ES!!!

filibuster!

ES! the protest about the protest song contest ended up a winnah! how cool is that

Chads !

Lookie here, ES, I did get references (whispering from my GOP kin)

Charge the cell phones.

Dip me in patchouli, I love it! *g*

CHARGE!!!!

(hi ES! and all you all.)

Hi Laura!

Miss Doty, I am honored to see you here.

hey Laura D

Hi late nighters. I guess I’ll call Wyden and thank him in the morning, Smith is a worthless call, but I’ll do that too.

excellent, ratbastahd

Is this old news? http://www.alternet.org/story/69105/

Thank YOU, Mr. Springs! ; ) Even with the new formality, you folks have a way of making a gal feel welcome!

Hi late nighters. I guess I’ll call Wyden and thank him in the morning, Smith is a worthless call, but I’ll do that too.

Telling you something you already know…
It’s only worthless if you don’t make it. Thanks ratbatahd!

Hi Newton U! Hi Suzanne. Has the rain reached you folks yet? It sure sounds pretty here tonight…

evening again y’all. bed is comfortable but I just can’t fall asleep yet.

spidey, its dated 12/6 so its 10 days old

“new formality?”

Really?

LAURA, get your butt in here and sit down! So good to see you. ;)

so did everyone see it? I totally missed it

I know, I know :) That’s why I continue to call him. At least I have one progressive Senator in Wyden. He’s amazingly consistent, if only we had a few more like him and Feingold!

laura, its sprinkling and has warmed up to a toasty 45.2 at the little cottage by the creek in the redwoods

Yes!!!! Yes!!!! I voted for Phil first!!! I started a movement!!!! This is great!!! Is the voting closed?

I ain’t a marchin’ anymore.

I know, I know :) That’s why I continue to call him. At least I have one progressive Senator in Wyden. He’s amazingly consistent, if only we had a few more like him and Feingold!

Dude, I have a cypher and a Republican here in Cali!

Sounds much better than the last two election frauds! *g

just gotta say … a little Ochs always gets me in the mood for fighting back … thank you Mr. Springer!

My ex-senator, melendez, is supposed to be one of the good guys. My current senators are useless on this.

oops, it’s menendez, not melendez.

Just teasin’ about the Miss Doty bit, Newton, that’s all! Hi Margot. Thanks for your note. I’m glad you liked the pic. I wish I could link it to all of you. (It’s a photo I took last summer of a billboard in Elko NV of the Dalai Lama, with the caption: “Doesn’t just wish for peace. He works for it.” (The least said about the billboard behind it, with the chimpanzee and the query “Got Hair?”, the better!) )

I was just about to say, Don’t tell me we lost Beefart, he/she started the movement.

It is on the radar, erm i mean, in the satellite imagery, err, surveillance fuckery.

Beerfart Liberal, Good for you!

Spidey, I didn’t see that news at all. To me it’s completely new (and creepy).

Laura, are you folks expecting freezing rain up north?

All of you who have “useless” Senators need to make the effort as well. It’s important that the “useless” and the “useful” (not sure how to tell the difference….) hear from us on this. It’s just a call, or an email, or a FAX. Why not make the small effort — you might reach a sympathetic staffer who gets the ear of Senator Useless at a vulnerable time.

It could happen. And is there a better cause?

The Republic may hang in the balance.

great music!

but how am gonna fall asleep now?

I figure like this. The leadership here tried to ram some somgs down our throats and left Phil Ochs off the ballot here the other night but we would have none of that. Now if we can do that, maybe Dodd can do somethin’. My faith in Democracy has been restored.

Hiya All,
Here in Cleveland Heights, we’ve had a day of blizzard conditions, and now clear and lovely. Waiting for more storms into the wee hours.

BTW, kiddin’ about the “leadership”. Sometimes things like that don’t come through in a written comment.

I have two republ goons who are still loyal to Bush.

yep.

doesn’t even involve getting tasered!

… besides, sometimes i can hear their heads explode when i tell them they are going to regret giving all this power to hillary. kinda fun.

beerfart, the leadership here didn’t try to shove anything down anyone’s throats. we asked over two nights for pups to list their favorites to help determine the vote.

i’m sorry you feel that we were trying to hype only our personal favorites.

Hi Christine.

Don’t taze me, bro’.

All of us are the leadership.

withdrawing my 43 in response to bfl’s 40

howdy!

went to school in cleveburg – when kucinich was mayor. *g*

all winter long i never saw the sun. made spring all that much more exciting.

Please see my # 40. Teasin’ Suzane. You guys did a great job with this.

Hey Tex! Love the new bed — am way jealous.

So, is Ochs the winner or the winner among write-ins?

My Fischerspooner didn’t even make the playoffs (lyrics by Susan Sontag, too!)

the write in winner teddy, more winners roll out this week.

people are still adding comments to senator dodd’s thread. over 350 so far.

Winner.

oy
go over to radaronline.com and enter david huckabee in their search function

Not according to the google or the paper. This afternoon was so cold, I thought I felt snow in my bones, but the low is supposed to be 41 tonight….It’s been raining steadily since sixish. We walked the beasties with wind and mist in our faces.

Y’all know the whole purpose of this contest was to feed Suzanne’s youtube addiction, right?

Wow.

Y’all know the whole purpose of this contest was to feed Suzanne’s youtube addiction, right?

I’m just doing my job checking out potential videos is my story and i’m sticking to it.

I have a really hard time here, after 26 years, missing sunshine in winter. In my home state of Delaware, sun shines all winter.

Hey man, I was gonna glare at you with my nun stare for that little remark! I’m glad you revised it…ahem. ;)

Y’all know the whole purpose of this contest was to feed Suzanne’s youtube addiction, right?

Busted!

I just hope she’s noty pissed at me for my attempt at humor with the “leadership” remark. Can’t give a gentle poke yuk, yuk, with my keyboard. Maybe I’ll go to Facebook and poke her. After all, she walked me through it to get me started.

That’s right Suzanne. Don’t let them rattle you. We all know it was in the line of…uh…duty.

Christine, you sound just like me, only my home state is NM. I still cannot get over the 6-7 months of gray.

beerfart, you did not see this at #47?

withdrawing my 43 in response to bfl’s 40

I got nun glares for eight years then Jesuit looks of disapproval for another eight. Used to it. And ya can’t smack me upside the head, ’cause the nuns used to do that too.

Well hell, you’re no fun.
Next!

Nope. Missed it. But by the way, now that it’s over, if you had been pushing your personal favorites, who would you have been pushin’?

looks like margot has met her match wtih bfl and the nun stare (which scares the crap outta me and i’m glad she doesn’t focus with me in her sights)

Margot, I miss the ocean, and cry about it like a baby. I’ve been here and love it, but gosh, I do miss the coast.

Of course I’m no fun. I went to Cathoilc schools my whole life.

i don’t blame you. i found it hard too… so you must have moved there around ‘81? i lived on murray hill road until the spring of ‘82.

it’s stupid i know, but i love the small world thing… and finding where we-all may have crossed paths.

Well, it now appears my entire immediate family is coming to EssEff for the solstice. Mom arrives on Friday from DeeCee, and my brother and sister-in-law are driving down from Vancouver next weekend.

Thank goodness the fiance is a cleaning madman!

Iraq troops stage ‘mutiny’
from Raw Story Breaking News
Spc. Gerry DeNardi stood at the on-base Burger King, just a few miles from downtown Baghdad, hoping for a quick taste of home. Camp Taji encompasses miles of scrapped Iraqi tanks, a busy U.S. airstrip and thousands of soldiers living in row upon row of identical trailers. Several fast-food stands, a PX and a dining facility the size of a football field compose Taji’s social hub. The base had been struck by an occasional mortar round, and a rocket had hit the airfield two weeks before and killed an American helicopter pilot. But the quiet base brought on a sense of being far from roadside bombs, far from rocket-propelled grenades and far from the daily gunfire that rained down on the soldiers of Charlie 1-26 as they patrolled Adhamiya, a violent Sunni neighborhood in northeastern Baghdad. Just two weeks earlier, the 20-year-old DeNardi had lost five good friends, killed together as they rode in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle that rolled over a powerful roadside bomb.

Sounds like fun Teddy.

So, let me get this straight…
While the presidential front-runners in the Democratic Party, both United States Senators, are stumping and raking in the cash, The Honorable Christopher Dodd, Democratic Senior Senator of Connecticut will be standing up for the founding principles of the nation…

We are missing more than just backbone in our party.

rut roh teddy

bfl, can’t say since the winners have not all been announced

Oh Selise, I did! We moved here in Jan. 1, 1981, and a community that we loved. I do, still, miss the ocean.

Teddy, Ochs is just the write-in winner.

I’ve decided that eggnog-and-bourbon will save the day(s), Suzanne.

And evenings as well.

Icelandic tourist to US held for two days, shackled, deported — over a ten-year-old visa mistake
from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
An Icelandic woman who came to the US as a tourist was arrested and held without charge or a phone call for two days at the border because she had overstayed a US visa more than a decade ago. She was held in shackles, denied food, and then deported from the US back to Iceland.

She contended she was interrogated at JFK airport for two days, during which she was not allowed to call relatives. She said she was denied food and drink for part of the time, and was photographed and fingerprinted.

On Monday, Lillendahl claimed, her hands and feet were chained and she was moved to a prison in New Jersey, where she was kept in a cell, interrogated further and denied access to a phone.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r…..st-to.html

we overlapped by more than a year… post kucinich days though. i remember a beautiful cemetary (with grants tomb?) that we used to visit on the first nice day or three of spring… fruit trees blossoming, playing frizbee and getting high uh, enjoying the weather. *g*

Well, I ain’t-a stayin’ up anymore.

Good night.

Romney Claims NRA Endorsement He Never Received
from Huff Po by The Huffington Post News Editors

Maybe it was the pressure of the moment. Being under the Tim Russert spotlight can get to anyone. Under Russert’s grilling about guns on this morning’s “Meet the Press,” former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney claimed an endorsement he’d never won.

In answer to questions about whether he would sign an assault weapons ban, Romney said: “Just as the president said, he would have, he would have signed that bill if it came to his desk, and so would have I. And, and, and yet I also was pleased to have the support of the NRA when I ran for governor. I sought it, I seek it now. I’d love to have their support.”

Oh. Does that mean I should temper my restored faith in democracy? But seriously, you done a good thing giving Phil Ochs attention – even if you had to create a new category to do it. Thanks.

sleep well neuro

and that is why people will not want to visit.

hell. i don’t blame them.

Sorry. That wasn’t actually a reply to anything TexBetsy said. Just a general comment.

And the same to you, Betsy.

Teddy,
I found an Ohio dairy that make the MOST wonderful eggnog — Hartzler Dairy Eggnog. Hope it is available everywhere…

We’re supposed to get a cold snap down here in Flori-DUH. I still have my weather thing set to NJ, so I have no idea what it’s like here now..

pain free sleep wishes tex

Phil Ochs is from Ohio. No, that’s wrong. He went to Ohio State.

i am still here suzanne. neuro’s leaving.

Oh yes, I’ve had many a picnic lunch at the tomb. We drive though the cemetery everyday to University Circle to work. I love the seasons in this garden.

Lieberman & McCain

thanks tex, g’nite neuro

see what happens when i take token the cutest dog in the world out to save the the redwoods in a downpour – i got back in and read what i missed too fast.

Lieberman & McCain

Full-on spew there, Betsy!

And I’m gonna go too. I really just wanted to see how Phil did. And, again, Suzane and ES, great job with this. Guess it’s not over yet, huh? I look forward to more results.

nite.

you work at cwru?

Sleep well BFL.

hehehhee love watertigers stuff

g’nite bfl

hey suzanne,

you’ll be happy to know it’s 32 degrees here in austin right now. supposed to go down to 30!

hi greenwarrior. how are you?

I did, and Mr. CE does. I now work at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Mr. CE is is the Curator of the Dittrick Medcical History Center.

Michigan winters are a mix of grey, with periodic bouts of bright sunshine and small mountains of snow. Rayne can probably testify to that too. ^^ We had a winter that was nearly snowless about 2 years back, and it was also cloud-covered for a solid 2 or 3 months. I about went mad. My internal rhythms are set for bright, bitter and cold winters in Michigan.

awesome! chem e, class of ‘82.

Thanks. I think I will. I’m sleepy.

I was called a dangling chad just the other day here.

Trying to organize a slideshow/fundraiser in Anchorage next month for the anti-Christopher McCandless trekkers mending their way from Seattle to Unimak Island in the Aleutians this winter. Cutting up blown over or standing dead trees around the homestead with the kids today, too. So good to have them home!

I like Texas winters. 3-5 cold days about 4 x over a 3 month period. The rest is what most people would call fall.

I was born in the Great Lakes region, so i think the weather is pretty much in my blood. *grin* For all that i complain about being cold all the time, this is where i’m at home.

i sit at 627′ elevation which is usually been below the snow line up here (around 1,000′). there is a picture on the fireplace in the clubhouse of snow in the park taken iirc a winter or two before i moved up here

You know, we planned to be here for three years, and it has been 26 years here. We’ve educated two children and are thrilled to do so.

hey ET… nice to hear they did surface – read about it over at your place.. tis a nice blog you have going

Know what? It’s 50-somethin’ right now here in The City Beautiful and they have a wind chill advisory!!! Floridians are wussies.

nite all. gotta get up early and do the committee hearing list – although i expect we’ll all be watching c-span2 – hopefully for the week. *g*

thanks for the cleveburg memories, christine.

Well I’m off to sleep with the smell and sound of rain mingling with my dreams. Goodnight everyone.

g’nite selise.

It’s plus 9F here, blowing 45, gusting 60, and we worked outside half the day. I miss summer on days like this, though. Mostly because of the wind.

hiya ET!

Didja see Chris Cillizza’s Alaska writeup? “Alaska: A Target-Rich Environment for Democrats?”

sleep well selise and laura

g’nite laura d

ET I get cold just thinking about the word Alaska.

nite laura
nite selise (such industry for a dfh!)

me too, tex, but i have been fascinated with it ever since i was a kid.

Betsey, will Dean Broder walk the Lieberbride up the aisle?

-G

P.S. Gonna ge a sad Monday….

My comment at Chris’s article is under the nom de blog they assigned me at the WaPo ten years ago – niklake.

I loved reading The Call of the Wild and other Jack London stories.

I think my fascination with Alaska is partly based on being a kid when it was admitted to the union

Spent my first 25 years in those awful MI winters, yuck! Now I live at 2500 ft. and watch the snowline move up and down on the Cascades, beautiful!

gsd – that’s gonna leave a mark

I wondered if there was another like you when I read that, ET!

… and we have such surprisingly vivid memories of it, being toddlers at the time!

I’ll likely be trading them for Ontario winters in a few years, ratbastahd. *grin* Not that they’re much different.

I didn’t hear anything about this:
Nuke pills just a scare tactic?

you might have been a toddler but i was being a baby genius teddy – back then, those months difference mattered (ducking)

Leaving the country for any special reason alias?

from the Austin paper:

Local lawmakers split on climate change action
from Statesman
The only Democrat, Rep. Doggett, differs from Republicans on urgency.

was very down for a while. am coming back up. just in time for the filibuster tomorrow.

and you? and just where are the pics of the new bed and other new stuff your parents got you?

hey yous i used to go visit grants tomb in nyc? does he have more than one final abode?

new bed

Yuk yuk yuk….

Robert Dillon, a petroleum industry writer dissed Markos today in an excellent article in the Fairbanks News-Miner. I can’t believe Kos ran that poll last week all but endorsing a candidate – Ethan Berkowitz – who wants to open ANWR NOW, thinks impeachment is a bad idea, and refuses to take the efficacy of war against Iran off the table. Especially when Diane Benson, who is one of Berkowitz’s primary race opponents is clearly more in line with what DailyKos’s agenda has been all along.

chrstine e, as a navy brat, i got used to moving every couple of years or so. the longest i lived in one town was from 77 to when i moved up here – but lived in 7 different places while living in that sf east bay town.

oh good, it looks like they’re not missing any more.

cool bed. do you like sleeping in it?

Justin Raimondo, the master of the hyper-link embedded essay, just posted his Sunday evening article. It is the best analysis of where Huckleberry Huckabee is right now that I’ve read.

Ask me in the morning ;)

So far I like blog-commenting in it and listening to the radio.

Time for another try for sleep. Hope to watch the filibuster with y’all.

Night.

fingers and toes crossed ya get pain free sleep tex

Well in part i do feel threatened by the events here. But i’m fighting while i’m still here in the meantime. I also have a lot of family in ontario too(mom’s canadian). I had plans to do this before the Shrub’s MalAdministration had shown its true colors. Way back in early 2001. I’ve been detoured a few times since i made up my mind, but i’m working on it still. My original choices were to work in NYC, Hollywood or Chicago. (only entertainment cities on the map with any real industry in them.) Other choices? Toronto or Vancouver. Vancouver’s way too far for my tastes, so Toronto was the original goal.

Now i’m more in mind of a smaller city in Ontario. Plus my skillset has shifted in the intervening years. Life’s fun like that.

nite betsy. sleep well.

time for me to turn in too. nite all.

I Got Shoes
Reading Huckabee’s name reminded me of this song. “Everone talkin bout heaven ain’t going there, heaven, heaven…”

g’nite gw

yes, i must get my beauty sleep for calling cornyn and hutchison in the morning.

I too must sleep.

Tomorrow we visit the fiance’s mother, to take her shopping at Trader Joe’s and then riding around to look at holiday lights. After I make my Dodd calls, of course!

And then more housecleaning, I suppose….

Goodnight, sweet pups.

Oh, my.

Ron Paul beat John Kerry’s one-day online fundraising record yesterday:

In 2004, on the day John Kerry accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, the Boston senator raised $5.7 million on the Internet, the biggest online fundraising day on record.

Yesterday, Ron Paul, the Republican congressman whose rock star status on the Internet has singlehandedly fueled his campaign, broke that record, raising nearly $6 million in 24 hours.

On Nov. 5, which was Guy Fawkes Day, a symbol of rebellion in British history, Paul hauled in $4.3 million in 24 hours. And yesterday, the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, the day that helped spark the American Revolution, Paul’s Web-savvy, intensely loyal supporters completed another “money-bomb,” raising nearly $6 million from more than 50,000 donors, half of whom were new donors. With 14 days left in the fourth quarter, the Texas Republican has amassed more than $17.5 million.

sleep well teddy

The debate starts at 10am et, 7am pt. I plan to be awake, but the dvr’s getting set just in case. Good night, all.

g’nite TOW and thanks for the times

hey Suzanne, you can tell when someone’s lurking with the site meter, can’t you?

bluejeansntshirt you want me to talk about my super secret mod powers? (laughing) the sitemeter ‘whos on’ link will show you the isp of the various folks on the sites here at the lake; fdl, marcy, and tbogg. doesn’t tell me the name of the person who is reading or whether or not they are registered or what name they used either. just the name of the isp and location they are reading from and where they are on the site.

Suzanne knows all.

(laughing) yanno, teddy, one would think that knowledge would have prevented either one of my husbands cheating ways but…

*edited to clarify

Hey all. Wow, I’m surprised to discover I’m considering calling in sick in the morning so I can watch and support the filibuster. Anybody else?

Way cool. was kicking around in there and some of the pups or lurkers ain’t exactly around the corner. Goin nite nite and charging the cell.
Gnite TSF and Suzanne and any other pups still up.

g’nite bluejeans

Nite bluejeansntshirt!

Got a good firm to replace yours. They do the legal stuff for the car talk guys, Dewey Cheetham and Howe.

Raimondo ruined his entire article by calling his own judgement into question by using the words ‘Jonah Golberg’ and ‘thoughtful’ in the same sentence.

-G

hey starbuck, i thought they were lawyers. our shady characters were accountants.

I don’t think Jonah actually wrote the essay Justin mentioned. I read it and thought, “even Jonah Goldberg can make sense once in a while,” but upon reflection I realized Goldberg didn’t write that peice. Some stylistic elements are in there, but somebody else wrote it. He just signed it.

What’s the difference!:-)

The dodd-fisa-and-the-filibuster thread is still going and what a great bunch of comments. Setting my tivo but heading to bed in hopes of catching all the details live in the morning.

G’ nite all fabulous firedogs.

nite Eureka
DODD

Actual breaking news:

Saudi King Abdullah has pardoned the rape victim who had been sentenced to 200 lashes.

Score one for reason.

-G

g’nite ET

g, you gotta link?

Saudis still right in the middle of everything.

BTW Edwards on CSPAN-1 right now (Ames Iowa Town Hall from earlier today) is highly convincing.

Nite one and all.

-G

g’nite eureka

Saudi King Abdullah has pardoned the rape victim who had been sentenced to 200 lashes.

Score one for reason.

Fuckin’ A!
Chimpy is rumored to have sent the King a friendly note, wondering why she wasn’t being executed… /s

thanks, greg aka gsd – i put it in the news ticker.

ok, pups, time for me to get some much needed beauty sleep. see ya tomorrow nite

‘Nite, Suzanne. Sweet dreams to ya.

nite suzanne

lol

Hokay, I’m off to bed too. Some truly amazing stuff on the Dodd thread, can’t wait to hear it read on CSPAN-2. See a bunch of you back here in the morning — dream sweetly in the meantime.

I’m looking for a list of holds that Reid is honoring from Republicans.

Lindsey Graham put a hold on the bill banning torture – Reid is honoring that one.

In a previous thread I gave a few anti-war songs for We Fight Back. There are also social protest songs, like Phil Ochs – “Joe Hill”.

JH

There is also Joe Hill’s “Preacher and the Slave”.

PS

Great thread, great song. Insomniac theatre here, but I’ve got to get up early as well, so time to try to hit the sack (again). If you’re looking for social consciousness/protest songs, Phil Ochs’ “There But for Fortune” is a poignant one.

Covered by many folkies, here by Joan Baez in a concert where she leads off with “500 Miles”:

Joan Baez- 500 Miles & There But for Fortune

Perhaps a scare tactic by the Coal Lobby?

Hmmmmm. A stopped clock is right twice a day.

Icelandic tourist to US held for two days, shackled, deported — over a ten-year-old visa mistake
from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Do ya think the NeoCons want to turn Europe into an enemy, so they can create WWIV at some future date? Just think of the profits!

Crazy morons with power — a dangerous combination.

Lindsey Graham put a hold on the bill banning torture – Reid is honoring that one.

Harry’s got some serious splainin’ to do.