evening, CT

I’m waiting for my absentee ballot to arrive so I can vote a straight third-party ticket. Joe Biden’s finger-wagging was the final straw. He and the Democratic Party can burn in political Hell.

Congrats, PPD…!

I’m pretty fond of old geezers mostly, but not Joe Biden and not all those old white guys clogging our political progress. But, hey, I was an early new feminist and I watched how irate white guys got at the thought of their sisters getting a chance at anything. Maybe that’s why they like all those crazy broads — no threat.

Aloha, tammanytiger…! I don’t blame ya one bit…! Welcome to the Lake…! ;-)

The guy just wants to blame us for his and Obma’s failure’s hey Joe do you blame your wife for your failure’s too?
The personalty profile you and Obama fit is wife beaters.

First time visit to firedog.

I still like Joe.
But I am open to the possibility that it’s impossible not to like the husband of a woman I completely adore.

So he has that going for him.

Tuttle!

Welcome. Late, late night can get roudy. Fasten your seat belt.

Hiya Firepups,
Can’t believe summer is officially over.

Maybe that’s why they like all those crazy broads — no threat.

Interesting theory the popular theory is men with big fragile egos men who don’t feel they deserve their own success so they compensate by preening endlessly like dumb or submissive women who offer no threat.
But crazy is then another form of learned helplessness? Crazy is anger directed in this case at anyone but the true target?
The real childhood of Biden, Obama and Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, Rush and Newt would be interesting.

Welcome to The Lake!
At your service, picasso.

“As the entrenched global banking cartel continues to control domestic political policy, the next phase of this crisis will inevitably feature an escalation into mass violence. As the Army War College stated, the Pentagon is preparing for “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States” and “widespread civil violence” due to “purposeful domestic resistance.”

The Pentagon can be preparing all they want, The American public has been castrated, and unfortunately is unlikely to defy serfdom.

~~~ModNote: A link and some context for this would be a good idea.~~~

Welcome any questions feel free to ask this is late late nite no specific topic talk any issue you want your personal life what ever this is free time.

Thanks for the welcome !

Good…I like rowdy discussions !

I still like Joe too, just not today. He was my senator for decades, and saved our beaches (my first love). Hey newt!

I still like Joe, too, but after today I can’t quite figure out why…….he is not about my best interests, or my country’s, I think. Someone really must, must stand up. It sure isn’t going to be Obama. I’d hoped for better from Joe.

Thanks…very kind.

He’s VP he might not have a choice still we can’t let these comments stand we must react as if he means what he says.

And here in California we finally got summer! I drove from the beach where it was 85 at 10:30 a.m. twenty miles inland where it was 105 at 11 a.m. Like driving into the mouth of hell. And now — the fires.

Joe is Joe.
I can’t put my finger on it, but I can’t dislike the man. I still think he’s doing what Veep’s do.

So I rest it on the precious Jill, but that is a crutch.

evening, CE — back on Ohio time tonight?

“The International Monetary Fund is predicting a “social explosion” due to this crisis. The IMF and World Bank have a long history of creating social upheaval. Leaked documents from within the World Bank refer to the next phase of the crisis as the “IMF riot.”

Journalist Greg Palast obtained classified planning documents, which shed light on the covert economic imperial operations, Structural Adjustment Programs, that the IMF, World Bank and US Treasury have used in the past as a playbook for destabilizing and conquering foreign nations. In the UK newspaper The Observer, Palast interviewed Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who was a former World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, turned whistleblower. They revealed the four-step IMF plan. Though the strategy is slightly modified based on the nation being attacked, here in the United States we are currently about to enter a variation of step-three, which is currently being phased in throughout Europe. This step inevitably leads to a significant portion of the population losing the ability to obtain basic necessities essential for survival. Once this happens, riots inevitably occur, or as they put it: step 3.5 is executed.

Here is how Palast and Stiglitz summed it up:

“At this point, according to Stiglitz, the IMF drags the gasping nation to Step Three: market-based pricing – a fancy term for raising prices on food, water and… gas.

This leads, predictably, to Step-Three-and-a-Half: what Stiglitz calls ‘the IMF riot’.

The IMF riot is painfully predictable. When a nation is, ‘down and out, [the IMF] squeezes the last drop of blood out of them. They turn up the heat until, finally, the whole cauldron blows up,’…

What Stiglitz did not know is that Newsnight obtained several documents from inside the World Bank. In one, last year’s Interim Country Assistance Strategy for Ecuador, the Bank several times suggests – with cold accuracy – that the plans could be expected to spark ’social unrest’.”

http://daviddegraw.org/2010/09/the-road-to-world-war-iii-the-global-banking-cartel-has-one-card-left-to-play/

We’re really up the creek, and most still don’t grasp it.

Sorry, hello Chris.

I like Joe Biden…I walked a couple of miles to a park one year ago to hear him speak. He’s a likeable guy and his wife seems really likeable.
But I don’t like what he said today.

Wow, that is terrible — I haven’t had the news about the fires, and that is way too hot for California. Sorry Dearie!

David Axelrod left who is running Obama’s political office?

Hmmm, with you newt. Jill is a wonderful woman, and a respected teacher.

Yes, slept like the dead last night, and should be doing so right now!

Wow, I knew it was hot but didn’t know it was that hot. Let’s hope for some rain and cooler temps!~

Picasso and Tammany what parts do ya’ll hail from…? ;-)

Can we expect change with David and Rahm gone men without principles are a dime a dozen in Washington but Rahm’s level of stupid, annoying and clout because he worked for Bill would be hard to find.
David has his own problems he can run a campaign but once he got to the WH well can Obama find someone better/

Per HuffPo:

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Campaigning for Democratic candidates in New Hampshire, Vice President Joe Biden said Monday the party’s base should “stop whining.”

Democratic Party base to Biden: “Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.”

Margot, hey!
Joe just wants the Dems to succeed. We all know his foot in mouth is constant, and I get pissed off at him all the time. However, today, don’t ” piss on me and tell me it is raining” or so it goes.

Worst is that we had unusual rains well into spring, which meant lots of plant growth. Then fog at the coast for most of the summer. Now this drying heat and all that dry fuel just waiting to burn. Several fires already. Most contained quickly, but not a good sign for fall.

Rahm not only worked for Clinton; he also worked for Wall Street and for Israel.

Pennsylvania.

Yeah we are not victims you push around just how many politicians have we taken out pushing stories the Media wouldn’t?

Art institution in PA?

Hi CT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71s-T8oUTQs

That means more Clout his replacement in Clout stupid and evil would be very hard to find. Not having Rahm around does weaken the Corporate hold in the WH.

yeah, I took a semester at the Art Institute in Pittsburgh years ago…

I live up in the Laural Mountains now….near a ski resort, Seven Springs.

I had to pull the beets, cabbage, broccoli, leeks, zucchini and corn from the garden this afternoon. If the wind stops tonight, we’ll have a hard freeze down to around 25 F.

Meanwhile, ET goes all ET

Cleveland here — we pass Seven Springs going to Pittsburgh.

Canning, canning in your future…(did I spell that right?).

I’m near Columbus, Ohio, and it’s beautiful in your area.

Canning over. Mostly stocking beets and cabbage into the cold storage area, from what I picked today. Potatoes and carrots are still in the ground.

Rahm’s and David’s replacements should tell us which way the WH goes after the election. Chances are nobody of equal stature will want the job.
However Obama could signal a change of policy by going Left and anyone on our side would take these jobs.
Summers replacement is key if it has not already happened.

We live a few miles from Fallingwater…the Frank Lloyd Wright house on the waterfall .

I had a platter of roasted salmon over a bed of pickled beets (warm) in Copenhagen. And a dish of boiled potatoes. A sauceboat of hollandaise sauce was added to the table. Oh.

I fear that Obama will slide to the Right some more, where he seems to have found comfort.

Progressives will probably not have his attention, except when the ’10 election is done, and he needs someone to hit for the Democrat’s slide in Congress.

He seems congenitally predisposed to cuddle up to Republicans. The Right is where the money will be, and the crazier the GOP gets, the more space he will have to occupy to his Right.

I can’t believe that I’ve never visited Falling Water (shakes head). My family lives in Schwenksville, PA, near Philly, and in Glen Mills, near Chadds Ford.

Yes..it`s quite beautiful…esp. in the Fall.

Aloha, ET… the Jewish Flotilla is about to cross into Gazan territorial waters…!

I also just posted a new Seminal Diary…!

Yep, whoever Obama brings in will tell us what he really thinks, because I sure don’t know what his plan is at this point. If he continues to trash SS & Medicare, then he is toast. What a weak person he seems to be. So sad.

The European newspapers parrot the WSJ European edition (who knew that this existed?).

That is my worry too I was trying to be hopeful however replacing Summers, David and Rahm with equal people willing to get on a sinking ship that will be hard.
Obama will likely find lesser tools.

Hey TCU — Taking bets on real change between now and November 2012?

Go, Irene! Viva Palestina!

ugh

*heh* Carry on my wayward son(s) eh…? ;-)

He won’t find anyone as ‘snarling-dog’ as Rahm out there, unless he appoints John Bolton.

The IMF, World Bank, and the Fed are in charge of your World.

Weak and confused I don’t think he even knows he has a plan he just acts and then folds his hand not even bothering to look at his cards.
Eleven dimensional chess seems more like drunk seeing double chess.

I’m admitting we got a chance at hope but I’m not willing to bet:)

Damm I could not think of anyone that stupid and bullying outside of Darth but John would also work.

I’m hungry now…glad you’re back, Chris!

<Not having Rahm around does weaken the Corporate hold in the WH.

I hope you’re wrong, but fear that you are not.

You betcha…! Even if it’s only a token amount…!

“Americans should take a page from activists throughout the rest of the world if they’re seriously interested in resisting the massive budget cuts afflicting this country. Effective social change only comes about through mass action – a lesson that has emerged after years of grassroots uprisings in the U.S. and throughout the world. Consider some of the evidence from various cases below.

The French: Don’t Call Them Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys

Over a million French workers turned out in the streets this month to protest proposed government budget cutbacks by President Nicolas Sarkozy. The rallies were part of a 24-hour strike that shut down flights and railway services, in addition to closing schools throughout the country. Government plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 motivated these protests, even though France already has one of the lower retirement rates throughout Europe. The opposition is also driven by resistance to plans to fire 7,000 teachers, the proposed lengthening of pay periods for public employees, and plans to cut pension benefits.”

http://www.truth-out.org/world-revolt-the-global-backlash-against-budget-cuts63465

We have Saturday Art posts at the Seminal, the place where you can write diaries or just put up photos or artwork. Would love to see the fall color; we don’t seem to have much yet.

Those are three big sets of clown shoes to fill maybe Obama’s turn right will be slowed if he is stuck replacing them with lesser fools.

Not having Rahm would be a good thing unless an equal fool could be found.

Cool! I wish I were French!

Well, whether we place a bet or not, what’s left of American Empire is on the pass line.

The problem is that Obama seems to have a divining rod for lesser fools, and he thinks the country does as well.

The French: Don’t Call Them Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys

The Bushies called them that the same guys who lost two wars to a second and third world country. I ask a Bushie for advice on who fights good so I know who not to bet on.

4th and 105 and the QB has a broken throwing arm.

I wish we were all French, Spanish, Greek, Latvian, Lithuanian, German, Polish, Slovanian, Portugese,… a bit more awake to what’s going on all around us.

True we can’t afford 4 more years I expect another bank bailout next year.

*heh* That would still be the longest ‘Hail Mary’ ever…! ;-)

Rearranging deck chairs the day after the Hindenburg arrived at Lakehurst, NJ, ET.

I liked it when the French got out their guillotines.

Projection assuming everyone thinks like you and using that imaginary consensus the Estate es Moi, I am the State
to justify your rule do all alpha male leaders do this?
Or in Bush and Obama’s puppet leader status alpha Hand Puppets? eCHAN read “king of the mountain ” her insight on this might be good.

Hey, y’all LLNiters! Has anyone seen this yet?

On a “quiz” of basic questions about world religions, including their own, most Americans got less than half the answers right. Those who did best overall? Ta-da! Atheists and agnostics.
I really like this explanation:
“I have heard many times that atheists know more about religion than religious people,” Mr. Silverman said. “Atheism is an effect of that knowledge, not a lack of knowledge. I gave a Bible to my daughter. That’s how you make atheists.” (my italics)

Pretty funny. I have often found that, having been raised Lutheran, with lots of Sunday School homework of actually reading the Bible, followed by discussion in class (high school age Sun.Schl classes were actually quite nteresting, with a very good teacher), I usually can quote more accurately than the fundies who are trying to cite Scripture at me.

I don’t pray for miracles or “Hail Mary’s.”

I pray for common sense.

If anyone could find him, Barack could and would.

Btw, CT – funny you chose this musical selection. For some reason I’ve had the chorus in the back of my head all day. Must’ve heard it somewhere else today, but don’t remember.

“The Fed system is in transition. The crash of 2008 was the first phase of global capital holders shifting their private capital out of the system so the Fed was forced to add public capital, i.e. your debt, into the system. More of this is likely coming. But does this mean the international banks behind the Fed are dying? No. They’ve simply transferred their bad assets to the public through the Fed and prepared to ramp up operations in Asia, which will be a primary churn center for the 21st century global banking system. Capital assets have been transferred, production assets have been transferred, and the capital holders can transfer much more capital in a short period of time if they so choose.”

http://csper.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/monopoly-money-and-the-international-banking-cartel/

sorry for these dumps, but I think we may want to move a bit more beyond the front pages of HuffPost, and The Corporate Media. They are drinking our milkshake, and, -well, There will be ….

~~~ModNote: It’s time for you to start writing diaries, if you get our drift…~~~

Diary spread the news the Lake will love this:)

True:(

Basket weaving and blade sharpening may soon be the only jobs around…

*heh* The Grey Lady didn’t pull it punches… In the Lede…

but they are also deeply ignorant about religion.

I’m glad I’m Baha’i and I read a multitude of scripture…! ;-)

Mod testing ideas out before you write diaries getting a peer review from the late late nite crowd has been done before or are you suggesting fuckno start writing diaries?

The rich will be ruined the ponzai scheme crashing will show that many of these assets were way over valued in the first place.
What happens to us though?

You’d have me reading and recc’ing them…!

for fuckno writingin english is akin to passing gallstones. Thanks for the invitation, thou.

Praying for Common Sense is problematic, ET … when you hope for Thomas Paine … and instead get Glenn Beck.

I know how you feel but its my only language:)

but it’s the indispensable one …

‘Nite all. Thanks, CT, for hosting.

thanks for the encouragement, CT!

Aloha, M’dearie…! ;-)

Congrats on the century mark…! :-)

what do I get? ;)

The entire globe is shifting and redefining itself. We have for a long time expected the political side to right itself in a recognizable way. It has not and it will not. The big question is will we do this in a civilized, life affirming way or in a brutal, artless way? Is there time left to mold the pressure building in a way that is to our advantage? Are we smart enough to out smart the bad guys?

Funny thing about that, isn’t it? Did you get a perect score on the sample quiz, too?

I saw a photo of Mugabe in a NY neighborhood drugstore during the last UN session, buying lipstick.

He must have wasted hundreds of Trillions of Zimbabwean $. – thus the lipstick, I guess.

nite, CT

brutally artful way?

I’m game, but, I got lost in the myriad links, can ya give me the link to the quiz…?

Aloha, fuckno, pleasant dreams…! ;-)

etu brutal?

or fuckya!

I’m telling ya Ike was a wise man…

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I hope peace breaks out soon.

Try this link for the quiz.

And if picasso is still here, welcome. I’ve been to Fallingwater once, summer after high school. It was a date…made me think the guy was all intellectual and sophisticated.
Loved the house, though, and never forgot it.

OTOH, didn’t think I’d want to live there. I tend more toward a shabby chic, clutter-isn’t-a-bad-thing esthetic. Not very Wrightian.

*heh* Why yes I did score 6 of 6 correctly, despite my wife’s assertion that Moses suffered more than Job did…! ;-)

I tried to write in my own name (that bastard at the deli today forgot the mustard) – talk about suffering!

Five outa six.

Which one did you miss, newt…? ;-)

Heh! What? Moses never had boils, for heaven’s sake!

Like I said, the mustard.

*heh* It dawned on me after I hit submit…! D’uh…! ;-)

Hey folks!

Aloha, Spocko…!

In my defense, I’m distracted with the latest episode of ‘Hawaii 5-0′…! ;-)

Past my bedtime, folks, Good night!

Aloha, tejana…! ;-)

nite teja
me too

Aloha, newt…! I’m keeping a close eye on the Irene, so I’ll still be up if anybody is interested…! ;-)

The latest update on the Irene…

Irene is 27 miles from shore 12 miles from territorial waters – prepare for raid. mobile reception is back

Crap was that an easy quiz.

Me too.

Do you think they’ll ever have any scenes on Maui or the Big Island?

You know it’ll be Oahu-centric, M’dear…! You getting any u’a your way…? The surfers are all happy with the north swells that are rolling in…! ;-)

Dayam, Kgmb 9 just reported that the Haleakala-based ‘Near Earth Object’ Observatory announced the presence of a chunk floating by Venus, capable of inflicting ‘several hundred square miles’ of damage… Due to hit in about 2029…! ;-)

Yeah, saw that. Then i went to the CBS web site to vote for UofH band playing Hawaii 5-0 theme song.

Barb’s and my back are up against the wall and we’re truly screwed thanks to the Massachusetts DET. Anything you guys could do to help would be appreciated. More details are here or here.