From: Digestifier To: Subject: Dead-Flames Digest #552 Dead-Flames Digest #552, Volume #48 Tue, 11 Oct 05 16:00:01 PDT Contents: Re: (NDC) Attention Yankee fans (wyeknot) Re: who on rmgd would you like to meet? ("k sturm") Libby Scootin' off to the Pen? (NDC) (John Doherty) Re: alternate to 11/70 Portchester Run for DP ("Sparky the Wonder Dog") Re: Here comes Vince! ("k sturm") Professor Lesh (leftie) Re: Libby Scootin' off to the Pen? (NDC) (leftie) Re: Hard ttimes in NE ("Andrew Murawa") Re: MUCH cheese this week (Andy Gefen) Re: Pigpen... ("Andrew Murawa") Re: Professor Lesh ("Dylanstubs") Re: Pigpen... ("Andrew Murawa") Re: Professor Lesh ("Dave Kelly") Re: Professor Lesh ("pookietooth") Re: Professor Lesh ("mizshely") Re: Muffin ("mizshely") Re: RMGD Word n' Numbers Taboo ("Steve Terry") Genesis Reunion in the works? ("Dave Kelly") ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: wyeknot Subject: Re: (NDC) Attention Yankee fans Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:01:44 -0400 Rogues Island's finest wrote: > Nothing for us Sox fans to brag about, a flawed team got smoked in the > first round. Pretty much the same as the Yankees: flawed team, out > after one round. That's exactly correct. Claiming the Yankees "screwed up" rather than admitting the obvious (flawed team, Angels beat 'em fair and square) is kind of pathetic. Not suprising I suppose given the (relatively) long drought in their post-season success yet with a ballooning payroll. Matt ------------------------------ From: "k sturm" Subject: Re: who on rmgd would you like to meet? Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:19:09 GMT "Dave Kelly" wrote in message news:WDV2f.668$BZ5.86@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com... > > "k sturm" wrote in message > news:FJR2f.335$GH2.319@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net... > >> It's okay, you're forgiven. I know it's difficult to think straight >> after all that crime fighting you do on a nightly basis. Thank you for >> all you do to keep the steets (and the buses) safe for the rest of the >> world. > > * WHEW!....again, I apologize for that....it's just sometimes I bring > the work home with me...my twins, Joni & Jaco, really shouldn't > be subjected to the grim realities of my work...but there ya are. > When one messkin punk tried to sneak in the rear door of the bus, > I decided to come up with a new catch phrase: > "OK there Perdro...looks like YER gonna be spending the next 4 sundays > sweeping up used condoms & malt liquor bottles on Market street..... > what size do you take in an orange vest?....now GRAB SOME WOOD!" > It's a LITTLE long...and the "Pedro" thing doesn't always > work....especially > if they're black...but I think it's sorta catchy. > >> And if I told you what I'm wearing right about now, you wouldn't believe >> me. > > * Oh Katherine!...I believe in the tooth fairy...I'm game for most > ANYTHING! > >> k~ > > * Durty Sweetbax >> > Alright, alright, I'd just gotten out of the shower and was only wearing a towel (pink), but I didn't think you'd believe it if I'd said so at the time. ------------------------------ From: John Doherty Subject: Libby Scootin' off to the Pen? (NDC) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:26:04 -0400 Libby Did Not Tell Grand Jury About Key Conversation By Murray Waas, special to National Journal © National Journal Group Inc. Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005 In two appearances before the federal grand jury investigating the leak of a covert CIA operative's name, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, did not disclose a crucial conversation that he had with New York Times reporter Judith Miller in June 2003 about the operative, Valerie Plame, according to sources with firsthand knowledge of his sworn testimony. The new revelations regarding Libby come as Fitzgerald has indicated that he is wrapping up his investigation and making final decisions as to whether criminal charges will be brought in the case. Libby also did not disclose the June 23 conversation when he was twice interviewed by FBI agents working on the Plame leak investigation, the sources said. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald apparently learned about the June 23 conversation for the first time just days ago, after attorneys for Miller and The New York Times informed prosecutors that Miller had discovered a set of notes on the conversation. Miller had spent 85 days in jail for contempt of court for refusing to testify before the grand jury about her conversations with Libby and other Bush administration officials regarding Plame. She was released from jail after she agreed to cooperate with Fitzgerald's investigation. Miller testified before the grand jury on September 30, and attorneys familiar with the matter said that she agreed to be questioned further by Fitzgerald today. Meanwhile, in recent days Fitzgerald has also expressed significant interest in whether Libby may have sought to discourage Miller-either directly or indirectly through her attorney-from testifying before the grand jury, or cooperating in other ways with the criminal probe, according to attorneys familiar with Miller's discussions with prosecutors. During two interviews with FBI agents and in two subsequent grand jury appearances, Libby discussed at length a July 8, 2003, conversation about Plame that he and Miller had at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington, D.C., as well as a July 12 telephone conversation with Miller on the same subject four days later. Although Miller would never herself write about Plame, it was two days after her last conversation with Libby that conservative columnist Robert Novak would reveal Plame as a CIA "operative" in his now-famous column of July 14, 2003. The previously undisclosed June 23 meeting between Libby and Miller, their telephone conversations of July 8 and 12, and Novak's July 14 column occurred during an intensive period in which senior White House officials were scrambling to discredit Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, who was then publicly asserting that the Bush administration had relied on faulty intelligence to bolster its case for war with Iraq. Wilson had returned only recently from a CIA-sponsored mission to Niger to investigate claims that Saddam Hussein was covertly attempting to buy enriched uranium from the African nation to build a nuclear weapon. Wilson reported back that the allegations were most likely the result of a hoax. But President Bush still cited the Niger allegations during his 2003 State of the Union address as evidence that Hussein had an aggressive program to develop weapons of mass destruction. In a July 6, 2003, op-ed piece in the New York Times, Wilson charged that the administration misrepresented the intelligence information he had collected on the Niger mission. FBI agents interviewed Libby in October and November 2003, and the following year he voluntarily appeared twice before the grand jury, according to government records and interviews. But he never disclosed anything to the FBI, prosecutors, or the grand jury about his June 23 conversation with Miller, sources say. Joseph A. Tate, an attorney for Libby, did not return telephone calls seeking comment for this story. In an earlier interview, he said that neither he nor Libby would comment on anything that Libby might have told the FBI or the grand jury until the investigation was complete. The new revelations regarding Libby come as Fitzgerald has indicated that he is wrapping up his investigation and making final decisions as to whether criminal charges will be brought in the case. The term of the grand jury that is hearing evidence expires on October 28. Attorneys familiar with Miller's discussions with prosecutors said that Fitzgerald and his staff have expressed interest to Miller and others about the role that Libby and his attorney may have played in discouraging Miller from testifying in the Plame investigation. During the earliest stages of the probe, Libby signed a general waiver granting permission to any reporter to whom he talked to testify to Fitzgerald and the grand jury. Several journalists, including Time magazine's Matthew Cooper, NBC Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert, and a reporter for The Washington Post relied on such a waiver to provide testimony regarding their conversations with Libby. A federal judge, however, sent Miller to jail when she refused to testify. Miller said she considered the general waiver to be coerced and would testify only if Libby provided her with a specific, personalized waiver. Libby and Tate took the position that the general waiver precluded the need for a personal waiver. It was only after Fitzgerald personally intervened with Tate and Libby that Libby granted a personal waiver to Miller, according to correspondence between Fitzgerald and Tate. Libby subsequently telephoned Miller, encouraging her to testify. On September 12, 2005 Fitzgerald wrote a letter to Tate that was marked "confidential." In his letter, Fitzgerald said that Libby's and Tate's refusals to provide a more specific waiver for Miller led the prosecutor to have "assumed that Mr. Libby had simply decided that encouraging Ms. Miller to testify was not in his best interest." Three days later on September 15, Libby wrote Miller a personal letter urging her to testify, and then telephoned her again urging that she testify. Meanwhile, also on September 15 Tate wrote to Fitzgerald adamantly denying that his client's refusal to provide a personalized waiver to Miller was meant to discourage her from testifying. "Mr. Libby did voluntarily provide your team with the written waiver immediately when it was presented to us, well over a year ago", Tate wrote to Fitzgerald. Tate also asserted that he repeatedly "assured" Miller's attorney Floyd Abrams that "Mr. Libby's waiver was voluntary and not coerced and [Miller] should accept it for what it was." However, on September 29 Abrams wrote to Tate challenging that assertion. Abrams charged that Tate had indicated to him that Libby had considered the general waiver by its very nature to have indeed been coercive. "In our conversations," Abrams wrote to Tate, "you did not say that Mr. Libby's written waiver was uncoerced. In fact, you said quite the opposite. You told me that the signed waiver was by its nature coerced and had been required as a condition for Mr. Libby's continued employment at the White House. You compared the coercion to that inherent in the effective bar imposed upon White House employees asserting the Fifth Amendment. A failure by your client to sign the written waiver, you explained, like any assertion by your client of the Fifth Amendment, would result in his dismissal. You persuasively mocked the notion that any waiver signed under such circumstances could be deemed voluntary." In interviews, both Tate and Abrams said that the other was misrepresenting their conversations. Tate did not return recent phone calls for this story. But in an interview in August-before Libby gave Miller the personalized waiver-Tate said the failure of his client to provide a personal waiver was "because we didn't think that we had to do anything different for Judy than everyone else." Tate added that, "She was and is free to interpret our behavior any way she wants." Abrams, however, insisted that in several conversations Tate had "left no doubt whatsoever that a general waiver was inherently coercive. There just was very little room for any misunderstanding." What exactly transpired between the two attorneys may prove to be extremely important to prosecutors, according to legal experts and outside legal observers not directly involved in the case. A senior Justice Department official said in an interview that "any affirmative statement or action" that "would discourage Miller might be construed to be an obstruction of justice." The official, who has no direct involvement with the Plame probe, requested to speak on the condition of anonymity due to the political sensitivity of the investigation. "Any thorough prosecutor is going to look long and hard at that," the official said. Dan Richman, a professor at Fordham Law School and a former federal prosecutor for the southern district of New York, said in an interview that while he could not speak specifically as to what occurred between Tate and Abrams, "[A]n attorney encouraging a witness to withhold information from a grand jury when the witness had no right to withhold is engaging in obstructive behavior." Richman suggested that because Fitzgerald has already been investigating allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice by officials of the Bush administration, the prosecutor might be motivated to examine additional evidence of such conduct because it might demonstrate a pattern of behavior. Rory Little, a professor of law at the University of California and a former federal prosecutor and associate attorney general in the Clinton administration said that when a special prosecutor is conducting in a high-profile investigation, as opposed to a more routine case probed by an ordinary prosecutor, most private attorneys would act with even greater caution in not sending signs to a potential witness not to co-operate. "A special prosecutor has a very narrow focus," said Little. "The prosecutorial lens is going to be even more focused on both the actions of an attorney and their client." Although Libby and his attorney declined to comment for this article, Tate had said in a letter to Fitzgerald that he was "dismayed that you had the impression that I had not spoken to counsel for Ms. Miller or that we did not want her to testify." Tate also said he was confident that Miller's "testimony, when added to those of the other reporters... will assure you and the grand jury that Mr. Libby acted properly and lawfully in all respects." But the senior Justice official added that even in the absence of hard evidence of an obstruction, "a prosecutor is going to want to know why a subject of (the) investigation did not want a witness to co-operate, and why they would allow someone to linger in jail for more than eighty days, unless they had something to hide. That is going to lead many prosecutors to redouble his efforts." -- Murray Waas is a Washington-based journalist. His previous article, focusing on White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove's role in the Valerie Plame case, was published on Oct. 7. ------------------------------ From: "Sparky the Wonder Dog" Subject: Re: alternate to 11/70 Portchester Run for DP Date: 11 Oct 2005 14:34:25 -0700 Well, these rehearsal-laden shows may not have had sterling classics like "Picasso Asteroid" or "Six Zillion Tons of Aluminum" fans cherished in the Dead's later material, but I'll still buy any finished product GDM can turn out. ------------------------------ From: "k sturm" Subject: Re: Here comes Vince! Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:37:28 GMT "Schmoe" wrote in message news:qgx2f.10038$dl2.8085@fe08.lga... > wrote in message > news:1128961383.337020.132550@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... >> In the event that more than 21 named tropical cyclones occur in the >> Atlantic basin in a season, additional storms will take names from the >> Greek alphabet: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and so on. >> >> http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml > > I stand correct. Serves me right. Some friends were discussing that very > subject at a party a couple of weeks ago and a guy who seemed like he knew > what he was talking about said they start again with new names. Drunk > bastard! (note to self: don't listen to Kevin) > Hurricane Center Has One Name Left: Wilma Robert Roy Britt LiveScience Managing Editor LiveScience.comMon Oct 10,11:00 AM ET With the forming of the 20th tropical storm in the Atlantic Basin, this season becomes the second busiest on record. If one more storm forms, as is likely, 2005 will tie for the record and the last name on the list will be used. Tropical storm Vince became a hurricane Sunday in the far eastern Atlantic. The only name left on this year's list is Wilma, then the National Hurricane Center will switch for the first time to Greek names such Alpha, Beta, and Gamma. The busiest season on record was 1933 with 21 named storm. There were 20 storms in 1887 and 1995. Reliable hurricane records go back to 1851. "There is the potential for additional tropical storms and hurricanes to form this season, but it's too early to know exactly where they will develop or if they will affect land," said Scott Kiser, Tropical Cyclone Program Manager for the National Weather Service. Long-range forecaster William Gray of Colorado State University said earlier this month that he expects October to be busy. Hurricane names are re-used every six years, except for those of major storms that have been retired. The letter Q, U, X, Y and Z are not used. Names are given to tropical cyclones when they reach tropical storm status, with top sustained winds of at least 39 mph. The storms are called hurricanes when those sustained wind reach 74 mph. This season started out as the busiest ever, with 4 named storms by July 5. The season begins June 1, and the busiest months are typically August and September. Of the 20 named storms that have formed this year, 11 have become hurricanes, including five major hurricanes. The average year has 10 named storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes. But meteorologists say we are in the middle of the busy part of a natural cycle that is decades long, so several years of above-average activity are expected. Still controversial is what effect global warming has on hurricane formation. Recent studies suggest the warmer climate is making hurricanes stronger and fueling an increase in the number of major hurricanes. Hurricane Vince poses no immediate threat to the United States. In fact, by Monday morning it had degenerated into a tropical storm and was expected to become further disorganized. Hurricane season runs through Nov. 30. ------------------------------ From: leftie Subject: Professor Lesh Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:59:16 -0700 http://www.learningannex.com/default.taf?sctn=A&_function=detail&cnum=240HSF&cat ------------------------------ From: leftie Subject: Re: Libby Scootin' off to the Pen? (NDC) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:03:52 -0700 If there's any justice he will be! And Rove will be going too! "by by, baby, by by...." ------------------------------ From: "Andrew Murawa" Subject: Re: Hard ttimes in NE Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:09:00 -0700 "Rogues Island's finest" wrote in message news:1128990378.156693.9450@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com... > > Steve Terry wrote: >> "Rogues Island's finest" wrote in message >> news:1128951241.573888.236050@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... >> > Update: Patriots offense brilliant in big win at Atlanta. Sad >> > season >> > indeed! >> > >> > Mark >> > >> >> News Flash: Patriots defense gives up 28 points to a Vick-less Falcon >> offense. Let's see now...the NFL's lone unbeaten team, the Colts have >> only >> given up 29 points all season long. Be afraid. Be very afraid. > > Vickless? Have you seen our injury list lately? Oh come on man... Don't start whining about a few injuries now after having been left relatively unscathed during the past two seasons... ------------------------------ From: Andy Gefen Subject: Re: MUCH cheese this week Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:13:13 -0400 CHEEEEEEEEEEESE, Gromit! -- Andy (remove z's to respond) ------------------------------ From: "Andrew Murawa" Subject: Re: Pigpen... Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:19:48 -0700 "Steve Terry" wrote in message news:diccf0$2qjo$1@news.iquest.net... > Maybe it's just me, but Pig's lengthy "raps" get rather boring pretty > fast. Thank god the band is cookin' behind him otherwise I'd be > snoozin. Don't get me wrong, I like his singing, Mr. Charlie, Hard to > Handle, Easy Wind, for example. It's just those mindless ramblings > during Lovelight and Good Lovin that lose me. Why do those songs have > to be 20 minutes long? Am I in the minority? Am I missing something? > Please enlighten me. I have to be in the mood for a Lovelight, but I can dig me a Good Lovin' just about any time... But, I will say that "boring" ain't a word I would ever use to describe either one of those songs at their peak... ------------------------------ From: "Dylanstubs" Subject: Re: Professor Lesh Date: 11 Oct 2005 15:25:37 -0700 The college bills must be piling up . . . ------------------------------ From: "Andrew Murawa" Subject: Re: Pigpen... Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:23:45 -0700 "Everybody's Gonna Be Happy" wrote in message news:wfz2f.139$me7.980@eagle.america.net... > Agree 100%. Most Dark Stars were dark holes of wasted time. Generally speaking, if it weren't for Dark Star (and The Other One and Playin') I wouldn't be half as interested in the Dead... ------------------------------ From: "Dave Kelly" Subject: Re: Professor Lesh Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:34:21 GMT Phil is giving a lecture on how to "Fung Shway" a dormroom! What HAPPENED to this guy? Disgusted. Professor Sweetbac ------------------------------ From: "pookietooth" Subject: Re: Professor Lesh Date: 11 Oct 2005 15:41:03 -0700 leftie wrote: > http://www.learningannex.com/default.taf?sctn=A&_function=detail&cnum=240HSF&cat I thought he said he couldn't remember any of the 60's or 70's? That's gonna be one short class. ------------------------------ From: "mizshely" Subject: Re: Professor Lesh Date: 11 Oct 2005 15:43:59 -0700 I didn't see any mention of Feng Shui in the ad (which I admit I found hilarious). This might actually be worth going back to school for. Still not admitting to watching that Feng Shui special on PBS that pops up during pledge week from time to time, in the fervent hope I will catch a glimpse of "Best King I Ever See At Funeral" Victor Talmadge, Michelle ------------------------------ From: "mizshely" Subject: Re: Muffin Date: 11 Oct 2005 15:48:10 -0700 Not for me, but it is the 1 year anniversary of the death of Marmaduke's wife, Elanna, and bittersweet because this morning, Cassidy Law Sears gave birth to a daughter. ------------------------------ From: "Steve Terry" Subject: Re: RMGD Word n' Numbers Taboo Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:57:55 -0500 "Sean Baker" wrote in message news:11kntpditfinnf6@news.supernews.com... > 1) Heiny > 2) Bush > 3) Phish > 4) 5/8/77 > 5) Marin > 6) :~) > 7 _____________ (Insert your's here) Samba ------------------------------ From: "Dave Kelly" Subject: Genesis Reunion in the works? Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:58:59 GMT WITH peter gabriel? check it: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7000474269 ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** The service addresses, to which questions about the list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, are as follows: Internet: dead-flames-request@gdead.berkeley.edu Bitnet: dead-flames-request%gdead.berkeley.edu@ucbcmsa Uucp: ...!{ucbvax,uunet}!gdead.berkeley.edu!dead-flames-request You can send mail to the entire list (and rec.music.gdead) via one of these addresses: Internet: dead-flames@gdead.berkeley.edu Bitnet: dead-flames%gdead.berkeley.edu@ucbcmsa Uucp: ...!{ucbvax,uunet}!gdead.berkeley.edu!dead-flames End of Dead-Flames Digest ****************************** .