Fink – Biscuits For Breakfast
Speaking of biscuits, Congress is busy whipping up their own gravy while extending what seems to be a hostage crisis for our troops and 64 percent of American citizens.
President George W. Bush has asked for $178 billion to fund the wars into 2009, and has said he would veto any bill presented to him with additional spending measures attached.
Several senior Democrats in both the House and Senate have said they want to use the bill as a vehicle to attach domestic spending measures aimed at helping the ailing U.S. economy.
A laundry list of items, including extending unemployment insurance benefits, money spent on food stamps, infrastructure investment and funding for veterans who want to go to college, have all been floated over the last couple of weeks.
At a time when many Democrats are connecting the failed Iraqi occupation and its financial strain on our economy this campaign season; it seems like the Democratic leadership is determined to perpetuate failure. If the plan goes through as anticipated, how will Democrats be able to look our troops in the eye, apologize, and honestly say we tried to stop it?
What’s on your mind tonight?
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ES!
eureka!
Eureka!
Hey hey Eureka
Good evening all..
Didn’t they try to attach the FISA w/immunity bill to it too…?
I wish I had some answers; all I know is that change is sorely needed.
ola ES
Why do they keep shooting us in the foot.
???
Cool tune, ES!
NYC rents!! Ms CE is finding housing out of this world.
10 days to vacation. I’m almost there, i haven’t gone insane yet! YAY!
i tell ya, I am over Pelosi.. the thrill is long gone.
A little DIGG for ES
Always vacation, yea!
Early on, I’d read in the Hill that they wanted to attach it to a ‘must-pass’ bill and the war funding bill was floated…
Are you moving to NYC?
Definitely — it was fine and mellow
You guys are looking for an apt in NYC? What’s it looking like, cost-wise?
Heck, why not throw in an amendment declaring congress to be a one party body?
I liked the YouTube, ES. Different.
No, not me. Beloved daughter who will be the Tiffany Intern at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for one year.
You mean the AUMF…
I better hit it.
nite loo hoo
sleep well loo hoo
g’nite loohoo
I was thinking Godwin.
Billie! ;-)
yesh. Already thinking of things to throw on my mp3 player for the train trip. I can’t wait to see some old friends over in Chicago again. It’s usually the highlight of my year, but this one follows a particularly difficult year. Making it all the more needed in terms of simple relief of stress. Lurching from one financial crisis to the next for almost 10 months of a year is not good for one’s health.
i hear ya alias. stress is such a huge negative factor on our bodies.
Bingo, CT :-)
Since we are in late night snark mode, this is too funy.
Should have known where that pointed…
And you have yourself a new nickname, O, Intrepid Ibex!
Heh, It seems to be already… The ACLU has this petition…
it sure isn’t. glad you have a special time planned out
Definitely not. I’m used to dealing with high stress, but not on the level i’ve been living at. Everyone needs a little escape, which is why i love it here at late nite so much.
Safari shut down twice while I was trying to paste those links to the ACLU, I had to switch to FF… Time to get out the tinfoil…! ;-)
me too – keeps me sane living in an insane world
$1,750 a month. Holy crap. That’s IF they accept us.
Wow, that’s like stepping into a twilight zone..)
i’ve had ff lock up twice tonight
Moo!
What is a Tiffany intern? Artist, design?
the rolling commentary is prize :)
Have you tried nearby in Hoboken? It’s a short bus ride.
glass blower/designer?
Margot, that’s a great idea actually.
I would love to live in Manhattan for a year or two.
i’m off to read a bit
boa noite
boa noite wobbs, sleep well
boa noite wobbly
ES, I love Manhattan — don’t think I could live there though.
Unless I had tons and tons of money…then maybe! ;-)
Aloha, wobbly!
Mass Murderer Stopped Before He Started?
Of course the NRA types will argue that the laws used to arrest him were “unfair”. After all, why should carrying around a semi-automatic pistol with lots of ammo cartridges mean anything other than his right to self defense against potential terrorists? And that law against carrying a weapon in a place where there’s alcohol??? What sort of law is THAT? Look at the guy…does he look like someone who’d hit the hooch?
Yes, lots of money and twice the exercise regiment to balance the food I would indulge in at every turn..)
Hello ES! A Tiffany intern is a fellowship at the Met in NYC.
BTW, De Ja Vu… All Over Again…
omg yes…Manhattan is a foodie paradise!
OHHH, Goody, I caught ya.
Thank you so much fer thinkin’ about me today, I am very grateful.
Thanks to Texbetsy too,although I probably missed her. Special thanks to David.
The two year Masters Degree at Winterthur was wonderful.
christine e, what does a tiffany intern do? does she get to walk about wearing tiffany jewelry?
*makes mental note to go for a Tiffany internship after retirement*
You wrote a really good column there, Busted. Funny, and a great ending! And you helped out a friend in need.
Here it is if anyone would like to read it.
Oh, no.
She has to be a part of the reinstallation of the galleries there. And study lots of decorative arts studies for future exhibits.
busted that was a good thing you did (and it was a great post that made glad i do not know the names of other animals you have named)
Chris, sounds like her internship will be very fulfilling :-) Good for her!
Hey, how about before retirement? Let us sing!
You’re a pretty soft touch for such an ornery bastard.
Bravo, dude.
Let me put it this way, my kids had to call ‘em by their initials. ‘Nuff said. Thanks again, I am so blessed to be part of this community, seriously. Gnite pups.
One more thing, I won the war tonight, big time. On My Lap.
I’ll blog about that one tomorrow. Gnite!
Oh shoot Chris, I’ve got no time before retirement — five years to go, and then I can play!
Aloha, busted! You are lucky to be alive, I’d been skinned alive…! ;-)
nite busted
g’nite busted… shall i stuff some Mercurochrome into the tubes for your wounds?
buenas noches busted, y dulce suenos
my turn — ‘night all!
g’nite ll
me too.
g’nite gnome
Aloha, LL and Gnome!
nite LL
nite gnome
This is sickening…
So?
Oh, and if you want to see some good slightly escapist movie goodness? Go see Iron Man. They put lots of easy things for joe sixpack to understand about war profiteering into the plot. They glossed over some of the nastier parts that our US troops are being ordered to do(like the house ot house raids, they made the bad guys do that), but otherwise they got the whole war profiteering aspect dead to rights.
The sad part is that some of the deals cut in the film’s plot could have been done by our own government. The snark Robert Downey Jr brought to it all was incredible too, especially as he finally grew up as the film progressed. This is one i want on DVD! *flails* GOOOD stuff. The fun part is the character was originally written this way in 1963, and the adaptations have kept to whatever conflict is current at the time the version comes out. The animated tv show in the 90s had Stark’s major event happen in Iraq after the first Gulf War, for example. This one took place in current afganistan.
I love RD Jr.
Yep. Pulling for him, too.
wrong thread, but what the heck -
Jenna:
she put the ‘l’ intook the ‘l’ out of barfly.hahaha thanks for the giggle pun
He proved himself all over again as an actor in this one. Probably one of the better big budget comic adaptations that have come out lately. I’m still amused the way some of the smarter films manage to get their digs in. Last year’s Live Free or Die Hard (or Die hardharderharderharder!) was really good in that way with their choice of a villain too, and that was pretty much an original screenplay.
Is this Indiana and No Carolina primary day?
it will be when the sun comes up, es
YO ‘Reka, did you get the e-mail I sent you a few days ago (I forget exactly when)?
“the good fight” is out of the good senator.. reid sure was a milktoast in that TDS interview…
The Grey Lady is
reportingspinning this…That was as useless an interview as Harry could make it.
What.A.Schmuck.
Yo! yes I did.
I didn’t like the previous ’skit’ with the slimeball Floyd Brown…!
After all this, they are going to give Bush and Cheney 170 (plus) billion. Despicable.
Cheer up tho, if they manage to attach the drawdown timeline it’ll get vetoed anyways…! ;-)
Well, I shall bow out early tonite… I bid ya’ll a fond adieu! Aloha Oe!!!
Like he vetoed last year, then got everything he wanted?
nite tuttle
g’ nite CT
aloha ct
Hillary is sounding shriller by the day. Humans are dying needlessly every day and we are paying to kill them or starve them. It is so sick it really is undescribale. And the US Congress wants more war! Western Civilization has lowered it’s moral standard…even the Almighty Dollar has lost it’s supremacy.
The institutions are faltering. Student cheat instead of learning. Financial institutions have become theives. Churches have become political. Hospitals turn away the sick. Tje courts have been corrupted. Congressional reps votes are purchased by lobbyist (special interestd). The rule of law in now the rule of man. This election is not about anything changing if Democrats are not going to stop funding the war.
Piled higher and deeper is what I am hearing. That is not to say I don’t care…quite the opposite. Moral depravity will destroy society. If we base our society on materialism we are a baseless society. Morality and ethic are as exacting as fine art. High noral and ethical principles have their own reward. America is cheating itself.
they will attach something he will reject and then they will roll over after he does and give boosh what he wants
hasn’t that been the pattern? a small stand up and then fold with a ‘what can we do’ attitude.
I still think the war protesters should pitch in and buy a few hundred thousand blow up human dolls.. paint them bloody and pile them up in front of the White House.
ok – I can’t sleep – there’s a reasonably good chance I may just make a pot of coffee and go vote at 6:00.
In the meantime,
Joe Ely – “Fingernails”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llBXulSo2eU
What say ye, give us a sense of the Indiana voters pulse?
He was quite the downer guest- poor ole Searchlight, NV Harry did appear dazed and confused and his body language a bit testy IMHO.
he is a forking wuss who has given up
he was practically shrugging his shoulders – that ‘why not everyone else does’ sure was telling. he has no fight left him him.
Evening, npb.
If I had allowed myself to get rolled, in the fashion he has, by the minority, I’d be pretty sheepish, too.
the night tripper
That is sadly funny.
The only raeson I can think of to give all that cash to Bush is they collaorated to attack Iran. Lotsa run up talk and saber rattling. The moon is right for a bombing raid. And they said they want to hit some training camps inside Iran. It’s in the MSM so do they need a UN Resolution?
a sense of the Indiana voters pulse?
Scizophrenic. Regional. Tribal. Gary should be annexed by Chicago – New Albany should be annexed by Louisville. My mother’s side of the family is from New Albany, and the accents down there are as thick as molasses. (as are some of the heads, but that’s a different story).
Republican as all hell – but even a decent-sized portion of those of Red descent (literally) have had enough, and are taking a gander at the blue side.
Unfortunately, those taking a look at the
darkblue side will find HRC a little more appealing, I’m afraid. She’s got that authority thang goin’ on more than does Obama.I’m lookin’ at HRC by 6%.
(and let us all now hope that I’m as wrong as
usualI am every once in a great, great while).Could be wrong on this – there had to be forty thousand people out there tonight, at least *trying* to get in to see Obama.
Hell, I don’t know – we’re quite new at making any difference to anybody – and I didn’t know there were as many Democrats in the whole state as I just saw tonight.
Every other saturday 7 to 10PM sweet jazz on KCBX.
Sounds like you got your JUJU workin tonight Suzanne. Caste a spell on the Bushco perps.
oh, and for the old-timers here – there was a *ilson46201 sighting tonight.
He looked pretty good. He was very, very close to the late Julia Carson, and has now hooked on to her grandson Andre’s campaign for Julia’s seat.
Andre is hangin’ on to Obama like a petulant three-year old will wrap around the leg of an adult sometimes – and he is *not* letting go. In Indianapolis, Obama can only take a step, drag Andre, take another step, drag Andre, etc.
haven’t been back to the big easy since the 60’s so there’s not much juju left in me… but defeating bushco is why i’m here and i’ll be here tomorrow night too.
that’s about it for me tonight, pups. see ya for the results tomorrow night.
good one – I was lookin’ for some good Dr. John the other day – couldn’t find much that I liked
nice!
Great to hear *ilson is out there kickin’ around.
nite suzanne
nite Suz
(now I’m totally unclear as to whether or not to fire up the coffee pot….)
I think I will – if nothing else, I guess I can always play around on YouTube and entertain myself… *g*
you’ll notice I didn’t say he was lookin’ good… *g*
Just not his style.
g’ nite Suz
ES I hope the weather in the area stays better. Good night folks. I am building planter boxes for the recession for the poor people since i am one (tommorow). I hope to grow my own all year. If Teller in Alaska can I can in Central CA. Enclosed beds compost tea makin my own soil. The sand here needs a lot of help.
the number of politicians, democratic or republican interested in looking anyone in the eye about anything is extraordinarily small.
On what planet does any candidate get this much slack?
I mean… Liddy?
Mastermind of Nixon’s Watergate break-in calls McCain an ‘old friend’
Tell us if you two are fishin’ buddies, will you John?
For anyone who didn’t see it, Olbermann was on fire tonight re: Clinton’s ever-shifting goalposts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9qd-P2bIiY
aha! So nice to hear he’s doing well.
Bless you bigbrother, take care.
Nite all.
Thanks for your eye witness report jayt – cheers me considerably.
ok – can’t find any Bea Jacques on the YouTubes – here’s a pretty fine cover though….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsuvu8cFeHk
nite Margot
Yep. That was pretty stark. And his close was priceless.
Thanks for capturing this.
Thanks bb, Weather is terrific these days, but spring fever is almost overwhelming these days.. gardening seems to be the best treatment here as well.
AMEN! (((((((((*ilson)))))))
sweet dreams (soon to be mother of the beautiful bride)!
brilliant
nite margot
And if you’re a stranger around these parts, welcome!
Buckwheat Zydeco:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQdPr7MQdBQ
hmmm, I’m noticing a trend…
Great fun!
Saw them in Memphis in ‘86 on a steamboat nightclub called Captain Bilbo’s.
love the Buckwheat.. was always a great live show!
this firedog and his cat are heading down to sleep by the river..
Good night dawgs
nite eureka
Saw them in Memphis in ‘86 on a steamboat nightclub…
Ooh – bet that was a blast!!
nite ES
Down there from CA for a family event…
Had ribs at the Rendezvous and then to Bilbo’s. It was a sweet night.
And the riverboat had 3 stages. One Zydeco stage, one punk-rock, and one straight country.
The crowd was somewhat diverse.
Neil Young, Mrs. Neil Young, and Emmylou(?):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAqpKt7Lcu8
Four Strong Winds – I’ve always loved this song….
The crowd was somewhat diverse.
sounds like a bit of an understatement *g*
No major fist fights or bloodshed?
You would think…
But everybody was either on their best behavior, or they just didn’t give a hoot.
We were only there for the one evening, so I don’t have a decent sampling :-) But there was quite a bit of liquid refreshment.
oh dear ES et al – forgive my duplicate comment. Way past time to take my red face off to dreamland….niters intrepid & inspiring late late pups.
nite npb
I was never much of an Emmy Lou fan, until you guys started pouring her into Late Late Nite.
Good stuff.
been looking for this one – evidence of a mis-spent youth and all:
Mink DeVille – Cadillac Walk (accoustic – but still smokes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJLKw9lGsjM
nite, npb
I was never much of an Emmy Lou fan, until you guys started pouring her into Late Late Nite.
Good stuff.
Well, then, lemme kill two birds with one stone. Gram Parsons and Emmylou singing Love Hurts the way it should be done, which also makes the Nazareth version of the song evident as the crap that it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3ATrQNFGfI
forget the vid – just listen…
Yep.
I’ve posted this pne before, but I think it should probably be posted every day – Cranberries – “Zombee!!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-s53IEAf4w
hey, in another 45 minutes or so, all I gotta do is jump in the shower, walk across the street and get in line to vote – no activity over there just yet…
bailing out now…
Exercise the franchise, jayt. Good Luck.
See you all for the party here tomorrow (today actually). The Democratic Party could have a nominee.
nite pups
nite, newton. I’ll take a little nap sometime this afternoon, and certainly back for the festivities tomorrow…
I haven’t thrown any David Lindley for a day or two, so that needs to be rectified:
Mercury Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related