good morning

im in sunny crooked Florida this am

is that Jane in the video?

wow JANE ROCKS

Where in FL are you?

And no, that’s not Jane. It’s her twin sister. *g*

okay, so gates fer a year. that ain’t so bad. is it? sure do luv ta see jane on teevee.

Morning all,
Jane looked great on the HD last night

ok where is everybody?

OT. Next mtg of G20 in London on April 2 and Obama is going

Jane, you made excellent points while sounding so much more intelligent than all the right-wing pundits out there — and you looked great, too! Here’s hoping to see more of you on the tube in the weeks and months to come.

in Miami,you more north,no? love to have a cuppa with you!

it’snly 0515 out here on the left coast. folks be a sleepin.

Jaane could be the next liberal media STAR!!!

In Gulfport, the southern end of St Petersburg, and across the bay from Tampa.

(((katymine)))

(((wobblybits))) who I haven’t seen in over a week. Had a respiratory infection and I hope she’s doin’ OK.

she’s about to take hold in the mainstream. go jane.

Barbara Bush rushed to the hospital.

Well, like my momma used to always say sometimes…

“If ya can’t say anything nice…”

and I can’t.

aw shucks ,heres one for you,sent with my best regards!

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Rachel could do well to have some “lefty” bloggers on regularly.

yes 2 super duper “lovelies of the lake”

heres a cuppa to get cha goin

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hey – *smile* when you say “lefty”, pardner. *g*

(on the teevee, it’s pretty much a dirty-word description)

Mornin’, everyone. Appropriately chilly in MN this morning. And the recount goes on. 899,000…899,001…899,002…899,004…oops. Start over.

Rachel’s gonna change that, and by extension so are we.

Good morning. Did I miss anything?

democracynow just ripped Janet Napolitano to shreds.

Lambert, of Correntewire, thinks that Obama’s campaign’s actions have been, at times, Nazi-like, and has made the comparison on both his blog and over at talkleft. Apparently, some members of the blogosphere have no problem with such offensive comparisons.

What’s the problem with Janet?

(bows) Konnichiwa, Lady Jane. You were great on Rachel last night. I particularly liked your saying it’s not who they are but what they do, referring to appointments. Your comment regarding anti-war supporters was also right on. I was hoping I wasn’t going to have to make up all new signs for Afghanistan but…

In addition to seeing more of Jane have to see more of David Sirota, Christy Hardin Smith, Marcy Wheeler, Greenwald, Thom Hartman and even Ed Shultz. America is tired of the wax dipped ossified celebrity news readers, pundits and bloviators. They all chose poorly and their failures have been exposed for all to see. Enough of celebrity journalism. May they all enjoy their retirements.

Who on DN ripped her?

Morning all!! The caffeine is just starting to kick in!!

Good morning Jane. Super job on TV.

Morning Jane and all Lakers. I’m disillusioned with some of Obama’s appointments and direction. He’s the highest elected plutocrat and I fear he will follow the first and only rule of the plutocracy which is, protect the plutocracy.

Gawd I love Jane! She is the perfect representation of the Lefty Blogosphere and our issues.

About Barack….most of us supported other presidential candidates before him and some didn’t really know his actual record. They bought into the MSM’s assertion that he was the most liberal progressive ever in the history of the Senate. So not true. I’m with Jane….he’s not a progressive in terms of the way we think of it. He doesn’t have the fiesty-ness as Dennis Kucinich had and has in forcing the Bush Regime to it’s knees (though, I wished he did!), but Obama will be good for our country, nonetheless, once he’s officially in (he’s already making a difference now). We just have to be on his back each and every day to make sure he doesn’t slip to the right! Keeping Gates on means he doesn’t want much change over in the ME and that is worrisome. Why not a Wesley Clark in there instead?

Okay, going to work. Great job Jane!

She’s the most hawkish D on immigrants. Basically has militarized the interior of AZ, so that driving while brown is reason to be stopped, and any reporting of crime by immigrants (incluing legal, of course, because who can tell the difference) will result in investigation for reasons to deport. So they don’t drive, they don’t report crime. She was in constant touch with Chertoff to get ICE agents to come to do enforcement. She also supports a sheriff who is reponsible (in his own words) of feeding green baloney to jailed immigrants, and under whom several immigrants have died in jail. That’s just a flavor. The whole program will be posted at democracynow.org in a couple of hours.

Rule attributed to Walt Disney.

Don’t remember the name of the guest, but she’s an immigrants’ rights worker.

Morning all. Snow covering the ground here in CNY.
Yep, it’s nice to see liberals on teevee for a change. Going to be hard for the right to keep pushing that ‘pajama clad kid eating cheetoes in their mom’s basement’ meme if this keeps up.

Listening the the Bill Press radio show. He’s interviewing the mayor of Lansing, MI who is kicking ass! Talking about the hypocrisy of Washington and Wall Street. Can be heard on KPOJ in Portland, OR. Don’t have a link but they live stream.

Gotta cook up a storm today, so off for now. BBL.

Anyone feeling sorry for Biden? Not to mention that he’s a smart guy who could be valuable. He needs something to do. Something defined. I know that his role is just to be available, but I’d much rather see him more involved.

ok more java,im back

Maybe he is?

Plotting how to invade Pakistan.

I’d like to see what Tariq Ali has to say about what’s going on in Pakistan and along the border with Afghanistan.

Bidens been involved in every major decision that Obama’s made so far.
He has been acting in the role of advisor.

Ahmed Rashed was on Fresh Air (NPR) yesterday saying, among other things of course, that Biden would be in Europe the week of the Inaguration to drum up troops for Afganistan.

i would like him to oversee the doj and get green goin.

I wonder how many countries are willing to engage in that predictable disaster.

Damn, reply link didn’t work. That was for oldnslow at 48.

Jane, woman to woman, you looked like a million bucks last night on Rachel. I was up all night with a wonderful stomach bug and I think I saw the damned show three times through the night, so I got AMPLE opportunity to make this observation. I didn’t throw up ONCE while you were on the screen – and that’s a litmus test you can take to the bank!

may i say that holidaze suck as compared to Hollandaise

According to Rashed, both Denmark and Sweden have already announced a commitment to send combat troops. (I have not verified through another source.)

lol

Maddow claims the left isn’t as far left as one would think.
I don’t know if that’s true .I think us liberals are more pragmatic than given credit for.

Jane you make a great spokesperson for the left ,you can help dispel the myth that us liberals are a bunch of pot smoking DFHs.

i agree

Great to see Jane on the show.

And speaking of “Liberal Disillusionment” I am currently royally pissed at Rachel Maddow for forgetting that she’s a lesbian while interviewing Mike Huckabee.

This is a topic of considerable contention over at Pam Spaulding’s.

The Magic 8 Ball is saying a buildup in Afghanistan will require the reinstatment of the draft. Two combat brigades will not be sufficient to turn the tide after 8 years of Republican failures in stabilizing the region.

These people ignore history at their peril.

………….. I didn’t throw up ONCE while you were on the screen

I guess you could call that a compliment !!

But…but… damn, where’s my pipe?

what? she didn’t try to cut himoff at the knees? she was civil? it’s an outrage. :)

chimp drinking pisco sours…he never stopped drinking!

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Also SD Rashed, who was currently in Spain, said what he was hearing every place he went was that no country would say no to Obama for at least 3-6 months.

I have a problem with short term memory loss too !

What would that have to do with conducting an interview?

Saw that ,maybe it was non-alchoholic

Ya right!!!!!!!

Unfortunately, any commitment of troops would last much longer than 3-6 months. Meanwhile, the Afghans will be picking them off 1 by 1.

When he choked on a pretzel, I pretty much knew he hadn’t given up drinking.

Off to swim in the great imperialist capitalist cesspool.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

Namaste, SD.

Good Morning, Morning Edition/NPR had big piece on MILK and extensive historical background.

ayup

great day for ya !

I’m off work today so I’ll be able to watch the Obama presser. I heard on MSNBC that he was sweating bullets yesterday. Is that so?

I’d love to see Bin Laden [edited by moderator], but Afghanistan is a trap.
We’ll get sucked in like we’re in quicksand,
The Russians found this out when they tried to fight there!

[Mod Note: In the comments at FDL, please do not suggest harm or violence on anyone, no matter who it is. Thanks.]

later dude!!

To say nothing of the British in the 1840s. Whipped by a bunch of ragtag dudes with homemade, repeat homemade, rifles called jazails that were more accurate than British muskets.

What is goin’ on with the reply link? That was for billybugs at 77.

Sorry Mr Mod I’ll be more careful next time !!

The corporate media has been keeping Bush’s drinking out of the news. He’s the only drunk that is deserving of ending up in the gutter.

I agree with all that say that Afghanistan is quicksand. But, what to do? This is where I want to see the U.S. be smart for a change. Read somewhere that we should buy all their poppy for medicinal use. Gives the Afghanis an income, keeps it off the streets, we don’t spend all of our time burning poppy fields and we don’t impoverish the country. That’s not the answer to all of the problems but it made sense and it may be a start. But, Obama can’t believe that we can go in with guns blazing and accomplish much.

They also had a longer range than the British muskets and the Afghani’s were expert marksman on horseback.

I doubt that Afghani farmers will give up their lucrative poppy crops for watermelons or pomegranites.

I hope he is a drunk. I hope he’s the most miserable son of a bitch on this sorry planet. Everytime I see him acting jolly, I get so angry I could scream. I hope privately he’s so freeking miserable that being drunk is the only way he can cope. I want nothing good to happy to him for the rest of his sorry life. And I want him to know that the rest of the world wishes him the same.

Exactly. So let’s cut the bull and buy it from them. Put it to good use.

i like it. buy the crops. i’ll bet bama will rethink a direct assault in afg. troops fer stability? maybe.

Bush kept Tenet and then Tenet took a fall and later Bush gave the Presidential Metal of Freedom to him. If the wars don’t go well I guess Gates would be blamed. Maybe a smart move. Also, if BO keeps a few people from Bush adm maybe he’ll be able to get info he wouldn’t other wise be able to get on Bush.

Jane,
I’m proud for what you have accomplished! Good job and keep it up!

Now that would be delightful.

And not only does she make sense when she speaks but I can actually understand what she is saying– not to name any names or anything.

Aarti Shahani, Researcher with Justice Strategies, teaches at New York University, and co-founded Families for Freedom.

Great Job Jane, as always.
A breath of fresh air.

I agree about Obama and centrist. Throughout the primary I was amazed at how many seemed to think he was the most progressive pol to ever come down the pike.
It isn’t difficult to do research and look at records. A simple and quick search of one or two of the non partisan sites that do analysis of Congress makes it pretty clear.
He has been rated as “rank and file” Democrat.

Ironically according to the analysis Hillary Clinton is to the left of Obama. govtrack.us calls her “far left.”

Anyway, great to see you- a refreshing break from the professional hate-mongers and self important opinionators (tech term)that have been a constant source of frustration the last couple of years.

I’m pretty sure Rachel didn’t forget that she’s a lesbian during the Huckabee interview. She adheres to the view that her role is to facilitate civil discourse. Not necessarily make nice, but be civil.

Indeed it IS an outrage.

She didn’t challenge any of the BLATANT LIES he’s been hawking about gay marriage.

In times like these “civility” is for wimps.

I remember the old Brill’s Content (though I never knew if the title was a declaration of satisfaction or what it contained) that rated the talking heads for accuracy of facts and predictions. And there were a couple of women on the Sunday yakfests who always scored highest. And George Will was always right on the bottom, with that McLaughlin guy or somebody.

Which is all to say, I would choose Rachel and her friends to the exclusion of all the boys and be very satisfied with broadcast news, whereas no combo of the suits would suffice.

Jane was fabulous and eloquent.

Hope Rachel has her back often.