The classic mouse duo of Hubie and Burt stumble onto The House of Tomorrow (designed by F. Lloyd Wrong) with all its modern technology. The cartoon features the music of Raymond Scott who wrote Powerhouse, used by Warner Bros composer Carl Stalling for the mechanical robot sweeper who figures prominently in this classic.
The NorCal Bear Creek Firepups are having their next meetup on Sunday, March 2 at the little cottage by the creek in the redwoods – no automated sweepers permitted. From the Facebook invite:
BYO cocktail wienies and liquids for another fantabulous afternoon chewing over politics and soaking up the atmosphere.
Bring your cameras, laptops, power strips and try to carpool – it’s the progressive thing to do.
Are there any other firepups doing meetups? Want to get one going in your neck of the lake? As always, this is Late Late Nite, where off topic is the topic so chime in.
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hey biodun – how’s your foot?
I dunno about meetups. I won’t be getting back north for a while. Don’t know if anybody in Central Flori-duh has suggested one. Not that I know of.
Oh man. That was sooo on topic. Sorry.
Mice suck.
just make sure newt is the camera operator. LOL!
I resemble that!
Hey Suz!
i haven’t seen newt tonight vg – hope he agrees.
bfl – dayam, on topic – a first (ducking)
bonkers – mice think cats suck.
You may have gotten the ZED but I got the first DIGG… so there!
newt- no srsly- the 2 youtubes you made were hilarious.
speak of the devil.. hey newton
I had a feeling late Late was coming up when Suzanne disapeared for a while and then suddenly reappeared in the last thread.
For some damn reason, it’s not every site, when there is a Youtube , my ‘puter will scroll down as far as the little box and then freeze.
Pisses me off no end trying to get in, but I’m here now.
Btw, I have a big hole in the toes of my jammies from kickin on the door.
I’m gonna shuck em and run around the house nekkid fer a bit.
Close yer eyes and reach down for the bleach.
aw, thanks, nahant
((hi suzanne))
on topic: Central Texas firepups meeting next saturday afternoon, feb 16 for our third gathering: potluck, bring books to lend, trade or give away. my house near Barton Springs Pool.
The music I’m listening to sucks so much it’s blowing me away. So much, I can’t turn it off to watch the mice, Suzanne. I’m trapped…
uh, well, the commentary was hilarious. No reflection on the subjects, who were eminently sober of mien.
You have footie pajamas? That’s so cute!
…those “mice” look too much like rats
on topic?
Yeah, I know.
It was a accident. Won’t happen again.
putting that warning at the end of your comment was sucky, busted.
i love jammies with feet – haven’t seen adult sized ones in years tho.
Hi Suzanne. I’ll be in NorCal that weekend before heading back downunder. A meet up would be fun, just not sure if I can get away (if I am invited). Getting there from Marin is a bit of an expedition. Who all is coming?
Suzanne told me to wear em.
I hadn’t seen em since I was five.
LOL.
When you get ya head count let me know so I know just how much chili I am on the hook for. Now as for pies I will make one or two after that well we will just have to see :>)
rats, eh, spidey? still have em in the attic?
been out for the day listening to the winter concert of traditional music, catching up with friends. just arrived to the lake and read thers “your favorite candidate suck”, assume people haven’t been playing as nicely as they could have been here at the lake. so, what’s been happening all day?
woohoo – tonights the night the invites go out on facebook (my back spasms laid up me up so they were delayed)
I’m listening to my friend Edward’s set on our secondary stream at Radio Riel tonight. Grand Opening of our new HQ in world at Caledon Penzance. So we’re playing and partying. I can’t be in world, but i can still hear the stream!
Nena’s 99 Luftballons playing right now, followed by Adam Ant’s Goody Two Shoes. hehe! *chairdances*
You think you got it bad, wait till Granny comes out for her cup of tea!
: (((((((((
fine. Plenty of ice that warm support from my son, who was with me, and from FDLers, and from ibropofen, and so when I woke up the next day…just a dull ache, and I was able to walk on it…
But I really appreciated the support form FDLers, an assuring second intro to FDL night culture…
I’m on facebook but never look at it. Now I will.
am I really still awake? goddamn night court screwed me up this week…
well, that and the idea that coffee at 11:00 sounded like a good idea…
(note to self: trying to kick oneself in the ass can result in sprains and stuff in a man your age).
Hi Suz!!
What’s traditional music?
You a judge?
Busted- I never wore footie jamies, but I remember mukluks.
pete – the invites will be sent out tonight so look tomorrow.
biodun, that’s great news about your foot (and you hanging out on late late nite
hey jayt
Traditional Music is Beatles
Quick get the bug spray!!
Cool!!!!! I thought you were gonna say some oboe or bazooon bullshit.
Cool!!!!! I thought you were gonna say some oboe or bazooon bullshit.
(My Reply thing didn’t work. that’s why this is up 2x)
You a judge?
If only…
There seems to be a certain contingent (of existing judges and prosecutors, and stuff) who seem to think that I might be a bit biased.
You know – it’s that “innocent until proven guilty” thing that seems to be something of a hang-up.
So it goes…
mukluks!!! my sibs and I all got them for Xmas one year, it was probably, what, 1965?
my favorite pair of footed jammies was a pair of red/white horizontal wide stripped ones with a long zipper in the front – no flap tho.
Missed this on the last thread.
I don’t have a favorite candidate, but if I did- they would SUCK.
There- I SAID it.
Wrong thing to say.. my sweetie plays the Oboe and if she saw your comment she would come through the net and do a little strangling on ya!!
flute and Oboe- backed by a bowed bass-
I had ones like that, except they did have the butt flap. Thank Gawd there’s are no family photos of me wearing those things. (I hope!)
I was kiddin’8)
I haven’t worn PJ’s since I was knee high to a choppin’ block.
I was teazin’ Suzanne.
Hmmm, kept getting a database error message from FireDogLake!
LOL!
preview is your friend
Never knew a person with a butt flap. Is it natural or the result of surgery?
try clearing your cache busted. things appear to be fine on this end (and backstage)
Airport! Ah, you are younger than I am! I was remembering one kind- like knitted socks with leather soles. I remember wearing them for good cause- standing on the metal grid where the hot air from the furnace blew up. The leather soles were just great for enduring the hot metal.
Old laptop.
I was doing two things at once and then I started getting email messages about comment updates.
Lookin at you nahant. ;)
Fuck a bee, lol, took me a minute to digest the context there.
Yeah. People get so hung up on that presumption of innocence stuff an’, you know, all that other legal mumbo jumbo.
Prosecutors suck.
They think their shit don’t stink ‘casue they win most of their cases. I mean, like, the guy did it, what’s the big deal? I like to see them get up on appeal and get ripped new assholes. I used to like night court when I was younger. And drank. Now?
Night court sucks.
But coffee is good.
Hahaha! The jammies had a butt flap, the JAMMIES.
i thought mukluks where those fur lined boots that had wrap around ties?
Oh- well that’s DIFFERENT- nevermind.
Me? Say the wrong thing? I haven’t done that since…… what time is it?
lots of differents kinds: this year we had a polka music, a few bluegrass bands-one that was really wild and hot, gypsy music that was grrreat-got the cd for that group, a womans’ african drumming group – they’re a big supporter of our main organization around here working hard to save our aquifer-and their drumming had me up dancing. sometimes there’s irish or scottish, cajun or zydeco. lots of fun.
I had a pair of those. I just saw some like that at a discount store.
What happens to the ass flap when ya fart?
i’ll be there.
with some books, some wristbands and the couscous salad.
ride offer stands.
any estimation of the crowd size?
Don’t know for sure- I would think it would add a bit of vibrato.
Sounds good. No Irish? I enjoy that sometimes. Used to, anyway. I have kids now. I enjoy nothing.
i had you pegged as the fart expert, dood.
omg, no one told me. i didn’t know we got preview back. when did this blessed event happen?
Probably depends on what kinda fart. Such a variety.
Suz- yeah, I discovered that via teh google. But, when I was growing up, mukluks were like socks with a leather sole. I am so out of date!
Ya ever clip a p0ker card to yer spokes when you were a kid?
Kinda like that.
Time for a XXX??/ :>)
*MODNOTE: lets not use that word around here please*
Huckabee has a chance of running the table tonight? (or am I missing a state?)
Irony and absurdity – put me down as a fan of both, please.
(slight chuckle only – stifling the BIG laugh)…
Might depend more on the type of flap- like tuning a violin- tension is all.
NOW I know what yer talkin about!
Hell yes, we used to have those too.
They were so cool for sliding down the hardwood hallway!
Margot! Thanks for knowing what I meant! Socks with leather soles.
oh geez, about a month after the change over iirc?
they be Blowing in the Wind.
that’s one of them words ya gotta be careful with dood
I remember those leather socks thing- never saw em last for more than a week- nice’n toasty while they lasted though. They weren’t good for mud puddles or bike riding.
right now i’ve got 8 of us saying yes, and one who said “likely”.
traditional music’s The Clash.
and these guys …
enrico caruso (48) 8/2/1921
glenn miller (40) 12/15/1944
hank williams (29) 1/1/1953
ritchie valens (17) 2/3/1959
buddy holly (22) 2/3/1959
the big bopper (28) 2/3/1959
eddie cochran (21) 4/21/1960
patsy cline (30) 3/5/963
sam cooke (33) 12/11/1964
nat king cole (45) 2/15/1965
bobby fuller (23) 7/16/1966
woody guthrie (55) 10/3/1967
judy garland (47) 6/22/1969
brian jones (27) 7/3/1969
jimi hendrix (27) 9/18/1970
janis joplin (27) 10/4/1970
jim morrison (27) 7/3/1971
gene vincent (36) 10/12/1971
duane allman (24) 10/29/1971
bobby darin (37) 12/20/1973
elvis (42) 8/16/1977
keith moon (32) 9/1/1978
lowell george (34) 6/29/1979
john lennon (40) 12/8/1980
marty robbins (57) 12/8/1982
jackie wilson (49) 1/21/1984
marvin gaye (44) 4/1/1984
steve goodman (36) 9/20/1984
blaze foley (39) 2/1/1989
stevie ray vaughn (35) 8/27/1990
roger miller (56) 10/25/1992
harry nilsson (52) 1/15/1994
kurt cobain (27) 4/5/1994
selina (23) 3/31/1995
jerry garcia (53) 8/9/1995
walter hyatt (46) 5/11/1996
tupac shakur (25) 9/13/1996
eva cassidy (33) 11/2/1996
townes van zandt (52) 1/1/1997
notorious B.I.G. (24) 3/9/1997
israel kamakawiwo’ole (38) 6/26/1997
carl perkins (65) 1/19/1998
george harrison (58) 11/29/2001
ray charles (73) 6/10/2004
june carter cash (73) 6/15/2003
warren zevon (56) 9/7/2003
johnny cash (71) 9/12/2003
james brown (73) 12/25/2006
beverly sills (78) 7/2/2007
luciano pavarotti (71) 9/6/2007
… with age and date they died.
just saying
You were talkin’ to me, and yes I know that.
Sneaky little shit, I am.
my post mentioned irish, but it can’t hurt to say it again. we sometimes have irish. i love irish music myself.
rw- I am so laughing! I just wore them indoors. Me standing over the heating vent, wearing my nightgown and the mukluks!
Well, I was asked to testify as a fart expert once but the judge ruled that
my opinion had not gained general acceptance in the community of fartologists. He barred me from testifying as a fart expert. Bum. I fart in his generaal direction.
actually, i was talking to nahant
sorry. tehre were alot of different things there. my eyes just skipped over it. no, doesn’t hurt.
we have Blue Man Group.
I love how the “House of Tomorrow” in that cartoon has all kinds of complicated robots, yet music is still played on LPs. :)
Don’t mention Blowin in the Wind. That just causes alot of conflict to bubble back to the surface and I told the mod I’d be on good behavior.
I see.
I didn’t, but I kinda do now.
I used to like night court when I was younger. And drank. Now?
Night court sucks.
But coffee is good.
yeah – gettin’ used to coffee. Was a year yesterday.
BTW, ya ever heard of the “Three V’s” for crim defense lawyers”?
Valium, Vodka, and Vitamins.
Been there.
Glen Hansard, “Once” Love this…
:) wuddn’t want ya left flapping in the breeze
Indoors- damn- what a concept!
Word, word…. Hmmmmm.
XXX
Hmmmm.
Three letters?
Hmmmmmm.
I’d like to buy a vowel.
Thanks. An excellent list. There are some blues, jazz, and latin (bossa nova) artists that were a big part of my listening in those days as well.
buzz, wrong answer try again
Hey, vinyl’s making a comeback. They’re actually selling turntables again!
Me: COOL. (yes i grew up with it in the 80s, so the resurgence of it in the age of the mp3 is funny. Kid’s who’ve never seen one before buying a turntable. I wore out at least 2 by the time i was 10, meanwhile. *evil grin* )
Man, if those slipper socks are back in the stores, it’s like 1958 all over again.
That means New Math is close behind!
Daym it was just a figure of speech in response to his comment ya know just snarking and all that.. I couldn’t get to him anyway he way over on the other side of nowhere… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRv34Cat3Vw
fork – i suck at new math
i know your intent – twas a word we don’t like used so i xxx’d it out. :)
Did some night court but I really was never a criminal defense lawyer. So I guess 2 outta 3 ain’t bad for me.
Vitamins. Phew. Yuk.
congrats jayt!!!!
it was 5 years for me of not smoking feb 3 – the first year and a half wasn’t necessarily easy, but i don’t even think about it now, except for still being careful about extended stays where people are smoking. it’s cut down on my music festival attending a bit.
Thought there was only “THE MATH” nowadays.
Hey Chris!
Are you getting blown away by the winds here?
I quit smoking- one or two years ago- can’t remember which. I’d still give five bucks for a cigarette.
Guess I would have to do a refresh to see that… my cache is working just great tonight :>)
I’m a coffee drinking, cigarette smoking throwback. Too much alcoholism in my family for me to ever wanna swing that way.
congratulations, jayt!
good on ‘ya
good on ya for sticking with it. with any luck and the favor of the gods, it’ll get easier. at least, that’s how i’m hoping it goes for you.
So that doesn’t mean it was 3 letters. When I first came here, i saw people could be a little potty mouthed so I used a word and was politely told (I think it was by Jane or Christy) that we didn’t use that here.
But I don’t think it would work here. time for a ……. So there’s another banned word? Hmmmmmmmm.
Hey Margot,
On and off, we are waiting for a huge blow during the night.
While in graduate school I joined a movement to make coffee and cigarettes tax deductible for philosophers.
I got non filter Camel’s if ya want
I will try to make it Suzanne this time:)
It’s not bad- unless I think about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBgR3bTcXLg a little light entertainment??
Get your grove on..
Kirk I left some comments on your post sorry I was late!
most excellent!
Always liked Pall Malls.
thanks – to you and all others.
from what I hear this is the point at which it *really* gets tough.
But the cool thing? I can eat – I can sleep – I can accept the fact that occasionally, I’m gonna lose a case. And I can live with that now….
had the philosophers consensed on that?
This is stoopid, they got chicks wearing dresses made out of chocolate on tee vee.
Then again, I eat chocolate….
a valentines show?
Watching Dead Poets Society. And snow…
Now, alcoholism really sucks.
hi things – thanks for stopping by anytime!
i’ll go look…
Yeah- pretty much- although some of the pedantic ones smoked pipes- gave em the opportunity to fuck with em when they couldn’t come up with an answer.
Food channel
You represent guilty people. If ya lose, don’t give it another thought.
I just quit last October, you don’t gotta tell me..
Got a lot of it in my family.
Seriously why I never had kids.
I like that Hilary has finally started attacking the MSM. I hope that she keeps it up. This could be a theme for her campaign through out the entire election we need someone who will fight back against the talking heads.
Hilary certainly has enough material on media hate to draw upon for the entire election.
Just MoDo, let alone Fox can keep her speech writers busy. Running as the antimedia candidate certainly has worked well for the GOP in how many elections?
About time!
The dog has decided that the day’s over- she lays on her side with her left rear leg pointed at the ceiling and snores. Maybe it’s bed time
When I was in graduate school, I used to drink with the philosophers. This was slightly before the days of readily available Xerox machines, and one of them who was writing a 300-page thesis used to keep it in his refrigerator, just in case his apartment burned down.
Well, sure enough, his apartment did burn down, and sure enough his thesis was spared. But, from then on, everyone called him “the arsonist.”
Really. Last October? Great. Except for one Springsteen concert, I think I’m sober for about 15 years now. That bottle of champagne when the Rangers won the Stanley Cup doesn’t count. I was entitled, damnit. But I don’t even give it a thought anymore. Life is so much better this way. I got fucked up along the way.
Hey Suzanne, you mentioned your family. You think it’s genetic?
I assume Poets are included too cause then I count twice!
Philosophers are pretty damned good at drinking- but no one thought to make that tax deductible
Hillary sucks.
Mainstream media sucks.
Maureen Dowd sucks.
Hear, hear!
A little Oboe for all to listen to.. you to Beerfart Liberal.. do ya some good to get some educating in fine music :>)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY4w1rH24HA
iirc, studies have shown that it does run in families. i am not a shrink or a researcher but that’s what i remember. now whether or not it was nature or nurture is where it gets fuzzy.
I heard Hillary on TV tonight addressing the Jefferson-Jackson Convention in Virginia. It was the best I’ve ever heard her.
Oh yeah.
Fox sucks.
GOP sucks.
Left them out.
You realize Obama cut off Fox for interviews over a year ago, right? He did it to make a point about the “madrassa” nonsense they were peddling. He and Edwards refused to debate on Pox. Obama didn’t back down from the flag lapel pin bin BS. Obama recently shunned Bill O’Loofah even when Falafel boy was trying to bully his way into a comment. I think this stuff really helped diminish Pox’s rep to a lot of low-info voters.
Obama’s been leading on this. Hillary is following.
LOL, I didn’t have a chance, my Dad drank a lot, and my mom was a bartender.
Igrew up in bars, literally.
Jefferson sucks.
Jackson sucks.
Virginia sucks.
Right! Like say the cost of doing business. That suff ought to be expensible.
Philosophy was less a body of knowledge and more of a blood sport. One needed plenty of stimulants to keep one ready to perform.
Stick with it. F me anytime.
Help
It was the best I’ve heard her too, wigwam. Lot of ad clips in that speech if she doesn’t run out of money.
Good.
Got any bazooon stuff?
I get on Hilary’s case alot for being to Center but we cannot forget that the MSM jerks always attack our ideas we need to call them out if Hilary makes a stand for herself she can help us.
We need to discredit the media more so our ideas do not get dismissed so quick.
I want MSM coverage on the cost of buying every American a hybrid car vs the cost of the Iraq war.
GM claims they got an all electric Volt car coming out in a few years Jane should talk to them about advertising here.
Or doing a post/question and answer session on the tech of the car. Plus the seats which the Americans do quite well small seats in foreign cars suck for long trips. That and how does the car move through snow? Toyota’s almost frictionless tires are a nightmare on ice I had to get regular tires for my Echo.
Believe me, I don’t miss the hangovers that lasted until the afternoon.
My brain is startin’ to work again too. Scary.
You represent guilty people. If ya lose, don’t give it another thought.
Ah, if it were only that simple. I mean, of course I represent guilty people – the problem is that I believe that *everybody* deserves a second, or third, or fourth chance. And as proof of that, I need only to look in the mirror.
So when I’ve got somebody looking at, say, 20, and I can get something put together whereby they do one, house arrest for another year, then some probation, – that’s not a loss – that’s a win. I know who I represent, though I believe that prison is *never* curative.
Jury trials, on the other hand, are winner-take-all. There are no subtleties – you win, or you lose. I’ve never lost a jury – and now I feel this big, karmic, odds-have-got-to-even-out weight on my shoulders. And stupid as it may sound, I pretty much believe in the odds, and the karma both.
I don’t lose well. So that’s why I left the practice for a good long while. Eventually, it’s gonna bite me in the ass, obviously – hope I’m ready to take it.
Anybody else wonder what Crazy Trains next PR nightmare is goin’ to be?
i am.
He’s tryin and nobody’s buyin it.
Obama claiming he got fucked in Louisiana- and he WON- imagine what a stuck pig imitation he’s gonna make when he LOSES!
I doubt that Hillary is as poor as she trys to seem. She has some very well-heeled benefactors who don’t like Obama. As one indication of fundability, check their respective Israel-Factor ratings at Haaretz. As another, note that Hillary is on the leadership council of the DLC. I have a hard time believing that she’s hurting for campaign funds. (Per Tweety, her campaign spent $500,000 on parking fares last year.)
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Hillary sucks.
Mainstream media sucks.
Maureen Dowd sucks.
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She sucks cause she is to the right on the issues I care about. I hope she moves LEFT in order to beat Obama because Mark Penn’s center strategy is not working:).
If she doesn’t move LEFT then she deserves to lose if Obama lets her move LEFT of him then he deserves to lose.
I want this election to be a fight about our ideas not just I can beat the GOP.
But sooner or later we will have to attack the media even the Center Dems should see that. I for one am sick of Tweety smirking!
Here ya go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvkaQTQBlVA
We went to a wedding for the bassoon player in my sweeties quintet and ther was fifteen bassoon players there and they had all of them join in a popular piece.. it was amazing..
i always thought our system was based on a presumption of innocence until proven guilty.
jayt- everyone deserves their day in court. I wish imm was still around- he defended people on death row, and I know, from what he said, it took its toll on him.
The Volt sounds really impressive: 40 miles per overnight charge with a range extending motor-generator. And they are talking about possibly introducing it in 2008 from what I’ve read.
Haven’t seen Immamentez(?sp) in a long time.
Now for a little change of pace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP0S9CeEl5w
Having lurked my way through the thread and arrived here in real time, I can only tell you that I have nothing to say about jammy flaps or philosophers or electric cars, but living in a state where The Huckster takes 60 percent of the R caucus vote SUCKS.
he showed up for a couple of brief comments the other day. Before that, it had been a long time indeed.
He dropped in briefly lately during one of the FISA threads. I emailed him to get news, but no response so far. He really was such an interesting and insightful and unique commenter. I really miss him.
naw, prefer this
that’s a lot of courage and dignity and compassion, jayt. you’re doing a lot of good here in our world. if you should lose here or there, you’re still helping a lot more people than if you weren’t doing it at all – that’s the courage part – for you to be doing it even tho you’re afraid of how you might handle a loss. good on ya, again tonight.
Good grief – “Per Tweedy, her campaign spent $500,000 on parking fares last year” ? did he mean “fines” ? Either way I must confess I’m impressed. ;~)
hey Suzanne, I bought the varmint one of those cat condo’s today.
Well, more of a duplex i guess.
DAMN those things are spendy!
The guy makes ‘em in his garage, wanted A Hundred and Fifty Bucks for some of ‘em!!!
I got the seventy dollar model.
My mom see’s the cat tearin’ up her furniture, thats a redrum moment.
that sucks big ones, neuro
thats right, I remember that now, he even said howdy to me.
Damn CRS.
A year or so ago, Elizabeth de la Vega wrote a book indicting BushCo for conspiracy to defraud the United States. That’s a real crime, and in Hammerschmidt, Chief Justice Taft, defined “defraud” as follows:
IMHO, BushCo’s conspiracies included a number of members of the MSM.
bailey sniffed at the cheap single story one i got her and declared it was not good enough. she thinks she deserves the expensive multi-story with the open floor plan and penthouse views and refused to have anything to do with it.
of course, it tipping over the first time she got on it might have something to do with her opinion.
It’s a good book. She makes a powerful argument. Too bad the DOJ is controlled by boosh’s minions.
A good one I would agree.. but aren’t most of their stuff… this one I have enjoyed from day… a long time ago.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATDurBj1EuI
We all hope and pray that’ll soon change.
((((((((((BAILEY)))))))))))
Boy does that suck
You don’t want to know what I caught Der Boof doing today.
hey npb – is tomorrow the last day of traffic hell down there from the golf stuff?
No, I think your state’s GOPers have done a great service to the country. Anything that derails ‘less jobs more war’ Crazy Train McCain is good. I approve whenever the CA GOP crazies (about 90% of the CA GOP nowadays, I think) I am glad. Helps more normal voters make appropriate distinctions.
By the way, have I got the nicknames right: Crazy Train McCain? That would make Huckabee Squirrel Muncher -which I guess is obvious)
Hope Huckabee stayed off the squirrel brains, that can give you Mad Squirrel diesese, my nick name for a real but rare disorder from munching squirrel brains among squirrel hunters. Maybe the popcorn popper cooks it out of them?
I wonder if any of the possible charges against boosh/cheeneyco will survive the statute of limitations. It mostly had to do with lying to Congress and the American people to get us into the Iraq war. It’s been a few years since that happened.
But maybe we can get them on something else. As far as I know, they haven’t stopped breaking the law or anything.
MMMmmm, could be.
This one is a two story with the industrial strength scratching post.
The varmint sniffed at it fer a while and turned her nose up at it too.
Twenty minutes later i look over and she’s rolling around on it, playing with the hangy thingy and sharpening her claws for all she is worth..
Ahem Boosh, Mission Accomplished.
Bonkers @147
“You realize Obama cut off Fox for interviews over a year ago, right? He did it to make a point about the “madrassa” nonsense they were peddling. He and Edwards refused to debate on Pox. Obama didn’t back down from the flag lapel pin bin BS. Obama recently shunned Bill O’Loofah even when Falafel boy was trying to bully his way into a comment. I think this stuff really helped diminish Pox’s rep to a lot of low-info voters.
Obama’s been leading on this. Hillary is following.”
That is the one thing I disagree with Hilary on in this matter she can’t debate on Fox they hate her, if she even gives them an interview it looks like a surrender.
She looked stronger when she would not debate on Fox she needs to change her position quick.
We LEFTIES cannot complain about media bias if she goes on Fox News after all the things that they have said about her.
Tweety is going to call her a hypocrite as soon as she next goes on Fox News.
She created this Media bias meme if she goes weak now she might as well go home cause Obama will claim that he is willing to stick to his principals.
Fox News will edit her interview and take her out of context to make her look bad. There is no upside about going on Fox she will not get any 30%er votes even if Rush campaigns for her and Ann Coulter slips her some tongue Britany/Madonna style.
Meant to type
“whenever the CA GOP crazies go batshit”
it is too late for me to type and so I will go to bed
g’nite wesgpc
I don’t think there is a statute of limitations on war crimes, and his individual-by-individual authorization of waterboarding puts him squarely into that indictment.
the problem is, I have to live with those people. and a bunch of them are in our state legislature, which can really mess things up sometimes.
but I’m with you, I wish more power to The Huckster. I just wish the kind of people who support him would live somewhere else.
Good grief – “Per Tweedy, …
ummm, that’s actually *my* last name. It’s a good Scottish name, hopefully not to be confused with a cartoon character, or Chris Matthews. Kinda like a “Boy Named Sue” – you grow up tough…
Gawd, I’ve spent my whole life correcting people who spell my name “Tweety” on forms and such. Clients included…clients especially… ugh.
On the other hand, I was pretty sure I could sneak my way into the Wilco show by claiming to be Jeff Tweedy’s long-lost brother… mighta worked, if I’d gotten around to it.
the Huckster got 10% of the vote in New York State.
There have been some reports that Rupert himself supports her.
Obama’s wins tonight were approx 35% on average. Thank about that, and compare to polls and what people were saying just over a month ago. Stunning.
Not surprisingly on Hillary’s site now, it’s as if today never happened. Not a mention…just something about reaching some fundraising goal.
Hillary: “I’m In to Spin.”
I hope so. Now if only our next preznit’s AG will have the spine that our congressional leadership seems to lack.
Just put some solar panels on the house and drive for free to work. What are the numbers for the average miles driven in a day by Americans? 40 miles should cover almost an entire average days drive.
and in a related matter, in the last thread the theme was suck-y candidates.
i nominate the suckiest candidate of 2008:
Giuliani
because: Ron Paul got more than twice the number of votes that Giuliani got in New York State.
For leasing they used to figure that the average miles per year is 12,000, which is slightly less than 40 miles per day.
and rudy’s one delegate cost him what, $50mil?
A prion disease like Mad Cow? No the disease luks in nerves in the brain and spinal cord. Huck probably though eating squirrel brains would make him smarter.
I have some chocolate chip pecan cookies…Anyone want some?
link
So do you get to bill your clients for correcting them?
That sucks and so does the no impeachment…which sucks the most the perp or the abetter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCBaAOEaERE
Mr. Bonkers is right about Obama. Look here at this you tube of Senator Obama on FOX AND FRIENDS January 9 2008. Obama loves FOX. Or FOX loves Obama. Probably both. I don’t blame him for not wanting to debate Hillary on FOX. She is so shrill. And Obama reaches out to Republicans, which is a good thing?
And a big ol’ glass of organic milk, please and thank you!
Giuliani
Yep. It took a lot of (talent?)(hubris?)(incredible stupidity?) to squander the nomination that was his to lose, huh?
But Rudy’s a can-do guy, isn’t he? “Can’t possibly lose this nomination? Watch this..”
These sox with leather soles have a very specific, highly technical name,
Slipper Socks ;-) Had a pair from LL Bean every Christmas when I was a child.
here’s a picture – mine always had a ski sweater-like pattern:
http://www.plowhearth.com/product.asp?pcode=789
You rang?
ok – coffee or not – this is ridiculous -
Night all…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeCpSrnUr3A
a little cream with that??
Yep – they’ll all be gone late tomorrow. Poor golf fans – they have to leave their cars miles away and be shuttle bused in and out of Pebble Beach. Majority of top pros absent this year. Could it be Dirty Harry’s years of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Fox News Corp karma? Some say the partnership with Cheney’s favorite spymasters ATT has also contributed to the dramatic drop in attendance. Heh!
g’nite jayt
Buenos Noches from A lonely room…Dwight Yokum
or Good night
Cookie plate’s over there.
—–> c(_)>~~~~ Past the teapot…
i know we had talked about my coming down tomorrow – but since the public open is now scheduled for (yet again) next sunday, i was wondering how monday was for you?
‘nite jayt.
g’nite bigbrother
ya ’spose the delegate got a cut of that?
Oh, fer god’s sake. Hopefully everyone will be too busy to watch that kinda crap on tv. I’m looking forward to everyone just kinda saying no. Iraq war? No Sending a bunch of borrowed money out to Americans, NO! etc.
I will help/praise anyone if I think that they are doing something right. I will also attack anyone if I think that they are doing wrong.
That said Hilary should get rid of Mark Penn and keep Rahm quiet.
Monday is perfect & Token, too, we hope?
I’ve been thinking about that question a lot lately and have been refining my spiel on it:
IMHO it is essential to bring these bastards to justice: Fiat justiticia ruat calem.
The relentless march of time SUCKS.
Good night, all.
i’ll bring the little guy :) he’s still smelling good and feeling soft from being at the doggie beauty shop this week.
g’nite neuro
Dwight Yoakum? Why think you, don’t mind if I do!
Oh and if Obama wants to win by FDR/Reagen size voter mandates he needs to inspire us 70%ers with ideas as well as the hope that we Americans are not as racist a society as the GOP media who discounted Obama early on would have us believe.
Voter turnout is already very high but we can get it even higher if we inspire the mind with Lefty ideas as well as the heart with the dream that yes anyone even an African American can become president.
It is the one thing that would make all the bullshit we as a country put up with these last seven going on eight years… Support Robert Wexler’s bid to start the hearings from his email on 2/8
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
nite neuro
i would never even consider voting for him, but stupid he’s not: no campaign organization, very little money and a lot of movers ‘n shakers trying to take him down, and he’s not just winning delegates, he’s winning states.
mccain will most likely have to ask him to be his VP candidate. Huckabee is a pol of the old school. i would imagine also that a percentage of the electorate that has voted for him are not “snake handlers”. he resonates with probably 8 to 10% of Americans.
I’m sure there is some reasonable explanation that escapes me why i have to hit the ’submit’ button on the screen instead of just smacking the ‘enter’ key.
Screws me up constantly.
like just now.
Sheese.
Charlie Brown sez “sucks…”
bigbrother February 9th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
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In response to wigwam @ 178
That sucks and so does the no impeachment…which sucks the most the perp or the abetter?
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the abetter. shame on pelosi and reid for not even allowing impeachment to be seriously considered.
sigh, dwight has such great legs
The longer the GOP Primary goes on the more America will look at the crazy which helps us. Provided that we talk about ideas and not gossip.
Sweet dreams neurophius – you lead by doing and niters all you amazing late late nite fire dog lake denizens.
g’nite npb
i remember, just a few months ago when some of us were really worried about the Don.
gee, Rudy, we hardly knew ye ……!
And tight britches.
sigh
I was never really worried about Ghouliani, from what i have heard from people in NY, it was a matter of time before the really dull knives came out.
They really hurt.
Hi Nahant. God bless you and your effort.
Please not that the failure of House leaders to exercise their oversight responsibility may incur legal unanticipated legal liability under international law, liability of the sort that surprised and killed Yamashita. This is not entirely a matter of congressional discretion.
I got into this because somebody among our fellow commenters got a raft of shit from staff dweeb when they contacted Conyers’s office.
Well I am turning into a pumpkin and on that note here is a little protest music for all of us who want us out of Iraq
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_LjjI8TcQ0
Suz send me a head count when you get it together.. signed up already….
Good night all you fine firepups :>)
Bustednuckles February 10th, 2008 at 12:13 am
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In response to fahrender @ 242
I was never really worried about Ghouliani, from what i have heard from people in NY, it was a matter of time before the really dull knives came out.
They really hurt.
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Huckabee got 11% of the vote in New York State. 16% of the vote in Michigan.
i should qualify that: 11% of the Republican vote …….
Right!! When he claimed that the GOP is “the party of ideas,” I expected him to do something about that.
Gnite nahant, sleep well
sleep well, nahant. you can track attendees from the f/b link at the top of this post.
thanks I am doing what I can don’t forget the article from Harper’s magazine of February 3rd
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002302
carry on, pilgrims. i gotta go pretend to do stuff…..
What did Rudy get in NY?
Suzanne, just for you… SIGH!
See ya later Fahrender, I keep forgetting your on the other side of here, didn’t you mention coming this way soon?
g’nite fahrender (or perhaps i should say g’day)
Later, fahrender…
time for me to head back to the shower for my back folks. g’nite all, hang around and hassle the lurking mod for me, would ya (wicked evil grin)
G’nite Suz, hope it feels better soon.
feel better, suz.
nite
Lurking Mod, will you be going to Suzanne’s FDL get-together?
Wigwam @ 250
” Oh and if Obama wants to win by FDR/Reagen size voter mandates he needs to inspire us 70%ers with ideas as well as the hope …
Right!! When he claimed that the GOP is “the party of ideas,” I expected him to do something about that.
reply”
Obama needs to read the blogs to find out just what our ignored LEFTY ideas are because we don’t get no airtime on the MSM, only GOPers and Center Dems do.
That and Obama should read some history cause most of the GOP’s ideas that work involve stealing elections and making sure African American votes don’t count.
Oh and lets not forget scapegoating imaginary Chicago welfaremoms who drive caddy’s.
The GOP under Bush has finally gotten a chance to implement the ideas that Reagen only talked about.
The result is that we are losing 2 wars the DOW is in the tank, housing prices are a bust, the banks and hedgefunds are in trouble.
Has the GOP/Bush ever done anything right?
That should be our slogan not the GOP IS THE PARTY OF IDEAS. We don’t need to compromise with GOPers and their loser ideas.
I’m sure that we can make our own mistakes. But does anyone really think that we can avoid making mistakes by compromising with the GOP? Does anyone think that we will be even half as bad as the GOP was at governing?
nahant February 10th, 2008 at 12:22 am
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In response to wigwam @ 246
thanks I am doing what I can don’t forget the article from Harper’s magazine of February 3rd
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002302
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i stopped to do what Nahant admonished us to do and read the Harper’s article. Boy, is this ever important. One can only hope that this will finally happen.
Busted: if i remember correctly Giuliani got 3%, Paul 6% and Huck 11%.
and, i’ll probably be in Florida (Cape Coral, to visit my oldest grandson), Nashville to visit my mom’s one remaining sister, and Oregon to be with my older son and the other grandson, all in late June/early July.
now i am gone …..
Doubtful. I will probably be right here.
Yeah, sure, I want all my comments disappearing in to Moderation Purgatory.
Then again, I am an Ornery cuss….
*while the water is getting hot*
fork, i forgot to tell folks to contact me if they want to attend the meetup but are not on facebook.
g’nite for realsies…
Directions and contact info again please facebook is ok to send me the info
goodnite
The Doughy Pantload was Hilarious on Bill Maher Friday night…and a hilarious serious discussion of George W. Bush featuring Matt Dowd and the aforementioned Goldberg. P.J. O’Rourke is up to his 30-yr. old act as usual….and Amy Holmes keeps drinking the colored water.
Morning folks…
Good morning, pups. It’s Kristof and Rich in the NYT this morning. Mr. Kristof writes about “When Women Rule.” He says for women, but not for men, there is a tradeoff in qualities associated with top leadership. A woman can be perceived as competent or as likable, but not both. Mr. Rich warns “Next Up for the Democrats: Civil War.” He watched Hillary Clinton’s Hallmark Channel show and says it was a preview of how nastily the Clintons will fight, whatever the collateral damage to the Democratic Party.
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got waffles for us this morning. Have a great day.
Hi Marion:
Look like we’re the only one here. It’s funny, since I got the zed last night. I go to bed with FDL and wake up with it…
What IS it with you and zeds?! Do you have radar? *g*
good morning!
can really use that hot chocolate today, Marion!
here’s what’s on Washington Journal this morning
Sunday, February 10
7am – Newspaper Articles & Viewer Calls
7:30am – David Feddoso, National Review, Reporter & Blogger | Blog
8:15am – Walter Pincus, Washington Post, Intelligence Reporter
9am – Jennifer Cooke, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Africa Program Co-Director
9:30am – Newspaper Articles & Viewer Calls
my bold
Something like that…Actually these days I’m out of the zed hunt, since I know when posts are coming if they’re on queue. But now I only get zeds on posts that are not on queue, so I don’t know they’re coming so I’m on the level playing field as everyone else…
*whine* i can’t forking sleep
Hey Elliott–what’s brewing?
Gooood Morning Suzanne!
See my 274–but I did sleep…
g’morning elliott
biodun, grrrrr
Hot chocolate!
another Bear Creek meetup Suzanne, how many pups are you expecting?
last time we had 10 pups. not sure how many we will get this time. invites only went out around midnight.
so far, the facebook page is showing myself and nahant as confirmed. i’ve had about another half dozen say they would be attending when i was playing around with the date but i’ve not received their confirmations yet.
It’s f*cking cold here today–wind howling, winer advisory till noon. I have to go out to Kinkos to pick up my new press pass… -11 F air temp, -40 F wind chill factor…
do ya have to go before noon or can ya wait until the advisory is lifted?
I can go after the advisory. I have to pick it up by 5 PM CT…
Biodun, do you ever go back to Nigeria?
Suzane,
sounds like fun!
hope you can lure in egregious. She was at the original meetup, right?
she was and i am hoping to have a confirmation from her soon.
biodun, i hope you stay warm and the wind stops before you have to venture out.
Good morning, all. And congratulations to the Obama supporters and to all dems for the amazing enormous overwhelming the organizers turnout.
*g*. Rudy. Last seen on the campaign trail when McCain came to NYC and spoke in Grand Central Station. Photo in NYT was of McCain with former gov. Pataki–all 6′8”or so rudy-hating, VEEP aspirations of him immediately behind him, and toward the edge, edged out into the margins of the photo was ex-hizhonnuh. *g*. no *G*.
One fascist, on made-for-tv-say for-tv-flipflopper, gone. While a great relief, Huckabee as VP to a 73 year old pres. who has health problems makes me worry. The Rethugs too. They majored in THE Math, not miracles.
What is to prevent the repubs power est. who hate Mc to put Cheney in as VP. There are no term limits on VPs, are there?
There goes the *g*and the *G*.
Gotta go. Tell Marion the North East (via newspapers) is hurting for her town and its people. Yep, those damn Yankees, except that mine are Red Sox fans.
Marion. see me to you @ 291.
I did, and thanks. Savannah is a small enough city that just about everyone knows someone who works at that plant, and we appreciate the good wishes and prayers that have been coming this way. Off to get my second cuppa, and then to work…
to work, that should be me too.