Eureka!

ES

ES!

evening, eureka

This is really sad….
U.S. Millionaire Growth Stalls

The number of American households worth $1 million or more - not including the house itself - grew at the lowest rate in five years
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The number of households worth $5 million or more also grew 2% to a record 1.16 million, its slowest rate since zero growth in 2002, and a significant decline from 23% in 2006.

Actually watched KO’s special comment again…. it is better the second time around…

i wanna lay on those pillows and just listen to him play

I think Eureka needs to get more eclectic…
Evening ES! This is sweet.

boa noite, pups

my own baby (puppy) needs some attention. ok mr. needs some attention too. sleep well

Well, I went to YouTube and watched again the MSNBC clip where Pat Buchanan told another guest to shut up…I’m really disappointed in Dan Abrams for not blowing his referee’s whistle and calling a foul on Buchanan.

Oh, man. I love my late night friends, but I’m beat! I get the week after next off…night all.

g’nit wobbly and loohoo

It looks as if we will pass the 4000 US KIA “milestone” this month. I wonder if it will get more than a “yawn” from the MSM?

That is what I put in my email to Abrams….. sadly disappointed….

Nite Loo Hoo

I think Eureka needs to get more eclectic…

I agree he completely neglects the Far Eastern music…! *g*

no. simple answers to simple questions.

Aloha, Wobbly and Loo Hoo! They kinda fit don’t they…? 8-)

The number of American households worth $1 million or more - not including the house itself - grew at the lowest rate in five years

Well, this household is well on its way - do red numbers count?

i agree but at least rachel put him in his place

Hat tip to Dubhaltach for introducing me to Naseer. He also told me Naseer got in trouble with Maliki for trying to throw a charity fund raising concert for Iraqi children..

The instrument Naseer is playing is named..Oud

My home dropped $27K in tax appraisal value from last year….. this is going to hit my city really hard with the drop in taxes….

ES, how could ya pass up such gems as this…?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFIhJfHYhzg

In case jayt is still here, some soothing music:

Eric Satie

According to the MoveOn vigil page, 662 events have been planned thru that page.

One of my personal favorites - Jose Feliciano’s Malaguena

Oops, the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFvqmIi9Ymc

Good evening, ES. If anyone here at the lake lives in or near Santa Barbara, I would recommend going to the beach on Saturday afternoon and help Veterans for Peace set up the crosses for Arlington West (and if you have time, help take them down Sunday afternoon). They will be holding a candlelight vigil ther that night with candles at each cross. Drove there last year to help out, it was very moving and emotional, and a worthwhile experience. Can’t get there this year, though, I’m bummed about that.

*sigh* So many tubes, so little time..)

Isn’t he fantastic? I have to post a favorite Jose of mine sometime soon.

Heh, here’s a blast from the past…!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqDAGV0TSng

Hey RGB….. they are talking about spring training all over my teevee …

Did anyone else see dmac’s epu comment?

Sally Kern Scrubs Gay Son?

Uh-oh! Could foul-mouthed Sally Kern’s secret be out of the bag?

The Oklahoma lawmaker’s homophobic remarks have been the talk of the town recently, especially her assertion that gay folk are infiltrating schools to indoctrinate children. And, sensing a critical national spotlight, Kern made a very suspicious change to her official government homepage.

If you compare a March 4th cache and today’s version, you’ll notice that Kern and/or her staff deleted a biographical sentence mentioning her two adult sons, Jesse and Nathan. Obviously our warning bells went off, so we did a little digging and found something quite queer.

Waaaaay OT..

I wonder what FDL demographic is being targeted to buy “Snorgtees”?

yeah, I’m still here. Whaddya tryin’ to do, put this dedicated insomniac to sleep? Reminds me though, that I doubt that I can still even read music, at least on the bass side - lotta left hand there…

On the serious side - thank you.

that would be RBG

what a great oud player! Thanks ES.

I used to get that mixed up too, until I applied color correction.

Lurking Republican trolls?

-G

Duh…. dyslexia showing…

No new millionaires today…. no one won the powerball

I thought (hoped) you might like it..)

I don’t have the link and I refuse to watch that wacko..but apparantly she called out Eureka Springs, AR for having “homosexuals” on the city council. The “Passion Play” was being compromised by the above “homosexuals”.

Heading off to bed…. will not brag that it was 83 degrees today and it is 70 degrees right now…..it was ruff….. all the flowers blooming… abundant sunshine is the weather channel forecast…

Hey GSD, Julia Carson’s grandson got elected last night to succeed to his grandmother’s post as Congress-person from the IN7 district.

And I haven’t forgotten the brilliant post you sent to the IndyStar.com either.Thank you, and be happy.

Yes, it was in the video Howie posted earlier. AR Times blog featured it last week.

g’nite katymine - my jealousy is tempered by the fact you regularly get over 105 in the summers

I’m getting sleepy listening to it. I wish I had this on a tape loop.
One of my sons made me a loop of the Beatles’ “Because” from their Anthology, and it put me to sleep in short order. ;)

speaking of music from occupied iraq - i don’t know if i’ve ever seen reference here to a collection that the label Sublime Frequencies put out a few years ago called “Choubi, Choubi!” - but it’s dedicated to that genre.

Good night, katymine.. It’s absolutely beautiful here too..

no one won the powerball

My late aunt used to buy a single one-dollar ticket for those - she always said “if God wants me to win this this, one dollar is enough”.

I miss her a lot.

Jetlaggedly returning to FDL looking for–yes- good news of the progressive sort to make the shambles of the past days go away long enough to get some sleep.
Was there any good news? Any fun exchanges on FDL? Any BTHTBRs(bad things happen to bad republicans)beside the loss of Hastert’s seat.
Specifically, I seek antidotes for any one of the below.
A democratic sex scandal
Ferraro saying it helps to be black to win presidencies
Maggie William calling the Obama campaign racist

Heading off to bed…. will not brag that it was 83 degrees today and it is 70 degrees right now…..it was ruff….. all the flowers blooming… abundant sunshine is the weather channel forecast

73 degrees here and trees blooming..My sister, in MD, reported that her Osprey returned to their nest 2 weeks early. Global warming..I wouldn’t want to be living at or near sea level.

We live in a secluded waterfront area. On an island that was considered low rent. Our tax values tripled this year.
A waterfront lot on the wonderful tide flats, in a 10 year flood zone, just sold for $900.000. 15 years ago it would have raised eyebrows at $150.000.
We are so screwed!!!

Evening BlueStateRedHead…
Yep, up is down.

good news? d’s have not caved on fisa yet.
uh let me think

…you regularly get over 105 in the summers!

I don’t tho…! ;-)

Whoops.. This?

(sigh) don’t say it - (deep sigh) ok, are you currently 70 or better?

I think it’s 72 with a nice trade wind blowing…! *g*

73 degrees here and trees blooming…

I’ve never liked you.

(just kidding and jealous)

come sit here by me. we can talk about all the negatives about living where there are nice winters - namely their summers and/or higher costs of living.

…and/or higher costs of living.

Oof, ya got me there, we call it the ‘paradise tax’…!

29F here, and the pussy willows are blooming. And so are the arugula and meusclin mix - indoors.

getting warmer in your greenhouse et?

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

aloha ct

I left you a message on the thread down below about Buchanan.

I never bought lottery tickets, but I am off work for about six weeks while I wait for a couple of ribs to heal. I have my visitors buying one $1 ticket for each of two lotteries once a week (the drawings are twice a week). I agree with your grandmother. If it was meant to be, it will be.
I sure hope it was meant to be for me…

ha!

yeah, actually. but i’ve never seen any visual cultural accompaniment to the music. i mean, it’s definitely pop - folk pop, and club pop, both. i’ve been listening to it steadily since it came out, and while some of it is recognizably pap, it’s always been comforting to me to know that they listen to crap in iraq, too.
sublime frequencies is pretty good about producing a nice cross section, it seems to me - but maybe they’re the equivalent of american compilations like NOW! Hits!… i dunno. i don’t understand the language.

http://www.sublimefrequencies......Item_id=28

i have some interesting comps from indonesia and vietnam, too, from them. the best thing i’ve ever heard, though, is a two-disc album of music from the silk road. very traditional. very meditative. very beautiful.

Actually - I’ve got no problem with winter - spent 4 years in Los Angeles which drove that point home.

I do think, however, that February should be eliminated altogether. Who says that we need 12 months to make a year; I’d be just fine with 11.

Extend April, June and May, is my proposal…

Night, CTut!

Didn’t you warn us recently about a Governor? Was it the Governor of New York?

i just want it to be spring and no longer not quite spring.

whoops… that was re ES@55. and i’m learning myself, just now, that it’s iraqi pop, precurrent invasion. but, as you pointed out, anything after ‘91 counts.

Nah, it was the two most recent EX-governors of Alaska. Supposedly, they’re both about to be busted for corruption. One GOP, one Dem, both big oil doormats. No hookers, interns or under-age young men involved, as far as I know.

I don’t see a silk road set on sublime’s web page. Is it on another label?

I know it was over 16 years ago when I was arrested for peacefully, very peacefully, demonstrating against our initial invasion. Did we ever leave?

Welcome, America, to the seventeenth year of killing in Iraq. Check out MoveOn’s New Priorities Vigil page if you would like to organize or join a vigil in your area this weekend.

What’s on your mind tonight?

Okay. So, now that you bring it up. There’s something that has been bugging me for all of those 16 years, and nobody has ever answered: What the fuck happened to the Iraqi wounded? We killed about 100,000 Iraqis in Desert Storm, so they say. In general, for each soldier hilled, ten are wounded. What happened to those million or so Iraqi wounded? Just askin’.

Holocaust, would be my guess.

Remember the story about US troops running out of bullets last year? I think they mentioned we used over a billion in the current occupation..

Boy, and I thought you knew about Spitzer all along. I am envious that you live in Alaska. Beautiful country and I love cold weather.

That’s a good question, and I’ve been wondering for some time. One problem with answering it, though, is that the ratio of dead to wounded depends a lot on the weapons being used, the proximity and quality of the emergency medical care that is available to the soldiers, and the care that’s available afterward. So it’s not necessarily going to work out to be a ten to one ratio. It might only be one to one.

Even so, there must have been lots of wounded.

well, well. i’m uncovering all kinds of mis-information, tonight. it’s smithsonian folkways.

read it - and agree.

You make a good point - while I say that each and every one of us would fuck up given the amount of time that Pat Buchanan is on the air, that most certainly does not preclude his making an immediate apology to the woman he just insulted. You’re right.

Second from the top here?

I saw a documentary where they mentioned some number near 100 wounded, which is vastly out of proportion to any fatality to injury ratio I’ve ever heard of.

Our family got onto a ” victory garden ” idea last year, concentrating on growing vegetables and herbs over flowers. Though we’re all huge fans of flowers and the joy of color. Just thought it was time to remember past wars and the sacrifices asked of the American People, a little,in an almost silly way.
This year is the real payoff because the beds were readied last fall for spring, and the early greens are coming up. I don’t think I’ve ever been that organized as a hobby gardener.
Last year we produced a small truck farm out of a 35 ‘ by 25 ” main garden [ using the small space gardening concept] with herbs and squash growing in strangely ” inappropriate ” landscape areas.
This year we’re hoping to greatly increase our yield. Not for profit, to feed people at local anti-war rallies, soup kitchens, neighbors, hell, I was threatening to lob gourmet, heirloom zucchini into open car windows.
It’s very satisfying to bring food closer to a local level. Very human.

BTW, did anyone talk about Olbermann’s special comment at FDL tonight. (I got home late and haven’t seen anything.)

Rut-roh. Checked the second couch - more quarters-

Apropos of late-lite - Lucinda:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-civpsVfrw

I sure as heck didn’t want to be right. Thank you for sharing my non-frantic point of view.

no, third from the top. it’s really amazing.

Really worth watching @ crook and liars.

Wonderful, thank you. In my wish list now..)

japanese flute, mongolian throat singing, armenian dances… truly trance-inducing.

BTW, did anyone talk about Olbermann’s special comment at FDL tonight. (I got home late and haven’t seen anything.)

As I expected and predicted, he flayed the skin right off HRC, but more especially her “brain trust”.

The most impressive thing about the Comment was, imo, his disclaimer at the beginning where he mentioned that he had debated even doing the Comment for fear that he would seem to be taking sides…

And, in that vein, the Comment was more subdued than any I have ever seen from him before - struck just the right note, in my opinion.

Did you forget the “K” there? There had to have been more than 100 wounded. since the lowest estimates I’ve seen of Iraqi combat deaths is 20,000 or so. Even assuming that many of those who died would have survived under better conditions, that still sounds way too low. Here’s a quote from CNN:

n June 1991, the U.S. estimated that more than 100,000 Iraqi soldiers died, 300,000 were wounded, 150,000 deserted and 60,000 were taken prisoner. Many human rights groups claimed a much higher number of Iraqis were killed in action. According to Baghdad, civilian casualties numbered more than 35,000. However, since the war, some scholars have concluded that the number of Iraqi soldiers who were killed was significantly less than initially reported.

Numbers can be readjusted radically for valid reasons, particularly when one side is overwhelmed, and is thus unable to keep track of its own casualties. Casualty estimates for opposing forces are typically wrong, and at least in my own reading they are usually overstated initially.

time for me to bail, pups. g’nite all

I really like mongolian throat singing.. Have the Song men of Tibet DVD, with what’s his name from San Francisco? Oddly, if I practice along with the movie, about half way through I can keep up with them.

ah! good! it’s good to know who “your” people seek to destroy.

nite suzanne

Nite Suz, rest well. Spring is just days away.

Genghis Blues! yeah, that’s a wonderful movie.

openhope, that’s so cool - good for you and yours!

_ _ _

and goodnight, suzanne: sleep well.

G-Night Suzanne - sleep well.

hey - openhope’s back - Hiya!

We’re Americans: we seek to destroy all the furrniers living over our oil.

Oops! Let me correct what I said. The program I watched mentioned the number of those taken prisoner who were wounded sufficiently to need hospitalization. The total number taken prisoner IIRC was something near 60,000.

But the action happened so fast that there was a not a lot of time to evacuate the wounded, especially since our aircraft were shooting almost anything that moved.

We’re Americans: we seek to destroy all the furriners living over our oil.

Yeah, that’s in the Constitution someplace, isn’t it?

(check the footnotes)

I just went over to read it. Wow, I don’t see how she’s going to be able to ignore that one He gave her the option to save face. Her position could change into chameleon-like chagrin at her own faux-pax…?
I’m actually starting to appreciate the length of this endless election season.

i’ve read this blog for a few years now - at least since the libby matter - and tonight has definitely been the most i’ve ever bothered to contribute. it’s been fun! goodnight everyone.

Wow! Olbermann was awesome.

IIRC, Chris Matthews got into trouble and had to apologize for claiming that the only reason Hillary got where she is was because Bill cheated on her. http://thinkprogress.org/2008/.....ed-around/

So, her campaign complained to NBC and Matthews was forced to apologize. But when an important member of her campaign makes an equivalent remark about Obama …

YUCK!!!

any underage out of season salmon/bears/protected species? something specifically Alaskian.

Just look for a reason that it’s still an up year for democrats. Alaska has been an endless source of hope in the nonpartisan sense of the word, as in the town of Hope.

And while on topic of Alaskan crimes alleged of course, how long is Hugh’s list these days? Does it have to have a special page for spitzer with one column for the crime and one for the doj?

I’ll check in for some non-partisan hope in the am.
night all.