Gravatar Dance party!!


Gravatar (waves at TRex) Have fun tonight hon!


Gravatar (waves at TRex) Have fun tonight hon!
LoudounLib


Do you like my outfit? Do these pants make my tail look fat?


Gravatar Oh no, not at all -- you look mahvelous. I haven't figured out how to quote a previous comment yet :-(


Gravatar I'll explain it to you tomorrow, I promise.

Have a good night!


Gravatar Hey, don't do anything WE wouldn't do -- IOW, tear it up out there tonight


Gravatar But we need you!!!

Have fun, and don't scuff your dancin' shoes!


Gravatar he went dancing without us!!!

ack!

and i was gonna blog whore and everything!

http://frecklescassie.wordpress.com/


Gravatar See what bad habits the young develop when they hang about such dens of iniquity as this?

;>)


Gravatar No problemo, we'll just help ourselves to the beer and munchies in the fridge.

Hey, can we turn up your stereo?

See ya later....


Gravatar Memories...not even leaving the house for a night out till 11, closing the club at 3, off to some gut busting eatery for really bad food, then home as the sun rises. Good times. At least I think they were, it's hard to remember now ;0)


Gravatar hey oddmommy! I'd say we were both doing the same kinds of things at the same time in our lives *g*


Gravatar ack -- make that "hi madmommy!"

sheesh!


Gravatar Good post Cassie. The lack of mental health services is a HUGE problem in NOLA, and it's not gonna get better any time soon. But it's ok, these poor people can just go to the ER and everything will be just ducky.


Gravatar LL, make it HI CASSIE!


Gravatar I can do that too -- Hi Cassie!!


Gravatar Hi Loudounlib!


Gravatar Hey LL! I'm beginning to think I should change my nom de blog to help with confusion, but I kinda like it. What to do, what to do?


Gravatar no, madmommy, keep your nom de blog -- I like it too, and I'm obviously confused enough already!


Gravatar hey oddmommy! I'd say we were both doing the same kinds of things at the same time in our lives

Oh boy, let's tell war stories of our youthful indiscretions!!

You guys go first!!


Gravatar Hi, y'all! TRex went dancin' without us?


Gravatar Great opportunity. Let's decorate the treehouse and dress up the cats!


Gravatar Oh boy, let's tell war stories of our youthful indiscretions!!

You guys go first!!
hwmnbn


Depends...is the statute of limitations expired?


Gravatar SunnyNobility-
Ever tried to dress up a cat, especially a Siamese? The often do not appreciate it and it can become very painful for teh hooman very quickly :0)


Gravatar LL
Depends on the infraction-are we talking felonies or misdemeanors


Gravatar Yep madmommy -- just witness some of those dressed-up cats on Icanhascheezburger...they are not amused!


Gravatar shit, he's not here and i wore a dress and makeup and everything.


Gravatar LL says:

Oh no, not at all -- you look mahvelous. I haven't figured out how to quote a previous comment yet :-(


Highlight, copy, new comment, put in a blockquote tag, and paste. Don't forget to close the blockquote tag.


Gravatar not me suzanne.

my pajamas and a sweatshirt


Gravatar LL
Depends on the infraction-are we talking felonies or misdemeanors
madmommy


I'd better hush up for now, Cassie is still here! *g*


Gravatar Cassie is having her own indescretions thank you!


Gravatar hi burnsie, and thanks -- I may have stumbled upon how to quote, at least in a rudimentary fashion.

Rumor is, from comments in an earlier thread here, that Wordpress might be up and running for TRex early next week!


Gravatar I like wordpress. Much better than this.


Gravatar Hi Suz, you look mahvelous too


Gravatar Didn't dress up but this chair is rockin...good life!
Good nite!


Gravatar Depends...is the statute of limitations expired?

Yep, at 3:30 pm, yesterday.




Depends on the infraction-are we talking felonies or misdemeanors?

Let's just stick with...
"seemed like a good idea at the time"


Gravatar My misspent youth was all technically legal, as I hit the drinking age right before they raised it to 21. However, since I went to a very strict church college they sent spies to the local clubs trying to bust students breaking the rules. But Nashville has several colleges and universities and plenty of nite-life so it wasn't that hard to avoid the rats. Plus, they stuck out like sore thumbs. Everyone was dressed to dance and flirt, while they looked like a team of Mormons on bikes.


Gravatar Let's just stick with...
"seemed like a good idea at the time"
hwmnbn


That was my philosophy back then


Gravatar Yeah, when you have the munchies, stopping at the McDonald's on the corner of Bladensburg Road and New York Avenue at 2:00 a.m. seems like a good idea.

It's only when you get a look at that neighborhood in daylight that realize how f**king stupid that was.

At least that's the way it was in the late 70s.


Gravatar We would go to Krystal's (similar to White Castle) if we were short on cash, Denny's if we were flush.


Gravatar "...seemed like a good idea at the time."

The correct question is, "What do intelligent and responsible Republicans say about George Dubya Boosh?


Gravatar burns -- ding!!!

I forget where we were, sometime in the late 70's, with a group of friends in someone's dad's car...we'd left Georgetown in the dead of night and got turned around somehow and ended up probably in far Southeast...one of the guys in the car looked out at the scene in the street and said "this road leads straight to hell!"


Gravatar That was my philosophy back then

I wasn't into philosophy. My youth was geared more toward serious chemical research. Pity I wasn't in school at the time.


Gravatar All this talk of youthful indiscretions, and all of a sudden I remembered what the treehouse is lacking.

A foosball table!


Gravatar LL-
707!! Very pithy remark for the circumstances.


Gravatar Foosball would be awesome. And maybe a ping pong table.


Gravatar madmommy, that's one line that has always stayed with me, 30 years later *g*


Gravatar SunnyNobility-
Ever tried to dress up a cat, especially a Siamese? The often do not appreciate it and it can become very painful for teh hooman very quickly :0)
madmommy

--------

Awww.. not like dressing up a golden retriever, eh?

(actually, I thought you guys might bite I've got a black rescue kitteh with a big red caution sticker on his vet file - none of the other kittehs there have one. I'm *very* proud)


Gravatar We can walk to Wendy's or Gatti's pizza.


Gravatar I hardly ever drink anymore, but all this talk of youthful indiscretions has me jonesing for a 25 oz. can of Foster's. The drug of choice.


Gravatar SN, what's the caution sticker for? A bit feisty or just generally cat-like?


Gravatar Any truth to the rumor that Friday is Dollar Beer Night at the Treehouse?

And whose bogus ID did Cassie get in here on?


Gravatar ain't no age limit for the treehouse!


Gravatar Well shoot, since the host isn't here -- sure burns, dollar Fosters for you, dollar Stella for me.


Gravatar Hiya All,
Missing the numbers on the comments...I tend to get lost. Dance party? How about those 70's bell-bottoms with embroidered flowers all over the rear? Talk about the clothes being wild.


Gravatar Well, if that's all that's available, then beer it is. Hopefully there's something good in the fridge, maybe Newcastle? Turbo Dog?


Gravatar Today was payday. I've got the first round for the house.

Who's got quarters for the jukebox?


Gravatar Hey gang, I got peanuts in the shell for us to throw on the floor, some gluten free beer and diet cokes in the bag. Also, colored lights to string up just for fun.


Gravatar Laura, any candy or cookies in that bag?


Gravatar Christine, don't forget the platform shoes. My very first pair of high heels were platforms and I nearly broke my neck trying to learn how to walk in them. A giraffe on stilts is a fitting mental picture.


Gravatar Yay, Laura is here with the party accoutrements


Gravatar madmommy, betsy is going to bring platform shoes and a pink feather boah to her discogram next week.


Gravatar There's something in the fridge, I'm not sure if it's jalapeno bean dip or Juan Carlos's breakfast.

Hey suzanne, wanna taste this?...


Gravatar y'all want me to leave so you can do drugs and have sex with each other?


Gravatar How about those 70's bell-bottoms with embroidered flowers all over the rear? Talk about the clothes being wild.
Christine


Hi Chris! A girl I went to school with had American flag bellbottoms...tres wild.


Gravatar MM,
Oh yes, the platform shoes. Gosh, I remember feeling so tall -- I loved them. Quarters for jukebox let's go!


Gravatar 707 Cassie -- well no, you just stay right here!


Gravatar Let's give it a shot-see if this works.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O...78F3B6& index=33
YouTube - Little Feat,Bonnie Raitt- Dixie Chicken


Gravatar Mad Mommy-
Bit the vet tech in the boob. She was not amused, even after it stopped bleeding.


Gravatar y'all want me to leave so you can do drugs and have sex with each other?
No Cassie, that is soooo 1968ish. We're much more enlightened now.


Gravatar Sigh, I've got to leave just when the jukebox is firing up :-( Must be at work early tomorrow. Y'all have a blast, hear? Good night!


Gravatar Clapton and Winwood.

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


Gravatar Now THAT is classic. Good Life's one of the best things to ever come out of Kevin Saunderson's / Inner City's studio -- second only to their seminal hit, Big Fun.


Gravatar Good for Betsy, I am a believer in a positive outlook and you can't get much more upbeat than a feather boa and platform shoes!


Gravatar Hey LL,
I got the cut and paste, but can't find the italics on my toolbar...hmm


Flags on bb -- I think we would put anything on those pants to shake, shake, shake.


Gravatar SN, what did the vet tech do to the poor kitteh to make him bite her? Couldn't possibly have been kitteh's fault, there must have been provocation.


Gravatar

y'all want me to leave so you can do drugs and have sex with each other?


I thought you were the designated driver.


Gravatar Where can I drive y'all to Burns?


Gravatar Wonder how they got Jesse Winchester into the country for that taping with Little Feat.


Gravatar Here's another question: after a comment, I'm back at the top. How do I get to the end of comments without scrolling down. Sorry for such dumb questions (this is only the second site I've ever made comments on, except FDL).


Gravatar burns-backstory please? I was looking for a Bonnie Raitt clip when I found the Little Feat, just blown away by how young she and Emmy Lou looked.


Gravatar Just drop me anywhere along East Sixth, Cassie, and I'll crawl back to the Driskill.


Gravatar Little Feat, Emmy Lou Harris, Bonnie Rait, Stevie Winwood and Clapton...

I'm going to sound like old folks.

In my day, we had good music!!!


Gravatar christine, mac's have fn-pgdown to get to the bottom and windows have and END key.


Gravatar *Waving g'nite to LL. * Yep Cassie, I've got homemade choc. chip cookies, snicker doodles and chocolate-covered clementines.


Gravatar ooops, fn-end on the mac.


Gravatar Laura, do you need any new best friends????


Gravatar

burns-backstory please? I was looking for a Bonnie Raitt clip when I found the Little Feat, just blown away by how young she and Emmy Lou looked.


Jesse Winchester was a draft resister who went to Canada. I know he got pardoned by Carter, and I may have my dates wrong, but I thought it wasn't until some time after Lowell George died.


Gravatar Thanks Cassie! Thank goodness for our youngest and most technical. And funniest!
Chris


Gravatar mad mommy-
Said he didn't know better 'cause it's ok when he bites me.


Gravatar Gee Cassie, I thought you already WERE a best friend! Silly me. There's plenty in the bag--it's like the tree house, its inside is bigger than its outside.


Gravatar are you Laura DOTY?


Gravatar Got it in one.


Gravatar I had the timeline wrong. Winchester was part of the amnesty in 1977.


Gravatar burns,
according to the clip it's a 1977 Midnight Special but doesn't say where it was taped.


Gravatar So, Carter DID pardon Winchester, no?


Gravatar Now, where to string up the lights...hey! Isn't that a moosehead in the corner? Oh, no, wait, I think it's a jackalope.....


Gravatar are we getting a christmas tree? or wait until we move to wordpress?


Gravatar Here's another from the wayback machine.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E...78F3B6& index=29


Gravatar We're IN a tree, right? It must be christmas all the time here, and never winter.


Gravatar Hey Cassie,

I have another cyber-buddy who's your age. Her name is Ava Lowery and she has this site...

http://www.peacetakescourage.com

Both of you give me much hope for the future.

The kids are alright!


Gravatar hwmnbn--- Ava and I are good friends. She is a year older than me and two years ahead in school. She blogged with us at Youthinkleft.com the first three weeks we had the blog, but we;re still friends. She's giving a big speech tonight at her state dem dinner.


Gravatar Wow, all these oldies...

Here's my entry to establish my DFH creds...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p...h? v=p6pphVs8bF0


Gravatar The kids are alright!

Amen to that, hwmnbn. By the way, did you see that our dear Scarlet P is linked on her site? HOORAY, the demmed elusive Pimpernel is everywhere!


Gravatar scarlet P was mentioned on rachel maddow's show yesterday


Gravatar Okay, if we're going to go waaay back, here's mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X...h? v=XWwF8WlIqlY

(That's neat news about Scarlet P, Cassie)


Gravatar hwmnbn--- Ava and I are good friends.

It's a small cyber-world. You guys are terrific! You would've fit right in with our hippie nation. Except y'all are smarter.


Gravatar I'm going to catch hell for this confession. I thought the freewayblogger was a guy!!

*hwmnbn dons his flame retardant suit and goes into defensive crouch*


Gravatar Maybe we could get TRex to do this song the next time he gets inspired to go into the studio.

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


Gravatar Scarlet P is a guy. There are pictures from the meetup at Suzanne's a few weeks ago. I had thought he was a she at first as well, with the name Scarlet, but then I got the Pimpernel reference and all became clear!


Gravatar in the pics from the NorCal firepups meetup, the freewayblogger sure looked like a guy. And iirc, the Scarlet Pimpernel was a male character.


Gravatar You were right. Scarlet P stands for Scarlet Pimpernel (I'm pretty sure), you know, the novel about the French Revolution. He was at Suz's nor cal FDL meetup a couple weeks ago.

I wasn't able to go (*sigh*) but it sure seems a good time was had by all....(there's pix somewhere in the fdl archives....11/17)


Gravatar Good night. Go have the grown-up part of the party.


Gravatar I am fading fast. Good night all, I'm taking my platform shoes with the goldfish in the heels and heading of to bed. Just hope I can make it down the ladder in these damn shoes!


Gravatar I always preferred the Scarlet Pumpernickel.

http://duskman.files.wordpress.c...03/daffy- pp.jpg


Gravatar slip 'em off madmommy, smooth wood feels good on toes. MUCH better than a sprained ankle.

G'nite MM, g'nite Cassie,


Gravatar That's because you have a rye sense of humor Burns!


Gravatar Scarlet P is a guy

I knew it, I knew it, I KNEW IT!!

I'm so embarrassed now, it seems like my gender analyses criteria has some flaws.


Gravatar burns, wouldn't that be the Scarlet P, P, Pumpernickel accompanied by clouds of saliva? I do loves me some Daffy!

All right, the shoes are off and I'm headed down the ladder for true!


Gravatar remember in Dumbo when after a night of inebriation, our hero wakes up,
in a tree?

but he doesn't know how he got there ...

...

But a therapod couldn't fly ...
...


Gravatar "Coming, Melissa!"


Gravatar That's all, folks. Didn't get nearly enough sleep last night, and have an early day tomorrow (the Duke game comes on a 9:00 Pacific time, and I want to have as many errands and chores as possible done before then).

See y'all soon.


Gravatar Dang, all the cool ones hang here now...


Gravatar Cassie left, right?

*hands bong to Suzanne*

I'll get it from you tomorrow. You look fabulous in that dress, by the way.


Gravatar Sweet dreams, B.

Hi CT, hi YD J! I'm slipping off, too....worn out from 2 classes at the dojo. Hope everyone has a good weekend. (Whoever leaves last, don't forget to unplug the lights, please!)


Gravatar sweet dreams dreamt sweet, laura


Gravatar Isn't this the scarlet p "he's here, he's there, he's everywhere..."?
Gonna saunter home now - nite all


Gravatar Alright folks. I'm makin' another run.

Be back in a few....


Gravatar "they seek him here, they seek him there,
those frenchies seek him everywhere.
Be he in heaven, be he in hell,
that demmed elusive Pimpernel."

A youth spent drowned in books.


Gravatar Now good night for reals. Sweet dreams to writers and lurkers.


Gravatar Go Duke -- whip Davidson (and hire Paul Johnson!)


Gravatar Did TRex seriously leave us unsupervised in his treehouse ... Hah hah hah ... rubbing hands with glee ...

Evenin' all !

Let's pah- tay !!!


Gravatar h/t laura. mebbe I read the cliff notes (or the comic)


Gravatar how many people can the tree swing hold?


Gravatar Did TRex seriously leave us unsupervised in his treehouse ... Hah hah hah ... rubbing hands with glee ...

Evenin' all !

Let's pah- tay !!!
Petrocelli | 12.01.07 - 1:04 am | #


Hey, Let's!!! Not that late, OK?


Gravatar OK Christine, it's a deal ... except I think everyone else has gone to sleep ...


Gravatar Hi Petro! Hi everybody! great to see yall again.

elaine (f/k/a oddmommy


Gravatar Hi guys,

Just checking in but am on my way out. You carry on and party as long as you want. I'm tired

See you on the flip side.


Gravatar Hiya Elaine, how have you been ?


Gravatar hey does anybody know what jane is talking about over at FDL? Goodbye??? WTF?


Gravatar She's planning a good surprise, you can be sure.


Gravatar in the comments,
Suzanne sounds reassuring
and selise offers hints from emptywheel and dave neiwert
that it seems "known" that FDL is in for some sort of makeover or other.

see http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/30/goodbye/ #comment-1126255

we are promised this is a good thing.

jane's was more like taunted.
...


Gravatar 1:42 a.m. Hey, I don't know how to do anything here, including the TIME. Dear Petrocelli, I'm totally confused here.


Gravatar About the surprise at FDL...

I got a good vibe...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l...h? v=l4kMnMM2Fmk


Gravatar I do think folks deserve better than being treated like 5 year olds. Just sayin.


Gravatar Geeze, I stay up late watching a DVD and more changes for FDL. I gotta keep up better!


Gravatar I do think folks deserve better than being treated like 5 year olds.

I think this is fun.

I've been lurking on FDL since the Libby trial, posting infrequently, but I've always felt a part of the Lake.

You can say I have a 5-year old's trust in this community. Because they've restored my belief in this country.


Gravatar "...*hands bong to Suzanne*..."

Smooth move, Burns

;>)


Gravatar Hey,

TRex is still dancing?!?


Gravatar So here everyone is...


Gravatar At least the real late, late crew.


Gravatar This has been a very confusing blog couple of days.


Gravatar This past week has been hard on my comfy notion of blogdom.


Gravatar I hate having two browsers open and trying to figure out how much attention should be paid to which blog. Help!!!


Gravatar I'm just glad I was around for the changes, instead of getting totally sideswiped.


Gravatar You can say I have a 5-year old's trust in this community. Because they've restored my belief in this country.
hwmnbn


this is exactly what IS called for.
Right On!

jane and christy Have earned that.


Gravatar

This past week has been hard on my comfy notion of blogdom.
Shadowstalker | 12.01.07 - 2:48 am | #

Yes.


Gravatar Are we being moderated? Hmmmmm.


Gravatar TRex said he'd like to leave it unmoderated as long as nutcases don't invade.


Gravatar I'm a nutcase, hope I don't count.


Gravatar OK, unfriendly nutcases, lol.


Gravatar I'm a nutcase, hope I don't count.


I'm pretty sure he meant wingnut cases. Most likely you're cool.


Gravatar wingnut cases


Gravatar


Gravatar looks like FDL has shut down - change be happenin'?


Gravatar Good morning. All will be well.


Gravatar morning!

so nice of trex to leave the door unlocked, so we have a place to gather while the renovations (or whatever it is) are going on.

egr - when will your puac post go up at fdl?


Gravatar *sigh*

Everyone's in the treehouse...

Think it'll hold us all?


Gravatar iThink it'll hold us all?

sure - after all it's trex's place!


Gravatar Y'all still here? I'll come on up.


Gravatar so .... the new FDL has comments closed? hmmmmm....... not liking the other side quite so much ..... but i will give it time


Gravatar Well feel free to check out the news and blog posts at reality based news ---- soon to be moving to Powers & Morrison. http://www.youthinkleft.com/news/


Gravatar Up early, checking the treehouse for signs of what Jane is up to at FDL. I do like the foosball table.


Gravatar Morning Ellen.


Gravatar Good morning TRexians! Wow, big doings afoot all over: gates locked at the lake, the new treehouse, I am a bit overwhelmed. I was happy in my little rut, now everything's discombobulated. Nevertheless, change can be a good thing and I will reserve judgement till I see how it all shakes out.

BTW Betsy, digging your blog, great way to catch alot of wide ranging news and info. Between you, Cassie and TexTeen the center of the blogging universe seems to be shifting towards Austin ;0)


Gravatar Thanks madmom. As of yesterday, even my dad has agreed to check out our work sometimes.


Gravatar How Ronald Reagan caused the hostage situation at Hillary’s headquarters
from Feministe by Jay

Several of Hillary Clinton’s campaign workers were held hostage yesterday at her headquarters in Rochester, New Hampshire, and Ronald Reagan bears at least part of the blame. Richard Kim explains at The Nation - Reagan started to dismantle state-funded mental health care without creating an alternate system, and subsequent administrations have only made the problem worse.

http://www.feministe.us/blog/arc...s-headquarters/


Gravatar anyone here know anything about drupal?


Gravatar Glad the standoff in Rochester, NH turned out peacefully. Hope the poor bastard gets some treatment, but the lack of mental health support is pretty awful all over.


Gravatar 15 visitors on line - are we huddling together for comfort?


Gravatar and warmth


Gravatar oh, that was me - not used to new comment site..


Gravatar and breakfast!
http://portal.oakwood.com/ profil...fet_Closeup.jpg


Gravatar two new posts at my other place; http://texbetsy.headonradionetwork.com/


Gravatar howdy kathryn in ma!

i went sleuthing...


Gravatar i just have crappy shredded wheat with dried cranberries to offer you guys for breakfast. :-(


Gravatar selise, dah-link, you look maah-velous!


Gravatar selise, sweetie, we have to get together with our computers because i still haven't figured out how to download podcasts - do i have to buy them?


Gravatar i went sleuthing...
selise | Homepage | 12.01.07 - 9:35 am | #

what did you uncover?
the suspense is killing me.


Gravatar Let's see. I stood in the big fireplace. Threw my magic "Harry Potter" dust and ended up--here. Lots of company, I see.


Gravatar kathryn in ma - no! spending of money is not required for most podcasts - the ones i listen to anyway.

great idea - maybe we could have a meetup at a panera bread (free wifi) with our laptops? and invited any other ma folks who want to come?

i'd love to do something like that... fix you up with downloading podcasts, lots of coffee, good company and conversation.


Gravatar and warmth
smgumby | Homepage | 12.01.07 - 9:28 am | #

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first time to comment here. hoping i got the quote thing right.
smgumby - i saw in an fdl post that you gave up smoking this week. Hurrah. how long's it been now? in february it'll be 5 years for me. i'll do anything, yes, anything to help you stay quit. how do we connect? greenwarrior here.


Gravatar a panera bread would be great and more MA pups would be fantastic! Worcester is middle Mass - we could aim for that.

i went sleuthing, too, no changes yet...


Gravatar morning greenwarrior! how are you?


Gravatar Hello, Betsy! ***smooches***


Gravatar Well texteen is off to karate class for the next few hours, and i'm going back to bed. Catch up with you later.


Gravatar Who's going to netroots nation in Austin?


Gravatar hi kathryn!


Gravatar I am going! NDFG & Suzanne are sharing my sofabed.


Gravatar hiya betsy,
i'm good. howdya sleep last night? i'm off to the sattiday markets to buy me some organic vegetables.

i do not see a refresh the comments button. other than reopening the comments is there a way to do it? it seems to me i saw a way a minute ago.


Gravatar if you open the comments into a new window a yellow line lights up right above your name when there are new comments to read. the yellow line has a refresh button.


Gravatar kathryn in ma - we have a panera bread in shrewsbury, not far from rt 290. but i think i'm about the only one out here.... maybe we could find something a little more convenient for you and folks out your way... i will look around for a free wifi site that has coffee.

p.s. sleuthing... i think they must be uploading the new site... as it's not at the fdl url. did find what look like a couple of test sites (or possibly the new site). hard to keep things a secret when they are on the web.


Gravatar perris stopping by to say hi


Gravatar greenwarrior
For me, a refresh button pops up if a new comment is posted while I'm reading others. Otherwise, it's hit refresh then "end" to move to the bottom of the thread.


Gravatar aha! thanks betsy. so the yellow refresh line only appears when there's new comments. i like it.


Gravatar That Attaturk guy broke the toobz. hmmph.


Gravatar i can get 2 hrs of sleep before i go get texteen from karate. ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz


Gravatar Just checked at the lake and it's still showing attaturk's post with 29 comments and comments closed. This is at my bookmarked link I've been using forever, for what it's worth.


Gravatar TRex hasn't come home yet from dancing? Must a been a fun night.


Gravatar my guesses: drupal based, registration required.


Gravatar chat here

http://gabbly.com/private/firepu...irepups/ doglake


Gravatar Anyone know if Leeland Eli Eisenberg had his sentence commuted by Gov. Mitt? He was apparently serving until May of 2005 for a rape and other crimes. He had apparently been in and out of the Massachusetts Correctional system since about 1998. If he were paroled earlier, and committed another crime during the parole period one would think that he would have still have been serving.

So did Mitt approve his parole, like the murder Tavares?

And what about the mental illness that this guy clearly has...what has been Mitt's role in providing adequate budgeting for prisoners with mental illnesses to receive adequate care before they are released back into our communities.

It doesn't help to release rapists and other violent criminals back into our communities if they haven't been given sufficient treatment in prison and continuing supervision and assistance outside.

And if the illness still exists, and the sentence is completed, where is the needed follow up?

Is Eisenberg just another of Mitt's failures?


Gravatar kathryn in ma - BlueStateRedhead is up for a meetup (in fact was having that same thought!) ... and she has ideas for coffee shops with free wifi too!


Gravatar Selise,

I can put you in touch with a drupal maven who runs the site connected to my in the real world work. Unless you have already found the info needed.


Gravatar Cinnamonape-
Very valid questions IMHO, just don't hold your breath waiting for the MSM to start asking them. The state of mental health care across the couontry is deplorable, we are having a real crisis here since the storm, it's nearly non-existent.


Gravatar Is this where those LEFT BEHIND were supposed to come?


Gravatar BlueStateRedhead - thanks! i may take you up on that... but for now, i was just throwing out more dots.


Gravatar Trex, are you there?

Happy to see that the Mortgage co. ad is gone.
Anti-wrinkle may also be a delusion, but it's not harmful to anyone but the wrinkled and her/his checkbook.


Gravatar pma-lmao.


Gravatar Is this where those LEFT BEHIND were supposed to come?

This is where I crashed last night so it's a good a place as any. Besides, the owner doesn't mind company.

Wonder how much longer we'll have to wait for "closure" at FDL because the suspense is killing me! LOL


Gravatar Where is TRex? Isn't he up yet?


Gravatar So, is our early Christmas present a 'refresh' of the Lake or the unveiling of something 'new?'


Gravatar msmolly-He's likely still a-snooze after a long night of shaking his tail.

FYI there's now a "pardon our dust" message up at the FDL site. Progress towards a resoloution, or just more waiting?


Gravatar Ahhh...now I feel better. I came in this morning to find FDL gone. Nice to see all here.


Gravatar By the time I read through nearly 700 comments on the Goodbye post, Attaturk's thread was closed. So I'm on pins and needles over here. Sooo grateful for TRex's hospitality.

Shhhh. Let's not wake him.


Gravatar Does anyone know if Bush is still in office?


Gravatar I had a dream...

...it was a cyber multi-lounge, with fantastic couches and coffee tables, great food and kewl people, free wi-fi and an 'okay to walk around with your drink' policy, too...


Gravatar Bush has been about

...threatening that if the Palestinians and Israelis didn't make kissyface before his term ended there would be World War III.

He'll get his historical legacy...or make sure that there is no HISTORY anymore, I guess.


Gravatar SIGH. I have put off my Saturday errands as long as I can. I guess by the time I'm back the new site will be live and I'll miss the surprise fun.

Now let's make sure we leave the treehouse tidy for TRex, OK? See y'all later....


Gravatar Lake is back up, folks Surprise!


Gravatar FDL open for bidness


Gravatar FDL outta bidness


Gravatar Not for me, still getting the "pardon our dust messge", tried opening it on IE and Firefox. Is there a new address or will the same old one work?


Gravatar I suspect it's going to be like last time, up and down until the bugs are ironed out (eeew flat bugs!)


Gravatar It loaded slowly, the registration and comment links didn't work (404) and now it's down again.

Now I am REALLY gonna go run errands.


Gravatar Selise, how'd you do that?


Gravatar TRex- When you energe from your Cretaceous-long snooze, make sure you give Jane a roar and have here put a linky up to the Treehouse!


Gravatar well, I had it for a second but then it was gone...

morning everyone, coffee is ready...


Gravatar Mommybrain - do what?


Gravatar No TRex link on the new blog roll..did get the first #1 on the new site.


Gravatar Marty Lederman has a link to a new paper by David Kris on FISA. Looks like required reading.

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/ ...understand.html


Gravatar steve - did you have to register?


Gravatar And the WaPo has more on the CIA's outsourcing of "aggressive interrogation" to the Jordanians.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp...3002484_pf.html


Gravatar I need to go get breakfast and then I have a bunch of stuff to do. See y'all tonight.


Gravatar Selise..I had registered with the Facebook thing..same password to log in.


Gravatar later burns. thanks for the links.


Gravatar steve - that makes sense. i had not registered with the "facebook thing"...


Gravatar FDL back up


Gravatar FDL, stuck again...


Gravatar Registration complete, but now can't get back on. Half the country is trying to get logged in. I hope everyone will use their same name.


Gravatar well, I'm aggravated with the new fdl... just my impatience... in a nutshell, I'd say the new site is less elegant but significantly more efficient... I miss "quote the comment"... I know there are plenty of times I miss a comment the first time through. and I miss the edit function, but perhaps I'll learn to preview... the look of it, I'll get used to, I think... kinda has a retro, halo-scanny kind of feel...and it is just different not having the photos at the top...

but I'm grumpy this morning.


Gravatar Mommybrain - do what?

Sorry, selise, was poking around elsewhere. You commented on an Egregious post that was up for one brief shining moment this morning. how'd you get in so early?


Gravatar Coastie, if you click on reply to this comment and make your comment, you can then click the blue link in hour comment to go to the comment you are quoting. Then click the back button to return to the bottom of comment. It's actually much more elegant than the old one.

yeah, there's gonna be an adjustment period, but I like change.


Gravatar Rats, back from errands and FDL is down again. I've just had a tiny glimpse with no ability to register or comment.

Back later...


Gravatar new fdl looks nice but won't let me log in. Site sent me my reg info, that doesn't work, blergh, i hate new releases. Squish those bugs i say!

Sure am glad for the treehouse.

Snowing here in Minneapolis, the start of possible 6-10 inches of snow. I have to go out & pick up some manuscripts for several book design jobs. Nice to have work, but glad its saturday so i don't have to contend with traffic. God/dess is smiling on us this year ... first snowfall is always a bitch cuz no-one remembers from year to year how to drive on the stuff. *grumbling ndfg slurps more coffee*


Gravatar Morning. Caught some sleep-eye, now wondering whatz up. Does it appear registration is mandatory for new site?


Gravatar Mommybrain @ 12:32 pm -

i'm paying for it now. can't get in at all.


Gravatar Hey, TreeRex's

Finally thought to come here after much gnashing of teeth over the new FDL. Not only can I not log in, I can't even "read more".

waiting for firedoglake.com...

Sigh. Guess I better just go away and come back on Monday. or Tuesday...

FunnyD


Gravatar I put a fresh thread up for you guys.


Gravatar thanks trex - you're a champ!




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