Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

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Imus is still alive?! Really?

I wouldn't normally link this, but I only noticed it because of the race bet/choices we were making here on TM for a while. It's got a nice 'black and white' pic of the '1973' Secretariat taking the crown. From what the article says, the race was somewhat symbolic, since until then it had been a male dominated sport.

Secretariat's story heading to big screen
"In an era defined by a dispiriting war and a surreal Washington scandal, Secretariat gave Americans and their bruised psyche something to cheer about when the big thoroughbred captured the Triple Crown in 1973.

The racehorse considered by many to be the best ever and the housewife-turned-breeder who soared in a male-dominated sport are now coming to the big screen."
http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx/entertainment/0/APNews/General-Entertainment/20091008/U_US-Secretariat-Movie?pageid=1

Very interesting shirt Imus is wearing. Nice interview Craig.

Is there a Save Imus t-shirt in the works?

I'll do my part to save the crusty ol' curmudgeon (is that redundant?)

My favorite interview since the original One More Cow broadcast.

I 'spose we could do our part by stocking up now on "Listen Up" books and squirrel them away for Christmas stocking stuffers.

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,179 in Books

Max, I know absolutely nothing about the Honduran constitution, its court system or its laws and have no intention of trying to learn enough to even venture a guess.

I am unaware of any violence, intimidation, or anything of the sort that was incited in any democratic rallies - but I certainly saw intimidation in the informational meetings in August by the folks who brought you the teabaggers. I couldn't care less that they shout down MOCs - and if yyou're trying to get me to defend Harry Reid - look somewhere else - but his comments about Bush being a liar and a loser had a truth content that was pretty high, and they were made because of (i.e. following, after, consequently...) Bush lied and sent Colin Powell into the UN to lie us into a war of choice, and that sort of speech is indeed protected. I suspect that naything Spencer sees that he disagrees with is because of its liberal bias - based on the forum sin which he publishes his drivel and that semi-mindless critique of the resolution he obviously fears would be used against him and his, he appears to me to be just another warmongering conservative as*hole, what else would you expect him to say? And yes, Ahmadenijad's hate speech should be condemned as reprehensible, and I imagine thaqt hte same could be said about statements Bebe has made about Iran, Hamas and the Palestinians - it's a region in constant conflict with the rhetorc to go with it - what the hell is your point?

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/10/can-obama-get-inside-game.html#comment-265337

Well, sort of - but those are policy differences rather than primary/election challenges funded and supported by the DCCC.

Researchers have demonstrated a penny-sized "nuclear battery" that produces energy from the decay of radioisotopes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8297934.stm

Chloe,

One of the interesting bits of trivia about Secretariat is that less than 10% his foals have been Stakes winners. 653 - 57 Stakes Winners

It is often a good thing to remember that "greatness" will skip a generation or come down from the dam's side. That's why they keep breeding Dynaformer who had a average racing career despite good lineage and La Ville Rouge. They got one Barbaro and hope to have lightening strike again in a way that Dynaformer hasn't been able to do on his own. Nicanor has been pretty solid, but not spectacular (2 W 2 P out of 5 races). Lentenor is in training and there is a third colt born last March with a fourth pairing planned because the owners really want a filly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb9T6K2Dl1I

Craig -
Looked at the CQ Climate Conference info.

Are you going to be working on that thing ?

btw, I had to run LP to football and the station Rush is on was still on from this morning's ride in - all I can say is with respect to Limbaugh, Franken was right.

"In early 2008, Saudi Arabia announced that, after being self-sufficient in wheat for over 20 years, the non-replenishable aquifer it had been pumping for irrigation was largely depleted," writes Lester R. Brown in his new book, Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (W.W. Norton and Company).

http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Could_Food_Shortages_Bring_Down_Civilization_999.html

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23 years ago, I printed a whole boat load of vinyl stickers that went on these every center pivot irrigation systems Brown is referring to.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/10/save-imus.html#comment-265363

CBOB

Beck is #1 and Craig is #2179

Pretty well proves the 85% of Americans with varying degrees of illiteracy doesn't it.

from the 3:11 link.

The energy efficiency revolution will transform everything from lighting to transportation. With lighting, for example, shifting from incandescents to compact fluorescent bulbs can reduce electricity use for lighting by 75 percent. But shifting from incandescents to the newer light-emitting diodes (LEDs) combined with light sensors can cut electricity use by more than 90 percent.

Jamie -
When I went after that factoid , there were 5 used copies . Who are these people ?

Hey Craig,

These are your ranks on Amazon in your categories.

#8 in Books > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Political Science > United States > Executive Branch

#13 in Books > Nonfiction > Politics > U.S.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/10/save-imus.html#comment-265372

Beck's only doing well on Amazon. Not so good at Wally World. Now Dan Brown--that's a whole nother story--;)

Jax -
About a year ago your were telling me what a bunch a hooey wind turbines were .

" The shift to renewable sources of energy is moving at a pace and on a scale we could not imagine even two years ago. Consider the state of Texas.

The enormous number of wind projects under development, on top of the 9,000 megawatts of wind generating capacity in operation and under construction, will bring Texas to over 50,000 megawatts of wind generating capacity (think 50 coal-fired power plants) when all these wind farms are completed. This will more than satisfy the needs of the state's 24 million residents. "
3:11 link
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The world is moving so fast it's hard to see the scenery.

Here's a little cool science stuff (which was being mocked by Rush - Franken was right - as being a test of the MOP - a bomb being deployed to penetrate to about 200' to blow up Iranian nuclear sites.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/08/moon-bombing-video-watch_n_313945.html

Forget CO2, as much as I have grown tried of Tom Friedman , he did just point out that there has been a change in China. They'll clean our clock if we follow the Palin Plan for energy . IE : Repeat the 20th century .

This sounds like good news.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/business/09home.html?_r=1&hp

Actual real people benefitting from a program from the Treasury - and we thought that was impossible.

And how stupid is this?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/nyregion/09surveil.html?hp

Pogo -
Testing bunker busters on the moon ?

Is Rush pro water on the moon or anti water on the moon ?

Bob, but think of the Q-Tip sales that will be lost if we don't follow the Palin energy plan. How else would we clean the crap out of our ears after we pulled our heads out of ... well, you know.

Bob,

Rush is anti trying to find out - it has something to do with our arrogance on the one hand and inferiority (relative to aliens that we're sure have to be out there who are 10000 smarter than us and enlightened having found the secret to living in peace) based on what I cold make out from his rambling rant.

As I said, Franken was right.

O'Reilly went on: "Both you and Sarah Palin are good-looking women ... attractive, young -- relatively young -- women" who "drive the far left crazy."

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/07/michele-bachmann-to-oreil_n_313387.html

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" I'll have a sexual fantasy with the crazy lady for $200 Alex. "

More from the republican idiocracy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/08/boehner-pence-vote-agains_n_314194.html

So violence against gays because of their sexual orientation is now "thought crime?"

Just say NO! Just say NO! Just say NO!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/08/house-approves-defense-po_n_314269.html

I assume this is the same bill.

For the tech savvy early-adopters out there who want to look at Windows 7, here is an excellent assortment of tips that will help the transition:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.10.77windows.aspx

Best headline today ?

DeLay Feels The Agony Of De-Feet

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/2009/10/the-dream-is-over-on.php?img=1&ref=fpb

heheheh

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dawn-teo/arizona-mothers-storm-kyl_b_313458.html

Kyl - what a maroon.

And more from the idiocracy.

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/broun-pelosi-a-domestic-enemy-of-the-constitution.php?ref=fpblg

This time from Georgia.

Governor Good Hair's blunder bubbles along -

Lawyers Group Urged Perry To Keep Ousted Chair Of Panel Probing Death Penalty Case

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/lawyers_group_urged_perry_to_keep_ousted_chair_of.php?ref=fpb

Run Kinky Run !

Just as the birther bullshit goes quiet and you think that a degree (small, I'll grant you) might be creeping into the far right .... Floyd Brown opens his mouth again, this time pushing impeachment, with this sterling Constitutional analysis:

"'[H]igh crimes and misdemeanors' does not refer to a criminal act," Brown writes, referring to the grounds for impeachment. "Our Founding Fathers fully intended to allow for the removal of the president for actions which include: gross incompetence, negligence and distasteful behavior.

"For those who mistakenly hold the illusion that impeaching Barack Hussein Obama would be a simple matter of 'playing politics,' the founders fully intended that the impeachment of a sitting president be a political act."

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/08/obama-impeachment-suggest_n_313706.html

Pogo -
No flood relief for Georgia .

The report finds that we are entering an era of slow and expensive oil as resources get harder to find, extract and produce. Major new discoveries, such as those announced recently in the Gulf of Mexico, will only delay the peak by a matter of days or weeks. Simply maintaining global production at today's level would need the equivalent of a new Saudi Arabia every three years

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091007223743.htm

Ben Ali, of Ben's Chili Bowl, has died at age 82. Anyone who has spent time in D.C. knows this is notable.

RIP, Ben.

For those who may not know Ben's:

http://bit.ly/bbUOh

Drill baby drill.

Federal and Riverside County authorities are investigating an explosion overnight at a Lake Elsinore home in which highly powerful explosives were used, according to a law enforcement source.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/10/fbi-investigation-lake-elsinore-blast-involving-powerful-explosives-.html

Wow -

LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (KNX/AP) -- A man blew his hand off while mixing homemade explosives in a Southern California home that doubled as a pot farm and a child care center.

http://www.knx1070.com/Lake-Elsinore-Man-Blows-Off-Hand-Making-Homemade-B/5397590

Defiant Chamber Chief Says ‘Bring ‘Em On’

“We’re not changing where we are,” Thomas Donohue, the group’s president and chief executive, told a small group of reporters in Washington this morning. “We’ve thought long and hard about what is important here and we’re not going anywhere.”

http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/defiant-chamber-chief-says-bring-em-on/

William Kamkwamba, a Malawian high school student and inventor, talks to Jon Stewart about how he built a windmill by looking at pictures in a book.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/08/william-kamkwamba-helps-a_n_314003.html

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I have to pass that darn Beck face almost every day at Safeway. It just won't go away. I'm almost ready to beg someone to buy the darn thing but they might replace it and I don't want to add to his income.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/10/save-imus.html#comment-265385

...give them a penny, they'll take a pound. Isn't "assault" already illegal?

http://www.wbir.com/life/programming/local/liveatfive/story.aspx?storyid=101342&provider=rss

Story about a special exhibit on Johnny and June Carter Cash and their ties to the Grand Ol' Opry, at the Ryman.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/10/save-imus.html#comment-265398

NOOOO!!!! I said the BLUE wire.

(really now, dope and high explosives are a dangerous combination).

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/10/save-imus.html#comment-265403

DLB - not much of one.

BANGKOK - There are plenty of needy countries at the U.N. climate talks in Bangkok that make the case they need financial assistance to adapt to the impacts of global warming. Then there are the Saudis.

Saudi Arabia has led a quiet campaign during these and other negotiations — demanding behind closed doors that oil-producing nations get special financial assistance if a new climate pact calls for substantial reductions in the use of fossil fuels.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33225373/ns/us_news-environment/

Speaking of Cash:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOfM6VSoPH0

He recorded this several times, but this one with the dobro is my favorite.

Nite all.

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Pogo,

This is a perfect opportunity. If they are going to vote against it anyway, you might as well eliminate "Don't Ask Don't Tell" at the same time.

Nice shirt Imus...I was thinking the same thing Chloe...who dresses him in the am?...I liked the Interview a lot...cos they did get some time for talking about the war a little....

I think that Sanford is a piece of scum.....kinda like him for this tho...he is turning the tables on Letterman.....It sure would be coo if President Clinton, hired some writes to make up a few jokes about Letterman....for two years, lets see if he likes his wife constantly reminded.......

More bipartisanship from the D's and The R's:

http://www.taxpayer.net/resources.php?category=&type=Project&proj_id=2886&action=Headlines%20By%20TCS#

Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) has cross-referenced earmarks sought and obtained by Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee members with Federal Election Commission (FEC) campaign contribution data. The 18 Senators on the Subcommittee pulled down a whopping 60% of the $2.7 billion worth of earmarks in their version of the FY10 spending bill. At the start of the bill writing process, subcommittee members requested $12.5B worth of earmarks for 496 companies and universities (this excludes funding provided to federal entities) who had given them $1.57 million in campaign contributions. Some of the companies contributed to the lawmakers, and some of them did not, but when the dust settled it was clear which group did better.

Out of the requests, 270 companies ended up receiving $1.36 billion from the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee members. Within that group 123 gave contributions to Subcommittee members worth $1.25 million, receiving $762.3 million worth of earmarks. In the end, 68% of the companies who contributed struck gold, and only 46% of those who didn’t contribute got earmarks. Even more tellingly, while contributor companies only represented 25% of the total requests, they got 56% of the earmark dollars.

This effort mirrored TCS’s database of House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee members, available here.

To create this tool, TCS started with the requests that each member of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee was required to submit at the beginning of this appropriations process. From there, we searched the FEC and OpenSecrets data to uncover every contribution made by employees of an intended recipient company to the Senator requesting the earmark and every contribution made by the Political Action Committee (PAC) of an intended recipient company since 2007. We looked at contributions to both the members’ campaign committees and their leadership PAC’s. To complete the tool, we added the funding amount that was included in the Senate’s version of the defense bill.

See the results of this project:

* Earmarks Requested and Received by Senate Defense Approprations Subcommittee Members, with Recipient Donation Information (Excel File)

* Summary of Donations Received From Earmark Requesting Companies, since 2007 (Excel File)

TCS Sources for this Project:

* Federal Election Commission (FEC.gov)

* Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.org)

* Senate Earmark Request Disclosures (Senate Committee on Appropriations)

jamie, Not a bad idea, but DADT ain't gonna make the cut - the O admin still needs to "study" it. I just don't understand Obama's reluctance to get rid of that boneheaded policy. And yes, all you RWers, I know that Clinton implemented it - stupidly, wrongly .... and it has turned out to be an utter failure.

Pogo, I see that you went to lunch with out me....was a little busy..nice call...you have few ( 2days in a row) I only have one.....today I was going to put the sun in you face, and make you draw, a little slower this time...3-in a row.....is the new prize......the pinks don't even know how to get the pistolas out.....HA.!

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/10/save-imus.html#comment-265399

CBob

Interesting combination of hobbies and professions: Accident prone Neo Nazi child caretaker and pot growing explosive maker.

btw, Solar, the Pollo Asado was delicious.

also , that stuff you just posted is despicable - the best government the defense contractors can afford.

Well, I'll be going now - gotta see a man about a horse (or something like that).

Franken on the floor of the senate.

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/sen-al-franken-stands-support-kbr-rap

Thirty Republican senators voted against Al Franken's amendment, thus showing their support for gang rape by government contractors.
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Talk about negative ad campaigns coming these guys way.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/10/save-imus.html#comment-265400

I see Tom Donohue hasn't improved in the last quarter century ... Still in the camp of "My mind's made up don't confuse me with facts."

Jamie -

Skin head daycare .

" Appearing with Franken after the vote, an elated Jones expressed her deep appreciation. “It means the world to me,” she said of the amendment’s passage. “It means that every tear shed to go public and repeat my story over and over again to make a difference for other women was worth it. ”

Ms. Jones has a very large dose of guts.

Given Sen. Kyl's remarks about Motherhood, and this vote, I'd say the Republican Party has just set out to repeat their brilliant move they used with Latinos, and apply to women .

House Ethics Panel Expands Probe Of Rangel

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/house_ethics_panel_expands_probe_of_rangel.php?ref=fpa

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Go Rangel, and don't let the door hit you in the ass.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/10/save-imus.html#comment-265407

CBob

You would think that with all the trillions they have bagged that they would have diversified enough that even steadily shutting down the wells (still needed for airplanes and plastics) they are hardly going to be starving.

Parma still over the Phillppines

http://metocph.nmci.navy.mil/jtwc/warnings/wp1909.gif

Party leadership really should corner Rangel and bid him farewell. It is essential that punishment for abuses be non partisan.

The NYTimes article on the First Lady's genealogy is very interesting

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/us/politics/08genealogy.html?scp=2&sq=michelle%20obama&st=cse

Jamie -
Steve Baer's thinking 40 years ago :
" Oil is such a wonderful molecule, our descendants will curse us for burning it in low grade heat engines. "

Hydro Carbons are nature's tinker toys.

"Party leadership really should corner Rangel and bid him farewell. It is essential that punishment for abuses be non partisan."

This is a huge laugh....they are all just as guilty: Rangel is just one of the few that has been caught at it...how is it that they are all millionaires? multi......term limits it just a dream, but the only one that we have left, along with campaign finance reform, and not lobbyst, and flat-and income tax ,that we have left...the two party system has a lock on our lives...but we can un-do what we did...

When we lost Don this spring, one of the good things that happened was I made contact with a guy I've known since the 5th grade. Joe has been sending jpg's of his work.
Apparently he's building a new site :

Joe Belt Realistic Work in Pencil, Colored Pencils, Pastels & Pastel Pencils...Originals, Limited Edition Prints, Many Hand-Colored.

http://joebeltstudio.artspan.com/index.php

Boomer, a Landseer Newfoundland, is a 7-foot-long dog (and he may be the world's tallest)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/10/boomer-landseer-newfoundland-7-foot-long-dog.html
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Big dog.

Hydro Carbons are nature's tinker toys
Posted by: Colorado Bob Author Profile Page | October 8, 2009 6:14 PM

You're on a roll today:)

I voted for Clinton the first time. Remember before Clinton nobody was homeless in America, who didn't want to be (Who Said That?). Bubba said he was going to do something about homelessness...I was stunned when he came out of the gate with Don't Ask Don't Tell. I mean he didn't even address homeless gay people, he couldn't throw the electorate who elected him a bone?

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/10/save-imus.html#comment-265411

"DADT ain't gonna make the cut - the O admin still needs to "study" it. I just don't understand Obama's reluctance to get rid of that boneheaded policy."

Pogo,
Your a gem!! I don't get it either,it seems it would be an easy win for the President?? I mean is he really worried about pissing off the right wing nuts??News flash Mr. President, they were pissed off and still are over you being elected President..

"I-MAN tells fans he'll survive cancer if they buy the new book by Helen Thomas and Craig Crawford"

shades of oral roberts.
"In January 1987, during a fundraising drive, Roberts announced to a television audience that unless he raised $8 million by that March, God would "call him home" (a euphemism for death)." [wiki]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/index.html

US bombs the moon in 12 hours......

Well said Jamie and Solar.....

after all this time somebody's finally going to shoot the moon.....

ha.....that'd be funny if they made the moon wobble off its orbit and it wound up throwing the whole universe into chaos....

isnt god gonna be pissed if we keep shooting stuff into his air space?

Max,

Im going to watch that moon-bomb.....Told Carol: The moon is just another planed like the Earth..only deader.!

You got it Sturg.....how's it hanging? Level and plumb I hope.......

Wasn't my short post refreshing? LOL

With water and powerful solar, the moon could be a green heaven. Well, a sci fi author wrote a book about moon colonies. I don't think it turned out well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress

Never thought of her that way......I thought it was the man in the moon.

damn.....i thought it was cheese........

planed= planet.....

Solar, if people can make it through my typos, they can read through yours.......

Actually, bilogical life is so tuned to the moon. I wonder how different life would be without the moon. Evolution would have been much different.

It is sad how NASA struggles. Give it enough time and a new Reagan will emerge promising to restore American pride and leadership. I'm talking psychoology now, not my inclination. I didn't vote for Reagan. Right now we are attacking ourselves, making ourselves the enemy. Of course American could change that now, but the blood-letting seems to be PC these days......

psychoology.....The psychology of "cool".

Two questions:

I just got home, has Craig already made his Campbell Brown appearance before 8:22?

Second, isn't "shooting the moon" something you try when playing Hearts? I can't remember how to play the game, but I think that meant taking all the points, including the Q of ♠.

Max,

I hate to break it to you. I never want to see another Reagan in my life,and not in hell where he is sure to be..He is one of the Religious nuts that started us down this path...and all of the ones after him,,just a common goal, for the crusaders......question...do you think that we are a democracy...? never mind I know the answer to that....

nice spade trick...you win.

"I note one proposal to make this Congress a two-house body. Excellent— the more impediments to legislation the better. But, instead of following tradition, I suggest one house of legislators, another whose single duty is to repeal laws. Let the legislators pass laws only with a two-thirds majority... while the repealers are able to cancel any law through a mere one-third minority. Preposterous? Think about it. If a bill is so poor that it cannot command two-thirds of your consents, is it not likely that it would make a poor law? And if a law is disliked by as many as one-third is it not likely that you would be better off without it?" From "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"

Solar,

Signs of my misspent youth.

♥ ♦ ♣ ♠

ALT 3, 4, 5, & 6

And if I could find an icon for a nine-ball, I could show you some of what went wrong in my first college stint.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/10/save-imus.html#comment-265446

We are a LIberal Democracy, a Constitutional system of representive government that balances Individual Rights and the Common Good. Our Constitution and the Bill of Rights sums it up well as does the Federalist Papers. Reagan was a New Deal Democrat in conservative clothing. His wife sought astrologers, not priests and Democrats and Republicans seem confused about Ronnie.......

History shows him an improvement over Carter thought at the time, I was sure he would end the world. I was wrong and so might you be in your generalization, but what else is new? Each Party has their sordid base they play too. Obama had to appeal to the anti-war wing to get elected. This crew finds in Hamas and Chavez virtue worthy of support. But I won't start........

Off to work in another apartment on some floors below me. Actually that's pretty cool. Later...

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/10/save-imus.html#comment-265444

LOL....psycoology.......you coined it Sturg. Fonzie had a Phd,,,

ED,

Cool,

Thanks, I try to learn something everyday. just about gave up on this day. Rack-em :-). loved playing hearts, and dbl deck pinnacle in the service...had a lot of time on our hands sometimes..

Max,

"The Menace From Earth" by Heinlein is a much more fun story about the moon.

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

We are a LIberal Democracy, a Constitutional system of representive government that balances Individual Rights and the Common Good.

Only problem with your definition is the fact that Corporations have more rights then individuals do now.

I believe its now read as:

Of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations shall not perish from the earth....

The Gettysburg Address

Since the corporations now have rights as a person the definition you gave no longer applies to American Citizens unless its a corporate citizen.

Max,

...will be in the city tomorrow night if you want to get a drink. Up around 110 I'm guessing.

"The objective should be to do what Afghanistan's most effective historical governments have done: help Pashtun tribes, sub-tribes, and clans provide security and justice in their areas and manage the process. When tribes rebel against the government or fight each other, government security forces can move in to crush the uprising and mediate the disputes. Pashtuns have generally eschewed an intrusive central government in their areas, but most have supported a government that serves as a mediator."

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/10/02/WP.html?ref=homepage&key=t_afghan_general

Anybody heard from Craig? I watched the whole hour w/Campbell Brown and no sign of or a word about him & Helen--???

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/10/save-imus.html#comment-265424

Jamie,

Thanks for linking the article about Michelle Obama's ancestry. It's a moving and beautifully written piece.

Some thoughts on the above article

Ya know, People always talk about how tough a fighters the Afghans are. If they are so tough why do we have to go in and do the fighting. That is what our military is saying.
The Taliban aren't some great military organisation. They are just a group of Afghans with guns. The Afghan government should be able to take care of them.

We need to learn the lessons of Iraq. If you arm the locals they will take care of the outsiders. For much of Afghanistan the Taliban are just as much outsiders as we are. They are village clan oriented and the folks on the other side of the mountain are just as much outsiders as some one from the other side of the world.

Divide and conquer

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/10/save-imus.html#comment-265460

They're already divided, Jack... that's the problem.

Solar,

Same here. I played a lot of hearts and double-deck pinochle when I lived in the barracks in Germany, but don't remember playing either game since then.

I stayed with a buddy and his wife in Buffalo this weekend and they had a group of friends over for some round-robin pinochle Saturday night. My hostess offered to sit out the games and let me take her place, but I begged off and watched college football. The truth is they would have had to re-train me.

Sorry, but the problem is we are trying to unite something that has never been united.

The other problem is the Taliban wish to do the same as us
Only they want to unite them under the banner of radical Islam and are willing to bring in outsiders to do it too.

If we would recognise that and support strong local control by arming the local Pashtuns then the Taliban loses.

The Northern alliance may too but they are not our problem.

Jack

Jack...

We arm everybody so why not arm the Pashtuns, after all we armed the Taliban did we not?

Time to hit the sack. Good night.

"Anybody heard from Craig? I watched the whole hour w/Campbell Brown and no sign of or a word about him & Helen--??? -- Posted by: Fairweather Lewis"

Sorry about that. We taped the segment, but they're airing tomorrow night (Fri) because they had breaking news to cover tonight.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/10/save-imus.html#comment-265466

Thank you, Craig.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/10/save-imus.html#comment-265458

Ivy,

Spending time at the local Senior Citizens Center had me doing genealogy work for several black families. It was truly interesting to delve into the slave records. From that perspective, it was often easier to push back family lineages than for some white settlers on the frontier.

We had a few who because their families had stayed put until very recent generations we were able to track back to original purchase because the "property" and will records had been preserved. There were more than a few tears over those names.

Hard to think about, Jamie. So sad for them.

Craig, Don't forget that I want a nameplate too!

Nobel Peace Prize to Obama? What? Excuse me? "Extraordinary efforts"? When other candidates have spent a career in world diplomacy? He had NO , I'l repeat NO diplomatic experience till the end of the campaign- last year. I know I'm really living in the twilight zone now.

I know some of my dear friends here will be pleased, and for you I am happy, I personally just can't this freaking weird charade any longer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_re_eu/eu_nobel_peace

Song for Friday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdLjJqWfTs4

Everybody all together now: TOIL

Today's daydream:

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

Joan Baez channels the Diamonds.......sans rust:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Us1hOp8OG4

Thanks for that Sturge! How are you liking Imus on Foxnews?

i dont get the fox biz channel.....I'm still on the WABC computer route......but I like 'em just fine how-some-ever they get here.....

Obama wins Nobel Prize...

I guess he is the President of the World..
But we need him to be the leader of the USA and not the world...

Quote from Olso...
"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," the committee said. "His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population."

The WORLDS Population !!
Ah it continues to come clear... Warning Will Robinson Warning...

OldSea I agree...

The Value of the Nobel Peace Prize has just dropped by extreme measure - It is the new media world where actual accomplishments and accountablility and Truth do not prevail.

Like the Healthcare bill is going to cut the deficit.. Bull S*)^

CRAIG GET HELEN ON THIS RIGHT AWAY.
She might have it against George Bush but this facade has got to be cracked

You don't?! I thought it was all over the place. You're probably better off. Lots of serious business news in between and no cows. Although I'm enjoying that I can move around my house and still hear them (had to listen on computer before) and can crank the tv up so that I can hear over the chocolate machine.

Sea cruise was fun too- just makes you want to bop- got my exercise in for the morning!

I figure the nobel folks gave it to the O-man for the simple reason that he got elected......instead of that creepy caricature which John McCain has become.....

"It's like Tom DeLay winning the dancer of the year award."

--Bernard McGuirk

Sturg.. Hey it is Halloween and creepy caricatures are in this month.

Ya know what do you call it when something just does not add up, cannot be the truth...

Now we call it Baucus !!

little johnnie lennon's birthday........the way thing's are going, they gonna crucify he.......oh....they already did that....

That's kinda how I figured it Sturge, still think it dilutes the impact of the prize.
I love Bernie!

raucus baucus tried to hawk us

Ping- glad someone agrees , felt like a right ole seahag this morning gripping about the Peace Prize, I'm just glad I'm not one of the other candidates- think I'd go back to bed for the day.

griping.

it's their prize and i don't much care where they give it......sometimes it's kissinger and sometimes it's carter......hootie hoo.........little norweej-rians gotta have something to do in the winter.......

That does not compute.

Sturge- LOL!!!!

Still laughing. I got to meet you someday Sturge, just to see if you say the same stuff you write..You're a pisser.

re new imus show
seems to me there is less imus and too many more cash cows. what's the ratio of ads and promo breaks to actual i-man quality time?
perhaps fox just bought the logo. for more money maybe they'll show more show.

I say the same stuff if youre close enough to hear me muttering........

I don't like starting my day thinking about money. Actually I"m trying to not think about it at least till sunrise. Can't do this too much longer- definitely can't see getting up in Feb. and listening to this stuff. Think I'll get my Imus on the radio again.

Sturge- how far are you from Savannah?

couple hours south down the coast......

DJ's played a large part in most of my former lives......fifties, sixties, seventies.........i loved the DJ's and what they did.....
Imus is the last DJ standing.....

WLAC
KLS
WOWO
WWVA
WCKY
WSM
KOA
WBAP
WABC
ETC

never got to hear wolfman jack when he was working.....

that's why i like that american graffitti so much......they recreated jack's radio show for a movie and i kind of got to hear it........

is there a WLOL? There oughta be.

There's an irish pub up there I been meaning to go to. Barry's ? I'll meet you in the middle.

OSH & Sturge,

Re: Imus

I don't know if it's part of the radio broadcast, but FBN spends too much time showing clips from previous shows. I find myself running back in to look at the TV to look at Imus's shirt or hat to try to figure out if we're on today's show or reprising something that was on earlier in the week.

Just now they replayed something from yesterday's Bob Barker appearance. At least for that one I didn't have to check the TV. I figured they wouldn't try to roll out old Bob two mornings in a row.

Just got an e from Amazon; mine finally shipped yesterday! Get well soon, iMan.

Faux is gonna have a field day with Obama/Nobel, but they are starting to remind me of akward, middle child, Jan Brady. I can almost hear Rush & Gl'eck saying, "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia."

Are we all watching them blow the moon out of orbit this morning? Should be quite a bonding experience.

it's amazing to think of the actually awesome education that young man wyatt is receiving..............

Nobel Prize for President Obama:

It's probably a little more than he deserves, but it's in lieu of the Chicago Olympics and the Nobel Committee doesn't have a Rookie of the Year Award.

imus knows his whole deal is radio show and that those who can will listen on the radio.....the tv is for money.......that transition they made from WFAN to msnbc was one of the smoothest slickest moves i've seen......some of the great radio guys made good transitions onto tv......some not so much

i have a feeling that imus will affect fox biz more than fox biz will affect imus.............

imus has an international harvester combine for money.

Ed- I agree, doing the same thing myself!

and i figger he got that combine by believing in himself and in delivering good radio..............

so, what the hell, eh...........it's the american way.......

I can't happen soon enough for me Sturge. They announce Imus- then they go on with all their depressing business news- no charles. Hope they knock that off soon.

that move from WFAN to msnbc was so strong that joe scarbro was able to just walk into their format and the show goes on..........he wasnt strong enough on his own, of course, but they threw in the newsgirl and they were on they way.......they must have wanted that newsgirl angle really badly.......lol.........first they tried it with amy robach and then contessta.........and now mika......they finally got their way.......

We have touchdown! Well, smashdown.

I dont think i'll be watching anything with the word "fox" in it......

Back-up plan: Cut to weather!

"newsgirl" ? That sounds really sexist.

God damn assholes , bombing the moon. Who the hell to we think we are , what gives us the right?

"Creative exploration of space is a wonderful substitute for war." - James S. McDonnell Also, it's much cheaper!!!

Sometimes Obama reminds me of a sketch from Kids In The Hall. Dave Foley as a clueless doctor covered in blood who didn't do well in school. "How far can you skate on charm. Well, pretty far, actually." Rookie of the year? He hasn't even taken the donut off the bat. He's still standing on deck, swatting at thin air. Time for him to step up to the plate.

Obama needs to write W a thank you note. Without W bringing us down so far in the world's eyes, he wouldn't be where he is this morning.

...and maybe that's the point of his win. Rebuilding what's been destroyed takes charm & has a very high EQ. The Nobel prize for Spokesmodel, but at least we're talking to people, again.

Imagine you are at the NASA meeting when a scientist says.. Hey - lets send a big objective into space - umm like an SUV or Hummer --- Crash it into the Moon with video cameras and then send a second unit right behind it to catch the stuff and then crash it into the same damn spot..

Blue.. the world is now saying,, At least with W you knew what you got.... He had substance - you might not have liked it but at least there was something there

And Obama is wearing thin on our freinds... so Obama might write W a thank you note.. But at this rate Obama is making W look better in most critical eyes around the world

newsgirl.....youre probably right about it being sexist......dont mean any aspersion, though it might be contained in the term itself......the ladies seem to usually wind up placing themselves in that position though....but anyway, i'll change it to nice looking lady news reader henceforth......

"is there a WLOL? There oughta be."

Sturg, is that ETC part of AFRTS?

Okay, now HE has a Nobel.

How about giving US single-payer.

flate.......huh? ( i'd write "hawnh?" if i knew how to spell it.....)

How many people are returning their telescopes to Amazon this morning?

I forgot, you were a Coastie, Sturg--never had the pleasure of listening to AFRTS.

This is certainly an odd morning.... Dropping SUVs on Lunarians, Nobel committee handing out T Ball awards.

At least Ping is still delusional about W .. a little normalcy in the midst of it all.

" At least with W you knew what you got.... He had substance - "

Ping -
Bush only had substance if one thinks " My Pet Goat " was great non fiction.

just for shits and giggles:

wiki
"The Pet Goat" (sometimes erroneously referred to as "My Pet Goat") is a children's story contained in the book Reading Mastery II: Storybook 1 by Siegfried Engelmann and Elaine C. Bruner. The book is part of the thirty-one volume Reading Mastery series published by the SRA Macmillan early-childhood education division of McGraw-Hill. It uses the direct instruction teaching style.

The story gained notoriety in 2001 after U.S. President George W. Bush read the book with an elementary school class when he was informed of the September 11 attacks.

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"never got to hear wolfman jack when he was working....."

Senor Fish,

I had a crystal radio I got for Christmas one year that I built and probably sanded the coil too wide that was able to pick up the Wolfman out of Acuna, Mexico. That was station Xrn I think. The would advertise the most outrageous stuff for sale. Like personal autographed pieces of the cross things like that.

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