Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

WOO! WOO!

Is he wearing a double knit suit?

Holy Shit, Batman....

that has got to be one of the dumbest things I've seen a politician do..... to not understand what a racist thing that email is...... is either total denial or to be stupider than a flock of domesticated chickens and turkeys combined.....

Another white guy from the right with a large round head , in the Haley Barbour style.

I think it's a Republican thing...

And last week, Mr. Dyson, now 51 and a deputy mayor to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, struck again, in a dispute with City Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi over whether a company owned by a black woman should be rehired to market New York City bonds. "The Comptroller ought to know the difference between a bid and a watermelon," he said to The Bond Buyer, in a remark that was denounced by many Democratic officials as racist or offensive and revived questions about whether Mr. Giuliani's administration is insensitive to blacks.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E1DF113CF930A35754C0A962958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

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Lost on the old thread...like I said, my motto is One Step Behind.

I was just glad to see that mayor is not from Alabama.

Mayor Grose claimed not to know about the history of water melons.

This is why Volcano Bobby didn't think a 140 mill for the USGS was a good idea.
One thing the conservatives can't lose ........ it's the " We didn't know " defense.

He does have 2 lapel pins, that's got to count for something.

It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to you today. Our time chronicling the life of Denver and Colorado, the nation and the world, is over. Thousands of men and women have worked at this newspaper since William Byers produced its first edition on the banks of Cherry Creek on April 23, 1859. We speak, we believe, for all of them, when we say that it has been an honor to serve you. To have reached this day, the final edition of the Rocky Mountain News, just 55 days shy of its 150th birthday is painful. We will scatter. And all that will be left are the stories we have told, captured on microfilm or in digital archives, devices unimaginable in those first days.

Final front page of the Rocky :
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/photos/2009/feb/27/130341/

I think it's A Very Sad Day In America, when you must watch everything you say Simply because the POTUS is Black! Why, was there not this outrage when rappers said " The White house, is no longer White it is now The Black House", or "Now there's going to be Bar-B-Q's on the Front Lawn." With the amount of money, that Obama is spending in his first month in office, the last thing we need to be focusing on his remarks that are made by someone about Watermelons.

Newspaper convention canceled amid industry woes

Friday, February 27, 2009

(02-27) 10:31 PST RESTON, Va. (AP) --

An annual convention of newspaper editors has been canceled so their publications can save money and focus on surviving the recession.

It's just the second time that American Society of Newspaper Editors hasn't convened. The last time occurred during the final months of World War II in 1945
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/27/financial/f103124S13.DTL&type=printable

What if it had been Mary Jane plants instead :)

I wonder if that was Scarborough?

I think I've figured out who Lampe really is , a 24 year old Republican staffer.

I know I posted this last thread, but it somehow seems approriate to repost.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/27/mayor-who-sent-obama-wate_n_170492.html

What a dumbass. This moron said he didn't know that watermelons were associated negatively with AAs in the south. Give me a friggin' break - if he didn't know that, why did he happen upon watermelons for the WH lawn as particularly funny? This doesn't pass the straight face test.

btw, I added what I had left out before.

"I wonder if that was Scarborough?"

chloe....... ROFLMAO!!!!!!!

Here is my reply for this thread----is there a fine line between twittering, and insanity?,,,I guess if it dumb and works,,,,its not dumb!

Five surgeons are discussing who makes the best patients on the operating table.

The first surgeon says, "I like to see accountants on my operating table, because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered."

The second responds, "Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything inside them is color coded."

The third surgeon says, "No, I really think librarians are the best; everything inside them is in alphabetical order."

The fourth surgeon chimes in: "You know, I like construction workers...those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over at the end, and when the job takes longer than you said it would."

But the fifth surgeon shut them all up when he observed: "You're all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There's no guts, no heart, and no spine, and the head and butt are interchangeable."

Footprints show human ancestor with modern stride

http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE51P81K20090226

Aerosmith - Walk This Way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoIsv8AWoIM

Ivy,

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Ain't it th' truth? Of course, in Alabama the mayor wouldn't have resigned.

Pardon me, Lampe, but there is a difference between racially offensive remarks made by stupid white guys who think they are funny and acknowledgments of differences by members of one's own race. Ask Fuzzy Zoeller about that. Lemme guess, you defended the chimp cartoon too, right? And spare us the "other important things to talk about" crap - you guys raised that to an art during the Bush admin.

Solar - LOLOL - you get my vote for best joke of the day (I heard it as a lawyer joke).

That is one hilarious joke Solar! It described each profession so well. I particularly like the 'few parts left over and job takes longer than you said. Contractors to a T. :)

pogo, thanks for the link. curious their report sort of poor mouths profits for the health insurance cos in 2003

The report notes: "Of the 544 insurers studied by Weiss for the year ending 2003, 69 percent experienced either negative margins or profit margins of less than five percent."

where the one i linked said they were fat and happy during that time. in fact it noted that pharmaceuticals were 3rd most profitable industry in country in 2003 and even got fatter and sassier by 2006. what's to believe?

Bob, I saw that footprint article yesterday and thought "Hmmm, another thing for evolution deniers to try to explain away."

CBob....
a few years ago...... Steven Tyler walked into my booth at the 9-day fair I do in Sunapee NH..... he was with another band member and they were making bets as how to properly pronounce my last name..... Tyler lost....

Solar..... CLAP! CLAP!

Remember that story Bobby Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday night -- about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a local sheriff who was battling government red tape to try to rescue stranded victims?

Turns out it wasn't actually, you know, true.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/jindal_admits_katrina_story_was_false.php?ref=fp1
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Hero to zero in a new record speed.

Pogo

I actually find Lawyers very human,,,,,except the ones they show on tv commercials for Bankruptcy,,,,,,pissesmeoff,,,,,I used that joke at the last Thanksgiving table ,,,but made it using Catholic Priest,,,,my bro did not appreciate it,,,but it did the trick,,,and no preaching to me about my going straight to fn hell,,,HA!

pat,

I believe that Weiss is a company that specializes provides information to folks who are considering buying insurance stock or otherwise considering investing in the sector. I am really not familiar with them, so I make no representations.

Pat,

I figure that there is almost no link between providers' profits, suppliers' profits and insurers' profits in healthcare. BigPharma is doing very well, thank you very much, particularly in the US - thanks to our finding the margins not earned by them in countries that control the prices of the drugs they sell there (e.g. Canada).

According to a new Harvard Business School study, eight of the top ten states in terms of online porn consumption were ones where McCain won in the presidential election. Professor Benjamin Edelman analyzed anonymised credit cards receipts from a large online porn company. Based on their limited data, the largest consumer is Utah.

http://boingboing.hexten.net/2009/02/27/red-states-consume-m.html

Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds.

"Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by," Edelman says.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16680-porn-in-the-usa-conservatives-are-biggest-consumers.html

Eight of the top 10 pornography consuming states gave their electoral votes to John McCain in last year's presidential election – Florida and Hawaii were the exceptions. While six out of the lowest 10 favoured Barack Obama.

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CBob

Has he been added to the floating fatheads?

I expected him to apologize by inviting the President for a fried chicken dinner.

Bob, a modern manifestation of the well known Baptist preacher's daughter phenomenon in the south.

Jamie, you think he'd be channeling Fuzzy Zoeller?

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Joe, The "just say no" Republicans would have thrown him out on his rear. Pot is an equal opportunity offender.

Solar....
I've never been close to one..... but I wouldn't want to tangle with one either....
they are huge birds with big talons..... and unlike their domesticated brethren, they fly very well....

I hate hard liquor...... except if you hide it in sweet colorful drinks such as margaritas..... :0)

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CBob

How can you doubt that she is an elderly, Republican black woman with scads of employees that she is going to fire any second?

CBob...

Before I go IIRC wasn't it a Republican who said while Obama was running for POTUS " If Obama wins will it still be called The White House"?

I think your right about Lampe being a Republican operative. Outside of GORDO she has been the most outspoken against President Obama.

Time to go home, everyone have a great weekend.

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I don't know if they bite, but they are hard to chew.

'Oldest English words' identified

Some of the oldest words in English have been identified, scientists say.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7911645.stm

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Pogo, I'm just wondering how many insulting stereotypes they can send out on public papers?

At some point responsible Republicans are going to take back their party and dump these yahoos that have become their public face in the last decade.

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"...in Alabama the mayor wouldn't have resigned."

Right about that, Pogo, and he'd get re-elected too.

CBob

Walk LIke an Egyptian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWP-AsG5DRk

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CBob

Another incident for the "truthiness" file.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/americas-dumbest-mayor-to-quit.html#comment-204535

Aw, gee whiz, I like "squeeze", "guts", "stick" and "bad"...can't we keep them, please please...??

I read a comment on another thread the other night from some fellow who claimed to be a geologist. He was defending Volcano Bobby, but I could see the Crayola on my screen.

It doesn't take long to spot, kinda like a toupee .

I really do find the open racial references telling. I grew up in a culture that thought that sort of thing was just OK, thank you, and thought that as long as you were trying to be funny instead of mean, people who you were ridiculing just didn't have good enough sense of humor to see that you didn't mean anything by it, which of course, you did. And in fairness, there was a broad spectrum of intent behind the openly racist comments I heard - and used early in life - before I went away to college and was introduced to a whole differnt world - one that had folks from all walks of life with all sorts of backgrounds and preferences that just would not have been accepted back home in the Birmingham 'burbs. That spectrum ranged from the jackass who really was just trying to be funny and held no real animosity toward AAs and never put a minute's thought to the hurtful nature of the comments, but just thought they were funny and knew that others did, too, to the down right f'n mean ass bastard who either was or would be a Klucker given half a chance, hated and resented AAs and would rather see one dead than allow his daughter to speak to one.

I still run into folks who do exhibit open racial bias, and across that spectrum - after all, I do live in WV - but it isn't nearly as common as it used to be.

CBob

Here's another article about mama and papa. Seems that m, n or p sound is present in some way in almost all languages and is probably tied to breast feeding.

http://www2.hivolda.no/jpv/mother.htm

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I understand the sentiment of your post, but there is a significant difference between rappers performing a song about the change of the "white house" and that of projecting racial stereotypes. I am not a fan of rap, but I am sure it was a statement of cultural and racial pride by members of a historically repressed minority in the USA. On the otherhand, the small town Mayor doing his best to be absolutely offensive and degrading by diminishing people to nothing more than stereotypes that MOST blacks would find offensive. I understand that not all do, but we can understand that is isn't a compliment.

Harry Reid "Gold Member"

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/02/harry-reid-gold-member#comment-149768

Harrison police with racist face book pages

http://www.lohud.com/article/20090226/NEWS02/902260480

Twittering reminds me of a word game,,,,,,change the subject at any time,,,add 6 to 10 words to the following,,,I think the results will be what twittering is.-----than make your post that u wanted to make.

I sent Johny to the store-------

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Bob, those guys spend too much time with computers and too little time in my yard after a windstorm. If they think "stick" will die out, they ain't picked enough of them up and hauled them to the ravine. And "sqeeze" die out? Not in my lifetime - it's a helluva good word with a great double use - it's what I do to mine (Mrs. P) so it's safe for another 30 - 40 years if I'm lucky.

I watched Don Rickles on Jimmy Kimmel the other night. I have always found him to be very funny.

He makes outrageous comments about every group.

I've always been surprised when his name would come up and people would say they hate him.

He is someone who is an example of a person with no hatred...simply humorous.and a very kind, loyal person.

Too many liberals and just about all conservatives I know lack a very basic quality..a sense of humor.

The "watermelon" mayor is obviously not being honest and this suggests a bit ofracism..my opinion..

"I think I've figured out who Lampe really is , a 24 year old Republican staffer. "

Love ya, C-Bob -- but I think you need to meet more black feminists....

Too many liberals and just about all conservatives I know lack a very basic quality..a sense of humor.
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Humor is like jell-o, hard to nail to the wall. But you are correct sir, it seems to be an inverse proportion to the seriousness of their politics.

Patsi

Have to disagree on that one. Lampe only seems to show up when defending some racist act by a Republican or damning some form of public assistance by a Democrat. There is little about Lampe that has to do with women's rights or feminism.

CBob

Conservatives have a sense of humor, it's just that the form it takes usually has something to do with inflicting pain, injury, or insult on another human being.

Tom, Lampe knows that. But it doesn't fit with the newfound Repug attitude of openness, so she becomes an apologist. Consider that the President has now been openly lampooned in the past week as a chimp and watermelon lover (to what extent is certainly a subject for debate) simply because he is black and looks like he has AA heritage. I only hope that these incidences of open bigotry continue - we may never see a resurgence of a conservative majority (remember - it was supposed to be a permanent one) if it does.

On another topic, I saw where one of the heroes of the '08 repug party, Joe the Plumber, had a book signing (at Borders I believe) where 11 people showed up and 5 books were sold. Go get 'em Joe. I guess his fifteen minutes is about over.

Ronn Paul on Cnn now

Ron Paul,,,he says that he doesn't know how the R's will regain respectabliity

Family fears losing suburban St. Louis cave home

By BETSY TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer Betsy Taylor, Associated Press Writer – 11 mins ago
The home of Curt and Deborah Sleeper that was built in a cave, is seen Thursday, AP – The home of Curt and Deborah Sleeper that was built in a cave, is seen Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009 in Festus, …

FESTUS, Mo. – A lot of people are struggling to keep their homes in these tough economic times. One suburban St. Louis family is trying to keep its cave.

That is, a cave that's also a home. Curt and Deborah Sleeper of Festus bought 3 acres of property and a cave in Festus in 2004, after they spotted it online. They fell in love with the unique geography of the old mining cave and figured out how to build a house inside of it.

But they've got a big payment coming due on the property and don't think they can afford it. If they can't secure new financing, they've got a backup plan — auctioning their cave home through eBay. Bidding starts at $300,000.

"I get the financing, or I sell the property, or I lose everything," Curt Sleeper, a self-employed Web designer and small business consultant, said Thursday while giving a tour of the home.

Missouri has its share of homes built into the geography — houses built into the ground or in a hillside. The Sleepers' home is unique even among them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090227/ap_on_re_us/cave_home;_ylt=AuAmkuIysI9NNdjd2HcZVzpvzwcF

Look I don't care what you think of me. call me what you want. All i'm saying is if, you want to get past things that have held you down before, you've got to let them go. Do I approve of some of the stupid remarks, both Whites and blacks have made since Obama was elected? HELL NO! But, crying about every little thing someone says, is never going to change things. We are in very bad shape as a Country. Do I think we can change? Not everyone. And C-Bob, this is the second time you have accused me of being White. Please explain to me what a Black women, is supposed to act like or sound like, or believe in? Talk about stereotyping!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose now is unemployed.....I think that speaks volumes as to the relevance of his actions.

Patsi -
Lampe sounds like a 24 year old graduate of Liberty University, who like many conservatives carry a multitude of open wounds around. Their day is an endless quest to find enough salt to rub into them. Our friend in NYC stood across the the fence rail doing a mirror image of this bone grinding enterprise.

Grievance is the gruel, that gets, them going.

Lampe -
I've never said you were white, I said you were a Republican staffer with degree from Liberty Univ.

I don't think racial slurs ever affected Mayor Grose personally before, he obviously thought sending that email was a good idea......too bad for him, he was mistaken.

ok so this might be one of those days when it's best to count to five and take a sip (maybe two) of your favorite beverage before hitting submit

Hip, Hip Horrah for Joe and Mary Jane
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Uc tv tonight at 8 pm,,,,,,,on channel 9412,,,,on a show called State of Minds,,,,forest of solar trees,,,and a cpl of other interesting segments

Lampe....
I don't usually get involved in conversations about race..... I am a white French Canadian who grew up in rural Massachusetts..... my school was 100% white....
I now live in rural NH and my town is 100% white..... so no.... I readily admit that I don't understand how some ethnic groups think.....

what I found so offensive was more of Mayor Grose's denial.... even I.... with my background.... know that blacks are lampooned as "watermelon eaters"....

but if you're saying that to take offense is to give power to the offender..... I agree....

RR: That is exactly what I am saying. If you respond to ignorant and racist, or Hate-filled comments then all you are doing is making them matter.

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oops, wait, depending on what your favorite beverage is, that might have been a really bad suggestion that i just offered

Lampe, WADR, can you show me where in this post

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you disucss anything about the stimulus package, Obama's budget proposal, the withdrawal of our troops from Iraq, an approach to the economic crisis - anything of substance other than dismissing the racist faux pas of RWers? I guess it's just us white liberals who believe that racism is still a topic worthy of dicussion, even in the context of the world we find ourselves in. No, that's not right - the RW joined hands with the Obama supporters to spend a month contorting Bill Clinton's remarks parallelling Jesse Jackson's win with Obama's in SC as not indicative that Obama would win the nomination (of course, Bill was wrong about that outcome ultimately) as being racist and discussing almost nothing but that when two parties were engaged in vigorous fights to determine who would bring forth the best ideas and stand the best chance to win the Presidency 8 months later. I think there were more substantive things to talk about then, and agree with you that there are more substantive things to talk about now - but the Mayor of Los Alamitos chose the topic, we discussed it, you chimed in complaining about us discussing it instead of the other, more important issues of the day, but served nothing else up. I haven't seen you chiming in on the other substantive issues that have been discussed here at length inthe past few days asa the shitty economic news keeps coming and the Obam administration rolls out its plans. Repug racism inartfully hidden in offensive humor may not be important to you - fine - I happen to disagree.

Solar, nice medical joke above. I'm going to copy it and take it to my next physical for their buletin board. I'll cite you under your handle.

if i might inject one observation into this debate -- as far as the Mayor's action goes, think it is important to note that this was not just an offhand or ill-considered remark. take a look at the link in today's post to the photo he emailed around. that took a bit of planning. just click his mug to see it.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/jindal_admits_katrina_story_was_false.php

Never let the facts get in the way of an otherwise great sounding story, Bobby. Wait, you didn't. Way to go, man. Ya knwo, for a minute there I thought you might have been complaining about red tape unde rthe Bush administration's FEMA responses. Glad that wasn't the case.

Well, far be it from me to tell a black woman how to react to offensive crap about blacks, me bing a white male and all, but here's how one black woman reacted"

"One recipient, local businesswoman and community volunteer Keyanus Price, who is also African-American, said that she was “horrified” when she received the e-mail on Sunday, and replied, “Not all black people like watermelon… you should know better than that.”

I guess she just doesn't have a good enough sense of humor - or maybe she just can't yet let go of those things that have held her down.

Well, then, I won't get into a conversation about feminism....but I'd bet my butt you are wrong. And I've been in the movement a loooong time.

AC

I told that one to my Primary Dr. at the VA's and Dr. King laughed her ass off,,,she expects one from me every time I go to see,,,or even talk to her on the phone,,,,,says that I won't get may meds if I don' make her laugh. I don't need the credit,just the hahaha's thanks

You can say anything you want Lampe.....don't let the responses on a blog hold you down....

Pats, if you'd like for me to prime the pump, I imagine I can find some stereoptypical comment dismissing Hillary's ability to serve as SoS (or Ginsburg as SCJ or any number of other women serving in important, high level positions) because of __________ (you can fill in the blank here with some stupid steroptpical trait that would seem incompatible with their performance in their positions, not being men and all). But I do seem to recall comments about her being shrill and other BS like that. But don't let me get you started. :-)

I agree with Craig wholeheartedly, its time to start drinking, it is Friday afternoon if anyone needs justification.
Lampe & Patsi- hang in there girls!

Lampe, well I can say this "not only are you serious (at times) but you can also make me laugh ("Do I not speak enough Ebonics for some of you?").
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Do the voodoo that you do, I have no complaints.

HOUSEKEEPING NOTE: If you want to avoid your comments getting turned into those truncated pull-down boxes, extra long urls are the cause. You can avoid this by taking a moment to use services like tinyurl to shrink the address: http://tinyurl.com/

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by the way, oldseahag, i didn't mean to ignore your query about how to help those veterans. but i haven't thought of anything and if you've got Ted's office on the case, there's no better staff on capitol hill for getting results

(dadgummit, i've GOT to quit smoking again -- and i surely am, i swear it. almost set myself on fire just now, trying to type and smoke. burning embers everywhere)

back later, after the cleanup

Working on a crossword puzzel-Being of the male gender, I'm stuck! What is a 4 letter word for "Long skirt"

You can also use:
http://tinypic.com/
for shorter graphic links, I think most already knew that one,

i like watermelons'' best thing in the world on a hot
july afternoon

Craig...
I've decided to give up smoking for Lent..... how about you..... :0)

A peek inside the Mayor's thoughts......

http://i39.tinypic.com/2ldefl2.jpg

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/24/howto-make-a-brain-o.html

(directions)

Well I gotta go - everyone have a good one.

RR, not being Catholic and all, I've decded to give up self-deprivation for lent). ttfn

pogo....
well..... I'm not Catholic either and I don't smoke..... but what the hell has that got to do with it......

oh.... and I'm here to have conversations and joke around from time to time....
I rarely post links to anything..... maybe I'm just opinionated....... :0)

"But don't let me get you started. :-)"

ROFL@Pogo

Watermelons

Rind, both the green and the white parts,,is exceptionally nutritious, both are full of provitamin A, Potassium, and zinc, Zinc fights impotency,,I t also strengthen our bodies so that tey are less susceptible to hernias and it cleanses the urogenital canal, as well as the kidneys, and bladder while contributing to a healthy prostrate, Watermelon is "tied" for number one diuretic in the fruit world,,close to cranberries.

"i've GOT to quit smoking again "

It's the toughest damn thing I ever came up against, Craig....

I agree with UB -- Lampe, say what you feel like saying.

RR

Try a few watermelon and slow Gin shots with Rick,,,,he won't go skiing and will kick start your generator,haha

Craig- thanks for the response, didn't think I was ignored. Know you are busy. What do you think of CBS Sunday Morning? Jamie had suggested that I get the media involved and they are the best I can think of. As for smoking while at the screen, until you quit- you can do what I do, twist and contort your face so the butt is out of the way, which I know is not an option if you are anything like my southern friends- do not smile or frown too hard- creates wrinkles. My mother never taught me that and I learned that trick too late!

Lampe- I'm not in a tax bracket that will be directly affected by the tax increases. Many of the people here that I admire and respect seem to think he is doing the right thing. Me? I got a world of worries and just can't get on board with all the satisfaction and optimism. So I've just been sitting back listening,wondering wtf, figured I wouldn't spoil the party.

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Craig, I usually like to use the original url (as long as it's under 2 lines long) because then others know where they're going before they hit your link, since the address usually has the title and the source in it.

"So I've just been sitting back listening,wondering"

Good advice Sea. I'm in more of a 'wait and see' mode. How can I possibly know what's going to work.

Sorry to hear you have a world of worries though.

Iraq 'now its own responsibility'
“"[L]et me say this as plainly as I can: by August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end,” the president said, winning applause from an audience filled with veterans of the conflict.

“The drawdown of our military should send a clear signal that Iraq’s future is now its own responsibility,” he said. "
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19412.html

Chloe- We've got the richest people in the world around here and they were wanking last summer, just can't imagine what they are gonna be like this summer! Don't worry about me, I'm like a cat and land on my feet every time. Sometimes I just have less fun landing.

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Hi Ping
I haven't read anything regarding President Obama and taxes that says his policies will lead to increased taxes for all.I do however know that if we have National health care it will and should lead to increased taxes for all.I also believe all of Bushes wars should have been payed for by increased taxes but instead thanks to Republicans we had tax cuts and hidden war costs..Just what kind of fiscal responsibility is that?

"I'm like a cat and land on my feet every time"

Sea, Glad to hear that.
I'm the same way. But you know, that doesn't just happen. We make sure we're in a position to land correctly. I learned at a fairly young age to take care of myself (and anyone else that would listen). :)

Chloe, that sounds good. I'm hoping he wont send them to Afganistan before he brings them home. You gota take anything a politician says with a mountain of salt. I'll never forget what that revered wright (he knows Obama better than anyone except maybe Michelle) said at the National Press Club "Barack says what politicians say.."

His vote on FISA is still ringing in my ears.

Where the 200k+ incomes live , top 15 cities slide show

The White House's budget for fiscal year 2010 calls for tax hikes on wealthy Americans. In this case, that means couples making over $250,000 a year and individuals $200,000 a year.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/29413993

Hey Tony, I have to get on my chores, but can't leave without saying hi. Haven't seen you around here much, and figure your business is going well.

Rest easy, good citizens. Dean Grose was the only white racist politician in America. Resume with your racially-harmonious utopia!

"Barack says what politicians say.."

Yes AC. I'm with you on that. I guess we really will have to wait and see.

correction: by states...not cities

No one here ever said anything about utopia. Or harmony either. I think you must be thinking of some place else Champ.

Chloe- You're right, I just would prefer to not have to focus on survival so much, miss what were relatively carefree times.
Animal Control-there's ringing in my ears every day, trying to shut it down!

Lampe - the trouble with the yahoo mayor's email is that he is the mayor, an elected official who should represent all the people. As such he needed to be aware of how the email would upset many of those people and others.

I'm sure there are plenty of even nastier emails around and the mayor could have talked about it and shown the photo in his own living room - no prob. You can say and do a lot of things in your private home or family.

As a public person, he should have known better and as such he deserves to be a private person again.

I am glad he got caught but think the hubbub will die down soon. the point is that we cannot afford to have any government official coming out with such ridiculous pictures. Racial preferences and prejudices cannot be tolerated from a government employee. So I think it is incumbent on us to protest and the protest worked. Nuff said.

But I don't think you're a repub or white. You need to keep telling us how you see things - a voice we don't hear from anyone else.!

Hi Chloe,Sea
Glad to see you! I love how positive you all are about life and its problems.I feel the same way.I have had some ruff times in my life but I've always managed to come out of them pretty good and maybe stronger and a little smarter...

That's because you are so sweet!

oldseahag,
LET FREEDOM RING

Ouch!

AnimalControl - did anyone tell you that a long skirt is a maxi?

Chloehttp://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/americas-dumbest-mayor-to-quit.html#comment-204612

Thanks for asking.Yes things in my business are going well.Its good right now because thankfully the snowbirds came down this year and its lead to an increase in business.I keep waiting for things to worsen as I've prepared myself pretty good for a downturn.I'm still keeping my hopes alive that GM stays in business....I know your enjoying Emma,i hope you can post some photo's soon.....

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Sea-Kathleen
You too!!!

bethyboo,
No and thanks. I knew the middle letters were AX but it just wasn't clicking. Again, thanks.

Oldseahag if that ouch concerned my capital letters--sorry about that. Turn up the volume on some music-that may help?

Animal Control- no problem with the capitals, just all the ringing in my ears!

Posted by: tonyb39 | February 27, 2009 6:09 PM

Here you go Tony - Just one fiscal responsible discussion.
No Way to Pay for it all Mr Obama via Central Control.
There is a better way..

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123561551065378405.html
FROM THE WSJ ON LINE.....
The bottom line is that Mr. Obama is selling the country on a 2% illusion. Unwinding the U.S. commitment in Iraq and allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire can't possibly pay for his agenda. Taxes on the not-so-rich will need to rise as well.

On that point, by the way, it's unclear why Mr. Obama thinks his climate-change scheme won't hit all Americans with higher taxes. Selling the right to emit greenhouse gases amounts to a steep new tax on most types of energy and, therefore, on all Americans who use energy. There's a reason that Charlie Rangel's Ways and Means panel, which writes tax law, is holding hearings this week on cap-and-trade regulation.

Mr. Obama is very good at portraying his agenda as nothing more than center-left pragmatism. But pragmatists don't ignore the data. And the reality is that the only way to pay for Mr. Obama's ambitions is to reach ever deeper into the pockets of the American middle class.

From WSJ.. The Best news source.

Opppssss

Sorry I posted something not related to the important subject of the Mayor and the Picture.
Sorry I am out of Step.

GPA keeps falling

Ping, What do you think of Citi Bank @1.50?

Oldseahag, in this post 9/11 world can one ship chocolate overseas to Europe?

BUY BUY BUY !!! or GE under $9 WOW

I still believe the FUNDAMENTALS of our system are strong....
But Careful... If Mr Obama and the new Government keep trying to change the Fundamentals then all bets are off.

The leadership has taken over and not kept the focus on the one key issue.

Balance Sheets are troubled - Once the Positive gets going it will catch on and everything will start going up... But the activity is not just diluted - it is restraining and scary the Private Sector - What is this guy doing !!!

All of this is Man Made... It is not the laws of Physics..
So Anything can happen - He has us going the wrong way.

Sadly now we know which Obama has shown up

Once the positive gets going?

Unemployment is over 10% in California
The City of San Francisco laid of 250 people today most from the Parks dept.

And you think Obama has us going in the wrong way.

First the he has to stop the trend started by the eight years of Bush and Republican rule.

Ping the first step in recovery is admitting you have a problem.

I tend to agree, on the "buy" .... a buck fifty.... but I haven't heard anyone screaming buy..... I hear a lot of "the sky is falling" and fear..... But a buck fifty, what else can you by for that ?

KCG... We can agree !!!
The Bush error and faux Republicans Spend Spend.

Now the problem with your theory is Barack is just taking that approach and more then Double Down.

Barack is GWB on Steriods for Spending

Sure ,why not? I just wouldn't tell anyone what suspicious substance is lurking in the box!

it's a triple down......

someone brought up a "flat tax " the other day, and once we get through this mess, and stabilize I am all for it.

Read today's BBC on American economic numbers. A huge crime by the Left was the use of fear during the primaries. The media so wanted to nail Bush with the dreaded Depression, their own five month wailing has spurred a horrible mindset. One moment the world is falling and the next is Obama on Valentine's Day with an unsigned bill. One moment we are going through the worst disaster since 1929 and the next, Liberals are partying in France over their success to pass new spending for their pet projects.

Change like it ought to be? Why am I not surprised?

On another note, here is a good rational and Constitutional defense of not making DC a state. Those who don't care what the Constitution says should not read the link.

http://stubbornfacts.us/law/problem_congressional_representation_district_columbia_v

Last, a striking story of what happen in Lebanon to Hitchens and Totten. If truth in Middle Eastern reporting means something to you, donate some money to Totten. I think you'll respect Hitchens more after reading what happened to him.

It should bother you as we talk about the direction we are going. That direction at the moment seems oblivious to the changing world.

http://stubbornfacts.us/foreign_policy/middle_east/i_appreciate_that%E2%80%9D_christopher_said_%E2%80%9C_i_would_have_done_it_anyway_one_must_take_stand_one_simply_must

It is the law of physics how many things require specific solutions. As Mexico struggles, recession allows militant new gains; a smarter nexus of criminals, extremists, fanatics and adversaries unfolds. How to stop pathology and recession require transparent reasoning that targets therapies soft and hard. The thought of falling from one myopic mindset to another is the ultimate in depression. It spurs futility.

The stimulus does not have believable safeguards. The scope is pretentious when you're trying to put out specific fires. Accountability? Then add a half a trillion in more Liberal spending while declaring Healthcare, energy and education is slated for this year. I won't even go into the national security risks as we fight over a new air tanker, raptors and missile defense.

The bottom line is that you have to spell out the perils and the economic problems. You need targeted fixes. Even if Iraq cost a trillion, what Obama is proposing with his rag tag team, is certain over reach. It doesn't make sense with the dynamics we know about markets and conflict.

I am waiting to be enlightened........

CBob and the other green folks, you might like this blog. He is sponsored by the BBC and has already done it in Britain and is now taking on the United States and blogging about the events and locations

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ethicalman/

BBC America did their first show on him in tonights news broadcast

http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/329/index.jsp

Ping

I think TARP has all the problems you borught up...that's the Bush solution

The stimulus package is different and I think will result in good things. The housing issues still have to be worked out.
At least there is transparency in the Obama programs not the smoke and mirrors of the last eight years with Darth Cheeeny lurking in the background with some hidden agenda.

Bethyboo: I am not saying what the Mayor said was right,what I am trying to say is this. We have people losing their jobs and homes at an alarming rate day after day, and Yes, there are some very stupid people in this world. But, everytime someone puts his or her Big Foot in their mouth, does not mean they have to lose their job. Racism is well and alive in our Country, and it probably will be for a while. All I'm saying is this " If these comments upset you, that's fine, but if they weren't said as a direct insult to you, why get so mad about it? Lots of people, here including myself have said somethings that might upset others, but you move on from it. I just don't get as upset about people who seem to not use their heads when speaking, it is not worth my time, or my energy to give people who make Racist or Sexist Remarks, the attention they are so desperately seeking.

"Even if Iraq cost a trillion"

Max, By the time you add in all the costs of this war and the bills that will be paid for the next 40 years, you are about two trillion short.

Lampe

The only thing necessary for evil to exist is for good men to do nothing.

Everytime one of these yahoos perpetuates one of these stereotypes, uses the N word, or lumps all ethnic groups into a bunch rather than treating them as individual and no one speaks up, then we are giving permission for the evil to exist.

If the mayor cat feels that way about ANY black what does that say about the fairness of his reprentation of the blacks in his city......there are some there, I suppose........right?

Jamie: What you fail to realize is this. It doesn't matter to many if they have your permission to do or say anything, it happens. And , Blacks are not the only ones lumped into Ethnic Groups, as you say. Jewish people, Polish people, Italian people, German People, Mexican people, and the list could go on and on, have been stereotyped for years and years. So please this is nothing new. So everytime anyone makes a remark against those people, they should lose their jobs?

I think understand what Lampe is saying, and I think I may understand her frustration, because there is a point in time when people really want to move beyond, all the BS, and just live their lives. Every time these blatant simplistic racist maneuvers come up,(and I am assuming right now), we are brought down to our apparent differences based on color alone. It somehow compromises the reality that many have successfully moved beyond those stereo-types and racist remarks and want to leave them to history.

I can see both sides of this, and I hope Lampe I didn't offend you with this post. I am trying to understand.

Lampe

Yes they should. If they are in a position to represent the public as this mayor is, then they should be gone. It isn't a matter of me giving permission. It is a matter of me not wanting someone with those attitudes in a position to represent me.

I'm well aware of all the various stereotypes. It is one thing in private. I may deplore it if I hear something like that from an acquaintance and choose to eliminate people like that from my life, but that is private. In the work place or public where it can damage others, deprive them of rights or make them a target of violence, then you have to take a stand.

I heart Indian food.

Jamie, I believe 9/11 approached a trillion and while I would argue about your three trillion you certainly do not include any estimate of the cost of not removing Saddam. If you think our situation is static, I fear you would be terribly wrong. Iraq now does not impose the direct threat that Saddam would have by BIden's account. Iran would already be testing a nuke.

And the spending from the Obama camp, does it include such exuberance towards national defense?, Or is just not talking about terror or war, the answer?

Obama is now finding out about the hard choices Bush made. He is seeing his theory about Pakistan he seeded long ago on his college field trip, turn to dust. He is seeing the promised help from the EU in Afghanistan evaporate. He knows of the Nazis Hitchen faced up to in Lebanon and even the secret nuclear facilities in Syria and Iran. He knows the technology Hizb'Allah is getting from Assad and Ahmandinejad. He even knows how Russia is helping and that NK has more to hide. He knows the next battle field is Africa. He know the narco terrorists can unite as easily as Hamas and Fatah. Somehow I don't hear any indignation from Obama. I see nothing that places the right context of our times as the Liberal meme has turned so self ward.

So how this stimulus Bill can jerk forward so awkwardly as Democrats take no blame in TARP, is grotesque looking out on our vulnerabilities and threat matrix. We need every dime spent properly with a push to unlock the many mega tons of hydrocarbon we have now. Now is a good time for Democrats to push a 15 per hour minimum wage....lol Without a far more Reaganesque or JFKesque discourse, this present course looks more like a Liberal grab bag, poorly run, and more disconnected from reality that the Bush administration was about Iraq. How care? The Democrats will continue to blame Bush for all that goes wrong. The mindset is the wrong direction heading to the wrong kind of change.

I still wish to believe there is some grand strategy here, but alas, I fear, Obama and the O-team consists of largely pragmatic egoists. The polls are really going to have to heat up, for them to get the message.

Of course, Jindal doesn't help the opposition. We are lead by a political culture of unexceptionalism and that goes all around the sand box.

UB: You did not offend me. And Thank you for understanding what I was trying to say. My Grandmother, used to tell me, " Honey, if you let every little thing anyone says about you hurt you, then you are giving them power over your life." Words are a "Dime a Dozen" wait they may only be worth a nickel now. We elect these people, and then we put them under a spotlight, and then when they prove they are only Human just like the rest of us,we want their heads served-up on a Platter. This is not a perfect world and we are not perfect people. If we were this would be HEAVEN, and we would have "NO PROBLEMS" at all.

I was watching the news ,,yesterday,,,,and saw a State Trooper,(think it was WV) the trooper pulled over a black motorist and was cought saying these fuckin N----er's by his own camera that he did not know was turned on,,,,Lampe should he loose his job?

Your Grandmother was a wise woman, what's not to love there?

I think that maybe, maybe that people are so ashamed of how AA have been treated that we as a people really have no patience for it anymore....maybe it's what they call white-guilt....I don't know...but honestly the Mayor was an idiot for doing what he did in these times....he should have known it could cost him his job.

Politics is a rough game, and if you choose to play you better be ready for the extremes.

I'm not sure, if he should lose his job or not. For one thing I would have to see the tape myself, and see what lead up to these remarks. Saying something stupid, like a " WATERMELON' Joke, is very different from calling someone The N-Word, just because.

Than I had a life threatening encounter like this one, onct,

I was at Burger King a while back,,,,,there was this lady yelling and screaming at her kids,,,they were right next to me,,so I looked at the kids and smiled,said hello,,,they were both little boy's,,,,the lady told me to mind my own biz,,,,,I asked her how old the twins were,,,,,she asked me if I was blind or stupid,,,,that her kids were 6 and 9 year olds,,,,,,,I told her that I was neither stupid or blind,,,,it was just that I couldn't believe that she got laid twice!!

IF Obama, slips and calls someone a Stupid White Bitch or Bastard, should he lose his job?

"we as a people" = Americans
to clarify

Max,

We have a major difference right from the begining. I do not think that the United States had any right to invade Iraq. I believe that the very first bomb that went boom was a war crime and that war crime after war crime has been perpetrated ever since.

I firmly believe that the invasion of Iraq took us away from the focus of finding and punishing Bin Ladin and I even more firmly believe that our acts have damaged our position in the world and destroyed our economy.

Now we are stuck with the awful fallout of the neo con actions that not only invaded another sovereign nation but turned loose an unrestrained ponzi scheme of greed in International banking.

We will probably come out of this economic downturn, but I doubt we will ever again be the power in the world that we were. Whether or not this is a good thing remains to be seen. Maybe it is time for there to be a more balanced share of responsibility among the countries of the globe

I think something is missing here in the conversation about racism. I posted a link above to an incident in Lebanon where Christopher Hitchen and two others were attacked by Syrian Nazis. While we debate whether an officer should be fired because he made a racist comment, many others around the world advance a racism and supremacy that murders and plots. The racism that drove Hitler is not the same as an officer vetting his bigotry. Many called Bush a monkey and even Hitler. I don't see much difference.

On the other hand, there are people who would kill you if they had the chance, drop some c-4 in your living rm while you watch American Idol. There are even dangerous racists in this country, but as I said, the organized advancement of really lethal nutjobs should be our greatest concern.

That doesn't condone the officer's word, but puts them in context. I hear racism of all kinds and the subtle and growing form of it towards Jews is particularly alarming. One cannot make the argument that America is becoming more racist towards Blacks, can one?

Solar,
I don't know about Lampe but a State Trooper on duty uses that language he/she minimaly needs therapy troopers should be unbiased in all respects. With power comes responsibility.
Time for me to call it a night.

Lamp,,,some times I think that you might be a little difficult to please,,,,,,,If that State Trooper has those kind of feelings,,,,how many innocent people might he have hurt,,,or will hurt,,,or worse yet,,,,,,,,,,,and would your want to see a tape that led up to that if it is one of your own?

I figger if obama were to be heard saying "stupid white bitch" he would start catching holy hell.......so he probably, being a fairly intelligent chap, would be able to mind his manners and not say such a goofy thing.....

AC

Thank you,,,,,for that,,,,,and I can see Lamps side of it,,,,but not for a City Mayor,,,or anyone in power,,,,and can cause a lot of harm,,,to not just yourself,,,,,but to others,,,,so I think that we have a responsibility to kick that ass out of that job,,,,,,no if it is some one at work,,,,and said that,,,then no,,they should not loose their job,,,,just a good talking to should do.......but even a school teacher saying some hurtful thing like that should at a minimum get some time off to think about it no?

Maybe the discussion here is about the old "stick and stones" part of the equation.....not the equal rights or the proper processing of people under the law...

Good night AC

Well, that would be the most Depressing thing I heard today Jamie, were it true. I guess we will have to disagree.

History will show that the people of Iraq were bettered by the removal of Saddam and I certainly note your staying far away from any reasonable speculation of the cost associated with Saddam in power. Whether you understand the certain conflagration that would follow such a reality, or whether you just don't care, I do not know.

I will say that you do state the Liberal line quite succinctly. Everything is Bush's fault and America will never be the same.

stupid is as stupid does.......this Mayor was an idiot...Can you imagine what his wife said when he got home....

"You did what?!?!? You &*^$ ! and now you have no job?!? ...and so on and so on....."

instant karma- John Lennon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqP3wT5lpa4

Stug

It is a very good thing........I won't go into all of what I have experienced or heard,,,,but I had a teacher ,,a history teacher take me out in the hall way tried to my head thru a locker,,,cos I did not agree with him about General Custard's last stand,,,,he told me that a stupid wetback had no right in having an opinion about American History,,,,,just one little story,,,one the nicest ones at that!,,,,when they stick that head out there lets chop it off,,,metaphorically speaking that is HA!

rah rah ree, kick 'em in the knee.....

funny you should say that .........republicans are starting to remind me of the seventh cavalry......

SEA

Glad that u were around today,,,what did you do get your hair cut,,or let it grow a little,,,you look diff. :-)

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Stalker Alert

I agree with Jamie completely and I don't consider myself a liberal. Much more a libertarian, independent at best.

One, we can't go around rescuing countries just because they have a leader we don't like.

Two, we've killed or been part of the killing of many more Iraqi's than Hussein has ever done.

Three, you can't impose Democracy on a people, they need to get to the point they want it.

Four, we could have stayed and help Afghanistan rebuild their country after we helped Russia destroy it.

Five, we greatly strengthened the position of Iran in the area and now there's almost no way we can stop them from getting a nuclear weapon. At best we can prevent them from launching one.

Bunch more, but I'm feeling lazy tonight.

Sheesh

"a left of center, moderate Republican "

Make that right of center. On most things I'm now left of center.

ping around? Manatees were wonderful today, though I didn't go swimming with them. I think I'll head up to Crystal River in April and try kayaking/snorkeling in the Spring.

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Ping
Thanks for the link and answering my comment.I did read the article and I can't refute what they say in it.I know many of the same things were said about President Clinton by his critics and look how they were dead wrong! I know the President is a politician and many things will be said(some true and some not true) and done to get his agenda into law.I guess more than anything I don't have a problem paying more taxes for National Health care,infrastructure, improvements in education and many other socially relevant programs.I do wish everything are leaders say was accurate but that's an illusion just like bi-partisanship...

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Breaking News
You seem vaguely familiar?

Ping,,,and other leaning third party wanna beeeees

Being center to right,,,is still right,,,,,,,Being center to left is still left,,,,the right nor the left sever sees the other side,.,.of things,,,,It is only us Independents that can see ,,,,both to the right and to the left,but are thought about only at election times form the right,,or the left ,,,,time for a third center party!

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Don 1
Glad you enjoyed the Manatee's! Beautiful weather were having.glad for you...Enjoy the Sunshine State.........

Hi Solar
How's things?
Job almost done?Hope your good.....

sever=never,,,,,Yo Tonyyyyy

Thanks tony.
It's mostly the sun and warm warm weather I'm enjoying. After 24 years in California I can't get used to cold weather where you can't run around barefoot and in short pants.

But manatees and other assorted critters is pretty cool.

One couple I met was all excited about Blue Springs(?) and the St. Johns River. i could now look very smart and say "Oh, you mean that north running river".

D-11

We lived in Pinellas County on the 15th floor on the water. Every few months a pod of manatee would lumber in and graze the local area until they cleaned-out all the tasty stuff. Then they'd be gone returning when things had regrown.

Back in 92 or 93 they started dying--turned out an especially virulent red tide was doing them in.

Tony

I had to postpone on the job ,,,they are out of $ and real mad at me cos I won't go any further,,,,,I told them that they can get some one new,Im not going to take any unneeded chances right now,,,,glad that things are picking up for you, I did start a full work out program on the bow flex,,, and cardio now,,,and will be ready.

Loved your joke Solar. Another good one.

Well I am a heinz 57, part Polish, part Czech, part English, and part Scotch-Irish, acquired cajun, girl raised in the south(grits).

I just love watermelon and can't wait until the season gets here to chomp down on some. It's a favorite down here in the south and they grow the best close by in a small bump in the road called Sugartown.

Don't necessarily think it would be a bad idea to grow some fruits and vegetables on the White House grounds even if it was an idiot who suggested it. Throw in some arugala. It's a little bitter for my taste.

If it is home grown at least they would know the produce was safe to eat and like C-bob suggested the excess could be donated to the food banks. Sounds like a pretty Democratic/green thing to do.

Lampe you hang in there. Don't let anyone put you in a box. I understand your fear when you worked so hard to finally make some decent money and then someone asks you to part with it. Those on the recieving end as opposed to those on the giving end are less likely to be sympathetic.

I have a good friend who spends every penny he makes, never saves and when I was whinning about my loss of my savings he just laughed and said he was glad he didn't try to save anything. I wanted to deck him. He also didn't waste any of his money on insurance and when Rita hit, Fema came along and bailed him out for his losses. He made out better than I did with insurance. Why waste your own money if the government will be there to help.

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Ha Don
Yes we learn a lot here at TM...Have fun..Enjoy your post's..

that rapture guy on rachel maddow has the 2nd most complicated comb-over I've ever seen......

is Trump number one?

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Solar
Glad you gave it a stop for now,you don't want to get burned.Hell yes get into the exercise it helps keep life's stresses at bay.....

no.....trump's a contendah, but number one was a bass player in myrtle beach......c. 72.......involved many cans of hair spray.......

Having recently been censured for objecting to the idiotic non-comments that seem to begin nearly every daily blog, Craig, it is with some trepidation that I offer the following questions and observations that don't relate to your lead story.

What is the deal with the luxurious gold brocade drapery President Obama seems to prefer? In a period of extreme economic unrest, it is REALLY the appropriate backdrop for virtually every public event? It reminds me of Saddam Hussein's palaces, and I wouldn't be surprised if Barama (my pet name for the prez from the primary) whips out a four-foot-long, gilt-edged sword to intimidate the recalcitrant Republicans!

Also, what in the world is the president doing bouncing down the steps of Air Force One without holding onto the handrail? Apart from the unsettling and frankly fay image of both his hands flopping in some weird cadence with his rapid steps, doesn't the Secret Service have a right to be concerned that he might do a header onto the runway and end up cracking his skull? His wife, his children and even President Ford had sense enough to use the handrail, which still didn't prevent the latter from falling on his ass a few decades ago, but at least prevented him from taking a head-first dive.

These are just a couple of questions I will continue to ask until someone in the administration attends to them....

I saw a guy at a black tie event that had a pony tail at least a foot down his back and it all started as a comb over......lol...can you imagine what that looked like when it wasn't "in place" lol

he had a prince valiant hair little lord fauntleroy hair-do and it was like he had ONE hair......working overtime........(franklin ajaye)

"The travellers have just listened to the Knight's tale and agree on the high standing of the Knight's tale. The Miller offers to tell the next tale and is convinced that he will beat the Knight. The Host suggests that the Miller should wait as he is quite drunk. The Miller replies that he insists on telling his tale about a carpenter. The Reeve, who is a carpenter by trade, urges the Miller not to make jokes about carpenters. The Miller replies he has no intention to insult carpenters in general. Chaucer warns the reader for the Miller's rude language. The Miller's tale is about an old carpenter who has a young wife and is duped by the suitor of his wife. The suitor is eventually duped by another suitor."

Yes, I think Chaucer pretty much had Trailmix nailed, six centuries in advance. This is pretty much why I love this place.

http://www.librarius.com/canttran/mttrfs.htm

omg lol, I don't know how they do it....or what they are thinking.....

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/americas-dumbest-mayor-to-quit.html#comment-204698

Are you some sort of time-traveler from the 18th Century? If so, I find your comments FASCINATING!

chaucer make fart joke.........

This Nicholas anon leet fle a fart,
As greet as it had been a thonder-dent,
700 That with the strook he was almoost yblent;

---GC

Lardo,

You just gave me an excuse to post one of my favorite performances of one of my favorite songs:

I Shall Marry The Millers Son

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouB_SMP0ziA

Amazing, a president that has a great sense of balance and micro-muscle control and can bounce down the ramp stairs.

Vs a president that can fall off a segway.

Though I have to give Bush credit, he sure could duck things fast.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/americas-dumbest-mayor-to-quit.html#comment-204698

now Tomas, you were not being "censured." please dont take it that way at all. we're just a little prickly about foks questioning our kooky ways. so i personally apologize if you took that as censorship.

you raise some pertinent and probing questions worth discussing. and, alhough i am on friday night shutdown for serious thought, i'm sure there are others who would be more than happy to discuss them.

again, we welcome your input. thoughtful and respectful debate and discussion is what we're all about in these parts.

and Tomas, raising topics that have absolutely nothing to do with my current post is another tradition around here. i long ago came to terms with that inevitability. but always most thankful for any comments that happen to notice what i've written, even if they trash my sanity, intelligence or right to exist

now returning to my program, a truly scary movie from Norway called Cold Prey

Tomas

Every town has its quirks and peculiarities. The townfolk here are pretty welcoming to strangers passing through these parts and many have stayed and become neighbors.

Just plop yourself down at the general store and pull up a seat by the pot bellied stove. There's sure to be a conversation starting any second. Just don't spit on the sidewalks.

Tomas, I hope you don't hold any comments I made against Craig. I'm just a commenter. I wouldn't worry about the drapes, I doubt they're real gold and probably already paid for. Do you suggest the taxpayers purchase a whole new set of drapes just for the appearance of frugality? That wouldn't be fiscally prudent at all.

Good visual on Obama disembarking from Air Force One; I enjoyed that, although I've never actually seen footage of such an event. Is it on youtube?

Craig

Would that be "Revenge of the Lutefisk"?

Jack

Tomas

Pay no attention to champ, it IS all Craig's fault. Well maybe a little bit champs too. But never mine. How could I be at fault, I never make a mistake.

BTW, isn't it nice to see a president who can energetically descend the steps, instead of one who clings to the rail like an alcoholic with DTs?

Jack

Would that be "Revenge of the Lutefisk"?

Only in a place like here where all the children are above average.

About the emailed picture.

lol
Bigots are stupid
Did he believe that such an email wouldn't endup on the front page of the paper. I guess he had never heard of forwarding.
Just a little joke between you and me lol
What a maroon.

Jack

So Flatus, why did you leave?

I lived in South Tampa for a while, right on the Bay. Porpoises were supposed to hang around in the summer.

Unfortunately, my job was sent to India 6 weeks after the company I worked for had hired me and brought me down.

The theme song for our new humorless utopia; don't laugh.

The Fifth Dimension - Aquarius (1969)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toshchjuXR4

Actually, it looks like fun!

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/americas-dumbest-mayor-to-quit.html#comment-204713

ha, gee thanks whsky, aren't you a big help you trouble maker you

" always most thankful for any comments that happen to notice what i've written, even if they trash my sanity, intelligence or right to exist"

ROFL@Craig

Strawberry fields, where nothing is real

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjBO5W6ZQiE

"That invasion was a bill of goods sold to the American public by a bunch of oportunisits who saw a chance to financially rape the government pushing a bunch of jingoists, and they did a great job of doing so. I've been moving farther left ever since. "

Yes, yes, yes!

Has anyone heard about some HIV-tainted Blood being sent to Obama? Caught a glimpse of it somewhere, now I can't find it again. Just wondering if it was a true story, or something else

Craig

I'm all melloowed out
champs youtube gave me a contact high
groovey

peace man

Jack

Ah, you boomers were so adorable back then, Jack. What happened?

Ringo Starr says he's too busy to sign autographs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAU0l7325w0

One last thought about that idiotic mayor and his watermelon patch....call me a feminazi if you wish...but this furor would not be happening if he'd made a similar, gender based slur aimed at a female President, Governor, Supreme Court Justice, or Secretary of State.

well, patsi, i'd like to think i would have posted some outrage, or risk you taking me to the woodshed

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/americas-dumbest-mayor-to-quit.html#comment-204725

There would be no furor if Obama, were Irish and it was a field of potatoes instead of watermelons. Is that racist? It's true, you know; Irish people do love potatoes.

i had baked potatoes tonight, and i'm part Irish

ok, altho you guys are more entertaining than my Norweigian movie, i'm going back to it, subtitles and all. carry on.

Exactly. I demand a full retraction!

"So Flatus, why did you leave?"

Got too crowded. Doing the math, there just wasn't enough time to evacuate Tampa Bay once they decided the big one was going to finally hit there--and, if we were lucky enough to make it across the bridges, would we turn in the right direction after we got to the interstate, or would we drive right into the storm's path.

All these possibilities/eventualities looked more daunting as we became more old and more limited in our ability to react.

And then we became really tired of the carpetbaggers' assault on our environment.

And we wanted Spring and Fall.

And, did I mention it was getting too crowded?

And Lampe is probably off to bed...but I think she will have a laugh over this....back when my son was a senior in HS, his best friend on the football team, a big black lineman (and poet, as a matter of fact) named Charles, lost his foster family through no fault of his own and came to stay with us for the year.

He and my son and a couple of other black players somehow discovered Amos and Andy videos and started watching them as one might watch cult movies. They got hysterical over them.

Charles was particularly fond of the Kingfish.

One day I ran into a man I did business with and he was very cold (a white liberal). He finally asked me where I found the not-very-amusing message on my home machine. I had no idea what he was talking about.

It turned out that "the guys" had replaced my regular message with one from "Amos & Andy". The message itself wasn't racist -- but the Kingfish sure sounded like a stereotype of the worst order.

I got home and the entire football team was sitting around yukking it up watching one of those movies...I told them I might have to ban the damned things.

truly final thought -- i am really am planning to make potatoe soup this weekend -- but no retraction, sorry

Ha -- Craig -- I know you'd have had something to say about it. I remember how you were so shocked when you had the broken bone and watched some of the sexist stuff going on in the primary...and you went on the line about it on several television shows, as I recall.

Patsi: Still here, and did enjoy your story.

pong only favors fiscal responsibility when Democrats are in the White House:
Nixon accelerated Federal spending dramatically.
Ford accelerated Federal spending.
Carter slowed the growth of Federal spending.
reagan accelerated Federal spending dramatically.
bush1 accelerated Federal spending.
Clinton slowed Federal spending dramatically.
bush2 accelerated Federal spending dramatically.

Go back and read pong's posts. You will find that he scorns Carter, but idolizes reagan and the bushes. This is peculiar taste in one who claims to favor small government and lower Federal spending. It is more accurate to say that pong stands for fiscal profligacy.

Answering the phone: "Royal Mystic Knights of the Sea, Kingfish speakin' "

--George "Kingfish" Stevens

"Kingfish, I'm gonna hit you so hard, your head's gonna ring like a ten-penny finishing nail hit with a greasy ball peen hammer."

--Andy Brown

-"Eight Miles High"-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKhI09XO5R0

Champ
Was reading a complaint about boomers not planning on retiring when we turn 65 like our parents did.

If the wife's company is any indication it is true. Most of her co workers are retired from the government and they just changed careers. They aren't planning on retiring. They are having too much fun.

Jack

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/americas-dumbest-mayor-to-quit.html#comment-204554

Bwa ha ha ha

Joe The Dumber has lost his 15 minutes of fame....

Lets not forget Juneteenth, when black people have red soda and watermelon to celebrate freedom. Maybe the mayor was just trying to help Obama celebrate.

When I was in the Air Force blacks in our shop brought in strawberry soda and watermelon on June fourteenth every year. They had no trouble with it.

Off to sleep. One more day of sun and fun.

It certainly is crowded flatus. Though I ended up staying in the Canadian sector.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/americas-dumbest-mayor-to-quit.html#comment-204725

Sadly Patsi that is true

Lampe, the story you were asking about:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/27/obama.HIV.blood/index.html

Bob Dylan - Watching The River Flow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nViPOfr1MeU

That watermelon thing was ...I'm at a lack for words.....stupid & uncalled for.

And:

Rush is an egocentric jerk of monumental proportions. And he wonders why women don't like him.

tt

okay already GORDO, take it somewhere else. i am really tired of you using this blog to wear your sandwich board for this cause.

bob dylan - if you gotta go, go now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9PAKnlK8FY

"If you got to go , go now or else you got to stay all night"

Night all, Tomorrow.

Jack

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/americas-dumbest-mayor-to-quit.html#comment-204713

that's quite a provocative comment to leave, and then go off to sleep, don. we all enjoy watermelon in hot weather. i never did understand why it became a black stereotype. and that's the point, this mayor was using it to make fun of Obama being black. i just don't see anything funny -- or true -- about it.

I used to have a joke book from around 1850 that mostly made fun of Black folks and Irish immigrants. One anti-Irish joke paraphrased from that book :

Mr. Chauncey : "The wheelbarrow is a marvelous invention, Mr. York."

Mr. York : "Why is that, Mr. Chauncey ?"

Mr. Cauncey : "Why, because it taught the Irish to stand on their hind legs."

This ugly joke offended people I knew who were Irish (real Irish, Mr. Crawford, not 8th generation West Virginians) as late as the 1980s. I always liked to use that to illustrate my rejoinder when people though Poles, Italians, or Blacks were too sensitive about Pollack, Guinea, or Coon jokes. If the person to be educated had a name like Charles Krauthammer, George
Will, or Ann Coulter, I would change the wheelbarrow user into a German, Englishman, or Maniac.

Craig, The whole thing was a throw back to step n fetchit. All the "scared of ghosts" and Amos and Andy.

The sad part about all that is the black performers who supported their families, became famous and did what they had to do on the Chitlin circuit.

There is a place for studying the history and admiring the talent that those men and women displayed.

There is no place for the hatred and the humor (?) that belittles and injures.

In an hour or so I leave for the weekend to attend another Comic book convention where Mauro is again a guest. I always have fun at these events because they always have these collectibles and toys as well as the books. A couple years ago, I got this really cool Winnie-the-Pooh music box for a great price. Of course now, with all my focus on my new apartment, I am not buying... have to save save save!

Sea - I hate hearing that you are worrying re your situation. i spent many years of that myself but now I'm in good shape unless I do something really horrendously stupid - or the absolute collapse of the entire economy comes about.

I just hate knowing you're not enjoying what you ahould be enjoying. (By the way, my family is finally staying in one place, except for me, and I can now order some more chocolate-covered cherries!)

Lampe - I see where you're coming from, but I still am fine with that man's loss of his job. I'm not sure what the tape you mentioned is - I can't imagine it would ameliorate his responsibility. I don't say he should lose his job, tho. He resigned, I understand.

If Obama slipped and referred to someone as a "stupid white bitch", should he lose his job? No, but he should voluntarily undergo some counseling to find out just where there came from - Bill did. But I would be surprised if Obama would say it, and the world would be stupified.

His photo might not have been aimed at me, but it did hit me. It pained me to see that kind of attitude - it was very upsetting. I do not like that attitude.

As for Bush being called names, they weren't names which had a history of being directly at him or his group
in order to make him a sub-human. Racial and ethnic epithets usually derive from hate and condescension
which are aimed at depriving someone of civil rights including life.

As far as saying Bush was like Hitler, that is a very specific reference to his own behaviour, things he had done and/or been responsible for.

As for the Irish and potatoes, there is no stigma attached to eating potatoes. Suggesting that "some certain" people are really apes attaching a stigma. there is a difference.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/americas-dumbest-mayor-to-quit.html#comment-204751

sure, Jamie, but i don't get the implicit defense of this stupid mayor that some seem to be passively advancing, based upon all these historical references to stereotypes of other types. unless i'm misreading those comments. the guy was making fun of Obama for being black. i just don't get what's funny or defensible about that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxLY048ObBk

Fanny - Butterboy...

No reason to share this except I was around 14 or 15 when it came out and I thought it was awesome and a bit naughty.

Craig --------------------

So you are now for censorship? That's really hard for me to believe. Noticed a change in you lately. I assume you have been instructed to shut down criticism of Obama.

I've tried to follow your instructions. Guess I'm raising questions that are not supposed to be mentioned. It's not an internet myth that Obama is hiding documents from the public and using teams of lawyers. You don't know about these things? You believe it's all just "made up"?

You don't like causes? This is about the Constitution. There are legitimate questions that he refuses to answer.

But I understand. As a card-carrying member of the MSM, you have to go along to get along. No hard feelings on my part. You have to do what you have to do. Expect that you will delete this post.

nothing of the sort, GORDO. i am just personally sick of the sheer repetiveness of your incessant posts. nothing new. just the same old argument over and over again. i take no orders from anybody, mister. i'm simply tired of seeing you use this blog as a freaking billboard.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/americas-dumbest-mayor-to-quit.html#comment-204754

Craig,

That was my point. What the mayor did was indefensible.

A long while back Ben Vereen got into a lot of trouble for a routine that he did where he was a black man looking into a makeup mirror though the decades being all these stereotypical characters. It was a tribute to those black people who did what they had to do to survive and did it with grace and unbelievable talent.

The NAACP had a cow over that portrayal. Decades later we can look at the Ben Vereen performance and the Step n Fetchit or Amos and Andy or Redd Foxx routines and say those people who created those characters were laughing the face of prejudice and taking back their humanity.

That is supposed to read, "...when people THOUGHT Poles, Italians..."

Btw, if rush actually liked women, I think they might like him in return. However, marrying a string of beards inorder to appear 'manly' seems abusive, and can't be of much help in getting female type people onto his side. Another case, consider if you will, is larry craig really popular with the fairer gender ? Nah, he and rush have always been more popular with the unfairer gender.

all cool, Jamie, but, as you say, this fat fool of a mayor was not such

My suggestion is to simply not read or rspond to posts that have no value. just a suggestion.

I'm watching Friday Night Lights on NBC..I've already seen these shows on Direct TV last season, but they are so well made and acted..they are worth a second look.

Yours are not "legitimate questions"; they are not about the Constitution. Your posts are rightwing agitprop and incitements to the violent overthrow of the United States government.

Craig,

Every once in a while I think I've known too many people of too many ethnicities or too many predilictions. I just get a great big giggle of disbelief over anybody hating anybody for any reason until they become a great big pain and then I get royally pissed because they are insulting people I really, really like.

Craig--------------------

There are NEW developments, they are just not reported by MSM. You are sick of this? How do you think I feel? Im sick and tired of MSM not covering this BIG story accurately. I have yet to see even one factual report. They are all heavily slanted in Obama's favor -- to the point of actual lies about the issue. Actually, the argument is shifting away from the BC a bit. Some believe that whole issue has been set up by Obama to take attention away from the "nbc" and Indonesian angles.

"My suggestion is to simply not read or rspond to posts that have no value. just a suggestion. -- Posted by: Oregon Democrat "

yes, Oregon, as you know that is my standing suggestion. but there are two things i am no longer tolerating around here for the sake of reasonable folks who want to participate --1) maliciously persistent antagonizers, only one of whom i was forced to ban, and 2) exceedingly repetitive spammers for utterly ridiculous causes.

i am now on the slippery slope i had always hoped to avoid, but will do the best i can to navigate in the best interest of all.

Gordo,

Get it through your dense cranium. We don't care!!!. Barack Obama is the President of the United States. The sites that you link to are barely one degree removed from the grand klaxon of the KKK. Now either talk about something different of go away.

Making a big deal out of every single racially themed joke is just relegating an entire demographic group to the designation of juveniles. What this mayor did was stupidity of the Phelpsian variety, i.e. doing or saying something trivial at the risk of one's livelihood.

Craig,

It is a slippery slope. I was looking at what I just wrote and it is me being aggravated. Let Gordo stay. I will try to ignore him... Iwill, I promise I will. :-)

Craig..

I fully understand. I don't envy your position. I know you have worked hard to make this site what it should be.
I appreciate your efforts. That is why I have begun participating again. There has been great improvement lately.

and yes, i totally agreee with Jamie -- GORDO, I am actualy interested (will i regret this?) in reading what you think about something else. Beating us over the head with the same issue over and over again just makes us more resistant. Mix it up a bit, pal.

Oregon, i consider it a victory that you're back. and I thank you for the second chance. I regret not being more aggressive about these issues in the past, but I was so darnn busy. Nothing matters to me more than the civility of this place, and, while it will slip off the ledge many times more, I will always do my best to reel us back to safety. Dang, i need to go to sleep now.

Good Night Craig

I'm off to dreamland even on the west coast.

There is no defense for Grose the former mayor out in Cal.
I agree what Jamis is relating here in this thread, but the hatred was drummed up by the racist cartoonists who portrayed "mammies" and men with giant eyes-wide-open with an oversized hunk of watermelon, clearly aimed at attempting to categorize African Americans as stupid , and the watermelon was just a prop...it was racist portrayals that were the key, it could have been an ear of corn or a puffball mushroom or a muskmelon.
Watermelons just became the symbol of old-timey racism, an icon-throwback to earlier days---now being resurrected because we have a Black President. But whatcha gonna do?
Patsi? Senator Bunning had to apologize when he was gleefully predicting that Justice Ginsburg would soon be dead...no doubt that senile old fool Bunning was already imagining a conservative replacement, as in his mind, he probably flashed back and thought Bush was still President.
I saw several twitters about this topic as soon as it hit the wire.
Craig, what's it take to get a Senator declared incompetent and replaced? Bunning is nuts and getting sick, too. Sick in the damn head.

i leave just in time for the night watchman. take the helm, dexter.

The host is retired for the evening and the Night Watchm,an is in charge.
Where's my chief mopper and ash-tray dumper, TT? TIPTOE ! Report for duty!
I'll put the strong coffee on to keep the night owls awake until the sun shows.

Craig ---------------------------

If you'll look at my earlier, long post, there were no links.

The WND paragraph and link, that I just came across, were to show that there is discussion about him not being a US citizen. It's out there. What I've posted is alien to almost all of you because it's not reported by MSM. I have to back-up what I post, otherwise it could be just me talking.

Mr. Crawford,

That person's comments about censorship are unfounded and perposterous, like everything else he/she/it dumps here. After all, this is your blog, and one of very few worth reading. I no more fault you for guarding the quality, character, and tone of your blog, than I would fault a billboard owner for denying space to the klan or terrorists.

Would you please reveal the moniker of the banned "maliciously persistent antigonizer ?" I must have missed that during the many travels and the meltdown of two laptops since late December.

I have noticed the absence (if that is logically possible) of several regulars, since I got my latest laptop. And am pleased to see the return of a new and improved edition of both Maxtrue and Champ, 2 former betes noir of mine, whom I no longer find bete-ish, but rather interesting and even convivial.

P.S. Thanks for the story about Los Alamitos' very creepy xmayor. It troubles me that people should be making excuses for him, or blaming the victims for being angry.

Warren Buffet will release a letter today...

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE51P4QC20090226

champ,

Thanks for writing, "making a big deal out of every single racially themed joke is just relegating an entire demographic group to the designation of juveniles."

It had not previously occured to me that xMayor grose and his fellow racists constituted a juvenile demographic group. However, now that you mention it, I can see the truth of it.

Goodnight.

xrepublican ----------------------

"...unfounded and perposterous, like everything else he/she/it dumps here."

Really?

I'm ready to discuss the issue with you anytime. Now?

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/americas-dumbest-mayor-to-quit.html#comment-204782

Dude, come on, whoever ye may be... chill. It's not a freedom of speech issue; Craig controls the blog, he can do what he pleases. You can make your own blog and say whatever you want; Craig might even put you on his 'blogroll' if you were nice about it.

On the contrary, I hardly ever see the MSM.

It is alien to me because oft-mentioned portions of the narative have proven to be utterly false, there are several major logical inconsistencies, the alleged 'evidence' is not evidentiary in nature, much of the material is irrelevent or does not necessarily indicate a malign force, and this entire mish-mash of half truths, rumors, suppositions, and irrelevancy is promoted by several persons of less than sterling character. It is rather like the UFO garbage, only calculated to recruit a lone crazed gunman rather than sell books or promote movies.

champ --------------

I'm not referring to Craig in that post. He has been MORE than fair over the past 13 months that I've been here.

It's the "... like everything else he/she/it dumps here."

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/americas-dumbest-mayor-to-quit.html#comment-204785

Call me a bete noir, Gordo, but the guy has some issues. Don't let him get to you.

You have nothing to discuss that you have not beaten to death already. Nothing you have come up with in the last 4 or 5 months has led to a single tiny fact, let alone to the momentous conclusion that Obama was not born in Hawaii. The very fact that you seek his birth certificate in Hawaii is overwhelming evidence that even YOU believe him to be a native of that state.

Ridiculous ? Yes. Your previous statements that the US MUST govern itself according to a now-rescinded 1947 British law, or that no person can be President who had a foreign parent are ridiculous - from the Latin root ridicere, meaning, to laugh. However, I no longer laugh, having come to my own conclusion that you and your fellow travelers are sinister figures.

Nope, there is nothing to discuss. I suggest that you call the Secret Service and give yourself up.

champ ----------------------

"Don't let him get to you."

xrepublican doesn't get to me. He is a perfect example of someone who knows almost nothing about the eligibility issue.and thinks he knows everything. I'm NOT attacking him, it's just a statement of fact. How could he know? So, I'm not slamming him. I've been heavily into this issue since last June and know far more than I've posted about. I fully understand why this stuff reads like "tin-foil" talk. It's not.

champ,

Please, FORMER bete noir. It was a wild exaggeration. Since I no longer seem to oppose you, "FORMER opponent" would have been more accurate.

Anyway,
Goodnight.

X- Gordo was right about a couple of things that came to light this year. Sorry I can't link to them, just can't remember what they were. Your universal statement is simply not true.

Dexter -
More Bunning News -

Jim Bunning Threatens To Resign From Senate To Hurt GOP

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/27/jim-bunning-threatens-to_n_170665.html

More of a bad week for Volcano Bobby -

Louisiana to seek New Orleans-Baton Rouge passenger rail line from federal stimulus pot that Jindal called wasteful
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/louisiana_to_seek_new_orleansb.html

Oh, no! Not again!

Jim Bunning to retire to hurt repubs who don't support him by giving the seat to a dem? the gift that keeps on giving!

Michelle Obama's pix for the White House is causeing a stir, I guess. I think it's out of this world gorgeous!
She has found her footing but good!

Hey Bethyboo-Guess I'm out of the loop. what are you referring to about Michelle?

I fully understand why this stuff reads like "tin-foil" talk. It's not.

Maybe you need a new metal detector.
Your sin isn't that you are too provocative, your sin is that you're boring

"Maybe you need a new metal detector."

Maybe you need some knowledge.

I'd place you a notch below xrepublican on this issue. That's quite an accomplishment.

some of these white northern liberals get to me sometimes ' they declare their enlightenment
and superiority when it comes to race relations
then admit they have never met a black person.
as a kid growing up in Mississippi we were desegregated and bussed across town to a all black
school. most white families chose to send their kids
to private schools we didn't have that option' couldn't
afford that. after a month or so of conflict and a few
altercations we were accepted or tolerated i guess'
i was befriended and sometimes defended by a black
kid'' robert watson ' i never did thank him for that.
kids don't think about such things' so if your out there
somewhere brother robert ' hope life has treated you
well and thanks for taking up for a poor scared white kid.
point is i don't need to be preached to by chris mathews or any so called progressive liberals
about race relations. i have lived' learned and experienced race relations all my life

that was 1969-70 time period' people forget or
just don't know that when black kids were sent to mostly all white schools that white kids were sent
to mostly black schools ' thats what desegregation meant

Top O the Morning..

Looks like a good run last night when I skim the posts. The Captain has his hands firmly on the wheel and keeping the ship in shape - no more scallywags, or rude scoundrel activity in this house anymore.

Arrr mate so all keep the watch out for any Pirates or like such rascals that make any attempt to climb aboard!

I got up early hoping to be "first". No such luck! Kidding! What that mayor did was dumb. Reminded of of when Fuzzy Zoeller made that remark about "hoping that Tiger Woods didn't pick fried chicken" for the dinner at The Masters. Not all people who make dumb comments lose their jobs, but they expose themselves to being called jerks or whatever else you wanna call them.

"...there are two things i am no longer tolerating around here for the sake of reasonable folks who want to participate --1) maliciously persistent antagonizers, only one of whom i was forced to ban, and 2) exceedingly repetitive spammers for utterly ridiculous causes...."

oh phooey, does this mean i, patdon quixote, can no longer tilt the windmills for taxing mj or turning radon into new energy source or bringing statehood to cuba libre? no more posting pirates? craig, it's the "utterly ridiculous causes" of this world that keeps it turning and the msm in business.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/americas-dumbest-mayor-to-quit.html#comment-204736

XRep... Do you speak French? Vous êtes si prévisible!! and simply wrong....

Had you read just a few post's above yours then you would see the error of your statement.

Take a look at each issue and not such bold generalizations and statements.

I do not remember positing anything that "idolizes reagan and the bushes" as you so post?

But Thanks for the New Word... Profligacy

And take a look at the deficit charts with the new Obama Projections - New Mountains never before seen.. Put on your climbing boots

That Mayor maybe a jerk...

I will go back and find my post that basiclly says you can only see what you know.

And on the Fuzzy Wuzzy Zoeller - I think he and Tiger - on the come back trail - Woods are good Friends - and such comments together are no big deal - the problem hits when you expose it to the Nation which still has so many bigots.

Having worked with very diverse groups most of my life that if lots of what is said - that offends no one - was on the air.. Oh My..

cbob, from your huffo post:

Bunning "reportedly said privately that if he is hindered in raising money for his re-election campaign he is ready with a response that would be politically devastating for Senate Republicans: his resignation."

this could also be seen as the first salvo of negotiating and not necessarily the rantings of a dithering old coot (see dexter's12:50 am post).

btw, craig, what is the real story on the senators m and b?

a song for the ex-mayor man........and many more un-sung big-otters........

http://tinyurl.com/csetd2

noteworthy quote in today's wapo:

Jeff Johnson, host and producer of Black Entertainment Television's "The Truth," said the reaction to the attorney general's comments read as if "he was saying only white Americans were cowards."

Holder "was talking about all of us, from white Americans to African Americans to Asians to Latinos," said Eddie S. Glaude Jr., a professor of religion and African American studies at Princeton. "The fact that we would read Holder's comments as only about white Americans shows us how we are thinking about race when it is invoked."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022703242.html?hpid=topnews

the hounds of spring are on winter's traces......

in re the hounds of spring and old thurber:

http://tinyurl.com/cakwss

There's a comment above about people who don't know or interact with blacks taking a higher road when it comes to racist talk. I don't completely agree with the posters premise, but I do think that people who don't ever hang with blacks might sometimes be oversensitive. I mentioned my son's friend Charles and his Kingfish impersonation...here's another example of what I'm talking about.

One day I was having lunch at one of my favorite restaurants, where a friend works....she's a young black woman and a serious feminist. We were talking about some outrage...and I used a couple of cuss words. The next week I stopped in late in the afternoon, and no one else was in the smoking section. My young black friend was just getting off work, and she sat with me. Here is the conversation:

Her: "I hope you know I got my butt in trouble for cussing last week. That couple in the back booth heard what was said about _______"

Me: "You didn't cuss, I did."

Her: "Yeah, but you're an old white woman and I'm a nappy headed ho." (This was post Imus)

Me: "My hair is nappier than yours."

Her: "Yeah, so you're a nappy headed ho, too....but you're an old white one."

(We had made jokes about me being an old woman many times...she wasn't snarking.)

Keep in mind that both of us were laughing the whole time. But if some had heard our conversation and didn't know us well....they might have been extremely offended.

Ping- Aye mate, he's doing a fine job at that! The bilge rats are no more.

Oooh Ping, you not only talk pirate mais vous parlez francais aussi!

So long Milton Friedman. Hello James Tobin
Goodbye Univ. of Chicago, all hail Yale.

A very interesting discussion of those that are guiding Pres. Obama's approach to resolve the economic crisis are students of the philosophy of the late Prof. James Tobin (Yale) who brought John Maynard Keynes into the modern era.

Government involvement in the economy, stiumulus spending vs. Friedman's vision of tax cuts, deregulation.

Will it succeed?---wishing & hoping.

"Yale's Tobin guides Obama from grave as Friedman is eclipsed"

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ajz1hV_afuSQ&refer=home

Oldsea... Yup the Captian has the standards set and yet he seems to welcome the rats just no poop and stinky dropings well onboard !!

spreche ich Franzoesisch nicht - I cheated and used a translator to get the French --- My English is OK and German has a long way to go, My Spanish I can order us food and beer....

good morning gang....
I'm almost all packed..... Rick and I will be leaving shortly for a week in the wild wooly northern mountains in our state..... we will be taking along a laptop and renting a box that let's us get high speed wireless internet in our condo....

I'll be taking on the moniker of "hot tubbin Renee" for the week.....

probably won't get to it until Monday..... Rick's brother and girlfriend are coming up to spend the weekend with us...... everyone take care!

RebRen...I love the "HotTubbinRenee" alter-ego. I remember this time last year when you used it.

State of the Black Union hosted by Tavis Smiley on CSPAN this morning at 11:00 AM Eastern

http://www.c-span.org/

WaPo article on definition of Middle Class

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022702952.html

"I can order us food and beer...." That's all one needs!

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Gordo, The problem isn't that you are here. It is that you never, ever discuss anything else. The horse you are beating is not only dead, it has been squished into an oily mush.

Just give us a break every once in a while. What's your favorite color? Do you have a pet? Listed to any good music lately? Had even one minute thought for a single instant that didn't relate to that poor equine sludge?

Telegraphing a punch.

That is exactly what President Obama has done by announcing so early on of his plans to place higher taxes on "FAMILIES" making over $250,000 a year. This early warning will allow such families to find ways to shelter as much income as possible to avoid falling into this trap. The small business persons who does end up having to pay the higher taxes will do one of several things. Pass on the higher tax cost to their consumers, or though reductions in employment. Either way the individuals who will bare the burden of the new tax hike for the "rich", will be the middle class. Then there is the issue of limitations and/or eliminations of tax deductions for this same group of tax payers. This will not be received well by housing and Wall Street.

I can't decide whether to post about this experience from yesterday, but what the hey. My son phoned for "help" with a class assignment to analyze the racial stereotypes in a clip from "Amos 'n Andy." He wanted to know what I "remember" about the show. That answer is "nothing," I've never seen it (before my time, you know). I know only what I've heard about it which is made up entirely of abhorrent racial stereotypes about blacks. But upon doing a Quick-Wik on his behalf, I was intrigued to discover aspects of the show might be seen as laying constructive groundwork to societal changes of today. I have to wonder if during its very long run on both radio and television the show had any positive influence in humanizing the lives of black people where before there was nothing but the benchmark of slavery? I will be interested to hear how my son's paper and those of his predominantly minority classmates turn out (an oxymoron, he's the "minority" in his community.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_'n'_Andy

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Patsi, I've been in similar conversations myself, and yes someone who wasn't used to that kind of interplay might have been insulted. I think the difference between that and the watermelon card is that your exchange was participatory with a black friend. The card was one sided and used a stereotype as an insult.

on the television show, Amos, the cabbie seemed to have right good sense......seems i remember him at times relating directly to the audience......

Ivy Green, It was funny commedy, plain and simple--they even had a shyster lawyer.
Can't understand why they don't put it on TV Land.

Wow...Peggy Noonan really wrote a generous column about Obama today considering her usual politics. She raves about the Tuesday speech:

Obama Dons the Presidential Cloak
On Tuesday, he seemed fully in command.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123568516377286823.html

Was "Sanford and Son" demeaning? Kingfish had nothing on Fred Sanford.......

Kingfish was my favorite--always ready with a plan.

Ivy,

Amos and Andy changed when it moved from radio to television, not by content so much as by the fact that of necessity the radio creators and actors were white and the television actors were black.

The scripts became less stereotypical and more sit com in nature though the accents were kept. Even with those changes, the growing awareness of Civil Rights brought an end to the show. You Tube has several episodes you can watch to make your own judgement

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

I should mention that the time period was such that any joking around about the stereotypes would create an upheaval. It was a backlash against several hundred years of being treated as worse than second class citizens. For instance the movie made of Porgy and Bess in 1959 - all the actors insisted on perfect English even though the setting was Catfish Row.

In the early stage version Gershwin used the language as he had heard it. Later productions since the movie have returned to that more "real" depiction of the characters. The movie just happened to fall into that period when the protests and movement for legal equality was at its height.

All in the Family and Sanford and Son both started in the early 70s. This was a decade after A & A. After gaining a great deal of legal power and legislation, the characters were able to make jokes about the stereotypes once more. The later seventies and eighties gave rise to a Richard Pryor really pushing the envelope.

In a way, this makes the mayor's offense even greater. What world has he been living in that he could claim not to have even made the association? He should have been fired for pure stupidity if nothing else.

"The card was one sided and used a stereotype as an insult."

True.

The First Bank To Pay You Back

"As a result, IbeariaBank is sending the bailout money back. “Thanks but no thanks,” says CEO Daryl Byrd, President & CEO IberiaBank."

http://www.cnbc.com/id/29432450

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TIR

Check that Washington Post link I put up. The problem with "families making over $250,000" is that they don't know that they aren't middle class. Only 20% of people working make more than $100,000. A "family" where a combined or single income over $250,000 is in the top 5%

Needs tend to grow with income so even though those folks are earning more than ten times the lowest 20% of the population and 3 - 5 times the middle 20%, they only know that the money is being spent (housing, college, cars etc.)

CNN just did one of those "open mouth and say something stupid because you didn't check". Comment was that Michelle Obama was the "first time a first lady was photographed sleeveless". Not true. Eleanor Roosevelt in a formal gown preceded her and there might have been others.

Education chief favors longer school year

Arne Duncan, the Cabinet secretary charged with overhauling America's educational system, is studying programs that keep kids in school longer to boost their academic achievements.

http://tinyurl.com/bkoy4w

My kids will be glad to be out before this happens....

Fun NY Times article about the Media who can't stop twittering

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/arts/television/28twit.html?_r=1

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Morn'n Jamie... I caught your post back on the drug test for those taking fed funds.... we agree more and more

Need to listen when they use Family - or individual..when discussing taxes.
For Family "is" the increase is actually at closer to 200K - they round up?
And for individual the amount is lower.

Jamie

Remember that the income tax increase is only on the money over 250,000.

Jack

Sounds a bit cold to be running around topless in Maine

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Jack,

Yes I know, but from the yowls being heard, you would think they were being thrown out in a blizzard among the starving wolves.

I thought the tax increase was individuals above 200k and married above 250k. ( another reason not to get married )...

about that Twitter article...lol a fake space for Sanatelli ...." space has, as of 4:20 on Friday afternoon, 158 followers." how funny.

Santelli (sp)

i have maxed out all my credit cards''' haven't paid
the mortgage in three months'' car is about to
be repossessed''owe the bank more than i could
ever repay in one lifetime'' everything is going to be
ok though' i'm going to get another loan and couple
more credit cards and spend money like there is
no tomorrow.
is this great financial planning or what'
thank you pres obama for the great idea's

Ping

The major problem with welfare programs is that they suffer from not being able to individualize. As such, it can become a trap instead of an escape. Human beings are funny. The first time you give someone something, they are surprised and grateful. The second time, they are apprrciative but expectant. Along about the third time, they become demanding and get angry if the "gift" isn't received.

The only way to avoid the trap is to have a built in quid pro quo. You get the help, but it is a bargain not a handout. This allows the recipient their dignity and a sense of having earned the money by their actions.

On the government side, it can't just be subsistance living. Sometimes what someone needs is a well running used car. There should be a way to do that. Sometimes they need to get a GED and career training in a trade. The ones who can handle it, a college education. There should be a way to do that. Sometimes they need a drug or alcohol rehab program. Sometimes child care or an anti gang program for a teenager.

If there isn't a way to individualize the assistance, then too many get locked into a multi generational downward spiral.

"Topless coffee shop a hit in small Maine town"
Sounds Hot, to me!

He Told Us So who wasn't paying attention?

http://cinie.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/what-you-thought-he-was-kidding/

Warren Buffet's letter to stock holders
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2008ltr.pdf

"Whatever the downsides may be, strong and immediate action by government was essential last year if
the financial system was to avoid a total breakdown. Had that occurred, the consequences for every area of our
economy would have been cataclysmic. Like it or not, the inhabitants of Wall Street, Main Street and the various
Side Streets of America were all in the same boat."

Warren Buffet

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2008ltr.pdf

Jack

Ree, Interesting link. I'll read it when tinme permits.

Vegas casino sells 2-foot, 6-pound burrito at cafe

A Las Vegas casino cafe is rewarding patrons who can put away a 2-foot, 6-pound burrito with a most logical prize _ free unlimited rides on a roller coaster that runs in both forward and reverse.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/27/vegas-casino-burrito-bona_n_170648.html

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Ree,

We were listening. That's why he got elected.

If you get Encore or Retro, they are showing

Ben Vereen starring in "Louis Armstron/Chicago Style". The music, of course, is fabulous.

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mqw -
"Good " story, not good in the fuzzy puppy sense, but good in just the pure telling of the tale.
Here' yer "Atta Boy"

A sobering assessment in NYT.

The continuing dismal economic news conflicts with Obama's spending plans.

There is a serious disconnect between what is happening now & what Obama administration is hoping & wishing for--which is based on vigorous growth rates in years to come.

Some economists are finally using the "d" word---for housing, financial system & stock market--we are there--it is a depression.

"Sharper downturn clouds Obama spending plans"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/business/economy/28recession.html

NEW THREAD

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/eye-on-newt.html

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I'd like to add my voice to Colorado Bob's "Atta Boy"

Where The $200,000+ Crowd Lives

http://www.cnbc.com/id/29413993

16 states listed only one of them voted for McCain.