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This Sunday instead of our regular Book Salon, Howie Klein and I are going to be hosting a live chat with Rickie Lee Jones to talk about her upcoming CD, The Sermon On Exposition Blvd . Rickie Lee has been a great friend to Blue America, recording Have You Had Enough with the Maxwell/Mosher band that gave so much support to progressive candidates all over the country in the 2006 election. She'll also be giving us a song that will be available for download, so you won't want to miss what should be a really fun Sunday afternoon.
We'll be here at 2pm PT/5pm ET just yaking away, so stop by for the chat, stay for the music.
...oh and I forgot to mention, we're going to have a contest to win tickets and backstage passes (to any show in North America) at Crooks & Liars, DownWithTyranny and Firedoglake. Dunno what the contest will be but we'll try to cook up something fun.
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Howie, Jane & Rickie Lee!
Jane!
I had a really bad joke about how they were trying to thaw out Lawrence Welk over at Red State and decided it was in too poor a taste for the post.
I guess we’ve decided the comments are another matter, huh?
Welcome Back Jane. Glad you’re feeling ok. Been praying for you.
Pretty psyched to have Rickie Lee Jones here, too. Have always loved her music.
Poor SOB’s on the right live a deprived life.
WOOT!
A defrosted Welk is sure to have poor taste.
OffT there and OffT here, EPU’d:
TeddySanFran @ 245
OfT - Shuster coming up on Hardballs re Libby trial…
kristinejoy @ 6
Hah. Probably tastes like only of those green steaks at the bottom of the freezer.
WOW what a Treat…. Jane AND Ricki…
Want to tell Ricki that my boyfriend would play the Had Enough song from his laptop when they were striking the Monday Night football games this year … it was funny to hear the crew singing along!
kristinejoy @ 6
Perhaps vacuum-packing prolonged the Welk life.
(Foodsavrs may also explain the final decades of his show…)
It was so wrong that you weren’t in the Plame House. Welcome back!!
‘Calamity has tempered and hardened me, and turned my mind into steel.’
Contest suggestion:
Best proposed approach to bring Jane Hamsher Cheney’s head.
OR
Best new utterly implausible defense story for Scooter Libby.
Hah. Probably tastes like one of those green steaks at the bottom of the freezer.
(attempting to edit. fingers crossed.)
Oooh…a party!! We could definitely use a party!!
But aren’t you going to be on a plane sometime Sunday, Jane? ;-)
EPU’d, but with added credit to Sharkbabe for the title (admittedly NOT Rickie Lee worthy:
I’LL BE HOME FOR FITZMAS
I’ll be home for Fitzmas.
You Can Count on Me
Please Have Rove and Scooter go
In chains, frogmarchedly.
Fitmas now will find me
Where the Wi-Fi beams.
To DC for Fitzmas;
I Hope Dick Cheney screams!
emptywheel @ 13
Hmmm… How to get Dick head?
First, call Mark Foley…
Jane Hamsher @
3
Is it an accordian joke? They’re never in poor taste. I’ve been wasting 15 minutes trying to find an image of Gary Larson’s famous two-panel “Welcome to heaven - Welcome to hell” cartoon. Unsuccessfully
geez, I don’t know what to be more excited about…
Jane coming back…
Howie coming by to host a party…
Or Ricki Lee on the guest list
(((((((((((((JANE,HOWIE,RICKI LEE))))))))))
Ooh, that reminds me of that Lawrence Welk hippie youtube.
emptywheel @ 13
I’ve got it!!! “I was really busy with really important stuff and I forgot”. A real winner!
froggermarch @ 17
Or Guckertt/Gannon!
I guess we’ve decided the comments are another matter, huh?
You’re the kind of Decider that we can all live with, Jane.
Was the joke something about a foursome between Larry and the Lennon sisters?
Jane Hamsher @
3
Yep, it’s official: Jane’s back.
WaPo reporter thanks wingnut commenter for the abuse:
p.lukasiak @ 19
Howie and Jane together is almost too much for me. My heart would explode.
What p.lukasiak said. ;) Partaaaay ON.
The air is so much lighter around here isn’t it. And Tweety sure seems more sober or subdued today, tore right into Cheney at the top of the show, brought up how he (?) asked Tenet a question and Tenet replied “Ask Cheney”. Well Tweety, the whole world is doing that about now.
I’m kind of curious how MTP is going to play out this Sunday.
Will Timmeh face the snark, or will he look the other way ?
Not a huge matter of suspense, but interesting nonetheless.
In a time-honored tradition, WaPo reporters continue to not take the chats seriously:
Welk, ummm, back
Jane…
Is there a way to get the Ricki Lee special edition without going through Amazon?
I’m making my local independent bookstore order Marci’s book for me, and I’d much prefer to get Ricki Lee’s new album in a similar fashion!
Best new utterly implausible defense story for Scooter Libby:
“Connecting roots” with Penelope Cruz.
Janie!! So great to see you are up, and well, doing what you do best. A sight for sore eyes, I tell ya. Yes, everyone did a great job…the site was still top notch, but voices are all different, and yours has been greatly missed.
punaise @ 29
time to break out the bubbly!
(dating myself, and anyone else who gets the reference…)
Welcome back, Jane (continuing the theme of the last thread). Sorry I’m so hopeless on technology here, but there is a fine “Back in the Saddle” rendition by Kelly Hunt (of Kansas fame, also on Prairie Home companion). If someone can find it somewhere on the internet, and link it, I do think it captures the spirit quite nicely of a good woman in control.
Hi Jane–
Sunday sounds great… and so glad to hear you are back and on the mend…
Take care,
Patti
Welcome Back Jane!!! Big Hugs!
It’s the Last ChanceTexaco
Hi Jane, this song (from my band’s upcoming CD) has been floating around for a while but I thought upon your return, you might appreciate the sentiment. I suspect it echoes the sentiment of most of the firedogs (I ain’t no pup).
Hope you enjoy. GPB
ember @ 21
terrarists did it?
terrarists made me do it?
Missed the JaneH ‘tude round these parts!
Glad you’re back sweetie; what a terrific team you’ve put together for The Trial of The Century.
ooh - strike that.
I think I have the perfect answer.
That crazy Scientologist Tom Cruise made me do it. He scrambled my brains like they did to Chef on South Park.
one of my favorite Ricki songs:
Bustednuckles @ 41
Wunnerful, wunnerful…
TeddySanFran @
7
Norm musta been looking for Dick Cheney’s head, but jumped the gun a couple weex. Yep, that’s it.
((( So great to have you back, O Thou loved-by-the multitudes Woman of Strength. )))
Best new utterly implausible defense story for Scooter Libby.
Barney ate my notes.
Well, that’s something to look forward to. Hopefully, I’ll be able to stop by.
Meanwhile, I left a couple of comments on Christy’s first post of the day. She caught something I was wondering about, and apparently we have a lot of company.
Gotta go. Glad you’re back, Jane.
I’m looking forward to seeing if we can get
pressure the fuck out of‘conservative commentators’ to DENY being at that infamous Cheney luncheon. Along the lines of how the pressure was put on what senator had secretly blocked a bill a few months back and how they rushed to deny any involvement.Same with MTP, zilcho credibilty left. Still chuckling at Alice B’s definition of MTP: Meet the Pimp
Alexandra Pelosi on Tweety taking about her movie
Sparkles the Iguana @
25
WaPo reporter thanks wingnut commenter for the abuse:
Right. Hence the pressing need for all the Cirque du Soleil-worthy administration contortion evasions, hair-splitting, and outright lies (a number of them under Oath). I mean, there was “no underlying crime” here, but these people just have to keep their dishonesty chops honed for the hell of it.
_
Pachacutec @
20
AAAAAEEEEEEEHHHHH My eyes are bleeding!
Someone do a bloodtest on Froomkin. Make sure Cheney hasn’t poisoned him.
We need a casting contest for the major characters in the movie version of the trial, along with some suggested lines.
Big question in my book: who plays Jane? I’ve got the line figured out, just can’t decide who should deliver it:
(facing Dick Cheney, brandishing her laptop)
Hello! My name is Jane Hamsher. You killed my country - prepare to die!”
GPB @ #40,
Nice song, man!
btw - Marcy’s book is at #1,487 on Amazon … not bad for a first book from a new imprint run by a bunch of DFHs!
PeppermintPatti @
37
Patti- How’d everything go for you?
Shez @ 50
Sounds like a job for Josh Marshall’s team. Someone should email them…
p.lukasiak @ 35
Absolutely - They have to use the bubble machine to thaw him!
Welcome Home, Jane!! - So glad things went well. Sent Prayers everytime I drove by St Johns. Glad to hear you were in good hands and so were we. Marcy and Christy did a superb job. They deserve a well deserved massage and a long bubble bath!
Ed*ard Teller @
56
I thank you for your kind words. I played, as you might imagine, all the guitar. ;-)
Our keys player is so shit hot. I wish I was that good on my instrument.
We had to get back to Jane, so she came back to us.
Peterr @ 55
About a year ago, someone (one of the marys maybe?) had a pretty good list going. Might be timely to revive.
Great line, btw. Sounds like Linda Hamilton of the Terminator would be appropriate to play Jane.
Siun @ 57
I called two Barnes and Noble stores in my hometown.
I was informed that each store had an order in for 20 copies of the book. They told me they were expecting them in their stores by this Sunday (Jan 28).
I told them in no uncertain terms that they should order a lot more copies - demand for the book is going to heat up tremendously as the Libby trial goes forward.
*xyz! great news and great that you are helping out in this way … thanks!
It’s great to see that nice, moderate conciliator Bob Gates calling 70% of America terrorist appeasers.
I knew he would become a company man right away.
-GSD
uma thurmond
Petterr @ 55 - Kate BLanchet should play Jane- An ethereal beauty with power and grace. She’d win an Oscar again.
The question is who plays Cheney.
p.lukasiak @
66
I’m ordering the sword right now. They take a while to craft.
Maury Chaykin as John Negroponte.
James Gandalfini as Iyad Allawi.
Gollum as Judith Miller.
-GSD
George Clooney as Joe Wilson.
A gelatinous pile of elephant feces as Dick Cheney.
-GSD
Topanga-lib @
67
Lawrence Welk’s cadaver. Of course, to play Cheney, we’ll need some makeup to make Welk appear a bit more dead.
GSD @ 66
well, technically I think we’re “emboldening the enemy”
Ya gotta admit - that Gates guy is a fast learner. Either that or that he found some of Rumsfeld’s old notes in the desk, and just read the one he found on top of the stack.
Clint Howard as George W. Bush.
Carrot Top as Scooter Libby.(We’ll have Carrot Top lay of the steroids for the role.)
-GSD
Again, happy, joy! So thrilled you are well and healed! I wish I could be like you. Can you share your secret sometime, just a hint?
p.lukasiak @ 66
Is that Strom’s daughter?
I would prefer to see Uma Thurman
Jane - Welcome back! And just ‘cuz FDL did ok without you doesn’t mean you’re not irreplaceable…
I usually don’t believe in fate, but seems it’s Jane’s destiny to be the one who crushes the Dark One.
jayt @ 72
Bob Gates must have found Rummy’s bottle of Instant Douchebag pills in his new desk.
-GSD
Marcy:
I watched you on Cspan this AM and was struck by a comment you made about finding out this week that Libby had a contact with Novak before Armitage and it seemed to really raise York’s hackles.
I’ve wondered whether Armitage as Novak’s source was a set up by Rove/Libby, or a lucky accident that this gossip was making the rounds as the fall guy for them. I haven’t seen any of the plameologists here talk about this. Have you been too polite to speculate or maybe I’m not here lurking enough to have caught this ?
Sorry if this sounds like a newbie comment…
and Welcome back, Jane.
Heads up - Marcy’s show with byork is coming on CSPAN2 in a few minutes (per their online schedule) 6:17pm EST
Softail @ 53
Holy mother o’ god. I have never dropped acid, but . . .
Marcy on now. Woot !
So was moderate conciliator Bob Gates emboldening the enemy while he was working on the Iraq Study Group?
-GSD
How about Lon Chaney to play Cheney. We could resurrect him along with Laurence Welk.
Or Better yet - Lionel Barrymore could be resurected to do the VP as a reprise of Mr. Potter from “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
Joking asside. I don’t know who the women was who played Condi Rice in the play “Stuff Happens,” but she had the women cold. If any of you have a chance to see the play - a recreation of the run up to the iraq war from both the American and British sides -it is worth seeing, Twice. They were in LA a few years back with a star studded cast hoping to find a birth on Broadway but I don’t know what happened to them. Keith Carradine played Bush and he was wonderful.
Sparkles the Iguana @ 33
Damned liberal media!
The Israeli government and AIPAC are in full throttle against former President Carter. On Tucker now.
So Senator Clinton is wanting Hollywood to go Hillarywood.
Rayne @ 15
Jane’s appearance at the Prettyman is more than a week away, n’est-ce pas?
My vote for the actor to play Joe Wilson is Alan Rickman. (Not that I don’t love George Clooney, mind you–just going for a blonder look.)
GSD @ 83
Well, he was before he wasn’t.
Delurking….
OT, but Marcy’s appearance on C-Span is being rerun on C-Span 3 right now!
Whoops, sorry, that’s C-Span 2.
Gates is a figurehead. Like Rice.
Jane - Welcome back.
The rest of this is ot.
BelleSouth - You miss the point. I believe that in fed criminal cases (and in state court most likely too) that there isn’t a level playing field for the defense b/c the judge invariably sides with, or even seems a part of, the prosecution. And I view lines like that as support for that position. Now, it is one line and perhaps in the context of the entire conversation it comes off differently, but experientially, I doubt it.
Now, Cristy, as a former prosecutor, may have a very different view of criminal trials, as might someone like Otis who practices fed criminal defense law or any other lawyer for that matter. But based on my experience, I’m sticking with the opinion.
And I disagree that we are all anxiously waiting to find out if he lied, since I’m confident most of us have already formed an opinion on that, which opinion won’t change regardless of the verdict. People may anxiously be waiting to find out if the Pres or VP or some other officials lied or committed other crimes, or for proof to support their supposiitions, but that is something different.
And as for the verdict, I don’t think there is much suspense in that either: the strong odds - 90% or so at least - are that he’s going to be found guilty.
Jane
Welcome home.
EN
Marcy taking it to hair boy.
Jane Hamsher @ 3
At risk of upsetting any fans, I’m not sure how anybody ever figured out that Lawrence Welk had died.
Here’s my entry for the contest. It should have won last time, so I’m expecting better results this time (regardless of what the contest is - last time it didn’t win it was b/c it “Wasn’t a rap.” Still shoulda won - IT’S THAT GOOD. Just sayin).
Thanks, Sandia (88) — I had my Google Calendar display set a week forward.
No wonder the kids were giving me weird looks when I asked if they were packed for their trip up north…it’s not for another week!
Whew, means Jane has more time to recuperate and pack for the chilly east coast.
On the other hand, I have a meeting Sunday night. [sigh] Might not make the party.
So good to see you back, Jane. :) FDL is whole once again.
ABC just had on that the British will release a report saying that the polonium poisoning of Alexander Livinenko in London last November was a state sanctioned hit. Hmmm, state sanctioned terrorism, wonder what Bush is going to do about that?
Oops, that should read Litvinenko.
Hugh — sweet jeebus.
That was a nuclear attack on foreign soil by a foreign country.
I can’t begin to imagine what Dumbya would do under similar circumstances, if there was a state-sanctioned hit on American soil using nuclear material.
Jane and Christy,
Cheney’s head coming your way via e-mail.
hugs
Deb
I’m really looking forward to the party.
Peterr @
55
Peter - if we can’t get Jane to play herself, would Sarah Michelle Geller be too young to play Jane? I thought of Sarah Michelle Geller for the role because her experiences with slaying vampires on television might be useful. *g*
This does not look good at all. Just saw on CSPAN that Iran is ordering U.N. Inspectors out of the country. I’m really getting worried now. Bush has to be salivating. This will be the deciding factor as to how we proceed in the world from here on out. I predict. If it is for the good, then let it come. For ill, I don’t event want to go there.
Hugh @
100
Make sure he doesn’t lose pace in the competition to be the biggest baddest state-sponsored terrorist?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 86
Love you OK -
and this is a quibble about figures of speech, not your post…
That said - something about that common phrase seems vaguely duplicative….
(Of course, this may well be idiosyncratic - “Hillary Clinton” strikes me the same way.)
Relax, it’s Pootie Poot. Bush knows his heart.
-GSD
Polonium poisoning?
Bush’s good buddy Putin, did the deed. Recall Bush said he had “looked into Putin’s heart” and had decided this was a man he could do business with.
Hugh @ 100
Unless someone points out a way for the Bush family to profit, Bush will do nothing.
mandrake @ 106
Very clearly what he wants. Dude is hell-bent to set the world aflame.
_
RevDeb @ 103
Talk about your suspect attachments.
GSD @
70
See? Even Cheney will be made better-looking by Hollywood.
No gay music at the party please.
-The Moral Minority
Bands that make you gay.
RevDeb @ 103
That must violate federal postal regulations. You’ll be needing an attorney?
Swopa @ 113
I don’t have Marcy’s e-mail so it will have to be forwarded to her by one of the other Ladies of the Lake.
Stalin, Putin, Bush, Olmert. Ruthless.
Scarecrow @ 116
E-mail coming to you too. You let me know if I need a lawyer! If so, are you busy?
New thread upstairs.
I had been meaning to look at the Warner Nelson Collins Resolution. Here it is. I have edited out most of the Whereases. The full text (all the Whereases) can be found here:
http://warner.senate.gov/press.....70122a.htm