Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Sunday Woo Hoo

Patsi -- Solar answers your phone tech question here.. http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/obamas-full-plate.html#comment-270951

An interesting story on a polling commissioned by South Carolina's largest newspaper. The focus is initially on Wilson, but later on it gets into who speaks for the Republican Party. Worth reading:

http://www.thestate.com/local/story/1028514.html

Thanks Solar & Craig....I'm getting started on a new book and need a regular hookup, that can support a taping systen. DAMN!

I hope that was a good DAMN, because it will do what you need. But, it won't do research or take dictation.

Hey Jamie--lullabies at the Red Mud Inn ;)

Still looking for one for next Friday?

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Patsi, guess i missed it if you mentioned before. What's the new book? I loved the nashville history in Garth factor

Patsi,

The MJ, is still a great way to go...you can talk to little Maria, and anyone else day and night for only 20 bucks a year....SEA...have you looked into it...it can also be a business line for that much..lot of telephone savings: I save at least 100 per month...

Pasti, don't give up on it for the things that you need. Go to the chat feature on the mj, and see what can be done...good luck; good luck with the new book also....about your wild and crazy day's??

dooty, re shelley winters question, the link below says:

"She shared an apartment with Marilyn Monroe; they shared a bathing suit for cheesecake shots and a mink coat for dates. Legend has it that Winters taught Monroe how to "act pretty", by tilting her head back, lowering her eyes, and ever-so-slightly opening her mouth."

http://www.nndb.com/people/859/000022793/

"Mutant genes 'key to long life'"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8359735.stm

Pat,

"Mutant genes 'key to long life'"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8359735.stm

I like those kind of article a lot thanks.

The young babies that are around today will be living a lo longer than we do now-due to this type of research...and long as Vampires..200 years......hey get you're hair out of the way...this little bite won't hurt a bit....

Ps...now that I think about it...we better not let the Bankers get their hands on these types of drugs, like they did the flu drug's.....Vampire Bankers..ughhhhh

Best Inventions of 2009

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1934027,00.html

Fair,

Yes I need a song for next Friday. Trying to lead into Thanksgiving before hitting favorite yuletide songs. Any suggestions?

"But, it won't do research or take dictation."

Ha -- no -- I just need the thing to tape phone interviews.

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patd -- thanks for that Shelly Wintrs link. She is one of my all-time favorites. And Monroe is another one. Even back when she was just seen as a sex symbol, I always saw Marilyn Monroe as a great comic actress.

Craig -- I have signed a deal with Pat Benatar to write her memoir.

But this has been one bitch of a year, financially. Things are really tightening up. Like I keep saying, people like me and many others here who are independent contractors don't show up in the unemployment figures. And we get no monthly checks, either.

And as the line from McMurtry's "Buffalo Girls" goes: "I'm too old to winter hard."

"Yes I need a song for next Friday. Trying to lead into Thanksgiving before hitting favorite yuletide songs. Any suggestions?"

Jamie -- there is only one possible song for Thanksgiving: "Alice's Restaurant"!

Patsi,

You might want to treat your self as an employee. You can pay into the pool a small sum, and get unemployment checks. Who ever does your taxes could advise you on how to do it....I own my own corp. but treat myself as an employee. During this time of low income..it was the best way to go..b/c of the tax adjustments???

Forgot, that you probably won't be eligible until next year tho.

Patsi,

Ha!!!! Fair's suggestion for next week was a little more traditional, but I will definitely get Alice in for the day itself. :-)

Jamie -- my son used to insist we rent the movie of Alice's Restaurant to watch every Thanksgiving day while we cooked.

Solar -- I had NO idea you could pay into the unemployment fund!

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Glad the one for the 20th's workable. Meanwhile re Yuletide: I'll send you a couple of interesting links if that's okay.

When I think of Pat Benatar it is always associated with tight spandex. But as this clip proves she has a voice
This is a great clip imo.

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

I look forward to the book Patsi.

Jack

Patsi, you simply plug your telephone devices into the output jack of the MJ. Think of the MJ just as you would any other telephone wall jack in the house. Any device you can plug into the wall, you can plug into the MJ.

The only drawback to the devices is that they must be plugged into a running computer with a broadband connection. They should work just fine with one of the new generation of minimalist computers that consume well under 100-watts

Of course the host computer can be turned off at night, but that will leave you dependent on cellphone for 911, etc.

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Patsi, you're writing Pat Benatar's memoir! very very cool. congrats.

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Congratulations on getting the Benatar deal!

Jack -- wow -- that clip is GREAT! She turned down a scholarship at Julliard -- was into classics originally.

Flatus -- I mainly need this for interviews. So it'll be okay...but I am glad to know that the computer must be on...didn't know how that worked.

Patsi,

Yes one can pay into the fund. Give your self a check every two wks and when you do your quarterly include yourself as an employee. Of course you would have to pay taxes on this income..you still should see the person that does you're taxes..but that would be the way to go...

On the M. J. you can attach any devise that you have..just need to connect them to a different power source..and I would not put any of them on the same one....I noticed an improvement on the jack when they are separated..

There is another way that I have changed the way I use phones in the past year, or so: I am very pleased that I have changed ot Boost Mobile...it only costs me 55 dollars flat. No hidden charges from the stated and city, and the government....and no contracts to sign....it is unlimited day and night....I talk to people in Ohio for hrs at a time...and very happy with the quality....let me qualify that..it is as good as any...it is a Motorola, and has the two way radio, that is also included...plus it has the web in it..it is limited, but I don't use it any way....

I am now an un-sung hero.....while coming down that road the picture of which, Jamie, you commented upon on my blog i saw in the adjacent roadway a magnificent bird of prey on its back with a wing sticking up awkwardly.......I took another sip of beer and pondered as to whether i should get out and look at it.......i was listening to the replay of "Wait Wait Don't tell Me" and got out to go over to the stricken bird......he was a big beautiful bastard.......lying there on his back........i figured what the hell and called my niece to see if she knew anyone who would be interested in this kind of situation and she gave me the name and number of this guy at the marina who might know something and 3 minutes later the phone rang from the Raptor Center in a place many miles north of here.....He says, can you get it into a cardboard box? I says, that boy's got talons about 4 inches long.....he says, once you put a towell over his head, he or she will become docile......so i borreyed some welding gloves and took a towel i had in the car as a result of my daughter ditching a huge garbage bag full of perfectly good towels which had faded in hue and put the towel over the boid's haid......he became docile and as i was picking him or her up the towel came off and he or she became agitant and i let him or her back down to the ground......but his or her talons were gripping the towel so i lifted it up and swung the bird into the cardboard box........so i calls the raptor center back and says the bird is in the box, can somebody pick 'em up? i says look, there aint no possibility of me going much of anywhere tonight, but this bird could use some help........he says it's sunday, i gotta make some calls.......one of his callees calls me back and says i'll meet you in 23 minutes at the pig-wig parking lot....I says "Fair neat....."

and it was done..........

Patsi,

Wonderful news. You deserve some nice things to come your way. It should be a great read.

Patsi,

What Craig said about Pat B. very, very cool.!!

Sturg,

Very cool also.!

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Sturgeone,

That was very kind of you. I hope the bird recovered. The work those wildlife centers do so important.

Watching "The American President" ... Big issue in the movie made in 1995 the environment and global warming. Has anything changed yet?

Good one Sturg! Hopefully you'll be able to followup and see how it recovers. Man, nice having access to some welding gloves. That or similar would have been a requirement for me to get involved.

Sturge

Having seen what this parrot on my shoulder can do when he is mad, I don't think there is a pair of welding gloves heavy enough for me to pick up that bird.
You are a brave man.

Jack

rez........i can call the raptor center and find out.....I talk of heros sung and un-sung because I'm reading the oddessey for the first time.....i read all the historians and a smattering of plays, but never the oddy or the iliad........in toto i mean........read bits and pieces.....it's an engrossing story.........heros........I say heros because the guy who picked up the bird in the parking lot says, "You're a hero." and i thought, well, as long as i dont have to drive too far..........

jack he had claws which would stymie any false attempt at friendship.......it was made easy as he clung to the towel and allowed me to lift him over into the box........the gloves were a false security but the guy assured me that with the towel the bird would be docile......

he or she was a big beautiful bastard or bastardess

A bird in the box is worth two in the hand.

Sturgeon you are a mensch.

Semper Paratus

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

one last thing......the rescue was facilitated by the fact that as i was dithering i heard a neighbor at the gate.......i walked over around the shrubbery and axed......you got a cardboard box? He says how big, I says "so so".......oh.....you got welding gloves? he says yep.....so i figured on the welding gloves but the cardboard box was a gift of zeus..........

Flate.......at last sighting Fontella still sings with her mother in a church in st. louis........and occasionally at oliver sain's blues club......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXSocE_M1G4

"That (gloves) or similar would have been a requirement for me to get involved."

having a few big sips of beer wouldn't have hurt either. :-)

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Oh Patsi,congrats on the new book!! Love Pat Benatar!

Hi Flatus,
Having so much trouble finding wireless adapters that work with Windows 7..I even bought a new 2.4 wireless keyboard and mouse and its incompatible..It looks very user friendly though..

beer? hell, i was just kiddin' about the beer........

i'm gonna put a pitcher of the bird on the blawg.........

Tony, I'm very surprised at that. I've had no problem using any of my wireless stuff. It's almost undoubtedly a driver problem.

Try this. Go to the control panel and uninstall the problem devices. Reboot the computer and let it rediscover them and search for the proper drivers.

tony,

my son has windows 7 on his computer and has a wireless keyboard and mouse. he has no issues.

Interesting take on health reform. Thoughts?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcia-angell-md/is-the-house-health-care_b_350190.html

beer? hell, i was just kiddin' about the beer........
LOL

Flatus,dooty,
Thanks.The adapter I'm trying to get working is Netgears N wireless adapter.I'm trying to send the signal to a computer in my nieces bedroom..Its a new Compaq and it doesn't have an internet signal to search for the driver's.I tried downloading an updated driver onto a zip drive and then tried to put it on the new computer,no luck,said it couldn't locate the adapter.Aparently the disk that came with the adapter is not for use with Windows 7.Bestbuy assured me the Netgear would work,NOPE...I also tried a Belkin N and it was incompatible.Back to Bestbuy tomorrow for another fix..Netgear gave me 2 other models they say will do it..

the bird and the spider are on the blarg.............

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Patsi,

The health care bill really has turned into an Insurance Company boondoggle. Coverage is mandated, but there is no public option for most people and the ones who can get it doesn't kick in for a couple of years.

End result, lots of new customers without any loss of the old ones. Now whether the sheer volume will help lower costs is left up to the tender mercies of the Insurance corporations.

Now to help that along, there is buying out of state policies ... kind of iffy as that could end up in courts challenged by state Insurance Commissioners who are responsible for enforcement at the state level. Then there is the possibility that the Senate might add in a "trigger" which might or might not help threaten the corporate sleeze bags who should be committing harikiri in shame for their crimes against the American public.

IOW, instead of doing the simple thing of opening up Medicare in stages to anyone who wanted to buy in with supplements supplied by the insurance companies, they have created this multi part monster that probably won't change a damn thing.

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Patsi,
Scary!! This from HuffoPo link you provided,thanks..

"First, health costs will continue to skyrocket, even faster than they are now, as taxpayer dollars are pumped into the private sector. The response of payers -- government and employers -- will be to shrink benefits and increase deductibles and co-payments. Yes, more people will have insurance, but it will cover less and less, and be more expensive to use."

Tony, this problem is going to make you crazy. Tell Best Buy to make a house call to fix the damned thing. It's not your fault. And, it's not your niece's either. Or they can take it back under the lemon law.

A real version of The Boys From Brazil?

Video

http://www.comcast.net/video/a-town-full-of-twins/1328140700/Comcast/1329996501/

Telegraph News article

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/4307262/Nazi-angel-of-death-Josef-Mengele-created-twin-town-in-Brazil.html

the bird......i took a pitcher of his dumb broke ass:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IVnwjTKFGzY/SwC9K8_o1hI/AAAAAAAAAL8/AK3V0wwKG2A/s1600/spiderbird+005.jpg

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Flatus,
Good Idea!! They can come fix it or I will return it and get another brand..Bestbuy blames the accessorie products.. As I told the people on the phone in India and today Manila,what goods a computer if you can't get on the internet..

Tony,

You might want to try this place for your comp needs, if you have one around...lot cheaper, and if you take the comp they will help you install things. I would get my $ back, and go see these people, if one is near you:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/

Sturgeone

You are right, he or she is magnificent. Get us an update if you can, it looks alert and if shock didn't set in, it should do well.

I bought a power source there the other day, and it was 40 bucks cheaper than Best Buy, and more wattage.

Sturg, you musta really pissed that bird off.

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Hi Solar,
Thanks I'll check it out! My niece Ashley is moving down from Michigan and I'm trying to get her room set up with all the goodies..I installed and wall mounted a 37 inch LCD TV complete with DVR,no problem,but this damn computer,what a bitch its been..I'm using the LCD TV as the Monitor with wireless keyboard and mouse,that is if I can find one that will work..I may have to start with another computer..I know its Windows 7 or the new computer,because all the things loaded quickly on my Vista Gateway...

Tony,

If are you using a wireless router from the host comp (yours) to hers..if so..take a look at that? I use linksys, and it was a bitch to get going..long talks to nice people in India.but a lot of frustration.....it just might be the routing...but I will stop there cos it might confuse things...take a look back and start over again mentally..luck pal.

flatus.....i cannot imagine his or her being any too pleased at the day's turn of events.......

ps your a fine uncle.!!

Now if i could just meet princess leia over beignets at cafe du monde.......

ps again. Your niece is Mid-West tough. You lost it. u a Floriday take it easy kinda guy now...she will probably get rid of those dillos for you.!hahaha

they said i could name him or her if he or she lives.....y'all got any suggestions?

If she I figger "ms thomas".......

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Ha Solar,
You very funny man!! I don't know about Ashley getting rid of those dillo's,unless they mess with her clothes,then I think she would take care of em...Your exactly correct about the wireless router from my computer to her's ..I have went over the connections with the folks from Belkin and Netgear,everything with the router seems fine.

frankie fitzsimons is dying tonight in hendersonville.....his dad made these recordings....."From the banks of the Oklawaha"

he's my first daughter's grandmother's brother..........

http://www.alibris.com/search/books/qwork/2476050/used/From%20the%20banks%20of%20the%20Oklawaha

laurel and hardy on TCM

Tony,

My last question. Did those routing people as you for your ' public IP address'...example mine is 76.435 106.44 (not a real one) I had to program it into the router, and thru the pc...if they did not do this...it might be the problem.....

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Sturgeone,

He's your uncle?

Or your wife's uncle?

"they said i could name him or her if he or she lives.....y'all got any suggestions?"

sturge, she looks like madeleine albright to me. something about the eyes.

makes them smarter?

"Chemicals in plastics alter the brains of baby boys making them "more feminine", say US researchers."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8361863.stm

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/newseum-inside-media.html#comment-271028

Good morning all,Solar,

I don't recall being asked to program an IP address into the computer for the router..I'll ask about it before I return the computer..

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/newseum-inside-media.html#comment-271028

Good morning all,
Solar,
I don't recall being asked by the router people about an IP address?I will check into that before i return the computer..

I say, I say, I say, boy... you caught you a chickenhawk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-tailed_Hawk

The prognosis on any injured-bird isn't great, but if it lives, you should train it to do your bidding.

Oops,what happened above?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/business/media/16msnbc.html?th&emc=th

"MSNBC Presses Obama on Campaign Promises"

"If President Obama happened to glance at “The Rachel Maddow Show” last Monday, he might have winced.

From left, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow have plenty to talk about with President Obama in office.

Rachel Maddow says, “I don't think our audience is looking for unequivocal 'rah-rah.'”
TV ads for Chris Matthews's show use the tagline, “pushing back on the president.”

Ms. Maddow pretended to celebrate the passage of a health care overhaul bill in the House, calling it “potentially a huge generational win for the Democratic Party” — but then halted the triumphant music and called it an “electoral defeat.”

The Stupak amendment, she said, was “the biggest restriction on abortion rights in a generation.” Then she wondered aloud about the consequences for Democrats “if they don’t get women or anybody who’s pro-choice to ever vote for them again.” She returned to the subject the next four evenings in a row"

Tony, sometimes it as simple as the wi-fi switch not being on, if it's a laptop. There should be an "internet connectivity wizard" or some crap like that in your software... see if any of your neighbors networks (or yours) are available.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/newseum-inside-media.html#comment-271038

Champ, thanks. Its a new Windows 7 desktop.I'll check with my neighbors.The new computer doesn't seem to recognize the wireless adapter plugged into the USB port..

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/business/economy/16gm.html?th&emc=th

"G.M. Is Said to Soon Begin Paying U.S. Debt"

"G.M. received about $6 billion more in working capital from the Obama administration in April and May, and was given $30.1 billion in bankruptcy financing and postbankruptcy restructuring money, for which the government received a majority stake in the new version of G.M. that emerged from bankruptcy.

Of the total, only the $6.7 billion, most of it provided by the United States, was considered a loan that required repayment. The rest was money traded for equity in the company.

G.M. did not have to pay back the loan until July 2015, and the government did not expect to receive the money before then, the person said.

On Monday, G.M. is to report its first financial results since emerging from bankruptcy protection in July. The early debt repayment could be an indication that G.M.’s financial condition is strong enough that it can begin parting with the government money."

Ah... a USB adapter. Got an ethernet cable? One should have come with the PC. Link that to the router,, then put in the adapter at the same time and see if it can find the driver... just a suggestion.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-marsh/first-hillary-now-sarah_b_357925.html

"First Hillary, Now Sarah"

"Here we go again. Hillary was made out to be a she devil, too unqualified from her first lady status to run for Senate, with the same thing being said during her presidential campaign. Now we've got the demonization of a diva. It all amounts to the same thing. With Sarah's book being fact checked by the AP before it hits bookstores. Did this ever happen with Newt's book? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Andrew Sullivan has the distinction of being in Sarah's sights over the bogus baby Trig pregnancy scandal, something that would never have happened to a man:"

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/newseum-inside-media.html#comment-271041

Champ, i do have an ethernet cable,I'll try that!

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Sturg, I wouldn't name her Ms Thomas until I was sure she could say , "Mister President!".

And here I thought Twitter was useless (until the Iranians proved me wrong). Clearly, if the Chinese gov't feels the need to block it, they can't handle the truth.

Which part of Scary Palin's book is a great policy book, Rush? The part where she talks about first-dude-Todd like he was Fabio in an 'I Can't Believe It's Not Butter' ad? I hope somebody has some tape to disprove the stuff in her book. Or do I? If the far'ters who high-jacked the GOP put her out there as a "serious" candidate in 2012, the Dems have a lock on another 4 years.

Shall we start a poll to see if she makes it all the way through "her" book tour or if she quits en route?

the bird is passed:

http://www.thecenterforbirdsofprey.org/staff.htm

oops.....not passed on but rather it's been handed off to good people......

Tony,
IMO, Compaqs are the most frustrating things to work with. They come bundled with tons of crapware and have numerous proprietary drivers and diagnostic routines that slow things down and make updating and upgrading extremely difficult.

Unfortunately, since I build my own, I just don't know what brand to recommend--they all speak highly of themselves.

This I do know, you paid your very hard earned money to get a top name brand product from a national retailer. It's absolutely up to them to make things right. Don't accept excuses. Make them own the problem.

Jamie -- I fear you are right. This health care bill is going to do a couple of good things, and then turn the rest back over to the corporations.

I watch Stephanopoulos and none of the other Sunday morning programs any more. His is so much better.

Hillary was making the rounds. She was brilliant on his show.

sturge, have that empty nest feeling?

In England, the American air bases sometimes hired local falconers. Their job was to have their birds chase away the flocks of migrating birds that love to get in the way of airplanes.

We need some national voices for healthcare. A couple come to mind--Dr Dean and Sen Bob Kerrey. I don't believe either are beholding to anyone.

"....one of the earliest diplomatic tussles involved how to spell -- and therefore pronounce -- the name of the 44th American president in Mandarin Chinese......

The president has been referred to here as "Aobama" since he first appeared on the national scene. And change, as he himself often says, is hard.

One foreign ministry official Chinese translator even appeared to be mocking the American translation efforts. He said he preferred "Aobama," because the Chinese character for Ao is used also for Australia and as part of Macao, and means "profound and deep." By contrast, "Ou" is the Chinese character used for Europe.

The official agreed that the pronunciation of "Oubama" may indeed be closer to the American pronunciation of the 44th president's name. But he said it sounded strange to the ear, reminding him slightly of the Japanese term "Obaasan," which is a rather unkind way of referring to an old lady ("Obaasan," while Japanese, is widely understood by Chinese on Taiwan and in Hong Kong).

What the translator did not mention, however, is that the "Ao" character has a lot of other less complimentary meaning -- which may be why the Chinese government prefers to use it for Obama.. "Ao" can also mean "difficult to understand," "abstruse" and "obscure."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009111600669.html?hpid=topnews

are = is (dumb me)

obama abstruse?

"1. hard to understand; recondite; esoteric: abstruse theories.
2. Obsolete. secret; hidden."

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abstruse

His name is easily written and articulated in Korea. It could easily be a Korean name: Oh Ba Ma, where Oh is the surname and Ba Ma the given.

Let the Chinese do as they wish with it. But, we should pronounce it as we do in America, and spell it in English.

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Sturge,

Thanks for the correction. The first message made me go, "ohhhhhh" and not in a pleasant way.

Patsi.... great news about the Benatar memoir....

Sturg.... I think the lordship is correct.... that looks like a red tailed hawk.... one of the biggest and most common in hawkdom.... my suggestion is to name him/her TM.....

Flatus.... but.... but.... hasn't Obama already thrown the good doctor Dean under the bus....

Renee, yes he was under that well traveled bus--which helps validate his voice as one independent of the Administration.

red tailed hawk.....male juvenile, first year......they checked him in this morning at the center....doing fine, on pain meds looks like dislocated shoulder but wont do x-rays or whatever they do till later today.............

The TM theme song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfb6RxiMxgM&feature=PlayList&p=85549A9280A02EA5&index=21

Sturg, the love in his eyes as he was looking at you; do you think he's adopted you as his daddy?

Trail Male

awwwww, pshaw.......
but i aint sure that was a look of love...... if i coulda fixed him myself i think i would have kept him around.......he could thin out that herd of cats at the shop.....

Trail Male......excellent

Hi you all. Hope your weekend was great. Can't say Jets, Steelers, New England made me richer, but what the hell.....

The following is just an update regarding Iran. I did say about 60 days ago, that the next 60 days might decide whether a strike on Iran will come soon after the new year, or at least credible preparation for a strike that Iran will understand. No war mongering intended.....

Here is a short list of events that have happened since my remark.

1. No acceptance of Obama's enrichment deal (see last link for the Iranian rejection).

2. IAEA says Iran has not disclosed other secret sites and Qom has not been inspected to satisfaction

3. Iran supplies Yemeni militants and gets caught again shipping illegal arms to Hizb'Allah in a cashe over 500 tons. Saudis launch strikes against Iranian supported militants.

4. Iran reported testing small nuclear weapon design for ballistic missile (not with real warhead of course).

5. Iran declares Americans caught are spies

6. Quds to take over Iranian Press

7. Iran has Hamas pull out of coming elections and brokered unity deal.

8. Iranians caught in Iraq fomenting trouble.

9. Iran in new defense pact with Turkey who pledges to pass on vital Intel on Israel and the US. Big problems for NATO.

10. Sakorzy tells Iran Israel won't wait much longer and Putin today seconds that warning as the reactor bound for Iran is put on hold again.

11. Iran builds more silos in an effort to confuse a possible strike against targets

12. http://www2.debka.com/headline.php?hid=6373

In above link Debka talks about unprecedented Intel meeting between Sunnis and Israel as well as noting Iran published Debka reports confirming some of the information (see latest Debka headlines). The article itself discusses new US strategy in dealing with Iran.

These items come from various sources and perhaps I can post them later. I suspect however the news above is fairly accurate and means that the gesture parade is about over with hard facts facing this administration's understandable effort to negotiate. It appears the Hillary faction may win out with Abbas now threating a unilateral announcement of the new Islamic State of Palestine. The O-team strategy might just be blowing up in their faces without much Press fanfare, but what is most important is how the administration adapts and revises policy in light of the many signals.......

Just an FYI post.....

later....

Sturg -
My Carnauba Cream has turned to some sort of science experiment in mutant chemistry. Have to visit the Tandy store one more time, I'll get that fashionable fat elk in the mail tomorrow.

Buffalo Nickle buttons with a BRASS LOOP ON THE BACK -

http://www.ngatraders.com/genuine_nickel_buttons.html

$3.35 ea. not a bad price.

yes.....3.35 is a steal......as it happens coincides with the check I'm getting today which after i buy material for the next jarb will go for buffler buttons and a banjo head for the washburn.......

the blue corn is strong........

Patsi........Congratu-bigtime-elations on the Pat B. book.....cool beans......

For all you Farmer's market folks -

Richland farmers' market goes online

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_online_farmers_market.html?source=mypi

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/newseum-inside-media.html#comment-271062

Sturgeone,

Now we have an official bird: Red Tailed Hawk named Trailmix, and a song: Happy Trails. Sea has an official Trailmix

We need an animal, flower, tree, insect etc so that when the volcano blows we can congregate on that fishing dock and declare our own state.

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago.

The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition.

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

giant jelly fish invading japan:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0119_060119_jellyfish.html

oh and jamie......first wife's uncle......those books by his dad were great tales from the mountains and the mountain folk in western NC........[From the Banks of the Oklawaha]

Patsi -
Here's yer " Atta Girl " .

LB -
Trail Male
Anybody ever seen the PBS program on " Pale Male " ?
About a red tail in Central Park ? It's a heart warmer.

Pat Benatar- Everybody Lay Down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIpva8TtHGM

We did our 7th Art Market this weekend ....... 50 vendors, our best weather ever. it was sterling .

the only word there is (so far, book VI) of all the fantastic adventures Oddyseus had on the way back from troy is a yarn which is spun by Oddyseus, himself, to Alkinoos, king of the Phaiakians ....... Frankly, I think he may have made some of that stuff up.......

Bigfoot picked his five favorite songs but I only heard 3 of them and the name of the other two artist.

Imus In The Morning, Tom “Bigfoot” Bowman,

http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/11/imus-in-mornings-tom-bowman-bigfootin.html

Thanks everyone for the atta-girls....the ting is, if book publishing is an indication,things are seriously drying up. It is truly frightening out there.

SO many journalist friends of mine have been laid off in the last six months or so...

lol.........."Bigfoot kept lumberjack as Love Slave"

my all-time (ALL time) favorite was "Newborn Baby Sings Like Elvis" and in smaller print was "First song was 'Don't be Cruel' "

oooooh..... it's like Christmas to get that Amazon package in the mail....

got 2 books.... both about Lake Powell and what climate change is doing to it and the West's water supply.... one entitled "Resurrection"... the other "Dead Pool".... and Lake Mead isn't faring any better...

Patsi....
I've been selling a few more scarves in my galleries in the last several months....
but not enough to feed myself if I depended on it. Here's to hoping Xmas sales treat us better.

And Rick is gone this week to a conference in Orlando. HP has invited it's entire sales and pre-sales force worldwide to attend. First time they've done something like this in 3 years. I hope that's a good sign.

Pure fun. AFI's 100 years 100 quotes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=594Oxq4c0XA

Thom Hartman today is heavy on economics and the problem of not having money flowing up. His guest is Jonathan Tasini of Working Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=594Oxq4c0XA

Some great editorial pieces and links

Monday, November 16, 2009
" Fat Elk Speaks "

http://the-shin-bone-star.blogspot.com/2009/11/fat-elk-speaks.html

Via The Daily Dish -

" When you understand that nobody wants to read your shit, your mind becomes powerfully concentrated. You begin to understand that writing/reading is, above all, a transaction. The reader donates his time and attention, which are supremely valuable commodities. In return, you the writer, must give him something worthy of his gift to you. "

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/on-crap-ctd-2.html
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" Can I get an Amen ? "

Bob, part of Shackleton's legacy:

http://www.airbum.com/articles/ArticleShackleton.html

I saw one of these when I was at RAF Lakenheath. I heard a strange sound in the sky, looked up and thought, what the hell, a B-24? Then I took a double take and realized it was a Shackleton that was still in active service. A marvelous sight.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/newseum-inside-media.html#comment-271089

Amen and amen.

Amen, Mr. Bob.

I rise to nominate the Hopi Blue Corn for the position of Official Tree of this here Trail.

and that will give rise to a Corn-Tree Music song.......

So, what will be the official corn likker?

Flatus,

Did you know a William J. Gahr at Lakenheath ?

Gotta admit Sully is an expert on writing crap.
Thanks for reading him Bob, somebody has got to do it and better you than me.

Jack

'Official corn likker' sounds like an oxymoron to me.

Old Popskull. Distilled in the kudzu patch, aged in the old woodshed, and shipped by moonlight under specially built pickup campers.

It settles the nerves, kills wood ticks, disinfects wounds, melts shellac, and makes a romantic blue flame for heating fondue pots.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/newseum-inside-media.html#comment-271089

CBob

Unfortunately, television seems to be exactly the opposite. The more mind numbing the better seems to increase eyeballs. More and more I find myself relagated to BBC, PBS, and a few of the cables with good, well written shows such as TNT and USA.

No, X, sorry. What did he do?

I had a pleasant repair experience with ATT and the fellow was interesting. Sarah Palin came up and he said he wanted to read her book. He felt she was not treated fairly by the media and even though he did note vote for her he thinks she has more to offer than the media made it appear.

Probably in in late 30's and probably lives in Sonoma Countyit was quite interesting.

On crap : these guys have it all wrong. The difficulty is not in people clicking out of a site, it is luring them back, again and again so that the maximum number of eyeballs roll over the ads that feed the blogger.

Flatus,

He flew a typewriter in the office. I see him in the local saloons once in awhile, and we swap lies, uh...reminisce. He was there about '69 -'70. They were flying F-100 interceptors, I believe. He called them the 'flying brick', based on the glide path.

I mentioned that to one of my nephews, who flies old warplanes, and he said, NA's strategy was always "put the maximum engine in, and don't worry about anything except the length of the runway".

Tea for $280K

Nov. 16, 12 a.m.

A grass-roots “tea party” group has spent more than $280,000 on an advertising campaign this year bashing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and other Democrats, according to campaign finance records.

http://ow.ly/CKz6

Hot damn Patsi!!! That's fabulous news, congrats!

XR, that was before me. I arrived in '79 and left in '81. We had the F-111F, a magnificent medium bomber.

Back when he was there they had the F-100D, a credible fighter (the Free World's first supersonic aircraft in level flight), but without radar. It was long in the tooth by the late '60s.

Lots of airplanes were called flying bricks. Most of them were single engine and were very unforgiving when the flame went out.

Ms Cracker,

The MSM wasn't fair to palin. They could have made fair and balanced critiques of her, but that would have taken work on the part of the tv audience, the editors, and reporters. But God knows, very few people turn on & tune in to give their brains a work out. And the MSM is not interested in very few. That's what the upchannel boutique and niche stations are for. The MSM motto is not 'Keep it simple, Stupid', it is 'Keep it really stupid, Stupid'.

Thanks for tolerating my rant. If you did tolerate it. If not, sorry for being intolerable.

Gosh that was a rant?

Well, looking at it afterward, I appeared to be lecturing one who is well qualified to be the professor.

Patsi, Congratulations on doing the Pat Benatar memoir! She got the best.

Sean (Lard) made a video of his four day family birthday party in Missouri. He turned 50 in October. http://seanholton.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/50th-birthday-in-the-missouri-ozarks/

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/newseum-inside-media.html#comment-271048

"Don't accept excuses. Make them own the problem."

Flatus,
I took your advice.I took the computer back and talked to the Manager,very good the Geek Squad fixed it...It was just a question of them downloading the proper driver's..I have it set up and its working well..Thanks...Oh i agree,Hillary was BRILLIANT on "This Week"

Tony, good news!