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Yee Haw

Agreed Craig, I've been very amused how all the talking heads have been saying there will be no campaigning during the holiday. xmas eve, and xmas day will be the only let up in my opinion.

Reposted from last thread.

Brian in NYC...

Those folders are the old Documents and Settings folders before installing the O.S. on top of the old one.

Also I noticed that it didn't make new folders for the many different ones that are under the old user {owner} folder ID.

Like My Music and all the rest. The only folder that windows remade in the new install was the My Pictures folder. I will copy the other folders over into the new profile folder from the fresh install.

I still have to reinstall all his programs that he had on before the BSOD. That also includes Adobe, Flash, Quick Time and the other junk for media you need for the internet.

I was wondering that if I delete the old folders can I then rename the new ones to the old names of the ones I deleted.

God Bless.

Posted by: anon-paranoid Author Profile Page | December 19, 2007 1:28 PM

CNN just reported one of Kucinich's brothers was found dead.

"When Obama's family heard they would be spending Christmas in a Des Moines hotel room, his 9-year-old daughter cried."

Maybe Dodd will invite them over to his Des Moines rental house. Dodd has two little girls she could play with.

No you can't rename unless you change the info in the registry, don't do it. Keep them the same names.

MSNBC just reported it too dnd, too bad.

Thanks Brian....

I didn't think you could so I'll just have to copy the other folders over in to the new ones that weren't remade.

Anyone have any other info on Kucinich's brothers death?

God Bless.

PS: Back to work, see you all later I hope.

The only place worse than a hotel for Christmas is a bus station or a hot air grate.

No new info yet anon-p. But it sure is sad.

New talking points to change the subject from politics is Britneys younger sister is pregnant. Now all the talking head shows will be 24/7 about the younger sisters pregnancy.

We've come a long way from ANS to abstinence only don't work.

God Bless.

my wife and I spent one Christmas in a motel in LA waiting for our furniture to arrive from Seattle. I think we had chicken sandwiches that year and a coke for Xmas dinner.

yo soy Horsedooty!

Geez, Obama! Even george bailey in that capra film made it home for Christmas!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-closer_box_17dec17,1,7140347.story

my wife and I spent one Christmas in a motel in LA waiting for our furniture to arrive from Seattle. I think we had chicken sandwiches that year and a coke for Xmas dinner.

yo soy Horsedooty!

sorry for the double post

yo soy Horsedooty!

I think most would give Obama and Michelle and the kids a pass if they "borrowed" a private jet for 15 minutes to fly into Midway for Christmas!

My deepest sympathies to Dennis , Mrs. Kucinich, all the Kucinich family, and Shirley MacLaine.

who made it public that Obama's daughter cried

that could only be the Obama's....

If they aren't careful she could end up like Patty Davis or worse

Now you're attacking the type of parents the Obamas are? Come on!

As I was getting ready for a business breakfast this morning I could hear the the dull lifeless buzz of MoJo playing in the background. Now I didn't pay much attention to it as I have vowed never to watch this show now that Imus is back on the air. But when I came out I heard Joe ask Gov. Huckabee where can the term separation of church and state be found. U.S. Constitution? No. Declaration of Independence? No. Federalist papers. No! Well if not in the those documents then where? It is found in a letter from Jefferson to to the Danberry Baptist Association, Jan. 1, 1802. So I was thinking, as I participate in a blog with a number of atheists, agnostics, religious fear mongers, and they are always so eager to cite, "Separation of church and state", whenever they hear a religious note coming out of the mouth of a politician, especially if that politician is a Republican. So I thought I would copy Jefferson's letter and present it here for all to read, as it is obvious you never read it before, or if you had you either forgot what it said, or wish it wasn't Jefferson who said it. Or you believe in that theory if you tell a lie enough times people will start to believe it. So at your next hate God tea, and the topic of separation of church and state comes up, you can now proudly demonstrate your intelligence by directing them to the correct document. You'll be the hit of the party.

Mr. President

To messers Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut.

Gentlemen

The affectionate sentiments of esteem & approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful & zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, and in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more & more pleasing.

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state. [Congress thus inhibited from acts respecting religion, and the Executive authorised only to execute their acts, I have refrained from presenting even occasional performances of devotion presented indeed legally where an Executive is the legal head of a national church, but subject here, as religious exercises only to the voluntary regulations and discipline of each respective sect.] Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessing of the common Father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves and your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.

(signed) Thomas Jefferson
Jan.1.1802.

Brian has a big man crush on obama
nothing obama can do is wrong
obama is the most wonderful idealistic straight talking person evah...

I'll attack whomever I want whenever I want and for whatever reasons...
this is Amerika and that is my first amendment right

why are you always trying to shut down free speech

Hey Fry, notice the letter doesn't mention Christ once?

Obama sacrifices daughter's happiness to satisfy political ambition...and they say Clinton is ambitious

KC step away from the kool-aid bar, you've had more than enough today!

I just report what is out there. I must confess it is usually the stuff you wish that wasn't out there, but that's life. Try to stay strong there my little buckaroos.

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/john_edwards_love_child/celebrity/64426

Yes Brian you say that now
but if that was being reported about Clinton you would be cheering.

Actually that's not true, I'm kind of surprised when he's referred to as attractive, I don't see it.

Not true, you've seen me repeatedly defend candidates I don't like when I feel they are being attacked unfairly.

I am talking about your tweety like obsession with Clinton. I understand your view as a NY'er is different but you seem suprisingly forgiving of Rudee's crap but not so much with Clinton.

I haven't seen the clintons unfairly attacked. When I do I'll protest just as loudly.

Back to the last thread: I live just 25 minutes from a neat little coffee shoppe just into Michigan.
I hang around in there just a little bit a few times a month. I am way-more Michigan oriented than Ohio-oriented, newspaper-wise, radio station-wise, etc.
The name ROMNEY is held in high esteem in Michigan.
George Romney was the most popular governor there , maybe ever.
I would bet Mitt Romney kills in the MI primary. I understand most people who are alive today who voted for George Romney are in assisted living now, but that name is still magic in Michigan.
Mormonism NEVER factored ONE BIT in the gubernatorials, FWIW.

yeah Brian...you are the decider.

"She's just held to a different standard in every respect," says Mark Halperin, Time's editor at large. "The press rooted for Obama to go negative, and when he did he was applauded. When she does it, it's treated as this huge violation of propriety." While Clinton's mistakes deserve full coverage, Halperin says, "the press's flaws -- wild swings, accentuating the negative -- are magnified 50 times when it comes to her. It's not a level playing field."

Newsweek's Howard Fineman says Obama's coverage is the buzz of the presidential campaign. "While they don't say so publicly because it's risky to complain, a lot of operatives from other campaigns say he's getting a free ride, that people aren't tough enough on Obama," Fineman says. "There may be something to that. He's the new guy, an interesting guy, a pathbreaker and trendsetter perhaps."

yes, in my world I am the decider, as you are in yours!

of course, Romney will get little help from Michigan Democrats who one might think would cross over in a general election and vote for Romney cuz he is from MI. From The Freep:

"• Romney, raised in Oakland County and the son of former Michigan Gov. George Romney, gets no favorite son status. He loses among men to two of the three Democrats and has little support among independent voters."

FD,

The whole of the Separation of Church and State is bandied about. My understanding is very simple ... there will be no State Religion i.e. The Church of England. Everyone is free to practice or not according to their own conscience.

The only problem I have with religion in the public square is that it not appear to violate that idea of non sponsorship. If a town wants to put up a creche, then they better be darn ready to put up depictions for Ramadan, Chanukah, Kwanzaa and any variation on Christmas that all sects might consider their own and to do it without complaint or protest. It has to be all or nothing.

My only complaint with many of the Evangelical crowd is that they seem to think it is their way or the highway and that is not what the founders intended.

Kucinich's brother was only 52

Dexter
you might enjoy this George Romney post from firedog

http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/can-you-name-the-mystery-presidential-candidate/

Well, I've heard it all now....after the news about Brittany Speers' 16 yr old sister being pregnant was announced, Thomas Nelson Publishing (known for religious books) is postponing the release of Brittany's mom's parenting guide. When I first started reading the article, I thought it was from The Onion.....

Oh, and NPR reported this afternoon that a reporter was approached by a member of Obama's campaign and told to investigate Bill Clinton's post-Presidency sex life. Why do I think we won't hear much protest from MoJo or Tweets.....

What staff member? What NPR reporter?

Back from Christmas shopping. I decided that I don't know squat about women's clothes , so my Mom and sister won't be getting any from me this year! I'd spend Christmas in a hotel as long as I didn't have to spend it alone!

well here's one example
"If Hillary Clinton is our party's nominee, every democratic candidate in Wyoming will be painted with that same liberal, big government brush. We will also be the target of the locker room jokes that rightfully belong to Bill Clinton. "

Wyoming Democratic Chair, Obama Delegate Savages Hillary Clinton
By: Jane Hamsher Friday December 14, 2007 8:20 am

Wyoming Democratic Chair (and pledged Obama superdelegate) John Millin goes all concern troll over Hillary Clinton:

In an online posting Monday, ABC reported that an Obama volunteer wearing a press pass asked the candidate a friendly question about tax policy at an Iowa event. But several of the assembled reporters huddled and concluded that it was not a story, one of them said. Clinton faced a storm of media criticism over a similar planted question.

looks like a double standard to me.
I look forward to your speaking out on the use of plants by the Obama campaign

U.S. Constitution - Amendment 1Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

rU.S. Constitution - Amendment 1Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

What this simply means is the government can not establish a religion, nor can they prohibit you from practicing your religion. Politicians can talk about their beliefs and be in total accord with the Constitution. I know some of you find that very disappointing, but that is what it is. Brian you moron, Jefferson's letter didn't mention Jesus, it also didn't mention the following: God, Allah, Moses, Zoroaster, Buddha, Loyola, Gandhi, Shabbetai Tzevi, or Peter, Paul and Mary. But that wasn't the point of his letter, something that must have escaped you.

people can talk about their religion all they want
the idea is they are not supposed to have it mold their civic decisions or be be an excuse for violating the constitution. The constitution aso provides for privacy but you seem to think religion takes preference over that..

talk about being a moron

hucksterbee, used religion salesman has made it clear he cannot separate the two.

Go Katie girl! Get them all on record.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash7.htm

Brian: "What staff member? What NPR reporter?"

The NPR guy did not elaborate, nor did he say it was him who was approached. But he mentioned it on whatever political show was on here around 1:30 PM. He was talking to a reporter from Iowa.

Wow....Ron Paul did not appreciate Huckabee's Christmas ad....

Asked about Republican rival Mike Huckabee's Christmas-themed ad, which we wrote about yesterday and has attracted attention in part because of the image of a cross that many see hovering over Huckabee's shoulder, GOP presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul said this morning on FOX & Friends that:

"It reminds me of what Sinclair Lewis once said. He says, 'when fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross.' Now I don't know whether that's a fair assessment or not, but you wonder about using a cross, like he is the only Christian or implying that subtly. So, I don't think I would ever use anything like that."

Fry,
I just wish one of the candidates would have responded: "Come on Katie, don't you remember that little romp we had at the last convention?"

Or perhaps: "With questions like that, do you ever wonder why you're third in the ratings?"

KAty CRack:

TY 4 the 3:09 post...
there is no doubt about it...Romney was my fave repugg, but of course I was 2 young 2 vote! (and I wouldn't have anyway in a general election...I'd have voted for The Hump), cuz The Hump was very popular, and I mean GOD -like, among UAW leadership and the loyal membership. It mattered not one bit that The Hump was LBJ's salesman for the war, Big Labor idolized the man. And I do not exaggerate one bit.
I saw a UAW Education Leader bawl like a baby while introducing a Hump film after HHH had croaked off....

The middle H stood for Horatio.

yeah...... well if I had had my way..... Rick and I would be spending this upcoming Xmas in a hotel room overlooking Waikiki Beach....
but he wanted to spend one more Xmas with his parents..... I relented.....

but a hotel in Des Moines..... yeah.... I might cry too.....

Brian..... how come with all the posts I've done on this blog about what I've heard on NPR, you've never once asked me "what reporter?"...... you and Tweety are a cute couple..... :)

TIME also named Krauthammer and Kristol as men of LAST year.

Both got canned.

Really you think we're a cute couple? Well I guess we have no choice but to go public now.

We'll be registered at Crate & Barrel.

Nah, Brian....admit nothing.

Between that blond hair and sexy laugh who could resist his advances! Could you?

I don't do department stores..... too common...... too ordinary.....
too much foreign made stuff......

besides.... their logo is in black and white.....
I only do color......

and why?..... oh why?...... would you want a man who can't get "it" up...... :0)

RR my men always rise to the occasion!

We'll be registered at Crate & Barrel.

that Brian and Chris...ebony and ivory

not sure about that KC, I think Tweety and I might be a draw when it comes to who's the pastiest! My flesh hasn't seen direct sunlight in 20 years!

Just saw a *Crush* of mine from Christmas past at the mall in Holland. *Heavy sigh*

The National Enquirer's front page reports teh baby drama for John Edwards: a pregnant girlfriend.

Hey... that baby's supposed to be Obama's, dudes. Don't you read Bob Novak?

All that said... Edwards is the least tabloidy of the Dem frontrunners. Which is to say it's a proven thing that covers with the Clintons and Obama sell well.

So why risk a cover on John?

Hey Craig -- is there still that old connection between the Enquirer's ownership and the JFK, Jr. side of the Kennedys?

My flesh hasn't seen direct sunlight in 20 years!

very smart of you.

Actually I think there is more of a business relationship with Giuliani Partners.

After the anthrax scare with in the national enquirer's florida bld, the ghoul and his buddies bought the buiding dirt cheap

kgc,

Yeah. I remember reading that.

the media is also pimping a clinton connection to ownership and trying to make this into a Clinton story.

But it comes from clowns like Micky Kaus, goat boy.
The political reporters who have any concern for the dignity of their profession shoud denounce the story and drudge for carrying it.

Decades-Long Drunk Who Hits On His Friends' Underaged Daughters Takes Credit For Huckabee's Stand In The War On Christmas.

(He's also a member of several "hobbyist" boards where johns review and rate escorts.)

No, it's not O'Reilly. But ever so close!

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/

(He's also a member of several "hobbyist" boards where johns review and rate escorts.)

eewwwwwwwwww

kgc,

Hasn't the "smart" talk centered on Hillary's acting on a plan to raise Edward's stock to diminish Obama's.

My head, my head, my poor little baby head. (Which is what Miss Birdies would say at 2 years of age.)

I still keep going back to who will the number one number two choice in the actual caucuses when for whatever mostly arcane reason your vote for your first choice gets rejected...

Again, ow.

I know they have many, many wonderful newspapers and are truly well-informed there. But is Iowa really a good argument to make for American democracy around the world?

No effing way.

9/11....
the same thing could be said of NH......

I think it was dog who stated a couple weeks ago that the problem with Iowa is the low percentage of registered voters who do the deciding..... something like 6-8%.....

at least in my state you always get over 50% of registered voters participating in the primary......

So if any supporters of Biden or Dodd or Kucinich or an Iowan Nurse Ratched takes a busload of her charges to a caucus to vote for Mike Gravel and make their worthless first ballot votes for their faves, for whom would you guess they'd cast their second votes? Would a Biden backer want Obama, Hillary or Edwards? A Dodd supporter? A Kucinich voter?

What do you all think?

a lot of the Clinton attacks contradict each other
The Bernstein book is full of crap like that.

I don't mind Iowa deciding. Money does play a lesser role. What the heck how bad can a place be that celebrates pork products and has the caramel nuns.

Renee,

Over 50 percent beats most national election turnouts since the sixties.

The Iowa regs are even more ridiculous and unfair than the straw poll.

I mean... it is a test of organizational strength. Candidates don't win there -- campaigns do... whether by strength of by default.

kgc,

I understand what you're saying. And I wish it were inarguably true.

But what I expressed in my last post is true -- it literally involves both paid and volunteer campaign workers doing a wheels to the asphalt, drive 'em to the site GOTV effort.

Money counts enormously there. But more in organization than in media.

I didn't realize the Crypt Keeper was Tweety's guest today.

I tried to get Chris not to wear that sweater today, I wish he would listen to me.

Oh, yeah.

No wonder Ed Rollins got Huckabee to do that Christmas spot.

It's the nearest he will get to a tree in his own home.

You see, Ed wears yamulkes lots of Friday nights: he is married to the most beauteous six foot tall Orthodox Jewess ever from a deeply observant family.

Lots of Shabbeses there... and no tree.

She is also the money earner there -- Sherri The Second has bounced around the entertainment world with many a mighty fall -- ending up doing well as a very high end real estate agent here in Manhattan.

Ed's hooking up with her is kinda like his hook ups with Katherine Harris and K.T. MacFarland except she is NOT letting him go after over 30 years of having every man she was with dump her. (This is her first marriage, Ed's 820th.)

Until Ed went to Huckabee his main income stream has been from cruise ship level nostalgia lectures about the Reagan years.

So a veeerrrrrry meeeerrrrry Christmas to you, Ed!

With one question -- you have been with Huckabee officially for about one week now.

How the hell have they managed to keep your flapparific mouth away from the media????

KGC....
caramel...... YUM!

seriously..... it's not Iowans I have a problem with...... it's this caucus stuff....
9/11 makes a good point..... because of needing at least 15% of the voters in a room... there will be no numbers for 2nd tier candidates..... for the Dems only the top 3 will be viable......

if they did a primary........ where all candidates could have a shot..... and many more would participate..... I'd have no problem with Iowa going first at all....

Oh, yeah part deux.

Ed Rollins gets reflexive credit for the Reagan re-election.

I'm sure he also gets credit for the sun's having come up this morning as he had about as much to do with that as he had with Reagan's inevitable win.

Reagan and his in-house political team get credit for that... which gets share pretty equally with the very, very bright and effective advertising and marketing leaders on The Tuesday Team.

I don't think any other candidate has attracted such a remarkable, nationwide collection of leading marketeers, account people and, in particular, creative executives.

"Morning In America" came out of there... mainly from Hal Riney who at that time was also riding (literally) high from the Bartles & Jaymes campaign and the Saturn auto launch.

I think Ed's subsequent campaign disasters shriek for themselves.

Nationally syndicated radio host Don Imus joined the fray, discussing the story on his December 19 show; news anchor Charles McCord noted Hunter's denial in the Enquirer article. Guest and CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer stated during the segment: "[I]t appears to me that there's absolutely nothing to it. I'm told that another, a man says that the child is his. I'm told that the woman who seems to be pregnant says it's not his." While Imus said to Schieffer that the story was "probably not true," in a discussion earlier in the show, after executive producer Bernard McGuirk said in reference to Edwards, "How about wearing a bag there, shyster ... for protection," Imus responded, "[T]hat's a good point, Bernard. How does that -- what does that say about your judgment, to be -- be president of the United States if you're going around impregnating people?"

What is it with Repubs and animals?First we had Bill Frist adopting kittens to kill in Med School, then HuckelberryJr's hanged dog....now more from Salon:

Rudy Giuliani's wife, Judith, also has some puppy skeletons in her closet. In 1975, shortly after becoming a registered nurse, she began working for U.S. Surgical Corp., selling medical staplers to doctors. The sales pitch involved demonstrating the staplers on anaesthetized dogs. "A dead dog doesn't bleed," said U.S. Surgical CEO Leon Hirsch in a 1988 Time Magazine article, when asked why the demonstrations required live dogs. "You need to have real blood-flow conditions, or you get a false sense of security." The dogs were euthanized after the demonstrations.

The campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, was actually proud of this story, which his own family apparently gave the Boston Globe as an example of his cool, calm decision making. Back in the early 1980's, Romney was taking his family on a vacation to Canada. It was a 12-hour drive, and he had his five little sons in the car, so he strapped his Irish Setter's crate to the roof with the dog inside, then told his kids -- one of whom was about three-years-old at the time -- that he had planned all the stops they'd be making and there wouldn't be any additional bathroom stops. There was one unplanned stop, though, when they noticed a brown fluid flowing down the back windshield. According to the Globe: "Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station. There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus [the dog] and the car, then hopped back onto the highway. It was a tiny preview of a trait he would grow famous for in business: emotion-free crisis management."

My thought: So the obviously traumatized -- and soaking wet -- dog then lay in a cage as the cool, calm Romney breezed on down the road.

I pledged some money to Kinky Friedman's Animal Rescue Ranch in Texas in memory of the hanged dog...looks like I'm gonna have to triple the amount now.

God Patsi talk about old news on all those items. Oh and FYI I'm going commando today under sweats.

old news to you Brian but not to the rest of the country.
And just because it's old doesn't make it irrelevant.

you were the one who poopooed the kerik etc stories and important and look at rudee today.

FYI I'm going commando today under sweats.

gosh what happens when you get THAT in a knot

Gee Brian, I am so very sorry I missed these stories when they made the national news.

It's ok Patsi, as a man I expect women to be late.

so Brian do you enjoy being an Ass?

yo soy Horsedooty!

On occasion of course, one can't be wise and serious 24/7.

you are starting to become the Tucker of this blog imo.

yo soy Horsedooty!

the tucker of this blog???????????

doots that is the meanest thing ever.

Where's the Christmas spirit , Brian? BTW , I posted a story on my blog tonight about how my 7 year-old niece traded a $20 bill for a bag of M&M's at school today.

http://themitchellblog.blogspot.com/

Bah Humbug! The Tucker of this blog, haha, funny!

Corey I think your niece has a career in finance

No...SHE gave the boy $20 for a bag of M&M's. The little boy is the one with the future! LOL!

It wasn't her twenty to begin with.
The little boy ended up with nothing.

True. LOL!

Yeah Corey stick with her she sounds like a winner.
Do you know what she was going to say about the twenty in show and tell?

"It wasn't her twenty to begin with.
The little boy ended up with nothing."

Kinda reminds me of Neil Bush and the Silverado S&L scandal.

9/11 has started Christmas a little early for me, if it's true that Krauthammer and ESPECIALLY Kristol have been booted from Time.

I cannot watch either of them even on "mute."

So sad for Kucinich losing his younger brother.

PS: 9/11 re K&K being "Men of Last Year" at TIME.

Perfect! LOL.

Thanks, dog.

I feel the same way about all three men.

Ok, I'm ashamed. I watched Katie Couric ask the salacious question about fidelity. A loaded question since several of the candidates clearly were targets. I thought Hillary was going to strangle her. And I wouldn't blame her if she did.

Of all the great newswomen to choose from, why did CBS pick her?

patsi,

Let us not forget the verified stories of George "I Knows What Torture Is And That Ain't It" Bush and his love of shoving lit firecrackers down the mouths of living frogs.

Along the way he matured into the sergeant at arms of his Yale frat, using white hot wire hanger tips to burn pledges. My source on that one? The unknown who wrote an article about it for the Yale Daily News... which included an interview with the laughin' Duhya who confirmed everything....

Fellow's name was Garry Trudeau.

Anyone here know if he ever amounted to much after that?

dnd,

Let's ask Leslie Moonves as he did it. He is also the leader of the mogul's pack when it comes to breaking all three leading creative guilds.

He ain't the smartest failed actor in the world, that's for sure.

Had an awful event down the street from me yesterday. A guy grabbed a woman's purse in my Kroger's parking lot. A man stepped in and was fatally stabbed in the chest. They released his name today....Jerry McEwen, a web designer and former musician who'd played with Johnny Cash, George Jones, John Prine, John Sebastian and Odetta.

See the NBC polls? Nationally, HRC is killing Obama. When broken down into all the numerous categories, nothing adds up. Huckabee is leading 3-1 against Romney (in IA) among Evangelicals and conservatives in general. Huckabee is gonna win big in Iowa. I am still calling Edwards in IA, too.
Romney still takes NH.

Pooty-Poot Pissed Off , says the US treats him and Russians in general like 'savages'.
Pooty-Poot gets the ink...Person of the Year by Time.

Pooty Poot.

http://www.time.com/time/?pkw=PSTMGLTX041707SNND1066

Edwards is going to clean some clocks in Iowa. I think he's going to win big.

Heroes ... man, what a tragedy in Tennessee...keep alert in parking lots, trouble is just under the next car, with a knife, in this case. Be careful, patsi....

Patsi,
Oh, shit. That is so sad. I hope the assailant gets everything that's coming to him.

My wife just came from the daughter's home with gifts and COOKIES!! I got a tub of broken cookies, all green and red and sparkly, in the shapes of trees and elves and Santa Claus.
She gave me one present just now...my Fifteen Year "Dr. Bob & Bill W." token/ coin. That means I'll be celebrating my 16th consecutive sober New Year's Eve.

Patsi,

That just makes every damn heart howl in pain.

That cry never ever ends.

Dex,

What the press never picks up on because they like lemon in their tea and not radium --

Pooty Poot has been pootin' uber marketed opera slut Anna Netrebko for years now.

Dexter

Congratulations on turning Sweet 16

Dex,

Here is the sober yet anything but somber congratulating holler I can make.

That coin is worth everything.

Dex,
Congrats on the anniversary. And the cookies!

congrats on your coin and cookies Dex

Congrats to Dex; 16 years is an accomplishment.

Patsi: so sad. What a loss.

I hope Edwards wins Iowa, with Obama a half point behind him. Will be heartbroken if Hillary takes Iowa and MSM starts telling us the race is over. I want to vote too. I want a lot of the country to vote before candidates are chosen.

Dex
Good job!

I think that story about the guy using his fat from liposuction to travel around the world is too funny

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=503419&in_page_id=1770

Oh yes, congratulations, Dexter!

Thanks for the thoughts. I guess it's good that I never carry a purse...just money or plastic in my pocket. (I don't do this because of safety....just dislike carrying a purse.) Also, I hate to admit it, but especially in the winter, when I grocery shop I wear so many layers of weird clothes -- sweatshirts, long sweaters, sometimes if it's really cold, even my fake fur houseshoes -- that most robbers would think I was homeless. Not a good robbery prospect.

But I've been thinking a lot about Jerry McEwen. He was a real hero.

AP: Tancredo to abandon presidential bid.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top14dec19,0,1956047.story?coll=la-ap-topnews-headlines

Running hard to catch up...and bringing up the rear...CONGRATS, DEX! That's great! And enjoy those cookies!

Very sad story, Patsi. Terrible news....

Dex! That's fantastic! A huge head's up!

Thanks, folks! It's my 15th anniversary token, meaning I have 15 years sobriety, but it will be my 16th New Year's Eve sober..sorry for the confusion!
My first sober New Year's Eve , I just had a few days off the sauce. That was 1992.
9-11 Survivor, you are so right...these coins mean EVERYTHING. I keep each year's token under lock and key and look at them once a year.
My new token will be formally presented to me at an AA meeting on the actual day, December 29. My wife gave it to me to look at now because she just bought it today.
Thanks again for the well-wishes!!!
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Britney's li'l sister , 16, is pregnant, as was reported here hours ago.
Her boyfriend, the father of the child, is 19.
That makes the daddy a statutory rapist. Word is...the girl's mom allowed the relationship to "blossom" in her house. This makes her complicit in the crime.
So...what dy'a wanna bet the rapist goes scot-free?

FWIW, this is the beverage that was my last drink. My buddy here prefers a bottle, mine happened to be a can....

http://www.diangy.com/filemanager/files/Pictures/CUT%20-%20Budlight%20rushmore%20copy.jpg

Dex,

The reports are that her father is not happy with any of this... which may have something to do with really feeling as a father would or something to do with the family obsessing over Jamie-Lynn somehow replacing Britney as the family 's next wellspring of millions.

There are all sorts of stories out there about the status of that "relationship" with the supposed father. He's happy, he's not happy, he's with her, he's vanished... yawn. The Enquirer reported the girl's pregnancy back in late July when Brit was riding a sustained peak of nuttiness. Most entertainment reporters tend to feel the girl has been pregnant for longer than she was paid to claim in that interview with a magazine which has a vendetta with her sister over a hideously botched shoot...

That family marketed Britney as a virgin when, by her own later admission she wasn't.

Both girls are decidedly ordinary looking. One was marketed from her mid-teens as a sex fantasy on legs, the other as a wholesome (yet hot!) TV sweetie who had good cable ratings on Nick but nothing approaching the Brit Jr. success of Brit-worshiping Miley Cyrus. (Patsi, do you think idiocy will be inherited there from Daddy?)

So I don't put terrible faith in Jamie-Lynn's words that she will raise the child in Louisiana... unless the Spears family collective genius doesn't quite see a diff between LA. and L.A.

As for faith... here is where Brit Brit put hers a few years back in an interview:

"Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens."

Imagine that -- a little faith in Duhya and she becomes a one woman version of Iraq, only with meth sores around her mouth instead of shrapnel scars.

Dex.....it's loosiana

Craig! Nice tie / shirt combo! I approve, I love those ties.

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sturgee: You gotta be kiddin'...that can't be legal in loosiana!

Damn, 9-11...you certainly are "up" on your entertainers! I confess I never heard of who?--Jamie-Lynn?---until this teenage pregnancy hit the tabloids.

what's legal got to do with it?

I am not really engaged in the Iowa caucus and who will win it.

So far only one element of the Democratic campaign has shown that it may actually affect real policy and Democratic leadership --

Chris Dodd is deservedly heading to a challenge to Harry Reid who deserves immediate ousting.... as does Pelosi.

Yes, 9-11, there is a Santa Claus...and he just gave Bush $70 billion to tide him over for a couple months.
Get out from behind those white whiskers, you skinny, phony Democrats!

yeah really, a 16 y/o gets her self knocked up, what's the big deal. The scandal here is she isn't being dragged off to some family planning clinic post haste!

Dodd is the man. Ousting is for the ousterers, but up with Dodd.....His dad was cool, too........

Dex,

When I was a little boy my grandfather would walk with me to the nearby trestle where we'd stand and watch the Long Island Railroad trains pass below us.

Now all I have to look at are showbiz trainwrecks.

I wrote earlier about my experience with hedge funds. They are in love with Hollywood and Hollywood is in love with them.

Why now? Why not earlier?

Because until Merkel became Germany's PM you really didn't have to spend your own money to make a movie. All you had to do was register your company in Germany and -- ach du liebe! -- tax breaks paid for all -- even liquid cash materialized for, well, nothing.

Now... well... Canada is back to being a great place to make movies and television with a good tax situation.

But pre-Merkel it was deutschmarks for nothin' and the checks for free.

Son-of-a-bitch! Abrams just reported the old-news story that Britney had been having sex since she was 14!

I guess I am supposed to care. Please! This won't last as long as Anna Nichole, will it?

9/11 -- in complete agreement re immediate ousting for Pelosi; not as sure about Reid, mainly because do not follow news on him as much.

dog has never been a Pelosi fan, although do remember with pleasure her first day as Speaker, surrounded by children. That was excellent.

Taking impeachment off the table, even for "pragmatic" reasons? Not excellent.

9-11...I still go watch trains ... the tracks are just a half mile away...and what's the buzz on a new Tarantino movie about the trailers from old 42nd Street moviehouses?

Dexter,

When Pelosi became the imminent Speaker, I wrote that I wasn't happy.

Almost everyone associated her with San Francisco and many reflexively damned her for that.

To me Nancy Pelosi was the old Baltimore political hack scene in which everything was a crabshell game with little accomplished until someone would come along to reform it and get torn down by the old Democratic establishment at whose core was Pelosi's family.

Her innate political hackery and lack of real spine outshne her beautiful style sense and classy face work.

..and we all know how corrupt it is in Baltimore...we watch "The Wire" !! (one more season, HBO, starts in January...Simon;s next project is set in New Orleans...)

Agreed, dog.

Pelosi chose Hoyer over her "close ally" Murtha because of Maryland political alliances still determine her thinking, power choices and family's stature.

Having grown up with power... she backed off from Bush and Cheney... as someone who would like to keep power as they do when it will be fully hers with a stronger Dem House majority.

Reid's performance on the telecom immunity was just the latest in an infinite string of weak decisions and strategic implosions.

...gotta watch the end of the Red Wings game now....

Dex,

I heard the Tarantino is a lot better than the Rodriguez but the best part are the trailers for the movies that never were and won't ever be by the brilliant guy who made 28 Days.

Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

I just listened to the Sweeney Todd soundtrack.

Depp is pretty damn brilliant. The scoring is rich but the CD is probably just a shred of the movie.

Yep, Pelosi needed to do what was right for the country, and yet another case of watching out for her own future instead.

Yes, Senate GOP might not have voted to impeach, but wouldn't it have been a pleasure to see them squirming with a president in 31% territory? And the destroyed CIA tapes saga coming out, and whatever else will float free in last year of Bush administration? And a disproportionate number of GOP up for election in '08, in red districts that don't support the Iraq War either?

Interesting article on making black cake, Caribbean fruitcake with ground macerated fruit and brandy, rum or passover wine.

A fruitcake people actually enjoy receiving. And do not (in this story) regift.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/dining/19cake.html?ei=5087&em=&en=614676d52fead8ac&ex=1198213200&pagewanted=all

I like fruit cake, you're all welcome to send me the ones you don't want. fruit cake with a thick schmear of cream cheese, yum!

Huckabee: Opie Wan Kenobe

According to Countdown without KO (& Brian's favorite woman), all 3 Dems are winning. Just as I thought.

I have no connectivity A-GAIN! This time it's Verizon. Is there no end to this cr**??

ACK!

tt

Sturge: "Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly."

YeeHah!

A friend of mine in Memphis gave me her grandmother's old Jam Cake recipe....it's pretty durn good. And, Brian, I hadn't thought of eating it with sour cream, but that sounds excellent...

Jam Cake: Mix 2 cups sugar with 1cup butter, and add 3 eggs. Mix in 1cup blackberry jam, 1 cup of fresh coconut, 1 cup of chopped pecans, 1 cup of chopped maraschino cherries along with a half-cup mincemeat. Sift together 1 teaspoon of soda, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon Allspice and 2 cups of flour. Add to sugar and fruit and mix well. Then mix in 1/4 to 1/2 cup of buttermilk. Place batter in three greased and floured round pans and bake at 350 degrees. About 30 minutes. Glaze: 1 stick butter, 1 can Pet Milk, and three cups regular sugar. Cook low with 4 TB flour.

cream cheese, not sour cream.

Dexter,

Have you ever read any books by Simon's wife (number three since I'm counting wives today) Laura Lippman?

I love her novels. Her website's fun, too.

Here is a very good profile of David Simon from The New Yorker. (Don't know if you've read it.) It ends with a story of how Simon convinced Bill Keller (and those last three words sound more and more like an oxymoron but he did) to feature a couple he had written about in The Corner in their Vows column (which had come quite a ways since it featured solely dot com couples who never seemed to spend that much time together except during their wedding and afterward with their divorce lawyers. But it hadn't come anywhere near this far until Simon brought this couple to it).

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/22/071022fa_fact_talbot?currentPage=all

patsi,

I get a little dizzy when you post a recipe -- I never forget your Betty Crocker award.

*yawns*

A second gaping hole for Unka Brian!

predictable

You're the adorable little bratty narcissister who always gets left on life's cutting room floor.

But you're a star, darling!

Just keep braying like an ass and we'll all hear it as marvelous, witty, truthful and unique.

Mitt Romney: “I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.”

He apparently also saw mommy kissing Santa Claus. Because the Grosse Pointe Historical Society said George Romney never came there... and that the David Broder reference that was used came from a book which was published before King actually came to Grosse Pointe sans George (or any other) Romney.

There is a difference between someone declaring that they have a dream and a political fool announcing, "I am delusional."

http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid53200.aspx

"But you're a star, darling!", ewwwwwwwwwwwwww, Sheridan Whiteside you're not.

What a smarmy group the Republican candidates are!
Huckabee running for Christian pastor-in-chief while
n(un)subtly attacking Romney's religion. Then, we have The Man From Glad, ramrod stiff Romney, who put HIS church above his country by avoiding the draft so he could go on a "mission." Is that why war-promoting Romney's kids haven't signed up to protect the US in Iraq while they beat war drums everywhere?
Or should we vote for Rudy-the-Godfather imitator, sleaze-ball-in-Chief, providing love nests for his capo
Kerik? Rascist ranting Tancredo? Atleast McCain and Hunter have put their money (lives) and the lives of their children where their mouths are. Do they remind you a little of the bomb-riding cowboy in the 50's movie. I won't sacrifice my grandsons . Since I want my gandchildren to study science in school, not someone else's religion, I don't want to give more power to anti-intellectual, woman-subjugating guys who love to jplay war with other people's lives. I guess II'll just vote Democratic.

Why has no one
asked this anti-science, women subjugating, war-playing guys, I think I'll vote Democratic.

9-11------yes, I read that in the magazine. It was very touching.
Simon comes more "alive" to me the more I read about him.
When "The Wire" premiered, Simon would chat with us fans on the HBO posting boards.
If someone was way off on their comments, he'd jump aboard and straighten them out, in a kind way.
I recall one 2:00 A.M. when I posted some comments and a question for Simon and he surprised the hell out of me with an immediate answer about the show. We went back and forth for about twenty minutes and then he disappeared.
No biggie, but the man is genuine as can be.
He quit joining in after the boards, like all popular boards do, went wacko.

Gee, I take some blog-space to share my story about getting my sobriety medallion and guess what comes on TCM?
"A Star is Born", the William Wellman picture produced by Selznick in 1937.
Fredric March was wonderful as was Janet Gaynor.
Of course, March played the alcoholic actor Maine, who had a helluva time with the bottle.
Gaynor was more than wonderful, she was terrific.

Dex maybe "Lost Weekend" will come on next!

Also, Lionel Stander played the publicist, Matt Libby.
Today ,the casting director would have a hard time deciding who got that role ---between Harvey Fierstein and Tom Waits...that VOICE !

Brian, don't think I wasn't thinking about that movie, also.
I watch that one every year on my sobriety anniversary date, the 29th of December.
Milland actually went to Bellevue and stayed on the drunk ward for a few nights to get the feel for that role.
He knew little or nothing about drunks when he was cast, and walked off with an Oscar for it.
I once tried to host a little party for some drunks to watch the movie at my home and have some cake and coffee.
Every one begged off..no party. All but one of those eight drunks returned to elbow-bending. That's how it goes.

Patsi: have copied out the jam cake recipe. Won't have time to make it for a while, but it sounds worth a try.

Brian: (and apologies to Craig for turn