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Every senatorial campaign needs a good Vermicidal theme song. (Caveat auditor: this brain worm don’t go away.)

But tough tactics don’t always work

Tough tactics like saying the increase in illegal settlement when Biden was visiting is an “insult”. Wow, that is tough. Just imagine how tough it would be if the US stopped subsidizing the genocide of Palestinians.

demanding a country not to violated

Little grammatical fixing needed here. /fussbudget

thanks important questions posed by Atrios

Another fix needed. /fussbudget2

The parallel universe

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman spoke with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon overnight Monday and told him Israel expects a more objective and constructive approach from the international community.

“We are getting the feeling that all of the effort and positive steps Israel has taken over the last year, including [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's] Bar-Ilan speech, the settlement freeze and the removal of checkpoints have been taken for granted by the international community,” said Lieberman.

“There has been no encouragement or incentive toward Israel as a result of these steps, only additional pressure, complaints and demands,” he said.

Lieberman went on to tell Ban, “Israel expects a more objective and constructive approach from the international community.”

The foreign minister added that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. “We know from experience that the demand to bring construction materials and steel [into the Gaza] is designed to have Hamas confiscate the materials and use them to build rockets and bunkers.”

That entire sentence doesn’t make sense.

(picky, picky…)

I can’t judge sense on a morning infected by Bobo… (see below).

OK, first, what the heck is zed??????
Second, la Boxer’s district would have to be insane to throw her over for something like THIS.
Remember all the roses in her office when she challenged Ohio’s electoral vote in ’04?
She’s one of my heroines!

Good morning, pups. Oh, sweet baby Jesus on a tricycle… Bobo’s lost what passes for his “mind.” This morning, in “The Spirit of Sympathy,” he actually says the use of reconciliation threatens to destroy the humanizing function of the Senate. I’m not making this up, you know… In “The Biden Effect” Mr. Cohen says Israel must acknowledge U.S. anger over the plan to build new housing in East Jerusalem if the quest for peace is to advance. And when kosher pigs fly… Mr. Herbert, in “Workers Crushed by Toyota,” says though Toyota has reaped endless benefits from California, the company is shutting down a plant in Fremont, Calif., firing 4,700 employees.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got bagels with cream cheese this morning. Never Provoke Republicans actually had some broad (whose name I missed) on this morning discussing passing HCR. She referred to “Democrat politicians” or “Democrat Senators” more than once. Telegraphing much? Nah, couldn’t be…. Have a great day.

Everything Dr. Turk (podiatrist to the stars) says makes perfect sense (/Dennis Hopper)

I’m not making this up, you know

Of course you didn’t. Nobody could be that stupid……unless they wrote for the NYT. Where is Judith to bring some sanity?

Israel kabuki is probably more complicated than Obama kabuki, and progs have fallen hard for the Obama shtick, so.. Who’s Atrios. Another fratboy blogger with issues. So many juvies on the left now. Guess I’ll have to adjust.

So many juvies on the left now. Guess I’ll have to adjust.

Going to get younger are you?

Good one.

OK, first, what the heck is zed??????

Someone with a better memory than mine can fill you in on the exact history of Zed here, but it is the first comment in a thread. It actually misuses a word that means the LAST letter of the alphabet, Z or Zed.

I simply can’t remember the history of the word here, but FDLers have been using it for a long time.

It was used a lot more years ago, but as the site(s) grew it’s fallen out of favor.

Good morning all.

Christine Romer is on my TV bloviating about how great the stim has been.

The last shall be first? Sounds biblical.

Comes and goes in favor…. I guess depending on when the commenter was first introduced to the Lake.

Oh now I remember!! The old blog software would number the first comment “0″ which became zero or “Zed” in the FDL lexicon. But Zed is actually the LAST letter in some alphabets. As that blog software fades into the mists of time, so does the meaning of Zed.

So if you get the first comment, you are number zero.

Zed is the ultimate low potential high performance neologism.

Very good. Maybe you should write a diary so zed will not be lost to history.

I feel sorry for Romer. She advocated for a $1.2 trillion stimulus,
knew what she was talking about (in fact, is one of the academic experts on multipliers),
and was overruled by a gaggle of Wall Street operatives. And Obama. Also.

And some of us are old enough to remember when “Zed!” was often replaced with “FITZ!!!”

She has a singsong delivery that is really annoying & she is transparently bad at propagandizing. From your comment, it sounds like she would be a much better speaker if they had done what she recommended. Or, perhaps she should have resigned in protest.

LOL. Maybe I should. But I am not an “old timer” here, having arrived after the Libby trial, which seems to be when lots of folks arrived on the scene. I sorta remember that I started reading and commenting around the time they switched away from that blog software. I also recall that there was discussion about “zed” then, so others may remember more of the history.

As for a diary, maybe so. We need to preserve our heritage, don’tcha know..

I’m in the-arrived-with-the-Libby-trial class, but I never paid attention to the zed thing.

Real “tough politics” would be decreasing the $5.5 billion or so which Israel receives from the United States each and every year…

Oh geez, Pelosi might try to pass the senate HCR bill without a vote, something like “deeming” it passed. On WJ. WTF?

I believe the progression was “first”, “frist”, “Fitz” (which lasted a good long while), then “zed”.

A bit of meaningless, though highly competitive, fun before the actual discussion of the post took off in earnest.

plus, it was a good way to annoy the hell out of newbies.

Was EPU gone by then also….my memory is hazy and time periods run together.

Good Morning eCAHN,
I arrived at about the same time, and it was a real badge of honor at one time. I think I claimed it a few times. And, as I remember, it was popular when there was only one front page. Now that we have several sister sites going at the same time, I think it’s lost its umph.
How’s everyone doing this am? I woke up early and can’t go back to sleep. The good news that I got when I came home from work last night is that my Aunt Ginny is doing much better. She woke up, opened her eyes and is talking. The family is saying it’s a miracle. Who knows.

No. EPU was very active, and, like zed, still shows up. I get EPU’d not infrequently.

I still use EPU, but I’m just as glad zed is dead.

Good morning demi. Glad to hear about your aunt.

Good point about so many different tabs vs. the one in the early days. Nice nostalgia going on this (finally) sunny morning.

Really! All those black eyes and bruised knees from every one tripping as they raced to be Fitz.

Heh. When I was a newbie, I simply asked. Worked like a miracle.

Yeah, we DFHs can been competitive and pugilistic.

They were talking about that yesterday. Apparently they can just say it is passed so they can move to the reconciliation part. Since the house vote is a dead heat, I’m not sure how they will accomplish that.

Now as SD would say, I’m off to the great capitalist cesspool (although since I work at a university, maybe a bit less so).

Yay for sun. It was over 80 here yesterday. Guess I better start getting my vegetable garden. I did finally get the part of the back yard that that will be going in dog proofed this past w/e.

I think EPU (himself) was gone by then, but the “EPU’d” hung around for a LONG time.

Fists!

I do think it was tied in some way to the comment numbering that began with zero, tho…

If I remember correctly we were also troll free but now that Jane is, wonderfully, strutting her stuff all over the universe the trolls are polluting the lake.

Well, every once in a while when you write so early in the morning your fingers work faster than your brain.

See ya around, Molly.

It was.

Trolls can be fun. Or not. Depending. I like them when I can respond in one sarcastic sentence. Sarcasm is my friend.

Simplistically, the site was run with PHP back then and counting with php starts with ’0′.

They can just say it passed? Great democracy we have here.

You mean it is not a test to see who is awake?

The contortions are truly mind boggling. They are going to ram this POS down our throats just so the dems can claim a “victory”for the midterms. It won’t work.

No shit! (that was me being sarcastic. *g*)

Holy Moly. The sun just appeared for the first time since Saturday morning.

I resemble that.

It might. Not everyone is as progressive and idealistic as folks here. I’ve heard a lot of people out in the real world just wanting it to pass, in whatever form.

“zed” was. as noted, the software at the time labeled the first comment #0. (zed = “Z” = Zero, I guess).

I do miss the new visitors to the Lake, who would show up jonesing for a serious discussion, see the first comments, and quite righteously declare us all to be Very Unserious People.

Which, of course, and also by tradition, led to retorts constituting a Very Serious Kick To The Crotch.

*s* (getting all nostalgic here)

Copy that. Also the sun here too! Luckily the bulk of the rain was south & east of me, but dreary here for the past 3 days.

In an ever so cute and hip chick way.

Ha! I remember when one of the contributors here went away and started their own blog. Some of the FDLers left here for there and I saw a comment that we were a bunch of Girl Scouts. Ha, again.

Have you seen my avatar?

How’s my favorite Hoosier?

Swim is up.

I had not. Cute. Where’d you get that?

doing great thanks. What in the world are you doing up so early?

gotta run – once more in “Hello I must be going” mode.

Eh, it happens. Getting up early and hello, you must be going. Knock ‘em dead, today, slugger.

A couple of thoughts off topic.

One has to do with this maneuver Pelosi is considering whereby the House will vote only on the fixes to the Senate bill and that vote then automatically passes the Senate bill as well. According to this stupendously idiotic bitch that will absolve the House members of responsibility for having passed the Senate bill without actually having cast a vote in favor of it.

This anti-democratic type of bullshit should not be tolerated and should enhance rather than diminish the opposition to this odious POS Senate bill by the left. The left should make it crystal clear to House members that passing the Senate bill will leave them without our support for good.

The other point is that this asshole Obama is trying desperately to win over Kucinich to vote for the Senate bill and DK should rebuff him point blank. Kucinich needs to show that he will not budge any further because he has ceded everything he and the left have wanted included in this shit Senate bill and have gotten nothing in return. This is the time for Kucinich to distance himself from this POS president and leave him to go down for being a putrid corporate sell out.

Why the fuck should the left come to the aid of Obama? What has this asshole ever done to comply with what we and the country has asked for. This is the time for Kucinich and the left to tell Obama to go and fuck himself with his Senate bill and to go and seek support from the corporate right to which he is wedded.

How’s my favorite Hoosier?

*pouts*

Working at a university may not be a cesspool but it may well be a well mannered snake pit.

Um, yeah. Manners vary.

According to the Texas School Board it’s not a “democracy” but a constitutional Republic.

Real “tough politics” would be decreasing the $5.5 billion or so which Israel receives from the United States each and every year…

We could call it “deficit reduction”!