Redd!

Evening CTuttle — how goes life in paradise?

Interesting! Can Bush pardon away these legal problems in Guam for this collection of pals?

Fabulous news and song.

Where’s my handkerchief?

Abramoff! The Scandae that keeps giving and giving and giving! Bet McCain will be reaching for the heartburn bottle.

wow just corrupt to the core. so the repug walk of shame continues

The links above are a veritable who’s who of GOP values, too. Enjoy…

Feeling shame disqualifies a person from being a member of the Republic Party.

I won’t be happy until Rove is dealt with. And if Rove falls, so will two other vip pols. Neat.

There’s a HuffPo link above discussion McCain’s link-in with all of this…and another link or two about the document hold-back from Indian Affairs. Still lots of questions there…

Whew, a lot of links, Redd! I did find the one I was looking for, the Marianas and Delay…!

Steady kiddo.

L.

I love Christy’s linkfests!

It’s amazing just how much information you can append with well-linked goodies. *g*

Finally getting some much needed rain, all our lawns were turning brown, particularly, when this is the rainiest month of the year, typically… Global warming is for real…! 8-(

Make the popcorn gourmet Christy. This is indeed an interesting day.

I saw Janis at the Sound Factory in Sacramento when she was with Big Brother. Seems like light years ago. Sometimes I feel old.

Justice Dept. appeals NH phone jamming acquittal.

-G

There was alot left unsaid by the McCain Indian Affairs Committee. The “Family Values” Party has a great deal to explain in the area of their involvement with Indian gaming especially in Mississippi and Texas. I am still pissed about how the Tiguas near El Paso were treated.

man that is one incredibly sourced read, thanx christy

I am wondering what is going on with Don Siegelman

Christy, Christy, Christy,

You have just made me tear up a little.

BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA.
Scumbags are finally going to get a little disinfectant spread their way?

Oh yeah, I LOVE it!

I can’t imagine why you feel old!

Good God, I love Janis.

Sometimes I feel old.

Nothing that a good soak in the hot tub couldn’t take care of, Okk! ;-)

Oh, and the “Family Values” Party loves prostitution if they are the PIMPS!!!

I don’t know if everyone remembers Gus boulis of abramoff fame but I worked for the man and a bigger heart us hard to find among big business’s men

Gus was really loved by the community and his staff

linkalicious, Redd.

The GOPs can’t keep the lid on this forever, it’s gotta come out. Alice Fisher, maybe, is too busy with her own problems in Alabama to pay attention to Guam?

Why is Ralph Reed not in jail? Seems to me the evidence points to fraud.

my name is cbl, and I’m a jackaholic . . .

dayum ! am staring at one of 50 post it’s on the desk wherein I scribbled - Guam ??? as a reminder to see what had transpired in my 8 months of radio silence

but, but, they were absolved of any of Jack’s slime, oh god, the schaden-o-matic lies in pieces on the FDL Wheelhouse floor

Christy ,
my obsessive ass will eventually get through all your fabulous links - but are we gonna find treasure on the fired Guam USAA ?

guess I’m gonna have to give back this lovely token :D

Why aren’t ALL of them in jail?

Freaking mafia protection racket they got goin on from the inside.
Looks like something finally broke loose!

From the ABC link…

…funneled $324,000 in public funds to Abramoff and Greenberg Traurig in a series of $9,000 checks, disguised as payments to a third party.

Hmmm… Can anyone say SAR’s and Eliot…?

I want. No… I demand, parity under the law for offenders.

I think Christy is busy sharpening the edge on her shovel so she can dig even farther into this.

AH, the good old days are back again.

This had kind of fallen off my radar, what with so many outrages coming from Mafia central all the time.

This is never, ever off my radar… *g*

XO XO

Nothing is off kiddo’s radar. Trust me.

L.

mean ol Mr Cbl is making me go to dinner - catch y’all in a bit

hope someone answers my question about the fired Guam USAA Black -

Christy - sent lots of faxed love to those who flipped in favor of the Consitution today

mad progressive love to all

I am just squealing, The Bugman! Lord how I have wanted to see that smug jerk get himself some time behind bars.

IOKIYAR

I turn my eyes to the prosecuters to save us. Where else can I turn?

If you guys were here, you could all have a big mug of gumbo…rainy weather food at our house this evening.

President Obama. Please give us a very good AG.

I am amazed that the WSJ blog stylebook allows the use of “ginormous.”

Gumbo, please !
*holds out bowl*

SCOTUS is critical. Mr. McCain must be devalued.

btw, for folks who haven’t yet read it — John Anderson’s book does a great walk-through of the Abramoff/DeLay/K Street/Reed/Norquist/Rove connection loop up.

What’s the timing on this in terms of a new administration? What kinds of tricks can be played for the 10 months? Can they file mickey mouse charges to which double jeopardy can attach, for example?

Does this mean Hillary has to return the $185,000 she took from Greenberg Traurig? Or was that a down-payment on a pardon?

Or, better still for the Rs, do mickey mouse plea bargains?

OOOh, Gumbo, I was just yesterday perusing some Cajun recipe sites. I have my mouth set on some Jumbalaya.

I am reading the Three Trillion Dollar War, and it occurred to me I could just rip out each page while handing them out individually to folks on the street as an informative warning. One page to outrage.

I think both candidates have taken Greenberg money, if I remember correctly. Read something about that today, as a matter of fact. Greenberg’s a pretty big firm with offices all over the country — and their lawyers were not all connected to Abramoff — not by a long shot. So were I advising any of the candidates, I wouldn’t tell them to return anything that wasn’t Jack-connected. Having owned my own firm — and being married to someone who is also a lawyer, I can tell you quite honestly that we enjoy exercising our freedom of speech and political participation just like everyone else. *g*

Leahy was also concerned about “reports that she(Alice Fisher) has had ties to Congressman Tom DeLay’s defense team” and “also to know what steps she to take to avoid a conflict of interest in the Department’s investigation of lobbyist Jack Abramoff and possibly Mr. DeLay.”

That was from an ancient post of Jane’s, wow, Redd, the links have further links…!

why not?

Yep, they do. There are so many twisted layers in this story, it is unbelievable once you start digging them out how far down they go…

Gumbo? You got to have okra.

Maybe when the paperback edition comes out. *g*

Jambalaya Jambo(ham) ala (with) Laya (rice) I’m planning to make it for 100 in a couple of weeks.

Rove is key.

Here it is — I thought I’d seen something on both Clinton and Obama taking money from Greenberg…so they’d both have to look at the donations and answer from where they came and what, if any, Abramoff ties there might be.

Only if you make okra gumbo, if you make file gumbo you leave the okra out.

‘What a tangled web they weave…!’ *g*

I want to see an extremely strong AG under President Obama.

Yup — and since Mr. ReddHedd is NOT an okra fan, I make file gumbo here.

sorry to break O/T, here,
but on FISA telecom immunity,
and being able to explain why
there should be none — consider
using this with your reps.:

i have updated my post, of
earlier today — to include a new
full-sized image of page 142
of the DoJ’s OIG 2006 NSL report,
which details egregious negligence
in turning over the wrong person’s
records, in some cases, in turning
over the full-text of emails, in
others, and turning over the wrong
person’s phone records, in still others,
all due entirely to the failure of
the telecoms to carefully read the
national security letter, or the
FISA Section 215 records request.

[see the matter under the
U P D A T E D
banner in that above-link. . .]

fax the full image to your congress-
people, and tell them you won’t allow
such wanton negligence to be free of
legal consequences!

do it! let ‘er rip!

p e a c e

I always make gumbo with okra. With or without file. Cooking is of course a matter of taste.

There is also the lenten gumbo gumbo z’herbes

The tradition behind Gumbo z’Herbes is that it was usually made on Holy Thursday for consumption on Good Friday. Since Good Friday was (and still is) a day of fasting and abstinence from meat for Catholics, something meatless had to be prepared for dinner. Catholics in New Orleans normally had no difficulties with the Church’s no-meat-on-Fridays rule, since we have such an abundance of seafood in the area. Good Friday was a bit different, however, since it is also a day of fasting. The regular Friday seafood feast had to be toned down dramatically in keeping with the tone of the day.

my anti-virus program just informed me that it has down-loaded new info to the database. any bets on it having to do with all the evil Christy has just presented us?

I can’t imagine a world without okra. Fried with salt, pepper, cornmeal or with stewed tomatoes.

Matt - could you refresh my memory on McCain vulnerability regarding Abramoff?

Folks that don’t appreciate okra? Well, for the time being I won’t be judgemental on this issue. ;0)

I need to go off-topic. I was at work following the FISA vote today. Couldn’t really comment like I would have liked, felt lucky that I could, at least, keep checking the progress.
Anyway what I need to say is a big ‘Thank You’ to all the people that host liberal blogs. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Our country has been going steadily toward fascism for the last 7 yrs. If not for the internet, I’m sure Bush/Cheney would have succeeded in shredding the constitution and changing the U.S. into something few would recognize.
So, to all who manage this website and all the others out there fighting the good fight, you should be proud. We won one today and it wouldn’t have been possible without your dedication.

Sher goes on to explain how her family loves Seafood File Gumbo, not okra gumbo, and I realized immediately that my gumbo knowledge was pretty limited. Apparently gumbo made with file powder (pronounced fee-lay) is a Cajun dish while gumbo made with okra is Creole. Most gumbos get a lot of their rich flavor from a combination of flour and oil called a roux. Apparently there are a few different types of gumbo, all of which have their fans, and Sher isn’t the only food blogger who thinks gumbo is holiday fare.

If McCain wins, I will blame the Democratic Party. My party.

It’s a labor of love…but thanks much. Fight switches back to the Senate, again, and we’re working on steps we can take to push something that upholds the rule of law through as much as we possibly can.

If anyone has thoughts or ideas on that, let me know…

I strongly maintain my confidence in okra.

McCain was the Chair of the Senate Indian Affairs sub-committee during much of Abramoff’s shenanigans…

A lot of the taste comes from the roux — I’m a medium-brown roux person myself. Some people like theirs more blonde for a milder taste, and some like it almost burnt in a deep brown color. There’s also the holy trinity of onions, peppers and celery that gets softened up and browned a bit in the roux before the broth, rice, meats, veggies, etc.go in to stew for a while.

I think it’s a personal taste thing, really…but for me, it’s a rainy day Friday kinda food. *g*

I went to the New Orleans School of cooking in the early 80’s. Through that and reading literally hundreds of books about cajun (Acadian) and creole (from crillo or “of the colonies” in Spanish there is an absolute difference between the two kinds of Gumbo. That being said, after the school I stayed with a friend who was new Orleans born and bred and, in there home, Gumbo was nothing but vegetable soup. Of course there are people that put beans and tomatoes in chili to, it ain’t chili but it may taste good.

aren’t there like 600,00 documents still being suppressed?

I’m just gonna wait until Grover Norquist gets his wise ass indicted. Very smart guy in an evil sort of way. His little operation has probably been a funnel for so much dirty money they’ll need a semi to haul all the bank records to court. I wonder how many Norquist lookalikes will shave that obnoxious little goatee if he’s indicted. So many of them sport that thing I was beginning to think it’s part of the wingnut uniform. First ya gotta drink the Kool-Aid, then grow the Norquist-style facial hair. Assholes.

Yes. I am acutely aware of this fact.

The holy trinity is also useful when cooking the roux becaUse you can arrest the cooking process immediately by adding it. As we ALL know, if we burn it just a bit we throw it away and go back jack and do it again.

Sounds accurate to me, maybe, Christy has another linky on tap…! 8-)

KO Time…!

that’s a great blog entry you have up there, I wish I could cut and paste the screenshot, will type by hand;

the fisa court twice refused to authorize section 215 on concerns…the fbi subsequently issued nsls to obtain information based on the same factual predicate

section 215 allows the fbi to seek a bussiness records order…

sorry if there are typos, I transcribed that but I TOLD YOU, THEY ARE STEALING FROM US, it is clear as friggin day

Gumbo, yum. Chicken or seafood? You make a roux?

Ooh, Obama will be on with KO!

YAY!!!!
FINALLY!
5:00 on Friday.
I had the week from hell and today was no different.
See Ya’s !

Any day for gumbo is right for me. It can be a hot Oklahoma afternoon or a snowy night. Makes no difference. Not where gumbo is concerened. Be it chicken, shrimp, sausage, turkey, ham gumbo or whatever. And for us in this house, without okra, it’s not gumbo. It’s a matter of taste i suppose.

Obama now on with Keith…

Keith playing the Jeremiah Wright tape now once again…among other tapes…

umm, nevermind. jest catchin’ up.

Wright no longer on Obama Campaign Spiritual Advisory Committee…

swift boat treasurer embezzles million bucks from gop

oh, how sweet it is

Just now paid attention to the video. In the day Janis with Big Brother was just awesome. Awesome.

Some of what Pastor Wright says I cannot disagree with.

I’ve heard Wright speak. He came to our denominational conference last summer and was quite measured and gifted.

As someone said on a TPM thread, I wouldn’t imagine anyone in my congregation who ran for public office measured by what I said or didn’t say. The double standard in the media over this and McCain’s reich wing very angry and evil pastors is painful.

The Palestinians are oppressed. Is this not a valid statement?

I’m so lucky, my friend put her phone up to her TV so I could hear Keith. I’m cable impaired.

I agree! I might disagree with his vitriolic delivery, but, the message is true…!

Wright has actually retired from his congregation…looks like Obama is appearing momentarily on Keith to do damage control…

Very good.

Good news about Greenberg Traurig!

May Jack shadow McCain throughout the general.

Lets perhaps examine Mr. McCain’s message.

Jonathan Alter said that Obama needs the support of Jewish groups in Chicago who have known him for quite some time to come to his defense

BTW, Keith put this show on tonight at last minute…

Obama’s on…

And what has the message from George W. Bush been over the last seven plus years?

It’s funny how the right wing just assumes that you agree with everything your pastor says. They don’t have three synapses to jump start in the critical thinking area. Morons.

Please Keith, don’t play that video again!

Obama claims ignorance. Weak.

Obama: Jeremiah Wright’s a former Marine…

So sorry to hear the Reverend has stepped down.

Obama: I would not repudiate the man. He brought me to Jesus. He’s like …

What are the issues that you disagree with Pastor Wright on?

Mainly because in right wing churches you are expected to believe what your authoritarian pastors say. It’s the way it works.

But Obama belongs to a UCC church which is almost as liberal as mine is and folks in the pews are expected to question and challenge what we say.