Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

from last thread

TMZ reports on possible leaked memo of Oscar winners: http://tinyurl.com/bzkj5j

The memo: http://tinyurl.com/dmekqt

Gee a memo how dumb is that. I thought NO ONE knew except the accounting firm that counted the ballots --

And isn't laughter the best medicine errr stimulus.

When are they going to make south carolinians speak english?

Sturge

I think God gave up on South Carolina speaking English a long time ago. There are some things even God can't do.

Jack

Even if God has given up, man is working on the translations

http://web.ku.edu/idea/northamerica/usa/southcarolina/southcarolina.htm

This is a very specialized gift, but if you know someone who loves dancing or who collects dolls, The Alvin Ailey company is celebrating their 50th anniversary and they commissioned the Barbie folks to make one of their collector dolls. She is dressed for "Wade In The Water" from Revelations, and she is just beautiful

http://www.imageexchange.com/mvx10/engine.cgi?store=ailey&page=default&body=sku10&sku=26851

I had better order the Desponde. Being one of those who chirp earlier than the birds, it is probably time I put others out of their misery by joining them and sleeping in.

My aunt gave Avin Ailey's company their first permanent home

"Nonetheless, along the way, there were many in New York who believed in Ailey: Louise Roberts, who directed the Clark Center, a proving ground for new choreographers that became the young Ailey company's first home;"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE4DB113DF932A05751C1A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

You don't usually get to see these short subject animated films any more and this one is up for an Oscar tonight. It will give you a giggle

Octopodi

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/719yj/octopodi_a_wonderful_short_animation/

KGC

I've tried to see the Ailey company perform every couple of years since my early 20s. They are my favorite dance group both the new works they do and the classic Revelation.

well that Oscar memo might be bogus, but would like to see Rourke win for The Wrestler

Funny how everyone has forgotten the Golden Raspberries.
Ok, Paris in a movie is worth forgetting.

http://www.razzies.com/history/08winners.asp

"but would like to see Rourke win for The Wrestler"

You are not alone this is a headline from the local paper

oldschool
Mickey Rourke wins tonight or else the Oscars are as fixed as Ram vs. Ayatollah
http://blogs.pressdemocrat.com/default.asp?item=2336163

Do you really think people should be rewarded for playing themselves? :)

Carol -- when I was in Cajun country, I got a copy of this Floyd Sonnier print...and love it, my son snagged it to take with him to DC when he left. Tee Mamou Mardi Gras Two Step

http://www.floydsonnier.com/feature.html

Good Friedman article in NY Times today. That's what has worried me about No Child Left Behind, we're becoming a nation of risk averse, where our strength has always been in jumping out front and taking chances.

I think Rourke shows we're a nation that welcomes those that fail, get up, and try again. Makes for great actors and entrepreneurs.

http://ncane.com/i4d

Jack, I saw your post last night that you used to read Scientific American, so I looked it up online, and it looks very interesting. I bookmarked it and am going to start checking it out. Thanks for mentioning it.
http://www.sciam.com/sciammag/

Craig,
If that is the real Oscar winners, I can just see the scampering around trying to think of ways to pretend it's not.

America’s New Shrink
Chin up, everyone. This president is well poised to bring us back from the brink.

"If Ralph Waldo emerson had a 19th-century Facebook page, his "Favorite Quotation" (or maybe I should say my favorite Emerson quote) would likely be: "Events are in the saddle and tend to ride mankind."

What's a president to do? If he starts in with the happy talk, he sounds like John McCain saying "the fundamentals of the economy are strong," which is what sealed the election for Obama in the first place. But if he gets too gloomy, he'll scare the bejesus out of the entire world. The balance Obama strikes is to say that things will get worse before they get better, but that they will get better. Now he must convince us that's true."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/185800/output/print

Sounds good to me. It's a cinch he's right about at least one thing, the blame belongs to Bush.

Obama: Deficit is big, my plan is bigger
"Obama’s team has settled on a three-part plan to deliver the bad news to America, aides and experts say. First, they will begin the week with a “fiscal summit” Monday designed to stress that the president cares about the deficit and plans to reduce it, by raising taxes on the wealthy, drawing down in Iraq and reining in Medicare and other entitlement costs.

Second, the president will explain the widening gap in an address to Congress Tuesday in positive, hopeful terms. He’ll say a brief bulge in government spending is needed to stimulate the economy, and to reform health care, education, and energy policy – key campaign promises that he’ll flesh out as he releases his first budget outline on Thursday.

And third, the current White House will take advantage of a ripe but waning opportunity: to blame it all on President George W. Bush."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19127.html

kgc, here's something else ahnold told george:

"We are elected to be public servants. So what does it matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican? When people need to have roads built, when we talk about infrastructure in America, we need $1.7 trillion to $2 trillion of infrastructure in America. Who cares if you’re a Republican or Democrat? Everyone is using the roads. Everyone would use high-speed rail. Everyone uses the infrastructure and all of those things, the schools, the kids.

It doesn’t matter. We should go beyond all this. Is it a Republican idea or is it a Democratic idea? Which philosophy does it fall under? It doesn’t matter."

and ahnold also wants mickey rourke to win.

[see cq transcript]

patd

California would be in much better shape if Ahnold had been practicing what he now preaches.

Ahhhnold is back in the movies...
Schwarzenegger planning a cameo in Stallone film

Sunday, February 22, 2009

He said he'd be back — and soon he will be. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he'll be shooting a cameo appearance soon for a new movie by friend Sylvester Stallone.

Schwarzenegger calls Stallone a terrific director and writer, and a great actor.

Schwarzenegger says that since he became governor, he has done three cameos in films when friends have asked him to appear.

As for the Oscars, Schwarzenegger calls "The Reader" one of the best movies he's ever seen and that he hopes friend Mickey Rourke does well for his turn in "The Wrestler."

And Schwarzengger's favorite political movie: "The Candidate," with Robert Redford.

The governor appeared on ABC's "This Week

KGC and I have a minor disagreement about Arnold.

I think he is wonderful and doing the best anyone could while being at the mercy of an uncontrolable state legislature and Constitution that is really hard on its governors.

She doesn't think I am right. :-)

Schwarzenegger tried to bully his way with a number of ballot measures that have nothing to do with legislature and got his butt kicked by the voters of California

He is a terrible governor -- he made the financial crisis worse when he came into office by rolling back the vehicle liscense fees --money that went to support county governments
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And he did it because the Auto dealers made large contributions to his campaign --the one he said he would fund himself so he would not be beholden to special interests

Blaming the legislators or the constitution doesn't cut it.

See, she doesn't agree with me.

Most of California agrees with me

"Rather than try to sell the public on an unpopular idea like a tax increase, or even education cuts, Schwarzenegger beats up on unpopular legislators and tries to generate public pressure on them. But that has been increasingly unproductive. All it does is help drive down the Legislature's already dismal poll ratings.

Schwarzenegger has cleaned up his act since the early years of his governorship. He no longer calls Democratic lawmakers "girlie men" and "losers." But they're still irresistible targets as he sends out mixed signals.

He routinely accuses them of "posturing and playing political games" and trying to "punish the people" with big tax hikes, which is both demagogic and hypocritical. Then he tries to make up with sweet talk about "my partners."

He regularly rails about "Sacramento's overspending," ignoring the fact that no spending bill is enacted without the governor's signature.

Of course, voters also are big spenders -- passing everything from pork-saturated park bonds to bullet train extravaganzas without considering the cost.

Schwarzenegger should start leveling with Californians about the severity of the necessary pain and the depth of the revenue problem. For example, the governor could fire every state employee under his control and that still wouldn't balance the budget. Roughly 70% of the general fund flows out to local governments and schools.
http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-me-cap22-2009jan22,0,1455581.column

Ahnold came in thinking he had a mandate too but got his tail whipped my unions. Bue he has done a lot that i really like too.

Million homes solar roofs, CO2 cap and trade, fuel mileage requirements. Trying to get Prop 13 rolled back on business property.

Rolling back a tax is pretty normal for a Republican.

Still, mandates and entitlements are California's biggest problem and no one is willing to touch them.

Schwarzenegger merely signed the solar bill -the work was done by others

"2006 Solar Legislation - passed

SB1 Million Solar Roofs (Murray) [PDF]

Million Solar Roofs Bill (Environment California PRESS)

After three years, the Million Solar Roofs bill, SB 1, authored by Senator Kevin Murray, was signed into law this morning by Governor Schwarzenegger at a ceremony held at the new solar powered CalTrans building in downtown Los Angeles. “Turning the vision of building a million solar roofs into state law has been a long-time coming,” said Bernadette Del Chiaro, Clean Energy Advocate with Environment California, the leading sponsor of the Million Solar Roofs bill. “But in the end, this law was worth the wait and the fight that it took to turn a great idea into a landmark law.” SB 1 complements the California Solar Initiative established by the Public Utilities Commission in January and puts California on track toward building a million solar roofs in the next ten years"

And then there's this

Schwarzenegger relative, former aide could profit from solar plan seeking state approval

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ A relative of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and one of his former cabinet secretaries are part of a private investment group that could score a lucrative payoff if regulators approve a sprawling solar-energy complex near the Mojave Desert Preserve.

The personal connections have raised questions about possible favorable treatment for a project being touted as a breakthrough in the development of solar power.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime environmental activist who is the cousin of first lady Maria Shriver, and former state Environmental Protection Secretary Terry Tamminen were named senior advisers at VantagePoint Venture Partners last year.

VantagePoint has a multimillion-dollar stake in startup BrightSource Energy, which plans to spend up to $2 billion to build three solar-power plants on nearly 6 square miles of federal land along the Nevada state line.

but you gotta give Arnold some credit for playing Twisted Sister at his rallies -- i loved covering those in the '03 recall election.

Frank Rich suggests Americans are in denial with regard to hearing bad news--in this case--the extent of the current economic crisis.

What happened to all his giddiness just a few short weeks ago---did reality finally intrude.

"What we don't know will hurt us."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/opinion/22rich.html

Who left all these fish heads, and butternut coffee grounds lying around ?

Posted by: Craig Crawford Author Profile Page | February 22, 2009 1:56 PMPosted by: Craig Crawford Author Profile Page | February 22, 2009 1:56 PM

I liked it better when you were talking about Happy Chandler

Except for saying the recall election was just a giant Republican ego trip --I'm done now.

Fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads.....

Captain Beef Heart - Trout Mask Replica

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/si/2008/writers/john_rolfe/12/03/plaxico.guns.voodoo/trout-mask.jpg

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/sunday-chuckles.html#comment-202643

ha, KGC, you know i am a sap for good music at political rallies

you folks need to watch this 20 minute video....

Today

The Crisis of Credit Visualized 20:07
Source: www.crisisofcredit.com
The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This project was completed as part of my thesis ...
EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH THIS! My friend Curt sent this to me and it's a great 12 minute video that basically fully explains the financial disaster we find ourselves in... SERIOUSLY WATCH THIS, there are great graphics and some funny moments.

http://www.crisisofcredit.com

"Who left all these fish heads, and butternut coffee grounds lying around ? -- Posted by: Colorado Bob"

Gotta give CBob Comment of the Day for that one -- another of his classic creative mystifications. Don't understand it but made me laugh REALLY out loud.

KGC

The LA Times article suggest that "everyone" must sacrifice---apparenlty through significantly reduced public services to higher taxes---and that this message is not being conveyed convincingly.

I wonder though (cynic that you know I am) does anyone really want to sacrifice for the greater good or does self-preservation trump all else when times are
tough.

Am not sure of the answer but I suspect that we are all going to learn the answer much sooner than we might like.

From last thread...
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/obama-cannot-dodge-burris-mess.html#comment-202592

Tonyb... And to your point,,, All know more then President Obama, Sadly he is not using his one talent.

Al Gore and T. Boone Pickens on Larry King tomorrow night.

My head is auto rotating.

Craig -
Do us a favor, and cover that little energy wing ding tomorrow in DC.

Craig -
Butternut coffee is like One Hour Martinizing .

A scam !

Hey is there still Butternut Coffee? My Gram used to buy that all the time!

Fish Heads - the song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDtUzRIG6I

Don,
I haven't thought of this song for nearly a decade...lol

NYTimes weighs in on "nationalization".

"The Government & the Banks"

"Americans have a visceral horror of the word nationalization. So call it restructuring or majority ownership..... We increasisngly believe it is the least bad solution to a truly desperate situation.

The Obama administration tried to calm market fears by reaffirming their preference for a sound privately owned banking system. We share that preference.

But it looks as if the best way to get from here to there is for some of the banks to spend some time in the government's hands."

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/sunday-chuckles.html#comment-202637

KGC, This is why I say California is virtually ungovernable by anyone. Someone needs to have the guts to say that there is not enough money to do what everyone wants to do or everyone needs. The state is broke, deeply in debt and the problems requiring funding just keep growing.

There are more than enough guilty parties to go around starting way back with Howard Jarvis that didn't omit businesses from the Property tax relief causing a massive drop in income, to Reagan and liberals colluding to put the insane on the street and leaving the cities and ocunties to pick up the tab to the Federal government that won't enforce immigration laws but won't pay for all the social, medical and crime costs associated with it.

The nation's most important leaders in energy reform are gathering with T. Boone Pickens at the National Clean Energy Project Summit to tackle the critical issues of ushering in a new era of renewable energy and ending our dependence on foreign oil. This event will feature a lot of people who know what they are talking about when it comes to energy policy - including John Podesta from the Center for American Progress Action Fund, U.S. Senator Harry Reid, President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Climate Czar Carol Browner, Owens-Corning CEO Michael Thaman, American Electric Power President & CEO Mike Morris, Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, American Wind Energy Association CEO Denise Bode, Riverkeeper Alliance Chief Prosecuting Attorney Robert Kennedy, Jr. and many others. Watch the live roundtable discussion on Monday, Feb. 23, at 10:15 a.m. EST..

Check back Monday at 10:15 a.m. EST for live stream.

http://www.pickensplan.com/summit/

butternut coffee? that's trouble brewing, right there.......nuttin' but trouble........

Forgot the link to NYT

"The Govenment & the Banks" editorial

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/opinion/22sun1.html?_r=1

OMG, euT. I hadn't thought about that since I was a kid, so I doubt if it's around unless it's regional. My little, great-grandma from Demark drank instant Sanka. Horrible stuff. My grandpa boiled Folgers coffee on the stove all day long. You could cut it with a knife.

Do they let kids in Europe drink coffee, because they started me on coffee with milk when I was 3 or 4 years old.

I saw a commercial on a Spanish channel and there was a boy of maybe 9 or 10 in a coffee commercial drinking the stuff. I'm sure the anti-coffee equivalent of PETA would be all over manufacturers, advertising and shows caring the commercials if they showed something like that during American Idol or something.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/sunday-chuckles.html#comment-202639

You can't have it both ways. If he does something you like then it is because someone else had the idea and it will make him or a relative wealthy, but if he does something you don't like then he is a money grubbing Republican who wants to deprive people of services. He can't be wrong all the time.

Fish Heads by Bill Mumy of Lost in Space fame. One of my favorites. Used to listen to it on the Dr. Demento radio show.

I wish more companies would pick up on the four day work week like California, as long as it's 4/40. I'd even go for 4/36.

There was a good argument on This Week for nationalization, since buying up all of the stock would be cheaper than what's already been invested.

Craig - the A+ Winner today....
Ping Poing awards the Clucking Chicken to FDA and anti-Happy pill....

The others good but this one is classic - peel the onion !!

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/politicsunseriously/2009/02/finally-fda-comes-up-with-depr.html

UB -
Good work, I made a half ass search for that nugget. As I was reading the 6 A.M. Fish and Jerry show here this morning those little voices were in my head ............ Fish heads fish heads rolly polly fish heads

Beaf Heart fans unit !

KGC & Jamie,

Your CA discussions seem to illustrate the diliemma that is facing the entire country & so far there are no satisfactory answers.

For either of you---is the origin of the CA crisis in the property tax proposition from years ago?

Jamie seems to mention it above, but for some of us (not former or current CA residents the concept is unknown)---my property taxes go up annually---& I get virutally no services from my town.

those little voices will not leave your head now for a last a week....lol

It's kind of like having company.....rattling around in your brain..."Fish heads, fish heads".....as your walking along your way....".rolly polly fish heads...."

I 'll be taking them with me to the market......right now...

Oh, yeah. Dr. Dimento on Sunday night. What else have I forgotten?

Craig, Thanks for lightening up your blog today. Maybe if we just ignore the bad stuff, consumer confidence wll build and everything will be OK. It's as worth a try as anything else.

Staying on the lighter side....
Wanting to avoid the State Tax problems here in Florda and our one term Governer Crist - that now is talking out of the other side of his head like nothing is wrong..

So for all you local O-Town Orlando C-listers TMers' - Downtown Orlando is great and the new little escape is Aroma - in Thornton Park - live music, delightful food and of course the right refreshments....

Get away and relax

Prop 13 was supposed to be the start of property tax reform not the beginning and the end. We are starting to see bit by bit implementation of tax reforms --sales tax on professional services for example.
The same problems apply to businesses and property tax that apply to homes --especially small businesses. Most tax reformers want to see a move away from real property taxes.
One of the problems with leaving the sales tax on goods only is that an aging population buys less things.

Leon Panetta until his appointment to head the CIA was leading a group that has gotten a ton of money to make recommendations and lead the campaigns for budget and revenue reform

California is only ungovernable because the elected leaders don't lead.

rank amateurs performing the fish heads song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub1zQ99LPkE

Blue -
You just reveled that you were raised on coffee with the strength of steel belted radials.
Thanks grammy.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/sunday-chuckles.html#comment-202669

Blue - I think you are so right !!!!

To bad we don't have gifted leadership that can inspire... That has the gift of speaking and inspireation

Opps... Back to the happy Sunday Place that Craig laid out.......

http://www.caforward.org/

Calforward has some interesting ideas but probably not going anywhere despite have 16 million for campaigning

Prop 13 should have allowed a means test so that people on a fixed income could keep their homes not blanket abatement for everyone.

Dead puppies aren't much fun, they're coming to take me away, the masochism tango, ....
Almost anything by Tom Lehrer was a favorite. Shhhhaving cream was always a favorite of listeners, but I never cared for it much. A lot of Tom's stuff is live on YouTube now.

Prop 13, which freezes property taxes, means California is overly dependent on income taxes and the way they tend to go up and down every year instead of the more steady value of homes (normally). So it's always feast or famine for Sacramento. They tried to compromise by rolling back Prop 13 on businesses, but even that failed.

I think more businesses should support work from home virtual offices, it would save them a lot more than any tax cut, especially in the Bay Area where IT and financial work would make it a no-brainer. Studies show more actually gets done. But they are a stubborn lot. I think it's all about the appearance of control.

Save me some for next weekend Ping Pong. Florida, 4 days and counting. :^)

Ping -
If you're going to sharpen those mower blades, do it out on the patio, I'm still cleaning up these dishes, and take that sack of fish heads to the dumpster.

Now where's that sandal wood incense ?

Sunday chuckles, eh? Does that mean I have permission to crack wise? It's not as fun when it's condoned.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/sunday-chuckles.html#comment-202670

Hey Ping
Sounds Great! What exit off I-4?

Everyone keep the shiny side up , and the rubber side down.

Off to Lake Slappy.

Sounds like Fish head soup for everyone... Fish Headcheese sausage?
Fried Fish heads........

tonyb39...
Downtown - just east of Lake Eola... One block north of Central.. 712 E Washington St
Light salad, Sandwich, Cheese, wine and beer...
and live music.... by the owner's.. Family owned and run

The MLB Network is showing the Yankees vs. Tigers from June 28th, 1976. Mark "The Bird" Fidrych is pitching for the Tigers.

Re: Burris

It's interesting to hear calls for his resignation so that the Senate and the Illinois governmental establishment can "move on" from the Blago/Burris affair. I have to think those parties would like this issue to just go away before the general public finds out just how deep the rabbit hole of corruption goes in that state, because I wonder who else are products of that corrupt political machine... I wonder... Oh yeah, the frickin' president, his frickin' Chief of Staff, and his frickin' campaign manager. Who else am I leaving out?

hey don't blame me today. Champ brought up Burris. I didn't.

It's really amazing how twitter is taking off with Republicans. I follow both sides, but I have a lot more radical conservatives signing up to follow me.

BTW, anyone else on twitter that would like to exchange? I'm http://twitter.com/home.

As you can guess my comments are fairly random.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/sunday-chuckles.html#comment-202684

I had to hold my tongue in the moment, me being a good citizen and all.

Saturday, when I was a boy, was the day the New Yorker arrived. No more; it's usually the middle of the following week. But, that loss has been tempered by the appearance of the Economist which almost always arrives in Saturday's mail.

This week's issue has two especially good pieces. The first being the leading editorial followed by an article linked from within the editorial:
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13144864

I suppose the gist of both is, 'God DAMN the factories! God DAMN the suppliers!' followed by an imploration that we keep the financial system afloat.

Their main arguing point is that manufacturing is essentially portable with factories following demand; if God wants us to have factories, She will give us the means to create the industrial demand that will rationally call for them to be resurrected.

Only in their dream world.

Michigan is full of brown fields filled with abandoned factories. Indeed, it's full of abandoned cities. Goodness knows where the human detritus of our industrial demise has and will end-up.

Politicians say we'll retrain the workers. I ask, how has that worked out? Seems as if the only workers we've retrained are the ones south of the border that we've moved from agrarian pursuits to manufacturing.

How about if we do this: Take the derelict portion of our industrial heartland and quite simply raze everything within it and start over. Albeit still for industrial and manufacturing pursuits and their related logistical and communications infrastructure.

Build new roads and railheads, new waste disposal facilities, a new power grid, new communications raceways and site new residential areas for the projected workforce.

Essentially we would build factory towns ready to produce anything. And produce it faster and cheaper than any other producer in the world using American raw materials and American labor.

When Eisenhower looked at the challenges facing our post-War country, he built highways that effectively linked manufacturing with its markets. Now we have to do one better.

"You can't have it both ways. If he does something you like then it is because someone else had the idea and it will make him or a relative wealthy, but if he does something you don't like then he is a money grubbing Republican who wants to deprive people of services. He can't be wrong all the time."

jamie, tho't you were talking about the big dawg there until you said "republican"...

btw, what's ahnold going to do when he's term limited? maybe become part of the new admin? ambassador? senator? comeback movie star who wins an oscar? open a chain of gyms? all the above probably.

Posted by: Flatus Author Profile Page | February 22, 2009 3:30 PM

Tell it to the Liberal establishment and major media channels who like to "market" Globalism as inevitable and always beneficial, Flatus. It's a coordinated effort to subvert American sovereignty.

Posted by: Jamie Author Profile Page | February 22, 2009 2:35 PM

It's not having things both ways if that what he did
He should not run for office in the first place. He is clueless and then squandered whatever good will he had on a couple of worthless iballot measures.

Jesse Ventura was a better governor

Champ, it is indeed the end of the "nation state" as we know it.

just got this from ashton kutcher on twitter -- a cavalcade of fun facts (and lots of scary ones).. http://bit.ly/dkIB9

off to small Oscar party in Virginia, will try to twitter with smart phone.. http://twitter.com/craig_crawford

President Eisenhower and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson together made the interstate highway system happen.

It is sad to see the lack of leadership in the Congress in recent years..Daschle, Reed, Pelosi, McConnel, the whole current GOP crew..

Such mediocre leadership an indictment of how our system has failed us all..or we have failed it..

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/sunday-chuckles.html#comment-202691

Yup, Orwellian dystopia is going to be fabulous!

"Jesse Ventura was a better governor"

Does that mean he was a good governor? I'm not familiar with his tenure. I remember there being a lot of partisan squabbling during that time, but that's about all I know.

Hi Blue...

I don't know the rules on coffee; I don't think there are any. Finally in 2005, there was a law passed that people have to be 16 years old to buy cigarettes and beer and 18 for hard liquor. Besides most kids these days slug down tons of RED BULL..

Interesting comment about SANKA. I remember reading that Danny Thomas said he had never lied to the American public about anything. Then he clarified that and said "except Sanka". Though he was a spokesman for Sanka brand Decaffeinated Coffee, he later confessed that he never drank it. He claimed he could drink cup after cup of Maxwell House Coffee and still fall asleep mere minutes later....

As for Butternut, Gram would buy it in a 3 lb can??? whatever, it was the big ones. I was hooked on coffee pretty early. It has been said that on my second or 3rd day there was no milk in the house, so my grandpa took some cream and mixed it with a little coffee to dilute it ! LOL.. I was drinking coffee as a very young child... but grandpa would make a coffee for me with cream and sugar but I was told later it was mostly cream with very little sugar. LOL
Now when I think about it, the midwest coffee sucked. My love for coffee changed the moment I moved to Seattle. I always told my Mom that her coffee looked like something not nice...

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/sunday-chuckles.html#comment-202685

don1one, click your profile page on twitter and copy that address to give out -- the one you cited is your home page, which only you can access

Don

Your twitter address is http://twitter.com/don1one

I'm following you now. My usage is pretty limited as not much is happening on my home front.

Champ are you an English major?

Don1one -- i see we're both following John Cleese on twitter. i knew i liked you

No English major here, I just read voraciously when I was a little kid. I get dumber by the day, though.

Now I'm really busting buttons, Craig's following me!
Thanks for correcting me, I am don1one there too.

If anyone wants to know more about twitter or how to get started let me know. It can be addictive.

I thought that the Cleese account was a fake until I saw him in the video of the friend trying to win a car. I know he's living in California now, I think around Santa Barbara. I'm still looking for one of his corporate training films, they've got to be interesting.

I was raised on campfire coffee made in an aluminum pot. Pour in grounds till it wouldn't hold any more, when the spoon dissolved it was ready.

WhskyJack...this one's just for you. Was out on a nice bike ride today and passed a bustling nursery which had this message posted on the movable sign out front:

"Gardening is a way of showing you believe in tomorrow."

So as long as you keep posting plant pics, I'll remain optimistic.

"Captain Beef Heart - Trout Mask Replica"

Thanks for that, C-Bob -- I'll be using that sometime soon as my Facebook photo....

Great post, Flatus.

twitter = evil. How the heck will privacy advocates such as myself be able to assert our positions effectively if the populace just posts their whereabouts and activities willingly? This voyeur society ain't cool.

The media has become so obsessed with any little thing politicians do these days, I wonder if we haven't ended up with the milquetoast leadership we deserve

Johnson would never have been able to stay in office these days.

"The media has become so obsessed with any little thing politicians do these days,"

It takes little work, little journalistic talent, and no integrity. Just a computer and a broad-band connection. And a public willing to accept their drivel.

Now the MLB Network is showing Cardinals vs. Cubs from 1984. Of note, Steve "Rainbow" Trout is pitching for the Cubs.

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Don't disrespect the host like that.

GDR Jack-like; I'll shut up now.

"Don't disrespect the host like that."

If I didn't believe him to be the exception I wouldn't buy his books. And, I sure wouldn't be here. :)

I don't blame the journalists at all.

Of course, there are journalists like Craig and Dana Priest or McClatchey, then there's Sean Hannity and the pure entertainment bunch.

But the journalists that report this information are doing it because people are bored and obsess over it. And are willing to pay for it.

People have always been interested in scandal, but now privacy has pretty much disappeared and we can look into every nook and cranny of a person's life. I think quite a few good people aren't going into politics or have left politics because of it. So we end up with the group we have.

I think both sides of the fence are unhappy with leaders in Congress.

Champ, I think there is no more privacy. So the only way to stop the voyeurs is to overwhelm the system with information.

don1one

The journalists covering the whitehouse during JFK's presidency were well aware of his sexual exploits - Do you think they were right to conceal that information from the public?

What do you think it the reason for the change from editing out a lot of "personal" information to the media telling all.

"will try to twitter with smart phone.."

is it just my twisted mind, the wine, or is there an oxymoron lurking in that statement?

"What do you think it the reason for the change from editing out a lot of "personal" information to the media telling all."

kgc, money?

ha patd, the smarter the phone, the dumber the tweet. that might be the rule.

trouble is my phone still isn't smart enough for me to post comments with it on here.

leaving now, see ya on twitter!

I'd like to blend champ's thoughts about Twitter's assault on privacy with KGC's complaint about lack of coverage of the sexploits in the JFK Whitehouse.

Imagine if you could go back in time and give Twitter to those cats. Think of the posts..

JFK: "About to screw Judith Exner. BRB."

Teddy: "Me, Fiddle and Faddle in a Tweetup at the pool. Stop by if U can."

JFK: "Marlene Dietrich still looks good naked."

RFK: "Hey. MMonroe's carpet, drapes don't match. :-("

Twitter would have solved everything.

patd

I agree I think money has a part but I also think the public expressed disapproval for the media editing information. So now they tell us.

Judith Exner qualified as a legit news story because of her mob connections.

I think money, in that the media outlets were more profitable.

More of a sense of privacy. We're now a bored people looking for something to shock us out of our numbness. Like the ennui of the agent Romans and the coliseum.

The importance fame has taken, versus doing something famous.

Access to 24 hour news. Before you had to wait for the evening broadcast from one of three tv news stations or a weekly magazine. Now it's out before they even attempt to verify it.

I remember how nervous Jay Leno was when Monica was first breaking. He was scared to death to talk about it. So maybe the actions of a lot of famous people too. Priests and children, Clinton and Monica, Vitter and Spitzer. There seem to be no limits now.

A co-worker at one place I worked was a psychologist and we'd spend quite a bit of time discussing the advent of amateur porn. His position was that we've become numb because of the shallowness of our relationships and we're looking for something to tell us we're still alive. I think scandal fulfills a lot of that.

I'm painting with a very broad brush, but a mix of all and sometimes maybe none.

And I think some things are still edited out. I heard things about the Clintons from someone that used to carry the football and traveled with them constantly. There were things that never got to the tabloids.

Goodness a dissertation, anyone who made it here congrats.

Because I don't "get" twitter I asked my college daughter what she thought of twitter....she answered:
"no point. i find it annoying
some people link twitter to their blogs and it's the worst reading material"

I just don't understand it......if anyone is willing to explain I 'd really like to hear about it....is it a about following and leading?, or just a avenue for promotions....and updates...like latest on so-in-so? or is it just all of the above?

I am only guessing I haven't a twitter clue.

patd,
It's the wine. Now come on and share. :^)

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I couldn't keep up with facebook......either....maybe I am just old-fashioned, and a bit on the private side.....most likely all this massive communication about one's self makes me uncomfortable.???

fish heads and blogs.....lol....seem to be about my speed

"Goodness a dissertation, anyone who made it here congrats."

...only because I read from the bottom up, but thanks.

I think twitter is what you want it to be. A news source similar to portals like My Yahoo, a way for social groups to keep in contact, a way to follow information real time, a way to make new friends, a box in the square to stand on and spout off.

One of the profiles with a huge following is a cat.

I enjoyed listening to the back story from Christina Bellanton who twittered what was going on in the press pool that went with Obama to Canada.

It's taken off because of the high profile senators and journalists that are using it. I followed Senator Claire McCaskill's report of goings on through the stimulus debate, Senator Grassley has been chatting about the issues in the townhall meetings he's been hosting.

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UB...you're not missing out on anything with Twitter. And as far as Facebook, the best feature of that is making the connections themselves -- to build sort of a self-updating Rolodex of your entire life. That's kind of nice.

But the endless personal posts and games and "write 25 things about yourself" kind of exercises are mainly an outlet for narcissism. I guess that can be healthy in its own way -- but like I said, if you're not into that aspect of it you're not missing out on anything.

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Don1...with all this Twittering, I think the next iteration of human evolution will involve our naturally selected descendants having either very large thumbs or no thumbs at all. I can't guess which at this point.

Thanks for the input, I can see it would suit some people very well.

I mean it has taken off with a vengeance....most likely not my cup of tea......I don't even like my friends to know where I am all the time....or what I am doing...lol...let alone people I don't know....
Thanks again. It will be interesting watch how and what twitter evolves into being over the next several years.

Twitters never win...........

:) funny

Speaking of not wanting people to know your every move, I'm sure you saw that other disturbing idea on the privacy-invasion front that floated out of Ray LaHood's DOT last week.

"Hey, let's put a GPS device on EVERY car and tax people by miles driven rather than gallons of gasoline consumed."

Thank God Obama shot it down right away. Besides the privacy implications, it's a disincentive to driving fuel-efficient vehicles -- a nuance that I didn't see touched on in the story I read about it.

UB - I LOVR your daughter's reply. Annoying, as are fads.

And I agree with you about facebook - I just can't keep up. I spend too much time on the computer as it is.
But I do respond to good friends and family who can. I do enjoy poking people.

It rained all night but we're not going to get as much as we had hope - still a good bit, tho.

If you want the rain or snow to stop in your region, get me there. I have this ability to stop weather I like.

Sturge...

I got a bunch of YouTube Cops on my front porch and a bunch of record-company execs on my back porch...all saying they need to talk to me about some kinda jukebox.

You know anything about that?

LL,
ROFL

You can just listen too, ub.

Anyone want me to retwit Craig's comments? He can't post to the blog from his phone.

Yep. Glad to see it shot down as well.
Privacy as it once was is long long gone.

UB...how times have changed. I remember not so long ago -- really just in the early to mid-nineties -- when cell phones got small enough to start popping up everywhere among pedestrians walking down the streets of DC. I used to sip beer in front of the old Ha' Penny Lounge on L Street and make fun of all of them as they passed by during Happy Hour. "What possible conversation is so urgent that it can't wait until they get home?" I thought.

Silly me.

thanks don I didn't realize that

Lardo........watch out for those harpoons......they keep 'em wicked sharp..................but I'm not worried........a man with two porches is a man to be reckoned with........

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Remember when you had to be at home to talk to someone on the phone, and so did they? The dark ages.

Old man on the back porch by - the presidents of the united states.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VTszNLwFd0

when I first saw a telephone in our house there were 7 other neighbor phones on the same party line.......two shorts and a long was our ring and the other people were not supposed to listen to you......just like we were not supposed to listen to them.......I guess you can figger how THAT worked........

wasn't exactly whatch'd call privacy........

This is cool:

http://www.youtube.com/symphony

Online symphony tryouts, with instruction. Highest quality video I've seen on youtube, also.

I hear a symphony........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T9SEY8eLyk

I remember in the days before the I-Phone, where if you wanted to watch a YouTube on the way to work, you had to strap a car battery and some rabbit ears to an old TV console, rig it up to a backpack frame and then convince a buddy to haul it on his back and walk a few feet in front of you.

Champ...sometimes I, too, like to read threads from the bottom up. In fact, right now I'm reading tomorrow's thread...and I'm laughing my ass off at something you're going to say Monday morning.

"Y'all realize that if it wadn't for Thomas Edison we'd all be watching TV by candle-light?"

--Brother Dave Gardiner

"I remember in the days before the I-Phone..."

lol, that was like 6 months ago. One possible benefit of global recession is a slight impediment of technological progression, so neo-Luddites such as myself can catch their breath a little.

@craig_crawford red carpet a bit slow, need gary busey to show up and make a scene like last year

"need gary busey to show up and make a scene like last year"

Ha! Yes indeed.

I know y'all have never been this far before but I'm a fan of the twitter also......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVmMmav-hBk

I'd bet a dollar to a doughnut that that's Henry Stryzlecki (sp) on that beautiful nashville bassline............but I could be wrong.......

@craig_crawford heidi klume could get carpal tunnel syndrome from those ridculous.wrist bracelets

Birmingham, AL-born Henry Strzelecki (sometimes credited as Henry P. Strzelecki) started out in country music in his teens, recording with songwriter Baker Knight on the Decca label out of Nashville in the mid-'50s. He played with his brother Larry in a group, the Four Flickers (later the Four Counts), who toured the southern and border states late in the '50s, and he subsequently had a hit as a songwriter, in collaboration with Lyle Lovett, with the novelty song "Long Tall Texan," which was cut by the Beach Boys, among many others. He worked with Hank Garland as a bass player in the early '60s, and subsequently worked for Chet Atkins for more than a decade, both in the studio and on tour, which helped move him to the front ranks of Nashville's session players. The list of recordings on which he has worked in the years since -- usually as bassist, but sometimes also as a singer and occasionally on mouth organ, or as a producer -- is prodigious, and encompasses the work of just about every star to come out of Nashville since the early '60s. He also founded a publishing and production company in Nashville that was very active during the 1970s and 1980s, and in 1987 was nominated for Bassman of the Year at the 23rd Academy of Country Music Awards.

~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

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Don't tell me how to raise my pets. Besides, Fluffy is getting really good at Guitar Hero, and it improves his paw-eye coordination. We're hoping he'll go pro someday; we pulled him out of obedience school just to train.

Oh I left one off the list of downturn benefits:

--No one will be able to afford TV sets, meaning Lara Logan of CBS News will have to go door-to-door to deliver news.

And also Lard, kids don't play outside anymore because the streets are littered with rapists and pedophiles... they're EVERYWHERE. Don't you watch the news at all?

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Champ. LOL. Did you know that in the first draft of Plato's Allegory Of The Cave, the final manifestation of True Reality was represented by monkeys playing Frisbee in the treetops with Blu-Ray DVDs.

But Plato chickened out at the last minute. Didn't think people would get it. What a pussy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PzG_mkpVk0

the long tall texan song, which we'd have to do at least 4 times on any given night at the Ole Heidleberg out on the savannah highway where murder was committed some years before by this poor schnook who came to our high school in a kind of "scared straight" program.........that was right before they showed us the "Why Viet Nam" film by Lyndon Johnson......1965, when old Douglas was returning from there.........

Euripides pants, Eumenides pants..........

--Plato

The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli........

--george costanza

Here's the Wiki version. Now that I think about it, Plato's Cave sounds a lot like MSNBC (full link below).

Hilarious that even this has now been reduced to bite-sized chunks on Wiki. Not to mention that it reaffirms how gawdawful kinky the ancient Greeks were:

"Socrates begins his presentation by describing a scenario in which what people take to be real would in fact be an illusion. He asks Glaucon to imagine a cave inhabited by prisoners who have been chained and held immobile since childhood: not only are their arms and legs held in place, but their heads are also fixed, compelled to gaze at a wall in front of them. Behind the prisoners is an enormous fire, and between the fire and the prisoners is a raised walkway, along which puppets of various animals, plants and other things are moved. The puppets cast shadows on the wall, and the prisoners watch these shadows. There are also echoes off the wall from the noise produced from the walkway.

Socrates asks if it isn't reasonable that the prisoners would take the shadows to be real things and the echoes to be real sounds, not just reflections of reality, since they are all they had ever seen. Wouldn't they praise as clever whoever could best guess which shadow would come next, as someone who understood the nature of the world? And wouldn't the whole of their society depend on the shadows on the wall?"

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

@craig_crawford sounds like kate winslet knows better than to repeat her globe speech if she wins tonite. let's hope

1952 Vincent Black Lightning: Mun-ro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW-w0KgE-8s

del mccoury..............all them bluegrass guys look alike........

we never played much bluegrass cause we couldn't hold a frown that damn long........

Thank God for gay TV celebrity journalists. Oscar Red Carpet coverage would just collapse without them. These guys are AWESOME!

red hair and black leather......my favorite color scheme........

1972 VBL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxKTzwaEa2o&feature=related

^ thompson doing it in his living room... nice.

motorsickle exit........stage right.........

http://pentangle.net/blog/files/2008/09/rollie-free-1948-vincent-black-lightning.gif

Does anyone know more about this "Tim" guy who's helping anchor the Red Carpet coverage? I didn't catch his last name.

The man is a national treasure. He absolutely needs to have his own show.

Jamie...where the hell are you?

I think it's Tim Conway...........

yup, nice........

I`ll Never Smoke Weed With Willie Again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm34ZLlIvQg

Tim rocks. Whoever he is.

America needs a journalist who can stare directly into the glory of Penelope Cruz's Oscar Night breasts and not get flustered.

In its own way, that's like being in Baghdad during Shock and Awe.

You go Tim!

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...and I just want to once.

@craig_crawford Great opening number by Jackman, funny line in last refrain -- "I'll rent The Reader"

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I'll drink to that one Champ

Hey Patsi, have you?

Jack

Whiskey for my Men, Beer for my horses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAS1PAh1jbw

Lardo got Penelope Cruz

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

Champ........Don't do it...........

lol

Ow Big stab at Scientology

@craig_crawford damn why didnt they show tom cruise"s face during that alien religion joke

Good question. I knew a grip from War of the Worlds. He says Tom hosted a refreshment tent, but you have to listen to missionaries if you go in.
I refuse to watch. Anything good yet?
don1one

Whiskey Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP3L5w8dphM

"Hey Patsi, have you?"

Nope, but I've had a fried balogna sandwich with Loretta.

@craig_crawford Nice touch having past winners give tributes to each nominee, but they've got them standing around that blue circle like star trek chara ...

Oops, character counter not working that well.
don1one

jr does sr...........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWT3cVN955k&feature=related

one toke and it's lonesome whistle time........

Don

The show has actually been good. Better than previous years. A little drag in the lead up to award. They seem to be limiting the on air awards. We will see.

@craig_crawford what mischief - director shows angelie in audience while jennifer anniston on stage

meow - don1one

Thanks Jamie. Just a little too much pomp and circumstance for me.

I've lived in Los Angeles, and I just don't think performers are as great as they do.

Paul McCartney introduces Hank doing a beatles song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPXa1SaYTXU&feature=related

and so to baid..........

Don,

I grew up there when movie stars were the people in front of you in the check out line. Modern "stars" aren't nearly as interesting. Not impressed but I love motion pictures and just like to watch credits to see if anyone I know worked on the movie.

Why this group isn't more popular is beyond me:

The Swingle Singers - Bach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiWn0eCxLSQ&feature=related

champ.....it's cause they always seem to forget the words.......

Weird darkness at the Oscars.

Where's Jack Nicholson? Didn't he used to always go even if he wasn't nominated?

Who are the stars? I don't get it.

And in the category of TV news, we have a winner:

Zain Verjee. on CNN newscast: "Well, peanuts are now on Northwest Airlines' snack menu, and travelers with allergies are flooding the carrier with complaints about the change. Northwest began serving penis -- peanuts this month as its merger partner, Atlanta based Delta Airlines has done for years. Georgia is the top penis -- pre -- pre -- peanut-producing state in the country ..."

"I've had a fried balogna sandwich with Loretta"

lol

I'll drink to that one too.

Jack

Champ

I'll forward that one to my SIL the music teacher. She will love it.
I do too but I like lots a stuff no one else would listen to.

Jack

I'm turning the Oscars off. I think this production is way too stupid, self-conscious and self-referential, even by Hollywood standards. The Ben Stiller gag about a week-old Joaquin Phoenix stunt on Letterman pretty much sealed it for me.

Hollywood sucks. Except for the gay guy named Tim on the red carpet, who should have his own show.

Remember the good old days, when Eliot Gould would just get up there and report scores from the Final Four. Oh. That's when the Oscars were in late March/early April.

Night all

Jack

@craig_crawford ok its official. ben stiller steals the night fas j phoenix

Patsi

Did you see the news today that they may have found a cure for the peanut allergy?

Craig, why are you Twittering the Oscars? You aren't in L.A. Quit acting like you're there in the celestial realm, just out of our reach, or something like that. You're in your living room like the rest of us, aren't you?

Plus, the Ben Stiller thing was horrible. I quit.

Don1one -- I loved the Ben Stiller schtick.

Jamie,
And again, I'm painting with a broad brush. I've known family of several B actors and through them met the actors, and they were really nice. Though the daughter of George Kennedy was a real spoiled witch despite him being very nice.

Probably the worst were the crew on a Nissan commercial filming in Morro Bay. Yeesh, it's a commercial. Almost got by Tacoma in the shot though.

I have three strikes against me, male, single, and an engineer. It's just not in my blood.

Did you watch Lisa Ling's Explored on National Geographic tonight?

Hey

Lardo, You made me get off the stick and look for that software so I could upload pictures onto my computer.

I took a picture of spring bulbs poking up through the mulch.

http://showyourgarden.blogspot.com/

It is starting to look like spring

So how about them Royals?

Jack

Zac Efron and Vanessa!!!! YAY!!!!!

Diva,
I love the closing scene in "The Searchers" where John Ford frames John Wayne in a dark doorway against a bright valley in the background. That art has endured for more than 50 years.

Ben Stiller making fun of a throwaway Joaquin Phoenix talkshow appearance from a few days ago? That'll last two, maybe three weeks tops. Then no one will ever get it again. As well it should be.

Jack..

Coco Crisp is an excellent addition. We'll have to see how it goes.

All, when it starts with @craig_crawford, it's just a post on his twitter account I'm reposting. The '@' makes it a link to his account in twitter.

If you want to reply, I'll send it. But you have to keep it under 140 characters.

@craig_crawford So when they run out of time at end of show just remember this time hog of a musical number

I'm not watching, so Craig's comments not in synch. Trying to get some database code to work and watching 'The Dresser' at the moment. Thank goodness for TCM. -don1one

Don1one...please tell Craig that Lardass hates his remotely reported Twitter posts, and that he should just walk five feet across the room to his computer and post his misguided comments about the quality of this year's Oscars directly on his own blog like the rest of us are doing.

Sheesh!

Lard -- It's just an awards show -- not supposed to be art for all time. Jeezy peezy.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/sunday-chuckles.html#comment-202818

I hope so, its been a long cold winter and I could use some warm sunnydays at the ballpark. Hey springs almost here anything can happen.

Now I am gone, night all

Jack

Yo Lard, meds. Der Fuhrer is at an Oscar party in the 'burbs. Got an email? I'll give you a better way to occupy your time.

Craig >off to small Oscar party in Virginia, will try to twitter with smart phone.

decaf Lardass. and 140 characters, remember? :^)

BTW, this isn't anything Craig asked me to do. I just thought it would be fun, since we were talking twitter earlier. Doesn't Craig feel like he's right here.

Lard -- For your info -- I'm live blogging Oscars on Twitter, Facebook and here on Trailmix. Craig has other friends on Twitter that he's communicating with. Don't be such a tech-hater, now. You're better than that. (((LARD))))

Diva...on one level I agree with you. But another level, this show has just given us another reason to feel crappy about everything.

The Joaquin Phoenix thing was a dumb promotional gag to begin with. Why elevate it to something else by showcasing it on the Oscars? This is meta-meta-beyond-meta Hollywood stuff. That's why my TV is off right now and I'm sitting at my computer.

Okay. My rant is over. I'll see you all tomorrow.

@craig_crawford Why do so many former supporting actors need haircuts?

Okay Diva...you are right. I surrender. I'm going to go check the metal mailbox on my front doorpost to see if I have any old-fashioned mail. Then I'm going to Twitter my teeth and go to bed.

Champ, let's just hope that Leni R. wins something for the Fuhrer's sake.

Night all.

Lard --- You're just tired and grumpy. I don't feel that bad about the Oscars -- I happen to like Ben Stiller and thought his little thing tonight was funny -- just like I thought Joaquin and David were funny. Now call me shallow, but I just don't take this all that seriously. Who can? Cheers to you Lard. We all love you.

@craig_crawford is bill maher wearing a rubber suit?

I like the balance act. - don1one

I don't think anyone can seriously understand Hollywood without living there......it's another world, and thank your god for that.

:)

Hey Burrito! Are you speaking from you experience of having lived in Newport Beach -- which is pretty darn Hollywood?

Lard, if Joaquin Phoenix lived here, there'd probably have been a deputy reading him his rights within five minutes of his appearance.

I also lived north of Hollywood as well....so yeah, I used to work in a place where people would come in to produce their scripts....one funny time we had to do a house call at Joan Collin's home......back in that day.....it's very star-like out there.....very commonplace.

Craig actually has 879 followers on twitter.

don1one

It a wonderful distraction from the real world......

Jamie, are you talking about curing a peanut allergy by giving the allergic one a peanut a day? I also heard that on the news. That could work. Give them a peanut, they go into anaphylactic shock, die and voille, no more allergy.

They did say do not try this at home. Actually that is how allergy shots work by introducing small quantities of the allergen over a period of time but you need to have epinepherine and medical assistance available.

It's weird.... I've seen more Hollywood celebs in DC than I ever did in LA or OC. Maybe they just stick out more around here.

Diva- during in the Bush years ?

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ct

I just caught it briefly, but it is some form of building up resistance. They showed a young boy who had previously had a severe allergy, eating peanuts quite happily. Here is a Reuters report on it.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUKTRE51J2KE20090220

That's okay, I've seen Senator Boxer in L.A. Diva.
:^)
She's very nice, BTW.

Burrito -- Which Bush years?

WHEN: Monday, February 23, 2009
10:15 AM ET to 1:30 PM ET

EVENT SCHEDULE:

10:15-10:35 AM - National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy (open to media, live audience of 100-150)

· Opening Remarks and Participant Introductions: UN Foundation President Tim Wirth
Moderator opens and introduces the table of participants
· Remarks: Senator Harry Reid
· Remarks: President Bill Clinton
· Remarks: Vice President Al Gore
· Remarks: Speaker Nancy Pelosi
· Remarks: T. Boone Pickens
· Remarks: John Podesta

10:35 AM -12:30 PM - Moderated Discussion of Primary Principles

· Principle One – How do we build the modern electricity grid?
· Principle Two – How do we reduce our reliance on foreign oil?

12:45 PM Press Conference – Presentation of Discussion and Common Principles

@craig_crawford Oh come on, ironman had better visial effects than ben button. Time they make a category for action films, and comedies too.

Hollywood or West Hollywood, UB. :^)
I was looking for a technical book store in Santa Monica one day and missed the turnoff. When I saw guys on the corner in underwear and chaps I knew I'd entered Oz. don1one (west hollywood for people that haven't been there)

Shutting the computer down ... have a good rest of the evening.

I'd love to be involved in that CBob. It'll be interesting to see what they actual fund.

Don1one -- I worked with Senator Boxer on overturning the Gag Rule --- triple love her -- but she's not really a celebrity.

@craig_crawford Geez, Ironman dissed again, this time for sound editing

Oh I was just asking when you saw so many "Hollywoods" in DC? I didn't know they were hanging out there in the recent past.....Not that really matters....lol

LOL Don on "West" Hollywood.... some many stories so little time.....

Diva,
I was commenting on your seeing celebrities in Washington, saying I saw a politician in Los Angeles.

I may not always agree with Boxer, but I love the way she stands by her principles. You always know where she stands and she stands for what she believes in. I wish there were more politicians like that.

The interesting thing about film is the most simple of ideas and characters, is what is boiled down to mean the most , yet in life people feel discontent with the simple things......its a kind of a wake up call that rarely gets heard.

imo

Burrito -- There are way more celebs who coming to DC since 2008. The inauguration was overrun with Hollywood people. But many still came during the dark days to do plays at the KenCen, Folger Shakespeare, etc. Also several movies shot in and around DC lead to a few celeb sightings in odd places, like the liquor store on Capitol Hill, Union Station, Georgetown Starbucks and the Tune Inn.

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Don -- I understand, but considering Boxer represents Cali -- I hope it's not an unusual sighting!

@craig_crawford The crowd shots have been lazy tonight -- director must be bored

Ever try and get in to see your state senator (unless of course you live in Washington)?

Met her at the airport. Other than that, not much. Feinstein never. Though I wouldn't cross the street to talk to her.

But it's such a better visual then looking at the crowd in the Senate.....wouldn't you agree?

So Hugh vs. Jon. Who would you pick for next year?

LOL,
Yes, by quite a bit UB.

I just woke up and looked up the winning moment of Heath Ledger. I can't speak for others, but the waterworks went into full action. I am very happy that Mr. Ledger was recognized for his amazing talent and so very sad that his life ended so young. It is suggested that Heath Ledger is the new James Dean of our era. Mauro is a big James Dean fan and Health Ledger; perhaps there is something to this. I find the win such a beautiful pause to look back at a tremendously caring and hard working person.

AND YOU GO KATE!

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Ewww, can't stand Mickey Rourke. Mauro likes him too and he makes me want to barf.

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I'm not a fan or Arnold either, but I have to say his stance on the stimulus money sure took the wind out of the sales of the petty, whining southern Republican Governors. As far as I am concerned, they can take none of the money. I am sure their constituents will appreciate their care and consideration.

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I just don't think Obama is corrupt Champ, as much as I enjoy reading your thoughts, and I really do! Emmanuel? Well he has certainly profited handsomely in some banking deals. The system is broken but our new President is trying to change an intransigent political structure that will do anything possible to protect their money and power junkie tendencies. Cynical old f*cker I am.

I'm complaining about access in general Tom.

Unless you hire a lobbyists these days you can't get an issue in front of a senator.

Chance bump-ins are different, but I've had friends from all over the place that complain about the lobbyist system and the lack of access.

Not to mention most senators are pretty wealthy and just don't run in the same circles.

Senator Grassley has been conducting a series of townhalls and Claire McCaskill has breakfast with Missourans, but that seems to be rare these days.
Of course Biden was famous for taking the train, so there are exceptions.

Someone explain to me what the hell a TWITTER is... Oops only 15 minutes before shop opens and still undressed... EEEEK

OFF WITH THE PUTER

bye

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