yesh..today’s special is:

the DFH’s were right … with a side of let no good deed go unpunished …

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[alternate special: yesterdays' same old shit sandwich ]

This is one Sunday I regret not having a TV. Although I see the deck is stacked. More than usual.Will there be no good democrats to say but but before they are interrupted?

You would think Howard Dean would be on. But no. I’m surprised rahm isn’t on to talk about the wonderful Freddie and Fannie.

Pretty much the usual parade of spinners and gasbags. I’ll rewatch Cenk’s comment about Jane’s Rahmgate blast instead.

Morning, and thanks, Elliott, I’m here on the seashore in Florida watching an incredible sunrise on the waves, back from Bahamas (with braids) and will skip the Sunday palaver for a week, but am sure the media will do itself up proud wrt fighting back at the facts.

Good morning Elliott and thanks for your work. Good morning everyone else. Weather is really pissy here so no excuse going outside. However, I have plenty of wood stacked by the door and am only 100 pages into a biography of Ataturk, so that will be my task for the day. All my cookies were gifted for Christmas, but I might make myself a batch of lemon shortbread. I got to eat only two pieces when I was making it.

I never watch the Sunday Morning Gasbags, but instead rely on The Bobblespeak Translations. The one time I actually watched Press the Meat (because Rachel was on) I found their summation amazingly accurate.

Good morning! Your package arrived safe and unbroken. I think I’ll give it a try on New Year’s Eve. Thanks so much!

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist ~ Edmund Burke

Mornin’ everyone. I just finished The Handmaid’s Tale. I got it for Christmas. Atwood was amazingly prophetic– she wrote that in the ’80s.

There is an attack on Jane at TPM Cafe if you’d like to go over and help me kick some centrist ass:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/o/l/oldengoldendecoy/2009/12/oboy-oboy-oboy-jane-and-grover.php

Excellent! Enjoy. At the P.O. they asked if there were anything liquid & I said no. Heh.

Attaturk have you read the Ottoman Centuries?

Anything that didn’t get said in the 600 plus comment thread here? If not, I think I had my fill.

Nothing new, really. They’re not up to speed on it over there. I had to start at square one by explaining that guilt by association doesn’t make a convincing argument.

Yes. I’d owned it forever, but just read it this August. The history of the Ottoman Empire is incredibly complex, geographically, ethnically (remember that Suliman the Magnificant was a Kurd) and in every other way. And the names especilly do not stick (I have dysnomia even for names in a language I know). So I just plug away by reading more books as every time I remember a little more.

I don’t dip into comments at other sites very often, but when I do I don’t find them particularly edifying. Maybe because I know the ones to read here & I ignore the dross.

Sorry Ruth not here to update Matthews….I got in late, and sounded like there was nothing good to say about Obama. One suggestion, Michelle needs to get re-involved.

How about Digby’s? I love the comments over there (as well as Digby’s posts, of course).

Those braids look adorable on you!

I read the posts but not the comments. Only so many hours in a day. But I give it a looksee on your recommendation.

Although it’s probably more pleasant to skip them, the talkshows are warnings of things to come from wingnuttia, and helpful in the way that taking meds keeps down the infection. High points on MTP for me are the wonderful moments when Gregory gets real answers and tries immediately to bury them – and the warnings I get of upcoming talking pts of the right.

Just as well, pro’ly. Xmas breaks over, it’s back to the drivel no doubt, that can wait for a bit.

RF, braids have a big plus of staying in place…no worriess.

Do give the Bobblespeak Translations a try though — they nail Gregory consistently (and call him Fluffy…).

My last couple of haircuts have made it shorter & shorter. Much to my delight. I’m thinking next time I’ll get my head shaved. *g*

Dude your doing great:) the lizard brains/emotional choice deciders react like GOPers when attacked questions of do you belong they note your from FDL like its a bad thing, Jane is tainted by guilt by association with Grover like facts are wrong because a liar says them? Fine then dispute the facts. Its all been blogged about before nothing to see here true but nobody is in jail yet and there has been no investigation, Moral equivilency arguments 2 wrongs mean we shouldn’t investigate? Leave it to the Lizards to avoid the facts is what Jane said true? Should there be an investigation? Yes or No?
We need a survey just how many Lizards joined our side when it became obvious we were popular? Authoritarians love being part of in groups them joining our side could warp our side in strange ways.
Long Timers here who object to what Jane is doing arguments with them would be a real battle. Anyway Good work going back to sleep.

Thanks! :-)

I’ll second TCU’s kudos to you for taking on the good fight.

It is getting more and more difficult for obamarahm to preach bipartisanship and their followers to criticize Jane for doing just that. If Grover Norquist were DNC , would that make criticism suddenly ok? After all, DLC is the dem. party’s equivolent to tea baggers.

Just because the rahm half of obamarahm’s worstest enemy is progessives….there is a certain lock steppedness going on.Everbody gets to play bipartisan but the progressives. That is getting harder and harder to rationalize. Since said demonized demograhic got the jerks elected.

Good Morning! I’m running on slow speed this morning.

Too nuch eggnog during the holiday?

Howard Dean is another object of demonization. 50 state strategy was common sense. You would think from hill, bill and rahm he went for some way out brand new strategy.

Unless, of course, hill bill and rahm want to destroy the dem. party. Make way for the Third Way. When Great Britain decided to take Ireland , their strategy was to take away their culture, language and musical instruments included. This is the Third Way. It is going on now. Iraq, before we arrived with bombs , was known as the beacon of the east. Women taught at university level..the restrictive fringe muslims were not in control. We allowed their artifacts from museums to be stolen. Destroyed their cities. Women now have to worry about getting clean water and staying alive. This is the Third Way.

not enough! lol

Thanks for posting at TPM. I know it can be a thankless and time-consuming job. Necessary, though, IMO.

It’s never to early to make up for past mistakes. It’s always the cocktail hour somewhere.

My new short version of O policy: How can I piss off the most people most of the time.

It seems that way

Yeah, I’ve been dating a centrist and that’s pretty much what she said the other day about HCR– if everybody’s angry he must be doing something right. LOL.

Or doing something mightily wrong. YMMV.

The same tools trying to convince the American public that they should be content with a glass half-full. Same tired tools of the plutocracy.

A useful tool to convince the under-informed that all is well.

Very nice montage. A word about the iconic image contained therein fo a DFH putting a flower into the barrel of a National Guardsman’s rifle. The DFH doing so is Hibiscus — of Cockettes fame. He and his lover Irving Rosenthal (an ex-boyfriend of William Burroughs who first published excerpts from Naked Lunch in a little mag hecreated with the University of Chicago’s literary review balked) were on their way to San Francisco (where he joined the Cockettes and later created another troupe called The Angels of Light.) Stopping in D.C. they joined the big anti-war demo at the Pentagon — and right on the spot Hibiscus created Flower Power.

Hibiscus died of AIDS early on in the epidemic. Irving is still with us. He runs a homeless shelter in San Francisco

Idle question, and one I hope isn’t too OT. I’m not up on what all is covered in our congresscritters’ health care plan, but is it enough for it to be qualified as a “Cadillac” plan?

This is interesting:

By Sheena Harrison | MLive.com
December 26, 2009, 2:22PM

A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport.

Kurt Haskell of Newport, Mich., who posted an earlier comment about his experience, talked exclusively with MLive.com and confirmed he was on the flight by sending a picture of his boarding pass. He and his wife, Lori, were returning from a safari in Uganda when they boarded the NWA flight on Friday.

Haskell said he and his wife were sitting on the ground near their boarding gate in Amsterdam, which is when they saw Mutallab approach the gate with an unidentified man.

Kurt and Lori Haskell are attorneys with Haskell Law Firm in Taylor. Their expertise includes bankruptcy, family law and estate planning.

While Mutallab was poorly dressed, his friend was dressed in an expensive suit, Haskell said. He says the suited man asked ticket agents whether Mutallab could board without a passport. “The guy said, ‘He’s from Sudan and we do this all the time.’”

Mutallab is Nigerian. Haskell believes the man may have been trying to garner sympathy for Mutallab’s lack of documents by portraying him as a Sudanese refugee.

The ticket agent referred Mutallab and his companion to her manager down the hall, and Haskell didn’t see Mutallab again until after he allegedly tried to detonate an explosive on the plane.

Uranium bombing in Iraq contaminates Europe
http://www.williambowles.info/wmd/du_contaminates_europe.html

This should be seen:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrSNOWBLAST#g/c/08AAC625367449FD

Looks like the only thing I’m interested in on this page is the DFH video!
More tribal pictures please!

I like your comments. Are you new here? Welcome to the lake.

Good Heavens, William ‘the Bloody” Kristol is upset that the pants bomber was arrested and indicted. Apparently he should have been shot on sight.

Why does Kristol hate the American Way?

reaping the whirlwind?

Thanks Cellar, most interesting background. So sorry to learn Hibiscus died too young of AIDS.

Thank you. I have been around for several years. Come and go. Don’t think I will ever leave again. I am 100% supportive of Jane.

Glad your’re here. You said you have come and gone, but will stay. Can you share the reasons for the times you left?

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano also will be on This Week

G’Morning Elliot. Because I still have the flu, I had really weird dreams all night. Watching your post video, I wondered if I’m still sleeping, because this is a nightmare. They did a very good job of summarizing. Interestingly, though, didn’t a lot of those dfh’s turn into the rabid, greedy I Got Miner’s? Not all of course. We’re all still here.

Yep! Let’s tangle up the government in investigating Rahm so absolutely nothing will get done! Great idea. So glad Jane Lieberman is in charge to keep us focused on what is important. Without her, we could actually get something done, but now that we’ve become teabaggers for the common good, we will live in the basement with Oscar the Grouches to show America what is truly at stake which is…..the evil Democratic Party must go so we can prop up the republic party which is a reflection of sheer progress for our country!

It’s gonna be great.

By the way, Joe Kennedy is running for Ted Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts! Let’s rubberband ourselves to this Libertarian to teach the progressive liberals another lesson! Spit.

I can tell you’re really po’d about Jane’s latest campaign. I’m not here to defend or attack, but did you read Eli’s thread last night?
http://firedoglake.com/2009/12/26/cloture-is-now-officially-meaningless/#comments
It seems that our government is already in a stall. Where’s Dawn Johnsen’s nom? So, if people think Rahm is another road block to hopeful change, then why not try to do something to open the roads?
And, Hi. Hope you had a Lobstah Christmas.

Different cultures with fire pups. Always liked what Jane and Christy were doing. Just could not relate to the pups.It is different now as our country’s leadership has moved further right and we have become progressively poorer. It is human nature to think and write from one’s own personal experience.

I have always aligned with the poor and down trodden, even when I wasn’t always in that category.Was born into a poor and down trodden family. So that was my formative years. All of us got out. Back then , it was possible.

Can you be more specific about not relating to the pups. I have thought we had a fairly large variety of voices and experiences here. Do you see the pups as being different now?
I appreciate your response as I love to people watch and am always curious to what makes people tick.

demi…

I love to people watch too. Hard question. I will try to answer by a friend of mine’s life. He worked with hard core poor. Once told me that going into a facility with plush carpeting , clean and neat was very difficult for certain people.

I asked him how he knew. He told me,” I went and lived with them.”

It is not surprising , in countries more democratic than ours..say Bolivia .Evo Morales is helping poor people a great deal. He does not have a high school degree. Stated that a lot of politicians see working for the govt. like a business. When he became president bolivia’s economy was in the red. Turned to black under his leadership. I can only surmise that he means politicians can start out poor and end up after years of public service..multi millionaires.

Are you saying you think all the pups are plush and high end? ‘Cause I never got that impression. Some may be. I’m broker than shit. And, I know for a fact that there are some others in dire straits too.
Well, maybe I’m wrong and you’re right and I’m in the severe minority here.