Hoarse Speak

Apparently, the US Government is grudgingly living up to its mandate to protect its citizens, but it will charge them for the services:

From: http://beirut.usembassy.gov/lebanon/Lebanon_Situation_Update.html

Lebanon Situation Update - July 15, 2006
July 15, 2006

This information is current as of today, Sat Jul 15 12:20:12 2006.

A message to the American citizens in Lebanon:

The Department of State continues to work with the Department of Defense on a plan to help American citizens depart Lebanon. As of the morning of July 15, we are looking at how we might transport Americans to Cyprus. Once in Cyprus, Americans can then board commercial aircraft for onward travel. Commercial airlines provide the safest and most efficient repatriation options to final destinations.

The Department of State reminds American citizens that the U.S. government does not provide no-cost transportation but does have the authority to provide repatriation loans to those in financial need. For the portion of your trip directly handled by the U.S. Government we will ask you to sign a promissory note and we will bill you at a later date. In a subsequent message, when we have specific details about the transporation arrangments, we will inform you about the costs you will incur. We will also work with commercial aircraft to ensure that they have adequate flights to help you depart Cyprus and connect to your final destination.

The Department of State continues to work around the clock and will continue to send updates as appropriate.

Bolding added by me.

So the U.S. Government will give Israel the money and armaments to fight the war then charge its own citizens to extract them to Cypress? Most other European governments are extracting their citizens back to their home country via ship to Cypress then charter flight onwards.

Ok, LOC is always cool for photographic stuff, but this is one of the coolest things I've seen so far: The Empire That Was Russia [http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/]. As photographed by the Photographer to the Tsar, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, with a kooky 3 lens camera shooting 3 images using red, green and blue filters respectively which he then projected using a 3 lens projector to simulate color. The LOC has recreated the color images digitally using his negatives. Check it out.

Interesting is that some of the shops and people "people at work" section look similar to what I saw in South/Central Asia in 1996/7 - not much seems to have changed in 100 years.

"It's just a goddamned piece of paper" George W. Bush

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml

Wasn't there an oath involved regarding that piece of paper?

"Murataseisaku-kun" bicyle-riding robot on a balance beam. Now we just need to get Robogoth riding on a balance beam in full goth attire.

Of interest, just googled "Benjamin Lowden" and as expected 2 references to the resolver's site directly turned up. More interesting is that the site must have been indexed well because if you look at page 2 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Benjamin+Lowden%22&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N There are links to creditcard and financial/poker trash sites that try to drive traffic and their rankings up by linking to well ranked sites…

Black Sabbath
3-16-72 Tucson Community Center Convention Hall
Tucson, AZ
VG+ audience recording

01-NIB
02-Tomorrow's Dream
03-War Pigs
04-Sweet Leaf
05-Iron Man
06-Snowblind
07-Wicked World
08-Orchid->Guitar Solo
09-Jam
10-Drum Solo
11-Jam
12-Wicked World (reprise)
13-Children Of The Grave
14-Paranoid
15-Crowd
16-Fairies Wear Boots

A VG+ audience recording that surfaced in 2003. Contains early versions of
Tomorrow's Dream and Snowblind with different lyrics.
Lineage : ? -> CDR -> FLAC

Wouldn't exactly call the quality VeryGood+ but it's all there and Tony Iommi's guitar is in all its 1972 splendor…