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Monday, May 15, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: [ProgressiveTalk] DATA MINING AND SPYING ON AMERICANS

"And now ChoicePoint and George Bush want your blood. Forget your
phone bill. ChoicePoint, a sickened executive of the company told us
in confidence, "hope[s] to build a database of DNA samples from
every person in the United States ...linked to all the other
information held by CP [ChoicePoint]" from medical to voting
records."

And I thought that this was my one line of wild sci fi exaggeration
when I updated California Uber Alles in 2004:

Now it is 1984
Two decades late but at your door
We're here for you, resistance futile
We have your DNA on file

A couple of lines of my song "Christmas Bush" are weirdly precient, too.

Listen to them (and my other protest song "Golden Age of Beer") while
it's still legal, at:

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On 5/13/06, brian305 <brian305@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The Times and USA Today have Missed the Bigger Story -- Again
>
> By Greg Palast
>
> 05/12/06 -"ICH" - -I know you're shocked -- SHOCKED! -- that George
> Bush is listening in on all your phone calls. Without a warrant.
> That's nothing. And it's not news.
>
> This is: the snooping into your phone bill is just the snout of the
> pig of a strange, lucrative link-up between the Administration's
> Homeland Security spy network and private companies operating beyond
> the reach of the laws meant to protect us from our government. You
> can call it the privatization of the FBI -- though it is better
> described as the creation of a private KGB.
>
> The leader in the field of what is called "data mining," is a
> company, formed in 1997, called, "ChoicePoint, Inc," which has
> sucked up over a billion dollars in national security contracts.
>
> Worried about Dick Cheney listening in Sunday on your call to Mom?
> That ain't nothing. You should be more concerned that they are
> linking this info to your medical records, your bill purchases and
> your entire personal profile including, not incidentally, your
> voting registration. Five years ago, I discovered that ChoicePoint
> had already gathered 16 billion data files on Americans -- and I
> know they've expanded their ops at an explosive rate.
>
> They are paid to keep an eye on you -- because the FBI can't. For
> the government to collect this stuff is against the law unless
> you're suspected of a crime. (The law in question is the
> Constitution.) But ChoicePoint can collect if for "commercial"
> purchases -- and under the Bush Administration's suspect reading of
> the Patriot Act -- our domestic spying apparatchiks can then BUY the
> info from ChoicePoint.
>
> Who ARE these guys selling George Bush a piece of you?
>
> ChoicePoint's board has more Republicans than a Palm Beach country
> club. It was funded, and its board stocked, by such Republican sugar
> daddies as billionaires Bernie Marcus and Ken Langone -- even after
> Langone was charged by the Securities Exchange Commission with abuse
> of inside information.
>
> I first ran across these guys in 2000 in Florida when our
> Guardian/BBC team discovered the list of 94,000 "felons" that
> Katherine Harris had ordered removed from Florida's voter rolls
> before the election. Virtually every voter purged was innocent of
> any crime except, in most cases, Voting While Black. Who came up
> with this electoral hit list that gave Bush the White House?
> ChoicePoint, Inc.
>
> And worse, they KNEW the racially-tainted list of felons was bogus.
> And when we caught them, they lied about it. While they've since
> apologized to the NAACP, ChoicePoint's ethnic cleansing of voter
> rolls has been amply assuaged by the man the company elected.
>
> And now ChoicePoint and George Bush want your blood. Forget your
> phone bill. ChoicePoint, a sickened executive of the company told us
> in confidence, "hope[s] to build a database of DNA samples from
> every person in the United States ...linked to all the other
> information held by CP [ChoicePoint]" from medical to voting
> records.
>
> And ChoicePoint lied about that too. The company publicly denied
> they gave DNA to the Feds -- but then told our investigator,
> pretending to seek work, that ChoicePoint was "the number one"
> provider of DNA info to the FBI.
>
> "And that scares the hell out of me," said the executive (who has
> since left the company), because ChoicePoint gets it WRONG so often.
> We are not contracting out our Homeland Security to James Bond here.
> It's more like Austin Powers, Inc. Besides the 97% error rate in
> finding Florida "felons," Illinois State Police fired the company
> after discovering ChoicePoint had produced test "results" on rape
> case evidence ... that didn't exist. And ChoicePoint just got hit
> with the largest fine in Federal Trade Commission history for
> letting identity thieves purchase 145,000 credit card records.
>
> But it won't stop, despite Republican senators shedding big
> crocodile tears about "surveillance" of innocent Americans. That's
> because FEAR is a lucrative business -- not just for ChoicePoint,
> but for firms such as Syntech, Sybase and Lockheed-Martin -- each of
> which has provided lucrative posts or profits to connected
> Republicans including former Total Information Awareness chief John
> Poindexter (Syntech), Marvin Bush (Sybase) and Lynn Cheney (Lockheed-
> Martin).
>
> But how can they get Americans to give up our personal files, our
> phone logs, our DNA and our rights? Easy. Fear sells better than
> sex -- and they want you to be afraid. Back to today's New York
> Times, page 28: "Wider Use of DNA Lists is Urged in Fighting Crime."
> And who is providing the technology? It comes, says the Times, from
> the work done on using DNA fragments to identity victims of the
> September 11 attack. And who did that job (for $12 million, no bid)?
> ChoicePoint, Inc. Which is NOT mentioned by the Times.
>
> "Genetic surveillance would thus shift from the individual [the
> alleged criminal] to the family," says the Times -- which will
> require, of course, a national DNA database of NON-criminals.
>
> It doesn't end there. Turn to the same newspaper, page 23, with a
> story about a weird new law passed by the state of Georgia to fight
> illegal immigration. Every single employer and government agency
> will be required to match citizen or worker data against national
> databases to affirm citizenship. It won't stop illegal border
> crossing, but hey, someone's going to make big bucks on selling
> data. And guess what local boy owns the data mine? ChoicePoint,
> Inc., of Alpharetta, Georgia.
>
> The knuckleheads at the Times don't put the three stories together
> because the real players aren't in the press releases their
> reporters re-write.
>
> But that's the Fear Industry for you. You aren't safer from
> terrorists or criminals or "felon" voters. But the national wallet
> is several billion dollars lighter and the Bill of Rights is a
> couple amendments shorter.
>
> And that's their program. They get the data mine -- and we get the
> shaft.
> Greg Palast is author of Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama
> Wolf?, China Floats Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's
> Behind Left and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class
> War, out June 6. You can order it now.
> http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13022.htm
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[CanYoAssDigIt] Britney Spears' Constitutional Sedition

Britney Spears doesn't really appear in this article, I just put her
name in the Subject line because it's way more interesting that way.

impeachable, impeachable, impeachable, yadda yadda yadda.

we don't need at this stinking legal nitpicking.

All we need to do is ask ourselves WWSD - what would superman do?

Would he tap the phone lines of every single American, and catch the
bad guys and leave the good guys alone?

Of course he would.

So lets get back to American Idol and Extreme Home Makeover and stop
worrying about the government like Talking Heads said!

Right on!

May 15, 2006
General Hayden's Constitutional Sedition

Rewriting the Fourth Amendment

By DAVE LINDORFF

Bush's nominee for head of the CIA, Gen. Michael Hayden, at a press
conference, offered an interpretation of the Fourth Amendment to the
Constitution that removes the requirement of "probable cause" from
that important guarantee of freedom.

Asked by Jonathan Landay of Knight-Ridder about the Fourth Amendment's
standard of "probable cause" for issuance of a warrant for a police
search, Gen. Hayden disputed the standard.

"No, actually -- the Fourth Amendment actually protects all of us
against unreasonable search and seizure." Hayden said, trying to
correct Landay.

"But it does say probable" Landay tried to interject.

"No, the amendment says unreasonable search and seizure," snapped Hayden.

Now the problem here is that the General, who was running the National
Security Agency as it has been operating a secret program, just
disclosed by USA Today, that monitors the phone calling records of
virtually all phone customers of AT&T, Bell South and Verizon, is
selectively quoting from the Fourth Amendment.

In fact, what the Fourth Amendment says is:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall
not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,
supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the
place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The trick here is that under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA), the NSA is required to obtain a court warrant for any domestic
surveillance. What Bush has done is to authorize secret monitoring of
Americans communications without a warrant. At the same time, once he
was caught in the act, both Bush and Gen. Hayden have claimed that
they are following the same strict guidelines as if they were going to
court for a warrant.

Clearly, however, the standard for a warrant, as laid out by the
Founding Fathers, is "probably cause," not the much looser
"reasonable" that Hayden asserted to Landay at the press conference.

We Americans, and the members of Congress who are being asked to
consider Hayden's fitness to serve as CIA director, need to challenge
this spook's sleight of hand.

Clearly there is no "probable cause" for monitoring all the phone
records of the entire customer base of three of the nation's largest
phone service providers.

That's why Hayden tried so hard to deny that the standard for
monitoring people's communications is "probable cause."

The president and his subordinates have been found out violating the
Constitution in a serious way.

If this is not an impeachable act, I don't know what is.

Dave Lindorff is the author of Killing Time: an Investigation into the
Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. His new book of CounterPunch
columns titled "This Can't be Happening!" is published by Common
Courage Press. Lindorff's new book, "The Case for Impeachment",
co-authored by Barbara Olshansky, is due out May 1.

He can be reached at: dlindorff@yahoo.com

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Friday, May 12, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] takes one to know one...

Mr Bush said his brother Jeb, Florida's governor, would make "a great president"



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Date: May 12, 2006 8:21 AM
Subject: [progressive] Hillary Praises Bush
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Published on Thursday, May 11, 2006 by the Guardian / UK
Clinton Turns On Charm to Woo the Right
· Ex-first lady praises Bush's 'charm and charisma'
· Murdoch shows support as campaign kicks off
by Oliver Burkeman
 
Hillary Clinton's political shift to the right reached new territory this week as she warmly praised George Bush at a speech in Washington and defended her decision to let Rupert Murdoch sponsor a fundraising event on her behalf.
On the day that a New York Times poll found Mr Bush's approval ratings at an all-time low of 31%, the leading contender for the Democratic party's 2008 presidential nomination praised the US president's "charm and charisma".
Asked to name a good thing about Mr Bush, Ms Clinton, a New York senator, said she had been "very grateful to him for his support for New York" after the attacks on September 11 2001. Though the two had had "many disagreements" he had been "very willing to talk".
She added: "He's been affable." When she asked him for help for New York "he immediately said yes" (though the president has been accused by other politicians of falling far short of his promised $20bn, or £10.7bn, in aid and tax breaks).
Ms Clinton's strategic refashioning is fast rendering her unrecognisable from the first lady who, eight years ago, accused a "vast rightwing conspiracy" of plotting against her husband, Bill Clinton. Mr Murdoch's Fox News channel has long been one of her most strident critics, but she said yesterday of the media mogul: "He's my constituent, and I'm very gratified that he thinks I'm doing a good job."
The fundraising will ostensibly be for Ms Clinton's senate re-election campaign, but she is so far ahead in that contest as not to need the support of the only Murdoch forum that could make much of a difference, the tabloid New York Post.
Her courting of Mr Murdoch is part of a grander strategy, mirrored by statements designed to portray her as no less pugilistic on terrorism than Mr Bush. "This shows her to be a consensus-builder, someone who's not polarising," Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic party consultant, said. "The rightwing take on her has always been that she's polarising. Certainly, there will be people on the left that may not like this relationship [with Mr Murdoch] but the fact that she could forge it speaks well of her ability to build consensus ... To be president, you've got to win the support of white Catholic men in the midwest. They don't tolerate shrieking and they don't tolerate polarisers."
But Ms Clinton's efforts risk alienating those who argue that a "Republican-lite" platform cannot draw enough support. "Afraid to offend, she has limited her policy proposals to minor, symbolic issues ... meanwhile, she remains behind the curve or downright incoherent on pressing issues such as the war in Iraq," the blogger Markos Moulitsas wrote in the Washington Post at the weekend.
Ms Clinton's most likely Republican challenger, Senator John McCain, is working vigorously, booked to speak at the Christian fundamentalist Liberty University, and the liberal New School in New York. Another possibility was raised yesterday as Mr Bush said his brother Jeb, Florida's governor, would make "a great president". Jeb Bush has said he would not run, but the president said: "I truly don't think he knows."
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2006
 
 

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Sunday, May 07, 2006

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Sunday, April 30, 2006

 

The Movie Ishtar
Current mood: blank

I love the movie Ishtar, and I want to see it come out on DVD, with
lots of extra features, and also want the soundtrack to come out. I am
very encouraged that there are more and more Ishtar fans coming out of
the closet, and proudly and boldly proclaiming their affection for
this funny and clever movie. I think that Hoffman and Beatty are at
their best in this movie. While it was great to see them together
again in Dick Tracy, it's too bad that the movie did so poorly that a
sequel was forever out of the question. At least, to paraphrase
Humphrey Bogart in that other great desert classic, "We'll always have
Ishtar."

If you feel the same way way I do about this under-appreciated
classic, please join my Yahoo group, "I Love Ishtar"

by sending an e-mail to ILoveIshtar-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

and lets get started!

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Dark Horse

Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty were at their best in Ishtar?

Dude, you're on drugs.

Have you forgotten about 'The Graduate' or 'Bonnie & Clyde'? What about Beatty's work in the classic series, 'The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis'?

I saw 'Ishtar' when it was first shown on HBO, and while that was so long ago that I can't remember specifics about the film, I certainly don't recall thinking that it was the best performance by either actor.

Posted by Dark Horse on Sunday, May 07, 2006 at 9:24 AM
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matt

I maintain they were at the top of their game. I didn't mean that their performances exceeded those other ones you mentioned, but equalled them.  I have to concede that the stark realism, the moments of tight knuckle tension and the cathartic release in explosive violence that characterized Beatty's work in "Dobie Gillis" wasn't on my mind when I wrote that, but I stand by it because this is my blog, and I'm the decider here. 

Most people who are haven't climbed aboard the Ishtar bandwagon are people who barely remember it, or have never seen it. So forget what you think you know about Ishtar, get with the countdown, shake this square world, and blast off for kicksville

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Wednesday, May 03, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: This has to be totally ineffective...

My first reaction would be that they may stop because it has inspired
them to get out of the virtual world and into the real one, and start
playing this game in real life. But NOBODY should EVER do that. That
would be wrong.

Matt Love wrote:

> Though I wasn't able to capture it in the screen print, the add shows
> Bush getting pummeled over and over again. It's very pleasant and
> soothing; why would anybody play the game and make it stop?


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[CanYoAssDigIt] This has to be totally ineffective...

Though I wasn't able to capture it in the screen print, the add shows
Bush getting pummeled over and over again. It's very pleasant and
soothing; why would anybody play the game and make it stop?


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Sunday, April 30, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] Priorities

I could have put together a pretty decent collection of Golden Age comics for the at kind of money


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Date: Apr 30, 2006 3:23 PM
Subject: [progressive] Cost of War
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Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War? As Many As 250,000
 
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In Bush's War 2400
 
The War in Iraq Costs
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] Rick Reed gets a fan...

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: [canadianclassicrock] TV Seance: John Lennon asks for...peace..and buy Garwoods CD

well, yoko doesn't like it so it must be good. Actually, before the fact, I thought that I read that this was done with her cooperation, so it's interesting to know that ms. crystal healing didn't sign on.

But seriously, it must be real, because John Lennon asked for peace, so I mean, c'mon, you couldn't just make that stuff up.  John Lennon asking for peace?  Didn't see that one coming.  It must have been real, to come up with such a specific, and unexpected message.

Do you think he asked for love, too?

The only part I'm skeptical about is about buying Garwood's CDs. I fully expected that he would endorce Dweebish downloads!

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Subject: [canadianclassicrock] TV Seance: John Lennon asks for...peace..and buy Garwoods CD
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TV seance: Lennon asks for...peace 2 hours, 10 minutes ago

By Sue Zeidler
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Peace ... The Message is Peace."
That's what the producers of a pay-television seance to contact John Lennon claimed the former Beatle said when communicating with them from beyond the grave.
The show aired on Monday on pay-TV service In Demand and was organized by the producers of a failed 2003 attempt to channel the late Princess Diana's spirit, a show that earned scathing reviews but was estimated to have grossed close to $8 million.
People who paid $9.95 to watch the pay-per-view Lennon special from 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. saw audio crew members, a psychic and an expert in paranormal activity claim that the late Beatle's spirit made contact with them through what is described as an Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP).
The EVP was discovered during a taping of a seance at La Fortuna restaurant in New York, which Lennon frequented.
The show's organizers said psychic Joe Power's voice feed went dead for a few seconds and the message was found on it when the tape of the voice feed was played back.
EVP is based on a belief that spirit voices communicate through radio and TV broadcast signals.
On the television show, filming at La Fortuna suddenly stopped and a narrator said something odd has happened. Show participants said that a mysterious voice can be heard on Power's voice feed.
The producers called in "EVP specialist" Sandra Belanger to examine the voice and she proclaimed it Lennon's.
Producer Paul Sharratt, who heads Starcast Productions and calls himself a skeptic, said hearing the voice has made him a believer.
The program was made without the knowledge or consent of Lennon's estate or his widow Yoko Ono, who declined comment.
Ono's long-time friend and spokesman Elliot Mintz has called the entire exercise "tacky, exploitative and far removed" from Lennon's way of life. "A pay-per-view seance was never his style," said Mintz.
Lennon was assassinated by a deranged fan in New York 25 years ago.



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Monday, April 24, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] Oh Lordi ...

These are people who understand heavy metal: "Wings on my back/I got
horns on my head/my fangs are sharp/and my eyes are red."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/24/world/europe/24finn.html?ex=1303531200&en=d2c01214c0985633&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

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Probably not the next big thing in music (it is to fervently hoped -
Celine Dion did really well here ...) but definitely the funniest
article about Finland you're going to read in a long time ...

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Saturday, April 22, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] Check out my photos!



Take a look at this photo I put on Ringo. This is the caption I gave it:

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: Your Ad in the Stranger

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Matt Love <matt.mattlove1@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 5, 2006 3:09 PM
Subject: Your Ad in the Stranger
To: madmanhotdogstand@yahoo.com

You wrote:
96 year old bass player wanted
posted 03/16/2006
Wanted Bass player around 96 years old. The closer to death the
better. Try to die on stage. Overdose would be cool. I'll let you
crash my camaro. HardRock/punk/thrash/blues/metal/grunge. I sing/play
guitar
me Kyle age:(21)

*****

I've got what you need. While I'm not yet 96 years old, I'm more than
halfways there, and I'm close to death as a motherfucker.

My bio:
http://home.earthlink.net/~mattlove1/ApplicationForm.htm
My music:
http://www.soundclick.com/KnuckleheadUS
http://www.soundclick.com/BloodParadise
http://www.soundclick.com/Bureaucratica
http://www.soundclick.com/ErnestYoungman
http://www.soundclick.com/HomelessGoats
http://www.soundclick.com/Lulina
http://www.soundclick.com/MrRoboto
http://www.soundclick.com/Plan13
http://www.soundclick.com/SonsofSarookh
http://www.soundclick.com/TennesseeWayne
http://www.soundclick.com/TwentyFroggies
http://www.soundclick.com/RxR
http://www.soundclick.com/SongPoet
http://www.soundclick.com/BizarroUltraband

*****

No reply. This guy is one sick dog.


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[CanYoAssDigIt] Check out my photos!

Take a look at these photos I put on Ringo. I can't be certain, but I think that is Cybill Shepherd whipping on Rick Reed in this picture The caption I put on it was:
Ouch!

This is how it feels to listen to the music at www.soundclick.com/RxR. But think how good it will feel when it stops hurting.
Enjoy!


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Sunday, April 16, 2006

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Oprah, Bill Gates and the Privatization of Public Schools

In addition to sharing the writers skepticism about billionaires
reshaping the country's educational agenda, I wonder why anybody takes
the pronouncements on education by mediocre students like Bill Gates
and George W Bush seriously.

Weekend Edition
April 15 / 16, 2006

Oprah, Bill Gates and the Privatization of Public Schools

What Billionaires Mean by Education Reform

By SETH SANDRONSKY

Recently, talk show host Oprah Winfrey focused on "America's Education
Crisis." Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, and his wife, Melinda, were
guests. Stand Up is their national campaign to improve education for
youth.

Does Oprah know that the $27 billion Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
also gave $4 million dollars to the Sacramento City Unified School
District for "educational reform?"

For the context of this donation we turn to the district's Sacramento
High School. There, students, scores on standardized tests were low.

Officially, such exams are the best measure of what modern education
can provide to the nation's youth. Crucially, the SCUSD had taken
state funds to improve SHS students, test scores. Subsequently, the
scores lacked the desired improvement.

SHS risked becoming a "failed school." Later to avoid state sanctions,
the district decided to close SHS, located in the low-income, largely
nonwhite neighborhood of Oak Park.

Against that backdrop, Starbucks Corp. and inflated home prices are
sprouting in this gentrifying area.

Meet former NBA star Kevin Johnson of the Phoenix Suns, a SHS grad,
and a guest on Oprah's recent show. Retired from pro hoops, he was
tapped to improve the education of SHS students, heading up the St.
Hope Development Corporation. SHS was re-opened by KJ's corporation,
which has run it as a charter school, praised on the Winfrey show.

Significantly, many SHS parents and labor union members opposed the
school's privatization. Parents formed the Sacramento Coalition to
Save Public Education. Some SHS teachers did not want to work without
a union contract for a corporation.

Legitimizing the drive to privatize SHS was The Sacramento Bee, the
city,s one daily paper for over a decade. The McClatchy Co. publishes
The Bee. The Sacramento-based publisher is also the pending buyer of
Knight Ridder Inc., the 12 union papers of which are on the selling
block.

KJ's corporation, in the context of "seed money" taken by the SCUSD
from the Gates Foundation, took over a public high school and weakened
labor unions. In the language of the market, non-union labor is more
"flexible," making it is easier for bosses to fire workers. This
flexibility also weakens the political power of teachers' unions.

Oprah's recent two-part "special report" on the crisis in U.S. public
schools included this gem: "I've often said that I believe that
education is freedom." Presumably, this includes freedom for
billionaires to shape school reform as they see fit. But freeing
public education by turning it over to corporations is no freedom at
all.

Seth Sandronsky is a member of Sacramento Area Peace Action and a
co-editor of Because People Matter, Sacramento's progressive paper. He
can be reached at ssandron@hotmail.com


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[CanYoAssDigIt] Vultures of one sort or another...

I've been trolling the web a lot, looking for other people who are
enthusiastic fans of Ishtar, to ask them to join this list. I've been
reading a lot of opinions of the movie... they diverge so wildly that
I sometimes wonder if there weren't several different movies called
"Ishtar," and the whole thing was some sort of sociological
experiment.

I remember hearing (from more than one source) about the obvious
bloopers involving the vultures in the desert... how you could see
that the bored and disinterested vultures were being tossed into the
scene by handlers just outside the frame.

When I finally saw the movie, I expected to see footprints, a person's
shadow coming into the frame, perhaps even a hand... but I didn't see
any of these things, and in fact, no evidence at all that the vultures
were being tossed in. I felt stupid, unobservant - I was an unworthy
movie watcher. Did anybody else on this list experience anything
similar?

Anyway, this is what they NY Times reviewer said about that scene in a
review that came out on the film's release:

"The film's budget may well be a matter of outtakes and overtime,
since the huge expense doesn't show up on the screen. Did it take Miss
May, for one desert scene, 50 attempts to get the right shot of big,
fat, patient-looking vultures flopping down next to her stars? If it
did, it was worth it, because she got scene-stealing vulture behavior
in the end. ''No, no, no - not dead, just resting!'' Lyle angrily
tells them, while Chuck voices some memorable disbelief at the way
these birds do business. Miss May has a way of letting the same basic
attitudes carry over to anyone, feathered or otherwise, anywhere."

This is the version of this scene that I saw, and this was reported in
the NY Times when that still meant something.

It's interesting, overall it was a reasonable review, so the piling on
about "worst movie ever made" must have started elsewhere. Later the
Times clearly joined in the chorus.


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Thursday, April 06, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] People think all I do is complain...

I only complain when there is something to complain about, which is a
lot. but when something good happens, I can pretend to be happy as
well as anybody else.

For example, I recently had to resort to PayPal's online help. Boy
were they good. I pretended to be happy to fill out their survey. A
couple of questions and answers:

"What one thing could PayPal do to improve its customer service?"
I can't think of a single way. well, maybe perhaps a little humor as
in "hey, that's such a stupid question, are you the result of an alien
breeding experiment with a three toed sloth? but seriously customer, I
don't care what all the other paypal answerers say, I think your
swell. " but some people might not like that, so just stick to the
very quick, very courteous and very helpful responses, like the one
you gave me.

"Please tell us one thing that the representative did especially well."
I wasn't sure how to use the online forms. I wasn't sure I selected
the right topics. and I'm not sure I described the problem well. the
representative figured out exactly what my problem was, and told me
exactly what I needed to do to solve it, and much sooner than I
expected.


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