Evening ES

ES

Eureka!

Eureka!

But I worry about this I bet the Secret Service does too!

Hi ES – hope your ankle is better and the wind died down.

i thought that was biodun – did es hurt his ankle too?

linky no worky

worked for me??

suzanne, you’re absolutely right.

ES, my aplogies.

Damn! Just after I posted that photo I find out about Attempted assassination of East Timor’s President Ramos-Horta

Hiya Al,
Snowing like crazy here, so very cold, close to zero.
Christine

Good evening Eureka.

My ankle is fine, by the way.

Al Qaeda in Iraq must be on the run because they have been writing letters chock full of George Bush’s and General Petraeus’ talking points.

Desperate indeed.

-G

Sorry smgumby..It works for me when I tried it. It’s a picture of Obama immersed in a crowd with some clearly worried Secret Service agents.

i posted that earlier (around 8ish iirc) when it was still breaking news – he was called ‘critical’ – good to see updated to ’stable’

errr his condition

dugg it! your late again Suz :>)

thanks, nahant. you are turning into quite a digger :)

you should see the hole I am digging :>)

Kirk, I read your comment and thought it was referring to the song.. How, I wasn’t exactly sure? *g* Ankles away!

Sorry, ES.

And Teddy, I hope all the rest of you is fine, too!

Oops, my bad.

Internet guy has a sneaky redirect – I guess yahoo news is now a no-no.

There is a reason they call him the internet nazi…

Eureka!

bet it was caused by those nasty fridge magnets, kirk, messing with your neurons

Not snowing here yet, but also hovering around zero.

my 42 outside seems downright balmy in comparison

I will stay here in California… I still remember those winters in Maine bbbbbbbrbrbrbrbrbrrbrbbr cold

It’s nice Sunday night here. I’ve worked 7 days straight and have 5 more to go before a day off and I feel energized. weird.

Suz, people go to the mall wearing shorts when it’s 42 here!

Thanks for the music choice.

What’s on my mind? Huckabee’s lawyers who want to know what the heck’s going on with the GOP here in WA. After all the bitching they did after the 2004 election, this mess is cracking me up.

Does that make me a bitch? Too bad. :)

It was 65 here today — long walk up around the Terraces and down into the Castro. Looked at an apartment renting for twice what we pay that made us very happy with where we live. Much better for the spirit than wandering into million-dollar open houses that make us feel let down when we get home….

I should be in bed, but the storm is wonderful.

my name is suzanne and i’m in touch with my inner bitch. welcome to the club :)

707!

Ruh Ro what meeting did I stumble in to??

nice tune, ES, thanks. I went a-youtubin’ in search of something by the Camerounais singer/sax player Manu Dibango but didn’t find what I was looking for.

You go girl!

tis a foul mouthed femblog yanno (wink wink)

Well, at least you could spell it..)

Snow yet?

Hi Eureka Springs:

Juan Cole was just on BBC World Service.

-9 F in Minneapolis and I’m about to hit the hay…

Hi all!

When I saw Sen. Obama and Oprah in Manchester along with 8,000 others I was surprised at the lack of security. Stunned at the lack of security.

-G

P.S. Racist goons have torched a mosque in Tennessee.

Crap, it’s getting late and I have that stupid work thingy to do tomorrow. I hate these drive by visits, it’s a lot more fun to hang out with all of you pups.

Good night, and sweet dreams to everyone.

hey biodun

g’nite tow

Me too. I remember my dad turning on the car, coming back in to eat breakfast, and then going to work after shoveling the driveway back in Minnesota.

I love California.

Maybe I am easily amused but this video cracks me up every time I watch it.. Talk about low budget and it don’t matter. Dances With Cows.

Bonne soiree, ca va bien? Je vais me coucher bientot…

Still below zero – only minus 2F, though – and only blowing 35, gusting 50 today. looks like Spring is right around the corner…

been here now almost 30 years and would never ever go back.. My sisters have finally given up trying to get me to move back.

I may have to try and find that link a little later.. Rumors abound of your ankle troubles.. Hope you are propped up while blogging.

I’m a Minnesota refugee of 40 years standing. (Thought I’d died and gone to heaven.)

check his album Wakafrica

I often think about how my real estate dollars would work in Minnesota. While I could have a bought and paid for house there, I’ll keep my mortgage and live where it’s comfortable.

what band is this and what song, ES?

salut, Bio! bonne nuit, alors.

Ditto I will do the same. I like to see my snow go down the drain :>)

Don’t know how it got lost ijn transmission but the band is in the main post now.

Mahlatini & Mahotella Queens – Gazatte

SHHHHHH!

Don’t tell. Why anyone would live anywhere else is absolutely beyond me, but having arrived, I’m happy to pull up the ladder. Let the others enjoy their snow-shoveling….

Caliphoneeya rulez.

g’nite TOW – good dreams to you,

thanks

For a dollar.. I just bought it. Thanks!

Huckabee cries foul

WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is crying foul after John McCain’s apparent victory in the Washington caucuses on Saturday.

Huckabee’s campaign released a statement Sunday saying it will be exploring all available legal options regarding the “dubious final results.” Arizona Sen. McCain was announced as the victor in the caucuses with 26 percent of the vote to Huckabee’s 24 percent.

But Huckabee’s campaign chairman, Ed Rollins, said Luke Esser, Washington’s Republican Party chairman, chose to call the race too quickly for McCain.

Rollins said Huckabee was losing by 242 votes with 87 percent of the vote counted. He said there were another 1,500 or so votes that were apparently not counted.

“That is an outrage,” Rollins said.

Rollins said the Huckabee campaign’s lawyers will be on the ground in Washington soon to see why the count took so long, and why the vote-counting was stopped prematurely.

instead of wearing brooks brothers suits, the lawyers will be carrying a bible and wrapped in the flag

What’s on my mind? Not necessarily in this order:

#1. The FISA mess.

#2. Nudging Conyers to start impeachment hearings

#3. Is the lady I’ve been dating The One?

Bob in HI

sorry, bob, i can’t help ya out with that third one.

I am in the mood for nudging.

My mind?

#1 If I can locate a particular book that I need for my research.

#2 How much is a ticket to Sao Paulo going to set me back (mileage wise)

#3 Why does it seem so damn hot in our bedroom

#4 How can my hubby sleep when it is so damn hot in our bedroom

#5 the gov’t. period.

if you don’t like at least a half dozen songs from that disk, I’ll eat my hat. personal favorites: Ami Oh! and Wimoweh.

oh and brownies. the fudgy kind.

good one

After some ES inspired u-tube dumpster diving I came up with a familiar old song that is a nice prelude to dreamy sleep

TC’s Horsie

off to bed – got to keep the energy up, y’know.

.

Bob maybe we should be sending Mr Conyers this article on Impeachment from Harper’s magazine of February 3 08
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002302
If we can get a ton of copies into his mail box maybe he just might listen.

thanks teddy. how was your weekend?

Hey Muzzy, nice tube.

Punaise – The sample sounds perfect.

OT: Per Marcy:

I’ve been dissing my Congressman John Dingell by not pointing to the letter he, Bart Stupak (also from Michigan) and Edward Markey sent their colleagues about the FISA bill. But it raises an issue that deserves more attention. After discussing the rationales for telecom immunity, they point out,

For the past five months this Committee has asked, in a bipartisan manner, the phone companies and the Administration to explain whether they acted outside the bounds of the law and what would justify Congress telling a Federal judge to dismiss all lawsuits against the phone companies. The phone companies respond that the Administration has gagged and threatened them with prosecution if they respond to our inquiries. When the Committee requested that the Administration either remove the gag or provide the Committee with the relevant information, the Administration repeatedly refused. Surprisingly, even at this late date, the Administration has not deemed it important enough to respond to our repeated inquiries or even to brief the Committee Members in closed session.

Understand, John Dingell is a long-time friend of the telecoms (and can muster an awesome lecture to constituents on telecom history on demand). And this is the crowd in the House that legislates on telecoms more generally.

Yet the Administration won’t let Ma Bell talk to them–at least not about her overwhelming need for immunity. The Republicans claim that, unless Ma Bell gets immunity, she’ll go out of business. But they won’t let her tell that to the legislators who know the telecom business best.

So it’s not just the Administration’s justifications for their illegal spying program they’ll show to only 20 or so members of Congress in each house. They won’t even let Ma Bell make her case herself.

I’m traveling tomorrow through Wednesday, so I won’t be glued to the teevee to liveblog the FISA votes. But I’ll try to touch base as the Senate vote develops.

Looks like the Congressional critters only want email from people in their district when I clicked on the email link @ DKOS it takes you to a web mail system where you need to enter info about where you live and zip code down to the extra four digit they can use to locate you down to the street and block level… We just may have to resort to snail mail, somehow we have to get this Democratic leadership off the dime and grow some kohonies… they sure act like they lost them somewhere along the way…

conyers has a blog – i think you can contact him via that. let me find it

It was great, actually. I spent yesterday deep in blogtopia (ystbkctt) and today outside amongst the hills of my fair burg. A well-balanced weekend. How about yours? Find a dress yet?

I think we should, but as I’ve said earlier, Peolsi and Conyers need to know that Bush’s admission of authorizing waterboarding and his intention to do so again should circumstances warrant in his opinion, changes Peolosi’s and Conyers’s legal status. Per the Yamashita Standard, both of them have an afirmative obligation to use their office to prevent war crimes. Yamashita was executed for failing to do so.

Oh nooo. No Marcy watching the PAA fiasco.. Does anyone know if bmaz will carry the torch?

this is conyers non-HoR link

The only recourse we have to stop this nonsense is to start the impeachment hearing where the executive loose it’s power of executive privilege and other rights under constitutional law.

the bride to be says i am scheduled to find my dress in april, teddy. she is very organized.

Exorcism is back!

Exorcism — the church rite of expelling evil spirits from tortured souls — is making a comeback in Catholic regions of Europe. Last July, more than 300 practitioners gathered in the Polish city of Czestochowa for the fourth International Congress of Exorcists.

About 70 priests serve as trained exorcists in Poland, about double the number of five years ago. An estimated 300 exorcists are active in Italy. Foremost among them: the Rev. Gabriele Amorth, 82, who performs exorcisms daily in Rome and is dean of Europe’s corps of demon-battling priests.

“People don’t pray anymore, they don’t go to church, they don’t go to confession. The devil has an easy time of it,” Amorth said in an interview. “There’s a lot more devil worship, people interested in satanic things and seances, and less in Jesus.”

Amorth and other priests said the resurgence in exorcisms has been encouraged by the Vatican, which in 1999 formally revised and upheld the rite for the first time in almost 400 years.

Although a Vatican official denied reports in December of a campaign to train more exorcists, supporters said informal efforts began under Pope John Paul II — himself an occasional demon chaser — and have accelerated under Pope Benedict XVI. A Catholic university in Rome began offering courses in exorcism in 2005 and has drawn students from around the globe.

Can burning witches be far behind?

Organized sure beats hysterical and befuddled when it comes to brides-to-be, right?

judas forking priest, teddy.

Agreed! Then the point to get across to Conyers is that he become liable under International law if he fails to act. And he and Pelosi both need to understand that if she persists in obstruction the impeachment of this war criminal, she is even more culpable than was Yamashita, who merely stepped aside. She is now taking active steps to enable continued war crimes.

she’s only been planning this since she was 3 and would use my lace curtains as her veil and/or train.

nahant February 10th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
75
In response to bobschacht @ 67
Bob maybe we should be sending Mr Conyers this article on Impeachment from Harper’s magazine of February 3 08
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002302
If we can get a ton of copies into his mail box maybe he just might listen.
_________________________________

what is needed is to get constituents from their districts to pay all democratic congresscritters a visit this week and hand deliver a copy of Harper’s. that’s what it would take. it certainly could be done but it takes a really good organizer, which i am not.

This sounds ominous

Military prosecutors have decided to seek the death penalty for six Guantánamo detainees who are to be charged with central roles in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, government officials who have been briefed on the charges said Sunday.

The officials said the charges would be announced at the Pentagon as soon as Monday and were likely to include numerous war-crimes charges against the six men, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the former Qaeda operations chief who has described himself as the mastermind of the attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people.

A Defense Department official said prosecutors were seeking the death penalty because “if any case warrants it, it would be for individuals who were parties to a crime of that scale.” The officials spoke anonymously because no one in the government was authorized to speak about the case.

A decision to seek the death penalty would increase the international focus on the case and present new challenges to the troubled military commission system that has yet to begin a single trial.

“The system hasn’t been able to handle the less-complicated cases it has been presented with to date,” said David Glazier, a former Navy officer who is a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.

that’s gonna go up next on the ticker, teddy. thanks

Thanks Suz… I have to wait 24 hrs before I can post any thing. I am very willing to wait.. now how did you find that and do you know if they all have similar ways of getting info to them??

i knew about his – but a google search for their name and the word blog usually helps find em.

Speaking of nudging. Why aren’t war crimes charges being made..and who could we nudge to do their job?

daym not for fancy nancy…shit.. she needs to be nudged real good

nancy’s blog is through her speaker dot gov addy

IANAL but IMHO, war crimes charges have to go to federal courts, and AFAICT such charges have to be brought by a federal attorney or his/her Grand Jury. I.e., the ball is in Mukasey’s court.

Amy Winehouse won a Grammy. Hurrah! I love her skinny, little legs, her beehive, her tatoos and her affect. Sorry to change the subject but it did say “what’s on your mind?”

off topic is the topic, slouching :)

Perhaps they should get Scott Horton’s Feb 9 Harper’s article as well

Bush Justice Department Goes After Another Democratic Lawyer (And Why This is Bad News for Yoo and Bradbury)

It’s beginning to sound like a stuck record. Another strike by the Bush Justice Department, keeping the country safe. Who’s the target this time? A crack dealer? An al Qaeda terrorist? No. It’s a wing-tip shoed Miami lawyer, who served as president of the bar association, is held in universally high esteem (outside, of course, of the political hacks who run the Bush Justice Department) and who advised Al Gore in the 2000 Florida recount battle. According to the Justice Department, the lawyer’s involvement with Democratic politics has nothing to do with his being charged. Quite a few of his contemporaries are having problems buying that, and still bigger problems understanding his supposed “crime.”

[snip]

What exactly is Kuehne’s [the indicted attorney] involvement in this “conspiracy”? He was asked by another lawyer to give an opinion: did he think the retainer that was offered by a client could be accepted? He looked at the money and its provenance and gave a positive opinion. That’s quite a conspiratorial act.

Some other facts make the Justice Department’s conduct look stranger still. The matter was not determined by local attorneys in the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office, but by political appointees from main Justice in Washington. Law.com collects a number of statements from leaders in the Florida bar, reacting angrily to the charges, including Kuehne’s lawyer…

Hmm. Sounds familiar.

I hope Conyers sees Marisa’s take:

The Reich Ministry of Justice Strikes Again

Are you a Democrat or worse, a Democrat who in any way upset the President of the Far-Right of America? Well then, be afraid, be very afraid.

[snip]

In short my friends, time to start demanding impeachment. In fact, I will support any candidate of any party who will demand impeachment be back on the table. Anyone failing to do so, is not qualified to be the President of the United States. Simply put, I don’t give a rat’s ass about your position on anything, until you make clear your position on the Constitution. So, what is your position on the Constitution candidate x?

I want that question answered now. I don’t care who made someone’s kid cry or who Oprah adores. I don’t care if they think God is their real-life best friend who visits daily and shares recipes. I don’t want to hear anything about anything until I have heard the first and most important thing: rule of law. Because in reality the only time the phrase “you are either with us or against us” should be applied is when discussing the one thing that makes us all Americans. The Constitution. Do you get it yet?

IANAL
LOL
IIRC
RSVP
SPQR
YRMV

hey p4/4

Bob maybe we should be sending Mr Conyers this article on Impeachment from Harper’s magazine of February 3 08
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002302
If we can get a ton of copies into his mail box maybe he just might listen.

Good idea!

Bob in HI

YRMV

Young Republicans Mow Violets?

“Looks like the Congressional critters only want email from people in their district “

Yes, but you can send him/her a fax, which is better than snailmail.

Bob in HI

Your Results May Vary

f’in A – P4/4!

Hey you.

Zut alors! punaise!

Can burning witches be far behind?

Yikes, I sure hope so.
‘
OTOH, would religious persecution (at the stake) help me with an EU/NZ passport?

looking for the sooty lining here…..

…but you knew that.

I agree I read that article earlier, the corruption is a lot deeper than we know.. only one to get to the bottom of the garbage pile is to get the hearing started. I got my reply from the automated web admin for Conyers. I still haven’t been able to do anything on Nancy’s speaker blog… all comments are closed. Be sure to sign Robert Wexler’s petition at http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com

But let’s add: if they fail to exercise their oversight responsibility, then under the Yamashita Standard, they are criminally liable.

Exorcism is back!

Exorcism — the church rite of expelling evil spirits from tortured souls — is making a comeback in Catholic regions of Europe. Last July, more than 300 practitioners gathered in the Polish city of Czestochowa for the fourth International Congress of Exorcists.

About 70 priests serve as trained exorcists in Poland, about double the number of five years ago. An estimated 300 exorcists are active in Italy. Foremost among them: the Rev. Gabriele Amorth, 82, who performs exorcisms daily in Rome and is dean of Europe’s corps of demon-battling priests.

“People don’t pray anymore, they don’t go to church, they don’t go to confession. The devil has an easy time of it,” Amorth said in an interview. “There’s a lot more devil worship, people interested in satanic things and seances, and less in Jesus.”

Amorth and other priests said the resurgence in exorcisms has been encouraged by the Vatican, which in 1999 formally revised and upheld the rite for the first time in almost 400 years.

Although a Vatican official denied reports in December of a campaign to train more exorcists, supporters said informal efforts began under Pope John Paul II — himself an occasional demon chaser — and have accelerated under Pope Benedict XVI. A Catholic university in Rome began offering courses in exorcism in 2005 and has drawn students from around the globe.

Can burning witches be far behind?

Hey! Don’t knock exorcism! In fact, I think a few are badly needed in the White House, especially the OVP, and prolly over at the Pentagon, too! Not to mention Guantanamo and a few secret locations for extraordinary rendition.

Bob in HI

I wasn;t commenting until I could get a / between the 44.
RBG took care of that, so here i am.

thought you could sneak in unnoticed, eh?

Thanks nahant – will do.

And wigwam – absofragiinlutley. Yes!

They took away the zigs. I had to brood.

I caught part of a House hearing on CSPAN with Mukasey a couple of days ago.. And right out of the gate questions were raised about Bush’s proposed budget for DOJ next year.. This year 1.7 billion.. proposed 400 million for next year. I don’t think Bushco is planning on leaving anyone around to place charges.

400 million more or total?

zed was preceded in death by his brother zig.

Total. Mukasey acted like it was no big deal.

Zed lives!

These young’uns. No respect, i tell ya.

Presumption of guilt is a real money saver.

that and using trains to the reeducation camps should help king george get a new gold toilet fixtures.

Excuse me, but…

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.

if you want to be a junkie, remember: zeddie’s dead

Do ya think we should start using I’m first??

but ya can still find zigzags at the corner gas station.

Not dead – just hard to find.

Here is another place you can sign up to impeach Darth also http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/125 But of course I already have done so

That’s my answer whenever somebody asks “Can I see your papers?”

good ole rack ‘n roll….

I always kind of liked “Fitz!”, but I’ve gotten awfully tired of waiting for Fitzmas…

With that, I wish you all a good night.

fraternity of man

Speaking of which – Amy Winehouse was amazing on the grammys. Then again, I’m a sucker for rehabilitation projects.

g’nite neuro

John Edwards will throw his support to dolphins.

seeking stress relief from the endorse-fins, of course.

In the beginning, there was Zed.

From the book of Zed:

Zed also means zero in some countries

and woe unto the unbelievers

and may they be forced to use base 9

and never be admitted to the glories of Al-Gebra, the all calculating

and may they have to solve word problems

unto the unnumbered end of their days.

Isle of Man

I must have been caught up with the Congresscritters dismay in the hearing..

Maybe the reductions were in one program:

Office of Justice Programs, COPS, Office on Violence Against Women

2007 2.687 (Billion)
2008 2,314
2009 813 million

manfred mann

Isle of Lucy

Yea, verily. Woe unto the train leaving Cleveland and traveling at 60 mph
Whilst a train leaving Cincinatti travels at 55 mph
Which shall arrive at enlightenment first?

g’nite, neuro

Suz I didn’t know…..

cause if she was properly submissive, there would not be any violence against the handmaidens.

Caught up like a douche bag
Another rummerinanight?

give me Bruuuuuce!

You got some ’splainin’ to do…

Yes..and this also supports new theories on promoting witch hunts. Only GOPers would consider it an all female sport.

wrapped up like a duece
another runner in the night

spout alert!

Like I said.

‘xactly

You got some ’splainin’ to do…

“ohhhh, Ricky…”

Mertz another look.

time to catch my zzz’s, pups.

sleep well!

(visions of two trains dance in my head….)

ok, pups, that’s it for me tonight. i leave you with the lurking mod for tormenting harrassing any assistance you may need.

Sweet dreams.

this is my stop, too. ciao now.

Gee, thanks Suzanne…

Bon nuit.

Damm half past a pumpkin time to go find some sleep.
Good night all you good firepups, we will keep working on getting the impeachment stuff to our fearless leaders :>)
maybe we can make them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvJNa918h78

Kirk, pun….

but, but – wait! I just got here…

The sleazy Washington State GOP, ending their primary the way they are must be inspiring a lot of undecided people to go register for that party, eh?

Logs piled high on the fire..and I am off to slumber myself..

g’ nite pups

Well, folks…

I’m up. As I said, I have a new schedule with my new assignment, which will last till August…Got up at more or less 3 AM CT. It’s now 3:22 AM CT

neurophius February 11th, 2008 at 12:01 am
130
In response to kirk murphy @ 126
Excuse me, but…

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.

___________________

the incredible lightness of zed……..
’twas a finite zero
but the romance, the sheer mystery of it all
will never die …..

hey, Bio D
looks like jus’ you ‘n me
i wish you some calories
over there in the land
of the wind chill factor ……

I guess it’s a good thing I’m now out of the zed hunt…You know why, right?