CV - reporting for duty

[matriarch]

And over 20,000,000 'homegrown' American adults can't even read. (US Education statistic.)

Note: UK 11 year-old skills equate with average USA 18-year old academic skills. (Sourse - anywhere but USA)

Wow!

 

[Guest]

And over 20,000,000 'homegrown' American adults can't even read. (US Education statistic.)

Note: UK 11 year-old skills equate with average USA 18-year old academic skills. (Sourse - anywhere but USA)

From the forthcoming "What We've Lost" by Graydon Carter
"Eleven per cent of young Americans cannot find the United States on a Map.

"Asked to point to the Pacific Ocean, the figure rose to 30 per cent.

"The percentage unable to identify Afganistan, Iraq or Israel was 85."

 

[Teenage Venus]

From the forthcoming "What We've Lost" by Graydon Carter
"Eleven per cent of young Americans cannot find the United States on a Map.

"Asked to point to the Pacific Ocean, the figure rose to 30 per cent.

"The percentage unable to identify Afganistan, Iraq or Israel was 85."

Wow! Now you made my head swell (even more ) - 'cos I can do ALL them things, and I make a good cup of tea too

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Forget about reading skills, the important new life skill will be drinking.

Did we check Bush’s record?

An edited extract from "What We've Lost" by Graydon Carter

"Prosperity will mean little," declared George W Bush while on the stump as presidential candidate, "if we leave to future generations a world of polluted air, toxic lakes and rivers, and vanished forests." By the time Bush departed his job as governor of Texas in December 2000, Texas had - according to a report from within the ranks of his own party - become the number-one state in the nation in manufacturing-plant emissions of toxic chemicals, in the release of industrial airborne toxins, in violations of clean water discharge standards and the release of toxic waste into underground wells. Under Bush's governorship, Houston had even passed Los Angeles to become the city with the worst air quality in America. The Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP) study could find not a single initiative by Bush during his term as governor that sought to improve either the state's air or its water.

So, what do we expect Bush to do about assuring a clean water supply?

On January 20 2001 - Bush's first day in office - he called in the chief of staff, Andrew Card, and told him to send directives to every executive department with authority over environmental issues, ordering them to put on hold more than a dozen regulations left over from the Clinton administration. The regulations covered everything from lowering arsenic levels in drinking water to reducing releases of raw sewage.
. . .

Another of Bush's first-day-in-office moves was to order a moratorium on Clinton-era Clean Water Act regulations controlling the discharge of raw sewage from what the waste industry likes to call "sanitary sewers". By November 2003, the administration took the moratorium a step further when the EPA announced a plan to allow sewage treatment plants to release biologically untreated waste into rivers and other waterways. But only on rainy days.

. . .

A September 2003 EPA report finds nearly 300 Clean Water Act violations by the mountaintop mining industry. How does the Bush administration react? It moves to change the law by establishing the Mountaintop Mining Self-Reporting Programme, which would allow the industry to police itself and issue small fines for violations. The mining industry donated $3.3m to the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign and other Republican candidates.

A more complete appraisal of Bush’s environmental record is too depressing to write.

Instead, go to the Wednesday, September 1, 2004 Guardian article The Destroyer

Try to read it..

 

[Guest]

Try to read it..

Vanity Fair is for chicks.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Vanity Fair is for chicks.

Which Vanity Fair do you mean?

The Vanity Fair which is a Condé Nast magazine?

Or the Vanity Fair which is a William Makepeace Thackeray novel?

The only CHICKS book that I am aware of is the

Rhode Island Red Book

http://www.yp-connect.net/~poultry/35de6450.jpg

 

[Guest]

Which Vanity Fair do you mean?

The Vanity Fair which is a Condé Nast magazine?

Yea, the one Graydon edits.

P.S.
Paul Auster rocks!

Plus, his wife Siri is a sex-bomb(mega!).

 

[shereads]

Yea, the one Graydon edits.

P.S.
Paul Auster rocks!

Plus, his wife Siri is a sex-bomb(mega!).

Vanity Fair the magazine has remained one of the least timid sources of investigative journalism in the U.S. under BushCheney. They were the first to break the story about the Bin Ladens who were allowed to leave the U.S. immediately after 9/11. The White House denied the story until Vanity Fair produced paperwork from one of the participating airports. Chicks?

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Yea, the one Graydon edits.
P.S.
Paul Auster rocks!
Plus, his wife Siri is a sex-bomb(mega!).

You don't mean Graydon Carter, of The Elevator Chronicles?
It has been riffing on Condé Nast moles, recently, but I didn't read it closely.

I thought it was a rip-off of Perdita's series.

P.S. Is this Siri?

http://www.paulauster.co.uk/dog.jpg

 

[Guest]

You don't mean Graydon Carter, of The Elevator Chronicles?
It has been riffing on Condé Nast moles, recently, but I didn't read it closely.

I thought it was a rip-off of Perdita's series.

P.S. Is this Siri?

http://www.paulauster.co.uk/dog.jpg

No. That's Mr. Auster and a dog.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

No. That's Mr. Auster and a dog.

Six of one, half-dozen of another . . . .

 

[Guest]

Television 06.09.04 (6 pm - 12 am)

BBC1:
6.0 BBC News (depressing)
6.30 Regional News (depressing)
7.0 Cash In The Attic (Stupid)
7.30 Inside out (could be good)
8.0 Eastenders (depressing)
8.30 Animal Hospital (breeding ground for Animal Liberation Front)
9.0 Silent Witness (crap)
10.0 BBC News At Ten (depressing)
10.30 Regional News And Weather
10.35 Jack Dee Live At Apollo (guest: Joan Rivers)
11.20 Public Opinion (which the government ignores)
11.50 A Woman At War (about Helen Moskiewicz whom I've never heard of, and am not even sure if I can ptnounce her sir name right)

BBC2
6.0 Get A New Life (Yeah, really)
7.0 HeadJam (stupid)
7.30 Terry Jones' Medieval Lives (Terry's cool, but it's a repeat)
8.0 Mastermind (rubbish)
8.30 University Challenge: the Professionals - the Ground Final (The British Library Vs The Oxford University Press - Yey!)
9.0 The Office Christmass Special (repeat)
10.30 Newsnight (Paxman!)
11.20 BBC Four On BBC Two (Huh? This's just stupid)

ITV1
6.0 - 12.0 (RUBBISH)

Cnannel 4
All decent American imports of which The Sopranos tops the lot.

Five
11.0 Cosmetic surgery Live: My Breasts Are Too Small

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . I got elastic bands keepin' my shoes on.
Got those swollen hand blues.
Got thirteen channels of shit on the T.V. to choose from . . .

Except for the metastasis of available television channels, The Wall remains an accurate description.

 

[Guest]

Except for the metastasis of available television channels, The Wall remains an accurate description.

On one side of The Wall, you pursue your happiness: on the other side, you blow yourself up for the sake of the others.

I remain sitting on top of The Wall.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... I remain sitting on top of The Wall.

You can get hemorrhoids doing that

 

[Guest]

under BushCheney

Gay

 

[shereads]

The best television program in history was "Get A Life," starring Chris Elliot as a thirty-something paperboy who lived with his parents, Elinore Donahue and Bob Elliot. The best episode was the one where he ran away from home and tried to be adopted by an Amish family. His parents never changed out of their pajamas.

Anyone who doesn't understand why this was the best television show in history is a compassionless fool.

 

[Guest]

New word: dehydroepiandrosterone-S

For bored but intelligent people: http://www.doonesbury.com

 

[shereads]

Doonesbury spawned Uncle Duke, the paper clone of Hunter S. Thompson.

 

[shereads]

Thanks to Slate for this fresh quote:

"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OBG/YN's aret able to practice their love with women all across the country."
-- George W. Bush, on malpractice insurance

 

[Guest]

Thanks to Slate for this fresh quote:

"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OBG/YN's aret able to practice their love with women all across the country."
-- George W. Bush, on malpractice insurance

What's with this Hunter S Thompson fetish on Lit?

 

[Guest]

American Neo-Con bastards support Chechen terrorists to destabilise Russia and undermine the president Putin.

Why are they hell-bent on making a final dash towards Armagedon?

Keywords: Paris/Secret/Cult/Cavern/Underground

Viva la revolution!

The House Of The Dead

Dostoyevsky on Prozac.

Letters:
I am an atheist and choose to wear shoes. Out of respect for the Muslim religion I happily take them off when visiting a mosque. Is it really so fanatical to ask Muslim girls to take off the hijab out of respect for secular education when attending a secular state school?
Dr Boris Wild
Manchester

Joseph Cocker asks for suggestions for twinning partners for Intercourse, Pennsylvania (Letters, Sep 7). The proliferation of twinning arrangements can only be described as promiscuous - the road signs as you approach some towns celebrate the fact they are twinned with six or more other communities - so the only safe twinning choice is Condom, in France.
John Hannavy
Standish, Lancs

Promotion:
bintmagazine.com

Conclusion:
Evian : Naive

 

[pop_54]

Wow! Now you made my head swell (even more ) - 'cos I can do ALL them things, and I make a good cup of tea too

Two sugar's in mine love

 

[shereads]

What's with this Hunter S Thompson fetish on Lit?

What? Is he underage?

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Thanks to Slate for this fresh quote:

"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OBG/YN's aret able to practice their love with women all across the country."
-- George W. Bush, on malpractice insurance

Does anybody know from the context, what the hell he meant to say? Or, is that expecting too much?