Aloha, ES!

Eureka!

es!

Trying not to be too anxious going into the work week – the job situation hasn’t changed, just waiting for the axe to fall.

ES, are you getting any of the wind and rain from Gustav as it heads north?

The King of Voiceovers, Don LaFontaine dies at 68.

hey that guy – slow and easy

Am I in the right thread? /s

Ian had a good post up downstream…..too short a time. So much going on.

The topic is no topic! /s

Good idea: Selling steak at a Renaissance Fair.
Bad idea: Putting the steak on a pointy stick.

Biden!

CT, The mild southern breeze from Gustav arrive shortly before sunset which was spectacular today with giant curving wispy clouds crossing the entire sky. We are expecting heavy rains from it beginning tomorrow and going through the rest of the week.

Katrina didn’t bring rains this far north (it turned back towards the east, iirc), but the curving wisps were very familiar today.

A bunch of Repubs in the Miniapple? We know one Twin Cities “industry” that’s having a record week…Tom Waits:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12qBoy2rhVw

In world of sudden deaths.

-G

P.S. Looks like Russia may boost Iran’s missile defenses soon.

Didn’t ya’ll just dry out from some torrential rains awhile ago?

This thread is now open for Digging!

“I’m a survivor, I’m a pirate,” “You come into this world alone, and sometimes you’ve got to go it alone,” “I’ve got liquor, cash, food, ammo and weed,” “I think he’s an idiot,”

In for a penny…

Heh, Iran Denies it… ;-)

Strawberry Jam more regulated than cigarettes.

I live 4 miles down a dirt/rocky mountain road.. It’s been dusty about 4 days since March.

Japan’s Prime Minister resigns due to faltering economy and 29% approval ratings. George Bush’s response, “Wuss!”

Who could have predicted? /s

Vladimir Putin’s wallet is the one that says, “Bad Motherfucker.”

Now those Iranians know how to ratfuck.

They make Rove look like a piker.

-G

Thanks for the music ES – just the sight and sound of Willie & friends in NO did wonders for my spirit.

Anyone capture a link to the Amy Goodman arrest that bloodied her nose. Barbaric bastards.

ES Willie America’s Native Son. NOLA caught a break good on them. The fishing and oil towns south of there maybe tougher times. See what America will do this time around.
Violence feeds on itself the cops get worked up in the preraid meetings and excessive force is the outcome.
Amy Goodman arrested! WTF

hey npb
Amy right here.

hey npb – its up over at the silo

I didn’t know what to make of this when I read it this morn …

Dutch fear US strike on Iran

i owe you a beverage of your choice dood

The only thing that could save Sarah Paln now would be for her to post Amy Goodman’s bail…

Here’s the YouTube of her arrest.

Btw, WTF were the Dutch doing…

Reports in De Telegraaf say The Netherlands intelligence service, the AIVD, has aborted an espionage mission aimed at infiltration and sabotage of the weapons industry in Iran.

“The operation, described as extremely successful, was halted recently in connection with plans for an impending US air attack on Iran,” the newspaper reported.

“Targets would also be bombed which were connected with the Dutch espionage action,” the newspaper said.

I’m glad you think so. I’m telling you, watching the important people on Charlie Rose tonight.. you would have never guessed there might be a problem with her if you had been out of pocket the last couple of days.

Well, at least she’ll be free to topple Stevens now…! ;-)

Do you have the link?

Eureka, I have relatives in Hot Springs, haven’t talked with them in a while. I know that is south of you. Should they be expecting a big storm from Gustav?

In my 31, ES!

I bet they are under heavy rains now. Probably nothing to bad.

It’s a great town.. the only city in the US in which the city itself is a National Park. I lived there round about ‘79 – ‘80.

Hey NPB, Scroll down the campaign silo blog above. Siun posted it earlier this evening.

The expression on the cops face in the video as they swat their palms with the night stick itching to use it. They have been brainwashed to believe the protesters are un-american low life that are odious to them.
Do they get hazardous duty pay?
Notice the way they grab their prey and use their body position to take the victim into their midst….you are under arrest. If they can reach you you are theirs. Tactics and training that we pay big tax dollars for.

Thanks for the tip – Rose just started here two minutes ago. Does he put lipstick on the pig, or do his guests?

Bush will speak Tuesday at the RNC.

$50 million each to Denver and Twin Cities.

That would buy a lot of donuts.

Just kidding, Suzanne.

WTF indeed, bb. No Knock… it’s old school. I sick of it. Obama needs to go to St. Paul.. shut down the police state and show McCain how to conduct a speech for the people at the same time.

That was quick – thanks newtonusr! Seeing is believing and oh so chilling…mind boggling…I stand agape.

I caught the second half of the show… If Palin doesn’t make it.. they all need to eat an entire crow each, on air.

Every peace demonstration seem to be disrupted by independent groups that break the law and destroy property. It is happening im Minneapolis. Then that karma is rained on peacefull demonstrators and the mews spins it as anarchy.

Who were The Important People on Charlie Rose tonight?

A good reminder that there’s another VP candidate campaigning right now, as opposed to the all-Flailin, all the time Media right now:
http://narcosphere.narconews.c…..mes-sexier

I hope he has high praise for McClusterfuck. That’ll help, dontcha think? :-D

Something tells me Amy Goodman’s gonna come out swingin. They messed with the wrong journalist.

A bunch of folks.. Cokie Roberts was the radical liberal of the lot. /s grrr

I swear it’s agent provocateurs hired by the federales…! They’ve done it before under J. Edgar Hoover… This bunch makes Hoover look like a cross dressing pervert… oh wait, he was…! ;-)

Sent her money I don’t have today.
I cannot wait to see what fresh Hell she brings down on these punks.

What does VPILF stand for?

You dare use Cokie and Liberal in the same sentence…? I’m still a wee bit pissed at Cokie…

Of course it was. I’ve seen it myself and been arrested because of them in SF. I’m amazed how peaceful the peaceful people remain in spite of all we have witnessed since Jane, Glenn and Lindsay arrived.

i used to have a bumper sticker on my personal car that said bad cop no donut

until someone stole it off the bumper one night while it was parked

Heh, I know I know! It’s like MILF or GILF.

he spoke in jest, I believe

if she is the left wing of the group, I don’t think I would want to meet the rest of them

Sweet buttery biscuits, California’s one Governator signature away from single payer healthcare!

The Twin Cities have Twin conventions right now. They both have about the same attendance.

Finally just saw a BigMedia outlet report on it, but lo and behold, they spend the bulk of the article peddling negative innuendo about Paul, and minimizing the amazing situation that a Repub candidate is holding his own event and drawing about the same amount of people as the RNC.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..02461.html

Isn’t this a huge story, especially given how much attention about 100 Hillary holdouts got last week? A truly divided Party in disarray, as they like to call Dems.

Of course, you’re average consumer of BigMedia doesn’t even know about it though…that how they get away with dismantling the Constitution…

OK, what are those?

I have limited aquaintence with popular culture.

ES!

Have you received your Carruth book? If so, do tell.

I live in St. Paul for now, and it is “interesting” here. I’m not at all surprised by what is going down here, but I could wish otherwise.

Ha! VPILF, Vice President I’d like to Fuck. Then with MILF and GILF, Mother and Grandmother.

We’ll have to make sure you get a new one;)

Yeah, but unlike phantom PUMAs, Paul supporters can vote.

thanks, Hannibal. :)

Eureka, where would I find you on a map? I have my atlas in front of me but can’t seem to pinpoint your location.

Vice President I’d Like to Phuck.

Ya know, even as a hetero male, the more I learn about Sarah Flailin I’d probably put Biden in VPILF category over her also. She’s a horrid person.

Jane and crew…are they safe and using caution? She did a post earlier 2:42 PM on violence break out in Minneapolis. Who else is there from the Lake. EW and? Will they get preemptive raid on their housing? Dp thjey have legal rep on site?

I’m looking at it right now.. read a couple of poems so far. I save reading one special poem at a time for just the right moments…)

Wow, are you out walking around, taking photos?

Suz you need some security. G)

this article about the Palin debacle is hilarious:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenat…..n/45352555

After the amazing work of The Uptake, streaming live, I offer another piece Gil Scott-Heron gave us, with thanks. They and others have shown that the immediacy of qik and twitter are a revolution in the media.

Here.

We had that “money bomb” operation with Paulites recently. I wonder if the FDL crew is headed over to Paul’s convention at all? We can find some common ground with these folks and get them to vote Dem this time around perhaps.

Might be worth some outreach efforts.

they’s been posting over at the silo today with the breaking rnc stuff.

That alone should reduce McCain’s polling numbers by two or three points…

Barbaric bastards.

I’m late to this party, as usual at night.

Did you see, in the video of Amy getting dragged off, the look on the police thug’s face as he raised his baton? That stupid porcine look (apologies to pigs, which are actually intelligent and sensitive animals). I’m too knackered to think up a different adjective. I try to live here, and this has been a terrible, horrible day. I am not surprised, but horrified.

Classic.

Honestly, I don’t see what the big deal is. It’s not that I think she’s a bad looking woman, I just don’t see why people are so worked up about her. There’s just nothing to her. She strikes me as an empty, shallow person.

was back when i was living at an apt complex

Thanks. Why didn’t I think of that?

Maybe, they’re more likely to vote for Bob Barr than Obama. But more likely to vote Obama than McCain, from what I can tell.

Wow.. let’s light up the phones to the Governator a collaborative effort Dems amd Repubs produce a winner for all. Thanks for the headsup.

Not far from you at all. I’m very surprised you all haven’t spent many long weekends here. Especially in Spring and Fall. We are primarily a tourist destination.

I see that Bentonville is only a stone’s throw away…! ;-)

In what way did Sarah Palin’s throwing her daughter to the crowds enhance her stature? She could have released her own medical records to confirm that she was the mother of her tiny son. Giving up her 17 year old daughter is ….. (you make it up)…… take a poll on how many mothers would do this. Shameful.

Thirty or forty miles and light years. *g* Long as the highway between us remains two lanes, we are safe.

Yes, and mrbrat just saw a local news show reporting Blackwater “security” personnel are headed for New Orleans and Bush will speak after all tomorrow before the GOP convention. Have had all I can take of this day & bid all you fine late late nite pubs sweet dreams and a much better tomorrow.

Couldn’t agree more.. and I am shocked how many pearl clutchers and wing-nuts don’t seem to be bothered by it in the least.

g’nite npb

Aloha, NPB!

Every peace demonstration seem to be disrupted by independent groups that break the law and destroy property.

It has been often reported in recent weeks that the Feds have infiltrated many, many groups and are acting as agents provacateur.

These are the people who would force their raped daughter to bear a child and give it up for adoption — no grandparenting there. I am shocked at the lack of humanity in these folks. But i am astounded at Sarah Palin giving up her daughter to this onslaught of judgment. I simply cannot imagine!

Something tells me Amy Goodman’s gonna come out swingin. They messed with the wrong journalist.

You can say that again! Do you remember when Pacifica tried to fu*k with her?

i’m headed out too pups – g’nite all

nite suz

Now it is a guest appearance on Maury Povich to find out the real father of Trig. Nothing less will do!

I don’t get your gist. I just feel that I wouldn’t have done that to my 17 year old daughter. Bad enough to have screwed up…..but to be nationally divulged. Is this girl to be lauded for having failed at the abstinence training? I just don’t get it.

Aloha, Suz!

Good night , Suz.

Who else is there from the Lake.

Cleanth is.

ES West of you a few miles appears to be a nice fishing, cayaking, canoeing opportunity in a reservoir, Beaver Lake and dam. Is it your power source and recreation destination for tourists? Google Earth shows your are surrounded bu brush or forrests?

She knowingly runs for national office while her teenaged, unmarried daughter is pregnant? All the lying she’s been caught in so far in a matter of days. Learning about her political history. Going back to work three days after her special needs child is born, and is proud of that (provided it’s even her baby)

I find her disgusting the more I learn.

One heartbeat from the most important job in the world:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..22676.html
(clip of Flailin as a sportscaster)

I’m all for electing people not steeped in DeeCee for too long, but there needs to be some record of major accomplishment, experience of the world, and a sort of street smarts in working with people from all stripes.

Normally, a mother of four would gain a certain amount of respect from me, but considering some of the things I listed above, she seems to be doing a poor job of that even. This is all truly unbelievable. Astonishing that we’re even having to talk about this stuff.

Well she is being lauded by the right as a hero for carrying the child rather than opting for abortion. No, I would think twice about accepting the VP nomination when I went around preaching abstinence all over the country with my unmarried pregnant teen in tow. Speaks to ambitions of politicians, Palin was unknown four days ago and npw she has the chance to be one of them or famous women in recent history.

Wow, are you out walking around, taking photos?

I got my head knocked in a bit more than I could wish for back at the Columbia Univ riots; and I was active in my Berkeley days. I’m sitting this one out. And to think that I returned to the US because the political situation abroad where I had lived for a long time seemed too crazy!

My cats are blessedly unaware of the fraught situation in the US, to say nothing of the larger world, and I think:

Vae mihi, qui cogitare ausus sum!

Sleeps Suz and no cleanng in the mornings!

From the ‘No Duh’ Dept…

Pot at Marley concert outrages anti-drug activist

I live east of ES in the woods, on the Kings River. Lived on Beaver lake for many years. A huge lake. Dam is around 1100 ft. it’s really to big for anything other than large motor boats or sailing. Lots of canoeing and kayaking in my neck of the woods. Geologically speaking, the Ozark Mtns. are the oldest mountain range in the US.. were once higher than the Rockies are today.

I read somewhere Sarah Flailin got her first passport last year. If true, that’s pathetic for someone who thinks she should be VP. At least Shrub had been outta the country what, two…three times? And look how well he has represented us around the world…

I saw Palin’s stump speech from the campaign trail with McCain on CSPAN last night. She is not a very polished speaker. The content of her speech, her demeanor, and pitching voice sounded like a high school kid running for student office.

Her profile matches up well with the Regent college DOJ fundies. Go along with the program with huge biases.

I meant to say yes, Beaver dam is our source of electricity. This is a photo taken a few hundred yards from where I am sitting now.

O’Brien to Winston Smith, in Room 101, 1984:

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

This is what I saw in St. Paul today.

Now that is just sad.

Your kayaks? Looks nice and peaceful!

Been holding this back for a bit:
Woman rows from San Francisco to Hawaii

Ninety-nine days after she rowed west beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, Roz Savage on Monday landed in a much different setting: Hawaii.

Savage, who set out from San Francisco on May 25 in an attempt to become the first woman to row alone across the Pacific Ocean, rowed before dawn through the choppy waters of Molokai Channel off Waikiki. After daylight she was met by supporters in a boat dispatched by the Waikiki Yacht Club.

The English-born Savage rowed the Atlantic Ocean in 2005, then spent two years in the cottage of a Woodside supporter while lining up sponsors for what is projected to be a three-part, 7,200-mile journey ending in Australia. She first set off in her customized 24-foot rowboat last year, but that launch foundered after 10 days.

I actually read an AP article the other day that quoted a Liberty University poli sci “professor” talking about all the positives Flailin brings to the ticket. No mention at all that Liberty like Regent is a fundie school with no scholarly respect from anywhere. Quite a racket they all got going on…

She met up with this crew mid way on the journey here to the Isles, newton!

yep

We may be heading down to Hot Springs sometime fairly soon. You don’t look much out of the way, coming from NE KS. Perhaps we could meet.

Bass, bluegill, water mocassins and frogs. What other critters hang out with you ‘Mr. Daniel Boone’. Look like you can live off of the land if you know it. Birds, deer, rabbits and lots of berries for the bears.

Yes and it is so very peaceful. About three neighbors within several miles of me. I traveled the world (not as much as you).. only a few places on the west coast or Alaska ever gave me serious pause about where I might want to buy a home someday. This is a sweet spot with a great artistic progressive community nearby..and about 10 to 20 percent of what the cost would have been anywhere else I considered.

Is that the same woman who tried to head towards Alaska a while back?

No, she left last year on the Hawaii leg, but left too late in the season, had terrible weather problems, and had to be plucked out of the Pacific by the USCG.

Holy Hannah Savage wins the Banana. What a herculean feat and the wind and high seas sharks and all. Whoa! I did a fast five today but every day for months on end. Don’t want to meet her in a dark alley when she is pissed.
This one for Ripley’s Believe it or not.

All of the above, big brother. I need to bone up on my botanical Euell Gibbons gathering abilities.. But I could do fairly well for a while on my own if need be. Was raised by avid hunters and fishermen… beef was a special event in our house.. since we always had the wild stuff filling the deep freezers.

Definitely.. Let me know as your schedule starts to firm up.

newtonusr, that boat is enormous! She needs a sail! /s

Woman has incredible drive.. I can’t imagine.

Heh, if you saw her ‘row boat’ you wouldn’t have been worried about sharks… I agree though that the rowing is a herculean effort! She was also well stocked with food, more so than the Junk crew. She did have a water problem when her desalinator gave out, but, the Junk crew gave her plenty enough to make it to the Isles…

25 foot carbon-fiber, loaded to the limit and she’s about 5 foot nothing. I have no idea where that kind of courage comes from. But until I saw that she had already done the Atlantic, I would not have thought it possible.

Heh, if you saw her ‘row boat’ you wouldn’t have been worried about sharks…

Last year, she got caught in weather 10 days out, about 150 miles from the California coast. She capsized 3 times in 26 hours. So, sharks – yeah, she did have them on her mind.

Did she have to wear a seat belt in high seas? I can’t imagine trying to sleep in that thing in rough water without taking a beating.. much less keeping her hands (or anything else) dry.

We buy a lot of products from this company not too far from you ES. All organic remedies based on knowledge from the local “Diggers.”

http://www.healin-hollers.com/index.htm

The stuff is truly like magic potions. Absolutely swear by the salves for various ailments.

The cabin provides her lateral support, since she essentially sleeps between her provisions. But upside down is another story.
As for keeping dry – no, she is pretty chapped by day 3.

She had it altered because of that experience… It has hatches that can easily cover the open space and make it a veritable torpedo shaped cocoon in case of serious swells…!

Yeah, the hatches help her with straemlining, too. In her previous tries, she would sleep, and wake up to check her GPS to find out how far she had drifted off course. She lost a lot of time/distance overnight before.

Next time you make it as close as Bentonville.. you owe it to yourself to drive through ES, all the way to Old Joe country. Life’s to short to miss it all.

Here’s her website…

Great post goodnight all.

Roughly a three week sailing trip.. took three months to paddle.

Goodnight, bb.. I’m not ong for this world myself.. Thinking about Euell Gibbons scavenging now.

Aloha, BB! I shall join ya! I bid ya’ll another fond adieu! Aloha Oe!!!

Yes. Went there reluctantly for the first time last year for work, and have now become intrigued by the area. I see what people like you and my clients have been talking about! Hope to make it back soon and will try to add an extra day or two to the trip for fun.

adios.

Hope we meet up next year, Bonkers.

Need to catch some shut eye… the southern Gustav breeze sure fells good tonight.

Good night firedogs

nite eureka

nite eureka and all

nite neuro
i’m bailing, too
nite pups

Attaturk is upstairs!
Well, it’s the dawn of a new day…