Sorry that the first post is OT, but:

Watching Countdown. The audio “conveniently” cut out during the worst person in the world segment right after St. McCain said “As we all know, Al Qaeda are going into Iran to be trained and coming back to Iraq.” No audio for the rest of the segment and didn’t come back until midway through the first or second commercial.

I’m in Nashville, TN. Anyone else have this “problem?”

Note to self: Next time, no bullet points until past the YouTube…

I’m in TX…no problem.

Eli!

Thank you, thank you for a great post. Thanks most of all for posting the McLame video!!

LOL. trust me Eli, we get to it all. in time, but we GET to it.

Cool thing is that I’ve seen it 2 times before you posted. On Olbermann, but that’s better than not on MSM atoll!

Dubya later praises Treasury Secretary Paulson for “working over the weekend,” as if this were grand above-and-beyond sacrifice.

He praises him for working over the weekend? Jeebus

I’m glad FDL & Darcy burner kissed & made up.

The MSM is doing everything possible to have a horse race, whether it is between Obi and Hill or the D and the R.

How about the story that zillions of Ds are showing up in the primaries to vote… and the Rs are not showing up?

heckuva job paulson

LS! Aren’t you happy that George will soon be back living in Texas?!

Dick Cheney continues to insist that Saddam and al Qaeda were like this, and claims that the Pentagon report which conclusively debunked their connection actually proved it. Also claims that “the more that Iraqis have gotten to know Americans… the better they’ve felt about the United States of America.” (Hooray for Stockholm Syndrome!)

And meanwhile a bomb went off killing 40 people. The man lives in a fantasy world of his own evil.

I had no problem with MSNBC, but I do now. The self styled “Chihuahua of Justice” is on. I can’t stomach Dan Abrams and when you throw in the Tuck, it’s like Sharon Stones famous quote about Dwight Yokum.

hi Eli…

hi siri…

I think it displays the kind of statesmanlike knowledge of foreign affairs that would make Joe a *perfect* Secretary of State for President McCain.

Seriously, getting that tool out of the Senate two years early would be the *only* upside to a McCain victory.

Try the ul tag maybe?

Hi, Biodun! And LS!

hi dakinkat…

hi johnSwifty…

Gawd…I’m hoping he goes to Paraguay…actually I heard he was going to be living up in Dallas or something, but I don’t like having the most detested person in the world living within a 100 miles of me…

Hey man, how you feelin’? Still got the crud?

hi Bio. u r a blessing. u’r the only one who talks to me here.
hehe
:)

Evening Eli.
Can St. McCain go anywhere without Huckleberry tagging along?

Hi Siri!!

there was a fight?

i thought msnbc had dumped tucker, and here he is again … the freddie krueger of the right wingnuts … i shudder to think what he does do well, since its definitely not contributing anything to intelligent conversations!

hi!

Evening, newton.

The first Q at W’s Economic Club of NY was from Gail Fosler, prez of Conference Board. I knew her slightly. She’s an economist of rightward pursuasion, but no ideologue. W jacked off on the other male questioner, and Gail said to W: I’m glad you don’t know me. Quite a snappy response. Wouldn’t have thought she was capable of it.

And the MSM has been treating McLobby like he’s the Prezdinent…until today. Heh, heh….even they probably think he’s way scary…

Or dancing.

Glad to hear that not everyone’s station dropped the audio at the most important part. I don’t think it was on my end b/c audio worked for every other channel. Maybe someone else in my viewing area can confirm.

hi LS. i always enjoy reading your comments. Well thought out and on track! thanks for sayin’ hi.
:)

If the Republicans win this November, my husband and I will leave the Democratic Party.

Lahoma

Why is fucker carlson on my teevee? The stupid it burns.

it’s mostly gone…sniffles, that’s all. That was one nasty bug…

hey, we ALL aren’t that dismal, you know

SF Bay Area got the complete audio, although he ducked away from the mic and it dipped some.

If Dick Cheney is still justifying invading Iraq using the same debunked arguments he first used, does anyone seriously think he has changed his mind or given up any of his arguments for attacking Iran?

Oh, thank you!

I predict he (the Tuck) will switch back to a bowtie and they’ll run his little apple cheeks back out there for some generalize pablum to appease the conservative minded viewers. His daddy must have somebody’s shorties in a vice or something.

wolfie is sitting in for LK tonight … they’re chatting about the OB speech

MSNBC keeps having Tucker back on as something or other. I wish he would just disappear….

well that was the kiss of death a la heck-of-a-job-brownie

:)
t’is true. are you an attorney too?

are you on spring break now? or is it over? U of MN is on spring break now–next week too…

Hell no. Question is whether he can talk Dubya into it, and whether Dubya can make it happen.

must be something pretty sinister … he adds nothing and he sure has lost those boyish good looks, he looks like some kind’ve pudgy uncle that every one avoids at parties

Of course not. He just does what he’s always said he’s gonna do…get rid of the axis of evil…but its okay, because after he attacks Iran Conyers will impeach him…

It’s got your internal clock all screwed up, fur sure. What are you doing on the Lake after 4pm cdt? It’s an unexpected pleasure!

yeah! lol
I have a list of those. the “need to go away! NOW!” ’s.
is a loooooong list.
grows daily.

Some student reporter wrote up an interview of Burner, including inflamnmatory phrases like Burner isn’t just a tool of netroots. (That’s vastly overstaing the case, but it’s how it was experienced.) Jane wrote it up as a post (some Sunday, iirc; I’ll try to find it), we all went ballistic, sent emails to Burner, she apologized by emails & subsequently settled it all with Jane. The whole misunderstanding was made worse because Burner’s apologist, who was on the thread, kept blaming Jane, saying that Jane should have checked with Burner before writing such a post. It was all a great flap, but hopefully is now behind us.

Noooo…

yeah, i’m on break right now … other schools must be on it too because the entire hood is filled with all these cheery co-eds with paint on the faces and dirt under their nails…

Yep. Which it’s been compared to, just as The All-Seeing Eye Of Froomkin (and probably others) have compared the financial meltdown to Katrina. The same inattention to the warning signs, and the same disengaged response and out-of-touch happy talk.

Still working on downloading “She’s a witch”. Like the part about the newt.

I agree but dan abrams gets on my nerves too

k. well, you are GOOD! Great comments and observations. one of the best here. respectfully, there are many!
:)

they’re all short-timers now … thank the greater ethos for that!

Who’s the “we” in your comment?

He’s under contract, and they don’t know what to do with him?

I’m so glad you highlighted that Gail Collins line. I thought it was so funny when I read that today.

Great post.

Well, at least Rita Cosby seems to have vanished. Not really a wingnut, just a missing-white-woman obsessive with an excruciating voice. (Take the lozenge! Just… take it!)

Bush and reality…like oil and water

I’m lovin’ this John Adams mini series. I hope the “uninformed” tune in. It’s about the creation, after all. I think (I hope) it’s why it was made and running NOW.

Thanks. I thought it was such an apt evocation of the gravitas gap.

me and some of the other dismal scientists … although I have to say, every jan for the meetings, I doubt that some times

after he attacks Iran Conyers will impeach him…

IMO there is nothing lil boots can do to get impeached. Look at what he’s already gotten away with. No one has the intestinal fortitude to do it. The republics were ready to impeach Eliot over a hooker but bush can invade a country which ends up killing a hundred thousand, bankrupts our country, and basically makes the US a laughing stock and hated around the world but our so called leadership does nothing.

I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m watching HBO again. It’s great.

i’ve been coming into the Lake at night now for sometime now…for about 8 weeks, kinda coincided with my first FDL post went up….*g* weekends too…

Yeah, and it’s such a funny image.

yeah, but they leave a shit load of destruction in their wake

selise
Here it is. Was a Friday, not a Sunday. My bad.
http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/01/loyalty-2/

Wow. Thanks for reminding me! Part I is on now and Part II to follow tonight..HBO

oh yeah, now i remember. thanks.

I did see her. She seemed wacked out a tad, at least. I see that those types don’t linger here long. That’s a GREAT sign for the group. They don’t have to be weeded out, they JUST LEAVE. It’s in the energy, and it is awesome.

yep, Rita..and she wasn’t even as bad as Tucker…

let him make coffee for the greenroom

tell me about it, i live it every down here in the 9

yeah, hehe
me toooooo.
and will likely buy it when it comes available so I can see it again.

shoot, i’m missing it again!

and basically makes the US a laughing stock and hated around the world but our so called leadership does nothing.

We don’t hate the US, we only hate the administration and the hacks.

make that every day

i got better!

He’s giving dance lessons in the greenroom for tips…

It’s on Hobo now. Again.

I missed the beginning…looks really good!

Eli! Thanks for that clip. Read about it, but hadn’t seen it before. This needs to be out there for everyone to see. Dolt.

I just got back from the kick off for Bob Hamilton’s campaign here in CA-49. (Issa) It was so cool! There were over one hundred people there, and many were quite well-heeled! I know that doesn’t sound like a lot of people, but for this district it’s a great start. Almost everyone donated AND volunteered to help…I’m thinking this is possible. Not probable, but at least possible. Please feel free to leave him a congratulatory note on the blog on his website, pups!

She was pretty awful, just not especially ideological, and IIRC not snarky at all. She was always breathlessly earnest.

All those innocent people we killed in Iraq have families. Not to mention the children we locked up at Abu Garab (sp) those people are the next generation of terrorists. They have quite a few reasons to hate us.

Hey, Quebecois,

How does it feel from outside the borders? Does it seem like the inside-the-borderers have all the fun?

BTW, love both Montreal & Quebec City, Can’t remember which one you’re at.

did it just start?

I admit, I’ve been busy. Had I known I might have had to rearrange my schedule; but, that would have been dangerous. The waters of the Lake are deep and demanding.

But with events of late, I needed to stick a toe in. And, I get the added benefit of your late night comments.

It’s been on for about 15 here. We are 2 hours behind Eastern.

I read somewhere else today that not only did McInsane say that in Iraq, he also said it “unchallenged” in an interview the other day. Anybody know where that was? Maybe it was on Sunday or last week. Same thing…AQ in Iran. How funny that it took JoeL to correct him…reminds me of a son telling Gramps that he said something sort of silly…President…ummm…President really scary….

Is Lieberman McCain’s seeing eye dog?

If we hadn’t re-elected Dubya, I think they might forgive. After all, I don’t think most of us knew just how crazy Bush & Cheney were. But after they showed themselves for what they truly are, we re-elected them by a bigger margin than they were elected in 2000. And remember, this was *after* the Abu Ghraib photos came out.

If I were an Iraqi, I would look at the 2004 results and say that the Americans endorsed Dubya’s monstrousness rather than repudiating it.

OMG…707…stop..707

I cannot believe he even sticks in there. Does he REALLY imagine he’ll inhabit the White House? That alone should disqualify him for being out of touch.

Seriously, how out of it do you have to be for Joe Fucking *Lieberman* to be your voice of reason?

i got better!

LOL They were geniuses.

Well…maybe with a big dash of Diebold..maybe..

I can’t tell you how they feel. I sure as hell don’t think they’ll come to the US, when your troops finally leave. Statistically, only a few will come after you. They’ll be from Saudi Arabia again… I think the Iraqi’s want their country and life back, they want to rebuild, lead a normal life.

OMG, I almost forgot about Rita Cosby. Take a lozenge is right! And Greta van Susteran used to be pretty good on CNN, something about the facelift maybe…

LOL! eGGGGGSactly! lolol!

I used to yell at her: GO HOME AND GET WELL!
lol

i just checked, i’ll have to wait another two hours, it just ended

As would I. Which is why I said we are making a whole new generation of terrorists, not winning hearts and minds and damn sure not making the lives of Iraqi’s better in any way shape form or fashion. Even after that bastard was re-selected he should have been impeached. This is the exact reason impeachment should have been the first item on the new congress list of things to do. My children will be forced to deal with the fallout from this disasterous criminal. It truly makes me ill.

Oops – I was going to tack a “Your estimation of election validity may vary” disclaimer at the end of the comment, but I forgot. I have, like, a 30-second attention span.

That’s fantastic! Oh man, if Issa was iced, not sure what I’d do. Remember, Ned Lamont made up something like 40% in a few months to kick Traitor Joe’s hadassah outta the DemocratIC Party. And that was a state-wide race!

Full steam ahead y’all!

no, his attendant. I am surprised that Joe isn’t wearing a white coat.

wow, just read that “responsible end to the war in Iraq” and it is INCREDIBLE

good gawd, we need more of that and public discussion

Yep. The only thing that would mollify the Iraqis is a clear and unambiguous statement that we utterly repudiate and reject Dubya and Cheney and all their evil henchmen, and it just hasn’t happened. The 2006 election is the closest we’ve gotten so far, and it didn’t really change much.

It didn’t take an army to bring down the towers either did it?

I really, honestly belive that Senator Obama has the potential to be a very great president. He might well be the one who will think out of the box and save us.

Lahoma

Thanks. That’s what the Italians assured me when I was there too. Nice to know we’re not hated as a people.

He’s gonna have to have JoeL as his VP, because he obviously can’t be trusted to go out on his own….

Did y’all catch that video by his daughter and his wife..what’s her name?…the other blond…not the missing one…the one he’s married to..Are they both named Cindy? Anyway, they are at the umm…at the 7,000 square foot “cabin”…she’s is not a happy camper, and she says in it that she doesn’t like DC as much…and the daughter says that her mom is much happier or easy going or something like that…at the “cabin”.

Ribs did look really good though!!

well, do catch it. it helps ME to remember why i’m going through all of this now. how and why they fought, and what for! and it makes it so much more worth it to see these portrayals and remember our FOUNDERS!

have you ever seen such a rerun of the three stooges do the middle east? Lindsay,Leiberman& McCain…

Thanks Eli, spot on, as usual.

IMHO, the Bear Stearns collapse crushed a lot of wealthy Republicans. BSC was trading above $85/share in February. JPM paid $2/share.

What are the rest of the Wall Street Banks worth?

I think a lot of Republicans are figuring out that the value of their 401(k)’s and pensions are probably inflated too. Can they afford to send their kids to college? Can they afford to retire? I think Bear Stearns moved a lot of Republicans a lot closer to the center. Suddenly “government regulation and oversight,” isn’t the mother of all evils.

How does it feel from outside the borders? Does it seem like the inside-the-borderers have all the fun?

We get different news, the smears were not part of our daily media life. The arrival of Harper, a conservative has scared the crap out of me. I see the media turning vicious and selling war. And Harper is a neocon warmonger.

I went often to the states til the reelection of Bush, I don’t think I’ve seen any americans laugh at the situation you have been put in. The antiwar, progressive crowd is dumbfounded, and the others hate everyone. Yor country is mighty fucked up because of the priviledged few, and corporate law.

My humble take.

From Montréal, Thanks.

Hilarious!

isn’t the mother of all evils

Should have been “sum of all evils.”

quicker access to the bottle of pills and no one to witness druggie sloppy behavior.

Do you need a Liarman?

bush said in the long run we’re going to be just fine …
reminds me of the keynes thing … in the long run, we’re all dead

lol OMG that’s priceless.
and so right
there they were. the MOST clueless of the clueless standing there making arses of themselves, having NOTHING to do with THE TRUE AMERICA,
my country!
lol

Shoot. I was having fun envisioning him with a mussel, a leash, and a rectangular leather grip. Would be quite an attractive getup for Lieberman.

i think so.

and their “logic” of how to identify a witch seemed to fit right in with bush’s “logic” of art. 2 powers.

both equally absurd.

Truly, have you seen it…if not, I have it handy…somewhere…it was a link from TRex’s blog…hilarious…

Maybe he should go teh cabin with Cindy or the other one…

I think the Katrina performance did her in. She just sounded so phony. Made Anderson Cooper, and ruined Rita.

Thanks both for the perspective on the U.S. and on Harper. How did he get elected anyhow? (I have a nodding aquaintance with Canadian politics, so if you hum a few bars, I can pick it up.)

woo-hoo loo hoo!

the missing young (ish) blond woman.

Perhaps the MSM would consider “looping” the McLobby video 24/7….scare the bejeebus out of the Merkans….

Really appreciate all your work.

Issa is really bad. It would be great to get rid of him.

Yeah!! Was her name Cindy too…I’m confused…I need JoeL…

well, i was so involved with letters to congress and the like at the time thst it was a while before i noticed she was gone. but WHATEVER did her in, works for meeeeereeeeeee!
what an assho.

Actually, maybe JoeL whispered to McInsane….ummm….you said “my wife”…ummm…”that’s not yer wife”.

Well, that’s why the wealthy people are in such desperate need of a federal bailout.

The rest of us, the people who are actually struggling (as opposed to being demoted from billionaire to millionaire)… not so much.

Nice to know we’re not hated as a people.

Absolutely not, some may, but let’s not give too much importance to the morons.

There’s always a 30 percent of fundementalists in any society, authoritarian personalities that will never learn. They fuck it up for everyone. I know very few folks who hate the states, they all know what agenda is driving this war, and who the culprits are.

and to think, we’re paying for this!!! and McCain says earmarks are bad… what about doing campaign ads on the US taxpayer …

and just plain hard and painful to listen to, no matter WHAT her message,

probably wouldn’t make much difference, botox, blonde dye job, and boob jobs all look alike…

Meghan McCain.

Lot’s of photos, but I don’t believe she allows comments. I wonder why this is?

oh, well, that’s just BRILLIANT!
no one seems to GET IT, but it’s a brilliant easy to prove good thing to bring up!
sheeeeesh.
why don’t some of these PEOPLE hire some of US??????
HUH?
i’d really like to know.

so I guess I won’t be getting any of those.

the truth only earns karma … not money

Absolutely not, some may, but let’s not give too much importance to the morons.

I don’t mean this in a bad way, but people who’s family have been blown up for NO reason are not morons. How would you feel if another country came there and blew everything to the stone age. Leaving you without electricity and basic services.

No, no John…that’s not the wife…it’s the lobbiest…John…no..stop…

well, if you do, stay away from McCaveman

(I’m from New Orleans, too.)

I think that was a reference to *our* morons.

yes. true!
and i never cared much about money anyway.
bigger and better things out there to care about!
:))

really? I’m in the bywater

well, I actually live in CA. But my brother and sister are there. And my parents used to live there but after Katrina are in Picayune. They are bored.

Here is the daughter’s video:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/g…..10/sedona/

Picayune is a dismal little mississippi town. I can only imagine.

Harper. How did he get elected anyhow?

The liberals got caught is a huge sponsorship scandal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponsorship_scandal

Harper is at the head of a minority govt. He’s still there by strongarming every other politician in a Rovian way that disgusts me. The new Liberal party leader is directly taken from the old guard, and his personality is one that is modeled after a wet blanket. So, Harper who has extended our tour in Afghanistan til 2011, is not defeated because folks don’t want to see Dion elected.

Sucks… Alladatime!

Thanks, it was good for the soul to see so many like-minded and energetic people!

If anyone can recommend any CSPAN clips of Issa at his worst, please share. (Working on a Worst of Issa YouTube to share with his constituancy.)

Yeah, lots of us.. sometimes me included…..

Mary, are you guys hanging in there?

John McCain supports torture by the United States of America.

How many Republicans *don’t*?

(Although McCain, obviously more than anyone, should know better)

A lot of it is educating people, they don’t know they’re in CA-49, and that Bob is running against Issa. Thanks.

the morons.

Yes, it was a reference to your, and my morons.

Well, secede from the confederation then…! Ya’ll might succeed this time, eh? ;-)

Maybe he forgot what it was. It is inexplicable that he would not outlaw waterboarding once and for all.

One of the Winter Soldiers testified that he saw someone getting waterboarded in Iraq.

Where is the compassion for humanity? Where?

We are hanging. hanging fat.

maybe when congress gets back in session we can have some issa watch parties.

In anniversary remarks, president will say he has no doubts about waging the war in Iraq despite the “high cost in lives and treasure.”

Depending on who you ask, the Iraq war has cost between $400 billion and more than $2 trillion. The true tally comes down to oil.

Lahoma

Gooed evening.

i hadn’t seen this before, but tried several times (puter probs).
thank you for posting this again, and what i have to say about that is this:
these people, the super riche, have taken over Sedona and set in and altered it’s natural energy and will one day pay for that. and not when the sun explodes.
before that.
and the other thing is this:
she SOUNDS like Paris. Which is another reason to keep him OFF THE AIR!
IMHO.

Good..keep hangin’.

OT The NYTimes lead editorial for tomorrow’s paper is on Obama’s speech. http://www.nytimes.com

We’re now in March. 10 months from a new President. You have to give the MSM credit. Because of them Bush is still viewed as a real Preznut, instead of a lame quack, which is what he always was, even before he was elected. But time rushes on, and every month makes his quack weaker. Nice, though, that he gets the Hoover award for the very worst president. $4.50 gas will do him in (I’m assuming the public have factored in the $4.00).

I misunderstood, sorry.

Thanks. I had not followed that particular scandal.

LOL. It is kind of sad…I know she loves her parents…but she has no “clue” poor thing…Life is not easy, not even for her…

That *was* a mighty tasty-looking barbecue. And that was so sweet that the Politico reporters brought Mrs. McCain flowers.

Nothing inappropriately cozy here at all.

I often wonder why the Democrats don’t just throw some parties of their own, if that’s all it takes to get the media to be nice to you.

OT: I’m a big donor to Dion, and it galled me greatly how he messed up the election in my riding (Outremont). But on the basics he is the best the liberals have. I say tha5t knowing that my in-laws who are very big in QC liberal politics, were all for Ignatieff.

Now back to regular programming.

Well, secede from the confederation then…! Ya’ll might succeed this time, eh? ;-)

I think i’m a decent canadian, yet, I’ve been a separatist since I was eight years old. The woman who now heads the Parti Québécois these days might very well be the one who will have us form our country. Exciting times for this old guy.

Exactly. The ribs look like they rocked. Made me hungry! I wonder what his secret is?

hi all,just got here…and i heart ELI!

if you seperate can you take new orleans with you?

OT
McCain forgets he endorsed Oberweis. Someone needs to keep track of his senior moments.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/…..migration/

You would think that McCain’s daughter would have washed her hair for the vid.

I think it takes a little more than that. like BOSS telling you how to deal with those invites.
i don’t mind if dems don’t do that though, cause if they did, i’d be thrown into “how much do i trust THEM, now”, thinking.
i’d rather keep the high road here. and yeah! it looked like a FINEASSED bbq.
but if you are bought by a bbq, what kind of a ho does that make you?
again, IMHO.
ya know?
and your posts ROCK THE HELL OFF, incidenimentally.

he said Putin was premier of Germany

Aw, shucks. Hi, sadly!

And after being tortured himself. I want to know what information McCain gave up as a result of torture. It must have been substantial for him to endorse torture. He know the other side, right?

oh PUHLEEEZE. i GOT ribs down. want a recipe? i GOT one for you! guaranteed and WILL get rave reviews!

Ignatieff.

Dangerous neocon, extremely dangerous man.

Dakinikat:

Louisiana is just a bit too far. Maybe if you come teach at UVM, then, it could very well happen…:)

On a really serious note…hmmmm….scary.

As I said, someon needs to keep track.

My Canadian kin (anglo-saxon) have long said; “If they want to secede, let’em, just make sure the Newfies join em!” ;-)

i got the Cannon 800,and its a compromise…

I think the boss was actually telling them to accept the invite, since my belief is that their corporate ownership likes Republican government.

The sad truth is that even if the media did attend Democratic parties and BBQs, they’d still bite the hand that fed them.

(And thanks!)

I love the rock and it’s people.

I’d love to have Issa watch parties, selise. I’m at work when most of the goods come down, though. If pups would just note the date and time of the hearings that Issa is involved with, that would help us out.

How’s it working out? I know they make good still cameras, although I’m still a Nikon guy.

You know what? Bushco is counting on this…

They annointed him. They are traitors. They will annoint the annointed one…whoever it is…

Bushco has a plan…a stupid plan…but I guarantee you the Neocons have this one all figured out…

No!!! Not on our watch!!

yes. i believe you have that right!

Hi Lahoma!

Eli, sorry for the derailment. It IS a great thread.

Yes, yes, yes!!! Bring it on!!!

dont know ,we are doing a Youtube teebee show for pets

No problem. As long as it’s not PRIMARY MADNESS, I really don’t mind.

Hi Lahoma ,dont be a stranger,ok?

Good thing that little youtube was short.

He is deliberately and consciously lying – doesn’t even try to kid himself.

Well, do the pets like it?

well, it that off topic here? i live in JmCain’s back yard and I can tell ya,
we DO ribs here. but i don’t want to be out of line.
n/p i’ll share the recipe, but is that OK here?

Good help.

I agree, altho, the closest I got was PEI, I feel for them being the butt of many jokes…! *g*

OK Lahoma!!

i had a beautiful Nikon with a fish eye lense,that i dropped at the Taj Mahal on the marble floor…some pigeons flew out at me,and that was it for the lens

i don’t want to disrespect Eli’s post by gettin all into recipes. ya know
and i don’t make it to late night, cause of work and all

FOOD FOOD FOOD!

well Basel is a Nikon guy so the jury is still out

As Nikon glass aficionados everywhere weep…

Not as many jokes as the Newfoundlanders.

OMG, this is some scary stuff.

We are always hungry for recipes…go for it. Eli will eat them too.

Right Eli???? I hope. Just a sidestep in the dance…

Now you have made me sad.

It’s like in the movies when they wreck a really beautiful car…

lol well. there’s my proof. y’all are truly good folk, understandin of the basics.
lol

I can’t cook worth a damn so recipes don’t do anything for me personally, but they don’t offend or annoy me or anything like that.

I have a little tiny nikon 5400 and I love it.

on topic,it was amazing to hear somebody ORATE today instead of blovate

That was whom I referred to, Newfies…! ;-)

This is improper to note, but has anyone else noticed that Cindy McCain seems to have really bad arthritis in her hands? (ducking)

And if there’s ever an FDLBBQ, I’ll be all over it…

I’ve moved on from Nikon lenses to Leica… Call me a purist!

My wee backup camera is a Panasonic Lumix, and I’m quite happy with that.

OMG more beautiful stories have seldom been told in a pubic eye.
and yes
i SAID pubic
lol
that’s one awesome story! i’d be telling it. over and over and over…..

it was like outa the Hitchcock movie”the Birds”

I want it!

ahhhh! me tooooo!

Yeah, it sounds…well…like it sounds…

They’ve got a plan. I’ve always said that the McLobby thingy doesn’t make sense..but now I’m getting some clarity I think, albeit it is based on what is published….and videoed….a bit alarming.

It is from chronically hitting John on the back of the head. wap!

Gonna have one in Mid-Hudson in May or June. Inspecting the calendar.

Dang, what a place for it to happen, Agra…!

Panasonic Lumix

Outstanding stuff these days.

Hmm…

Mid-Hudson meaning what, exactly? Is that anywhere near Poughkeepsie/Dutchess County?

ok
this is how we do it down here, including McCain, who MAY OR MAY NOT actuallly cook for himself

yes typical tourista

They are my pocket camera of choice. Image stabilization, good battery life, decent photo quality, easily shirt-pocketable.

Thank goodness, I kinda went out on a limb there, sorry…good BBQ recipes are..well good, but they shouldn’t overrule the importance of your outstanding post. It is a form of chewing the information…over…dinner. :)

Remember when McCain thanked his children after winning the primary. He thanked the ones by Cindy by name and then called the ones left “the other ones”. What a dummy.

Across the river from Poughkeepsie; New Paltz

????

And? :)

i had a Rolei,i lost it

Are you serious? Video?

I’m a believer that there’s room for more than one conversation, as long as it doesn’t crowd out the topic.

Sigh…my old stompin’ grounds…sigh..

Interesting. That’s pretty near where I went to high school.

Missed that. LOL. Thank you, my good friend, what’s yur name.

What were we talking about again?

FZ8:

http://picasaweb.google.com/pi….._PwjZObgKM

Early morning, the sun was rising, snowshoe stuff…

“The House Republican brand is so bad right now that if it were DOG FOOD, thaey’d take it off the shelf!”
~Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-VA and former Chair RNCC).

Then there is the scandal about the former Treasurer of the RNCC who had the ability to sign off individually on transfers of NRCC funds into affiliated Congressional campaign accounts. Problem was that he was not only doing that, but was also transferring moneys into 521 Accounts ~ those nasty Ondependent Political Groups like the Swiftboaters (whom he, just coincidentally, acted as their Treasurer). This was blatantly illegal, of course, as was the fact that he was transferring moneys from the NRCC into “inactive” campaign accounts, and then into personal accounts.

This was only discovered after the aforementioned Treasurer was asked for the annual audit figures. Then the new Head of the RNCC asked to meet with the auditors. Turned out that the Treasurer was essentially photoshopping “fake” audits onto letterhead from official Auditing Firms and hiding his fund transfers. So far they’ve discovered about $1 million missing over the last few years, and they are still auditing. The guy has been used by the RNCC for about 10 years, AND he was the favored Chief Fiscal official for dozens of Republican campaigns. It’s likely to get far worse (for the Republicans, that is).

Given their horrific fundraising, and eventual FEC fines for inappropriate use…well the Party could be out doing bake sales and car washes. Maybe they could try that old County Fair game where you throw softballs to “dunk” the celebrity…except use Ann Coulter, Malkin, Cheney, Bush, Limbaugh, etc….and feces!

Also – the following wasn’t the stock market yesterday.

Bush Approval Ratings

Stuff.

What a dummy.

That’s an understatement! Imagine having to be corrected by HoJo…! Yep, He’s the Mack Daddy of Foreign Policy… God help us all…

So check out JetBlue flights to Newburgh, email me at rosannecahn at aol dot com, and Ill notify you when it is.

Eli, are there other examples of McCain saying stupid things – like YouTube? I think we need to collect as many as we can for future use.

you make a packet of foil, line the bottom with an extra so as not to have huge nasty clean up,

put the raw ribs in the packet and flavor them with garlic, a tad onion, and whatever you like, I use Italian seasoning, all those spices together, but LIGHTLY. salt and pepper, and we like it hot, so i use Cayenne. then pour in white wine, into the packet.

then, you seal the “packet” or “envelope of foil”, and cook it slow and low, on the bbq or in the oven for 4 to 6 hours, enough to where it doesn’t break up when picked up with tongs.

then you pick the ribs up with tongs or remove the foil envelope and start the actual bbq.
i make my own sauce, but whatever you do, make the sweeet in your bbq with molasses, not brown sugar or anything else, use molasses. and put on a low fire and keep brushing and turning, until
until
well, i do it untill it breaks apart or when the guests start whining about the smells.
lol

then serve with some of the sauce that has been kept heated over fire.
any questions?

it’s a killer, that’s how we do it. we do it here cause that’s how the natives did it here. only they didnt use wine or foil, but they did they’re own thing which was CLOSE.
K?
:)
do this and E N J O Y!

i might actually be in that area at that time…I’ll be in Woodstock, NY…

See me @ 261

oh! sorry, things got intellectual here again, while i was typing ribs stuff.
forgive for being off topic.
:)

Nice! I have an FX01, but I don’t have any dedicated albums for it.

email me your dates. I’m trying to coordinate date with a couple of other out-of-towners. @261 Woodstock is only about 25 miles north.

check your inbox in a few…

Off the top of my head, there’s “Bomb Bomb Iran”, his amused reaction to the woman who asked “How do we stop the bitch?”, and his (repeated) statements about how he wanted to stay in Iraq for the next 100 or 1000 years.

Unfortunately, I don’t think his Chelsea Clinton joke is on video anywhere…

I can get *to* Newburgh, but someone would have to pick me up…

That said, there’s no guarantee I can go – I have to hoard my vacation days carefully this year.

I’ve enjoyed your stuff on your site.

Thanks.

I sure use that word a lot…

how far is that from boston?

a few of us freelancers are not encumbered by those kinda things. We kinda make our own time…*g*…

Thanks, I appreciate it!

if I come, I might have to bring a friend..she’ll be driving me from Woodstock, so…

Your point that the Dems have had victories this week should not go unnoticed, nor should the fact that the Repubs have flubbed right and left…what has driven me bonkers all week is that the MSM continues (well, until today) to coronate McLobby…

It appears to me that Scarborough relentlessly has beaten down the Dems with a stupid logic that basically…Pukes are racist. He has overruled his cohost constantly and appeared repeatedly on other MSNBC shows spouting the same stuff, with a fake “Obama is inspirational” schtick that devolves into a schtick that white people won’t vote for a black man, and he is in the know. I find that incredibly damaging. I am not saying that “I” think that HRC is better or worse as a candidate, but what I am saying is that this relentless divisionary behavior by this commentator is really eroding the truth. Sometimes, I think he sounds like he’s supporting Obama, then he swiftly tells us why he can never win, because he is “black”. Never acknowledging that Obama is as white as he is black. Today, Obama smacked down the wall, and this man was allowed to “ramble on” with his rhetoric, unchecked. The same goes for women. He repeatedly raises his hand to “silence” Mika, and he raised his hand to silence Rachel. This is unacceptable.

The racist sludge that is being permitted to be spread by the MSM, particularly MSNBC is disgusting and despicable and dehumanizing, and I’m sick of it. CNN is treading more carefully, and more covertly, but their “experts” spew the same venom. I’m sick of this country allowing these “pundits” as they call themselves to rule our opinions.

Now, I want the rib recipe. :)

Worst case, I’ll pay for a taxi (hostess must keep options open about being absent from party site). Would love to meet you.

Thanks eCAHN!

Are the comments to high school students on vid. The famous “you jerk” stuff?

see it here,
post # 263

About 75 miles (a little over an hour) south of Albany, which IIRC is about 3 hours west of Boston. Send me an email & I’ll put you on the list & then you can decide when the time comes.

Check out Thinkprogress.org for the latest on McCain. It would seem he knows little about Jim Oberweis who lost a bid for Hastert’s seat when he just campaigned for him a few weeks ago.

Honestly, I think the man is losing it. He shows a lack knowledge of facts that should be basic to his campaign. If he keeps this up, he will be easy to beat in the GE.

and New Paltz kinda brings back some memories from some 30 years ago. I was a high-school senior then, and a friend of mine was at SUNY-New Paltz, used to spend the weekends with her there…

Yes, that’s on video. I saw it, but it didn’t really sound that mean-spirited to me, more like an unsuccessful attempt at Dubyaesque joshing.

I think you should send that entire comment to MSNBC because it is excellent. That’s why I don’t watch news any more. I get so angry that I am babbling at the screen. (They probably don’t want the rib recipe)

Beautiful!

They probably don’t deserve the rib recipe!

The only thing to Joe Scarb’s credit is that he’s not afraid to say that Bush or other Republicans are being complete idiots. But that doesn’t mean he’s not a caveman himself.

Much like Chris Matthews – there seems to be a particularly misogynistic culture at MSNBC.

Grrreat!! I’m very attached to Jack Daniel’s BBQ sauce..to die for…

Thank you Siri (the name of my first kitten ever…in Norway BTW)

I’d love to go, but transportation probably isn’t going to be the limiting factor. More like too many trips bunched together.

He gives new definition to the word, asshat

So email me anyhow, I’ll put you on the list & you can decide when the time comes.

I’m not already on the list?

Until they stop supporting torture, they don’t deserve Siri’ recipe.

So be it.

He SHOULD be easy to beat. It seems impossible that we couldn’t beat him. But…

Yes, you are. Just double checked. Sorry that I forgot.

Heh, I noticed KO awarded himself the bronze for WPITW today…!

Sounds like you are going to have a wonderful “gathering”…Yay!

but..we’ve been to this rodeo before….

Not this time!!

I haven’t gotten to see the talking heads tyonight. i read Obama’sspeech and thouht it was fantastic. What are they saying about it? Stuff you’d expect from people you’d expect?

For what? I was gone.

We must stick together.

All I know is that Tweety *raved* about it. But I only know this secondhand ‘cuz I don’t watch Tweety.

sorry OT

Senator Clinton’s road to the middle class takes a major detour right through the deep canyon of corporate lobbyists and the hidden bidding of K Street in Washington — and history tells us that when that bus stops there it is the middle class that loses.

When I asked Hillary Clinton to join me in not taking money from Washington lobbyists — she refused. Not only did she say that she would continue to take their money, she defended them.

Today Hillary Clinton has taken more money from Washington lobbyists than any candidate from either party — more money than any Republican candidate.

She has taken more money from the defense industry than any other candidate from either party as well.

She took more money from Wall Street last quarter than Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and Barack Obama combined.

The long slow slide of our democracy into the corporate abyss continues unabated regardless of party, regardless of the best interests of America.

We have a duty — a duty to end this.
Edwards

Thanks LooHoo, I also apreciate that.

i hungry,mebbe a bagel?

Really need a link for this. Thanks.

ot: we’re having a rash of gun violence in l.a. (even more than usual) with lots of innocent kids getting caught in the crossfire. the police and press slap the word “gang” in the headline and the victims are forgotten in a day.

an emergency room doctor just wrote one of the most heart breaking pieces i’ve ever read about our latest victim, an 11 year old boy, who he tried to save.

dear sen. mccain, we’ve got a war right here if you’re interested.

http://www2.presstelegram.com/…..urce=email

300 comments? The pups are active tonight!

Great editorial in the NYT as well, JPL9.

You got it!

ok

June in New Paltz will be fun..a few mosquitoes from the Lake…would be great to meet you in person after seeing you on teevee in the mid- to late-1990s…

For calling on a specific individual at the NYT(I didn’t catch the name) to fire Bill Kristol, when that specific individual didn’t hire and can’t fire him…!

OT. Or not. Robert Fisk in Wednesday’s Independent.

http://www.independent.co.uk/n…..97816.html

http://www.johnedwards.com/new…..moral-test

Really? I wouldn’t have expected. I guess that’s good then. ui caught some of Hannity & Colmes on FOX. They had Newton Gingrich on and I turned it off. I rarely do that as bogus as FOX gets. Can’t remember the last time I did it. Felt like I was gonna vomit.

We’ve got a long way to go. It is not impossible.

Thank you Eli

Danke/Bitte

http://www.americablog.com/200…..idate.html

Here’s Steven Heller from the NYT on characterizations of the candidates. Fun.

I can’t and won’t turn on Faux Spew, ever…!

Tweety is all about the mancrushes and rooting for whoever’s against Hillary.

LaCa has ex-NYC police commish (me NYC). I think the problem is too few cops in LaCa. Gangs, in particular, is a major problem from what I read in the news. Don;t know how NYC handled this but more cops was certainly part of the solution. (bjnts, if you’re lurking, please chime in)

i wuvvvvvve him

Every time i see that town I think New Putz.

When was that said?

WOW…that is all

That too. The DFH was alive & well in New Paltz (Putz) until well into the 1990s.

For the record, it was a crappy speech.

Last October.

he said it Oct,and they think he is going to endorse somebody teh sooooon

Detox for you…

I watch it sometimes to see what they’re sayin’. The knuckleherads in the morning used to be funny (not when they were trying) but that got tired pretty quick. And it was always good to watch it before I went to a party or barbecue so I’d know what my in-laws had in their brains. couldn’t stick with it tonight.

i feel like Charlie McCarthy(before your time) and mine”g”

For the record, wnyc (NYC nbc channel) concludes that Paterson is really great for outing himself & his wife’s affairs.

Go figger.

Obama’s? It read very well. i didn’t see it. You mean content wise? i thought it was good. veruy good. excellent. very excellent.

for the record,i want a Thomas ’s bagel…all the way

thanks, will do.

mebbe some cajun crabdip on it

my email to you keeps bouncing back, but I think I got your e-address right now, an e missing here and there…

Heh heh heh. My years at Eschaton honed my fast-twitch commenting reflexes.

Can’t I just take a bath? I do that.

If you read “The Great War For Civilisation” you’ll wuvvvvvve him even more while at the same time steam comes out yer ears and you want to throw the tome against the wall except it’s 20 bucks and it ain’t his fault. It’s like a 1200 page explanation of the above article. Best. Correspondent. Today.

that place has gone bonkers

I’m so bummed about bagels.

i saw the you tube presentation…he reminds me of Attenborough….out fukkinstanding

Q?

Teddy’s upstairs

Would I know you by a different handle from there?

im watching Whats new pussycat,and PeterSellers is preparing for a Viking funeral…lmao

It made me cry in places. I’m not alone.

Si

His intensity, integrity and a number of other traits remind me of Morrow, particularly the Morrow who stood on a London rooftop while reporting live during the Blitz.

OMG, Rosalind…

As the howl of unimaginable grief shakes the entire ER, I am filled with anger. Why do we still sell guns in this country? What is this child doing on the streets after 10 o’clock at night? Why are we killing our innocent young soldiers overseas, and ignoring the merciless gangbangers – terrorists in their own right – that are invading ourstreets here at home? I try to put these thoughts away, because now, in front of his family, I have to sew him up. I have to close this huge gash in his left side, that I made. I place the first stitch, and as I’m tying the knot, I look at the boy’s face. He’s small for 11, not that much bigger than my son Ben. All the adrenaline is gone. My shoulders sag. I feel myself start to cry, and I know that I can’t stop it. I have no way of hiding because literally everybody is looking at me, including his mother, and my hands are busy, so I can’t wipe the tears away. I make eye contact with the mom, and whisper “I’m sorry.” I finish closing his chest up, and shuffle off to the sink to wash this child’s blood off my arms.

his grasp of history sets him apary imo

oooopsie…. apart

Aww, I are a college graduate. I had that figgered out.

why is McCain NOT wearing a hat in that photo…..peeps with skin cancer are advised to wear hats in sunlight,especially a desert….maverick huh?

*g*

im not being flip,he just has an amazing grasp of history like Zinn,and im obviously impressed,thats all

Death wish. Wants name Short Ride as VP so he foist him off on us.

I was just being foolish.

Edwards was my first choice! I will support the Democratic nominee come November! We can’t let another republican in the white house…. this country can’t take it!

hahahahahahahahaha/oops

yup

Time for eye goop for the house tiger then it’s check the eyelids for light leaks time.

Peace Love Light