HI ES

HEY E.S.!

1?

guess not

Tis a good toe-tapper, ES. Thank you

Anyone ever heard of these folks? Counselor at school recommended the summer program for Cassie.

wow… I got the zed without claiming a zed…

dang, ES, now I have two fav versions of that song – the other is The Blues Brothers cut.

From his bio….”and a father of 21″.

He surely don’t need somebody to love.

-G

what is on my mind…. I am bummed that I have more than $5K of medical bills in two months and Elmore is off to London & Paris without me…. why don’t I live in a country with universal healthcare?

Doncha gotta claim it t’git it?

Not to state the obvious, but you’ve got every reason to be bummed. And pissed. Hope this works out.

Good morning folks.. I finally had to go dig up some thermals.. It’s supposed to get down to 13 on New Years night.

Elwood: We would especially like to welcome all the members of the Illinois law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here at the Palace Hotel Ballroom tonight.

-G

Dang it Katy, thats too bad.
Is there light at the end of the tunnel?

‘xactly!

Well the light is that I am back to work and have paid off a 1/3 of the bills so far. It was my decision… I just could not go that far into debt. Who knows what 2008 will bring in lovely medical challenges?

ES, Let’s get it on… ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7eTOnNBwYU

Solomon Burke’s official website.
-G

I emailed my Houston friend. She’s aware of all sorts of things. I’s email you if I hear back from her.

So sorry. That sucks.

That movie was on here a little while ago one Sunday morning. I watched it instaed of Steffie. They really hack it up for TV. Buty reminds me of Huckabee — on a mission from God.

thanks!

I sure hope that the next year sees you fit as a fiddle and kickin’ up yer heels.
;)

Never heard of it TB.

-G

It’s the least I can do in return for al the snacks.

You can’t lie to a nun. We got to go in and visit the penguin.

Dang, that old feller can honky tonk too.

You boys need some churchin’ up! Slide on down to the Triple Rock and see Reverend Cleophus.

-G

Elwood: People, when you do find that special somebody, you gotta hold that man, hold that woman! Love him, please him, squeeze her, please her! Signify your feelings with every gentle caress, because it’s so important to have that special somebody to hold, to kiss, to miss, to squeeze, and please!

The definition of “smackdown”:

http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2…..#more-9753

Let’s all paste it in an email to public@nytimes.com with a note that we’re not going to read NYT until Kristol is
GONE.

That scene is great. Where they’re sitting in the desks and Belushi (I think) gets whacked and winds up going down the stairwell in a desk. What a great movie. I was just think about Animal House the other day. That scene where Belushi is in class and coughs and says “Bullshit!” and the whole class starts doing it. Funny guy.

The teens in this house were very unimpressed with Blues Brothers. I was so disappointed.

OMG, That was a huge classic.
They spent over a million bucks tearing up that mall and going through all those cop cars.

katymine, I left you an epu’d message on the last thread.

Here too. And mine went to Catholic school for a time. But there’s hardly any good old-timey nuns left like I had. they hated it.

John Lee Hooker, Artha Franklin, Ray Charles, Pee Wee Herman, John Candy, Charles Napier(The Good Old Boy who also plays the cop who gets flayed-open by Hannibal Lecter(or Lecture as Tony Soprano calls him) Steve Lawrences’ furry chest……..kids these days…

-G

I can watch the Blues Brothers every time it’s on and not get tired of it.

busted, i used a sweet home chicago video i found a few weeks ago on a post i did here – had that chase scene in the mall in it – i love that movie

The new Oldsmobiles are in….

-G

I grew up with it, but i still find it amusing to watch. ^^ Half the jokes were misunderstood because i was a kidlet at the time of the movie’s release. But i consider it right up there with Wayne’s World in SNL related goodness. Something to put in and laugh my ass off when the time is right. Blues Brothers and the music though…oooh yeah.

I am a popular culture moron, so I have no idea what everyone is talking about.

baby girl just called – the soup arrived!

“It’s 106 miles to Chicago.
We got a full tank of gas,
half a pack of cigarettes.
It’s dark and we are wearing sunglasses”

6 and 3 is 9, 9 and 9 is eighteen, look there baby brother and see what I see…..(John Candy waves!)….

TB, got any orange whips?

-G

Classic cinema.

eCAHN_ you have mail.

You want I should wipe the dead bugs off the windshield, ma’am?

Oh, jeez, we can go on all night!

What a treat to hang out on Late Night with all the fine folks here. I’m off to bed, have a great night everyone.

So, Jake, you’re out, you’re free, you’re rehabilitated. What’s next? What’s happenin’? What you gonna do? You got the money you owe us, motherfucker?

That’s half the fun of that movie, saying the lines you remember with the actors.

g’nite MMan

yeap, my girls and i would do it to the blues brothers, ferris bueller, and the princess bride

I got it the email but not the photo. You can do it in the morning if you’re ready to close eyes. Thanks.

The Blues Brothers movie.
John Belushi and Dan Akroyd.

Singing Rawhide with the beer bottles smashing on the chicken wire.

yo, g’night, Tony.

Hit it……

-G

Well thank you, pal. The day I get outta prison, my own brother picks me up in a *police* car!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blues_Brothers

It’s funny and has so many great singers…Cab Calloway, for one.

eCAHN, here’s what Suz was alluding to…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-WbrrUbAeU

What was the first song they tried to do?

Now I’m gonna rent that next chance I get.

selise if you are still here I left you a note in EPUville down thread. So kind of you to dig up the CSpan file on Miss Molly – a treasured bookmark if ever there were one. ;~)

And sadly, it looks like CSpan does not have the video though I thoroughly enjoyed the one they taped from the same LA Book Fair 2003 event.

Best Far Side cartoon for me: Movie screen with backs of different insects in rows silouetted. Movie screen is of a windshield. Caption is: Insect Horror Movie.

churchifying

Gimme some lovin’

-G

That’s hilarious. Again.

That’s absolutely hysterical. Glad I’m hanging out. You might moderate my geek genes.

Thanks. Still gonna rent it.

I actually own a Blues Brothers LP.
They played some great music .
And how in the world did those two jokers pull those dance moves and still walk the next day?

Shake a tail feather

Do you see the light?

-G

Gotta get going, night all. Pray for worldwide stability.

Ecah, get thee to a video store and rent the Blues Brothers….you’ll enjoy it. There’s even a cameo by Steven Spielberg.

busted, i wore out the cassette i had of the soundtrack

g’nite gsd

bb, live, whose making love

Here is a good one,
Rubber Biscuit.

Nite GSD.
Thanks for the memories.

OOOOH, good one.

Do the watusi, boogaloo, the phony maroni, come on and do the twist.

-G

We’re all back in our cells, but every now and then…there’s a riot goin’ on.

Peace.

Belushi and the cartwheels? Wondered the same thing, too.

Didn’t Elwood make toast over a hotplate on a bent-up wire hanger?

With the trains blasting by right behind them.

A parting kiss…..

Belushi as Beethoven sings Ray Charles.

-G

maybe I am not paying attention but who is Elwood?

Jeez. Nice to get away from pocket vetoes, assasinations, war and politics. Christy will put up some serious post tomorrow and I’ll ask the people about the Bluse Brothers. Nah. Time and place for everything. Some penguin taught me that.

Right, right. Definitley renting this. How did we get started on this? Because of “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love” ??

Not Blues but, this is a wonderful version of Poetry Man. Somehow i think newspaperbrat will really like it..)

Follow the link, Elwood is on the left, Jake is on the right.

elwood and jake were the names of the characters played by dan akroyd and john belushi

I think it was the video that ES has at the top.

Song from the movie, different singer

Yeah. i think so too.
Nice trip down memory lane, guys, but it’s a gettin’ late here and all the excitement of Rudy commin’ to town today just has me all wore out.

re the front-page clip: first time I ever saw a “blues harp” like that

Sounds like you demonstrated remarkable restraint. G’ nite BFL.

OT: Been on the road all day and just now saw Jane’s 1:30 thread about Peggy Noonan’s take on Huckabee. Noonan is one of my least favorite people for several reasons, so I was delighted when Glenzilla tore into her this morning. Except, it doesn’t quite work on her; she doesn’t even bleed. In any case, the best part was this, which Glenn linked to in his third update.

g’nite blf

I agree and posted on that thread

Nice touch wasn’t it? I noticed the harp on several of Burkes youtubes.

I have a question. As I recall it was BUSH that was caterwauling about the $70 billion supplemental to the defense bill that ultimately was packaged into the Big one. He screeched about how the troops in Iraq would go without their MRE’s and simply waste away under the heavy fire of all those terrorists while they were hunkered down immobile in their foxholes (probably dug by hand since CONGRESS wouldn’t supply them with shovels and bullets).

Defense Secretary Gates was saying that because Congress wouldn’t pass the supplemental he would have to shift money to Iraq to prevent disaster…so he would then have to place tens of thousands of DOD employees on furlough over CHRISTMAS (F’ing Grinches, that CONGRESS) and even shut down bases in Europe!!!

But now it’s BUSH who has unilaterally vetoed the Budget- one in which Congress rolled over like a runt puppy ganged up by the rest of the litter.

So where is all the talk about how HE is forcing people out of work at Christmas trudging home giftless to their crying waifs? Or forcing troops to make soup of their belts, and take a bullet for Bush because he vetoed the Bill because a few Iraqis bigwigs said “Don’t let these Iraqi Veterans sue us! If they win we may lose some of our money we have hidden away in American banks!”

So why isn’t Gates furloughing everyone? Mothballing those Euro-bases?

After all, weren’t they the consequences of not passing this budget IMMEDIATELY?

I think Congress should take their own sweet time dealing with this legislation and submit some additional amendments that compels the Jerk to take it or make up another set of lies!

I didn’t scan all the comments, but suspected that someone had linked to Glenzilla’s stuff. And Glenn’s right: the tragedy is that she’s unexceptional, rather she’s the norm in modern MSM journalism.

I’d like to see that happen.
Someone has to stand up to him. How about the Congress? Isn’t that, like, part of their job?

g’night Suzanne & ES. I think it’s bfl, Suze. Why don’t you just call me by my given name — Beerfart.

And hey, Huckabee was in town yesterday. O-town hasn’t seen this much excitement since Senator Nelson’s son got drunk on election night an’ slugged a cop.

Heading off to bed… night all…. going to Phoenix downtown Market which is the baby version to Portland Saturday Market…. YEA for progressive, local, slow food and craft marketing!

*crickets*

g’nite katymine
beerfart, i’m tired and been sick – don’t i get any slack?

Exactly!!! Congress ought to say to Bush: “That’s our offer Mr. President; take it or leave it. A deal’s a deal.”

Gnite Beer fart.
Gnite Katymine, have fun tomorrow and dress warm.

Did bush pocket veto the big defense budget bill, 696 billion, or the 70 billion supplemental?

Fisk weighs in:

Robert Fisk: They don’t blame al-Qa’ida. They blame Musharraf

Weird, isn’t it, how swiftly the narrative is laid down for us. Benazir Bhutto, the courageous leader of the Pakistan People’s Party, is assassinated in Rawalpindi – attached to the very capital of Islamabad wherein ex-General Pervez Musharraf lives – and we are told by George Bush that her murderers were “extremists” and “terrorists”. Well, you can’t dispute that.

But the implication of the Bush comment was that Islamists were behind the assassination. It was the Taliban madmen again, the al-Qa’ida spider who struck at this lone and brave woman who had dared to call for democracy in her country.

Of course, given the childish coverage of this appalling tragedy – and however corrupt Ms Bhutto may have been, let us be under no illusions that this brave lady is indeed a true martyr – it’s not surprising that the “good-versus-evil” donkey can be trotted out to explain the carnage in Rawalpindi.

It’s widely accepted that Musharraf is in collaboration with Al Qaeda and the Taliban. So whether Bhutto’s assassin was working for Musharraf or Al Qaeda is rather academic. It appears to have been a collaborative effort.

Robert Fisk: They don’t blame al-Qa’ida. They blame Musharraf

That’s amazing. I don’t recall Fisk being so back-handed, ever.
Thanks for bringing this in here.

And the ISI seems to be where the Taliban, Al Qaeda types, meet with the military or Mushariff.

The President did sign the big omnibus appropriation bill on Wednesday. I am not sure what the bill he vetoed is, although it evidently has part of the COL increase for military pay in it.

The reason for the veto,as usual, follow the money.

The White House is claiming that passage of the legislation “would imperil Iraqi assets held in the United States, including reconstruction and central bank funds,” according to the USA Today article:

A provision in the measure “would permit plaintiffs’ lawyers immediately to freeze Iraqi funds and would expose Iraq to massive liability in lawsuits concerning the misdeeds of the Saddam Hussein regime. The new democratic government of Iraq, during this crucial period of reconstruction, cannot afford to have its funds entangled in such lawsuits in the United States. Once in place, the restrictions on Iraq’s funds that could result from the bill could take months to lift, and thus Section 1083 cannot become law even for a short period of time,” [White House deputy press secretary Scott] Stanzel says in the statement.

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/…..900/427259

I’m pretty tired… I think I’ll go home now. …

All righty. With the help of Millinaryman, I think I’ve done it. Here’s the 1980 photo of the “Salmonettes.” Molly Ivins is in the front row, second from left. Donna Shalala is in the top row on the right, doing rabbit ears on my high school classmate, Ellen Fleysher. I’m in the top row, on the left (where else?). Other powerful women include screen writer for Slapshot, a NYT reporter, Alice Rivlin of CBO. OMB, Brookings fame, front row on the left.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22233394@N05/?saved=1

that is so forking cool!

g’nite all

Gnite Suzanne.
Smarty pants, I saw that reply
Lol.

Great photo! And the hair styles..)

G’ nite Suzanne.

Good night, sleep tight. Glad I “got it up” in time for you to see it.

eCAHN – I’m glad you stayed with it! Great pic!

nite suz!

Now the pic was taken about 5 or 6 days into the raft trip, so no hair dryers. The guides were an organization then called OARS which was an acronym for something. We had 3 pontoon style rafts, 3 guides. We requested all women guides, but they provided 2/3. So there was ONE man with 17 women. We harrassed him mercilessly. In 1980, it was quite a trip.

ANother interesting (possible piece of the Negroponte bread crumb trail to Pakistan) is Anne Patterson. Late 90’s Ambassador in El Salvador and Columbia.. At the UN until Bolton is appointed and then she heads straight to Pakistan.

Mistake. The left woman in the front row is Carol Bellamy, former NYC Council prez, and Executive Director of UNICEF. Alice Rivlin is third from the left on the front row.

Anne Patterson and Paul Wellstone narrowly averted a roadside bomb in Columbia in Dec. 2001.

BOGOTA, Colombia — Police in Colombia said Friday they had discovered a roadside bomb outside a town hours before a U.S. senator and U.S. ambassador were to visit.

Sen. Paul Wellstone, a Democrat from Minnesota, and U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson were the likely targets, Police Col. Jose Miguel Villar said.

However, a U.S. State Department official in Washington said Patterson told department officials by telephone that she did not see it as an assassination attempt. Another official, also asking for anonymity, added that it is not unusual for such devices to be found in Barrancabermeja, considering the town’s reputation for violence.

eCAHN,
that’s a great picture! Have you ever rafted on the Rio Grande?
I did once; hope I get to go again.

Digby has an interesting post on this proposed veto. Here she quotes one of her commenters:

Re: your post “Where Will It End?” I suspect that the key to the pocket veto has nothing to do with Iraqi assets. Rather, it is contained a little line buried in the last paragraph of the Memorandum of Disapproval: “… I continue to have serious objections to other provisions of this bill, including section 1079 relating to intelligence matters . . .”

What is in 1079 you ask? A provision requiring the Director of National Intelligence to make available to the Congressional intelligence committees, upon the request of the chair or ranking minority member, “any existing intelligence assessment, report, estimate, or legal opinion,” within certain conditions.

Nope. Only raft trip was on the Salmon. Hope to do Rio Grande some day.

Good nite all.

He vetoed the whole Godzilla…since the $70 billioon supplemental was wrapped into the OMNIBUS bill.

It’s the whole Pentagon Budget he has just vetoed!

Wow! The learn how to act like Republican candidates (and trolls) early, don’t they!
We Did Anything We Had To Do To Win!

Wow! The learn how to act like Republican candidates (and trolls) early, don’t they!
We Did Anything We Had To Do To Win!

The company is “considering” taking away the tickets? “Considering“?!?

Sounds like this contest was run by dims….”Well, yes, little girl (and mother), what you did was wrong, but here’re the tickets anyway.”

We did the essay and that’s what we did to win,” Priscilla Ceballos, the mother, said in an interview with Dallas TV station KDFW. “We did whatever we could do to win.”

I don’t know who Hannah Montana might be or Club Libby Lu, but they can hardly be seen to reinforce those values in a 6 y/old. The WE talk is over the top.

Next stop for this young lovely, beauty contests a la Jon Benet..

Mornin’, Sunny -

I *think* Montana is some kiddy singer young girls are going ga-ga over (with ticket prices to match); as to CLL, who knows? Somehow it ain’t worth the effort to check out teh google…..would much rather be talking to you. *g*

What’s hoppenin’ in your world?

Morning all. NYT surveys Bhutto situation as a test of just dummer and dummer the prez candidates are about foreign affairs. Huckabee the winner of course. Interestingly, they chose as their example the less interesting of his dumberremarks, i.e. the wall/immigration issue, rather than the factual don’t read the newspapers mistake about martial law.

been working since 3; turning in. back later.

Nothing much happening here. Trusting the xmas music on NPR classical will end Jan 1. Thought 12/26 would do it, not so.

Had an epiphany last night re: Laura Bush. I’m now convinced George did in fact write the Roses are Red poem hisownself and nobody had the guts (or opportunity) to say no. So he first made Laura tell a story in which she
was humiliated: SHE dropped the dog (in the embarrassing photo) and her husband calls her lump in the bed. Then, once the world mocked and sneered at the stupidity of the poem, she had to say she lied.

Disdainful as they are about the intelligence of the people, that poem could have been better done by a 12th 5th grader and certainly anyone on the staff.

——————-
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
Oh my lump in the bed,
How I’ve missed you.

Roses are redder,
Bluer am I.
Seeing you kissed,
By that charming French guy.

The dogs and the cat, they missed you too.
Barney’s still mad you dropped him, he ate your shoe.
The distance, my dear, has been such a barrier.
Next time you want an adventure, just land on a carrier.

(note nice aircraft carrier reminder)

Sunny -

Missed the poem story…sure you aren’t puttin’ me on? *g*

Wrt the lying mother/daughter duo and Montana tickets….not to worry, CNN is on the story. Turns out this Libby Lu thingy is a group of stores that apparently exist for the express purpose of p*mping merchandise designed for adults to young females. *If* the footage they showed is of the actual mother, she looks about like you would imagine….think trailer trash. Why am I not surprised?

No offense intended to any pups who may live in a trailer; did myself for several years. Maybe a better choice of words would be a blond fundie with makeup.

Got a man coming in an hour or so for an estimate on some housing repairs; catch up with you guys as time allows.

I am not putting you on. It happened after she’d been abroad and had garnered a bit of publicity. She read the poem at a book thingy.

After hilarity arose, she took a, oh you believed that? position.
No one pressed her on the whole thing. Google knows the whole story, but ya have to dig a bit for the retraction.

Luck with contractor.

Sunny – That’s a supremely insecure guy!

The lump in the bed, his wife, has been kissed by a ‘charming’ Frenchman.

What’s Bush’s response to that?

‘If you think that’s an adventure, Laura, try landing on an Aircraft Carrier like Me!’

good morning – where the hell am I?

Well,4:07 AM here, must be gettin’ close for the East cost to start percolatin’.

Yep. That’s why I’m convinced it was his work.. That and being able to offload the dropping Barney rap caught on film.

May explain why she’s so reclusive.

Just for grins and giggles, which one of you poor Modulators has been trying to stay awake all night?

I stopped last year… and saved myself a nice piece of change too.

I read a few things online, mostly Arts and then Krugman and Rich.

Times is for the shareholder class and those with property and time to indulge in fine living. Screw them.

jayt – You’re in the Waiting Area next to the Emergency Room, where the Constitution has been wheeled-in, bleeding like hell, a blogger-IV slapping its support, with a Team of Highly Skilled FDL Article Writers and Commenters waiting to save the day with perceptive insights, refined in the light of a large pool of Life experiences, for pragmatic, progressive solutions to the Crisis of Our Time…

it’s nice to smile in the morning

Good morning, pups. The NYT has nothing in the way of columns for us today. Which is better than the prospect of having to look at William “I’ve never been right about anything in my life” Kristol, who I hear starts soon. What? They couldn’t get Charles Cabbagemallet? He’s out of a job now…

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got blueberry muffins just out of the oven. I’m girding my loins to brave the mall to see if I can find any good cards for next year… Wish me luck — I don’t want to get trampled to death!

stay safe out there. you’re doing the patriotic thing, tho, going shopping

oh. ok. guess this calls for a massive caffeine infusion.

and here I just got up early so I could take a nap.

morning!

Wish me luck — I don’t want to get trampled to death!

mall advice: fake right – go left.

and don’t hesitate to use the straight-arm…

Somebody must be around *always* b/c I got snagged for comment content around this time of day a while back. FDL mod: “Sleep? Whatzzzzz that?”

Marion -

They couldn’t get Charles Cabbagemallet? He’s out of a job now…

Careful! No need to give them any *more* good ideas. ;-(

Wingnut welfare is amazing to watch,take Roves book deal and Bloody Bill just for example.
Most people I know who would have that kind of track record would be what you call “chronically unemployed”.

Surely the Cabbagemallet is at least on wingnut welfare.

IIRC, he got an offer to teach somewhere.
GAG

I really don’t know. He was published in the Savannah Daily Disappointment but I always averted my eyes. I’ve never been one to stare at multi-vehicle pileups or train wrecks…

Of course now Sadly, No won’t be quite the same without their picture of him in the beanie with the propeller..

They can’t resist puttin’ his smirk on the Talking Head circuit.

In case you want something to snarl at this morning, there’s always the “political memo” in the Times. It’s a let’s trivialize Bhutto’s death fest. Cripes.

i really hate the nyt. and our candidates.

Perfect example of money can’t buy everything.

well, if they’d give the money to me i’d at least pretend to like them. for a day. or maybe an hour. i could do it for a minute. oh, fuck it. i hate them all.

Hee Hee.

love, love, love you-all though!

Even one neocon editorialist is a waste, but so many papers have multiple neocons all recycling and rephrasing the same inane talking points.

Even Doughy Pantload gets the faxes, eventually.

Good morning everyone. This is too surreal, I was on this thread when it started, went to bed and had outlandish dreams, and now here I am again. If a talking lion and scarecrow show up, I’m outta here.

Good morning everyone. This is too surreal, I was on this thread when it started, went to bed and had outlandish dreams, and now here I am again. If a talking lion and scarecrow show up, I’m outta here.

It’s actually possible that a scarecrow could show up, you know

They have a big ol’ front page article in the NYT this morning about Chimpy’s “Pocket Veto” and they didn’t even mention the fact that the Senate is still technically in session.

I know, that’s why I included the lion. And maybe some flying monkeys too.

Oops, forgot the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12…..sh.html?hp

Good morning pups!

My sleep schedule is messed up, I been up all night after being in bed for 30 hrs with food poisoning the other day.
Patiently waiting for Christy, or whoever kicks off early Saturday.
This will be a first.

Seems like the pocket veto would offer an potential candidate from the opposition party an opportunity to slam the idiot. That is if we actually candidates who were true opponets and not enablers.

but the house isn’t…

it’s not clear to me what that means…

Hope your feeling better now, Busted

busted… that sounds horrible!

Busted_sorry to hear about the food poisoning. I hope you feel better soon.

Mo’ better,I ate a corndog to make sure everything still works.
Thanks.

see the first comment at this post from digby:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com…..ering.html

thanks! going there now….