Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Happy Friday!

I hope Rudi becomes the Repub nominee..... the campaign the Dems could run against him would be fun to watch.....

Dooty..... congrats to your Cowboys!..... they are an awesome team and Romo is on fire.....

Corey..... I can't believe you actually took my post seriously..... and I even went through all that trouble to make a fancy emoticon..... just for that Mister..... go sit in the corner now and think about it!...... don't do that again.... :0)

yeah..... Patsi is right...... Happy Friday everyone!

Growing Up featured 3 lions cubs that were rescued from Mexico and brought to a sanctuary just outside San Antonio, Texas......

sorry I missed Edwards on KO..... I forgot he was going to be on...... but good for him if he gave Romney hell for his comment on that so called debate the other night....

In sports talk, the term for the QB of America's Team is "en fuego"...

....kind of like Rude-eze underpants, the big, fat liar.

As America's Mayor's personal life is showcased, it is just more good news for Huckabee.

In light of how the last, two presidential elections were decided, both of these stories are quite fitting. It will be interesting to see if elections have been manipulated to the point of irrelevance.

Also, a CNN special on "Czar Putin" tonight. How timely.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071130/wl_nm/russia_treaty_suspend_dc

For colleen -

"Venezuelans on Sunday vote on 69 proposed changes to nation's 1999 constitution that would, among other things, create forms of communal property, eliminate presidential term limits, and increase presidential authority."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071130/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_constitution

I've got to believe that Gary "Monkey Business" Hart is really pissed off at the pass Rudy is getting over his extra-marital monkey business.

mornin' all.

dnd, who would have foreseen that the end resul t of the Clinton impeachment and not guilty verdict in the senate would be that the personal sexual life of presidential candidates essentially don't mean anything?

Gotta go catch up on last night's posts. Back in a few.

dnd, just for you, Windows XP Pro. The geek at CDW told me it's really a good upgrade over the XP home on most machines. Of course for $300 more you can get a dual core zippy desktop machine with about 2 G ram and 180 G HD with XP installed or $700 more for a similar notebook.

http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?ProductID=343300

Mrs. P needs to replace 2 dinosaur machines at her office, so she dispaatched me to get her options for machines with XP since she has a newish workhorse 'puter with XP and doesn't want to bite the bullet and replace all her XP software that likely won't work on Vista. Been an interesting process. I'm astounded at what you can get now from a retailer like CDW for not a lot of moey. Best thing I saw so far is a 160 Gig USB portable hard drive that's 3/4" thick and 5x7". Damn. You can literally carry your office between the office and home and forget that you have it.

OK, we can put all the talk about Rudi doing anything improper with the security billing to bed. It was fine, Bernie Kerik says so.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/059919.php

That ends the issue, right? LOLOLOLOLOLOL

dnd,

If you are given a choice go with XP, or XP pro. Even if your not given a choice demand that they put XP or XP Pro on your system. Stay away from Vista. Vista was pushed out way before it was ready and there are a number of programs that just don't get along well with Vista. MS is now working now on a Vistia update which more resembles XP, but that won't be out till mid 08 if then. So go with XP, it will cut the stress factor.

Here's the lovely couple.

http://www.salon.com/news/1998/09/cov_16newsb.html

'bye Henry.

Jack Murtha on the surge: It is working. Welcome to the party Jack, better late then never.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07333/837824-100.stm

MoJo this morning had Senators Webb and Tester, reporting on the progress in Iraq. We now have Webb, Tester, Murtha, reporting on seeing the progress of our brave military are making, can Harry, Nancy and Teddy be far behind.

Well it is almost time for me to pay the workers. Have a great day. That goes for you to KC.

Sorry , Renee. I guess unless it's a post about the Patriots or Red Sox , I shouldn't take them serious. LOL!

Fry -- paying your illegals?

ddnd -- Yeah, I thought the same thing recently regarding Gary's misadventure....still can't believe he egged the press on to find out what all of us in Denver already knew...

by the way, did you see this great article in the NYTimes? I used to live on Race Street, just down from Pete's Kitchen...then called The Kitchen....best biscuits and gravy in Denver....maybe the ONLY biscuits and gravy in Denver....

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/us/26colfax.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Have a great day , everyone and be careful driving.

Look, I am no fan of adultery either, but it seems pretty prevalent, so if we waited to vote for somone who was goody two shoes, we would wait forever. It seems that we all know the dirty truth about Giuliani, and it certainly isn't changing my vote. If I were a Senator Clinton supporter would I change my vote just because her campaign goaded some gay guy into asking a question at the GOP debate on Wednesday? Or because they got to Gov Spitzer, that sooooo independent and brave guy, who changed his view on licenses for illegals,like lightening?!

Patsi,
Yeah Pete's Kitchen is great. The article neglected to mention that Colfax is the longest street in America. And if you're interested in Denver history, Phil Goodstein is a good as it gets. I particularly liked "The seamy side of Denver."

Surge is working???? Where is the political progress????? The purpose of the surge is to give political side a chance to work...

and adultry is one thing having the PD pay for a driver for his girl friend is quite another
Poor Rudi supporters not only is their guy creepy and cooking the books to hide his affair but using public funds to cart his mistress around...

Latest RCP Poll Iowa

27.2 Obama
26.8 Clinton
22.6 Edwards
8.2 Richardson
4.8 Biden

Gee Fry...seems to have been inaccurate in representing what Webb said...he called it a "strategic failure" that does not sound like the surge is working...

Fry you must really live in an alternate reality.

Fry
I know you are out handing out less than a living wage to the poor folks unlucky enough to work for you...

Here's what Shrub said last January..
does not sound like success to me
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070110-7.html

Fry,

It's good to see you are getting excited because some positive effects of the surge are being noticed and felt.

My problem with the surge is this...

IT CAME TO @#$#$ @$#$ @$##@$ LATE!!!!!

The fact that the surge is working now is further proof as to how completely arrogant Rumsfield and company were to think they could accomplish their goals with a minimal sized force.

As I think about it, I can't help but wonder if he was planning on a larger force to be comprised of significant numbers from our allies. Once the President failed in his efforts to build a COW, he had to keep US forces at the same levels to avoid the appearance of diplomatic failings...

While many liberals won't buy billboards to that point, they will agree to it if asked directly about it...

If you had a rat in your house, would you try to beat it to death with a wooden spoon or a shovel or pellet gun? I would take the one shot/swing one kill myself.

Senor Horsedooty

this is a run down on the creepiness that went on Cal around the signature gathering and a great story involving citizen action to stop it. Congressman Darrell Issa once again involved in election fraud.
http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/29/late-late-nite/

but if they had surged in the first place like so many suggested they do (shinseki, powell, etc etc) there would have been much less opportunity for so many $$$ to disappear.....gop has priorities, ya know......

Hey Fry have you confirmed all your peeps are legal...you do not have to have a "funny accent" (thanx Willard) to be here illegally.
I assume you have run their names through ICE

Not only does Rudy lie about his relationships he lies about his work

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/us/politics/30truth.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1196435326-8RR/XF13KkBaShVQC0TVRg

I'm sure Rudy would rather people talk about his mistress then the facts of his administration

CQ misses an essential element in the story - Giuliani bills NYC for separate security details for his wife AND mistress while he is still married, and while the affair is secret from his family and the public. Now, that's a bombshell!

For all Imusphiles...in honor of Monday's triumphant return, enjoy this ensemble of some of the farm's finest. Just click on each pony for him to add his part...

http://svt.se/hogafflahage/hogafflaHage_site/Kor/hestekor.swf

And...in case you don't know the schedule...there will be 5 hours of Imus programming Monday morning. RFD-TV will air their one-hour special about the ranch at 5:00 AM ET, followed by the usual 3-hour Imus In the Morning show from 6:00 to 9:00, then a bonus hour from 9:00 to 10:00 for Dec. 3 only. Enjoy!

Democrats are having a national committee meeting and the chairman Dr, Dean is speaking....

now that Mel has resigned who is the chairman of the goopers....maybe Bigot Buchanan is available he is the true face of the goopers

An excellent political website...

http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm

There will be a new rating for Imus

the cringe factor....for everything he says you might agree with.....how many will he say that make you cringe.

tomt is exactly right, and if the media had any sense it would focus its coverage on that aspect of the story. I'd love to hear Rudi's explanation about why his twinkie had police chauffeur and protection if she did.

Here's a spot on the web if you need it

http://www.am1090seattle.com/

What Rudy did is called CORRUPTION. The MSM wants to give him a free pass but I don't think voters will be so tolerant.

Andy Card: KKKarl is a big fat liar

Karl Rove told Charlie Rose during a recent interview that Congress had pushed President Bush to go into Iraq prematurely. According to Rove, the White House had been opposed to holding the war vote close to the 2002 elections because "we thought it made it too political."

This morning, former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card went on MSNBC's Morning Joe and laughed off Rove's claims. Read part of the transcript from Think Progress:

SCARBOROUGH: We have to start with something that we all are talking about a couple of days ago where Karl Rove went on Charlie Rose and he blamed the Democrats for pushing him and the president into war. Is that how it worked?

CARD: No, that's not the way it worked.

Card went on to explain that sometimes Rove's "mouth gets ahead of his brain":

SCARBOROUGH: Is that just Karl spinning beyond the White House? ...

CARD: Well, Karl is very smart. He's -- sometimes his brain gets ahead of his mouth. And sometimes his mouth gets ahead of his brain.

Giuliani is your typical corrupt big city mayor. Just what American needs for its next president.

It was bloggers, not the MSM, who uncovered the dirt on Rudy. The corporate MSM are enablers not muckrakers.

Andy Card & Rove are both liars.

One must remember: Bushies LIE ALL THE TIME. It makes no sense analyze "which one is telling the truth" when they contradict each other.

They are BOTH lying. All the time. Got it?

Yes Nash..that is true but in the past they were telling the same lies...and now it seems to be every rat for himself

dnd -- There's a wonderful (though out of print) novel called "Denver" by John Dunning....if you ever get a chance to pick up a copy do so....John wrote the Bookman series. He's tremendous....

www.oldalgonquin.com

I love the Bookman series.

Turning away from Rudy's police-protected fuck sessions, let's get back to a discussion of substance, the war in Iraq.

Obama is poised to take Iowa from Hillary on this key issue.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-e-jackson-jr/obamas-opening-the-cham_b_74744.html

After listening to Elizabeth Edwards on Stephanie Miller, I repeat: Elizabeth Edwards for president!

Another rookie mistake by Obama
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/29/AR2007112902229.html

dnd -- and any Denver-lovers....the house I lived in on Race Street was a historic one that we called The Lang House. I lived on one side of the main floor and Colorado Woman magazine's offices were on the other. It's shown on this page...the house on the left side of the page.

http://photoswest.org/exhib/lang/index.html

A weekend favorite of mine on East Colfax was the Zanzabar....a country music club long since gone. I still have a photo of the big neon sign that read: Zanzabar -- Enjoy Yourself. It's Later Than You Think.

Another boycott Beijing moment.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071130/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_china

It's ashame that the Olympic committee saw fit to give them the games. All three medals will probably be made of pure lead, too.