ZeD☼

Doh!

it sure is nice to find that Annie has become a staple around here.
Thanks, TR ,,,,,

lolo @ 1

ZeD☼

I’m guessing you keep two windows (or tabs) on your browser open – one set to the FDL home page with an auto refresh – close?

Patrick 4/4 @ 4

lolo @ 1

ZeD☼

I’m guessing you keep two windows (or tabs) on your browser open – one set to the FDL home page with an auto refresh – close?

What is auto refresh and how do i get it?

Ok, so I’m going into overtime for a few more minutes…

Can you IMAGINE how Warren Zevon is torturing Jerry Falwell (that piece of subhuman filth) tonight?

LoudounLib @ 6

Ok, so I’m going into overtime for a few more minutes…

So hard to turn it off, isn’t it?

TexBetsy @ 7

LoudounLib @ 6

Ok, so I’m going into overtime for a few more minutes…

So hard to turn it off, isn’t it?

It is, it is…I hate to miss anything! *g*

ANNIE!!!

Doesn’t everybody? *g*

Sleep is overrated.

lolo @ 1

ZeD☼

Yay lolo! We were worried about you earlier.

I luv this song, TRex. Thank you.

anyone else watch the debate this eve?
replay running on FAUX.
Ron Paul just dropped the hammer re:IRAQ
niiice

LoudounLib @ 11

Sleep is overrated.

…but necessary.

G’nite, fellow firepups, and all the ships at sea.

…stop what you’re doin’, get down on your knees..!

Yay, Annie! (As always.)

G’night MP, I am not too far behind you. I swear!

Mutant Poodle @ 15

LoudounLib @ 11

Sleep is overrated.

…but necessary.

G’nite, fellow firepups, and all the ships at sea.

Sleep well MP.

I just can’t get the smarminess of Tony Snow out of my mind. You’d think someone facing the stark reality of mortality would be a kinder, gentler version of his former self. If Comey’s testimony doesn’t bring Gonzales down, the guy’s gonna be hangin’ around forever.

Wait, I have to go back up to the top and restart Annie. BRB!

I think it’s time that I join the blissfully unconscious, too. Be excellent to each other.

Two Koreas take 56 years to go 25 km on rail trip
Reuters – 2 hours, 59 minutes ago

SEOUL (Reuters) – North and South Korea will send trains across their heavily-armed border on Thursday for the first time since their 1950-1953 war, a move Seoul sees as a milestone in reconciliation.

‘nite EDP

TexBetsy @ 5

Patrick 4/4 @ 4

I’m guessing you keep two windows (or tabs) on your browser open – one set to the FDL home page with an auto refresh – close?

What is auto refresh and how do i get it?

You’re on a Mac, if I remember. If you use Opera for your browser, a right-click (or Ctrl-click) brings up a context menu that lets you choose how often the page reloads automatically. Schweet.

EvilDrPuma @ 22

I think it’s time that I join the blissfully unconscious, too. Be excellent to each other.

Sleep well.

You’re too young to know about Klaus Nomi (from the post downstairs).

Very cool!

One leftover comment that I was too slow to get into the last thread:

Rev Sharpton was on Hardballs sayin nice things about the other rev. Said that he was wrong about everything but sincerely believed it all.

I’m reminded of a Republican acquaintance who, back in ‘96, tried to convince me to vote for Dole because you could trust him, and not Clinton. (Nice guy, but he was mainlining the koolaid even then.)

I said, “Even if that were true, why should I vote for someone I can trust to do things I wouldn’t like over someone I can’t trust to do thing I would?”

Rev. Sharpton probably gave some thought to coming up with something honest he could say, but I see no reason to respect someone for the sincerity of his evil beliefs.

TexBetsy @ 23

Two Koreas take 56 years to go 25 km on rail trip
Reuters – 2 hours, 59 minutes ago

SEOUL (Reuters) – North and South Korea will send trains across their heavily-armed border on Thursday for the first time since their 1950-1953 war, a move Seoul sees as a milestone in reconciliation.

… unless of course the trains heading south are filled with DPRK soldiers and tanks … *g*

Good nite EDP! As always..

Back to Falwell, briefly.

Howie has a post: BIG PIG ROAST IN HADES TONIGHT

~~If Charon can ferry his bloated carcass across the Styx, I’m sure there’ll be a huge party in Hell tonight to welcome one of Satan’s most effective servants on earth…~~

It might be worth a reminder that name changing is frowned upon at the Lake.

Didn’t watch the goopers debate each other tonight- cause I was too well to make myself sick.

Turns out that Rudy says that we need to torture more people and Romney says we need to double the population at Gitmo- no tellin where his mormon ass wants to find the extra peeps ta put in there.

Goopers make each other crazy- just plain NUTS- Strange people.

hey there, missionary man!

nice to celebrate falwell’s death with you and dear annie

SteveAudio @ 27

You’re too young to know about Klaus Nomi (from the post downstairs).

Very cool!

nomi rox

Jailing of reporters chills free flow of information

Josh Wolf is finally free – after seven months in prison for refusing to let federal agents use him and his videotape as a substitute for their own investigative work.

Wolf, 24, a freelance video photographer who was never accused of a crime, served more time behind bars than many felons. His offense? He shot videotape of a chaotic anti-globalization street protest in San Francisco, then refused to hand it over to federal prosecutors or testify before a grand jury. His purpose, as he often stated, was to defend the principle that, in a nation in which the Constitution supposedly protects freedom of the press, the government has no business meddling in newsgathering processes.

Wolf, released last month, was just the latest victim of prosecutors’ increasingly frequent attempts to make people who gather news de facto agents of the government – a practice that members of Congress from both ends of the political spectrum are labeling an assault on the free flow of information. Among others:

•Judith Miller, then a reporter for The New York Times, spent 85 days behind bars in 2005 because she refused to respond to pressure from the special prosecutor charged with finding out who was responsible for the public “outing” of
CIA officer
Valerie Plame. Miller had never written a story on the subject, and it turned out that the special prosecutor knew all along who the initial leaker had been.

•Jim Taricani, a TV reporter in Providence, was hauled before a judge in 2004 because he refused to reveal who gave him a videotape showing a former city official taking a bribe from an
FBI informant. Taricani was placed in electronic shackles and confined to his home for four months.

there is more

My mother told me good
my mother told me strong
she said be true to yourself
and you can’t go wrong…

SteveAudio @ 27

You’re too young to know about Klaus Nomi (from the post downstairs).

Very cool!

Steve, I need to mail you a CD, still.

Call me and remind me tomorrow.

You guys, this new Tori record is speaking to me.

Check this out, from “You Can Bring Your Dog”:

But you’ve still got that something, pretty boy.
You’ve still got that something as a man.
You’ve still got that something.
Of this I know,
Of this I know.

I heard that your old flame
Is a purebreed.
Me?
I guess you could say
I’m a Siamese.
And ain’t that a good thing?

Is she reading my diary again?

I still can’t believe that a total stranger just cold asked me out at the airport yesterday. He just couldn’t let me get away.

How random is that?

Consider this the late late nite reminder to name the embedded link with a short name. That will significantly decrease the changes of your link being quoted busting the margins.

TRex- does he know about your blogging?

Suzanne @ 39

Consider this the late late nite reminder to name the embedded link with a short name. That will significantly decrease the changes of your link being quoted busting the margins.

Oopps. want to edit mine??? before someone quotes it please??

Thank you !

Mutant Poodle @ 11

lolo @ 1

ZeD☼

Yay lolo! We were worried about you earlier.

I went shopping today for the first time in 7 or 8 months. My friend stayed for dinner and I downloaded some Amy Winehouse for her. Finally(after I pushed her out the door) at 8:15 I logged on. Really tired so I have been lurking and trying to catch up on everything. Sheesh I have a lot to read tonight.

Suzanne @ 39

Consider this the late late nite reminder to name the embedded link with a short name. That will significantly decrease the changes of your link being quoted busting the margins.

oh oh! That must have been me! Sorry…. I just got carried away.

This one’s for you, Jerry.

Heaven is a Half-Pipe – OPM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=

Valley Girl @ 40

TRex- does he know about your blogging?

No, I was in Clark Kent mode. Secret identity and all.

I am real gone, this time. Until tomorrow, y’all — take care!

TexBetsy @ 22

Two Koreas take 56 years to go 25 km on rail trip
Reuters – 2 hours, 59 minutes ago

SEOUL (Reuters) – North and South Korea will send trains across their heavily-armed border on Thursday for the first time since their 1950-1953 war, a move Seoul sees as a milestone in reconciliation.

This is HUGE.

Also, let me remind ya’ll about do not quote a comment that has a quoted comment containing a link.

The margins (and backstage crew that fixes the margins) will be thankful.

I went shopping today for the first time in 7 or 8 months. My friend stayed for dinner and I downloaded some Amy Winehouse for her. Finally(after I pushed her out the door) at 8:15 I logged on. Really tired so I have been lurking and trying to catch up on everything. Sheesh I have a lot to read tonight.

What a great evening!

What did you get at the store?

Oh, and you should never push your realtime friends out the door to come hang on the computer, sweetie, please? We’ll be here, but face to face time is essential for being a happy human.

Odd…it’s evidently going to be an early night for me as well.School today, work in the AM. Good nite, everyone-hanging out with all of you is something I enjoy beyond my ability to describe.
Peace.

TRex @ 49

I went shopping today for the first time in 7 or 8 months. My friend stayed for dinner and I downloaded some Amy Winehouse for her. Finally(after I pushed her out the door) at 8:15 I logged on. Really tired so I have been lurking and trying to catch up on everything. Sheesh I have a lot to read tonight.

What a great evening!

What did you get at the store?

Oh, and you should never push your realtime friends out the door to come hang on the computer, sweetie, please? We’ll be here, but face to face time is essential for being a happy human.

AMEN! (Someone want to point that out to a certain young lady who hangs out here all evening sometimes.)

RonD @ 50

Odd…it’s evidently going to be an early night for me as well.School today, work in the AM. Good nite, everyone-hanging out with all of you is something I enjoy beyond my ability to describe.
Peace.

Good night Ron.

orientational sin:

Snow: Ashcroft Wasn’t That Ill, It Wasn’t Like ‘His Brain Didn’t Work’

Really, Dr. Snow?

Comey had a message.

When Card and Gonzales came a callin’ on Ascroft..

bringing sweetness and mercy

to his ICU bed.

Attorney General Ashcroft was clinically delirious.

[Temporarily out o’ his gourd.]

Georgie’s frantic for a “Get out of jail free” law for his domestic espionage.

That’s why “FISA reform” keeps oozing out of the Rethug’s agenda.

Abu Gonzales and Card waited to ask Ashcroft’s OK…

until the Attorney General was delirious

and had formally delegated his official powers .

Diagnostic criteria for 293.0 Delirium Due to.. Medical Condition]

A. Disturbance of consciousness (i.e., reduced clarity of awareness of the environment) with reduced ability to focus, sustain, or shift attention.

B. A change in cognition (such as memory deficit, disorientation, language disturbance) or the development of a perceptual disturbance that is not better accounted for by a preexisting, established, or evolving dementia.

C. The disturbance develops over a short period of time (usually hours to days) and tends to fluctuate during the course of the day.

D. There is evidence from the history, physical examination, or laboratory findings that the disturbance is caused by the direct physiological consequences of a general medical condition.

Ashcroft had been in intensive care at George Washington University hospital for “over a week” before Gonzales and Card paid him a visit. Mrs. Ashcroft had banned “all visitors and all phone calls.” Comey described Ashcroft’s condition on the day of Card and Gonzales’s visit:

Mrs. Ashcroft was standing by the hospital bed, Mr. Ashcroft was lying down in the bed, the room was darkened. And I immediately began speaking to him, trying to orient him as to time and place, and try to see if he could focus on what was happening, and it wasn’t clear to me that he could. He seemed pretty bad off.

Ashcroft’s chief of staff also personally requested that Comey “not resign until Mr. Ashcroft was well enough to resign with me. He was very concerned that Mr. Ashcroft was not well enough to understand fully what was going on.”

[h/t TP]

orientation

Awareness of one’s location in the continuum of time and space and of the identity of one’s self and familiar others.

Also: disorientation, oriented, oriented x 3, oriented time three, oriented in all spheres, oriented to time, place, and person

TRex @ 45

Valley Girl @ 40

TRex- does he know about your blogging?

No, I was in Clark Kent mode. Secret identity and all.

hmm… but he must have sensed your inner Superman..

TeddySanFran @ 35

SteveAudio @ 27

You’re too young to know about Klaus Nomi (from the post downstairs).

Very cool!

nomi rox

Or, at least, he did. Indeed, an original.

hmm… but he must have sensed your inner Superman..

I think he just noticed my tail.

Truly a fine tail that is, might I add. Eye candy even.

TRex @ 56

hmm… but he must have sensed your inner Superman..

I think he just noticed my tail.

Were you swishing your tail in the airport?

lol TRex- I thought that might draw a few responses…

Were you swishing your tail in the airport?

I was sitting down, thank you very much.

Were you wearing those snazzy new shoes?

Suzanne @ 62

Were you wearing those snazzy new shoes?

… or those Gap jeans?

I’m thinking more along the lines of linen trousers.

tonight’s quote —-

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.

– Jimmy Demaret

TB, according to my Maxine daily calendar: I like to follow my dreams. It keeps me in bed ’til almost noon.

Wanna bet TRex has found a new online shopping site and comes back with a link for our opinions?

Suzanne @ 66

Wanna bet TRex has found a new online shopping site and comes back with a link for our opinions?

LOL. probably

Either that or he is on the phone with the fine fella from the airport. They DID exchange phone numbers iirc.

great tune, TRex, thanks.

Annie rox,
Dave Stewart, whatever

Suzanne @ 68

Either that or he is on the phone with the fine fella from the airport. They DID exchange phone numbers iirc.

Yes indeed.

Suzanne, late enough for jokes?

I think so, TB. Are they Rethug jokes? (please oh pretty please)

I gotta check out some new Wilco

A quick pre-dawn question: Does anybody know what day Monica Goodling will testify?

Thanks!

TRex @ 48

I went shopping today for the first time in 7 or 8 months. My friend stayed for dinner and I downloaded some Amy Winehouse for her. Finally(after I pushed her out the door) at 8:15 I logged on. Really tired so I have been lurking and trying to catch up on everything. Sheesh I have a lot to read tonight.

What a great evening!

What did you get at the store?

Oh, and you should never push your realtime friends out the door to come hang on the computer, sweetie, please? We’ll be here, but face to face time is essential for being a happy human.

Groceries, 2 long flowing summer dresses halter front with plunging back in black and a sapphire blue, 2 pair sunglasses and some earrings. I’m a news junkie and needed a fix nothing since Comey this morning so I had to find out about the latest news and come by the lake.

hey, pun (waving from over the hill) wind still breezy down here – you getting it up there too?

lolo, those sound so summery. Deep sapphire blue?

For all those men who say, Why buy a cow when you can get milk for free. Here’s an update for you: Now days, 80% of women are against marriage, WHY? Because women realize it’s not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage.

1. Men are like ..Laxatives …… They irritate the crap out of you.
2. Men are like. Bananas . The older they get, the less firm they are.
3. Men are like ……Weather . Nothing can be done to change them.
4. Men are like .Blenders You need One, but you’re not quite sure why.
5. Men are like ….. Chocolate Bars …. Sweet, smooth, & they usually head right for your hips.

TexBetsy @ 78

For all those men who say, Why buy a cow when you can get milk for free. Here’s an update for you: Now days, 80% of women are against marriage, WHY? Because women realize it’s not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage.

Laughing – that IS a rethug joke. And a fundy one too.

Suzanne @ 77

hey, pun (waving from over the hill) wind still breezy down here – you getting it up there too?

no, it’s calm but unseasonably cold here – it was overcast and gloomy all day

punaise @ 74

I gotta check out some new Wilco

Hey Punaise, any ‘thoughts’ on the good Reverend’s passing?
Apologies if you made any in earlier posts.

A flight attendant was stationed at the
departure gate to check tickets. As a man
approached, she extended her hand for the ticket and he opened his trench coat and flashed her.

Without missing a beat, she said, “Sir, I need to see your ticket not your stub.”

Petrocelli @ 83

Hey Punaise, any ‘thoughts’ on the good Reverend’s passing?
Apologies if you made any in earlier posts.

I mostly took a pass on it, joining the “if you can’t say something nice” camp… that said, the world is not a lesser place in Falwell’s absence.

A college teacher reminds her class of
tomorrow’s final exam.
“Now class, I won’t tolerate any excuses for you not bein g here tomorrow. I might consider a nuclear attack or a serious personal injury, illness, or a death in your immediate family, but that’s it, no other excuses whatsoever!”
A smart-ass guy in the back of the room raised his hand and asked, “What would you say if tomorrow I said I was suffering from complete and utter sexual exhaustion?”

The entire class is reduced to laughter and
snickering.

When silence is restored, the teacher smiles knowingly at the student, shakes her head and sweetly says, “Well, I guess you’d have to write the exam with your other hand.”

TexBetsy @ 84

A flight attendant was stationed at the
departure gate to check tickets. As a man
approached, she extended her hand for the ticket and he opened his trench coat and flashed her.

Without missing a beat, she said, “Sir, I need to see your ticket not your stub.”

Hey Betsy … laughter is the best medicine.

TexBetsy, on a roll

punaise @ 87

TexBetsy, on a roll

cutting and pasting from a friend’s email :)

An elderly woman decided to prepare her will and
told her preacher she had two final requests. First, she wanted to be cremated, and second, she wanted her ashes scattered over Wall-Mart. “WalMart?” the preacher exclaimed. “Why WalMart?” “Then I’ll be sure my daughters visit me twice a week “

Suzanne @ 49

Also, let me remind ya’ll about do not quote a comment that has a quoted comment containing a link.

The margins (and backstage crew that fixes the margins) will be thankful.

Patience of an angel.

Suzanne @ 76

lolo, those sound so summery. Deep sapphire blue?

Yes deep sapphire. I couldn’t make up my mind so I got both.

If you’re looking for a good pair of loafers, the best step-ins are Triceratops – natural toe-wells, gel soles.

A little weak on arch support however…but you can use them to hoe the garden in a pinch.

Hold out for your own signature line – Air Therapods – you’ve got the perfect grin for an endorsement deal!

A police officer stops a blonde for speeding and asks her very nicely if he could see her license.
She replied in a huff, “I wish you guys would get your act together. Just yesterday you take away my license and then today you expect me to show it to you

Suzanne @ 93

A police officer stops a blonde for speeding and asks her very nicely if he could see her license.
She replied in a huff, “I wish you guys would get your act together. Just yesterday you take away my license and then today you expect me to show it to you

:)

TexBetsy @ 79

1. Men are like ..Laxatives …… They irritate the crap out of you.
etc… men are like snowfall, you never know when they are gonna come, or how many inches you are gonna get…..
men are like parking spots.. you never know how close they are, or if they are in a handicap zone…
etc etc, grapes and wine and linoleum floor tiles I knew all these jokes 10 years ago, during my divorce… can’t remember them now, but 6they are like blonde jokes Al Gore would love, recyclable and re-usable and re-newable :-P

Suz, I’m sure this is a rethug joke

A couple of hunters are out in the woods when one of them falls to the ground and lies absolutely still.

His friend whips out his cell phone and dials 911. He gasps to the operator: “My friend is dead! What can I do?”

The operator, in a calm soothing voice says: “Just take it easy. I can help. First, let’s make sure he’s dead.” There is a silence, then a shot is heard and a brief silence.

The friend’s voice comes back on the line. He says, “Okay, now what?“

So this pirate walks into a bar, full regalia, peg leg, parrot on his shoulder, bandanna. The bartender, who’s at the far end of the bar, looks up as he’s swigging, Sam Malone style, from a bottle of water. It’s in South Florida, and they get a lot of pirates in there, so the bartender just nods from afar. The pirate gets closer, and as the bartender is swigging again from the bottle, glances at the pirate again, and does an enormous spit-take. With water all over the bar in front of him, the bartender points at the pirate’s pants, out of which a vintage wooden steering wheel is hanging. He says, “What the heck is that doing there?”

The pirate replies, “Aaaaaaaarrgh, it’s drivin’ me nuts!”

ok almost a 20 hour day for me, night all. Petrocelli, someday soon, we’ll have that discussion :-) Have a great Wed :-)

Dee Loralei @ 98

ok almost a 20 hour day for me, night all. Petrocelli, someday soon, we’ll have that discussion :-) Have a great Wed :-)

I think I am headed to bed as well. Good night all.

g’nite dee loralei. pain free sleep wishes for you tb.

Dee Loralei @ 99

ok almost a 20 hour day for me, night all. Petrocelli, someday soon, we’ll have that discussion :-) Have a great Wed :-)

It’s a deal !

G’nite Dee.
G’nite Betsy.

too much thunder. staying a bit longer. can’t sleep yet.

welcome back, tb. would a cuppa hot chocolate with a marshmellow on top help?

Very late to comment, there were 3 threads to read on the AG hearings.

CSpan refusing to cover it- Brian Lamb the Nixonite at work.

Get with Code Pink, instead of protest, get a camphone and record this stuff live time. They have enough people around to help you do that without it seriously imparing the quality and depth of liveblogging you provide.

If you have the people power, do it yourself or hook up with TPM. Josh can probably attract the venture capital and probably has some technical ability, Jane’s familiarity with broadcast/film can do the rest.

Make your own station, you have youtube to broadcast upon in segments. The power is yours.

You could do a 30-second spot jammin’ chicken hawks in the loafers and cut-away to TSF, who says, “It’s gotta be the shoes!”

The grin would be priceless!

I love Late Nite!

G’nite!

Suzanne @ 105

welcome back, tb. would a cuppa hot chocolate with a marshmellow on top help?

… or some of Alfred’s cognac? *g*

Suzanne @ 104

welcome back, tb. would a cuppa hot chocolate with a marshmellow on top help?

sure, but i thought i was in charge of snacks. you and MP seem to be doing it all this eve!

About time the snack faerie got a snack that she didn’t have to get herself.

Good evening everyone….. just had dinner with Jeffery Feldman who wrote “Framing the Debate” … he was here on his book tour.

I am back with a strong hot cup of darjeeling, yummmmmmmm.

As for Falwell’s passing, let’s hope in his final moments he experienced some comfort or assurance of the human condition, and approached the time past mortality with good memories.

That he did his best to deny this same experience to anyone who did not agree entirely with him, would be judgment enough. The people he besmeared wished better of and for him than he had the morality to enact.

He’s gone and those in his wake need their closure. Let his words stand to the judgment they deserve. The banner of segregation flies half mast in his honor.

got details, katymine?

OK. what did i miss during the power failure??

Suzanne @ 114

got details, katymine?

Please!

as we wait while katymine types…

katymine @ 111

Good evening everyone….. just had dinner with Jeffery Feldman who wrote “Framing the Debate” … he was here on his book tour.

love to hear about it!

Jeffery is on his book tour and spoke at a local book store… Changing Hands. I had met Jeffery in 2005 in Austin Tx at DemocracyFest and Yearlykos.

One of our local AAR talk show hosts has Jeffery on weekly on framing the debate, we all went out to a Turkish Restaurant after the event. Nice discussion on regular stuff and that Jeffery had lived in Greece about 10 yrs after I did.

As for the AG hearings, it is certain the FISA judge, who also has resigned and should be heard in committee, was siding more along the lines of Comey/Ashcroft.

Thus reauthorization needed end runs.

The current re-authorization end run appears to be on hearing introduction into consumer alerts. Consumer Products Safety Commission, itself reeling from Bushco. rollbacks, has had people use language on the urgency of authorization access.

Watch closely what kind of camouflage is used to enable the continued end run of oversight.

Any interesting hearings up the rest of this week?

katymine that had to be fun, having dinner and chatting about the book and greece and regular stuff.

lolo @ 112

I am back with a strong hot cup of darjeeling, yummmmmmmm.

Hey Lolo, enjoy your tea. I have been to Darjeeling and seen those tea bushes on the mountainside. Nearby, there is Tiger Mountain, from where you can see Everest and Kangchenjunga (3rd highest mountain in the world) with the naked eye.

Well, I need to head on to bed…. work will come early tomorrow… G’Night All

g’nite katymine. sleep well.

katymine @ 124

Well, I need to head on to bed…. work will come early tomorrow… G’Night All

sleep well

Mmmmmmm.

Tater tots.

From Speaker Pelosi’s blog:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today issued the following statement:

“Democrats are committed to fully funding our troops and changing course in Iraq. In the coming days, we will work to send the President a bill that does just that. We hope the President and Congressional Republicans will negotiate in good faith so that we can provide our troops the funding they need and an effective strategy by next week. If they do not, we are prepared to work through the Memorial Day district work period to accomplish our goals.”

I don’t think georgie is gonna have the opportunity to recess appoint anyone this Memorial Day holiday.

Oh darn.

TRex @ 127

Mmmmmmm.

Tater tots.

Do hope there was more to dinner than THAT!

g’nite katymine – good dreams.

g’nite, pups – deliriously happy to haveshred the Lake tonight.

sweet dreams

Tater tots? I certainly hope you are eating more than just that, TRex.

g’nite, km. progressive dreams

Tater tots and chicken and broccoli casserole.

Except now I’ve moved on to ice cream.

TRex @ 133

Tater tots and chicken and broccoli casserole.

Except now I’ve moved on to ice cream.

Excellent! A well balanced meal.

what flavor, trex? i’m working on some b&j creme brulee myself.

Suzanne @ 135

what flavor, trex? i’m working on some b&j creme brulee myself.

I already brushed teeth. No ice cream here.

Breyer’s Caramel Pretzel Twist with Chips Ahoy crumbled on top.

I already brushed teeth. No ice cream here.

You can brush them twice. They won’t fall out. I know. I’ve done it before.

do the prezels have just a hint of salt to them. if so, i’ve had something similar, but without the chips ahoy on top.

TRex @ 138

I already brushed teeth. No ice cream here.

You can brush them twice. They won’t fall out. I know. I’ve done it before.

Nephew sleeping in the living room. I try to not venture to the kitchen too many times. Ice cream tomorrow.

Well the thunderstorms seem to have moved on. Going to try for some sleep. See ya tomorrow.

g’nite tb.

TRex @ 126

Mmmmmmm.

Tater tots.

With ketchup..or tabasco

Mmm . . .

Annie is a perfect antidote for the bittersweet Loreena McKennitt songs that I have running through my head now, after just seeing her in concert.

With ketchup..or tabasco

Just salt and pepper, actually.

Okay, as stimulating as I’m sure you’re all finding my culinary maunderings, it’s probably time for me to hit the proverbial hay.

Good night.

g’nite TRex. sweet dreams

Suzanne @ 127

From Speaker Pelosi’s blog:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today issued the following statement:

“Democrats are committed to fully funding our troops and changing course in Iraq. In the coming days, we will work to send the President a bill that does just that. We hope the President and Congressional Republicans will negotiate in good faith so that we can provide our troops the funding they need and an effective strategy by next week. If they do not, we are prepared to work through the Memorial Day district work period to accomplish our goals.”

I don’t think georgie is gonna have the opportunity to recess appoint anyone this Memorial Day holiday.

Oh darn.

If the Iraqi Parliament can’t have a summer vacation, our Congress shouldn’t go on recess either. Besides, BoyKing can get us all in lots less trouble with recess appointments if there’s no recess at all. Work, work, work. Oh, and:

TROOPS
HOME
NOW

g’nite, all. I’m over to cute overload, and then bedtime for me.

g’nite, tsf. i hope you and speaker pelosi are thinking alike.

Drainage vessel comments, references to the Baker girl, Consumer Products Safet Commission testimony.

Nobody is calling it frivilous?

JC Ashcroft’s COS asked that I not resign until Ashcroft was well enough to resign with me.

CS It was his understanding that Ashcroft would resign as well. Anything else of significance? March 12.”

I think what people are not seeing is that Tenet and CIA personnel did this, both resigned the same day, which was unprecedented.

It is not just a coincidence.

“CS How about Jack Goldsmith.

JC Yes, he had done a susbstantial amount of work on that decision.

CS Have you ever had the opportunity to recall these events on the record in any other forum.

JC No. I was interviewed by the FBI in connection with a leak investigation.

CS Did you suffer any recriminations at the Department/

JC Not that I’m aware of.”

Close to the Libby trial?
They pushed hard at the CIA for war justification, who’s to say the same wasn’t being done at the FBI?

Imagine connecting false causis belli for Iraq to the attorney firings for the use of partisan gain(obstruction, as he said was a case to made) and continued manipulation of intelligence.

They wanted more power, a putsch was going to be made, one to influence elections and one to cement their authority.

By removing all restraint within CIA and DoJ they could control foreign and domestic policy and shape all policy through Rove’s directives to shape elections.
Comey testified to being questioned by the FBI re: leaks.

They were trying to interrupt the order of succession for AG and keep someone complicit with Bushco. calling the shots, hence Ashcroft made him the AG for a stretch as to appoint Fitz.

This goes back to the Plame trial. Ashcroft’s recusal caused a stir with Bush. They saw he’d flip and were fast tracking him out, running over Comey along the way if need be.

The Comey hearing covers several points, not just DoJ politization. Remember the resignation precedent, and recall the kind of pressure placed upon Ashcroft. The big picture gets clearer. Let the Eagle Soar.

Mr. Murder, are you saying that Ashcroft, Comey, and Tenet were all going to resign on the same day?

That’s it for me tonight, folks. G’nite all.

Speaker Pelosi yesterday said this:

Democrats are committed to fully funding our troops and changing course in Iraq. In the coming days, we will work to send the President a bill that does just that. We hope the President and Congressional Republicans will negotiate in good faith so that we can provide our troops the funding they need and an effective strategy by next week. If they do not, we are prepared to work through the Memorial Day district work period to accomplish our goals.

And two of the major Democratic candidates for President have announced they will support the Feingold bill to bring Deciderer George’s War to a conclusion. Their party is beginning to coalesce around an antiwar orthodoxy, perhaps, we dare hope.

Meanwhile on the same day, two of the Republic candidates for the office of President of the United States of America have announced, to vigorous applause, their support for waterboarding and “every method [interrogators] could think of” to be used on prisoners of the U.S., while a third candidate for this same office has said

I am glad [detainees] are at Guantanamo. I don’t want them on our soil. I want them on Guantanamo, where they don’t get the access to lawyers they get when they’re on our soil. I don’t want them in our prisons, I want them there. Some people have said we ought to close Guantanamo. My view is we ought to double Guantanamo.

It does not appear that any of these remarks met with immediate remonstrance by other members of the debate. In fact, it is reported at one of the links that a columnist at none other than the National Review thought that the Guantanamo line was the best of the night.

Their party has found a new way to out-n*gg** each other, it appears. Turn up the mike on ‘em.

I must add that it appears that John McCain did take some exceptions to the whooping and hollering about torture in the debates. However the sad indictment of that branch of the polity stands. (Three! Three!)

Good morning, pups. It’s MoDo clarifying the French election results for us by sniffing panties and Thomas Friedman comparing Bush’s policies and actions regarding the Justice Department to the de-Baathification of Iraq.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

Coffee and tea are all ready, and I was in the mood for pancakes and bacon this morning. Help yourselves, and have a good day.

Good Morning, everyone! An article by David Johnston in the NYT on Comey’s testimony yesterday:

President Intervened in Dispute Over Eavesdropping

Morning Marion!

prostratedragon @ 155

I must add that it appears that John McCain did take some exceptions to the whooping and hollering about torture in the debates. However the sad indictment of that branch of the polity stands. (Three! Three!)

It’s horrifying, this is two thousand aught seven. I thought that we all were earnestly striving for America to live up to her ideals, but there are so very many who don’t realize what those ideals are.

mornin’! it’s a bright and chirpy one here.

JoyB @ 157

Good Morning, everyone! An article by David Johnston in the NYT on Comey’s testimony yesterday:

President Intervened in Dispute Over Eavesdropping

President Bush cannot hide under Rove’s skirts anymore, can he?

This quote from Tony Snow (same NYT article) is outrageous:

“Jim Comey can talk about whatever reservations he may have had, but the fact is that there were strong protections in there,” Mr. Snow said. “This is a program that saved lives, that is vital for national security, and furthermore has been reformed in a bipartisan way that is in keeping with everybody.”

That the program had to be “reformed in a bipartisan way” speaks volumes! How could any program meant specifically to protect us from foreign enemies be initially partisan at all? Why the pride in having to reform an eavesdropping program from partisanship?

prostratedragon@154

“Their party has found a new way to out-n*gg** each other, it appears. Turn up the mike on ‘em.”

What is this part of your comment about?

Mornin’ all!

41 Iraqis killed in new violence

A parked car bomb exploded near a market in a Shiite enclave northeast of the capital, killing at least 32 people and wounding 50, police said Wednesday. Hospital officials and wounded victims said chlorine gas may have been used in the attack, but police denied that.
…………
Meanwhile, clashes broke out in the mostly Shiite city of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq on Wednesday, when a militia fought with police there after they arrested two wanted militia members, police said. Nine Iraqis were killed and 75 wounded, a police spokesman said.

Yolanda King, daughter of MLK, dies at 51

Yolanda Denise King, daughter and eldest child of civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died, said Steve Klein, a spokesman for the King Center.

King died late Tuesday in Santa Monica, California, at age 51. Klein said the family did not know the cause of death but that relatives think it might have been a heart problem.

Level heads prevail: GOP debate ~ MSNBC POLL

Israeli aircraft fires on Gaza

Gaza Strip – An Israeli helicopter fired at least three missiles into the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Wednesday, killing at least four people, Palestinian officials said.

Good morning!

[in search of coffee]

Bush Nominee to Get Payment From Old Job

A senior lobbyist at the National Association of Manufacturers nominated by President Bush to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission will receive a $150,000 departing payment from the association when he takes his new government job, which involves enforcing consumer laws against members of the association.

mornin’

Morning egregious, all,

I just filled the thermos with double-roasted Seychelles, help yourself. Half-and-half and 2% in the fridge, various sugars on the counter.

well this will get epu’d for sure but I can’t wait and I suppose will repost this on the next thread

the post FINALLY gets SOMETHING right regarding abu torture;

JAMES B. COMEY, the straight-as-an-arrow former No. 2 official at the Justice Department, yesterday offered the Senate Judiciary Committee an account of Bush administration lawlessness so shocking it would have been unbelievable coming from a less reputable source.

but then they go OFF the FUH RIGGIN deep end with this BIZARRE statement, emboldens are of course mine on this entire post but check this out;

As Mr. Comey testified, “I couldn’t stay, if the administration was going to engage in conduct that the Department of Justice had said had no legal basis.” The crisis was averted only when, the morning after the program was reauthorized without Justice’s approval,

WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?

the PRESIDENT reauthorized the FUCKING program HIMSELF?

AND THE POST CLAIMS THE PROBLEM WAS AVERTED?

JAHEEZUS CUHRYSTE!!!

what the FRIG is WRONG with the post
?

and oh, by the way, g’morning everyone, and hotflash, when u coming 2 ny?

Senate GOP drafts proposal for Iraq bill

A small group of Republican senators, led by Virginia’s John Warner, is coalescing around legislation that would threaten billions of dollars in U.S. aid to Iraq and make clear American troops will stay only as long as Baghdad lives up to its promises…

perris – it’s WaPOO you are talking about, remember? take a deep breath in, exhale out, repeat.

Useless sacks of Republic Party shite at WaPOO and you know it. Of course the lack of permission to wiretap every American and the rest of the world unfettered was a crisis…as if they ever stopped for lack of permission.

I assure you, your communications were gathered without interruption.

Morning, perris.

NYT gets it similarly 180′d:
M

r. Bush quelled the revolt over the program’s legality by allowing it to continue without Justice Department approval, also directing department officials to take the necessary steps to bring it into compliance with the law, according to Congressional testimony by the former deputy attorney general, James B. Comey.

We have been fucked by the media, we are being fucked by the media, we shall have been fucked by the media. Can’t we sue them for something? Lying us into war? I mean, somewhere down the line it’s got to be somehow wrong to lie that big in a newspaper? Am I dreaming?

Rayne @ 176

perris – it’s WaPOO you are talking about, remember? take a deep breath in, exhale out, repeat.

*breath in/ breath out, have coffe, pace, breath in, breath out, have coffee, pace…*

perris — maybe you need some decaf this morning; I can brew you a decaf espresso if you still need a boost for your tastebuds. ;-)

perris @ 174

and oh, by the way, g’morning everyone, and hotflash, when u coming 2 ny?

Concert seasons winding down, hope to get there over the summer. I have a deal percolating in LongIsland and another in Manhattan, I have to work to their schedule, though.

Rayne @ 179

perris — maybe you need some decaf this morning; I can brew you a decaf espresso if you still need a boost for your tastebuds. ;-)

I think we need a progressive toga party on the east coast somewhere

HotFlash @ 180

I have a deal percolating in LongIsland and another in Manhattan, I have to work to their schedule, though.

LAWN GUYLAND?

I LIVE in lawn guyland, let me know

also, when in manhatten we’ll go watch les paul at the iridium…he still plays and puts on one excellant show

perris, count me in! I once won a hula-hoop contest while wearing a toga — a, youth!

perris, I know. My client’s in Port Jefferson.

HotFlash @ 183

perris, count me in! I once won a hula-hoop contest while wearing a toga — a, youth!

*brain working overtime, forgetting about wapo article and all is normal in perrisville*

HotFlash @ 184

perris, I know. My client’s in Port Jefferson.

I am but 20 minutes from thar

mornin y’all. hope everyone had a chance to hear or see Jim Comey’s testimony yesterday. if not, selise was kind enough to post the audio. have not seen video myself yet. it was worth listening to all over again! methinks we need to help spread the backstory. virtually every piece I’ve read ignores the circumstances leading up to the hospital visit and screws up the fact that the Bush Administration continued to flout existing law for several weeks thereafter (not to mention the fact that they flouted it for a few years prior).

Well, my day begins and I must go. However, did anybody have a good look at Mr Murder’s comments?

He does some interesting dot connecting here and here.

I echo Suzanne’s question here. If I get time and I remember, I’ll do a time-line. Marcy, oh Marcy?

20 minute youtube of Comey’s 5/15/07 testimony

Politicstv

gonna go over there to see if they have posted any more :)

thanks cbl. just waiting for the morning paper (the first post of the day). if Redd or Jane puts up a story on the USAs (what are the odds?), I will ask folks for suggested questions for the Monica Goodling hearing. have a great day!

New thread…

I don’t know why the morning post didn’t go up on time, but I just put it out manually.
New post upstairs

looseheadprop upstairs – yummy!

haha. what timing!

HotFlash @ 180

perris @ 174

and oh, by the way, g’morning everyone, and hotflash, when u coming 2 ny?

Concert seasons winding down, hope to get there over the summer. I have a deal percolating in LongIsland and another in Manhattan, I have to work to their schedule, though.

Are you comming to the Tilles Center?

TiredFed @ 186

mornin y’all. hope everyone had a chance to hear or see Jim Comey’s testimony yesterday. if not, selise was kind enough to post the audio. have not seen video myself yet. it was worth listening to all over again! methinks we need to help spread the backstory. virtually every piece I’ve read ignores the circumstances leading up to the hospital visit and screws up the fact that the Bush Administration continued to flout existing law for several weeks thereafter (not to mention the fact that they flouted it for a few years prior).

TiredFed, will you be so kind as to post the link again? I can’t find it. Not enough coffee in my system yet, I suppose. Perhaps I should mainline it.

egregious @ 169

Good morning!

[in search of coffee]

Egregious, have you heard from the Iraqi doctor?

Loo Hoo—no. And every congenital surgeon they lose is another 300 infant deaths a year.

Lindy. I will find it in a moment. brb

bottom of the page Comey Audio

Suzanne says

May 16th, 2007 at 12:50 am
Mr. Murder, are you saying that Ashcroft, Comey, and Tenet were all going to resign on the same day?

I’m saying Tenet’s M.O. was the same- top two people resign. Where there’s smoke there is fire.