First?

Howdy suze.

Yea, me!
Hey, Suz!

hey pups – how ya’ll doing tonight?

such a bittersweet version of SOR. heard it at a dear friend’s funeral. that’s all I’ll say. sacred song.

There’s still white stuff on the ground here! It’s going away, but, sheeeeesh!

LOL! yeah you! I had my chance for the zedness but smugly went downstairs instead. missed it by that much!

Aloha, Suz! I was EPU’d…

Holy Shit, Batman…

Paulson says U.S. lacked tools to tackle crisis: report

…In one of his last interviews before leaving office, Paulson said, “We’ve done all this without all of the authorities that a major nation like the U.S. needs.”

He said even after Congress in October approved the $700 billion troubled asset relief program, the U.S. still lacked tools such as an adequate special bankruptcy regime for non-bank financial firms.

“We’re dealing with something that is really historic and we haven’t had a playbook,” he said.

“The reason it has been difficult is first of all, these excesses have been building up for many, many years. Secondly, we had a hopelessly outdated global architecture and regulatory authorities…in the U.S.,” the newspaper quoted him as saying.

Paulson said any regulatory overhaul should emphasize “better and more effective” regulation and needed to make sure that infrastructures and powers were robust enough to allow large institutions to fail.

“The organizations (financial firms) cannot be too big or too interconnected to fail,” he said.

I’m flabbergasted… Glass-Steagal under FDR… The SEC… Hellllooo…?

bittersweet is exactly what i thought. the tribute video includes video of iz’s ashes being scatterd at the end, followed by him looking down and over the rainbow.

sad yet hopeful.

forker was a big supporter of reregulation and the free market rule of enforcement.

karma will hopefully leave him without anything of value.

I think this is just cover. Ol’ Hank pretending he cares about solvency while ripping us all blind. The con continues.

Bruddah IZ!!! A little taste of Hawaii…! ;-)

Yeah, that forker had a freeloader’s fork a mile long.

OK, Pups, I gotta go sleepies now.
Night!
FunnyD

Also Tim Russert’s funeral.

Aloha, Funny D!

g’nite funnyd – may you wake up to no white stuff

Oh sure, grab the zed and head to bed……….nite FD

So glad to see everyone. Beautiful song, Suz.

That version sure is a tearjerker.

-G

Oh, didn’t know. Was that really televised?

You know, I think Tim Russert was a decent sort of fellow even if I didn’t agree with his politics or his broadcasting. But I couldn’t quite get on board with a televised funeral even for a television personality. Even ########### Smith tried for some privacy. But I don’t want to be disrespectful. I think that is something that should be reserved for heads of state. But I’m old fashioned that way, I guess.

Suz, say his last name three times quickly…! ;-)

Oh whoops. I forget that sweet a.n.n.a n.i.c.o.l.e’s name gets the #### treatment on the toobz.

Margot, GregB,
This song, this version always makes me cry.

Ka-maka-vivo-ole’X3.

-G

I guess that because TR was such a huge tv personality, it only fit to have the service televised. The rainbow that came out when the service was over was pretty awesome.

I got a tad weepy just watching the video.

I too was very uncomfortable with the NBC Russertpalooza funeral fest. Seemed a wee bit unseemly to me. Tribute is fine, deification is not.

-G

Hey, you know to pronounce the ‘w’s as v’s…! Kudos…! ;-)

Agreed.

evening, pups

you may Digg here

Long day–I am about to Digg and run again

You guys are great!

dugg and thanks for the digg and run neuro

Hi, Bye, or rather Aloha… Neuro…! ;-)

nite all

Nite Neuro!

Viola’!

-G

This is hilarious…

Election judge is dumbfounded her ballot was rejected

Shirley Graham was astonished to learn that a lawyer from Norm Coleman’s campaign on Tuesday blocked her absentee ballot from being added to the U.S. Senate recount.

“I’m an election judge,” said Graham, of Duluth. “I expected to be the last person whose ballot wouldn’t be counted.”

Good job, Norm…! ;-)

i bet normie did not anticipate that his exclusionary ways were gonna impact those reviewing his exclusionary ways.

hehehehe karma has a sense of humor

Good job, normie!

I was just saying to my hubby that I wish I was a fly on the wall at Franken’s HQ. I’m sure there a few OTR comments that are flyin’ right about now that are LOL.

Bruddah Iz! Long time fav played on KPIG since they were streaming long ago.

Rainbow merged with Wonderful World is unforgettable, to this day. As IZ is . . .

I can’t ever listen to that combo without misting up it’s so damned powerful.

On the eve of The Eve, nice pick, Sistah Suz . . . . nice pick.

Here’s to change we want . . . *SMILE*

And – she voted for Coleman….

i can just hear it now

unnamed lawyer: but but but sir, mr coleman, sir, i did not recognize her name and it was not on our ok list. key-rist, how was i to know she was a forking election judge

Time for Norm to Go-n-blow.

-G

Aloha, ET! So when’s the Bristol-Levi wedding…? I thought it was supposed to happen before the birth…? ;-)

he’s past his sell by date and refuses to admit it. he’s gotta know it is over

i heard it was this coming spring ct

ROFL. I thought you were making that up, but no!

No word on the marriage. Hoping that the wedding date will come up when the narcs release the phone tap tapes of the alleged paternal grandma.

some substances have extra preservatives, like Blagojevich.

I only make up serious shit. The Coleman challenges are high comedy.

anyone else sick of hearing Pat Buchanan shout about Palin’s “star power”? I know I am.

like a twinkie

Is there a shakespeare play that even comes close?

Oh, good lord, if I hear him say star power one more time…RACHEL!!!

wow, talk about yer synthetic biology challenge! yuck. you really do have to be twisted to eat one of those.

Or as she’s being sentenced…! ;-) Other than having the investigation delayed, has Miz Palin said anything about it…?

I turned off that crusty old tool a while back. Tired of his Palin fantasy.

-G

Oh Suzanne,
Iz, he died of resp. failure at 38, and weighed 750 pounds, according to Mr.CE. and Google.

I’ve been taking a break from the political shows, but man, today I could imagine all the other guests rolling their eyes whenever he opened his mouth today. Jeez!

I did enjoy the Zigniew Breshinski (sp?) smackdown of Joe Scar on Crooks and Liars earlier today. Of course Joe deserved it and of course he didn’t take it very well.

if ya click on his name in the post, it takes ya to his wiki page

I’ve been taking a break too, but the Zig was just great today! And I haven’t watched the whole thing, just what was on DK.

oops, sorry.

nada thing

Digby says that Zbig’s response to Joey Scabs should be used on every rightwingnut from now on.

-G

nothing to apologize for – i was just letting ya know in case you had not been to the wiki

He and my dad definitely belong to the Old School of the loudest one in the room is Right. lol.

I forget which former Bush aide was quoted today saying something to the effect of Cheney filling the vacuums around Bush who was a Palinesque candidate, adding, “let’s face it, that’s what he was.” It wasn’t a compliment.

Wow, the tongues are gonna wag now. I have to believe more staffer frustration is about to let loose.

Well! I’m up way too late again, and I have to be up in five hours. They have been tearing down buildings for all of December and I’ve tried to post some films of it to no avail. Perhaps if anyone looks at the Cleveland Museum of Art webpage they might post some construction pics. Sigh (oh such a girl) I’ve taken up nettie potting.

evening all. Is it unacceptable fantasy violence to think about pinching politician’s pink cheeks to see if they’ll squeal?

Right! It’s not as if we don’t know what jerks like Joe are gonna say. “Well, when Clinton/Carter/Kennedy/Truman/FDR was in office…things got effed up. You can’t blame this on Bush…we’ll blame it on Obama.” Is that analysis? Is that even opinion? Is it shrewd, Otto?

No. It’s just salivating when the bell rings. idiots.

I think it’s ok along with shoe tossing…very ok! But IANAMod.

I think it was Powell’s long time Aide-de-camp, Larry Wilkerson that said it…

ouch – i do not do well, especially with interpersonal skills, when i don’t get enough sleep

Nice tune Suz.
We have high tide most of the day and sun with moderate wind. Good for rowing…my new rollers for the slide seat came in today so smoother slide seat makes the waves and wind more manageable. My quest for self improvement.
Glad to see you are getting all that rain you so love…we got a lot of ducks and geese on the bay. The Gazan invasion and our leadership response is desparaging…they just did not learn fromthe Iraq debacle that violence is not the answer. Peace

I’m in danger of posting my third comment in a row…so I’m off to bed too at least to give someone else a chance to get a word in edgewise.

Nite CE…Peace, pups!

Nice Tune Suz(:>)) Great for us old fogies!

I prefer a pinch of FBI

CT you are right about Wilkerson, and he is not done yet.

Well bless his heart. Kinda figures that it would come out of Powell’s corner.

g’nite dosido

Dood! Long time no see…! ;-)

Aloha, dosido!

Lotta family and a cold running threw the house!

yuck – colds over the holidays are the worst

The kids and their families here on the Weekend and we are hoping wea re over this one.. likes to hang out in the back of the sinuses and upper respiratory area (:>) Makes shaking it all the harder…

That totally bites…! :-(

You’re right of course.

Just hankering for immediate gratification. And in the case of Kristol, probably no grounds for FBI pinching.

Well that was a just driveby… enjoy the rest of late late night… I know you will pups… Nighty nite all..

g’nite nahant

Drive-by hiya, everybody. Rachael Maddow in (re-broadcast) just said that some US President revoked one or more pardons of a previous President. Hmmmm…

wasn’t it grant who revoked some of andrew jackson’s pardons? i think i read something about that within the past week somewhere…

It was Grant.
hey pups

whew – thanks newton

hey

Chris, I couldn’t watch it, just too sad.

Revoked Andrew Johnson’s not Andrew Jackson’s… Jackson was Prez (1829–1837).

i knew there was something wrong with it (laughing)

Once again blizzard conditions halted my scheduled run for tonite…! The better half is bummed…!

Well, I shall bid you good folks a fond adieu! Aloha Oe!!!

Nite pups.
Be well.

aloha ct

g’nite sunny

thanks for hanging out with me tonight pups. g’nite all.

nite suz

Anyone still here?

Just said goodbye to ETette, who is off, back to Seattle to start her AmericaCorps job for a year.

About to bail out, but wanted to say that you had yourself a heckuva year, and I had a ball reading your space and particularly your Salon appearance. Thanks ET.

nite pups

{{{{Happy New Year, newtonusr!}}}}

just got home from work, what a nice treat to find an Iz vid! *applauds Suze*

*waves at the Pups who are still up*

I’m currently in So. Cal. waiting for the delivery of our delayed baggage, and trying to reply on my ’smart phone’– but what a wonderful and delightful surprise to find one of my and my Mrs. favorites of Iz here at FDL –and I can’t even find an exclamation point when I need one.
Aloha,
Bob in HI