There can be only one.

Good evening

Good Evening All

Wassup hoss! Ever get into the care package?

evening ES, larue.

Nod and a H/T to CE!

Selise! Howdy!

Selise, good to see you!

Embarrassed to say I really have not had a chance… been busy, outside, or tied up screening potential late night videos when sitting by the computer and stero.

I can’t wait though.

selise! Glad you are up. It’s looking awfully bad for the House bill tomorrow. :(

me?

I’m gathering ES favors a Halloween theme tonite. *G*

Although saving hip hop is to me a sorely misguided effort, regardless of the holiday. *G*

On the other hand, here’s those Krazy Kids From Santa Cruz, Where It’s ALWAYS Halloween And The Circus Never Leaves Town!

Uncle Harvey’s Plane. A fine tale of boredom, ingenuity, abuse and abject fear of heights.

Enjoy!

When the weather traps ya indoors, cabin fever will set in.
Then, my friend, you will know eclectic.
*G* LOL

Yeah, Howdy, how many others gotz yer initials in here right now????

lol

Winter is just around the corner (said the hillbilly with too little firewood /s).

Hey!

Yeah, tell me about it! I’m Not A Big Believer In HuffPo, But I Read It

I don’t see anything at TPM or here at FDL on this info.

The negotiated rates option is a giveaway to big biz, and will do NOTHING to compete with private insurers, only bleed government to subsidize those who can’t pay for mandated coverage! Taking $500 Billion from Medicare/Medicaid worries me, and well, so do all the other details we don’t know about that might be missing.

Mandates alone are a travesty. Sigh. We’ll see.

Goodnight all, work and bed calling!

Bettah get to choppin, hoss! *G*

And then there were three . . . nite CE!

howdy margot! hope you are well. was having trouble sleeping and since it’s been a while and i’ve missed “seeing” ES and you all, thought i’d drop by for a bit….

Whoops, 4 if Margot is still here . . my bad . . lol

Agreed.. massive fail. It’s so frustrating not having any current bills to read scrutinize… just rumor and innuendo to work with. I’m cynical enough without leaving this to my imagination.

It’s looking awfully bad for the House bill tomorrow. :(

from david swanson: Healthcare Hoax from Hell

Lies, damn lies, and promises from Democrats. An amendment allowing states to create state-level single-payer healthcare has been stripped out of the House healthcare bill, after having passed in committee back in July by a vote of 27 to 19. And rumor has it that a vote on national single-payer that was promised in July in exchange for skipping a committee vote on it will now be denied.

In the healthcare advocacy world, a big group has focused on the godforsaken bastard policy known as “public option” which at best will offer a token mitigating element in some states for a disastrous healthcare policy imposed on all states. But the states that choose to do right by their residents will not be able to choose a real solution like single-payer, not without a drawn-out legal battle with the insurance companies over the federal laws that Kucinich’s amendment would have waived.

Forcing the Kucinich amendment back into the bill and forcing a floor vote on the Weiner amendment are admirable immediate goals (as of now Pelosi will be allowing no floor amendments of any sort), but healthcare is very complex with the devil in the details, and the details are being written by devils, blood-soaked devils. The central demand of members of Congress must be: Vote No. The reason they should have to listen must be: We will occupy your offices and prevent you from working unless you commit to voting No, but if you commit to voting No and vote No, we will consider possibly not throwing your sorry ass in the street in next year’s elections.

i don’t see things as clearly as david does (should the bill be opposed? i can’t say), but boy has this been a year+ long clusterfuck.

I forgive you.;)

Selise, I wish I had some tricks to bring sleep. I’m sure you’ve tried a bunch.

ES! Skeery Dead Man’s Bones!

It’s so frustrating not having any current bills to read scrutinize

our most transparent open government evah.

That’s funny, I just discovered The Devil Makes Three this afternoon.

sleep well.

I really liked that one.. video and all.

Selise, have you tried melatonin? I did a few years ago when I was having trouble sleeping. It worked wonders.

trying some milk with nutmeg and cinnamon. if i disappear without saying good night, that will be the clue that it worked!

Yes I had Halloween on my mind this evening.. we drove a hundred miles in search of a clown nose yesterday. Sadly there were none to be found at any price… all sold out. So on a whim we saw the new movie Where The Wild Things Are.

I did come home with a bright yellow curly fro clown wig…)

So, whatcha going to do about your nose?

i haven’t for years. but it worked very well when i did before. maybe if the insomnia gets very bad, i’ll ask my doc (for possible interaction thingies. one of the meds i’m taking is what is giving me insomnia now and i kinda hate to throw another pill at it. last time i did something like that that (one med for something serious, another two for side affects of the first, another one for a side affect of one or both of the previous two,…), i ended up feeling worse. so i went and did some reading on what i was taking and found out the last med on the list was not very safe. told my doc i’d take the first one only and refused to take the other 3. felt better.

My friend Wendy has an incredible costume collection… boxes and boxes of wigs and false eyelashes alone. She lent me two possibilities.. a subdued dark red flashing nose… or some colorful tiny foamy balls which I may glue to the end of my nose…)

a subdued dark red flashing nose

I don’t think subdued means what you think it does *vbg*

Well, what EVER they do, we’ll have time to decide what to do with the elected offals pre Nov. ‘10.

And man, could THAT be one harsh freakin electoral backlash if the Dem’s Deny Us.

They are great. There SHOULD be some on what I sent ya, if not, lemme know.

I’ll put together something of all their best I have . . .

lma… well, really for a flashing nose, it’s dark red, slow flash. I think it was originally made for a laid back Rudolph costume.

the pet store i go to has cat toys that might work with a little modification. round, fluffy and brightly colored. you’re not allergic to catnip, are you? *g*

don’t like the idea of giving the right wing crazies more reason to think gov can’t work for the common good.

Good idea… no as a matter of fact I introduced Louiza kitty to catnip last night.

I hope it would cause a backlash… I’m still amazed how much slack I see folks give Dems.. just amazed.

Gotcha… Ho! Ho! Ho!

Sandman’s here. See ya later :-)

Yeah, I’m gone, too, niters all . . . we hope on. *poof*

“step up to the podium
we keep it fresh like sodium”

I don’t what that means, but it’s funny

Say hey, how’s it going today?

(local guy Michael Franti makes good with a catchy pop tune)

Those silly young Frankenstiens.

Oh yeah.. *pats self on back* I posted that during LLN when it first popped up.

way ahead of me!

nighters.

punaise and ES, love love love franti. i must have listened to “bomb da world” about a thousand times in the couple years after 911. his music and reading boondocks were imo great examples of cultural sanity in stressful times.

nice happy soothing music. better than milk. good night…. will dream of good things for all

Me too.. his early Spearhead stuff got heavy rotation in my shop and car. Was about to give up on him and he popped up this beauty over the Summer.

Good night all sleeping pups.