ES!!

dez?

hey Matt!
:)

Evening pups.
ES,
Yer a good man.

we are working on getting the video to work pups

What’s on my mind tonight? I am thinking about the people suffering in Burma and China, my heart goes out to the survivors. I am happy George could sacrifice his golf game for the troops. Such a thoughtful gesture on his part.

Good evning all.. We think YouTube is down.. Excuse me while I scurry around like I can fix it..)

siri, how’s your world tonight?

Just listened to KO tonight. Amazing rage and intelligence.

I’m told that the show started out at a gallop and got better, right up to the finale.
I missed all but the Special Comment. Gonna watch @ 11.

Except he didn’t, really. He just lied and said he did. (per KO)

OK.. Refresh and prepare to smile. The video is working now.

Hey, BK, wobbly is looking for kitty names…! ;-)

Digg it!

All I can think of when I read that are Chimp’s words: “Now watch this drive.”
Bad name, expletive etc.

dugg and thanks, neuro

Yeah. I hear he’s giving up darts for Burma.

I have not been getting that new post notice all day?

It’s good to go, ES! Aloha!

It’s getting sleepy around here. But I STILL want to celebrate the Edwards thingy!

Working for me, ES.
Thanks!

It’s been awhile since it was last spotted…! ;-)

me neither.
and it doesn’t show at the end of the page either.

it bellyflopped and the tech crew are working on the fix… more difficult than expected so we are back to giving ya a link in the downstairs post that there is a new post upstairs.

ES, when I saw the title of the video I expected it to be Chimpy catching his “big fish” in his stocked pond…you know, the thing he is most proud of during his presidency? (discussed on earlier thread)

They are like boats, ya gotta see their characteristics.

Besides, I don’t have a great track record. LMAO

Ruh-roh!

I’m also waiting for the Lakers to go to bed, boyfriend is all engrossed.
Good to c’ya Matt!

… and Cricket for the victims of terrorist bombs in Jaipur, India …

*sigh* maybe zed is dead after all…!

Hi Matt – did you catch Keith Obermann’s great takedown of lying Shrub on MSNBC earlier this evening – assume the network site has a video up by now.

hehe
omg
I forgot about that.
lol

As for Chimpy’s stupidest or most outrageous remark or whatever the characterization was, it might have been the one Keith broadcast tonight about how if we elect a Democratic president we will suffer another terrorist attack…I could scream.

Buenos noches!

**snicker** Would have been a funny link / juxtaposition in the post if the story wasn’t so old.

Hi npb!
KO right here.

Is Jesca Hoop from New Orleans? She sounds a little like “Loose Marbles”.

I loved the vid. Made me happy. There seems to be a wonderful freshness happening with music/vid these days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..ature=user

he’s going to Crawford to clear brush for the Chinese.

A little triva about Jesca Hoop per her wiki page:

Jesca Hoop is an American singer-songwriter and composer born in Southern California to strict Mormon parents. She grew up singing traditional folk tunes in 4 part harmony. She broke away from her background, becoming a homesteader in the wilderness areas of Northern California and Wyoming; and worked in the remote mountains of Arizona with a rehabilitation program for children.

Crooks & Liars has it, I watched it there. The anger and sarcasm in KO’s voice certainly came across.

Whoops.. last line about Jesca

As a nanny for Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan’s three children, Hoop gained both musical experience and notoriety. Waits says, “Her music is like going swimming in a lake at night.” The Los Angeles Times considers Hoop one of ten Southern California artists that are “new and notable in 2007.”

I nominate Martin Van Creveld the Israeli war historian for the FDL book club any of his books will do but this interview SHINES

Interview with Martin van Creveld
By Sonshi.com

When you talk about military history and strategy, you can’t help but cite Dr. Martin van Creveld, author of such notable works as The Transformation of War and Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton. He has written 17 books so far and is a professor at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, where he has been teaching since 1971.

According to Dr. Chet Richards, van Creveld’s Fighting Power was among the late Col. John Boyd’s favorites. Any book worthy of John Boyd’s attention is worthy enough for any serious student of strategy.

His book The Transformation of War tells us of fourth generation warfare (4GW) — not the term he used but that’s what it is. Richards wrote, “Van Creveld has seen the future, and you won’t like it: It’s non-trinitarian, non-Clausewitzian, and probably not winnable by organized state armies.” In other words, more like the world Sun Tzu competed in. Martin van Creveld, then, is not only a foremost thinker of warfare’s history but also of its future.

As you will see in our interview with him, he did not mince words with us. And we wouldn’t want it any other way. When we informed him of a news article about how Bush officials bristle at the suggestion the war in Iraq looks like Vietnam, he replied, “Well, let them do some bristling. These people should be impeached, tried and punished for misleading the American people into a senseless war. They can then spend their time in prison reading Clausewitz and Sun Tzu.” Whether you agree or disagree, Martin van Creveld’s words have substance and are not mere conjecture. Dismiss them at our nation’s peril.

To read more about Dr. van Creveld and his works, go to Google’s scholar feature. Enjoy the interview!

Sonshi.com: In your book The Art of War: War and Military Thought, you stated Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is “the best work on war ever.” This is a distinct compliment to Sun Tzu considering your vast knowledge and analyses of history’s works on warfare, from von Buelow to Jomini to Clausewitz. Would you mind sharing your thoughts about Sun Tzu and what distinguishes him from other military writers?

van Creveld: Let me start by saying that Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

To my mind, what sets Sun Tzu apart are the following three qualities.

First, like Clausewitz’s On War, The Art of War is not a cookbook. It does not focus on telling readers how to make war, but provides an entire philosophy. By so doing, it raises itself above the momentary political, economic, social, technological, and cultural circumstances under which it was written. It creates a framework for thought that may be used by anyone out to understand or wage war, at any time, at any place.

Second, unlike On War, The Art of War is a Daoist text. The significance of this is that Sun Tzu sees war not as a means to an end, let alone as a positive good, but as a necessary evil. While fully aware of the vital role war plays in human affairs and prepared to do whatever it takes to win, he never allows the reader to forget what a horrible business it is. This in turn results in The Art of War being pervaded by a deep humanity which On War, precisely because it treats war as a means to an end, does not display.

Third, whereas On War is a weighty philosophical treatise The Art of War is at the same time a work of art; in this respect it resembles Lao Tzu as well as Plato. I am no Chinese scholar, but those who are tell me that each word rings like a bell. To some extent, this quality comes through even in translation.

Sonshi.com: You have lectured or taught at virtually every strategic institute in the Western world, including the US Naval War College, and have already written 17 books. What first got you interested in writing and teaching about military history and strategy, and what keeps you continuing to do so?

van Creveld: For an answer, look up the introduction to Plato’s Republic. Here, Socrates says that the imaginary city he and his interlocutors are about to construct will act like a magnifying mirror for looking into the human soul. With war, things are similar. More than any other human activity, war subjects men—both as individuals and in large groups—to the most extreme conditions. By so doing it brings out the human soul in all its baseness and all its glory.

Sonshi.com: It has been said there are two major camps in the US military leadership: Those who follow the principles of Clausewitz and those who follow the principles of Sun Tzu. Do you agree in general? If so, which of the two ideas do you think will apply more in future wars? If not, what doctrines or sets of principles do you see the US military leadership following?

van Creveld: I doubt whether the U.S military leadership has followed either Clausewitz or Sun Tzu, or else it would hardly have gotten itself involved in an unwinnable war in Iraq.

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer. As to the U.S, I do not see that it follows any particular set of principles except hypocrisy: meaning, the heart-felt need to dress up its extraordinary hunger for power with fine-sounding phrases about freedom, democracy, women’s rights, etc.

Sonshi.com: You believe the current US involvement in Iraq will end up like the Vietnam War. What are the major parallels? In a more philosophical sense, why do we as human beings do not tend to learn from our history and past mistakes, especially in a serious matter as warfare?

van Creveld: Both Iraq and Vietnam are, to use the terminology I developed in The Transformation of War, non-trinitarian conflicts. Experience shows that almost all countries that tried to fight such wars from, let us say, 1941 on, have lost, as did the U.S itself in both Vietnam and Somalia. Why should the war in Iraq end up differently?

Concerning the second question, you really should ask Mr. Bush. According to Carl Woodward’s Bush at War, which has many verbatim reports of the decision- making process that led to Iraq, Bush, repeatedly referred to Vietnam, adding that “I am not stupid”. Why, assuming the reports are correct, he nevertheless decided to go to war escapes me and will no doubt preoccupy historians to come.

http://www.sonshi.com/vancreveld.html

but he just can’t quit doing a DAMNED thing for the US tornedo victims.
how is that familiar, somehow?

((( ES )))

How’s it goin’ eh ?

The most outrageous thing Bush ever said in his life was when he recited his pledge to defend the Constitution.
Makes ya wonder if Laura has a fuckin’clue.

i’m sorry, who or what is ko

That’s a chunk of truthiness!! And Pickles Stepford is on drugs. I thought everyone knew.

Wonderful Petrocelli.. A beautiful night!

please only use fair use and a link – the servers and the original author will appreciate it.

fair use is usually determined to be 250 words or less

Keith Olbermann.

Keith Olbermann, strider.
:)

Pickles is an Executive Stepford Wife.

From The Guardian

Ancient bust of Caesar found in French river

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
Thursday May 15, 2008
The Guardian

He was a military leader turned dictator who had such a complex about his receding hairline that he perfected the Roman comb-over and liked laurel crowns that disguised his bald patch.

In flattering posthumous portraits Julius Caesar was often portrayed as a dashing, healthy-haired, divine being. But now a realistic marble bust believed to be the oldest representation taken during his lifetime has been discovered at the bottom of the river Rhône in France.

…

The French excavation team said this was the only bust of Caesar made during his lifetime, apart from a Turin death mask taken just before or after his death.

…

In a thousand years should they find a bust of Bush they will probably cover it back up.

Keith Oblbermann

Maybe he’d consider quitting spitting in public for them?

Dang, the newshounds beat me to it for the news box, but, this is too good to not highlight…

Republican Election Losses Stir Fall Fears

The Republican defeat in a special Congressional contest in Mississippi sent waves of apprehension across an already troubled party Wednesday, with some senior Republicans urging Congressional candidates to distance themselves from President Bush to head off what could be heavy losses in the fall.

you have to be to get that caliber of meds.

In a thousand years should they find a bust of Bush they will probably cover it back up.

Or call it King Butt.

check back in 5 days or so, or a couple of weeks.
maybe.

It’s always an opportunistic lie – whatever sounds good at the moment.
I’d assumed his security banned golf courses.

Your prayers and good wishes please. I have what is hopefully the very last of my spinal procedures for the year tomorrow morning. Took four days to recover from even a little bit last time.

Good night y’all.

Cindy McCain knows something about getting meds. Limpballs too.

What’s on my mind? Nothing to do with above!

I went to the Countdown page and watched the Special Comment. OMG, Keith was pissed. As well he should be, and us too. Damn that felt good.

I think I’ll watch that at work tomorrow. With the volume up kinda loud. ;)

That’s it. My pumpkin is here. Lakers won!
G’nite all, and thank you ALLLL! I had a lot of fun in here today, and IT WAS A VERY GOOD DAY!

((((TexBetsy))))

ya got it (hand on monitor)

Well, don’t leave us hanging. *g*

I believe a certain political party is getting ready to find out how it feels to get their @ssholes sandpapered and turpentined.
I want video.

Good luck Betsy. I will be thinking about you.

Sending you healing vibes, Betsy !

Hang in there Texb!

you got ‘em, Betsy.

Martin’s Transformation of war is the only foreign book that is required reading at West Point (I think that is book geek hype or I hope it is).
Martin is Israeli, he lives in Israel, his military credentials are better than Rummy, Darth or any NeoCon wannabe. His opinion should reassure Jewish voters who I admit have some reason to be nervous. We need to start building bridges people its not only the Hilary people who we need to reach out to.

“Van Creveld has lectured or taught at virtually every strategic institute, military or civilian, in the Western world, including the U.S. Naval War College, most recently in December, 1999 and January, 2000.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_van_Creveld

Good luck, TexBetsy. I hope this procedure is helpful too. {{{hugs}}}

Be prepared for the ultimate false flag.

TEX!
Good luck darlin”.

but it’s totally OT! and kinda random! but, my day so far! …. this is, like a personal diary….

I bet he’s just lying about giving up golf…and we’ll find out after he leaves office. But it golfing was such an insult to the mothers of those that died in the wars he created then why didn’t he order ALL the WH staff and Pentagon off the links??? And why is golf so “insulting” but superficial entertainments and poseur activities like mountain biking with Lance Armstrong, throwing out pitches at ballgames (Boooooooooo!), or trying his hand at cricket with the Pakistani National team something that shows “respect”.

I suspect he gave it up because his game is deteriorating as fast as his ability to put together a listenable sentence…and his go wasn’t up to being a loser to his old golf-buddies that he could beat. So he blamed his giving up on the war…all those dead kids threw his game off, damn them..”.out spot out!”

Best, Betsy.

I think the economy is going to hurt the Goobers way more than they dread even now.

((((( Valley Girl )))))

Yeah. I hear he’s giving up darts for Burma.

And he’s giving up sex for politics…..

….oh, wait…that really did already happen!

Reuters has a better article than the Grey lady tho…

Republican leaders in the House of Representatives, stung by a third election defeat in as many months, scrambled on Wednesday to regain the confidence of voters as well as some of their own members.

Gathered on the steps of the Capitol building, they showcased a package of largely old proposals to reach out to families, including ones to cut the rising price of gas, make health care more affordable and crack down on street gangs.

“Our members are concerned but they are ready for the message we are rolling out this week,” said Roy Blunt of Missouri, the Republican whip in the House.

Democrats mocked a new Republican slogan — “Change you deserve” — by noting the phrase is used to market an antidepressant.

“Democrats, not drugs, is what the American people need,” said Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the majority leader in the House.

Well it sounds noble to his last remaing 28% of the freepers.

And how about his stupid video looking for “weapons of mass destruction” under the White House furniture?

Now, THAT was respectful.

And so was the squalor at Walter Reed…we could go on.

So, today I went to the first day of a “pedagogy” seminar on Transforming Community, at my U. Theme is “Difficult Dialogs- history of race at xxxx University. How to talk about these issues in the classroom.

Night All! Have a great day tomorrow!

Martin’s Transformation of war is the only foreign book that is required reading at West Point (I think that is book geek hype or I hope it is).

Let’s hope so. Thanks for the interview link, TCU.

You must destroy the Constitution to save the Constitution

I’ll try and do better!

Not only that, but why the hell would anyone ASK Bush about golf? Seriously? Unless it was arranged ahead of time. Politico.com was funded by conservatives, and Mike Allen is a shill. IMHO.

VG – I promise, neither Suz or myself have ever considered LLN anything but an open thread.. Except perhaps on sports stuff. /s

Hey Petro- I’ve been off the intertubes, well FDL until almost just now!

how was it?

Y’all’s da bomb!
G’nite.

Aloha, Matt!

Please send me an update, whenever you can.

Guess I better get my butt to bed too, seein’ as I’m the designated driver.

It’s been a fabulous night. G’nite all!

Aloha, Tex, and ya have my thoughts and prayers…! *g*

It was supposed to be easier to destroy a Presidency, on purpose.

G’nite WDD … I’m of as well, G’nite all !

Aloha, WDD!

Aloha, Petro!

Hope you do alright TexBetsy

G’ nite WDD and P.

neuro- very very interesting! Have to create a class syllabus at the end, based on these issues. I am the only scientist in the group! Pretty obvious for the rest of them how to put this material in to new or existing classes, but I am struggling. So, I came home and spent 5hrs on teh google, trying to find resources. Actually found some great stuff.

The same philosophy was used on Iraq, ya gotta destroy it…!

Stuff happens.

Goodnight to all the hibernating pups, I am right behind you.

a bridge too far, a thread too late:

“Everbody’s got something to hide
Except Myanmar monkey”

1,843 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Valley Girl and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

“‘Difficult Dialogues’ – the history of race at xxx University.”

What a great soundin’ class…where does and old man sign up, ya give senior discounts on auditing?

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, AND REMEMBER WE’RE ALL GUNNA END UP IN THE SAME PLACE AGAIN SOMEDAY ANYWAYS!!!

Aloha, BK!

Yo Citizen CTuttle…wazup?

Thanks gallant newton, – am punch drunk from a 13=hour day at the museum and gonna lurk for a few and catch up with all you late late denizens with my morning cuppa coffee.

I am sure some of the troops would have appreciated some decent body armor and armored Humvees when they were driving over IEDs at Chimpster’s orders a little more than him giving up golf for them…and maybe not having to go back for a third or fourth tour of duty after inadequate rest… and not losing their jobs or their businesses or their marriages because their National Guard tours of duty were so long and frequent…

Bush batting at the wicket

Bush “bowling” for dollars!

Pondering what the f*ck Shrub is up to in the ME besides wasting our taxpayer dollars….! ;-)

Didn’t some American General in Viet Nam say that about destroying villages? I think we should compare Iraq more to the mistakes made in Viet Nam.

Hey npb!
sleep well

*ndfg waves from Texas* (finally getting logged in from a strange spooky computer)

Thank you to all who left such wonderful well wishes and congrats on the last thread. It was a fun night, meeting TexBetsy, Wangdang, and Gnome. I’m really looking forward to moving to texas, especially zone 8b gardening *g* don’t tell da spook, it’s zone envy, not luurrrvvv. I’m gonna have some great mentors.

Norske, I must have passed aong your barbers fathers wise words to at least twenty people.

If you want to live like a Republican, vote for a Democrat!

trying to compensate for his lack of manhood

Bougainvillea

I ain’t quite done yet.

Good evening to ya Mr. FlameThrower.
How’s the Granddaughter?

I’m done too. Nite, all.

Hey Norske- The idea is that all of will find a way to incorporate issues of race into our teaching. Project founded by the Ford Foundation. I gotta go at in a completely different way than the others- biology dept! and, I am no expert on race or genetics. I’ve long been aware that there is no genetic basis for dividing people into distinct racial groups, but didn’t have the scientific info that I could use to teach a pretty basic non-specialist course. But, just found some great stuff in my prior 5 hours of googling. Whew!

Goodnight TOW.

Of course, dancin’ isn’t strictly verbotten.
Proud relations are ok with it.

Same-o, Same-o! We never seem to learn…! 8-(

congratulations!

so, do you get to take your cider press with you?

Any mention of Phrenology, VG?

and, just for today, I am not even going to pay attention to yet another bit of *ssholery from ShrubCo

CT XP???

OLBERMANN !!!

I have a callous on my @ss.

I’ll tell ya about it later, if not in an e-mail…! 8-(

congratulations, ndfg!

now, now, boils and grrrrs.

I left ya a note at FB, fellow Virgo…! ;-)

How’s things in Hilo??

CT- in the links I found via teh google? No.

But, do you have any good links for that? I can see where it might fit in- as to the history of the way scientists (”scientists”) have attempted to classify people into different races.

The GOP just lost another House race now at what point will the GOP realize that they are doomed in November and change tactics or abandon Bush?
How long what will it take for a bunch of true believers to give up their belief as a group?
Will the MSM as a group abandon McCain before then?
November will be a race to see just which group is more stupid.
The lessons in group dynamics of this race alone make it interesting:)

It installed, and, I didn’t try to install!

Aah, I’ve only seen it in my Pysch classes…!

Same here, Betsy. Hugs, hand on monitor, prayers.

Oh, and I did get a tasty bit of gossip about one of the Dems who has declared in the Senate race against Saxby! ;)

Spill it, sister!

Da Spook and i are sitting here in total awe of Olbermann.

I told ya,
it’s just like throwing a rock in a bucket of shit.
All you gotta do is make sure none of it gets on You !!!

You have msn mail.

Give him a hug for me! Tell him I miss his witty repartee and insightful comments here at the Lake! *g*

Heh, you would make me log out of safari, eh? ;-)

What are the fair use rules about putting up song lyrics Suz? I’m hopping for an exception.

Do you mean you can’t just get you msn mail in another browser at the same time as Safari is running?

Well for later I got nothing planned yet.

well, i would myself look at the length of the lyrics and if they are longer in length than the front page post up top, i would put in some of the lyrics and then link to the rest….

fair use is usually determined to be 250 words or less – that way the person who put it up on the intertubes gets the traffic for those wanting to read.

Pretty much confirmed various things that have been reported before/ speculated before… I leave the rest for you to figure out ;)

And you still have me thinking about zone 8 gardening.

Night blooming sirius

1,843 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Valley Girl:

What a great project, even if it’s a “required reading” kinda thing…to goback into the sources and research topics one normally takes fer granted ken be so important as brain activity and sometimes even a good challenge ta old assumptions…and of course that doesn’t say anythin’ about gettin’ new stuff ta bring ta students (undergrads I hope)…oh you are soooo lucky ta be workin’ the “the academy”…

KEEP THE FAITH AND SHARE IT WITH THE REST OF US!!!

Are you shittin’ me? You got The Spook sittin’ there?

If you missed Boston Legal you missed a good show as usual they covered subjects near and dear to most firepups! Hope some one puts up the cases coverd on utube like they did for the supreme court one!

al says he’ll be trying to dredge up some wit and wisdom, and maybe if pressed, some repartee in about two days at http://www.althespook.com/

He accepted a hug too, but i think it helped that i was the intermediary *g* (a sarcastic spookly comment from the background “yeah, just slightly“)

ooohhh! thank you for wonderful suggestions!

Safari shuts down everytime I try to access my MSN account, the hatred runs deep I guess, quit snickering Newt…!

Suz you got your sun suit ready for tomorrow???? Gonna be pushing 100 + tomorrow!!!! :>(

yeah, even funnier and sharp-witted in person than online if ya can believe it.

As we say in the consulting business (thanks Aaron), “Its your money, it’s about to be my money, and my Safari works just fine.”

Right. ON!
Lucky you.

Awesome! Now will he finally take comments?

we are expected to top 100 here and i don’t have a/c. gotta have a forking heat wave when i’m working on getting the house poifect for the open house sun and work on the wedding present – both of which are a sumbitch to do when its forking hot.

He’s really an amazing human being !!
Bush must have carbon fiber skin
I liked the part about being behind the steering wheel of the most powerful country in the world.Kinda like being car jacked.

btw, i was busy backstage and didn’t get a chance to say this but

woohoo and congrats to ndfg and al the spook

Norske- yeah, it’s really interesting. Coupla links I found earlier this eve:

~~~Race is an illusion, say researchers

Physical features like skin colour and hair type are unreliable guides to a person’s genetic ancestry, according to a major study that further undermines the popular concept of ‘race’.

Brazilian researchers at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Rio Grande do Sul and colleagues at Portugal’s University of Porto based their results on DNA tests conducted on individuals in two groups of people. ~~~

http://www.abc.net.au/science/…..748264.htm

YouTube of lead researcher in study: A Scientific Perspective On Race

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9IyroYm4n4

I am going to test that myself… if true it needs to get to the net neutrality advocates…. wouldn’t you think??

That was directed at Al the Spook considering he stopped all comments at the blogswarm and didn’t answer his FB pleas…!

Ruh Roh, the yawning has commenced and I have to go to That Place again in the morning.
Looking forward to the Spook View now though.
Gnite y’all.

yes, the blogs will be fully comment enabled after netroots nation and there will also logo merchandise *ndfg blushes, ahem!* and books

sleep well, busted – g’nite!

nahant – just sayin’…
The Safari I’m talking about is in Win XP Pro (SP2 of course) running in Parallels on a Mac Pro, and in Boot Camp on a MacBook. I created the MSM account using Safari, and have had no problems entering the account repeatedly.

Just for fun look up just how many people are genetic descendants of Ghengis Kahn.
You are in for a shock!

nite busted

one of his first posts will be about why he felt a hiatus was necessary

g’nite busted and any other leaving sleepy pups i may have missed

Tell him it’s bookmarked. Good job NDFG!

g’night busted, i’m still laughing about your cat. You tell a good story!

I await with bated breath…! ;-)

I’m a little slow on the uptake:

felicitations, ndfg & Al!

watch out for teh fish …

Ooh, I haven’t used up my one blogwhore alert tonite… A Meeting of Lame Ducks…

quackery with no one listening to what they have to quack about

Licking each others wounds, no doubt.. cashmere battle scars.

What kind of quackery is this?

Good nite, all.

newdealfarmgrrrlll Wow! And here I am blabbering, and I missed the greatest news of the Day!!!! Congrats. I am especially enjoying this extra, because I actually made a comment on a late nite thread way long ago (and was in context at the time) that my fondest hope was that there be an “FDL marriage”! Love it!

Aloha, neuro!

You say the hardware you are using is a mac and that you run Xp and the mac Os at the same time, or as on a unix system you run them in different windows like X-Windows??

No comment on Rick Dees? ;-)

OPs that was to CT

g’nite neuro

A surface-to-air missiles in Sadr City! Holy guacamole..

thank you! I think we were more stunned than anyone at the direction things went *g*

On the Mac Pro (2.66 quad xeon), I run the Mac OS (10.4) and an emulator called Parallels which lets you run any of a dozen OS’s, in this case XP Pro/SP2, simultaneously.

On the MacBook laptop (2ghz CoreDuo), it’s a partitioned drive with Mac OS and XP Pro/SP2 in their own spaces – commonly referred to as “Dual-Boot.”

Safari for Windows running in each.

No, I’ve a HP with XP installed and Safari as a download…!

That happened on saturday, heh, a nice little wakeup call to the helos, eh?

Oh good you guys still up? I need to pass something along. It’s really bugging me.

That is what I was thinking newt.. just like we did with Sun Solaris and X-Windows with Xerox’s GlobalView !!

Do tell?

Parallels

Boot Camp

Whaaat? Not even a hit it was coming?

You have to watch this! DEAN MARTIN – THAT’S AMORE’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtmsIq0-T54

SP3 Is ready for download through the auto updater or the update site you might try that. I am running the dreaded Vista with a dual core and lots of memory and I have no problems with hot mail at least.

transcript of KO’s special comment is now up.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24632990/

Thanks for the links will read about them.

OK, did anyone catch KO tonight? It’s not about KO at all but something that happened during an MSNBC promo.

Someone on the toobz posted a video earlier today showing a subliminal image of John and Cindy McCain on FoxNews. If you do a search on youtube you’ll get it.

What’s bugging me is I was watching KO tonightand about eighteen minutes into the show, between a Chris Matthews promo and some ad with old people, a full screen image of Cheney clapping, Bush with his arms extended, and a third person I didn’t recognize with the flag behind them, flashed for a second, just a second, and if you fast forward you miss it. Totally subliminal.

It’s totally pissing me off.

both times i’ve tried to install, it has crashed my operating system (xp) and i’ve had to do a system recovery the first time – it wiped out all my restore points. the second time (from the auto) it also crashed my system but did not wipe out my restore points. i’m not gonna try a 3rd time until they fix it. it was pulled initially due to problems and re-released last week.

I forgot to add that the Hardball promo was also featuring Obama and HRC with flames and smoke around them, calling HRC the Obaminator…then the MSNBC logo, then phiit, the secret triumvirate. weird weird weird.

Cool, I’ll check it out in the morn! So how long till they debug vista, and no comments from the peanut gallery, newt…! ;-)

here’s the mccain/fox example on youtube.

Uhh, maybe I’ll hold off a bit longer…! ;-)

I missed that advertisement. if it ran in my area. Do you remember what the ad was hawking?

*sigh* the first time, i lost all my bookmarks and was not a happy camper

I can help with phone support next week if you can wait until Wednesday… Oldest son and oldest grandson coming and we have a big weekend and a party after Julie’s gig sunday morning. Also my PHD nephew, wife, son and brother will be here. So house/yard and patio cleaning are me:>)

It was subliminal…!

at this point, i’m wanting to wait until after the wedding. i lost all my wedding bookmarks

I suspect it was attached to the end of the Chris Matthews promo I describe above. You really have to slow it down to catch it. The ad after it had still pictures of elderly people with a voiceover of dad forgets to take him medicine type stuff. I really think this is msnbc’s promo.

I think the reason I caught it was because the logo was so black and the next ad was a little dark also. This photo just jumped out at me in a flash. Given that I had seen the fox vid earlier, I played it over and over to make sure.

OK maybe I’m paranoid but given the two events so close together and the involvement of corporate TV and the fact we put nothing past these criminals, well, I’m hypervigilant!

I’ll hold off, I don’t want to lose all my Iraqi bookmarks, I’ve got almost thirty dedicated to Iraq, and it would be a bee to try and find them again…!

I leave on the train in 4 hours to start my vacation and of course i can’t sleep. Setting up my mp3 player for the sheer pleasure of music while slogging through Chicago on a thursday morning. XD

FINALLYFINALLYFINALLY!

And an added Happy Dance for Edwards formally endorsing Obama. ^_^ I also got a call from the pharmacy supervisor about the inpatient pharmacy position. Likely setting up the interview for after i get back from Chicago. I had to leave a voicemail with that info but i’m pretty sure she got it. For now? I’m soooooo set to get paid vacation for being my happily geeky self and nothing but.

Nano ads

woohoo – happy dance for alias!

Yeah, Happy days, Alias! Any word on your interview?

well put it up on utube in slow motion so we can all see it…..

Oh come on you guys don’t know how to back up your bookmarks???

http://www.comics.com/comics/p…..80513.html

Safari does a good job of it…! ;-)

nahant – i had to do a system recovery which took my system back to its out of the box state. spent several days reinstalling all my programs that my system no longer recognized.

Not yet, but i told her to call me the next tuesday and left my landline and my cell number. I’ll be home at about 11pm on monday night, since the train back arrives during the late evening. I’ll likely be home and recovering from the usual weekend of little sleep, adrenaline and sugar that this Convention is every year. But it’s worth it for seeing these friends every time. This is the first time i’ve gotten a day off to recover after i get home though, which will be a nice change.

I love the train ride and using Chicago’s public transport, but you still get road fatigue no matter what you do.

Have a great time alias!

good luck, alias!

and goodnight, pups…

What I sometimes do is copy bookmarks in an email to myself.
That’s pretty tedious, though.

g’nite kirk

alias! nice!

that’s it for me pups. time to erase all traces of my presence at the little cottage by the creek in the redwoods and then spend some time at the sewing machine. g’nite all.

Aloha, Doc!

nite suz

You have my number you should have called…. that never should have happened… I would have loved to worked on it before you did that complete re-installation from scratch:>( Thats what I cut my teeth on… those kind of fixes so no data is lost before you nuke the system.

Aloha, Suz! Good Luck, maybe this time will be the charm…!

G’ nite Suz.. am calling it a night myself.. I think this is the last cool spring rainy night of the year.. going to enjoy it.

g’ nite fabulous firedogs

I can give you remote access, eh?

punaise! gwad that was funny. ty!

Aloha, ES!

ack. I didn’t record it and I wouldn’t know how to do that anyway.

nite eureka

thanks for hosting…

night Suz!! So Sunday is a big day for you also….

We can try…. it doesn’t all ways work depends on the network gods. sometime next week….
On that note gods night all you good firepups:>)

nite nahant

Aloha, nahant!

From the NYTimes, this is beyond hilarious:

“Representative Peter T. King, Republican of New York, said it appeared that lawmakers might have to fend for themselves. “You are going to have to run on who you are and establish some independence, and that is going to be tougher for some than others,” Mr. King said.”

OMG run on who you are? Puleeze They needn’t worry about any of them stooping that low.

Well, I shall bid a fond adieu, too! Aloha Oe!

nite tuttle

Apparently there was once another Presidents Daughters Wedding and a controlling WH ;-)

From Time Magazine, “Women Wave Makers”
Monday, May. 24, 1971

JUDY JOINS THE NON-GUESTS
Ever since she broke the ban on press coverage by crashing the wedding reception of Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower in 1968, Washington Post Reporter-Columnist Judith Martin, 32, has been on bad terms with the White House. Just how bad became apparent last week when she was barred from covering Tricia Nixon’s White House wedding next month. “The First Family,” sniffed Mrs. Nixon’s staff director, Connie Stuart, “does not feel comfortable with Judith Martin.”
A Wellesley graduate with an acerb tongue and typewriter, Judy has been tough on Tricia in the past, once observing of her little-girl look: “A 24-year-old woman dressed like an ice cream cone can give even neatness and cleanliness a bad name.”

Boy! The Wash-Po Press team has always been tough on the White House…I guess that there wasn’t anything substantial for them to cover about Nixon in 1971? It took a couple of renegade reporters to bring their standards up a bit two years later.

Then there was this little revelation about a future Presidents undisclosed tax payments made by a College radio DJ. Just who deserved the Pulitzer? WashPo reporter Judy Martin for covering Tricia Nixon’s fashion taste…or Rose King?

ROSE ROCKS THE BOAT
Ronald Reagan has been telling his California constituents that “taxes should hurt.” Now, one of the more intriguing and potentially damaging political stories of the year is that he paid no state income tax at all in 1970 (because of business reverses). Disclosure came through a most unlikely channel: a gossipy item broadcast on the student radio station at Sacramento State College by a 29-year-old widowed mother of three who is studying journalism there and was on the air only to fill a course requirement.
Rose King …professes surprise at the storm that blew up following her broadcast over KERS-FM. “I really didn’t think anybody was listening,” she says with a chuckle. “I didn’t see the tax return myself, but the story was all over campus. I heard it from several sources, and I was convinced they were reliable.”… Under
California law, disclosure of tax information is a crime punishable by six months in jail and a $500 fine. “I won’t tell you anything about where I got my information,” she told a tax investigator. “That is my privilege as a journalist.” In her refusal, she relies on another state law protecting reporters from being forced to reveal their sources.

BTW I had to do a double take when I read the name “Judy Martin”….it’s not “Judy Miller”. Martin is still with the Post, however. She has a syndicated column under the name “Miss Manners”.

Bingo!
Had the same “Judy” chill.

“A 24-year-old woman dressed like an ice cream cone can give even neatness and cleanliness a bad name.”

Classic.

off to snooze
nite pups

The kids of these people… Reagan’s… Nixon’s…. Bush’s… they get our ricocheted rage from their parents, as well as maybe our not as privileged envy-resentment, or just give us something more personal to poke at and get a laugh at … but how crazymaking to be in the fishbowl for them, BUT MORE SO… to have these power-wielding ego-enflamed personalities, beloved by some, vilified by others your guides into adulthood. God bless em!

Miss Manners’ remark was very funny…. but ouch!

I loved Molly Ivin’s work. Love TDS, love SC, love KO. Love when I write my own post zinger. But sometimes it does give me pause.

I know that when the best and the funniest on the left and the right zing each other, the loyal red or blue gang gets particularly riled and protective of their targeted leader. The humor is cathartic and concise in making pointed commentary. But the wounds go particularly deep.

It took a while to “recover” from Edwards withdrawal and there had been angry hits at both Hillary and Barack on that website… and there we were needing to disband and inclinations to H or O hastened that … and to hopefully find a new leader. We headed in our chosen directions.. some of us… others waited … unwilling or unready to bond. Some mourning our vision and our chosen leader’s.

I trust the two gangs of Dems at this point will have time to get it together by Nov. I think so. But wanted to consider it here.

Cinnamonape… no judgement… just enjoyed your post.. and it got me to thinking of the fun but sharp edge of political writing.

As an aside…that Rose King WAS apparently nominated for a Pulitzer for her writing on mental health issues…and she’s apparently a moving force behind California’s new mental health law Prop 61.

What a seriously standup woman! Will have to google her. Mental health issues… don’t get more valuable than that.

Love that Reagan got busted. He was such a traditional marriage icon and I always wondered how first wife wonderful Jane Wyman felt about that… his “in denial” don’t look at my ex-wife behind the curtain stance he took about traditional values and rigidity with the status quo. His teflon-ness.

John McCain with his 8 or 9 houses (wife”s) advises citizens enduring the horror of the spectre of foreclosure to skip vacations and get a second job.