Suz!

Hi Suzanne

simple but elegant swan dive

no splash (’natch)

g’evening pups

Asian markets bending over and kissing their asses goodbye.. Hello Great Depression Redeux.

For those of you who have a driving need to make computer art while conversing on FDL here is the site for you:
http://www.sumo.fi/products/sumopaint/

Oh, so glad for the dives…especially swan dives (used to do them myself)

tomorrow is gonna be just as rocky as today

the markets have no faith at all that boosh is gonna be able to stop the collapse.

Everyone should go out an buy a used a volume of “Grapes of Wrath” – copy all Ma Joad’s recipes for biscuits and gravy. We’re about there.

Hail muse Suz!

Yeh, some folks have been hinting at a possible Black Friday tomorrow.

ooooh, we gotta make sure margot sees that – she sends me the loveliest computer art.

we are lost in america

Getcha an ol pick-me-up truck an load all yer chairs an shit aboard- head ta California and try ta get work pickin the winter fruit.

In honor of tomorrow’s expose on Sarah Palin & Troopergate … Another One Bites the Dust

Excellent dive, Suz !

Good book and very close to what IS now happening or will be happening in our country!

todd’s been a bad bad boy

Ah don’t know how much I’ll make if ah haveta pick peaches fer a livin

Can be fun to watch the local news….. the wingers have their pantyhose in a wad over McCain’s mortgage buyout plan….. AND they showed a poll that has Obama up 12%…

I am glad that my company sells its products overseas and that The Sweetie’s second job is with Trader Joe’s. We’ll be OK, and I do so hope the same is true for all the Great Firepuppies of Late Late.

i want mcblinkie to lose arizona in the general

She did a bad bad thing.

Clusterfuck was hopin fer Harry Truman- little knowin that he was headed fer Herbert Hoover.

Do you think she’ll hang this around his neck ? I hope the people don’t fall for this.

Dear Mary, dear Mary, how do I love you,
I never have told you
Now I will use blue….;)

Herbert Hoover was known as a “progressive”- Clusterfuck- not so much.

Could well misplace it at the rate his tiny little brain’s been going lately.

Only if ya get paid to watch the peaches grow on the tree! /s

love that video

His eyes just freak me out, and his pupils don’t match. Is it the medication?

i saw mama deer and her teen sized fawn eating what’s left of the summer garden today before the storm hit. there wasn’t much there for them – and they’ve gotten all the apples within their reach.

George Thorough-bad, the Destroyerer

*gentle reminder*

even fantasy violence will result in your comment being moderated.

i now return this thread to its normally scheduled off topic program.

When he’s an old, old man, George Fuckin Bush will drop his pants and say “See- here’s where Cheney stuck his fingers ta make me talk funny- I was against it from the beginning- YEP”

oooooh, saw him live at shoreline during one of the bb king blues fests. dood forking rocks hard and is bad to the bone.

OMG….. Paul Charlton….. our fired US Attorney spoke out against Sheriff Joe…..”Dealing with illegal immigration is good but not using the methods the sheriff violating civil rights”

A Repug former US Attorney speaking out against Sheriff Joe…… OH… the AZ Republic(ian) endorsed Dan Saban and NOT old Joe…..

Can’t even repeat a theme from Grapes of Wrath eh? All be damned. Steinbeck is rollin over in his grave.

Per Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com: “Democrats continue to make gains in senate races around the country, and now rate as having roughly a 1-in-4 chance of emerging with a 60-seat working majority.”

the lake does not, nor has it ever, advocated violence rw. you know that.

nahant, if you’re still here, I have your chili “recipe” and your Warning (see below) but can’t find your addy so why don’t you contact me at my screenname on a o l dot com. thanks!

WARNING: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, WITH CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection save to call for the impeachment of the current President, 69 members of the Senate and 293 members of the House of Representatives.
4th Amendment Hit Squad from http://www.bluetidalwave.com/2…..-list.html
On Wednesday July 9, 2008 our U.S. Constitution, specifically the 4th amendment was officially torched by the U.S. government. The Democratic leadership in control of the 110th Congress lighted the definitive match to burn up every citizen’s civil liberties while a giddy unpopular President George Bush and his highly voter despised rubber stamp Republican caucus held the gas can in bravado glee.
The world would be a better place if Bush was as an effective leader of the globe as he is at whipping the Congressional Democrats in legislative battles.
Twenty One Senate Democrats voted to give final approval today to broadening the government’s spy powers and providing legal immunity for the phone companies that took part in the illegal Bush wiretapping program.

™ nahant

Night all

Go Margot Go!!

Hey neuro. Please try that link again. Can’t hit…

g’nite rw – perhaps an attribution would help in the future since it would be obvious that you were quoting and the words were not yours.

Bullwinkle gets an unlikely girlfriend.

“I pulled in this morning and at first thought there was a horse in the driveway but then realized it was a moose,” Dunbar said. “It kind of circled the truck. It put one leg up and then a second front leg. After a few minutes, it became obvious what was going on. The people here for classes came outside and started taking pictures. The guy who owned the truck kept beeping his alarm, hoping it would scare it off but I guess (the moose) thought it was the call of the wild.”

Sorry- thought most had read the book

Goodnight

OK Will Do! But Last time I did send you and email, so if you don’t delete your email you should have mine…

Open letter to Senator McCain,

The American people day after day are watching their entire retirement savings go down the drain with the stock market. Many are losing their homes and jobs and many more are worrying about losing their homes and jobs and bank accounts. They are wondering if they’ll be able to fill their cars with gas so they can get to work, they are worring whether they’ll be able to pay their heat and light bills, wondering if they will have the health care when they and their families need it. Some are worring if their families, kids and grandkids will go to bed hungry and or homeless. When we turn on the tv and see what the stock market did and scream at the tv and ask how could we have trusted these banks and financial instutions with our money, our retirements accounts, our investments? How could our governement let companies merge and get so large and be so corrupt that just a few could put the entire world in ruins? How could our government, that you have been a part of for 26 years and your party had been in charge of the White House for 20 of the past 28 years, how in the world could you betray the American people and let the corporations and lobbyist and politicians steal our hard earned and long saved money and then gamble with it? How? How could the governement repay our hard work so disasterously?

Hearing that we may be having a world wide recession for 2 years why would we want to sit down after dinner and watch the news and see you berate a United States Senator that is running on the Democratic ticket, a party that more than half the citizens in this country belongs to? Did you forget how bad it felt when Candiate Bush’s campaign put out all those lies about you? I saw you say you would run a clean and honest campaign. Why have you lost your way? Don’t you have any respect for yourself? There are real financial troubles in this country and around the world right now and instead of addressing them in a Presidential manner and you are being the bully at the dinner table.

Carol from Michigan

Hey all. I also have a hunch that he was dosed with a stimulant in the first debate. tic-like eye blinking aside, he actually was speaking and thinking more crisply than I’m accustomed to seeing (which has nothing to do with agreement). Conventional wisdom is that after you listen to someone talk and think long enough, you start to notice more subtle changes from one time to the next. McCain’s inconsistency has caught my attention.

McCain’s response to wiretapping … “This Bud Bug’s for you !”

I think you are saying he was tweaking.

hahahahahah

i hate it when that happens (/s)

you have mail Neuro!! AOL UGG

nice – his campaign is not at all honorable.

Have a long day of configuring a database that will be delivered tomorrow…. Nite everyone…..

americablog seems to think it is due to his taking ambien – side effects are more pronounced among the elderly.

CANNONBALL!!!!111

g’nite katymine

Digg server seems to be done… It timed out twice on me…!

u try chrome yet?

Mary, I went to your site the other nite and was knocked out by your New Orleans art. Literally reduced to tears.

Coincidentally, I had created a screen saver from a pic of a NO cemetery I found online, to use ’till all was well with New Orleans. Fear it’s going to be with me for a long time.

I’m not touching that one … is punaise still around ?

(wigwam, thanks much for digging up the Perino link on the prev thread!)

Well written Carol and I am sure many here agree with your sentiments about John…

have i mentioned i’m irish on both sides (laughing)

the digg is forked up – when its my thread to be dugg. oh well, hopefully it will come up soon.

Thanks. I am getting ready to put a new site with other work on it, too. I have been building sites for photographers recently and it is time to make one for me.

New Orleans is history. My fear is that another storm will finish it off before the wetlands and levees are fixed. Shock Doctrine indeed.

I’ll try:

That moose had Ford-i-Tude

Digg is up!

moo

how about stan getz and john coltrane (w/oscar peterson on piano) over at skippy?

digg seems to be working now

now only to get Edwin McCain a higher google ranking than john.

hi skippy

doncha like my edwin mccain? i bet it is the guy’s last name that turned you off – give it a try anyway

LOL … flood gates are open … Have you driven ridden a Ford lately ?

Dam When I lived back in Maine just north of there The Moose were protected and from what I hear they havw had to open the hunting season on the Moose as they ahve become so over populated that they are dying from a lack of food. Normally Moose like to graze in the shallows of lakes and such…

Jacques Tati is really funny. This is the first I’ve seen his movies.

Wait a minute. On those NSA phone call snooper whistleblowers… Have there ever before been NSA whistleblowers of any kind? Or at least who lived? The more I think about this, the bigger a revolt it seems to be.

It’s nice to see Ford getting f*cked for a change, instead of their customers …

Did you see some very dischordant and off-tune about that statement. I didn’t bother to think much about it, but you that stuff that you posted about a possible unannounced state of martial law made me remember it.

Hey Newt Glad you Dugg the Post for Suz!! I tried and Digg was not responding for eveah no matter what browser I used!!

My grandmother died from an illegal abortion during that depression. Her 5th child was on the way and they owed $200. to the grocer and just did not have enough food… This is what brought me to this party.

In 1929, federal expenditures constituted only 3% of the GDP. Between 1933 and 1939, they tripled, but the national debt remained about level at 40% of GNP. (The debt as proportion of GNP rose under Hoover from 20% to 40%; the debt as % of GNP soared during the war years, 1941-45.) After the Recession of 1937 and Republican victories in the 1938 elections, opponents of the New Deal, who called themselves conservatives, formed a bipartisan conservative coalition to stop further expansion of the New Deal and, by 1943, they had abolished all of the relief programs. Social Security continued. The labor laws were revised by conservatives in the Taft Hartley Act of 1947. The New Deal was, and still is, controversial and widely debated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G…..ted_States

took a couple tries

Hi Suz, Petro, everyone.
I have no sound on computer, guess I’ll have to go uninstall and reinstall Flash. Any other advice?

that link was copied from something nahant posted here some time ago–I don’t know how to fix it

yeah really! I am still driving a 87 Jeep with 270+k on it and still going strong… loves me jeep!

Ambien? I wonder what his after bedtime snack was the night before?

For example:

Sorpresa con Queso

Ingredients:
7 bags Cheetos-brand cheese snacks
17 to 19 glasses tap water
5 mg. Ambien

1. Place Cheetos bags in cupboard.
2. Take Ambien, fall asleep.
3. Wait 2-3 hours, then sleepwalk to kitchen, tear cupboard doors off hinges in search of Cheetos.
4. Find Cheetos, eat contents of all 7 bags.
5. Fall back asleep on kitchen floor.
6. When awakened by early-morning sunlight, get up and say, “What the—?”
7. Wipe orange Cheetos dust from fingers, face, and hair.
8. Drink 17 to 19 glasses of water from kitchen tap.
9. Return to bed.

I think John Sidney must have had this one:

Licorice Surprise

Ingredients:
1 black extension cord
1 wall outlet
5 mg. Ambien

1. Plug extension cord into wall socket near bed.
2. Plug other end of extension cord into clock radio on nightstand.
3. Take Ambien, fall asleep.
4. Sleep 3-4 hours.
5. Roll out of bed, wake up on floor.
6. See extension cord, think, What a big delicious licorice rope that is!
7. Chew on essentially flavorless cord until you get to the metallic center, where the surprise is.

Senny ‘Seymore Butts‘ Hoyer.

Margot !

you’ve checked and double checked that your volume control is not turned down or muted? have ya tried a reboot to see if the problem still persists?

from a computer moron -
are the speakers turned on? are the speaker wires connected?? is the volume turned on?

if you’re beyond that, it’s outta my hands.

It has probably expired to make room for more stories on the main server. If you get to the front page you might be able to search for the article in their archives!!

I saw what you meant, but it didn’t strike me as a super-strong connection. Nothing that coincidence wouldn’t explain. But its good to watch for these things. It feels like a lot is going to happen in a short time now.

The esteemed nahant and newtonusr are around to lend a helping hand …

Steny*

Licorice Surprise

Ingredients:
1 black extension cord
1 wall outlet
5 mg. Ambien

hah hah hah.

that stands alone without the directions.

*stands back for the PC (pee cee) guru*

was ambien what the kennedy was on when he was caught sleep driving and was in that crash?

“America’s foremost expert on energy blows a simple question from the audience :

A questioner at a town hall-style meeting in Wisconsin said he had heard that at least 75 percent of the oil drilled in Alaska was being sold to China and said, if true, he would like to know why.

“No. It’s not 75 percent of our oil being exported,” Palin said, suggesting some of Alaska’s oil, in fact, may be going abroad but not that much.

“In fact,” she added, “Congress is pretty strict on, um, export bans of oil and gas especially.”

No Alaska oil has been exported since 2004, and little if any since 2000, according to the Energy Information Administration and the Congressional Research Service.

And Congress has never imposed outright bans on oil exports.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/…..ports.html

Hoo boy, ya lost me there. NSA whistleblowing, Stenny Hoyer, and the pr0n star relate how exactly?

“HOW COULD YOU”…great piece.

IIRC yep that is the sleeping pills he was on. I ahve read a few articles about the side affects of Ambien… couldn’t get me to take it!!

The New Deal was, and still is, controversial and widely debated.

Not in Europe. It seems to me that much of Europe is living on New Deal style of government. Lots of social safety netting. Serious emphasis on quality of life. High taxes. Better healthcare for half the cost. And the people seem happy.

But that isn’t reported here because, per the doctrine of Ronald Reagan, that can’t work.

I did a diary on Francis Fukayama, a Reagan neocon theoretician, who has repudiated almost all aspects of Reaganism, except the need for the working class to worry and sweat. Per Fukayama:

By the 1970s large welfare states and economies choked by red tape were proving highly dysfunctional. Back then, telephones were expensive and hard to get, air travel was a luxury of the rich, and most people put their savings in bank accounts paying low, regulated rates of interest. Programs like Aid to Families With Dependent Children created disincentives for poor families to work and stay married, and families broke down. The Reagan-Thatcher revolution made it easier to hire and fire workers, causing a huge amount of pain as traditional industries shrank or shut down. But it also laid the groundwork for nearly three decades of growth and the emergence of new sectors like information technology and biotech.

[…]

But in continental Europe, workers are still treated to long vacations, short working weeks, job guarantees and a host of other benefits that weaken their productivity and will not be financially sustainable.

My S.O.P. was, “If it makes a noise, hit it with a Hammer.”

But I had to revise that once our firstborn came along …

with the employment from the new deal, people could afford to pay the taxes for the social net.

taxes are patriotic

hmmm, nahant, that e-mail hasn’t shown up, I agree, AOL is messed up…had one a few minutes ago I couldn’t open…

you want to try again? that’s n-e-u-r-o-p-h-i-u-s at the AOL place…

couldn’t find your last one because their message search function sucks…

Election folk art.

After you make sure everything IS plugged in, Make sure the volume is turned up. But I have a question Is this just within a browser or does it not have sound when you try and play a CD or a sound file you already have on the computer?? The answer will dictate the fix!!

I think so suzanne, iirc he was trying to drive to work at the capitol in his sleep in the middle of the night…

President Obama

Might as well get used to saying it!

yeppers.

rhythms with: in the window.

Whenever I tell a Doctor that I sleep 5 hours every day, they ask if I need a Rx for ambien … then laugh when I mention that I am a meditation teacher …

Thanks

Was he really on ambien or was it just a cover story ?

taxes are patriotic

Thank you. I’ve always thought so.

Maybe the Rs would like them better if we renamed them “Licenses to Profit.”

But I had to revise that once our firstborn came along …

Dang, that’s what I forgot to do…! ;-)

will try again… but the one I sent didn’t bounce??

Gotta get those drugs in you no matter what.

Sometimes I take neurontin for arthritis. Makes me stooooooooopid.

I think he was really on Ambien. It was just before it became well known for weird ass side effects.

The tiny little rocket, see how it flies, so straight and true its arc over the top of my pointy little head, never ever touching it…

Ambien and Phenergan, evidently:

Kennedy was reportedly behind the wheel of a green Ford Mustang when it crashed into a security barrier at 1st and “C” streets Southeast about 2:45 a.m. No one was hurt, but police say the car nearly struck a Capitol police cruiser and that it had been swerving, as if trying to make a U-turn. So far, Kennedy has not been charged. Kennedy said he had returned home after a series of votes on Capitol Hill Wednesday and took “the prescribed amount” of Phenergan and Ambien. He says sometime around 2:45 a.m., he drove back to the Capitol believing he needed to vote. “Apparently, I was disoriented from the medication,” he said.

hobida shibida.

mail is on the way…. You can get g-mail also for free and It is way better than the AssholesOnLine crap!

lol, yeah, i feel ya.

Hey newt, didja get my e- mail ?

thanks, pups. glad to know my memory still works – well, most of the time (laughing)

Hi Suzanne and fiery dogs…Video “We got the girls, the cars and the money” was tres interessant. Discovered a little button at the bottom right to go full screen kinda nice that.

Love that guy.
“Everbody funny, now you funny too.”

I did, and am still checking one tiny but essential fact out. will advise.

No hurry … just making sure you got it since aol seems to be having trouble …

WSJ: On Tuesday, Apple is likely to announce a new line of laptops with lower prices: http://online.wsj.com/article/…..lenews_wsj

thanks bb – its one of my favs.

bigbrother

Do you know a woman in the area name M. Harvey? artist. really nice person.

Margot, did you see nahant @ 105 ?

The aforementioned issue is more ‘user’ related than system related.

Thanks GW, thanks everyone. I did what Suz suggested and rebooted, plus cleared cache, that must have done it.
(And I clapped real loud.)

tds – ohmystars, i’ve not heard about the domino theory since viet nam – now they are using it to describe our financial clusterfuck.

Gotcha !

What’s truly funny is that someone thought it was a good idea …

1,790 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Suzanne and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

OK Sister Suzanne, throw another log on the fire and keep the Firepups awake ‘cuz I gotta work again tanight.

Now, as most FDLers know, this old unregenrate, Scadanavian hippie-type has been yellin’ at anyone who comes past the yard here that Sarah Palin is part of a long standin’ effort of corporations to fund radical right wing groups to serve as shock troops (remember the “Brown Shirts”) and to infiltrate legitimate political groups and activities (read the Republican Party). The progenator of this effort and the development of this subversive right-wing movement is the America First movement of the 1930’s that servfed as the political sedan chair for the American oligarchy that was at war with FDR and the American Constitution. After WWII , right wing Congress people and Senators sponsored the immigration of ex-Nazi officials at the behest of the oligarchy and the OSS and then nascient CIA. The John Birch Society was the most visable of the corporately sponsored right wing political megaphone groups and the legitimized groups like the Birchers developed contacts with the extra-legal violent hate groups such as the KKK and later the militia and regional secessionist groups. Crazy John McCain has been a member in good standing with several of these shadowy anti-communist groups and has maintained a respectfully quiet relationship with the extra-legal, racist groups that rose up in the Southwest in the 60s and 70’s. The battle for the 2000 Republican nomination boiled down to a battle between McCain and a linear decendant of an original America First family, Manard G. Krebs Bush AKA George W. Bush. Bush won the right to head the 2000 coup and after 8 years annointed Crazy John to carry on the junta. The choice of Sarah Palin by McCrazy was not an “after thought” or a spur of the moment tactical ploy…it was a conscious decision to have a full blown fascist secessionist a heartbeat away from the next President.

The corporate media and politically acceptable academics and pundits have legitimized this choice and anesthetized the public to the calls for violence and intimidation by these two full blown fascists.

This is it folks, the next three weeks will be violent and full of right wing political terrorism that will be sanctioned as just desperate political efforts by a legitimate Republican candidate.

Here-in ends the lesson…in for a penny in for a pound, we are gunna be called into thestreet before this election is settled.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, YOU CAN’T VOTE FASCISM AWAY!!

hey norske, just put a new load in the wood stove and am settling down for a nice fall evening.

i hope you are wrong. i pray you are wrong. but, i believe in preparing for the worst while hoping for the best. we are in for some hard times and those that don’t know how to stretch their pennies are in for a rude awakening.

nahant, I got it. Now YGM

and I’m headed for bed.

nite, all.

g’nite neuro – happy shopping for your new computer

Mimi retired planner from San Jose? Just showed me some of her work a week ago Monday at Farmer’s Market…a landscape still wet.
Checked out you and your site and history.
Bummer to see your hometown get neglected. USACE has a lot of fiascaos under their belt now they want to come her for th third time.

I’m still scraping by, need a litte bit extra to get by these last few weeks though. arrrgh.

But i’ve got a line on another room. This time, the main tenant and i got along infamously well. *grin* Talked for almost 3 hours when i met her, about anything and everything. She’s a first time voter too! 22 years of age. I”ve been voting since i was 18, i can’t imagine waiting THAT long to start. She’s an Obama supporter. :D I meet her fiance on tuesday, so i think we’re good on making arrangements after that.

I just need to make it to the last week of October and i’ll be good. Then i can start repairing my finances, check by check.

The notion of losing new orleans is unbearable. That haunting eartherial feel is present in a few low country places, but nowhere to the extent of new orleans.

This mess evokes my inner Dante – some will pay in hell for their wretched stewardship of the precious people and places temporarily entrusted to their care.

fuckery all around. The corp has destroyed some much for so little.

Sounds good Wishing the best of luck!!

New Orleans had to go. It was too real.

fingers and toes crossed for ya alias

once you get out, it is such a huge relief. i didn’t really realize how much stress i was under until i moved outta the house when it sold. and i knew i was stressed.

it feels so good not being in that ever expanding black hole of debt.

expanding black hole of debt= economy

yeap – mine was a personal black hole but yeah… out of one and smack dab in a global one.

my g’nite seems to have disappeared into a black hole. i didn’t say anything violent. au contraire. just that i loved you all and i was going to sleep. honest!

night Neuro!! Sleep well and dream a of new faster PC!

Yea but now you have company.

greenwarrior, it is not back here. I am certain it is on your end or in between you and FDL.
Good night!

Yessir!

maybe it took some ambien and crashed onto the kitchen floor.

((Greenwarrior)) thanks for your help.

http://www.sumo.fi/products/sumopaint/

sumo paint: fun.

thank you

sleep well gw

*giving universal one finger salute to the nasty pervs at nsa who stole gw’s g’nite*

the fun party is that i have maybe 30$ to make it through the next 3 weeks. I’m going ot ask my parents for help, but i’m not sure if they have enough to spare. I wouldn’t need much, just to get by for gas and a bit of food. >_

I just want out of here so i can afford to make my own expenses again, and have money TO spend and help others along too.

nobody who knows me will evah believe someone is thanking me for computer help. it could only happen in an alternate universe. g’nite ((margot))

good night, green one

how ya been ydj?

Well pups time for me to hit the hay!! Sleep well when ya get there good Pups:>)

g’nite nahant *waving to julie*

Shit Rachel is on Jay Leno… Poof!!

nite nahant

finer than frog’s hair.
y tu?

Pacific markets are tanking 8 to 10%. Tommorow could be the crash if Europe can’t hold…otherwise just a normal bummer. SUbshine’s open letter at 46 comes to mind…”How could You”?

George W Bush from his drug and alcohol induced stupor beginnings has come across as a self indulgent callous criminal.

Norske, I have been mulling and mulling on what you wrote. I know nothing, of course, but it seems to clear to me that whatever the theory beforehand, in practice there is a world of cultural difference between Palin’s separatist/”nativist”/provocateur wing and McCain’s upfront corporatist wing, and also that they’ve not yet found a way to make the two mesh effectively. And that’s a major factor in why the R ticket is now in an advanced and deeply subterranean phase of the cratering process. Now, given that they’re clearly going to lose the election, what are their goals really going forward? Also, might the two wings have different goals? I could imagine the upfront corporatists driving the secessionists into a blithering fury just in order to get them tossed into the joint and discredited/neutralized for whatever comes next, so that the upfront corporatists can continue to call the shots as they have done for so very long. Although as I may have mentioned, I know nothing.

snugger than a bug in a rug at the new place – am enjoying watching the storms come in – all nice and toasty warm from the wood stove. critters are settling in nicely too. bailey really likes the 2 acres and has found a hidey hole in the shrubs off the kitchen deck.

I see that the AP hasn’t lost their touch…

Palin pre-empts state report, clears self in probe

It would be nice if they’d hire real reporters…!

norske, this should help ya stay awake

why am i not surprised *shaking head and rolling eyes*

i’m behind the times:
this is great news!
congrats, babe!

sorry, but i must now go to konk out land.
new job.
i’m out of retirement now.
i was retired five years.
we’ll talk.

color me zzzzzzzzzz …

“Land that I LOOOOOOVVVVVEEEEEE…..”

“K” street is their power nest…take that down and they are crippled a bit as they no longer are able to control important congressional committees.
Obama went around them to get elected by organizing locally from bottom up instead of top down until they walzed into the conventions.
So who knows how much progress we make,
Neocans want us weak so no northern Eurpean safety net for us suckers if they have their way. These are some of the meanest people ever on the face of the earth, They have gigantic Karma to pay.

g’nite ydj

wha?

sez it all: ‘clears self in probe’

u betcha!

“Kathy, I’m lost,” I said, though I knew she was sleeping.
“I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why.”

Along with The Boxer, Sounds Of Silence, and a few dozen others, the greatest music of our lives.

Nice pitch, Suz Gal, nice pitch . . *G*

they really do think we are dumber than dirt.

With Granny On Top?

Hoss, ain’t no golden fruit here no mo . . . no jobs, either.
Not even pickin . . . .

This Judge just doesn’t get it…

“The government knew those records were not truthful records. All along the government knew that was a lie,” Judge Sullivan said angrily to Nicholas Marsh, a prosecutor. “Why did you do it? I want an answer.”

Facing the withering verbal flogging, Mr. Marsh answered, “We didn’t see the case that way,” and argued that the information about Mr. Anderson’s absence from Alaska was not material.

“We’re talking about the U.S. government using documents it knows are false,” Judge Sullivan responded. “You have an obligation to see this man gets a fair trial.”

Mr. Anderson’s falsely billed hours amounted to about $16,000 or $17,000, less than 10 percent of the time attributed to the Stevens home, which was why “we looked at this in a different light,” Mr. Marsh said.

The judge countered sharply, “A very dim light, counselor.”

Seems like they would have to know exactly, precisely what was in the report for them to mount this preemptive effort. She sat down with the campaign and told them everything, else they wouldn’t be in a position to refute any or all of it.

And ToOdd gets the shaft.

That’s actually hilarious…

“Blow up the TV.
Throw away the radio.
Move to the country.
Build ourself a home.

Have a lot of children.
Feed ‘em all peaches.
Let ‘em find Jesus.
On their own.”

i guess the upside is the unabashed broadcasting.

So Long for A while

Dayam that is colorful and life like . . .*G*

Funnier n MooseDrool . . . n that’s GOOD beer, if ya can find it!

Aloha, BB!

hey larue

Citizen SuzieQ:

EEEE-doggies, ya sure, you betcha….Kermit and the muppet opera always a sure surcease of sorrow.

g’nite bb

i bet the leaking of the first dood’s interrogatories under oath last night was by the same folks who gave this info to ap.

Poor Todd ;-)

At least Too odd is royally screwed, even if Mooselini skates…!

“Anyone who knows Sarah knows she is the governor and she calls the shots,” Todd Palin wrote. “I make no apologies for wanting to protect my family and wanting to publicize the injustice of a violent trooper keeping his badge.“

He needs to answer why and how he got access to the personnel files…!

poor todd is right. i thought sarah was gonna be the fall guy when the r’s lose in the general – but i think i was wrong – its gonna be the first dood’s fault.

i wonder how he feels knowing he is expendable?

I think the folk of Wasilla might forgive him for spelunking through their state business, but something tells me that Anchorage will not be so supple.

they really do think we are dumber than dirt.

restraining myself ;

marcy asked that very question.

i’m gonna keep a basket of rolled up socks next to the computer until after the general.

seems the prudent thing to do since its only gonna get worse until then.

Well, ya gotta be prepared to lose a few foot soldiers *g*

Oops, meant to put this in the late-night thread.

Best Taibbi line from his latest article

http://www.rollingstone.com/po….._of_rove/3

The reason Rove continues to survive is the same reason that Johnnie Cochran was called a genius for keeping a double-murderer on the golf course — because this generation of Americans has become so steeped in greed and social Darwinism that it can no longer distinguish between cheating and achieving, between enterprise and crime, and can’t bring itself to criticize winners any more than it knows how to be nice to losers. He survives because an increasing number of Americans secretly agree with Rove’s vision of rules, laws and “the truth” as quaint, faintly embarrassing rituals that only a sucker would let hold him back.

Heh…

Mr. Palin was seated at a conference table with three stacks of personnel files.

*ouch* That’s gonna leave a mark…! ;-)

Citizen Hmmmm:

No dear, the unwashed, violent separtatist and racist shock troops have been cultivated for years by the corporate oligarchy through local elected leadership and congressional representatives (like Crazy John McCain)…I would draw your attention to the immediate reaction to the Oklahoma City bombing and the cover congressional representatives from Arizona, Texas and Oklahoma provided for their militia constituents. The Alsaka Independence Party is a good example of what I have been tryin’ ta say here…EXXon Mobile has long been cultivating this group of crazies and it is no coincidence that the entire state’s population and government rely on money from the corporation in lieu of individual taxes.

I think you might be thinkin’ of the ideological antagonism of the rural, right wing crazies and the wealthy banking establishment…this is a chimera and the only reason these groups have not only been tolerated but haver thrived and been given their own political power centers in many regions of the country is by the largesse of the corporate oligarchy run out of the basement of the White House and Langly.

thanks mdmd – i hadn’t seen this.

My 203 was from Marcy…!

Heya sistuh, howzit.

Keep them critters from them big cats . . .

I’m outta here early zzzzzzzzzzz.

Be well . . .

You’re welcome.

Just wrote to MSF about the wiretapping:

Hi,

I’m a member of MSF. I was wondering as to MSF’s reaction to the revelation that MSF members in the field were wiretapped by the US Government.

We’ll see if they’ll say anything.

g’nite larue

*rubbing hands gleefully*

you will have to do a diary when they respond – or if they do not respond.

i’m gonna keep a basket of rolled up socks next to the computer until after the general.

By then we may be seeking braised sock chowder recipes.

I suspect they won’t. Too much $ comes from the US Government.

Maybe they can use one of Rockefeller’s Sternly Worded Letters and just change the “from” information in it.

Uh oh, Is Jello Jay having buyers remorse…?

Panel to Study Military Eavesdropping
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, said Thursday that the committee would investigate claims by two military eavesdroppers that they routinely listened in on private calls home from American military officers, aid workers and journalists stationed in Iraq.

Mr. Rockefeller, Democrat of West Virginia, called the accusations “extremely disturbing.”

“Any time there is an allegation regarding abuse of the privacy and civil liberties of Americans it is a very serious matter,” he said.

Why does this remind me of closing the barn door after all the horses fled…?

sock soup!

pisses me off cause the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing is my favorite place to draw :(

nice quote. Thx

Hey, Rachel?

I know you’re gonna be checking here to see if we noticed your appearance on Jay Leno tonight.

WOOOOO!

You were great. Interesting segment and you did us progressives (and grandma!) Proud.

Thanks for all you do.

Thank you, Norske, for explicatin’. I am sobered.

I live near Berkeley – multi-culti and educated core, poor black centers to either side, and quite some miles to the nearest poor white hoods. I find myself wondering if there were an uprising, who would come first? Which way would they be headed?

Can’t quite see Concord marching on Oakland, or Berkeley, or San Francisco. Should I be looking harder?

hey margot – if you are still around, your diary is at the top of the top 10 recommends.

i loved her sneakers and that she looks geeky – and comfy.

mmmm

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It so perfectly encapsulates the rot of greed and self-centeredness that has permeated our society. But something is going on; normally not hitting back earlier against a bully like JSM would earn you the scorn of the American people. Because, you know, if you’re not strong, you’re weak. And that means you’re a weakling. And that ain’t American. But that didn’t happen to Obama. My own cynical view is that people suddenly realize that they are among the weak, or could well be; and one tends to be less smug and self-congratulatory in those circumstances. Maybe you shouldn’t scorn the weak because, well, that could well be you.

(Actually, this is pretty close to Rawls’ basis for a just society: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rawls/)

wall hit. g’nite pups and thanks for hanging out with me tonight.

nite suz

g’nite suzi-q

“Any time there is an allegation regarding abuse of the privacy and civil liberties of Americans it is a very serious matter,” he said.

Yes indeed. Can’t have folks making allegations.

‘Nite, Suz. Sweet dreams to ye. And everyone else too… time to go wiggle toes with The Sweetie.

Be excellent.

Hey, I just got here.
What’s on my mind tonight?
PBS is doing fundraising, so they’re playing old videos of Roy Orbison.
Wow, the black horn-rim glasses!
But mainly, what a musician! Its in Black & White, but you can still feel the vibes between the musicians, and oh, what a voice! Orbison’s widow was there in the studio, and she said that when they drove home after the concert, she said he kept talking about how much he felt buoyed by the love in the room. The musicians looked like they were all having fun and just totally in the moment. His wife said they had just been through three days of grueling rehearsals, but all that work just flowed together in that performance. Everyone was just flowing with the vibes.

Now, I’m no professional musician, but I’ve been close enough to it several times that I’ve been on both sides of the microphone. So I know a little about what its like. And I really love watching the interactions among the musicians as well as hearing the performance.

Oh yeah. He had an acoustic upright bass player, not an electric bass. I would have loved to have that gig.

Bob in HI

I’m telling ya! A day late and a dollar short!

Aloha to all the departing pups! I shall join ‘em! Aloha Oe!!!

Citizen Hmmm:

The best reference I ken give ya is to the history of the fall of the Wiemar Republic and the rise of the Nazis…the families of the oligarchy and the industrial magnets thought that they could control Hitler and the mob of unwashed unemployed that he controlled…and they were OK as long as Hitler kept his little street army occupied with the Jews, Gypsies and Queers. By the time he had used ‘em ta rearm and rebuild it was too late and the great unwashed army was too big for the usual methods of social control.

As to who is gunna go after who…well think about it, the lefties, intellectuals and the blacks are gunna be the targets for the frustration of the great white mob directed by the corporatists. The American oligarchy learned from the Hitler experience…after all they funded ‘im.

If it’s the show I think it is, he has some backup band.

nite suzanne. you’re much appreciated.

Yes, the backup band was big and amazing. Only problem was that on our TV, the bass wasn’t coming through, and that bass player was laying down some great lines that I wish I could hear better. Maybe I’ll have to get the CDs. They’re calling it an “All-Star Band”.

The audience was not all that large. In fact, there may have been about as many members in the band as in the audience. It was like a night club with tables and stuff. But all eyes were on the stage.

Bob in HI

WELCOME TO BLACK FRIDAY.

Roubini nails it, again.

At this point the risk of an imminent stock market crash – like the one-day collapse of 20% plus in US stock prices in 1987 – cannot be ruled out as the financial system is breaking down, panic and lack of confidence in any counterparty is sharply rising and the investors have totally lost faith in the ability of policy authorities to control this meltdown.

This disconnect between more and more aggressive policy actions and easings and greater and greater strains in financial market is scary. When Bear Stearns’ creditors were bailed out to the tune of $30 bn in March the rally in equity, money and credit markets lasted eight weeks; when in July the US Treasury announced legislation to bail out the mortgage giants Fannie and Freddie the rally lasted four weeks; when the actual $200 billion rescue of these firms was undertaken and their $6 trillion liabilities taken over by the US government the rally lasted one day and by the next day the panic has moved to Lehman’s collapse; when AIG was bailed out to the tune of $85 billion the market did not even rally for a day and instead fell 5%. Next when the $700 billion US rescue package was passed by the US Senate and House markets fell another 7% in two days as there was no confidence in this flawed plan and the authorities. Next as authorities in the US and abroad took even more radical policy actions between October 6th and October 9th (payment of interest on reserves, doubling of the liquidity support of banks, extension of credit to the seized corporate sector, guarantees of bank deposits, plans to recapitalize banks, coordinated monetary policy easing, etc.) the stock markets and the credit markets and the money markets fell further and further and at an accelerated rates day after day all week including another 7% fall in U.S. equities today.

Sooo, got a sock soup recipe?

Attaturk is upstairs!
You couldn’t make this crap up

just boil’em up with tubers. taters, opinions n garlic :)

season to taste.