http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U….._of_Rights

Thr Bill fo Rights ZED

Suzanne! Nicely done!

hey bb

First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

You know you want to Digg it!

Back at ya Suz!

Second Amendment
A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

hey neuro – thanks for opening da digg

my pleasure!

Dugg neuro

Third Amendment
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law

bigbrother came armed with his Constitution tonite!

how’s everyone doing tonight?

pretty well, Suzanne. Went to a nice War on Christmas™ winter solstice party tonite.

hahahaha

Hot damn Suzanne, that video is the National Lampoon Christmas Story, Red Neck Style!

i love that song – first heard it on kpig but did not know there was a utube for it until dr dick laid it on thers’ thread last nite

Fourth Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

* A fotenote this was violated under the FISA and Telecom immunity passed this year and is unconstitutional.

it actually makes you wonder whether this language is still in our Constitution…

OT, for Teddy, if you’re still here…
14th amendment
Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Teddy, I still think this is the best argument against Prop 8, if we choose to make enforcement compulsory to gain elective office.

Fifth Amendment
No person shall be held to answer for any capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation

* Footnote Don’t you just love these protections of liberty? Take them for granted and losae them.

ReBlubberCans (Hat tip to stilts09 at huffp0)
hahahaahahaaahahahahaaaa

newton, isn’t that what ca supreme court ruling was about that started the whole prop h8 process – that it was illegal to not grant marriage licenses to an entire class of citizens.

I think we can all make a case for taxation without representation.

Sixth Amendment
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district where in the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.

* Footnote: This is why we have Public Defenders in the DA offices. Rotting in jail without conviction is something the BUSHCO crime mob created it is illegal.

everyone except lobbyists and mega-corporations – they have representation

Shoot me if I am wrong, but their purview dealt with the California Constitution, which is predicated on the US Constitution I suppose. So probably yes.

The problem with the 14th seems to be that individual states are entitled to determine for themselves how the particular protections are proved. So Alabama gets to decide, for some odd reason, the validity of, for instance, a marriage license granted in Vermont…

But IANAConstitutional lawyer.

but doesn’t it say in there somewhere, “except for persons accused of being terrorists, whether or not such accusations have any merit”?

Seventh Amendment
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

* Love that jury trial of my peers…kinda takes the judges foot off of the scale as he becomes the referree. Ah justice where have you been?

i also am not a lawyer, constitutional or otherwise.

i just don’t see how any judical review can say that it is okay to discriminate against a set of people. but then again, i didn’t think we would ever end up where we now are as a country.

Pause for courtesy…remember our boys and girls in blue are sworn as are all public official yo uphold the US COnstitution and the State Constitution as well. Hat tip to those that have served the People over the special interestd.

well, I did take a course in constitutional law once…

you have to keep this in perspective. the U.S. Constitution, in its original form, discriminated against slaves and women…but in the 21st century, you’d think we’d have moved beyond that sort of thing.

thanks bigbrother from a retired blue :)

neuro – big sigh.

We have allowed religious doctrine to inform public policy. This is news to no one, but the consequences were/are predictable, and it has been so ingrained in culture that the thought doesn’t even faze us.

Further, the folks who think this is a good thing are loud, vicious pricks who will not give it back. Why should they? Their representatives used it to get elected and to keep their ‘base’ excited, and it has driven our politics beyond reason. To their benefit.

So Alabama gets to decide, for some odd reason, the validity of, for instance, a marriage license granted in Vermont…

Not according to the Full Faith and Credit Clause…

Article IV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, commonly known as the Full Faith and Credit Clause, addresses the duties that states within the United States have to respect the “public acts, records, and judicial rulings” of other states. […]

28 USC §1738: Such Acts, records and judicial proceedings or copies thereof, so authenticated, shall have the same full faith and credit in every court within the US and it Territories and Possessions as they have by law or usage in the courts of such State, Territory or Possession from which they are taken.

Aloha, Late, Late pups…! ;-)

Eighth Amendmant
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Professors Yoo and Tenet please explain the Buschco violations at Guantanmo Prisons…

My country tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died!
Land of the Pilgrim’s pride!
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring!

aloha ct – that is why there is such a push to declare marriage as they want it defined in every state. remember the federal protection of marriage act?

or was it called the defense of marriage act?

ASSHOLES!

hey nahant

Yes’m, I sure do…! ;-) It was fueled by Mass’s Supremes ruling…!

Evening Suz and late late nite pups(:>))

Howdy, nahant! I just got here too…!

I believe, if I remember correctly, that this phrase:

…as they have by law or usage in the courts of such State…

is where the ambiguity lies.

This may be incorrect, but there is a provision (or a legislative loophole) within full faith and credit that leaves open the possibility that states have it within their purview to decide the proof-standard for these records.

Looking now.

I am glad Jerry Brown is fighting to get prop 8 thrown out on a Constitutional basis as it should be. For that matter any Law based on religion should be null and Void as it is against the Constitutional clause of seperation of Church and State dam it!@!

Hey CT how is the little lady doing with all them dam stitches in her?? Hope she is healing quickly!!

it should be a slam dunk kinda win when the argument is that to do otherwise is legally discriminating in violation of both the state and fed constitution.

as bb reminds us – all men are created equal

here

Full faith and credit ought to be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings, of every other state; and the legislature shall, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings, shall be proved, and the effect which judgments, obtained in one state, shall have in another.

Wingnut Republican Talking Point No. 43:

“The separation of church and state is a myth”

correction:

“The separation of church and state is a librul myth”

Nith Amendment
Protection of rights not specifically enumerated in the Bill of Rights.

* We The People Clause…it is OUR country we citizens make it up…the country is more the people than the land we occupy of the Native Americans..we have taken stewardship. We have “…certain in alienable rights…” un spoken rights as persons and as citizens. Our forefathers “… in order to…” were a middle class of small businesses, inventor ans skilled trades people who saw exploitation by the “ruling class of gentry” much like the usurpation by the corporate priveledged that exrmpt themselves from taxation. military service and punishment from crimes under the rule of law and a corrupt judicial. Tyranny has raised its ugly hydra head.

librul media myth

Agreed that they’re trying to exploit every imaginable loophole, with, several states having passed laws to that effect, however, no challenges to them have risen to the SCOTUS yet, so it hasn’t been truly decided upon…!

Liberal: “Liberals are people, too.”

Fucking asshole Fundy/Gooper/ReichWingTurd: “No, they are not.”

Never forget what they are aiming for.

The state is under “We The people”…the church is under god.

A relatively quiet day for the missus, she went to church this morn and rested this afternoon… She’s bound and determined to ring bells tomorrow, tho…! :-(

“The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

* footnote this was left out sorry

Hi, Suz..

JFK gave a wonderful speech on keeping religion and political decisions separate. Someone with better typing speed that me,(which is almost anyone), should type it out for reading on FDL. The transcript is here, if anyone is interested.

http://www.npr.org/templates/s…..d=16920600

Advocate article, 14 May, ‘08
Ritht there in the second graf, they define the fate of DOMA.

Article IV, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution, more commonly known as the Full Faith and Credit clause, consists of just two sentences: “Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effects thereof.”

Two lines: a bracingly absolute statement, followed by a qualifying statement that has historically acted the caveat when social progress in one state seems unacceptable to another. So while the Full Faith and Credit clause prohibits any state from rejecting the validity of a marriage performed in any other state, in the current social climate special dispensation is granted to ignore any state laws recognizing same-sex relationships, as was the case barely more than four decades ago regarding interracial marriages.

A Christian State just like in Feudal times where the state tells you who what when how and how long to worship! Seems I remember an add against Communism about a chained mind is a wasted mind!!
Fucking Fundies are no better than communist!

Beautiful. Very nice get.

hey bbfly

Tenth Amendmant
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

* footnote people can by Initiative and referendum enact their own law (so long as it is subordiante to the US Constitution) as I did here that was passed, challenged in court and is somehow in bankruptcy court go figure.

Heh, you missed the best part…

– even if that means we have to wait another 19 years for the U.S. Supreme Court to catch up, finally favoring our relationships as well with the Full Faith and Credit protections promised by our nation’s Constitution.

I think it’ll be ’settled’ before another 19 yrs pass by…! ;-)

Romney should cower and wither in the face of this speech.

Imagine the climate of the country on 12 September, ‘60!

Evening all.

Hurrah solstice!

The kids, the ‘yoots,’ don’t give a shit who you love and choose. They will turn this thing soon, but not soon enough. Agreed, 19 years is probably long.

I would like to hear Obama say that he is following in JFK’s footsteps on that separation of church and state thing. Someone should send it to his website.

Nahant, you know better. Break that thing up into parts, please.

baby girl was telling me the other day that the yoots at her church (bible based fundy) were pissed about prop h8. she was telling me they decided the bible was about love and not hate

I’m sure the Mods appreciated your thoughtfulness and effort, nahant…! ;-)

Hello…How is your picture taking going? Winter scenes are lovely..especially from inside of a warm house! I will never be a snow bunny!

Dang, crossed in the toobz…! ;-)

“Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice; where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind; and where Catholics, Protestants and Jews, at both the lay and pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood.” JFK

* My bold

have some up over at my place – assorted ones from this week and a bunch from the first day of snow a week ago

I would like to tell them:
Don’t play with me cause you’re playing with fire

Emotionally…oh so very different than now. I think that is what the speech writer for Obama, who also wrote speeches for JFK, was trying to accomplish with the ‘yes, we can theme’. He was trying to bring back hope to the nation. It must have been strange for the man to write for two different candidates so many years apart.

Dude could write a speech.

If I should lose on the real issues, I shall return to my seat in the Senate, satisfied that I had tried my best and was fairly judged. But if this election is decided on the basis that 40 million Americans lost their chance of being president on the day they were baptized, then it is the whole nation that will be the loser — in the eyes of Catholics and non-Catholics around the world, in the eyes of history, and in the eyes of our own people.

Our kingdom for some eloquence.

“every man”

that’s how they talked in those days

Sorry didn’t realize it was so freaking long… been reading it all this time…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; Thomas Jefferson. Mr Bush can you hear us the people rising up against your tyranny? Our forefathers made these precepts inalienable we take our rights you can keep the monies you have appropriated from our National treasury for the moment.

I was reading it along with the video. Mesmerizing.
Lost track of what I was doing.

A Sign of the Times…?

Archbishop of Canterbury warns recession Britain must learn lessons from Nazi Germany

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new…..rmany.html

We fail to learn from our past failures…

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Eloquence…that is what Obama has. More pronounced, of course, in comparison to Mr. Stumblemouth attempting for almost eight years to speak one sentence without screwing up the words.

gotta go, pups

enjoy the lengthening of the days

Patrick Henry…1788
” Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings—give us that precious jewel, and you may take every thing else!”

He was also quoted…”Give me liberty or give me death”.

Aloha, neuro!

nite neuro

g’nite neuro – happy solstice

Danke Schoen, Lurk!

JFK was and still is my Idol, what he spoke of always inspired me and a generation of Americans! And we let some two bit Actor start the process of taking it all away from us the the two Bush’s continued. To me they are both traitors to our country, I hope that Obama does read some of Kennedy’s speeches and books!
We need that kind of rallying to save our Constitution and Nation! Separation of Church and state must be enforced and all these programs that help Religions must be stopped and stopped immediately or we WILL loose our country to these Fundies!

Nite Neuro happy digging Dreams(:>))

Really sorry for the long quote Lurk, I just did a quick copy and paste.
I will watch your back Lurk if those Rugby boys show up, oh and here are some candies for you Lurk(:>))

Well, Obama seems to be getting it…!

Obama signals major shift in US trade policy

President-elect Barack Obama has signaled a major shift in US trade policy with a new emphasis on enforceable environmental and labor standards to prevent a “race to the bottom.”

But while these progressive policies may satisfy some critics, they could further complicate stalled WTO negotiations and serve as an excuse for greater protectionism as the United States slips deeper into its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

“The incoming president will face more political pressure for protectionism than any other US chief executive since 1930,” said outgoing US Under Secretary of Commerce Christopher Padilla.

“How president-elect Obama responds to this pressure will define the course of the global economy — and America’s economic identity — for a generation,” he said.

It’s amazing how many times people keep alluding to 20’s and 30’s… *sigh*

part 1
Sept. 12, 1960, presidential candidate John F. Kennedy gave a major speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, a group of Protestant ministers, on the issue of his religion. At the time, many Protestants questioned whether Kennedy’s Roman Catholic faith would allow him to make important national decisions as president independent of the church. Kennedy addressed those concerns before a skeptical audience of Protestant clergy. The following is a transcript of Kennedy’s speech:

Kennedy: Rev. Meza, Rev. Reck, I’m grateful for your generous invitation to speak my views.

While the so-called religious issue is necessarily and properly the chief topic here tonight, I want to emphasize from the outset that we have far more critical issues to face in the 1960 election: the spread of Communist influence, until it now festers 90 miles off the coast of Florida; the humiliating treatment of our president and vice president by those who no longer respect our power; the hungry children I saw in West Virginia; the old people who cannot pay their doctor bills; the families forced to give up their farms; an America with too many slums, with too few schools, and too late to the moon and outer space.

These are the real issues which should decide this campaign. And they are not religious issues — for war and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured — perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in — for that should be important only to me — but what kind of America I believe in.

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference; and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

part 2

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia’s harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson’s statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice; where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind; and where Catholics, Protestants and Jews, at both the lay and pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood.

That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of presidency in which I believe — a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of any one religious group, nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

I would not look with favor upon a president working to subvert the First Amendment’s guarantees of religious liberty. Nor would our system of checks and balances permit him to do so. And neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test — even by indirection — for it. If they disagree with that safeguard, they should be out openly working to repeal it.

I want a chief executive whose public acts are responsible to all groups and obligated to none; who can attend any ceremony, service or dinner his office may appropriately require of him; and whose fulfillment of his presidential oath is not limited or conditioned by any religious oath, ritual or obligation.

This is the kind of America I believe in, and this is the kind I fought for in the South Pacific, and the kind my brother died for in Europe. No one suggested then that we may have a “divided loyalty,” that we did “not believe in liberty,” or that we belonged to a disloyal group that threatened the “freedoms for which our forefathers died.”

And in fact ,this is the kind of America for which our forefathers died, when they fled here to escape religious test oaths that denied office to members of less favored churches; when they fought for the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom; and when they fought at the shrine I visited today, the Alamo. For side by side with Bowie and Crockett died McCafferty and Bailey and Carey. But no one knows whether they were Catholic or not, for there was no religious test at the Alamo.

part 3

I ask you tonight to follow in that tradition, to judge me on the basis of my record of 14 years in Congress, on my declared stands against an ambassador to the Vatican, against unconstitutional aid to parochial schools, and against any boycott of the public schools (which I have attended myself)— instead of judging me on the basis of these pamphlets and publications we all have seen that carefully select quotations out of context from the statements of Catholic church leaders, usually in other countries, frequently in other centuries, and always omitting, of course, the statement of the American Bishops in 1948, which strongly endorsed church-state separation, and which more nearly reflects the views of almost every American Catholic.

I do not consider these other quotations binding upon my public acts. Why should you? But let me say, with respect to other countries, that I am wholly opposed to the state being used by any religious group, Catholic or Protestant, to compel, prohibit, or persecute the free exercise of any other religion. And I hope that you and I condemn with equal fervor those nations which deny their presidency to Protestants, and those which deny it to Catholics. And rather than cite the misdeeds of those who differ, I would cite the record of the Catholic Church in such nations as Ireland and France, and the independence of such statesmen as Adenauer and De Gaulle.

But let me stress again that these are my views. For contrary to common newspaper usage, I am not the Catholic candidate for president. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for president, who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me.

Whatever issue may come before me as president — on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject — I will make my decision in accordance with these views, in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressures or dictates. And no power or threat of punishment could cause me to decide otherwise.

But if the time should ever come — and I do not concede any conflict to be even remotely possible — when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the same.

But I do not intend to apologize for these views to my critics of either Catholic or Protestant faith, nor do I intend to disavow either my views or my church in order to win this election.

If I should lose on the real issues, I shall return to my seat in the Senate, satisfied that I had tried my best and was fairly judged. But if this election is decided on the basis that 40 million Americans lost their chance of being president on the day they were baptized, then it is the whole nation that will be the loser — in the eyes of Catholics and non-Catholics around the world, in the eyes of history, and in the eyes of our own people.

But if, on the other hand, I should win the election, then I shall devote every effort of mind and spirit to fulfilling the oath of the presidency — practically identical, I might add, to the oath I have taken for 14 years in the Congress. For without reservation, I can “solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, so help me God.

He also coined the phrase VIGAH (pronounced with a New England accent). Both he and Bobby were irreplaceable. Bobby was the all time great AG going into the deep South to integrate schools. Faubus, George Wallace and the KKK could not keep him down.
There would be no Obama without Bobby Kennedy a great American and a wonderful humanist. RIP

No problem. Servers breath better that way, is all.

*standing on chair clapping*

ya did an admirable job on that breakup lurk

I wonder where I learned that…

suzanne!! that is one of my favorite christmas songs!!
ny friend kramer who is
http://www.astrofish.net
makes me crazy fun cd’s,a christmas cd last few years. all kinds of stuff on them. we have been email pals since the start of aol..way back when. long time to be friends and never have met. we mail stuff.

these are all songs that have been on the cd’s.

one of my favorites, no kidding is
billy idol merry christmas baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqB32k8-SF0

from robert earl you posted above
to techno
to corny funny-christmas in las vegas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqLOdrUFLnM

to mexican- tried to find the el vez version of ‘mamacita’-it is fast and fantastic, cracks me up!

to punk -kinda, more billy
frosty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_5R1UiaO0U
here comes santa claus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PlyOIcU0ag

to texan. (this would never happen in ohio)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih-dJdXogwI
to cheech and chong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSH9ryRzHQ4

i started this when it was at comment 25, and had to do a few things inbetween. no idea where the thread is now-so, if it’s now off topic, sorry-slow browser tonight. and took forever trying to find the really good ones on youtube, couldn’t find a lot of them. darn it. maybe later.

hit the wall twice, so, off to hit the feathers..take care all.

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HIGH-larious!

The Archbishop does like to cause controversy. His use of the Nazi connection will get a few people riled up. The Windsors, are actually the German…Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family. They changed their name to Windsor in 1917. An association with Hitler was one of the reasons that the Duke was forced to give up being King. Prince Henry got a lot of flack for dressing as a Nazi a few years ago. One of the current family is married to the daughter of a SS officer..can’t remember which one. He is a Mason, also.

The Archbishop thrives on rattling the chains of the establishment.

Oh I do know let me tell you! And Thanks for making it more palatable for later readers. But dam it was a great speech and is really needed to be understood in this day and time!

tis a great video – and the song is fantabulous imho.

oh double crap – i forgot my manners – welcome to late late nite madcabbiejan

if ya have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask

hey dmac – loves robert earl keen’s songs – swerving in my lane is another great one

Bobby Kennedy integrates University of Mississippi 1962.
Is their a man or woman with that kind of backbone please step up to the political plate.

The University of Mississippi

A year after the Freedom Rides, yet another segregation crisis occurred at the University of Mississippi, prompting the president once again to act on behalf of civil rights activists. A federal court ordered the university to admit James Meredith, the university’s first black transfer student. As Arkansas governor Orval Faubus had refused to allow black students to attend an all-white high school in 1957, Mississippi governor Ross Barnett and state officials refused to let Meredith enter the university.

Kennedy dispatched hundreds of U.S. marshals to protect Meredith and forcibly integrate the university. Barnett continued to resist even after the marshals arrived, organizing several thousand whites to attack them. The riot left two people dead and hundreds wounded. Kennedy then ordered 5,000 U.S. Army soldiers to secure the university and escort Meredith to class. The president also used federal troops to integrate the University of Alabama the following year.

omg, i just saw how long that was..crap! sorry bout that, it’s 3am here, way late for me, eyes buggin’ out of head..i was intent on making sure i copied and pasted right…lost track of how many…usually keep it a tthree. lol. duh.

g’nite resilient, forgiving mod. and pups.

Good for him! He does possess a mighty pulpit…! Virtually all the European Monarchies were intermingled from the 1600’s onwards…!

Aloha, dmac!

oh..oh..my request and your follow through was the reason for mod meltdown?

Sorry, but it sure does look good, though, doesn’t it? Powerful words that

now will get maximum exposure.

g’nite dmac

Nahant John and Bobby left us a great legacy and Obama is in their debt as I believe he understands. Both assainations ripped me apart and are a haunting statement of our societies cancer. Peace

mod meltdown

Nahant has not kept up with the semi-sweet chocolate and dark-roasted pecan rationing schedule. He had to know it was coming.

This is our new video Xmas card, Suz. Thanks!

I have never read all of that before. Thanks.

yep, that was on one, i really like him…and ray wylie hubbard and ron white were on some, too. each cd is a wide variety of stuff.

ok, way past tired, turning into torture.. sweet dreams when you get there.

Uh oh, that smells like ‘pay to play’, Lurk…! ;-)

CT you have more than your share this year…wish your wife a speedy recovery…did not know she had surgery ouch.
A local boy that is planning to go of to college was telling me he would have to make christmas gifts this year.

my pleasure teddy :)

p.s. i need to move to a time zone west of here so i can hang out at late night more.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

A Mod’s got to eat.

That speech Should be shouted far and wide in this country! Tacked on the front door of every Church! Kennedy sure said a mouthful and everyone of us should take those words to heart!
Do YOU want someone/government to tell you how to worship?? That is a question for all days. If we are to keep our country the answer must always be that we must have a separation of church and state so all Religions can flourish or I one so choose no religion!
In fact I will be sending that out to all on my Email list!!

Thanks, bb! It was a deep cut in her instep that needed 30 stitches inside and out…!

This site gives a good overview of that. It also goes into the fact that the lineage of the Royals includes Black ancestry. At the very end it mentions that Princess Diana was related to Colin Powell.

I’m glad that your wife is OK. Had a similar experience two years, ago. Short form..cup & plate & sliding rug & concrete floor & much blood & many stitches in wrist. When I read what happened, it was instant flashback time. I sort of remember trying to clean up ’cause I didn’t want my dogs to get hurt.

BB I feel the same way, having grown up in South Boston I watched them constantly! They were living hero’s to us way back then when Jack was just a Congressman and the Lion of the Senate Teddy was still wet behind the ears!

I feel slightly less guilty..now removing paper bag from head..

But but I just sent some your way and I offered to watch your back with those Rugby boys….

As my son related the tale of what happened, she was obsessed with cleaning up her blood on the floor before heading to the ER…!

Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie

Lurk hope this soothes your ruffled server feathers!

Here’s a solstice thought:

Characteristic of pagan traditions is the absence of proselytism

i think we all have had comments moderated at some point – even the front pagers (hell, i’ve moderated more than one front pager while working backstage myself)

Now we are talking!

We have a lot for which to be grateful for living in a free country.
Once I broke the bondage of a religious and bigoted family I did enjoy it quite a bit. Now having the freedom of the internet to express I think our freedoms have beem expanded and enhanced.
Keeping the internet free should be a constitutional amendment.

Yup…she was in shock..I was worried my dogs would dine on all the bloodand get cut from the broken dishes. It was pouring faster than I could clean. Just didn’t seem to realize that the hospital was mandatory as soon as possible. My hands started to sweat when first reading what she did.

How about we volunteer to taste-test all Lurk’s treats?

Sounds like a Woman

It was the Bourbon huh!!

i am afraid to touch the link – lurk has magic powers and is very protective of chocolate and pecan

Stoli is my drink.
But that was pie. Never ever refuse pie.

My poor dad was the grandson of a Baptist preacher.
They didn’t spank him for scratching at his wool pants until after church, that’s how nice they were.
He was serious when he told me that, too.
Funny, we didn’t ever visit his side of the family…

me first..I hate cooking..would love some free treats..

It sure did look good didn’t it… Now I am just going to have make an apple pie this week, I already have the Häagen-Dazs Vanilla Ice Cream(:>))

i am sick and tired of my own dayam cooking. the only downside i can think of to living alone is i gotta cook it in order to eat it unless i drive into town to get something made by someone else.

Hasta la vista amigas…manana.

Being a fan of scones – not so much with the pie – worth considering.

manana bb

I see it as my charitable duty.
It’s all for the good of The Lurking Mod, after all. I will have to stuff myself sample timy amounts of baked chocolate pecan goodness all. day. long.
But for Lurk, I’ll take on this heavy task.

I love to cook most anything… tonight was easy Rib eye Steaks with Black beans and Rice mmmmmmmmmmmmm Dam making me get the midnight munchies and no I was not smoking any of the good stuff(:>))

g’nite everybody, happy solstice night!

spoken like a rabid lamb pup (laughing)

g’nite teddy – happy solstice

I know that intellectually, but emotionally, it is not my way to cause harm to anyone..so felt a little icky when it dawned on me what was being referred to.

Aloha, bb and Teddy!

Bless you, my child. email your toxicity reports to TLM at dessertsforever dot com

Well on that note I will be dreaming of goodies all night… Night Pups sleep well when ya get there(:>))
Lest we forget these words:

Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice; where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind; and where Catholics, Protestants and Jews, at both the lay and pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood.

We must continue to fight for these ideals!

No one is in the soup. Just keeping the backstage hardware safe. No biggie.

nite nahant

Heh, you linked your Dylan playlist with autoplay turned on, I enjoyed the next song greatly, Lay Lady, Lay…! ;-)

Newcrop paper shell pecans are in. Mighty good.

Aloha, nahant!

It is difficult to cook for one, isn’t it. Boring..no conversation to go with the meal is part of the problem I think. And don’t get me started on dirty dishes.

g’nite nahant

sigh..if delivery could be made through computers..

and for us old timers, the stuff that gets caught in the filters are old hat. too many links in one comment, a comment longer than the front page post, etc. i’m just glad the margins don’t bust anymore – but i do wish the tech crew would fix the show text feature again

Tea. Earle Grey. Hot.

hey sunny

lol;)

wookie makeover success

True! Some of the old frills would be nice again…! ;-)

suz!

The Soft Parade

POOF!!

Trivia time..Did you know the tea is named after an Earl Grey? Probably most people do, but I just learnt that recently.

I didn’t. And who’s this Bergomot guy?

I’m lost on this one..

Sorry. Bad snark. The Earl Grey tea I have had was advertised as “Earl Grey with Bergomot.” I think it’s a spice or a plant.

A quick google says bergomot is a citrus..so..is there a guy called that?

isn’t that a sorta orange’s fancy name? i used to use a bath oil that had bergamot oil in it… smelled wonderful

HAR! Our comments passed each others…

per this, it can be drank as a tea

Then there’s gunpowder green. One might die trying to consume that.

I grow bee balm for butterflies; didn’t know it could be a tea. Going to have to give it a try next year. Can’t wait until flower growing season, again. Can I borrow your landlady?

oops..was for you, Suz

is it native beebalm? that is what the post referenced

Temple of Heaven Gunpowder Green..looks like pellets..hmm…gunpowder=pellets=heaven..cute name

My knowledge begins and ends with my reading of the package. I will make sure that I don’t try anything that I haven’t double checked is the right stuff.

kewl :)

time for me to head in and go wash the dishes (broken dishwasher will be fixed as soon as the roads open up between here and pdx). g’nite all and thanks for hanging out with me tonight

How is your doggie doing? My two are suffering cabin fever and driving me right around the bend…

vile stuff an acquired taste :-) Smells and tastes just like gunpowder. Might be better in the black version.

Currently sipping through my purveyors extensive stock.

Night..been fun..

This is sickening news…

Gaza near to collapse as Israel tightens grip, says bank

Israel’s blockade of Gaza is pushing the territory to the brink of collapse and fuelling the growth of a black money market controlled by Hamas, the World Bank warned yesterday.

Israel isn’t done either…

Israel initiates a media campaign to prepare for a Gaza offensive

The Israeli Foreign Ministry started an international media campaign in an attempt to garner support for a large-scale military offensive in the Gaza Strip. Israel’s Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, instructed the Israeli embassies around the world to start diplomatic activities in order to gather support for an offensive in Gaza.

The main Israeli focus right now is on countries that are members of the Security Council and a number of EU countries.

Aloha, Suz!

I think I will pass on this one! A neighbour used to shoot black powder rifles and it is awful smelling. He blew up some when he was in his driveway and burnt his son horribly.

nite suz

Genocide and the fucking world ignores it.

Sweet dreams suz.

Timing is all — the bastards!

Yup..starving people..no electricity..no clean water..weak people cannot defend themselves. The damn Israelis are blocking ships from Israel that are trying to get supplies to Gaza.

http://www.alternativenews.org…..81221.html

Uruknet that both those links were from carries numerous articles on the I/P plight…

Yeah.. welcome to your new job Pres Obama. Whatcha gonna do about it??

Attaturk is upstairs!
The rich, they’re just better than you! Just ask them.

Sadly..he parrots the line of “Israel has a right to defend herself”. And it is courtesy of the American taxpayers.

BBC reported this lately, genocide of Palestinians is not an accident, it is a feature, hanukkah bah!

Israeli leaders ‘to topple Hamas’

The two leading candidates to become Israel’s next prime minister have vowed if elected to topple the Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas, in Gaza.
The threats by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Likud party leader Binyamin Netanyahu came after PM Ehud Olmert warned against making bold statements.
A six-month Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas, which runs Gaza, came to an end on Friday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7794577.stm

On a gentler note, a yummy black tea: Gingia Assam Estate

*poof*

Netanyahu..the jerk who said 911 was very good for Israel. Yup, it sure was and we know who was one of the damned countries behind it.

Aloha, Sunny! I shall join ya! Aloha Oe!!!

Perhaps you wondered who it was that blocked the regulation of trading in derivatives. And perhaps you’ve wondered who Obama has chosen to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Per Propublica’s Jake Bernstein:

In the midst of a stream of financial scandals and regulatory failures, President-elect Barack Obama announced the nomination of two key regulators yesterday: Mary Schapiro as the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Gary Gensler to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The two will be responsible for creating “a 21st century regulatory framework to ensure that a crisis like this can never happen again,” said Obama.

The choice of Gensler for that mission is ironic. While in the Clinton administration, the former assistant Treasury secretary helped oppose regulation of the exotic derivatives at the center of the financial crisis.

Gensler was a top negotiator for the White House in discussions with Congress in support of the now-controversial Commodity Modernization Futures Act of 2000. The law largely prevented the SEC and the CFTC from regulating credit default swaps and other complex instruments that would later wreak havoc with financial markets. Gensler also played a prominent role in batting down an effort by the CFTC to regulate these derivatives. More recently, Gensler has led Obama’s SEC transition team.

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They may have driven the economy into the ditch, but at least Obama is putting experienced drivers in charge of the economy. Sigh!

The SEC Semiannual Report to Congress/April 1/08 to Sept. 30/08.( 94 page PDF). Two items of interest to explain how staff was busy working to over see things…or not.

Heading from page 60..Investigations into misuse of government resources and official time to operate private photo businesses

Heading from page 61..Investigations and Enquiries into misuse of company resources to view pornography

Can’t make this stuff up! Truth is stranger than fiction.

hey suz and pups–i clicked on the name (rtannamal) of the person who uploaded that robert earl video on youtube and it looks like they just got back from kandahar, med evac.
said back from hell and in one piece and his/her new video is military crew.

also has lots of anime for anime fans.