zed?

He may very well be running as VP again with his bud McCain. That Lamont election seems to long ago, but we have more of joeLie to deal with. I wonder how much buyer’s remorse is being felt in CT? I am sure the jewish lobby is tickled pink with Joe. But Bridgeport?

I’m watching the soon-to-be famous “green-screen” speech coverage over at Veracifer.

Damn McCain just downright sucks, although, if you are a voter who is most concerned with “keeping those damn kids off my lawn!”, McCain might be your man.

nicely done smgumby

attaturk, i wanna see hojo cashiered outta the d caucus on the senate floor. i want to see the entire body of d’s turn their back on hojo and shun him. i would really like to see hojo indicted but public humiliation of being cashiered would work for me until then.

The Democrat Party.

Dang, just when you think slummy Joe can’t get any worse, he consistantly proves you wrong.

Can you just imagine the visual, if every Dem physically turned their back on Joe when he starts to speak.

Priceless!

chris mathews would get all tingly and timmah’s would get whiplash from his trying to spin that away

They may have talked about many things:

of shoes and ships and sealing wax,
of cabbages and kings
and why the sea is boiling hot
and whether pigs have wings

Too tired to make it political. Where’s Punaise when ya need him?

EPUd from downstairs:
Fading fast, here. Thank you for the good company. Goodnight and good sleep. See you tomorrow, but maybe not until Late or late-late.

FunnyD

Well, I guess…since comity prevents ‘em from horsewhipping him on the steps of his club…
(it’s a literary allusion, I swear! And metaphorical, yeah, that’s it!)
FunnyD

Oops. Forgot my mannersesss
ATTATURK!!!

time for me to do dishes and all that other stuff around here for just in case

g’nite pups

gnite suz

If I understood correctly, Schmoe won the general in 2004 mainly because he insisted that he wanted to end the war soon after all, and that he always wanted to, obviously responding to the anti-war sentiment that got Lamont to beat him in the primary.

Now he’s openly supporting the candidate who wants to stay there for a hundred years, and sliming the anti-war candidate as weak and naive!

It is gobsmacking that the Democrats in the Senate continue to tolerate his caucus membership and chairmanship. If this isn’t utter betrayal of the party and utter dishonesty, then what is?

Is it too late to submit a YoUTube? Cause I enjoyed this one so very much!

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Citizen Attaturk:

I have been watchin’ Citizen Senator Obama take complete control of the DemocraTIC Party these last couple a days and what’s REALLY fun ta watch is the stunned, glazzed looks of bemusement from the heretofore cowering and post traumaticly stressed Democrats at all levels. And Brother Obama didn’t wait to get the okie doke from HRC, he started by goin’ after Joe Likuderman on the Senate floor, took physical control a the DNC and issued rules of engagement and ordenance to all the troops in the field.

I think we hafta put a bit of pressure on the Obama folks ta give ‘im the message ta stop telecom immunity in its tracks…he’s got the chops now ta do it.

This guy is the real deal…and he ain’t shy!

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THERE SRE OF THEM!!

Barack says no telecom immunity, we need that evidence for the Impeachmrnt hearings…well it late and I must be dreaming.

I’ll have one of what Norske and bigbrother are having!

Hey Firepups where you at out there??!!! This is a new day, it’s daylight in the swamp and there’s a new warden in the game refuge!!

Come out and sing there Firepups…it’s our turn!!

I’m very pleased that Obama’s candidacy means Deans 50 state strategy is going to be tested nationally. Remember what that Democratic advice guru, Paul Begala said about Deans strategy.

“He says it’s a long-term strategy,” said Paul Begala, the longtime Clinton aide and Democratic strategist. “What he has spent it on, apparently, is just hiring a bunch of staff people to wander around Utah and Mississippi and pick their nose.”

Coincidentally, wandering around Mississippi with his finger up his nose is exactly the kind of job Begala deserves…

Good morning Attaturk, Norske and pups.

Just lurking and getting ready for work.

Mr.Cbl

yo

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Citizen Smgumby:

Another thing about the ascendence of Citizen Senator Obama is that soon we will be listenin’ to a whole NEW group of bright, young, articulate political cadre. The last 8 years, the M*Clintonistas have had the Democratic arena floor to themselves by default.

And tonight I have been thinkin’ about why I have supported Obama, why when my 20 year old daughter called me breathlessly one evening a few months ago to tell me she’d jest heard the most inspirin’ man in her young life I listened and believed. For the last 40 years there has been an assault on democracy and common people. With the demise of the unions and the rise of the “post modern”, post bourgoise politicasl state, there has been no room for leaders with real world experience, politicians whose lives and experience informed there politics. Increasingly, those people with the social experience and memory of the working and middlin’ classes have been people of color…that is, those people in politics who were not tryin ta run away from their identity and connection to common people, the authentic folks and people who were experiencing the real America were people of color.

Bill M*Clinton, used his connection to real American experience to connect with common folks including a great majority of people of color and won the White House. His efforts however were with the purpose of leaving his identity and his class roots behind. And he succeeded.

Now we have another authentic voice of common people’s experience, who has been trained and educated to be “that much better” than all his collegues and adversaries and is bein’ attacked by the representatives of upper class power as being an “elitist”. I trust that Obama will not use his success to escape his class and our history because he can’t, he wears it on his skin.

KEEP THE FAITH, IT’S THE GLUE THAT HOLDS US TOGETHER!!

Good morning, pups. It’s Bobo and Krugman. Bobo’s flailing around in desperation. He typed a thing called “The Art of Growing Up.” He whines that it would be comforting to see a president who’d looked into the abyss or suffered some sort of ordeal, and who had found ways to combat them. Well, I’ve never heard a pitch to vote for someone because they’re consumed with misery over their failings but I guess if you’re dealing with McSame and Bush Term #3 it’s pretty much all you have going for you. Bobo, please go away. Mr. Krugman writes of “Bits, Bands and Books,” and says that everything that can be digitized will be digitized, making intellectual property easier to copy and harder to sell for more than a nominal price.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and there’s a selection of bagels with cream cheese. Thank heaven it’s Friday… Have a grand day.

Good morning all. Wow the lake is working. Life is good.

I do get the impression, early though it is, that BO’s people have been reading the blogosphere and have a pretty good idea of where the progressives stand. I loved seeing Dean and BO together, they look like two happy campers that can finally see the Democratic party turning away from Rove’s DLC and returning to a party that is not so corporate centric.

Fuck you liarman!

He typed a thing called “The Art of Growing Up.” He whines that it would be comforting to see a president who’d looked into the abyss or suffered some sort of ordeal, and who had found ways to combat them.

Jimminy cricket one would think that before one could write about growing up, growing up would be an essential.

…..and can I have lox with my bagels?

Good Morning, Firepups!

It’s cool and humid in central Jersey this morning. I didn’t think anyone could be more of an apostate than Zell Miller, but Joe Lieberman has proven me wrong. Holy Joe has turned out pretty much the way anyone who is a regular reader of this blog could have predicted: santimonious, self-important, and a reliable devotee of St. John. But McCain won’t pick him as VP, much as Holy Joe wants it (for the history books, as the only VP nominee of both major parties–much better than Zell as the only keynote speaker to address both parties’ conventions). Joe is unimportant, and he is beginning to recognize it. He’ll attract media attention by his slavish support for McCain for the duration of the campaign, but he will be irrelevant in the Senate in 2009 and for the remainder of his term. And he knows it.

There is a big pot of hot coffee and hot water for the tea drinkers. I’ve picked up fresh bagels, and have plenty of cream cheese, some nice pieces of Nova, tomato slices, and chives. Help yourselves!

Work for peace, every day.

The daughter (17 and too young to vote) of a friend has been working like a dingbat for Obama lo these many months. She calls people darn near every night and never misses an opportunity to talk about how exciting it is to have a “different” candidate running for pres. She will turn 18 in January and is really pissed that she will not get to vote for him. It is a true treat to see young people inspired…brings tears to me eyes it does.

Good morning all.

It’s gonna be ICED tea around here for a while. Forecast of high 90’s for the next few days. House ac OK but we don’t have it in the church. Gonna be toasty.

As for Joe—he’s not worthy of my contempt or anyone else’s here. Just. Not. Worthy.

{{waves to Marion}}

We didn’t coordinate breakfast today, did we Marion?

Years ago, just after I came to this country I was listening to a late night bible thumper on radio. I had never heard one before but he was going on about sending money to him as gawd would want his church to have air conditioning. Hillarious.

ugh

We have wind, we have rain, we have COLD.

Is it really freaking JUNE?

Well, it would be if you’re thinking rationally. However, since it’s Bobo… Maybe he thinks his midlife angst works out to the same thing?

Sure. I’ve also got cream cheese with herbs out of the garden. Help yourself.

Just took a trip to the garden to find that my strawberries are ready for a pick. So I can add strawberries to your bagels if you wish. This is going to be a delicious weekend. Yummy. Time to make a balsamic and creme fresh reduction……

Well, you’ve probably got a few varieties of bagels that I don’t have. You know what they say — great minds think alike! ((((NJP))))

MMMMMM…. Strawberries! NUM! I’ve got cherry tomatoes that may be ready to pick by Sunday. The bigger ones are still as green as grass, but the little guys are teetering on the brink of ripe.

Come November, Joe will be a man without friends.

Citizen JPL9:

“Come November, Joe will be a man without friends.”

I would say he already IS.

I would pay money to find out what Sen. Obama said to him when he dragged him off to the side in the Senate…

Joe just want to be relevant. His ego is such that he needs a kiss on the ass at least once a day… and he does not give a damn from whence it comes. He burns bridges so damn fast (must be something he learned from his buddies in the ME, he so loves violence) all he is going left with are a few likudites as “friends” but probably that will do.

I do believe that “STFU” was involved

I’m amazed that the “behind the Beltway” crowd seems to have no idea of what the 50 state strategy really is. It’s not solely for winning the WH. It’s about building the infrastructure that the BTB crowd let rot into nothing. It’s about local races. Are they really that blinkered and stupid?

Oh, I surely do hope so. And I hope it was delivered firmly.

Zell Miller doesn’t seem to have many speaking engagements. Those repubs are funny like that. In January Joe will be stripped of his post and two years after that he’ll retire.

Juan Cole is highlighting a piece today from the Independent about the US blackmailing the Iraqi Gov in an attempt to get our “long term occupation permission slip” signed. I love this bit that explains away our permanent bases in Iraq.

The US had previously denied it wanted permanent bases in Iraq, but American negotiators argue that so long as there is an Iraqi perimeter fence, even if it is manned by only one Iraqi soldier, around a US installation, then Iraq and not the US is in charge.

I love it, a huge megabase, with it’s fortified walls and advanced garrison, surrounded by a little chain link and one Iraqi “guard” armed with a peashooter. That one guard makes it an “Iraqi” installation… …not a permanent US military base. Very cute.

Marion, I just bought a house that has 6 blueberry bushes. You’ll have to come up with breakfast menus for me.

My nephew in college got to see Obama at the Excel in St Paul. He & his girlfriend were able to get inside because they got in line early. The wait to get in went fast because they had so much fun just talking with everyone. Lots of excitement & enthusiasm. I’m jealous.

Oh, yum! The first thing that springs to mind is taking a bucket over to them and picking a bunch and then bringing them into the kitchen and… wait… I could have SWORN there were berries in this bucket… but they sure were good. (Kind of what happens when I pick things. Not much actually makes it all the way to the kitchen door!)

Mornin’ pups. Just a drive by before heading out to the vet.

I think we can assume by the email referenced by Attaturk above that Short Ride didn’t like the little conversation one bit. Hopefully he’s lobbying for the VP slot. Please, please, McShitForBrains, pick Short Ride.

Yes.

Yep, I’m sure Mr. “I used to be a Democrat” was rather taken aback that his former protege probably took him to task. Tough luck, Joe.

I grew up in New England and we’d go wild blueberry picking and the same thing would happen to me. My bucket was always empty and the threats that I would not have muffins didn’t faze me. I’m already thinking about planting more bushes for next year.

If Hillary speech doesn’t include the words “I won the popular vote”, then I would perceive that Obama had a successful meeting with her.

We have had absolutely no luck with growing blueberries here on our property. I think the drainage is an issue. I sniff…love blueberry…anything.

One for the bucket, one for me
One for the bucket, two for me
One for the bucket, three for me

you get the idea. been there, done that. Love ‘em. Too hot to grow here.

My husband & I (& the dogs) picked about 30 qts of wild blueberries last summer. Wild blueberries are to die for.

ahh the joys of growing your own.

Morning everyone, it’s just delightful here -for the time being.

Little sister would bake blueberry muffins just for the smiles, well, that and eating some.

(((SD’s tigers)))

It took me a long time to enjoy the cultivated variety. Mine are large and just starting to turn. It has been so hot in GA that I’m concerned that heat will get to the bushes.

A domestic violence shelter in NH does a fund raiser every year selling wild blueberries. We buy 10lbs, sometimes 20, and use them all year long for a myriad of things. We also have 8 bushes of our own that produce prodigiously. Very good for you full of vitamins etc.

ahh the joys of growing your own

We are still talking blueberries, right?

Well, I suppose…Joe LIEberman comes from the state where old men get hit by cars and no one comes to the rescue until a minute or so later. Hell, even the people who hit the guy just kept driving…

http://youtube.com/watch?v=J_E3ldpFbjo

A “nice” reflection of who Joe LIEberman is today. No one gets in his way. Not even 78 year old paralyzed men. Spit.

I understand that it is frowned upon in some states to grow “other stuff”. No idea which states still have such draconian laws.

whatever do you mean?
*blink – blink – blink*

Sorry way too busy spreading democracy to bother about people.

There’s a big difference in taste between wild & tame blueberries. Once I made a wild blueberry pie for some family visiting from Illinois. One had never tasted wild blueberries before & had no idea they weren’t the same. The expression on his face after his first forkful was pure amazement.

Exactly. Spit.

My wife went to pick em a couple of years back and I said, “look out for the chiggers”. She didn’t dress accordingly and she got hundreds!

or put on the powdered sulphur

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve warned tourists about chiggers in Spanish moss… They listen carefully and then go and grab some. Oh, well…

Raven, up in the cold north country, it’s the wood ticks, mosquitos, sand flies & noseums. Other than those “minor” annoyances, it’s beautiful & quiet in the woods, ha.

Um, what are chiggers, exactly?

awful!

Yea, there are no ticks, fire ants or tiger mosquitos here. Uh huh.

Red bugs, the dudes that bore in the skin and irritate the hell out of you. You can try “Chiggerid or nail polish” but they don’t really work.

Probably no creature on earth can cause as much torment for its size than the tiny chigger. Tiny six-legged chigger larvae attack campers, picnickers, hikers, bird watchers, berry pickers, fishermen, soldiers, and homeowners in low, damp areas where vegetation is rank such as woodlands, berry patches, orchards, along lakes and streams, and even in drier places where vegetation is low such as lawns, golf courses, and parks. They are most numerous in early summer when grass, weeds and other vegetation are heaviest. Chiggers do not burrow into the skin, but insert their mouthparts in a skin pore or hair follicle. Their bites produce small, reddish welts on the skin accompanied by intense itching as irritating as acute cases of poison ivory or poison sumac. These symptoms often are the only way of learning that an outdoor area is infested since chiggers are so small that most cannot be seen without a magnifying glass. Chiggers feed on a wide variety of snakes, turtles, birds, and small mammals as well as humans.

Hey Dragon, tell em about the step-and-a-half snakes.

Well I’m glad I’m not the only one who had to look it up.

Chiggers

Chiggers make our blood sucking pests sound like amateurs in comparison.
Once a prisoner escaped & fled into swampy forest during an over abundant mosquito season. The law just waited him out. He came stumbling out to the highway after a night from hell covered with welts.

As long as we’re on the topic of critters, some folks enjoy the Claxton Rattlesnake Roundup. You can’t round up what isn’t out there around you…

And get you a fruit cake while you are there.

You grow cream cheese in your garden? *g*

It’s raining in the midHudson, drat. I have a brand new SawsAll, my first power tool, and I want to go out & cut down every piece of dead wood. (Hmmm. Wonder if it works on political dead wood like Lieberman.)

Scarecrow is up with a new post: Why Are Democrats Giving Bush a Green Light On Iran?

I got attacked by a June bug last night. I’m still not over it. ;-)

When I was in Maine last summer I got the coolest “Black Flies, Defender of the Wilderness” t-shirts!

I’m guessing your new saw would bind up on something that amorphous and gummy…

I grew up in Texas and, after wrestling without a shirt on, on St. Augustine grass lawn, often had a completely red torso and ankles from chigger bites. But I forgot all about them and never saw what they looked like until the comment today caused me to look them up. Anyway, the comments brought back memories.

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Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Hold down the fort, keep the baracades up and the red flags flyin’ ‘cuz I’m off with my san ta make a large dent in the Walleye population in the Lake of the Woods and I MIGHT come back on Tuesday.

KEEP THE FAITH AND DON’T THROW ANYTHIN’ BACK THAT WILL FIT IN THE PAN!!

eCahn, as someone who has seen a Sawsall in the hands of a skilled workman, you could make fast work of ol’ Joe with one of those. In the hands of a less skilled workman, a crowbar would do.

Lucinda June Bug vs Hurricane 2 cool to be 4 gotten

Good Morning Attaturk and Firedogs,

what a punk ass – this ‘release’ so soon after his public dressing down says a great deal about the environment he’s been operating in for some time -

so why did Reid slap him around ? – new sheriff in town ? which would mean the old sheriff provided some cover or extremely wide berth

or is it in the face of Liebushman’s multitude of sins, an old school guy like Reid sees bagging on the shiny new nominee as something one never, ever does ? simply, finally, a gaffe too far ?

And other places I ’spect

chill on dat

Anybody catch Zbigniew Brzezinski on JoeScar? Damn, that’s a smart man. He was explaining that the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is pretty much a third-rate player in the peculiar Iranian political scheme. Has no control of any of the major ministries, like defense, security, etc. The mullahs actually run the place – and the general population is pretty pro-west.

He also said that to worry about Iran having a nuke is ridiculous, because Israel has 150-200 of their own, and Iran is much too sophisticated to commit national suicide by *ever* using a nuke.

Hey Obama staffers – get the tape to Barack – this guy still has a lot to offer. I’ve seen him on JoeScar before, and he makes more sense in his allotted five minutes than the rest of the crew do, accumulated, in a month.

Lol. I don’t remember that, but if you ever try to make jalapeno jelly, make sure you thoroughly wash hands afterwards.

Yep. A brilliant man. And what have we got? Condi “Where’s the shoe sale” Rice.

He also said that to worry about Iran having a nuke is ridiculous, because Israel has 150-200 of their own, and Iran is much too sophisticated to commit national suicide by *ever* using a nuke.

That’s always been my take, and it seemed to me we might have some negotiating leverage by promising to exercise our influence with Israel to keep them from getting too jittery.

Raven, that’s a great t-shirt.

Ahhh, that brings back memories of childhood in the south.

Nope, never see ‘em. That’s by they’re called noseeums. Got skeeters here that get together and argue whether to eat me in situ or take me with them.

Never actually seen a bamboo viper in the wild but the story in the bush was if you wanted a last smoke you’d better be almost done with it when ya got bit. Always wanted to check yer boots before ya put ‘em on, though. Get some nasty surprises if ya don’t.

I think everyone is arguing about Israel over there.

That’s why I came back here. Safer por moi.

motherfuckers been fighting since the dawn of time and they won’t stop because of a thread on FDL

Seems the influx of Eastern Europeans into Israel has really fueled the Likud and other right wing agendas. I guess being repressed by the Soviets for so long they feel they’ve got to repress somebody in return. It really is hard to be civil about these people.

Take Joe Lie-berman down.

“Democrat” party – what petty low class nonsense.

But like I said Joe don’t give a fxck cuz he got 5 years left.

I guess I don’t think I know enough about it to comment much.

The settlements in the occupied territories are made up primarily of Eastern European Jews who migrated when the Soviet Union came apart. The Likudites and other right wingers use them as an excuse to increase the settlements and the repressive actions of the IDF. Plus they hate Arabs so it just feeds into the Likudite rhetoric and agenda. Even the IDF has trouble with them when they try to take down settlements.

Joe is in his last throes.

To jayt, above, Zbig has been an advisor to Obama for months now.

Lieberman having some kind of private heated exchange on the Senate floor with Obama yesterday.
Doesn’t THAT about say it all???

is there a youtube? or only a written report?

John Edwards said he would have us soon get out of Iraq ENTIRELY and a small security base of troops to help Iraq keep getting on its feet, we should station nearby, symbolically and actually OUT of Iraq in Kuwait to prove we were not intending to continue our control or exploit Iraq for its oil, etc.

Isn’t Mika, the cohost, his daughter?

The Connecticut that is touched by this blog is not the CT that elected Joe Lieberman. Things like

“People tried to warn you Connecticut … some of them right here on this little blog. But you didn’t listen.”

kills me. I may not be able to deny that I live in the state that he claims to be representing, but I sure as hell don’t have to take responsibility for this weasel. I wanted his committee chairmanships pulled last January. I didn’t care if it meant lost prestige and clout for the state.

I dream of a public humiliation, preferably involving handcuffs and him being put in the back of a police cruiser, but I will take gladly little vignettes that the one that happened on the Senate floor.

just hiring a bunch of staff people to wander around Utah and Mississippi and pick their nose.”

Stupid Begala can’t even get the grammar right: a whole bunch of people wandering around picking ONE nose?

I wish someone would point out [in addition to many other points about the “popular vote” myth], that if many of those “early” states re-voted today, there are a hell of a lot of folks who wouldn’t vote for Hillary a second time, after seeing her performance & tactics from South Carolina on.

Yup, and she hasn’t soaked up much of Daddy’s wisdom.