zed

ES!

Eureka!

ES!

Welcome ES. And Katymine, I wished you well down below.

tonight’s snack is predictable.

Oh dear, Is katymine not well?

I have a whole different sweet pea for katymines spirit..)

gee … two zeds in a row… wow…

Better head off to bed…. going to the Phoenix Downtown market to buy locally grown produce.

ES… the spots they found in my lungs (ya two 4mm) via CT scan have been diagnosed as Valley Fever which is GREAT as it isn’t my cancer spreading and the drugs kicked in and I am feeling so much better.

On my mind? I’m thnkin’ about Scooter…
Marion Jones Sentenced to 6 Months in Prison for Lying About Steroids and Check-fraud Scam

night katymine.

Great and continued luck with that nasty C word thing!

Well hot damn! Best news I have heard in long time!

I call bullshit on that one! What a waste of time and money for nothing. Her kids, who are totally innocent are the one’s who are going top suffer the most. Drug laws are regressive. At most use should be a fine.

Signing off. For those just joining, I repeat an early morning and late-nite suggestions.
From http://firedoglake.com/2008/01…..uture-past

An election-day-after FDL breakfast cookbook. If Dkos can do a commenters united against trolls cookbook, we can do a commenters united period cook book.
Because I hope that we will be united then around the Democratic candidate whom we will be pressuring to remain or become even more progressive.
Some of the dishes already proposed:
“the Repubs are invited. Crow will be served for them to eat.”
“Scrambled bush with dick sauce?”
“Scrambled bush with dick sauce?
only larry flynt’s photographer can tell “
“Democratic leadership over easy.”
Please feel free to join the fun.
But the idea was serious. As those who make to the Lake in the very early morning am know, Marion from Savannah starts our day off with the menu for her day’s delicious breakfast. The initial idea was for her to suggest a menu for election day after morning for Pup delectation to make the morning after a shared celebration.
Anyone for joining a couple of us who are interested?

Will check back to see if there are any takers.

Can someone read this “FRONT PAGE” kos diary and tell me that it doesn’t sound like an endorsement when they don’t mention our ActBlue candidate Howard Shanker AZ CD-01, just the one who has raised the most money?
AZ-01: Top GOP candidate out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpnOJmo1-Xk
Comment?

this one is for RRudy ghouliani http://youtube.com/watch?v=bHiWE1GWApg

I call bullshit on that one! What a waste of time and money for nothing. Her kids, who are totally innocent are the one’s who are going top suffer the most. Drug laws are regressive. At most use should be a fine.

No need to call BS, dude. Scooter Libby is a fucking traitor. She is a drug-abusing track star with children.

Classy N’Orlins… “Tipitina” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

ES…I’ve been Digging that tune.

Nice find.

night all.

Such parity in the eyes of the law…. what a laugh! Just another waste our tax dollars on “The War On Drugs” oh oh duck and cover

Done.

pain free sleep wishes tex

“Satire, kids, is your sacred duty as Americans. Be funny. Poke them cows and make them moo.” -Garrison Keillor

Anybody here like jokes? A couple years back I put together a campaign pamphlet titled “Bush By The Numbers”. Shall we have a little fun at George’s expense?

Thanks. I really like his lessor known song as well.

Sweet Pea Atkinson – “Slow Down

re Jones. Talkleft points out there was drugs/lying + a check scam involved, for the check thing, months is nothing, so its basically evens out.

and now It is time to leave you in the younger time zones to have fun without the BlueBayState.

And this is why I’m here, I’ve been thinking about Scooter for years.

A little something to warm everyone up for the evenings goings on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..&NR=1

g’nite bsrd – sleep well

‘bama song

Yes. I am unable to let that one go.

You are so old school. i love it..)

Go Red Sox!! Pats sweep all the way to the super Bowl!!
Sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite!!

Ok.. now really going to bed… Thanks ES for the song… sweet dreams wishes for everyone…

nite Suzanne & RGB… if you want to meetup when you hit Peoria just let me know..

Me too, and I’m just a librarian. SUCKS.

Dam that was for BlueStateRedHead

g’nite katymine

I’ll be real nice and not tell you what I think of Scooter and that whole deal.

You’re welcome RBG.

Cause, those are some BAD words.

busted, no nuns around to rap your knuckles for saying bad words

Something for the classical/jazz music afficionado here, Fazil Say.

Be sure to check out his variation on Gershwin’s “Summertime” I love it. :)

Words just can’t convey how i feel about it. I am just worried that the shit head in charge will start issuing blanket pardons as soon as the election is over in November!
We just can’t let that happen visit Robert Wexler’s site an sign up!

I live to be in a restaurant when Scooter and his wretch, or AbuG, or Armitage or the rest of these puds walk in to a chorus of booing and hissing.
Andrew Card will be repeated. I just want to live to see it.

As potty mouthed as I am, I have some in reserve.
We don’t want to go there.

Every one of them are treasonous bastards.

Re:

We just can’t let that happen visit Robert Wexler’s site an sign up!

Been there, done that.

Starting about 2 years ago I began handing out “Impeach Bush” bumperstickers. We’ve distributed about 2,000 so far.

A couple of months ago I was instrumental at getting our Deschutes County Democratic Party to sign a Resolution in favor of Impeaching Bush and Cheney.

Thanks for all you do! :)

Somewhere in my lineage is a Merchant Marine, I’m certain of it.

When those folks told me you had a sense of decorum, I didn’t believe ‘em.

Once again, you prove me wrong.

Me too…

my dad was a cook in the navy for 20 years. i don’t think there is a swear word i have not heard between him and my working with cops.

Deschutes County?
Across the river?

Oregonian are you, my two oldest live in Portland and they and their spouses are real bus haters.

I am also a hell of a lot more intelligent than I let on.
And articulate.
I’m just mentally lazy.

And I worked with the truckers in South Boston. Local teamsters 25 .. not a swear word or curse I haven’t heard or used.

Re:

Deschutes County? Across the river?

I do live on river right.

Re:

Oregonian are you, my two oldest live in Portland and they and their spouses are real bus haters.

Bus haters? What does that mean?

Washougal.

Ray, Thanks for the Fazil link. Nice.

Re:

Washougal.

So, we’re you calling it Washout last month?

Oh how I miss the Tumalo Feed Company.

I know that it is late, but are you still here?

Pretty much.
Washougal means Two Rivers.
They were both running high.

lol
I can say that about the nurses and techs I’ve worked with.

duhhhh they have also been to Wexlers site and signed his petition
We just have to keep spreading the word and maybe start pestering the rest of the Dem congressman to help. Then tell Nancy and Harry the table has no more legs to it. Impeach now! That will rev up the base

I’m pretty eclectic. I think this T Bone Burnett piece is outstanding:

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

“Presidents come and Presidents go, melt away just like the snow…”

I used to live out in Tumalo. It was swell. When it wasn’t sweltering.

My son and his wife are both nurses in Portland

I’ve probably learned more indiscreet vocabulary from reading than from all the time I spent in beer bars and pool halls. And the Internet is the greatest resource I’ve ever had; at least once a year I learn a new word for male or female genetalia. Even my biker friends from San Quentin don’t know word that I do. But, when I tell them, they’ll say them in sign language to the guys from the local school for the deaf.

We live in a very wierd culture.

Here’s one for you Eureka,

Booker White.

Kinda makes ya yearn for a whisker biscuit.

-G

Guitar genius Tommy Emmanuel playing “Angelina“

I’m curious, is there anything of an activist scene up in Washougal? Here in Bend I kinda feel like a fish out of water. The right wing crazies are the dominant life form out here. I expect evolution to catch up with this area in another four centuries or so.

Ray, i’ll probably be in Bend this summer. if you want to hook up for a beer and talk let me know …..

Good gawd. That song takes me straight back to walking three miles through the cotton fields to get to Chicken George’s house. Chicken George was the bootlegger.

The only thing I have seen is the local stuff and that is being driven by the huge influx of Californians with their own agenda’s.

8)

bootleggers r us

Delighted. Write to me at rayd95 at yahoo dot com and we can exchange contact info. Thanks.

“I buttered up her jelly roll, and then I laid some pipe.”

A little music for what needs to be done :):)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..&NR=1

Thanks.

Nice.

-G

RBG got a little too quiet all of a sudden.
I bet he’s hiding behind that damn curtain fiddlin’ with his fantasy baseball stuff again.

now you are in for it, busted. you had to go and mention his fantasy baseball stuff (eyes rolling)

Enya, “Orinoco Flow” Beautiful

Maybe a little protest tune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..&NR=1
sorry the doors are open

Sheryl Crowe, “Love Is Free” released December, 07

Is it me or is the US bombing missing in Iraq slipping by without a peep this week?

Missing or mission?

For bush and crew the sooner the better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

And since it was so fortuitous that you mentioned Cotton,
how about some James Cotton?

Awe heck….just 40 targets…..38 bombs…40,000 pounds worth…….The main road to Arab jubour destroyed….That’s all…We’re winning…..Stay the course…..don’t cut and run…..we’ll fight em over there….

-G

Whoops, mission..)

BAGHDAD, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) — U.S. warplanes bombarded 40 targets of suspected al-Qaida safe havens, dropping 40,000 pounds of explosives during ten minutes on Thursday morning, the U.S. military said.

A military statement said that two B-1 bomber and four F-16 fighter jets struck targets in the Arab Jabour area, which is a stronghold for al-Qaida in Iraq militants in south of the capital.

“Thirty-eight bombs were dropped within the first ten minutes, with a total tonnage of 40,000 pounds,” the statement said.

The U.S.-Iraqi joint forces Tuesday unveiled a military operation dubbed “Phantom Phoenix,” which is designed to make the current security gains sustainable.

In spite of the ebb of violence, the U.S. military warned that al-Qaida is still capable of launching “spectacular” attacks in Iraq.

The attack came a day after the U.S. army announced the killing of nine of its troops north of the capital.

Ya know this is why http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22608593/ …

ES, it sounds like a collective punishment retaliation to me.

-G

Why bother interrogating suspects when we can just bomb them all?

yeah just like back in grade school

greg, i think it sounds like boosh having a temper tantrum over something and doing an i’ll show them over some perceived slight. of course, with boosh, the target is not necessarily those who offended

More meat to serve the rethuglians

To be fair, I did see a lentghy piece on it on the national news last night.
I had to get away from the local news, they were jizzin’ all over about that damn tornado for hours.

That ain’t snow, it’s ash. /s

707

The US navy reports the voice on the radio said:

I am coming at you.

Was Larry Craig on a junket to the Persian Gulf that day?

-G

I’ve not been following the news real closely. It was mentioned on NPR this afternoon with an interview with an BBC journalist. I came in late on my way to home.

Per NPR (and some other stuff I heard on my way to work on NPR and/or AAR), we dropped 23.5 tons of ordinance on a sparsely populated province just south of Baghdad that has long been an Al Qaeda refuge. The British guy said that there were 20 unconfirmed Al Quaeda fatalities, but he had no data on civilian casualties … “but the area is sparsely populated.” Fucking YUCK!!!

looking for love in all the wrong places

I am pretty sure he’s on his Iranian Final Solution Tour. The wingnuttiness is getting winguttier by the minute.

Someone said Sen. Clinton was beating the Persian war drums today.

-G

yes and this his anthem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related
Larry just loves it

Fuck. We are just mowing them down.

Dropping 20 tons of bombs tends to sparsely populate areas.

-G

The news I watched had an infra red video of a bunch of alleged terrorists walking across a field with a dog, soon followed by a Hellfire missile. The dog survived and one guy they said had a backpack full of explosives. Another hellfire strike took him out.
The dog is still hightailin’it to Syria as we speak.

ES, it sounds like a collective punishment retaliation to me

yep

nahant, token

G.W. Dickwad was over in Palestine joking about how easy it was for him and his motorcade to get through all of the Israeli checkpoints.

Har-frigging-har.

-G

The news I watched had an infra red video of a bunch of alleged terrorists walking across a field with a dog, soon followed by a Hellfire missile. The dog survived and one guy they said had a backpack full of explosives. Another hellfire strike took him out.
The dog is still hightailin’it to Syria as we speak.

This is pornography.
Bring back Janet Jacksons boobs.

Suz drop me a note at bill at 3hunters dot com and I will send some pictures of tucker

Over 1 ton of ordinance per Al Qaeda suspect. I read a snippet yesterday where an eyewitness said the explosions were louder than any during the initial Baghdad invasion.

fyi, on behalf of my dad and my sister in law and a lot of my friends (and you too, I guess) there’s no such thing as _just_ a librarian.

Just, you know, saying.

Lefties will enjoy this update of the “Internationale” by Maxx Klaxon:

http://www.new-mp3s.com/downlo…..0-Mp3.html

Arise you workers from your slumber
All you wage-slaves, everyone
The revolution comes like thunder
And the age of hypocrisy is done

Turn off their televised illusion
Stand up and look them in the eyes
Declare your mental liberation
Shake off the dust, and claim the prize

Chorus: (2x)
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight, let us face
The Internationale unites the human race

We’ve got something, something to prove
And everything to gain
We’ve got nothing, nothing to lose
Nothing to lose, except our chains

Chrous

We see through their disinformation
Designs to dream us into war
And soon the soldiers in formation
Will break their ranks and fight no more.

And if those thieves think it’s their right
To sacrifice us to their dream
They’ll see we’ve just begun to fight
It’s time to change our world regime

We’ve got something, something to prove
And everything to gain
We’ve got nothing, nothing to lose
Nothing to lose, except our chains

We’ve got something, something to prove
And everything to gain
We’ve got nothing, nothing to lose
Nothing to lose, except our chains

Lyrics here.

What a freaking bargain where do I sign up

no shit!

there is a reason this war porn is not on the nightly news – the lessons of walter chronkite and vietnam.

mail in the tubes, nahant

That woman is a vile A*P*C hack. Israeli billionaire Haim Saban is one of her prime fundraisers. His claim is “I’m a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel.” He funded the Saban Center at the Brookings Institute. It’s director is Martin Indyk (one of Hillary’s foreign-policy advisor). It’s Research Director is Kenneth Pollack, who in 2002 published a book entitled “The Case for Invading Iraq.” As an affiliate member, it has Michael O’Hanlon, another of Hillary’s foreign policy advisors.

Where foreign policy is concerned, Hillary is a neocon!

Got it …take me a moment to get it together

Oh, but the fuckers are braggin’ now, thats what that shit is, bragging.

I am coming at you!

-Filipino Monkey

So have I.
Beautiful and sad song, by the way.

Re:

Fuck. We are just mowing them down.

What??? Did Robomower get a DoD contract?

Count Dickula has been in his bunker for too long. Giving me the hinky’s.

Looks like his nepotist seed bag Mary picked a dud for a GOP-er candidate.

-G

Wigwam,

Bowers @ openleft calls this a victory..

Dodd, Blogosphere Wins On Retroactive Telecom Immunity

The best thing I’ve heard all day was Jane’s challenge to Hillary and Barak, who say they are “agents of change”": Put up or shut up.

IMHO, change agents don’t skip out on critical votes. And, agents for the changes I want to see don’t vote for Kyl-Lieberman.

exactly! another violent act brought about as compensation for having a little dick and then braggin about it – as if that would make boosh and his dick have bigger dicks.

It’s all about George you know. He says HIS buildup is returning hope to Iraq.

-G

That explains the Vi*gra commercials during the GOP-er debate.

Stiffs for stiffs.

-G

Yeah, well, if those two went off and rubbed dicks together, we’d all be happy.

On that note.

Good night, good luck.

-G

g’nite greg

Gnite Greg.
Sorry for the mental image…….

Ditto

busted, it did make me throw up a little bit – but then, most any reference to boosh and his dick makes me throw up a little bit

fucking A right We won one for the good guys!!!

Oh fucking Wow!!!

hey – trying to eat here…

Dood!

wigwam January 11th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
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In response to GregB @ 106
That woman is a vile A*P*C hack. Israeli billionaire Haim Saban is one of her prime fundraisers. His claim is “I’m a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel.” He funded the Saban Center at the Brookings Institute. It’s director is Martin Indyk (one of Hillary’s foreign-policy advisor). It’s Research Director is Kenneth Pollack, who in 2002 published a book entitled “The Case for Invading Iraq.” As an affiliate member, it has Michael O’Hanlon, another of Hillary’s foreign policy advisors.

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and this is the main reasons why i am NOT a Hillary fan. every Hillary Clinton supporter needs to come to grips with this aspect of her candidacy. it is immoral, unexcusable and will continue leading the US on the road to failure. it is in no way a progressive facet of any future administration. it is a recipe for moral condemnation.

and never comes back

Now this is what an opposition party should look like!

http://www.911blogger.com/node/13340

Do we happen to have anyone who is fluent in Japanese among us here at FDL?

ONLY if they never came back

Brain bleach, STAT! *attempts to claw eyes out*

I don’t see it as any victory. Weren’t many of us infuriated at the passage of the current status last Summer? And now an extension of it is a victory? Sorry.. I don’t like it and I don’t want continuance of what may very well be unconstitutional activity.

Did I mention I am nasty too?

But that was the Idea!!
Mail should be there!

will do so today

I wish i was fluent! As it is, i could probably make some educated guesses on what they say. Though i do have a few friends that ARE fluent in it(instead of my piecemeal half immersion learned stuff.)

55 gal drums conveniently located at each entrance and exit to the lake in addition to mini drums located at every power strip.

nahant, replied already :) tubes must be sticky tonight

just sounds nasty

Indeed, one of my best friends is Japanese and now lives in Tokyo. But, alas he’s working for Guiliani, so I’ve been avoiding. But, perhaps it’s now time.

Quelle suprise! lol

Ray,

Yeah, i’d have to enlist my friends. I can barely keep up with it. But it definitely is on whether it was worth having the SDF take part in the wars or not. Or to keep supporting the US in the first place. That much i caught. My gods, *eyes cross* The ‘des ka’ ‘dasai’s…i thought i’d heard polite japanese before, that’s just beyond. I need to listen through to see if they got into the more sarcastic politeness i’ve heard from them before, that’s very much akin to the british version i’m familiar with.

I’m sure it came up in those debates, among the formalities on top of fomalities in the Diet. (when they dont’ decide they want to brawl.)

*listens a little more and tries not to trip over the formal language too much*

If you wouldn’t mind, perhaps you could pass along the link and seek an opinion as to whether the 911blogger item is legit or hysterical? Thanks.

Nothing quite like a bracing reality haymaker laid on the jaw of the clueless, eh?

what’s on my mind?

Recounts… why they are unnecessary, and why they should be conducted anyway.

Last things first. The reason why they should be conducted even if they are not necessaary is to ensure that anyone considering messing with the vote tabulation equipment knows that it will be caught.

As to why they are unnecessary in New Hampshire…. because the polls were accurate. If you look at the internals.

Because the internals tell you that the electorate was extremely volatile, and that a large percentage of voters had not made up their minds.

Take for example the Suffolk poll, which was conducted on Jan 6-7. The “headline” was that it was Obama 39, Hillary 34. But the internals told a different story.

It was a story that was within 1.5% point among fully committed voter — and that was because a much higher percentage of Clinton voters were committed to voting for her.

And the internals also told you that the poll assumed a 53 female, 47 male demographic mix. It is crucial to remember when looking at these polls that they are adjusted to a pre-determined demographic mix — and the less the actual electoral conforms to the mix used by poll in key demographic categories where there are distinct variances in levels of support for each candidate, the less it will conform to the final results.

(This isn’t a margin of error issue — MOE is based on the assumption that the demographic assumed with be identical to the final results. Public opinion polls are just that…opinion polls, and not predictive of behavior.)

The polling done in New Hampshire between Christmas and the Iowa caucuses showed Clinton with an average of just under 35% — and again, this number reflects a demographic assumption of 53-54% female, 46-47% males, and because the percentage of that demographic was off, these polls underestimated Clinton’s actual support by a couple of points. Add to that the fact that it includes an average of around 16 percent showing support for Dodd, Biden, Gravel, Kuchinich, and “undecided” and assuming a maximum of 4 points total of Kucinich and Gravel, you had 12% of voters who had either not made up their mind, or had indicated support for candidates who dropped out.

There was no “Clinton surge” at the end… all there was was a small “waver” of voters who had been leaning toward Clinton for months before Iowa, started leaning toward Obama right after Iowa, then went back “home” to Clinton before election day. Clinton picked up only 3-5% of the “up for grabs” vote (including people who were “leaning toward Edwards”), and held on to the support she’d had in New Hampshire all along.

The Obama surge was very real, however. Before Iowa, his polls were at an average of under 26%. Obama picked up most of the undecided/Dodd/Biden support that was available, but it wasn’t enough to overcome Clinton’s long term, committed support.

Got it. just was telling you a little story bout tucker…is on the way

Sounds like a good reason to Impeach

I’ll see what i can do. I’m more familiar with the ‘tones’ of the language myself, since i’m not fully fluent and need actual formal classes to get what i haven’t picked up on my own. It’s enough to get me through their entertainment without too much help, but political language. Oh dear gods i’m not THAT good yet.

If it’s taking place now? It’s a definite power play on the part of the party doing the questioning though. It’s fully couched in their most formal and neutral forms of the language, which is quite telling on its own. If they were more familiar it wouldn’t be much to think about. I just don’t have the rest of the knowledge of it to grasp the full context. And Nihongo is swimming in context, about as heavily as english does when it comes down to it. (and why i LOVE it as a ‘hobby’ language i want to pick up fully.)

Re:

But it definitely is on whether it was worth having the SDF take part in the wars or not. Or to keep supporting the US in the first place.

Thanks for that translation. It’s nice for me to understand the context within which the discussion came up. There is a lively right wing in Japan which remembers the glory of the Co-Prosperity Sphere and they are certainly being egged on by our merchants of death like Richard Perle and the RaytheonLockheedL3BoeingNorthrup greedheads.

I look forward to your further insights. Thanks.

Hi ES: Parkinson’s Third Law: “Delay is the deadliest form of denial.” At this point I’ll be happy with the baby slam and won’t hold out for the grand slam, until the terrain is more favorable to our forces. Eighteen months from now, the terrain will likely not be less favorable. But, my heart hears and echos your protests!

ok pups, time for me to do an inner eyelid inspection. g’nite all.

Anybody else think Rudy is the best thing that happened to the Democrats this cycle?

He is a singularly unattractive candidate (I don’t mean the ugly fucker part) who embodies the awful wrath that the Goopers have unleashed on the planet. And while dragging his party to extremes with his 9/11 bravado bullshit, he dooms them all (the other Goopers) to the same standing as Chimpy.
Makes nearly any Democrat a breath of fresh air…

it just helps that he’s as ugly on the outside as he is on the inside. ugly fucker indeed.

Last things first. The reason why they should be conducted even if they are not necessaary is to ensure that anyone considering messing with the vote tabulation equipment knows that it will be caught.

Exactly!!! (And I agree with the rest of what you said.)

Gnite Suzanne, I am going to follow suit.

Gnite y’all.

nite suz

night night,,,

speaking of ugly.. check out the top 3 posts over at watertigers‘….. rudy and judy

leaving for realsies now

Agreed. As I said earlier, May Kucinich demand a recount in all 50 states.. in both the primary and generals.

Off to the land of shut-eye myself.

Good night all fabulous firedogs.

Arigato

Hi luasiak,

Can you define “internals” for us? The link that you provided does not contain that word on the page. I’m getting the heeby-jeebies here reading your post and wondering if this is some variation on tea-leaf reading or a seance thing you’ve got going with that page. All I see there from my bare knuckles take-no-prisoners, show-no-quarter Chicago ward politics background is that Barack Obama’s hockey stick meteoric rise in the polls after the Iowa stunner leaves little reason for me to doubt that the fix was in up in New Hampshire.

Internals = ?

Put it this way. The japanese? When they get as stiff and formal as the british. Be careful. They’re just about as cutting verbally and otherwise. Some of their most infamous cultural villians? Use the most polite forms in their shows. Sometimes not even the ‘villians.’ The good guys use that ideal as well. There are ways to tell the sincerity but it takes time to learn, and usually you have to learn it IN the culture itself.

My friend has a better angle on it than i, because she lived there for a year. I tend to use my sources and experiences with the UK cultures, because both societies use formality and politeness in similar ways. All the way down to the insults couched in the most formal language possible. Once i had the grasp on the ‘forms’ of it, it helped me figure out what as there, and my piecemeal knowledge of the words and concepts. That’s where i lose out though, since i don’t have the full grasp of it. So…off to my friend it will go.

*grin* I’ll stop geeking. I need to get to bed so i can work! *yawns*

Night all I have a cord of Almond coming in the am, It will the third one this season… used up most of two already …been colder than usual. talk at all of ya next late night

You’re right on. For reasons I could never imagine, the RNC establishment hung all of their hopes on what seemed from here to be a sure loser. When he crashed and Mitt flared out, they had nowhere to turn but St. John (and perhaps some vain hopes for Bloomberg). The problem with Bloomberg is that he is unlikely to win and IMHO would likely take more votes away from the Republicans than the Democrats.

The Republican establishment is extremely well funded and well connected. They are very dangerous. (Not to be intimidated, but not to be overly confident either.)

nite eureka
nite nahant

Forms and tones, i should say. bleargh. When you’re an audiogeek, it makes languages interesting just on audio level. I like spanish just because of the ‘flow’ of it for one. Japanese? The context and the rhythm of it. The Queen’s English? I grew up with. I have a godmother from Liverpool. *grin*

My only foreign language is a smattering of High School French with some additional time spent on reading their news in the vernacular. Japanese is as lost on me as Quecha.

Bon Chance!

The Japanese culture is so foreign yet bizarrely familiar to Americans. At some level they have refuted American culture, via “reductio ad absurdum.” It’s frightening! Do you realize that they are developing nuclear reactors to heat and power apartment buildings, prepackaged with 40 years of fuel?

Can you define “internals” for us?

basically, internals are the data used to come up with the stuff that shows up in the press release announcing the results. Sometimes the ones that are released just include the questions asked, and the answers given. Sometimes they provide breakdowns for the answers in certain demographic categories.

And the ones that people like me love are the ones with “cross-tabs” which break down demographic categories even more (I.E. one that has one axis that breaks down the data based on one or two variables/demographic characteristics, and the other axis breaking it down based on one or two different variables/demographic characteristics. I mean, don’t you want to know what percentage of protestant unmarried women with children under the age of twelve were leaning strongly toward Hillary Clinton two days before the primary! ;-)

The thing to remember about internals is that as the size of the subgroup decreases, the margin of error increases. So a poll of 500 people that is 50% male and says that 40% of men supported candidate X would have a margin of error of +-5, the minute you break that down to married and unmarried men, the margin of error increases, because the group you are looking at is men, and the sample size of the men is only 250, and the bigger your sample, the lower your margin of error.

If i have my way, i’ll likely be fluent in three languages by the time i get over to canada. Spanish and Japanese in addition to the english i grew up with. Both forms, so the british spellings don’t faze me at all because of growing up right next to(and spending whole summers with family in) canada. Much less hearing and seeing french as the secondary language. I just don’t LIKE french. *shrugs*

I need something to do in my spare time, or will if i can’t find anything else to do.

Okay, Bed! for real this time. *waves and wanders off to bed* Kon ban wa!

The Republican establishment is extremely well funded and well connected. They are very dangerous. (Not to be intimidated, but not to be overly confident either.)

Yes, they are a spitting cobra. And there is nothing, nothing they will not unleash upon the Democrat.

It’s partly why I believe that Edwards is the best shot we have at McCain. Of the 3 still standing with a real shot, he can debate McCain up one side and down he other, should he choose. When Edwards confronted Shooter about Haliburton doing business with Iran during sanctions in the 2004 veep debate, it got very little play, and Shooter sloughed the accusation off with his usual means, never challenged. That won’t happen again.

Really, the Dem in this race doesn’t need to tie McCain to Chimpy. He just needs to remind the electorate about how much McCain and Rudy have in common.

30 years ago, I had a friend who decided it was essential that he learn Japanese to communicate with his future bosses and Spanish to communicate with his future subordinates. I insisted that a fool like him would work for both, and be fortunate to have a job at all.

Arigato.

I find it funny that they pay you MORE if you’re fluent in at least one more language in the US. I have no idea how they play that in canada, but if it’s the neither of the two primary langauges? I bet they’re game to use it, considering their immigration policies. It helps in the long run. (also earns ‘points’ on their tests)

I heartedly agree. What are Obama and Clinton going to say when McCain says we need to stay in Iraq 100 years? They had their chances to say they’d get the troops our. And, they finally did it, but that was only under pressure.

This nation needs presidential candadates who are leaders, not fools who at the 11th hour pick up talking points from their opponents. Fucking YUCK!!!

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I mean, don’t you want to know what percentage of protestant unmarried women with children under the age of twelve were leaning strongly toward Hillary Clinton two days before the primary!

I trust you are being facetious here. :) Otherwise, no, I’m not interested at all in what pre-teenybopper females think. I’m surprised anyone would think they do.

Which reminds me of the old joke about the abortion controversy. This is probably not P.C. so let’s not have the thought police get agitated.

At a confrontation at an abortion clinic a pro-lifer shouted out to one of the staffers, a tough-minded Jewish woman of a certain age, “what if you had aborted your son? Just what age do you think he became a human at?” The clinic worker shouted back, “just as soon as that bastard graduates from medical school!”

For The Lurking Mod

One of my Canadian friends said that they don’t want a melting pot; they want a salad. I really enjoyed all of the ethnic cultures and cuisines I enjoyed in Montreal in 1966, but I can find better in the U.S. now.

OK, so if a person can speak two languages is bilingual, and a person who can speak three is trilingual, what do you call a person who can only speak one language?
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American

I still think that Hillary may try to “revise” her position on the AUMF vote. I’m certain they’ve had the language sitting on a shelf somewhere, waiting to trot it out, should she get herself in a mortal bind in the race. Obama, while not exactly clean wrt war funding and aggressive rhetoric, has a built-in out, not having been in the Senate when it was voted on.
She has cards, but I have my doubts that she has the skills to play them.

Yeah, that’s not PC. But it’s funny as hell.
It is, however, Late Late Nite.

That’s why I really like Jane’s “put up or shut up” posting this afternoon. She challenged both Hillary and Barak to show that they’re for real as “the agents of change” that they claim to be. “Go back to Congress and do something, anything.”

Dog Lovers check out this video.

Marion Jones was convicted by a federal judge for perjury and taking performance enhancing drugs 6 months in prison 2 years probation and 800 hours of community service. Lost the medals and the records are expunged she is shamed and broke.

George Bush ordered the murder of 600,000 people and the loss of 4,000 servicemen and women, He ordered the complete destruction of a country of 25 million people. He drove millions out of their homes and millions more fled their country.

So sickening, Judge Kalas’s decision fot no leinency. She has a 7 month old and a 4 year old. This is so sad. In Austin Texas the fascist capital of America where dems are no longer a force.

Is there any chance of Dems taking back Texas, ever?

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That’s why I really like Jane’s “put up or shut up” posting this afternoon.

And here I thought Jane was simply baying at the moon.

UnPC: If a man gets lost in the woods and there’s no woman there to hear him, is he still “wrong”?

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Is there any chance of Dems taking back Texas, ever?

It’s been said that in abour 4 billion years the Sun will burn out and expand, ending all life on Earth. So if you are waiting for hell to freeze over, I’d give it about 7 Billion years.

Always if Hightower has anything to say.
I want to know who appointed that judge.

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UnPC: If a man gets lost in the woods and there’s no woman there to hear him, is he still “wrong”?

Unless he’s Chinese, and then he’s probably Wong.

That’s why I really like Jane’s “put up or shut up” posting this afternoon. She challenged both Hillary and Barak to show that they’re for real as “the agents of change” that they claim to be. “Go back to Congress and do something, anything.”

that would be amazing. I’m under the impression that they both want Edwards out of the race, but they both need him to stay in. Full-on conundrum.

But if either trots back to the Senate in the middle of the campaign to rescue a whatever that’s really important, the other would have to follow. It would be theatre to be sure, but it would do 2 things at least.

One – it would allow either/both to show something to their constituencies, that governance is both hard and important.

and Two, it would end Edwards then and there.

Edwards peeps would be up for grabs. This may be riskier that waiting for him to become marginal (more than he is now), but it would settle it long before the convention, giving either time to make up ground

Talking out of my ass here.

I have a special love for Texas liberals, like Hightower and Ivins, Charlie Wilson, etc. I never liked LBJ, but his social-rights legislation may have been the biggest thing in the U.S. in 150 years. In fact, much of the crap that progressives face today is a by-product of his excellent legislation. God Bless him for that. (I’ll not go into my gripes with him.)

An oldie but a goodie:

A new threat!

At New York’s Kennedy airport today, an individual, later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to aboard a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a T-square, a slide rule and a calculator.

At a morning press conference, Attorney General Mukasey said he believes the man to be a member of the notorious al-gebra movement. He is being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.

“Al-gebra is a fearsome cult,” Mukasey said. “They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search for absolute value. They use secret code names like ‘x’ and ‘y’ and refer to themselves as ‘unknowns,’ but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country.”

As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, “There are 3 sides to every triangle,’” Mukasey declared. When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, “If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes.”

“I am gratified that our government has given us a sine that it is intent of protracting us from these math-dogs who are willing to disintegrate us with calculus disregard. Murky statisticians love to inflict plane on every sphere of influence,” the President said, adding, “Under the circumferences, we must differentiate their root, make our point, and draw the line.”
President Bush warned, “These weapons of Math instruction have the potential to decimal everything in their math on a scalene never before seen unless we become exponents of a Higher Power and begin to factor in random facts of vertex.”

Attorney General Mukasey said, “As our Great Leader would say, “Read my ellipse.’ Here is one principle he is uncertainty of: though they continue to multiply, their days are numbered as the hypotenuse tightens round their necks.

Very sad. I want changes in drug laws. No freaking way she should be doing jail time for this.

Good, gracious. It’s way late. G’nite all.

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I’m under the impression that they both want Edwards out of the race, but they both need him to stay in.

Apparently you missed the Chicago Tribune article today about Obama’s entry into politics? Because if you had read it, you would certainly not be foolish enough to think that Obama isn’t working every angle to kill of Edward’s candidacy. What I loved about the Trib’s article was that it made clear Obama’s “show no quarter” attitude toward opponents.

Which reminds me of the story about the street hustlers down on Sunset Boulevard. They got a saying down there:

“If you ain’t workin’ an angle, you are the angle.”

I think all three remaining contenders are working every angle they can conceive of. Don’t you?

for Margot

nite wigwam

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Very sad. I want changes in drug laws. No freaking way she should be doing jail time for this.

We need more of this. We get closer every day and Marion is probably feeling a lot like me. Tom Jefferson wrote that this nation could use a revoltion ever generation. We are long overdue, and the hypocrisy of our country is driving more of us to the brink every day.

District Judge Kenneth M. Karas 2004 George W. Bush apppointed. How many more unjust decisions will these madmen inflict on Americans that are not part of the 1% that rule our Republic as enlightened despots withgod granted divne rights like the French kings that were eventually lost their heads. This is a madman that need to be removed now/

Ready for nightmares? This is for all you tinfoil hat types:

9/11 evidence which makes it very difficult (or impossible) to go
on blaming “hijackers” for 9/11 has been ignored and suppressed by
the government and the media…

http://911blimp.net/vid_Naudet.shtml
http://911blimp.net/vid_WTC1explosions.shtml
http://911blimp.net/aud_BushImplicatesBush.shtml
http://911blimp.net/prf_911commRpt.shtml#pentagon
http://911blimp.net/prf_FreeFallPhysics.shtml

Is it honest to continue to blame 9/11 on “hijackers” even after
we know that we can not blame the too-rapid, too-energetic
demise of the WTC skyscrapers on “airplanes” (or even thermite)?

Democracy Now had a lot on the Guantanamo ‘detainees’ it orange. I want to know what information was obtained from those tortured.
Bill Moyer had a black man from Stanford who criticised Barack for being a bargainer with whites to gain their support by expunging their guilt. Hmmm.

The name of the game is perjury traps. They scare you with time for conviction you wiggle and squirm…they know what you want to do…you are tempted and trapped. The crime you did you plead but don’t get a bargain, Maybe threatened with the loss of your kids. It is a nasty game ask Barry Bonds and now the baseball pitcher.
14 year olds are on performance enhancing drugs to be competitive. The Governor of California had a Doctor in L.A. that prescribed body building drugs and tested him and others for liver damage. Dr. Kerr if I remember.
The justice you get is what you can pay for. We should have free health care and legal care for all.

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I want to know what information was obtained from those tortured.

LOL! It’s time to consider deep politics? “What is that?” you ask?

Consider that those declared to be the perpetrators of 9/11 were actually mere patsies. What then? Then we don’t know exactly who the real planners and perpetrators of 9/11 are, but we can categorically say that they are homegrown terrorist, operating in the netherworld of crony capitalism at the nexus of the military and the industrial organizations that dominate America today. Did we attack ourselves? I cannot categorically state that, but one of the most sophisticated researchers into deep politics is Peter Dale Scott. If I could make a suggstion, you might want to pick up Scott’s most recent book, “The Road to 9/11″.

Scott does not have an answer to who did 9/11. But he makes a convincing argument that al Qaeda, the Guantanemo detainee and anyone else blamed by the U.S. government for 9/11 were certainly not the perpetrators.

Or, as Lily Tomlin puts it, “no matter how cynical I get, it’s hard to keep up.”

The Video Liberation Movement

When the mainstream media becomes just to odious to stand any longer, consider the alternatives.

What are Obama and Clinton going to say when McCain says we need to stay in Iraq 100 years? They had their chances to say they’d get the troops our. And, they finally did it, but that was only under pressure.

Actually Obama stated his opposition to the war long before Edwards did. Edwards refused to renounce his support for the War Authorization Resolution during the 2003 Primary season and advised Kerry, who was considering renouncing his vote, not to. Edwards told Kerry “It’s a trap, we’ll be tagged as ‘flip-floppers’ once again.” Edwards only renounced his Iraq vote a full year after the 2004 election debacle. Of course, Obama wasn’t yet in the Senate and Edwards was…so maybe they had different pressures on them. But Obama has held to his position. Edwards only retracted his vote when now WMD’s had been located, and the occupation started to look like it was going to be a total disaster.

Despite Obama not being in the Senate (and facing the pressure of facing a home constituencies “anger” while the war was apparently going well) Obama actually decided to run for Senate despite his well-known stance. Keyes made regular comments about Obama’s “failure to support the troops” and therefore supporting Iraqi “terrorists.

I still think that Hillary may try to “revise” her position on the AUMF vote. I’m certain they’ve had the language sitting on a shelf somewhere, waiting to trot it out, should she get herself in a mortal bind in the race.

I have a question. Hasn’t Hillary stated that she would have voted against the AUMF if she had known about the Administrations fudging on the intelligence and absence of a political-military strategy for occupation and withdrawal? Isn’t that the same position Edwards made in his mea culpa? Both assert that they trusted Bush not to invade until the inspectors had actually discovered WMD’s and Iraq refused to dismantle them.

They have a similar “withdrawal” plan that requires residual forces to remain in Iraq. Edwards also throws in several brigades as a rapid deployment force “over the horizon” in Kuwait.

Good Morning everyone.

Good morning pups!

Good morning yee with one of the geographically Blueish of BlueBayState Handles, and may the gods who have smiled on Brady and Jacoby (Brajacoby?)and even Predoia (BrajacobPredo sounds too much like a predator) and all the BBState’s team smile on you and the candidates (Blueish) and party of your choice.
Goodmorning Millineryman and all.

See me @15 for a bit of fun and a chance for early birds to do something for FDL.
I’ll be back on the first AM post.

Good Meaning egregious
I just let that typo stay in there, my eyes are all bleared up

Just a stay-at-home weekend for a change? Or are you and your boots out walking…
I’m going to punished in this life for that earworm

before leaving you, a bit of good news. (crossposted last nite on EW) Some of the our favorite DOJ criminals are not gonzo, but demoted. Including the BlueBayState’s summer resident, Susana Lorenzo-Giguere, who just got demoted, along with Tanner’s other foot soldier, Yvette Rivera. Don’t know what Rivera did wrong, but she was in a good position to do lots of it as head of, according to the Muck,

Section Five unit, which has the responsibility of reviewing election laws in parts of the country with a history of discrimination. Encouragingly, her replacement is Tim Mellett, one of the staff attorneys who in 2003, found that Tom DeLay’s Texas redistricting plan violated the Voting Rights Act.

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Good meaning…like intending to do good? These boots are walking thru white stuff in Michigan, visiting aunt and then Marcy [no relation].

Reply is a shard from the cut and paste from EW, not an order, although I would love to hear Egreg’s thought on the Good Meaning of this.

Back in a little bit on the morning post.

Oh Hi BSRH,
Here’s what I want to eat, maybe it could go in the cookbook
french toast waffles
I’d make them if I had any idea what I did with the waffle iron. The maple syrup has to be hot and there has to be cinnamon.

AND on the more important note, that really is good news, thanks

Bad guys demoted at DoJ? Skip the coffee, I’m wide awake now! Yahoo!! It’s very difficult to fire somebody from the federal government, but pushing them aside means they have less potential to do damage. And the move sends a signal to other Bush creeps that there is change afoot.

Top of the fold in WaPo: Baghdad Embassy Called Fire Risk

Some officials assert that in the push to complete the long-delayed project, potentially life-threatening problems have been left untouched. “This is serious enough to get someone killed,” said a State Department official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he feared retaliation. “The fire systems are the tip of the iceberg. That is the most visible. But no one has ever inspected the electrical system, the power plant” and other parts of the embassy complex, which will house more than 1,000 people and is vulnerable to mortar attacks.

Because, you know, we didn’t pour enough money into this project?? Not enough to do it right anyway.

the top post video is an effective earworm cure
whew!

Inspectors are endemic of regulation.
And we all know that regulation hurts the economy (of the .01%)

Good morning, pups. It’s TOMC and Bob Herbert in the NYT today. TOMC has turned her attention to the Republicans. She says there’s something about Mitt Romney’s perfect grooming, his malleability and his gee-whiz aura that seems to irritate both the other candidates and the voters. Well, he certainly irritates me. Mr. Herbert says the significance of Barack Obama’s achievement is the fact that he might well be fashioning a positive change in the very character of our nation. I think that may be a bit hyperbolic, but I haven’t had my tea yet so I may be being cranky.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are now ready, and I’ve got toasted Thomas’ English muffins with a variety of jams. Try the pear preserves — there’s no sugar in them, just pears, concentrated grape juice, pectin and lemon juice. Yummy! Have a great day. Elliott — the French toast waffles sound delicious. I may have to try those…

Not so good morning. Judge on appeals court threw out the GITMO case saying that torture was forseeable!!!! FORSEEABLE.

Words fail.

The court rejected other claims on the grounds that then-Attorney General John Ashcroft had certified that the military officials were acting within the scope of their jobs when they authorized the tactics, and that such tactics were “foreseeable.”

“It was foreseeable that conduct that would ordinarily be indisputably `seriously criminal’ would be implemented by military officials responsible for detaining and interrogating suspected enemy combatants,” Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson wrote in the court’s main opinion.

Judge Janice Rogers Brown dissented with parts of the opinion, saying that “it leaves us with the unfortunate and quite dubious distinction of being the only court to declare those held at Guantanamo are not `person(s).’

‘`This is a most regrettable holding in a case where plaintiffs have alleged high-level U.S. government officials treated them as less than human,” Brown wrote.

Regarding “Put up or shut up”: If I were cynical, I’d worry that Reid’s postponing the FISA vote is all about protecting the Dem candidates. And after the election, they’ll give the telecom companies the immunity they want.

GooD Meaning, Good Morning again and Happy Trails. Just woke up from nap that I started at 6:45 am.

from the article you cite:

It appeared to be the first time that a federal appellate court has ruled on the legality of the harsh interrogation tactics that U.S. intelligence officers and military personnel have used on suspected terrorists held outside the United States since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

This is the undeniable implication. For there exists at common law the principle that ‘no man can be held accountable for the failure to foresee illegal conduct by another’.

Yup – torture is legal, and just part of the job, thank you very much.

And to think Janice Rogers Brown was the good guy! Remember how hard we fought to keep her off the Court for her RW views?

Obama, while not exactly clean wrt war funding and aggressive rhetoric, has a built-in out, not having been in the Senate when it was voted on.
She has cards, but I have my doubts that she has the skills to play them.

Obama says he didn’t vote for the AUMF, but when asked if he would have he said ‘probably yes’.

Obama is a hypocrite, opportunistic, machine pol and a confessed cheat (he said he cheated in Iowa because Howard Dean had done it in 2004).

Hillary is simply a triangulator extraordinaire. Nobody knows what she stands for, but she takes a lot of money from people who do know what she’ll do for them!

And people are worried if Edwards is a phony?

Actually Obama stated his opposition to the war long before Edwards did.

How many times did Senator Obama vote to reauthorize and fund the war?