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happy new year christy. may all your resolutions turn into actions!

hi Christy!

No thankless tasks for me in 08.

Right back attacha to you and yours dear Reddhead!

And HAPPY NEW YEAR TO CHRISTY, JANE & EVERYONE.

No major resolutions. I have already started to exercise —- in the pool 3x a week + 1 yoga. I would like to eat a healthier diet, but don’t resolve too. Sometimes life just gets in the way.

Thanks for the song Christy. Here’s wishing you and the family the very best of many years ahead!

alright…. alright.. yeah

Oh, and happy 2008 to everyone.

My resolution is more picnics with friends this year. I already eat very well, but I guess I could resolve to walk more, maybe bicycle more, and do everything in my power to change the course of this country.

Happy New Year Christy, family and everyone at FDL. Out to a murder mystery dinner party.

Christy, I hesitate to ask this, but didn’t you have the same resolution for 2007 that you just proffered for 2008?

Ann in AZ — Yes, I did. Thanks for noticing. *g*

I thought the list was familiar..)

More and better dems. Christy (or anyone) do you know much about candidates Suzanne Kosmas and Clint Curtis? I know you might remember Curtis who lost to Feeny last time. Are you familiar at all with Kosmas? She was a state level Florida Rep a few years ago. Neither candidate is ideal as far as progressive politics are concerned. Clint was a former Republican, while Kosmas’s Florida State House experience seems to point to a great deal of capitulation toward (ahem!)Republican endeavors. Perhaps she’s a bit like Bill Nelson. Which is the better Dem candidate to take on Meany Feeney? Any idea yet?

Happy Hogmanay to Jane and Christy and everyone at FDL, and many many thanks for the edumacation you all have given me over the last year.

Happy New Year Christy and FDLers.

As always, I’m working on the healthy diet/exercise plan (which, amazingly, does get better and easier every year). Simplifying is on the list too. But at the very top, and demanding daily attention is: Working for Peace.

Here’s to a better year, especially for those now oppressed.

Best to you all.

I realized this morning that winter is slipping by without my digging up CHS’s famous bread pudding recipe which I really enjoyed last year.

Well, Happy New Year’s Eve tonight and Happy New Year tomorrow to all, in case I miss anyone later.

Hackworth — I don’t personally know the answer to that question. But Howie probably would. E-mail him and I bet he’ll know…

Hogmanay

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I said Rep. That could be misconstrued. I should perhaps clarify that Suzanne was a Florida State House Representative. She is and always has been a Democrat (albeit a bit “centrist”).

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

Never mind. I just wikied it.

Thanks Christy. Have you got his email address handy?

Music: Here’s One for you

Hogmanay.

Sorry, but this involves haggis. The upside is that it also involves the finest single malts.

For New Year’s can we get back the ability to quote what a person said – aka the ziggurats? The “conversations” feel so much more disjointed without that. It’s less of a community feeling for me when it’s not so easy to follow what’s being talked about. Thanks for considering it. I miss it terribly.

I’ll drink to that.

I loved me the ziggaurats. The more the better. I have read here that they’re server hogs. & As site gets more popular, some community feel probably has to give.

Part of working for peace being spreading the word. I am so delighted that my friends at InsideIraq have been lauded by the New York Review of Books: As Iraqis See It.

Gawd I loved the Beatles. Got to see them live once… so many years ago.

nice blogwhore :)

Mr. LS and I are smoking our last smokes tomorrow. We are gonna blow it out with shrimp boil, ribeye, baked potatoes, broccoli, cesear salad, smoked almonds, tequilla, beer…love…you name it, but after tomorrow…we are ending the smokes. We are ready….

As for music, I’ll think of some here in a minute…I have heard that the Eagles have a great new CD out…haven’t heard it.

Here’s something cute the ladies might relate to…it is a youtube video my stepdaughter made and showed us last night, totally on her own (she just started college in the fall)..:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

I wish we could somehow keep the 2008 leap day – February 29 – out of the 2008 calendar, and use it in 2009. It would be one less day of George W. Bush.

LOL. Every day counts.

Congrats to you and the Mr.!!! BRAVO and l’Chaim!

Music: Just about anything from Big Head Todd and the Monsters. Great R&R.
Their newest CD called All the Love You Need is available as
a free download @ http://www.bigheadtodd.com. You can’t go wrong with any of
their other albums either.

HNY!

C.R.

I’ll raise that blog whore with a blog madame-ing for a young lady who is off baby-sitting. She’s done nothing but blog the last few days. Some of it’s pretty good.

Christy, EPU’d from the last thread:

Christy, just back from starting dinner. I was thinking about things you and Peanut could do other than homeless shelters, etc. What about Heifer International? You could sit down around times like birthdays or Christmas or Easter when gifts may be involved and pick a gift for a family on the other side of the world. Some are very reasonable, like chicks or honeybees. Just a thought…

hah

It’s less of a community feeling for me when it’s not so easy to follow what’s being talked about. Thanks for considering it. I miss it terribly.

Ya just have to put a little more effort into it, GW! But, I miss it too… *g*

Belief -John Mayer::
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

They’re a bit kookie, but the following upbeat songs have been with me most of the year:

(AntiChrist Television Blues) by The Arcade Fire
Fake Palindromes by Andrew Bird
The Big Guns by Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
Rise up with Fists!!! by Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins

I also suggest Our Endless Numbered Days by Iron & Wine from three years ago; I just got turned onto it this year, but I live safely inland from the tides of popularity. There are some songs of tremendous sadness but all of it is beautiful.

I dug out my West Wing DVD’s and am spending the evening blissfully pretending we have responsible democrats in the White House. And, of course, chatting with y’all.

nice blogwhore :

An egregious blogwhore

I quit cold turkey.

My sister quit using hypnosis therapy.

And I have read that it is more difficult for women to quit than for men.

But if not for the health reasons (which are manifest), then economics should drive the quitting. When I quit, cigarettes were .45 in machines and I was smoking three packs a day. I think I saw that even generic cigarettes are $3 nowadays.

Well, “Wag the Dog” is on the tube now and Mr. Marion in Savannah wants to watch with me. I’ll be back later.

I sent a message via the Act Blue Website. That should do the trick. If not, I’ll try again.

Mr. LS and I are smoking our last smokes tomorrow

awesome, dude and dudette. it’s almost 5 years for me. for some unsolicited advice: the simpler the food i ate in the beginning – light, unspicy, no sugar (especially sugar made me want a cigarette), the easier it was. i was also pretty much retarded the first week or two. like i could repeat the words people said to me, but i had no idea what they meant. or i’d be standing waiting for a light to turn green to cross the street and when it did i didn’t recognize that there was something for me to do. and then for the times i didn’t think i’d make it – maybe 3 – 4 or 5 times over the first couple/three years, i’d call a nicotine anonymous friend who’d talk to me for even as much as 45 minutes til i’d gotten through to the point where i knew i could get through whatever it was without a cigarette.

i wish you the very very best. it’s very courageous of you. be as loving and merciful and compassionate as you’re able with yourselves and each other. bon voyage!

Well this is odd:

Bush Signs Government Transparency Bill

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) — President Bush on Monday signed a bill aimed at giving the public and the media greater access to information about what the government is doing. The new law toughens the Freedom of Information Act, the first such makeover to the signature public-access law in a decade. It amounts to a congressional pushback against the Bush administration’s movement to greater secrecy since the terrorist attacks of 2001.

Bush signed the bill without comment in one of his final decisions of the year.

The legislation creates a system for the media and public to track the status of their FOIA requests. It establishes a hotline service for all federal agencies to deal with problems and an ombudsman to provide an alternative to litigation in disclosure disputes.

The law also restores a presumption of a standard that orders government agencies to release information on request unless there is a finding that disclosure could do harm.

We have some friends coming over starting about ten tonight. They asked what they should bring? We told them Cuervo Classico. I’ll be building Margaritas until the wee hours. And not from mix either. I make ‘em like slushes. From fresh limes, with rim salted glasses. Happy New Year!

With or without a signing statement? If so, probably Darth is expressly excluded…

The legislation creates a system for the media and public to track the status of their FOIA requests. It establishes a hotline service for all federal agencies to deal with problems and an ombudsman to provide an alternative to litigation in disclosure disputes.

I think that what this means is that everyone else can see who is requesting what as well.

Without comment, eh? Wanna place a bet on there being a signing statement?

With or without a signing statement?

beat me to it!!

Music to move by?? Suggestions from my twentysomethings:

Kanye West
Daft Punk
80s-90s Madonna
Chromeo
Girl Talk (but has some dirty lyrics, driving beat)

motown to cool down/ move slower

hope some of these work for you.

me, i like old pretenders to work out to.

I (female) gave up smoking with my late husband via hyponosis in 1985. He died in 1987, was autopsied, and, having smoked 3-4 packs/day for about 30+ years, had pink lungs, illustrating that harm from smoking depends on many factors.

My story is more amazing. I can smoke cigarettes from time to time (3 to 6 months apart) and not get readdicted. Only with smoker friends, after several drinks.

Even so, MUCH better safe than sorry. Besides the health effects, cigarettes stink and are antisocial. VERY good luck.

*CTuttle collects cokes*

I’m an idiot, because I quit smoking in 1976, and started up in 1998. I’ve quit a couple of times, for a couple of months at a time. This time, I’m done. We smoke cigs made by Native Americans (Skydancers), and they are supposed to have no chemicals added…I believe it, because I smoked a regular cigarette, and it made my totally “nervous”..so I think ditching these will be easier. In any case, I quit…on Wed. A.M.

and you can bet while he was signing this, there were some nasty illegal shenanigans going on quietly behind the scenes that we’ll find out about later. this is just cover.

Wanna place a bet on there being a signing statement?

Therein lies the rub… 8-(

in fact, the shredder was probably going full tilt.

We have a lovely riesling chilling for after The Peanut’s bedtime. And likely a movie or two…along with some appetizers: spanikopita, stuffed grape leaves (thank you local deli counter), some lovely olives and some shrimp. Nothing fancy, just relaxing. But, at the moment, we’re watching Bugs Bunny — it’s past The Peanut’s bedtime, but we’re giving her a holiday reprieve for one more cartoon. *g*

Hope everyone has a lovely New Year’s Eve. Do remember to designate a driver — I’ve prosecuted far too many easly preventable DUIs and DUI with Injuries and worse…don’t let that be you tonight. Please.

Happy New Years to you and Lahoma Kiddo!! I’m sippin’ on my Cuervo Gold…yours sound awesome!!! Have a great time!!!

in fact, the shredder was probably going full tilt.

Shredder? Didn’t the fire take care of it…?

Summer 04, on a long bicycle ride (I remember the exact location) I realized that W was going to destroy as many records as he could.

We have a lovely rieslin chilling…

Ooh, a German one? They’re the best… Not driving anywhere, myself!

greenwarrior December 31st, 2007 at 4:47 pm
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For New Year’s can we get back the ability to quote what a person said – aka the ziggurats? The “conversations” feel so much more disjointed without that. It’s less of a community feeling for me when it’s not so easy to follow what’s being talked about. Thanks for considering it. I miss it terribly.

epu’ed on last thread. Christy, thanks for explanation about ‘Edit’. Reprise of ‘Happy New Year to You and Yours’!

And I’ll trade in my desire for ‘Edit’ if we can get back the old quote-this-comment behavior, which, as I predicted the first evening the new behavior appeared, has fractured the ‘community feeling’ in the comments.

fun new band http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsAcgvcs20
fun old band http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxH5WCOnJEY

They were shredding everything in NYC today, anybody sight Dick????

having smoked 3-4 packs/day for about 30+ years, had pink lungs, illustrating that harm from smoking depends on many factors.

heh. Having smoked for 25+ years, upon meeting a new doctor, she immediately sent me to a respiratory specialist to have my lungs checked. I had to blow into a tube, attached to a laptop, for as long and hard as I could. I did it, she got a funny look and said “let’s try that again”. So I did, and she said – “shit – you just blew 101% of what a healthy non-smoker should be able to blow. I hate it when that happens”.

I can smoke cigarettes from time to time (3 to 6 months apart) and not get readdicted.

there were times i thought i could do that. for me, big mistake, each time.

i go for my first pulmonary function test january 3rd and i’m getting a bit nervous about it.

Unless Mr. LS has a gig, we never go anywhere on New Years Eve.

It’s been 7 years for me. I was a professional smoker of 25 years. It took me several attempts, but heroin addicts will tell you smokes can be harder than smack to quit. Do not be discouraged, as long as you keep trying to quit you’re better off.

I’ve never been a subscriber to cold turkey. It’s easier to quit when you’ve lowered the levels of nicotine in your system. My last and successful attempt was a series of “This is the last carton I’m gonna buy”. The last carton I bought lasted me almost 3 weeks and I was easily a carton a week smoker before then.

When I got to the last pack I bought a pack of the highest dosage nicotine gum figuring if I had an attack the gum would give me the quickest relief, and it did. Four or 5 chews and then slide it under your tongue is a sublingual rush nirvana supreme. So, if you choose gum you must resolve to start quitting it right away.

I never chewed more than 5 pieces of gum in any one day and started weaning from day one. That one box lasted me over a month. I never chewed the last piece, it’s somewhere on top of my refrigerator, surely petrified by now.

You can do it, millions have.

Be the next one(s)

F__k the tobacco lobbyists and let the tobacco farmers switch to hemp! ~8^)

Yes, please drinkie/no drivie.

Sounds like a good evening for you and yours. Have a great, ‘08, Christy!

lahoma and okk.

Heh, are you sure it wasn’t all the cooked books…?

Glad to hear another story in line with my experience. I could hardly believe it. Yours is the only other one I’ve ever heard.

!!!!

I’m quite sure there will be a signing statement. Someone has to check the federal register in a week or two.

hey jayt,
our comments crossed. that makes me feel better about my test coming up.

I think (though I’ve never read any science on the subject) that both addition to, and health reaction to nicotine varies widely among individuals. I think some are highly addicted & some’s health is highly impacted, others not so much.

I might go see an early movie, then had to a friends house that’s 2 or 3 miles away.

What movie?? Ideas?

yea, you never know. I do work out a lot, so that probably has a lot to do with it.

otoh, it obviously wasn’t the first time that particular respiratory therapist had had that happen…

Leaning towards I Am Legend, or No Country for Old Men.

*I meant to respond to LS, not myself* D’oh!

I’m quite sure there will be a signing statement. Someone has to check the federal register in a week or two.

Probably on a Friday, too…

Leaning towards I Am Legend, or No Country for Old Men

Movie review from my brother: No Country for Old Men – good movie, very well done – but it won’t leave you walking out of the theater feeling happy.

fwiw, ymmv and stuff…

i had to quit caffeine (tea and coffee) and sugar for two weeks to quit smoking. I.e. had to change patterns that accompanied butts for me. And also the caffeine and sugar made me nervous which led to wanting a butt, so….then it was easier. Now can have caffeine without craving. Good substitute sweetener is Stevia plus, or use honey or molasses or maple syrup, also lots of water with fresh lemon and get outside as much as you can. My friend quit by doing yogic khapalabhati breathing every time she wanted a butt. only took her a week to get over it all completely.

here’s the thing. the nicotine is out of your system in what… 3 days i think. after that it’s all about breaking patterns of behavior down into alternative small pieces. change wehre you have tea in the a.m. whateever.

i must say though, right on for the french defying the no smoking in the bar thing. don’t know what i’d do without them.

It sounds like a lovely evening planned for you & your family, Christy. Just got home a short while ago from vacation. A note here tells me that everyone is already @ the corner neighbor’s house for dinner, so I’m on my way very soon. Pot luck, but I’m empty-handed… two smallish gift bottles of Bombay Sapphire will have to be going instead of a side dish from yours truly.

To FDL posters & commenters, from my home which includes several readers & a few commenters, a happy & more peaceful 2008. Let It Be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67J_66hdN-I

Happy New Year’s Eve, everyone! We’re lazin’ at home appreciating surviving another year of the vicissitudes of life and health. Raising a toast to the FDLers. And a special salute to John and Elizabeth Edwards.

Hunted in vain today for Rev. Dreyfus Smith & the Wings of Faith Choir’s rendition of Hold on, Change is Comin’.

Christy invites music, so here’s the song I used to walk the Fargo skyways to when my office was downtown. Little did those stody business types know what was boppin’ in my ear plugs….
Sums up my optimism for the New Year pretty well, too…I’m so excited….

We found Wag the Dog…never saw it

There’s no good way to rationalize smoking. I’ve studied it as a student of psych and observed the consequences in the ER as a medic in the Air Force. Smoking not only destroys your respiratory system, the chemicals in “smoke” attack every organ in your body, especially your skin.

So all you women, if you want to keep the wrinkles out it’s either give up the cigs (which never killed anyone) or line up for botox.

Heck, the economics alone should be enough reason today. When I started smoking they were a quarter a pack. When I quit they were $20 a carton. Today you need a cosigner to light up.

When I’m out driving and I see someone smoking while driving some biga^^ SUV, I almost wreck my car from laughing. It must cost them $5.00 a mile to do both at the same time!

Obviously they must be Republican.

My New Year’s resolutions are a) get rid of my headcold; b) have a shot of 12 Single Malt tonight; c) decide who I want to vote for; and d) go to a tropical beach in a place like Costa Rica in February.

More and Better Dems

Feliz Ano Nuevo

Next week will be one year without cigarettes and six months without coffee.

Hope those of you who decide to quit smoking find it as easy as I did, this time. The times before, not so much (obviously). But, with workmates on board, three of us quit at my clients’, together. Hurray for us, each of us still quit and not even working together anymore.

Best wishes for a health happy DEMOCRATIC 2008 to every one of you. The first of the many shocks to come the way of Establishment Democrats are in February — the defeats of Lipinsky and Wynn by Mark Pera and Donna Edwards, two who meet the definition of more and better Democrats.

May we find ourselves united one year from today, applauding the end of the evil Bush/Cheney junta that has so despoiled our America and our planet, and cheering the inauguration within one short month of a DEMOCRATIC president, whoever s/he may be.

Best wishes to you and yours!

Costa Rica sounds good We’ve been looking at it if things go south here.

I like the “More and Better Dems”, but in reality I’d prefer “Brand New Dems with Backbones”.

LS, do you eat onions? I quit for several years one time (before quitting again permanently, I hope)
and all I did was eat onions with salt and red wine vinegar on top when I got home from work. I craved them and it seemed to ease any urges to smoke. Of course it was summer, and they were Vidalia onions.;) Good luck!

B, and D, what are ya…nuts????

Happy New Year to Christy and her family, Jane and her loved ones, all FDL posters and of course, the commenters.

We’re off to dinner with friends, but I’m looking forward to a bright and much happier 2008.

Our New Year’s Resolution: Make out more. We haven’t broken it yet.

-S

Really cool YouTube, LS. Love that song…

One other thing that helped me immensely was lot’s of exercise. I wore out a NordicTrack and got a 2nd one and a Treadmill.

Out with the bad air, in with the good!

I’m not trying to rationalize smoking. Even if you take what I said as scientifically accurate, and as I’ve said, I’ve never seen any science on the subject, you still don’t know which group you fall into-the ones who are heavily impacted or those who are not. Therefore, responsible behavior is DON’T SMOKE. I’m just observing that the influence of smoking is not uniform.

Our New Year’s Resolution: Make out more. We haven’t broken it yet.

That’s the best one I’ve heard… 8-)

US provided Bhutto with security intel (AP)
from Yahoo! News

A Pakistani armored police vehicle patrols a street under a campaign posters for the party of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in a Karachi, Pakistan Monday, Dec. 31, 2007. Elections in Pakistan appeared set to be delayed by several weeks despite demands by Bhutto’s party and other politicians that they take place as scheduled on Jan. 8. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)AP – The United States provided a steady stream of intelligence to Benazir Bhutto about threats against her before the former Pakistani prime minister was assassinated and advised her aides on how to boost security, although key suggestions appear to have gone unheeded, U.S. officials said Monday.

That’s what I was thinking. NCFOM does sound like a bit of a downer. Without giving away the ending, does I Am Legend have a satisfying ending? I don’t want to leave the theater crying, then go to my firends house for her NY Eve get together and say “happy new year!” *sniffle, sniffle*

Kiddo, I just had the best margarita ever in Cabo. Instead of pure lime juice, he used fresh squeezed orange juice too. Wonderful.

Cointreau, Jose gold, lime juice, orange juice, and Jose silver splash on top. Just wonderful and not so puckery.

Bipartisanship in trashing the Constitution is no virtue. Partisanship in pursuit of justice is no vice.

Healthy, Happy New Year to Mrs John Edwards get well and be our First Lady. John I still have your bumper sticker from the last try “A Stronger America”.
I hope you get the votes you have a great team onthe ground. All the Best. Rebuilding America is something we can all enjoy doing together.

Give Bourne Ultimatum a try…

******************

Gary Hart pontificating over at HuffPo… any optimism I may have had initially for the UnityNow crowd–that they would be another force for moving the MSM from the ridiculous and stenography to serious issues discussion and full, responsible journalism–pretty much gone up in smoke as they roll out their p.r. talking points.

Strong pushback comments in pointed language. Shorter: More and better Democrats.

Methinks Christy’s meme is infiltrating the cosmos.

Shorter Sunshine: Edwards ‘08

It has sometimes been alledged… .

Well said, WW! Impeachment, Now!

Bhutto didn’t need U.S. warnings to know that she was a target. Not reacting to the warnings is what puzzles me. Regardless of what the Paks did for her, she had plenty of money to do for herself & not take foolish risks like waving from the sun roof of her SUV. So I wonder what she had was thinking.

Sounds very good. Cabo. Was that down in the tip of Baja? I haven’t been there in years.

I very rarely do movies in the theater but from what I’ve read I Am Legend is a variant of The Omega Man a Charlton Heston film of the late 60s/early 70s.

Just the way they make them at Rustler Lodge in Alta, Utah, my home away from home. The bar is at the top of the central section, and has a 3/4 view of the canyon.
http://www.rustlerlodge.com/outsidenight.html

An idea whose time has come: This idea was forwarded to me in an email:

ICE campaign – “In Case of Emergency”
We all carry our mobile phones with names & numbers stored in its memory but nobody, other than ourselves, knows which of these numbers belong to our closest family or friends.

…all you need to do is store the number of a contact person or persons who should be contacted during emergency under the name “ICE” ( In Case Of Emergency).

For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3 etc. Or put in entries like “ICE mom” or “ICE Michelle” so the caller will know for whom to ask.

Be sure it’s in your kid’s cell phones also…..

Obama Makes Electability Argument . . . For Edwards
from TalkLeft by Big Tent Democrat

Via Taylor Marsh (also Newsday), Obama said:

“I don’t want to go into the next election starting off with half the country already not wanting to vote for Democrats, we’ve done that in 2004, 2000.” – Barack Obama

Whatever you say Senator Obama. I guess Edwards is the choice:

Hillary Clinton 48 FAV, 50 UNFAV
Barack Obama 43 FAV, 51 UNFAV
John Edwards 49 FAV, 42 UNFAV

Time to end the “electability” arguments Senator Kumbaya.

I quit smoking in the mid-70s cold turkey — on about my third try. In those days there was no nicotine patch or gum. Best wishes to LS and Mr. LS. Hang tough and you’ll do it.

And my best New Year’s wishes to Christy, Jane and all of the pups. You have made my year better, smarter, and brighter.

I don’t know – haven’t seen either myself – that was my brother’s take on the movie.

Haven’t heard anything about I am Legend, but Will Smith is usually pretty entertaining… I’d like to see that one myself. Watching “National Treasure” (the first one) here; Tivo’d it the other night for just this occasion…

Movie-watching has been my New Year’s Eve for many years now – not a night for going out, imo. Used to always do it with my son, but he’s too old now to hang out with me on NYE – *s*

Christy

Try some Colin Hay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvu_iYOiIuo

Thanks. Will do.

I used to spend winters camped on the beach outside of Cabo. A little piece of heaven.

Joh Edwards will fight for a progressive agenda. No more weinnie butts.

Thanks for the movie suggestions. Gonna grab some dinner and head out.

Be safe everyone. Happy New Year! My resolution is to do everything I can to help take back our country from the crazy people and restore our democracy. Why think small, right?

*mwah*

Psych!! I just bought a gorgeous sweet onion tonight…and you are right, there is something about vinegar and salt!!! I do crave those things….

Mostly, I guess, is to just to not pick up the next cigarette, and deal with it. A whole lot worse things could be an issue than that decision of not picking up a bunch of leaves, set fire to them, and breathe them…on the otherhand…*g*

Obama and the bipartisans want to “reach across the aisle.” I say, “move the fucking aisle.”

Thirded (if there is such a thing).

Impeach Now!! Torturers!! Spies!!!

Edwards Landslide!!! Bring..it..on..baby!!!!

Yes. It was my first time there. Beautiful and clean, but a tourist destination. My dad used to fly down there 25 years ago when it was a small pueblo. I told him I was pissed that he didn’t buy when it was affordable!!

I rediscovered Phil Ochs

Happy New Year to Christy, Jane, Pach, Scarecrow, Egregious, Phoenix Woman, Blue Texan, Siun, and all the excellent Lakers who congregate here every day.

Together we can make a difference. Together we will make a difference.

Bring on 2008!

Iowa prediction: Edwards 37%; Obama 33%; HRC 30%.

I dearly hope John breaks 40%-that would be really sweet.

Obama and the bipartisans want to “reach across the aisle.” I say, “move the fucking aisle.”

amen!

Beautiful!

Not to rain on the parade, but don’t get your hopes up too high for Edwards. We know only what he sez, not what he will do. His voting record as a senator was not exemplary. I’m for him, but realism is important. I remember how much enthusiasm for Peolosi there was here after the 06 elections.

The point of being circumspect is to expect things will not go well, even in the long shot that Edwards is elected. It’s important to be prepared for the likely outcome, not the one you hope will happen. Marathon, not sprint.

I’d settle for an Edwards’ first place showing, irregardless the spread… *g*

that’s about when i was going. in the early 1980’s.

Yep. *g* Going there from Jan 5-14.

Fuck the aisle. Oh, and BTW….

Listen up America!!

1. We are not safer because of Repubicans.

2. Republicans have had 7 years to seal the borders they are all hysterical about, and they haven’t done it anyway. They are impotent.

3. 9/11 happened under a Republican Prezdenent and a Republican Congress majority.

4. New Orleans happened under Bush’s watch and the Republican majority.

So frikkin’ bite me, Republicans.

People here are may age & older and the youngsters are not al that much younger. Doncha remember when the NH primamry was the real deal and te Iowa caucuses were quaint? Whatever happens, it’s just beginning for the top three. What I wonder about is that if things are close, how are the Biden, Dodd & Kucinnich voters going to break.

During high school and college, my girlfriend and my pals spent many happy… no, glorious times, from Ensenada to Cabo. Gawd those were good times.

skiing?

Try Dave Mason “Alone Together”

Toast us with a margarita?

Hey, on my vacation I learned a great trick with expensive internet arrangements. (Don’t know if that is what you’ll have)

I found I could print for $.25, no matter the length of the article. I would have cost a fortune to read FDL and Emptywheel online, so I clicked, expanded, and printed. That way I could read comments too.

I love it when I find a way to beat a rip-off system, too bad I found out on the last 30 minutes of my package!

You betcha.

True. Personally, at this point I’d be content with someone who was moderately competent and not totally corrupt. I know that sounds cynical, but…

That said, I feel pretty good about the idea of an Edwards presidency – I do think he beats that bare minimum!

happy new year peoples. gonna rejoin the (excited) kids. spongebob (or something) is on . I’d love to say this is so much better than partying and getting drunk back in the day. But this sucks. So did that. New Year’s sucks. Have a good one.

I have to rah rah for my old home town ski basin: http://www.skisantafe.com/

I’m going to try to live more relevantly in 2008. As the Year of Living Irrelevantly draws to a close, not everyone agrees with the Democratic congressional leadership that impeachment is a dirty word. Happy New Year!

I’m cutting out Diet Pepsi from my daily routine. ;-)

Happy New Year everyone! Let’s hope it’s a good one without any fear…

With my tongue firmly planted in my cheek, did you graduate from the Huckalujah School of Science? Sure some peeps live to 100 smoking a pack a day but they are anomalies.

The “science” is absolute, smoking is bad. Sure, if you can limit yourself to 5 or less a day, you’ll probably not be affected, but given the wallop of nicotine they are putting in to cigs today, Jesus himself probably couldn’t limit his smoking to 5 a day.

Obama and the bipartisans want to “reach across the aisle.” I say, “move the fucking aisle.”

Absolutely! The Repubs have tried to move the aisle far to the Right, so why not move it back our way for a decade or two?

“Flew into Mechanicsville, B-L-O-G
Didn’t get to bed last night
All the way the Dell laptop was on my knees
Man, I had a dreadful flight”

With Edwards, sure we don’t know what he’ll do, but we do know what he’s done the past 4 years. It surely hasn’t been cozing up to corporate “masters” for lack of a better word. He’s the one viable candidate who has as least indicated the he understands that labor is superior to capital. He’s been consistently stumping a more populuist, pro consumer, pro middle-class message.

Call it the lesser of 3 evils, but I say the boy’s tryin’ to do some good. And I don’t give a good rats ass how much he pays to get his haircut. If he wants to over compensate for a person’s labor then I say good on ‘em.

If you want to MOVE, try Del Castillo! You will seriously rock! And you won’t be sittin!
http://www.delcastillomusic.com/english/music.html

Look ‘em up when you’re in Austin.

If you’re 50 or >, you might like my little freebie internet radio station at BlueRootsRadio. My philosophy is good music never goes out of style and there’s good music being created all the time. So, I play pretty much anything from the past 80 years right up to today. Kinda like FM from the 60’s but on performance enhancing substances.

Yeah, right. Look for your check in the mail, from the Tobacco Institute, for your obvious “planted” propaganda. No way u smoke 3-4 packs a day for years, & end up with “pink” lungs. More like “charcoal” lungs!!

Really. 3-4 packs a day would make a coal miner like like a marathon runner.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is also a graduate of the Mike Huckabee School of Non-Science.

PBS has an awesome music concert series, called “AUSTIN CITY LIMITS”. They have some really great singers, bands, etc.

I wonder what Bush was thinking, trying to “fix” the election in Pakistan by sending in Harvard educated, westernized, modern WOMAN, when the country is putting women in Burqas!! She was clearly America’s puppet.

Remember how the Right-Wing Nutjobs here in the USA screamed bloody murder about “Feminists” , when women wanted to pass the Equal Rights Amendment?
Women like Phyllis Schafly & men like Jerry Falwell?

Well, I can just imagine the Pakistani “Taliban” types & men in general, would let their Islamic Hell freeze over, before electing a Woman, the way the country is now!

Another great Bush “Diplomatic Brilliant Strategy” bites the Dust!

Hi CHS. A full CD’s worth of good music from 2007 is here. Hope you get the chance to have a look!

Well, I’d say its time to boycott them but I started that years ago. What’s left? Well, I guess its time to boycott the politicians who support RIAA-sponsored legislation.