Here’s the Sunday Talking Head show line-up. See if there’s anything of interest this morning (from the AP, via WaPo):
ABC’s "This Week" _ Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., and Ned Lamont, Connecticut Democratic primary challenger; screenwriter and director Nora Ephron.
CBS’ "Face the Nation" _ Sens. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Chris Dodd, D-Conn.
NBC’s "Meet the Press" _ Rice; Lanny Davis, adviser to Lieberman, and Lamont supporter Jim Dean, chairman of the Democracy for America political action committee.
CNN’s "Late Edition" _ National security adviser Stephen Hadley; Lebanese Economy and Trade Minister Sami Haddad and Lebanese political analyst Roula Talj; Shlomo and Karnit Goldwasser, parents of kidnapped Israeli soldier.
"Fox News Sunday" _ Hadley; Israeli Ambassador Daniel Ayalon; Mohamad Chatah, adviser to Lebanese Prime Minister Faud Saniora; Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Hmmm…wonder which ones everyone will be watching? Or not? Thoughts, rants, dissections, distractions…all below in the comments, please.
This morning’s photo is an American Robin. These cheery little birds have been feeding off a happy stock of worms and bugs and other nummy bits in my flower bed and yard. And they are happily singing away, in between foraging excursions as I get the coffee started here in the kitchen.
Got up to the sound of some chirping birdies in the trees outside our house. Turns out I neglected to refill our feeders and certain feathered friends were not so friendly. Plus, the little pie plate of water that I put out in the heat wave last week was empty. Oh, what is a bird to do. (Mind you, we live right beside a little wooded area with a stream running through it…but, hey, who expects them to forage when they generally have a banquet set before them with no effort at all. Oh, Human?!?)
I’ll just be refilling my feeders now before the cardinal gets any crankier…
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Yawn!
L A M O N T !!!
Top of the morning to you Christy!
And I think I might watch ABC. *g*
That mama robin has that “I do, and do, and do for you kids, and what do I get? More demands!” look on her face.
Medaka,
if you’re still here and haven’t google already
http://www.southbaynet.com/ima…..ennedy.jpg
yes, God forbid birds actually find food for themselves, instead of relying on convenient feeders for them.
CNN
if these clowns are so driven by balance, surely Leslie will have some folks who lost loved ones at Qana, right ?
and Fox News might be fun to see if Newt continues his Condi is a Blazing Incompetent campaign
LA Times has a really good biographical newstory about Ned Lamont this morning.
Been watching the news this AM while I sit here working, lurking, and slurping iced coffee. No good news as usual. Lebanon is already rejecting the Bolton resolution, Rice is about to speak from Crawford (in front of a podium that has the letters ‘CHS’ on the front). CNN is STILL playing the story of the dog eating Elvis’ teddy bear. More dead in the ME. Apparently the Iraq war has ended because I haven’t heard anything about it today. Blah blah blah…
cbl — Blitzer could have his pick of the many relatives of the thousands of Hamas and Hezbollah prisoners Israel holds… There’s lots of hollering about the three captured Israeli soldiers but what about the thousands of Arabic prisoners Israel has incarcerated?
One persons freedom fighter is another persons terrorist …
Boidz!
Good morning, Christy and all.
Stephanoppoulos on now in CT. ABC Channel 8
Stephanopoulos on channel 8 in CT.now
Magi — please tell us the gist of the show — it is tape-delayed until 11am EDT out here in Indianapolis.
boid/z)!
schi/zoid keybo;ard …lordy.
cbl @ 5
shweet!
Will do. Condi …….now
and yes, that LA Times article on Ned is just GREAT!!
Will condi be crankier than usual?
article on lamont/lieberman situation on MSNBC page this AM.:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14208157/
Got to get ready for a parade, but I’ll record This Week. Never hurts to go second, especially when you’re following a wounded prey.
Christy, are those YOUR robins? Very nice. I miss robins, but the herons help make up for it….
I have some new little friends here in the heat … just outside my door are my water-lilly pots (also filled with a few dozen medaka), and now every morning there are more and more little fresh white poo-offerings around the pots: the skittery little sparrows in the hood are hanging out on the rims and doing sips, and they twitter away as soon as I open the door ….
Magi @ 18
You’re gonna do Condi? Ick.
Looks like we could get some thunderstorms here this morning, but at least it’s a bit cooler here today. My flowers could use the rain, so I’m going to be happy for some instead of having to drag my watering can around the yard. How are things with everyone else? How’s the weather in CT this morning?
The caption for this photo should read:
“Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Advisor Steve Hadley follow along as Dubya sounds out the words of the U.N. resolution. Years of Hooked on Phonics are finally starting to pay off.”
Christy Hardin Smith @ 25
Things are warming up with a rising Lamont lead, and there’s a serious chance of hope coming early this week. Check on friends and neighbors to make sure they’re all staying C000L ….
twolf1 @ 26
HA HA HA HA HA 707! 707!
*ilson, my point exactly, balance my ass
and can I just say one more time how Stephen Hadley totally creeps me out – like Coulrophobia creep-out ?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulrophobia
Christy Hardin Smith @ 25
Here in coastal northern California, it has been cool and overcast during this whole heat wave. This morning it is foggy and about 55 degrees and will hopefully burn off around noon.
CT weather — low 80s, cloudy today, rain tomorrow, cloudy Tuesday — decent weather for elections — the papier mache float had better watch out tomorrow!
twolf1 @
21
Considering the source of the article (WP), I thought it was actually pretty accurate. Tuesday is going to be a BIG, BIG, BIG day for CT and for American politics. I’m just glad I’ve got Wednesday off from work. I think it’s going to be a looooooooooooooooong night.
Oh sure, sofistic at 30 — rub it in… *g*
It’s a beautiful day in CT. It’s in the 70’s now – will get up to the low 80’s. Things are still pretty lush & green for early August.
I am about to head to the Lamont office in Norwalk to do some phone banking. Lots of excitement in the air. We’ve worked hard for this moment – it’s a perfect storm of good old fashioned development of an on-the-ground progressive/liberal/moderate grassroots network plus netroots (bricks & clicks in the business world). A truly powerful (and we hope winning) combination.
I miss robins, but the herons help make up for it….
I have some new little friends here in the heat … just outside my door are my water-lilly pots (also filled with a few dozen medaka)
medaka, robins haven’t made it to Japan? And what are you medaka-folk known as in ‘Mer’can?
Blitzer was for years the US correspondent for the Murdoch-owned Jerusalem Post and also worked briefly for AIPAC — it shows!
Ned and Joe surrogates up on MTP after commercial.
1. it was discussed here that Lamont/Lieberman would appear on MTP. What happened?
2. Any additional news on the report that Lieberman cancelled a plan debate for today? Perhaps its too late for Lamont to make this an issue. I just think avoiding a debate is the mark of a coward.
Ghostman
Oh hey, Jane (if you’re around this morning)…make sure to pick up your flowers.
I will live-blog it, I know I’m among the earliest to get MTP.
Lanny Davis: Blah blah war blah blah war war.
Ned & Joe were only ever scheduled to be on Stephanapoulos — MTP was always to have surrogates. No biggie.
Ned forceful st;atements on Stepqh.
Looked good, informed, liber;al/zpqrogressive. Senetori;al.
Looked like he w;as re;ady to m;ake his c;ase.
:And did, ;at le;ast to this viewer.
Lieverm;an w;as leiberm;an.
Jim Dean: Referendum on incumbency. War, plus it’s been tough getting things done in Washington, we need a change.
Ghostman at 38 — that was the latest schedule that I could find via the AP. And I checked the websites for both shows as well. No idea why the switch — maybe Russert was being difficult on a discussion point and one side or the other balked. (It happens.) Neither show comes on where I am until 10 am ET (MtP) and 10:30 am ET (This Week), so I’m having to wait for an explanation…and will post if I hear one.)
Cokie clutching the pearls. Yawn.
Timmeh – kiss button, video clip of “we undermine prez’s credibility at our peril.”
Over-All………Lamont won with his words!
Great answers and EXCELLENT return to S.’s questions.
Lieberman with 30 years of experience …worthless.
What good is experience when lieberman hasn’t put much forth for “we The People”!
Lamont ALL for “We the People.”
Back to the T.V.
Davis: Wahhhh, he HAS criticized Bush, wahhhh.
greenwald hits the nail RIGHT on the head;
I have ALWAYS said lieberman was a republican, a plant, a judas sheep, draining our resources
if crystal actually goes so far as to through liebermans hat in the presidential ring campaigning with mccain or juliani, CAN THERE BE ANY DOUBT?
the democratic party has to DENOUNCE lieberman as a democrat even if he wins
I’m sorry, but that is one issue I have to DISAGREE with lamont, joe should NEVER get an endorsement from a democrat ever again, and we need to STOP giving him our treasure,resouces and support even if he wins
Dean: We did petition drive (DFA) on those words. Need to consistently stand up against prez.
My wife and me, like most folks here, scan a wide variety of blogs, and then gravitate back to FDL, and it is amazing – always – to see the vast difference between the talking heads and what is coming in, near real time, from the blogs, and the eery parallel universe of the news folks. This is a cultural shift of major proportions, and as a retired sociologist, I am in a position of constant astonishment.
regarding my post, the center paragrapgh is greenwald quoting crystal
if someone wouldn’[t mind fixing my tags I would appreciate it
*looks at *ilson*
Davis: blahblahblahblah.
Weather here in Minnesota is great summer weather. Highs in the mid-80’s, lows every night in the 60’s. No one could ask for better. Had a bit of cloud cover here last night and some serious rain way up north, but nothing here. AND I have my air conditioning OFF.
Next year I have to decide to either water the whole lawn, or not to water at all. About 2 weeks ago, before the real bad 100 degree weather, I watered all night for several nights. Each spot got about 6 hours. Really did a very good job and the grass grew tall and during the drought and heat the grass never got brown or died. Really survived well.
except, that my hose couldn’t reach all around the house and so there are curved arches where the sprinkling ended. Behind the house – brown. In front – green.
I have given up on my bird bath. Although I put water in it, the morning doves seemed to have kept any one else from trying it.
Davis: Blahblah (getting more time from Timmeh than Dean.)
Davis: Any Dem for whom the war is the primary issue SHOULD VOTE FOR NED LAMONT!!!!
op99 at 47 — oh, yeah! Timmeh played the STFU clip. Excellent! That was SUCH a defining moment — and a turning point — for so many Democrats in CT that have e-mailed me about this race. It was the Lieberman last straw, so to speak, out of a whole pile that he’d been collecting with voters up there. Good on Russert for recognizing that and pulling that clip in the face of the “I have too criticized the President” (very quietly, never publicly, that’s why you never heard about it until now when I’m electorally desperate…ahem).
i’s like to see Kristol dropped into the middle of Sadr City.
Lest we forget: today 61 years ago the US dropped the first nuclear weapon ever to be used in warfare.
200,000 civilians died in Hiroshima, Japan.
Timmeh trying to hang exit plan flip-flop on Ned; Dean answering ably.
me to me at 50 — got it. :)
lotus @ 35
Well, in Latin, they are Oryzias latipes, very small, but rather aggressive paddy-fish, and a member of the very large killifish family. Prolific breeders. And they eat their young …
Timmeh hounding him on it, Davis piles on. Why did Lamont write check to Lieberman campaign? Dean pushes back. Timmeh pivots to Terry Schiavo.
Great article in the Courant today by Helen Ubinas. This is, in large part, why Lieberman is in the situation he is in today…
http://www.courant.com/news/lo…..801.column
(snip)
[Back in February, he and other members of the Democratic town committee’s 2nd District wrote Lieberman. They were losing confidence in him. They were concerned about his stance on the war, his cozy relationship with the president, not to mention his MIA status around town. They wanted to talk.
An aide called, Ingallinera said; he offered to send a surrogate. But Joe never showed up.
And then there he was Friday, glad-handing passersby, asking folks for their support, telling those who expressed concern for the war, “Hey, I hear ya.”]
Videoclip of Joe “I would keep the tube in.”
Timmeh: No other Democrat stood up against Republicans on Schiavo. What bullshit.
thanx christy
gone for the morning…enjoy the day firedogs
Dean excellent on privacy rights, keep govt. out of personal life.
Timmeh: Joe is only the 18th worse Democrat. Why target him?
Dean: Answers. Timmeh: What about pork? Dean: Of course Ned would fight for CT fair share.
Timmeh: cites NYTimes endorsement of Ned.
Davis: All 5 CT papers who endorse, endorse Joe.
I can’t believe I used to like Cokie Roberts.
Saw the This Week Stephanopolous interviews and thought Ned came across very well. Lieberman – again with the lies – claimed he had been very vocal about how the war was being prosecuted. I was wishing for George to contrast that statment with Joe’s adminition that criticizing the president undermines us in a time of war, but he passed right by it.
Joe accused Ned of being a chameleon – that Ned was “really” a center-right Democrat, who “sniffed” that he should portray himself as a doctrinaire liberal…George asked Ned about that, and Ned flat-out said he was a liberal – a progressive liberal.
Joe would not answer the question about running as an independent if he loses the primary, because Joe’s not going to lose…totally dodging George’s statement to him on squaring being a good Democrat with not listening to the voice of the voters.
Joe also claimed that he was not out of touch with CT voters – that he has been in CT often, and again went through his laundry list of endorsements. *yawn*
George called Ned on Ned’s statemnt the other day that he didn’t know anything about the blogs (knew that one was going to come back at him) – mentioned the to-do over the graphic. Ned said there were a lot of blogs out there, and when they learned of the graphic, they asked to have it taken down and it was. Also said that he is running a civil campaign and expects Joe to do the same. Nothing about the recent confrontations a la Ted’s.
Anyone who watched, I think, came away with a positive view of Ned – he was friendly, but serious, according the issues the gravity they deserve. Joe spent too much time grinning, for my taste.
Is it Tuesday yet?
Davis: Ned was 80% in agreement with Repubs on pothole questions as selectman.
Dean: Potholes and streets are select committee issues.
Dean: Recaps debate in Ned’s frame. Shouts out to Dems in state for civility during campaingn,.
It’s funny how things turn out. I spent the last year planning a move from NJ to northern WA state. I left my job in March of this year and soon after, the plan got completly shredded.
Yesterday I was in CT doing some work for Ned. On the way, being stuck in the CT traffic, I realized if I had moved, I know I would’ve been in Vancouver, BC at the gay pride event. (BTW, Vancouver, BC is a great city, with great citizens).
I ended up canvassing at a public housing complex yesterday, which was quite different from a gay pride event. I’ve never walked around one before. I know they exist, I’ve driven by them in my car.
I was thinking about my grandparents who came here from Italy, and I was wondering how close their struggle was to the people who I was talking to yesterday. I realized how fortunate I was to be the second generation away from my imigrant grandparents. I have a house, I have an education. I’m fortunate enough to have lived the American dream.
I look at the juxtaposition of canvassing/gay pride and the juxtaposition of Ned/Joe. I think back to my grandparents and the people at the housing complex, and who would best represent their hopes and desires, and hands down it’s Ned Lamont.
Timmeh, if Joe loses Tues BY SIGNIFICANT MARGIN, will he run indy.
Davis: JOE WILL DEFINITELY RUN INDY IF HE LOSES.(because polls show he can win that). would caucus with Dems.
op99 at 74 — does anyone else find that whole pothole thing laughable? Oooh, look, Ned wanted to fix problems in his town along with the Republicans, who also got tired of driving on crappy roads and hearing others complain about them? Ooooh, quick, be peevish!
That Lanny Davis is reduced to complaining that Ned Lamont wanted competence and efficiency in government on his town counsel along with the Republicans with whom he was elected to serve is…well, it’s pitiful. And had Lieberman demanded efficiency and competence and accountability from the Bush Administration…and himself…he might not be facing a primary challenge. But I bet Russert didn’t exactly follow-up with that, did he? (She says with the slightest bit of hope that he actually would…)
Beautiful, Millineryman. Beautiful.
Fini. Geez, thats tough, to listen and type. All paraphrased, BTW. Thank God everyone here has heard it all before, so I can shorthand.
sofistic @ 52
A very interesting comment. I’d love to read more of your thoughts on this whole shift. Your perspective would be insightful I’d imagine.
op99 @ 77
Note that Timmeh has adopted the “significant margin” standard for dropping out. Joe himself has never conceded that he might lose the primary; here Davis does (as “hypothetical”) and is emphatic about the indy run. That’s the money quote of the interview, IMO.
Millineryman @ 76
Very nice, even if I did have a bit of cognitive disonnance with Joe being on the same side of the equation as a gay pride event! I guess I grok it as both RGJoe and fun-time pride being the easier, don’t-rock-the-boat way, yes?
Lovely writing!
not exactly a Super Tuesday for Joe, now was it ?
Atrios reminds us of Joe’s dismal home state performance in last Pres. Primary. shoulda been a wake up call. looks like some consultant made a lot money advising him to cleave yet tighter to the Chimp instead – sucka!
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/20…..states/CT/
Paraphrase:
Kristol: If the Dems continue on the path they’re on in 2008, They won’t win. They’re “defeatists”.
Williams: Why do you have to phrase it like that, deafeatists? Why can’t they change the course? Why can’t they be the ones who are tired of having their soldiers killed? Why can’t they say they didn’t sign up for that, getting in the middle of the Sunnis, Kurds, Shiites fighting?
Kristol: That’s defeatist.
Norwich Bulletin has become the latest apologist for “principled” Joe Liberman.
Shorter Lanny Davis:
Joe better fucking run as an indy. We have a lot of money on the line.
Recall that Davis is now a lobbyist.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 79
When my parents moved to Greenwich, CT in the early 60’s, they registered as Republicans. They were Adlai Stevenson Dems but understood that the only way they would have a say in Greenwhich politics was to register R. The Dems slowly increased in strength over the past 40 years, but still are a vocal minority in that bastion of wealth. (That Lamont was elected as a selectman is a feat, in and of itself.)
Pachacutec @ 87
That would be a good commercial for Ned – Joe sends a lobbyist to pinch hit for him, Lamont sents a grassroot.
Christy, you are so clever. In case nobody’s picked up on this yet, the American Robin is the state bird of Connecticut.
Today Ned’s supposed to be in Bridgeport, which is a widely contested city. It should be interesting.
hehehehe CTBob at 91 — I wondered if anyone would pick up on that. *g* Should have known a nutmegger would!
I’ve mentioned this previously, but I just finished completely a Zogby Survey online. They are always looking for more willing survey participants to broaden their sample — signing up is free and you can do so here. Today’s was on the topic of Iraq and US foreign policy, among other things — and being able to help show the progressive side of the thought process is very important, imho. So please, consider signing up for the Zogby polls — and allow for your voice to be heard as well. Thanks!
This comment probably belongs under Pach’s wonderful thread of last night, but I don’t feel like being EPU’d on purpose today. Besides, this is the thread where we can say ANYTHING, right?!
So here goes…. (Christy. I hope you’ve fed those cranky cardinals by now. They’re ALL feeding little “peanuts” these days. Don’t make ‘em any crankier. Parental duties are very demanding, you know, whether it’s redhair or redfeathers, puff puff.)
……………..
Only part way thru comments, but gonna skip ahead briefly to add my 2 cts.
Thanks Pach [and Christy]. Wonderful thread[s]. One[s] to savor & return to in the future, me bets.
Before I 1st happened upon FDL, I had frantically been trying to piece things together from lotsa other sites (but not blogs – somehow they didn’t appeal), plus MSM (getting madder & madder as I cued in on the body-language of liars, and on the clueless repetition of “talking points”), Liberal Opinion rag (bless ‘em) – which scoops up & reprints mainstream liberal articles from nationwide, & books books books (thankyou Molly Ivins, Jim Hightower, Ron Suskind, Kevin Phillips, and soooo many more, but especially you early guys). Frankly, it felt like watching a horrible car wreck in slow motion, from within a crowd of people, none of whom seemed to see what I did.
I began play a simple little game, “investing”, so to speak, in books by authors who also perceived the car-wreck & whom I greatly admired for their courage and their conscious choice to speak out (those I listed above are just a few of them and, happily, the list grows). I didn’t order over the net. I marched down to a local bookstore, often Borders, B&N, Walden (while they existed here) – made no difference to me; it DID mean a lot somehow to buy in person. I paid cash, always. (paranoid? u bet. this thing that was taking over our country has been scary for a long time, for anyone who has eyes & ears! And no, I’m not normally into conspiracy theories. I’m a scientist by training.)
A lil’ aside from the book-buying: I began to notice little smiles and nods of encouragement from salesfolk, and from other book-browsers. Ah Hah! I WASN’T alone after all!
I didn’t discover FDL till well after Gore’s defeat, which almost crushed me. I STILL don’t know how that could have happened. Yes, I can trace the details like anyone else but, together, those details are wayyy bigger than the sum of their parts. What was done, and tolerated, back then was earth-shaking for me. The storming of the Miami-Dade Board of Elections by easily identified goons who just happened to be led by DeLay’s aides etc – and NOT ONE was even brought up on any charges, much less jailed. THINK about that?!
I won’t even deal with behavior of SCOTUS except to say, “Egad!” No doubt at all, by that time, we were in deep deep trouble of a sort I had never seen in my life. And I have a Medicare card in my wallet, folks.
I don’t even remember when I 1st stumbled upon FDL, and it can’t be traced, since I lurked for quite awhile. Suffice it to say FDL then, and more and more now, stands out as a beacon of light and hope.
I’m sure other commenters in the long list here, and in Pach’s thread last night, have dealt with the whys & hows, so I won’t belabor the issue further. I’ll just retrace back up the threads to sip & savor from the FDL elixer.
Thanks Jane and Christy! Thanks Pach! Thanks to all the posters & lurkers! Of course this is going to “work” – hopefully sooner rather than later. This is true grass-roots networking of the purest kind. Besides, I feel it in my gut. Put THAT in yer pipe and smoke it, Jr! ;->
Stephanopouplos TV interviews Ned and Joe — this is Quicktime/mp4, not YouTube
Zergle @ 82
Zergle, this isn’t the thread to elaborate, but I was looking back at some old book from 1990, and was surprised at how accurate it was in predicting social change. The author is not the heaviest of weights in this field, but still, he picks up on indicators. Just to give you a feel, here is the book by Walter Truett Anderson:
“Reality Isn’t What it used to be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-wear religion, global myths, primitive chic, and other wonders of the postmodern world”
Pachacutec,
we are never on the same threads anymore and in the spirit of Adie’s comment – reading your posts always provides clarity and coherence to the random thoughts swirling in my head
meanwhile, back in Crawford . . .
Condi sporting the latest off the rack Jean Schmidt ensemble . . .yeegawd
Leiberman on ABC now
I’ll watch them all (including McLaughlin and Matthews), always do, it’s part of my Sunday ritual – usually while concurrently “reading the paper” (now meaning surfing the web) and preparing various routine Sunday morning snacks.
in Indpls, TV has preempted Stephanopoulos for coverage of the Brickyard 400 auto race … oh well
Leiberman when Asked by George S. Whether he lost touch with the voters of Conn
“I continue to come back”
Doesn’t he think he lives in Conn any more?
i try to avoid the talking heads unless david byrne is with them but last weekend ( or the one before?) i was at the cardio fitness torture facility and they had pumpkin head on and he actually took josh ( don’t josh me please ) bolton on and took pains to carve a few holes in his face about the ” using fetal embyos is murder ” blather and if so how come its ok to dump the ones folks aren’t going to use from the liquid nitrogen tank into the toilet or whatever. josh had trouble joshing that one.
as to boids this summer we have a pileated woodpecker in the woods behind the house and he is a treat to see. and turkeys are hanging around the bird feeder eating the spillage and yelling at the dog. who needs some yelling.
its funny how the repubs and their fellow travelors are already trying to spin a lamont win as a great thing for their side….they are claiming it protends jerry rubin and timothy leary drenched in day glo paint and peyote running amok in kansas ( who could imagine they would freak out in kansas ) grabbing church ladies butts and lip kissing the ushers….but as joe has learned…a kiss is just a kiss but if its with bush it could go amis…
If Lanny Davis had a political soul, I’m thinking he’d sell it. Davis is a paid mouth.
And what’s with giving any time whatsoever to Newty boy? This is an individual who had to resign his Congressional seat “amidst criticism of his ethics and adulterous personal life…” Gross.
On this Sunday morning, I thank the Lord for the invention of the mute button.
George S trying to pin him down about abiding by the rsults of the primary.
Mentions the 10 points meme.
Joe won’t commit.
cbl at 7:17
well, meow! Does it ever occur to you, also, to try imagining condi having enuf hours in the day to put together her ensembles AND the nation’s furrin policy?
I’m still trying to recover from the lil’ photo op from last week or the week before, in which she obviously had required all the staff (including a non-smiling Bolton, no less!) to dress in colors that enhanced or matched her own. Then their placement around the table was perfectly symmetrical, color-wise anyway.
Well, guess it’s nice to know, whether we all survive this or not, we’re coordinated as it were, so to speak, more or less….
The perpetually smirking Kristol never fails to triggeer my creep radar. It’s mindboggling that the kristolcons get media platforms when they clearly belong straightjacketed in padded cells. I don’t doubt that many in the mental health fields would agree.
Good flipping God.
Lieberman with Stephanopoulous:
“I know I can do a better job…”
F*cker, you’ve had a chance every single day for 18 years and three terms.
I sure hope the citizens of CT feel like I do and fire this guy’s *ss.
Now off to paint in garage before I work on GOTV. At the risk of spamming, I’m posting my enjoinder again. All of you FirePups who aren’t able to be in CT over the next several days to remember that there are races in your own backyards and across the rest of the country.
There’s an election to be won in November, even if there is no contested primary where you are on Tuesday.
Here’s your marching orders:
– Go to 100actions.com and get today’s Action you can do; catch up and do actions 95-100. These are things that are simple and easy, eating-an-elephant-one-bite-at-a-time steps.
– Go to DFA-Link.com and find the closest DFA group to you, find out how you can plug into their organization and take local action.
– Go to Meetup.com and find the closest progressive events near you; make a point of encouraging those folks to take 100Actions.com, too.
– Be sure to follow Do More Than Vote (DMTV) as it begins to roll out more sites across the country; hey, maybe you can roll one out, too!
– And join the StatesRootsProject.com along with the rest of us FirePups who are already there; get a login, start adding content and events you find at DFA-Link and Meetup.
– Check the Moveon.org site for the phonebanking efforts today through Tuesday. Remember that your instructions may change on Tuesday since it is the day of the primary.
Get out there and TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY!!
formercarwreck Adie here:
YeeHaww! RAYNE! ON FIRE!
FDL ROCKS!
Wow, just caught the end of Tweety tacitly endorsing Ned (as an anti-war statement) at the end of his Sunday show.
The most interesting thing is the difference in George S’s body language.
When interviewing Leiberman, I was struck by Georg’s lack of his habitual half smile.
While interviewing Lamont George looks wary but intrigued. With a 1/4 smile.
He seems to be teeing up one objection after another for Lamont to hit far away. There is a rythem you use when you have your own witness on the stand and you want to get all the negatives out on your own terms.
I hear that rythem in the George/Ned exchnage
A portrait of our Medaka:
http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/P…..hp?ID=4669
for the biology nerds among us, of which I am probably the nerdiest
Press the meat begins with Condi in her sailor suit.
Dan Balz of the Washington Post says today: “Driven by intense anger at President Bush and fierce opposition, they are on the brink claiming their most significant political triumph, one that will reverberate far beyond the borders here if Lieberman loses.”
op99
Tweety will always flit to whatever side the “cool kids” are on, quicker than the eye can see.
Still, it’s fun to have him where he is at the moment, if only as a decent barometer.
Don’t let up, folks. And KEEP THE FOCUS ON NED!
If there’s the slightest hint of shade on his image, you’re doing a tad too much IMHO.
He’s STRONG and BRIGHT! Just help people see him shine! ;->
please correct, Pach, if & as you see fit.
i’m often too much of a buttinski.
looseheadprop @ 112
BWAHAHA. In case you didn’t see yesterday I got your message; my email is opera99 at rochester dot rr dot com.
Happy Sunday! I walked to the nearby wetlands earlier and took pictures of the blue heron and the little yellow bird with black wings (that swoops/bounces when it flies). Forgot it’s name. Is getting hot her in Mid-MI and caught the last ten mins of Timmeh, and the whole of Chris Matthews (but turned off the predictions at the end to listen to Stevie Wonder). Yep, FDL is a must view to be in-the-know.
Gingrich just referred to the Lamont campain in CT as “an insurgency”. ThinkProgress has the video. Unreal.
medaka, if you are still following this thread, what remembrances are being held in Japan today? I always say a prayer to remember the victims of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Sharon – “little yellow bird with black wings (that swoops/bounces when it flies)”
-sounds like a goldfinch
Sharon.
Love your priorities. Dead on!
Goldfinch, I’mathinkin’.
medaka says:
August 6th, 2006 at 6:42 am
Little fish to eat things like skeeters? (Makes perfect sense to me. And lotus flowers are beautiful!)
No, Joe can’t admit that he’s behind. Because that would mean that he’s chosen the wrong side, and [snark] we all know the Preznit is always right. [/snark] Loser!
as the Nutmeggers stand up on Tuesday, we’ll stand down
“CONNEDICUT” !- don’t ya love it
I’m gonna trust you guys with the talking heads today. I just can’t watch ‘em right now. Just can’t, that’s all.
Gotta get out to the garden before it gets too hot.
Back later.
GO NED!
lhp
http://www.boston.com/sports/o….._ballgame/
Hopqin B;aby Mittens ;and lilpqropq doing well.
L;apqtopq survived BudLite spqill on kbd;a ;as for the kbd itself … not so much.
typqos gone wild
As for continuing with an independent run – isn’t Joe counting on his 43% of dems, combined with republicans, to eek out a win? Will those 43% come over to Lamont? That is why Lamont is treading very carefully right now which is a VERY smart move.
Gingrich: “insurgency” eh?
well, he should know
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
someone hand the dear a hankie
Billy Graham:
He will not offer opinions on stem-cell research, for instance, and he has stopped giving political counsel to the powerful, a habit that began with Eisenhower. He was tempted to call President George W. Bush in the run-up to the Iraq war to advise him on the difference between Sunnis and Shiites, but decided against it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14204483/
It might have helped.
blankl kludgr r u durnkk?
lotus – you darlin’ little daughter of Missouri tis always a joy to wake up to your comments and news and bird sightings. Am up early thinkin’ I could catch the news show before making my CT phone calls – but our wretched cable system prefers canned stuff. Time to get Dish me thinks.
So thanks to all you east coasters for giving us a taste of Tim and all.
Happy to report it is sunny and cool on our central coast this mornin’ and our local Monterey Herald has a scolding editorial chiding Rupert Murdoch for keeping the press at bay, no pun intended, during his glam gathering inside the gates to Pebble Beach. Ole Rupert did make sure we all knew about his dinner here in Carmel with Nicole Kidman. If Al Gore did make a keynote address we local rabid lambs will likely be the last to know.
Oh dear, can see the caffeine has kicked in so I’ll stop rambling and get busy with my phone calls.
Not a political post, but sort of on topic…
I had some nesting robins around close to the house. It was very strange. I have lots of windows in the house, surrounded by lots of trees. In the right light, the windows look like mirrors. So, these robins, I am guessing, see their reflections as robins and ATTACK THEMSELVES! In the spring, I would always hear this noise that for the longest time I couldn’t figure out. I finally saw what it was. A robin sitting on the railing would every once in a while fling itself at the window and flutter against it. Not like, bash into it like she/he thought that she/he was going to fly through it. No, it was kind of fluttering against it. I went out several times and tried to shoo the bird away, but she/he came back moments later.
My wife washed the windows, and in less than two weeks time, all the windows had all these bird markings on it.
It’s stopped now, but in the spring and early summer, it was a daily event. Very Hitchcockian, and a little disturbing….
Hypatia @ 110
Hi Hypatia, yes, indeedy. Correct me if I’m wrong but medaka were the first (and only) fish in space, yes?
BTW, are you in California? Just curious ….
Listening to Ned with Stephanopolous – he’s VERY smart to connect Iraq war with less safety for Israel.
Mary, are you here?
The eagle has landed.
yhm
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOW,HOW could the Lamont campaign have let that APOLOGIST Dean on as their representative…he let Lanny LIE up and down without rebutting……If Lamont loses….this will be the REASON why!!!! I am so upset right now…all hid was apologise and say how much he likes Joe…WHAT AN IDIOT…this is the best they could put forth on such an important day..with Lanny the schmozzer and liar ready with all the talking points……it made Lieberman look like a GREAT guy.
op99 @ 128
nope. Bud Lite ‘poured onto P’Book keybo;ard. I think on pqurpqose. Not me.
M;achine survives…kbd not so much.
Looking for b;arg;ain pqricesd Lomb;ard or PQismo.
:Anyone?Z
zeppo
not hitchcockian, shouldn’t be disturbing, ‘cept to the guy in charge of the clean-window brigade.
Male robins FIGHT each other, a LOT, when they’re nesting. Chase eachother around so hard, it’s not uncommon for them to run into cars even, in the heat of the chase. Definitely notorious for reacting to their reflections in windows.
Curiously, they also tend to nest in loose colonies. Maybe they’re like people & enjoy the tussle & bustle?
They’ve returned to “sanity” now, probably because the partying’s over & pop’s needed to help feed the babes. ;->
Medaka – so cute, so small, such big eyes.
Op99 – did you get the package? I switched the first letters of your names and I’m not sure how postmen take humorous labeling.
Blank Kludge – which model p’book u have? I will see if i have a used keyboard.
A portrait of our Medaka:
http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/P…..hp?ID=4669
Great, Hypatia, and inny the cutest lil’ thang?!
From Think Progress:
This morning on Fox News, Newt Gingrich claimed there is a “legitimate insurgency in Connecticut, which needs to be met head on,” made up of people who say Iraq “is so hard, it is so frightening, it’s so painful, can’t we come home and hide?” Gingrich said that if the “insurgency” wins, “it will be the beginning of extraordinarily important period in American politics, and in American history.”
So now Americans who exercize their right to choose their representative in legal elections are “insurgents”?
Someone has to call Newt on this. This is outrageous!
Snufanapoulos interviews Lieberman and says its about the Iraq War. Close circuit to Joe and Snuffy, it’s because you are a suck up to the Insaniaks. Give it up Joe. IT’s OVER, BABY!!
Beyond the Headlines (local sunday talkshow) from this morning features Liz from Lamont’s campaign and Sean Smith from Lieberman’s.
The video may not be “live” yet, but I assure you that it will be very soon.
The Moveon Phonebank site. Make a commitment for an hour of calling today with those free weekend minutes…
Correct me, those who are computer competent, if I’m wrong but I’ve heard the first rule of spilling liquids on electronics is not to TOUCH ANYTHING for a few days until all is dried out. Especially cell phones. And keyboards. (yeah, like I could if it meant no FDL)
twolf01 -
orin;al W;allStreet;a ‘M;ainSteeet’
;any of w;allstreet, lomb;ard ofr m;aybe pqismo kbd’s shold bit FIT i think.
locl;a neighbor m;ay h;ave ;a whole m;acine. just t;alked ;a few d;ays ;ago ;about hsi eB;ay spqree…metnitoned ;above unites – hies ;also ;a M;ac guy.
Th;anks. (TYPQOS SUCK)!
Saw a formation of black brant (geese) fly over yesterday morning. Seems too early in the year for that. There was a pushy blue jay in the side yard yesterday, and it didn’t make a sound, which is unusual. We used to go camping and they would steal pancakes right out of our plate and then yell at us with that awful squawk. Many ravens circle overhead each afternoon; have never seen so many – and they are huge with what looks like 3-foot wing span. Lots and lots of swallows this year; more than I have ever seen. But no goldfinches at all this year.
Mbr;ain -
Noted. L;ate night just he;ard horrible little s;ad noises. w;as ;am;a/zed ;a L;a/z;arus ;act this ;am.
FDL first.
kbd M:AY dry itself out ;aided by CPQU he;at. hheeeehheee…
To Franco:
MTP approached Jim Dean. He checked with Campaign, they said no problem. That’s what happened. Jim is not campaign staff, not working fulltime on campaign, he is DFA Chair. Was introduced as Lamont friend, not the man to speak for the campaign on all matters.
Blank Kludge @ 124
For a year Littleprop was in a kids rugby program down at the Chelsea Piers in Manhattan. She has inherited her father’s amazing braken field running abilites and has magnets in her hands (my stepdaughter has amzing ball handling skills too).
One of the few things that her father and I completely areed on is that we would like her to play.
So, you know how this is going to turn out. Little prop refuses to have anything to do with rugby. Sigh.
Kids, gotta go their own way. Parents have to let them find their own way.
But she is a good kid and has entertaining intrests. Ilearn a lot from littleprop.
njprogressive @ 117
Hi njprogressive.
I didn’t watch the local news today, but there were probably the usual large and very solemn gatherings at ground zero: of peace activists, survivors and their families, and the families of victims. Incense, ringing of huge bells for the dead. Lots of silence in the stifling heat.
I remember the Reagan years, and the possibility of it happening again seemed all too real. And now it seems to be in the background once again, everywhere — so many bombs piled up in the US, in Europe, in Israel, and starting to pile up just about everywhere else ….
We’ve advanced little, if at all, IMHO.
But Web, FDL, birds, textiles : all help a bit, at least here ….
Franco at 7:58
EASY, big fella. Breath into a paper bag for a few sec. Whew.
Pach & Christy would know better than I, but I’ve always been under the impression that the networks choose whom to put on.
I’ve seen some awful duds over the years that drove me nuts too. Yes, it’s maddening, but not worth a coronary.
Not sure who listens to Dean at the moment, anyway. Besides, last time he tried to come out with public statements, didn’t he personally get stomped on by all sides? Maybe he’s trying not to riffle the waters just right now.
Ned out front. Ned out front. Ned out front. Ned out front.
Feelin’ any better yet? If not, go have a short lie-down, then it’s BACK OUT THERE! ;->
(Yes. We’re ALL panting more than a little bit right now, and any little wrinkle in the landscape looks like a chasm. Breathe….)
OK freedom rider…But it was a joke…..Couldn’t he have countered Lanny’s lies??????????????
Devil’s Advocate @
140
The Dan Balz article on MSNBC.com says “Loss by Lieberman may embolden critics of Iraq war”. Isn’t “emboldening” what happens to terrorists? We are no longer the “loony left”; we’re now emboldened insurgents.
OK Adie…you are right…I just can’t beklieve what a liar lanny was and then he had the nerve to say the lamont campaign was acting like the Republicans…..
HEY, Anne Holliday! Been a looong time since we converged on the same thread, seems like. How ya doin’, sweets?
Who is Kevin McCullough? He was vilifying Hollywood Producers (and a long list of others) as part of a liberal fifth column enemes of the good-true-and-all-that-is-decent. He named no names in the minute of utterly inane rant I watched, but it occurred to me that Hollywood Producer might be code for Hamsher.
I’m finding it next to impossible to watch Condi spew her crap.
She’s qualified to be an IHOP hostess. Nothing more.
“We have some lovely breakfast specials with that cease fire.”
David E…it gets worse by the minute.
lhpq
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Mommybrain @ 136
Mommybrain, that’s it exactly:
me & taka (”eye” & “tall/high”) = medaka.
Their big eyes bug out of their tiny heads.
Mine are damn saucy, and know when
The Hand with The Food
is approaching …
((btw, Jamie? — I can’t get a plus sign to appear in comments … not sure why … hrrm))
wonder which ones everyone will be watching? Or not?
Well, you had to ask! :-)
NONE OF ‘EM. And I still can’t figure out why anyone else watches. Whatever money the idiot networks get from advertising for these propaganda-fests, none of it is boosted by my tuning in (and increasing the ratings).
AND I have an infinitely more pleasurable day. There are birds to watch here in el Norte, too, but I do have a question to ask: what’s “fog”???
Hubby doesn’t need my help in garage now, taking a quick drive-by before I hit the garden and weed.
Tweety’s show on…ah, makes PERFECT sense now, Dan Rather is on because Tweety is beginning to clue in and realize how this administration is like Nixon’s administration. Rather was there and remembers very well. Yeah. This is where the media begins to wake up, when their masters finally begin to figure out their own interests are no longer served by Yeehaw! Foreign Policy[tm].
Next up: Bash Jon Stewart and the The Daily Show as a deterrent to democracy before Stewart further tanks Lieberman on his Monday night program. Tweety calls it “killer humor”, before interviewing two professors.
Okay, warm up your Google fingers, gang. Do these profs get any monies from ‘wingers?
Op99
Yes I saw your previous reply and wrote down your email addy. Is that a Road Runner’s addy? It seems like whenever i meet a new progressive they belong to road runners. Is there some connection between fitness and progressive politics?
I haven’t head back to my email question about the local area coordinator in Rochester, but I sent to folk’s business email addresses, so they may not see it till Monday.
Ned Thread
Blank Kludge @ 159
Not sure I can descipher all that. But you are doing wonders for my self esteem. FINALLY someone with worse typos than me! Srry about your keyboard
Medaka, The Hand with The Food! hahahah! Are they in a pond or a tank? (I can’t get plus signs to appear either, tho they show in preview. Must be a code thingy).
Franco.
That’s why I’m only “watching” the talkers thru my handy FDL filter today.
Otherwise I’d be on the couch panting into a paper bag also.
TV is JUST AWFUL these days. Sometimes I can stand it. Sometimes I just can’t. So I shift to another path & keep going.
I appreciate your spirit beyond measure! Just didn’t want you to emulate that robin & fly into the side of a car or somethin’ (see 130 & 136) ;->
Lovely lotus – managed to get caught up with museum duties with a little extra day and early evening effort hoping I would be in CT by now – but sigh no such luck. Now rearranging my internal clock from a late night addiction to FDL back to ever increasing thrilling stuff emanating from CT and you amazing day and early evening rabid lambs.
Had a little fun just after midnight on a local blog called Another Roverian Conspirancy that appears to have left them speechless. LOL! Here’s the linky http://rovianconspiracy.blogsp…..l#comments
David Brooks, you are a braying ass. Why does Tweety insist on using him? Does Brooks fluff Tweety?
Brooks says most Republicans hate the NYT. Brooks you dork, most Democratic voters do too, you moron; we know NYT relies upon that conventional wisdom that it’s a liberal media outlet, so that it can perform as a Trojan Horse.
Judy Miller = biggest f*cking Trojan Horse ever.
David Brooks = vying for Trojan Horse title, but too incapable of subtlety to ever be labeled such. (Here’s a tip, Brooksie: if you want to sneak up on us, don’t wear the damned Republican-logo kneepads in public.)
Gah. I need to take out my pent up aggressions on the weeds now.
David Ehrenstein @ 156
David, that is so spot on. Our Condi.
Suckled at the oily teat of Jeanne Kirkpatrick,
who should have been cleaning toilets in that same IHOP ….
mommybrain, no I din’t get nuttin’, and my mail will be held through Thursday (outa town).
looseheadprop – Roadrunner is Time Warner’s cable high speed ISP.
Rayne
I don’t trust Tweetie as far as I could throw him!
Since he’s appearing to waver these days, like a caterpillar looking around for another hunk of the leaf to chomp on & grow fat, I have a suggestion.
When he does some bone-head stoopid thing again that drives any of us nuts, how ’bout anyone who feels like it slapping an e-mail into da toobs to share your feelings with him, eh?
My gut tells me he might listen at this point in time. Tw’ confused Timmeh & confused Tweetie, … the situation is ripe, and would be almost amusing, if implications weren’t so serious.
Have at em, guys. Just don’t tell em Adie sent ya. I’m not smart like Pach et al.
Hey Sharon, if you’re still there — I’m in Mid-Michigan too, think you have an American Goldfinch. I know I have both Great Blue Herons and Goldfinches in my own neighborhood, seems like the perfect climate and condition for them here in the middle of the mitten.
Damn, Tweety finally said the most lucid thing he’s said in the last 5 or more years in his closing. Not a ringing endorsement, but certainly a strong implication — and an encouragement to voters to get out there and make change happen if that’s what they feel they need, by voting. Yeah, that.
GOTV.
formercarwreck Adie here:
That’s good. I like it. Adie: Spicy and as usual, piquantly elegant. I always look forward to your comments and insight. For sure.
Mommybrain @ 165
Mommybrain, they’re in on of three big thick ceramic bowls, with water lillies and duckweed (they think the roots are delicious!) and gagabuta, now just starting to send up its tiny filigreed blossoms ….
Adie — I suspect Mr. Matthews might have been following this blog:
http://openlettertochrismatthews.blogspot.com/
Looks like they are due for an update there.
Okay Rayne.
Wanna be even madder???
Trace back a couple days or so & look at Brooks’ op-ed from last Sun. NYTimes (reprinted elsewhere also)
In your present frame of mind, this suggestion comes with a strong !SPEW WARNING! if you can find a copy of it.
Yes, he’s just awful. Go see if Franco will let you borrow his paper bag. Now breathe.
Tweety actually quite eloquent in his close today about the privilege CT voters have to vote in a race that really counts — to stand up and have our voices on the war and incumbency to be heard. Talked about how people fought and died to give us this right on Tuesday (something, apparently, Joe doesn’t agree with).
I got a mailer from Lieberman with six of his statements criticizing Bush on the war — all but 1 in late 2003 when he was running for president. It just feels so R treating we voters like we don’t have a brain in our heads.
FWIW, I thought the distinction between Lanny and Jim Dean on MTP was stunning. It encapsulated the whole race — corporate, inside the beltway, bought and paid for incumbency versus regular people standing up for their beliefs that the system has to change.
I did not have a problem with Jim Dean not jumping on Davis because, again, that’s not Ned and that’s not the people-powered way. I thought Jim represented the concept of challenging the status quo well, in a respectful, thoughtful way, remembering this is the party, after all.
medaka — love the ceramic bowls, wish it wasn’t too cold or too mosquito-invested here to have them. Envious.
Adie — read it, actually not as inflammatory to me as the “rabid lambs of the left” crap he wrote more than a month ago.
But we have had more fun with that one, certainly.
Oh Joy! Ned Lamont on George, finally broadcast here on the left coast – is it me or does George Stepfordwifey seem unusually off game in Ned’s brilliant aura, common decency and spot on? Poor little George. Tee hee! Go Ned, Jane, CT. Bob, TRex, spazeboy, etc., et al. Never have so many been so inspired by a summer primary and uninspired by MSM? Oh Cokie is blinking and closing her eyes as she pontificates on da bloggers. FOTFL!
GF Will: “Iraq may get so bad so fast that it’ll work to the Republicans’ advantage in 2008.”
Now. I. Ask. You. . . .
Rayne @ 178
Rayne, where are you? Virginia or south, and you can probably do the water-garden-in-pots thing …
It gets pretty cold here– their water ices over sometimes in the winter, but they’re hibernating so they don’t mind. Plus they EAT the mosquito eggs and larvae — this one reason I have them, as I’m surrounded by paddies, and get bitten by mosquitoes pretty much year-round.
LANNY DAVIS MAKES ME WANT TO PROJECTILE VOMIT!!!
Franco @
134
wow: dude; try some de-caf!
the 3 undecided ct voters that watched PRESS the MEAT are sure not gonna decide based on this show…
let me ask you a question:
ARE YOU A CLINTON MTP WATCHER OR A SHARPTON MTP WATCHER?
ARE YOU A CLINTON MTP WATCHER OR A SHARPTON MTP WATCHER?
ARE YOU A CLINTON MTP WATCHER OR A SHARPTON MTP WATCHER?
wow: i need de-caf too!
Greetings to everyone from a sunny, undisclosed location
;>)
OT:
Anne Holliday,
I have attempted to contact you at the e-mail addresses that you provided, with no success. Perhaps if you get Christy or Jane to forward a missive to me, we can connect.
:-)
Does Brooks fluff Tweety?
707, Rayne!
DARKBLACK!
IN THE HOUSE!!!
YAY !!!!!
“Does Brooks fluff Tweety?”
Is Anderson Cooper gay?
Rayne.
Thanks. I never got to read the “rabid lambs of the left.” This recent one sent me so ’round the bend, I think I shall not even try to look for the rabidlambnonsense(!) Otherwise, I might have to go grab that bag back from Franco myself!
Anne at 8:38
Ned out front NED out front NED OUT FRONT!
See? Isn’t that fun? Neither Joe, nor Gingrich, nor [?] can beat that.
They turn on the spotlight, & he just shines brighter.
Cool!
and yet he might not have been allowed his proper time in the spotlight without FDL…
THANKS FOLKS! ;->
I am heartily sorry I ever had a good word to say about Bill Clinton.
darkblack, that image SEAU damn RAWKS!
it’s like, a, a, …
a META-GRAPHIC!!
just great, and so good to see you here!
Would you like some mint sauce with your Rabid Lamb?
Mommybrain, they’re in on of three big thick ceramic bowls, with water lillies and duckweed (they think the roots are delicious!) and gagabuta, now just starting to send up its tiny filigreed blossoms … .
Ooooo[drool]oooo, medaka, what nifty pix. Are those bowls glazed? How do you replenish the water? ‘At ‘ere gagabuta is the goodest-looking thing I’ve seed in a long while. Lotus may have just fallen in cross-species lurve.
Somebody wanna hand that paper bag to David Ehrenstein?
I really gotta go get some weeding done.
Bye. ;->
(((NED)))
{{{{FDL}}}}
Ave, darkblack! Rill good ‘un, that. Glad to see you’re relaxing but not kicking all the way back, keed. Enjoy!
NED!
lotus @ 193
Roughly glazed, I think. Not shiny, but rough and nubbly, and no exposed unglazed areas.
Replenishing water is easy. Let (in my case filtered) tap water stand overnight outside in a bucket (to get rid of residual chlorine), then top off the fish/waterlily bowls as their water evaporates. Clean once or twice a year. Tiny snails take care of the algae. Anarchis and other aquatic plants oxygenate the water. Floaters with long roots (like the dreaded water hyacinth, or the easier-to handle frogbit) filter the water naturally.
It’s too easy, and now there is no excuse not to have water-lilies. You know you’ve always wanted them, right? I mean, who doesn’t?
Lots of potted water-garden info on the web….
I’ve always dreamed of a water garden, medaka — just a small one. Don’t know whether you seen a comment in which I’ve described my place — small house on stilts on undisturbed hardwood-hammock lot. Yikes — just spied the time — gotta run now, but I’ll finish this thought witcha l8ter!
Thanks for the cool pix Medaka. Showed them to Daddybrain, he likes the idea. We have loverly weather year-’round, and some but nosomany mosquitos. Methinks we’ll try it on our porch and patios! You are some inspiration, on many levels, Medaka. Namaste.
Rayne @ 107
Rayne you are such a Goddess! I love your list, I do need to make a minor correction here for you please. It’s dot ORG. The correct url is:
http://www.staterootsproject.org
Hope everyone is signing up at the new state Roots Project site. Besides state groups you will find many other new groups (and blog entries) on a variety of themes and topics, something for everyone. If you don’t find what you are looking for yet please start one.
And remember to follow through on Rayne’s wise advice on her excellent list.
darkblack, so glad you saw Anne Holliday’s email.
Anne originally left the email and the invitation on a late night thread.
Then, on a later thread that you were on, she commented that the first email addy was incorrect and provided a second addy. Perhaps they are both wrong?
Just glad you saw it, the process is started, sounds as though it might turn into something mutually beneficial.
darkblack, sorry for missing the plural, addresses, that was so abundantly clear in your comment above. Anne Holiday is on watertiger’s thread and I copied your comment over there, so I hope eventually you and Anne will have a little privacy in your communication.
me to me @50
Reading that article with Kristol… I think I just felt a lot more of my hair turn grey! What planet are these people from? Any of those scenarios would have me in Costa Rica in no time flat.
I just love the picture of the Robins. I’ve watched two sets of babies this year. What friendly birds. They are the dogs of the bird world.
It would be a lot easier if Gingrich would stop hiding behind a subhuman shield of Faux News wingnuts and say these things for a critical audience.
On Meet the Press today, Condaleeza Rice was asked directly if the U.S. would allow a mass emigration of Cuban Americans back to their native land, given that Castro’s health problems may present an opportunity for a transition to democracy in Cuba.
Her response was as straightforward as Dr. Rice is capable of being: “We are not going to do anything to stoke a sense of crisis” in Cuba. This is her way of saying “No way, Jose!”
Why should we? Well, for one thing, a cadre of people with a strong history of democracy can only assist in the island nation’s transition, if that is to occur. Additionally, capital may leave with these emigrants but if it is used to establish a prosperous trading partner 90 miles off the Florida coast, it is a good thing, is it not?
Call it xenophobia, or worse, but it must be admitted that within the Republican Party there exists a significant contingent that has deep concerns about preserving “American culture.” A couple of hundred thousand fewer Latinos in Florida couldn’t hurt their cause.
So why didn’t Dr. Rice say, “Hey, it’s a free country! If people want to leave, we don’t keep them here like they did in the bad old days of East Berlin. We wish them well, and we offer whatever help we can give in their noble efforts to establish a democracy in Cuba?”
The answer is that Cuban-Americans are, in Lincoln’s phrase, “not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it,” specifically, in Florida. While Cuban-American voters often split their votes between the two major parties in local or state elections, they tend to vote overwhelmingly Republican in presidential races, by margins that have fluctuated between 75 and 85 percent, making them perhaps the most solidly Republican ethnic bloc in the country. Without the support of Cuban Americans in Florida, Dubya would have lost both elections by margins too large to cover over with shenanigans.
Think about it! Cuban Americans being held hostage, kept in Florida against their will, so that Republicans can win elections. It is further proof, as if we needed any, that Republicans will stoop beneath dirt, to win elections. But don’t be so sure that Cuban-Americans will not see through this, and turn on the Republicans.
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Franco @ 134
My exact thought. The guy was a Lieberman apologist. I think Russert is a buddy of Joe and wanted to have a lightweight against a seasoned professional. He embarrassed himself.
Call it xenophobia, or worse, but it must be admitted that within the Republican Party there exists a significant contingent that has deep concerns about preserving “American culture.” A couple of hundred thousand fewer Latinos in Florida couldn’t hurt their cause.
Ummmm. You do realize that those particular Latinos vote overwhelmingly Republican…
Kevin @
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My point exactly! Even though it would make sense for Republican anti-immigrants to favor letting the Cubans go, they won’t do it, because, as you point out, and as I said in my post, they vote overwhelmingly Republican in presidential elections.
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