Suz! Aloha!

hey ct *gentle smack* rbg said to give that to ya when i saw ya

Good evening, Suzanne. :)

Ooh, it must’ve been my foul mouthed ways, earlier…!

hey neuro

ct – i did not ask (laughing)

Digg!

A lot to worry about, for sure. But let’s hope that things begin to improve in about 15 days or shortly thereafter.

Suz, I wish we could all be in that club. I’d get a round for all of us!

Whew – we escaped the Coultergeist vortex. Again.

thanks for opening the digg neuro

tomorrow we get down to addressing those issues that worry so bad.

hey loo hoo

hey et

Let me rephrase that.

Let’s hope that things begin to change for the better in about 15 days or shortly thereafter.

loohoo, i could use a cyber hot toddy or a cyber irish coffee (hint hint)

Roscoe Beck on bass!

at least it didn’t have that lamprey mouth downstairs

Hey, ET

I liked your Blue America piece.

Thanks to your efforts, I can claim to know at least something about Alaska politics…beyond the media hype about S.P.

hey bonkers – like that do ya?

Yah, I have some loose connections to Roscoe. He’s also the bass player for the Dixie Chicks and Leonard Cohen. Cool dude.

I’ve got a special for you. White russian. I almost forgot about them, but what a nice dessert! (milk, not cream.)

Ah, nice long Robben Ford track…
Hey Suz!

sweet bonkers – let him know we used a piece with him tonight – perhaps we can add another voice to ours here at the lake.

sweet, loohoo, slide it on down the tubes wouldja?

hey newton – its been a while since i’ve done any robben ford

Hiya All!
Mr.CE and I saw the film Australia at the box office. Beautiful, wonderful, tragic, and don’t miss it — take huge amounts of hankies.

hey christine e

G’evening Suze & Pups!

hey ndfg

hey suzanne. just checking in.

Glenzilla today was even more excellent than usual:

So many of these conflicts — one might say almost all of them — end up shaped by the same virtually universal deficiency: excessive tribalistic identification (i.e.: the group with which I was trained to identify is right and good and just and my group’s enemy is bad and wrong and violent), which causes people to view the world only from the perspective of their side, to believe that X is good when they do it and evil when it’s done to them. X can be torture, or the killing of civilians in order to “send a message” (i.e., Terrorism), or invading and occupying other people’s land, or using massive lethal force against defenseless populations, or seeing one’s own side as composed of real humans and the other side as sub-human, evil barbarians.

not staying a while? a drive-by?

Thanks, neuro.

I wish I’d had more time to turn the essay into something that brought out more of how much I’ve learned from nutty Alaskans over the years. I still am learning from some of them.

Big argument on the phone this evening with a friend over whether or not I’ll support a local HS band going to the Obama inauguration. On the surface it looks cool, but another friend tells me Palin is already planning photo ops with the students before they go, to show her bipartisanship, the week before our upcoming legislative session opens.

Saw tons of swift boat veterans for truth books this week at dollar tree.
Next stop, pulp mill.

hey wigwam – glenzilla rocks

hey sunny – maybe they can turn them into presto logs or similar to help heat homes this winter. they would finally be able to give them away

I do have to get up and work in five hours — Oh, Late Nite you may be the undoing of my work in art history…

Robben Ford – Worried Life Blues. That was time well spent I won’t regret…very, very nice.

well then go to bed ma’am – before ya know it, it will be breakfast in bed time again

hey bb

that is most definitely the blues

Still, encourage them to go. The more “Alaskans for Obama” we see, the better.

Hi Suz, Chris, neuro, everyone.
Where is that Lurking Mod? I may have some brownies for him.

But if he doesn’t show up they’re all yours!

Suz, all new digs at the Beach Haus…

I’m looking at the horns of a dilemma, so to say…

may have some brownies

May?

kewl – a new decor always perks up the place – i redid mine after moving up here.

lurk tends to wanna lurk but i bet if there are pecans in those brownies, we will hear from lurk

Hugz pups.
I have basically been in bed all weekend with wicked assed back muscle cramps an d other various upper body parts cramping, I am pretty sure I have popped every vertebrae in my body back into joint at least twice and the ones in my neck five or six times.
I must be fighting something hard.
Vodka, muscle relaxers and fifteen hour marathon sleep sessions and I still feel like crap. Sheet happens. If I still feel like this tomorrow, somebody else can turn some wrenches. Gthud and Gnite and Happy New Year.

Margot! Missing snow…

nevermind – nothing is faster than lurk going for brownies

hope ya feel better soon busted – g’thud to ya dood

Good plan. Sure sat on them for a long time.

Roscoe’s also playing alot these days with this absolute monster on guitar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KgB-ECxkG8

This is dedicated to Norman Coleman.

That sux, Busted! Hope ya get well soon…!

Lurk you may have the brownies, here, just don’t bite my hand.
;)

feel better (busted)

Norm does seem to need all the help he can get understanding that he is going down.

Margot,
My fav recipe for brownies is the Ghirdelli Award winning brownies. On the box of GH ground chocolate.

um, Ghiradelli. Sorry about the spelling.

here you go. help yourselves, everyone.

” But everyone should also be permitted to view the devastating effects on actual human beings from these Israeli bombing and artillery raids in Gaza”
GG
Our non reporting Media unbelievably covers for the Isreali human rights violations. American fascism is alive and well glad my TV has been off over a year or I would be climbing the walls.

Damn, they are fine.

Mmmm, Ghiradelli!

Is this the recipe?

I could use some brownies! Peanut butter frosting would be nice.

I have the recipe, please email me

cream cheese frosting – double yummy

Goodnight Pups.

I’ll bet you did a splendid job! !

g’nite christine e

Dear god, busted. Stop with the back cracking!

Thanks Chris, I will. Good night.

Makin music better than makin war…the arts should be mandatory every year at evry school. Peace

I saw that Bush pere (GHWB) was on teevee touting Jeb as America’s future president… destined to save the nation after the ravages of the Obama interregnum I suppose. Bush-Palin 2012?

The horror.

hey blub – i hope everyone got the chills just thinking about how much damage a 3rd bush presidency could do

Stop sleepin on your tools…you’ll feel much better.

I hope people don’t forget what Bush 43 was like.

and remember that the same parents that raised 43 raised jeb

Only Sarah Palin could rationalize posing with a high school band (from the state she governs!) who’ll march in America’s Inaugural Parade as “bipartisanship.” The inauguration isn’t partisan, lady! It’s one of America’s high holy days, like Thanksgiving or the Super Bowl.

What a maroon she is. Just glad she’s not moving into the Naval Observatory this month.

I assume like Poppy and Junior before him, Jebbie would want to have his own little war….

They won’t cause your job is to remind them…somehow I think he has more to add to the little house of horrors. Seems like ayear ago I was standing on a chair screaming…impeach them. Oh well corruption is still the order of the day. Just sittin on the dock of the bay…

hey teddy

Poppy Bush looked like he’d gotten a new set of choppers that didn’t fit right. Or maybe OldBar cracked him one in the jaw with her lovely paw. Either way, I liked hearing him ruminate on his next son being Preznit. Hoped to see him weep at the tragedy, but no. They must have him on some better anti-dees.

hiya

I’ll remind them as long as I can talk or type or hold a sign.

Will bummers never cease?

i wonder if he has some health issues – he was really relying on that cane in some recent picures

appalling – here’s the Fox transcript.

Now we know where w gets his way with the king’s english.

And his loving son was so eager to assist — not.

He had both hips replaced but that wasn’t recent.

All I can hope is that he is in pain.

Just glad she’s not moving into the Naval Observatory this month

shiver

didja see that one pic where pops reached out to dim son and was ignored? he sure looked unsteady – and now his enunciation has declined. i don’t think its new choppers.

I am glad Obama won for many reasons. That is far from the least of them.

A Change Is Gonna Come
“Hide and watch”

Man, it’s gonna be so great seeing Stuart Smalley on the Senate floor in place of Senator Blown&Gone.

By the way, just realized that’s Robben Ford’s drummer in that clip I linked, so the dude’s got Robben’s entire rhythm section. Not bad at tall.

nite all

nite neuro

g’nite neuro

Spencer has a great post up…

Aloha, neuro!

I’m still very angry with Harry Reid. If he retired tomorrow, I would be very happy.

But since that’s not gonna happen, I will need to channel my anger somehow.

I wonder if there will be a primary challenge in Nevada in 2010? Nevada’s not that far away.

happy dreams

an hour flight or a full day’s drive but certainly doable teddy

unfortunately, i don’t know anyone in nevada, much less anyone with the potential to al wynn reid

Wondering about that son of Jimmy Carter’s who got so little help from Harry when he ran in 2006 for the Senate. Considering Harry’s lockstep-with-Bush remarks about Palestine, I wonder if Jimmy could prevail upon Jack to run against him.

thanks for the link. Some of the comments posted below the transcript are hilarious.

Appears Reid may already have a Republican challenger.

Pat Lang rawks…

Things to push your government representatives on in 2009:

1. End totalitarianism in Cuba by flooding it with American tourists, American capital, and American goods. Make all economic activity with Cuba tax and duty free for 5 years. Do these before the Chinese do them. And stay the hell out of their politics.
2. Strengthen economic and cultural ties with Brazil, Chile and Mexico. Drop the Monroe Doctrine ghosts and treat them like mature and equal partners. When the press asks idiot questions about their follies and foibles have the State Department repeat the mantra, They Are Sovereign States, you bleep. I’m open to suggestions as to what to do with the rest of the miscreants.
3. Get out of Korea. Soon. Stop treating them like children and give their students nothing USA to bitch about. They may just join the ROK army. Actually, they had better.
4. Continue to strengthen India, Japan and Australia with the kind of help they need to keep some kind of counterbalance to China’s growing ability to project power.
5. Place the anti-“Guest Worker, Earn Citizenship” crowd into Carlsbad Caverns, plug the openings with Rush Limbaugh’s fat butt and legislate sanity and reality into this mess. OK, I know I’m talking about Congress. I guess a bill to plug the openings with motor mouth could possibly be a constitutional issue.
6. Put Colin Powell in charge of a geopolitical form of the ‘Base Closing Commission’ to rationalize our international commitments. Make the process excruciatingly transparent. And keep Henry Kissinger out of the way. Ms. Albright should be a big part.
7. Recognize India as our natural ally in that region. Really work hard on our image in country. Stop worrying about their relationship with the Russians on weapons purchases. If the Bushies were doing this, well, even the proverbial blind squirrel finds a nut. Do it with more emphasis.
8. Become a world leader in radical proposals that defy ideological strictures. Example: Build an entirely new Palestine that isn’t split in half by Israel. Convince the world to make the huge financial commitment to build the infrastructure, desalinization plants, etc. that would be needed. Make everyone a deal they can’t refuse. And make Jerusalem a UN governed international city. Example: Recognize the tribal nature of the Pashtun world and create an autonomous land for them. Forget the Paki/Afghan border that is only appropriate for Mapquest. ((I am not saying these would work but I hate the bleating sheep nature of what is happening now.))
9. Put together a 2 year national service program, mandatory, from ages 18 through 20 and have young people involved live overseas for part of the time. On this point, I agree with Charlie Rangel that the loss of the draft and short military service has helped us grow isolated. Anytime I meet a young person who has done an overseas stint, even for a semester, they are changed forever in the ‘my eyes are opened’ manner.
10. Talk with anyone who wants to talk with us, without preconditions.

I want Harry to realize he needs to tend his homefires so that he doesn’t get Daschled. A decent GOP opponent might do that, too. But a primary would weaken him considerably. I wonder if there’s a conservative Democrat available to primary him?

Reid’s Magic Underwear is all worn out.

Indeed. On reflection, not sure that was technically a transcript – lots of editorial comment. Cut stuff might have been interesting.

Did you notice his affected hand movments as he explained his way out of the race question…the black candidates denied…oh wait if the Lt. Gov chose any that’s just fine. Transparent and hasn’t got a clue…that is why they picked him…easy to bullshit.

If the Lt Governor would simply announce that he plans to appoint Roland Burris to the Senate vacancy, all this would be over.

Perfect..I’ll instruct him to do so immediately…after I get life insurance…Chicago ya know…by the way Mayor Daley looks like he has been through the mob ringer…the old guys had a talk with him I’d say.

From your quote:

3. Get out of Korea. Soon. Stop treating them like children and give their students nothing USA to bitch about. They may just join the ROK army. Actually, they had better.

Last I knew (been awhile), young men in Korea have mandatory service until they’re about 30, and it’s generally the girls who go to college.

The Colony High School Band IS going to the inauguration They need to raise more money, but they’re going. Both of my kids played in the band, one under the current director, Mr. Burton.

When I was serving in Korea in ‘91 they were required to serve 4 yrs active and then reserve status for awhile longer…!

Dunno anything about NV politics other than that Harry ran the Gaming Commission. Assume that means he’s connected.

Well, I shall bid ya’ll another fond adieu! Aloha Oe!!!

aloha ct

Brian Owens Live Singing A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke

g’nite everyone

see you tomorrow

Be well

Every evaluation of GHWB henceforth should begin with the fact that he endorsed his oldest son for the presidency despite knowing that the kid was a living Chucky doll. Feigning dementia would have been better.

g’nite teddy

Thanks. Appears things have changed (though not re:women)

According to wiki

Military service is mentioned as one of the Four Constitutional Duties (along with taxes, education, and labor) for all citizens. The current effective Conscription Law, however, applies only to males although women can volunteer as officers. Military service varies according to branch: 22 months for the Army and Marine Corps, 24 months for the Navy and 26 months for the Air Force. Recently, however, there has been significant pressure from the public demanding either a shortening of the term or a switch to voluntary military service.

nite pups.

g’nite sunny

attaturk is upstairs

g’nite pups and thanks for hanging out with me tonight