A super simple label for a white cooking wine...

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A Boy and His Dog

Saw this 'rather kinky tale of survival' at a midnight showing last night, in an old theater that miraculously has escaped being 'updated', and was still a gloriously huge space, with a balcony.




"Well, I'd say she certainly had marvellous judgement, Albert, if not particularly good taste"

Snowy!

Someone in the Seattle Parks and Recreation department is a Tintin fan. Never seen Snowy taking a poo before...

Jane Q. Law

An old picture from the U of M

Foggy

I really recommend that you go to https://wikileaks.be/wiki/Wikileaks and read the exchange of letters between wikileaks and the suing law firm. It will make you giggle with glee to see the way wiki treats this bank's lawyers. Usually things like this are depressing, but this time its uplifting. They cant stop us from talking!

"You don't understand! I aint scared a you motherfuckers!"
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To find an injunction similar to the Cayman's case, we need to go back to Monday June 15, 1971 when the New York Times published excepts of of Daniel Ellsberg's leaked "Pentagon Papers" and found itself enjoined the following day. The Wikileaks injunction is the equivalent of forcing the Times' printers to print blank pages and its power company to turn off press power. The supreme court found the Times censorship injunction unconstitutional in a 6-3 decision.

The Wikileaks.org injunction is ex-parte, engages in prior restraint and is clearly unconstitutional. It was granted on Thursday afternoon by California district court judge White, Bush appointee and former prosecutor.

The order was written by Cayman Island's Bank Julius Baer lawyers and was accepted by judge White without amendment, or representations by Wikileaks or amicus. The case is over several Wikileaks articles, public commentary and documents dating prior to 2003. The documents allegedly reveal secret Julius Baer trust structures used for asset hiding, money laundering and tax evasion. The bank alleges the documents were disclosed to Wikileaks by offshore banking whistleblower and former Vice President the Cayman Island's operation, Rudolf Elmer. Unable to lawfully attack Wikileaks servers which are based in several countries, the order was served on the intermediary Wikileaks purchased the 'Wikileaks.org' name through -- California registrar Dynadot, who then used its access to the internet website name registration system to delete the records for 'Wikileaks.org'. The order also enjoins every person who has heard about the order from from even linking to the documents.

In order to deal with Chinese censorship, Wikileaks has many backup sites such as wikileaks.be (Belgium) and wikileaks.de (Germany) which remain active. Wikileaks never expected to be using the alternative servers to deal with censorship attacks, from, of all places, the United States.

The order is clearly unconstitutional and exceeds its jurisdiction.

Wikileaks will keep on publishing, in-fact, given the level of suppression involved in this case, Wikileaks will step up publication of documents pertaining to illegal or unethical banking practices.

Wikileaks has six pro-bono attorney's in S.F on roster to deal with a legal assault, however Wikileaks was given only hours notice "by email" prior to the hearing. Wikileaks was NOT represented. Wikileaks pre-litigation California council Julie Turner attended the start of hearing in a personal capacity but was then asked to leave the court room.

"I am one angry grandma"

I met Gena while she was participating in a 'Lobby Day' held at the Washington state capitol. She moved into a small town next to a couple of nasty sounding people who happened to be very well connected. She explained that just recently she has been able to speak about what happened without becoming incoherently angry, and has decided to tell the story. The following text comes from an article for RealChange by Cydney Gillis, and doesn't contain some of Gena's more angering descriptions of police behavior. Gives you an idea though.
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[Gena] and her husband, Francesco, had been legal U.S. residents for 30 years when they moved from the Eastside to Monroe in 2004. But trouble with the husband of the white couple next door started almost immediately.

In the past three years, Mejia says, the man has come at her husband with a crowbar, spit in his face, and spewed racial epithets. She got a restraining order but says Monroe police never enforced it. Then in August 2005, the day after she filed for a new protection order, she says armed immigration agents showed up on her doorstep demanding to know where her son was.

Mejia cooperated, bringing her son, Ceasar Keymolen, then 30 years-old and the working father of two young children, to Monroe police headquarters. Hours later, she says, agents carried him out like an animal for transfer to Tacoma’s Northwest Detention Center. It took six months to get him out, she says – and he is a legal resident who’s spent his whole life in the United States.

Immigration activists say Ceasar Keymolen isn’t alone – one reason protesters held a 24-hour vigil outside the Tacoma Detention Center on July 13 and 14. In a press conference held prior to the vigil, members of the Church Council of Greater Seattle, Hate Free Zone and Washington Community Action Network compared the center to a corporate run gulag – a private lock-up where people have no recourse to get out, other than a deportation hearing in which they are not entitled to any free legal help.

In the wake of the U.S. Senate failing to pass immigration reform this month, the activists called for a halt to the type of workplace and home raids that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has conducted recently in Bellingham, Portland and across the nation. Instead of targeting criminals, says Tim Smith, chair of Tacoma’s Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the raids are rounding up working families with children like Keymolen’s.

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After her son’s experience, Mejia describes the 1,000-bed detention center as “a place to break people’s spirit.” Run by a private company called GEO Inc. – the new name for a former division of a private prison operator, the Wackenhut Corporation – Mejia says her son was given bad food, dirty laundry and put in a cell with a violent criminal.

ICE’s reason for picking him up, she says, was an earlier domestic violence charge that Keymolen had pleaded guilty to after an argument with his girlfriend and mother of his children. The resulting sentence – 365 days probation – put him in a felony category for which ICE can seek deportation. So Mejia hired a lawyer and went back to court with the girlfriend’s mother and aunt, who spoke on his behalf.

The judge dropped the sentence by one day, removing the legal grounds for Keymolen’s deportation. In February 2006, he was finally released.

“We are legal,” she says, fighting back tears. “We’re not terrorists. We’re not criminals. We were just following our American dream and it became a nightmare.”

“We’re going to sell this house and move, and I don’t think we’ll ever set foot in this town again.”
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Franc/Merlot Label

The good, the bad, and the ugly.

From way back when when real men were real men, real women were real women, and little fuzzy creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL little fuzzy creatures from Alpha Centauri.



Ennio Morricone had them hot beats, as the kids nowadays say.

Wine Label(greyscale)

This is an entirely accurate rendering of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

To The Fillmores!

Uh... a year and a half ago?

There is something satisfying about old Polaroids.

Old Images

"they say the revolution wont be televised/ but in this land of milk and honey there is a date you got to sell it by"

Continuing adventures of boy with no legs

Madison

SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!