You belong in Talking Head land, sweetie. Shine!

I hereby dub todays’ Sunday Shows “Revenge of the Turds.”

Rütz!

Kiss my FITZ, y’all!

Wasn’t chimpy supposed to be flappin’ his trap at 8:40 eastern this AM? I don’t see him on any of the 24/7 cable newsies.

Christy – “scattering them further out on the ground” — you’ll make friends with some nice little squirrels.

I love Laura Flanders. Been too long since we had a good slug of Redd on the radio! I can’t get my local AA station signal after dark out here in the sticks, maybe I’ll have to take a little drive toward DC this evening.

thanks for the news of your happy home, and we’ll be listening tonight.

Laura Flanders rocks! This is gonna be good…

It’s nice to see and hear a talking head who makes sense.

And the best Talking Head since David Byne I might add.

Blue jays – so gorgeous, such punkass gangsta thugs…

Sharkbabe at 6 — there should be some streaming feed as well online — AA is great about that. We can’t get a station that covers any AA shows here, so I have to get my fix via my broadband. (Thank goodness for the internet, is all I’m saying. lol)

I agree – you are one of the only people I’m interesting in hearing talk. And I’m all over changing the name of Meet the Press to anything else. Start a poll!

twolf1 at 5 — Someday, I’m going to have to snap a pix of the squirrels that raid my feeder. The little buggers have figured out how to hang off the roof by their toes and use their free front paws to stuff their cheeks full of seeds and nuts. I don’t have the heart to chase them off — Fiona loves them and they are awfully cute — but they sure do eat a lot of my birdseed. (And piss off the cardinals and the chickadees in the process.)

Blue Jays are the republicans of the bird world. They make a lot of noise, leave a trail of crap where ever they fly, dominate the feeder by chasing the other birds away and build their flimsy nest in precarious locations causing a higher than average mortality rate amoung their young. Yes, they’re pretty in their blue outfits with matching “big hair” but if you ask the other birds…..

It’s true. Bluejays are gangsta thugs. Like starlings.

FROOTZ!

Christy what a beautiful photo! Thank you. I tuned in a bit earlier and this was not yet up. I felt so deflated. I had no idea how much I depend on your talking heads birdies to brighten up my morning…
Pach~I just finished posting to the late night thread. My late night ended early as I had run out of gas doing all the things a person with an older parent, a disabled child, an upcoming wedding and the pre-summer season of running around has to do. It was a lovely and thoughtful post. I hope you are still reading the comments.
Christy, How come no Leiberman today??? What a break for us – except I’d love to have him explain/discuss his future as an independent on national teevee.

Can’t wait to hear you on Laura, Christy. She is one of the brightest lights on AAR. I listen to hear whenever she is on. Always thoughtful and VERY VERY SMART!

Christy 12 – only dialup at home :( – sometimes I can get a stream working when every atom in the universe is properly aligned – I’ll try some testing today.

christy 14 – it could be worse:
http://cellar.org/iotd.php?t=8919

twolf1 at 20 — Oh man! That’s freaking hilarious! That must have been one hungry black bear — or a very curious one. So funny! Thanks so much for posting that link — I needed that chuckle this morning.

christy 21 – I bet they wished they didn’t use such heavy duty rope to hang their feeder.

arrrrgh — well, we had some lovely sunshine early this morning and, alas, it now looks like more rain. Man, it’s been a rainy May — but the rhododendron and perennials (as well as the weeds in my flower beds that I can’t seem to stay ahead of these days) are loving it.

I have a feeder that is weight activated with a tension spring, when the squirrel tries to get the seed from the perch, his weight shuts him out. It works quite well and it’s quite a whoot to watch. It’s a small victory to savor.

I used to limit seed selection for the ground feeders to keep the squirrels away. They don’t eat safflower seeds, however I thought who am I to impose what I wanted on nature. So now I provide a variety of seeds in a variety of feeders, with some water and suet cakes and let nature take it’s course.

BTW, robins love water. They have become a staple at the bird bath I added. Very funny to watch as they preen themselves.

OT: I’d like to repost this comment I just put in the EPU zone of last night’s thread. It was a response to somethng Leslie said that I found very apt, and which prompted me in turn to spell out some tihngs I had not written of before:

Leslie, 5:56 AM

You make an excellent point; much appreciated. Being an engaged spectator is for many a preliminary stage to becoming active. It was for me. Not everyone will make the jump, but some will. Some need to be asked, even, more than once.

That’s what I’m doing, I guess. I’m inviting people in.

One of the things these online communties can do is reconnect us with communities that take us outside ourselves, helping to add meaning to our lives and our work, challenging us to grow, to spread our wings, to uncover and develop latent talents, to make a difference.

I believe that’s vitally important for all of us in the modern world. Economic conditions make stable communties hard to find. The information age brings confusion and disclocation and challenges to people’s worldviews. Gone are the days of the stable tribal community drawing nurture from a stable, binding mythology and worldview. That adds much stress to people’s lives.

What’s more, we spend a vast proportion of our waking lives as adults at work, and yet not all of us enjoy jobs that we really love, that make us feel valued, that help us discover our talents and grow. For many of us, our situations of employment make us feel more alienated from ourselves and our neighbors, like cogs in a machine. People talked about this during the manufacturing revolution but it is no less true in the revolutionary knowldege, service based economy.

One of my goals in my facilitation of the Roots Project is to help people connect their lives and their work to a sense of purpose larger than themselves not just as individuals acting alone, but as part of a community. I’m trying to create the conditions where people have the latitude to stretch out a little bit to discover and develop their talents in an encouraging environment. Yes, it’s about making a difference in the world, but I fundamentally believe you can only do that by helping people to grow. While RP activists are focused on making a difference in their communities, my focus, as facilitator of the RP networks, is to serve and nurture tha activist community.

So, you are absolutely right that being a spectator can be a developmental step on the road to activism. Or not. Everyone has their own path to tread. For my part, I wll consistently invite people to make that step to join the activist world, inside or outside the Roots Project. Your point is well taken, and I thank you for making it.

Wonderful !! two of my favorite talking heads tonight. Christy and Laura !!
We have now get L Flanders on the radio – but a very weak signal, Looks like I hit the streaming audio tonight.

Also on tonight ~ 60 Minutes has Mike Wallace talking about his history of depression and his suicidality. Any one who knows about depression either firthand or via someone you know, ought to tape the show. I believe NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) has previewed it and is recommending it.

Roots!

This is Mr. CBL. CBL being still very much asleep. I enjoy watching her participate in the growing web movement aimed at attempting to support those who would hold our elected officials accountable for their actions. I have just read the Ned Lamont thread and am almost tearfull with joy.

I was raised during a time when a real leader called on this country’s inhabitants to seek a higher purpose in life. This was to be the lifting up of ALL. Through personal altruism. Or the Peace Corps. Or the simple act of volunteerism at local charity events. Make a difference for one person by one person. This is the path to national greatness. Over the course of the last 4 decades or so we as a people have forgotten that we are, as a people, only as strong as our most humble, poor, hungry and disgarded citizen. We have forgotten to teach the next generations this simple formula for the greatness of a nation. We may have, as I have, assumed that by our example we would pass these virtues on. But while we stagger through our daily lifes, attempting to mearly survive a world that increasingly appears to be out to sabatoge our existence, we have allowed the national debate to be hijacked by the greed of a small group of the most hienous humans seen in my lifetime.

Through the collective voice of those who seek to hold dear all that we as a nation are founded on, who’s passion for humanity is a guiding life force, who are now well and truely mad as hell and aren’t going to take it anymore we may well yet save our rapidly decaying country.

Oh yeah;
This morning our yard is alive with so many birds it is impossible to list them all. The Golden Fronted Woodpecker is the loudest right now. (hope i didn’t break any rules)

I love my birds. I live on a big lake and my backyard is my little animal kingdom. I tossed out a whole loaf of white bread this morning (I had my mom cut it into little pieces for me this morning–she thinks I am nuts). I have a blue jay family (4) and about 2 dozen mockingbirds, and the rest are crows (republicans). There are squirrels and the duck family just had a litter of 9. I threw a couple of slices whole in the water and the birds are killing themselves trying to get at it. Then the birds get a couple of handfuls of bran cereal with raisins for desert. I buy the cheap loaves of bread for 99 cents and they like it just fine. I will look forward to the air america show and I thought Pach’s post was great last night. Although I believe we should ROOT!, I still got to Fitz! Happy Sunday to all!

As long as we’re bird blogging and WV blogging….the other day I saw a bird out of the corner of my eye, flying (thump) into my picture window at an angle, then falling to the ground. It was a female scarlet tanager (which, curiously, are olive green over yellow). She was stunned, but not apparently injured. Within several minutes, she had flown away.

Two days later, another streak, at the same angle, same thump. It was a male scarlet tanager, in full red and black breeding plumage. After a few minutes, he, too had shaken off his concussion and flown away.

Alas, our camera is in the shop, so i couldn’t take advantage of the rare chance to get close-ups.

And the article about WV was great. I, myself, came back after more than 30 years away. COuldn’t be more content.

roxtar 29 – You can help wake birds that have been dazed by a window strike with vodka used like smelling salts. I have seen it done once and it appeared to work though it could have just been a coincidence that the bird came to when the vodka was held near it’s beak. Nedless to say, don’t do it inside as my friend did or you may have a hard time getting the bird back to the wild blue yonder. don’t forget to wear gloves.

RITZ

And you go, girl! You deserve the Talkin’ Heads time. You got starpower!!!

Three droughts in five years had me swearin’ I would never dis rain ever again. Rhodies are best enjoyed in the drizzle.

Pach is right, Jays are thugs. Colorful, tho.

Re: CL #15 — and you say “I understand that….” Apparently a psycho-manipulative language tool SS Condi uses as routinely as the Prez. [see this a.m.’s Press the Meat]

And if you’re a Rethuglican Congressman you tell illegal immigrants to go directly to the concentration internment camps and check in….

And #27–Mr. CBL–hear, hear!

Can’t say that it looks like anyone on the Sunday shows will be worth watching. There is still the McLaughlin Group, though.

As for a bird ecosystem, I have been enjoying mine this spring in Fort Worth also. Mostly sparrows and mockingbirds. Some bird has a nest reasonably close and has been really loud aroung 2:00 AM. But what was really fun was when I looked out the back window a few days ago and saw this long, skinny grey bird walking across the backyard out by the back fence.

It took a minute, and then I suddenly realized that it was a roadrunner. I’ve never seen one live before, and I didn’t know they travelled this far east. It’s a beautiful bird, and fun to watch. And yes, I checked. No Coyote.

Sent the NYT article on West Virginia to a friend of mine who is from Bluefield. Frank Rich has a great piece today that a friend sent to me. It’s hidden under a firewall but if it is ok with Christy, I will paste into comments.

Are the immigrants voting Democratic? Is this the reason why the Republicans are adamant on getting them in line somehow….Also, how do illegals vote if they are not in the system? Someone once told me that they all have numbers much like a set of social security numbers but a different system altogether. Is this true I wonder? Bush sure looked like a kid on Christmas in that dune buggy. It was kinda embarrasing to look at that pic.

Jane S. at 34 — Feel free to post an excerpt or two from the Rich article, but we try to follow copyright protocols as much as possible, and ask that the entire article not be posted. Thanks!

Birdwatch: this is the website for Fargo’s peregrine falcon nestbox hosted by Prairie Public Television. Some technical difficulty this a.m. so all you’ll see is mama sitting on her nest…she has 4 eggs.

http://www.riverwatchonline.or…..m-new.html

Oh, and we had a rare sighting yesterday, migratory striding and running stalkers, some 6000 strong, decked out in plumage from Supergirl suits to sweaty sweats, enjoying the balmy 40s&50s with intermittent sunshine as they marathoned thru Fargo-Moorhead. Good fun rules!

Just as good fun rules here at FDL.

Christie, having you starting your day is the best tuck-in I could ask for here in Yamato. ‘Night!

twolf1 at #30

Thanks for the tip. Window strikes are all too common here in the forest, so I suspect I’ll have more opportunities to try it out. Thanks again…

Good morning. Great thread last night and especially enjoyed reading the comment by the person in Austrailia in which s/he mentioned the world was ‘rooting’ for us to take back our country.

Threads about birds makes me sad a bit — many years ago I owned a slice of heaven. I purchased, for $40,000 no less, 5 acres and a 5 bdm house sitting on a hill. Old house with a huge farm kitched and a front porch. From this porch I overlooked a plowed field, trees along the side, and a stream that flowed directly through the field.

In spring after planting, one could sit there all day and watch owls, hawks, even an eagle, and various birds swoop, soar, and catch their evening meal. It was a vista that make your heart fuller and was truly God’s church in the best of ways.

Sadly I had to sell when my Dad went into a nursing home, my mother was not well and my teenagers made it clear they ‘hated’ being so isolated. I moved into a townhouse with my mother but my heart stayed in that old house on a hill.

Sorry about being off topic, kinda. But I can sit here and see that vista still…

Can you guess who said this today?

If a reader writes to point out an important omission or factual error, that reader deserves a prompt answer.

or this?

Reading thoughtful e-mail tells journalists what readers think about their work. The opinions can be accepted or not, but knowing them is important. And replying — even quickly — to local subscribers lets them know they’re needed. We blow them off at our peril.

Why its none other than Lil Debbie Howell, who demonstrates once again that she has absolutely no shame whatsoever.

Love to watch the quails, roadrunners, jackrabbits and coyotes in my yard. The coyotes are the most fun to watch, because their actions are so studied and methodical. I have a group of four that troop through just before sunrise, and they have this pattern worked out:

They cross the wide, open area around the house (just a few of cholla cacti and yuccas on about four acres) one at a time, waiting until the one ahead has reached the bush down by the road before the next one starts across. Each one waits by the bush for a minute, then lopes across the road and down into the arroyo. They look well-nourished, with beautiful coats. Just before sunset, and again just before the earliest dawn light, they all join in a huge chorus of extremely high-pitched howls.

Still, it’s fun to watch the jays battle it out with the squirrels and sparrows at the feeder when I visit back home in Lawrence, KS.

Pach 25~ thanks for the lovely response. (Who’s Julie?)
MR. CBL~ What a nice comment. I, too, remember the call to volunteerism. I so wanted to sign up for the PAeace Corps. What a time of giving that was! That was certainly a more unified time and a more peaceful time. It was when we were respected and our president was loved – even when he might not have been.
As for the birds…I just started practicing a mindfulness exercise where one focuses on a sense and only one sense. The sense I choose to focus on is sound. Yesterday, for 20 minutes ,I sat in a park and closed my eyes and focused on the sounds. It was wonderful to her the birds and the lawn mowers and the people softly speaking. What a gift those 20 minutes were. I look forward to another 20 minutes today. I’ll get to hear more birds singing and chirping and even cawing. It will do my soul good.
Happy Sunday . . .

Whenever Rice appears on a talk show my personal shorthand for that is I wonder what lie they’ve trotted her out to tell now.

But I don’t have enough curiosity to endure that buck-toothed beaatch to find out.

Re: Sunday morning political drivel shows. I used to be addicted to these programs. Anymore though, the Sunday morning t.v. dead-head, mind-numbing line-up, seems to present me with only a choice between caricatures and cartoons. Sunday morning political tv has become not much more than a Republican extravaganza of idiocy with an occasional Democrat token thrown in. And just look at the Demos the networks mostly give us: the Biden’s (I’m so sick of looking at Joe B’s teeth), Lieberman’s, and DLC Hillary types. Perhaps I’ll just sit out another Sunday on the back porch gazing across the pasture south toward Texas, watching the cardinals, the jays, the Scissor-Tail (or Swallow-Tailed) Fly Catcher (our state bird), the doves and all the rest. Oh, and with a lap-top in my lap for FDL Sunday best.

Leslie — that is such a good idea, taking minutes to just close one’s eyes and listen to the world. My favorite place was a field where my horses grazed. I would lay on the slight rise with the horses munching (they were close but never ever stepped on me) and listened to birds, bees — well, life itself and the heartbeat of the world.

Hope you can do the same today. I need to do that again. Thanks for the reminder.

Who but the talking heads think Hillary has a chance at getting the nomination? At least they talked about Al Gore on the Tweety show, but sheesh, they are SO out of touch. Or just repeating the puke talking points.
Go Al 2008.

Leslie #26, thanks for the heads up about 60 Minutes.

Awww, Thanks GrandmaJ.
I’m off to the lakefront now. Hope the peace of the morning stays with us all.

I grew up in the Maryland suburbs of DC. West Virginia was our first family trip each spring, from the late 1960’s through the 1970’s. Dad would check to see if the flood waters were down at Harpers Ferry and we’d hit the road. We’d picnic in Harpers Ferry (sometimes turning the picnic benches by the river over and wiping dried mud off of them) and do something “historical” or take a little hike (Jefferson’s Table is such a beautiful overlook). We’d also visit the factory outlets in and around Martinsburg, back when factory outlets were actually stores at the factory. Until I got to college all of my socks came from West Virginia.

One of my favorite childhood memories is driving over the up and down roads over the hills. When Dad was going a little fast, we’d do a little “woo-ooo” coming over the top, where you kind of lift up out of your seat. The absolute best was when “Country Roads” would come on the radio. We’d all sing along just as loud as we could and were so happy. :)

Christy, you live in a beautiful and underrated part of our country, but one that some of us have loved all our lives.

I have always watched the Sunday morning talk shows to get what “party line” is for the ’system’ this week. Conventional wisdom gets manufactured on these TV shows …

Leslie: Sorry! I had just been corresponding with a “Julie” via email. Fixed!

OT:

George W. Bush is suffering from a peculiar but not that uncommon form of madness in which a pathological part of his psyche has co-opted all of the healthy parts into its service.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/a…..mp;order=0

This morning’s achingly clear air – and no doubt high barometric pressure – woke me at 4:00 am with a migraine. An Excedrin, a couple of Advil and half a Xanax, and back to bed seemd to take 95% of the edge off, but I stayed in bed, managed to fall back to sleep, and when I woke up, turned on the TV and listened for a bit – This Week.

Alberto Gonzales bobbed and weaved on every question Steph asked him – no surprise there. Waffled on the “national language” issue. Really wiggled on anything concerning the NSA. His response on George’s question about whether he was involved in okaying the decision not to give security clearances for investigation of the program was along the lines of “so many people had already looked at it that it didn’t seem like an investigation was necessary” – but he never answered the question of whether he got involved.

I had really wanted to hear what John Edwards had to say, and I was not disappointed. He’s crystal clear on the fact that Bush is the worst president in our lifetimes, and has been saying that wherever he goes. He’s not in favor of impeachment, thinks it just grinds the business of Congress to a halt, but would definitely support censure. Thinks the NSA program(s) are definitely illegal, and is opposed to Hayden as head of the CIA. Was asked about the Mary Cheney thing, and while he was gracious about her parents loving and accepting her, segued right into a major slam of the VP. Take that, Mary Cheney! (Or maybe, in words she and her dad can relate to: go f*ck yourself!)

Head feeling better, but couldn’t risk it roaring back to life with the likes of Rice and Russert. Saw a little of Joe Klein on with Tweety, and almost lost my breakfast.

How about “Meet the Presstitutes?”

We’re on 6 mostly wooded acres, which we love. Our backyard feeder and birdbath see all kinds of activity. We get a fair number of bluebirds, which always make my heart sing, as well as red-headed woodpeckers, golden finches, cardinals and bluejays. We finally bought off the squirrels by putting out dried corn on the cob and peanuts in a feeder on our fence. They still try the birdfeeder, but not so much. With two dogs, two cats, fish, birds and squirrels, it’s a wonder the people in my house get fed!

Happy Sunday to you all.

will try to catch you on laura — thanks for tipping us off

laura’s bright but stephanie miller’s more my style — i find that laura’s unrelieved earnestness reminds me too much of having to go to chapel at school — but your being on her show will make it exciting & i’m looking forward to hearing the dulcet tones of west virginia come wafting over the airwaves

Somehow triggered moderation…wish I could figure that out!

Condi rolling out a new marketing effort this morning on Timmeh with “Iran is the central banker of terrorism”. I’m now referring to all of this administration’s PR efforts as “we’re runnin the world” rhetoric.

War criminals. They can’t be imprisoned soon enough!

Morning Everyone,

*ilson @ 50 – I used to watch for just that reason – but have lost the stomach for it now

happen to walk past the as Abu was talking about program after program as ‘classified’ – Hello George !, how about you broach the concept of ‘Illegal can’t be classified ?’
I’m sure the average viewer does not know it has been codifed as law

And hey, who’s that drop dead gorgeous Progressive Stud @ 27 – Christy, Pach, can you hook me up ????

Christy -

As soon as I read what you wrote – “But it is absolutely true that once you are out, and in the big city surrounded by concrete and buildings and people and cars, that you begin to long for the lush green hills of West Virginia.” – I remembered this track about West Virginia’s green rolling hills from an album Emmylou Harris recorded years ago: Green Rolling Hills from her Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town album.

I was just talking to my sister but jumped back on and was enjoying the reverie! I am interrupting pleasanter thoughts to give you a little summary of Frank Rich’s piece in the NY Times today, “The Rove Da Vinci Code”.

Rich explains that the studio that produced “The DaVinci Code” worried about Christain groups speaking out against the movie. They came up with a strategy to co-opt those groups into using the opening of the movie as “a teaching moment”. They let them post commentary on the movie’s website and involved them in other efforts to publicize the movie.

Rich notes the irony in getting Christian leaders to help you sell a movie that denounces their savior. And then reminds us that this is what the Bush administration, under Rove, has been doing to great effect all along.

He reminds us of Abramoff using Ralph Reed to launch a letter writing campaign against gambling aimed at competing casinos.

But most notably, he tells us how Rove has repeatedly used “gay baiting” as a way to increase his turnout. And then once elected, the administration has let down the conservatives who they used to get elected.

Rich notes:

“Though President Bush endorsed the federal marriage amendment then, there’s a reason he hasn’t pushed it since. Not Gonna Happen, however many times it is dragged onto the Senate floor. The number of Americans who “strongly oppose” same-sex marriage keeps dropping — from 42 percent two years ago to 28 percent today, according to the Pew Research Center — and there will never be the votes to “write discrimination into the Constitution,” as Mary Cheney puts it.”

Most importantly, Rich argues that Democrats took the 2004 loss as a need to come out with their own “values issues”. Reminds us of Hillary’s horrific speech about the dangers of iPods for children and other recent examples of Democrats pandering for morality votes.

He concludes with:

“But that hypothetical, easily duped voter may no longer exist. Like the Bush era, the cynical Rove strategy of exploiting faith-based voters may be nearing its end. For proof, just take a look at the most craven figure in American politics: the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist. To flatter the far right, this Harvard-trained surgeon misdiagnosed Terri Schiavo’s vegetative state from the Senate floor, and justified abstinence-only sex education in AIDS prevention by telling ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he didn’t know for certain that tears and sweat couldn’t transmit H.I.V. But increasingly it’s not only liberals who see through him. One of his latest stunts, a proposed $100 gas-tax rebate, provoked Rush Limbaugh to condemn him for “treating us like we’re a bunch of whores.”

When senators as different as Mr. Frist and Mrs. Clinton both earn bipartisan ridicule for their pandering, you have to believe that there’s a god other than Karl Rove watching over American politics after all.”

“…that you begin to long for the lush green hills of West Virginia. And I honestly can’t think of a better place for us to raise our daughter.”

This Morgantonian couldn’t agree more.

(but stop telling people – the fewer that know about our state, the better! ;) )

*ilson46201 #50

I rely on you and other viewers to tell me what they’re saying on tv, so please don’t stop!

I grew up in Berkley County, the far eastern county on the panhandle. Ive been all over the world and NOTHING beats the old homestead.

Condi, the presidents words mean nothing to us. We don’t believe him or you, Shotgun Dick Cheney, Mary “Fantasy Land” Cheney, General Elmer Fudd-Hayden, Dirty Tom Delay, Bill “Catkiller” Frist or the rest of the prevaricating, anti-democratic insurgents in the Republican Party.

-GSD

Too busy here, on deadline with contract work due tomorrow, and chasing kids who’ve seasonally rediscovered squirtguns and waterfights.

Passing observation: looks at first glance like a sale’s job this morning, what with Condi and Abu on board for two shows each…what the hell were they selling? whose ass were they covering? The old white guys throw these two out in front whenever they need something covered, yes?

I would be so damned overjoyed to be able to ditch my cynicism; the door cannot hit these losers in the backside soon enough or hard enough.

Mornin- just read a great piece in the editorial section about how goopers have finally figured out that GW Clusterfuck is dishonest cause now he’s lyin to THEM- funny as hell.

Christy,
I love going to WVa,my idea of heaven,climbing at Senica Rocks,caving around Franklin or Elkins,New River Gorge,hiking,camping,the veiw from Spruce Knob(if its not fogged in)the list goes on.Just talkin about it makes me want to start packing…

Lindsey Graham on MTP lying his ass off says we’re in a period of unprecedentedly (a word?) low unemployment and also wage growth. Who does he think he’s bullshitting? Where is the data that he bases these claims on? It’s right-wing think tank tripe, for sure.

I’m a long-time lurker. I want to take this opportunity to say how much I appreciate the insights into our present political situation that I get from this blog, and that this is the first place I come for news about Patrick Fitzgerald’s efforts.

I’m also proud to call myself a West Virginian by marriage. Today’s comments have reminded me that it has been too long since I’ve been home to WV to visit my late husband’s side of the family. (We get together over Labor Day weekend, and last year was the first time in 33 years that I missed the reunion, due to my participation in Katrina relief efforts).

I have many pleasant memories of WV, and understand how West Virginians who leave home have a strong urge to return.

There was a great pro-Lamont letter to the editor in today’s Waterbury-Republican CT paper. I tried to find it on their website, but couldn’t find it. In part the letter writer writes ” Most importantly, show the nation that dissatisfied Connecticut Democrats will not quietly reinforce the status quo. Demonstrate to your fellow Americans that this state will not send to Washington a Democratic senator whom every Republican can be proud of.”

Maybe times are really changing.

I flew over West Virginia once—looked nice- but real small.

posting issues again!

Jay 67 – Facts are not important, perception is reality. And the republicans know it. They will say whatever they want people to believe. Sadly, it works because most Americans take whatever is fed to them on the “news” as reality.

rwcole -
went to sleep with a contented smile on my face finally figuring out that it is the goopers who are infested with wedges – Love the karmic justice that their own devices are what has weakened and increasingly exposed them !

believing in the concept of karma – always a bonus to witness it in IK form

i’m watching condi on meet the press… and wondering, does she travel with a stylist and/or hairdresser? that hair-helmet gotta be high maintenence (and high priced). it seems to me that the world she lives in- condi’s world- is wholly and completely fabricated. listening to her is like visiting with a psycho.

CBL “Wedges”- Are those like cooties?

I am lucky to have a job I do at home and can go anywhere. All I need is high-speed internet access. California is becoming just too expensive for me (I’d like to have a house I can actually afford). Do you think a 52-year-old liberal single woman could make it in West Virginia?

I’m loving my birds this morning, too. The world is a beautiful place.

Oh, I’m watching John Edwards right now, and I’m a bit disappointed. He seems “wrong” to me on English/national language and immigration. Nice jab at the VP though — “you never know” (whether he is telling the truth).

In case you haven’t seen it yet- here’s Zogby’s take on GW Clusterfuck’s excellent speech about Mexicans:

Nation also split whether Bush plan will solve immigration problem; Bush approval – 32%

President Bush’s speech to the nation on immigration reform Monday night drew mixed reviews, but left a plurality of likely voters across the nation skeptical that the illegal immigration problem would be solved by Washington, an overnight Zogby Interactive poll shows.

This as the President’s overall job approval numbers fall to 32%, according to a separate Zogby International survey conducted via telephone before the immigration speech Monday.

Overall, 47% said they liked the Monday speech, while 47% said they were disappointed.

About seven in 10 Republicans said they generally liked the speech, while 29% said they were disappointed. Among Democrats, 70% said they were disappointed, while 19% said they liked the speech, a slightly higher percentage of Democrats than usually support Bush. Eleven percent of Democrats said they were undecided.

brkily 73 – Condi only takes her Play-Doh Barbershop with her, that’s all she needs. One quick clamp of the hair mold and she is ready to go.

Just looking out my study window for the first time this morning- looking for birds- but this is southern california. The birds sleep in on sunday- even the big black ones.

twowolf1 at 52 -(((brrr))) that piece made me shiver. I hope our collective unconscious has learned its lesson. The thing that caught my attention was that those of us who didn’t vote for the Ego-in-Chief, who saw throught him long before he became transparent to everyone else, were searching for a saviour and contributed to his condition. Hmmm.

Have you ever noticed that the first 5 letters of FDL refer to Fi and Red? Hmmmm

One of my favorite visual memories, Christy, is of traveling down Route 9, through Lovettesville, on my way to the Charlestown Livestock Auction. Sun just breaking over the mountains, freezing cold winter day, ice crystals on bare trees glistening like diamonds in the growing light. Almost Heaven.

I’m going gto miss the salon again today due to prior thingies, but love catching up. Has Stephanie Miller made an appearance in thisdiscussion? Since, you know, her dad was one of them. I used to think that reader “I heart Jane” was her.

Bird blogging and fire dogging. Great way to spend Sunday morning.

rw – you betcha ! big fat,gonna-stand-over-here-and-enjoy-the-shit-out-of-watching-you-cannibalize-each-other Cooties!

Pacha -FYI- Jays, Crows & Ravens have some of the largest brains in the avian world – so although pests at times, they can not be Republicans

cbl – nice match you made there. And handsome to boot? Lucky.

“Pacha -FYI- Jays, Crows & Ravens have some of the largest brains in the avian world – so although pests at times, they can not be Republicans.”
LMAO.

We had our first goldfinch sighting this morning. Also busy today are the cardinals (mr. and mrs.), chickadees, nuthatches, robins, housefinches and blue jays. Had to refill the feeders. Things finally drying out in Southern NH with a beautiful morning, but apparently more rain on its way in this afternoon….blech!

Goopers seem to be in a bad mood lately. Some call themselves “conservatives” and are beginning to deny that they are goopers at all. They’re PISSED at GW Clusterfuck- and like a disenchanted spouse, now are parading a litany of Clusterfuck transgressions going back the length and depth of his presidency. “Remember when you came home four hours late and didn’t even have the decency to call- smelling like “Lady of the Alley”?

They are now saying that it might be best if the goopers lose the election this time around so that they will take the conservatives seriously. They’re threatening to take their football and go home.

They actually sound a lot like the disaffected progressives about dem leadership- so no one’s very happy.

Funny how no one likes a “centerist”- even though most of the voters hang around that water cooler.

It’s not fair to go to where the votes are.

OhMyGod, you wouldn’t believe what was just on the boob tube. I’m sitting here at the ‘puter minding my own business, and noticed on tv, must be an infomercial, hopefully not something religious, they were actually talking about “bowel movements”!!! I had to turn it off, but thought, just more “talkin’ shit” on Sunday shows.

Mommybrain.

it’s even better than that – he can cook, fix Anything in the house or property, and has some other, um, talents I still find intriguing after 20 years

fyi – caught some pride and love in your brief comments about Mr. Mommybrain and his parade float yesterday! Also sounds like we share a common fate with the whole married to Gearhead thing -lol!

May 21, 2006 — – Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., says George W. Bush is the “worst president of our lifetime,” and “absolutely” worse than Watergate-tainted President Richard M. Nixon.

In an exclusive appearance on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” the former presidential and vice presidential contender said of Bush, “He’s done a variety of things — things which are going to take us forever to recover from.

“You have to give Bush and Cheney and gang credit for being good at politics — you know, good at political campaigns,” Edwards added. “They’re very good at dividing the country and taking advantage of it. What they’re not good at is governing, and it shows every single day in this administration. And the country is paying a huge price for that.”

ABC

The orioles and grosbeaks are back (southern WI)and the red finches are finally brave enough to eat seed out of the feeder I have attached to my kitchen window…

You all have saved me (and my blood pressure) these past months and on this gorgeous Sunday morning, I want to say thank you.

rw, unfortunately for the country, there are only a handful of politicians that you could truly call left of center at this stage of the game (Dennis Kucinich comes immediately to mind). The Rovian/AEI/Heritage/neocon wingnut elements have yanked the entire game the the extreme right end of the spectrum. Seems the pendulum may be starting to swing back the other way now.

Maybe the problem is that centerists aren’t entertaining.

So what’s your plan for american Senator Center?

“Well I think we should avoid wars if we can, fight em tough if we can’t, and take in enough tax revenue to pay our bills”

BORING!

John Casper @ 82 – What’s in it matters more than size though. Lies take up a lot of room.

No birds in my yard this morning, but the big male green anole was doing “push-ups” on the patio door again, occasionally puffing out his throat sac, no doubt driving the girl anoles crazy along with some of my cats. Anyone know, how long do anoles typically live? I swear this is the same one been here every spring-through-fall (and where do they disappearto in the winter?) for the past 6 years.

cbl – You caught that, huh? yeah, he’s pretty great. Strong silent type. And perhaps shares Mr. cbl’s other, um,talents as well. That’s a total bonus in a long marriage, doncha think? Are you going to YK? He and the sprout are coming with but will probably be climbing at RedRocks most of the time.

No in america today- ya gotta have secret plans and theories to be successfull- they are most widely accepted if they have upside down logic.

“Ya gotta lower taxes to increase tax revenue, cut money to the poor to make em wealthy, create wars in order to make peace, and stir up intolerance in order to create domestic peace.”

See THAT’S interesting.

On “This Freak with George Stephanopoulos” AbuG had a particular lame respone to George’s question about why the OPR couldn’t get security clearances to investigate the process by which Consitutional determininations were made.

After suggesting it didn’t matter because DoJ had provided plenty of bullshit already, he begged off with the implication it was another department that wouldn’t grant security clearances.

Seems there is a story yet to come out.

Right, so is being a centrist akin to being a flip-floppin waffler a pragmatist or a craven opportunist? Seems there’s more than one way to skin that cat. If people want to be entertaining they should consider show business, we need honesty above all else in politics (ahem)…

If Edwards is saying that Cluster is the worst prez ever out of one side of his mouth and that he would not impeach him out of the other doesn’t that make him criminally negligent?

( Possible ‘ depraved indifference’ added?)

At the very least this is sending mixed messages – and I was told Edwards gave good head…I mean speech. Is flipperism like Lyme fever or bird flu – can you catch it off someone?
And am I starting to sound like Carrie Bradshaw?
Take me out and shoot me when that happens. I hate that.

The x-rated weenie demo:

“The Lieberman people seemed dispirited all night. His demonstrators waved and rubbed together curious-looking wiener-shaped balloons advising “Stick With Joe” as they made their way through the aisles in a short, obligatory demonstration to the tune of “Still the One.”‘

Kevin Rennie, May 21, 2006, Hartford Courant

Did the balloons have foreskins?

Jay- I agree- centerists are the worst people in the world.

Jay@67- Like that nice gratuitous swipe at Jimmy Carter? Funny, I always thought forgiveness was a virtue.
But listening to Charlie Norwood, his comments toward the end of MTP, when he couldn’t hold it in any longer, was instructive. Essentially calling illegals criminals and parasites revealed really where the GOP wants to be, and political slicksters like Graham know they can’t stop it.

This talk of Lieber-balloons is very ugly. Any more of it and I will have to go speak to ralph on the big white phone.

“Still The One”? What, the Lieberman camp couldn’t get its hands on a copy of the “Welcome Back Kotter” theme song. He’s such a dork. A dangerous and powerful dork, but a dork nonetheless.

Mommybrain -
no (sniff, sniff) we wont be going to YK – have a long planned for, twice cancelled, conflicting obligaton – can not tell y’all how disappointed I am about that – who knew you could pout after 50 ?!? (unless your Bill Frist of course)

JaB @ 103,

Swipe at Jimmy Carter? Where? Wasn’t intended to be, if we had listened to Jimmy Carter we wouldn’t have American kids dying in Iraq and Afghanistan every day.

NOW I know what it’s like to be EPU’d! My 1st. Undaunted, gonna try again, a re-post from last night:

Pach: Wonderful post [& followup comments]. Lots to chew on!

Anne 37 [under Pach’s post last night]

I just gotta disagree, bigtime, over what you propose – tho I share a lot of your feelings of frustration — & could probably rival you in anger, disgust, & impatience to move beyond the hideous status quo in D.C.
At least re: 2006 election,I think we just absolutely HAVE to do whatever we can, including voting for less-than-stellar Dems., if that’s all that’s available here & there across the land. Gag if you must, but it’s critically important to break the hammerlock repugs have on this country ASAP.
I’m really leery of any 3rd-party or Indy efforts on the liberal side, since they almost always dilute the vote and virtually guarantee a loss. (Related: If a catfight splinters the repugs,let ‘em rip eachother to shreds! Go ahead and smirk behind the curtains, if you must, but do NOT cross over & waste your vote for any repug of any type — “Be careful what you [pretend to]wish for!”)
This particular year, I’ve been urging all my buddies to vote straight Dem.– all the judges, sludge-scooper, moth-zapper — top to bottom.
Exception: if there’s a [Ned Lamont] available, do the work NOW & get him/her that Dem. label on the ballot, just as you’ve done in NJ. BRAVO! holyjoe needs to go!
But I think we have to be really careful not to trigger anything like a “throw ALL the bums out” surge. That possibility seems to me far more dangerous than voting for the occasional so-so weenie. I regard term-limits efforts, or wholesale “tossing the whole gang-of-thieves” mentality, as a sure way to entrench the current scourge of lobbiests: rummys & rovers & negropontes & deadeyedicks & wolfies & & & in power forever – sometimes rotating in & out of office, but always pulling the strings of power that make the others dance.
Sorry to blather on, but there it is.
Disclaimer: No, I’m not a pol., but I do have a degree in animal behavior, & years of experience in animal training. Frightening/heartening (depending on your point of view, heh heh) how “helpful” it’s been,sigh.

Related to disclaimer:

Mary 24

I share your pain over big bay. So sad…

Attorney General declares war on journalism:

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Sunday he believes journalists can be prosecuted for publishing classified information, citing an obligation to national security.
The nation’s top law enforcer also said the government will not hesitate to track telephone calls made by reporters as part of a criminal leak investigation, but officials would not do so routinely and randomly.

“There are some statutes on the book which, if you read the language carefully, would seem to indicate that that is a possibility,” Gonzales said, referring to prosecutions. “We have an obligation to enforce those laws. We have an obligation to ensure that our national security is protected.”

So let’s see if the media decides to fight back or roll over so Gonzalez can rub their bellies.

So what nit wit ideas is Condi lyin about this morning. I see GW Cluserfuck has his designated liars all over the airwaves!

Jay @ 107- Sorry, writing in shorthand again. Graham’s swipe at Carter- “…amnesty is what Jimmy Carter did with the draft dodgers- come back, all is forgiven…”

One man’s draft dodger is another man’s war resister…

Also, forgive my ignorance but what does EPU mean?

One thing I like about GWClusterfuck is that he’s eliminated “spin” from the white house. These fuckers don’t spin- they fuckin lie..

“Come on- stop that spin shit- LIE like a MAN”

For “Meet the Press” I prefer the classic “Press the Meat” – very evocative of the old boy’s (and now girl’s) club atmosphere that permeates the show.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..70_pf.html

Link to the op/ed piece in WAPO by a gooper who now apparently HATES GW Clusterfuck.

Funny as hell!

I’ve never had the pleasure of explaining EPU so here goes:

Regular FDL’er Evil Parallel Universe was making his usual thoughtful posts to threads that were quickly left behind by a new thread, rendering his thoughts the proverbial “tree falling in the woods”, so the idea of leaving your post at the tail end of a thread while a new one got underway became known as EPU’d.

Conservatives tolerated the No Child Left Behind Act, an extensive intrusion into state and local education, and the budget-busting Medicare prescription drug benefit. They tolerated the greatest increase in spending since Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. They tolerated Bush’s failure to veto a single bill, and his refusal to enforce immigration laws. They even tolerated his signing of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance overhaul, even though Bush’s opposition to that measure was a key reason they backed him over Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) in the 2000 primaries.

In 2004, Republican leaders pleaded with conservatives — particularly religious conservatives — to register people to vote and help them turn out on Election Day. Those efforts strengthened Republicans in Congress and probably saved the Bush presidency. We were told: Just wait till the second term. Then, the president, freed of concern over reelection and backed by a Republican Congress, would take off the gloves and fight for the conservative agenda. Just wait.

We’re still waiting.

Sixty-five months into Bush’s presidency, conservatives feel betrayed. After the “Bridge to Nowhere” transportation bill, the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination and the Dubai Ports World deal, the immigration crisis was the tipping point for us. Indeed, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found last week that Republican disapproval of Bush’s presidency had increased from 16 percent to 30 percent in one month. It is largely the defection of conservatives that is driving the president’s poll numbers to new lows.

(From the op/ed piece linked above.)

Beautiful jay picture this morning Christy – I throw out hazelnuts for the Stellar’s jays in our neck of the woods. We also had a pair of Canadian geese and their 7 goslings crossing the river yesterday – so cute. Makes me remember why I moved to Oregon. Looking forward to your comments on AAR tonight.

It’s hard to believe that any senient creature could complain that GW Clusterfuck isn’t conservative enough- but there you are!

(there’s yer wedgie CBL)

Christy- I see you’ve already seen the NYT piece on homesick West Virginians. That article pushed a lot of buttons for me. I was born in Charleston, where my dad went for work after struggling to make a living (post WWII)in his hometown of Fayetteville. Less than a year later, we moved for the first time as part of his job, over the mountains to Staunton, VA, where my father’s mother had roots as deep as his father’s were in WVA (18th cent., both sides). Later we moved to Ind. and PA. We never went back to live, but we visited often, and my dad talked for decades of buying a piece of land to retire to in Greenbrier Co., near the “family farm” (run by his mother’s cousins, 2 sisters, one with a college degree in ag from around 1915! Don’t try to tell me Wvirginians are backward or uneducated). That never happened, for some of the reasons outlined in the Times article. Daddy’s buried in Baltimore, instead of the family cemetery in Lookout, WVa. He and his cousins paid for the upkeep of the Lookout cemetery, and his surviving cousin (who spent his adult life in Rio de Janeiro) still does. And I, who haven’t lived in WVa since I was a baby, still can’t imagine spending eternity in Texas instead of Lookout, WVa. lol.
Like the exiles described, Daddy was loyal – his WVU lifetime alumni club sticker was on every car he owned, along with an “Almost Heaven” sticker, and his Maryland license plate was a WVU vanity plate.
My relatives have nearly all passed away, so I visit only vicariously- continuing my dad’s regular Christmas present to me – a subscription to Wonderful West Virginia. Must echo the comments on the state’s unique beauty-the place is instantly recognizable when I see a pic of a WVa stream, or hillside with houses strung along a narrow road, or rounded tree-covered hills in a certain type of landscape view. (And btw, Christy, 2 of my remaining relatives, plus myself, plus my dad, are or were lawyers. Is it something in the pure mountain water?)
As you can see, the Times writer hit a nerve. And I’ve been meaning to tell you how pleased and proud I am that ReddHedd, my fave legal analyst, is a fellow Mountaineer.

Trillium 117
Ahem, I don’t mean to be the bird police, but they are Canada Geese, not Canadian.

Interesting story running at NYT says that Clusterfuck picked the new government in Iraq. YIKES- he couldn’t pick an effective sales clerk at a Wal Mart!

“While others took a less bleak view, the common feeling among a wide range of officers and diplomats interviewed before Saturday’s events was that the formation of the first full-term government since the toppling of Saddam Hussein marked a critical juncture for Iraq, and for the American stake in its future.

The 36 men and women appointed to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s cabinet — in an ominous sign of continuing divisions, three key ministries were left vacant — took over from a transitional government that has been widely viewed as a miserable failure. In his year in office, the departing prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, presided over a rising wave of sectarian violence. Basic government services, especially health and electricity, slipped deeper into the chaos that enveloped Iraq in the wake of the U.S.-led invasion three years ago.

This time, American officials played a muscular role in vetting and negotiating over the new cabinet. Dismayed at what they have described as the Jaafari government’s incompetence, American officials reversed the hands-off approach that characterized American policy as Mr. Jaafari formed his cabinet in early 2005. “

Read the same Wash. Post article this morning from arch conservative Richard Viguerie lamenting how the conservatives are upset by the betrayal of conservative ideology by the Rebublicans. The thing that srikes a chord (with me) is how the progressive-liberal, traditional Democrats feel the same betrayal from the current Democratic leadership, Clintonian pseudo-liberalism and the DLC. Viguerie says that maybe conservative voters should stay home at election time. Interesting point. And not without principled merit. What if traditional Democrats, fed up with the Hillary-Lieberman bunch boycotted the elections too? Would the result be the same? Just more of the same? What if an election were held and nobody showed up? Oh humm…just musing I guess. Or wishful thinking perhaps.

So GW Clusterfuck is complaining about the incompetence of the Iraqi government.

Pots and Kettles

Blind leading the blind!

One thing we should all remember next time we elect a president:

A competent SOB will run circles around an incompetent “nice guy” every day of the week- and people skills matter- including the skills to pick people able to do the jobs they are assigned.

Perhaps the biggest mistake all america made in 2000 was in thinking that Cheney was competent. He’s not- and if someone had looked closely at his track record at Halliburton, that would probably have showed up. Wasn’t there something about ASBESTOS?

GWClusterfuck- an undereducated man- with little natural ability- off to change the world with a bag of bumperstickers and a nuclear arsenal.

Someone should have noticed that there was something wrong with that picture.

On Sunday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales declared that journalists can and should be prosecuted for publishing stories involving classified national security information. “There are some statutes on the book which, if you read the language carefully, would seem to indicate that that is a possibility,” Gonzales said, referring to prosecutions. “We have an obligation to enforce those laws.” The Attorney General also made it clear that the Bush administration would not hesitate to track the phone calls of reporters as part of its campaign to crack down on leaks.

For the story, see:
“Gonzales: Reporters Fair Game.”

Adie – Hear hear! Especially in DiFi’s case, the republican swill running against her is a miserable excuse for a human being. We know him well here, as he “represented” us in Sacto for years.

His son, who has his seat now, told us at a gathering that this was the best job he ever had! He didn’t have to do a thing, and he still got paid! He once came late to a hearing, ostentatiously opened his packet of material (that he was supposed to have boned up on so as to make a semi-intelligent contribution), glanced at the pages, voted no and left. I think he learned his job chops from his Dad, who considered his public duty to be to say no to everything government wanted to do. DON’T LET MOUNTJOY WIN!

Bush:

Low potential; low achiever. Dull-normal. At best.

When you put an incompetent into a position of great power- he/she will screw up. Even if you surround her/him with the best minds in the world- it won’t work. The best minds will disagree- and the Clusterfuck won’t know how to handle the disagreement.

Once the Clusterfuck begins the inevitable fucking up- she/he will begin to spend the bulk of their energy trying to hide the fuckin up from the world. That’s where we are right now. It’s why Clusterfuck had to purge his cabinet of all but the piss ants he brought with him from Texas who owe him their lives and suck his ass daily. His fragile ego and undeveloped executive skills couldn’t handle even the tentative disagreement of a Powell, an Ashcroft, or an O’Neil.

I’ve been down this road before- and the bottom line is- america’s fucked for the next two and a half years. It will only get worse as this piece of human offal tries to hide the truth about his massive failures.

I have to run this morning so I’ve only been able to read about half of the comments. If ‘Meet the Pests’ hasn’t already been suggested, then please add it to the list.

Don’t think that congressional goopers are blind to the incompetence of this administration. Most of em probably have to go home and puke after defending him. They know a failure when they see one- and this guy takes the cake.

Don’t think that congressional goopers are blind to the incompetence of this administration. Most of em probably have to go home and puke after defending him. They know a failure when they see one- and this guy takes the cake.

Don’t think that congressional goopers are blind to the incompetence of this administration. Most of em probably have to go home and puke after defending him. They know a failure when they see one- and this guy takes the cake.

mommybrain…

I was voting for Dianne Feinstein clear back when she was SF Mayor, when I lived in the City. And subsequently cast my ballot for her for Senator many times. This “Democrat” has, for me, been almost as big a disappointment as la Hil. I had such high hopes for Di, and confidence in Hillary. Oh well…

Mommybrain bird police @121 … call INS, they might be illegals! undocumented snowbacks from over the northern border, but they’re just here to fill an ecological niche that American birds don’t want to fill, so maybe we should let them stay …

Why not just marginalize Meet the Press? Put out the word that no Democrats should show up to speak on the thing, and deny Russert the “bipartisan journalist” club we–democrats–have granted him for all these years.

Prairie Sunshine @ 6:55 ….

Downtown San Francisco’s peregrines

A bit ahead of the midwest timeline, but only one youngster this year.

I think Edwards did well. He didn’t take George’s bait, almost all of his questions were distractions from the issues. But when Edwards felt strongly, his answer was out before the question was done: Hayden isn’t right for the CIA, Bush is the worst President ever, his family is more important than a Presidential run.

Regardless of how you feel about him, if you ever get to hear him speak, go. His heart is in the right place; it makes me proud to be a Democrat.

You can email President Bush, Congressional Leaders & Rush Limbaugh from my eclectic homepage. Check it out here…
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/8889

“There are some statutes on the book which, if you read the language carefully, would seem to indicate that that is a possibility,” Gonzales said, referring to prosecutions. “We have an obligation to enforce those laws.”

Translation: If you adopt an authoritarian, anti-civil liberties stance as an a priori assumption and interpret certain statutes in a completely disingenuous manner, you too can be an American fascist just like Alberto Gonzalez.

damn, epu’d again – story of my life.

left home at 530 this morning to go to a rabbit show 3 hours away to buy a rabbit for my baby, who’s now 10.

got the rabbit! a sweet netherland dwarf buck!

when my little girls were little babies, i’d always say – “darn blue jays” when they were at the feeder causing a ruckus, they really are gansta thugs.

to this day my 10 year old twins say “there’s a darn blue jay whenever they see one.

thanks for the great post christy. i’ll listen tonight.

damn, epu’d again – story of my life.

left home at 530 this morning to go to a rabbit show 3 hours away to buy a rabbit for my baby, who’s now 10.

got the rabbit! a sweet netherland dwarf buck!

when my little girls were little babies, i’d always say – “darn blue jays” when they were at the feeder causing a ruckus, they really are gansta thugs.

to this day my 10 year old twins say “there’s a darn blue jay” whenever they see one.

thanks for the great post christy. i’ll listen tonight.

damn, epu’d again – story of my life.

left home at 530 this morning to go to a rabbit show 3 hours away to buy a rabbit for my baby, who’s now 10.

got the rabbit! a sweet netherland dwarf buck!

when my little girls were little babies, i’d always say – “darn blue jays” when they were at the feeder causing a ruckus, they really are gansta thugs.

to this day my 10 year old twins say “there’s a darn blue jay” whenever they see one. and they are beautiful but so common here in new england that you nearly become blind to them, thanks for the lovely photo.

thanks for the great post christy. i’ll listen tonight.