Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Very handsome crowd. One magnificent bird strutting, and Dale's photograph of the area is beautiful.

Enjoy your well deserved holiday.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/helen-thomas-speaks.html#comment-272350

Rez,

Yes, we went up through Ashford. It is a beautiful drive.
Glad you enjoyed the photos. Genealogy is my major hobby when I'm not going on about politics.

john mcphee......a roadside geology

yes......i opened my formerly rural mailbox and pulled out a vest made from an elk......not only that....it's getting weird now...... my niece brought me several coats to the crabfest and one of them was a 3/4 length genu-wine deerskin fully lined made by the Custom Coat Company from Hwy 49 in Berlin, Wisconsin.......
all i meant by the terminal illness schtick was that whenever really nice things are happening in sector 4 there's a big hairy bastard coming up on you from sector 9...............never fails

but i don't care, no reason why i should.......an elken vest is a joy to behold and an absolutely bango comfort in a crab's old age......

it's just like margaret mitchell......woman newspaper drudge back when women were this or that and then she writes this golden brick of a book and as the golden bricks are falling into her beautiful wall she steps off a curb and gets whacked by a city bus.......

oy.

yes, yes, it was a taxi.......same difference.............

know whatcha mean about pockets.......i used to be a connor-seer about vesses......i found out that you could go to the good-will and pick up really nice vesses all day for a buck a vest........they had to have a belt in the back.....wear a white shirt and a store-bought vest and voy-lar.....instant country western band costume........then one time in 81-82 we did a winter tour in the white central northwest with this hillbilly from muncie whose brother had paid for him to go to nashville and make a record.......and then of course, he got these appleton, wisconsin, talent agents to book him all over north dakota, saskatchewan and new mexico cause he had a record.......a 45 rpm......3 of them in fact.........he carried them in this little suitcase and sold them when he could......well, Earl.....he had 3 vesses per bandmember.......a navy blue one.......a scarlett red one......and a denim one upon which his wife had sewed sequined wagon wheels and stuff........we was doing six-seven nights a week and we'd be cacked out in the hotel room and Earl would stick his head in the door at some point during the brandy alexanders and announce:
"Blue Vesties tonight, boys.......ya'll get some rest, we got a show to do......."

there was a lot of stories mixed in with that one.......but anytime one of 'em gets told, somewhere in the narrative will surely come, "Blue vesties tonight, boys.......ya'll get some rest, we got a show to do......."

Eagle Beak had a shitty job in Rapid when our nashville bassplayer met a girl while we were in moose jaw and subsequently jumped ship........became a moose jovian........he was a strange duck, that one.......one of his biggest schticks was his fiddle on a stick......

So Sprite talks Don into quitting his crappy job in a Rapid City sign company and getting on a plane to Fargo to join up with the band..........which he does, forthwith.......

bob...... por que..........por que tu no more making no more leather goods?

dont know how old this old elk is but it's damn fine work......

what kinda sewing machines does leather work take?

it was don sent me the stone eagle......he has a studio in rapid doing graphic arts type schtuff.......he got runned over by a truck when he was a kid and spent a few years in shriners hospitals......he said when he was out one time wearing leg braces his brother would make him put the braces on outside his pants and go thru all the bars and pool halls, and barber shops and stuff selling his newspapers for him.........

this particular story is about Eagle Beak and his mom......i can't finish it now but it's a goodern........we all sat down to pot roast, mashed potaters and gravy and then it was Earl standing by the piano with me playing, doing the old rugged cross and abide with me after signing his 3 nashville 45 rpm records for don's mom when we took him home after the band went belly-up in mandan........and don's bass-playing reputation went sky high after all the Rapid City moo-jicians heard about how he flew off to join the nashville band with a recording artist and played out the winter........

Links to health care reform info:

http://www.slate.com/id/2220222/

so, sturge, what's the vest look like in colorful detail? what songs will it inspire?

MINA, Saudi Arabia -- Vast crowds of pilgrims cast stones at walls representing the devil on the third day of the annual hajj on Friday as Muslims around the world began celebrating Eid al-Adha, the most important holiday of the Islamic calendar.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/27/AR2009112700943.html?hpid=sec-religion

"When the end is here, stick to the script"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/26/AR2009112600176.html?hpid=sec-artsliving

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-toyota-throttle29-2009nov29,0,5254584.story

I really do wan to see Sturg in his vestments. Wonder if he needs a miter. If he could use preworn items, he could go to a surplice store.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/helen-thomas-speaks.html#comment-272354

Bob, if you don't have a lawyer friend in Lubbock, maybe wait for Mr and Mrs Pogos' return; they may know someone who can get you on the fast-track at an affordable cost.

What a magnificent gathering in MA! And, with Tom and Jenny leading the pack.

Our Filipina guest is incredibly gullible. She asked if I had ever had turkey eggs. I told her I hadn't because turkeys are the only birds that have live birth of their off-spring.

I know she is eagerly waiting to share her new knowledge with others. And, when she does, I'm sure my life will be in jeopardy.

http://www.tampabay.com/incoming/tiger-woods-injured-slightly-in-car-accident-after-reported-argument-with/1054959

I've always admired Tiger for his tremendously positive attitude on life. His being an Asian American is icing on the cake.

I hope all this is simply a spat that most couples have and are able to recover from.

Sturge-always enjoy your early morning ramblings. Still wouldn't think of sector 9, I'd go with Karma coming back at you. It isn't always a bitch.

Patd & Flatus, thanks for asking, he's alright, Thursday pretty much stunk though. Worked from early morning to night yesterday- antique show. Too tired to hit the net last night, sorry to worry you. Meg Ryan was in my booth yesterday for quite some time. She is still adorable. Off to show again.

Would love for Craig to do a booksigning on the Vineyard sometime when they are back up this way. Obviously summer would be best, lots of politically minded people here then, think it would be quite successful.

"It isn't always a bitch"

yep, sea is right, sturge. sometimes karma is rather bullish.

Don't worry about Karma; follow the path.

"I hope all this is simply a spat that most couples have and are able to recover from."

flatus, i do too and, btw, the other lady in question denies the affair.

http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/rachel-uchitel-speaks-i-dont-appreciate-my-name-being-dragged-through-the-m/13442

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/holiday-break.html#comment-272369

Patsi, thanks for the Slate url.

I'm counting on Craig's reading all the links it contains, and providing us the distilled essence of what is happening. Shouldn't take him more than 20-minutes or so.

patsi, my thanks also for the slate compilation. seems comprehensive and makes for a good one-shop stop for info.

Thought for the day :
" A good man gone wrong is usually a bad man found out. "

1943 Randy Newman singer

1948 "Hopalong Cassidy" premiers on TV

Randy Newman - Sail Away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLZUA5jgd84

Harry Nilsson - Coconut

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbgv8PkO9eo

Harry Nilsson ~ Jump Into The Fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QghwNqlCRE

Flatus @ 7:30 -

A Provisional Patent , which allows you to use Patent Pending, has only a $ 120 filing fee. You gain protection from that point. One has a year from that date to file the patent it's self. You don't have to have a lawyer, most of which, involves the patent search. Google , as well as the Patent Office , have a searchable data bases. The Patent Office by law, is mandated to advise , and help a filer with the application. I have been in those data bases a lot lately, I am encouraged by what I haven't found.

A Provisional Patent is my next step , after I finish this model I'm building. I have had this idea for years, it's really pretty cool to be holding the actual parts in my hands.

Sturg -
I used to make those things by hand. Then I got my hands on a Phaff 545 walking-foot-needle-feed . That sucker would make the nicest sheep skin coats. ( Very thick seams in the arm pits on a sheep skin coat, setting the sleeves can be a bitch. )

If you're encouraged, I am too!

I was simply concerned knowing how many rascals there are in this world who wouldn't have a second thought about harming one of my friends.

They should know, though, that there would be near instantaneous retribution.

I have been sorta following the email hack of the British Climate researchers servers. I wish someone would hack into the Heartland Inst. servers, those are the emails I would love to see,

Flatus -

I rely on karma for that . Instant or otherwise.

From the largest insurance re-insurer in the world , Munich RE :

Insurance giant says climate change could cost billions

" .............. The company's statistics show that "globally, the average number of major weather-related catastrophes such as windstorms, floods or droughts is now three times as high as at the beginning of the 1980's."

"Losses have risen even more, with average increases of 11 percent per year since 1980," it said. "

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Insurance_giant_says_climate_change_could_cost_billions_999.html

Scientists also said Friday that shrinking Arctic sea ice may be forcing some hungry polar bears to cannibalize bear cubs.

At least seven cases of mature male polar bears eating bear cubs have been spotted this year among the animals around Churchill, Manitoba, said Ian Stirling, a retired Environment Canada biologist who specializes in the Churchill bears.

Stirling said evidence suggests the cubs are being killed for food, not just so the male can mate with the sow.

http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1101ap_cn_canada_arctic_sea_ice.html

METHUEN, Mass. -- A Massachusetts woman who recently separated from her husband and had her hours cut at work says an image of Jesus Christ she sees on her iron has reassured her that "life is going to be good."

http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1120ap_us_odd_iron_jesus.html?source=mypi

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/holiday-break.html#comment-272396

Almost makes a person long for nuclear winter.

I always feel better when someone sees Jesus on a cheese burger somewhere.

I always feel better when someone sees Jesus on a cheese burger somewhere.

I always feel better when someone sees Jesus on a cheese burger somewhere.

Posted by: Colorado Bob Author Profile Page | November 28, 2009 1:09 PM

What a friend we have in cheeses...

kgc, it's been over 2 hours since that cheesy post of yours. lightning strike?

chuck e cheeses loves the little children
all the children of the world
black and yellow, red and white
they're precious profits in his sight
chuck e loves the little children of the world

duck, here comes another.

10,000 E. African albinos in hiding after killings
By TOM ODULA (AP) – 7 hours ago

NAIROBI, Kenya — The mistaken belief that albino body parts have magical powers has driven thousands of Africa's albinos into hiding, fearful of losing their lives and limbs to unscrupulous dealers who can make up to $75,000 selling a complete dismembered set.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gI5T8s7Jsfyll26AEsU1kIV9uzCgD9C8K6FO0

Posted by: Katherine Graham Cracker | November 28, 2009 2:49 PM
Good one KGC!

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/26/beck-palin-kitchen/

"Beck’s Sexist Reason For Ruling Out Palin-Beck Ticket: She’d Always Be ‘Yapping’ Like We’re ‘In The Kitchen’"

"BECK: I don’t think things are hoots. I don’t. I don’t think it’s a hoot. I would never use the word hoot, and I respectfully ask that every time my name is brought up she would stop using the word “hoot.” [...]

No, no I’m just saying — Beck-Palin, I’ll consider. But Palin-Beck — can you imagine, can you imagine what an administration with the two of us would be like? What? Come on! She’d be yapping or something, and I’d say, “I’m sorry, why am I hearing your voice? I’m not in the kitchen.”"

Hoot mon......

friend we have in cheeses..........LOLsquared

Hoots mon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Ymov6JhRE

Stanford is in a really good game with Notre Dame.

Either Oregon State or Oregon will be going to the Rose Bowl..we're happy out here..

Flatus, I'm with you about Tiger - I really do like him. I hadn't heard re any triangle but can't be surprised.

Watched most of a tape of the old pbs show
"The Politician's Wife." The other two were falling asleep and I was getting heart palpitations at the way she was getting her revenge since I remember vaguely how it turns out. I couldn't stand it - so I turned it off and woke them up. HA!

HELP1 CALIFORNIA IS BEING BLOWN AWAY! You should hear the wind whistling out there - once it made my apartment shake and I'm in the middle of the blasted row. I don't mind windy storms or even cold winds, but this isn't all that cold and it is so NOISY! I know, I know, I don't live in southern CA partly because of the Santa Ana's, and think people are crazy for living there for other reasons as well.

I think I must get in bed and get so deep in a book that I can't hear them.

tony, more on the argentine nuptials

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/29/latin-america-first-gay-wedding

bethy, hope you have not blown away. here are some windy songs for your morning:

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

blowin in the wind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t4g_1VoGw4

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/holiday-break.html#comment-272411

"This marriage is bigger than José María and I," Freyre told the Observer. "It is a victory for all who face prejudice and discrimination across Latin America and the Caribbean. It is proof that at last the grip of the Catholic church is slipping across Latin America, the system that has kept gay communities silent and fearful is crumbling. What is happening on Tuesday is a strike against those attitudes that have repressed sexual rights across this continent for too long."

Pat,thanks for that!
Solar will like this part from the article as well..

very strange morning......awoke to a documentary on ABBA and then after that was another on Andy Gibb........the revelations were astounding.......

if andy had been the eldest gibb......they might have been called the A-Gees........

The Beck-Palin ticket
wow that would empty out the US

and on the TCM movie channel Quasimodo is being flogged in public.....50 strokes with the cat o' nine tails.......a tad depressing, that........

Why do people vote based on issues that have nothing to do with governance? We let small and often petty irrelevant issues become the basis of judgement and pretend the big issues are beyond our comprehension.

We outlaw all kinds of things in building codes, why not allow energy efficient light bulbs be the only ones sold. Capitalist ingenuity ought to be able to step in and correct all the problems. I read some where if we could make this change it would turn back the global warming clock.

I watched a movie that I think you would have enjoyed Sturge- Jazz Baroness- It was about Nica Rothchild and Thelonious Monk.

hbo

"But then personality is about all that our media can cope with, since the Ameerican political system, despite ever more expensive elections, sees to it that nothing of an overtly political nature may be discussed. It is true that one candidate, daringly, if briefly, suggested that since 1 percent of the population owns most of the country, as well as quite a bit of the globe elsewhere, perhaps that 1 percent ought not to pay even less tax than it currently does. This tore it. For a moment, the red flag snapped in CNN's early light, but by twilight's last gleaming, that banner was struck, and no real issue was touched on again."

---gore vidal, writing about election 2000

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/

"Really, Peter Orszag!?! Your Critics Have No Ideas For Controlling Cost?"

"It is one thing that the Obama administration decided not to try to pursue many proven cost-cutting solutions because they are too politically difficult. I understand you need to pick your battles, and governing is the art of the possible. But pretending these proven cost-controlling ideas don’t even exist is governmental malpractice.

Since Orszag asked, “What specifically else would you do?” I’ll give him 13 very specific proven solutions:"

what hump?

o'sea......went looking for a thelonius monk song and started reading about the documentary by hannah.....dont receive hbo so havent seen it but it seems to be a good look at the jazzy woild they were a part of............

"Why do people vote based on issues that have nothing to do with governance?"

kgc, am also puzzled about people who do not vote but who gripe about the government for which they are responsible by default. they don't seem to get the connection.

am also puzzled about people who do not vote but who gripe about the government for which they are responsible by default. they don't seem to get the connection.

yeah it's stuff like this that could end us up with the Beck/Palin presidency (Nelson BC here I come)

KGC, hopefully crap like this GOP Loyalty Test will scare more of the old line Republicans home from any voting. Any time Reagan would flunk their new standards is a day that should give some of those clowns pause.

it's already ended us up with kennedy, johnson, nixon, ford, carter, reagan, bush1, clinton, bush2 and obama.......i think sarah senses in her barracudious way the thin-ness of the line between obama and palin...........

Love the photos cool

http://news.firedoglake.com/2009/11/28/enthusiasm-gap-points-to-crushing-democratic-defeat-in-2010/

we are doomed to Beck/Palin

Dear Ms Cracker -
Only you could take a punchline, and turn it into a set up line.

Bravo

" And so The Church of Chucky Cheese was born. "

Thought for the day :
" Losing weight: the triumph of mind over platter. "

CBob
still waiting for the opportunity to use whore-to-culture

smoke gets in your nose.......triumph of mind over The Platters........

KGC

Find an intellectually deficient target and explain why you can lead her anywhere, but you can't make her think.

Jamie
That would be the easy way...:)))
I am looking for others to present the opportunity

Tony,

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/holiday-break.html#comment-272413

Thanks..yes I did like that article. Keep looking for the signs that will end religion. It's not that they are against gay's; or gay marriage. per say ..it is , that they know, that they will start to lose more and more power when these type of things are acceptable as a norm. Like I said, the end of religion= the end of terrorism, and wars...or 95% of the reason for them..

The other thing that will stop these wars..are to stop meddling in other country's..stop spreading the news....religion that is....

KGC

"What a friend we have in cheeses..".

Going to use this quite often....

This one just might get some of my family to stop asking me to say grace....

Join Helen Thomas and me for an online chat at 5pm ET today -- Firedoglake Book Salon.. http://bit.ly/brNFM

some of the other misheard lyrics

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/272893/misheard_lyrics_and_mondegreens_pg2_pg2.html?cat=33

solar, if you've absolutely nothing else to do, bored out of your mind, here's a discussion for you about trying (or really, not trying) to define "religion" as far as the law is concerned. http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/hrj/iss16/gunn.shtml

sort of dull, dense. i equate it with beef jerky. it does stall off hunger of a sort... mental beef jerky.

Pat,

Holy-canoli (chocolate) I thought that you and I were friends...this could break that.(~_*) that is a lot of reading to do..but I have marked it..cos there is nothing about religion that does not interest me...the end of it....is thru educating our selves about it..booked it for when i have nothing better to do.....strike that...it looks like it will take a lot of my time...mmmmmmm....trying to get rid of me?

got to looking around on there for whatever happened to the Salvation Navy..........led me to this:

http://www.pnwbands.com/salvation.html

Like so many musical aggregations they disbanded at the height of their fame........

The Salvation Navy recorded four songs in May 1968. Those songs were "To Love Somebody", "Parchment Farm", "Satisfied" and one untitled song. Those recording are now preserved on CD today. The Salvation Navy’s style of music was a mixture of blues, psychedelic, rock and pop. Eric Christopher was a showman on stage and could be compared to The Doors’ Jim Morrison.

The Salvation Navy's big moment of glory came in June 1968 when the band opened for The Grassroots, the Dunhill recording act from Los Angeles, California. The Grassroots drummer borrowed Mike Kerstetter’s blanket to use with their drum kit.

After The Salvation Navy disbanded in June 1968, Christopher and Kerstetter started the band "Faith". Later, Darryl Riffero joined forces with a soul/R&B group "The Psych River Soul Mill" as their lead guitarist.

When you started out, i thought Salvation Navy might be a Gilbert & Sullivan tribute to George Bernard Shaw.

"How can 59 million people be so dumb, Britain's Daily Mail famously asked in a day-after headline of the re-election of George W. Bush in 2004. The Daily Mail can notch a new one for its shame gallery: How can 3 million Swiss be so bigoted? Switzerland's People's Party, a far-right, nationalist brood whose members dominate the Swiss parliament, is celebrating: its initiative to ban minarets in Switzerland passed with close to 60% of the vote today."

http://middleeast.about.com/b/2009/11/29/islamophobe-swiss-ban-minarets.htm

nyt re minaret story

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/world/europe/30swiss.html

they want to ban these things
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minaret

not the mountains
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minarets_(California)

and not minuets (as i mistakenly tho't at first glance wondering why that and why not clogging or break dancing or the chachacha)

White House's Ties to Health Care Industry Deeper Than Visitor Records Show

As Obama taught his constitutional law students, power in America is based on "relationships built on self-interest."

In August, the Associated Press asked the Obama White House -- which has promised to be the most transparent administration 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has ever seen -- to release information on all communications between top staff and health care industry bigwigs. The call went unanswered, so in September the AP downgraded its request to a log of health care-related visits to those same top White House officials.

On Wednesday, the White House released records of 575 such visits since Jan. 20. It catalogs meetings with 22 top Obama aides including chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and senior advisers Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod, and Pete Rouse.

The list of White House guests is a real who's-who of the health care industry. It includes Billy Tauzin, chief of PhRma, the drug industry lobby; Scott Serota, president and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield; and lobbyists from the Business Roundtable, an organization representing the policy interests of head honchos at major U.S. companies. more:

http://www.alternet.org/politics/

http://littlesis.org/list/72/White_House_health_care_visitors

A list of healthcare executives and lobbyists who have visted the White House during the first 8 months of the Obama administration.

• Rahm Emanuel is closely tied to two of the folks on the list. The first is Joel Johnson, a friend who met the chief of staff one-on-one and who lobbies for UnitedHealth and Kinetic Concepts, a medical device maker. The other is Jonathan Hoganson, a lobbyist who represents Merck and PhRma and who just happens to have worked as Emanuel's legislative director for five years and was also a legislative fellow for Rod Blagojevich. Hoganson met with Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm's older brother and a special adviser on health care policy in the White House.

• Connections to Tom Daschle, failed nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, include Joshua Ackil, his former advisor on technology, and lobbyists for Alston & Bird, where Daschle was a policy advisor until recently.

• Nancy Pelosi, Joe Lieberman, and Dick Durbin all have former aides on the AP's list, in addition to Emanuel and Daschle.

before the swiss also ban minuets, here's beethoven's in g with perlman and telly the muppet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16XQTpm_OIk

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/holiday-break.html#comment-272440

Hey, Craig, I tried to check in at the livechat but the link didn't work--kept telling me "page not found"--

http://firedoglake.com/2009/11/29/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-helen-thomas-and-craig-crawford-listen-up-mr-president-everything-you-always-wanted-your-president-to-know-and-do/

Given the music on now, the world is probably divided between those watching HBO and those who don't have HBO

http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleServlet?ACTION_DETAIL=DETAIL&FOCUS_ID=695991

The Killer, Crosby Stills & Nash, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Brown on now ... and those are the opening acts.

Poll: Limbaugh is most influential conservative

(11-29) 16:18 PST NEW YORK, (AP) --

By a wide margin, Americans consider Rush Limbaugh the nation's most influential conservative voice.

Those are the results of a poll conducted by "60 Minutes" and Vanity Fair magazine and issued Sunday. The radio host was picked by 26 percent of those who responded, followed by Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck at 11 percent. Actual politicians — former Vice President Dick Cheney and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin — were the choice of 10 percent each.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/29/entertainment/e160137S28.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0YIloPXBe

yikes a cheney palin ticket
or a cheney beck omg

View my recently-completed online chat with Helen Thomas and Firedoglake.com readers.. http://bit.ly/6o8TcC

KGC

Canada may be too close. I may have to opt for full British citizenship and hide out in the highlands.

Naomi Klein is on CNN talking about the problems Obama is having with his base..her bottom line is that although Obama actually promised very little his supporters projected their agendas as his and are very disappointed.

And this is my local paper
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20091129/NEWS/911291007/1350?Title=Peace-Justice-Center-feels-Left-s-malaise

KGC

He didn't really promis. The "Yes We Can" speech said we could - NOT that he would. They heard the dream and are now waking up to the reality.

Well he did promise to do something about money and lobbyists

KGC
But what is the problem then? He is doing something about both the money and the lobbyist.
He is pocketing the money and listening to the lobbyist.
after all he never said exactly what he would do, did he?

Jack

How to win the war in Afghanistan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5nvg0_FfjU

Johnny would be proud

Jack

Solar
here is some concrete work for you.
The new hoover damn bypass bridge
It is all cast in place. they started from each end of that huge canyon and meet in the middle. We saw it last week when we visited Hoover damn. It is an amazing piece of engineering and construction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ7TnRLPeZk

Jack

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/240/tougher-rules-against-revolving-door-for-lobbyists/

the trail of broken obamarama promises

Willie Horton 2012, See ya Huckster.

http://tinyurl.com/ycd35fb

Hucksterbee's response, "Democrats made me do it"

When I'd pull our trailer down that road and across the dam Stinky would be in a state of near panic. Mostly because I was rubber-necking while I was supposed to be paying attention to the road.

The Panama Canal is absolutely the most fascinating feat of engineering and construction that I've ever seen. I would spend hours watching the operation of the locks and the absolute mastery of the locking operation by everyone involved in it.

And the story also recalls another act of clemency gone awry: Huckabee advocated for parole for a convicted rapist who -- his allies said -- had been railroaded by Huckabee predecessor Bill Clinton. The rapist, Wayne DuMond, was released; he raped and murdered another woman.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1109/Another_Huckabee_pardon_gone_awry.html?showall

two strikes for the huckster

Bruce Springsteen made a speech about conditions today and that Guthrie would find plenty to write. about. Then sang an unbelievable version of his own song, "The Ghost of Tom Joad"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DEtA5fhk4k

KGC and Craig, thanks for the livechat links. Will check it out.

Jamie, my Take This Tune pc. is up at http://redmudinn.blogspot.com Not exactly on topic, but close.;)

But Flatus, they got to stand on the ground;-)

These guys pouring this concrete were doing it 850ft up and the uncompleted arch that was sticking out above the canyon was held up by cables tied back to the edge of the canyon. They also crossed that 1000ft span from both directions and lined up perfect.

That impresses this old nail pounder.
btw they tell me that the new bridge will have the view of the dam screened so drivers can't rubberneck. Also they have straightened the road out. Looked very good because it takes into consideration the asthetics of the area.
Jack

Fair

Read your thankgiving song post.
You managed to answer a question I've been asking every thanksgiving for several years.
"What was that thanksgiving song we used to sing in grade school?"
I couldn't remember it and nobody could help.
and I loved the post brought back a lot of memories.

Thanks again

Jack

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/holiday-break.html#comment-272472

Most welcome, Jack--and thank you for stopping by the Red Mud Inn!

Patd, No, all of ca, including me, is still here. It seems I'm just a candy. The gusts were up to 36 mph, tho. I was just jumpy because that old pbs show was so gut-wrenching - did you ever see it? It was about revenge and I remembered enough of it to know what was going to happen. There was another pbs show called House of Cards re a brit minister who kept kidding rid of people in his way, using everyone else to cause the destruction. I had expected to enjoy it one day again, but now I'm not so sure.

Both those shows show how easy it is to destroy - people tend to think the best, not wanting to believe in the poison that is dispersed. In reality, all it takes is words and it freaks me out. In fact it freaks me out right now to mention it so I'm gonna shut up.

Was that Thanksgiving song the Thanksgiving Prayer? I always loved it. On Classsic Arts Showcase the other day they showed an old tape of Jussi Bjoerling singing it - sublime.

By the way, who are all those people and how come I don't know them?

Just heard a great line from CSI:NY (which I never watch, but it was on....) A dese-dem-n-dose guy says his doc just told him he has pancreatic cancer, and he didn't even know what a pancreatic was.