“Is the caller there?”

Knock, knock, knock anybody here

Looks like a lot of pups sleeping late today……

There was apparently a WJ caller yesterday who laid a few choice ones on lowery; oh, for high speed to watch the vid. :-( Is there a transcript available?

Anybody catch Barnacle (sp?) subbing for tweety several days this week? Guy did a pretty good job; too bad msnbc didn’t give him the 6:00 slot. He seems to play a “fly on the wall” part on scar and the few times I’ve watched it, have wondered why he’s even there.

Barnicle doesn’t have the greatest history. Also has a tendency to go with the flow. Don’t know if folksy ED is going to last long either.

Where is Curtis LeMay when you need him?

Gotta love that passive voice:

Food Safety Efforts Have Stalled in Recent Years

And no, this does not concern Larry Craig testing hot dogs at MSP.

Funny you should mention that. LeMay was busy running as George Wallace’s VP candidate around the time Kim Jong Il’s old dad, Kim Il Sung grabbed the U.S.S. Pueblo. It was sort of amusing, George Wallace had to keep stepping up and toning down LeMay’s statements. I remember him stepping forward and grabbing the mike, saying, “What I think the General meant to say was ….” When Wallace is the moderate, you have quite a ticket.

Okay, it’s not the passive voice.
But good enough for government work.

I guess the Lake is so popular that no one comes here any more.
Either that or the NSA inserted sleeping gas into the WordPress™ code.

Kinda what I meant about not having been able to form an opinion about him based on his scar performance. My gut reaction is if he’s a permanent fixture on scar, he’s worthless but was a pleasant respite from tweety. Agree on Ed…..that’s a slot we’re gonna lose which will reflect negatively on progressives in so far as increasing our visibility on the idjit box. Hope I’m wrong on that call and he will find an audience among the less informed non-thug variety.

People are obviously sleeping in from their last suppers.

I guess everyone is watching the saga of the pirates w/ their hostage. How do you say oh shit in Somalia?

Good morning all and thanks for the post, Attaturk.

Slow morning here at the Lake.

Good morning, pups. As an early Easter gift from the NYT Bobo is off today. Mr. Krugman, in “Making Banking Boring,” says the regulated era of banking that followed the Great Depression was far less lucrative than the previous era, but one of spectacular economic progress. Perhaps the political winds need to shift again.

Here you go.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and because it’s Good Friday I have hot cross buns. Spring is back, I hope to stay. The jasmine has put on a growth spurt, and will probably be blooming in 2 weeks, just in time to welcome an out of town guest. Have a good day.

How do you say oh shit in Somalia?

The pirates were quoted this morning as saying they are not afraid of the American military. Maybe Chucklehead Krauthammer could have a chat with them, ya know, threaten ‘em with a good nukin.

The jasmine has put on a growth spurt, and will probably be blooming in 2 weeks

Which kind – Carolina or Confederate? Our Carolina has been blooming in the woods and roadsides for more than a week; the Confederate bushes I planted near pilings here on the coast took a bad hit this winter and it’s gonna be a hard slog if they pull through, much less bloom.

Did you read his POS in the wapo today? If we’re talkin nukin, I know in which direction it should be pointed.

Don’t know why the seals don’t just drill some holes in the bottom of the boat.

Confederate. I was a bit nervous about it during the worst of the winter when it was looking very peaked, but it’s sprouting all over the place now, covered with that lovely soft green the new growth has. I hope yours springs back. I just love the stuff — the back yard smells like heaven when it blooms.

What happened to “edit”? MIA and I *need* it! *G*

It is just unreal how unhinged the Wingnuts have become. I’m actually very concerned about the Faux News recent campaign to incite violent insurrection, but then you’ve got another faction of the right wing, that just wants to nuke people in other countries.

First of all, what sore losers they are. But secondly, I think the situation is getting really dangerous. It’s one thing to disagree politically, but they’ve really crossed the line. And they also seem to be historically illiterate, they seem to forget the original Boston Tea Party was to protest a tax CUT for a wealthy multi-national corporation. What they’re trying to organize would be like the anit-revolutionary King George supporters organizing a protest against democracy.

Well, spit! Now the little devil shows up……..where was it when it was needed? *GG*

Was working for me.

Gives ya real confidence in their competence, don’t it?

Note: #23…..maybe the time lapse was longer than I realized before glancing back to see what I wanted to delete.

When my son was in special ops they had numerous exercises with seals aimed at recapturing seized vessels.

Did you read his POS in the wapo today?

No. His columns (if by column you mean insane rants, written on toilet paper and slipped through the food hatch on the padded cell door) are not something I spend my extremely limited ‘puter time on.

Actually that was the sentence I wanted to delete. Broke the “do. not. watch. scar” rule today and they read part of his screed about Obama accomplishing nothing on the trip; the idjit screen is still intact……but not by much. :-(

May be it’s that nasty ‘mericun desire for immediate gratification in which I try not to participate but it *does* seem to be making our military look something less than competent that they haven’t brought this to resolution given the training we all know they’ve had. Am I being unrealistic here?

Somali for oh shit = AAAHHH Americans!!

I was thinkin’ that mebbe we could box Charles up & ship him to No. Korea to froth at Kim Jong-Il personally.

Of course, that may be considered cruel & unusual punishment…

I think what’s upsetting Krauthammer so much is that because we allowed the missile to prove its failed design, it significantly weakens the neocons’ pre-emption arguments.

One of the their favorite games is trying to put their opponents on the logical defensive, trapping them into having to prove a negative. In this case, if we had shot the missile down they would argue:

Just because we don’t know how devastating that last missile would have been doesn’t mean we can take a chance on the next one.

Rinse and repeat.

Before we congratulate ourselves on how unlike we are to Krauthammer, maybe we should ask ourselves how much more enlightened is our new policy in Afghanistan.

What is throwing tens of thousands of additional troops into Afghanistan really going to achieve in terms of combatting terrorism? What is the policy but another attempt for us — or more precisely, for Obama — to pose at being “tough”, on the neverending theory that demonstrating “toughness” somehow makes our evildoing enemy quiver into an undifferentiated puddle?

Ooh, will it be George Jong-il, Jeb Jong-Il, or Neil Jong-Il?

Cute, but Kim is his family name, and Jong-il is his given name. And in Korea (north and south), “Kim” makes “Smith” in English look like an unusual name.