Suz!

Toons!

no ZED but seconds

ct!
neuro!

SYLVESTER!

Here is the digg

Snacks!

that guy!

dugg and thanks nahant

that’s not dessert wangdang (hint hint)

Suzanne!
Cat and mouse bird!

Thanks wandang but I am stuffed for now

I see that I arrived at just the right time! ;-) Evening, Ya’ll…!

rehab cat, newton.. seemed so logical after we had the hitchcock one last week

OK

Oh, my – hit the spot!

Hi CT!

oh yeah (in best ferris bueller voice) that looks slurpalicious, wangdang

I just might find room for that!

nahant, digg up top tells me mine is the official Digg…

who am I to believe?

double dugg

We go with yours Neuro:>) Good job… keeping me honest!

wangdangpoodle?

All Digg links are fixed you guys.

Anybody watching the Olympics…?

planning on boycotting

They were broken?

Including diving?

Oh and I did Digg yours Neuro… Remember Pups Diggs draws eyes and clicks for the Lake and that brings $$$

*sigh* yeah and not gonna watch the gymnastics stuff either. i’m hoping i’ll be moving or something so i don’t even notice that i’m missing it.

Heh, Can she pass it up…? Right now the women’s US Olympic Gymnastics trials are happening on NBC…!

Is it August already?
Did I have a good vacation?

Distraction.

am watching a pbs special on mega-volcanoes

nom nom nom *burp*

Can’t wait for Design Star, Sunday night.

http://www.latimes.com/news/na…..9720.story

White House invokes executive privilege on not disclosing why it ordered the EPA to stop California from imposing higher fuel efficiency standards. Unbelievable.

I just hope Betsy will be proud of me.

she will be… ya made me burp (blushing)

fuck

getting it ready for the news queue.. thanks

A couple of chilling links:

Per http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..181/539848

Resolution 362 in the House (not officially named the “Iran War Resolution”, but nonetheless amounting to nothing less than that)will effectively demand the US to impose a naval blockade of Iran, an act of war.

Please take action this weekend.

This resolution is the current central legislative priority of the pro-war lobby AIPAC.

Over the last three weeks 77 House Democrats and 92 Republicans have agreed to cosponsor a new resolution against Iran that demands that President Bush “initiate an international effort” to impose a land, sea, and air blockade on Iran to prevent it from importing gasoline and to inspect all cargo entering or leaving Iran.

Such a blockade imposed without United Nations authority (which the resolution does not call for) would be widely construed as an act of war. Some congressional sources say the House could vote on the resolution, H.Con.Res. 362, as early as next week.

By the way, a blockade is officially an act of war, e.g., it was the reason Israel felt justified in launching the Six-Day War in 1967, and the reason that the Japanese felt justified in attacking Pearl Harbor.

But what would happen if we picked this fight? According to http://www.agoracosmopolitan.c…..01932.html we’d lose the Fifth Fleet to antiship missiles.

Saw that Freaking Asswipes… everything is Executive privilage:>( Wonder if toilet paper is!

they can do whatever they want

they are The Deciders

double fuck

I feel blame for the chocolate diversion.

Where are the black UN helicopters when we really need them?

chocolate is a basic food group

Some talk of technical virtuosity in the previous thread, which I can appreciate and marvel at, but this is what music means to me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_90D1RzApts

Hey PJ!

werd grrrlll

here is my diversion–I just made myself a hot roast beef on wheat roll sandwich, with melted Swizz and Bleu (not Blue!) cheese, fresh basil leaves from the garden, walnut pieces and Dijon mustard. Mmmmmm.

Want one?

Waxman had a good response…

“I Don’t Think We’ve Had a Situation Like This Since Richard Nixon”

got any spanish onion to put on that there sandwich?

Well where is it I just might find some room for that even after Wangdang served up all those goodies:

uh, anyone here from the last thread, where one of the topics was fiddling?

if so, then you’ll get this-

Old Time Fiddle – St. Anne’s Reel – Truman Price
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

The Waxman Cometh

that would have really made the day…er, nite

from the article cited:

Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) put off a vote on the contempt resolutions while he considers his options.

“I don’t think we’ve had a situation like this since Richard Nixon was president,” he said, appearing determined to press ahead, even if it leads to a court fight. “We don’t know whether this privilege that’s being asserted is valid or not.”

(bold = Bullshit!!)

Please ’splain difference ‘tween bleu and blue. I already understand that my Profumo di Genova is a superior basil.

Would that be anthing the House of Wax??

I have to wonder what these stinkers are going to do in January? Just have a big burn/shred/degaussing party?

just me and the dog and cat and they don’t mind when i smell of garlic and onion

jayt, wanna dance?

Over the last three weeks 77 House Democrats and 92 Republicans have agreed to cosponsor a new resolution against Iran that demands that President Bush “initiate an international effort” to impose a land, sea, and air blockade on Iran to prevent it from importing gasoline and to inspect all cargo entering or leaving Iran.

By the way, a blockade is officially an act of war,…

OMFG – they’ve all gone mad.

maybe he is taking it as a personal challenge and can force nancy to set the fucking table by comparing to nixon

jayt, wanna dance?

Sure. Your quarter or mine?

Yeah, we were talking about technical virtuosity – in very young children.

But your offering is cool too!

which begs the question: just who owns this government? who bought and paid for it?

I don’t have a link to the exact recipe my wife used, but it is pretty explanatory…I added the swiss and the Dijon mustard…if you google a few of those ingredients you can find a lot of good possibilities

It might end up looking something like THIS…

Ah yes! Excellent!

hey! read above. I found some stuff on youtube.

And, to add, this too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..&NR=1

lokywoky! SNAP!

I don’t know this for a fact, but i have been buying bleu cheese dressing for 30-some years, and it is my belief that shortly after 9/11/9/11/9/11 some of the food manufacturers changed the “bleu” [french for blue] to “blue” as in red, white and blue…you know, sort of like Freedom Fries

now I buy only the brands that say “bleu”…I happen to think the French are good people and longtime allies of the U.S. and should not be shunned.

are you getting hungry, enn-ess-aaa guys?

just who owns this government? who bought and paid for it?

afraid there are just too many entities which profit from perpetual war to nail that one down.

I meant what I said about madmen though. Read a story not long ago that a good-sized number of generals had to talk Cheney down off the ledge of bombing Iran in 2007.

These fuckers are truly insane – and they’re gonna take us all out with ‘em…

When the revolution comes, I’ll be at the base of the Washington Monument at 11:59 P.M. on the first Friday… wearin’ sunglasses and smokin’ Marlboro Reds.

neener neener neener enn-ess-aaa guys.. just means more for us ’cause there’s none for you

Thanks for the links! I was looking but I’m not all that good on searching and sometimes I have a bit of a time finding things. Oh well, I can depend on lovely people like you to find stuff for me!!

There are good ones and shity ones… but some sure are arrogant SOB’s
When in the service we used to go to a french town on the border named Bitche…. We loved to go there because they treated us great and many times they wouldn’t take your money for food and drinks:>) They were the good ones!

Elvis Presley – Little Sister

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayAEl1EWuU0

SRV lil sister

Executive privilege. Another abomination that should be abolished. Now. The first time it was used was to cover up a lie. I don’t think anything has changed since then.

Ah, to be young again…

I’m buying!

Oh and pups so far I haven’t found a fix for the you tubes and FF3:>(…. Like I said try Opera which works just fine with the you tubes

every day i have the blues with shamekia and bb

Besides their handy dandy 35 hr work week, guaranteed Lunch Break, 4 weeks PAID vacation, cradle to grave health care coverage….. sounds like a really lousy country….. so why would I want to spend around 12 days tooling around France?

hmmm food… wine…. cheese…. wine….. castles….. wine…..

I have recipe. Ask me for it on FB. : )

that toon above is an interesting little study of addictive behaviour

we have a tuxedo kitty who looks quite a lot like Sylvester minus the white-tipped tail

I don’t think he would know what to do with a bird if he found one

i played around some and found ff had a napster plug in for flash, i disabled it, uninstalled flash, reinstalled it and now, when it hangs, i can just uninstall flash, reinstall it and it works — until it hangs again when i have to do it again

Good work around but a pain in the butt!

Oh, don’t make me post snacks for those guys.

Wouldn’t be pretty.

#77 and #78…

well *that* was weird..

and my intertubes keep crashing, dammit.

lokywoky! I stumbled onto this guy! Not because I am especially brilliant at searching Youtube, but in this case bec. it was a challenge, and I happen to love fiddle music. And, here’s my latest find- and it seems that he has his own youtube id. I haven’t checked out all the other stuff he’s posted.

But this is joy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVes1imP19M

stomping feet… this is totally unfair…. I am sucking wind on one of those cellular wireless card and so many youtubes AND I can’t see them…..

pout pout….

when my wife and I went to Paris, we had heard lots of stories about how rude and snooty the French could be, and how much they dislike Americans. We did not find that to be true, at least among the ones we met.

what is weird? you did elvis so i did srv

Pay attention, jayt.

*g*

OT, but a very important T:

Stop The “Iran War Resolution”
It may not be officially called by that name, but make no mistake, House Resolution 362 (and the Senate version Res. 580) urges U.S. military aggression against Iran.

While the speeches of the Presidential candidates received most of the media attention at this year’s AIPAC Policy Conference, the focus was mostly on “taking action on Iran”. When AIPAC urges action, that usually means military action. So it is not surprising that it is urging Congress to effectively place a naval embargo on Iran. An act of war. A crime against peace.
This resolution demands that President Bush “initiate an international effort” to impose a land, sea, and air blockade on Iran to prevent it from importing gasoline and to inspect all cargo entering or leaving Iran. Such a blockade imposed without United Nations authority (which the resolution does not call for) would be seen as an act of war. Congressional sources say the House could vote on the resolution, H.Con.Res. 362 (see full resolution here), as early as next week (June 23-June 27). As of June 20, it already has 169 cosponsors in the House.

http://www.govtrack.us/congres…..=hc110-362

Submitted by Rep. Gary Ackerman [D-NY]

they really want to be just as guilty of further warcrimes as the (R) Party, don’t they?

How many cosponsors has the brave Dennis Kuchinich got on his impeachment resolutions?

And don’t forget chocolate’s medicinal properties. Legendary.

Yes, and they’ll probably be virtuosos when they’re adults as well, which is great. It’s just that I’ve had a personal and emotional journey in discovering what music is all about for me. Of course, it can mean different things to different people.

I am (was) as fairly accomplished jazz musician, always searching for the most complex chord changes and solos I could play, but had a change of heart when entering my 20s.

Still trying to unlearn all that technical stuff they taught me as a kid, so that I can actually start playing music.

Yes! Lets…!

Now That We’ve ‘Won,’ Let’s Come Home

The Iraq war’s defenders like to bash the press for pushing the bad news and ignoring the good. Maybe they’ll be happy to hear that the bad news doesn’t rate anymore. When a bomb killed at least 51 Iraqis at a Baghdad market on Tuesday, ending an extended run of relative calm, only one of the three network newscasts (NBC’s) even bothered to mention it.

The only problem is that no news from Iraq isn’t good news — it’s no news. The night of the Baghdad bombing the CBS war correspondent Lara Logan appeared as Jon Stewart’s guest on “The Daily Show” to lament the vanishing television coverage and the even steeper falloff in viewer interest. “Tell me the last time you saw the body of a dead American soldier,” she said. After pointing out that more soldiers died in Afghanistan than Iraq last month, she asked, “Who’s paying attention to that?”

And, in this push toward war with Iran, which nation is the tail and which is the dog?

This is true.

Cheeney is the dog and *we* are the tail

what is weird? you did elvis so i did srv/i

oh.

Same time-stamp – thought there was some kinda Vulcan Mind-Meld goin’ on.

I forgot how fast you are on the U-Tubes…

I fear the most reactionary forces within Israel’s political class are the dog and we are the tail.

Thanks to those who have Dugg. To whose who haven’t, the thread is still open for Digging…:)

especially when the issue is emissions standards.. what can be secret about that? the personal request of ExxonMobil’s chairman with bribe enclosed?

i’m gonna be sitting over here eating chocolate. i’m so forking pissed and i feel so forking helpless.

Valley Girl (can’t get reply to work right now)

That is so cool! The banjo player is Adam Price – maybe his son? Possibly grandson? Wow, totally rocks!

Suz slays me every time.

Chocolate is the answer.

Last I heard Dennis had 6. Six. Not sixteen or sixty but SIX.

try clearing your cache and if that doesn’t work, try a reboot of your computer

Right after voditiky.

chocolate is always a good answer

And if that doesn’t work, try chocolate.

dugg!

doink

Exactly! The Democrats in congress are going to ask Bush to commit an act of war against Iran in hopes of preserving Israel’s nuclear monopoly in the Middle East. And, in fact, by U.S. law the president is obliged to place an arms embargo against Israel for being a nuclear proliferator.

BTW, see my earlier post: http://firedoglake.com/2008/06…..nt-1508676 It has a link to a good diary on this resolution over at Dkos.

Chocolate is the answer.

doesn’t even matter what the question is.

Everclear – AM Radio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JEoFzvxiyI

A favorite clip of mine inspired by this post’s title…

The Byrds not-so-Anonymous and one of the coolest guys in country/bluegrass history:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHYQr8meeog

No doubt about it.

well put.

they’ve got a win-win situation wrt US candidates for pres.

Obama or (D) supporters should be a little more worried about Cheney’s drive for war – if not for moral reasons, of course not, but political ones.

if Cheney and the neo-cons get their way it could make things change the electoral calculations significantly, especially if there are American casualties, then this country will be seeing red.

Don’t try to unlearn it – just don’t let it be the dictating factor. Take advantage and use it to push the boundaries.

A good example is Wynton Marsalis. Totally classically trained – plays Mozart like an angel. But he’s in charge of Lincoln Center Jazz program now – and can he ever jam! He uses all the range, fingering technique and stuff to really produce some fantastic music!

This is driving me freakin’ crazy. Heard this really great song by a steelpan player on the radio, but only got the guy’s last name, and have had no luck finding any info on him. Anybody familiar with a steelpan player with the last name of McKnight? I tried calling the station, but the DJ wasn’t picking up.

lokywoky- yeah, noticed the name thing too! will report back! and, I’ve listened to a few more… but hey! what’s your fiddle experience? violin experience? pretty interesting to me that you came to this groove. ;)

Like maybe if they sink the Fifth Fleet: http://www.agoracosmopolitan.c…..01932.html

hey kirk

what is the question?

Thanks, Dr. Murphy.

nice links wigwam … I haven’t even looked at Kos for a while … from yr link:

just when you thought a Congress could not debase itself any further, having just approved massive funding for the Iraq war and given the corporate criminal accomplices of Bush’s attack on the Bill of Rights a free pass… along comes the mother of all insane resolutions of our time. This is even worse than the notorious Iraq War Resolution. and is likely to pass Congress like a glassful of laxatives.

Resolution 362 in the House (not officially named the “Iran War Resolution”, but nonetheless amounting to nothing less than that)will effectively demand the US to impose a naval blockade of Iran, an act of war.

the kosniks know this stuff, but will they ever do anything besides support Democrats?

Yeah. It’s the head of the EPA thinking he’ll go along with ALL the actual scientists at his agency and then he gets the call. YOU WILL NOT ALLOW CALIFORNIA TO HAVE THIS. If you know what’s good for you.

Yassuh massa. Whatever you say massah.

Done Deal. PFFFT.

I REALLY look forward to hugging you in person some day.

Better late than never:>)

It’s okay now. I had been all over Youtube for a bit and I think it was just settling back in at the Lake.

I had a moment like that today. I forget who the band was…

It can definitely be aggravating! And then on top of that, it reminded me of something else I heard on that radio show, and can’t remember the artist. A soul band with koto.

Thanks, bonkers, now yer talkin’ bout my generation.

Per Glenzilla this morning:

Recall that the very first thing that [Obama] did upon securing the nomination was run to AIPAC to prostrate himself before them and swear undying fealty to their militant pieties.

Well, YouTube (on IE) is still telling me that Javascript is turned off or else I need to install the freaking update of Flashplayer that I have already successfully (according to Flashplayer) installed several times.

Guess I need to switch over to Opera. Thanks for telling me about it and giving me the link, nahant.

I don’t know why I keep using IE to access FDL. Habit, I suppose.

BTW how do I know if Javascript is turned off, or even if I have it?

That is a talented group for sure. Always admired Earl Scruggs banjo pickin’.

me too.

This getting old shit is for the birds, eh?

This comment http://emptywheel.firedoglake……ment-80127 from a commenter at Marcy’s blog offers an interesting perspective on terrorism, mideast politics, the U.S. election, and yesterday’s FISA fix:

Olberman and Dean barely touched on something that I thought would get more attention. As has often happened when Patriot Act and FISA issues are brought up, some secret threat is briefed to Congress and they all decide that they don’t want to be on record voting against a surveillance state right before a huge terrorist incident. IMO, that’s part of what happened with this one too.

ABC has carried this as an “exclusive” but it is really something that has just been a matter of timing.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/…..038;page=1

Intelligence agencies in the United States and Canada are warning of mounting signs that Hezbollah, backed by Iran, is poised to mount a terror attack against “Jewish targets” somewhere outside the Middle East.
…
“They want to kill as many people as they can, they want it to be a big splash,” said former CIA intelligence officer Bob Baer, who says he met with Hezbollah leaders in Beirut last month.

I don’t think this is any “new” news. Ever since the killing of Mugniyah it has been a matter of when and how, not if, Hezbollah would respond and they have often been cited by others (as well as Baer in the linked piece) as being the “A-Team” of murders and terrorists. And if anyone wasn’t paying attention at the time of the assassinatin of Mugniyah in Lebanon – I don’t think you could have done anything that would have been a more specific invitation for a terrorist attack in retaliation. To top it off with Rice’s mouthpiece, Sean McCormack, going around doing a very public happy dance and praising assassination, I don’t think you could have had the US more openly poking Hezbollah in the eye. I don’t really recall any other major nation having their State Dept issue public “yeah buddy” statements. I’m sure many thought it, but in some countries they don’t actually make a point of trying to provoke retaliation on their civilian population. Go figure.

In any event, I think they’ve got them all primed for the “there’s going to be a big one and do you want to be the one that voted against letting us wiretap terrorists” schmuck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImeNKft0WaI
This is Taps for military funerals each congressional voter needs to listen to the sound of tragedy for a life wasted on war. Please take a listen fast forward past halfway.

For now… ((((((j))))))

Classical violin actually. Played with the University symphony in a lead chair.

I like most kinds of music though, and learn as much about them as I can.

Like maybe if they sink the Fifth Fleet: http://www.agoracosmopolitan.c…..01932.html

Seems like I’ve read most of that before, but it has (today’s) publication date on it. Odd.

Yeah, but it still beats the alternative.

that Van Riper wargaming was about Iraq, however:

well, maybe a sort of composite of the two countries, I don’t know.

Friday September 6, 2002
The Guardian

At the height of the summer, as talk of invading Iraq built in Washington like a dark, billowing storm, the US armed forces staged a rehearsal using over 13,000 troops, countless computers and $250m. Officially, America won and a rogue state was liberated from an evil dictator.

What really happened is quite another story, one that has set alarm bells ringing throughout America’s defence establishment and raised questions over the US military’s readiness for an Iraqi invasion. In fact, this war game was won by Saddam Hussein, or at least by the retired marine playing the Iraqi dictator’s part, Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper.

In the first few days of the exercise, using surprise and unorthodox tactics, the wily 64-year-old Vietnam veteran sank most of the US expeditionary fleet in the Persian Gulf, bringing the US assault to a halt.

What happened next will be familiar to anyone who ever played soldiers in the playground. Faced with an abrupt and embarrassing end to the most expensive and sophisticated military exercise in US history, the Pentagon top brass simply pretended the whole thing had not happened. They ordered their dead troops back to life and “refloated” the sunken fleet. Then they instructed the enemy forces to look the other way as their marines performed amphibious landings. Eventually, Van Riper got so fed up with all this cheating that he refused to play any more. Instead, he sat on the sidelines making abrasive remarks until the three-week war game – grandiosely entitled Millennium Challenge – staggered to a star-spangled conclusion on August 15, with a US “victory”.

If the Pentagon thought it could keep its mishap quiet, it underestimated Van Riper. A classic marine – straight-talking and fearless, with a purple heart from Vietnam to prove it – his retirement means he no longer has to put up with the bureaucratic niceties of the defence department. So he blew the whistle.

At the time Van Riper was playing Saddam/Iraq, not an Iranian commander. But his victory does underline what a nation with a functioning Navy and Air Force, and decent leadership, could do to the Yankee invader. At the time I rather liked the idea of the old jarhead sitting on the sidelines “making abrasive remarks” while the officeboys played out their fantasies. A scene right out an Altman remake of Strangelove.

Posted by: DeAnander | Jul 22, 2005 4:54:52 PM | 17

from MoonofAlabama, a place you would probly like, if you don’t visit already.

I put that link up a few times before. IIRC, it’s actually from Nov. 7, 2007.

Gets me every time bigbro. Dad was a Major.

Tools> internet options >programs> Manage add-ons. you will see a list of programs and you enable or disable them at the bottom of the window

I remember reading about that, though the article I read wasn’t as kind to the Pentagon as yours was.

I feel for the families – every loss of life is a tragedy.

However, because I am not a subscriber to the belief that voting for the least worst is superior to not voting, I am not a voter.

I did work for a primary challenger, though, who got a grand 6 or 7%.

more & better … err, bzzzt.

Thanks for the reminder BB. Those of us who were in the military cannot forget this – and those who were not need to be reminded. And often.

lokywoky! And, I should have said I also like violin music! In my view, violin/ fiddle is the best of instruments- and probably the most challenging for every sort of reason. Mind you, I am not a musician by any stretch of the imagination. uh, can I sell you a couple of used fiddles? ;)

Nope…

‘They’ have BEEN insane since Nixon and the nation elected ‘em twice. I think we’ve got a problem folks. Welcome to AmeriKKKa home of all things Fascist.

Now that the masks the ‘Democrat’ Party has been wearing for the last forty years have slipped and you can see Miss Nancy adn her party’s real face we can finally get down to work and start dismantling the fascsitii’s plan.

Let’s start with Obama and drive a road to the progressive future right over Dean, Brazile, Schumer, Emmanuel, The Blue Dogs and the Republicans.

The citizenry has finally had enough. And the new segment of the one’s who vote who just lost their homes and/of their jobs, biggest one month rise in unemployment ever recorded in CA was reported today, will be ready for some….

Economic justice.

The real battle begins now. Between us and them.

You know who you are and now you’ve got a better idea of who they are.

Not so?

hey…i was fixin’ dinner :)

hi suz! hi neuro!

The twin tower 9/11 complex was owned by a jew… that was a pretty big strike. Escalation is what we have as long as Bushco has the trigger he will use it.

ha! I’ll try to check that site sometimes.

smelting the smelt

We need to be very careful with how we “handle” this, no?

they smelted me…seemed like they’d last til Sun…and I was starting at 9. corn on the barbie and salad instead. yum.

ding!

Sharing???

ok pups, my chocolate is all licked from my fingers and i have no more excuses *sob* time to wax the forking floors for tomorrow’s open house

thanks for hanging out with me tonight, pups. g’nite all

Every officer above the rank of mishipman in the Navy knows the story of Ripper.

And the Iranians have also read it.

There will be no attack on Iran. The military would mutiny.

It’s a great thing to fuck with the ‘minds’ of our aged, feeble-minded Senate however. Works great on a body of fools lost in some rerun of 12:00 High or ‘The Guns of Navaronne’.

What do you think of Gates as Barkey’s Sec of Def?

Rumor has it….

sure!

g’nite suz – good selling in the AM

Militaristic forces, both here and in Israel, would prefer McCain to Obama (no matter how much he panders and wears Israeli flags in his lapel and prostrates himself at AIPAC meeting). Barring a state of war and/or some brutal “October surprise,” McCain’s prospects seem to diminish every time he opens his mouth. The man is truly demented.

Therefore, I’m predicting a state of war and/or a brutal “October surprise.”

Sugar plums for you, Suz!

nite suzanne
F&T

from the Kos diary:

Such a blockade imposed without United Nations authority (which the resolution does not call for) would be widely construed as an act of war. Some congressional sources say the House could vote on the resolution, H.Con.Res. 362, as early as next week.

What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong – The Ramones!!!’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2D6lU4bTBU

heh.

Snag them dar buyers by the short ones and make dem sign on the dotted line…

y’all gettin “attackerman” in the top FDL bar with the various sub-sites listed? What up wit dat?

loky- you still about? I have some more things for you to check out

we owe a great debt to military officers who have laid it on the line and resisted Cheney and the neo-cons. There was friction with the CIA as well, with careerists refusing to sign on to the bullshit.

however- the USAF seems a little too gung-ho, and full of radical christianoids, as well.

those guys would push the button, would use nukes if ordered to.

A hard-refresh will get you fixed up.

Be warned, the War Nerd’s not exactly polite. Smart, but definitely fucked in the head. On the plus side, he hates the neocons, even had one (Victor Davis Hanson) Thinking he set fire to the guy’s grapevines or something.

The violin is an interesting instrument. It’s normal (first position) range is that of most human voices in the four parts. Under certain acoustics, it can even sound slightly human as well, kind of an unearthly sound.

It’s an all-purpose instrument – as you can well see, from folk music to the most high-brow classical. It is devilishly difficult to play well – the jokes are endless about screeching and wailing etc. Intonation is a big problem since it doesn’t have frets like a guitar or banjo. The strings are constantly stretching – even during a long performance you have to re-tune it. The instrument responds to changes in humidity with changes in tone, or completely cracks apart.

Jascha Heifetz used to say “If I don’t practice for a day, I notice it. If I don’t practice for two days, the whole world knows.”

heh.

Acitizen, Hannibal, Wigwam – this has been great, but having anyone agree with me at FDL is strange, bizarre, and now my eyes hurt and I gotta rest.

see ya later!

Cool
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Yeah, I’m still here.

The Army has had it with them: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06…..38;emc=rss

OK, every body – at once – hard-refresh and it should be dispensed with.

I already did but I just had to make sure you were still with us and not sleeping over in your corner:>))

Sleep? What’s that?

Bob Barr is saying that various enemies of Iareal are looking for a big target. I think Silverstien was the owner of the complex on 9/11 and that was the second attempt at it.”“They want to kill as many people as they can, they want it to be a big splash,” said former CIA intelligence officer Bob Baer, who says he met with Hezbollah leaders in Beirut last month.
If Bush is willing to risk the 5th fleet then Fallon was doing his duty as a high ranking Naval officer to oppose that risks to his troops and the fleet he was responsible for. Impeachment is the only way to stop that war it looks like.
Silent is not careful. Caution was throw out the window when we invaded Iraq without an exit plan, an occupation plan or a clear policy.
The war is what Americans want to end. This Iran dialoque is saber rattling. I agree we needed to be careful a long long time ago. The price far outweighs the reward. And startubg another war while we have two more going is suicidal.

This whole friction between the services has been going on as long as there have been separate services. The marines are always complaining about everyone else, but they rely on the Navy for transportation. The air force complains about everyone else, but then the Navy has its own air force and so the real air force can’t go anyplace they can’t fly to. The Army was there first and doesn’t like any of the others because they were there first. The Navy thinks the Marines are some sort of sub-human subset.

Unbelievable. Next!

Um, OK.

I’m out…

Good one !

Should just let the Army absorb the Air Force, particularly given how many billions the AF has wasted on useless crap like the B2 and F22. Sure, those planes are neat, but they’re completely useless in modern warfare.

nite wdd

Good night wnagdangdoodle sleep well:>)

nite, wdd.

I’m off. Don’t think I can take any more of this crap tonight. I was doing okay with the music stuff but now back to another war? Help!

Good night all.

LurkingMod:

Sleep. It looks like this:

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

USMC gets it orders from Navy.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

loky- ok-

as to classical- one of my faves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSu8yFiwzJE

However, I wasn’t able to find any links with music, but an album (and artist) that is worth checking out:

The album I have is “Beyond”. Artist is L. Subramaniam.
http://www.artistdirect.com/na…..35,00.html
http://www.indianviolin.com/index.html
http://www.indianviolin.com/di…..estral.htm

Oh, and, hey, I’m sure there are many more jokes about viola players than violin players! Or so I’ve heard!

nahant, still here? I did all the stuff you told me with Tools. Then restarted. No luck.

Going to try Opera now.

oh dear, looks like I missed loky while I was off compiling those links. Sigh.

Opera works just fine Neuro…

But, you know, the laying-down kind is preferable.

Have you tried Safari yet? Or have we been through this already?
The PC version, I am told, is very good.

Planes don’t need pilots any more. So, let the Army fly them.

yes I guess it does. I’m back up on YouTube now.

I used it on macs at school but haven’t tried it on my PC at home

Cool!

If Opera’s working, stay with it.

so is it a flaw with IE that it sometimes doesn’t work well with sites like digg and youtube, or is it a problem with those sites that they don’t work well with IE?

Is there are Linux version?

Not quite gone – I saw your post and was checking some of them out. Good choices.

Here’s my all-time favorite orchestra piece.

http://www.nme.com/video/id/M3_Px2yXVbw/search/54

Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture. A tone poem of exceptional beauty.

Enjoy – and now I’m really leaving. Nite!

I have always been impressed with violin players especially so many great women. I so good to have all your favorites to listen to. I attended a harp concert in Winchester Virginia and was pretty blown away at 16.
I get a little rowdy when folks talk of war as it sure is horrible. I’d like war outlawed. I’d likw war weapons outlawed. But false flag operations have been used to sell weapons as long as I have been alive.
When I was little I got to lay on the living room floor and read National Geographics every issue had different themes a great travelogue. I grew up thinking this is our earth and it is so wonder filled. But the warmongers spoil it for the rest of us. Many millions of innocent unsuspecting perfestly nice people, through no fault of their own, are devastated by WAR.
We maintain a military as a protection from agression and Bush is using it preemptively to start wars in our name. 68% of us want it stopped.

I have no excuses for not using Opera. It’s just new to me and I haven’t gotten used to logging on with it. It even imported all my bookmarks from IE, which was the main reason I was reluctant to try a new program (thinking I would have to import them all manually). So why don’t I just click on the Opera icon when I want to visit FDL? Just need to get used to it, I guess.

There’s this…

If Bush is willing to risk the 5th fleet then Fallon was doing his duty as a high ranking Naval officer to oppose that risks to his troops and the fleet he was responsible for. Impeachment is the only way to stop that war it looks like.

A war of aggression, which this would be, is the gravest of crimes against humanity. Moveon.org or someone should take out an ad in the SF Chronicle pointing out that, if Nancy Pelosi continues to enable Bush’s war crimes and crimes against humanity by protecting him from the only constitutional remedy (impeachment), then, under the Yamashita Standard of the doctrine of Command Responsibility, she is every bit as guilty as Bush, and should stand in the docket at the Hague next to him.

With Bush’s administration from bottom on up to the top! Might as well through in Anthony Scalia also… he sure needs Impeaching also.

Let the war crimes trials begin

Thanks. I’ll give it a try. Meanwhile, I’m using FireFox.

I’d like to start with that smug asshole.

Don’t get me wrong – I’m not recommending it – I use Safari with Mac OS.
I have no idea what it will perform like in linux.

smug asshole

As wigwam casts a pretty wide net.

And I’ll bet he still recieves comunion … report him to the pope!! Maybe bring him to an Inquisition or two!

Firefox has been pretty good so far. But I’ve always found Apple’s stuff to have very elegant user interfaces.

just don’t upgrade to FF3 yet,,, still has bugs especially with youtube and Real player..

Safari is as stable as it gets, but lacks some versatility. Trade-offs, the ones you would expect. Firefox is buggy crap that does everything.

I read in the paper recently that Paraguay has elected a rather democratic government. So, Bush’s retirement options may be diminishing.

one of our staff put in a couple of protection features that now protects me from most of the stuff that provokes FF’s bugs. It and a lot of the ad software don’t play nice together.

From Consumersearch.com

According to Jim Raposa, Mac’s foray into Windows-based web browsing fails to compare to other available browsers. Raposa notes that Safari’s Mac-like user interface will stymie most native Windows users, and even Mac users are unlikely to be satisfied with limited customization and extensibility options. This review concludes that, though on par with Internet Explorer, Safari falls short of competitors Firefox and Opera.

Yep. And Firefox includes some insightful and interesting nuances. Open a bunch of tabs – click a link into a new tab and close the new tab – you are returned to the originating tab, not the last one in the sequence.
Safari lacks this, and it’s a great navigation plus. Some other little but important things, too.
But try to break Safari – can’t do it.

thats because you are running on a mac:>)

And Windows XP Pro SP2 in Boot Camp on Intel Core2Duo.
And Windows XP Pro SP2 in Parallels on Quad 2.66 ghz Xeon.

What no Vista?? chicken

Guilty, bro.

How do you like the quad system?? Fry’s has been having the q9300 with motherboard for under $400. and as low as $250… Been tempted but my lap top has been running great and I am not ready to replace my servers yet… to much freaking work for now!

Bridges on the river Kwai starred Alex Guinessand William Holden I beleive was the story od prisoner mistreatment by Yamashita’s forces. It offended all back in the 1950’s. I so remember the cover of life magazine of a knelling American soldier with a ten penny nail driven through his skull between thw lobes of his brain. The deprivation of these POW’s was beyond disturbing it was horrifying that the kids that were recently out of American high schools were so mistreated.
My point is Wigwam’s The chain of Command comes with strict codes of military conduct enforced by the Uniform Code of Military Justice. I beleive Admiral Fallon must have thought of that as he was dismissed by Bush. Bush is the top of the chain. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are the ones who are calling the shots. They are responsible.

IMPEACH the all too much blood has been spilt for their buddies to make $$$$$ and more $$$$ that is our hard earned money… not theirs And the worst of it is none of them really served in the military… you can’t count Georges make believe time… Gee all of his records are missing… just like most of McPain’s are also!

The doctrine of “command responsibility” holds that those in a position to stop war crimes must exercise their authority to do so, or they are guilty of those crimes they’ve enabled/permitted. So far as I know, it doesn’t say that this principle only applies to totally heirarchical organizations like the military.

It’s a MacPro (gasp!!!).

Well pups time to get some sleep.. it has been fun… see ya all next late late night:>) Newton has it cooled down enough for you yet? It is real nice here

Does Apple have servers?? I never checked and was just wondering…

Yeah,. 82 now.
And servers-r-apple
nite nahant.

Exactly. The blood spilt is a horrible evil, a crime that cries out to heaven for vengence. But this war is about treasure, not blood. Bin Laden has been very explicit about his aim, namely to bankrupt the U.S.

How could anyone more perfectly play into his strategy than has George W. Bush?

How could anyone more perfectly express his ignorance of what’s happening than McCain, who is endlessly telling us that the surge is working because the fatalities are down, and that once they stop killing our soldiers then we can occupy them forever, completely ignoring that this war is not about body count, but rather about treasure.

And how can anyone except an Admiral’s son, who sleeps through lectures and finishes at the bottom of his class, so completely miss the teachings of Sun Tzu, the father of military theory:

When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming,
[…] you will exhaust your strength, and if the campaign is
protracted, the resources of the state will not be equal to the
strain. […] In all history, there is no instance of a country
having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the
distasterous effects of a long war can realize the supreme
importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close.
[Sun Tzu, The Art of War, 400BC]

The U.S. economy cannot afford the neocons’ war hobby. Maybe they can go back and sell more of their brilliant strategies to Netanyahu.

Did not know about this doctrine. You are a good teacher on a lot of levels. The moral gap in our society is pretty blatant. The ethical gap in our government is as well. I am not surpised that The Ugly American” image has fallen over the last 50 years. Thank you for hanging in on this thankless task of saving our democracy.
I think ultimately it is up to the citizens to decide how they want it. Good Night All.

We are all in this together. In this fight some of us throw rock. Some throw boulders. I throw pebbles, but I throw them as hard as I can.

Time for me to get some sleep.

G’nite.

nite bigbrother
wigwam does have some chops :-)

nite wigwam

i’m outa here as well. got Magny-Cours in a few hours.

Testing to see if I can post.

Been through computer hell and wanted so much to partake of the discussion, especially about Iran. Too tired now. The spirit was willing, the technology weak. Will return later on Sunday and read this exchange. I am very alarmed by the Iran war spectre and still licking wounds from the teleco immunity loss.

Have a good night. :)

Wazzup, pups? Are we winning yet?

I think the other 48 Staters have left the building…! ;-)

Good morning.

morning eCAHN!

i’m soooo looking forward to meeting you and everyone else this afternoon!

When are you starting your drive?

Good morning. To the Oligarchs and Plutocrats: It’s not yours to give away.

10:30am from my house is the plan

Okey dokey. Drive safe.

Good morning, pups. It’s Dowd, Kristof, Friedman and Rich today. MoDo gives us “The Carla Effect,” and says if an American would-be first lady described herself as a “tamer of men,” it would take more than an appearance on “The View” to sweeten her image. Mr. Kristof writes about “The Two Israels,” and says even if the Jewish settlement in Hebron, in the West Bank, were not illegal in the eyes of much of the world, the financial and diplomatic costs are mind-boggling. Mr. Friedman’s column is titled “Mr. Bush, Lead or Leave,” and he says it is hard to find the words to express what a fraudulent, pathetic excuse for an energy policy President Bush’s new plan is. Mr. Rich suggests that “Now That We’ve ‘Won’ Let’s Come Home.” He says perhaps if there were a draft, there would be 1968-ish turmoil now, but in 2008, the Vietnam analogy doesn’t hold. The center does.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

The coffee and tea are ready, and there are chocolate croissants I picked up while doing errands yesterday. Here’s hoping eCAHNomics and the pups gathering at her place today have fabulous weather. We’re all looking forward to seeing pictures… Have a splendid day.

Thanks for the good wishes. The weather probably isn’t going to be great, but I’ve got a big house, so alternative is available.

OK. Coffee’s gone, & I’m off to finish party prep.

ecahn, don’t forget to post the pictures for all of us lurkers.

psst Sunday Talking Heads is up
come crab and fuss about this weekend’s lineup and this week’s disappointments. We’ve still got to hit the Senate.

and Happy Party for eCAHN’s pupfest!

Bring Marion’s croissants.