I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Frist.
good morning!
And yes, anything that loosens the hold of the Washington pundits/consultants is scary to them. Ergo, the bloghaters and the nosepickers.
Go Ho-Ho!
Nosepickers? So uncouth. They haven't signed on to the integrity pledge.
Who knows, they might be right.
I know. They're wrong. Period. End of story.
These are the people and consultants who have presided over the decline and fall of the party. They're the tone who steadfastly refuse to take on any issue unless their consultants guarantee them it's absolutely a 100% winner before they even begin.
These are the consultants who refuse to take on a president with a 31% approval rating.
I mean, really--just how fucking wrong can you be if you can't read those kinds of numbers and reach the only appropriate conclusion?
I think they need to hire the best marketing team in the world. Spend it all on advertising.
Whenever I see the name "Begala," in my mind is a cross between a bagel and Bela Lugosi's Dracula.
I know such an observation is not particularly germane. Then again, given Begala's comment about "nose picking," perhaps I, too, could become a pundit.
If there was ever a time to go for the 50 state plan - it's NOW!!
The voters are looking for alternatives in those red states - the Rs will be turned out in force this year.
Dems are going to win back the House:
Murtha sees U.S. troops home by 2007, and big Democratic win
Most likely, there will be a "tidal wave" that propels Democrats into the majority, Murtha said. He predicts his party will gain 40 to 50 seats - well more than the 15 needed for the party to gain control.
Begala and the Clintonistas should have been working on that plan during Clinton's term.
Howard Dean has a clear vision for the Democratic party - and America!!!
the shitty thing is that they can never be proved wrong. and they will never apologize or admit they might have been wrong.
These pricks don't like Dean's 50-state strategy for the same reason they don't like the internets - nobody kisses their precious Beltway asses.
Fuck them.
I blame political consultants for the bruises on my nose, after having to pinch it hard so many times as I vote for their idea of the perfect Democratic candidate.
As some bright kid mentioned earlier in the week, they are pissed simply because money they expected to fall in their pockets is being channelled elsewhere.
These fools are reminicent of the people who voted their pocketbooks during the Raygun years.
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As more scandals unfold and W's numbers go even lower, there is a good likelihood that races that were once thought safe for the republicans will move into the "leans republican" or "in play" column. I wonder if then Begala et al. will write a piece lauding Howard Dean for fighting for every damn seat. Not fucking likely. More probably, they will claim the 50 state plan as their own.
There we go, hows that fit. Could you be a dear and bring a mirror?
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Nov. is 5 1/2 months away. I have not seen much at all in the way of tv ads. Newspaper ads have been few if any. People won't vote for a name on the ballot if they have nothing to connect it to.
This is disgusting, same it for the middle of November people!
I've seen enough shit dumped on Dean the last two weeks.
Remember the real enemy, Dick Cheney & his sidekick
BTW, over at Firedoglake, Howie Klein has a big round-up of Pennsylvania's coming primary.
Ugh, can't spell, need coffee.
Ugh, can't spell, need coffee.
"If only HoHo would've given them more of the dough they would've won. Who knows, they might be right."
Nah. They're wrong. Dean doesn't need to provide them with the means to prove themselves wrong again. Their day is past. They're out of power, the parade is passing them by, and they're without grace in the face of change. Paul Begala, WATB.
Actually, why doesn't Bagella get his ass over to the Repug Chair's place and find out what they are doing wrong so he can blast that on the airwaves.
Schumer's a 50 stater:
"Schumer said that Democratic candidates would have the money to compete in traditionally Republican states and that Democrats would make a concerted effort to woo centrist Republicans who are turned off that one party controls both the legislative and the executive branches and that budgets and trade deficits have ballooned in recent years."
And to a lesser degree Emanuel:
"to a lesser degree, Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, realize that they cannot just rely on a strategy of defeating liberal Northeastern Republicans to win majorities in the House and Senate. They will have to invest resources in Democratic challengers running against Republican incumbents in red states to expand the number of competitive House and Senate races."
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/e...ign/
051106.html
I have seen the dems in disaray articles: Schumer and Emanuel storm out of Dean's office fuming. The "liberal media" has a "dems in disarray" script they can't seem to help typing. The facts on the ground point to dems getting it done.
This can hardly be a surprise to anybody. Wasn't Dean talking about going after the NASCAR/pickup truck/Confederate flag voters when he ran for President?
Sounds like Begala's been eating some of Jeff's paste.
from that link to the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Murtha was elected in 1974, when public outrage over the Watergate scandal and President Richard M. Nixon swept Democrats into office. He compared this election year to 1974 and to 1994, when the GOP rolled into power - partly because of discontent with President Bill Clinton.
"Republicans are spinning the fact that it's going to be very hard" for Democrats to take the House, Murtha said. "From my experience in '74 and '94, they can't stop it... even if they did something dramatic."
Murtha said he thought President Bush would have to bring more than half the troops in Iraq back to the United States before Election Day for it to start to make a difference to voters.
"If that happens, he would have to admit he made mistakes," Murtha said.
This is disgusting, same it for the middle of November people!
I've seen enough shit dumped on Dean the last two weeks.
What Attaturk said, especially since one attack is based on pettiness. Sometimes I wonder how old some of these people really are. Embarrassing.
That must be some damm good paste.
Dean > establishment
The irony of ‘super-delegate’ rule
Democrats
use a system
heavy with elites
to pick nominee
By Tom Curry
MSNBC
May 14 — The announcement by 29 House Democrats on Wednesday that they’ll back Rep. Dick Gephardt for president in 2004 highlights a contradiction to the principle that the rank-and-file members choose the party’s nominee. Led by top House Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Whip Steny Hoyer, the 29 are among 800 “super-delegates” that come from the elite ranks of the party. The super-delegates — nearly 40 percent of the delegates needed to clinch the nomination — are senators, governors, members of the House, and other top officials and ex-officials..........(old story)
I think Dean's plan is the right one, especially for this election cycle.
Yes, the Emperor's ratings are in the toilet, and yes, the Republicans keep getting indicted, but the American public doesn't think too highly of either party's current incumbents.
Relying on what lost the last two elections just doesn't make any sense. The only reason Begala and his buddies are upset is that they aren't being kowtowed as the power brokers they apparently still believe they are.
I agree with Dean's strategy. I would take it one step further though. At this point we should simply be presented ourselves as THE alternative to the corruption and hate spewing out of the Republicans like Lava in Volcano National Park in Hawaii.
Democratic platform:
We support the Constitution of the United States.
Advertising "slogan"
Haven't you had enough?
This is disgusting, same it for the middle of November people!
I've seen enough shit dumped on Dean the last two weeks.
Remember the real enemy, Dick Cheney & his sidekick
attaturk
I've said the only criticism of Dean that I've had, so I now pledge to lay off.
Attaturk is absolutely right.
That must be some damm good paste.
Dude, you don't want any of that stuff. Stick with the blotter.
Pamela's video blog
Nim had dropped this hilarity in an earlier thread, and I had made it to the 21 second mark during the first viewing, only to make the break to mention how funny it is. This time I stopped at the 47 second point and realize that someone can go from 0 to batshit insane in just under a minute.
As I said before, three words: Slow. Motion. Trainwreck.
Really do yerself a favor peer into the abyss!
Relying on what lost the last two elections just doesn't make any sense. The only reason Begala and his buddies are upset is that they aren't being kowtowed as the power brokers they apparently still believe they are.
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Evidently, they don't care to be in power. Why else would they go on air to say that the Dean was in a mess. I mean it reeks of something under the sheets to me.
Gilliard nails it:
What the DC Dems don't get is how alienated Americans have become with Bush and the GOP. They are begging for aggressive leadership, and people are still worried about NASCAR dads.
Folks, you need to worry about Walter Reed dads. They want the war to end, they want a resolution to the War on Terror and not the ham handed methods Bush is using. Americans,
for the most part are non-ideological. Most ideology is phrased in social issues, not politics. Bush and The GOP won because they convinced people that they were level headed good managers.
The opposite is true, inept criminals usually don't win the hearts of people. The GOP has mangled every chance, every thing they touched.
Dean is right, the Dems can win on the coasts, but they need the center to govern with the consent of the people.
Bush can only save his presidency by radical changes in direction. Bush is psychologically incapable of both flexibility and mercy. Anyone who thinks Bush is going to pardon people need to talk to Katharine Harris. Despite placing her name and reputation on the line, the Bushes now want her to go away. Who else is going to jump into a losing race, after all, Bush hatred is exploding, and take a bath. Why not repay Harris's loyalty with support?
That is a grim indicator for Rove and Libby. (The Bushes) don't care what you have on them, they're the Bush family. (Rove and Libby) are not going to be rescued, for if they aren't loyal to Harris, who will they be loyal to?
Mushrooms. Morels will be coming in by the truckload - soon as this low pressure and rain depart Michigan... in a week or so.
Guess I have the Florida look on my house for another week or better - a blue-tarped roof.
Just fucking lovely, lemme tell ya.
see http://007google.com/Haloscan.aspx
Shorter Paul Begala/DC Dem establishment:
"We'd rather lose and remain an impotent minority than hand any power over to the rabble we expect to vote for us."
The irony of ‘super-delegate’ rule
Democrats use a system heavy with elites
to pick nominee
By Tom Curry
MSNBC
May 14 — The announcement by 29 House Democrats on Wednesday that they’ll back Rep. Dick Gephardt for president in 2004 highlights a contradiction to the principle that the rank-and-file members choose the party’s nominee. Led by top House Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Whip Steny Hoyer, the 29 are among 800 “super-delegates” that come from the elite ranks of the party. The super-delegates — nearly 40 percent of the delegates needed to clinch the nomination — are senators, governors, members of the House, and other top officials and ex-officials....(old story)
The NYT cut a sentence from their Foggo story about his links to the Contras.
UNE-- that fuckin hurts.
UNE-- that fuckin hurts.
did you get to the defecating in church part yet???
She's something ain't she.
Dems = Disarray.
Pukes = Destruction.
Take yer pick.
did you get to the defecating in church part yet???
Oh yea. And the "protect our way of life," which I gather is all those teacher conferences and girl class, whatever that is.
Atlas certainly shrugs in that video. My eyes cot crossed whenever she suddenly moved.
the shitty thing is that they can never be proved wrong. and they will never apologize or admit they might have been wrong.
Gore/Feingold '08
Well they'll try to define it in a way that makes it impossible to proved wrong... cuz that's the Republican-lite way.
On the strategy question, I'm definitely with Dean. This is a long-term project that won't be cured in one election cycle (no matter what the results). The critical question, as both Atrios and Kevin Drum have noted, is how well the money is being spent in pursuit of the strategy. No one has provided enough information to know the answer to that.
Sunday talk show line-up:
Jane Harmen (CBS) and Joe Biden (ABC) are the only Democrats.
The NYT cut a sentence from their Foggo story about his links to the Contras.
P O'Neill |
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Yep. They just keep pulling these old buds out of the baseboards.
Speaking of Rove, I had to leave soon after the Leopold article was posted. I reread it this morning and noticed this atatement by a White House aide on Rove's possible indictment:
The key issue here is that
the president or Mr. Bolten respond to the charges immediately, make a
statement and then move on to other important policy issues and keep that as
the main focus going forward."
Going forward? Not so fast. Who told Rove about Plame? Why did Bush fail to find and punish the leaker as he promised?
What did he know and when did he know it? Bush isn't going anywhere except down.
Oh and Moe,
I just discovered that she has three other vids for perusal.
Oh shit, looks like I missed the bus.
Mushrooms. Morels will be coming in by the truckload - soon as this low pressure and rain depart Michigan... in a week or so.
Oh, how I wish I were there. I love hunting for morels. And eating them.
OT: phone lists do not make americans safer, you fucking imbecile, bush...
tell us through your daddy party how compiling hundreds of millions of call numbers now is going to help against terr'sts...it is another FUCKING LIE by the FASCIST PRESIDENT and HIS CRONIES!
Sunday talk show line-up:
Jane Harmen (CBS) and Joe Biden (ABC) are the only Democrats.
Ben Brackley
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Too much repug stinky going on this week to have Dems on to talk about it.
Thanks, dave™©. Gilliard certainly does nail it.
The term "democratic deficit," used usually to describe other countries with democratic structures, but with policies at odds with the governed, can now be applied to us.
In short, "It's We the People, Stupid."
WHOA, was somebody "sleep-writing"...SPELL CHECK
Bush is a collosal failure, the country is demoralized and in disarray -- why shouldn't Rahm Emanuel shout at Howard Dean?
As they sang in "Walk the LIne": "Time's a-Wastin!"
Jane Harmen (CBS) and Joe Biden (ABC) are the only Democrats
fuck the media - they do nothing but disregard us
That was a cruel thing to do, UNE.
On MTP: Newtie Gingrich!
After watching Pamela's video, all I can say is:
What a vapid cunt.
Too much repug stinky going on this week to have Dems on to talk about it.
You can imagine what next week will be like.
Actually, that would make a great name for a blog: Vapid Cunt.
Pamela is gonna start a network 'cause fox is not right wing enough and the media is just a democratic propaganda vehicle.
If I had not seen it with mine own eyes.........
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First, you must shut down the bribe-o-matic machine. The only democratic voice is spoken at the ballot box, all the rest speaks to corruption and petty influence.
What a vapid cunt.
You're too kind. New York has stupid people, too.
What do you want to bet that the camera is also set up in her bedroom.
Speaking of Dean:
Howard Dean cancels Boalt Hall graduation speech
BERKELEY - Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has canceled his appearance Saturday as the keynote speaker at the UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law graduation ceremony because he does not want to cross union picket lines, the university said today.
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Local 3299, embroiled in a labor dispute with the university, says it will picket any UC Berkeley commencement ceremony at which a public official or prominent politician is scheduled to speak.
Good for him.
Sorry Karin!
But Nim and his hamhock of liberty are partially to blame.
I did not find this on my own!
And now to see one of the other three.
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Remember the real enemy, Dick Cheney & his sidekick attaturk
This really took me by surprise..............but , um,
Oh -- wait.
Anybody else think that the Bush speech on Monday will include something about Rove resigning completely?
afternoon moonbats
currently enjoying the company of my niece (1 year old on the 16th May).
i just read the transcript of randi rhodes on larry king
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANS.../12/
lkl.01.html
it sounds like it was entertaining.
What do you want to bet that the camera is also set up in her bedroom.
Why did you have to ruin the good feeling I was having?
Now I am laughing and trying to choke back tears at the same time.
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But Nim and his hamhock of liberty are partially to blame.
Good to see that actually. At least she spoke in sentences and completed a, um, thought. More than the trolls around here can do.
Congrats Barndog -you ain't anybody if you don't have a blue roof.
An even more excellent adventure than we understood. Wilkes had the Foggos along on a vacation to a resort in Hawaii where it cost $20,000 a night to put up both families. That and the time they rented the castle in Scotland.
-- Josh Marshall
Josh is SO not twee!
Good morning.
I'm for any plan that leaves Donna Brazile and Bob Schrum in the dust.
currently enjoying the company of my niece (1 year old on the 16th May).
Still too young for a tea party, but have fun anyway!
n69n,
The transcript doesn't do it justice. Randi laughed out loud while Praeger was blathering.
I am sorry but I will have to get this day started soon and this thought is just consuming me.
In another lifetime I used to write relational data bases. (Not very well, I am afraid. But I did it. Maybe IB0313 - whom I owe a debt of gratitude to - or NTodd or one of the other "geeks" could explain this better)
Follow the chain:
Goverment has your phone number. By inserting this number they can determine your name and address. By referencing your name and address they can determine your social security number. By using your social security number they can access your drivers's license, credit cards, credit history, political affiliation, church membership, determine what groups you belong to, whether you have any money, what you do with your money, personal habits, reading habits, listening preferences, and anything else that you call your own.
By accessing further they can determine if you are an activist. Once they have determined your level of activism . . . .
An even more excellent adventure than we understood. Wilkes had the Foggos along on a vacation to a resort in Hawaii where it cost $20,000 a night to put up both families. That and the time they rented the castle in Scotland.
-- Josh Marshall
I really should consider getting into the dirty defense and intelligence business....
pie thanks
Pamela on Darfur
I haven't made it all the way through, but she does have a guest (possibly her daughter) and asks her what she thinks about George Clooney speaking about Darfur, and before the kid can spit a word, proceeds to tell us what the kid thinks.
Charm, Grace, Class, she reeks of it all.
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Jane Harmen (CBS) and Joe Biden (ABC) are the only Democrats.
Ben Brackley
Democrats?
currently enjoying the company of my niece (1 year old on the 16th May).
In Devizes or Swansea, may I ask?
look - if teh sheeple are brainwashed to think it is ok for gubmints to record every call they ever made, and to not worry that information will not be used surreptitiously, then we need a revolution...the republic has been lost..
this is america, we stand for more than warmongering and oil worshippers, but you would never know that with our current admin - these fuckers have turned the world's greatest democracy into a 3rd-rate banana republic run on graft, lies, and corruption
And in honor of our latest American hero, Happy Birthday, Stephen Colbert!!!
Antidepressant linked to suicide risk in adults
· Top-selling drug already banned for children
· Minister announces move towards talking therapies
Britain's bestselling antidepressant, Seroxat, can cause adults as well as children to become suicidal, according to the manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline.
GSK, which for years denied there was a problem with the drug, has sent a letter to all doctors in Britain warning of the potential risk in some adult patients. The company has reanalysed data from the clinical trials of the drug and found that significantly more adults who were given Seroxat became suicidal than those given a placebo. Seroxat has been banned from use in children by the UK drug regulator for the same reason. The revelation came as the health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, declared the end of the "Prozac nation" yesterday, launching a programme to cut the numbers of patients on drugs such as Prozac and Seroxat and extend counselling to the thousands of people with mild to moderate depression and anxiety.
I really should consider getting into the dirty defense and intelligence business....
... I am SO gonna ammend my last expense report. Per Diem rates my ass.
Haliburton has a new, "Survivor Ball".
http://www.democracynow.org/arti...6/05/12/
1353258
ROTFLMAO!
Michael Moore, where are you?
I really should consider getting into the dirty defense and intelligence business....
It certainly seems to offer the occasional smashing holiday!
Pamela on Darfur
Later on in the vid, the kid says she agrees 100%, pamela thinks this might be related to an upcoming birthday.
It seems at some point that the kid might be mocking her, and I have a feeling that when the rebellion comes the kid is gonna turn out to be a flaming liberal.
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plantsman am back home in Devizes for the weekend
... I am SO gonna ammend my last expense report. Per Diem rates my ass.
lb0313
$35 for dinner? I need at least $5K!
Moonbootica, give some love to those beautiful cats, if you would.
plantsman will do
they send their love back
It seems at some point that the kid might be mocking her, and I have a feeling that when the rebellion comes the kid is gonna turn out to be a flaming liberal.
Or like Randall Terry's kid.
Latin America's oil rebels rebuff EU
· Venezuela and Bolivia use summit to hail 'new era'
· Blair urges responsible approach to energy stocks
The presidents of Venezuela and Bolivia, Latin America's most outspoken leaders, yesterday rebuffed demands by the European Union and other leaders at a summit in Vienna to temper their policies on foreign investment and energy, declaring that a new political era had arrived.
Tony Blair, who attended the summit of European Union, Latin American and Caribbean countries, called for a "responsible approach" to the debate.
"Neo-liberalism has begun its decline and has come to an end," the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, said at the gathering of nearly 60 heads of state, according to Reuters. "Now a new era has begun in Latin America. Some call it populism, trying to disfigure our beauty. But it is the ... voice of the people that is being heard."
Interest in the summit, which continues today, has been heightened by the recent decree by the new Bolivian president, Evo Morales, who announced on May 1 plans to nationalise his country's natural gas fields. Mr Morales is part of the new "pink tide" of leftist politicians who have recently been elected in Latin America.
That "equal and opposite reaction" thingie seems to play out it kids - at least, it did in me.
oh, on DWD's db question - I dunno - I guess so. I tend to err on the side that it all probably runs as if it were contracted out to the lowest bidder and run by Michael Brown.
I'm not saying it can't be done, but I am saying that it is fun but foolish to use 24 as you model for how technology works in govt.
Remember the FBI can't even get their folks a decent way to file a report after 10 years and a kabillion bucks
Follow the chain:
Goverment has your phone number. By inserting this number they can determine your name and address.
easier than pie (not pi)
data harvesting is the hard part...once you gots teh data, mining (or trolling as teh prez says) is a piece of cake and can be done clandestinely without leaving a trace that they mined the data...
point is - they are liars all - and should be thrown out
btw, DWD, finally got around and started Challenge and i must say that it flows very well and the story keeps me intrigued - GREAT JOB!
That and the time they rented the castle in Scotland.
I know someone who rented a Scottish castle with some friends recently. They can be surprisingly cheap, considering the number of people you can fit in one.
http://www.democracynow.org/arti...6/05/12/
1353258
I feel sorry for Pamela's kid.
lb0313,
IIRC, it was recently announced that all FBI agents would absolutely, positively, have email by the end of the year.
Wow.
Oh Jesus,
She could not get through the two minutes without asking about where the republican cajone's, balls, and testicles, and the sudden realization that she had uttered all of these words in the company of her 10 or 11 year old guest and the teenage camera person.
ended with a rag about muslems marching with the immegrants and topped it off with a reference to the "protocols of Zion"
"Can't have a really evil group unless yer hating the jews....What is that?"
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I fervently trust that all of "Georgie's excellent adventures" run as smoothly as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Here's the issue: you have $100. One candidate is within 3 points of her Republican opponent, another is 30 points behind. Dean says give each $50. Rahm Emmanuel says that's a waste of money. We can win now if we give $95 to the candidate within 3; giving more than that to the losing candidate is a waste.
Makes sense to me.
I wasn't too pleased with the headline in the A2 paper yesterday:
Good or bad, dating mining is underway
Authorities say private info helps fight terror; critics expect abuses
Way to take a stand there, boyz. And expect abuses? That has a sense of future tense. Look to the past.
A point made at the end of the article was that, despite assurances that everything was legal, the government might also be tempted to approach cell phone companies (too late), credit card companies, and internet service providers - almost any industry with a database.
I'll bet it's doing all of that already. There's no real sense of alarm or outrage in this article, and that's alarming.
And now for a really good scare. Read Billmon's essay on Hobbes, the Leviathan, and the National Security State. A bit long, but well worth reading for an understanding of just what Cheney & Co are up to.
http://billmon.org/archives/002440.html
Thanks for blogwhoring with me.
Per Bylund: Building the Structure of the New Society Within the Shell of the Old
It's interesting to contrast Moonbootica's EU story from the Guardian, with the one the Times published yesterday. Bolivia and Venezuela Are Chided at European Gathering
Notice the different point of view & emphasis?
I know someone who rented a Scottish castle with some friends recently. They can be surprisingly cheap, considering the number of people you can fit in one.
Oh, I'm sure it's all "Enchanted April" all the time -- but there is airfare, land transport, and comestibles to cover.
mogwai,
IB0313, and you are going to trust your freedom to the ineptitude of the government?
I feel very strongly that my government is MY government. It is not there to collect information on me. It is not there to utilize this information for political reasons. (and yes, determining what groups I am associated with is POLITICAL information)
If we had a decent media, which we do not, they would be shouting the construct I listed above from every venue loudly and clearly enough for the sheeple to understand.
Jane Harmen (CBS) and Joe Biden (ABC) are the only Democrats.
sigh. The MSM filter. They report - they decide. Shame on NBC - last week's take down on Pelosi was sickening. now this.
you can e-mail them at: MTP@NBC.com
You can also mail a letter to:
NBC News
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, N.Y. 10112
It's an election year - they should at least go through the pretense of being "fair and balanced". (We know damn well they're not!!)
They need to hear from us.
ut there is airfare, land transport, and comestibles to cover.
Scottish food **shudder**
Or like Randall Terry's kid.
huh? please splain!
I really should consider getting into the dirty defense and intelligence business....
NYMary
be sure to read laura rozen's post of someone who considered business with those thieves:
http://www.warandpiece.com/blogd...irs/
004170.html
You better get along with those people, because it rains a lot in Scotland, and you'll be stuck in a damp, chilly castle with them.
Scottish food **shudder**
(substitute gravlachs, buy cream cheese, bring good bagels in Ziploc bags)
NYMary
I was gonna say email - but figured I had to be wrong....
I'm certainly not saying that this whole thing doesn't freak me out on some level - but I am way more freaked out by the fact that they think they have the right to do this than I am by the slim chance that they are doing it competently.
I think it's time to invest in Homing Pigeons.
I'm not saying it can't be done, but I am saying that it is fun but foolish to use 24 as you model for how technology works in govt.
these aint gov operators who mine teh data - these are geeks, and what motivates geeks is a challenge...there is no bureaucracy involved in:
SELECT phone FROM att_db UNION SELECT soc_sec_num FROM soc_sec_db WHERE att_db.lastname=soc_sec_db.lastname
etc...those types of queries can be run against a db of whatever size cross dbs and correlated into one clean report - easily and efficiently
Scottish food **shudder**
Mr lb once made a haggis and oyster pasta that was fabulous.
You better get along with those people, because it rains a lot in Scotland, and you'll be stuck in a damp, chilly castle with them.
Am intimately familiar with "Oregon Traumatic Weather Stress Syndrome." Not a problem.
Scottish food **shudder**
NYMary
I am, however, intrigued by The Deep-Fried Mars bar.
Glastonbury-on-Exe as Lost Vagueness puts on June festival
For Glastonbury fans with aching hearts and a gaping hole in their diary where the festival should be this year, help is at hand. Lost Vagueness, the warped theme park in a far-flung field at Glastonbury, is launching a last-minute festival of its own on the traditional Glastonbury weekend.
The founder and organiser of Glastonbury, Michael Eavis, who is taking a break this year from hosting 140,000 people at his Somerset farm, has even recommended the Lost Weekend as the best alternative for fans hoping to recreate the spirit of Glastonbury this summer.
Like Eavis's festival, the Lost Weekend will be in a bucolic setting in the West Country - on the banks of the river Exe in Devon, with a castle for a backdrop. Unlike Glastonbury, however, there will be no monster crowds or stinking toilets: there will be tickets for just 10,000 people for the three-day event, from Friday June 23 to Sunday June 25, with a further 5,000 day passes on the Sunday. There will also be flushing toilets and showers.
mogawi
Yeah, you probably right. Sigh
I am just praying that the management:geek ratio is 10000:1 - and that sufficient turf battles exist to keep the hardware/software incompatability level high.
UNE,
He came out in 2004.
There's a bit of comedy involved: as a kid, Jamiel would sneak into his dad's library and look at pics of gay pride marches, getting worked up over them in the wrong way entirely. The kid was obviously gay: we saw him on a campaign commercial when his dad ran for office here in NY, and Thers said "It's gonna be hell when that kid comes out."
But it was sad. Jamiel apparently thought if he were honest, his dad would temper his rhetoric. But no, Terry ramped it up and included some really nasty racial stuff as he disowned his son.
Scottish food **shudder**
NYMary
I am, however, intrigued by The Deep-Fried Mars bar.
Uncle Smokes
Oooooh, the native food of my pippel! I've got some guts 'n' oatmeal right here!
The DFMB: Gack!
IB0313, and you are going to trust your freedom to the ineptitude of the government?
HELL NO - sorry if that was what you gathered from a post, but that could not be further from what i believe
Frist Opinion Piece Says Medical Malpractice Reform Needed
Kaiser network.org, DC - May 11, 2006
"Washington state faces an ongoing medical-liability crisis and ... He states that malpractice insurance premiums for Washington state hospitals increased nearly 125 ...
Frist ‘fills the tree’ The Hill
all 632 related »
....................................Missing the mark on medical malpractice
Editorial Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
09-MAY-06
In one of its periodic efforts to tackle the rising cost of health care, the U.S. Senate is working on a bill this week that would cap lawyers' fees and limit punitive damage awards in medical malpractice cases. It sounds so appealing _ no one wants to see legal bills and insurance premiums siphon off money that could be spent on medical care. But before the senators pass this bill, we hope they'll consider the facts of medical malpractice rather than the myths that swirl around it.
Is malpractice insurance the reason health care costs are out of control? No. Malpractice premiums represent about 60 cents in every $100 of health care spending in the United States, according to the Consumer Federation of America. Even if malpractice insurance completely disappeared, the average consumer wouldn't notice the difference.......
http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index...ACTICE-05-09-
06
guts 'n' oatmeal
Yum!
linda,
Thanks for the link. Alas, not surprising at all.
But it was sad. Jamiel apparently thought if he were honest, his dad would temper his rhetoric. But no, Terry ramped it up and included some really nasty racial stuff as he disowned his son.
Like those other lovelies, Phyllis Schlafly and Alan Keyes.
The kid was obviously gay: we saw him on a campaign commercial when his dad ran for office here in NY, and Thers said "It's gonna be hell when that kid comes out."
Now I remember!
It is nigh impossible to keep up with all the bigots, thats fer shure.
.
Day 15,996: bike stolen in Portsmouth. Day 16,000: nice ride with newspaper chap
Round-the-world cyclist Heinz Stücke got his bicycle back this week. So our cycling columnist Matt Seaton caught up with him
Forty-four years on the road and a third of a million miles have given Heinz Stücke a philosophical cast of mind. Within hours of getting off the ferry from France in Portsmouth on Monday night, the bicycle that has been his constant companion since 1962 was stolen. But he's not bitter.
"I trust everybody," he says, "because if you didn't, you just wouldn't go around the world. You take a calculated risk all the time everywhere you go."
In fact, his bike - a unique artefact which already has a place booked for it in a museum of cycling back in Heinz's native Germany - was returned to him little more than 36 hours after its theft. After the story was picked up by the national media, the thief probably realised that Heinz's steed might be more trouble than it was worth.
Here's the issue: you have $100. One candidate is within 3 points of her Republican opponent, another is 30 points behind. Dean says give each $50. Rahm Emmanuel says that's a waste of money. We can win now if we give $95 to the candidate within 3; giving more than that to the losing candidate is a waste.
Makes sense to me.
Sure it does. And that why the DCCC is supposed to help by giving money to candidate #1.
The DNC is a different critter, and directs money to where it thinks the interests of the party is. Dean says that, right now, that's everywhere. He's right.
Scottish food **shudder**
Oooooh, the native food of my pippel! I've got some guts 'n' oatmeal right here!
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
When we have pot luck at work, I always bring Scotch Eggs.
Except I bake them instead of deep-frying--just how grease do you need in what is already a heart-cloggin' delight?
IB0313, and you are going to trust your freedom to the ineptitude of the government?
mogawi
I think he was chiding me, not you!
And I am proof that while one should not depend on the incompetence of government, one should plan for it.
If I never have to write any SQL code again for the rest of my life, it'll be too soon.
It's actually a little too late here in Maine. If someone wanted to seriously challenge Senator Snowe, they should have started last year. The usual things should be obvious by now if that were going on: challengers with name recognition, attacks on Olympia's moderation, that sort of thing. Right now, any such effort is hard to see.
Scottish food **shudder**
Damned tags.
As I was saying, there are actually some renowned chefs using traditional Scottish fare. But unless you are dining on someone else's ticket, I suppose what you have to look forward to is oatmeal with salt, shortbread, and wheatcakes.
Lovely variations on beige, IOW. Not unlike the 4 years I spent in the Midwest, where the only two vegetables not reserved exclusively for animal feed were day-glo green pickle relish and ketchup.
Oh, and rutabaga.
I got some crazy idea from a movie that French food habits crept into Scotland from royalty.
(But it was a Movie, after all.)
But it was sad. Jamiel apparently thought if he were honest, his dad would temper his rhetoric. But no, Terry ramped it up and included some really nasty racial stuff as he disowned his son.
Like those other lovelies, Phyllis Schlafly and Alan Keyes.
plantsman
Oh, and Randall Terry.
Let's not forget that great champion of the blastocysts.
Like those other lovelies, Phyllis Schlafly and Alan Keyes.
plantsman
Even better, since Jamiel and his younger sibling are mixed race and came into the family when Terry convinced their mom not to have an abortion at our local clinic. Instead he took Jamiel (then 2 or 3) and then the baby whose abortion he had prevented and raised them as his own.
Until one turned out to be a Sodomite, natch. This, Terry said, was a result of either his mongrel race or the first two years of his upbringing.
once a stalker, always a stalker:
Stalk rap for Monica prober
BY DORIAN BLOCK and JONATHAN LEMIRE
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Saturday, May 13th, 2006
A former prosecutor who investigated Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky was still a married man when he allegedly stalked his former lover in Manhattan, his estranged wife’s sister said yesterday.
Robert Ray, the independent counsel who helped probe the Clintons’ Whitewater land deal - later spawning the Lewinsky investigation - surrendered to cops Thursday.
His ex-girlfriend, Tracy Loughlin, had told police that Ray - a former GOP Senate candidate from New Jersey - had obsessively followed her and blanketed her with unwanted calls and e-mails after their breakup four months ago.
“I don’t have anything to say right now,” a shaken Loughlin, 40, said outside her Murray Hill apartment building yesterday.
But the red-haired beauty then added that Ray had told her he was divorced when they were together - a claim that Ray’s sister-in-law vehemently denied.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/...y/417318p-
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Rutabaga is where vegetables meet "gamey." IMHO.
Lovely variations on beige, IOW. Not unlike the 4 years I spent in the Midwest, where the only two vegetables not reserved exclusively for animal feed were day-glo green pickle relish and ketchup.
Oh, and rutabaga.
Rmj, Wandering Aengus
I've shared both those cuisines, RMJ, but above all I esteem the white food presentation. Cauliflower with white cheese sauce. Chicken with white sauce. Mashed potatoes with cream gravy....
Phillips for afters.
If I never have to write any SQL code again for the rest of my life, it'll be too soon.
I once wrote a play named 'Referential Constraints'.
Trigger played a prominent role.
Democrats See an Opening to Debate Security Issues
WASHINGTON, May 12 — Senate Democrats intend to use next week's confirmation hearings for a new C.I.A. director to press the Bush administration on its broad surveillance programs, engaging Republicans on national security grounds that have proved politically treacherous for Democrats in the aftermath of Sept. 11.
Lawmakers and senior Democratic officials say they believe a combination of Democratic gains on security issues and a loss of public confidence in President Bush gives them new strength to question the National Security Agency operations that the administration says are essential to preventing another domestic terror attack.
As a result, Democrats say they will not hesitate to aggressively question Mr. Bush's choice to head the Central Intelligence Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, who is the former director of the N.S.A., at a hearing set for next Thursday.
Lovely variations on beige, IOW. Not unlike the 4 years I spent in the Midwest, where the only two vegetables not reserved exclusively for animal feed were day-glo green pickle relish and ketchup.
Oh, and rutabaga.
That's what paprika is for!
I've seen enough shit dumped on Dean the last two weeks.
Remember the real enemy, Dick Cheney & his sidekick
attaturk
"Divide and conquer."
If we don't stick together, the fascist fucks are going to hang us all separately.
I've shared both those cuisines, RMJ, but above all I esteem the white food presentation.
Les Meal Blanc!!!!
I am, however, intrigued by The Deep-Fried Mars bar.
Uncle Smokes
I actually have a recipe for that, via Nigella Lawson.
And further proof of the influence of Scotland on the Deep South, where I thought we'd learned to fry everything once we figured out how to fry ice cream.
Except I bake them instead of deep-frying--just how grease do you need in what is already a heart-cloggin' delight?
Uncle Smokes
Oh, I dunno. Don't you use leftover bacon grease for the fry-up?
You must try the deep-fried banana slugs, you simply must!
The Russian bear is back - and this time it's gas-powered
· Petrodollars give Putin weight on world stage
· America is 'nervous and angry', say observers
In the Kremlin on Thursday a little-known but powerful Russian official held court for the first time before foreign journalists with a very simple message: Russia is great and getting greater by the week.
Sergei Sobyanin, a former governor of the oil-rich region of Tyumen, chief of staff to President Vladimir Putin, and one of the mightiest men in Russia, was enlarging on his leader's state-of-the-nation speech 24 hours earlier in which Mr Putin identified the key to Russia's progress in both human and military regeneration.
The shrinking of Russia's population had to be reversed. Russian mothers would be paid to have more babies. And for the first time in ages, Mr Putin talked of missiles and nuclear rearmament.
Off to the farmers' market and other exciting venues. I am hoping that the first aspargus is out. (We have truly lovely aspargus in this part of the country.)
Have a good day and I was not chiding anyone, I just wanted to point out that if *I* can use key fields to access other data bases, so can they - and a hellova lot better than I can.
Have good day, moonbats.
Cauliflower with white cheese sauce. Chicken with white sauce. Mashed potatoes with cream gravy....
Thank God for paprika!
What a sick fuck Randall Terry is.
A former prosecutor who investigated Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky was still a married man when he allegedly stalked his former lover in Manhattan, his estranged wife’s sister said yesterday.
Ain't karma a bitch?
I have friends whose diet advice is to eschew all white foods.
I like Cauliflower Cheese with paprika spinkled on the top, served with Gammon.
delicious.
What a sick fuck Randall Terry is.
Karin
Agreed!
What a piece of shit.
I have friends whose diet advice is to eschew all white foods.
plantsman
Tex-Mex runs to the opposite extreme. We like to cover everything with orange grease.
But at least it's not just food coloring, a/k/a paprika.
Don't you use leftover bacon grease for the fry-up?
I had no Idea that Terry was from your neck of the woods Mary.
Sorry.
.
I have friends whose diet advice is to eschew all white foods.
plantsman
My parents went on that diet when I was a kid. They called them "glue foods."
Since much white food is based on refined carbs, it's actually not a terrible idea.
And chocolate ice cream is brown!
tonight my mother is cooking for me kedgeree for dinner tonight.
Kedgeree (or occasionally kitcherie, kitchari or kitchiri) is a dish consisting of flaked fish (usually smoked haddock), boiled rice, eggs and butter. It originated amongst the British colonials in India and hence was introduced to the United Kingdom as a popular breakfast dish in Victorian times, part of the then fashionable Anglo-Indian cuisine. During that time, fish was often served for colonial breakfasts so that fish caught in the early morning could be eaten while it was still fresh. It is rarely eaten for breakfast now, but is still a common food.
But at least it's not just food coloring, a/k/a paprika
Ah, RMJ - next time I am in Budapest I know what to get you. You will change you mind, I promise.
There's a wonderful baked eggs and meaty, mushroomy breakfast souffle sort of thing in the venerable San Francisco A La Carte cookbook that was a Christmas morning favorite for years among my friends and I.
(We have truly lovely aspargus in this part of the country.)
DWD is right. I ate the best asparagus of my life in Michigan, one May, even though I grew up with my grandfather's asparagus patch. Must be something about the soil there, it had the most incredible slightly nutty flavor to it. Add some fresh caught morels, and you're in heaven.
My grandmother use to say that refined sugar was an invention of the white man to keep brown skinned people sick and in need of charity.
Good paprika has a rich flavor.
Juliette Kayyem (?) is explaining on MSNBC how the phone tracking "patterns" work. on Maury and Connie, of all things. Excellent.
lb0313,
In goulash, yes, but in the white trash cuisine of my youth, paprika is used "for color."
Poll: Clinton outperformed Bush
They needed a POLL to tell us THAT?
Anyone who didn't have their head up their ass from 1993-2001 knew THAT.
Bill Maher said last night that a poll was taken asking who would folks vote for if an election was held today...Bill or Chimpy?
Clinton - 68%
The audience cheered their asses off when he said that.
Contact has been made.
My grandmother use to say that refined sugar was an invention of the white man to keep brown skinned people sick and in need of charity.
...And then someone came up with high-fructose
corn syrup!
next time I am in Budapest I know what to get you. You will change you mind, I promise.
Good paprika adds a wonderful depth of flavor.
RMJ, you'd also like smoked paprika, I think.
D-8 group makes no comment on Iran nuclear dispute
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - A summit of eight Muslim-majority nations did not specifically discuss the dispute over Iran's nuclear programme, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Saturday.
The Developing Eight's final declaration did not refer to the matter, but Yudhoyono said he told his Iranian counterpart directly "that a continued cooperation should be made between Iran and the IAEA to have a peaceful, just solution".
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad responded that he was willing to continue talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency and pursue other diplomatic discussions, Yudhoyono said.
I thought corn syrup was glucose, which makes it even worse than sugar.
UNE,
Our most famous native sons are Randall Terry and Rod Serling.
It's a sad little town.
and in the white trash culture of my youth, crushed potato chips or tater tots covered everything.
listenin' to the 'white foods' eaten in teh midwest and southren fried foods, makes me glad i live between boston and new york
lots of ethnic foods everywhere...we dont even have too many 'american' food restaurants except for a few cracker barrel rest'rants
give me Chana Masala any day (vegan)
Europe love paprika crisps, they seem to have no other flavour heh
Democrats lick chops, see GOP weak
A few Democratic incumbents -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz, of Weston; Robert Wexler, of Boca Raton; Corrine Brown, of Jacksonville; and Allen Boyd, of Monticello -- automatically won new terms Friday when no one filed to run against them.
Most of Florida's voting districts favor Republicans because the majority party redrew the boundaries after the 2000 U.S. Census. But Democrats are banking on voter discontent with the Iraq war and high gas prices to give them an edge.
Republicans are also worried that Harris' presence on the ballot will prove polarizing.
"All politics is local" - Tip O'Neill
Clinton - 68%
The audience cheered their asses off when he said that.
And then began to quietly sob.
In goulash, yes, but in the white trash cuisine of my youth, paprika is used "for color."
NYMary
That of course, comes from the Schilling can that was purchased when the household was set up originally.
i enjoy roast dinners as much as I enjoy a good curry or an excellent chinese meal.
Oh, and Randall Terry.
Let's not forget that great champion of the blastocysts.
Terry C, One of the 71%
Oh, you WERE talking about that moron.
I came in late, having just gotten up.
Carry on!
begala can go fuck himself. hoho ran for dnc chair on exactly this platform and won.
i think certain people have never been comfortable with him in that role, hence the continual sliming of the man.
they'd like to take us back to the former dnc chair mcalliff's era of sucking up to wealthy and corporate interests and the regular dispensing of $ to the consultant class and candidates they can control.
my guess is that the dccc and dscc have experienced a dropoff in donations after seeing people like hackett get fucked by them, and want some of that dnc cash. i won't give to either the dccc or dscc but i'll gladly give a few bucks to hd for the 50 state strategy.
and in the white trash culture of my youth, crushed potato chips or tater tots covered everything.
On Christmas, those crunchy onions!
Clinton - 68%
The audience cheered their asses off when he said that.
And then began to quietly sob.
pie
For the reality is, we've stuck with Prince Fuckwit.
Thanks to people who DID have their heads up their asses in both 2000 and 2004.
I've been eschewing white foods for the past 8 weeks, and so far I've lost 16 pounds. Even with the occasional french fries or gooey chocolate brownie sundae. Actually, ice cream is better on this regimen than white bread, white rice, or potatoes...because the fat and protein in the ice cream slow down the processing of the sugars and the resulting impact on insulin levels.
Paprika played a prominent role in the Mittel European cuisine of my youth. Also, caraway, dill, sour cream. I make a mean cabbage strudel, using all of the above.
Our most famous native sons are Randall Terry and Rod Serling.
It's a sad little town.
NYMary
Rod Serling was okay in my book.
On Christmas, those crunchy onions!
And cream of mushroom soup...
That of course, comes from the Schilling can that was purchased when the household was set up originally.
A little dab'll do ya! (and at that rate, the can lasts ten years!)
US says Iraqi army units clash
The U.S. military said fighting broke out between two Iraqi army units after an insurgent attack on an army patrol outside the small town of Dhuluiya, 15 km (10 miles) from Balad. It said the insurgent attack had killed a soldier and wounded several others.
Police said four soldiers were killed in the insurgent attack.
The U.S. statement said soldiers from the patrol that had been attacked -- from the 1st Battalion of the 4th Division's 3rd Brigade -- took their wounded to Balad. It did not explain why they later tried to remove them from its hospital.
It said they were then confronted by another Iraqi army unit -- the 3rd Battalion of the same division's 1st Brigade -- trying to stop them from leaving.
Just to be clear, White wine is NOT a food, right?
hello lovelies, just have a few minutes at a local internet spot, came by to hope all is well and fine for the Eschatonian crews. Give my love to those who deserve it, and Leitrim is so damn beautiful right now, I might never come home.
Well, that's what I told Mr Red on the phone.
I hear there are hookers in the Watergate? Porter Goss resigned? I don't get much news here, and this is the first time I've been able to find a hot spot since I got here.
Sounds like there's been all sorts of fun and games while I'm communing with my Gods and Goddesses and spoiling the godschildren rotten.
Rod Serling was okay in my book.
Yep. But note that he left, and that his work is filled with human grotesques. Faulkner's south ha nothing on this place, I swear.
"As a result, Democrats say they will not hesitate to aggressively question Mr. Bush's choice to head the Central Intelligence Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, who is the former director of the N.S.A., at a hearing set for next Thursday."(
(before rolling over and voting for him)
Craig Crawford had one too many cucumber martinis?
Relying on what lost the last two elections just doesn't make any sense
Then again, did we REALLY lose the last two elections?
Hey, you Bay Area Atriots - we're trying to set up a meet-and-greet.
Sign in, please!
Oh, I dunno. Don't you use leftover bacon grease for the fry-up?
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
I'm reminded of the Lewis Black bit, where he says that diet is all guesswork, that we're all just too different to make generalizations.
He speaks of reading about a 100-plus-year-old man who was interviewed about his dietary habits--seems he'd narrowed it down to bread fried in fatback. Asked why he didn't use bacon, he responded that bacon was too lean.
Black then says that if a doctor had heard this, he'd say, "What is wrong with you?" The doctor would put the old guy on a diet of fruits and vegetables, and then he'd be dead!
--------
Also reminds me of this anecdote about Eubie Blake:
"Although he had smoked since he was six and refused to drink water, Eubie Blake lived to be 100 years old. 'If I'd known I was going to live this long,' Blake once remarked, 'I'd have taken better care of myself!'"
I must stir my stumps and get these remaining tomatoes planted before the temperature goes over 100. Speaking of food.
I thought corn syrup was glucose, which makes it even worse than sugar.
Glucose is the simple sugar that appears in the food cycles of almost all animals and plants, it can be used in chemical reactions in bodies directly and immediately, sucrose must be split in two, fructose is fruit suger -- and now I'm way out of my depth of understanding, but I have read repeatedly that high-fructose corn syrup is implicated in the epidemics of both diabetes and obesity in this country.
My grandmother use to say that refined sugar was an invention of the white man to keep brown skinned people sick and in need of charity.
HBK,
I think I would have liked your grandmother very much!
.
The U.S. military said fighting broke out between two Iraqi army units
Just remember, there is no civil war in Iraq.
It's a sad little town..
At least you had Serling!
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Hey, Jen. Good for you!
A little dab'll do ya! (and at that rate, the can lasts ten years!)
NYMary
I'm still only about halfway thru the box of salt I bought in 1995 and took with me to Leavenworth.... I plan to get every last bit of my .39 out of it.
NMRed, the FBI raided Foggo's office at the CIA headquarters in Langley. What fun we had yesterday!
Our most famous native sons are Randall Terry and Rod Serling.
Is that gazebo in the town park still there? The one Serling featured so prominently in "Walking Distance" with Gig Young?
I saw photos of it compared to the "Walking Distance" set and it was a damn near exact match!
Venezuela's president is using oil revenues to liberate the poor—no wonder his enemies want to overthrow him
John Pilger
Well that's exactly the sort of thing we expect from John...
In my Southern white trash youth, deviled eggs without a power-puff full of papika each were unheard of.
Oh Good, I feel better already
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/fro...3670.xml&
coll=1
For some reason I now feel compelled to go find vegetables. It is Creole tomato time.
I came in late, having just gotten up.
Carry on!
I thought about saying something.........
Thanks pie. It's not been bad at all, though it is getting a bit boring.
At the risk of being accused of posting "shallow" stuff:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...1206.DTL&
nl=fix
Son of top Iraqi judge shot dead
Gunmen have killed the son of Iraq's top judge and two of his bodyguards and dumped their bodies in Baghdad, officials say.
On Saturday, police found the bodies of Ahmed Midhat al-Mahmoud, 22, a lawyer, and two of his bodyguards in northern Baghdad's Azamiyah district, said Busho Ibrahim Ali, Iraq's deputy justice minister.
The killings came five months after the judge, Midhat al-Mahmoud, survived a December 4 suicide bomb attack against his home.
Al-Mahmoud leads the Supreme Judicial Council, a judicial supervisory body that, among other things, swears in all judges and parliament.
...But it was sad. Jamiel apparently thought if he were honest, his dad would temper his rhetoric. But no, Terry ramped it up and included some really nasty racial stuff as he disowned his son.
NYMary
Reading that Jamiel Terry story reminded me of Chris Rock's remark that "whoever you hate will end up in your family."
Our most famous native sons are Randall Terry and Rod Serling.
Is that gazebo in the town park still there? The one Serling featured so prominently in "Walking Distance" with Gig Young?
I saw photos of it compared to the "Walking Distance" set and it was a damn near exact match!
dave™©
I LOVE when SciFi does the "Twilight Zone" marathons.
Usually during the 4th of July weekend.
Is that gazebo in the town park still there? The one Serling featured so prominently in "Walking Distance" with Gig Young?
I saw photos of it compared to the "Walking Distance" set and it was a damn near exact match!
I'm not sure which one that is, but he did model a lot based on stuff around here.
Think sex and drugs destroy America? Try naive chastity. Oh, and "Purity Balls"
Hmmph! Me and my purity balls are gonna take our sac and go home!
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...1206.DTL&
nl=fix
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I love that the media is two full weeks behind the blogosphere.
It surprises me that a fascist like Randall Terry would "sully" his family by bringing "mixed" children into it.
He's a total piece of shit.
What if your balls are impure?
I love that the media is two full weeks behind the blogosphere.
NYMary
ALWAYS!
Why does Murhy's Law apply so intensley in Iraq?
"Purity Balls" sounds like a bad porn star name.
It surprises me that a fascist like Randall Terry would "sully" his family by bringing "mixed" children into it.
Well, he rescued them from their mom and used them as stage props for years, proving what a tolerant soul he was. "See? I even raise these children, though they're not white like Jesus!"
Indonesia volcano on "danger" status
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia raised the alert status of the Mount Merapi volcano to the highest level on Saturday, prompting a compulsory evacuation of thousands of residents living on the slopes, officials said.
"This morning we raised the status of Merapi to the top alert, which is the red code. Every resident has been ordered to evacuate," Subandrio, head of the Merapi section at the Center for Volcanological Research and Technology Development, told Reuters.
Residents said they could see lava flowing and thick smoke rising from Merapi, one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the Pacific "Ring of Fire" that has been rumbling for weeks.
"I could see the lava clearly from my home this morning. Then they ordered us to evacuate our village," said Anton, a 25-year-old resident of Boyong village, around 8 km (5 miles) from Merapi.
I have read repeatedly that high-fructose corn syrup is implicated in the epidemics of both diabetes and obesity in this country.
plantsman
And unlike simple sugars, the body cannot efficiently break down high fructose syrup, insulin cannot deal with it no matter how much is poured out, and the only solution is to store it - mostly in the form of brown, abdominal fat which you don't want to know about. Eating plain old white or brown or unrefined sugar or even molasses has two (three if you split one of them out) absolute side effects. It will make you fat (overstimulate your insulin activity) and rot your teeth. High fructose corn syrup - once thought of as simply Karo syrup, useful for making taffy - will kill you. It's in EVERYTHING now. It's the stuff that must be avoided.
D'oh
Why does Murphy's Law apply so intensley in Iraq?
Think sex and drugs
Okay, I will!
At the risk of being accused of posting "shallow" stuff:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...1206.DTL&
nl=fix
Terry C, One of the 71%
It seems that the only thing the "Sexual Revolution" did in this country was to make it easier to talk about how perversely prudish and messed up we still are.
D'oh
Why does Murphy's Law apply so intensley in Iraq?
plantsman | Homepage | 05.13.06 - 10:31 am | #
Because Rumsfeld is in charge?
my Central American love, always made her tuna-salad with tomatos, lemon, and peppers, and love... godess, i miss her so much.
Chirac becomes a figure of fun - by being himself
Satire uses archive TV clips from 40-year career 'No violence but plenty of corpses,' say creators
He is beset by allegations of a political smear campaign, has been forced to deny the existence of a secret Japanese bank account, and is being described as the embodiment of the decline of France. But just when Jacques Chirac thought things could not get worse, he is about to make history as the first French president to be immortalised as a complete buffoon on the cinema screen, in a satirical documentary by two Oscar winners.
Dans la Peau de Jacques Chirac - Being Jacques Chirac - played to tears of laughter at Paris previews this week. It will open in France on May 31 as part of a phenomenon the newspaper Liberation calls "Chiracophobia: the new national sport".
Moonbootica,
I haven't seen anyone mention this here, but it's undoubtedly related.
Isn't Reagan supposed to be some kind of conservative republican hero?
"Spy agencies historically avoided domestic operations out of concern for
Pentagon regulations and Reagan-era executive order, known as 12333, that restricted intelligence collection on American citizens and companies. Its budget, like all intelligence agencies, is classified."
Good morning, batses!
Fresh strawberries, coffee, croissants and bloodys at the buffet table.
As some bright kid mentioned earlier in the week, they are pissed simply because money they expected to fall in their pockets is being channelled elsewhere.
These fools are reminicent of the people who voted their pocketbooks during the Raygun years.
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UNE DigiLynchMobster™
Bush can rape the economy, start illegal wars, spy on Americans - that's okay.
But when it gets too expensive for them to drive their BMWs and Lexuses, THAT makes them angry.
Sounds fucked to me!
"If only HoHo would've given them more of the dough they would've won. Who knows, they might be right."
How much money is 'enough?'
How much is 'just enough?'
How much is 'too little?'
And how much is 'too much?'
I get the impression these people have a racket going and like most others would under the same situation are leaving these little meetings with Dean saying "I don't like this sumbitch f*cking with my money!!"
Personally, when it comes to the congress this strategy can work, but only if the republicans are continually shown as incompetent and corrupt. Should the dems take over all the blame for the problems will be rested once more on thier heads. But it will be the machine in place like the one that Dean is strying to install that will help keep them from losing too much as a result of their having spent so much time correcting the mistakes made by 6 years of complete and total republican rule.
MYOB'
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Isn't Reagan supposed to be some kind of conservative republican hero?
Saint Ronald of the Monster Deficit.
Shitty actor, even shittier president.
Fresh strawberries, coffee, croissants and bloodys at the buffet table.
Save me a seat!
I'm not sure which one that is, but he did model a lot based on stuff around here.
One of his greatest episodes - a harried ad exec splits the Big City and ends up in his old hometown... of course, it just so happens it's the hometown of 30 years earlier, with a soda shop and a merry-go-round and big white gazebo in the town square... not to mention his parents and a version of himself as a kid. Serling based the town on his old hometown, and the protagonist's situation pretty much mirrored what was going on in his own life at the time.
Rutabaga is where vegetables meet "gamey." IMHO.
One of my favorite dishes is baked rutabaga. You bake it with eggs and milk and brown breadcrumbs and some dark molasses and nutmeg, and the trick is a very low oven temperature and a very long baking time. It's delicious.
D'oh
Why does Murphy's Law apply so intensley in Iraq?
plantsman
Because Rumsfeld is in charge?
rorschach
We have a winnah!
Fresh strawberries, coffee, croissants and bloodys at the buffet table.
Save me a seat!
plantsman | Homepage | 05.13.06 - 10:35 am | #
Morning! Ill take some. Waiting for the lawyer who demanded I be here at 10:00AM and it is now past 10:30. ARRRRGGH!!
Ew. Ick.
Rupert Murdoch is supporting Hillary Clinton...
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, whose Fox News Channel and other conservative news outlets have been skewering Hillary Rodham Clinton for years, will host a summer fundraiser for the senator, mystifying some observers and enraging others.
Especially incensed are liberal activists, who for months have decried what's seen as a shift to a right on Clinton's part as the Democrat contemplates a run for president in 2008. They are stunned that she is associating with a man viewed as a cornerstone of the "vast right-wing conspiracy," the term Clinton herself coined.
"Hillary, help us. Who the hell are you?" thundered Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen.
I LOVE when SciFi does the "Twilight Zone" marathons.
In my younger days, I've watched a full 24 hours! With only a couple of brief naps...
dave™©:
From what I understand, Serling had a very happy childhood.
His parents pretty much encouraged him and his brother to be whatever they wanted to be.
Twilight Zone, what a great show.
Too bad there's nothing like that on TV now.
I have read repeatedly that high-fructose corn syrup is implicated in the epidemics of both diabetes and obesity in this country.
I don't do corn sweetners either.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, whose Fox News Channel and other conservative news outlets have been skewering Hillary Rodham Clinton for years, will host a summer fundraiser for the senator, mystifying some observers and enraging others.
RUpert Murdoch is a power hungry piece of shit who goes in whatever direction the wind blows.
He sees the Repukes losing power and he's deserting the sinking ship.
That said, what the FUCK is Hillary THINKING?????
bush pulls down to 29
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/20...proval-ratings/
Echidne of the snakes, that rutabaga recipe sounds wonderful. and even i have an odd fondness for well prepared 'neeps and tatees.'
Twilight Zone, what a great show.
Too bad there's nothing like that on TV now.
BlakNo1
My favorite show is "Night Call."
Gladys Cooper is an invalid who is getting these strange phone calls.
Turns out a telephone wire had broken and was lying on her fiance's grave...he'd been making the calls.
Twilight Zone, what a great show.
Too bad there's nothing like that on TV now.
BlakNo1
FOX "news" requires Twilight Zone makeovers of its female on-camera staff.
It surprises me that a fascist like Randall Terry would "sully" his family by bringing "mixed" children into it.
He's a total piece of shit.
Terry C, One of the 71%
They were less children than artifacts, symbols to promote a Christian brand image. Unfortunately for Randall Terry, these adjuncts to his "merciful, loving" veneer were capable of reason, and responded in kind to his lack of genuine loving mercy, or of any scruples connected to self-promotion.
Tricky creatures, human beings.
That said, what the FUCK is Hillary THINKING?????
Per usual, she's not saying.
FOX "news" requires Twilight Zone makeovers of its female on-camera staff.
olvlzl
Fux News IS the fucking Twilight Zone!
Holy shit Mary, Mt St Helens is beginning to look like a giant shark!!
The historical geologic turmoil evidenced in the great northwest has always made me a bit nervous about the idea of living in the region.
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500,000 illegal boreholes adding to Spain's water crisis, says WWF
Spain's scarce water supply is being siphoned by more than 500,000 illegal boreholes and sold through a profitable black market to farmers and developers in the arid south, the international environmental group WWF (formerly the World Wide Fund for Nature) has claimed.
The amount of water stolen from underground reservoirs each year would be enough to satisfy the average consumption of 58 million people - more than the population of this drought-prone country where one-third of the land risks turning into desert. Instead, it is used to irrigate a surplus of crops, keep golf courses green and supply new hotels and housing complexes, the 15-page report said.
"Many developments are based on the illegal use of water," said Guido Schmidt, head of the Freshwater Programme at WWF in Spain.
If I didn't know any better, and I'm not necessarily saying that I do, I'd suspect that Hillary wants to be viewed as conservative.
Don't you unhinged moonbats know that Condoleeza Rice is in charge of Iraq? The preznit said so!
Yes, what the fuck IS Hillary thinking? Any democratic contender can make an issue of Hillary's issues. Really odd to dodge to the right as the tide shifts to the left. But some friends insist she must have an agenda.
That said, what the FUCK is Hillary THINKING?????
Hillary is thinking "Money. Access to power. The media in my corner."
Fux News IS the fucking Twilight Zone!
Terry C, One of the 71%
" ....but of thought and mind."?
Naw, it's Lost in Space.
Foggo getting search warranted after resignation, Goss gone, Wheeeee!!!!!!!!
I've warned Mr Red he must call me if he hears that Rove gets indicted. maybe I should send WGG my irish phone number, I think he'd notice first, and I think he'd be willing to make the call....
and yes, the Guinness is just as fine at Cryan's as it always was.
A crowded room, friends with tired eyes
I'm hiding from you and your soul of ice
My God I thought you were someone to rely on
Me? I guess I was a shoulder to cry on
A face on a lover with a fire in his heart
A man undercover but you tore me apart
Now I've found a real love you'll never fool me again A face on a lover with a fire in his heart
A man undercover but you tore me apart
Next year I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone special special someone someone
I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone special who'll give me something in return
I'll give it to someone hold my heart and watch it burn I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone special I've got you here to stay
I can love you for a day I thought you were someone special gave you my heart I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone last christmas I gave you my heart you gave it away I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone Last Christmas, I gave you my heart But the very next day, You gave it away This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special................
Artist: wham!................-/+
"The monsters are due on Maple St" is my favorite, made over 40 years ago and still disgustingly relevant.
Don't you unhinged moonbats know that Condoleeza Rice is in charge of Iraq? The preznit said so!
Michelle Malkin
Fuck you, KindaSleazy AND your preznit, you wall-eyed Rabid Pekingese.
The historical geologic turmoil evidenced in the great northwest has always made me a bit nervous about the idea of living in the region.
But, but, 'dormant' volcanoes, like Mt. Hood are so pretty.
NMRed,
I am soooooo jealous. Have a great time, and have a Walnut Whip for me!
Norwegian Rutabaga souffle:
While 1 lb of raw rutabaga chunks are steaming or boiling,
Combine 1 c. fresh bread crumbs
1 c. milk
3 egg yolks
3 tbsp melted butter
Mash the cooked rutabaga and add to the mixture.
Beat the 3 egg whites till frothy, adding a pinch of salt as you beat them.
Gently fold into the rutabaga mixture, & transfer to a buttered souffle dish.
Place dish in a pan of hot water and bake about 50 min. at 350. Don't open the door while it's baking!
"The monsters are due on Maple St" is my favorite, made over 40 years ago and still disgustingly relevant.
BlakNo1
Oh, absolutely.
My daughter's always loved "Will The REAL Martian Please Stand Up?"
Actually you should beat the egg whites till stiff, that was a typo.
But some friends insist she must have an agenda.
Anjin
I'm hoping it's a case of "use 'em and then kick 'em to the curb."
But that's being naive.
Good morning, everyone!
I don't mean to be spammy but I switched my long distance from AT&T to the progressive Working Assets a couple years ago. They're a great company, they donate millions of dollars each year to progressive groups, and the prices are very competitive. If I could switch to their wireless service I would, but I'm still locked into a contract with Cingular.
Anyway, I just got an e-mail from the president of Working Assets saying they oppose the NSA trolling/fishing crap they are doing. They are the only telephone company participating in an ACLU lawsuit against the NSA. Read about it here:
Working Assets joins the blogosphere in opposition to Big Telecom/NSA database
They're a great company with progressive values, if anyone is looking for an alternative to Bellsouth, AT&T, etc.
Okay kids, must go play in the rain briefly as I walk to the supermarket. Peace!
Is that a cloud of smog that's been hanging around Mt. Hood on recent "clear" days?
Weekend mornings here can be so pleasant.
Karin, that sounds excellent! I love rutabagas and turnips. PLus, they're dirt cheap.
"The monsters are due on Maple St" is my favorite, made over 40 years ago and still disgustingly relevant.
One of my favorites as well!
Starring Claude Akins who was born in a town about 20 miles south of here.
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Pony owls.
Since you're talking food, this my first post.
NPR Watch
Good Lord, Morning edition, haven't you milked that Rocky Mounatin Oyster story once too often?
Is that a cloud of smog that's been hanging around Mt. Hood on recent "clear" days?
Possibly, but remember also that tree and flowering shrub pollen are off the charts right now, and dust is getting kicked up out east. And clouds of clouds form there a lot of the time.
But, but, 'dormant' volcanoes, like Mt. Hood are so pretty.
That they are.........but that NatGeo article on the cascade range a few years back, scare the bejeesus outta me.
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Moonbootica,
I haven't seen anyone mention this here, but it's undoubtedly related.
NYMary
The slow steady way that volcanic activity builds up a mountain, and the study of extinct buried volcanoes, was one of the early indications to 19th century scientists that the Earth was much older than previouly thought.
Add volcanoes to the list of things that make creationists plug their ears and cry, "La, la, la, la, la, hallelujah, I can't hear you!"
Good morning, Liberal Elitists.
I will take Hillary Clinton as president over any Republican.
Did you know that Gloria Whoreger (a/k/a "Borger") did an entire report on L'Affaire de Dusty Foggo lst night without ever saying the word "Republican" last night?
From my own experience, earthquakes are lots more scary and humbling than living near old volcanoes. But then I read about the rotted-out nature of Mt. Ranier and the chance for devastating pyroclastic flows to Puget Sound, and that gives ME pause.
Weekend mornings here can be so pleasant.
plantsman | Homepage | 05.13.06 - 10:48 am | #
Yes. And the more so because you are here.
I saw Gloria, she was nauseating. WW is pitiful lately.
Pony-rific Owls.
"I will take Hillary Clinton as president over any Republican."
As much as I hate to say it, yes.
If only to get Bill back in the WH.
I'm sure everyone has seen this:
Largest Hummer to Go the Way of the Dodo
I see H1's around here every now and then. Apparently they get 10 mpg, cost $140,000, and they have TWO gas tanks which cost around $150 to fill up.
Anyone still driving one of these is a supreme asshole.
But then I read about the rotted-out nature of Mt. Ranier and the chance for devastating pyroclastic flows to Puget Sound, and that gives ME pause.
Ding ding ding.
The article also touched on the evedence of massive pyroclastic flows from some tremendous explosion of mount shasta. Apparently untill pinotubo, they had not been sure of what the features really were, primarily due to the scale (orders of magnitude larger than pinotubo)
Yikes.
April 14, 2006 | AT&T Loses A Customer Over NSA Lawsuit
AT&T has lost at least one customer due to the class action lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation accusing the telecom giant of wiretapping the Internet on behalf of the National Security Agency (NSA).
That customer? Judge Vaughn Walker, the San Francisco District Chief Judge who is assigned to the case.
In an order Walker released today, the judge told the parties that he was an AT&T phone customer when the case was assigned to him, so he switched telecom providers to avoid a conflict of interest. Walker did not say what company he switched to, or if he got a better long distance rate.
Being a former AT&T customer also makes him a potential member of the class suing AT&T, so he foreswore any money he might be entitled to.
Walker is not recusing himself, however, and cited a number of cases supporting his position. He also mentions that if he had to do so, so too would almost every judge in the district since it's highly likely that some member of every judge's family was an AT&T subscriber. Walker is giving both AT&T and the EFF a week to file briefs agreeing or disagreeing (or in AT&T's case, to offer him free conference calling if he comes back into the fold). After that, Walker says he will stat to rule on the flurry of motions filed this week..........................
http://www.secondaryscreening.ne...ves/the_courts/
Echidne of the snakes, that rutabaga recipe sounds wonderful. and even i have an odd fondness for well prepared 'neeps and tatees.'
plantsman
It really is good. Especially good if you use cream instead of milk in the making of it. It's one of those dishes where a mysterious chemical thing happens with the molasses and the nutmeg and the rutabagas so that the final product has a new taste.
It was Rob Emmanuel who was bitching; a Clintonite, DLCer.
Do these people have any idea how sick many of us are of them and their whackjob consultants.
Old Rob can kiss my ass. I will not respond to any of his fund raising emails.
When Howard calls I respond in whatever way I can. But I really don't have much trust for inside the beltway people, or bubble people as I call them, with a few exceptions
I'm sure everyone has seen this:
Largest Hummer to Go the Way of the Dodo
I see H1's around here every now and then. Apparently they get 10 mpg, cost $140,000, and they have TWO gas tanks which cost around $150 to fill up.
Anyone still driving one of these is a supreme asshole.
Litz
Quit selling them.
Now, if they will just quit selling giant RVs and have a moratorium on 4 wheelers, which run on gasoline and are ubiquitous and little pollution packages to boot, we might make some progress.
It really is good. Especially good if you use cream instead of milk in the making of it. It's one of those dishes where a mysterious chemical thing happens with the molasses and the nutmeg and the rutabagas so that the final product has a new taste.
Echidne
O my god, that sounds wonderful. Like Mary, I love turnips and I especially love rutabagas.
deal with diebold or never win again.
Begala is a fucking wanker who cares only for how much money he and Carville can't rake in from suckers willing to listn to their bullshit.
I'm starting to wish Dean would start his own party. Become an Independent Dean! So tired of these so called Democrats willing to stick it to their own. WTF we have a constitutional crisis here and these aholes would prefer to smell their own stinky socks than take on the real issues.
Ya tellin me that them there folks in dem fancy shirts and pinned stripe suits thinks about me and meh family when deh sits on TV.
Well it justs brings a joy to me heart folks to see such a people akarin about we plain folks.
We have sorry ass marketing. No appeal to moderates and undecided voters. Here it is lame 25 buck a dinner spaghetti feeds with second hand prizes for raffles. No class. I am not a materialistic person but I am embarrassed.
It doesnt hurt to kick it up and make an impression.
Actually, I doubt that any amount of money would have won those shills the race.
Money doesn't equal passion or creativity, which was lacking in just about everything they did.
Begala and the Clintonistas are responsible for the demise of Dean from the 2004 election. They were setting the stage and paving the way for Hillary. Nice.
Begala, Carville, Emmanuel, and all the other Cintonistas are history. They need to be told their jig is up and to go away. Yet they deliberately get themselves on the news daily.
And Hillary needs to shut her big, foul mouth and stay out of it. We liked Bill -- not YOU.
The 50 state strategy is the only sound one to follow for building a stable Democratic majority-period. Rahm Emmanuel, Pelosi and others who are unhappy with Dean simply don't like the fact the the money is leaving their hands and can't be used to leverage influence over candidates who don't think much of grabbing their ankles for the GOP. They also don't like the fact that this form of decentralization is breaking the daisy chain of Beltway consultants who take their cut of every dime spent. If Howard needs money this summer or in the fall, he just has to ask. I will pony up till it hurts.
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