Suz…! It’s f*cking snowing in dem dar hills…! 2 to 4 inches already…! *gah*

suz!

aloha tut — we’ve got the pineapple express headed right for us — how high are dem dar hills?

spur! how ya doing tonight?

Waving madly from SB! Been gone/busy/etc and missed you Suz!

*waving madly back from oregon* how’s santa barbara tonight?

Hello everybody.

Think I’ll be stopping by Fry’s on Monday after interview, get a Wireless N router.

ok here, and the pineapple express seems to be shooting our way too

hey wmd — do ya think your’s will last through the weekend?

The summit road is closed…! ;-)

What a massive blob of weather, eh…? My condolences for that express train barreling down on ya…! *g*

SB is gorgeous tonight, with a (warm)wind advisory until tomorrow. We had some very brisk weather, well brisk as far as we’re concerned, but now it’s more typical. This is my favorite time of year, because we have amazing sunsets and the ocean has an extra sparkle.

how often does it close? pretty much everything from portland to seattle is under flood advisories and the cascades are gonna get a buttload of snow…

Yeah. Worse comes to worst I can go just make a 20 meter Cat 5 cable.

Heroes are whats on my mind tonight where are Feingold where is Franken

The near-filibuster, which began at 10:25 AM, became so popular that it temporarily shut down the Senate video server.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/10/bernie-sanders-filibuster_n_795087.html

I think we have found a man with a Spine in the Senate! If we show him the love (and shutting down the Senate video server I presume from to many people wanting to watch) is showing the love he should respond with more acts to get our love.
Yes we have done this before with politicians like Obama and been disappointed its like a string of bad dates but does that mean we give up looking?
I think we might have found a keeper.

winters are when we get those pink sunsets that i love up here… of course i’ve not seen the sun since tuesday so i’ve only had grey fading to black

hey things — how ya doing tonight?

Oof… That is one ugly Pineapple Express… *gah*

hello hello

Ok we got snow a few days ago but today much of it melted I still see birds all over the place any science folk here who can explain why the birds don’t migrate south anymore like they used too? My theory is global warming funny the MSM never covers this scientific mystery.

tis a long forker

Don’t fear the Beaker…

Whoa! It’s not coming to my house, but that is one wicked piece of weather.

…Ocean-effect Snow…? ;-)

hey cujo — how’s seattle tonight? don’t fear the beaker is a hoot dood

For a little more than 30 minutes late Friday afternoon, William Jefferson Clinton was restored to the office of President of the United States. His immediate predecessor, Barack Obama temporarily transferred power so that he could attend to more urgent domestic matters: pacifying his wife and attending a few Christmas parties.

In my mind, I could imagine thousands, perhaps millions, of cable news viewers who tuned in a bit late, startled to see and hear President Bill Clinton taking questions from the press in the briefing room of the White House: a ‘Who Shot JR’ moment that proved 8 years of George W. Bush and nearly 2 of Barack Obama had only been a dream. There had been no 911, no war in Afghanistan and Iraq, no global economic collapse. It had all been just a dream. It was not December 10, 2010. Time to party like it’s 1999.

Isn’t it, though? I don’t know who thought of that one, but it’s pure genius.

Seattle’s not bad. It hasn’t been nearly as cold as it was around Thanksgiving, for which I’m grateful. Saw the sunset pictures from the beach. Looks like you’ve been getting some sunny weather, at least.

I love Beaker getting main billing! Too funny.

Today, a bill that would provide help finding health care for the 9/11 rescue workers sickened as a result of their selfless actions failed in the Senate because it managed to only get 57 votes in favor (compared to 42 opposed).

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/12/09/help-for-911-rescue-workers-sacrificed-on-altar-of-arcane-senate-procedure/

No healthcare for people made sick by 9/11. No unemployment extensions will mean how many kids won’t get presents this year?

Do Republicans read the Bible and do the Opposite? I could have sworn Jesus said give up all of your goods to the poor if you would follow me.
Is Obama, Biden, Harry Reid and the entire Senate playing the role of Pontus Pilate this Christmas by not working to end the filibuster washing their hands of the whole matter?
Any rich person who collects the estate tax this year when 9/11 workers don’t get healthcare and the unemployed don’t get checks to buy their kids Christmas presents GOES TO HELL!
The prophet has spoken:)/s

Stringing together thoughts might do a diary either on heroes of the dammed maybe both.

hey robert — how’s pa tonight? lets do the time warp again?

i’m finding great stuff at muppet studios, their online division. click on that link in my post

i’ve not had sun for several days :( sunday had a good sunset but nothing since

I could have sworn Jesus said give up all of your goods to the poor if you would follow me.

I’m pretty sure they misquoted him. All those Christians can’t be wrong, can they?

I’ve been very down lately, thinking about the wars, much less the other things on your list. I’m trying not to tear up at the idea that this is just a bad dream.

…President Bill Clinton taking questions from the press in the briefing room of the White House: a ‘Who Shot JR’ moment that proved 8 years of George W. Bush and nearly 2 of Barack Obama had only been a dream.

Sadly, startlingly, right on the money.

Hey Suz! Muppets!

There may be an actual filibuster on Monday:

In a letter circulated by Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, the senators said: “We have grave misgivings about the recent tax agreement. We hope that the Senate can improve on it. We look forward to working with you to ensure a vote on our amendment to strengthen Social Security in lieu of bonus tax cuts for people who are doing quite well.”

They also offered an outline for a plan that would to restore tax rates on income over $1 million per year to the Clinton-era rates, and to dedicate the resulting revenues to shoring up the Social Security trust fund.

The White House will push back against any amendment strategy, fearing that changes might endanger Republican support for the agreement.

But the letter gives Reid a bargaining chip. He has a numbers problem. In addition to the eight signers of the letter—Merkley, Landrieu. Alaska’s Mark Begich, Hawaii’s Daniel Akaka, Ohio’s Sherrod Brown, Minnesota’s Al Franken, Colorado’s Mark Udall and California’s Barbara Boxer—several other members of the Senate Democratic Caucus have voiced strong objections to the agreement.

Sanders continues to talk of using a filibuster strategy to block the proposal. And her Vermont colleague, Patrick Leahy, has been bluntly critical.

Beautiful photos. You’re gonna have to move that bird feeder…

hey newton — how’s the west bay tonight?

I read somewhere a hero is one who with no thought for him/herself puts the needs of other people above his own most of the Senate are millionaires Bush/Obama’s tax cut I’m sure would do Bernie some good but today he is making a stand for us.

hey et — how ya doing tonight?

hey Suzanne and folks…I’m back, for now anyway…

if i move the feeder, i can’t see the little birdies at it — i usually take photos from a slightly different angle so ya don’t see the feeder

You’ve been reading the Gospel of Wealth?

neuro!!! long time no see your fonts — how’s kansas dood?

How does this plan look I am wary of anything Mary supports.

Lovely, ma’am.
Exciting times, these.

LOL, I was channeling Miss Piggy singing “Santa Baby” on teh way home from work today. Muppets!!!

Needs more cowbell.

hey dosido — how ya doing tonight? i have to admit i’m partial to miss piggy

Sheesh, for all the mileage these posers get from 9/11, one could think that they should throw some crumbs to the people who were actually there.

This, to my knowledge, is the first time in the history of this nation that a sitting President relinguished the briefing room to a prior President.

It was surreal. Kind of a mini-Palin resignation.

KS is not looking good these days. No snow yet but cold temps and high winds expected to blow in on Saturday. But that is nothing compared to the cold front that will move in on inauguration day, when Sen. Sam Brownback (R-The Family) takes over the governor’s chair and a greatly diminished Democratic minority limps into the House and Senate. We lost all statewide offices and all federal House and Senate seats in November. Cold days ahead.

hahahaha

Another important factor to consider, besides that possible Senate obstruction is the fact Nancy won’t introduce any Tax bills to the floor…! Even if it passed that possible Senate filibuster, the bill still has to go back to the House…! ;-)

oh lardy (((neuro)))

Moi aussi.

Doing OK. My kids come home on Monday! From college. yay!

Bernie did a great job diagramming the Great Money Vacuum that was created over the years after I graduated.

evening, Zusss … firegods

ouch.

Me too. None too happy with Mark lately, either. The only thing written about this letter so fat that I’ve found is in the link in my comment.

Suzanne,

Getting things wrapped up for the end of the semester. I may have to start jury duty Monday morning, though.

NY times has a media column of what the press were tweeting during the flashback.

Every thing could use more cowbell…!

I didn’t see the skit until I asked a former boss why his IM status was more cowbell. He shared the link with me.

Yes, I’m just getting to the part where Jesus is in the temple, telling people “let my bankers go”. Always brings a tear to my eye.

I think it’s a modern translation.

are they coming home on break? how cool to be together on the holidays

You’re right. But I’m anxious to see if these people will actually do a real filibuster. How long has it been?

criminal or civil?

Yeah, the WHITE HOUSE briefing room.
Not Commerce or State or the Pentagon – I was floored.

Got a link?

her Vermont colleague?

I posted this on the previous thread but due to time marching on I may not receive an answer to my question. Maybe somebody here can help?

“I have been wondering. Somebody help me out. Was there not a period of time, however brief, after Al Franken (wasn’t he supposed to be “the 60th vote”?) was sworn in as a Senator, and before Kennedy and Byrd became too disabled to participate, when the Democrats actually did have 60 votes in the Senate (counting Lieberman and Sanders)? My memory is not that good and I do not know how to research this, but if it is the case, why did not Obama, or the Senate and House leadership, push through a bill to extend the tax cuts for the lower and middle class while ending them for the rich? Why did they wait until the Lame Duck began to quack?”

brb.

*ouch* Wear a ‘Free Palestine’ T-shirt during voir dure…! ;-)

i think they did but only for a sorta short period because of scott brown

we could sure use some of that in KS…

Hey Suzanne!

Heh!

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/clinton-at-the-white-house-sets-twitter-on-fire/

I clicked on it because I thought it was Bernie Sanders who set Twitter on fire, ahem. The media column is about Mr. Sanders goes to c-span. And the link above is the one re clinton in the press room.

hey ce! how’s ohio tonight?

Thanks. Checking it out now.

Hi Suz and everyone. We have such a thug as governor-elect. Kasich (R-Wall Street). This is not going to be fun.

Doesn’t everything?

hey margot — how was your day?

I gotta fevah…and the only cure…is more cowbell.

I gotta have more cowbell, baby!

This is probably the only improvement to be made to Bernie Sanders speech today. More cowbell!

In fact, that’s Obama’s problem right there. I take it back, bernie has plenty of cowbell. Obama needs more cowbell.

At what level?

N how ya doin. CT . . .

cowbell

hey larue — how’s sac tonight?

There was a time of a few months when they had sixty senators. They managed to not accomplish anything, thanks largely to the intransigence of some “conservative” Democratic Senators, and Reid’s disinterest in making them less intransigent.

*heh* I hate to bum all your trips, but, we actually elected a true Progressive Guv and ousted our one Repug House critter…! ;-)

california swept the r’s out too iirc

the eight signers of the letter—Merkley, Landrieu. Alaska’s Mark Begich, Hawaii’s Daniel Akaka, Ohio’s Sherrod Brown, Minnesota’s Al Franken, Colorado’s Mark Udall and California’s Barbara Boxer—

Well hey, contrary to what I said in my diary today, my e-mail & phone call to Akaka’s office must have totally swayed him!

I’m certainly surprised, because both he and the utterly hopeless Inouye are Obamabots of the first order.

These are the Twitters that struck me. Maybe alot of truth to the message that Gibbs days are numbered:

“It has been rumored for months that Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, may soon be replaced at the briefing room podium. Mr. Gibbs has always demurred, saying he’s happy in his job.”

“But the rumors have persisted, and on Friday, Tony Fratto, who served as deputy press secretary under former President George W. Bush, joked in a Twitter message that he had figured out who would be replacing Mr. Gibbs.”

Perhaps Obama has had enough of Gibbs innane incompetence in framing issues. Bye-bye, Gibbs

hey mauimom — how’s your island tonight?

I was in a local supermarket early this evening. A woman walked by me, staring at me very negatively, with an intense frown on her face. After she went by, I checked to see if there was a giant booger or something on my face. Nope.

We passed again, and she did the same thing. Then she met up with a man – her husband, perhaps – and whispered to him. He looked over. They started following me around. I was tempted to ask them what the problem was, but decided not to.

This sort of thing happens more and more.

3/4 of my Black friends in the Wasilla area are planning on moving away. It has always been courageous for African-Americans to live here, but since Obama’s election and Palin’s ascension, it has gotten far worse for them.

The diary of which I speak:

http://my.firedoglake.com/mauimom/2010/12/10/how-to-maximize-your-efforts-in-contacting-congress/

evening, CE

Clear and not too cold. We are gearing up for a new storm on Sunday, though. Fire in the fireplace, candles galore, and it is almost 2:00 a.m. All around me sleeping.

Inouye still is, MM…! But, he’ll still be Chairman of the Senate Ways and Means in January…! ;-)

Keep pushing, firebaggers.

hey ppd — how’s the south south bay tonight?

Ya know, I was postin at Busted’s about weather, yer link ya sent me, my links.

N I was real confuzzled . . . stuff was coming from Russia and The East, and behaving REAL wierd for a couple of weeks.

Until today, and NOW it DOES look like Pineapple Express . . .

Before, I couldn’t tell if CA/Sacto was gonna get hit by north or south wards storm tracks.

Stuff from back Russia was goin into ALASKA, dropping down, into yer hood and SActo. N then, it stopped . . . all the while storm stuff seemed to go past CT in da islands, and hit Mexico/Central America . .

N now, today, it’s all heading for you folks . . . Pineapple Style.

But it’s not hitting CA for the most part . . .

N I’m here to tell ya, the local weather folks on teehveeh call it wrong daily . .

*G*

“And now, back to you, Suz, in our weather station!”

*G*

Kinda cold [for Hawaii].

It rained like hell today — we needed it. It’s finally stopped and is looking a bit clear.

CT, I’ve gotta go read all the comments to learn more about your situation.
Road closed, huh?

That is tragic.

See #98 . . . *G*

They had a very brief time after Franken was seated. Then again from September 24 2009 until February 2 2010 when Paul Kirk was serving in Ted Kennedy’s seat.

landlord came and took the bottom plate of the wood stove into town to get it re-welded this afternoon. came back with it around 5 and reinstalled it but said that it was on its last legs and a duplicate plate was being made at the metal shop and that he would be back in a week or so to install the new one. said it was ok to have fires in the stove, tho, and i’ve got the first one blazing since tue night. baileys at her usual spot on the pad next to the stove and token’s in his bed at my feet — snoring.

Has your mug appeared in the dailies, ET…?

http://my.firedoglake.com/mauimom/2010/12/10/how-to-maximize-your-efforts-in-contacting-congress/

And he’s third in line to the presidency.

Eeeeek!!

foggy — like central valley curtain descended tonight.

Yeah, the framing is all Gibbs fault…I have no feelings one way or another about gibbs.

I’m still agog at how Obama is not responding very well to his base. For Gosh sake, it’s almost like we elected McCain after all. Give us another kick in the teeth.

happy lucky 100 ce!!!

Even Haleakala’s summit road was closed from what I’d read…! ;-)

quite a feat there, Suzzz — a snoring token.

that winter tule fog is the worst

aaaahhhh — all is almost alright with the world. MsCE’s little kitty curls up on us and purrs too!

Maybe someone is posing as you on Facebook and sending nasty messages to their friends?

Bare Trees, Grey Life.

*G*

The Real Mac!

lol

we don’t get it often here, just slow down and drive more carefully

tis better than those ‘drip’ sounds he makes — like a drop of water hitting the sink in the middle of the night — that, as he gets louder, turn into barks that scare him awake

Again, where the hell is Russ Feingold in all this?

We have an iron fireback in our fireplace — it shoots the heat back into the room very well. Hope your stove is all well by next week.

I really think Obama’s display of handing it over to Bill Clinton was not only petulence that the world no longer sings his praises, but a sign of a mental breakdown…something like Nixon’s in the last couple months of his Presidency.

rocking cowbell

Great linky, thanks . . . tween you and Suz . . . I may have a clue!

*G*

Pineapple’s still a bit north, don’t it have to hit CA to be the Pine Express?

Taking a nice long vacation after years of watching the body writhe to the Right, and after losing a bad race bloody.
I hope.

Shit, it’s all changed from this morning!

Wow . . . thanks.

the wood stove is all metal and can really push out the heat

Bahaha.

I’m gonna remember that one for the next time I’m called. I caught a break; my “call” was dismissed.

I always plan to go in and say a) that I’m a former lawyer; and b) that my husband and I sued a pharmaceutical company over the death of our daughter from their vaccine.

I figure that should get me bounced.

One of my all time fav Mac’s . . . Green just left, Danny Kirwin the newer kid and original git Jeremy Spencer carried this one . . . Christine McVie (Perfect) did the album graphics and some vocals and key work.

This cut is all Kirwin and Spencer . . . perhaps their best song ever together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoKpF_ktGbk&feature=related

I suggest ear buds and loud, loud volume to get the proper effect.

N some likker or weed, depending on yer preferences . . . ;-)

My parents had this and we loved it!

better get him a CPAP machine, Suzzz

Geebuzzzzzz!

*G*

I wouldn’t go that far (mental breakdown). I chalk it up to more arrogance that I had perceived before.

Thanks for the info. I wonder if they even tried to deal with the tax cut issue then, or were too many Democrats afraid to touch anything with the word “tax” attached to it? If they couldn’t muster 60 votes, that would have been the time for Obama to go on the road and do town hall speeches in the states of recalcitrant Democrats and even a few Republicans who might have been persuadable…pushing his “Obama tax cuts” agenda which would not have included the top 2 percent, or the estate tax, or capital gains…what a lost opportunity. Very sad.

I’ve been a public figure in the Mat-Su Valley for almost 20 years. Pro-Palin blogs here and elsewhere often publish information about me, sometimes including links to photos. The accompanying articles are not nice. In the past three weeks my picture has been on TV news (Al Jazeera) and in weekend magazines.

Most of it doesn’t bother me, though.

so cute! if ya look at mine just right, it sorta looks like a tiki god

Unknown BLUEGrass Goddess

Alecia Nugent . . . with pickers.

I mean, that’s how real pickin sounds . . . fast, hard, arranged to the t.

With vocals like angels.

Blues?

Unless it’s Butterfield Band, too slow and sloppy.

*G*

What? ME? Opinionated?

*G*

*G*

whatta great voice

It’s been reported frequently here that Djou [the Neanderthal Republican who was elected to replace Abernathy when he resigned to run for governor] is “in favor” of Obama’s Tax give-away.

My response: need we know any more????

Sheesh.

What I remember at the time mostly had to do with HCR. They wanted to cram the Baucus bill through before Scott Brown was seated. They could have saved themselves the trouble, if you ask me.

I really do like your new place better than the little house in the redwoods.

It does! I love these little stoves and wish I had one now. We don’t have closing doors on our fireplace, and it really is a horrible energy hole in our house.

the little cabin in the redwoods was mine — this is just a rental :(

but the view can’t be beat :)

so ET, what is your guess as to what was going on with these follks?

Still, we are all about cozy.

Ooh, that is one nasty troll problem you’ve got there, ET…! 8-(

Sorry, I meant to put CT’s remark about Akaka/Inouye in there, but the link to my diary was stuck in the computer’s memory.

I am a diary pimp, but not THAT much!!!

Reminds me of Natalie Maines.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPG3zSgm_Qo

N here’s Alicia once again, surrounded by HUGE pickers. Rob Ickes on dobro . . . my hero.

Hillbilly Goddess

She’s been the best unknown best sanger in the BG biz since ’02 or so.

Wiki her . . . at 15 she fronted her daddy’s band for 14 years.

Then decided to step out on her own . . . still don’t get the love she deserves.

How about them pipes though!

*G*

It was an interesting day, what with the Obama/Bill Clinton presser.

a classic song for a snow laden night ce :)

Yeah, I would understand, but this is IMPORTANT, and I wish Feingold would get involved for all of us out-of-staters who send donations to him in this last race.

We need all the help we can get.

I’m glad to hear you got your stove back!

What we really want to know is if Moose Killer has met her match with Kate plus 8. I wonder who is really more high maintenance?

totally bizarro world in dc today…

Heh, she blows Natalie away, and I LIKE Natalie . . . n her pop Lloyd, too.

*G*

Alecia is that half way point no one can paint as country or bluegrass.

Her song library is deep in so many styles it’s insane.

N always, HER voice, twang and flavor . . . best unknown vocal artist for a decade or more.

Glad I perked up some ears to her music!

*G*

Maybe they’re pissed because I’m such an outspoken anti-Fundamentalist. Or it’s about Palin. Or it’s about my critiques of the oil industry. Or because I’ve been so assertive here about Palestinian rights when practically nobody else in the Valley dares speak a critical syllable against Israeli policies. I have no idea….

me too! betcha i have a power failure or the cable goes down… we are predicted to get 4 to 10″ of rain by monday

I say we find Hazlewood, likker that bastard up and ram that fucking iceburg. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

Just get it over with.

Does Kate plus 8 decorate her living room with a dead bear?

Presser? what presser? I was watching c-span. :P

In general, because you’re a sweetheart.

I’m going to sleep. Good night all.

hey cole65 — how ya doing tonight?

welcome to late late night firedoglake

g’nite wmd

It’s really not a level playing field. They should take them both to the mall and see who can out shop who.

I only watched the first episode. That was because I got paid to do it. I did watch the clip of downing the caribou as part of a discussion on who really shot the animal. Hard to tell, but it probably was her. I didn’t even know who Kate was until the Alaska Palin gossip blogs like Immoral Minority started making it a big thing.

Thanks, longtime lurker likkered up, so doing well. You?

Only if their collective tabs are picked up by the RNC…! ;-)

{{{{Mauimom}}}}

once ya de-lurk, its real hard to go back to being silent again. whereabouts ya located? i’m on the north oregon coast on netarts bay

I agree that it’s important.
I am hoping he doesn’t run, but rather plants himself squarely at the intersection of Hope & Change, and lobs metaphorical policy grenades at TeamObama™ from here on out.

Being a philosophical ‘Progressive’ fire-breather on the outside of process and candidacy allows him to remain viable after Obama is long gone. If he runs, and gets crushed, (as will likely happen), he is spent.

Some fine pickin by git hero Jim Hurst and reso fiend Michael Witcher.

This is musicians music . . . not for the avg istener

Pickin!

You want pickin?

Two of these git slingers spent time as Alecia Nugent’s lead pickers. The third dude, Chris Eldridge, is the son of Ben Eldridge, banjo hero for Seldom Scene.

Together, this trio tears up a classic camp jam and fest jam tune.

Cherokee Shufle

…longtime lurker likkered up…

*heh* The downfall of many a lurker…! Aloha…! ;-)

¥eah, been a couple of weeks where it’s all gone to shit, and we the people have responded loudly . . . bless Julian Assange.

OP money is the sweetest deal!

I seem to remember some talk of him running for the other Wisconsin Senate seat in 2012. If that’s true, he probably won’t want to burn bridges.

Julian’s mom today.

I’m within a minor league road trip of most of Sarah Palin’s Childhood America. Tri-cities, Wa.

Yeah CT, Aloha back atcha.

Here’s a great new group from Espanola, NM. Larue! Look here bud!
Pig Fork

I don’t know yet (from either lack of attention, or I missed the exit polling) how Feingold lost.

Is Wisconsin no longer Liberal? Was his ObamaCare™ health care ‘fold’ the last straw for the Left in his state? Was it purely money, and, if so, what the Hell happened to Wisconsin?

Ach no! Let’s hope that doesn’t happen.

I’m going from memory here, which is always a dangerous thing, but I seem to remember that Feingold has never had an easy election for the Senate. Beyond that, I don’t know much about Wisconsin – it has elected some of the more eccentric Senators, so what its tastes actually might be I couldn’t say.

The greatest git player ever . . . he was a founding member of Grisman Quintet. He was a reknowned bluegrass picker before and after Grisman. He used to have a voice of gold till he got throat cancer.

Still considered to be one of the greatest gits of all time . . . Doc Watson, Norman Blake, Tony Rice . . . when it comes to platpickin Tony Tone is da man.

Only Django or maybe Charlie Christian might claim to have a bigger impact on players than Tony Rice over so many decades.

Church Street Blues

N then, there’s Norman Blake, who wrote this. Older school, but he led the way.

I Love Norman Blake, Too

N that’s yer Larue Pickin Parlor show for tonight, thanks to Suz Da Queen Of LLN for enabling it . .

*G*

What I can’t get over is how the press is reacting – they’ve been getting all these stories thanks to the contents of those messages and documents, yet they act as though the guy’s the Antichrist.

Ok one last one.

Doc Watson. Norman Blake. Tony Rice.

Guess which git is which . . .*G*

Trio, Legends

Oh to have been in the studio when they cut this one . . . and all god’s, they were.

La Follette Sr and Jr were fighting Progressives…!

evening, margot — hiya, CT

Joe McCarthy, not so much…

so smooth in the pickin

*heh* True…! ;-)

Aloha, PPD…!

Hey PPD, hope you’re better?

Ok I lied.

Perhaps four of my biggest musical heroes.

Grisman, O’Connar, Rice and Wasserman on the dawghouse.

EMD. This Is Pickin.

It don’t get any better n that . . . if yer a picker . . .

*G*

thanks, margot — think I dodged the virus this time around … some extra sleep helped alot.

And Proxmire is, to me, the ultimate example of a mixed bag. Ignorant raving about supposedly wasteful scientific research on the one hand, and just about single-handedly ensuring that the U.S. ratified the treaty against genocide on the other.

Uh-oh…! What happened PPD…? I’ve been absent for the past few nites…! It was the better half’s b-day yesterday…! ;-)

larue — what’s on tap for foodie sunday this week?

more cowbell, Larue?

Oh, yes it does…
Oklahoma Borderline

OMG — an entire hour of Bobo on Charlie Rose. Time to sleep this nightmare off.

hey thatguy — how ya doing tonight?

I get extra friendly car service at a local garage, because the young guy there was so excited that Obama was president and we’ve talked about this. He’s maybe in his late 20s.
And today he said he was really disappointed. I heard “tax deal” and then they got busy.

yuck

FWIW, here is RealClearPolitics’ take on this past Wisconsin Senate race:

For most of its history, the political tradition in Wisconsin was neither Republican nor Democrat: It was Progressive. Robert LaFollette and his sons dominated the state’s politics. There was no Democratic Party to speak of, so the only question was whether the state would elect a progressive Republican or a Progressive. As the Democratic Party blossomed in the state during the 1940s and 50s, that Progressive impulse became housed in the Democratic Party.

Today, Russ Feingold is the embodiment of that tradition. He’s a maverick liberal, with a penchant for good government programs and a dislike of money in politics.

But Wisconsin is no longer the bastion of Progressivism it once was; during the 1980s and 1990s it actually was a test case for all manner of conservative initiatives, most prominently welfare reform. Feingold is being challenged by conservative manufacturer Ron Johnson. Feingold’s numbers have started out in the low forties, which is a horrendous place for an incumbent to be.

The numbers in the top chart are gruesome. Something really fugly happened mid-September.

Trying to get sleepy – coughing but it’s a little better. Fuckin persistent bug. THe orange kittens are growing up SO FAST!

token’s gonna be 6 in feb — seems like just yesterday that he was a puppy

THe kittens will be six months on New Year’s eve.

*heh* Congrats, Suz…! (ducking…)

Hard to believe B’s been gone three months already. :-(

FUCK.. i did it again

grrrr

Tavis interviewing the director of 127 hours — story of a guy falling into a cavern, trapped by a boulder, amputating his own arm to save himself …. sounds like a parable for primarying Obama in 2011.

isn’t that based on a true story?

it is based on a true story — only unlike America, this guy cut his arm off & got out of the cave before his whole body was gangrenous.

kewl, thanks ppd

’bout time for me to head out folks. thank you for letting me hang out with ya tonight and for all the conversations and music

g’nite and hope to see ya tomorrow night for cartoons

night, Suzzz — take care

Mahalo and Pleasant Dreams, Suz…!

Does anyone feel like we’re reaching critical mass in DC, like between the progressives (who frankly are weak compared to the teabaggers in terms of vituperation) and the teabaggers, that something’s gotta give? I was watching MSNBC all day because I’ve been sick and I hear all these people and I just shudder – the only guys who are really saying it like it is are Ed Schultz, Alan Grayson and Rachel Maddow. Olbermann’s good, too, but their counterparts on Fauz Noize are twice as loud, have thrice the ratings and it just seems like we’re a 40-foot, overloaded semi, barreling down US 178 and we just passed the emergency runaway truck exit.

I just don’t see anything good coming for the US in what’s left of my lifetime (I’m 56). I feel like I’m looking into the dark tunnel with no light at the other end at all.

Looks to me like a race where the voters (the ones who actually showed up, mind you) didn’t like how the incumbent was doing its job, and decided it liked the challenger better. I don’t read too much into Feingold’s “sudden” drop in Sept. A quick look suggests they started polling more about then. Gallup also switches polling populations sometime in summer, IIRC. They go from registered voters to likely voters. That will make a difference in an aggregate poll track like RCP’s.

I think if something was happening there, it was happening way before September. Of course, the general dissatisfaction with Democrats didn’t help. The DC Dems also weren’t terribly partial to Feingold, which may have meant less funding, or less support of some other variety.

‘Night, Suzanne.

Great back yard pickin and hilarity!

*G*

I sometimes think so. I’m about your age. I’m not confident things will be better for quite a while.

The problem is that the folks on the right have all these simple solutions to offer – the kind that don’t really call for much sacrifice on the part of the folks whose country this “really” is. It’s hard to combat that.

Bless her, she’s as tough as her son, seemingly with all the moral convictions of normal humans.

Thanks ET.

Dawh help them both, and us all . . .

MInd bogglin to hear it, see it . . . how their hands work to make it.

All gods they are.

Here’s the other thought I keep having…

Would the USA been better off if we had let the Confederacy secede? I realize all the good food and most of the good music comes from south of the Mason-Dixon line, but more and more, I wish Lincoln had failed. I realize the slaves were freed, but in retrospect, they would have been anyway.

I think Lincoln should have told them “see ya, no more federal money for YOU!”

And they can all bow to VInce Gill.

Good question . . . I’ve done the leftovers, Yorkshire thoughts . . . turkey cookin, stuffing.

Even pulled out the Japanese Yosebabe last week . .

Holiday time is tough to do something new . . .

Have I done the Coca Cola/Bourbon hot cocktail?

Maybe I need to hit the booze . . . ;-)

Sweet dreams. I dozed off, either the cozy warmth from my laptop (or the wine!) but woke up in time to send you off.

*G*

These cats are way bigger n any cow bell or rock band.

These cats are pickers.

Top shelf ability to pick and sang. Every note available in their arsenal. Professionals.

Any key, any time . . . DfMinor? F#Minor? No problem. Real pickers, real hands, real music.

*G*

And unlike classic trained folks, they can still improvise.

And unlike pop or rock and blues folks, they know the theory and such behind every note they play. N they still find the ‘feel’ for it all, too . . .

*G*

Someone wrote a book on that subject, as I recall. Wish I could remember who that was. Anyway, that was the gist – we’d be a different country without the South. We’d be a lot more progressive, and probably a little less militant. We’d probably be a lot more like Canada.

It’s about time for me to pumpkinize. Goodnight, all.

A little Maddy Prior and Ian Anderson.

Pumpkinize! I need that word. Sweet dreams.

Ok, Vince and RIcky Skaggs (Hummingbird) are fine, but hoss, it’s amplified gits and low bridges.

You give Vince on an acoustic Martin? I love him.

*G*

But showin me electric pickin? N suggesting it’s equal to Doc, Norman, and Tony? Or Josh Williams, Andy Falco, David Grier, Bryan Sutton (Ricky;’s Kentucky Thunder git player)?

Nah, that shit don’t fly hoss!!!!

*G*

Any one can pick a low bridge electric . . .

Lemme see the acoustic cats . . . they gotta WORK for their impact and tones.

*G*

Psychotic rock. Really, really good psychotic rock.

I didn’t say psychedelic. You have been warned.

Pickers.

Yer killin me . . . n you KNOW Vince can pick the flattop . . . well.

But ya can’t mix electric with acoustic . . . and the acoustic stuff is schoolin.

Anyone can rip an electric . . . .

Meh.

*G*

That ain’t music, it’s simply cacophony.

*G*

I had fun, thanks Suz and all Pups . . . music good.

Niters.

‘nite all.

One man’s cacophony is another man’s Jethro Tull.

Speaking of Jethro Tull. How about Lucia Micarelli + Jethro Tull – Kashmir?

Oh – this may be a better video.

Good morning, pups. It’s Collins and Blow, since Mr. Herbert is off today. In “My Favorite War” Ms. Collins says in Oklahoma, a parade has gone secular, and this year’s war on Christmas, while muted, is under way. Mr. Blow, in “America’s Most Vulnerable,” says protecting the nation’s poorest children must be a priority as new policies and austerity measures are created to address the budget deficit. It isn’t, and it won’t be, Mr. Blow. You can rest assured that programs designed to help those children will be gutted.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got waffles with warm maple syrup. Today is when we’re starting the Christmas decorating, putting up the tree and the garlands and outside wreath. So of course it’s raining…! Have a great day.

Good morning all & Marion.

I’ve got a bunch ‘o chores to do today, including moving more wood by the house for the wood stove. Let’s see. How, many times does wood warm you? About 9-10 by my count, considering dead trees get harvested on my property and get moved & stacked about a gagillion times before it goes into the wood stove. Verrry cold snap is supposed to end and toasty seasonal 30s to return today.