i can’t help but think of lobbyists and congresscritters when i hear this song

Levon is DA MAN!

hey that guy – how’s the bay area tonight?

ZedZedZedZedZed
Hi Suze — hope you’re continuing to heal without problems. Have you worked up to that KMart trip yet? It’s not too late to go ahead and order that Dog Bonz pillow.

hey skeptic. i’m doing much better and ventured into safeway and the bank today. instead of funny looks i got compliments on my haircut

ah hah Diversion techniques. veddy goood

i got it cut before the extracations. i gotta admit its a keeper of a hairstyle – sorta jamie lee curtis in those activia commercials

10-10 is the day of the next Bear Creek/NorCal Firepup MeetUp!
contact info nahanter at da g mail thingy..
Will be smoking a Turkey and will have the grills running..

Now to get
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Last episode season Four!!

hey nahant — and g’nite nahant – glad to see you are almost caught up with lost

evening suz, pups. Just caught up w/LN.

Prolly a huge waiting list for Palin’s book at my library. Scary people in these parts I tell you. Very scary. New neighbor moved in – McCain/Palin sticker on honking big suv.

hey sunny – how ya doing tonight?

Great song, thanks Suz.

hey margot – thanks. how’s ohio tonight?

Cooling off, I B tired, will be heading off shortly. How are things up there? Did you know the Heads are playing not too far from you on 01-08-2010 & 01-09-2010 Chinook Winds Casino Resort, Lincoln City, OR 8:00 PM?

You should go!

evening, suz

thanks for the heads up that guy. not sure if i will be working here or not those dates — lincoln city is about an hour south of me. the ty curtis band whom i featured last thurs nite, is playing at the roadhouse in lincoln city this sat nite. i’ll be here with ya’ll for late late nite cartoon nite.

hey ppd – how’s the south south bay tonight?

Tell Hamsher you need some Headhunters music. ;)

beautiful day here – outstanding sept-oct so far

How’s everything up north?

they are playing on fri and sat nites that guy – gonna have to check the budget (currently all extra monies are going to teeth) and the work schedule.

can’t promise i’ll be able to go but i will certainly keep open the possibility

fall is here. rain off and on all week. i’m enjoying it.

Suz, ohio is warmish during the day, although i had to scrape frost of the car this morning.

Sunny, there are lots of Palin fans in my area. 4,000 people packed into the local high school to hear her back in 2008…

We’re doing the rain dance, and hoping for a good season

in town today, i saw a pick-em-up truck with an obama is not my president bumpersticker parked in front of the courthouse.

sigh

i closed out the rain gauge for the year at midnight last night – 42.06 inches — our average is 70 inches

annual rainfall is calculated from 10/1 to 9/30.

it was one year ago today that i moved in here. time sure has flown since doing so.

Hmmmmm … A packed house for Palin reminds me of my favorite Sinclair Lewis quote:

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”

the only time i wanna see palin have a packed house is when fdl is live blogging her criminal trial from the courthouse

The first & fifth amendments of our Constitution make Palin’s brand of craven, ignorant nativism a merit badge, rather than a crime, Suz.

a girl can dream — i think she has crossed the line into illegality with some of her actions. the building of her house with material and labor from that white elephant sports center is just one example.

Yeah, you nailed it.

Here’s a Sinclair Lewis dream team for ya …. Palin/Bachmann 2012.

*hitting brain bleach button*

dream a little dream

Like lemmings off a cliff …. Palin & Bachmann preachin’ about real Amerikins …. follow us into the battle of armaggedon.

black is back

a whiter shade of pale

the fish cheer

on the road again

(am i the only one here)

Late night at Suzanne’s…

A magnificent hangout with a magnanimous hostess!

hey person – wow, thank you *blushing*

Gimme an F?

Palin’s lurking in the shadows, suz

gimme a u – hey larue – how’s sac tonight?

i’ve worked the dark side – she don’t scare me none.

The blush is mine. You ladies of the lake are varietal.

20F degrees cooler than Sunday!
Mid 70’s today, low 50’s tonight.
Fall’s here.

Wassup witchoooo, babbbbyyy . . . . ;-)

haven’t seen you before at late late nite person – welcome (and if my memory is faulty – no slight intended)

Da Voision I Grew Up With, Love That Helm/Davis, Though!

sweet dood – enjoying fall up here – am thinking fall food and enjoying the crispness in the air

i started off looking for the taj mahal version on the utubes to no avail. saw the slim but went with levon. nice to see a recent video of him blowing that harp

And for any of you KIDS who never HEARD of, or heard, or saw, Lightning Hopkins, here’s a taste. Dude was a legend, still is. Run his other vids if you have time.

Lightning

smokestack lightning

Oh, the Levon And Little Sammy D version WAS the one to use, good pick.

Turning kewl, I’ve gone with cajun black beans and smoked pork for one meal.

And tonight, Madras (yellow) Curried Chicken with Cubed Celery Root And Carrots.

Warm da belly, mahn, you know . . . *G*

for harp, i always come back to this

Believe that’s the night Keith Moon passed out, and the drummer was brought up out of the crowd! My kid bro was there, I wasn’t. I’ve always liked The Yardbirds version. ESPECIALLY this one. Keith Relf, Chris Dreja, Paul Samwell-Smith, Jeff Beck at their best.

LIVE Smokestack Lightning, Yardbirds

Suz, I’m here, but lousy company.

That said, I am cheered Reid’s in trouble and so stupid he’s trying to raise money using health care.

that was at the cow palace? some great shows there back in teh day

Your memory is quite in order. I do tend to go postal though so lurking is likely more advisable for me! I can’t resist an occasional slake at the lake though so if I mystify, I’ll try to jist-i-fy.

You are not alone!

i’m sorry you are not having a good evening sunny :( and i share your cheer about reid. that forker needs to be lose. big time.

night, suz — take care

OK, food always cheers me up. How in the world do you cut/slice celery root?

i loved your p p p p comment downstairs on the will thread

g’nite ppd

Good lord, Charlie’s Classic! Forget who the original git picker was on the original cut.
Howard Mandel, I believe. It was incredible, still is. That’s a good version!

You know me, you say harp, I say:

BUTTERFIELD! Part One.

Work Song, Part Two

Greatest jam song evah! *G*

LOL! very clever person.

Well, the Senate Finance committee just wrapped up it’s bill. I don’t know whether to say I’m sad, frustrated, angry or sickened. I didn’t watch all of it today, but I caught the last part from where Sen. Wyden offered an amendment to insert ‘choice’ into a bill otherwise bereft of it. He was shot down so quickly and harshly that he didn’t even bother asking for a vote.

Wyden just withdrew the amendment.

WHO shot him down. It was Democrats. It was Baucus & Conrad (as you’d expect) and Kerry and Bingaman. The other Dems hadn’t even gotten around to speaking before Wyden withdrew it. He seemed to get support from Ensign, but none of the other Repubs spoke.

Why was this the outcome? Why were Dems against ‘choice’?

Kerry, Bingaman, Conrad and Baucus really jumped down his throat and asked for a CBO analysis. Wyden asked the staff, but was surprised they didn’t have it. So, he dug it out and passed it around. It said ‘no problems’. Well, that didn’t satisfy Kerry. He said he’d been talking to big employers in Mass. and they were dead set against it. Said it would destabilize their insurance plans. Baucus went so far as to say ‘CBO has not in fact analyzed it’. That left Wyden in shock since he had their statement in his hand. Then Conrad says CBO analyzed only one part of it and Baucus pulled out a pda and said ‘Yes, only that part’ from the CBO horse’s mouth. All I could think was this was a conspiracy led by Brutus and the knives were sharp. Wyden just sat in shock and listened.

Then Wyden “counter-attacked” and said he’d sent the whole amendment and nothing else to CBO, but he could see where this was going, so he withdrew the amendment. The amendment expired…dead of several knife wounds. Et tu Raytheon?

There’s apparently NO CHOICE in the entire bill. Pres. Obama should veto the thing because it doesn’t achieve his goals.

Why did these Democratic senators not confer with individuals? Why only big employers and unions? Why didn’t they consider the economic effects of our current system versus a system with real economic choice? It’s really stunning to see that out in the open.

It shows why the public option failed and why any attempt to put any kind of ‘choice’ in the bill failed — many Democrats don’t want individuals to have the freedom to choose their health plan. It’s as simple as that.

Shouldn’t they have had the courtesy to tell the President before he committed to calling for ‘choice’? Shouldn’t they have conferred with the party platform to see if they were in conformance with the views of the party’s members? Did they tell their constituents they were calling for reform but didn’t really want it?

They say we have an employer-based system and we should build on that. Tell GM.
They say choice would destabilize the employer-based system. Is that sacrosanct?
They say people might choose a plan which offers less coverage. Uh huh.

If you want to force people to have a certain level of coverage, then you have to force them with a mandate and employer-based plans are essentially that. But, what about the 45 million uninsured? If we have an employer-based system what happens to them?

They want a system where everyone is locked in together and all pay the same rates for the same level of healthcare. They don’t trust employees to pick good insurance plans and they don’t want individuals to buy, just groups. What they want is the large pool of a single-payer system, but with employers handling it.

Choice is anathema to them. That’s radical. That’s destabilizing. That’s damaging a company’s control of it’s employees.

Apparently the idea of portable health care/insurance scares big employers because they know they would lose some employees who hate being locked in to both their health care insurance plan AND that employer.

Isn’t there a large economic cost to the nation when big employers prevent mobility of the work force? Isn’t it anti-competitive (between companies)? Isn’t it a huge cost to companies products when they’re competing internationally?

Where do we get such senators?

Look, we’re either going to have competition with portability and a reduction of or an end to the employer-based system for many people or we’re going to continue to have no economic choice or competition to restrain costs. I have to agree with Sen. Ensign & Sen. Wyden that belief in the individual and freedom to make economic choices is crucial for competition and cost constraint to work and we should go with that instead of being lackeys for corporations.

It’s truly disheartening to find your own party working against the President’s goals.

i like little charlie and the nightcats larue – you ever hear them? sf blues band

Ahem, yes. I am given to persuasions of sorts. Do I have

Mystic eyes? Who knows?

{URL if link fairy is still mad…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Fpzdm6us0

hey mark how ya doing tonight?

some classic good shit dood

Skin the root, get rid of the bottom fuzzy or dirty part.
Just use a carrot peeler, or a sharp knife.

Then, cut it half top down.

Cut half inch thick slices from it all.

Then, go back and cut the slices into half inch by half inch ’strips’.

Cut those down into half inch by half inch cubes.

Black Pan.
Two cups water (or chicken stock).
One tablespoon chicken base paste.
Add Madras Curry powder to taste.
Rough chop 10 garlic cloves.
Three carrots chopped up into half inch by half inch cubes.
Rough chop 1/4 fennel bulb (anise).
Sea salt and pepper to taste (be careful with sea salt, chicken base is salty).
1/4 cup coconut milk.
Bring to boil, put boneless skinless chicken breasts (whole, or cubed) into pan.
Put lid on pan, reduce heat to medium, simmer till done (15 minutes max).

Either take out whole chicken breast, and reduce pan juices till thick, or add some dusting of fine sifted flour to thicken. Or, just take 1/4 of the pan juices with veggies and puree in blender, and return to pan to thicken.

Cube chicken, return to pan, and serve over Basmati Rice flavored with lite soy, ginger, and garlic.

Viola, dinner is soived!

person – which part is your part of the planet? i’m up on the north oregon coast.

dayam, i’m a droolin’

You kiddin me? They’s from SACTO!!!!
Little Charlie retired, and Rick has taken the band to keep them giggin.

Saw Rick sit in with David Bromberg’s Band a few years back here in Sacto.
Spectacular. Apparently, Rick WROTE ‘I’ll Take You Back’, a scorcher of a slower blues tune describing hell freezing over when the “I’ll Take You Back” part will happen . . *G*

Van Morrison, and one of my all time fav tunes ever. It ROCKS!!!! *G*
Nice pick, hoss . . .

shit larue – i thought they were sf. they played in sf clubs often enough.

i’ve always been partial to their songs ‘thinking with the wrong head’ and ‘dont do it’. good blues tunes with humor :)

what larue said

i missed seeing that when person linked it. sweet

You can take that base recipe, add yellow or red bermuda onion, shredded coconut, bananas, raisins, pineapple, red and yellow bell peppers, and just brutalize it gringo style. I’d rough chop a lot of fresh basil into it, if doing so. Course, I’d add chili serrano’s, to, but honey don’t dig the chili thang . . . life, full of compromises, huh . . . lol

They could have been SF/Bay Area originally, for sure, but I moved here in ‘88 and they called Sacto home then.
I DO recall they played all OVER the Bay Area back in the 80’s, very popular bar band!

i make a coconut chicken with chicken breasts cubed, onions, buncha garlic smashed, all kinda diff color peppers, and some pad thai seasoning and a can of coconut milk. killer if i do say so myself. not a recipe, just a mix of this and some of that.

my info about little charlie is way old info… i coulda been wrong larue

Lovely recipe.. I always fear losing a finger on celery roots – love em though. Prolly need a better peeler.

You got a favorite brand of chicken base paste?

try a sharp paring knife instead of a peeler sunny.

And that’s how it’s done!! Sounds DELISH!

I gotta go . . . stuff to do in the morrow, hold the fort Suz, thanks for the tunage and chattage, and be well you and all the Pups!

“It ain’t over till we SAY it’s over!”

;-)

g’nite larue

Absolutely!!!

Chef’s Review!

No MSG!

As good as you can get with our food laws, chem wise . . . VERY tasty product.

They do roasted chick base, beef base, roasted beef base, ham base, clam base.

Found at the big box Safeway stores, forget the name of the store.
Sav Mart?

Now, g’nite, gotta go. *waves*

Thank you larue!.. and good night.

More renditions…from the seventies!

Baby please don’t go!

*fanning face* that is smokin’ hot

ray

Wait till you see the visuals…! Get yer GO-GO boots!

The Train kept a rolling

i coveted those boots back in the day

Hi Suz!

legs

hey things – hows seattle tonight?

more legs

shania legs

Time for sugar in the morning? Or sweet stuff late at night?

Mary Jane does it 4 me!

Quiet peaceful I still can’t believe I live where Michelle Malkin grew up everyone gets along here.

You’re prolly right. I’ve gone after em w/cleavers. Not good. The wax coating gets me.

Recently found small (5.6 oz) cans of chaokoh coconut milk at my asian store. Very pleased. The usual cans are often too big and I like the brand.

Thanks for the cheer. G’nite.

that’s sweet – haven’t heard that in ages thanks

g’nite sunny

i gotta say things – i love living in the pnw. everyone is so nice — took some adjusting to get used to after california

What is that girl’s problem Asians and Hispanics get along in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle every Asian grocery store I’ve seen here has a better Hispanics section than the chain grocery stores plus there are Hispanic stores here too!
One Asian grocery store has a Salvadoran taco stand inside I don’t here about racial fights in the area I’m thinking Michelle’s environment was not the cause of her crazy?

Yeah its scary people say hi here and seem slightly offended when I give them the Nod.

some folk just aint happy unless they are bitchin’ about something or someone things

*laughing* took some getting used to. in ca looking in the wrong person’s eyes is asking for trouble

time for me to putter off… attaturk will have his post up shortly

g’nite all and thanks for all the conversation and tunes tonight

Nite Suz

From the redwoods to the cedars? The forests talk…

Man in the Box. Say goodnight Man…

The million-circulation New York Times has an audience of more than 15 million online. The U.K. paper The Guardian, with its 350,000 circulation, has become, online, with 10 times its print readership, a significant international brand. One theory about the decline in the fortunes of The Wall Street Journal (which allowed Murdoch to buy it) is that, because of its paid wall, the Journal was not a factor in Google searches, causing a fundamental decline in its importance, impacting its brand and standing with advertisers.

http://www.vanityfair.com/busi…..lff-200911

Rupert wants newspapers to be behind a paywall despite these facts? Will he put Fox News behind a Paywall?
Just what will the Righty Blogs do if they can’t steal as Rupert puts it Glen Beck, O’Reily etc’s content?
What will College Republicans do if they can’t get Fox News quotes online for their college papers.
The future of the GOP on the Net (such as it is) will suffer.
A whole generation of young Conservatives without the Mothers Milk poisonous bile of Fox New on the Net to sustain their rage…might lose Many some a couple? of members.

You know your enemy is weak when he makes a huge mistake and you realize you won’t profit that much from it.
We have the young Voters. We have the Net. So Rupert hiding his content under a paywall while it hurts the GOP.
I’m thinking might hurt us worse. Serious I’m thinking we very well might with our greater readership pull content from Fox for our articles more than the GOP does.
We very well might visit Fox News sites more than the GOP does because

1) We want to read for ourselves what Glen said because we just can’t believe he said that.

2) We are responding to GOP trolls visiting our blogs claiming the GOP isn’t racist, Bush never said that, etc etc whatever and we throw Fox News quotes back at them

3) We write about and quote with links whatever Fox’s latest outrage is

The GOP trolls on the other hand Rarely give us links. Why document facts facts when you watched it live on tv? Memory never fades right eyewitness eyewitless accounts never vary in police reports/s