Glorious.

Experiencing technical difficulties–the last two times a new article has been posted, I have been unable to refresh and see the new article, I have had to get out of FDL and then go back in. Anyone else have this problem?

Oh, and Fitz!

Only we can get hot and bothered about CSpan “must see TV!”

I can’t wait. Jane, Christy and Matt - Thanks!

Help stamp out intolerance. Help stamp out corruption. Help stamp out incompetence.

Stomp on a Republican. They squish like insects.

which one is mine?

I’m having fitzies!!!

T-Rex:

Careful, we do not need to add more fuel to the eliminationist fire.

Figuratively, definitely stomp them out in November. I am all for that.

The ballot, not the bullet.

OT - Cujo, is that REALLY what happened to K9? Are the parts in storage somewhere?

The scarf guy- the only Dr. I really knew and I miss him. I used to miss cheesey sets and backdrops too, then Bush got elected and, well, let’s just say I wouldn’t be suprised to see “The Invasion of the Dalek Democrats” as the next Heritage speech topic.

Can I assume it will be C-Span 1 (rather than 2)?

And I assume it would be too much to hope that the message will get stamped across a couple of *foreheads*?

Does Joe Lieberman get his very own personalized Honorary Republican Rubber Stamp? Maybe we can pitch in and get him a plaque or something.

Just so everyone knows — the two boxes on either side of the basket of stamps up top. Also completely filled with stamps. You guys are so freaking amazing — I really cannot say that enough.

OT: Jeralyn has some Libby analysis:

http://talkleft.com/new_archives/014464.html

punaise –

I’m glad you’re still here, so I can tell you: your “shift happens” comment in the last thread had me rolling around laughing. Thanks!

if you haven’t been following raw story’s saga w/getting ripped off by AP follow the link. this just really pisses me off and i have written AP @ info@ap.org letting them know how i feel.

we need to stick up for our best online news sources and not let them get abused by MSM. please follow the link and then let raw story know we have their back. write AP if you are as disgusted as i am. thanks.

Mrs. K8 — ought to be C-Span1. The Blue Dog Democrats are talking budget deficit and Republican irresponsible spending at the moment. It’s a good day to be a Dem. :)

Those stamps do sort of look like squishy bugs. Do they replicate?

Are they allowed to have those in jail?

Annie — I heard a peep about that today but haven’t had time to look at it as yet. Is this the AP rip-off of Larissa’s story without giving her credit? Bastards…

oh… yeah!!!! i was so riled up i completely forgot to say how great. one of those is from me. thank you for the inspiration. you rock.

titter. someday, those’ll be valuable, in the collector’s sense.

Mrs. K8 (or K*, if you prefer) - shhhhh. I’m not really here. supposed to be working….

if you-all in DC are feeling impish: deliver a stamp to each of the Democratic Congresscritters to use - that’ll be less than 250 stamps. The staff will find it funny…

support impishment

yes it is reddhead. and i am so fuming. when i first read about it last week i thought about doing something about it but didn’t. i wrote raw story and ask them to please provide the contact for theeir readers to be able to support them. then i just googled AP. but it’s such a big organization who knows where my little email will end up. but i really think this is something we should all get behind. blogs should get all the respect they deserve. you guys are the, whats the name of those papers franklin wrote, you know what i mean. what shape would this country be in w/ the state the msm is in, without the blogs??? we need to get in there and nip this crap in the bud. i really hope you post about it.

Punaise, I have a totally OT question, and I think you might be just person to answer… are you still there?

Yep- the AP is going after Raw Story. Nice. Real nice. Some people are just lazy, you know? At least Raw always prints ‘an oh by the way, story cannot be printed just yet in BOLD, but the AP buries that kind of thing. Just sayin.

VG (sheepishly) - yeah. ’sup?

bloggin’ bloggin’ bloggin’
keep them dawgies bloggin’
raw, hide!

i have a copy of the potus’ NIE about the planes being used as agreed to for the WTC from whitehouse.org that could use a rubber stamp over it?

Annie–Josh Marshall had something recently about blog stories ripped off by corporate media and cited problems he and his reporters had had. Definitely it’s an issue. Aaarrggh.

Stamp out Republicans!

Mary — there were at least five different actors to play Doctor Who. The one with the scarf, our favorite, was Tom Baker.

rollin’, rollin’, rollin.

BRAVO! This is hilarious. Well done.

Yay, Tom Baker!

Best Doctor Who Ever.

Can I see this online?

I’m so excited!

I think my stamp’s the one in front of the basket, just off to the left.

Taylor — you think this is hilarious. Wait until you see the video. HAHAHAHAHA

OT - Mary, they had considerable trouble with the machine that played K9, but they ultimately decided to drop him for dramatic reasons (at least as much as the pragmatic). K9 was later featured in a pilot episode of a series called K9 And Company, which also featured Sarah Jane, and is supposed to make an appearance in the new series at some point, along with SJ.

So, I suspect that K9 occupies a special place in the BBC props department.

Zennurse,
Go to C-Span on the web. from there you can stream 1 2 or 3 on your computer.

By the way, I know you are going to YKos from MA. When are you coming home? I’m going as well and am trying to figure out flights home without missing much of Sun. morning and it doesn’t seem to work.

Maybe Feingold should run on a Jellybabies for Everyone platform?

If I could knit, I’d start him a scarf.

Could someone get screen shot on C-span?
Yaaayy!

Punaise- OK, this is OT for everyone else, unless it’s not. And it is really OT. But here’s the deal. I would love to learn to parlez Francais at a level that make me good in France. It’s one of those life time goals that always seems to be on the backburner. I have high school French, not so good, but the 3 times I have been in Paris, I tried to use it. Seemed that the Parisiens were responsive to my efforts, and I think they get a bad rap on that account, esp. from the Brits. OT. Anyway, I just got to thinking about this again bec. a few days ago I discovered a Pimsleur method tape for learning French in my local library, and checked it out. I have been listening in my car (while driving of course) and it revived my hopes of somehow learning to speach the language. What I like about it is that it is totally audio, no workbooks etc. In the past, I’ve tried via eBay etc. to find “books on tape” in French- without any luck- I was hoping that thriller novels and the like would have been recorded in French (maybe available in Canada for the Frenchies there) but I have had absolutely no luck. I just figured that if I listened enough, I could get the hang of it. But, I have had no luck in that regard. I do think that this would work… a good while back, a French TV site was available freebie on the internet– it was like the French version of CNN– and it was so great to be able to watch and listen at the same time. Last time I checked, it was about 40 euros per mo. to access this with a subscription. So, that’s out. Anyway, this is the long prelude- I think I would to best with totally audio stuff- I really can’t bear the idea of having to learn the verb conjugations on paper. So….. do you have any advice/ help/ leads pour realiser mon objective? BTW, I almost went to Paris instead of Cambridge, England for my postgraduate studies, and I often think that my life would have turned out very differently had I ended up in Paris instead of chilly England. Merci!!!
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Duke women whuppin’ Terp ass at halftime. That Duke center chick Baer is TOO tall (6′7″). Tallest chick I ever played against is 6′4″ (Gerald Paddio’s wife). She knocked me on my ass last year and tore my left elbow tendon. Still hurts.

21 chicago dyke:

someday, those stamps’ll be in the Smithsonian. Well done, democracy in action. Let’s take back the people’s house. And the Senate. And the White House.

Can’t wait, Christy. Wonderful job.

Christy and Jane,
I do not want to ramble,but, I would really like to thank you. I have always been a Democrat. ( I have a picture of me casting my first vote)And I have always voted Democrat.In my gut I knew G.W. was baaaaad news.In my wildest dreams I could not have imagined just how bad.I just felt powerless to really do any thing about it.(not politically active). Ladies, you have changed that.Thank you.
I now consider it a must to help change the course of this country.You have provided the needed focus,action points, a way to make the little people heard. Keep up the hard work. We have your back.
Btw, You have a few more fans now.Networking is a good thing.

want audio books in French? try French Amazon! http://www.amazon.fr
look under ‘livres en francais’ and then ‘livres audio’ … Voila!

Thank you, Christy! At last we find out what happened to the stamps. Also, I’m glad the small shop we ordered them from got this huge order.

Here’s a weird idea. Along with the usual suspects, perhaps a couple of stamps to Holy Joe and — wait for it — John (Falwell-Buddy) McCain. It will dismay Lieberman and blow McCain’s mind. Ya’ think?

Deb

PS: Like the instant-view of this comments section.

Fille de la Vallee - I’m somewhat biased on the matter; my wife teaches French - vieille ecole, a live human being doing conversation, grammar, and literature courses. I really couldn’t comment first-hand on les methodes that you mention - different people respond better to different media. I’m more book oriented, so when I first got to Paris with minimal French I did a summer course for foreigners at the Sorbonne; that was very effective for me (the phonics lab was great for reinforcing pronunciation and developing an “ear for it”). That, coupled with full immersion working in an office, and generally just living there, got me up to speed within about half a year or so. Frankly I’d shy away from an all-aural approach to learning, because spelling, grammar and punctuation do matter, and small nuances can change the meaning of a phrase entirely.
The TV option is probably great for the ear, but that’s pricey. Is there an Alliance Franciaise where you live? Not cheap either - although you wouldn’t guess that by the teachers’ take-home pay :-) - but they have all levels of classes, usually over seven or eight week sesions.

ca va comme ca?

Thanks *wilson I will check this out. I tried to find French tapes via eBay a few years ago, w/o much success, but I didn’t even think of Amazon. Merci!

any other “Frenchies” want to chime in? “moi”? qui d’autre?

VG: it also helps if you marry into a French family…. :-)

RevDeb- I’m not flying home from NV, I’m renting a car and my son and I will drive to Taos,NM. We’ll be flying home from Albuquerque after a visit with my firstborn. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen him and I had planned to go in April. This is all contingent on getting both weekends off (I work every weekend, 12 hour shifts), but should know tomorrow. Have registered for conf and hotel, but waiting till my supervisor calls before I do the plane.

The raw story has got a link to a story in The American Prospect that ties the Plame story toghther:

http://www.prospect.org/web/pa.....leId=11370

Thought you might be interested.

Valley Girl — might I suggest that you just take the rest of the year in the South of France? I hear Marseilles is fabulous for learning French. ;-) (And the food and the weather aren’t bad, either…)

I am not punaise– pas du tout! Je m’excuse, punaise. The easiest and best way for me to learn other languages was develop an interest in learning a language, visiting that country and interacting with newfound friends and augmenting that with reading newspapers and watching tv and movies with subtitles. That is, this works if you have an ear for other languages and some knowledge of them. The audio and visual in tandem cannot be surpassed, unless it is by total immersion, especially if one is an adult. The good news is that sheer will and eagerness will get you very far on your journey and you surely have that! For me, getting very ill in a foreign country and spending a long while in a hospital and having dear grandparents who loved me and spoke to me in their language helped me learn all this.

Zennurse,
Hope the whole trip is a great one for you. Look forward to meeting you and the rest if the FDL crowd that will be going.

Getting tired of hearing Tom Osborne rattle on and on about Meth and Porn on C-Span. If I were ready to go to sleep, he’d beat Ambien for effectiveness.

*ilson- I went to the Amazon.fr page, and I found the livres en Francais, but I couldn’t find a link to livres audio. Help???

VG, should be able to find some kind of French language radio stations on-line - I’ve been able to find tons of German ones (cuz I was trying to learn German).

Also there’s www.google.fr, and since you know enough french to come up with useful search terms, that should work as well.

Janet

Feingold takes another brave step forward…would legalize gay marriage.

Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), a prospective 2008 presidential candidate, said yesterday that he thinks bans on same-sex marriages have no place in the nation’s laws.

on the left handhand side of the livres en francais page, there’s a list of the different kind of livres available.
this URL will break the margins but what-the-hell …
http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obid.....27-6477824

MSNBC is reporting that Homeland Security Deputy Press Secretary Brian Doyle arrested for soliciting a child online.

Christy Hardin Smith #56

somebody’s hinting for an invitation to Provence :-)

Sorry, link didn’t work, try again.

angie - great advice (most people might want to skip the getting sick part, however)

I hear that both Paris and Provence are lovely in the springtime, punaise.

Valley Girl — might I suggest that you just take the rest of the year in the South of France? I hear Marseilles is fabulous for learning French. ;-) (And the food and the weather aren’t bad, either…)

Mon chere Christie- OMG, wouldn’t I just love to do that! Malheuresment, ca ne pas possible, a ce moment. Cette une bonne idee, pour ma revoir (?) Mais, merci pour votre (ton) attention a cet question. xoox

How did that happen? Poof - there was my real name!

American Prospect article by Greg Sargent on the Plame matter. Elaboration of the earlier Murry Waas piece re the importance of covering up the doubts about the aluminum tubes:

http://www.prospect.org/web/pa.....leId=11370

Yikes!
Feingold on gay marriage:

http://tinyurl.com/eeymp

punaise at #64 — how did you know what I’ve been hinting to my hubby for the last coupla years? *g*

yeah, punaise, it suqqued. Ruptured appendix and horrific food when able ca. 12 days after– buttermilk soup with swollen raisins and cauliflower soup lukewarm. As Ms. Christy would say, blergh. But I was well taken care of and learned a lot.

B’nuckles says “I now consider it a must to help change the course of this country”. Bravo! This is just the attitude we need to take back the nation from the subversive and treasonous Republicans. The Democrats, my party, are far from perfect, but they’re the best team in town. And if we can take Congress and the White House back, we can start doing a little court packing of our own and perhaps one day return the Democrats back to its roots as the ‘party of concern’.

I’ve only been to Provence in the middle of summer - c’est tres beau mais il fait tres, tres chaud! Oppressive heat, even. The chirping of the cicadas is omnipresent, adding to the effect.

Paris, in April, say no more….

I’m surprised that nobody jumped on me for suggesting Amazon Francais instead of some chic independent livre boutique in Boumphucq, Brittany…

Keith — sorry, see you already linked this story. I was busy reading the story and didn’t catch up on comments.

Me, too, RevDeb, I hope we can all have a meet-from-Ma, or something. I’ll offer my room at the Riviera.

Matt O, thanks for that link, what fascinating news! Just bookmarked you. Glad you’re commenting here.

Mrs K8, if you are not coming to YearlyKos, I’m wondering how hard it would be to meet up as my kiddo and I are going through AZ? I’ll e-mail you.

Got my ice cream ready for the show!

Redd - can we still call you that? - there was a certain je ne sais quoi in your wistful comment.

Who’s this Congressman Tom Osborne (R-NE)? Why doesn’t he get off my CPAN-1 so the Rubber Stamp Show can start?

#79 s/b op99 lol

*ilson = drole
Boumphucq, Brittany…

Boumphucq, Brittany… *ilson, too cute!

Lovin it Redd!

C’mon, Maryland! Where the hell’s yer shootin?! Argh. Make em Fear the Turtle, girls!

Merciful god in heaven, is Tom Osborne’s time up yet? *YAWN* It’s odd to see him behind a lecturn and not on the side of a football field, isn’t it?

WTF, my comment got et, was at 79. Crap, long one too.

angie - hope that was a long time ago.

(R-NE) is a pain… gawd, what a fabulous orator…not. this should be inflicted on the rethugs every day of their lives, notice the preachy thingie? from meth to prayer….. to abortion.

op99 says:
April 4th, 2006 at 7:14 pm

WTF, my comment got et, was at 79. Crap, long one too.

control + V is your friend.
try posting as op79 next time?

I need one of them tvs with the picture in the picture.

Oh, he really needs to stop this. I have no patience with it at all.
Last night I threw out the name of a book I heard about on NPR, “American Prophet”. There’s a long article in Newsweek about it, haven’t read it cause not feeling well today, but it talks about the history of the relationship between government and religion in the US. Anyone know more?

TeddySanFran: Before Tom Osborne, a Demo had an hour. Osborne has this hour. He started about 9:30 or so, I think.

Eschaton also told folks to tune into CSpan about now …

control + V is your friend.
uh, preceded by control + C, of course

“Who’s this Congressman Tom Osborne (R-NE)? Why doesn’t he get off my CPAN-1 so the Rubber Stamp Show can start?”

Is he filibustering? Psuedoephedrine… betting on amateur sports… video games… on line porn….!?!?!

Tom Osborne is either incredibly disingenuous or a complete moron. Everything he cites is a gross misinterpretation of facts. What a lying sack of crap. I can’t sit through this for some maybe-going-to-happen theater.

Woo hoo — back to Dems again. :)

a one-point game!…(biting nails)

ah! the Democratic Kiddy Show !

Scotty Meek up next. He’s one of the ones that had the early rubber stamp graphic. Go Scotty (our Scotty, that is)

Link for a printed article on the DHS Press Dept. that was arrested.

OOPs, not Scotty (that’s one of my colleagues with last name Meek) Kendrick, D. FL. part of the 30-something working group.

Re: Homeland security guy arrest, on CSpan2 theres a program about sexual exploitation on the internet; looks like it is a panel. Also, it’s the first thing on the list of news items.

Be pretty hard to go easy on him, huh?

It was a long while ago, punaise, thanks. The two best and wonderful people I know met in Paris, fell in love and know all about Paris in Avril. Lucky you. Here is Mr. Meek!

Ah, mes amies, merci. Janet, I have tried the radio station approach. Unfortunately, it seems to depend on where you are located, at least with ordinary radio. I have a small short wave radio, but the reception is not so great. I have thought of buying a bigger and better SW radio, but kinda got lost in the details. However, all advis welcome on that account. Angie, I would truly love to be able to do the “total immersion” thing. I know that there is a “total immersion” school somewhere on the Mediteranean (sp?) and I would love to be able to do that, or some other such, but right now, that’s not feasible. Punaise- I would be a lot more eager to learn the spelling and words on paper stuff, if I already had the audio knowledge. I do have enough vocabulary and verb tense stuff to understand why it’s important… I did buy some “romance books” (Harlequin) in French, but I really didn’t have the discipline to read them. Ordinarily, I am more bookish and visual, but that just didn’t seem to work. And, even thought there is an Alliance Francais in my city, I really don’t think I’d do that will with regular classes- I have too much scheduling in my life already. Et encore, merci. Les membres (?!)de la lac du Chien- vous etes merveilleux.

http://www.sit.ulaval.ca/pp/rv.....dioQc.html

Valley Girl,
I found this site with links to some French news stations that you can listen over the internet.
Since full on french immersion might not be an option, just listening to it for a certain amount of time every day might be helpful.
Hope this helps.

Oh, I love Debbie!

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. What a talent! FL is lucky to have her. I hope she has a great future in our leadership. First noticed her during the Schiavo fiasco last year and was SO impressed.

#43 VG - Trying again.
FWIW this has been quite helpful to me in learning French aux etats unis:
1) Pimsleur (wish there were more levels!)
2) Read articles that interest you in Le Monde at http://www.lemonde.fr/
3) For unfamiliar words have this online dictionary open in a second window: cut and paste, it can find any form: http://www.wordreference.com/
4) Listen to Radio France streaming radio, I like France Info, all talk. http://www.radiofrance.fr/ , click France Info then Ecouter Direct. At first you will just be picking out phrases here and there, but, amazingly you will notice your comprehension improving over time, especially as you hear stories that you have read in Le Monde. It’s a lot easier to understand a trained radio personality than the man in the street.
5) Get a French speaking penpal: http://www.penpalworld.com/

I know this is OT, but it is too priceless to pass up.

Apparently , the Deputy Press Secretary for Dept of Homeland Security was arrested for On Line contacts of an explicit Sexual nature with a 14 yr old girl. Sent her his picture and instant messaged her on his own AOL account!

http://www.tampabays10.com/new.....ryid=28229

Can’t wait to see it! Can’t see it on my evenng connection.
News from CT: Dodd wants to run for president (No I kid you not)
Chimpy is visiting CT landing in New Haven Tweed tommorow and his people will block off I 95 New Haven thru Bridgport (now doubt backing up traffic all the way to Rhode Island since I95 around New Haven is a trouble spot.) People will have to get off and use Merritt Pkwy & I am sure that will make Chimpy’s ratings go to 0 in CT. Reason? To deliver an award to a teenage volunteer in Waterbury. *Smack me*
Moveon.org’s ads on behalf of Chris Murphy against Nancy Johnson are causing some trouble. Now Nancy the big oil pharmaceutical hag is getting out the big guns to aim at Murphy.
Apologize for the length. Thought some of you may get a kick out of the lunacy.

Show me the rubber!

Darn it sorry. Browser problems again

Mui — it’s not a full moon tonight, so what the hell is going on today? And that is one huge traffic block…people are going to curse his name tomorrow. Piss poor planning on someone’s part.

Way back there at #41, Mary said: If I could knit, I’d start him a scarf.

I can knit. It’s a matter of yarn and time (things to do on train while commuting). What color scarf and how big? And later on, where to send ….

VG - I meant internet radio - tons of European stations have streaming audio on the internet.

hahaha - go w-schultz!

game is neck & neck with 4 whole minutes left! aiyeeeeee

Mui,
Don’t know what browser you use. I am finding Safari loads painfully slowlu. Firefox works much better and faster just on this site. On others, Safari rocks, but for the new FDL site, have to use Firefox.

Rubber stamps coming up!

mui– this is pure craziness!!! Dodd for President and he still stands by Liebfraumilch? chimpster is blocking the worst commute in the country for what kind of teen volunteer? What did the kid do? Boo Lamont? I feel your pain.

moi– merci bien pour l’information

this is some fine-ass CSPAN!

Rep Kendrick Meek, D-Florida speaking on CNN: talking about exposing the K Street Project, over Repub opposition; supplying troops with armor; So much to share tonight, he says.
Says 30 second ads misleading the American people. Every day we read that “strange things are taking place, in this House and in the WH.

Yields to Debbie Wasserman Shultz, D-Florida. Banter abbout the Fla. Gators (NCAA BBall champs). Talks about the things that are the result of Repub leadership: Confidence in govet shaken by culture of corruption and cronyism, and the resulting policies. Unemployment, lack of new job gains to keep up. She’s interrupted by William Delahunt, D-Mass (Why?)to say new jobs are not living standard jobs. Medium income not keeping place; families falling beyind, losing pensions, health care. Yields to Mr. Pinstripes, Tim Ryon, D-Ohio — new jobs/industries not the right ones. Back to Schultz and exchange. [This is all staged for CNN, with repartee between four Dems; no one else there.] Where are they going? . . . Dems haven’t been in charge. Who was in charge? Republicans. Minimum wage fallen behind; Repubs prefer low-wage jobs. “This is Bush’s Congress. A bobble-head majority. A RUBBER STAMP MAJORITY!” We need to get back to when we were proud to be members of Congress. “I’m offended, that they’re not offended. Why don’t they do the right thing and not be the RUBBER STAMP REPUBLICANS.”
mORE TO FOLLOW

Just turned on and there is Rep Kendrick Meek talking rubber stamp congress.

Any thoughts of delivering rubber stamps to Rep. John Sweeney and his 92% DeLay voting record? I know a lot of people that would be glad to participate in such an event.

Which cspan is this on?

VG, I’d like to learn French too–it was a long time ago that I had some small conversational French, but not using it for so long is no good for the language muscles.
(In my brain and elsewhere, I guess.)