what have we learned? based on the video's point that he seems to seek the middle ground and prefers compromise, maybe obama is a closet buddhist...
plus he did name the dog "bo" which might be a cleverly secret way to refer to the buddha's enlightenment:
"An important guiding principle of Buddhist practice is the Middle Way, which is said to have been discovered by Gautama Buddha prior to his enlightenment (bodhi)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#Middle_Way
Speak before tomorrow noon or hold your piece until the race on Saturday:
Trailmixer Horse Jockey
Advice Rene Douglas
Atomic Rain Joe Bravo
Solar Crete Chocolate Candy Mike Smith
Blond Wino, Flatus Desert Party Ramon Dominguez
Jamie Dunkirk Edgar Prado
Flying Private Robby Albarado
Jack, Ivy Green Friesan Fire Gabriel Saez
Patd General Quarters Julien Leparoux
Bethy, Renee Hold Me Back Kent Desormeaux
Rezdog, Pogo I Want Revenge Joe Talamo
Join The Dance Chris DeCarlo
Mine That Bird Calvin Borel
Mr. Hot Stuff John Velazquez
Musket Man Eibar Coa
Nowhere To Hide Shaun Bridgmohan
Papa Clem Rafael Bejarano
Pioneer of the Nile Garett Gomez
Regal Ransom Alan Garcia
Summer Bird Chris Rosier
West Side Bernie Stewart Elliott
i never saw reagan but fifty-some years ago he would get off the train at waterloo, indiana, where i grew up, and cut commercials at the WINT-TV studios there, then during breaks he would wander across the tracks to Smith's Tavern and play pool, drink a beer and have a ham sandwich...gee...sounds like a wonderful, populist type guy, right? what happened to him? who got to him? unreal...anyway, the tavern owner's son divulged this info about twenty years ago in an interview, after Reagan was done.
As the House of Representatives debates an expansion of hate crimes legislation, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) has taken the rhetoric to a new level, claiming that those who say Matthew Shepard was murdered in Wyoming for being gay are perpetrating a "hoax" on the American people.
"I also would like to point out that there was a bill -- the hate crimes bill that's called the Matthew Shepard bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed, but we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn't because he was gay. This -- the bill was named for him, hate crimes bill was named for him, but it's really a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills," said Foxx.
A Foxx spokesman didn't immediately return a call. The Matthew Shepard "hoax" notion is a popular meme on right-wing blogs.
Oh...I learned he smokes Newports...but I don't repeat that , and only post it here to get some truth...we all know Newports replaced Kools as the African American smoke of choice about 15, 20 years ago...and some people think it's funny that Obama would follow suit and smoke the "Black Cigarettes"---so , what brand DOES Obama smoke?
We all know FDR smoked Pall Mall, JFK puffed cigars, and Gerald Ford had his beloved pipe - http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Sections/Newsweek/Components/Photos/Mag/070108_Issue/070108_Cover.standard.jpg
I never should have posted that cover of Gerald Ford with his pipe...every time I see a pipe with curling smoke I get the WORST tobacco jones a-goin'---I LOVED Sir Walter Raleigh Burleigh-cut pipe terbacky...
Nixon began the fall of the Republican Party by turning the party of Lincoln into the bigoted party responding to Nixon's Southern strategy and Lyndon Johnson's Civil Rights accomplishments.
BTW, my best friend said that the entire campus of the University of Michigan will be smoke-free as of 2011. My friend works with a older woman who is a chain smoker. He said, "I know when she'll be retiring!"
Hi all... I think Obama has been pretty awesome as President so far. I admire this "can do" demeanor and how he can brush away unfair political attacks and stay focussed on his agenda. I am disturbed about Geithner's ties to bankers, not to mention Emmanuel's ties to bankers (oh and Israel). I have a hard time believing that Money Junkies should be trying to offer rehab to other Money Junkies. Geithner could have been much tougher on banks and not discount the possibility of nationalizing the banks and ending the corporate hog feast handed out each day in the name of "bonuses". He seems unwilling to go forward with an entire paradigm shift in our relationships between work and money, financiers and credit seekers.
Craig, I just watched some of your videos... GREAT STUFF !
So as I have posted on my Facebook profile, I am freaked about this new flu pandemic in the making. Is anyone else worried? Government officials try to reassure that there is no need to panic, but usually when such officials make those claims, I feel more need to panic. They are masters of covering up what's really going on... Love Canal particularly comes to mind.
what have we learned in 100 days.
Not much... But what planet and white house is Adriel Bettelheim watching?
On Craigs blog so sorry Adriel.....
Lesson 1 - Obama is for BIG GOVERNMENT to control everything and cross many lines
Lesson 2 - NO CHANGE just Big Check book, lets buy our way out cause golly jee I got me a printing press
Lesson 3 - He speaks out of many sides of his mouth cause he dont like to have conflict and he owes lots of people political capital. Hope he pays them off soon
Ping, as I say always, you are truly a gentleman.... so welcoming in spite of our considerably different political viewpoints.
Chloe, thank YOU for the kind comment. and for looking at the pics. I am very proud of the kitchen! The apartment is coming together slowly and 28 May I move in.
Craig, dammit! Now I have the Price is Right theme song in my head. :-)
now that they've upped the pandemic alert levels, do hope all tmrs have dusted off their asafetida bags, stuffed them with fresh camphor and other smelly stuff.
from another time, another flu pandemic:
"The Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918 struck Brunswick just as it did many other towns and cities in the country. "Dutch" Burns remembers seeing the bodies of 29 victims on the floor of the Feete Furniture Factory, which was on the lot where Feete's apartment house now stands in the junction of Petersville Road and Maryland Avenue. In addition, the undertaking establishment was overfilled with the dead.
Precautions were taken against the dread disease. One supposed preventive was an asafetida bag worn around the neck. Asafetida was a fetid gum resin of oriental plants used in folk medicine against disease; this is no longer widely practiced. One person remembers hog manure being used— heated as a poultice and applied to the chest. The mother on whom this was used survived the flu attack. Hot onions were also used as a poultice, a mass of heated material applied to an infected area. Every evening after school, Dutchremembersbeing dosed with a drink of coal oil and sugar taken as he ate a raw onion. Before retiring to bed, many people took a "hot pot," which consisted of a small amount of whiskey, sugar and hot water. One couple "stayed drunk to avoid the flu." http://bhs.edu/hist/100ch8.html
Arlen Specter is not interested in creating parties. He wants to help create government, and to do that he needs a job in congress which he loves and has experience in. If the repubs won't help him keep that job, why shouldn't he work with tghe folks who will?
Political parties are transient - hopefully our government isn't and that it will grow and evolve but stay the voice of the people. Why should Arlen stay with a group which doesn't and won't work with him?
Would any of us stay with a doc we don't trust and don't like?
Arlen wants to b e elected - there's no shame in that.
We need to get over the idea that politicians are Santa Claus - they are human and want the job of working in the government, for whatever reason. Why should they shoot themselves in the foot for a show of loyalty, which is just a show?
Sorry, Ping. If it makes you happy, keep the dream, but I firmly believe today's liberals are tomorrow's conservatives and today's conservatives are tomorrow's fossils. For that matter, I think conservatives are important and inevitable in any political configuration, so thanks for being there.
300 years ago conservatives believed in the divine right of kings.
I got confused by mme michelle's idiocy. At the time a friend was here whose grandmother was Margaret Smoot, and she helped me get it right. We had a good laugh. mme michelee got it so mixed up I'll never be able to say it right again!
That same friend's mom is a sacredly republican voter who told her daughter this am that she tinks Obama's
WONDERFUL and wishes she had voted for him!
"Before retiring to bed, many people took a "hot pot," which consisted of a small amount of whiskey, sugar and hot water. One couple "stayed drunk to avoid the flu."
Makes as much, maybe more, sense than those silly masks.
As soon as I saw that "Join The Dance" had been added to the line up he became by long shot bet because of the name. You might like this Orlando Sentinel write up about him. He is owned by Orlando Magic Rashard Lewis and Todd Pletcher.
there seems to be a change in obama's voice today... like he's got a slight cold or an allergy problem. and looks a little pinched about the eyes like sinusitis. sure hope they're keeping the tamiflu and relenza handy. all the travel of late and exposure to crowds flies in the face of the recent recommendations to the rest of us.
please, mr. president, drink a lot of water, get plenty of rest, send all sick staff home and make do with talking to us via your blackberry or the media. we'll understand. or some of us will.
Spectacular! Thank you forthe Uncle Sam Cbob!
Think we both put in a good day and ought to take a break from typing for the night, I can fix the rest of my typos tomorrow on the victims story for you. I can't even see them at this point! Couch time. Good night and thank you all.
2. He is willing to try speaking with opponents and enemies. When they do not respond with maturity and deliberation, he cuts them cold :
a. He tried to live his ideal of a bi-partisan approach to the financial crisis, but was rebuffed by republicans, who were led by Rep. boehner, and incited by limbaugh and the rest of the clown club. When he went on to fix the financial mess without them, they suddenly started shrieking and weeping about bipartisanship. They were a day late & a dollar short.
b. Obama tried to open conversations with terrorist nations Iran and Syria. They rebuffed him, amid the hoots of the rest of the terrorist clown club. He is charting his own course, and now Syria is weeping that we are ignoring it. They were a day late & a dollar short.
c. There's not much difference between the republican clown club's, and the totalitarian clown club's way of dealing with Obama - or anything else. They are both committed to the proposition that the meanest, most mendacious, most brutal guy will win the field.
If that proposition were true, we'd all be speaking German or Japanese. It isn't and that's why we're not.
Here is the list I have. Advise of any changes, corrections, or addtions
Advice
Atomic Rain
Chocolate Candy - Solar Crete, OSH
Desert Party - Blond Wino, Flatus
Dunkirk - Jamie
Flying Private
Friesan Fire - Jack, Ivy Green, Dexter
General Quarters - Patd
Hold Me Back - Bethy, Renee
I Want Revenge - Rezdog, Pogo, Corey
Join The Dance - Craig
Mine That Bird
Mr. Hot Stuff
Musket Man
Nowhere To Hide
Papa Clem
Pioneer of the Nile
Regal Ransom
Summer Bird
West Side Bernie
patd -- not sure where you're from but DC has been covered in the past week with a massive layer of greenish-yellow oak pollen. It is thick enough to make everyone's eyes and throats itch and noses run. So it will be that much harder to discern if these symptoms are the dreaded Swine flu or just allergies.
You mentioned feeling the fish on the line. Yesterday was the first day since I had the camp that I was able to put out some jug lines for catfish. I saved up a bunch of tide jugs last year but since I never had what I needed to set them out, I ended up throwing them away.
Well I had three more saved up and yesterday with my boat back up and running, I set them out across the river. Today we went to check them not expecting anything since I didn't see anything moving.
Well I had my first catfish. A blue, very good eating and just the right size, not too big and not too small. I cleaned him up, put him away and will wait for some of his friends to join him for a fry. Very satisfying way to end a rough day back at work. The evolved one couldn't watch the massacre(fish cleaning) but I bet she will enjoy the meal.
Jamie, I will take I want Revenge for now. Now why are you closing down the picks tomorrow? Can we change our minds on Saturday?
Di, The evolved one has been hacking since she got here to visit. I sure hope she didn't bring in that pig cough with her. If so, I have enjoyed getting to know you all.
I'm thinking that Obama must be wondering when the Locust and Frogs are coming since he's now acquired Pestilence in addition to the economy and 2 wars.
The post position draw was done today, but I haven't announced them and most of you don't pay attention. It gives an advantage to a horse to be in certain locations so I usually shut down the choosing to just before the draw. I'm giving everyone a chance to cheat a bit if you can figure out where to look. :-)
Anyway 24 hours after the draw is all that would be fair.
This morning I talked to my sister the nurse. She was hoarse so I kidded her about the swine flu.
She said she wished she could convince people it was. "Just put me in quarintine, don't anybody bother me for 7 days"
she is a nurse on the cardiac floor so I ask if they had been given any special instructions. She told me no, they all knew how to deal with the flu.
I don't think people realize how bad the regular old flu is and how many people it kills every year. Don't panic yet. Take your Vit C, get plenty of rest, and call me in the morning.
I'm mostly worried about my mother and father in law, If it does spread the are vulnerable, me I'm a tough old bird so I'm not very worried. Besides eating all that sausage and pork chops will have given me some immunity. Then there is always the 86 proof sterilizing solution.
Carol,,,,thanks for that morning song,,and pic,,,Im a morning person,,,Im ready to go,,,as soon as the sun is up,,I used to love to park by the beach,,,at lake (still do sometimes) MI, just to see it come up.
Your welcome Solar. That song is the perfect wake up song. When my niece and her husband stayed with me for part of their honeymoon several years back I tried to wake them up by playing that song really loud. I think they got the hint.
yes,,,I did,,,I saw all of them,,,and really like them all,,,but the best one so far is the river one,,,take one of the tree house, and show that one,,,You deserve it all,,sound like you have worked very hard for them,,so stay happy.
senator susan collins cut the flu money out of the stimulus. She's extremely lucky that she was just re-elected. She has 6 years for this to blow over.
pro-life republicans. Unless there's swine flu, then they don't care how many die.
Dr. Nancy Snyderman is on NBC a lot, giving advice to wash our hands frequently and giving other anti-flu tips. Last night she said it was OK to grab subway and bus posts as long as we washed or used purell-type wipes , ones with plenty of alcohol to kill the flu bugs...well, I remember when those purell
wipes and dispensers started appearing , oh, about ten years ago. We were told by these scientists that frequent usage of purell would encourage strains of germs to mutate and become immune to the purell...so , maybe all the hand washing and sanitizing of our hands will be as futile as those surgical masks are in preventing H1N1 flu.
Derby week means a celebration of bourbon, too...continuing with our ongoing tribute to Mark Twain, here's his thoughts on whiskey:
"How solemn and beautiful is the thought that the earliest pioneer of civilization, the van-leader of civilization, is never the steamboat, never the railroad, never the newspaper, never the Sabbath-school, never the missionary -- but always whiskey! Such is the case. Look history over; you will see. The missionary comes after the whiskey -- I mean he arrives after the whiskey has arrived; next comes the poor immigrant, with ax and hoe and rifle; next, the trader; next, the miscellaneous rush; next, the gambler, the desperado, the highwayman, and all their kindred in sin of both sexes; and next, the smart chap who has bought up an old grant that covers all the land; this brings the lawyer tribe; the vigilance committee brings the undertaker. All these interests bring the newspaper; the newspaper starts up politics and a railroad; all hands turn to and build a church and a jail -- and behold! civilization is established forever in the land. But whiskey, you see, was the van-leader in this beneficent work. It always is. It was like a foreigner -- and excusable in a foreigner -- to be ignorant of this great truth, and wander off into astronomy to borrow a symbol. But if he had been conversant with the facts, he would have said: Westward the Jug of Empire takes its way"
- Life on the Mississippi
Naive, I am...I thought Smithfield "Virginia Hams" were processed from, well...hams from Virginia-fed pigs.
Wrong.
On NBC last night we saw clips from a pig farm in Mexico, on the Gulf side...interviewed, a local woman said "that place is filthy...filthy water stands everywhere there..."
It is suspected of possibly being Ground Zero, flu H1N1.
It is a Smithfield farm...big surprise, eh?
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Posted by: chloe
| April 29, 2009 3:54 PM
OK.... change that ? to a !
Posted by: chloe
| April 29, 2009 3:55 PM
what have we learned? based on the video's point that he seems to seek the middle ground and prefers compromise, maybe obama is a closet buddhist...
plus he did name the dog "bo" which might be a cleverly secret way to refer to the buddha's enlightenment:
"An important guiding principle of Buddhist practice is the Middle Way, which is said to have been discovered by Gautama Buddha prior to his enlightenment (bodhi)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#Middle_Way
Posted by: patd
| April 29, 2009 4:07 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/specters-selfserving-principle.html#comment-224064
CBob,
What would a day be without a ride in the funzone of Bachmanland?
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 4:59 PM
Speak before tomorrow noon or hold your piece until the race on Saturday:
Trailmixer Horse Jockey
Advice Rene Douglas
Atomic Rain Joe Bravo
Solar Crete Chocolate Candy Mike Smith
Blond Wino, Flatus Desert Party Ramon Dominguez
Jamie Dunkirk Edgar Prado
Flying Private Robby Albarado
Jack, Ivy Green Friesan Fire Gabriel Saez
Patd General Quarters Julien Leparoux
Bethy, Renee Hold Me Back Kent Desormeaux
Rezdog, Pogo I Want Revenge Joe Talamo
Join The Dance Chris DeCarlo
Mine That Bird Calvin Borel
Mr. Hot Stuff John Velazquez
Musket Man Eibar Coa
Nowhere To Hide Shaun Bridgmohan
Papa Clem Rafael Bejarano
Pioneer of the Nile Garett Gomez
Regal Ransom Alan Garcia
Summer Bird Chris Rosier
West Side Bernie Stewart Elliott
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 5:25 PM
Old Sea is on Chocolate Candy with Solar
I missed her above
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 5:28 PM
Cheney's really a great grampa, sez MIKE PETERS:
http://www.grimmy.com/images/MP_Archive/MP_2009/MP0421.gif
Posted by: DexterJohnson
| April 29, 2009 5:39 PM
JAMIE:
2 bucks on the nose , on Friesan Fire Saez
"Dexter's Thoroughbred Professional Odds Machine"
Posted by: DexterJohnson
| April 29, 2009 5:45 PM
"elevated that damned Reagan back into his deserved spot...#1...WORST PRESIDENT EVER
Dex -- I've seen Reagan described as the beginning of Republican anti-rationalism.
Posted by: Patsi
| April 29, 2009 5:49 PM
i never saw reagan but fifty-some years ago he would get off the train at waterloo, indiana, where i grew up, and cut commercials at the WINT-TV studios there, then during breaks he would wander across the tracks to Smith's Tavern and play pool, drink a beer and have a ham sandwich...gee...sounds like a wonderful, populist type guy, right? what happened to him? who got to him? unreal...anyway, the tavern owner's son divulged this info about twenty years ago in an interview, after Reagan was done.
Posted by: DexterJohnson
| April 29, 2009 6:07 PM
Gimme "I Want Revenge", Jamie. Not because he's the favored horse. I just like the name. LOL!
Posted by: Corey
| April 29, 2009 6:10 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/100day-lessons.html#comment-224100
Religion,,is what got into him,,,it's why most of the Repugs,,do what they do!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: SolarCrete
| April 29, 2009 6:12 PM
Unbelievable....Has anyone posted this from HuffPo?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/virginia-foxx-story-of-ma_n_192971.html
As the House of Representatives debates an expansion of hate crimes legislation, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) has taken the rhetoric to a new level, claiming that those who say Matthew Shepard was murdered in Wyoming for being gay are perpetrating a "hoax" on the American people.
"I also would like to point out that there was a bill -- the hate crimes bill that's called the Matthew Shepard bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed, but we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn't because he was gay. This -- the bill was named for him, hate crimes bill was named for him, but it's really a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills," said Foxx.
A Foxx spokesman didn't immediately return a call. The Matthew Shepard "hoax" notion is a popular meme on right-wing blogs.
Posted by: Patsi
| April 29, 2009 6:12 PM
Oh...I learned he smokes Newports...but I don't repeat that , and only post it here to get some truth...we all know Newports replaced Kools as the African American smoke of choice about 15, 20 years ago...and some people think it's funny that Obama would follow suit and smoke the "Black Cigarettes"---so , what brand DOES Obama smoke?
We all know FDR smoked Pall Mall, JFK puffed cigars, and Gerald Ford had his beloved pipe -
http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Sections/Newsweek/Components/Photos/Mag/070108_Issue/070108_Cover.standard.jpg
Posted by: DexterJohnson
| April 29, 2009 6:25 PM
for my Derby Picks, i always go by the name i like best ... this year its JOIN THE DANCE
Posted by: craigcrawford.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 6:27 PM
I never should have posted that cover of Gerald Ford with his pipe...every time I see a pipe with curling smoke I get the WORST tobacco jones a-goin'---I LOVED Sir Walter Raleigh Burleigh-cut pipe terbacky...
Posted by: DexterJohnson
| April 29, 2009 6:28 PM
Nixon began the fall of the Republican Party by turning the party of Lincoln into the bigoted party responding to Nixon's Southern strategy and Lyndon Johnson's Civil Rights accomplishments.
Reagan continued the freefall.
Those who voted for these two are responsible!
Posted by: Oregon Democrat
| April 29, 2009 6:28 PM
I got the horse right here
His name is...
FRIESAN FIRE
Posted by: DexterJohnson
| April 29, 2009 6:30 PM
BTW, my best friend said that the entire campus of the University of Michigan will be smoke-free as of 2011. My friend works with a older woman who is a chain smoker. He said, "I know when she'll be retiring!"
Posted by: Corey
| April 29, 2009 6:31 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/100day-lessons.html#comment-224105
the republican asshattery knows no bound, right Patsi?
How are these stupid a-holes elected anyway.
Posted by: yo soy Horsedooty!
| April 29, 2009 6:33 PM
Hi all... I think Obama has been pretty awesome as President so far. I admire this "can do" demeanor and how he can brush away unfair political attacks and stay focussed on his agenda. I am disturbed about Geithner's ties to bankers, not to mention Emmanuel's ties to bankers (oh and Israel). I have a hard time believing that Money Junkies should be trying to offer rehab to other Money Junkies. Geithner could have been much tougher on banks and not discount the possibility of nationalizing the banks and ending the corporate hog feast handed out each day in the name of "bonuses". He seems unwilling to go forward with an entire paradigm shift in our relationships between work and money, financiers and credit seekers.
Craig, I just watched some of your videos... GREAT STUFF !
Posted by: eurotom.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 6:34 PM
So as I have posted on my Facebook profile, I am freaked about this new flu pandemic in the making. Is anyone else worried? Government officials try to reassure that there is no need to panic, but usually when such officials make those claims, I feel more need to panic. They are masters of covering up what's really going on... Love Canal particularly comes to mind.
If you guys want to see my apartment, here is a link with photos to my new kitchen: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=20856&id=1441770734&l=0485a67247
Posted by: eurotom.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 6:40 PM
Another comment, and then I will be quiet. Please put up with it, because I haven't posted much lately...
A thought... Maybe President Obama should encourage both Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to join the Dems...
Posted by: eurotom.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 6:41 PM
you don't have to "be quiet" eurotom. nice to see you back in the neighborhood.
Posted by: craigcrawford.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 6:44 PM
Got you Dexter
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 6:49 PM
Tom, Beautiful work on your apartment!
Thanks for the link.
Posted by: chloe
| April 29, 2009 6:51 PM
what have we learned in 100 days.
Not much... But what planet and white house is Adriel Bettelheim watching?
On Craigs blog so sorry Adriel.....
Lesson 1 - Obama is for BIG GOVERNMENT to control everything and cross many lines
Lesson 2 - NO CHANGE just Big Check book, lets buy our way out cause golly jee I got me a printing press
Lesson 3 - He speaks out of many sides of his mouth cause he dont like to have conflict and he owes lots of people political capital. Hope he pays them off soon
HEY EUROTOM !! Miss ya
Posted by: Ping Pong
| April 29, 2009 6:51 PM
I'm through with politics for the day....
for those of you who love cats..... tell me this video ain't the truth.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s13dLaTIHSg
Posted by: RebelliousRenee
| April 29, 2009 7:03 PM
"BTW, my best friend said that the entire campus of the University of Michigan will be smoke-free as of 2011."
Corey -- Any state worker in Tennessee who smokes or whose SPOUSE smokes will now be fined approximately $600 a year.
Posted by: Patsi
| April 29, 2009 7:07 PM
Doots -- the asshattery just continues to astonish.
Posted by: Patsi
| April 29, 2009 7:08 PM
Ping, as I say always, you are truly a gentleman.... so welcoming in spite of our considerably different political viewpoints.
Chloe, thank YOU for the kind comment. and for looking at the pics. I am very proud of the kitchen! The apartment is coming together slowly and 28 May I move in.
Craig, dammit! Now I have the Price is Right theme song in my head. :-)
Posted by: eurotom.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 7:11 PM
Tom -- great kitchen -- I'm so glad I can keep checking up on your activities on FB!
Renee -- that cat video is hilarious...and so, so true....
Posted by: Patsi
| April 29, 2009 7:14 PM
ETom....
really nice kitchen!
Posted by: RebelliousRenee
| April 29, 2009 7:14 PM
thanks to all with many hugs and kisses ... time to sleep
Posted by: eurotom.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 7:18 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/100day-lessons.html#comment-224083
good stuff, patd. you've got us thinking about a video idea. and there's a buddhist prayer center in the neighborhood.
Posted by: craigcrawford.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 7:20 PM
craig, am honored, and to be a muse for our gracious host is always a pleasure..... a-musing too.
Posted by: patd
| April 29, 2009 7:40 PM
Posted by: Ping Pong | April 29, 2009 6:51 PM :
"Obama is for BIG GOVERNMENT to control everything and cross many lines"
As opposed to republicans who favor BIG GOVERNMENT AND TORTURE CHAMBERS.
pong always reminds me of michele bachmann.
Posted by: xrepublican
| April 29, 2009 7:42 PM
x - Do I have a little bug for you !!!!
Do not worry it does not bite..
To the Dem Party - You will not know it but we will join you and take you over
(Alan sends first report in a few days)
Posted by: Ping Pong
| April 29, 2009 7:58 PM
now that they've upped the pandemic alert levels, do hope all tmrs have dusted off their asafetida bags, stuffed them with fresh camphor and other smelly stuff.
from another time, another flu pandemic:
"The Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918 struck Brunswick just as it did many other towns and cities in the country. "Dutch" Burns remembers seeing the bodies of 29 victims on the floor of the Feete Furniture Factory, which was on the lot where Feete's apartment house now stands in the junction of Petersville Road and Maryland Avenue. In addition, the undertaking establishment was overfilled with the dead.
Precautions were taken against the dread disease. One supposed preventive was an asafetida bag worn around the neck. Asafetida was a fetid gum resin of oriental plants used in folk medicine against disease; this is no longer widely practiced. One person remembers hog manure being used— heated as a poultice and applied to the chest. The mother on whom this was used survived the flu attack. Hot onions were also used as a poultice, a mass of heated material applied to an infected area. Every evening after school, Dutchremembersbeing dosed with a drink of coal oil and sugar taken as he ate a raw onion. Before retiring to bed, many people took a "hot pot," which consisted of a small amount of whiskey, sugar and hot water. One couple "stayed drunk to avoid the flu."
http://bhs.edu/hist/100ch8.html
Posted by: patd
| April 29, 2009 8:12 PM
Arlen Specter is not interested in creating parties. He wants to help create government, and to do that he needs a job in congress which he loves and has experience in. If the repubs won't help him keep that job, why shouldn't he work with tghe folks who will?
Political parties are transient - hopefully our government isn't and that it will grow and evolve but stay the voice of the people. Why should Arlen stay with a group which doesn't and won't work with him?
Would any of us stay with a doc we don't trust and don't like?
Arlen wants to b e elected - there's no shame in that.
We need to get over the idea that politicians are Santa Claus - they are human and want the job of working in the government, for whatever reason. Why should they shoot themselves in the foot for a show of loyalty, which is just a show?
Sorry, Ping. If it makes you happy, keep the dream, but I firmly believe today's liberals are tomorrow's conservatives and today's conservatives are tomorrow's fossils. For that matter, I think conservatives are important and inevitable in any political configuration, so thanks for being there.
300 years ago conservatives believed in the divine right of kings.
I got confused by mme michelle's idiocy. At the time a friend was here whose grandmother was Margaret Smoot, and she helped me get it right. We had a good laugh. mme michelee got it so mixed up I'll never be able to say it right again!
That same friend's mom is a sacredly republican voter who told her daughter this am that she tinks Obama's
WONDERFUL and wishes she had voted for him!
Posted by: bethyboo
| April 29, 2009 8:19 PM
"You will not know it but we will join you and take you over"
... Ping, you had me laughing so much when I read that. Got me thinking about it too. :)
Posted by: chloe
| April 29, 2009 8:23 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/100day-lessons.html#comment-224102
Corey,
You, Pogo, and Rez want revenge and Bethy and Renee look like they are itching for a fight with "Hold Me Back".
Pretty feisty crowd we have here.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 8:26 PM
"Political parties are transient - hopefully our government isn't and that it will grow and evolve but stay the voice of the people."
Hear, hear!
Posted by: chloe
| April 29, 2009 8:28 PM
"Before retiring to bed, many people took a "hot pot," which consisted of a small amount of whiskey, sugar and hot water. One couple "stayed drunk to avoid the flu."
Makes as much, maybe more, sense than those silly masks.
Posted by: Flatus
| April 29, 2009 8:30 PM
Michelle Obama leads a group of famous White House faces that have landed on the pages of People’s list of the 100 most beautiful.
'Barack's Beauties' make People list
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21884.html
Posted by: chloe
| April 29, 2009 8:32 PM
Craig,
As soon as I saw that "Join The Dance" had been added to the line up he became by long shot bet because of the name. You might like this Orlando Sentinel write up about him. He is owned by Orlando Magic Rashard Lewis and Todd Pletcher.
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_magic/2009/04/rashard-lewis-has-a-horse-in-kentucky-derby-field-.html
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 8:33 PM
What an upbeat, refreshing air Obama brings to the country.
How incredibly creepy it feels to think back to the repressive Bush/Cheney years.
Dateline Dallas:
Several local schools are closed and ALL school sports are halted until next week.
This is close to the front line of the N1H1 virus!
tt
Posted by: tiptoe
| April 29, 2009 8:34 PM
my longshot. Can't type tonight.
Latest update on the Liberation Campaign with CBob's Uncle Sam
http://94campaign.blogspot.com/
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 8:42 PM
there seems to be a change in obama's voice today... like he's got a slight cold or an allergy problem. and looks a little pinched about the eyes like sinusitis. sure hope they're keeping the tamiflu and relenza handy. all the travel of late and exposure to crowds flies in the face of the recent recommendations to the rest of us.
please, mr. president, drink a lot of water, get plenty of rest, send all sick staff home and make do with talking to us via your blackberry or the media. we'll understand. or some of us will.
Posted by: patd
| April 29, 2009 8:50 PM
Spectacular! Thank you forthe Uncle Sam Cbob!
Think we both put in a good day and ought to take a break from typing for the night, I can fix the rest of my typos tomorrow on the victims story for you. I can't even see them at this point! Couch time. Good night and thank you all.
Posted by: oldseahag
| April 29, 2009 8:53 PM
Learned in the 1st hundred days :
1. Obama is the Teflon president.
2. He is willing to try speaking with opponents and enemies. When they do not respond with maturity and deliberation, he cuts them cold :
a. He tried to live his ideal of a bi-partisan approach to the financial crisis, but was rebuffed by republicans, who were led by Rep. boehner, and incited by limbaugh and the rest of the clown club. When he went on to fix the financial mess without them, they suddenly started shrieking and weeping about bipartisanship. They were a day late & a dollar short.
b. Obama tried to open conversations with terrorist nations Iran and Syria. They rebuffed him, amid the hoots of the rest of the terrorist clown club. He is charting his own course, and now Syria is weeping that we are ignoring it. They were a day late & a dollar short.
c. There's not much difference between the republican clown club's, and the totalitarian clown club's way of dealing with Obama - or anything else. They are both committed to the proposition that the meanest, most mendacious, most brutal guy will win the field.
If that proposition were true, we'd all be speaking German or Japanese. It isn't and that's why we're not.
Posted by: xrepublican
| April 29, 2009 8:56 PM
Here is the list I have. Advise of any changes, corrections, or addtions
Advice
Atomic Rain
Chocolate Candy - Solar Crete, OSH
Desert Party - Blond Wino, Flatus
Dunkirk - Jamie
Flying Private
Friesan Fire - Jack, Ivy Green, Dexter
General Quarters - Patd
Hold Me Back - Bethy, Renee
I Want Revenge - Rezdog, Pogo, Corey
Join The Dance - Craig
Mine That Bird
Mr. Hot Stuff
Musket Man
Nowhere To Hide
Papa Clem
Pioneer of the Nile
Regal Ransom
Summer Bird
West Side Bernie
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 8:56 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/100day-lessons.html#comment-224149
patd -- not sure where you're from but DC has been covered in the past week with a massive layer of greenish-yellow oak pollen. It is thick enough to make everyone's eyes and throats itch and noses run. So it will be that much harder to discern if these symptoms are the dreaded Swine flu or just allergies.
Posted by: Divalicias
| April 29, 2009 8:59 PM
To Win - Mr. Hot Stuff,
Place - Advice,
Show - I Want Revenge.
Posted by: xrepublican
| April 29, 2009 9:06 PM
XR, you will have to handle betting your own trifecta, but I have your recorded for the obvious "Mr. Hot Stuff"
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 9:12 PM
Renee,
You mentioned feeling the fish on the line. Yesterday was the first day since I had the camp that I was able to put out some jug lines for catfish. I saved up a bunch of tide jugs last year but since I never had what I needed to set them out, I ended up throwing them away.
Well I had three more saved up and yesterday with my boat back up and running, I set them out across the river. Today we went to check them not expecting anything since I didn't see anything moving.
Well I had my first catfish. A blue, very good eating and just the right size, not too big and not too small. I cleaned him up, put him away and will wait for some of his friends to join him for a fry. Very satisfying way to end a rough day back at work. The evolved one couldn't watch the massacre(fish cleaning) but I bet she will enjoy the meal.
Jamie, I will take I want Revenge for now. Now why are you closing down the picks tomorrow? Can we change our minds on Saturday?
Di, The evolved one has been hacking since she got here to visit. I sure hope she didn't bring in that pig cough with her. If so, I have enjoyed getting to know you all.
Posted by: ct
| April 29, 2009 9:18 PM
And Solar, happy to know you are still kicking. Did the cat get your tongue for a few days? Renee's cat that is?
Posted by: ct
| April 29, 2009 9:22 PM
I'm thinking that Obama must be wondering when the Locust and Frogs are coming since he's now acquired Pestilence in addition to the economy and 2 wars.
Geeze.....little did he know.....
tt
Posted by: tiptoe
| April 29, 2009 9:23 PM
Carol
The post position draw was done today, but I haven't announced them and most of you don't pay attention. It gives an advantage to a horse to be in certain locations so I usually shut down the choosing to just before the draw. I'm giving everyone a chance to cheat a bit if you can figure out where to look. :-)
Anyway 24 hours after the draw is all that would be fair.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 9:25 PM
Carol
This morning I talked to my sister the nurse. She was hoarse so I kidded her about the swine flu.
She said she wished she could convince people it was. "Just put me in quarintine, don't anybody bother me for 7 days"
she is a nurse on the cardiac floor so I ask if they had been given any special instructions. She told me no, they all knew how to deal with the flu.
Jack
Posted by: whskyjack
| April 29, 2009 9:33 PM
I don't think people realize how bad the regular old flu is and how many people it kills every year. Don't panic yet. Take your Vit C, get plenty of rest, and call me in the morning.
Posted by: ct
| April 29, 2009 9:44 PM
Ya'll people in the big cities are more at risk. I don't think that flu could find me if I gave it a map and a compass.
Posted by: ct
| April 29, 2009 9:47 PM
ct
and call you when flu season starts?
I'm mostly worried about my mother and father in law, If it does spread the are vulnerable, me I'm a tough old bird so I'm not very worried. Besides eating all that sausage and pork chops will have given me some immunity. Then there is always the 86 proof sterilizing solution.
Jack
Posted by: whskyjack
| April 29, 2009 9:55 PM
See Playboy Journalist get waterboarded.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/20/playboy-journo-bets-he-ca_n_189280.html
Now when is Sean Hannity going to man up and be a man?
Posted by: anon-paranoid
| April 29, 2009 9:56 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/100day-lessons.html#comment-224158
Funny....I think that we created a Carolstien,,,a bayou white dressed tailed nurse,,,with sharp tongue HA!
Posted by: SolarCrete
| April 29, 2009 10:00 PM
Ivy,,,you want to take a pic,,,of a rare bird,,,to send to you friend,,,bet,,he/she never saw one of these,,,,take a look at above post, (^_~)
Posted by: SolarCrete
| April 29, 2009 10:02 PM
I think that Playboy clip was about as lame as anything I've ever seen. It does no good to show how truly horrible this technique is.
Posted by: Patsi
| April 29, 2009 10:07 PM
Good Night all. I'm typed out for the day. See you and your horses in the morning.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| April 29, 2009 10:13 PM
What was that great line by Pres Obama..
Golly - those many people that refinanced their homes is like getting tax relief...
Say what - Was that adlib?
Posted by: Ping Pong
| April 29, 2009 10:18 PM
I avoid white Solar. It attracts knats.
Posted by: ct
| April 29, 2009 10:21 PM
Who U calling a knat?,,,im attracted
Posted by: SolarCrete
| April 29, 2009 10:23 PM
Well if the wings fit.....
Posted by: ct
| April 29, 2009 10:24 PM
or is that gnat? How do you spell it?
Posted by: ct
| April 29, 2009 10:26 PM
we really need a spell check on this stie.
Posted by: ct
| April 29, 2009 10:26 PM
I do gnat know how to spell anyway,,so gnat going to care.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| April 29, 2009 10:28 PM
LOL Good one, me gniether
Posted by: ct
| April 29, 2009 10:29 PM
for the life of me I just don't understand why someone had to add these silent letters in front of a perfectly good word to catch idiots like me.
Posted by: ct
| April 29, 2009 10:33 PM
gniether or gnor who care gnow
Posted by: SolarCrete
| April 29, 2009 10:36 PM
i pick west side bernie........i like the sound of that............
Posted by: sturgeone
| April 29, 2009 10:42 PM
ha......read "The Rocking Horse Winner" by DH Lawrence the other day.........and now here's the Derby.......
Posted by: sturgeone
| April 29, 2009 10:44 PM
What's in a name Sturge. A horse with any other name would smell the same.
Posted by: ct
| April 29, 2009 10:45 PM
Carol,,,,thanks for that morning song,,and pic,,,Im a morning person,,,Im ready to go,,,as soon as the sun is up,,I used to love to park by the beach,,,at lake (still do sometimes) MI, just to see it come up.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| April 29, 2009 10:45 PM
Your welcome Solar. That song is the perfect wake up song. When my niece and her husband stayed with me for part of their honeymoon several years back I tried to wake them up by playing that song really loud. I think they got the hint.
Posted by: ct
| April 29, 2009 10:55 PM
Did you see the baby owl pics I posted. I think one may have already flew the coup.
Posted by: ct
| April 29, 2009 10:58 PM
yes,,,I did,,,I saw all of them,,,and really like them all,,,but the best one so far is the river one,,,take one of the tree house, and show that one,,,You deserve it all,,sound like you have worked very hard for them,,so stay happy.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| April 29, 2009 11:05 PM
senator susan collins cut the flu money out of the stimulus. She's extremely lucky that she was just re-elected. She has 6 years for this to blow over.
pro-life republicans. Unless there's swine flu, then they don't care how many die.
Posted by: xrepublican
| April 29, 2009 11:26 PM
Thank God for michele bachmann. If it weren't for her the Small - Hooters Tariff would be only a mam... Uh... memory.
Posted by: xrepublican
| April 29, 2009 11:31 PM
I loved those owl pix, too. Do we get to see them when the graduate ?
Posted by: xrepublican
| April 29, 2009 11:32 PM
Dr. Nancy Snyderman is on NBC a lot, giving advice to wash our hands frequently and giving other anti-flu tips. Last night she said it was OK to grab subway and bus posts as long as we washed or used purell-type wipes , ones with plenty of alcohol to kill the flu bugs...well, I remember when those purell
wipes and dispensers started appearing , oh, about ten years ago. We were told by these scientists that frequent usage of purell would encourage strains of germs to mutate and become immune to the purell...so , maybe all the hand washing and sanitizing of our hands will be as futile as those surgical masks are in preventing H1N1 flu.
Posted by: DexterJohnson
| April 30, 2009 12:10 AM
Derby week means a celebration of bourbon, too...continuing with our ongoing tribute to Mark Twain, here's his thoughts on whiskey:
"How solemn and beautiful is the thought that the earliest pioneer of civilization, the van-leader of civilization, is never the steamboat, never the railroad, never the newspaper, never the Sabbath-school, never the missionary -- but always whiskey! Such is the case. Look history over; you will see. The missionary comes after the whiskey -- I mean he arrives after the whiskey has arrived; next comes the poor immigrant, with ax and hoe and rifle; next, the trader; next, the miscellaneous rush; next, the gambler, the desperado, the highwayman, and all their kindred in sin of both sexes; and next, the smart chap who has bought up an old grant that covers all the land; this brings the lawyer tribe; the vigilance committee brings the undertaker. All these interests bring the newspaper; the newspaper starts up politics and a railroad; all hands turn to and build a church and a jail -- and behold! civilization is established forever in the land. But whiskey, you see, was the van-leader in this beneficent work. It always is. It was like a foreigner -- and excusable in a foreigner -- to be ignorant of this great truth, and wander off into astronomy to borrow a symbol. But if he had been conversant with the facts, he would have said: Westward the Jug of Empire takes its way"
- Life on the Mississippi
Posted by: DexterJohnson
| April 30, 2009 12:21 AM
Dex -
Washing isn't chemo, washing is the physical removal of the bug. Not completely , but every time you wash your hands, you lower your odds.
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| April 30, 2009 1:24 AM
. Hot onions were also used as a poultice .................
You are fat, dumb, and happy today ......... not from poultices, or advancements in germ theory , but because of plumbers piping in clean water.
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| April 30, 2009 1:28 AM
That was the collective " You " , not the singular "You".
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| April 30, 2009 1:30 AM
Naive, I am...I thought Smithfield "Virginia Hams" were processed from, well...hams from Virginia-fed pigs.
Wrong.
On NBC last night we saw clips from a pig farm in Mexico, on the Gulf side...interviewed, a local woman said "that place is filthy...filthy water stands everywhere there..."
It is suspected of possibly being Ground Zero, flu H1N1.
It is a Smithfield farm...big surprise, eh?
Posted by: DexterJohnson
| April 30, 2009 1:38 AM
All the pigs and hogs in the Middle Eastern countries have been killed...for no good reason,really, according to most flu-scientists....
Posted by: DexterJohnson
| April 30, 2009 1:40 AM
I really cut back on my bacon and ham eatin' anyhoo...
Posted by: DexterJohnson
| April 30, 2009 1:40 AM
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