Warren Christopher and Sam Nunn? Ugh.

Righto. Change. Kennedys?

Ditto.

Once walking thru first class on an airplane, saw Warren Christopher. All that proves is that I should get a life. I’d never recognize any rock star or movie star or TV star.

There sure has been a lot of quiet on Richardson lately, and he did support Obama.

When is this vote on Lieberman supposed to take place? I have a bad feeling that I’m going to be pissed.

Morning Everyone,
Today is the day for many of the votes to be counted in Alaska too. That could be very interesting.

I’ve always liked Richardson. And, what a shame that Edwards can’t be AG. IMHO, He would have been great.

The flow chart has Richardson for Dept. of Interior.

My goodness gracious me. Edwards committed the ultimate sin for a D. Had an extramarital affair. Disqualifies him from all jobs. Or maybe he’s disqualified because he actually thinks about & defends the poor.

In a big sarcastic mood this morning, when I woke up to find out that Obama prohibits transition contributions from lobbyists but not from corporations. WJ callers got that one right on both sides. Today’s a day I wonder why I bothered getting up.

No Powell on anything. He was a willing (good soldier) for W’s war. That UN dog and pony show disqualifies him to serve in government again. He knowingly and willingly lied and caused the deaths of 10s of thousands. Not to be trusted.

No to Sam Nunn… loves the military and we need to shrink it down.

No to Gates - he went along with W

No to Summers, Geithner, Corzine and Rubin - all come from and led the firms that tanked the economy.

No to Hegal and Holbrooke - same old establishment rubbish.

Let’s see some new faces. Change we can Si Se Puede

*crossing fingers*

Powell is spread from DoS to DoD to D of Ed. Seems like on would get you busy enough.

No to Gates - he went along with W

I’m not as down on Gates as others. He didn’t really have a choice on going along with Bush. If I’m wrong, I’m sure someone here will enlighten me.

I want Freda Berrigan at DOD.

Why would Dean go for HHS?

This chart seems a little odd.

I am really, really hoping that Gore does indeed accept a position within the administration. I know that he has said in the past that he prefers to remain as an outside advocate, but how much more power to affect things from within the government?

I don’t know why they need to create a gig as “Climate Czar” however (first of all, as an historian of Russia, it is my fervent wish that the Obama administration will dispense with the use of the word “Czar”) (which is more commonly transliterated as “Tsar” anyhow). Here’s my most humble proposal: elevate the Environmental Protection Agency, finally, to a cabinet level position, and appoint Al Gore Secretary of Environmental Affairs.

Davis in DoJ tho :o

Indeed it will, a hearty palliative for those suffering from Election Withdrawal. I wonder whether they will update numbers as they count or in one fell swoop at the end of the (Alaskan) day. I suspect the latter.

Heh. You stuck in the prepostpartisan world? Gotta have a cabinet full of Rs to prove that Ds are real peeps. /s

Why wouldn’t he? It seems to me that he would be the perfect choice to help implement fundamental health care reform, given his medical background and experience implementing (near) universal health care as Governor of Vermont.

Right now, my concern is GM. Mr.Solai manages a Chevy Dealership. We haven’t yet felt the effects of a recession (except that Chevy no longer leases). But, I’m a tad worried.

Who is she? I’ve never heard of her
morning SD

I’m gonna suffer from prepostpartisan depression I think

Off to ready for work. And I think I’ll even be productive today.

Father Daniel Berrigan’s sister. Long time peace activist.

It might depend on whether the press is allowed to observe.

Actually, I’m not real happy with all the old Cold Warriors and their mindset moving into the 21st century.

So even for transition roles, we want them to search for some grad student working on a thesis with a radical new interpretation on the suject area? Personally, I voted for Obama as a pragmatist who would search for what worked and what was right, rather than an ideologue who would try to fit the world into a preconceived precise formula, like neoconservatism or unregulated free marked capitalism.

Please, Alaska, please. Don’t do to the rest of American what Connecticut did. Please redeem yourselves from the sin of sending Palin to plague us!

Fan of Anais Nin?

LOL.

Here’s my Q. Why did we bother electing a D prez if we’re gonna get a R cabinet. Oh never mind.

I think I’ll bore into my very local issue today cause I’m just too bummed out over the federal govt.

My very local issue is that Charlie, a bow & arrow hunter who’s a friend of my next door neighbor, has a tree stand 10′ off my property line, pointed at my fields, and, according to the second nicest man in the world, who has my permission to hunt on my property, Charlie put up a deer decoy right on the property line yesterday afternoon. Looking for creative solutions short of calling the environmental police. Talking nicely to Charlie does not seem to make a difference. Maybe a need a drone with remote control rockets. That would be the DOD solution.

This is like trying to pick the winners at the start of a marathon

So pragmatism & finding what works means having Rs in the cabinet? Thought that experiment proved what didn’t work.

I want Freda Berrigan at DOD.

oh, me too - that is a fucking brilliant SD idea.

course it would take you being potus to happen…. which, now that it occurs to me, is not a bad thought either.

Good Morning everyone…… What’s up?

why is the president -elect not going to campaign for martin? that guy really needs to get out the vote. Obama could help that.

Good morning ((((katymine)))).

Morning eCAHN.
What’s deer decoy? A fake deer?

((((katymine))))

i saw on a previous thread that you’d gotten your test result back. sending major hugs and all my good thoughts to you this morning.

I sure hope that he does but due to security concerns, the public probably would not know until a day or two beforehand.

morning katymine, Hugs to you.

I thought those decoys were illegal everywhere. I think it would also be illegal to kill a deer on your property even if he was off your property. First thing I’d do is call the fish and game people to have a little talk with him, check out his license and permit, etc. If that didn’t work I’d be looking for a solution to ensure that he abandoned the idea.

((((katymine))))

I sure as hell don’t want another Republican Adminstration, but I don’t have a problem if Obama thinks there may be one or so who can do a good job in specific cabinet posts. Roosevelt had several of them. I really didn’t have a problem with Cohen in Clinton’s Administration, having seen him perform almost heroically on the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate Impeachment Hearings.

Good morning (((katymine)))

i don’t know that Corzine had anything - or very much - to do with tanking the economy. and he reportedly hated paulson so that’s a plus in my book. maybe it’s just the NJ in me but I think we can do alot worse than Corzine aand think he’s being vetted and must be consdiered a top contender.

Hey Kate! I did the visualization last night. This morning, when the house gets quiet, I’ll do it again.

Apparently. I haven’t seen it myself, so relying on report from my hunter friend. Supposed to be a buck, and most permits are for bucks, so my obvious Q was whether it was to attrack gay bucks, but the A was that it’s small and supposed to attract larger bucks into defending their territory.

Don’t ask me. I’m just reporting.

Not none o’ me. Never been comfortable telling others what to do. World’s lousiest control freak. Pretty good procrastinator, though.

hope so. one of the cable channels was aying ghe wasn’t going to go there himnself but was leaving his GA organization intact. msnbc?? i forget.

What is a deer decoy? A plastic one? With lipstick?

Thank you and all of you…..

I’m trying to work….. first they want me to configure special windows in the application then they want me to delete them…..

Hey katymine. Hugs.

My hunter friend thinks it can be handled without calling in the authorities. A sure solution is for me to do some work during hunting hours on my property in the area of his tree stand. As you know, calling the cops on your neighbor is a last resort, as blowback can be a bitch.

Thanks. You do have a large piece of property, don’t you. If there was a plastic buck on my property, I’d see it. Hell, my yard’s so small, he’s probably have his head in my kitchen window.

I don’t think that a bow and arrow have near the range of a rifle.

Napolitano. Dean.

There’s change, all right.

Umm, what if you put up a big plastic grizzly bear? Or, a big plastic hunter. You know, a natural enemy decoy.
I’m just getting a giggle imagining how this thing could go. You add one. He adds one. Could be something, huh?

Deer Decoy

Deer are a herd animal and if they think that someone has found food they will see what the other is eating. Fall is when the male dear loose their antlers and fall is the rutting season which is the breading season. Deer also is a harem herd animal with usually one buck and many does. The buck defends his harem from other males.

Ok I did learn something from Dad …. the wildlife biologist…. :)

eCAHN had it right. Small male or female made out of plastic to attract bucks. Outlawed everywhere I’ve ever lived. Not much different than baiting. Saves the big brave hunters from having to wander around in the woods looking for something to kill.

eCAHN - come to think of it you could build a large enclosure in the middle of your field and foster a big cat, e.g., lion, leopard, cougar, tiger. *g*

That’s an excellent idea. Something really noisy.

You’re right about calling in the law on a neighbor.

So cute!
That’s what I figured they were. I feel like such a city girl for having to ask.

50 acres. But my neighbor has only 6 acres. So it’s hard to kill a deer on that small a patch. I haven’t posted my property since my husband died in 1987 (he did it before that) because I haven’t had a problem. But since the stand went up, I surrounded it with posted signs. Actually thankful Charlie’s a bow & arrow hunter. Rifle would be far worse. When my friend hunts (all 3 seasons), I can tell he’s there because his car is parked in my driveway. When the neighbor friend hunts, I have no idea he’s out there. I’m out & about clearing brush (yes, have that in common with W) & other stuff often & rifles can fire a long long way.

Nope and bow hunters are notorious for wounding. Had a bunch of them in Oregon. Spent more time gettin’ snakebit than hunting.

lol.

The beginnings of a tourist trap.

Charlie’s a poacher.

I wonder if a lot of pink lawn flamingoes might be a cheap (both meanings)way ruin the decoy effect.

Love you all for contributing suggestions to my very local problem. My hunter friend will be knocking on my door in about another 10 minutes & I’ll get this morning’s update. Will let y’all know.

Heh. Maybe I should write a diary? *g*

That’s not good. You have a right to be safe from arrows on your own property.

101 easy ways to annoy and thwart shitheads.

Do it! A nice diversion.

How about planting trees by his lookout?

Oh, for sure. What a hoot!

There’s a deer whistle that goes underneath the car. I had one because I can’t afford to drive into deer having a very small car. Maybe an automatic deer whistle for Charlie.

Damn things would probably attract deer out of curiosity. *g*

Hey Bambi, what’re those things?

Make sure you wear something bright if you are out there

Morning Loo Hoo.
So, you’re stuck with Issa again?
I suggest we pass on another interview. :)

The deer I am acquainted with are not afraid of anything when they see a plant they like. But maybe in hunted territory, a big waving mickey mouse that lights up might warn them away from charlie.

There’s also ersatz urine as well.

Yeah, could be. Or I guess she could suddlenly find double-wide trailers going up on her property.

If you do that then I’ll have to do one on my problem with a neighbor’s dog. (Big, stupid dog that gets our dogs riled up when he comes over. Thought he was harmless until he grabbed my wife’s arm one day–didn’t break the skin but made me really mad.)

Speaking of karma, I have a small patch of woods in the far back corner (most of the property is fields). It’s full of dead wood that has fallen off the trees. I’ve been gradually picking it up and carting it off to the burn pile. In the middle of the summer, while listening to a book about Atilla the Hun, specifically a part about how some Hungarian equestrian decided to figure out how Atilla could ride so fast & shoot arrows at the same time, I bent over & picked up an arrow! I showed it to my hunter friend, who said it wasn’t his & was probably 10-15 years old. I often see deer in that patch of woods, so someone was hunting there without permission, when I spent less time at the property.

Ack!

I second both Berrigan at DOD and your nominee for potus, selise.

SD for President!!!

You might be on to something. They could wear their plaid shorts and pastel or polka dot shirts up there instead of down here.

back in the olden days when I worked in the hospital some of the worse accidents victims were hunting and deer stand accidents….. The guys get up in the stand and get so excited seeing a deer that dumb things happen. The first is that they don’t use the safety belt that keeps prevents them from falling the 10ft or so…… then there are the gun/bow injuries…… don’t miss those days….

Geithner’s probably the best of the lot for that post.

Looking at some of the other posts: Tim Roemer would be an OK choice for HS, especially as he was behind the original Homeland plan the Rove butchered. But James Lee Witt was the last guy to run FEMA right, so putting him in at Homeland Security would be perfect. Again, much of this is about restoring the institutional memory that got trashed when the anti-government folks had complete control (and did things like turning FEMA back into the turkey farm it was under Reagan and the first Bush).

Same with Gephardt and Bonior at Labor: Either would work.

Bill Richardson at Interior? Faboo!

Janet Napolitano at DoJ? YES! Doooo eeeet!

Max Cleland at VA? Doooo eeeet!

John Kerry at State? Doooo eeeet! (Watch as the Stateies purged by Bush come back now that sanity has been restored.)

By the way, I’m really surprised that this list doesn’t have Chuck Hagel over at DoD for the obligatory Republican pick. Hagel was one of the Republican voices that most forcefully spoke out against the planned invasion of Iraq back in the summer of 2002. Then again, there is a reason why Gates is apparently sticking around: He’s overseeing what looks to be a de facto withdrawal from Iraq (shhh, don’t tell the wingnuts!), so I suspect that Obama doesn’t want to interfere with that.

Well, that’s another problem. Same neighbor’s dog poops on my property and in the summer I walk around barefoot a lot. Stepped in it once & talked with them, but despite saying the right things, dog continues to wander over here. I’ve decided that is low on my list so ignore it. Dog is big & black, but apparently not a biter.

When you are not in the country house, you’re in Manhattan, correct?
Have you heard Woody Allen’s bit on The Moose?

I love audiobooks. Odysseus with a good reader is quite an experience.
If we were to gross out demi, we could talk of back country methods for keeping deer out of Charlie’s range: human hair, urine, have I forgot anything else.

John Kerry at State? Doooo eeeet! (Watch as the Stateies purged by Bush come back now that sanity has been restored.)

What would be even nicer is if State Dept could get as much funding as DOD. Badly need to demilitarize foreign policy, but I don’t hold out much hope.

These are precisely the reasons why you would be the best possible choice for potus; they are evidence of perspective and wisdom, SD.

Those who are reluctant to ‘run’ things, are the only ones we should ever trust to do so.

Besides, you understand.

;~D

I listen to about 40-50 audio books/year. Addiction.

Hell, I’m still waiting for Feurae to cross my path. Noticed a new litter of feral tigers on the fenced property at the end of the alley. House has been vacant and for sale for at least a year. Tigers love it. Gotta catch that female but can’t get anywhere near her and don’t want to use a trap. I’m the only one who doesn’t let their tigers out.

Christy’s up
The Winter Of GOP Discontent

No. Not familiar with Woody Allen on moose. Is it a YouTube?

Damn, I’d like to be able to read that many books a year.

You could also put up a Dick Cheney decoy - should keep any sane person away

Well, I’m less critical and sarcastic now than I was in 2000 and 2004.

There is a Feurae in your future, SD.

The tigers know the truth of what I’ve been saying.

I dunno PW. For me, the speculation about cabinet picks is nowhere near as fun as the run-up to the election and cjhecking the tracking polls and the speeches and the dumb questions and th idiot surrogates. it was all so exciting and nothing can replace that fix. I’ll trust you on this.

Holding an 8 gauge shotgun aimed directly at the deer stand.

Deer stands. City hunters came into Imnaha and built deer stands. End of deer season we’d go around and tear ‘em all down, partially burn the wood and leave it at the base of the tree.

There’s a deer whistle that goes underneath the car.

If a deer hunter mounted one of those whistles on his car/truck *backwards*, would it attract deer for him while he was just out drivin’ around?

Gotta have my political fix.

Ah, the Rube Goldberg of the 21st century.

Yes on youtube. I tried to copy the youtube url, but I’m having trouble.
Look it up for a laugh.

I’ve seen a couple of lean tigers around the office in the last couple weeks. Newcomers. Just watchin’.

The Moose

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool. The primary cause of my not being able to read 40-50 books a year. Shit.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

That ..um ‘person’ could depopulart an entire nation before breakfast, and not think a ‘thing’ about it.

Of course such a visage might empty a woodlot of all ‘life’ forms, excepting those which feel some kind of ‘kinship’ with um… slugs, slime molds … deadly viruses …

On second thought, that is not being fair to slugs, slime molds or deadly viruses …

Well, that cinches it, Cheney is in a ‘class’ by himself.

Atwater and Rove are contendahs …

Thanks! I hope eCAHN watches it. It always cracks me up.

Paintball the decoy with neon colors.

Put up a “decoy” Santa on your side of the property line opposite the deer decoy…Make sure there are packages wrapped in shiny bright foil wrapping in Santa’s sack and around his feet.

Or find a very large mooning gnome….

Hook up a loud speaker system to motion control sensors aimed at the stand so when he goes out to climb up into it the National Anthem blares. The blaring music will scare the crud out the hunter and the deer.

YES!

i like this, and i would like to add-

deer stay clear of the scent of human during hunting season.

one word-urine.