Suze! Pups!

hey ndfg — how ya doing tonight?

Ha! That’s what I get for looking for photos of Elizabeth! NAFG beat me here by a few minutes.

not too bad, took the night off work so i could have a last night of visiting with my sis & niece from california before they head home tomorrow morning.

and, of course, there’s too much damn snow!

how’re you doing? on pins ‘n needles about grandchild arriving? I know i was before the g-unit showed up.

hey pellora — how ya feeling? better i hope

i miss emoties, so i’ll have to say nyah nyah nyah *g*

The Fantasia Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is the one I saw and loved as a kid.

This is the one I show my music appreciation class, though. Karl Richter, assisted by his apprentice-son, performing it on an organ built around the time Bach wrote the music. Richter had all of Bach’s organ music memorized.

i yam! i saw jen monday and she looks ready to pop — she doesn’t look like she has not quite 4 weeks left

have ya been putting that new snow blower to use?

hey et — how ya doing tonight?

E Power Biggs, d00d.

:pbbt:

hey mzchief — how’s pdx tonight?

Meh. We need more-out-of-the-box thinking.

How are you, Suz?

i’m hanging in — just waiting for the call from jen

Aloha, Suz and LLN pups…!

aloha tut — how’s paradise tonight?

Fingers crossed. My good thoughts to everybody!

That is very impressive to say the least. Wow! Thanks.

*heh* I see ya still won’t spell ndfg’s initials properly, Pel…! ;-)

she’s not due until 4/14 but my gut says she will be early. i’m thinking end of the month or first part of april at the latest

Suz, pups, hi to everyone!

wow et — that’s a great video

Meh. We need more-out-of-the-box thinking.

Or maybe you could put some of the “oddly thinking” ones in a box, tape it up with strong duct tape (some bright neon tape!), and ship it on a slow boat to … somewhere. Then the more sane thinkers can think outside the box unencumbered.

hey margot — how ya doing tonight?

I spell her name correctly ; )
Aloha!

Hey CTuttle and everybody in addition to our LLN hostess …

Shall we rock Baroque esta noche?

Bach – Harpsichord Concerto No.1 in D Minor BWV 1052 – 1/3

firebird

Does anyone else think that Trump is the Corporate GOP wing’s attempt to find a candidate who can attract Media attention who is not a Sarah/Michelle Evita hate populist.

it broke today … the snow was almost more Slurpee than actual snow … don’t know if that had anything to do with it but a pin of some sort broke or fell out, boo hiss. We got it at a really good price, huge sale plus discount for floor model, maybe that was part of the problem. oh well! Baby Brother will have to fix it for me, heh heh.

Doing ok, feeling sleepy. Not sleepy enough to, you know, actually go to bed. God forbid. But sleepy enough to probably conk out mid-answer.

hey things — how ya doing tonight?

Bahrain is starting to worry me the Turks are making noise.

fuck — a broken blower is no good. thank goodness for baby brother :)

at least it broke at the end of winter and not in december…

Menuet from the French Suite #3 by J.S. Bach performed on harpsichord by Anna

There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to…

The performance itself is quite remarkable, but the organ! Some of the greatest organs ever built were created around the time Bach wrote T&F in d. Also, some of the greatest stringed instruments of the violin family. Large organs like the one Richter uses in that clip were and are magnificent contraptions.

it’s like pel1 and pel2 … only NAFG is my sweetness ‘n light other self that once in a while manages to surface when i’m not too busy spitting tacks over the latest GOPer idiocy.

Doing fine still looking for a job even Wendy’s is not hiring in a 25 mile area from where I live. I do appreciate their website’s job locator near your house feature though.

i know that sleepy :( forking keyboard leaves such an ugly on my face — worse than pillow case wrinkles

Richter is quite excellent, ET. Thank you for the video.

Glad you came aboard today. :-)

hey robert — how ya doing tonight?

driveby. But I will feed the jukebox.

2 flutes

Got to see E Power Biggs play when I was a teenager in Seattle. The organ at St. Marks on Capitol Hill.

fuck — that’s bad when fast food places aren’t hiring

You think now that the Corporate GOP has found a performer that the MSM will back him like they did Bush?
I hope the front pagers get medical brain insurance for having to watch Trump on tv.

hey wmd — how ya doing tonight?

Its bad when an African American in Forest Park next to Chicago can in a room full of African Americans at the YMCA can say we need a new President and nobody says anything otherwise and one guy not me agrees with him.

baroque and roll

I love this!

Simply Irresistable

How is the Israeli press handling the idea that all their friends who before this were enemies might lose control and might be replaced with something worse? Does Israel think now that they might be threatened now is the time to show strength? This would be the time for it if they are feeling threatened.

At a Wendy’s near us, 8 people walked out the other day. They got tired of having hours cut and being sent home. Lots of people applied for those jobs…

The Rethug field this time will make a complete joke of presidential politics; so much so the Republican Party will implode all together and cease to exist….

Lucky duck! I only got to hear the albums as the ancestors would play them full blast (no, not hard of hearing).

really busy, In addition to my regular work I’ve got about 20 hours a week of learning new technology.

addictive

Full time workers always hope the teen agers call in sick on weekends so they can get overtime. The bosses need those workers then so to prevent overtime proactively they send anyone near getting overtime home when they have enough workers and business is slow.
Its a crap job but I can do it.

a down side to a new job — but one well worth it :)

How is that franchise location doing now?

Organs are amazing – and to play one so well as Karl. Well. Wow!

You are missed.

I like being busy, so not really a downside.

It was a great musical period worthy of more innovations on theme and variation.

the more ya learn, the more valuable you are as an employee

He was *great*.

Pssst, that sneezing problem: your advice appears to be working….

Well they got crazy covered quite well and stupid. still Gov walker in Wisconsin doesn’t even have a B.A. The GOP has been scraping the bottom of the barrel for a long time.
Mitt’s business success Bain Capital buying Home Depot before the housing market collapsed and buying ClearChannel only to lay off workers just to be able to afford Rush Limbaugh’s huge contract suggests the GOP can’t find any successful businessmen either. Trumps long history of near bankruptcy makes him even worse than Mitt.
Newt takes credit along with Bill for the deregulation that caused the Banking Crisis. Rand and Haley got racism covered heck its no wonder that Obama even with unemployment at record numbers beats them all in the polls.
However people want change a generic GOP Presidential candidate beats Obama. No GOPer now interested can beat Obama but people do want change.

*whispering* yay — glad it was helpful

iron opera

It’s one of my favorites…I like Scarlatti, Bach, Telemann very much.

Thanks.

I’m liking having a lot of work to do. Nice to have salary, health insurance, etc as well.

I’ve got a new doctor (previous one moved, then no insurance had me using Planned Parenthood for basic care) and had a physical again. Managed to have a bad rhinovirus that was past its acute stage (103° fever 5 days prior), lingering congestion had doc wondering if I had asthma when she listened to my lungs. next time i won’t have congestion.

Good Morning ndfg, suz, and pups,

That would be the shear pin ndfg. It shears off by design to save the rest of the machine (belts, drive mechanism, motor) from breaking under load. It is an easy and quick fix, disconnect the spark plug wire before doing the repair. Watch your BB to see how he does it. I have several extra shear pins for my machine on hand.

scarlatti

hey nonq — how ya doing tonight?

I need to get some sleep. 8:00 AM call in Sunnyvale tomorrow.
good night.

4 more years of Obama will only prolong the agony of the American worker. That, and the fact that any of the idiots offered by the Rethugs would be even worse; that leaves the only solution of a civil rights movement for all Americans taken to the streets.

We need another MLK.

The Republican economic plan to create jobs seems to be cut Union wages and remove them as competition for lower paying jobs thus forcing all wages in America lower so we can compete against China.
However we have more infrastructure than China and that means more cost to live here. So the GOP is ignoring fixing our crumbling infrastructure how can we compete against China though if our infrastructure collapses or the costs of fixing our infrastructure keeps going up the longer its neglected?
At some point either taxes go way up to fix our infrastructure and thus we create jobs and pressure for higher wages which is not what the GOP wants.
Or we lose our infrastructure and we can’t compete against China for jobs.

lurch and his harpsichord

g’nite wmd

Or FDR:)

Lower Taxes did not create jobs under the 8 years of Bush or during the 2 years of recession of Obama. When is Obama and the GOP going to figure this out?

FDR was hated by the rich for betraying his class, and he loved that. Where among the billionaires is there another FDR?

I think you’ll like this: “Il Giardino Armonico” – Telemann

Obama doesn’t want to figure it out. They own him, too.

I do out of the box thinking. No body really wants it. Too scary.

Reminds me of the time I had a story lined up for the front page marketing section of the WSJ, had the narraritive, had the research, had the product. But a new VP of Sales came in and shut it down. I had to call up the WSJ to tell them we weren’t going to do the story. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid company. That would have sold enough units to pay his salary 10 times over.
But it was too contentious. He was afraid it might upset clients we didn’t have (and had no chance of getting)

The company folded into a bigger company about 6 months later.

That’s amazing.
Here’s a slower one played by Horowitz.

fine, thank you Suzanne,

We got every bit of that snow through the day yesterday. Hard to tell exactly how much with the drifting but the local station was reporting 18 inches.

Slow computer again, two threads down at WI Job loss by dday, several comments about getting hack attacks at the lake. My anti-virus on auto update never finishes updating and wants to run continuously.

My snow blower performed as advertised.

Niters wmd1961. Rest well. :-)

If I knew that I would be volunteering for his/her campaign:)

jen sent me a sneak peak at a preliminary ‘pregnancy’ photoshoot from last month… she’s a lot bigger now

hey spocko — how ya doing tonight?

so beautiful….

Whats planned for the new FDL members?

my norton didn’t raise an alarm and theirs did…. musta been an ad that was causing it

thanks! i figured it was something like that. Daughter and i decided it can wait til next month when its warm out, we’ll get it all spiffed up for next season. That snow was HEAVY. Not surprised it did something to the snowblower.

We need Frances Perkins and FDR and Elenore. The 100 anniversary of the Shirtwaist fire should remind us that following a tragedy they right wing still doesn’t think there is a problem. They can defy and deny death itself in their narrow minded view of labor.

What does FDL have planned for the future for everyone might be a better question.

Frances Perkins said that the New Deal was born on the night of the fire.
100 years ago Friday night.

congrats on snagging the happy lucky 100 spocko!!!

Hey things, how you doing?

The Obama GOP does have it figured out. They’ve known from day one that jobs would not be created with lower taxes. Bastaadds!

Just got a big alarm from McAfee (red alert) asking me if I really wanted to visit your sneak peek linky.

hiya Suzzzz

Still looking for a job.

The GOP knew that no jobs would be created true but their thinking that forcing the middle class to become sefs would not effect their bottom lines is the thinking of a parasite who decides to eat his host.

There is every intention of asset stripping everything in sight.

Just in: “Hacker Collective Anonymous Issues Open Letter To Citizens Of The United States” (by Tyler Durden on 03/23/2011 22:56 -0400)

hmmmm my norton let me go there with no trouble.. i went via their facebook page

I hope it doen’t take something like it to revive the New Deal…

hey ppd — how ya doing tonight?

DING!

Maybe black market organ donations can be the scandal that changes things? Lots of GOPers like Rush Oxy, viagra, booze, being overweight, Dick Cheney well his medical file is huge should probably not be alive today nor should they be getting transplants given their past histories.
Yet still they live.

I’d like to thank all the people at Apple computer who designed my hardware and wrote the software on my iPod touch. I’d like to thank the workers in China, especially the female workers who assembled it and cleaned the glass and packaged it. I hope that on the anniversary of the Shirtwaist Fire they are in safe working conditions and that if not, and they are on the verge of suicide they rise up and let the world know, our lives are worth more than your gadgets.

*standing on chair clapping*

excellent mix of acceptance and advocacy

The thing is there has been a sinister shift in political attitudes. Where once even Rethugs feared the wrath of the voters and subsequent loss of their own offices, they no longer do.

Why is that?

The last innovative business I created and booted got me immediately toe-to-toe with big ugly gangster/banksters.

A campaign against Apple would be good putting suicide nets on buildings that make Apple products suggests to me we have ammo. Next we add gas by pointing out all those jobs could be in America. If that means tariffs fine.
I’d rather pay more if it means an American gets a job. But we need to regulate profit. Apple should not use tariffs to keep their current profits.

They thought we were dead they thought we were Nancy, Harry and Obama. Wisconsin has proven otherwise so I have hope.

I take the lucky 100 seriously. It’s a LLN Spocko tradition.

Just in case you need the machine before it warms, find a owners manual online if you don’t have one. The broken shear pin is accessible without dismantling anything, except disconnecting the spark plug wire for safety. A hammer and short screwdriver can be used to gently tap the broken pin out if has not already just dropped out. The new pins are standard size on most machines and about .50 cents apiece at any hardware store. You will need two small wrenches to tighten the nut on the new shear pin. Use the small screwdriver to to align the shear pin hole in the outer sleeve of the grinder or the impeller, with the drive shaft that turns inside of it when the shear pin breaks.

i saw your comment about snagging it last night when i got up today… had me grinning even if i wasn’t sufficiently caffeinated yet

Everytime I see those Hover Round wheelchair commercials, I think of the Tea Party: “I got mine, and it didn’t cost me a penny!”

Who do they think paid for it?

doing well, thanks — Santa Cruz mtns are slip slidin’ away tonight

The GOP says we need factories in China to capture their markets given the low wages in China how many workers can afford I pods? If workers in China get paid more so that they might hope to buy I pods won’t Apple just move production somewhere else?
Isn’t China already filled with cheap knock offs of I pods and other examples of our tech because we moved production there and China doesn’t enforce patent laws?
So just what is the upside of moving production to China when the more jobs we move there the less consumers here can afford to buy the high tech stuff Thomas Friedman and Greenspan think that America will make ( never mind free trade has yet to replace the jobs we lost to Outsourcing in America under the 10 years of Bush?Obama).

i heard there was a big slide in scotts valley

The Cognitive Dissonance Fairy?

The green jobs are already being outsourced, too. From solar panels to wind.

We have to stop that or else we will never stop falling behind.

What’s on my mind? More like what’s off my chest.

Facts and Truth VS. Propaganda and Deception.

two others, as well — and the biggest storm is coming tomorrow

Everything our tax money pays for research, developement, and production__all of it__will not create permanent jobs here in America, because once created, those jobs will always eventually be outsourced to low wage countries like China.

hey ronin — how ya doing tonight? welcome to firedoglake and late late night

all day yesterday my avast anti-virus gave alarms everytime an fdl page came up. But chrome my browser gave announcements in all the ad spaces saying it couldn’t connect.
Today, no problemo.

hey ks — how ya doing tonight?

good ‘n you?

Hello Ronin,

got a headache in the past 20 min or so…. otherwise am doing ok

Agreed but well thats stupid if the Chinese and other countries steal our patents and learn our production methods the American rich will be replaced by the new rich in other countries who control the means of production. At some point they will learn enough to create their own products.
Parasite drowning in its own shit thinking, Drug Addict thinking, Gambler thinking he can beat the House thinking.

hey Ronin Tetsuro, hi!
I said something similar over here

I like truthtellers too but the truth runs away. Even so the chase doesn’t get old somehow and there seems a lot of people herebouts who like a good run too ;)

ah, end of the day? sleep it off?
that’s what I usually try to do if I’ve eaten and caffeined aplenty
but that’s usually the other end of the day

* sliding some ibuprofen or tylenol thru the toobs, your choice *

Hi Suz and all, can’t sleep. Again. Imagine that!

Anyone have any experience with Ambien? My doc just gave me an rx for it, or sleep problems, but I’ve read and heard some things about it which make me hesitant to take it.

hey ll — thanks. that’s what young kennedy was taking when he did his doped/driving crash

Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about that. Hmmmm. Maybe the Ativan wasn’t so bad after all…too late to take it now, I would probably sleep past noon!

Hey LL. No experience with Ambien, but lots if experience with no sleep. (like tonight)

Hello LLN pups.

hey oldnslow — how ya doing tonight?

hi oldnslow

evening, LL

hey oldnslow, nice to cross threads with you and sorry you can’t sleep :-( I usually read you in the AM at the swim.

evenin’/mornin’ PPD

’bout time for me to turn back into a pumpkin folks. thanks for letting me hang out with ya tonight

g’nite all

Checking out of the lake for the bed here Suz. Water is on the boil for a cup of tea. Wishing the best, for you and your daughter. I’m betting the new arrival is the fifth of April. Hope you’re feeling better and can get some sleep. Headaches with me are never the kind I think you refer to, just normal kinds of things like the occasional broken shear pin.

g’nite Suz, hope your headache goes away, sleep well!

Thanks for asking, just comin out of the flu. 6 days of abject misery.

Hey everybody. Nice to be so warmly greated.

Good night Suz.

oh no, the flu — I hear it’s been bad; lots of people at work have been down with that and other flu-like or cold stuff lately.

on edit: hope you’re starting to feel much better now!

Thanks for the welcome. Long time reader, first time poster.

night all – be well

g’night PPD, you too

Seem to be rallying. Going to try work today. First since last Friday. Would undoubtedly been easier had I managed more than 3 hours of sleep.

Good night, PPD.

Hope it goes well for you; take it easy at work if you can. Good thing is, the weekend is coming and you can re-charge.

I agree with your points, well presented.

But, as I’m sure you can see, even in the discussion of who is the mommy and who is the daddy, there are still SIDES, you dig. This constant polarization is so pervasive, I could already hear the liberal/conservative spiels about the issue… which democrat is a total mommy and who out of the republicans is trying too hard to be like daddy.

I think there needs to be a general acceptance by Americans of their MORTALITY, for lack of a better word. There needs to be a re-connection to the core of things that makes us the same humans as can be found anywhere on the globe. We need to reconnect and realign with who we are and who we need to be. And that’s a journey ALL mommies AND daddies have to make eventually.

Thanks. I will jump in to the Morning Swim from work and let you know if I have a prayer of making through the day or not. Friday I left 2 of 4 pieces of stainless steel unfinished. 325 lbs each. Even hanging on the crane they are beastly to move around. We shall see.

Gonna try again to get some sleep; at least I’m off work, but I don’t want to sleep the day away. Good night all and take care!

Oh wow, that sounds like a bear to deal with — I’ll be sure to look in at the swim and see what’s up! Have a great day.

Good luck with the sleep. G’night, LL.

I totally agree with what you say here and people do need to start with those core belief/understandings, and work it out and move things forward.
Yeah. Lot of that goin on around here. Crazy but, seems true.
And all over the world.
Sure there’s misery, there’s brutality and willful misunderstanding and endless power games. But there’s also people starting to look and see and think outside the have-and-have-not, us/them, judeo-christian-muslim/unbelieving, female/male, salt-pepper, divisiveness that can also unite. The internet helps.
And I should be careful because I don’t speak FOR FDL or FOR any religion or political philosophy or anything like that. Just observation and a bit of optimism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKI1k7LSAIE

The riff at 2:25 immortalizes this tune.

robertarend @78: We need another MLK.

Yes we do, and badly. What I’m about to post here really should be a diary, with certain thoughts well fleshed out, but I am far too furious right now to get to what I’m trying to think.

Here is a tale of two April 4s, and of how deep is the descent from one to another in a certain sense.

From April 4, 1967 (Please forgive the long quote, but it seems necessary to get the whole point):

Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, as I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path. At the heart of their concerns, this query has often loomed large and loud: “Why are you speaking about the war, Dr. King?” “Why are you joining the voices of dissent?” “Peace and civil rights donât mix,” they say. “Arenât you hurting the cause of your people?” they ask. And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment, or my calling. Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live. …

There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I and others have been waging in America. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor, both black and white, through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then came the buildup in Vietnam, and I watched this program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war. And I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic, destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

This is my favorite of Dr. King’s speeches. He goes on from the point above to a concise but thorough argument against the war and the American position in Vietnam, using not only his religious principles, as one would expect, but also an elegant analysis of the history and politics of the situation, including the class war aspects of its political economy on the Vietnamese people, and on both black and white Americans. With respect to the latter, he touches on the moral destructiveness of putting them in a war situation of what they come to realize is utter aimlessness, much like that of today’s kill teams. And, armored with little in the way of bona fide beyond his citizenship, personal religion, and his perceived obligation as a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, he finished with proposals of what the American government ought to do to turn itself around, and how its citizens could make those things happen.

The next time you hear anyone speak positively of audacity, this speech and nothing less should be what you think of. Please read the whole thing, especially if you never have before.

But I confess to an ulterior motive in referring to this MLK speech. digby has informed us of an event to take place this April 4 at AEI:

The State of White America
Bradley Lecture by Charles Murray

Over the last half century, America has developed a new lower class and a new upper class that are different in kind from anything it has ever known. These developments are not linked to America’s evolving ethnic composition, but to the erosion of deeper sources of American exceptionalism. Charles Murray, the W. H. Brady Scholar at AEI, will describe the evidence for these claims in terms of America’s non-Latino white population from 1960 to 2010.

Whatever that rather obscure language is supposed to mean, I’ll bet it works out to the rough opposite of anything MLK took as principle in his remarks of 44 years ago.