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(Beautiful spring blooms in Atlanta, via TranceMist. Some gorgeous shots here for the flower lovers in the audience.)
[Bumping this up so everyone sees it: Howie Klein has some news: "Today Blue America is going off schedule to accomodate Congressman Jerry Nadler. As much as I hate changing times– we'll have him at 8am PT/11am EST– I think it will be worth it if the brilliance on the phone today comes across in the live blog session. The guy blew me away, thanks in part to Christy's great suggestions for lines of questioning." So please tune in earlier today for a great early edition Blue America with Jerry Nadler — Pach]
Okay, who stole my spring weather? My pansies are planted in the urn on the front porch, and my lettuce and broccoli plants are growing...and suddenly, it is freezing ass cold outside and we're getting a dusting of snow. That tease of warm weather got pulled back, and Mother Nature has some 'splaining to do to my perennials.
That said, hot coffee sure is working for me this morning. And I can certainly sense a pot of tea at some point in my future.
Spring weather always makes me want to get up and get moving. With all the movement on the Hill the last few weeks with regard to oversight and accountability, I have been thinking that an extra boost from constituents would be a good "carrot" to reinforce this. It might be a nice change from the nasty-grams.
A sort of "Operation Sunshine," if you will.
What better way to get this idea percolating through the amazing minds of our readers and commenters than to get a conversation started on just how to best accomplish some kudos, some support, a little conversation -- what have you -- between constituents and the folks elected to represent them. And what better way to get that going than to get all of our Roots Project groups up, and active, and moving forward together.
For folks who aren't as familiar with our Roots Project work, I thought I'd put together a little tip toe through some past projects:
-- The Rubber Stamp Republican Congress stamp project. See here for an intro., and here, here, here and here for some Rubber Stamp Republican videos.
-- The "Crashing the Gate" book delivery to the Hill. See here, here, here, and here for lots of great photos and video of FDL readers taking action.
-- Several of our NY Roots members visited Sens. Schumer and, eventually, Sen. Clinton's offices for a chat about how the world was working.
-- And our MA Roots members visited their Senators as well. See here and here.
There is a lot more, but that is a good slice of what we've worked on in the past. Pachacutec put together a great post the other day spelling out what we've tried to do with the Roots Project up to now. I want to encourage you to visit the Roots Project Beta site -- take a look around and join in the discussion on how to make our communities, our nation, our government better and more accountable. And as Pach said:
For that, we need your help. If you'd like to support this effort, please contribute what you can through this link the donation options for credit cards or PayPal at the upper right side of this page (paypal and credit cards accepted) or send a check directly to The Fire Dog Lake Company, 8033 Sunset Blvd. #966, Los Angeles, CA 90046. Please make your amount a denomination ending in .75.Once again, on behalf of our whole community here: THANK YOU!
Help can come in a lot of forms. Obviously, we need some financial support to finish the tech job on the beta website -- there is a lot of infrastructure that needs to be completed and to get it done well, we'll need to hire someone to do it. So, if you have a few extra bucks to kick into the pot, every little bit helps and we very much appreciate it. But it isn't just monetary support -- you guys are always so rich in ideas, and I want to tap into that collective braintrust a bit this morning to get a new project started.
Let's take some time today to kick around some ideas on how to reinforce the need to stand up for the Constitution and provide public accountability. Because it is well past time that we had some, isn't it?
One of our main goals with the Roots Project is to reconnect the folks in Washington, D.C., to their Roots. We have found in the past that a targeted effort in our Roots actions gets the most traction. But it is also a way for all of you to discover that you have an awful lot of power in your own hands: you are a voter, with friends who are also voters, and elected folks have to listen to you as a result. Over and over, I get asked: "what group are you with?" Well, I'm with the most important group: voters who care about their country. And I thought, since we have a Congress that is actually doing some work these days, it might be nice to say thanks...and then ask them to consider doing a few more things. But I need your help to pinpoint the best way to move our next project forward.
When roots shoot out from a tiny little seed, sometimes you get some beautiful flowers like the ones above. Just think, your idea could help kick start our next Roots project, so please share it with the rest of us. Operation Sunshine -- sure do like the sound of accountability, don't you? I'm not married to that name or anything, but it's a start. And I cannot wait to see where we take it from here. Pull up a chair...
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Listening to Washington Journal this morning, there seems ot be a new R talking point–global warming on Mars where there is no CO2. What’s the origin of that wingnut idea?
Waxman!
Hi Redd!
Yes, Mother Nature sure does have some ’splainin
to do……….
lurking hard…………..
I think Tom Toles is talking about us.
Mornin’, Christy! Nothing in bloom here in Beantown—it’s 25, feeling like 14.
Morning all — we got snow last night. Brrrrr…thank goodness for warm coffee.
No snow here, just cold and damp, our usual Easter weather.
Did anyone else happen to catch Glenn Beck last night?
V. bizarre. Had lots of religious people on talking about Jesus Christforgiveness and the meaning of Easter.
How does someone like Glenn Beck, who has said some hateful, horrible things, on tv and radio think of himself as Christian?
allan in upstate at 4 — HAHAHAHA That is the perfect cartoon for this morning, isn’t it? Thanks so much for sharing it!
diane at 7 — Christianity is something that you do. Beck thinks of it as something that you say. Very different concepts.
FWIW, we get Tweety’s weekend show on Saturday morning. I caught the end where it was stated Mr. Gore supposedly is on a mission to lose 40 lbs; the sure sign he is getting in the race!
Now, back to Christy’s regularly scheduled post.
eCAHNomics @
1
I suggest the gooperz go to Mars to do some research.
Sttp in Ohio @ 10
i don’t want the old gore - i like the new gore… more substance, less image.
Hi Redd,
I love the idea of a little carrot every once in a while instead of the stick. But, oh how sweet it is when ya’ll bring it with the stick!
I’ll nominate Waxman as a recipient. He seemed like the only one doing his job in Washington back in the Dark Ages, 2000-2006.
I’ll have to leave the method to the big creative brains that frequent the lake.
Is that an azalea? How appropo. Augusta National was in its full glory on Wednesday. 82 and sunny with ice cold $3 Heinekens and $1.50 pimiento cheese sammiches. A little patch of Heaven right here on Earth.
twolf1 @ 11
I agree, but was actually asking a serious question. Is there an email list that regular WJ R participants get? Is there a website that prepares talking points that the Rs check before calling in?
twolf1 @
11
I suggest the Pukes go to science class: Mars’ atmosphere is mostly CO2.
twolf1 @ 10
With the trajectory calculated by that guy at NASA who forgot to convert English to metric units for the Mars Climate Orbiter.
eCAHNomics @ 14
There’s an article @ NewsBusters (yuk) - newsbusters.org/node/11122
(you’ll have to copy/paste the link)
Cold and snowing here along the Patuxent.
eCAHNomics, there is simply not nearly enough data on any planet other than earth to either support or deny global warming. Folks can theorize all they want at this point, but the amount of data collected from Mars is a tiny fraction of what’s been collected over the past century here on earth.
So the origin of that wingbut idea is probably the same origin of so many other wingnut ideas, and that’s a dark and smelly place.
Ummm…do those morons still not know how to use the Googles? This site says that the atmosphere of Mars is 95% CO2. Figures. Although its virtually a vacuum at .7% of Earth’s atmospheric pressure at sea level.
eCAHNomics @ 1
Riesz Fischer @ 15
Thanks for the science contribution. I wasn’t even considering the veracity of the science assertion when I asked the question. I suppose that’s part of the R MO. Baffle with such bullshit that one’s normally sensible functions cease. Neither guest knew enough to dispute the science assertion on the spot, so the point stood unchallenged.
T- @ 13
It looks like a blooming pear or crab apple.
eCAHNomics @
1
LiveScience article:
Sun Blamed for Warming of Earth and Other Worlds
T- at 13 — Did you get to go to the Masters? Mr. ReddHedd will be sooooooooo jealous.
twolf1, Thanks for the linky. If you go to the National Geographic article itself, however, you get a different idea. Big surprise, eh?
“In 2005 data from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide “ice caps” near Mars’s south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row. “
HA HA! Three summers’ worth of data does not equal climate change! Period!
There are too many differences between Earth and Mars to try to equate the two.
Thanks Lindy.
I’m much better with the birds…and Heinekens.
twolf1 @ 17
Thanks for the reference. That’s probably the origin of the talking point & probably got widespread attention on the other side. Got mangled in translation by caller who asserted on CO2 on Mars, instead of asserting there was no human CO2 & therefore must be sun’s fault.
Was not aware of newsbusters because I don’t voluntarily go slumming, but will check it in future when I hear an R talking point.
Easter and Passover come regardless of the weather, eh? In the MN theater of seasons (where in the past 10 days it has been 81 degrees and also well below zero, windchill-wise), it is now sunny, extremely windy, and 15 degrees. Crikey! That was a record-short spring and summer.
I’m not a churched person any more. But something I read earlier this morning made me think about the whole resurrection, renewal, recovery thing. Seems the Bushies have given us a boatload of “opportunities” for that, morally, socially, militarily, environmentally. And it has occurred to me that in 2007, resurrection is not a spectator activity.
All y’all (I was born in South Minneapolis) know I’m a Gore fan. Want him to run in 2008. Want him to win. Want to see him take the oath of office (promising to protect and defend the Constitution and the country, and really meaning it). Want to see him then remove his suit coat, roll up his sleeves, step to the mircrophone, look square into the camera, and say, “Folks, we’ve got work to do. Let’s get started.” How’s that for a resurrection story?
Yes, Redd. Living here in Atlanta makes it much easier to get ahold of tickets. It was a practice round but the advantage there is you get to bring your camera and the golfers are generally much more crowd friendly.
For instance You’ll see them whip out a 4 iron on 16 and skip it across the pond and up on the green on that famous and picturesque hole. Think of the one where Tiger’s chip hung on the lip and finally dropped in the cup a couple of years ago.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 23
Thanks for all the info. Otherwise would have been noodling that one for awhile. Got to finish reading Rumsfeld for tomorrow. Later.
I think I have scandal fatigue.
But maybe its the snow falling on my fully budded flowers, now covered with row covers, sheets and tarps. We have a light bulb in the fig tree to try to save it and its 20 here in Eastern TN.
The Bushies plan to take over is being uncovered piece by piece but do they really care? I always wonder, after all this destruction, how Bushco can consider really leaving office. What then?
Hi, I see some MA people here this morning. I had a rocky start at the lake, but I’d love to try again.
I have been working on challenging right wing radio. This plays to not only MA but NH. What I am challenging is the hate speech used toward illegal aliens (Mexicans).
I’m doing this alone and would love to run it by you.
(My rocky start was in defending Tim Russert. My take is that being victimized by OVP and then standing up to them is a very good thing.)
Well, I haven’t gotten anything in the ground yet, so this snow is just a spectator event. One of the few times being a serial procrastinator has helped, gardenwise. Forsythia and fruit trees should pull through OK, though, since I don’t think it went much below freezing last night.
Christy Hardin Smith @
23
Did I miss something or are women still prohibited from joining the club where they hold the Masters?
T- at 28 — I’ll have to pick your brain on the getting tickets end of that — Mr. ReddHedd is a golf fanatic, and that would make for an amazing birthday present for him some day. :)
To renew our constitutional republic will require the public financing of campaigns.
The political noise this week has been about how much money each of the candidates raised. Those who raised the most were deemed winners.
Perhaps, but ………..
No, you didn’t miss anything, no women allowed at the “toonament.” Freezing here in Indiana as well, we bought a nice dogwood for the front yard and had to bring it inside. Gonna be a cold Easter egg hunt tomorrow!
Hi Boston1775.
I missed the Russert exchange, but I think you’ll find most folks here friendly to reasonable but differing points of view. They are also very quick to let bygones be bygones.
Have you heard of Mike Stark? He’s brilliant with those radio wingnuts
Boston1775 @ 31
Riesz at 33 — I believe they still are, but they can go and play with members if invited (which, I am told, does not exactly happen all that often). It’s only a matter of time, though…I feel change in the air, even at Augusta’s staid fairways.
Good Morning.
For those of you who like your Reps served cold, we may have a new sheriff in town.
David Obey:
Personally I’m fine with calling out the “idiot liberals” (yes, there are some) if it means progress like this. Flame on.
Good Morning Christy et al.
It’s sunny and about 34 here and Mr. Rev is outside with the lawn guy talking about what we need to do to spiff up the landscaping before putting the house on the market next month.
Ah Rootz. I have to say that it is one of the most rewarding things I’ve been involved with in a long time. Aside from the bonus of making friends outside of church (which happens all to rarely in my “business”) we have done lots of talking with our senators’ staffs about the things we think important. We also got together, a small group of us, and spent a lot of time in CT working for Ned.
I look forward to finding the Rootz people in eastern PA when we move. Any of you in the Chester/Deleware/Lancaster county area, let me know who you are, and Philly, too, of course. I want to meet you and see what we can do to light some nasty fires under Snarlin Arlen and start a relationship with Casey. That will be hard for me since Choice is one of my core issues. But it has to be done.
Just wanted to pop in to say that Jerry Nadler was my congressman for many years, before I moved just across the river. In addition to being, in my opinion, one of the brightest and most well-spoken members of Congress, he also gets points in my book for 1. managing to keep a relatively low media profile in a high media market and 2. with everything else he has going on, being the Congressional Rep for Ground Zero among other things, being absolutely terrific when it comes to constituent services and just an all-around nice guy.
An interesting story as to how Jerry got his seniority over all of those other Dems that came into office in 1992. The Congressional election that year actually had Congressman Ted Weiss on the ballot, however he died approximately 1-2 weeks before the election, which led all of us in the district who loved him to go out and vote for ‘Dead Ted’ (and yes, we all said it and we meant it with affection). As such, there had to be a special election, which took place in mid December. Jerry won, and so was sworn in to take Ted’s seat in late December, giving him seniority over the approximately 50 new Democratic Congresspeople who were elected that year, but didn’t take their seats until January.
old gold @ 35
Yes, “but”. And I don’t think it was lost on the media, since they talked as much about the number of Hillary’s and Obama’s contributors as the amounts collected.
Redd, I’d love to help with that…and some Sting tix for you. I hear he’s on tour soon.
You have my e-mail addy.
Would it be tacky to ask around here at the lake to see if some folks want to pool our resources and see if we can’t get some seats on the floor for you and Mr. Redd?
Christy Hardin Smith @ 34
T- at 43 — Alas, I have checked the Sting tour dates and he’s coming nowhere near me at this point unless they add more stops. SIGH But it is a lovely thought, and I appreciate it. :)
Christy Hardin Smith @ 38
I always lamented the fact that it’s not just women who are barred from Augusta; it’s anyone making less than a 7 figure salary.
But then I think about how it would feel to take 4 hours and 130 strokes just to finish the front nine. Maybe Gem Lake Municipal IS the best place for me.
(BTW, in no way do I support the banning of women at Augusta)
So Christy, what do you think about Bob Thuggins as the ‘Neers new Bball coach?
Christy Hardin Smith @ 44
Seeing the Police Live in 2007 - $1000
Having the pro-shot HD Dolby Digital DVD for repeated home viewing - Priceless (well, $25, but priceless)
Twisted at 46 — I am not pleased.
Balrog @ 45: We could share a cart! Sounds like we play at the same pace. It’s a devil of a game, isn’t it? Happily, Mr. Marks is just as cruddy as I am on the links. We usually finish within a couple of strokes of each other.
Christy, I don’t comment often, but have been an avid reader from the beginning of FDL. I also was in on the roots project when it was only an email list. I would like to help, but not at the micro level.
I am a statistics geek and a retired sociologist, and would like to help with macro-level analysis if I could. For international comparisons of statistics, I often visit Nationmaster
for comparative statistics.
mrsmarks @ 49
Thank goodness for blood thinners.
Yes, welcome to spring in Atlanta where all those pretty spring blossoms are now frozen stiff. It’s 24 degrees this spring morning.
My husband and I located a copy of the movie Z yesterday. It was so very interesting to watch the movie and match the characters in the movie to the various players in the abundant scandals evolving today…the Judge - Patrick Fitzgerald, etc.
Rats, Christy.
I thought for sure he’d play DC…Pittsburgh, not so much.
If you want to go to Madison Square Garden, let me know and I’ll rally the troops.
Plutonious Monk @ 52
Thanks for the tip. Mrs Poopyman is down there with her mother, and IIRC she didn’t pack anything for THAT temp. I sense a trip to the Perimeter Nordstrom’s coming on.
Balrog @ 51
707
holleahock @ 53
Some of us in the MA roots group watched this together about a month ago and did the same thing. Warning, the ending is a downer. We have lots of work to do to prevent that from happening here.
Hence, the Roots Project. Lots and lots to do.
Good morning, Firedoglake. 57 degrees here in the San Francisco North Bay Area and the sun hasn’t even rolled out of bed yet. Good morning, global warming.
Hi T at 37,
Thanks for the link. I am talking about asking authorities to press charges. I am addressing the public discussion of murdering people with machine guns and snipers if they try to enter America.
I am addressing the targeting of a culture as a cesspool, rats, and worthy of being murdered.
I’ve long been convinced GWB has an Elisha complex. Every time one of his divinely inspired actions results in catastrophe, it’s because God is testing his allegience. This, of course, requires him to cling ever more devotedly to his course.
I think in his heart of hearts, he sees himself as a Bible hero.
(RevDeb: If I’ve cited the wrong Biblical figure, please correct! I’m relying on decades-old catechism here.)
Yowsa, Christy, you’re not kidding about, wtf happened to spring?
It’s 41 here in San Antonio this morning! High winds and rain. Ugh. Usually in April, it’s in the 60s in the morning, and 80s in the afternoon. Or hotter.
I went to work last night with only a sweater, what I usually need this time of year. Wanted my winter coat before 1 a.m. (outdoor breaks for this smoker), and it only got colder. Then it got wet.
I hope this doesn’t hurt our bluebonnets. We’ve had a really good year for those (last year was horrid). And I hope that the mama bird in one of my trees is able to keep her eggs warm enough. Those eggs are the prettiest shade of blue…
Came down to DC this weekend to give a talk at Hopkins and see the cherry blossoms. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Apropos of nothing, cuteoverload.com has a hilarious mash-up of a trailer for 300 featuring…kittens.
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute.....posis.html
eCAHNomics @ 1
The origin probably comes from one of these:
1) The crackpot “the Sun is causing the Earth and Mars to warm” theory from a Russian scientist.
2) The legitimate idea, proposed in a recent issue of the journal Nature, that shifting dust storms are darkening Mars, causing temperatures to rise, which cause more dust storms. Link: http://www.space.com/scienceas....._mars.html
In any case, you have idiot wingnuts making a logical fallacy: that there can only be one cause of global warming. Therefore, in their puny minds they think, “if there aren’t any humans on Mars, and there is global warming on Mars, then humans can’t be causing global warming on Earth”.
A few more thoughts after watching Weekend Tweety;
Fred Thompson will get the Republican nomination if he wants it. McCain is done after last week, Romney has money & 3 percent support. Raise your hand if you think Giuliani gets past the hard core nutbags when it really counts.
Thompson is supposedly going to Capitol Hill soon to speak to 50 congressmen about getting in the race. With an overall 39% approval rating of the present candidates you can bet much sunshine is gonna get pumped you know where.
Also, some taking head mentioned Law & Order gets about 25 million viewers per show and that’s more than the total number people that will vote in the primaries. Add to this he has been conveniently away from Washington as the Bush administrations meltdown continues, I think he gets the slot.
I know it’s far fetched that an actor could become POTUS, but…
Rachel Paulose get a Babysitter:
Star-Tribune
Good morning, all.
L.A. Times featuring someone I had hoped to never see in it’s Op-Ed pages. Newt’s expansive explication of last week’s remarks (& why we shouldn’t find them offensive):
Want to Pursue Happiness? Learn English
Christy Hardin Smith @
9
One of the more profound comments I’ve seen, very much worth quoting. It hits on all that seems wrong with things these days. We need deeds, not words; honesty, not hypocrisy. And it’s what has made this blog a great place to hang out. Many thanks.
Looks like G.W. Monkeynuts was trying to amp up the situation in Iran by offering aggressive flyovers and naval maneuvers in order to intimidate the Iranians in the UK troop detainment matter.
Looks like The Poodle told the Chimp to STFU and let diplomacy work.
Too bad we didn’t have President Newton Leroy Gingrich….he would have proved the old Republican line “we have no problems with the Iranian people” a bald faced lie by bombing Iran’s one gas refinery and reducing the Iranians to “traveling on ox-cart” to show them that we are much bigger than them.
These lunatics are going to leave this nation a smoking husk by the time they are done with it.
-GSD
AZ Matt @ 66
Now the minders are getting minders.
-GSD
As I was doing my exercises this morning I was thinking of some ways to approach Operation Sunshine.
Then I was thinking of all the expertise visited upon FDL day in and day out. Maybe there’s a way to have “interest groups” here. Some people are legal experts, others are professional writers, researchers, etc. Grassroots efforts could branch off from here, As examples: 1. taking back our airwaves (they do belong to us, but corporate America doesn’t want you to know it) 2. writing letters to Congresscritters and LTEs on a regular basis 3. a special fund dedicated to supplies we could send to individuals as needed (such as copies of the Constitution and Bill of Rights); those who forget the law should be reminded incessantly and it could on from there.
Right now…it would be terrific if we had an outstanding way of sending Nancy Pelosi some love. She’s taking a beating in the MSM…
Just my 2 cents.
30 Degrees here in Columbus. Bummer about such cold weather for Easter.
We took home a pointesettia from church after Christmas, and it’s pretty close to being on its last leaves. Just in time to bring home an Easter lily, which will probably be an option nest week. :)
landreau @ 68
One of my favorite quotes from the bible is, “By their fruit shall you know them.”
Woops, my manners. Good morning everyone.
Need coffee maybe.
I’ve been thinking it is totally time to be sending some love to David Iglesias. That kettle is still cooking a whole lotta fish.
I strayed over to Fox/Pravda last night. They were pushing the Speaker Pelosi trip.
The bottom right corner had a graphic of Speaker Pelosi wearing the hijab and the words ‘Designer Diplomacy’.
It was so damn disgusting. The efforts to minimize, trivialize and demonize Speaker Pelosi are so egregious.
-GSD
Ugh. Golf.
I used to live at a lake colony that had its own golf course.
When you have golf balls shattering your windows (shatter proof glass isn’t always, just saying…), dinging your cars, or clanking your roof; when you have to do a good walkover of your yard before even thinking about mowing; when you see your tomato plants broken from golf balls–you start to hate golf, a whole hell of a lot. I got tired of looking at white people dressed worse than usual. I got tired of rich farts nearly running over me with their carts, because they weren’t looking where they were going, too busy talking to a companion, or looking for a golf ball, or sucking on a beer bottle.
The only thing fun about it was how some of the kids in our neighborhood (I was in jr. high at the time), tricked out their golf carts (don’t ask!). We also had golf cart races. Plus, it was great fun to have summer slumber parties on the putting greens.
mrsmarks @ 60
Elisha was mostly a do gooder. I would not call George that. Perhaps you are thinking of Job? But I wouldn’t equate his ordeal with that of W’s either.
I hesitate to find any biblical character that fits in with W’s profile, except maybe the Pharaoh in Exodus.
RevDeb at 77 –Does sound like Job. But I remember Rabbi Lawrence Kushner once saying “There’s noone in the Old Testament you’d want your kid to grow up like.” I wrote something a while ago about the whole idea of someone trying to claim they were “called by God” to do something. Basically, from my reading of Hebrew sciptures, God typically calls people to do things they are *reluctant* to do.
bookwoman @ 71
the new web site that is in development is set up to do just that kind of thing—put people and expertise together to promote actions.
That’s why we have to support it and give generously.
bookwoman at 71,
One of our big problems is that the airwaves are overseen by the FCC, headed by Kevin Martin, husband of Cathie Martin, who works directly for the President.
My local US attorney, whom I was advised to contact about this hate speech, was visited the day after my faxes by Attorney General Gonzales.
There is an apparent lock on the airwaves.
Renee in Ohio @ 78
Yeppers. Nobody volunteered saying, “choose me.” Moses didn’t want to. Jonah tried to hide, others as well. The prophets do not choose themselves. Prophecy is a dangerous business. Most of them get killed for it.
Sttp in Ohio @ 65
I thought Hagel was running. If so, he seems like their only sane choice.
Christy Hardin Smith @
6
It is even cold here in Texas today. Brrrrr!
Hey ya’ll,
Christy alluded to some announcement a few days ago. What was it, or has it not occured yet?
Oft -hey - I’ve got free HBO!! yay Sopranos tomorrow - maybe a re-run of Bill Maher, fight tonight. Has Deadwood started yet?
maybe she’ll get a million dollar vacation home out of the deal
- Sue Ellen Wooldridge, former head DOJ/Environmental Division was dispatched to babysit Steven Griles’ ethics - they hooked up and live together in a home she initially purchased with former paramour Don Duncan - top lobbyist for Conoco Phillips - wildly coincidental that 9 months in to that relationship Ms. Woolridge/DOJ signed off
on a settlement agreement that let ConocoPhillips delay the installation of pollution-control equipment and the payment of fines.
ain’t sayin’ she a goldigger . . .
I’m sorry to hear you all are having such cold weather, but it has been unseasonably warm here in Oregon, 76 yesterday. I’m sure it’s coming your way this week.
eCAHNomics @ 1
hi people,the martian atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide.
misinformation and misdirection are in motion
Cassie @ 83
It is SUNNY here and I am going to town. It is only a 120 miles one way!
Boston 1775 -
That’s Sullivan, right? He’s supposed to be manning two desks soon, iirc. Something in DC and/or USA/MA.
Can’t recall exactly…saw it in an article about the double duty some Mountain State USA is doing.
Too many details to keep track w/o looking it up again.
Oh. Here it is:
http://www.boston.com/news/loc.....or_of_atf/
T- — am still finalizing details, so no announcement just yet until it is nailed down. Sorry.
Blank Kludge @ 91
Who’s gonna get this open spot, Jenna or Barbara?
-GSD
LJ/Aquaria @ 76
There’s a fabulous house on the edge of a golf course here, worth about 3 million, that is always on the market because it provides a secluded spot for golfers to pee.
Blank Kludge at 90,
It’s Michael J. Sullivan. I didn’t know about the double duty. What I do know is that they were the first of about eight agencies I contacted to assure me that this “speech is covered by the First Ammendment.”
GSD @ 74
Scott Simon on NPR is pushing the “Did Nancy Pelosi violate the Logan Act?” b.s. as well. Said that one Republican went with Pelosi, but no mention of Wolf’s trip to Syria before hers or Issa’s trip afterwards, nor how Newt did this all the time under Clinton.
RevDeb @ 79
Beelzebubya?
It never ends.