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Late Late Nite - Weathering The StormBy: Eureka Springs Friday January 4, 2008 10:05 pm |
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Eureka!!!
John McCain said Mike Hucksterbee has “genuine authenticity.”
Isn’t that a bit redundant?
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Yes, with the added benifit of being false.
Eureka!
YES! Quite.
Hiya Pups!
Ella! Hey, ES! NPB, is Suz fuming…?
So does Naugahyde. (sp?)
…as opposed, perhaps, to John McCain, who has fake authenticity?
If so, I reckon it’s steam. Bless her heart.
hiya ES!
No, no — Old Lord McCain has real phoniness.
Ms NPBrat is in the lake! How are you all holding up this evening?
Evening all. I am finally calmed down from all the excitement here.
I dunno. I Romney has that manufactured authenticity thing going.
Has anyone seen the media question Huck on his Target registry?
OT…I just got an email from amazon.com informing me that “How To Rig An Election” has been shipped. Hate buying a repub book but this one I have to read.
To much chocolate hose? /s
Are you diss’ing my Senator…. without me?
Ok… did you know that McCain would NOT let me into one of his townhalls?
It was by invitation only … remind you of anyone?
chocolate hose?
Please don’t throw anything at me, I couldn’t resist.
For Suzanne and all our Firepups, riding the storm out.
“So does Naugahyde.”
I once knew a woman who claimed to have raised naugas in her basement for fun and profit.
Rudy Ghouliani, on the other hand, has “9/11″ phoniness.
I heard. Cassie wrote about it at TRex’s blog.
Hi Y’all. Last night I babbled about the fact that registered democrats voted 31% Hillary to 32% Obama and said that might indicate the results of future primaries. Today, one of my friends pointed out that NH has open primaries in the sense that anyone can show up and vote in whatever primary they please.
I had thought that it was a system where only registered democrats could vote in the democratic primary, and folks had to be registered weeks ahead of the primary. That changes everything. So, going back to last night’s results, crossover and independent voters favored Obama and Edwards much more than they did Clinton. Bad news for Hillary. (If I’m understanding the CNN entrance polls correctly.)
This phenomenon helps Edwards, but from the stats not enough to win. Edwards will have to hit a nerve to win (IMHO).
Send her a Huckabee sticker and you will be friends for life.
LOL
The Bay Area is clear of the storm now. All that remains is the hellish aftermath. Trees downed, small-scale flooding which we are ill-prepared for, power outages and communications breakdowns.
Pix. The right side shows black the model magic burned. Could not capture the stench on camera though.
http://www.facebook.com/photo......id=1991219
Soli,
I get the republican books at the library. I had to read the one about Karl Rove in the library, wouldn’t have it in my house. There isn’t enough sage and saltwater on the planet to cleanse Rove cooties.
I just discovered Arkansas primary will be an open primary for the first time this year.
they are predicting to hit AZ tomorrow through Monday with flood warnings, 4-8 inches snow in the high country and more than 2 inches rain here in the valley. They are saying it will be wild… Thanks for sharing!
Oooo…good idea. That way, when the NSA combs the library’s records, you’ll pass the test and they won’t ship you off to Camp Blackwater.
Ashtray?
candle sticks
Texas Betty,
Now, you know the media folks are too busy trying to dig up dirt on how Obama got the money for his house to bother with something as unimportant as the Huckster’s Target registry. Silly Wabbit, dirt is for Democrats.
Hey Katy…left you and CT a little note downstairs.
Try this if you are not on facebook.
Thanks for the Ella video,
Takes me back to the albums my parents played when I was a child. Thanks goodness my daughter (now 28) picked up a love for her at an early age. Saw her at Radio City in her later years.
I’m wishin’ for those days when the quiet elegance of a Miss Fitzgerald was more present in our society.
Bonkers,
Oh, I’m sure there is a reservation in my name already at Camp Blackwater.
Uh oh, tinfoil hat is humming. There was a lot of fuckery in Arkansas with the US Atty. (Griffin?). Wasn’t he put there just to fuck over Hillary?
What is an open primary? Don’t need to register with a party?
Yep…Griffin is KKKarl’s boy. I’m convinced Rove is playing the Wizard behind the curtain in more ways than we can imagine.
Perspective…
There are 852 delegates for the 2008 DNC national convention.
Per wiki history no winner of the Iowa Dem caucus in a contested primary have been elected President.
Per wiki - only ONE winner of the NH Dem Primary have been elected President - Jimmy Carter.
They only have O-13, E-12 & C-11 pledged delegates…. there is a whole lot more races to get to majority.
RGB… I saw it ;)
Yep. Gone now, though. It’s Jane Duke (acting) now.
Katymine,
Two inches here in the Valley? Dear Goddess, better toss the tarp over the wood table, turn the fire pit upside down, and hope our flat roof holds up. Thank Athena I got the olive trees pruned this fall. I don’t want to lose any more major branches in high winds.
Tim “the vote grifter” Griffin quietly made an exit and now works for Fred Thompsons campaign.
Is she related to Luke Duke? *g*
Me too. And I think the repub powers have decided that Hillary may be too strong and they want to run against Obama. And Edwards, of course, is the one that everyone is basically ignoring since he may be the repubs most formidable opponent.
I just stumbled across this rather lovely song by a band from Calgary.
Widow Maker - Please Don’t Say That You Love Me Again
Open primary means that any registered voter can ask for either ballot, Repug or Dem.
We have open primaries here in AZ but only at the state level. The Presidential race is closed primary. You have to be registered Democrat to vote in the AZ Democratic Presidential preference election. In a closed primary it means that those registered as independent or PND (party not designated) cannot vote in the primary.
Heh, Go Chiefs! ;-)
Never seen a storm on radar like this one, though — stretched into Canada and Mexico.
Looks like Duke came up through Bud Cummin’s (net even gonna go there) office, so Jane might well be a straight-shooter.
Good night all. I’m not going to fret over Rove. I’m convinced that if Obama is the nominee (although I’m still rooting for Edwards) that he has the oratorical skills to win over the voters.
This worrys me a little.. It’s all so Rovian.
Agents Raid Texas Democrat’s Offices
Solai,
Apparently Timmy boy took ratfuckery 101 from the evil jedi master himself, and of course he was good buddy of Monica’s. “Poor Tim, he was badly treated.” she murmured. Interesting how little pity Monica had for the careers of lawyers she helped to fire for no good reason. Strange Christian values, these Regent grads have.
Katy, I’d seen 17 for Obama, and 14 apiece for Hill and John…
When is the Arizona primary?
I’ll see you there.
Do you play Scrabble, by any chance? lol
Bud was a quiet soul wrt the fuckery in the DOJ, even in his House and Senate testimony. No more, though. In last months Washington Monthly, he cracks back at the DOJ SpokesDick, Brian Roehrkasse, and he doesn’t let him up. It’s beautiful.
Brian Roehrkasse, Please Leave the Building
Why the DOJ’s spokesperson dishonors the department
good night all.
Thom Hartman was giving those numbers this morning…. I could be wrong but it seemed to stick as Thom was trying to do the same thing. It is only a few delegates, they have to get more than 425 delegates to win.
Betsy AZ primary is Feb 5th…
nite betsy
Nite Betsy!
i’m one of those that thinks that this election is different and this primary cycle is different. the way that so many potential candidates started so early is an important factor. it may be that the Iowa caucuses have determined the candidates because of the early start of the potential candidates.
i don’t think that there is any point in Hillary and Edwards trying to slow Obama down. both Hill and John were seriously hurt this week. if they start doing something different now it will only cause more loss of momentum for them. Romney is really over. St. John may do well in New Hampshire but South Carolina will not be kind. S.C. is taylor made for Huckabee. he could run the tables on the South and that will be a lot of delegates. if he comes out of Super Tuesday with momentum McCain and Giuliani can forget about it.
the energy around Obama is phenominal. there will be some detours on the road to Denver but he’ll get there without being winded. i think that the cynics that think America will not elect a black man are dead wrong.
i hope he already has good Secret service protection.
full disclosure: i support John Edwards and i really hope he can rally from what happened in Iowa this week. i think he has the best ideas and the willingness to take on the power structure that is strangling America.
Margot,
Yeah, I play scrabble, but even the travel version wouldn’t fit in a body cavity. No, they are going to force us to watch looped videos of Nancy and Ronald Regan, 42 and Bar, Dubya and the Laurabot until we crack and beg to be waterboarded instead. With any luck the physician standing by won’t be able to revive me for round two.
Siun, IRCC, had posted on one of Jane’s threads last nite, the delegate tally…
OT Lott Opens New Lobbying Shop
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/
Wow Big surprise! He couldn’t wait to get the fuck out the door.
Another fucking rethug taking advantage… this needs be legislated out of existence. Why should any former elected official be allowed to make more $$$ they already get pensions and life time medical!!
The law is changed on new years day. That’s exactly why Lott left in the nick of time.
Breux-Lott Lobbyists, LLC… Love that Bipartisanship…! ;-)
Hello from the rainy, windy west coast. So far so good, this far inland it’s just a crappy night. It’s getting nasty on the coast. Lots of power lines down, flights delayed or canceled.
Has anyone heard from Suzanne? I assume her power is out by now, and let’s hope that’s the worst of it.
I am going to head off to bed…. If I have internets will see you tomorrow.
Rest well, katymine.
Night, katymine. Sleep well.
Katy–
That stat was quoted and pasted all over the firepup threads all night last night and the web. It doesn’t mean anything this time. Just watch, and I know that will probably upset a few people here.
This Sports Illustrated jinks phenomenon forecasting doom of the Democratic winner of the Iowa, and NH primaries is not going to happen this time IMHO. For a lot of reasons, and as every Charlie Rose guest invoked, including Bagala and Adam Negorney, Political editor of NYT, this election is really going to be, as much as it may pissoff some people about poetry, not the prose of governing.
You’ll see Obama do some policy wonking to get specific, but not just yet. Here’s how I see this playing out.
Because of the stupidity of states in this whole process, in insisting on being as close to Iowa as possible, and having quirky caucuses that don’t reflect a wide percentage of their eligible voters, Hillary doesn’t have enough time to repair what has been systemic damage to her candidacy.
Obama is going to knock her down in New Hampshire, and she isn’t going to get up and no EMS or Bill Clinton can help her get up. Terry McAuliff, Patti Doyle, Mark Penn, and Howard Wolfson, her brain trust, and Bill have probably advised her on the plane back and yesterday to start going negative fast twoards Obama, and to be more spontaneous. It won’t work; and she doesn’t have time, and this for her isn’t just early Iowa New Hampshire–she’s in demise.
That leaves Edwards, and I don’t think he can stem what is an Obama tide. He’s on matching funds, and he’s voluminously outfunded. Edwards’ mantra–my dog has it down by now–is that he saw the light which was for the son of a millworker who did 30 years of the most tedious work imaginable–I did that as a kid needing a job as a teenager and hated it–who saw the way to fight for his dad’s people through trial law. He felled some deep pockets, (and rightly so in a lot of incidences, via the Erin Brockovitch John Grissom plots) and you the people are being screwed by these big corporations, and certainly you are, and he’s the David that’s going to bring them to their knees, Hillary won’t, and Obama can’t.
It won’t work. I’m not saying Obama will have them out by so-called Super Tuesday on February 5, but he will have her out midway before it, and Edwards can’t stop him.
The Hillster Attacks Obama
What you said about those power lines?
Suzanne is dealing with that, but she’s fine.
Could be! But, I think the Scruggs investigation is getting a little too close, and/or, Larry Flynt has been mighty quiet after promising a blockbuster… Hmmm…? ;-)
Last we heard she was OK. keeping warm with her wood burner. Its a mess in the Santa Cruz mountains!
Thanks, LM. Glad she’s ok.
But of I did know that but it needs to be changed even more and bar them for life!! IMHO
Fahrender,
Did you by chance see Edwards on KO this evening? My husband and I thought he was suggesting that he and Obama would make good running mates and referred to them both several times as “candidates of change.” The unspoken, of course was that Hillary isn’t. Obama is my first choice, Edwards is a close second, and Hillary comes in last although I will support the candidate that gets the nomination. Thus speaks the feminist. Ain’t life ironic? As my girlfriend said this evening. “America is ready for a woman president, but she isn’t it.”
I also think that Obama’s Iowa win seemed astonishing to many because the media just hasn’t been covering the “Obama Effect.” This guy has been getting rock star receptions where ever he goes. My 82 year old lifetime FDR-hating card-carrying Republican father is thinking of voting for him. Could have knocked me over with a feather.
The the downward economic pressures on middle income and below is now horrific and growing FAST.
Housing rental prices are soaring as demands is strong from top and bottom of the market many areas have increased by 30%+.
Food prices are escalating across the board…basics like milk eggs and bread too.
Insurance, medical, dental and the list goes on.
It is the Big Squeeze and we need a congress and a white house that has programs that do something immediately to turn it around.
Which candiate will do that?
Seems to have calmed down here in Vancouver,I haven’t heard the wind howling outside like it was for a while.
I’m not ready to throw in the towel yet… I also do not believe in the inevitable yet…
I am part of the ArizonaForEdwards but I am not ready to say chuck it. Obama does not have the numbers here in AZ or in NV and we are part of super Tuesday.
Ok… I am going now…. take care all
Amen! I couldn’t have said it better! I wouldn’t have, for my own well-being, too… *g*
Agreed.. or at least severely limit how much money they can earn lobbying. Perhaps 25 K max per year only after 3 to 5 years of not holding any elected office.
By all means, don’t throw in the towel.
Pete has a lot going for his guy, but the race has just started and there is way too much confidence coming out of Obama’s camp.
I talked with Suz this afternoon and she was OK and last I heard was awaiting power restoration. On this side of MtyBay our power came back about 6 PM.
And I’m with Teddy on the scale of this storm - have never seen anything like it before - if you haven’t seen the weather channel’s space photos of the enormity of the storms I’ll try to dig up a link.
I meant to add I think about 14 states have Byzantine quirky caucuses, with different rules, and New Hampshire is a secret ballot primary state using easily hackable software recently approved like most of your states good ole Diebold 194W. Computer scientists all over the country have shown nothing can reduce its vulnerability for tampering and hacking. I wonder how Katy, who I think is an IT pro, feels about most of the states in these elections using very easily hackable software and eschewing any way to verify what happens during the votes.
Of course, taking a clue from Cheney and Mukasey who refuse to release Fitz’s interviews of Cheney, Bush, et. al., Diebold refuses to release it’s program to public scrutiny.
MIT’s Computer Science department has made them look simply stupid, and the states have by and large ignored it, a lot like the stupidity of many states thinking they are protected against HFN1 with antivirals like Tamiflu which do nothing but help build resistance to Birdie flu at $60-$70 a week and have done little for patients with regular flu since the day the first one of four was on the market in the U.S. (Symmetrel).
The storm out west has already dramatically changed the weather here in AR. It was 7 degrees here 48 hours ago. Now, at 1 a.m. on a January night, it’s 53 degrees and very windy.
woo hoo katymine - John for President/Obama for VP!
Maretta,
i live in Dresden, Germany so i don’t get to watch KO except the video clips that i find on the internet. i watched the clip of Obama’s Iowa victory that i found over at Digby’s place and really felt the energy of his audience as well as his speech. i worry about who his backers are and who his policy makers and advisors will be. who will he trust? what are his instincts in the face of the monumental tasks with which he will be immediately confronted?
i, too, will support the Democratic Nominee, and i think that Obama and Edwards would be a fantastic team.
No one who believes in their candidate should ever say chuck it. You should fight for your candidate as hard as you can; I know people here take a lot of time and do the research in extraordinary depth and I forget who but someone posted last night that he was writing Edwards a check, putting one of Edwards’ people up in his home, and going out and canvassing for Edwards and all I had was admiration for this person. I think that’s the way it should work.
I was doing some predicting, and predicting can be very dangerous this early on.
If only it could be in that particular order.
“The Richardson precinct captain to me after the caucus that when she saw that neither Richardson, Biden, nor Dodd were viable, she approached the Biden captain to see if they wanted to combine forces. The combined group would have made them a viable group, and would have earned them at least one delegate.
She said that the Biden captain told her he was given instructions that under no circumstances were they to combine with Richardson.”
wonder what that’s about
Yeah, because if Obama wins the nomination, I doubt Edwards would run for vp again.
truthfully, i’m not sure any candidate can do what you call for. in fact, i’m sure that none can. the question is, who can come closest to helping us all, and especially the working poor? America is seriously hurting and the Bush/Cheney Administration have mugged us repeatedly.
We lost power in the central coast of california early this afternoon in spots. Got it back at 9pm or so.
There is a lot of water and at sustained period of gale winds that is knocking out power. Coleman lantern, lots of batteries and and a small generator are good items to stock up.
The phones have been on so I guess those that know people without power like Suzanne can call and check on them. The out of door people (homeless) and animals are having a rough three or four days. Their is a lull coming so evryone should get out for exercise.
CTuttle,
Yeah, better not to say stuff like that if you aren’t a woman. The thing is, I really wanted her to be the one. I’m just terribly sad that she put power and ambition before the best interest of the people she claims to serve.
Big Brother,
I honestly don’t know which candidate is most likely to ignore the pleas of the corporate welfare folks, the insurance companies, big pharma and everyone who has money to lobby. I really like what Edwards has to say about coming to the rescue of the working poor and our disappearing middle class but I’ve been lied to before and on occasion I get the gut feeling that maybe he doesn’t always walk his talk. I hope I am wrong about that, cause he seems sincere. I’ve given up on Hillary, and Obama is the one with the most recent non-millionaire status, which means he may actually have been in a grocery store in the past five years. I don’t trust him completely, but Michelle Obama I trust to roll up a newspaper and smack Barak on the nose with it if he goes all power mad.
I know more than a few people who will be really upset if Hillary doesn’t get the nomination. They see her as a fighter. They don’t want another stiff in a suit…if I had a nickel for every time I heard that phrase, I’d …have gas money, anyway.
I might be able to live with that but this system sure has been abused by former members of congress and their staff. I am not sure lobbing should be tolerated at all. Look at what it has gotten us. Corporations are getting everything they low taxes and corporate welfare! WTF!! This ain’t right
No ifs, ands or buts - as in Edwards/Obama 2008 - or so I hope. ;~)
Agree with that.
If Edwards isn’t the nominee, and if Edwards were to accept the nod for the second slot (which I doubt he would - he’s too damned smart to leave his destiny to another candidate, after Kerry), I would rather it be Obama than Hillary. A Clinton-Edwards executive branch would make Edwards a very small Veep. But Obama would use him well.
OTOH, on experience alone, I would reluctantly take Hillary over Obama as President.
What to do…
The last time American youth was this excited about a presidential campaign was McGovern. Young folks were right then, I sure hope they are now.
i think Edwards would take the VP slot again. the question is, will Obama ask him?
Farender,
Dresden! Ohh, some day I am going to visit Dresden. My daughter and her husband are in Oldenburg this week visiting his sister. They will be in Germany until the 9th when they fly home to New Zealand. My daughter got her first taste of KO while she was visiting here before Christmas and loved him. So did my German son-in-law.