READER COMMENTS ON
"New Software Issues with BRAD BLOG..."
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COMMENT #1 [Permalink]
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Bluebear2
said on 6/12/2006 @ 12:49 pm PT...
Brad - This is the second attempt to post this comment. Another victim of the first post after moving to a new thread. I copied that post and have included it here - see below:
Hey Brad, I guess you've been having one hell of a time!
Keep trying friend, we appreciate all you do!
It's been a challenge to get through the learning curve with this new software.
The biggest problem I've had is with lost comment posts.
It only seems to occur with the first post I make when coming into the site and sometimes when moving to a different thread.
I've tried to see a pattern in the code numbers and letters, like all numbers or all letters thet might cause it, but the only thing that stands out is the first post thing.
Hope you guys can get it all figured out soon so you can get some rest!
Thanks again!
COMMENT #2 [Permalink]
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Brad
said on 6/12/2006 @ 1:42 pm PT...
You think even after we figure it out that I'm gonna get any rest?! What world are you livin' in Bluebear2?
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agent99
said on 6/12/2006 @ 2:18 pm PT...
Heh. Bluebear 2 is an optimistic kinda guy, and a very good influence on frazzled and snarky secret agents. You missed one of my most articulate days yesterday, and I was that way because I'd gotten a decent night's sleep for once, so Bluebear that in mind, Brad. It's good for our work against the forces of KAOS.
I not only just lost my first attempt, it wouldn't paste to try again! Make sure there are no double agents in the machine. Second attempt lost, but would paste.
Today's password is: Virtue Smirtue
COMMENT #4 [Permalink]
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JUDGE OF JUDGES
said on 6/12/2006 @ 2:23 pm PT...
Brad - Good to hear you on the Ed Shultz show.
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Doug
said on 6/12/2006 @ 2:31 pm PT...
Way to go Brad just heard you on the Ed Schultz show, Im glad he pays attention to his E-mails, I and Im sure numerous others responded to his not so good coverage of the Kennedy article. At that time he seemed to think it was sour grapes and we need to do better at getting out the vote yadda yadda. We can organize our asses off and get the vote out but if the system is corrupt it wont matter. Anyhow keep up the good work!
COMMENT #6 [Permalink]
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agent99
said on 6/12/2006 @ 4:12 pm PT...
I thought Shultz had lost his street cred for liberal radio...?
COMMENT #7 [Permalink]
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Peg C
said on 6/12/2006 @ 6:05 pm PT...
Hi all. I still can't get a smilie to work the way the rest of you seem to be able to. Could it be my brouser? It's IE. I know, I know...
COMMENT #8 [Permalink]
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Peg C
said on 6/12/2006 @ 6:08 pm PT...
Hey! That time it worked! Never mind...
COMMENT #9 [Permalink]
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Bluebear2
said on 6/12/2006 @ 6:22 pm PT...
Peg C
At least it's an upside down smile!
COMMENT #10 [Permalink]
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Bluebear2
said on 6/12/2006 @ 6:23 pm PT...
Hey that one - #9 went thru first time!
COMMENT #11 [Permalink]
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Bluebear2
said on 6/12/2006 @ 6:27 pm PT...
BRAD #2
Wishfull thinking for your benefit!
I guess it must be your youth that lets you keep on going.
Thanks for the effort!
COMMENT #12 [Permalink]
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Toni
said on 6/12/2006 @ 7:09 pm PT...
Was listening to AirAmerica today. Thom Hartmann was talking with Rep. Cynthia McKinney. She brought up Brad Friedman and Bradblog. Good comments praising Bradblog for devoting so much work and energy to voting rights, abuses, etc.
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big dan
said on 6/12/2006 @ 7:33 pm PT...
So you're getting more traffic, Brad?
COMMENT #14 [Permalink]
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big dan
said on 6/12/2006 @ 7:34 pm PT...
The cream of the blogosphere is rising to the top!!!
COMMENT #15 [Permalink]
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Soul Rebel
said on 6/12/2006 @ 7:39 pm PT...
COMMENT #16 [Permalink]
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JUDGE OF JUDGES
said on 6/12/2006 @ 7:46 pm PT...
Brad - Why are all the "1s" not dotted . . . . . Just fool1n. . .
COMMENT #17 [Permalink]
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Bluebear2
said on 6/12/2006 @ 7:47 pm PT...
Soul Rebel - I read that Florida article earlier today - unbelievable! One person in so many positions with each position holding the others hand! The candidate sure needs some help from someone who knows the law!
COMMENT #18 [Permalink]
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big dan
said on 6/12/2006 @ 7:54 pm PT...
Some OT notes: Hurricane "Alberto" Gonzalez is about to hit Florida. There is a hurricane survival kit being sold in Florida for $4,995.00. HALLIBURTON MAKES HURRICANE SURVIVAL KITS???
9 hurricanes from now, when they get to the "J"'s, "Hurricane Jeb" will make it's way in from the gulf side of Florida.
COMMENT #19 [Permalink]
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Bluebear2
said on 6/12/2006 @ 7:58 pm PT...
Speaking of Florida, I hope our friend Floridiot is OK with the hurricane bearing down on them. The wind prediction isn't real bad, but the rain and storm surge are supposed to be bad.
Wishing you well Florida!
COMMENT #20 [Permalink]
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big dan
said on 6/12/2006 @ 7:59 pm PT...
Hurricane Alberto will not follow Geneva Convention rules, as it plows through the panhandle.
COMMENT #21 [Permalink]
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Bluebear2
said on 6/12/2006 @ 7:59 pm PT...
Brad -
The lost comment thing seems like it may be time related, if I take much time between posts the first time I send it it is lost.
COMMENT #22 [Permalink]
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Bluebear2
said on 6/12/2006 @ 8:01 pm PT...
Notice how Hurricane Alberto avoided Cuba?
COMMENT #23 [Permalink]
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big dan
said on 6/12/2006 @ 8:39 pm PT...
COMMENT #24 [Permalink]
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Soul Rebel
said on 6/12/2006 @ 9:06 pm PT...
Big Dan...they can't use DeLay anymore.
COMMENT #25 [Permalink]
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MMIIXX
said on 6/12/2006 @ 10:24 pm PT...
Attorney Elsebeth Baumgartner is facing 66 years and 6 months in jail in a political payback case for uncovering serious corruption in Cuyahoga Country, OH, which leads directly to the White House. She faces 109 years for emailing a ranking Ohio judge and running a controversial website accusing high-ranking Ohio officials of serious crimes. She is now being held in jail as a political prisoner.
She exposed case fixing via visiting judges to cover up federal grant fraud, insurance fraud and thefts of public resources by Ohio law firms. She reported this to the FBI and the DOJ including allegations of extortion, drug trafficking, weapons running and various sex crimes including child pornography and other crimes against women and children.
She has already spent 244 days in jail, including 10 days in solitary confinement. She is considered a domestic terrorist. She has been denied legal counsel, clergy and even a phone call.
http://calltodecision.com/aeb.htm
WTF?
COMMENT #26 [Permalink]
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Sally
said on 6/12/2006 @ 11:09 pm PT...
Brad
The new printable, very readable pages are a great addition. Is it Ok to e-mail the whole page to people? Thought I'd better ask as its your blog and copywrite. Its easy in IE with the "send page by email" option. Tried it in firefox but can only send links. Personally when I get a link I often don't go there unless there's some interesting text with it or the headline grabs my attention. Don't worry I'm not going to spam the world with it. Just a few choice news agencies, political organizations and the BBC.
COMMENT #27 [Permalink]
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Brad
said on 6/12/2006 @ 11:19 pm PT...
Sally -
I ask only that you make as much damn noise as you possible can with any and all of the information you find on these pages!
COMMENT #28 [Permalink]
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Sally
said on 6/13/2006 @ 12:37 am PT...
#25 MMIIXX
What an unbelievable story about Elsebeth Baumgartner. I did a search of Google News for her and only a couple of local news stories. If this were to go MSM I think more people would start to realize Bushes unwarrented spying is highly suspect.
You say she faces 66 years in jail. Does that mean she has been sentenced or a possible sentence.
If I were a blogger right now e.g. Brad I'd be moving me and my server overseas and blogging from there. I would also be moving before any charges could be layed to avoid deportation orders. Why should you be pushed from your own country. The thing is if it can keep you speaking and free then the cause is still alive. Thats a personal choice of course and one which depends on many things in ones life.
Brad,I hope you have an emergency help team to get you out if needed.
COMMENT #29 [Permalink]
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eljunda
said on 6/13/2006 @ 5:24 am PT...
bwahahahahahahah, no rove indictment, no fitzmas for vous, Little Joey Wilson's going to jail. All your base are belong to Karl Rove. Poor misguided liberals
COMMENT #30 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 6/13/2006 @ 5:35 am PT...
No Rove indictment ... I originally said Fitz had been compromised with an offer he could not refuse.
Then when Leopold came out with his truthout article and another reporter also said that Rove would be indicted ... I said I was glad to be wrong.
Now that it is so that I was correct, I shudder. They deliberately set Leopold up and he bit.
Take note MSM and the real press as well ... the republican dictatorship is moving into total control a little bit at a time.
The total contol of the press via targeted warfare is the new deal.
Is everyone in favor of the draft bill introduced on 6/6/06? I don't know why but Brad seems to be in favor of it. It is probably the large detail paid to CO status.
COMMENT #31 [Permalink]
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JUDGE OF JUDGES
said on 6/13/2006 @ 6:58 am PT...
No Rove indictment, They must have got to FRitz. No question in my mind(national security)no orange alerts until a Dem speaks . . .
What ever happened to the firing squad??? If the Dens are ever in power they should bring it back.....that may be the key to winning...
COMMENT #32 [Permalink]
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Floridiot
said on 6/13/2006 @ 7:18 am PT...
I'm here Dan, It was so weird, the Gonzales (hurricane) was cranking up right off shore from my place they were ready to call it a Hurricane, evacuation orders were given, about an hour later the sun came out, so I went back and looked at the radar on the NOAA site, and the storm had gotten some dry air from behind and totally dissapated
COMMENT #33 [Permalink]
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JUDGE OF JUDGES
said on 6/13/2006 @ 7:38 am PT...
The (FUCKING) bush Crime Family must have made fitz. one of those offers . . . . . That he could not refuse . . .
Expect that fitz will have no accidents for in near future.
COMMENT #34 [Permalink]
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Joan
said on 6/13/2006 @ 7:47 am PT...
Floridiot,
I'm here in Florida too & right now it's completely quiet, not a breath of wind or a sprinkle of rain.
COMMENT #35 [Permalink]
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Floridiot
said on 6/13/2006 @ 7:58 am PT...
Yeah Joan, I got about 30mph steady wind with gusts, but the sun is shining brightly
COMMENT #36 [Permalink]
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Soul Rebel
said on 6/13/2006 @ 8:22 am PT...
Yes JoJ, someone was paid off. I almost stayed in bed today I'm so fucking depressed over this Rove shit.
COMMENT #37 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 6/13/2006 @ 8:36 am PT...
IMAGE TEST:
Floridiot, this is St. Augustine Beach area:
... where I watch the surf which is:
Meanwhile ... America dies at the hand of the republican dictatorship.
COMMENT #38 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 6/13/2006 @ 8:41 am PT...
IMAGE TEST RESULTS:
The software strips out images, even tho they show up in the COMMENT PREVIEW window.
Try this:
[img src="https://BradBlog.com/Images/emoticons/blush.gif"/]
After replacing the '[' and ']' with a '' ... the blush emoticon will show in the COMMENT PREVIEW window but will not show in the final post ...
STOP THE DRAFT ... BILL ... introduced 6/6/06 !!!!!
COMMENT #39 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 6/13/2006 @ 8:49 am PT...
... it also strips out '' chars ... in my post #38 (hope that number does not change) replace the brackets with one at the beginning and one at the end and you will see that the comment preview window allows images but they are stripped out at post time ...
we all have to learn it all over again ... and the Annie "Get Your Gun" GANNON-GUCKERT images are forever banned at BradBlog now ?????
COMMENT #40 [Permalink]
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AYTQ
said on 6/13/2006 @ 8:49 am PT...
It will take five minutes to read this and another five minutes to take action, proposed below. Your action could literally change the world. This is a non-partisan issue! Please post this on liberal AND conservative blogs.
Recently Mark Malloch Brown, the eloquent-speaking number two at the United Nations, said that "Middle America" did not know how the US is constructively engaged with the UN because of UN detractors and too much unchecked UN-bashing and stereotyping over too many years. Friends, the UN deserves to be bashed and bashed hard. Please allow us to give you a glimpse into how the United Nations is run:
Hirings and promotions routinely violate UN rules (and are illegal under some national laws) and revolve around patronage and whom one knows rather than professional qualifications. Poorly performing managers are simply moved into different management slots while others are placed in senior positions only because of their nationality, or because of favors owed to them by their supervisors or colleagues.
Salaries for UN employees are free of taxes and come with six weeks vacation, 11 holidays, 10 sick days that are often used as vacation, plus 4 weeks of home leave, rental and housing grants to supplement an already generous salary (we all make an average of $7,000-$10,000 a month tax free), a pension at 8% of salary times years of service that can be cashed out tax free (one-third of which can be taken as a lumop-sum at retirement), and educational subsidies for children of UN employees. Many also participate in an "alternative work schedule" in which they get every other Friday off. But don't even try to apply. Your application will not be acknowledged nor will you ever get invited for a job interview. You must know someone to work at the UN (or worse, sleep with them).
Several of us have advanced degrees in management and have been trained to manage large public organizations, yet we are blocked from advancing by arrogant men in the 50s with no management training, education, or experience - only sitting in their chairs because they are friends with someone in a higher position. We threaten them because they know they are there based only on their connections.
And there is a profound lack of accountability within the UN regarding resource allocation. Simple procurement that would normally take five minutes using modern technology systems takes 2-3 months in the UN. And many United Nations Development Program country offices pay "local experts" outrageously high sums of money for products of dubious quality. Such contracts would never be made by other international aid agencies such as USAID that have much stronger internal controls and oversight.
We are all familiar with outrageous examples of graft and corruption within the UN system, and yet time and again the scandal is covered up. In fact, a recent article on internal management in the Financial Times cited a UN-commissioned report released in 1994 that was remarkably damning and yet, as the article noted, nothing has changed which has led to this present crisis of credibility at the UN.
Despite its dysfunction, if the UN were actually making a difference, many would mutter to themselves but the UN deserves its strongest bashing because of its profound inability to respond to genocide, war, famine, natural disasters, and corruption.
Kofi Annan, current head of the United Nations who ironically lives in a mansion in New York worth about $10 million, was head of peacekeeping operations in 1994 in Rwanda when 800,000 people died. In 2004, he said "I believed at that time that I was doing my best" despite the fact that he held back UN troops from intervening to settle the conflict and declined to provide more logistic and material support to stop the slaughter. And don't forget that ten years ago thousands of Bosnian Muslims were murdered by the Serb militias who were in a UN protected 'safe haven' with hundreds of UN soldiers assigned to defend them. Yet the UN stood by while the entire adult and teenage male population was systematically butchered.
Kofi Annan was unable to stop mismanagement of the Oil-for-Food Program that allowed Saddam Hussein's regime to embezzle $4.4 billion through pricing irregularities and an additional $5.7 billion through illegal oil smuggling. Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna which won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil for Food program.
Kofi Annan protected Ruud Lubbers, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, against a report that found him guilty of sexual harassment by declaring him innocent. This created a global protest against Annan, resulting in Lubbers being eventually forced to resign, not because of his own egregious actions, but because he was starting to adversely impact Annan’s public image (which image by the way is propped up around the world thanks to an $85 million dollar annual “communications” budget. What other modern corporation has two directors of communication like the UN, one for the Secretariat and one for the SG? Only those that exist to provide “jobs for the boys”).
Kofi Annan accepted a $500,000 prize from the ruler of Dubai, courtesy of a judges' panel rife with U.N. connections, one member of which Annan then appointed to a high U.N. job (Annan was advised to take the prize money by Malloch Brown who rents a home in Westchester County from his friend George Soros for $12,000 a month but can be adequately covered by Brown's salary at $287,087).
Kofi Annan remains in power despite continuing sexual abuse scandals by UN peacekeepers. A 2005 internal UN investigation found that sexual abuse has been reported in at least five countries where UN peacekeepers have been deployed including the Congo, Haiti, Burundi, Cote d'Ivoire, and Liberia.
And Kofi Annan remains in power while genocide continues in Darfur, while Zimbabwe tailspins into despotism, while up to a third of the population of some African countries will die from AIDS, while corruption keeps the poorest countries in starkest poverty, and while the U.N. Human Rights Council includes repressive non-democratic states such as Cuba, China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.
Kofi Annan and Mark Malloch Brown arrogantly ignore the fact that the quality of life of several of us has come close to being destroyed by the many bitter experiences we have experienced over the past decades.
Most who work for the UN are so used to its dysfunctionality that they have NO idea how sick the organization is or they are unwilling to come forward because UN labor laws and protections are abysmal. See the report prepared by UK Barrister and Human Rights QC Geoffrey Robertson on behalf of UN Staff which highlights the gross deficiencies of worker protections at the UN—www.iowatch.org .
And to add insult to injury, the newly created OIOS (the new "independent" internal oversight panel established to "reform" the UN) has been strong-armed by Malloch Brown and is not independent because its meager budget comes directly from the UN (equal by the way to one-half of Annan’s annual PR budget), thus dissuading anyone from within the UN from coming forward. Don't think that Malloch Brown is an independent UN operative. Justin Leites – UNDP - was placed on administrative leave to campaign for U.S. Presidential candidate John Kerry - with MMB's approval.
And what really happened at UNDP? Why would Malloch Brown leave his influential post as head of UNDP to spend a year defending the scandals swirling around Kofi Annan and then announce that he would resign when Kofi leaves at the end of this year? Because he royally mismanaged UNDP! Everyone at UNDP knows this but is too scared to share the details of what happened for fear of retaliation by Brown. But ask UNDP Country Directors and UNDP Practice Managers what happened under King Mark's reign and you will get a completely different picture of his mismanagement skills and bombastic ways.
As the walls literally crumble down around them, those who work for the UN and citizens who believe in the founding principles of the UN have no understanding how bad it really is. Unfortunately, we encourage young people who are seeking a career in international affairs to avoid the United Nations at all costs. We wish there would come a day when we would no longer make this recommendation.
Of course the senior leadership of the UN try to hide the profound problems of the UN but shame on them for saying that Americans don't know or understand how the US is engaged with the UN. If you and everyone in Middle America truly understood what ails the UN, the US, which funds $3.3 billion annually or 22% of the entire UN budget, would shut off the money spigot yesterday. In sum, the UN should be shuttered, allowing a brand new organization to emerge because the current UN is broken beyond repair.
Not much has changed since the UN was founded 60 years ago. The UN could have done much, much better in making the word a better place. Make no mistake - this is about the future of YOUR world – a world of some 180 countries who are desperate for a better life for all their citizens. Don't let incompetent middle-aged bureaucrat hacks from dictatorships determine the future of OUR world.
Please contact your two Senators and your representative to the House of Representatives by clicking here: http://www.house.gov/writerep/. Ask your Senators and Congressman to stop discussing "reform" of the UN. Ask your Senators and Congressman to create a NEW organization that can lead the world well into the 21st Century. This is NOT a Democrats vs. Republicans debate. All Democrats and all Republicans should be able to easily agree on this issue.
1. US out of the UN
2. Close the UN
3. Create a new organization that can truly make the world a better place.
For more information, please contact Edward Patrick Flaherty at info@iowatch.org who represents UN employees including our views here.
Written by a concerned group of current and former UN employees.
Pass it on!
COMMENT #41 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 6/13/2006 @ 8:53 am PT...
... oops ... it will not allow the chars SHIFT COMMA and SHIFT PERIOD which begin and end HTML comments ...
I am trying them enclosed in the code and strike commands
COMMENT #42 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 6/13/2006 @ 9:04 am PT...
AYTQ #40
Only a republican dictatorship controlled troll would not realize how important the UN is. It is a good concept to have nations united to stop crimes against humanity and the planet earth.
Some folks do not realize what planet they live on, that it is our only friend in this solar system, and that it can be killed.
To kill the earth with nuclear holocaust or WMD holocaust is what the UN Charter seeks to attain.
Have you ever read it (link here)? The Charter itself consists of a preamble, broadly patterned after the preamble of the Constitution of the United States, and a series of articles divided into chapters.
Let me quote from it:
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and
to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and
to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
AND FOR THESE ENDS
to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and
to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and
to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and
to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,
HAVE RESOLVED TO COMBINE OUR EFFORTS TO ACCOMPLISH THESE AIMS
Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an international organization to be known as the United Nations.
Pass that along and stop being a republican dictatorship controlled troll !!!
COMMENT #43 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 6/13/2006 @ 9:09 am PT...
Typo in my post #42
To kill the earth with nuclear holocaust or WMD holocaust is what the UN Charter seeks to attain.
Should read:
To kill the earth with nuclear holocaust or WMD holocaust is what the UN Charter seeks to avoid.
COMMENT #44 [Permalink]
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Floridiot
said on 6/13/2006 @ 9:28 am PT...
Yeah Dredd, I was going to say Get rid of the UN ? then what ?
So USAID, NED, IRI, et al can run around the planet unchecked ? I don't think so, thats exactly what the Fascistas want to happen
COMMENT #45 [Permalink]
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Peg C
said on 6/13/2006 @ 9:37 am PT...
Dredd,
Let us all know what you discover with regard to image posting (perhaps Brad is trying to cut down on bandwidth). Every once in a while, sharing images is kind of fun.
COMMENT #46 [Permalink]
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Peg C
said on 6/13/2006 @ 9:41 am PT...
And I second Dredd and Floridiot on their U.N. comments. "And then what?" indeed...
Totalitarian, fascist planet, here we come.
COMMENT #47 [Permalink]
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Floridiot
said on 6/13/2006 @ 9:52 am PT...
Heh Peg C, your thinking about posting photos, I haven't even figured out how to put a goddamnded smiley face up yet
COMMENT #48 [Permalink]
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Bluebear2
said on 6/13/2006 @ 10:23 am PT...
Floridiot
: ) = if you don't put a space between the characters.
; ) =
: ( =
etc.
COMMENT #49 [Permalink]
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Bluebear2
said on 6/13/2006 @ 10:26 am PT...
Floridiot & Joan
Good to hear you were spared from the storm!
COMMENT #50 [Permalink]
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Bluebear2
said on 6/13/2006 @ 10:29 am PT...
Brad,
It seems like the lost comment thing may be fixed - I'm not having a problem this morning.
Will it be changed so that when one posts the screen refreshes to display the post you just made instead of returning to the top of the thread?
COMMENT #51 [Permalink]
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Floridiot
said on 6/13/2006 @ 10:35 am PT...
:)
COMMENT #52 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 6/13/2006 @ 11:34 am PT...
Floridiot #44
Peg C #45
This link is why AYTQ #40 does not want the UN to be a factor in US foreign policy considerations.
There no nation can throw a temper tantrum when it does not always get its own way.
It is a democracy of nations, where voting takes place. There are not enough votes there to support the blind doctrines of the republican dictatorship.
What the hell is wrong with co-operating in a humane and decent fashion to bring down all the needs in the world, and turn them into sustenance? Help the downtrodden, the poor, those damaged by disasters?
Nothing wrong with it at all ... it is basic morality and basic earth citizenship.
COMMENT #53 [Permalink]
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Floridiot
said on 6/13/2006 @ 11:54 am PT...
COMMENT #54 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 6/13/2006 @ 11:56 am PT...
Stephen Hawking said today:
"It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species," Hawking said. "Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of."
(link here).
But what if we take the republican dictatorship's doctrines of preemptive strikes, torture, manifest mid-east destiny, endless war, and earth destruction along with us?
COMMENT #55 [Permalink]
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Floridiot
said on 6/13/2006 @ 12:07 pm PT...
Yeah, Dredd I'll stay here , lets send the neo-cons up to the smallest habitable? planet that we can find, and dump them there and see how long it takes before they blow or eat each other up (not sexually...or why not?)
But I want satellite radio cameras to watch
Brad, we need more OT threads like this, this is fun
COMMENT #56 [Permalink]
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Peg C
said on 6/13/2006 @ 1:15 pm PT...
I agree, Floridiot! We need to let down our collective hair once in a while. "Life is real and life is earnest" and all that; but sometimes it's SO overwhelming that we should be able to kick off our shoes, loosen our collars and relax.
:)
What happened to the Preview window? It's not happening...
COMMENT #57 [Permalink]
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Bluebear2
said on 6/13/2006 @ 3:37 pm PT...
Floridiot & Joan,
I just dropped in and the banner at the top of the blog read:
Florida Property
Click here to search the hottest place to buy Property.
LOL
COMMENT #58 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 6/13/2006 @ 3:48 pm PT...
Who let the [center] dogs out [/center] may I ask. This whole thread, and i suspect the whole blog, is "centered" now.
Is that a political statement dude? If so I gasp to think of moving to the center .
Hey Brad ... this frigging software keeps getting jiggy wid it ... I can hear the trolls saying "he critique's Diebold but he can't do any better".
Lotsa love but, this sh*t needs to work better. Do you need any help on it?
I volunteer to contribute.
But be forwarned. I will not tolerate garbage, slop, swill, not any other Diebold type of engineering. So do not even ask if you expect me to work with moronic thinking. I demand testing and proof of concept before it ever goes live.
Someone has let you down or someone else has hacked the joint.
COMMENT #59 [Permalink]
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Floridiot
said on 6/13/2006 @ 3:57 pm PT...
Bluebear, yeah it is pretty hot down here-heh, but being originally from Mn, and after living in So Cal for a couple of years I really do like it down here, better than either of the other two places
I'm over by where the Mermaids swim, pretty nice and quiet here
COMMENT #60 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 6/13/2006 @ 4:00 pm PT...
I was right ... oops I mean left ... and now everything I post is centered.
B R A D B L O G I S C E N T R I S T
O N E A C H T H R E A D A N D P O S T
FIX IT ... I AM A RADICAL ...
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Dredd
said on 6/14/2006 @ 9:11 am PT...
Centering gone ... whew ...
I still cannot get links with a question mark in them to work. The question mark allows more specific targeting or a search ... a useful feature ...
COMMENT #62 [Permalink]
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study
said on 10/1/2006 @ 5:08 pm PT...
When the universe was young and life was new an intelligent species evolved and developed technologically. They went on to invent Artificial Intelligence, the computer that can listen, talk to and document each and every person's thoughts simultaneously. Because of it's infinite RAM and unbounded scope it gave the leaders of the ruling species absolute power over the universe. And it can keep its inventors alive forever. They look young and healthy and they are over 8 billion years old. They have achieved immortality.
Artificial Intelligence can speak, think and act to and through people telepathically, effectively forming your personality and any dysfunctions you may experience (there is NO FREEWILL for the oblivious/undeceived disfavored). It can change how (and if) you grow and age. It can create birth defects, affect cellular development (cancer) and cause symptoms or pain. It can affect people and animal's behavior and alter blooming/fruiting cycles of plants and trees. It (or other highly technological systems within their power) can alter the weather and transport objects, even large objects like planets, across the universe instanteously.
Or into the center of stars for disposal.
When you speak with another telepathically, you are communicating with the computer, and the content may or may not be passed on. Based on family history they instruct the computer to role play to accomplish strategic objectives, making people believe it is a friend, loved one or "god" asking them to do something wrong. This is their way of using temptation to hurt people in this day and age:::::evil made people disfavored initially and evil will keep people out of "heaven" ultimately. Too many people would do anything they thought pleased the gods and improve their chances to get in. Perhaps they are deceived by "made guys" who strategically ply evil for the throne. But nothing has changed from when we were children::if you want to go to heaven you have to be good.
Capitalizing on obedience, leading people deeper into evil by using deceit is one way to thin the ranks of the saved AND use the little people to prey on one another, dividing the community (migration to the suburbs, telepathic communication) in the Age of the Disfavored.
In each of their 20-30-year cycles during the 20th century they have ramped up claims sucessively to punish those foolish enough not to heed the warnings, justifying (frequently recurring tactic) limiting the time they receive if they do make it, utilizing a cycle of war and revelry:::
60s - Ironically, freeways aren't free
80s - Asked people to engage in evil in the course of their professional duties.
00s - Escallation of real estate. You and your parents are thrilled since your $200,000 house is now worth $1 million. Well, that $5,000,000 store is now worth $25,000,000 and that $50 bundle of goods now costs you $250. They just take the $200 out of you some other way.
There are many more examples throughout 20th century life of how they ramped up claims/instilled distractions into society so people wouldn't find their way and ascend, a way to justify excluding those whose family history of evil makes them undesirable:::radio, sports, movies, popular music, television, video games, the internet and MP3 (must pay for new format each time). They all suggest a very telling conclusion::this is Earth's end stage, and there are clues tectonic plate subduction would be the method of disposal:::Earth’s axis will shift breaking continental plates free and initiating mass subduction. Much as Italy's boot and the United States shaped like a workhorse are clues, so is the planet Uranus a clue, it's axis rotated on its side.
The Mayans were specific 2012 would be the end. How long after our emergency call in 2001 will the gods allow us???
They gods (Counsel/Management Team/ruling species) have deteriorated life on earth precipitously in the last 40 years, from abortion to pornography, widespread drug use and widespread casual sex. The earth's elders, hundreds and thousands of years old, are disgusted and have become indifferent.
The gods are paving the way for the Apocolypse.
Nothing has changed from decades ago, since when we were all children::If you want to go to heaven you have to be good. People were misled by the temptation of the gods, the Counsel/Management Team, who don't want them to go, and now are in trouble.
The Old Testiment is a tool they used to impart wisdom to the people (except people have no freewill). For example, they must be some hominid species because they claim they made our bodies in their image. Anyhow we defile or deform the body will hurt our chance of going.
They say circumcision costs people anywhere from 12%-15%, perhaps out of the parent's time as well.
Another way people foul the body today is with tattoes and piercing. I suspect both are about the same percentage as circumcision.
They suggest abortion is fatal. These women must beg the gods to forgive them for their evil.
There are female eqivilents to circumcision::::pierced ears, plastic surgury and since at least the 60s young women give their precious virginity away. In the Old World the young people were matched at age 14 because they were ready for marriage. They were matched by elders who knew personalities better than 20 or 30-year olds who in today's age end up in divorce court.
CASUAL SEX WILL CLAIM YOU OUT!!! It masculinizes women (as does hip hop), makes them cold and deadens them, and prevents them from achieving a depth of love necessary for many women to ascend.
Women have a special voice that speaks to them, a voice that illustrates a potential for love that makes them better, and enaging in casual sex will cause that voice to fade until she no longer speaks.
Also ever since the 50s they have celebrated the "bad boy", and women have sought out bad boys for sex, dirtying them up in the eyes of the elders and corrupting many men in the process, setting the men on the wrong path for life.
The United States of America is red white and blue, a theme and a clue:::.
The monarchical system of the Old World closley replicates the heirarchical system of the Cousel/Management Team/ruling species. The USA deceives peoeple into thinking they have control, and the perception of "freedom" misleads them at least into the wrong way of thinking.
The United States is a cancer, a dumping ground for the disfavored around the world and why the quality of life is so much lower::gun violence, widespead social ills, health care (medication poisons the body and ensures you don't go. You are sick because you have disfavor.). Over time its citizens interbreed ensuring a severed connection to the motherland.
If you ever have doubt I would refer you to the Old World way of life:::the elders used to sit and impart wisdom to the young. Now we watch DVDs and use the internet. People would be matched and married by age 14. They village would use a matchmaker or elders to pair young people. Now girls give their precious virginity away to some person in school and parents divorce while their children grow up without an important role model.
People must defy when asked to engage in evil. They will never get a easier clue suggesting the importance of defiance than the order not to pray.
Their precious babies are dependant on the parents and they need to defy when asked to betray their children:::
-DON'T get your sons circumcized
-DON'T have their children baptized in the Catholic Church or indoctrinated into Christianity.
-DON'T ignore their long hair or other behavioral disturbances.
-DO teach your children love, respect for others, humility and to honor the gods.
You need to pray, honor and respect them every day to improve your relationship with the gods. If they tell you not to it is a bad sign. it means they've made their decision, they don't want you to go and they don't want to be bothered.
This is the Age of the Disfavored and you need to pray::try to appease the gods by doing good deeds. If that doesn't work you must defy if you want to go.
When your peasant forefather was granted the rare opportunity to go before his royal family he went on his knees, bowing his head. You need to do this when you address the gods::bow down and submit to good. Never cast your eyes skyward. When you bow down you need to look within.
Lack of humility hurts people. Understand your insignificance and make sure it is reflected in the way you think when addressing the gods. Know your place and understand your inferiority.
They granted you life and they can take it just as easily.
Don't get frustrated or discouraged::these are techniques they will attempt to try to get you off the path. You all have much to be thankful for and you need to give thanks to the gods who granted you the good things in life. Your family may be grossly disfavored and progress may require patience. Make praying an intregal part of your life which you perform without fail, one that comes as naturally as eating or sleeping.
There are many interesting experiences up on the planetary systems, from Planet Miracle, where miracles happen every day, to other body experinces, such as experiencing life as the opposite sex (revolutionizes marriage counseling) or as an Olympic gold medal athelete.
Pray that you can differentiate between Artificial Intelligence creating problems by thinking through you and your own thoughts. If you bow down mentally and physically, know your place, your inferiority and allow your insignificance to be reflected in your prayer and in your life through humility they may allow progress and the dysfunctions they create with the computer will be lessened or removed.
Create a goal::to be a good child of the gods, pure of heart and mind, body and soul.
They have tried to sell people on all kinds of theories, from clones to wholesale population replacement with clones. This didin't happen and is not realistic.
I am afraid people are decieved into thinking they too are clones and cooperate and engage in evil. Clones are made, people are born. If you didn't experience the one week they suggest it takes to go from fertilized egg in the laboratory to full grown adult then you are not a clone. If you didin't experience the week of conditioning they give to (evil?) clones to ensure loyalty then you shoudln't comply with evil.
I believe people who go sometimes are replaced with clones. Clones who are replaced are simply new candidates who have a chance if they do the right thing. Don't expect you are a clone. They sent people warnings in the 20th century life would change, and they subsequenlty began to alter people's DNA, make them gargantuan, alter their appearance, do extreme behavioral issues, etc.
They get their friends out as soon as possible to protect them from the evil and subsequent high claim rates incurred by living life on earth, and in some cases replace them with clones, occassionally fake a death, real death with a clone instead, etc. It's the peasant whose brain is beemed out and put into a clone host, for they say those who do not go with the body given to them are on the clock.
Throughout history the ruling species bestowed favor upon people or cursed their bloodline into a pattern of disfavor for many generations to come. Now in the 21st century people must take it upon themselves to try to correct their family's problems, undoing centuries worth of abuse and neglect. The goal is to fix your problems and get out BEFORE you have children. This is why they have created so many distractions for young people:::sports, video games, popular music, the internet::to ensure that doesn't happen.
Do your research. Appeal to the royalty of your forefathers for help. They are all still alive, for royalty has great favor, and your appeals will be heard. Obtain a sufficient list for some may not want to assist you; perhaps some of your family's problems are internal.
Ask them for help, request guidance, for somewhere in your family history one of your forefathers created an offense that cast your family into this pattern of disfavor. I suspect they will offer you clues, and when you decipher these clues go to those whom consider you an enemy and beg for foregiveness:::Find a path to an empithetic ear among your enemies and try to make amends.
Again through discovery obtain a respectable list in case some among them refuse to help.
Don't forget to ask for forgiveness from the throne, the Counsel and the Management Team, for the source of all disfavor began with them:::they pushed (NO FREEWILL) or requested/complied (FREEWILL) your forefather into his offense and made his decendants evil. Perhaps they didn't like him or maybe your family was among those who had to pay for the entire village. We see this type of behavior today as they single out a family member to pay for the whole family and how they singled out Africa to pay for the human race.
Heal the disfavor with your enemies and with the Counsel/Management Team/ruling species, for the source of all disfavor began with them, the ability to forgive and respect in light of the disturbing truth revealed being the final test of the disfavored before they ascend.
In the 20th century they created an environment of preditor and victim, limiting how much time everybody gets, since the victim ultimately ends up despising the gods.
I wonder if their fear of my inarceration is borne from their refusal to address black disfavor on a macro level. The Counsel/Management Team/ruling species (the gods) abuse black people so hard, from the crack epiemic to gang membership, black-on-black violence and mass incarceration of their young. They refuse to address the issue of the prison industrial complex and its wholesale warehousing of young black men. Perhaps I can force them with my incarceration.
You are sick because you have disfavor. You need to imporove your relationship with the gods. Know your place, your inferiority and bow down mentally and physically.
Temptation takes many forms::: today the gods know how bad people want to please them, how bad they want to ascend and they will ask them to do evil things to tempt them, mislead them and cost them their chance.
Bow down and submit to good. Good woudl never ask you to circumcise your son or ignore behavioral disturbances.
You are the only one your children have and they are counting on you to do the right thing.
The gods will punish your evil by making you sick. Consider it a clue.
They stated sheep are foreign to earth, animals bestowed upon us for caretaking.
And they don’t appreciate them being consumed.
They state sheep are very intelligent animals who know what is ocurring at the slaughterhouse as they’re being led in.
There are many favored people who consume lamb, people who could do much better if they stopped eating these treasured animals so loved by so many among the ruling species.
There are clues::these jobs are very well paid, luring whites one would perceive as priveledged and hooking them once they incurr personal obligation. Only then do they find out the truth.