John Prine!

Well howdy - tonight it’s just about letting go of the week…

Hi ES!

hey ES

Sage advise.
Hey ES!

Poodle in the house! (err Lake)

So… what does everyone planning on doing this weekend?

Hi ES. I’m all ready FOR peace, too.

Indeed - just for a brief visit. been kinda crazed, but miss the lake, which should be good for some ice skating these days, no?

not down here in the dark hours - frost free zone :)

ES! Love John Prine.

Seriously, Why did we invade Iraq? ;-)

How ya been?

katymine, my daughter just got her own apartment. Now both chicks have left the nest. Sad and happy. A totally new chapter.

I’m taking her on Costco run and seeing her new place…

We’ll have to rig some lights and pull out the hot spiked cider.

Emphasis on SPIKED.

hello peoples.

Watching the election returns from Nebraska, Louisiana and Washington and listening to the pundits pundicate.

Revenge and OIL what the hell else??

This, I love!

Or would that be, pundificate?

OK, I gotta go. Be well, and be kind to one another…

punditiate?

He’s killed 3,957 American soldiers.

He’s killed 1,173,743 Iraqis

And who knows how many others…

g’nite mpoodle

All you need is some good farmers HARD cider now theres a good drink.

Washington?
WASHINGTON?

I have my ballot sitting right next to me and it says it’s not due till the 19th!

Hey my Friends,
Let’s share good things this week…

All thee of the kids moved out of the house in August… just weeks of my medical crisis….. remodeled one room as my home office and need to get the other rooms done…. kind of had a interruption but need to get back into the goove.

Wow, a quick drive by! Aloha, MP!

To make some of GWB’s friends rich.

Love John Prine!

On their road to pundition? (Maybe, extraordinary pundition?)

I sure like the framing of this Poll..

AP Poll: Exiting Iraq would boost economy more than stimulus

WASHINGTON (AP) — The heck with Congress’ big stimulus bill. The way to get the country out of recession — and most people think we’re in one — is to get the country out of Iraq, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll.

Pulling out of the war ranked first among proposed remedies in the survey, followed by spending more on domestic programs, cutting taxes and, at the bottom end, giving rebates to poor people in hopes they’ll spend the economy into recovery.

The $168 billion economic rescue package Congress rushed to approval this week includes rebates of $600 to $1,200 for most taxpayers, the hope being that they will spend the money and help revive ailing businesses. President Bush is expected to sign the measure next week. Poor wage-earners, as well as seniors and veterans who live almost entirely off Social Security and disability benefits, would get $300 checks.

However, just 19% of the people surveyed said they planned to go out and spend the money; 45% said they’d use it to pay bills. And nearly half said what the government really should do is get out of Iraq.

Forty-eight percent said a pullout would help fix the country’s economic problems “a great deal,” and an additional 20% said it would help at least somewhat. Some 43% said increasing government spending on health care, education and housing programs would help a great deal; 36% said cutting taxes.

Nice big wave to RGB…. how the heck are you?

that’s an average of 491.4 soldiers per year and 234.478.6 iraqis per year - now if mccain gets his 100 year war…

Who sent it, the Repugs?

Eureka,

the only thing that would’ve made that better would’ve been
to give us the live version where john has some choice words for El Jefe
before he starts strummin’.

loves me some bumperstickers, ’specially the

GIVE BUSH A FAIR TRIAL

rock ‘n fire ……

I am attending am all day Evironmental review seminar…California Environmental Quality Act.
During which I will be breathing and for perspective remembering my flag decal won’t get all those neocons into heavan anymore…which is sad I woild feel a lot safer if they were there tan here.
However I am a great folower of plasma since there is so much of it. Theology does not move me i am a humanist.
My dog has more brains in his tail that Bush/Cheney has in their whole body. They keep trying to wag the dog he keeps smiling and wagging his tail. I love my dog…it really makes a lot more sense…while B/C are so busy hating “our” enemies they are irrational.

Are you strong now, katymine? (body-wise, I know you’re a strong person ethically)

MY EYE!
I went to Voter Registration YESTERDAY and got it!
I am going to be, wait a minute,what are they voting on?

bush deserves a 3rd term
- - - - - - - - -
a prison term

What no one has been able to answer if this “tax rebate” will come and bite me in the butt in 2009 when a bright shiny new DEMOCRATIC President only has been in office a couple of months…

That’s another reason McCain can kiss it good-bye.

Could we make that a life-time term, please?

Maybe it’s the rightard’s answer to global warming. Less people.

tis a real bumpersticker

saw it on npb’s car

mccain’s save the environment position

I want that bumper sticker! Cafe Press?

It was a tough choice I tell ya. I opted for the best combo of audio and visual overall..)

The Valley Fever did not help with the recovery…. on inhalers and have some shortness of breath when exercising but otherwise fine… I am 56 yrs old but doing ok…. seeing a boat load of doctors…. owe a boat load of medical bills.. but paying them off… I always survive…

Elmore and I are planning another vacation to Greece… there seems to be a pull to both of us…

That’s just beautiful.

I like.

Is the meet up still on for the first Sunday in March?

Suzanne February 8th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
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In response to fahrender @ 37
bush deserves a 3rd term
- - - - - - - - -
a prison term

_______________

Do you know anything about Congressman Wexler trying to get impeachment on the table? there was something in one of the threads yesterday about it. prolly another futile gesture but i’ll get behind it if
it could actually get somebody’s attention.

yeap, announcement in my late late nite thread tomorrow nite

I shall bid ya’ll a fond adieu! Aloha Oe!!!

Loo Hoo. February 8th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
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In response to fahrender @ 37
I want that bumper sticker! Cafe Press?
_________

don’t know, Loo Hoo, i just saw it on the video.

Perhaps I got that wrong. I guess you would know! *g*

Nite CT…

OK,Whew!
Clinton, Obama and Crazy Train were all here in WA campaigning today,
The Primary IS on the 19th.
Fork, I just about had a seizure there!

Are you talking about the state, or D.C.? I thought the state was tomorrow…

http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com/

No way. Valley Fever while in recovery? Dang. Enjoy your trip to Greece. Sounds loverly.

Lots of us here are determined to survive!

take care. be sure and use sunscreen …..

They are caucusing tomorrow.

Hey Katy—much better, thank you. After reading yes it is….no it isn’t….yes it is….no it isn’t, it seems that commenters were ultimately able to come to agreement that some show called “Pimp My Ride” is not about celebrities.

Somehow, I don’t think I’ll even get that time back so if we could leave it at that, I’d be most grateful.

g’nite CT.

Great, Suz. I will do my v. best to be there. Won’t see you tomorrow nite: we’re having a big bday party for my better half, who’s turning 60. Big doin’s here. And of course, our range died Sunday, the vacuum cleaner died today, and tomorrow morning…SOMEthing will go awry. Makes the fun sweeter when it finally comes together. Hope you all have a great weekend.

Thanks, ES!

(Hi RBG, Newton, ET!)

thanks, i went there already. there’s also a website to collect signatures but it was down earlier. i wanted to add my scribble but couldn’t.

They gave you a ballot? Good grief, it’s all down hill from here.

Hey ES did you this email today from him??

Dear Bill,
Our Constitution is under threat and the most basic principle of checks and balances is being undermined. Not since Watergate has a president so openly disregarded the will of Congress.
During hearings in the Judiciary Committee yesterday, I told Attorney General Michael Mukasey that I called for impeachment hearings because of the stonewalling and blatant abuses of the Bush Administration. He responded by stating that he will NOT enforce a contempt of Congress citation against Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten for refusing to testify before Congress. The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7M9sjRLCtQ
Alberto Gonzales may be long gone, but the Bush Administration continues its executive overreach with the new Attorney General.
We can debate the need for Impeachment hearings. We can argue its effects on the election or our agenda. But one thing is abundantly clear:
If Congress’ right to require testimony is undermined, then our country’s leaders - Democrat, Republican, or Independent - will be immune from accountability.
The power of the subpoena - to call officials before us - is one of the most fundamental safeguards in our system of government. To have it effectively discarded - by virtue of the President instructing Administration officials to ignore a congressional subpoenas and not even appear before Congress - is unprecedented. The idea that the Attorney General would willingly defend this position - despite Congress’ constitutional right to call such witnesses, is outrageous.
Impeachment hearings could render this moot: The President, Vice President, and all officials under them would no longer invoke executive privilege. There would be no more smokescreens.
In one week, I will be delivering my letter calling for impeachment hearings to Chairman John Conyers. Already, 16 Members of Congress have joined my call, including 3 Judiciary Committee members. I am hopeful for more in the coming days, but it is important for you to reach out to your representative in Congress to express how you feel. You can view the current list of signers, here: http://www.wexlerforcongress.c.....ItemID=230
I do not know how Congress will react, but I do know this: I will pursue this course aggressively. I will not compromise away the constitutional role of Congress. Your support is invaluable. Please know that I am working everyday to ensure that the Bush Administration is held accountable.
Please continue to support this movement at www.wexlerwantshearings.com.
Yours truly,
Congressman Robert Wexler

Hey, Laura!
sleep all good and stuff

I had to miss most of that thread, did my link convince anyone that Pimping something IS actually in the mainstream lexicon?

Dude, aren’t you caucusing too?

After I mysteriously got purged from the voting rolls I had to make a personal appearance to get it.

SASQ…No.

Here you go. Wexler’s Impeach Cheney petition.

But there is thought of impeaching Bradbury.

See my 73, I am not on the voting rolls and they won’t be updated till next week and my voters registration card has to be mailed to me so I am kinda forked there.

OMG, Busted. Imagine missing an election.!

Night, CTuttle

Lead a horse to water….
And I thought I was out of the loop.

REDRUM……..

GIVE BUSH A FAIR TRIAL

subtitled: just like he gave saddam

ok pups, time for me to try to bust the forking back spasms with another soak in the tub. g’nite all

Kind of reminds me of the Super Bowl strike where they said there would be 12 utilities BUT only 6 showed up and it rained cats and dogs…. mud bowl type of rain…. glad I was too busy with DFA …. great candidate running in AZ CD-03 Jack Lord…. running against SHADEGG

I always say the only difference between a pimp and a whore is where they wear their feathers. /s

My dog is better than than Bush. We love the earth and her smells he is much better now no limpimg he is loping around happy as a clam. 4 months ago the vet wanted to operate on his shoulder…he also believes in plasma as the basic building block of the universe…Zappa last check, believed it was stupidity…anyway Blackjack is fourteen he likes liver, chicken, yeast and a hot dog which he happily inhales every night under the starry central california coast skies…after of course a jog around the bay with time of leach for sniffin and peein. I call it reading the paper as he gets all the news through his nose. Now I think that is a nice pleasant little post. Hope you enjoyed a little humanity with your politics.

it is in the lexicon. how mainstream is very much in question. associating it with anybody’s daughter is unquestionably derogatory. as far as i know, Chelsea Clinton has lead a reasonably careful public life, much
more so than any number of other sons and daughters of current political figures.

Good night, Laura Doty!

Nite Suzanne…. may the healing waters do its trick…
{{{{{ Suzanne]}}}}

Check out his questioning of Mukasey in comment above… we are dealing with a bunch of crooks and liars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7M9sjRLCtQ

Nite Suz..

nite suzanne
hope it helps

Fourth Branch is at it again:

Vice President Cheney signed on to a brief filed by a majority of Congress yesterday that urged the Supreme Court to uphold a ruling that the District of Columbia’s handgun ban is unconstitutional, breaking with his own administration’s official position.

Cheney joined 55 senators and 250 House members in asking the court to find that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess firearms and to uphold a lower court’s ruling that the D.C. ban violates that right. That position is at odds with the one put forward by the administration, which angered gun rights advocates when it suggested that the justices return the case to lower courts for further review.

In order to make his dramatic break with the administration, Cheney invoked his rarely used status as part of Congress, joining the brief as “President of the United States Senate, Richard B. Cheney.” It is a position he has used at times to make the point that he is sometimes part of the legislative branch and sometimes part of the executive.

BTW, Thats how I found out I had been purged, looking up the location for the local caucus, the first step is to confirm your on it.

Gnite Suzanne, good luck!

Ok… heading off to bed too… night all… {{{{{{{FDL}}}}}}}}

Good night Suz.. take care of that back

Yes.
;)
Hi everyone!

It very much is in the lexicon, Busted. But the original connotation hasn’t been lost as it’s still very much an insult when associated with a person in particular.

Jumping back and forth I almost missed your post.

I agree completely, you don’t pull that.

That was not the angle of my dangle.

Busted… if are a elected PC, I get access to the voter rolls. I know if I am on the rolls. WE had over 40,000 provisional ballots here in AZ on the Feb 5th primary in Maricopa County….. what a mess

Can I take my comment back?

I got purged here, too. Didn’t get to vote- not that i’m bragging about it. But there wasn’t much to vote for, seein’ as how we have no delegates. Just one referendum - with which I was very familiar - baseless suggestions to the contrary notwithstanding.

enjoy ……..

Hugs to you bigbrother, i loved reading that!
I see my dog going around sniffing doggy butts next door, and equate it to little old ladies gossiping over the fence.

White flag?
I didn’t mean to pick at it!
Honest.

RGB… let me know when you are coming to the valley!
Will be on a project in NYC so…. so not want to miss seeing you… !!! (ok get me)

You can if you want. It’s just one of those more or less parts of slang that i didn’t like when rap/hiphop became THE huge thing, bigger than anything again. That’s how it entered the lexicon in the first place with that ‘glam’ life of Jay-z and all the rest.

Thanks katymine, sleep well.

That’s how I just found out too! Wasn’t a caucus though, I was looking for my polling place so I could vote in the primary - baseless accusations to the contrary notwithstanding.

alias - how IS the music business?

Add a shrug and a grin to that too. *grin* I don’t like that particular genre of music, but after going clubbing for quite a bit in my late 20s, i’m familar with the origin of that one. You had no choice but to hear it played. I just wanted the techno dammit, and the europop.

Probably won’t be heard until tomorrows news cycle but I found this leaked Memo very revealing Manuel Miranda Says Iraq “Diplomacy” Utter Failure

And read the actual memo, it is an utter repudiation of the Bush assertions that we are “winning” if the measure of that is a stable, democratic government.

Miranda Memo

It also reveals that Bush Plans Permanent Bases in Iraq.
That Bush lied about progress being made inb terms of the oil law and “Baathification”.
That there has been no actual progress in establishing courts, a trustworthy police heirar5chy, non-corrupt politicians or a system of checks to prevent US money from being embezzled, a lack of success in establishing basic utilities, the list goes on…and on…and on!

He states that Condi’s State Department is incompetent, Crocker impotent, and State is incapable of succeeding in a wartime “stateless” climate. He makes the Statement that Roosevelt (I assume FDR…and his successor Truman) was at least prepared for pacifying and establishing systems of government [in Japan and Germany after WW2]. I suppose he’s suggesting that we should have continued a military government (or maybe he’s forgotten that we actually DID have one in Iraq…that also failed). A