Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

1st!!! :)

It's unfortunate that speculation is the rule of current journalism. What ever happened to checks the facts before publication?

MN cops testify against medical mj. When I got a tooth pulled, the dentist gave me novocaine a medical coke. When I had cancer surgery the doctor gave me methadone, a medical smack. But, when medical mj comes up, the cops react with,

"MY GOD ! IT"S SOOOOOOOO DANGEROUS !"

Makes it hard to believe anything else they say.

Awesome.

I never could figure out why New Yorkers would buy either the Pest or the Daily Noise.

Btw, where is everyone ? Hot date night ? Out and about trying to score Novocaine ? Passed out from an overdose of Pinot and Perry Como ?

Yes, lord_bloggington. And, it's far out, too.

I suppose the others are spawning. I should go do that too, before I get like Bob Dole.

If we have learned anything recently, it's to do your illicit drugs in the privacy of your own home... in a closet... with the lights off... definitely not with that tool you met at the bar.

Craig

First of all you're dead wrong. You ID'd the NY Post as a newspaper. That's like calling John Gibson or Chris Wallace, or even Bill O'Reilly, reporters. Laughable!

I would think that fish stink just a little bit more after being wrapped in the Post. Actually, if Rupert Murdoch wanted to be entirely accurate, he would rename the paper from Post to Charmin.

She obviously resents her father. She'll have time to work it out in the rehab she is going to be forced to attend while the rest of the family thanks all of us for our support and for respecting their privacy during this difficult time.

The NY Post, eh?

Oh yeah, I believe them.

tt

Mr. de Critic,

What insults to both fish and Charmin !

What do you have against them ?

The New York Pox rates down there with the WaTi, good enough to wrap Barretta's parrot's poop, but not my parrot's poop.

There is more truth in the Onion and more news in Reader's Digest.

The Post wouldn't be running it if they didn't believe it.

The dumbest person in this scenario? The guy who made the video. He's ****ing with the daughter of one of the most powerful men in the country. Good luck with that.

Lord Bloggington will impose a one-week Trail Mix break now. He's been posting too much and needs more sleep than he's been getting.

Have fun with this news cycle and the resulting CNN investigatory specials on "Cocaine in America", the calls for justice, the calls for empathy, the calls for privacy, and the calls for transparency, the debate on media sensationalism, the debate on class and privilege, the debate on the hypocrisy of the drug war, and the debate on the dangers of drugs pose to our nation's youth. Should be fun.

"Lord Bloggington will impose a one-week Trail Mix break now."

...on himself. You fine people post away.

LB

The Post wouldn't be running it if they didn't believe it.
Posted by: lord-bloggington

OK, give me some of what your drinking. I want to escape reality too.

The NY Post and the Washington Times have something in common. There motto seems to be: "Just print it. Later we'll figure out whether there's any truth involved."

Ah, Rupert, you deserve the likes of O'reilly & Hannity.

When I was a young married man , new to my job, work "ran out" and I was sent home, but my wife had taken our car shopping, so I asked a young woman , who also had been sent home early, who drove right past my apartment, for a lift.
She obliged and drove me the five miles to my door, let me out, and I went inside.
No big deal, right?
Well...it turns out the lady had a well-deserved reputation as a non-discriminating sex-addict.
By the next day when I reported for work, the rumor mill had me engaged in all kinds of Kama Sutra poses, my wife had supposedly caught us in rapporto, and I was dying for more of the same action.
All because some loudmouth foreman saw us leaving together.
I learned the hard way...people are mean.
I do not know if Ms. Biden did anything wrong, but I won't believe it based solely on The Post.

If Lord Bloggington were still here, he'd be amused at the castigation of the NY Post for running this story, but not at Mr. Crawford for relaying it.

hi TT...when's your 105th birthday party?
http://www.delawareonline.com/blogs/uploaded_images/IMG_2869-706372.JPG

Well then, it's a good thing that Lord Bloggington isn't here.

Flatus - I am so sorry to hear of your tragedy. What a disappointment. I hope the kids in Korea are holding up.

Xrep - nightshade is poisonous, I think.

Solar - I think part of the problem many find with the strong defense of Israel and Jews is the fact that anti-semitism is so endemic to the entire world.

Anti-semisim has been with us since recorded history.
Most ethnic groups have been targeted at one time or another throughout history, but Jews have never ceased to be a target. It is an un-ending condition and I'm beginning to wonder if it will ever end.

Since the war and info re the camps has come out, many people don't want to be seen as anti-semitic, but believe me, anti-semitism is rampant.

For that very reason it is difficult to tell what anyone's real motivation is when he/she criticizes Israel and/or Jews. It's hard to know just what data is responsible for a comment denigrating Israel - I tend to expect most people I know or meet to have some tinge of dislike for all Jews.

It's funny that with all the known horrible things terrorists have done to Israel and Jews, those facts are thrown aside to elaborate on how Israel is evil.

I honestly don't believe you will ever change anyone's mind on this subject.

I didn't grow up with my ideas re Israel and Jews - I didn't even understand who Jews were until I was in college - even after reading Exodus, I didn't understand who they were and just exactly is anti-semitism.

When I started to pay attention and gathered facts and listened to people, I had no trouble making up my mind.

Anti-semitism is here and it is ancient and it is evil, and it colors just about everything which is said on the subject. Never doubt that.

thats exactly what we needed another irrevelent
distraction. now all the news media can focus
on this for about a week
thankyou little miss biden

It seems that some on this blog have already convicted Miss Biden. I guess that just means you're so much smarter than everyone else.

BB---"Well said"

When I see Joe's daughter take money for giving out illegal drugs, or when she admits it, I'll believe it.

That comes under the heading of

It isn't important that I believe her or don't believe her so I wll put off that decision until I have proof. Should that never happen, so what?

I don't understand why anyone wants to believe such a thing. Believe that there is a rumor about it and leave mit there. That's wll we know, and it's really more than enough.

I really hate this sleazoid gottcha "journalism"...likewise the trashing of people'schildren. Didn't like it with the Bush twins, didn't like it with Palin's daughter, don't like it with Biden's daughter. Souldn't expect anything better from a rag like the Post....but still...

It was a wandering daughter job.

--Dashiell Hammet

cbob.......run into these characters any?

the little lebowski urban achievers, water badminton league of lubbock, texas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INPX7DU_xmE

Good morning peps. That is sad about Ms. Biden, even if it is untrue it will cause her a lot of pain. Rumors can do a lot of damage because people like to believe them even when they are later retracted.

Flatus I don't know what your bad news is but I am also sorry. You are one of the rocks here.

I got my radioactive pill Friday. They suited up and gave it to me and then checked me with a Geiger counter to make sure it went down. It wasn't painful Solar, the painful part has been having to live with a soaring thyroid level until I got the poison pill and trying to work in a zoo while I was running around feeling like I had a bee hive inside. It will take several more weeks to see if it works.

Did everyone turn off the lights last night? I did and fell asleep. It was the first night I got a good nights sleep.

One order of White Bread to go, please:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPymmD3r3K8

"...... the resulting CNN investigatory specials on "Cocaine in America", the calls for justice, the calls for empathy, the calls for privacy, and the calls for transparency, the debate on media sensationalism, the debate on class and privilege, the debate on the hypocrisy of the drug war, and the debate on the dangers of drugs pose to our nation's youth."

lb, there you go again ruining the plot and telling us the ending before we finished reading the book. now how are we going to meet our daily news addiction?

dang, there goes the wheaties box endorsement again...

remember the pix of billy carter rocked back in a chair drinking beer outside the gas station? alas, today's press just isn't as good as in the good ole days when journalism = professionalism. oh wait, they just might be professionals after all, of the sort that walks the streets.

LMAO! Sturge! That Lennon Sister vid just made my morning!!!! Love love love the faux beatnik....

My son-in--law gave me a DVD of "Cocaine Fiends" for Christmas....

JJ cale with today's song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSzU4zP74ng

And people wonder why newspapers are becoming extinct....
The NYTImes contributed to the atmosphere that allows stories like this as well...not just the problem of the POST

another faux beatnik with a portable private music machine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5yvMExqKNA

Many thanks to all who have offered comfort to us. We deeply appreciate it.

I've had time to reflect more on why the miscarriage is so difficult.

Not only do we empathize with our grandkids and feel their grief, we also share the grief of our daughter and her husband. And then we have our own sense of loss as well.

Enough of this. Have to keep on moving.

And, Bob, I'm so sorry to hear of your friend's cancer; it sucks.

Sturgeone,

Musical: City of Angels
Song: Lost and Found
It was a wandering daughter job

STurgeone

My computer chose that last message to go crazy.
Here's the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PWNHVb5dpI

This week's leading editorial in the Economist was hard on Mr Obama. Read it understanding that they endorsed him:
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13362895

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/03/newspaper-targets-biden-daught.html#comment-214949

Just how did the Lennon Sisters do those dances without moving their hips? :-)

http://www.phawker.com/2009/03/28/heckuva-job-tierney-inkydn-big-wigs-paid-650000-in-bonuses-as-papers-went-bankrupt/

be sure to scroll down to the week in review

"The NYTImes contributed to the atmosphere that allows stories like this as well..."

Yes they did...

"Just how did the Lennon Sisters do those dances without moving their hips? :-)"

Ha! I used to LOVE Welk's polkas....and Lynn Anderson...

Lawrence had all the girls' hips surgically removed.........he was a stickler.............

Patsi,

I go back to the black and white days and The Avalon Ballroom when it was still a local LA show.

For those who get RFD-TV, there's a weekly polka show on after Imus. Forget which day.

Who still reads Newspapers?
But the Enquirer and New York Post might stick.. But they do not produce news...

GO figure

There was more actual news content in the "Good News Flower Hour" than you see on a cable channel in a week.

it's my ambition to write a sad polka........

Sad, isn't it...the satirists -comedians- do a better job on reporting news then today's journalists (sic)
I blame corporate ownership of mass media that put financial considerations ahead of the news. They can't die fast enough for me.

sad polka??

The empty beer barrel polka?

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/03/from-suicide-to-sexy-puns-its.html#comment-214908

Xrep
do not eat nightshade berries, they are poisonous. A friend lost a child who had eaten nightshade berries.
So I'm not suprised you felt a little queasy after eating a few.

Jack

ha......that might just be it......or the non-alcoholic beer barrel polka......there's something in there somewhere.........

xr, sure hope you mean black nightshade (solanum nigrum)
http://www.home-remedies-guide.com/herbs/black-nightshade.htm

and not deadly nightshade (atropa belladonna)
"As every part of the plant is extremely poisonous, neither leaves, berries, nor root should be handled if there are any cuts or abrasions on the hands. The root is the most poisonous, the leaves and flowers less so, and the berries, except to children, least of all. It is said that an adult may eat two or three berries without injury, but dangerous symptoms appear if more are taken, and it is wiser not to attempt the experiment."
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/n/nighde05.html

well.....i turned on Meet Depressed and there is John McCain's mug spouting his baloney......zip......to the movies with me.....

really neat descriptiion of what it's like to be in a small group press visit with the pres in oval ofc.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090329/COLUMNISTS20/903290436

McCain says, "Party of ideas" and it sounds like a drone into dismal boredom. The trouble with catch phrases and buzz words: They get very, very, very tired.

Put McCain and Lieberman in the same room. They can put each other to sleep and stop bothering the rest of us.

sturge, arthur godfrey made a fortune from this sad polka.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT22n6x7J0g&feature=related

maybe that's why me old mudda called him Awful Godfrey.........

how about using the above sad polka tune for politcal characters?

i don't want rush, you can have rush.
he's too right for me, much too right for me.
he's a nut to me.

guess that shoulda said "he's too wrong for me"

Spring has been delayed a few days by the weather and Buddha is a bit cold.

for pictures

http://showyourgarden.blogspot.com/

Jack

"sad polka??

The empty beer barrel polka?"

Classic!

Best polka record ever: Wolfgang Muller's If You Can't Do the Polka, Don't Marry My Daughter

For you vegitarian types a very good looking roast vegetable stock. For tasty soup.
There is also and interesting lentil soup on the blog, using the stock and lemon.

http://www.theinadvertentgardener.com/index.php/2009/03/05/roasted-vegetable-stock/

Jack

It's Tacoma Washington at the end of March and it snowed last night. Sorry Bob, but one more day of this and I'm joining the deniers. :-)

Its sad that with the way things are today people are still buying & selling dirt.Just another distraction but from who? Been following for a while now & decided to put my 2cents in . Great topics & comments from everyone.

good morning gang....
rainy morning.... catching up with this weekend's posts....

Flatus.... so very sorry to read about your granddaughter....

we had some good news during a family gathering last night.... immediate family took my MIL out to a very nice restaurant for her 80th birthday.... the only one not there was her granddaughter (our niece), Sarah..... she lives in North Carolina... married a marine in Oct.... became pregnant in Nov..... her new husband, Dave, was scheduled to be one of the marines going to Afghanistan to go into villages where they've never gone before and the government expects them to take heavy casualties in the first few months .... Sarah cell phoned her twin sister during our meal to reveal that Dave had fallen during a training exercise the day before and badly hurt his shoulder.... he will need surgery and won't be able to join his unit for at least another 3 months..... hopefully the casualty taking will be over by then....

Sturg.... we have a good friend who loves polka so much he decided to learn to play the accordion last year.... then he got it into his head to start collecting that instrument..... to date, he owns 57 accordions....

oh yeah.... on today's subject....
just another tabloid story I will promptly ignore..... too much real news to care about....

RR

For your accordian loving pal --a road trip
http://www.cotatifest.com/

Remember the movie "Home Alone"? Catherine Moriarity got a ride back to Chicago with John Candy and his polka band!

http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1382

Above is a far more serious flub is proven true. Freeman's departure which I commented on weeks ago, was hardly the consequence of the "Jewish Lobby" and if events above indicate where US/Israeli relations are going, voters here will have their say soon enough.

Like playing the race card, if the Obama administration wants to start playing the "Jewish" card things will get ugly and Biden's daughter will be far down the list. This is all about credibility of the US to both the world and Americans. I am beginning to see the Press is regarded in some Democratic circles as being threatening to the spin from the WH on both the economic front and the foreign policy one.

For the price of bonuses going to just AIG, the US and Israel could expedite missile defense. No one going to sit by and watch Obama build on a false Grand Bargain and some in the Press will watch every step along the way.

Is the New York Post considered a responsible newspaper?
I like it, 'because' it's a little gossipy (imo).

Flatus, I am so sorry to hear about your families loss. Best wishes to you all.

CBob, I got my blue corn seeds a couple days ago, and will be planting them this week. Thanks!
...........

Madonna is adopting another baby. I think she's competing with Brad and Angelina. I guess when you're that rich... ( told you, I like gossip related stuff)

"Madonna, the original Material Girl, landed in a decidedly un-material nation Sunday, flying into the capital of Malawi where she was expected to begin proceedings this week to adopt a young girl." http://tinyurl.com/ctfzr9

...oh, and Flatus, Thanks for linking that Economists article. I'm going to read it when I get back.

I was cought by the warden, Judith,,(she is Judtih,,not Judy) for a few more hours,,,,,I was cought eating a peanut butter and jelly french toast,,this morn,I heard comming down the stairs,,,and I couldn't hide them or eat them fast enough,,,and Patsi wasn't around to help get out of this jam,,,so the warden told me that after I finished half killing myself with all the sugar,,,I should go out and finish the job,,and have a heart attack,,shoveling the snow that fell last night,,and still falling a little,,looks like 3-4 inches,,no problem,,,and happy to get out of the kitchen,,and flying pans,,everything back to normal now,,,,next time,,I will make them at 3 in the morning,,,if she comes down those stairs at that time,Ill Ill,,smack right in the kisser,,lets see if she can resist them,,,,haha,,,,I would never make it on twitter,

Chloe,,,,Say good morning to My Hosses,,and today Is Sunday,,,,so they should get an apple or somethin No?

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=weeklyreport-000003081120

This is the CQ spin of Freeman's departure. What exactly did the "Jewish Lobby" do and why did Freeman leave when the administration did not ask him to? What are the details on Freeman's resume?

And look at Zbig's role in Obama's security team. Power is back and Rice is front woman at the UN. The administration while trying to project a smile to Iran and Syria, is laying a weak foundation. Freeman's contact and positions in regard to the Saudis and Syrians is troubling. zKIng Abdullah is soon to depart and his next in line is a radical sort with ties to extremists as the Saudis move to create a new extremist group in Gaza to rival Hamas. The US also knows about Assad's support of terrorists, secret nuclear program and alliance with Iran. There is a quiet game going on and Obama ought to be concerned what the public will say when the Press starts digging in. You can't spin the public one way while work in the opposite direction. This is the change we voted for?

Note the role Hillary has and doesn't have in all of this.

A most remarkable essay on the fertility of early colonial Cape Cod soils. OSH, I believe the pumpkin grew on your island.

Ya know speculation on realestate and deceptive sales practices are an American tradition as far back as the founding of the colonies.

"Among the remarkable Instances of the Power of Vegetation, I shall begin with an Account of a Pumpkin Seed, which I have well attested, from a worthy Divine. * The Relation is as follows: That in the Year 1699, a single Pumpkin Seed was accidentally dropped in a small Pasture where Cattle had been fodder'd for some Time. This single Seed took Root of itself, and without any Manner of Care or Cultivation ; the Vine run along over several Fences, and spread over a large Piece of Ground far and wide, and continued its Progress till the Frost came and killed it. This Seed had no more than one Stalk, but a very large one ; for it measured eight Inches round ; from this single Vine, they gathered two hundred and sixty Pumpkins ; and, one with another, as big as an half Peck, enough in the Whole, to fill a large Tumbrel, besides a considerable Number of small and unripe Pumpkins, that they made no Account of. "

http://capecodhistory.us/18th/Dudley-plants-1724.html

Solar

I'm just gonna sit back and let march weather take care of the snow. It is already starting to melt faster than I'm going to get it shoveled.
Mean while my darlin' ask if I had got her exercise machine assymbled so she could use it when she got back Tues.
My reply
"Yeah I got mumble mumble , no problem mumble mumble piece of cake "

Jack

Jack

I gave up drinking,,,and smoking,,,(heavy),,,I can have a cpl of beers and stop and not have any for months at a time,,,and that goes for cigarettes also,,,I have one once in a while,,when I meet my contractor buds,,,and not have any it I don't feel like it,,,but,,,the only thing that I won't give up,,is the sweet stuff,,,I get plenty of exercise,,,to make up for it,,,get that equipment up for your wife,,and use it too,,,than you can have another piece of cake,,,or Sunday morning Menudo :-))

Max

Any other sources? Debka is pretty mixed on its reliability, though they have broken some important stories. Basically they are far right and allied with the more extreme conspiracy oriented right element in the Republican party.

That isn't a put down, just it always pays to know the slant with a "news" viewpoint when no names for sources are given.

"Head Found in Topless Bar "
NY Post

Thought for the day :
" Faith will not die while seed catalogs are printed. "

Perfect pitch......that's when you toss the accordian so well that it falls right in the center of the dumpster...........on top of the banjo.

accordian player and trombone player get a new year's eve gig and go over great.....at the end of the night, the club owner says, "You guys were great, we want you guys to come back and do it again next year." The bone man says, "That's wonderful........can we leave our equiptment?"

optimist: accordian player with a beeper.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/03/newspaper-targets-biden-daught.html#comment-214958

flatus, yes losses are a lot like bee stings. the impact gets worse as they accumulate. one never develops an immunity. just the opposite. each successive one becomes harder to bear to the point you can't breathe.

"Major cyber spy network uncovered

There is no conclusive evidence of Chinese government involvement
An electronic spy network, based mainly in China, has infiltrated computers from government offices around the world, Canadian researchers say."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7970471.stm

BREAKING NEWS

Hole found in nudist camp wall. Police are looking into it.

Film at 11

Now there's something you'd see on the front page of the Post, right below, "Brittany has Martian's Baby."

Say it so Joe. Kids will be kids, especially grown kids of Democrats.

But my question is why are the pro-drug use elements here so defensive about someone doing a little blow. Your outrage, indignation over this purported incident in the NY Post is amusing to say the least. Lord it isn't like they got video of her sucking on a crack pipe, main lining, selling drugs to a undercover officer, and she wasn't arrested. You are the ones who are always proclaiming you are in favor of legalizing drugs: coke, heroin, PCP, weed, meth, ICE, crack, etc. All poor 27 y.o. Ashley is purportedly doing, is doing what you think all adults should be allowed to do in the first place. You should be pumping fists, or hi fiving over this revelation. Oh wait a minute this has nothing to do with drugs, now does it. This has everything to do with her being the VP's daughter, who just happens to be a Democrat. Now what would be the conversation be like if Ashley was the daughter of a leading Republican? LMAO. Transparency, when it is on the other foot isn't all that great, now is it?

hiaasen: "If you're rich and think nobody loves you anymore, meet Rep. John Boehner."

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/971601.html

NEW THREAD.. http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/03/anatomy-of-a-hit-job.html

tir,
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/patoliphant

note the little critter bottom left saying the repubs have a right to their opinion "seeing as how they got us where we are."

Patd, does your quote from article imply you think the Chinese are not behind some of the cyber attacks? And would you suggest that Russia isn't either?

The article points to serious problems, but I wonder what you think? Given the government borrowing, maybe we should just sell our secrets to China. And what good inspecting cargo when hackers can change data.

Also does anyone here think Obama will press Germany to tighten sanctions on Iran that their corporations brazenly disregard? EU gives Iran all they need to hack computers and spy.

TiR

It is one of those liberal/ conservative things that amuse those of us in the middle.
Conservative want to lockup all drug users and execute all dealers unless it is their Kid

liberals As you pointed out want the right of adults to choose, unless it is their kid.

So that may explain some of the belly laugh you get when berating liberals for hypocrisy.

Jack

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