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Tibet!

go ahead and submit, nahant, I don’t want to create another double digg

eureka!

ES!

Evening Eureka!

Good evening folks, another stormy night with Ingrid Bergman. *g*

don’t forget to Digg it

Hey ES how are you doing? boy today was a great day here in the Bay Area… Made the PRC shorten the torch run and hold the closing ceremony on the side of the free way….

Hey ES, how are you?

So, I wrote something on the previous thread.

Birds were singing their beeks of this morning. Saw this one in a tree over me. Can anyone identify it?

black bird?

ES, this is so lovely!

Szouh?
H/T Dr Kirk and a few thousand DFH’s.

how bad are your storms, eureka? ya’ll certainly have had just about everything except a hurricane out there.

All ready done… but that doesn’t mean you can’t still digg it for ES :>)

beeks off, and that’s if beek is how you write it correctly…

Made me oh so homesick (2nd home) watching it on the television.

dugg

From EPU land…Looks like a starling to me!

I recognize it, but don’t know its name.

I agree it was fun watching the happening on TV and live blogging it at the same time..

I bought this CD years ago.. always liked both Billy Bragg and Wilco.. This is one of my favorite cuts off that album.

likewise

Starling, I agree. I first saw them on my feeder, and was told that they are bullies of the bird world. Anyone know?

Here is a link to the starling

does that look a lot like the birds you saw? And was it a flock of them?

Hi ES, I got EPU’d!

Fun watching on teevee — the ChopperFive camera would cut real close whenever there was a chance that a flag-draped protester was nearby. Then when the security cordon had outrun the protesters, the chopper-cam would go wide. They clearly had their instructions, especially after the protesters met up with the Torch halfway up Van Ness.

I bet Newsom’s plan was to go across the GG Bridge, to counteract all Monday’s publicity, thereby supplying his Chinese overlords with lots of photo ops. But the late start ran them right up to rush hour — and rush they did, right to SFO.

I did see the one unregulated moment on teevee, when I noticed my friend John Caldera, an essay winner, take the torch with his runner-partner. But she shook her arm and something came out of her sleeve; you couldn’t see what it was, but she was hustled away from the torch by the blue-and-white meanies. There was a brief paragraph about her in an earlier version of the constantly updated story on the Chronicle website, but I haven’t seen it again.

Here’s a snippet from New Zealand teevee:

At least one torchbearer decided to show her support for Tibetan independence during her moment in the spotlight. After being passed the Olympic flame, Majora Carter pulled out a small Tibetan flag that she had hidden in her shirt sleeve.

“The Chinese security and cops were on me like white on rice, it was no joke,” said Carter, 41, who runs a non profit organization in New York.

“They pulled me out of the race, and then San Francisco police officers pushed me back into the crowd on the side of the street.”

Great post, Kirk, thanks for all you did today.

What’s on my mind today (besides the glorious protests in SF as described in Late Nite) is why, when I’m paying an attorney to do my taxes, does it take me so long just to get together the information he needs to do them? His questionairre is longer than the tax return!

how kewl, teddy. i just saw her on ktvu

Such restraint, sir! Staying home with all the excitement just blocks away.

As you can see on my set of pics, it wasn’t spotted. But beek and the underside of that tail sure looked like it. There were two of them.

Channel 7 had good coverage and they didn’t seem to be holding back the coverage… the only time they censored was during and interview in Justice
Herman plaza. some one came up with a poster with pictures showing victims of Chinese brutality in Tibet… but they stay with it for several moments… long enough and close enough so you couldn’t miss the pictures!

It is still early in the season, they will show their spots as they molt.

Thanks Nahant.

Hopefully CNN and local stations had good ratings today. Citizens in action sure beats repetitive know nothing talking heads.

I can’t wait to see either;
A.Little or no mention of this giant clusterfuck in the paper tomorrow, or

B. The whitewashed version on the last page.

KTVU (the BA’s FOX affiliate) seemed to keep pretty good tabs on the goings-on, but I only saw bits and pieces throughout the day.

ktvu may be fox owed but before i moved up here, they were still considered to be independent with regard to their newsroom. it might have changed since then.

They showed a naked guy wrapped in the Tibetan flag here on the local news in LA.

In other news, my favorite baseball player in the whole world, Angels catcher Mike Napoli, hit a grand slam home run today and recorded the final game winning out against the Cleveland Indians.

love the headline on SF Chronicle:

newsom,fong defend decision to alter torch route

emphasis mine - i don’t think this turned out like they thought it would

crap, here’s the link

Prestigious (and watchable) local news at KTVU, at least while Dennis Richmond and Leslie Griffith (and Elaine Corral) were there.
Don’t know about now.

from the chronicle:

S.F. officials had indicated that the relay could be cut short, but after the route was completely changed, some people, including Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, blasted the mayor over the bait-and-switch.

rut roh, i don’t think the mayor is gonna find the uproar is died down when he gets to work in the morning.

OT, sorry, but why are we still in a position where we have to listen to MondoLooser Spice on CSpan?
Why isn’t she gone???? oh, yeah. right. Bu$h.
*sigh*

siri, no such thang as off topic in a late late nite thread

Good!
NASA picture of the day!
And Eureka - loved the vid. Very sweet.

Gotta be a newbie…! ;-)

I sure hope not… he kotowed to the PRC thug government…

check out the astronomy potd. they just added the ability to digg their posts. i wish the earth science potd would do that

big time and the whole world was watching

Wow right next store to us!

And they all got what they deserved!

I like Suz’s pic of Phobos better!
Smashing!

the apod and the espod are both on my daily must see list. been visiting apod since the 90’s and the espod i found about the time i moved up here, so maybe 4 years. excellent eye candy on both sites and i learn something knew too.

Scott Horton is at it still… you just have to check out his diggs often… he is always right on the exposure of this administration…. I hope they get what they have sowed!

Wild.. Amazing it did NOT break apart.

Dam that is beautiful… I bet is is fracking cold though

Shit linky didn’t take

Hey, Newtonusr,
I think that pix is on our computers at work, can that be so?

scott has been amazing with the stuff he sniffs out while doing actual investigative reporting.

If you were 13 million light-years away, maybe you’re just looking out the window. :-)

Here’s what’s on my mind - Diane Benson’s Alaska Gas Line challege to Big Oil!

My newest Kos Diary….

The youtube @ Scotts blog is well worth a viewing. Kudos to ABC Disney for that report!

hey et, how’s alaska tonight?

sorry, i should have modified that.. how is your corner of alaska tonight, et?

I agree I make sure to visit his diggs several times a day as you never know when he add another post.

What’s on my mind, is her birthday is August 29, not 28, like the video says.

I know, boring.

*Gasp* You were once a Repug, ET? I’m stunned…! ;-)

Nicely done..and recommended.

Oh, you know me, I’m always looking out the window! It is why I’m never going to be more than wishing…

Oh a FAN..) Have you heard this song before tonight?

Who’s birthday is Aug. 29th?

They just interviewed the lady who pulled out the Tibetan flag while carrying the torch. she stated that she just had to protest the Tibetan issue!

what, you think i’m the only rethug around the lake?

But Suz I thought you were in rehab for that addiction….
By the way how did the house showing go today?

I was raised GOP. I was disgusted by LBJ when I served in the Army during the Vietnam War. Washington State Dems disgusted me. When I got to Alaska, the Dems were at least as bad as the GOPers. I left the GOP when the Fungelicals began taking over the Alaska apparatus in 1981-82. You might say that Jerry Falwell “saved me” from being a Republican. I was then a Green for 16 years. I joined the Dems last year, and am now district and area (an area as big as New England) Party Secretary.

looking out the window

Thanks, Eureka!

Heh, far and few between… ‘Cept, maybe the occasional Troll that slips through… Haven’t seen any in awhile tho!

Found a good video of the torch-bearer with the Tibetan flag.

haven’t heard anything back. my agent will probably talk to their agent tomorrow.

trolls are crunchy - but have a terrible aftertaste

Oh boy Stevie Ray Vaughn!!

I did vote for Reagan once! ;-) Since then it’s been either Dems or Nader…!

trolls are crunchy…

I can vouch. I broke a filling on one last week.

Suzanne,

We got 7 inches of new snow today. It had been almost all gone. Snowing hard, with snow advisory up…

*Ouch* Not good, LM! I hope you’ve a good dental plan…! *g*

you can keep it… we are supposed to hit the high 70’s and then to the low 80’s over the weekend…

dont’ say i did not warn ya, lurk

fork, et, i’ve got stuff blooming all over the place with birds chirping and insects buzzing. it is unusual for you to still be getting snow in april or is this the norm?

Sometimes. My greenhouse is going grreat, though, with arugula about ready to eat, and other stuff popping up all over in their little containers.

ET - what a diary.
Thanks so much.

The Vog has been so bad they evacuated Hawaii Volcanoes National Park…

http://www.hawaiitribune-heral.....ocal01.txt

Membership required..(

news should not require identifying information in order to be able to read

Especially VOG news.

Sometimes the NewsBox brings some encouraging items.
I don’t know whether to call this one encouraging (it’s about a gruesome violation of human rights, committed in our name and by ChimpCo), but I’m glad the ACLU continues to plug away at it.

Dang, Sorry folks!
Try this…

http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/

That did it. Thanks.

dayamit, it only gives the first graph and then wants registration to see the rest ct :(

Ineeed. Almost time to renew my membership.

When my wife was at the ER yesterday, there was a massive flood of Asthmatics there…! It wasn’t pretty!

speaking of the mrs, how is she feeling today?

They’re cheap bastards… Trust me…! They lost a major union-busting suit just recently, but, we lost two good reporters in the process too…! 8-(

Not good I can relate…. fells just like a fish out of water… no mater how hard you try you just can’t get enough air…scarey if you are the victum…. I take my meds daily to ward that off

The pain meds are working great…! *g*

I empathize, nahant! Fortunately, my smoking habit hasn’t caught up with me yet!

Quit I did at age 22… I was smoking 2-3 packs of Luckies a day when I just quit cold turkey… you just have to put your mind to it!

The ACLU seem to be the only vestige of hope left these days…!

there’s