Somewhere near zed?

what th?

Oh my gosh, here we were nattering away with each other downstairs and trading YouTubes!

LoudounLib @ 3

Oh my gosh, here we were nattering away with each other downstairs and trading YouTubes!

*gigglesnorts*

EPU’d :

By the way, Powers and Morrison is a great place to find latest news feeds from about 30 sources. (They also have Cassie’s blog under their NEWS BLOG section.)

Took you guys long enough to notice.

Gawd.

I have no idea how that happened…I’m usually an hour behind all of you. Whoa.

thanks trex. i love you!!!!! anne

TRex @ 6

Took you guys long enough to notice.

Gawd.

You got us! ;-)

TRex @ 6

Took you guys long enough to notice.

Gawd.

I was busy with my news hunt. MANY links at the end of the last thread.

The best part of the whole video is when the Dad turns up the radio and starts dancing, then the Mom does an awkward kind of spazzy dance and cracks up laughing.

Actually, these people look an awful lot like my parents did.

Sorry, TRex. We were up to our hip waders in Blues downstairs.

TRex @ 6

Took you guys long enough to notice.

Gawd.

Busted. Got too much into the music.

TRex @ 6

Took you guys long enough to notice.

Gawd.

‘66 waz my Year!!! Some of that video looked suspiciously like my old family ‘Super 8′ shorts!!! ;)

TRex @ 11

The best part of the whole video is when the Dad turns up the radio and starts dancing, then the Mom does an awkward kind of spazzy dance and cracks up laughing.

Actually, these people look an awful lot like my parents did.

Nostalgia for sure. My Mom had that whole 60’s Jackie Kennedy thing going on, too!

Suzanne @ 12

Sorry, TRex. We were up to our hip waders in Blues downstairs.

True, M’dear, I’m still crying in my beer!!!

My mom really did look like Jackie Kennedy. In 1964 she wore her hair in a french twist and the resemblance was startling.

Very sweet. Although those guns make me a little nervous…..

Sure makes me feel my age—I remember all that stuff.

CTuttle @ 16

Suzanne @ 12

Sorry, TRex. We were up to our hip waders in Blues downstairs.

True, M’dear, I’m still crying in my beer!!!

aw man
*sniffle**honk**g*

Blue Dido, I know what you mean (as I approach 47!)

No politics, no video? Back down.

TRex @ 6

Took you guys long enough to notice.

Gawd.

sorry, we were in Chi-town for a moment there.
thanks for the post :)

TribeScribe @ 19

CTuttle @ 16

True, M’dear, I’m still crying in my beer!!!

aw man
*sniffle**honk**g*

Touche, TS!!! :P

For those of you who caught my last post downstairs, that was like father, here is like son.

Fire Pup Exercise Break – You are free to dance about the Lake!

I’ll Stick Around – Foo Fighters (live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8XgLJ-mrFQ

DrDick @ 24

For those of you who caught my last post downstairs, that was like father, here is like son.

the hits keep comin’
*bic light*

radiofreewill @ 25

Fire Pup Exercise Break – You are free to dance about the Lake!

I’ll Stick Around – Foo Fighters (live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8XgLJ-mrFQ

FOO FIGHTERS!! FOO FIGHTERS!! FOO FIGHTERS!!

*starts to pogo furiously*

Why did the Senate Intelligence committee release its report on Friday before a three-day weekend? These newly majoritized Democrats have a thing or two to learn about media messaging — why treat this report like it’s trash being taken out?

DrDick, did you ever see Stevie Ray Vaughan play live? I saw him in ‘89, the year before he left us, and Voodoo Chile was definitely one of the highlights.

TeddySanFran @ 28

Why did the Senate Intelligence committee release its report on Friday before a three-day weekend? These newly majoritized Democrats have a thing or two to learn about media messaging — why treat this report like it’s trash being taken out?

amen

LoudounLib @ 29

DrDick, did you ever see Stevie Ray Vaughan play live? I saw him in ‘89, the year before he left us, and Voodoo Chile was definitely one of the highlights.

No. Unfortunately I never did, though I love his music.

CTuttle @ 23

TribeScribe @ 19

aw man
*sniffle**honk**g*

Touche, TS!!! :P

going for a refill & a standby tissue box
*g* brb

DrDick @ 24

For those of you who caught my last post downstairs, that was like father, here is like son.

Mahalo, DD!!! Some mean guitar riffs, deep and throaty!!!

And now, back to the classics.

TRex @ 27

FOO FIGHTERS!! FOO FIGHTERS!! FOO FIGHTERS!!

*starts to pogo furiously*

Dave Grohl is the man. And he grew up around here. Props to the local boy!

LoudounLib @ 20

Blue Dido, I know what you mean (as I approach 47!)

LL, I’m a few months into 47, and when I see old movies like this, I think both (a) how old-fashioned they all look and (b) how modern, groovy, and completely fabulous they looked at the time.

CTuttle @ 33

DrDick @ 24

For those of you who caught my last post downstairs, that was like father, here is like son.

Mahalo, DD!!! Some mean guitar riffs, deep and throaty!!!

No shit. That is Bernard Allison, Luther’s boy. Some mighty strong genes in that family.

I am exhausted. Turning in. See you all tomorrow night.

g’nite TB

Good night Betsy, rest well and sweet dreams!

Blue Dido @ 36

LoudounLib @ 20

Blue Dido, I know what you mean (as I approach 47!)

LL, I’m a few months into 47, and when I see old movies like this, I think both (a) how old-fashioned they all look and (b) how modern, groovy, and completely fabulous they looked at the time.

Mere youngsters! I hit the double nickle this year. I graduated high school in 1970 and vicariously participated in the summer of love (or at least in the biochemical enhancements thereof) in 1968.

TexBetsy @ 38

I am exhausted. Turning in. See you all tomorrow night.

Night Betsy. Sleep well.

TSF, was that the Friday Nite News Dump, Holiday Weekend Version?

g’nite TB. pain free sleep wishes

nite TB sleep well!

Thanks y’all

DrDick, I am firmly convinced that I was born too late. If I’d been born just a few years earlier, I’d have been doing the same things right along with you!

DrDick @ 24

For those of you who caught my last post downstairs, that was like father, here is like son.

Bernard played at a freind’s son’s wedding dance in St. Paul 5-6 years ago. The bride was/is his manager. Sadly, I missed it. But did hear his father at hot joint in EDP’s town in ‘73. And Sam Lay, Elvin B. and many others I was too stoned to remember.

If i was capable of pogoing around to the Foos i would. Love them boys soooo much.

Just deciding on how much longer i want to stay upright and what i want to watch in the meantime.

For TS and CT, (again no utube) Dillard Hartford Dillard singing No Beer In Heaven (also known as In Heaven There Is No Beer)

DrDick @ 41

I graduated high school in 1970 and vicariously participated in the summer of love (or at least in the biochemical enhancements thereof) in 1968.

68. now that was a good year
*g*

DrDick @ 34

And now, back to the classics.

HooDoo ya love? Dr. D….!!! I love the mouth harp!!!

Sweet! Andy Card shouted down by students and faculty at UMass commencement:
WAR CRIMIMAL! GO HOME!

TexBetsy @ 38

I am exhausted. Turning in. See you all tomorrow night.

Evening, Ma’am!!! *g*

Felix Moronia @ 48

DrDick @ 24

For those of you who caught my last post downstairs, that was like father, here is like son.

Bernard played at a freind’s son’s wedding dance in St. Paul 5-6 years ago. The bride was/is his manager. Sadly, I missed it. But did hear his father at hot joint in EDP’s town in ‘73. And Sam Lay, Elvin B. and many others I was too stoned to remember.

One of the great joys of living in Chicago (and two blocks from a blues club) is that I got to see most of the current Chicago blues acts up close and personal.

Graduated in ‘72 with lots of trips to SF – I was banned from Berkeley by my wise father. He, however, thought SF was ok.

I was lucky I had my juvenile record sealed several years before I applied at the PD.

CTuttle @ 52

DrDick @ 34

And now, back to the classics.

HooDoo ya love? Dr. D….!!! I love the mouth harp!!!

Junior remains one of the all time greats!

DrDick @ 34

Now, that gives me a cold feeling.

;>)

Suzanne @ 50

For TS and CT, (again no utube) Dillard Hartford Dillard singing No Beer In Heaven (also known as In Heaven There Is No Beer)

No Beer??? Is there any in the other place??? ;)

Suzanne @ 56

Graduated in ‘72 with lots of trips to SF – I was banned from Berkeley by my wise father. He, however, thought SF was ok.

I was lucky I had my juvenile record sealed several years before I applied at the PD.

aren’t we all!!

Skip James sings Crow Jane

Suzanne @ 56

Graduated in ‘72 with lots of trips to SF – I was banned from Berkeley by my wise father. He, however, thought SF was ok.

I was lucky I had my juvenile record sealed several years before I applied at the PD.

I was lucky that I never got caught. For what I was doing in the late 60s and early 70s, you could do serious time in Okie land.

TribeScribe @ 51

DrDick @ 41

I graduated high school in 1970 and vicariously participated in the summer of love (or at least in the biochemical enhancements thereof) in 1968.

68. now that was a good year
*g*

My poor Mom spent the Summer of Love standing by her premature twin babies’ isolets praying we wouldn’t die as my Dad tried to struggle through the bureaucratic nightmare that was coming home from Viet Nam for a family emergency. Not much acid dropping and hanging at Haight Ashbury in my family.

But hey, look! We all lived happily ever after.

DrDick,

well, I had a bird’s-eye-view of all the fun: my parents were grad students at Berkeley in the 60s, and so as a child I observed all kinds of things going on in Oakland & Berkeley. They say if you can remember the 60s, you weren’t there—not so true for kids. We had many very interesting people coming & going through our house. From my perspective—and remember, I was a little girl—they were all so much more interesting when they weren’t stoned. But it was a very lively town. We moved to Santa Cruz when I was about 10; it was a sleepy Republican retirement village at the time. I thought I had died & gone to Eternal Boredom. (In time, it caught up, so to speak.)

Mere child at 47! Tell it to my arthritic joints. (And I won’t even speak of how my students—among whom I include grad students—consider me to be virtually prehistoric.) But you give me hope of something to look forward to in another 8 years.

Another Chicago classic.

Suz
No Beer
a rather festive short version by
the Hawkeye Pep Band

(unless you want the one in spanish
the Ren festival one or the one with
the guy on a bike crashing into a
bike rack)
Your call *g*

TRex, 4 days to your birthday?

Speaking of the sixties, Tucker Carlson was born in EssEff in May 1969 — I wonder if he was a summer of love, acid in the womb baby?

TribeScribe @ 66

Suz
No Beer
a rather festive short version by
the Hawkeye Pep Band

(unless you want the one in spanish
the Ren festival one or the one with
the guy on a bike crashing into a
bike rack)
Your call *g*

Since I am no longer bound by the “you see it you have to write it rule” regarding collisions, I’m opting for the one of the bike crashing. Just because I don’t have to write the paper on it :)

DrDick, I see your Magic Slim and I’ll raise you a Little Milton

Dr. Dick, since you’re a Chicago kinda guy, you’ll have to make recommendations as to hot spots for YearlyKos.

Here is another of my favorites (though not from Chicago).

DD@41, I just caught that ‘biochemical enhancements’, you certainly dropped by, didn’t ya?!! 707!!!

TeddySanFran @ 68

Speaking of the sixties, Tucker Carlson was born in EssEff in May 1969 — I wonder if he was a summer of love, acid in the womb baby?

It would explain a great deal.

TeddySanFran @ 68

Speaking of the sixties, Tucker Carlson was born in EssEff in May 1969 — I wonder if he was a summer of love, acid in the womb baby?

Something certainly warped his reality!!!

Suz,
Bike Crashing version
SofaKing WeToddDid *lol*

His passive aggressiveness is flaunting his bow ties in mum and da’s face.

Suzanne @ 67

TRex, 4 days to your birthday?

Uh, why, yes, it is just four days, now.

Every year around this time, I start to get jumpy and anxious. Dunno why.

Actually, I do know why. My ex was a NIGHTMARE on any kind of holiday or special occasion. He always seemed to find new and diabolical ways to hurt my feelings, then get defensive, and then we’d have a giant fight.

It was like, oh, I’m crying, it must be Christmas. Wheeee. Fucking Christmas.

And people wonder why I’m not just leaping into a new relationship.

Loo Hoo. @ 71

Dr. Dick, since you’re a Chicago kinda guy, you’ll have to make recommendations as to hot spots for YearlyKos.

Yes, Yes, please do.
Am pondering another visit to the windy city.
Especially with the additions to the
Leadership Forum

TribeScribe @ 76

Suz,
Bike Crashing version
SofaKing WeToddDid *lol*

Y’all are positively evil!!!

Take a deep breath, TRex. It will fade, eventually. My oldest girl (the engaged to the coastie one) still has a hard time with August. She was with a guy for 4 years that every year, in August, around HIS birthday, would decide he wanted to be single and would break up with her. The 4th year in a row that it happened she told him to keep walking. She still is twitchy around that month but no longer is cranky. I figure by the time the wedding rolls around next May, that will be gone too.

Loo Hoo. @ 71

Dr. Dick, since you’re a Chicago kinda guy, you’ll have to make recommendations as to hot spots for YearlyKos.

Weel, it has been 9 years since I lived there, but hopefully it hasn’t changed too much. For blues, the Kingston Mines and Blues on north Halsted St, Buddy Guy’s place downtown, & Koko Taylor’s place. The Double Door (the Stones opened the Steel Wheels tour there) or anything else in Wicker Park for rock. More good food (of every kind you can imagine) than you can shake a stick at. Really depends on what you are into.

Some people have a difficult time with days organized around someone else’s pleasure. They are programmed to sabotage it. For example, the fiance got food poisoning last year. He licked the bowl he made my cake in, and the raw egg made him sick.

This year (this weekend!) I get my revenge by contracting the cold/fever from hell.

Somehow I think we need to call a truce….

Suzanne @ 77

His passive aggressiveness is flaunting his bow ties in mum and da’s face.

Oh, no, Mum and Dad are quite well set up, thank you. They’re quite the little smug Rethuglican pod family. If Tucker rebelled, it was, like, brown loafers with a black belt or drinking red wine with fish or something.

He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Did someone say Koko Taylor?

TRex @ 84

Suzanne @ 77

His passive aggressiveness is flaunting his bow ties in mum and da’s face.

Oh, no, Mum and Dad are quite well set up, thank you. They’re quite the little smug Rethuglican pod family. If Tucker rebelled, it was, like, brown loafers with a black belt or drinking red wine with fish or something.

He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Bad acid strikes again.

TRex @ 84

Suzanne @ 77

His passive aggressiveness is flaunting his bow ties in mum and da’s face.

Oh, no, Mum and Dad are quite well set up, thank you. They’re quite the little smug Rethuglican pod family. If Tucker rebelled, it was, like, brown loafers with a black belt or drinking red wine with fish or something.

He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

But he had a tough time graduating from college. When you have that kinda money and can’t buy a degree, there’s a coupla marbles missing upstairs. No offense to any on the board, but Trinity (where Tucker couldn’t graduate) is a pretty safe school, too.

LoudounLib @ 85

Did someone say Koko Taylor?

Oh, YEAH!

TeddySanFran @ 83

Some people have a difficult time with days organized around someone else’s pleasure. They are programmed to sabotage it. For example, the fiance got food poisoning last year. He licked the bowl he made my cake in, and the raw egg made him sick.

This year (this weekend!) I get my revenge by contracting the cold/fever from hell.

Somehow I think we need to call a truce….

Most definitely, Dude, that is most unhealthy dude…

Late Nite FDL (and Late Late Nite FDL) rawks…it’s the only place where one can be off-topic and yet on-topic at the same time!

Perhaps it’s just being over birthdays in general.

But — aging certainly beats the alternative!

And now for something really obscure.

TeddySanFran @ 28

Why did the Senate Intelligence committee release its report on Friday before a three-day weekend? These newly majoritized Democrats have a thing or two to learn about media messaging — why treat this report like it’s trash being taken out?

Any chance that the Intelligence committee did it today so that it could be amplified for the Sunday papers?

TeddySanFran @ 91

Perhaps it’s just being over birthdays in general.

But — aging certainly beats the alternative!

Amen, Brother TSF!

LoudounLib @ 90

Late Nite FDL (and Late Late Nite FDL) rawks…it’s the only place where one can be off-topic and yet on-topic at the same time!

aint she a beaut?

DoJ sez: It wasn’t Monica’s idea, we’ve been screening civil service appointees for political leanings long before she arrived! This is supposed to help, somehow?

The Justice Department considered political affiliation in screening applicants for immigration court judgeships for several years until hiring was frozen in December after objections from department lawyers, current and former officials said yesterday.

The disclosures mean that the Justice Department may have violated civil service laws, which prohibit political considerations in hiring, for as long as two years before the tenure of Monica M. Goodling, the former aide to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales who testified about the practice this week.

DrDick @ 88

LoudounLib @ 85

Did someone say Koko Taylor?

Oh, YEAH!

Damn, our ’soul’ brothers and sistahs can belt em out!!!

But he had a tough time graduating from college. When you have that kinda money and can’t buy a degree, there’s a coupla marbles missing upstairs. No offense to any on the board, but Trinity (where Tucker couldn’t graduate) is a pretty safe school, too.

Oh, being a Republican is all about being a C student, aggressively mediocre. Think about when you were in college, how if you just went to class and did none of the reading and crammed for tests, you could coast by with a C. That’s exactly how our President is running the country. He’s just going through the motions, learning nothing, incurious, skipping the research and the paperwork.

The August 6th PDB. He skimmed it, really thinking about riding his bike or clearing brush or whatever. BIN LADIN DETERMINED TO STRIKE IN THE U.S. it said.

“Heh, well, I know his cousins and they’re good people. Hey, Harriet, tell somebody in there to bring me another bowl of Cocoa Puffs! I love them things!”

Katrina, looked at it from a plane, snoozed through all the warnings, blamed his frat brothers for keeping him out all night before the final. “Hey, man, it was Drink or Drown Night at Mickey’s!”

C Student.

The problem with a C Student President is you end up with a failing country.

And now a man who combines both of my passions, anthropology and the blues.

TSF, I believe that DOJ is going to have to be recused from the DOJ Civil Service investigation.

DrDick @ 41

Blue Dido @ 36

LL, I’m a few months into 47, and when I see old movies like this, I think both (a) how old-fashioned they all look and (b) how modern, groovy, and completely fabulous they looked at the time.

Mere youngsters! I hit the double nickle this year. I graduated high school in 1970 and vicariously participated in the summer of love (or at least in the biochemical enhancements thereof) in 1968.

I graduated in 1970 too! Got Bob Dylan and related activities in 1968 as well. We’re total blood sister/brothers!

Suzanne @ 100

TSF, I believe that DOJ is going to have to be recused from the DOJ Civil Service investigation.

I think the DOJ is going to have to be recused period. These people have irreparably damaged one of the finest law enforcement agencies in the world.

What’d I miss?

-GSD

DrDick @ 99

And now a man who combines both of my passions, anthropology and the blues.

Corey Harris is a renaissance man.

You missed some fine blues, GSD. And the secret to whirled peas.

LOL Suzanne, reminds me of a favorite bumper sticker from back in the day — visualize whirled peas.

LGBT party for Senator Clinton, at the Mayflower.

Does anyone know her position on her husband’s twin pillars of nineties bigotry, DADT and DOMA? Because I don’t.

And here are a couple of my favorite musicians. This is what you call real h roots music.

I take my cranky stuffy fevered head back to bed now.

See you pups on the morrow; sleep well!!

TeddySanFran @ 107

LGBT party for Senator Clinton, at the Mayflower.

Does anyone know her position on her husband’s twin pillars of nineties bigotry, DADT and DOMA? Because I don’t.

I think her position is if you don’t ask, she won’t tell.

TeddySanFran @ 109

I take my cranky stuffy fevered head back to bed now.

See you pups on the morrow; sleep well!!

Night TSF get well soon.

I’m listenin’ to Watermelon Slim as I write.

Sounds good.

Get to do some backreading and blues bopping.

Oh yeah, also apparently the Surrender Monkies have invaded the Whitehouse and they have decided to tell Al Qaeda that they are reducing troop levels in 2008.

Amaaaaaaazing.

-GSD

OK, it’s time to pimp my hometown blues guy, Dave Hole.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..U&NR=1

These guys had bad days, but they’re working it out.

HellYeah – You Wouldn’t Know

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AGJxYt0mNs

TRex @ 98

C Student.

The problem with a C Student President is you end up with a failing country.

C Student in this case is the perfect pawn
for a bunch of behind the scene schemers.
Don’t forget they stole the elections.
They didn’t pick Jebby cause he’s too smart.
Mighta had an agenda of his own.
But he was in the perfect place to aid&abet.

Now it’s interesting to see the potential
tension between W and DC. Subversion within
the ranks of the subverters. lo’ hep us all.

g’night Teddy, feel better!

TSF, I hope you feel better soon.

persiflage @ 113

OK, it’s time to pimp my hometown blues guy, Dave Hole.

Yeah, I definitely like him as well and have several CDs (I’m a sucker for slide guitar).

time to say good night from here, too, as it’s after 2 AM (yikes!)

Thanks for the blues fest!

TribeScribe @ 115

TRex @ 98

C Student.

The problem with a C Student President is you end up with a failing country.

C Student in this case is the perfect pawn
for a bunch of behind the scene schemers.
Don’t forget they stole the elections.
They didn’t pick Jebby cause he’s too smart.
Mighta had an agenda of his own.
But he was in the perfect place to aid&abet.

Now it’s interesting to see the potential
tension between W and DC. Subversion within
the ranks of the subverters. lo’ hep us all.

The real problem is that is the “Gentleman’s C”. Which means, “We can’t flunk the dumb ass fucker, because his daddy’s richer than Croesus and it’s worth our jobs.”

Dr. Dick, since you are a slide sucker, have you ever seen the Robert Randolph Family Band. That man can slide like Jimi. Awesome. Saw them open for Clapton a couple years ago. Fine fine blues band and awesome musicians – they are family, brothers and cousins iirc.

Blues? I used to watch this guy play his guitar with his teeth while laying down in the middle of a full tilt boogie dance floor, at the Saloon, the oldest bar in San Francisco, North Beach…oh yea

Great links Dr Dick! (you wouldn’t happen to know the name of Jr Wells very first album would you?

Happy Blogoversary TRex..(isn’t it close, anyway?)

TSF, Feel better soon, amigo.

LoudounLib @ 119

time to say good night from here, too, as it’s after 2 AM (yikes!)

Thanks for the blues fest!

Night LL. Rock on!

TRex @ 63

TribeScribe @ 51

68. now that was a good year
*g*

My poor Mom spent the Summer of Love standing by her premature twin babies’ isolets praying we wouldn’t die as my Dad tried to struggle through the bureaucratic nightmare that was coming home from Viet Nam for a family emergency. Not much acid dropping and hanging at Haight Ashbury in my family.

But hey, look! We all lived happily ever after.

And we got to meet your twin a couple of weeks ago, T. That had to have been tough on your parents.

DrDick, you know it!

TeddySanFran @ 107

LGBT party for Senator Clinton, at the Mayflower.

Does anyone know her position on her husband’s twin pillars of nineties bigotry, DADT and DOMA? Because I don’t.

Wonder if she’ll have any comments about the translators. hmmmm…

g’nite, LL.

g’night Suzanne :-)

LoudounLib @ 119

time to say good night from here, too, as it’s after 2 AM (yikes!)

Thanks for the blues fest!

nite LL!
keep rockin!

For you blues fans stream this Saturday & Sunday nights from 6 PM until midnight Pacific

“Once you go through something you think will kill you and it doesn’t, every day is like a present.” – Elissa B. Terris

Following up on my last, here is some Ali Farka Toure. I actually got to see him live in Chicago.

g’night TS, rock on with your bad self!

LL out…

We just missed my Blogaversary, actually.
It was May 15th.

Loo Hoo. @ 124

TRex @ 63

My poor Mom spent the Summer of Love standing by her premature twin babies’ isolets praying we wouldn’t die as my Dad tried to struggle through the bureaucratic nightmare that was coming home from Viet Nam for a family emergency. Not much acid dropping and hanging at Haight Ashbury in my family.

But hey, look! We all lived happily ever after.

And we got to meet your twin a couple of weeks ago, T. That had to have been tough on your parents.

I definitely know what they went through. My youngest grandson was born 2 months premature and spent two years in and out of emergency rooms. He is 9 and fine now, but it was real scary for a while.

DrDick @ 120

The real problem is that is the “Gentleman’s C”. Which means, “We can’t flunk the dumb ass fucker, because his daddy’s richer than Croesus and it’s worth our jobs.”

He coulda had a GED, for all they care, imo.
He was ripe for propping up and
41 and his buddies we’re anywhere near
being finished. They still aren’t.

Here’s to hoping we can ‘cage’ them.
Sent a letter to the DoJ and it came back
“undeliverable” *groan*

And a little more from the source.

Alright, gang, I’m turning in.

See you, uh, Sunday, I guess.

Good night!

TRex, I was commenting earlier (last thread i think) about how it has only been a year since Jane left you the keys to the blog when Jane and Redd (CHS) went to YKos 1.

Time certainly passes fast when one hangs out with a therapod.

TRex @ 137

Alright, gang, I’m turning in.

See you, uh, Sunday, I guess.

Good night!

Night TRex. Sleep well.

Night T-Rex.

-GSD

G’nite, TRex. Happy belated Blogiversary. Sleep well

nite trex.
sweet dreams of chrome phones!

LoudounLib @ 119

time to say good night from here, too, as it’s after 2 AM (yikes!)

Thanks for the blues fest!

Nite, LL and TSF!!!

Jr Wells first album where even the name of it is one great mystery And yet, I am still determined to listen to it someday.

Suz – I really like Robert Randolf and the Family Band, seen them many times. I think they just put out a new album for the first time in years.

DrDick @ 136

And a little more from the source.

DrD,
I like the spin you’re in :)
great stuff!

TRex @ 137

Alright, gang, I’m turning in.

See you, uh, Sunday, I guess.

Good night!

Ahhh, the party’s breaking up!!! Nite, TRex!!!

Hey ES, you River Rat you. How was your trip?

daCascadian @ 130

For you blues fans stream this Saturday & Sunday nights from 6 PM until midnight Pacific

“Once you go through something you think will kill you and it doesn’t, every day is like a present.” – Elissa B. Terris

Thanks for the linky.
Great quote too!

DrDick @ 118

persiflage @ 113

OK, it’s time to pimp my hometown blues guy, Dave Hole.

Yeah, I definitely like him as well and have several CDs (I’m a sucker for slide guitar).

Speaking of slide, even a Catfish can get the blues now and then. (youtube link)

Eureka Springs @ 144

Jr Wells first album where even the name of it is one great mystery And yet, I am still determined to listen to it someday.

Suz – I really like Robert Randolf and the Family Band, seen them many times. I think they just put out a new album for the first time in years.

They are definitely good, as well. Have you ever listened to Robert Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise or Eric Gale?

Fantastic! Beautiful balmy weather the river covered with a green canopy and crystal clear waters..) Since we hit the rapids before the weekend we had the river all to ourselves.

Sweet, ES. Sounds like a great trip.

Eureka Springs @ 151

Fantastic! Beautiful balmy weather the river covered with a green canopy and crystal clear waters..) Since we hit the rapids before the weekend we had the river all to ourselves.

You must not have had any Deep River Blues. (youtube link)

Eureka Springs @ 151

Fantastic! Beautiful balmy weather the river covered with a green canopy and crystal clear waters..) Since we hit the rapids before the weekend we had the river all to ourselves.

I know the feeling. hthis is what I did last spring. This is the Lochsa River in northern Idaho, just over the border, with mostly class 3-4 rapids and a few 5s, just to make your hair stand on end.

DrDick @ 82

Loo Hoo. @ 71

Dr. Dick, since you’re a Chicago kinda guy, you’ll have to make recommendations as to hot spots for YearlyKos.

Weel, it has been 9 years since I lived there, but hopefully it hasn’t changed too much. For blues, the Kingston Mines and Blues on north Halsted St, Buddy Guy’s place downtown, & Koko Taylor’s place. The Double Door (the Stones opened the Steel Wheels tour there) or anything else in Wicker Park for rock. More good food (of every kind you can imagine) than you can shake a stick at. Really depends on what you are into.

Thanks! Took notes. Will you and the (?) be going?

DrDick @ 150

Eric Gales?

Sweet stuff DD.
and with a little wing, I’m out.
nite all.

Loo Hoo. @ 155

DrDick @ 82

Weel, it has been 9 years since I lived there, but hopefully it hasn’t changed too much. For blues, the Kingston Mines and Blues on north Halsted St, Buddy Guy’s place downtown, & Koko Taylor’s place. The Double Door (the Stones opened the Steel Wheels tour there) or anything else in Wicker Park for rock. More good food (of every kind you can imagine) than you can shake a stick at. Really depends on what you are into.

Thanks! Took notes. Will you and the (?) be going?

Nope.

TeddySanFran @ 83

Some people have a difficult time with days organized around someone else’s pleasure. They are programmed to sabotage it. For example, the fiance got food poisoning last year. He licked the bowl he made my cake in, and the raw egg made him sick.

This year (this weekend!) I get my revenge by contracting the cold/fever from hell.

Somehow I think we need to call a truce….

Oh, Teddy. I don’t want you to be sick. Take care.

Here is a little better Eric Gales.

Back when I was young, I used to whitewater raft. I have done the Stanislaus (pre dam), the American, The Merced (out of Yosemite)and one I can’t remember right now. Once I started working at the PD, I got my adrenaline fixes at work instead of on the river.

I really wanted to do the middle fork of the Snake and, of course, the Colorado.

g’nite, TS

TribeScribe @ 156

DrDick @ 150

Eric Gales?

Sweet stuff DD.
and with a little wing, I’m out.
nite all.

Nite, TS! I appreciate the concern!!!

PS, if YKos too pricey, there’s always
Second Life (virtual attendance)
YKSL

CTuttle @ 162

TribeScribe @ 156

Sweet stuff DD.
and with a little wing, I’m out.
nite all.

Nite, TS! I appreciate the concern!!!

anytime :}

They are definitely good, as well. Have you ever listened to Robert Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise or Eric Gale?

Both are new names to me.. Eric has a sweet touch, thanks.

Suzanne @ 160

Back when I was young, I used to whitewater raft. I have done the Stanislaus (pre dam), the American, The Merced (out of Yosemite)and one I can’t remember right now. Once I started working at the PD, I got my adrenaline fixes at work instead of on the river.

I really wanted to do the middle fork of the Snake and, of course, the Colorado.

There are stretches of the Clearwater and Salmon Rivers in northern Idaho which are a white water rafter’s dream. Wild, rough, unspoiled, and limited access. They actually have a lottery every year and only allow a handfull of rafters to go down.

DrDick @ 166

Suzanne @ 160

Back when I was young, I used to whitewater raft. I have done the Stanislaus (pre dam), the American, The Merced (out of Yosemite)and one I can’t remember right now. Once I started working at the PD, I got my adrenaline fixes at work instead of on the river.

I really wanted to do the middle fork of the Snake and, of course, the Colorado.

There are stretches of the Clearwater and Salmon Rivers in northern Idaho which are a white water rafter’s dream. Wild, rough, unspoiled, and limited access. They actually have a lottery every year and only allow a handfull of rafters to go down.

Some nice ones north of the border, from ya, the Peace and Fraser rivers provide some nice rides!!!

I live on the Kings River in NW Arkansas, which happens to be the longest north-bound running river in North America. It’s just a few miles to the Buffalo National river and half a dozen other choice waterways for floaters of all makes and models.. Fortunately it’s not overrun with people most of the time so everything is pretty clean and peaceful and a whole lot of fun.

DrDick @ 92

And now for something really obscure.

Excellent!

Ok, I’m going to have to wrap my evening up early. I have one confirmed showing tomorrow that I have to get ready for. Friggin Holiday Weekend don’t stop real estate weekends.

TRex @ 98

But he had a tough time graduating from college. When you have that kinda money and can’t buy a degree, there’s a coupla marbles missing upstairs. No offense to any on the board, but Trinity (where Tucker couldn’t graduate) is a pretty safe school, too.

Oh, being a Republican is all about being a C student, aggressively mediocre. Think about when you were in college, how if you just went to class and did none of the reading and crammed for tests, you could coast by with a C. That’s exactly how our President is running the country. He’s just going through the motions, learning nothing, incurious, skipping the research and the paperwork.

The August 6th PDB. He skimmed it, really thinking about riding his bike or clearing brush or whatever. BIN LADIN DETERMINED TO STRIKE IN THE U.S. it said.

“Heh, well, I know his cousins and they’re good people. Hey, Harriet, tell somebody in there to bring me another bowl of Cocoa Puffs! I love them things!”

Katrina, looked at it from a plane, snoozed through all the warnings, blamed his frat brothers for keeping him out all night before the final. “Hey, man, it was Drink or Drown Night at Mickey’s!”

C Student.

The problem with a C Student President is you end up with a failing country.

I’ll guess those were some generous C’s.

Loo Hoo. @ 169

DrDick @ 92

And now for something really obscure.

Excellent!

For a white man, he’s got soul!!!

Rest well Suzanne… Don’t let those four pesky words (you missed a spot) get to ya…

Eureka Springs @ 168

I live on the Kings River in NW Arkansas, which happens to be the longest north-bound running river in North America. It’s just a few miles to the Buffalo National river and half a dozen other choice waterways for floaters of all makes and models.. Fortunately it’s not overrun with people most of the time so everything is pretty clean and peaceful and a whole lot of fun.

I know that area. I used to live in Tahlequah, OK (my son was born there). Fortunately, most of the rivers here are in pretty good shape. The Lochsa gets a fair bit of traffic, but is still clean and not overly congested. The Blackfoot River near Missoula (featured, though not actually shown in the film A River Runs through It), however, is overwhelmed with rafters and kayakers, not to mention every tourist fisherman in the area. I try to avoid it as much as possible. Fortunately, there are many other possibilities.

Again, no Utube, but I leave ya with Will Ray singing Santa Cruzin

Suzanne @ 170

Ok, I’m going to have to wrap my evening up early. I have one confirmed showing tomorrow that I have to get ready for. Friggin Holiday Weekend don’t stop real estate weekends.

G’nite, Ma Cheri!!! *g*

Suzanne @ 170

Ok, I’m going to have to wrap my evening up early. I have one confirmed showing tomorrow that I have to get ready for. Friggin Holiday Weekend don’t stop real estate weekends.

Good Night Suzanne. Good luck with the showing.

And here is a little of Robert Randolph.

DrDick >

“…I used to live in Tahlequah, OK…”

Hmmm, made a few skydives there back in the 70s (there`s a Tahlequah, WA also)

“If you`re not nervous, you don`t understand what`s happening.” – John Young

daCascadian @ 179

DrDick >

“…I used to live in Tahlequah, OK…”

Hmmm, made a few skydives there back in the 70s (there`s a Tahlequah, WA also)

“If you`re not nervous, you don`t understand what`s happening.” – John Young

I may have been watching and shaking my head (at least if it was the early 70s).

And now for something completely different.

DrDick >

I may have been watching and shaking my head (at least if it was the early 70s).

It would have been 72-75 time frame. Second best thing I`ve ever done.

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” – Helen Keller

daCascadian @ 182

DrDick >

I may have been watching and shaking my head (at least if it was the early 70s).

It would have been 72-75 time frame. Second best thing I`ve ever done.

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” – Helen Keller

Yep. I was watchin’ and wonderin’ what kind of idiots would actually jump out of a perfectly good plane in mid flight.

DrDick >

“…a perfectly good plane…”

See, there`s your error…

Freefall is almost as good as sex…almost.

“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” – Ansel Adams

Here is another really good obscurity.

daCascadian @ 184

DrDick >

“…a perfectly good plane…”

See, there`s your error…

Freefall is almost as good as sex…almost.

“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” – Ansel Adams

Yeah, try telling that to an acrophobe.

something really different, heh he he..

Good night, you wonderful fabulous dogs..)

Night ES. Sleep well.

daCascadian @ 184

DrDick >

“…a perfectly good plane…”

See, there`s your error…

Freefall is almost as good as sex…almost.

“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” – Ansel Adams

The freefall is the easy part, its just that sudden stop at the end, it’s a real killah!!!

Well, I think I will call it a night as well. Have a good one and rock on.

DrDick >

Yeah, try telling that to an acrophobe.

Actually there is no sense of falling until you get down REAL low & by then there should be a deceleration device already over your head anyway

Think about dolphins in the water & how they behave. That`s how it is.

“The mind is its own place,
and in itself can make a heaven of hell,
and a hell of heaven.” – John Milton

Eureka Springs @ 187

something really different, heh he he..

Good night, you wonderful fabulous dogs..)

Poor Lou, seems to be outgunned… Nite, ES!!!

CTuttle >

“…its just that sudden stop at the end…”

That`s what the deceleration devices are for.

BTW…most of my jumps were in Hawai`i on the north shore of Oahu

“If you don’t deal with reality, reality will deal with you” – C.J. Campbell

DrDick @ 190

Well, I think I will call it a night as well. Have a good one and rock on.

Nite, DD!!! Sighhh… another bites the dust…

daCascadian @ 193

CTuttle >

“…its just that sudden stop at the end…”

That`s what the deceleration devices are for.

BTW…most of my jumps were in Hawai`i on the north shore of Oahu

“If you don’t deal with reality, reality will deal with you” – C.J. Campbell

Aah, several prominent jumpers have ‘expired’ over Dillingham Field within the past six months!!! Tangled cords were responsible in both!!!

CTuttle >

Aah, several prominent jumpers have ‘expired’ over Dillingham Field within the past six months!!! Tangled cords were responsible in both!!!

I had one of those once and was almost a statistic up the hill to the south of there. Lowest opening ever & my knees didn`t work for a few minutes. Poor supervision by my instructors it was.

Sorry to hear about it but it does happen. I lost several friends back in the early 80s when a Twin Beech went into Pearl Harbor.

Glad I made it through my mistakes so I can be a cranky old guy

“Self-mastery is the key to the portals of the universe” – Joseph W. Kittinge

daCascadian @ 196

CTuttle >

Aah, several prominent jumpers have ‘expired’ over Dillingham Field within the past six months!!! Tangled cords were responsible in both!!!

I had one of those once and was almost a statistic up the hill to the south of there. Lowest opening ever & my knees didn`t work for a few minutes. Poor supervision by my instructors it was.

Sorry to hear about it but it does happen. I lost several friends back in the early 80s when a Twin Beech went into Pearl Harbor.

Glad I made it through my mistakes so I can be a cranky old guy

“Self-mastery is the key to the portals of the universe” – Joseph W. Kittinge

Funny you mention about your knees, when I was in an Airborne unit, you could tell the old-timers from the newbies, from the creakiness of their knees during PT in the Morn!!!

daCascadian, My Family’s motto, spanning four generations and counting, is; “What doesn’t kill you, only makes you Stronger”!!! ;)

TribeScribe @ 163

PS, if YKos too pricey, there’s always
Second Life (virtual attendance)
YKSL

How much is YKSL? I tried to find a number but they wanted me to sign into Second Life. I don’t want to go through that hassle if I can’t afford YKSL.

Hi pups -

anyone else hear the crickets tonight?

is this thing on?

Hmmm…seeing as only the crickets and I are up, this is an ideal moment to announce my candidacy as for President of the World Bank.

Ahem

Crickets and slumbering Lakefolk:

I’m inspired by the protean career of my colleague Dr. Frist; he’s helped me realize I’ve been a vocational stick in the mud.

As Dr. Frist is my new career avatar, I’ll emulate his people skills by declaring for the postion he may be seeking.

I formally declare my candidacy for World Bank President.

crickets

Why should Shrub nominate me as World Bank Prez?

The World has a fever, and needs a doctor. Even Shrub knows this – that’s why he nominated a doc to take care of the World. Like Dr. Frist, I’m a physician.

Like Dr. Frist, my family has a long history in health care – my mom’s uncle was a country doc, and both my parents go to doctors. (Unlike Dr. Frist, my family did not have a huge HMO that had to pay 1.7 billion in fines and charges for defrauding Medicare.)

Like Dr. Frist, I’m interested in medicine at a distance. I’m curious about how telemedicine could increase access to psychiatric assessments in rural areas. Dr. Frist is interested in increasing access to neurologic assessments via Senatorial declaration.

I’m interested in the World Bank. Along with many others, I helped to organize and prepare for the 2000 IMF/ World bank protests (I co-coordinated the medical collective). Dr Frist is interested in the World as a bank. After the Bushies took power, his family’s massively criminal enterprise was allowed to keep billing Medicare (and keep operating) even with conduct requiring $1.7 billion in fines. If you stiff Uncle Sam like that and still get to play, the World is your bank.

Like Dr. Frist, I brought home kitties in medical school – a kitten for my then-partner, and a kitten for me. Unlike Dr. Frist, we loved our kitties – they lived with us until they died of natural causes.

Since it’s dark right now, I won’t think any more about Dr. Frist and his cats. I will go to love and cherish the ones who have shared my home for many years.

Thanks for being there at the start of my campaign for World Bank President. Now matter how it turns out, you can say you there at the beginning.

Assuming that crickets give interviews.

(And can remain up out of the cats’ reach.)

Dr. Kirk,

You seem eminently qualified. What position would your lover/partner fill at the World Bank?

Aloha TRex–Nice to see; made me remember my two nephews who died at 19. Miss those tall boys. Made me realize how hard it is for anyone who loses someone in Iraq or Afghanistan. Peace Out,

Good morning to anyone who’s up and about. (I’m astonished that I am.)

Here’s the lead item on cnn.com at the moment. Note the use of quotation marks.

U.S.: ‘Cell leader’ with Iran links nabbed in Sadr City

Iraqi and coalition forces killed five “terrorists” and detained a “suspected terrorist cell leader” with links to Iran’s weapons and training network during raids Saturday in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood, the U.S. military said. The raids came a day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr made his first public appearance in four months. Sadr City is a stronghold of his Mehdi Army militia.

Mornin’ all!

Morning Firepups!!

Morning

I was just reading about Giuliani saying that Hillary and Obama are anti-troops because of their vote. I don’t think that b.s. is going to work anymore. Is it just me or do you all think that Americans have caught on to that ploy and are rejecting it? It makes me dislike him even more and I want the whole country to have the same reaction.

Good morning, pups. Today in the NYT Dr. Gawande discusses the health care news from the last four weeks, while he’s been a guest columnist, and Mr. Herbert says it’s past time for the police to stop harassing young minority people going about their daily business.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

Coffee and tea are ready, and I got some lovely, flaky croissants. Enjoy, and have a great start to your long holiday weekend.

Israel pounds Gaza, arrests Palestinian minister

Israel pounded Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least five fighters, and seized a Palestinian cabinet minister.

White House Is Said to Debate ’08 Cut in Iraq Troops by 50%

The Bush administration is developing what are described as concepts for reducing American combat forces in Iraq by as much as half next year, according to senior administration officials in the midst of the internal debate.

It is the first indication that growing political pressure is forcing the White House to turn its attention to what happens after the current troop increase runs its course.

U.S. Rejects G-8 Climate Proposal

U.S. officials have raised a second round of unusually bluntly worded objections to a proposed global-warming declaration that Germany prepared for next month’s Group of Eight summit, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

Representatives from the world’s leading industrial nations met the past two days in Heiligendamm, Germany, to negotiate over German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s proposed statement, which calls for limiting the worldwide temperature rise this century to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit and cutting global greenhouse gas emissions to 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

New thread, pull up a chair…

The video is bittersweet for me. It reminds me of how much America has changed for the worse.

Wonderful video. Looks exactly like my old neighborhood.

OK GO does a remarkable remake of that song off the Future Soundtrack of America. This album also helps out progressive candidates so check it out.