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Take it easy on me.
Shed some light,
Shed some light on me, please.
My moon, my man
is a changeable land…
(Feist, "My Moon, My Man")
Here's a little something delcious from Canada to dance around the house to before bed. Bonus extra points if you brush your teeth to the beat.
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LEAHY!!
TREX!!!!
ZED!
Hah and hah…so gotdamn funny watching the Senators pull the wings off the Gonzales fly…
But….
I have a question that maybe someone here can help me with.
Who were the people who confirmed Abut Gonzo’s nomination to be Attorney General of the United States of America?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm?
Where are they and what are they doing right now?
Thoid!
A.Citizen @
3
Good question!
fab-rule T-Rex!
Hi TRex… Hi ET… looks that my carping about the USA from AZ firing ….. that Renzi… may finally get what he deserves…. besides pattycake on the house floor with Katherine Harris…
Hey that was pretty cool. This is the nearest to bein’ Frist I’ve ever been…or wanna be for that matter.
So, I like the vid but Mine’s waaaaaaaaaaaaay better!
Such raw emotion…er, raw somptin’
That last thread was getting so many comments that we were worried it might fry the server.
Sigh.
*rests back of tiny forelimb on scaly forehead*
Every blogger should have my problems.
The Hill says
The union of former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles and Sue Ellen Wooldridge could have implications for the investigation into Griles’s ties to ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
They were married March 26, three days after Griles pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about his relationship with Abramoff and a previous romantic partner. Wooldridge was the top environmental prosecutor at the Department of Justice (DoJ) before she resigned in January.
Nice, huh? People generally don’t testify against their spouses. These people are incredible bastards.
Weird – popped in for a few minutes at lunch and posted a zed. Popped in the door tonight after my long workday and posted another. First zeds in weeks.
What a day for the US Senate! Let’s all pile on over to conservapedia and see if we can amend their definition of Alberto Gonzales
A.Citizen @ 8
Cool song!
A.Citizen @
3
Dreaming of more mischief
;>)
EPU’d
TeddySanFran @ 465
Care for a few more peeled grapes, Mr. TRex, Sir?
Trex, we can’t stay away from your late nite posts. It’s the best party on the block, every night. **smooches**
Great song, huh? Sexy.
Okay, okay. I still haven’t eaten anything or really even moved from the computer. This is when I really need a boyfriend to drag my 60ft. ass away from the TOOBZ.
TRex @
9
I’m picturing you on a chaise lounge.
You write such great word picture, you know that? Thanks. ;)
Thanks, you all, for making me feel like I actually watched the hearings instead of working all day!
Time for me to get some sleep. See y’all tomorrow.
And we are back!
A.Citizen @
3
Actually, only the usual suspects on the Dem side voted for Seedy–Landrieu, Lieberman and the Nelson twins. (And Salazar.)
Katymine,
Yeah, you were onto this before AbuG had even considered he’d be in the Guiness Book of World Records for (FDL pop quiz):
a) most successful prosecutions of terror suspects
b) most non-partisan tenure at the US DOJ
c) most advancements in the field of white collar crime prosecutions
d) most times uttering “I don’t recall” in the history of the Senate
e) most times uttering “can I get back to you on that” ditto
f) most falsehoods sworn before a legislative body in US history
???
Hi Teddy…. I have been vacationing…. went to the Grand Canyon, flew in a helicopter over the Canyon and took a raft trip down the Colorado.
No cell phones, no computers but lots of pictographs and great views.
BTW… the fundies have perverted science at the Grand Canyon…. did you know it is only 6 million years old?
Ed*ard Teller @ 23
All except (a) ?
Imus has a new sponsor.
Nite youse all.
-GSD
TRex @
9
A moment of quiet reflection? How un-tyrannosaurical of you!
Alicia @ 19
Helen & Carolyn were amazing along with all the other posters, but we drove Christy nuts. We need to send flowers.
katymine @ 24
That’s three more zeroes than I thought they’d admit – didn’t Adam and Eve dig it out with power tools?
Suzanne @ 21
hickup
Texas Betsy @ 25
Don’t think Abu is setting records for either non-partisanship or white collar crime. To make me believe that, he’d have to knock Bush on his ass and indict everyone in the RNC–and Bush, Rove and Cheney.
ok ok i’m trying to keep up but i’m running down………must get some sleep – i’m not thinking too clearly at this point so i’ll lurk til i drift off – night all – its been a helluva day and night WOW!!!
Texas Betsy @ 25
wrong. next?
montag @
22
Good research on that! I’d say that those who voted for him on either side of the aisle might be getting a leeeeetle nervous about now.
Of course they can always rely on Mr. Bush campaigning for them in 2008.
Right?
GSD @ 26
There was bit on NPR yesterday, illustrating the problems smaller sign makers in China have in doing small-customer signs, menus, etc. “Mouthwatering Chicken” was often mistranslated as “Saliva Chicken.”
Interesting little trip, with two co-workers…. a girls trip….. did you know I take life too seriously?
They were worried that I know the “facts” about the liquid bombers from the UK and why the plot is a farce. Yep…. it was dancing with the stars and American idol….. Yuck…
Here I am at the edge of a beautiful canyon, waiting for sunset and tapping my finger on the sign….. SIX MILLION YEARS….. ARE they nuts?
Would you rather have me take life seriously or Brittney Spears?
‘Night, GSD
At least you have comments.
All of us who use Haloscan for comments are currently screwed.
Sigh.
Oh, hey, TRex!
montag @ 35
I prefer it spitted.
GSD @ 26
nighty night GSD the one who makes me howl at least 20 times a day. You are so funny thanks!
(waving to Steve Audio)
katymine @ 36
Maybe it was a compromise. The fundies wanted six thousand years, and the scientists wanted sixty million. (Actually, six million years might not be too far out of the ballpark, depending on the rate of flow from melting glaciers further north. But, sixty is probably more like it.)
SteveAudio @ 38
Never mind, Haloscan came back.
Even so…
Sigh.
Nice song. This song reminds me a little of Aimee Mann and ’til Tuesday.
Here’s my very favorite from those days.
Suzanne @ 41
Yo Suz!
‘Night, Lake creatures-been a long day for the Man in the Street.To rest now, to fight better tomorrow.
Full Spectrum Resistance.
juslin @ 32
night night Juslin
I gotta finish watching The Daily Show, back in a few, kids.
The signs in Greece were always screwed up, it was hard for them to convert to the English Alphabet. The KenTicky Chicken and Hardor(harbor).
katymine, did you buy the fundie book at the Grand Canyon?
more here
lolo? Lunch this summer sometime? We’re neighbors, girlscout.
PS Thank you for LLate Nite, TRex. Gonna watch some teevee comedy, brb.
Sorry, man, I’d rather listen to this.
Nothin personal.
The future of Paul Wolfowitz, the embattled President of the World Bank, was in further jeopardy last night after it emerged that the White House was drawing up a list of candidates to succeed him.
That’s what these guys think.
Rove is taking resumes from Recency U. grads only. Must NOT have taken any courses on economics. Comb licking photos are listed as required enclosure number 3.
gonzo testimony about why he supported the stealth appt clause in the Patriot Act
What happened in SDak? Who was suggested?
This is a little tidbit about Renzi…
So does that mean all his assets are in his wife’s name or is this another member of the kickback wives club which includes old JD Hayworth… Doolittle….. Jerry Lewis…
Need to get that guy in the slammer too because if not, he will be another zombie that will keep coming back.
Devastating’ Moyers Probe of Press and Iraq Coming
By Greg Mitchell
Published: April 19, 2007 9:00 PM ET
NEW YORK The most powerful indictment of the news media for falling down in its duties in the run-up to the war in Iraq will appear next Wednesday, a 90-minute PBS broadcast called “Buying the War,” which marks the return of “Bill Moyers Journal.” E&P was sent a preview DVD and a draft transcript for the program this week
http://www.editorandpublisher……1003574260
Ed*ard Teller @ 54
Ain’t it somethin’? These guys can’t even hide their accomplices properly. Wolfowitz is like someone on the witness protection program who keeps blowing his cover…. :)
Anyone know the South Dakota answers?
Loo Hoo @ 51
I would love to LooHoo.
Ok guys… you hold the fort down…. I am fried…
If you ever get a chance to raft down the Colorado, do it. They have smooth water trips that are reasonably priced and lots of fun.
April 20, 2007. I predicted weeks ago that today would be the beginning of the Iran War. I’ve never been this glad to be wrong in my life.
Must return to cryogenic chamber and regenerate. Tomorrow, pups!
I’m glad you were wrong, ET, very glad.
lee5 @ 55
Something about that here,
via dKos.
Kind of complicated, but the salient point was that all this came about sometime around May, 2006. The discussions about slipping that little tidbit into the Patriot Act started in 2004. And, true to form, Specter seems to have been trying to give Abu some wiggle room on that one.
thanks, montag
Suzanne @ 64
It isn’t over. Bush is determined to advance WWIII, but nobody wants to sign on to help. I’ve never made a Bush-Hitler comparison here before, but the chimp is looking more and more like a post-Stalingrad Adolf every fucking day.
I hate this war!
ET, on March 30th I heard Scott Ritter speak about his new book “Target Iran”. He states the window for war with Iran opened on April 1 and will remain open through June. There are two carrier groups in the gulf, one three days away and one 7 days away. The bombers are in place on two islands and they have already negotiated airspace to fly from eastern Europe bombing runs.
He pretty much scared the crap out of me and I decided to commune with nature while there still was some left.
Sean Penn on Colbert
I hate this war!
Me too, ET. I didn’t think I could hate a war more than VietNam but…
katymine @ 67
Not sure which two islands he’s talking about–Diego Garcia is the main island, and it’s quite a ways away from Iran (but, that would only require more refueling missions for shorter-range jets). And, unless the Eisenhower left when the Nimitz arrived, there are three carrier groups out there.
I’m getting a real headache trying to figure out what’s going on. At this point, I don’t see how Bush can get a war resolution through Congress now. No one’s going to believe whatever evidence they try to drum up, and I’d guess that the same goes for the UN Security Council–the Bushies have pretty much screwed the pooch in that venue after Powell’s snake oil pitch there.
I don’t think they dare do it too early in the election season. Without an immensely overwhelming reason, it would guarantee their collective impeachment, especially if the evidence was thin and the casualties in Iran were heavy.
Guess we’re going to have to wait for Sy Hersh’s next missive to see if there’s been some push-back from the military.
OT
Greasy bastard ducks…
Wolfowitz lays low as board meets
montag, I wish I took better notes, he was just fascinating and rattled off names but Diego Garcia was one island and there was another one that bombers could make a run without refueling.
Scott was just in Iran last fall and said they cannot even make uranium fuel to make a weapon. They do NOT have access to pure uranium to convert to weapon grade. They need over 3000 centrifuges but they only have 167. One carrier group is in the Med and one near to the gulf but within 7 days there could be 4 carrier groups within “fighting” range.
He also said the UK soldier incident is not THE one to push for war.
Glad to see some folks still here
Actually tried to head off to bed but trying to catch up on what I missed while I was floating down the Colorado…
katymine @ 75
How dare you take a vacation while some of us…
Oh, sorry. You deserve it.
I’ll shut up now.
katymine @ 72
They have been increasing that number, but I still think it’s only 350 or thereabouts. And, from some reports, they can’t get those working very well–having problems with things like valving and rotary seals, load-bearing members (so-called spiders), etc.
To give you an idea of what’s necessary to produce bomb fuel on an industrial scale, one U.S. facility had about 14,000 centrifuges and I think there are three such plants here. Moreover, the IAEA can figure out if they’re producing bomb fuel or reactor fuel by how the centrifuge cascades are set up. If they’d seen evidence of that to date, I’m reasonably certain they would have said so.
Whatever the evidence presented, it’s going to be thin. Very thin.
SteveAudio
We are late owls – which are not related to ch*ckens.
*sorry TRex
I had lots of fun Sunday night, met Thom Hartman, Stephanie Miller and Mike Malloy at our Air America radio station birthday party. Got a hug from Malloy, what a character!
Suzanne @ 78
Indeed.
I have work to do. Sad at this time of night.
I need to write a post at my place, and also clear comments at HuffPo for a while.
Tough, sitting at a keyboard in my PJs.
Good morning from Virginia.
Ritter-
“it takes 3000 centrifuges working full time for a year to produce enough weapon grade uranium for a weapon”
Problem-
Iran does not have access to quality uranium ore. They have uranium ore in Iran but it is contaminated with a mineral which no one knows how to remove. They used it to convert through this very complicated process and it keeps blowing up their centrifuges.
Or like Scott said, “3000 centrifuges working full time for one year….. pop…. they blow up”
BTW…. Scott served in Turkey with the best man at my wedding in the late 70’s. They were in Turkey when I was stationed in Greece.
BTW why were nuclear weapon specialists stationed in Turkey in the late 70’s?
Morning, eg. Need some coffee? Kinda early today – still on Russian time?
Here’s a comment from HuffPo I just read:
The most educated, smartest military in our history, don’t make me laugh. I have 2 young friends serving in Iraq on their second tour. One of them is a platoon Sgt of an infantry unit. This is his second tour. He doesn’t think that he’ll make it back this time. The reason, the people in his platoon are misfits, high school dropouts, and some felons. Neither of these young men think that their units are well educated or very smart. Smart people don’t opt to kill or be killed. Smart people don’t buy into this fighting for freedom in coutries that are no threat. People who parrot this crap do so because they either aren’t very smart themselves or they have to believe it becaise to do so otherwise wold be too heart breaking when they think about the useless waste of these young peoples lives. As a combat veteran I can tell you the only reason soldiers fight is for each other. The rest of this cheap medals and red, white, and blue bunting is the illusion. Just as the perfect burial ceremony by an honor guard is an illusion. It is a cheap trick to make the people attending the funeral of someone needlessly killed think that that persons life was worthwhile and was appreciated. It wasn’t and they weren’t. The Commander in Chief weeps and has sad words about the students gunned down in Virginia but he has little to say about the people killed or maimed in Iraq and Afghanistan. To him they are cannon fodder. The perfect burial is a cheap enough price to pay for the silence of the familes and friends. Once I realized the truth of Viet Nam I understood how I had been used by my country. I thought I was doing the right thing because they lied to me. Just as they are doing now. But combat is about fighting for your comrade in arms so that you all survive and go home. That I will always be proud of. The rest, you can keep. It is a fools game! And the military is the biggest fool of all!
SteveAudio @ 80
(shhh. we can’t let on… :)
_______________________________
mornin’, egregious!
waves
Thanks Suzanne, coffee would be great. I took 2 days in London to decompress so probably that’s a smaller jet lag. Only 5 hours instead of 8.
Left the comments at 11:30am eastern so got a lot of catching up to do.
That is sad,Steve, so sad.
A parent called into a local Air America station and said their kid was going back for their 5th tour.
Is that the definition of Russian Roulette?
eg, my power went out last night right before late nite and i missed everything until 5ish this afternoon. i’m still catching up.
Suzanne @ 87
Eloquent, passionate, sad.
Man, I hate this war. For me, VietNam was almost a personal reality. I was #13 in the original lottery, and was making plans to go to Canada, but luck, and a partial medical deferment kept me safe.
So many people today have forgotten that hellish waste of flesh & blood, inc. obviously the entire Republican leadership.
Good Morning from AZ where Renzi might do the perp walk!
Ok… have to head to bed…. tomorrow is conference call hell….
Ed*ard Teller @
62
4/20 — the day is young
TeddySanFran @ 92
I pray to the Goddess it doesn’t happen.
lolo @
69
With Robert Pinsky! Wow, I hope C&L puts this up. There’s no more CC on YouTube, right?
as do I.
May she hear us.
G’nite pups – wishing our planet a (more) peaceful day.
egregious @
81
You’re home!
I’m not all here, but yes :)
Here’s a photo of the fellow I mentioned earlier, the one who counted the “I don’t recall”s at Abu’s session today. Yum.
TeddySanFran @ 98
Now, Teddy, we’re all business here. No time for checking out hot folks, of any gender.
But I could be wrong.
Well, I had mentioned him earlier, and TRex was asking if there were any photos. Besides, didn’t you used to be teh gay?
TeddySanFran @ 100
What, is this about the track lighting again?
Sheesh!
Actually, I just finished a major studio installation for Kevin Griffin, the lead singer/songwriter for Better Than Ezra, and TRex thought he was a hottie.
Was it the track lighting? I just remember your denials (*g*)
Dana Milbank in today’s column:
“Gonzales had weeks to prepare for yesterday’s hearing. But the man who sat at the witness table sounded like the sort of person who forgets where he parked his car.”
Hilarious.
egregious @ 103
It was great when Senator Sessions (R-Trying to Help) said, “But that meeting was November 27th. That really wasn’t that long ago.” (para) Sort of plaintive in his whininess — wanting to help, but realizing that Abu was a goner.
Teddy, if I remember it correctly, it was 70’s track lighting (using stir stick liberally)
TeddySanFran @ 102
Reminds me of a funny story:
Years ago I was working on a demo for David Diamond, late of Berlin, who was trying to get a solo record deal, and was out gay.
He came to the studio one day, having “hooked up” with a close friend’s GF the night before on a whim, and declared:
“Breasts are pretty cool!”
That is a funny story, but I am to bed now.
g’nite, ‘pups!
SteveAudio @ 84
God, I hate this war.
I hate this war.
I hate this war.
War is nothing noble. It’s some greedy old men
getting young men to shoot one another.
TeddySanFran @ 107
Night, TSF
Kalliope @ 108
OMG, that’s the money quote of the day.
Wow. May I use that?
Ok, that’s it for me tonight, folks. G’nite all.
SteveAudio @ 110
Any time.
And let’s do everything we can to stop this
madness, madness, madness.
a great remix of that song was posted on a music blog a couple weeks ago: http://shamelesscomplacency.wo…..d-justice/
Kalliope @ 112
Thanks.
New post up at my place using the quote.
If you want better attribution, let me know, please.
katymine @
49
Used to be near the Hilton in Seoul the sign “Kenturkey Fried Chicken”
Another OT
What is the level of coincidence that Orrin Toady Hatch and his cadre of LDS surrepticiously inserted into key positions in government AND the fact the LDS keep an immense database of genetic relationships on almost everyone of consequence in any community. Are these databases in government, IRS, Social Security, business, credit, banking, national security, etc. being merged or cross referenced into a hyper information system where the individual is locked into place by b*ometric fixation – you know “troublemakers” run in families, it’s a genetic thing and what one learns at the families knee is a nurtured thing, passed on generation to generation with a small likelihood of deviation. Or is this just another paranoia?
knock, knock
Is there anyone home?
[The moderator never sleeps.]
Arnie @
117
Yo
mornin raven
Hi Moderator, not to disturb, I was not getting anything on refresh and was wondering if I had the thread to myself. I hope I didn’t come across as a concern troll on 116, it was something that I just flashed on and was wondering if the thought had occured elsewhere here. All the best…..
[Modnote: we know you’re one of us. Not to worry.]
Arnie
There is a vast difference between concern troll, paranoid and realist.
IMHO, you are towards the end of that spectrum.
One *should* be extremly concerned with the amount of data ammassed and lack of control and oversight in both the public and private sectors.
I do not know the particular ‘project’ you mention.
One of the greatest defenses against privacy creep is that the quantity makes analysis problematic in the aggregate.
The greatest threats are specific individually targeted threats and the huge margin of error in more general queries.
Good morning, pups. Today it’s Thomas Friedman on how Africa needs capitalists and Paul Krugman on the stealth attack on Medicare.
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
Coffee and tea are ready, and I picked up some croissants on the way home yesterday. Help yourselves, and have a good Friday.
Mornin’ all!
Mack @ 121
Thanks Mack, I just occurred that with the total amount of information that could be assembled, what better than the “faminial” database that LDS has assembled to “aggregate” (such a useful term) all the data at for further and more efficient data mining, basically going up a level for search (clan might be the next higher level above family for example).
I didn’t take note but one commenter here indicated all communications everywhere were being monitored and enough computing power was available to break codes being used in the communications being monitored. With assets like that, there isn’t much place to retain privacy. It may be the “motive” behind there being such a disproportionate profile of LDS in govt. positions as was also mentioned in these comments.
Mornin’.
Arnie
Privacy is an evolving concept.
The technology which enables this disccussion and fabulous geographicly dispersed collaboration is by design, public. Managing privacy in such an environment is difficult, and total security is imposible.
(I have don a bit of work in this area)
What is needed is transaprent oversight.
People’s concepts of privacy are changing at a fantastic rate. Just look at MySpace, hell, look at what people divulge about themselves here.
The scarey thing is that technology has enabled the potential to retain every scrap of data on the net, and the compute power to mine the data.
What technology cannot provide is the intelligence to ask questions which yeild effective and accurate answers.
WHich is why the passenger watch lists (a high priority) have questional effectiveness weighed against cost.
Still a little foggy before coffee this AM.
What I am trying to say is that efforts to use these data stores for evil are often visible, and should be called out wherever they are noticed.
The data is out there and growing.
The only effective cure is more transparancy.
FDA Asks if Pet Food Tainted on Purpose
Mack @ 126
Just to obtain another perspective, maybe it is intrusion into privacy that is the evolving concept. Privacy has been extant for a long time – the rights securing one’s person and papers against intrusion of the state without sufficient cause, springs to mind. Now commercial interests have, in loco parentis (of the state but don’t have the latin for it) of the state for private ends (profit). It is not oversight of these entities, it is control of these entities that is necessary, and the ability to stop these entities from exercising the power to invade personal privacy.
Brian Lamb on CSPAN just slapped down some deluded Bush-bot who was claiming that Sen. Coburn was a “moderate”.
These people are stupid.
-GSD
Some lady is now ranting on about the alleged 9/11 connections to Iraq and how the Russians spirited away Saddams WMD’s to Syria. She said Bush knew about this but didn’t want to “upset” the Russians.
What’s up? Lookin beautiful in Georgia but we need rain badly.
I learned in a staff meeting yesterday that NY Times Select is free if you have an edu email adress
Free Times for Pointy Heads
Marion in Savannah @ 122
Please e-mail me a large cup of black coffee?
mornin’ all. Raven – thanks so much for posting that link to Nikki Giovanni. She was wonderful.
mornin’ egregious. home safe and sound?
TiredFed @ 134
Sure, this is actually a better version
Nikki VT
129 (cont.)
Control of what information can be asked for is essential to controlling these commercial entities. Questions of what information is actually needed are crucial. When I was issued my SS#, it was illegal to use that identification for any other purpose than for SS. Boy was that ever violated since. Try to get a drivers liscence without your SS# or cash a check, or use a credit card. That is the kind of control that is needed over those who would gather information. That and a means of recourse and redress against the misuse, abuse, or other tort that is engendered by these entities (insurance malfaesance would be prime example).
Mack, hope you got your coffee.
mornin’ Marion. got any sugar to go with that coffee? (ya ought to, being from Sugar City)
Raven. thanks. that’s a keeper. remarkable and terribly sad that she was one of Cho professors. I hope NBC and all other media have learned the lessons of April 16th. The rest of us have a lot of work to do.
egregious. I will be retiring in less than 5 years, so if you need someone to carry your bags in 2011, just let me know. would be an honor.
New thread upstairs…
mornin’ all
TiredFed @ 140
Oooh, I am keeping YOUR phone number :)
And yes I am back from trip #30. Yay frequent flyer miles.
Scarecrow upstairs
Preznit Sunbeam
montag @ 65
thanks — very confusing. sure seems like something was up there …
montag @
77
It’s the ball bearings running at 70,000 rpm — not happening.
Is this a record? almost 700 comments for late/latelate night, you go, giant one.