red

ZED evening ES!

fred

ES!

SO sorry Nahant…getting slow in your old age. s)

DIGG IT!

Eureka Springs a red state…Howdy dawgs Happy TGIF

Better red than zed? /s

yep just creeping along!

I recently discovered this band… and I can’t stop listening to them!

Russ Fiengold is on Bill Moyers tonight The real progressive deal Russ voted no on the war res…saction Bush for spying on us…No on FISA.
Never a complaint against Fiengold or Wellstone two patriots of the highest order.
Rachel and Blarney on as well.

Hi ES, hi everyone.

ES, Elliott BROOD is some good stuff! Add them to the long list of fine Canadian artists :-)

Hey Eureka!!!
I hear a little Led Zeppelin Influence in Valley Town,sounds like the song Braun-y-Aur Stomp!

Love them! thanks for the introduction, ES.

funny thing, while not the Elliott branch of m’family, my father’s father’s side came down to the States via Windsor Ontario. oooEeeooo.

well, pResident Evil has just used his magical rulemaking blitz power to allow the carrying of loaded concealed guns in our nations national parks, ’cause semiautomatic weapons in national parks are such a great idea. Gotta go cancel that trip to Yosemite now…

Honoring the great Neuro Dawg.
I had a dog I named Deputy Dawg

I hear it too.. and several other influences. Yet they hold their own.

I never realized one was not supposed to carry a gun into a National Park.

Reminds me of the time I was way down in Old Mexico… when a bartender told me guns and ammo were illegal there. Boy did I sweat a while ’til I figured out a safe place to dump all the bullets and shotgun shells in my vehicle.

Hiya, ES, hiya, pups.

Correcting papers today, tomorrow, Sunday. Took a few minutes off this evening for a break, though.

Yes they do!!

707!

That’s some high tech surveillance you’ve been up to, ET…)

looks like the weapons of mass destruction Saddam had !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

Devil Makes Three. Out of Santa Cruz, CA since ‘02 or so.

Run their Youtube list. Go to their website. See their myspace for even MORE clips.

THESE folks, rock. Gypsy, folk, rock, grassy . . . . .

They don’t Brood, so much. ;-)

Ok, here’s a killer Devil Makes Three youtube, to save ya the effort.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

Money well spent. /s

actually, the rethug God (Ronnie Reagan) I insituted the national park concealed carry ban. Shrub just cancelled it. In tracking believable.

almost two !!

gotta go , catch ya later!

Agreed. Pretty strange one person has the power to determine such a law.

Actually, they’re taken from the storage box of ET Jr’s micro machines, from when he was a little kid. I keep them for when friends’ little kids come over.

who can imagine a more urgent locale for the concealed weapon then Yosemite.

juniper terrorists /s

I Dugg it!

Why does Elliot SHOUT his last name?

I will second that emotion.

Jennifer Juniper (I’m lookin’ to see if there’s more gin here)

hehe.. CNN just reported that shrub has approached a number of publishers with memoir/book ideas, looking for a lucrative book deal… and the publishers are. not. interested. ! One idea he tried to sell I involved a chronicle of how he triumphed in conquering ten great challenges facing the nation. They also mentioned that he is reporting finding it difficult to raiseoney for his neocon “non-academic think tank” The Freedom Institute.

It’s a band name, not a person. And I don’t know, but I checked several places to be sure they cap BROOD.

Ok, one last one, and this song, Uncle Harvey’s Plane, just kills me all day long. *G*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

Nice. Did you ever have a run in with Yosemite black bears? I did. No fun, but if I had a gun then, I wouldn’t have wanted or needed it to be concealed.

clearly, the touristas need protection from each other.

or from the bears.

or from themselves.

or from the flesh-eating zombies.

or from themselves…

No, no bears, but yikes!! on that.
Just crazy ass El Capitan climbers plus a couple mortified big horn sheep who found themselves surrounded by touristas on the roadway.

tell us more.

heh, touristas indeed.

wouldn’t shooting a bear in a national park (assuming you aren’t a ranger or have a permit as part of a population-reducing operation) be illegal?

and why would you need to conceal it?

First time we climbed El Capitan… it unexpectedly snowed like crazy just before sunset. We were not prepared for that much snow. Long story short.. I found a cave with my flashlight…. we all managed to get through that night, dry, in very cramped quarters.

Next morning bear had destroyed our camp site.

and from OBL, who I am sure has hidden Saddam’s WMD in the tunnels of El Capitan.

Citizen Eurika Springs and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Toss another log on the fire and keep the tunes comin’, Sister ES, ‘cuz the ol’ Norske id holdin’ down the perimeter one more night this week and not particularly pleased about it.

Let’s all have a wonderful day today ‘cuz we’re one day closer to the grown ups takin’ over, the Democrats gave the Chimpenfeuhrer a kick in the ass and it’s Mrs. Norske’s birthday. I gotta go ta the local jewelry store and get the ear rings that match the necklace I got her last year and I’m gunna hafta stay up all mornin’ ta get it done…give me some more ideas for gifts that would tickle a frugal, intelligent woman with a masters in reading and Ed Psych.

It’s the conceal part I don’t understand. And I sure wouldn’t shoot one unless it was a last resort. had several up close run ins with them, but running like an olympian did the trick.

chocolate?

Donation to the homeless shelter in her name.

Hey nice tune, thankee

Hey Eureka!

Next morning bear had destroyed our camp site.

Community policing.

today, for the first time in my life, I climbed to the top of my state capital building dome, even went out on the upper balcony, gripping the handrail with the cold winds blasting–for about five seconds.

from now on I think I will seek my thrills closer to the ground.

Citizen Norske, Did you see Jane’s post tonight on Barney Frank, the adult? He and Dodd seem to have just abut enough this week.

Yeah well.. we tied the food up in a tree… so he/she went without reward for all that pillaging. *g*

Yikesamikesa

Only crazy people climb the face of El Capitan, I can still see the teeny tiny specks up there, and focusing in on with the Questar — lo and behold those specks were actually people! mebbe it was youse guys.

LOL!

I’ve been hit by raccoons, but never bears. They got into the bag of peanut M&M’s and, being raccoons, they wash what they eat first. So there they are, washing M&M’s in the stream.

Guns would not have solved it.

OK, take a look at the side route which brings hikers around the back of the dome.

You can see the beginning of the climb in this image… each individual rock (visible along the green patch) is a boulder larger than a house. Rough climbing to be sure and took a whole day… but there is no way I would do the rope up the face thing. No way.

aHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
how cute…

A wounded bear is extemely pissed like on massive steroid, speed and adrenaline rush all in a ball of unchecked fury. Fork with the bear you get mauled to death…probably crush your skull in his jaws…even a black bear. Their noses are 100 more powerful than a dog and probably smelled the food in your camp…not trying to trash it. By the way they can easily out run you. Better to stand ground and appear formidable. The skull of s bear is quite stout regular ammo not effective.

that is crazy talk indeed, going up the face.
but what a gorgeous picture

mercy! how did it get to be 2:30 in the morning all ready?
night all.
sweet dreams.

What’s on my mind? Russ Feingold on Bill Moyers’ Journal!

What a great Senator! I wish there were 99 more like him!

At the beginning of the interview, he paid tribute to Wisconsin’s Progressive tradition:

It is no coincidence that his tactics recall those of the late Senator Paul Wellstone, a pioneer of the new wave of grassroots politics. The two men knew one another before either was elected to Congress, and while they both served in the Senate, their names often hung together in news stories, two Midwestern progressives at odds with the party and Washington establishment. The two follow in the tradition of Wisconsin maverick and progressive “Fighting Bob” La Follette, Wisconsin’s Governor, Senator and Progressive Party presidential candidate in 1924, who said:

“America is not made, it is in the making. Mere passive citizenship is not enough. Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from those who are aggressive for what is wrong.”

From the Transcript:

BILL MOYERS: In modern terms what does it mean when you say, “I’m a progressive?”

SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD: Well, our Wisconsin progressive tradition is one of a very serious commitment to farmers, small business, people that do manufacturing. But we also have a commitment to clean government, to open government. That’s what “Fighting Bob” La Follette was all about. And some of the major reforms in the history of the country in terms of ethics, in terms of unemployment compensation, in terms of child safety laws, were all part of that great progressive movement that was started in the late 19th century and early 20th century in Wisconsin. And by the way, progressivism in Wisconsin also means fiscal responsibility.

[snip]
BILL MOYERS: I had dinner the other night with Ted Sorensen, who’s 80 years old now. He was John F. Kennedy’s alter ego, soul mate, the author of so many, with Kennedy, of those great speeches. And I said to him, “Ted, you know, the one thing people remember from Kennedy’s inaugural address was I’m — you know it, as you were a young man listening at the time — ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country.’” And I said, “What’s the one thing that you think Barack Obama could say that would be the most memorable, the most riveting, and the most compelling, and the most urgent? And he said, echoing Russ Feingold, “Restore the rule of law.” You’ve been talking about this for some time now. Why is that so important for Obama to put it on the marquee early on?

SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD: Well, of course, the new president, minutes after he’s sworn in, in this wonderful moment — it will be cold out there. It will be short speech. But included in the speech, I would hope, would be some attempt by this new, wonderful president to renounce the extreme claims of executive power. To simply renounce these claims that were made by the Bush administration. If he does not say it in some way, at least there, or soon thereafter-

[emphasis added]

Ahhhhh! I loves me some Russ Feingold.

Bob in HI

When we had run-ins with bear, in person, in Yosemite.. it was in the valley at night. No wounded bear…and I am sure there was plenty of food alternatives in its nose. Thankfully.

We also have them in AR, but attacks are extremely rare (except occasional garbage cans).

Did the back of El Cap with a wine hangover…was catching up hour late start…pain the trail seemed eternal. One year a man did the face who was parapelegic…he had some help but that takes guts. It is cold and windy.

Good night Elliott.

One year a man did the face who was parapelegic…he had some help but that takes guts. It is cold and windy.

I can’t imagine. I don’t know if I could even watch.

Getting the podcast now. Sounds great.

nite elliot

I have a friend over in Green Bay that is very proud of having him as her senator. I’m not quite so proud of Levin and Stabenow at this moment, but at least movement has been made to avert the total death of the rust belt and all the related industries.

Bad enough that after the new year retail’s gonna get hit hard. I seem to be in one of the mostly secure jobs, being in pharmacy. Still makes me worry quite a bit for my patients. I’ll be in a better position to help them as well, after the new year. In terms of charity.

Heya, I thought of you when I ran across this last week.

what.a trip.

DJ stuff. It’s a pretty creative bunch at that particular YouTube channel. Worth subscribing, imo, just to see what they are up to.

nice spot. thanks.

nite, folks.

Bear market…deep long recession…welcome to my world…been down so long it looks like up to me.

I’ll drink to that… if you are buying. /s

ES,

I really like your musical taste. I am not a regular on the night shift but everytime I do stop in, you remind me why the record industry stinks. They should be getting bands like this out to the public. I checked out the MS page and liked everything they posted. SWEET!
Thanks for the intro. Time for bed and I’m taking my Digital player with the Sunvolt nightcap.

I packed the Sierra’s for a number of years with a pal or two, and often with a school group (as a ‘leader’).

I was in and thru Yosemite Valley (yes I camped with the crazies in Camp 4 at times cuz it was cheap) from about ‘70 thru 76. The Valley was insane, and we could NEVER wait to get to the high country outta Tuolumne, etc.

But I don’t EVER recall that Big Horn Sheep were native to the region. Montana, maybe. Yosemite? Not a chance hoss . . .

Black Bears? Hang yer food. Back then, we had NO problems if we did it right. Leave a camp set up to go climbing? I don’t recall many who did that. You tore it down, and hung yer packs AND food. Not in the late 60’s and early to mid 70’s did folks leave stuff on the ground.

I have completely different impressions of all of this than are being reported here.

Bears are bears. Take care of yer stuff, use food lockers. Don’t leave yer camp set up if yer gonna be gone a day or more. Simple stuff, but it’s survival, and it was then, too . . .

Here’s a pony keg of Sierra Nevada…drink hearty and don’t forget to eat.

Sierra Nevada Anniversay a darker beer.

I have an empty Pale ale bottle in front of me now. LOL

I am happy with good coffee and teas cause I like thinking more than feeling. Dislke the authoritarian thought police and the propaganda polluters of the media.
Newtoner sounds well stoned. Grooving on “The beat Goes on” with the little dancing fiure doing gogo. G)

Ok, THAT’S a whole dif story . . . you were NOT climbing. You were hiking.

Funny how fast the seasons can change there, ain’t it . . .

Glad you liked them, skilly. Thanks.

Oh man… I have a Son Volt CD in front of me now.

Was thrilled to read Elliott BROOD toured with Wilco a while back as well.

Newtoner didn’t surface to bite so probably in the kitchen feeding the munchies. What are your fav munchies Nwet?

Actually I have seen big horn sheep in Yosemite (admittedly many years back), and so has the national park service

Alias, If still around, Actually it was this video I save to share with you.

Am about to turn in myself..

Thanks for the generous Keg, bb….)

Good night firedogs

Life before we were designated consumers was good. So…

Yer welcome! Glad ya liked it . . . . I just found out they are comin to my town on my birthday in Jan, so me and the miz are gonna go steppin out a bit, something we just don’t do much of anymore . . .*G*

I saw them once before, in Big Sur at the bar in Fernwood, I think it was Veterans Weekend, in ‘02. Boys Weekend Camped Out. The bar was extra curricular, and it was packed and grand for a diversion of all the OTHER stuff we were up to, including our own pickin and grinning. *G*

And tonight, I found out, they will be at the Spring Strawberry Music Fest May, ‘09!!!! Must be cosmic how this stuff happens!! LOL

I saw that on the My Space page and got a little tingle thinking about it…. I mean … you know… thinking about the music.

Elliott SUPERTRAIN!!!111

I’m clean. I swear.

Farina? We need to talk. He’s my dulcimer idol, has been since, well, then. *G*

munchies…
I used to be a smoked almond guy, but since Chimpy’s adventure with snacks I celebrate the moment regularly with pretzels.

nite eureka

Transparency! You need to be in government. Take the Feingold Progressive oath and we will get you elected. The LA Police Academy can’t find “clean” recruits. So why are the prisons full of loadies?

Not in Yosemite Valley ya didn’t . . . maybe in the high country, but not in the Valley . . . *G* MAYBE in Tuolumne and upwards, a long, long time ago.

But not at 3,600ft, and not from ‘70 on. I was there. *G* And I talked with rangers in the valley, and up at Tuolumne, too, at times, about wildlife . . . . who knew their stuff . . . I don’t recall no big horns in the valley. *G*

The Music Man Larue how be you? mean this Farina
“Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me,” Farina’s first novel was married to Joan Baez sis Mimi?

better an empty bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy…

roadies?! wtf!

You could write a great novel on the Bay area artist, writers and musicians. Too bad Suzanne is on the road she loves it.

abottleme?

A dated term for people who get high often and like to stay so. Need a link? G)

If petro were here, he would be peppering us with tales of that strange foreigner euro-beer he likes so much.
But I like a good domestic, like Negro Modelo. :-P

oh, lol.

What is the name of that movie were brad pit plays some stoner doing honeybeaqr bongs?

like that?

True Romance.
Epic.

ah yeah, that liquid bread shit.

I’m still a mircobrew dude myself. Haven’t tried the dark Modelo.

good beer is good bread :)

Yeah! Great film :)

Brad is Bonged Too funny…

honey bonged

That character in True Romance is classic.

How come the best type-casting in Hollywood is always suited to stoners?
Brad Pitt in True Romance
Keanu Reeves in Parenthood and I Love You To death
Sean Penn in Fast Times At Ridgemont High

lol :) exactly the scene i was thinking of.

Before Bonnie Prince Harry was caught toking up, the last confirmed report of pot-smoking on royal ground was in 1965, when the Beatles fired up a doobie in the Buckingham palace bathroom before meeting Her Majesty.

Prince Charles could easily have foretold his son’s future pot-smoking ways had he been more hip to the astrological influence of pot-culture slang. Prince Harry was born at precisely 4:20pm.

� Harry Pothead and the Magical Herb: http://www.harrypothead.tv

I got my accent from Fast Times At Ridgemont High :/

whats that “down by the river” one?

So did many of us, for a time.

You mean Blue Velvet? The nitrous huffer?
Frank Booth: “Goddamnit, where’s my bourbon?!?”

OMG! Isn’t 4:20 like Hitler’s birthday!!!

No. Dennis Hopper as Fek, the dope Dealer in… The Riverside?

nope, love that one too but it was an early reeves one. maybe i’m thinking river phoenix. small northern town were one of the crew strangles girl of the crew.

maybe, i’m better at images than names.

Got it. Rivers Edge. Dude strangles his girlfriend and hides out at Fek the dope dealers house.

yeah, that was totally like my home town.

I came up in the burbs. That would never have flown.
Cept the dope scene.

Citizen Eureka Springs:

Sorry ta be late in response but it got a little crazy around here… yes I saw Jane’s post. I am also glad that Barney Frank has got a bit more face time (thanx Rachel…ain’t she great??!!)and the corporatists attempt to bounce Frank’s hit on Bush onto Obama isn’t catchin’ on.

It’s takin awhile but I think that the elected Democratic leadership is finally gettin’ it…bi-partisanship requires only a couple a Republicans and you ken get ‘em if ya grab ‘em by the balls. One Hung Harry Reid has gotta go, though, he’s weaker’n Dashle and not nearly as progressive…get his anti-choice, Mormon ass outta the leadership before the next session starts.

well, you know, girlfriends were fairly sacred.

“…his anti-choice, Mormon ass…”

There is nothing weaker than the Democrats who put this useless slab of legislative detritus in as leader.
Some, perhaps most of these wounds are self-inflicted.

w3rd

Link/ Was Dennis in Rebel without a cause? Each gen of Film Families get more progressive mind sets…while the Neocons head the other way.

It seems impossible, but I am pretty sure he was.

That reminds me of this old hippy nam dude in our town. he’d always ask ya if ya wanted to suck dick. heh, he had this nixon bong.

LOL!

ok, nite all

lol, nite newt!

The Twin Towers were the asbestos-related liability of what company? Halliburton. Cheney acquired these liabilities from the Bush Crime Family’s Dresser Industries when he was CEO of Halliburton – knowing full well that the acquisition would destroy HAL’s stock value. Mitigating the Asbestos liability of the Twin Towers meant dismantling them at a cost of $12 billion.

9/11 was arson. The payoff (by the insurers) was pre-arranged. Christine Todd Whitman was told directly by Cheney to lie about the asbestos levels in the air at Ground Zero – as part of the coverup. Remember, it was Cheney who provided the alibi for Gary Condit when just a couple months prior to 9/11, Chandra Levy went missing. She learned of the 9/11 plot and was going to reveal it. Condit was in Cheney’s office at the time of her “disappearance.” How fucking convenient, eh?

Now, according to “Newsweek” magazine, the California congressman met with Vice President Cheney at about the same time that Levy was in her northwest D.C. apartment going over sites on the Internet, among them travel sites, a local ice cream shop and also the site of the Agriculture Committee on which the congressman sits.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRA…..mn.05.html

Halliburton was awarded the no-bid contract in Iraq by the Bush
Crime Family as direct quid pro quo for taking Dresser’s Asbestos liabilities off their hands. HAL’s stock subsequently soared, and both the Bush Crime Family and The Cheney/Rumsfeld Crime Family (and countless other insiders) were enriched.

This is direct evidence of conspiracy, fraud, insider trading, arson, murder and countless other crimes prosecutable under RICO.

Locate Dov Zakheim (9/11 mastermind and enabler) and Kobi Alexander – and waterboard their sorry asses until they confess their direct role in 9/11 planning and implementation, and reveal the entire plot. Can’t find them? That’s because Cheney’s got them hidden in the Witness Protection Program. What was Ken Lay’s role? Find him and ask him.

If you can’t handle the entire truth – don’t go here:
http://plungerspeaks.blogspot.com

or here:
http://www.whodidit.org/cocon.html

hey..good morning, all. It’s 10 degrees F in Upstate NY this morning…..brrrrr. It’s just me and my oatmeal this morning.

Good morning, pups. It’s Gail Collins alone today. She gives us “The Senate, Snowe and Dinkytown.” Just in case we were too obtuse to notice on our own she points out that Saxby Chambliss’s victory in Georgia means that Republicans will have at least 41 seats in the Senate, and if they stick together, the party has the capacity to stop a bill in its tracks. Gosh, I had NEVER thought of that… At least she mentions that even if Jim Martin had won in Georgia, and assuming that Al Franken wins too, there still would have been The Toad From Connecticut, poised and ready to wreak havoc with the Democrats’ legislative agenda. Actually, she’s got some quite good snark today. (The image of The Connecticut Toad entering the Senate made me laugh out loud.)

You can find her snarking here.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I just took a French Toast casserole out of the oven. We’re probably going to put the lights on the tree today. So far Hoover has ignored it (well, except to drink the water out of the stand) and I’m praying that he’ll ignore the lights too. Ornaments will be the acid test, however… Have a grand day.

It is the “Great Bush/Cheney Depression”

Say it loud and repeat it often.

Make this one stick.

Oh, jeez, Toby… 10°? Fer gawd sake stay indoors and keep warm!

Oh, Marion..don’t worry about THAT; I’m very comfy with my heating pad and my oatmeal :)

Good Morning! Bill Ayers has an op-ed piece in the NYTimes also, which I wish could have been written before the election. He alludes to the palling around statement that Sarah would use. Even during this joyous season, I can’t find it in my heart to forgive her.

Here’s the Ayers link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12…..ayers.html

Citizen JPL9:

What does Citizen Ayers have ta say in the article, is there anything in it to which we could relate ?

What did you think about the piece? Ayers’ reputation as an educator has been hurt and I do think that he is trying to regain some of his stature. For me it brought back memories of that horrible era in history.

He explains his involvement in the Weather Underground and some regrets. I have regrets, of course — including mistakes of excess and failures of imagination, posturing and posing, inflated and heated rhetoric, blind sectarianism and a lot else. No one can reach my age with their eyes even partly open and not have hundreds of regrets. The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves my thoughts for long.

from your blog:

At any given time he can take a set of actual facts and use each of them to stitch together a totally false reality.

Sounds like he’s a lawyer. heh.

Mornin’ all.

I agree that it should have been written before the election. It brought back memories of a horrible era in history for me too — the 2008 McCain/Palin campaign.

Good morning.

I thought the Ayers essay was weak. Too much time apologizing and too little time talking about how bad the war was. But opinions may differ.

Your right that the article was more about him but how did you feel after reading the opinion piece?

Christy’s upstairs, folks…bring your coffee..

I thought he was apologizing for something without explaining well why he did what he did. I had expected him to be more articulate.

If I were writing it, I would have started by talking about the VN war, what people were doing to try to stop it, why it was ineffective. Then simply say that drove some protesters to excess but that played a role in ending the war. I would apologize for the blowback that the war protests caused (Nixon, Reagan, Bush) not for the activity itself.

Just read Ayers piece. He seems to have Obama-itis (too nice). The language could have been much stronger attacking those that mischaracterized him and his relationship to Obama. Then there’s this sentence. The word ‘comrades’ jumps off the page. His critics will sieze on that word.

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