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Author Archives: Al Swearengen
Life During Wartime
Justice at Stake: Ensuring That Prisoners in the U.S. Are Never ‘Disappeared’- by Shahid Buttar, posted at The Peace Tree Hadrian’s Forum: “The American founding fathers were well versed in Roman history. People such as Washington, Madison and Jefferson, were … Continue reading
Posted in Justice, Military, Politics
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The Last Bill Hicks Show (Igby’s L.A. 11/17/93)
There are other comics worth featuring here, but its during times like these when Hicks is the one I think about most often. Imagine him teeing off on Dubya! RIP Bill…http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-617683135050137292
Chickenhawks, Scapegoats, Don Young’s Teeth
Max Blumenthal – College GOP Convention http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4863292439576938605&hl=en Keith Olbermann – Special Comment “Scapegoat” http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3940485884021764668&hl=en
Posted in Comedy, Military, Politics, Video
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Portfolio Update (5 Months, +8.67%)
It’s been a good month. PBR (PetroBrazil) and CNQ (CanadaNatlResources) are my two most solid picks, having generated over 100K since February, and surging to this day. I got out of ACI (coal) and cut my position in BAM (BrookfieldAssetMgmt) … Continue reading
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Iraq Debate – Senator Landrieu
Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA)!!!! I watched a few hours of this yesterday and overnight, but this clip right here was the most impressive speech I’ve heard on Iraq in a long time. (h/t Crooks and Liars)http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3458706202742109455&hl=en Senator Durbin explaining the … Continue reading
Ricky Gervais Meets Christopher Guest (5 Parts)
Part 1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXLCj7rVcBg
The Blame Game – ‘Oil or Bust’ Edition
Saudi Arabia is responsible for the majority of foreign fighters in Iraq1, and in terms of funding2, has for decades been facilitating the flow of funds from collection plates to madrassahs in places like Pakistan, and also to finance jihad3 … Continue reading
Posted in Al Swearengen, Military, Politics
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Jim Webb vs. Lindsey Graham
Webb is probably the first senator I’ve seen on one of these weekend shows throw down on behalf of the troops. He is pointing out how ridiculous Graham, McCain and others sound when they say, “I’ve spoken to the troops, … Continue reading
Drowned
Chickenhawk vs. Cindy Sheehan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9prW8m5SOOw Pertaining to the White House dumbing down explainations of what is happening in Iraq by attributing everything bad to al-Qaida, it’d been killing me these past few weeks. My first ray of hope was this … Continue reading
Here’s the Pat Tillman Coverup
“Following the Committee’s April 24, 2007, hearing on the Tillman fratricide, the Committee wrote to White House Counsel Fred Fielding seeking “all documents received or generated by any official in the Executive Office of the President” relating to Corporal Tillman’s … Continue reading
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Kickass Clips
#1 – The Sanctity of Marriage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9mKY80Amqk #2 – Christian extremists disrupt Hindu Senate invocation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ9To30Hz7A #3 – Bush Loyalty? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M__jWoA6PN0
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Time For Scary Scary
“I believe we are entering a period this summer of increased risk. We could easily be attacked. Summertime seems to be appealing to them. We do worry that they are rebuilding their activities.” – Chertoff bases ‘gut feeling’ on history, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
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NYC Firefighters Blast Giuliani
(h/t C&L)There had been ripples of this being in the cards for Rudi once this campaign progressed. I posted something concerning the air conditions in NYC after 9/11, and began filtering for news on this. The NYTimes ran a story … Continue reading
Casting for 9/11 ‘The Sequel’
The story is going to be buried (U.S. Aborted Raid on Qaeda Chiefs in Pakistan in ’05), and our country will once again be left stupefied, wondering “what happened”, as the Pulitzer Prize winning book Ghost Wars by Steve Coll … Continue reading
Posted in Al Swearengen, History, Military
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The Libby Results Are In
If you ever wanted some assurance that the free-ride is finally over for our beloved bubble boy, the reaction from left to right is bound to make you smile. While there’s a thick fog surrounding the most vehemently childish portion … Continue reading
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Immigration Debate – My Contribution
Arnold Schwarzenegger has phone sex on Howard Stern Show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha6zY5W1S-w
Beck – Jackass
“…and we will, rise in the cool of the evening” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x909f5AtqgQ
bBlogBouillabaisse – Novocaine
Chavez Meets Ahmadinejad in Tehran Beatbox…talent? skill? exercise? disorder? New Drug Deletes Bad Memories Judge lifts injunction on ‘DC madam’ phone records Biden on Bush: “This guy is braindead.” Consumerist.com Catches Geek Squad Stealing Porn From Customer’s Computer (Video) Statements … Continue reading
Happy July 5th!
I hope everyone took it easy – no mangled body parts due to fireworks and such. Here’s Keith Olbermann’s latest Special Comment regarding Bush granting clemency to Libby. This thing is already covered a million different ways all over the … Continue reading
Bill Hicks’ Legendary One Night Stand, 1990
RIP Bill: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1366476727111157120&q
A.Q. Khan – aka “Fallout Boy”
A Pakistani scientist peddled nuclear arms technology to Iran, North Korea and probably Harlem as well for all we know, which justifies jail time at least, if not a USA-certified “enemy combatant” designation. Imagine the amount of dire scenarios that … Continue reading
Posted in Al Swearengen, Military
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Government Mule – Mule
With the late Allen Woody on bass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RRGV3hwick
RMD – ResMed Inc.
This company manufacturers and sells a medical device known as the CPAP. Consisting of a motor, tube and mask, the CPAP pumps a steady continuous flow of air through the mask and into the nose of a person while they … Continue reading
Posted in Al Swearengen, Economics
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4 Great Clips
Lewis Black on right-wing paranoiahttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6424188720628568091&hl=en Michael Moore is interviewed by CNBC outside of the New York Stock Exchange (They wouldn’t let him in!)http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=98440329274391904&hl=en Tommy Chong on Neil Cavuto’s showhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=954561661450031864&hl=en Classic Barney Frank clip from 2006 (the GOP had just attached … Continue reading
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Banking
I haven’t written about anything market-related in a couple weeks. This is mainly due to other demands on my time, but my reading regime hasn’t waned, so the ideas I have are plentiful. One thing that’s on my mind is … Continue reading
Posted in Al Swearengen, Economics
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The Murder of Jose Padilla
Week after week, this guy Padilla manages to look more and more like the poster child for what Republican authoritarianism is great at producing. There are many more taxpaying victims of small government, anti-New Deal conservatism out there, from Katrina … Continue reading
Posted in Al Swearengen, Justice
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The Shadow Government
In honor of the release of CIA documents revealing some of our more shady actions, I wanted to share this documentary called “The Shadow Government”, which appeared on PBS in the mid 1980s amidst the Iran-Contra scandal. Larry Johnson, the … Continue reading
NBA Draft 2007
The Celts got smacked around once more by the ping-pong curse, and so the #5 pick on Thursday night is what we’ve ended up with after posting the 2nd worst record. As depressing as it was to watch the western … Continue reading
Posted in Al Swearengen, Sports
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