Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

By the way, here's an interesting website:

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

and there's your mug on TV talking about it!

I did see a negative ad last week. It was attacking Hil'ry for not being strong enough to stand up to the Reps. She wanted $5K for every child (assuming to be invested as a college fund).

David Schuster Rocks & have a good day.
Blue

Hucksterbee responds naming Tancredo as his vice president.

Blue,
I'm curious, who ran the negative ad against Hillary?

And you're right, Schuster is pretty good. I'm surprised he hasn't replaced Tucker yet.

oooooohhhhhhh......
Republicans..... eating each other for breakfast....... I LOVE it!

dnd.... yeah..... but will you still love me after I started playing Led Zeppelin......
really loudly..... ;)

I am happy to see the Repugs returning to their nasty roots - it had to happen,and I'm surprised it didn'thappen until now. Huckabee reminds me of my uncle, who was a southern Baptist lay minister. TRUST ME ON THIS ONE - he is one of the LAST people you would want making decisions that affect the entire nation.

Renee: that's what I get from independents I have talked to, a lot haven't decided on a candidate but they have decided on a party

Led Zeppelin reunion last night
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a6sXAi67skhY&refer=home

I'm not sure Thompson will even make it to the Iowa causus, he will be the next candidate to drop out. He seems like a little kid who's doesn't want to go out and play with the other kids but his mom made him

OK, Huckabee's got the big Mo now- the head of keepthebrownpeopleout.org. (remember the Minutemen?) has given him his blessing. Now if he can just get Curtis "keep the black boys from hassling the white women" Sliwa's backing, he should get all the hate groups to fall in line for him.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20071211/huckabee-iowa/

Tweety is off the rails

I predict Tweety will be shown to be a total fool

when has he been right during this primary season?
NOT A SINGLE TIME

Tweety's clinton obsession has made his commentary worthless.

hey gang....
for those of you who love it when the Repugs fight with each other..... this is a reposting of the article Pogo linked to about Thompson abandoning his campaign in NH..... you just gotta read the comments at the end of the article..... if anyone here has doubts about the Repugs falling apart..... you won't have any after reading these comments...... he, he.......

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/12/11/fred-thompson-is-done-with-new-hampshire/

Well, Bush didn't know about the destruction of the torture tapes. Now there's a big surprise.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/bush-i-didnt-kn.html

But if you get tired of listening to mold grow tonight, you can watch Martha Raddatz's Day In the Life Of President Bush. If that won't cure your insomnia, I think you're beyond help.

I've decided Matthews hatred for the Clintons is sibling rivaly.

Tip O'Neill liked Bill best.

Thanks renee - I love to read Repug comments.LOL.

BTW, have you told rick about dnd's proposal yet?

Renee, Sweetie,
Sigh, it probably wouldn't work out. You're an AL fan. I'm an NL fan. And we'd probably fight all the time about how the DH has ruined baseball...

Excuse me if it's insufferably naive, but when you guys refer to "Tweety", are you talking about Chris Matthews? If so, then perhaps I haven't been wrong about him.

I watch the damn shows like a fundamentalist goes to church, and for a long time I've been thinking that what I'm seeing on CMS and Hardball is SEVERE Hillary&Bill phobia - even outright bashing. But he always does it with the smile, like he's slipping the knife in between the ribs.

I guess I'm just stupid - I didn't believe such crap was allowable. Foolish me. But I'm glad to know now that it wasn't my imagination, and I'm not the only one who thinks he's "Tweety".

Well the latest Rasmussen poll should warm Brian's heart - Edwards and McCain take top honors.

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/12/11/tue6ampoll.pdf

RE Giuliani and Thompson flameouts: Where do you suppose the moderate GOP vote goes this year?

C-Span ran a Peter Hart focus group meeting with central Virginia Republicans about a month ago; although many knew little about Thompson, they seemed to be holding out hope he might rescue them from having to vote for rest of field...

You would almost feel sorry for the GOP voters except that many of them would vote for GWB again if it would keep a Democrat out of the White House.

sofa-ist

love your name. It's not you, it's tweety. Is own staff gave him the nickname in 2000 for the color of hair dye but tweety resonates cause it has so many possibilities.

welcome sofi-ist. CM is indeed Tweety. Your thoughts are pretty much right in line with the rest of us. I have taken the cure. I don't watch him any more.

yo soy Horsedooty!

Love the next Lead -In on CNN: "When Iowa Freezes Over."

We have about 3/4 inch of ice covering everything and did finally get an inch or two of snow late morning. I heard the airport was supposed to open up at 11:30 a.m. but don't know if it did or if it mattered based on regional weather problems. I still have electricity but the tree branches are so coated with ice that if we get any wind they will start falling on the electric lines. I am tired of winter and it hasn't even really started.

sofa-ist - really, REALLY great name. Yeah, Tweety is absolutely a Clinton hater. It's like it's his mission in life. You'll fit in nicely around here - become a regular. Insufferably naive? Nope - insufferably realistic sounds more like it.

zoey, sounds like things there are as bad as they look. Best of luck staying warm. Oh, and DO NOT TRY TO GO OUT.

Thanks Pogo, I had to go out this morning to the doctor and they were so short staffed the doctor had to come out to the car to pick me up in a wheelchair. It was so slick there was no way I was going to try to walk to the door on crutches. It is going to stay below freexing for quite some time so this stuff isn't really going anywhere. Luckily my boss is going to email me some work so I won't have to use up all my leave.

sofa-ist , welcome to the tweety is irrelevant group. Save yourself, take the pledge not to watch that trainwreck.

Obviously, freexing is much worse than freezing.

Jeopardy Current Events Category

Answer: Canadian born TV host, now resting comfortably at LA area hospital after mild heart attack

Dog,

Is it Alex?

Yep; forgot to include the link:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-trebek12dec12,0,2139930.story?coll=la-home-center

what is: Wink Martindale with the answers?

I heard some comedian call Alex Trebek that

Now, I know it is, but I played fair, and didn't check the web until after I guessed. The funny thing is, I didn't even consciously think about Jeopardy being in your question.

OK, fo'ks. Gotta split - manana.

Kudos, Ed.

Maybe it was the Canadian born that gave it away? Our friends from the North get so little respect...

Here's hoping Alex doesn't get into double jeopardy.

"Our friends from the North get so little respect..."

They just send all their comedians down here to laugh at us.

sorry Sofa-ist for misspelling your name. No edit function here yet.

yo soy Horsedooty!

Jamie: and we are giving them material in droves this year!

whomever posted the rumor yesterday about MSNBC and Rachel Maddow looks like they have a great rumor mill.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/12/11/msnbc-tapes-pilot-for-new-showstarring-rachel-maddow/

yo soy Horsedooty!

"Rachel Maddow "

That would be wonderful. Let's hope she likes "chuckly" pundits as much as her buddy Stephanie does.

Oh, after all the attacks, they'll all be backing slapping, bosom buddies again.

" Huckabee 'very willing' to meet with AIDS victim's mother"

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/11/huckabee.aids.ap/

"Hillary Hits Obama for Kindergarten Essay"

Ya know, this is getting out of hand. Really, what are they thinking this go round?

tt

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2007/12/03/hillary-hits-obama-for-kindergarten-essay/

I met Mike Gravel today, at a Silicon Valley Commonwealth Club to-so that they taped for local radio and tee vee (in front of an audience of about 50 people).

I was impressed, especially with his enviornmental ideas. No goon squad, and Gravel himself was very warm and friendly, and incredibly earnest.

I only wish he had any kind of chance.

Excellent news about Maddow.

I'm still chuckling about chuckly.

tt

Limbaugh and Tucker both give me agita...but it's like "I went to the doc cuz my arm hurt when I slept on it...the doc said don't do dat no more!"...so it has been easy to just not listen or watch, but i def would watch the OTHER Rachel...Ms. Maddow.
Cuddle-bear Rachel Ray is still "Rachel" around my house.

From Andrew Sullivan site -- 6-1/2 minutes of CBS with Cronkite Christmas Eve broadcast 1971.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/12/christmas-with.html

Footage of Christmas at the White House with Richard Nixon looking human with his "train" answer, and interacting with his dog.

Then: Christmas tree shortage in Hungary

Later: opaque commentary by Eric Severaid, hoping for an "aristocracy of the plucky."

Last at about 5:10 in : long pan of the CBS evening news crew -- such a male bastion then. Maybe 3 women posed behind Cronkite, looking shy about being there.

Not mentioned once in clip: Viet Nam.

When romney gets the nod in denver, will we have to endure all the "flip-flop" charges by the dems?...count me out...I'll attack him on his aggressive war stance.

Dex,

You just want to eat in 30 minutes or less when you are hungry

Nixon initially calls his dog over in Spanish; that was fascinating.

Maddow will be welcome. I wouldn't mind a Conservative to replace Tucker. I just want one with brains who isn't a walking right wing press release and talking point.

hey all, big relapse with my ankle tonite, had to beg off olbermann

Sorry to hear, Craig. Hope you will be feeling better.

Dex,
"When romney gets the nod in denver, will we have to endure all the "flip-flop" charges by the dems?"

Um, Romney, if he gets the nod, will get it in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

The Democrat's convention is in Denver.

No degree of poll-climbing by Huckabee will convince me he has a chance in NH, even as I am giving him IA now. NH will go for Romney
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After all the hashing and re-hashing of Russert-on-Rudy's case, it seems to me Russert was playing the Cuckoo's Nest's administrator to Rudy's Randall McMurphy...just grinnin' and minimizing all the serious charges, and coming out the winner...for a while.

That WOULD be some serious flip flopping, were he to be in Denver. Does anyone put it past him?

Geez Craig. Go to the doctor!

dnd: oh yeah...I'm a little confused lately...I had Hitler dying at Eagle's Nest last night until Brian corrected me.
All I can say is: Gee, I knew that!
I had the repuggs in Minny cuzza Larry Craig and all, I guess!
Oh well...like they say, these dems and repuggs...Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum!
Thanks anyway!

I'm not a big Rachel Maddow fan, but she's really smart, and polite when she wants to be. But hey, a test patten would be better than Tucker.

Oh geez that didn't come out right..I give up!

Dex,
I knew you knew that ;-)

you date yourself my friend! My fave test pattern? The Indian chief, of course!...ever wake up to that droning tone? Uh...yeah! About a thousand times!
Kids today can't even imagine TV going off at midnight with the national anthem .

That WOULD be some serious flip flopping, were he to be in Denver. Does anyone put it past him?

Posted by: dog's eye view

Oh, no! Just pass me the dunce cap NOW and I'll do my hour in the corner of the playhouse here!

On a serious note...time to head for the orthopaedic's office, or at least the Redi-Med or somewhere for an MRI or X-Ray of that ankle.

Dex: no dunce cap. I would have been 0 for 2 if anyone asked me where conventions would be (although the Minneapolis bathroom is a great memory aid).

hey dnd...that Coca-Cola Center in Denver is SOMETHIN', right? **groan!***

Dex: we lived in Hawaii when I was little. Mom talks about how we got all our programming a day late, because it had to be flown over from the mainland.

Remember when cable was what you had to put up with at the beach, and it got about 2 channels, both fuzzy?

Craig,

Hope all improves soon. If still acting up tomorrow, please see a doctor..

My favorite street name all-time is an Avenue in St. Paul , running right into downtown Minneapolis...

MINNEHAHA Avenue.

Here you go Dex. Wear it with pride

http://rangers.lohudblogs.com/files/2007/02/istockphoto_1778141_dunce_cap1.jpg

Nope...don't recall any beach-cable. I do recall that ABC was the last of the 'Big Three' networks. NBC had the first color, then CBS, and it was way into something like 1964 or so before ABC got color programming. I think I'll research that....

"In the land of the Dacotahs,
Where the Falls of Minnehaha
Flash and gleam among the oak trees,
Laugh and leap into the valley.
... And he named her from the river,
From the waterfall he named her,
Minnehaha, Laughing Water."

Dex,
It's the PEPSI center! LOL!
And the seating is really cramped.
Fortunately for the conventioneers, there are a lot of bars not too far from the center as one heads towards Coors Field.

OK...it was 1962 when ABC finally went to some color broadcasting...I was pretty close.

yes, dnd...that's why I inserted the "groan" in my message! All in good self-deprecating humor!

62.......GE clock radio, with cut-off timer, and snooze alarm.....

Katherine Graham Cracker, Pogo & Zoey:

Thanks for the welcome. Sofa-ist loves this site, and will read it daily.

Re: not watching the shows: sorry, but I'm a certified junkie, and don't see myself withdrawing from the shows till this is over. What with Tivo, I'm set up with 3-5 hours a night and 6 on weekends. I'll probably go crazy by February 5, but I'm committed for the full course. Maybe it's like self-Waterboarding, followed by a real commitment - to an asylum.

ps, I actually tried to watch Fox on Sunday. Got physically ill. I knew its rep., of course, but wasn't prepared for how Highly Toxic and Soul Corroding it is. My advice: no matter how curious, Stay Away.

Dex,
I knew you knew that ;-) Hence the LOL!

oh, GEE!...THANKS !!, Jamie...you are SO considerate!
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!! I JUST GOT A CALL FROM BILL CLINTON!!!

Really! We had our special election today.

I told Bill that Robin Weirauch already got my vote. He didn't answer back! LOL!

NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams NOW

I gave you the Song of Hiawatha for mood music.

Dex: plz keep us posted on the Ohio congressional special election results. You mentioned district was likely 3:1 GOP-leaning but wouldn't it be great if there were an upset?

I just stumbled across another literate site. They're so rare out there. Too many, "How r u?" and the like.

http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3127729&st=8925

And it's the only thing besides KO, et. al. that I regularly watch.

tt

Evening peeps

Check out CNN's homepage quiz at lower right side.

Question: Are there circumstances in which waterboarding of prisoners is acceptable?

You may be surprised at the results.

(Not to mention, being surprised they asked a serious question; usually it's pop culture fluff.)

aww, c'mon Dog, don't make me go to CNN, it just encourages them

Craig,
I went to my doctor today and had more x-rays. I can continue wearing the boot because I have a minor fracture of the fibula . He cautioned me to put no weight on it or I would end up with surgery, screws, and a cast. You could have a break or could have torn ligaments. Please GO GET X-RAYS or you may end up worse than you started.

dog,
W.r.t. waterboarding, I thought the comments on Jack Cafferty's blog were interesting. Particularly the one that said: "lets waterboard every body who says I dont Recall or I have no recollection and see if their memory comes back"

I just saw on a local news crawl that a city south of where I live is under a state of emergency. They are using the casino as an emergency shelter. WTF!

Geez Craig go see your doctor, you might get some sweet drugs out of it! And more importantly, what you don't use you can send to me!

yeah craig...see the doc or you could end up with an ankle permanently bigger than you know who...of course that may just be karma

dnd: will have to check out Cafferty's blog.

Peeps: waterboarding as acceptable was running 54-46 a few minutes ago.

WTF? Do you think that's representative, or possibly skewed? (Maybe a rightwing blogger sending folks over?)

I was amazed.

dog,
CNN said it's not a scientific poll. Translated: it's meaningless.

dnd: yeah, did notice you can vote multiple times.

Tweety really hates Clinton because he is inferior

Re: Frank Rich on Tweety's show. I like seeing Tweety suck up to a gay (ok, officially bi) man, makes me feel good! :)

Tweety probably has no idea

and now Rich is misrepresenting Hucksterbee whose "human" immigration position is to deport everyone who is here without documents.

Tweety and Frank Rich are nuts
Obama is not the left version of Hucksterbee

Since Monday I can't turn on the tube without seeing someone being water-boarded. I certainly like the idea of going into the Time Machine and asking Reagan if he STILL had no recall of anything about Iran-Contra if he knew a waterboarding session awaited him if he couldn't recall. I'm not cruel---his Alzheimer's hadn't set in yet.
While I was back in time I'd go back and waterboard Nixon in late December , 1972, just before he bombed the Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi. I'd use several jugs of water. I'd just do it for fun, as we all know it ain't torture. Mitt told us so.

Tweety said that the reason we've thrived is because Judism and Christianity have embraced science.

Hello? Does he know where the Arabic numeral system we all use came from. Does he know the history of the development of math and science in the early Islamic world. Does he know that Huckabee doesn't believe in evolution and that the world is 6000 years old?

What a maroon. I fell of the wagon for five minutes, but I'm back taking the "No Tweety" pledge.

dnd: "What a maroon. I fell of the wagon for five minutes, but I'm back taking the "No Tweety" pledge."

No kidding. I get OUTRAGED when he starts telling us what "the American people" think.

I found his comment about Christianity embracing science pretty funny too. When I think of the sciences being supported my mind always wonders to Rome! Now my homies on the other hand, we love the science!

After seeing Lisa Meyers report on the NBC Evening News about Huckabee, I'm no longer convinced that Rudy is the most corrupt and unethical person running for president.

By the time I went back from the computer to the television, Matthews was on another Bill Clinton rant. (This was, of course, after he'd informed us that "the American people" believe that Hillary makes them feel bad about themselves while Obama makes them feel good about themselves.)

His Bill Clinton rage is not only pathological, but, I suspect, sexual.

Hey! Huck pardoned Keith Richard! ("Richards " if you came to the Stones later...)
And he kept all the can openers and guitars and he registered at Target.
To the victor goes the spoils!

Oh do tell Patsi, sexual how?

Just as I am sure that most men who lust after Humvees have little dicks, I am almost sure that Matthews' diabetes has rendered him impotent. He hates sexualized men.

I wouldn't say this sort of thing if Matthews himself didn't feel comfortable arm-chair shrinking anyone who comes along.....

Wow you must have the inside tract on info regarding Tweety's anatomy. I'm not sure that's something you want to get around!

Huckabee Questions Mormons' Belief

LIBBY QUAID | December 11, 2007 06:46 PM EST |
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20071211/huckabee-mormons/

well...here's the car i lust after and I wear size 22 shoes!

http://images.worldcarfans.com/articles/2007/9/13/9070913.005/9070913.005.1M.jpg

Salt Lake City, UT – Today representatives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS church) angrily denied that Rudolph - the Red Nose Reindeer - was a practicing Mormon. According to archival Church documents, Rudolph was believed to be a Baptist. One representative interjected, “We are prepared to lock horns on this issue.”

The announcement was a rebuttal to Huckabee’s claim that because of Rudolph’s Mormon faith, “all of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names,” even to the point of, “not allowing him to play any reindeer games.”

Huckabee concluded, “He is definitely not the kind of reindeer that America needs to guide our sleigh.”

*L* @ Mad! Very clever.

tt

Craig? I thought....were you....supposed to be on?

tt

tt,
Craig had an ankle relapse and had to cancel.

Bummer! Thank s zoey.

Craig, take care of yourself. Zoey, you too.

tt

Craig,

I was disappointed not to see you on SpitBall tonight - you're usually the bright spot, even though Tweet rarely allows anyone to answer his "questions"(even Frank Rich, whom I thought Tweet was going to fellate). I've gotten used to watching you chew your tongue in frustration (hoh, boy! if looks could kill!) as he poses "questions", then walks all over your attempt to answer.

So, I wonder - has he now taken to stomping on your ankles as well?

harborwoman: AH! I just watched "Journeyman" on NBC rewind at NBC dot com.
Kevin McKidd is a great actor ; he'll turn up somewhere soon.
Only 2 Journeymans left, forever.

dex...Glad you were able to find Journeyman and watch it! I'd have invited you and the missus over to watch my TiVo'd copy, but that's a heckuva long way to go for a teevee show. Can't believe they're so stupid that they're abandoning our show! Short-sighted teevee execs....

I meant to watch Saving Grace last night, but forgot. Hope I can catch it on computer...or somewhere. Jamie says it was really good....

Oh Hi, Harborwoman!
I have been sending baby congratulations out to a radio website...a cast member and his wife announced today on the show...rather odd ...I thought it was a bit, because Dan Vasser's brother's doctor-wife told Dan's brother she was pregnant on Journeyman the night before the radio show aired...but I guess it's true...I guess !

Dex are you watching soap operas?

dex...WHAT!?! Actually, I think I may understand what you said...which is scary all by itself.... I didn't realize Dan's brother had married the doctor, making her a doctor-wife. When did that happen? I still need to watch the last episode, so maybe that will get me caught up...or maybe the actress is pregnant in real life, and I'm more confused than I realize....

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I've discovered that I do have Saving Grace on Tivo...so I'm happy. I didn't miss her date with the atheist, while her angel hovers nearby....

When I die, I want to go peacefully, like my grandfather did. In his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car....

OMG is that the first you heard that joke Jan?

Ice cream!

Nope. I was just cleaning out some old papers and came across a paper it was written on, and it made me laugh...again...so I shared it with all of you. Sweet, huh???

What kind of ice cream? I'm indulging in one of my favorite Christmas treats...old-fashioned soft peppermint candy. Yummmmmmmmmmm....

B&J's Black and Tan, dark chocolate swirled with a malt flavored ice cream.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm...sounds good....

It was good, ok one more smoke and this middle aged (though still very hot. Right? Right?) is going to bed.

*smiles @ Brian*...of course, you're middle-aged....I mean still very hot. 'Night, Bri....

pretty nice mural in Alberta, Canada........

http://www.muralmosaic.com/Cochrane.html

each one foot square is a complete picture.....click on each square to see the blow-up........