Zed!

ES! dood, who’s your kind and generous soul? can i get an introduction?

2?

Hey, I have an idea — could this become a dating/meetup site? Just for the Late Nite Crowd with An Attitude?

Joking…

Alright ES Miles Davis my older sister got into him in the late 50’s… we be lucky!

running for hills screaming nooooooooooooo

been there, done that, all i got was a lousy restraining order

Who are you looking to meet Christine?

The zed is dead. There is no zed.

Oh hey, not me! I’ve found my mate.

On iTunes there is a cover of the song “At Last” performed by Miles Davis that was recorded at a dinner club out on the California coast. I have to think how cool it would have been to have been sitting there and eating and drinking while MD was playing in the background. You can hear the patrons talking, dinner plates clattering and all the sounds of the restaurant in the background. I’ll bet those folks never realized what they were getting with their meal…

Was just thinking of Aunt Betsy and Russ…

Hi folks, Wanted to be sure and share the link to Miles Part II here.

well in that case …. :)

Dam Christine I would to avoid the lake at night as I very thoroughly taken… I could get into trouble that I don’t think I want anywhere near!!

Thank you ES it is such a pleasure to hear him AND See him… I want to meet the lucky one also!

I am still FISA dreamin:
Glenn Greenwald
Thursday August 23, 2007 09:08 EST
Mike McConnell’s clear explanation of FISA
(updated below – updated again)

Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell yesterday gave a strange and rambling interview concerning the new FISA amendments, and several commentators — including Spencer Ackerman, Digby and Jeralyn Merritt — have discussed various oddities in what he said. I want to focus on a different, and I think highly revealing, aspect of his remarks.

Unintentionally, McConnell articulated what is an unusually clear and straightforward explanation as to the state of federal law regarding eavesdropping on Americans by our government — unusually clear particularly for a Bush official, but even in general. McConnell explained:

The reason that the FISA law was passed in 1978 was an arrangement was worked out between the Congress and the administration, we did not want to allow this community to conduct surveillance, electronic surveillance, of Americans for foreign intelligence unless you had a warrant, so that was required.
That is exactly what happened, and the NSA scandal has always been, and always will be, this simple and crystal clear. In 1978, the American people responded to the discovery of decades-long abuses of secret eavesdropping powers by making it a felony for any government official to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant. What McConnell describes an “arrangement worked out between the Congress and the administration” is what most people call a “federal law,” but McConnell’s basic point — that “we did not want to allow th[e intelligence] community to conduct surveillance . . . of Americans . . . unless you had a warrant, so that was required” — is exactly correct.

But in 2001, George Bush ordered the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans in violation of that very law, and continued to do so for the next five years at least. Bush ordered the NSA to commit felonies; we know that he did so; and nothing has happened. It is and always has been as clear as it is extraordinary.

Equally extraordinary is McConnell’s admission — which marks, I believe, the first time this has been acknowledged — that private telecommunications companies enabled this lawbreaking by giving the administration access to the conversations of Americans with no warrants:

Now the second part of the issue was under the president’s program, the terrorist surveillance program, the private sector had assisted us. Because if you’re going to get access you’ve got to have a partner and they were being sued.
McConnell went on to explain that the number one priority for the administration regarding FISA now is to demand that Congress make further FISA revisions by providing retroactive immunity to the telecom companies to ensure that there are no consequences from their breaking of the law:

How do you spell F-E-L-O-N-Y

For lucky ones, look in the mirror..)

Fuck Nancy Pelosi and the table she should have put Impeachment on… she knew about all this crap, and protected Beloved Leader by using the power of her office and stature.

Apotheosis Now -

Zed lives!

OT: Thoughts on McCain:

The CW is that he’s the Republican with the best chance of beating Hillary Clinton. I don’t think so. Look at all the pictures of him from Florida. The media LOVE McCain, so they’re picking the most flattering pictures that they’ve got, and he STILL looks really old in all of them. And the few clips I’ve seen of him make him look really old, too. Reading that one victory speech didn’t help him, either. His age is going to be a big factor, I think. Comparisons will be made to Reagan, which will make it worse: He’s older than Reagan was when he ran for President, and Reagan was suffering from dementia before he left office. There’s no way in hell the Clintons are going to go easy on him. If Hillary takes the nom, she’s going to stomp him.

She may very well have been in on it, or certainly didn’t say no to illegal activity.. as Intel gang of four committee member.

She’s trying to save herself as much as Cheney.

Federal prison for a long time… maybe even through the key away… bastards…I don’t want no government creep listening in whilst I talk to my sweetie or kids… none of their fucking business…. I just wish more Americans would see it that way. Instead of “if you arn’t doing any thing wrong it Ok… Fuck off asshole go to China and live!!

NOW NOW your getting personal here :>)

OK when part two is over check this one out:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aFNGppc9pJ8

i wanna see them in dutch orange, not federal orange.

YES YES Dutch it should be!!

Miles Davis – Kind of Blue.

a top five desert album if ever there was one. right up there with Joni’s Hejira.

desert…desert island… whatever

Give the Emperor some free clothes!

The zed is dead. There is no zed.

Wordpress used to label the first comment on a thread as comment “0,” but that would flash only for an instant, and then become comment “1.”

Somebody around here got the idea that “zed” meant “zero,” and started calling the first comment in a thread the zed.

Actually, “zed” means “z.” And the current architecture of FDL no longer produces “zero” comments. So it never made sense to call it the “zed,” and now it makes even less sense.

The zed is dead. There is no zed. There never was.

Na just paint him orange.. let him get the same treatment as those poor
Iraqis at Abu Garabe and Gitmo…a little stress position please??

Desert Island Discs? BBC?

tis a family tradition

you clearly didn’t catch Zed at Monterey Pops

Willie Dixon – I Am The Blues would be on my list. Interesting choice of Joni albums. One of my favorites as well.

I’m very concerned about a McCain vs. Clinton matchup. It will be months and months of the press screaming about the “Great Guy” vs. “The Witch”. Hillary will cause more wingnuts to actually go and vote. I hope I’m wrong, but I’m nervous.

Morrison Hotel/Hard Rock Cafe by the Doors

night all.

in no particular order, my not particularly broad five:

Kind of Blue
Hejira
Radiohead: OK Computer
Beck: the Odelay/Midnight Vultures/Guero tryptich*
side two of Foxtrot (Gabriel era Genesis) plus side two of Abbey Road*

*OK, so sue me for bending the rules

Just today I heard someone say she hoped Edwards stayed in to “siphon votes away from Obama.” She was hoping for a McCain/somebody, I forget who, ticket.
No matter who our nominee is, it’s not going to be easy.

pain free sleep wishes, tex

Dang. I always thought one would be able to select ten albums if stranded on an island. This changes everything.. except Willie stays on my list..)

Bye Betsy,
Guess who just lost power? Off to the fuse box!

My family of origin had a few traditions I have been able to do without.

Like voting Republican.

yikes, be careful christine e

(raising hand) me too i’m either a slow learner or stubborn.

Good night, Suzanne and all

g’nite neuro

five is hardly fair – too many exclusions.

I vote for stubborn :>)

we have lamps and lots of candles, and the bump, was just a bump.
Nite all, love reading “congessional” feedback from FDL. See you tomorrow.

g’nite neuro

g’nite TexB – wishing you pain free sleep

(exhaling) ok, g’nite christine e

Didja see Lieberschnitzel says ‘no, no, no’?

Yes, yes, yes!

-G

IMO, It either means he knows he wouldn’t get the offer or he’s lying.

Testing

OK it’s been far to long. I just ordered the entire Beck tryptich* for 9.63 plus shipping on Amazon.

nasty forking hiccup there

Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste

Oh, OK, thought I’d done a bad link or something

Testing, although I said goodnight.

gregb, yeah i held my nose and read it. my thoughts were that either he was getting ahead of the bad news that he has been rejected by stjohn as his running mate or that he is just an attention whore who will say anything that will get him in the news.

fork him and his forking horse too. i hope he does go to the r conventin and the dems finally wise up to his cheating lying skanky ways and boot the jerk outta his chair.

Never before noticed a hiccup quite like that one.

Jonah Goldberg spotted in Maine:

Mysterious, doughy blob clogs sewer

LEWISTON – A 50- to 60-foot doughy mass is clogging a sewer line under the city’s main drag, and crews have been unable to budge it.
…
Jones said crews opened a manhole at the Bates Street intersection and saw the clog – an oozing, white blob that looks like uncooked dough.

http://www.sunjournal.com/stor…..ogs_sewer/

C&L disappeared also… dam the NSA freeks!

good move!

spew

Nite Chris, see you tomorrow.;)

Tonights special sewer pipe pizza..

We lowlanders in the Ozarks had a High Sierra or Rocky Mtn. afternoon today. I walked outside in a t-shirt and sunglasses… within 40 minutes it dropped almost 55 degrees and started snowing. Now if Suz would just send us a minor flood or blizzard, all would be good in my world.

G’nite Christine – may the air bring you good dreams and safe winds

Are we back? IS this thing on?

hey tow

Mesmerizin Miles 1958 University of New Mexico Modern Jazz Quartet…sound delivered in elegance equisitely…dressed in tuxedos he can set a sound out there in space nice tahnk you ES.

Hi, Suz.

Brattleboro update:
http://www.rutlandherald.com/a…../801290379
The Rethugs are pissed off just because they want to arrest Bush and Cheney… dam cry babies. Bo Ho arrest their dear leaders…

so the gop’s gotten pottymouthed about the petition – and they call us uncivil unwashed masses. i bet the town clerk is tired of the gop harrassment and nastiness. when is vermont’s primary?

This sucks. I’m wide awake thanks to a brand new barista who accidentally gave me an extra shot of espresso, which didn’t sound like a big deal at the time, and I have to be up at oh-my-Gawd thirty to get the car in the shop.

Not sure but let me see if I can’t find out…

I bet 99% of the calls are outside the town. Probably outside Vermont. So their opinions shouldn’t matter at all.

warm milk?

Good idea. Maybe hot chocolate. That sounds yummy.

You bet.. Brattleboro is a beautiful little town… I spent time there as a kid…went swimming at the town pool.
Suz looks like the primary is in March… dam hard to pin it down at that newspaper

Dang, now i can decide on hot chocolate or chamomile. i think i’m gonna go with the chamomile though. I’ve got really achey muscles for some reason and i can’t figure out quite why. The chamomile will help more than the milk for me. Hot Chocolate sounds so good at the moment though…

Then it’s off to bed. Not sure if i’m going in later to work or not because of the blizzard that just slammed into West Michigan at around 10pm EST.

a marshmellow on top, dusted with some cocoa

blargh. chamomile tea, even. (see brain dead! too friggen COLD again.)

stay warm, alias

Sounds like some Vermonters could stand to hear some support from fellow progressives after that barrage from the Republican Nazis.

Will this firepup is dog tired..

G’ night all fabulous firedogs..

If you’re not feeling your best, chamomile is definitely the way to go.

Which was my thought. I like having it on hand for times like this. I can do hot chocolate tommorrow after i brave the roads back from work.

Nite, ES. Sleep well.

nite eureka

G’nite ES – can’t wait to get to the local (broadband) cafe and enjoy the treat you’ve shared with us.

Thanks – and hoping you stay warm and comfy!

Goo night good firepups … didn’t sleep well last evening so off to bed I go…. See you all at the lake’s late late late night show tomorrow! :>)

g’nite es stay warm and dry
nahant, sleep well tonight please

There’s no chance of getting any sleep sitting in front of the ‘puter, so this has to be a very short visit to the lake. :(

Sweet dreams, everyone.

Dam GOOD NIGHT….

g’nite tow – fingers and toes crossed the tea works

good night, Irene

hey pun, no fair using my middle name

well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle

ohmy stars, LowerManhattanite dances on rudy’s loserman status

monkey to man

Arkansas D senators voted for cloture what’s up?

Today I got four books from the library:
Earth in the Balance Al Gore
The Assualt on Reason Al Gore
THe Great Unraveling Paul Krugman
The Price of Liberty Robert Hoormants Know them?

Remarks about presidnetial pronunciation and spelling… reading to the kinder garten on 9/11…I noticed his brow was furrowed does he need glasses or is he not a reader?

oh, yeah, Elvis!

backatcha with Gorillaz

can’t have gorillaz without clint eastwood

That’s him…no more winsheild washin at the stop lights…move the homeless out of the city..cleaned up poverty and moved it. That’s Mr. Clean

w00t. One of my FAVORITE experimental bands ever. XD

*grooves to both songs* (of course i’ve got both albums)

Kirk, if you’re still here..

Below is link to a food labeling (country of origin)article. Industry oriented site dealing with “designed” food issues. If you don’t already know the site, you might find it interesting.

http://www.foodproductdesign.c…..28274.html

g’nite pups. time for me to head off to bed. the brokers open thur and the public open house sun have been postponed one week due to weather (and the superbowl thingie) so i don’t have to wax the floors this week (yea!)