Thought your comment was so astute I posted it over at Eschaton.

Amazingly, if there were video of waterboarding a dog, the country would go crazy against that form of torture.

People? “Others”? Not so much.

Barney? Mukasey have a dog? (Snark, you NSA watchers.)

…a boy turns gay.

Welll…I missed that. What did bathing that adorable kitty have to do with those four words?

Because I do have a gay cat, ya know.

Hi, pups. Were there technical problems few hours ago? I couldn’t get FDL to load at all. Or maybe my stoopid employer has started blocking blogs.

In any case, it’s Friday and I’m here, and that’s what counts. As long as I’m awake anyway.

The kitty in the video took his bath rather well. Much better than any cat I’ve tried to give a bath!

Absoulutely, if we tried to give a bath to our two six month old kittens, we wouldn’t have a face left.

Things Come Undone @ 188

Is the American Economy already in a recession well how would we know? Even Alan Ableson in “Barron’s ” business magazine was talking about how he didn’t trust the Labour Secretarie’s numbers a week or two ago.
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Government data drones are pretty far down on the food chain when it comes to politicization. I’ve been out of the business for almost 8 years and I don’t underestimate the extent of W’s corruption of govt services, but I still find it hard to believe that they’ve gotten to the point of influencing the bowels of data production. Otherwise, for example, industrial production would not have been reported down 0.5% in October: http://www.federalreserve.gov/…..efault.htm

But I’ll keep my eyes open for manipulation. Also, keep in mind that for an economy the size of the U.S. and with data operations chronically underfunded, there’s always a large range of uncertainty around any number that’s published.

Believe it. I used to work for Commerce. They have been trying to get past unfortunate facts for a long time [eg bold].

Things Come Undone @ 188

Is the American Economy already in a recession well how would we know? Even Alan Ableson in “Barron’s ” business magazine was talking about how he didn’t trust the Labour Secretarie’s numbers a week or two ago.
Since we can’t trust those numbers and since Bush already has such a fine reputation for both honesty and competence.
I think all the Democrats should just talk and agree to all say that we are in a recession already.
Its a good talking point.
I know collusion sounds unethical but the GOP and the MSM have all been colluding about what to say about Hillary.
Notice the insults against her are all the same the talking points the issue CNN talks about is the same one Rudy and Mitt say on any given day.
Why because the GOP and the MSM between them have only one brain and that is Karl Rove’s.
A little colluding and message coordination would be good for our side to do once in a while.

Government data drones are pretty far down on the food chain when it comes to politicization. I’ve been out of the business for almost 8 years and I don’t underestimate the extent of W’s corruption of govt services, but I still find it hard to believe that they’ve gotten to the point of influencing the bowels of data production. Otherwise, for example, industrial production would not have been reported down 0.5% in October: http://www.federalreserve.gov/…..efault.htm

But I’ll keep my eyes open for manipulation. Also, keep in mind that for an economy the size of the U.S. and with data operations chronically underfunded, there’s always a large range of uncertainty around any number that’s published.

Alan suggests Bush’s Labour Secretary not the workers are the problem. Also I think it was some kind of birth, death index that was at varriance with an actual labor survey?
I’m sorry I don’t have more details I threw my copy of Barron’s away.

We just finished a special session of our state legislature that sought to replace the corruption-tainted oil extraction fees charged big oil here. The big oil faction was in total disarray, and were handed their biggest defeat in state history by our maverick Republican governor, Sarah Palin. She showed more balls throughout than I’ve seen from most politicians in a long, long time.

That’s amazing. Big changes abornin’ in Alaska I predict!

BlueStateRedHead @ 224

selise @ 210

Selise,

Did I dream it last nite, or are you coming to meet Marcie EmptyWheeler at BC and not for a football game but to talk about the news?

If true, and you want to find me, I have, yea, you guessed it, redhair, midlength, am of the female pesuasion, and will be wearing a lilac campaign-sized button with the word SEEKER on it (that’s caps, not yelling).

My reading glasses are also harry potterish.

yup. see my comment above.

even if marcy doesn’t make it to her own meetup, kathryn and i would love to meet you and phred (last i heard prof. foland was a maybe, and isn’t scarecrow supposed to be there too?).

i thought i might wear my “impeach cheney” cap for identification purposes. also, there’s a pic of me and kathryn here (with revdeb and scarecrow and ned).

still trying to figure out what the timing for the meetup is. have heard several different things.

Emailed you, but so the world knows that the EastCoast Pups will be meeting at the same time as the West, here’s the meetup place according to pfred.

An Tua Nua. 835 Beacon St. ( 1 block from Kenmore Square toward Brookline) . Parking at a nearby hospital lot described on their web page.

Simultaneous Meetups. It’s an f**g conspiracy.

selise @ 210

morning!

Selise,

Did I dream it last nite, or are you coming to meet Marcie EmptyWheeler at BC and not for a football game but to talk about the news?

If true, and you want to find me, I have, yea, you guessed it, redhair, midlength, am of the female pesuasion, and will be wearing a lilac campaign-sized button with the word SEEKER on it (that’s caps, not yelling).

My reading glasses are also harry potterish.

yup. see my comment above.

even if marcy doesn’t make it to her own meetup, kathryn and i would love to meet you and phred (last i heard prof. foland was a maybe, and isn’t scarecrow supposed to be there too?).

i thought i might wear my “impeach cheney” cap for identification purposes. also, there’s a pic of me and kathryn here (with revdeb and scarecrow and ned).

still trying to figure out what the timing for the meetup is. have heard several different things.

if you are willing, would you send me and email at speakeasy dot net? i’d love to exchance cell phone numbers so we can meet up. kathryn in ma and i are planning to drive in together… but we’re not sure what the plans/timing are for the meetup. thanks!