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suzanne!

FITZ!

Good evening dear friends. How’s everyone today? I miss anything?

g’evening pups

:…old dudes singing

none of us are free
when one has chains

Congrats, Spidey! What’s in the stars these days? 8-)

just the usual fuckery – state dept let contractors snoop at obama’s passport file but want us to trust them that it was just curiosity and nothing political

i saw a tiny bit of that on Countdown before I left to do a puppet show. I put on a purim puppet show this evening with 2nd-4th graders. Pix are here if anyone wants to see.

word for today: concatenated ..

maybe that’s the hit he is supposed to take according to the stars…obama

Hey Suzanne!

did i mess up the link? anyone else having troubles?

Howdy, Ma’am! I got a 404 message on your link!

i fixed the link (i think)

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

Oh Janis.

think i fixed it this time

i saw a tiny bit of that on Countdown before I left to do a puppet show. I put on a purim puppet show this evening with 2nd-4th graders. Pix are here if anyone wants to see.

so that’s what boosh means when he says we have brought freedom to the Iraqis…

A hard refresh will reveal repaired links, pups.

here’s the link to the pix

We have found the problem:

“Imprudent curiosity by low level employees.”

-G

sup y’all

ubuntu beta time! :D

Thank you lurking mod! Would you like to try some of this evening’s SNACK? They are called hamentashen, a Purim cookie. These are just about ready to come out of the oven. Please share with the other mods and anyone else back there.

yeah
sure
right

How is that remotely legal? What possible reason would they have to be curious about? What the holy hell. They don’t even pretend anymore.

Here’s the video Courage Campaign wants to put out on the major networks next week on the yacht republicans.

Here’s enough for everyone.

Looks like a good time was had by all, TexB.

Right. Low level contractors.

yep. lots of fun. i have one more puppet show tomorrow, though i rather expect a phone call from a third synagogue asking if i can help them out tomorrow evening.

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You don’t have permission to access /myimages/JIG/hamantashen_-_1.jpg on this server.

Thank you!

Tex, did ya see that Holy Joe had to correct McCain again…? When McCan’t said it was the Jewish Halloween…!

Hi everyone!
I can’t get the YouTUbe to work.

Thanks for that. Do you know when they are going to start running it? I’d love to see a ton more like it.

Does anyone know what Alberto Gonzales is doing these days?.. I like to keep up with his career.

Liarman is to McInsane, what Nancy was to ronnie. The memory it’s not so good you know.

he does not pull off the red power suit with the same panache that she did.

try these: http://www.flickr.com/photos/roboppy/7485187/

Hey Margot!
Sup?

I think Wednesday, CNN and MSNBC. I love it that everyone has just plain given up on FOX!

Heh, nor his knowledge of the different faiths…

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/…..cainagain/

mine! mine! mine!
those look yummy

Does anyone know what Alberto Gonzales is doing these days?.. I like to keep up with his career.

I’m afraid we share the same morbid curiosity.
The speech circuit can’t possibly want…
nevermind.

I’m afraid that you’ll have to check with contract employees within the state department, Jay. They seem to know the skinny on everyone.

Waaaaaaaaooo None of us are free.

wasn’t agag getting the same 40K/speech that rove was getting? must be the going wingnut welfare rate.

hey es

He was until the students and faculty started screaming BS!

Yeeeeeeeeee-Haw!

That’s a good idea, Loo Hoo, does anyone know a contract employee from, say, SwiftBoat, Inc?

Mmmm, been enjoying all the exposure the Blind Boys of AL have been getting for a few years now. I saw Gospel at Colonnus about 10 years ago in person.

Are ya’ll drying out, ES?

Hi Chris,
Not much here. Wondering how much of a garden I can put in. How about you?

i sure wish there was a utube for laura love’s let your freak flag fly

Keith mentioned this connection to the Obama passport issue. Wonder if there’s anything to it?

MSNBC reported that the State Department official in charge of the Bureau Of Consular Affairs during the first two breaches of Obama’s passport has a connection to the Clinton administration. “Mora Hardy was a consular affairs chief until the end of last month when she retired from foreign service work. Before her stint as the assistant secretary of state of consular affairs, Hardy was an ambassador to Paraguay under President Bill Clinton. She was also an executive assistant to Warren Christopher.”

(HuffPo)

Can someone tell me why taxpayers are footing the bill for McInsane to travel to foreign lands he can’t remember.

cause mcsame is claiming to be making the trip for purposes based on his senate committee thingie. the truth is more like him and his wanna be vp were making the circuit looking for good photo ops and so they can claim foreign policy creds.

Good choice, Suzanne. Solomon Burke is a BAD MAN!

I still want some Delbert and some Paul Thorn. Purty pleez with Splenda on it? (I’m on a diet :-)

Let’s see, wasn’t the burglary at the Watergate complex carried out by low level contractors? Except one of them happened to have a White House ID in his wallet…

Shit! Clinton did it too. For real. A photo of Bill with Reverend Wright.

patience is a virture, thatguy.

besides, sat nite is cartoons. bring your jammies and popcorn.

Considering Crazy train can’t remember a damn thing about the places he’s been to, I guess the trip has been a bust.

Just in the front by the sidewalk.

All dry.. been outside in the full moonlight.. I think I have a moonburn.

Nite all, Margot write me tomorrow.

g’nite christine

night christine

Loo Hoo, if you are looking for YouTube video for the worst of Issa you should definitely checkout the clips of the Roger Clemens, Mitchell Report hearings on the use of steroids and human growth hormone in baseball. There are many clips of the long three hour hearing with Issa and Waxman going at it tooth and nail. I recall several heated exchanges Issa had with house members and witnesses during the hearing and there are many of these clips on you tube. I found these by typing in Roger Clemens Mitchell Report. Hope this helps.

that guy, check this out

Wow, yes! Thanks and keep me up on anything new you see between now and the election. I really appreciate it.

If you think that was bad, I take it you never watched him in action when they voted to subpoena members of justice to testify.

Where do I find that? Also, I remember seeing him saying Valerie Plame Wilson perjoring (sp) herself on the floor of the house. How do I get clips of these? I just need dates and approximate times, and another firepup will help me put the youtube together.

Oh yeah, I saw that too. Watching these and other hearings with all the partisan bickering reinforces the fact that bipartisanism is never going to happen.

Looking now, Loo Hoo.
Joe was testifying, and I have it here somewhere.
It was awful.

I would betcha Think Progress and Crooks and Liars archives would have a lot of dirt on Issa.

This simple search has lots of possibilities.

Man, I wish I had one of this on my forced rucksack marches… would’ve lightened the load a bit…

http://shock.military.com/Shoc…..iertech.nl

Our taxes hard at work…

I am not 100% sure. But I am definitely going to do my best to find out.

You know, there was a dude here awhile back who just loved Delbert McClintock.
You guys should get together. ;)

Margot – there must be more than one “Delbert” fan on the planet.

That’s scary.

OMG! The subtle threat to Waxman. Great link, thanks!

I would’ve appreciated its’ services… ;-)

“International Man of Mystery” Jon’s on fire…!

damn, that’s one helluva piece of equipment.

That is the weirdest thing I have seen in a good while.
Coming to an urban battlefield near you.
Fuck.

arf!

time to sleep. night all.

My only gripe would be how noisy it is… So much for stealthy movement…!

pain free sleep wishes, tex

Yeah but could you take one down if needed with 12 gauge? *s

The fact that Darrell Issa gave us the Viper car alarm should be enough for any reasonable citizen to vote him out of office. Not to mention he is one of the wealthiest house members as a result of it. Every time I hear a car alarm go off in my neighborhood I think of Issa.

Wowie! That is so amazing. But what were the cables hooked to the thing at the end? Just electricity or what? How long could this thing work in Tora Bora without a recharge? Any idea?

Bwhahaha… Maybe they could put grenade or two on that one…! ;-)

Actually it sounded like it had a gas powered motor on it, hence the noise…

thanks suzanne

Looks like more Clinton staffers may have to slink away muttering mea culpa and apologize to Obama over at Markos awhile ago. Has Hill commented yet on former Clinton civil servants leaking Obama passport file, etc. et ?

Aloha, Tex!

my guess would be the on board computer(s) sending billions of bits of info back to larger computers for analysis?

Aloha, NPB! It should be interesting how this fleshes out… Maybe a Clintonite was involved in the first Jan. incident, but, the next two I’d chalk up to BushBots…!

If it’s true I wouldn’t hold your breath.

Anyone else get beyond the summary yet?

http://responsibleplan.com/plan

At this point, we don’t know why Obama’s passport records were checked. If I had to bet money, I’d say they were done by Bush/McCain looking for dirt. The Clinton angle is a possibility, I suppose, but I’m doubtful.

We know that senior State officials were notified by a reporter asking questions. Do we know who that reporter is and how that reporter found out?

Apologies may not even be necessary, the campaign could end.

makes me think of the road runner cartoon where he has the fan on his back so he can fly – until he runs out of cord…

heh, or cast the body in some sorta plastique.

There has to be somebody of some type on the inside talking.

Do we know the name of the private contracting company working on passports?

Aloha CT – The MoveOn vigil overlooking Carmel Beach last evening at sunset was encouraging and oh so moving.

I don’t know yet, NPB. I don’t think there’s been an actual charge that the Clinton campaign was involved in the passport leak. Just a coincidence that a former Clinton employee was working there, and that Bill Clinton had his passport scrutinized.

i’ve not run across anything where that is disclosed es

At one point the hearing degenerated into name-calling, as Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., accused Plame of lying to the Judiciary Committee during testimony in March when she said she had not tapped her husband to travel to Niger for the fact-finding mission that led to his op-ed questioning Bush’s Iraq war claims.

“This is yet a further smear of my wife’s good name and my good name,” Wilson loudly protested later, as Issa objected repeatedly and Conyers fought to gain control of the hearing.
AP
also see
http://www.perrspectives.com/b…..000673.htm

have you seen the official catolog of acme products?

http://www.home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/acme.html

Any pics, M’dear? Sounds cool!

Wanna try that link again?

Yet! It’ll come out…! ;-)

no i haven’t and i wanna but that link doesn’t work :(

i sure liked those 3 questions rachael raised on KO

is it missing the http:// ?

I haven’t seen mention of that, but didn’t KO say that the three breaches happened in two different locations? There may be more than one contracting company involved.

Thank you so much! I wrote down both addresses for my techie helpers. A group effort!

http://www.home.nc.rr.com/tuco…../acme.html

trying to see if this works for ya felix (and me)

nope, that’s not the problem (the http) felix

Colbert can be such a jerk…! ;-)

My current pet theory: The third breach was innocent, by someone who just wanted to take a peak for personal reasons. That set off an alarm that caused someone to check for any previous breaches and, bingo, came across the two earlier ones which up until that point had been successfully covered up. That would explain why we found out now, not long after the third breach, but long after the first two.

I keep wanting Waxman or someone (I know he’s way busy) to find out why in the world we would have contract workers working on American passports? This is so America, and so federal. Why aren’t federal employees manning the passports? Why contractors-contract employees? Scares me.

if you google ACME Products it is 3rd on the page that comes up. i’m not so good a the linky thing. actuallly surprise that it came up as link in my comment!

By the way, has anyone seen jayt?
News about the shower, anyone? lol

Delete the www

tis the outsourcing of america, loohoo. let private companies do govt work allegedly cheaper and better.

I’ll bring rum and coke, will that do? :-D Maybe some hot links!

The Rabbit of Seville is mah personal fave. :-D

Sadly no pictures that I recall – we met on the bluff about beach at sunset. The organizer lived blocks from the World Trade Center and a recent newcomer to the golden state and was inspired to answer Move On’s call for her first vigil action.

She succeeded beautifully, bless her.

edited and fixed and that works

refresh everyone

thanks robz

What’s really spooky, is that 70% of our intel gathering is contracted out to private contractors…!

I cannot imagine having him as a congressman. My old one is in prison and he wasn’t near as irritating.
Wait: he just got out of prison recently and is now in a halfway house.

Margot, it was ugly…
jayt puked up the wings, everyone but him was drinking tequila and ended up grazing in the yard, and the flat-screen teevee got used as a dart board.
Very expensive shower.

Just home from work. Read Dave Neiwert’s post from earlier this evening – best fdl essay in days, if not longer. Especially hitting the mark with me, having to drive a lot from job site to job site today, listening to rightwing AM radio doing exactly what he’s talking about. God, do I hate mainstream American racism in all its forms!

By the way, has anyone seen jayt?
News about the shower, anyone? lol

jayt’s missing? Shower? Where’s Valerie?

This is what the NYT is reporting as fact in their article on the breech, that the third breech did set off an alarm in the computer files so they decided to go back and see if there were any other recent security breeches.

Evening ET.
Yep, it was a gem.

hey et

Snort…
I see, Newton. So is he OK now? Are you his birthing coach? whoo whoo hee hee whoo whoo, etc.?

Sweet.

what? there was a shower and i missed it. the horror. oh, the humanity!!!

nice panting margot (instead of my usual nice painting)

Which fine, upstanding congressman would that be? And let me just take a wild guess at his party. Republican?

WTF?

Looking at another gem – Al Gore’s January 2006 American Constitution Society speech – thinking about writing about comparing Gore’s speech to Obama’s Philadelphia speech Tuesday.

Obama’s speech was great, but Gore’s was pure magic, almost oracular.

from several nights ago – jayt being preggers due to having swollen ankles….

You mean that wasn’t you naked and MagicMarkered under the porch in the morning?

ok, i’ve changed my mind – i wanna see the pictures

Musta been me…! *g*

Swollen ankles cause pregnancy. Now I know I’m in lala land.

Guess you had to be there! *g*

The highest bidder, Suzanne… The highest bidder.

This is what the NYT is reporting as fact…

Ahh, I guess I’m wrong, then. :)

Interesting. Emptywheel thinks maybe the first two were done by McCain forces, but she had no explanation for the third one. This is a possible explanation.

felix, this is way too forking cool. thanks so very much. my inner geek loves it and is arguing with my inner kid which is better, the disintegrating pistol or the breakfast cereal.

i quit drinking years ago, i don’t do crazy shit like that anymore!

Wile E. Coyote the original neocon thinker. Never thinking things through to the end.

ya wudda thought that little georgie wudda learned that lesson when mama boosh parked him in front of the tv to watch cartoons while she played golf.

I bid ya’ll a fond adieu! Aloha Oe!!!

aloha ct

Good night, CTuttle.

nite tuttle

suz, someone over a TBoog’s stated in a comment that Bar must be the stupidest organism in the history of time and w the stupidest thing since upright mobility. no capacity to learn there.

parenting skills are certainly questionable

That would be Bob Ney, and you’re right about party affiliation.

That’s McClintoN to you, McClintock was a John Wayne character. Honest!

Some news: Looks like Richardson goes Obama:

http://www.reuters.com/article…..0220080321

Ah, that scamp! Thought he’d trick the adults. It’s part of the platform that no longer stands.

spelling police are not permitted down here in the comments

so, whatcha think of that one?

alright! with that i’m outta here! nite all.

g’nite felix

nite fe

?

the video i linked him to upthread

Oh i really didn’t know, sorry!

Good night, Felix.

As far as Richardson endorsing Obama, if that’s accurate, that is a surprise.

i’ll just go to bed confused. nothing new for me:)

laughing…. i know that feeling all too well

I think he has picked his winner, and he wants a job.
He had the luxury of time.

guess we find out friday

WaPo

Krauthammer at the WaPo. I’ve never actually typed his name before, but I think that it says it all.

waapoo has the richardson endorsement – its on the ap wires

Righteo. And when will Edwards get around to endorsing, I wonder. Makes you wonder how principled these people are. Let’s see, endorse on principal, or endorse for political advantage.

How about having a “name that scandal” contest for the passport scandal? I can’t think of any good ones.

here, some krugman should get that nasty thang outta your brain

“State of Ruin”

Oy. At least we’ll all be in this together. (?)

yeap

Oh, boy. Dionne is in the thick of it too, with Obama bias.

I don’t know what to say. Dionne has been okay in the past, but this is sad.

I cite King not to justify Wright’s damnation of America or his lunatic and pernicious theories but to suggest that Obama’s pastor and his church are not as far outside the African American mainstream as many would suggest. I would also ask my conservative friends who praise King so lavishly to search their consciences and wonder if they would have stood up for him in 1968.

These are realities that Obama has forced us to confront, and they are painful. Wright was operating within a long tradition of African American outrage, which is one reason Obama could not walk away from his old pastor in the name of political survival. Obama’s personal closeness to Wright would have made such a move craven in any event.

Loo Hoo – I don’t know how to ask this without sounding like a shill, but tell me if you think Senator Obama was wrong in his descriptions of cultural differences wrt Black churches and his Grandmother.

OMG, I thought Obama’s speech was brilliant in it’s entirety. Absolutely a monumental speech that will be read in American history books in the future. Perhaps in African history books as well. This speech was over the top. (I had my fifth graders listen.)

Obama was right. There is no Krauthammer or Dionne, no Dowd or Kristol that can change that. They will try, and perhaps succeed, but I doubt it. This movement has too many legs. I don’t know if Obama or Clinton will win, but I’m pretty freaking sure that McCain will not.

mcsame is gonna be 4 more of the same

From your lips…
I think St. John is a more viable a candidate then I am comfortable with, and we have yet to see what the Goopers have in store. It will be a bloodbath, whoever is the nominee.

Tonight I listened to longer excerpts from the Wright speeches that Fox News cut up.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/…..841/481227

Almost all of it is not even newsworthy. Just standard political criticism, very similar to the “Why Would God Bless America” song sung at the Republican Values Voter debate. Other than the “gives them the drugs” comment, I don’t get what all the hullabaloo is about.

yeap. i’m thinking its more of because we can kinda deal and more like a warning shot of how they can tie up the news cycle with negative obama news. unfortunately, i do not think they factored in the thursday nite news dump (pre holiday edition of the friday nite dumps) about obama’s privacy being violated by state dept.

all them newsie types travel and have passports. they are feeling this one kinda close to home and i think it’s going to dominate the news cycle instead of the wurlitzer’s planned domination over the easter weekend of the wright matter.

earlier tonight, i heard andrea mitchell on the phone with ko and i heard a shadow of her former investigative journalism self when talking about what a huge violation of privacy this was. it was as if for a short moment, the reporters were not playing gotcha journalism but real investigative journalism. that first ko hour was pretty darn interesting to watch ko juggling the reporters, piecing together the bits of info they were reporting and then following up with real questions.

reminded me of the nightly news i watched back when i was a much younger person. i hope it continues.

KO was masterful. That show, the first airing that was devoted entirely to “State of Ruin” should be required study in journalism classes.

We do live in interesting times, as the old Chinese curse goes.

And, Suz – great song choice!

hey alicia.. how goes

I’m 55 years old, and I ain’t buying any of it. The pollsters don’t have a clue. They’ll never ask my opinion because I cut off my landline (AT&T, for obvious reasons!). Kids of voting age don’t have landlines either, just by virtue of their environment. I don’t trust that any of the pollsters have real information. They can only poll the people with land lines, and people who don’t screen their calls. I’m thinking that leaves an outdated portion of the American electorate. Invalid.

Just finished finals, so I’m free (more or less) for 2 weeks! Hurrah! And you?

I kicked AT&T to the curb also, Loo Hoo. Bastids.

hanging here but i’ve got sun and mon nite off. need to decompress from all the poo flinging and get some plain old fashioned down time.

You deserve it, running this zoo, night after night!
Make it count, Suz!

i plan on it loohoo. ok, pups, attaturk is upstairs and i’m outta here.

thanks for hanging with me tonight.

nite suz

Have a great time off, Suz. Don’t touch that internet whatever you do!