Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

WOO WOO

Craig... you got that right....

Hell... Kyl couldn't even bother to say "good day" or "hello".... Sotomayer had to remind him of civil manners....

Republicans..... the only white meat....

A minute late and a woohoo short.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/07/why-is-sotomayor-backpedaling.html#comment-243848

I got nervous when I saw Craig's notice...thought we'd reached the end of the Trail...

(^_~)

Craig

This whole Republican attack strategy is a puzzlement.
Unless they know that everybody is blaming the Republicans for the bad economy. If that is so, then they need to distract their base before they too desert them.
Play the poor whites and blacks off of each other. A strategy as old as this nation. It is not much of a stretch to include Hispanics. In fact no stretch at all, they have been doing it for some time with the anti immigration stuff.

Jack

I' was doing some research on the house next door and found the blue corn I planted over their has more problems than the raccoon family. The blue corn now has to worry about the Chinese. Seems the property is now owned by HSBC or Hongkong Shanghai Banking Company.
It was originally a Countrywide loan then Bank of America took over countrywide. We just assumed that we would be dealing with BAC but in the borderless style of today where your money gets to travel more than you do, it looks
like the Chinese bankers have invaded.

Jack

BTW

I have no problems with Chinese bankers as long as they know when to cut their losses and take a reasonable offer.

Jack

"why is an iconic American athlete -- a Texan, no less! -- racing for ... Kazakhstan?"

Lance Armstrong

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/07/14/livestrong_for_make_benefit_of_kazakhstan

What next, the Russians buy the Yankees?
Ya know that would be a good match.

Jack

I don't know how many Hispanic-serving radio and tv stations there are, but I hope that they are all carrying the hearings. It may be the making of a generation long Dem majority.

Viewers of Asian, African, and Latin American extraction have to be wondering where all the female, non-White republican Senators are.

When I was a lad in the '50s, the racist cliche was, "Would you want one to move in next door, and marry your sister ?" (or daughter, depending on the age of the correspondant)

I look at Senators Greasy, Kill, and Secessions, and think, na. I love my sister waaaaaaaaaaaay too much.

Mr. Whsky Jack,

You are a genius on 2 counts :

1. "Play the poor whites and blacks off of each other."

These guys are 'Pitchfork' Ben Tillman with human faces.

2. george steinbrenner was a big pal of dirt nixon, and nixon was a big pal of leonid brezhnev, the 5th red Tsar, and Secretary of the communist Party. By a kind of maxtrue logic, that makes steinbrenner a commie, besides being a felony criminal.

Steinbrenner was pardoned by a Red president, but he's still a corrupt and dangerous felon in my book.

Xrep

I doubt that the modern day Republican would make a good pimple on Tillmans butt.

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

That is something to be thankful for anyway.

Jack

BTW

Steinbrenner is a commie?
Hmmm, I always wondered about him.

Jack

This is not your fathers democratic presidency.

A little Chicago hard ball, high and very inside.
may have rattled the teeth

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090714/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_kyl_stimulus

Does Kyle ever look at Arizona's census data?

41% are non white. Doesn't take very many white Democrats to make a close election.

Jack

Jack,
Not to be cynical, but in Arizona the statewide elections are more about money than they are about demographics, and white male establishment conservatives still control the money.

Hear is a link in memory of Gordo.

OSH this is for you because you miss him;-0

Soldier: Obama not U.S. born, can't send me to Afghanistan

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/100/story/71760.html?storylink=omni_popular

And he is a Major in the Army, lol

Jack

Hi, y'all, just passing through--

Sens. Sessions and Graham are prime examples of the reason we southerners are viewed as the backwoods cousins who embarass everybody at family reunions. They honestly do not see the irony of their own racism. And, unfortunately, they still have a base.

Doesn't look very good for the Major

Just saw this head line

"Supreme Court won't hear Obama citizenship challenge"
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/politics/story/57353.html

If you look closely enough at the news, despite the filters, truth can be found. Last week when confronted by reports that an Israeli sub had been given the Egyptian green light to pass through the Suez, Egypt denied it. Some laughed at my suggesting this was a ruse. Today after two missile ships from Israel passed through the Suez, the Egyptians said this:

"Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Aboul Gheit told the BBC that warships had the right to use the canal provided they had no aggressive intent towards Egypt."

Clearly a stronger signal. escalating in just a week. Why is this happening? What connection does Iran have to Egyptian anger?

We are given a rather lame picture of the Middle East dynamics, so the answer doesn't come easily. To grasp the real complexity and the historically new in current events, we need to reach deeper than media travels. Sometimes the deeper sources are not completely accurate, but if we wait for Wiki, it's history.

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=6178

Does that explain some of the frustration. And Iran is blocking any Hamas compromise. Based on what Obama has told Israel, Egyptian negotiation above does not go far enough in granting Palestininas autonomy.

Now tell me, is debka closer to the truth, or the honesty the President promised us concerning the truth of situations? I'm not bashing Obama. I'm just saying our media is mind dumbing. Such a failure does not bode well for informed debate.

What were the Republicans up to today? They were working on their narrative. I suggest they work on that a bit harder. The smart thing to do would have been to frame questions in terms of present Obama policy on heathcare, card check, FISA, new attempts at gun control, pot etc. Then they could have used the time to frame their agenda. But then that suggestion assumes a smart, responsive and far-sighted leadership...........LOL

Joe

Ya got a point there,

Jack

Jack,
Unfortunately.
Joe

Craig.. Did my post get removed from prior thread?

Captain Kangaroo at the All Star game? No, that's just how we all describe Don. He's husky and has a big white bushy mustach.

"Sens. Sessions and Graham are prime examples of the reason we southerners are viewed as the backwoods cousins who embarass everybody at family reunions."

Too true, KT....Sen. Lamar Alexander hasn't embarrassed Tennessee lately, but some of our house members as well as nearly all our state government sure have.

Posted by: whskyjack | July 14, 2009 9:25 PM :
"Doesn't look very good for the Major
Just saw this head line
"Supreme Court won't hear Obama citizenship challenge"
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/politics/story/57353.html
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Everyone, even republican Senators and Justice Sotomayor, agree that we are at war. Yet a major refuses to obey a command. Hmmm. Maybe it is time for the firing squad to load their rounds.

Okay, if I don't get kicked off for this, I reckon all's well--

I can't say I was truly paying attention to the #1 story on KO's COUNTDOWN, but I do know he and Christian Finnegan were talking about a bill forbidding human-animal hybridization and that mythical curiosity the mermaid came up--

and I would be remiss if I didn't recall Bobby Bare's recording of a Shel Silverstein song--the flip side of his 1974 hit "Marie Laveau"--about a mermaid--

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

Okay--I'll make myself scarce for a day or two--night all--

The local Walmart has a wine and beer isle.

They had a nice selection of Missouri wines. Now I don't care much for the Missouri grape wines but some of the winneries in the state make excellent.

I picked up a straw berry and cherry from St James winnery that were very good They we sweet with a nice fruit flavor. Very good for desert.

I'm sipping on a peach wine that is the best I've ever tasted. Very light, slightly sweet, with a light peach flavor.

Jack

Too true, KT....Sen. Lamar Alexander hasn't embarrassed Tennessee lately, but some of our house members as well as nearly all our state government sure have.

Posted by: Patsi | July 14, 2009 9:49 PM

Agreed, Patsi--I'm still cringing over that mess in Sen. Black's office--and thanking God she's not my state senator--although mine's no prize either--

KT

Would that be runnin' bare?

Jack

O, Marie Laveau,
D voudou queen,
Way down yonder
down in Nooo
Orleeeens.

S'pose the old gal was drowned in Katrina.

KT

Would that be runnin' bare?

Jack

Posted by: whskyjack

Wouldn't surprise me in the least, Jack.;)

My favorite Bobby Bare release was the Shel-song, "I'm Goin Back to Texas and Be One More Horse's Ass."

Shel Silverstein - A Front Row Seat to Hear Ole Johnny Sing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7vBShIl9gk

night all

Jack

My favorite Bobby Bare release was the Shel-song, "I'm Goin Back to Texas and Be One More Horse's Ass."

Posted by: Patsi | July 14, 2009 10:27 PM

LOL--that's some great lyrics--

I'm kinda partial to "Drop-Kick Me, Jesus" too--cause it covers a couple of southern obsessions--religion and football--

Although I'm pretty sure in some parts of the South football IS a religion--

My favorite SERIOUS Bare record was "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends"--less theatrical than Ronnie Milsap--

Patsi

Bobby made a good living singing Shel songs.

Jack

Shel Silverstein - A Front Row Seat to Hear Ole Johnny Sing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7vBShIl9gk

night all

Jack

Posted by: whskyjack | July 14, 2009 10:34 PM

Hey, Jack, that made me think of "A Boy Named Sue"--well, the guy who inspired "A Boy Named Sue" was born and raised here in my hometown. WWI buddy of my paternal grandfather.

Yep -- Shel was something else...I'll never forget the time my son (who was around 12 at the time) stopped Shel on the street and told him that they had something in common -- that Tompall Glaser had recorded songs they both had written. Years later I reminded Shel of that and he instantly remembered it, and told me he knew immediately the kid was telling the truth because it was too crazy to make up. He said, "I've actually told that story as proof of how strange a town Nashville is."

I was stoned and I missed it - Shel Silverstein

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F15thKUEECQ

Dr. Hook had a good run with Shel's songs, too....

Patsi

I've always been amazed at the range of Shel's creativity.

I had always known him from the music he wrote both country and hippie stuff. some of it was very ranchy. When he died all the talk was about his childrens poems A side of him I didn't discover till then.

Jack

I've got the sloppy seconds album that is all Shel songs. I think they did a couple of albums that were mostly his songs

I got to get to bed for real

later

Jack

Craig,

This is an interesting post. It is also the framework of the affirmative action/reverse racism debate.

White people in this country can't tolerate the losses they may have suffered since the 70's to make up for the practices of their "ancestors" yet they often don't recognize that the gains they made were achieved because they discriminated for 300 years.

All this time I thought the song was about a boy named Sioux.

Anyway, I thought Sioux's a pretty decent name, recalling tents, and cooking bison steaks outdoors. Very warrior-like and all that. I figured it would be far better for a boy to have a name like Sioux than a name like Inca, 'cuz all the kids would tease him with, "Inca dinka doo...."

Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.

http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/07/a-smoldering-di.php

Serious problems about Obama's policy toward's Israel from someone who voted for Obama. And I have heard this uttered many times. Again, from many who voted for Obama.

Graham really does condescend, he is just that way.

Sotomayor is really cool, though, and was ready for that summbitch. Her New York City accent really works for her against Graham's nasally whine of accusation.

I heard an AP radio blurb about "Sotomayor sentences harshly, especially violent criminals"...said in a voice that sounded as though that was a bad thing!

President Obama had a ball at the All-Star Game in St. Louis, joking with the players and all....

Dex, you poor thing. I'm sorry re your dog, especially because you were together so long. There's something about the look in a dog's eyes....

I missed the beginning of the game, but I had a good deed to do and couldn't bear to go cheap. I love St Louis - it's not over-hyped and has a lot of neat things. I also love Albert and I love looking at Mariano Rivera - that man has a fabulous face! Seems kinda quiet tonight, with no fights to break up.

thanks bethyboo...only been 2 days since she died and it seems long ago, becuz i have missed her so much. Ash scattering soon, when I get the call to pick up the ashes.

I still have one dog, our Jack Russell Terrier, 8 years old.

Albert made an error in the first inning and the National League was awful in the field that inning.

Snotty republicans.

Let me interpret:

Sotomayor's Latino heritage gives her a free pass. Why don't Republicans understand that with the clarity that super-smart Craig Crawford does?

Thanks for one of the funniest headlines I've seen in years: Craig Crawford dictating when Republicans should be smiling and frowning. The liberal fascination with control was never captured quite so well in one sentence.

Ya, the wise Latina thinks she is better suited than a white male for the job as SC judge simply because she is a Latina, and that's not racist. A Caucasian male questioning her questionable history and the free pass given to her by the media is, obviously, racism.

shskjack and xrepublican,
You do know that the black-hating Tillman of Hamburg Massacre fame was a Democrat don't you? Are you also aware that all of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan were Democrats? Yeah, all of them were from your racist party. That's why the Klan was called the terrorist wing of the Democrat party. Also, the Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendemnts and every piece of civil rights legislation up until 1968. They also implemented Jim Crow and segregation. Oh, and every single villain of the Civil Rights era--George Wallace, Orville Faubus, Bull Conner, all of them--were Democrats just like you. And I won't even get into your guy Exalted Cyclops Robert Byrd who filibustered the Civil Act of 1964 and who you people still keep electing to the Senate. What is it about you Democrats and your racism? It must be in your DNA. Silly Democrat Kluckers.

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The Republicans knew they had no shot at derailing this nomination and so they never bothered to get together and formulate a plan as to how to handle the entire confirmation process. As a result, they have all resorted to trying to sound as tough as they can in front of the cameras for their red meat constituents back home. Lindsey Graham's insulting line of questioning on day two was a direct result of the negative reactions he received for his kind words to her on day one.

None of these Senators are experts at strategic thinking and are slaves to the 30 second sound bite and 24 hour news cycle. In the end, their effort to score short term political points by trying to paint Sotomayor as a racist has only shown the American people who the real racists and bigots in that Senate chamber realler are.

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