April Fools!

Poodles! woohoo, thanks Jane

Love the poodles, Jane!

What?

Aloha, Suz!

Hi, Suzanne!

Is this site going to the dogs?

Looks like the poodles are enjoying spring – hope you are doing likewise, Jane.

I found a couple of decent recordings of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring on Youtube, but his Firebird is also very “springy,” and contains some of the most hopeful music ever written by a human.

Stravinsky conducts the Finale of Firebird.

Cute! That’s the way it is around here, only funnier. Spayed chihuahua, and a not neutered American Eskimo!

Life is good.

i want to breed my not too bright Tibetan (recue) Terrier to a poodle…he ate glass last nite….oy

my chihuahuas give said Tibetan…total hell,they have molto energy

IMO, Rite of Spring works only if you have a partner with whom you can have vigorous sex.

Poodles are in very good spirits pretty consistently. They always make me smile.

if ya give them lotsa treats…they will do your taxes

Evening Jane, pups, poodles.

Hey suzanne.

Jane, what got the poodles attention at around a minute thirty-five? Very cool dogs.

Not a poodle :
http://picasaweb.google.com/pi…..8364027346

I would like to sick the Poodles on the doughy pantload for his so stupid column today. Well, maybe a plague of something as I am sure the Poodles have better things to do.

Anyone up for cake?

Well, I just provide the music.

A job half done…. *g*

yummm pink poodle cake

Funny, yet refreshing. Ah, Spring!

love Collies,rescued one 2 months ago,a black one…i offered the owner $$$$$ if he didnt want her anymore

ALWAYS!

DIGG IT

Woof Woof all you pups!

Katie!
Kobe!
Lucy!

Jane!

I do have fun with the cake pantry ya know.

I love SRV and Clapton…take a step back and listen to these guys wail:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

and Clapton…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

Brings back the old days….

What’s Spring? I only have two seasons… Wet and Dry! ;-)

must go have some treats myself…

Thanks for the playful poodles! Our big Maine Coon boys send headbutts and kisses in return.

It’s springtime, when we all want to frolic and play in the sunshine…

-S

thanks, nahant.. dugg

Tell the poodles that Mo got the save.

Appreciate the song

you rawk!!!!!

why THANK you!

my feral Siamese cat(girl ) has started to do that to me,should i be honored?

i have never ’demanded’ anything here, but my 207 in the last thread was written to my friend tim who is in charge of the tv news here in athens……..the entire thread i tried to explain the importance of letter writing.

factual letter writing.

please pups, hear my harkening words and scroll and read the last thread when you have a minute.

i have never wanted to do anything here, but to inform and learn, this last thread i finally bit the bullet and said what i think about it.

so, read it.

so many times disgust is expressed on why we can’t make change.

i expressed why, and how we can do that.

it is so simple that it escapes me why it isn’t being done.

so, the little turle with the spunky megaphone challenges you to listen to what she has been megaphoning all of this time.

a letter, a simple fact-packed letter. to anyone who needs to know a fact. it’s that simple.

Bush is running around gladhanding in Europe while the proof of his warcrimes get leaked to the papers in the US.

Tough timing.

-G

I love Axel and Slash:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

the moderators removed your identifying information in that comment, dmac.

quik trip to the Netherlands methinks

And we thank you so much Tex!
I used to bake EVERY night after dinner, for about 15 years when the kids were taking lunches to school. Glad to know that you are now taking on the responsibility as my baking pans are retired.

What did I miss?

Spring cookies.

i walked up the steps in Anne Franks house in Amsterdam………

Suz Tucker says hello to Token and Goldie.

oh my

Y’all are missin’ Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Slash…Dudes and Dudettes…music….*g*

OMG! Total respect for you. I baked on Sundays if there was time….and froze for the lunches.

HMM, sucks to be late.
I get a message the video is no longer available.
I refreshed and tried it again just to make sure.

thanks, nahant. token goes to the groomer for his spring shaving haircut next week.

Recently?

I heard ‘em! Thanks.

Wow, the Aloha Airline debacle has impacted a special needs class from Reno, NV, they’d held bake sales etc. to fly from Reno to Disneyland, they’re SOL… Sad indeed…! 8-(

working fine here busted

Hey Loo Hoo, and I LOVED it! We mostly made all things quick bread and back of the Hershey’s cocoa box. Cranberry and pumpkin stuff. They still ask me to mail … ah, no.

Mahalo, Tex! *g*

Well, there is this.

Rite of Spring: Young Girl’s Dance

no……………..many many,many moons ago…i was 17

Happy 4/1!!!

I lovelovelove slash. did i mention that i love slash? i even have that guitar hero commercial marked as a favorite on youtube so i can look at it on end.

i have never been to Hershey PA…i want to go there

Must be something on my end, I keep getting the same message and I’ll be damned if I am going to listen to Mike Gravel sing Helter Skelter.
I’ve had a rough enough day thankyouverymuch!

oh chimpie has even ruined traveling!

You too!

suz at 41 thanks i was blinded by passion…………

It’s still April Fools…..

Although the park and museum are fine, I would say, stick to the cocoa.

i just clicked the link..wth? lmao

hahahahahahahahahaha

and ted turner is on charlie rose right now–the first mega-media mogul………

next time you are blinded by passion, can ya try to remember to break up such a long comment into several please (and double check for id-ing info)

Don’t miss watertiger’s shot of the King and Queen of America touring abroad

Suzanne, I’m sure you appreciate Clapton..on 4/1…????

ya know what else chimpie took away??????

CHEAP CAR TRIPS

little cretin

Ha ha ha, but let me tell you the back of the box chocolate cake on the Hershey’s cocoa box is the best chocolate cake I’ve ever made! The secret: boiling water.

i need never see another pic of them

i shall make it this weekend….thanks

…….guests

i was grooving to the srv – been kinda busy – sorry for the delay in acknowledging the music.

Perfect. Just what I had in mind. Thanks for the video.

Milosevic’s cell is empty now.

-G

P.S. Is it time for the Bushbots to start imougning France again in light of the France’s cockblock of Ukraine/Georgia into to NATO?

and thanks mods, i like being anonymous…….reallly.

but i’ve thanked you about that before………hmmmmmm……….

thank you, i’ve been caught up in events this week and didn’t watch my backside tonight, thanks for watching it for me,
thanks mods, thanks suz.

Impugning……

OT: U.S. ‘stuck in reverse’ on fuel economy Only two super-efficient cars available, down from five, study shows

Virginia executions on hold

RICHMOND, April 1 — Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced Tuesday that he is halting all executions until the Supreme Court decides whether lethal injection violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Kaine’s announcement came as he stayed the April 8 execution of Edward N. Bell, who killed a police officer in Winchester in 1999. Along with the reprieve, Kaine said future executions will be put on hold until the Supreme Court rules in the case of Baze v. Rees. The case was argued in January, and a decision could come before the court adjourns in June.

“In order to provide guidance to courts, litigants and the public, it is my intention . . . to grant a temporary delay of any execution date in Virginia that has been set,” Kaine (D) said in a statement.

The decision prompted concern from Republicans that Kaine, who opposes the death penalty, is trying to work toward a permanent moratorium, a contention that administration officials deny.

nice……fukerz…ishall get a tata in spite of them

sadlyeyes, she loves you! She’s probably trying to play.

Maine Coons are the dogs of the cat world, so they’d probably be out in the yard with Jane’s poodles, running and playing.

It’s a good thing to have people who love you!

critterz are the best peeps!

Perfect.

i also have a MC…Harry very affectinate,but the Siamese was feral

critters love ya no matter what

beaudacious TaTas

http://www.google.co.in/images……com/media

they make the world a beautiful,joyful place

These Maine Coon Cat’s, I’ve heard of em.
Pretty rough and tumble varmints are they?

I had no idea Aloha Airlines was going out of business, thanks CTuttle.

suz at 73 i feel shamed. makes me want to go back to being anonymous. oh well, i just wanted to share how it really works. and what might happen if people start doing it. i ’ll go back to being anonymous. one by one. instead of the influx of a crowd. it can make a difference, sorry i spoke up. it’s such a simple thing. and nobody realizes it.that’s ok.

jeez, dmac, i wasn’t trying to shame ya. just asking that ya break up your comment when it is a long one and alerting ya to the info the mods removed

Baz…..short for Basil Faulty……..the glass eater after a romp through thecow pods

http://bp3.blogger.com/_puwu6D…..1_0047.JPG

Don’t peek.

LOL! Funny.

dmac, I really appreciate your work and your passion. You’re a great writer too!

am gonna leave for a while, i hope people send factual letters whenever they hear something that isn’t the truth.

send them everywhere, you never know what the impact can be, at least that is what i have foung to be true.

they don’t have to be ’perfect’ just send them.

gnite

Most interesting…

ACLU: Military Skirting Law to Spy

NEW YORK (AP) – The military is using the FBI to skirt legal restrictions on domestic surveillance to obtain private records of Americans’ Internet service providers, financial institutions and telephone companies, the ACLU said Tuesday.

The American Civil Liberties Union based its conclusion on a review of more than 1,000 documents turned over by the Defense Department after it sued the agency last year for documents related to national security letters. The lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court.

The letters are investigative tools used to compel businesses to turn over customer information without a judge’s order or grand jury subpoena.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl…..le/7429739

dmac-please don’t do that. You make a valuable contribution, and I enjoy your work very much. Don’t be sorry-I thought it was great, and the passion just bled out of it.
Hang with us….ok?
{{{dmac}}}

night dmac

Good night, dmac. Sweet dreams.

Yep, out of business… Hawaii just lost 2,000 jobs! 8-(

Message well taken dmac. Goodnight.

dayuuuuuuuuuum!

its late,i shall take leave…sweet dreams all

This was posted and passed onto me today from a reader of Marketwatch.com a blogger commented…just passin’ it on…interesting:

“UBS plans further $19 bln in write-downs, seeks capital boost… to issue $18 bln in stock… The mortgage bankers “took their money (after reselling the loan to a thrid party) and ran”. Don’t these people who are losing their homes wish someone would invest in them so that they could keep their home. UBS said there will be a maximum of 1.25 billion new shares issued and the capital raising has been fully underwritten by a syndicate of banks including J.P. Morgan Chase (JPM:JPMorgan Chase %26 Co) , Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, and Goldman Sachs (GS:Goldman Sachs Group, Inc) . Which means that the BIG GUYS and underwriters have set the minimum price… don’t you wish you could do that when the correction occurs… ?

The writing is on the wall, this market is going “no where but down”, and the big guys want you to “buy THEIR stock”, along with your taxes, and have you “fund the bail-out of THEIR disaster”… don’t you see where this is all going… you can’t even invest in innovative companys that don’t outsource any more becase even their stock is being victimized by this “MELT DOWN”… these “fat cats” have torpedoed this entire market.

These guys are driven by nothing more than GREED and are destined to “MELT the market”. The BIG GUYS can issue stock in a bad market when their investments go bad (and hope someone will buy what they are selling)… you however can not…

The only “MELTING” you are going to see in this market is when “the Stock Market goes LIQUID”, all of those holding stock will see their holdings “LIQUIFY” as the bottom falls out of their “PORTFOLIO WEALTH”, those holding stock will watching everything they have slipping through their fingers and there will be nothing they can do about it… those that don’t get out fast enough while there are still buyers in queue will be left holding nothing at all (you saw what happened to Bear Stearns on a recent Friday and the weekend deal that followed, otherwise they would not have been able to open the market for business at all the following Monday).

If you are still invested in this market… Sell your stocks NOW “for whatever you can get” (better than $2 per share I’ll bet), and wait for the correction. You will be GLAD that YOU DID… and RICHER for it. There is no stock or sector that is not going to be affected by the coming correction, you will look back on today and say why didn’t I get out at today’s comparitivly high prices… $2 or $10 will feel the same later compared to what you could have gotten today. Get out NOW and buy back in “after the correction” or “crash” as the case may be.”

I’m going to look into just how ’spensive one of them Maine Coon Cats is, That looks like my kinda cat after reading up on ‘em!

Aloha, sadly!

*waving g’nite to the leaving sleepy pups*

dmac,
Please don’t go back. You’re right.

your kinda cat how busted?

Big, smart, likes to play around water, uses it’s paws to grab things and plays fetch!

No word from the SPCA yet, Busted?

nite again all!!!!!
you can rerscue them
MC rescue….

Check it out!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_Coon

Unusual for a “regular cat” that’s for sure.

Nope, she’s a goner I’m afraid.

ok – i was wrong having a mental picture of a cat with an oil gun in one hand, a lug wrench in the other and swearing mightily.

HMMM!

It say’s they are pretty smart.
Lol.

LS, it’s not just UBS, Deustche Bank is writing off $4BB also, from the mortgage meltdown…!

CTuttle, my girls came back from Hawaii Saturday AM. They were 6 hours late taking off. Did Aloha fly to the mainland?

Manx cats are like that too.

It’s pretty under the radar….

These guys are driven by nothing more than GREED and are destined to “MELT the market”.

And, by law, it would be illegal for them to be driven by anything else. The duty of the CEO and board of directors is to maximize the profit to the shareholders. Anything else would be a breech of fiduciary responsibility. They are required by law to be as greedy as they can possibly be.

Orange County, Oakland, Vegas, and several other west coast destinations…!

Maine coon cat

elsewhere ….
Shuttle retirement may bring loss of 8,600 jobs, NASA says from Amer – Herald Trib

better link: http://www.iht.com/articles/20…..02nasa.php

judas priest, no wonder food stamp usage is at an all time high, jobs being lost left and right

Is there a better link?

i apologize for my abruptness- i signed back on to explain and plead.

this site is a wealth of knowledge.

when christy and jane call for letters and action, most don’t respond for lack of finesse.

i’’m saying, use facts.

you learn them here, you know them in your minds, you know them when you hear them, and when they aren’t right.

you know them, you know enough, do it.

write a letter. right then.

write it to morning edition, diane rehm, terry groossssss-whom i hate–talkof the nation, afternoon edition, democracynow, ed scultz-whom i hate-, alex jones, rush limbaugh, sean hannity, laura ingharam, mark levin, doughboy, bill cunningham, edwards now, every single freakin’ voice you hear, WRITE THEM.

anyone. keep writing the facts.

lou dobbs, larry king, wolf, ad.dc, etc………

correct their facts. no diatribe, no emotion, the facts are enough.

what good is knowledge if you don’t use it?

we each have knowledge, backed up by facts, now able to deliver it.

each in our own way. say it.

what power.

and we are pissin’ it away waiting for a consensus.

don’t wait, it is affective, use the fucking facts.

i love you all, but i am damned if i’m gonna let you sit on the best weapon you have.

your humor and your facts.

Will do dmac.

april fools or no?

Scientists at Newcastle University have created part-human, part-animal hybrid embryos for the first time in the UK, the BBC can reveal.

yes. 135

‘night all. Best of all possible tomorrows to you all.

I would agree, it was only mentioned briefly in this article…

UBS’s admission was swiftly followed by a $3.9bn write-down from Deutsche Bank today, and the two announcements appeared to give investors confidence that the financial sector is finally addressing the full extent of its sub-prime losses.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi…..editcrunch

g’nite rond

sleep well RonD

Aloha, Ron!

Nite, RonD, and thanks, dmac. I agree with you. We need to use FACTS!

Yea, part cow, what hath God man created…?

McCain was just on Letterman and said the US should close Guantanamo Bay, does anyone remember if that is what he said back in the debates?

Thanks for the link, I’m already checkin’ em out.
the Rescue site Sadlyyes mentioned has some, pricey little suckers.
Three hundred clams for a kitten.
That’s what I would want though so I could raise it.
The last one (I miss my Baby) was a fuckin doll. She loved me somethin fierce, just hated car trips.I got her before her eyes changed color , she was so little.

Latest news and blog posts are up. Reality Based News Feed

I am going to head to sleep a bit early tonight.
G’night.

John McCain makes me puke.

pain free sleep wishes tex

We need to have emails available for all of the “influential shows” starting with Morning Joe and ending with Abrams…MSNBC and CNN…handy.. and fire off corrections and sources…dmac is right.

john mccain is dangerous

Gnite all you sleepy heads. ;)

Suzanne – I thought you might get a kick out of this…

I do remember that McCain said during the debates that if he is elected President, the US would be energy indepent in 5 years after he takes office. Does anyone really believe that?

fork

Without a doubt.

McCain wouldn’t be dangerous if the media were doing their job. No reason the CNN reporter couldn’t have nailed him a bit in the last clip I shared from TP.

He is McInsane.

No sh*t!

Busted, here’s a UTube for ya…! ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

Aloha, Tex!

Evening all. Poodle Porn and McCrazy Magic Pony Boy, who could ask for anything more.

John McCain:
Worse than Bush

Does that mean because we will own all the world’s oil fields?

McCain’s campaign is afraid of McCain’s ”100 years in Iraq” blowback…..

I don’t think so, since he seems determined to bomb all those countries back to the Permian. It’s a little problematic drilling for oil amid a glowing, radioactive glass plain.

Aloha, DD! Another day of corrupting our youths’ minds?

Thanks!
My poor old laptop hates youtubes.
I just now got through finally getting to the end of the last one from Newtonusr.

No, it means we won’t be able to afford nondomestic oil.

Maine coon cat YouTubes

I don’t know about that, it only fuses the sand to a depth of a few feet, at least that’s what I saw at the Trinity site…! ;-0

As well as “Americans ‘don’t care’…as long as there are no American casualties”….we can occupy any country forever…because Americans don’t care.

Americans don’t care. How about that???? Americans don’t care if people are killed and maimed. Americans don’t care….Wow, McLame, you must really love your country, you’re really cool, you have your finger on the pulse of America….Americans “don’t care”…..BS.

I’m just trying to picture what the world might look like from inside McCain’s head.

Maybe he thinks world conquest will be easy, we will be greeted as liberators with flowers and candy, and we won’t have to use the nukes.

Oh, and by the way, The Surge Is Working.

Yep and more and better to come. As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I will be giving a talk on Gender, Sexuality, and Identity as part of the campus Lambda Alliance’s Campus Pride Week next Tuesday. Should be a hoot. I think they will enjoy what I have to say, but any fundie hecklers’ heads will explode. Talk come complete with monkey porn (actually ape porn as it is chimps and bonobos).

I love it.

I’m not convinced McCain cares if he wins. If he cared, he’d bone up on the facts a little bit, at least. I think he wants to take a long nap.

Wear a rain slicker, ya wouldn’t want their gray matter spattered on your jacket!

i am not going to mention patio tables
i am not going to mention patio tables
i am not going to mention patio tables

George all-in Bush drives the military to the brink:

“When the five-brigade surge went in . . . that took all the stroke out of the shock absorbers for the United States Army,” Cody testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee’s readiness panel.

He said that even if five brigades are pulled out of Iraq by July, as planned, it would take some time before the Army could return to 12-month tours for soldiers. Petraeus is expected to call for a pause in further troop reductions to assess their impact on security in Iraq.

“I’ve never seen our lack of strategic depth be where it is today,” said Cody, who has been the senior Army official in charge of operations and readiness for the past six years and plans to retire this summer.

With which part of this craziness does McCain disagree?

Well, he claims to have been a Footsoldier in the Reagan Revolution, so maybe that is his idea of what a president does…

Thank you!

Well, they both have/had the whole senile dementia thing going.

I’m always suspicious of someone with an ego so large that they believe they have the solution to the problems of world based on their military experience.

Non-starter if you ask me.

I heard or saw a program about bonobo behavior, and how the male scientists studying them would put the female bonobos in “time out” for aggressive behavior toward male bonobos.
Just had to shake my head.

true dat – and thinking they are john wayne riding to our rescue, not realizing that each was what we need saving from…

I smell a draft.

It sickens me when McBuush was in the vanguard of the Repugs howling about Clinton’s forays into Bosnia and Somalia… Screaming that Bill was breaking our military… Aah, those were the days…! 8-(

OMFG!

WANT!!

Don’t think I have seen that one. For the most part the researchers I know of working on bonobos (male and female) are kind of into that whole female dominance thing they have going on (mostly because it opens up all kinds of issues for human social organization).

Was the 4 minute AC Nielsen survey I didn’t just complete on this site an April Fools Joke or just more commercialization of what is kind of tired horse here?

I was willing to give feedback to FDL but NOT be marketed to, without getting paid like YOU!

This is why I miss TRex late night – BIG time.

Bill, I don’t what the hell is up with that survey.
You are not the first, second or third person it has done that to.

hi bill, yes that is a real survey. it is being done so that the lake may serve the needs of our readers better – we have done similar surveys before but this is the first time for a random one instead of being in a post.

http://www.loe.org/shows/shows…..3#feature7

I can’t believe I found it, but this is it. It’s pretty funny in places.

It’s under “The Make Love, Not War Species.”

THANKS Suzanne. While I understand, I didn’t like it.
It was asking too much personal information and it looked like any other request for info to sell you something.
I was expecting some “do more of, do less of on FDL” kind of feedback.
AC Nielsen works for YOU, don’t pay for lame canned surveys imo. (unsolicited feedback).

PS. I enjoy your posts by the way, but was put off by that “transition” and prefer the treehouse. (feedback).