My daffodils are starting to pop up along the walkway, and the robins have returned to bedevil the worms in our front yard. Our neighbor’s ornamental pear tree has started to bud, as have some of our flowering shrubs, and you can almost feel the leaves wanting to burst forth after a long, icky winter’s nap. The local squirrel has unfurled from his perch inside the oak tree across the street and has taken to taunting our cat, hanging off the bird feeder outside the sunroom window and waving to her as he stuffs peanuts and sunflower seeds in his mouth.
Cheeky little bastard.
Funniest story I saw all week was this blip from TMZ about anti-choice protesters infiltrating the Hollywood premiere of Horton Hears a Who to chant anti-abortions slogans at stars and their children as the credits rolled. (H/T Feministe) Never mind, of course, that the real Dr. Seuss told them to knock it off the last time the anti-choice folks tried to twist his words to their own agenda — or that the book was written as:
…a quiet statement against political isolationism and, in the McCarthy era in which it was written, it seemed to be a plea for political tolerance. (Geisel cried foul, however, when the anti-abortion movement appropriated and politicized the central phrase from "Horton" — "A person’s a person no matter how small.")
Guess the wishes of the author and his tiny fans don’t matter. Or, in the alternative, that making a public spectacle of yourself in front of a crowd of non-comprehending children and the author’s widow can apparently become an addictive yet weird pastime. (Although I do wonder if the anti-choice folks dragged their own children along to the premiere as "kid props" to gain entry, don’t you?)
In any case, we are hoping to take The Peanut to see the film later on today. She loves to see movies in theaters, and the Horton books are some of her favorite Seuss of all time — she loves the Whos and the elephant who works so hard to protect them — so it should be a fun time for the Smiths today.
What has made you laugh this week? Anything silly or amusing or just plain bizarre? Doing anything fun this weekend — watching a good movie, reading a great book, buy yourself a great new album or toy or what-have-you? Let’s talk diversions this morning, because it’s been a long week and we have all earned a break after yesterday’s FISA vote in the House. Pull up a chair…
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GoodMorning!
and zed
hi
Broken legs, itchy cockers, tornado’s . . . spring has sprung!
Good Morning CHrristy,
what a beautiful jonquil! can’t wait to see my daffodils!
What has made you laugh this week? Anything silly or amusing or just plain bizarre?
Yep the White House/ Fed’s current economic theories to stop the Subprime/Prime crisis. Just what box of Crackerjack these bozos got their diplomas from is my question?
Morning all. Coffee, anyone?
That Paterson quote when asked something to the effect, “Have you ever used a call girl?” Just the perfect pause before answering, “Only the lobbyists.” It loses a lot in “translation” but this guy has definite possibilities. *g*
I’ve really hated – no, detested – the last couple of movies Jim Caray did that were adaptations of kids’ books. Please tell me this one isn’t along the same lines of those.
This from Glenn Greenwald gladdened my heart this morning:
The pups am I went out for our morning Joe when the hail storm hit!
Good morning Christy. et al
One of the better laughs (actually several) were from Bill in Portland over at the big orange satan. He’s always good for a laugh even when things are awful. I guess that’s how we all keep going.
A few bulbs popping up around here but not much yet. The stink bugs are showing themselves in the house here and there—flushed two of them last night. urgh.
But all in all, it’s been a good week with yesterday’s halt of the FISA debacle. Here’s hoping . . .
Anyone here from Atlanta with a report on last night’s tornado?
Oh, and as for the lizard brain anti-choice folks, they do tend to use their kids as props any chance they get. I wonder if that eventually indoctrinates the kids to the cause or repels them as they get older. I was at a nasty even in Wichita in 2001 and one guy put his kid physically in the middle as he yelled and shouted at one of our folks.
Good everyone.
On behalf of the Fourth Amendment, the Constitution and the rule of law, I would like thank Christy for her passion and leadership on this issue. Many thanks to Jane, Glen, all the firepups who called and faxed, and all the Democrats who stood up and demonstrated that American liberty is still there.
We’ve had a recent weird influx of ants, scouting around for the colony outside, I suppose. But it’s awfully early for that which makes me wonder whether they are going to be a problem this year. And, if so, what is to be done about it.
Hate the idea of getting an exterminator or something because that’s so toxic and lingering. Anyone have any good ideas on an ant colony infestation? Let me know…
That should be Good Morning everyone in my lucky 13 comment.
Ooooo, good choice! Some days the sun *does* shine and the shadows flee away.
RevDeb @ 11-
Asked Raven earlier but he was probably out walking the dogs (while getting caught in a bit of storm himself).
Here Here! Second the motion.
AMEN!
We’ve had some ants inside too. I’ve tried the traps and some work better than others but at this point I’ve had to resort to lemon scented Raid. Haven’t found the source of them either.
From Marion in Savannah “Collins”
“And then, finally, the nub of the housing crisis: “Problem we have is, a lot of folks aren’t responding to over a million letters sent out to offer them assistance and mortgage counseling,” the president of the United States told the world.”
The problem is that the banks who made these loans the *cough* experts need to get some letters about making bad loans and get some counseling.
Blaming people after the bank experts told them they could afford a home loan is so freaking Elitists.
Blaming regular America for your Administration’s financial policy failure’s when things go wrong is part of Bush’s pattern.
Never admit a mistake, Never learn from a mistake, Never fix a mistake for if you ignore it long enough it will go away…after all another problem WILL come along to take people’s minds off today’s problem.
For ants, you can make your own ant trap,
life at the creek cottage
As far as ants go, I’ve found that cedar mulch works in keeping them from making their nests under it. I use it to create a perimeter around the house.
I was just saying yesterday how nice it it is to smell the air, and the aroma of earth in the air.
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
Collins is pretty funny today!
Good morning Christy, morning dawgs -
It was just reported on MSNBC that John McCain is saying that the “terrists” might step up violence in Iraq to try and sway American voters away from him.
Morning all. Today was the day to work on the motorcycle here in SE Iowa, but I walked to the shop this morning through fresh falling snow – and that brings a smile, however rueful.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
g’morning christy
i’ve found sprinkling used coffee grounds around the exterior of my foundation prevented ants from coming inside. not only do the ants h-a-t-e to step in it (excellent non toxic barrier), my plants love the stuff.
i put the outside water for my critters in a tray with used grounds in the summer to prevent them from invading their water. haven’t had an ant problem since i started it and i used to have ant problems every year.
We are expecting more storms later this morning in the Atlanta area but right now I’m listening to the birds sing.
And that’s putting it mildly; still can’t get rid of a residual six-hour smirk.
Morning pups, thanks for my first morning smile. How can you not love this place — where by comment 22 in the morning, we have properly thanked Christy et al for their heroic and successful 4th amendment efforts, commented on the economy, and supplied a non-chemical recipe for ant eradication?
I’m trying a new recipe for a pre St. Patty’s Day dinner which may or may not be traditional. However it does use corned beef and I do love Reubens.
Reuben Casserole With Crumb Topping
INGREDIENTS:
* 1 1/2 to 2 cups diced corned beef, about 8 ounces
* 16 ounces sauerkraut, preferably fresh, drained and rinsed, squeezed dry
* 2 tablespoons grated onion
* 1 cup shredded Swiss cheese
* 1 cup shredded mild Cheddar cheese
* 1/2 cup light Thousand Island dressing
* 1/4 cup mayonnaise, light or regular
* 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
* .
* Topping
* 3 slices rye bread
* 2 tablespoons butter, melted
PREPARATION:
Spray an 8-inch square (2-quart) baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. Heat oven to 350°.
In a large bowl, combine corned beef, sauerkraut, onion, cheeses, dressing, mayonnaise, and pepper; stir with a spoon or hands until well blended.
Pat into prepared baking dish.
Tear bread into pieces and process until crumbs are fine. Put in a bowl and toss with the melted butter. Sprinkle crumbs over the casserole. Bake for 45 minutes, until topping is browned and filling is bubbly.
Serves 6 to 8.
See, that just proves that there is something good to be found in everything!
Glad you made it home safe last night — the pictures of downtown Atlanta are horrific.
My first daffodils have bloomed! And tomorrow is a chance of snow again. Winter isn’t quite over yet. And now off to Flagstaff for shopping and maybe a movie! Ya’ll have a great day! Hope Peanut enjoys Horton.
In fact, we have it on good authority that the Mahdi Army stood down for the past few months exactly to make McCain look good and sucker the Republicans into nominating him.
Have you experience with prostitutes?
Answer: Only the lobbyists in Albany
We have snow in KC right now. It’s not expected to stick, but still . . .
I landed (I think) this new gig with a firm on the 74th floor of the empire state building. How weird is that?
The only cool thing is that Human Rights Watch is 40 floors below me! hahaha How weird is that?
That’s goin’ on the table as soon as I can get hold of some good corned beef; please report if you think it needs any kind of tweaking.
SanderO @ 36 -
Ta for the *real* quote; told ya my translation sux’d (apologies for the naughty, but that’s the best description).
Oh I did not find that funny at all. This the President of the United States we’re talking about. No, I don’t think it’s funny at all. We’re about to go to hell in a handbasket and this fool can’t put together a complete sentence, and when he does, it’s an irrelevant statement.
It’s pathetic!
wow. sounds like a winner. We’ll have to try that.
Thanks Suzanne
Good coaching?
This gave me a chuckle
When Julius Erving arrived on campus from Roosevelt, Long Island, he was 6 foot 3. When he left, he was 6-7″
Now, that’s coaching!” Jack Leaman, former UMass coach.
Oh, right, I forgot, it’s all about Him.
Wasn’t that priceless!
David Paterson is a very good guy. If he can really grab the helm in NYC we might see a very progressive agenda. I feel bad for Eliot, but I am not disappointed that David has become Gov. He’s black, from Harlem and he’s blind so he’s quite sensitive to the needs of “real” people and not someone who has learned compassion in a classroom at some ivy league college.
I look forward to watching The Feast of Love by Robert Benton, that I got from Netflix…Morgan Freeman, George Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Selma Blair…
I will, it’s funny when I mentioned this recipe at work yesterday the response was crazy. Everyone wanted the link.
We had a work Happy Hour last night, and one of my coworkers introduced me to her husband. She asked me to tell him about that casserole, which he asked her when they will make it, and this morning I find out that one of the other guests going to this dinner changed her dish, which also used corned beef, so not to compete with it.
This recipe has taken on a life if it’s own in the last 24 hours.
I remember his father, Basil. Good people.
It was one of the best responses I have had the pleasure of hearing/watching!
What was up with the OJ type coverage from the helicopter of Spitzer’s SUV???
And why is anyone who isn’t a true off-roader still driving these behemoths?
It so ticks me off… our poor blue planet is dying.
nothing surprising here:
The former treasurer for the National Republican Congressional Committee diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars — and possibly as much as $1 million — of the organization’s funds into his personal accounts, GOP officials said yesterday, describing an alleged scheme that could become one of the largest political frauds in recent history.
For at least four years, Christopher J. Ward, who is under investigation by the FBI, allegedly used wire transfers to funnel money out of NRCC coffers and into other political committee accounts he controlled as treasurer, NRCC leaders and lawyers said in their first public statement since they turned the matter over to the FBI six weeks ago.
“The evidence we have today indicated we have been deceived and betrayed for a number of years by a highly respected and trusted individual,” said Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), the NRCC chairman.
The committee also announced that it has submitted to banks five years’ worth of audits and financial documents allegedly faked by Ward, some of which were used to secure multimillion-dollar loans. It is a violation of federal laws to obtain loans through false statements; the crime is punishable by up to $1 million in fines and 30 years in prison.
the problem is that they will never see the irony or connect the dots. That’s why they’re repuglicans.
this is a hoot:
“While the circumstances surrounding Governor Spitzer’s resignation are newsworthy, some publications, in violation of journalistic norms, have used the occasion of Gov. Spitzer’s political misfortunes as an excuse to exploit Ms. Dupre’s persona for commercial purposes,” he said.
But media interest in Dupre still swirled. Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt told the AP Friday that he had e-mailed Dupre, offering her $1 million to pose nude for his magazine. He said he hadn’t heard back.
“It will be something that will very tastefully done,” Flynt said of the proposed photo spread, but he added that Dupre would have to appear completely naked and not just topless.
“Hustler readers don’t like to compromise,” he said. “They want the whole enchilada.”
Flynt acknowledged he wasn’t sure whether Dupre would accept, adding she is likely being approached with offers from other men’s magazines, as well as book publishers and other media.
Media outlets had been camped outside her apartment in Manhattan’s Flatiron district for days. A spokesman for her building issued a statement Thursday night saying she was not there and indicated Dupre’s fellow tenants – who pay $6,595 for two-bedroom apartments – were fed up with the media circus and curiosity-seekers.
Sprinkle diatomaceous earth around where you see the ants coming in. It’s non-toxic to humans and pets, but not the same as the DE for swimming pool filters.
But internet is killing the pay for sex industry in Yerp:
The oldest bordello in Hamburg’s red-light district is shutting down for lack of business, according to newspaper reports published Friday.
The family-run Hotel Luxor, established in 1948, is being sold to an investor and will close down for good next month, madam Waltraud Mehrer said, according to the Hamburg Morgenpost and Bild newspapers.
She blamed the decline in business on easily available Internet porn, the rise of call-girl services, and “noisy discos and dance clubs” on the same street as her business, the newspapers reported.
“You can’t make any big money selling sex in St. Pauli any more,” she was quoted as saying, referring to the area that includes the red-light district. “The only thing still in operation are the table dance clubs.”
The club’s heyday was in the 1970s, when it was open 7 days a week, with 12 prostitutes on hand.
“Our customers were well off, they didn’t scrimp,” she said. “That’s also changed today.”
Hotel Luxor today employs four prostitutes, and is only open Tuesday through Friday nights.
“Two thousand euros (US$3,080) per night _ it was like that once,” one of the women, who gave her name only as “Nicole,” told the Morgenpost. “Now I can only dream of that. I’ve been here a year and only earn around euro200 (US$308) per shift.”
SanderO @ 50 and 52:
Links, please.
Hey! There’s a familiar smell in the air. And we were talking about recipes before. It smells good. It smells like….ahhhh…Schadenfreude Pie!
A laugh, let’s see. Over the past week, my wife and I have gotten into a match of launching into every synonym for “repudiate” that we can think of, anytime Obama or Clinton have to try to set someone in their campaigns adrift. I think tBogg did a post using a thesaurus to deny responsibility for anything anyone said, but we’ve gone beyond that with things like, “I piss on the graves of the ancestors of,” etc. It’s more fun in the doing, than in the telling.
Gals of NYC:
Sources say Dupre got involved with the Emperors Club as early as 2006 after responding to an ad from the agency seeking girls to “party” with deep-pocketed men.
After meeting with her, the escort service’s operators liked what they saw. She took to the job quickly.
“Like all of them, she wanted to hang out with guys with money,” a source said.
Peterr
Articles linked on Drudge report. NY Post I think/ Daily News???
Oh, so that’s what a St. Pauli Girl is.
I’d rather talk about recipes and flowers this morning, than prostitutes.
Oh, I agree, 100%! But seeing the MSM say something like that in front of the whole world was just such a shocker. And truth to tell, my tear ducts are pretty much worn out; it ain’t often ya find some small sliver of silver lining these days.
These cream cheese & chocolate cupcakes are absolutely fabulous
* 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
* 1 large egg, at room temperature
* 1/3 cup plus 1 cup granulated sugar
* 1 cup miniature chocolate chips
* 1 & 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 cup warm water
* 1/3 cup vegetable oil
* 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350°. Line 2 12-cup muffin tins with cupcake liners.
Beat cream cheese, egg, and 1/3 cup sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy (about 2 minutes). Stir in the chocolate chips. Set aside.
In a large bowl, combine flour, 1 cup sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Make a well in the center, and add water, oil, vinegar, and vanilla. Mix just until blended.
Fill each muffin cup one-third full with the chocolate batter. Top with a spoonful of cream cheese mixture, until cups are about two-thirds full. Bake 22 to 28 minutes, until the tops spring back lightly when touched.
Cool in pans for 10 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool completely.
Makes about 24 cupcakes.
I have to say, an extended Saturday morning conversation about prostitute research wasn’t exactly what I had in mind when I wrote this. Blergh…
Terrible news from Tibet. At least 30 and perhaps as many as 130 dead after rioting. And of course our country can’t say a word about it because we no longer have any moral standing in the world.
Lucky 13 says it for all of us! Thanks, millineryman.
Good mornin’ from the tall timber, where we are enjoying the fire in the fireplace and waiting for the thermometer to climb back above freezing. Watching red squirrels and chickadees and nuthatches and redpolls in their little red tams squabble over the feeders. ’tis a cleansing day.
Props to Christy and Jane for passion, and for leadership. We are proud to be in your company.
I’m still chuckling over the image I heard on the radio. The bee house in Calif somewhere that’s been overtaken by so many–millions?–of bees that the walls drip with honey. So that’s where they all went!
Back to read the rest o’comments after I go grind up coffee beans for a fresh cuppa.
Prairie Today: Kindling
now I have to get to work. In the midst of a financial melt-down we are kicking off our church’s annual pledge drive tomorrow and I need to be inspirational.
Now he knows how the rest of America feels.
Sorry Christy. I was just scanning the news and that’s some of the crap that surfaced.
That’s okay — it’s just that Saturday mornings are, generally, the one cheery time of the week where we don’t talk depressing and/or irritating news. And it’s been a long week, so I was looking forward to that break this morning.
Probably just me…and a need for a day off. *g*
Dr. Seuss’s Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now is the first book my son learned to read. Took it to read for his special day at pre-K, & the teacher asked me: How did he learn to read? He doesn’t sit still long enough to learn anything. (He, of course, had memorized it from my reading it to him.)
I always thought it was about Nixon, but wiki tells me it was written too soon after Watergate to make that a possibility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M…..ase_Go_Now!
I noticed this week, when I went outside at my new job in the Malibu canyon, a light smell of…onions. At first I thought it might be coming from one of the nearby restaurants.
But, then, I noticed patches of light purple mixed in with the gorgeous green in the rolling hills.
I suspected what the odor was.
The building I work in is next to the Malibu Creek, where a reclaimation project is underway, so I looked closely and there are orange poppies and wild onions growing.
Beautiful.
I love onions.
Morning, pups. Dr suess, how I cried when he passed. I grew up with his books and was epecially thrilled when as a graduation giftI recieved, Oh the Places You Will Go. Fantastic book.
I had tried that years back and was surprised that it didn’t work. After relating this to a neighbor, he said they might be ‘fat’ loving ants and to test it out on a lil piece of paper plate. So we put out a lil sample of sugar and one of peanut butter and found that they overwhelmingly preferred the peanut butter. We did the borax mix w/ peanut butter and it worked but my mom said to just simply use white vinegar on the colony and that will get rid of them for good. I will test it out and report back later with the results.
But we had a realllllllllly good Friday….for a change. *G* And many thanks to you and all the pups who literally *made* it happen.
because they are keeping an eye on our political race and know the dems are weak on terra. what a boob
Hi everybody – avid reader checking in from the sleety Northeast.
Spent the last 3 days trying to talk my pal off the ledge over Obama’s pastor flap. A series of education opportunities, as I’ve been able to explain to him things like concern trolling, oppo research, distraction techniques etc.
I’m about to head out to my first Democratic Town Committee meeting. Time for action!
will have to try that for the garden area
Hear. Hear.
The summer between high school and college I worked on the 63Rd floor of the Empire State Building. The building has express elevators. I don’t remember the numbers, but I took one that bypassed (really fast) the first about 55 floors. Ditto, going down. The other thing that struck me was that none of the windows opened. It was also the first time I saw a mail chute. It was a narrow chute that was all window on the outside where you could watch letters descending from heaven.
Have y’all seen this one about Conyers and teh internets?
http://www.multichannel.com/in…..=CA6540885
good morning!
this week, this site has been amusing me………it is spring in your monitor, only takes a second to do.
sent to me from a fellow master gardener.
New plan for my gardening this year.
Click on the below link. You will get a black
page. Click your mouse anywhere (& everywhere) on the page & see what
happens! Better yet, click & drag your mouse over the black page… The more
you click, or hold the mouse, the more flowers will
grow!
Enjoy!!
http://www.procreo.jp/labo/flower_garden.swf
One of my favotrite poems of spring is Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils.’
LOL!!!
Christy,
I really enjoyed your post. But, I guess sometimes it’s that you can lead a horse to water, but…
I went over to Daryl Cagle’ site to find something funny to share.
Found one cartoon with a big stupid cave guy saying Hey, I just invented fire and the wheel. There’s a cave woman standing there, hand on hip, who is saying No kidding? I just invented free sex for fire and the wheel.
Sorry to bring up the P word, but the cartoon made me laugh. Guys!
I loved Dr. Seuss when I was kid. Tremendous influence on me. I remembering ordering green eggs and ham at restaurant as a kid. My parents were a bit shocked at first, then they busted out laughing. I figured at the time I would give it shot because we had no green eggs at home.
Borax and honey. Put the honey in a place where the ants will find it, surround it with borax. The ants will go for the honey but when leaving with their loot the borax clings to the honey. They take this back to the nest and it kills the queen (and the nest). I tried this once and it seemed to work very well, worth a try anyway Christy.
This might be apt for this thread. From BBC News:
My son called to tell us that his youngest, our three-year-old granddaughter, has a way with song and dance. He said that, after brushing her teeth, she came out of the bathroom singing:
“My teeth are shiney,
Just like my hiney.”
Dancing, she pointed at both features at the appropriate place in the song.
They’re coming to visit us from Colorado the first week of April. We haven’t seen them since we were up there last summer. Looking forward to spoiling them.
You’re probably not old enough to remember when some larger department stores only had one central cash collection point and there were these overhead pipes thru’ which payments and change were shot back and forth…..sorta like today’s drive-in windows at banks. Lor’, haven’t thought about that in more years than anyone wants to count. :-)
For many years I worked in The Brill Building on 49th St and Broadway and the building had mail chute. We’d never use it because the a letter would inevitably get caught between floors and jam the whole thing up. We’d always take the elevator to the lobby and drop our mail in the box. But then I was on the 7th, not the 74th floor.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Oh man. I hope they get that one on tape — will make for some great family reunion/date night embarrassment footage, if so…
We still have one old department store, Weavers, in Lawrence, that sends payments to the central office by pneumatic tube.
More:
Same linky.
http://ihasahotdog.com
http://icanhascheezburger.com
these two websites have been cracking me up all week………
icanhascheezburger was named #4 of 50 top websites in ’the globe’ from england……..so, i hadn’t been there in a while, so, i checked it out……..the march 12th one about a taxi/clown car reminded me of marymccurnin’s clown car joke……..really made me laugh.
and last month my sister took me to her favorite b&b for my birthday, the cornerstone in nashville, indiana, brown county…..south of indianapolis……anyone near nashville needs to go there, plenty of options for lodgings, lovely place, the state park has cabins and a pool…i am NOT a shopper, and i had fun, lots of cool things….town closes by 7pm, so buy your own wine, two places to choose from.
the b&b serves these crackers that my sister is addicted to, we got the recipe.
Candy Crackers
spray cookie sheet
line with foil
spray foil. lay out club crackers to cover in 1 layer
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 sticks butter
3 tablespoons light corn syrup
boil 2 minutes
add 2 teaspoons vanilla
pour mixture over crackers-spread quickly to coat
press chopped nuts of your choice on top
bake 25 minutes @ 350
let cool and break into cracker size
Wow, 5 cures for ants, I think I’ll try white vinegar for the piss ants (sugar ants) in the kitchen.
The tomatoes are going in today, as well as the peppers and basil. I’ll have to put them out front and in the side yards to keep them separated so they don’t cross-pollinate.
The funniest thing? My husband playing YouTube videos of Corgis for our new puppy.
I have always thought that Barbara Bush would have made the world a better place if she had encouraged young George W. (or older George W.) to read Dr. Seuss – this from Yertle the Turtle is one of my favourites…
And today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he,
Is King of the Mud. That is all he can see.
And the turtles, of course…all the turtles are free
As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.
And perhaps listen to the wisdom of Mack the Turtle, on the bottom of the tower of turtles….
“I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.”
And this is why my doctor didn’t prescribe antibiotics for my viral infection. He said just take ibrupofen and lotsa liquids and rest…from the Beeb:
That’s so fun to hear; ta for supplying the proper name for it.
I love this place!! Thanks, Elliott. I’ll hand this off to David, who’s been a lifelong environmental guardian. Woot!
Bar would have done a great service to the world had she been infertile.
Hey Wang.
But it might be cool to have a basil tomatoe.
You could become rich, rich, rich, I tell you.
Now that you mention it, I do remember it getting jammed from time to time.
Ach. I misspelled tomato.
Does that make me sorta like Dan Quale?
Christy -
Have you heard that Al Gore is now writing children’s books about climate change?
Sounds like genetically modified food.
Oh, but wait. Green eggs and ham? It’s a thinly-veiled metaphor for those pesky tree huggers. Cat in the Hat? Think Panama hats. Think Noriega. See how subversive the good doctor was??
Sorry, forgot the linky:
http://www.businesswireindia.c…..2mid=15347
Dan
QualeQuayle…I think Cat In The Hat was written well before Noriega’s time, wasn’t it?
Good Morning Christy and Firedogs -
hoping Raven, Marion, and all Georgia Firedogs are safe
have been smiling for the last 12 hours knowing somewhere, somebody had to tell Cheney he wasn’t getting what he wanted
Christy, about half way through your GT/Abramoff linkapalooza – thanks again for helping me get back up to speed
I go here
when it starts to feel like overload and I’m not even a fish person :D
Would that be bad?
Tomatos that already have the pepper, onion, basil flavor in them.
I think irony was the intention! :-)
Prescient dude, that Seuss! *g*
toMAYtoe, toMAHtoe. I think they’re both acceptable.
biodun—my doctor discourages the use of ibuprofen…….vehemently.
and i keep wanting to tell you, but didn’t want to interrupt the threads with it, if you don’t already know, NEVER NEVER drink alchohol with it……damages your innards, kidneys, liver, and doesn’t take much to do damage…….if you’re gonna have your wine, just have the wine.
feel better soon, i had the flu for two weeks, just now getting around again……..
But then the chef would be redundant. Can’t have that! *g*
And then there’s Shel Silverstein’s “Where the Sidewalk Ends.” Clearly an apocalyptic reference. Likely an end times guy. Oh, wait. Silverstein? Probably not. Even so, you can never be too careful about reading between the lines/words/thoughts of a children’s author, eh?
I had a former friend tell me that once who was a grade school teacher, about how subversive Dr. Suess was. I just sat there stunned about that tirade.
I was waaay too late to those threads, only getting to my computer yesterday late in the afternoon, but one of my favorite things for me this week was opening the NYTimes online and seeing that FISA had been passed by the House. Immediately called my Rep, Doggett, to thank him and whoop and holler a bit. When I told the aide that it made my day, he was really surprised and happy to hear that that it was important to people. He asked where I’d been following it and I told him firedoglake.
Echoing others’ comments – Good on Jane and Christy and all of us who did what we did to help it happen!
Another favorite thing was getting to take a walk a couple days ago in this perfect weather – sunny, breezy, not too hot, not too cold.
And another was going yesterday to my NIA dance class. We were all very giddy and playful and when pirate music came on we were swabbing the decks and climbing to the crow’s nest and generally pirating around. Great fun!
(singing) Let’s call the whole thing off. *g*
I always planted my tomatoes and basil together so that the basil could protect the tomatoes. Companion planting.
Thanks! I never have wine with it…trust me on that one…*g*
Sous cooking for dummies, or lazys.
two weeks? Please get better soon…
Good morning everyone. My friend Paul of 22 years passed away in his sleep Thursday night (he was an alcoholic so it was bound to happen at some point). Sucks. I came here to get some laughter and happy thoughts. ;-)
Got ants? Ants don’t like the smell of cucumber and putting the peels of one outside where the ants come in can keep them away if you’re looking for a natural solution.
Yes, long before. The Cat in the Hat was 1957. In addition to the insights and amazing characters and imagination, I don’t think Seuss gets enough attention for the skill of his writing – it is not easy to write in such strict meter with such a small and monosyllabic vocabulary!
cbl 2
I loved the comment about you reminding someone of being the “Texas Tornado” in regard to your political activism. A good analogy for someone so active and keeping us informed of your activities.
we’re taking a break from all that right now…see earlier this thread…*G*
OK, now I know that the retroactive immunity was somehow removed from the bill, but I’m not quite sure I understand exactly what happened. Can someone please give me a brief explanation of what was accomplished and how it was done? Or point me to a link that explains it in a way that I might understand?
TIA…
a break from FISA I meant..not from dancing and walking…
Ah, jeez. Good friend to be “former.” I’ve been absolutely amazed to discover how conservative my long-ago high school friends are/have become. I mean religious-right conservative. Every time they forward a screed about immigration, gays, George’s war, I write back saying, “Thank you so much for this. I’m guessing you wanted me to see how (racist/intolerant/whatever) other people are. Glad you’re offended by this kind of thing, too.” Funny. Don’t get many of those any more. *g*
Wow! That is amazing! It’s like a sea horse with leaves. Next time I go to Atlanta to see my friends, I will go to that aquarium for sure.
Wishing all the Atlanta folks a safe passage through the weather.
Tansy is supposed to be an ant repellant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tansy
And onions around the rose bushes to keep the buggies away.
Can’t we dance and walk (and talk) to celebrate the passage of the FISA bill without immunity?
Re: Ant Colony Infestations
Not sure how severe yours are but I have used bay leaves with great success. I scatter them under the rugs to our entranceways, the cabinet under the sink, and near other areas where the ants have congregated (pet feeding areas).
Another thing to try before the bay leaves is a product called Terro Liquid Ant Killer. The label says it is for sweet eating ants, whatever they are. Comes in a small hand-sanitizer size bottle. You dribble some drops of it on a piece of cardboard and place it around where ants congregagte. Worked great for me. Then I just used the bay leaves. Haven’t had a problem since. The Terro website says it contains borax which is fairly safe (relatively speaking). I’ve used borax successfully in my rugs/carpets when my pets had a case of fleas too. Terro.com shows other products as well.
Good luck!
That’s really neat. Corgi’s and Shelties are my favorite dogs. I’ve got one of each. After those You Tube clips, I need my keys taken away today, or will end up with another pup.
Thanks. The plant looks familiar but am not sure it grows up here in Maine. I like a natural alternative to getting rid of bugs. I keep telling my son to clean up his room and to not eat in it. That also helps. LOL
biodun at 125—yes, two freakin’ weeks……..was out of town, came home, got sick….same flu my dad and one of my friends had had……jerks /s…didn’t want to eat anything, so ate homemade turkey rice soup that friend wanda made, and ezekiel raisin toast…..with apple butter.
i had only been out 3 times in two weeks…….to vote, to get food……
this week, wanda kidnapped me, went to store monday and bought all kinds of fresh food…i had been craving cantelope of all things! and a few errands..it about wore me out.
that flu really kicks your ass, sickest i have ever been, ever.
then wednesday, went to whole foods in columbus with her after follow-up surgeon appointment………i am a happy girl……..all kinds of good stuff to get my system back on the attack……..
so, try and eat well, biodun. lotsa lotsa water……flush that virus on out.
Yes well that comment was one of many that made we realize there was no common ground where we could meet and celebrate our differences. I like to be around people with other view points, it makes me open my eyes, however when there are extreme views on either side of the spectrum, and no desire to see anything else, I find it’s better to just move on.
Good morning, all! My 16-year-old son went to see Horton last night and said it was great. (and he’s a pretty good judge, I’d say.) Now I want to go.
Tansy is also poisonous to other critters and quite invasive. Something to be very careful with.
As one prone to sinus infections, I would also add that a Neti pot is a great symptom reliever. I’m surprised that that article you quote suggest ABT appropriate after 7 to 10 days. Our physicians tell us to come back after 2-3 weeks with a virus before even talking ABT.
Cautionary tales from the NYTimes Health Guide:
Mornin’ all,
I knew there was something really wrong with our nation but couldn’t put my finger on it. Curiosity told me to see what that blog thing was about.
Knew about Huffpo so I tried it out, and thats when the name Firedoglake caught my eye in their blogroll. I arrived on the shore at FDL and found folks with a clue, informative posts by Christy, Jane et al and that commenting thing. Awkward first comments were welcomed by pups and posters
and I knew I had found a home. Oh yeah, I lurked a lot this past year, taking notes favoriting sites and links and spongeing up all I could absorb. Just, THANK YOU all, especially you Christy for teaching, listening and then holding our feet to the fire to do something about it. My reps are not too thrilled about it, but that’s just tough noogies. Oh, and I cannot forget to mention my Pup Meetup friends eCAHN,SanderO, Pat9, Petrecca, perris, juslin, ralphbon and even the lurker who showed up and was too scared to even tell us his name.
Too long, sorry about that. FDL, where real patriots log in.
Sincerely, bluejeansntshirt
((((KayinMaine)))) stopped by your place last night. So sorry about your friend.
Lots and lots of docs still use the 7-10 day guideline for prescribing antibiotics.
Lots and lots of bacteria continue to develop resistance to antibiotics…
True enough. About ten years ago, I developed an allergy to (prepare to weep for me, please) chocolate. And I’m not 11 years old!
Twas legit in the context of this post, I believe. The passage of FISA yesterday was probably the thing that’s made me happiest all week. I’m still smiling over it.
Grows in mid-Husdon on north side of building, which is where my herb garden is, so I suspect it will grow in Maine, esp if your garden has more sunlight.
My only garden is an herb garden. I figured out why many years after starting it, when someone told me that herbs are weeds. That explained everything. Tansy is a perennial, so just plop it in and relax for the rest of time. Mine needs some support as it grow about 3′ tall and falls over.
As for vegetable gardening, I discovered that the farm stand’s crop comes in just when mine would have, and you don’t have to do all the work.
Methinks we can. Thanks for asking.
Morning, all!
That’s odd. The wiki entry says that it used to be used in human food.
Good morning Christy. As usual this winter, big fluffy flakes are falling, four inches on the ground. We got 9 storms of more than 8 inches, and 22 other snowfalls of less than eigt. More than twelve feet in total. The snowbanks are epic, twenty five feet high houses are hidden from view…
Went to Jean-Talon market this morning. Had an espresso at Cafe In with it’s wonderful roasting machine. Bought some specially aged Parmigiano Reggiano, we get that every few years, the thing is drier than your normal everyday Regg, and so much more nuttier, one of the top cheeses I’ve ever tasted. I’ve got a plate or big flakes and bread from Aux Pains Doré. Pure heaven.
I was certain that the FISA bill was going to fail, and you positive folks saved it, this place makes me believe again. Thank you so much
They rising in kids also, especially peanuts. My former client was the The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network, great resource for people who need information about food allergies.
Not too long, just right. And put a smile on my face. Ditto here, except I came from TPM.
NYTimes.com has a movie review today of Horton. (Sorry couldn’t get the link thingy to work.)
I have never liked the current genre of Hollywood animation for children. It’s so full of pop culture and adult trendy snark, even in G movies. It goes completely over my 6 year olds head. The only movie I really liked was Charlotte’s Web that came out a year or so ago. Almost true to the book. My dtr enjoyed it too. Hard to do Seuss in a full length movie. Not enough there to fill it out to 90 minutes so alot of s–t goes in.
Noooooooooooooo.
Preparing my first cuppa just now, I just discovered that I’m out of sugar.
No honey in the house either.
Then I remembered I still had some chocolate kisses left over from Valentines Day.
It worked.
How’s that for creative thinking Before coffee ingested?
biodun at 123
un huh, (ankle? anyone?) (biodun, sent email to yahoo account, did you ever get it?)
yeah, two weeks, it kept mutating into the next horrid set of symptoms…….no nausea though, for that i am glad. slept a lot.
and i see some have mentioned terro for the ants, my friend wanda swears by that stuff, country girl, home remedy kind of person……we were just talking about it, cuz my mom had ants…….it’s for the little iddy biddy sugar ants.
If you can find where they’re coming into the room(s), wipe a little vegetable oil (I use peanut oil) around the area and the ants will avoid it like the plague. A little perseverance is required because they’ll find another place to enter but after two or three applications they’ll give up and stay in the yard where they belong. Non-toxic. Doesn’t even harm the ants. Rubbing a little on the bottom edge of outside water/food bowls will keep them out of the bowl.
Smiling with ya.
Most of the antibiotics produced in this country are fed to cattle, poultry and pigs. Even if you don’t take them as prescriptions, you are taking them when you consume animal products raised in the USA.
We have forced mutations in many “bugs” and the original antibiotics do not stop them. They mutant to a new form and get us sick.
Pharma is driving its own crazy “take a pill” to fix it world.
My seasonal allergies, once a minor annoyance, have become full blown in the past 2 years to the point of being disruptive. Had to get some Rx Nasonex and Allegra D, which I use during the bad times. Helps enormously. Not even my Neti pot and OTC benadryl or claritin could make a dent in my dripping faucet of a nose and burning eyes.
I read that global warming causing more proliferous blooming may be a contributing factor.
When I lived on a communal farm in Oregon (DFH), they would clear the hillsides of it, so the cow wouldn’t be harmed by it. That’s my only source of info about it.
I never thought about that. Is this part of the reason antibiotic-resistant strains are on the rise?
Oh, wait. That’s what you said. Disregard. Duh!
Spending time with my grandaughter Payton brings me joy profound. Time seems to stand still. Even when she is fussy. Feeding her is wonderful, she smiles and laughs at every bite and looks at me in a way that makes me believe I am the luckiest granpa in the world. She is just starting to respond to music so I hold her and dance her around and I am rewarded with the song of her laughter.
Work? For me, it is therapy!
:)
I think that Seuss/Geisel likely had people like Kenadie Jourdin-Bromley in mind.
quebecois-i heard that you guys got over 200 inches of snow this year! is that true?
and when my mom buys chunks of parmesean/any hard cheese she freezes some of it and gets it out to grate onto foods.
Aha, but I have my 1953 International Harvester tractor and 50 acres of brush to clear! (Only thing I have in common with W.)
nothing from you in my Yahoo inbox as yet…
Saw your picture with TexBetsy and the Texas pups the other day. Great to see the smiling faces of pups that you feel you know just from their comments here. ;-)
am on flonaise right now…outgrew allegra and nosonex…
suburban girl at 163
there are studies being done that part of the rise in allergies is partly due to the new hybrid trees…….and the prolific russian olive……….
Morning all. I’m still amazed that we won on the FISA legislation. There were so many times that we were this close to losing. Not to count my chickens but I think it’s over. I don’t think there will be a compromise bill. It’s our first legislative victory, isn’t it? And, it’s all due to the netroots, methinks.
As for diversions, in 4 weeks, I leave the snow of CNY for the sunny climate of S. Carolina. Counting the days.
omg A2, how lovely to see you back at the lake . . .and just in time for a certain March sporting event I see ;)
Greenwarrior – can you believe our gorgeous spring week end ? – yee haw !
about that Oregon communal farm – Wolf Creek ? or gaia forbid, in Antelope ?*g*
FWIW, I think that has pretty much always been a staple of a lot of cartoons and animation. Bugs Bunny cartoons frequently had pop culture and movie references embedded amidst a lot of adult themes.
BTW, MSNBC’s been on Spitzer and poor wifey and…the 23-year-old for some time now…temping not to say anything, but I won’t honest…not a word…not even in reference…*g*
In a word – YES
The meat industry pours anti biotics into the food of live stock for to pre medicate “against” infections.
Lovely ain’t it. makes you want to eat meat don’t it?
Speaking of freezing cheese, if you freeze blue cheese, you can then grate it onto salad instead of crumbling or chunking it. That is wonderful!
still nothing in inbox…which account did you send it from?
barbara,
That’s the best comment I’ve ever seen to rebut that kind of stuff with.
On the topic of cartoons–
A woman I know told me she wouldn’t let her children watch the Smurfs cartoon. Why? Because her preacher told her they lived “a communist lifestyle.”
Good morning Christy.
Thanks for greeting us with such a great picture this AM. I planted some extra bulbs two days ago, (had been “forcing” them in my garage).
The kids keep me laughing daily. I’ll have to think of a good story and post later.
I did post a great O/T story about FISA at the end of your Abramoff thread. You might enjoy it. The teaser: it happen at Bob Evans…
A bit less in Montréal, Québec City got that much so far, and it,s not finished…
POpa at 167:
Wonderful post, the simplest pleasures are to be cherished… Kudos.
http://ivaw.org/wintersoldier
Take a minute to check this out, could be the kind on thing that will ignite a fire under the warmongers fatassery…
Good morning Redd and Pups
One of the little neighbor boys told me yesterday that he, indeed, was Spider Man, the sun is breaking through the clouds and fog here, and very soon I’ll be able to view the herd of deer in the wildlife sanctuary down the road from the saddle of my bicycle instead of bucket seat of my car…so things are looking up.
Having Spider Man nearby is such a boon! :)
biodun-
sent to
b_g__la at yahoo (you fill in the blanks)
which was the email at your website.
march 9th, now that i think of it, may not have put dmac on it……..email was from frognet.net
wasn’t that big a deal…….kinda.
I am green with envy. If Mr. Doodle would let me, my entire 1/11th of an acre would be dug up and platned with veggies, flowers and fruit trees.
Will you show some restraint please?? :) j/k
The sinus thing got ya this time. Sorry for that. Get well soon.
I made really delicious hummus last night to take to a friend’s for dinner. I had some blanched vegetables to use for dipping: cauliflower, broccoli, celery, regular carrots and these amazing carrots i found with purple/brown outsides and yellow centers.
Not exactly a recipe (sorry, I just eyeball stuff):
Soak maybe 1 1/2 cups of chickpeas for 8 hours. Drain them and rinse them. And simmer for 1 -2 hours on low heat with enough water to generously cover the chickpeas.
Drain, saving the cooking liquid. Put the chickpeas in the food processor with the juice of about 1 fat juicy lemon, 4 nice fat cloves of garlic, a couple of tablespoons of tahini, maybe 1/2 tsp salt. Add cooking water as needed to get the right consistency. Adjust seasonings as pleases you. You can do this part a day or two ahead if you like.
When ready to serve, take a plate and spread out the hummus in circular motions with the back of a spoon, so you have a higher edge on the outside of the plate. Inside that edge, put in a circle of olive oil, sprinkle paprika all over. Add finely chopped parsley to the top of the outside raised edge.
As an appetizer, this could serve 8-10 people. If there aren’t that many, you’ve got great leftovers.
a little more on allergies:
Separate planting beds? Well aren’t you the clever one?! I thot all you had to do was slap up a “Just Say No!” sign. huh.
Mornin’ wangdang and all. ;->
I bought some cheap directors chairs, which got delivered yesterday. It then occurred to me that they are not outside furniture, but I bought them for my gazebo. So I guess I’ll go slop some polyurethane on them so they hold up better.
sander0–they just had a big deal at the fda last year about loosening what can be given to livestock…….had hearings and open time for letters……..can’t find the link……i’ll keep looking.
This is a wonderful week for me.
My [college student] son arrives tonight from CA, just in time for the last pre-tournament basketball games, Selection Sunday tomorrow, filling out brackets & then watching non-stop on Thursday – Sat, when he returns.
Daughter, who just passed her senior “oral exam” yesterday, is off to Phoenix to see friends [”it’s my last college spring vacation, mom”], but will return here Wed. night. Since she’s a sports-hater, she should have worked it the other way around!!
Hubby & I will be delighted to see them. It’s our last time together in this house that we’ve lived in for 22 years. Movers are coming on 4/4 to pack “stuff” up for move to Maui. We’ll continue to live here on skeleton “stuff” for six weeks until we + four dogs get on the plane.
So it’s going to be sweet, sweet.
Permanent move or a trip?
Alpha Farm outside of downtown Deadwood, Oregon. Don’t sneeze going through Deadwood or you’ll miss it.
Permanent move.
G’morning Christy, we had an ant infestation last spring … 3 homes had them coming inside by the hundreds. We used ‘Ant-B-Gone’ Ant Traps and the problem ceased. Keep the Peanut away from it …
We wouldn’t take four dogs — and the extensive paperwork involved in getting them into Hawaii — on no “trip”!!!
Fruit fast always knocks out the sinusitis for me. Nothing but fruit, no meat, no dairy, no bread. Wash down with garlic/lemon water. Gone in 4 days.
Today is way too gorgeous to be inside at the computer, catch y’all on the breaks…
Vacation. 10 glorious days.
Ooops, i thought you were talking to me!!
I think they give the livestock medications for the livestock. The conditions in which they’re raised give rise to their having lots of illnesses.
cbl 2
You have a mind like a steel trap! We did talk basketball when last we talked.
Lost my 86-year old Mom who I enjoyed talking politics with all the time.
Now my wife has to endure Keith O. every night and BB too.
My wife is such a sport because she knows that when basketball is over, she has that “honey-do” list ready and then it is “yes dear.”
It is good to see you.
finally:
Same linky as 191…
You have a gazebo!?
thanks greenwarrior!!!!!!!!
hummus is one of my very favorite things! but i didn’t have a recipe using chickpeas from scratch!
and, i do a thing with all beans/legumes, after soaking, i let them stand in the bowl, drained, and let them sprout a little….rinse them here and there, cuz they heat up as they start to sprout….sprouting them a little uses up the enzyme inhibitor that inhibits trypsin, so, metabolizes as a protein, not a carb.
feel way different when i sprout them a little………just until you see a little sprouting action, no more.
sounds sweet all right…I have two more years or so to get to the point you’re at…kid graduating from college, I mean…mine’s still a sophomore…and a 17-year-old high school senior who is off to Brown in the fall…
just as bad or worse than use of antibiotics – steady diet of hormones to fatten them up faster.
people are on the honor system to withdraw all those extra goodies some time before slaughter.
we’re not vegans here, but a lot closer to that than we used to be, for a bunch-a reasons. above being some biggies.
Are you answering for Solai? Or are you Solai under another alias?
FISA offtopic ???
well then I guess I shouldn’t say you can go
here and send some thank you love to all 14 who flipped yesterday
if you were too shy, too pressed for time, or too anything to get in on the initial calling/faxing, rewarding good behavior is an equally important facet of the action
After four weeks of flu (and a residual cough), I wake this morning to find myself feeling familiar. Now I realize how awful I felt. So my sympathies to flu sufferers. I kept thinking I felt slightly better and would try to get back to business, only to be back in bed for another five days.
My son was all decided on his college and his direction, when another school offered him a chance (and some scholarship $) to play soccer for them. Now he is in a toot, whether to go with his grown-up plans for career, or to go for the joy of playing soccer again. I’ve put him in contact with a variety of trusted adults and set him off to discuss this with them. I think I’m too close to process this one. It is bittersweet time, a time of “lasts” and “firsts.” But at least we’ve gone through the big separation once already, when he moved back to the States six months before I did. (It was an event putting the kid on the plane in Auckland and saying “When you get to Tahiti, you have to keep going.”
thanks, i’ll try the sprouting. sounds interesting.
To eCAHN, SanderO and all NYC area pups,
TexBetsy, Snarkassandra and texteen will be in NJ in June and mentioned a possible meetup. Sunday 6/22 would be the date so keep it in mind. Will keep you posted as to details.
okay, i saw your response. comments crossing in the mail.
Thank you for stopping by my blog. Paul was a dear friend. I just got off the phone with his mother. She said when they found him in his locked room (he must have known he was dying) his dog of many years was laying on his body and wouldn’t let anyone near him right off. He died of liver failure and not heart failure like we (his friends) thought. Sad, sad, sad.
There are lots of happy times with Paul and we’ll be talking about them a lot in the days ahead. :-)
Neither. I just goofed – saw the question & thought it was in response to my post @ 195. Tried to clarify @ 203.
Good morning eCAHN.
I guess I’ll just wade right in with a stoopid question and get it over with.
Were you on the telly yestidie [Lehrer]?
Books. When I was a kid I used to ride a number of miles on my bike along what was then the Shirley Highway in Alexandria, VA to get to the library. I remember finding a book on Crazy Horse, the great Oglala warrior, and was so excited, only to be disappointed in the biased view of the book. Crazy Horse has been on my mind ever since. John Trudell came out with a song entitled “Crazy Horse” a while ago and I thought I’d see if a current book about him had been written. I found “Crazy Horse A Lakota Life” by Kingsley M Bray published in 2006. What a find! If you’re interested in Native American history, this is a book to read. I also recommend listening to John Trudell and other Native American singer/songwriters. You won’t regret it. The legacy of the Native Americans is something we need to pay attention to. To quote part of a stanza from Trudell’s “Crazy Horse”:
Crazy Horse! We hear what you say.
We are the seventh generation!
My local community radio station, WMNF 88.5FM Tampa, has a Native American show on every Sunday night from 9-11 ET. It’s live streamed. If you don’t have a community station in your area I highly recommend going to http://www.wmnf.org/ and give a listen. Look the site over. They have archives for every show for the last week so you can sample at your leisure. They’re fundraising until next Wednesday so there’s more pitch and patter than music this week so the archives are a good choice for newbies.
Off to my place of work to switch from a 5 gallon aquarium to a 10 gallon. Had to put down a gorgeous red betta yesterday (dropsy) so it’s time to upgrade and give a new home to the last remaining betta rescued from a clueless person. What is it about these self-absorbed Republicans that they can’t even take care of helpless fish? Sheesh.
Peace Love Light
I can’t link this, but it seems so perfect for FDLers…cartoon by Mr. Fish shows a healthy cow and he’s saying this:
Stop the g*****n madness — we’re free range, grain-fed, hormone-free cows. It’s the assembly line, factory cows who should be killed, not us. Slaughter the ones covered with oozing sores, with the hacking coughs and the wheezing — the ones who have never see the light of day, who are crippled ande blind and pissing and sh*tting all over themselves. Those are the cows begging for death. F*ck all you hippies who think that murdering happy and healthy animals is somehow more humane. Put those other f*ckers out of their misery!
That sounds great. I am at the boat usually for the weekend. Perhaps the lake will come to the bay?
Five of my son’s high school friends went to Brown [sophomores there now] and LOVE it.
It’s taken this long for “no kids at home” to feel like the “normal” state of this household. It felt “abnormal” for so long.
We particularly enjoyed the two years during which daughter was @ college & son was the “only kid” at home. Really quality time with him.
We’re getting some more of that now with her as she graduates & is looking for a job. She’d prefer we stay here in DC until she gets established in NYC, but we’ve put our desires on the back burner for so long, she understands — intellectually, anyway, if not emotionally. But it’s nice to have another “adult” in the family.
Good luck.
I was listening to Democracy Now! yesterday when they started playing clips from the original Winter Soldier in 1971. About three minutes was all I could stand. Couldn’t stop crying and didn’t sleep well last night. It never goes away. Live and in living colour.
I think LHP is out there somewhere too. But don’t know if she would show her mug.
LINK LINK
The sky is blue, the sun is shinning, and I don’t expect the new snow to last much past noon. Tomorrow, I get to go potluck with my senior senator. A quote that caught my eye this week sums up my thoughts on the political manuvering of FISA/PAA.
greenwarrior–i haven’t tried it with chickpeas, but with everything else, i have…….even lentils……
you really can tell the difference, lots of energy, not weighted down with the huge carb influx, which among other things, screws with your blood sugar……i have fibromyalgia, so carbs can really destroy me. when you sprout them a little, acts like a protein. the act of sprouting uses up the enzyme inhibitor…….
i discovered this when researching enzymes, for my own knowledge, it is why sprouted grain breads also do the same thing, aka ezekiel bread……frozen natural foods section.
night and day difference when i eat ezekiel bread and sprout my beans.
Rotten Tomatoes gives Horton Hears a Who a favourable overall rating.
Just stopped by. Kay I am so sorry.
Let’s hope one of the great writers here will put up a piece on this.
That’s my own experience at the moment. Exact same situation. Been bonding quite a bit with my 17-year-old son while daughter is at Carleton…the sophomore…
OT – Magnitude 5.9 quake hits off US Pacific coast
I can’t figure out how to link it…
It’s on Daryl Cagle’s site. Today’s Best Cartoons. Page 10.
I’m sorry for your loss, Kay
Here ya go, demi – Link
Yesterday it was 93 here. Today it’s going up to 85. I’m off for a walk in the park by the lake.
Surf’s up, dude. In Oregon.
Great story about your son and his first guitar. Tugged at my strings.
Keep slicing and dicing those trolls, I really get a big kick out of it.
So sorry. It’s page 11.
Bar would have done a great service to the world had she been infertile.
How simply true!
Sounds good. Have a great weekend with calm seas and a good wind.
Thank you Nomolos & Wobblybits for your thoughts. I’ve been in a fog for the past 24 hours, but it will get better. Paul touched a lot of lives and his memorial this week will be a reunion of sorts for all of us. We loved him.
I always have my Captain Caveman club in my back pocket to smack the trolls around. LOL I enjoy it. ;-)
more FISA, so sue me . . .
well, well, well, comment over at Empty’s Blue Dog post about perennial Bush Dog Heath Shuler showing up on Hannity & Colmes and Glen Beck to bash immigrants
hmmmm if you look up his contributors you find Phillips & Jordan as his largest – they’re the folks who rec’d govt contracts for site clearing Ground Zero and Katrina, you know, the folks who’ve already been outed for using undocumented workers so as to keep their bid quote$ down
I’d say there’s a LTE in the young congressman’s future
why yes, I sometimes have difficulty letting go, why do you ask ?
That’s a funny one. You can see it here.
Kay, you got mail.
But I would still rather eat Mr. Free Range!!
Yum!
Glad to see Peanut will see Horton on the big screen. She shows discriminating taste in her preference. Yep, the big screen is the best. Also, it’s fun to be with an audience to share your experience.
Ever notice how differently you see a film given the audience in the theater? I have a few theaters in and around San Francisco where I go to see movies of a particular genre. Also have a favorite theater in the Palo Alto area. Great audiences.
If you can catch him…
Thanks for doing the link.
Mr. Fish cracks me up. He’s got the snark down big time.
Christy,
my favorite moment of the week was when all got to smile together at the same time, we won one. :)
adastra at 213–4 weeks??????? eat well…….
my former husband was a collegiate coach…..being a student athlete is hard work…….but there are rewards.
have him talk to other student athletes and see if it’s for him……..if it is, it looks good on a resume, and for most, is a rewarding commitment. but it’s not for everyone.
personally, i am really torn in my opinion of athletics. but i put that aside to write what i did because he would be in a non-revenue sport, and that is a different land than a revenue sport.
that is how I make ‘raw’ hummus is by sprouting the garbanzos
Good morning, Christy. Great post to read 1st thing today. Slept in for once due to last night’s engagement dinner for daughter & future son-in-law. Wedding will be in Santa Inez CA in May. She’s a clinical psychologist, he’s a studio location manager, but last night @ McCormick & Schmicks they were simply two 20 somethings in love.
Even my somewhat curmudgeonly ex had a good time. In fact, although the liberals sat together on one side of the banquet table & the conservative ex & family on the other, we all managed to agree during the inevitable swirling political conversation that a huge change is needed in our fed. gov. They are based in AZ & can’t stand McCain, BTW.
Memory of the whole evening is making me smile this a.m., also giving me hope for the future of our shared country.
Thank you! Reply sent. ;-)
sander0
found a link about the antibiotics/fda thing that went on last year…….can’t find the fda link, though.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c…..ti040.html
thanks wobbly, i was a raw food eater for quite a while, years ago, before there was a name for it…….for the enzymes. even knew what temperature killed them, don’t remember now……made a killer frozen pie with mashed up bananas and a little rice milk and crust was chopped up dates or figs and nuts, almost too sweet to eat….another thing was soaked oats with sunflower seeds, patties, quickly brown it…that was one thing i did cook.
*Gulp* I’m shipping the hard drive that contains my band’s album to Tennessee, to some friends for mixing and mastering. It’s one of those things where you “kiss the hard drive” and send it off, and hope like hell they get it like you want it.
It’s going to be a great record, the first I’ve been the primary producer on (as well as guitarist) and I’m very proud of what we’ve done. The guest artists elevated the songs they played on and were worth every cent.
That’s consuming my attention this morning. Getting the tracks just so, ditching the dreck, boxing and sending.
Cross your fingers for us.
A sample
Son’s BEST FRIEND is a sophomore @ Carlton!!
PM me & I’ll send info. Mauimom at AOL dot com
That sample is excellent. Best of luck w/the shipping, & Ray & the Detonators.
Hi all (who are left here).
Wish I didn’t have to work Saturdays. This is the most upbeat thread every week. And this week, I did buy a new CD, first time in a long time.
Sigh. I’m skimming – love to check out the recipes here though usually I can’t comment. And now, back to work.
Is anyone listening to the feed? (Winter Soldier)
I’m watching on FSTV…amazing.
I was a bit earlier, women were talking of the abuse they endured. The country is as broken as some in the military. Heartbreaking stuff.
Thanks for the recipe. It sounds great.
wow, i totally missed millineryman’s recipe at 31, cujo!
will give to my mom, although dad might make it, is one of my dad’s favorite things!
thanks to both of you!