Good morning Attaturk. Unfortunately for Ms. Guiliani, it appears she’s not the only one who loves “digging in the dirt.”

I’m more concerned about his recent pandering to the anti-immigration racists and that crazy that he hired to shape his foreign policy, but if this stops people from voting for him, great.

Nice field you’ve got there GOP.

LOL!!

Speaking of which, I just ran across this Bob Herbert column from Saturday’s NYT. He very eloquently notes a what an unseemly pack of junior Rambos the GOP field has turned out to be. They seem to be trying to out-Cheney even Cheney himself. It’s a lot of juvenile bullshit.

There’s even some sanity about the immigration scare in the WSJ editorials today. I won’t link, cause you have to pay - at least for now.

I must admit to wicked glee at the instability in the Republican field. Rudy may have lost some of his shine, Mitt is going to finally address his religion which, quite contrary to the “no test” phrase, causes heartburn to the most right wing, Huckabee is scaring the poo out of the Club for Growth, Thompson is a national cure for insomnia, and Ron Paul is raking in the money.

Pass the popcorn.

“Dick Cheney is still a war criminal Hillary Clinton is still the devil and I’m back on the radio”!

krystol is throwing ghouliani under the bus as well

let me tell you what I believe is going on right now;

ghouliani endorsed mario quomo, ultra liberal when agaisnt concervative potaki

it is now payback time

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

Prediction: when all the smoke clears, the Republican nominee will be Saint John McCain. The competition is there only to force McCain to compromise himself and become beholden to the various powers that be within the GOP realm.

Good morning everybody!

History may not repeat

History may not even rhyme

History does alliteration

Harding, Hoover, Humbug

Mornin’ Attaturk and pups,
Wet and slushy this a.m. in the big apple. NYers have big shovels and know where to dig. Can’t you just hear Judy this morning… Oh detective, could you take “Staples” for his little walkie please? Don’t forget his little poopy scoopy.

Good morning Attaturk and firepups. Seems to me that Romney emerges as the thuglican candidate in the end. If Ghouliani survives all this crap it will be a pretty scary comment on the attention span of the American public.

Prediction: when all the smoke clears, the Republican nominee will be Saint John McCain. The competition is there only to force McCain to compromise himself and become beholden to the various powers that be within the GOP realm.

mccain found some of his balls amd had a rebound because of it

next he went on the TEEvee and said “there are no thomas jeffersons in Iraq”

mccain has a shot if he reclaims his dignity, calls this administrations actions criminal and promises to prosecute crimes committed against our constitution

don’t laugh here, I know it’s a long shot but mccain once had a set and lost them…he can regain that set

I think it won’t be any of the above.

The time is now ripe for a real candidate from the CONservs…if hagel didn’t say he wouldn’t run I would put my money on him

I say none of the above

and if my wishes come true on the democratic side it will be none of the above also

a little self destruct from clinton and obama and hopefully gore or feingold steps to the plate and takes a mighty swing

I have a quote I don’t have the attribution but a very nice campaign slogan was said and remains true

“if you want to live like a republican vote for a democrat”

Mc Cain is done, I think. But you never know the wingnuts, they are capable of anything!

Personally, the last time I remember being in the least pleased with the actual Presidential candidate from either party was McCarthy.
So I am resigened to the ‘lesser of two evils’.
That said, I don’t know why the conventional wisdom persists that Huckaby is not a viable Republican candidate.
(note: I cannot think of a scenareo where I would not campaign (to some degree) for and vote for any of the Democratic candidates)
Me, I like Edwards best of the field, but do not expect to see him on the ballot in 08.

Good morning, pups. It’s Cohen and Krugman in the NYT today. Roger Cohen gives us eight rules of modern political life as seen from President Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela. Paul Krugman says the financial crisis that began late last summer, then took a brief vacation in September and October, is back with a vengeance.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and the biscuits are just out of the oven. Chavez lost, and I’ve got the spaces back in my name. God’s in his heaven and all is right with the world. (If you’re having problems getting your “old name” back, log on however you can and then go to “profile” in the “toolbox” block in the upper right hand corner of the site.)

Mack, I agree with everything you said.

I’ve got the spaces back in my name.

Good morning, Marion. Could you tell us how you managed to retrieve your spaces?

I don’t care if Judith Nathan is “First Lady” of the Hampton’s, Palm Beach, or any other enclave for the rich and pointless. I just don’t want her to be the First Lady of the United States. Although calling Judith Nathan a “lady” anywhere is quite a stretch. Do ladies sleep with other lady’s husbands?

Paul Krugman says the financial crisis that began late last summer, then took a brief vacation in September and October, is back with a vengeance.

Shorter Krugman and this scares me, thank you very much.

How bad is it? Well, I’ve never seen financial insiders this spooked — not even during the Asian crisis of 1997-98, when economic dominoes seemed to be falling all around the world.

This time, market players seem truly horrified — because they’ve suddenly realized that they don’t understand the complex financial system they created.

Good Morning! I love the smell of Monday in the morning.

ON WASHINGTON JOURNAL
Monday, December 3
7:30am - Edmund Andrews, NYT, Energy & Economics Correspondent | Article - House HR 6 - Senate HR 6 - House HR 3221
8:30am - James Diffley, Co-Author, U.S. Conference of Mayors Report on Mortgage Foreclosures | Report
8:45am - Phoner From Trenton, NJ: Mayor Douglas Palmer (D), U.S. Conference of Mayors, President

[sic on the phoner]

Bilbo, I logged on with the new logon information and password they sent me, using the auxiliary e-mail account that I had to set up, and then went to the “toolbox” box at the very top right of the site. There, in the “profile” section was all my old information. I changed my password to what I wanted instead of what they supplied and made sure that everything else was okay, and PRESTO, my spaces are back! I was tired of being a run-on name…

Thanks, Marion. In other words this required manual intervention on the part of the PtB. Although it’s not an issue for me, I know others were asking about this problem too.

Marion,

How did you change your user name?
Space bars?

Spacey

OT, but perhaps interesting…

This morning’s Chicago Tribune editorial page, in the section “What others
are saying” is an excerpt from a Glenn Greenwald piece on the “fashionable” bashing of Ron Paul. This is the same spot in the Trib where they printed Joke Line’s fictitious FISA excerpt that they later partially corrected.

On the same page in their letters section (Voice of the People) is a very nice, rational, well crafted letter refuting the Klein piece from Russ Feingold.

Can’t find a link to GG’s piece, but here’s the Feingold letter.

(Preview still isn’t working…and the link function didn’t give me an opportunity to name the link, so I hope this works!)

Oh, I see it came through OK! Phew.

Mornin’, pups. Good procedure wishes for TexBetsy this morning!

He’s a long way from the mountaintop, but it’s Imus in the Morning out here on the prairies. And that starts my day with Sunshine. I know that’s not a majority opinion here at the Lake, but I believe in redemption. And cutting thru the b*llshit. Imus has walked that road.

Talkin’ to McCain now. Carville and Matalin coming up. And Senator Dodd.
Levon Helm Band. And I gotta admit, the Sparky joke from his new sidekick tickled my funnybone.

Welcome back, Imus.

Levon Helm — mMmmmm

Mornin’ Marion,
Mind if I combine the chocolate and coffee this AM?
It’s a chilly Midwestern day, and that would kickstart the week nicely.
Off to the grind.

Me, I am glad the new FDL let me log in - the old one argued with me about my password and the letters I had to type to prove I was human until I stopped logging in.
No problems now.
^)^

I love how Rudy Julie Annie loves everything he’s ever said about himself. He believes himself too.

((((hugging TexBetsy))) for a speedy recovery. ;-)

He’s challenging McCain and Hitchens is on with asshole Joe, no contest!

I’ve heard more rumblings about Bloomberg lately (no doubt because of the chaos on the R side). Of course if this poll is correct, then he may be too “liberal” for the GOP.

Mornin’, everyone -

Mika on scar today said something to the effect that she doesn’t think the ghouliani thing will go anywhere. WTF? With “lefties” (sp?) like her, who needs enemies.

Good morning!

I like the new look, although the old one was comfortable and familiar, sort of like a soft but worn blanket. I suppose I’ll get used to this one soon enough. I do miss the “bedlam is dreaming of rain” tagline. Did Bad Religion call and want their lyric back?

You and I are in the minority, for sure, but I miss Imus terribly. Won’t be listening to his radio show but if he ever returns to tv, I’ll be watching. How’s he doing?

RudyJudyBootyDuty says it all for me.

Exactly. McCain’s offering his same spin, will be interesting to hear what Dodd has to say. Imus is also live-streamed on the WABC website. I am so ready for serious conversation on both sides of issues and policy. Zipping in and out, I read PW’s posting about what’s happened at the Strib. If nothing else, maybe Imus will “shame” the real PJs into doing more than putting their bylines on Gooper press releases and rearranging the commas.

Am I the only one bothered by the fact that Bloomberg has a graph indicating whether a person is liberal or conservative?

Earlier on JoeScar, Chris Matthews talked about the CNN question irt the bible. He said what’s been said by others, that each of the candidates should have said “No religious test for public office”. He had a kind of ‘what the hell’ attitude. “Is this America or not? It was an assault on the constitution”. (paraphrased, but not by much)

Off to a slowish start. But I see the promise of returning to the mountaintop. He is on TV–DirecTV at Channel 379. Also on Dish, I think. RFD-TV.com is working to grow into cable networks as well.

It’s tough to do. He’s putting himself out there and it could be a big fiasco, but I don’t think so.

He’s already pressed McCain on what he would do with the don’t ask don’t tell policy. Got a McCain answer: if the generals said it was what they needed to do he’d consider changing the policy.

I agree. I don’t have the “I’m home’ feeling yet. On another point, I’d like to enlarge the print but not having any luck. The ‘text size’ button doesn’t do it. Any techies have any suggestions?

I agree. I don’t have the “I’m home’ feeling yet. On another point, I’d like to enlarge the print but not having any luck. The ‘text size’ button doesn’t do it. Any techies have any suggestions?

It’s browser dependent. With Firefox, do a “control +” to increase font and “control -” to decrease.

I’m not a techie and this is a feature of firefox and I don’t know about any other browsers, but if I hit “ctrl” and “+” it enlarges the text of the page, “ctrl” and “-” makes it smaller fwiw.

jinx bilbo

Scarecrow’s upstairs…

Thank you, Bilbo & Elliott! My Firefox is now big enough to read without squinting.

I’m not a techie and this is a feature of firefox and I don’t know about any other browsers, but if I hit “ctrl” and “+” it enlarges the text of the page, “ctrl” and “-” makes it smaller fwiw.

On the Mac, in both Safari and Firefox, Command + and Command - does the same thing.

From scarecrow’s thread:

I’m not going to defend organized religions, but the guy who wrote this, Paul, was way, way ahead of his time.

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galations 3:28.”

It’s not as though the Church of FDL is making too much money or has too many parishioners. Instead of ripping religion, lets celebrate the diversity Reb Deb brings to this community. Also whatever Xtian denomination she represents is rare for not reserving all authority to men.

It’s also not as though the new Church of science and secularism has been a dramatic improvement over what came before.

My 5:46 does not go far enough in certifying all the damage that has been done in the name of Jesus Christ (and other competing world religions) and CONTINUES to be done. The fact that I know that the flawed teaching/enforcement was antithetical to what Jesus preached and lived is of little solace to the victims, some of whom I believe are on scarecrow’s thread.

FWIW, there are few people I look up to more for moral leadership than scarecrow and I know from experience his position on these matters.

In every pulp detective novel where the killer lives in some mansion or rural estate the bodies are always buried in the “rose garden”. So maybe Judy’s diggin’ has some greater symbolism there.