, France
453) Sophie Clercy,Paris, France
454) Christiane Groschêne, Paris, France
455) Jean Pierre Sikias, Beirut, Lebanon
456) Roula Safi, Beirut, Lebanon
457) May Aoun, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
458) Jun D.Capati, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
459! ) Maricar S. Amio, Philippines
460) Pia A. Magalona, Philippines
461) Myla C. Gaya, Philippines
462) Francis Magalona, Antipolo City,Rizal 1870, Philippines
463) Unna A., Philippines
464) Norbelle D. Santiago, Philippines
465) mae diola, Philippines
466) Bianca Zapanta, Philippines
467) marian hernandez, Philippines
468) Olivia R. Cruz, Philippines
469) Paola G. Francisco, Philippines
470) Arvin D. De Mesa, Philippines
471) Buena Grace Aquino, Philippines
472) Anna-Liza Alitagtag, Philippines
473) Mary Vivien G. Alcasabas, Manila- Philippines
474) Rica G. Zaldivar, Manila Philippines
475) Choppy G. Quiocho, Manila Philippines
476) Debbie Ann M. Gomez, Manila Philippines
477) Peter Paul A. Soliva, Cavite, PHILIPPINES
478) Gustpearl N. Tulagan, Pasay City, Philippines
479) Norman Vincent A. Baguisa, Manila, Philippines
480) Fernando, Philippines
481) AVILES, COZUMEL, QUINTANAROO, MEXICO
482) Ritzie J. Banzon - Makati, Philippines
483) Hazel P. Villonco - Makati, Philippines
484) Obregon.Vitoria-Gasteiz. Espana
485) Clarissa Magno Cua - Cupertino, CA, USA
486) Deanna Lamb - Cupertino, CA, USA
487) Graham Snyder - Cupertino, CA, USA
488) Leslie Zieren - San Jose, CA, USA
489) Wendy DAVIS - Tulsa, Ok. USA
490) Deborah Perry - Tulsa, OK, USA
491) James West - Tulsa, OK, USA
492) Janet Niemeyer - Bixby, OK, USA
493) Martin Niemeyer - Bixby, OK, USA
494) Becky Raymond - Dallas, TX, USA
495) Alice Ruffel - Dallas, TX, USA
496) James Skipper - Dallas, TX USA
497) Scott Tyrrell, Manchester, UK
498) Maryse Koll, Belgium
499) Marta Truno i Salvado, Barcelona, Catalonia
500) Marilyn Sutherland, Dallas TX USA
501) Marek J, (His body living and breathing in Dallas, TX USA)

Bonzo spoken here

''...most American writers have lost the ability to even think politically, or nationally, or internationally. In all the anthologies and magazines devoted to 9/11 and its aftermath, nearly every single writer resorted to first-person anecdote: "It reminded me of the day my father died..." "I took an herbal bath and decided to call an old boyfriend..."Barely a one could imagine the event outside of the context of the prison cell of their own expressive self. (Or, on the avant-garde, it was a little too real for ironic pastiche from their expressive non-self.)

''We are where we are in part because American writers-- supposedly the most articulate members of society-- have generally had nothing to say about the world for the last 30 years. How many of those 8000 poets have ever been to a Third World country (excluding beach vacations)? How many think it worthwhile to translate something? How many can name a single contemporary poet, not living in the U.S., from Latin America or Africa or Asia? In short, how many know anything more about the world than George Bush knows?

''After thirty years of self-absorption in MFA and MLA career-mongering and knee-jerk demography and the personal as political and the impersonal as poetical, American writers now have the government we deserve. We were good Germans under Reagan and Bush I; we were never able to separate Clinton's person from his policies and gave him a complacent benefit of the doubt; and the result is Cheney and Rumsfeld and Ashcroft and Perle and Wolfowitz and Scalia and Rice and their little president. They can't be stopped, but I do think they can be slowed down.'' Eliot Weinberger. Statement for "Poetry is News" conference, St. Mark's Poetry Project, NYC, 1 February 2003

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Are on-topic posts still allowed? Did I fix the fonts this time? This template is a rats nest.

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everyone's a fucking comedian over on this blog, so what's one more administrator. please, fix the main font somehow--bump it up a couple points?

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and Turner's no slouch either.

although we're pretty smart too. for administrators.

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On the Road Again

This week in Green Bay and Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Something Spooky up here. They have German language TV. Spreching of which, watch for my review of "The Spooky Art" coming in first draft to Sandhill Trek, and in a draft more polished to Blog Critics. And let's all wish Norman Mailer a happy 80th birthday tomorrow. Are you down with that Germaine?

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Sorry - my fault when I turned the black background off again. Is this better?

teeny tiny fonts

okay, who made the font so tiny around here--the title and left nav bar font is outta control small. see what happens, you make everyone an administrator and the place rolls into chaos. YEAH BABE!

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No I am George Walker Bush and my rectum hurts because I had to wear chaps at the ranch last week when I mounted that old mare--don't worry, my wife Barbara, oh dang I mean Laura, didn't mind. Ya'll need to put an undo button in this blogger thing because when I clicked on the text I wrote it plum disappeared.

About that oil. Yes I like oil. My wife Barbara, I mean larua, makes some nice garden salad with oil and vinegar and so I'm not afraid to kill for oil.

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HOW ABOUT THAT BORING FUCKING SUPERBOWLZzzzzzzzzzzzzz

i have absolutely nothing to contribute this evening.

but i wish someone would fix the font back up nice and tidy.

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ya'll take care, yahear?

Blame Paynter

IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED :
HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH
202.456.1414 / 202.456.1111
FAX: 202.456.2461

DEAR SIR / MADAM,
I AM GEORGE WALKER BUSH, SON OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, AND CURRENTLY SERVING AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT MET NEITHER IN PERSON NOR BY CORRESPONDENCE. I CAME TO KNOW OF YOU IN MY SEARCH FOR A RELIABLE AND REPUTABLE PERSON TO HANDLE A VERY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS TRANSACTION, WHICH INVOLVES THE TRANSFER OF A HUGE SUM OF MONEY TO AN ACCOUNT REQUIRING MAXIMUM CONFIDENCE.

I AM WRITING YOU IN ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE PRIMARILY TO SEEK YOUR ASSISTANCE IN ACQUIRING OIL FUNDS THAT ARE PRESENTLY TRAPPED IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ. MY PARTNERS AND I SOLICIT YOUR ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING A TRANSACTION BEGUN BY MY FATHER, WHO HAS LONG BEEN ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN THE EXTRACTION OF PETROLEUM IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND BRAVELY SERVED HIS COUNTRY AS DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. IN THE DECADE OF THE NINETEEN-EIGHTIES, MY FATHER, THEN VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SOUGHT TO WORK WITH THE GOOD OFFICES OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ TO REGAIN LOST OIL REVENUE SOURCES IN THE NEIGHBORING ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN. THIS UNSUCCESSFUL VENTURE WAS SOON FOLLOWED BY A FALLING OUT WITH HIS IRAQI PARTNER, WHO SOUGHT TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL OIL REVENUE SOURCES IN THE NEIGHBORING EMIRATE OF KUWAIT, A WHOLLY-OWNED U.S.-BRITISH SUBSIDIARY.


MY FATHER RE-SECURED THE PETROLEUM ASSETS OF KUWAIT IN 1991 AT A COST OF SIXTY-ONE BILLION U.S. DOLLARS ($61,000,000,000). OUT OF THAT COST, THIRTY-SIX BILLION DOLLARS ($36,000,000,000) WERE SUPPLIED BY HIS PARTNERS IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA AND OTHER PERSIAN GULF MONARCHIES, AND SIXTEEN BILLION DOLLARS ($16,000,000,000) BY GERMAN AND JAPANESE PARTNERS. BUT MY FATHER'S FORMER IRAQI BUSINESS PARTNER REMAINED IN CONTROL OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND ITS PETROLEUM RESERVES. MY FAMILY IS CALLING FOR YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE IN FUNDING THE REMOVAL OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND ACQUIRING THE PETROLEUM ASSETS OF HIS COUNTRY, AS COMPENSATION FOR THE COSTS OF REMOVING HIM FROM POWER. UNFORTUNATELY, OUR PARTNERS FROM 1991 ARE NOTWILLING TO SHOULDER THE BURDEN OF THIS NEW VENTURE, WHICH IN ITS UPCOMING PHASE MAY COST THE SUM OF 100 BILLION TO 200 BILLION DOLLARS ($100,000,000,000 - $200,000,000,000), BOTH IN THE INITIAL ACQUISITION AND IN LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT.

WITHOUT THE FUNDS FROM OUR 1991 PARTNERS, WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ACQUIRE THE OIL REVENUE TRAPPED WITHIN IRAQ. THAT IS WHY MY FAMILY AND OUR COLLEAGUES ARE URGENTLY SEEKING YOUR GRACIOUS ASSISTANCE. OUR DISTINGUISHED COLLEAGUES IN THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION INCLUDE THE SITTING VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, RICHARD CHENEY, WHO IS AN ORIGINAL PARTNER IN THE IRAQ VENTURE AND FORMER HEAD OF THE HALLIBURTON OIL COMPANY, AND CONDOLEEZA RICE, WHOSE PROFESSIONAL DEDICATION TO THE VENTURE WAS DEMONSTRATED IN THE NAMING OF A CHEVRON OIL TANKER AFTER HER.

I WOULD BESEECH YOU TO TRANSFER A SUM EQUALING TEN TO TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT (10-25 %) OF YOUR YEARLY INCOME TO OUR ACCOUNT TO AID IN THIS IMPORTANT VENTURE. THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL FUNCTION AS OUR TRUSTED INTERMEDIARY. I PROPOSE THAT YOU MAKE THIS TRANSFER BEFORE THE FIFTEENTH (15TH) OF THE MONTH OF APRIL.

I KNOW THAT A TRANSACTION OF THIS MAGNITUDE WOULD MAKE ANYONE APPREHENSIVE AND WORRIED. BUT I AM ASSURING YOU THAT ALL WILL BE WELL AT THE END OF THE DAY. A BOLD STEP TAKEN SHALL NOT BE REGRETTED, I ASSURE YOU. PLEASE DO BE INFORMED THAT THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION IS 100% LEGAL. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO CO-OPERATE IN THIS TRANSACTION, PLEASE CONTACT OUR INTERMEDIARY REPRESENTATIVES TO FURTHER DISCUSS THE MATTER.

I PRAY THAT YOU UNDERSTAND OUR PLIGHT. MY FAMILY AND OUR COLLEAGUES WILL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL. PLEASE REPLY IN STRICT CONFIDENCE TO THE CONTACT NUMBERS BELOW.

SINCERELY WITH WARM REGARDS,

GEORGE WALKER BUSH

Switchboard: 202.456.1414
Comments: 202.456.1111
Fax: 202.456.2461
Email: president@whitehouse.gov

- ripped from fp's public space for self and other expression.

Lovely weekend to all

And here again I am without the net connectinon. DirecTVdsl is going out of business and I am cut off. Been like that for a week. (who fell on their head as a child and came up with direcTVdsl name for a Satellite TV DSL service over phone lines? it's as if someone came up with a name-brand 'Microsoft Wheels Pedaling Vehicle' instead of a common Bicycle. One would then have to start looking for the presence of the operating system before placing one's boots on the pedals, well, never mind...not funny at all)

Can't use Net at work (well, I could but I have been reprimended several times already and since noone hires trouble-makers these days.. (well, never mind...)) - OK, where were we? Aha, the DSL troubles which are not trobules at all considering the troubles Fast Company has with modality. So we say Hello to Melinda Davis who knows how to achieve with modality and self referrential narrative what thousands have tried to achieve with real substance and soul searching. Thanks Tom for the link

Update 30 minutes late: (Ahem, yes I was being a smart ass mentioning Melinda Davis. it's quite hard to contextualize one's immediate sarcastic reactions to such a vulgar display of marketing obviousness. One would have to have the ability to generate blinding flashes of obvious brilliance at the snap of the finger (or one's elastic band in italian underwear (the snap of elastic of course and not italian finger... gosh... when will you finally learn to think beneath the noise of words?... Never mind...)

And now for something completely the same:
This weekend I will be hard at work applying Imaginative Pastures License Tehchnology to all the posts, articles and snippets of brilliant thoughts I have produced in the last 3 years. It will be a weekend filled with fingerlicking goodness. Yum Yum. Good day.

Another Floyd Kick

Arnold Kling had a strange hobby
Collecting crap
Moonshine bottom line
They suit him fine
On the wall hung a tall mirror
Distorted view, see through baby blue
Oh, Arnold Kling
It's not the same, takes two to know Two to know, two to know
Why can't you see? Arnold Kling, Arnold Kling, Arnold Kling, Arnold Kling

Now he's caught - a nasty sort of person
They gave him time
Doors bang - chain gang - he hates it
Oh, Arnold Kling
It's not the same, takes two to know
Two to know, two to know
Why can't you see?
Arnold Kling, Arnold Kling, Arnold Kling

Arnold Kling, Don't do it again

Clay Flips off Hilary

Clay Shirky, lately of this parish, suggests we apply Gonzo principles to the music industry's A&R schemes. The next day, Hilary Rosen resigns.
Who'll help me build it?

by golly he's got it!

Denise, thanks for letting us know what sushi-boy is up to. I have evaluated his technology and currently see no flaws with either his production model or supply chain. In fact, to me, it seems as if it is all pretty legit and actually a very cost effective way to share our scents:



Technology reminds us never to take ourselves too seriously.

Sushi Anyone?

With wasabe and marmalade, please.

use this unique flexible word more often in your daily speech

"fuck"

poetry is the solution poetry is the solution poetry?

"I don't know what I've been looking for, maybe me" ~ Shawn Mullins

I said "I don't reckon i'll be
makin it big,
you know it's hard to get rich
with this blogging shit"

and he said "yeah, but ain't it a blessin
to do what you wanna do..."

and I told him "yeah, I pulled off here
to watch the sun disappear into the ocean
`cause it's been years
since I smelled this salty sea"

I might just lay here
and dream my life away

Ashcroft's Red Crayons migthier than the pen of Eldred

Supreme Court has ruled. Where do we go from here? Who are we now? hmm.... maybe we can quote some Aziz Nesin

... so I assumed the name of "Nesin" (What-are-you?). I wanted to think of what I was and pull myself together whenever anyone called "What-are-you?". In 1937 I became an officer, you know, a Napoleon. Well really, I was merely one of the Napoleons. Every new officer thinks himself Napoleon. Some of them never recover from this sickness; it lasts a whole lifetime. Others are cured after awhile. ''Napoleonitis'' is a dangerous and contagious disease. The symptoms are these: The victims think only of Napoleon's victories, never of his defeats; they are prone to tuck a right hand between jacket buttons; they stand before a map of the world, drawing arrows with a red crayon and, after subjugating and occupying the entire world in five minutes, regret that the world is so small. ... As a fresh young officer, twenty-two or twenty-three, I conquered the world a few times on the map with a red crayon"

~ from Aziz Nasim

And so the Public Domain has a lot of red crayon smears all over it. I guess all we ever asked for is to - "please put your red crayons away for a while". (Maybe, please don't smear all over the place). Alas the Red Crayon marks remain for many years.

Thanks Kevin to a pointer of Donna's Excellent Copyfight notes

Limited Times

This blog is black today as the US Supreme Court decided 7-2 against overturning the 1998 copyright extension.
Time to start a campaign for a congressional bill repealing it instead.

ahem

Fe fo fom! She jist does hopes till byes will be byes. Here, and it goes on to appear now, she comes, a peacefugle, a parody's bird, a peri potmother, a pringlpik in the ilandiskippy, with peewee and powwows in beggybaggy on her bickybacky and a flick flask fleckflinging its pixylighting pacts' huemeramybows, picking here, pecking there, pussypussy plunderpussy.

This moment from writing in history is nothing more than the recursive call of the vulgata blogata.

is the space between blogs a conversation, a question, an answer, a placebo?

This is just a rough draft of a blog entry that's in the process of denying its usefulness.

Fishrush offers some rough notes toward a perplexification of a question some of us have been wondering about...

graveyard poem

by jim morrison...

It was the greatest night of my life
Although I still had not found a wife
I had my friends right there beside me
We scaled the wall
We tripped through the graveyard
Ancient shapes were all around us
No music but the wet grass
felt fresh beside the fog

Two made love in a silent spot
one chased a rabbit into the dark
A girl got drunk & balled the dead
And I gave empty sermons to my head

Cemetery cool & quiet
Hate to leave your sacred lay
Dread the milky coming of the day
I´d love to stay
I´d love to stay
I´d love to stay

An email from Marek - Rewriting John Maynard Keynes in 2003

"The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic
of mankind. Very few of us realise with conviction the intensely unusual,
unstable, complicated, unreliable, temporary nature of the economic
organisation by which American Command and Control Narcissistic Elite
Coroporations have lived for the last century.

We assume some of the most peculiar and temporary of our late advantages in
technology as natural, permanent, and to be depended on - and we lay our plans
accordingly, and on this sandy and false foundation we scheme for social
improvement and dress our political platforms, pursue our animosities and
particular ambitions...(Hello to all you guys in Washington D.C.)

The outward aspect of life does not yet teach us to feel or realise in the
least that an age is over. We are busy picking up the threads of our life where
we dropped them, with this difference only, that many of us seem a good deal
poorer than we were before - with our hopes of winning a lottery in the land of
somewhere, someday.

Where we wasted billions before (Yo, Enron boys.), we have now learnt that we
can spend hundreds of billions (on two fronts) and apparently not suffer for it
(Yo Mister President.) We look, therefore, not only to a return to the
comforts of 1980s, but to an immense broadening and intensification of them.
All classes alike thus build their plans, the rich to spend more and save less,
the poor to spend more and work less (rising tide lifs all the boats, Yeah
baby.)

But perhaps it is only in Amerika (Para Espanol press numero dos) that it is
possible to be so unconscious. In the rest of the world the earth heaves and no
one but is aware of the rumblings. There it is not just a matter of
extravagance or 'labour troubles'; but of life and death (Yo, my people in
Somalia), of starvation and existence (Yo, my people in Sudan), and of the
fearful convulsions of a dying civilisation (Farewell to you Arabian Nights of
Kurdistan)

In this winter of 2003 in which I write, we are at the dead season of our
fortunes. The reaction from the exertions, the fears, and the sufferings of the
past years is at its height. Our power of feeling or caring beyond the
immediate questions of our own material well-being is temporarily eclipsed. We
have been moved already beyond endurance, and need rest. Never in the lifetime
of men now living has the universal element in the soul of man burnt so dimly.
For these reasons the true voice of the new generation has not yet spoken"

Thank you for your attention
Marek J
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The above was appropriated, reconfigured and adapted from John Maynard Keynes's
introduction to "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" in the year of Our Lord, The Decimal System 1919.

P.S. Thanks Tom for posting. I didn't have means during the day.

Looking for James Joyce's Grave

and Andy White sings...

"I found his grave
high on a hill right beside the zoo
with a beautiful view of the city
first I saw the crosslegged
bookholding cigarette smoking statue
specs slicked hair the fiery wiry
keeper and crucifier of his country's conscience
and all of our unconscious
in an autumn crescent of gold green and brown
I brushed fallen leaves off the inscription plaque
which was just beside the zoo
with a beautiful view of the city"

On January 13th, 1941 James Joyce did a Bada Bing.

Romain Rolland: Colas Breugnon - Dobrý èlovek ešte žije

I can't find any english texts about the novel "Colas Breugnon", the masterpiece of Romain Rolland so I am quoting in Czech and Polish

"Colas Breugnon: umelec - rezbár, meš�an burgundského mesta Clamecy, poctivý, dobrého srdca so zdravou galskou veselos�ou, vierou v život a láskou k nemu. Pomocou týchto vlastností prekonáva všetky �ažkosti a vždy a radostne, smelo pozerá v ústrety k novým dòom, i keï vopred vie, že zase budú �ažké a trpké. Vie sa vždy zmieri� aj s najhorším neš�astím, nestráca nikdy humor, ktorý je zdrojom jeho životnej múdrosti, životného optimizmu."

Some tidbits: "Colas Breugnon" was a challenge for Valdimir Nabokov to translate into Russian and he did a fine job
Amazon.com has a book but you have to special order it and there is no English review. Amazon France has a review in French which I translated using google translatador contraption: "At fifty years, Breugnon Colas, robust country Burgundian of the XVII century, believes to have gained drinks it to blow a little. A pot the wine on its line, a book and a encrier in front of him, it undertakes to tell it. To tell what? All, tales of formerly and life as it is, the lived anecdote and good stories, at the rate/rhythm of the festivals and village work. The priest Short, the as faithful one to the Bottle as with the gate vault. The shepherd, the wolf and the lamb, lucid fable on the small ones of this world, always victims, even of those which claim to protect them... All that gives flesh to a rustic wisdom, rabelaisienne and lucid. "

Lovely book. Great reading. I have a copy in Polish published in 1987 and it's time to read the book again.
Did I mention Rolland got a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915

Swety Marcin pije wino
Wode pozostawia mlynom
(french proverb in polish)

The Light outside 4 walls

This from Jeneane - "You watch children in the country, and you know this is how it's supposed to be. Family insanity and dysfunction can't penetrate the thick borders of nature.
Inside the house, there isn't much sunlight, not much growth, stagnant. Destruction courtesy of adults.
But outside is the children's domain."

EGR: Burning Down The World

We are not trying to prove the world's existence. We are trying to imagine it. Together.

The together part is where the real problems begin. I can have
visions, as can you. Natural selection, celestial mechanics,
superstrings. Tarot readings, intuition, love. Are these two
categories or one? Faith and proof are at war to know, while sugar
plums dance in our heads. If all you've got is a computer, everything
looks like a cognitive process. If all you've got is paradise,
everyone looks like a lion or a lamb