Today's Show

I had some problems streaming today. I was hoping for a second chance.

Good to learn some details about
the bad AAR mngmnt.

or is it just the haircut.

Do these jeans make my butt look big?

you gin drinking commie pinko.

Now go get a job on radio damn it. -

I didn't like that
Bill Moyers allowed an opposing viewpoint to
Lawrence Lessig on this weeks Journal

2ed Half
Margaret Flowers MD

Does anyone notice that when Olbermann throws it to Maddow at the end of his show he almost always has a shit-eating look on his face like , "ooookaaaay, ha, ha hee... there, buh-bye. Hee?"

"You look so tired-unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us"
-Radiohead.
www.sigzone.blogspot.com

thanks to there being Sam Seder on air!

[Long, enthusiastic Cyberapplause]

i have a super-computer
i'm in bed with it as we speak, and...
we're both smokin'

[i woke @ about 3:50pm my time & whoa! what a treat to hear our sammy]
[i even chatted in the chat room, until i said dan & mb owed me money & was banned :) ]

have i mentioned tonight that i have a super-computer
and i'm in bed with it as we speak, and...
we're both smokin'
(all that's missing is a synthetic robot sex doll)

btw, cat, why are you posting on the previous thread
(coo-coo)

Loved the show today Sam. Wished it was every day. I would watch.

is that the same olbermann who's primarily responsible for maddow scoring her tv show...

you stupid idiot

Submitted by Cat Chew on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 10:35pm.
I had some problems streaming today.
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Turn you head and cough.

A/O. You sleep at 3pm?

http://www.globaljusticeecology.org/stopgetrees.php

[excerpt]

STOP GMO Eucalyptus Trees!

Urgent Update: The USDA has reopened the comment period for their Environmental Assessment of ArborGen's proposal to plant 260,000 genetically engineered eucalyptus trees across the Southern U.S. Comments are needed by 18 February to oppose this dangerous and destructive plan. Click Here to sign on to the public comment letter. More information below:

Release of Dangerous Genetically Engineered (GE) Eucalyptus Trees Threatens U.S. Forests/ Communities.

ACTION NEEDED BY 18 February! Tell the USDA NO WAY to ArborGen's Eucalyptus Frankentrees

In an unprecedented move toward commercial large-scale release of GE forest trees in the United States, ArborGen is petitioning the U.S. government for permission to plant an estimated 260,000 flowering GE eucalyptus trees [1] across seven southern U.S. states in so-called "field trials."[2]

The mass-planting of 260,000 flowering GE eucalyptus trees is a major step toward the unregulated development of large-scale GE eucalyptus plantations in the U.S. ArborGen has also requested permission to develop large-scale commercial plantations of GE cold tolerant eucalyptus across the U.S. South which the USDA has not yet ruled on.

Government approval of GE eucalyptus trees will set a dangerous precedent to allow the release of other experimental GE forest trees, including poplars and pines, that would inevitably and irreversibly contaminate native trees with destructive GE traits, devastating forest ecosystems and wildlife. Once GE trees escape, there is no way to call them back.

The only way to prevent the genetic contamination of forests is to ban the commercial release of GE trees before it is too late.

TAKE ACTION!
Tell the USDA that GE cold-tolerant eucalyptus plantations pose an unprecedented threat to U.S. forests, wildlife and communities. Tell them to reject ArborGen's request to plant more than a quarter of a million dangerous invasive GE trees across the Southern U.S. Since these field trials are a concrete step toward unregulated commercial growing of dangerous GE eucalyptus, they must be rejected.

Sign on to the STOP GE Trees Campaign's Comments to the U.S. government

and

Have your organization become a STOP GE Trees Campaign partner and endorse our goal of a global ban on GE trees! For more information about the STOP GE Trees Campaign, click here

Background:
According to ArborGen, eucalyptus is a "fast-growing hardwood tree that is a favorite of the international forest products industry"[3] Globally, forests in tropical and subtropical regions have been decimated for the development of eucalyptus plantations, with devastating results for communities and biodiversity. ArborGen now wants to spread this disaster to new regions with this GE cold-tolerant eucalyptus.

Some of the impacts caused by eucalyptus plantations that now threaten the U.S. include:

� Widespread destruction of native forests: Australian Eucalyptus were introduced to California in the 1850s and these invasive aliens now grow throughout the state; more than 200 species have been introduced into the U.S. The cold-tolerance trait will allow the disaster of eucalyptus plantations to be expanded into regions that are too cold for conventional eucalyptus--including the U.S. South.

� Uncontrollable wildfires: Raging wildfires in Australia this year, made worse by drought, traveled over 60 miles an hour, devastating wildlife and killing 173 people. The1991 Oakland, CA firestorm, exacerbated by eucalyptus, cost $1.5 billion in damages.

� Loss of fresh water: Eucalyptus trees are fast-growing "water-suckers." They require tremendous amounts of water, threatening to worsen the drought already being experienced in areas of the Southern United States.

� Vast clearcutting of biodiverse forests to grow monoculture plantations of GE Eucalyptus clones;

� Silent forests: Wildlife that cannot use the Eucalyptus for habitat nor food will be lost. Endangered species will be threatened.

� Contamination of soils and groundwater with toxic pesticides used on the plantations, often aerially sprayed;

� Worsening of climate change through the destruction of carbon-rich native forests for carbon-poor plantations.

� Eucalyptus is a known host for the deadly pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus Gattii. Originally a tropical fungus, it was recently found around Pacific Northwest Eucalyptus groves, and can kill both humans and wildlife.

[end excerpt]

i'll be fulfilling my purpose in life soon
and go feed other peoples animals & plants
(my parents are away)

so endeth slacker saturday

http://www.globaljusticeecology.org/stopgetrees.php

Can't wait to see that. I don't watch TV on Friday nights cuz I'm doing that other thing I do.

As for the opposing viewepoint JMach1JP, that's what we're all about. Put 2 or more viewpoints out there and wrassle until there's only one standing.

Like I said I haven't seen it but I'm glad Mr. Moyers is practicing journalism the way it's supposed to be. Gotta go see who did the counterpoint.

i have a super-computer
i'm in bed with it as we speak, and...
we're both smokin'

Oh. Now I understand what Ebert was writing about.

According to those in the know, the only reason we're here is to take care of the cats.

I know there are bloggers here who will substantiate my claim.

How ya been bud?

How to Get Our Democracy Back
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/5/how_to_get_our_democracy_back

The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/4/robert_mcchesney_and_john_nichols_o...

no, mb
cats can take care of themselves
birds in cages, on the other hand, need to be waited upon
and in the absence of rain
i have to be the rainmaker
and water mama's plants

Submitted by air-ono on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 11:13pm.
is that the same olbermann who's primarily responsible for maddow scoring her tv show...

you stupid idiot
_______________

"Stupid idiot?"

Isn't that the sort of insult that a ten-year-old retard throws around? "You little shrimp; you big fatty; you old elderly person!"

Try this, moron:

http://cityfile.com/dailyfile/5807

"You look so tired-unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us"
-Radiohead.
www.sigzone.blogspot.com

...so few can, or are willing to, see it so clearly...

...thanks sammy...the technocratic apologists were starting to wear me down...but after listening to you and Chris I don't feel so crazy anymore...

...I am sick to death of Liberals being labeled as "ideologues" by these failed surrender monkey phonies...

Keep up the fight brotha...

..and I'll show you well, I'll show you, uh, I'll show you.....!@%!@%!@$!%

I don't know what I'll show you so just fook off bird boy! ;-)

How does Olberman/Maddow's relationship matter?

when we're the one's who have been right on every issue afaik.

be a good chap
and go make me a white russian...
i'm the dude
so that's what you call me

ABIDE

You show me a cat that cleans it's own litter-box
Submitted by maggiesboy on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 11:45pm.
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And I'll show you an animal not smart enough to shit where it doesn't need to be cleaned up.

goddamn you, man
how do you think i feel
i'm devastated!!
i have to perform my filial duties...
1st haiti, now this
when will these catastrophes end?

ok, i'm going...
to tear out some plants and release birds

For anyone who doesn't want to visit Faux's website:

http://gawker.com/5465299/im-not-saying-your-mothers-a-whore-how-fox-new...

..I actually made it threw the first 3 clips before BO totally reminded me that it's a waste of precious life to spend listening to his inane bullshit. Kudos to Stewart for treating him in a civil manner. I am not worthy.

Ancient tribe becomes extinct as last member dies
By Harmeet Shah Singh, CNN

New Delhi, India (CNN) -- The last member of an ancient tribe that has inhabited an Indian island chain for around 65,000 years has died, a group that campaigns for the protection of indigenous peoples has said.

Boa Sr, who was around 85 years of age, died last week in the Andaman islands, about 750 miles off India's eastern coast, Survival International said in a statement.

The London-based group, which works to protect indigenous peoples, said she was the last member of one of ten distinct Great Andamanese tribes, the Bo.

"The Bo are thought to have lived in the Andaman islands for as long as 65,000 years, making them the descendants of one of the oldest human cultures on earth," it noted.

With her passing at a hospital, India also lost one of its most endangered languages, also called Bo, linguists say.

"She was the last speaker of (the) Bo language. It pains to see how one by one we are losing speakers of Great Andamanese and (their) language is getting extinct. (It is) A very fast erosion of (the) indigenous knowledge base, that we all are helplessly witnessing," read an obituary in Boa Sr's honor posted on the Web site of the Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese (VOGA) project. more....

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/05/india.extinct.tribe/index.ht...

toniD's Ya Think?

Submitted by air-ono on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 11:51pm.
...make me a white russian...
------
Abacrankdabra Bait: "Poof! You're a white Russian."

Ivan-ono: "How can I be sure?"

Bait: "Your name has been changed in the dialogue."

Ivan-ono: "Holy St. Petersburg! I'm a Rooskie!"

Provide adequate accommodations.
http://www.catgenie.com/about-catgenie/2-video-demos/
_______________________________________________

According to those in the know, the only reason we're here is to take care of the cats.

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be.
Amen.

The plan to send a missionary to Brother Bait is on hold.

..mine came today. He tossed in a freebie cuz they were late. Someone teach the boy some bidness. You can't make $$ givin' it away for free! ;-)

Thanks Sam

"BioDesign eliminates the randomness of natural evolutionary advancement primarily by advanced genetic engineering and molecular biology technologies to produce the intended biological effect," the DARPA document states. - Raw

I am not against reverse engineering. Totally cool with it. But...

Arrogance and motivation are two risky business'

The Senate Becomes A Polish Joke

So, here’s the news from the Senate. Martha Johnson was nominated to head the General Services Administration, and was confirmed by a nearly unanimous vote — but only after having had her nomination held hostage for nine months by Senator Kit Bond, who wanted more pork for Kansas City. And now Senator Richard Shelby has placed a hold on — are you seated — all, all, Obama administration nominees, until he gets some pork for Alabama.

What’s going on? The Senate has rules based on the idea that it was a chamber of gentlemen who would find ways to work together. But now, 41 Senators belong to a party that has no interest in a working government, no desire to work with the majority in good faith.

There’s a precedent for all this. In effect, we’ve now become 17th-century Poland:

… with the rise of power held by Polish magnates, the unanimity principle was reinforced with the institution of the nobility’s right of liberum veto (Latin for “I freely forbid”). If the envoys were unable to reach a unanimous decision within six weeks (the time limit of a single session), deliberations were declared null and void. From the mid-17th century onward, any objection to a Sejm resolution — by either an envoy or a senator — automatically caused the rejection of other, previously approved resolutions. This was because all resolutions passed by a given session of the Sejm formed a whole resolution, and, as such, was published as the annual constitution of the Sejm, e.g., Anno Domini 1667. In the 16th century, no single person or small group dared to hold up proceedings, but, from the second half of the 17th century, the liberum veto was used to virtually paralyze the Sejm, and brought the Commonwealth to the brink of collapse.

“Brink of collapse”: get used to that concept.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/the-senate-becomes-a-polish-...

toniD's Ya Think?

Paulson's book details GE chief's private concerns in 2008 over company's debt

By Jeff Gerth
ProPublica
Saturday, February 6, 2010

As the financial crisis worsened toward the end of 2008, chief executive Jeffrey Immelt and other leaders at General Electric repeatedly assured the public there was no need to worry about the company's ability to access credit markets and refinance its massive debts as they came due.

But in private conversations that alarmed then-Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., Immelt laid out a different picture of GE's credit situation, according to Paulson's new book about the crisis.

Instead, Paulson writes, Immelt on at least four occasions expressed worries about GE's short-term debt, known as commercial paper, and eventually lobbied for access to special government guarantees for such debt.

To take one example: On Sept. 15, 2008, the day Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, Paulson says he was "startled" when Immelt came to his office and told him GE was finding it "very difficult" to sell short-term debt "for any term longer than overnight." A day earlier, GE sent investors a letter saying its ability to sell commercial paper was "robust." Immelt, in a statement issued Friday by GE, said he "does not believe" the two discussed problems with GE commercial paper on Sept. 15, or in one previous talk. The company did not contest Paulson's account of other conversations about the issue a few weeks later.

If correct, the portrayals in Paulson's book, "On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System," could spell trouble for GE in court, where shareholders are accusing Immelt and other executives in civil suits of violating securities laws by misleading investors in fall 2008 about GE's finances and withholding key information.

Immelt and other defendants have denied the claims, filed in federal court in New York City, and are seeking dismissal. But a leading securities expert said Paulson's book could complicate the litigation.

"Assuming that what is in the book is accurate," said Donald C. Langevoort, the Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law at Georgetown University, "it offers new facts that any judge would have to take very seriously in considering whether to allow a suit alleging violations of the securities laws to go forward."

GE said in a statement that all the company's disclosures were accurate and that to suggest otherwise is misleading.
more...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/05/AR201002...

toniD's Ya Think?

anyone get the feeling the Dems are being dared to change the Senate rules and drop the filibuster next year...?

I think only of you, my Darling, and of the time we spent together, beneath the Dwarf Maples.

I think they're daring them to do it this year...AND I think they're daring Obama to make most, if not all, of his appointments via recess appointments...

I just hope they put some thought into whatever rules they change..if they actually find the balls to change anything...

I'm not counting on anything...seein' how balls are in Short supply in the Democratic party

"this machine kills fascists"

;)

mb.

Blog felt like old times (well, at least for me) there for a minute.

mor anybody else just because it says 12 guests.

everybody's just a ghost. ip ghosts. 1 user and 12 ghosts.

----
9 ghosts. Everybody mostly watchin' the YouTube prolly.

------
See cent, didn't I tell you how great it was? That's exactly how I felt. Not-crazy.

Well at least not about politics. :)

They disappear two by two.

--
Nope, now five.

"Now imagine losing farther / Losing faster"

Everybody knows that one, right. To post it all would be like posting "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" or something.

because I am like I am: three synapses. It is overwhelming.

You are boring when you are like that. The speech you make over and over again. You are just as bad as you say we are.

I can't come on for one minute and snark about one thing that irritates me without getting some kind of violent imagery shit thrown at me.

And as far as the other thing. I forgave somebody once when they said something maybe half that mean about me and my brain. And that was a person who had always been nice to me before.

If you are some kind of "cognitive infiltrator" I hope they pay you well.

I am sick of being snarky about it. It hurts. So there.

If that's what you do for kicks...

It was great to see you on the Internets yesterday..

Good show..

Man,We've missed ya !

**

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

MMRules

Pic from: www.bartcop.com

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

MMRules

Boy, kudos to the ad-critter who thought that up, huh?

Buy our product or have a corpse on your head.

But then when you really think about it, "limp and lifeless" is a fairly sentimental description, or maudlin. (Yes, I distinguish shades of meaning there.) It's kind pre-Raphaelite, you know, kinda Goth.

So when I think about it like that, that I have on my head Ophelia in the water, or some chick in being handled by Dracula after he just finished sucking all the life out of her...Then that doesn't seem like such a bad thing to have on my head.

But that just goes to show ya.

You lucky devils.

I have about a foot of snow on the ground. If you do any traveling today, please be safe.

Close the gap between the rhetoric,
and the reality.- President Obama, 01-29-10
The World Needs More SEDER!!!

doing it during the Senate Session would be subject to...you guessed it...a filibuster...It would most likely be done on day one next session, if at all...

The CRS actually published a short piece on it back in 2005 after BushCo and Trent Lott made all those rumblings about the Dems blocking their rancid Judicial nominees...it is a pretty light read for the non-wonks on-board...

Changing Senate Rules: The "Constitutional" or "Nuclear" Option

Here's a wiki too...

I think the Dems should just go ahead and do it while they can, cause they can be goddam good and sure the Rethugs will do it, and worse, first thing next time they get a majority...

I do have to go out today but we've only got half as much down here. Lucky for me I learned to drive in the winter in West Virginia. There you only know people who got the hang of it. The rest of 'em went sliding down the side of the mountain. We had flakes yesterday I swear were 2" in diameter. You get any of those?

*** Burn Notice ***

The Blog has been compromised...destroy all evidence and correspondence confirming Liberal ideology at once...any NOC bloggers exposed or captured will be disavowed and are advised to make use of their one each, standard issue, cyanide capsule...

Good Luck...

8417-154-5pY signing off....

your boys are awsome, and that white landscape gorgeous if i can say so from my southern comfort where we do have some green to look at when we step outside

but me too, i am sick and tired of winter; i want flowers on trees; camelias are beautiful especially when that's the only splash of color out there, but those pink japanese magnolias... oh lord, i think i spotted some while i was driving the other day...

i'll make a quick trip to upstate ny next week and expect to see some of that white stuff, though i hope not

and when i get back from that trip i will surely have pink and yellow blossoms greeting me from all the front and backyards in my neighborhood

I feel bad for you mid Atlantic people. I know it is more difficult for you in your area because you don't have the facilities in place for that much snow. Even here where we get alot of measurable snow, 2 feet puts a stop to everything.

Please be careful!

toniD's Ya Think?

Global market turmoil hints that U.S. recovery may founder
Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: February 05, 2010 08:18:32 PM

WASHINGTON — Conflicting U.S. jobs data and mounting concerns about debt defaults abroad that threaten global economic growth triggered a worldwide wave of stock-market volatility Friday amid fears that the improving U.S. economy could unravel.

A mixed jobs report from the Labor Department, including a revision that showed that 2009 job losses were far greater than thought, called into question the strength of the U.S. recovery.

In Europe, the European Union's inability to chart a path forward for debt-ridden Greece, Ireland and Spain also led investors to fear a return to the credit freeze of 2008 and scurry for havens. Investors on Friday fled countries from Portugal to Argentina on concerns that their widening deficits could signal future debt defaults.

"Greece's debt problems and the contagion effects to other southern European countries or beyond are real and are likely to stay with us for some time," Barclays Capital Research, a division of the big British bank, warned in a research note.

The potential of new global financial woes piled on top of U.S. employment worries. Shortly after opening, the Dow Jones Industrial Average sank below 10,000, at one point down 170 points. It swung 120 points in the final hour of trading, however, as investors repositioned in case of a weekend solution in Europe, perhaps involving a rescue by the International Monetary Fund.

Friday's global stock-market turmoil could continue next week. The downturn in recent weeks has doused investors and hit the retirement plans of ordinary Americans alike, eroding last year's wealth gains.

The Dow finished up 10.05 points to 10012.23. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq rallied to close up, respectively, 3.08 points to 1066.19 and 15.69 points to 2141.12.

Friday's volatile trading followed a 267-point drop on the Dow a day earlier, and it began minutes after the Labor Department released the jobs report, which found an unexpected drop in the unemployment rate from 10 percent to 9.7 percent. Analysts had expected a slight uptick.

"These numbers, while positive, are a cause for hope but not celebration, because far too many of our neighbors and friends and family are still out of work," President Barack Obama said during a meeting with small business owners in Lanham, Md. "We can't be satisfied when another 20,000 have joined their ranks and millions more Americans are underemployed, picking up what work they can."

Still, optimists pointed to the household survey, which questions workers to determine the jobless rate. That survey found that more people reported new jobs, 541,000, than reported jobs lost, 430,000. The work force participation rate, which reflects people working or looking for work, also rose slightly as the jobless rate dipped.

"Despite the obvious disappointment of the failure to show a gain in employment in January, we judge there is more good news than bad news in this report," a research note from forecaster RDQ Economics said.

If the jobs report confounded investors Friday, problems in the European Union scared them. The problem isn't so much that a nation defaults on its sovereign debt — the bonds that individual countries issue — but that such a default could trigger a chain reaction of global panic similar to what happened after the bankruptcy of U.S. investment giant Lehman Brothers in September 2008.

That scenario would add to the hurt on American shores, since it would slow the global economy, bring more bank losses and hurt U.S. exports.

Even without a panic, weaker European economies such as Spain's and Portugal's already face a credit crisis as they're hit with higher borrowing costs because investors consider them riskier bets.

An economic slowdown in Europe would hurt Main Street America because exports have been one of the few drivers of economic growth, and Europe is a chief buyer of everything from farm products to expensive U.S. technology.

If Greece and other nations default on their debts, that also could unleash a new wave of contagion, and countries from Iceland to Argentina could find themselves unable to make good on their commitments to bondholders. This would bring even more losses at global financial institutions just as they're beginning to claw back from the brink of collapse.

Alan Levenson, the chief economist of investment-management firm T. Rowe Price, warned in a note to investors that renewed financial market turbulence "could cause a pullback in business-decision making that would interrupt the economy's forward progress."

If the future is uncertain, today's economic problems seem to be improving gradually. more...

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/330/v-print/story/83814.html

toniD's Ya Think?

Moyers was kinda weird last nite. Libertarian journalist Nick Gillespie was on with L. Lessig. I shouldn't say it was weird,I should say it was a good debate - I do side with Professor Lessig - although Gillespie had some good points.

Hope ya all r well today - I'm feeling alright today, better then the past week.

of our country, "Don't worry it'll melt"
good opportunity to take some really nice
winter photos....

and what's the name of that fish i love to eat? my brain cells not fully activated yet (need more coffee) and where is crank

time for breakfast

How do I love thee Mr. Seder
Let me count ALL of the ways
How do I love thee Mr. Seder
Way to many ways to count
How do I love thee Mr. Seder
Only in my heart will u know thee
How do I love thee Mr. Seder
Only in my dreams will you know
How do I love thee Mr. Seder
Only time & miles keep us apart
(& no Sam Seder Show)

Any SuperBowl Parties tomorrow??
How is the weather down in beautiful
New Orleans??

or anything....... but Sam
said my name on the radio
yesterday - did anyone hear it??

I did - It made my day! :)

The wind is blowing it around so much you wouldn't know it, though...26 degrees or so...probably half that with the wind chill...

makes the coffee taste better...I got up at 5am and got sucked into watching Das Boot....fucking five hour movie...great flick, but I'll have to record it...need to motivate to take the mutts out in that windy hell...and at some point, I need to hit teh Costco

"this machine kills fascists"

funny you'd mention that, sandy

that's my plan for the weekend, if the weather cooperates, just go out and shoot a bunch of pictures

lots of stuff going on this weekend in new orleans

a nice little event right here in my neighborhood, a miniature parade (never heard of it, just read about in the paper yesterday, i'll see if i can find a link) kinda like a spoof of the big mardi gras parades, just some miniature stuff created by the local artists and rolling down the street a block from my house, it'll be fun to watch

and try out my new camera, gee i almost forgot i bought a new camera coupla weeks ago, woke up this morning thinking, geezus, i haven't tried it out yet, too busy with other stuff, like work, paying bills and floor cleaning - - yesterday i tackled the first full fledged deep wash of my beautiful wooden floors since i bought the house in october, i was scared to do it (what if i use the wrong detergent and ruin them?)

so it was quite a job and with all this drudgery it's not surprising i woke up this morning feeling tired and slightly depressed (is this all there is to life? floor scourings and bills?) then i remembered about the camera and suddenly felt a little more cheerful.

i think i'll take some pictures of my beautiful clean shining floors :) and then i'll go out and make videos of the miniature parade

..at TheReal News

you are lucky mire...we've got a month or so before spring starts to peek through the cold around here...

you can be sure Upstate will be frosty...it should make for a nice contrast and pleasant timing when you get back home...kind of like coming back from the concession stand at the exact moment previews have ended and the movie is just starting....enjoy...and send us poor slobs up some sunshine when you have a little to spare....

the photos that u take mire.
If I had to make a wish - it
would be - to go out & take pictures
of the world. Especially animals &
kids. I have always been interested
in photojournalism & nature. When I was
younger I wanted to go around with bands
& be their photographer. Never came to be.

http://www.nola.com/mardigras/index.ssf/2010/02/new_miniature_mardi_gras...

Spectators can watch from the sidelines or follow behind, Yuslum said, requesting that people "please don't step on our floats."

What Yuslum is most looking forward to are the looks on the faces of residents who happen upon the parade and realize, in case they didn't already know, that they are someplace special.

"(Last year) people would walk out of their houses looking completely bewildered, " he said. "Everyone has those magical New Orleans moments. I was glad to be a part of that."

I love your pups. They r wonderful & playful,
do they like the snow? It seems that they do.
My girls LOVE the winter & really, really cold
temps.
If I can ever figure out how to put up a video
I'll put one up of my girls.

i did it for a while, my first years in new orleans i was into artsy black and white photography, i had a darkroom set up in my bathroom (not the most comfortable set-up, but hey)

i'll tell you taking pictures of musicians playing is not easy, because if you take away the sound the visuals are suddenly completely different, also taking pictures late at night in a smokey dark bar when you had a few, also quite a challenge

but i do agree on nature, kids plants and animals, wonderful subjects

i'd like to catch (with the camera) the cats that live (or at least gather regularly) on the tin roof of my shed in the backyard, last time i saw them i counted seven on a tiny roof it was quite a sight; i think they got comfortable there because this house and its backyard were empty for several months before i bought it, so they may believe they own the place, at least judging from the dirtly looks i get when i step out there....

cats on a hot tin roof will be the title of my photo essay when i get to make it... will have to wait for summer when the roof gets real hot :)

pick me up some peanuts - i feed em to my
squirrels & blue jays. Also I need some
Raisin Bran - thanks

Those Chicago winds suck -

one of his pooches?

Ouch, that's gonna smart when it comes off. ;-)

This Saturday night HBO will be airing a made-for-television biopic about Temple Grandin, who is acclaimed for her work in autism and designing humane handling facilities for cattle.
Beloved by many, Grandin, who is autistic herself, was one of the first people to talk openly to the public about her condition lifting the stigma that is often associated with autism. In addition to being one of the first women to hit the scene in the cattle industry, where she wasn’t welcomed with warmth, she’s also widely known for her lectures and books, including Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals.
Grandin, who now has a Ph.D, and is an Associate Professor of Animal Behavior at Colorado State University, credits autism for her success. She claims that the hypersensitivity and unique vision are what have made her so tuned in to what animals sense and how to use it in agricultural engineering to create humane slaughter facilities.
While she’s certainly overcome some tremendous obstacles, she’s also roused some critics along the way who don’t quite see her as a heroine for animals. Indeed, something is amiss.
In her book, Animals Make Us Human, Grandin states that, "I vividly remember the day after I had installed the first center-track conveyor restrainer in a plant in Nebraska, when I stood on an overhead catwalk, overlooking vast herds of cattle in the stockyard below me. All these animals were going to their death in a system that I had designed. I started to cry and then a flash of insight came into my mind. None of the cattle that were at this slaughter plant would have been born if people had not bred and raised them. They would never have lived at all" (p. 297).
Jeffrey Masson, author of When Elephants Weep, seems to have hit the nail on the head with the troubling issue behind Grandin’s work in his review of the book: Temple Grandin Brings Me to Tears (of Frustration). It’s that, “she can never take the next step to questioning what she does.”
Her flash of insight “seems to have pacified her conscience forever! One moment of true insight, when she cried, was quickly stifled by a dumb cliché. It is an argument used by many people who become very annoyed if you say that we wouldn't want our children born into a world where they would be murdered, no matter how humanely or painlessly, after having lived for just a few months or years.”
“Dr. Grandin never asks the only relevant question here: Is it right to do this at all?”
It seems odd that someone could become such a prominent ethicist without being able to grasp that question. It also seems odd that someone who loves animals and feels they can empathetically relate to the animal mind wouldn’t try to help them live and instead, ironically, designs their deaths for a living. The cows, pigs and chickens that meet their end in a slaughterhouse don’t want to die any more than we do. They probably didn’t want to live that “good” life on a CAFO either.
Is Big Ag just using Grandin as a pawn to assuage consumer guilt over something that’s quickly making its way into the ethically questionable spotlight?
Are people just using oxymoronic terms like “humane slaughter,” “compassionate carnivore” and “ethical meat eater” to ease their conscience and stifle their tears as quickly as Grandin? For meat eaters who decry the use of emotional adjectives attached to the subject of animal rights and welfare, isn’t that the same thing?

I have read a couple of her books, she is an amazing
women, but like Jeffery Masson ask's "is this right to
even do this?" Shame on me for not asking that same question. My personal opinion is - "No it isn't right"

i'll check it out later

right now i'm too busy trying to lift myself out of this unexplainable early morning depression

i keep staring at those shining floors hoping that'll do something for me :) all it really does is make me wonder, how long before i will have to do it again? 2, 3 weeks? i already dread the thought, the thorough cleaning i mean how often do you guys clean your floors, i mean really clean, first sweep with a broom, then dust with a soft duster, then mop with murphy oil, then pass it over once again with a soft cloth to kinda absorb the slosh and make it shiny

don't wanna sound too dramatic about it, but for the last 10 years i have lived in an apartment with carpeting where all i had to do is vacumm once every couple of weeks, also not being "my" house i wasn't too fussy about such things

but maybe i'm barking up the wrong tree here, all you guys seem to have pets so obviously you will be cleaning your floors more often, right?

ok, enough, time to snap out of it and step out

the past few days.
But the sun is trying to peek
out. The sun here in Northern IL. is
very faint this winter. Also it aides
with the depression - so we got that
gong for us. ;)

Don't think I've ever used those words in the same sentence

..that is until I got this baby

"this machine kills fascists"

but i didn't see "hardwood - cypress - floors" there in the list

then i'd have the problem of where to store that monster, i have very little storage space in this place, did i mention that?

no, kidding aside, that machine looks fantastic, i am sure it saves a lot of time and sweat and back pains

;-)

when it comes to cleaning - I am obsessive
about it. After all I do it for a living (which
kinda sucks, but that's a whole another story in
itself) I HAVE to vacuum every day. The hair drives
me nuts. I grew up with the old saying of "everything
has it's place - so put it there"
I cannot tell u how many arguements Wendy & I get into
about the house "not being clean" of course I have expectations
that a lot of people would never be able to keep up with.
I guess u could call me the "The Cleaning Nazi"

speaking to the Dem Nat'l cmte.

I have to go to work today and I don't really want to. I'm really tired. I think I am still recovering from the election last Tuesday. I keep telling myself how lucky I am to have this little part time job just to motivate myself. But it's so hard when you aren't feeling well.

I have a ways to go, working, because of my family's past. Both my parents worked into their seventies and my brother is 78 and still working. So that means I have 12 more years just to keep up with my brother. That's some goal, isn't it!?!

Obama is talking about just this right now.

toniD's Ya Think?

I like a lot of the opinions that were left on
the blog site - so if any any of u r interested
here is the site.

http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/temple-grandin-savant-or...

"But it's so hard when you aren't feeling well."

the tit rex miniature parade starts at "Bacchanal Wine and Spirits" and ends at the saturn bar! perfect, just perfect, captures the whole essence of this neighborhood

http://www.bacchanalwine.com/

http://www.myspace.com/saturnbar

and now i understand why the floatmaker says in the article "i have to keep telling people, please don't step on the floats!" with all those bars on the parade route

The winter of America's discontent
Dissatisfaction with both political parties runs deep.
By Tim Rutten

It has been more than four decades since the Congress of the United States has been able to summon the will to pass a major piece of social legislation. Not since 1965, when Medicare and the Voting Rights Act both overcame decades of opposition to become law, has Congress proved itself up to the task.

Significant healthcare reform is all but dead for this session, and the chances of substantively addressing the regulatory breakdown that allowed Wall Street's irresponsible speculation to precipitate the worst global financial crisis since the Depression seem to recede with each passing day. So too the prospects for passage of further stimulus measures to remedy the crisis of unemployment and underemployment that continues to ravage the lives of families in states from Michigan to California.

In the face of these daunting issues, what was it that preoccupied the Senate on the eve of its long weekend recess? The legislative drama du jour is the standoff between the White House and Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), who has put a personal hold on more than 70 executive branch appointments until the Obama administration agrees to fund a couple of pork-barrel projects he has earmarked for his state. One involves tens of millions of dollars for an FBI laboratory focusing on improvised explosives -- something the bureau doesn't think it needs. The other involves contract specifications for an aerial tanker that Northrop Grumman and Airbus would manufacture in Alabama, if they win the deal. (Boeing also is competing for the plane, which it would build in Topeka, Kan., and Seattle.)

Unless the administration agrees to give Shelby what he wants, he intends to invoke an archaic senatorial privilege that allows him to prevent the chamber from considering any of the administration's nominees to executive branch vacancies, no matter how crucial. Without the 60 votes to force cloture -- another archaic convention -- there's nothing the Democrats or the White House can do.

Outside the Senate, Shelby's conduct would be called extortion; inside the chamber, it's a "parliamentary tactic."

It's also the sort of shabby situation that brings into sharp focus both the sources of congressional dysfunction and the popular discontent on both the left and right with the congressional parties. Earmarks and pork are anathema to a majority of conservatives and independents; the Senate's outdated, made-for-obstruction rules and susceptibility to special interests are a source of increasing frustration to liberals and some independents. Yet, here we have one senator from one Southern state obstructing with impunity an entire nation's business -- purely for his narrow constituency's financial interests.

You don't have to attend a "tea party" convention to see the corrosive effect this sort of otherworldly political navel-gazing has on American attitudes toward the institutions of national government and the parties vying to control them. Evidence of the damage is scattered throughout the recent polls:

A Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey, for example, found that although 52% of the nation's voters retain a favorable view of President Obama, only 38% have a similar appraisal of the Democratic Party. The Republicans fare even worse; just 30%, fewer than

1 in 3 voters, view the GOP favorably.

A recent CBS News poll found that nearly half of all Republicans, 45%, disapprove of their party's congressional delegation.

A national Washington Post/ABC News poll found that just 24% of Americans, fewer than 1 in 4, trust congressional Republicans, like Shelby, "to make the right decisions for the country's future." (Wonder why?) The House and Senate Democrats didn't fare all that better, and are trusted by just 32%. Forty-seven percent of those polled -- still less than half -- have confidence in Obama's ability to make the right decisions.

When people's mistrust of their elected officials and the parties reaches these levels, there is little for political leaders to do but take counsel from their own anger and anxieties -- and, these days, the popular mood fairly seethes with both those things. Discontent with the present and apprehension about the future have become the background noise of our politics, yet both sides of the congressional aisle seem deaf to the din.

In one of his magisterial explorations of German politics between the wars, the historian Ian Kershaw mused that "there are times -- they mark the danger point for a political system -- when politicians can no longer communicate, when they stop understanding the language of the people they are supposed to be representing."

It would be reckless not to insist that this country and its politics remain, in crucial ways, far distant from Weimar. It would be rash, though, to pretend that the distance remains as great as it once was.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rutten6-2010feb06,0...

toniD's Ya Think?

toni

it sucks

i think i will work into my seventies too, unless i find some other way to pay my expenses and i just don't see it right now :( oh yeah, when's the next lottery drawing? tonight? ya never know...

I was in the restaurant yesterday when I suddenly realized I desperately needed to pass gas.

The music was really, really loud, so I timed my gas with the beat of the music.

After a couple of songs, I started to feel better. I finished my coffee, and noticed that everybody was staring at me....

Then I suddenly remembered that I was listening to my iPod.

...in the fall of '08 I made a short film of some feral pups that lived in the park across from my house playing with my dog.

I eventually grabbed the small fawn colored one that keeps her distance in this vid.

The other fawn colored one got darted by Animal Control and the whitest one vanished, probably also caught.

The one barking the whole time is still out there in the park and I rarely saw her before I left to AZ for Xmas because she hides from people. BUT, she found a friend! A young red German Shepard mix, so, I'm pretty happy that she's not alone anymore.

I have been getting to know both of them since I got back a week and a half ago and have made a decent amount of progress in getting them to trust me. The Shepard is really friendly and pretty domesticated (lets me pet her, knows how to sit) but I'm still working on the feral. I'm super close to getting her to eat from my hand.

My goal, again, is find them homes and I can take in the Shepard pretty easily since she's so docile, but I don't want to leave the other one out there alone, so I have to wait until she loses more fear. It's gonna be tough to get a collar on her...since she's never had one on.

click images to enlarge

That's my life.

"this machine kills fascists"

Action Alert: Army moves Marc Hall's court martial to Iraq

The U.S. military plans to extradite stop-lossed Iraq veteran and IVAW member, Marc Hall, to Iraq "within a few days" to face court martial for allegedly threatening military officers in a protest rap song he made.
Marc has been sitting in Liberty County jail near Fort Stewart, GA since December 11, 2009 becuse he wrote a song called, "Stop Loss" about the practice of involuntarily extending military members' contract.
Download the full press release here.
Marc's lawyer believes that moving him to Iraq will violate his due process, isolating him from his legal support and making calling witnesses on his behalf nearly impossible.
He is working hard to prevent Marc's extradition to Iraq, and your calls right now can make a big difference.
Take action to support Marc by calling Ft. Stewart Public Affairs Chief, Kevin Larson at 912-435-9879. Tell him that 1) you are opposed to holding Specialist Marc Hall's court martial in Iraq and 2) all charges against Marc should be dropped. If you are a veteran, mention that during your call.

Thank you for helping Marc. Your calls in the next few days are very important.

IVAW Supporters to host alternative Super Bowl parties this Sunday.

http://www.ivaw.org/

Behind the scenes stuff is always so fun.

I have a show today on Happe Talk. I am interviewing Jeff Rupp who hosts a recovery blog on myspace. He has quite a story to tell. He is smart and committed and is a right winger! I hope we don't get into politics. You can go to my website and click on the Ustream logo to get the show. It is archived to listen later.

;
10am pst today

I think that's what I need. some fun in my life!
With the illness and operations these past few years, I need a vacation and some time not to worry about anything.

Somewhere warm with the sea to swim in and snorkel, and a bit of night life. And a boat to sail in. Caribbean dreams!
Margarita ville!

toniD's Ya Think?

I'm Screamin' for Dean!

Off two pickup Rx and provisions back....in hours.....hopefully.

Franken Lays Out 'Pledge And Pass' Strategy For Health Care

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn) called on Friday for Senate Democrats to commit to passing amendments to its health care legislation through the process of reconciliation -- so that the House can then pass legislation of its own.

In a call organized by the pro-reform group Health Care for America Now, the Minnesota Democrat laid out what he called a "pledge and pass" strategy for getting a bill into law.

"If we in the Senate pledge to fix those top priorities right away through reconciliation... the House of Representatives should pass the Senate bill. The exact details of this process need to be worked out by the leadership and the president."

Franken also tried to alleviate some of the concerns of those who argue that the Senate legislation -- even with reconciliation fixes -- doesn't go far enough.

"Like it or not, the reality is that big pieces of legislation often need to be fixed after passage," he said. "Health care is a historic undertaking and this is no different. I think we have to stop letting the perfect -- and everyone has different definitions of perfect -- we have to stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good... Walking away empty-handed to me is just not an option."

In offering his preferred procedural remedy for health care's impasse, Franken echoed a[n] emerging sentiment within the Democratic caucus. Sens. Arlen Specter (Penn), Max Baucus (Mont.), Ben Nelson (Neb.) Kent Conrad (ND), Jeff Bingaman (NM), Dick Durbin (Ill.) and others have all either endorsed or openly considered the idea of using reconciliation to change their bill.

There were some crossed messages on the call -- the person who preceded Franken, HCAN National Campaign Manager Richard Kirsch, advocated a slightly different legislative strategy for congressional Democrats.

As Kirsch sees it, the Senate would have to make reconciliation changes to its legislation first before the House would then vote on the entire package.

"A bill can be passed without having to have these 60 votes. The whole 60 votes [thing] is crazy. There is nothing in the constitution about 60 votes," said Kirsch. "Through [budget reconciliation], a lot of what's in that final compromise can still be passed. That would mean that both the Senate and House will pass a budget reconciliation bill and then the House will pass the Senate bill."

"It is totally a matter of political will," Kirsch added. "It is not a matter of procedure. It is up to the Democrats to exercise their political will... and it up to us to help provide the energy behind that."

...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/05/franken-lays-out-pledge-a_n_451...

toniD's Ya Think?

Telling her that he needs to be out there in the media now and that I was tired of him being in the shadows. NO ONE from the Senate, which is where the clusterfuck is happening has been out in the media raising hell except for maybe Bernie and Sherrod Brown, and I wouldn't exactly call what they're doing raising hell. Outside of them, only Franken has that quality.

I'm glad he's speaking out!

"this machine kills fascists"

That would be a-w-e-s-o-m-e!

"this machine kills fascists"

after watching your video (beautiful fall colors) i saw this one, next to yours on the tube, also very nice, well

at least warm and fuzzy ;)

you can stay in my house if you promise not to dirty the floors :)

i won't be there because i am going to ithaca on saturday but you can come and stay here

Posted link to this yesterday.

This chart should be front and center in the media. Obama, Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel all the Cabinet members and every Democratic congressperson should have this tattooed on their forehead, be shoved in front of a camera and have their offices locked behind them for the 72 hours between the time the Senate Dems post the jobs bill online and the vote.

"click for larger"

via TPM

"this machine kills fascists"

Our real enemies are not those living in a distant land whose names or policies we don't understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it's profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemies are not several hundred thousands away. They are right here in front of us

- Mike Prysner

Please share with your friends, family and acquaintances. Every little effort counts in the long run.

Please Support the Veterans at:
http://www.ivaw.org/

Also visit
www.antiwar.com

about the saturn bar

i am a fan

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=5216682...

for Accepting Anti-Abortion Super Bowl Ad

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/5/pro_choice_advocates_criticize_cbs_...

--
Obama DNC Speech: Says He's Not Giving Up On Health Care Reform

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Saturday sought to assure despondent Democrats he would not abandon his commitment to overhauling health care and would work to counter GOP challenges to their congressional dominance.

At its winter meeting, a defiant Democratic Party worked to project a message of strength even as loyalists acknowledged the prospect of several defeats in November. The party that controls the White House typically loses seats during midterm elections at an average rate of 28 net seats. President Bill Clinton, the last Democratic commander in chief, lost control of Congress in his first term and Democrats privately are predicting it could happen again.

Obama, looking to write his own history, warned fellow Democrats that "we have to acknowledge that change can't come quickly enough." He said political leaders must plot their way forward to November with an understanding of the economic difficulties Americans face.

"I understand their frustration. You understand it as well," Obama said.

A government report on Friday said 9.7 percent of the country was unemployed. Distrust of Washington has grown and spurred an anti-Washington sentiment that sent scores of activists to a "tea party" convention in Nashville on the same day. As witness to the tone, Republican Sen. Scott Brown won a special election to take the seat of the late, liberal Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Democrats also lost gubernatorial contests in Virginia and New Jersey.

Obama sought to energize his base against what he called "the other party." He urged Democrats to work with their Republican counterparts.

"We can't solve all of our problems alone," Obama said, as the audience sat in silence.

While Republicans have stood in solid opposition to the president's proposed overhaul of health care, Obama insisted he wasn't willing to abandon his top domestic priority that consumed months of his agenda and has produced slim hints of victory.
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"Let me be clear: I am not going to walk away from health reform," Obama said, bringing the audience in the hotel ballroom to their feet.

"We can't return to the dereliction of duty," Obama said. "America can't afford to wait, and we can't look backward."

His party, for certain, would prefer not to revisit its ordeals of 2009, which produced some victories but hardly the narrative that would deliver them victories this year.

"I know we've gone through a tough year. But we've gone through tougher," Obama said.

DNC chairman Tim Kaine, the former Democratic governor of Virginia who saw a Republican follow him into office, said they should not be downtrodden.

"The ghost of Harry Truman would kill us if he heard us complaining about having only 59 Democratic senators," Kaine said.

"We've had our ups and downs since the inauguration," Kaine conceded.

He warned, though, that Republicans were unlikely to support Obama's health care agenda.

"We might get one or two," he said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/06/obama-dnc-speech-says-hes_n_452...

toniD's Ya Think?

Treasury Dept. Calls For Full Haitian Debt Cancellation

"Here’s a nice Friday news dump. Tim Geithner just announced support for a full cancellation of Haiti’s debt, and the IMF will join him:

This also represents another policy victory with respect to Haiti for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who urged Geithner to support debt relief on Jan. 22. I’m sure Harold Ford would have joined her in that request, but if his knowledge of world geography is anything like his knowledge of the geography of New York City, he may not know where Haiti is."

"this machine kills fascists"

Have a great afternoon!

Later

toniD's Ya Think?

Just got back from a store run...tell you what though, VDOT/Roanoke County have got their poop in a group down my way...after getting to the top of my drive, I was astonished to find ALL the roads between me and the closest supermarket were totally clear...even our lane, which is a rural "side street" was plowed...

It's a comfort to see they can mobilize when the need to....

"this machine kills fascists"

Sundance, the Aussie, gets a little freaked out when it gets to deep because he tires trying to keep up with Casey...but he loves the cold. Casey is a bit of a wus in the cold, so doesn't stay out long, but loves to romp in the snow, the deeper the better...

They balance each other out nicely...

cute puppy, what's her name?

are ya ready..this is just amazing what one rethug can do and the Dems still even say the word "bipartisanship."
Let's see....SHelby holds 70 nominations??? THat's wanting to work in a bipartisan way??
Aaargh..

RAYYYYYY!!!

BTW, the ongoing park dog saga continues...
new
Submitted by 60th Street on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 10:58am.

I didn't know that u had Feral pups by u.
I read this book awhile back called "The Man Who Talks To Dogs" by Melinda Roth
I can't say enough about this book. This guy rescues Feral
Dogs. His name is Randy Grim, he has a shelter for just that -
Feral Dogs. It's a fascinating story - I would suggest u read his book. Also has a web-site to >> >> >> >>

http://www.strayrescue.org/

Let me know how it goes - & I would love to come on down & some time & see the pup's. & help out

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/happe-talk

is another piece of shit that can go away & die

cute puppy, what's her name?

cute puppy, what's her name?

DeMint, too....

...in Maryland and we've got 32" of snow! Help! It's nature taunting me. I bought a snow shovel trying to ward off the snow, but left it in the car. After picking up a few items at the grocery store and rushing in to watch Sam's Show, I forgot to go back out to get it.

The Shelby-Griffith Hail Mary Will Fail

"I come here to bury Parker Griffith's career in Congress, not to praise it. The man who pandered to labor unions and single-payer advocates to get elected as a Democrat met the Teabag Terror and was terrified into switching parties."

Shelby-Griffith!? I would have never noticed that connection re:Shelby's gambit!

I hope they keep digging into that story! That's a stinkbomb with some potential serious consequences for Shelby and that fucking shitbird Griffith!

"this machine kills fascists"

...little help please. Is it still snowing there and how much accumulated? I haven't been able to get in communication with my son who lives in your area to get details.

total about a foot. Things get worse as you go north...

There is a lot of power outages down here though, which County is he in?

...he's in Albemarle outside of Charlottesville.

I am hearing stories of 2ft+ up that way...

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Johnny Depp says he's planning to direct a documentary about British rock guitarist Keith Richards.
http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Movies/2010/02/06/Depp-to-direct-d...

Depp told the Serbian magazine Politika that he will begin directing the documentary next week, marking Depp's first directorial attempt since 1997's "The Brave," Variety.com reported Friday.

Specific details of the documentary project were not released.

Depp and Richards, 66, are friends and Depp has said his performance as the pirate Jack Sparrow in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" film series was inspired by the Rolling Stones guitarist.

Richards appeared on screen with Depp for the third film in the series, "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End."

Variety said Richards is set to release an autobiography of his life this fall.

...thanks a lot. He just called and what you heard is true.

The news here is reporting that it's supposed to stay cold all week with the possibility of more snow on Tuesday night. XP

I don't know how you guys up north and midwest put up with this stuff on a continual basis. I think I will have to become a snowbird and start alternatingly imposing on my brother in Florida & sister in California. Only problem-- they are both Republicans, but maybe its time for them to suffer the consequences of climate change :)

It doesn't look like last time and google weather says only 12-16 and maybe ending by late afternoon.

Here are some links I emailed to cent

The city emergency page

http://www.charlottesville.org/Index.aspx?page=635&recordid=1275

links to a chart with where the power outages are.

http://outagemap.dom.com/DomComFlexOutageViewer/index.html

Of course land lines can go out too if there is something like this,
every once in a while. I am on DSL now, so I know, therefore, that
mine is good but...

Might want to check with www.centurylink.com because they
are the biggest (only?) landline company here.

That was before I saw this story...which scared me, so I got on to tell you but it says no one was inside. Hopefully that's the only roof that fell in (84 Lumber Company which is out rt 29 pretty near the airport). I will look around more on the nbc 29 page now and I guess you will probably want to as well.

http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=11944459

Anything else I can check?

...long long time.

Thanks, smcgee, for the laugh!

I don't stop by very often, mainly because Sam's site is the slowest loading site anywhere on the web.

Our posts crossed.

At least it most likely is Tuesday NIGHT so I can work Tuesday...I hope.

I guess there's just no way you can romanticize that. ;)

Without looking in the dictionary mire, so fwiw...

founder is what a ship does when it sinks or is about to or almost sinks. It is a much more serious word. Melodramatic when used figuratively.

Flounder indicates clutzy-ness --my impression is especially in the thought or conversational or task-completion process more than in actual physical movement. Maybe based on a the fish wriggling or flipping from one colored side to another.

I'm sure I will be corrected if I am imprecise or incomplete.

Plus you probably already Googled it. :)

Bye.

"Sam's site is the slowest loading site anywhere on the web."

I'm not a computer (geek) & I don't mean that in a bad way,
does anybody have an idea as to why Mr. Seder is slow.
Please explain it to me as if I'm 5 years old. thank you

(Mr Seder's site I mean)

GET OFF MY LAWN!! GODDDAMM KIDS!! AN' IF I SEE ANYMORE OF THOSE DOG PICTURES AND VIDEOS SUCKING UP VALUABLE LOAD TIME, I'MMA SHOOT'EM!

"this machine kills fascists"

...for the info and the links. He has a landline and the cell and I could not reach him on either. Just kept getting either that "all circuits are busy" recording or it would just keep ringing & flip into voice mail.

In the Washington Metro area, a small NE church's roof has collapsed and apparently, the roof of a bunker for private planes in Dulles Airport also collapsed. So not hearing from him was a concern.

Again thanks Cent and Gloryoski for responding and keeping me from "Worry" Street.

EVERYONE STAY SAFE AND WARM whether you're in or out of storm's way!

lol - but that's only 1 reason .... no?

no, i didn't google it; it's more fun to ask the blog :)

...t's Seder's Twitter widget...but, honestly, it loads pretty fast for me. There are plenny o' other blogs that load more slowly than Seder's...FDL, TPM, Bob Cesca, HuffPo...dunno..

"this machine kills fascists"

if all of us were to be a little less lazy and just do our homework without having to link and upload so much stuff

yeah sandy that's what does it, all the uploads, pics and vids

Sam @ 56:00 I notice it looks cold and drafty in the studio.

How about a sam seder show cruse?

1:24:00 mire

1:27:25 mcgee

tie one on by Lenny Lee

Mire when everybody comes to visit make sure smcgee is there too. [for those careful readers]

Air Pirates CEO Bennett Zier asleep at his desk

~`ordinary's just not good enough today - olp`~
Jamesbenet

Blue Roots Radio

why does the whole page have to reload every time? I already have a copy, why can't the tubes just upload the newer posts I don't have yet?

~`ordinary's just not good enough today - olp`~
Jamesbenet

Blue Roots Radio

homemade flour tortillassssss and cheeezy beans!

"this machine kills fascists"

Submitted by 60th Street on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 4:00pm.
...t's Seder's Twitter widget...
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That's my guess, too. It is the last to load and often it doesn't completely load before the next refresh. A static advertisement would be more than enough to get the Twitter point across.

Oh man, I'm so jealous right now.

Re-Pub-Lick-Thugs have never even heard of that word.

in a fidget about the widget
meanwhile Cinderella is sweeping up on Desolation Row.

...to set on 32plus inches of snow. I'm not shoveling it :P ...until tomorrow I guess :/

I wonder where you are going to shovel it to? You don't need a shovel, you need a backhoe/front loader.

Be green. Use the solar power shovel and just let it melt.

If you got out of the driveway would you be able to go anywhere?

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Japan whalers 'ram' activists

Both the whalers and the protesters blame each other for a similar crash that occured on January 6 [AFP]

An anti-whaling protest group has accused a Japanese whaling vessel of "intentionally ramming" one of its protest boats during a standoff in Antarctic waters.

The Yushin Maru 3, a harpoon ship, tore a metre-deep hole in the hull of the Bob Barker, the vessel with the Sea Shepherd protest group on board, in Australia's Antarctic territory, the group said in a statement on its website.

"No crew was injured during the collision," the statement said.

"The Bob Barker continues to block the slipway of the Nisshin Maru, preventing the transfer of slaughtered whales and effectively shutting down illegal whaling operations."

Paul Watson, head of the Sea Shepherd mission, said the incident demonstrated a "continued escalation of violence" by the Japanese, following a collision which sank the activists' trimaran, the Ady Gil, on January 6.

'Endangering crew'

"Because the whalers got away basically scot-free with the outrageous sinking of the Ady Gil, they now apparently think they can do whatever they want and they appear to have no qualms about endangering Sea Shepherd crew," Watson said.

"Australian and New Zealand lives are at risk every day in these waters," he said, referring to his mostly antipodean crew.

"What we really need is for the governments of Australia and New Zealand to step up and start enforcing maritime laws in these waters, or who knows what the whalers will do next."

Australia and New Zealand are investigating the collision between Japan's Shonan Maru No.2 and the Ady Gil, which caused the protest boat to break in two and sink without trace.

Australia expressed strong diplomatic concerns over the collision and claims the Japanese fleet chartered spying flights out of Australia.

Both the whalers and the protesters blame each other for the crash.

Japan hunts whales using a loophole in a 1986 international moratorium which allows "lethal research", and skirmishes with activists have grown increasingly sophisticated and intense.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/02/20102616184999137...

A US military contractor is believed to have been kidnapped in Iraq after an armed group released a video showing a man being held captive.

The video was released by a group calling itself Asaib Ahl al-Haq, or the League of the Righteous, just hours after the US defence department said that 60-year-old Issa T. Salomi had been missing since January 23.

In the video, which runs less than two minutes, he read out the group's demands for the release of detainees who had "resisted occupation" and "never been involved in any serious crime against their fellow innocent Iraqis".

The captive also called for the conviction of employees of US security firm Blackwater, since renamed as Xe Services, accused of killing unarmed Iraqi citizens in 2007.

"The second demand is to bring the proper justice and the proper punishment to those members of the Blackwater company that have committed unjustifiable crimes against innocent Iraqi citizens," he said.

"I also would like to relay the justifiable demand of the Iraqi Islamic resistance for the complete withdrawal from Iraq, so Iraq can become a sovereign nation."

Hostage 'deal'

Asaib Ahl al-Haq was believed to be responsible for the kidnapping of Peter Moore, a British IT expert, and his four bodyguards in May 2007.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/02/201026163632512451....

http://bigthink.com/todmachover

"The officers then told Strickland: 'We know what you're doing here. We're sick of all the f---ing fags in the neighborhood.' The officers pushed Strickland to the ground and tied his hands behind his back,'' Rosenwald wrote in an ACLU letter to Bower.

Two Miami Beach police officers accused of making up charges against a gay tourist who said he saw them beating and kicking a handcuffed man near a city park have been taken off patrol and put on desk duty, city spokeswoman Nannette Rodriguez announced Thursday night.

On Wednesday, the ACLU of Florida told Mayor Matti Herrera Bower that it planned to sue the city and Officers Frankly Forte and Elliot Hazzi.

Forte and Hazzi are accused of approaching witness Harold Strickland as he reported the beating to a Miami Beach 911 dispatcher. Forte and Hazzi didn't know who Strickland was speaking with when they took his cellphone and disconnected the call, said Robert F. Rosenwald Jr., director of the ACLU Florida's Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender Advocacy Project.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/100/story/83865.html?storylink=omni_popular

off a duck's back.

Or sands through the hourglass, as some would have it.

Or something...

Hour does, after all, follow hour. Kinda like water in fact...but in a river.

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Only 4 ghosts now. Hey...Whoyagonnacall?

nando,
my 11:10pm post (3:10pm here - we're 16 hours ahead)
should have read: "i woke @ 3:50AM" not pm

and on a personal note
i concur with miss cathy @ 2:38pm
yes, what a beautiful thread!!!
ciao

a-o with his first pet wallabee Spot

See Spot
See Spot hop
Hop Spot hop
Watch out for the boomerang!

Temple Grandin: Savant or Professional Killer?
new
Submitted by smcgee43 on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 10:19am.
This Saturday night HBO will be airing a made-for-television biopic about Temple Grandin, who is acclaimed for her work in autism and designing humane handling facilities for cattle.
Beloved by many, Grandin, who is autistic herself, was one of the first people to talk openly to the public about her condition lifting the stigma that is often associated with autism. In addition to being one of the first women to hit the scene in the cattle industry, where she wasn’t welcomed with warmth, she’s also widely known for her lectures and books, including Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals.
Grandin, who now has a Ph.D, and is an Associate Professor of Animal Behavior at Colorado State University, credits autism for her success. She claims that the hypersensitivity and unique vision are what have made her so tuned in to what animals sense and how to use it in agricultural engineering to create humane slaughter facilities.
While she’s certainly overcome some tremendous obstacles, she’s also roused some critics along the way who don’t quite see her as a heroine for animals.
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Thanks for this post, smcgee43!

The author Grandin EVIDENTLY is a Corporate Scientist -- that is a scientist removed from her human ethics, the full potential of her compassion, AND the full potential of human problem-solving itself (a process/goal of science I gather) that should make possible solving our problems WITH ethics and compassion. I SO agree with Jeffrey Masson -- in that Grandin trades all these noble human potentials for a Corporate Media Cliche!

(The ultimate irony is that the corporate potential for profits and power -- which is the purpose of using the cliche in the first place -- would be just as high if Doing the Right Thing were the choice made by Corporations and their science personnel.)

Have to remember that for the strengths and weaknesses question.

But I can be a window too..whatever...I'm flexible.

If it's one thing they've always said about me..."flexible."

Just ask anybody.

(Oh I didn't mean that way. That's reductionist. Though she was very sexy [although I didn't mean it that way either].)

http://www.answers.com/topic/wallaby

...Typical wallabies of the Macropus genus, like the Agile Wallaby (Macropus agilis), and the Red-necked Wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus) are most closely related to the kangaroos and wallaroos and, size aside, look very similar. These are the ones most frequently seen, particularly in the southern states...
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1.) Red-necked Wallabies are frequently seen in the southern states? I swear I did not make this up.

2.) Wallaroos? It's not enough that a kangaroo and a wallaby are damned near alike to the untrained eye, but now I'm expected to learn what makes a wallaroo both None Of The Above and All Of The Above?

you'd be made of plexiglass. If you're a door you'd be French doors I suspect. Are they popular in colonial architecture?

and in my house they are framed by everyone of my friends personal love life horror stories.

Why can't folks just love one another? Why does everyone think their lover is screwing someone else?

Apparently, and that's just the tip.
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Colonial Revival: Beginning in the late 1800s, Americans sought to create an individual architectural style that honored their values and history, and drew inspiration from early American Colonials in creating the Colonial Revival style. Like their predecessors, Colonial Revivals are often symmetrical, 2-3 stories, and rectangular, but the Colonial Revival style allowed for less formality and more ornamentation. Trim details were heavily influenced by Georgian and Federal styles, and the houses often featured columned entry porticos and porches, and more elaborate front entries. Palladian windows were almost never present in the Colonials of the early 1800s, but became popular in the new style, along with double and triple windows. This style lasted well into the 20th century, making way for the foursquare and bungalow styles of the mid-20th century.

Mid-Atlantic: Historic Mid-Atlantic architecture encompasses a range of styles and influences from early English, German and Dutch settlers. This cottage exemplifies an early style of Colonial architecture found in Williamsburg, VA which draws on English medieval roots. The steep roof pitch, flush roof trim, exterior chimneys, exposed, elevated foundation and wide, simple mouldings around windows and doors are typical of the period. Although these homes are now beloved as iconic of early American architecture, Thomas Jefferson wrote disapprovingly of Williamsburg that "the genius of architecture had shed its maledictions over this land"!

http://blog.connorbuilding.com/four-fabulous-new-plans/

would you get a mulabee and what would be up with the chromosomes in this case? 1 too many, 1 too few? Wiki that one woncha?

Pro-Choice Advocates Criticize CBS
Submitted by Alice on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 12:09pm.
for Accepting Anti-Abortion Super Bowl Ad

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/5/pro_choice_advocates_criticize_cbs_...

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Hey, this is the premier Male Cultural Event of the Nation. Would the Corporate Media Super Bowl Gatekeepers ALLOW an ad from Birth Control Advocates which says something like this?: "Females don't make unwanted pregnancies alone. It is time for males, too, to take full responsibility for their actions. Learn about and use birth control."

Because the Corporate Media Gatekeepers usually don't permit two sides -- they are showing us they are in favor of one side and, therefore, are political players, and NOT disinterested bystanders!

1. Not everybody does think that.

2. Some people know and don't care (and even watch).

3. Some people know and are pissed.

4. Insert 1000 other more apropos answers to your rhetorical question here.

5. High-class problems, as far as I'm concerned.

: )

how Joan of Arc smelt.

(See mire...also a fish. Synchronicity. Did you learn some British English first or go straight to US?)

And...hey Bob...don't they also smelt in a foundry?

If not, something pretty close.

Imma kill this fucking slow blog I swear.

...granted I have DSL and I don't know if the slow blog people have dial up, but for me its 6 seconds to refresh and as long to load in a new browser from clicking the link

Sounds like some peeps need a memory upgrade. I'm runnin' 2GB on my li'l Mac here

"this machine kills fascists"

you won't see a lot of paneling and green shag carpeting in Mid-Atlantic colonial homes.

How does that make you feel?

That was a deeply Cuban thing to say mister.

Watch yourself.

:)

the other has gotten that real.

That I'd rather be here, tormenting and being tormented.

But alas...for most that doesn't pay.

And for girls like me, it's a REAL nitch--that's probably completely filled.

So it's a real bitch.

I meant, natch.

And so...farewell, good-flexible.

and the fucking thing crawls at times. I distinctly remember it slowing down when the widget was added. I took the one I had off. Not that it was providing anything for the common good but seriously, if I want to know what Sam has been tweeting I'll go there and look at all of them in a fraction of the time it takes that fooking widget from Twitter Hell to cycle around.

Amen.

That's all I'm sayin'

Submitted by nora on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 7:42pm.
...The author Grandin EVIDENTLY is a Corporate Scientist -- that is a scientist removed from her human ethics, the full potential of her compassion, AND the full potential of human problem-solving itself (a process/goal of science I gather) that should make possible solving our problems WITH ethics and compassion....
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Congratulations! You never fail to disappoint.

I read "Thinking in Pictures" shortly after it was published (1996) because I am interested in the different internal narratives in human heads. I have followed Grandin ever since.

You have given Grandin your trademarked blundering and vengeful opinion based on a cursory glance. You speak of Grandin being removed from human ethics which proves that you don't have the slightest clue about Grandin's work or her life.

You don't hesitate to smear your depraved and seething hatred on anyone. Your world is filled with resentment and envy and paranoia.

I am enjoying reading your comments, even if I don't understand them all. And others too.
The boys are watching Bball & I prefer to come and read about the lives of people I pretend I know.

Sam's podcast got warped in sound and video at the end so I don't know if I caught all the good stuff about AAR. He was so right though! I tried to give their milktoast hosts a chance but BLAH!!!

I don't have much else to say. It was sunny and warm here in Tucson today. I didn't even need a sweater.

I don't know if anyone else saw the Elizabeth Warren UTUBE where she compares the finances of a family in 1970 to now. Fernando, tell your friends to make up because two workers in a houshold barely make more than one did in 70. I saw it on DKos with a good summary by Geomoo.

DKos & ToniD, they make me smarter!

anybody watching Sarah so I don't have to?

toniD's Ya Think?

For the first time in several months, I watched the Washington Journal on C-Klan this morning. It was pretty awful. The so called Tea Party founder of Tennessee was the guest. His name is Mark Skoda. Funny, no credentials are required, if one is a nut-winger. There is nothing about this guy online that "he" didn't write. He just came from oblivion. The host sat quietly as Skoda spewed the same lies we've been hearing for 30 years. It was right wing party propaganda to the 1000th degree. They opened another line for the Tea Party. Sorry Greens, you weren't invited. Therefore, there were three lines for the extreme right wing. All day Cspan has been covering the convention.

CNN is really shameful. They have graphics. A big red fist with a blue background is shown with striking music. This for a convention of 600 people. They bought on David (old fossil)Gergen. He of course said it was a grassroots organization. He lied!

This article on Democratic Underground:

It's about propaganda. It's about the media pushing a small group of people as an actual party.
It's about killing health care. It's about racism being treated as the new normal.
It's about inventing a movement led by corporate interest's hidden hand.

Please contact your media and let them know you aren't gonna take this kind of bullshit anymore!
600 people don't deserve the kind of coverage they will be getting for the next few days.
It would be laughable if it wasn't so fucking destructive to this country!

Sick of their shit? not taking it anymore?
Well do something!

Contact the media and tell them you aren't taking this anymore!

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if I'm gone?

I was gonna say not me tD, but you know what, I think I'm resistant to just that torment of thing right now, strangely.

I'll check the span.

Submitted by toniD on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 9:12pm.
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I'm watching. She was introduced by none other than James O'Keefe's mentor- and all and all nut ball Andrew Breitbart.

I don't think I can stand her voice much longer.

It's good not to watch so the stations don't get the ratings.

I can't even believe they are giving her the coverage!!

What has happened to this country?

toniD's Ya Think?

Stand down. Punch out. Throw stuff. Etc

what underemployment is.

She's recycling "generational theft." No mention of spending freeze of course (which she should love).

Sez stim went to districts that don't even exist.

Sez Biden's transparency commission meeting was closed to cameras/the public.

No idea what kind of twisting that is.

Some stuff about Obama's broken promises that's true.

Lot's of tacky jokes.

Hcr: Purchases across state lines; tort reform--only. Claims dems "won't even consider."

Submitted by toniD on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 9:24pm.
What has happened to this country?-
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I just turned her off. Between the invoking of Ronald Reagan and blaming it all on Obama and the Democrats, I cannot take it.

I would take the advice of the Democratic Underground:

It's about propaganda. It's about the media pushing a small group of people as an actual party.
It's about killing health care. It's about racism being treated as the new normal. It's about inventing a movement led by corporate interest's hidden hand.

Please contact your media and let them know you aren't gonna take this kind of bullshit.

Submitted by gloryoski on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 9:26pm.
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you're a strong one.

and be aware that stimulus is now called a JOBS BILL."

(heads up 60th)

"The cia should use her speech to torture terrorists"

"this machine kills fascists"

Bart Stupack. "Stood up to tough pressure."

"We are the LOYAL opposition" (Yearright.)

comparing us to liberal extremists that hatch ridiculous conspiracies against our gov't.

Baggers are good kind and decent.

Ronald Reagan and special needs kids in same sentence.

Is this bitch fer real?

(Yes, unfortunately.)

..the problem with the left.

We spend all our time critiquing those crazy fuckers on the right and purposely avoiding the very thing we need to be doing which is spending all our time kicking the assess of elected Democrats who run from the left and govern from the right and fighting like hell for the few real Progressives we do have.

We probably would be years ahead by new if we'd stop trying to analyze what those crazy folks are doing. It's plain as the nose on your face.

Just let it go.

You wouldn't go swimming in a polluted lake would you?

You wouldn't stick your head on the train tracks when the 5:15 is barreling down the tracks would you?

Who gives a rats ass what that psychopath has to say? It's only time wasted that should be spent solving real problems.

Good thing we're not on the air now.

Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

All better.

"Spontaneous" chants of "Run sarah run."

Oh no, not over, questions...

Cuz, yr right, everybody definitely paid too much attention to Bush in 2000 and took him too seriously.

Tea Time With Sarah.

excerpt:

I tuned in yesterday, and decided I’d listen as long as I could possibly stand it – like holding your hand over a candle flame.
But that said, I did manage to learn a few things.

1) I learned that the Tea Partiers have managed to find an African-American woman to run for congress. I have also learned that she, like so many of her fellow TPers is number challenged. She talked about the million man march (to lukewarm applause) and claimed there were actually TWO million people there, despite the claims of the media that there were less than 1 million. I also learned that she is “tired of all the shuckin’ and jivin’” going on in Washington. I have a feeling she’s recently met with Michael Steele.

2) I learned that if you refer to the constitution as a “living document” in front of a room of 500 TPers, they will actually boo.

3) I learned a fun joke to tell at the water cooler on Monday. What do God and Barack Obama have in common? (I pause to let you think) Give up? A birth certificate! No, I’m not kidding.

4) I learned that Jesus, unlike the living constitution, will get applauded wildly by a room of TPers. This may be because he knew that “qualifications were essential to claim his kingship of the Jews” and so he had not one but TWO genealogies, and his birth was WELL documented. One of his genealogies goes back to Abraham and the other one goes back to Adam himself. “Tracing lineage to Adam was a big deal even back then.”

I’m still not sure why that’s a big deal, because if you believe Adam was the first man, then wouldn’t we ALL be able to claim our lineage back to him? A question for another day.

5) I learned that even though they get that there are people in the room of every religion (are there?) that they just want to stop for a minute and talk about “the most important birth in history.” Yes, that would be Jesus again.

6) I learned another great water cooler joke.

At a international medical conference that took place recently, doctors were all sharing their success stories with one another and a French MD says, “You know, medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another and have him looking for work in six weeks.”

And not to be outdone, the German doctor says, “That is nothing, we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another and have him looking for work in 4 weeks.

And to that the Russia doctor says, “In my country, medicine is so advanced, that we can take half a heart out of a person put it in another and have him looking for work in two weeks.”

Then the American Physician gets up and he says, “You guys are way behind. We recently took a guy with no birth certificate, no brain, and put him in the white house and now half the country is looking for work.”

7. I learned that World Net Daily is the only place I should be visiting online to get my news because they “live in that world of reality every day.” (This is coming from the birth certificate guy)

8. I learned that “the left” who likes to use the phrase “What a long strange trip it’s been” has “taken over Hollywood like it was Cuba or Venezuela.”

9. I learned, on Sarah Palin Tea Pary Eve, that the movement is “proud to have distanced themselves from politicians that want to jump out in front of the parade.”

10. And finally, I learned that I can last about 45 minutes without any kind of artificial support before I have to shut this stuff off. I didn’t time it exactly because by the time I clicked off during a strange and grandiose rant by Andrew Breitbart, I had lost a little cognitive function and I forgot to check the clock.

But I’m ready to dive back in again. Join along if you like, or be secure in knowing I’ll take one for the team if you’d rather be doing something more fun – like shoving bamboo under your nails, or eating glass.

http://www.themudflats.net/who-are-you/

Hubby and I lived in AK & hubby knows a lot about their politics. Sarah won because the other repubs were even bigger crooks. And Tony Knowles, a good Dem, dared to suggest raising taxes. Sarah put Wasilla in debt. She can prove none of the costs of building her house (the windows look just like the sports center she forced through that caused the financial problems.) Then she wouldn't even live in the capital, Juneau, and charged the state per diem for staying at home. Why doesn't the MSM talk about those things? If she had been a Dem, they sure would have.

Lol! I'm laughing my ass off! I want one of these every month until Nov!

"this machine kills fascists"

what everybody else is doing, thinking or talking about, as long they are being an honest broker.

And I think many other things I am thinking but not saying.

Thanks for the lil push out the door tho.

They bought it out and chased out the real people that were truly worried about this country. And I think Palin's husband has alot to do with this.

toniD's Ya Think?

Judge: Pratt can't move jobs (1,000) out of US

Source: AP

By STEPHEN SINGER

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A federal U.S. judge ordered jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney to halt its plans to move 1,000 jobs out of Connecticut and to Japan, Singapore and the state of Georgia.

U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport issued a permanent injunction, stopping the company's plans to shift the jobs.

The judge strongly criticized the subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., saying it evaded the spirit of its union contract requiring it to make every effort to keep the jobs in the state.

The union, which represents about 3,700 workers, hailed the decision. In its lawsuit, the union accused Pratt & Whitney of failing to comply with the contract that required it to do everything possible to preserve the jobs.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20100206/D9DMIS4O0.html

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Democrats and the New Politics of Abortion
Has the Democratic Party abandoned support of reproductive rights?

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/606/index.html

To gain their historic control of Congress, Democrats fielded moderate candidates who didn't always follow the party line, especially when it came to abortion. Now that the Democratic Party has the legislative upper hand, are they willing to negotiate away reproductive rights for other political gains?

This week, NOW goes to Allentown, Pennsylvania to ask: Are abortion rights now in jeopardy at the very hands of the party that has historically protected them? Among those interviewed are pro-life Democratic U.S. Representative Bart Stupak and former DNC Chairman Howard Dean.

"If there was a bill on the floor to reverse Roe vs Wade, and says 'life begins at conception,' I would vote for it." Congressman Stupak tells NOW. Jen Boulanger, director of the often-protested Allentown Women's Center, says, "I would expect more from the Democratic Party, to stick to their ideals, not just throw us to the curb."

Has the Democratic Party traded principles for power?

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Submitted by maggiesboy on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 9:45pm.
Who gives a rats ass what that psychopath has to say? It's only time wasted that should be spent solving real problems.
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I would agree with you about the Democrats, Mag's. But since we are the victims here, I would say that these psychopaths are a real problem. In case you've forgotten, they kill people. You know, like us. They shoot people in progressive churches. They bomb federal buildings. They kill gay people. Plan Parenthood looks like Fort Knox because of these people. We can't have a rational discussion about the future of this country because of them! This after they destroyed it! Oh no Mag's, they've gotta go! Hell Yeah! This shit has been going on for 30 years. They've got to go now!

I'm for marching to Washington. We'll go straight to congress! We'll informed the Democrats, either you do something about these Mother Phuccers, or we Mother Phuccing will.

How's that?

Lionel on the Ed Show!

♪ Lynul Lynul Ly-NUL ♫

Idiot!

"this machine kills fascists"

-Has the Democratic Party traded principles for power?-

thing a joke.

It makes for some good jokes, so if that's how you get your entertainment, more power to ya.

Not my cup o' tea.

l

Seder, put in for an invitation, man.

Hahahahahaaaaa

"You look so tired-unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us"
-Radiohead.
www.sigzone.blogspot.com

America's Dark Side

The Anti-Empire Report

By William Blum
"In America you can say anything you want — as long as it doesn't have any effect." - Paul Goodman

February 06, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Progressive activists and writers continually bemoan the fact that the news they generate and the opinions they express are consistently ignored by the mainstream media, and thus kept from the masses of the American people. This disregard of progressive thought is tantamount to a definition of the mainstream media. It doesn't have to be a conspiracy; it's a matter of who owns the mainstream media and the type of journalists they hire — men and women who would like to keep their jobs; so it's more insidious than a conspiracy, it's what's built into the system, it's how the system works. The disregard of the progressive world is of course not total; at times some of that world makes too good copy to ignore, and, on rare occasions, progressive ideas, when they threaten to become very popular, have to be countered.

So it was with Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Here's Barry Gewen an editor at the New York Times Book Review, June 5, 2005 writing of Zinn's book and others like it:

"There was a unifying vision, but it was simplistic. Since the victims and losers were good, it followed that the winners were bad. From the point of view of downtrodden blacks, America was racist; from the point of view of oppressed workers, it was exploitative; from the point of view of conquered Hispanics and Indians, it was imperialistic. There was much to condemn in American history, little or nothing to praise. ... Whereas the Europeans who arrived in the New World were genocidal predators, the Indians who were already there believed in sharing and hospitality (never mind the profound cultural differences that existed among them), and raped Africa was a continent overflowing with kindness and communalism (never mind the profound cultural differences that existed there)."

One has to wonder whether Mr. Gewen thought that all the victims of the Holocaust were saintly and without profound cultural differences.

Prominent American historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. once said of Zinn: "I know he regards me as a dangerous reactionary. And I don't take him very seriously. He's a polemicist, not a historian."

Regarding reactionaries and polemicists, it is worth noting that Mr. Schlesinger, as a top advisor to President John F. Kennedy, played a key role in the overthrow of Cheddi Jagan, the democratically-elected progressive prime minister of British Guiana (now Guyana). In 1990, at a conference in New York City, Schlesinger publicly apologized to Jagan, saying: "I felt badly about my role thirty years ago. I think a great injustice was done to Cheddi Jagan." 1 This is to Schlesinger's credit, although the fact that Jagan was present at the conference may have awakened his conscience after 30 years. Like virtually all the American historians of the period who were granted attention and respect by the mainstream media, Schlesinger was a cold warrior. Those like Zinn who questioned the basic suppositions of the Cold War abroad, and capitalism at home, were regarded as polemicists.

One of my favorite Howard Zinn quotes: "The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values." 2 A People's History and his other writings can be seen as an attempt to make up for the omissions and under-emphases of America's dark side in American history books and media.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24609.htm

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I distinctly remember it slowing down when the widget was added

I just wish S. Palin would go off & die to. I know that's a little harsh.... but geez I cannot stand that woman. End
I don't understand why anybody does. She's a fucking flake, killer of Wolves & has NO repect for the environment.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/09/tiff_9_and_so_then_i_saw.html

I really hope the blogs and media people re-watching that absurd spectacle notice the point where she had to look at the crib notes written on her hand when she was answering questions after the speech.

"this machine kills fascists"

Yo Schultz-man,
I thought we were bros. You gonna play a brotha out like that? The fuck?
Holla.
-Sed.

"You look so tired-unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us"
-Radiohead.
www.sigzone.blogspot.com

with that damn to or too, shit.

eep - Yes there is a radical side to the right but they mostly serve as a distraction for the corporate overlords imho. They are a law enforcement problem. I don't believe they could ever be large enough to take over the country.

The problem is the base on the right never let up on their elected officials.

Progressives give their money and time to get peeps elected only to be spit in the face when the winner assumes office and moves to the corporate right. MoveOn is a prime example tho I think they are starting to smell the stink.

Won't do much good to talk to those Democrats. What you do is work to primary their sorry asses. You won't win many at first but with each election cycle you pick up more support. You know who did just that and is doing it now? I don't have to tell you why John McCain is worried.

It's all about focus and accountability, not what those crazy fookers are charging their fans to say.

Again, that's my opinion. Take it or leave it.

Lionel was on Big Ed's show.
new
Submitted by M the a-c on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 10:33pm.

@owillis Sarah Palin Caught Reading Her Speech Off Her Hand: http://bit.ly/adSKEb

"this machine kills fascists"

Really ???? WTF is that.
new
Submitted by smcgee43 on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 10:47pm.

Believe it or not (probably not the latter on this board) he believed that Sarah Palin's speech was electric.

When Schultz asked him if she is relevant now, Lionel said, "She's RADIOACTIVE" (in a good way, apparently).

"You look so tired-unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us"
-Radiohead.
www.sigzone.blogspot.com

Saturday, March 31, 2007
The weekly "Sam Seder fired" rumor
http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2007/03/weekly-sam-seder-fired-rumor.html

Afghan police have shot dead seven villagers near the Pakistani border after mistaking them for insurgents, police officials said.
The seven young men were collecting firewood after dark in the southern town of Spin Boldak, a common transit route for Taliban militants.
Six officers have been detained for questioning, the local commander said.
There is widespread anger over civilian deaths in Afghanistan. More than 2,400 were killed in fighting last year.
UN figures show that more than 70% were victims of Taliban attacks, but many Afghans say the deaths would not occur if foreign troops were not in the country.
President Hamid Karzai has repeatedly warned that civilian killings undermine support for his administration and the US-led military effort there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8501751.stm

I don't think we r gonna get that far in this country.
Valiant effort (not really it just sounds nice) but
history will teach us nothing. (thank u sting-a-ling
a-ding-dong. We just keep on going in the same f_cking
circle.

Submitted by 60th Street on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 10:27pm.
Lionel on the Ed Show!
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Sylvester the Cat and Foghorn Leghorn. I'd rather watch the second hand go around on the clock.

Besides, Lionel's looking for a job, right? And being the narcissistic opportunist he is, I'm sure he's moving toward the right.

disgusting (the lionel thing)
thanks 4 the 411 ~

"I'm sure he's moving toward the right."

is schtick spelled right?

I hope that u did NOT watch that horrid woman tonight.
You do not need that kind of stress, really no one does.
Count yourself one of the lucky ones who doesn't fall
for that stupid shit. ;)

He never left the right.

NASHVILLE – Four Tennessee tea party activists who said they couldn’t afford the $550 tickets to the National Tea Party Convention staged a guerilla news conference just outside of the event to challenge its representation of the movement.

“There are a lot of citizens in the state of Tennessee today who could not afford to be here… particularly in this economy,” said Antonio Hinton, a 37-year old tea party activist from Knoxville. “They’re just as patriotic. They’re just as concerned. They care just as much about what’s going on as the folks that are in that room.”

The convention’s steep ticket price, combined with its top-down organizational structure and the $100,000 speaking fee its organizers paid keynote speaker Sarah Palin all fly in the face of the grassroots tea party movement, Hinton and his three cohorts asserted in a quickly put-together press conference outside the convention hall.

About 40 journalists and camera people from the heavy media contingent covering the convention gathered around the four dissidents in a hotel lobby outside the entrance to the banquet room hosting most convention activities, as curious convention-goers crammed their necks to get a look at the spectacle, after which some challenged assertions made by the four.

All four of the men protesting the convention are part of a recently formed coalition of 34 tea party groups from around Tennessee that does not include the group behind the convention. The four contended the coalition, the Tennessee Tea Party Coalition, is more representative of the conservative populist movement, whose members have nonetheless chafed at being associated too closely with the Republican Party and its political leaders.

The coalition recently held its own, less lavish convention at which it formalized a mission statement drafted by 58 delegates from around the state. It states “our objective is to restore the United States Constitution to that direct authority which our Founders, and the Consent of the Governed, originally intended,” and calls it “the duty of the governed to take back the reins of control, and to remove the shackles forged by our own apathy, that have chained our Liberty.”

The Tennessee group has greater claim to the tea party banner than does the Convention, which was tightly controlled by a handful of organizers, said protester Jim Tomasik, a 47-year-old iron worker from Cordova, Tenn.

Tomasik credited the convention organizers with landing Palin, who he said is “probably not going to show up to talk to us because we couldn’t afford her.”

“We don’t need Sarah Palin to be the face of our movement,” he said. “We don’t need Newt Gingrich or any of these other people, because these people are humans and they can fail. Our values will never fail us as long as we adhere to them.”

Two of the activists, Anthony Shreeve and Mark Herr, were involved in the early stages of planning the convention, but said they resigned in protest after disputes with lead convention organizers Judson and Sherry Phillips.

Sherry Phillips contends that they and others were banned from the group planning the event for incivility and indiscretion.

After the impromptu press conference, Judson Phillips, fired back at Shreeve and Herr.

“Since we announced this convention back in October, their whole focus has been against us, not to do something good or to advance the conservative cause,” said Phillips. “They don’t like me? Fine, I don’t care. If they want to go out and do events that are going to help our movement go forward, God bless ‘em. Because of the personal relationships, I’m not going to be a part of what they’re doing. They probably don’t want me. And that’s fine with me.”

Phillips has taken heat from his former allies and others in the conservative movement for the unusual finances of the group running the convention, Tea Party Nation, and its $100,000 contract with Palin’s speaking agency. more...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32626.html

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About "Wake in Fright"
Submitted by Cat Chew on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 10:39pm.
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Winter's Bone was filmed in Taney County, Missouri. Most of Branson is in Taney County (War Dog's Vegas) but you can get lost in the woods in a short distance in any direction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taney_County,_Missouri

You can see several film clips here:

http://www.collider.com/2010/01/18/7-movie-clips-from-winters-bone-premi...

See No Evil, Budget No Evil ...

This is pretty classic. A week ago GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling (TX) was telling Chris Matthews about the glories of the House Republicans' draft 2010 budget, filled with plans to cut and privatize Social Security and abolish Medicare. But as news began to spread this week about the draft plan prepared by chief House Republican budgeteer Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the Republican leadership, especially Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) started acting like they barely knew anything about it.

That brings us up to today, when Republicans sent Rep. Hensarling to give the response to the president's Saturday radio address. So what he say about the draft Ryan plan?

Not much. Hensarling for some reason used the whole time to talk about House Republicans' 2009 budget. In other words, an outline plan from last year about the year that already happened and was actually panned at the time for not including any details and even including a lot of fake charts.

So what's the deal? The House GOP is getting behind a budget which calls for partial abolition of Social Security and full abolition of Medicare. And they're on the air talking about last year's budget? Maybe Obama should talk about the Clinton surpluses? What's the big need to hide what they're actually proposing for next year?

--Josh Marshall

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/02/see_no_evil_budget_no_...

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Dems To Force GOP Vote On Anti-Social Security Privatization Resolution

House Democrats are going to force their Republican colleagues to vote on a resolution opposing the privatization of Social Security. The move shows Democrats are putting their full political muscle into painting the Republicans as enemies of Social Security and using the chief GOP budget writer Rep. Paul Ryan's plan to cut benefits as evidence.

Rep. John Larson (D-CT) and Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) this afternoon introduced the resolution which "expresses the will of House Democrats to preserve Social Security and reaffirms our commitment to working in a bipartisan way to make common sense adjustments to strengthen the program for generations to come."

It's the sort of tough political vote that Democrats have rarely pushed Republicans on since winning back control of Congress in 2006, and similar to resolutions the GOP constantly forced the Democrats to take positions on when they were in power.

The resolution - which has not yet been scheduled for a House floor vote but has more than 20 original co-sponsors - is the latest salvo in the new fight over Social Security.

Democrats say Ryan's "roadmap" that we've been writing about proves the GOP is "dusting off their old playbook" and the majority party fully intends to make this a midterm election battle.

"Republicans are dusting off their old playbook and re-hashing old ideas like the privatization of Social Security that the American people have already rejected," Larson said in a statement. "Their ideas would end the program as we know it and put the retirement security of millions of America's seniors and workers at risk. My colleagues and I introduced this resolution to show the American people that we are standing with them and against these destructive ideas."

Sanchez added, "Americans have not forgotten the dangers of tying their retirement security to the whims of Wall Street. It was a bad idea then, and it is a bad idea now. This resolution supports Americans who contribute all their working life to a retirement and want income security in their golden years."

Among the highlights in the resolution (read it in full here):
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/dems-push-election-year-resol...

The American people made clear in 2005 that they did not seek severe change in Social Security when they resoundingly rejected President Bush's attempt to privatize Social Security in favor or preserving a secure guaranteed foundation of retirement income free from risks and losses of the stock market.

The Current minority party plan for Social Security is even more extreme than the plan they advanced in 2005.

...

Resolved, That the Congress should stand with the American people to reject severe changes to Social Security, including any and all attempts to privatize Social Security, and instead should commit to work bipartisanly to make common-sense adjustments to Social Security to strengthen it for future generations while preserving its guarantees of secure income and family protection in the event of a worker's death, retirement, or severe disability.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/dems-to-force-gop-vote-on-ant...

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Story To Tell

Back on Tuesday, Reuters' reporter Terri Cullen published a story entitled "Backdoor taxes to hit middle class," which alleged a series of stealth middle classes tax increases proposed by the Obama White House.

The White House complained that the story contained numerous false claims. Reuters pulled the story after conceding it contained "significant errors of fact" and said a new corrected story would be forthcoming. Then they apparently concluded that the errors were so thoroughgoing that no corrected story would be published.

Now comes word from former Editor & Publisher editor Greg Mitchell that Cullen is now no longer working at Reuters, though the circumstances of her departure remain unclear.

--Josh Marshall

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/02/story_to_tell.php?ref=...

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Submitted by edna ellen poe on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 11:02pm.
...I'd rather watch the second hand go around on the clock.
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Whose idea was it to call the third hand the second hand?

And another thing...why aren't they called arms instead of hands? You can't spin your hands around in a circle without your arms.

And if your second hand is broken and you find a replacement in a junk shop, is it a second hand second hand?

..Alaska News Net

Submitted by Crank Bait on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 11:31pm.
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My brain hurts.

Friday Talking Points [110] -- Left Still Waiting For Rahm Apology
Chris Weigant

snip...
While today's theme is "go on the offense," we have to point out one instance of just plain "being offensive." Due to the quote involved, an offensive term will be used, so we advise anyone easily offended by language to just skip this section entirely.

Rahm Emanuel had a "retarded" week last week. That word is in "scare quotes" because it is a nasty slur, and because it is the core quote in the controversy which broke last week around Rahm. All of this actually happened months ago, during last summer's debates about which direction to go on healthcare reform, I should mention, but the news itself broke last week, forcing Rahm to go into apology mode. Partly.

Last summer, during the heat of the debate (on the Left) over which direction healthcare reform should be heading, Rahm was present at a meeting at the White House, where he told some Lefty types they were (in Rahm's words) "fucking retarded" for running ads attempting to pressure elected Democrats into supporting the strongest possible option for reforming the health industry in this country. In Rahm's view, one supposes, the Left should have just trusted Rahmbo that he had their best interests at heart and would produce the best bill possible. Of course, that turned out to be so far from the truth as to be laughable (see: Senate bill, where Rahm leaned on Harry Reid to give Joe Lieberman everything he asked for).

Rahm, sensing he was becoming a distraction this past week from a newly re-energized Obama, immediately apologized to all the developmentally-challenged and "anti-R-word" folks he could find (on short notice). Sarah Palin demanded he resign or be fired. Rush Limbaugh defended Rahm, since (according to Rush), the Lefties are "retarded," and it is simpering political correctness not to say so in plain terms (which he then did).

But you know who was missing from Rahm's apology list? The Lefties he had originally insulted.

In other words, Rahm apologized for using a slur, and for demeaning developmentally-challenged people by associating them with Lefties. Got that? In essence, he's saying that the Lefties are not just developmentally-challenged, but actually less worthy of consideration than such challenged folks.

In other words, he not only failed to apologize to the Lefties, he actually compounded the original insult, by his silence.

snip

Read the whole article, but this part is what I posted earlier.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/friday-talking-points-110_b_...

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Submitted by edna ellen poe on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 11:41pm.
My brain hurts.
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Hey, you should try walkin' and chewin' gum with mine.

Something about Palin being a gift to the Dems?

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/5644#comment-394037

I'm off to bed.

Night all

toniD's Ya Think?

Thanks, Crank Bait. I'm hungry for this sort of thing lately.

I pay for TYT, Best of the Left, Mr. Diety, Media Matters with Bob McChesney (public radio in a state in which I do not live) and used to pay for Sam and for Rachel. I would definitely support a regular Sam Seder broadcast. Just sayin.