Christy!!

(for me,

ZED

and to bed … )

Morning Jim — waiting for the coffee pot to finish brewing here…sleep well.

Tweet, tweet.

Which translate into Good Morning Christy and all.

Good morning Christy!

Am I first?

Christy Hardin Smith @ 2

Morning Jim — waiting for the coffee pot to finish brewing here…sleep well.

reddhead speaks my name!
sleep can wait.

my news-views:
yellowdog jim @ 256

crying from inside Burma:
ko htike’s prosaic colllection

global voices online/myanmar

Irrawaddy

i pray for the safety of aung san suu kyi.
i hope gambari can do something.
we must threaten the chinese with olympics boycott
to make them lean on their clients, the burma junta.

please join us at Support the Monks’ Protest in Burma at facebook.

NOW, i can go snuggle in with the loved ones.

Julie Waters @ 5

Am I first?

Never mind :)

Good Morning, Christy. Beautiful picture! Our lazy cats share their food with the doves, laying in the sun and watching the birds as they feast on the leftover food in their bowls.

I was pleasantly surprised to hear most callers to CSPAN this morning express a constitutional opinion toward the religious views of presidential contenders.

Today is Fall Spring Cleaning day for us. It’s going to be a long day :)

From an associate who helps a children’s school in Nepal. She asked to help get the word out.

From:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:
28 Sep 2007 10:44
Subject:
Some Fact from Yangoon

We just got phone call with our sister living in Yangon about a few hours ago.

We saw on BBC world, saying that 200 monks were arrested. The true picture is far worse!!!!!!!!!

For one instance, the monastery at an obscure neighborhood of Yangon, called Ngwe Kyar Yan (on Wei-za-yan-tar Road, Yangon) had been raided early this morning.

A troop of lone-tein (riot police comprised of paid thugs) protected by the military trucks, raided the monastery with 200 studying monks. They systematically ordered all the monks to line up and banged and crushed each one’s head against the brick wall of the monastery. One by one, the peaceful, non resisting monks, fell to the ground, screaming in pain. Then, they tore off the red robes and threw them all in the military trucks (like rice bags) and took the bodies away.

The head monk of the monastery, was tied up in the middle of the monastery, tortured , bludgeoned, and later died the same day, today. Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the monastery, warded off by troops with bayoneted rifles, unable to help their helpless monks being slaughtered inside the monastery. Their every try to forge ahead was met with the bayonets.

When all is done, only 10 out of 200 remained alive, hiding in the monastery. Blood stained everywhere on the walls and floors of the monastery.

Please tell your audience of the full extent of the fate of the monks please please !!!!!!!!!!!!

‘Arrested’ is not enough expression. They have been bludgeoned to death !!!!!!

Millineryman @ 11

From an associate who helps a children’s school in Nepal. She asked to help get the word out.

‘Arrested’ is not enough expression. They have been bludgeoned to death !!!!!!

What do the headers look like?

not a word about the DC demos

GENERAL STRIKE

Clinton and Gingrich debating? Is it really just a promo for Gingrich Presidential run?

I don’t know how politicians can’t all hate each other. Especially these two.

A bird story:
In July, one late afternoon day my husband & I drove past a spot (NE Minn) where a flock of turkey vultures (we call them turkey buzzards here) congregate. We had to stop & take a photo of them perched in the treetops. About half of the two dozen vultures were perched with their large 6ft wingspans outspread, as still as statues. Later I read that they spread their wings to catch the sun.
They may have faces only another buzzard could love but they are as awesome a sight as bald eagles in their own way.

twȝk @ 12

Millineryman @ 11

From an associate who helps a children’s school in Nepal. She asked to help get the word out.

What do the headers look like?

The original she received was put into an new email with the banner of her business at the top so the message I received originated from her.

Petreaus in a interview with NBC’s Richard Engel said he likes to shop and everything is the fault of Eyeran.

MSGOP’s Alex Witless breathlessly told us this was good news

oh and Petraeus said Malaki should STFU

George at 14 — I’m not certain they are debating, I think they are just both on the same show today, that’s all. Where did you see they were debating? That’s really unlikely…

Christy Hardin Smith @ 18

George at 14 — I’m not certain they are debating, I think they are just both on the same show today, that’s all. Where did you see they were debating? That’s really unlikely…

Good morning CHS, sorry for being rude.

Newt dropped out already right?

lmao @ winger on cspan right now!

twȝk @ 9

I was pleasantly surprised to hear most callers to CSPAN this morning express a constitutional opinion toward the religious views of presidential contenders.

It *was* a fairly sane crew this morning (at least for that segment). :-) But, gag me, now they’re talking about the Hillary “cackle”. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t is the policy the MSM applies to Dems. And just now a thug whining about Dems calling on the thug and indy lines…..project much?

………and mccain is sounding crazier by the minute; somebody needs to send him a copy of the Constitution.

twȝk @ 19

Christy Hardin Smith @ 18

George at 14 — I’m not certain they are debating, I think they are just both on the same show today, that’s all. Where did you see they were debating? That’s really unlikely…

Good morning CHS, sorry for being rude.

Newt dropped out already right?

Much to my disappointment, yes. The comedy value alone of Keyes, Gingrich and Rudy on the same stage would have been priceless.

My GOP dream ticket, though, is Romney/Keyes. THAT would be some of the best entertainment in town.

Waccamaw @ 21

twȝk @ 9

I was pleasantly surprised to hear most callers to CSPAN this morning express a constitutional opinion toward the religious views of presidential contenders.

It *was* a fairly sane crew this morning (at least for that segment). :-) But, gag me, now they’re talking about the Hillary “cackle”. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t is the policy the MSM applies to Dems. And just now a thug whining about Dems calling on the thug and indy lines…..project much?

………and mccain is sounding crazier by the minute; somebody needs to send him a copy of the Constitution.

McCain =Major Kong from Dr. Strangelove

apparently the media has separate style rules for Democrats and Republicans.

Democrats are wackos supported by crazy people on the left

Republicans are hard working representatives of the heartland supported by churchgoers

…and masquerading as a Dem, Donna Brazille.

twȝk @ 20

lmao @ winger on cspan right now!

you hard core leftist fascist, you

Waccamaw @ 21

twȝk @ 9

I was pleasantly surprised to hear most callers to CSPAN this morning express a constitutional opinion toward the religious views of presidential contenders.

It *was* a fairly sane crew this morning (at least for that segment). :-) But, gag me, now they’re talking about the Hillary “cackle”. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t is the policy the MSM applies to Dems. And just now a thug whining about Dems calling on the thug and indy lines…..project much?

………and mccain is sounding crazier by the minute; somebody needs to send him a copy of the Constitution.

Yeah! It start off pretty good! *g That was the first I’d seen “The Cackle!” OMG, 4 years! O hell no!

And the winger that called in saying Left Blogistan was Orwellian was prize!

Julie Waters @ 22

twȝk @ 19

Good morning CHS, sorry for being rude.

Newt dropped out already right?

Much to my disappointment, yes. The comedy value alone of Keyes, Gingrich and Rudy on the same stage would have been priceless.

My GOP dream ticket, though, is Romney/Keyes. THAT would be some of the best entertainment in town.

I wanna see Paul and Hill go head to head!

Elliott @ 25

twȝk @ 20

lmao @ winger on cspan right now!

you hard core leftist fascist, you

:) morning Elliott

GeorgeSimian @ 14

Clinton and Gingrich debating? Is it really just a promo for Gingrich Presidential run?

I don’t know how politicians can’t all hate each other. Especially these two.

Clinton’s likely to be talking about his foundation, and all the millions in contributions he’s getting for worthy things. More power and $$ to him. But this has become more interesting, with his wife the front runner. The donors know they’re buying influence and access in the next Administration — but will anyone ask if that’s okay?

Gee, I didn’t realize Gingrich wasn’t running all because of the McCain-Feingold law. Aww…

Scarecrow @ 29

GeorgeSimian @ 14

Clinton and Gingrich debating? Is it really just a promo for Gingrich Presidential run?

I don’t know how politicians can’t all hate each other. Especially these two.

Clinton’s likely to be talking about his foundation, and all the millions in contributions he’s getting for worthy things. More power and $$ to him. But this has become more interesting, with his wife the front runner. The donors know they’re buying influence and access in the next Administration — but will anyone ask if that’s okay?

Sure, I’ll bite. Is that okay?

I’m thinking that the GOP is helping Hillary with this position of her nomination being inevitable because the Republican machine is precision ready to attack Hillary after she gets the nomination. They’ve been doing it for years now. If you think the Swift Boat on Kerry attack was bad, that’s just a small taste of what they’ve got saved up on Hillary.

Anyone else think that?

egregious @ 31

Scarecrow @ 29

Clinton’s likely to be talking about his foundation, and all the millions in contributions he’s getting for worthy things. More power and $$ to him. But this has become more interesting, with his wife the front runner. The donors know they’re buying influence and access in the next Administration — but will anyone ask if that’s okay?

Sure, I’ll bite. Is that okay?

It’s better, I suppose, than buying influence with oil profits and war.

What is catching my eye is the courage of the Burmese people.

Scarecrow @ 29

GeorgeSimian @ 14

Clinton and Gingrich debating? Is it really just a promo for Gingrich Presidential run?

I don’t know how politicians can’t all hate each other. Especially these two.

Clinton’s likely to be talking about his foundation, and all the millions in contributions he’s getting for worthy things. More power and $$ to him. But this has become more interesting, with his wife the front runner. The donors know they’re buying influence and access in the next Administration — but will anyone ask if that’s okay?

Is that OK? *g

Prominently displayed on the first page of Washington Post’s website this a.m. is a picture of a cell phone wired to an IED, the most deadly weapon we face in Iraq. Reminded me of when Bush approvingly quoted Lieberman’s Iraq OpEd back in 2005: Here’s what Senator Lieberman wrote — Senator Lieberman wrote about the Iraq he saw: “Progress is visible and practical. There are many more cars on the streets, satellite television dishes on the roofs, and literally millions more cell phones in Iraq hands than before.”
My first thought was, well that didn’t work out so well did it? But then I thought, this is just too sickening that people who are wrong all the time about everything are still taken seriously. Blergh.

Myanmar situation up on CSPAN1…

OK, realize I must seem like a completely clueless “head in the sand/never reads any foreign news” booby, but can someone please explain to me the logic of murdering, en mass, the most peaceful people, who I believe are revered by the rest of the populace? Is it a case where the military figures that the rest of the population has no weapons of their own and will be totally cowed by this? Or, that somehow, because, woohoo, they’ve cut internet and cell phones, people don’t know what has happened? And that photographs have not gotten out? They are obviously counting on the world’s indifference. And I don’t know if, having seen this horrific stuff on TV and the internet, the world is going to roll over in bed and cover their heads. I would hope not. But I did, on Friday, contact Clinton, Schumer and Arcuri and registered extremely strong thoughts with them about what had happened and asked “And, what are YOU going to do about this? It had better not be “the usual.”

GeorgeSimian @ 32

I’m thinking that the GOP is helping Hillary with this position of her nomination being inevitable because the Republican machine is precision ready to attack Hillary after she gets the nomination. They’ve been doing it for years now. If you think the Swift Boat on Kerry attack was bad, that’s just a small taste of what they’ve got saved up on Hillary.

Anyone else think that?

Sadly, I’ve finally figured out, I’m way left of most pups :(
I want to see her sink.

GeorgeSimian @ 32

I’m thinking that the GOP is helping Hillary with this position of her nomination being inevitable because the Republican machine is precision ready to attack Hillary after she gets the nomination. They’ve been doing it for years now. If you think the Swift Boat on Kerry attack was bad, that’s just a small taste of what they’ve got saved up on Hillary.

Anyone else think that?

The Rethugs are going to “swift-boat” whomever the Dems nominate. You can take that as a given. They just think they’re more prepared to do it to Hillary. But she is also the one Dem most prepared to fight back against the swift boat attacks.

Millineryman – may be a good place to share that email you got?

Dem line on CSPAN – (202) 737-0002

Don’t know if folks saw this on Chris Shays from yesterday’s Hartford Courant. Jane is quoted fairly prominently and extensively.

Supremo Thomas has been harboring so much hatred…
Must have informed many of his decisions…
Anyone upset with his memoir?
Will Carla Hill respond?
Or am I missing something?

more incompetency from the Shrubians

“Ethanol’s Boom Stalling as Glut Depresses Price
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
An oversupply of ethanol is suddenly plaguing farmers, in part because distribution of the fuel has not kept pace with new distilleries. ” today’s NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09…..ref=slogin

This is what caught my eye, over at HuffPo.

Another “Downing St. Memo”, yet it’s second to campaign money news even at HuffPo. When is this country going to hold this president accountable for the Iraq disaster?

http://news.independent.co.uk/…..010189.ece

Looks like ‘the Bill’ is beginning to make the rounds. I voted for this guy twice. What I want to see is ‘the Senator’ making the rounds. But… I don’t want to get into it. Too nice an Oklahoma Sunday morning here. Winter’s comin’ on.

Salmon news: Tap Tap Tap

WASHINGTON – The surprising fall of Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, removes a longtime obstacle to efforts by Democrats and environmentalists to promote salmon recovery on Northwest rivers.
…
“In addition, it could further threaten salmon in the Columbia-Snake River Basin, and the communities that depend on them, by delaying the development of a legally valid” policy, Cantwell wrote.

Dan Whiting, a spokesman for Craig, accused Cantwell and Reid of meddling in Idaho issues.

Whiting hates salmon, is my takeaway. (Sorry, I have a weakness for fish puns.)

GeorgeSimian @ 32

I’m thinking that the GOP is helping Hillary with this position of her nomination being inevitable because the Republican machine is precision ready to attack Hillary after she gets the nomination. They’ve been doing it for years now. If you think the Swift Boat on Kerry attack was bad, that’s just a small taste of what they’ve got saved up on Hillary.

Anyone else think that?

Yep, George – I’m in agreement. The GOP has the full history on Hillary for sure and has been preparing for her nomination for months. On the other side, however, let’s not mistake that Hillary Clinton KNOWS what she will be facing – she has been fighting these folks for years and years. She knows the tactics; she knows what they are capable of. She has seen how low they will stoop to make a point. The other thing is, have you noticed that Bill Clinton actually agreed to work with Bush Sr.? Bill is a guy who can work with someone who he knows was in the thick of hurting him and his presidency. I think Hillary, on the other hand, is like I am, and has never, ever forgiven or forgotten every single attack these people have brought against her and against her husband.
So, I think her people and the DNC undoubtedly have dossiers on every single weak-ass Repub running out there. She can probably quote you chapter and verse on every single affair, exwife, military deferment during Vietnam, and influence peddling that has gone down. This woman is very bright. The difference between her and Nancy Pelosi,(who is also bright) is that Hillary is not “nice”. So I can’t imagine she’s going to do a “John Kerry – I’m too nice to respond to this stupid Swift Boat” Thing.

dakine01 @ 40

GeorgeSimian @ 32

I’m thinking that the GOP is helping Hillary with this position of her nomination being inevitable because the Republican machine is precision ready to attack Hillary after she gets the nomination. They’ve been doing it for years now. If you think the Swift Boat on Kerry attack was bad, that’s just a small taste of what they’ve got saved up on Hillary.

Anyone else think that?

The Rethugs are going to “swift-boat” whomever the Dems nominate. You can take that as a given. They just think they’re more prepared to do it to Hillary. But she is also the one Dem most prepared to fight back against the swift boat attacks.

I don’t know about that. The Republicans made hating Hillary into their favorite sport. There’s millons of Republicans who would vote for a Democrat, but would NEVER vote for Hillary because of the years of hate that has been distilled into their heads. They say they can’t trust her, that she’s a lesbian, that she’s elitist, that she’s really her husband’s pawn, etc. It’s easy to see her winning the nomination, but it’s pretty hard for me to see her winning the Presidency. (I’ll probably vote for her, by the way).

Danbury @ 45

This is what caught my eye, over at HuffPo.

Another “Downing St. Memo”, yet it’s second to campaign money news even at HuffPo. When is this country going to hold this president accountable for the Iraq disaster?

http://news.independent.co.uk/…..010189.ece

Never. I’ve given up the battle…
Too much lying and coverups for my stomach…
and nothing happens

Bay State Librul @ 43

Supremo Thomas has been harboring so much hatred…
Must have informed many of his decisions…
Anyone upset with his memoir?
Will Carla Hill respond?
Or am I missing something?

Her first name is Anita.

Thomas makes clear (again) that he is not fit to be a Supreme Court justice, that he is too bitter and ideological and partisan.

Would you want to be a liberal or Democrat with a case before him? The answer is clearly no. And that means he is inherently unfit for his job.

Is there any way to wrest rogue justices from the SC? Anyone know?

dakine01 @ 42

Don’t know if folks saw this on Chris Shays from yesterday’s Hartford Courant. Jane is quoted fairly prominently and extensively.

Sounds accurate to me.

“Chris Shays seems to be following the GOP blueprint for messaging on Iraq — he’s all for ending the war when it’s election time, but votes for continuing it when it’s not. And rationalizing the two positions? Well that takes some serious contortions.” Jane Hamsher, http://www.firedoglake.com

Danbury @ 45

This is what caught my eye, over at HuffPo.

Another “Downing St. Memo”, yet it’s second to campaign money news even at HuffPo. When is this country going to hold this president accountable for the Iraq disaster?

http://news.independent.co.uk/…..010189.ece

What happened to the investigation into the first Downing St. Memo?

Bay State Librul @ 43

Supremo Thomas has been harboring so much hatred…
Must have informed many of his decisions…
Anyone upset with his memoir?
Will Carla Hill respond?
Or am I missing something?

Uh, that’s Anita Hill.

French toast, or is that “Freedom Toast”, and hot Postum is the order of the morning here.

Danbury @ 51

Bay State Librul @ 43

Supremo Thomas has been harboring so much hatred…
Must have informed many of his decisions…
Anyone upset with his memoir?
Will Carla Hill respond?
Or am I missing something?

Her first name is Anita.

Thomas makes clear (again) that he is not fit to be a Supreme Court justice, that he is too bitter and ideological and partisan.

Would you want to be a liberal or Democrat with a case before him? The answer is clearly no. And that means he is inherently unfit for his job.

Is there any way to wrest rogue justices from the SC? Anyone know?

I don’t know if I’m saying this right, but has Thomas done anything but make snarky comments about the decisions that have come down from SCOTUS? I don’t have any idea how the process works in terms of who gets to right the majority opinion vs. the minority opinion, but has he actually produced anything of note while he’s been there? Or, is he just filling the space of “the angry guy”?

dakine01 @ 54

Bay State Librul @ 43

Supremo Thomas has been harboring so much hatred…
Must have informed many of his decisions…
Anyone upset with his memoir?
Will Carla Hill respond?
Or am I missing something?

Uh, that’s Anita Hill.

Ooops sorry. Too much Red Sox celebration

Oklahoma kiddo @ 55

French toast, or is that “Freedom Toast”, and hot Postum is the order of the morning here.

OK – I did French toast yesterday – I just finished my oatmeal with dried cranberries. It’s pretty chilly here in Upstate NY this morning.

twolf1 @ 41

Millineryman – may be a good place to share that email you got?

Dem line on CSPAN – (202) 737-0002

Thanks twolf1! I’ve tried a couple times and it keeps ringing until I get a message that “The wireles caller you’re trying to reach in unavilable.”

Is there another number?

Anita Hill is ‘one of us’, I’m very proud to say. This person was born in Lone Tree, Oklahoma.

Here’s the video CSPAN just ran of a Japanese news report that shows the shooting of a Japanese photojournalist in Myanmar.

Kenji Nagai, 50, was shot dead on Thursday as he filmed demonstrations in the main city, Rangoon.

Just thinking…

It’s been six months since the Libby decision.
About time we hear on his appeal…
DOJ investigations will be completed probably
in the year 2010…
Love to see Rather’s law suit uncover the real truth…
Live in hope, die in despair…

Millineryman @ 59

twolf1 @ 41

Millineryman – may be a good place to share that email you got?

Dem line on CSPAN – (202) 737-0002

Thanks twolf1! I’ve tried a couple times and it keeps ringing until I get a message that “The wireles caller you’re trying to reach in unavilable.”

Is there another number?

Here are the numbers as per the CSPAN site:

Washington Journal: Support Democrats (202) 737-0002
Washington Journal: Support Pres. Bush (202) 737-0001
Washington Journal: Support Others (202) 628-0205

I think they just took their last call though :(
To contact the producers, email them at journal at c-span.org

Millineryman @ 59

twolf1 @ 41

Millineryman – may be a good place to share that email you got?

Dem line on CSPAN – (202) 737-0002

Thanks twolf1! I’ve tried a couple times and it keeps ringing until I get a message that “The wireles caller you’re trying to reach in unavilable.”

Is there another number?

it’s over

Anita Hill is, among other things, a prof. of law at Brandeis University. This individual, I think, is a real role model. The genuine article.

twolf1_63 Thanks again!

I’m sending them an e-mail after I hot the submit button on this message.

Oil companies look to exploit Burma

Oklahoma kiddo @ 65

Anita Hill is, among other things, a prof. of law at Brandeis University. This individual, I think, is a real role model. The genuine article.

Oh? But Thomas said she was just a lefty floosy that he let have a job!

Toby Wollin @ 58

Oklahoma kiddo @ 55

French toast, or is that “Freedom Toast”, and hot Postum is the order of the morning here.

OK – I did French toast yesterday – I just finished my oatmeal with dried cranberries. It’s pretty chilly here in Upstate NY this morning.

;0)

dakine01 @ 42

Don’t know if folks saw this on Chris Shays from yesterday’s Hartford Courant. Jane is quoted fairly prominently and extensively.

Shays, who would not be interviewed for this story, has contended that he is the victim of a dirty, well-orchestrated Democratic effort to discredit him.

As a thug, shays should know from “dirty”, “well-orchestrated” and “discredit”.

Sweeeeeeet quote from Jane! *g*

Oklahoma kiddo @ 65

Anita Hill is, among other things, a prof. of law at Brandeis University. This individual, I think, is a real role model. The genuine article.

Do you think she’ll respond to his memoir?
Doesn’t Thomas go on sixty minutes tonight?

Brit’s opining the Dem candidates are being pulled to the left by the likes of MoveOn.org. Hillary’s the only one resisting the evil force.

twȝk @ 52

dakine01 @ 42

Don’t know if folks saw this on Chris Shays from yesterday’s Hartford Courant. Jane is quoted fairly prominently and extensively.

Sounds accurate to me.

“Chris Shays seems to be following the GOP blueprint for messaging on Iraq — he’s all for ending the war when it’s election time, but votes for continuing it when it’s not. And rationalizing the two positions? Well that takes some serious contortions.” Jane Hamsher, http://www.firedoglake.com

More Jane:

Jane Hamsher, founder of firedoglake.com., a widely read liberal blog, as well as an author and film producer (”Natural Born Killers,” among others), had more pointed thoughts.

“He is definitely acting differently. He used to be seen as a really personable guy by his constituents and colleagues – now he’s brittle, defensive, cranky, and volatile,” she said in an e-mail.

“He contradicts himself on a regular basis, often within the same sentence. I think he senses his constant flip-flops on the war – saying he wants to end it when he’s running, voting to escalate it when he’s not – are going to be a really tough sell to voters this time around.”

Thomas to be on 60 Minutes tonight

Bay State Librul @ 71

Oklahoma kiddo @ 65

Anita Hill is, among other things, a prof. of law at Brandeis University. This individual, I think, is a real role model. The genuine article.

Do you think she’ll respond to his memoir?
Doesn’t Thomas go on sixty minutes tonight?

My take is that Hill will not respond. Just a guess. As for Clarence on “Sixty…” tonight? I don’t think I could take it. ;0)

Am I stating the obvious when I say that writing books is the new way for corps to funnel money to right-wingers? It’s payment for their service. Tory Clarke, Mary Cheney, etc. Nobody wants to read these books yet they become best-sellers. Someone’s buying them in bulk to make payoffs seem legal.

Many years ago my Hubby worked for Chrysler. We went to a convention with thousands of people. We all rec’d a copy of Lee Iacocco’s book. Sure it was a bestseller, Chrysler bought a million copies.

Jim Carrey – Message for Ban Ki Moon on Burma

Help! I cannot get Spotlight to work on my site! I’ve emailed them repeatedly to no avail as they have never replied. If your or your tech folk have some way of getting in touch with them please have them contact me at the email listed on this comment.

Thanks.

Nice birdy pic!

Elliott @ 72

Brit’s opining the Dem candidates are being pulled to the left by the likes of MoveOn.org. Hillary’s the only one resisting the evil force.

Back to the left, where they belong, is how I would put it.

Meanwhile, the Rethuglicans have gone right…over the cliff.

Elliott @ 72

Brit’s opining the Dem candidates are being pulled to the left by the likes of MoveOn.org. Hillary’s the only one resisting the evil force.

That Cristofascist !

Oklahoma kiddo @ 75

Bay State Librul @ 71

Do you think she’ll respond to his memoir?
Doesn’t Thomas go on sixty minutes tonight?

My take is that Hill will not respond. Just a guess. As for Clarence on “Sixty…” tonight? I don’t think I could take it. ;0)

I reckon Ol’ Long Dong never read him no Twain….To wit:

Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Heh….

Am I being meta or recursive enough if I point out the NYT has an article this morning titled All-Stars of the Clever Riposte in which the motivations and behavior of comments on blogs are (sort of) analyzed?

Or did someone else already link to this?

There are those who have blogs. Then there are those who leave comments on other people’s blogs . . . .

And motivations?

“You are one of the millions of people who sit at a computer all day,” said Marshall Poe, a professor of history and new media at the University of Iowa, who has studied Internet communities. “Every hour you have 10 minutes where you’re not doing anything productive at work, and you can’t look at porn. So you make a comment and fulfill this desire to show yourself off as a smarty-pants.”

What point there might be to someone putting all his creative sweat into a 1,700-word exegesis on the cultural status of Bonobo apes, which a few hundred strangers might read, can be partially explained by a writer’s desire to be recognized within an online community

Hmmmmm.

YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar’s government unexpectedly allowed the country’s leading opposition figure, Aung San Suu Kyi, to leave house arrest briefly on Sunday and meet with a U.N. envoy trying to persuade the junta to ease its crackdown against a pro-democracy uprising.

But thousands of troops locked down Myanmar’s largest cities, and scores of people were arrested overnight, further weakening the flagging movement.

solai @ 76

Am I stating the obvious when I say that writing books is the new way for corps to funnel money to right-wingers? It’s payment for their service. Tory Clarke, Mary Cheney, etc. Nobody wants to read these books yet they become best-sellers. Someone’s buying them in bulk to make payoffs seem legal.

Many years ago my Hubby worked for Chrysler. We went to a convention with thousands of people. We all rec’d a copy of Lee Iacocco’s book. Sure it was a bestseller, Chrysler bought a million copies.

Need to do away with that welfare entitlement ;)

Darfur attack kills peacekeepers

An attack on an African Union army base in the Sudanese region of Darfur has killed at least 12 peacekeepers.

Sources in the region told the BBC that 2,000 rebels had overrun the base. Fifty AU soldiers are still missing.

The casualties were the most serious losses suffered by the AU mission since it arrived in 2003, a spokesman said.

Oklahoma kiddo @ 75

Bay State Librul @ 71

Do you think she’ll respond to his memoir?
Doesn’t Thomas go on sixty minutes tonight?

My take is that Hill will not respond. Just a guess. As for Clarence on “Sixty…” tonight? I don’t think I could take it. ;0)

I think you a right… she has laid it to rest and moved on, unlike Thomas who is harboring,
and revenge is so much worse… just ask
Bush who is, in my opinion, the most fucked up person in the planet…

Oklahoma kiddo @ 83

YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar’s government unexpectedly allowed the country’s leading opposition figure, Aung San Suu Kyi, to leave house arrest briefly on Sunday and meet with a U.N. envoy trying to persuade the junta to ease its crackdown against a pro-democracy uprising.

But thousands of troops locked down Myanmar’s largest cities, and scores of people were arrested overnight, further weakening the flagging movement.

UN peace envoy meets detained leader

Sent the e-mail to C-Span and shared the e-mail address with my contact.

Thanks again twolf1.

Bay State Librul @ 86

Oklahoma kiddo @ 75

My take is that Hill will not respond. Just a guess. As for Clarence on “Sixty…” tonight? I don’t think I could take it. ;0)

My question is “Is it ethical for Justice Thomas to sit on cases were the groups facing him are ones he has now said he despises? Shouldn’t he systematically recuse himself from most abortion cases?” I remember his hearing, and that chilling statement that he would remember those that attempted to derail his candidacy. I thought it was grounds to impeach him then.

I think you a right… she has laid it to rest and moved on, unlike Thomas who is harboring,
and revenge is so much worse… just ask
Bush who is, in my opinion, the most fucked up person in the planet…

A.Citizen @ 81

Oklahoma kiddo @ 75

My take is that Hill will not respond. Just a guess. As for Clarence on “Sixty…” tonight? I don’t think I could take it. ;0)

I reckon Ol’ Long Dong never read him no Twain….To wit:

Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Heh….

707!

* says nothing * *g

Millineryman @ 88

Sent the e-mail to C-Span and shared the e-mail address with my contact.

Thanks again twolf1.

No problem. I hope these evil deeds get some media attention in the U.S.

Bay State Librul @ 86

Oklahoma kiddo @ 75

My take is that Hill will not respond. Just a guess. As for Clarence on “Sixty…” tonight? I don’t think I could take it. ;0)

I think you a right… she has laid it to rest and moved on, unlike Thomas who is harboring,
and revenge is so much worse… just ask
Bush who is, in my opinion, the most fucked up person in the planet…

My question is “Is it ethical for Justice Thomas to sit on cases were the groups facing him are ones he has now said he despises? Shouldn’t he systematically recuse himself from most abortion cases?” I remember his hearing, and that chilling statement that he would remember those that attempted to derail his candidacy. I thought it was grounds to impeach him then.
Got the dang cursor in the wrong place..

prof @ 82

Why do I have the feeling that Marshall Poe’s classes never fill up?

I’m wondering if that was more than a $9.11 tip?

In the brief campaign stop at Oriel Cafe, Giuliani chatted up customers, ordered a coffee with Sweet’N Low, slapped down a $20 bill and let the staff keep the change, and then attacked Democratic presidential front-runner New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for what he termed a failure to take a strong position on Iraq and other issues.
Giuliani rapped Clinton for what he said were unclear and shifting answers on when American troops would be withdrawn from Iraq.

He did not offer any timetable of his own, saying withdrawal “should be premised on American success,” which he defined as a “stable” Iraq that could act as an ally in “the terrorists’ war against us.”

Prof @ 82

Am I being meta or recursive enough if I point out the NYT has an article this morning titled All-Stars of the Clever Riposte in which the motivations and behavior of comments on blogs are (sort of) analyzed?

Or did someone else already link to this?

There are those who have blogs. Then there are those who leave comments on other people’s blogs . . . .

And motivations?

“You are one of the millions of people who sit at a computer all day,” said Marshall Poe, a professor of history and new media at the University of Iowa, who has studied Internet communities. “Every hour you have 10 minutes where you’re not doing anything productive at work, and you can’t look at porn. So you make a comment and fulfill this desire to show yourself off as a smarty-pants.”

What point there might be to someone putting all his creative sweat into a 1,700-word exegesis on the cultural status of Bonobo apes, which a few hundred strangers might read, can be partially explained by a writer’s desire to be recognized within an online community

Hmmmmm.

707! So engaging a topic via keyboard like a bonobo making a friend? Who knew!

I think it’s unseemly for a Supreme Court Justice to write his memoirs. Just as I thought it outrageous for Condi to reply to a question on U.S. policy-making with the remark that she’s not answering right now, you’ll have to wait for her book to come out.

Prof @ 82 –

thanks for the link, that’s really interesting. i was recently talking with a friend of mine about how, at least in my mind, there there are many similarities between participating/commenting on blogs and the scientific process. the motivation for writing a scientific paper is to share knowledge and ideas. sometimes commenting feels like it contains an element of that to me… (and there’s snark!)

all the comments here present different ideas and different pieces of information and evidence… and together we try to advance our collective knowledge.

course, that’s probably just my bias…. i think jane, a movie producer, sees and write a narrative while christy and scarecrow, lawyers, see and write arguments.

so, it makes sense to me that an academic would see the analogy to the process of their own work.

Danbury @ 51

Bay State Librul @ 43

Is there any way to wrest rogue justices from the SC? Anyone know?

Just for being rogues? Nope, and good for that.

There is, of course, impeachment. But do you really want a Supreme Court that is subject to that kind of political pressure?

The Repulicans tried just that with Justice William O. Douglas, a hero to many. The racists advocated it for Earl Warren, another hero.

But while the Supreme Court can fail to protect our rights (as it did for a hundred years after the Civil War with regard to African-Americans), it can sometimes be the only bulwark standing against the majority.

When the Supreme Court fails to protect our rights, we have the task of protecting them through political action. If it overturns Roe v. Wade we will have to fight to protect women’s right to choose in the legislature. Same for wire-tapping. Same for habeas corpus.

But when the Supreme Court does stand up for rights against a majority hell-bent on depriving people of their rights, its independence — and the near-impossibility of removing a sitting Justice — becomes a critical last bastion.

MR. Bill @ 92

Bay State Librul @ 86

I think you a right… she has laid it to rest and moved on, unlike Thomas who is harboring,
and revenge is so much worse… just ask
Bush who is, in my opinion, the most fucked up person in the planet…

My question is “Is it ethical for Justice Thomas to sit on cases were the groups facing him are ones he has now said he despises? Shouldn’t he systematically recuse himself from most abortion cases?” I remember his hearing, and that chilling statement that he would remember those that attempted to derail his candidacy. I thought it was grounds to impeach him then.
Got the dang cursor in the wrong place..

God help us in terms of SCOTUS, and other matters if the Republicans get in the WH again in ‘08.

Watching Bill Clinton. And wondering how we replaced him with an idiot.

MR. Bill @ 92

Bay State Librul @ 86

My question is “Is it ethical for Justice Thomas to sit on cases were the groups facing him are ones he has now said he despises? Shouldn’t he systematically recuse himself from most abortion cases?” I remember his hearing, and that chilling statement that he would remember those that attempted to derail his candidacy. I thought it was grounds to impeach him then.
Got the dang cursor in the wrong place..

Not the kind of intellect you would expect from a member of the Supreme Court.

From the Hartford Courant “He still beat Farrell, this time by 4 points. Voters knew then, and know now, that “what’s important is that Chris Shays delivers for his district,” Shutley said.”
We need to cut off completely all GOP pork if we are going to win and make it clear to voters, vote your guy out or else after we win you will get cut even more.
Like military base closings in your state for example after all if we can’t win your district this coming election chances are we won’t ever win it so what do the Democrats have to lose?
After all cuting wasteful government spending is something the GOP prefers to tax cuts right, so lets oblige them.

solai @ 100

Watching Bill Clinton. And wondering how we replaced him with an idiot.

i’m not watching… but whenever i see clinton nowadays i think that no matter how much i despise him, bush sure makes him look good.

twolf1 @ 87

Oklahoma kiddo @ 83

YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar’s government unexpectedly allowed the country’s leading opposition figure, Aung San Suu Kyi, to leave house arrest briefly on Sunday and meet with a U.N. envoy trying to persuade the junta to ease its crackdown against a pro-democracy uprising.

But thousands of troops locked down Myanmar’s largest cities, and scores of people were arrested overnight, further weakening the flagging movement.

UN peace envoy meets detained leader

Wish that a few of our politicians exhibited a fraction of the the courage that Aung does.

I have never actually thought about how our comments here may actually be an outward expression of some inner self motivation.
But, yes, I think there is definitely something there.
Besides the producer/story and attorney/argument, there is the care giver/nurturing, comic/lighthearted or snark, and gardener/encourager.
And, combinations of all.

OT – for the long-timers here – there was a *ilson46201 sighting yesterday. Still full of piss and vinegar, and he seems to have ordered Julia Carson to Stay. In. Bed.! (she had an operation this week).

Personally, I don’t see her running again, for health reasons, but I just didn’t have the heart to ask *ilson that one.

GeorgeSimian @ 32

I’m thinking that the GOP is helping Hillary with this position of her nomination being inevitable because the Republican machine is precision ready to attack Hillary after she gets the nomination. They’ve been doing it for years now. If you think the Swift Boat on Kerry attack was bad, that’s just a small taste of what they’ve got saved up on Hillary.

Anyone else think that?

I am no Hillary fan, not because of wingnut takes on her, but because she does not support social programs enough and seems to be in the pockets of Big Business IMO. However that being said, I think the wingnuts have little but personal attacks and have dragged her over the coals enough that, unless they find something new to pin on her (like she got a blow job from an intern) we have all heard it before, it will just be the same ol’ same ol’ and thus go in one ear and out the other.

Also this time we have some bloggers that will call out the lies and are heard more than they were in 2004. Like here in FDL. I cannot any longer stand my morning cuppa unless I read it here because I suspect later this afternoon I will see it again on the (embarrassed red faces of the) MSM!

Cat In Seattle

I was just watching MSN and they were talking about the new citizenship test and how hard it is. The talking head was wondering if it was meant to keep people out.

solai @ 96

I think it’s unseemly for a Supreme Court Justice to write his memoirs. Just as I thought it outrageous for Condi to reply to a question on U.S. policy-making with the remark that she’s not answering right now, you’ll have to wait for her book to come out.

She is still having a book come out? Does she still think she has a shot at Vice Pres especialy if Obama is on the opposite ticket? After Katrina I don’t see her or anyone connected to the Bush WH getting any African American votes.
However we should make sure all the GOP presidential candidates get asked by the press if Condi is on their short list for VP.
A yes answer hurts them with their base a no answer hurts them with African Americans, I don’t think there will be many independent voters this election.
Unless you count former Republicans who can’t support the war anymore.

solai @ 96

I think it’s unseemly for a Supreme Court Justice to write his memoirs. Just as I thought it outrageous for Condi to reply to a question on U.S. policy-making with the remark that she’s not answering right now, you’ll have to wait for her book to come out.

Justice Douglas wrote Go East,Young Man: The Early Years: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas while still on the Court.

As for famed 19th century Justice Roger Taney, he worked on his memoirs before his death, but they were completed by a friend. Here is one entry from the table of contents:

Chapter VII. Private Life.

The delicacy of the attempt to portray the private life of the Chief Justice. The intercourse of the Chief justice with the officers of the Supreme Court.

Of course, some words had different connotations in 1872.

things come undone @ 102

From the Hartford Courant “He still beat Farrell, this time by 4 points. Voters knew then, and know now, that “what’s important is that Chris Shays delivers for his district,” Shutley said.”
We need to cut off completely all GOP pork if we are going to win and make it clear to voters, vote your guy out or else after we win you will get cut even more.
Like military base closings in your state for example after all if we can’t win your district this coming election chances are we won’t ever win it so what do the Democrats have to lose?
After all cuting wasteful government spending is something the GOP prefers to tax cuts right, so lets oblige them.

blerrg, “Shays delivers for his district,” Shows how dumb I am. That phrase makes me think of the district as a competitive entity. I’ve not thought of it from that perspective.

selise @ 104

So what was in the error log anyways?

demi @ 105

I have never actually thought about how our comments here may actually be an outward expression of some inner self motivation.
But, yes, I think there is definitely something there.
Besides the producer/story and attorney/argument, there is the care giver/nurturing, comic/lighthearted or snark, and gardener/encourager.
And, combinations of all.

Would you care to expand on this theme I think you are descibing the various pieces of our blog group mind.
Insights into how the pieces interact and react to news of various sorts would be enlightening. Self knowledge of ourselves as a group can only help us interact even better!

Prof @ 110

As for famed 19th century Justice Roger Taney, he worked on his memoirs before his death, but they were completed by a friend. Here is one entry from the table of contents:

Chapter VII. Private Life.

The delicacy of the attempt to portray the private life of the Chief Justice. The intercourse of the Chief justice with the officers of the Supreme Court.

Of course, some words had different connotations in 1872.

Can’t get my link to Taney’s memoirs to stick. Google them.

For our soldiers on this Sunday morning in Iraq. It is not God that is killing you, it’s our ‘without courage’ and callous politicians who are doing this. Bring our soldiers home. Now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHpye0M34JQ

twȝk @ 112

selise @ 104

So what was in the error log anyways?

thanks!!!

Copying build/Development/JTTSI.bundle (1 error)
pbxcp: JTTSOI.bundle: No such file of directory

there were a bunch of warnings, but this was the error that, apparently, caused the crash.

Prof @ 82

Am I being meta or recursive enough if I point out the NYT has an article this morning titled All-Stars of the Clever Riposte in which the motivations and behavior of comments on blogs are (sort of) analyzed?

Or did someone else already link to this?

There are those who have blogs. Then there are those who leave comments on other people’s blogs . . . .

And motivations?

“You are one of the millions of people who sit at a computer all day,” said Marshall Poe, a professor of history and new media at the University of Iowa, who has studied Internet communities. “Every hour you have 10 minutes where you’re not doing anything productive at work, and you can’t look at porn. So you make a comment and fulfill this desire to show yourself off as a smarty-pants.”

What point there might be to someone putting all his creative sweat into a 1,700-word exegesis on the cultural status of Bonobo apes, which a few hundred strangers might read, can be partially explained by a writer’s desire to be recognized within an online community

Hmmmmm.

Do you think that the good Professor Poe might have missed the obvious motivation of desiring the ‘cheap immortality of being suspended (left), for all time, fixed in the amber of blog-o-vating archives’?

Clearly, in his view only certain amongst us have anything of substance to say. ‘Twould be interesting to see if he has any original thoughts, rather than simply shilling and pandering in the forlorn hope of impressing those whom he considers his betters. They’ve thrown him some sops, and burdened with a ‘name,’ he is giddiness personified.

He has discovered his ‘poe-fect’ station in life and we may expect great things from him in future, I’ll rue.

ccmask @ 108

I was just watching MSN and they were talking about the new citizenship test and how hard it is. The talking head was wondering if it was meant to keep people out.

The majority of the MSM are intellectually challenged. How about all talking heads required to take and pass a US civics test? The arrogance in their assumption that foreigners can’t pass a US civics test speaks volumes about the MSM. Their idea of investigative journalism is calling the Whitehouse and asking what’s the breaking story of the day.

Friedman writes some sense today:

What does that mean? This: 9/11 has made us stupid. I honor, and weep for, all those murdered on that day. But our reaction to 9/11 — mine included — has knocked America completely out of balance, and it is time to get things right again.

You may think Guantánamo Bay is a prison camp in Cuba for Al Qaeda terrorists. A lot of the world thinks it’s a place we send visitors who don’t give the right answers at immigration. I will not vote for any candidate who is not committed to dismantling Guantánamo Bay and replacing it with a free field hospital for poor Cubans. Guantánamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.

I love Washington Square Park in the village.
snip
A huge crowd fathering in Washington Square Park last night to hear Senator Barack Obama speak. He mentioned that he “used to hang out in Washington Square Park” and that he knew “a little something about Greenwich Village.” His speech touched upon issues like making college more affordable and how his relative lack of experience didn’t matter, “Longevity does not guarantee good judgment. A long resume says nothing about your character.”

RockPaperScizzors @ 118

ccmask @ 108

I was just watching MSN and they were talking about the new citizenship test and how hard it is. The talking head was wondering if it was meant to keep people out.

The majority of the MSM are intellectually challenged. How about all talking heads required to take and pass a US civics test? The arrogance in their assumption that foreigners can’t pass a US civics test speaks volumes about the MSM. Their idea of investigative journalism is calling the Whitehouse and asking what’s the breaking story of the day.

She was having a hard time answering one about “name one of the authors of the Federalist papers….

ccmask @ 108

I was just watching MSN and they were talking about the new citizenship test and how hard it is. The talking head was wondering if it was meant to keep people out.

We must get the White House Press Corp to ask our President and the GOP and Dem presidential candidates some of the tougher questions:)

oregondave @ 119

Friedman writes some sense today:

What does that mean? This: 9/11 has made us stupid. I honor, and weep for, all those murdered on that day. But our reaction to 9/11 — mine included — has knocked America completely out of balance, and it is time to get things right again.

You may think Guantánamo Bay is a prison camp in Cuba for Al Qaeda terrorists. A lot of the world thinks it’s a place we send visitors who don’t give the right answers at immigration. I will not vote for any candidate who is not committed to dismantling Guantánamo Bay and replacing it with a free field hospital for poor Cubans. Guantánamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.

i’m glad he finally figured out one of the major effects of 911 (maybe he should read naomi klein’s book?).

now, i wonder how long it will take him to figure out that in cuba, there already is free health care?

selise @ 116

twȝk @ 112

selise @ 104

So what was in the error log anyways?

thanks!!!

Copying build/Development/JTTSI.bundle (1 error)
pbxcp: JTTSOI.bundle: No such file of directory

there were a bunch of warnings, but this was the error that, apparently, caused the crash.

:o

In the left pane expand “Targets” and build each bundle before CocoaJT!

things come undone @ 122

ccmask @ 108

I was just watching MSN and they were talking about the new citizenship test and how hard it is. The talking head was wondering if it was meant to keep people out.

We must get the White House Press Corp to ask our President and the GOP and Dem presidential candidates some of the tougher questions:)

Bush definitely couldn’t pass it. Unbelievable, it is. I’ll bet you $9.11 President 911 couldn’t answer 50% of them. The man is a moron and doesn’t like to answer questions.

katherine Graham Cracker @ 17

oh and Petraeus said Malaki should STFU

Get a life, Nouri.
Whose country do you think it is, anyway?
Sheesh. The nerve of some people.

Bill Richardson being asked by Bob Schieffer about US bombing Iran.

-we seem to be ramping up, with resolutions in the Senate – takes a dig at Hillary
-have to finish the mess we’ve got now
-would inflame the Muslim world
-would be disastrous

things come undone @ 113

demi @ 105

I have never actually thought about how our comments here may actually be an outward expression of some inner self motivation.
But, yes, I think there is definetly something there.
Besides the producer/story and attorney/argument, there is the care giver/nurturing, comic/lighthearted or snark, and gardener/encourager.
And, combinations of all.

Would you care to expand on this theme I think you are descibing the various pieces of our blog group mind.
Insights into how the pieces interact and react to news of various sorts would be enlightening. Self knowledge of ourselves as a group can only help us interact even better!

Here’s another example: PeterR, one of the pastors on this site. He is a Shepherd. Very often he Leads people to sites, links, google searches. (There’s a hymn that goes like this: He leadeth me, …etc.)
And TexasBetsy who teaches students very often share story and article links. She educates and provokes thought.
I guess, bottom line, It Takes A Village (and that was a phrase before it was Somebody’s book title :)

I notice Hillary is being mentioned. Lahoma says, “how about a swim outback kiddo”. Think I’ll go for a dip.

Oklahoma kiddo @ 129

I notice Hillary is being mentioned. Lahoma says, “how about a swim outback kiddo”. Think I’ll go for a dip.

Lahoma wants to keep your blood pressure down. Good Woman!

ccmask @ 108

I was just watching MSN and they were talking about the new citizenship test and how hard it is. The talking head was wondering if it was meant to keep people out.

We should challege a Righty Blog to a citizenship test off. An independent third party agreeable to both of us could set up a tempory site where you identify which blog you are from or register as an independent and take the citizenship test.
You would not be allowed to take the test again and their would be a time limit. Plus we could have it open for one day or less time to help prevent cheating.
The number of people from left, right and independent could be tallied and the scores totaled.
I wonder if any of them got the guts? I wonder if we could arrange some online betting on the outcome?

Damn, Bill Clinton using Jack Bauer, the Keifer Sutherland character of 24 as an example to terrorism policies. Pretty damn funny, he’s obviously a fan of 24.

things come undone @ 131

ccmask @ 108

I was just watching MSN and they were talking about the new citizenship test and how hard it is. The talking head was wondering if it was meant to keep people out.

We should challege a Righty Blog to a citizenship test off. An independent third party agreeable to both of us could set up a tempory site where you identify which blog you are from or register as an independent and take the citizenship test.
You would not be allowed to take the test again and their would be a time limit. Plus we could have it open for one day or less time to help prevent cheating.
The number of people from left, right and independent could be tallied and the scores totaled.
I wonder if any of them got the guts? I wonder if we could arrange some online betting on the outcome?

What an idea! I love it. But republicans cheat so…

demi @128 This could make a good subject for a book!

GeorgeSimian @ 32

I’m thinking that the GOP is helping Hillary with this position of her nomination being inevitable because the Republican machine is precision ready to attack Hillary after she gets the nomination. They’ve been doing it for years now. If you think the Swift Boat on Kerry attack was bad, that’s just a small taste of what they’ve got saved up on Hillary.

Anyone else think that?

As usual they will be counting on progressives to act as firewall.

Robin Wright doesn’t think US will bomb Iran, not enough support for the idea, including not enough support in the military for the idea.
Face the Nation

Timmey Russert has an idiot grin and is so damn happy to talk to Bill Clinton. I bet he’ll hate himself in the morning for basking and glowing in Bill’s charismatic presence.

twȝk @ 124

In the left pane expand “Targets” and build each bundle before CocoaJT!

oh… i just hit the build button. (please remember to assume complete ignorance on my part !)

before i try your instruction, i’m “cleaning” – i hope that’s the right thing to do to reset everything?

David W. Bartoo @ 117

Do you think that the good Professor Poe might have missed the obvious motivation of desiring the ‘cheap immortality of being suspended (left), for all time, fixed in the amber of blog-o-vating archives’?

i present to you my comments to twȝk as a piece of counter evidence. i’d prefer documentation of my ignorance would not be preserved… but the benefit of twȝk’s help far out weights that negative.

CNN has only four guests instead of the usual couple of dozen or so. Their booker must be on vacation.

RockPaperScizzors @ 132

Damn, Bill Clinton using Jack Bauer, the Keifer Sutherland character of 24 as an example to terrorism policies. Pretty damn funny, he’s obviously a fan of 24.

*wonders how his dog is wagging*

things come undone @ 134

demi @128 This could make a good subject for a book!

Yeah, I’ll have to go back and read the article. I’ve hit a wall for today.

twȝk @ 141

I’ve hit a wall for today.

thanks twȝk! i’ve got the first “bundle” (whatever that is – a subroutine?) compiling. catch you later!

selise @ 138

twȝk @ 124

In the left pane expand “Targets” and build each bundle before CocoaJT!

oh… i just hit the build button. (please remember to assume complete ignorance on my part !)

before i try your instruction, i’m “cleaning” – i hope that’s the right thing to do to reset everything?

David W. Bartoo @ 117

Do you think that the good Professor Poe might have missed the obvious motivation of desiring the ‘cheap immortality of being suspended (left), for all time, fixed in the amber of blog-o-vating archives’?

i present to you my comments to twȝk as a piece of counter evidence. i’d prefer documentation of my ignorance would not be preserved… but the benefit of twȝk’s help far out weights that negative.

From the king of foot-in-mouth!
yeah cleaning is good but more helpfully if your editing the code. Right mouse the bundle, if you didn’t figure that out already, and select build.

Hey, you got further than I did!

selise @ 142

twȝk @ 141

I’ve hit a wall for today.

thanks twȝk! i’ve got the first “bundle” (whatever that is – a subroutine?) compiling. catch you later!

yeah, bundles are kinda like shared libraries.

Anybody know what the Germans are doing in Kurdistan?

What not to read this morning:

David Ignatius, falling for for Gen. McConnell’s FISA B.S., hook, line and stinker.

twȝk @ 145

Anybody know what the Germans are doing in Kurdistan?

no?
what are they doing there?

Here’s what’s catching my eye this morning: a NYT article on Freedom Watch.

Founded this summer by a dozen wealthy conservatives, the nonprofit group is set apart from most advocacy groups by the immense wealth of its core group of benefactors, its intention to far outspend its rivals and its ambition to pursue a wide-ranging agenda. Its next target: Iran policy.
…The idea for Freedom’s Watch was hatched in March at the winter meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Manalapan, Fla., where Vice President Dick Cheney was the keynote speaker, according to participants.

This group, whose founding members include Mel Sembler, a personal friend of Dick Cheney, and whose leaders are Ari Fleischman and Bradley Blakeman, a former deputy assistant to George Bush, denies that it is a front group for the White House, though Blakeman admits to talking to Ed Gillespie, but they are “careful” not to talk about the work of Freedom Watch.

High on the agenda: Iran, a direct threat to the US. One of the “benefactors” is quoted on the Ahmadinejad = Hi ler neocon talking point. The only “benefactor” quoted in the article is Sembler….

North Korean nuclear talks reach deal

Negotiators at North Korea’s disarmament talks tentatively agreed to a draft plan Sunday on disabling the country’s nuclear facilities by year’s end, though they said the detailed blueprint required further consideration by their governments.

Elliott @ 147

twȝk @ 145

Anybody know what the Germans are doing in Kurdistan?

no?
what are they doing there?

I don’t know, but a representative of the Kurds was on CSPAN and a caller mentioned something about Germans and the rep’s body language said all sorts of things while his mouth said nothing.

things come undone @ 134

demi @128 This could make a good subject for a book!

Great idea. I’ll write it when I get back from church. :)
Have fun with the other branchs of this tree today.

I love this GOP talking point that us bloggers are pulling the Democratic Presidential Candidates to far to the left.
Sure it makes me angry I mean 70% of the People don’t support the war which makes us the Center and the Majority. If anything most of the Democratic Presidential Candidates are to the Right of the rest of the Country!
But the thing is the GOP believe this! They think that we the majority of the People will come around, they think their six year old lies still work!
They think that they are due. They think they are due some good news in Iraq, after all the news has been bad out of Iraq for so long that the news has to change and get better sometime between now and the next election.
They think that if they hold on and keep doing the same thing in Iraq that they have been doing sooner or later there will be positive results.
They think if they quit now they lose but if they stick it out things will get better. Doing the same thing over and over again is a good defination of insanity. Not cutting your losses and doubling down on a loser is the sign of a bad gambler.
Thinking that whatever new plan Petraeus has is any differnt than the last few plans over the years when the number of troops and the mission remains essentialy the same is fooling yourself.

Millineryman @ 11

From an associate who helps a children’s school in Nepal. She asked to help get the word out.

From:
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Date:
28 Sep 2007 10:44

India is not doing enough by using its influence in the country to stop the bloodshed…there should be a boycott of its airline.
Subject:
Some Fact from Yangoon

We just got phone call with our sister living in Yangon about a few hours ago.

We saw on BBC world, saying that 200 monks were arrested. The true picture is far worse!!!!!!!!!

For one instance, the monastery at an obscure neighborhood of Yangon, called Ngwe Kyar Yan (on Wei-za-yan-tar Road, Yangon) had been raided early this morning.

A troop of lone-tein (riot police comprised of paid thugs) protected by the military trucks, raided the monastery with 200 studying monks. They systematically ordered all the monks to line up and banged and crushed each one’s head against the brick wall of the monastery. One by one, the peaceful, non resisting monks, fell to the ground, screaming in pain. Then, they tore off the red robes and threw them all in the military trucks (like rice bags) and took the bodies away.

The head monk of the monastery, was tied up in the middle of the monastery, tortured , bludgeoned, and later died the same day, today. Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the monastery, warded off by troops with bayoneted rifles, unable to help their helpless monks being slaughtered inside the monastery. Their every try to forge ahead was met with the bayonets.

When all is done, only 10 out of 200 remained alive, hiding in the monastery. Blood stained everywhere on the walls and floors of the monastery.

Please tell your audience of the full extent of the fate of the monks please please !!!!!!!!!!!!

‘Arrested’ is not enough expression. They have been bludgeoned to death !!!!!!

demi @ 151

things come undone @ 134

demi @128 This could make a good subject for a book!

Great idea. I’ll write it when I get back from church. :)
Have fun with the other branchs of this tree today.

I’m on the FDL facebook site if your serious.

New thread…

Christy has a new thread:

Swimmingly

Christy’s upstairs swimming.

Bay State Librul @ 43

Supremo Thomas has been harboring so much hatred…
Must have informed many of his decisions…
Anyone upset with his memoir?
Will Carla Hill respond?
Or am I missing something?

With that much hatred for Liberals, he certainly can’t be above politics. i say impeach him.