Allo~!

good evening!

zed

#2?

Thanks, Teddy.

has downstairs been told yet?

cinco?

Yup, Suzanne. By Margot.

margot, i see my question crossed in the tubes with your notification. nicely done :)

I didn’t get a zed, but I DID predict the future! wooohooooo…..

Damn..just missed the much coveted and honored EPU spot.

woo hooo oddmommy ;-)

And ya gotta love what Henry Rollins has to say.

Thanks, Suzanne ;->

evil parallel universed…….

So Mr. SF, what are John Warner’s skeletons? I plead inexcusable ignorance.

This evening’s fun is now available at msnbc.com.

Shuster serves up Ajami’s head on a plate as a first course. Then, guest chef Debbie Wasserman-Schultz comes out of the kitchen with Filet of Dan Burton.

Yummy!

But now I’m ready for dessert. How about a couple of scoops of Haagen-Dazs butter pecan?

burnspbesq @ 14

This evening’s fun is now available at msnbc.com.

Shuster serves up Ajami’s head on a plate as a first course. Then, guest chef Debbie Wasserman-Schultz comes out of the kitchen with Filet of Dan Burton.

Yummy!

But now I’m ready for dessert. How about a couple of scoops of Haagen-Dazs butter pecan?

I left ice cream with your brownies downstairs. Or do you need MORE ice cream?

But now I’m ready for dessert. How about a couple of scoops of Haagen-Dazs butter pecan?

I would prefer a couple scoops of Impeachmint Pie Ice Cream

I’ve got enough papaya with lime slices for all…

burnspbesq @ 14

This evening’s fun is now available at msnbc.com.

Shuster serves up Ajami’s head on a plate as a first course. Then, guest chef Debbie Wasserman-Schultz comes out of the kitchen with Filet of Dan Burton.

Yummy!

But now I’m ready for dessert. How about a couple of scoops of Haagen-Dazs butter pecan?

Hmmmmm. I caught the first delicious course on C&L but didn’t kow about the second.

LoudounLib @ 11

woo hooo oddmommy ;-)

And ya gotta love what Henry Rollins has to say.

good heavens! that dude’s on fire!! I want him!
er……for a spokesperson, of course.

TexB @ 15

burnspbesq @ 14

This evening’s fun is now available at msnbc.com.

Shuster serves up Ajami’s head on a plate as a first course. Then, guest chef Debbie Wasserman-Schultz comes out of the kitchen with Filet of Dan Burton.

Yummy!

But now I’m ready for dessert. How about a couple of scoops of Haagen-Dazs butter pecan?

I left ice cream with your brownies downstairs. Or do you need MORE ice cream?

I was trying to be a good little diabetic downstairs, but my willpower is fading fast.

Suzanne @ 16

But now I’m ready for dessert. How about a couple of scoops of Haagen-Dazs butter pecan?

I would prefer a couple scoops of Impeachmint Pie Ice Cream

With some nut clusters on top?

Last night’s Hardball was definitely one for the ages…

More ice cream. Assorted flavors.

Update from Alfred, about his dad:

Well, I just slept 8 hours in my own chair, so i am at least moderately functional. dad is VERY good, no drug-res bacteria in his blood, no lung issue (film artifact) and no other major probs. so he’s coming home sat night or sun morning. house is a wreck but i’m slowly digging out. got his new hospital bed delivered today, free thanks to medicare and bc/bs.

And about us:

tell everyone I’m missing them very much and will try to get back to posting and blogging asap.

oddmommy @ 19

LoudounLib @ 11

woo hooo oddmommy ;-)

And ya gotta love what Henry Rollins has to say.

good heavens! that dude’s on fire!! I want him!
er……for a spokesperson, of course.

;-)

Betsy, thanks for that update about AK and his dad — I’ve been hoping all is well with them.

burnspbesq @ 14

This evening’s fun is now available at msnbc.com.

Shuster serves up Ajami’s head on a plate as a first course. Then, guest chef Debbie Wasserman-Schultz comes out of the kitchen with Filet of Dan Burton.

Yummy!

went over there – cannot find Debbie. Usually, folks link the stuff they are referring to. Makes us lazy asses happy! :)

oddmommy @ 13

evil parallel universed…….

So Mr. SF, what are John Warner’s skeletons? I plead inexcusable ignorance.

Senator Warner had extremely handsome young men on his personal and Senate staff when I lived in DeeCee.

Beautiful evening here. The kids are down in Girdwood (the place where Sen. Ted Stevens is elevating his home values) for the “Forest Fair,” a sort of DFH-bluegrass festival. I’m gonna head out onto the lake with Ms ET and dog Strider for a cruise. Or not. The sun just went behind a huge cloud.

What are folks listening to tonight?

I’m indulging my inner Irishman, listening to Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh (the lead singer from the band Danu).

Here ya go Jacqrat

I love Henry Rollins.. He’s on my tivo list.

Wouldn’t surprise me one bit to find out he is a firedog.

LoudounLib @ 22

Last night’s Hardball was definitely one for the ages…

IMHO, it had nothing to do with “Hardball” and everything to do with “Schuster.” more More MORE

wigwam @ 32

LoudounLib @ 22

Last night’s Hardball was definitely one for the ages…

IMHO, it had nothing to do with “Hardball” and everything to do with “Schuster.” more More MORE

Shuster is a star

TexB @ 23

More ice cream. Assorted flavors.

Update from Alfred, about his dad:

Well, I just slept 8 hours in my own chair, so i am at least moderately functional. dad is VERY good, no drug-res bacteria in his blood, no lung issue (film artifact) and no other major probs. so he’s coming home sat night or sun morning. house is a wreck but i’m slowly digging out. got his new hospital bed delivered today, free thanks to medicare and bc/bs.

And about us:

tell everyone I’m missing them very much and will try to get back to posting and blogging asap.

Thank you for the update. I’ve been worried about AK & dad. Let him know I/we miss him and his excellent comments.

landofthefree – from land of the epu -

wrt fred thompson……..the fundies will fall in line behind cueball. They have nothing the Lake would recognize as principles and therefore will vote for *anything* they believe will keep them in power.

TexB -

Great news from AlfredK; was gonna ask if anyone had heard from him today.

OMDog – is this *our* fred hiatt?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..v=hcmodule

LoudounLib @ 30

Here ya go Jacqrat

thank you very much.

Cliff Schecter wonders if he lost Freddie his ABC radio gig:

I posted on it, and it was picked up by Kos, C&L, I cross-posted at Huff Post and then did some radio on it (The Young Turks, etc.). We ended up getting some print coverage and it blew up into a mini-brouhaha.

Well lo and behold, ABC is now talking about Fred in the past tense. I am not bragging here. Obviously what they were doing was so beyond the pale, that anyone who brought it up would have been able to put pressure on them. But I guess that is the point. Stand up and make yourself heard, and who knows what happens.

Jacqrat @ 26

burnspbesq @ 14

This evening’s fun is now available at msnbc.com.

Shuster serves up Ajami’s head on a plate as a first course. Then, guest chef Debbie Wasserman-Schultz comes out of the kitchen with Filet of Dan Burton.

Yummy!

went over there – cannot find Debbie. Usually, folks link the stuff they are referring to. Makes us lazy asses happy! :)

Try this.

Jacqrat @ 36

LoudounLib @ 30

Here ya go Jacqrat

thank you very much.

No, I already saw Shuster. Was looking to the Debbie Wasserman-Schultz clip he mentioned … :(

TexB @ 23

More ice cream. Assorted flavors.

Update from Alfred, about his dad:

Well, I just slept 8 hours in my own chair, so i am at least moderately functional. dad is VERY good, no drug-res bacteria in his blood, no lung issue (film artifact) and no other major probs. so he’s coming home sat night or sun morning. house is a wreck but i’m slowly digging out. got his new hospital bed delivered today, free thanks to medicare and bc/bs.

And about us:

tell everyone I’m missing them very much and will try to get back to posting and blogging asap.

Tell Alfred to get his dad’s ass out of the hospital asap. Those are deadly places.

Eureka Springs @ 31

I love Henry Rollins.. He’s on my tivo list.

Wouldn’t surprise me one bit to find out he is a firedog.

I thought twice about putting him atop a post; he’s particularly extra-dosage testosterone. But yummy.

LoudounLib @ 25

Betsy, thanks for that update about AK and his dad — I’ve been hoping all is well with them.

Same here. He lights up the room, doesn’t he?

oh sorry Jacqrat, I didn’t preview that link — thought it might have been for the whole show :-(

LoudounLib @ 33

wigwam @ 32

IMHO, it had nothing to do with “Hardball” and everything to do with “Schuster.” more More MORE

Shuster is a star

It is so astounding to see an informed host in action that it brings tears to my eyes. But it should be the norm.

I never hated the smog so much as when I would see a clear day!!

TeddySanFran @ 27

oddmommy @ 13

evil parallel universed…….

So Mr. SF, what are John Warner’s skeletons? I plead inexcusable ignorance.

Senator Warner had extremely handsome young men on his personal and Senate staff when I lived in DeeCee.

Not that they were necessarily linked with any improper behavior . . . ahem . . . on Warner’s part. But given the presence of the late Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University and the abundance of wingnuts in Virginia, even having such handsome young men on the staff at all could be seen as encouraging the work of the devil.

Alfred only emailed me two links today, neither particularly political. I transferred them here.

Got to head to bed — G’nite all!

wow, freddie is off the koolaid

Betsy, would you please tell AK hello from all of us?

burnspbesq @ 29

What are folks listening to tonight?

I’m indulging my inner Irishman, listening to Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh (the lead singer from the band Danu).

Ah, i’ve got some Zohar
spinning on my winamp. Zohar’s actually Sasha Baron Cohen’s brother and a few others. This is a mishmash of a couple of their songs. I love the sound of it as a genre and a register of music i’m not familiar with. So of course..it gets listened to a LOT in my spare time till i’m familiar with said register in my mind.

*grins*

Guess which state?

When asked to name the worst president since 1960, 46 percent of the state’s independents cited Bush. No other president was mentioned by more than 15 percent of independents.

and

Slightly more than half of ????????? residents said they have an unfavorable view of the national Republican Party, including 60 percent of independents, according to the poll.

By comparison, 55 percent of residents, including half of independents, said they have a favorable impression of national Democrats.

Sleep well Peterr.

g’nite peterr (and any other sleepy pups I missed walking the cutest dog in the world)

Howdy folks. PaTrex here, whizzing through pitch dark NY state on the way to Buffalo.

How’s everyone?

oh, burns @29, I’ve reached into my way-back machine and am listening to some Ocean Blue

g’nite Peterr!

Suzanne @ 48

wow, freddie is off the koolaid

Naw……….the side effects are permanent.

LL:

Just did. He may not get it until morning though.

hey PaTrex! From what you said last night, sounds like you’re having a blast on the tour!

waccamaw, they will double his dose tomorrow.

Interesting forum going on @ C-Span2 wrt to blogs and editorial catroonists……hope AZ Matt catches it.

LoudounLib @ 59

hey PaTrex! From what you said last night, sounds like you’re having a blast on the tour!

Yeah, good times. Nothing has quite equaled the high of getting it REALLY right in front of 16k people in Naperville, Il.

That was pretty ok. The next night in Baltimore was good, but not AS good. Now we’re just cruising to the next engagement.

patrick @ 54

Howdy folks. PaTrex here, whizzing through pitch dark NY state on the way to Buffalo.

How’s everyone?

I think I can speak for the group and say that we are well. Lots of folks are still buzzing from what David Shuster did Friday as guest host on Hardball.

Suzanne -

Kinda like Schuster today………makes you realize what *could* come from the MSM and doesn’t.

Thanks to everyone for helping me find the Debbie Wasserman-Shultz clip on Hardball’s site. Dan Burton is such a WEENIE!!!!!!!!! And shuster, as usual, DREAMY!

Debbie performed a Bobbit-ectomy of Burton!

Was great! thanks again.

Waccamaw @ 64

Suzanne -

Kinda like Schuster today………makes you realize what *could* come from the MSM and doesn’t.

More like what SHOULD come from the MSM. But it doesn’t.

Waccamaw @ 35

landofthefree – from land of the epu -

wrt fred thompson……..the fundies will fall in line behind cueball. They have nothing the Lake would recognize as principles and therefore will vote for *anything* they believe will keep them in power.

TexB -

Great news from AlfredK; was gonna ask if anyone had heard from him today.

OMDog – is this *our* fred hiatt?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..v=hcmodule

So, when does the absence of criticism become cynicism?

Jacqrat @ 65

Thanks to everyone for helping me find the Debbie Wasserman-Shultz clip on Hardball’s site. Dan Burton is such a WEENIE!!!!!!!!! And shuster, as usual, DREAMY!

Debbie performed a Bobbit-ectomy of Burton!

Was great! thanks again.

I wonder if that was where Peterr got the nuts for the impeachmint pie ice cream upthread…

TeddySanFran @ 27

oddmommy @ 13

evil parallel universed…….

So Mr. SF, what are John Warner’s skeletons? I plead inexcusable ignorance.

Senator Warner had extremely handsome young men on his personal and Senate staff when I lived in DeeCee.

ahHA. Well that is veeery interesting indeed. But jeeez……talk about a Textbook Case of Ultra Denial……marrying Elizabeth Taylor???

That would be like if I said that Youtube dude was a total hottie and I was actually a lesbian.

In which case, if John Kerry were to ask me, who am one of God’s children…..

Oh……..whateva. Think I hear a little cheneylet crying out there somewhere.

Ed*ard Teller @ 28

Beautiful evening here. The kids are down in Girdwood (the place where Sen. Ted Stevens is elevating his home values) for the “Forest Fair,” a sort of DFH-bluegrass festival. I’m gonna head out onto the lake with Ms ET and dog Strider for a cruise. Or not. The sun just went behind a huge cloud.

Better hurry. Only another hour or two of daylight.

i haven’t watched the Shuster clip yet because this whole Libby thing annoys the PISS out of me. I don’t want to watch any more sanctimonious honkies talking about how it was the right thing to do. FUCK ‘em.

I saw Bill Kristol on tv the other day for like 10 seconds, and I thought… “Wow, if I ever meet that guy… that self-satisfied smirk is gonna vanish into a mouthful of broken teeth.”

folks, I have hit the wall…good night!

oh, and impeach!

Waccamaw @ 64

Suzanne -

Kinda like Schuster today………makes you realize what *could* come from the MSM and doesn’t.

It hurts to think what we’ve been putting up with.

patrick @ 71

i haven’t watched the Shuster clip yet because this whole Libby thing annoys the PISS out of me. I don’t want to watch any more sanctimonious honkies talking about how it was the right thing to do. FUCK ‘em.

I saw Bill Kristol on tv the other day for like 10 seconds, and I thought… “Wow, if I ever meet that guy… that self-satisfied smirk is gonna vanish into a mouthful of broken teeth.”

metaphorically speaking of course, right Patrick?

<a href=”#comment-804724″ rel=”nofollow”><em>Jacqrat @ 65</em></a>
<blockquote>Thanks to everyone for helping me find the Debbie Wasserman-Shultz clip on Hardball’s site. Dan Burton is such a <b>WEENIE!!!!!!!!!</b> And shuster, as usual, <em>DREAMY!</em>

Debbie performed a Bobbit-ectomy of Burton!

Was great! thanks again.</blockquote>

That was pretty sweet, wasn’t it? Only way it could have been better would have been for her to nail Burton on one obvious lie that went unchallenged. Clinton didn’t lie to a grand jury; he lied in a deposition in a civil case. Yes, perjury is perjury, and what he did was deplorable, but it’s not morally equivalent to what Scooter did.

Hell, everybody lies about blowj*bs. ;-)

(MOD NOTE: *Edited to allow through filter)

LoudounLib @ 72

folks, I have hit the wall…good night!

oh, and impeach!

Hope the wall didn’t hit back.

Sleep well my friend.

patrick @ 71

i haven’t watched the Shuster clip yet because this whole Libby thing annoys the PISS out of me. I don’t want to watch any more sanctimonious honkies talking about how it was the right thing to do. FUCK ‘em.

I saw Bill Kristol on tv the other day for like 10 seconds, and I thought… “Wow, if I ever meet that guy… that self-satisfied smirk is gonna vanish into a mouthful of broken teeth.”

Patrex, watching Shuster is the antidote, like taking a tonic and letting the pain just melt away…

PLEASE OH PLEASE can he have Tucker’s slot?

(waving g’nite to LL)

you too Betsy, and sweet dreams :-)

oh, and impeach!

early and often!

good night.

Hope the scuttlebutt (sp?) about Froomkin doing more teevee work is true…to my ear he came across very effectively today.

g’night Suz and Laura :-)

ok, ok…10 more minutes at the Lake…

Hoping that Shuster’s stand-in for Tweety will open
“The Powers That Be’s” eyes to what real reportage looks like. Television news programs CAN include real journalism! What a concept.

And more of Democrats in Congress pushing back like Debbie did. That was awesome.

Jacqrat @ 77

patrick @ 71

i haven’t watched the Shuster clip yet because this whole Libby thing annoys the PISS out of me. I don’t want to watch any more sanctimonious honkies talking about how it was the right thing to do. FUCK ‘em.

I saw Bill Kristol on tv the other day for like 10 seconds, and I thought… “Wow, if I ever meet that guy… that self-satisfied smirk is gonna vanish into a mouthful of broken teeth.”

Patrex, watching Shuster is the antidote, like taking a tonic and letting the pain just melt away…

PLEASE OH PLEASE can he have Tucker’s slot?

PLEEASSEEEE JESUS!!

PRex!!

ok, last blast from here —

Teddy, thanks to your email links earlier, I wrote a really nice “mash note” to Dan Abrams regarding Shuster earlier this evening. Hope it helped…

Please convey your appreciation for David Shuster’s work — and for more Froomkin on MSNBC! — here:

feedback@msnbc.com, dabrams@msnbc.com, letters@msnbc.com, viewerservices@msnbc.com,

burnspbesq @ 75

Yes, perjury is perjury, and what [Clinton] did was deplorable, but it’s not morally equivalent to what Scooter did.

Deploarable, yes. Perjury, no. See http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/…..rjury.html for details.

g’nite double-ell

aliasofwestgate @ 50

burnspbesq @ 29

What are folks listening to tonight?

I’m indulging my inner Irishman, listening to Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh (the lead singer from the band Danu).

Ah, i’ve got some Zohar
spinning on my winamp. Zohar’s actually Sasha Baron Cohen’s brother and a few others. This is a mishmash of a couple of their songs. I love the sound of it as a genre and a register of music i’m not familiar with. So of course..it gets listened to a LOT in my spare time till i’m familiar with said register in my mind.

*grins*

Zohar is Hebrew for Radiance. It is the name given to a collection of books that form the backbone of the Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism.

Suzanne @ 74

metaphorically speaking of course, right Patrick?

Um. Sure. :-S

And since we are reminding….

don’t forget to hit the donate buttons and/or send your donations via snail mail. buttons and address conveniently located at the top right of the lakes pages.

patrick @ 90

Suzanne @ 74

metaphorically speaking of course, right Patrick?

Um. Sure. :-S

thank you, patrex ;)

TeddySanFran @ 86

Please convey your appreciation for David Shuster’s work — and for more Froomkin on MSNBC! — here:

feedback@msnbc.com, dabrams@msnbc.com, letters@msnbc.com, viewerservices@msnbc.com,

Teddy I would, but I already did earlier this week. But give me a couple weeks and I’ll remind Abrams again!

Is Fred Thompson pro-choice? Was he?

WASHINGTON — Fred Thompson, who is weighing a Republican presidential bid as a social conservative, “has no recollection” of performing lobbying work in 1991 for a family planning group that was seeking to relax an abortion counseling rule, a spokesman said Friday.

The Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site that Thompson was retained by National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association to lobby the administration of President George H.W. Bush to ease a regulation that prevented clinics that received federal money from offering any abortion counseling.

The GOP needs to change its motto to “Has No Recollection”

my ten minutes is up — good night, for real!

LoudounLib @ 95

my ten minutes is up — good night, for real!

Sleep well. For real.

Some pretty bedtime music. .Sweet dreams everyone.

Patrick – The Shuster video is a good one. He calls them on their turd blossoms… don’t miss it.. btw, Jusy how fast an internet connection do you get on that bus?

Nite LL and Laura!

from AP: “First fan George W. Bush turned out Thursday night to catch the last-place Washington Nationals play the Chicago Cubs.

“It was an early birthday outing for Bush, who turns 61 on Friday. He arrived at RFK Stadium in the bottom of the first inning and left after the seventh-inning stretch with the Cubs leading 4-2. As it happened, that was the final score.

“Most fans probably did not know Bush was present. There was no advance word of his visit and no announcement over the stadium’s public-address system.” [my bold]

Confirms a comment I made earlier today………..gutless wonder won’t show up (publically) at any event he can’t control 100%.

Waccamaw @ 100

from AP: “First fan George W. Bush turned out Thursday night to catch the last-place Washington Nationals play the Chicago Cubs.

“It was an early birthday outing for Bush, who turns 61 on Friday. He arrived at RFK Stadium in the bottom of the first inning and left after the seventh-inning stretch with the Cubs leading 4-2. As it happened, that was the final score.

“Most fans probably did not know Bush was present. There was no advance word of his visit and no announcement over the stadium’s public-address system.” [my bold]

Confirms a comment I made earlier today………..gutless wonder won’t show up (publically) at any event he can’t control 100%.

snunk in and snuck out like the yellow bellied coward he is

Waccamaw @ 100

from AP: “First fan George W. Bush turned out Thursday night to catch the last-place Washington Nationals play the Chicago Cubs.

“It was an early birthday outing for Bush, who turns 61 on Friday. He arrived at RFK Stadium in the bottom of the first inning and left after the seventh-inning stretch with the Cubs leading 4-2. As it happened, that was the final score.

“Most fans probably did not know Bush was present. There was no advance word of his visit and no announcement over the stadium’s public-address system.” [my bold]

Confirms a comment I made earlier today………..gutless wonder won’t show up (publically) at any event he can’t control 100%.

Would you??

Eureka Springs @ 99

Patrick – The Shuster video is a good one. He calls them on their turd blossoms… don’t miss it.. btw, Jusy how fast an internet connection do you get on that bus?

I don’t really know, but faster than dialup and a little slower than proper DSL.

it’s a real luxury, I tell you what. Most everyone else is falling asleep as I write this, and I may toddle off to my bunk soon…

tour buses with wifi and bunks. sure messes with my mental picture of the hard life on the road, sleeping in the bus seat after falling asleep from sheer boredom

I cannot imagine it Suz.

Suzanne @ 105

tour buses with wifi and bunks. sure messes with my mental picture of the hard life on the road, sleeping in the bus seat after falling asleep from sheer boredom

Yeah, I had a different impression too, but then PRex mentioned an audience of 16k in Naperville, so I realized this may be primetime he’s involved in. What do I know….

I’ve seen too many old VH1 shows about life on tour buses – i remember one braggin about having both 8track and cassette and a new fangled vhs so they could watch vhs tapes.

Good evening, Teddy, if you are still here. I like the theme you picked for tonight.

Impeach.
IMPEACH.
IMMMMPPPPEEEAAAACCCHHHH!!!!

I did not catch Schuster on Hardballs tonight, but on the basis of past performance I am more than happy to support him for having his own evening show on MSNBC. I would be pleased to see him replace the obsolete, dysfunctional, Clinton-panty-drawer-sniffing Tweety, but it would be even more special to see him bump Mr. Tucker-conflict-of-interest-son-of-Libby-trust-fund-bigshot-Daddy Carlson off the screen.

Here’s what Hunter S. Thompson wrote after Ford pardoned Nixon in 1974:

Well… this is going to be difficult. That sold-out knucklehead refugee from a 1969 ‘Mister Clean’ TV commercial has just done what only the most cynical and paranoid kind of malcontent ever connected with national politics would have dared to predict…

If I followed my better instincts right now, I would put this typewriter in the Volvo and drive to the home of the nearest politician — any politician — and hurl the goddamn machine through his front window … flush the bugger out with an act of lunatic violence then soak him down with mace and run him naked down Main Street in Aspen with a bell around his neck and black lumps all over his body from the jolts of a high powered “Ball Buster” cattle prod.

But old age has either mellowed me or broken my spirit to the point where I will probably not do that — at least not today, because that blundering dupe in the White House has just plunged me into a deep and vicious hole.

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1033765

Big Mitch @ 70

Ed*ard Teller @ 28

Beautiful evening here. The kids are down in Girdwood (the place where Sen. Ted Stevens is elevating his home values) for the “Forest Fair,” a sort of DFH-bluegrass festival. I’m gonna head out onto the lake with Ms ET and dog Strider for a cruise. Or not. The sun just went behind a huge cloud.

Better hurry. Only another hour or two of daylight.

heh, heh…

Back. Four Trumpeter swans are summering over at Neklason Lake. We were slowly drifting toward them. We got SO close! Then about 30 kids came out of the dorm of the Jesus camp across the lake, yelling “hup, two, three four, we’re gonna help save more and more….hup, two….” and the swans flew off to Mud Lake until it is over. These kids do NOT sing “Kumbaya.”

neurophius @ 109

Good evening, Teddy, if you are still here. I like the theme you picked for tonight.

Impeach.
IMPEACH.
IMMMMPPPPEEEAAAACCCHHHH!!!!

I did not catch Schuster on Hardballs tonight, but on the basis of past performance I am more than happy to support him for having his own evening show on MSNBC. I would be pleased to see him replace the obsolete, dysfunctional, Clinton-panty-drawer-sniffing Tweety, but it would be even more special to see him bump Mr. Tucker-conflict-of-interest-son-of-Libby-trust-fund-bigshot-Daddy Carlson off the screen.

Hear. Hear.

wigwam,

The spirit of HST lives on here at fdl. Mostly residing in TRex, from what I’ve observed.

didja take pictures, et? that sounds so lovely – until the kids singing part…

TeddySanFran @ 107

Yeah, I had a different impression too, but then PRex mentioned an audience of 16k in Naperville, so I realized this may be primetime he’s involved in. What do I know….

Oh, make no mistake, this is prime time. The Psychedelic Furs can sell some tickets. I have stumbled into high cotton!

hey neuro, how are you?

I figured if Dennis Kucinich, Maxine Waters, Jesse Jackson Jr, Bruce Fein, and Henry Rollins could agree on something — we’d better chat about this evening at lakeside.

patrick @ 114

TeddySanFran @ 107

Yeah, I had a different impression too, but then PRex mentioned an audience of 16k in Naperville, so I realized this may be primetime he’s involved in. What do I know….

Oh, make no mistake, this is prime time. The Psychedelic Furs can sell some tickets. I have stumbled into high cotton!

Well deserved high cotton, Patrick

Suzanne @ 114

didja take pictures, et? that sounds so lovely – until the kids singing part…

Didn’t bring a camera. This is the first summer we’ve had swans summer over. Usually we have a few hundred visit in spring and fall, but this is new. There will be more opportunities.

That’s awful nice of you to say, Suzanne!

I am having fun, making a little cash, and dreaming about how I’ll spend it…

Wish TRex was here. He’d have some fun, for sure.

Utterly amok is the felicitous phrase Bruce Fein uses to describe Cheney:

Under Dick Cheney, the office of the vice president has been transformed from a tiny acorn into an unprecedented giant oak. In grasping and exercising presidential powers, Cheney has dulled political accountability and concocted theories for evading the law and Constitution that would have embarrassed King George III. The most recent invention we know of is the vice president’s insistence that an executive order governing the handling of classified information in the executive branch does not reach his office because he also serves as president of the Senate. In other words, the vice president is a unique legislative-executive creature standing above and beyond the Constitution. The House judiciary committee should commence an impeachment inquiry. As Alexander Hamilton advised in the Federalist Papers, an impeachable offense is a political crime against the nation. Cheney’s multiple crimes against the Constitution clearly qualify.

Take the vice president’s preposterous theory that his office is outside the executive branch because it also exercises a legislative function. The same can be said of the president, who also exercises a legislative function in signing or vetoing bills passed by Congress. Under Cheney’s bizarre reasoning, President Bush is not part of his own administration: The executive branch becomes acephalous. Today Cheney Chief of Staff David Addington refused to renounce that reasoning, instead laughably trying to diminish the importance of the legal question at issue.

This was before the Libby payoff Monday.

TeddySanFran @ 116

hey neuro, how are you?

I figured if Dennis Kucinich, Maxine Waters, Jesse Jackson Jr, Bruce Fein, and Henry Rollins could agree on something — we’d better chat about this evening at lakeside.

Yes, it is a topic that should be discussed at every opportunity. Six-plus years suffering under the Dark Side of the Force is way too much. I want my country back.

By the way, who is Henry Rollins? (I am popular-culture-challenged). I like what he has to say above, but I don’t otherwise know anything about him.

Ed*ard Teller @ 113

wigwam,

The spirit of HST lives on here at fdl. Mostly residing in TRex, from what I’ve observed.

Real-old timers should note that “HST” isn’t Harry S Truman. ;-)

Zohar is Hebrew for Radiance. It is the name given to a collection of books that form the backbone of the Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism.

Yup, i just found out about that when i went looking for the band elsewhere before i tracked down Emusic to download it from. Found all three albums there. But it’s still excellent music. :P

high cotton indeed

patrick @ 118

That’s awful nice of you to say, Suzanne!

I am having fun, making a little cash, and dreaming about how I’ll spend it…

Wish TRex was here. He’d have some fun, for sure.

Hoping he is either with kissing guy or working on that book

I am old duck and goose hunter and when I first drove into Canada a few years back I immediately got lost without a care only to drive up on a field of swans… Well, really words could never do that moment justice.. time and all the beauty in the world came together and stood still in a perfect light.. I just hope I never forget it.

ET _ you ought to do a surveillence tape of that camp and post it on youtube.

wigwam, whenever someone refers to HST at the lake, I too always do a double-take. I know full well who’s meant, but those initials mean Truman to me!

Henry Rollins, survivor of sexual abuse and the Bullis School

Henry Rollins (born February 13, 1961 as Henry Lawrence Garfield[1]) is a singer and songwriter, spoken word artist, book author (prose and poetry), radio and TV personality, occasional movie actor, comedian, and voice-over artist.

He is perhaps best known for his work with the hardcore punk band Black Flag from 1981 to 1986, and for leading the Rollins Band since 1987.

Critic Steve Huey[2] describes Rollins as “a post-punk renaissance man … Rollins [is] relentlessly busy … and has kept his artistic integrity, becoming a kind of father figure for many alternative bands of the ’90s.”

In 2004, Rollins became an outspoken human rights activist, most vocally a crusader for gay rights. He has pinpointed the rights for gays to marry as a “vital issue impeding on the rights of Americans today.” He was the host of a benefit concert called “WedRock” to raise money for a pro-gay-marriage organization.

During the 2003 Iraq War, he started touring with the United Service Organizations (USO) to entertain troops overseas, despite his personal opposition to the war and the Bush administration.[3] The June 18, 2007 episode of The Henry Rollins Show featured several Iraq war veterans as interview guests.

When questioned about his sexuality, Rollins has said, “Believe me, if I was gay, I wouldn’t be hiding it.” [9] Rollins frequently speaks out on social justice on his spoken word tours and promotes equality, regardless of sexuality

Good night my dear friends. Teddy, thank you for great posts.

TeddySanFran @ 126

wigwam, whenever someone refers to HST at the lake, I too always do a double-take. I know full well who’s meant, but those initials mean Truman to me!

me too… the buck stops there – and he meant it

g’nite tex, pain free sleep wishes

Eureka Springs @ 126

ET _ you ought to do a surveillence tape of that camp and post it on youtube.

I do hope that is snark. The only time I’ve done a video of activities related to Camp Challenge was about ten years ago. A guy from the camp was running a huge jet ski watercraft over schools of spawning Sockeye salmon. Before I left, I asked my son to take a video of me from the bushes above the ramp going down to our floats. I told him that if I raised both hands to come out in the open.

When I got to the guy, he was still raging his machine back and forth over the salmon, who were hysterically spooked. I explained to him how careless his actions werre. He pulled a gun on me. I raised both hands as my son emerged from the bushes (way beyond pistol range), and explained to the guy that he had just commited the felony of 3rd degree assault and was being filmed. He put the pistol away, pulled his boat out of the water and was gone from Camp Challenge in less than fifteen minutes.

Some of the groups that rent the camp are outrageous, others are really cool. An Anchorage African Methodist congregation rents it for a weekend in September. We get some of the most lovely music in the world those Friday and Saturday nights.

about time for this tired firepup to get off her tushkie and do some housework around the little cottage by the creek in the redwoods. gotta have it all sparkly and shiny for potential showings this weekend.

see ya here tomorrow night, same bat time, same bat channel

TexB @ 129

Good night my dear friends. Teddy, thank you for great posts.

You are most welcome. Sleep well.

g’nite Suzanne, thanks for all your moderation!

and best of luck with showing the little cottage by the creek this weekend.

Suzanne @ 130

TeddySanFran @ 126

wigwam, whenever someone refers to HST at the lake, I too always do a double-take. I know full well who’s meant, but those initials mean Truman to me!

me too… the buck stops there – and he meant it

I have my problems with Truman’s human-rights record: the use of nuclear weapons on population centers and the recognition of Israel to begin with. But he assembled strategists who, in spite of the fact that we were the sole nuclear power on the planet, chose a strategy of containment by which his successors through Bush-41 abided and came to a successful outcome.

TeddySanFran @ 134

g’nite Suzanne, thanks for all your moderation!

and best of luck with showing the little cottage by the creek this weekend.

thanks teddy…. your posts are fun to moderate.

TeddySanFran @ 134

TexB @ 129

Good night my dear friends. Teddy, thank you for great posts.

You are most welcome. Sleep well.

I’ll second that. This is my first exposure to the art of Henry Rollins, and I’m hooked.

ET — don’t miss this

g’nite all, see you tomorrow…. thanks

TeddySanFran @ 139

ET — don’t miss this

That is so totally fuckin’ funny! Thanks, again.

Consider it semi-snark and nice move with the camera. I have had similar run ins with neighbors of that ilk where cameras literally save a life.

I must admit the audio you described from this evening did sound rather erie and tempting to share with a larger audience..

g’ nite all

from earlier: “Remember that besides Holy Joe, CT has given us Nader and the Bush family.”

And Coultergeist…

ESAR,

loved the link to the article about your community. chalked off as semi-snark. many sounds and images need to remain ineffible, as the experience of seeing and hearing them is equally ineffible.

Whats this Karen Hughes stuff Henry was talking about? Has Condi been pushed aside?

How can Patrick trex be in a bus whizzing along and still be on the net? Is he wireless?

Some moderate Democrats and Republicans are trying to hide a keep the troops in Iraq forever thing inside some bill, America Blog and Kos are on it. It seems we might have been led on again with this story of GOP Senators speaking against the war while at the same time they tried to pull a fast one on us.

BTW, in case no one has mentioned it, Ajami has been an advisor to Shooter and Scooter since before the Iraq war began. IIRC, I think the phrase he is associated with planting with Shooter for his MTP appearance is “we’ll be greeted as liberators.”

Some context: He’s Persian, not Arab. His family is from Iran. He’s a Shiite, so of course his support of the war and this administration is never-ending.

spiderpaws @ 146

How can Patrick trex be in a bus whizzing along and still be on the net? Is he wireless?

Somehow the tour bus has wireless. How this is accomplished? I do not now, but it is there and it is intermittent. *grins* lucky him.

I envy him, riding along at night with everyone asleep, logging on to the lake…if he gets a minute he should rush over to the Charles Burchfield Museum in Buffalo where he can see original Burchfields

Jacqrat @ 65

Debbie performed a Bobbit-ectomy of Burton!

That’s now known as the Bobbit procedure.

Sorry to miss out on so much fun tonight, but I really must be getting ready for my semi-annual pilgrimage to the mainland on Sunday, and I have a full weekend ahead…

But anyway, I wanted to respond to wigwam downstairs. The question was, what will it take to get the impeachment machinery going? Wigwam’s answer was, “a smoking gun.” Well, I don’t think so, because it seems like we have a crime scene littered with smoking guns, don’t we?

What we’re missing is the Saturday Night Massacre, which was really the tipping point for the whole thing. And I’m really really hoping that Bush’s clumsy “commutation” will be it.

However, if the commutation is to be the contemporary equivalent of the Saturday Night Massacre, we really have to be on top of things, not just preaching to the choir, but raising a stink in public, with letters to the editor, etc. We must refuse to let this die! Fan the flames! Keep the pressure on! BushCo. is absolutely relying on our short attention span to let this thing blow over. We mustn’t let that happen!!!

Bob in HI

Bob Schacht @ 152

Sorry to miss out on so much fun tonight, but I really must be getting ready for my semi-annual pilgrimage to the mainland on Sunday, and I have a full weekend ahead…

But anyway, I wanted to respond to wigwam downstairs. The question was, what will it take to get the impeachment machinery going? Wigwam’s answer was, “a smoking gun.” Well, I don’t think so, because it seems like we have a crime scene littered with smoking guns, don’t we?

What we’re missing is the Saturday Night Massacre, which was really the tipping point for the whole thing. And I’m really really hoping that Bush’s clumsy “commutation” will be it.

However, if the commutation is to be the contemporary equivalent of the Saturday Night Massacre, we really have to be on top of things, not just preaching to the choir, but raising a stink in public, with letters to the editor, etc. We must refuse to let this die! Fan the flames! Keep the pressure on! BushCo. is absolutely relying on our short attention span to let this thing blow over. We mustn’t let that happen!!!

Bob in HI

Hi Bob. I absolutely agree. What I said was: “There need be no smoking gun.” — a very akward construction on my part.

The point I was trying to make is that the framers seemed to have in mind that things as simple as offensive conduct would be impeachable offenses. In particular they included maladministration of high office as an impeachable offense. One could certainly give Bush high marks in maladministration.

wigwam @ 153

Bob Schacht @ 152

Sorry to miss out on so much fun tonight, but I really must be getting ready for my semi-annual pilgrimage to the mainland on Sunday, and I have a full weekend ahead…

But anyway, I wanted to respond to wigwam downstairs. The question was, what will it take to get the impeachment machinery going? Wigwam’s answer was, “a smoking gun.” Well, I don’t think so, because it seems like we have a crime scene littered with smoking guns, don’t we?

What we’re missing is the Saturday Night Massacre, which was really the tipping point for the whole thing. And I’m really really hoping that Bush’s clumsy “commutation” will be it.

However, if the commutation is to be the contemporary equivalent of the Saturday Night Massacre, we really have to be on top of things, not just preaching to the choir, but raising a stink in public, with letters to the editor, etc. We must refuse to let this die! Fan the flames! Keep the pressure on! BushCo. is absolutely relying on our short attention span to let this thing blow over. We mustn’t let that happen!!!

Bob in HI

Hi Bob. I absolutely agree. What I said was: “There need be no smoking gun.” — a very akward construction on my part.

The point I was trying to make is that the framers seemed to have in mind that things as simple as offensive conduct would be impeachable offenses. In particular they included maladministration of high office as an impeachable offense. One could certainly give Bush high marks in maladministration.

I absolutely agree with you about the Founder’s intent. However, somehow or other, the Republicans have managed to snag a victory of sorts from the jaws of their defeated attempt to impeach Bill Clinton: They have managed to smear the process of impeachment by some alchemy which has transformed their own pathetic misguided impeachment into a criticism of all impeachment, thus protecting the most impeachable of presidents, our present incompetentincumbent, against what should be an open and shut case. How can we blast through the stupidity of this sleight of hand so that even Democrats like my own “progressive” incumbent, Neil Abercrombie, can understand it?

Bob in HI

Bob Schacht @ 154

wigwam @ 153

Hi Bob. I absolutely agree. What I said was: “There need be no smoking gun.” — a very akward construction on my part.

The point I was trying to make is that the framers seemed to have in mind that things as simple as offensive conduct would be impeachable offenses. In particular they included maladministration of high office as an impeachable offense. One could certainly give Bush high marks in maladministration.

I absolutely agree with you about the Founder’s intent. However, somehow or other, the Republicans have managed to snag a victory of sorts from the jaws of their defeated attempt to impeach Bill Clinton: They have managed to smear the process of impeachment by some alchemy which has transformed their own pathetic misguided impeachment into a criticism of all impeachment, thus protecting the most impeachable of presidents, our present incompetentincumbent, against what should be an open and shut case. How can we blast through the stupidity of this sleight of hand so that even Democrats like my own “progressive” incumbent, Neil Abercrombie, can understand it?

Bob in HI

I don’t agree that the Republican’s pathetic misguided attempt to oust Clinton for fibbing about a bl*wjob has discredited impeachment as an instrument of government. I believe that they have discredited themselves and will, of course, attempt to portray any Democratic attempt at impeachment as petty partisan payback. But, if the Democrats conduct themselves as statesmen, that attempt is sure to fail.

Bob Schacht @ 154

From this side of the Atlantic, it looks like the only smoking gun that will get impeachment started in the one that has just winged some prominent DLC DINO (not fatally of course). The democrats are still in business as usual mode. Damned few seem awake to the neocon-corporate gun being held at the head of the democracy; that gun, once discharged is the end of the democracy and the democratic body politic. Without engaging in a fight to the death struggle, the expected life of a democracy of about 200 years, will be met. The expected attack upon Iran is the discharge of that gun. Should it occure, kiss the republic goodby, you’ve greater problems then.

One thing that might be done is to let be known that misc. and sundry “misdiscressions political” can be tolerated if admitted, if that gives latitude to the ability to take on the task of impeachment of the administration and their supporters as a criminal conspiracy. Nullify the ability to politically extort compliance by the administration; no politican should be expected to be lilly white other than by prevarication.

Good morning, pups. It’s Egan and Herbert in the NYT today. Mr. Egan asks A-Rod not to write any more children’s books and to stop holding himself out as a role model. Mr. Herbert continues his series of columns on police abuses in the NYC schools. If Mayor Bloomberg is seriously considering a bid for the White House he should have his feet held to the fire over this…

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

Coffee and tea are all ready, and I had some bananas that were on the edge of getting too ripe so I’ve made some banana fritters. I like mine with Vermont maple syrup, but there’s powdered sugar in the sugar caster as well. I’m hoping for another day as beautiful as our 4th so I can dig in the dirt without collapsing from heat prostration. Have a grand Saturday!

Good morning!

Banana fritters…mmmm

Hey ladies, what up?

Linkin Park rockin Japan on Live Earth!

Hey raven!

First cup o coffee here, and got my live osprey cam up and running.

raven @ 160

Linkin Park rockin Japan on Live Earth!

Someone last nite h/t’d that it was running on XM so I took the car for a short drive and listened to a bit of what was coming from Japan. Understood not a word but great fun anyway.

Just hope the entire event turns out a success for the planet and for Gore. As if there aren’t enough reasons, it would also be a perfect stick in the eye to the thugs.

egregious -

Will your osprey fly on dial-up? Here’s some left-over blueberry nut bread to go with your coffee.

Waccamaw,

No idea. But I was wondering, can we get live cam to watch Cheney and Bush all the time? Kind of like monitoring done for felons.

wigwam @ 110

Here’s what Hunter S. Thompson wrote after Ford pardoned Nixon in 1974:

Well… this is going to be difficult. That sold-out knucklehead refugee from a 1969 ‘Mister Clean’ TV commercial has just done what only the most cynical and paranoid kind of malcontent ever connected with national politics would have dared to predict…

If I followed my better instincts right now, I would put this typewriter in the Volvo and drive to the home of the nearest politician — any politician — and hurl the goddamn machine through his front window … flush the bugger out with an act of lunatic violence then soak him down with mace and run him naked down Main Street in Aspen with a bell around his neck and black lumps all over his body from the jolts of a high powered “Ball Buster” cattle prod.

But old age has either mellowed me or broken my spirit to the point where I will probably not do that — at least not today, because that blundering dupe in the White House has just plunged me into a deep and vicious hole.

God, I miss this man…I can’t think of anyone who’s taken up the banner he left. Wolcott is close, but he simply does not have the same high carbon steel edge.

Oh, ‘morning, FirePups. Getting ready to head north for the weekend. Play nice and water the garden for me, ‘k? Will stop in later tonight if I can.

Firepups:

Big disappointing news on the FISA front this morning.

Here’s the lede:

A divided federal appeals court yesterday dismissed a case challenging the National Security Agency’s program to wiretap without warrants the international communications of some Americans, reversing a trial judge’s order that the program be shut down.

The majority in a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Cincinnati, ruled on a narrow ground, saying the plaintiffs, including lawyers and journalists, could not show injury direct and concrete enough to allow them to have standing to sue.

A key thread through the article, I thought, was the intimation from several experts that had the court not dismissed the case on grounds of standing, the government’s case (that warrantless eavesdropping was legal, despite FISA) would have stood on very shaky ground (for reasons about which brother Greenwald has educated us all here so well).

A bunch of grafs down in the story is a nugget I found especially significant:

In January, not long before the appeal was argued, the White House announced that it would submit the N.S.A. program for supervision by a secret court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Judge Gilman, the only judge to address the significance of that move, discounted it. [Gilman was the lone dissenter to dismissing the current case. -rb] He said that the administration had reserved the right to resume surveillance without warrants and that the appeal was therefore not moot.

Remember the collective sigh of semi-relief, including from many Democrats, when Bush suddenly announced that he would now kindly deign to subject the warrantless eavesdropping program to some vague and unspecified degree of FISA scrutiny? That move was clearly designed to shake at least a few critics off Bush’s back, and it succeeded.

We were right to call bullshit on that move, and judge Gilman, unfortunately in the minority, agrees.

Looking forward to the comments of our resident lawyers once they arise and caffeinate.

(And hey, what happened to the Preview button? I’m flying blind, but here goes….)

egregious @ 163

[snip] But I was wondering, can we get live cam to watch Cheney and Bush all the time? Kind of like monitoring done for felons.

euuuuuuuwwwwwwwww – there ain’t enough eye bleach in the whole world to get me to sign up for *that* duty! Let’s nominate Suzanne; iirc, she’s got the law & order creds for the job.

Rayne, the closest I’ve found to the late and much lamented HST is Matt Taibbi, but he seems to have dropped off the face of the earth.

Marion -

Humidity was thick enough here last nite to slice with a knife; hope better conditions where you are for yard work today.

Did Taibbi write for the Village Voice?

Taibbi most recently has written for Rolling Stone.

But his most gonzo work came when he lived in Russia and wrote for the eXile, under the influence (as he has acknowledged) of multiple fine substances. His atheist, anti-religionist rant, “God Can Suck My Dick,” written a few days after 9/11 is still a classic I like to quote from, despite a few lapses into (even for me) tastelessness.

Thanks, ralphbon -

Now ya’ll’ve got me trying to remember when last I read something of his.

Washington Journal has an interesting call-in about whether world financial aid should be privatized. Getting some really good responses….including quite a few who think the idea s*cks b/c of recent past experiences w/shrub’s crew. Lessons learned, as the twits say.

Off to check the crab pots (and listen to a little more of Live Earth); plez save my chair.

you know, it’s quite likely the president has no idea impeachment is being floated around

I doubt he even knows there’s a motion for censure

and if he does I am certain he believes it’s just the “far left” that are pushing the idea

you remember when all the right wing blogs and talking heads were floating their “pardon libby” mantra?

I see now that strategy wasn’t only promoted by corporate media to try to convince the public…nope…those clips and interviews were for the benefit of the president

he was shown only those and was told there is a vast majority sentiment to pardon libbly

and of course he believed it, he is in a bubble and he only finds out what they want him to find out

if he even knows his commutation created a firestorm, it is an incredible shock to him because he’s been told the public wanted scooter pardoned

with any luch rove will do what he’s hired to do…protect the president

this means throwing cheney under the bus

let’s hope we see the president beging distancing himself from cheney

if that happenns rove is giving cheney up to forstall action against bush till it’s too late to do anything

Good morning. Watching Live Earth on the Sundance Channel. Another Republican moves to the dark side…

WASHINGTON, July 5—Senator Pete Domenici today voiced his opposition to the president’s Iraq strategy, joining the growing chorus of Republicans who have openly criticized the war in recent weeks, according to The New York Times. Though he refused to endorse the withdrawal plan advocated by Congressional Democrats, Mr. Domenici issued what amounts to an announcement of “no confidence” in the prosecution of the war that has become a signature issue of the Republican Party and its unpopular president.

Mornin’ all!

Christy is inviting everyone to Pull Up A Chair upstairs

Love Henry Rollins. Hate the way his show is produced, with Henry frequently on a camera he’s not talking into.