ZED!!!@☺☺

hey nahant — how ya doing tonight?

A rare Monday late late nite for Suz☺☺
Hey Pups..

Great just had a wonderful
visit with my big sister & her Hubby!!

wonderful! i spoke with both my girls today and my mom. not as good as being there but…

And we had a great visit with our lovely daughter

hey ce — how ya doing tonight?

I know… We don’t get to see much of each other as they live in the Boston area… But luckily her son lives out here in the Bay Area…

Can’t get the youtube to load for whatever reason (NSA forkers perhaps?!) but I know from experience how much Susan Tedeschi rawks.

Hi Suz and pups!

since ya got the zed, didja let downstairs know?

We just watched “Black Hawk Down” — film that will make anyone cry. MsCE home safe and sound in Brooklyn. We love her.

Dangnabbit… That’s twice I’m late to the party…! ;-)

It is always great to see family.. My middle & youngest son made it to tonight get together…we all had a great time… of course Tucker was in seventh heaven with all the company.. sat on everyone’s lap one time or another…

Altogether too many damned lefties in that band! >:-D

Good for Nahant and CE! Actual family time is so wonderful. I’m with Suz and did the phone chats.

Will have a real bash for my dad on Father’s Day, though, as he goes in for back surgery around the first of July.

aloha ct — how ya doing tonight?

oops…

Another quarter for the juke….

hey thatguy — how ya doing tonight?

hey ll — click on the song title in the post and it will open up in a new tab. how ya doing tonight?

Like you nahant, we are all lovers of oceans and families who love them… I do miss Lewes.

evening, Suz etal.

hey loohoo — hope all goes well for him. back surgery — yikes!

DONE!

i forking love that song

hey pppd — how ya doing tonight?

Good, had some of J’s green cookie leftovers and feeling no pain. Weekend was too damned short but the barbecue was fine, fine, fine!

snoozee you lozzzee.

thanks dood

Will try that — just listening to ThatGuy’s suggestion now…nice :-) Doing well here in VA, hot and humid though :-P

Thoroughly disgusted with the Israelis, but otherwise fine, M’dear…! ;-)

yuck — hot and humid is a miserable combo

Well thanks, Suz – just returned from five days in Minnesota for a family reunion.

how was the weather? were the mosquitoes out in force or is it too early for that yet?

I got to play with that singer (Malford Milligan) a couple years ago on the Delbert Cruise. The man is as cool as he sounds, and is a force of nature.

You can’t spend what you ain’t got…you can’t lose what you ain’t never had

That’s awesome — what an opportunity that was!

love his voice

This is the book I was thinking of …

the key

muddy! nice ll, real nice

now that’s a summer beach book ce!

You know I love me some Muddy — glad you do too ;-)

Black Flies?? Things back there are early this year.. And boy I sure don’t miss the black flies when I lived in Maine… Little bastards have no respect none.. They think nothing of flying down yer throat and the bloody welts behind when they done biting ya.. Shit I don’t miss them at all.

remarkable weather between 65 and 90 F, a little rain on Sunday, but otherwise just beautiful — the lakes, the trees, the hiking & biking trails. Mosquitos weren’t invited to the reunion.

Hey nahant — thought about you tonight as I drove home from RWC.

shit

Israeli Navy officer says his men are ready to seize new ship heading to Gaza by Wednesday

Dang ya shoulda stopped by and said hello…

Shoot, the skeeters are so big in Maine, they carry ya off to feast upon later…! ;-)

Shit indeed…I just feel so numb about this situation, and helpless…

he cudda maybe seen your nesting hawks

Thanks, but after picking up my car at my brother’s, I had to get home and work tomorrow morning. It was a great to be off for five whole days, though.

In Minnesota, they’re the state bird

am feeling that way about a lotta things lately..

Yeah I know — lots of disappointment going on :-(

Are you talking about the horseflies? The bites that are PAINFUL, not itchy, for several days?

True dat and come in swarms so large they even take the car your in with them..
/s

But when I feel bad, I always turn to music

How about a little Elmore James?

Well now, quite the conundrum with our long time NATO ally escorting the Freedom Flotilla all the way to Gaza…!

gotta pick myself up and get back in the race and not let the fuckers get me down

yup. what’s that chinese curse… may you live in interesting times….

No no little black flies ya never know they are biting you because they have an anesthetic in their saliva.. so ya don’t know they bit ya till ya rub and find blood on your hand..

When I was a kid, we always had reunions (apparently parents’ high school reunions) at Itasca State Park.

I sure remember crossing the river on those rocks every year.

Perfect…

*heh* I swear there’s a ‘too’ mixed in there…! I guess it was lost in translation…! ;-)

and there is always this

Itasca — headwaters of the mighty mississippi

Yes! We gotta hold on to those :-)

I was looking for the Sarah Vaughan version of this, but couldn’t find it — Billie Holliday will have to do:

Nice Work If You Can Get It

sure beats the alternative

How about GOOD WORK if you can get it?

omg — a bunch of us at work were just reminiscing about the Blues Brothers the other day….excellent!

dood, you are hitting my fav’s tonight…

BoDeans rawk :-)

time for some sleep … be well everyone.

Kind of obscure…

McDougal Blues

waybacks

g’nite ppd

niters PPD
next time ya local say hello in person…

Sleep well, PPD…!

Running out of steam here, one more song to share and then it’s time to say g’night all –

Acadian Driftwood

oooo another good one ll… g’nite

Good night LL!

Aloha, LL…!

Sheesh guess I will be moseying off to the hinterlands for sleep.. Stay well Pups..

g’nite nahant

Aloha, nahant…!

Hi Suz, all. Pretty day here with rain and then a huge rainbow afterward.

hey margot — haven’t seen a rainbow in a long time (and ya think i wudda what with all this rain) :)

how ya doing tonight?

I’m busy on another interim Israeli post, please forgive my absence for a bit…! ;-)

deal dood

Good, thanks, hope you are too. Waves to sleepy LL, PPDCUS, nahant and anyone else I missed…my browser is taking forever to load

have ya cleared your cache or tried a reboot? using one or the other usually resolves loading slow problems for me

This article pissed me off like no other.

Sorry to be so nasty, Margot, but I’m sure you’ll understand. Hello!

david brooks can kiss my ass — he sure as hell wasn’t saying this shit when boosh/cheney were in charge

Everything he said was predicted on Saturday by left blogistan.

as it was during the bush years — or am i confusing him with some other blowhard

I’m not going to read Brooks. Conseratives are hypocritical all the time. Their ideas have failed the great majority of the people. I’m tired of spending energy refuting them. It’s redundent.
I want to embarass them and defund them.

hey spocko — how ya doing tonight?

100?

nicely done loohoo :) happy 100!

Thanks! Congrats to myownself!

Well, I can’t blame you, spocko. Only raises the blood pressure.

pant pant
I just got back from re-booting, and Suz is right, it works wonders.
About that article…he’s such a pissant. I couldn’t stand to read the whole thing.

Ooh, ya nailed it, Loo Hoo…! Just checking in…! ;-)

Speaking of embarrassing powerful people I created a series of questions and gave our man in LA (Michael) to ask to get BP to provide respirators to everyone working on clean up.

As with my Murdock question, I know how they will answer but I want the rest of the media to notice their answer.
I don’t want to ask it because I’m not on the ground. But I will if it doesn’t get asked.

I even have a communications trick we could use to force the issue.

I love to hash stuff out here so I’ll run it by folks tomorrow.

yay! glad it worked for ya margot. tis the first thing i do when i find stuff slowing down online…. if clearing cache doesn’t do it, the reboot usually does.

why does he even have a column anymore? his op-eds are always the same ole same ole

How goes it, CTuttle? Are you up or down tonight?

didja see this spocko?

New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — A fisherman who was hospitalized after becoming ill while cleaning up oil in the Gulf of Mexico has filed a temporary restraining order in federal court against oil company BP.

John Wunstell Jr., is asking BP to give the workers masks and not harass workers who publicly voice their health concerns.

They have a real Catch-22 kind of thing going there. There’s crude oil to clean up, they don’t give you masks, if you bring one they send you home because “if it were dangerous enough to need one, we wouldn’t have you all out here working.”

Let us know if there is a way to amplify your work.

’bout time for me to head out folks. thanks for all the music and conversations and for letting me spend a wee bit of your holiday with you.

g’nite *poof*

Here is the idea. Instead of demaning BP provide all the clean up crew with respriator gear and hazmat clothing, just ask for WHEN they will be available and which OSHA rule will people be breaking if they don’t wear them.
Turn the question into. WHEN not an IF.

This puts them on the clock and if the say it’s not required and They aren’t providing them you move to medical questions, which is another area they are dodging.
Then you contact the manufacture of high quality gear and ask if they have gotten the order from BP yet and if they can fill it in time. You ASSUme that they are doing the right thing and are Shocked that they aren’t and other media ask why.

Why in the world would BP NOT be giving (and recommending) masks for their employees at this point. Seems really stupid.

The key is you don’t do this at the local level. You set this up for the High level types who then have to dance. You get some one with a HR title or Sience background to answer the question. Who you ask is part of the game as well as where you ask.
This is activist journalism on the side of safety and health. So the question could come from a safety publication or a medical journal.
Trade press people who don’t have BP as sponsors.
I believe in helping journalists get good stories. Those are the people to drive this angle.

Lots of reasons.
1) denial
2) macho bs
3) fear of future legal if they acknowledge the risk now
4) remember air quality at ground zero and how Condi Rice’s office told whitmans office to lie about the air? Now put that scenerio in this situation.
5) optics. Really. People in gas masks are going to scare people. This will bring out macho asshats like Hannity who say that people are over reacting. Limbaugh will mock them for wearing masks.
I worked with toxic chemicals in Star Fleet and the RW asshats hate “whimpy regulations” Even if they save lives.
6) actual lack of resources. Get enough masks to the people is a distribution and management challenge but can Be solved with money.

I guess I understand all of that except #6. But the long term cost so far outweigh the short term costs, that it’s unbelievable anyone would accept them.

I wonder what the BP shareholders would think about this.

Dayam, I hope I didn’t cause the sudden crash of relaxed politics…! 8-(

My scathing Israeli post was almost finished…! 8-(

I shall pick up where I left off and start over at the Seminal…!