Login HereWith cautious optimism and more than a little gratitude for Democrats in control of the people's House who finally allowed the Orwellian named Protect America Act to expire this week, I thought this little video summed up the event neatly. Ladies and gentleman, I present to you, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra performing Telephone and Rubber Band.
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Ooh another Zed!
zed-hawg…
Evening Eureka!
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Oooh, Penguin Cafe. Maaarrrrvelous.
i dugg this tune - very cool
Pretty cool video and tune!
Elmore and I say good night all….
Suzanne… and all have lots of fun tomorrow!
Here is an url for Dr. Strombeck’s recipes. (I remembered)
http://users.ameritech.net/cri.....ecipes.htm
Disabled video makes me sad…
Christine E - i learned that gravy from one of my kansas aunts - it used to make bisquits and gravy for breakfast - only addition is some crumbled up sausage to make it a meal.
Damn, that’s good information. Thanks Mary.
g’nite katymine - the meetup here isn’t until march 2nd
Aloha, Katy!
From Rep. John Conyers:
Yesterday the House of Representatives took several historic steps towards protecting our system of checks and balances. First, by a vote of 223 to 32, the House passed resolutions referring criminal contempt citations for former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten, as well as authorizing civil actions against them should the Justice Department refuse to prosecute. Second, we did not succumb to the White House political pressure concerning the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Yesterday’s contempt vote upheld the simple Constitutional principle that no one is above the law. If an ordinary citizen could not ignore a subpoena without facing severe consequences, the same must hold true for the White House.
As the morning’s papers covered this story, many of them recount the Judiciary Committee investigation that began a year ago. They talk of the fired U.S. Attorneys who testified, the thousands of pages of documents produced by the Department of Justice, and of the subpoenas ignored by the White House.
I hope that as you read those stories, you will remember that the path to today’s contempt vote did not begin with just a subpoena, or a hearing, or even the firings in December, 2006. Rather, it began with the Bush Administration’s politicization of Justice and its refusal to submit to congressional oversight. I commend my 232 colleagues who joined me in voting to hold the Bush White house accountable and who stood up for the rule of law.
I also want to commend the Democratic Leadership for standing up to the White House yesterday and refusing to succumb to political pressure concerning the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Last August we allowed ourselves to be jammed by the Senate and the White House. Yesterday, we stood up in the face of the pressure and let the President know that we intend to do our jobs as legislators and not hastily pass the flawed Senate bill with retroactive legal immunity for the telecommunications firms.
The White House, of course, has complained bitterly about the contempt vote as they have with many oversight actions Congress has taken. I have linked to some articles that show breadth of this bluster.
Much more remains to be done, but this week, we made real progress. With your help, we all made a difference, and the nation and our constitution are stronger for it. Thank you.
Thank you again for your continued support for a better democracy.
Your Friend,
John Conyers, Jr.
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It occurred to me today, while writing up the title. We should have renamed the PAA as PAAndora.
Not exotic but tasty/easy:
Pack of rice
Can Beef Consume
Can Mushrooms
Chopped Onions
Brown the Onions in Oil/Butter
Add mushrooms to consume & cooked rice and mix
Wine mixed in optional
Or bacon, what doesn’t bacon make better? On the other hand, my first attempt at gravy involved a cup of flour and a blender…good thing I was very cute in 1975.
Is that people food or pet food? :)
Heh, Sh*t on a Shingle…!
Is this an appropriate topic for this blog? WTF happened to Rock & Roll Friday?
That’s sushi isn’t it?
I only came in on recipes … let’s do Rock & Roll Friday!
Heh, you’d be taken out back and shot, if you tried to use boil in a bag rice here or Minute Rice…! *g*
Lets get ready to rumble
Willie Nelson and Norah Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....38;search=
Hey, how many rock and roll songs sound like they want to put PAAndora back in the box? *g* Maybe Pink Floyd..
We may have to turn RBG into a penguin and send him to orchestra school.
I blame punaise.. he made me order Becks trilogy. Messed up my schedule in a rockin’ way.
But will you be my Raving Bunny?
There’s some weird sh*t on Youtube…! *g*
Chipped beef on toast..haven’t had that for at least 50 years..I will have to make it as a surprise for the GF.
EPUd: I just got here and it’s all about pet-food recipies. attack. Attack. ATTACK.
Oh, what the fuck! It’s the beginning of a long weekend. Let’s attack manana.
I just watched Moyers and Olbermann, back to back. They make me believe there is hope.
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my navy father taught me that chipped beef on toast is not the same thang as biscuits and gravy.
Ooh, who’s on Moyers tonite?
Susan Jacoby
The Age of American Unreason
http://www.gardenstatesoundtrack.com/
Anyone love Garden State?
Yeah, hiding while I say it, though.
Delightfully politically incorrect!
Sounds like a good show, Brancachio(sp?) is on right now…
OMG, 707! That’s painful. Inside PAAndoras Box..)
Ah hahahah. You made me laugh out loud :-)
The Wall
welcome to the machine
I liked the movie.
He was correct..The gravy, for biscuits and gravy, is made from the fat derived from frying sausage or bacon.
Choking…LOL!
It was a horrible mess — I had to move to France to learn to cook.
he usually was - cook in the navy for 20 years
haha. RANDOM CRACK XD
Nice one, RBG.
You poor dear.
So did we, and the music was wonderful, really, the best.
UnUmmagumma - parts one and two
Hey Margot,
I was a terrible cook, and Mr.CE taught me how to eat, before I could cook.
If I say something about Bill Mahers show tonight, will I be violating spoiler protocols ?
I cannot stop looking at Raving Bunny and Penguin. I already emailed it to my daughters.
i don’t have hbo so i’m not the person to ask about spoilers for mahers show. i have no idea when it airs
Wasn’t he on at ten?
We get it in fifteen minutes on the Left Coast…
Just don’t make it too specific :-)
Rock’n'Roll?
Turn To Stone
Claire McCaskill was on Real Time.. Bill asked her about the Senate immunity ordeal.. and noted she voted with Rockerfeller et. al.
She said people can still sue the government.. So I guess Arlen Haggies got his way.
Gosh I hope not — it was wonderful!
Goddamnit! I want to sue the telecoms!!!
Shit.
And thanks.
That makes a lot of sense.
Margot, still here?
Right here!
Christopher Walken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Hiya — watching American Beauty, and am in awe.
I doubt it, but wonder if it means we can still prosecute the president for asking the telecoms to violate law.
Just home from the annual organizing meeting of the Matanuska-Susitna area Democrats. Big crowd. We organized, held elections and prepared for our role of hosts for the state Democratic Party convention this coming Memorial Day weekend, where we expect thousands.
I was elected secretary of my legislative district, and secretary for the Mat-Su area, which is larger than six states and six territories. It’s gonna be fun taking this area back over from the GOP!
“Because the world is High” — American Beauty.
That’s the question I have for Senator Whitehouse.
His assertion is that some of the telecoms “acted in god faith”, and I assume that the executive branch pressed them with Article 2 (as well as contractual inducements) to get compliance.
But these telecoms have rooms full of lawyers whose jobs are to measure strict compliance with FISA warrants.
Their lawyers said this was legal?
It’s not just the corporate executives who are in deep shit here if FISA isn’t made in Chimpy’s image.
god faith = good faith…
Dr. Freud?
channeling boosh again i see - i think boosh is scared of them nasty trial lawyers going after him for the false assertions that it was all legal
Thought about you when I pecked out this comment earlier..
We need to keep our ears open for mutual Blue Dog friends in our states. In the spirit of keeping Dems honest..)
As much as I’d like to nail Chimpy to the wall for this directly, his legal cover has always emanated from the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel.
I really want them called out. And with that, Chimpy’s entire rationale for being dissolves.
If immunity ties up telcos in a way which they cannot divulge their records? However, immunity ought to do the opposite.. like free ride/ corporate fifth or some such.
someone is very afraid of what will be revealed in a lawsuit. or multiple someones.
i’ve uncovered napoleon dynamite’s inspiration. zomg!
It is hard for an Alaskan to be elected dogcatcher if he or she is opposed to opening ANWR to drilling. That’s the main reason McCain came in last in the GOP primary here.
I’m going to be on the platform committee at the state convention, and hope to have a major say in how we word that particular plank. I think the money that would be spent to develop ANWR could be better spent on direct applications of alternative energy - here and elsewhere.
I’ve never seen it; how did I miss that one?
Muzzy! Too funny.
Yep. Those corporate execs have zero protection without updated FISA, once ChimpCo is out. And the next AG will have to follow it where it leads.
I think this is the big one.
Excellent news, ET. I hope an area the size of 6 States is big enough for you and Diane.
i think they know that wall of defense is very vulnerable - which is why they are so freaked out - i sure wudda not wanted to be the poor schmo who got to tell cheney there was a hole in the firewall.
Learn to duck!
Since NSA is cut off.. I feel so, so ignored. Maybe I will send them an email next week. /s
When I stumbled upon tonights youtube.. I checked out the guy who made it youtube page..
I already liked my quirky idea for the post.. but that just sealed the deal.
Gate, crashed.
Congratulations, ET. By the way, a murder victim on the PBS mystery series Jericho tonight also had the pseudonym Edward Teller.
Evening/morning, pups -
The California goopers are having big money problems:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/.....#038;tsp=1
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving batch of […supply your own descriptor…].
heh…..
Arnold needs to listen to his wife and endorse the change guy.
He was Orange County Rep. (S.Cal). Orange County went bankrupt from securities fraud while he was their Rep. Yjay is insane to have him overseeing the world economy!!! How can this happen?
Well I needed some good news, thanks for the link!
Nationally, that deficit in the CA GOP matters. But you watch - the CA Dems will throw their Gubernatorial race to the next-in-line party hack (we just can’t get enough of our hacks), and the next grinning, star-powered Gooper will get 2 terms.
Crazy state.
Never had the good fortune to visit your side of the country but there look to be some lovely places to explore.
That said, California and Texas sure seem to contribute more than their fair share to the national misery with the pols they produce.
Chris Cox was running Securities Exchange Commission for Bushco. He retired form the house to serve as SEC chair
Cox Presided over the Sub Prime real estate bubble fiasco. He was from Orange County Ca which went bankrupt. Was he a yeas man for Wall street, Dodd had him. Bernanke and Pauson up at the Banking committee this week, Dodd was very pissed ut controlled.
This is a big deal how the investment banks were allowed to rip off trillions from investors all over the world and cause a capital black hole in the credit markets. Fascists at work.
I blame punaise.. he made me order Becks trilogy. Messed up my schedule in a rockin’ way.
oopsie…my bad.
Penguin Cafe Orch. - it’s been a long time. love their mastery of the slow-building droney groove. IIRC members of Caravan or Brand X were involved.
Just saw the Moyers’ Journal replay here in Hawaii. That duo in the segment on The Debt Dilemma that wrote the book on the budget that Moyers likes so much. If I remember correctly, they say that even if you take away all the war spending, and roll back all the Bush tax cuts (except for low and middle income tax payers), the budget deficit is still growing so fast that Medicare and Social Security, and possible tax *increases* must still be considered. From the transcript:
Is this right?
Bob in HI
G. Love - The Hustle
Continuing my post@98, on the Moyers blog, several commenters dispute Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson’s assessment of the cost of the war and the Bush tax cuts. But none provides enough actual data from a reputable source to actually see the facts. Anyone know of a good place to see the relationship between the size of the spending for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the loss in revenue from the Bush tax cuts, the growth of the annual deficit, and the expense of Medicare and Social Security, all in tabular or graphic form so that one can see whether Bittle and Johnson are right or not?
Bob in HI
Bob, I have no idea, but look forward to learning more. One bit of framing which always annoys this rabid anti MIC lamb is how the defense budget is separated from war or occupation.. It’s all one, imo. We spend a trillion or more per year on MIC, considering defense, war, intel, energy expenditures and debt interest. Last I heard China was next in line in MIC spending @ 50 billion.
Kucinich and Paul were onto something.
that’s it for me tonight, pups. g’nite all
nite suz
Something I always wonder. Our economy is now pretty much based on the consumer now, not what we produce for others. So that is why Bush always wants us to go shopping and now what underlies the stimulus although for the life of me, I can’t figure out how sending those dollars overseas will help!
Instead of focusing on off-shoring, shouldn’t we be paying some attention to keeping some jobs here in order to manufacture things we actually sell besides services so people will buy from us again. It would sure as hell help our trade deficits and let the consumer off the hook. We all have far too much crap anyhow.
I am shocked when I go into little people’s rooms/houses now and see them piled high with toys, toys, toys. In other countries in the same middle and upper middle classes, kids seem to have only about 4% of what our toddlers have. There is something wrong here. Don’t get me started about huge houses crammed with stuff for the adults too! I have spent lots of time out of the country in the past and recently. Europeans and South Americans manage to be very happy while collecting far fewer “things”.
Just a cranky but continuing thought these days.
Joining you in that “crank”. ;-(
Pretty sure there is some newly coined term for a movement away from the more-more-more “stuff” attitude but can’t remember what it is at the moment.
Sorta cool. Plus, Fritz Lang!
There is no
successexcess like Americansuccessexcessdoes that work?
Well, whatever it is, I’m ready to join. Have spent the day unpacking box after box in the new place. What is all this stuff, and why do I need it in my life?
On the plus side, I now have furniture. So all in all moving-in day has been pretty interesting.
I think my books have far outnumbered any amount of clothing i actually have in my various moves the last few years. ^^ I know the feeling. I’m just glad that my clutter isn’t half so much as that of my parents. Even what i left with them? Is just more books! I’d say those, CDs, and a mishmash of DVDs is about all i have in force. My magpie tendenc