Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

I don't see McCain asking Lieberman to join him on the ticket...he stated yesterday that Joe was far too valuable in the Senate....yuk.

Anyone see Huckabee's new Jesus ad?

w00t.

w00ps.

not much lieberman or the gops do is surprising these days.....they're over the edge...absolutely nuts.

Just one more dump truck?

Now that is appropriate for a political site.

Checking the teeth of the candidates? Now, is it just the front teeth or do we have to check the molars as well?

It's too bad Craig didn't moderate any of the debates. I'd pay money to see him check each of the candidates teeth.

Bloomberg getting in would guarantee ademocratic win. Perhaps that is the strategy, anybody but Huckabee.

Hillary gives Craig permission to check her teeth:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071216/ap_po/clinton_iowa

ps Ms Clinton, the last democratic presidential to invite inspection was Gary Hart. I'm just saying...

Geez do I need an edit button. I can't even detect my mistakes in the preview window. What I meant to say:

ps Ms Clinton, the last democratic presidential candidate to invite inspection was Gary Hart. I'm just saying...

yawn..... stretchin'......
I got up later than usual...... I missed Craig..... oh well.....

Lieberman?...... makes one wonder what the hell could Al Gore possibly have been thinking of......... he unleashed this creature.....

Mad..... I applaud your 4:24am post...... suuuuuure...... the Middle East is going swimmingly...... so let's just ignore it.....

BTW.....
the Christian Science Monitor had a front page article last week about how Sadr is quietly rebuilding his army and his weapons cache.....

won't hear about that on Morning Joe...... now will ya......

I'm listening to Morning Choke harping on how democrats in congress have failed after being given power. This is such bull. There is no power. The Repubs have enough votes to ruin any decent legislation AND a wackjob president....THAT is power.

Pitch Black. That was what it was at work earlier this morning. All the power went out. Back-up lights came on 15 seconds later or so. So , I did nothing for the last hour of work. I'm taking my final vacation day of the year tonight.

wexler on veep impeachment:

http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com/

Edwards was good on the Today Show, despite what I thought was a generally nagative interview with David Gregory (who I usually like). Gregory brought up the fact that Obama has accused Edwards of taking lobbyists money....and also that people might not consider Edwards authentic because of his wealth. So would he have questioned FDR's sincerity because he was from an old rich family. Or is it just people who are born poor and do it on their own who are suspect?

mornin' all.

Last night, in a rare moment when he wasn't bashing Hillary and her supporters here, Brian wrote:
"Frosting comes in a can? When did they start doing that?"
Answer, in my experience since at least the mid 70s - and as a deep munchies snack itain't half bad.
Brian, I have one question - What the hell kind of doper are you?

And don't knock microwave cupcakes until you've tried them stoned.

So if anyone wonders why the founding fathers put the establishment clause in the Bill of Rights, read all the shit that's in this blag and just about every other political blog on the net - half of what's being discussed is the religion of the candidates and the different campaigns' use of it against their opponents - and all the while we're stuck in Iraq and the Senate is considering whether and how to allow the government to continue to violate the constitution and whether to give a pass to the telecoms for breaking our laws against listening in on us. Folks, I know most of us really don't care what religion if any our presidential candidates, and president for that matter, have, and we spend a lot of time arguing about the different dems' positions on issues that mean something, but good god, could we drop the religion shit? Of course getting the candidates to leave it alone will be pretty tough. And for god's sake, Bob Kerry wasn't bashing Obama for having Muslim in his heritage - it just isn't in him. What the hell will the response be if someone who is aligned with the Clinton camp mentions that Obama is black? Race baiting?

patsi, we certainly would question FDR's sincerity because of his background today - it's a different time. Hell, Kerry had to endure it, and he just married into the Heinz fortune. Democrats didn't have to take a vow of poverty to get credibility in the 20s and 30s, and didn't have to show their union cards, talk as if race, religion and sexual orientation didn't matter to them to be considered real democrats. They just had to have good ideas about getting the country through the debacle of the great depression and have enough money to run their campaigns.

Patsi,
Great observation. I'm kinda surprised Edwards hasn't used FDR or JFK as a response to such questions about his wealth.

Reid finally gets a clue. Thank you, Chris Dodd. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/17/dodds-filibuster-threat-_n_77220.html

Screw Bush - send him a bill that says there is no amnesty for MaBell and Nextel. I know, ain't gonna happen, but I predict that Reid will be challenged for his seat as majority leader - I hope Reid is challenged for his seat as majority leader, and loses.

dnd, exactly.

Pogo, I put this on the end of the previous thread about the Kerry remark.

"I thought the Kerry remark was actually complimentary of Obama, but nooooooooooooooo one of the Hillary haters crawls out of the woodwork and all the little sir echos start echoing the talking points. They learned well their Clinton hating lines courtesy of the neo cons and if it wins a Democratic primary, might as well use them."

jamie - Kerry has explained himself essentially until he's blue in the face - he did mean it as a positive comment about Obama. Apparently the underlying facts aren't right, but the folks bashing him for the comments are out in left field. And the comments about his name,well, it's his name and he'sbeen lampooned about it from day one ofhis candidacy by the RWNM, led by bloviator in chief Limpballs. It IS a problem for him - not among people who give half a rational thought to it, but a problem among those who don't - how dare Kerry note that. Oh, right, he's endorsed Clinton,so he's fair game.

The Latest Truth-o-Meter

http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/

This is one of the better articles I have seen on the challenges Hillary faces in New Hampshire- the views of a long time supporter.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/12/17/fresh_doubts_about_clinton_in.html?hpid=topnews

Morning Joe kept showing Huckabee's "Christmas" ad and making fun of it. Joe made a good point. Yeah, he might do well in Iowa and NH but not California, New Yrok, etc. where his born-agrain crap just angers voters.

Lieberman? Don't make me ill. About half of the USA (Dems) reviles this man, and the other half (Repubs)won't vote for a Jew.

Thank you, Connecticut for giving us Lieberman.

Huckabee covered up his son's torturing of a dog.

LA Times:

Citing new reporting and old stories, Newsweek reports that Huckabee's then-17-year-old son was implicated in the torture and hanging of a stray dog while working as a Boy Scout camp counselor in 1998. David Huckabee was fired from the job, but Newsweek reports that Huckabee, then governor, leaned on law enforcement officials to squelch a request by a local prosecutor for investigative help in the case. No charges were ever filed, and Huckabee denied any inappropriate actions.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2007/12/des-moines----1.html

Lieberman Bloomberg

the oy vey ish mir ticket

I cannot believe that the entire Imus crew was stumped about the meaning of Craig's political cartoon.

They need to go back to Folger's regular grind and lay off the fancy pre-packaged French Roast inside a hockey puck.

Come on Nash,

Do you think that he is going to come out and say "My son is a sicko that hanged that dog for fun, but don't worry ,after he tried to board a plane with a loaded handgun we sat down and had a family prayer meeting. Now everything is ok. He is over hanging dogs, but he is getting pretty good a snake handling."

"I predict that Reid will be challenged for his seat as majority leader - I hope Reid is challenged for his seat as majority leader, and loses."

pogo....... RIGHT ON!

Reid is THE poster child for spineless wimpy Democrats......

a big shout out to Senator Dodd for stopping the FISA
bill

Liked Bowmanc's post re Huckapsycho son.

I say, make Sen. Lieberman ambassador to Israel in the next administration, whoever is elected.

Not VP material at all, no crossover appeal.

I think Hucksterbee's son hangs dogs on plane

"if the Republicans go hard right with Huckabee.."

hard right? I think I would describe it as if the goopers fo whack job right with Huckabee.

I don't find him likable or charming or funny and I rather doubt that most Americans will either....

He is nothing but a snake oil salesman who has charmed the increasingly stupid media.

Over at HuffPo, Arianna is mocking the Republican establishment's FEAR of Huckabee. (The born again were recruited to vote, not actually run for office.)

Here's Matt Taibi Rolling Stone article on Obama posted on alternet; haven't read it but it looks good. Also links to some other interesting stories.

http://www.alternet.org/story/70714/?page=entire

Arianna Huffington at Huffingtonpost.com (which is about 100 times more insightful than most of the politcal crap you see on cable TV.)

"So why is the Republican establishment suddenly in a state of near-apoplexy about Mike Huckabee? Shouldn't they be happy? They've been cultivating evangelicals and fundamentalists for 30 years. Now they finally have a candidate who's truly part of the movement. So what's the problem?"

"Actually, that is the problem. The evangelical crowd was fine when it was just a resource to be cynically exploited every few years in demagogic anti-gay get-out-the-vote campaigns. But now the holy-rolling monster the GOP's Dr. Frankensteins have created has thrown off the shackles, fled the lab, and is currently leading in Iowa. And the party doesn't know what to do. "

beady eye is trying to help the Plunger...and pointing out that the Plunger is campaigning for Iowa in Florida.

Someone needs to get him a map

tweety is insane
On the December 17 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews claimed: "Every day I pick up the paper and there's another quote out there from somebody who's a wannabe, saying whatever the Clinton people told them to say apparently." Moments later, Matthews asked Financial Times U.S. managing editor Chrystia Freeland: "[A]ren't you appalled at the willingness of these people to become castratos in the eunuch chorus here or whatever they are?" Matthews made the comment in the context of discussing endorsements of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and specifically that of former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE), who made reference following a December 16 campaign event to, among other things, Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) middle name."

he should be fired.

tweety's diabetes has obviously made him impotent.

On the Huckabee son/dog story:

obvious points: camp operators probably would have given the 2 teenage boys a break if their story appeared plausible at the time. That they fired the son of a governor, rather than letting the issue go, says a lot.

Christianity is a religion that professes mercy and forgiveness once one confesses one's sins and truly repents.

That work was apparently never done in Huckabee case, by junior or senior.

Had son come clean and apologized and said he greatly regretted his actions; that he was young and did something in concert with another teenager he would never have done alone (one C List poster alluded to kids acting different in groups than alone -- that's a known phenomenon), and then volunteered on behalf of animals or some other charity, I think kid would have gotten a pass when issue comes up again years later.

BUT you have a political father who feared the public reaction to his son's misdeed -- and would not acknowledge it as a transgression, and preferred others take the fall for his son's misdeeds.

So story comes back to haunt, once Huckabee Sr. is in national spotlight.

I have some sympathy for the son; he sounds like a possibly troubled youth, and he has been introduced to the American public as the kid who hung a dog and blamed it on mange. (Introduced to those who'd not previously heard about his taking to a public airliner with a loaded gun; no word that he's an air marshal.)

But neither of them went for the route of Christian acceptance of misdeeds, repentance and atonement.

They took the political route: deny, deny, deny.

matthews is a whore and hypocrite ,,,he has now used the word cocaine more times than any one in reference to obama...now it is part of an ad (an ad that is stupid but points out Obama's cocaine use...something Matthews claims is a clinton dirty trick)

he is a brainless turd

Poor Chirs Matthews. His world view is shaken. He rejoiced when Bush got elected and almost had an orgasm when he saw Bush swaggering across the aircraft carrier flight deck to declare "MIssion Accomplished." Now everything has fallen apart and Chris doesn't know who to blame. (Rove? Cheney?)

All he knows is that he HATES the Clintons, as only a Catholic Reagan Democrat can. (It's all about Monica and the blue dress.) Sex, sex, sex. It's all they think about.

What kind of fiend would torture a dog?
-Michael Vick
Cellblock "C"

I think Matthews suffers from limpdick syndrome and envies Bill Clinton's success with women

it'snot catholic disapproval but the envy of the loser who cannot get someone to blow him

nash, Arianna is very often spot on in her analyses, and her current comment on the Right reaping what it's been sowing for 30 years to win elections is no exception. KNowing that Krauthammer is apoplectic about Huckleberry's rise is enough for me.

And you have a good one going about Huckleberry's son. In the south (isn't Arkansas part of it?) we didn't kill dogs who got the mange - we bathed them and put medicine on the spots and in their food. I can still smell the sulfur. And if you're gonna kill a dog to put it out of its misery - my dad had to do that to one of ours that got hit by a car and was suffering but not dying - you either take it to the vet to have it put down, or do something that causes a quick, relatively painless death. Dad shot our dog. You don't hang them. In fact, except for what I've seen in movies, I'd never heard of anyone hanging a dog, cat, bird, fish, turtle or any other pet. The real issue is whether Huckleberry suppressed the investigation and possible charges that might have resulted.

I dunno, KGC....I think Catholic boys school affected both Tweety AND Russert. (So does my friend, an Italian/Catholic Republican guy here in Twangtown. This guy, by the way, still thinks Barbara Jordan should have been president. Not a bad idea, either!)

Matthews' use of this line is just disgusting: "[A]ren't you appalled at the willingness of these people to become castratos in the eunuch chorus here or whatever they are?"

I've noticed that a LOT of Repub men use that kind of language. Remember a few years back when Grover (GAG) Norquest was saying Bush and the Repubs had "neutered" the Dems like dogs? (That kind of talk makes me think the speaker is definitely a Cheeto dick.) And now of course, Cheney (who probably hasn't had sex in decades) just recently talked about Pelosi castrating the Dem men? God 'A Mighty, if there was ever a classic castrating woman, I gotta believe it would be Lynn Cheney.

At the other end of the Republican spectrum is Betty Ford, a true feminist with whom I worked with in Colo on the Equal Rights Amendment. I cannot say enough great things about this woman.

If Huckabee is the nominee, my advice to the Democrat is to send mass mailings with a picture of Huckelberry and his son Dingle, with a graphic of a hanged dog in the background (where Huckel usually puts the cross)....and just one line -- "Hanged dogs can't hunt."

Patsi
Since I have no frame of reference for Catholic schools
I bow to those with knowledge.

whatever it is...it's creepy and just a few weeks ago Tucker Carlson was promoting the same theme

I have noticed that tweety steals ideas, phrases etc from people and does not credit.

I too need to do the preview....on Betty Ford I meant to write "with whom I worked." ha!

"I think Hucksterbee's son hangs dogs on plane"

Of course if Bowman is right, it would be a remake of

SNAKES ON A PLANE

Is Samuel Jackson available?

... MNSBC host Tucker Carlson, has repeatedly made castration comments in reference to Clinton. On the March 20 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, Carlson said: "[T]here's just something about her that feels castrating, overbearing, and scary." ... Rush Limbaugh has repeatedly used the expression "testicle lockbox," claiming that Clinton has one.

... Matthews previously asked on the November 13, 2006, edition of MSNBC's Hardball, if Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the then-presumptive speaker-elect of the House of Representatives, was "going to castrate [Rep.] Steny Hoyer [D-MD]" if Hoyer were elected House majority leader in the 110th Congress.

kc, catholic schools are very hard to pigeonhole - some are best known for their discipline, some for their academics,and some for nothing much more than uniforms. Nowadays, you're as likely to go into a catholic school and find no nuns or priests there, and only rare religion classes as you are to find the ruler-toting nuns that many associate with them. Little Pogo goes to one, hates the uniform, likes his teachers, and (I hope) isn't exposed to a lot of the bad stuff I hear about the local schools around here, and as anachronistic as this sounds is very respectful to the staff at the school, and that respect seems to be generalized outside of school. Although I don't think he learns as much as he should, his nationally normed tests suggest otherwise, so I can't complain too loudly, even though as you know, I don't buy the religion bit.

I think Chris must have gone to catholic schools that are of the "old School" variety. He probably got disciplined for whacking off - considering how much he's focused on genitals.

Tweety is a convenient catholic --he hauls it out when it rationalizes some insane statement he has made but otherwise ignores it. I am sure he never goes to church except as a social event for Christmas and Easter. After all he recently told us people with large families are better Americans because they use their kids whereas liberals have small families and use illegal aliens ;

Bloomburg-Lieberman, god damn I didn't realize you started drinking so early in the morning Craig!

Brian in NYC...

Hey Brian, I need your help. I have a computer someone tried to install a HP All in One Printer and now it won't boot. He gets

*** STOP: 0x0000000A (0x0016002A , 0x00000002 , 0x00000000 , 0x8042CCA2)

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

*** Address 8042CCA2 base at 80400000 , DateStamp 3ad7ad60 - ntoskrnl.exe

Any ideas how to recover from this? I can not get it to repair and any choice I make goes to this BSOD.

I can see the drive when set as slave to another, however I am unable to remove any of the HP Printer install at all. Can not find them nor short of wiping the drive clean and doing a fresh install which I really don't want to do. This is my supervisors computer.

Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance.

God Bless.

anon-paranoid: try these

http://tweaksforgeeks.com/IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.html

http://www.ntcompatible.com/IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL_t33330.html

Gotta ask Craig about this one. Do political commentators need wax removal for their ears? Andrea Mitchell just did it with the Kerry comment, but I've heard others doing it to virtually all candidates.

They will play a cut of some kind. It is totally understandable what the person making the comment is saying or means to say (whether you agree with it or not). The commentator will then turn around and use some opponents talking point to ask a question even though the talking point is the exact opposite of what you just heard.

I know they need to be provocative and stimulate conversation, but it strikes me as inherently dishonest.

Patsi: "cheeto dick" -- so perfect! And Betty Ford is a treasure.

Interesting chat about castration, etc. Saw Cheney's comment about that last week and added it to reasons we're better off once he's left the building. Governmentally or terrestrially.

"Testicle lockbox" -- Rush hits a double -- points out Hillary's gender and brings up Al Gore too.

msgop is an all day attack on Clinton and keep bringing up the Obama cocaine use...

and this claptrap from Mrs. Alan Greenspan
what a load of crap

the Edwards campaign shoud keep Trippi off air...not helpful

Anon see if it boots when you unplug the HP from the machine. If it does, try using another usb port and downloading the latest software. You're getting a recourse conflict there.

msgop's own new poll shows Clinton ahead so they aren't using it prefering to use a poll showing Obama ahead.

they are delusional

Trippi is very helpful KC, putting Mark Penn in his place last week was great, you're just upset with him cause he's not backing down from the Estrogen Mafia!

Brian...
I am unable to get to a logon screen at all and this happened after he installed the HP All in One Printer and had printed something while online.

When he shut down and rebooted later that day the BSOD showed up. Short of reloading the O.S. and since I feel fairly certain that its a conflict with the printer trying to use a lower resource I'm not sure if there is anything else I can do except use it as a slave and copy all the files he wants on to a flash drive to replace later after reinstalling the O.S.

By the way he is running Windows 2000 Pro. Also can or is it possible to reinstall on top of the current O.S. and leave his data files intact on the box without losing them? I'm not really sure about this.

Thanks for the links and I did check them out.

Check back after lunch.

God Bless.

Also whey do you refer to Andrea Mitchell as Mrs. Alan Greenspan? If I referred to Hillary as Mrs. Bill Clinton your head would explode and I would be labeled a sexist!

Yes anon, as long as you don't reformat the drive. However you will have to reinstall all your programs. But try my earlier suggestion first.

I don't care about him but he didn't do Edwards any favors...he fact he seemed quite shrill

and what good does it do Obama for them to keep bringing up the drug and religion stories....

And now obama is attacking edwards who is looking desparate now...

Trippi --loser in the Shrum tradition. he is happy to win daily battles but in politics that is nothing ...only the final battle counts

wow brian gets his panties all in a twist for Mrs. Greenspan...I also to refer to him as Mrs. Andrea Mitchell. As usual you fail to grasp context .

KGC and Jamie: stop watching MSNBC Tuesdays!

Shall we take up a collection to send you gals hair shirts instead? Or you can just bang your own heads against a wall?

Go volunteer in an animal charity. Tell you Huckabee's son sent you.

tell THEM Huckabee's son sent you.

Editing function. Is good.

gee dog
all you have to do is read Huffpo to know what is going on with msgop

go volunteer??? I'm at work.

Once again let me state for the record I don't wear panties, boxers, Brook Brothers cotton oxfords cloth to be exact, my jewels need room! I fully get your twist, and your hypocracy too! At least Andrea had a successful career of her own before she married. Frankly I find her a much better feminist role model than I do Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton.

Brian...
On my way out to lunch. The printer is not connected. He uses this box at home for work and he has an air card which is usb and he really messed this one up.

I'll try later and thanks again for the help.

God Bless.

PS: Just a quick hello to all my friends here at Craigs place. I say him one day on tv and he looked like he was feeling no pain. He must have some good meds for his ankle. LOL...LOL...LOL...

God Bless all.

mrs greenspan and her favorite source Frank Rizzo

and I do mean favorite.

Frank Rizzo died in '91.

when frank was still alive ms mitchell was a reporter in Phila.

excuuuuuuuuuuuuse me
Miss Mitchell

So what you're saying it's only ok for Hillary to hitch her rising star to a man? *my head swirls trying to keep up with your double standards*

Mrs. Greenspan is the foreign affairs reporter for NBC

she certainly did not do her job in the run up to the war in eyerack. In fact one could she was the suck,

there are journalistic ethics about relationships with source.

I just don't get why you constantly try to belittle her by referring to here as Mrs..... It offends my feminist sensibilities! She chooses Andrea Mitchell as her professional name.

it would offend your feminist sensibilities it does not offend mine

Mrs. Greenspan is a craptastic corporate news sex worker,.

Is there anyone in the media you respect, other than our host that is?

Brian, I would as soon listen to parenting advice from Mike Huckabee as feminist opinions from you....

Hi Patsi who's not a babe.

Amy Goodman Democracy Now
Rachael Maddow
Arianna Huffington
The woman from Salon
Katrina Vanden Hueval The nation

Glenn Greenwald to name a few

a lot of the reporters with Knight Ridder

I used to like Aaron Brown and Thalia whatever her name is when they were on ABC's overnight

NEW THREAD

Obama....Love him or hate him, you gotta check this out !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsbZrYyFdFg

Good Grief . . . can't Lierman just GO AWAY!!! I'm sure McCain will be overwhelmed with the Lierman supporters . . .

News flash - Fire at the Eisenhower VP Office, George and Cheney showed up to have pictures taken with fire fighters and seen tossing boxes of papers and tapes into the flames . . .