Yankee Doodle Mouse” Got the ZED!!

boing boing boing three-and-a-half somersaults, tuck position

c a n n o n b a l l

kur-splaaaaaaaaaash

g’evening pups – everyone have a good fourth?

Hey Suz hows things on the great North Coast??

Just for the 4th of July.

shiza drenched again…

Must be that freaking Bulgarian judge’s fault… he set me up..

am watching the fireworks at lake union (seattle) live on tv

how’s it in deadwood city nahant?

hey that guy – paul thorn!!! way kewl

In a month, we’re seeing Paul Thorn twice in a week! YIPPEE!

most excellent that guy

Lotsa noise but they are just a bit to far away to see the “Official” fireworks..

Something funny posted at Kos, Palin is just exercising her inner Cartman.

ohmystars

Some idiot is trying to burn down the neighborhood with illegal fireworks.

Hi folks anti biotics and rest worked today so went for 1.5 mile jog without a problem. The redness has moved away from my wrist toward the cut since they took out the sdtitches and added a extra strain of AB. The knee is not sore now. Neighbors started party decibel music at 2 AM stopped 3:20 AM got up and did a chore.
Really quite here in Baywood Morro Bay did not have money for fireworks so they had a lazer movie on a big screen. Had yo go to Cayucos to get fireworks. Governments are broke as sales tax and real estate taxes plummet.

yikes! time to man the bucket brigade?

best rendition i’ve heard of the star spangled banner. awesome. where are you going to see him?

Hey baby, it’s the Fourth of July

Hi Suz and pups!

Well time to get LOST!!!

Don’t forget the 25th!!

yay for no problem bb?

how long before you can row again?

Mesilla put on a fireworks show with donated fireworks, stuff that was approaching (or in some cases I suspect past) its shelf life.

It still went BOOM! and it still looked just fine.

Rancho Nicasio in Marin County, and the Little Fox Theater in Redwood city.

Both are in California.

Yes, yikes is right. Wondering where the keystone cops are?

enjoy – what season are ya up to?

I wish I’d thought of it, but it really is what she’s doing.

BTW, the assholes in the neighborhood have sent my cats into hiding. I don’t much like fireworks.

So are my crazy neighbors last year at this time the noise was constant today I might turn in early because its so quiet.

hey gw

hey things

Great news, BB. Good to hear the new antibiotics are working.

there is something about a French desert that makes it so much better….. pear and blue berry Galette (tort) with French vanilla ice cream….

Eureka Springs was saying last night that their town’s fireworks display is going to be held near a cat refuge… I hope they bought a bunch a acepromazine for the kitties.

hey bct

hey katy

Per Marcy, Katharine Weymouth is still pimping WaPo’s reporters and editors.

We’ve established what kind of journalists they are, and now we’re merely quibbling over price. “Would that $250,000 be for a full night of (intellectual) intercourse, or merely a couple of chats?”

You must be a lace-hankie liberal, having a French-themed dessert on the Fourth of July.’

Sounds great, though.

hey wigwam

It sounds like a freakin’ war zone around here.
I got invited to several parties tonight but said fuggetabout it and am laying here in bed listening to thousands upon thousands of firecrackers and boomers going off.
Even the cat ain’t impressed.

Beer thirty.
How y’all doing tonight?

Geez, that’s the only place they could do it?

Fucking assholes. Yes, I’m a cat person.

Hey Suz. Nice dive, shoulda scored 8s or better…

$250,000 be for a full night of (intellectual) intercourse, or merely a couple of chats?”

Just who are these WP intellectuals you speak of? I thought they fired their only Liberal?

Hey Suz:)

that cannonball was forking perfect – shudda been forking 10’s

I also know a little of history…. it seems to me that the French helped us a lot to win the revolution…… just doing my part…..

Ahem…Hi Suz, hi pups! I know I’ve been a stranger around here lately…too much work.

LL!

sorry i missed your 17 ll – i was gobsmacked watching the seattle fireworks on teevee

holy moly – they do em to rock and roll instead of souza

well, i’m on his website. woo hoo! he’ll be in austin aug 27. you know i’ll be right up front.

I guess I might as well stick my head outside fer a minute, it sounds pretty busy out there.

np Suz, I understand about the fireworks — and that’s cool that they showed them with a rock ‘n roll accompaniment!

hey busted

The conservocrats seem to conveniently forget that the French had a lot to do with our independence.

A Capital Fourth was actually pretty cool this year — Aretha sang, and they had the Old Guard playing trumpets, and a fife and drum corps to go along with the fireworks. National Symphony Orchestra of course, with the 1812 Overture.

now they are doing ‘when you wish upon a star’…. how forking kewl

Hi you all.
It’s quiet here, just a few booms and pops. Usually it starts a couple days before. Not this year.

So far so good …don’t want to piss off this infection. Good to do some running to prep for rowing that’s what they pushed for at the Newport Aquatic center where I started sculling.
probably give it a week.
How are you and Funnydiva getting on?

Nice!

Our mistake was to suggest that we would hold and participate in an off-the-record dinner with journalists and power brokers paid for by a sponsor. We will not organize such events.

In fact, the only thing she seems to renounce in this letter is the off-the-record status promised by the fliers. She assures readers that if journalists attend such Pay2Play soirees, they’ll be able to publish what goes on.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake……-pay2play/

People talk off the record all the time its being paid while pretending to be objective and fair by one side without telling your readers you are being paid thats the problem.
What ever happened to those Journalist Hacks Bush was paying to plant stories not the generals with the pro war coverage I think none of them lost their net work jobs , not Judy Miller I think she got a vacation in Aspen or something, the other ones what was their names ? Did anything ever happen to a Journalist, Expert, General in the tank for Bush on the MSM ever?

hey margot

we be watching the show with fully bellies :)

Holy sheep shit, it’s like a fog bank out there!

Hi Margot! It was quiet around here tonight too. Just heard a few firecrackers earlier, not like previous years.

hi beauty. i’m still trying to decide if i’m going up to oregon this summer. if i do it looks like it’ll be something like between july 19 and 29. i see you’ll be at nahant’s on the 25th. i guess i better decide soon.

i get to have a friend’s two dogs from july 11 -19 while she’s in north carolina.

busted, foggy here at the coast all day – clear as a bell in tillamook tho

LL!!
I didn’t even see you come in!
Sit by me.

oh crap – you can’t go to oregon when i’m in ca gw

*pulls up a chair beside Margot*

I think I’m done, y’all. Was out late last night playing music…gotta catch up…

G’night all.

HEY you.

g’nite that guy

Hi gw!

G’night ThatGuy, sleep well.

I haz a kitteh pic

Intereting…I went to the Vets when it was not going away.
The Vet Doc asked? (they were really cool and clinic and really nice art on the walls). Did they I.D. the bacteria to match the strain of AB? Short answer. No.
Stiching up a wound as dirty as it was and not cleaning it for 6 hours you would think they would know better?

cute kitteh ll!

95 here today, again. woof.

There seems to be a lull in the barrage, the rednecks must be reloading.
At least it ain’t like San Jose, where they put so much lead in the air ya had to go inside to keep from catching a bullet in the top of yer head. It literally came back down like hail.

I think I am going to retire and play a stupid game for a while.

Good night pups and Happy Fourth of July.

holy moly bb – that sounds like malpractice or on purpose – geez louise stitching up a dirty wound without cleaning it out….

Thanks Suz, she is such a sweet girl :-)

Beautiful markings. What’s she thinking in that pic, I wonder?
-edited-

yes, i KNOW that. what’s your email? or, as mod, can you grab mine?

g’thud busted

Very cool that’s is a lot of combined ontellect to be in on room how are the pets handling it?

i’ll grab and shoot ya off an email right now gw

they have full bellies too

oooooh.

Anyone know how that judy miller flick did at the box office with Kate Beckinsale?

Thanks Margot and gw.

Margot, she’s probably thinking “What can I get up to next?” She’s a wee bit mischevious, but it’s cool because she’s so cute ;-)

Random thought am I the only person who cooks weird stuff likes it most of the time but would worry about serving it to another person? Unless I knew ahead of time I was making it for someone else?

Good night, folks.

judy ‘i’m fucking right’ miller did a movie??? please please please let it be a different judith miller?

Hey gals! (chair screeches up…)

g’nite bct

hey ce

hey Suzanne!

Elmore is at South Lake Tahoe, at his sisters husband family “cabin”…. kind of sounds like something bigger…… grumble grumble out of cell phone range… depending on traffic he should be here Monday…..

Hey Chris!

Great to see LL and Margot and all Pups tonight. We had best friends here for garlic shrimp and ice cream…quiet, lovely, cool. And D.C. fireworks on the tee vee.

That’s why they call it practicing medicine. Sometimes they get the licks right.

It ought to be routine to ID the bacteria. But some docs don’t worry about it, and the more often they get away with it the more often they do it. I’m glad you got it checked out.

Hey LL!

No they cleaned it but after it was expose too long to not be infected I had to go back and get the stiches removed so it would drain properly which it is now. STrategy flawed and corrected. Bigger scar no doubt.
Had 30 stitches on a laceration of the left eyebrow down to the bone. Good Doc at General before they closed, had to stich two layers of skit. Not as sensitive as the hands. That did not get infected as treatment was timely. But then we know we have a flawed system.

egad bb – that totally sucks

The sunset tonight was pink and yellow, and fabulous! I still miss the sea, but, the quiet here with fireworks in the distance was lovely. Kids in NYC, but we oldsters are happy here in quiet Cleveland.

Weren’t the DC fireworks nice Chris? Loved the music.

Ok I’m heading out…..

didn’t get a nap today and I’m coming off my steroids which makes want to hibernate…… spend weeks not sleeping and then when I am off them…… I sleep day & night…..

good night everyone…

Hey LL – we have a new Sony tee vee LCD — omg the fireworks were wonder ful!!!! and the music just great.

As part of a decade’s worth of research on cockroaches, Patricia Moore of the University of Exeter studied how female cockroaches change their mating behavior in response to their diet, specifically what they eat when they are young.
“We already knew that what they eat as adults influences reproductive decisions,” Moore said. But just how the food they consumed early in life shaped these decisions wasn’t known.

The results: While the lifespan of the members of both groups was about the same, the cockroaches on the poor diet were fatter and took longer to mature.
Moore suggests that the poorly fed bugs were storing up excess fat at the expense of their growth in case their dietary options got even worse.
“This was a surprising result,” Moore said, “but it shows the importance of a balanced diet for healthy development.”
The effects of unbalanced meals continued throughout the cockroaches’ lives, even for the few that were switched to good-quality food.
Females that ate a poor-quality diet were less willing to mate and less likely to produce offspring. They were also more picky and spent more time considering possible mates.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livesc…..tonbadfood

The fast food industry will not be pleased I think we should tax unhealthy food. Forget the free choice argument the GOP has everyone even them pays more for health insurance because of these guys.
Your freedom ends where mine begins, my wallet should be the first thing a true Conservative should defend but sigh all the true Conservatives are in the tank for the fast food industry.
I wonder about the male cockroaches behavior this might explain Rush and Newts marital problems even though they both firmly believe in family values.

And after being there in person some years ago, I say see them on tv.

Take care katymine, rest well.

g’nite katy

LOL
“That’s why they call it practicing medicine. Sometimes they get the licks right.”
Too funny that put a smile on my face. I think the guy enjoyed inflicting pain with the painkiller syringe you won’t believe his name…ryhmes with daugther. As in butcher.

It was loosely based on her life Kate Beckinsale the Vampire girl in the film ” Underworld” played her.
I hope it bombed, can’t remember the name though.

I’m with you on that Chris — fireworks on HD are fantastic. Although I must say, the bicentennial fireworks in ‘76 were great when we saw them from my grandma’s rooftop in northwest DC…

i got lost in the cartoon for awhile and paul thorn utubes. i never heard him before. i am in love with that dude.

i’m with ya on the bombs away things

MrCE and I escaped the BiCen to Nova Scotia — we saw wonderful things in Canada. We have been watching HD Theatre and the Smithsonian channel.

the repugs scream & shout about fatties not getting off the sofa on why health care costs are too high but if you try to regulate the food business such as high fructose corn syrup and additives they they scream & shout about free markets and put commercials on the foodnetwork saying its good for you…

All they have to do is sit through fast food nation a couple of times but would they all get it?…..

Hi Chris!

BB, I’d raise hell with the hospital if I were you. This wasn’t good care. So sorry this happened to you.

i went with some friends to try a new lebanese restaurant for lunch. we all really liked the food.

then off to other friends for dinner for 6. we grilled meat and roasted vegies and corn on the barbie and there were fresh black mission figs off their tree. we were gonna go watch the fireworks but got caught up in thinking traffic would be too intense so shined it on.

Good night Katymine…You are doing a whale of a lot of informed blogging here on FDL as well as your own.so thank you for all of that effort and expertise.

I know what you are saying katymine — I’ve taught my now adult children to read labels. Now, when they visit they monitor the amount of water I drink each day ( uh, mom, how many glasses have you had thus far?). We try so hard to cook with the very best ingredients. My mother says: “you are a food snob.” My reply: I’m an ingredient snob.

Just a quick drive-by comment.

Super kitty pic, LL.

Oh, Nova Scotia…definitely on my list; as well as Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland. Someday!

I bow to BB…. thank you my dear…. nite eveyone

Hey ratfood — thanks so much!

Yes, it is! And I lost my Elvis this year. 17 years old. Your kitty pic is adorable.

have you seen food,inc.? it opened here last weekend. really well done look at how our food is produced. i recommend it. i learned something i didn’t know. that the biggest food producers produce 90% of our food. monopolies on our food supply. i didn’t know the percentage was that high. not good for the humans eating, working in the food production or our precious environment.

i’m gonna steal your “ingredient snob”.

Thank you too Chris…Suze is sitting right next to me as I type, wondering when the h*** we are going to go to sleep ;-) ** edit — and I’m sorry for the loss of your Elvis, I know how hard that is!

hahaha that is a wonderful retort ce

Love it!

Agreed Free Choice is only important if money is being made its used as an argument if we Lefties object to people being hurt.
BushSchadenFreude enjoying making money off of the misery of others.
Free Choice for an abortion? No! never mind the Mom’s health, rape or incest victims, never mind the child growing up with a mom who mentally, physically or economically can’t take care of a child or the danger to the child of forcing a girl who did not want a child to take care of one.
Gay Marriage if Gays want to marry where are all the Free Choice Libertarians? Selling their souls for the fundy vote!

So true, that!

Sorry to hear about your loss. Rest in peace, Elvis.

Thanks ratfood,
When we stop travelling so much, we will get another cat. Like 10 to 15 years…

Hey you two!

Hitting the wall here…one more day off, then I’m on for the next seven. Yikes….

Thank you Suz, and g’night all :-)

g’nite ll

After a wonderful dinner with our best friends, and all the assorted chores associated with home ownership, I should be off to bed. But wait! MrCE has just put on Master and Commander, so I bid you all adieu.

g’nite ce

Hey GW what an important conern our, food supply. we get plenty of everything nutrition wise with a huge carbon footprint from shipping and synthetic fertilizer. As an added twist chemical perservatives for longer shelf life and polluted aquifers from runoff od pesticides, herbicides and fungicides.

toxic cocktails. for fun and profit.

So with all the synthetic chemistry to confuse our immune systems (note FunnyDiva) is it any wonder our natural defenses are being overcome by them?

it’s impossibly past my bedtime. gnite all. enjoy tonight and tomorrow.

i was watching a segment on food inc on teevee the other day and realized that we had the food inc folks here at the lake for movie nite.

And do we have a high rate of disease compared to?

g’nite gw

no. this has been another edition of ……..

the options i see are that we eat as absolutely healthily as we can and that we put in what energy we can to clean up the system.

i really mean it now! gnite.

Wow just searched for foodinc and it is showing at our local Palm theatre. Could that be is it out now?

I would dearly like to read that blog do you have the link?

here is the food inc thread from movie nite

Depends on the disease diabetes high sugar and or booze its a disease of wealth get diabetics before they get sick on a third world diet of fresh but minimal food no problems or at least for the type of diabetes we have in my family.
Heart disease again wealth we can afford food lots of food. Disease that are resistant to antibiotics as a society we use antibiotics to much heck we give them to animals we eat so we can raise them in real close conditions then we wonder why meat gets us sick.
Kids hitting puberty early growing faster than they use to I think it has something to do with the chemicals that messes with frogs sex organs.
Pollution related disease Asthma was rare where I grew up I come back years later it seemed all the young kids had it.
Poor countries like Iraq have different diseases like Cholera because they have contaminated water and no sewage treatment.

Thank you Suzanne. It has been informative and interesting evening…1.5 hours past my intended departure. Goodnight All.

you are welcome and g’nite bb

“Kids hitting puberty early growing faster than they use to I think it has something to do with the chemicals that messes with frogs sex organs.”

That would be Endocrine Disrupter chemicals that mimic body endocrine systems. It is the “Emerging Contaminant” along with personal care products and POP persistant organic polluters. Nano sized we have ability to locate. Goesn’t take much and they are bioaccumulative so fat kids are victims.

You are quite the scholar COOL! Nite Folks:)

g’nite things

time for me to head off. g’nite pups and thank you for a fun holiday thread.

g’nite all

My thoughts on the Palin attorney attacks on Shannyn Moore and Alaska bloggers.

ET just what kind of law does Sarah’s lawyer Van Flein specialize in that or the specialty of any other lawyers he brings in to help could tell us the nature of Sarah’s legal trouble.
Also who were his past clients and is Sarah or an other party paying his bills? Your commenter is good Liable I thought is almost impossible to get a conviction on in this country. Unless something has changed your commenter is right a good lawyer would advise not to sue.
But then again didn’t Bill O’Reily lose to Al Franken? Maybe Sarah hopes in discovery to find some huge dirt on the Alaska bloggers or evidence that George Soros is paying you all.
That is not what I think mind you I’m just trying to think like a paranoid person and predict Sarah’s next move.
Sarah it must be noted that even if she is guilty of something will say otherwise, however incoherently with complete sincerity.
Get Christy and the lawyers at the Lake to weigh in on this. Sarah needs drama attention junkie she seems to be calling the Alaska bloggers out. She needs an enemy to fight/get attention she’s chosen you folks.
I’m betting she thinks she has a card to play.

onejrkitty a commenter on your site said

Van Flein is not one of the better attorneys in this town and he would be easily outgunned.

With the attendant publicity, SM would likely have her pick of attorneys to represent her,

http://progressivealaska.blogs…..slapp.html

I agree but why is the Governor of Alaska represented by a single lawyer and not a law firm? Would not any action she did as Governor or any attack on her reputation as a Governor warrant an entire GOP friendly law firm? This is not a traffic ticket this is serious.
She was McCain’s VP she is, or was the GOP’s leading Presidential contender Rush said she was the new leader of the Grand Old Party, doesn’t Sarah have a book deal I assume its worth millions?
The scandal of her resigning and the questions of why did she really resign could threaten her future presidential run and the book deal. Heck I’m sure the Feds if they were not investigating her before they are at least wondering what they missed now. The DEA after seeing her resign on TV might also be interested, and the County Mental Health people.
Did GOP party leaders freeze Sarah out of the old boys club GOP lawyer system where is Ken Starr, or Robert S. Bennett?