Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

He'd better be, or he'll be the last black president

2 little girls just got their dog.

Craig, it feels like a lifetime ago, but it was just one year ago when I met you at the Obama rally in Laconia, New Hampshire on the first snowy night of the season. Thanks for inviting me to this list, and thanks for making the last year incredibly fun. It wouldn't have been as entertaining without Trail Mix!

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Claire, how well i remember your enthusiasm for your candidate that night, made a big impression. Congrats to you and yours!

Good night gang. Thanks for making this place such a vital community, warts and all

I was watching the election results on live stream at MSNBC and what a wonderful night it has turned out to be.

I have never been so proud of our country as I was tonight.

Good night and...

God Bless America.

Could this have broken a record for the shortest time to an acceptance speech?

McCain was gracious.

Fox Noise folks like Kristol were kind even and saying glowing things about Obama. Hell froze over on that channel.

I hope Al Franken wins.

It was a good night.

tt

"Obama's Kenyan relatives cheer win"

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j7f_yf-uBbpnhLIKnO3qpSOHszwAD948I3HG0

tt

"And all the time I'm diggin', I'm asking myself when ..... when O' Lord gonna be our time ?

Well times comin' when we gonna have to ante' up. Ante' up and kick in like men.

Like men ! "

This some good music to cry to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s44JJk1XTdE

My e-mail -

I'm about to head to Grant Park to talk to everyone gathered there, but I wanted to write to you first.

We just made history.

And I don't want you to forget how we did it.

You made history every single day during this campaign -- every day you knocked on doors, made a donation, or talked to your family, friends, and neighbors about why you believe it's time for change.

I want to thank all of you who gave your time, talent, and passion to this campaign.

We have a lot of work to do to get our country back on track, and I'll be in touch soon about what comes next.

But I want to be very clear about one thing...

All of this happened because of you.

Thank you,

Barack

I think Craig's out in the street now.

tt

I am grateful for those of you who supported Obama and his ideals -Personally, on this blog , I have been demeaned and ridiculed on levels that are not acceptable in a civil society ( but really who cares).....when I look at Obama I know his challenges have been ten-fold as difficult , yet he has won. He has beat the bigotry and social ignorance on many levels.

it's a good thing.

peace~

Our Country Won!

Obama's story is not possible anywhere else in this World.

Thank you USA.
He was not my first choice, but I have to say: I have a little bit of hope for the future!

Mr. Obama, I didn´t vote for you, but I wish you all the success. may God be your captain.......

Our Country Won!

Obama's story is not possible anywhere else in this World.

Posted by: warren | November 5, 2008 1:20 AM

Excuse me: But this is the most stupid remark I have heard in ages.....
It is possible everywhere, as long as you believe it....

warren ..................exactly

And it is a very good thing......no matter what one may think personally politically. This is a huge win for democracy.

Peace to all , we can now breath freely that another bush isn't in our future

Jason, you did not vote for president did you?

IF you don't vote you have no right to complain, or do you?

I watched all day long, with a few breaks. My bother and his wife were there just 30 yards from Obama as he spoke...I saw my sister-in-law in the crowd. It was so loud the half hour before Obama spoke my brother could no longer hear me on the cell phone. It was quite a day, quite a night...and will be a brighter day.
I lived as a teen in the 1960's and the troubles in the South deeply troubled me then. Congressman John Lewis spoke twice on msnbc last evening...very moving just to hear him speak.
At times I thought I was dreaming or maybe I had gone stark raving mad...this was really happening? It happened.
Now, Bush? Get the fuck out of Obama's house !!!

UB? Isn't Jason a resident of The Netherlands?

I'm so ferklempt!!!!

God Bless Barack Obama and God Bless America. It's time to roll up our sleeves and get this nation fixed.

We're all in this together.

sorry but phuck this guy.. I hate this prick who stole the nomination.. yes, STOLE it from Hillary..

neither of them reached the electoral vote count needed to win the nomination

he in the end only had 4 more than her.. 4!

and she won the majority vote

so who should have been the candidate?

who used illegal.. yes, ILLEGAL tactics in caucuses and primaries that the obambi loving media turned a blind eye to?

and of course if anyone didn't bow to the new messiah he and his corrupt media friends cried racism.. pathetic.. they played the race card and are still playing it--- nauseating

I hate this guy as much as I hate Bush.. you fools will see soon enough.. he is just a power hungry politician and you'll all be disappointed in the end.

remember how he voted on the illegal wire tapping?

ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS..

obambi bots are sad brainwashed fools who fell for the "hope" and "change" shit that had NO substance

makes me sick and embarrassed to be an american..
first bush and now this scumbag and that bitch he's married to.

are you going to sleep well at night knowing david axelrod is walking the halls of the white house with so much power? if you can, then you are all insane, absoluely insane.. you have no idea what you are in for.. no idea

this is a sad day for this country, our constitution and bill of rights are in the shitter.

"change" my ass-

just watch you fools.. it won't be long before you see what happens to this country

No hate will ever spoil this day. America the Beautiful.

I am a citizen of the USA,
I didn´t vote for either BO or Johnny Mac. And UB, I am not criticzing the rpesident elect or whatever.
If you carefully read what I wrote down: I said: I think this can happen anywhere in the world, referring to the comment made by Warren @ 1:20 AM

Liberal, I get your anger...But give the man a chance. He is the president elect and I will "watch" him..... never talk of hate, because it sucks away energy...

Stay true.....

sorry jason about confusing you with another man
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I have always known Obama was no Liberal any way...he was at polar opposites with Kucinich in the debates, he is a hardliner on Iran, has only vague plans to withdraw some troops from Iraq, and is a hardcore supporter of Zionism, the unwavering kind of support that likely will approve of Israeli aggression against Syria and ultimately Iran.
msnbc's Matthews & Gregory said he'll infuse new blood into D.C.---but really? He's already committed to Dick Lugar of Indiana as an advisor...how old can you get? Lugar is tired old blood.
We don't know what the hell is gonna happen, but I am pleased as punch to have Obama beat the deposed one.

..wasn't nobody home...don't have to tell this on myself...but when John Lewis spoke on TV I recalled all the goddam racism I lived with when I travelled the U.S. South in 1968 and 1969 on a bus with a baseball team that was over 3/4 Af. Americans. I saw a redneck actually pull a shotgun from a rack in a store, AIM it at my teammates and order them back to the bus!! All we needed were Moon Pies and Coca-Colas. Shit like that...making the Blacks sleep in an old chicken coop once as we whities got hotel rooms...I was 18 and I protested the deal but the Af. Ams. told me to just shut up and learn a lesson....well...I remember those nights and they all came flooding back...and tears streamed down my face like ...like....hell, I don't know...tears of bitterness, tears of joy...I kind of thought I was in a Jacob's Ladder (movie) scene for a second...was this real? Is this reality? Did this happen?

Awwww ... do I have to be a good sport about this? Seems that after 8 years of idiocracy, we at least deserve a little "In your FACE!" time with respect to the Republicans.

The last bastion of democacy and freedom has just been demolished by the election of a marxist,socialist,communist president. The USA is now a communist country.
The first to go will be freedom of speech, the second will be Isreal. I am not jewish, but I cry for Isreal.
God help the United States, it will never ever ever be the same again.

Julie -- What happened today is what Democracy looks like. Take a deep breath. It will be okay.

congratulations to the democrats''sure glad
the dems made a clean sweep of the elections
now we can blame anything and everything that
goes wrong in the next 2 to 4 years on them.

UB - you set the standard.

When my kids and I got to our polling place at 4:45 am to prepare our precinct, there were already about 100 people in line. My eldest and I were name-checkers while my youngest stayed outside with the other volunteers to help the people in line, who were growing in number as the dawn broke. Nearly every person who came in was on my targeted list. Whole families came to vote together, adult children and their parents. Lots of first-time voters. One lady as 89 years old, voting for the first time. She stood in line for two hours. At 9:30 I took my targeted list and drove it to the HQ, (the second on in my red country). I had to drive it in because the phone lines to the voter tracking service were jammed apparently in one last desperate move by the GOP to hamper our GOTV work. The HQ was a beehive of activity. Phone banks full, canvassers coming in to get turf and leaving with assignments, data entry workers setting up a room of laptops and logging on, people dropping off food, drivers getting assignments to pick up voters to take to the polls, a crew of AKA sisters dressed in pink and green -- who'd been canvassing all morning and were taking a break before their next assignments. I was asked to drive to all the other precincts to pick up the other targeted voter lists because of the phone jamming. Some of the precincts thwarted the GOP jamming efforts with blackberries that allowed them to go online and enter the data. I picked up the others and drove them into the data entry team. A few problems -- GOP voter intimidation and poll worker harrassment. One poll worker was assaulted by an angry GOP when she innocently offered him a DEM sample ballot. I got there shortly after it happened -- the sheriff had been called but the guy left as soon as he realized the cops were coming. I followed him to another polling place and let the cops know they could find there and they did. He was hanging out at the GOP table when they pulled up. He tried to deny he was at the other polling place -- but they had his description and I verified that I followed him over.

Lawyers who were volunteering their time for Protect the Vote were helpful throughout the day. We have a lawyer at every precinct -- sometimes more than one lawyer. Most were from DC (LOL) but others had traveled from NJ and NY to VA because it we were a battleground state. Lots of other help from out-of-state too -- people from Maryland and DC, NJ and NY came to be boots on the ground. So strange for me since my family and I usually picked battleground states to travel to and volunteer and now it was our turn for the help.

Huge turnout at most of the polling places. When all was said and done in my precinct, only 100 people out of 3800 did not vote. The GOP regulars I had seen over the years in all the other elections had stunned looks as they stood in line and saw all the people that had never voted before.

When the polls closed, I stayed behind to observe the results counting and finally made it home around 9:00 pm. I tapped in my earlier entry, took a sip of wine, then conked out until after 2:00 am and woke up to President Obama, Senator Warner and three new DEM Congressionals for VA. It's a new, BLUE, day in the Old Dominion.

Did exit polls really show that voters were in a bad mood? I don't get that. I smiled the whole time and would have been skipping if I could still do that. I saved my little "I voted" sticker and put it on the stubs we get - it has the date on it and should bring back some memories one day. I just stood and looked at my ballot for a minute or two - I really did vote for a black man for president. Another giant step....

John McCain's speech was spectacular - how did he do it? He wasn't obviously reading. I liked his speech better than Obama's.

So far it seems that that universal poster boy for marital
bliss, Scott Peterson, may safely marry again with the sure and certain knowledge that his marriage will be blessed if he marries a woman. His first marriage to a woman was blessed, of course, because it was to a woman, until he butchered her and their unborn child and put the bodies in a plastic bag and threw them into the bay.

But, hey, them's the rules made millenia ago by old men who spent too much time out in the desert all by themselves!

jason, thanks for the poetic collaboration yesterday.
i bet your mom and dad are all excited about your up coming homecoming. probably preparing the fatted turkey right now to pamper their prodigal phd.

dexter, your 2:54 brought back similar memories and similar emotions.

can't help think about how ole lbj and hhh must be smiling about all this.

also hauntingly comes to mind ghostly singing around civil war camp fires:

I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His day is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;

thank goodness obama was elected'' i'm so tired
of working and paying taxes'' where do i sign up for my
free government check ? time to spread the wealth.
to me

I was abit flabbergasted by the tears of Jesse J. Although I truly like the rev., I think his tears were not real... LOL

Patd, No thnx.
Yep...Most are prepared. Next Tuesday is the big day...... A bit nervous but it will be okay.... I have 7 people in fornt who will question every part of the dissertation. My mom who is a nervouw wreck told mes he will light the whole house with candles. My dad warned her not to burn it down......

Bethy, indeed Johnny Mac seemed very relaxed during his speach, Although I think Sarah P was really on the verge of crying... Really thought so by looking at her.
Barracks speech was, of course, very good.....Standard. This is his thing. Making an impression and a heavy one.

thank goodness obama was elected'' i'm so tired
of working and paying taxes'' where do i sign up for my
free government check ? time to spread the wealth.
to me

Posted by: mqw | November 5, 2008 5:37 AM

You got to be kidding mqw..... Are is it sarcasm.... LMPO....

jason'
just being sarcastic'

Damn! It looks like the Year of Change didn't include gays -- Prop 8 appears to be winning in California. I am flatly disgusted. Here's an article about the very strange billionaire behind Prop 8:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-03/the-man-behind-proposition-8/

Posted by: Liberal who hates Obama | November 5, 2008 2:00 AM

Ig'nert. If you really supported Hillary Clinton, you would NOT be calling another woman a bitch.

And if you are a LIBERAL who felt strongly about voting for a woman, you should have voted for two women of color, Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente, then applauded the Democrat who won, and leave his wife out of it.

btw, my 5:04 was not meant to bring the big g-word or religion into the discussion/celebration, but to evoke the memories of a lot of little people out there who fought hard in many ways in many walks of life, some dying for a cause, some made to suffer economically as well as physically. i wanted to take a moment in this revelry and congrats to o's hard workers to remember and thank those like the abolitionists, quakers, some brave preachers and lawyers and more that have gone forgotten in their fight to get us to this time.
their ghosts are singing to me today.

meant my 5:30 post.... what a goofball!

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2008/11/a-lesson-for-presidentelect-ba.html#comment-169189

Patsi -- I am very sad that Prop 8 did not get defeated. I have family members in CA who will be affected by this.

I don´t know who aske dtwo days ago how I looked. I forgot to post the link. But here goes

http://www.hyves.nl/index.php?l1=ut&l2=photo&l3=show&media_id=352109836&media_secret=4AF4

Congratulations to President Elect of the United States (PEOTUS), Barack Obama.

I found both John McCain's concession speech, and PEOTUS Barack Obama victory speech just magnificent. As a loyal Republican, I wish the new president much success,
as he will be everyone's president and has been granted by the American voters the opportunity to lead this country onto further greatness.

Jason -- what a cutie! And smart, too!

Well Morning Joe lectured us about how evangelicals were crying 4 years ago. And that me and my kind were mean not to share their joy 4 years ago. Joe seems to think that the last 8 years have been a success for our country. More of that same attitude that being a "C" student has the same value as Magna Cume Laude, that superstition, and reason have a place at the same table, and that Hank Williams Jr. is equal to Bruce Springstein.

Alicia -- Couples across the country will be emotionally affected by Prop 8 if it does pass....and it certainly looks like it will. Several of my female friends who are couples predicted this, and say that's why they won't even go for a civil union. Disgraceful for a state that voted for the Democratic candidate to also vote in this piece of ugly legislation.

Anselm @ 7:01
More common ground.

McCain would have won this thing if he had been that guy on stage last night in Arizona.

Anon -- I didn't take that meaning from Scarborough....about him thinking the past administration was a success. He has been highly critical of it. (But he remains a Republican....)

Divalicias

Thank-you.

Anon -- why drag music into it? I don't think Springsteen sees things that way. Some of Hank Jr's older music is great, by the way. (And I'm more into CCR than Springsteen, anyway....:)

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2008/11/a-lesson-for-presidentelect-ba.html#comment-169174

Lets see, who was it that put the Quakers on the Homeland Security Terrorist Watch List...

Oh that's right, it was the Republicans and the Bush Crime Family.

I figger if you watch Beady-Eye Scarborough then you deserve to feel the way he makes you feel......you might as well enjoy it.....

"Marijuana reform passed easily in Massachussetts and Michigan. Mass. voters agreed to decriminalization of small amounts for adult possession and medical marijuana was approved in Michigan."

President Obama --end discrimination in the drug laws and start a common sense policy --legalization and taxation!
Save money and add revenue not too mention end the legal harrassment of minoritiy communities.

So Euro Tom won the bragging rights last night. We can now give him a hard time about being an expatriat. I wonder if he will mention it on radio this morning.

"UB - you set the standard."
Posted by: bethyboo Author Profile Page | November 5, 2008 3:46 AM

Post of the Day, Bethy.

It is not just Prop 8 since there was a marriage amendment here as well and that too passed.

Biblical Law has been injected into our Laws and indeed the Evangelicals right wing of the Republican Party are truly the American Taliban.

I agree Patsi he has . But he seems to still believe that Bush is born again. Bush is pathological. Bush didn't find Jesus, Bush found a way into the governor's mansion in Texas.

Patsi,

In my minds eye I saw Jason as a somewhat pudgy, pipe-smoking, tweed-wearing, intense young man. While good, the real version is even better!

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2008/11/a-lesson-for-presidentelect-ba.html#comment-169189
'Damn! It looks like the Year of Change didn't include gays."
Good morning Patsi,Alicia,all
Sad but true.Amendment 2 passed here in Florida.I had hopes,but in reality many are not ready to extend the same rights they enjoy to gay people.I live in the real world! I was at Walmart yesterday and overheard a young Walmart worker telling a fellow employee"You don't understand what I'm saying because I don't talk Gay" all the while throwing up a limp wrist and laughing!I just gave him a discussed shake of my head and I went on about my business.I shopped all the while thinking man those two were people of color,how can they not get it!! Homophobia alive and well....

Good New Morning......

Ahhhhh

Craig - You start the new cycle with an A +

Congrats to all of the Obamaniacs here. Here's hoping that he will be as good a prez as I think Hil'ry would've been. He gave a fantastic speech and, although I don't recall the phrase right now, it was, in the spirit of the $10,000 Pyramid, something a Republican would say...so Craig, he's already on the move. The far-left didn't handle his moves to the middle very well earlier, so expect some disappointed folks on the left and relieved folks in the center. The folks on the far-right are probably fastening their chinstraps.

I think Prez Obama's radio addresses will actually draw listeners. He should give a weekly pep rally, because, although it was way beyond my bedtime due to the time change, I actually felt hopeful and for some reason, more American.

The power in my neighborhood actually went out for about a minute during McCain's concession speech.

corey - Hope that is what you wanted for your birthday. No refunds, no exchanges for 4 years.

Who won the electoral pool?

Had to chuckle at the report of W's congrats call to Obama and his "good wife." Thank you Cotton Mather.

Katherine GC -
I agree with your feelings about pot laws, but Obama won't do it. Better to let them get weakened and ignored one state at a time. If he does he'll make the same blunder Clinton made with "Don't ask Don't Tell". He can't go walking around poking at all the hornets nests that are our politics, he'll have plenty flying around his head as it is.

"Jason -- what a cutie! And smart, too!"

patsi, your comment deserves an encore. bravo jason!

"Amendment 2 passed here in Florida.I had hopes,but in reality many are not ready to extend the same rights they enjoy to gay people."

Tony, I'm so sorry to hear that. And sorry that you had to witness those two fools in Walmart. Tony, remember it's all nothing more than ignorance.

Congratulations on Obama winning though!

Anon
The Feds are the problem. In California we said by initiative we wanted pot treated differently but the Feds refuse to accomodate. The federal govt spend over 7 billion dollars a year on pot laws. The people most likely to be arrested are not old white women living in the suburbs.

This is just the kind of issue he should take on ..especially when there is support for it. Clinton's problem was trusting a maroon like Sam Nunn.

is there a link to a photo of Jason?

I did not know ET was on the Radio..... Can you stream him? or did I not understand

Jason, Is that picture of you?

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Jason, You have a great smile and wonderfully twinkling eyes.

Flatus, Did you ever get back to vote yesterday? Or did you give up.

"change" my ass-

just watch you fools.. it won't be long before you see what happens to this country.
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Hopefully it'll improve . But we've got a lot of this shit storm left to fly through.

Jason, I see all the posts, so I guess that is your picture. They're all right. You're looks match your magnificent mind.

ET on at 5:00 a.m. Seattle (8:00 east coast)

http://www.kaosradio.org

I'm with you KGC, on the need and reason's behind it. But he won't do it unless he can get James Inhofe to sponsor the bill.

Just checked the KAOS website and ET might have given the wrong time. It looks like they don't go on the air until 6:00 A.M. our time

http://kaos.evergreen.edu/programs/index.html

Congratulations to President Elect Barack Obama,
his team, his supporters--a most impressive victory.

From his accceptance speech, words to guide us all.

"In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long."

It was a good day for trains in California:
the high speed train initiative passed as did our local commuter rail measure (finally on the third try!)

We got a mixed bag on local elections and I am glad Prop 2 Humane Treatment of Farm Animals passed.

So nice to see someone who smiles with his whole being and not just with his mouth.

Anon

What is Obama going to do? There is no money! This is a good way to free up 7 billion dollars.

Chloe, we made it back at about 2:15. It was _much_ better then. I think that many people were simply unable to get their votes recorded because of the extended waiting.

I hope that Mr Obama has a wonderfully successful and productive presidency.

And, in the next couple of years, I hope that the citizens who claim the Democratic Party as their own exert the perquisites of their ownership and force the DNC to follow its rules in the nominating process for future elections; in a representative democracy, process is what makes the workings of government credible and worthy of public support.

Were you able to get to the polls and do your duty?

"As a loyal Republican, I wish the new president much success, as he will be everyone's president and has been granted by the American voters the opportunity to lead this country onto further greatness."

Anselm Beautifully said.

Coleman is ahead by 762 votes with 99% reporting.

"Were you able to get to the polls and do your duty?"

Yes Flatus. We went last week and were in and out in just a few minutes.

And, may I say I agree with what you said: "And, in the next couple of years, I hope that the citizens who claim the Democratic Party as their own exert the perquisites of their ownership and force the DNC to follow its rules in the nominating process for future elections; in a representative democracy, process is what makes the workings of government credible and worthy of public support."

Whisker's difference in Minn. Senate race

Associated Press - November 5, 2008 7:34 AM ET

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The finish line isn't in sight yet for Minnesota's long Senate campaign.

Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken appear to be headed for an automatic recount. The vote count is nearly complete, and Coleman holds a tiny 900-vote edge of nearly 2.9 million votes cast.

That's well within the threshold to trigger an automatic recount.

One bad thing about the high voter turnout due to the youth vote: Fewer dry towns in Texas. Every town that has become wet has had an increase in crime & domestic violence...they may get more revenue from the sale of alcohol, but it puts a strain on the police not to mention the human toll for victims. Not happy about this one.

Nicole Kidman is ahead? What? Why do I always read Norm's name wrong?

"I hope that Mr Obama has a wonderfully successful and productive presidency. "

Oh, and I fully agree with this too. :)

I'm awake...... I think.....

what a night..... witnessing history is a exhilerating.....

I agree..... McCain gave a most gracious concession speech.... and I did feel sorry for him....

now on to the hard work..... and I for one.... will be glad to see Obama move more to the center....

Jason..... you are a beam of light!

Prop 2 Humane Treatment of Farm Animals passed.

Amazing, we have to treat caged chickens better, but 2 guys can't get married.

"Not happy about this one."

It was bound to happen though blue, Chuck it up to progress.

"Amazing, we have to treat caged chickens better, but 2 guys can't get married."

I see what you're saying, but one has nothing to do with the other, does it?

Mornin' all.

So who won?

pogo....
ROFL!

From the Onion -
Carrying a majority of the popular vote, Obama did especially well among women and young voters, who polls showed were particularly sensitive to the current climate of everything being fucked. Another factor contributing to Obama's victory, political experts said, may have been the growing number of Americans who, faced with the complete collapse of their country, were at last able to abandon their preconceptions and cast their vote for a progressive African-American.

Citizens with eyes, ears, and the ability to wake up and realize what truly matters in the end are also believed to have played a crucial role in Tuesday's election.

"I love you both so much, and you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the White House,"

Here's hoping they go to the pound.

Julie Young's crazy remark that Obama is a marxist, socialist, communist had me laughing out loud. She forgot to add anti-family, criminal, gay-loving, vegan, pro-abortion, Muslim, anti-American, racist, pro-terrorist, anti-Christian chardonnay & brie-lover. In the end, this is all that republicans have to give America and the world : mean-spirited name-calling.

I'll tell you what Obama really is. He's The Teflon President.

The Phills won the World Series, Obama was elected president. Hasn't the last month been utterly lovely ?

" Bush didn't find Jesus, Bush found a way into the governor's mansion in Texas."

Truer words were never spoken, Anon....I never once bought that born-again crap from Bush. It was the same as his ranch purchased in 1999 and "cowboy" image. What a load.

Oh, I see it was Obama. Something about this seems historic - oh, I know what it is - an African American will occupy for the first time the people's house, which was built by African Americans. I think John Adams is smiling in his grave.

I kept it really simple for my blog today

http://jdurward.blogspot.com/2008/11/first-family.html

Real clear politics has a nice page set up on the election results and a collection of varying editorials - a condensed version.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/

We all harbor some forms of prejudices and/or hatreds which extend far beyond those of sex and race.

Although we would like to believe America could abolish such practices, such an accomplishment would be a first in
recorded human history. It is an unlikely goal, as each one of us first has to admit and accept we have such failings.
But it is worth pursuing even if you fail trying.

I see what you're saying, but one has nothing to do with the other, does it?

Only as a metaphor chloe, only as a metaphor.

Oh, wait. I see the Phillies won. Sorry, Renee - I had picked the Sox before the CSs.

"I'll tell you what Obama really is. He's The Teflon President."

I thought Ronald Reagan already owned that term, X....

Anselm -

What ever your smoking this morning ... send me some, and I suspect KGC will want some too.

So have Missouri and North Carolina been decided as yet? We can't officially give ET the prize until they come in.

I'll tell you who I feel sorriest for - the janior in the Senate Office Building. He's going to lose that little broom closet in the basement as a place to store his cleaning equipment. I hear they're clearing it out for Lieberman's new office.

well......any odds on how long before the weight of the same old right wing attack machine bears down upon the new president the same way it did with Mr and Mrs Clinton? I figure they should be in full attack mode by late December........ya can't keep a no-good scaife down, ya know...........

"Only as a metaphor chloe"

That's exactly what bothered me about it anon.
I was left wondering if you would have felt better if we were mean to the caged animals too. To make a point.

"It is an unlikely goal, as each one of us first has to admit and accept we have such failings.
But it is worth pursuing even if you fail trying."

I agree Anselm. It's hard to change something about ourselves that we won't even admit exists. Won't admit, or as you say, aren't even aware of.

jamie - not yet. Obama is ahead in NC & IN and behind in MO. If the margins hold (and MO is the only one that's close enough to really expect to switch) the count will be 364-174. The % will be 52-47. (+/- 1)

Chloe

It is ironic that many voters think it is less acceptable to injure an animal than it is to injure a gay couple.

Whether it is Physical or mental, it is still the willingness to inflict pain.

"I figure they should be in full attack mode by late December."

Ha, What makes you think it'll take that long Sturge? :)

"any odds on how long before the weight of the same old right wing attack machine bears down upon the new president"

sturge, or the late night comics? bet they'll concentrate chewing on the vp first.

Pogo -
As for thinking about the builders of the White House & Adams, I was thinking last night that the Battle of Antietam finally had purchased the full measure of it's cost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeE-EMfH-kQ&feature=related

I totally agree Jamie. But 2 wrongs don't make a right.

You have to remember that these people don't know how wrong they are though. I'm all for gay marriage. I'm also for kindess to animals and many other things. One has nothing to do with the other.

"I was left wondering if you would have felt better if we were mean to the caged animals too. To make a point."

Chloe, I thought Anon was saying that it's strange that the same state that demands decent treatment of animals would also vote for disgraceful treatment of a segment of the population. But whatever -- that Prop 8 vote still shocks me, given that the state went for Obama.

Anselm, we agree fully on one thing - abolishing prejudice &/or hatred - beyond sex & race - is an unlikely goal. I really don't think that's one of Obama's goals, although his election is certainly a comment on progress in the U.S. toward lessened prejudice based on race. It ain't everything, but it does suggest that we as a nation are changing.

Good morning all! Looks like there is some happy people around here! I know I'm pleased that reefer is decrimnalized in Ma and we'll see the end of dog racing!

"it's strange that the same state that demands decent treatment of animals would also vote for disgraceful treatment of a segment of the population"

Completely true Patsi. It's all about ignorance.

Posted by: Anon | November 5, 2008 8:22 AM
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I support Local farmers

Story: PETA's attack brings sad end to Mepkin Abbey's egg enterprise (Saturday, December 22, 2007)
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http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/dec/22/petas_attack_brings_sad_end_mepkin_abbey25679/

Patsi,

I am sure you are aware that babybush is scared crapless of horses. That particular 'cowboy' rides the trail on a golf cart.

I have no doubt that babybush is a born-again. I also believe that he suffers from delusions. I believe that his stories of Jesus coming to him in the middle of the night to issue orders indicate a disordered mind. This is the only reasonable explanation for the Mad-Hatter-on-a-rampage quality of governance over the last 7 5/6 years that I can come up with.

Chloe -
Sorry my compassion for chickens just ain't up this morning, maybe after I smoke whatever Anselm is having.

ROFL! Murtha just won't shut up. Here's what he said about winning his election last night:

"You keep sending me back regardless of what I say," Murtha said.

sturg....
no..... indeed it won't take long for the RNM to be in full-blown attack mode....

how can we expect change, as Anselm so eloquently put it.... if we don't do it to ourselves....

~~~~~ hell.... reading the blog this morning..... change has definitely come here.... ~~~~~~

"Sorry my compassion for chickens just ain't up this morning"

That's ok anon. You're doing swell in the sarcasm department though. Thanks.

sorry......the excerpt i copied was mangled and truncated......here's a bit:

PETA's attack brings sad end to Mepkin Abbey's egg enterprise
Saturday, December 22, 2007

The monks at Mepkin Abbey have supported their contemplative lives for 40 years largely by supplying eggs to local grocery stores. No more. The abbey has succumbed to a campaign undertaken last year by the animal-rights activist group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Too bad.

In announcing its decision to phase out its operation over the next year and a half, a Mepkin spokesman said PETA's campaign had become a distraction to the Trappist community: "While the monks are sad to give up work that has sustained them for many years, a hard and honorable work of which they are proud, the pressure from PETA has made it difficult for them to live their quiet life of prayer, work and sacred reading."

Clearly, that's what PETA had in mind when it started its high-profile campaign last year. Ironically, Mepkin Abbey has been a major benefactor for environmental preservation in Berkeley County.

Among PETA's stated ideals is the contention that animals are "not ours to use for food, clothing, experimentation or entertainment." Based on that position, PETA would likely view any egg-laying operation as animal exploitation and fair game. But throughout the campaign against Mepkin, the local response has been and continues to be almost fully in support of the monks and their work, and opposed to PETA's methods and conclusions.

What happened with that election the other day? Did Ron Paul win?

The atate of California passed legislation forbidding the use of raw eggs in restaurants because of the frequent outbreaks of salmonella --caused by unhealthy conditions in chicken raising -as well as humane treatment is is also safer and healthier for the consumer.

Sturg

There is a world of difference between Peta and Prop 2
not the same at all

"I have no doubt that babybush is a born-again. I also believe that he suffers from delusions. I believe that his stories of Jesus coming to him in the middle of the night to issue orders indicate a disordered mind. "

I don't know, X -- I do think he's delusional....but his conversion came at an awfully opportune time.

And as one who comes from cowboy country, I've always been disgusted at Bush's weasley attempt to "saddle up and pass."

champ..... so good to see you!
where you been?.... and how are you?....

hope you saw your Phillies take the title......

Horsey -

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/horsey/viewbydate.asp?id=1855

KGC.....roger that......I was just offering a related subject.......chickens......the chicken subject triggered my memory of the Abbey and shutting down the egg deal......

Champ, Solar was just asking about you yesterday (I think it was). I told him I thought you were in Hawaii.

Sturg

Maybe the monks should have compromised with Peta and stopped "debeaking the chickens" that sounds gross.

Or alternatively especially under Prop 2 the Monks would be very welcome in California

Anon, you'll have to tell me what the link is to - I can't open youtube at work, although I gather it is about Antietam.

One interesting facet of this election - if you go back to 1992 and look at the electoral college results, the only states that Obama won that have not voted Dem at least once in that period are: Virginia (with a possiblility of Indiana. While I am thrilled the Dem candidate won, I don't see the transformational election that was forecast. But if you look beyond the electoral map and to the demos of the votes, perhaps so. Along age lines, McCain won only among seniors (65 & older) - by 8%. Obama won on his margins in the 18-44 y.o. demo groups. I can't take the time to research it, but I'm guessing that is a first.

A new President. A new day! I for one am looking forward not backward. Progressives can still push for a more humane government from the top down after eight years of Bush/Cheney! Hello Obama; goodbye Bush!

pogo,

I wasn't talking so much about PEOTUS Obama's goals, as I was thinking in term of our individuals goals.

The Phillies are the World Champs and Ron Paul is the President-Elect. Life is good.

"I was thinking in term of our individuals goals. "

Which is the only place we have any 'real' control.

KGC -- We had chickens when I was a kid -- and while they can be vile animals, I grew quite fond of them. So for me, it would have been a vote to protect animals that I considered pets of a sort.

We were talking yesterday about a certain sexist term that I'd been unaware of...and that, coupled with "chicken talk" reminds me of a family saying:

"You're awfully close to peeing on a chicken."

Story: When my grandmother was a child, one of her brothers thought it was funny to stick his weiner through a hole in the wooden fence around the chicken yard. He then peed in the direction of the chicks. One day one of those hens damn near pecked his dick off. Hence, be careful of peeing on the chickens.

Patsi....
OMG...... that story is toooooooooo funny!
ROFL!

Wait a second... Obama won?! Didn't see that one comin'.

Well, this is awkward.

LOL Patsi. I love your stories!

Anselm I didn't take you to mean those were Obama's goals - and I doubt that they are.

Well, folks, election's over - I gota get back to work. Later.

PEOTUS Obama will have to govern more from the center, which is going to place him in the cross hairs not of the Right, but of the Left.

It is hard to tell. Will the most liberal US Senator, who ran a pretty centrist campaign for president, now revert back to the Left. That is the one question you will hear from the news media, how will he run, we know so little about him.

Patsi

That is a funny story. So many possibilities for a moral.

My Bright Side, this Election is finally over, and I hope to the dear lord, the two political partys never put the country through 2 years of campaigning again. I am Marking my words and Girding my Loins. I lived through the Carter Administration, I will survive an Obama Administration. When the "Enchanted's Spell wears off" and they figure out what they did, I suspect they will feel a lot like I do today...when I was able to vote for the first time, I voted for Jimmy Carter, why -Watergate, I had a knee jerk reaction. Today I realize how un wise that vote was....CRA started in the Carter Administration, got bumped up in the Clinton Administration and the last Bush Administration suffered the Economic fall out. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Unlike many, this Presidential Election wasn't about Race for me...it was about an extreme Liberal agenda. That is getting ready to kick off in January. My husband just told me, he is hoping now that he is elected, he will tell the far left, I am going to Govern as a centerist...somehow I don't see that happening, Obama is beholden to who got him elected - Chicago.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason
--cs lewis

Im not up on the animal treatment deal......I dont understand it except that the sheer volume of food required to put out to 80 quadrillion grocery stores around the country would necessarily entail a good bit of discomfort and mal-treatment of the animals involved........I leave it to those who are concerned about animal treatment to dig into it and do the right thing, righting any wrongs they are able to right.......

whatever denies the rights of gays to marry is primitive, and sickening........and again, just as I escaped being a racist by reading the words of the declaration of independence and finding that they made sense to me and applying them to my life and dealings with the humans I have to deal with....(all men are created equal).....I reach the same conclusion about gays marrying......also as a young man I wound up playing music in some really dive bar situations the denizens of which represented all manners and degrees of sexuality and so figured all that out early on.....that's my personal view: all men and women are created equal.
Chickens? god bless 'em, I hope they get as good a treatment as caring people are able to procure for them. I still remember that book way back about the meat-packing industry which resulted in reforms, and things like the army meat procurers in the civil war getting rich by selling tainted meat to the army etc.....the mind wanders......

Chloe -
RE :
Sarcasm -
1. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes.

http://www.tensionnot.com/jokes/one_liner_jokes/sarcastic_sayings

"all men and women are created equal."

Hear! Hear! Sturge.

A LA Times news story which ask the same question. How will he govern?

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-president5-2008nov05,0,323247.story

ROFL@Anon

Patsi,

I owned cattle once upon a time, but it never made a cowboy out of me. Clearly, the guy had to live somewhere, and the marketing department thought that a ranch would be useful. Having a ranch worked well for Cactus Jack, LBJ, Ronald Reagan, Tony Alamo, David Koresh, and Charles Manson.

I think the word 'weasley' sizes up the rest of the crime family quite well. It reminds me of the the ifestation at Toad Hall. However, I would select 'squirrelly' for little george, because weasels are fearless creatures, whereas the squirt in the White House is afraid of every shadow and noise. I have too much respect for loons to use 'loony' when characterizing babybush's behavior.

Don't know if Hipster is out there anywhere....but if so, I want to say that I'm really sorry about Georgia -- I know you had hopes in the state, and I was pulling for you.

Anon, This is silly.
I was talking only about your being sarcastic to me about chickens not being worth thinking about.

This whole thing started with me 'simply' saying one had nothing to do with the other. That's the way I see it.

Now if that bothers you, I'll take it back. It's not worth arguing over any longer. I'm sorry I interfered with your metaphor.

That was a pretty funny line, chloe. Gotta give it to him/her. Hello, by the way.

I don't think Anon directed that comment at you Chloe...I think he was just being funny....but if you WERE taking aim, Anon -- watch it....

Chloe -
RE :
Sarcasm -
1. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes.

You mean this one wasn't for me?

Some of the artists of the 60's are revising their hits with new lyrics to accommodate aging baby boomers.

They include:

Bobby Darin ---
Splish, Splash, I Was Havin' a Flash.

Herman's Hermits ---
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Walker .

Ringo Starr ---
I Get By With a Little Help From Depends.

The Bee Gees -- -
How Can You Mend a Broken Hip.

Roberta Flack---
The First Time Ever I Forgot Your Face.

Johnny Nash ---
I Can't See Clearly Now.

Paul Simon---
Fifty Ways to Lose Your Liver

The Commodores ---
Once, Twice, Three Times to the Bathroom.

Marvin Gaye ---
Heard It Through the Grape Nuts.

Procol Harem---
A Whiter Shade of Hair.

Leo Sayer ---
You Make Me Feel Like Napping.

The Temptations ---
Papa's Got a Kidney Stone.
Abba---
Denture Queen.

Tony Orlando ---
Knock 3 Times On The Ceiling If You Hear Me Fall.

Helen Reddy ---
I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore.

Leslie Gore---
It's My Procedure, and I'll Cry If I Want To.

And Last but NOT least:

Willie Nelson ---
On the Commode Again

Sorry, I seem to be on the wrong brave wave this morning.

Sorry. I'm outa here.
Have a good day everyone! :)

Here is such an issue that PEOTUS Obama might be faced with. Government control of your 401K, IRA, pension plans etc.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122477680834462659.html

This is a Left idea, and I can not see how he would go along with such an idea.

Sturg

You made me spit coffee on my screen!

Pogo -
It's the first 7 min. of Glory. No other movie has ever done so well at portraying the Civil War as if must have been.

The accounts of the men leaning into the hail of bullets as though it was a driving rain.

I wish Shelby Foote could have seen this, no doubt he would have given us words to remember.

then my work here is done......lol

prof. deborah dickerson is coming on Imus at 9:30....she is great........

“I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.”

-Jack Handy

"Willie Nelson ---
On the Commode Again "

HA! Sturge -- heard him say on his last birthday that he'd finally outlived his dick....

Missouri just went for McCain.

Damn, I thought we would flip it this time. But we got very very close. Oh well, the big picture came out ok and that is what really matters.

amazing...

we are free of the republican rule. Elevated terroism alerts and elevated blood pressure have eased...all in a day. GWB, we have shown you the door and I hope the next eleven weeks keeps you calm and BHO safe.

prof. deborah dickerson is coming on Imus at 9:30....she is great........

Yes she is, but she was already on this morning. Imus must be bringing her back, or they are re-playing her earlier appearance. At any rate she is a very interesting, informative, and impressive person.

I left last night's dinner pissed off at my family. I went to bed mad. I'm still a little bit grumpy about last night.

HEY CHLOE !!!

I want my shoes back !

That's the great thing about family, Corey. You can piss each other off, and they'll still feed you.

Patsi -

18. There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.

Blonde wino,

Not so quick there. Bush maybe on the way out, but he isn't out just yet, and he can pretty much do as he wishes even as a lame duck president. He could call for other attacks in Syria, or do a preemptive strike in Iran. I said he could without Congress's approval, but I doubt if he would. But then again we are taking about Bush, and with his approval rating so far down he has very little to lose.

Poll what should Sarah Palin do now.

http://www.sarah-palin-2008.blogspot.com/

"Sorry, I seem to be on the wrong brave wave this morning.

Sorry. I'm outa here."

Don't go, Chloe....you are always a bright spot!

Lyrics re-examined by an aging boomer now seem to hold different, sometimes sinister, meanings :

One pill makes you bigger...

Can't help myself...

I'm as helpless as a kitten...

...the mud and the blood and the bier.

Are you sleeping ? Are you sleeping ?

Chloe,

My little fighter.

It is ok I understand how you feel this morning, but tomorrow will be different, they always are.

anselm...I think he is also drinking again...as I stated, I hope he remains calm during the next eleven weeks. He has a lot of paper shredding to do....

and to Prez-elect Obama, yes, you did.

Poll what should Sarah Palin do now?

Invite some of the Liberal news media elitists out on a hunt for about 1 week. Lets see how perky and condescending they come back.

I've thought Bush was on the sauce for quite a while, BlondeW....and not in a good way.....like a nice glass of Chardonnay....

The last bastion of democacy and freedom has just been demolished by the election of a marxist,socialist,communist president. The USA is now a communist country.
The first to go will be freedom of speech, the second will be Isreal. I am not jewish, but I cry for Isreal.
God help the United States, it will never ever ever be the same again.

Posted by: Julie Young | November 5, 2008 3:06 AM

Julie, and you said you were a democrat? ROTFLMFAO !!!!!

Too bad, you snooze, you lose. You can always emigrate to Canada...

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2008/11/a-lesson-for-presidentelect-ba.html#comment-169206

Did I have the closest prediction ???

As for Palin, she also has chanters in her corner...they were evident during McCain's concession speech last night. She is a celebrity. Rove on Faux News discussing modernizing the republican party...may drop the evangelicals as the religious burden is too much for the party to bear. A broken party, for the moment, for sure.

The power ball is now in the dems hands.

But a new politics of the common good can’t be only about government and markets. “It must also be about a new patriotism — about what it means to be a citizen,” said Sandel. “This is the deepest chord Obama’s campaign evoked. The biggest applause line in his stump speech was the one that said every American will have a chance to go to college provided he or she performs a period of national service — in the military, in the Peace Corps or in the community. Obama’s campaign tapped a dormant civic idealism, a hunger among Americans to serve a cause greater than themselves, a yearning to be citizens again.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/opinion/05friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2008/11/a-lesson-for-presidentelect-ba.html#comment-169194

OMG Jason is that really YOU???? You don't swing both ways do you??? NOw I want to go watch further episodes of Noah's Arc...the gay tv series

Anon - I saw it with LP - terrific movie, great message.

The day after: Obama was not my choice six months ago; but he won me over. I've read, listened to and absorbed political nonsense and even some dignfied commentaries and I've concluded Barack Obama should be the next President of the United States. I've voted and this time it feels so good to have voted for the winner. It feels good to be an American today and America has just voted the first black man to be the leader of our country and indeed the world. The World looks on and smiles.

I think he is also drinking again

I don't think he is drinking, but I do think these last 8 years has been an emotional drain, and that is what we are seeing.

I will be on the radio in 40 minutes... you can listen on http://www.kaosradio.org

Was anyone watching Fox this morning when they were reporting about the crowd that gathered outside of the White House last night?

They were saying that the crowd was chanting things like "YES WE CAN" and"OBAMA". All this while they were showing a close up of the crowd which was actually yelling "Go home Bush, Go home Bush", and some were making gestures toward the camera!! They aren't even being careful to hide the bias these days.

Not that FOX was ever really careful.

patsi...Bush is back on wild turkey and the catholics did not vote their conscience -- you called that one! New Mexico is back to blue.

Not that FOX was ever really careful.

And MSNBC was? But their morning news show, is like all the other morning shows. They all have agendas they want to get across.

The 2 month long silence about Iran and Venezuela failed to acheive the intended effect at the ballot box. This morning I saw an ad on the internet that was recruiting support for a dust-up with Iran. I haven't noticed any of this crud since Labor Day. Just like 4 years ago, we will hear saber rattling of war and rumors calculated to make the markets nervous and boost the price of oil back up to $100.

ET,

You have a radio show? Is this something in addition to the gas station? Is this a call-in show? If so what is the phone number.

Didn't say anything about msnbc being careful. CNN is far more to the middle than the other two, IMO. And they have thier moments. I like to look at all sources these days. Then you start to see a bigger picture.

true, CNN reported the same thing about the mall crowd.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/05/us.reaction/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

CNN seldom reports things the same as Fox. Both you and the newsies could be right.

By the way Craig,

I agree. Obama's has always planned to govern for the people. So I'd say we are going to stop saying

Right, Left, and center little by little because it will not be as important anymore. I think this way Add Nauseum will go by way of the history books.

Clarence Creedwater: There's a bathroom on the right.......

New thread/rant at The Mitchell Blog

39...With A Chip On My Shoulder

http://themitchellblog.blogspot.com/

There is no new post up yet on the Blues Crab Blog

http:/bluescrab.blogspot.com/

just keeping you posted.........

Pogo--

Yes I heard that last night. I was just talking about the footage FOX was showing this morning. Not only could you see their lips moving but you could faintly hear the chant in the background. The look on the anchors face suggested to me that she knew it too. I'm thinking that maybe someone qued up the wrong piece of footage for the segment.

ET,

Which show is it?
Pacifica's The Writer's Voice
Rookie Radio featuring KAOS trainees

sturgeone -

Keep up the good work .

Steppenwolf -

Born to be mild

ET

The server is down

anselm...GWB looks 'purty hung over'.

Blonde wino

Everyone has their demons.

anselm, exactly!

Sturge, get to it man!

I really like the idea of 2 little girls wondering around the White House.

I have a feeling George Bush has demons of a monolithic nature.

I really like the idea of 2 little girls wondering around the White House

You know that is not a bad image to project. Last president to have children about their ages was JFK, and those pictures brought a sense of happiness.

To early to drink, so I think I'll head over to AC.

Bye all.

The election selection of Obama really drives home the point for term limits. If we are able to elect a prez with relatively little experience, in hope of changing the world, it may bring the idea of term limits to the light. Do we really need lifelong politicians to run our country? Do the McCains, Kennedys, Bidens, Clintons, etc., really help the American people or their own careers? Experience or demeanor? Is policy more important than people?

Maybe he's demon-possessed. Can we get Rev Hagee to perform an exorcism ?

LOL Thnx peeps...
ET, No I don´t.....

I am gonna repeat a question that I put out in the morning:
Was Sarah Palin on the verge of crying this morning? I thought she was going to crack any moment. I think she worked her heart out for Johnny Mac and thought it would be much closer.....
But, I saw her watery eyes and I felt sad for her..... Poor woman.

Obama was showing off just a bit last night with the Latin translations

E Pluribus Unum - Out of many one

and

Dum spiro, spero - While I breathe I hope

I think the blog is gonna become even more interesting, now after the election.....

I hope you don´t get angry at me for posting these questions....But today ducth radio had another one: Should BO (again) pass on HRC for a cabinet post......

72% said: he should considder her
28% said: he shouldn´t
I am with the 28%

How bad was it for Republicans this year? Read this!

http://www.freep.com/article/20081105/NEWS15/311050004/1009/NEWS07

Well Jason, I am sure you will make or do make a woman happy, or heck, maybe more than one !! LOL...

Sorry, but you are eye candy, excuse me for saying so

xrep

http://www.alternet.org/election08/99118/sarah_palin_linked_her_electoral_success_to_prayer_of_kenyan_witch_hunter/

bush can borrow omache for his demons...kenya sure is the center of the universe this year!

I read something today in the ducth paper, that made me sit for a second and be happy....

It went on like this:

Rosa SAT.....so that Martin could MARCH. Martin MARCHED... so that Obama could RUN. Obama RAN......so that our kids can FLY !

I hope this turns into reality

Well folks, I have just finished my discussion on KAOS radio. Everything went sort of south because their schedule was mixed up and I was thrown in earlier than I thought.

I did mention the Cqpolitics blog and invited everyone to participate, and I also mentioned my myspace profile, but then I couldn't remember what the name of it was, meaning I couldn't remember "MY SPACE" .. LOL

If anyone got to hear it, glad to know and I am wasted !!!

Well Jason, I am sure you will make or do make a woman happy, or heck, maybe more than one !! LOL...

Sorry, but you are eye candy, excuse me for saying so

Posted by: Eurotom | November 5, 2008 10:43 AM

Well, I can´t seem to hold onto them. The ones I bump into have either ran away with someone else or damn near bankrupted me.... I focus on my studies and my career now.

Hello Anselm... I used to be Development Director for KAOS radio, and worked there for 9 years. I was asked to be on the Breakfast Special program to provide a expat's perspective on the election.

http://www.myspace.com/eurotom

"....Mad-Hatter-on-a-rampage quality of governance over the last 7 5/6 years" xrep, perfect picture!

"we are taking about Bush, and with his approval rating so far down he has very little to lose..."

anselm, you spoke of the shrub doctrine's preemptive strike tendencies. how about the senario of preemptive pardons for the nasty neocons? can't you see w pardoning the dick, then taking temporary leave, swearing the dick in to pardon w, taking back the reins and going forth to do more evil until jan 20?

High court conservatives favor indecency rule
U.S. Solicitor General says the strict regulation of broadcast TV preserves a 'safety zone' for families with children.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-scotus5-2008nov05,0,5166091.story

I'm so glad they're going to draw the line between dung and shit.
Where is Carlin now that we really need him.

Anselm - there's one lyric that doesn't need to be changed for us aging boomers - in fact suggesting that it be changed is blasphemy IMHO - and it's applicable now fo ryou...

It's 5 o'clock somewhere.

jason, i agreee with you about no cabinet position. hrc can do greater things in the senate. for one, driving the universal health care cause (particulary important if teddy can't be there).

MOSCOW, Nov. 5, 2008 (Reuters) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pledged on Wednesday to station new missiles near Poland's border in response to U.S. plans for an anti-missile system and proposed extending the presidential term to six years from four.

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4a46t8-us-russia-medvedev-1/

I wonder if Palin saw that from her house ?

MOSCOW, Nov. 5, 2008 (Reuters) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pledged on Wednesday to station new missiles near Poland's border in response to U.S. plans for an anti-missile system and proposed extending the presidential term to six years from four.

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4a46t8-us-russia-medvedev-1/

Posted by: Anon | November 5, 2008 11:02 AM

Here we go Anon, Here we go.......

speaking of palin, if stevens takes his colleagues' advice and steps down, will she appoint herself as his replacement? if yes, when does she run again? if not, who? todd the pipeline guy?

I leave you with a video...

http://www.chilloutzone.de:80/files/08102703.html

...there is always hope for a safe landing even without two wings!

Last night, heard three netcasts about efforts that will be made to pry loose certified hardcopy BCs and other documents from SoetorObama before the Electoral College meets on December 15. Electors who care about the Constitution will get involved in this search for the TRUTH.

What is he hiding from the American people? Is he Constitutionally eligible?
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"Electors are technically free to vote for anyone eligible to be President, ..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Electoral_College

Analysis: Shell-Iraq gas deal a monopoly
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 05, 2008

A secret agreement obtained by United Press International reveals a planned joint venture company between Royal Dutch Shell and the Iraqi Oil Ministry would give the company a 25-year monopoly on the gas industry of southern Iraq.

http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/Analysis_Shell-Iraq_gas_deal_a_monopoly_999.html

GORDO, you get more pathetic with each post. You are unbelievable!

I have an idea. Maybe there's a left over "Sputnik" that you can climb into and go even further into orbit.

patd -

No Alaska changed it's law , they have to have a special election. It seems when the last gov. appointed his daughter, even the Alaskans said no.
It'll be good drama ... I don't think Stevens will be seated even if he wins.

more ?? on senate appointments. will the delaware gov appoint beau biden, del's atty gen, to fill his dad's seat as was suggested this summer? if so, will the military cut short his duty and when will he have to run in a special election?

anon, in some states there is an interim appointment until the special election. is this not also the case in ak? do they go seatless until the spl elec when an unexpected vacancy happens?

Blonde wine-

Nice catch.

Yup, she should stay put in the senate. That be good. There are some mumblings about secretayr of state.... YUK! Although that was, I guess, a promise to Bill Richardson who did deliver NM to him...
We´´l just have to wait and see. Yesterday howvere Hillary did say, that BO woill be making some major decissions on cabinet posts very soon.

When is the funeral for BO´s granny? Will she be laid to rest in Hawaii?

Patd -

The rules are up to each state . I saw something about this maybe @ TMP.

If what some say that Obama would not have won if it wasn't for the financial melt down-----then i say $ well spent, since it was spread around, and that it also include the very rich( since it effected them also) that could not see a loop hole in this one. Regardless of what obama does,,,his nomination opens up the way for others to follow, if the Dems can get us back to a position close to where we were before bush,,,,then this period of financial woes is worth it--no??
For now less $ to go around,less in our 401ks etc, etc, money well spent for the future of all?? like always time will tell----now that the elections are over its time to work.

Patse---after reading your chicken story i had to Run to the bathroom, and had to do a clean up after messing the floor, i could not hold a steady stream, and my aim was off and wet the floor, cos i was laughing so hard-----another fine mess u got me into---thanks a lot.

jason, i hope the funeral is in hawaii, private and secure. and that the whole family takes some well deserved rest there in hawaii after attending it. msm should let them be for a while. we all need a breather.

Musgrave unseated by Markey -

http://www.denverpost.com/nationalpolitics/ci_10900583

Musgrave was sort of a Michell Bachmann lite.

Hey Corey, I can understand your frustration over the book you received, but I think it was given out of love and not meant to be an insult. It may have lacked correct sensitivity but I hope you consider that your family love you and thought they were being helpful.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY one day late...

Tom

Jason---there hardly anything that u post that i disagree with----but i hope that god is not Obamas guiding light ,, what if he chooses his god and not one of the other 499,,i think that he should just do what is right for the country, thru the new power that he is going to have in the sen.and cong.???

Anon, Stevens will be seated ... and investigated ... and censured ... and possible ejected. Should provide good political theatre at the expense of the Rep. party. I hope it takes 2 years.

I understand that Franken has asked for a recount.

As best I can tell, if Obama gets NC=15 & NE(2th) = 1, then his total is 365. Otherwise without NE it's 364.

Sheila is on 365, UB & Cherryice are on 364.

for anybody like me interested in laws gov'g interim appointments, here's some info:

http://lieberman.senate.gov/documents/crs/vacancieshouse&senate.pdf

Patd _
CQ says ......

Stevens’ stunning showing at the polls has lent a sense of urgency to questions about whether his Senate colleagues will discipline him, perhaps as soon as the Nov. 17 lame-duck session.

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Ensign , R-Nev., said the Senate likely would hold a two-thirds vote on whether to expel Stevens before his appeal is resolved. “I don’t think it would wait until afterward,” Ensign said.

Majority Leader Harry Reid , D-Nev., said Saturday that Stevens would “face an ethics committee investigation and expulsion, regardless of his appeals process,” but Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated Stevens likely would be expelled only after his appeals are exhausted.

ET,

I just caught the last 10 minutes. Heard the plug for TM.You sounded good, whatever that means ;-)

11/5

"The 2nd Congressional District, which includes Omaha, remains too close to call, with John McCain leading President-elect Barack Obama by 569 votes. And 9,000 provisional and early ballots are still uncounted, reports the Omaha World-Herald."

http://www.newser.com/story/41819/electoral-vote-in-nebraskas-2nd-district-still-up-for-grabs.html

Another one for the chipper -

Louisiana’s Jefferson Poised to Win

Jefferson, who has denied wrongdoing, led Helena Moreno, a local television journalist, by 57 percent to 43 percent with all precincts reporting.

Despite his legal travails, Jefferson is highly likely to win re-election Dec. 6 against Republican lawyer Joseph Cao in a district that is a black-majority Democratic bastion. Jefferson’s trial is tentatively scheduled to begin Dec. 2, but that date will almost certainly slip.

Tuesday’s runoff election was needed because the first-round primary voting on Oct. 4 produced no clear winner, with Jefferson taking 25 percent of the vote and Moreno taking 20 percent in a seven-candidate race.

Louisiana’s primary elections originally were scheduled Sept. 6, with runoffs to follow Oct. 4, but the election schedule was postponed because of Hurricane Gustav.

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Louisiana is proof positive why you shouldn't marry your 1st cousin.

11/5

The official outcome in North Carolina will depend the counting of provisional ballots, cast by voters whose eligibility to vote must be confirmed. That's a process that could take several days. It wasn't immediately known how many provisional ballots are outstanding.

With 100 percent of the nearly 3,000 precincts reporting, Obama led McCain by about 12,000 votes out of more than 4.2 million counted in unofficial results. Libertarian Bob Barr had less than 1 percent.

http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1281670.html

ROFL -- Lieberman and Hatch fear for America...

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/04/lieberman-caucus-dems/

Do SoetorObama supporters truly believe that he is Constitutionally eligible for POTUS? Apparently, they have doubts and just don't care about the Constitution. You fear what would be revealed by the release of certified hardcopy BCs and other documents.

Documents are being withheld for a reason - his "hidden" past. Remember, a HI birth certificate does not prove HI was the birth place. HI will issue a BC to infants born in other states or even outside the US as long as the parents meet certain conditions. The BC lists the birth location. Kenya?.

that link that i posted re appts may be out of date as it is a cong doc updated in 2003.

anon, said doc notes that ak gov is restricted in appointing interim sen from same political party as former sen. do't know if this has been amended.

I agree with Jason -- Hillary is needed in the Senate, not farmed out in the cabinet.

Lugar won't serve in Obama cabinet.

G Man, your BC lists the birth location.Mars?

Dick Army manning the wood chipper -

McCain campaign didn't let Sarha be Sarha.

Behind The Scenes: Newsweek On McCain In The Dark, Obama Threats, And More

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obama-we-cant-solve-globa_n_141358.html

"McCain's advisers fuming at Palin's shopping spree, which was apparently far more extensive than originally reported; and Palin being blocked from speaking on election night by top McCain aide Steve Schmidt."

NEW THREAD

Newsweek -

-- The Obama campaign was provided with reports from the Secret Service showing a sharp and very disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September and early October, at the same time that the crowds at Palin rallies became more frenzied. Michelle Obama was shaken by the vituperative crowds and the hot rhetoric from the GOP candidates. "Why would they try to make people hate us?" Michelle Obama said to a top campaign aide.

I feel you solar, but I am a firm believer in the one and only God....And that he should ask for guidance to him....
If he´ll do that, is up to him.

Patd....Djeeeez, indeed. We can all use a breather.
I think we deserve a fresh holiday in the sun from Craig. I mean we worked our asses off during this election cycle on his blog.... LOL

Gotta go. Its after 6 here....

Stay civil gang...... Thnx for another nice round of different opinions...

Jason--liked your pic---thought u would be a lot bigger,,,do 50 push ups in the am and pm, let that body, catch up with that big mind :-))

hahahhhah: I have been tall and slim for 30 years now..... Am playing tenis and swiming forvever..Nothing changes....This black man will stay slim forever....
LOL

But, I wil try the push ups... And will give you a heads up in some months.....

New thread

chloe - When I wrote, "...not happy about this one," I was referring to the sale of wine & beer being allowed in my 'burb. Not sure why you think that was "inevitable"?

"Was anyone watching Fox this morning when they were reporting about the crowd that gathered outside of the White House last night?

They were saying that the crowd was chanting things like "YES WE CAN" and"OBAMA". All this while they were showing a close up of the crowd which was actually yelling "Go home Bush, Go home Bush", and some were making gestures toward the camera!! They aren't even being careful to hide the bias these days.

Posted by: truebeliever Author Profile Page | November 5, 2008 9:58 AM"

Reminds me of that mob that stood outside the naval observatory at midnight during the 2000 recount—yelling, "GET OUT OF CHENEY'S HOUSE"

Where's the change?

Tony, Don't forget! I adore you. Thanks.

Blue,

When we moved here from California fifteen years ao, I had never seen laws like that. In California they sold liquor in markets and every where else 24/7 since I was a kid. So when I got to Texas, it was all new to me. Since we've lived here, so many of the laws on alcohol sales have changed in so many counties, that I was assuming it'll end up happening everywhere. I understand you aren't happy about it, and I was not and am not promoting the idea in any way. Especially, considering the raising crime rate correlation that you mentioned (which I didn't know about).

I concluded (possibly in error) that things will keep changing in the direction I've seen them headed in other areas. I'm sorry if that offended you and sorry your county changed something you'd rather have stayed the same. :)