Zed!

and we found our new kittah!
He is part Maine Coon. We are going to meet him tomorrow. Here kitty, kitty.

Good evening

Handsome feller. Looks like a big boy too.

Dude, Weinland is very good. How surprising.

What a handsome fella!
Does he have a name?

From all accounts he is a sweetie and he likes dawgs.

Hey Mary! Congrats!

Tucker. After the car.

I liked the Mars Hillbillies.

Glad it wasn’t after the Carlson

Hi Mary, ES, everyone!

Hey Miss Elliott – I’m on my second trip through Weinland…

I was holding my breath as she told me why that was his name. And Ron dreamed about an orange kitty the other night.

Margot!

Just discovered they are semi-touring with a band i posted last week… Thao + The Get Down Stay Down.

Would be a great show.

did you mean Wineland? teehee

Elliott! (never sleeps?)

Hiya Margot

Well, you, me and punaise have orange kitties now.

Everybody’s a comedian, especially the sleep-deprived.
How goes?

Oh!! Mary, he is beautiful! Orange, like my Elvis. Good luck to you.

We may have to form a band.. The Great Orange Felines.

They make my heart melt.

working on a project so I’m keyed up but need to refocus my thinking, thought I’d stop by to visit with friends.

to quote myself
“working on a project so I’m keyed up but need to refocus my thinking, thought I’d stop by to visit with friends.”

i
hear
that

Oh I had an evil orange kitteh once, we named him Claude because that’s how you felt when you were with him. So I avoid them now.

Wow, that is so strange. My neighbor, a cat lover from long ago, told me to get an orange male, that he would be my companion for his life. We did, and Elvis gave me constant love, no fight, for 17 years.

My experience with orange cats is that they are smart and sweet and brave. I had an orange boy named Roosevelt once. He is still my fav.

That Cat Lady movie was disturbing to me. I hope over time more firedogs see it… so we can discuss.

Did that just come out?

I got to the third graf of Lisa’s introduction and had to stop reading for a while.

I think so.

I managed to get a promotional copy in advance of tonight’s salon. But the copy was messed up.. I had to skim through most of it (between a lot of glitches).

Louiza kitty turned her butt towards the television the entire time. /s

I did not watch the trailer, but stayed with the thread. I know a few Cat Ladies, and am in sympathy/concern. The discussion was good, except for some contrariness.

Weinland sounds like a young Neil Young

He do!

How are you Mr. P? How is Berkeley?

I thought so too.

hey mary – beautiful fall weather hereabouts. great for a long hike at Mt. Diablo over the weekend. what’s up with you?

guess I was reminded by reading about this: Neil’s annual Bridge concert

True.

Well…I have some work which is good. Ron and I are going on a diet tomorrow (again). I am going to see Naomi Klein on wednesday at Sonoma State (maybe). Other than that just the usual.

That looks good.

work is a good thing to have these days!

Indeed. And I like the folks I am working with, too.

Sweetest kitteh I ever had was an orange guy.

Current black ketteh is the smartest, but he’s an authoritarian. The trains here run on time, or else!

Black kitties have attitood.

not terribly late-nighty, but here is an excellent comment on a PlumLine blog post explaining DC Villagerism:

The Villagers would be the members of the social, political, and publishing/broadcasting Establishment who have hijacked the overarching national political and policy discourse in a profoundly destructive way based on faulty assumptions that have been fostered by an insular, narrow and privileged view of the world.
.
You have your Village Elite, whom I call the Inbreds. They would be the Quinns and the Bradlees and the Broders and the Greenspan-Mitchells and the Hiatts and the Kristols and the Kagens. Note that the most visible Villagers (to Outsiders) are in publishing/broadcasting, but the actual Village community is inclusive of all the intermarried and otherwise interconnected players, most of whom are unknown or barely known to those of us looking through the knothole. Inbred because you have pub/broadcast people married to political operatives and lobbyists and politicians’ spouses being broadcasting people or lobbyists, and so on.Then you have your Village hangers-on, the village gossips, the political operatives, the crackpot columnists, which are sometimes one and the same. Exactly where particular people are on the unholy ladder is oftentimes debatable.

Don’t forget Broderism!

Broderism: The idea that everyone should hold the very same views that David Broder holds because he is the Royal Keeper of the Beliefs and Attitudes of the American People, and therefore any debate or disagreement about those views is abhorrent and futile and unAmerican. High Broderism is simply Broderism with the hanky and the smelling salts.

even better…

My my.. what an odd assortment of guests.

I would love to see the relationships diagrammed out.

Everything is Late Late Nighty

it’s an autumn institution for the Bay Area; always an eclectic lineup. sadly, I’ve never gone to one of the shows.

I’m not sure, but I think we vaccinated the entire universe during LLN last week.

Me either.. and, iirc, it began before I moved away.

and sharp teeth.

then I’ll bid you all good late late nighty-night.

bonne nuit

bonnie knew it, punaise

We did. We really did :-)

I strongly advise Barack Obama to find a new Chief of Staff, ’cause Rham’s chickens are coming home, and they’re costing Obama a lot of formerly very good friends:

* The New York Times

* The Nation

* Huffington Post

* Glenn Greenwald

* Jane Hamsher

* Talking Points Memo

* Jon Walker

That just stuff from the last two days. I don’t think this is going to end well.

The Obama administration makes vague, reassuring noises about constraining executive power and protecting civil liberties, but then merrily adopts whatever appalling policy George W. Bush put in place.

from the Nation link

Ouch. That’s gonna leave a mark. And it should.

It didn’t end well for other war criminals (though better than it should have)… stunningly arrogant of Obama to think he’s immune.

Also the Progressive Change Campaign Committee

We all saw it coming with his “FISA flop.”

Indeed we did.

Like so many folks I’ve been (nearly) singularly engrossed in the health care debacle. So many other things I need to catch up on. Thank dawg for Greenwald and EW.

Yep, I’m returning to my skeptical pre campaign pre dem nominee winner days…when I was rooting for Edwards! That’s before I was gobsmacked by the oration. That man Obama is a spellbinder!

We lost 14 soldiers w/ number expected to rise in Afghan helicopter crashes today. Wouldn’t it be ironic if it was due to an old stinger.. or a new Russian weapon.

I’m Kucinich Dean..)

niters all.

Not to be an asshole, but we should be so lucky if it were a new (or old) weapon.
The real reason is that we just don’t know when to quit killing ourselves or others.
I am now with you, ES. We need to get the fuck out.

wow, you’re so much more radically progressive than little ol’ me. :P

Yeah, I mean, if cheney can change the subject (iraq), why can’t we? why are we dithering around in the ME at all? I know I know…going niters for sure now.

We got Kucinich and a few rising stars: Grayson, Franken, Wiener, Feingold, Whitehouse, and my long-time favorite Bernie Sanders (for a third party candidate).

Your fine bouquet of links doesn’t smell so sweet. Can they hear us NOW?

we just don’t know when to quit killing ourselves or others.

They tell me that we lost in Vietnam. But what would we have gained, other than bragging rights, if we had won?

No, but I hear them.

Yup yup yup.

Was just reading this:

U.S. official resigns over Afghan war

Thanks for that.

“I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan,” he wrote Sept. 10 in a four-page letter to the department’s head of personnel. “I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end.”

How did they ever let that go public?

Article suggests they tried like hell to give him any job they could think of in order to keep him quiet.

Is war is our national business?

If so, I want a refund.

I’d settle for an audit.

Time for this old dog to curl up on this…. the 17th rainy night this month.

Good night firedogs

‘nite eureka. Thanks and stay dry.

nite ES
i’m out too

see you guys later

So there’s a bit of controversy over at Dkos about Glenn Greenwalds comments:

[O]ver the weekend, two of The Huffington Post’s best reporters — Sam Stein and Ryan Grim — reported what has long been apparent (and echoed by other outlets such as TPM): namely, that while Obama repeatedly claims in public to support a “public option” for health care reform, the Obama White House, in private, has been actively opposing attempts to include that provision in the final health care bill, a priority of very high importance to many of his progressive supporters.

As a result, Obama-venerating readers of Daily Kos this morning have declared Huffington Post to be suspect, untrustworthy, and even “right-wing” in a top recommended diary. A poll accompanying that dairy finds that 57% of readers believe that Huffington Post — which just recently hired Dan Froomkin as its Washington Bureau Chief — “is turning conservative.” In other words, Huffington Post reported on facts which reflect poorly on the leader and which contradict what they are eager to believe. Anyone who does that must be discredited, impugned and declared to be the enemy. That way, the unpleasant facts can be dismissed away by attacking those who point them out, and fantasies of the leader can be blissfully maintained. Doesn’t that also sound familiar?

G’nite ES
G’nite Newt

Attaturk is upstairs!
The Most Boring Name in News

awesome, mary – I missed that news. Louis sends his fellow orange cat greetings!