So?

Suz!

hi suz

g’evening pups… how is everyone doing tonight?

You do have great taste in tunes,
Toonz too!

Some doom and gloom…

Experts see Depression parallels in U.S. crisis

“There is some stuff that does have that eerie 1932 feel,” said Thomas Ferguson, a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, citing regulators’ “infinite confidence in moral suasion.”

Evening, Suzanne!
Paying very close attention.

After a wonderful week, I’m here — hi Pups!

:blushing:

i do have to disclose, The Lurking Mod helped me in tonight’s selection.

good night all.

totally worth it newton.

great music?

Aloha, Ma’am, I wish ya pain free sleep…!

pain free sleep wishes tex

Dugg, Suz!
Great, even before the 5:23 surprise!

i was torn between this one and another one. the lurkster did point out that little 5:23 bit…

thanks y’all.

THE LURKING MOD!

Yer bad self!

Oops!
Dugg here…

I was only consulted. Suzanne did the deed.

speaking of digg…

do ya’ll think we can get this fine david post about mcsame’s flip flop on torture over 100 diggs?

This is refreshing to see in the MSM…

ABC criticized for handling of Democratic debate

Critics excoriated ABC on Thursday for its televised Democratic presidential debate, slamming the network for “shoddy, despicable” moderators who they said favored Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama and dwelled on “gossip” instead of issues.

RICO baby.
You forget where we are!

thanks for the digg newton

find a jury that would convict, busted. that’s dayam prime ear candy and not front paging it wudda been the crime.

gee, only took reuters 24 hours to figure out how pissed off everyone is

I have guests, and need to be “quiet” so no music here tonight late night…sigh

From the same article…

Nearly 17,000 comments flooded ABC News’ Web site, many of them pouring scorn on the moderators, who were booed by the auditorium crowd near the end of the debate.

“Stephanopoulos and Gibson are the worst of hacks. Asinine nincompoopery. I’m glad they were jeered at the end,” one poster, identified only as Splendoline, wrote.

Rachel kicks Joe Scar’s ass.

dugg

Yep. Thing of beauty.

Joe certainly has a thin skin, eh?

Update from MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines to Huffington Post:
“Joe didn’t walk off. He chose not to participate in the final couple of minutes of the discussion because he felt the conversation didn’t fit his role as a political analyst.”

whatta buncha forking wankers. he forking walked off in a snit when confronted by facts.

thanks neuro

I noticed in the tape delayed edition here in the Isles, they’d conveinently edited out the booing…!

Anybody see the video of Barrack Obama giving a speech in NC and knocking Hillary Clinton and then while doing that pretends he is scratching his cheek with his middle finger and gives that cute smirk he does and the crowd laughs and gets it. I hope this isn’t as bad as it looks.
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.co…..debate.htm

I’d love to see it, but linky bad…

dugg the toonz and Mr Flip Flop

evening all from Texas.. how is everyone doing tonight??

Dugg.

It’s not every night I get to tease the Lurking Mod and live.
I ain’t as fast as i used to be.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.co…..debate.htm
I guess you have to cut and paste….look at 1:20 sec and forward
that link in pevious post doesn’t seem to work

Damn, the shit never ends…

Suicide bomber kills 50 at Iraq funeral

http://www.reuters.com/article…..8820080418

I agree!!

how’s that new grandbaby?

Wow, Gov’t Mule certainly kicks ass (as does Rachel).

not many survive, i’ll grant ya that busted

one of my fav mule’s

*sigh* i had heard a different number of dead but one dead is one too many

Still a ‘fatal error’…!

*yawns*
Kind of mellow tonight.

*sigh*

No new cat, no new Grandbaby.

fatal error? i missed something?

FORK.. that was for nahant not busted

doods, my apologies

What a great performance. That is like a lullaby…
Thanks, Suz (and TLM).

video isn’t loading on my computer *pout*

alibe’s link at 40

I thought it was funny when Scarbaby said I don’t mean to be condescending…” and then proceeded to be condescending to everyone on the set who has not run for public office by telling it like it really is, as he knows being someone who has run for public office.

hmmm I think he is really is just scratching his cheek. But I’m not going to read anything into it. I’ve had enough of that

tour dates from the G’Mule link in the post:

GOV’T MULE AND WARREN SOLO AT THE GREEN APPLE FEST
As previously announced Gov’t Mule and Warren Haynes will be performing as part of the Green Apple Festival on the Washington Mall, in Washington DC, on April 20th. Warren will be performing from around 2:20 to 2:40, and Gov’t Mule will perform from 4:10-4:35. Tickets for the full Gov’t Mule show at the Lisner Auditorium the night before are still available via http://www.ticketmaster.com.

GOV’T MULE AND RATDOG CO-HEADLINING TOUR
Gov’t Mule and Ratdog will be teaming up and playing some west coast dates this summer. More dates will be announced next week but for now we can tell you that they will be playing The Greek in Los Angeles on June 29th and Humphreys by The Bay in San Diego, CA on July 1st and July 2nd. Tickets for the San Diego shows are available now via http://www.ticketmaster.com. Ticket info for the Greek will be announced shortly.

got it, thanks

try this link about the Obama finger to Hillary
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.co…..ebate.html

that one worked, thanks alibe

ick, such bottom barrel reasoning. I know what i’m talking about and the rest of you don’t have a clue

I kind of thought it was for me but I thought maybe busted had pulled some thing off I hadn’t heard about… as for the new granddaughter Presley she is beautiful… looks a lot like her big sister Taylor!

i hope he gets canned for walking off the set during a show

Truly a thing of beauty. First, she refused to let him cut her off; she kept on talking and made her point that the petty-attack don’t become news until an opponent launches them. Then he came back in a huff: “I don’t do ‘cross fire’.” Well, shit, he was the one butting in.

But then he went off on his point, which was that it’ll be harder for an opponent to “define” McCain because of his long tenure in Washington, than it will be for an opponent to “define” Obama, who is a relatively new kid on the block. Even, if true, that doesn’t refute what Rachel said.

More to the point, McCain is very vulnerable to his opponent playing the senility card. He has shown too many “senior moments,” and he’s shifting his positions on a daily basis. I don’t think he can remember what his position is.

IIRC, when Reagan ran for re-election he was so far gone that any appearance where he didn’t drool on himself was declared a success by the press.

Well at least Fox news is on the case

busted, you had any luck on finding a coon cat rescue group to get a coon cat?

Gongrats Grandpa!

Crock-a-Joe expected today to be a good “Pound-A-Lefty” day.
So damned glad the fucker got his chops busted.

Margot I just watched the kitty video you sent me on facebook it is great.. will have to share that one with friends :>)!

523 skiddo Bush its high time to waltz your mean lyin ass out of Washington……….IMPEACH says my 94 year old buddy and so says I.
What say you?????

do you have any grandsons? or just blessed with girls for now?

Holding off for that right now.
Busy trying to take care of my own self.

impeach now

Thanks Busted.. boy for a minute I thought you suddenly had a granddaughter… Just Suz forking with us :>)

gotta take care of one’s self before one can take care of others.

tis a lesson i had to learn the hard way (((busted)))

Obama, was looking and sounding good there…! Do you despise Obama that much, to read things into his every gesture…?

“I don’t think he can remember what his position is.”

I think he mostly tries to concentrate on trying to remember what Bush’s position is…

Two grandsons and four granddaughters… unfortunately none live very close to me… nearest ones are 120 miles away up in Grass valley.. but I made it here to see the newest one…

My Grand daughter ought to be turning 3 in…….
FORK!
Day after tomorrow! SHIT!

they are gonna have to outfit mcsame with one of them boosh underjacket boxes that boosh used in the debates. that way he gets told what to say as he says it so mcsame don’t forget.

He’s just unilaterally going off on his own and undermining everything the international community and the United States is (sic) trying to do,” protested Republican U.S. House Rep. Sue Myrick (NC-09) today in the call to revoke the passport of former president Jimmy Carter.

Myrick also wants taxpayer funds to the Carter Center, which conducts humanitarian efforts worldwide, severed. “Why,” the lawmaker asks, “should we support his center when he will not support his government?”

Click here to read the rest

ya still have time busted. be glad you did not remember the evening of.

heh heh…he would probably mishear it half the time even if they did…

Scarborough thing is nice. They are cowardly bullies. If you really challenged them, they will fold. Afterwards they will run into the back rooms and scheme to destroy you, but in public they humiliate themselves and will fold.

That is why important to press against media on this debat thing hard.

Look at ABC’s CYA operation today -they are humiliating themselves.

Yesterday!!!! then a little incarceration and shipped to the Hague for another trial for war crimes long may he live

awwwww that is so sweet. I’m sure you took plenty of pics and can’t wait to see them again.

he could just pass it off as a hearing aid – isn’t that what ray-gun did?

I usually get a phone call because they all know I have a world class case of CRS.

you better get on that… Taylor here is turning two and then next Geno is turning 4 week from Sunday…. kinda drain the pocket book if ya know what
I mean..

let me try tis again duhhhhhhh

GOP Rep.: Revoke Jimmy Carter’s passport for Hamas visits

“He’s just unilaterally going off on his own and undermining everything the international community and the United States is (sic) trying to do,” protested Republican U.S. House Rep. Sue Myrick (NC-09) today in the call to revoke the passport of former president Jimmy Carter.

Myrick also wants taxpayer funds to the Carter Center, which conducts humanitarian efforts worldwide, severed. “Why,” the lawmaker asks, “should we support his center when he will not support his government?”

click here to see/read more

damn.

danny federici, e-street band member, lost his fight with melanoma today.

and

chris gaffney, l.a. musician and member of dave alvin’s band, died from liver cancer today.

way too soon. way too sad.

I will be taking plenty of pictures… Grandmom would have my hide if I didn’t

Gibson was crowing about the ratings, and the overwhelming e-mail response… He merely left out the 9-1 negativity ratio… I was screaming at the tube…! It wasn’t pretty!

Six Strings Down

good on her! Don’t know what mr and I’s parents will do when/ if we have kids and are back in Brasil…no one would be less than 6 hours away by plane.

TGI one so far.
I actually have one that’s my ex wifes that just turned 13.

Honestly, I never had any kids though, I was afraid they’d turn out like me.

my son-in-law-to-be comes complete with pre-teen daughters. my younger sister is a grandma of 4 girls.

Yesterday, Eliot Engel a Dem was asking for a resolution condemning Carter for meeting with Hamas… It’s not just the Repugs…!

Honestly, I never had any kids though, I was afraid they’d turn out like me.

God forbid..:>)

that is what they do, tell the story but leave out the unflattering parts. no one is fooled by his fully packed baloney. people know it was shit and to depend on ABC to tell the truth (esp after airing that 9/11 crap) is asking the impossible

you notice the waapoo had conflicting op eds (think it was thur) – one condemning carter for talking to hamas and giving a voice to hamas. the other op ed was by a hamas founder

One is plenty, I know.

what was the response to his resolution? a middle finger?

Uh huh. Especially when what the US is trying to do is working out so very well.

“They’re going to stand around the trough with machine guns,” he said of the banks. “They’re not going to kill each other, just keep taking from the taxpayer.”

The Fed has cut interest rates aggressively since the official start of the credit crisis last August, slashing its target for interbank lending by 3 percentage points to 2.25 percent. In addition, it has pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into the banking system and begun accepting shadier assets as collateral in an effort to get financial institutions to begin lending again….Walker Todd, a fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, said Volcker’s skepticism was justified.”Overnight, without public debate, the Fed gave out half of its balance sheet to the primary dealer community,” said Todd. “They have crossed the line.”

I’m glad you liked it!
I tried not to blast it to every single person so if anyone wants it, just ask and I’ll send it.

at some point your going to have to talk to hamas. they do have the support of the people there because they’re building schools, taking care of the shit people need. the israelies aren’t doing it

Not yet, we’ll see if it gets any further, I know it had a Gooper co-sponsor, I can’t recall who it was… We shall see…!

Don’t know if anyone saw this yet, but the woman who asked the lapel pin question was an ABC plant. Read below. Maybe the vieo of he Clinton smear question was a plant too.

Did ABC do any disclosure that they knew about this woman’s views before hand, that she did not support Obama and had a specific beef about the flag lapel pin? I don’t think so.

ABC is unethical. They need to pay a big price for this and we need to help make sure they pay it.

We should watch the news to find out if the Clinton smear video question was a plant too.

This Nash lady has had a very hard life recently, and I have no problem with her. She has a right to think and say what she wants.

But what about ABC’s behavior?

BTW: its official no lapel pins on the too moderators.

…
Remember that woman from the debate last night who the moderators showed videotape of asking whether Barack Obama “believes in the flag”? Her name is Nash McCabe.

I remember thinking it was sort of odd to have a couple one-off uses of ordinary voter question when it didn’t really seem like it was part of the format. But I was too distracted by the general inanity of the debate to focus on this issue too closely.

Well, it turns out TPM Reader JL did give some thought. And he came up with something very interesting (see JL’s post at the DrexelDems blog). He did a little googling and found out Nash is pretty popular with the traveling press now in Pennsylvania. It turns out McCabe was featured in an April 4th story in the Times which begins like this …

Ask whom she might vote for in the coming presidential primary election and Nash McCabe, 52, seems almost relieved to be able to unpack the dossier she has been collecting in her head.
It is not about whom she likes, but more a bill of particulars about why she cannot vote for Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.

“How can I vote for a president who won’t wear a flag pin?” Mrs. McCabe, a recently unemployed clerk typist, said in a booth at the Valley Dairy luncheonette in this quiet, small city in western Pennsylvania.

Mr. Obama has said patriotism is about ideas, not flag pins.

“I watch him on TV,” Mrs. McCabe said. “I keep looking for that lapel pin.”

…

I think there’s something wrong with it. And part of it is that you usually assume that these citizen questions come from people who are at least partly conflicted about their support if not undecided. But it does reinforce my sense that the disgraceful nature of the debate wasn’t just something that came together wrong, some iffy ideas taken to far, but basically engineered to be crap from the ground up.

(ed.note: Remember, there was also Tom Rooney from Pittsburgh who said he’d been a Clinton supporter up until the Bosnia flap and asked what she could say to get back his vote. In that case, this was at least someone who’d been a Clinton supporter at one point and suggested he could be again. But it’s still basically, “Hillary, can you apologize to me for being a liar?” Not exactly a question. Anyone have more details on Rooney?)

Late Update: Turns out McClatchy is on this case and has plenty of details about how ABC tracked McCabe down.

–Josh Marshall

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

—————————————————————

Attytood
Nash McCabe: The rest of the story
http://www.philly.com/philly/b…..story.html

The Pentagons “War College” has just determined that the Iraq War is an Utter Debacle

Full Report is here National Defense College Report on Iraq

Well there are people who say there is no such thing as bad publicity.

*raises hand*

To All Patriots;

Dear Friend:

Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition to torture. I appreciate hearing from you regarding this very important issue.

You will be pleased to know that we are in complete agreement on this issue. As a member of the Human Rights Caucus, I am adamantly opposed to the use of torture , including waterboarding, by the American military and intelligence services . I passionately believe all forms of torture contradict everything our country stands for in the world. For this reason I am an original cosponsor of the Torture Outsourcing Prevention Act (H.R. 1352). This bill prohibits extraordinary rendition, the process by which the U.S. transports prisoners for interrogation to third-party countries that often have a record of human rights abuses. I am deeply concerned that extraordinary rendition may be tantamount to outsourcing torture. H.R. 1352 has been referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee.

I am also a co-sponsor of H.R. 2212, which requires the President to close Guantanamo , because I believe it has inflicted widespread damage to our country’s international reputation, thereby hindering our fight against terrorism and extremism. H.R. 2212 has been referred to the Armed Services Committee. Further, I share your belief that Habeas Corpus is an inalienable right. I am a cosponsor of two bills (H.R. 1415 and H.R. 1416), introduced by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), that would repeal provisions of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that undermined the ancient right of habeas corpus and condoned torture. These bills would restore the ability for federal courts to hear habeas corpus petitions from persons designated by the President as “unlawful enemy combatants,” restore U.S. obligations under the Geneva Conventions, and prohibit the use of coerced testimony. H.R. 1415 and H.R. 1416 have been referred to the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Committee.

Aside from my obvious concern for the protection of human rights, I am also concerned about the potential effects of these issues on our national security. Allowing the U.S. to be on record as condoning torture endangers our own men and women in uniform, greatly damages our image abroad , and threatens our ability to maintain strategic global partnerships. After all, we have consistently condemned the use of torture by other nations and have enacted punitive measures against several countries who are known to practice torture. Thank you again for your letter. Please keep in touch.

Sincerely,

LOIS CAPPS

Member of Congress
Get behind this Legislation please Fire Pups

just determined? you’ll all excuse me while i go beat my head against the wall?

Time for me to fall down and call it a day
Gnite Fire Doggies.
And a tip of the bald spot to the Lurking Mod .
G’nite.
;)

It’s gonna take a monumental shift in Congress and Govt. to even begin to dismantle the current structure that is soaking ‘We the People’…

Hey bigbrother
I say IMPEACH

Scary is that Bernanke is kind of an egghead Greenspan with more math. He thinks that the Great Depression was mainly a problem of poor response by monetary authorities, and that we know how to jigger the money just right this time. He also was an adament bubble denier. Everything was ticking along fine according to him.

I do not believe Bernanke is an ideological extremist like Greenspan. But academic stubborness can make you as rigid and inflexible.

We may find out how open minded and flexible Bernanke is. I hope the lesson is not too expensive.

boa noite, busted

g’nite busted

nite busted

Aloha, Busted!

why is it that the Fed keeps cutting interest rates but the variable rate on my mortgage keeps going up?

IANAE

Awesome, BB!

tds is covering her right now (west coast feed)

I just received this bit of sage advice from my soon to be 90 year old father-in-law!

RETIREMENT PLANNING
* If you had purchased $1,000 of Nortel stock one year ago,
it would now be worth $49.00.
* With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original
$1,000.
* With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.
* If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock you
would have $49.00 left.
* If you had purchased United Airlines you would have
nothing left.
* But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year
ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling
REFUND, you would have had $214.00.
* Based on the above, the best current investment advice is
to drink heavily and recycle. It’s called the 401-Keg Plan

Drought contributes to shortage of food staple

I’m forwarding that on. thanks

Just printed that one out!

I think you’re too kind, in regards to Bernanke…! However, I’ll state that he did inherit the mess, but, he’s consumed too much koolaid to even consider rational options…!

Ian Welch said it loud and clear in his recent post if Isreal wants to survive a two state solution is the only way for them as they will soon be a minority in a democracy in one state.

this headline Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger will be the next news article in the box

Yesterday!!!! then a little incarceration and shipped to the Hague for another trial for war crimes long may he live

Bring ‘em to justice.

I’ll drink to that! *g*

just keeps getting worse. countries that exported food now hording it out of fear that they will run out of food, people rioting for lack of food…..

published

They love your money… next question please. G

In more shitty news:

The US ambassador to Zimbabwe on Thursday said opposition supporters had been murdered, abducted and forced from their homes in a spate of violence in rural areas since last month’s elections.
more here

if i wasn’t selling, i would have a vegetable garden like the victory gardens of old. as soon as i settle in where ever i end up, i’ll start one there.

More on last evening “DEBATE”
From Move on:

Dear MoveOn member,
If you missed the Democratic presidential debate on ABC last night, Editor & Publisher called it “perhaps the most embarrassing performance by the media in a major presidential debate in years.”1 (Click below to see video excerpts.)
Moderators George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson spent the first 50 minutes obsessed with distractions that only political insiders care about—verbal gaffes, polling numbers, the stale Rev. Wright story, and the old-news Bosnia story. And, channeling Karl Rove, they directed a video question to Barack Obama asking if he loves the American flag or not. Seriously.
Enough is enough. The public needs the media to stop hurting the national dialogue in this important election year. Can you sign the petition to ABC and other media outlets and pass it on to friends who are also fed up? Click here for our must-see video with excerpts from last night—and to sign the petition:
http://pol.moveon.org/enoughdi…..l&t=4
The petition says: “Debate moderators abuse the public trust every time they ask trivial questions about gaffes and ‘gotchas’ that only political insiders care about. Enough with the distractions—ABC and other networks must focus on issues that affect people’s daily lives.”
We’ll deliver petition signatures to ABC and the networks hosting future debates. And if we reach 100,000 signatures, we’ll reprint the petition in an ad campaign targeting the networks on this issue.
ABC’s natural inclination will be to ignore their critics, so we need to go above and beyond to show them that the public is truly outraged. So, please, think about some friends who may be fed up with 2008 media coverage and forward them this email. If thousands of us do that, it’ll make a huge difference.
The reaction to last night’s debate has been very consistent:
“A stinker, an absolute car crash—thanks to the host network ABC…[It] ran the gamut from banal to inane. At the end of the debate members of the crowd appeared to be booing moderator Charlie Gibson.”—The Guardian’s Richard Adams2
“Halfway through the debate, not a single question on any policy issue had been asked.”—OpenLeft.com’s Chris Bowers3
“For the first 52 minutes…Gibson and Stephanopoulos dwelled entirely on specious and gossipy trivia that already has been hashed and rehashed, in the hope of getting the candidates to claw at one another over disputes that are no longer news. Some were barely news to begin with.”—Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales.4
“We’ve revisited bitter. We’ve gone back to Bosnia. We’ve dragged Rev. Wright back up onto the podium. We’ve mis-spent this debate by allowing Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos to ask questions that skirt what in my mind is what we need to know now.”—Philadelphia Inquirer’s Daniel Rubin5
Shame on ABC for letting voters down with last night’s abysmal debate. Bad debates aren’t just painful to watch—they actually hurt the country by distracting voters and politicians away from big issues of the day.
Please send a message to ABC and other media outlets that we need our national dialogue to focus on the real issues facing Americans. Click here to sign the petition:
http://pol.moveon.org/enoughdi…..l&t=5
Thanks for all you do.
–Adam G., Patrick, Anna, Peter, Justin, and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Reparations for the elite minority… TDS wanders off into the bizarre…! ;-)

scurring over to sign

boosh doesn’t want you growing a victory garden, he wants you to go to the market and pay high prices to the grocery corporations that buy from the corporate farmers. It’s good for the economy, you know…

signed

good idea. what are middle and lower income families to do? have to be able to stretch the food bill.

Mr. Obama shows a lot of class with that humor in response to attacks at the last deabte. He is the man.

just like i found out today that the tyroid medicine i take now has just one manufacturer due to pharmco’s corporate gaming and that they no longer manufacture my dose. the only alternate my pharmacist could come up with was to order double the lower by half dose that is available – meaning i will have to take 2 1gm pills instead of 1 2gm pill. of course, that does double the cost of my medication – which i pay out of pocket for.

Here’s the y you left behind.

(Quick drive-by!:)

I have always hoped it would be the wisdom of women that would save the world. But I’ll settle for vengeance.

I signed the petition and told ABC, “Stop trying to out-Fox Fox ‘News.’”

Well I am on central time and
I know a couple of granddaughters that will be knocking on the door real early in the morning so I will bid all of you good night… keep up the good work to change this country so it works for the regular Joe on the street!!

*laughing* thanks, was wondering where that sucka went

g’nite nahant

yet another outrage

And you can grow portable container plants. Less work, soil, water and bugs. They take little time unlike selling propety in this market, and bring you great happiness.

sometimes, i think the gop would prefer that us poor people just hurry up and die off. the indifference is becoming too across-the-board to be anything other than purposeful.

anyone see this earlier from TPM?

Dean: I Want Supers To Announce Their Endorsements “Starting Now”
By Eric Kleefeld – April 17, 2008, 10:47PM

Howard Dean is moving up his ultimatum for superdelegates to make their decisions by July 1: “I need them to say who they’re for starting now.”

“We cannot give up two or three months of active campaigning and healing time,” Dean elaborated. In other words, the pressure is on to get a Democratic nominee as soon as possible, perhaps especially in light of the attacks that were flying around at last night’s debate.

Well, I shall bid ya’ll a fond adieu! Please take a gander at my latest post! Aloha Oe!!!

aloha ct

Suzanne, have you considered buying drugs from Canada? Some people are saving money that way, and I haven’t heard of anyone getting burned…

*standing on chair clapping dr dean*

boa noite, nahant

Just put in a 14 foot plante as a raised bed on piers. I plan to grow my own Victory garden. Nice way to spend time with your pets too.

boa noite, ctuttle

nite tuttle

square foot gardening

Hey Suze, the record is going to be mastered Saturday! Ye HA!

I should have the stuff back by this time next week! YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I love/hate gardening. I like digging up the soil and planting the seeds, but I hate weeding the garden all summer, especially when it’s really hot.

Two questions about this: http://firedoglake.com/2008/04…..sadr-city/

1) “Moonless night”…? It’s almost full moon now.

2) WTF! Again with the fences! Evil. It’s evil. It’s just plain punishment against all those people for failing to cave.

i have to wait on planting until the painters finished. i didn’t want them stomping through my garden. we will have some containers and the rest in the planters.

forking SWEET, that guy

Hiya pups.

What do you do when you find out your candidate’s opponent in the Deocratic Primary for a US House seat’s biggest contributor is Rahm Emanuel’s PAC?

tis a punishment wall. what ever happened to the great ray-gun battlecry of tear down this wall – when did it change to build another wall?

keep in mind that rahmbo tends to back loosers… and make sure you tell howie

Folks, considering this seems to be becoming a gardening blog, it would seem to be appropriate for a few more people to digg this post…*g*

that was very smooth. thanks, neuro

can’t have a g’mule thread without including war pigs

Good night CT.
I have good news my dog is back from the vets: verticular syndrome an idio pathic illness that presents suddenly and will begone in a week I hope. He looks like he took Nahants advise and drank a lot of beers he staggers sideways and at first his eyes darted left and right. Now my landlady has allowed me to keep him for two weeks. It great heving the Great Dog again! He had 6 visitors today and was over joyed. That is his therapy asking his friends over. He is so happy to see peeps and other dogs.
Good night dogs at the fiery lake.

boa noite, pups

New to me, Suz! Thanks!

and make sure you tell howie

exactly – what I’m already working on.

Here’s the list of contributors to Rahm’s PAC.

boa noite, bb

give the pup a lil squeeze from me

boa noite wobbly

dayam, were you not around during the protest song fest? that one got played then for sure and iirc, was a semi-finalist maybe.

*laughing* why did i know that

how ya doing tonight, et

wow, first hrc and now edwards on colbert!!!

nite all

Not much mystery about who’s last…

g’nite neuro

The Pentagons “War College” has just determined that the Iraq War is an Utter Debacle

Wow! Thanks for that link. I’d like to share a few sentences from that article:

The report carries considerable weight because it was written by Joseph Collins, a former senior Pentagon official, and was based in part on interviews with other former senior defense and intelligence officials who played roles in prewar preparations.

It was published by the university’s National Institute for Strategic Studies, a Defense Department research center.

[…]

“Measured in blood and treasure, the war in Iraq has achieved the status of a major war and a major debacle,” says the report’s opening line.

[…]

“Despite impressive progress in security, the outcome of the war is in doubt,” said the report. “Strong majorities of both Iraqis and Americans favor some sort of U.S. withdrawal.

not much time left – and john edwards had a huge chunk of time to remind america of what his platform was (and have fun making fun of himself). it was very very well done

is gonna be the headline at the top of the news box overnight, wigwam. that way all the morning folks will see it when they get up

nite neuro

Suz – nice tryout for John.
Glad to see him.

well, i would say john edwards came off the best out of the 3. of course, i liked john edwards best out of the 3 when he was still campaigning, so i may be slightly prejudiced in my opinion.

Wow Colbert trifecta.

Fuckin A.

We’re still a JRE household.

hey teddy

I’m with you.
He was relaxed and pretty damned funny.

Teddy,

I remember reading the about the frustrations you went through in 2006 in your area in California, as you were trying to get a more progressive agenda going. I’m going through the beginnings of the same process. It sucks. Bigtime.

for sure the most natural. hell, he was so good, he got to do the word

I have a stupid question. Where/how did you find that FDL article? It hasn’t been a front-page thread and isn’t among the current news articles.

on the front page, below this post is the news box. the article is in that box. click on the headline or on the more news link in the upper right of the box to bring up the news page.

no rss fead yet for the news page. i’ve asked but…

Still holding out hope for a jammed-up non-AlGore third ballot miracle.

also, you can bookmark the news page (which is what i’ve done) news is posted every 30 minutes or so (on average)

i am wondering if this wasn’t a try-out for a possible vp slot by edwards

I think you have a much tougher row to hoe, ET. Things are pretty progressive here, just very machine-y as well. I mean, we have a gay Assemblyman challenging our lesbian state Senator in a primary this summer.

But our wonderful progressive Congresswoman — don’t get me started!

As much as I’d love him to be on the ticket, I kinda hope he takes care of his family instead.

of course – family comes first. i think his voice needs to still be heard – his platform pushed to help end the 2 americas.

Teddy – if you’d be willing to move to Daly City (uh, no…), you could have Jackie!

First step is to talk to Howie and Jane.

Second, I’d recommend making the opponent’s relationship to Rahm a major campaign issue.

Rahm has a lot of baggage behind him. He hates progressives and has talked wealthy Republicans into running as democrats against progressives democrats. Mostly he has backed Bush-dogs, and IIRC he has been a major advocate capitulationism in the House, but I don’t have the details.

that’s my recollection too – howie would be the one who keeps track of that.

another reason to get rahmbo outta dc.

thanks. I can’t figure out what Rahm’s PAC does, but looking at other similar PAC’s, they all seem to be some sort of money laundering op.

i think its rahmbo’s power source – the funding he can provide is what he holds over the heads of those he is wanting to do what he wants them to do.

but that is just my opinion et – and a wild-assed guess at that

Hey Suze, you ever hear of ThisGuy?.

He’s wacky but he’s pretty cool. Gotta like someone who calls themselves the “High Sheriff of Hell.”

i had not heard of him before, that guy. listening now and liking what i hear

the pentagon report calling iraq a debacle news post just went into the news box

that guy, if ya head over to my place, i think you may like what ya find

this canadian guy is great. i’m really liking him – thanks

Jeez!

The war in Iraq has become “a major debacle” and the outcome “is in doubt” despite improvements in security from the buildup in U.S. forces, according to a highly critical study published Thursday by the Pentagon’s premier military educational institute.

McSame is going to be in a world of pain over this one!

wonder what the delay was from:

At the time the report was written last fall, more than 4,000 U.S. and foreign troops, more than 7,500 Iraqi security forces and as many as 82,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed and tens of thousands of others wounded, while the cost of the war since March 2003 was estimated at $450 billion.

FF3 Rocks! Can listen to suz’s t00bz while surfing around. Couldn’t b4 w/FF2. fast! :D

Today Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Release Candidate is out. 6 days to go.

hey tw3k, i do like my ear candy while surfing. glad the ff3 is working out well (now) for you.

purdy

I can’t figure out what Rahm’s PAC does, but looking at other similar PAC’s, they all seem to be some sort of money laundering op.

I suspect that Rahm is closely affiliated with A*P*C. His father fought with Irgun, and I’ve heard that Rahm maintains dual citizenship and worked for the IDF during one of the Mideast Wars.

The contributor list includes some fat cats such as Haim Saban, an Israeli billionaire, who characterizes himself as “a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel.” Saban is the founding contributor to the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Mideast Policy, who members and affiliates include folks like Kenneth Pollack and Michael O’Hanlon and who appear on Hillary’s list of foreign policy advisors. (I suspect Hillary’s pitch about a Mideast security shield came directly from the Saban Center.) Note that Saban was also on that list of 20 contributors who attempted to intimidate Pelosi a couple of weeks ago, regarding her remarks about the proper role of superdelegates.

In any case, it’s speculation on my part, but I bet that Rahm’s PAC is one of the key places where the A*P*C money gets handed out. (I’m told that A*P*C doen’t give mone, only advice.)

YMMV

jah, it’s good. isn’t that a cover?

This FF3 install is night/day diff.

newt: didn’t i mention that compiz is the shit!

newt: didn’t i mention that compiz is the shit!

not recently :-)

tis a cover of james brown’s hit in the 60’s (iirc)

thought that tune sounded familar.

gtk still feels kinda clunky after osx but compiz w/out a desktop is really fast. on a lowend rig too.

downloading it now
TG4Bittorrent

did leopard work in sftp into connect to server?

tiger, dude

suz: compiz t00b

that looks way cool but is way above my self taught computer abilities. dang, i mainly use it as a jukebox and surfing online.

really!? it prepends afp for me.

In the old days, we used to call that, “bitchin’”

camero

Gibson was crowing about the ratings, and the overwhelming e-mail response… He merely left out the 9-1 negativity ratio… I was screaming at the tube…! It wasn’t pretty!

I guess that would be like Marie Antoinette saying as she was led to the guillotine “Look at how popular I am, the crowd today is amazing!”

lol! funny!

spew. luckily, i was able to miss the monitor and keyboard

Reminds me of Billo showing up proudly on Colbert, thinking it was a win.
Cept Gibson knows better.

Does he?

I’ve never seen anyone so pleased to get boo’d

He either finds himself a 6 story roof, or he fakes it.
Temerity and balls are dissimilar.

Have you tried Hardy Heron?

he chose balls over brains is my guess

yeah, love it!

I found this to be very interesting:

There is a new installation option for Windows users. [WWW] Wubi allows users to install and uninstall Ubuntu like any other Windows application. It does not require a dedicated partition, nor does it affect the existing bootloader, yet users can experience a dual-boot setup almost identical to a full installation. Wubi works with a physical CD or in stand-alone mode, by downloading an appropriate ISO to install from. It can be found on the root of the CD as Wubi.exe. A full installation within a dedicated partition is still recommended, but Wubi is a great way to try Ubuntu for a few days and weeks before committing dedicated disk resources.

That way I can have Hardy Heron on my notebook without the hassle of a real installation and the need to learn any more system administration than I know so far.

ah, cool! slax has something like that too.

i sure wish i knew what ya’ll were talking about (laughing) are these browsers?

Cool! But I think I’d prefer full Ubuntu, if that’s what you get under Wubi.

looks cool, if you must *cough* runs windows ;)

My wife gets so annoyed when I walk around with my ubuntu exposed…

If I understand correctly, Wubi allows me to run a full Ubuntu operating system as an application under windows. What’s neat about that is that I don’t have to mess with the tedium of installing Ubuntu as an alternative to Windows. This should be very simple but give me access to the entire Ubuntu environment and all the Linux applications that run under it.

I usually keep it hidden under my wubi, so it’s not normally a problem.

ok, and why would i want to run linex? i’ve heard it mentioned that it is a way to get around gates since its free and open software but what will it do for me that my xp wont?

I’m no great fan of Windows, but running Linux directly on a notebook has generally brought me bad karma.

ok, and why would i want to run linex? i’ve heard it mentioned that it is a way to get around gates since its free and open software but what will it do for me that my xp wont?

Partly it’s an ideological thing. But in my case, it’s simply what I’m used to running.
(I use my XP notebook as a thin client to a large remote Linux server.) Unfortunately, I can’t play sounds over that link. They have to play locally.

a life free from Micro$oft?

Here is the hardy forum if you run into any troubles on the Notebook.

attaturk is upstairs. thanks for hanging with me tonight, pups.

ty!

Time for me to crash. G’nite all.

thanks.

same, g’night all