Zed, and this for Edward Teller if he is at the lake.
Edward Teller, remember me? I informed you that the Google names Young Alaska’s Senator? Back when you had *** in your name? Got my first ROTFL from you. May have been last, for all I know,
Anyway, I am redipping into the lake after a prolonged absence and wondering if you had posted your views on the current electoral situation.

Zed again. My first response vanished.

Anyway, thanks for the Awwwwwwkward. memorable lines of Bidens,

“For every American who is trying to do the right thing, for all those people in government who are honoring their pledge to uphold the law and respect our Constitution, no longer will the eight most dreaded words in the English language be: ‘The vice president’s office is on the phone.’”

O’Reilly in the morning…ugh. I have to go back to bed and purge the imagery.

G’morning, y’all.

I admire Hillary but I’ll be disappointed if she gets SOS. I had wanted her to be involved with Universal Health Care.

So why all these leaks from O all of a sudden, after a leak-free campaign? Something doesn’t make sense.

Try this. He’s still on top of it.

Morning BT
If Palin was to make it to DC E! would become one of the major news outlets

You been roamin’ around in my brain? Rahm joins the team and it springs leaks and he’s known as a leaker. Put a cork in it, Rahm.

She is well respected abroad but I also am disappointed. I wanted her to be attorney general and then move on to the Supreme Court.

Is it as easy as that? Why does Rahm leak and why doesn’t O shut him up? We’ve been told that O does not brook any incompetence.

She doesn’t have the legal experience to be competent at either venue.

Prolly only part of it. The campaign was a tight knit operation. The transition, not so much.

Hillary’s too old for SCOTUS. Both side are now looking for much younger people (Roberts & Alito in their 50s) to maintain their stamp on the court for a long long time.

That makes sense. Transition has so many more moving pieces than the campaign and needs to talk to so many more people on the outside to vet candidates. Thanks for helping me think this thru.

What we’re hearing may very well be ferreting out those who leak. Plant a different name with different people and see what name(s) appear in the media.

Two words Trial Balloon

I thought about that before I asked, but rejected it because it’s so useless (or so I think). Everybody knows what all the factions think about all the major players and all you hear when you send up a trial balloon is stuff you already knew. Raises a lot of problems (people whose names get in the news but who don’t get jobs are not endeared to O) with little obvious benefits.

If Hillary were to take a cabinet position, would NY State have a special election to replace her? Who would the front runners be?

It also leaves the impression that the team is leaving no stone unturned and that the final selection has been very carefully selected.

speaking of Rahm, his father opened his mouth and made some worst fears feel true.

Representative Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff, called the president of an Arab-American group today to apologize for comments his father made to an Israeli newspaper.

In the remarks, Benjamin Emanuel discussed the potential impact of his son’s new position on U.S.-Israeli relations.

“Obviously he’ll influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why wouldn’t he? What is he, an Arab? He’s not going to be mopping floors at the White House,” the elder Mr. Emanuel told the Israeli daily Ma’ariv, according to English-language reports in The Jerusalem Post and The Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Mr. Obama’s campaign declined to address the issue.
my bold

Senate replacements named by the governor. Replacement for House members requires election.

So far, other than the leak that Rahm would be Chief of Staff, do we know for a fact that any of the supposed leaks are in fact leaks. So far, it seems like the MSM have ended up retracting most of the info they “learned” from sources within the Obama transition staff.

and good morning fellow pups,
I agree, TRIAL BALLOON, would rather see Hillary in the Senate, imo that’s where she can be most effective — following in the Teddy Kennedy mold.

That was predictable, n’est pas?

Looks like Obama is feeding more than two birds with that scone. Get Rahm out of the House, a sop to AIPAC and a competent, hopefully, COS.

inevitable

Yes, I’ve read/heard that too. But the leaks continue. So the issue keeps boiling. We’ll know at some point in the not too distant future, but meanwhile …

Perhaps the team is just sneaking these names out to fuck with the media. Watch them fall all over themselves.

Don’t know who the possibilities are, but one name that comes immediately to mind is Andrew Cuomo. He is currently AG and clearly has strong political ambitions (father was gov for many years & had prez aspirations), following in the pattern of Spitzer. I don’t know much about him yet, so don’t have a feel for whether he’s in the running or whether he’d be good if he got the job.

That seems too petty and pointless for O’s style.

How about Barry Scheck, founder of the Innocence Project, as AG.

I know, but it’s fun to think about.

I love this guy Eric Margolis on WJ. He says all the same stuff that I think I’ve learned about the Muslim world over the years. I think I haven’t read much of what he’s written, but will look for it in the future.

What, USA-CIA-ma Bin Laden is still alive. I am so scared. No evidence is presented to prove this. Should we believe a loyal Bushie or Benazir Bhutto? Of course this is the bad member of the Bin Laden family, unlike the good ones who are long time partners with the Bush Crime Family.

But, believe half of what you see, and nothing what you hear. The previous Bin Laden “tapes” were released by a mysterious group SITE, possibly a M*SS*D false flag operation. Why should we believe any of this?

Some Jews from prominent families were arrested and charged with spying for Israel, among them Katz’s father. After he was imprisoned, his wife and children were transported to Baghdad and kept under house arrest in a stone hut. Katz’s father was convicted in a military tribunal and executed, in 1969, with eight other Jews and five non-Jews, in a public hanging in Baghdad’s central square. Hundreds of thousands of cheering Iraqis attended; the government offered free transportation to people from the provinces, and belly dancers performed for the crowd. Katz was six years old.

After the family had been living in the hut for months, Katz’s mother drugged the guards and escaped with the children. By pretending to be the wife of a well-known Iraqi general, a woman she faintly resembled, she got the family first to the Iranian border and then to Israel.

Now there’s a creative thought.

Wikipedia deleted the information on Benjamin Emanuel. It had a brief history..mentioned the terror attacks he was involved with, the original family name, and the comment about mopping floors.

I’m not watching. What’d he say? Short list?

yeah, who are we to decide how other cultures should live?

e.g. I’m for doing what we can to free women from the Burka but not on pain of their death.

I should have said co-founder. Can’t short sheet Peter Neufeld.

It’s been my experience that only people who are insecure in their own beliefs feel the need to tell other people what they should believe.

PTSD is being treated with Exstasy. Whudathunk.

Emphasizes all the attacks of U.S. on Islam (I forget the # but it’s in the neighborhood of a couple dozen) in the last 20 years. Taliban, Hamas, Hezzies have local support because they provide services that the national govts don’t. Afghanistan is a run-o-mill Pashtun insurgency against occupying power with no military soln. Terrorism is no threat to U.S. but is an intelligence/police issue, etc.

Likes Richardson for SecState & mentioned one other name I’ve forgotten.

Thanks.
I only know what my sissie tells me about Islam, the religion.
But, I hear you talking about the political side of the issue.
Interesting. I’m intrigued by the relationship between government and religion.

I’d like to see a much larger clinical trial with this. Sounds promising but having been a part of the PTSD treatment milieu from almost the beginning I want to see a lot more clinical evidence with combat veterans, rape and other survivors.

And pain is much better treated with heroine than with the fancy patented drugs of Big Pharma. But dya think that the western countries will buy up the Afghan crop & use it to treat pain cheaply?

that would be too easy
and , god forbid, might chip into Big Pharma’s synthetic opioid industry.

Here’s his book.
http://www.amazon.com/American…..1554700876

im sorry Hill for SoS does not represent change…I WANT A DIPLOMAT,ill take Riggs Bank investigator Kerry for 100 Alex!

Hell, doctor’s won’t even prescribe narcotics to people in their 80s because they’re afraid the patient will become addicted. Drove my arthritic MIL to commit suicide at 85. I’m still pissed about that.

good mornin,E
i can never ,ever understand why Pain management is SOOOOOOO undertreated in the USA…PAIN MAKES YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE SKYROCKET!!!
dayuuuuuuuuuuuum

good mornin dear read #50

I have a niece with chronic pain from a whiplash type injury. She just went off complicated painkillers onto a heroine based drug within the last several months. Much more clear headed, less pain, less expensive, fewer side effects. She’s the one who asked my why the U.S. didn’t buy up the Afghan crop. Having figured it out years ago, I ’splained the facts-o-life to her.

btw my mother was a merciless shortsheeter

oh and Hills Israeli stance on Iran,disqualifies her in my book

Again, thanks.

Brainwashed by Pharma.

Thought some might enjoy reading this from the Asian Times:

US demand for highly polluting coal and overseas oil means that energy features in every major challenge – the economy, the environment and foreign policy – facing president-elect Barack Obama. A major White House-led initiative on the scale of the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic bomb, is required to resolve a crisis that increases in magnitude by the day.

Whole article here:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/G…..5Dj02.html

sorry no,he worked to free OJ,the killer,bad judgement

I can’t imagine living in pain. We treat our animals more humanely than we treat actual humans. I’ll never understand it.

Alveda was a very talented woman. Did china painting. Had her own kiln in the garage, the whole bit. I grew a moustache just before leaving for Nam the first time. She painted a china moustache cup for me. Real gold all around the rim. I still have and cherish it. Nobody touches that cup but me.

yes ,and good morning,its been dreary here for a week,and IM still on my OBIE HIGH and smilin

Had to rub my eyes… For a moment I thought you typed Palin, not pain…

It is kind of fun to read your comment with “Palin” substituted for pain.

Incompetent prosecuters is not a bad reflection on defense lawyers.

i had break bone fever for 6 months till it was diagnosed….i wanted to die about 4 months in,weighed 85 lbs………..it was teh awful ,i was only 24

Not bad judgment, doing his job. Scheck is a crackerjack.

me too
hahahahhaahahahahahahaha
every time i see that word it reminds me of her…..
synonymous?

Clips of the Cheney-Biden visit last night brought back memories of Thanksgiving with my late in-laws.

yes but OJ did it,and the DNA science was spot on,he twisted the truth
(father was a Hemotologist,we owned labs)

708!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! first huge laugh

the DNA evidence was spot on,i rest my case

((((sadlyyes))))

Hope all is OK now.

Just thinking on my feet, but wonder if single payer medical care wouldn’t be more likely to do a better job on pain management, as they’re not earning a lot more money by seeing the same person over & over again. Does anyone know what the evidence is? Do European/Canadian systems do a better job on that, or are they just as much in Pharma’s pocket as in the U.S.? (I know they pay lower prices for pharmas, but do they use them when something simpler will do?)

Yes, I agree with you, but the prosecution didn’t make the case. They were truly buffoons. The glove thing would have been easily countered by bringing in 2 pairs of gloves, one new, the other the same size but have been wettened then dried. But the prosecution missed all that.

oh yea,my dad finally figured it out,but it was a big mystery,i used to rock with pain,then they gave me a Dialaudin,which made me feel like i already died….the best ,and safest pain pills were qualudes ,someone from Europe sent me,and got me through till i was diagnosed,no after effects thank the good lord

Elliot, are you here?
Can you tell us when the Name The Book title winner will be announced?

OMG
Error In Justice: Siegelman Prosecutors Sent Notes Back And Forth To Jurors DURING Deliberations
Christy’s on it

MSNBC – Obama to meet with McCain on Monday…

Although he may not have the credentials for Attorney General and I don’t know if he’s even interested, but I would sure like to see Former NAVY JAG Charles Swift offered something meaningful in DOJ. He showed real courage and understanding of justice in representing Hamdan and was soon passed over twice for promotion, ending his Navy career.

the DNA was spot on,it actually was jury nullification i believe
and lookee here

killer good shoes

http://images.usatoday.com/tec…..n-main.jpg

oo I dunno,
it will prolly take Christy a couple days to stop laughing first )

amen

wow,ya think its a money thing,how disgusting is that?

Just read Christy’s post. Absolutely head shaking failure by DOJ…

wtf for?

okay, then.
stringing us along?
i’d be here anyway. :)

DHS…

It worked so well in the debate, why not try it again?

BLITZER: Right now a big issue, should the U.S. government, the federal government bail out the Detroit — the big three automakers?

PALIN: Oh, that is the discussion of the day. And there is going to come a point here where absolutely the federal government must play an appropriate role in shoring up some of these industries that are hurting and will ultimately hurt our entire economy and the world’s economy if there aren’t some better decisions being made.

But we also have to start shifting some debate here in our country and start talking about personal responsibility and responsibility of management in some of these corporations and companies so that from henceforth it’s not assumed that the federal government is going to be bailing out everybody who is going to soon line up, Wolf, for more taxpayer assistance.
And I’m talking about personal responsibility too in terms of homeowners and in terms of folks who maybe have extended their own credit. Sure, predatory lenders are to blame in all of this also, but we have got to make sure, for instance, we’re not talked into buying a $300,000 house, because really we know we can only afford a $100,000 house.

And we’ve got to start living those lessons that we try to teach our children in terms of not living beyond our means and extending our own personal credit to the point of not being able to pay our monthly bills and then expecting government to grow and be the answer.

BLITZER: So, sorry, I’m still waiting for the answer, should the government bail out the big three automakers?

mebbe department of AGE-ed politicians?
“g”

A defense attorney’s first consideration is his/her client. We all know OJ did it. His defense was more than ably assisted by incompetent prosecutors and a joke for a judge. Marcia Clark and Lance Ito did more to free OJ than his defense team did.

henceforth
————-
do ya think she knows the definition of that word?”g”

Hopefully to see if McCain can get Palin to STFU.

I’m agreeing with you, with one exception. Your beef is with the prosecutors, not the defense.

well ok ,but why help,still say it was jury nullification,they liked OJ at the time, i met him once, a real charmer,he was much younger and seemed affable,but who knows his demons

Bawhahahahaha

BLITZER: So sorry…

We are all sorry she is in politics BLITZ…

oh that would be worth it!

probably not since she said “from henceforth”.

Obama to meet with McCain on Monday

CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama’s transition office says the Democrat will meet with vanquished Republican rival John McCain on Monday.

In announcing the meeting, Obama spokesman Stephanie Cutter said the pair will :”discuss ways to work together” to improve the quality of government and services to the people.

Cutter also said the two will be joined at Obama’s Chicago transition office by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a McCain confidant, and Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois Democrat whom Obama has chose to be his White House chief of staff.

don’t forget the profound jury deliberations.

yea,but when i heard him giving evidence,he just muddied the waters.blood samples do not decompose as quickly as he wanted the jury to believe,our samples were left in a lock box outdoorrs for hours before pick up…just sayin

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Is this to move a bipartisan bailout plan for the auto makers and Obama wants McCain to lead the Reps…?

Lindsay Weenie too…………bletch

that really is priceless…..hahhahahahahahahaha
cant stop chuckling

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

I can’t prove it, but I suspect during the 1970’s Wasilla must have had a lot of teachers with favorites and graded on popularity rather than academic skills or work.

So far all of the leaks, Raaaaahhhhm, Biden, were true.

To even consider Hillary for that position is a fu**ing insult to those of us who supported Obama over Hillary. Her foreign policy drove us to him in the first place.
Her all Israel, pr-war, pro-cluster bomb use and bullying attitudes are despicible credentials for that job.

With her donors all from Wall Street even having her around our Health policy decisions gave me the creeps.
But State?? This won’t be one of those decisions we politely disagree with Obama on.
This is a deadly serious and blatant FU** YOU to the Left.
And the end of the dream.

Foreign policy She represented everything we did NOT want

twolf1@96: What can I say? The older I get, the more I forget. Did Kennedy meet with Nixon? Did LBJ host Goldwater? Is Tinkerbell among the invitees?