Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed
Summertime

Tasty!
A YT commenter points out that Atkins is playing a fretless guitar.

If you have trouble with the vid, here’s the link to it

September 14th, 2006
by Greg Palast

Forget the orange suit. Exxon Mobil Corporation, which admits it was behind the criminal complaint brought by Homeland Security against me and television producer Matt Pascarella, has informed me that the oil company will no longer push charges that Pascarella and I threatened “critical infrastructure.”

Greg’s complete post here

PNAC PROJECT DIRECTORS
William Kristol, Chairman
Robert Kagag
Bruce P Jackson
Mark Gerson
Randy Scheunemann

PROJECT STAFF
Ellen Bork, Acting Executive Director
Gary Schmitt, Senior Fellow
Thomas Donnelly, Senior Fellow
Ruel Marc Gerecht, Senior Fellow, Director of Mid-East Initiative
Timothy Lehmann, Assistant Director
Michael Goldfarb, Research Associate

MEMBERS
Elliott Abrams
Gary Bauer
William J Bennett
Jeb Bush
Dick Cheney
Eliot A Cohen
Midge Decter
Paula Dobriansky
Steve Forbes
Aaron Friedberg
Francis Fukutama
Frank Gaffney
Fred C Ikle
Donald Kagan
Zalmay Khalilzad
Lewis Libby
Norman Podhoretz
Dan Quayle
Peter W Rodman
Steven P Rosen
Hanry S Rowan
Donald Rumsfeld
Vin Weber
George Weigel
Paul Wolfowitz

‘An Ideology Packs It In’

In America at present, a completely un-American debate is germinating: Is it time for neo-conservatism’s obituary?

If political theories have an address, the address of neo-conservatism reads 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC. There on the fifth floor in rather ordinary-looking offices reside a half dozen right-wing intellectuals, who supply a steady stream of arguments for the propagation of democracy and a world dominated by America. The little club is called The Project for the New American Century . In 1997 nearly every important American neoconservative signed the club’s founding charter. The thinking that evolved here then circulated amongst a group of friendly think tanks. With the election of George Bush to the presidency and especially after 9/11, the significance of the think tank increased, even if the staff size remained small. Neo-conservatism was a dominant force in American foreign policy, and the network of friends had become a network of power.

Now, nine years later, the Project for the New American Century is closing - due to a shortage of funds, it is said. Those that remain there are looking for work. Their ranks are thinning. The New American Century has taken too long to arrive. An ideology is packed up and in moving crates. One couldn-t have a sight more pregnant with symbolism.

DELIGHTFUL STORY HERE!

If your would like to tell these m’fers Goodbye and Good Riddance
here’s where to do it.

Alien Rest Stop

Here lies the problem with Bush’s way of doing things. It’s just WRONG!!!!!!!!! The world can see it…..why can’t Americans see it?

By ROBERT TANNER
The U.S. military in Iraq has imprisoned an Associated Press photographer for five months, accusing him of being a security threat but never filing charges or permitting a public hearing.

Military officials said Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi citizen, was being held for “imperative reasons of security” under United Nations resolutions. AP executives said the news cooperative’s review of Hussein’s work did not find anything to indicate inappropriate contact with insurgents, and any evidence against him should be brought to the Iraqi criminal justice system.

Hussein, 35, is a native of Fallujah who began work for the AP in September 2004. He photographed events in Fallujah and Ramadi until he was detained on April 12 of this year.

“We want the rule of law to prevail. He either needs to be charged or released. Indefinite detention is not acceptable,” said Tom Curley, AP’s president and chief executive officer. “We’ve come to the conclusion that this is unacceptable under Iraqi law, or Geneva Conventions, or any military procedure.”

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I read on page 16 of the paper this morning that 150 people have died in 4 days in Iraq. Iraq, people……keep your eye on the ball. All this talk of terrorist plots and terror terror terror is to get you to take your eye off the ball. The big fat Iraq ball!!! 40 U.S. troops have died in 17 days. 168 U.S. troops wounded so far this month. One U.S. soldier captured or missing on September 14th. Oh, and let’s not forget that other ball…..Afghanistan, where things are spiralling downward. This should be on the front page of every American newspaper. What was on the front of my newspaper this morning??? “Chavez’s hostility alarming to Jews.”

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide truck bomb exploded in the city of Kirkuk in Iraq’s Kurdish north Sunday in an attack that left at least 18 people dead and another 55 wounded, police said.

A gunman sitting beside the suicide bomber opened fire on civilians before the truck slammed into the city’s criminal court and exploded, said police Brig. Sarhat Qadir. At least 18 people were killed and 55 were wounded in the attack in the center of Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, police said.BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide truck bomb exploded in the city of Kirkuk in Iraq’s Kurdish north Sunday in an attack that left at least 18 people dead and another 55 wounded, police said.

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DENVER (AP) — Ten Nobel Peace Prize laureates called for world peace and took aim at U.S. policy makers, asking an enthusiastic crowd of 7,000 youth to demand that the United States pull back its military, spread its wealth and offer aid to developing countries.

Only the Dalai Lama, whose speech at the three-day PeaceJam convention at the University of Denver was interrupted when a fire alarm went off, did not take a direct jab at the U.S.

”After the painful events of September 11, I wish that America would have built a school in Afghanistan in the name of every victim,” said Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian judge and 2003 Peace Prize recipient. ”When someone claims he has a vision from God to bring war to Iraq, this is a kind of terrorism.”

The Dalai Lama called on the world to open itself to religious tolerance.

PeaceJam, a Colorado-based program in its 10th year, hosts conventions around the world, bringing teenagers together with Nobel laureates to talk about what they can do to promote peace.

Founders Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff say the interaction between the teens and laureates can build a generation that will tackle the big issues of poverty, disease and war.

One after the other Saturday night, the laureates called on Americans to do something about their government’s foreign policy. From efforts to close the border with Mexico to Iraq to arms exports, the Nobel laureates had words for the U.S. government.

”Stand up. Take action,” said Jody Williams, the 1997 recipient for her work opposing land mines, and the only American to take the stage. ”Don’t try to bring democracy to people you don’t understand through the barrel of a gun and leave them with civil war.”

The Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who praised the U.S. for its fight against South Africa’s apartheid and its history of justice and democracy, also had stern words for the Bush administration.

”You taught us no government worth its salt can subvert the rule of law. We believed you,” he said. ”That’s part of what you have as a gift for the world. Then how can you commit Guantanamo Bay? Take back your country.”

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It is so bizarre that I came across this article this morning. Last night, we had a discussion about “lawn jockeys” with people on the boat behind ours. God only knows how we got on the subject…. I think we were talking about toys of old, and the English woman said she had a “gollywag” toy set when she was a kid, which is totally politically incorrect in this day and age…..and it went from there. And then here’s this article first thing this morning. Life is strange……ain’t it?

Driving along the outskirts of Washington on a late summer afternoon, you sometimes spot a head peeping out of a ragged patch of black-eyed Susans, and you wonder: What is that lawn jockey doing there? Who put him there? Why?

Plaster saints — we know what those stand for. On a more whimsical note, the same goes for the garden gnome, the stag, the Dutch girl with the fishing rod.

But the lawn jockey? He’s a ghost from the days of plantations and magnolias, fox hunts and manorial estates.

To some, particularly African Americans, the lawn jockey is a pint’size monument to repugnant stereotypes, a holdover from the days of slavery and Jim Crow, an artifact of racial prejudice alongside Aunt Jemima.

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