Fitzter Russert Rides Again!

Ned!

Fitz

Why no biscuit for Timmeh? He worked hard today

lhp – I’ll give Timmeh a little bisquit – he’s at least trying… how’s the pup doing?

LHP at 4 — because today he earned his way out of “lapdog” status for the entire show. Good on him! No biscuit = good job.

On other coast, Christy, watching now. Bolten also stammered a bit when asked about statements by the Lebanese Ambassador. I think you’re right – there’s nothing consistent about the Admin’s statements on any front now, they are completely defensive.
Great having Howie here, and great talk with BruceBraley yesterday!

And by the way, I thought Bolton was literally going to choke on his own tounge attempting NOT to give Timmeh a direct answer to the very direct question, “Does the Presnit actually believe what Tony Snowjob said – namely, that the Preshole believes using frozen embryos for stem cell research is murder?”

Bolton went off on a 5 minute obfuscation fest, attempting every trick in the book so as not to answer the question. When he was finished I’m sure that he thought that he had left Timmeh totally confused. But kudos to the Russ-man, he gave Bolton the stink-eye and directly, slowly and clearly repeated the murder question yet again. Sort of like how you talk to a simple child.

In the end, he must have asked Bolton the question at least 6 times, and NEVER got a simple answer to a simple question.

Sorry, Timmeh, but these crooks are pros.

Oh, sweet victory, to finally see a bushbot grilled and the emperor exposed on national teevee.

Thanks, Christy!!!!!

But what about The Rapture?!! These thieves may be vulnerable, but with Israel and Lebanon being on the front pages everywhere, the Bushies actually catch a “break”, speaking only from the cold, calculation of PR. Their base is happy, happy, happy with how the world is turning. Stem cell hypocrisy can’t rain on their parade, methinks.

Attaboy Tim

I suggest Congress reintroduce the stem-cell research bill, but limit new lines to (edited by CHS — e-mail me if you have questions) . . .

. . . since we’re all for supporting “life,” but only within limits . . .

I e-mailed John Amato at C&L — MtP hasn’t been on teevee as yet on the West Coast, but when it airs, I’m hoping he can snag a clip of this exchange for me. If he does, I will link it up for everyone. It was truly a sight to see…and Bloten was literally stammering, trying to stall for time to come up with viable spin. And he failed.

Did he stay after the question bc he thinks it is murder himself?

The MSNBC screen has the major headline of hte day. “Paris Hilton, Anti-Hero?”

Micahel Scott at 12– I’m sure that was meant as some sort of smack at the Bush Administration, but for me that was several steps too far. Just FYI.

Old Coastie

Baby Mittens is THE most precoscious puppy I have ever seen. Mamma dog is still mostly w/o maternal instinct and we have laid in a supply of puppy formula b/c we expect her milk to dry up soon. Other female dogs are starting to clean and warm the puppy. And the puppy loves sleeping on a human belly.
it’s starting to yip ( as opposed making wuffling noises) she is also trying so hard to stand up on all 4s instead of creeping on her belly.

Not even 10 days old, eyes still closed and already trying to walk and bark. and she is absolutley fearless. just a tough charming little tyke

LHP at 16 — I have a prediction on Baby Mittens — that you’ll have a new pooch of your very own, because she sounds like too much of a cutie to send to another home. :)

you just gotta keep her, lhp. she’s magic.

This whole Bolton (magical moustache man) debate in Congress…question:

This is just another attempt to get congressional approval so he’ll be permanent, right? Even if they don’t approve, he’ll still get to finish out his “current term”, right? When does that term end? Can Bush appoint him again afterwards, or will he be required to pick someone else?

Jumped over to Google news for a few minutes, and it was like entering a toxic waste dump, so I came back here.

Somehow this treatment of Bolton reminds me of a situation I was once in. I was doing a presentation on enrollment forecasts at a university, and the head of the anthropology department stood up when I was done, and said, “Gentlemen, that light you see at the end of the tunnel is a proctoscope.” Wonder if Bolton is thinking that today.

The Future War.

AMERICA HELD HOSTAGE redux

totlly OT

But I just saw two of the most enormous butterflies outside my windo.. Huge. The size of doves.

In fact, what bird could possibly swallow them?

Maybe this is a happy side effect of global warming?

that would explain his wriggling about, sofistic.

lhp 16, wonderful news! But now listen here, you gotta enlist your daughter if need be, cuz we want PIX!

PIX, I tell you!!!

PIX!!!

PIX!!!

PIX!!!

Christy and Anne

Baby Mittens belongs to the NYExH. he has a HERD of labs. Our house is way way over the legal limit for dogs in this town.

Having said that, I think once my daughter gets home, there will be a lot of lobbying on her part to keep Baby Mittens

…their soft underbelly is showing on so many fronts, the message machine is no longer working with rapid-fire precision.

The only thing that’s ever really given me hope about getting a spanner into Rove’s works is that the mathematics of deception won’t support it.

The Democrats in their present form can’t lay a glove on Karl, but he’s now in the process of punching himself out.

As for Mr. Potato Head, I wonder if the M$M has finally begun putting together two uncomfortable facts:

1. As long as they keep spouting the GOParty line instead of reporting reality, their audience will keep tuning them out; and

2. Their GOParty patrons will toss them under the bus just as soon as it’s expedient to do so, no matter how much cover they’ve afforded in the past.

Let’s hope the cabal will continue to pop some rivets and break some pipes as it pulls itself apart!

Has Bolten added a copy of the “groping Merkel’s neck” shot to his collection?

Baby Mittens is the most precious name I’ve heard in a long time, fitting I’m sure from what I read.

Gentlemen, that light you see at the end of the tunnel is a proctoscope.

Oh lord, there’s a keeper!

This is a great opportunity for a graphic show n’ tell –

Blastocysts are smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.

How many blastocysts will fit on the head of a pin? 10? 20? 50? 100? That’s what we are talking about — small clusters of cells that routinely get flushed away, a few of which are lucky enough to develop into a human being.

Methinks Timmeh could use a straight pin with devastating effect — exposing the Republican hypocrisy of their blastocyst fetish.

We took pix. I can’t figure out where to stick the memory stick into my laptop. My daughter stuck it in a port that turned out to be for sound media. We cannot find the right port.

lhp – good to hear the excellent puppy news! “personality” is a wonderful thing in a dog (my big guy was labeled as such – I was sure it was code for “Pain in the Ass” – but he grew up to the best dog ever).

Did you notice how Bolten head got a little sweaty while trying to explain the stem celll stuff?

Somebody please talk lhp through this search, okay?

I am having to steel my heart about having to give my six pitbabies — at about 2 months old, they are all cute and adorable and smart and sweet and …

My daughter named both Babay Mittens and Brigit.

I had to call her and tell her Brigit was dead. I did NOT tell her how the puppy died

I would assume the port is USB. Should be a group of 2-4 slots. Thin and about as wide as an index finger. Your moust might be plugged into one of them.

It sounds like Baby Mittens is meant for your daughter lhp.

Is the NYEX (not to be confused with NYX) is taking the herd with him? It would be sad to go from a house full of labbies to none.

That is to say…mouse.

*ilson

just remind yourself that there is absolutley no way you can give each puppy all the attention it needs and deserves.

You are GIVING THE PUPPY THE GIFT of family of it’s very own who will love it and play with it and make it the center of their attention.

Oh, lhp, what news of your trial?

“We cannot find the right port.”

I am a pretty much hopeless wrt to computers, someone will be along directly, though, to help you lhp. I just know it.

*ilson, you are so sweet!

looseheadprop -31

You most likey need a device to connect to your laptop that can read the memory stick. Also, there should be a cord that you can connect your camera directly to your laptop and download the photos that way without a seperate device.

zergle
he stick in our camera is flat and wider than a USB port. it is a teensy bit narrower than the port we tried to use.

Just watched that brutal Bolten bashing regarding stem cells, and, for the first time in a LONG time, Timmeh kept sticking the dagger deeper and deeper on an Administration lackey

Whether or not this spine holds, who knows, but it sure was fun and enjoyable to watch, in the same way it’s fun to watch bullies and thugs get their much deserved comeuppance

fyi– John Dean on cspan2 right now on proto fascism.

hrm…refer to Millineryman at 42. Ya got me stumped.

Mary
he is not taking the herd with him. I am taking my daughter and leaving. I am giving him the house and moving to a a townhouse. the house is fairly large, on a nice sized piece of property and sighted in the woods near the beach. Ideal for the herd. All the herd belong to the NYexH

My daughter will get to visit her unchanged room on her daddy weekends and all the herd will be here for her when she comes.

Nope, the only pet I am taking is Gus, my daughter’s beta fish.

“hrm”

Zergle . . . you wouldn’t happen to have a cousin named Kate O’Beirne’s Teeth, wouldja?

lhp, by “townhouse” do you mean in NYC, or still out on LI?

As the worm turns just a bit, ie: Russert Potatohead’s singular unmediawhorelike performance today, watch for Limbaugh, Hannity, Bow Tie Boy, Falafel Pirate, Glenn Beck to start screaming foul about the Liberal Media.

Lest we ever forget – The MSM media were/are ALL hardcore rightwing cheerleaders for W’s Unjustified Bloodbath (and that includes Dan Rather).

The numbers in Ohio seem to indicate that the GOP machine has thrown more than a few rods.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..104741/209

(D) Strickland leading J. Ken Blackwell by around 20% and (D)Sherrod Brown(who by the way is more liberal than the netroots guy Paul Hackett)leading Mike DeWhiner(R-Lazy Eye) by 8%.

-GSD

Oh yeah, and Ken Mehlman has outsourced our citizenship to Israel.

lhp, put the memory stick back in the camera. Find the cable that came with the camera to plug into your laptop.

You need a memory card reader if you want to take it out of the camera to upload you pics to the computer.

Zergle at 19: I believe Bolton’s recess appointment expires in January. There was talk a week or two ago that Bush might recess re-appoint him, which would be an unprecedented slap in the face to the Senate (unprecedented slap in the face number, what, 200? Quick, call Arlen Specter! We need him to say he’s gravely concerned and then write a bill to make it legal!)

It appears that instead, they’re going to try the “don’t change horsemen in the middle of the Apocalypse” ploy. I hope that the on-the-job evidence that Bolton is a member of the anti-Dale Carnegie “how to lose friends and antagonize people” school will have more effect than the evidence at the previous hearings that he’s a lifetime psychopathic jerk.

When the kid comes home later today, we will take some more pix and I may have to break down and ask the NYExH for tech help. He knows how to majik the pix out of the camera

How boffo is that, GSD!

ON LI for now. Near my mom, so my daughter can go to her house after school.

My daughter has been floating the idea of moving back into the city (something I certainly intend to do once she is off to college), but the immediate plan is to stay local. stay near the water.

There is an old Irish myth about the silkies (the seal people) who must live within the sound and smell of the sea. I thik we must be descended from them, because all of my sisters have moved heaven and earth to have homes within walking distance of the water, as have
I

I just read that the UK is parting from Bush on the Israel-Lebanon conflict. With this and other issues like stem-cell research the dikes are springing too many leaks for Rove to block with his twelve fingers and two hooves in November. I want to thank whoever posted that story about Wellstone and Lieberman yesterday. Those things need to come out, and we can imagine how many stories there are like that which we don’t know about.

Nice if the NYExH can make hisseff useful SOME way, lhp, cuz it sho ain’t birfin no puppies.

The other WA

Cable? there is a cable? Ohh that is tricky. What will those tech guys think of next?

lhp – what TheOtherWA said. Sounds like your memory card is an actual Memory Stick™, and unless you have a Sony laptop, it probably doesn’t have a port for it. The camera should have a USB cable.

Ahhh, I remember Joan Baez singing about the silkies when I was a child.

lotus,
usually he is totally involved with the puppies. And he has been better with this one since it became an upstairs dog.

I think it is so advanced because it is upstairs and getting so much stimulation

John Dean goes off on Frist for cat killing!!!!!!!

“There are Jews in the world, There are buddhists,
There are Hindus and Mormons and then,
There are those that follow Mohammud, But I’ve never been one of them…
Yes, I’m a Roman Catholic,
And have been since the day I was born,
And the one thing they say about Catholics,
They’ll take you as soon as you’re warm…

You don’t have to be a six-footer,
You don’t have to have a great brain.
You don’t have to have any clothes on,
You’re a catholic the moment… Dad came…
Because…
Every sperm is sacred, Every sperm is great,
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.
Let the heathen spill theirs,
On the dusty ground.
God shall make them pay for Each sperm that can’t be found
Every sperm is wanted, Every sperm is good.
Every sperm is needed,
In your neighborhood.
Hindu, Taoist, Mormon,
Spill theirs just anywhere.
But God loves those who treat their Semen with more care.
Every sperm is sacred, Every sperm is great,
If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.
Every sperm is wanted, Every sperm is good.
Every sperm is needed, In your neighborhood.
Every sperm is useful, Every sperm is fine.
God needs everybody’s
Mine… and Mine.. and Mine..”

it is a memory stick. OK so would any USB cord work? I have one that came with my flashdrive

angie scores my first 707 of the day!

Watching Dean just trash the whole Repug presidential field. WHOOHOO

Lotus,

Ohio is considered THE presidential bellweather too. It is most likely pointing towards the national mood.

As to Josh Bolton, he looked like a high schooler giving a presentation that he hadn’t practiced enough. It looks like the B-teams’ boat is taking on lots of water, Rover is yelling “stroke, stroke” but Bush and reality keep shooting holes in the bottom of the boat.

-GSD

the connecting cable from camera to PC is probably one of those special USB cables with the tiny connector (mini-B) that plugs into the camera. WindowsXP has a nice built-in program for downloading pix from a camera…

lhp – no, there usually is a special one for the camera – the end that plugs into the camera is little tiny…

Well good, lhp, she certainly deserves all the good she’s been belatedly getting.

lhp at 56: Did you ever watch the Ground Force gardening show on BBC America? Charlie Dimmock on that show was definitely a selkie. She always did the water features for their gardens, and one time they showed her home — a converted mill!

david erenstien

you have hit the nail on the head.

It ain’t zygots they care about, it’s sperm. It’s their precious male dominence

Slightly OT –

Husband comes from the Anglo-Saxon Hus-bonda, or House Bound Man; i.e., the man of a house.

Wife comes from the Anglo-Saxon Wif — meaning Woman.

hackworth at 8:53 am
“As the worm turns just a bit, ie: Russert Potatohead’s singular unmediawhorelike performance today, watch for Limbaugh, Hannity, Bow Tie Boy, Falafel Pirate, Glenn Beck to start screaming foul about the Liberal Media.
Lest we ever forget – The MSM media were/are ALL hardcore rightwing cheerleaders for W’s Unjustified Bloodbath (and that includes Dan Rather).”
I completely agree. For anyone who wants to show Timmeh a little love in preparation for the beating he and MSNBC and NBC will take from Pox News
Meet the Press mailbox
“Do you have a question, concern or comment for Meet the Press or Tim Russert? Fill in the form below and send us your feedback. We look forward to hearing from you.”

John Dean best quote so far

“the Vice Presidency has swallowed the Presidency”

OK -ck: does that mean that the man is house bound and the woman is not?

lhp — the camera probably has a specialized cable; however, if the cable fits the socket in the camera, it should work.

By the way. Hitler was reincarnated as a pussy.

http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/

-GSD

lotus, dear, i must be fuzzy or something. *ahem*, what’s a 707?

yay, David Ehrenstein– eggsactley!

a 707 is a big jet airplane

Jeezus, on CNN Beirut’s skyline looks like B’dad’s when Saddam ordered all the oil fires.

heh, *ilson!

Sent Timmeh a love note with congratulations

707 is an upside-down outta yer chair backwards LOL.

who came up with that one?

the Nixon presidency on steroids…

lhp,

am thinking you are familiar with ‘Secrets of the Roan Inish’ – my college girl’s cult film – maybe cause we named her Deirdre

“707″ >> “LOL” upside down, for falling outta your chair going over backwards laughing

ANgie

707 is LOL upside down

looseheadprop #76
That is a must watch CSPAN BookTV with John Dean, I missed the beginning but what I have seen, he is really going to town.
Dean quote:
“What we have now is the Nixon Emperial Presidency on Steroids”

Christy, can we review John Deans book at some point? I am going to buy it today.

I do bleeve 707 is a punaiserie.

oh, i am impressed and flattered and blushing.

wow.

CBL

No, I don’t think I know it. Year? Actors? Producer or director? I will try to order it

second that katymine @ 90 and i betcha he’ll be right here to talk with us.

‘Bout time, angie. ;-}

Dean “gets” the bloggoshpere. I’llbet he would be willing to show up if we discussed his book.

“‘Bout time” as to your 92, that was, angie.

The modern Sadducees are the Christian self-righteous, more than adequately represented by Bush and Reed. And they are a contemptible, violent, and pharisaical lot, of tramps indeed. In the language they profess to understand: ‘ one day they will be left to Heaven for submission to the punishment for which they are so richly deserving’. But first, I want them to get a little earthly, public flogging. Say impeachment, war crimes trials, and jail. A bit of their own sanctimonious medicine is in order.

a 404 is falling over with your chair going upwards — 707 is Laughing Out Loud(ly)

lhp at 93: The Secret of Roan Inish

I was pleasantly surprised that Timmeth followed up tough questions with MORE tough questions!

Did he forget who Bolten works for?

He questioned him as if he were a Democrat.

What’s with that?

lhp -

here’s link – it’s a John Sayles film, very sweet and tied to selkie legend

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111112/

If Christy or Fitz don’t want the job, I say get John Dean as our next AG!

lhp – you’re a good mom, good person. It sounds like your daughter is set, but I’m still sad you won’t be getting labby time. They are a postive (if you keep breakables away from the tail) energy charge.

I wouldn’t mind Barney Frank as AG, m’self.

Living in AZ, I am hearing from a lot of the “Goldwater” Republicans here and they are really are moving away from the wingnut leaders. I am hearing them on our Air America station saying “I will never vote for that maggot McCain again” and they are out there next to us prostesting at anti-war events.

The Repugs are right here with us on the voting issue because the vote fraud here was in my district in a Republican primary. Bradbog has been dogging that story but at this point the FBI has seized the ballots and the Feds swallowed that story. It is funny how “they” dont like election fraud when it happens to them!

another good guy, lotus!

I was stunned to see in the Post article about the Allen-Webb debate that Allen had said he was in favor of permanent bases in Iraq. (I’m not stunned that he’s for it, just that he would say it outright. However, he is none too bright, so it could have slipped out.)

However, looking at the actual transcript, he’s much more weasely:

The 4 bases, that is a smart thing to do. They OUGHT to be on 4 bases; good operationally, safer. Ultimately, they will be turned over to the Iraqis. They will not be permanent bases. The Senate has voted twice that these bases won’t be permenant bases.

I’m glad the Post got the true sense of “ultimately,” but I would have been happier if he’d actually been that honest and given us a direct quote to nail him on.

Oh Christy for AG. Fer sure.

And Bob Graham as DNI.

Tomgram: Karen Greenberg on Bush’s Redacted Reality

Imagine a government in which the names of those who worked as key aides in the office of the second (if not, arguably, the first) most important official in the country were not available. Oh gosh, there is such a government — and it’s ours. Journalist Robert Dreyfuss set out to do a report for the American Prospect magazine on the various individuals Vice President Cheney had gathered to help him run the most powerful vice-presidency in American history — functionally, his own shadow National Security Council — and when he called, asking for those names and their positions as well as possible interviews with them, here’s what ensued:

READ IT HERE:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=103428

Mary: labbies arent the only ones with tail momentum ! I find myself all too often shouting to my big pitbabies “Watch those fucking tails!” None of my pitbabies have trimmed ears or cut tails — sometimes I am so tempted to grab a pair of big garden shears and …

John Dean in the Justice Department… I need to get outside to finish mowing the law before it gets over 110… but the Dean BookTV is just tooooo good.

A/C guy is here, yay!

Redshift and CBL

THANK YOU. I never saw that before. I heard the silkie stories from my grandmother.

I must find this film. We have belong to allsorts o=f movie rental programs, one of them must have it.

Mary,
I will never lack for labby time, NYExH is always looking to have play dates with herd members, he lets folks borrow them for walks in the woods all the time.

I don’t doubt that he would let me borrow a few whenever I want.

When I am doing the single mom thing, and the full time lawyer thing, the last thing I will need is the pressure of worrying about who will get home in time to feed and walk a dog.

Plus the complex I intend to buy inot does not allow you to own a dog (though you can have canine weekend visitors)

Wanna be press sec’y, Jane?

sofistic –

The Husband and Wife construct comes from the house bound man, and the woman in his possession. Women as chattels, and all that.

Reading old Icelandic stories like Njal’s Saga, one can get a sense of where Northern European misogyny came from.

In The Landnama Bok (an oral history of the settlement of Iceland) there many stories of Aud the Good, a wealthy woman from Ireland who converted to Christianity, and was greatly respected as one of the Founding Mothers of Iceland. There are lots of other stories, too — academic libraries often have copies of the Vigfusson and Powell translation of Origines Islandicae — which is way cool, because the top half of the page is in Old Norse, the bottom half the English translation.

Google books Origines Islandicae

http://books.google.com/books?…..q=landnama

lhp at 115 — you will LOVE Roan Inish. It’s one of my all-time faves. Beautiful movie, absolutely magical.

PAT FITZ for AG. He actually knows how to make DOJ work as intended.

We had a lab with a really powerful otter tail once. i was cleaning out the cabinet with all the stemware and had it on the coffee table when he came walking through the living room and stopped wag his tail and say hi.

ALL the stemware went flying. not one piece survived. It looked like a TV sitcom

-ck- — that’s fascinating stuff. I used to be up on it a gang better than I am now (back in grad school in English, I did lots of early, medieval, and folklore courses). Njal’s Saga rings good old bells for me. Thanks.

So sorry, lhp, but that’s my second 707.

-ck- at 117: Whenever people start talking about keeping marriage “how it’s always been,” it’s good to come back with “oh, so you believe women should be property? Or that all their property becomes their husband’s when they marry?” (Except probably a lot of the dominionists actually do believe that.) “Or do you just believe that interracial marriage should be illegal?”

it is time we, the citizens playhardball with the loony right.
Here is what I propose and I think that it is “fair”.
Demand that within the year that they find the 40,000 women to become mothers of “snowflakes”.
If they can’t, then any of the remaining cells, get used for science.
Remember that these women should get NO government assistance. If a single women(god forbid) wants to become a “mom”, then she should set a good example and be able to pay her own way!

lhp@84

Bingo! We have a WINNAH!

A pat on the head and maybe next time he gets the biscuit. Be careful though, he’ll be humpin your leg before you know it.

Let them know when they’re giving good talking head. It’s how we bring ‘em around from the dark side.

Christy

I watched the trailer, the sceanery was beautiful. It reminded me a bit of Linsefarne (which I truly believe to be the anti room to heaven) I love the North Atlantic. The water, though salt, is so clean and sweet, you want to drink it.

It’s very hard to came back to the States when I am there. Maybe I am descended from seals.

speaking of a new AG, has this been discussed already ?

http://www.boston.com/news/nat….._bush_era/

Ah, Lindisfarne. Have you seen the L. Gospels in person, lhp? One of my life-goals.

Subway

Jane and Christy did as much recently when the NYTimes did the right thing revealing the spying on the banking tansactions.

If we don’t hestitate to dump on the MSM when they don’t do their jobs, we should not hesitate to applaude them and give them a little cover when they do do their jobs.

Do Do?

Fabulous idea, diane!

Jane Harman is on CNN and is speaking the talking points emanating from the Rovian Mind Chip planted in her mushy brain.

-GSD

I was doing yard work when MTP came on the radio. I didn’t know who his mealy-mouth Administration guest was, but I consider myself lucky that I wasn’t using the power hedge trimmers. As is, I snipped off a bit of finger tissue.

(Let the White House note that I didn’t discard that finger tissue. Given the possibility of cloning, I figured that to do so might be committing murder. I put the tissue in a zip-lock bag and put it in the freezer….)

[2.5 years more of this administration. Oh, mercy!]

thanks, john casper, for the link. i sent russert my appreciation for being persistent when getting those ‘non-answers’. i told him as a mom of 3 teenagers i can recognize when i’m getting straight baloney… told him to keep it up.

Lotus

Go. today. Go there. I swear to you when you stand on the little off island and look north over the sea, if you strain your eyes, you can just amke out heaven in the distance

Yes I have seen the gospels. The monestary ruins are amazing. The church is still a parish church. At the same time an artifact and a regular parish church full of modern concerns.

They still fish from rowboats, with nets pulled by hand. When the tide goes out, the sea bed is so covered with mussels, you don’t even have to get you feet wet to harvest several bushels.

The wildflowers, the air, but most of all there is a peculiar divine quality to the sunlight.

Whether or not you believe in the hereafter now, you will after you have been to Lindesfarne

-ck-

Have you read anything by William Ian Miller on Icelandic Saga literature? Miller is an incredibly entertaining and insightful guide to these marvellous stories. I highly recommend him. I believe his best known book on the subject is called “Bloodfeuds”.

Why, diane, at 123, I think there was a book about that sometime in the past…. Handmaid’s sumptin? *g*

And redshift 122, it’s always fun to chase them down the rabbit hole of their true beliefs; eventually they come face to face with the fact that Yes, indeedy it’s all about owning the wimmenfolk. That’s where the wingers wanna go.

Coverage of Jim Webb’s debate with George Felix Allen Jr is pretty hard to find on my “national” version of WaPoO, redshift, so thanks for that linky from the local version. Why would the Post dress up George Felix Allen Jr’s quote that way, do you suppose?

regarding lab tails – the baby girl is yellow lab and a whole bunch of ??… fortunately, the enthusiastic tail is all curled up like a little pig’s tail (as it’s growing longer, it is getting curlier) – saves a lot of those tail wipe out accidents…

but it’s not quite so good for sweeping the floor

infoshaman

Snip off a little finger tissue?

Do you need someone to call 911 for you. Do you need an ER?

How are you typing?

(lotus rides away to Eire on the backs of playful seals)

Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale.

Teddy San Fran

A Handmaidens Tale

Actually Diane,

I woul dbe afraid to give them ideas. I don’t want to be conscripted to house a snowflake for 9 mos (actually 10 lunar months) in my unwilling body

Roan Inish is one of my favorite movies. I love John Sayles pics in general, but RI is at the top of the list.

Just watched Timmah dismantle Josh Bolton. Weeee! How refreshing to see actual journalism. On the teebee, no less! Gonna send him a thank you note.

remember the good old days when the PLO and Fatah was “a terrorist organization” that neither Israel or the US would ever consider talking to or negotiating with?

Yes, Diane. Or, if you have 8 embryos stored, you and your hubby have to have all 8– and all the things associated with having 8 kidz. Otherwise, you go to jail.

Chat with WaPoO Robert Barnes tomorrow at Noon eastern about the debate between Fighting Democrat challenger James Webb and Senator George Felix Allen Jr.:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..00844.html

uh oh– Sharon deteriorating acc to wulfie.

Ariel Sharon should have been allowed to die naturally months ago.

Mebbe Frist can help Sharon out.

Iceland was a democratic and egalitarian state, with annual meetings of the democratic assembly at the Althing. The Lawspeaker (Njal was one) gave opinions on legal precedent, and what could and could not be done.

Njal’s Saga tells of the descent into Civil War, that is eventually ended by the reconciliation of Kari and Flossi, the last heroes of the two warring camps.

Iceland started as a democracy, but was unable to keep it. They became a vassal state of the Danish king, and remained so for many centuries.

Meanwhile, in England the Norse ideal of democracy lived on, in the person of the Norman Nobility — who rebelled at the usurpations of King John. English (and American) Constitutional Democracy began with the Magna Carta, and evolved over the next eight centuries.

The idea that a BushCo army of occupation could impose a functioning democracy in Iraq was a laughable idea, with predictably tragic consequences.

Perhaps that’s a new way to implement national service, since wimmenfolk can’t be in combat: the government can force young healthy wimmen to carry at least one snowflake baby to term.

Atwood was right, this IS where they are going with this, isn’t it?

OK

Enough having fun with all of you.

Must do household chores, get some exercise and put in at least a couple hours on the book. Or the guilt will kill me.

When child comes home will be back, hopefully with puppy pix

Arial Sharon deteriorating? aha — thats why Hoekstra is there in Israel to keep them from pulling the plug — I so want Sharon to wake up briefly and be told Hamas won the elections in the Occupied Territories and Hezbollah rockets are hitting Tel Aviv …

Time for me to toddle off too. See yez for Soros!

me too, *ilson. the butcher of Shatila.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S…..a_massacre

Iceland only became an independent country during WW2 when the Brits occupied it after Denmark fell to the Germans. The Brits turned it over to the USA for tutelage and we finessed ‘freedom’ in 1944. The Danes werent happy about it postwar but what-the-hell …

Haven’t seen Timmeh myself, but isn’t today’s behavior the flip side of his TradMed entitlement: would he have treated Andy Card that way? I don’t think so. This was Timmeh’s way of letting Josh Bolten — and DeeCee — know who the Top Dog is in this relationship. Timmeh gets new-guy Bolten to submit to his alphamaleness, indicating to the entire tribe of teevee watchers who’s the real big man.

I bet Bolten is worshipping at the “Hands-of-Dear-Leader” altar this morning. Or whatever lonely Josh does to work off the stress….

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Yes, Diane. Or, if you have 8 embryos stored, you and your hubby have to have all 8– and all the things associated with having 8 kidz. Otherwise, you go to jail.

No, you just have to pay perpetual maintenence for the freezer storage, until sometime in the 25th century when the emryo is decanted and grown for a couple months and Walt Disney’s defrosted head is grafted on.

Wait, that would be wrong. The embryos are decanted sometime in the 28th century to become part of George Bush XXIII’s billion strong clone army. Where the uniqueness of their lives can be treasured as they are thrown into the endless carnage of World War DCXI.

No daughter gets a snowflake baby until the Bush daughters get the first few.

If only the USA had done to the French in Indochina, as we did to the Danes in Iceland and the Dutch in Indonesia.

And where do we have bases?

Iceland.

Closing In On August 8
by DemFromCT
It’s a hot summer, but CT politics remain as hot as the weather. By now, folks have likely seen the Rasmussen poll reported by Political Wire.

A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows Ned Lamont (D) beating Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) in the Democratic primary, 51% to 41%.

Here’s the stunning finding: In the general election, Lieberman and Lamont are tied with 40% with Alan Schlesinger (R) trailing behind with 13%…..

*ilson, don’t make me drive up to INdy and dismantle your clippers. Pits and Boxers with unclipped ears are the cutest.

The news throughout the ME is all depressing and very sad. I can understand how Rick or other’s in the military may have the best of intentions on saying that they feel we need to stay and do “something” for “the Iraqis who relied on us” and to just be able to leave a stable structure behind, but it’s blindness.

Whether it is the civil war there or the insurgency there, in either situation – there is no way for our soldiers to identify enemy. WIth that, there is no way they make the situation worse. In one of the cases that is being tried, it has come out that the Rules of Engagement included all “military age men.”

How do you add to the stability of a country when you are equally a source of danger to all the civilians there? And how do you address civilian on civilian violence without killing civilians?

How do you go from the “shock and awe” original gameplan that authorized use of souped up napalm, to destructions of cities like Fallujah and infrastructure, to the Abu Ghraib et al situations that the military warned DOJ would happen, to an Administration that still uses DOJ to push the theme that torture is humane treatment, shipments to Syria for torture are ok and the crime is mentioning them out loud, soldiers hate their occupied native population so they laugh at the punch lines of songs that include holding children up to take bullets in the brain, civilians are equally blown apart by terrorists, sectarian civil war violence, and US military seeking to “combat” each of the above, etc.

The fact that there are finally some voices that are focusing on the real issues and trying to truly decide what needs to be done to deal with the situation positively is almost more discouraging than if they were not, bc they are now just desparately gaming the “what ifs.” Even if any of the what ifs might have had a difference, once upon a time, we are now at a place where bodies and dollars and other threats and domestic needs and poor leadership on so many disparate fronts have all aligned to make any real opportunity to do anything substantively different is an illusion. And the fact still remains from that from the beginning, it was a doomed effort. Now, you take a doomed effort and add a military that hates the population they are there to “save.” And that cannot really evaluate and discriminate within the native occupied population – not only on ethnic, linguistic and religious elements – but even on the very dramatic Civilian v. Non-civilian issue.

Assaults and occupations that have no ability to distinguish civilian populations, even if they had desire to distinguish, are pretty fatally hamstrung. When the politicizing fed to the troops to guarantee Republican support is a demonization of all the population and when the day to day reality is constant attacks on the military from undifferentiated sources — even the desire to distinguish between the civilian population is lost.

That’s not the description of a force that will add stability.
and a bunch of idiotic nonsense being piped in to support the war effort which

Here’s the stunning finding: In the general election, Lieberman and Lamont are tied with 40% with Alan Schlesinger (R) trailing behind with 13%…..

Do they have a runoff if no one gets over 50%? I think Lamont can beat Lieberman one-on-one, especially in a runoff, where turnout is limited to motivated voters.

Iceland itself has no military of its own whatsoever — the USA used its large base on Iceland for control of the North Atlantic…

At the risk of being EPU’d, let me add my comments regarding the original article.

It could be that one of the reasons Bush is so against it is, well, “follow the money.” No doubt he has friends who are in the lab equipment business, who stand to make a lot of extra money when labs have to keep separate equipment, one to do federally-backed research with, and the other to do stem-cell research with. If the ban on federal dollars were taken away, then these labs could get by with one set (as they’d no longer have to keep all expenditures separated), and that would mean lower sales of lab equipment, and therefore lower profits for the sellers of the equipment.

TeddySanFran at 135: I just looked more closely, and the transcript I was looking at was actually RaisingKaine’s liveblogging of the debate, not a full quote, so his actual statement may have been even less clear. I guess we’ll just have to wait for a full transcript to be sure.

FWIW, I doubt Allen has many friends at the Post, but even more, I think they’re salivating at the idea of an exciting, competitive race in their own back yard.

It occurs to me that a better title for this post, given the graphic, would have been “He Shoots, He Scores.” Am going to have to use that at some point. LOL

new thread — old tears

It could be that one of the reasons Bush is so against it is, well, “follow the money.” No doubt he has friends who are in the lab equipment business, who stand to make a lot of extra money when labs have to keep separate equipment, one to do federally-backed research with, and the other to do stem-cell research with.

I don’t know if I buy this. I think the motivation is more political than economic. I don’t think he gives a shit about fetuses, except if he can use them to motivate his base. If he can use fetuses to divide Americans and motivate his base, who gives a shit if it degrades and inhibits U.S. sciences. The scientists aren’t going to vote Republican anyway. And Bush doesn’t worry about the U.S. falling behind the rest of the world in science, because he doesn’t even believe in science.

*xyz –

I haven’t read William Ian Miller — but his work sounds great.

Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland

I read this book while a student in Miller’s semi-infamous class “Blood Feuds” at the University of Michigan Law School. I went into the class thinking that it would be interesting and fun, but that I wouldn’t learn much from it, since I already had such an extensive familiarity with the Icelandic sagas: as an undergraduate I had translated some of them from Old Norse to English, and I had read most of the rest of them several times over in English translation.

Yes, it was interesting and yes, it was fun, but man! were my eyes opened as to how much I had to learn about the sagas and about the culture within which they were written.

There are two main reasons to read this book. First, to learn history. The history of ninth to fourteenth century Iceland is incredible, and the culture fascinating. Theirs was a culture that knew no central or even local government, no law enforcement infrastructure, and no arms control. And yet the Icelanders developed a complex system of law, essentially codifying the blood feud (which tradition still governs dispute resolution in places like Afghanistan and rural Macedonia), according to which civil injustice could be roughly corrected. Their example has much to teach us about human nature unadulterated by the State.

Second, Bloodtaking is an unparalleled gateway into the sagas as literature. Despite my intimate familiarity with every line of, for example, Hrafnkel’s saga, until I read Miller’s book I had only the most inadequate appreciation for how tightly it is constructed, how elegantly and efficiently it was drafted. The sagas are only vaguely comparable to the very best English-language short stories; the skill that went into them is comparable to that of a Dante or a Shakespeare.

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TSF at 9:51
You may well be right, but I will offer this alternative explantion. I don’t recall Card being a regular on MTP (or ever on at all, but I could easily be wrong about that). In general the CoS picks from the SAO (senior Administration officials) who will represent respond to Russert’s questions. In my memory its rare for a CoS to actually be taking body slams from Russert, like that.
May be pumpkinhead “pushed back” and said, “No,” Ken Mehlman is NOT welcome this week. He doesn’t even pretend to answer my questions, just spews WH kewl aid talking points.”
It’s also possible that other WH spokespeople, the ones who appear on softball with Tweety, just don’t want the job when it’s Lebanon with Russert.
If the CoS cannot handle Russert, it’s big problem. No one left but DeadEye or W.

katymine -90

If you’re still here you can buy Dean’s fine book half price at Costco – at least here on the left coast.

Mark B @ #168
After watching John Dean on BookTV, I agree. Repugs operating manual is to feed their base, they do not care what the 70% want, they just feed the base.

Pretty sad that the rest of us do not matter!

Doing nothing in the Israel-Lebannon War is NOT a policy (see I can say that word, even tho it is called a “conflict”)
Sending bunker buster bombs to Israel is NOT a policy but sure puts Americans in the crosshairs.

Mark B. in Austin, Lieberman told the CT Dem party to go Dick Cheney themselves, when he said if he didn’t win the primary, August 8, he would run as an independent. At that time polls showed he would beat Lamont and the Gooper. Those polls have changed dramatically. Lamont has to beat Lieberan twice, first in the primary, then in the general.

Thanks Anne, will head out after I finish mowing the lawn. Who ever would put in a lawn in Arizona? Who would be dumb enough to buy a house in AZ with a lawn? ;(

Had a bid to put in desert landscaping from a company that hires only legal workers, I decided I can mow lawns for 6K.

Phoenix weather update:
3rd day of record breaking highs of 118, 116 & 114.
2nd day of record breaking lows of 95 & 97
Ok try to explain a record high low?

Lamont has to beat Lieberan twice, first in the primary, then in the general.

Unless Lamont beats him so badly in the primary, that Weepin’ Joe will really have something to cry about — maybe he will drop out and endorse Ned.

katymine –

all you have to do is stop watering the lawn, and mowing won’t be an issue anymore.

Mark B. in Austin, Lieberman told the CT Dem party to go Dick Cheney themselves, when he said if he didn’t win the primary, August 8, he would run as an independent. At that time polls showed he would beat Lamont and the Gooper. Those polls have changed dramatically. Lamont has to beat Lieberan twice, first in the primary, then in the general.

I’m aware of that, sorry I didn’t make myself clear before. As an aside, I don’t understand why the Democratic Party didn’t kick him out after he declared he wouldn’t abide by the results of the primary. Clearly, that’s not the act of a Democrat.

But my question related to the general election, not the primary. After Lieberman loses and gets on the ballot as a Liebercrat, there will be a three way race in November. If no one gets 50% in November, is it the plurality winner, or is there a runoff? If there is a runoff, we could see Lamont beat Lieberman three times. Maybe the third time, he could drive a wooden stake through his undead heart.

-ck-

The review is dead-on. These works are right up there with Shakespeare and worthy of the incredibly close reading that Miller engages in. You will love reading his work.

Full disclosure – I took Miller’s class too, while he was a visiting prof at another law school. He is a phenomenal teacher…

No runoff in the CT primary — winner takes all.

ck – and then get fined by my HOA?

Fresh thread, gang — thought you could use one. :)

No runoff in the CT primary — winner takes all.

Does the same rule apply to the general in November?

katymine –

Let the lawn die, and paint the house purple — become a Pirate of the HOA!!! Arrgghh!!!

*ilson46201 @ 163
That’s Keflavic, right?

Mark B. in Austin TX –

Majority Rules, Winner takes All in all Federal Elections.

Russert just gave the evangelicals a juicy new issue, i.e, “murder” of the embryo, occuring big time in fertility clincs, deserving a law outlawing fertility clinics. Rove should work on that one since Tony Snow, bless him, opened the door to that natural followon deduction. It was an embarrasment (LOL) to watch Josh try to reason out of that natural followon deduction .

I say evangelicals rise up and be counted!! Contact your senator! Outlaw those murderous fertility clinics, or get back under that rock from which you came, where nurturing evil, while waiting for the rapture, seems to occupy your time.

katymine, try connecting with this outfit: http://aznps.org/ You can replace your yard a little at a time, and begin attracting some interesting wildlife in the process.

GSD @51, good news out of Ohio. I was wondering how the Strickland/Blackwell race was going. Thanks!

Russert hit the nail on the head by asking why, then, the President doesn’t outlaw in vitro clinics and all stem cell research if he truly believes that it is murder

I wrote the PARODY press release below last year answering that EXACT question. And how Focus on the Family would answer the question if they were being consistent. What is scary is that in doing the research for the release I was able to use a LOT of real comments from FotF. This is not that far from their real views.

Focus on the Family Demands Global Halt to In Vitro Fertilization

Standard methods lead to death of thousands of unborn children

Colorado Springs, Colo. — EMBARGOED UNTIL June 6, 2005 Focus on the Family Founder Dr. James Dobson, today called for an immediate worldwide halt to all in vitro fertilization procedures. “This procedure almost always results in the death of unborn children, often several unborn children die for each successful attempt. I said it regarding stem cell research and it’s time to apply it to in vitro fertilization –it is never morally or ethically justifiable to kill one human being in order to benefit another.”

In addition to calling a halt to these procedures, Focus on the Family will be funding a number of lawsuits against clinics that support these procedures, doctors who perform them and couples who partake in IVF. “On behalf of the thousands of babies trapped in freezers who can’t speak for themselves, we will be their voice in court. And yes, in accordance with Exodus 21:22-25 we will be seeking the death penalty for doctors, clinic administrators and couples who allowed their unborn children to be killed in an experimental procedure. The bible compels us to take the life of anyone who is responsible for the death of these unborn children and who has been found guilty of a capital offense in a legal trial. The Scriptures are clear that the state alone is ordained by God to “bear the sword” and “execute wrath on the wrongdoer.” (Position statement on Violence against abortionists)
http://s88172659.onlinehome.us…..lt-to.html

The Question that went unasked:

Tim: But Josh, when the President says that he’s sticking to a moral principle that he drew back in 2001, that there would be no more Federal funding for further embryonic stem cell research, that in drawing this line, in effect if he’s stating that he values life, even as a blastocyst, then where does it put him each time an embryo/blastocyst is discarded? That when he says the restriction is put there to protect life,
where is that protection the President says he’s providing when EACH embryo/blastocyst is discarded? Or is it a matter of simply taking the stand that no one needs protections when their dead? Because it serves the greater need of the country, because they are, oh how does the President put it… pandering to your base an expendable mitigating factor OF legislating morality?

FREE THE “SNOWFLAKE 400,000!”