Suz!
OK, that’s funny!

Zed?

Magnitude 7.2 – FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0004f5m.php

Need some Webb Wilder.

hey newton — glad ya liked it. hows the sf bay area tonight?

hey wigwam — how ya doing tonight?

hey robert — the tsunami warning has been cancelled and i’m not gonna have to hang out at the fairgrounds again :)

how was your day?

hey thatguy — how ya doing tonight?

It’ll be interesting to hear what ET has to say about that.

Hey, this is good. And somehow Keith comes to mind.

Cooling off nicely, thank you. How’s it up there?

cleared up early and had sunshine most of the afternoon – got up to 71 and let me tell ya, that sunshine felt good warming up my back.

It was a good day. The Circle 8 Writers group welcomed another writer. That 3 new writers in two days; so now we close the door for awhile….

I’m a work hard, rock hard, eat hard, sleep hard, grow big, wear glasses if ya need ‘em kind of guy tonight.

More Webb.

how exciting! how many does the circle have now?

the question should be how long can you last *g* sounds like you are doing pretty dayam good dood

Someone tell me why this guy wasn’t a star?

john

i dunno dood, tis a puzzlement

Circle 8 has 9 writers now. Two had left due to a conflict between commitment of time to Circle 8 interfering too much with their other goals. They will be missed….

evening, Suzzzz – firegods

hey ppd — how was your day?

*whew* Mahalo, Suz, for that bit of good news…! *g*

Aloha ya’ll…! ;-)

One taste of the bait is worth the pain of the hook.

tom

aloha tut — how’s paradise tonight? big whew from here on the coast

not bad, how’s everything up noth tonight?

norah

Down on the farm!

The rain has returned with a vengeance…! 8-(

doing fine — had warm sunshine this afternoon, the tsunami warning has been cancelled, and i’m kicking back enjoying the evening :) amazing how much warmer 55 at night feels than 55 during the day

In a mood.

Impossible Dream:

WATCH THIS!

you get a june monsoon? does that interfere with your work up on the mountain?

The first 2:15. That’s the big part.

If you watch the “Dulcinea” part after, well, you’re an impossible soul…

hey kelly — i forking love that song and clip *swoon*

my mood has my toes tapping — anything i can do to cheer you up my friend?

Paul Simon on an Newshour interview said the music comes first to him, and then the words would follow…! Fascinating since he’s such an excellent songwriter…!

Right. Cause Sophia Loren is so damned hard on the eyes.

Something about that gorgeous video reminded me of how wonderful MTV was before the Corporaltists bought it….

where was the quake that generated your tsunami warning, Suzzz?

dolly

up in the aleutian islands, robert linked to it upthread

Rubber Duckie, You’re The One!

Hey, did anyone else catch this today?

But Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said “information is speech” and that, under the 1st Amendment, the government cannot restrict speech because it does not approve of the message. “If pharmaceutical marketing affects treatment decisions,” he said, “it does so because doctors find it persuasive.

Regarding the SCOTUS decision regarding this http://www.truth-out.org/makers-generic-drugs-dont-have-warn-new-dangers-supreme-court-rules/1308860577

Now I’m not a lawyer, and am not always the sharpest tool in the shed, but it seems to me Kennedy just undermined all the USGs arguments for going after, oh, say Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, whistleblowers, environmentalists, antiware, etc.

rubber tree

hey tuezday, how ya doing tonight? i’m still puzzled and trying to find where corporate free speech trumps a human’s right to privacy in the constitution

Mooo!

That one has me puzzled as well. I think in protest we should all just incorporate and become LLCs.

those with uteri for sure need to incorporate just to preserve corporate control of that organ

In taking a peek up top it should be fine… They might have to close the dome once or twice if a fog bank rolled in, but, 20 mins later they’d open and continue lasing…! No word either as to canceling…! Fingers and toes crossed…! ;-)

johnny

Oh, you know it. And as I was saying to Kelly today, my uterus gets up to a whole lot of mischief when I’m not paying attention. I mean, it damn near shut down the government a few months ago.

sure is a purty view from up there dood — fingers and toes crossed for ya

Bookmarked!

Love that!

I’m a High Hoper, and reject the total downers. Just don’t accept that we’re at the end of days.

I just don’t. Perhaps it’s because I smell of peppermint. Whatev.

i featured that one up top a year or more ago… i grew up loving that song.. i’m a high hoper too

Ladies & gentlemen, the would-be-FDR-coup facists and their decendants have patiently, over the last 40 years, one at a time stacked the Supreme Court with their kind. That was and is where the real power to overthrow constitutional gov’ment is; unassailable. The law is anything those treasonus black crows say it is….

peppermint

clash or bobby

Hi Suzanne, Newt, Robet, ThatGuy, and anyone else who’s here.

I finally have some time on my hands and have been having way too much fun on the toobz.

Two of our FDL locals, Beowulf and letsgetitdone (with a slight twist from me), have come up with a scheme whereby Geithner can shrink the national debt by $2T without raising any revenue, repudiating any debt, or putting any new money into circulation. Specifically, he could mint two trillion-dollar coins, swap them to the Fed for $2T in Treasury bonds and burn them.

Some will say that you’re paying off those bonds with funny money, but that’s what the Fed has already done: QE1, QE2, and some purchases before that. Those were all done with funny money: a bank gave the Fed a bond and the Fed incremented that banks balance with the Fed by a corresponding amount. Simple as that. Ben Bernanke calls that his “printing press.”

Exchanging those coins for bonds is a value-for-value exchange of two different forms of legal tender. It’s awesome!

So I posted that yesterday at myfdl, and the only one who commented was beowulf himself: http://my.firedoglake.com/wigwam/2011/06/22/the-debt-limit-doomsday-device-is-a-dud/

So, I posted it last night at Dkos and got into a twenty-comment back-and-forth with a very serious monetary theorist: http://dailykos.com/story/2011/06/23/987879/–How-to-Save-Social-Security-and-Medicare-from-the-GOP?detail=hide&via=blog_752086 I think I won, but only after beowulf got involved.

Then I threw it into one of David Dayen’s threads about these damn budget negotiations:

It’s all a fucking farce. Cover to allow the Dems to do what their sponsors want and blame it on the GOP.

The debt limit is a gun that is not loaded. Tomorrow, Geithner could mint two trillion-dollar coins, swap them $2T to the Fed for $2T in Treasury bonds and burn them, thereby shrinking the national debt by $2T.

Beowulf and letsgetitdone have been making this point for months. Why aren’t people listening?

which Selise liked very much and suggested that “It’s all a fucking farce” would make a great diary title.

As I said “way too much fun.”

wow!

Hey CT. I ran into something over at Dkos yesterday that I thought you might find interesting: http://dailykos.com/story/2011/06/22/987807/-State-Dept-Warns-Americans-of-Mortal-Threat-Israeli-Military-Poses?via=sidebyuserrec

Why Bobby, of course….

Pretty wonky shit. But a whole lot of fun, especially since the fate of the world is on the line.

since i was playing covers tonight… it seemed appropriate but that was the only way to get the original in :)

The thing is, you get it, I get it, I’m guessing everyone reading this gets it, but the idea that government should be run like a household has been burned into idiot psyches. Therein lies the problem.

its all a fucking game of chicken with the corporations betting on who is gonna blink first… and having side bets to make sure that if they are wrong, the corporation still wins

Sounds just like my household….

Any fans of that Keith Olbermann dude here?

Bingo

I wish it were my household but, alas one person without a job, we gotta behave…

money

its all a fucking game of chicken with the corporations betting on who is gonna blink first… and having side bets to make sure that if they are wrong, the corporation still wins

Exactly! The Dems are pretending that the GOP have a loaded gun, which they don’t. But the last thing the Dems want to do is to give away that secret, because otherwise they’d have no excuse for fucking-over their 99% of their constituents.

How come Keith isn’t rebroadcasting online? I tried to find him but can’t find the whole show.

wigwam, that first link is not a good one..

In my house, The Sweety is the Fed. The Daughter is Congress. And both borrow from me, but I never get it back!

Yes, me. But I don’t think that he has yet fully recovered his old form. It’s like when some of my musician friends laid off for six months or so. It took them a while to get it all back, especially their timing.

Aloha, ww…! I read those diaries and recc’d them, but, that’s not my forte so I didn’t comment on them…! Btw, I wrote about that ‘Travel Advisory’ from Foggy Bottom yesterday too…! ;-)

robert had a link last night to where its being shown online

let me see if i can find it

Is the Pope Catholic…? ;-)

found it: http://ready-tv.com/

I saw that. Good stuff.

The thing that got me on from that Dkos diary was the tone of the State Dept quote. They are usually much more circumspect when mentioning Israel.

Ahhh- I finally found the dude who made my Impression of the Widor Toccatta – Lew Williams.

I lurved him once upon a time, and here’s his performance of that goddamned toccatta, which is how I’ve made it for meself…

The entire 24/7 daily Current TV broadcast can be tuned into at http://ready-tv.com/

I watched Countdown live there today at 8 est. Check it out now. Countdown is on Current several times a day.

Which comment are you talking about? Both of the links in #58 seem to work for me.

… with excellent guests, e.g., Michael Moore and Matt Taibbi.

wig, the graf that begins ‘So I posted that yesterday at myfdl” in comment 58 has a peculiar url. I saw that, too.

And dude, it’s nice to see you.

the first link (with preview) — i believe this is the post you were trying to link to — the preview is from your myfdl wigwam blog wordpress backstage view — i can see it with my magic powers but…wasn’t sure if anyone else could

We FDLers should get up a petition to send to Keith asking him to give Jane Hamsher the 9PM slot….

Awesome!!!

Maybe they’re venting their frustration with Bibi…? But, then again you have this BS spewed…

…Discussing the possibility that a resolution recognizing a Palestinian state could pass the General Assembly in September, she [Rice] said, “And this would be exceedingly politically damaging in our domestic context, as you can well imagine. And I cannot frankly think of a greater threat to our ability to maintain financial and political support for the United Nations in congress than such an outcome.”

*gah*

i like that — tis great background music …. reminds me of the silent films

You just made me feel bad. I run such a tight ship my husband thinks he can remain unemployed forever. I send out my own trial balloons but they seem to go over his head.

I had found your link from last night but I would like to watch it when it’s convenient for me. And Ready TV doesn’t seem to do convenient.

It might be wise to first ask Jane about doing it…! Great idea tho…! ;-)

The key to get the husband reacquainted with employment is to take matters into your own hands. Get the applications for him both on and off line. Fill them out for him. Smoke, so that, in case you have to speak to a potential employer on the phone, your voice will be deep enough to get away with pretending you are him….

Oops! Do you have powers to edit that. Mine have disappeared.

Thanks.

I couldn’t find a schedule either but Firefox might be stopping Flash.

i’ll fix it for ya :)

Check out the Silent Film World from that time:

Here’s a Laurel & Hardy called “Duck Soup” from 1927:

Robert MacDonald give a silent film organ concert on 79-rank Garland Pipe Organ (2003) at First United Methodist Church, Wichita Falls, Texas, September 16, 2006. This clip shows the first half of Laurel and Hardy’s 1927 classic, titled “Duck Soup.” Mr. MacDonald is a former organist of Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Go to Current’s website and check out the daily schedule. All their shows are repeated throughout the day. Pick the time that best suits you, then go to Ready TV at that time to watch it….

YUCK!!!

Well, I’ve never spoken to Jane, but surely some of you do. Volunteer somebody to ask her….

Hey all. I have to knock off for the evening. It’s good being with you folks again.

when i was a teen, our local community college ran a films appreciation class that ran the old classics. my mom signed us up for the class and it was held in an auditorium. old fashioned popcorn machine, lemonade, and silent movies (with serials) every tues and thur night for 6 weeks

it was a great fucking summer! i had a blast seeing golddiggers, buck rogers, duck soup, etc. plus the newsreels — i loved the newsreels

Congrats on the 100…! ;-) Smells like Blackmail to me…! 8-(

happy lucky 100 wigwam!!!

Believe it or not, I already do that.

He had a few interviews with the same company this past week. Then he decided to tell them he had a wrongful termination suit against his old employer, which was the reason he didn’t list them as a reference. He’s got a worker’s comp case instead…

I’m like WTF…

What is said about artists is true, I hate to admit it.

g’nite wigwam

Pleasant dreams, ww…!

Ohmygod. You must really love him….

We’ve been both loving and enabling each other for almost 2 decades….

Bejeebus, you two are still practically still newlyweds….

Actually, we are. It took him 13 years to convince me to marry him and then his pig headed self drove us to the county jail (yes, we have our own jokes about that) rather than the court house to get married.

oh my stars…. that sure makes the wedding memorable

Sounds like he definitely needs you for his compass.
The next job interview, you go in his place. When the interviewer asks why you instead of him, tell the interviewer your hubby had two interviews at the same time and didn’t want to stand either interviewer up.

It’ll make it appear such interest by a rival employer indicates your hubby’s value to others.

If you get away with that, you can navigate the interview to avoid having to tell what your husband shouldn’t….

Especially since the guards at the jail told my husband to go to the third floor and jump.

We finally got married on the 13th anniversary of our first date. We threw a huge party the next weekend, so it was fun.

you changed that unlucky 13 into a lucky day — was the party the entire weekend?

I married The Sweety on the one-year-anniversary of our first date, but my bachelor party went on a bit too long the night before, I fell asleep around 5AM and was late to the wedding….

Especially since the guards at the jail told my husband to go to the third floor and jump.

That’s hilarious, indeed the whole episode…! ;-)

Nah, the people we invited were so shocked that my 56 year old husband had actually gotten married for the first time (no shit, and no kids), that they couldn’t stick around all weekend.

Even though he had emailed a copy of the wedding cert, no one believed it. And my mother in law’s vase jumped off my sister in law’s mantle, upon hearing the news.

A celebration tune – leaving the guards behind…

O Welche Lust

hahahaha that’s too forking funny — what was your sister-in-law’s reaction to the vase jumping?

I was late to my first wedding, because I forgot the marriage license.

I shoulda never gone back.

That sis in law has a wicked sense of humor.

The Sweety thought I stood her up. I think she was going to grab my brother, then, and just marry him….

I’m the one who shoulda gone to the third floor and jumped but what the hell…

Isn’t it funny how the best wedding stories have nothing to do with the actual wedding and planning? All that BS for nothing.

giving jump (for my love) a whole new meaning

“O such a lust, for this freedom”

I cry a little bit everytime I watch this bit.

I do recall going with my buds the night before the wedding to the local strip joint. The manager was a friend, and offered me any of the three dancers to go upstairs with.

I pawned her off on my brother-in-law, instead….

dont cry

And what did your sis in law suffer afterward…

Wait, what did you bring upon your sister?

tis about time for me to head out peeps. thanks for letting me hang out with ya tonight.

g’nite all

At the time, I was too drunk from turkish somethingorother that I had no idea what I was doing….

Goodnight, Suzanne. In your dreams, travel to exotic places tonight….

Hey, you can’t blame Turkish drink. We’ve all suffered the Swedish stuff…

I’m going to bed too. See you all in the morning, whenever that is.

Say what motha fucka!