Sandals at the Gate

The Recycled AIDS Medicine Program Board of Directors cordially invites you to the event!

Date Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Place 3666 16th Street, San Francisco CA 94114
Time Doors open at 6pm (Silent Auction begins promptly at 7pm & ends promptly at 8:30pm). $10 entrance fee at the door to register for the auction.

Featuring the works of
Anthony Anchundo
Max Byrd
Nicolaus Chaffin
Richard Freeman
Ganyan
Patrick Gleason
Steve Guy
Alan Hall
Suzanne Husky
Marie Lawallen
Archie McKay
Kottie Paloma
Ghee Phua
Stephen Rivers
Jack D. Russell
Lance Smith
Scott Smitherman
Patrick Urquhart
Angela Villegas
& many more...

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This is a conversation between Ryan and Todd about a nerd battle wound.

"Ryan throw me that wireless router." (toss)

"Ouch! ohh man you cut me." Yes the wireless router cut him on the hand.

"What?!"

"Oh my god! Ryan look, I think it's a sign from the heavens above." As he looks down at his hand he is bleeding in the shape of the iconic mouse cursor.

This is the first official record of the Nerd Stigmata.

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Paul Hartzog - Panarchy and the wikification of politics

Paul Hartzog introduces the concept of panarchy, a sociopolitical field that emerges when connective technologies, which lower the threshold for collective action, enable cooperative peer-to-peer production – of knowledge, of tools, of power.

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Until I came across it again today. It still means much...

The Road Not Taken

by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I

took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

PoetryFoundation.org: The Road Not Taken

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Funny, but that has nothing to do with the commanders on the ground having the control they need. Remember, that was why he vetoed the bill before. Apparently now we have another reason. What a surprise. Now Bush is just being a whiny baby. He wants all of the money NOW. He doesn't want Congress to give him half now and half later, which would enable the American people to ensure that Bush is spending their money wisely. Would it endanger the troops to get half the money now? No. Does it hamper the commanders on the ground to get half the money now? No. Bush is simply a whiny, incompetent child who hasn't proposed any kind of compromise whatsoever. Sure, it might inconvenience Halliburton and Dick Cheney's other filthy rich war-profiteering buddies if they have to wait two months before being assured of their autumn windfall profits, but Halliburton's profits shouldn't be the primary concern here. Bush simply proposes vetoes because that's all he knows how to do, say no. He wants all the money, no strings attached, so he can waste it all again and again and again on his corporate buddies while our troops continue to die for a lost cause.

The Democrats in Congress are trying to find a way to hold the president accountable to the people, to make this war work, and to ultimately get us the hell out of Iraq - Bush is more interested in playing a game of chicken, with no intent of compromising on anything. To him it's all a game where winning the political battle is far more important than winning the real battle on the ground in Iraq.

It's time to take away the spoiled child's car keys.

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Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) on Friday:

Inhofe, speaking to the press before Cheney's arrival, lambasted Democrats for Thursday's Senate vote to begin withdrawal from Iraq by Oct. 1 and the press for "mischaracterizing" the reasons for U.S. involvement.

"The whole idea of weapons of mass destruction was never the issue, yet they keep trying to bring this up," Inhofe said. ...

Pressed for an explanation, Inhofe said weapons of mass destruction were "incidental" to the decision to invade Iraq.

"The media made that the issue because they knew Saddam Hussein had used weapons of mass destruction."

Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) in August 2002:

Our intelligence system has said that we know that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction -- I believe including nuclear. There's not one person on this panel who would tell you unequivocally that he doesn't have the missile means now, or is nearly getting the missile means to deliver a weapon of mass destruction. And I for one am not willing to wait for that to happen.

Think Progress » Inhofe: Media invented WMD excuse for Iraq invasion.

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