Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Sweet potatoe pie rounds the turn to finish second.

Hmm, maybe I will...

Resist the twitter, Craig. No one needs to know what the hell everybody else is doing every given moment of every day. It's unhealthy. Can't anyone be alone for 5 minutes anymore?

well then, champ, do your video on twitter's dire threat to society

God I'm havin' fun.

CBob, i'm guessing your video could put Al Gore to shame

but i owed it all to tina turner

Actually there young Crawford, look back to the thread before last, I'm at the bottom there with an idea. I think it's bigger than Dallas, but this contest fits right into the river that's been flowing.

No body meaner than me on the net, nobody that wants to do the right thing more.

Double Virgo with the Gemini rising. It's been my crutch for years.

"Double Virgo with the Gemini rising"

i dont understand it CBob, but lord help me, i want to

I have a way to make this interesting ..... It's about 5 dollars bills.

Everybody's got a 5 dollar bill. Gettin' them is not the problem, the problem is what we do with them ?

go for it, xrepub, put it on screen

chat bullies need their beauty rest

i too must sleep, have a long morning of cable blather ahead. nite all

Hippie talk .

My sun is in Virgo , my moon is Virgo, and the constellation Gemini was rising the hour I was born.

That's 3 houses that were ruled by Mercury on the day I was born.

It ain't the Bagavaghita, but it's all I've got.

ok CBob i'm gettin it. unfortunately for me i was a teenage republican in those days. i have repented, so much to learn

bowmanc,

I was answering your feeble gripes about Washington, not Illinois. Dems mopped up their own house with Blago remains.

You guys couldn't be trusted to put ryan, the republican gang governor away. I guess that's cuz you don't clean house - it being menial labor.

Craig -
I want to borrow your lab rats, for the experiment. I promise the experiment will be non lethal.

i'm against this lab rat talk. if anything, i am the lab rat.

I was back ground noise for the Easy Rider movie.

Fair enough, words matter. I'll send you the outline. I just want you to consider it.
How about petri dish ?

My idea of bi-partisanship is considering honestly the
honestly spoken ideas of people who don't agree with you. It means knowing the line you won't cross and guarding that line.

It also means questioning yourself and really knowing what you believe in.

It ABSOLUTELY excludes saying that your opponents ideas are the typical bs he's always spouted, and calling your opponent stupid, gutless, immoral, criminal, pre-historic etc.

Of course, only politicians need to be bi-partisan and that's because they need to get something done. Otherwise, the result will be the stalemate we've had for so long. The discipline of the repubs was too strong for so long - if dems had the same discipline, we might get somewhere, but they don't.

We don't need to be bi-partisan - we are here to be basically partisan to help our reps define themselves. But they need to be grown-up enough about it all to tell us we can't have everything our own way. Fat chance.

I voted for Obama but did not support him, and now I think he needs a leetle more time to show us what he's made of. He might not deserve a honeymoon, but for crying outloud, the fat lady has even started her warm-up notes.

So far I have truly enjoyed seeing him talk and meet with a lot of people - a bloody LOT of them - and no smart ass cracks and smirks the way w did. He's calm.

He also has acknowleged a mistake without shaming himself - he seems to feel it's his right to make mistakes, and he's gonna make 'em. Who here hasn't?He's already so much better than Bush!

I also find it hard to watch Rachel, as I do Suzie Orman, and I think I know one reaason. They stare into the camera and lecture - their voices are firm and they are emphatic. I admire and respect them both, just don't want to listen to them.

There is also the factor that they don't seem to wonder.
They know and feel that they are the last word on the subject as any fool can see. I myself wonder about a lot of things.

The problem with that is that I know and feel I am right about a few things, and probably talk much the same way these two women do. In fact at times I'm afraid I talk to people that same way - not much, but occasionally. I'm always afraid I sound like that here - the words in my head as I type them sound so dictatorial!

However most of what I'm saying tonight is the result of wondering so hope I wasn't preachy.

I wonder what I've left out.

Gloom, despair and agony on me
Deep dark depression, excessive misery.
If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all,
Gloom, despair and agony on me.

---the Hee Haw Guys (Jones, Clark, and Owens?)

my new favorite song for a day or two....

Townes V Z snowing on raton
(by morning I'll be thru them hills and gone"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ir4GLUavL8&feature=related

I always felt like townes felt constrained by a band situation......that he was at his best and top with just himself or another flat top or two........

first I heard him was on a 76 or so NPR saturday afternoon broadcast of Kerrville..........just him and the flat top.....raising pure radio hell........worked with him later in nashville when he spent a summer fooling around with having a whole band.....80 it was...got to see him play a lot around town, with and without a band or with another guy or two.....he wound up leaving on one tour with he and a bassman.........I'm sure that's the bassman singing harmony on the version of "Dead Flowers" at the end of "The Big Lebowski"

sometimes i think the captcha is playing games....this one is udypus.......

"I always felt like townes felt constrained by a band situation......that he was at his best and top with just himself or another flat top or two........"

You are exactly right, sturge....Townes liked to play a lone hand....

Craig and other Twitters and Facebookers -- now I've found a way to send updates and do many other cool things like send emails, texts with your phone. You just set up an account on Dial2Do, then call, give a voice command and a voice update. You can use your mobile phone or landline phone. No more thumbsies!

Dial2Do.com

(Not selling a thing -- just trying to help TMixers stay up to date with technology. )

Oh no! I've already got more technology in my life than I can handle, Alicia!

(Newt is on C-Span, Craig...God, I despise Newt.)

Just cut out the middleman (Twitter) and send all messages telepathically, the way God intended.

I smell a special addition of "Really" on SNL's Weekend Update.

"What do you think a stimulus is?" Obama asked incredulously. "It’s spending — that's the whole point! Seriously.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18482.html

Craig, You play a mean snow scoop.

Think someone could do a montage on the stimulus package:
Republicans "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" vs Dems "We Didn't Start The Fire"

"Sessions is not saying the Republican Party is the Taliban, just that Congressional Republicans are going to become the Taliban."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/5/8284/84749

the politicians are all singing a version of my song "Dont want to get there, just want to ride"

added refrain: the rest of you folks can just slide

In regards to the Stimulus controversy, some in the media, earning cushy salaries, unaffected by the impending crisis, asks what's the rush? But, thank God, there is a new Sherrif in town as President Obama takes his fight to the people. He understands the American people are hurting and needs help NOW!

Not unexepectedly, the GOP cry loudly, that that is not the way for Pres. Obama to win -- taking it to the airwaves, (however, he tried being diplomatic and nice)! They don't want him to fight -- to Expose their phony objections and impediment to this catastrophe. They don't want light but President Obama believes in transparency, and there is no time to lose in this situation. This patient, the U.S. economy, needs emergency care, now. Thank God, a new Sheriff is in town and President Obama is fighting for You. This country has waited long enough for a blood transfusion, and the time is now!

This is not about Pork, as GOP wants you to believe -- this is about the saving of our economy, our way of life. America is crumbling all around us and the GOP wants to play political games, as usual!

Republicans' new talking points regarding stimulus - is that polling shows the American people are against this Stimulus! What planet do they live on. By the day, Blue and White collar workers are losing thier jobs, homes, cars. They are resorting to food and bread lines; unemployment compensation and food stamps. They are hurting and the GOP are playing political games -- let's damage the President, instead of putting their time and care on the crisis looming large for the American people. At least for Once!

We must remember, that when the GOP were in control they held no oversight hearings on anything, they did not increase the minimum wage, their concern was not about our crumbling bridges or dirty air, water, contimanted food or Ponsy Schemes that robbed people of millions.

We will know what to do in 2010.

And why doesn't a cut in the payroll tax for us folks in the middle come up anywhere but on the Daily Show? Couldn't they start doing that right away & we'd all have more money to spend?

Excellent piece by Joe Conason: Phelps Smoked Weed, He Didn't Kill Puppies

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2009/02/06/michael_phelps/

I could almost see phelps winding up in a great george carlin routine......

Regarding this hard times song issue...For me, as a Kansas farmer's daughter, the one that resonates most is Wolves, written by Montana's Stephanie Davis and recorded by Oklahoma's Garth Brooks. It's not on YouTube or I'd post a link:

Charlie Barton and his family
Stopped today to say goodbye
He said the bank was takin' over
The last few years were just too dry
And I promised that I'd visit
When they found a place in town
Then I spent a long time thinkin'
'Bout the ones the wolves pull down

Lord please shine a light of hope
On those of us who fall behind
And when we stumble in the snow
Could you help us up while there's still time

Well I don't mean to be complainin' Lord
You've always seen me through
And I know you got your reasons
For each and every thing you do
But tonight outside my window
There's a lonesome mournful sound
And I just can't keep from thinkin'
'Bout the ones the wolves pull down

Oh Lord keep me from bein'
The one the wolves pull down

Phelps reputation has really taken a *hit*. LOL!

the wolves aint going to pull sarah down.......

they'd have to have bazookas or something........

I didn't post this for several days just because of that, sturge....shouldn't have...sort of ruins a great lyric.

yep.....it all seeps into this goofy brain and comes out again at the least peep-hole.......

Goofy is refreshing here, Sturge. You can be the chat goof. LOL!

High praise, indeed.......

(wocka wocka)

I know that's a lot of pressure on you. Something you'll have to live up to. I got trapped like that at work. Somebody would say something and people would look to me for a funny comment. A person can't be on all the time.

C'est arrive'

You must take ALL the scent off of the trap.

--Sock-eye, the Myrtle Beach gambler and club owner.

Howdy -

baca, nice post. I didn't support Obama inthe primaries, and it took me a while to warm up to him after he won them, but I think he's doing the right thing. The two polls that MSNBC were reporting this morning on the American people's support of the package showed 12 and 13 point margins in favor of it.

I saw replays of Obama's talk on the stimpack and thought he did exactly what he needed to. He laid McConnell and Boner low IMHO when he said you can't come into this discussion with the same ideas and talking points that got us into this mess in the first place. His best line "Aren't you guys tired of this?" I gotta give the guy credit - he's doing much better so far than I had expected.

Blue, that is exactly right - I have no idea why the payroll taxes (there are actually 3) exist outside income taxes anyway - except to insure that the SS & Medicare trust funds are funded so that congress can divert the money from them. And the SS tax is ridiculously regressive and desperately needs to be restructured.

Krugman - I think his column should be renamed Clear eye from the straight guy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/opinion/06krugman.html?_r=1

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/the-rangel-crisis-in-or-out-do.html#comment-197196

Patsi, just to tie up a loose thread from last night. I'm probably not getting the story on Pat Summit exactly right -- but I remember hearing it on 60 minutes when they profiled her a few years back. Maybe it was that she went into labor on the ground somewhere up north and insisted that she give birth on Tennessee soil, so she hopped aboard a plane...and was literally about to give birth in Virginia airspace and was adamant that the plane not land. Something like that.

this is re-posted from the thread last. About Steve Earle.

Patsi,

Steve Earle's father moved the family to San Antonio because he worked for the FAA as an Air Traffic Controller and there Steve was raised. One thing can be said about Steve is that he is not afraid of commitment. He has been married numerous times. (7)

He is a very prolific songwriter, imo. Remember when Steve was so fat? That I have heard was from the Methadone he was taking after kicking Heroin. Can anyone verify that?

Wikipedia claims Steve was born at Fort Hampton, Virginia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Earle

saw Tom Russell perform last night and he did a Townes Van Zandt song. "Snowing on Raton". At the beginning of the first set he did a little of "Pancho and Lefty." All in all, it was a very nice evening listening to one of the US's National Treasures.

Lard -- I looked around a little last night to see if I could find any reference to the Summitt story...only found one, and it said she went into labor on the ground and took the charter plane back immediately so her husband could be there at the birth. (I have no idea if that is spin or not.)

My sister could have flown to Australia during the time she was in labor. Whereas I popped fast. But don't ask my sis about it...labor isn't her favorite subject...ha!

Like I said, I'm a bad "insider" for anything to do with basketball. My only support of the sport is wearing my KU sweatshirt when the Jayhawkers win a championship. :) I am definitely a fair weather fan...

Dooty -- Yes, it probably was Virginia instead of Kentucky where Steve was born...but I think his grandfather was a rabid Texan....I've heard Steve tell that story about Texas soil in a box many times. I used to hang with Steve and Mark Germino and Tim Kreckel at Combine Music a lot. Kris Kristofferson and Tony Joe White were in and out -- but were already big stars...the others were just getting started. What a huge amount of talent that was!

Sounds like a great night for music, Dooty -- hope it was in a club as opposed to a big place....I love hearing people like Russell in small venues.

Glad I thought of Tim Kreckel -- check this out...he's written a song called Bailout Blues. "You better bail out now while your parachute still works..."

http://www.timkrekel.com/#

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197282

Craig,

I do understand it and the Dust Bowl was a minor breeze compared to the storm that could configuration could stir up.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197333

Patsi

Wouldn't you just love to see some Senator stand up and have the guts to dedicate that to the Republican side of the aisle before playing the song.

Great video Craig...

A song I really like is a more modern one.. Tracy Chapman's inspired song "Sub City"

"People say it doesnt exist
cause no one would like to admit
That there is a city underground
Where people live everyday
Off the waste and decay
Off the discards of their fellow man
Here in subcity life is hard
We cant receive any government relief
Id like to please give mr president my honest regards
For disregarding me

They say theres too much crime in these city streets
My sentiments exactly
Government and big business hold the purse strings
When I worked I worked in the factories
Im at the mercy of the world
I guess Im lucky to be alive

They say weve fallen through the cracks
They say the system works
But we wont let it
Help
I guess they never stop to think
We might not just want handouts
But a way to make an honest living
Living this aint living"

from her excellent album "Crossroads" released in 1989

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvyQ0YnMTf4

Perhaps the Cardinal might inspire us?

http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/02/bow-your-heads-you-heathens-cardnial.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/05/michael-phelps-sponsor-ke_n_164481.html

Phelps loses Kellogg deal over a bong hit? Because it isn't consistent with Kellogg's image? What - are you telling me that no one in Kellogg's magnagement team reached for the Frosted Flakes box when they had the munchies? That means none of my college buddies became Kellogg managers - or they've forgotten, or they just pretend they have.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/06/gop-opposes-pay-limits-on_n_164544.html

Why is it "un-American" to create a recovery program for Money Junkies??? The more these corporate pigs consume gluttonously, the less money and resources are available for under-paid workers with minimal benefits and/or job protections.

I love the ideals of my home country, but I despise the excesses that have been allowed to grow and expand ever further to create and re-create a hyper-rich class of money junkies. And if the populace raises this issue, they are accused of participating in "class warfare". Sorry, but if the majority of resources and money goes to the upper crest, they are themselves already committing "class warfare" with their "I deserve all this money and the rest of you can eat cake"...

It's disgusting !!!!

Told you Phelps would lose endorsement. He really is dopey. Must be all that chlorine.

This guy is funny, so I'm giving him a plug. Mature audiences only.

IPHONE COLON EXAM BY NORM AUGUSTINUS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3pE8h8R-cE&NR=1

Is Andy Card an idiot or what?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/05/bush-jacketless-in-oval-o_n_164513.html

I guess he was just pissed Bush made him wear a jacket. What a f*cking hypocrite - but who does that surprise.

Pogo why is Andy Card is an idiot?

Just because we have had the worst job losses in 34 years...
Financial institutions are failing...
Health care is a total mess...
We are entrenched in a stupid war...
The mortgage meltdown is forcing people into the streets...
We are in a DEPRESSION... though many don't want to admit it...
The auto industry is about to tank...

et al , et al , et al...

I mean c'mon. What could be more important than a stylistic tie and high quality suit?

Set your priorities straight Pogo. I'd expect more from you. ;-)

What is it about Republicans and tax cuts? How many economists have to say, "You don't cut taxes in a recession" for them to give up the knee jerk BS and do the right thing ... The government needs to spend to prime the economic pump because that is the only entity that has money right now.

Champ - he lost Kellogg. He kept Speedo, Visa, Omega and Pure Sport. He may be dopey (he is) but he ain't destitute. I'm waiting for Nike to give him a deal if they haven't yet. Wanna see how this affects his income? Keep an eye on the price for signed Phelps posters on E-Bay - they were $300 - $500 last I looked. This will all pass quickly - assuming he stays in the water and isn't precluded from swimming at the Worlds, the US Swimming Championships, etc.

Some of this week's late night jokes:

"And the half brother of Barack Obama, a man named George Obama, has been arrested in Kenya for allegedly having drugs. See, here we go again with the dumb presidential brothers. Remember Billy Carter? Then there was Roger Clinton, Bill Clinton's brother. See, we never had that problem with President Bush. He was already the dumb brother. " --Jay Leno

"Apparently, the President has a half brother named George Obama, who lives in Kenya, and George Obama was arrested on Saturday for possession of marijuana. He was walking around the village telling people his brother was the President, so they assumed he was high and arrested him." --Jimmy Kimmel

"How great is that, though? One brother is the President of the United States, the other is a stoner in Kenya. If that isn't a sitcom, I don't know what is." --Jimmy Kimmel

"And by the way, is Africa really the place you want to get the munchies? It isn't." --Jimmy Kimmel

Hilda Solis, Labor nominee, faces tax questions

"A Senate committee's vote on her confirmation is delayed after it learns her husband had $6,400 in unresolved tax liens filed against his business.

Republican senators want "to get to the bottom of this to see if it's a legitimately innocent error or, once again, another questionable tax problem with another Obama nominee," said the aide, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly."

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-solis6-2009feb06,0,2524871.story

yeah, pogo, my interest in Micheal Phelps isn't high enough for all that.

ET, how silly of me - of coure wearing a jacket in the oval office is more important than all those trifling matters. Which is of course why his boss followed the leave of every one of his predecessors from Carter forward - except maybe his own dad - and didn't hold himself to the same standard Card apparently thinks he held everyone else to (or should have). I don't know what I was thinking. I know lots of places, including the one where I work, do have dress codes - f''rinstance today I'm in jeans and a sweater. And I hope it pisses my boss off, to.

Champ - you obviously don't have a kid who is a swimmer and is angling for won of those signed posters - the only significant source of my interest.

Next thing you know they will be asking Mrs. Solis if her children {that is if she has children} wiped there *sses last time they took a sh*t.

And if not why not.

Get a life GORDO.

Why is her husbands sins her sins? What about all those child molesting Republicans like the one that worked on McCain's campaign?

Maybe McCain should be impeached and removed for letting a known child molester work for him.

You shouldn't condone the idolization of freaks of nature. Sets a tough standard .

A Checklist Of Obama's Many Promises

"Few presidential candidates have made more specific promises to American voters than Barack Obama. They came so fast and furious in the latter part of the campaign, you'd be excused for not keeping up. So as a public service, we've put together a handy checklist of some of the biggest Obama promises — culled from his "Blueprint for Change," his campaign speeches and advertisements."

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?secid=1501&status=article&id=311212244872396&secure=1&show=1&rss=1

Wait a second... you're going to pay $300 for a friggin' poster for your kid? That's just silly.

He is, like Lance Armstrong. Their bodies are developed in atypical ways. Lance Armstrong's heart is 2x the size of a normal one, and Phelps has huge flipper-feet.

Jake Tapper humiliates Robert Gibbs at briefing

http://www.exposeobama.com/2009/02/06/jake-tapper-humiliates-robert-gibbs-at-briefing/

Champ - did I say I was going to pay $300 for a poster? Nope. If I get one it will be the $500 version or some other signed this or that . And the poster has almost no value - but the signature on it - different matter. How much value that would have is something only time can tell. And I don't necessarily condone the idolization of Phelps or Armstrong - although I can think of worse people than Armstrong and Phelps for my kid to idolize, and as a kid he's going to idolize those who he tries to emulate. His idol worship does include Phelps - although he's not quite sure what to think now that the bong pic came out. He also idolizes guitar players (Satriani, GIlbert, David Zinn - who's his teacher, Slash and a few others), Michael Jordan and LeBron James.

But now, lunch.

Save yourself $494 and buy a Sharpie. His friends must hate him.

"My dad just got laid off..."

"Oh yeah, my dad just bought me a $500 poster!"

http://savagepolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/2k77e738c647.jpg

http://www.americanthinker.com/images/includes/415.gif

Attn: Andy Card!!! Photos of jacketless presidents in the Oval Office:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/05/bush-jacketless-in-oval-o_n_164513.html

Pot smokers and people who think it is utterly stupid and a waste of time to have laws against pot should be speaking out. Rick Steves where are you?

And Kellogg's yikes why is anyone buying their overpriced nonfood anyway..talk about people pushing dangerous drugs!

I guess I care because it is just another example of our vapid celebrity-obsessed culture that I feel is detrimental to our nation's youth. I thought pogo was smarter than that.

Class warfare on the blog? Geez, champ. What do you have against money circulating?

I will have to agree with processed cereal probably being more of a health hazard (and mercury in the corn syrup component?), but aquaboy did break the law & it would reflect poorly on the company if they let him have a pass. The example to have a good work ethic & win is tarnished. Fortunately, Americans have short attention spans. Must be all that processed food we eat.

Maybe that, too. You don't need to link every comment, btw. I know to whom you are 'speaking'.

champ - The value is in the meaning to the buyer/holder of the signature. Whether it's because people want to be close to greatness or because it motivates them personally, it's all subjective. What a thing to get worked up over.

I like how Phelps has handled everything. I hope he says ..fine
I'm done. He bought the pool where he trained. I'm sure the parents who want their kids to be swim stars will give him plenty of business.

This should be an opportunity for the pro legalization side to say --yes he did break the law but it's a stupid law. Kind of like all the money wasted persecuting Ed Rosenthal who was hired by the City of Oakland, Ca to grow pot.

I'm not worked up, just shootin' the shit. He's the one who made of point of relating that he is in no way interested in the lowly $300 poster, his kid must have the grand $500 poster. Oooohhh.

dut-da-da-da-dut
Craig Crawford's got a snow scoop
dut-da-da-da-dut
But he don't know what it's for
dut-da-da-da-dut
He plays it like a guitar
dut-da-da-da-dut
And scoops his hardwood floor
dut-da-da-da-dut
The DC snow is shovel-ready
dut-da-da-da-dut
But he's just gonna let it melt
dut-da-da-da-dut
Cuz you-know-where will freeze over before this
bill's stimulus is felt
He's got the blues...

Here we
Why Condemn Phelps, When We Ought to Condemn the Laws That Brand Him A Criminal
February 3rd, 2009

Add decorated Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps to the growing list of successful Americans who happens to indulge in marijuana during his down time. The tabloid news story is making international headlines, though it’s difficult to understand why.
http://blog.thehill.com/2009/02/03/why-condemn-phelps-when-we-ought-to-condemn-the-laws-that-brand-him-a-criminal/

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197406

Champ, It's considered a small courtesy to others who come along later and want to know what everyone is discussing. By giving a reference point, you help them follow along.

Fight Truth Decay! (thank you Gray Panthers)

...from the Hill's link

"Sure, there will be some who will say that this latest chapter in Phelp’s life is deserving of criticism because the 14-time gold medalist is sending a poor message to young children. And what message would that be? That you can occasionally smoke marijuana and still be successful in life. Well sorry if the truth hurts."

Except for those of us who don't think it's a stupid law & think even condoning its use is a huge mistake.

crackers - He didn't win 8 gold medals by being a stoner. The message is that he broke the law, not to mention that smoke isn't exactly a way to respect your body.

7 billion dollars a year spent enforcing marijuana laws where is Susan Collins when you really need her.

I certainly hope anyone who is suppports marijuana laws also supports the prohiibition of alcohol as well. The only difference is pot is illegal.

Perhaps he was practicing civil disobedience something to be respected. Opposition to a stupid and wasteful law.
Let me know when all the pot opponents put down the cocktail glass or wine bottle.

Well, why don't you just legalize crack while you're at it. What are ya, high? Of course it's different. Plus which, it stinks worse that cigarettes; at least alcohol doesn't pollute someone else's airspace.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197421

when was the last time some stoner beat up his wife or girl friend after smoking a bong full? Same question to those that drink alcohol?

Yeah change the subject. No one said anything about other drugs. We are just talking about marijuana.

Let me know when you make sure all the drunks are off the road...a much worse kind of pollution.

What you drunk?

Legalize it, keep it away from kids.

I brought up other drugs because you brought up alcohol. If you want to bring up a different substance, so I shall, too. You expanded the topic first.

But there, champ seems to have solved our economic crisis.

Pot only became illegal as a way of harassing people of color Mexicans and blacks. It wasn't made illegal due to any medical information.

It's a racist law.

Alcohol, a pothead's only defense...and it isn't one.
You will never win your war.

"But there, champ seems to have solved our economic crisis."

Thrice in one-week! Who says I'm not generous? I give you all this wisdom for free!

Harry J. Anslinger quotes:
Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men.

ha-ha-ha. That's a funny one. Seriously, now you're gonna try the race card since alcohol is off the table?
Later.

Alcohol, a pothead's only defense...and it isn't one.
You will never win your war.

Posted by: blueINdallaS | February 6, 2009 1:05 PM

Not as long as the pharmaceutical industry controls drug-policy we won't; you're right.

http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2003/12/22/whyIsMarijuanaIllegal.html

You'll also see that the history of marijuana's criminalization is filled with:

* Racism
* Fear
* Protection of Corporate Profits
* Yellow Journalism
* Ignorant, Incompetent, and/or Corrupt Legislators
* Personal Career Advancement and Greed

Must be nice to have fact free opinions gives one liberty to say anything and not have to take responsibility for it,

Here's the best argument I can make for legalizing, or at least decriminalizing marijuana.

Take two offenders, one pot-head, and one violent criminal. Who would you prefer be imprisoned? Violent offenders walk every day because the prisons are filled up with pot-heads. Ridiculous.

Not to mention the cost to tax-payers to prosecute marijuana offenses. $900 bil stimulus, $700 bil bailout... you really want your government spending a few grand to prosecute every marijuana case?

http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200902060009?f=cf_clips

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Krugman squashes GOP stimulus talking points; asks of "completely crazy" GOP alternative package: "[H]ow much bipartisan outreach can you have when 36 out of 41 Republican Senators take their marching orders from Rush Limbaugh?"

Krugman on MSNBC

Obama's Drug Usage, didn't stop him from becoming President. so what kind of message is that sending to young people? You can use drugs, and still become the POTUS.

By the way, jobs held by people who’ve acknowledged smoking marijuana include governor of California (Arnold Schwarzenegger), astronomer (Carl Sagan), mayor of New York (Michael Bloomberg), billionaire rock star/songwriter (Paul McCartney)...

But, none of those jobs are as important as POTUS.

Right Lampe
But you can still be successful and smoke pot is the message
although Obama implies it was a mistake the others all the say they would still smoke pot if it were legal

Posters carry a quote from Mr Bloomberg, who, when asked before he became mayor if he had ever smoked marijuana, said: "You bet I did. And I enjoyed it."

Of course he also said he had to respect and enforce the marijuana laws even if he disagreed with them.

http://www.theagitator.com/2008/11/10/video-of-successful-marijuana-users/

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197410

OK, champ, lets start with that's not what I said. The reason I'd even consider buying the $500 poster is because I believe it will ultimately have more value to people who want to buy shit with Phelps' signature on them than the $300 poster will have, and the larger poster would make LP happier - not because he has to have the grander poster.

"[V]apid celebrity-obsessed culture that I feel is detrimental to our nation's youth?" Wow, maybe I should tell him to quit playing his guitar, playing basketball, soccer and swimming and lookin up to the people who do those things well because he's being ruined by doing that stuff - or is that only if he happens to hold people who have taken the sports and music he participates in to their higest level to date as his standards? I guess competition and aspiration aren't good things. Maybe not to an extent, but I think he keeps that sort of crap in pretty good perspective notwwithstanding your opinion of our society. btw, my son swims No. 1 in freestyle and butterfly on his swim team and won the long IM at the regional swim meet last summer - go figure that he'd have Phelps as an inspiration.

I'm not rich, but I'm fortunate enought that I can afford to buy my kid something he thinks is special if I'm so inclined - and IF I'm going to buy anything - which I haven't committed or decided to do - and with an eye toward treating it as an investment to boot, I'm not going to be penny wise and pound foolish about it. And no, I don't plan to try and pass a forgery of Michael Phelps' signature off on my kid as the real thing - it's not worth the disappointment he'd feel when he discovered that dad played him for a fool. I can get him the unsigned poster for $30 - which would also make him happy and which I'd do before I'd try and pass one off I signed as genuine when it wasn't. I thought you were smarter than to suggest that.

Appeasing the centrists

Atrios is right, though I’d put it a bit differently: centrism is a pose rather than a philosophy. And to support that pose, the centrists are demanding $100 billion in cuts in the economic stimulus plan — not because they have any coherent argument saying that the plan is $100 billion too big, not because they can identify $100 billion of stuff that should not be done, but in order to be able to say that they forced Obama to move to the center.

Which raises the obvious question: shouldn’t Obama have made a much bigger plan, say $1.3 trillion, his opening gambit? If he had, he could have conceded to the centrists by cutting it to $1.2 trillion, and still have had a plan with a good chance of really controlling this slump. Instead he made preemptive concessions, only to find the centrists demanding another pound of flesh as proof of their centrist power.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/appeasing-the-centrists/

Lighten up, pogo. Not for nothing, that poster won't appreciate in value long-term. Wanna buy my Ken Griffey Jr. rookie card? It's in mint condition. Didn't think so.

Why the American public is catching a severe case of stupid. Cable channels have featured Republican lawmakers two to one except for MSNBC where appearances of Rep and Dem were almost equal.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/28/cable-news-stimulus/

"You don't need to link every comment, btw. I know to whom you are 'speaking'. -- Posted by: champ"

but it sure is helpful to me, and i assume others, when everyone links or quotes the part of another comment they are referring to. hard to follow a dialogue otherwise. unless you don't want anyone else to understand, in which case why not just exchange emails? not a bad idea for some sub-threads

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197458

KGC - Most people who refer to themselves as moderate aren't really moderate ... something the so called "centrists" tend to forget. It is more like a Chinese menu, "I'll take one from column A and one from Column B"

Lindsay Graham is a total and complete ASS (sorry just watching the demagoguing twit on CSPAN)

KGC

Beat you to it. Nyah Nyah :-)

Jamie
Absolutely! Once again the maroons in the media miss the point and discuss stupid irrelevant issues instead of what is really going on. They make it a "horse race" whiners and losers instead of covering the news.

Making the "Centrists Poseurs" looks like intelligent thoughtful legislators is quite a feat.

Didn't mean to step on your link :))))) speedy fingers!

My way discourages thread-skimming, Craig

so champ if it is so important to you do it your way, why not start your own blog and let Craig run his blog like he wants to. Ain't nobody died and left you the blog boss.

I'm watching Sen "john" David Vitter on CSPAN talking about ACORN in relation to the stimulus package. Why is this guy allowed to show his face without someone every day talking about his DC madam HOOKERS? "John" is up for reelection in 2010. This guy was paying for HOOKERS with his senate salary while Katrina was hitting the shore of Louisiana. He was with his HOOKER when Bush and Brownie were flying over over his home state!!! He's a family values conservative!!! Where is his hooker now...some reporter needs to find her AND put her on TV....HOOKERGATE!!!!

Boy if you aren't watching C SPAN you are missing a good fight. Dodd is on fire, and LIndsay Graham is still in insufferable ass.

Thank you, thank you. I think popular opinion is swinging against me, so there's hope yet.

Oh, sorry:

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197472

Did Dodd's face lite up like a Road Flare? I'd pay for a signed poster of that.

What would you pay for a soundtrack of Graham spitting and stuttering stupidity?

(Just to be clear, the bill has too many tax cuts, and if the Axis of Centrism can't swallow the price tag, they can get rid of the $70 billion AMT patch and the $35 billion home-buying credit and the auto-buying credit, cuts which won't help anyone who can't afford a home or a car and will just give away free money to people who would have bought those items anyway. There's your $100 billion in cuts.)
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/army-of-krugmans-by-dday-paul-krugman.html

What happened to HLOC?

oh right I forgot
"Barack Obama delivered a good speech yesterday in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. It was marred by his failure to address, or promise to address, the plight of homeowners and Main Street in this country. Unlike Hillary Clinton, Obama has not embraced a modern day HOLC. It is perplexing to me why he refuses to do so."
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/10/2/14528/8194

Brig Gen Wants Obama To State His Qualifications

"We the People of the United States of America" are entitled to know the legal qualifications of the President and Commander in Chief. For the better good and National Security of "We the People of the United States" and for Absolute Command of the Military Forces of the United States. I whole heartedly support the efforts of Dr. Orly Taitz, ESQ for taking legl action to determine whether or not Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, Citizen of Indonesia and possibly citizen of Kenya, is eligible to become President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces."

http://rense.com/general85/qual.htm

Gordo

Do you get paid by the word, accusation, lie, misstatement, obfuscation, or idiocy?

Does anyone know how to shut GORDO off????

If it would help, I'd be glad to give him a cracker.

Rule of Law: Obama Must Deport His Aunt

"The national organization, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, is filing an arrest request with Immigration and Customs Enforcement today and issuing a public demand for President Obama to honor his rhetoric about the Rule of Law by deporting his aunt Zeituni Onyango.

Zeituni Onyango is an illegal immigrant, who is currently under a court's order to leave the country or be deported, and has been living in taxpayer subsidized housing in Boston for five years. She is currently a fugitive from justice and is staying with friends in Cleveland vowing to fight against being deported now that her nephew is President."

http://www.alipac.us/article-3946-thread-1-0.html

"Do you get paid by the word, accusation, lie, misstatement, obfuscation, or idiocy?"

ROFL!

By the way, Jamie -- I'm with you on Graham -- my God the man is a complete loon. I cracked up at the footage of Boxer mocking him....talk about a sputtering answer!

Sebelius looking good for a senate win....I hope she runs for the Senate and doesn't take on HHS (if offered). She may be the only Dem who can hand us a Kansas senate seat.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/sebelius-early-leader-for-kan.-senate-seat-2009-02-06.html

I have no idea of the validity of this story, but I've been tempted to mention it here before and your pot vs. alcohol discussion prompts me to lay it out for your comments or observation.

About 25 years ago, a retired high school administrator, who was old enought to know, was addressing our local Rotary Club and threw this into his talk. His story was that marijuana, and he may have even included cocaine, was only made illegal after prohibition ended. His take was that the government had all these "revenuers" (my word not his) that would have been put out of work if they didn't have some evil to chase down.

The story sounded just logical enough to be true, and we didn't have the magic of Trailmix and Google back then, so I went home wondering if the guy was full of hot air, or had given us solid history.

The story doesn't conflict with kgc's statement that the legislation targeted drugs that were popular among certain segments of society. In fact, if it was tied to the lifting of prohibition you might even have a stronger argument that the government was yielding to "white society" but still wanted to keep "those others" in line.

I'm just a beer guy and way beyond my ken here, but some of you with a greater historical perspective can feel free to refute or endorse the professor's story.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197459

Champ, sure - I'll give you $10 for it.

Everyone have a good one - I gotta split.

EdVB

http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2003/12/22/whyIsMarijuanaIllegal.html

http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/mj005.htm

KGC's right, EdVB. Marijuana use was primarily restricted to segments of the black community in the 20's and 30's, and criminalizing it's use gave authorities yet another reason to arrest such people. The reason those laws are still on the books is a result of pharmaceutical industry pressures, as they want you doing their drugs, not yours.

This is a shrewd move from Senate Majority Leader Reid:

Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME), one of the four Republicans considered genuinely open to cooperation with Democrats on a workable economic recovery bill, just released a statement saying she was approached by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to come up with a list of trims from the $275 billion-plus tax section of the stimulus[:]

I was approached this morning and asked to work directly with leadership to amend the tax section of the stimulus bill in order to develop compromise language that could pass the Senate. The total reductions sought by leadership will closely resemble the amount I recommended to the President during our meeting on Wednesday. This is a critical time for our nation. Our economy shed another 598,000 jobs last month - the most since 1974 - propelling the national unemployment rate to 7.6 percent. Until we deliver to the American people an economic stimulus package that spurs significant job creation and helps those most affected during these trying economic times, I will continue to work, as I have for months, with leadership and the Administration.

Let's see if "bipartisanship" is as important to the Beltway "bipartisan" BSers when it comes to taking out ineffective stimulus - otherwise known as tax cuts.
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2009/2/6/16256/54777

playing poker with Reid?

EdvB

Virtually all drugs were completely legal and available over the counter until the 1920s. As you have probably heard Coca Cola was originally a patent medicine containing cocaine. I know my grandmother would tell stories of buying Laudanum (opiate) for various home usages of the time. Quite simply most people made their own medicines. This sometimes led to addictions, the opiates being the most common.

Here is an article that covers some of the drug bans with the emphasis on hemp

http://stason.org/TULARC/health/hemp-marijuana/16-How-and-why-was-hemp-made-illegal.html

KGC,

God love Olympia Snowe. Maybe the Dems can clear out some room under the salary cap and trade Lieberman for her.

KGC, Whether you think what Phelps did was illegal or not, you have to admit thbat one picture of him holding a bong cost him a hell of a lot of money. That's reason enough for me to think what he did was stupid.

kgc, Jamie, and Champ,

Thanks, interesting reading. The old Prof didn't have it all, but he was a lot closer to right than I was willing to give him credit for.

If nothing else, that link showed that the evil of lobbyists and special interests is not a new phenomena.

Corey

It is illegal. It shouldn't be. Did he make an expensive mistake? Absolutely. What kind of a "friend" took the picture and sold it? I'm sure he will be a lot more careful about who he parties with in the future.

I agree, Corey. This cell phone camera world ought to be on any celebrity's mind....

That does it...........no more frosted flakes. I'm switching to frozen waffles..........

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197374

"The high cost of living ain't nothing like the cost of living high."

Jamey Johnson lyrics (he sang it on Leno last night).

KGC, I'm anti-weed and yeah I know how that sounds. I not against alcohol, but against weed. The people around me would be just as angry with if I got busted with a DUI or busted for weed. As Craig Ferguson said, "If you can't trust a college kid with a camera phone who you've never met, who can you trust?" Many people who live here don't drink or smoke at all. I'm also anti-cigarettes. It reminds 2 guys I worked with. One guy chewed tobacco. Another guy said, "You need to give that up!" He responded with, "I'll quit chewing, if you quit drinking coffee." They then put up money to see who could last the longest. I never thought weed smoking was cool. I saw an old guy in Ann Arbor wearing a shirt that said, "Legalize hemp" a few years ago, I felt sorry for the guy. I could easily give up alcohol, give pot stoners give up weed?

"What kind of a "friend" took the picture and sold it? "

That's what I'd be interested in if I were Phelps....

My turn.

I'm of both minds re pot. I understand the arguments of both sides so guess I will be ok with either side. The idea of its being a racial trap makes sense and makes me angry, tho.

I do, however, think that people who are stoned are no fun and don't join in a group - they just kind of sit there.
It seems one can drink a lot more alcohol but not be legally drunk and still be capable of participating. I don't know how much pot it takes to put someone out of commission, tho.

Also, the smell is nasty. The biggest thing re it is that it involves smoking - it's the system of delivery which is factually damaging. It is also the law, stupid or not. Phelps lost the sponsor who deals with and aims at kids - makes sense. He kep the ones who deal with adults - sounds ok.

I wouldn't turn anyone in for doing it but can't understand why anyone would settle for being extremely happy, knowing that it is a false sensation and will end soon. Maybe I'm a control freak.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197492

Lardo, There is a limit to even Mr. Crawford's miracle making abilities.

"Let them that don't want none.......have memories of not gettin' any."

---Brother Dave Gardiner

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197503

Sturgeone,

Shredded wheat - two to a package = 2 servings of fiber at 160 calories add non fat milk and a banana and your digestive system will love you all day.

Alternative - Stone ground oatmeal cooked in Soy Milk.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/02/04/obama/

"The new Great Communicator ... isn't"

"Obama is stumbling in the stimulus debate -- and public support is dropping -- because for 30 years Republicans have lied about the role of government. Now he's got to tell the truth."

By Joan Walsh

And...new baby news.

His only name so far is Baby Mischief, so named by his 4 1/2 year old big brother. Both bb's adore him. Yesterday the 4 1/2 yo was holding his and kissing his head and telling him not to worry - I've got you.

Baby Mischief sleeps and eats a lot. Birth weight was 8'14" - two weeks later he is 9'7" and noticeably longer.
Neither parent is over 5'6" - I had an uncle and nephew who were 6'5" or so. Those pesky recessive genes!

He wakes up maybe once a night. The doc can't figure out why momma isn't a basket case, totally over-whelmed. I told you she is a remarkable person.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-02-06/they-still-hate-us/

"They Still Hate Us!"
by Katty Kay

"After Barack Obama’s election, the world was supposed to fall in love with America again. But as the BBC’s Katty Kay notes, a new poll shows that that the world isn’t in any hurry to forgive"

"and kissing his head and telling him not to worry - I've got you."

What a cool thing, Bethy!

"Todd Palin found in contempt"

Todd and Sarah Palin made one of their (many) mistakes by not getting ahead of that troopergate BS story. They should have come out blasting, saying that any trooper who tasers a teenager should lose his job, and anybody protecting said trooper should lose theirs...PLUS, I personally would have said, "By gawd, you threaten my family at your peril..."

http://hillary.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/02/06/the_hrc_poll_what_should_clinton_avoid_on_her_first_trip_overseas

"The HRC Poll: What should Clinton avoid on her first trip overseas?"

Uncle Jim
by Peter Meinke

What the children remember about Uncle Jim
is that on the train to Reno to get divorced
so he could marry again
he met another woman and woke up in California.
It took him seven years to untangle that dream
but a man who could sing like Uncle Jim
was bound to get in scrapes now and then:
he expected it and we expected it.

Mother said, It's because he was the middle child,
and Father said, Yeah, where there's trouble
Jim's in the middle.

When he lost his voice he lost all of it
to the surgeon's knife and refused the voice box
they wanted to insert. In fact he refused
almost everything. Look, they said,
it's up to you. How many years
do you want to live? and Uncle Jim
held up one finger.
The middle one.

Well the Senate may have come up with the ultimate solution. They eliminated the pandemic research money. Absolutely right. One really good pandemic and no more job shortage anywhere.

Members of the military, please fill out your 138 grievancies to verify Soetoro/Obama’s legitimacy for position of Commander in Chief and write to your Congressmen and “Soldiers and Sailors Act”

"I strongly support Morgan Ward’s excellent initiative. I fully agree with his assertion that “…each soldier has this right without ANY repercussions for writing to his/her congressman under the “Soldiers and Sailors Relief act”..” and therefore I call on every soldier to make use of Article 138 in order to do what is right and proper."

http://www.oilforimmigration.org/facts/?p=988

"But it's good to know you feel it's cool for elected officials to use the power of their office to settle personal vendettas. "

I agree that he should have shown up. But I hardly consider a teenager-tasering-trooper merely a "personal" issue. I don't want that asshole out on the highway if any of my teenage relatives are at his mercy. I am not a fan of that kind of cop. I also find it stunning that the Governor of a state in this country could have her family threatened and everybody gives it a big ho-hum.

But then, I don't look at everything through blinders.

Patsi - I so enjoy watching these boys and their momma that I almost forget to insist on my turn to hold the baby.

When she sits on the sofa with baby to nurse him or just hold him while he sleeps, the other two climb up and basically hang on her and the three of them talk to baby. It's just mind-blowing.

I asked her once if she had always known how she would raise babies, and she said she had never even considered it. She just doesn't shut people out - I think several of her friendss from high school might owe her for their social success. I love our kids equally, but I can't describe her. My nephew and other niece make sense to me and I can desricbe them - but this one?
I don't know how she does it - I don't know how she can be what she is.

" Bernardine Dohrn, called the bill "obviously, patently insane."

ROFL! And that is what some of us involved in peaceful anti-war activities in '71 and '72 called you, Ms. Dohrn. The Weather Underground did more damage to the anti-war movement than Tricky Dicky.

(Although I think Ayers is probably an arrogant prick, I don't think he needs firing. Let him continue justifying bombs-against-bombs.)

If every college professor who was an arrogant prick had been fired, I'd not have had enough teachers to fulfill degree requirements.

"The Weather Underground did more damage to the anti-war movement than Tricky Dicky."

That was their assigned mission -- I don't expect any of you to know about this.

Don't try to lecture me on Vietnam anything, Gordo.

Corey

People often confuse alcohol or drug use with alcohol and drug abuse. Pretty much since the beginning of time, people have used one thing or another to get high. Some prefer one some another. As with most things, if you use it in moderation and use common sense, it shouldn't be anybody's business but your own. It's an adult's choice. Legalizing pot doesn't mean it's ok to drive stoned or show up at work baked. The same laws and common sense would apply. To me, it's a stupid law and the same kind of regulation that tries to tell people what is ok to do in their sex lives.

As for the smell. It is a problem. One of the biggest complaints in Mendocino County is the odor from pot gardens and it is pretty stinky. So while growing is ok -- they are going to limit the size of the gardens to cut down the smell. Also, you can always eat pot, if smoking bothers you. Brownies, cookies there are even recipes for main courses.

To each their own and others should just butt out.

"Don't try to lecture me on Vietnam anything, ..."

Exactly the kind of response I was expecting from you.

If not reported by TV -- you don't know about it.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197538

Artur Davis: I'm not in his congressional district, but I would likely vote for him in the gube race.

I think Charles Barkley has already blown his chances.

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/index.cfm#PetFood

list of pet food products from the FDA

Bethy and Katherine; Thanks so much for your kind words. And Katherine, I can feel your arms around me as I sit here.

So sorry, Lampe!

"yeah Gordo, Patsi almost single handed brought the Vietnam War to an end!"

Sucking up to Gordo, now?

Lampe - my arms are around you, too. Words can't do much at a time like this.

Sometimes you find the most caring people, in the last place you would expect! Thanks Everyone!!

Little Maggie, my best friend, and I are both very sorry about your loss. When your pup passes on you will have another angel in heaven watching over you. Remember what you spell when you reverse the letters in the word d o g.

ct: What a lovely thought, give Little Magggie a Kiss for me.

Ahh, Craig, things like this are why I love you so...

(part of the reason, anyway)

<3

Bethyboo: Very Interesting. Won't be able to attend, because I live in Pa. But, am more than willing to call and see about making a donation. Advantages, must be given to both boys and girls.

Banking scandal now on 20\20 ABC.

Marijuana is much safer than Haldol, Valium, or Librium. I can add Thalidomide (it's back) Ambien, several others prescription meds, and tobacco and bacon.

Make weed a prescription drug, and BIg Pharma and their puguglican stooges will promote the stuff during the dinnertime news.

Hey, GORDO, I don't remember seeing you in Viet Nam. Where'd you serve ?

In family news, one of my Mom's 2 living sisters was in the hospital in Toledo for treatment of pneumonia. While she was there, they ran a series of tests on her. The doctors found a mass on her chest. My Aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer over 10 years ago. They removed her right breast. This mass they found was located in the same area that her cancer was in before. They did a biopsy and said it is a malignant tumor. They told her the cancer has spread to her lungs. My Aunt smoked cigarettes for probably 50 years or so. She is gonna start treatment immediately. It does not sound good.

Corey: My thoughts go out to you and your family. And, i will say a pray for your Aunt.

BTW, I chatted with Bear for awhile this morning. He seems to be doing pretty good.

Sometimes you think your problems are the biggest ones in the World. Until, someone else tells you of theirs and, it brings you right back done to earth.

Xrep

It may be safer than bacon but not as tasty.
Then again it may lead to the eating of more bacon, there for just as bad.

Smoke em if ya got em

Jack

I know. I was talking with a friend at work the other night. I asked him, "So...where are you working now?" He said, "Honda! That's where it's at! Haven't you heard?!" I laughed at his response and then he said, "Tomorrow night is my last night. I'm getting laid off long-term!" That changed the mood. So many people are getting laid off or forced to go on other shifts right now. It's not fun.

I found some interesting reading tonight. A singer named Jem has wrote a few blog entries recently that are a good read. Apparently, she posted a message to 'Letters To The President Obama". She posted what she wrote on her blog. It was very praising of Obama. I guess she took a lot of heat about it. She wrote a entry in response to the criticism she received after writing this note. The other entry is about meeting some guy named Jesse Dylan. A guy who told her that while he wasn't a musician, his Dad was. LOL!

http://www.jem-music.net/blog.php

Bethy, when I flew to NYC nearly 3 years ago, my friend who lives in Brooklyn told me to fly to La Guardia, not JFK. She said she has always had some type of problems whenever she dealt with JFK. So, I flew to and from La Guardia.

In honor of today's Congressional deliberations - The Country Is In The Very Best of Hands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eow041tUPBA

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197589

Corey,

Jem is a gem! Thank you.

Don't let the bed bugs bite, y'all...

Bethyboo; I know your weren't asking for donations,but this seems like a very worthy program to me. I will call, and I will find out about making a donation. If asked any questions, I will just reply, " I saw it somewhere, but I just can't remember where."

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197413

Ah courtesy! A word that is important to the blog and how we live our lives. Let's try to include courtesy and civility in our discussions. Keyword: "try".

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197536

The Weather Underground was a radical off-shoot of the 1960s activist group: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). SDS created a founding document laying out an agenda for a new generation. Their institutional infrastructure was the University. They felt, rightly so, that the university was a foundation for instituting social change.

http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/huron.html

As in all social movements, there was dissension in the ranks. Some wanted to work within the system to change it, some wanted to peacefully oppose the said institutions that were seen as the impediments to social change. There was also a small group that felt the system was so corrupt that only through radical (and sometimes violent) actions, could society being to change. That group eventually became "The Weather Underground". Their belief of change "by any means necessary" damaged a legitimate social movement in my opinion and has wrongly implicated SDS for the problems that later occurred.

One issue that I think was overlooked in the founding of a live and relevant student activist social movement was the motivation to stand against the Vietnam war. As is true in many such movements, once that rallying force is finished, the glue that held the movement together basically dissolves.

An interesting note. I spoke with a former VP at the college I attended and she was part of the SDS. She mentioned that the movement was passionate on human rights, civil rights, ending war, invigorating education and working for societal good. One thing that REALLY BOTHERED her though.. the members would go to protest rallies carrying around signs and garnering attention (which is of course the intent). But, as soon as the protests were done, the male members expected the female members to prepare the meals and handle the other household responsibilities. Their greatest weakness as a social movement, was to not recognize sexism as a debilitating factor in achieving many of their goals. Most were not even able to examine their own sexism or see it as a problem.

off to work, student worker has the flu

photo by Bayard Wooten.......charleston flower girl......

http://smsnoveltiques.com/images/pc-flgirl.jpg

That's the TV version of TWU -- most people bought the PR.

The anti-war groups were manipulated to create a backlash.

Hint: foundations

stayed here once in 63..........quite a joint.........

http://www.alamedainfo.com/San_Francisco_CA_Hotel_Manx.jpg

a virtual tour of a place I haunt on the blue ridge parkway.......has a piano and a fireplace in the great room.......no tv's in rooms.....antique furniture.......

http://www.switzerlandinn.com/tour.htm

Probably a good site to bookmark for future reference -- where the tax money goes:

http://www.usaspending.gov/

Strug up late..... Nice hotel, Inn, Lodge links...

Peter Hoekstra - {R} MIchigan breached security trip to Iraq.

"A delegation led by House Minority Leader John A. Boehner , R-Ohio, arrived in Iraq earlier today, and because of Rep. Peter Hoekstra , R-Mich., the entire world -- or at least Twitter.com readers--now know they're there.

"Just landed in Baghdad," messaged Hoekstra, a former chairman of the Intelligence panel and now the ranking member, who is routinely entrusted to keep some of the nation's most closely guarded secrets."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/06/gop-congressman-breached_n_164809.html

So tell me, if any of our congressman get killed in a car bomb can Hoekstra be charged for their deaths? Wouldn't that be considered leaking classified information and shouldn't he have all his security clearances pulled?

Oh that's right, he's just another Fascist Republican and we all know that they consider themselves Above The Law.

PS: Tried to call several Senators and all their voice mails are full.

Blonde -- It occurred to me this morning what Reagan really meant when he made one of his "transformative" statements.

He was no doubt talking about the wall that was built in NYC to keep out feral pigs. They then named the area Wall Street.

Reagan welcomed the pigs back in, saying, "Tear down this wall."

Anon, Hoekstra is my Congressman. He has talked about not running for re-election the next time he is up for it. He was talking about running for Governor of Michigan instead.

Hi Corey...

It sure sounds like he endangered the whole group on that trip and if so what will be done about it?

The Republicans keep on hurting our security with their policies.

Hoekstra easily wins re-election each time. It's never even close. He was the guy who I saw get booed while he was walking in the Tulip Time parade last year. I didn't think that was the time for it. The biggest complaint I've heard about him was that when he first ran for office, he made some comment about I am not going to run for re-election after serving in office for awhile. He then changed his mind about that. As I said, his latest plan is to possibly run for Governor in the next election. He is a popular Republican here, but I don't know if that will translate to vote across the entire state.

I think that what would be neat is a march on Washington in favor of President Obama's Stimulus Plan.

If close to two {2} million could show up for his Inauguration just think what 10 Million people marching in support of President Obama's plan would do.

It would put the fear of God in the Republicans wondering if the people were going to drag them out of there offices and run them out of town on a rail. After Tar and Feathering them that is.

Maybe then we could finally start to restore Our Constitution.

Anon...I agree with everything you typed. The repugs are evil. And stated income is always a tricky area with the IRS. Sex is always a tricky area for all humans, I guess. As I stated, the dems are pale in their "crimes,"

My husband has three weeks to decide how to deal with his cancer...freeze the cancer or take the entire kidney. I have decided his tumor is republican. This week was the first time I have seen my hubby in a funk...he is usually a muse in many ways. He knows his urologist is a republican...when my hubby made mention of the insurance, the doctor stated "everybody wants something for nothing." I think that is No. 2 on the republican talking points sheet.

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Excuse me Gordo, but I did student the social movement in college and I focussed on the SDS... You really are a piece of work.

anon...a march would be great...plenty of unemployed to attend.

anon...who is the Bayard Rustin of the new age?

the doctor stated "everybody wants something for nothing.
WTF does that mean...sounds to me like the insurance companies want something in return for nothing and the idiot doctor is their enabler.

KGC...yep, this is the guy in charge of killing the tumor. It is the insurance companies that collect thousands of dollars who expect it all for nothing in return. This is the core of our rotten health care system. I believe the doctors are also getting fucked by the system and blame the little peeps again....and where are all of the Americans who get something for nothing?

Time to make some breakfast burritos...can't forget the simple pleasures. Have a wonderful day, all.

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Blonde....

Sorry to hear that. The good thing though not what one would want is the fact we all have two kidneys.

If he has to give one up to keep it from spreading may be the only choice he really has in the long run.

Sturg,

To my totally untrained eye, the Hotel Manx bears a striking architectural resemblance to The Hotel Syracuse. (I did a cursory search and couldn't find any picture of it.) The place is virtually out of business, and whenever I'm out there, I try to look for signs that it may be coming back.

I was in Syracuse in November and saw that at least some of the store windows on the ground floor showed signs of life.

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You are excused.

You know the mainstream version -- the "false reality" fed to the public.

It's all about manipulation -- control the masses.

Many people prefer being sheeple -- makes life easier.

In order to get the "compromise" passed last night, they removed health care and educational items in order to squeeze in more tax cuts.

Why are the Democrats even giving these (expletive, expletive, expletives) the time of day? I know COBRA is an insurance company scam, but it is better than nothing.

The youngest group of adults now has fewer college degrees than the oldest in a time when educational costs have gone through the roof while school infrastructure is crumbling.

But let's have another tax cut that won't help at all. It is non existant money that didn't work the last time it was tried and it will be wasted effort again.

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I really don't know Blonde. But it is obvious that we need someone to stand up for those who can not stand up for themselves.

And yes it is the Insurance companies who want something for nothing.

State Farm is pulling out of Home Insurance in Florida because they got turned down on a 47% increase they ask for.

For years when there were no major hurricanes they made lots of money. Get hit once and they cry while delaying or refusing to honor claims.

That's another industry that needs re regulating if you ask me.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197648

How about that. GORDO just admitted that he is a sheeple.

Why is NBC giving this littering octuplet nut case any air time? The only thing they should be doing is keeping track of who is paying the bills for her obsessive stupidity

(maternity care? Hospital? long term child care for kids with probably disabilities? Welfare? Educational costs for mommy?)

Another way to spell sheeple -- OBOT.

Jamie...

See the problem the pro lifers have. If she would have aborted and of them they would have screamed that she was murdering babies.

Now that she chose to keep them they are crying about the care and money it will cost to raise them.

If they really care then they should help support them since she did the right thing and carried them to birth.

Wikipedia...the last word in anything...

Here's what the pork industry says:

The pig dates back 40 million years to fossils which indicate that wild pig-like animals roamed forests and swamps in Europe and Asia. By 4900 B.C. pigs were domesticated in China, and were being raised in Europe by 1500 B.C.

On the insistence of Queen Isabella, Christopher Columbus took eight pigs on his voyage to Cuba in 1493. But it is Hernando de Soto who could be dubbed "the father of the American pork industry." He landed with America's first 13 pigs at Tampa Bay, Florida in 1539. Native Americans reportedly became very fond of the taste of pork, resulting in some of the worst attacks on the de Soto expedition.

By the time of de Soto's death three years later, his pig herd had grown to 700 head, not including the ones his troops had consumed, those that ran away and became wild pigs (and the ancestors of today's feral pigs or razorbacks), and those given to the Native Americans to keep the peace. The pork industry in America had begun.

Pig production spread throughout the new colonies. Hernando Cortez introduced hogs to New Mexico in 1600, and Sir Walter Raleigh brought sows to Jamestown Colony in 1607. Semi-wild pigs conducted such rampages in New York colonists' grain fields that every owned pig 14 inches high had to have a ring in its nose. On Manhattan Island, a long solid wall was constructed on the northern edge of the colony to control roaming herds of pigs. This area is now known as Wall Street.

Green chile is still a miracle...good burritos.

anon...the insurance industry certainly needs reform.
Jamie....NBC is hoping their Angelina look alike will boost ratings.

Posted by: anon-paranoid Author Profile Page | February 7, 2009 10:58 AM

I really enjoy your philosophical arguments with yourself. Thanks.

Jamie, that woman already has book and tv offers. Those should her support her new babies.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197660

I'm glad you liked it Champ. But I have heard the Right Wingers use both of those arguments. They want their cake while wanting to eat it as well.

*Help*

While I don't agree with what she did I won't condemn her either.

The Repug's want to tell a women what she should do with her body and only the women should have the right to decide whats right for themselves. And not for anyone else to decide for her.

6 kids + 8 more equals crazy to me, Anon.

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These irrational fertility treatments certainly complicate the ethical argument to that end, an argument I don't feel we should be having if her doctors exercised responsibility on their parts.

I'll condemn what she and her doctors did. Bringing one kid into the world without having some sense of how you'll support it is irresponsible (giving everyone a free pass for their 1st), bringing 8 on top of 6 is just plain selfish. They should have pumped her full of Thorazine, not embryos.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197656

If they had done the right thing, they would oppose her ever getting in vitro in the first place. After all those embryos are "children".

The Right to Lifers don't want them available for scientific research so the unused ones get thrown out.

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Corey, I have my doubts. The birth alone is probably pushing the million dollar mark. Future medical care could be lots more.

That and the fact that she comes across as if she traded her brain cells for eggs. "I make myself available to my children" ... well whoop tee do, aint that special?

All the money in the world won't buy those kids a father.

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Champ

That isn't always a bad thing. A single parent of either sex can be an excellent situation.

Two parents male/female, male/male, or female/female are probably the perfect arrangement just isn terms of time and money, but single parents can be better than many duos.

Who knew? Mofaz, the depressed persian tow truck driver n(MAD TV fame), may actuallly be the father of the octuplet producing daughter! He has gone back to Iran to drive....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzEbA2hTdbY

The Senate is fighting again.

1653

A palisade called "The Wall" is erected at the northern edge of the city of New Amsterdam on southern Long Island. Although The Wall also served to keep out indians, it was marauding pigs — descendants of the Hulft heard who escaped into the forest — who were the primary foe the wall was intended to deter. The pigs sought to returned to the city to root up gardens and rummage trash piles. The street that paralleled the inside of this wall became the present day site of Wall Street in lower Manhatten.

And...more about Wall Street pigs...

http://books.google.com/books?id=RTHJolbm7HcC&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=history+of+wall+street+wall+to+keep+out+wild+pigs%3F&source=web&ots=XTLTlTz2vx&sig=nrBU_M8H1YAVq0LyT_Hii7Yzciw&hl=en&ei=IMGNSY_hDIH8tgeMisSECw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result

Jamie, I'm just saying she could get some money from that. That might help her a little bit. My sister took a genetics class a few years ago. They studied embyros. She said that there was no research that showed embyonic stem cell research helps scientists at all. That said, Michigan passed a proposal in the November election that permits this. I voted for it, my sister voted against it, as did most people who live in this area of Michigan. My Mom has said to me a few times, "Why did her doctor allow her to go through with this if she already had 6 kids at home that she was having trouble to support? That all doesn't matter now. The question is what can be done now to help her support these 8 babies?

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197681

Champ, I wasn't referring to the octuplets. I meant most families with the traditional one or two kids can do quite well with a single parent.

We don't disagree about have a father and mother figure in a child's life. Those images are important in the child's development. I'm just saying that it isn't an absolute necessity for them to be a live in presence.

As to the 14. I just feel sorry for them. I can only hope the grandparents are little saner than their daughter.
Even at that, it is an overwhelming burden and she is a totally selfish and irresponsible human being who probably shouldn't have had one child much less a brood.. That much "NEED" should never be inflicted on a small human being.

And just in case those are too tricky to read...here's an exercise that teaches 3rd and 4th grade students to assimilate new information, including the pig/Wall Street connection....

http://tinyurl.com/awzg8x

Jamie, My Mom heard the other day that the birth mother's Mom was gonna leave.

" to protect themselves from Indians, priates, and other dangers. "

Hmm...

Wild Pigs/Other Dangers

a connection? Ya think?

One more time GORDO, at my college we didn't use textbook sources or "mainstream media analysis". We read original documents and source books on subjects. So... try again.

GORDO, I am more than ever convinced that you never were a Hillary supporter but another right wing nut case that was trying to stir the shit on blogs to create negatives for the Democratic candidate. GORDO, I know Democrats, Democrats are friends of mine. And you sir, are no Democrat.. and you never were.

"Fallen Angels
Fallen Angels

I got a man in the business line
He power hungry, he's a money mine
Smooth as satin he's a big time shark
Fallen Angel
I got a brother, oo he mean as sin
He got a brother who's just like him
Livin' over in Moscow, 2 of a kind.
How come the great power got the junkie mind
Fallen Angels
They never get enough
Fallen Angels oo oo
They got the addictions
Fallen Angels
They litter the skies
Fallen Angels
Don't you wanna turn 'em around
Turn 'em around

I got a man in the USA
He runnin' guns with the CIA
He's the best that being bad can be
Who'd think he do it all for me
What's it matter if you're green or red
The Yankee dollar or the commie threat
When the real power in the real world
Gonna deny it all anyway
Fallen Angels
They never get enough
Fallen Angels oo oo
They got the addictions
Fallen Angels
They litter the skies
Fallen Angels
Don't you wanna turn 'em around
Turn 'em around

You believe in the system from the top on down
Potential is a beautiful thing
It's hard to keep believing in the big time
Now you're sinking in the wind
Star light, star bright
Somebody going down tonight
Told the truth when it was time to lie
Got it right
Fallen Angels
They never gel enough
Fallen Angels hoo hoo
They got the addictions
Fallen Angels
They litter the skies
Fallen Angels
Don't you wanna turn 'em around
Turn 'em around

Fallen Angels
They never gel enough
Fallen Angels hoo hoo
They got the addictions
Fallen Angels "

written by Buffy Sainte-Marie

Damn I forgot the youtube link... enjoy

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

If we can build a wall between us and Mexico, we can build one to keep wild pigs out. LOL!

It's a shame Senator Kerry wasn't making as much sense when he ran as he is on the Senate floor today.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197684

well I don't want to support them. I would rather see them given to adoptive parents who care about the child's welfare more than a self absorbed wacko. That won't happen so society is likely to get stuck with the bill for life created by this self absorbed "my needs ahead of everything" wacko.

That's what my Mom said, "She should give them up for adoption."

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197691

ET, I don't think even the Republicans want him. What do you want to bet he has a copy of the protocols of zion and is on a phone tree of people keeping track of the Council on Foreign Relations and all those other "clubs" the secret rulers enjoy.

A comprehensive comparison of the stimulus plans pending in the Senate & House--with specific $ amounts to the various programs involved.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008714863_apcongressstimulushighlights.html

Well, do we resort to means testing to prove someone's parental worth if the births aren't due to "advances" in medical science?

I think the worst scenario in mega-mommy's mind is that she gets no more attention from the outside and does have to resort to family members and social programs to support her kids. Emotionally, it seems like she's looking for the kids to support her. She sounds like a teenager who has a baby so she will have someone to love her, but she's in her 30s. I heard she wants to go back to school to become a shrink or something. Physician, heal thyself.

I don't know if Lampe is still around, but I noticed the comment of her son dying at age 19. Just wanted to say that I know you have a permanent empty space in your heart and it's very understandable. I hope you keep him memory with you. A friend of mine said that this is our "Earth walk" but when we leave this particular aspect of our lives, we continue "walking"...

On another note.. My niece Anna has created a profile on the "Caring Bridge" website... http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/annapedley

In it she talks about her recently discovered lymphoma and the situation as it now stands. She has two pictures... a wedding pic and a pic of her two kids...

Everyone in my family is freaked out about this. My Mom starts crying if I even ask how Anna is, and I have to keep saying "it's totally treatable" but she and my sister are both beside themselves. Anna seems very calm though... I wrote her a note in the "guestbook" section...

Anyway, I am optimistic...

Tom

correction...

"you are perceived as a sexist who considers women's struggles to be of little or no importance"...

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You still don't understand.

That is understandable. How could you?

Always look for the "hidden hand".

(hint: foundations)

http://rense.com/1.imagesH/tentacles_dees.jpg

Sorry to hear about your niece, Tom.

(hint: the "uninformed" always feel threatened by the TRUTH)

Are the "foundations" 501 C (3) and where do we send donations?

And, since this seems to bother people. I'll sign off. Good God.

Coach Pat Summit has led the Lady Volunteers to 1000 wins. In the locker room she has posted these 12 directives. I wonder what it would take to get them put up in all the Congressional restrooms? This will serve to post them here.

12 directives posted in the UT locker room.

Respect yourself and others
Take full responsibility
Develop and demonstrate loyalty
Learn to be a great communicator
Discipline yourself so no one else has to
Make hard work your passion
Don't just work hard, work smart
Put the team before yourself
Make winning an attitude
Be a competitor
Change is a must
Handle success like you handle failure

Here's what Rahm Emmanuel helped the Obamacans cut from the bill do the rich could have more tax cuts

$40 billion State Fiscal Stabilization
$16 billion School Construction
$1.25 billion project based rental
$2.25 Neighborhood Stabilization (Eliminate)
$1.2 billion in Retrofiting Project 8 Housing
$7.5 billion of State Incentive Grants
$3.5 billion Higher Ed Construction (Eliminated)
$ 100 million FSA modernization
$50 million CSERES Research
$65 million Watershed Rehab
$30 million SD Salaries
$100 million Distance Learning
$98 million School Nutrition
$50 million aquaculture
$2 billion broadband
$1 billion Head Start/Early Start
$5.8 billion Health Prevention Activity.
$2 billion HIT Grants
$1 billion Energy Loan Guarantees
$4.5 billion GSA
$3.5 billion Federal Bldgs Greening

Blogs you might want to watch: Documenting the Depression of 2009

http://the2009depression.blogspot.com/

Out of how many billion that is left? And is there a breakdown for how each of those items listed about would be a positive stimulation to the economy (i.e direct creation of non-governmental jobs).

1) $70 billion dollars for a patch so that the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) doesn't affect high-middle-income earners making under $1 million dollars a year. This is passed annually because Congress is too cowardly to rewrite the tax code. But it doesn't belong in a stimulus bill, as no less than House Minority Whip JON KYL just said in a floor speech. People making $400,000 a year aren't likely to spend money they get to keep as a result of fixing the AMT.

2) At least $35 billion dollars for a $15,000 home buyer's tax credit, which will only go to people who have enough money to buy a house. This is a craven attempt to reinflate the housing bubble before prices have settled, and because there's so much inventory on the market it will not spur hardly any new home construction.

3) Around $11 billion for a tax credit for car buyers, which will only go to people who have enough money to buy a new car. This is not tied to greening the US fleet and will be implemented before fuel economy standards have changed over, so it doesn't even reward fuel efficiency or reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

These are tax breaks for suburbanites, which in all likelihood won't get spent at anywhere near the rates that they would in the hands of the poor or middle class. And they won't create jobs, either.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/lowdown-by-dday-i-am-well-aware-that.html

Dems may have won the presidential election but there are still non-democrats that are holding elected office and they have their input whether you like it or not. A civics lesson on how our government was constitutionally designed to work might be in order for those that would prefer one party dominance. I seem to remember complete outrage when Bush was quoted as saying it would be easier if he was a dictator. I sense here that if Obama said that, the comments would be along the lines of "Right on, brother!"

ICE has been Served

"US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has been served under President Bush's Executive Order of January 16, 2009."

http://defendourfreedoms.us/2009/02/07/ice-has-been-served.aspx

There is no evidence that tax cuts will add jobs or help the economy. I have no problem with input from all concerned and I think bipartisanship as described by RR the other day would be wonderful. But this is just craptastic grandstanding on the part of people from both parties who are completely clueless. I belong to the Krugman party.

I'm going to make a cat castle......maybe boxes of differing sizes with portals etc to other boxes......carpet covered.......and a lurking shelf.................

Some of those dems might just be worried about the input from their constituents. Not everyone in this country wants the government to go completely nuts on a spending spree.

After a short honeymoon, the emperor reveals he is truly naked

"It has now become inescapably apparent: The emperor indeed has no clothes. Obama is a man with no vision, no real understanding of the problems he faces, and no real solutions to offer. It seems he is simply a poser with a gift for rhetoric and an ability to get himself elected. That is all."

http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/02/07/after-a-short-honeymoon-the-emperor-reveals-he-is-truly-naked/

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef0111685178de970c-500wi

A bit of news from South of the Picket Wire :

I let the internet angry up my blood way too much. And for that .......... the greenhouse is the only cure, and I finally cleaned out the 2008 season out of ours. Wasps are out looking for water. My fish were glad to see me, I've been sitting on water out the cistern for months, but the forecast for rain is at 90% tomorrow night. Our wind will swing out of the Gulf tonight, all eyes on the dew points. The Mountains above L.A. are forecast to get a foot of snow, this is always good news for us down wind .
I fixed the rain gauge , and washed it out. I gave the photo/volt solar a cleaning. ( Picked up .3 of a volt. ) I cleaned out the screens to the water harvester, and gave the fish a big 20 gallon shot from the cistern.
We set another record here yesterday. That's 4 records in 39 days.
80 degrees ........ 77 today 21 degrees above normal. So you can see why the prospect of rain here, is such good news. Everything is dry as a bone.
If fact we store the term "bone dry" here at Lubbock, when other people aren't using it.
Now if the "rain" , will not show up in the form of hail stones the size of a softballs, wrapping an F3 tornado, we'll be all right.

Started a country song out in the greenhouse -

"Tonight the Internet Let Me Down"

My apologies to George Jones.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197743

Bowman, I'm all for Republicn input as well, but when their desires are actively at odds with the goals then they have to be shot down. The crud the Republicans want actually injure the Country they theoretically love in order to score points with their brainwashed constituents.

Over the past eight years they have completely dismantled the US Economy (not that the Dems didn't have a hand in that). To allow the same actions to continue should have people screaming "Traitor!" at the top of their lungs.

Those tax cuts should get shoved up their collective conservative backsides.

This is a Junior Brown Rock & Roll medley . It is from a show in Ann Arbour Michigan, at "The Ark" back in 2003.

Junior Brown - Rock & Roll Medley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jonJu6-XpWU

Guitar Fix for the day.

Bowman

These clowns destroyed the US Economy (with help from the dems). Now they want more of the same to make nice with their brainwashed constituents.

As far as I'm concerned every single tax cut should be excised from the "compromise" so that something can be done for the people they injured.

The alternative: Branding their foreheads with the word, "Traitor".

Junior Brown - My Wife Thinks You're Dead

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

The Saturday Night Dance Party is now on the air. So choose you partners, ladies and gents .

My apologies. I got locked out and didn't realize that my first post was lurking in limbo and typed a "retread" version ... the sentiment is the same in both.

Jamie

Some things are worth saying twice.

Junior Brown "Highway Patrol"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_wLVCLPx0M

Dwight Yoakam- Good time Charlie (Acustico)

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

Spooky Tooth - That was only yesterday

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

Peter Green - World Keep On Turning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETj5Jdf88YI

Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLyViqNdyQ4

"Trail Mix "Make Your Own Ode" Contest"

Anyone started on their video yet? I hope some of you do it, it would be really entertaining to see different ideas...on this.

The Moody Blues - I'm Just a Singer

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

The Beatles - Ticket To Ride

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsXta-92KUI

The Beatles - Get Back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVT_KRRwH0M

Nothing like a dose of guitars, and a rising dew point.

"I have gone back to mainly lurking cos,,,,it pisses my off just to hear his bullshit everyday."

If if just pisses you off why lurk? Why not just not show up? There are other options.

"Some of those repugs ought to worry about their constituents who desperately need help. This recession is hitting repugs as well as dems." - Nanny

I think they ( the repugs) are totally out of touch with reality, and I mean that sincerely...or blind, or pigheaded......

They have to know someone who is hurting due to this economy. Like you said it's hurting rich and poor alike.

It's feeding on itself, and getting worse by the day.....

Jack Welch was on CNBC the other day and he said the difference this time around, is that no one can see what is coming, so they are in sheer survival mode, and that means cutting jobs, cutting expenditures, and holding on....until they get some clarity.

It's a jungle out there, but everyone is hiding.

Beatle and Guitars ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHChc2I7FKk

There may be a number of lurkers, waiting for fireworks, like I've read here, some equate TM to a soap opera.....like it is has some sort of entertainment value.

I thought Trail Mix was moving past this sort of stuff......

that didn't sound quite right, when it's interesting and nice here TM is entertaining....I meant the bickering- not so much

Bow
I really like the links people post....to items I normally would not find.....whether political or not.... That happens a fair amount of the time.

UB - I saw Jack Welch, too, on Charlie Rose but muted it cuz I don't care for Welch any more - used to, tho. His comment seems right on, tho. Didn't you think he looked stooped and puffy?

Well , Solar, with all due respect, if you base your actions solely on the actions or non-actions of some other person, then you are no longer in control of your own life....

.....and I don't mean that in any insulting way.

By the way, UB, I wasn't referring to your post about bickering. I don't think you were specifically talking about the short and not particularly hot dispute about Wall Street.

I think he really knows big business, and he looked like he had aged quite a bit since the last time I saw him....but I have no idea when I last saw him....

Everyone certainly caters to his every word....I noticed that....

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197782

Bowman

When it comes to things financial, I tend to be rather conservative. What I don't like is the way the whole idea of Capitalism has been perverted by the champions of greed. Adam Smith knew that if there wasn't a solid ethical base to Capitalism it would die of its own avarice. Unfortunately, the banksters (word coined first in the depression as a cross between banker and gangster) have lived up to their Gecko prototype and the people they bought in Congress are serving their masters well.

Unfortuantely, we will be lucky if the US survives this latest predatory raid on the economy.

oink !

UB
Thanks----I thought that I was in total control on my life,,,,but it seems that is not true anymore,,,,now im just busy trying to stay afloat,,,and to help my family and friend if I can,,,,things are getting pretty bad for some,,,just like you said.---I base my actions9 and my life),,on what is going on around me over here,,,,,I stopped in today on the blog to catch up from the last cpl of day's thats all.

Was the pig native to America? Or did someone bring it over by boat? or up from Mexico? Who knows the pig?

Dooty -- they are getting to be a big problem in Oregon, too.

http://eugeneweekly.com/2009/02/05/coverstory.html

early settlers brought over the pig by boat, UB.

"Was the pig native to America?"

UB -- the article I posted to Dooty says they arrived with Columbus.

http://eugeneweekly.com/2009/02/05/coverstory.html

I'm dying to see the hoops. LOL!

When y'all are funny, you're very funny.

tt

Solar,
It is tough out there for everyone, and that with a capital "E", and sometimes it spills over into other areas. No one has been untouched by the economic nightmare Bush left us.

Sometimes, a little humor and letting go is the best medicine and, actually, all we can do.

Beware when Pigs begin to walk on two legs

George Orwell

Republican greed indeed. What is one to make of Tom Daschle? He cashes in to the tune of multi-millions after leaving the Senate. Is that greed or is it the reward of a grateful nation for all the sacrafices he made as a public servent? While he may not be a "Champion of greed" , he surely went beyond amateur status.

And the Lambs said "four legs bad, two legs good"
George Orwell

Well what I read about pig and how they are slaughtered in the US will turn your tummy....poor little pigs.

I personally do not eat pig," the other white meat," by choice, but I don't want one as a pet either.

The pig-loving center of the world is located in New Guinea ans the South Pacific Melanesian islands. Swine are holy animals In the past tribesmen believed that their departed ancestors crave pork.

Greed crosses party lines like any other vice.

" leave the bong out of it "...lol ...good advice BethyBoo... I bet some swimmer that we know wishes that was the case.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197811

Bowman, You will note I said "Dems helped". They may have come to DC filled with ideals, but simply got too comfortable and too enamored with being "special". The revolving door has both parties running around in circles.

That well may be the whole problem with wealth. You start at liking it, then expect it, and then demand it.
The whole rich man and the eye of the needle thing.

Dooty -- good Tom Russell piece. I wouldn't usually post a YouTube that lasts almost 10 minutes...but this is Gretchen and Tom recording -- just a little singing and some studio talk etc -- the very first guy shown, the keyboard player, is Gretchen's husband, Barry Walsh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6QixC1FlTc

Craig, this is cross posted. Seems only fitting to post the "ode" on Woody's son's site: www.arlo.net

tt

Patse---thanks for the Info that I did not know about the pig,,,,here are some more interesting stuff about them.

The Bible classifies locusts and grasshoppers as "clean" and the pig unclean,,,,,go figure,,,a little backwards

This in not in Wiki

In the middle of the nineteenth century,,the discovery that trichinosis was caused by eating undercooked pork was interpreted as a precise verification of the wisdom of Maimonides. Reform-minded Jews rejoiced in the rational substractrum of the biblical codes and promptly renounced the taboo on pork. If properly cooked, pork is not a menace too public health than it cannot be offensive to God.

The Bible and the Koran condemned the pig because pig farming was a threat to the integrity of the basic cultural and natural ecossytem of the Middle East.

Obama’s Theme Song

http://obambi.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/obamas-theme-song/

that second video still gives me chills.....what a wonderful night for our country.

Oh I thought it was election night...

Barack Hussein Obama refuses to salute US flag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU9iCANi02o&feature=related

Obama FORCED to wear the flag pin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUW1-oilDIc&feature=related

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197824

Solar, Actually locusts and grasshoppers are an excellent source of protein. It's getting past the looks that gets most people.

http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~cbader/ghprec.html

God Gordo, Don't you ever get tired of stewing in your own bile?

So was that wall made to keep the pigs out or not?

If it was, I guess it was for protecting people from the Audacity of Pork.

Hi Jamie,,,,thats right,,,,,,in Mexico in some parts I read that they are a delicacy,,,,as for me put a little salsa and cilantro and don't tell me about it until later,,,,no problema "-)

I'd add to that.........and getting past their little faces, and their crunchy little legs and their overall texture and consistency.

yum.

Not President -- Usurper

Constitutionally ineligible.

Probably not even US citizen (certainly not "natural born").

Looks like hell is still hanging around Southern Australia tonight.

Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- More than 40 people are feared dead as bushfires rage across Australia’s Victoria state.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aHmER6kUFtuA&refer=asia
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Temperatures in the state have plunged after reaching a record 46.4 degrees Celsius ( 115.53 - F ) in Melbourne yesterday.

I found this to be a very good historical explanation this morning---it is a little long but very good.

http://www.comcast.net/

The rise and (almost) fall of America's banks
news-finance-20090207-Banks.on.the.Brink

These days, you can roll up to an ATM at the grocery, the pharmacy, the gas station, the hardware store, the office, even the ballpark. You can check your Bank of America balance on your iPhone. You can text Chase, and Chase will text you back.

That's banking today: It has grown from an almost quaint relationship between teller and customer into a massive, dizzyingly interconnected network that touches almost every adult in this country.

And right now, the federal government — working without a road map, and without a net — is putting together a plan to keep U.S. banks from collapsing.

Not just to get the banks lending again. To keep them alive.

The government is expected to announce Monday a plan that analysts expect will include lifting soured mortgage assets off selected banks' books, possibly along with guarantees against other losses and maybe more direct injections of cash.

UB

Just think of them as six legged popcorn

that's funny..lol.....well with enough butter and salt ....everything taste better....but their little faces, and eye balls. Do those crunch or pop......? ewe

table just called, playing poker....have a great night everyone....

peace~

"So was that wall made to keep the pigs out or not? "

Who cares? I only posted that tidbit as a slam against R. Reagan. I won't make the mistake of slamming him again.

Hell is still hanging around Kentucky too -

In Muhlenberg County, there were 10 house fires on Friday as power was restored, FEMA officials said.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/61727.html

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"This house only has an 80 amp fuse box. It was built back in the 1940s so its not up to code,: said Close, who has spent almost two weeks with her family at a Red Cross Shelter at the First Baptist Church in Greenville. "The meter that's out there is the old meter so until a new meter gets put in and a breaker box instead of a fuse box they won't hook power up to it.
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Sybol Close, and her 8 grandkids are too poor to pay for the $2,000 bill this disaster has hit them with.

Sorry, it's a $5,000 bill that Sybol Close can't pay.

Hey, my brother-in-law's sister and her husband are taking a vacation to Alaska in July. They are going to be stopping in Wasilla. If anybody has anything they'd like them to drop off at the Palin's, let me know.

Couldn't an indian climb a wall? Or was it a very, very tall wall? a pig can't climb either. Just wondering.

Comments re: Ms. Octomom, I think that some network ought to offer her money for a 7 day reality show where she can demonstrate her expertise in childrearing by taking care of her 14 children. That ,I would like to watch. Bet she wouldn't make it through day 2. It needs to be at least a week so we can get in the grocery shopping and laundry. It just might keep others from pulling the same stunt.

Boycotting Kelloggs because they dropped Phelps? Mmmkay.

Maybe Phelps could get a new sponsor? Baked Lays....Honeybaked ham....Eckrich Smoked Sausage...

GREENVILLE, Ky. — In recent years, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has spent tens of millions of dollars to improve the emergency communications systems across Kentucky.

All it took was one ice storm last week to knock out electricity and phone service, isolating desperate communities in Western Kentucky.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/200/story/61456.html
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I sure hope Mitch McConnell hasn't porked-up this bill in congress with money for these communication systems in Kentucky. Things like fiber optic cables that don't fall down in ice storms. Let the people of Kentucky continue to use Dixie cups and string.

HOw would you know if it's on Hannity's web site. You out slumming?

Cory -
Tell them to drop off a sock for me, and one for Ashley Judd too.

If you boycott Kellogg's that hurts Michigan's economy even more.

OBAMA KNEW HE WASN’T ELIGIBLE FOR POTUS

"If one were to look at the activity on Capital Hill during the campaign, there would be no question in their minds that both McCain and Obama were sweating the “natural born citizen” issue.

Barack Obama has submitted only a Certification of Live Birth, but Hawaii law will certify a live birth using that document for births that occurred even outside of the country. Furthermore, Barack Obama’s father was Kenyan and never an American citizen. Since the status of citizenship occurs at birth, this makes Barack Obama a citizen if born in Hawaii, but not a natural born citizen. One must have two citizen parents, at the time of birth, and be born on U.S. soil, to be deemed a natural born citizen and be declared eligible for the presidency."

http://zapem.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/obama-knew-he-wasnt-eligible-for-potus/

Didn't want to get your hair wet.....? Are you talking about pubic hair cuz I didn't see any on top?

He didn't screw up. He took a hit on a bong and somebody snapped a photo of it. He was a victim of circumstance. I doubt he will retire. He's a public figure. Anything he does will be magnified 1,000,000 times. Kellogg's is a public company they made a decision. Lots of famous people do things and lose endorsements. Some people think weed is no big deal, to others, it is.

I went to a party where people from work were smoking weed. I wasn't impressed. It smelled nasty. My one co-worker who smoked and sold it said to me, "That stuff they're smoking isn't any good. I know good weed and that ain't good!" When I got to work the next day I told my one friend about it. She said, "I know! That's why I didn't go." I said, "Why the hell didn't you tell me?" My friend who is a cop said, "If that house had been raided you would have got busted for being there!"

I really don't see anything wrong with smoking pot if Phelps was just Joe Q Public but he is making millions to endorse products because he is such a good role model. It is not a good advertisement.

My brother-in-law roomed with a guy in college who was a dealer. He got busted. The cops offered him a plea deal, give up some names and you don't go to jail. He gave up names and he had to move away. If I ever did weed or got caught like Phelps did, my family would put me through hell. Probably want me to go to rehab, definitely would not let me be alone with my sister's kids. I never saw the appeal. Hell, I barely even like alcohol.

In this photo released by Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research, workers measure a captured mike whale on the deck of Japanese factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, as Sea Shepherd's ship, the M/Y Steve Irwin, partly seen on left top, follows from behind in the Ross Sea, off Antarctica, early Friday. The Steve Irwin carrying a group of radical anti-whaling activists collided with another Japanese whaling vessel earlier in the day in the area on Friday .............

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/photos/popupV2.asp?SubID=2663&page=4>itle=World%20news%20in%20pictures&pubdate=2/6/2009

Shame they didn't sink the Japanese ship.

The Japanese are complaining to both the Dutch and Australian governments.

http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/japan-speaks-out-about-whaling-clashes-20090207-80aj.html

Entire towns have been destroyed in the fires, fanned by soaring temperatures and unpredictable winds. ................... Most of the people who died came from a cluster of small towns to the north of Melbourne.
At least 12 people died in the town of Kinglake, four at Wandong, four at St Andrews and three at Strathewen.
One Strathewen resident told ABC local radio how people had witnessed "absolutely horrific" scenes as they had helped battle the flames. ..............
The town of Marysville, with about 500 residents, was said to have been burned to the ground.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7877178.stm

okay all, i've been working the fields in the blogroll again and need anyone with blogs to check and make sure i didn't mistakenly delete you or screw up your address. for starters, i think i lost Ping Pong and Pogo, so can you guys resend yours to cqtrailmix@verizon.net?

Trail Mix Blogroll: http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/blogroll.html

Running into one another on the Ross sea, is a dangerous game. Just being in the Ross sea is a dangerous game.

James Whitmore has passed away

http://www.comcast.net/articles/tv/20090207/Obit.James.Whitmore/

Wonderful character actor

You lost me. Boo Hoo

Durward Discussion (Jamie)

http://jdurward.blogspot.com

Video of the Whale Wars -
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&q=japanese+whalers&btnG=Search+News

More than 500 varieties of tomatoes and peppers

http://www.tomatogrowers.com/
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Last year was a bad year for tomatoes. I did learn one thing, plant dill in with your tomatoes. It's a host plant of the swallow tail butterfly, and it draws the tobacco horn worm. The worms stand out against the dill like glows sticks in a disco bar.
Plus dill is just a cool looking plant.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197850

Patsi slam away! You are spot on!

Bachman Turner Overdrive
Blue Collar

http://www.radioio.com/channels/history-of-rock

Attention truckers heavy rain , on the 10 tonight , west of Phoenix .
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/southrockies_loop.php

Death Valley got 1/2 inch !
And the Gulf moisture tap has kicked in !

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/ECIR4.html, on the 10 tonight

Supertramp Bloody Well Right

Thank the Gods we don't have to dip into your pool of virgins.
That search committee has been out for 5 years, and still no word.

The rain in Death Valley means one of the great sights in nature is about to occur. 2 maybe 3 weeks from tomorrow, the floor of Death Valley will bloom.

Photographers all over the country are drawing up their plans.

March 1st a good time to be in Death Valley , nature is trying to poach you.

Solar paint engineered from butterfly wings, and Photosynthesis it's self.

Roll that BB in your boxcar.

CBob: a friend in Melbourne writes:
"
> “…just to let you know that I am ok here..getting on
> with life…there’s
> been what we could only describe as an open oven on full
> heat around
> Melbourne and other areas for the past week,a lot of people
> are
> homeless because they have lost everything with raging
> fires and a lot
> of deaths also..here where I am the temperatures have been
> on between
> 40 and 43c but yesterday it reared its ugly head too high
> and gave us a
> massive dose of 45c which I believe is around 113F; you
> just could not
> breath.
>
> Then we had a power cut and I headed straight for the
> supermarket in
> the car with my grandson and sat in there ’til the power
> was back on.
>
> I have lost all my garden including the veggie patch which
> has all
> shrivelled up to nothing and will be debating as to will I
> start afresh
> or not bother with a garden; over the years I put in a lot
> of effort to
> get it where I wanted it to be and it’s gone in a
> heartbeat.
>
> At least as I said I am ok.
>
> The chickens all survived— God only knows how; thank
> Goodness I put out stacks of bowls of water for them."

We have a Noble prize winner running the DOE now. He's been thinking about that paint , and the research is moving at a pretty good clip. To this day , man has never really been able to explain Photosynthesis . Now we stand on the threshold of harnessing this elemental force of the planet, in ways that aren't plants.
Think about an electric car painted with this stuff.

It ain't that stinkin' jet packet they promised us, but it's close.

Dex -

These fire stories are grim, I have several dozen at Newsvine. I followed them in 07', it got to be too much. The fires in Greece , Italy, and the Balkans, that year.
dozens roasted in their cars fleeing the flames.

The record year for fires in Texas and Oklahoma was 3 springs ago. James Inhofe stood in the well of the senate and denounced Climate Change while thousands of acres of Oklahoma were in flames.

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/02/chu_economic_disaster_from_war.html

Steven Chu says Cal agra is toast, soon...

Dex -

The heavy rains up north are spreading ................... Fiji, and the Solomon islands have been pounded by heavy rains.

Northern Australia was forecast to get another 12 inches in the next 24 hrs. Half of Queens Land is under water. And cyclone season there is just getting started.
There are 2 of them in the Indian ocean now.

Dex -
Thanks for that one, Craig will have to go to Maryland for his ice berg lettuce.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197895

so sorry jamie, you are back on the blogroll now. i have been fixing longstanding code issues with that page and temporarily lost you. all is well now. please forgive:

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/blogroll.html

Chu's just telling the truth. The driest water year LA ever saw closed on 6-30-07.
I don't even want to know what the water level at the Shasta Dam is right now.

Jan. 30th report -

The picture is similar around the state. Lake Shasta, the largest reservoir in California, is at 31 percent of its capacity, down from 74 percent in 2007.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/30/MNC615JNHB.DTL

Joe Ely has a song out now called, " Home Land Refugee ", it's about the reverse migration out of California.

Water Diverter or "Harvester"

A device to collect rain water from the down spouts of rain gutters. Made from Schedule 40 PVC fittings.

http://water-diverter-harvester.blogspot.com/

Cbob -- send me your mailing address. i have horribly overdue goodies to send you -- helen's signed book and your attack the messenger t-shirt. please send to cqtrailmix@verizon.net

One hour ago out of Australia -

Raging Australia bushfires kill at least 65

"Unfortunately those numbers will increase as we move through the day," said Kieran Walshe, deputy police commissioner of the state of Victoria.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/08/australia.wildfires/

30,000 fire fighters on the lines.
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Like I said, these fire stories are grim. Don't read the survivor's stories if you have a weak stomach.

hey all, one of our lurkers has just started his own blog and i'd really like you to check out his blog, post comments and give him some encouragement. go to http://buddhaswiiwhiskers.blogspot.com/

It my best Homer Simpson -

MMMMMM ....... horribly overdue goodies. Gugahhhh.

Looks like another nest of " Plausible insane ideas"l

Congradulations.

thanks CBob, got your email. Goodies in the mail. Could u go welcome my pal to the web? he has cut my hair to perfection for ten years and he needs a web mentor: http://buddhaswiiwhiskers.blogspot.com/

Well, the dew point's up to 47 now, and the air temp is 48. Wind out of the S.E. at 12 . And a big fat Albuquerque low coming across Phoenix right now.
Tell Imus it's going to rain at the ranch.

I click on the buddhas link and get a blank green page.......

Sure,

If he can stand me rattling on about dew points in West Texas.

Craig, can I get my dot/spot changed from green to BLUE on the map to the stars?

I'm feelin' the blue all over again. : - )

tt

It's loading fine in Safari here -

"Buddha's Wii Whiskers"

Wii Whiskers = clever.

His blog pulls up for me. Too tired to read it though.

tt

nope, it aint loading.....I'll try it again tomorrius.......

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197939

tiptoe, i''ve lost contact with ran, our map dude. don't know how we can change the map colors

Buddha's page loads for me too sturg. must be something goin on with that south carolina river broadband, lol

the guy has cut my hair for 10 years, so i want him to have a good launch on the word wide web:

http://buddhaswiiwhiskers.blogspot.com/

scissors of steel

Craig, I've lost ran also.

AARRGGHH..........

tt

Speaking of blogs -

Still one of the best :
"GrrlScientist"

Golden Ray Migration

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/02/golden_ray_migration.php#more

And that means no one else can be added to that "elite" map.

tt

yes, tip, the map appears to be frozen in time until ran resurfaces

Craig, he's done a good job with your hair.

tt

OR if there's someone else who can do it???

Put out an APB, again.

tt

and btw, tip, i felt terrible missing your moment here in DC, but David enjoyed it. that damn book cost me lots of joy

Yeah, Craig, it was too bad, but I understand.

When are you planning "the gathering" in DC??

tt

Blodwyn Pig - Dear Jill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQybZDJiK7Q

Everyone keep it between the ditches, ya hear.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197952

ha, he's a true artist, my unruly hair cannot be tamed by amateurs. and he is a budding blogo poet of sorts:

http://buddhaswiiwhiskers.blogspot.com/

I think you ought to have a " Meet Me in Memphis Meet Up".

It's centrally located. Get out of that beltway bubble, invite "Joe the Plumber" to Beal Street. He can tell us what's wrong with it, as we all try to keep up with Sturg on his way to see the old Sax Volt building, and Sun Records.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy5T-3naA7c

otis, christmas, stax-volt.................ja, shuuuure, by golly.......

Last Night - Steve Cropper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpDd8V-ZhRs

Stax Volt

gee whiz.........rufus' daughter carla.....

For you, C-Bob:

Jesse Winchester, Club Manhatten

"Come on down to Club Manhattan
Have a big Jack Black on ice
They got this, got this guitar player
And boy, he sure plays nice
Just close your eyes, he's a young Steve Cropper
And it's nineteen-sixty-two
O I love you, little darlin
But I love Club Manhattan, too"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sJVPYK6e34

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In6crN-apno&feature=related

Dave Matthews Band - So Much To Say

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81PfFrl6Ars

Why Stax Volt matters.

Tasty tunes there kids.

Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LNt5J0Cesc

Watermelon Slim - Smokestack Lightning

he's left handed - so, that's a righty dobro he's playing, upside down and backwards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeMRIu43qjg

Them - Baby Please Don't Go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9X6HFwXjgI

Just saw photos on yahoo of the bush fires in Australia. Horrible !!! People fleeing in their cars actually got caught in the fires and perished ! This is really dreadful ... and the poor animals, not to mention peoples' homes and communities.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197837

Jamie... in a word ... "NO". GORDO does not get tired of it; he revels in it. I don't see his point, (actually not *HIS* points since he just lifts shit from conspiracy websites) but I guess it's a hobby and a chance to stick it in people's metaphorical ears.

Something else from Beal St.

U2 & BB King - When Love Comes To Town

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMk_K9t2EPk

Baby Don't Go ... cover of Sonny & Cher's first single.

This one by the Fleetwoods

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TH1TpuI_Gw

Watermelon Slim -- pretty danged amazin'....

"I guess it's a hobby and a chance to stick it in people's metaphorical ears."

True, Tom. Gordo is like the people who continually send right wing emails and BS around on the internet. Only rarely do I read anything he writes. But it's meaningless on the larger stage.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197931

Craig, it's a cool blog. He mirrors a lot of my issues. primarily anger, not fitting in, and so forth. And he's a LEO..we're a dangerous group...

Yeah Patsi, so true. Thing is, I rarely see a thing that *HE* writes. It's like being a parrot who is trained to repeat what has been said...

The Darlings Music Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnniyab94WY

" I rarely see a thing that *HE* writes. It's like being a parrot who is trained to repeat what has been said..."

Yep!

Also -- Craig -- I also liked your friend's blog.

Raymond Fairchild - Whoa Mule

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR-ZBOkeo_U

ATLANTIC CITY, THE BAND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Cz3iuNJXc

Confused by the TRUTH? That's to be expected. Sheeple always react that way.

The Band- Don't Do It

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Y987Uf1wY

There's a Twighlight Zone episode on right now that reminds me of some bloggers and posters. This guy hides out in his little apartment, never goes out, but spends his time listening to the radio, reading newspapers, and collecting information to use against people he considers subversive. He makes late night phone calls to all those he considers communists and evil doers. And he's cut some kind of a deal to shrink all evil doers down to two feet tall. Of course, it ends like you would figure. At the appointed time, he shrinks to two feet tall.

http://www.theobamafile.com/_images/ObamaAdvisers.jpg

"Raymond Fairchild - Whoa Mule"

Sweet.

Bob Dylan - Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)

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

Gordo -- you are shrinking by the moment....

By the way, Gordo -- the term "sheeple" is SO last administration.

Bob Dylan - Black Diamond Bay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdu7kJ6zbUs

Ignorance is bliss -- you must be very happy.

Humble Pie - Black Coffee

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

The Guess Who - No Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqeSUAlI5uI

Herb Alpert - Rise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ95FaapL58

NEW THREAD

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/create-your-ode-to-the-financi.html#comment-197743

they've been on a spending spree.. This time it would actually help the people

Brother, Can You Spare A Dime ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4yT0KAMyo&feature=related