Good morning Elliott.

Nancy Pelosi makes me sick with her book title. What has she done with her power? Bupkis.

Marion,

60 overnight here & 76 the projected high for today. Sorry your weather is so miserable.

Nice example of the “liberal media” on CBS today on Face the Nation…

Just about everything in the garden is collapsing except for the herbs and eggplants. Yay, eggplants!

Eggplant’s one of my least favorite foods. Rather eat cardboard, to which it bears a great resemblance.

My unexpected garden plant might be a watermelon. Fruit is still too small to tell though.

Morning,
I agree eCAHN, Pelosi’s been a huge disappointment.

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News of Meet The Press, since there’s nothing news on it this week. (Guests this week are John Kerry & Joe Lieberman -ho-hum.)

NBC News announced Monday that Mark Whitaker has been named the new Washington bureau chief.

The position had been vacant since Tim Russert’s death in June at the age of 58.

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His day-to-day responsibilities will include executive oversight of “Meet the Press” and the network’s election and political coverage.

NBC also said Whitaker will make occasional appearances as an on-air analyst. Additionally, he will continue on with his senior vice president duties.

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He will also work alongside Chuck Todd, NBC’s political director.

Wonder if Chuck Todd will take over the chair after the election?

Eggplants are a gorgeous color - I’m not big on vegetables, do love sweet peas tho.

All I’ve got are blackberries, and lotsa inkberries.

Good Morning, I actually think Rubin/Fiorina could be fun to watch. Kerry?Lieberman could be interesting but only if they are sitting side by side. I would love to see Lieberman whine..

I like veggies as a general rule. This time of year I eat local corn & tomatoes almost every day. Just don’t do the eggplant thing, though I agree that their appearance is spectacular.

BTW, what are inkberries?

oh, i think she done a lot. she’s publicly humiliated a member of her caucus, pete stark, for criticizing bush. she engineered passage of bush’s blank check. she engineered passage of a fisa amendment to giving immunity for past law breaking future permission for police state powers to the potus. she’s kept accountability off the table.

you don’t like ratatouille?

I would love to see Lieberman whine..

Oh, gawd! The sound of his voice when he’s NOT whining (rare though that may be) is like fingernails on a blackboard to me. I simply can’t stand the sound when he opens his mouth. At this point I can’t decide which is worst, W, McSame or that little weasel. I pretty much turn all of them off or mash the “mute” button…

Or baba ghanoush?

Well, I was talking about doing something positive. When is comes to lists of negative accomplisments, Pelosi’s a piker.

As for ratatouille, no I don’t like it. Veggies are overcooked. I like al dente veggies with very little added ingredients. Made zuchhini last night sauted with dill, onions & a little garlic. That’s about as complicated as I like.

pokeweed aka poke salad

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You’re right JPL, Rubin v Fiorini could be an interesting discussion.

I’m looking forward to the WJ segment on the Olympics and human rights in China with Harry Wu. Especially since China’s reneged on open Internet access for journalists; and at the last minute, they’ve banned professional type cameras unless you have a press pass. Pity the poor citizens of the world who thought they’d go to games and come home with some great photos they took their own selves.

Sounds yummy. Zucchini is a major favorite of mine, but for some reason I’d never thought of teaming it with dill. Now I know what I’m going to do with the ones waiting for me in the fridge!

Ha. I’ve been wondering what to do with those invading pokeweeds.

Wonder what W said to Wu? Probably not much.

Ha. I’ve been wondering what to do with those invading pokeweeds.

I could make some suggestions but would prolly end up in moderation.

You funny.

marion @ 14 - never made it. but just googled it and maybe i ought to.
ecahn @ 15 - your zucchini sounds yummy. wasn’t much of a ratatouille fan myself until last year when i started making it with tomatoes from a local organic farm. yum yum.

We have the best local organic heirloom tomatoes, in every color of the rainbow: various reds, oranges, green (yes tomatoes that are green when they are ripe), purple, yellow.
Four Winds farm
http://www.localharvest.org/farms/M287

wow selise, that’s a beauty!

Coffee’s gone. Pollack on WJ doesn’t seem to be saying very much, so I guess I’ll do some chores. bbl

the pic i linked to was a batch of chopped up tomatoes from last year - there were some green ones too. from many hands organic farm for $1 per lb.

elliot - i don’t usually takes pics of food, but those tomatoes tasted even better than they looked. it’s almost tomato season now… can’t wait. it was fire pups last year who encouraged me to freeze tomatoes and even ratatouille. plan to do it again - only more this time.

Good Morning All

Got no use for talking heads or eggplants nor eggheads or talking plants.

Yesterday I mentioned that I’m performing at DemocracyFest in Arlington VA, which happens two weekends from now. The schedule had me placed before the Keynote address by Howard Dean, but it turns out I’ll be Howard’s closing act, which means I get the crowd when he’s done with it. It’s a rare above ground performance by this Subway Serenade that should not be missed.

I’ll also be showing of my Cardiofeedback experiments with the Heart Tuner Gizmo I’ve been talking about here, in informal sessions, and demonstrating how

I’m learning to manipulate and direct the heart’s electrical field to create coherent ascending heart waves. I will also attempt to demonstrate the ability to link the electrical fields of two hearts, and the concept of linking many hearts over the internet like a cardiofeedback conference call.

This experimental technology is so cutting edge that the cutting edge doesn’t even know about it. I will let as many people try it as time will allow.

So get your tickets today at the link above. Hope to see you there.

elliot - my apologies for not saying it earlier: many thanks for your detailed list. it just keeps getting better.

nice gig, glad you’ll be above ground for a change ;)

the heart tuner gizmo is intriguing, tell us more about it.

thanks selise, ‘preciate that,

am always looking for suggestions so pups, let me know what listings you’d like added on.

Oh, honey, you’ve never tasted eggplant prepared well. It’s wonderful! “Save the eggplants!”

Ummm, good morning everyone. Need. Coffee. Now.

Elliott, the Vivaldi is a wonderful way to start this hot, dry, hotter, drier morning in MN. His string concerti are quite wonderful, pretty much across the board, I think. Way more to Vivaldi that “Four Seasons.”

that than

Hello? Did I clear the room? Must. Take. Shower.

Yes! one of my favorite soothing CDs is seven Vivaldi concertos. Love him.

Hi, I just returned from Home Depot, gee, remodeling a house is expensive. I am trying to watch Fox News discuss race and Lindsay Graham is making me sick. I guess it’s time to go mow.

Does anyone with a dish know when/where tweety comes on? Much as I loath him, kinda interested to hear whether klein will continue with his, shall we say, less than positive comments wrt bush 3.0.

check the listings for NBC, it’s on the local NBC networks so the time varies.

Thanks…..only get one local each of the *big* three and it doesn’t seem to show up anywhere between now and 9:00 p.m. Strange……..

Reminder of Christy’s FIRST MONDAY series:

On Monday, we will have the next installment of First Monday — a series of discussions on the rule of law, coordinated with the Alliance for Justice.

This coming Monday, August 4th, at 3:00 pm ET/noon PT, our guest will be Vince Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and some folks from the ACLU — all of whom have been working diligently over the last few years for civil liberties for American citizens and those we detain and to restore the rule of law.

more at link

I started using the Heart Tuner in April of last year, and essentially it’s a quantification and amplification of the meditation process. However it completely turns that process on its ear. It reads he harmonic frequency and amplitude of the heart’s electrical field and displays it on the screen in real time.

If two people are playing the game, they can learn to match or “phase lock” their electrical fields. This is a quantification of the feeling that happens between lovers of being two halves of the same person. When this happens you can actually feel the electricity that is shared. It’s amazing.

The first thing I’ll demonstrate is that when a person listens to music, their heart’s rhythm immediately adjusts to the tempo. When the song changes, so do the heart rhythms. This means that if 10,000 people are listening to the same song on the radio, all of their hearts are dancing to the music in unison. Imagine if that mass focus could be concentrated, harnessed, and directed!

“The Maharishi Effect” states that if a group equal to the square root of 1% of a population meditates together, the crime and accident rates in that population drop. As this technology, which is still experimental, gets mainstreamed, we will be able to Globalize the Maharishi effect.

Is anyone watch Meat the Press? Brokaw just lets Lieberman go on and on and on while John Kerry defers to his “esteemed” colleague. The corporate media is truly a farce but then most Americans know nothing else.

That’s fascinating! Touching use of it with two people. I do hope you fill us in after your performance.

It hasn’t come on here yet.

I thought the lineup was old and tired, and no surprise it’s a lame-o discussion. Personally I’m sick of these esteemed colleagues collegially-leaging all over the place. Can’t thing of a worse combo to discuss the race the Kerry & his running mate Lieberman.

Teddy’s upstairs with
Obama Sics Rahmbo on McCain’s Debate Negotiators

When I perform in the Subway, I get a new audience every seven to ten minutes. When I get a chance to perform above ground I put on a really good show. Getting a pumped up crowd that just listened to Howard Dean speak, I intend to blow the doors off.I’ll try to do some live blogging if I can.

Haven’t had time to read any comments on the various threads, but it would be fun to make a pushback ad on the ‘celebrity’ meme. Just one after the other clips of the huge crowds (domestic and foreign) attending St. Ronnie; any other Repubs who managed to fool some idots, all the time; but other people like Will Rogers, the Kennedys, FDR, Stephen Hawkings… probably not a good list, but you get the idea.

wow, elliot, thanks for the youtube link!

slept late, groggy, what a way to wake up, on the deck at my parents’, cicadas singin’, and now this…

hated missing this thread—cuz, ihad something to share….friday when i was loading car, when i came back into house, boehner and co were trashing the floor of congress, holding up the vet’s bill for money again. oil money. and acting like a champion of the american people while doing it..repubs were cheering loudly..i called his office and said i had one word for what he was doing –’despicable’..that was the only thing i wanted her to write down, that what he was doing on the floor of my congress had one word to describe it–despicable…i don’t remember ever using that word for a human being. told her i was from his district, lived in another now, and was headed to his district in a few minutes to visit friends and family and that i was going to make sure people heard about what he just did.

and why.

despicable.

inspired me to me this as an entry in another new blog–and no, this isn’t ‘blog-whoring’ cuz it’s just the link to the song.lol.not linking the blog yet…so there. ha.

john prine
flag decal-has a montage of bumper stickers to go with it

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

It feels a little childish, but the whole time I watched Kerry and Liarberman on MTP, I couldn’t help but vigorously wish that John Kerry would just lose control and backhand the Senator from Israel.

It is a derelict of duty by Media and Obama surrogates that they are not telling the Whole Story — that McCain initiated this race argument by posting a web video on his campaign site with Barack’s face on a $100.00 bill, Statute of Liberty and the four Mt. Rushmore Presidents, when Obama responds to this insult, McCain cries foul that Obama is calling him a racist. This is uttler nonsence and a set-up by Media and McCain Camp! Barack had every right to respond. But, as you can see, this story is not being told in its entirety. We need to keep MSM honest and call them on this one-sided story!