Why, oh why, do you give these TV jackals free promotion? The Sunday “talk shows” have become at best an irrelevancy, at worst a Government prop. A better approach is to ignore them.

Andrea’s gotten a bit tougher now that her gigantic conflict of interest has retired.

Will she stay tough?

ReddHedd!

John B. — I do it because some of our readers like to watch them and they find it convenient to have all the schedules in one place. Also, it is useful to look at the schedule across all the shows every week to show the trend of who is on — and who is not. (See note regarding the “analyst” panel on This Week above.)

the Sunday talk shows are like Pravda and Izvestia were : you didnt read them for the news but to understand what the official party line was. It’s the Establishment’s way of stating what they consider acceptable in polite company this week …

The picture of the piping plover chick is adorable. It looks alot like a Killdeer chick, actually; I’ve handled those tiny little puffballs before, to extract them from a hole they’d gotten into, and I’m the type that’d probably pick up a stray hatchling and put it back in a safer place if need be.

Once in a while, in the dark, depressing world that’s modern politics, I like to see this sort of thing. Helps keep me from getting too demoralized before the next battle. Thanks, Christy.

RE: piping plovers. One of their nesting areas is the beautiful beaches of Cape Henlopen, DE. During nesting season, the park service ropes off the tip of the cape so humans won’t interfere with the plover’s nesting activities. There is a parking lot from which you look out over the closed off section to try to spot this little critter. You need a sharp eye and a good set of binoculars to see them… and a little bit of luck.

I wonder if Hoekstra will have anything to say about the ongoing stonewalling he’s getting from the Cheney Administration re: his request in May for more info on undisclosed intel programs. There have been 2 closed door hearings since the letter was sent to President Cheney’s puppet George W but word is that Hoekstra isn’t satisfied they’ve learned about all the programs they’re running.

Aside from SWIFT and the NSA scandals, what could possibly be going that a White House waterboy like Hoekstra would be worried about? Are we torturing babies in Guantanamo? Have we pardoned Bin Laden and Al Quaeda leaders or something? I’m kinda worried actually.

OT - i made this for the conversation we were having at the end of the last thread:
http://www.wolfblog.net/images/joeSquared.jpg

Maxine Waters is the kindest, bravest, most gentle lady I’ve ever met in my life !

Fini at 8 — that would require Chris Wallace at Faux News to actually have the independent balls to ask the question. So, not likely.

I wonder if Dodd and Boxer will be asked about Joenertia and his “independence”?

Since both CBS’s Face the Nation and CNN’s Late Edition are a tad bit more palatable than some others I could mention, I might just tune-in this once.

Fini Finito-
I was wondering the same thing. What other programs is the WH doing that’s illegal that we don’t know about? What’s left? They tap our communications and our financial matters. I think they check our medical records too. What else do we have that’s private?

I’m just back from vacation, where we sailing to places that have a lot of Piping Plover nesting areas, all along Long Island Sound. My sister-in-law is a teacher and biologist, and she has a t-shirt that says “Plover Lover”.

I’ve never figured out how to pronounce it…should it be “ploh-ver low-ver”, or “pluh-ver luh-ver”? Otherwise it doesn’t rhyme.

Well, I’m back to work on Ned’s campaign this week; I’m tanned, rested and ready!

Yeah Bob, welcome back, you were missed!

OT Christy,

While things are quiet right now, can I ask for your thoughts on:

1. What does the recent SU decision on Hamadan mean (if anything) to those “ghost detainees held by the US overseas? Don’t those detainees (like those at Gitmo) now also have to be given some kind of judically-approved due process?

2. Doesn’t the recent SU decision on Hamadan make “renditioning” in essence illegal by requiring some kind of judically-approved due process?

I wish that talking heads would refer to specific statements and bloggers when they talk about the character of speech on blogs. I am very tired of general, they’re all alike, reporting that homogenizes bloggers. Its a lot harder to sell the “single-mindedness” of bloggers when you diferentiate between them. I will be listening to how blogs are talked about this morning with an ear toward its homogenization.

The plover is delightful.

Primary Camps Turn Up Heat
Lieberman Attacks, Lamont Dips Into Own Pockets To Counter
July 9, 2006
By MARK PAZNIOKAS, Courant Staff Writer

Full text (and links to columnists) here.

Christy @ 10

Oh I know it’s a long shot, but every so often they let non GOP talking points slip through the Spin Filter there and I thought what the hell, maybe it will happen.

Cathy @ 12

I gave up all notions of privacy a few years ago. I assume everything in my life is monitored and you should as well. We are so computer dependent in this society that for there NOT to be some sort of surveillance in every aspect of our lives would be the surprise.

It’s the finding out exactly what they are monitoring that remains to be learned for certain. It’s like knowing your teenaged daughter is having sex with the scary boyfriend but until you walk in on them you can pretend it isn’t happening. Once you do that you then get to sit down with her and explain why you don’t like the idea of her having sex with the kid that has a Born to Lose tattoo on his forehead.

Back from Carlsbad, NM. One advantage to hauling oilfield equipment is leaving the main road and weving your way through the local flora and fauna. Small birds, and even lizards were conducting their romantic dances in the deserts of SE NM. On a sad note upon my return, a freak accident occured on a drilling rig in OK resulting in a fatality and severe injuries. I had to take a “junk box” to the location and bring back the pieces that fell to the floor of the rig, crushing the floorhands, back to OKC. A bad deal.

Donna Brazille is a “Joe Lieberman democrat” well, she’s made her bed.

Where’s that horse’s head when you need it?

Hi Christy. Hi Jane.

I think I will watch This Week to see Webb. I have been thinking about giving him some $$ but am not convinced yet.

Christy, re: your solar powered fountain. Why don’t you put up a wish list. I’m sure the firepups will help. For all you do here, keeping hope alive and all, I know I would…..

who said Ms Brazile is a J.L. Dem? The day of Cut’n Run Joe’s petition announcement, she was on TV saying the DSCC had to endorse the Primary winner, not an “independent” …

Fox News Sunday is discussing Lieberman/Lamont as I write this.

Laundry day. BBL

Mad Dogs at 15 — You know, that’s been a subject of a lot of discussion among lawyers who have been pouring over the details of that decision — the application of the Geneva Conventions by the Court to those detained at Gitmo would, presumably, confer those same requirements on any detainee. But because the decisions was narrowly drawn in some respects, the overall applicability is going to have to trickle out through future challenges, I think, which is generally how it works in most big court decisions.

NPR’s Juan Williams just said on Fox News Sunday “It could be said Joe Lieberman is betraying the Democratic party by saying he will run as an independent if he loses the primary”.

Webb did so-so on This Weak. The report was not terribly informative, mostly window dressing.

The best byte from it, VFW (I think) conf. Webb in combat boots, Allen in cowboy boots. THAT would make a great commercial.

I’m dizzy just reading who’s going to be on bobblehead sunday.
UGH.

*ilson 22

She said so in so many words on This Weak this morning right out loud on the teevee.

I wouldn’t make that sh*t up.

I’m confused. I guess they run This Weak later in Indianapolis than they do in your market RevDeb. It’s not on here until 11am.

Lanny Davis clutched his pearls
like David Brooks and channeled the dead like Peggy Noonan this morning on C-span in his defense of Lieberman. Clearly the inside the beltway crowd has joined together to protect one of their own from the viscous rabble on the internets. His condescension to Katrina Vanden Heuvel was palpable (I knew your father, you need to inform yourself, etc., etc.) The script has been written. To vote for the candidate of your choice if it’s not the candidate of their choice is undemocratic and mean.

Must reading this morning over at Huff Post. Jane, of course, but also a piece by Cenk Ugyar [sp?] on Why We Hate Lieberman. It rocks!

Day by day, moving the small stones…the mountain will be ours.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....24654.html

FiniFinito: the TV stations in Indianapolis have had video tape recorders since 1959 …

Fini,
It’s on at 9 am on the east coast—when it’s not being bumped for something else more important, like golf.

Did anyone but me see the condesending (or maybe he was trying to be archly snarky?) blog reporter from the NYTimes on CNS’s “Sunday Morning”?

Blogging away about what he fed his kittens for breakfast while in his PJs and (I tnink they were supposed to be cows) slippers?

On the one hand, the exposure is good, b/c some people will be curious and will take their first ever peek at a blog because of it. And the folks he interviewed had some useful things to say. Anna Marie Cox was actually very reasonable, except when she said that a lot of bloggers would define success as being plucked from bloggdom to join the MSM. She kinda lost me there.

There was an academic who did a terrific job explaining why we are every advertisers dream. She said that we are very well educated, wealthier than most, and tend to be leaders and opionmakers in our spheres which is why though small in numbers, we are mighty.

I am a visual rather than audio learner, and alas, do not recall her name or her university. Maybe someone else saw the piece and can fill in.

But this lady had some powerful things to say.

The overall tone of the piece came off as insulting. Yet I think (maybe I am just giving him the benefit of the doubt) he was trying to pull a Stephen Colbert, and just does not have the chops make it work.

Good Morning Everyone,

just catching up w/threads and enjoying having some time with y’all

the Husband saw 6, count ‘em 6, of these yesterday on a Central TX road trip

curses ! have only seen one (in the air, against the sun) in my birding life

http://www.gdphotography.com/1088.htm

Meet the Press was on at 6 a.m. in Utah (2 hours early). Just happened to catch it with my first cuppa coffee. Could just as well have missed it.

Had more fun investigating the shore bird link, Christy. For a landlocked state, Utah has a lot of shore birds. With the Great Salt Lake and surrounding wetlands, this is an important migratory route and nesting area. But sadly we have no sound of crashing waves on the shore, just a little blub blub.

This is the first year I’ve added a bird bath to the yard and the birds love it. Robins sit right in the middle and splash. Most others sit on the edge and take delicate sips. I’m constantly cleaning and refilling, but it’s worth it for all the antics.

Also, David Brooks has an opinion piece in today’s NYTimes, that I just loved. You can smell the fear. In fact, I was a squoosh surprised by it. Jane must be making some serious in roads up in Conn. B/C Brooks is really bringing out the elephant guns.

He seems to be taking us very seriuosly as is measured by how much he is trying to make us into the bogeyman. I have never been so pleased to be so slandered.

link below for those who can get past the TimesSelect wall.

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/.....mLCQ20JJLm)XXQ23mXumXQ2FmJkxQ22xJQ22mXQ2FjQ20JJQ5ECvQ25L-,

I find the shore areas to be very soothing for my soul, especially the beach where the ocean comes to release it’s energy, and convey it’s messages along with it. All of my senses are stimulated, and I think that’s what does it for me. When I go hiking, my sense of hearing is in use for protection or guidance. On the beach my sense of hearing is tuned to the rhythm of the waves.

The bays are for the most part ever so calm. What a treat it was when I lived on a bay to wake every morning and go out my front door for such a calm and peaceful greeting to start the day.

Prairie Sunshine @32

I second your recommendation to read Cenk Ugyr’s post today over at HuffPo. A voice of reason.

LHP

Markos said it in the front piece of his book when he quoted Gandhi:

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”

Welcome to Stage 3.

Millinaryman

Almost every morning I take a little health and fitness walk down to the beach by my house. I really love beaches in winter, but in the summer, especailly if I happen to get up really really early when they are feeding, the amount and variety of shore birds near me is astounding.

Yesterday, I had an egret walk prectically right up to me. We have sand pipers and coumerant, and lots of ducks geese and swans. And every so often a heron. And of course Sea gulls.

Oddly, when I lived inland in NJ we have more sea gulls at the town dump, than i have ever seen all in one place at the water near my home.

We have amazingly bountiful mussel beds near me taht are fully exposed at low tide in some spots. Also, I don’t live all that far from Oyster Bay which is still a commercial oyster center. Don’t tell anyone, but the lobsters are coming back to the sound. I have seen pot markers off the beach for months. Noone who repeatedly lay pots there, if they weren’t getting any harvest.

*ilson @ 33

I know, I’m familiar with media technology just a wee bit. I just never realized before that WRTV runs This Week later than it runs in other markets such as RevDeb’s. For no particular reason I thought they pretty much had the same time slot nationwide for that show but obviously they don’t in Indianapolis. As usual, Indy is behind everyone else on yet another subject.

I’ve got a real conflict-of-interest going on here today — more pivoting than usual between FDL and the panda-cams on birthday-boy Tai Shan and his momma Mei Xiang. Normally they’d have been let out into their yard 3 hours ago, but I guess there’s some special pre— yep, there they go into the yard fulla new goodies, to great cheers and many an awww from the crowd.

Tai’s trying his new pool and ball, not yet noticing his new big read climbing-thingy.

Check that — yes he has.

http://animal.discovery.com/cams/pandavidr.html

cbl — I love to see the storks come visit our golf course in the winter. Their knees bend “the other way,” so they sit with the feetsies out in front of them — cracks us up every time.

Back in a bit.

CNN Reliable Sources is next doing the Holy Joe story …

Catch the re-run of Lanny davis and Katrina Vander Hoeven (sp?) debate on c-span.
Intellegent discussion on Lieberman v Lamont.
Well worth the effort.

Forget all the talking heads today. It’s all summed up nicely here.

Perhaps nicely isn’t the right word, but it sure makes the point everyone else won’t.

Very cool looseheadprop about the lobsters, I won’t say anything. The birds are amazing in the summer. The fall was my favorite time of the year at shore. The crowds are gone, at least in NJ you can still get to beach, and once the cooler weather set in with the crisp ocean breezes it’s the perfect scenario for me.

Well all this talk of the shore, I’m off to the beach. Enjoy your day folks.

RevDeb

I sooooooooo love that comic. Wiley is a genius at filtering complex ideas into a quick summation like that.

Dunno what that big red thing is that Mei knocked the “1″ offa awhile ago, but judging by her ongoing attention to it, it must be slathered with HUNNY.

Missing the birds o’the lake this weekend, so the spaniels and I sauntered–okay, I lie, Nova tugs…that Iditarod training of the 6 mo old, doncha know–over to Lindenwood Park this morning. Five blocks from our front door at the mouth of the park, local veterans groups have built and maintain a glorious fountain watched over by flags. This is how flags should be used…and honored. Not as some political shill cynical prop.

Even the nearby interstate hushes and it’s a wonderful place for morning meditation. If you haven’t yet found such a place in your neighborhood, seek one out. We all need sanctuaries. FDL is one. Fargo’s Dear Lindenwood is, for me, another.

RevDeb

Oh I GET that. It’s why I was so pleased with the Brooks column. he is trying to scare the Dem Leadership. To read him today, is to believe that we are the left wing equivalent of the Anti Abortion Christion fundamentalist right.

His final paragraph predicts that if we are allowed to go from a statewide victory in Conn. to “a national primary assault in 2008, then [he] hopes the Republicans will be smart enough to scoop up what is to come–yet another wave of disaffected Democrats looking for a political home.” Yeah right, that’s what turns off dems, candidates willing to discuss issues. Of course he is sooo rght, what dems reallywant are spineless rubber stamps with no repsect for the Constitution. HOW DID I NEVER REALIZE THAT BEFORE? (caution snark meter on overload)

Brooks titled his piece “The Liberal Inquisition” and writes that we are subjecting poor Joe Liebrman, who Brooks describes as “transparently he most kind-hearted and well-intentioned of men” to a “vituperation campaign that only experts in moral manias and mob psychology are really fit to explain.”

Brooks cites no false statements from the blogosphere, nor any other support for these claims and excuses this obvious omission on his part by complaining that he “can’t reproduce the typical assualts that have been directed at [Lieberman] over the Internet, because they are so laced with profanity and ugliness,but they are ginned up by ideological masseurs who salve their followers psychic wounds by arousing their rage at objects of mutual hate.”

Because I famously can’t type, and can’t/won’t proofread worth a damn, and because my posts are oftem almost completely unintelligable as a result, I won’t be a hypocrit and point out the grammar issues in that quote from Mr. Brooks. Those issues are in the original peice, not the result of selective and clumsy quotation.

I won’t point them out. I won’t, I won’t.*g*

(there is a special place in hell for grammar hypocrits, and I am probably going there, sigh)

42,48:
I saw a few lobster pot markers from Montauk to Block island last week.

Wimbledon after two sets;

Federer 6 7

R Nadal 0 6

The beach is the only place that gives me peace and calm and belief in eternity and hope for the future. For me, there is no better balm for the soul. Why don’t we study the ocean, as it is proof positive of life, instead of launching foam impaired vehicles into space searching for what we already have, water and life?

I have boycotted the Sunday shows today. It’s insane to watch numbskulls yapping about NK while so much mayhem and murder is happening in Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur, and Palestine.

I care about poor and disenfranchised and maligned people. I will not watch a**holes parroting the words and ideology of their dear leader.

Thanks, Christy, for reminding me to be careful where we tread and for making me smile with your picture and words.

Brooks has been a real tear lately regarding the supposedly fringe-left, dangerously liberal screaming mimi’s of the progressive blogosphere. Clearly, the man has read his memo!

It must be so scaaawwry for da beltway babies deez days!!

LHP

The more Bobo does this the more irrelevant he becomes.

I like that a lot.

Ack - I’m watching the Allen/Webb interview on “This Week”. It’s essentially a campaign commercial for George Allen posing as a news show. These SOBs are airing an edited “interview debate” where Allen gets to rebut Webb. It’s evident that Webb was interviewed first, then GS gives Allen an opportunity to answer, giving him the last word. It was a perfect example of how corporate media will always be there to support their candidates.
I almost threw something at the TV.
Bah.
Oh, and GS just called us the liberal, left wing blogosphere.

Sounds as if DB has crossed into out-&-out hysterics over the course of this last week. Can’t be long before the chappies wid da straitjacket appear . . . wonder which conservative columnist Pinch is teeing-up for us next.

ppp

We had a huge lobster kill back in 2001 when they started sprying malithion to kill the mosquitoes to try to tamp down West Nile virus.

It was a weird summer weatherwise and the bug spray was evidently the straw that broke the camel’s back for the lobsters.

I basically killed off a huge chunk of the commercial fishing industry on the North Shore and Conn/RI. The Lobsterman’s Association has done amazing work identifying the causes (it’s like watching an episode of CSI to hear them talk)

But the pots are comming back. I don’t know if Block Isle was ever effected or not.

Opened the Sunday Glob today and it had a major overhead view of MASSIVE numbers of people in Mexico CIty protesting the election results. The online version tamed it down considerably here. Interesting.

I’m thinking back to 2000 and the massive demonstrations that DIDN’T happen. So now the latino DJ’s are doing a voter registration here in the US of A. Whaddaya think’s gonna happen then?

“This Week” Round Table - On Lieberman/Lamont: we in the blogosphere are mono-maniacs: one issue, anti-war radicals that want everyone in the Democratic party to march in lock step, just like the Republicans, because we admire Karl Rove’s ability to keep his party in line.
ABC needs to hear from us.

Lotus and RevDeb

I actually like David Brooks some of the time. you can kinda tell when he is speaking for himself (he actuallu backs up what he has to say and articulates in logical syllogism) and when he is doing kabuki for his masters.

The “did you get tha talking points today?” pieces tens to be shrill and breathless and almost sound like satire.

I think today’s column was one of those.Hey, the guy has to pay the mortgage just like everyone else. the proportion of whore pieces to speak from the heart pieces is disturbing, but when he does write from his own head instead of his master’s playbook, he can be very insightful.

Looseheadprop,
I have been curious about this for a while now, how do you enunciate looseheadprop?
Is it Loose headprop or loosehead prop?And what IS a headprop?

Do these people even READ blogs — or have they all gotten their information about blogs during cocktail weenie party conversation, where everyone repeats the conventional wisdom about blogs that someone heard third hand from someone’s counsin’s kid?

Also on This Week–now on here–Allen repeating the “intelligence was bad” theme. NO! The intelligence was not bad. The civilian decision makers made bad judgments and they must be held to account. Allen’s pronouncements plus the selective editing rampant in MSM that ABC displays this morning allows this talking point to be repeated. That doesn’t make it true. And we must always, always say it is not so. And is an insult to our intelligence and professional military.

tis rugby, bustednuckles.

http://www.rugbycoach.com/club/player/prop1.htm

cbl & Christy, re birds. Living in the Banana Republic of Florida does have its pleasures: woodstorks and reddish egrets and roseate spoonbills and sandhill cranes (and if you’re lucky and in the interior of the peninsula, whooping cranes), a huge nesting population of eagles, and too many other avian wonders to mention. If anyone comes to Florida and wants to see birds, you can check out this site before your trip:
http://floridabirdingtrail.com/access.htm
P. S. Killdeer are plovers so that explains the resemblance of the chicks to piping plovers.

It may just be me thinking this, but I’ve noticed that as the netroots are beginning to get some credit for Ned’s move up in the polls and the tightening of the race, it seems like there is a push to frame the Dems now as being a one-issue party - with that issue being the Iraq war. George Will on This Week in the roundtable, and even I thought in the Allen/Webb piece that preceded it. Peter Beinart said the Dems were trying to be more Rovian in terms of party discipline, and made other comments that lead me to think that we are also going to be tarred as the “You can’t be a Democrat if…” party.

It reminds me that while we are out here talking about every issue under the sun, the MSM is acting like it knows what it is talking about when it comes to the blogs - and those who wouldn’t know a blog from a frog are forming an opinion that we are all just a bunch of anti-war leftists who never get out of the house because we are in our pajamas 24/7.

And with the MSM getting all territorial about things, it is unlikely that we will ever see a fair representation of the blogoverse. These are the times when I feel a little anxious about the difficulty of getting out our message to a wider audience. Yes, we are all writing letters and calling and faxing. We are volunteering in campaigns and siging up to monitoe the election process - but we are still fighting the behemoth that is the MSM, and as near as I can tell, the MSM has no intention of letting us take that hill - or even get close.

Don’t mean to be so down this morning - just feeling the after-effects of our contentious family visit to Virginia yesterday, and still feeling hamstrung about being able to do much to change it.

GOTV - a little good news

was talking politics with the Boss and his boss yesterday -

showed them my Contact Your Congresscritter business cards and the stuff I stamp on my cash (Had Enough ?, Vote Because Your Kids Can’t!, End The Occupation!, etc.)

Apparently I was channeling y’all b/c the big boss invited me to write up a 1 pager w/Reg. Info., Contact Info., and Absentee Info and upon his approval, offered to sticky it to all our Delivery, Carry Out, and ‘Doggy’ boxes.

That’s 1200-1500 boxes a day

Further, he said b/c he’s already paying for 2 sided printing, he’d consider having it stamped on inside lid of boxes on the next run - Yowza !

lhp, there was a time when I could have agreed with you re DB. But I truly think he’s gone round the bend with professional insecurity. Male menopause? I dunno, but he just sounds unhinged lately — gibbering and dribbling.

looseheadprop, the lobster pots are slowly starting to come back in LIS, but the Iriquois gas pipeline to Long Island about 15 years ago really decimated the oyster beds. Those also are finally coming back, just in time for the giant Broadwater/Shell LNG platform proposed for the Sound to kill them off completely.

Of course, Joe Lieberman voted for Cheney’s energy bill, which removed local jurisdiction of the platform, so the federal gov’t can decide whether or not it’s built. Gee, I wonder how that decision will go? And Joe chirps endlessly about how he protects the environment. Sheesh.

Ned Lamont, of course, is firmly against the platform.

please substitute she for he in the linky.

Female play rugby, too! Very well, I might add.

LHP
The ONE column I remember agreeing with Bobo on was the one on gay marriage. I even quoted him about that in a sermon. Other than that . . . I’m still waiting.

Lol Lol. Here I thought it was something on a boat I’d never heard of!DOH!

Watching corporate TV news shows is a surreal experience. I can not believe some of the crap that they spew, and how pro-Republican they are. It’s infuriating.
They need to demonize us, this we know and have expected, but I trust this is just the beginning.

“I’m thinking back to 2000 and the massive demonstrations that DIDN’T happen. So now the latino DJ’s are doing a voter registration here in the US of A. Whaddaya think’s gonna happen then?”

The demonstrations did happen, do you remember the Brooks Brothers Riots? I know you are referring to where were the Dems in the streets back then, but so much has happened since I think a lot of people regret not taking to the streets to support Gore.

What happened in 2000 and 2004 took everybody by surprise except for those who planned it or saw it for what it was as it was happening. There has been a lot of eye opening since 2004 by the general public who increasingly refuse to be spoonfed the talking points and weak platitudes fed them for so long by the MSM. I doubt that the thugs can continue to steal elections without any consequences these days.

And is it true that Rugby players eat their dead? LOL.

Dodd on CBS wrt his Holy Joeness:

Supports Joe now but won’t commit himself to the CT primary winner.

Thinks those who publicly have stated their support(no names but obvious he means Hillary) for the CT Democratic primary winnner undercut his Holy Joeness.

Some do, busted. I have been bitten viciously by one or two in the past….. LOL

add a “s” to female in my #75. sorry for the typo.

Busted

Loosehead prop.

There are two props in a rugby scrum. The front row in rugby is as follows:

#1 jersey = looseheadprop
#2 jersey = hooker
#3 jersey = tightheadprop

the hooker is held up or “propped” by the props who bind their arms around the hooker’s torso to alow the hooker to take the weih=ght off either/both feet to be free to strike at and “hook” the ball with a foot when the ball is put inot the scrum.

When the opposing temas come together in the scrum, everyone turns their head to left nestle together in alternation. One blue team head, then one red team head, then a blue, then a red and so on.

The prop to the left of the hooker has his/her head out side the scrum (the right ear formomg the wall) that head is “loose”. The prop to right of the hooker has both sides of the head in the scrum, that head is bound in “tight”

If you are a referee, and the scrum collapses, the first person you want to suspect (if you suspect a deliberate collapse) is the Looseheadprop. because of the physics, the LHP can collapse a scrum almost at will and it is hard to detect, by anyone.

The single biggest cause of paralyzing injuries and death in rugby are collapsed scrums.

So, the integrity and spirit of fair play of the looseheadprop is literally a matter of life and death (or at least catostrophic injury).

I played that position when I was a player. most rugby refees are former backs. When I became a referee we were in th emiddle of having conferences on catostrofic injury in th egame, and many refs where astounded when the few of us who had been scrum players explained how easy it is to destabilize the scrum, and how hard to detect.

Refereeing changed after that, as did coaching.

LHPs need to have THE BEST player ethics of anyone on the team. I leaarned a lot playing that position.

So far have watched a piece on bloggers on CBS Sunday Morning and CNN’s Reliable Sources. I would recommend that when the MSM tries to talk about bloggers, the reporter actually be someone who has looked at a blog. They present this very accessible medium as alien to normal people. CBS’ unscientific poll of people on the street found only person who reads blogs and he only follows one.

CNN goes to a break and we get an ad for CNN’s tabloid programming, Glenn Beck and Nancy Grace. Oh yes, they are on the cusp of media relevance.

http://www.slcblues.blogspot.com

nobody nails Brooks better than driftglass - kinda lengthy but my, my, my

http://driftglass.blogspot.com.....ng-ii.html

I can hardly stand to watch those shows. They all have right wing gas bags and pearl clutchers doing their best chicken little, demonizing WHATEVER the left is doing.I also can’t stand to watch the news anymore. Pravda would be proud.It basically got down to the food channel or the history channel. I finally just gave my tv to my ex’s kid so he could play video games.I’d rather get my news from the tubes in the internets.

Thanks LHP, pretty intersesting. I knew rugby was tough, I didnt realize it was THAT dangerous.

c-span is re-running the debate between Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Lanny Davis now

Fini Finito and *ilson:

I heard somebody say that “If the Rapture does come, I wanna be in Indiana, because everything’s 10 years late in getting here”?

Christy said: Do these people even READ blogs — or have they all gotten their information about blogs during cocktail weenie party conversation

Keep in mind what you mother said, “You are what you eat”

“I’d rather get my news from the tubes in the internets.”

I especially like them there YouTubes that contain all the video. A friend of mine sent me an Internets the other day from the YouTube tube and it didn’t show up until the next morning when I turned on my computer.

You see it doesn’t sit in my Internets box all night, it has to wait to be delivered to my computer when I am online like the rest of you all. I think we ought to let teh Internets companies charge more so my friend could send me more funny Internets like that Numa Numa video he sent me.

I’ve long been a fan of The Young Turks. Friday evening I heard them mention FDL twice on their radio show, and both in a kind way. Cenk’s article over at Huffpo regarding Lieberman is, as usual, spot on. If you have never heard a Cenk rant on the radio, you are seriously missing out on a mettalica symphony. He explodes. And not incoherently either. Point after withering point is shot from the busted fireplug of Democratic thought, deluging current Republican policies. Ben, his co-host, tries in vain to pull Cenk from the ceiling, but Cenk will have none of it and continues to the commercial break. It is a riot.

“I’m thinking back to 2000 and the massive demonstrations that DIDN’T happen. So now the latino DJ’s are doing a voter registration here in the US of A. Whaddaya think’s gonna happen then?

I guess people forgot about the protests at Bush’s 2001 Inauguration ride. People booed, waved flags upside down, held up “mean” signs saying things like Hail to the Thief, threw eggs at the Presidential limo and were otherwise so unruly that the driver peeled out to get away from the “rabble,” and GDub was “robbed” of getting to walk his last block or two to the Swearin’ in in triumph.

The revolution wasn’t televised, folks. But some people got the footage. Michael Moore included it in 9/11. I wanted to know why that wasn’t blanketing the news coverage, as well it should have. Our Republic had been robbed from us, and our complacent press acted like everything was hunky-dory.

The compliant media is first against the wall if the revolution ever comes.

I still want to burn effigies of media figures right outside their corporate headquarters. I especially have a fantasy about burning effigies of the Today hosts outside their pretty picture windows while the show is on. These fucktards need a good scare like that.

Every

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I heard somebody say that “If the Rapture does come, I wanna be in Indiana, because everything’s 10 years late in getting here”?

Damn skippy, why do you think I’ve stayed this long? When William Hung made a splash with his “performance” on American Idle a few years ago I identified him as the First Horseman and decided to stay put. I’ll be eating corn and bratwurst long after you all burn up from North Korean and Iranian missile attacks.

Michael Moore included the film footage of Inauguration protests in Fahrenheit 911, that is. Argh.

Via Atrios, Sasha Issenberg in Philadelphia Magazine Online does a great job of turning Brooks upside down, shaking him, and watching the… nothingness fall to the ground:

http://www.phillymag.com/artic....._paradise/

Anybody remember Colbert interviewing Brooks a few months back? Colbert had him by the nether regions from the outset; Brooks sputtered increasingly insupportable garbage; as the number and complexity of his syllables decreased, his lisp got worse. There may have been panic-induced slobbering. Priceless.

Busted

Hookers especailly have upper spinal column injuries and end para or quadra plegiac. But they don’t stop playing the game. there si a wheelchair version, called “monsterball”(I HATE HATE HATE that name)

Rugby is probabaly one of the biggest learning experiences of my life. I am one of 4 sisters and my father had a metal plate put in his head when he was 3 and could not play any game rougher than golf.

today say we did not have a rough sports oreinted houshold would be the understatement of a lifetime. I still don’t know how to watch sports on TV b/c I never learned. I can watch game films with a coach telling me what I am looking at, but just watching by myself, I miss more than I see. I gotta watch live to see anything.

I never got near a team sport (unless you count swimming) until I got to HS. Leaarning how to work as a team was a brand new concept for me. learning to work through pain and fatigue is empowering.

My all time favorite rugby T-shirt says “that which does not kill me, makes me stronger”

whenever something horrible happens, you can usually hear me whispering that to myself under my breath, over and over.

It’s gotten me through some very tough stuff.

The real challenges in rugby, are mental, not physical. You body will anything you tell it to, even if it is broken, if you can just get your mind in the right place. It’s the getting the mind there, that is so hard.

Keep in mind what you mother said, “You are what you eat”

a-HA! Thank you, njay, for allowing me to ask this question without having to admit “OT.”

Have any of y’all ever tried grilling ripe plantains? I’ve always done ‘em in a skillet on the stove or baked, but I’ve got a couple that are just about ready, and would love not to fire-up anything but the grill tonight. Any voices of experiences around?

Why do people watch this kabuki-crap theatre every Sunday? It’s NASCAR politics, for Pete’s sake. Tell you what: climb out of your 400k 1/8 acre fuck boxes or your upscale refurbs long enough to take a peek outside the panopticon rubric your media (all media - blogs included) constructs for you and guess what you’ll find?

It’s a circle jerk, my friends. Follow the ‘news’ and you may find a story; follow the money and you’re heading towards the truth. Put that in your click-count.

Cute plover, Christy. Out here on the west coast we have snowy plovers that look very similar.

I’m the same way about the ocean. Gimme a blanket or chair and I’m happy. Maybe a book, but most of the time it will only distract me from my wave watching. I never get tired of it. Falling asleep listening to the sound of the ocean is heavenly. (I broke down and got one of those ocean sounds for those nights I just can’t sleep. It helps a little, but it’s not the real thing.)

Never thought about where that part of my personality came from, but I’m part Irish too. That could be it.

I have repeatedly written to MSNBC and suggested they add The Young Turks to their evening lineup. Now we know Rita Cosby has been cancelled, dare we hope for such a daring programming move?

Slightly off topic, I also told MSNBC that if they seriously wanted to complete in the ratings with Fox and CNN, they needed to get in the lower priced packages on dish and cable. I had to go to the third price point to get MSNBC. It’s not a level playing field.

I wonder why it takes so long for my comments to show up at Huffpo?