suzanne!

gnome!

Thank goodness. I got the zed or the so, so now I can retire.

that is unless there is good conversation.

hey ya gnome. I was ranting below.

the rest of the pups will be along shortly, i’m sure, gnome.

there is always good conversation at the lake

Stayed up to make sure that the Spurs won. Sorry Katymine, AZMatt and all you other Phoenix folks.

What were you all ranting about? The gummint? heh!

grrr. my computer always freezes up when I’m trying to get the first comment in on a new post.

Is nahant taking care of the Digg?

Oh, gnome! I’ll try. Do you think Bush will pardon his entire administration?

Good tunes, Suz!

g’evening pups - how is everyone doing tonight?

i think that is cheney’s plan

Pretty darn good considering the head cold. (Which thanks be to banana cupcakes, {Thanks Kay in Maine} left my chest and settled in my brain. Otherwise, great!

He’ll pardon anyone who could be a witness against him. That’s a no brainer.

ouch and thanks be indeed. are they special banana cupcakes good for colds?

I don’t know - a pardon would mean that he would have to admit that he did something wrong. He has never been able to do that.

the only wrong he would ever admit to is relying on faulty legal advice (without mentioning that he ordered the faulty legal opinions)

A circuit breaker blew and I lost power for a bit…! 8-(

His foremost skill has been looking out for himself. That skill won’t fail him in his hour of greatest need.

I hate Taylor Marsh. Is that ok?

see what happens when you *gasp* visit other blogs?

Goodness. I think I missed something. Is that an inside joke?

so, it is ok? right?
I fucking hate Taylor Marsh. Beeaaach.

I think it was more like a prayer. Thanks be to banana cupcakes…

Jeez, I didn’t mean to bail, my computer did that! i was going to make a crack about the warriors then kablamo!

I was ranting about lack of evidence that Iran is shipping arms to Iraq…did I miss something?

why are you upset mary mc

oh, ok, loohoo. cause i’ve heard about special cupcakes and brownies…

I think it’s ok…i just googled to remind myself who that was and it seems you have plenty of company in that regard. i think i saw some link to her recently that made me go “huh?”

but I’m just being gossipy now.

sometimes I click back and forth between (show text) and (hide text) cause it is so damn satisfying.

Why?

That’s what I’m thinking, gnome. I’m thinking all the stupidos committed crimes on the back of W giving them all cute knicknames, and they’re all going to end up screwed. W. cannot live with the idea of his whole administration being pardoned. He’ll choose the top five or seven criminals; the ones who could most implicate him.

Ya want some good links pointing out the lack of evidence…? ;-)

I don’t think so. But then I am still trying to figure out what is going on here. Teh Tired is setting in, so I am going to have to bail out myself pretty soon.

Boo. So you had to go out in that awful weather?

cheney will make sure his co-conspirators are included.

ct, you having a storm?

Uh oh, my brain just locked up. You mean you have evidence that there is no evidence? Or are you playing with me?

Actually, I had to grope around in the dark… inside! 8-P

me too, but now CTuttle has me intrigued with the thing I ranted about.

Link away CT!

What is a Taylor Marsh? I don’t keep up with pop music much.

she is a blogger, not a musician, that guy

I cannot find my flashlight tonight, CT. Must have put it someplace really special…

back up!

Hello?

OUCH! that forking hiccup hurt!!!

big.white.truck.

before we were so rudely interrupted, i was trying to say that i keep one on my nightstand and one at the computer desk.

emphasis on big.

who forgot to send snacks and hot cocoa out to the nsa guys who monitor us?

*kicks shoes, stares at ground*
sorry ma’am…

TPM:

Doan Done

I’ve seen plenty of people fired from the Bush administration. But I’m not sure I can remember one who sent out an (immediately leakable) email to her department announcing she’d been fired. But that’s pretty much what the comically unethical chief GSA did tonight.

“Doan’s Little Spills”

Digg for Ya! Is the Lake some some technical glitches? I kepy getting to the Wordpress trouble ticket site!!

*sigh*
at least you didn’t repeat that fiasco back when ya made them special brownies… the special being ex-lax used in place of chocolate

what are these “other” blogs of which you speak?

:-)
evening doc!

spew

lets hope she is spilling everything she knows

i’ve heard talk about em kirk but…

we hiccuped and were down for a bit

Can somebody tell me in english how to handle a debug WPMU prompt…!

That was some weird hiccup! Wordpress donna like sumpthin’!

Here’s a quote that got me pissed off:

” The enemy continues to show little regard for innocent civilians, as they fire their weapons from within houses, alleyways and rooftops upon our soldiers,” said Col. Allen Batschelet, chief of staff for the 4th Infantry Division in Baghdad.

Iraq Militants Stall Push Into Sadr City

Of course, the US Military fired back into those spots where they KNEW innocent civilians would be. One doesn’t KILL civilians by firing OUT, only if one fires in!

This is essentially the creation of a “killing zone” in Sadr City.

unlikely - she still doesn’t get it.

You have to believe that indictments are imminent. The Chimpsters don’t do lip-skids very often.

I sent them Postum.

I was visiting with the Quintet it was our turn to host the rehearsal! Got here late and there were problems with the site. But once I got in I didn’t see the digg so I proceeded to make sure the post was dugg

I thought WPMU was the oldies station.

keep refreshing until we are back up

I think I triggered it in trying to put up links refuting the Iranian claims…!

that works for me, ct

it’s all your fault :) now where are those dayam links!

Dang And I saw there was a ticket in for it… Glad they fixed that hiccup … did htye have to hold their breath very long… or did they just breathe in a paper bag???

that is WKRP

Ignore it. I got that message, too, while I was trying to post a comment. The page it led me to was talking about how to fix the web server configuration to make the problem go away. We don’t have access to the web server.

twas a nasty hiccup

hi newtonusr! hi suz!

___

and punaise….

major spew alert…

hey kirk, that’s just me aspirin to relieve the pain of it all…

ok, west coast pups, don’t forget to double glove before watching TDS - newt the grinch is on tonight

Got my welders mask on, too.

I saw him and left the room.
Let me know how it goes.

In other news, Betsy is still beating me at Word Twist and Cassie beats me at Scramble. ;)

i’m gonna watch up to that point and then will be forced to decide to watch or switch channels

I will dive on this particular grenade.
But you gotta watch Clinton with LoofahMan for me.
Deal?

the server hiccup was caused by Scrambled Diggs.

jon nailed scalia on the whole punishment/60 minutes

no forking way

Sorry, Safari shut down on me… Here’s a long cite from the Financial Times (subs. req.) asking the British Foreign Minister David Miliband about Iran…

FT: Can we move on to Iran at this point, just sticking with the Middle East? I mean, Iran clearly on the way to developing its nuclear capability. In broad terms, what should the policy response be? Is your broad inclination now that the next step should be to toughen sanctions, or do you think that the emphasis should be more on finding some kind of other diplomatic solutions which bring Iran into a deeper conversation with the West?
DM: Well, I think that’s a false choice, would be my instinct on that. Iran has every right to be a secure, rich country. It doesn’t have the right to set off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, and it doesn’t have the right to undermine the stability of its neighbours. And that’s why I think the E3 plus three approach, and you can choose your own metaphor, but it makes a very clear offer to the Iranians with big gains for them, as well as having sanctions if they defy the international community.
And I think that part of the answer to one of the first questions I was asked, which was the nature of our alliances, those are multilateral alliances that we take very, very seriously, and that I take very, very seriously. And I think two UN Security Council resolutions is very significant, I think they’ve sent a very clear signal, more than a signal, they are powerful levers, and I think that they present some clear choices for the Iranian leadership.
FT: However, Iran has, despite the fact that the sanctions have been agreed, despite that the US and EU are united with Russia, despite the fact that the Iranian economy is hurting, Iran is continuing with this programme. And people expect at some point this year, it will have 3,000 centrifuges. ElBaradei said this on a number of occasions, it’s been adding centrifuges throughout this year, it started from none in the main facility operating it, it now has got 1,300. If it had 3,000 centrifuges, it could conceivably get enough nuclear material for a bomb within a year. Are you not worried that we need to re-look at the balance between the stick and the carrot in our current approach, given that nothing that we’ve done so far, has slowed them down. We’ve made them hurt, but nothing we’ve done so far has made them reconsider the longstanding strategic decision to go for the nuclear option.
DM: Well, there’s a separate discussion to be had about the extent to which, what has it slowed down, and how has it slowed down, and what effect has it had since 2003, and while we can get into that, I don’t particularly want to. I don’t want to leave on the record that it’s necessarily 100 per cent correct what you’ve said, but leave that to one side. We are ready to work with our partners on a third resolution, we think it’s very, very important that the international community remains clear and united on this issue, and I think there’s a very clear offer on the table for the Iranians.
FT: What do you think of Iran’s complicity in attacks on British soldiers in Basra?
DM: Well, I think that any evidence of Iranian engagement there is to be deplored. I think that we need regional players to be supporting stability, not fomenting discord, never mind death. And as I said at the beginning, Iran has a complete right, and we support the idea that Iran should be a wealthy and respected part of the future. But it does not have the right to be a force of instability.
FT: Just to be clear, there is evidence?
DM: Well no, I chose my words carefully…
FT: I know, but I’m now asking you.
DM: Well as you know, we are very careful about what we say about these things.
FT: And military action? Is it conceivable?
DM: I think that the whole of the international community wants a non-military diplomatic solution to this problem.
FT: So it’s inconceivable?
DM: Sorry?
FT: Military action is inconceivable?
DM: I stand totally foursquare behind what the prime minister has said on this, which is that we want a non-military solution to this, we are working very hard to achieve a non-military solution to this. I don’t think it does any good to speculate any wider than that. Our intent and our actions and our efforts are absolutely clear about the way we want to solve this.
FT: But you’d understand that people might interpret that as leaving all options on the table?
DM: I think that people should… I hope that people will come to see that they should look carefully at the words I use, and they should look at what I say, not at what I don’t say.

i’ll watch newt the grinch and you can suffer through bill o, newt the usr

this guy would know what we know intelligence wise and says its not there?

Um, no thanks.
I’m only willing to step so far into the kitty litter.

lol!
I was listening to Johnny Winter, Canned Heat, CCR, etc. You know how it is when Suz puts up a really good YouTube, and then you see another good one, and..then it’s an hour later.

them utubes are time machines… they should come with a warning

for a long time I resisted the siren call of youTube for just that reason, knowing I’d end up whiling away entire evenings perusing the music of my youth. I eventually succumbed, of course, and boy am I tired of holding a lighter in the air.

Exactly! I also cover some of it in this post, which is where Mark gave me the FT link…!

totally bites, dood. i keep waiting but no one is passing one of them funny cigarettes down the row to me

Is that lighter a Zippo??

“Bic awes the night, belongs to lovers”

(an old chestnut?)

‘ere, *kaff* *kaff*… ;-)

bic me up before you go go

well, maybe if you traded in you law enforcement garb….

you have the right to remain silent

dayam, some habits are hard to break

ROFL, punaise.

My bitch on YT was that you would have to sift through so much crap and pooooor, uh, POOR sound quality to get something where the audio had an impact as big as seeing some long-forgotten video image that had been mind debris until dredged back up.

I’m changing my mind, though. I use a lot of youtube in my music appreciation class. It connects with the kids like nothing I’ve ever been able to use.

BTW, LTNS…

thanks ct.

hugh just reminded us (previous thread, i think) that we are coming up on the darkest nights of the month in iran (when an attack would be likely).

and there updated listing of our carriers shows that the uss lincoln arrived in the arabian sea on the 24th. (the truman is already in the persian gulf - but is not scheduled to be relieved for more than 2 months);

“entrapment” ya’ll saw it…! ;-)

hey et

Evening friends. I am back, for stupid reasons.

Here’s why I am awake.

I have a spinal ablation scheduled for Thursday. They are working on nerves at four different disk levels. I found out yesterday that I may need a full 48 hours for recovery and may even need some assistance at home.

This afternoon I was feeling pretty good, having spent all of my work time in the wheelchair. So …. I decided to do enough cooking this evening to last for TH, F and SAT.

Texteen likes potatoes in all forms, but most especially oven-baked, seasoned, potato slices. So, standing, I peeled 5 potatoes and cut them into the right size for my mini food processor. Also stood up to season the chicken, chop broccoli and zucchini, and then rinse all my tools and cutting boards.

So now, 6 hours later, my back is in agony. But, every time I am feeling good, it seems silly to ask for help. To ask a friend to help cook or to wait until Texteen is here and cajole him to peel and cut the potatoes.

I do remember my zippo… guaranteed to light so long as you fill it with lighter fluid and your flint was not too worn out… but the dam things would work for years if you did the maintenance :>) and as the little lady tells me “Older Than Dirt”

i posted a link to the moon phases calculator.. may 4, 5, 6th iirc are the moonless nights