zed?

Kobe Matisse Rose!

Is Kobe related to the French Fauve painter?

Down with Michael Vick!

Biodun @ 3

Is Kobe related to the French Fauve painter?

Kobe is a French Fauve painter. It’s his choice of materials that is somewhat…hmmm…groundbreaking.

Awww. Dogs!

Jane,
I encourage folks to not only click through to the Animal Rescue site but to click through all the associated sites as well. One click at each site every day can accomplish a lot of good in under a minute. The other sites are:
The Hunger Site (a click provides food)
The Breast Cancer Site (a click helps to provide mammograms for poor women)
The Child Health Site (a click helps to provide health coverage)
The Literacy Site (a click helps to provide books) and
The Rainforest Preservation Site (a click helps to preserve land from development)

Hi Woodhall Hollow…How’s this Saturday in Fort Greene?

Great video Jane

great dogs, also, great music.

Neoconservatism is dead.

http://www.rawstory.com/showar…..58154.html

Biodun @ 8

Hi Woodhall Hollow…How’s this Saturday in Fort Greene?

Beyootiful! I have been to the farmer’s market and got some nice fresh locally caught bonita, some fresh tomatoes, cukes, peaches, and basil. And some fresh grass-fed upstate jersey cheese.

And there is some fabulous live jazz in the park across the street!

love the dogs, and the bestest music! thanks for the interlude!

newdealfarmgrrrlll @ 10

great dogs, also, great music.

Lucy’s a big Ramsey Lewis fan.

Jane Hamsher @ 13

newdealfarmgrrrlll @ 10

great dogs, also, great music.

Lucy’s a big Ramsey Lewis fan.

Ahhh! impeccable taste. give her my compliments and an ear skritch.

Oodles of poodles!

Let’s give Daniel Schorr an honorary FDL membership today for his bit of snark on NPR this morning. He noted that before going into the hospital for his heart surgery, Cheney turned control over our country to George Bush temporarily.

Bob in HI

The toy looks like something from a chemistry class — a carbon atom?? — are they scientists?

Yum yum. The farmer’s market at Grand Army Plaza was my old stumping ground on Saturday mornings when I lived in Park Slope.

Where’s my sweetheart, Katy?!!!

Bob Schacht @ 16

Let’s give Daniel Schorr an honorary FDL membership today for his bit of snark on NPR this morning. He noted that before going into the hospital for his heart surgery, Cheney turned control over our country to George Bush temporarily.

Bob in HI

TSF, did you see my note on the last thread? I’d like to send you an email or you can email me at TexBetsy at G mail

Cute debut FirePups. I almost started dancin’ and I can’t dance. Nice touch with the kiss and snuggles.

Scarecrow @ 17

The toy looks like something from a chemistry class — a carbon atom?? — are they scientists?

No no, Kobe is a painter. See 5 above.

Spectacular video. My only criticism is that the finger is out of focus. :)

Scarecrow @ 17

The toy looks like something from a chemistry class — a carbon atom?? — are they scientists?

A giant fuzzy jack.

Scarecrow @ 17

The toy looks like something from a chemistry class — a carbon atom?? — are they scientists?

Chez TSF, we thought it looked like something from Good Vibrations on Valencia Street.

OT–

Apologies to Jane and the painter. Bush wants FISA updated:

Filed at 2:05 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush wants Congress to modernize a law that governs how intelligence agencies monitor the communications of suspected terrorists.

”This law is badly out of date,” Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, provides a legal foundation that allows information about terrorists’ communications to be collected without violating civil liberties.

Pachacutec @ 19

Where’s my sweetheart, Katy?!!!

She got camera shy after her bit with the DFH pjs the other day.

She’s primping for her evening out, anyway.

Biodun @ 25

OT–

Apologies to Jane and the painter. Bush wants FISA updated:

That bite has a familiar sound.
Reminds me of all the furor over OBL tapes, and debates whether he is really alive…
Just saying.

Filed at 2:05 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush wants Congress to modernize a law that governs how intelligence agencies monitor the communications of suspected terrorists.

”This law is badly out of date,” Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, provides a legal foundation that allows information about terrorists’ communications to be collected without violating civil liberties.

Biodun @ 25

OT–

Apologies to Jane and the painter. Bush wants FISA updated:

Filed at 2:05 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush wants Congress to modernize a law that governs how intelligence agencies monitor the communications of suspected terrorists.

”This law is badly out of date,” Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, provides a legal foundation that allows information about terrorists’ communications to be collected without violating civil liberties.

This Administration has lost the right to propose any changes to FISA at all. That would be like putting Joseph P. Kennedy in charge of the Securities and Exchange. Oh, wait….

(Betsy, second time might be the charm, re-sent)

Reminds me of the Lynda Barry comic…

He knew what people thought of his kind.
“HIgh Strung”. “Spoiled Rotten”. “French”.

But in the next 24 hours, he’s going to change all that…

He’s small.

He’s black.

He’s mad as HELL.

He’s…

POODLE with a MOHAWK
“You’ll never call him Fi Fi again”!

Jane,
Hoping to see you and all the Lake Royalty at Yearly Kos next week. I hope you are feeling great, but just in case, I found the location of a Leonidas chocolate shop in Chicago!

And Hillary has plenty of ideas and plans:

Filed at 4:04 p.m. ET

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told college Democrats on Saturday she would create a national academy to train public servants.

”I’m going to be asking a new generation to serve,” she said. ”I think just like our military academies, we need to give a totally all-paid education to young men and women who will serve their country in a public service position.”

An older woman carrying a sign that said ”She doesn’t care, all she wants is the power” yelled at Clinton while the New York senator was speaking in a ballroom on the University of South Carolina campus. Students attending the College Democrats of America convention shouted down the woman down and pushed her from the room.

PLovering @ 11

Neoconservatism is dead.

http://www.rawstory.com/showar…..58154.html

We should not be so sanguine that the total refutation of neocon ideas means that neoconservatism is dead. The neocons themselves and the thinktanks that support them, not to mention the government that put their ideas into play, are still very much around.

Neoconservatism as a label may have had its comeuppance, but its power base is still there, angrier than ever because things have not gone their way, and they will be back under perhaps another guise.

The Israel lobby that nurtured the neocons is still there and still hankering for war with Iran and they may get their way.

This kind of thinking that neoconservtism is dead is self-delusive and dangerous to the health or the body politic.

Biodun @ 19

Yum yum. The farmer’s market at Grand Army Plaza was my old stumping ground on Saturday mornings when I lived in Park Slope.

Then you must know the fish guy! He has a spot in Ft Greene now. Last week I got some fresh scallops that were so fresh that they became ceviche!

Biodun @ 27

OT–

Apologies to Jane and the painter. Bush wants FISA updated:

Filed at 2:05 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush wants Congress to modernize a law that governs how intelligence agencies monitor the communications of suspected terrorists.

”This law is badly out of date,” Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, provides a legal foundation that allows information about terrorists’ communications to be collected without violating civil liberties.

Cheney Bush!!

More on FISA:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/28/125940/916

chun yang @ 32

Jane,
Hoping to see you and all the Lake Royalty at Yearly Kos next week. I hope you are feeling great, but just in case, I found the location of a Leonidas chocolate shop in Chicago!

Could come in handy.

Poodles? Can my poodle say HI?

http://img.photobucket.com/alb…..CF0900.jpg

This is Nikki – she is also a standard poodle (They say that because they are the standard by which other dogs are measured :))

What an absolutely delightful break! I just picked my head up from work to take said break and checked in at the lake to see what was going on, and this did make me smile! They’ll probably become MAJOR film stars…

(edited after DWD posted) DWD, she’s a beauty too — loved the wink!

Woodhall Hollow @ 35:

Yeah I remember him. I envy you the fresh fish you can get in NYC. Coastal Seafood is what we have in Minneapolis. At least they fly the fish in everyday. But the selection is not as varied as what you can get in NYC.

Biodun @ 33

And Hillary has plenty of ideas and plans:

Filed at 4:04 p.m. ET

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told college Democrats on Saturday she would create a national academy to train public servants.

”I’m going to be asking a new generation to serve,” she said. ”I think just like our military academies, we need to give a totally all-paid education to young men and women who will serve their country in a public service position.”

An older woman carrying a sign that said ”She doesn’t care, all she wants is the power” yelled at Clinton while the New York senator was speaking in a ballroom on the University of South Carolina campus. Students attending the College Democrats of America convention shouted down the woman down and pushed her from the room.

This just may be a good idea, all high level management now comes from either the mega-corporate world or from the military, each with their particular mindsets and prejudices. Most of the mess in government is directly the result. A competitive alternate for administrative management is required.

Jane Hamsher @ 35

chun yang @ 32

Jane,
Hoping to see you and all the Lake Royalty at Yearly Kos next week. I hope you are feeling great, but just in case, I found the location of a Leonidas chocolate shop in Chicago!

Could come in handy.

Don’t miss hot fudge sundaes @ Margies…

The poodles are beautiful!!

The Michael Vick story is sick, sick, sick! The scary thing is that he is one of many whose deranged thinking partake in that vicious disregard for life.

Is this where we get to show off our dogs? Not poodles, but good, nonetheless.

Quicktime file…

dreamcatcher @ 33

This kind of thinking that neoconservtism is dead is self-delusive and dangerous to the health or the body politic.

It’s definitely not a new thing. Neoconservatism comes from John Birch Society, and can probably be traced back to that wonderful pair of Dulles brothers.

But mocking it, scorning it, deriding it and generally publicly discrediting it in any way possible is definitely a very good thing. Send them back under their rocks.

DWD @ 38

Poodles? Can my poodle say HI?

http://img.photobucket.com/alb…..CF0900.jpg

This is Nikki – she is also a standard poodle (They say that because they are the standard by which other dogs are measured :))

Awwww!! Standards are fantastic dogs.

Some friends have a poodle sheepdog mix — it has poodle smarts, and sheepdog lethargy.

And here’s McCain the broken record:

Filed at 1:28 p.m. ET

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Saturday he will not relent in his fight against Democrats in Congress who want to set a date for withdrawing troops from Iraq.

”We will not allow the United States of America to lose this war,” the Arizona senator told a packed crowd at a restaurant.

And he takes no prisoners with his campaign:

McCain’s poll numbers have fallen nationally, largely due to his stances on Iraq and his embrace of the defeated immigration bill.

Answering a question from the crowd, McCain said he will not change his stance, even if it means the defeat of his campaign.

OldCoastie, lovely bit of work there. They looked like they were having SUCH a good time. Beast blogging — I love it!

Marion in Savannah @ 49

OldCoastie, lovely bit of work there. They looked like they were having SUCH a good time. Beast blogging — I love it!

thanks! I had fun doing it… and yes, best vacation EVEH!

Our rescue rabbits give this video two ears up!

And Obama continues the meme with Hillary:

Filed at 1:35 p.m. ET

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama cast himself Saturday as the leader the United States needs for it to stand up to and engage renegade nations such as North Korea.

‘We need a president who’ll have the strength and courage to go toe to toe with the leaders of rogue nations, because that’s what it takes to protect our security,” the Illinois senator told Democrats at a rally. ”That’s what I’ll do as your next commander in chief.”

Obama and rival Hillary Rodham Clinton have had a running argument since clashing in last week’s debate over how far the United States should be willing to go in its diplomacy with countries such as Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea.

Jane, I’m glad to see yours act about the same as mine while they are lying on the rug… mine add a lot of “sound effects” though… (the big guy is a talker and is always scolding the puppy and she thinks it’s funny)

Gotta love that dyke rugby player luv Luc’ is giving Kobe. First she wins the hot summer no energy wrestle, then she slobbers him with kisses.

Biodun @ 40

Woodhall Hollow @ 35:

Yeah I remember him. I envy you the fresh fish you can get in NYC. Coastal Seafood is what we have in Minneapolis. At least they fly the fish in everyday. But the selection is not as varied as what you can get in NYC.

I don’t know. I like Jimmy Buffet’s quote in concert one time where he said he refused to eat seafood more than fifty miles form the coast as you never know what you’ll get.

Nice film. Beautiful dogs. Of course the film school shows through. Reminds me of early Werner Herzog, but with a much brighter view of both critters and humanity (but not of Grizzly Man, though… OK, on second thought, it doesn’t remind me of Herzog). Seems to me the dogs need more chew toys, and maybe some worn copies of these reports will work OK:

Thiw week’s new CRS report on inherent contempt proceedings
http://www.scotusblog.com/mova…..report.pdf

Older CRS report on Congressional investigations and subpoena and contempt power
http://www.senate.gov/referenc…..L31836.pdf

CRS updated Congressional oversight manual
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL30240.pdf

Apologies if these have been posted on this site earlier, but I thought people might be interested -I couldn’t find much until I saw a mention of the new CRS report on inherent contempt cited as damning evidence in a story on the awful nasty Dems and their plans to not be ‘bipartisan’. They might be planning on DOing something. OMIGOD! I think the real concern of the reporter’s was that if trials occurred, reporters and pundits might have to actually do some work instead of play Heathers all the time.

I think Congress holding inherent contempt proceedings is a great idea -and there are dozens of candidates, though two or three stand out the most right now. Most of the corporate media and the pundits would go apeshit of course, but they would have to cover it. Last one was 1934, so I think it would get voter attention, and I think another few trials are certainly justified legally and constitutionally now. Quicker the better. The AG said he won’t do a damn thing, so why wait. Who knows what the increasingly ideologically corrupt courts will do. From what I read so far, Cheney would have to preside over the Senate trial. I hope I misunderstand the terminology -says President of the Senate has to preside over Senate trial, and that’s Cheney, right?

Well, if so, the trials would be a great idea for the House.

dreamcatcher @ 34

Neoconservatism as a label may have had its comeuppance, but its power base is still there, angrier than ever because things have not gone their way, and they will be back under perhaps another guise.

For reference, see creationism->”scientific creationism”->”intelligent design”->?

They will surely try to repackage their crackpot ideas in a more palatable marketing campaign and insist it has nothing to do with neoconservatism. We need to recognize the new packaging and always be ready to remind and ridicule the ideas, no matter what the new label is.

And I’ve said many times that smart Repugs know they’re f*cked with respect to presidential ‘08:

Filed at 1:13 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bush who?

As ardent Democrats count the days until George W. Bush leaves office, many Republicans in Congress eagerly await the time when their 2008 nominee eclipses the president and, they hope, improves their re-election prospects.

In blunt terms, even Bush’s most loyal allies say their fate next year may come to this: Will voters largely forget the president and focus on a nominee who can distance himself from the Iraq war, a beleaguered attorney general and other problems that have sapped Bush’s popularity.

Perhaps as early as February, a likely nominee will emerge and Republicans will ”not have the Bush monkey on our back,” said Rep. Tom Feeney, R-Fla. ”We’re already in a post-Bush political era.”

Damn, my keyboard crapped out before I could finish pimping my girlfriend Lucy.

Notice when Kobe keeps looking for the fuzzy jack Lucy just blows him away with her kisses.

Nice work, Lucy!! Way to beat those boys.

[And if anyone’s wondering, I used to do this kind of play-by-play on Mike Vick’s butt. But now all my best sportscaster skills will be devoted to my girl Lucy.]

Go Dogs.
What great friends.
I spent the entire Hot Morning working on my side yard. My 6 month old Huge Pound Hound has killed off all of the grass there. So….I pulled out all the dead stuff and layed (laid?) down pea pebbles and sandstone paver steps. Now Brindle can Pea away without the guilt of killing grass, and I don’t have to mow, no mo’.
Jane, your dogs are (almost) as cute as mine. :)

DWD @ 38

Poodles? Can my poodle say HI?

http://img.photobucket.com/alb…..CF0900.jpg

This is Nikki – she is also a standard poodle (They say that because they are the standard by which other dogs are measured :))

OMG that’s cute. Where is Mutant Poodle? His Poodle in a Kayak photo is the FLD facebook group photo at the moment, it’s a winner.

ooooh boy!

Ramsey Lewis and doggies! What a combo! I’m in Firedog heaven.

When I was a little girl, many moons ago, my parents gave me my own little rocking chair which was placed in front of the “hi-fi” record player. Hours’ worth of listening enjoyment would be stacked on the automatic record-dropping disperser thingee (there must be a name for the device, but I don’t know or remember it).

For most of the time, my 4 year old self would rock and dream to the music.

For the Ramsey Lewis Trio’s “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” I always got up and did a very happy, joyful improvisational dance around the living room, imagining myself a flower growing up from the ground and then bending and flying about to the wind’s joyful rhythms.

Thanks, Jane, for the Ramsey Lewis music and the memories it evokes — and for the doggies, the bestest creatures in the world, this side of heaven.

Dakine –

Thank YOU for the recommendation of these and other sites where we can click to help out others!

Biodun @ 52

And Obama continues the meme with Hillary:

Filed at 1:35 p.m. ET

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama cast himself Saturday as the leader the United States needs for it to stand up to and engage renegade nations such as North Korea.

‘We need a president who’ll have the strength and courage to go toe to toe with the leaders of rogue nations, because that’s what it takes to protect our security,” the Illinois senator told Democrats at a rally. ”That’s what I’ll do as your next commander in chief.”

Obama and rival Hillary Rodham Clinton have had a running argument since clashing in last week’s debate over how far the United States should be willing to go in its diplomacy with countries such as Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea.

I was hoping Democrats would lead away from the “commander-in-chief” rhetoric. The President is commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not the Commander-in-Chief of the nation. He’s certainly not my commander-in-chief.

It’s part of our nation’s slide to fascism and militarism that this meme persists. Democrats should lead the country away from it; talk like this doesn’t do so.

Dreamcatcher @ 33
GordonM @45

Neoconservative idiology will be with us until the last mind giving it shelter is gone, and it will remain a threat to democratic processes all the while. The citizenry must be alerted to the danger and warned never to abandon vigilance for whatever form neoconservatism may assume. The mark of neoconservatism is the lie, the half-truth, the deception, the misdirection, and the fraud.

From the NY Times:

A half-dozen officials and former officials

interviewed for this article would speak only on the condition of anonymity, in part because unauthorized disclosures about the classified program are already the subject of a criminal investigation. Some of the officials said the 2004 dispute involved other issues in addition to the data mining, but would not provide details. They would not say whether the differences were over how the databases were searched or how the resulting information was used.

My bold–six people is not an insignificant number. It sounds like the dam could burst and someone would tell what the Junta has really been up to, if only the newspaper of record had the cajones to print it, and to stand by its sources.

TeddySanFran @ 63:

Great point re: commander-in-chief–of the armed forces and not of Americans. This conflation is probably lost to many.

MrsK8 @ 62

My pleasure. I’m always looking for opportunities to highlight all six sites. Jane just gave me an opening to do so. :})

Biodun @ 48

And here’s McCain the broken record:

Filed at 1:28 p.m. ET

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Saturday he will not relent in his fight against Democrats in Congress who want to set a date for withdrawing troops from Iraq.

”We will not allow the United States of America to lose this war,” the Arizona senator told a packed crowd at a restaurant.

“We will not allow America to fail to fly,” said the Arizona senator as the president pushed another soldier off a cliff. “We’re certain that if they flap their arms as Gen. Petraeus directs for just a little longer, we’ll be soaring.”

Those who suggested that unaided human flight had been an insane plan from the beginning were derided as unpatriotic.

Biodun @ 66

TeddySanFran @ 63:

Great point re: commander-in-chief–of the armed forces and not of Americans. This conflation is probably lost to many.

Kinda like the kool-aid drinkers stating they swore an oath to the Preznit rather than to the Constitution

To be honest, these dogs make me feel very inferior. When I was a kid we had a poodle -but it looked like a mutt. It was half poodle and have something else unknown. It had a poodle frame, but the hair was like a combo of poodle and wooly mammoth. About the smartest animal I ever knew. It was always working on schemes to create chaos, and was very ingenious in finding ways to accomplish them. You couldn’t make a film like that. By the end the dog would have thought of some cool trick to pull and the last scene would be the camera being knocked over and flying something or others in the air.

These dogs like like very high class and refined poodles. Very odd for a lefty blog. Shouldn’t they be riff-raff poodles? I would be afraid to go to a party with these poodles, they might snub me. They seem like very nice and considerate dogs, so they would try to be polite about it. But still.

LS @ 36

Biodun @ 27

OT–

Apologies to Jane and the painter. Bush wants FISA updated:

Cheney Bush!!

More on FISA:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/28/125940/9
16

My favorite comment from that great post:

He knows damned well taht his violations of FISA are the most solid core of any legal case for impeachment, but that if he gets the law changed (1) he gives himself some degree of ex post facto protection from his criminal acts, and (2) he will have suborned Congress into once again enabling his extraconstitutional and illegal power grabs. Of course he wants this, and in particular now because finally the idea of impeachment is beginning to resonate with the American people, and he sees his FISA violations as a fin sticking out of the water heading straight at him.

Iraq Moratorium Day!

by ActivistGuy o

Thanks for bringing a smile to my face right now….thanks poochies and Jane. You’re too funny with the finger comment, and love the hip happening music 8-)

Biodun @ 27

OT–

Apologies to Jane and the painter. Bush wants FISA updated:

Filed at 2:05 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush wants Congress to modernize a law that governs how intelligence agencies monitor the communications of suspected terrorists.

”This law is badly out of date,” Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, provides a legal foundation that allows information about terrorists’ communications to be collected without violating civil liberties.

I was disappointed but not surprised that the NPR report on Bush’s radio address failed to mention that he is flat-out lying about it being out of date. He talked as usual about disposable cell phones and such, when actually the FISA law has already been updated since the advent of those technologies.

However, they did mention that this was the same bill that even last year’s Republican Congress wouldn’t pass.

Completely OT but too funny:

That’s not how the economy is done, stupid:

Filed at 1:38 p.m. ET

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — President Robert Mugabe has promised to print more money to fund municipal projects, a government newspaper reported Saturday. The pledge came despite hyperinflation that has created severe shortages of cornmeal, meat, milk and other staples.

bright sun and pouring rain, both in front of my lving room window. yikes!

TexB @ 75

Sounds magical.

demi @ 74

TexB @ 75

Sounds magical.

This is day 39 of rain. Simultaneous sunshine is a nice change, but even so ….. NO MORE RAIN!

Fun for the poodles: why is it everything is much more enjoyable if someone else wants it?

bright sun and pouring rain, both in front of my lving room window. yikes!

Weather for the foxes’ wedding.

I take it Mugabe isn’t an economist.

-GSD

Woodhall Hollow: Fort Greene sounds a bit different than it was when I lived there – 1984ish. No farmer’s markets, no jazz bands. Scruffy and dangerous instead.

Oh my, climate controlled pet carriers. Wonder how the poodles would like them?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..martliving

ThinkProgress has the link showing why Romney will not debate on YouTube. There are too many sex offenders there, 29,000 of them. Have the poodles been cleared of wrongdoing?
===================================
But Romney showed some unfamiliarity with the Internet when he discussed the problem of sexual predators and children.

“YouTube is a website that allows kids to network with one another and make friends and contact each other,” Romney explained. “YouTube looked to see if they had any convicted sex offenders on their web site. They had 29,000.”

Actually, YouTube is the popular site that allows Internet users to upload and watch a variety of videos. The web site, which is owned by search-engine behemoth Google, also was a co-sponsor of the Democratic presidential debate held on Monday night.

Bob Schacht @ 17

Let’s give Daniel Schorr an honorary FDL membership today for his bit of snark on NPR this morning. He noted that before going into the hospital for his heart surgery, Cheney turned control over our country to George Bush temporarily.

Bob in HI

You’re kidding. That is SO funny!!!!

Jane – USC film school? My son is in journalism school there — Annenburg. Loves it. Since I’m a UCLA Law grad, he had to overcome a bit of “prejudice” to go there.

Frank33 @ 83

ThinkProgress has the link showing why Romney will not debate on YouTube. There are too many sex offenders there, 29,000 of them. Have the poodles been cleared of wrongdoing?
===================================
But Romney showed some unfamiliarity with the Internet when he discussed the problem of sexual predators and children.

“YouTube is a website that allows kids to network with one another and make friends and contact each other,” Romney explained. “YouTube looked to see if they had any convicted sex offenders on their web site. They had 29,000.”

Actually, YouTube is the popular site that allows Internet users to upload and watch a variety of videos. The web site, which is owned by search-engine behemoth Google, also was a co-sponsor of the Democratic presidential debate held on Monday night.

And it’s the News Corp owned MySpace that had the 29K predators

carolyn urban @ 81

Woodhall Hollow: Fort Greene sounds a bit different than it was when I lived there – 1984ish. No farmer’s markets, no jazz bands. Scruffy and dangerous instead.

It is. I moved here in ‘97 and it was still a very dicey neighborhood (there were two crack dealing houses on my street). But as you probably remember, it is very convenient (every subway in the city comes by). By 2000, the word was out, and now it is a very different place–for one thing, their are tons of kids. All of Brooklyn is changing–hell, even Bushwick is being gentrified!

Loo Hoo. @ 82

Oh my, climate controlled pet carriers. Wonder how the poodles would like them?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..martliving

very interesting but I’m not sure how you would not come back to a very dead battery if you used it in the car without the engine running!

TexB @ 77

demi @ 74

TexB @ 75

Sounds magical.

This is day 39 of rain. Simultaneous sunshine is a nice change, but even so ….. NO MORE RAIN!

Too much rain can get you crazy, I would imagine. Here, in LA, it’s 98, which isn’t as bad as 108 or 118, which it will get to next month. If you don’t get out early in the am, it’s just too uncomfortable.
I’ll share some sunshine with ya, if you send me some wet stuff.

Romney logic.

Youtube, Myspace, Al Qaeda, Hizbollah….whatever.

-GSD

GSD @ 89

Romney logic.

Youtube, Myspace, Al Qaeda, Hizbollah….whatever.

-GSD

Youtube is not his friend. Ghouliani doesn’t like it much either!

The funky hip hoppy jazz in Ft Greene Park has transmongrified into some very serious blues.

dakine01 @ 85

Frank33 @ 83

ThinkProgress has the link showing why Romney will not debate on YouTube. There are too many sex offenders there, 29,000 of them. Have the poodles been cleared of wrongdoing?
===================================
But Romney showed some unfamiliarity with the Internet when he discussed the problem of sexual predators and children.

“YouTube is a website that allows kids to network with one another and make friends and contact each other,” Romney explained. “YouTube looked to see if they had any convicted sex offenders on their web site. They had 29,000.”

Actually, YouTube is the popular site that allows Internet users to upload and watch a variety of videos. The web site, which is owned by search-engine behemoth Google, also was a co-sponsor of the Democratic presidential debate held on Monday night.

And it’s the News Corp owned MySpace that had the 29K predators

And the Romney campaign has an official page on MySpace!

Stupid? Check.
Technologically ignorant? Check.
Hypocritical? Check.

Clearly, he’s qualified to be a top-tier Republican candidate!

TeddySanFran @ 63

Biodun @ 52

And Obama continues the meme with Hillary:

I was hoping Democrats would lead away from the “commander-in-chief” rhetoric. The President is commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not the Commander-in-Chief of the nation. He’s certainly not my commander-in-chief.

It’s part of our nation’s slide to fascism and militarism that this meme persists. Democrats should lead the country away from it; talk like this doesn’t do so.

Right on, Teddy. I like Obama. But he has to reconfigure this stance a little bit, without looking clumsy like Clinton does when she backtracks (she has NO political skills). I was appalled this 4th of July where every baseball park, major league and minor league, that I saw honor the armed and police forces in their neighborhoods. The Dec. of Independance and the 4th of July embody the exact OPPOSITE of that. argh!

I think all the pugs are afraid of the YouTube since George Macaca Allen’s little problem…

TexB @ 75

bright sun and pouring rain, both in front of my lving room window. yikes!

When I was a kid we always said that meant the devil was beating his wife.

new thread

PLovering @ 11

Neoconservatism is dead.

http://www.rawstory.com/showar…..58154.html

We can only hope ,pray and push back hard against the cakewalk zealots. Their regime change agenda is huge and they will continue to push hard, with lies, and whatever it takes to push the Bush administration into a confrontation with Iran, Syria, and now it looks like Pakistan too. Until they are banned along with their regime change agenda in the middle east from the halls of Washington the escalation of violence in the middle east will continue.

From Raw Story
“Neoconservatives are very special people, in their own eyes. When things go wrong they become the party of perjury and pardons, the party of abuse of power and abuse of executive privilege to cover up their failures and crimes.”

Historian, military analyst, Military officials, retired policy analyst, retired CIA analyst tell us over and over again that our nation has never witnessed such a sick group of narcissist with no regard for human life but their own and those they want to protect, which do not seem to be Americans and are certainly not the Iraqi people. We need to push back hard. This group of people are the most radical bunch of socio-paths to walk the halls of Washington, and Cheney seems to be one of the leaders.

Micheal “creative destruction” Ledeen is still pushing hard for chaos in the middle east.

http://article.nationalreview……c3MmQ2OGI=

The persistent and unsubstantiated claims about Iran’s “alleged” nuclear weapons program have been repreated so often by Micheal Ledeen, James Woolsey, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Cheney, Bill Kristol, and many of the same zealots that cakewalked our nation into Iraq that many Americans now believe that Iran has a nuclear “weapons” program. The majority of these unsubstantiated claims by the regime change crazies have gone unchallenged with the exception of Diane Rehm and Chris Matthews.

Most Americans do not have a clue that Iran according to the IAEA has a right to enrich uranium to a certain level for peaceful purposes. These warmongers and Israel want the U.S. to pre-emptively strike Iran. Let’s hope they lose this fight.

Neo-cons pushing hard for Divest from Iran legislation from state to state. Based on what EVIDENCE? Hope it’s not from Niger?

Neo Cons driving Iran divestment campaign
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/22594

http://freepress.org/departmen…../2007/2465

OldCoastie @ 93

I think all the pugs are afraid of the YouTube since George Macaca Allen’s little problem…

Probably. But it says a lot that they’re afraid enough to avoid a forum in which the questioners will be on YouTube and the candidates won’t.

I love this debacle. The highly positive reception of the Democratic YouTube debate put the Republicans in the position of deciding whether they look worse taking questions from ordinary Americans, or being afraid to take them.

Rep. Nancy Boyda (D) on House Armed Services Committee on C-SPAN, ON FIRE about abuse of our troops in Iraq.

Bob in HI

Thanks for the wonderful video of dogs solving their own problems. I just want to hug you all!

Kinda on topic

Super Retarded Dog

speaking of los poodles de jane,
What is going on with these poodles?
Mariko Takahashi’s Fitness Video

I am a YouTube dummy. How come I can’t find the Firedogs video at YouTube? Anybody got some hints? (Loved watching it here, but wanted to give it a 5 star rating on YouTube. Seems like I always have a hard time finding anything on YouTube.)

The lovely poodles!

I knew I liked you, Jane, but silver standards! I’m in love.

Ozzy

Jane Hamsher @ 14

newdealfarmgrrrlll @ 10

great dogs, also, great music.

Lucy’s a big Ramsey Lewis fan.

I always knew this was the In Crowd.

BTW, wasn’t this from the same LP as “Hang on, Sloopy?” Great stuff.

Actually the finger helps direct the focus to those adorable pups.

Louis approves

Ozzy @ 104

silver standards!

here’s an OK version of a Horace Silver jazz standard: Song for my Father

You brought back some good memories, Jane.

I had a miniature black poodle, he lived to be 17. I still miss him to this day, and as much as I love dogs, I’d have to say I don’t think I’d get another right now (I’m single, still working,and because until I retire I have no place to leave dog during work hours). I just couldn’t care for him/her properly right now. And losing him broke me up so badly I cried.

Great to see yours though!

a 5-star debut for Kobe & Lucy!

If a snowman can submit a YouTube CNN debate
question, why not the official Firedogs?

Dear GOP Candidate,
Name all the athletes, referees, unitary and other executives,
Attorneys General and politicians you know who would
qualify as alleged felons under the RICO Act.

If convicted of RICO offenses in conjunction
with animal abuse, can the 20-year sentence be
converted into dog years?

Sorry, skipping past the 110 comments already posted.

Cute poodles playing with dog toys, but this is supposed to add umph to the FDL fight, exactly how?

Call me jaded, but I’ve yet to see a video with the jolly FDL crew emoting on Libby or whatever, or their cute pets, that didn’t make me cringe, and by extension give ammo to right-wing wingnut perceptions of (gak) Liberals as effete poodle-walking Blue-zone dwerbs.

Time to rethink the public presentation. You folks are on target with your sentiments, but the trappings are self-defeating.

Enough with the peanuts and the poodles!

poztron @ 111

Sorry, skipping past the 110 comments already posted.

Cute poodles playing with dog toys, but this is supposed to add umph to the FDL fight, exactly how?

Call me jaded, but I’ve yet to see a video with the jolly FDL crew emoting on Libby or whatever, or their cute pets, that didn’t make me cringe, and by extension give ammo to right-wing wingnut perceptions of (gak) Liberals as effete poodle-walking Blue-zone dwerbs.

Time to rethink the public presentation. You folks are on target with your sentiments, but the trappings are self-defeating.

Enough with the peanuts and the poodles!

I don’t think this is appropriate subject matter for this blog…

okay — first, loved the choice
of “cool jerk” for the soundtrack — nice!

next — of course! — michael “ick” vick
needs to do some jail time. . . over 100
fighting dogs!? sheeeeeeit.

next, and why i write: failed to wish
you a hpaay birthday, the other day, jane!

finally — imagine the smile on my face,
seeing your two buddies playing on exactly
the same persian rug, down to the
cool crunilations along the fringe, under
own my feet, and in my living room, as i
type this — but then, the topper was seeing
the very same eames lounge-chair and ottoman
set, across from my fireplace, where i will
read my sunday new york times, in an hour
or so. . .

surreal — cool, but surreal.

ps: your finger, in the upper right, evinces
all the distinction of its fine u.s.c. film
school education! he he! [oddly, here too,
i was there for a day last week, as
part of a wide-ranging vacation — to take my
son on a series of campus visits — and saw
the new undergrad major in digital arts/new
media director, daphne sismondi, as well as
the construction underway on the marcia
lucas building (to be right next door to the
george lucas building). . . coOOOool!]

thus establishing that there is, actually,
only one degree of separation, any longer. . .

btw, though it scarcely needs mentioning, i’ll
mention it anyway — i disagree with poztron @ 111,
above — completely. this is a real place.
not someone’s p.r. piece for what progressives
ought to look/act/think/dress or talk about. . .

Jane, I love the way Kobe keeps the toy “just” out of Lucy’s reach. If he really didn’t want her to have it, he’d take it & move away, but nooooo, he keeps it just close enough to remind her he’s got it, but just far enough that she can’t get it.

Almost human, neh?

Jacqrat @ 112 re Poztron @ 111

I don’t think this is appropriate subject matter for this blog…

Ding!! And I think the phrase “bite me” belongs in there somehow.