Hey Pat, you musta had that one waiting. Good job. And to throw in the poetry so early in the morning. You are doing really well for a Saturday morning.
Pat, your not saying you also have a wascally wabbit are ya? I can help. Chicken wire, that's the ticket.
I stepped outside and saw the most beautiful beginning of the sunrise. I went for the camera and no camera. Panic!. I finally found it. I left it in my truck. Whew! The sky had changed somewhat but still beautiful.
What do they say, red sky in morning.....?Nah, it's suppose to be beautiful today. A beautiful day for a party. check out this sky.
I think I'm ready for the party. All that's left is to shave my legs. Oh, and do all the meat. I have brisket, it's cooked, just have to heat it up and drown it in Carol's kick ass BBQ sauce that simmered all day yesterday.
Then I'm gonna smoke 4 chickens on the smoker and BBQ 2 on the pit, and where am I going to do all that sausage? Somewhere. Move over chickies.
I think all my peeps at work are on this diet. I hope they take today off because I don't like leftovers.
Anyone want to come to my party? Chloe I think it's only a 3 hour drive for you. I'm sure some of my other peeps are going to drag other people here.
The nurse I worked with who invited a friend who invited a friend who brought a friend who brought along that convict is coming today. I told her I would appreciate if she would run "Wants and Warrants" on her invites today. Remember that?
It was a little joke but I'm not sure she found it funny.
Oh and for the video you put up this morning Craig....Obama shouldn't have mentioned that the war in Iraq was a war of choice. No one has figured that out yet. Shhhh. And Shuster, saying that Obama's speech "electrified many in the middle East", not a great choice of words. Brings back some bad memories. Abu Ghraib for one.
And Craig, you looked good as usual. I liked your little shinner story. I tell my shinners and my worms when I put them one the hook that they waited their entire lives for this moment. They had a purpose driven life and the time is now, go get um.
Stinky sends the leftovers home with the guests leaving a single meal for us. That makes 'kitchen management' much less complicated.
Don't forget post time is 6:27 Eastern. And you have to be a little early because we have to get you seated and strapped in the racing sulky. Calvin's been working all week trying to turn the Bird into a pacer just, and only just, for this race. Hold on if he starts galloping!
And who do the Republicans think they are talking to?? Don't they know that if a person is watching the news they already know what's going on. Someone who might fall for their poop is sitting in a bar somewhere or watching soap operas and isn't interested.
after reading last night's discussions on discourse, i wondered which would be more desirable: to be barely multi-lingual but be able to understand and be understood or to be exceptionally articulate in only one language.
my druthers is the former, but then that's probably the dilettante in me speaking. more fun being the jack/jill of all trades than master/mistress of none philosophy.
craig, the shuse called you brilliant in his intro. guess he's not as clueless as first tho't.
my apologies, shuse old man, if your on the trail today.
When you get here, please put me on Mr. Hot Stuff. I love Calvin, but I also like Edgar Prado, so I'll make him my hunch bet for today.
Anyone interested in exotic wagering, I heard a bartender friend of mine lay out this plan last night. He's playing superfectas, or whatever they call getting the right order on the first four finishers and taking Charitable Man to win, Mine That Bird for third and all the other horses for second and fourth. Says it will cost him $56.
Now that I think of it, if he has that kind of money to throw around, why do I bother tipping him for reaching in a cooler and pulling the cap off a bottle of Coors Light?
ed, good choice of beer. however, questionably pc by some.
did you see warren's comment last night "I like Coors Light. Goes down like water - and I don't drink to get a buzz"?
another good light guzzle (and preferable imo) is amstel light. something seems changed about coors lately ... maybe the pure spring rocky mountain sparkling waters have sprung their sparkle.
One of the commentators on the D Day activities just said that there was a "deception" that meant ten panzer divisions were committed too late by Germany
For those who don't know about Montegu and Operation Mincemeat, there is a somewhat ficitionalized movie version that I watch about this time each year: The Man Who Never Was starring Montgomery Clift as Montegue.
The possible identity of The Man Who Never Was did not become known until the late 1990s and Montegu has never identified which of two proposed men is the correct one.
I sure wish I could make that 3 hour drive, but I'm buried in obligations. Do expect lots of pictures though, and a complete report! I'm going to have to make a section on my photo bucket to store a few of my friend Carol's photos (with her permission, that is). :)
Secretary Clinton on Sunday TV, finally!
"Finally, Secretary Clinton will be interviewed on a Sunday TV show. This Sunday, June 7, she'll appear on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. It'll be her first Sunday show interview as secretary of state and her first Sunday show since she ended her presidential campaign almost exactly a year ago." http://hillary.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/06/05/secretary_clinton_on_sunday_tv_finally
what was that blond singer's name that had an album called "I Shaved My Legs For This?" Had the hit on "Strawberry Wine" before. Drawing a blank. I always thought that Shaved My Legs was a funny title and showed great personality on her part even tho she probably had no input.
To comment on Craig's subject. This is just one more example of what I call, "What Is Wrong With These People?".
How can one whole branch of the political spectrum be so totally tone deaf that they simply don't realize how their words sound. Have they spent so many years hating and being angry about everything, that they are incapable of anything else. If that requires lying and attempting to sabotage a president they dislike or taking actions that will injure the country, well that is just too bad if it will put them back in power.
Doots -- that was Deana Carter...she wrote the song "Did I Shave My Legs For This" -- and is a VERY smart and funny lady. Her father is ace guitarist Fred Carter.
Okay Ed. I've got you. Those exotics are where the money is made. Mine that Bird in the Kentucky Derby paid 50 to 1 to win but at the top to the exotics.
With Pioneer Of The Nile second , Musket Man third, and Papa Clem Fourth, it sparked some eye popping exotic payoffs such as a $ 2,074.80 exacta,a $ 41,500.60 trifecta, and an unheard of $ 557,006.40 superfecta.
HA -- Doots we were channeling each other. Yes -- Deana had some hits...and sold FIVE million copies of that Cd -- but never was able to follow it up. I hated that because she is such a cool lady. Another very cool artist that should have done more was a woman named Jann Brown. If I can find my fav or hers, Mexican Wind...I'll post it.
I actually did something for Newt Gingrich today not that I expect a thank you note. He wanted everyone to recite FDR's prayer from D Day. I settled for putting it on my blog simply because I like the history and also put in some links to Operation Jedburgh, another little side note that made D Day a success. It is unique because there were women among the paratroopers deposited behind enemy lines
Yes, Doots -- it'sdifficult. And the window of opportunity is smallbecause age makes a difference. I remember once Lacy J Dalton saying that she'd like things better if she could have as many wrinkles as Willie and still get airplay. That was way back in the '80s.
You say that we ignore commenting on the subject of the thread. three comments of your interview with Shyster.
1st. Thanks for telling him that the party out of power seems like they want the party in power to fail. That is what I believe. They just take turns at it. I can't understand it. Should this not be very clear by now. So that there are more and more center of the road politicians elected. I feel that would be better for the country as a whole.
2nd. About Israel. You said it just right. There are more Jewish people that want peace. They also want a two part state. There are also (it seems to me) more Jewish reporters that say the same things. That goes for Islamic's also.
3rd. this one not related to the interview. I can't seem to remember you ever being on CNN. Is there something in your MSNBC contract that keeps you from appearing on just the one?. I know that I have seen other pundits on more than one station.
Good morning Solar. Beautiful post.
I don't know why I didn't pick up on that thing about the party out of power wanting the party in power to fail in his interview. Of course, we've all witnessed that many times, but when you point it out, it's pathetic. Thanks.
Craig.... thanks for posting your appearance from last night....
yup... I like Shuster interviewing you too.... and not only do the little fish like to be hooked.... but the big fish they attract like it too..... :)
cats.... what can I say... my baby the runt... Peanut .... has been playing with flowers lately.... came downstairs this morning to find the flowers I bought a couple days ago strewn all over my table and floor.... little bitch...
Carol.... hope your party goes great!.... but if I have to shave my legs I'm not comin'.....
EdVB... long time no see.... I told ya not to count the Yankees out so early in the season.... next week should be an interesting match-up...
GO RED SOX!!
Morning. Morning to all. So The Tony Baloney wants to ride with us. Has he paid one third of the entrance fee?. Get it up front. Before he spends the dough on his Dillos.
I have to go and cut my neighbor grass and edge it before it rains. It's is going to rain in a little while. I will be back in plenty of time for the race. My hands are a little shaky. Im a little nervous but that's just a little starting gate nerves I always get. But are we ready to RUMBLE ?.
Good morning all. I note some remarks from last night and this morning. While I gave Obama a high grade in his speech, I did so because of the obvious nature of Obama's mission. The speech was immediately denounced by AQ, HIzb'Allah, Iran's relgious leader and various other terrorist leaders.
It would be wrong however to group all objections into one GOP and call it partisan. The following is not a partisan advocate and had strong words against Bush's invasion of Iraq.
And while he speaks from a conservative venue at American Thinker where half of my posts are rejected due to the shots I take at their writers, one cannot discount the many points where Obama fails the "fact" test. To point one item out; Iran calls most shots for Hizb'Allah and Hamas making an agreement between Palestinians and Israelis, something Solar ignores.
I would suggest that a Party that cheerleads itself past serious policy questions runs the risk of unintended consequence. Just look at the GOP.
The blood lost at Normandy had alot to do with the failure of the West to understand its policy towards Germany. Had FDR been listening to KOs or Huffington the outcome could have been frightening and
I am glad to see that Obama is leaning a bit center these last few weeks. A big test will come when NK tries to ship illegal arms or if HIzb'Allah wins in Lebanon. So far we have seen just words.........but they do have a role organizing others for the struggles to come.
Jamie, as the record shows, Sotomayor used her wise women speech since 1994. Had the GOP done that, Oberman would be salivating. And have you noted the State Secret defense over at SCOTUS?
All I will add is that in 2002, pundits were writing the obit of the Democratic Party. Democrats ought wonder about the rationality of doing the same. Obama is on ice as far as foreign policy and unemployment is going up not down. Our manufacturing is being hollowed out on Obama's watch. There are so many trip wires, Obama has already shifted to center a bit.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones despite their neighbors houses of glass lying in piles of shards.
I'm not talking about ALL Republicans. I'm talking about that branch that seems to have taken the party prisoner. They represent every prejudice that has ever brought shame to this country and the sooner they crawl back into their caves and pull the rocks in after them, the better off this country will be.
Ree is quite right and as I said yesterday, I could blast several large holes in Obama's speech. Now there is talk about the nasty Republicans bringing up objections in an effort to vilify all who object. Is that fair and balanced?
Yes, I understand what Obama was trying to do in his good will gesture, but words do matter. Although I give him a good grade, his speech does leave open the administration to counters of confused ideas and poor historical understanding. No, Obama did not mention the Muslim intolerance that ejected Jews from North Africa and the Middle East before and after the establishment of Israel. Nor did Obama mention that more than amillion Muslims are Israeli citizens who enjoy more rights than Muslims in MUslim countries. How can you leave out such a fact. Muslims far better in ISrael than Egypt.
I can understand why a more factual speech would not have gone over well, but Obama must worry that were he to continue this slanted look at things in an effort to win support from Muslims, the intellectual basis for progress in a debate from both moderate sides will be obstructed by incorrect facts and a US policy Americans did not vote for.
As most of you know by now, my brain is set on permanent free association. Today it while deciding what to write about the word "shine", it led to a remarkable musical discovery that I'm sure all the musicians here already know, but for me it was "How long has this been going on?" ... Ry Cooder
Up above it was asked would you rather be minimally multi lingual or an expert in a single language. There is another choice people make. Would you rather know a little bit about darn near everything or be a complete expert in one thing?
I have an enormous respect for experts and people who devote their lives to knowing everything than can know about one field. I went the other way in order to talk to them, and just in case you are at all curious how I got to Ry Cooder:
Manic Monday prompt word: Shine
Casablanca - Dooley Wilson
That's Why They Call Me Shine
Usually cut because of racial stereotypes
1910 song by Cecil Mack
Performed by George Walker
Last recorded by Ry Cooder
Not available on You Tube
Now I have to buy some Ry Cooder DVDs
And THAT is the edited list of topics that went whizzing by.
Max, About Sotomayor's "wise woman" remark, I don't think it enters into her judicial acts at all, but as I told a friend, if you ask any woman of a "certain age" if they think they are wiser than the majority of men they know, you would get an almost universal agreement that they were.
Yes they were the target. The Freepers, the Evangelical wackos, the If Rush or O'Reilly says it, it is gospel and everyone who signs up to receive emails that start: HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?
Max.. Good points
The focus on the few by the MSM and Dems to define the Republican party will be short lived.
And the bandwagon jumping by the many to proclaim Rush and Shawn the leaders is also some what funny and for some that I would expect better - a disappointment. Colors do show
Remember that I dislike both party's....the R's more so than the D's.
I often compare what is going on with the two party's with construction. I have had to go and repair very poor workmanship of another contractor. The price that I charge Depends on the damage that they have done to that house. Some have done extensive damage. Some minor damage.
At that point. The only one that is really really suffering is the poor homeowner that wants to live in their new house. I always feel sorry for the home owner. Not the goof ball that caused all of the damage.
The contractor that did the damage ( almost all of them) never admit fault. They continue to deny any relief to the homeowner. So I have too....by giving them an honest price...do the work...do it right...and get them into their house a fast as possible.
All of this time...I know that the other contractor is waiting for me to F- up. They still don't have any remorse. They still don't have any empathy for the homeless home owner.
This is how I see your Republican party. They did the worst job in history...they still don't care about the country as a whole...they want the D's to fail.
The people in the middle...the Independents want both of them to succeed....but know that they won't...because all that they want is the power that comes from the large Corps...so they give into the lobby's that (the corps reps) bribe them....all of them...take a good look at the ones that have been there for a long time. They have capitulated...with the condition that they become RICH!!
They now seem to say that it's my turn to make the big $...Stop defending the R's...start pushing for the middle of the road politicians. Today there is no doubt im my mind...that you have strong republican leanings,,,,could this be your need for Israel to go and bomb Iran?.
Have u joined the R's because of this...just like J. Lieberman did. I believe this is why he really ran as an independent. I have always voted third party...always will...I also want people like Chuck Haggle...a man of principle that is in the middle...to run for office again...he will have my vote any time he wants it...for any office he wants.
Solar, Your statement is extreme and significantly out of balance.
True Republican values have not been in play for a long period. The house cleaning of 2006 is the pivot point and in fact non Republican fiscal policy was in play long before.
You are falling to the messaging of the few picked up by the many in the MSM which was driven by the hate of one G. Bush.
I took some time to think about that post. There are a lot of good honest Republicans. There are a lot of Greedy Dem's in office also...they all they do is to thing of how to line their own wallets.
What I said. goes for the lot of them. We need to stop defending our own tribe. Our own team...just for the sake of winning. I wish that Rand Paul was running for my district...I would vote for him...he is a Republican looking to do the right thing.
Ping...I make those statements...knowing that Bush...before he left office...(and the d's in congress) did nothing for the people that were losing their homes..they are out on the street now...more will be.
George Straight is opening the new Cowboys Football Stadium today around 5:30 pm. Traffic is supposed to be a night mare. The hiways all around the stadium are torn up building more lanes and exits. My wife works about ten blocks from the stadium and my son works about a mile from the stadium. He has to be at work about 2 hours early to beat the traffic and the wife is getting off work about the time the traffic gets to its peak today. All in all, I get to mow the grass.
Prime Minister Brown said "Obama Beach" instead of "Omaha Beach". I thought I had misheard it and then just saw a tweet from George Stephanopoulis about it. That will go over like a lead balloon in Britain and Brown is already in trouble.
Renee, Katherine, I chose to ignore the word in the original post. But, Renee, by bringing it up again, you must know that I'm offended that you would make fun of the Fartiste branch of the Ohlfahrt family.
Although they tend to blow hard and long, they are still human beings.
Hell, nothing scared to ole Inhofe. He beat his own family up over the collapse of their daddy's business. I think Donald Segretti learned a few tricks from Mountain. Get your boy out of the ring when he goes down cause Mountain will kick him.
Funny think on Sotomayor, my brain surgeon, a male, says female brains are superior to males. In marketing we learn that women get subtle symbology in advertising that men don't.
So technically speaking, Sotomayor may be right.
Ree, we embrace Israel as a Jewish state, why can't we embrace Islam? Mohammed is actually pictured in some sort of carving in the Supreme Court. Of course, they won't let you take photos of it.
It's not the Israeli's I worry about screwing up a peace initiative, it's the second coming socially conservative Christians.
i wish they were more peaceful like the buddhists and Hindus. There, did I leave anyone out?
You don't need a pep talk. As the still small voice of sanity, you get to snuggle in a corner somewhere until all the other guys finish trying to tear each other apart.
obama omitted one thing''we have been involved in their internal and regional conflicts for the last 70years
for one thing '' oil ' wouldn't even be able to find iraq on the map if they weren't sitting on a pool of liquefied
dinosaurs
"True Republican values have not been in play for a long period."
Yes they have , for example whenever they fall on their ass . There's always this search for their stinking values. Like they put them on the front seat of their truck, and forgot where they parked the truck.
I say keep purging the party, maybe some show trials to attain that ideological purity they're so obsessed with.
We could get Inhofe to MC the thing.
Ditto!. Now that's what I call telling it like it is. On both counts. People say that past history doesn't matter. Then they quote the history that fits them. All history matters imo.
One for U. I like putting this one out there every now and then.
The fact that the U. S. was NOT founded as a Christian nation...Was early stated in the terms of a treaty with Tripoli. Drafted in 1796 under George Washington and signed by John Adams in 1797.
"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it s declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the countries."
Steer a little right. Wake up man. Pay attention!.
Thought for the day :
" A husband is the medicine that cures all the ills of girlhood. "
1755 Nathan Hale hanged patriot, had but one life to give for his country
1875 Walter Percy Chrysler found Chrysler Corp (1925)
1936 Levi Stubbs rocker (4 Tops-Same Old Song)
1939 Gary "US" Bonds [Anderson] singer/songwriter (New Orleans)
1639 Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill
1816 10" snowfall in New England, the "year without a summer" (Krakatoa)
1913 Rabbit Maranville, was thrown out trying to steal home 3 times
1914 1st air flight out of the sight of land (Scotland to Norway)
1918 Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st US victory of WW I
1919 Man O' War wins 1st victory as a 2-year-old at Belmont
1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp (Iacocca was 8 months old)
1932 US Federal gas tax enacted
1933 1st drive-in theatre opens (Camden NJ)
1933 US Employment Service created
1934 Securities & Exchange Commission established
1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
1942 Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich
1944 D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France
1944 Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor
1946 Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
1955 Bill Haley & Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1
1960 Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"
1966 Activist James Meredith shot in Mississippi
1967 6 day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin
1978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
1982 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO
1985 Body of Nazi criminal, Dr Josef Mengele located & exhumed
" ..................... But it makes us wonder: Did Scarborough, planning a run for Congress from a deeply socially conservative Florida panhandle district, sought to get involved in the Griffin case as a way to associate himself with, and build support among, the anti-abortion movement? In other words, was Scarborough's political career launched in part by exploiting the dangerous strain of right-wing extremism that views the defense of an accused killer of an abortion provider as a cause celebre?
People Who Wear Rose-colored Glasses See More, Study Shows
ScienceDaily (June 6, 2009) — A University of Toronto study provides the first direct evidence that our mood literally changes the way our visual system filters our perceptual experience suggesting that seeing the world through rose-coloured glasses is more biological reality than metaphor.
Solar it seems we are both contractors and both Independents. I wouldn't be so quick to let homeowners off the hook, though I have witnessed homeowner abuse. I don't know where you work but here in NYC, homeowners (who have SOME monry) are quick to hire anybody that gives them a lower price than the next. While I know illegals personally and find them hardworking, exploitation of them by contractors (who are quite pathetic as an average) costs me dearly every day.
If you want to play the anology game, Democrats are like the contractors who promise you the moon while ignoring some serious issues, It looks good on paper, so they assume it will be easy to do. THey often over look site conditions and leave out the hidden costs. They are so quick to make a deal they never discuss these deeper details and have little problem hiring illegals despite their advocating for their emancipation. They tout VCO envirnomentally friendly paint without knowing if the plant that makes it pollutes and often buy lower grade supplies like tile from Home Depot to save money for themselves, even though the procelien wears often quite quickly or imperfections go beyond 15%.. And when things go bad and I'm called in, they claim the owner never asked or paid for them to fix the systemic things that make finishing work quite pointless. So I could play that game too.
The difference between us is that you are more Liberal than Democrats or Republicans. I find neither centered enough. I do not charge alot and I do jobs that are worthy of photgraphing when done. I lower my price when clients can't afford to pay more. As a result I don't have a great deal in savings. I find local government that is supposed to keep things safe and inspected, a system of corruption and greed equalled only by Co op boards. Unions often do not deliver the effort illegals put into their work. I once watched ten Union people skim a sidewalk with concrete. They al talked on cell phones and whistled at the women while two low level workers did all the work. It did not require eight other people to supervise. This gives you an idea of what a government run healthcare program will look like.
I say we are screwed by both parties and have been recently encourage by Obama's slight move center. I suspect you have a problem with that.
Don wonders why Islam isn't written on the walls of Federal buildings. From what Jefferson deduced from his Koran and the concept of personal liberty he saw in Muslim countries was obviously not inspiring enough. He didn't call non Christian infidels, nor consider it okay to lie to non Christians as an acceptable way to con them when dealing from a postion of weakness. It was the very revolutionary notions our Founders had to spread LIberalism that made them skeptical of Sharia law. Despite the achievements of Islam (often in its more tolerant mode) they don't surpass the achievements of Persia, Egypt, Iraq, before they fell to Islam. Of course many Muslims have taken to a more moderate understanding of Islam. I have no doubt that Islamic Reformation would create an era of new Islamic acheivement. The question is how we get there. When faced with a failure of many gestures to Muslims that eneded in the beheading of his envoys, Ghengis Khan was quite brutal. That was the end of Islam's last great empire. The Ottoman's later, though not really an empire, subjected Muslims to their whim. And our Founders fought against that trying to get the world to liberate Greece. Jews dided at Massada defending the Middle East along side Arabs against the Romans.
Note Obama's tougher line against NK today. The test will be when Kimmie wants to ship illegal materials for money. Will Russia or China once again provide export cover in defiance of UN mandates? Will Obama interdict?
Merkel promises to help in getting Iran to blink. What the media fails to state is that Germany is Iran's biggest trading partner and German multinationals have given the dual use materials Iran wants in defiance with the German government's mandates. Merkel simply needs to follow the intent of EU law and Iran would blink. Should we forget that the "reformer" running in Iran was one of the founders of Quds and was involved in the bloody purges that murdered more than 10,000 dissidents after the revolution. That made the Shah look moderate. It was under his watch that Iran started their secret quest for the bomb. If he is a reformer, then Noam Chomsky is a liberal.....
Bob mentions the 6 day war. If today's liberal had their way in pre-empting pre-emption. Israel might not exist. The world did nothing as Egypt and Syria prepared to hostilities. Jordan felt dragged along. Had Israel not decimated the Arab air force in the first day, the results would have been different. And the war they fought was with European weapons. America had not yet entered the picture.
The stock piles growing in Lebanon and Gaza and in bunkers in Iran represent a similar threat. Now the world wants Israel to wait until attacked, but then that wouldn't be the lesson of history, would it? And after the wars, the agressor declares themselves to be victims? Just a thought in light of the 6 Day War and D-Day. Again, this might be interesting to some...
...August at the earliest, I'd surmise, after further investigation. The Senators need to vet her, and then vote on a confirmation schedule, and the have a hearing, and then vote on that...
Well since I'm not interrupting anyone, I just wanted to throw this out there for Jamie, or Lardie or anyone else. Being an Independent or a "centrist", doesn't mean one opts for and averaging between Republican and Democratic talking points. They, more frequently than the magnetic poles, flip and reverse or are both plain wrong. Just a decade ago, people like Power advocated intervention to prevent genocide. She criticized Clinton over Rwanda, so does she criticized Obama for not even mentioning to Arabs the millennium’s first genocide of Africans in the Sudan? Is their plight less important than Gazans?Or less a human rights abuse? This fact might not even have been lost of Obama's audience in Cairo.
Instead, Independence is a kind of excluded middle. It is quite possible that both the Democrats and Republicans are wrong and then an average between stupidities is doomed. Nor does a centrist or Independent necessarily hold an average of principles or values. Personally, I am not sure of what would be conservative values. Is conservation or preservation one?
One thing however, often exposes a Centrist. They all generally prioritize national crisis in a general way with security, economy the top issues and social issues beyond questions of personal liberties lower down the list. Again, a centrist could have an altogether different idea to remedy a problem and advocacy is not simply a watering down of two different partisan portions. On rare occasions a Republican AND a Democrat are right and the centrist is wrong. (See what the lack of LOL can do here?)
Last, my link to the possible origins of altruism was a footnote to D-Day.
The lesson is not just where altruism might have started past kin, but also in light of D-Day, the modern fact; that sacrifice for a Free People is largely based on the common love we have for our country and the principles worth defending. There is nothing as determined in sacrifice as Free People fighting to preserve their liberty or the liberty of others.
I think Sonia will be a great inspiration to "our" effort to have more minorities showing up in our courtrooms as lawyers and judges instead of defendants.
True, but SCOTUS picks are based on their excellence in following and applying the law. Something like those creatures in DUNE that create space tunnels.
Role models are great and Obama is the prime example. Clinton is another. At the end of the day however, it is how they do their job that is most important. I'm not sure Holder at Justice is going to lower the aarrest rate for Blacks. By that measure Obama should already be having an effect.......
The Republicans keep saying they need to "slow down" the hearings for a "close examination" ... bs bs bs.
They don't mention that the time the President has requested for approval is exactly the same amount of time allowed for the last nine supreme court justices.
I just get so tired of the crap playing to the base.
The Republicans had there trickle-down party. The rich got richer, Wall Street lived it up and conspicuous consumption was considered the norm. CEO salaries started skyrocketing at a rate that far outstretched the economy and dwarfed raises for those at the bottom.
It is time for the Dems to pursue "trickle-up"-enomics.
It is funny that one of the most plain and simple truths that Obama spoke during the campaign were a call to outrage. "Spread the wealth."
Perhaps "balance the wealth" would be more appopriate. But it got all out of wack in recent years when excess was celebrated - and struggling was swept under the rug until that little thing called a recession.
But I don't think we need to government to dictate salaries - nor should they. It can be a matter of common sense. And with the internet - those salaries should be at our fingertips.
Some of those CEO salaries of some $30-50M a year with golden parachutes even higher - are simply beyond the pale.
We don't need to relitigate the past - but we shouldn't let it happen again.
Civilizations are more unstable when there are greater imbalances of wealth.
America as the land of opportunity is one of our enduring traditions.
And it is in all our interests. A lower-class - that has a living wage, education, health care and security - is a lower class that has a lesser drain on society.
It means lower default rates, increased spending, and less crime.
(Now if we could just explain that to these rich old white guys....)
No scandal leaps to mind. One might think they are too old or too brilliant not to be discreet. There is a list of justices so you might go down it one by one to see if anything nefarious pops up
I am sure interns and low-paid staff will be doing most of the work. The pols need to polish their grandstanding skills - and get a hair cut for the hearings.
I hope Sonia cuts down a few of the blow-hards. I am going to be particularly interested in Sonia vs. Lindsey.
As an Independent, I don't think it unwise to vet a picture for public consumption. Then people will see the type of person Obama wants to be one of the Justices. Democrats would love to drag out some issue until Hell freezes over.
But yes, so much we see is games when there is so much that is dangerous. Since she is going to be a Justice, we should get it on with Repubicans using the normal amount of time to expose her warts.
Gonzales was not given that much applause from Democrats despite his being Hispanic. When Republicans do it, the media will not cheer so much and still seek the knife. Just look at what they did to the last black justice. They found pubic hairs on a soda can.
If you go by her record, Sotomayor is a great justice. She has about 18 years experience, more than 500 cases of which less than 20 have even been appealed and of those only three reversals. That isn't even a 1% rate. Hardly the record of someone "legislating from the bench"
I just realized the difference between an argument and sophistry. (I mean I have heard sophistry defined often - but it is a difficult concept to grasp.)
But the realization was based on an experience from many years ago. When I was in DC for a spell - I got a job one semester up on the Hill as an intern for a Senator on the Judiciary Comm. I was only there a short while - but I did get to see one a Strom Thurmond's final appearances.
But as I watched the politicians debate - one thing struck me. In the law, you need to marshall the facts, gather the law - and are supposed to be right. Your theory will be tested - an opposing view given - and a judge or jury will decide which is correct (or at least the best you can do.)
But I noticed politicians did not need to be on the "right" side of the debate - she or he only has to simply make the opponent look worse - by any means possible.
(I will admit the law often degenerates into this on a regular basis - but attorneys at least have a strict set of rules to follow, a judge to keep them in line and - oh yeah - the law. Politics is an exercise in unbridled gamesmanship.)
But I will say one thing - it is sure a hell of a lot easier to see which side looks worse than to figure out what is "right"
(One last caveat: the foregoing was brought to you by your resident-trusty-self-serving lawyer ; )
You seem to not get the purpose of Obama's speech.
It was directed to Muslims. That was the audience.
And what Obama did - was explain to them - the same thing that he has been saying to us for the last two years.
But he needed to do it in terms that would resonate. He had to build trust and show understanding and humility. And he could not do too much lecturing.
He accomplished that. It was a masterstroke.
(And it is easy to point out other things he could of said. But the man covered a lot of ground and spoke more in-depth on the major issue facing this world - to a larger audience - than I have ever seen.)
But I suppose you're right. He shoulda emailed you first!
(Btw, I think Samantha Power had a hand in that speech rather than any objection.)
This is because "he cares about the Iraqi people, seeking to make them a focus of policy intention, not just a political slogan." -Power
The selection of a S. Ct. nominee is in Obama's discretion. And I am sure he selected Sonia for a number of reasons.
The have been great, average and not so great S. Ct. Justices. How will Sonia stack up? The jury is still out and we won't know from the confirmation hearings.
But she is more than qualified.
(And don't forget one of the greatest - Holmes - was not expected to be much and was supposed to only serve a short time. But he showed them.)
Holmes, in his last years, was walking down Pennsylvania Avenue with a friend, when a pretty girl passed. Holmes turned to look after her. Having done so, he sighed and said to his friend, "Ah, George, what wouldn't I give to be seventy-five again?"
I watched some of the D Day speeches...well, I watched what I could see through my tears... and was reminded of Bill's comment that said it best.
Let us never forget that, when they were young, these men saved the world.
In Hawaii, I didn't go the the Arizona. In Germany, I didn't go to Dachau or Auschwitz. In Normandy, I'll not go to the cemeteries. I taught with a mild-mannered man who was a paratrooper dropped behind enemy
lines on D Day. The strength and courage of these people, from soldiers to planners and victims, men and women, overwhelms me. The hatred and greed of fascists could never meaure up.
But I'm afraid the Elie Wiesel might be right. The world hasn't learned.
"You seem to not get the purpose of Obama's speech.
It was directed to Muslims. That was the audience."
Then seem not to have read a number of posts on this issue. For the tenth time, I gave Obama good grades for the speech as I limited by scoring based on the objective; "to widen the conversation". As I have also said repeatedly, as a policy speech or even as an historical summary, Obama makes many errors and half-truths. While one can excuse this as massaging an audience, Universities here I hope hold a higher standard of truth and honesty.
If it was a MUslim audience, why not ask Muslims to stop the first genicide of this century? Why not point to a central logical fact that as long as Iran calls shots in Hamas and Hizb'Allah, Palestinians and ISraelis cannot sut down and solve their problems. This was an Egyptian audience that would agree with that. Egypt is practical at war with the Brotherhood and HIzb'Allah.
Since ther was no mention of genicde, I do not see Power, though the comparison between Gaza and Buchenwald is both groteque and strange given Obama's trip. Has his daily briefing shown him pictures of crematories in Gaza or rather miltants using thier children as shields instigating a war because they started firing missiles into Israel. The sanctions upon Hamas were international in nature and concerned an aspect of Obama's contradictory massage by his demand that Arabs recognize Israel's right to exist. Egyptians might, but how are Arbs to force Hamas to back off if Iran has both Hamas and HIzb;Allah in their pocket?
Again, good massage. The devil is in the details and I mentioned to Craig, if we see Hizb'Allah win in Lebanon it is absurd to think a Palestinian State will be nothing more than a close postion to attack Israel. The Taliban have moved into Kashmir, AQ is making contact with HIzb'Allah. To put it prospective: the UN's own report says that Hizb'Allah has rearmed with advanced weapons, created a military data line throughout Lebanon rebuilt bunkers UNDER THEIR MANDATE AND NOSES.
Unless we address the red lines and current behavior beyond the control of the street, words will remain words. A new war will make many forget what was said in Cairo.
Jamie, it was your "facts" that lead me to gelive she would get through in the first place. I am sure if I saw the list, she would not be at the bottom......
I see problems, but then it isn't a near perfect world, is it? I tseems her opinion has often not reflected in her judgement.
You know the opposition is desperate when they pull the "numbers never lie" routine. Even if the appellate justices get reversed on the reverse discrimination case coming up, you will hear things like "Sotomayor was reversed on almost one in five cases appealed" which I suppose is true as long as you don't consider the hundreds of cases that were never appealed in the first place.
Well, Jamie numbers don't lie, except you mention an important number not included reverses/all cases as opposed to reversed appeals. Yes, you are right the larger subset is the one that matters unless there is a high percentages of appeals from her court.
I don't think Republicans are serious that they have a chance.
As far as D Day, let's hope this isn't the start of a new disease that generates yet another D-Day:
yeah.... I'm kinda sad for Borel too....
but just think.... he came in first in the K. Derby.... 2nd in the Preakness... and then 3rd in the Belmont.... the same exact placement of the Triple Crown races....
wonder if that's a first for a jockey....
Max, I'm not disagreeing on your comments. However, those remarks about comparisons are bogus to me and so far as I've seen only the RW have included them in their criticisms.
He didn't start that line of thought with "On the one hand" as most would in using the comparative "while on the other hand".
It wouldn't be another D-Day for the simple reason that he is right. You either beat the Taliban by getting them on your side or they beat you in the sense that you don't get the land where they stand. Those mountains have defeated Europeans before and they can do it again. That will be Obama's trial - To get them to act in the best interest of Afghanistan as a whole rather than just the tribes.
Just for the record Bill Bennett is a supercilious, prissy mouthed, smarmy, ignorant ass.
I could come up with a more accurate description, but I'm in a good mood tonight and not using words like that. Jamie
I see I dropped in at just the right time
getting ready to paddle tonight --still time to make
leaving from Froggy Beach at 8 pm My neighbor has dubbed this trip the sissy cruise because it is short and easy.
You were first to pick the right Bird, so congrats to you!
There are just too many birds on the brain to keep them straight...if Borel had won today, he'd have been crowned King Calvin. At least the Cajuns can still claim a Triple...
Max -
Your 6-Day War post @ 4:30 sucks putty balls. I remember the 6-Day War , like it was yesterday. The politics of the time were nothing like your cable news read on things. It was much crazier, and a much bigger surprise.
Oil didn't move though, the Texas Rail Road Commission was still setting the price of oil ........... $2.50 a barrel.
I couldn't help but notice Obama has been reading my posts...
"Appearing with Sarkozy before reporters, Obama displayed growing impatience with North Korea and what he called its "extraordinarily provocative" nuclear and ballistic missile tests. He suggested that the North is testing international patience as diplomacy has failed to persuade the reclusive communist government to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
"Diplomacy has to involve the other side engaging in a serious way in trying to solve problems," he said. "We are going to take a very hard look at how we move forward on these issues, and I don't think that there should be an assumption that we will simply continue down a path in which North Korea is constantly destabilizing the region and we just react in the same ways."
Obama also took on Iran, suspected by the West of seeking to build its first nuclear bomb, an accusation Tehran denies. The president has said military action remains on the table, but has offered to change U.S. policy and engage in talks with Tehran. He said Saturday, though, it must be "tough diplomacy."
"We can't afford a nuclear arms race in the Middle East," Obama warned. Sarkozy said he worries about "insane statements" by Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad." AP
He knows the clock is ticking (he doesn't mention more than an arms race) and he seems to be preparing his base for things to come while taking away the ammo from his conservative critics who think he is far too soft. In the end, I agree with Jamie, Obama will likely find the best cover in the center although that doesn't mean a watered down mixture of two ideologically different policies. There are no major European leaders that can match his appeal, but he is fast reaching crunch time.
And this doesn't mean I am anywhere near rolling over....
You know Max , there was a wealth of subjects, in my "This Day in History" post today. June 6th has many angles. For example, you didn't comment on the Battle of Belleau Wood, Lot's of good stories there, but we American's never saw the First World War for what it was. We didn't teach it to our kids either.
As I said June 6th, is one of those days you want to ride. Always pick some something interesting to do on June 6th, especially if it's on a Saturday. The Battle of Hastings is another good one. Go do something bold on that one as well .
Oh yes Bob, please nelighten me on the 6 Day War. And thank you for the compliment in characterizing my posts.
And even then, if you remember, crtics blasted Israel for pre-emption with the UN edging to call Israel the agressor. According to Solar's cable news here, Israel was secretly trying to steal resources.
Unlike today, American media backed Israel and pressured Congress to do something besides observe the kill ratios on Soviet equipment.
Democrats rejected negotiating with terrorists sending Chomsky into a frenzy and Israel declared that captured land would be annexed if adversaries did not negotiate peace. Instead they prepared for the next war which caught Israel off guard.
One of my favorite bloggers away from here has used his blog today to link to British, US, and French units that invaded at Normandy. Interesting history
Bob, my Grandfather fought in WW1. After some brutal fighting he was held as a prisoner for almost 18 months and that might have saved his life. By chance the allies released a deadly flu into the last hardened German defense. A large number of troops on both sides died of sickeness, but some POW were spared being far back behind the lines.
I missed your thread but I wil go back and look. As far as D Day my Dad was quickly pulled from Italy and moved into the front. He never killed anyone but had to get classified information through some disputed territory as the lines zig and zagged under the German counter. He told me that the greatest outpouring of joy he has ever witnessed was the liberation of Europe and the triumph of Liberal Democracy. Although usually a Democrat, he did fear the Western world would forget the bottom line and drift towards cultural and political relativism.
But anyway, I'll check that out. I don't think German could have won in any case. Not without a bomb and then things would have gotten ugly. Interesting note though. The lesson learned besides appeasement and bad former treaties was that mass produced second generation weapons that were reliable out fought third generation weapons. The trend however has been towards the cutting edge.
Max -
We keep after you, you'll sponge some of this up. Me and Jamie here tonight, we eat history on our Cherie-O's for breakfast. Don't be teaching history from the BBFF.
Max -
Interestingly enough , I don't care if you get or not. I a " big garden member " is in the ICU tonight, and I'm just killin' time while today's oven video loaded.
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate the Miami Airport? Stuck because of thunderclouds and there was one outlet for about 50 people. Missed everything today.
I did see some of the most spectacular thunderclouds as the pilot ducked around them on the way out. I always pick the worst time not to bring my camera.
CBob, as I understand it we just barely ended up on the side we did in WWI. Looking back as a historian, what do you think would have happened if we'd picked the other side or not gotten involved at all?
I remember in the early days of the Iraq war a grunt talking about how we were going to teach Iraq about civilization. I guess he'd never heard of Babylon. I never liked history as a student, but when i went to live in the Middle East my opinion changed.
i used to to a lot of consulting in Tulsa. The only thing to do in the evening was to watch the weather channel to see if we needed to run down into the basement.
Listening to the video again, Craig, your comments are so point on!
Found this article, "Hugging Republicans Until It Hurts"
And this, "In embracing select Republicans, the Obama administration — notably Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff — seems to be applying this maxim: Hug them until it hurts.
“This Machiavellian strategy is pure Rahm,” said John Feehery, a Republican strategist and former top House aide. “It is brilliant and it is painful for Republicans.”
Jane Hamsher is really pushing the NO vote on the Supplement. Getting a response from the Liberal wing. Rahm's having trouble keeping the Dem troops in line
At an event in Virginia titled "Rediscovering God in America," Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee aimed to recapture lost political momentum for the Christian right with strong exhortations for members to involve themselves in politics in order to maintain and increase the presence of religion in the public square, the Virginia-Pilot reports.
Both men railed against abortion rights, gay rights and the lack of religious influence in American public life, however Gingrich upped the ante in his attempt to stir up the crowd with this line:
I think this is one of the most critical moments in American history. We are living in a period where we are surrounded by paganism.
Jamie -
Trying write about Terry in the ICU tonight. But I couldn't .The email from his sister today, who had her husband die last week was really tough. Heavy iron , heavy lifting here.
no strat......don't like where the volume knob is and hard to choke the strings at the bridge, if I remember right......the only guitar I have is a telecaster, which i bought in 72 after my gretsch was stolen......it was the cheapest good guitar i could find at the time, $285, without case.....it's worth a good bit more now, I understand, even though I belt sanded the finish off of it.......it had started out white, but it's having been in joints for 30 yrs or so at the time, had turned an ugly yellow.....I meant to re-finish it but got another job and so put it back together and so it stays............
what was it...Summer Bird paid $18? Who'd a thunk anybody who had ANYTHING to do with Big Brown last year would ever win anything again?
Some here may recall I don't drink. Wednesday I passed the 6,000 day mark. Who'd a thunk THAT could ever have happened, those that saw me drunk years ago.
started out with a gretsch "tennessean" which melted somewhat in a fire......traded it for the les paul jr, and then the LPjr for the black gretsch......
cbob
no tunes tonight ? can that contraption your building boil water ? if so it wouldn't be to much of a stretch to
build a small boiler producing steam that spins a
micro-turbine producing electricity'' there you go a sun powered portable electric generator ''anyway something to ponder on for your next project
that was a danelectro which somehow at the time was interchangeable with the silvertone brand......couldnt find a picture of the silvertone, which was kind of peach colored with a single cut-away at the bottom......
Silvertone was the brand name used by Sears for their line of musical instruments and sound equipment from the 1930s to 1972. Replacing the Supertone brand, Silvertone had already been the brand on Sears' radios and phonographs since 1915. Probably best known for their line of well made and inexpensive guitars, the brand became popular with novice musicians. Rudy Sarzo, Chet Atkins, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, Tom Fogerty, James Hetfield, Dave Grohl, Phil Keaggy, Mark Knopfler, Mikee Plastik, and countless others had a Silvertone for their first electric, bass, or acoustic guitar. The Canadian band Chad Allan and The Silvertones, which would go on to become The Guess Who, took its name from this line of instruments. Pete Townshend would employ them in live performance with The Who for the purposes of smashing them. Jack White of The White Stripes has been known to use vintage Silvertone amplifiers. Singer-songwriter Beck Hansen's main guitar is a Silvertone.
The name was placed on guitars from more than a few different manufacturers over the years, including Danelectro, National, Harmony, Kay, and Teisco. The guitars - especially the 1960s models - are prized by collectors today. One of the more well-known models is the Danelectro Silvertone 1448, made in the early to mid 1960s. The guitar's case had a small built-in amplifier, which proved popular with beginners.
Today, Silvertone is a brand name used by a Chinese guitar manufacturer and was endorsed by Paul Stanley of KISS from 2003 to 2006.
he met him when he was sent to fix his phone.......he told me the story and it was an interesting exchange, but i just can't remember what it was.......
the old man was just embarking on his journey with alzheimers and we had a good bit of time together at that point and he related a lot of old memories i hadnt heard much of before......wish i had recorded some of them but usually was unprepared for that............he could remember the old stuff without a hitch, but new stuff not so much.........
hello sturg
going ok '' high water leveling off 'probably have to deal with low water conditions next trip '' thats the way it is
anymore one extreme to the other '''be getting off monday '' due for a break after 12hrs a day seven days a week for 33days ' presently northbound around caruthersville mo. with 35 empty barges '
tow size 1400 feet long'' 175 ft wide''
Rez answered: "You mean besides me and my wife. :-)"
Plus my mom! Actually I know a lot of serious liberals in places like Oklahoma, Kansas and Tennessee. Easy to be a lefty in some states...takes toughness to do it when you're outnumbered!
sturg
not much weight with all empties'' when we come southbound with 35 loads it is approximately sixty
thousand tons of grain' destination port of new orleans
to be loaded into ships for export
tow size will be a different configuration 1000ft
long 240ft wide '' towboats are push boats connected
to the stern of the tow with several sets of steel cables
and winches
Morning folkes, yep the party's over. Whew! And I missed the race. I'm terribly sorry. I should have been there. It's my fault that "Mine" didn't win. What in the hell happened? Where did that other Bird come from?
Well if it had to happen I'm glad it was another little Cajun that did it. We don't rank too high in much here but we can ride those ponys. And we can cook. And we can eat and it shows. I think we also rank pretty high in obesity but we think that quality is more important than quantity here. You gotta grab for all the gusto you can, while you can.
"A fresh result from the Experiment this morning, corn tasseling at 3 locations ........... here, South Carolina, and Las Cruces." cbob http://cbhopibluecornexperiment.blogspot.com/
[to tune of the wassail song]
here we come a tasseling
among the leaves so green
here we come a wondering
if ears will e'er be seen
love and joy come to you
and to your tassel too
and god bless you and send you a hopi blue corn ear
or bob send you the seeds again next year
C-Bob's experiment turned out really well too. He had a dream...and the dream spread across the country. And we're all better for having participated in it. Maybe Obama could learn somethin from it. It's the small things....
"...never saw the First World War for what it was. We didn't teach it to our kids either."
Bob, the school I went to was founded by a group of men who knew the horrors of that war and were determined that they would do their best share the causes and effects of that and other wars.
My history teacher, Julian Lathrop, or as we called him, Uncle Judy, had been in the trenches. His body shook constantly reflecting the aftereffects of the constant shellings he and his mates were forced to endure.
I have my very one copy of this movie. I can see how someone that is not familiar with the border of Mexico and Texas might not get the movie but those of us that live close to the border it is a great movie.
"I think this is one of the most critical moments in American history. We are living in a period where we are surrounded by paganism."
I think this quote is attributed to the rapper Big Newty G. This is from the same man that had an affair while his wife at the time was suffering from cancer. Asked for a divorce while the woman was still in the hospital. My opinion is that he has no moral compass at all.
Yes Flatus, just watched the race and I think "Mine" started too late and quit too soon. And I think this coming from behind stuff is a little too showy, kind of like the tortoise and the hare, when Mine awoke from his nap the tortoise had won it.
Well, Stinky just called me outside to look at a snake she discovered in our vegetable garden.
My eyes really are bad, so, even from a normal viewing distance, I was unable to identify it. I went upstairs and, using binoculars from our kitchen window, it appears to be a copperhead.
We try to be careful of snakes giving them a chance to move out of our way as we walk through our woods. There's plenty of room for us to peaceably share their habitat.
I suppose for every snake I see, there are hundreds that I don't, despite my being very close to them. I hope they know I mean them no harm.
As far as I know, our copperhead may still be lurking in the rock wall next to the driveway. I hope it's not in there making little baby copperheads.
At the garden center yesterday, I came across a product (I think it was Ortho) called Snake Repellent. Didn't buy it because I have no idea if it would be a waste of money. Maybe you or others here have some thoughts about it? I am mostly concerned about our pets encountering them.
I was just reading about them Flatus and the articles said most bites come from trying to kill the snake. That's what I call bad snake karma. I avoid bad snake Karma by leaving all snakes alone.
Here is my friend Brad Davis playing a orange Gretsch on stage in the Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters band from last year. Camera work is pretty crummy but hey who knows what drugs were ingested before the concert? Enjoy....
Hubs bought his own early Father's Day prez, a 1992 Les Paul Studio "Lite" weighing seven pounds..."made for studio musicians with all the tone and not the weight," so he's telling me as if I know anything about it.
it has always been my experience that Copperheads are pretty aggressive with regards to where they think they should live. I would watch that wall where you think the snake is taking up residence like a hawk. I had a friend who's house became a breeding ground for rattlers. Not a pretty sight. Please be careful.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-233889
"So The Tony Baloney wants to ride with us. Has he paid one third of the entrance fee?. Get it up front. Before he spends the dough on his Dillos."
Solar
What a beautifully written and insightful post..How did you know I was spending money on the Dillos?HA HA,yes not much left over to cover the entrance fee..I was at Home Depot yesterday buying stone for my landscaping.Those Dillos keep throwing the red mulch out on the lawn as they dig trenches.I fixed them the stone is to heavy for them to move..HA..I hope they get the message and go to a more Dillo friendly home..
Thank you Doots, I will. So far, the snake is in the raised portion of the garden waiting for something to come by. If there's any sign of an infestation, I'll call the county.
Chloe
Yes I did want to ride!!! Thanks for including me and giving Jamie the heads up....
Oh yes,thanks for the warning on Hillary being on "This Week",DVR set..Hope your little birdie is a-ok?Emma too...
The dark lord might keep a lookout for Queen Mimi of Bloggingham castle. Steal too many of her titles and you just might end up in her basement. You DO NOT want to go to the Bloggingham basement. There hasn't been a Johnny Depp movie in a while. He may still be down there.
sorry Ivy. My reading skills improve hourly with each cup of coffee. Might send a message to the head Red-tailed Hawk to have him/her put a note on their bulletin board.
Warren
I just got caught up
You amaze me and I thoroughly enjoy reading you..It would be hard to pick out any one post,their all good! I'm glad your here...Especially on the days I fight with Max...
Not a problem, Horsedoots. I hope I can get the hawks attention. They've had their talons full fending off the crows that mob them daily. Quite a show.
I'm rooting for Billy Elliot tonight at the Tonys. Loved the movie and the few clips I've seen on TV with the three boys who play Billy have been wonderful.
I'm attempting to determine if my mob of crows is made up of less-frequently occurring Fish Crows or juveniles of the wide-spread American Crow. We are in the Fish Crow summer breeding grounds and we have the habitat. Among adults, the species are distinguished by sound, but when comparing the juvenile Fish to the adult American, it is a very tough call to make, likely beyond my meager skills.
Dooty...
yup.... yesterday was 74-75 degrees, low humidity and lots of sunshine.... absolutely picture perfect for us New Englanders.... starting later today it's suppose to rain... sock in for 4-5 days... and only be in the 60s....
and here I was looking forward to maybe seeing some sprouting going on next week concerning my blue corn.... sure hope the seeds don't rot in the ground.... it's the only crop we planted this year.... our garden beds need to be rebuilt and there's just too much work cleaning up after that ice storm.... we'll plant again next spring....
I want to go outside now while there's still some sunlight left.... love to sit in the sun and read.... I'm reading "Cleopatra and Antony".... the front cover says "power, love, and politics in the ancient world".... what's not to love about a story like that.... those Ptolemies were quite the fun lovin' family....
and the author, Diana Preston, got the order correct by listing her first...
Ivy,
That Fish Crow looks a lot smaller than the Crows I'm used to seeing here.. We have a lot of them (American Crow, I'm sure), but their so big. Also, listening to the call sample they had on the page you linked, I thought the fish crow sounded more pleasant (just a personal preference, I guess.) . Our crows sound so threatening to the other birds.
Renee, You'd never be able to sit outside and read here. If the heat and humidity didn't kill you, the insects would. :) I think it's going to be 92 today.
CT, you're very funny. I can see Penguins on the same sex marriage poster. However, your comment doesn't make sense. I have already posted a lengthy defense of gay couples that have State authorization to have adopted kids having the right to be married. As you can see in the case of penguins, evolution is served.
I could also point out various species that take the opposite gender as a life long mate, but nowhere is it found the natural tendency is for same sex pairing. Evolution wouldn't work, would it?
Below is an interesting link. Below Churchill's thoughts on Islam are comments by a friend of Sarkozy. This issue is different than same sex marriage but has an important link on a political level.
I have read several similar comments by other French leaders who agree with the trend and I see that Islamization is running headlong into gay marriage. This is the strange thing about what is going on in Europe. Accommodation of Islam while moving to positions most rejected by Islam.
We here in the US, do not have the same demographic problems. I think that Obama is trying a different tact. He does not seem to advocate the same cultural relativism in Europe. He seems he would rather religions given space, but preserve the secular nature of our society and any attempt to allow America to be come watered down to the lowest common denominator. Islam rejects abortion and gay marriage. Islam does not put country before God or a Constitution. We are Americans before believers. One would think therefore that asserting those things would buffer us against Islamic inroads and encourage assimilation, but the irony is that under such cultural relativism proposed by some on the Left and the separation of church and State, ideas that reject such liberties are offered safe haven. In the following case, lawyers assert this criminals religious zeal is a sign of mental illness and overlook the connection of the Mosque he was found in to other attacks quite possibly the recent shooting of an American soldier. This head in the sand approach overlooks inevitable conflict when we aren't honest.
One would think that pro abortion, gay advocates and anti-religionists would see the inevitable problems with giving all classes of people what they consider their "rights". They more than others should see the terrible oppression of women and children. If we don't draw some line, then it is only time that stands in the way of our Founding Principles being caught in a struggle with demographics deciding what is right and wrong, good and bad.
Max,
As you know, I enjoy your posts and think you are a very nice person, as well as extremely intelligent. I do, however, wish you'd let this one go and talk about something else, since it obviously offends so many people. Beside, none of that stuff matters. It all comes down to one very simple principle. We are all equal and therefore, we all deserve equal rights. Everything else is just talk.
Flatus, If you caught Hillary on Stephanopoulos this morning, I sure would like to hear what you think. I missed the first part, but caught the last part. I'll probably look for a video of it in a while.
Chloe, I did not bring it up, CT did with his comment about Penguins. I tried to link two topics: Islamization and the move by the West to go harder to the Left.
I will give it a rest as I have tried to do since the topic came up last week.
I think however, "we are all equal and therefore, we all deserve equal rights" is exactly the issue that defines the uncertain course of SCOTUS and our collision course with Islam who want their equal rights too.
Hey Chloe
You got me beat in the temperature department,89 today feels like 93 with the almost 100% humidity...We have been having so many storms,yesterday another 5 inches of rain.Wish you were here I would serve you up some of my Spaghetti salad,oh a pork chops too...I'm also planting some more Bougainvillea,beautiful pinkish purple color.. Going to the movies today or lunch?
Chloe
Thanks your sweet..I didn't get caught until this am..Yesterdays posts just were so enjoyable....I watched Hillary,god I love that woman.I think more than any other leader in my life..The clip they showed of her speech bowing out last year still touches me...
Glad to here that you have resolved your dillo problemas. Flatus had the right idea. dillo lobster sounds as good as dillo soup.
I forgot that yesterday was the birthday of my grandnephew Alex. Alex was 1 years old and the youngest of 4. After 3 girls Al my nephew and his wife Veronica had given up on a little boy. He was quite a pleasant surprise to them and to us all.
I am always surprised at how developed children can be. Alex kept staring at me. He seemed very amused that I stared right back at him. I kept asking him why he was eye balling me. Which made him laugh out loud. He also knew that the party was for him. When we sang happy birthday he was do a litte shoulder dance and laughing at us all.
He was a very happy little one year old. This made us all very very happy.
This also reinforces my idea that if you want to make someone happy. Make your self happy first. Not in some selfish way. That is just selfish. But in a way that is sound. Healthy. When you see some you love happy. The joy that you get is the best feeling possible.
Tony. About that race. I don't think that you have been reading the race threads that closely. You might have missed the one's that said that the jockey's shed a much weight possible before the race. So the lighter the weight on the horse. The faster if will go.
We came in fourth. Will never know for sure. But we could have won if you didn't bring those dang Dillos with you. The extra weight could have hurt us in the stretch. Those dillos are soup. If I had my way HA!
And to be fair with you. I did not help that Chloe was talking all of the time. Could not make that gal pay attention to the race. I was to blame just as much. I kept talking about my horse Cheyenne. I think that this distracted our steed. He was listening to the point of distraction.
Hey Im a CUBS fan. There are lot of reasons that I can come up with about why we lost. The next time we ride there will be some rules for the race.
If I was closer Tony, I would invite myself over. Please take no offense with my comments. I am glad to see the military is reconsidering their position on "some issues". Given what America is up against, why exclude those who really have a dog in this fight?
Though I won't elaborate anymore, I think my first link above explains some concerns I have with relativism and why this is an issue of many v the few, although watching star trek recently again, I note Kirk's postion that the one is more important than the many.
If I was closer Tony, I would invite myself over. Please take no offense with my comments.
Max
No offense taken! If you were closer you would be most welcome...I think your a very nice guy and the fact that we disagree on a few things is great with me..I think the exchange of idea's is what's important and you sure bring much to the table..Thanks Max for being a good sport!!
"Tony. About that race. I don't think that you have been reading the race threads that closely. You might have missed the one's that said that the jockey's shed a much weight possible before the race. So the lighter the weight on the horse. The faster if will go."
SolarMan
I'm bad I know but in my defense I think I burned 1000 calories yesterday between the stepper and weights..Oh and guilt helps as I intend to do the elliptical today that is after I get my Dillo rock down...For you Solar,GO CUBS...
We knew what you meant, plus we're a forgiving flock.
You're right about the size of the crow species...adult Fish Crows are 15-and-a-half inch birds while American Crows are 17-and-a-half-inch birds. The Fish Crow call is the more "melodic," but probaby not to the American Crows.
Thanks Max, and thanks for not taking offense. You are 'always' so well mannered. Have a great day!
Tony, We have Emma for the day, so we'll have to save the movie for another day. That won't stop us from going to lunch though. She's great to take places and loves the sites. Yesterday, we took her with us to PetSmart, and while her grampa did the shopping, her and I looked at the birds (the cutest were the little finches they had), guinea pigs, mice, etc. Then we moved on the the fish. And, of course, there were many dogs throughout the store. It was as good as a trip to the zoo for one so young -- she loved it.
All kidding aside, I would love to be there for one of those pork chops too Tony. I can only imagine what a wonderful host you are, and that house and pool are to die for.
Max, I was just funning ya. No offense. We need people of different points of view here to keep us all thinking. It's by debating that we really even find out how committed we are to our point of view.
I had just stepped out to WW. Been going so much that I was feeling some withdrawal. Got a boat battery last year that went dead but....it wasn't even a year old so I got another one for free. Love it. And I found a card table, I really didn't need but it was on sale for 18 bucks, normally 44 bucks. Very satisfying, almost euphoric. I don't know if I can even stand myself today, I'm so happy.
The gay gene is a continuous part of evolution. If it wasn't it would have died out long before now. Also gays can reproduce. That makes also makes it part of evolution. There are very few species that mate for life. Even those species are know to have a fling or two. That is also part of evolution. Tony said.
"Thanks Max for being a good sport!!"
Yeah. But do it in the corner hahaha. Just kidding Max. Chlo is right . Your a good guy.
"This also reinforces my idea that if you want to make someone happy. Make your self happy first. Not in some selfish way. That is just selfish. But in a way that is sound. Healthy. When you see some you love happy. The joy that you get is the best feeling possible."
How wonderful!
I was tickled by Craig's comment that he's "used to being ignored around here" because we rarely stay on his topic. I know he was joking, but one reason I stick around, even when merely lurking, is the fact that Craig takes on the "big topics" like World Peace, while allowing me to enjoy the "fun stuff" like birds, snakes, horses, gardens, poetry, history, and the other stuff of our fabulous culture. It also keeps me out of "managing" other peoples' problems over which I have no control, better helping me to "don't worry, be happy" for which I need all the help I can get. (^_~)
tony, sometimes (for finger food entertaining crowd) i'll fix my version of pigs in a blanket but call them "dilla delights" .... instead of biscuit dough wrapped around lil smokies, use pillsbury crescent triangles cut in half and roll them around the meat shaping them like armadillos. big hit, usually run out of those before the wings or shrimp disappear.
"I am always surprised at how developed children can be."
Solar, Do you think we're just noticing it more because we're older now (and oh sooooooo wise :), or do you think they're getting smarter.
I actually think it's because we do so much more with them now, and teach them so much younger. I never realized how open they are to stimulation and learning those first few months, and am having a lot of fun with it. Four months old, and Emma LOVES books, baby genius DVDs, animal, people, outdoors and nature -- and everything about it.
Thought for the day :
" Pale ink beats a good memory. "
1778 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel London England, English dandy
1940 Tom Jones Pontypridd Wales, singer (What's New Pussycat)
1958 Prince [Rodgers Nelson], rocker/actor (1999, Purple Rain)
1692 Porte Royale Jamaica slides into harbor after earthquake
1769 Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Kentucky
1912 US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
1924 George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775' from Everest's summit
1954 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)
1955 "The $64,000 Question" premiers on CBS TV
1955 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)
1967 2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors
1967 Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem
1969 Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash combine on a Grand Ole Opry TV special
1970 The Who's Tommy is performed at NY's Lincoln Center
1979 Rocker Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion
1981 Israel destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility
"This also reinforces my idea that if you want to make someone happy. Make your self happy first. Not in some selfish way. That is just selfish. But in a way that is sound. Healthy. When you see some you love happy. The joy that you get is the best feeling possible."
"How wonderful! " Ivy
I agree! Solar, Many (MANY!) years ago, I read a book called 'The Art of Selfishness'. And it's about very much the same thing that you're talking about. I don't think being good to yourself is being selfish at all. You have to treat yourself as well as you expect to be able to treat other people. And I think the feeling of 'gratitude' is what gives us that best feeling possible that you mentioned. Appreciation.
And thank you Tony and everyone here tolerating my rants. Yep, Bob that includes you as well as Jack, Sturg, Ping and Pogo. Pats and the rest as well.
I can't bounce these ideas off of conservatives (as some have said such nuance goes way over most of their heads) and it wouldn't matter either. When I go too long or step on too many feet, tell me.
WHAOOOOO, THAT IS GOING TO BE A BIG OVEN! Will be great to cook at family reunions and cookouts! Looking forward to seeing this one cooking! Keep up the videos, can't wait to see this!
solarcookingnut (28 minutes ago)
I built several large ovens, not as big as this, but still big enough to cook a whole meal in ONE oven. I always tell newbies to BUILD A BIG oven, this way, they won't be disappointed with having to build another one that is larger than the first. In my slantfaced oven, I can cook a meat, casserole, veggies, bread and dessert in ONE oven. i start with the meat first, then add the other pots in the order they will be done by dinner I stack them on top of the other pots using racks.
"I did not help that Chloe was talking all of the time. Could not make that gal pay attention to the race. I was to blame just as much. I kept talking about my horse Cheyenne. I think that this distracted our steed. He was listening to the point of distraction."
I knew you'd blame losing that race on me! That horse loves it when I talk. What went wrong in that race is all that extra weight you put on. I told you to eat light, but nooooooo. That horse could not carry all that extra weight.
All of it. But we as adults are taking more time for them. Than our parents took (most of them any way imo) for us.
We also never talk that goofy baby talk to them. The little girls are talked to like a person. They are given choices to make. Little ones and aske why they made them. We talk to them in both Spainis . English also. What I think is that by the younger ones being around the older ones (children) that also aske the why questions. Makes them respond to the question . This makes them more aware of everything. No matter how young. They respon well to all of this.
Good thoughts Solar.
You know, you said you were a quick learner, and I know you are. But still, it's amazing. Beautifully written Solar. Your posts have always been a pleasure to read, but still, I can't tell you the respect I have for you, the way you're always improving at 'everything'. That takes a special kind of person.
Solar, so you're quoting me now on the genetics of gayness? I will do as Chloe asked and avoid this conversation now (I do have a sensible rebuttal as I mentioned the evolutionary point first here), but thanks for the nice comment. If I thought you all had little merit and were mean, why would I torture you all? I will say only that I recognize the merit of your postion as well as my own. One observation: artificial wombs will one day radically alter the social equaltion. I would NEVER deny a gay couple the right to be married if one of them contributed to the genetics of their child. That would be rather silly, yes? And it goes against my advocacy for gay parents to be legally married. Complex......and another time, okay?
Bob, it IS facinating that the 6 Day war and the Israeli bombing of Saddam's plant happened at the same time of year. I guess we should be happy nothing has happened recently. If you remember, the NYT was quite pro Israel in their reporting. Lost was the later poor coverage of Reagan's pre-empting (stopping) the Indian/Israeli strike on Pakistan's infant nuclear facilities. Now the Taliban are a two hour drive from them.
Patd, you ARE the right people. Given the moderate witch hunt on the Right, there are not too many conservatives listening to centrist reasoning. You think most agree with the NYT on Obama's speech? Yes, some facts I post seem like conservatives would agree with some of my facts, but the sad truth is that the context they place these facts go deep into the gutter. What Democrats think is far more important to me at the moment...
Cheney probably thought Summer Bird was something he could shoot at.......
Grassley's first tweet: "Pres Obama you got nerve while u sightseeing in Paris to tell us 'time to deliver' on health care. We still on skedul/even workinWKEND."
poor chuckie, him gotta work on the weekend while bad ole barry gets to play in paris..... poor baby.
Chloe, then your guy must be the most open minded person in the world. As my girl is Indian, I can not say the same (sadly) for her, though that is largely a culural issue. She is cute as hell however......
Now when she saw my shaved head, what the hell was she thinking? I uess she was open minded enough..............
"One would think that pro abortion, gay advocates and anti-religionists would see the inevitable problems with giving all classes of people what they consider their "rights". They more than others should see the terrible oppression of women and children. "
You were right. I heard Carol the party queen all the way here in Ill.
Carol. Im happy that you r happy. Now can we get back to the river reports. The prehistoric beaver reports (ha like I believed that one) The great pic. Really liked that last on. The am one. Im a morining person. I like the beginning of things. A new day. I put that in my pic folder for background on my monitor. I like alternating themes.
Grassley is just pissed Obama is pushing a public plan and fast tracking it. This is just political gaming.
Deval poll numbers reflect the problem with Mass healthcare. What started out as a public plan to cover only the uninsured who can't afford it might get bigger and threaten the private system beyond healthy competition. With so many experiments going on, it might be wise to take some time and get bipartisan consensus. GOP feels the snubs and are doing the only thing they can do for some leverage.
So Sarcozy and Agrassley feel snubbed. I still can't get over that Bush joke with a billion Muslims and one dentist. Hving a night out in Paris doesn't seem in the same ballpark and how many vacations did Bush have? Perhaps he should have been reading his daily briefing instead......
It is a matter of time before Islamists here complain their rights are being violated. Seven Million are sure to have a subset bitching that their religious freedom is being marginalized. And that does not include those people who want two wives or a Muslim holiday. Does the left want religious garb in classrooms and not gang clothing? There is a long list of things certain classes say they have a right to. It is a slippery slope one cannot deny. There is a long history of our debating the line between rights and our cultrual values (the rights of majorities).
Of course we all know the people advocating for the rights of the unborn or the brain dead.
I could've missed this being posted by someone else, but did you see the image inside the Egyptian pyramid that the President spied during his guided tour? Too eerie or too funny, I can't decide...?
A series about ancient clashes that focuses on the military commanders and their tactics. The premiere episode explores Hannibal's daring attack on Rome during the Second Punic War in the 3rd century B.C.
Just thought about it. You said that "you burned 1000 calories". That is 333 and 1/3rd fat calories. You must be in good shape to do that. Plus the swimming. Plus the weights. I probably do the 333. But with the weights included.
"knew you'd blame losing that race on me! That horse loves it when I talk. What went wrong in that race is all that extra weight you put on. I told you to eat light, but nooooooo. That horse could not carry all that extra weight."
Another lesson that we can teach the young. We can teach them to accept it responsibility (when they are wrong). that it is always easy to put the blame on others. Then they can move on. The lesson would be that it does no one any good if we can't accept the facts. But that's ok. There will be other opportunity's. to teach them this later on.
There have already been several suits of this type with a variety of results. Some that come immediately to mind: The wearing of hajib both in other uniform places, schools, and driving licenses. The wearing of a turban when other head gear is normally required. Children wearing of the little ceremonial dagger worn by Sikhs. Side curls, yarmulkas ... you name it there are scads of voluntary and mandatory garments worm by members of minority religions.
I trust our courts to come to an accomodation that protects the majority while upholding the rights of the minority.
Yep Solar, You're right.
Facts are what they are -- They need to know that from the beginning. We mustn't forget that a lot of what they learn is from imitation too. So we need to always keep that in mind as we're interacting with and reacting to them, and others (in front of them). Most of the really important things they learn are the things they see over and over again, day after day.
Ivy
I love the frosting.I miss baking cakes for the ladies .The four years my mom was on chemo i baked cakes all the time.I kept the two refrigerators filled will every kind of goodies and food you could imagine all in an effort to entice my mom to eat....My grandmother also loved sweets and at 94 its was almost all i could get her to eat.....
Hey Solar
1000 calories is what the Stair Stepper says I burn.I don't know how accurate it is though but its all good..I can remember 10 years ago when I started out with the stepper I could only do 5 minutes on level 1.I now do and hour on level 10.I can do more cardio but if I do I have to cut back on the Nautilus weight machines which I don't to to excess as I'm just trying to maintain..
I know it's just a matter of perception (but then, what isn't?) but everytime one of you talks about dillo's, my mind changes that second 'l' to a 'd'. Just saying.
"In its first report to Congress, the Wartime Contracting Commission presents a bleak assessment of how tens of billions of dollars have been spent since 2001. The 111-page report, obtained by The Associated Press, documents poor management, weak oversight, and a failure to learn from past mistakes as recurring themes in wartime contracting.
The theater nut is burbling watching the Tony arrivals - Bebe Neuwirth will be bringing the Addams family to Broadway next year. Brush up on your French. She will be a great Morticia.
Amstel is my next choice when they don't have coors.
(Sometimes those shi-shi places won't have coors lite cause even they can't bring themselves to charge more than $8 for it I think. And on the cheaper end - Keystone Light is a good option).
You think we have problems with our right wing.... The day after the anniversary of D-Day, the British Parliament has gained two possibly three members (still counting votes) of the British Nazi Party.
Of course they are protesting Pakistanis and Indians but the noises are the same.
No more of that. Who? little o'le me stuff from U. No more of getting fooled by that sweet just saying. Saying. Last weeks joke. Now this one. Like Tony says . You funny.
I know what happened to you! You are hanging around that Cajun women. She is a bad influence . What with all those late night fiestas and all. The crowd that she hangs with. One would think that they were some kind of chain gang or something?
Sturg
I feel bad about not putting up the whole information on that. Those shows are always on the history or the history int. MY bad! I hope that you managed to find it on time. Like I said it is also on tonight at 11 pm my time. Record it if too late so you can watch later on.
I think my posts reflect a ton of information and perspectives I have gathered from our little cyber cafe/tavern/meeting place (filtered through my own unique point of view ; )
I wonder when someone is going to point out the blatant contradiction the GOP makes everytime they make the case against Sotomayor.
First, they will rail against the use of "empathy" and argue that she is an "activist judge" who thinks appellate courts are where "policy is made."
In the next breath, they say she got the Ricci case wrong - making an empathetic case for the firefighters, stating that she was wrong without mentioning a bit of law - and say that the court should have stepped in and actively reversed a decision of the local government on the basis of what is "just" - rather than what the law says.
My Visit To Hell
by
Christopher Buckley.....excerpt of article on Daily Beast.....about a trip he made to auschwitz with his dad ten years ago.
More exhibits. The Nazis kept such meticulous records, which in the end only meant that there was a vast amount to destroy as the Red Army approached in January 1945. Every death—murder—was written down. Jarek points to a photocopy of a ledger that survived. “The reason given was never ‘bullet’ or ‘gas,’ but instead ‘heart attack’ or ‘kidney function’.” Deaths are listed in intervals of minutes.
In the next case are photocopies of transit passes for the trucks that brought the cannisters of Zyklon B pellets. The contents are listed as “material for the displacement of Jews.” Here are the minutes from the Wannsee Conference outside Berlin on January 20, 1942, the meeting of the board of directors of the corporation in charge of the Final Solution. These are free of euphemism. One page shows the goal: a column of numbers, country-by-country tallies, with a bottom line of 11 million.
Up a flight of stairs, around a corner. No more paperwork. Now it gets personal: two tons of human hair behind glass. Mounds on mounds, amorphous and hard to take in at first, until you focus and see the pigtails and braids. Jarek remarks that they were going to send some of this to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, but in the end it was declined as “too much.” The hair was shorn after the gassings, then efficiently dried in the crematoria so it could be industrially spun into carpeting.
Here is a large pile of spectacles, a spidery mass of rusted wire-frames and dusty lenses. These were left with the clothing in the dressing rooms, so the last things seen through these glasses would have been nervous kapos and Death’s-Head guards.
Behind another wall of glass is a jumble of rusted artificial limbs, canes, crutches, braces. Like the hair, it blurs into abstraction until the eye settles on a child’s fake leg. Now it’s into another room and the suitcases, piles and piles of shriveled leather suitcases. They wrote their names on them in large white letters. Jarek points out the word “orphan” in Dutch. Hundreds of names. I write down one: PETR EISLER 1942 KIND. The year of his birth and his child—kinder—status. In the next room comes the display of children’s clothing, pacifiers, rattles, hairbrushes. Then the shoes, a mountain. Finally the empty canisters of Zyklon B, perhaps a hundred or more, in a pile. By to the calculations of Rudolph Hoss, Auschwitz’s first commandant, it required seven kilos of Zyklon to murder—not the word he used—1,500 people, so this pile here might have sufficed for perhaps 75,000 or 100,000 human beings. It appears from the tops that they refined the process of opening the cans. Some are jagged, others have been smoothly cut, as if in one motion by a machine. Across from this display is a clay diorama of a gas chamber in action. Once everyone was inside, between 700 and 1,500, depending on which of the five gas chambers it was, the doors and windows were sealed tight. The bluish pellets of diatomite soaked in hydrocyanic acid were poured through chutes. Exposed to oxygen, the pellets gave off prussic acid, blocking the exchange of oxygen in the blood. Those close to the chutes died instantly, the ones farther away took longer. Hoss watched one gassing through a peephole. In his Reminiscences before he was hanged in 1947, he describes clinically that it took two or more minutes before the screams turned to moans. Still they didn’t open the doors for half an hour, just in case. After that it was safe for the Sonderkommando, the prisoner work crews, to wade into the tangle of bodies, vomit, and excrement to get the hair and the gold teeth and drag the bodies next door to the crematorium. The work paid well and was competed for: one-fifth liter of vodka, five cigarettes, 100 grams of sausage for each job.
Incredible Sturg, isn't it? I guess that's one reason Hitchens defaced the NeoNazi Syrian poster in Lebanon. He knows full well how that turns out. Where he was roughed up and escaped with his life some of the worst sort of this hatred incorporates itself into landscape. In some Lebanese towns it rules as leathered thugs funded by extortion and enablers.
Tonight, the Lebanese voted for Liberty and handed Ahmadinejad a bitter loss. On Thursday Fatah defeated a coup by Hamas in the West Bank. Obama didn't mention that in his speech.
The next few weeks see if Ahmadinejad is desperate enough to green light a military coup in Lebanon. Seems things are pretty tense in Iran. Ahmadinejad invested heavility in Lebanon and has tried to derail the peace process in Gaza. They have sought power in Iraq and shipped tractors and materials to Hugo. Ahmadinejad's opponents are going to paint this loss in Lebanon as his strategic failure after he poured billions into weapons research and isolated his country. Perhaps this History Denier might be defeated.
I would change that likely I told Rez to probable as some in the Iranian Resistance still think many Iranians will forgo voting in protest. It appears the other candidates are about as bad as Ahmadinejad.
Obama's speech was not something that McCain could have delivered or even conceived of but there is a secret. Obama used the opportunity created by the plot by HIzb'Allah, The Brotherhood and Quds to topple the Egyptian government. Egypt has come close to calling it war. It was revealed the Hariri murder is on their hands too. Egyptians were then the best Muslim audience to recognize Muslim genicide to their West and Iranian threats to their East. They had their President murdered over peace with Israel. The timing in this interesting chain of recent events was gift that Obama played perfectly into the Lebanese election and now Iranian elections. He can cement a better military alliance with Lebanon's army and get the Turks on boards with the Egyptians and Jordanians....
ScienceDaily (June 5, 2009) — Are you someone who squirms when confronted with slime, shudders at stickiness or gets grossed out by gore? Do crawly insects make you cringe or dead bodies make you blanch?
If so, chances are you're more conservative -- politically, and especially in your attitudes toward gays and lesbians -- than your less-squeamish counterparts, according to two Cornell studies.
I can't believe I'm the only one who had that 'trouble'
with the dillos. I knew I was bad, but gee whiz....I was relling the truth, however, the word did keep popping up in my vision.
As for the babies and little kids, I think was pay more attention because we have more time, and that attention plus all the new gadgets we have today for them to play with is just socializing them more. I know Alex played tricks on us at 3 months and at 4 months invented the game of peek-a-.boo - he laughed at us when our jaws dropped because we never taught him that. He's still playing jokes on us much more so than the others. So believe it when your little ones do spectacular things!
Look Bethy, the boys have been dangling that little dillos words in front of us girls for a couple of days now waiting for one of us to get it wrong. Have you ever heard of a dillo? No.
I will have to admit the first time it almost threw me too. But you have to be careful the meat you throw these guys. Understand. You just got caught here.
I went to bed too early and this is what happens, I wake up in the early, early morning.
Yep in all the years I have been dealing with armadillos Bethy no one has ever called them dillos before, at least around here. And who started using this word first? Hmmmm. A little word search and it comes up Solar. The king of the bad boys. You gotta watch him Bethy. I rest my case.
Hey Patsi, that little dysfunction is called a priapism.
And 48 hours is way too long. Hell, on TV they say "consult your physician for erections lasting more than 4 hours" when taking Cialis. I think even 4 hours maybe a little long, especially in prison because we prefer they don't really use it there, that is the erection, they definitely don't use Cialis.
"The prehistoric beaver reports (ha like I believed that one) "
Laugh if you must Solar but I was talking to my neighbor about the beavs and he said someone was driving down the road here the other night and almost hit this huge beaver. Never seen one that big. He said it was so big that if he hit it, it would have wrecked his vehicle. I thought, yep, it's the giant beaver after all. Still watching.
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the corn's not as high as an elephant's thigh
cause a wascally wabbit came munching by
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp5HCDGJsvM&feature=related
Posted by: patd
| June 6, 2009 6:23 AM
Hey Pat, you musta had that one waiting. Good job. And to throw in the poetry so early in the morning. You are doing really well for a Saturday morning.
Posted by: ct
| June 6, 2009 6:43 AM
Pat, your not saying you also have a wascally wabbit are ya? I can help. Chicken wire, that's the ticket.
I stepped outside and saw the most beautiful beginning of the sunrise. I went for the camera and no camera. Panic!. I finally found it. I left it in my truck. Whew! The sky had changed somewhat but still beautiful.
What do they say, red sky in morning.....?Nah, it's suppose to be beautiful today. A beautiful day for a party. check out this sky.
http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu286/cithorn/100_0227.jpg
Posted by: ct
| June 6, 2009 7:06 AM
Sky's all back to normal now. It was just a little gift for me this morning. God also wanted me to find my camera.
Flatus, don't try to pretend you aren't up yet. I know better.
Posted by: ct
| June 6, 2009 7:10 AM
I think I'm ready for the party. All that's left is to shave my legs. Oh, and do all the meat. I have brisket, it's cooked, just have to heat it up and drown it in Carol's kick ass BBQ sauce that simmered all day yesterday.
Then I'm gonna smoke 4 chickens on the smoker and BBQ 2 on the pit, and where am I going to do all that sausage? Somewhere. Move over chickies.
I think all my peeps at work are on this diet. I hope they take today off because I don't like leftovers.
Posted by: ct
| June 6, 2009 7:15 AM
Anyone want to come to my party? Chloe I think it's only a 3 hour drive for you. I'm sure some of my other peeps are going to drag other people here.
The nurse I worked with who invited a friend who invited a friend who brought a friend who brought along that convict is coming today. I told her I would appreciate if she would run "Wants and Warrants" on her invites today. Remember that?
It was a little joke but I'm not sure she found it funny.
Posted by: ct
| June 6, 2009 7:25 AM
OK, what's up? I'm not going to sit here and talk to myself this morning. I do enough of that as it is.
Posted by: ct
| June 6, 2009 7:35 AM
ct,
Thanks for the sunrise. I'm here with you, just don't have anything worthwhile to say.
Posted by: EdVB
| June 6, 2009 7:41 AM
Oh and for the video you put up this morning Craig....Obama shouldn't have mentioned that the war in Iraq was a war of choice. No one has figured that out yet. Shhhh. And Shuster, saying that Obama's speech "electrified many in the middle East", not a great choice of words. Brings back some bad memories. Abu Ghraib for one.
Posted by: ct
| June 6, 2009 7:47 AM
And Craig, you looked good as usual. I liked your little shinner story. I tell my shinners and my worms when I put them one the hook that they waited their entire lives for this moment. They had a purpose driven life and the time is now, go get um.
Posted by: ct
| June 6, 2009 7:58 AM
Carol, have a great party!!
Stinky sends the leftovers home with the guests leaving a single meal for us. That makes 'kitchen management' much less complicated.
Don't forget post time is 6:27 Eastern. And you have to be a little early because we have to get you seated and strapped in the racing sulky. Calvin's been working all week trying to turn the Bird into a pacer just, and only just, for this race. Hold on if he starts galloping!
See you at the track; bring your guests!
Posted by: Flatus
| June 6, 2009 8:00 AM
What happened to Repug remonstrations on talking foreign policy while the Prez is overseas?
Posted by: Flatus
| June 6, 2009 8:01 AM
And who do the Republicans think they are talking to?? Don't they know that if a person is watching the news they already know what's going on. Someone who might fall for their poop is sitting in a bar somewhere or watching soap operas and isn't interested.
Posted by: ct
| June 6, 2009 8:08 AM
flatus, you expect consistency? from hobgoblins?
Posted by: patd
| June 6, 2009 8:08 AM
carol, re your little fishies... but beware, this video is hypnotic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wf6FfjZyXk&feature=related
Posted by: patd
| June 6, 2009 8:10 AM
after reading last night's discussions on discourse, i wondered which would be more desirable: to be barely multi-lingual but be able to understand and be understood or to be exceptionally articulate in only one language.
my druthers is the former, but then that's probably the dilettante in me speaking. more fun being the jack/jill of all trades than master/mistress of none philosophy.
Posted by: patd
| June 6, 2009 8:23 AM
Good one Pat and for viewing later this evening...Jamie might get a kick outta this one....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFNY0fLwS4o
Posted by: ct
| June 6, 2009 8:28 AM
good to hear from oldsea even if it were just a brief encounter...
hey, osh, slow down, enjoy the journey.
maybe we should all chip in and place a bet for her on chocolate candy on the nose. at least she'll be with us in spirit.
Posted by: patd
| June 6, 2009 8:34 AM
sorry, got that jack of all trades, master of none all wrong... but you knew what i meant .... i hope.
Posted by: patd
| June 6, 2009 8:42 AM
craig, the shuse called you brilliant in his intro. guess he's not as clueless as first tho't.
my apologies, shuse old man, if your on the trail today.
Posted by: patd
| June 6, 2009 8:46 AM
Belmont Pick
Jamie,
When you get here, please put me on Mr. Hot Stuff. I love Calvin, but I also like Edgar Prado, so I'll make him my hunch bet for today.
Anyone interested in exotic wagering, I heard a bartender friend of mine lay out this plan last night. He's playing superfectas, or whatever they call getting the right order on the first four finishers and taking Charitable Man to win, Mine That Bird for third and all the other horses for second and fourth. Says it will cost him $56.
Now that I think of it, if he has that kind of money to throw around, why do I bother tipping him for reaching in a cooler and pulling the cap off a bottle of Coors Light?
Have a good day all.
Posted by: EdVB
| June 6, 2009 8:55 AM
ed, good choice of beer. however, questionably pc by some.
did you see warren's comment last night "I like Coors Light. Goes down like water - and I don't drink to get a buzz"?
another good light guzzle (and preferable imo) is amstel light. something seems changed about coors lately ... maybe the pure spring rocky mountain sparkling waters have sprung their sparkle.
Posted by: patd
| June 6, 2009 9:13 AM
the GOP has become a party of fartistes
Posted by: Katherine Graham Cracker
| June 6, 2009 9:17 AM
One of the commentators on the D Day activities just said that there was a "deception" that meant ten panzer divisions were committed too late by Germany
For those who don't know about Montegu and Operation Mincemeat, there is a somewhat ficitionalized movie version that I watch about this time each year: The Man Who Never Was starring Montgomery Clift as Montegue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat
The possible identity of The Man Who Never Was did not become known until the late 1990s and Montegu has never identified which of two proposed men is the correct one.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 9:19 AM
Carol -- this party is a "shave-your-legs" party???? Wow.
Posted by: Patsi
| June 6, 2009 9:20 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-233844
LOL Cats is always good for a laugh. I try not to go to often. There are thousands of pictures and you can get stuck laughing hysterically.
http://icanhascheezburger.com/
This is the one I submitted of my kittys
http://cheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=3660357
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 9:30 AM
This has a familiar ring to it. Reminds me of Jimmy Carter's unwanted meddling in Haiti during the Clinton years.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.32cde4b38d55ae6af28266bb31a7221e.e11&show_article=1
Posted by: TruthinReality
| June 6, 2009 9:30 AM
http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu286/cithorn/100_0227.jpg
Another unbelievably gorgeous picture Carol! Thanks for sharing your morning 'gift' with the rest of us.
I sure wish I could make that 3 hour drive, but I'm buried in obligations. Do expect lots of pictures though, and a complete report! I'm going to have to make a section on my photo bucket to store a few of my friend Carol's photos (with her permission, that is). :)
Secretary Clinton on Sunday TV, finally!
"Finally, Secretary Clinton will be interviewed on a Sunday TV show. This Sunday, June 7, she'll appear on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. It'll be her first Sunday show interview as secretary of state and her first Sunday show since she ended her presidential campaign almost exactly a year ago."
http://hillary.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/06/05/secretary_clinton_on_sunday_tv_finally
Posted by: chloe
| June 6, 2009 9:30 AM
Patsi,
what was that blond singer's name that had an album called "I Shaved My Legs For This?" Had the hit on "Strawberry Wine" before. Drawing a blank. I always thought that Shaved My Legs was a funny title and showed great personality on her part even tho she probably had no input.
Posted by: yo soy Horsedooty!
| June 6, 2009 9:33 AM
To comment on Craig's subject. This is just one more example of what I call, "What Is Wrong With These People?".
How can one whole branch of the political spectrum be so totally tone deaf that they simply don't realize how their words sound. Have they spent so many years hating and being angry about everything, that they are incapable of anything else. If that requires lying and attempting to sabotage a president they dislike or taking actions that will injure the country, well that is just too bad if it will put them back in power.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 9:34 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-233859
Jamie, Those pictures you linked are a trip. I don't know how people catch shots like that.
And yours is great! What beautiful cats. It's so nice when they can stay close like that when they get older. Some of them can't.
Posted by: chloe
| June 6, 2009 9:37 AM
Patsi,
I remembered her name. Deana Carter daughter of the great Fred Carter Jr (Nashville guitar playing great) Sort of a One Hit Wonder I think, Too bad.
Posted by: yo soy Horsedooty!
| June 6, 2009 9:42 AM
Doots -- that was Deana Carter...she wrote the song "Did I Shave My Legs For This" -- and is a VERY smart and funny lady. Her father is ace guitarist Fred Carter.
Posted by: Patsi
| June 6, 2009 9:43 AM
Okay Ed. I've got you. Those exotics are where the money is made. Mine that Bird in the Kentucky Derby paid 50 to 1 to win but at the top to the exotics.
With Pioneer Of The Nile second , Musket Man third, and Papa Clem Fourth, it sparked some eye popping exotic payoffs such as a $ 2,074.80 exacta,a $ 41,500.60 trifecta, and an unheard of $ 557,006.40 superfecta.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 9:43 AM
Here are the entries so far if anyone else wants in
1 Chocolate Candy Garrett Gomez
2 patd, Jamie Dunkirk Rene Velazquez
3 edVb Mr. Hot Stuff Edgar Prado
4 Renee, Ivy Summer Bird Kent Desormeaux
5 Luv Gov Miguel Mena
6 Solar, Chloe Charitable Man Alan Garcia
7 Flatus, BW, Carol Mine That Bird Calvin Borel
8 Flying Private Julien Leparoux
9 Rezdog Miner's Escape Jose Lezcano
10 Brave Victory Rajiv Maragh
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 9:44 AM
HA -- Doots we were channeling each other. Yes -- Deana had some hits...and sold FIVE million copies of that Cd -- but never was able to follow it up. I hated that because she is such a cool lady. Another very cool artist that should have done more was a woman named Jann Brown. If I can find my fav or hers, Mexican Wind...I'll post it.
Posted by: Patsi
| June 6, 2009 9:46 AM
Jann Browne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2F3G2WMzs
Posted by: Patsi
| June 6, 2009 9:49 AM
I actually did something for Newt Gingrich today not that I expect a thank you note. He wanted everyone to recite FDR's prayer from D Day. I settled for putting it on my blog simply because I like the history and also put in some links to Operation Jedburgh, another little side note that made D Day a success. It is unique because there were women among the paratroopers deposited behind enemy lines
http://jdurward.blogspot.com
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 9:51 AM
GOP Misfires? Watching them the last 10 years or so, you have to come to the conclusion that they just don't learn from their mistakes.
Craig, I loved your fish story. What a great example of redefining definitions of the difference of what's happening and our perception of it.
Posted by: chloe
| June 6, 2009 9:52 AM
Jamie, Tony said he ride Charitable with Solar and me. Can you add him?
Posted by: chloe
| June 6, 2009 9:54 AM
I do not believe I typed Mongomery Clift instead of Clifton Webb as the star of The Man Who Never Was.
Temporary brain fritz
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 9:57 AM
I don't know of Jann Brown, Patsi. I liked the song Mexican Wind. I think it is at least twice as hard for a woman to "make it" in Nashville as a man.
Posted by: yo soy Horsedooty!
| June 6, 2009 10:01 AM
Yes, Doots -- it'sdifficult. And the window of opportunity is smallbecause age makes a difference. I remember once Lacy J Dalton saying that she'd like things better if she could have as many wrinkles as Willie and still get airplay. That was way back in the '80s.
Posted by: Patsi
| June 6, 2009 10:08 AM
Craig. Nice threads (cloths).
You say that we ignore commenting on the subject of the thread. three comments of your interview with Shyster.
1st. Thanks for telling him that the party out of power seems like they want the party in power to fail. That is what I believe. They just take turns at it. I can't understand it. Should this not be very clear by now. So that there are more and more center of the road politicians elected. I feel that would be better for the country as a whole.
2nd. About Israel. You said it just right. There are more Jewish people that want peace. They also want a two part state. There are also (it seems to me) more Jewish reporters that say the same things. That goes for Islamic's also.
3rd. this one not related to the interview. I can't seem to remember you ever being on CNN. Is there something in your MSNBC contract that keeps you from appearing on just the one?. I know that I have seen other pundits on more than one station.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 6, 2009 10:20 AM
Chloe, thanks for the heads-up on Clinton being on Stephanapoulus' program. He's seems to be the best of the bunch now.
Posted by: Flatus
| June 6, 2009 10:23 AM
Good morning Solar. Beautiful post.
I don't know why I didn't pick up on that thing about the party out of power wanting the party in power to fail in his interview. Of course, we've all witnessed that many times, but when you point it out, it's pathetic. Thanks.
Posted by: chloe
| June 6, 2009 10:25 AM
"All that's left is to shave my legs."
Pic please.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 6, 2009 10:26 AM
I agree about Stephanapoulus Flatus. I'll actually turn on the TV for that interview.
Posted by: chloe
| June 6, 2009 10:27 AM
Well, we're taking a baby bird to the Wild Life Center now (the second one this week). See you all later.
Posted by: chloe
| June 6, 2009 10:29 AM
Solar,
I noticed only this morning that you left a post for me last night after I had gone.
Of course you're invited to the crawfish boil. And, you are most welcome. We'll have jambalaya, crawfish, zydeco, and a pirogue filled with cold beer.
Posted by: cajunjoe.pip.verisignlabs.com
| June 6, 2009 10:38 AM
aaaahhhh..... Rick is back home...
Craig.... thanks for posting your appearance from last night....
yup... I like Shuster interviewing you too.... and not only do the little fish like to be hooked.... but the big fish they attract like it too..... :)
cats.... what can I say... my baby the runt... Peanut .... has been playing with flowers lately.... came downstairs this morning to find the flowers I bought a couple days ago strewn all over my table and floor.... little bitch...
Carol.... hope your party goes great!.... but if I have to shave my legs I'm not comin'.....
EdVB... long time no see.... I told ya not to count the Yankees out so early in the season.... next week should be an interesting match-up...
GO RED SOX!!
KGC.... fartistes.... ROFL!
Posted by: RebelliousRenee
| June 6, 2009 10:39 AM
Chloe
Morning. Morning to all. So The Tony Baloney wants to ride with us. Has he paid one third of the entrance fee?. Get it up front. Before he spends the dough on his Dillos.
I have to go and cut my neighbor grass and edge it before it rains. It's is going to rain in a little while. I will be back in plenty of time for the race. My hands are a little shaky. Im a little nervous but that's just a little starting gate nerves I always get. But are we ready to RUMBLE ?.
Thanks C. J.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 6, 2009 10:41 AM
Strident Democrat backing pundits displaying their sincere concern over the Republican's destiny. Almost brings a tear to one's eye.
Posted by: TruthinReality
| June 6, 2009 10:43 AM
Good morning all. I note some remarks from last night and this morning. While I gave Obama a high grade in his speech, I did so because of the obvious nature of Obama's mission. The speech was immediately denounced by AQ, HIzb'Allah, Iran's relgious leader and various other terrorist leaders.
It would be wrong however to group all objections into one GOP and call it partisan. The following is not a partisan advocate and had strong words against Bush's invasion of Iraq.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/15_hard_questions_about_the_ca.html
And while he speaks from a conservative venue at American Thinker where half of my posts are rejected due to the shots I take at their writers, one cannot discount the many points where Obama fails the "fact" test. To point one item out; Iran calls most shots for Hizb'Allah and Hamas making an agreement between Palestinians and Israelis, something Solar ignores.
I would suggest that a Party that cheerleads itself past serious policy questions runs the risk of unintended consequence. Just look at the GOP.
The blood lost at Normandy had alot to do with the failure of the West to understand its policy towards Germany. Had FDR been listening to KOs or Huffington the outcome could have been frightening and
I am glad to see that Obama is leaning a bit center these last few weeks. A big test will come when NK tries to ship illegal arms or if HIzb'Allah wins in Lebanon. So far we have seen just words.........but they do have a role organizing others for the struggles to come.
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 10:48 AM
It is fun to watch the MSM machine react to one individual comment and apply it to the GOP.
So funny
Posted by: Ping Pong
| June 6, 2009 10:49 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-233890
Tir
You're right. We should just let the hate filled, race baiting, won't be missed when their gone asses do themselves in.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 10:56 AM
Jamie, as the record shows, Sotomayor used her wise women speech since 1994. Had the GOP done that, Oberman would be salivating. And have you noted the State Secret defense over at SCOTUS?
All I will add is that in 2002, pundits were writing the obit of the Democratic Party. Democrats ought wonder about the rationality of doing the same. Obama is on ice as far as foreign policy and unemployment is going up not down. Our manufacturing is being hollowed out on Obama's watch. There are so many trip wires, Obama has already shifted to center a bit.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones despite their neighbors houses of glass lying in piles of shards.
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 11:15 AM
Max
I'm not talking about ALL Republicans. I'm talking about that branch that seems to have taken the party prisoner. They represent every prejudice that has ever brought shame to this country and the sooner they crawl back into their caves and pull the rocks in after them, the better off this country will be.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 11:20 AM
Ree is quite right and as I said yesterday, I could blast several large holes in Obama's speech. Now there is talk about the nasty Republicans bringing up objections in an effort to vilify all who object. Is that fair and balanced?
Yes, I understand what Obama was trying to do in his good will gesture, but words do matter. Although I give him a good grade, his speech does leave open the administration to counters of confused ideas and poor historical understanding. No, Obama did not mention the Muslim intolerance that ejected Jews from North Africa and the Middle East before and after the establishment of Israel. Nor did Obama mention that more than amillion Muslims are Israeli citizens who enjoy more rights than Muslims in MUslim countries. How can you leave out such a fact. Muslims far better in ISrael than Egypt.
I can understand why a more factual speech would not have gone over well, but Obama must worry that were he to continue this slanted look at things in an effort to win support from Muslims, the intellectual basis for progress in a debate from both moderate sides will be obstructed by incorrect facts and a US policy Americans did not vote for.
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 11:33 AM
Jamie, if you're talking about the Rush crowd, I agree. It is easy however to link most GOP to him and the other midless pundits.
I note your clarification.
Thanks
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 11:34 AM
As most of you know by now, my brain is set on permanent free association. Today it while deciding what to write about the word "shine", it led to a remarkable musical discovery that I'm sure all the musicians here already know, but for me it was "How long has this been going on?" ... Ry Cooder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6efQ_GyQW3o
Up above it was asked would you rather be minimally multi lingual or an expert in a single language. There is another choice people make. Would you rather know a little bit about darn near everything or be a complete expert in one thing?
I have an enormous respect for experts and people who devote their lives to knowing everything than can know about one field. I went the other way in order to talk to them, and just in case you are at all curious how I got to Ry Cooder:
Manic Monday prompt word: Shine
Casablanca - Dooley Wilson
That's Why They Call Me Shine
Usually cut because of racial stereotypes
1910 song by Cecil Mack
Performed by George Walker
Last recorded by Ry Cooder
Not available on You Tube
Now I have to buy some Ry Cooder DVDs
And THAT is the edited list of topics that went whizzing by.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 11:39 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-233896
Max, About Sotomayor's "wise woman" remark, I don't think it enters into her judicial acts at all, but as I told a friend, if you ask any woman of a "certain age" if they think they are wiser than the majority of men they know, you would get an almost universal agreement that they were.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 11:44 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-233900
Max,
Yes they were the target. The Freepers, the Evangelical wackos, the If Rush or O'Reilly says it, it is gospel and everyone who signs up to receive emails that start: HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 11:50 AM
Max.. Good points
The focus on the few by the MSM and Dems to define the Republican party will be short lived.
And the bandwagon jumping by the many to proclaim Rush and Shawn the leaders is also some what funny and for some that I would expect better - a disappointment. Colors do show
Posted by: Ping Pong
| June 6, 2009 11:50 AM
Max...
Remember that I dislike both party's....the R's more so than the D's.
I often compare what is going on with the two party's with construction. I have had to go and repair very poor workmanship of another contractor. The price that I charge Depends on the damage that they have done to that house. Some have done extensive damage. Some minor damage.
At that point. The only one that is really really suffering is the poor homeowner that wants to live in their new house. I always feel sorry for the home owner. Not the goof ball that caused all of the damage.
The contractor that did the damage ( almost all of them) never admit fault. They continue to deny any relief to the homeowner. So I have too....by giving them an honest price...do the work...do it right...and get them into their house a fast as possible.
All of this time...I know that the other contractor is waiting for me to F- up. They still don't have any remorse. They still don't have any empathy for the homeless home owner.
This is how I see your Republican party. They did the worst job in history...they still don't care about the country as a whole...they want the D's to fail.
The people in the middle...the Independents want both of them to succeed....but know that they won't...because all that they want is the power that comes from the large Corps...so they give into the lobby's that (the corps reps) bribe them....all of them...take a good look at the ones that have been there for a long time. They have capitulated...with the condition that they become RICH!!
They now seem to say that it's my turn to make the big $...Stop defending the R's...start pushing for the middle of the road politicians. Today there is no doubt im my mind...that you have strong republican leanings,,,,could this be your need for Israel to go and bomb Iran?.
Have u joined the R's because of this...just like J. Lieberman did. I believe this is why he really ran as an independent. I have always voted third party...always will...I also want people like Chuck Haggle...a man of principle that is in the middle...to run for office again...he will have my vote any time he wants it...for any office he wants.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 6, 2009 11:57 AM
Solar, Your statement is extreme and significantly out of balance.
True Republican values have not been in play for a long period. The house cleaning of 2006 is the pivot point and in fact non Republican fiscal policy was in play long before.
You are falling to the messaging of the few picked up by the many in the MSM which was driven by the hate of one G. Bush.
Posted by: Ping Pong
| June 6, 2009 12:05 PM
James Inhofe vs. Ted Stevens in a "Curmudgeon-Off"... who wins?
Chuck Grassley vs. "Kid" Tancredo on the under-card.
Posted by: dark-lord-bloggingham.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 12:13 PM
Ping
I took some time to think about that post. There are a lot of good honest Republicans. There are a lot of Greedy Dem's in office also...they all they do is to thing of how to line their own wallets.
What I said. goes for the lot of them. We need to stop defending our own tribe. Our own team...just for the sake of winning. I wish that Rand Paul was running for my district...I would vote for him...he is a Republican looking to do the right thing.
Ping...I make those statements...knowing that Bush...before he left office...(and the d's in congress) did nothing for the people that were losing their homes..they are out on the street now...more will be.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 6, 2009 12:14 PM
Lookin' good, Solar. You're going to win a f-----g Pulitzer after I'm done with you.
Get rid of those ellipses (...), though. You don't need 'em.
Posted by: dark-lord-bloggingham.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 12:19 PM
Agreed Dark. Although a Pulitzer may be a stretch :-)
I like my ellipses. . .
Posted by: Rezdog
| June 6, 2009 12:26 PM
Ted Stevens is the Manny Pacquiao of the curmudgeon circuit... the greatest pound-for-pound curmudgeon in the world!
Posted by: dark-lord-bloggingham.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 12:30 PM
I can just see it now. I would like to thank all of the little people that got me where I am today. If only I could remember thier names.
I would like to thank my hoss. Cheyenne. a good hoss that,,,,,,,,,.,brought me here,,,,oops,,,,gonna slide every now and then.ahaha
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 6, 2009 12:31 PM
George Straight is opening the new Cowboys Football Stadium today around 5:30 pm. Traffic is supposed to be a night mare. The hiways all around the stadium are torn up building more lanes and exits. My wife works about ten blocks from the stadium and my son works about a mile from the stadium. He has to be at work about 2 hours early to beat the traffic and the wife is getting off work about the time the traffic gets to its peak today. All in all, I get to mow the grass.
Posted by: yo soy Horsedooty!
| June 6, 2009 12:32 PM
I'll take Jim "the Mountain" Inhofe.
Posted by: Rezdog
| June 6, 2009 12:32 PM
Put Rez down for Jimmy Rock, Jamie.
Posted by: dark-lord-bloggingham.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 12:33 PM
Prime Minister Brown said "Obama Beach" instead of "Omaha Beach". I thought I had misheard it and then just saw a tweet from George Stephanopoulis about it. That will go over like a lead balloon in Britain and Brown is already in trouble.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 12:35 PM
"KGC.... fartistes.... ROFL!"
Renee, Katherine, I chose to ignore the word in the original post. But, Renee, by bringing it up again, you must know that I'm offended that you would make fun of the Fartiste branch of the Ohlfahrt family.
Although they tend to blow hard and long, they are still human beings.
Posted by: Flatus
| June 6, 2009 12:39 PM
Jame Mountain Inhofe. I got to support my homie.
Worst Mayor, State Rep& Sen, US Sen in the game.
Who else could get into big biz with Daddy's money, run it into the ground, then become a politician? Hummm
Posted by: Rezdog
| June 6, 2009 12:43 PM
As if you couldn't tell already, my money is on Ted "the Tubes" anyday.
"24-inch tubes, brutha! Whatcha gonna do?"
Posted by: dark-lord-bloggingham.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 12:46 PM
Hell, nothing scared to ole Inhofe. He beat his own family up over the collapse of their daddy's business. I think Donald Segretti learned a few tricks from Mountain. Get your boy out of the ring when he goes down cause Mountain will kick him.
Posted by: Rezdog
| June 6, 2009 1:00 PM
Funny think on Sotomayor, my brain surgeon, a male, says female brains are superior to males. In marketing we learn that women get subtle symbology in advertising that men don't.
So technically speaking, Sotomayor may be right.
Ree, we embrace Israel as a Jewish state, why can't we embrace Islam? Mohammed is actually pictured in some sort of carving in the Supreme Court. Of course, they won't let you take photos of it.
It's not the Israeli's I worry about screwing up a peace initiative, it's the second coming socially conservative Christians.
i wish they were more peaceful like the buddhists and Hindus. There, did I leave anyone out?
Posted by: don1one
| June 6, 2009 1:01 PM
yes, don, you left out "the people" (aka n.a.)
"the GOP has become a party of fartistes"
kgc nominated for comment du jour
Posted by: patd
| June 6, 2009 1:07 PM
I would say that Inhofe is as dumb as a box of rocks, but that would be an insult to geology everywhere.
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 6, 2009 1:08 PM
Ping.... your 12:05 post.... I grade it an F...
get out a dictionary and look up the word "extreme"....
Flatus.... please forgive me.... I was channeling my inner Eric Cartman this morning...
CBob.... LOL!
Posted by: RebelliousRenee
| June 6, 2009 1:17 PM
"True Republican values have not been in play for a long period."
ping, agree if by "long" you mean by many decades... truly no longer espousing the values it dyd from abe thru nelson's time.
Posted by: patd
| June 6, 2009 1:28 PM
A fresh result from the Experiment this morning, corn tasseling at 3 locations ........... here, South Carolina, and Las Cruces.
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 6, 2009 1:33 PM
we agnostics are feeling a little left out'' when am i
going to get my pep talk speech
Posted by: mqw
| June 6, 2009 1:35 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-233930
mqw,
You don't need a pep talk. As the still small voice of sanity, you get to snuggle in a corner somewhere until all the other guys finish trying to tear each other apart.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 1:43 PM
obama omitted one thing''we have been involved in their internal and regional conflicts for the last 70years
for one thing '' oil ' wouldn't even be able to find iraq on the map if they weren't sitting on a pool of liquefied
dinosaurs
Posted by: mqw
| June 6, 2009 1:44 PM
"True Republican values have not been in play for a long period."
Yes they have , for example whenever they fall on their ass . There's always this search for their stinking values. Like they put them on the front seat of their truck, and forgot where they parked the truck.
I say keep purging the party, maybe some show trials to attain that ideological purity they're so obsessed with.
We could get Inhofe to MC the thing.
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 6, 2009 1:47 PM
We could get Inhofe to MC the thing.
He's a perfect choice since he's documented that there are no gay people in his family.
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 6, 2009 1:50 PM
mqw
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-233932
Ditto!. Now that's what I call telling it like it is. On both counts. People say that past history doesn't matter. Then they quote the history that fits them. All history matters imo.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 6, 2009 1:52 PM
Mqw
One for U. I like putting this one out there every now and then.
The fact that the U. S. was NOT founded as a Christian nation...Was early stated in the terms of a treaty with Tripoli. Drafted in 1796 under George Washington and signed by John Adams in 1797.
"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it s declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the countries."
Steer a little right. Wake up man. Pay attention!.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 6, 2009 2:14 PM
Thought for the day :
" A husband is the medicine that cures all the ills of girlhood. "
1755 Nathan Hale hanged patriot, had but one life to give for his country
1875 Walter Percy Chrysler found Chrysler Corp (1925)
1936 Levi Stubbs rocker (4 Tops-Same Old Song)
1939 Gary "US" Bonds [Anderson] singer/songwriter (New Orleans)
1639 Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill
1816 10" snowfall in New England, the "year without a summer" (Krakatoa)
1913 Rabbit Maranville, was thrown out trying to steal home 3 times
1914 1st air flight out of the sight of land (Scotland to Norway)
1918 Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st US victory of WW I
1919 Man O' War wins 1st victory as a 2-year-old at Belmont
1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp (Iacocca was 8 months old)
1932 US Federal gas tax enacted
1933 1st drive-in theatre opens (Camden NJ)
1933 US Employment Service created
1934 Securities & Exchange Commission established
1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
1942 Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich
1944 D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France
1944 Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor
1946 Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
1955 Bill Haley & Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1
1960 Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"
1966 Activist James Meredith shot in Mississippi
1967 6 day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin
1978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
1982 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO
1985 Body of Nazi criminal, Dr Josef Mengele located & exhumed
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 6, 2009 2:18 PM
" ..................... But it makes us wonder: Did Scarborough, planning a run for Congress from a deeply socially conservative Florida panhandle district, sought to get involved in the Griffin case as a way to associate himself with, and build support among, the anti-abortion movement? In other words, was Scarborough's political career launched in part by exploiting the dangerous strain of right-wing extremism that views the defense of an accused killer of an abortion provider as a cause celebre?
At the very least, it's worth asking... "
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/reort_before_congressional_run_scarborough_represented_k.php?ref=fpc
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 6, 2009 2:27 PM
CNN's Rick Sanchez Calls Out Bill O'Reilly
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cnn/cnns_rick_sanchez_calls_out_bill_oreilly_118314.asp
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 6, 2009 2:41 PM
People Who Wear Rose-colored Glasses See More, Study Shows
ScienceDaily (June 6, 2009) — A University of Toronto study provides the first direct evidence that our mood literally changes the way our visual system filters our perceptual experience suggesting that seeing the world through rose-coloured glasses is more biological reality than metaphor.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090603103807.htm
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 6, 2009 2:58 PM
solar
don't know right or left ''' we have port or starboard' and
head or stern
Posted by: mqw
| June 6, 2009 2:58 PM
Ok
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-233941
But don't look behind you. Or in front of you. Just keep your eyes on the road.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 6, 2009 3:13 PM
mqw
bow or stern. They can put the head anywhere. :-)
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 3:15 PM
jamie
yes dear'' both terms are correct and interchangeable
Posted by: mqw
| June 6, 2009 3:40 PM
WaPo article on NJ and VA races
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/06/AR2009060601103.html?nav=rss_email/components
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 4:13 PM
Solar it seems we are both contractors and both Independents. I wouldn't be so quick to let homeowners off the hook, though I have witnessed homeowner abuse. I don't know where you work but here in NYC, homeowners (who have SOME monry) are quick to hire anybody that gives them a lower price than the next. While I know illegals personally and find them hardworking, exploitation of them by contractors (who are quite pathetic as an average) costs me dearly every day.
If you want to play the anology game, Democrats are like the contractors who promise you the moon while ignoring some serious issues, It looks good on paper, so they assume it will be easy to do. THey often over look site conditions and leave out the hidden costs. They are so quick to make a deal they never discuss these deeper details and have little problem hiring illegals despite their advocating for their emancipation. They tout VCO envirnomentally friendly paint without knowing if the plant that makes it pollutes and often buy lower grade supplies like tile from Home Depot to save money for themselves, even though the procelien wears often quite quickly or imperfections go beyond 15%.. And when things go bad and I'm called in, they claim the owner never asked or paid for them to fix the systemic things that make finishing work quite pointless. So I could play that game too.
The difference between us is that you are more Liberal than Democrats or Republicans. I find neither centered enough. I do not charge alot and I do jobs that are worthy of photgraphing when done. I lower my price when clients can't afford to pay more. As a result I don't have a great deal in savings. I find local government that is supposed to keep things safe and inspected, a system of corruption and greed equalled only by Co op boards. Unions often do not deliver the effort illegals put into their work. I once watched ten Union people skim a sidewalk with concrete. They al talked on cell phones and whistled at the women while two low level workers did all the work. It did not require eight other people to supervise. This gives you an idea of what a government run healthcare program will look like.
I say we are screwed by both parties and have been recently encourage by Obama's slight move center. I suspect you have a problem with that.
Don wonders why Islam isn't written on the walls of Federal buildings. From what Jefferson deduced from his Koran and the concept of personal liberty he saw in Muslim countries was obviously not inspiring enough. He didn't call non Christian infidels, nor consider it okay to lie to non Christians as an acceptable way to con them when dealing from a postion of weakness. It was the very revolutionary notions our Founders had to spread LIberalism that made them skeptical of Sharia law. Despite the achievements of Islam (often in its more tolerant mode) they don't surpass the achievements of Persia, Egypt, Iraq, before they fell to Islam. Of course many Muslims have taken to a more moderate understanding of Islam. I have no doubt that Islamic Reformation would create an era of new Islamic acheivement. The question is how we get there. When faced with a failure of many gestures to Muslims that eneded in the beheading of his envoys, Ghengis Khan was quite brutal. That was the end of Islam's last great empire. The Ottoman's later, though not really an empire, subjected Muslims to their whim. And our Founders fought against that trying to get the world to liberate Greece. Jews dided at Massada defending the Middle East along side Arabs against the Romans.
Note Obama's tougher line against NK today. The test will be when Kimmie wants to ship illegal materials for money. Will Russia or China once again provide export cover in defiance of UN mandates? Will Obama interdict?
Merkel promises to help in getting Iran to blink. What the media fails to state is that Germany is Iran's biggest trading partner and German multinationals have given the dual use materials Iran wants in defiance with the German government's mandates. Merkel simply needs to follow the intent of EU law and Iran would blink. Should we forget that the "reformer" running in Iran was one of the founders of Quds and was involved in the bloody purges that murdered more than 10,000 dissidents after the revolution. That made the Shah look moderate. It was under his watch that Iran started their secret quest for the bomb. If he is a reformer, then Noam Chomsky is a liberal.....
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 4:19 PM
Bob mentions the 6 day war. If today's liberal had their way in pre-empting pre-emption. Israel might not exist. The world did nothing as Egypt and Syria prepared to hostilities. Jordan felt dragged along. Had Israel not decimated the Arab air force in the first day, the results would have been different. And the war they fought was with European weapons. America had not yet entered the picture.
The stock piles growing in Lebanon and Gaza and in bunkers in Iran represent a similar threat. Now the world wants Israel to wait until attacked, but then that wouldn't be the lesson of history, would it? And after the wars, the agressor declares themselves to be victims? Just a thought in light of the 6 Day War and D-Day. Again, this might be interesting to some...
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/06/altruism/
ON another note, why the GOP can't say they are trying to find a middle ground on Abortion:
http://www.slate.com/id/2219765/
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 4:30 PM
Head's Up folks .... Belmont in a little over a half hour
1 Chocolate Candy Garrett Gomez
2 patd, Jamie Dunkirk Rene Velazquez
3 edVb Mr. Hot Stuff Edgar Prado
4 Renee, Ivy Summer Bird Kent Desormeaux
5 Luv Gov Miguel Mena
6 Solar, Chloe, Tony Charitable Man Alan Garcia
7 Flatus, BW, Carol Mine That Bird Calvin Borel
8 Flying Private Julien Leparoux
9 Rezdog Miner's Escape Jose Lezcano
10 Brave Victory Rajiv Maragh
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 5:03 PM
This is ridiculous
Sotomayor's courtroom manner a confirmation issue
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090606/ap_on_go_su_co/us_sotomayor_temperament
Posted by: warren
| June 6, 2009 5:09 PM
Relax, warren... Sotomayor's confirmation will be the easiest in recent memory.
Posted by: dark-lord-bloggingham.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 5:14 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-233952
Several of those ancedotes were from lawyers that didn't prevail too. Go figure.
Posted by: Rezdog
| June 6, 2009 5:17 PM
I am not worried about whether or not she will be confirmed.
And I am usually not one to jump to allegations of sexism. But this seems pretty obvious.
Posted by: warren
| June 6, 2009 5:17 PM
Sex(ism) sells.
Posted by: dark-lord-bloggingham.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 5:19 PM
The best judges do question closely. Some of the best give attorneys anxiety attacks.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 5:20 PM
When the heck are these confirmation hearings, anyway? I can't find a schedule. The new "Star Trek" movie had less hype.
Posted by: dark-lord-bloggingham.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 5:24 PM
...August at the earliest, I'd surmise, after further investigation. The Senators need to vet her, and then vote on a confirmation schedule, and the have a hearing, and then vote on that...
Your tax dollars at work.
Posted by: dark-lord-bloggingham.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 5:28 PM
Exactly Jamie.
You question hard to cut throw all the lawyer BS - and get to the facts. She also seems like she always comes thoroughly-prepared.
The Judiciary Comm. can't agree to a schedule. Surprise surprise.
Posted by: warren
| June 6, 2009 5:30 PM
I'll bet she'll be doing that behind closed doors too! Bring it on Alito!!
Posted by: warren
| June 6, 2009 5:31 PM
.I hope I didn't make the wire go dead.......
Well since I'm not interrupting anyone, I just wanted to throw this out there for Jamie, or Lardie or anyone else. Being an Independent or a "centrist", doesn't mean one opts for and averaging between Republican and Democratic talking points. They, more frequently than the magnetic poles, flip and reverse or are both plain wrong. Just a decade ago, people like Power advocated intervention to prevent genocide. She criticized Clinton over Rwanda, so does she criticized Obama for not even mentioning to Arabs the millennium’s first genocide of Africans in the Sudan? Is their plight less important than Gazans?Or less a human rights abuse? This fact might not even have been lost of Obama's audience in Cairo.
Instead, Independence is a kind of excluded middle. It is quite possible that both the Democrats and Republicans are wrong and then an average between stupidities is doomed. Nor does a centrist or Independent necessarily hold an average of principles or values. Personally, I am not sure of what would be conservative values. Is conservation or preservation one?
One thing however, often exposes a Centrist. They all generally prioritize national crisis in a general way with security, economy the top issues and social issues beyond questions of personal liberties lower down the list. Again, a centrist could have an altogether different idea to remedy a problem and advocacy is not simply a watering down of two different partisan portions. On rare occasions a Republican AND a Democrat are right and the centrist is wrong. (See what the lack of LOL can do here?)
Last, my link to the possible origins of altruism was a footnote to D-Day.
The lesson is not just where altruism might have started past kin, but also in light of D-Day, the modern fact; that sacrifice for a Free People is largely based on the common love we have for our country and the principles worth defending. There is nothing as determined in sacrifice as Free People fighting to preserve their liberty or the liberty of others.
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 5:32 PM
hahaha, I wrote that at 4:30 during the lull here and forgot to press send. Now I'm interrupting I see........
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 5:34 PM
Sotomayor and Scalia
Have there ever been SCOTUS sexual scandels?
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 5:36 PM
I think Sonia will be a great inspiration to "our" effort to have more minorities showing up in our courtrooms as lawyers and judges instead of defendants.
Posted by: warren
| June 6, 2009 5:39 PM
True, but SCOTUS picks are based on their excellence in following and applying the law. Something like those creatures in DUNE that create space tunnels.
Role models are great and Obama is the prime example. Clinton is another. At the end of the day however, it is how they do their job that is most important. I'm not sure Holder at Justice is going to lower the aarrest rate for Blacks. By that measure Obama should already be having an effect.......
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 5:45 PM
hey carol, CAROL!!!
a little less noise there. bet patsi can hear you all the way to nashville... probably solar too, our shy man in chi-town.
almost time to mount your horse... no, not him, i said horse. better ease up on that drinkie poo there, girl.
Posted by: patd
| June 6, 2009 5:48 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-233960
The Republicans keep saying they need to "slow down" the hearings for a "close examination" ... bs bs bs.
They don't mention that the time the President has requested for approval is exactly the same amount of time allowed for the last nine supreme court justices.
I just get so tired of the crap playing to the base.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 5:48 PM
The Republicans had there trickle-down party. The rich got richer, Wall Street lived it up and conspicuous consumption was considered the norm. CEO salaries started skyrocketing at a rate that far outstretched the economy and dwarfed raises for those at the bottom.
It is time for the Dems to pursue "trickle-up"-enomics.
It is funny that one of the most plain and simple truths that Obama spoke during the campaign were a call to outrage. "Spread the wealth."
Perhaps "balance the wealth" would be more appopriate. But it got all out of wack in recent years when excess was celebrated - and struggling was swept under the rug until that little thing called a recession.
But I don't think we need to government to dictate salaries - nor should they. It can be a matter of common sense. And with the internet - those salaries should be at our fingertips.
Some of those CEO salaries of some $30-50M a year with golden parachutes even higher - are simply beyond the pale.
We don't need to relitigate the past - but we shouldn't let it happen again.
Civilizations are more unstable when there are greater imbalances of wealth.
America as the land of opportunity is one of our enduring traditions.
And it is in all our interests. A lower-class - that has a living wage, education, health care and security - is a lower class that has a lesser drain on society.
It means lower default rates, increased spending, and less crime.
(Now if we could just explain that to these rich old white guys....)
Posted by: warren
| June 6, 2009 5:55 PM
Max
No scandal leaps to mind. One might think they are too old or too brilliant not to be discreet. There is a list of justices so you might go down it one by one to see if anything nefarious pops up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 5:58 PM
"Your tax dollars at work."
I am sure interns and low-paid staff will be doing most of the work. The pols need to polish their grandstanding skills - and get a hair cut for the hearings.
I hope Sonia cuts down a few of the blow-hards. I am going to be particularly interested in Sonia vs. Lindsey.
Posted by: warren
| June 6, 2009 5:59 PM
As an Independent, I don't think it unwise to vet a picture for public consumption. Then people will see the type of person Obama wants to be one of the Justices. Democrats would love to drag out some issue until Hell freezes over.
But yes, so much we see is games when there is so much that is dangerous. Since she is going to be a Justice, we should get it on with Repubicans using the normal amount of time to expose her warts.
Gonzales was not given that much applause from Democrats despite his being Hispanic. When Republicans do it, the media will not cheer so much and still seek the knife. Just look at what they did to the last black justice. They found pubic hairs on a soda can.
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 6:02 PM
I asked for Mine That Bird yesterday - you must have missed it. Hope you see this in time - when he wins I want to get my winnings! HA!
Posted by: bethyboo
| June 6, 2009 6:02 PM
is a game, that is
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 6:03 PM
Max
If you go by her record, Sotomayor is a great justice. She has about 18 years experience, more than 500 cases of which less than 20 have even been appealed and of those only three reversals. That isn't even a 1% rate. Hardly the record of someone "legislating from the bench"
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 6:04 PM
Got you Bethy
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 6:07 PM
World peace should not only be on the lips of Miss America.
Whether or not it can be realized is a separate question. But it should always be the goal.
Posted by: warren
| June 6, 2009 6:09 PM
Well my Trifecta Box is
Charitable Man, Mine That Bird, and Dunkirk
Let's see how it goes.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 6:14 PM
I'd cut off an arm to hear a Miss America contestant asked what she hoped for the world and have her answer: "Fewer morons."
Posted by: Patsi
| June 6, 2009 6:18 PM
Nice set of photographs by the photographers of 10 Downing Street
http://www.flickr.com/photos/downingstreet/sets/72157619319483644/
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 6:23 PM
I just realized the difference between an argument and sophistry. (I mean I have heard sophistry defined often - but it is a difficult concept to grasp.)
But the realization was based on an experience from many years ago. When I was in DC for a spell - I got a job one semester up on the Hill as an intern for a Senator on the Judiciary Comm. I was only there a short while - but I did get to see one a Strom Thurmond's final appearances.
But as I watched the politicians debate - one thing struck me. In the law, you need to marshall the facts, gather the law - and are supposed to be right. Your theory will be tested - an opposing view given - and a judge or jury will decide which is correct (or at least the best you can do.)
But I noticed politicians did not need to be on the "right" side of the debate - she or he only has to simply make the opponent look worse - by any means possible.
(I will admit the law often degenerates into this on a regular basis - but attorneys at least have a strict set of rules to follow, a judge to keep them in line and - oh yeah - the law. Politics is an exercise in unbridled gamesmanship.)
But I will say one thing - it is sure a hell of a lot easier to see which side looks worse than to figure out what is "right"
(One last caveat: the foregoing was brought to you by your resident-trusty-self-serving lawyer ; )
Posted by: warren
| June 6, 2009 6:26 PM
The Prez and Mrs. went out on another date. Looks like a nice place for dinner
http://fontainedemars.com/index.html
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 6:29 PM
Renee and Ivy take The Belmont on Summer Bird
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 6:33 PM
Shoulda Woulda Coulda. If I had thrown in Summer Bird for the Superfecta. As it is. $18 gone.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 6:38 PM
max:
You seem to not get the purpose of Obama's speech.
It was directed to Muslims. That was the audience.
And what Obama did - was explain to them - the same thing that he has been saying to us for the last two years.
But he needed to do it in terms that would resonate. He had to build trust and show understanding and humility. And he could not do too much lecturing.
He accomplished that. It was a masterstroke.
(And it is easy to point out other things he could of said. But the man covered a lot of ground and spoke more in-depth on the major issue facing this world - to a larger audience - than I have ever seen.)
But I suppose you're right. He shoulda emailed you first!
(Btw, I think Samantha Power had a hand in that speech rather than any objection.)
This is because "he cares about the Iraqi people, seeking to make them a focus of policy intention, not just a political slogan." -Power
Posted by: warren
| June 6, 2009 6:39 PM
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/16640
Posted by: warren
| June 6, 2009 6:44 PM
Yipee! It feels good to be a winner. But still, I'm saddened that Calvin seemingly came so close and didn't get his Crown.
Posted by: ivygreen.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 6:49 PM
Oops...I did mean to add a "merci, merci beaucoup" to Jamie for organizing us so well!! (*_*)
Posted by: ivygreen.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 6:55 PM
Uh, I'd like to take that 6:02 post of mine back.
Posted by: bethyboo
| June 6, 2009 6:56 PM
The selection of a S. Ct. nominee is in Obama's discretion. And I am sure he selected Sonia for a number of reasons.
The have been great, average and not so great S. Ct. Justices. How will Sonia stack up? The jury is still out and we won't know from the confirmation hearings.
But she is more than qualified.
(And don't forget one of the greatest - Holmes - was not expected to be much and was supposed to only serve a short time. But he showed them.)
Holmes, in his last years, was walking down Pennsylvania Avenue with a friend, when a pretty girl passed. Holmes turned to look after her. Having done so, he sighed and said to his friend, "Ah, George, what wouldn't I give to be seventy-five again?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Jr.
"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. "
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes
Posted by: warren
| June 6, 2009 7:04 PM
I watched some of the D Day speeches...well, I watched what I could see through my tears... and was reminded of Bill's comment that said it best.
Let us never forget that, when they were young, these men saved the world.
In Hawaii, I didn't go the the Arizona. In Germany, I didn't go to Dachau or Auschwitz. In Normandy, I'll not go to the cemeteries. I taught with a mild-mannered man who was a paratrooper dropped behind enemy
lines on D Day. The strength and courage of these people, from soldiers to planners and victims, men and women, overwhelms me. The hatred and greed of fascists could never meaure up.
But I'm afraid the Elie Wiesel might be right. The world hasn't learned.
Posted by: bethyboo
| June 6, 2009 7:07 PM
"You seem to not get the purpose of Obama's speech.
It was directed to Muslims. That was the audience."
Then seem not to have read a number of posts on this issue. For the tenth time, I gave Obama good grades for the speech as I limited by scoring based on the objective; "to widen the conversation". As I have also said repeatedly, as a policy speech or even as an historical summary, Obama makes many errors and half-truths. While one can excuse this as massaging an audience, Universities here I hope hold a higher standard of truth and honesty.
If it was a MUslim audience, why not ask Muslims to stop the first genicide of this century? Why not point to a central logical fact that as long as Iran calls shots in Hamas and Hizb'Allah, Palestinians and ISraelis cannot sut down and solve their problems. This was an Egyptian audience that would agree with that. Egypt is practical at war with the Brotherhood and HIzb'Allah.
Since ther was no mention of genicde, I do not see Power, though the comparison between Gaza and Buchenwald is both groteque and strange given Obama's trip. Has his daily briefing shown him pictures of crematories in Gaza or rather miltants using thier children as shields instigating a war because they started firing missiles into Israel. The sanctions upon Hamas were international in nature and concerned an aspect of Obama's contradictory massage by his demand that Arabs recognize Israel's right to exist. Egyptians might, but how are Arbs to force Hamas to back off if Iran has both Hamas and HIzb;Allah in their pocket?
Again, good massage. The devil is in the details and I mentioned to Craig, if we see Hizb'Allah win in Lebanon it is absurd to think a Palestinian State will be nothing more than a close postion to attack Israel. The Taliban have moved into Kashmir, AQ is making contact with HIzb'Allah. To put it prospective: the UN's own report says that Hizb'Allah has rearmed with advanced weapons, created a military data line throughout Lebanon rebuilt bunkers UNDER THEIR MANDATE AND NOSES.
Unless we address the red lines and current behavior beyond the control of the street, words will remain words. A new war will make many forget what was said in Cairo.
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 7:14 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-233990
I guess Wm. O. Douglas is about as close as you get to scandal with a Supreme except that he married his law students
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_O._Douglas
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 7:16 PM
Jamie, it was your "facts" that lead me to gelive she would get through in the first place. I am sure if I saw the list, she would not be at the bottom......
I see problems, but then it isn't a near perfect world, is it? I tseems her opinion has often not reflected in her judgement.
Perhaps she is more like a Scalia after all......
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 7:21 PM
Well don't fall out of your chair if Gruff meets Tough
ouch, that even hurt my brain.....
Forget I suggested that....
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 7:23 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-233995
Max,
You know the opposition is desperate when they pull the "numbers never lie" routine. Even if the appellate justices get reversed on the reverse discrimination case coming up, you will hear things like "Sotomayor was reversed on almost one in five cases appealed" which I suppose is true as long as you don't consider the hundreds of cases that were never appealed in the first place.
Numbers may not lie, but liars do.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 7:36 PM
""Ah, George, what wouldn't I give to be seventy-five again?"
That's great, Warren -- thanks for the smile!
Posted by: Patsi
| June 6, 2009 7:36 PM
Well, Jamie numbers don't lie, except you mention an important number not included reverses/all cases as opposed to reversed appeals. Yes, you are right the larger subset is the one that matters unless there is a high percentages of appeals from her court.
I don't think Republicans are serious that they have a chance.
As far as D Day, let's hope this isn't the start of a new disease that generates yet another D-Day:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6445981.ece
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 7:55 PM
Ivy....
we birders are winners..... yes!
yeah.... I'm kinda sad for Borel too....
but just think.... he came in first in the K. Derby.... 2nd in the Preakness... and then 3rd in the Belmont.... the same exact placement of the Triple Crown races....
wonder if that's a first for a jockey....
Posted by: RebelliousRenee
| June 6, 2009 7:59 PM
wait a minute....
nix that last post.... I forgot that Borel wasn't on Mine That Bird in the Preakness.... he was Rachel Alexandra....
oh well....
Posted by: RebelliousRenee
| June 6, 2009 8:11 PM
Max, I'm not disagreeing on your comments. However, those remarks about comparisons are bogus to me and so far as I've seen only the RW have included them in their criticisms.
He didn't start that line of thought with "On the one hand" as most would in using the comparative "while on the other hand".
Posted by: Rezdog
| June 6, 2009 8:15 PM
"If it was a MUslim audience, why not ask Muslims to stop the first genicide of this century?"
That's coming on a little strong max. Don't you know anything about flirting.
Posted by: warren
| June 6, 2009 8:30 PM
Power's knowledge reaches beyond genocide. She is one of the smartest people out there re: international relations.
Posted by: warren
| June 6, 2009 8:32 PM
geez.... my brain is fried tonight.... spent too much time out in the sun today....
Mine That Bird.... the horse.... came in that order....
1st in the first race.... 2nd in the second race... and 3rd in the third race....
maybe that's a first in the Triple Crown for a horse....
ok... I'm done now.... nite...
Posted by: RebelliousRenee
| June 6, 2009 8:33 PM
Patsi:
Thanks Oliver! But you are always welcome for a smile!
Posted by: warren
| June 6, 2009 8:35 PM
And all this talk that because Obama did not say "terrorist" we are in a post 9/11 era.
BS. Obama spoke very directly about "extremism."
Which casts a wider net - and seeks to address the problem before we get terrorism.
But - speaking in terms of a never-ending war on terror seems to be language the terrorists would prefer.
Posted by: warren
| June 6, 2009 8:44 PM
Max,
It wouldn't be another D-Day for the simple reason that he is right. You either beat the Taliban by getting them on your side or they beat you in the sense that you don't get the land where they stand. Those mountains have defeated Europeans before and they can do it again. That will be Obama's trial - To get them to act in the best interest of Afghanistan as a whole rather than just the tribes.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 8:47 PM
Just for the record Bill Bennett is a supercilious, prissy mouthed, smarmy, ignorant ass.
I could come up with a more accurate description, but I'm in a good mood tonight and not using words like that.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 8:49 PM
Anybody have any inside info on the problems with IMF funding that has Dems jumping ship?
http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/06/06/jim-moran-will-vote-against-the-supplemental/
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 8:53 PM
geez.... my brain is fried tonight.... spent too much time out in the sun today....
Renee what was the temp today up there maybe 74f?
It is still 89f at 8:15 my time. I mowed the grass about 4:30 today since it was so cool then. about 93f here today.
Posted by: yo soy Horsedooty!
| June 6, 2009 9:17 PM
Just for the record Bill Bennett is a supercilious, prissy mouthed, smarmy, ignorant ass.
I could come up with a more accurate description, but I'm in a good mood tonight and not using words like that. Jamie
I see I dropped in at just the right time
getting ready to paddle tonight --still time to make
leaving from Froggy Beach at 8 pm My neighbor has dubbed this trip the sissy cruise because it is short and easy.
Posted by: Katherine Graham Cracker
| June 6, 2009 9:39 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234005
Renee --
You were first to pick the right Bird, so congrats to you!
There are just too many birds on the brain to keep them straight...if Borel had won today, he'd have been crowned King Calvin. At least the Cajuns can still claim a Triple...
>(*v*)<
Posted by: ivygreen.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 10:25 PM
Max -
Your 6-Day War post @ 4:30 sucks putty balls. I remember the 6-Day War , like it was yesterday. The politics of the time were nothing like your cable news read on things. It was much crazier, and a much bigger surprise.
Oil didn't move though, the Texas Rail Road Commission was still setting the price of oil ........... $2.50 a barrel.
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 6, 2009 10:30 PM
We thought that would last forever. it died 6 years later, in the next fucking war those jack-asses fought.
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 6, 2009 10:36 PM
KGC
Wish I was out paddling with you. It has been off and on drizzly, muggy but cool all day. We had a week of lovely bright sunshine. Come Friday? Blech
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 10:44 PM
I couldn't help but notice Obama has been reading my posts...
"Appearing with Sarkozy before reporters, Obama displayed growing impatience with North Korea and what he called its "extraordinarily provocative" nuclear and ballistic missile tests. He suggested that the North is testing international patience as diplomacy has failed to persuade the reclusive communist government to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
"Diplomacy has to involve the other side engaging in a serious way in trying to solve problems," he said. "We are going to take a very hard look at how we move forward on these issues, and I don't think that there should be an assumption that we will simply continue down a path in which North Korea is constantly destabilizing the region and we just react in the same ways."
Obama also took on Iran, suspected by the West of seeking to build its first nuclear bomb, an accusation Tehran denies. The president has said military action remains on the table, but has offered to change U.S. policy and engage in talks with Tehran. He said Saturday, though, it must be "tough diplomacy."
"We can't afford a nuclear arms race in the Middle East," Obama warned. Sarkozy said he worries about "insane statements" by Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad." AP
He knows the clock is ticking (he doesn't mention more than an arms race) and he seems to be preparing his base for things to come while taking away the ammo from his conservative critics who think he is far too soft. In the end, I agree with Jamie, Obama will likely find the best cover in the center although that doesn't mean a watered down mixture of two ideologically different policies. There are no major European leaders that can match his appeal, but he is fast reaching crunch time.
And this doesn't mean I am anywhere near rolling over....
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 10:47 PM
You know Max , there was a wealth of subjects, in my "This Day in History" post today. June 6th has many angles. For example, you didn't comment on the Battle of Belleau Wood, Lot's of good stories there, but we American's never saw the First World War for what it was. We didn't teach it to our kids either.
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 6, 2009 10:49 PM
Hammer & Tongs -
As I said June 6th, is one of those days you want to ride. Always pick some something interesting to do on June 6th, especially if it's on a Saturday. The Battle of Hastings is another good one. Go do something bold on that one as well .
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 6, 2009 10:56 PM
Oh yes Bob, please nelighten me on the 6 Day War. And thank you for the compliment in characterizing my posts.
And even then, if you remember, crtics blasted Israel for pre-emption with the UN edging to call Israel the agressor. According to Solar's cable news here, Israel was secretly trying to steal resources.
Unlike today, American media backed Israel and pressured Congress to do something besides observe the kill ratios on Soviet equipment.
Democrats rejected negotiating with terrorists sending Chomsky into a frenzy and Israel declared that captured land would be annexed if adversaries did not negotiate peace. Instead they prepared for the next war which caught Israel off guard.
Is that cable enough for you?
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 10:59 PM
One of my favorite bloggers away from here has used his blog today to link to British, US, and French units that invaded at Normandy. Interesting history
http://travsthoughts.blogspot.com/
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 11:07 PM
D-Day Sheet Metal -
http://cbsolaroven.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 6, 2009 11:09 PM
Bob, my Grandfather fought in WW1. After some brutal fighting he was held as a prisoner for almost 18 months and that might have saved his life. By chance the allies released a deadly flu into the last hardened German defense. A large number of troops on both sides died of sickeness, but some POW were spared being far back behind the lines.
I missed your thread but I wil go back and look. As far as D Day my Dad was quickly pulled from Italy and moved into the front. He never killed anyone but had to get classified information through some disputed territory as the lines zig and zagged under the German counter. He told me that the greatest outpouring of joy he has ever witnessed was the liberation of Europe and the triumph of Liberal Democracy. Although usually a Democrat, he did fear the Western world would forget the bottom line and drift towards cultural and political relativism.
But anyway, I'll check that out. I don't think German could have won in any case. Not without a bomb and then things would have gotten ugly. Interesting note though. The lesson learned besides appeasement and bad former treaties was that mass produced second generation weapons that were reliable out fought third generation weapons. The trend however has been towards the cutting edge.
Funny how lessons change over time.
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 11:19 PM
Max -
We keep after you, you'll sponge some of this up. Me and Jamie here tonight, we eat history on our Cherie-O's for breakfast. Don't be teaching history from the BBFF.
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 6, 2009 11:20 PM
Max -
Interestingly enough , I don't care if you get or not. I a " big garden member " is in the ICU tonight, and I'm just killin' time while today's oven video loaded.
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 6, 2009 11:25 PM
Have fun and be well
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 11:50 PM
CBob
Keep us posted on how things turn out the "big garden member".
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 6, 2009 11:51 PM
Cool oven idea.
http://www.solarovens.org/
http://cgi.ebay.com/FRESNEL-LENS-with-STAND-SOLAR-Oven-Heater-Concentrator_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQitemZ110378561981
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 6, 2009 11:56 PM
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate the Miami Airport? Stuck because of thunderclouds and there was one outlet for about 50 people. Missed everything today.
I did see some of the most spectacular thunderclouds as the pilot ducked around them on the way out. I always pick the worst time not to bring my camera.
CBob, as I understand it we just barely ended up on the side we did in WWI. Looking back as a historian, what do you think would have happened if we'd picked the other side or not gotten involved at all?
I remember in the early days of the Iraq war a grunt talking about how we were going to teach Iraq about civilization. I guess he'd never heard of Babylon. I never liked history as a student, but when i went to live in the Middle East my opinion changed.
Posted by: don1one
| June 7, 2009 12:00 AM
Big scandal at Miami VA Hospital. AIDS contamination though unsterilized colonoscopy equipment
http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/966157.html
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 12:01 AM
BTW, does anything good come out of Oklahoma?
i used to to a lot of consulting in Tulsa. The only thing to do in the evening was to watch the weather channel to see if we needed to run down into the basement.
Posted by: don1one
| June 7, 2009 12:03 AM
Listening to the video again, Craig, your comments are so point on!
Found this article, "Hugging Republicans Until It Hurts"
And this, "In embracing select Republicans, the Obama administration — notably Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff — seems to be applying this maxim: Hug them until it hurts.
“This Machiavellian strategy is pure Rahm,” said John Feehery, a Republican strategist and former top House aide. “It is brilliant and it is painful for Republicans.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/us/politics/web06hill.html?ref=us
It's great! It's wise! It's brilliant, and it is in the best interest of the country to have the BEST regardless of which party.
tt
Posted by: tiptoe
| June 7, 2009 12:10 AM
Jane Hamsher is really pushing the NO vote on the Supplement. Getting a response from the Liberal wing. Rahm's having trouble keeping the Dem troops in line
http://twitter.com/janehamsher
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 12:13 AM
jamie,
ewwwww. that's why I'll never get a colonoscopy.
Posted by: don1one
| June 7, 2009 12:23 AM
"BTW, does anything good come out of Oklahoma? "
You mean besides me and my wife. :-)
Posted by: Rezdog
| June 7, 2009 12:24 AM
At an event in Virginia titled "Rediscovering God in America," Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee aimed to recapture lost political momentum for the Christian right with strong exhortations for members to involve themselves in politics in order to maintain and increase the presence of religion in the public square, the Virginia-Pilot reports.
Both men railed against abortion rights, gay rights and the lack of religious influence in American public life, however Gingrich upped the ante in his attempt to stir up the crowd with this line:
I think this is one of the most critical moments in American history. We are living in a period where we are surrounded by paganism.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/06/newt-gingrich-americans-a_n_212235.html
---------------------------
Speaking as a sun worshipper , I say Amen and pass the photons.
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 7, 2009 12:52 AM
Jamie -
Trying write about Terry in the ICU tonight. But I couldn't .The email from his sister today, who had her husband die last week was really tough. Heavy iron , heavy lifting here.
These god damn plants better pay-off somehow.
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 7, 2009 1:01 AM
Hey Sturge,
Got a Les Paul laying around?
Posted by: dark-lord-bloggingham.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 1:27 AM
no les paul......never liked them, too heavy.....les paul does, however, still play on monday nights in nyc.......
Posted by: sturgeone
| June 7, 2009 1:32 AM
Strat man?
Posted by: dark-lord-bloggingham.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 1:40 AM
Gretsch, maybe...
Posted by: dark-lord-bloggingham.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 1:42 AM
no strat......don't like where the volume knob is and hard to choke the strings at the bridge, if I remember right......the only guitar I have is a telecaster, which i bought in 72 after my gretsch was stolen......it was the cheapest good guitar i could find at the time, $285, without case.....it's worth a good bit more now, I understand, even though I belt sanded the finish off of it.......it had started out white, but it's having been in joints for 30 yrs or so at the time, had turned an ugly yellow.....I meant to re-finish it but got another job and so put it back together and so it stays............
Posted by: sturgeone
| June 7, 2009 1:49 AM
most any gretsch is a fine guitar, with one little peeve for me, the bridge is moveable..............don't like that....
Posted by: sturgeone
| June 7, 2009 1:52 AM
what was it...Summer Bird paid $18? Who'd a thunk anybody who had ANYTHING to do with Big Brown last year would ever win anything again?
Some here may recall I don't drink. Wednesday I passed the 6,000 day mark. Who'd a thunk THAT could ever have happened, those that saw me drunk years ago.
Posted by: DexterJohnson
| June 7, 2009 1:53 AM
I have some excellent Les Paul 33 1/3 lps I bought in a set at a St. Vincent De Paul thrift store 41 years ago. Amazing fidelity.
Posted by: DexterJohnson
| June 7, 2009 1:55 AM
200 comments and all's well!
Posted by: DexterJohnson
| June 7, 2009 1:55 AM
i used to love the old les paul, mary ford records......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ffdwBUL78
Posted by: sturgeone
| June 7, 2009 1:59 AM
...knew there was a Gretsch in there somewhere. Ok, thanks. Good clip. The Dark Lord has done some damage himself, incidentally.
Posted by: dark-lord-bloggingham.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 2:07 AM
i did have a red les paul Jr. as they called it, which i traded for the the subsequently stolen black gretsch............
http://upload.ecvv.com/upload/Info/20087/China_Gretsch_G5120_Electromatic_Hollow_Body_Electric_Guitar200879919114.jpg
started out with a gretsch "tennessean" which melted somewhat in a fire......traded it for the les paul jr, and then the LPjr for the black gretsch......
Posted by: sturgeone
| June 7, 2009 2:10 AM
...banged-up '72 tele on ebay for a tidy sum.
Posted by: dark-lord-bloggingham.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 2:10 AM
Congrats, Dex.
Posted by: dark-lord-bloggingham.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 2:17 AM
cbob
no tunes tonight ? can that contraption your building boil water ? if so it wouldn't be to much of a stretch to
build a small boiler producing steam that spins a
micro-turbine producing electricity'' there you go a sun powered portable electric generator ''anyway something to ponder on for your next project
Posted by: mqw
| June 7, 2009 2:21 AM
actually, casting back the old memory cells, the first electric was a silvertone from sears..........
http://www.paulplumeri.com/guitars/57_danelectro_standard.jpg
we turned it into a bass when i got the "tennessean"......
Posted by: sturgeone
| June 7, 2009 2:29 AM
that was a danelectro which somehow at the time was interchangeable with the silvertone brand......couldnt find a picture of the silvertone, which was kind of peach colored with a single cut-away at the bottom......
Posted by: sturgeone
| June 7, 2009 2:34 AM
Dex - my admiration, awe, and best wishes to you for your strength and vision. Keep on keepin' on!
Posted by: bethyboo
| June 7, 2009 2:35 AM
Let's just say I'm working on the "Bloggington". Back to it...
Posted by: dark-lord-bloggingham.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 2:36 AM
mqw.....how fares the waterway?
wiki:
Silvertone was the brand name used by Sears for their line of musical instruments and sound equipment from the 1930s to 1972. Replacing the Supertone brand, Silvertone had already been the brand on Sears' radios and phonographs since 1915. Probably best known for their line of well made and inexpensive guitars, the brand became popular with novice musicians. Rudy Sarzo, Chet Atkins, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, Tom Fogerty, James Hetfield, Dave Grohl, Phil Keaggy, Mark Knopfler, Mikee Plastik, and countless others had a Silvertone for their first electric, bass, or acoustic guitar. The Canadian band Chad Allan and The Silvertones, which would go on to become The Guess Who, took its name from this line of instruments. Pete Townshend would employ them in live performance with The Who for the purposes of smashing them. Jack White of The White Stripes has been known to use vintage Silvertone amplifiers. Singer-songwriter Beck Hansen's main guitar is a Silvertone.
The name was placed on guitars from more than a few different manufacturers over the years, including Danelectro, National, Harmony, Kay, and Teisco. The guitars - especially the 1960s models - are prized by collectors today. One of the more well-known models is the Danelectro Silvertone 1448, made in the early to mid 1960s. The guitar's case had a small built-in amplifier, which proved popular with beginners.
Today, Silvertone is a brand name used by a Chinese guitar manufacturer and was endorsed by Paul Stanley of KISS from 2003 to 2006.
Posted by: sturgeone
| June 7, 2009 2:40 AM
the bloggington? what could that be........
Posted by: sturgeone
| June 7, 2009 2:42 AM
Sturgeone - did your dad ever meet Stillwell? He was supposed to be a pip. That's one biography I'd give up my mysteries for.
Posted by: bethyboo
| June 7, 2009 2:53 AM
he met him when he was sent to fix his phone.......he told me the story and it was an interesting exchange, but i just can't remember what it was.......
Posted by: sturgeone
| June 7, 2009 3:07 AM
That's too bad. He's one man who supposedly put a few knots in Chiang Kai-Shek's tail.. Was this house at the Presidio?
Posted by: bethyboo
| June 7, 2009 3:20 AM
i understood it to be on some military facility in san fran......
Posted by: sturgeone
| June 7, 2009 3:23 AM
It must have been the Presidio, which is now a park. Black Jack Pershing lived there for a while - beautiful place but an anachronism.
Posted by: bethyboo
| June 7, 2009 3:29 AM
the old man was just embarking on his journey with alzheimers and we had a good bit of time together at that point and he related a lot of old memories i hadnt heard much of before......wish i had recorded some of them but usually was unprepared for that............he could remember the old stuff without a hitch, but new stuff not so much.........
Posted by: sturgeone
| June 7, 2009 3:33 AM
hello sturg
going ok '' high water leveling off 'probably have to deal with low water conditions next trip '' thats the way it is
anymore one extreme to the other '''be getting off monday '' due for a break after 12hrs a day seven days a week for 33days ' presently northbound around caruthersville mo. with 35 empty barges '
tow size 1400 feet long'' 175 ft wide''
Posted by: mqw
| June 7, 2009 3:39 AM
that's a whole mess of weight to be pushing (pulling?)......I dont envy the pilot of that particular gig.........
smooth sailing.....
Posted by: sturgeone
| June 7, 2009 3:49 AM
""BTW, does anything good come out of Oklahoma? "
Rez answered: "You mean besides me and my wife. :-)"
Plus my mom! Actually I know a lot of serious liberals in places like Oklahoma, Kansas and Tennessee. Easy to be a lefty in some states...takes toughness to do it when you're outnumbered!
Posted by: Patsi
| June 7, 2009 4:17 AM
sturg
not much weight with all empties'' when we come southbound with 35 loads it is approximately sixty
thousand tons of grain' destination port of new orleans
to be loaded into ships for export
tow size will be a different configuration 1000ft
long 240ft wide '' towboats are push boats connected
to the stern of the tow with several sets of steel cables
and winches
Posted by: mqw
| June 7, 2009 4:27 AM
carol,
Posted by: patd
| June 7, 2009 6:48 AM
carol you there or still partying?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKXsv7UHhQo&feature=related
Posted by: patd
| June 7, 2009 6:49 AM
6000 "atta boys" to dex
Posted by: patd
| June 7, 2009 6:51 AM
Morning folkes, yep the party's over. Whew! And I missed the race. I'm terribly sorry. I should have been there. It's my fault that "Mine" didn't win. What in the hell happened? Where did that other Bird come from?
Well if it had to happen I'm glad it was another little Cajun that did it. We don't rank too high in much here but we can ride those ponys. And we can cook. And we can eat and it shows. I think we also rank pretty high in obesity but we think that quality is more important than quantity here. You gotta grab for all the gusto you can, while you can.
Posted by: ct
| June 7, 2009 7:21 AM
"A fresh result from the Experiment this morning, corn tasseling at 3 locations ........... here, South Carolina, and Las Cruces." cbob
http://cbhopibluecornexperiment.blogspot.com/
[to tune of the wassail song]
here we come a tasseling
among the leaves so green
here we come a wondering
if ears will e'er be seen
love and joy come to you
and to your tassel too
and god bless you and send you a hopi blue corn ear
or bob send you the seeds again next year
Posted by: patd
| June 7, 2009 7:23 AM
Great song Pat. Another morning of creativity. This place seems to bring out the best in all of us.
Posted by: ct
| June 7, 2009 7:33 AM
C-Bob's experiment turned out really well too. He had a dream...and the dream spread across the country. And we're all better for having participated in it. Maybe Obama could learn somethin from it. It's the small things....
Posted by: ct
| June 7, 2009 7:40 AM
wonder if they'll make a movie
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/06/AR2009060602245.html?hpid=topnews
Posted by: patd
| June 7, 2009 7:44 AM
and will it star hanks as the fbi agent and pitt and jolie as the spies... excuse me, alledged spies. but who will play castro?
Posted by: patd
| June 7, 2009 7:47 AM
tommy lee jones will not only star as castro but will direct the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1567922432/tt0419294
and like his "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" the tagline will be nobody is beyond redemption.
Posted by: patd
| June 7, 2009 8:01 AM
gotta cast george clooney somewhere.... best friend? secret lover? hank's fbi partner who goes undercover?
must find a place for george.
Posted by: patd
| June 7, 2009 8:21 AM
"...a pair of gay male penguins are raising a chick from an egg abandoned by its parents."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/04/two-gay-penguins-and-a-ch_n_211497.html
And with that Max, I rest my case.
Posted by: ct
| June 7, 2009 8:28 AM
Dex,
That is truly a magnificent achievement!! If you're as proud of yourself as I am of you, then you're mighty proud indeed!
Posted by: Flatus
| June 7, 2009 8:28 AM
Carol, nobody told the Bird how long the race was. He was scared that he was going to be out of it. But, he did set a new track record for pacers.
Posted by: Flatus
| June 7, 2009 8:46 AM
"...never saw the First World War for what it was. We didn't teach it to our kids either."
Bob, the school I went to was founded by a group of men who knew the horrors of that war and were determined that they would do their best share the causes and effects of that and other wars.
My history teacher, Julian Lathrop, or as we called him, Uncle Judy, had been in the trenches. His body shook constantly reflecting the aftereffects of the constant shellings he and his mates were forced to endure.
Posted by: Flatus
| June 7, 2009 9:07 AM
"The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada"
I have my very one copy of this movie. I can see how someone that is not familiar with the border of Mexico and Texas might not get the movie but those of us that live close to the border it is a great movie.
Posted by: yo soy Horsedooty!
| June 7, 2009 9:10 AM
one* = on
Posted by: yo soy Horsedooty!
| June 7, 2009 9:10 AM
"I think this is one of the most critical moments in American history. We are living in a period where we are surrounded by paganism."
I think this quote is attributed to the rapper Big Newty G. This is from the same man that had an affair while his wife at the time was suffering from cancer. Asked for a divorce while the woman was still in the hospital. My opinion is that he has no moral compass at all.
Posted by: yo soy Horsedooty!
| June 7, 2009 9:25 AM
Yes Flatus, just watched the race and I think "Mine" started too late and quit too soon. And I think this coming from behind stuff is a little too showy, kind of like the tortoise and the hare, when Mine awoke from his nap the tortoise had won it.
Posted by: ct
| June 7, 2009 9:25 AM
Well, Stinky just called me outside to look at a snake she discovered in our vegetable garden.
My eyes really are bad, so, even from a normal viewing distance, I was unable to identify it. I went upstairs and, using binoculars from our kitchen window, it appears to be a copperhead.
I suppose we'll just let it wander off.
Posted by: Flatus
| June 7, 2009 9:37 AM
Flatus, from what I've been told, copperheads come in pairs. When you see one, there is another one around.
Posted by: ct
| June 7, 2009 9:42 AM
senor fish,
all that talk about guitars last night made me remember my first electric guitars. Danelectro was the brand.
there is a company doing a re-issue now as seen here.
http://www.danelectro.com/index.html
Posted by: yo soy Horsedooty!
| June 7, 2009 9:44 AM
Thank you, Carol.
We try to be careful of snakes giving them a chance to move out of our way as we walk through our woods. There's plenty of room for us to peaceably share their habitat.
I suppose for every snake I see, there are hundreds that I don't, despite my being very close to them. I hope they know I mean them no harm.
Posted by: Flatus
| June 7, 2009 9:47 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234096
Flatus --
As far as I know, our copperhead may still be lurking in the rock wall next to the driveway. I hope it's not in there making little baby copperheads.
At the garden center yesterday, I came across a product (I think it was Ortho) called Snake Repellent. Didn't buy it because I have no idea if it would be a waste of money. Maybe you or others here have some thoughts about it? I am mostly concerned about our pets encountering them.
Posted by: ivygreen.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 9:50 AM
I was just reading about them Flatus and the articles said most bites come from trying to kill the snake. That's what I call bad snake karma. I avoid bad snake Karma by leaving all snakes alone.
Posted by: ct
| June 7, 2009 9:50 AM
I avoid bad snake karma by not reading the book of genesis.......
dootsta.......that silvertone/danelectro we had (c. '56- '57 ) was really a fine guitar.......and made a creditable bass after we converted it........
Posted by: sturgeone
| June 7, 2009 9:57 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234080
Carol,
Should have known the half brother would get jealous and go after the sibling with - "Take this Big Shot!"
Kids!!!
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 9:59 AM
Carol, the only snake I killed was a fer-de-lance that decided to take-up residence in the hibisicus bordering our carport in the Canal Zone.
The only reason I did that snake in was out of fear for the life of our courageous, highly territorial, dachshund.
Posted by: Flatus
| June 7, 2009 10:04 AM
I gotta start staying up all night and sleeping in. It really gets interesting around here in the midnight hour.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 10:05 AM
Good morning all
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234088
Carol
Your simply the BEST..Thanks for that! I think Max will still think those gay penguins are inferior parents...HA HA, the chick will flourish..
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 10:05 AM
Here is my friend Brad Davis playing a orange Gretsch on stage in the Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters band from last year. Camera work is pretty crummy but hey who knows what drugs were ingested before the concert? Enjoy....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRExz5ngNVM
Posted by: yo soy Horsedooty!
| June 7, 2009 10:05 AM
Good weekend. The Belmont yesterday. The Tonys tonight. Jane Fonda said the opening number will be Dolly Parton and Liza.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 10:07 AM
Jamie, did you say big party at Tony's tonight?
Posted by: Flatus
| June 7, 2009 10:11 AM
Hubs bought his own early Father's Day prez, a 1992 Les Paul Studio "Lite" weighing seven pounds..."made for studio musicians with all the tone and not the weight," so he's telling me as if I know anything about it.
Posted by: ivygreen.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 10:12 AM
Flatus,
it has always been my experience that Copperheads are pretty aggressive with regards to where they think they should live. I would watch that wall where you think the snake is taking up residence like a hawk. I had a friend who's house became a breeding ground for rattlers. Not a pretty sight. Please be careful.
Posted by: yo soy Horsedooty!
| June 7, 2009 10:14 AM
"I avoid bad snake karma by not reading the book of genesis......."
Sturg, that may be exactly it! I read the book of Genesis this morning as depicted here:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/08/090608fa_fact_mouly
Posted by: Flatus
| June 7, 2009 10:14 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234035
Good things from California? The people. My mama and all of her sisters and brothers were born there.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 10:15 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-233889
"So The Tony Baloney wants to ride with us. Has he paid one third of the entrance fee?. Get it up front. Before he spends the dough on his Dillos."
Solar
What a beautifully written and insightful post..How did you know I was spending money on the Dillos?HA HA,yes not much left over to cover the entrance fee..I was at Home Depot yesterday buying stone for my landscaping.Those Dillos keep throwing the red mulch out on the lawn as they dig trenches.I fixed them the stone is to heavy for them to move..HA..I hope they get the message and go to a more Dillo friendly home..
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 10:15 AM
Thank you Doots, I will. So far, the snake is in the raised portion of the garden waiting for something to come by. If there's any sign of an infestation, I'll call the county.
Posted by: Flatus
| June 7, 2009 10:17 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234113
Horsedoot --
That's me with the rock wall, and I'm watching it like a hawk and I hope our resident red-shouldered hawks are doing the same thing!
Posted by: ivygreen.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 10:18 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-233873
Chloe
Yes I did want to ride!!! Thanks for including me and giving Jamie the heads up....
Oh yes,thanks for the warning on Hillary being on "This Week",DVR set..Hope your little birdie is a-ok?Emma too...
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 10:19 AM
Tony, capture some and sell them to Northerners as Florida lobster.
Posted by: Flatus
| June 7, 2009 10:20 AM
You'll have to come up with some good recipes.
Posted by: Flatus
| June 7, 2009 10:20 AM
The dark lord might keep a lookout for Queen Mimi of Bloggingham castle. Steal too many of her titles and you just might end up in her basement. You DO NOT want to go to the Bloggingham basement. There hasn't been a Johnny Depp movie in a while. He may still be down there.
http://mimiwrites.blogspot.com/
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 10:23 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234009
Jamie
You had me laughing hysterically here!! Every word regarding Bill Bennett is true and then some...
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 10:27 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234120
Ha Flatus
Brilliant Idea! Your so smart and yes that would be a way for my growing family to earn its keep....
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 10:29 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234111
Yes,come on down or over...I can throw together something quick for the Tmixer's...Wings and my mom's potato salad with a big fruit bowl....
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 10:33 AM
sorry Ivy. My reading skills improve hourly with each cup of coffee. Might send a message to the head Red-tailed Hawk to have him/her put a note on their bulletin board.
Posted by: yo soy Horsedooty!
| June 7, 2009 10:34 AM
Warren
I just got caught up
You amaze me and I thoroughly enjoy reading you..It would be hard to pick out any one post,their all good! I'm glad your here...Especially on the days I fight with Max...
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 10:37 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234127
Not a problem, Horsedoots. I hope I can get the hawks attention. They've had their talons full fending off the crows that mob them daily. Quite a show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobbing_behavior
Posted by: ivygreen.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 10:50 AM
I'm rooting for Billy Elliot tonight at the Tonys. Loved the movie and the few clips I've seen on TV with the three boys who play Billy have been wonderful.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 10:56 AM
I'm attempting to determine if my mob of crows is made up of less-frequently occurring Fish Crows or juveniles of the wide-spread American Crow. We are in the Fish Crow summer breeding grounds and we have the habitat. Among adults, the species are distinguished by sound, but when comparing the juvenile Fish to the adult American, it is a very tough call to make, likely beyond my meager skills.
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Fish_Crow/sounds
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Crow/sounds
Posted by: ivygreen.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 11:20 AM
Dooty...
yup.... yesterday was 74-75 degrees, low humidity and lots of sunshine.... absolutely picture perfect for us New Englanders.... starting later today it's suppose to rain... sock in for 4-5 days... and only be in the 60s....
and here I was looking forward to maybe seeing some sprouting going on next week concerning my blue corn.... sure hope the seeds don't rot in the ground.... it's the only crop we planted this year.... our garden beds need to be rebuilt and there's just too much work cleaning up after that ice storm.... we'll plant again next spring....
I want to go outside now while there's still some sunlight left.... love to sit in the sun and read.... I'm reading "Cleopatra and Antony".... the front cover says "power, love, and politics in the ancient world".... what's not to love about a story like that.... those Ptolemies were quite the fun lovin' family....
and the author, Diana Preston, got the order correct by listing her first...
Posted by: RebelliousRenee
| June 7, 2009 11:34 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234131
Ivy,
That Fish Crow looks a lot smaller than the Crows I'm used to seeing here.. We have a lot of them (American Crow, I'm sure), but their so big. Also, listening to the call sample they had on the page you linked, I thought the fish crow sounded more pleasant (just a personal preference, I guess.) . Our crows sound so threatening to the other birds.
Posted by: chloe
| June 7, 2009 11:35 AM
Renee, You'd never be able to sit outside and read here. If the heat and humidity didn't kill you, the insects would. :) I think it's going to be 92 today.
Posted by: chloe
| June 7, 2009 11:38 AM
CT, you're very funny. I can see Penguins on the same sex marriage poster. However, your comment doesn't make sense. I have already posted a lengthy defense of gay couples that have State authorization to have adopted kids having the right to be married. As you can see in the case of penguins, evolution is served.
I could also point out various species that take the opposite gender as a life long mate, but nowhere is it found the natural tendency is for same sex pairing. Evolution wouldn't work, would it?
Below is an interesting link. Below Churchill's thoughts on Islam are comments by a friend of Sarkozy. This issue is different than same sex marriage but has an important link on a political level.
http://galliawatch.blogspot.com/
I have read several similar comments by other French leaders who agree with the trend and I see that Islamization is running headlong into gay marriage. This is the strange thing about what is going on in Europe. Accommodation of Islam while moving to positions most rejected by Islam.
We here in the US, do not have the same demographic problems. I think that Obama is trying a different tact. He does not seem to advocate the same cultural relativism in Europe. He seems he would rather religions given space, but preserve the secular nature of our society and any attempt to allow America to be come watered down to the lowest common denominator. Islam rejects abortion and gay marriage. Islam does not put country before God or a Constitution. We are Americans before believers. One would think therefore that asserting those things would buffer us against Islamic inroads and encourage assimilation, but the irony is that under such cultural relativism proposed by some on the Left and the separation of church and State, ideas that reject such liberties are offered safe haven. In the following case, lawyers assert this criminals religious zeal is a sign of mental illness and overlook the connection of the Mosque he was found in to other attacks quite possibly the recent shooting of an American soldier. This head in the sand approach overlooks inevitable conflict when we aren't honest.
http://media.www.thelantern.com/media/storage/paper333/news/2009/06/04/Campus/Wrong.Place.Wrong.Time.For.Osu.Stabbing.Victim-3746031.shtml
One would think that pro abortion, gay advocates and anti-religionists would see the inevitable problems with giving all classes of people what they consider their "rights". They more than others should see the terrible oppression of women and children. If we don't draw some line, then it is only time that stands in the way of our Founding Principles being caught in a struggle with demographics deciding what is right and wrong, good and bad.
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 7, 2009 11:45 AM
Max,
As you know, I enjoy your posts and think you are a very nice person, as well as extremely intelligent. I do, however, wish you'd let this one go and talk about something else, since it obviously offends so many people. Beside, none of that stuff matters. It all comes down to one very simple principle. We are all equal and therefore, we all deserve equal rights. Everything else is just talk.
Posted by: chloe
| June 7, 2009 11:51 AM
"but their so big"
I usually just leave my errors alone (as hard as it may be), but this one 'really' bothers me. sb they're so big. Bear with me.
Posted by: chloe
| June 7, 2009 11:54 AM
Good morning Tony (if you're still around). There sure were a lot of nice things you said to everyone this morning. Good to see you posting.
Posted by: chloe
| June 7, 2009 11:57 AM
Flatus, If you caught Hillary on Stephanopoulos this morning, I sure would like to hear what you think. I missed the first part, but caught the last part. I'll probably look for a video of it in a while.
Posted by: chloe
| June 7, 2009 12:00 PM
Chloe, I did not bring it up, CT did with his comment about Penguins. I tried to link two topics: Islamization and the move by the West to go harder to the Left.
I will give it a rest as I have tried to do since the topic came up last week.
I think however, "we are all equal and therefore, we all deserve equal rights" is exactly the issue that defines the uncertain course of SCOTUS and our collision course with Islam who want their equal rights too.
With that, I will enjoy the day.
Thanks Chloe for your words....
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 7, 2009 12:02 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234134
Hey Chloe
You got me beat in the temperature department,89 today feels like 93 with the almost 100% humidity...We have been having so many storms,yesterday another 5 inches of rain.Wish you were here I would serve you up some of my Spaghetti salad,oh a pork chops too...I'm also planting some more Bougainvillea,beautiful pinkish purple color.. Going to the movies today or lunch?
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 12:04 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234138
Chloe
Thanks your sweet..I didn't get caught until this am..Yesterdays posts just were so enjoyable....I watched Hillary,god I love that woman.I think more than any other leader in my life..The clip they showed of her speech bowing out last year still touches me...
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 12:09 PM
Tony
Glad to here that you have resolved your dillo problemas. Flatus had the right idea. dillo lobster sounds as good as dillo soup.
I forgot that yesterday was the birthday of my grandnephew Alex. Alex was 1 years old and the youngest of 4. After 3 girls Al my nephew and his wife Veronica had given up on a little boy. He was quite a pleasant surprise to them and to us all.
I am always surprised at how developed children can be. Alex kept staring at me. He seemed very amused that I stared right back at him. I kept asking him why he was eye balling me. Which made him laugh out loud. He also knew that the party was for him. When we sang happy birthday he was do a litte shoulder dance and laughing at us all.
He was a very happy little one year old. This made us all very very happy.
This also reinforces my idea that if you want to make someone happy. Make your self happy first. Not in some selfish way. That is just selfish. But in a way that is sound. Healthy. When you see some you love happy. The joy that you get is the best feeling possible.
Tony. About that race. I don't think that you have been reading the race threads that closely. You might have missed the one's that said that the jockey's shed a much weight possible before the race. So the lighter the weight on the horse. The faster if will go.
We came in fourth. Will never know for sure. But we could have won if you didn't bring those dang Dillos with you. The extra weight could have hurt us in the stretch. Those dillos are soup. If I had my way HA!
And to be fair with you. I did not help that Chloe was talking all of the time. Could not make that gal pay attention to the race. I was to blame just as much. I kept talking about my horse Cheyenne. I think that this distracted our steed. He was listening to the point of distraction.
Hey Im a CUBS fan. There are lot of reasons that I can come up with about why we lost. The next time we ride there will be some rules for the race.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 7, 2009 12:12 PM
If I was closer Tony, I would invite myself over. Please take no offense with my comments. I am glad to see the military is reconsidering their position on "some issues". Given what America is up against, why exclude those who really have a dog in this fight?
Though I won't elaborate anymore, I think my first link above explains some concerns I have with relativism and why this is an issue of many v the few, although watching star trek recently again, I note Kirk's postion that the one is more important than the many.
In time, maybe he is right........
Again no offense meant.
Enjoy the day everyone.........
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 7, 2009 12:13 PM
For Warren,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/weekinreview/07nordland.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=world&adxnnlx=1244365551-LPXXNHByXgu0i81yrdY6Pw
The NYT and I actually agree. Miracles of miracles.....
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 7, 2009 12:20 PM
If I was closer Tony, I would invite myself over. Please take no offense with my comments.
Max
No offense taken! If you were closer you would be most welcome...I think your a very nice guy and the fact that we disagree on a few things is great with me..I think the exchange of idea's is what's important and you sure bring much to the table..Thanks Max for being a good sport!!
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 12:22 PM
"Tony. About that race. I don't think that you have been reading the race threads that closely. You might have missed the one's that said that the jockey's shed a much weight possible before the race. So the lighter the weight on the horse. The faster if will go."
SolarMan
I'm bad I know but in my defense I think I burned 1000 calories yesterday between the stepper and weights..Oh and guilt helps as I intend to do the elliptical today that is after I get my Dillo rock down...For you Solar,GO CUBS...
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 12:25 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234137
Chloe --
We knew what you meant, plus we're a forgiving flock.
You're right about the size of the crow species...adult Fish Crows are 15-and-a-half inch birds while American Crows are 17-and-a-half-inch birds. The Fish Crow call is the more "melodic," but probaby not to the American Crows.
>(*v*)<
Posted by: ivygreen.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 12:27 PM
Thanks Max, and thanks for not taking offense. You are 'always' so well mannered. Have a great day!
Tony, We have Emma for the day, so we'll have to save the movie for another day. That won't stop us from going to lunch though. She's great to take places and loves the sites. Yesterday, we took her with us to PetSmart, and while her grampa did the shopping, her and I looked at the birds (the cutest were the little finches they had), guinea pigs, mice, etc. Then we moved on the the fish. And, of course, there were many dogs throughout the store. It was as good as a trip to the zoo for one so young -- she loved it.
All kidding aside, I would love to be there for one of those pork chops too Tony. I can only imagine what a wonderful host you are, and that house and pool are to die for.
Have fun today!
Posted by: chloe
| June 7, 2009 12:34 PM
tony, here are 2 sites of dillo recipes
http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zarmadillo.html
http://www.cajuncookingrecipes.com/wildgamerecipes/wildgamerecipes_armadillorecipes.htm
Posted by: patd
| June 7, 2009 12:38 PM
Max, I was just funning ya. No offense. We need people of different points of view here to keep us all thinking. It's by debating that we really even find out how committed we are to our point of view.
I had just stepped out to WW. Been going so much that I was feeling some withdrawal. Got a boat battery last year that went dead but....it wasn't even a year old so I got another one for free. Love it. And I found a card table, I really didn't need but it was on sale for 18 bucks, normally 44 bucks. Very satisfying, almost euphoric. I don't know if I can even stand myself today, I'm so happy.
Posted by: ct
| June 7, 2009 12:39 PM
Max
The gay gene is a continuous part of evolution. If it wasn't it would have died out long before now. Also gays can reproduce. That makes also makes it part of evolution. There are very few species that mate for life. Even those species are know to have a fling or two. That is also part of evolution. Tony said.
"Thanks Max for being a good sport!!"
Yeah. But do it in the corner hahaha. Just kidding Max. Chlo is right . Your a good guy.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 7, 2009 12:40 PM
Ivy, Thanks, I love all the bird info. Keep it coming!
Posted by: chloe
| June 7, 2009 12:47 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234150
OMG Pat
This is for real...I don't find the Dillo's appealing as a food..Yuck!! But I don't like Deer meat either....
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 12:50 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234143
Solar --
"This also reinforces my idea that if you want to make someone happy. Make your self happy first. Not in some selfish way. That is just selfish. But in a way that is sound. Healthy. When you see some you love happy. The joy that you get is the best feeling possible."
How wonderful!
I was tickled by Craig's comment that he's "used to being ignored around here" because we rarely stay on his topic. I know he was joking, but one reason I stick around, even when merely lurking, is the fact that Craig takes on the "big topics" like World Peace, while allowing me to enjoy the "fun stuff" like birds, snakes, horses, gardens, poetry, history, and the other stuff of our fabulous culture. It also keeps me out of "managing" other peoples' problems over which I have no control, better helping me to "don't worry, be happy" for which I need all the help I can get. (^_~)
Posted by: ivygreen.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 12:50 PM
tony, sometimes (for finger food entertaining crowd) i'll fix my version of pigs in a blanket but call them "dilla delights" .... instead of biscuit dough wrapped around lil smokies, use pillsbury crescent triangles cut in half and roll them around the meat shaping them like armadillos. big hit, usually run out of those before the wings or shrimp disappear.
Posted by: patd
| June 7, 2009 12:50 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234149
Chloe
Sounds like a wonderful day.Brings back many a good memory of my times spent with my niece Ashley Marie....
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 12:54 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234156
Pat
Now that does sound good! What a nice finger food Idea,thanks...
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 12:56 PM
"I am always surprised at how developed children can be."
Solar, Do you think we're just noticing it more because we're older now (and oh sooooooo wise :), or do you think they're getting smarter.
I actually think it's because we do so much more with them now, and teach them so much younger. I never realized how open they are to stimulation and learning those first few months, and am having a lot of fun with it. Four months old, and Emma LOVES books, baby genius DVDs, animal, people, outdoors and nature -- and everything about it.
Posted by: chloe
| June 7, 2009 12:56 PM
Thought for the day :
" Pale ink beats a good memory. "
1778 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel London England, English dandy
1940 Tom Jones Pontypridd Wales, singer (What's New Pussycat)
1958 Prince [Rodgers Nelson], rocker/actor (1999, Purple Rain)
1692 Porte Royale Jamaica slides into harbor after earthquake
1769 Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Kentucky
1912 US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
1924 George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775' from Everest's summit
1954 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)
1955 "The $64,000 Question" premiers on CBS TV
1955 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)
1967 2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors
1967 Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem
1969 Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash combine on a Grand Ole Opry TV special
1970 The Who's Tommy is performed at NY's Lincoln Center
1979 Rocker Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion
1981 Israel destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 7, 2009 12:57 PM
tony, just as well that the real dillo is not your thing as one has to be careful not to eat them undercooked.
https://www.msu.edu/~nixonjos/armadillo/faq.html#04
flatus, if you do have to kill the copperhead, don't eat it... not as tasty as rattler or boa.
Posted by: patd
| June 7, 2009 1:00 PM
"This also reinforces my idea that if you want to make someone happy. Make your self happy first. Not in some selfish way. That is just selfish. But in a way that is sound. Healthy. When you see some you love happy. The joy that you get is the best feeling possible."
"How wonderful! " Ivy
I agree! Solar, Many (MANY!) years ago, I read a book called 'The Art of Selfishness'. And it's about very much the same thing that you're talking about. I don't think being good to yourself is being selfish at all. You have to treat yourself as well as you expect to be able to treat other people. And I think the feeling of 'gratitude' is what gives us that best feeling possible that you mentioned. Appreciation.
Posted by: chloe
| June 7, 2009 1:04 PM
And thank you Tony and everyone here tolerating my rants. Yep, Bob that includes you as well as Jack, Sturg, Ping and Pogo. Pats and the rest as well.
I can't bounce these ideas off of conservatives (as some have said such nuance goes way over most of their heads) and it wouldn't matter either. When I go too long or step on too many feet, tell me.
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 7, 2009 1:08 PM
solarcookingnut (34 minutes ago)
WHAOOOOO, THAT IS GOING TO BE A BIG OVEN! Will be great to cook at family reunions and cookouts! Looking forward to seeing this one cooking! Keep up the videos, can't wait to see this!
solarcookingnut (28 minutes ago)
I built several large ovens, not as big as this, but still big enough to cook a whole meal in ONE oven. I always tell newbies to BUILD A BIG oven, this way, they won't be disappointed with having to build another one that is larger than the first. In my slantfaced oven, I can cook a meat, casserole, veggies, bread and dessert in ONE oven. i start with the meat first, then add the other pots in the order they will be done by dinner I stack them on top of the other pots using racks.
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 7, 2009 1:08 PM
"I did not help that Chloe was talking all of the time. Could not make that gal pay attention to the race. I was to blame just as much. I kept talking about my horse Cheyenne. I think that this distracted our steed. He was listening to the point of distraction."
I knew you'd blame losing that race on me! That horse loves it when I talk. What went wrong in that race is all that extra weight you put on. I told you to eat light, but nooooooo. That horse could not carry all that extra weight.
Posted by: chloe
| June 7, 2009 1:08 PM
thanks cbob, found this cash & dylan song sparked by your history list.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvuijyz6Yac
Posted by: patd
| June 7, 2009 1:09 PM
I love ya Max -
Rant away.
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 7, 2009 1:10 PM
Tony --
I baked you a cake! (^_~)
http://annieoscustomcreations.com/files/armadillo_cake_1-483x323.jpg
Posted by: ivygreen.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 1:11 PM
Chlo
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234159
All of it. But we as adults are taking more time for them. Than our parents took (most of them any way imo) for us.
We also never talk that goofy baby talk to them. The little girls are talked to like a person. They are given choices to make. Little ones and aske why they made them. We talk to them in both Spainis . English also. What I think is that by the younger ones being around the older ones (children) that also aske the why questions. Makes them respond to the question . This makes them more aware of everything. No matter how young. They respon well to all of this.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 7, 2009 1:14 PM
"On armadillo and hot spices..."
http://theoldfoodie.blogspot.com/2005/11/on-armadillo-and-hot-spices.html
Posted by: ivygreen.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 1:17 PM
"We also never talk that goofy baby talk to them"
.... oops, 'almost' never. :)
Good thoughts Solar.
You know, you said you were a quick learner, and I know you are. But still, it's amazing. Beautifully written Solar. Your posts have always been a pleasure to read, but still, I can't tell you the respect I have for you, the way you're always improving at 'everything'. That takes a special kind of person.
Posted by: chloe
| June 7, 2009 1:20 PM
max, a good rant is a terrible thing to waste on the wrong people. glad we can be of service.
Posted by: patd
| June 7, 2009 1:21 PM
Solar, so you're quoting me now on the genetics of gayness? I will do as Chloe asked and avoid this conversation now (I do have a sensible rebuttal as I mentioned the evolutionary point first here), but thanks for the nice comment. If I thought you all had little merit and were mean, why would I torture you all? I will say only that I recognize the merit of your postion as well as my own. One observation: artificial wombs will one day radically alter the social equaltion. I would NEVER deny a gay couple the right to be married if one of them contributed to the genetics of their child. That would be rather silly, yes? And it goes against my advocacy for gay parents to be legally married. Complex......and another time, okay?
Bob, it IS facinating that the 6 Day war and the Israeli bombing of Saddam's plant happened at the same time of year. I guess we should be happy nothing has happened recently. If you remember, the NYT was quite pro Israel in their reporting. Lost was the later poor coverage of Reagan's pre-empting (stopping) the Indian/Israeli strike on Pakistan's infant nuclear facilities. Now the Taliban are a two hour drive from them.
http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/eco-gadgets-5-solar-oven-wins-75000-green-innovation-award/
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 7, 2009 1:21 PM
Nothing in this world more attractive than open mindedness.
Posted by: chloe
| June 7, 2009 1:21 PM
Me over weight. Me over weight. Look behind you. Oh that was Tony hhaha
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 7, 2009 1:22 PM
Don't start with me!. It's Sunday. I just came back from Church. Not able to argue with since Im in a state of grace!.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 7, 2009 1:25 PM
bob, in my tassel song this morning, hope you didn't mind that i promised you'd send them seeds next year.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234081
Posted by: patd
| June 7, 2009 1:26 PM
seems like when they're not misfiring, they're whining....or both
Posted by: patd
| June 7, 2009 1:31 PM
Patd, you ARE the right people. Given the moderate witch hunt on the Right, there are not too many conservatives listening to centrist reasoning. You think most agree with the NYT on Obama's speech? Yes, some facts I post seem like conservatives would agree with some of my facts, but the sad truth is that the context they place these facts go deep into the gutter. What Democrats think is far more important to me at the moment...
Cheney probably thought Summer Bird was something he could shoot at.......
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 7, 2009 1:33 PM
let's try that midfire again, this time with the link:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gap9wCaolRYguYQesA2i2Yr98yLgD98LUSA01
Posted by: patd
| June 7, 2009 1:33 PM
Grassley's first tweet: "Pres Obama you got nerve while u sightseeing in Paris to tell us 'time to deliver' on health care. We still on skedul/even workinWKEND."
poor chuckie, him gotta work on the weekend while bad ole barry gets to play in paris..... poor baby.
Posted by: patd
| June 7, 2009 1:38 PM
Chloe, then your guy must be the most open minded person in the world. As my girl is Indian, I can not say the same (sadly) for her, though that is largely a culural issue. She is cute as hell however......
Now when she saw my shaved head, what the hell was she thinking? I uess she was open minded enough..............
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 7, 2009 1:39 PM
"One would think that pro abortion, gay advocates and anti-religionists would see the inevitable problems with giving all classes of people what they consider their "rights". They more than others should see the terrible oppression of women and children. "
Explain please, Max. Be specific.
Posted by: Patsi
| June 7, 2009 1:40 PM
Patd
You were right. I heard Carol the party queen all the way here in Ill.
Carol. Im happy that you r happy. Now can we get back to the river reports. The prehistoric beaver reports (ha like I believed that one) The great pic. Really liked that last on. The am one. Im a morining person. I like the beginning of things. A new day. I put that in my pic folder for background on my monitor. I like alternating themes.
Did you dance on the table with that con?.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySdRUWYJhsk#
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 7, 2009 1:44 PM
Grassley is just pissed Obama is pushing a public plan and fast tracking it. This is just political gaming.
Deval poll numbers reflect the problem with Mass healthcare. What started out as a public plan to cover only the uninsured who can't afford it might get bigger and threaten the private system beyond healthy competition. With so many experiments going on, it might be wise to take some time and get bipartisan consensus. GOP feels the snubs and are doing the only thing they can do for some leverage.
So Sarcozy and Agrassley feel snubbed. I still can't get over that Bush joke with a billion Muslims and one dentist. Hving a night out in Paris doesn't seem in the same ballpark and how many vacations did Bush have? Perhaps he should have been reading his daily briefing instead......
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 7, 2009 1:47 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234182
"cute as hell however."
Ha, Cute's important too Max. As well as cultural beliefs. :)
It's all good.
Posted by: chloe
| June 7, 2009 1:51 PM
Thanks you! Chlo
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 7, 2009 1:56 PM
It is a matter of time before Islamists here complain their rights are being violated. Seven Million are sure to have a subset bitching that their religious freedom is being marginalized. And that does not include those people who want two wives or a Muslim holiday. Does the left want religious garb in classrooms and not gang clothing? There is a long list of things certain classes say they have a right to. It is a slippery slope one cannot deny. There is a long history of our debating the line between rights and our cultrual values (the rights of majorities).
Of course we all know the people advocating for the rights of the unborn or the brain dead.
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 7, 2009 1:56 PM
Should have put an :-) after thanks you.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 7, 2009 1:57 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234168
Oh Ivy
Yes that cake looks just like one of my baby dillos...My bad I'm wondering what the frosting tastes like...
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 1:58 PM
Got to run, it is beautiful in NYC...Patd, I know that was not enough of an answer. Another time, I am sure....
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 7, 2009 1:59 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234171
"Your posts have always been a pleasure to read, but still, I can't tell you the respect I have for you, the way you're always improving at 'everything'. That takes a special kind of person."
Chloe
You took the words right out of my keyboard....
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 2:01 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234175
"Me over weight. Me over weight. Look behind you. Oh that was Tony hhaha"
Solar
You Funny!!
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 2:05 PM
As it happens I just wrote about a song that was actually written to make the best of a very bad situation
http://jdurward.blogspot.com/
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 2:06 PM
I could've missed this being posted by someone else, but did you see the image inside the Egyptian pyramid that the President spied during his guided tour? Too eerie or too funny, I can't decide...?
http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2009/06/04/image5062716x.jpg
Posted by: ivygreen.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 2:14 PM
Strug.
A series about ancient clashes that focuses on the military commanders and their tactics. The premiere episode explores Hannibal's daring attack on Rome during the Second Punic War in the 3rd century B.C.
Going to record this series. On at 7:pm my time.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 7, 2009 2:17 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234190
Tony --
I have been known to eat a batch of frosting first and spare myself the work of baking a whole cake!
Posted by: ivygreen.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 2:18 PM
Back to the future. Bring on the pagans. I'm running right out for mistletoe and holly to put a stake through Newtie's heart
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_06/018512.php
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 2:39 PM
Tony.
Just thought about it. You said that "you burned 1000 calories". That is 333 and 1/3rd fat calories. You must be in good shape to do that. Plus the swimming. Plus the weights. I probably do the 333. But with the weights included.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 7, 2009 2:39 PM
"knew you'd blame losing that race on me! That horse loves it when I talk. What went wrong in that race is all that extra weight you put on. I told you to eat light, but nooooooo. That horse could not carry all that extra weight."
Another lesson that we can teach the young. We can teach them to accept it responsibility (when they are wrong). that it is always easy to put the blame on others. Then they can move on. The lesson would be that it does no one any good if we can't accept the facts. But that's ok. There will be other opportunity's. to teach them this later on.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 7, 2009 3:02 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234187
Max,
There have already been several suits of this type with a variety of results. Some that come immediately to mind: The wearing of hajib both in other uniform places, schools, and driving licenses. The wearing of a turban when other head gear is normally required. Children wearing of the little ceremonial dagger worn by Sikhs. Side curls, yarmulkas ... you name it there are scads of voluntary and mandatory garments worm by members of minority religions.
I trust our courts to come to an accomodation that protects the majority while upholding the rights of the minority.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 3:15 PM
A Pagan hymn -
White Bird - It's a beautiful day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmb69MdeJBc
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 7, 2009 3:33 PM
A Pagan hymn -
White Bird - It's a beautiful day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmb69MdeJBc
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 7, 2009 3:33 PM
I have no idea how I just did that.
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 7, 2009 3:40 PM
Off to be an Egyptian ........... We're moving a 1500 lb , 8 ft.sheet metal brake today .
Let the gathering of the slaves begin.
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 7, 2009 3:46 PM
Bending steel tomorrow , yum !
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 7, 2009 3:53 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234203
Yep Solar, You're right.
Facts are what they are -- They need to know that from the beginning. We mustn't forget that a lot of what they learn is from imitation too. So we need to always keep that in mind as we're interacting with and reacting to them, and others (in front of them). Most of the really important things they learn are the things they see over and over again, day after day.
Posted by: chloe
| June 7, 2009 4:14 PM
I should have put a big :-)))) cos thats what that it was. I forgot to ask how Emma has been lately?
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 7, 2009 4:21 PM
Oh. I told your joke yesterday. It was a big hit!
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 7, 2009 4:23 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234199
Ivy
I love the frosting.I miss baking cakes for the ladies .The four years my mom was on chemo i baked cakes all the time.I kept the two refrigerators filled will every kind of goodies and food you could imagine all in an effort to entice my mom to eat....My grandmother also loved sweets and at 94 its was almost all i could get her to eat.....
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 5:19 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234202
Hey Solar
1000 calories is what the Stair Stepper says I burn.I don't know how accurate it is though but its all good..I can remember 10 years ago when I started out with the stepper I could only do 5 minutes on level 1.I now do and hour on level 10.I can do more cardio but if I do I have to cut back on the Nautilus weight machines which I don't to to excess as I'm just trying to maintain..
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 5:26 PM
I know it's just a matter of perception (but then, what isn't?) but everytime one of you talks about dillo's, my mind changes that second 'l' to a 'd'. Just saying.
Barbecue for my niece's birthday - 41st. Yikes!
Posted by: bethyboo
| June 7, 2009 5:37 PM
kbr = halliburton = you know who
"In its first report to Congress, the Wartime Contracting Commission presents a bleak assessment of how tens of billions of dollars have been spent since 2001. The 111-page report, obtained by The Associated Press, documents poor management, weak oversight, and a failure to learn from past mistakes as recurring themes in wartime contracting.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gKJ53PosQMlkoxmF_2yZQNLLxAdwD98M192G2
The report is scheduled to be made public Wednesday at a hearing held by the House Oversight and Government Reform's national security subcommittee."
Posted by: patd
| June 7, 2009 6:10 PM
solar......what channel the roman general show?
Posted by: sturgeone
| June 7, 2009 6:37 PM
Please keep Inhofe front and center in the news. It's important that people know what conservatives stand for.
Posted by: billp
| June 7, 2009 6:44 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234218
Oh Bethy
Your funny!! I never write that word again without thinking of that...
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 7:08 PM
The theater nut is burbling watching the Tony arrivals - Bebe Neuwirth will be bringing the Addams family to Broadway next year. Brush up on your French. She will be a great Morticia.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 7:08 PM
OK. It is time to go with the 3 scotches and then switch to beer rule. But it was a fun nite!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIjUY3pjN8E
Posted by: warren
| June 7, 2009 7:15 PM
patd
Amstel is my next choice when they don't have coors.
(Sometimes those shi-shi places won't have coors lite cause even they can't bring themselves to charge more than $8 for it I think. And on the cheaper end - Keystone Light is a good option).
Posted by: warren
| June 7, 2009 7:20 PM
Joe Turner's Come and Gone just one the first award for Lighting in A Play
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 7:21 PM
You think we have problems with our right wing.... The day after the anniversary of D-Day, the British Parliament has gained two possibly three members (still counting votes) of the British Nazi Party.
Of course they are protesting Pakistanis and Indians but the noises are the same.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| June 7, 2009 7:32 PM
Sturg. Sorry. It is on History international. If you are not watching the whole show now. It will air again tonight at 11 pm my time.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 7, 2009 7:35 PM
Bethy
No more of that. Who? little o'le me stuff from U. No more of getting fooled by that sweet just saying. Saying. Last weeks joke. Now this one. Like Tony says . You funny.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 7, 2009 7:42 PM
Bethy
I know what happened to you! You are hanging around that Cajun women. She is a bad influence . What with all those late night fiestas and all. The crowd that she hangs with. One would think that they were some kind of chain gang or something?
Sturg
I feel bad about not putting up the whole information on that. Those shows are always on the history or the history int. MY bad! I hope that you managed to find it on time. Like I said it is also on tonight at 11 pm my time. Record it if too late so you can watch later on.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 7, 2009 7:49 PM
Thanks T!
I think my posts reflect a ton of information and perspectives I have gathered from our little cyber cafe/tavern/meeting place (filtered through my own unique point of view ; )
Posted by: warren
| June 7, 2009 8:04 PM
well, i dont think i have the history int......just history......fooie
Posted by: sturgeone
| June 7, 2009 8:15 PM
Republicans suffer from a paranoid view of a tyrannical and incompetent government.
On the other hand, Democrats suffer from an overestimation of the integrity and competency of government.
Posted by: warren
| June 7, 2009 8:21 PM
Sturg
Fooie is right. My satellite just went on the blink,,,so I will have to look for it some other time.
Posted by: SolarCrete
| June 7, 2009 8:31 PM
I wonder when someone is going to point out the blatant contradiction the GOP makes everytime they make the case against Sotomayor.
First, they will rail against the use of "empathy" and argue that she is an "activist judge" who thinks appellate courts are where "policy is made."
In the next breath, they say she got the Ricci case wrong - making an empathetic case for the firefighters, stating that she was wrong without mentioning a bit of law - and say that the court should have stepped in and actively reversed a decision of the local government on the basis of what is "just" - rather than what the law says.
Nice one guys.
Posted by: warren
| June 7, 2009 8:41 PM
Iraqis detain 5 US contractors in Baghdad
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iraq
I bet conservatives are going to give Obama hell for abiding by an agreement drawn up by Bush and Cheney.
Posted by: warren
| June 7, 2009 9:04 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/06/gop-misfires-again.html#comment-234233
Hey Warren
Your welcome.Hey that's just how I sign off my text messages,T..You have your finger on the pulse MR...
Posted by: tonyb39
| June 7, 2009 9:47 PM
My Visit To Hell
by
Christopher Buckley.....excerpt of article on Daily Beast.....about a trip he made to auschwitz with his dad ten years ago.
More exhibits. The Nazis kept such meticulous records, which in the end only meant that there was a vast amount to destroy as the Red Army approached in January 1945. Every death—murder—was written down. Jarek points to a photocopy of a ledger that survived. “The reason given was never ‘bullet’ or ‘gas,’ but instead ‘heart attack’ or ‘kidney function’.” Deaths are listed in intervals of minutes.
In the next case are photocopies of transit passes for the trucks that brought the cannisters of Zyklon B pellets. The contents are listed as “material for the displacement of Jews.” Here are the minutes from the Wannsee Conference outside Berlin on January 20, 1942, the meeting of the board of directors of the corporation in charge of the Final Solution. These are free of euphemism. One page shows the goal: a column of numbers, country-by-country tallies, with a bottom line of 11 million.
Up a flight of stairs, around a corner. No more paperwork. Now it gets personal: two tons of human hair behind glass. Mounds on mounds, amorphous and hard to take in at first, until you focus and see the pigtails and braids. Jarek remarks that they were going to send some of this to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, but in the end it was declined as “too much.” The hair was shorn after the gassings, then efficiently dried in the crematoria so it could be industrially spun into carpeting.
Here is a large pile of spectacles, a spidery mass of rusted wire-frames and dusty lenses. These were left with the clothing in the dressing rooms, so the last things seen through these glasses would have been nervous kapos and Death’s-Head guards.
Behind another wall of glass is a jumble of rusted artificial limbs, canes, crutches, braces. Like the hair, it blurs into abstraction until the eye settles on a child’s fake leg. Now it’s into another room and the suitcases, piles and piles of shriveled leather suitcases. They wrote their names on them in large white letters. Jarek points out the word “orphan” in Dutch. Hundreds of names. I write down one: PETR EISLER 1942 KIND. The year of his birth and his child—kinder—status. In the next room comes the display of children’s clothing, pacifiers, rattles, hairbrushes. Then the shoes, a mountain. Finally the empty canisters of Zyklon B, perhaps a hundred or more, in a pile. By to the calculations of Rudolph Hoss, Auschwitz’s first commandant, it required seven kilos of Zyklon to murder—not the word he used—1,500 people, so this pile here might have sufficed for perhaps 75,000 or 100,000 human beings. It appears from the tops that they refined the process of opening the cans. Some are jagged, others have been smoothly cut, as if in one motion by a machine. Across from this display is a clay diorama of a gas chamber in action. Once everyone was inside, between 700 and 1,500, depending on which of the five gas chambers it was, the doors and windows were sealed tight. The bluish pellets of diatomite soaked in hydrocyanic acid were poured through chutes. Exposed to oxygen, the pellets gave off prussic acid, blocking the exchange of oxygen in the blood. Those close to the chutes died instantly, the ones farther away took longer. Hoss watched one gassing through a peephole. In his Reminiscences before he was hanged in 1947, he describes clinically that it took two or more minutes before the screams turned to moans. Still they didn’t open the doors for half an hour, just in case. After that it was safe for the Sonderkommando, the prisoner work crews, to wade into the tangle of bodies, vomit, and excrement to get the hair and the gold teeth and drag the bodies next door to the crematorium. The work paid well and was competed for: one-fifth liter of vodka, five cigarettes, 100 grams of sausage for each job.
Posted by: sturgeone
| June 7, 2009 9:47 PM
Go Magic!
Posted by: warren
| June 7, 2009 10:20 PM
Re: Jimmy Lewis – “He sounds as bad off as a rubber-nosed woodpecker in a petrified forest.”
---bob dylan, on his radio show
Posted by: sturgeone
| June 7, 2009 10:41 PM
I grossly under estimated the Egyptian Team at 3:53.
Old Texans move, and Bend Steel in Texas.
Film at 11.
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 7, 2009 11:22 PM
Sturg, very hungry POWs would trade what food they had for cigarettes.
Posted by: Flatus
| June 7, 2009 11:27 PM
Incredible Sturg, isn't it? I guess that's one reason Hitchens defaced the NeoNazi Syrian poster in Lebanon. He knows full well how that turns out. Where he was roughed up and escaped with his life some of the worst sort of this hatred incorporates itself into landscape. In some Lebanese towns it rules as leathered thugs funded by extortion and enablers.
Tonight, the Lebanese voted for Liberty and handed Ahmadinejad a bitter loss. On Thursday Fatah defeated a coup by Hamas in the West Bank. Obama didn't mention that in his speech.
The next few weeks see if Ahmadinejad is desperate enough to green light a military coup in Lebanon. Seems things are pretty tense in Iran. Ahmadinejad invested heavility in Lebanon and has tried to derail the peace process in Gaza. They have sought power in Iraq and shipped tractors and materials to Hugo. Ahmadinejad's opponents are going to paint this loss in Lebanon as his strategic failure after he poured billions into weapons research and isolated his country. Perhaps this History Denier might be defeated.
I would change that likely I told Rez to probable as some in the Iranian Resistance still think many Iranians will forgo voting in protest. It appears the other candidates are about as bad as Ahmadinejad.
Obama's speech was not something that McCain could have delivered or even conceived of but there is a secret. Obama used the opportunity created by the plot by HIzb'Allah, The Brotherhood and Quds to topple the Egyptian government. Egypt has come close to calling it war. It was revealed the Hariri murder is on their hands too. Egyptians were then the best Muslim audience to recognize Muslim genicide to their West and Iranian threats to their East. They had their President murdered over peace with Israel. The timing in this interesting chain of recent events was gift that Obama played perfectly into the Lebanese election and now Iranian elections. He can cement a better military alliance with Lebanon's army and get the Turks on boards with the Egyptians and Jordanians....
Obama avoided a very bad week.
And that's my read for the week to come.
Posted by: maxtrue
| June 8, 2009 12:46 AM
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Never Forget your "Johnson Bar"
We moved the sheet metal brake, and installed it.
Made the first bends in the shell parts.
http://cbsolaroven.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 8, 2009 12:48 AM
I saw this a couple of days ago -
Easily Grossed Out? You Might Be A Conservative!
ScienceDaily (June 5, 2009) — Are you someone who squirms when confronted with slime, shudders at stickiness or gets grossed out by gore? Do crawly insects make you cringe or dead bodies make you blanch?
If so, chances are you're more conservative -- politically, and especially in your attitudes toward gays and lesbians -- than your less-squeamish counterparts, according to two Cornell studies.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604163620.htm
Posted by: Colorado Bob
| June 8, 2009 1:28 AM
I can't believe I'm the only one who had that 'trouble'
with the dillos. I knew I was bad, but gee whiz....I was relling the truth, however, the word did keep popping up in my vision.
As for the babies and little kids, I think was pay more attention because we have more time, and that attention plus all the new gadgets we have today for them to play with is just socializing them more. I know Alex played tricks on us at 3 months and at 4 months invented the game of peek-a-.boo - he laughed at us when our jaws dropped because we never taught him that. He's still playing jokes on us much more so than the others. So believe it when your little ones do spectacular things!
Posted by: bethyboo
| June 8, 2009 1:36 AM
If you can get to this, it's kind of interesting.
www.carnetdevacances.com
Posted by: bethyboo
| June 8, 2009 2:24 AM
Look Bethy, the boys have been dangling that little dillos words in front of us girls for a couple of days now waiting for one of us to get it wrong. Have you ever heard of a dillo? No.
I will have to admit the first time it almost threw me too. But you have to be careful the meat you throw these guys. Understand. You just got caught here.
I went to bed too early and this is what happens, I wake up in the early, early morning.
Posted by: ct
| June 8, 2009 3:53 AM
Headline in the NY Post:
"INMATE'S 55-HR. ERECTION AGONY"
(and they are blaming a nurse)
Carol! Is that you? (I truly did laugh my butt off at that one.)
Posted by: Patsi
| June 8, 2009 4:02 AM
And the "dillo" recipes threw me back as well....:)
Posted by: Patsi
| June 8, 2009 4:04 AM
Yep in all the years I have been dealing with armadillos Bethy no one has ever called them dillos before, at least around here. And who started using this word first? Hmmmm. A little word search and it comes up Solar. The king of the bad boys. You gotta watch him Bethy. I rest my case.
Posted by: ct
| June 8, 2009 4:17 AM
Yep Patsi, a little insomnia. Or went to bed to earlia.
Posted by: ct
| June 8, 2009 4:19 AM
And Patsi, we knew better than to mention it, huh?
Posted by: ct
| June 8, 2009 4:27 AM
Hey Patsi, that little dysfunction is called a priapism.
And 48 hours is way too long. Hell, on TV they say "consult your physician for erections lasting more than 4 hours" when taking Cialis. I think even 4 hours maybe a little long, especially in prison because we prefer they don't really use it there, that is the erection, they definitely don't use Cialis.
Posted by: ct
| June 8, 2009 4:46 AM
"The prehistoric beaver reports (ha like I believed that one) "
Laugh if you must Solar but I was talking to my neighbor about the beavs and he said someone was driving down the road here the other night and almost hit this huge beaver. Never seen one that big. He said it was so big that if he hit it, it would have wrecked his vehicle. I thought, yep, it's the giant beaver after all. Still watching.
Posted by: ct
| June 8, 2009 5:08 AM
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