Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Fredo coming? I'll be watching, C-SPAN is it?

Where's the WOO HOO, Dexter?!

Wanda? Oh yeah, I'll be watching. Edgy ain't the word for her, ha ha . She's canned dynamite and you just KNOW she's gonna blow a lot of frustration away during the gig.
This will be great!

I yield the woo hoo to the distinguished trailmixer from Michigan!

...now off to Columbus for the Mother's Day deal....ciao!

...now off to Columbus for the Mother's Day deal....ciao!
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God Speed young Dexter.

Craig -
Obama met with Al Franken a few days ago, you don't think Al didn't give Obama some lines ?

Ah ..... Al Franken writing Obama's lines from the floor of the Senate.

Suck on it conservatives. I fact , choke on it.

Bethy -- I was still having a conversation with you on the last thread....ha

see, told you boston had the world's worst drivers... even extends to their trolley car conductors. cradle of liberty? cradle of taking liberties maybe...
http://www.windstream.net/wind/portal/NewsChannel.aspx?ArticleID=D982K6L01&CatID=TopHeadlines

"I hope it's a fad...seems like a bunch of so-called liberals somehow thought that yelling in the manner of right wing radio hosts would be a cool move...."

patsi, it's probably all about demographics... they think only (or mostly) old people watch news type shows anymore... the hard of hearing folks.

craig, congrats not only that your tux has finally paid for itself, but that it still fits...
must have been all that working out the other day.

Great, CSPAN will show the event live. Will it also be on the web since I will not be staying with my cable tv that night?

Wanda is a hoot. Corbert had some gonads the year he did it and I still don't understand why they picked him. Had anyone ever watched him before? Just watching exerpts that year gave me an anxiety attack.

Nice tee C-Bob. Still looking for somethin good for your blog. I'm a little choicy bout what I put on there even if you can't tell. Haven't been out in the boat since "the accident". Maybe today.

Sis will be leaving tomorrow. It was nice to have the company. Someone to cook for and eat with. We only almost came to blows a few times.

I made the best quiche, Quiche Carol, for breakfast yesterday. Make you slap yo mama.

And my sis finally quit coughing a couple of days ago. I was sweating that maybe she had that pig flu. I kept telling her that I was concerned with her cough because it sounded like she was going to cough up a lung. She said "what cough?". Remember she feels that her reality is what she decided to think it is. I guess this La. heat and humidity cured her.

uh oh, this doesn't sound good and after all that hale fellow well met handshake, hug and book gift...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8041366.stm

This has to be the quote of the day. It's by a heavy-duty pirate and is from an article talking about grassroots pressure to rid Somalia of pirates:

"“Man, these Islamic guys want to cut my hands off,” he grumbled over a plate of camel meat and spaghetti."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/world/africa/09pirate.html?hp

ct, sis sounds like a colt 45, a repeating evolver....

Carol, I really do think you need to have a session with the Dog Whisperer. He could coach you on how to regain dominance over both your pup and sib.

Ain't ever gonna happen Flatus. They are both beyond what Cesar can do and he is good.

'Leader of the Pack'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAxxJD8Amck

Pat, I'll just keep my lower position on the evolution ladder. It's a lot more fun to be down there.

Craig...
You are much better when not with KO --- Now you are so much better then KO but when you hang with slop it you have to be careful that it does not get on you

Flatus..... ROFL!.... whoever said old farts can't be funny didn't know you....

CBob... great t-shirt.... have fun at your market.... I'm going to sheep and fiber festival later today....

Carol.... I posted this utube in your honor yesterday.... if case you missed it... it's only 19 seconds long.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbew5AGzzDU

"the Puntland pirate bosses insist they are ready to call it quits, if the sheiks find jobs for their young underlings and help the pirates form a coast guard to protect Somalia’s 1,880-mile coastline from illegal fishing and dumping."

flatus, that's just a new form of "protection" like the mobs used to run.

“Me eating with white men. This is like the cat eating with the mice!”

flatus, seems to make my case re mob.

"Toyota Posts Big Loss, Signals More to Come "
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124175507074100049.html

Unfortunately, US workers are hit by Toyota's miscues, too. With restructuring, I believe Ford and GM are becoming well positioned to take advantage of Toyota's lapses.

We have so much at stake, as a nation, in the outcome of our corporations' remake. Now is not the time to embrace those 'Cynicus Americanus' who seem to delight in each failure within American industry.

Quite frankly, if I was going to buy a new car (we just bought one in '98) it would be made in the USA, just like our absolutely trouble-free '98 Chevy.

Others' mileage may vary. :)

some toyotas are made in the usa

Exactly, Pat, but where do the profits go?

"it's probably all about demographics... they think only (or mostly) old people watch news type shows anymore... the hard of hearing folks."

LMAO! Pat -- I think you may be onto something.

The first segment of C-Span this morning was complete wackjobbery. Subjecy: Obama's trip to Egypt...it brought out every right wing loon repeating Rush-soundbites. God a'mighty.

I am so effing sick of hearing "They kept us safe!"

Americans have turned into a bunch of wusses.

Patd- I don't know about the worst- think RI drivers should get that distinction , but I know I'm sure white knuckling it all the way when going there. JUst going over 45 miles per hour is like a bad acid trip for me anyways.

Ping Pong- I think he does a good job of not taking the bait. It can't be easy for him, walking a tight line between placating the host and maintaining his standards.

Craig- Sorry I didn't know earlier about the lack of dessert, I would have been happy to send the CQ table their own chocolates.

oldseahag.. You are wise - as is Craig. I hope he gets paid well for being on the show.

This is not the White House Correspondents Dinner - It is the Entertainment Dinner. Very few Correspondents and Journalist are around these days.

Now to shift gears - To heavy for a Saturday AM

Ping Pong-Me too!

"Sorry I didn't know earlier about the lack of dessert, I would have been happy to send the CQ table their own chocolates"

sea, post the most tempting, tantalizing picture of your chocolates and craig can copy it for the cq table.... virtual dessert for our virtual journalists

Ha and lo cal too.

come to think of it, a picture of chocolates compared to real chocolates are about as satisfying as an online newspaper is to a real one. neither one lets you savor and mull over time the rich complexities within.

are = is

flatus, what profits?

Obviously not this year. So, who pays the price for the losses.? Factory 'furloughs'? Closures during retooling? Etc.

The worst drivers I've seen in the US are right here in Columbia. It's as if they are all Sunday drivers pondering the Parson's sermon even though it's Tuesday, already.

on the road again....

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/

que up willie and friends:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZxt9oZ1KSU&feature=related

some very strange fish type creatures:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bountyfishing.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/fan

ops oops:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bountyfishing.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/fangtooth-fish1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bountyfishing.com/blog/2007/08/07/27-aquatic-lifeforms-you-never-caught-while-fishing/&usg=__XiSEoi223pznLwyZ5IxgR-WWvNo=&h=341&w=477&sz=37&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=SYmg9KCdPlB2sM:&tbnh=92&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfish%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226608

Renee --

Your clip shivered me timbers...twice now!

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

RR, I didn't catch that video yesterday. That is definitely worse because it is a treble hook and it is in the scalp.

Rachel Ray is sitting at Craig's table at the dinner? Tell her that Corey says "Hello!", Craig. She doesn't know me, but say say "Hi." to her for me anyway. Thanks! LOL!

I hope to get home from the race track in time for the banquet and a view of our fair errrr dark haired boy on camera. Now that the tux has paid for itself, don't run up any medical bills while wearing it.

Rachel Ray! Craig, the only way you could impress me more is if Paula Deen was on the other side....with Alton Brown across from her...I love the food channel.

"We have so much at stake, as a nation, in the outcome of our corporations' remake. Now is not the time to embrace those 'Cynicus Americanus' who seem to delight in each failure within American industry."

Flatus
I just think your the best....Thanks for the link on Toyota earlier and your brilliant commentary..You explain the issue well by breaking it down to the basics of where the profits go if there are any.....

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/opinion/09herbert.html?th&emc=th

"Far From Over"

"We are stuck in what is — or will soon be — the worst economic downturn since the 1930s. Newspapers and the U.S. auto industry are on life support. The employment picture for even the most well-educated Americans — men and women with four-year college degrees or higher — is the worst on record.

If there is something about this economy to be cheerful about — something real — I wish someone would let me know."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/opinion/09collins.html?th&emc=th

"The Care and Feeding of Arlen"

Hey Pogo,this one's for you...Oh and everyone else too....

"This was only one of Specter’s introductory displays of independence, which also included voting against a plan to help homeowners in bankruptcy court that was greatly desired by the leaders of his new party, and telling The New York Times that he hopes Republican Norm Coleman wins the Minnesota Senate seat. This is the election that is still unresolved except for the part in which Democrat Al Franken got more votes.

What an opening!

If he keeps it up at this rate, by the 2010 campaign season, Specter will be so helpful that he’ll have tied up Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and left him buried in the desert surrounded by fire ants."

Craig, How fitting that Rachel Ray will be sitting at your table considering the quasi-political nature of this blog once we start chatting about food/recipes. Howdy to RR and Helen T!

Have a fantastic time & this time, how about a meal review?

Wondering, as well, how the mood will change in the room? Did Faux News buyer fewer tables this year?

Craig's gonna give Rachel his G-20 recipe! LOL!

Craig.... have a good and SAFE time at the dinner tonight....

Tony.... last night on CNN..... Anderson Cooper and Ali Velshi were reporting that it looks like the economy has hit bottom and is starting to turn around....
they cited that the job losses aren't as bad as previous months and the stock market is starting to rebound..... Velshi said these 2 things were usually the first signs of a beginning of a recovery....

and for a personal anecdote.... my hubby works for HP.... they had suspended training travel..... all of it was being done virtually..... yesterday he was told they were resuming training in Houston and they wanted him to go to a week long session the first week of June.... this is a good sign....

oh yeah.... I forgot to say....

Corey.... that hotel looks luscious...... hope you have a great time in Toronto...
Rick went there for a conference a couple years ago and said the city was beautiful and a lot of fun.....

Thanks Renee.

Proof politicians don't think the way the rest of us do.

They spend $300,000 to scare New York to death with the Air Force One flyover the Statue of Liberty and now they won't let us have the pretty picture because it is too "controversial". Silly buggers.

Dwayne Johnson & Christian Slater ,don't know what they are working on now but should be fun finding out.

let the blunders begin -- check out my Rachel mixup in update to post above -- off to get my tux shirt from cleaners (forget to pick it up yesterday)

No , no Craig- Turn it around, no more blunders- in the past, You will have a great time, look sharp and be your brilliant self. My most favorite new spell is F#% You, I'm fabulous! Try it, say it throughout the day, it really works.

My Cell Vlog of White House dinner begins now with a quick look at my tux and ticket. Latest clips through the night here.. http://tinyurl.com/od3oze

"Rachel Ray, the cook. But it turns out she said Rachel Leigh Cook "

Dunno, Craig, you still might be right. It just might be, Rachel La Cook.

Craig- meant to add "to which people gravitate" but couldn't think of the word.

craig, sea's right up to a point.... just stop saying it when you meet the 1st couple.

Jamie,

The White House released this photo yesterday of the $300,000+ flight over NYC & Statue of Liberty.

What remains unanswered is who requested, wanted, proposed the flyover photo event.
No one appears to have accepted responsibility for the original request.

The person who resigned may have authorized it, along with other govt officials, but so far the only reference to the origin of the request seems to be in the 7 page white house review which says the flyover had been in the planning stages since March.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/after-air-force-one-flyover-military-office-director-resigns/

more on the guest list
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003971396

LOL, good point Patd!!

If they really wanted to feed the homeless, wouldn't they have used the beer money instead of the dessert budget? ...or is it not an open bar? Still, a good thing to do.

"The black-tie event is, strictly speaking, a fundraiser for journalism scholarships and a chance to honor reporters for their work. But we all know what’s really going on. It’s the one chance all year that Washington — affectionately known as Hollywood for ugly people — gets to rub shoulders with real Hollywood."

http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/05/09/forget-obama-were-hoping-to-see-gossip-boys/

Maybe it was a test to see how people would react...which isactually a worse idea than the fly-over itself. Sorry I thought of it.

Patd- What was your name for the seashells? Am making them right now.

Coreen, it may well have been something totally innocuous. Like, the crews have to get so many hours of flight time, the F-16 outfit wanted to practice their escort procedures, the photo people said, Wow!, what an opportunity, and the cabin of the aircraft might have been filled with military families on a morale ride. All kinds of legitimate, or least not harmful, possibilities.

The cost of the flight is really a red herring. The airplanes just don't sit around waiting for the prez--there are many legitimate training missions that must be flown.

But, the imbecile who decided not to tell New Yorkers what was going to transpire and why, rightfully got his just desserts.

also from above:

"Then there are the critics, who believe the dinner is all about inappropriate schmoozing between the media and the government figures they cover, and has turned into a grotesque display of slobbering over the beautiful and famous."

craig, please please get us pictures of the "grotesque display of slobbering" tonight.

Oooh Colin Firth, can you check him out for us Craig?

sea, here's a repost on the shells comment:

an ad for oldsea's newest confection:
"sea sells salted seashells down by sea's shore"

oldsea, variations on your chocolate seashells you might try:
sit one atop a blob of caramel and call it a "sea snail" if your shell has a nautilus shape
or put a blob of white chocolate inside two scallopy shapes and call them "sea pearls"

colin firth was listed twice in the e&p link... does that mean his double is coming too?

Thank you Patd! I just only did sea shells with sea salt sprinkled on them.
Well, I imagine we can count on Tyra Banks for the gross displays. Egads can't even imagine why she would be invited.

and bbc's nod to the party. note the frank rich quote.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8041377.stm

sea, you could bill them as an old salt's sea salted seashells... but don't say that too fast especially under the influence.

I loved the mini-series from Summer 2005 that Rachel Leigh Cook starred in...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_West_(TV_miniseries)

Her role of Clara Wheeler dramatized the Quantrill Massacre in Lawrence, Kansas on August 21, 1863.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Quantrill#Lawrence_Massacre

Clara Wheeler's character also depicted controversial events such as the forced education of Native American children at the Carlise Indian Industrial School.

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

hope that tux shirt that craig's picking up isn't one of those rufflely things.... always prone to collecting odd bits of hors d'ouvres and a magnet for dripped shrimp sauce that one doesn't see until the next morning adding to the embarrassment and mystery of why the lump on one's head, the slight tear at the knee etc.

Biggest news of the day -- my Blue Corn Breaks Ground!.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DvTbolMmiU

Patd- "I can't blab such blibber blubber, my tongue isn't made of rubber"- Zeus
Good try though, think I'll go with the original. I sprinkled the salt on top, not exactly perfect as far as my taste goes, but evidently it is popular. I think I would like it better if the salt was sunk down into the chocolate. For me it touches the tongue too much .

Will the Twitters be Tweeting like crazy???

Or is it Twitterers?

tt

Sea,

Go with your instincts.

So long as you're experimenting, how did the salt taste by itself? Are you satisfied with its quality? Perhaps coarser salt would not hit you so hard.

Ever alert, alive and the cutting edge of life, I just noticed that you suspended your previous YouTube account, Craig.

So I'm now up to date and subscribed to your newest one.

Beware the tree. No hugging!

tt

Craig, you didn't preserve and transfer the videos on your old VBlog?

tt

craig, congratulations on the new baby hopi blues! and just in time for mother's day...

i didn't suspend the old you tube account, tiptoe. it disappeared and i don't know why. so the new one is the working one for subscribing.. http://www.youtube.com/user/craigcrawfordtv

Thanks Flatus- I have good coarse sea salt- Baleine. I guess I'm just not a trend setter! Must admit I like the holy mole choc. with chipotle chili though.

Patsi - remember, you're talking to bethy. I didn't understand your earlier post re still having a conversation with me. Did I fall asleep? But you couldn't know that unless I fell asleep on my keyboard and a mike was on which sent my snores. Once again, I am SO confused! (Remember Vinnie Barbarino?)

I LOVE Wanda Sykes.
I LOVE Colin Firth - just looking at him is chilling and thrilling.

IAnybody else watch Numbers last night? I don't like the way it seems to be heading.

I'm hiding in my apartment at the moment, lying low. I chased some of the kids out of the parking lot the other day. They're not supposed to play there and have been chased out before, but there they were riding their scooters and big wheels and zippin in between parked cars. Two were about 12 0r 13, but there were four under 5. My sister had driven in to drop me off.

I went straight into teacher mode, and made them leave, but one stayed and pretended to not ride anymore. Stupid kid - he finally started riding again, and then i got mad. I don't tolerate that kind of sneak.

The sad part is that the mom of most of them weas there working in the garden - but no way she could watch them. This woman is wonderful and I hoped she wouldn't get into it. She didn't but I don't want to talk it out. The episode spoke for itself, so I'm trying to avoid it.

I feel very strongly that each kid should have at least ONE person in her/his life that won't give in to tricks, and I'll be that person if I have to. So they hate me - it's worth it.

Bitch, aren't I? Been called a killjoy and wet blanket by the best.

Sturgeone - that was a neat link, but I couldn't look at all those fish. They were too too creepy.

Nose hair trimming? TMI?? What a hoot! I used dog clippers today for a neck trim...

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226704

Bethy --

Couple of nights ago I seemingly dozed off, but not really...I jumped, startling hubs with "Stop, thief, bring back that laptop!"

from Talkleft
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2009/5/9/18449/74179

Arrivals are going on now at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. You can watch at C-Span or follow the tweets at #nerdprom and #WHCD.

Bon Jovi and Sting are there. From the screaming in the background, you'd think it's 1964 and the Beatles just arrived.

"nerdprom"....too funny.

Ivy - poor guy, and probably he was just trying to help!LOL!

Good thing Craig remembered the cummerbund. What IS the purpose of a cummerbund??

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

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226709

True, Bethy. I can't complain.

Can watching the Correspondents' dinner be a mint julep event? I have spearmint over-taking the herb box. Must get the trimmer on it... (^_~)

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

A cumberbund is to smooth the view from the edge of the trousers to the joining of the shirt ... It's a style thing done as a replacement to the hotter waistcoat

I just got home from my Mother's Day present of the races. Did you get to see Craig arrive?

His adoring fans are waiting in anticipation ...

Helen, yay Helen! She's so cute and tiny... a tiny tower! lol

Haven't seen Craig yet unless I blinked at the wrong time...except on the other end of his video phone...

Blue Corn -
Just a shade over 10 days not bad.

i've still 8 plants growing right along......foot and a half to 2.....

Happy Mothers day to all of the women on TM

Tonight's dinner,,,,,,
This type of event I can get behind,,,,,all of the court jesters are there to entertain the President,the clowns will be performing in front of the President,,and not behind his back,,,like they do on the Leno,,,Daily,,Letterman shows and all of the others,,,that people come away misinformed,,,the entertainers should at the very least tell them to go and read the papers,,,listen to the regular news programs,etc,, etc,,,,and that they are just making fun of those in power,,,get informed by the right sources,,,so they can make an informed decision???

Jon Stewart: Wimp, Wuss, Moral Coward

Can a Democrat commit war crimes? Of course not!

I was a bit surprised, albeit pleasantly, to see Jon Stewart nail Harry Truman as a war criminal. After all, Stewart is a typical Hollywood liberal, whose politics are by now a staple of the corporate, anodyne culture that permeates the airwaves, and this naturally excludes everything that might challenge the liberal groupthink that constitutes the conventional wisdom in the Age of Obama.

Certainly, in "respectable" quarters, criticism of anything or anyone connected to the great liberal "anti-fascist" crusade, the "Good War," is strictly verboten, and surely an intelligent guy like Stewart knows this. Yet – contrary to what he said later – this wasn’t an argument that arose in the heat of the moment, in the context of a robust discussion with obnoxious neocon Clifford May on the alleged merits of torture.

No, Stewart had apparently thought this one out, at least to some extent, because when May asked him if he thought Truman was a war criminal for nuking two Japanese cities, he didn’t just say "Yes" – he went into a whole riff about how, if we had first demonstrated the power of this new weapon on an uninhabited atoll somewhere, and then informed the Japanese government that they’d better surrender, or else that would happen in Japan, then and only then would it be okay to drop the Big One. The audience cheered him on, as he took apart the frenetically hysterical May, whose ferret-like features and organizational affiliations make him the perfect spokesman for a policy described by Stewart as "temporary insanity." Yet, a few days later, Stewart was back to the same subject, minus the rabid ferret, this time reversing his stance – and apologizing for calling the little haberdasher a war criminal.

My, that was quick.

Alas, apparently not quick enough for the executives at whatever network Stewart appears on – yes, I know, I have to be the only person in America who doesn’t watch his show – who no doubt would have preferred that he never said it at all. It was clearly the execs who reined in the freethinking Stewart and laid down the law, and the first law of "controversial," "provocative," and indubitably "edgy" television commentary is to never – ever, ever! – allow a deviation from the conventional wisdom that falls outside the contemporary Left/Right paradigm.

Rule number one in this game is that everybody must play their assigned role. You’ve always got to be "in character." If you’re on the Left, you can take on George W. Bush, murderer of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis – but not Harry Truman, killer of even larger numbers of innocent Japanese civilians. Rightists regularly excoriate the crimes of Stalin, yet they are expected to remain silent when it comes to war crimes committed by the U.S., such as the "Phoenix program" during the Vietnam conflict – and they rarely disappoint.

from anti war.com

Knock me over with a feather , our liquor election today passed, Lubbock is about to get liquor stores.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/05/world-happiest-places-lifestyle-travel-world-happiest.html?feed=rss_forbeslife

Finland ranks number 2 on the Forbes survey of "happiest places." All the Finns I know are very happy and very proud of their country - their winters may be bleak, but they make up any lost ground with their summer... (^_~)

I just saw a shot of Glenn Close. Now I want to go to dinner.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226724

CBob --

Going to hell in a handbasket??

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

THAT was the entree? Bird food. Where is Rachael Ray when you need her?

How to shoot friends and interrogate people...........lol

"Not a color that appears in the natural world."

Have you all seen Craig's videos . God he is just so adorable. Now that he isn't here and my asking won't promote the blunder syndrome, didn't he up chuck or choke at the last one?

"Patsi - remember, you're talking to bethy. I didn't understand your earlier post re still having a conversation with me. "

Just referring to a post you made agreeing with something I posted...no real "conversation."

Cbob- welcome to the wet world!

Hey Solar, how you doing?

I have missed teasing,,,talking to you,,,,,,left you alone,,,cos you have been very busy,,,,,,lots of good things are happening I see,,,,,Have a very good day tomorrow for mothers day.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226733

Sea --

It was great following Craig's clips. Some of Wanda Sykes's jokes were over the top, but we were splittin' our sides with laughter.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226722

"yes, I know, I have to be the only person in America who doesn’t watch his show "

I don't watch his show.Stewart is way to arrogant and all knowing for me to set through his BS....

Oh Hello Solar..

Hey Tony,,,,did you watch the dinner,,,looked pretty good,,,,nice to see the Pres..relax,,a bit,,,he is going to need it,,,I enjoyed Bill O. looking like he was sick all night,,,I think that I dislike him the most,,cos he says one thing and practices another.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226741

Solar --

O'Bill did not look like he was there by choice.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226741

They all do ,,,but he is the m ost visible,,,and of what he did to those women,,,he is another one that should be behind bars.

Ivy

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226742

That whole table did not look like they were having a good time did they,?? looked like they were all forced to be there just like you said,,,Happy Mother's day

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226741

Hey Solar
No I didn't watch.I had a lot of shows on the DVR to catch up on.I have been watching LOGO.s RuPaul's Drag Race...Funny Funny...Bill O unhappy...Good...

A very nice slide show on the WHCD.... great photos.
http://www.politico.com/

"I feel very strongly that each kid should have at least ONE person in her/his life that won't give in to tricks, and I'll be that person if I have to. So they hate me - it's worth it."

Bethy, I think you said something 'very' important there. Doing the right thing isn't always popular.

"Lubbock is about to get liquor stores"
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226739

Now that's progress! Congrats CBob and the voters of Lubbock.

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Tony, The more you talk, the more I find out how many things I agree with you on. :)

Sorry for the extra link to your post Tony.... I wish I could correct mistakes I make. Of course I always wish that, not just here. :)

Chloe

Have a wonderful day tomorrow,,,give E. N. a big Solar hug,,,I know that it is a day for you,,,but you will make it all about her?

"give E. N. a big Solar hug"

Thanks Solar, and she sends one back to you. She's gotten to the point now where she giggles and laughs out loud.... great fun!

What r u doing up so late,,,,can't sleep?

Yeah, but once I get to sleep, I sleep like a baby. Right now I'm going to get into the book I'm reading... I always have to read first. See ya tomorrow. :)

Solar, You have a good day too!

Well I've been up and down,,,lying on the hard floor,,,sometimes my back keeps me up,,,sleep well

.... sorry to hear that Solar. You sleep well too.

Craig, too bad the old YouTube account is *poof* disappeared.

Now we can follow you in 3 places. Kewl that the tux is paid for and fits.

And how was your favorite tree?

tt

shhhh.... not so loud.... it's the morning after

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK3remdEFlc

Morning. First of all Happy Mother's Day you mamas.

Next, taking sis to the airport this AM. Nice visit but very tense at times. There is a time limit to family visits especially when when you share so much pathology.

Yesterday I invited a friend from work and her husband/kids to came out to help me take my pontoon boat out. It is a used boat I bought last year for a song. I only bought it because my friend's husband promised to help take it out.

We decided the water was too high so we just BBQed. Ended up with lots of river people stopping by. One said he knew me from work. Always worrisome. Yes, he had been an inmate. I didn't want to ask what for. Remember 1 in 57 adults in La. are incarcerated so not necesarily a big deal. You sneeze wrong and off you go. I did run up and hide my purse.

I watched the Dinner video last night and have a few questions for you guys. I might remember most of them later. One is, what was the joke about Summers and the Women and Girls thing that got booing from the crowd?

Ben Smith:

The hardest shots at aides: The White House, he said, was a now a place to learn and grow. For example, "Larry Summers asked if he could chair the White House Council on Women and Girls," he said, adding that it was "seven hours past his bedtime."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0509/Obama_at_the_White_House_Correspondents_Dinner.html

Sturge, please explain the significance of the Summers and women and girls council.

2005 at a conference sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, he said that biological differences between men and women might account for the relative lack of success of women in math and the sciences and questioned the role discrimination might play in the lack of success for some women.
http://jezebel.com/5087149/why-sexist-larry-summers-shouldnt-get-a-cabinet-slot

Obama treads on thin ice with jokes about Summers since a lot of women think he shouldn't have been appointed in the first place. Obama often makes jokes that for some are not funny.

Wiki:
Summers also served as the 27th President of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006. Summers resigned as Harvard's president in the wake of controversy over a talk in which he speculated that women may statistically have lesser aptitude for work in the highest levels of math and science.

When Larry Summers was Harvard president he made
some careless comments about women vs. men

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/01/17/summers_remarks_on_women_draw_fire/

I can see Coreen and Sturg are nicer -- especially Coreen calling Summers remarks "careless" ...more like he could care less about women. Summers is a pompous prick with a highly inflated sense of self importance and as far as I can tell any woman would be doing a better job.

i just copied the wiki as the shortest distance between two points.......his remarks are probably on a par with those made by newt about women......i forget what newt's words were as is usual for me with regards to what a newt says.......

"If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for thirty days because they get infections and they don't have upper body strength. I mean, some do, but they're relatively rare. On the other hand, men are basically little piglets, you drop them in the ditch, they roll around in it, doesn't matter, you know. These things are very real. On the other hand, if combat means being on an Aegis-class cruiser managing the computer controls for twelve ships and their rockets, a female may be again dramatically better than a male who gets very, very frustrated sitting in a chair all the time because males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes."

-- Adjunct Professor Newt Gingrich, Reinhardt College, January 7, 1995, "Renewing American Civilization."

KGC,

I was trying to be charitable! I defer to you to provide
the most accuarte & vivid description of him.

And you know I absolutely agree with you!

http://www.rusbasan.com/Humor/Newt.html

where i got the newt quote.

Newt and Larry --ugh creepy old white guys of a certain age

Oh yeah, now it's coming back. Thanks. When I need info, all I have to do is throw it out here and bam, it comes flying in.

Newt--- He was and remains one of the most despicable characters in our political history. A perfect example of a hypocrite.

Dang, I wish I had known you guys when I was in college and needed info.

and we wish we'd had google............lol

"When I need info, all I have to do is throw it out here and bam, it comes flying in"

It's a 'think tank'.

"A perfect example of a hypocrite."

... you have to admit we have plenty to choose from in DC.

It's a 'think tank'.

more like "in the tank"

Or "tanked."

and always, always good for a laugh.

tanks

For perhaps 20-pct of the women and a like number of the men sexual attraction caused problems in my military workplaces.

Counseling of the airmen would sometimes eliminate the problems. In other cases I would have to transfer one, or both people.

I had to be on my section supervisors repeatedly to have the workplace hanky-panky stop. And, it cost more than one male supervisor his job when he became involved with a junior airman in his shop.

I'm talking about the exceptions here. The great majority of my men and women were truly dedicated, no nonsense, members of our military. The served with distinction.

The served = They served

now for news of more importance than journalists gone wild

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/10/adelaide-zoo-orang-utan-escape

It seems that last night's event is getting pretty good reviews---at least from those in attendance.

Thought Wanda Sykes was Wanda Sykes---clever & just a bit edgy---she delivered the lines just as she does on the old/new Christine show.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/white-house-correspondents-association-dinner/?hp

the picture of karta in that link above belies that joke about rep boner's color being unnatural... they must go to the same salon

Oh, and as to the President---the love affair with the press was on full display--he still can do no wrong
in their eyes.

Did Craig make it home safely? Do we need check the ERs?

Photo Essay: Happy Birthday, Buddha

Swine flu and the Taliban in Pakistan may be worrying many people, but for Buddhists, now is a time of celebration. It's Buddha's birthday.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4914

Samuel L. Jackson and his Uppity Films have joined forces with Andras Hamori's H20 Motion Pictures to secure life rights of Andrew Mwangura, a negotiator between pirates and the owners of vessel hijacked off the coast of Africa
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/05/08/samuel_l_jackson_vs_pirates_coming_soon

that salon must have also been the one that did strom's dye job and trent's helmut cut....
either that or there's something odd hairwise in the genes about republican males as they age

That orangutan story was great Patd.

http://www.youtube.com/user/craigcrawfordtv

Well, Craig's last video shot show's he left the dinner safely, so I assume he got home just fine too. Bet he sleeps until noon though.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4914

A very nice find, Chloe. In Korea, even amongst the Christian population, Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian influences are very strong. That's probably the reason I like Koreans so much.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/white-house-correspondents-association-dinner/?hp
Coreen,
In the picture in the article you linked, Barack seems to be having a good laugh listening to Wanda Sykes perform (she is so funny, I've seen her in movies). All the shots I've seen of the Obama's look like they were having a good time....I think it was a very successful dinner.

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The pictures were nice Flatus, but I kinda wish they had written a little more of a story about it.

Yes, Chloe, I suspect that most attending the dinner were enjoying themselves---many like minded persons---as the President summed it up:

I’m Barack Obama,” he said. “Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me.”

Happy Mother's Day!

haven't had time to catch up.... maybe later this afternoon....

hey all you men..... enjoy your Sunday too.....

chloe, here's a little more on vesak, buddha's birthday, from wiki. what appeals to me is the celebraiting of the whole life, the birth, enlightment and death all in one, not just the birthday...
course the big b himself might see it as "nothing" to make such a deal over.

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

Sea, this is for you:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/nyregion/10chocolate.html?scp=2&sq=chocolate&st=cse

Chloe, I think you would like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Siddhartha-Hermann-Hesse/product-reviews/0553208845/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

An excellent analysis by Frank Rich about the
current state of journalism/the news business and
the impact of the rise of the internet.

"The American Press on Suicide Watch"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/opinion/10rich.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp

I sure hope that newspapers find a way to survive---as
I would truly miss not reading my real papers each day.

Wanda Sykes has never been one of my favorite comediennes but she had some good jokes last not and only went over the edge a couple of times.

Over all it looked like the kind of fairly pleasant rubber chicken political dinners that most sane people would choose to avoid like the plague. I hope the after dinner parties are better.

"what appeals to me is the celebraiting of the whole life, the birth, enlightment and death all in one""

You just described it so well in that one sentence Patd. I remember seeing a movie years ago with Debra Winger, where she had that belief, and had a terminal illness. She said she wasn't afraid of death, because it was part of life (paraphrasing of course).

It's a package deal when we arrive, everything is one, like you said. The Eastern philosophy makes so much sense, and is so harmonious and beautiful. Thanks for that link... I'd like to learn more. (I betcha Flatus could teach us a lot) :)

And, of course, Pearl Buck's 'The Living Reed' is required reading:
http://www.amazon.com/Living-Reed-Pearl-S-Buck/dp/1559210222/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241962636&sr=1-1

"....Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis.

The mother of 11 children, only four of whom lived to adulthood, Jarvis had seen enough death and decided to do something about poor sanitation in her hometown of Webster, Va.

So along with other mothers, Jarvis organized groups that inspected milk given to children, provided food for the poor, and cared for the families of tubercular mothers. When Webster was beset by an influx of U.S. Civil War soldiers, she cared equally for Union and Confederate men.

And when hostilities came to end, Jarvis recognized that her motherly role was not similarly at an end, so she held a special day for soldiers and their families -- a kind of reconciliation between North and South.

Jarvis died on May 9, 1905 -- the second Sunday in May. And in recognition of her mother's warmth, nurturance and unconditional love, her daughter Anna successfully lobbied to have the day celebrated in honour of all mothers."

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Standing+motherhood+publicly+privately/1579025/story.html

http://www.amazon.com/Siddhartha-Hermann-Hesse/dp/0553208845/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top/177-8312971-4832166

Thank you Flatus. I ordered it with 'one click'. (You know how much I love Amazon) :) I appreciate the recommendation.

Chloe

I don't know how much Pearl Buck you have read, but she is a wonderful author mainly in the 40s and 50s though she wrote all the way until her death in the 70s.

The foundation she set up to protect the orphans of the Korean Conflict that now serves children all over the world is well worth supporting.

http://www.psbi.org/site/PageServer

Favorite Book: Imperial Woman

Wiki on Pearl Buck with a bibliography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck

Jamie, Thanks for the Pearl Buck information and book favorite. I'm always looking for reading material.

Thought for the day :
" Ideals kill some men in politics, but politics kill more ideals in men. "

Happy Mother's Day .

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chloe, your are correct on both counts

1955 Homer Simpson animation (Simpsons)

Judging by the $75,000 speaking fee it paid to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has plenty of green to burn even in these lean times.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/10/BA8517HE1E.DTL

the article goes on to say the speech was identical to one he gave last year that is posted online.
He's a scuz bag and the Air Quality District is stupid

KGC -- I notice that Friedman used his time to plug his book...I sure as hell wish I could get paid a bundle to promote my book!!!!!

rotflmao! Rachel "Leigh" Cook....but I would STILL like a review of the meal.

While the John Boehner Oompah-Loompah joke was good, my fave was the Rham "mom" joke.

Prez Obama's joke writer was good; his delivery was good; I could've done without him laughing after every other joke he told, though...and someone needs to show the man where his heart is located. Holding your hand over your pancreas during the Nat'l Anthem will only incite the folks at Faux.

Patsi

I wish you could too!
Friedman aka the mustache of understanding and for whom the Friedman Unit is named is a total fraud.
http://mustacheofunderstanding.blogspot.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_(unit)

Wow,,,
President somewhat funny.

But Wanda - Rank and Nasty oh my what are we becoming

another mother's day story:

"....the trial of Anthony Marshall, who is accused of stealing millions from his mother -- the late philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor -- in the twilight of her 105-year life....

.....just as the case is fascinating for its peek into the ugly side of beautiful people's lives, it also touches on issues average Americans can relate to: parental neglect, financial scams, inheritance squabbles."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-brooke-astor10-2009may10,0,6566422.story

The Mom Song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX6flpUweIQ

The correspondents' association donated $23,000 — some of it saved by skipping formal dessert at the dinner — and raised another $75,000 from several major media organizations for two food banks, So Others Might Eat and Share Our Strength.

Funding for the journalism scholarships remained at $132,000 a year, an expanded level set in 2008.

Along with the reporters, the $200-per-ticket dinner attracted plenty of VIPs from outside the Beltway.

Among those attending were Eva Longoria Parker, Ashton Kutcher, Christian Slater, Natalie Portman, Sting, Mariska Hargitay, Steven Spielberg and Jon Bon Jovi. Also there was Richard Phillips, who was held hostage by Somali pirates after his cargo ship was attacked.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/09/national/w074846D44.DTL

Stupid Tom Friedman should offer to match all the money.

Stayed up so late watching the WH dinner & then Justin Timberlake dressed as an implant (and a hilarously icky Samburg/Timberlake video) that I missed the morning shows.

Looks like Crankypants Cheney is still trying to rally what's left of the troops, this time around GOP mouthpiece Rush. Nobody outside of your decaying demographic wants what you're sellin' Grampa.

Solar, I love that site you recommended. I partiulary enjoyed seeing this story about female gorillas clapping their hands to control both males and infants (what a great idea for keeping men in line. :) The reason it immediately caught my attention, is because that's what I do to stop a cat fight outside, or any other kind of ruckus. It works beautifully every time. It beats yelling, and I'm sure anyone within hearing distance appreciates it. So now I clap to reprimand or stop something and sometimes use a whistle to get all of them in at once for feeding time (although they can hear a can opener a mile off).

Female Gorillas Clap Hands to Control the Group
They keep both males and infants in check
"A new research, conducted on wild western lowland gorillas in the central parts of Africa, shows that the primates used hand-clapping as a form of communication, something that had only been observed once before. Females employ this type of behavior most often, and they clap to get the attention of both males and infants, and for keeping the group together."
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Female-Gorillas-Clap-Hands-to-Control-the-Group-111181.shtml

... I got such a laugh out of that story.

"oh my what are we becoming"

A sentiment felt by every generation. Wanda Sykes is nothing new and she is tame by many standards.

Katherine,

Is Friedman's intellectual laziness/fraud something worthy of the ombudsman's attention?

Flatus

I'm sure the Times ombudsman is well aware and doesn't care. I'm just shocked that a quasi public agency would pay him $75k for a speech he has already given.

Personally I wouldn't pay him $ .75

I'm a Taoist. After some exploring, it was the only philosophy/world view that was not mutually exclusive.

You can be a Catholic Taoist, a Muslim Taoist, or a Jewish Taoist and you can even be a bible-beating born again Baptist Taoist...

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226835

Blue, It's the truth. They have catered to the "Base" for so long, that they don't have anything else left, and that demographic isn't growing.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226829

Ping,

She wasn't to my taste, but then Rush says more mean things in ten minutes that she said int the whole routine. I've loathed him ever since he remarked that a young black man who had been painted white by bullies "should be so lucky to be white"

Naturally, he was "just joking" ... So you are right, "what are we becoming?"

Warren

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Im not trying to convert anyone here,,,but the philosophy of (Hindu) Vedanta,,,is all inclusive,,,,cos it is all about everything,that comes from the earth,,,like leaves from the tree,,,and that includes all rock,,mineral,,vegetable ,,,and us,,,mammals,,,and does a nice job in the sciences to boot. It was mostly what A. Einstein believed in also,,,he said that he was spiritually moved by the way things ( nature ) worked,,,as did Espinoza,,,someone that he admired....

Kgc

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226839

I haven't been able to take too much of that man for years,,but I blame it mostly on us,,,the free market,,they say that if a sports figure makes what the people are willing to pay,,,that ,,,that is ok,,,,well I don't think that any sports personality is worth it,,not A Rod,,T. Woods,,,M Jordan,,,non of them,,,,I stopped watching sports a long time ago cos of this,,,I know that it will get me in trouble with some one that just say's ( like Jax) hey dummy, suckers are willing to pay,,,is more like it,,,,it's the free market,,,,and that is the attitude that they have when he( T. Friedman) gets that kind of money for a speech that he gave the prior year,,,,most think that ,,,it's cool that he got it,,that's one of the reasons that got us to where we are now,,,in this financial mess,,,of GREED!!!!,,

Hello all and happy Mother's Day to anyone who fits the bill!

Has Craig surfaced yet? Was mighty kind of him to pass on all the details of the evening. It was exciting,felt like one of my kids was going out to prom night, but they don't let me in on the evening's events.

Flatus- thanks for the link!

Am going out to a REAL mexican restaurant that just opened on the island. Now all we need is a greek one and my gastronomic life will be complete.

Hey Solar, you're gonna have to give up your chilaquiles recipe one of these days!

Just one side pointing at the other,,,,,

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226844

been like this for ever and ever,,,if you are seeing it from an independents point of view,,,that's why we need to label the extreme right,,and left,,,and build up that middle,,,,,we need a third party actually but,,,,I know that there is no chance of it,,,,,,Maybe more,,,and more people will go to the third party's that are there,,Ronn Paul,,is starting to look very smart,,in that everything that he said,,,is right about Iraq,,,Pakistan,,,Afghanistan,,and how Obama would handle them,,,,no difference,,,I agree with him,,,,It is another Vietnam and we should get the hell out of there!!!

"Hey Solar, you're gonna have to give up your chilaquiles recipe one of these days!"

Ok ,,,but you have to hang around long enough for me too give it to you,,,did you see my reply to you yesterday,??,,I did not forget,that soup recipe ,,,when I get them,,I will post ,,and or e mail them

Sea
,,,Hope that you had a great,,,and having a great Mothers day.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226737

I came back early from my brothers house,,where we ate,,,I picked up my mom,,and took her over there,,,we came home early,,cos she got tired,,and wanted to go back home,,,,on the way she said that she also had to go to the bathroom at her own house,,she can't stand to go anywhere else now,,,she is 94 and still very sharp,,,,,but has her own ways......at the little party,,,,she called me to sit next to her,,,,all smiles,,,and air smooches,,,and all of that junk,,,,after I sat next to her,,,she waited a minute,,or so then she pulled my ear,,,,seems that she heard me tell a dirty joke in the other room,,,,,,,I asked her how the hell she ( another pinch in the arm for swearing) heard me if,,,she is so hard at hearing,,,,,,she gave me that little old lady smile,,,and said I was still her little boy,,,,she is one mean old lady sometimes,,,,hahaha

KGC,

Craig got a shot of Glenn Close. She has been a favorite of mine since I saw her starring in Barnum with Jim Dale almost 30 years ago. I wish the Democratic party could get her to sing more often. Maybe she'll do an "In Performance At The White House". She's such a wonderful talent and almost never sings except on the stage.

wow. Bob really laid into Souter.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/10/ftn/main5004417.shtml

(And i am guessing pogo loved Obama's jokes about Boehner.)

I posted this on my Facebook page for Mother's Day, and thought I would post it here too:

"Miss Maria called to tell me the colors in the rainbow, count to ten, wish me Happy Grandma Patsi Day, and say that she is coming to see me soon. What else do I need? Nada."

I tweet every once in a while, but somehow the idea of a Twitter Convention seems a bit much

http://ow.ly/5Pjf

How to promote you business in 140 characters of less?

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226858

patsi, A grandaughter who knows the colors of the rainbow are all anyone needs. :-)

"Miss Maria called to tell me the colors in the rainbow, count to ten, wish me Happy Grandma Patsi Day, and say that she is coming to see me soon. What else do I need? Nada."

With your new found spanish,,,,teach her to count to ten in it.,,,that was a nice mothers day present,,,,,

I love it when a news reader really blows a word pronunciation. Eulogy to Coach Daley on CNN ... "Well known for his well KOYFED hair.

I suppose you could get that from COIFED if you didn't know the word, but it sure sounded hilarious in the middle of praise for a recently deceased man.

I was supposed to go to the gym. Instead, I just ordered Thai.

Solar -- uno, dos, tres.....

Hey Solar,
Give up the chilaquiles recipe and i might start hanging out again. OK, that might work as well as I'd hoped, but still. I started cooking new mexican and mexican food in Spanish class in junior high. My teacher's sister-in-law would visit and come in for a day.

Funny thing about Ron Paul , he's been right about almost everything. Too bad he's tied up with the Bilderberg conspiracy theorists. Media isn't going to take him seriously as long as he keeps going on Alex Jones.

OK, that might not work as well as I'd hoped, but still

Dick Cheney unleased

""Colin Powell is just another liberal," Limbaugh retorted. "What Colin Powell needs to do is close the loop and become a Democrat." Limbaugh said Powell is "just mad at me because I'm the one person in the country that had the guts to explain his endorsement of Obama. It was purely and solely based on race." Both Powell and Obama are black."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/10/national/w082434D80.DTL&tsp=1

Lynn should take him back to Wyoming.

Dick Cheney unleased should be unleashed --must remember to preview

Well, our little baby was delivered here Saturday to much fan fare. I am happy to report she had all her fingers and toes. And she blew in on a brisk 35 m.p.h. north west wind. But we Texans have sand, if nothing else.

Our turn out was good 19 vendors, and about 250 people I've never seen before in my life. Made a fast buck in the T-Shirt market. People here seem to get what we're up to. We've got some farmers besides my share crop plot, coming on stream in June. Saw my rabbit guy today, Chuck turns out to be a direct descendant of Quannah Parker .
I've been getting my rabbit pills from Quannah Parkers great grandson.

Chuck raises eggs too. Brown ones with Van Gough yellow yolks. He had 25 dozen on hand. I think I'm about to go in the egg business.

CBob

Well that deserves an atta boy! Atta Boy!
You done good.
There are lots of people doing lots of gardening and food sharing programs --
http://hyperlocavore.wordpress.com/
and this is my personal favorite
http://forageoakland.blogspot.com/ - this person couldn't stand seeing all the fruit in urban yards going to waste so she started a fruit utilization program that really works to bring people together. As a first step, she mapped all the under ultilized fruit trees in Oakland...how cool is that!

Don 1

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226867

Not even when hell freezes over,,maybe when the universe freezes over,,,actually it did,,,about 11.5 billion years ago,,,,,,,about the recipe's I will Sea,,if Sea is willing to share them,,,with just anyone,,,,specially a drive by HA!

Oh,,,,welcome back,,,,

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226870

Don't unleash Cheney. I don't think he's had his rabies booster.

CBob

A well deserved atta boy. May your initial success continue and increase.

Jamie

I like Glenn Close too...did Craig get to talk to her?

My rabbit guy's great grand father :

http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Chief_Quanah_Parker_of_the_Kwahadi_Comanche.gif

Thank you ladies. I'll pass those "Atta Boys" a long , my part wasn't that big.

Ms. Cracker -
Ditto on the lady in Oakland, I had forgotten all about her. Now that was a slick idea.

I watched the WHCDinner all the way through, and Wanda just killed, as i knew she would...that bit about Cheney, the stranger and her kid (she would tell her kid to ignore Cheney and get in with the stranger) was hilarious, but the bit about Rush Limbaugh as the 20 hi-jacker of 9-11 was the most!
Obama was cool...great show for the nation Saturday nite.

Mark Twain on banquets:

"A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body."
--- Mark Twain in"Eruption"--

Cbob,
Numunu . ., lot of good pards from down that way. Crazy but best of friends. :-)

Colorado Bob sez Buy a DAM Shirt & a Dam Poster

http://the-downtown-art-market-up-dates.blogspot.com/2009/05/colorado-bob-sez-buy-dam-shirt.html

Rezdog -
A picture of a 30 year-old tipi -

The Baby Has Arrived

http://the-downtown-art-market.blogspot.com/2009/05/baby-has-arrived.html

Solar- sorry I only pop in and out. Am experiencing the perfect storm of jobs right now, all three demanding time, then I have the garden (getting a load of manure this afternoon!) ,tidying up the outside for the season, inside for the boarders, and of course the 94th! Then at the end of the day my couch is screaming for my company- I get comfy with clicker in hand and fall asleep within minutes. Have missed the last 2 weeks of No. 1 Ladies Detective... In a month's time I be back in the kitchen mostly and able to hang out in between batches again. I miss you though!

The White Man goes into his church and talks about Jesus. The Indian goes into his Tipi and talks with Jesus.

--quanah parker

Pogo,

From this morning's WSJ. This one's for you ('fair use' claimed):

"By JASON GAY

LeBron James propelled the Cleveland Cavaliers to their first NBA championship Saturday night, scoring 77 points to lead his team to a 109-55 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers and complete a 4-0 Finals sweep. After sealing the win with a thunderous dunk that tattooed the Spalding logo upon Kobe Bryant's forehead, Mr. James celebrated at midcourt by drinking Dom Perignon out of teammate Zydrunas Ilgauskas' size-17 shoe.

"This championship is everything I dreamed it would be," Mr. James said. "But, yes, this champers tastes a little funky.""

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124200007188205059.html

quanah parker pictures and bio

http://www.comanchelodge.com/quanahpg.html

another sad story for mother's day, quanah's mom cynthia ann

http://www.lone-star.net/mall/texasinfo/CynthiaAnnParker.htm

"Colorado Bob sez Buy a DAM Shirt & a Dam Poster"

http://the-downtown-art-market-up-dates.blogspot.com/2009/05/colorado-bob-sez-buy-dam-shirt.html

Darn it, the sizes max out at XL.

This guy needs a 2XL. I run into the same problem with shoes--they typically max out at a size 12 when I need a 13. Oh, well...

flatus a poet who doesnt know it
but his feet show it
they're longfellows......

Journalist Roxana Saberi to Be Freed Soon in Iran

An appeals court in Iran reduced the eight-year jail sentence
for Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi to a suspended
two-year term and she will soon be freed, her defense lawyer
told Reuters.

Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com/?emc=na

Haven't heard that one in years. :)

Healthcare.

We will never have adequate universal healthcare until we adopt a single-payer system.

Bob Kerrey was on Imus this morning. He held out the possibility that he may run for office in 2012 when his stint at the New School is up. I would be proud having the opportunity of voting for him.

He and Bethy would make a good ticket!

Well, my time is up. Today, it's a morning in the yard. Oh, joy.

flatus, wait wait... before you go, what's going to be the response from the colin powell camp re the dick's drivel yesterday?

dick who? oh......dick Cheney.......

mornin'

Coreen, sorry I missed your call Friday, I should be in this morning.

Flatus, I gotta say I admire the WSJ's prescience. (If only they coyold tell me where I should invest my retirement money... oh, well). And I am enjoying the playoffs.

RE: the correspndent's dinner - of what I've heard, the "Ignore Cheney, go withthe stranger" and "Boner is after all a man of color- but it's not a color that occrs in nature" were my favs.

Hey everybody

Just stopping buy to assure everyone I'm alive, just very busy.
Cbob , congrats on the market project.

Gotta go, work to do later
Jack

A thought

All the major players in health care have got together and assurred everbody that they can bring health care costs down. Wanna bet on how much of that savings comes out of their pockets?
GMA reported the whole thing with a straight face
We are so screwed

Jack

More people move in. The city gets bigger. Naturally they complain when the bears get in the way. I keep getting the feeling that human beings are the European explorers and the animals are the Indians.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iLYZow9AU6NizoEFv9aBEKROLAsgD983UDJO0

Cheney and Limbaugh on Powell:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/10/cheney-swipes-powell-side_n_201324.html

A**holes.

More Civillian casulties over the weekend in Pakistan,,

A couple of things happened last week,,,that still has me thinking about them..and have to get it off my chest,,,,before I head out to see my Doctor today

Pres. Obama,,,called the leader of Pakistan,,,and Afghanistan to the White House to ball them out. it seems to me that he told them in no uncertain terms that he wasn't happy with the way that things are developing in those two countries,,,,He told them,,,our plantation,,overseers that he was not happy at all,,,and that if they wanted the continued help ($) from us,,,that they better shape up!! These two Presidents,,,,jumped to and said yes sir,,,we will tell the American people that we are confident of a victory over the Taliban,,,,,and all is right.

What the didn't say was that ,,,those countries are out of control (nearly) we bombed (drones) Western Afghanistan,,,and pushed those tribal war leader to the East and into Pakistan,,,,where t hey are doing a lot of recruiting imo,,,

There are people here ( in this blog) that seems to think that putting that whole area of conflict in the same type of thinking ( blend all of them together) so that they are easier to deal with,,,,( if you seen one of them,,,you seen them all,,,thinking)that we did in Veitnam,,,,and then at iraq,,when we did not know the diff,,between Shite,,and Suni,,,etc,,,and disbanded the military,,,,very big mistakes that we need to learn from,,,,in 1990 we contibuted to the mess there,,,,and we are now paying for them

I don't know how our government is going to think about them,,but I do know now that we don't know what to think,,,O bama's people pretent to know,,,but they don't,,,,they are doing the same things that the Bush Administration has done,,,,More troops,,,,more $ for our chosen dictators to do our dirty work,,,we don't have the troops needed ,,and so we just pick out a person that will do (we think) the leas harm,,,and put them into office,,,between the millitary's war on terror,,,and the civillians little civil wars,,,near revolutions,,,we need to get out of there,,,,we will never win,,never,,,,so now Obama is going to get soldiers killed,,just like Bush did,,,,he doesn't want to be the one on record,,showing that he lost over there,,,just like the Russians did,,,,at least they were smart enough,,,to say enough and went home,,,,we need to leave there just like we left Vietnam,,,,cut our loses and come home!!!

There are still over 2 million refugees from the 1980's ,,,and according to Richard Hollbrooke ,,,that I like,,,but he did not want to acknowledge,,,and he finnaly did,,,is that if they,,in that area were to have a true democratic elections,,,the Taliban would win,,,I knew this,,we all did I think?,,,,what they are realy selling us ,,,is FEAR just like the Bush crowd did,,,,if they have ( I understand ) about 40 to 60 nuclear weapons,,in that area,,,,how are they going to fire them,,,,(wihich they will never get near to do),,,,there are all kinds of electronic,,,,securitties,,,plus many more types of secuities that are in place,,,,,all of this means is that we want the people that we want in place,,and until that is done,,we will give lots of $ to get them.

We are treating the people over there,,,,just like we did the Red man here,,and all of the other skin colored people,,,like they did not count,,,like slaves,,,on the plantation imo,,,,over 60% of the people over there are illiterate,,,,live on $ 1.15 per day or less,,while the 1-5 % of the western chosen people have all of the wealth,,,and we don't know where the $ goes to,,after we give it to them,,

So the only card that Obama has is the $ card,,,,he took those leader to the wood shed and told them that the $ would dry up,,if they did not get their act together,,,and all of the fighting stop,,,,this to me ,,,means that they will crack down on civillians,,,and more of them will die

Then during the week,,,about the same time I saw that Shimon Peres,,,and B. Netanyhoooo was talking to the AIPAC ,,at their annual policy conference meeting (WTF) can you imagine if any of the middle east countreis did that,,they would be thrown in jail,,,what they said was ,,,hey Obama,,,we don't listen to you,,,,we will give Iran 3 monthes to come clean,,and then we will bomb them,,,just do us a favor,,and get the hell out of the way,,,,,,and give us more $ we will need it for more weapons,,,and for our freinds here ( the AIPAC) in the U S,,,so they can lobby your stupid ass,,,so we can keep fighting,,and also so we don't,,and won't except the two state solutiion that your stupid President wants,,,,just send us the cash,,and shut up...that is what I got out of these two guys,,,while that war lord Leiberman ,,,is out visiting his strongest allies,,,for t he upcomming wars,,,,,

What are we to do,,with all of these wars,,,,and of the ones that are going to come,,from diff, parts of the world,,,,,in Africa,,,Yemen is (to me) looking like the Taliban is getting stronger and stronger,,,we will need to be there also??.,,,but maybe not,,,,they don't have the oil that the Iraq area,,,and the Caspian are has??,,We need to get out of there now,,,and that includes Israel,,,These wars will deplete the $ that we don't have,,,and our cities will be in need of more soldiers,,cos they won't be able to stop all of the people from going postal on each other,,,,,lots of unemployed people,,,hating others for what they have,,and the employed screening for less gov. help for the lazy unemployed,,,, Ok this rant is over,,,,,,How did I do,,,,, A. P.

Ps,,,the people that looks like to me that know that area,,,and because they spent a lot of time there,,,is Eric Margolis,,new book out called,,,American Raj,,,Liberation,,, or domination,,, ,,I will get it,,,,,,another source is Global post.com,,,,,ok over and out.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226906

Jack you are so right. Congress bought and sold by corporations feigning "who me?" innocense while they continue to screw the country.

Most of the citizens of the U.S. just want a job, a roof over their head, regular meals, a decent education for their children and enough security that a major illness won't destroy their families. Instead their taxes support unwanted wars that kill off or maim thousands while making billionaires out of the folks paying for the political campaigns.

Screwed is as good a word as any.

Saberi freed.

The day has finally come, and a critical landmark in the saga of global climate change is occurring as we speak—and hardly anyone has noticed. The Carteret Islanders of Papua New Guinea have become the world's first entire community to be displaced by climate change. They're the first official refugees of global warming--and they're packing up their lives to move out of the way of ever-rising waters that threaten to overtake their homes and crops. The island they call home will be completely underwater by 2015.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/first-climate-change-refugees-evacuate.php

wonder what the deniers have to say about this

The great mustard scandal

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/08/obama-mustard-attack-beco_n_199953.html

Wanda Sykes and now mustard -give me a frickin' break -
the Sykes thing sounds like the attacks oon Whoopi Goldberg when she made an off color joke about Shrub.

The more the humorless right shows what stupid gits they are -the more the American public says I prefer Ron Paul

pogo, you anywhere near all that wv flooding?

"East and into Pakistan"

That should read,,,,West into Pakistan,,

solar, whew!!!

Unless AIPAC is funding the Israeli war effort, I think Bebe was talking to the wrong folks. I'm not a huge fan of Israel but not a huge detractor either - sometimes I think they may be our closest ally in the ME, and at other times I think they may be our biggest liability. They tend to be a factor in our relations with every other country over there - at least beyond the oil biz - and tend to distort any diplomatic position we might have or position we might pursue. On the rest of it, I'm wit' you, brudda. Get the hell out.

Pogo

I think that Israel,,,is our only way to keep things in check over there,,in that area,,,,,,that was my thinking before this new war hungry new leaders took office,,,,I think that they are ,nuts,,and ,were made by the same people that made ,,D. Cheney,,,,but the big diff,,,is that they do have combat exp..and know how to use it??

I remember get hit every now and then ,,,at some taverns for contributions to the IRA,( lots of $ for ,war ,around),,,but what I meant ,,,is that we give Israel $ for whatever,,,and then they turn around and give some of it back to the AIPAC,,,and lobby us congress with our own $,,,,what we need,,,(solve all kinds of problems) is to eliminate lobbying,,,,,when we say that the common people need some one to lobby for them,,,,that's fine,,,but things are out of hand no??

Pogo, Solar,

The Israelis will do exactly what they believe to be in their best long-term interests. Often those interests coincide with ours.

In light of the number of pogroms waged against Jews over the centuries, and even now rumored to be happening in Venezuela, they should be, and are doing, what they believe is necessary for the survival of the Jewish Race.

I'm on their side.

Flatus

If we lived in a country that had been invaded by countries on its borders seven times in the last 60 years, we would be a whole lot testier than the Israelis. They are willing to negotiate and have done so repeatedly, but they aren't going to cooperate in their own destruction by countries that refuse to acknowledge their right to exist and who keep violating every peace agreement the Israelis have ever signed.

I think the Palestinians deserve a state. Carve it out of the countries that seduced them into attacking Israel and then locked them up in a no man's land when those attacks failed.

hehehheh

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/10/mccain-on-the-gop-i-dont_n_201318.html

I certainly hope that the Repugs take their cues from the XVP - from the worst adminsistration known to man, and whose popularity and approval ratings are still falling 4 months after they left office, and from the loser in the presidential election, who doesn't seem to understand that one half (or so) of the "fundamental principles" of his party is the wrongheaded embrace of "traditional family values" (remember when the Repugs were "the party of family values?") in the face of a changing social structure in the US. No moderation indeed. I hope they take that advice. Of course the other half of the fundamental principles he thinks are still sound - restrained fiscal and monetary policy - were given away by Dumya and the Dick with the full support of a repug controlled Congress.. Soooo, I ask you, what's left? Eric (It's a listening tour, wait, no it's not, Rush says it should be a teaching tour and what Rush says goes) Cantor? The guy who looks like a CPA and has the integrity of jello? Sarah (I wish people would stop filing ethics complaints against me and pointing out all these embarassing family things) Palin. Bobby (maybe in twenty years I'll look old enough to be taken seriously and will learn to speak in 2-3 syllable words) Jindal? Yeah, right.

Flatus, Israel and their leaders certainly should be doing what they believe is in their best interests - that's not the issue. What Jamie says makes a lot of sense, and does not provide a lot of hope that peace will be the end result if the Palestinians don't end up with a pice of land to call Palestine. Rejecting the approach that Obama believes might lead to peace is something that Israel has to decide. If their primary support here is AIPAC, and AIPCA has a different approach than our administration, IMHO they are choosing to ride the wrong horse. But it's their horse to ride. The issue is whether we should be joined at the hip with them. I think it does us harm diplomatically if our aim is to try and facilitate peace in the Middle East because the path to peace Israel is taking will NEVER be accepted by its neighbors (enemies).

Pogo,

You forgot Mitt (I'm the common man and love auto workers just like my dad) Romney , Rudi (Don't let the wig fool you, I was brave on 9/11) Giuliani, and Newt (I look good and less crazy by comparison) Gingrich.

Pogo,

First, I agree categorically with everything Jamie said.

Second, the last thing the United States wants is a unified Arab structure in the Middle East. It would undoubtedly be controlled by the radical religious elements dominating the Arab culture. In no way would such an entity further American interests. And, it would surely mark the end of Israel, perhaps with nuclear exclamation points.

Pogo, please, I'm not being patronizing even though it may sound that way when I say I think you're a generation too young to fully appreciate why things are as they are; there is simply so much history that can't be fully appreciated unless you were a part of the immediate post-war years.

Flatus, It's been a while since anyone accused me of being too young... IMHO if we present a solid unified front with Israel and the impression that we will go country to country in the region fighting our perceived enemies there, who happen to be primarily muslim countries, we will help forge a unified Arab structure that doesn't currently exist. But then, again I didn't think we should go into Iraq at all - and look how well that went.

Jamie, how silly of me to overlook those icons of the right.

Now here's something that kind of goes against conventional wisdom about China and its efforts to power itself in the face of global warming.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/world/asia/11coal.html?em

And before anyone gets all worked up, I am NOT a supporter of coal fired power, but if things keep going this way, we'll be buying power plants from China - in addition to all the clothing, electronics, furniture and every other damn thing we buy other than perishable food.

Anyone wanting to take the time might want to at least read the Wiki on the United Arab Republic since the two countries (Egypt and Syria) have gone in different directions in relation to Israel.

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

and the history of Pan Arabism (they don't get along with each other any better than they get along with Israel)

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

The biggest thing to take into consideration is that oil and water don't mix. As the populations grow, access to water is going to be more important than access to oil which will become less important as the world progressively goes more green.

The water wars globally will make the oil competition look like child's play.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/washingtons-hottest-meal-ticke.html#comment-226928

Pogo,

If the rate of mental retardation and physical deformities continues to rise, China could well be forced to change once the population figures out that the pollution of air and water is the cause.

Good link on the birth defects story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7863290.stm

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