Your Majority Report- I promise never to sell or give your email address to any other person, org. or entity!
excellent
Submitted by SEDER on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 2:17pm.
In addition to a general shift in the zietgiest to a "less is more" sensibility- with the oncoming economic disaster, I'm hoping to see a lot more of this :
An environmental activist tainted an auction of oil and gas drilling
leases Friday by bidding up parcels of land by hundreds of thousands of
dollars without any intention of paying for them, a federal official
said.
frist
happy holidays everyone.
i read about this. nice trick. perhaps the biggest tell-tale that this whole process is bullshit is that the activitist got figured out because the "regulars" said, he's not one of us. i guess that's a pretty exclusive club where the gubermint gives bush's cronys gas leases on the cheap.
FELIZ NAVIDAD!!!
http://hottamalestogo.com/pro931800.html
On my way to get the tamales $8.50/doz
Tim DeChristopher was on DN the other day, Sam
When he realized no one else was going to stick their neck out and risk trouble to protect the environment he decided it would be him and he isn't afraid of going to jail for it...
...
AMY GOODMAN: And then there’s the land you actually bought. Now, that land—
TIM DeCHRISTOPHER: Right.
AMY GOODMAN: —can’t go up again until something like February, is that right? Which means a new administration, an administration who—we know at least the head of the transition team, John Podesta, has expressed concern about the sale of this land. The land whose price you upped just by bidding, though you didn’t win, that could be sold within this ten-day period?
TIM DeCHRISTOPHER: My impression of that is that those oil companies can give that back if they feel like they purchased it in any kind of way that’s not acceptable to them, because I happened to drive the cost of their oil up a little closer to what the actual cost of producing oil is and the actual external costs that all the rest of us are going to have to pay.
AMY GOODMAN: What are the charges you’re facing right now? And are you willing to go to jail?
TIM DeCHRISTOPHER: The charges haven’t been released yet, so I don’t know what charges I’m facing. There’s a good chance that they are going to be significant charges. And, you know, obviously, I’m going to fight those. And, of course, I don’t want to go to jail. And I’m willing to, if it comes to that, but, you know, I’m not looking to be a martyr or anything like that.
I’ve seen the need for more serious action by the environmental movement and to protect a livable future for all of us. I’ve seen that need for a long time. And frankly, I’ve been hoping that someone would step up and someone would come out and be the leader and someone would put themselves on the line and make the sacrifices necessary to get us on a path to a more livable future. And I guess I just couldn’t wait any longer for that someone to come out there and had to accept the fact that that someone might be me.
...
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/22/posing_as_a_bidder_utah_student
Holiday Greetings to all my Blog Friends!
Merry Christmas
Happy Chanukkah
Happy Kwanzaa
Good Solstice
And my Humble little Holiday Tree:
Hope your Holidays are joyous!
Cheaper to settle....
Wal-Mart agrees to pay
workers up to $640 million
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, said Tuesday it will pay as much as $640 million to settle 63 lawsuits over wage-and-hour violations, ending years of dispute.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081224/ap_on_bi_ge/wal_mart_settlement;_ylt...
Hi Alice :-)
I was at Borders - I bought a book re: Gandhi for $3.00. I heard someone say that store is going under after the 1st of the year...
Bush Finally Helps the Economy
At least in Turkey...
Stampede for 'Bush shoe' creates 100 new jobs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/22/turkey-george-bush-shoe
Hey Toni....
you forgot to put up a picture of a marijuana bud and some fried chicken for us Roosterfarians!
Hi Annette... :)
Yay! Libraries (sorta) win! (right?)
Took a long time for them to say the "R" word
Now it's the "D" word they are hinting at. My warning to put away cash earlier in the year was prophetic.
IMF's top economist warns of another Great Depression, urges government spending to replace consumer demand if necessary
John Aravosis (DC) · 12/24/2008 01:30:00 PM ET · Link
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AFP
The IMF's top economist, Olivier Blanchard, maintained that governments around the world should boost domestic demand in order to avoid another Great Depression similar to the global downturn that shook the world in the 1930s.
"Consumer and business confidence indexes have never fallen so far since they began. The coming months will be very bad," Blanchard said in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde.
"It is imperative to stifle this loss of confidence, to restart household consumption, if we want to prevent this recession developing into a Great Depression," he added.
Actually, I found the article in Le Monde, and I think the economist was even more vehement than the AFP translation. I'm also not convinced that AFP totally explained what the economist was suggesting - he wasn't just saying that we need to restart consumer demand, he was saying that governments have to consider boosting their own spending to REPLACE consumer demand, if necessary, even if it leads to larger deficits.Here is what Le Monde says:
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, le directeur général du FMI, pousse les gouvernements à multiplier les dépenses budgétaires pour soutenir la croissance. Or, le Fonds était un grand ennemi des déficits. Pourquoi ce revirement?
Nous sommes en présence d'une crise d'une amplitude exceptionnelle, dont la principale composante est un effondrement de la demande. Les indices de confiance des consommateurs et des entreprises n'ont jamais autant chuté depuis qu'ils existent. Du jamais-vu !...
Les mois qui viennent vont être très mauvais. Il est impératif de juguler cette perte de confiance, de relancer et, si nécessaire, de remplacer la demande privée, si l'on veut éviter que la récession ne se transforme en Grande Dépression. Bien sûr, en temps normal, nous aurions recommandé à l'Europe de diminuer ces déficits. Mais nous ne sommes pas en temps normal.
What the economist appears to be saying is that governments need to consider REPLACING the loss of consumer spending with GOVERNMENT spending, if necessary, regardless of whether it leads to deficits.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the IMF, is pushing governments to increase their own spending in order to support growth. The IMF has always been a big enemy of deficits. Why the reversal?
We are facing a crisis of an exceptional breadth, the basis of which is a collapse of demand. The consumer and business confidence numbers have never fallen this much since they've first been recorded. We've NEVER seen this!...
It is imperative to curb the this loss of confidence, to relaunch it and, if necessary, replace private demand, if we want to avoid a recession that turns into a Great Depression. Of course, in normal times, we would recommend that Europe reduce its budget deficits. But these are not normal times.
http://www.americablog.com/2008/12/imfs-top-economist-warns-of-another.h...
It's easy for the majority of people to stop buying anything but the necessities because they already have too much. And the poor have been living without so they are used to it, not happy about it, but used to it. The rich are having a hard time with this because they see no profits other than what they can grab before the hammer comes down.
I was at Borders
borders is closing some but not all of there stores. they are actually closing one in cincinnati which was "underperforming" and opening a new one 10 miles away at an up and coming mall. i guess no one told them everything is in the crapper thanks to the bush crime family.
Gee t,
sounds like Sammy and the IMF are at odds.
Some things never change.
Sorry Kcin
Couldn't find any clip art for that Holiday. Maybe you could post it for me :)
My xmas eve is centered on obtaining some artichoke jalapeno dip
...My mother bought it for my trip up there that I'm not taking anymore...
Jib Jab's Year in Review
http://sendables.jibjab.com/sendables/202809/2008_year_in_review#/teaser...
Holiday Greetings
to all bloggerbuds!!!!!!
Adrian Mitchell, Anti-War Poet died the other day
Adrian Mitchell
Human Beings
look at your hands
your beautiful useful hands
you're not an ape
you're not a parrot
you're not a slow loris
or a smart missile
you're human
not british
not american
not israeli
not palestinian
you're human
not catholic
not protestant
not muslim
not hindu
you're human
we all start human
we end up human
human first
human last
we're human
or we're nothing
nothing but bombs
and poison gas
nothing but guns
and torturers
nothing but slaves
of Greed and War
if we're not human
look at your body
with its amazing systems
of nerve-wires and blood canals
think about your mind
which can think about itself
and the whole universe
look at your face
which can freeze into horror
or melt into love
look at all that life
all that beauty
you're human
they are human
we are human
let's try to be human
dance!
In a National Poetry Day poll in 2005, his poem ‘Human Beings’ was voted the poem that most people would like to see launched into space.
Hi nightbird.. !
:)
Awww.....
When Dr. Carol Chomsky accompanies her husband on lecture tours, she often finds herself surrounded by “very young and breathless” women, who inevitably ask her the same question: “So what’s it like to be married to Noam Chomsky?’” Her response, which took her some time to work out: “I’ll tell you one thing—it’s never boring!”
A mixed compliment, perhaps, but no small achievement, given that she’s known him since they were children and has been married to him for more than half a century.
Back in the old country—Philadelphia—she was known as Carol Schatz. Her family and Noam’s belonged to the same synagogue.
...
It’s hardly surprising that it took some time before she became romantically interested in a boy she had known since she was five.
...
Looks like I snuck Roosterfarians through the blog!
I was expecting a Crank hit on that.
yumm - Alice!
Artichoke Jalepeno dip sounds good.
looks easy to make too:
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
4 pickled jalapeño peppers, seeded and finely chopped
1 (6-ounce) jar marinated artichoke hearts, drain, reserve marinade
2 teaspoons Tabasco green jalapeño sauce
Kosher or coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
1. Use a food processor with metal blade to finely grate Parmesan cheese. Add the cream cheese, mixing well. Transfer cheese mixture to a mixing bowl
.
2. Chop jalapeño peppers in processor, add drained artichoke hearts and process just until coarsely chopped. Add artichoke/jalapeño mixture and the jalapeño sauce to cheese mixture. Mix well. If needed, add small amount of additional marinade to obtain desired consistency. Salt and pepper to taste. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
You sure A?
we all start human
we end up human
I want to see O97P's opposable thumb first.
Must get ready now
My nephew will be here, soon, to pick me up.
It'll be an early night though.
Hope your Holiday festivities are fun.
Later!
Armstrong's New Baby Conceived Naturally
Dumbest headline ever! - NYT
Goes to show you that you can bike around the world and still be horribly limited compared to other men.
10 balls in just one night
Second dumbest headline of the year - WaPo
Six of the balls will be held at the glamorous, escalator - I'm not kidding you.
Brownback makes retirement official
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) on Thursday officially announced that he will not seek another term in the Senate - The Hill
Best headline of the day.
eh, the random shooter in Dallas
that killed two on Loop 635 - was a cop. edited out of decorum
Jolly Festivus -
to all bloggerinis... anyone notice that the young noam chomsky looks a bit like our sam seder?
and a happy next year.
!
Thai economy to slow sharply in 2009, finance ministry says
Bangkok - A senior Thai finance ministry official Wednesday predicted the economy will grow by only 1 per cent next year.
Somchai Sajjapon, director-general of fiscal policy, said falling exports, declining service industries and weaker domestic spending will cause a sharp slowdown in business activity. - m&c Business
Portfolio
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. economy will “emerge from this period with renewed vigor.” - Conde Nast
(snip)
So who are we to believe: the experts who failed to predict the current crisis or the great American public? With due respect to my fellow dabblers in the dismal science, I share Joe the Plumber’s queasy feeling. Unless something miraculous happens in the next few weeks, the new inhabitant of the Oval Office will inherit an economy flailing under the weight of record debts and rising unemployment. If a depression is defined as a deep, extended recession of a severity that nobody under the age of 75 can recall, then it is quite likely that we are already in one.
(snip)
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the September financial earthquake was how rapidly it spread to places far from the epicenter, such as Iceland and Ireland, and how much damage it did there. Even now, the aftershocks are being felt in countries like Brazil, Hungary, and South Korea. Not since the collapse of the Viennese bank Creditanstalt in the spring of 1931, which unleashed a wave of instability that culminated in the decline of the gold standard, has the international monetary system seemed so fragile.
(snip)
Until the U.S. follows the example of the Swiss government, which recently took all of UBS’s toxic assets and shifted them into a separate “bad bank,” most big American banks will continue to hoard capital rather than lend, which means credit will remain hard to come by.
Merry, merry Peace on Earth, Kindness First!
Greetiings Seder Haven!
Rick Warren the most "open-minded" of the evangelicals?
I doubt Warren is open-minded. A chameleon/charlatan/seducer is more likely, imo. Ability to appear to be all things to all people -- a psychological/brainwave mirror to his target.
Low Oil prices weaken Russia
The low price spells bad news for Russia, the world's second-biggest producer after Saudi Arabia. "The deficit is caused by the fall in oil prices, above all," Kremlin economic aide Arkady Dvorkovich was quoted as saying. - Economic Times
Is Rick Warren a Pastor?
What's the difference between a pastor, a priest, or a rabbi?
I'm sure there a punchline to that btw.
What's the difference between a pastor, a priest, or a rabbi?
A Roosterfarian?
Does anyone use this?
http://www.samsedershow.tv/
Roosterfarian? What is that? Roosterfarian?
No shift in the zietgiest here:
WSJ
Get Ready for a Lost Decade
It's already happening to our banking bailout. If injecting government capital to improve confidence in banks was a good idea, it did nothing to improve the banks' own confidence in their borrowers. Yet now that banks have government capital, they're being pressed to lend to politically favored constituents regardless of their own judgment about whether the borrower is good for the money.
Or take the gathering auto bailout: Taxpayer dollars are being thrown at Detroit auto makers to make them "viable," even as Congress imposes new fuel-mileage mandates requiring them to incur tens of billions in costs unlikely to be recouped from their customers -- the definition of "nonviable."
Mr. Obama's troops palpitate with excitement at the prospect of $1 trillion in "stimulus,"...Billions will be diverted from useful purposes to create "green jobs" that deliver no meaningful impact on climate or the accumulation of atmospheric carbon.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123007755316531663.html
(Obama is ruining the prosperity George Bush brought us.)
what a morning!
over a foot of snow here.
just barely made it up the hill the second time.
took 3 hours to run errands including shoveling out the truck.
deff a second gear show here.
wishing you all a cool yule!
Roosterfarian? What is that? Roosterfarian?
Roosterfarian is a religion. Roosterfarians worship cannabis and fried chicken. Their religious ceremony involves the smoking of copious amounts of prime, purple haired buds....followed by the consumption of smoky, spiced, piping hot fried chicken.
worship cannabis and fried chicken.
cool, cool, I get it. For the tax break. np.
Is the belief system based on a deity or no? Is the cannabis for the chicken?
Seems wasteful.
Merry Christmas
Kevin ©
Bump In The Night Xmas Special
(Just in case you're not sick of stop motion after all the Rankin & Bass that's been on)
http://www.kewlcartoons.com/show/watch/BumpInTheNight
Nando...I just made up Roosterfarianism on the thread...
as a joke. A take on Rasta and the munchies! Merry Christmas!
I'll have you know
I'm ordained too Kcin. Let me know if you need the smoky, spiced, piping hot fried chicken blessing.
Hey SJ, do you know what church I got ordained from?
yup, i do!
welcome to the fold bro!
Troll Alert
A few minutes ago i saw a WarDog persona listed as online. So y'all might wanna stay ready to "spit".
May be nothin, just sayin.
Mumia Abu Jamal Update
On Friday, December 19, 2008 Mumia filed his appeal to the United States Supreme Court asking it to consider his case for a new GUILT PHASE trial. That would mean a new trial that could lead to Mumia's release, rather than simply a SENTENCE trial that could only lead to life in prison or execution.
Last month, the Philadelphia District Attorney filed its appeal to have Mumia executed without even a new sentencing phase trial where he might be sentenced to life in prison.
The Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition
--------------------------------
Solidarity Actions
Venezuela: http://phillyimc.org/en/braulio-alvarez-statement-mumia-member-venezuela...
Austria: http://phillyimc.org/en/report-viennese-events-solidarity-mumia-abu-jama...
Hamburg, Germany: http://phillyimc.org/en/over-500-march-hamburg-germany-mumia-and-everyon...
England: http://phillyimc.org/en/british-parliamentary-showing-prison-my-whole-li...
Update on the Greek Uprising
Update on the Greek Uprising
An interview...
December 24, 2008 By Nikos Raptis
and Chris Spannos
Simmering social and material tensions in Greece were detonated by the police killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Gregoropoulos earlier this month on December 6th. The past three weeks have seen daily and nightly tumultuous clashes between those rising up and the Greek state. Demonstrations, protests, barricades, and riots have rocked the streets. TV stations, universities, high schools, workplaces, and city halls---overall hundreds of institutions---have been occupied.
Last Saturday was an international day of solidarity with the Greek uprising. Labor and student demonstrations are scheduled to continue early in the new-year.
Nikos Raptis is a resident of Athens and also a long-time contributor to Z, which happens to be named for the Costa-Gavras film, also titled Z, that is about resistance and repression in post-war Greece. Raptis's article, "Greek Teenagers," provides background to the uprising. Z collective member Chris Spannos interviewed Nikos for an update on the current status of the revolt. The interview took place between December 17-23.
The Greek Populace
Chris: First, moving into the third week of rebellion, can you give an overview of events this week and into the foreseeable future? What is the mood of those protesting and of broader society more generally?
Nikos: Chris, allow me, before we go ahead with the interview, to make a few comments on the mood that I [or any other person] find myself in these days. For example, in the morning of December 18 I read in the news:
First: In the New York Times of December 17 we read: "Jose and his brother Romel [two Ecuadorian immigrants] appear to have been misidentified as gay as they walked home, arms around each other, on a predawn morning in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Romel managed to escape the three men who emerged from a passing car wielding a baseball bat and shouting anti-gay and anti-Latino epithets.
Jose was struck on the head with a bottle, then kicked and beaten into unconsciousness... and expired last Friday night, one day before his mother, who was traveling from Ecuador, could reach him".
Second: In today's Greek press we read: Alexis Gregoropoulos, the 15-year-old Greek, was murdered by a Greek policeman on December 6. Yesterday, 12 days after the murder of Alexis, around 11 am, a group of about 10 high school kids, members of the Coordinating Committee of their school, were assembled at an open public space at Peristeri [a rather downgraded part of Athens] discussing the program for the demonstrations of the next day. A shot was fired from some distance and a 17-year-old kid was hit on the palm of his right hand. The kid was operated upon this morning and a 38-caliber revolver bullet was extracted. According to the other kids a second shot was fired 10 minutes later from a closer distance.
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/20039
Turtle head
Smell it WarDog.
For Jesus...some tune....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NOZU2iPA8
Hey Jim
Feel like a chat. Im feelin awful Christmassy. :D
How bout you?
Got the xmas tunes a playin.
Time to forget all worries and thank God eh
anyhoo, you got my number......
Peace, Bob
The Real Story of Christmas (audio w text)
http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/Christmas_TheRealStory.htm
Lounge
Christmas?
Tomorrow will be 11 seconds longer.
11 seconds more daylight.
Feliz Navidad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWa_W_jTqLs
Feliciano
in form - Malaguena
Frosty caught
Happy Merry HoHo everyone!
LOL...
Frosty caught
...cute :)
11 seconds is not a constant is it?
11 seconds X 180 (roughly half a year) = 1980 secs
1980 / 60 = 33 minutes
Therefore the days must grow progressively longer as the earth tilts back towards the sun.
Slap me on the ass and call me Mr. Wizard!
I couldn't show the next toon in the Frosty series...
...he moved down the produce aisle to the cucumbers. ;-)
And tasty too... ! Thanks for the recipe..
--Submitted by Fernando on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 3:51pm.
Artichoke Jalepeno dip sounds good.--
I'll bet homemade is better than what I bought...
Sam's tv site -- WOW!!! Thanx, Fernando!
Does anyone use this?
Submitted by Fernando on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 5:46pm.
http://www.samsedershow.tv/
=============================
This is great Fernando! But it looks like I'll have to register separately from this site....
Thanks for posting this! (Best Christmas present I've opened so far!)
All I Want for Christmas...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8rY0Fyws20
maggiesboy on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 9:21pm.
no, it's 11 seconds longer in Dallas. Less if you go north, more if you go south down to the equator. Yesterday was only 8 seconds longer here. Tomorrow will be more.
nora - same registration works but only in Firefox. I can't get dis-similar site domains to log in properly across frames in IE.
That reminds me..I was on that site a week or so ago..
-- http://www.samsedershow.tv/ ---
http://www.mogulus.com/mvsLive/
http://mvslive.blogspot.com/
http://www.maronvseder.tv/
There are so many...I always wondered if he wanted us to move to one of those places or not...but since this stayed up I figured not..
I am looking for the page that has the Post Show Chats prior to Dec 1st when he changed to a different page....
CapRadio (NPR) played the NPR workers favorite xmas
songs...I'm going to go find it because there is a wonderful old Bob Marley song from it...
Merry Christmas, Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zq7gCJZoA
So Fernando..
...it all boils down to the attitude of your latitude.
...I think here the day was 12 hours shorter. A perfectly craptastic day weather-wise, except for a very favorable rise in temperature. Lot's o' rain, could be flooding out where I work in the lowlands.
You know CeeCee
I'm adding those to my Lounge Xmas playlist.
I didn't know that the Wailers used to be billed before Marley..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0nVUs2f1DQ
Christmas Reggae..
Cool link, Bob...
-The Real Story of Christmas (audio w text)
Submitted by Bob26003 on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 8:13pm.-
heh maggiesboy
it's all about your attitude! Cheers buddy.
My friend Megan made Justin a cake for his birthday today. I got the the Tamales. The fire pit won't stay cold long. She just called and it's on in an hour. Attitude!
Of course attitude might affect my spelling too.
FW: No Living Nativity in DC
There will be no Live Nativity Scene in Washington, DC this year!
The Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be a Nativity Scene in Washington, DC this Christmas season.
This isn't for any religious reason; they simply have not been able to find three wise men and a virgin in the Nation's Capitol.
There was no problem, however, finding enough asses to fill the stable!
Merry Christmas!
Evening all
Malaguena! Love it! I used to play it on the piano when I was younger and had a Piano.
Who knew...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md2J_mRUCzk&feature=related
Rosie can sing.
Cars Sliding Down Icy Hill - Another kind of Spectator Sport..
December 15, 2008, South Waterfront neighborhood, Portland, Oregon.
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-164378
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
Please Come Home For Christmas
Charles Brown
Just figures
you play a piano too t.
Christmas Disco...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhNs42nhkhA&feature=related
Have I gone over the line? :)
Sleigh Ride
Relliant K - my favorite christo-fascists do secular too.
Yes CeeCee - Cher - really? wow...
tobaginning
Carbogganing!
how exciting!
any thing over 30 k here is a suicide run. getting out of the rut gets you sideways. some of the hills in the hood are no goes
kids are sledding the steep one out back, they have it coned off and scrounged all my big chunks of cardboard. i can hear em hooting and hollering in the computer room from a block away.
absolutely ain't coming out til after xmas for anything other than dogger walks.
My favorite Christmas song
Rosie can sing.
Who knew...
Submitted by CeeCee on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 10:03pm
*******
Yep CeeCee.. :)
I think she was in the Play "Grease" on Broadway years ago..
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
That's a Great one,Toni :)
My favorite Christmas song
new
Submitted by toniD on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 10:20pm
*******
Man..That took me back a few years..
Nat King Cole..Grace,Class & the Man could sure sing..
Thanks.. :)
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
This Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJO_kdkrj1g
Thanks tD..
I remember my dad playing that a lot when I was a kid.
Hmm Fernando..
Tamales roasting on an open fire....
Doesn't have the same ring, but I'll take real tamales over chestnuts any day. ;-)
Last Year:
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/2018
&
node/2022
For the Roosterfarian
Christmas Weed...
California’s Battle Over Marijuana
mb
I have a ceramic 2 qt round casserole dish in a dutch oven with a glass of water in it. Standing in the stuffed casserole dish are 3 dozen tamales that will soon be steamed proper.
We never get to celebrate Justin's birthday because he always has Christmas in Lubbock. This year he will be house sitting here while I go to Corpus with my daughter.
Bowie and Bing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zMhSjDqvRs
"I am glad somebody at the White House woke up,"
Just another Bushtard,Oops..For The Hundredth Time,What A Dumb Ass !
Bush withdraws 1 of 19 pardons he issued Tuesday
By JENNIFER LOVEN, AP
WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush on Wednesday revoked a pardon he had granted only a day before — a step unheard of in recent memory — after learning in news reports of political contributions to Republicans by the man's father and other information.
Bush pardoned 19 people on Tuesday, including Isaac Robert Toussie of Brooklyn, N.Y., who had been convicted of making false statements to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and of mail fraud. On Wednesday, the White House issued an extraordinary statement saying the president was reversing his decision in Toussie's case.
White House press secretary Dana Perino said the new decision was "based on information that has subsequently come to light," including on the extent and nature of Toussie's prior criminal offenses. She also said that neither the White House counsel's office nor the president had been aware of a political contribution by Toussie's father that "might create an appearance of impropriety."
Con't
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
Holly Jolly Tamale Time
Henrietta and Merna express the joy
(If you're smart, you'll skip this one):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg7uGL6Ku20
Don't say I didn't warn you
Fine dining:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/27/turkeyshaped-jello-m-1.html
Soviet Space Age Christmas card collection:
http://www.mazaika.com/postcard/aerospace0.htm
Last year's most ugliest gift:
http://shirt.woot.com/Friends.aspx?k=4508
And finally, these to make up for exposing you to the above
Brian Setzer - Run Rudolph Run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGirb_wgkcw
The Drifters - White Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooc5eJc5SHA
Best wishes and Happy Holidays,
Elvish Chewski
(not related to Gnome Chompski)
My Nephew John
sent me a Xmas letter. He's the pilot for US Air. His oldest son is now a pilot for Mesaba Airlines flying the CRJ900 jet. His middle sonwill be graduating from Ripon College in May, majoring in, get this, Politics, Government and with minors in National Security and Sociology. He's on a Baseball Scolarship and is applying to Law School in the fall. And his third son is 16, plays guitar and is in the Jazz Ensemble in School.
That's great news about the boys!! I'm so proud of them.
Cat Chew ! Where ya been ?
Merry Christmas !
:)
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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
Everyone ! :)
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Zombie Apocalypse Christmas Special
Topics discussed include: the despiritualized man, capitalist metaphors, visions of social meltdown, fear of the savage invader and the evolving cinematic symbol of the undead horde. Thrills, chills and exploding psyches. The antidote to mainstream Christmas twaddle. Remember, shoot 'em in the head.
Click here for the interview. You can stream it directly from the site, or you can click the ‘download’ link to grab your own MP3.
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That's great news about the boys!! I'm so proud of them.
My Nephew John
Submitted by toniD on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 10:56pm.
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That's Cool,Toni..
Good for them..I'm happy for you.. :)
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
You're right, CC, strong finish...
but Henrietta and Merna, let's hope they don't finish up the remainder of their 15 minutes of fame.
Merry Christmas Song..
Jethro Tull - Christmas Song
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LOL
Zombie Apocalypse Christmas Special
Alice, you slay me. Thanks!
From my email....Heh!
Christmas At Rock-Away Rest
'Twas the night before Christmas at Rock-Away Rest,
and all of us seniors were looking our best.
Our glasses, how sparkly, our wrinkles, how merry;
Our punchbowl held prune juice plus three drops of sherry.
A bedsock was taped to each walker, in hope That Santa would bring us soft candy and soap.
We surely were lucky to be there with friends,
Secure in this residence and in our Depends.
Our grandkids had sent us some Christmasy crafts,
Like angels in snowsuits and penguins on rafts.
The dental assistant had borrowed our teeth,
And from them she'd crafted a holiday wreath.
The bed pans, so shiny, all stood in a row,
Reflecting our candle's magnificent glow.
Our supper so festive -- the joy wouldn't stop
-- Was creamy warm oatmeal with sprinkles on top.
Our salad was Jell-O, so jiggly and great,
Then puree of fruitcake was spooned on each plate.
The social director then had us play games,
Like "Where Are You Living?" and "What Are Your Names?"
Old Grandfather Looper was feeling his oats,
Proclaiming that reindeer were nothing but goats.
Our resident wand'rer was tied to her chair,
In hopes that at bedtime she still would be there.
Security lights on the new fallen snow
Made outdoors seem noon to the old folks below.
Then out on the porch there arose quite a clatter
(But we are so deaf that it just didn't matter).
A strange little fellow flew in through the door,
Then tripped on the sill and fell flat on the floor.
'Twas just our director, all togged out in red.
He jiggled and chuckled and patted each head.
We knew from the way that he strutted and jived
Our social- security checks had arrived.
We sang -- how we sang -- in our monotone croak,
Till the clock tinkled out its soft eight-p.m. stroke.
And soon we were snuggling deep in our beds.
While nurses distributed nocturnal meds.
And so ends our Christmas at Rock-Away Rest.
'fore long you'll be with us,
We wish you the best!
Author Unknown
That's funny, toni...a teeth wreath... :)
I can't find a photo of one tho...
Here's a sea glass wreath
I used to collect that..do you guys collect anything?
Heh!
Crankbait almost exactly a year ago!
"Mr. Turkey Was A Linebacker In The NFL
Submitted by Crank Bait on Mon, 12/24/2007 - 9:57pm.
Tomorrow, if I decide to substitute a turkey dinner for the rum dinner which requires far less preparation, I will cook the largest bird of my kitchen career.
Usually I go with a twelve-ish pound turkey for no particular reason. This time around I made a snap in-store decision based on unreasoned logic, "Would the bones be proportionately larger in a humongous fowl? Probably not."
Some background is in order. Ever since I discovered that bachelorhood requires far less effort than the alternative, I have deboned the hot bird (note thinly-veiled allegory) and packaged and frozen the excess for future enjoyment. Every time that I have done this, I have eaten the meat in the fridge like a starving refugee, then dragged-out the packages of meat from the freezer, one after the other, until I have eaten everything in less than a week. Turkey, ready-to-eat, is my Siren Song.
This time I decided to go for broke. I have a turkey thawing in my frige that is big enough to frighten a German Shepherd. During the week that it has been thawing, my refrigerator hasn't cycled even once. It's as if Lake Huron were shedding its winter ice in there.
A few days ago I measured the monster (a mechanical mind is an enfant terrible thing to waste). It exceeds any container on hand except for the 55 gallon drum I burn my trash in. Briefly I considered the option of killing two birds with one stone, but decided to find a roasting pan that could double as a hot tub instead.
At this point I was into Christmas dinner and its leftovers to the tune of big bucks not counting the kilowatts but, hey, be of good cheer, right? Who cares if I purchased a turkey so heavy that the drumsticks will chew like Lance Armstrong's calves?
I have a roasting bag big enough to please a coroner. I have a pan I could bathe in. I measured the oven (Phew! It was close). I have a machete and a chainsaw. I probably have a turkey neck that would make a stallion proud.
What I need now is a cook who knows what the fuck she is doing."
Harvey Milk
http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/JI/sxsw/Harvey_Milk_-_SXSW_WFMU_set.mp3
-deboned the hot bird-
Got to LOVE Crank... :)
we're about to do the tree!
time for some benny goodman tunes!
Susie Bright reads Thurber's version of
a "The Night Before Christmas," in the Hemingway Manner
http://susiebright.blogs.com/Thurber_Night_Before%20_Xmas.mp3
Thanks for the Tull
MMRules
Real sweet and slow
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbsgf_george-mccrae-rock-your-baby-1974...
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CeeCee..whatcha doing with the holiday time? Do you get some days off of work? Going anywhere?
I meant to say so too, Fern...That Tull one is cool, MM...
...
P sounds like Ian when he sings...
More xmas disco for Cee "over the line" Cee...
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/12/more-christmas.html
We just finished our pizza extravaganza.
Wes prepares about 20 different toppings and then we all make requests for the combo of our preference. All from scratch so very delicious. I have heartburn so steve is getting me a glass of bicarb. But it was good.
Iris is amazed by the christmas tree. She kept yelling light light light!! It was so fun.
merry merry everyone...
more from MN
n what may very well be the death knell for Norm Coleman's time in the U.S. Senate, the Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously dismissed one of his last legal objections to the recount process.
In a five-to-zero decision, the court rejected a Coleman campaign lawsuit that sought to block the course of the recount due to concerns that some ballots had been counted twice. It was the Minnesota Republican's last legal angle for making up the 47-vote deficit he currently faces against Al Franken.
Coleman had argued that in the process of recounting, some precincts had accidentally counted both the original ballots and duplicates that were used for those original ballots that couldn't be properly scanned. But the campaign asked only for the state to look at 25 specific counties, suggesting that the argument was politically and not legally motivated. Moreover, it couldn't provide evidence that voting tallies during the recount exceeded those on Election Day -- which would have been the obvious result of duplicates being counted.
With this issue, seemingly, out of the way, the recount process will come to an end once the state and both campaigns decide what to do about improperly rejected absentee ballots. That should come in early January. And while it would be foolish to predict how the counting and disbursement of these 1,600 ballots would proceed -- the two camps have agreed on principles by which the process will be conducted -- it seems likely that the results will favor Franken.
Franken's campaign has been pining to have these wrongfully rejected absentee ballots counted from the beginning of the recount process, suggesting that they believe the votes will favor Franken. It is more common for Democratic voters to make clerical errors on their absentee ballots than it is for Republicans.
All told, the window through which Coleman was looking to hold unto his Senate seat just became measurably narrower.
UPDATE: Not entirely surprising, the Coleman campaign says a lawsuit challenging the results of the election is now a near certainty. According to the Hill:
The Coleman campaign had claimed [duplicate] ballots, created by local election officials to mirror original ballots that were somehow damaged, were sometimes counted twice by accident, and should not be included.
"We are deeply disappointed in that result. The Supreme Court decision virtually guarantees this election will be decided with an election contest," Fritz Knaak told reporters on a conference call on Christmas Eve. "There's no question, I mean no question in our minds that [a lawsuit] will happen now."
Should the Coleman campaign file a contest, which it must do within seven days of the end of ballots being counted, the election results cannot be certified and no one will be sworn in when the 111th Congress meets January 5
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/24/supreme-court-rules-on-mi_n_153...
Cheers, all!!
If i don't get a chance to wish y'all later, have yourselves a supremely merry Newtonmas!
Plus whatever holiday(s) you celebrate
Merry merry backatcha!
got the tree up!
barb bummed at how clumped up and flat on one side it looks till i reminded her it's still frozen!
Happy Happy Joy Joy :-)
to the world!
Sayadyan
Just noticed this is t's tree...
Post a pic, SJ!
One year my tree was a portable mini ironing board with some lights...when I first moved to Chicago I had zero dollars... :)
Probably my favorite xmas story
John Henry Faulk's Christmas Story
The gifted storyteller and former radio broadcaster John Henry Faulk recorded his Christmas story in 1974 for the program Voices in the Wind.
There are links to listen and and download.
Looking forward to this one, zeek...
He was blacklisted in 1957, but with support from Edward R. Murrow, won a libel suit against the corporation that branded him a Communist. Faulk's book, Fear on Trial, published in 1963, chronicles this experience.
What's your holiday situation, zeek?
eya zeek!
merry xmas!
fa la la la and all that stuff!
wow zeek
that's cool.
Fernando your painting reminded me that I wanted to alert
anyone who loves the movie Room With A View, that on PBS last night, I think they said Masterpiece...they did another remake of the movie...came out last April..
"To experience the true Italy, one must be a little daring! Eschew the Baedeker, dismiss the Cicerone, and venture out alone..."
— Miss Lavish in A Room With A View
Lucy Honeychurch and her nervous chaperone embark on a grand tour of Italy. Alongside sweeping landscapes, Lucy encounters a suspect group of characters — socialist Mr. Emerson and his working-class son George, in particular — who both surprise and intrigue her. When piqued interest turns to potential romance, Lucy is whisked home to England, where her attention turns to Cecil Vyse. But now, with a well-developed appetite for adventure, will Lucy make the daring choice when it comes to love? Andrew Davies offers a new adaptation of the E.M. Forster classic.
They changed the ending...
EB's kitty - Cheddar
Visions of Sugar Plums...
Goodnight, Blog.. xox
Goodnight Alice
Happy Holidays and Goodnight Blog
Merry Stuff
Whatever Stuff you believe in!
My all-time favorite Christmas song:
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http://www.vodamusic.com/blog/
Greetings -- Q about Sammy's dot tv site...WHOOSH~~~~~~~~
Was that SANTA???
Anyway, is the same registration I use here supposed to get me into the sam sedah dot tv site? Because, it won't let me in, but also it won't let me register the same as I'm registered here. Thanks for any advice!
A
Going to my friends' place down in El Granada, spitting distance from the Moss Beach Distillery.
Belated 65th BD greetings to the bass man.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS SEDERVILLE!
PEACE TO ALL!
PEACE ON EARTH
Peace on Earth is a one-reel 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short directed by Hugh Harman, about a post-apocalyptic world populated only by animals.
Two young squirrels ask their grandfather on Christmas Eve who the "men" are in the lyric "Peace on Earth, good will to men." The grandfather squirrel then tells them a rotoscoped history of the human race, focusing on the neverending wars men waged. Ultimately the wars do end, with the death of the last man on Earth, a soldier. The cartoon features an original song written to the tune of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" - Wiki
that is an amazing cartoon Nando
I cannot remember where I first saw it, probably pbs.
Merry day everyone. Time for coffee and to tie Steve down so he wont go skiing and ruin our Christmas morning. There was a foot of fresh powder last night. His computer is broken so I will hide this one and tell him there was just a trace. It is a special Christmas because we have Iris. She gets her own computer today! I will take pics and post later.
A little Christmas cheer
Tootsie is a favorite of mine:
Merry XMAS FOLKS.............
“The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.”
Jesus Christ quote
Peace and Love on Earth
That is just about the message...........
anyone up yet
Peace
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Jesus used Marijuana
http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissues/cc11/christ.html
Some excellent Christmas Muzak
http://www.web-radio.fm/christmas/
Impeach on Earth
Goodwill Toward to huMen
~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett
PEACE ON EARTH
GOOD WILL TO ALL MEN
(No subject)
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Maxims for Revolutionists
"The reasonable woman adapts herself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to herself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable woman."
An Unreasonable Man, Part 1
Part 2
Yes Blog..I'm aware of the opinions of Ralph...
But,
I d/l'd this movie months ago and am just now watching it this morning since the cats (ok, one cat), woke me up too early...Just started part 2...It was made by Henriette Mantel who played Alice in The Brady Bunch Movie and she used to work for him I think it said in Part 1. Part one also shows where the line about Ralph's ego came from ...laughingly from Jim Carville...I posted this in case anyone else is awake too early and wants to see a full sized documentary...I just Michael Moore make a comment in Madison Square Garden in 2000 about lesser evils...He doesn't sound that way anymore about the subject...
May Peace & Joy find you, and keep you ALL
At Dawn
Wifey is a diehard Yankees fan....somehow my Mets ball
always seems to get broken, hmmmm.
That's funny, cent... :)
-somehow my Mets ball always seems to get broken, hmmmm.-
Did you get your doggies presents?
The doggies' stockings are hanging by the fireplace and
stuffed with bones and treats.
Kitties too...They get catnip and sisal mice.
They are all nipped out and running amok all over the house. :)
Morning all
Hope you all had a great Christmas Eve and will have a great Christmas day.
I'm off to the kitchen again. Going to my nephew's house for dinner today and of course I have to make something to bring. So today it's a Cinnamon Bundt Cake to have with coffee later.
-They are all nipped out and running amok-
Fun idea! I'm whipping mine out now too...
Submitted by Bob26003 on Thu, 12/25/2008 - 10:50am.
Way to go Bob! Reclaim them mooses!
I'm whipping mine out now too...
With the size of your pride you will start a small earthquake...
Lets get ready to rumble!!!!
-Cinnamon Bundt Cake-
yum...!
Forgive me but I have sinned
Daughter runs into bedroom, hugs dog and whines - I have to go to moms in one hour. Christmas me!!!!
Quick exchange gives to new rant:
Daughter: I want McDonalds.
Me: But what about breakfast with your mom?
Daughter: That's why I want McDonalds.
Me: We'll have two hashbrowns and a sausage biscuit.
McDonalds ordering speaker box: crickets, chirp....
Daughter: Look Burger King doesn't celebrate Christmas!
That's a beautiful tree cent. Have you considered supporting the Yankees instead?
Have you considered supporting the Yankees instead?
HAHAHAHA
Have you considered supporting the Steelers?
where we were a year ago
http://odeo.com/episodes/22232654-Civilianism-40-Impeach-on-Earth-Part-I
on ODEO audio
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http://civilianism.com/blog/
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Shelly Thomas talks about-
FCC votes on media consolidation-
Waxman calls for impeachment-
Ohio federal election records destroyed in Ohio-
talk of a redundant optical vote counting system in Minnesota, in case they need a recount...
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A year ago we were like high school juniors. In the thick of it, we know what is going on and know we won't be graduating so the future is much like the present.
Now we are like high school seniors. The end is in sight, major change is sure to come and we don't know what the future will bring.
~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett
Ho Ho Ho.. :) Merry Christmas,again All !
Fernando,Alice glad you guys liked the Jethro Tull song..
I love Tull..
Alice,P sounds like Ian when he sings ?(Put that guy on the Band circuit ! ;) )
Can he write lyrics too ?
If he can I ought to send him some of my music..
Once I figure out how to record it right & upload it..
Projects,projects,projects..
I can't write lyrics worth beans..
Anyhoo,glad you guys like the tune.. :)
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
Merry Christmas,James..
Good to see you.. :)
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
Another Jesus quote: my favorite
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will heal you
If you do not bring forth what is within you what you do not bring forth will destroy you..
from the Gnostic Gospels
we are waiting for Iris to wake up!!
~Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind~
...
Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky,
That does not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As a friend remembered not.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship if feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.
-Shakespeare
I think I could do that cent
I would roof for the Steelers if it meant getting all nipped out and running amok comes with it. But then again I'm pretty simple.
I think it's sleeting outside...
I've never seen sleet...but I think this is it..like snowy rain?
We think, therefore we be... :)
Submitted by Fernando on Thu, 12/25/2008 - 12:49pm.
Submitted by Alice on Thu, 12/25/2008 - 12:49pm.
Timely Biblical Passage
Then came Hanukkah in Yerushalayim. It was winter, and Yeshua was walking around inside the Temple area, in Shlomo’s Colonnade (John 10:22–23).
Merry Xmas ALice :)
How you been?
You ToniD? You OK?
Must Have......
I think you will like this one ALice .... I KNOW you will
Check it out.
http://www.resistancemp3.org.uk/
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Just finished Kings new one , the shorts.... N is quite a story.
Also just finished Koontz Strangers which is classic suspense build up mystery conspiracy shadow gov Koontz.
Merry Christmas,Bob..
I hope your having a Good one.. :)
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
Hey Bob... :)
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Now I'm watching this documentary called
What I've Learned About Foreign Policy
http://www.addictedtowar.com/docs/The.War.Against.the.Third.World.pdf
It's been posted here a few times...I don't have the video link now tho.
Neither Sleet nor hail
Sleet
We just had a band of hail and thunder and lightning pass through here and it looks like another might be coming. In SF we call that 'white xmas'.
Looking good for xmas by the ocean.
I'm looking at this years pictures
and organizing some files on my hard drive. It looks like I spent way too much time involved in the workings of political parties.
This next year may be the last year my daughter lives with me. I should focus on that for a change.
Here you go zeek - thunder storm audio
I'll be down in Corpus Christi tomorrow. I hope to get audio at the beach.
Just give me one thing
I can hold on to.
~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett
Toni.. :)
Evening all
Submitted by toniD on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 10:00pm.
Malaguena! Love it! I used to play it on the piano when I was younger and had a Piano.
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Do you know you can buy small electric keyboards with built in speakers and a headphone connection,for under $200 bucks..Some higher,some lower priced..
It might be good exercise for your fingers..
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Hi Bob
Doing okay thanks! How about you?
I'm cooking as usual. Well, baking today. Home made bread and Cinnamon Bundt Cake. And Bruschetta. Bread Dough rising right now.
Hope your Holiday has been good.
Harold Pinter
Wife says Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter dies at 78
Dec. 25, 2008, 9:32 AM EST
LONDON (AP) -- Harold Pinter, praised as the most influential British playwright of his generation and a longtime voice of political protest, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 78.
Pinter, whose distinctive contribution to the stage was recognized with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, died on Wednesday, according to his second wife, Lady Antonia Fraser.
Harold Pinter in 2005 (©AP)
"Pinter restored theater to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of each other and pretense crumbles," the Nobel Academy said when it announced Pinter's award. "With a minimum of plot, drama emerges from the power struggle and hide-and-seek of interlocution."
The Nobel Prize gave Pinter a global platform which he seized enthusiastically to denounce U.S. President George W. Bush and then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
"The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law," Pinter said in his Nobel lecture, which he recorded rather than traveling to Stockholm.
"How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand?" he asked, in a hoarse voice.
Weakened by cancer and bandaged from a fall on a slippery pavement, Pinter seemed a vulnerable old man when he emerged from his London home to speak about the Nobel Award.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZZYaYsmtaY
Harold Pinter's 2005 Nobel Prize Speech
http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=620
Corzine's rescue pitch:
Corzine's rescue pitch: Spend a trillion - 5 hours ago
Gov. Jon S. Corzine sent Congress and the White House an ambitious wish list Wednesday: a $1 trillion, two-year economic stimulus package to revive the flagging economy.
http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008812250349
That was great...
-The Nobel Prize gave Pinter a global platform which he seized enthusiastically to denounce U.S. President George W. Bush and then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair.-
here's to wishing all my blogging friends
a very happy christmas
have been caught in a whirlwindy frenzy and out of the loop for the last week or so, missed you guys and thought about you, just not enough time to actively participate in the festive chats around here
here is the only contribution that i can come up with to the christmasy atmosphere on the quick, i apologize for the low quality of the video but it was really dark, though there were a lot of cheery lights, (I have a very lousy low-def camera) my two grandaughters walking through a path in the park in this New Orleans thing called "Christmas in the oaks" a festival of lights and music and disneysh type staff for kids and grownups alike, it was a lot of fun, but being nighttime this is the best i could do with my cheapy camera
hey toni, me too, i've been cooking up a storm
finally taking a break today, but i'm off to try out marc's scone prep in a bit
That's fantastic mire!
Its winter time. Don't you need to cover up those kids? Is it warm there?
hi all, i haven't been out of the loop totally been sporadically
and briefly checking the blog, and the excellent stuff the guys have been putting up for us on the live to tape show, whatever that means, it's so much like them, this creative wordplay; i have particularly enjoyed the quick rerun of the year's event with sam recounting politics and marc interjecting with his personal divorce story like sam mentioning sara palin at one point and marc going "fuck her" (supposedly talking about his ex) that was a delicious double entendre pun delivered so well
it's warm fernando
we only had one cold day in the last 15-day stretch, that was on monday, around 35, then it climbed back up; its in the 75-80 range right now; we picked a good time to do the christmas in the oak thing, perfect weather, we had to use the air conditioning that day
didn't wanna mention the weather because of toni :)
Bring in the good times...
JT - song for jeffery
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hey mmr = merry xmas
~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett
mire,
I don't think toniD is like us.
Some folks, when they spend so much time up in that forbidden tundra change. Not quite human. Not quite snow people. You can't save them.
forbidden tundra
Greetings.
Here is a shot out my back window
taken a couple hours ago with a
cheap $15 digital cam.
Looks nice with the Sunshine, but I hate shoveling that stuff.
Here is A Holiday (MIDI) Tune
JOY
too many irons on the fire
me too fernando i have been organizing my files, mostly videos and pics, but also letters, diaries, audiobooks etc doing that right now while preheating the oven for the scones,sederblogging, talking on the phone with my Italian family and friends, waiting for my daughter and the kids to come storming in any minute now
Jmach1JP
one of these day's Jmach1JP, you are going to wake up and find out that you bounce.
Because, you know, Bumbles bounce.
Happy Holiday(s)
bloggerati.....hope it's all good
Bumbles bounce. :)
Childhood wasn't all bad.....
holy cow cent
Where did you find that picture of Wolfe Blitzer naked?
I was Funnier
Last Year:
Submitted by Jmach1JP on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 10:35pm.
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/2018
&
node/2022
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Last year.. :)
Thx,Jmach1JP for the post..
Fun to see last years posts..
Sorry,I thought I posted this earlier..
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
Oh, living in the mountains
Oh, living in the mountains with a few wolves, with barely a dirt "mountainous" road upon a mountain side-top with constant snow -- but not as many FEET of snow like in other area compared to The Coastal Mountains -- living for 20 plus years in the mountains-- makes a wee city major "activist" witch a bit weird huh...& is not quite human -- hmmmmmmm well, grrr :D
;)
jpmach, merry christmas and thanks for the music
stay inside! i love watching snow on tv, snow pics and thinking about snow but that's as far as it goes
Ms_Anthrope :)
Happy Winter Soltice & New Year to You & Yours ! :)
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
Ms_Anthrope
What magic do you use to connect to the internet way up there?
I'm going to be looking for a broadband microwave solution soon.
Oops. this is what I meant to say >>> Pinter <<<
:):( {sniff} "dramatis personae" /|\)0(
"Bows" & Blessed Be
*poof*
I'm going to be looking for a broadband microwave solution soon.
Dude, either get a spot that has 3g coverage and dongle or find someone downhill from you in line-of-sight who has a hardline broadband connection and set up a ptp wireless wan link. Satellite broadband is the pits.
I do a lot of vpn troubleshooting with people on Hughesnet and Wildblue. Fuggetabodit.
Their proprietary compression protocols screw up more than they fix, nevermind the atmospheric and speed issues.
JMTC.....
i was wondering what was up with the old post of the pinter
speech, that was old news
just saw it on the news now, that he just died. He was quite young, i believe, wonder what he died of
ok never mind, he was 78, not too young
i think i am getting him mixed up with another playright
Fernando, I am "...in town now " -- BUT BANDWIDTH is a major
problem up here -- EVEN IN TOWN GRRRRRRR "broadband microwave" does that have to do with CELL phone "abilities"? ...I would use Internet at Cafes ( a few had abilities THEN) or library or at school when In Town. -- (when contemplating I, at times, go back to school ... but this time I am working on a "different" road}. Cell 3.5 not 1.8 would work -- only
in certain area, me being bent all around. And there is also a major difference -- you know what you are talking whereas I mostly do not.
I only would write on computer -- then it was all I needed.
:0 ;)
.
mery merry
off to join a friend at the american legion for dinner.
~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett
merry christmas to all...
halfway through preparing my traditional beef wellington with traditional yorkshire pudding.
several inches of snow falling here in the truckee meadows - it's a winter frickin' wonderland here.
... and to all a good night
goose liver paté!
I'll be right over.
rc I think I see what you mean about young Sam Seder and young
Noam Chomsky...the more I pass the picture the more I see it...
I'm on the phone
with my nephew who is 18yo and half way done with his junior year at ASU because he placed out of two years of college. He's telling me that he has picked up paying contracts at the dorm designing stills for the freshmen business majors. He argues that there is nothing illegal in designing stills for money. Nobody ever expects the Spanish Inquisition.
hey alice, merry christmas
sorry but i don't see it
sam seder much better looking and sexier
they share a bit the smart intellectual look around the eyes (more precisely the eye-glasses is where i see some resemblance if any)
leave it to fernando to always come up with something cryptic
what does designing a still mean? what's a still?
A still
as in distilling alcoholic spirits.
Joyous Yule to you all!
They were waiting for 'squeekers' for the last week or so!
http://www3.telus.net/Art-Adventures/Xmas08/
deff snowed in here!
!
more pix
http://www3.telus.net/Art-Adventures/Xmas08/
Ah....Sorry,SJ..But,pics stretching thee blog..
:(
Cool pics,though..
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
Sorry, 'Nando -
i substitute a mushroom pate for the gooseguts.
rctowns
I'm not really a fan of goose liver anyway.
Sounds fantastic though. I've only made it once.
Decided it was too much work...
That's saying a lot because I usually don't mind cooking.
On CNN they are covering the supposed life of Jesus and how he died.
The scholar says that the Romans inflicted terror and torture on the
population through whipping and crowns of thorns and crucifixions to
those people who dissented to the power of the state.
Eureka! George Walker Bush took us backwards 2000 years.
History will redeem him my ass.
hey gang. just taking a
hey gang. just taking a moment to pop in and wish yyou al Merry Christmas!
Sunshine Jime, when is Canadian Christmas,, was that a couple weeks ago? ;)
been taking lots of pics and videos of the ferry trip, etc.
*************************
"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."
which pix MMR?
i did put in the Height="300" modifier
the ones i posted look OK in Opera.
lemme know and i'll edit them out
which browser you using?
eya Chubbs!
Canadian Xmas is next month
timed for the good Xmas shopping deals.
take more pix of rockies art, garden, snow, finished dinner, landscapes, porch carpentry
you know, alla the good stuff
goose liver?
Eddie Bean goose liver down stuffed vests!
They keep you warm in the coldest weather and they're sooo good!
Poor Bgurl
looks like the pups got toys for Christmas.
SJ didn't say that Santa came for her at all. Maybe she was naughty.
Sunshine Jim on Thu, 12/25/2008 - 7:07pm.
they stretch firefox and IE both. Try width="400".
Of course it was a lie!
Former British Foreign Secretary: Al Qaeda is Not a Real Group, Just a U.S. Propaganda Campaign
Global Research, December 24, 2008
georgewashington2.blogspot.com
Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook says:
The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US. Cook has previously written:
Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians. Cook is merely confirming what others have said. Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski told the Senate that the war on terror is "a mythical historical narrative".
con't
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11487
Eartha Kitt, Singer And Dancer, Dies At 81
NEW YORK — Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died, a family spokesman said. She was 81.
Andrew Freedman said Kitt, who was recently treated at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, died Thursday in Connecticut of colon cancer.
Kitt, a self-proclaimed "sex kitten" famous for her catlike purr, was one of America's most versatile performers, winning two Emmys and nabbing a third nomination. She also was nominated for several Tonys and two Grammys.
con't
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/25/eartha-kitt-singer-and-da_n_153...
Her career spanned six decades, from her start as a dancer with the famed Katherine Dunham troupe to cabarets and acting and singing on stage, in movies and on television. She persevered through an unhappy childhood as a mixed-race daughter of the South and made headlines in the 1960s for denouncing the Vietnam War during a visit to the White House.
Through the years, Kitt remained a picture of vitality and attracted fans less than half her age even as she neared 80.
When her book "Rejuvenate," a guide to staying physically fit, was published in 2001, Kitt was featured on the cover in a long, curve-hugging black dress with a figure that some 20-year-old women would envy. Kitt also wrote three autobiographies.
Once dubbed the "most exciting woman in the world" by Orson Welles, she spent much of her life single, though brief romances with the rich and famous peppered her younger years.
After becoming a hit singing "Monotonous" in the Broadway revue "New Faces of 1952," Kitt appeared in "Mrs. Patterson" in 1954-55. (Some references say she earned a Tony nomination for "Mrs. Patterson," but only winners were publicly announced at that time.) She also made appearances in "Shinbone Alley" and "The Owl and the Pussycat."
Sorry,SJ..
But,they are huge in IE..
Cool pics,though.. :)
Try width ?
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
The young Eartha Kitt sings Santa Baby....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOMmSbxB_Sg
Just posted this over at Maron v Seder..
I thought the boys would like it..
Good for the Jews - It’s good to be a Jew at Christmas
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
Jim
I'm on IE and the blog is really stretched. This is the link to your huge picture:
deff snowed in here!
new
Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Thu, 12/25/2008 - 8:02pm.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year,Brett ! :)
Good to see you..Sorry,but the blog is having some width issues.. :)
How have ya been ?
Good I hope.. :)
Did you get my email ?
I had a feeling you might stop by today.. :)
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
Merry Christmas Everyone
I'm back from the dead. HaHaHa and HoHoHo
I miss you guys, I just moved back to my old neighborhood, a block from my ex's. I never did get internet while living on the wrong side of the tracks, and my schedule keeps me from making the library while they are open.
That's my excuse for not blogging here for months, and I'm sticking to it!
:)
Eveing all
Back from dinner and I am stuffed!
I knew I'd have a big dinner so that was the first and only meal I'll eat today.
Jim, looks like the Chicago area with all that snow. And you are way further north than we are!
Still alot of ice around here.
how's that?
i'll delete if it's still a prob
Hi MM
It just wouldn't be Xmas without me. (humble moment)
I'm at my sister's house, the one next door to my parents.
The room is full of relatives playing Dancing with the stars on Wii. TOO MUCH SALSA MUSIC PEOPLE!!
eya brett!
welcome back!
Put Down The Egg Nog & Fix The Blog ! ;-)
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
eya T!
even more now!
the lakes area can have some massive snow, the pond at your place is lovely!
just got the turkey in a half hour ago, dinz at 8:30 ish.
hey Jim
good to be here!
Egg Nog & SALSA MUSIC PEOPLE
Nothin could be finer..
What a Country ! ;)
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Yea Jim ! :)
It only took about an hour.. ;-)
Good..Now I can stop looking for Bones & Star Trek stuff.. ;)
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
We had snow in SW Louisiana this month
On December 11 we had 1 to 6 inches in the Acadiana area (metro Lafayette). My town only had about an inch but a few miles north had four inches and about 15 miles north had six inches, which is incredible for this place. The snow was all gone by lunch that day, and it was 70 degrees the next day. I know you folks up north are already sick of snow by now, but for the gulf coast it's a special once a decade treat.
New Thread... http://samsedershow.com/node/4226
http://samsedershow.com/node/4226
Brett..I think it was Nora who posted some cool pics of
New Orleans with the snow..I was looking for it but,couldn't find it..
They are around here someplace..
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
Sorry Guys
I've been watching Comedy Central. Jeff Dunham has his Christmas show on. He"s the ventriliquist and funnier than hell!
Sorry it's over now but might be repeated later. Check your local listings.
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