Go Ned!

ROOTZ

I believe Joe’s (and Ned’s) campaign finance reports should be available any minute now (the 2nd Quarterly)

but here is Joes April quarterly http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-b…..6020192996
and his pre-convention http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-b…..6020312638

I wish I could go Jane, but I seem to have worked my way into Ohio (I was in NYC from 1984-end of 2005, and New Haven before that). Keep up the good fight!

If Ned keeps doing what he’s doing, and Joe keeps doing what he’s doing, we just might pull this off. But win or not, this is going to have long-term repercussions.

Jane, What kinds of skills does Tagaris need?

Jane,

scrolling back through the comments on the Daily Ned thread, I couldn’t find an answer from you on the ? – Is there pressure building in the MSM for another Lieberman vs. Lamont debate?

From previous thread:
Glad we had that earmark discussion. I think that immanetize educated some of us a little. I’m sorry that I got Jane mad, but I’m an incredibly annoying person, and that can happen. In any event, I thought the discussion was useful. FDL is the best as far as people actually reading and responding to the comments. Thanks, Jane and friends.
peace,
jim

Jane, how late will this be going Thursday? It’s four hours away for me, so I’m thinking I’ll try and make it late.

It’s also my birthday :)

Ditching your family to meet your FDL host/fellow pirates to try and depose King Joe – PRICELESS

OT: via truthout…very cool…RF Kennedy Jr. files Qui Tam suit against Diebold

Blowing the Whistle on Diebold
By John Ireland
In These Times

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071706P.shtml

Go Ned, Go CT Bloggers, Go FDL!

I am so rooting for Holy Joe’s downfall!

Jane – “An update on our Thursday night FDL meet-up at the Owenego Inn in Branford (pictured above).”

Four generations of my maternal grandfather’s ancestors were born in Branford; they lived there from about 1675 through at least 1750.

Jane, it’s exciting having you here. I’ll just consider you a fellow local blogger from here on out.

And I hope to see everyone at the party Thursday. I hope everybody gets their picture taken with the kiss float, and uploads them to flickr tagged “kissfloat” or something–that’d be one hell of a photostream.

scarecrow — probably just some internet familiarity and a willingness to work hard for long hours and no money.

Off the top of my head ;)

MsAnna

Ever since the Jason Leapold fiasco, I have been leery of what I read on TruthOut, but if this is true, it should be all over AirAmerica tomorrow.

Interesting legal strategy.

Usually, if the gov’t declines to prosecute the case for you, it means they think itis a weak case. Oddly, in thsi instance, it might signal the opposite

Some lemonade with pups under that shade tree….Rootz and Ned Bliss.

ET — Lieberman/Lamont debate pressure — Yes there is pressure, but nobody thinks Whinnerman has the stones to do it. He won’t even announce where he’s appearing for fear of having CTKeith and DeanFan84 show up.

And oh, that Kiss float…

Jane
You are doing an amazing job of keeping Ned in the eye of the MSM. I think the fact that you went to Conn and are live blogging the campaign has really focused them on this race.

looseheadprop: understand about Leopold. Mostly truthout links to others…Leopold is one of the few they have that does original stuff.

That article is from “in these times”
link below:

http://www.inthesetimes.com/si…..icle/2750/

MsAnnaNOLA, thanks for the link – hope it’s true! I remember hearing rumors a few months back that this was coming down the pike.

Leslie in CA:

Yeah it is exciting to see patriots like the Wilsons and RFK Jr. suing on behalf of everyday citizens and trying to hold the government to account. It is truly inspiring.

MsAnna

Cute how the article wraps him up in the power of the AG reminding people that he is his father’s son.

I wonder if he hoping to really follow in daddy’s footsteps the next time we have a Dem in the WH?

So, where in Conn is Branford?

I thought I knew my way around that state, but I guess not. The pix jane posted has water and a dock, is that the Sound?

What big Conn. city is Branford near?

By the way – lhp (or whoever), what does “qui tam” mean? I assume qui means who, as in qui bono, but what’s tam?

http://maps.yahoo.com/maps.py?…..ranford,CT

Boy the chance of paying homage to Kiss Float may be too hard to resist.

lhp — just east of New Haven, off I95.

looseheadprop — Branford is right near New Haven. Just a few minutes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qui_tam

Millineryman 25 — yep, and I think we’ll have a few of the Lamont folk there too. It should be quite the evening.

That Kiss float is just so good, isn’t it? I stood there for 4 hours in the hot sun on Saturday going weak kneed from laughing as CTKeith drove it slowly up and down the street, back and forth. It’s just genius.

Spazeboy will be there on the 20th. I think we may have a hot story to videotape tomorrow, cross your fingers.

Spazeboy — just sent you an email.

It’s such a cool float Jane. I do love it. And 4 hours travelling time in the scheme of a lifetime isn’t so much really.

Never have I voted single issue. But in Senator Clinton’s case I must make an exception. Based on her support for the Bush/Israeli Mideast inferno, I will not vote for her in ‘08. If this thing intensifies to world war proportions, the fact that I support Clinton’s position on other issues becomes moot. It’s sort of like the old saying, ‘if one doesn’t have their health, then they have nothing’. Human-kind simply will not survive a nuclear conflagration. Regardless of the outcome of this latest aggression instigated by America and it’s stooge, with guys like Lieberman, Clinton and Biden at the throttle, things will only get worse. If the people of Connecticut throw out Lieberman, it will be a major crack in the war mongers armour. Who would have thought last year that, Ned Lamont and the folks in Connecticut may just “hold the whole wide world in their hands”. Time is ebbing quickly.

Jane @ 29
Yesterday it was so hot that you thought it was Saturday. :)

Qui Tam is Latin for “who as well”

It is brought by a plaintiff who sues on behalf of himself as well as the government

“A ceasefire is a very specific term,” the official said. It implies some sort of temporary status.

“You want to get to a place where you actually have a cessation of violence not only in the immediate term, but the longer term. Ceasefire implies a state of suspended hostilities which is not what you want,” the official said.

GENUIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe not, cause the logic is well, different -

Patient – “Doctor, are you going to treat the tumor?”
Doctor – “Nah, were going to let it grow till it gets really big and kills you, THEN we’ll remove it. Otherwise, the tumor wouldn’t have a chance to grow and kill you, and life is only a temporary situation so we would rather see you die cause death is a permanent situation, and that we don’t like half measures.”
Patient – “Makes sense to me.”

What is scary is that they – i.e. TEAM LOSER – think that sounds like a reasonable, logical argument that they can sell to the American people, let alone the world.*

Will the CM call them on it? Some statements/positions/strategeries are so deserving of ridicule you think the CM couldn’t fuck it up, would have to call them on it, rather than do what they always do – parse through it and comment as IF it were logical or even sane – I but someone will even claim it is statesmenlike and preznidential – even Wilsonian if not Buchananian.

I may half joke about mastur bullshitters, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think they are dangerous.

I did a medicaide fraud investigation on behalf of a county government a little while back and brought the case as a qui tam with the county government as the plaintiff, although in these kinds of cases the plaintiff is called the relator because the claim “relates back”.

This is a really obscure area of law, most lawyers have never heard of it, much less used it. Kinda like FISA. Unless you had a reason to know, you wouldn’t know.

This would be a fun song to blare out of the loudspeakers of the Kiss Truck…

When We Kiss Lyrics

It was late one night and we had a fight
And it seemed like nothing was going right
Then you turned around and you walked right out the door
Now it’s not the first time, it’s not the last
I know all about your checkered past
And we’ve played this game one thousand times before

[Chorus]
Do you remember the night I can see it so clear
All the sweet little things that you sang in my ear
There were promises made but I think you forgot what you said
There’s a real fine line between love and hate
And I’m not the type to just sit and wait
I’ve made up my mind I can’t wait for you anymore:

But when we kiss, it feels like this
And when we touch, it means so much

So many days go by and I still want you so
If it was up to me I’d never let you go
You’re the only true love in my life and I want you to know
All this passion and pain I think I’m goin’ insane
We’ve got nothing to lose and so much to gain
If you love me today, who’s to say
You might leave me again

Ack! I live in NYC and cannot make it out to New Haven after work on a Thursday!

Just to throw this out there – is there a possibility of a weekend FDL get-together in CT on a Saturday or Sunday on one of the upcoming few pre-election weekends.

Maybe a brunch, with those who are interested proceeding afterwards from there to go forth and do door-knocking, etc. for the Lamont campaign.

Just a thought.

The * to the above

* I don’t believe TEAM LOSER actually thinks it is a logical position, only that they think it is logical and they can at least try to sell it with a straight face.

wxyz – keep the 29th free. More to follow soon.

Buchananesque, but whose counting.

wxyz 38 — that’s a great idea. We may have an event on the morning/afternoon of Saturday the 29th and if that’s the case a brunch would be great.

Owenego Inn is picture perfect and 7pm on a summer night can’t get better. Looks out over LI Sound and the beautiful Branford Coastline. Spent many lovely times there and you will all love it.

Ned’s made the really big time. And surprisingly, I did not find this on Huffpo.

Famous names on Lamont’s donor list
Streisand, Newman & Soros support Leiberman’s senatorial opponent

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13905830/

Bravo, RFK,Jr. May the lawsuits on behalf of the people continue to be filed. May the sleeping populace waken and drive forth from our shores the evil-doers that reign. May we regain our country in deed as in word. Amen.

Anyone know where Baiting Hollow is in relation to Branford? I know its on the Long Island side overlooking Connecticut…and, is there a ferry or something across to Conn?

Thanks, *ilson and lhp, for the info.

Jane and Urban Pirate,

Thanks! Unfortunately I will be in another area of the country that weekend.

But regardless of whether I can meet up with fellow FDL’ers, I will still try to get out to CT again over the upcoming weekend to do more door knocking, etc. for Lamont.

I was in Bridgeport yesterday and it was really fun.

I highly recommend door knocking or phone banking to anyone who is able to get involved.

You will carry the good karma from the experience for years to come.

ccmask – There are two ferries connecting CT and LI.

Bridgeport – Port Jeff

http://www.bridgeportferry.com

Orient Point – New London

http://www.longislandferry.com

http://www.portjeffferry.com is the correct link

Joe Wilson on KO tonight…

Baiting Hollow to Branford http://maps.yahoo.com/dd_resul…..sz=Baiting Hollow , NY&country=us&tcsz=Branford, CT&tcountry=us&terr=3005

EPU 35

I wanted to throw something at Condi yesterday as she blabbed on during the Sunday shows yesterday.

She basically said that we don’t support a cease fire because it wouldn’t get at the root cause of the problem. “We’d be right back here in three weeks, Tim.”

I daresay that a ceasefire would get at the root cause of the deaths of the Lebanenese and Israeli citizens who will lose their lives in the next three weeks.

They all act like f***ing monarchs.

And it seems like the worse things get the broader Junior’s grin gets.

NRA boner alert.

Shipping shit over here from over there so that we can fight ourselves over here.

Weapons from Iraq finding their way into the US.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20…..imeweapons

-GSD

lhp,
Way to go, it’s desperately needed imo. Whatever oversight, quality control, Medicaid had, has been gutted. Bad physicians just use it as their own private ATM. Medicaid fraud is one of the few things that Trial lawyers agree with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce about, it hurts everyone except the dishonest providers. IMO “False Claims” is a great law and the taxpayers need more attorneys to use it. I am hoping more States will adopt a state version.

Wow Urban Pirate, I never knew that! My family has a cottage overlooking the Sound up on a cliff somewhere. I’ve never been to it…

Owenego Inn is picture perfect and 7pm on a summer night can’t get better. Looks out over LI Sound and the beautiful Branford Coastline. Spent many lovely times there and you will all love it.

Especially considering the temps will have dropped to the 80’s by Thursday. Yeesh, it’s freakin’ hot here!

But, then again, that appears to be the case everywhere in the U.S.

Brian Williams-Big, Beautiful, and Dumb as a box of rocks…

GSD, am I to laugh or cry?

wtf … this “paroxism”??? sp folks? Brian W waxing paroxic

Jane – Is there going to be a special room or reservation for the group and if so under what name? Or are we just storming the bar? ;)

Also pdf in your box.

I just don’t understand the current preoccupation with Lieberman. Much print is being spent on someone that, in the scheme of things, is a relatively small fish. Crimes being committed by the big fish are now often overlooked thanks to this new obsession. And if you really want expose the enemy within then Reid should easily top the list. In fact there are at least a dozen Democratic Senators and Congressmen who are further right than Lieberman.

I guess it must be symbolic or something, whipping up this fervor…. Not very rational if you ask me, energy would be better spent on the real bad guys.

John Casper
You make me blush. Thank you.

ACtually, NYC recently adopted it’s own versio of qui tam and Elliot Spitzer has been advocating for a NYS version forever.

Medicaide fraud in NYS is a particularly bad problem because the computer system they use to track paayments can give you a print out for –wait for it– six months or more after the payment has been made.

Plus NYS is one of the few states that make the counties pay part of the cost, and do all the admin work, though they have no say in granting/denying claims.

Wow a weekend event also?

By that point I’ll be an old pro at getting from NJ to CT.

So, is exit polling still legal? That, I think, is the only way to make sure we don’t get Diebolded.

Beautiful? Brian Williams?

You’re kidding, right?

hi
cupholder.

You must be new here. I haven’t seen ya around these parts before.

You may want to invest a few minutes going through the archived threads. T’will explain the “obsession” with ole Rape Gurney Joe

Has anyone seen any projected numbers from the campaigns yet? I’m getting called every night by someone seeking my support in the primary.

SharonW @ #57,

Not hot here. In the low 50s, raining. Everything I want to do is getting rained out. At least I don’t have to water the garden. I’m supposed to go on a halibut charter on Thursday in lower Cook Inlet, and it’s looking like a gale warning.

Wish I could be at the Onowego Inn instead. Someday I’ll go to CT. My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather (Nicholas Munger) arrived there, at East Guildford, in 1636, or around then……….

Someone needs to throw Gannon in the mix and turn it into a three-way…

Oft – Oh jeebus, I just saw the film of Bush with the open mic. What a vile, uncouth buffoon he is. He embarasses us all.

Branford is just east Of New Haven on the Sound.

The Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. story is on HuffPo too.

looseheadprop:

No need to skim the archives, I’m well aware of the complaints against Lieberman.

Cupholder, you might want to read a bit of what’s written here and elsewhere (It’s seems like everywhere, actually) regarding why Joe must go. The reasons might surprise you. Then again you could be well aware, and simply be a concern troll. Either way, read up, and then make your own decisions.

Never trust a man who makes policy statements with food in his mouth.

cupholder,
lhp, asked you nicely.

Arianna on Bush and Blair’s Less Than Excellent Conversation.

Not hot here. In the low 50s, raining. Everything I want to do is getting rained out. At least I don’t have to water the garden. I’m supposed to go on a halibut charter on Thursday in lower Cook Inlet, and it’s looking like a gale warning.

Ed, where the hell ARE you? The last national weather map I saw showed some of the upper mid-west states with lows of 80’s as the cool spots.

Lotus
Brian Williams isn’t BAD looking. He just looks….. homogenized

ET is an Alaskan, SharonW.

cool Cook Inlet is in Alaska http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Inlet

Kevin at #68, I haven’t seen any, but on Thursday the new Quinnipiac Poll should be out. Hopefully, we’ll have something big to celebrate on Thursday night. :)

Bu-land, lhp 80, entirely bu-land. And he can’t look at the camera straight-on to save him. Feh.

Ed

102 today on Long Island. You know the place with the cool breezes. Can we come to visit you?

Brian Williams is the Ken Doll of broadcast journalism.

And, sadly, does appear to be as dumb as a sack of hair.

Which may be the secret to his stay-tight coiffure…

Alaska! ROTFL! No wonder. D’oh!

Lotus,

The dumb as rocks part, so true.

And he uses more hairspray in a day, than I use in a year

Brian Williams. Fan of Rush Limp-balls. ‘Nuff said.

-GSD

its 4:30am in Baghdad and its still 85ºF but its dry heat !

cupholder,
“Not very rational if you ask me, energy would be better spent on the real bad guys.”
That is one of the more inadequate comments I have read at FDL in some time. Whinermann does a lot more damage than the neocons, because Whinerman pretends to be an alternative and he’s coming from a traditional deep blue state. He and Schumur do so much damage, because they drag all the other liberals from less blue states closer to the WH. If you think of some area where he is an “alternative” to the Bush WH, please by all means, educate me.

NOT TO MENTION that BW doesn’t speak but HONKS his GE-approved “news.”

cupholder — how long have you worked for NARAL?

Their favorite tactic to divert attention from their inexplicable endorsement of Lieberman is to ask why people aren’t complaining about Harry Reid.

Because Harry Reid isn’t running for re-election in a blue state against a pro-choice opponent, you nitwit. Now go to the bathroom and purge your cocktail weenies, I’m sure there will be many more where those came from.

“Whinermann does a lot more damage than the neocons”

OK, you’re right. What was I thinking? Definitely invest much time and effort into this Lieberman affair. It’s really the key issue of the day.

Thanks to everyone wrt the ferry. Now to figure out how to get some vacation days.

“cupholder — how long have you worked for NARAL?”

Poison the well much?

Ye…eeessss, *ilson?

On Olberman now, Libby might be looking to plea!

Cupholder,

There are many conservative Dems that are far too conservative for my taste.

There is only one Dem that is the darling of Pat Robertson, Ann Coulter, Rush Lim-balls, and a weekly guest on Sean Hannity.

Only one Dem that is always held up as an example to the rest.

Only one Dem that gave Bush a soul kiss in public.

Right wing Ho-Joe.

-GSD

Jane,
My love is with you always. Just back from visiting family and have no cash for nothin’. And they paid for most of my bill; buying lottery tickets by the barrel. Dreaming don’t cost much…but my dream’s on Ned and you.

Ditto the BW- Ken doll in yellow tie.

EPU – So the goal is to just shoot and bomb the crap out of everything until no one’s left to do anything, THEN declare a ceasefire.

Post- mortem has always been the preferred stage for tumor removal.

“We’d like everybody to know precisely what happened. We’d like to know what precisely happened.”
You Go Joe Wilson!

who on KO is saying Libby might plead ? based on what info?

cupholder:

I would normally agree with you, but in the case of defeating Lieberman, it’s just like beating a Republican. He’s the New England version of Zell Miller.

The added benefit of a Lamont win is that it would be a wake up call to the Democratic Party leadership about the kinds of candidates they are supporting.

It’s also a prequel to the Prez. contest in 2008 wrt the Iraq war.

But in the final analysis, it’s up to the people of CT who they want to represent them in the Senate.

I sent the same amount of money to Lamont that I sent to Jim Webb in Virginia. The incumbents have such an advantage from the get go. Why not give the challenger a little outside help?

Cupholder,

We have the ability to multi-task here. We can talk about Joe, Ned, the war in Iraq, Aghanistan, Israel and Lebanon, Deadeye Dick Cheney, Bush, Condi, Pat Fitz, Rover, Scooty Libby, the G8 summit, Venezuela, local and state elections and still not chew buttered buns in public with our mouths open.

-GSD

ok, i don’t want to throw cold water on the party here, but what’s being done to get out the vote???

i’m way over here on the left coast and can’t help, but it seems to me that the only, only way ned has a chance of winning is for old fashioned feets on the pavement knockin’ on the doors talking with human beings face to face kind of action.

anything at all going on? or are we just blogging?

just want to know the specifics so i can sleep peacefully at nights.

Sharon W

Am still at office. No TV.

Please give details on KO libby plea story

skippy 106 – amen

…and your little dog, too 53
Yes, I thought the same thing. It’s as if she was thinking, “Why waste my time putting out fires all day long?” I know the feeling, Condi, but dear, lives are being lost. It’s more important than anything else you got going on. Even shoe-shopping or your workout.

skippy — we didnt just fall off the falafel truck here! skip around the archives here and read some of the Daily Ned posts — yes, folk have been going door2door

Libby

plea

details???

I’m dyin’ here!!

Olberman hasn’t gotten to it yet, he’s interviewing Wilson at the moment.

Wilson called the WH’s intelligence on Niger CRAP!

Is there usually this much frou-frou on Olbermann?

btw GSD — nice snapback! particularly the buttered roll snark…

Compliments on the falafel truck too, *ilson.

Qest que se “Frou Frou?”

Mary – Basically. Anything else would be downright unsporting to death.

and her little dog too – Now that I’ve discovered Flickr, I can share my Condi art with the world along with my Joe art.

http://static.flickr.com/75/19…..51ac_o.gif

PS – Jane, feel free to use this one too, if you want.

GSD
I actually fed my cat while reading at the same time. She licked it off the keyboard. Great cat.

Frou-frou = gossamer nothings, e.g. Brad Pitt.

froufrou also frou-frou ( P ) Pronunciation Key (frfr)
n.
Fussy or showy dress or ornamentation.
A rustling sound, as of silk.

Ed*ard Teller – my great, great, great, great………… arrived in Boston in June of 1637 and moved on to the New Haven area shortly thereafter. Wonder if the Mungers knew the Todds. Not super far away.

Skippy — you’re talking about primary day GOTV, right?

Oh, Keith likes to throw in frou-frou mixed with deeper stuff. It’s probably a good thing really. Brings different viewers to his show. It’s a political show that even my 18-year old will watch. And some of the stuff he shows is pretty funny.

I sure hope he says more about the Libby thing and it wasn’t just limited to. “And we hear of the possibility of a Libby plea deal.”

Did KO get to the Libby plea part yet?

Where is halibut in the midwest?

skippy — the Lamont folks could use all the help anyone can offer. Some of us went down there yesterday, assigned to help the coordinator in a little town called Willimantic, just north of Hartford. We knocked on doors, planted lawn signs, and made calls using their Dem voter lists. We were just five volunteers from the Boston area, there for an afternon, and that’s where we were assigned. We could have used more just there, and there are dozens of such little towns. I don’t know how many others were available and assigned elsewhere. Anyone in the NE region who has time should call in and offer to help.

in the words of that philosopher Richard M. Sherman “A little bit of sugar makes the medicine go down…” thus Keith garnishes his very serious show with eyecandy like Brad Pitt

“Poison the well much”
That’s what I call ignoring the Powell Doctrine and everyone who knew anything about the ME and spending $267,000,000 to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan.

Thank you Sharon. So I have to bite my nails through all the dump footage of japanese teenage girls with porkchops strpped to their heads?

Arrrgggh

John Casper

Call me cynical and suspicious, but I think cupholder is a concern troll.

“Poison the well much”
That’s what I call ignoring the Powell Doctrine and everyone who knew anything about the ME and spending $267,000,000 per day to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan.

lhp, hon, all I can tell you is, it’s wusser if you gotta watch it.

Oh, loosehead, the Japanese girls were hysterical! How did they ever think of a stunt like that? Cracks me up just thinking about it.

No — really? Japanese girls put pork chops on their heads? Whuffo?

KO loves the screaming Japanese girls, with the big–and fast–lizard.

Who the hell puts raw meat on their heads?

What kind of a twisted mind thinks that up?

Makes Maury Povich look like an arbiter of good taste

I have been firing back lately. Must be retaliation in the air!

Check out this chstnut I dug up from my archives. It must be one of the reasons why Judith Miller shut her personal e-mail down:

(Snip)

Ms. Miller,

It is with great pleasure that I read of your departure from the New York Times.

Hopefully you will move on to a media outlet or organ more suitable to your skills.

May I recommend the North Korea Daily or perhaps you could be press Secretary for Muamar Ghaddaffi, Robert Mugabe, or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Your legacy will be of the war, the dead American soldiers, the dead Iraqi civilians, endless terrorist threats, political polarization at home and our national isolation abroad, and the slow immutable creep towards authoritarianism so embraced by this administration.

You have done a heckuva job, mission accomplished.

-GSD

it’s easier to watch it than to describe it (my very first ever YouTube link!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRZAluQPA2g

I’ve been watching KO and didn’t hear anything about a Libby plea deal. Not a word, not even as a teaser/trailer. But then I may have been distracted by having two of the hottest men in America on the same show at the same time. Hard to listen and drool at the same time. I did hear Coultergeist win Worst Person in the World again, though.

lhp –not another peep re Scoots. Sorry.

lotus,
you never saw this? KO replays it all the time.

Some weird Japanese game show feturing the female equivalent of a “boy band”. It’s a bunch of 12-15 year old pop singers and they do crazy dangerous stunts.

In one, they are under a platform that has holes cut in it. They stick there heads upthrough the hole, like WhackaMole.

They have raw pork chops strapped to their heads.

A big, fast lizard is loose on the platform and dashes at the screaming girls faces trying to get the pork chops.

It’s just batshit crazy

Oh man, just picture a plexi-box with a wooden bottom, sitting on legs like a table with head holes cut out of the bottom. Stick in the heads of five or so 14-year old girls with porkchops strapped to their heads and let loose the meat-eating giant lizards!

They could remove their heads from the holes, ya know. ;)

However, everyone got off on the girlish squealing. I just loved the absurdity of the moment.

Now see? I HAVE GOOD REASON not to watch MSNBC.

and my little dog too:

I saw the Condi. She is such an irresponsible person. She is supposed to be a diplomat. So scary.

Jane–

I really really would like to come, but it’s just a bit of a hike for a weekday night. I hope you’re planning a post-primary trip out to visit the intrepid Massachusetts Roots Cell…

Re: the pork chop girls

What kind of a mother, even the most demented stage mother, lets someone do that to her daughter?

Phoomph.

Oh Lebanon.

From the Paris of the Middle East before my time, to nation of endless civil war in the 70’s and 80’s. Now a pawn in a larger game.

Sad.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..ing_beirut

-GSD

OT and several links.

No vote yet on the Haynes nomination.

Kennedy and Feinstein are asking for extended hearings.

http://www.tedkennedy.com/cont…..-on-haynes

In part because some of the twenty or so retired military who have opposed the nomination might be willing to say a few words.

http://www.humanrightsfirst.in…..es-let.pdf

Maybe words like:

Had Mr. Haynes been ignorant of the likely consequences of these policies, the profound errors he made could perhaps be understood. But the uniformed JAGs of each of the services clearly and repeatedly expressed their concerns about the impact these policies would have both on the reputation of the United States and on the integrity and safety of military personnel.

Or

For example, … Mr. Haynes recommended authorizing the use of dogs to exploit phobias of detainees. This practice, which clearly violated the Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogations, was subsequently authorized for use against detainees at Guantanamo. And now two servicemembers have been convicted of crimes under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for using dogs to frighten detainees at Abu Ghraib. This was precisely what the uniformed JAGs predicted would happen once such departures from the rules of humane treatment of prisoners were authorized. We owed our troops better guidance.

emph added

Organized religion has been criticized for not taking a stand on torture, but their voices are there. Including a letter by multiple religious organizations opposing the Haynes nomination.

http://saveourcourts.civilrigh…..m?id=45255

Balkinization has a good “short riff” in the second half of this post:
http://balkin.blogspot.com/200…..de-by.html

lotus

Thanks for the Scooter information or lack thereof. I guess tomorrow the hills will be alive with sound of rumors

Well, speaking of meet-n-greets, I just got back from the Jon Tester fundraiser in San Francisco (the low-priced version at the Washington Street Bar & Grill in North Beach, not the $250 chill with Pearl Jam event later tonight). Fifty to a hundred people quaffing the excellent Marin County micro-brew, Lagunitas Ale.

I got a chance to chat with Jon Tester for a few minutes. I looked the man in the eye. I was able to get a sense of his soul. (oh, wait, that’s already been used).

Seriously, he seems like the real deal. A straight-talker. I suggested that he couldn’t have asked for a better campaign opponent than Conrad Burns.. No disagreement there. He’s doing well with fundraising, building on momentum from the primary victory.

He also expressed interest in the Lamont race. We both concurred that the Lieberpendent wild card makes a tough row for Ned to hoe, should he win the primary. We agreed that the Dem leadership could not logically support Lieberman as an Independent.

I wished him well. This was my first experience with retail politics – pretty cool.

Icing on the cake: I got to meet that fellow who runs a little progressive blog – my neighbor Mr. Moulitsas, his lovely wife and adorable son.

I felt a lot more sorry for the lizard, who clearly did not want to be there and kept having to be poked with sticks to keep running around. Guess Japan doesn’t have a Humane Society worth shit.

BarbaraB, apparently that’s all we’re going to get. It was a mere tidbit thrown out when talking about Novak and before interviewing Wilson. Just one line.

Maybe it’s something he doesn’t have enough information on yet, but wanted to throw it out to his audience anyway.

Those Japanese have some wacky tastes. Japan is the country that once sold girls soiled panties from vending machines and they of course introduced the world to the…ahem…art of bukakke.

-GSD

Just saw the news about Bush’s little open mic gaffe. What an embarassing slob. What kind of slovenly idiot is the POTUS and acts like that? But what has me even more terrified and angry is the evidence that this is how the Chimp approaches a serious and historic event requiring the best thinking and diplomacy – simulatneous chatting, eating, slouching, maligning, cavalier mumbling…..is this how he conducts business of this sort? Ooooph.

punaise : is it true that little Aristotle looks older than his Dad ?

“Call me cynical and suspicious, but I think cupholder is a concern troll”

Yep, “concern troll”, that’s me.

Minimize opinions that don’t mirror your own with clever tags, how original. Hmmm, who does that sound like???

So much for your “free thinker” status.

Punaise,

Those retail political moments stand the Tester time.

-GSD

Wow. I do not miss having cable. Insanity is not that difficult to find anywhere: Found money.

*ilson – I wouldn’t go that far. but there is a strong resemblance.

cupholder, we’re boring you to tears, so why don’t you amble along elsewhere and find something you’ll enjoy?

GSD

I am almost afraid to ask

Bukakke?

I reviewed cupholders previous comments — he has been OK before — tonight he is acting a tad vitriolic and could tone down the namecalling …

lhp, trust me, you’re afraid to ask for good reason.

Gladly. The echo is killing me.

Did we ever discover the ID of the sweet honeyman from the Bush – Blair exchange?

LHP – Search it on the net. Don’t ask for the definition here. Maybe GSD will provide the def. for you, but I doubt it.

Buh-bye.

Looseheadprop, one of our finest legal minds, sums it up succinctly. As usual.

It’s just batshit crazy

wikipedia has a non-pictoral description of bukkake — it might expand your horizon if you have 5 or 6 very, very close male friends…

Don’t feed them gang…

And also lighten up. TV, especially Japanese TV, which constitutionally cannot have nukes, would never, ever, hurt anyone. Sure, all their game shows are nutty, but you don’t even have to speak Japanese to greatly enjoy them.

GSD – yeah, that’s what Burns me up, except it doesn’t

So, it’s not just a nickname for the head of the fed?

cupholder,

I am still waiting to hear something from you other than ad hominum attacks.

This far you have accused us being obsessed, of somehow wasting media attention on Lamont that could have been lavished on Harry Reid, of poisoning the well and minimizing opinions that don’t mirror our own and being narrow minded.

So, all I know about you and the free thinking thoughts you have is that you are either in a very cranky mood, or that flinging insults is your only skill. At least the only skill on display here tonight.

Give me some thoughts to think about. Just stop insulting us.

cupholder

You don’t have to read about Ned or Joe. It’s a free country for now, you can go to any site you want. Try it. You might like it.

I always forget – is it sadism or masochism where you punish yourself?

Try another site if you don’t like the subject

Cupholder. I fight the fight I’m interested in, and where I think I do the most good.

You’re welcome to come along, or find your own fight elsewhere. Either way you will be supported. Unless you get in my way. Then you will be run down.

Oh goody — this is gonna be one of those threads!

Awwwww, but it’s such a cute, earnest concern troll.

Here to show us the path to blue enlightenment.

My pet peeve, for the record, are people who get in the middle of my conversations and ask why I’m not talking about what THEY want to talk about.

Bored now.

I left my cup at the fundraiser. No need for a holder at this time.

Well, MsAnnaNOLA, ya tried . . .

LHP,

Check out this thread.

http://www.firedoglake.com/index.php?s=bukkake

-GSD

Cupholder, can you hold this for me?

*ilson

Just went to wikipedia

See we are free thinkers. That was certainly a new thought.

I never knew I led such a sheltered life.

boadicea – OT – what’s your favorite book about your namesake?

Here’s what bugs me about cupholders. My coffee cups never fit in them. I know it doesn’t take wonderful engineering feats, or even feets, to have those gradations or expandable thingies – but no. I end up balancing the coffee on the dash or holding the mug between my knees and hoping for no potholes.

…
uh, cupholders was the topic wasn’t it?

Hey cupholder: How’s that loyalty oath thingy going for you?

Cupholder – This should make you feel better.

http://static.flickr.com/55/19…..f5d8_o.jpg

Mary — no, but every month when my house payment goes up, it feels that way . . . .

((((MARY)))) ((((LOOSEHEADPROP))))

Well, I for one am glad that MSNBC — or was it CNN? — clarified that “yo, Blair.” I think they are probably right; it was “yeah, Blair.” What a relief. “Yo” would be so undignified. Blair must be the Preznit’s nickname for the Prime Minister. I would have thought, being BFFs and all, that Dubya would call him Tony, but I suppose that Limey git is grateful that W didn’t dub him Fido.

mary

you put your piping hot Starbucks on the dashboard? ouch

After I take my test, I am going to make cups for all of TEAM LOSER and make them public just for occassions like this.

Can I call you cup? I accidently hit my CD (cup drive)with my knee and spilled my beverage. Will it ruin my keyboard? Thanks in advance.

OT – “A search of the New York Times online archives reveals that apparently it has never in its history used “shit” before.” E&P

What will we tell the children? What will we tell Joe?

lhp, in this modern world of the Internets and Tubes, we are learning so very much about the customs and cultures of so many different countries — today it was Japan — who knows? tomorrow it might be Patagonia!

Of course, it was Ambrose Bierce that wisely observed that War is the Devils way of teaching Americans geography!

brava, LHP.

hey Lotus

What does that thing with all the parenthesise mean?

((((this))))

Mary, you’re the best.

HUGS, lhp.

Hugs!

Awe shucks.

Thanks so much

That’s right *ilson. Why just last night I learned some new tea bag crafts…

new thread

Yo’ entirely welcome!

you mean Joe’s oh-so-pure lips kissed the sullied and tainted mouth of that shit-talker?

New thread? Not a minute too soon!

You’re big city lhp. I actually make my own coffee (mostly bc there is one strip of road in the country with no starbucks on it, and I drive it everyday to and from work)

So I have real coffee mugs. All over the car as a matter of fact.

They come in handy (like the other night when I needed something to throw at a racoon in the tack room and it was my treo or a cheap coffee mug)

My brother has a new xlr and my nephew was trying to get me enticed to drive it (I’m not a carchic) My only comment was to look at the holders and say – those won’t hold my coffee mug.

I swear *ilson and I did not plan that.

so “t((((((*))))))” = thugs?

If when you spell “s—” everyone knows you mean shit, why can’t you just spell out shit to begin with. What’s up with that shit?

Actaully, could use hugs. Momma dog killed one of the puppies today. My NYExH called. I am working late b/c my daughter is visiting my sister, so I don’t need to get home and am trying to weed through some of my endless backlog on my desk

and

I dread going home to the tiny puppy corpse. It’s too sad. Better to think about Japanese girls with porkchop hats

EPU, that was truly awesome.

awwwww – lhp. that is sad.

Lina, I don’t know there’s a particular book that comes to mind. I’m always open to suggestions for reading material, though. I loves me some good history writing. Yummy Barbara Tuchman.

Now, something about that image is just WRONG…

I remember reading about Boadicea long time ago, but most of the stuff I learned that made me take this name was on the internets.

Before the tubes got all congested, you understand.

Actually, I am glad my daughter was not here to see it.

I’m so sorry lhp.

Poor pup, poor mom, poor you.

Bodicea and Lina

If you like history fiction

Try the eagle and the raven

Can’t remember the author. Twas my first introduction the her

Oh jeez, lhp, I’m sorry. Who’s left?

If when you spell “s—” everyone knows you mean shit,

If I didn’t know that, does it mean I don’t know “s-”?

poor momma dog. I don’t know. She bit it in the belly. I think she has doggy post partum depression.

Remaining puppy to spend night in shoe box with NYExH

Husband not in shoe box. Puppy in shoe box. Shoebox on bedside table

I don’t know which one. Haven’t gone honme yet.

She tried to killthem both. The remaining one has a puncture wound too. I’ts been to the vet already.

Maybe she thinks if she gets rid of them she doesn’t have to stay in the basement any more.

Just don’t know

Damn. I had no idea dogs got PPD.

LHP major {{{{}}}}}} You do such good work and explain so much to so many, may your grief be short-lived: come back to us soon.

Oh, lhp, and she was being so protective of them too. I’m so sorry.

I know it sounds pessimistic, but I suspect Lieberman will pull thru the primary and will make it to the senate as well :-( This is just the way things have gone for people who are against Bush&Co.

lhp 210 — so sorry. When Katie had puppies it was exhausting, I didn’t sleep for days. She wasn’t terribly interested in them and weirdly Kobe bonded with them and played with them. But he was just a kid too at the time (just a year).

I’m sorry about the puppy.

barbaraB

maybe not protective. maybe being alone in the basement with them was too much for her. She is usually glued to my husband. maybe she missed him too much.

This AM I argued with him to bring her and the puppies upstairs for the day and he would not take me seriously.

I hate being right about that

Thanks Jane

And everybody.

I am gonna shut down the laptop and drive home. See ya in the AM

lina at 123 – no, i’m talking about gotv 24/7 running up to the primary.

and *ilson, sorry if i’m gun shy, but i have the same feeling now that i had during mcbride’s run in florida…we could have won that, if the dems had just pounded the pavement.

didn’t mean to imply you fell off of any truck, tho the falafel reference is always welcome, but i have been here before…great news on the blogs, and come election day, no turn out.

sorry i am no where nears connecticut, otherwise i might go up there and help.

but i am glad to hear you are actually knocking on doors. good on ya, and good on my friend jane for keeping us updated!

Lorenzo Sunflower will try to be there!

As comment # 230, I’m not sure I’ll get an answer, but I do have a question. Precisely what will take place tomorrow night in Branford. I certainly might have an interest in attending, but with 80 hour work weeks, I’m afraid time is a real premium, so I’d love to know a few more details in advance, if you have them. Thanks very much, and thanks very much for all the work you put into this blog and into doing the right thing, as Spike Lee might put it.

Best regards.