Very cool, Jane!

Kobe is so beautiful!!

edit: that we head learned our lesson

Flickr says:

Unable to find cluster shard-

$324,620….Hey Hoyer!! Heh, heh…

wth is a “cluster shard”????

Flicker can’t find one, and I don’t know if i have one here or not cause i don’t know what it is.

i know OTHER cluster things, but never did hear of a shard.

got any idear, Jane?

Fixed, thanks

Try this link????

No photo, but I am with Kobe. I was a young tyke, well, okay, in high school, when Cointelpro snapped up my snail mail. I almost never forgave Nixon(okay, when I adopted my son from China, I kinda did because he made the path to relations with China that ended up with my son). Still, this is personal to me, something my Chinese son should not have happen now that he is in America.

Kobe is gorgeous! He looks so graceful and lithe. Nice, Jane and thank you for sharing.
if i find out what a cluster shard is, and i have one, i’ll freely give it to FDL Flicker page.

and i’ll put up a pic too.

hehe

It’s kind fun being a left-wing liberal progressive libertarian anti-barnacle person.

I don’t think the linky works unless you’re logged in or maybe a member. Try lopping off the “pool/add/” part of the address, then logging in and/or joining. Worked for me anyway…

Kobe thinks this is a problem because — in case no one noticed — he is bi-racial.

– Ralf N.

And y’all have heard that FISA is pushed out to July 8. The Senate is shelving action on FISA for now, and through the recess.

I’ll be working on transcribing the UC agreement, but am in no hurry to get ‘er done. I’ll probably just upload and link to the audio.

Maybe by July 8th, attitudes will have changed, what with Accountability Now and all…

You have to click on join group. Worked for me, but I am already registered with flickr.

This is so nice from Kos:

When bloggers arrive to cover the Democratic National Convention this August 25-28 in Denver, they will have, for the first time, a central location to capture the nonstop action: The Big Tent, a new media center created by local organizations, national blogs, Digg, Google and YouTube.

“We’re creating a central place for bloggers, new media journalists, and nonprofit leaders to have the resources they need to cover an important national event, as well as the opportunity to share ideas and talk about the critical issues facing our country,” said Bobby Clark, Deputy Director of ProgressNow, a Denver-based organization that will co-host The Big Tent along with Daily Kos, The Alliance for Sustainable Colorado, and its sponsors, Digg, Google, and YouTube.

Remember that if you want to donate to FDL/Emptywheel efforts at the convention, add an .08 to your dollar amount.

Wish I got the Washington Post, but alas no. Hope to see other pics at the flickr site soon

Got a post on the FISA vote–as cboldt says, now pushed to July 8–at EW.

ot: checked my e-mail and found a note from donna edwards saying she’s the Speaker Pro Tempore today 6pm - 8pm D.C. time.

go donna!

1,685 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Hamsher:

Bless your pure heart and thank you for helpin’open up some real citizen action with the “money bomb” effort thru Accountability Now. I jest had a conversation with an Obama staffer at the national HQ, it was the second such conversation I’ve had with ‘em in the last 18 hours. Last night I got a solicitation call and told the young man that there would not be another dime from this “grassroots” family until there was an unequivocal statement of support for the Feingold fillibuster and a visible effort to attach an amendment stripping immunity from the FISA bill. Jest a few moments ago I called and told the staffer that not only was I not goin’ to offer another dime but everything my family would have contributed this month (includin’ from my kids) is going to the “money bomb”. The staffer projected understanding of my feelings and tried to tell me that Senator Obama had taken a strong stand in support of stripping immunity from the bill. I demurred and the staffer seemed very interested in continuing the conversation so I told ‘im that the the very clever statement of support for an amendment was a cover for the unequivocal support offered for the Hoyer boondoggle and appeared to be a Clintonesque rhetorical move when there was no need for Obama to cover himself since his party had a majority in the Senate. I went on to tell ‘im that if Obama couldn’t organize 40 votes from his own majority in the Senate on this issue, how was he ever goin’ ta be able ta govern. The staffer showed a willingness ta continue the dialogue so I ended by tellin’ ‘im that Obama was in danger of killin’ the money machine he had built that allowed ‘im ta opt out of public financing and that if he thought that the money from the telecoms would make up the difference then he was dooming his candidacy right at the time that he should be puttin’ it away. Finally, after the staffer tried ta convince me that this wasn’t over yet, I told ‘im that this issue may very well determine the success or failure of his term and quite possibly even his campaign. We left it with a wistful “well, thank you, I hope you will continue to support Senator Obama in any way you can”.

I’m gettin’ the feelin’ these last few dayz that the Obama campaign is madly tryin’ ta tack into the wind on this and is surprised st the reaction he’s gettin’…maybe he’s beginnin’ ta “get it”.

Thanx again for leadin this citizen action…now off ta contribute ta Accountability Now.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION AND DON’T QUIT UNTIL THEY KNOCK YOU OUT!!

OT: Checking around on the site…don’t forget to check out the other posts too…So many great posts…so little time…:)

cboldt, thank you so much for capturing that UC agreement. Please put up some kind of link in the next hour, full transcript not needed. We just need tangible proof that our short-term tactic worked to push FISA off the calendar until after Congress gets some quality face time with a very pissed-off bunch of fireworks-watching, hot-dog-eating, flag-saluting, anthem-singing, privacy-loving, liberty & happiness-enjoying, dictator-hating true Americans.

I wondered for a moment why Kobe was reading the Washington Post, but then I realized an attachment might have formed in his younger days when he was taught the proper use of the op-ed pages.

Yeah, and don’t miss Attackerman on the House Judiciary subcommittee hearing with Addington and Yoo.

and if you’re out there lurking LL, Happy Birthday!

You are a true patriot, Norske, thank you.

ha ha ha ha ha (snork) (errk) you made me swallow my pizza down the wrong hole

ot: checked my e-mail and found a note from donna edwards saying she’s the Speaker Pro Tempore today 6pm - 8pm D.C. time.

Can she put impeachment back on the table?

Bob in HI

Most excellent, Swopa! LOL! Btw, I’m enjoying your post upstairs… ;-)

– cboldt, thank you so much for capturing that UC agreement. Please put up some kind of link in the next hour, full transcript not needed. –

Listen to a series of UC Agreements

The first one is on Medicare, the second on is on the Supplemental Appropriations. There is some discussion about the amount of debate time under Medicare, then the agreement covering today’s action is agreed to, without objection.

Then a cloture motion is filed to limit debate on Medicare.

Then there is a separate agreement on FISA - “on Tuesday July 8th …” It takes him 90 seconds to read the UC agreement!

Then a cloture motion is filed to limit debate on final passage FISA

Then a brief quorum call (probably so Reid can catch his breath)

Then goes to H.R.3221 - Housing Bailout - propounds some details of amendment, and files a cloture motion to limit debate on the details of amendment propounded. The cloture vote on that to be at 5:00 p.m. Monday July 7th.

Then some speechifying. Enjoy.

Just amazing to watch all the Repubs voting against Medicare status quo for physicians fees.

And cspan is posing it as increasing fees rather than against cutting fess which is what will happen on July 1 if the Medicare bill isn’t passed.

Don’t count on it. Obama, the supposed “Constitutional Law” instructor doesn’t “get” the Constitution. There is no way he is going to get something as simple as “You do NOT sell out liberty for perceived short-term political gain. You don’t sell out liberty for ANY reason EVER. You stand firm FOR it or no one will stand for you.”

Obama can go to hell. He no longer exists as far as my money, vote, and support goes. He is as corrupt as the GOP.

Obama on the floor! woot! Obama votes Aye on the not-cutting fees for doctors under Medicare bill! I thought he was in Hollywood. But all that chatter and noise on the Senate floor, I shoulda’ known there was a rock star in the room.

Altho, still not going to give him any more money until he kills that retroactive immunity bullshit under FISA.

I know, I know: it’s w00t! not what I did

cboldt, just awesome. how do you recommend we save that file? should we off-load it to an external hard drive, or download it and import it into iTunes as a sort-of pod-cast, or just tuck it in to our usual political docs

well, have been spending the last hour signing in/on to yahoo and flicker…….to post photo…i hate yahoo, they hate dial-up users…..

have been wanting to do the flicker thing jane, to post art and photos, so, thanks, this got me to do it.
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oh, thought i could just upload photo….duh…
many minutes later, i have no clue what i’m doin’, i’m skimmin’ the waters here, still swimmin’ but we’ll see…..you hafta load your own flicker page first i’m figurin’? then upload to firedoglake?

think i’m gonna go take callie and me for an ice cream…..and to think i used to be so computer savvy.

i’ve never seen any of this done, so, i’m flyin’ blind. when i go to the upload page for firedoglake, no choices are there…..and no way to submit it.
OH, flickr not done processing it yet, ok, that’s why….

well, in a while hopefully i’ll be on the page, first letter of my screen name and a number.

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any flickr tips and info would be appreciated, from people who use it……like what all of the tag categories are and things like that…..and it said 100mb per month, does that mean i can keep adding to page each month and the old ones stay for free?

thanks, i know i’m epu’d, but i’ll check back….this is gonna be fun!

Just about fell off my chair! 707!

It was a cloture vote on the Medicare bill, not the actual bill.

it’s what Harry Shearer always says in his weekly Sunday “Le Show” podcast about the Los Angeles Times: he calls it the “LA Dog Trainer”

Harry Reid totally pissed right now about failure to get cloture on Medicare bill to restore full fees for Medicare physicians. He got 59 votes but needed 60 to move to vote on final passage.

Now Harry Reid is going all combative, bragging about Dem wins in the those three deep-Red districts, Hastert’s in Illinois, Wicker’s former district in MS and the win in Louisiana. Saying, no wonder the voters are disgusted with GOP, the GOP doesn’t care about ordinary people who need medical care.

This exchange between Reid and McConnell is one of the rare occasions of high dudgeon in the Senate. This is just going to make a big paperwork mess for the doctors and correlated entities who can claim Medicare money. Whatever is passed (whenever) will be made retroactive.

– It was a cloture vote on the Medicare bill, not the actual bill. –

Even worse. It was a cloture motion on a motion to proceed to the consideration of the Medicare bill.

I can only hope that Kobe’s good nature prevents him from seeking out the vile Hoyer and biting him.

In the ass.

[Mod: please don’t advocate violence, even in jest]

Wow, I had hair like that when I was pup. Alas it gone now.

Great job on this Jane.

I called Obama’s campaign office last night to express my disappointment with him on all of this. (I’ve been calling a lot lately). I had what seemed to be a sympathetic ear who told me there were a lot of people who were disappointed/concerned with the Senator.

She asked for my e-mail address and assured me that I wasn’t going to be solicited. I gave it to her.

Lo and behold I open my e-mail today at work, and there is a solicitation e-mail from the Obama campaign. I never signed up at his Web site, and the only time his campaign got my address was last night when I was assured that I wouldn’t be solicited.

I called the campaign to voice my concern about all this, and the person on the other end of the line said that he thought the e-mail address’ weren’t going to be used for solicitation either. He also failed to see why I was concerned and did little to help.

Now I know things happen, and I know that a presidential campaign is monumental undertaking, however for someone like myself who doesn’t really trust Obama this does not help the situation. Two people on different shifts on different days thinking that the e-mail address are not used for solicitation, when I have proof that they are.

Needless to say there won’t be a $15 Obama magnet on my car.

– how do you recommend we save that file? should we off-load it to an external hard drive, or download it and import it into iTunes as a sort-of pod-cast, or just tuck it in to our usual political docs –

Use/save however you want. I usually keep them just long enough to transcribe details of long-winded UC agreements. It’ll play from your iPod (or clone), you can save it on a hard drive, etc. I don’t delete stuff from Boomp3, but I don’t know their policy for keeping stuff.

I wanted to say how deeply grateful I am for EW’s explanation earlier this week about Harry Reid’s strategy of stacking bills behind each other. Floor proceedings tonight in the Senate are demonstrating what EW said.

Mitch-dipshit Minority Leader is going all hysterical, but Harry has the GOP by the balls: he peeled back the showdown on the housing bill, he peeled back the showdown on FISA (duh!, with millions of faxes, emails and phone calls from all of us!), and Harry Reid is jamming Dipshit O’Connell on refusing to pass a relief bill for doctors accepting Medicare which was passed by the House with a massive vote of over 350 in favor. Reid warns expressly that Senators up for re-election will face ridicule when they claim they voted against the Medicare full fees for doctors because they were afraid of a veto by a president with a ridiculous 29% approval rating.

nice.

Reid said: how in the world could anybody be afraid of a veto from a president with a 29% approval rating? House passed this same bill by a bipartisan majority, six to one.

But the cloture vote came up one vote short, only got 59 votes in favor of shutting off debate (i.e., ending filibuster). Thank God Barack Obama was there to do his day job and vote in favor of cloture. Would’ve been nice to see him there yesterday voting against cloture on the FISA corruption.

– She asked for my e-mail address and assured me that I wasn’t going to be solicited. –

Sucker!

I just add the sender’s name to a twit-list file. The e-mail doesn’t even make it to a spam folder.

actually 55 to 40 was the vote; Reid corrected himself and went off on after the election getting 59 votes to which McConnell -a herniated rectum if there ever was one- smirked.

– actually 55 to 40 was the vote; Reid corrected himself and went off on after the election getting 59 votes –

I got a 58-40 vote. Reid was in the “40″ group, so he could enter a motion to reconsider. Had he NOT wanted to enter a motion to reconsider, the Ayes would have numbered 59.

McConnell said something about “59 Democrats just voted to (blah blah blah)” and Reid made a joke of it. There aren’t 59 Democrats in the Senate now, but there will be next year.

What a perfect description on the micro-level of what’ wrong with out nation.

People do not listen. Oh, they have a very good reason why they don’t listen.

What you have to say is…

Well…

Not very important. You see they know what is going on. They know how things work. I get this all the time at Drinking Liberally meetups.I’m sure the folks you talked to felt that they’d gone out of their way to be civil to some crank.

You.

Eever notice that look on Barkey’s face when someone knocks him off stride with a question or an interjection? It’s half amazement that anyone else has something to say and half anger that they’d interrupt him.

What you failed to take away from your interaction with the Barkey Campaign is that they know what they are doing. They know what you need and they are going to get it to you whether you….

…like it or not.

This children’s crusade is not about you sir. It’s all about one person and one person only:

Barkey the Lil’ Dog Who Never Barked in the Night.

And you know….

That dog never will bark. He just ain’t got the stones. The Hill is twice the man Obama will ever be.

I heard 55 to 40 on CSPAN.

We’ll see.

Senate Roll Call Vote No. 160 - On the Cloture Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider H.R. 6331; Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008

Kobe looks like a much better friend then Steny.

I was listening today to yesterday’s Randi Rhodes podcast. She played a clip of Harry Reid explaining his thinking on how this FISA bill is coming up. While he disagrees with it, he thinks because so many people in the House and Senate have been working on it for so long, he owes it to them that it be brought up for a vote.

Remember the movie “The Jerk” with Steve Martin? Thieves pull up to the gas station where Navin Johnson works. Navin secretly discovers they are using a stolen credit card and yet he hands over to them cash, tires and anything else they want. On the phone with the police, he says “I’m back, only it’s worse than I thought. They’re not only sticking us for gas, but grabbing tires and everything. They’re really socking it to us.”

Fellow firepups, Harry Reid is clearly the Navin R. Johnson of Senate Majority Leaders. And he’s all ours!

- Tom

Thanks again; I’ll go clean my ears.

An idea for a newspaper advertisement.

A balance scale in the background. On the left, photos of Feingold, Dodd, Leahy, etc. On the right, Specter, McConnell etc. Below, those who might be convinced that amending FISA to remove immunity is a good thing, w phone numbers.

Caption. “These people believe the fourth amendment is important to you, your friends, and your family. These people believe it’s OK to wiretap you because the president says it’s OK. And these people need to make up their mind what they believe is important to you. Help them decide.” With a photo of someone at home reaching for the phone.

It gives you a chance to register a second vote of disapproval, when you unsubscribe from the email. I wrote to the campaign with my disapproval, found that I was now subscribed, and got to tell them again…

late nite upstairs

I wish the ad did not include Malcolm X. Perhaps it will “play” in Steny’s district, but to me it’s just handling the Republicans a club to beat us with.

Betray-us, anyone?

The only good thing about getting the Washington Post is canceling your subscription with an angry letter. Trust me.

Got to the site and unable to find the AD! Any further
instuctions??

Thanks.

Maureen

hi nanamoesie - its in the print edition - not online :(