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Rick Sanchez of CNN cuts right to the heart of Bill O’Reilly’s racism issues in a statement to the Washington Post:
Sanchez, in a phone interview, said O’Reilly is perpetuating racism by using “the Mandingo argument” against black rappers. “The idea [is] that there’s a big, bad African American out there that we all need protection from,” he said. “It’s a dangerous way of looking at racial relations. The African American community is extremely complex. The thinking that black culture is confined to guys sticking their underwear out is just wrong, and many African Americans resent it.”
Poor Bill.
Maybe “Mandingo” ate his baby.
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zed???
TJ got #1, congrats :-)
Hi
Wow, it’s late.
hi cleter.
Hi everyone
Hi LL. Thought I’d show up after a rough day and steal the zed, lol.
I didn’t think I’d make it to Late Late, but I’ll stick around for a few…
let downstairs know nicely :)
TJ @ 7
I had one earlier.
cleter @ 4
Its only 10:05 MST …. is that late?
Hi Betsy and Katy. Did you make any progress with talking to your kids, Katy?
TJ @ 7
well if you’ve had a rough day, you are totally deserving :-)
Geez, how looney tunes do you have to be to make Rick Sanchez look good? Hang it up, Billo. Now. Before your children are old enough to be embarrassed by your antics.
Already did, Suzanne. How are you?
Sorry to go OT this early, but, I’ve got to go to bed and wanted to share what I just wrote downstairs and missed you guys, by That Much.
Hey friends,
Just dipping in for quick minute. We just got back the Democratic meeting in Monrovia where Howie Klein was speaking.
What a great speaker! So much information packed into his brain. And, a really pleasant man, too.
Also met the Blue America candidate, Russ, who is running to unseat David Drier.
Met Mommybrain, who btw says’s Hi to Suzanne. She’s still back at the Peach Cafe cleaning up the mess we Dems made.
Met a lot of really nice folks tonight.
And, the man-cub went with us. His idea. He was impressed and learned quite a bit tonight, I think.
I felt good to be part of Something.
weird interview.
zed zed zed zed zed zed zed zed zed zed zed zed
(tossing out zed’s for all the deserving pups who had rough days)
Hi demi!
demi, how great that you were able to attend!
Suzanne @ 18
the scourge of zedflation
Way cool, demi.
Hey Ron. How’s licks?
tj, my allergies are still making me sneeze and i’m thinking of changing my name to the cranky mod or the grumpy mod – been in a funk all week. how are you?
demi – thanks for passing on that message from mmb – ain’t she a hoot
demi @ 16
Far out, Demi!!! Way to go!!!
Ok, who was the evil person who mentioned this ice cream flavor the other night? Pure eveil, I tell ya.
It’s really freakin good, damn it.
LoudounLib @ 20
Worked a Really Dumbass Temp job and when I got home at 6:30 I had to call the cafe to find out When the meeting started. oh, at 7:00. Jumped at sped. whew!
Is there anything I can do to help, Suzanne?
ok all, I’ve got to split. Got an early appointment to get my “hair did” in the morning, and then I need to start packing for the trip. Good night all!
Demi, that sounded like fun!
I told the girls today…. now I have the two boys, the oldest lives in Seattle and it is going to be fun to snag the youngest since he is full time ASU student and works full time.
My daughter was kind of mad at me for not telling her earlier but I told her that now I have more information and the news was better than a vague “tumor”. It was kind of dicey as I asked her to come over to talk, so she went through all these questions….”Is Grandma & Grandpa ok, is Miss Dog ok, what is it Mom?”
It was kind of funny that she was relieved that the news was better than what she was imagining. I just did not want to tell her over the phone.
Nite, LL.
TheOtherWA @ 26
omg!! that sound wonderful…
Have a good sleep, LL.
Night LL. Safe travels.
Okay, does nobody get that joke or is it just not funny?
demi @ 27
W thinks the capitol of Syria is Dumb Ass Kiss
Suzanne @ 24
Yes, m’am. And so cute too. Her man cub was there too.
LoudounLib @ 29
Nite, LL!!!
(((katymine)))
(((katymine)))
Suzanne @ 40
(((ditto)))
and now I’m really out. G’night!
jinx
Yes, whenever possible that kind of news should be discussed in person. Even news as good as yours turned out to be.
I get it TRex. ‘A dingo got my baby’ right? One of the great miscarriages of justice. Might be happening all over again for the McCann family from Britain.
katymine @ 31
For the most part, our imaginations greatly overcome reality. My husband woke me up on the morning of 9/11 telling me something really bad had happened on the east coast. I thought the whole east coast had been nuked. So as horrible as it was, it was a relief that the whole east coast wasn’t gone.
demi @ 23
better than ever…;-)…you?
BTW, LL, I left you something previous thread.
I dingo crazy after all.
LoudounLib @ 33
Hi-all, have you tried Haagen-Dazs – dulce de leche ice cream, that is one of my favorites—
Yummm, will have to try Caramelized Pear & Toasted Pecan next on the menu…..
TRex @ 36
I’m just extremely dense tonight, TRex. After reading the explanation, it got a giggle.
you’re on fire punaise
Suzanne @ 24
Here is a long term allergy fix. At the beginning of your particular allergy season start taking local honey on a daily basis. Over time your allergies if pollen based will get better. Works sort of like allergy shots.
TRex,
Sorry to have jumped in with that story, really I am, but wanted to update y’all on the meeting and stuff.
I’m heading off to relax and hit the hay now.
Have fun with each other, sweet pups.
punaise @ 48
be careful pun, you are only one letter away from dino and you know how the big guy gets… (ducking)
TRex @ 36
Uh, what joke?
demi @ 53
Woof.
LOL it WAS funny… but it wasn’t MANdingo it was “The Dingo.” and she was tryign to fake an Australian accent. Wish i had seen that ful ep :)
Life is good…..got my wireless network working tonight. My wireless router crapped out when I moved my home office upstairs.
Gee, can you imagine, tomorrow is the first day in over a week where I do not have a test or doctors appointment. Just what will I do with myself… Oh maybe I should get some work done.
I got it too, Trex, just forgot to mention it in my ramblings.
Been doing yard work all day, then had a couple glasses of wine. I may be turning in very soon. My couch is sucking every last bit of energy from my body. ;)
‘night, demi.
{{{demi}}}
ticktock @ 49
dulce de leche fucking rocks – almost better than sex ice cream.
Suzanne @ 54
close call!
Correct, VG.
Everyone seems to be feeling much better than a few days ago. TRex is that cause the full moon equinox is over? Did you talk about that the other night?
I got it TRex, I just got back from the kitchen where my ice cream is not so exotic. Maybe you should have used this vid instead?
Well, “I’m sick but I’m not dying” is, when you’ve braced for the worst, kind of a relief, I think. And we’re all relieved. (Hug!)
I know that whatever delay might exist between my mom telling me that We Need to Have a Serious Talk and the actual revelation of the news, my own mind would have cooked up everything from, “I have six weeks to live” to “We need to talk about who your real father is” to “Your stepfather and I are moving to Denmark so that we can have gender reassignment surgery”, you know?
So, I’m sure she was flooded with relief.
A quick “hey y’all” from the airport in Vancouver. More to come when it get into town.
Suzanne, Ken Burns on TDS replay right now. If home tomorrow, it’d be worth catching on replay.
katymine @ 58
Have some fun!!!!!!!!!
Hey burns!
wait – isn’t Pach a manned Inca?
Hi, burnspbesq! Have fun in Vancouver!
burnspbesq @ 67
burnsey is showing off on his iphone again
punaise @ 71
that one’s too forced
You can comment on here on an ipod?
RonD @ 68
kewl, thanks :)
Oh Gawd why did you make me want some ice cream so late at night….
I’ll probably wake up in the middle of the night with a spoon of the stuff sticking in my mouth and not know how in the hell it got there….
Well, rubbing eyes and yawning….
Got to be drifting off—-
Good night dear pups, the moon looks lovely over the Lake, doesn’t it?…
Time to slink off to my regen chamber…Good night, all…the best of all possible tomorrows to you.
punaise @ 71
[rimshot]Thank You FDL! Tip your blogtender and moderators, Punaise will be back for his Twilight Hour show at 2am!
Trex
Ain’t that the truth? A million horrible things go through your mind, each worse than the one before. When you finally learn the truth it’s usually a huge relief.
sleep well Ron D
Just who was it made the ice cream in the freezer start calling my name? Gee thanks….mmmmm organic french vanilla from Trader Joes…
TheOtherWA @ 72
‘Mutually exclusive concepts’
;>)
Hi S.
hey db
ticktock @ 77
Oops. Sorry, ticktock. :) I’d say “sweet dreams” but then thought better of it.
katymine @ 82
Thats good stuff, but I’m having to deal with the Kroger brand private Selection cookie dough chocolate chip which is surprisingly pretty not bad.
TexBetsy @ 74
to some tastes, those the the worst (best) kind!
marymccurnin @ 64
Oh, hell if I know. I just know that I get really emotional sometimes when the moon is coming into full, and this one is a particularly significant one, seeing as how it falls so close to the beginning our hemisphere’s turn away from the sun.
And child, am I ever anxious for the weather to turn cooler. I have so many FABULOUS THINGS TO WEAR.
And bloody hell, it’s been nearly 30 hours since I ordered my new jacket.
WHY ISN’T IT HERE?!
Why isn’t the model included with it?
darkblack, what are you talking about? Vancouver BC is a great city, probably my favorite in the world. Ok, I haven’t traveled a lot, but…
Did you think we were discussing Vancouver, WA? Now that would be a boring place to visit. Just another typical suburb.
someone beat me to the Strauss Family Creamery organic coffee ice cream , so I’m left with lemon sorbet.
punaise @ 90
MMMM. Lemon sorbet rules!
I finished the Tillamook Mudslide for dinner.
‘Jena 6′ teen released on bail
from RawStory
A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate prompted a massive civil rights protest here walked out of a courthouse Thursday after a judge ordered him freed. Mychal Bell’s release on $45,000 bail came hours after a prosecutor confirmed he will no longer seek an adult trial for the 17-year-old. Bell, one of the teenagers known as the Jena Six, still faces trial as a juvenile in the December beating in this small central Louisiana town.
punaise @ 90
coffee ice cream.
demi @ 16
You also met me. Howdy!
It all depends on perspective, TheOtherWA.
To me, Vancouver (BC) was always ‘…a great place to visit, but…’.
finifinito @ 91
especially as the foundation for sgroppino
Other than the Fort and the fireworks what is there to see in Vancouver WA but a few pulp mills?
darkblack @ 96
I’ve never lived there, only visited, but it was a good time. Can’t wait to go back again.
punaise @ 97
Wow that looks delicioso!
katymine @ 98
tis the burbs was what i thought when i drove through there almost 3 years ago.
TRex @ 36
word association
try this one…
katymine @ 98
Not much. Can’t think of a thing.
“Hi-all, have you tried Haagen-Dazs – dulce de leche ice cream, that is one of my favorites–”
Then you are going to love this:
Dulce de Leche Ice Cream Cake
(from Bon Appetit – cover recipe April 2001)
16 servings
5 whole graham crackers, broken up
1/3 cup toasted hazelnuts
1 T. plus 1/3 cup sugar
1/8 tsp. salt
5 T. unsalted butter, melted
4 pints dulce de leche ice cream (I use Haagen Daz)
2 pints strawberry sorbet
2 ½ pounds strawberries, sliced
Purchased caramel sauce (optional)
Preheat oven to 350. Combine crackers, nuts, 1 T. sugar and salt in processor. Blend until nuts are finely chopped. Add butter; blend until mixture is evenly moist. Press mixture over bottom (not sides) of a 10 inch spring form pan. Bake crust until golden, about 8 minutes. Cool completely.
Slightly soften 1 ¼ pints ice cream; spread over crust. Freeze until firm, about 1 hour. Slightly soften 1 pint sorbet; spread over ice cream. Freeze until firm, about 30 minutes. Slightly soften 1 ¼ pints ice cream; spread over sorbet. Freeze until firm for 1 hour. Slightly soften 1 pint sorbet; spread over ice cream. Freeze until firm. Slightly soften 1 ½ pints ice cream; spread over sorbet for top layer. Cover; freeze until firm, at least 3 hours and up to one week.
Stir strawberries and 1/3 cup sugar in large bowl. Let stand until release their juices, about 30 minutes.
Cut around cake to loosen. Release pan sides. Cut cake into wedges; arrange on plates. Spoon berries atop wedges; drizzle with caramel sauce, if desired.
punaise @ 97
awesome.
to this non-drinker, even, this sounds fabulous.
finifinito @ 100
actually that’s not a great recipe. the authentic drink is blended smooth like an adult milkshake.
susan @ 104
oh thank you thank you thank you
OMG, Susan. You are evil tempting us like that!
TexBetsy @ 75
The new iphone, not ipod, Ma’am!!!
Alright pups, its off to dream of Italian adult milkshakes, cakes and assorted treats put into my brain in the last half hour. Good night!
That’s enough for me tonight. I can feel myself gaining weight just reading here.
And yes, it’s all my fault for bringing up ice cream. I’ll go for a long walk tomorrow to make up for it.
finifinito @ 110
think globally, act lo-cal. e.
Groans at 112….
finifinito @ 110
Nite, fini, you’ll be on tap tomorrow, right?
that’s what i meant CT. i’m only a century behind
punaise @ 112
Rock on, punaise!
Hi all
have been away from the Lake all day…did any one comment on the Cuban rep. at the UN and his remarks?
I saw an excerpt on another blog and wondered what the Lake thought…if it wasn’t posted, I’ll linky.
pun, that was so bad it was good
TheOtherWA @ 111
Just remember that…..
Calories don’t count when it is your own ethnic food
Calories don’t count if eaten standing up
Calories don’t count if YOU bought it and I ate it
Calories don’t count if eaten in the dark
TexBetsy @ 115
Heh, a decade these days and you’ll be hopelessly luddite…!!! ;-)
katymine @ 119
Calories don’t count if ….
it’s from someone else’s plate
you’re sampling while cooking
it’s a holiday
Calories disappear in proportion to the distance from home
50 miles away from home – 50% calories lost
100 miles and over – zero calories
I just signed on to check…and some nice news with the hits to Bill and Rush and some legal sunshine on the Patriot Act. Maybe something refreshing, a new wind, really is about to come about (if we can forget about Iran for a minute). Good night Oh, and it was probably oddly good news that none of the big name Repubs showed up for the debate. No need to pretend to a little diversity.
Suzanne @ 118
I’d better quit before y’all run me outta here…
good night, folks.
I don’t know if anybody has mentioned this, but I found it stunning:
See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..66105.html
That’s moral/ethical awareness that goes beyond even Kuchnich. Even around here, we don’t usually put the Iraqi insurgents on the level of the American revolution, though sometimes they are compared to the French resistance, which makes the Iraqi collaborators they kill, the equivalent of Quislings.
It all goes back to the insight that “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”
punaise @ 124
shane
punaise @ 124
Nite, Pun!!!
night punaise
Wigwam, True, and to think those scruffy farmers were only pissed about a tax on their tea and stamps…!!! *g*
Ok… ice cream gone…. Miss Dog asleep in her own bed… wireless network works…. no more tests or doctors this week so….
Heading off to bed… see ya all tomorrow
I’m out too. See y’all tomorrow.
Goodnight everyone. I’ll try to get some rest too. Here’s to a bright tomorrow.
waving to all the leaving sleepy pups with full bellies
Nite, Tex and Katy!!! Sleep well!!!
wigwam, absolutely, my Irish hubby has repeated this perspective to me numerous times.
For the Cuban kabosh on American imperialism, go to this blog and scroll down to about the fifth article. I was blown away:
tell us what you really think…
pictures from Myanmar:
The Irrawaddy
They Came in the Night, Ready to Kill
Jim Carrey – Call to Action on Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi
i search for word that she is safe.
yellowdog jim @ 136
fuck
Weren’t we just talking about this:
“If a small country defends and upholds its right to independence, it is accused of being a rogue State; if a power launches an attack against a country, it is said that it “liberates” them. A fighter against foreign aggression is a terrorist; an attacking soldier is a “freedom fighter.” That is the media war, the swindle of truths, the tyranny of a one-track mind in a globalized world.” Perez Roque
Mahalo YDJ!
CTuttle @ 129
When are imperialists going to stop learning the hard way:
– It took the Brits over 200 years and I still don’t think they get it. Maybe when the IRA has nukes.
– It took the Soviets ten years in Afghanistan.
– The U.S. got it’s ass kicked in Vietnam, and claims the lesson that throwing good blood and treasure after bad is sure to produce a positive payoff. The U.S. is now getting a refresher.
– The French only took a couple of decades in Vietnam and Afghanistan to get the picture.
– Napolean learned the hard way in Spain.
– The Israelis got a lesson from Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon about a decade ago. The got a refresher a year ago. They are chomping at the bit to get a second refresher. Gotta admire that determination.
The bottom line is that technology is a one-way arrow; you can’t repeal it. And, techonology puts ever more destructive power in ever smaller/poorer groups. Ultimately, every individual on earth will have his/her finger on a doomsday button, unless we find another way to organize our affairs as a species.
Burma Blogger
http://ko-htike.blogspot.com/
CTuttle @ 138
Oops, sorry do-si-do!
CTuttle @ 138
Hi CT…yes, i was wondering if firepups talked about it today…
LOL,guess we’re talking over each other CT!
So what is the Lake consensus on this speech? I wasn’t here earlier today…
do-si-do @ 135
***
Holy moly! My brain is still reverberating. What a classic speech. Thanks for the link.
OMG The Scott Pelly 60 minutes interview is being replayed on cspan now. I missed it on Sunday, This is appalling, shocking, beyond a hit job.
I think it’s available for viewing on the 60 mins web page. Folks really should watch it if they have not seen it.
So true, Wigwam! It would be really nice to direct all that technology for peaceful purposes, rather than, death and destruction… Beat those swords into plowshares… *g*
smapdi @ 140
thanks.
Myanmar: Soldiers back down in Mandalay
keep hope alive
hee-hee…
great new GOP signage from driftglass at C & L
do-si-do @ 143
Actually, that was the first I’d seen it, we were talking earlier about how one’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter…!!! 8-)
Eureka Springs @ 145
Unfortunately, our country has lost all its moral authority and in addition, all its grace when dealing with foreign leaders of even the most strained relations. We don’t seem to stand for anything other than We’re Number 1.
CTuttle @ 149
It was really something. They must read the foul mouthed blogs in Cuba. ;)
CTuttle @ 146
IMHO, the human condition is some combination of competition and cooperation. Ever since Reagan the U.S. discourse has placed undue emphasis on competition. It seems to have been a horrible reaction to the emphasis on cooperation by a truly just (and under-appreciated) man, Jimmy Carter. I don’t understand why progressives don’t raise him on their shoulders.
yellowdog jim @ 147
That’s so fucking beautiful, I’m in tears. The wisest man I know keeps insisting that nonviolent resistance is the only way; both necessary and sufficient.
wigwam @ 152
I personally consider him one of the best Ex-Presidents ever, Carter Center, Habitat for Humanity, etc… a true champion for the People!!! *g*
Hi Wigwam,
I don’t know if I qualify as a progressive, but regardless, I really like Jimmy Carter. But I like him more as an ex-president. It seems like he has done more for humanity than any other ex-President.
I think the Iran hostage thing is permanent damage to his Prez legacy. JMHO.
PS oh, you beat me to it this time CT!
wigwam – love your analysis @ 139 (and in general)
yellowdogjim – great, great, great news.
OMG
OMG OMG
OMG OMG OMG
Free Burma’s on the road from Mandalay
(hope) the junta lost the war today
smapdi, thank you for the Burma Blogger link
kirk murphy @ 156
I do too, but you left out Germany? They were one set of pretty determined expansionists.
do-si-do @ 155
:P Uhoh, the laugh-fest is about to begin here… The Repug debate…!!! ;-)
TRex @ 36
If you mean the Dingo ate his baby, that was plenty funny. Coincidentally, John Stewart reported today that John Cornyn chewed the head off of a baby. This is apparently true, since his report was accompanied by photographic evidence, and Cornyn has not denied it.
wigwam @ 153
bless you.
China: Bloggers side with Burmese monks
YDJ
Thank you for sharing this. I cannot fathom the amount of faith and courage the monks have.
BTW: Bill Clinton quoted Desmond Tutu on KO saying “religion is like a knife. It’s good when you need to use it to cut a slice of bread. It’s bad when you use it to cut off the arm of your brother” or words to that effect.
hey mitch – hows the fucking yankees?
CT, oh enjoy! Say, is there any debate that Fred Thompson doesn’t have a scheduling conflict with?
Should I take out a restraining order?
Media Matters:
I think he needs to switch to decaf for a couple weeks, don’t you?
do-si-do @ 164
Not if they provide a La-Z boy recliner…!!! ;-)
Suzanne @ 163
Wow, dear moderate Suzanne, that’s two f bombs in one thread! That’s some foul mouthed fembloggin’ for ya! You go girl!
Wow – so nice to see how the West has supported Burma
by selling 40mm riot control munition
Wonderful what the West’s death merchants do for democracy.
So appreciated, as well
Now, the black Americans up there, they didn’t listen to The Radio Factor.
Know your demographic.
Suzanne @ 122
That rule only applies if you are walking.
Wow, TRex, I didn’t know that people can get executed after they go to hell.
Suzanne @ 163
A game up on the RedSox since yesterday, and they made the playoffs. Thanks for asking.
Tavis, said the one’s who couldn’t make it are represented by empty podiums, aren’t they all…??? ;-)
kirk murphy @ 168
The BBC sounds pretty grim on Burma right now. :(
smapdi @ 169
Even though Orally wrote of his lunch at Sylvias something like ” They were all respectful, they all listen to the Factor”. Now, apparently, they don’t. My faith in the good taste of black Americans has been restored.
do-si-do, yeah, i’ve cut back on the cusswords
mitch, that’s the alaska rule – not the case down in the lower 48
trex, perhaps your lawyer should send your bodyguard bill to fox news?
smapdi @ 169
***
Contrast this with Bill’s previous quote about the patrons at Sylvia’s: “They all watch The Factor…”
do-si-do @ 162
i heard him too.
well quoted.
most apt.
burma is one a the few majority buddhist countries.
tibet.
sri lanka.
mongolia.
i am a buddhist.
Well, in Alaska today, I went to the beach. It was my daughter’s class trip/field trip for Marine Biology. Then we went to the Seward Sealife Center which is a first class marine educational facility.
Many people dream of coming to Alaska, If you are one of them, and your dream comes true, be sure to visit it.
Alaska is on my list of places to visit, Mitch. Will add that to my things to see in Alaska list.
uh-oh.
on dial-up…
Auntie won’t be on local radio til midnight….
but this from Soe Moe (on Global Voices) also sounds ominous…
what sez the beeb?
CTuttle @ 173
I do enjoy watching Ron Paul’s campaign, just sayin’.
yellowdog jim @ 178
Nice blog you got there Yellowdog Jim. Do you mind if I ask what is your connection to Afghanistan?
do-si-do @ 182
My bad, the lone exception, he was just awesome in railing against the disparity in wealth and the MilDef complex’s sapping of our national treasure…!!!
Oh, come on. You’re all thinking it. Why doesn’t someone just come out and say it.
Henry the Eighth
Sure had trouble.
Short term wives.
Long term stubble.
BURMA SHAVE
BBC is alternately reporting quiet streets, monasteries sealed off by troops, monks scared from protesting or arrested, however people still congregating in east Rangoon. Internet cut off.
One of the BBC ‘presenters’ asked rhetorically if the junta had won.
OK, that’s it for me. Peace everyone, and suzanne, don’t forget to turn off the ####### light…
:P
BigMitch @ 183
no connection.
do i have one?
showing?
let me zip up here.
that better?
My son had a friend in college who was the daughter of an enemy of the junta in Burma. They were refugees in the U.S. but to the great consternation of his family, he returned to Burma to “fight” for freedom. Incredible bravery on his part.
Nite, Do-si-do!!!
yellowdog jim @ 189
On your blog, psychoRabble, it lists your location as Austin TX and Afghanistan. Or am I having one of those pesky flashbacks?
BigMitch @ 186
we used to read them aloud going down the road together.
i didn’t know what “Burma Shave” was.
damn
kirk murphy @ 194
Que?
do-si-do @ 135
That is a great speech.
burma ct
kirk murphy @ 194
Red Sox fan?
Suzanne @ 197
Myanmar! ;-)
Well, that’s all for me, I bid thee all a fond adieu! Aloha Oe!!!
wigwam @ 139
Great quote!
oops – sorry CTuttle
“damn” is about this news…
ok, that’s it for me tonight folks.
BigMitch @ 192
HA!
i can explain.
Blogger, bless it’s little pointed head, tries to make me specify my country.
(CRIPES, i’m from Texas, okay? what’s a “country”? The Other Kind of Music Besides “WESTERN”!)
anyway, Blogger has it’s you-pick-a-country selection list, which does include the “No Selection” option as a choice.
And which i did choose.
(i think)
anyway, the ‘default’ selection is from the top of the alphabetical list of countries, starting with … … …
Afghanistan.
BBC: Small marches continuing in Rangoon. Monks seen being bused to marches. Tension is very high. Roadblocks.
CTuttle @ 199
If you haven’t backed out of here yet, I gather that the use of the term Myanmar is legally correct in the U.N. but is offensive because it is supportive of the junta.
goodnight, suzanne – sweet dreams for you and the cutest dog ever.
…bed time here also – sleep well, pups
yellowdog jim @ 203
LOL
Mitch-
Its Burma if you are a British Imperialist and Myanmar if you’re in with the dictators. Take your pick.
smapdi, thanks for sharing the news.
take good care and sleep well…
twȝk @ 196
It certainly is. Thank you for posting the link.
smapdi @ 208
Democracy Now reported the bad news from there today, and used exclusively the Burma/Rangoon language.
Sure thing Kirk. You too.
Good night, firepups.
Well, Chris Matthews has spotlighted all of the Democratic leaders as a result of the debate last night: If voters knew that the leading Democratic presidential contenders would keep troops in Iraq until 2013, would the Democrats have won Congress in 2006?
Well, let’s turn that around a bit. If our standard bearers leading the charge for Democrats in 2008 won’t bring all our troops out until 2013, will the public vote for them? Or will independents stay home, sitting on their hands?
Cheez whiz, Tweety is sounding to the left of Hill, Bama and Edwards tonite.
Trent Franks, what a vaporhead. Barf. You gotta give him credit for staying on message, No Matter What, covering his ears the whole way.
Bob in HI
Burmese Monks Seek Security Council Intervention
Night Mitch
BigMitch @ 210
H/T to do-si-do
KNU Call on Ethnic Ceasefire Groups To Support Uprising
History of the Karens and KNU
here you got your insurgents.
a lot of things i don’t know about Burma.
Shorter Tweety: Democrats are hawks.
He actually sounds pissed off.
Bob in HI
CTuttle @ 159
So, here (in my memory) is where it all went sour for Carter and opened the door to Reagan. This speech, which outraged those “authoritan conservatives” who, congenitally unsuited to a democracy, craved an imperial president, which is to some extent all we’ve had ever since: http://www.rightwingnews.com/speeches/carter.php
TRex @ 36
If this is an allusion to Lindy Chamberlaine’s travails with the Northern Territory’s judiciary, I am sorry but I didn’t think it was funny. It was such a travesty of justice and the Australian media was complicit in feeding the rumour mills to cast reprehensible aspersions as to her character. I hadn’t even arrived in Australia then – I was working in Papua New Guinea as a Brit expat but was following the case. It was poor taste IMHO.
bobschacht @ 219
Gotta say, I am.
twȝk @ 200
In the early ’50s, when I was 9-to-12 years old, I read in my school’s so-called library a book entitled “The Hell Bomb,” which in great scientific detail explained what a thermonuclear device entailed and what it could do, especially if it were wrapped with a blanket of cobalt. That was a few years before the first thermonuclear device was exploded by the U.S., which was only shortly followed by a real thermonuclear bomb by the Soviets — yes, they beat us to deliverable thermonuclear ordinance.
Even at that early age, none of the implications escaped. He, who has this power could tell everryone to submit to Jesus or die. Twelve thermonuclear devices wrapped on cobalt would make the planet uninhabitable.
It didn’t take me long, during my long walks on my paper route, to realize that any religious person could feel the same way about his god. (Sigh.)
It took me only a few more years to realize that we and those awful communists haven’t killed each other because we love our families and they’d die if we did any of that (i.e., mutual assured destruction, MAD).
But, the obvious next question was: what if the deliverer doesn’t have a known base, e.g., the mafia,
a cartel, a corporation, and/or a religious sect? Then it got scary, and I refused to think about it for a few decades. Friends don’t like to talk about it.
But now we are in a world where that shit can’t be ignored. Pakistan has nukes, and their intelligence service bankrolled the Taliban. Our key asset is the good will of the Pakistani generals, who went through war college with out generals.
So, what’s the answer? We’ve got to find a cooperative way to organize this planet. Those who won’t play, don’t get to.
BigMitch @ 205
Myanma dates back to the 12century. Burmese themselves used Myanma in written form and Bamar in colloquial speech even before the junta seized power. Opponents of the junta object to Myanmar because the country won independence under the official nomenclature of Burma.
wigwam @ 223
I’m all for that. Juan points out in this transcript it doesn’t seem as if US foreign policy grasps the concept of cooperation. Why is the government so hell bent on undermining the UN?
Greg Palast on Dan Rather:
Link
Carter was the first President I remember running for office and getting elected. I liked him and was surprised when my step father was angry at him for “blowing it.” For me it was peanuts and free the hostages stickers.
I do think that if we can get a Dem in office that they will have to one hell of a leader to get the US outta the mess Bush has made.
humour break!
Margot @ 226
Well, Palast doesn’t have many kind words for Rather. But here’s the interesting quote for me:
Seems to me that is exactly what is happening to the Democrats in Congress. They are SO afraid of being “neck-laced” by the Republicans, having “a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck,” that like Rather, they stampeded in their eagerness to vote for Lieberman’s first saber-rattling against Iran several months ago, and then last week did it again, although 22 Democrats did find enough spine to stand against it. We may go to war against Iran because of Democratic fear of neck-lacing.
The saddest(?) thing is that their “me, too!” hawkishness does not make them look strong, but instead makes them look weak. Instead of showing strong leadership, they show lemming-like followership. I like John Edwards line better: He learned a different lesson from the the AUMF than Hillary did: He learned never to trust Bush & Cheney with an enabling resolution. Edwards scored good points against Hillary with that comment, and it made him look stronger than her.
Bob in HI
bobschacht @ 229
Gravel helped by pointing her out.
twȝk @ 225
I agree completely. And the answer to the final question seems to be some kind of “We’re #1″ jingoism. The right wing’s argument against all forms of international cooperation (”one-worldism”) is a potential loss of U.S. sovreignity.
The WPO Video is a survey of opinion from muslim countries on the US.
Morning from the BlueState,
Brain still a’blur, but did anyone propose any constructive action re:O’Reilly, other than a I-guess-it-was-snark restraining order?
Good morning, pups. The NYT has Bobo tsk-tsking about entitlements and Paul Krugman calls a spade a spade and calls Blackwater what they are — mercenaries.
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
Because he did such a great community service by explaining Bobo’s last column to us I linked to that explanation by Doghouse Riley. The coffee and tea are ready, and the biscuits are out of the oven. It’s Friday!! Have a grand day.
Good morning Marion, et al. Running late here, and waiting for my ride (as my truck is in the shop) to arrive.
I seem to remember when being a mercenary was illegal for a US citizen. Am I imagining this?
And the more I hear about Blackwater and other ’security contractors’, the more scared I get. Talk about ‘nurturing a viper in your bosom..”
Good morning, Pups – just caught this at HuffPo:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.co…..ews-e.html
Apparently, the whole GOP organization in California trying to get this initiative to break up the “winner take all” electoral college votes on the ballot this fall has basically fallen apart. They are out of money, out of people, and…out of time…
MR. Bill, I with you 100% there. They creep me out. And I’ve heard that W et al are planning to use them for “domestic emergencies.” I’ll have to scrounge around and find the site where I saw that…
Gates was quite adamant that contractors are not mercenaries on Wednesdays testimony. Semantics I guess :/
tw3k, “A rose by any other name,” etc… (Or maybe Gates never read the Bard.) A “contractor” who is hired to carry a gun and use it would seem to be, by my understanding at least, a mercenary. Gates or no Gates things are what things are.
Good Morning!
Addicted to Blackwater
Good morning
twȝk @ 238
And O’Reilly was “quite adamant” that he’s not a racist. I guess saying it makes it so. (/sarcasm)
I’m hoping that it’s true that the California plan to steal the election is dead. I am also concerned with all the ‘caging’ efforts. Is anyone else wondering if the repubs are so casually ignoring minorities because they know that their votes won’t count anyway?
Nice link to the Doglhouse Marion.
That is the money quote for me.
twȝk @ 244
Wasn’t it nice of our dems to forfeit being the anti-war party? Great leadership.
solai @ 245
Looking at the leadership lineup reminds me that it sometimes more important to be a human than a national.
selise, I found the quote of Tom Harkin
Preaching to the Chorus
Elliott @ 247
Byrd was good! And he looked in pretty bad shape :(
twȝk @ 248
In yesterday’s WaPo there was a pic of Byrd atop the Washington Sketch column — it looked like there was something wrong with his right eye (burst blood vessels?)
LoudounLib @ 249
Sure did look like his right eye was full of blood.
I heard last night on my tv that Bill O’Reilly makes $50 million a year! WTF!!!! That is unbelievable that a racist bigot (Ass Limbo of reich wing radio fame is one too) like Bill would make that kind of money, but then again, they are reich wingers and are the mouth pieces for the GOP-Nazis. They hate blacks, Mexicans, gays, and even women if they wake up hung over.
Morning wisdom from the Scarecrow.
First Amendment, First Principles And Rush Limbaugh
Elliott @ 247
thanks! i wasn’t sure who harkin was yelling at… and i had read that it was the protesters, but it didn’t sound like that to me… glad to know it wasn’t.
one thing i especially liked about the protesters what that when pace gave his lecture about how homosexuality was a sin and against “god’s law,” the protesters started chanting, “thou shall not kill.” pace has a screw loose if he thinks sex is immoral and killing is not.
usually i’m not a fan of protesting during the testimony (before and after is great)…. but in this case, i think pace’s comments shouldn’t have gone unchallenged.