good mornng elliott!

good morning everyone, can’t stay to read or comment, no live panera today either

must visit family today with dad and am off early, everyone have a good day

have a good visit with the family perris.

Tweety says Obama has spent his capital, based on WaPo poll

Stengel, saying every lost job is thrown stone, making ripples in a pool of family, so everyone is down on Pres O.

Sorkin thinks it is getting better while numbers unemployed rise, but that will stop growing economy

Parker – midterm election is gonna be great, since the jobs growth will start then when Pres O does stimulus II

Regan sees that second dip is next year, but businesses will start buying from each other.

Ah, now Parker -touting the health care reform, and taxing the rich, will make economy revive

Regan says business tax credit,
Tweety says, ah yes that’s business’ same idea as usual. can you say tax cuts, that’s what they’re all about

Parker says no new income taxes until second term.

Sorkin drools, yes, indeed after gets re-eelected.

Stengel and Regan, saying market is about to dive.

that was Chris Matthews on the economy, now on to how hard it is for comics to dump on Pres O.

Sorry to dominate the conversation, reporting on the Chris Matthews show; finally -
Regan thinks deficit is going to make for Dem losses and Tweety and Sorkin think economy is going to mean empty pockets = votes against Dems

Regan for heavy loss, panel agrees Dems will have losses,

Tweety thinks Dems will lose control.

His record of being right is basically dismal, of course

Good morning, pups. Mr. Kristof is off today,so it’s MoDo, The Moustache of Wisdom and Mr. Rich. MoDo, in “The Devil Wears Crocs,” says the painful periods for W. and Bill Clinton, falling low after starting with such grand hopes, are recounted in two new books. The Moustache of Wisdom, in “The New Sputnik,” says China is embarking on a new, parallel path of clean power deployment and innovation. It is the Sputnik of our day. Unfortunately, we’re still not racing. Mr. Rich gives us “Obama at the Precipice,” in which he says President Obama, like the young President John F. Kennedy in 1961, is wrestling with sending more troops to an unpopular war during his first months in office.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I picked up some chocolate croissants while doing errands yesterday. I also found some lovely raspberries, so put some of those on the plate too. It’s time for me to go and get more tea, be cat staff (they’ve informed me that those dishes don’t fill themselves), and get ready for choir practice. Have a great day.

Bad picture of Amanpour — she looks like a Batman villain.

Morning all. Thanks Elliott for your good work. No thanks MSM for your typical crap.

Morning everyone. I want to share something I heard earlier. I was half awake sometime in the very early hours and turned on the tv to PBS. I don’t know who the guest was or the name of the show (sorry, half asleep) but he was someone working (heading?) a non-profit agency doing work in Afghanistan (like building schools). He basically said that we are not able to truly change that country into something advanced so the argument that we should stay for humanitarian reasons isn’t valid. But he also said that in parts of the country we’re considered a savior as we protect against the Taliban. That’s a bit of a contradiction, I know. But here’s the analogy I want to pass on. His agency was consulted about issues there and I believe their opinion is to give up while the White House is looking for a way to succeed. He said (paraphrased from memory):

It’s like being asked: “We’ve decided to drive our car over a cliff. Do we where our seatbelts or not?” The response would be “don’t drive over the cliff”. “No, no, that decision has been made. Now we’re just asking about seatbelts.”

That was on Bill Moyers, I think. Very good conversation.

What has happened to the promise of the election, some of the change we wanted. I hope Obama watches Matthews. There were some lessons there.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/jour…..ofile.html

is Bill Moyers interview (Lynn Sherr standing in)

Bob Woodward, Thomas Friedman, Martha Raddatz, and George Will

George S. is rapidly turning ABC into The Weekly Standard of the air.

Matthews was not crediting voters with any memory of how we got into this mess, which may be a valid position.

The long arm of US law never forgets and never forgives. Unless you torture.

ZURICH (Reuters) – Film-maker Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland on a 31-year-old U.S. arrest warrant, the Zurich Film Festival said in a statement Sunday.

Polanski’s arrest Saturday evening was in connection with an arrest warrant issued by U.S. authorities in 1978 for having unlawful sex with an underage girl, the statement said.

Thanks. Want to see it wide awake. And, yes, it was an excellent conversation.

That’s amazing. Is there no statute of limitations on that crime?

Good morning everyone.

Why hasn’t John McCain been given his own show yet?

Guess the Swiss want us to leave their banks alone.

Interesting that this past week also saw the passing of a confessed participant in the murder of his wife. Life’s a cornucopia, ain’t it?

Kit Bond disgusts me.

Really.

elliot? you here?

Checkin out the end of Late Night that I missed. You said last night Burgers is one of your favorite albums? Hot Tuna? & Papa John Creech? Yes!!

It’s nice to see President McCain back on ABC’s This Week. I mean, with Barack Obama being so overexposed lately I was beginning to wonder if people even remembered who won the election!

What election?

Good morning. A quiet morning here, but not in Afghanistan.
Six more reasons for David Brooks to feel like a man.

I just finished listening to some jerk speaking at the New America Foundation who claimed the whole solution to Afghanistan is to do development projects that are decided on by local shuras. I kept wondering what planet he was living on and why none of the questioners pointed out how completely ludicrous that was.

He pled guilty then split before the sentencing hearing.

Aha. That would explain it. Seems like a stupid thing that he did, as any sentence imposed after he split is likely to be much harsher than if he’d stayed and taken his punishment at the time.

Have a fun day perris, “Hi Dad”

Hi, How are the babes? Will there be a Caturday? I had wanted to mention that I recently did a eulogy that featured some reflections on the “gift/s” of my cat…both the gift to me and the gifts she gives. So,
I was looking forward to your piece.

Plus, I have learned the nail clipping lesson, and she is so much more
pleasant and my skin is clearing up;))Im about gone. Namaste

Morning everybody.

Fox News cracks me up, fair and balanced, my heinie. Where’s the Democratic candidate for Governor of Virginia? It will be interesting to watch him tap dance around his misogynist thesis – and I think Chris Wallace might mention it, can’t be sure tho.

Ruth, thanks for the Chris Matthews rundown.

that picture of Amanpour cracked me up

It’s like being asked: “We’ve decided to drive our car over a cliff. Do we where our seatbelts or not?” The response would be “don’t drive over the cliff”. “No, no, that decision has been made. Now we’re just asking about seatbelts.”

stark way to put it.

so true

good question

He also survived the Holocaust, was from Poland.

Wonder if he was a continuing pedophile or if the incident at Nicholson’s house was more a druggie thing. I’ve never heard allegations that he prefers young girls but 13 is surely kiddie-ville.

oh yeah!

ain’t that the truth.

Can’t see any solution but leaving. It’s quicksand over there, isn’t it?

Talk about dominating the conversation ;)

I think I’ll be quiet now.

Yeah. Trudy Rubin who I thought was a sensible person is talking garbage about Afghanistan on WJ. She claims that McChrystal’s gonna use the U.S. troops to protect the locals. There are so many retorts to that, but I’ll stick to my current favorite: Where is he gonna find all those multilingual, culturally sensitive 18 year old Americans, who, BTW, are trained to kill.

Very welcome, sorry to take up so much room here, but tho’t it was worth passing on.

Now listening to Clinton on MTP,
Clinton saying not a matter in talking of trusting Afghanistan, since we’ve proven we have the means to verify

then, Gregory; Rice on abandoning Afghanistan will have al Qaeda here,
Clinton – prevented far more attacks in his admin, tho can’t know for sure what effects will be

on health care, Pres.O. has said will take some years to get right, for now he’s under attack for every idiocy anyone else comes up with.
(he’s so smart)

Nah. By definition, you can’t highjack your own thread.

Clinton saying not a matter in talking of trusting Afghanistan, since we’ve proven we have the means to verify

Huh? Do you mean Iran?

sorry, you’re right. Am not great at transcribing.

Clinton on MTP saying we’re going to get health care, and alternative energy, the rightwingers are damaging themselves
we took on the gun lobby and they ‘took 15 of our people out’
Pres O won’t have that working against him

Chris Wallace just said that over the summer they repeatedly invited Craig Deeds to come on to debate with his opponent but he repeatedly refused. Nothing about just inviting him on the show for a one-on-one like he’s doing with Bob McDonnell now. And Wallace does bring up the thesis.

Good morning all. No worries about me dominating any conversations, carry on all dominating conversationalists. :)

Good morning to you!

Short Caturday today. I was exhausted after spending all afternoon in the heat yesterday tabling for WMNF and it’s been an uneventful week in tiger world. Silly me is gonna do it again today so Caturday is gonna get posted early. I actually met one of the frequent callers to the talk shows who was always disagreeable and sarcastic. All I’ll say is he fit the mental image I had of him.

Ya gotta love Nooners, from Gawker:

You do not want to miss the weekly festival of swooning self-regard and misty incoherence that will be Peggy Noonan’s “Study Group” for undergrads this year, during her fellowship at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics. Let’s read the syllabus.

For some ungodly reason, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government saw fit to make Noonan a fellow this year. As part of the application process, candidates are asked to write up a syllabus of the course they will enlighten impressionable young undergrads with. Noonan wrote hers like she writes her column: She poured a glass of white wine, put on some Commodores, curled up in a big comfy chair with a Snuggie, and turned on the crazy [more…]

spending all afternoon in the heat yesterday tabling for WMNF

thank you

I actually met one of the frequent callers to the talk shows who was always disagreeable and sarcastic.

must have been quite the treat.

Ugh, I ran out of coffee and didn’t even realize it. How does that happen that one empties a can, doesn’t realize it and places it back on the shelf?

running on autopilot?

You’re welcome. It’s my pleasure. Do you live in the area? If so, come on down and say hello this afternoon. I’m the one with the long white hair. heh heh Had a guy prolly close to my age with long salt and pepper hair come up and say, “You need a haircut.” “Yeah, I know.” We laughed.

When you figure that out, let me know. Either my husband or my son is always putting empty fruit juice containers back in the fridge. Drives me nuts.

Wish I did, but live in rural N.TX.P

on MTP, Clinton sorta thanks you too saying; everyone should be doing worldwide work like clinton foundation, it’s 21st century citizenship.

It was, really. I’m waiting for a libertarian talk show host from Sarasota to come up. He’s another frequent caller and tries to use WMNF as an extension of his show. These guys live on another planet.

I guess, now I have to get myself together and get to a store. It’s one of THOSE mornings. Maybe a hoodie and large sunglasses are in order.

On track for 4 million foreclosures this year and the banks continue doing the same things that put the country in this mess. Geithner must be so proud. Not one piece of legislation to reform a corrupt and broken financial system. Obama, the Democrats answer to Herbert Hoover.

Yeah, I doubt you could make it here in time. *g* Ho, shit, it just started raining by the bucket.

Ah maybe it’s a male thing like not asking for directions? All though I do ask directions and usually thrown out the empties.

LOL!

I’ve never had a problem asking directions. Beats wandering around lost.

Hey it’s a look. I may not be Jackie O with the sunglasses and kerchief on my head, but I do think I can pull it off.

Hey Southerndragon. I remember back when things were easy. Long hair = good. Hard hats = bad. Now, all the hard hats have long hair.

Same here. I guess I must not be a manly man.

I usually go for the baseball hat and sunglasses. It’s a look.

You’re leaving out dreadlocks.

And, mohawks. Big here in so cal. Not my favorite look,especially on little kids, but, heh, who asked me?

Rain’s stopped. Now it’s gonna be a goddamned sauna outside. Damn.

I did the Mohawk bit in my hs freshman year. My dad grounded me until my hair grew back.

Lordy, it makes me feel old when I care about other people’s haircuts. Okay, I’m over it. Who cares. None of my business.

oh my.

Wasn’t so bad. I’ve always had baby fine hair and it grew fast. Didn’t look good in a Mohawk. Got a lot of reading done.

See, now, these days, if you ground your kid, he’s got a tv, computer, video games. What kind of punishment is that? Actually, I’ve never grounded my son.

And my son looked great with his, longish, in purple. oh, they’re so cute when they’re being rebels.

Good morning!

LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN

Most of you are probably already aware of this, but according to Gallup polling, “39% of Americans [directed] their member of Congress to vote against a healthcare reform bill this fall, while 37% want their member to vote in favor.”

http://www.gallup.com/poll/122…..eform.aspx

Also, our politicians know that Gallup polling “suggests [that] the issue could be politically potent in 2010.”

While I’m sure many of you have already emailed, faxed and snail mailed your Representatives in the House and both your Senators, wouldn’t an organized letter writing campaign ensure greater numbers of people sending letters so that more Americans are directing their members of Congress to vote in favor of REAL health care reform with a public health insurance option?

Yup. Gotta love those rebels.

Good morning!

Salve! I’m new on this site, so I might have missed that there already has been a letter writing campaign. But I don’t see one anywhere among the links.

I like purple. Wonder what my silver hair would look like with purple streaks. *posing*

Check out what Defense Secretary Gates said about President Obama this morning on CNN’s State of the Union:

http://politicalticker.blogs.c…..ates-says/

I submitted the following comment:

Despite the small minority of loud shouters on the right wing, the fact is that the vast majority of people have great confidence in President Obama.

On Wall Street, all major indices are way up compared to where they were at the end of 2008 and beginning of 2009. Investors are pumping money back in!

And these comments from Defense Secretary Gates, praising President Obama, saying that President Obama “is very deliberate about the way he goes through things,” that President Obama “wants to understand everything,” that President Obama “delves very deeply into these issues,” really show the stark contrast between sleepy George W. Bush and, well, a real leader.

Welcome to the Lake, We like Letters to the Editor, there can’t be too many of them.

Perhaps you’d like to put up a diary over at The Seminal to inspire even more.

What’s up with the CNN moderators? Here’s what I’ve just submitted to their political ticker story “‘I very much enjoy working for’ Obama, Gates says”

http://politicalticker.blogs.c…..ates-says/

CNN moderators: I’m not sure why the following comment has been rejected THREE times already!

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Despite the small minority of loud shouters on the right wing, the fact is that the vast majority of Americans have great confidence in President Obama.

These comments from Defense Secretary Gates, praising President Obama, saying that he “is very deliberate about the way he goes through things,” that he “wants to understand everything,” and that he “delves very deeply into these issues,” really show the stark contrast between sleepy George W. Bush and, well, a real leader.

Even on Wall Street, all major stock market indices are way up compared to where they were at the end of 2008 and beginning of 2009.

President Obama is doing a great job!

Comment now rejected for a FOURTH time…

Amanpour…why can’t we just have CNN International on our teevees alla time?