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ES!

Eureka!

Hah! Beat ya!

Dam tied!

Excellent song, ES.

John Edwards lost. No one won.

james McMurtry is a great singer songwriter. love his stuff.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ i right.

digg it

gnome, you around next weekend?
planning a send-off party for andy & cassie on Saturday afternoon/evening

John Edwards lost. No one won.

Nut. Meet shell. That’s it right there. Next!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=e7z689yVlq0

sorry, IS right. Hiya Gnome.

Romney received twice as many votes as all Democrats combined. Where is Kucinich calling for election scrutiny?

Great song I really wish we could do a lot more for the Vets! Maybe when the dems get the White House and a super majority in the senate.

Dugg

Thank you, Suz.

Sorry, I was listening/watching the video. Unfortunately I will still be in Florida next weekend. I don’t get home until late Sunday night.

I’ve tried to digg this post, but each time I’m being told that it’s already been submitted. Like I said last night, I am digg-challenged.

No, that’s not correct. Those are delegate counts on the Dem side. About 115,000 Dems voted and only about 44,000 Rethugs voted.

it sounds like you are trying to open a dig on the post. refresh the page and then click on it again (there should be a number on the dig thingie now)

Iraqi Shiite festival escapes bloodshed (AP)
from Yahoo! News

Shiite pilgrims crowd as performers re-enact the Battle of Karbala during Ashoura observances in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. Hundreds of thousands of Shiites beat their heads and chests and whipped themselves with chains Saturday across much of Iraq to honor the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, one of their most revered saints. (AP Photo/Ahmed Alhussainey)AP - Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims clambered aboard buses or began trekking homeward on foot Saturday at the end of Ashoura, a 10-day ritual to cleanse the spirit and scourge the body in honor of their founding saint.

In case anyone’s a little down about Edwards’ numbers today, maybe you can find some solace in the words of Russ Feingold:

The one that is the most problematic is (John) Edwards, who voted for the Patriot Act, campaigns against it. Voted for No Child Left Behind, campaigns against it. Voted for the China trade deal, campaigns against it. Voted for the Iraq war … He uses my voting record exactly as his platform, even though he had the opposite voting record.

I like what Edwards has been saying a lot, but there’s enough about his background that’s bugged me. Would be ecstatic with a Obama/Edwards ticket nonetheless. They would win in a landslide, and there’s nothing Diebold could do about it.

Where the Feingold quote came from:

http://www.postcrescent.com/ap.....70560/1036

Oh thank all that might be holy! That could have caused a major ES depression..)

No strike: Amtrak, unions reach deal
from Raw Story Breaking News
Amtrak said yesterday it reached tentative agreement on a long-sought contract with 12 labor unions, averting what would have been the railroad’s first strike in its 36-year history…

Suz, brilliant — that worked, thanks!

crap, suzanne pleshette died

I agree.. all the leading candidate have a horrific records, imo.. But Edwards speaks like a Dem.. at least he informs the public in a manner in which their thinking should be (re)formed.. Contrary to all the subtle DLC triangulators who call for tax cuts and Lieber-lovin’ bipartisanship along with mandates for health care insurance companies.

damn

Tex, I wish I could be there. I hope everything goes well.

No strike: Amtrak, unions reach deal

Is there still such a thing as the National Mediation Board? My grandpa worked for them from the 30’s through the early 60’s, retired as their secretary. IIRC they were all about settling railroad strikes.

Oh no. Damn.

Oh Mr.CE LOVED her.

Just posted it at my place. Thanks.

Never mind, I found it.

I saw that and I was wondering what was going on with Russ. Edwards’ voting record in the Senate was progressive but he had a few big business votes. I think his change in his political positions since about 05 are sincere. There must be more going on between Russ and John then we know about.

For those wondering why there is such strong disapproval of Obama’s Reagan comments, see Matt Stoller’s latest post at www.openleft.com

a taste:
That Obama did when lauding Reagan as an answer to the ‘excesses of the 1960s’ (which you can very well see is a conservative meme by doing a quick Google book search) was attack and insult the liberal traditions of feminism, civil rights, environmentalism, consumer rights, and peace movement work from that time.

And he got torched by the older liberals who lived through Saint Ronnie’s time and don’t remember it as such an optimistic time when a dynamic man reigned in government and brought back entrepreneurship (which is not in fact true).

The right creates and protects their icons and history jealously, just as they tear down our traditions and heroes or appropriate them for their own usage by claiming that our best people were in fact conservative (hence JFK becomes a strong national security Democrat who cut taxes). The past matters. It just does.

You know what else I will be missing because of this trip to Florida? Anna Margaret’s 95th birthday party. She was my neighbor who came and hung out at the first CenTex Firepup picnic. She was so excited that there were liberals taking over the “island”.

Dugg it! and dam sorry to hear about Suzanne Pleshette :>(

temps dropped down to 35.6 and token is quite happy to be wearing a lavender sweater - he don’t care what color it is as long as it is warm. its an old ski headband modified for his manly figure.

Oh, she was wonderful Gnome!

G’night pups, this wall-to-wall politics day has got me all wrung out. Tomorrow is another day!

And he got torched by the older liberals who lived through Saint Ronnie’s time and don’t remember it as such an optimistic time when a dynamic man reigned in government and brought back entrepreneurship (which is not in fact true).

That is very true..Reagan was a piece of crap and Obama can’t change that fact.

Well it’s going to get down to 8 degrees in my neck of Arkansas tonight. So that ought to help ya savor Florida..)

g’nite LL

Ding! Ding!! Ding!!! Hear ye. Hear ye.

There a lot of reasons based on his voting record and some of his early speeches to be concerned about Edwards. But now he is talking as though he undestand the fundamental task facing the next sane president of the United States, which will be to repeal 28 years of Reaganism — yes, that includes the Clinton administration.

The other two visibly do not see that agenda at all. Peans to Reagan and the Republican Party. Announced aspirations to include Republicans in their cabinets. Endless blather about “reaching across the aisle,” oblivious to the fact that the aisle has move 180 degrees. They should indeed reach across the aisle to Feingold, Dodd, Kennedy, and the rest of the progressives in the Senate.

sleep well LL

raygun dumped thousands of mental patients onto the streets when gov of ca. i knew he was trouble going into the 80 election.

Damn.Sorry to hear about Suzanne Pleshette.
Eureka Springs, awesome video.

Well it’s going to get down to 8 degrees in my neck of Arkansas tonight. So that ought to help ya savor Florida..)

Well F me..it’s going to be 16 in central AR.

Never knew a good rethuglian… they always think they are right:>)

Thanks Suz and Betsy.

Last thought — whatever happened to pow wow? Always enjoyed those comments.

Buenas noches.

present company exempt, of course, right?

Edwards is the only remaining candidate that we Blue Americans will not have to treat as a hostile Rahmulan type of president. Hillary and Barack will allow if not encourage the very worst congressional candidates. I may be in a marathon but I don’t intend to vote for an additional mileage plan.

i’ve not seen pow wow since the rollout of the commenter registration at the beginning of december (iirc)

but of course… how was the showing today? Any fish bite??

I expect she will turn up as the FISA battle kicks back in. Next week?

no nibbles either :(

She will, indeed.

Damm better luck tomorrow!

epu:

Margot, my mom was Cassie’s grandmother like it or not. That jewelry belongs to her as much as it does to me.

LOL, I always thought pow wow was a dude

I’m really tired of this disingenuous shit that goes: “Well he didn’t say that Reagan’s changes were good, and he didn’t say that ‘the party of ideas’ had good ideas.” God damn it, he is running for the nomination to be the Democratic candidate for president of the United States. No corporation in its right mind (nor the GOP) calls press conferences to praise its competition as effective and/or innovative. And Obama is constantly doing this shit. Twice in the past week.

I think she outed herself specifically as female at one time. At least I hope I am recollecting better than Reagan..)

there was that little Raygun stunt, but one of my “favorites” was when Ronnie canned all the people of color and women on the EOC (EEOC? - Equal Opportunity Commision) commission and put a bunch of white guys on it instead.

figured he’d show “those people” a thing or 2…

night y’all. students all afternoon tomorrow, then football.

Go Giants!

Nite Tex

From Mat Stoller:

We have been fighting Ronald Reagan’s psychologically diseased followers and predecessors since, well, since they called themselves the Confederacy and fought for slavery. And we will keep fighting them if we are to retain a republic. That’s why the self-identified very liberal Democrats swung away from Obama and took Nevada from him. Because he very self-consciously explained that he is not part of that fight, and they want a leader who is.

link

pain free sleep wishes tex

Nite Betsy — see you on FB.

JFC, will insanity never cease?! Per Kos:

[Kos quoting Edwards]:

Ronald Reagan, the man who busted unions, the man who did everything in his power to destroy the organized labor movement, the man who created a tax structure that favored the richest Americans against middle class and working families, … we know that Ronald Reagan is not an example of change for a presidential candidate running in the Democratic Party.

A nicely crafted straw man argument, if I’ve ever seen one. Bravo, John, for being an ass and dishonestly distorting what Obama said!

never accomplish a dog gammed thing using a circular firing squad.

I still can’t believe Obama did it, if I hadn’t seen the video, I’d still be a little doubtful.

It is such horrendous a break with the Democratic Party and a slap in across the face of the Democratic faithful who had to live through Uncle Ronnie.

OK, it’s lights out for me and my puppies.

Betsy, it is a loving thing to do and a blessing. (( ))

g’nite gnome

Oh you have just got to be fucking kidding me.
Put the URL in your browser and scroll down to the bottom of the page where it says Blog posts about this topic and tell me I am not hallucinating.
My fucking blog is being linked by the Wall Street Journal?
I am going to…..THUD

http://online.wsj.com/article/.....12531.html

I cannot make the link gizmo work, it takes me to a FDL 404 page.

Nothing Obama said about Reagan felt like a slap in the face.. though I didn’t like it at all. Kos posted a short youtube of Hillary supporting Lieberman.. which felt like a punch in the gut to me.

link gizmo don’t work in preview

OMFG busted!!!

Dude, you’ve been Murdoched! The link worked for me.

A hand up here please, I’m still woozy.

Wow, Busted!

Waves vial of lavender oil under Busted’s nose….

Link works busted.
You got Zoomed!

I’m speechless.

Depressions are always due to LOSS OF WORKING CLASS PURCHASING POWER.

Edwards or Ron Paul. Otherwise, none of the above.

wow, busted, that’s just forking awesome (and well deserved i might add)

here, ES - check out Stoller’s latest I think he explains why those of us who lived through it have such a poor reaction to it…

The email’s are gonna be flying here in a bit.
Ain’t nobody gonna believe that less’n they see it themselves.

Morti Zuckerman (sp?) the billionaire who sits in on the McCoughlin group from time to time, sounded the alarm this week with declarations of the recession reaching far beyond next year and being worse than anything since the great depression.

quick, do a screen capture before WSJ see’s your blog cussedness rating

it also shocked me that Obama would admire Reagan after what he did to organizations like the EEOC (see above), not to mention what his callousness and neglect did to gay men during the height and panic of the AIDS crisis…

Reagan was a terrible president! Just terrible! Perhaps Obama loves the myth of Ronnie, but the reality was a horror show…

How ya do that?

Yes i read it.. I didn’t have as strong a reaction as he and others did.. and I was in the streets protesting No Mo Ron in Dallas RNC ‘84. Please don’t consider this a defense of Obama but I do agree with wigwams call of Edwards taking it to an extreme straw man bent. I say let Obama answer to Edwards and turn his self around or show the world in a bit more detail what his calls for bipartisanship entail. (hugging Reagan, GAH!)

oh crap…. i had it taught to me once. bet it is different on a mac than on a pc.. which are you busted?

ES?
I LMAO, good one.

Old Gateway laptop.
I see na print screen button but nuthin’ happened, no printer hooked up

I am an Ornery Bastard too..)

oh dear - any pc types out there can tell busted how to do a screen capture - or anyone wanna capture it for him?

busted - if you hit “prnt scrn” and then go to file/print, do you have an option to save it as a pfd? (instead of printing it?)

I’m hoping that what he liked about Reagan was the idea of him, rather than the things he did. Because there is not much there to love.
The idea was hope, grandfatherliness, friendliness, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” “There you go again.”
In other words, feel-good pabulum.
I get that he wants to appeal to a large, large amount of voters. Maybe voters who were Reagan Democrats.
I don’t like it, but then, he was not talking to me. He was addressing those who would be swayed by that sort of message.

Wow. Thanks for that link. It’s great!

Imagine Harry Truman praising Stalin’s ability to change Eastern Europe after WWII.

He isn’t old enough to know better, but he should of done him some reading to try and understand that raygun ronnie was a nothing but a front man for the neocons! And the democrats who were adults during the eighties hated the man.

What’s on my mind? It was incredibly beautiful today. Spent the day at a ski lodge for Nordic skiiers, at a retreat where we hashed out community issues with a great facilitator, setting goals for 2008.

On the phone all evening getting info on the shitstorm that’s going to hit Alaska next week.

a stevens clan kinda of shitstorm?

Seems all I can do is bookmark it for now.