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Aloha, ES…!

Hi CT

I coulda sworn I just saw Marie Antoinette say… “Let them eat cake…!”

I wanna be the Acid Girls!

LOL! I wish darkblack could edit in all the big D women’s faces onto that video.

Come over here and let me tighten your corset…) Real tight.

Come over here and let me tighten your corset bustier…) Real tight.

This is exactly why progressives and “RonPaulites,” need to work together to get the corporate influence out of politics. As long as the banking and other corporations are in control of the government, there isn’t going to be any good health reform, financial reform, education reform, ETC.
just had to get that off my chest.
good night.

I can’t wait to send this video to Paul Rosenberg@ openleft. He loves calling the current Dems – Versailles.

Well said.

Yep! I hear ya, bro

Why would we celebrate that piece of crap bill passing?

Now if the mandate got yanked out, or the House bill miraculously became the template for the final one, heck even I’ll celebrate, then.

Hey ES, you’re lookin’ fine and fiddle this evenin’

Particularly, Blanche’s face, eh…? ;-)

Dahling, I worked in vintage clothing for many many years. Both corsets and bustiers would work there. Either way, after cake, you will need a fainting couch…)

funny, on an earlier thread, someone mentioned that Lincoln was Obama’s idol or something, and I couldn’t help it. I thought they meant Blanche!

I don’t think we regular folk will celebrate… that’s the D.C. and their big donor/ Veal Pen Dems in the video.

I so love the sleeve to the elbow with lace, sigh. and the ginormous beehive hair. divine.

Hiya dosido.. why thank you…) Nice to have you up late and with us…)

Time to storm the Bastille…! ;-)

What’s on my mind tonight? The fact that I was so so so sick of the last eight years, and even while I told myself and everyone else that all the choices suck and some suck less than others, after the relief I felt, the exhilaration! I felt that Bush and Cheney are out of the White House has been replaced with an icky malaise.

Oh, that and I’m job hunting. That’s why I’ve been away from FDL for a while. I gotta stay “up” and Obama’s been bringing me down.

It gets funky at family gatherings when I hear the winger complaints about Obama. Very irritating because there are plenty of reasons to complain without having to make stuff up.

The pace of the knitting needles is quickening.

Hey ES,
Here is the project MsCE is working on for this year, and hopefully next. The grant money is soft.

Forgive me if I’ve already sent this to you.

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/press/uploads/Costume%20Collection%20Press%20Release.pdf

Hey Dood…! Haven’t seen ya at the Beach Haus recently…!

And a tax revolt, strikes, boycotts, marches.

The sooner the better, dang it…! ;-)

Wow, and Mellon money ta boot. Will read through it later… sounds wonderful!

Hey, I started years ago… keep thinking someday others might catch on/up…)

oooh, wonderful!

How about this?

ES, did you see my latest post at the Seminal…?

Democrat’s celebration = Demented.

Republican’s celebration = Deranged.

Very good choice of videos.

I wish her so well — scary out there!

It’s what happens to a fellow when he spends as much time as i do searching youtube. *s*

Thank goodness you all got it.

Heh, You got that right, fellow Nader Raider, err voter…! ;-)

No I didn’t. Thank you for that.. a very good post with points i would have never thought about.

Jeeezus.

I would only add… if we weren’t fighting needless wars/occupations it wouldn’t have happened either.

You think he will run for Connecticut Senate?

Was Xe involved? Could explain some of the idiocy.

Dodd’s seat…? I’d move to Conn. to vote…! ;-)

Two of ‘em were Xe employees…!

OMG, That’s perfect!

I knew it. Fuckery. Stupidery.

Why aren’t we focusing on that incident rather than the undie bomber?

It’s probably just me, but with 20,000 children, aged five years and younger, dying from starvation every 24 hours on this wretched planet, watching food being tossed about and wasted as pop culture entertainment simply infuriates me. I’ve never learned to put it in perspective.

Fuck this culture, fuck the Republicans and fuck the Democrats who who may as well be Republicans.

And fuck God for doing nothing at all to stop it.

Because the undie bomber isn’t a profiteer. But he’s good for the profiteers.

I was shocked there was such an early and open admission those folks killed were CIA to begin with.

great post. I had wondered that too. I confess, I went all “low info” over the holidays and only heard about the CIA thing in passing and more about the Captain Underpants thing. And in my distracted brain, I had that fleeting thought “what’s up with that CIA incident? that seems so weird that that was even possible!” and then the thought evaporated.

I’m glad someone is paying attention and it crystalized into a hard hitting post/article.

Ah, yes, all the pols owned by the insurance company will be doing the happy dance.

I was trying to find a youtube to represent what we would be doing when the HCR boondoggle passes, but I couldn’t find the Python bit where there is “little to no rejoicing”. ;(

Well, perhaps it’s supposed to upset you. That makes you sane, amigo.

Let them eat cake… and all that.

how about the bit at the end of Life of Brian?…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo

That image left a mark. There is not enough brain bleach in the world….

Heh.

Well. since you asked “what’s on my mind”. I’ve been thinking of these scanners that Chertoff’s company is making. I took Ann Coulter’s observation to mind and by,god, she’s right. The scanners don’t produce an anal image. So, maybe the new Fast Track pass is a suppository device you can insert into your rectum to avoid long lines. I’m thinking 2 packs.Wal-Mart.

Ha! That vid always makes my nose itch. I don’t know how they got through that scene.

I can’t find any clip from after the ending song.

oo-oo, beddy bye time…remember

always look on the bright side of life!

:D

I just pray that it wasn’t one of the Xe fellows who brought Mr. Creosote and his mints to the Afghanistan safe house.

People might think Cheney’s XeIA goons intentionally killed agents who knew how the deals have gone down and where the bodies are buried.

And that, of course, is an downright, outright, not right conspiracy theory.

Neither Cheney nor Xe would ever act in ways to perpetuate petro-narco-wars of aggression.

President Obama would never tolerate it.

It is traitorous to suggest otherwise.

Oh, I was referring to the ending song, and then added the link after I already posted it, if that’s what you mean…

enjoy.

We just need permanent probes implanted at birth. With lifetime monthly mandated fees payable to Chertie directly.

Night dosido.

It’s all part and parcel of the same fuckery…! We need systemic change, cataclysmic even…! A lot of good discussion was to be had on EW’s Khost thread…!

I’m a little miffed that I didn’t post last nite… Much of what I cited and wrote about, she covered….! I did contribute later on some interesting aspects…! ;-)

Aloha, dosido…!

It’s good to have you back… and posting CT.

*shucks* *g*

Well, from a business aspect you’re better off selling suppositories. Plus, women have to buy 2!! Then plow some of the profits into designing ear probes and anticipate the need for catheter probes as the terrorists get more sophisticated in our imagination. *g*

Boldly go where no contractor has gone before.

Heh, Word…! ;-)

What do people think of Ed Schultz and the senator talk. Or are you talked out about that. ?.

Yow, not quite that boldly, please. Hi ES.

How Both Parties Will Celebrate Passage of Healthcare

healthcare for insurance companies and big pharma.

howdy ES and all.

Could do much worse, but he needs to be vetted and how much money can he raise are my first two big questions?

Hee hee… Hi Margot. I have that bargain software sight saved for shopping later. Thanks!

I saw Ed’s ‘Thanks, but, No Thanks’ op-ed on today’s Ed Show…! 8-(

Selise! Thought you have been quiet lately… maybe we have been missing each other.

I haven’t seen a lot of the Ed Schultz show, but didn’t he used to do a right-wing populist shtick on the radio, and then switch over to the left when he saw a niche opening?

I was just being ironic.

Irony is something the “civilised Christian world” has never been able to “get”. Asked about those starving children, they will tell you their loving just and merciful Lord works in, well, mysterious ways.

Or that droughts, the World Bank and IMF policies are “acts of God”.

Again, without a trace of irony.

Aloha, M’dear…! You’re up late/early…? ;-)

tis true, haven’t been around that much. good to see you all tonight though.

I like a lot of starch with my irony.

Yeah, how much money can he raise. The rot spot of amurikken politicks.
After we get fucked on Health Care, we should work on getting fucked on Campaign Reform.

can’t sleep. and misery loves company. how goes it? are you up on the mountain tonight?

Or that droughts, the World Bank and IMF policies are “acts of God”.

The first would be considered an ‘Act of God’, but, the last two were man-made wreck and ruin…! 8-(

They’ve devastated every third world nation they’ve ‘saved’…!

Campaign reform? I don’t even think there is a discussion table which we could be uninvited on that one…)

Hey Selise,
CTuttle, I’m off to read your post. Thank you ahead of time for weighing in. Selise,too. You guys are brave.

You would think it wouldn’t work anymore.

Nope, down in Hilo town sucking up the vog that’s so thick you can cut it with a butter knife and when ya swallow ya taste the sulfur…! We need the winds that make this the ‘windward’ side to return… Nary a palm frond has rustled of late…! ;-)

I attended Bastille Day at UC Berekley 4 decades ago…worth a repeat every decade.
Bowie is a great performer, Late been researching law. Had case management conference and met the judge today.

met the judge today.

And he let you go?! /s

Hi Selise!

Selise…you don’t by any chance drink green tea, do you?

Cry me a river.. it’s going to get up to 13 with 30 mph winds tomorrow. And that’s a warm day in the forecast.

*heh* That’s why you’re there, and, I’m here…! ;-)

no trade winds? is there some extra volcanic activity to account for the sulfur?

Hey, I am in Arkansas… It’s not going to freeze in Anchorage, AK tonight.

Something is just not right.

hi margot! i drink green tea occasionally. more of a coffee drinker though (for my daily caffeine). why do you ask?

Not really, Madame Pele has been steadily flowing since ’83… No trades is the prob… We’re even drier of late and Hilo is where the Rain, Reigns…! ;-)

I was trying to lower my coffee intake, so at night I’d switch to green tea. Then came a variety of symptoms like shortness of breath, not falling asleep til 5 a.m., etc. So I stopped the green tea and the symptoms stopped.

‘Green Tea’ is a very generic term, margot,… You should be more specific…! ;-)

Hmmmm feature or bug?

Yemen, the joke is on you

Author says that by offering military support the West might prolong an autocratic regime [EPA]

Marginalised by regional developments and intimidated by Washington’s Cold War and Gulf War victories, two Yemenis – so goes the joke – wondered if their country should declare war on the US, force it to occupy Yemen and care for it.
“But what if we won?” wondered one. “We would have to care for America!”

As the US and Britain prepare for covert war on Yemen, and following on their failures in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan/Pakistan, Yemenis might wonder if the joke is becoming a reality.

Supposedly it’s very high caffeine… Though I never have a problem with caffeine disturbing my sleep. In fact if i wake up to early.. I have my coffee (very very strong) and go back to bed.

So it comes down to this ….

If the health care reform debate had been framed as choosing between the merits of coffee and green tea, we’d have a public restroom.

God help us all if Israel bombed Iran’s nuke facilities… What part of the Middle East would be spared, if any…?

iirc, last time i was there was, iirc, ’86. don’t remember any sulfur smell except up at volcano house.

ah. but i stop the coffee before 2pm, so i don’t think it’s caffeine induced. in my younger days used to be able to drink coffee all day until about an hour before sleep…. but no more, have to stop early nowadays.

I was with my pro bono attorney…it is a civil case…we got on well have 60 days to submit a Writ Of Mandamus. Doing research like mad at the law librry in the morning on internet tonight.
Glad you warmed up. S
Hi CT Selise been a while

banging head on keyboard….

We would have compost toilets (if we were lucky), by force of law.

good luck bigbrother. give ‘em hell!

Deploying nuclear weapons anywhere on this planet is the worst example of solving a temporary problem with a permanent solution.

coin operated.

Compost toilets? I recommend leaving cap and trade out of the health care reform negotiations. Between the administration and congress, it already has enough opposition.

I know, more I think about it and look at a map, I have to wonder if it’s not a feature. And I have to wonder why the heck the Saudi’s are not taking care of it? It’s their neighbor.

I agree, Hans Blix, has famously asked the western PTB’s… “How does Iran prove a double-negative? …Have we not learned from Iraq…?”

I got green tea, no special brand just grocery store kind. Had no idea (before the wakefulness) that it was high in caffeine. My throat started to close, I got hives…while drinking a cup.

i thought the saudis didn’t trust having their own military (a power center that could overthrow the royal family) so they contract out all military functions to the usa? maybe i’m misremembering though?

The complexities of Yemen’s political and social environment rival Iraq and Afghanistan combined. It’s really more like Somalia, a failed state. Perfect proving ground for our predator drone diplomacy — building a nation we don’t understand by systematically dismantling it stone by stone.

Their ‘State Security’ almost rivals Mossad…! ;-)

maybe i’m just being cynical, but how else does the usa keep control of global finances? petrodollars baby!

thanks! my ignorance is way more than it should be on the topic

besides intelligence, so the saudis have much of a standing army?

Oh dear. Try red tea – Roobios. It’s wonderful… one of my favorite decaf teas. So is celestial seasons black cherry… which I love.

Thank you Selise We have a huge body of law in California Many precedents and points and authorities to use to support our contentions, genrification by infrasructure, civil rights act 1964, 1968 (Housing) 1988 all federal, Coastal Act, Local Coastal Plan and so on. They usually avoid copliance unless legaly opposed.
I am presenting boxcar removal of the undesireable rabble low income… like Shindler’s List… next week at the Ca Coastal Commission hearing. All rigged for the profiteers has nothing to do with saving the Environment. And process is corrupt as well.
Open to suggestions.

Oh.. I didn’t know that. Besides, they have the US military. /semi s

It’s not a large one, I don’t recall the #’s, but, it’s well paid, well trained and well equipped…! ;-)

Yes… notice the shoreline / shipping lanes of Yemen. No petroleum (or any other cargo) can pass a standing US force there.

How did USA become so beligerant? Media led us to believe otherewise. 270 military base WWide. A military junta has taken over as Ike warned us could happen.

Well firedogs… it’s snowing and the winds are kicking up. I’ve loaded up the fire for the night… time to turn in.

Good night all.

No petroleum (or any other cargo) can pass a standing US force there.

If they’re still standing after several barrages of Iran’s Silkwood missiles…!

Threatening Iran only undermines peaceful internal change within that society. It’s exactly what Bin Laden intended by provoking Cheney’s full spectrum, eternal terrorization of America against the Muslim world.

How else could Cheney completely eviscerate the U.S. Constitution, Geneva Conventions, and rule of law in this country.

He made Mrs. Iselin from The Manchurian Candidate look like Mary Poppins.

Aloha, ES… Sleep tight…!

night ES – be well

Night all – be well

Night all sleep well.

fingers crossed. let us know how it goes.

good night all.

This is the operative quote from Frankenheimer’s film:

Mrs. Iselin: [cordially, at a party the Iselins are giving] How good of you to come, Tom.
Sen. Thomas Jordan: [matter-of-fact, rather than cordial] I’ve explained to your husband why I’m here.
Mrs. Iselin: Tom, I know you have strong, personal feelings about Johnny and about me. But, what I would like to find out is, how strong they really are. To put it as simply as possible, If Johnny’s name were to be put forward at the convention next week, would you attempt to block him?
Sen. Thomas Jordan: [taken slightly aback] You’re joking, of course?
Mrs. Iselin: Mr. Stevenson makes jokes, I do not.
Sen. Thomas Jordan: You’re seriously trying for the nomination for Johnny?
Mrs. Iselin: No, we couldn’t make it. But he has a good chance for the second spot. Now, I’ve answered your question, but you haven’t answered mine. Will you block us?
Sen. Thomas Jordan: Would I block you? I would spend every cent I own, and all I could borrow, to block you. There are people who think of Johnny as a clown and a buffoon, but I do not. I despise John Iselin and everything that Iselinism has come to stand for. I think, if John Iselin were a paid Soviet agent, he could not do more to harm this country than he’s doing now. You have asked me a question. Very well, I shall answer you. If you attempt a deal with the delegates, or cause Johnny’s name to be brought forward on the ticket, or if, in my canvass of the delegates tomorrow morning, I find that you are so acting, I will bring impeachment procedings against your husband on the floor of the United States Senate. And I will hit him, I promise you, with everything in my well-documented book. Mrs. Iselin: [Mrs. Iselin leaves without a word, the discussion clearly over, for the present]

PROGRESSIVES and TEABAGERS CELEBRATES 2010 Election EVERY INCUMBENT AND PARTY BACKED CANIDATES LOOSES REPUBLICANS LOOSE, DEMOCRATS LOOSE, PARTY BACKED CANDIDATES LOOSE, GRASS ROOTS DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICAN SWEEP.LAW MAKERS CAN’T BE SEEN DEALING WITH LOBBIEST NEWLY OUT OF WORK FIRED LAWMAKERS.PROGRESSIVES AND TEA BAGGERS ALLIANCE TO REMOVE 2009 LAWMAKERS BUSINESS FOR THE CITIZEN WITHOUT WALKING ON THE MIDDLE CLASS SCRAP THE NEW 2009 LAWS.START OVER WITH PEOPLE THAT WILL HOLD THE PRESIDENT ACCOUNTABLE.WE WILL CHOOSE SIDES IN 2012.EXCITEING TIMES AHEAD

And its all Obama’s fault for bending over to the GOP in the first place. Julius might have been everyman’s woman according to the classics but no one doubts he got paid, Obama gives it away for free.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Caesars

I only got half way through this book because its too sick. But the Everyman’s woman quote is there if you read that book.

Not that being gay or bi is bad in fact without the bi Julius or Alexander the Great just where would Western Civilization be?
its the giving it away that bothers me.

love the celebration video… quiche

Yes—no—senate and congress democrats and republicans were bending over and over from 1970,the 1980, the 1990,the first 10 of the 21 centry.Allways being told your not smart enough to understand just be glad there watching out for you and this is what you deserve.It does take a lot for the law makers to live off of.Oversize everything to fit there heads.

Lieberman v. Nader ?

sounds wonderfully weird