Category: Misc

I am looking for a track for the memorial service. It is hard to find.

It is from Philip Glass’ Einstein on the Beach, BUT it’s from the older, 1976 edition NOT the 1980’s edition of the Opera.

I need Knee Play #5. It is the very last track of the opera, I believe.

I need it. Find it.

UPDATE: GOT IT! Thanks, Steve!

MONDAY ALITO FILIBUSTER GAMEPLAN: URGE ABSTINENCE!
Last updated: 5:02 Pacific.

“The Woodstock of Politics”
– a caller to The Young Turks radio filibuster for filibuster,
about the grassroots Alito activism.

First, THANK YOU for your hard work over the weekend! As far as I can tell, all key Senators’ D.C. voicemails, and over 90% of the voicemails in their various District offices, were filled up by the end of the weekend. I started hitting random extensions and leaving messages for poor hapless staffers. Every Senator will get the message on Monday morning. Awesome!

For today, I want to back away from the shotgun petitions. It’s frustrating that no one in the Dem leadership will tell us who the “Alito 8” are (the Democrats who aren’t hewing the party line), and we don’t know how well Kerry and Kennedy are doing at moving them around to our side. But we can make an educated guess, and focus on those key Senators. In addition to calling their offices, we’re also going to target their re-election campaign HQs. (A great idea thought up by our friend and fellow-traveler, Bob Fertik!) Finally, we’re going to hammer away at a simple, but politically powerful, message.

Our theme today is: Lead, Follow, Or Get Out of the Way. In political terms, that’s:

EITHER SUPPORT THE FILIBUSTER
OR ABSTAIN FROM THE CLOTURE VOTE,
BUT DON’T GET IN OUR WAY.

The plan is simple:

FIRST, as each office opens (8:30 or 9 am Eastern, later for District offices as you move West), call every office (DC and District) of YOUR OWN Democratic Senators and urge them to support the filibuster by either voting NO on cloture or by ABSTAINING from the cloture vote. Be short and sweet but hit every office listed below. (If they’re not listed here, they’re probably not a problem — but feel free to make sure!) If you can get their staff to commit to a position, please post a comment here.

SECOND, call the “URGE ABSTENTION” Senators identified immediately below and do the same — say that you hope they vote NO on cloture this afternoon but if they can’t, urge them to ABSTAIN from the cloture vote by doing something good that most Republicans would never do, like visiting wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Hospital instead. (God knows the Republican leadership would never want to draw any attention to the costs of their war!) Doing so will be just as good as a “no” vote but will give them political cover with their conservative voters back home. Again, call their DC AND District offices. And again, if their staff will commit to a position on cloture and/or abstention, please post a comment here.

THIRD, rinse and repeat. That is, go through the “Urge Abstention” list twice, at least for those offices that don’t take detailed caller info like names and addresses.

That’s it. Simply hammer your own Senators and the key Senators. Report back so I can keep things updated. Then watch C-Span at 4:30 Eastern to see what happens! (And please check back here on Tuesday for an after-action report and a strategy for dealing with the result. Win or lose, we are taking this momentum forward to win back our Party and our Nation.)

URGENT: Our senators are looking for support especially by phone. If you are a member of MoveOn in particular, PLEASE appeal to them to mobilize their own participants on this.

Dear Friends and Activists,

We know tens of thousands of you have already sent personal messages or made phone calls to Congress to demand a filibuster of Alito. But please still forward the alerts to other people you know who may not have done so, as many of our participants do. We are doing our best to make the alerts as fun and entertaining as we can, like with the contest to find the best Alito Filibuster Affirmation.

http://www.nocrony.com/cgi-bin/contest_index.cgi

We have been told the most effective way to follow up now is to call or fax your senators’ LOCAL district offices, so if you haven’t done that yet you can get all the numbers from the instant lookup at

http://www.nocrony.com

Here is today’s alert:

I have received lots of money ($136.00 to be exact) to buy a gift for Gussie in the hospital. Thank you so much. I really don’t need any more but since Fran asked, my paypal address is [email protected]

Love,
Madge

UPDATE: Thank you all very much. Please don’t send any more oney. I will get her something very nice and tellher it’s from my Yeast Radio Listenturds. Thanks you very much!

UPDATE #2: The hopstial has free wifi! What a nice surpise. Got Gussie a Teddy Bear in a Basket with a get well baloon. It was only $20.00. You guys gave me way too much money. I’ll have to buy her stuff every day. 🙂

“JOHN MURTHA”

John Murtha stunned the Bush White House last November by calling for the withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq. The 73-year-old Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, a much decorated war hero from Vietnam and Korea, was in the Marines for 37 years, and is a heavyweight in military matters in the Congress. Now he’s predicting that the vast majority of American troops will be out of Iraq by year’s end. All this from a man who just one year ago argued against what he’s arguing for now. Mike Wallace talks to Murtha about why he changed his mind, and how he proposes we extricate ourselves from Iraq, on this week’s 60 Minutes, Sunday, Jan. 15, 7PM ET/CT on CBS.

Peoples State of the Union address.

On January 31st Gold Star Families for Peace along with Code Pink and other Peace Activist will be holding a Peoples State of the Union Address in Washington DC before the SOTU. We know that what we will be hearing fron the Bush crime family will be more lies. Come join us and hear the TRUE State of Union.Speakers scheduled thus far will be Cindy Sheehan co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace and Ann Write. noted Peace Activist and former member of the Diplomatic Corp. Ann resigned from her position out of protest to the then impending war. More speakers are being lined up for this powerful event. More details will be sent out soon.

In Peace, Dede

Gold Star Families for Peace

Donate to GSFP 2010 Linden Ave.Venice Ca. 90291

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying, “Yesterday, three Brazilian soldiers were killed in an accident.”

“OH NO!” the President exclaims. “That’s terrible!” His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the president sits with head in hands. Finally, the President looks up and asks…

”How many is a Brazillion?”

seyd Gay Iranian Teenagers Hanged

“I just heard in the news about these two gay teenagers being hanged in public in city of Mashad, one of the northern cities in Iran. Apparently one of the guys was not even 18 years old. According to the article, they spent 14 months in prison and recieved many lashes. They had shown remorse for their action and had no idea getting engaged in homosexual acts will result in death!”

UPDATE: I’m not sure what the real story is here According to this story, the men were actually hanged for raping a 13 year old boy. Can anyone read farsi and provide more information?

Feast of Fools, Yeast Radio and Queercasting regular Victoria Lamarr is in the hospital recovering from a bad case of spinal menengitis. You might have heard her on the Feast of Fools podcast recently talking about her crush on her doctor, and all the bitchy nurses she has to deal with.

Now she needs your help…

We had originally posted a paypal donate button on our website to buy her flowers, and the response has been tremendous! We’ve managed to raise $102.00 so far without even trying. So here goes. Instead of giving Victoria a bouquet of flowers, we want Victoria to start videocasting and so we wanted the community to set her up with a cheap eMac and iSight camera ($800 is our goal) which we can achieve.

Flowers wilt, but a videocast will last forever. Won’t you give some cash to get Victoria on the air?

Just donate $10-100 and help get our beloved Miss Vicki a computer!