Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Let's HOPE there even is a curve, and that Obama is ascending it. One only gets one chance to make a first impression, and Obama would be well-served not to squander the clean-slate he seems to have been given by the international political structure.

Learning how to count.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jobs-saved-created-congressional-districts-exist/story?id=9097853

Apparently they believed he has lied to them as well. So does that mean the bloom is off the rose?

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,661678,00.html

If one watched the video, the correct bow for a person of his stature was executed by the PM's wife. His bow should have never been lower than that of the PM's.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091117/D9C18R9G0.html

HRC might find living in Paris has its drawbacks.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/fashionnews/6583074/Women-banned-from-wearing-trousers-in-Paris.html

Traveling abroad works for me. It's better than going to Crawford to clear brush. I think goodwill tours can actually generate good will.

"Thought for the day :
" Thrift is a wonderful virtue - in an ancestor. "

Good one, C-Bob

Perhaps we do need an International President and a Domestic President of the United States.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/sarahs-swearing-contest.html#comment-271217

kgc, imo you're right in your theory, all celeb and no pol. this bunch reminds me of willie the shakes'

“Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble”

let's see, we have newtie's eye, so would sp contribute the wool or tongue, rush the adder's fork and hannity the sting. and the huckster's toe, leg or wing for the rest of the hell-broth brew?

oops, left out pbuke. maybe he provides the batty wool.

obama out-foxed?

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hFtzHPTaXzUeHJWcRIa3D_Q4PeMAD9C1H61O0

The latest figures show that the GDP grew at a brisk 3.2%. That figure included the Cash for Clunkers, and the $8,000 incentive for first time home buyers.
The government will continue its first time home buyers incentives into 2010, and come spring they will usher in a new line of incentives for home appliances
up to $1,500.00, but what happens after all the incentives dry up? Home builders have cut back on building new homes because of the glut of homes they already have in inventory.Most of the cars purchased during Cask for Clunkers were foreign, and all the appliances are made overseas. None of theses government incentives created any jobs in their corresponding industry. When the government cheerleaders try to paint a pretty picture of over 500,000 new unemployment claims, because it wasn't as bad as they had thought, you know there are major problems coming down the road. Higher unemployment, foreclosures, load defaults are less than 6 months away.

http://tinyurl.com/yk3h2v2

We should all be Buhtanese
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_happiness
The concept of gross national happiness (GNH) is an attempt to define quality of life in more holistic and psychological terms than gross national product.

The term was coined in 1972 by Bhutan's former King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who has opened up Bhutan to the age of modernization, soon after the demise of his father, King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk. It signaled his commitment to building an economy that would serve Bhutan's unique culture based on Buddhist spiritual values. Like many moral goals, it is somewhat easier to state than to define. Nonetheless, it serves as a unifying vision for Bhutan's five-year planning process and all the derived planning documents that guide the economic and development plans of the country.

While conventional development models stress economic growth as the ultimate objective, the concept of GNH claims to be based on the premise that true development of human society takes place when material and spiritual development occur side by side to complement and reinforce each other. The four pillars of GNH are the promotion of sustainable development, preservation and promotion of cultural values, conservation of the natural environment, and establishment of good governance."

Hey Jack....
I just heard that Zack Greinke of the Kansas City Royals won the AL Cy Young Award..... congrats for your team!

"We should all be Buhtanese[sic]"

Uh, no thanks. Hey Pat, I actually think the whole Newscorp affair is one thing handled well by the administration, and IMO granting an interview to them isn't a concession.

Oh, and why isn't Biden going on these international diplomatic liaisons? What is he doing these days, anyway? I haven't heard much about him, and the I thought the justification for adding him to the ticket was to bolster foreign policy credibility.

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The Cy Young is the highest individual award in American professional sports, IMO. Congrats, Jack, and good luck to Greinke and to
whatever team the Royals trade him next year.

The four pillars of GNH are the promotion of sustainable development, preservation and promotion of cultural values, conservation of the natural environment, and establishment of good governance.

Gee darkone what's your problem with the Bhutanese way of thinking

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/obamas-international-learning.html#comment-271241

...not a big fan of oligarchies. I'm all for sustainable development, conservation, and good governance, though. All that said, I don't want to live in Bhutan.

All that said, I don't want to live in Bhutan.

me either I was speaking in a metaphorical sense

Vice President Biden To Appear On "The Daily Show" Tuesday Night
RTT News - ‎4 hours ago‎
(RTTNews) - Vice President Joe Biden will make an appearance on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" Tuesday night. The appearance will mark ...
Biden To Make History On 'The Daily Show' WIBW
Joe Biden To Be First Vice President In Office To Appear On "The Daily Show" AHN
Biden to visit 'Daily' Philadelphia Inquirer

Oh. The Daily Show. So that's what Biden is doing. Fantastic!

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OK, well maybe metaphorically I will consider it, as long as I don't have to do any hokey Buddhist rituals. I'm just joking around, of course, filling up the thread a little since few want to lately.

Also pot grows in many vacant lots in Bhutan

Who wants to go with me to Bhutan?

http://www.noc.com/index.php/noc-adventure-travel-royal-footsteps-bhutan.html

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yeah , but do they have plumbing?

Jack

"Higher unemployment, foreclosures, load defaults are less than 6 months away"

want to bet?

TIR thinks Bush is still president. TIR you are a year behind the curve. That was last years forcast.

Jack

...sure is beautiful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HaaValley.jpg

Renee

He is a great young pitcher, I went out and watched him pitch last spring. The wife got company box tickets behind home plate, great seats and a great game. At the time we were still able to be in denial and think we were in the running.
But his lordship is right, you might keep your fingers crossed and hope the Red Soxs get him before the Yankees. But remember Johnny Damon.

Jack

when I see the popularity of sites like this I think that Sarah Palin could be president.

http://thepioneerwoman.com/

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/sarahs-swearing-contest.html#comment-271182

Hi Pat,
Thanks for the link,wonderful! I will send it along to Baz...

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/obamas-international-learning.html#comment-271254

KGC --

I thought Pioneer Woman seemed familiar. She's featured in the current issue of Southern Living Magazine.

http://www.southernliving.com/food/entertaining/pioneer-woman-00400000058392/

Ivy, I love that sight you just linked. Amazing what woman can do, and the think she's also raising all those kids. Thanks KGC for pointing out her blog.

woman = 'one' woman

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/obamas-international-learning.html#comment-271254

If men, blacks, hispanics and the 18-30s didn't vote, I think you're right.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/obamas-international-learning.html#comment-271260

Well Rez, mostly they don't

Jack

I only said men because I believe her appeal is mostly with women of all stripes.

mostly they don't vote?

Right-wing not-necessarily-whack-job women could be a strong base for Palin. I think men will vote for her too :)))

Right now I don't think she is a viable candidate and I also don't think that is her goal. I think she is all about the Bejamins and doing very well.

wj, If that's the point, then the ones who do vote of those groups didn't vote for the GOP ticket last time out, as best I can tell.

KGC, definitely agree on your last statement

Palin quit her last elected position under suspicion of corruption, although her expressed rationalization was "media persecution" or something equally ridiculous. A quitter and a whiner, with no grasp of contemporary issues... she's done.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/obamas-international-learning.html#comment-271233

patd

Stupak might give you a fight about the "Finger of Birth-strangled Babe Ditch-deliver'd by a Drab" part of that incantation.

"A quitter and a whiner, with no grasp of contemporary issues... she's done." darklord

sounds the resume of any number of successful pols

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/obamas-international-learning.html#comment-271268

If she ever wins a national election, I'm moving to Bhutan. I hear it's nice.

Ah yes President Palin are words you want to hear while living some place else I have my eye on Nelson, British Columbia

Ukraine has Talent winner :

http://pelapapas.com.mx/htmls/animacion-arena-2.html

Palin is an interesting phenomenon,
She has strong support among a large chunk of the Republican party. I've seen polls that show they support her even when they don't believe she is qualified to be president. I suspect there is a personal identification with her for many of them and the more she is attacked and ridiculed by national media the more they feel attacked too.
She has tapped into a strong populist movement within the Republican party. If she had the skill to manage it she can create waves. But I don't think she does.
Somebody will have the skill, which is why I don't worry about Romney and the money boys getting anywhere.

Jack

Rez
You said that if that group didn't vote she could possibly win and I pointed out they often don't vote. It is a weakness of the democratic party. And will cost them in 2010 and maybe 2012.

Jack

3 more days until

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

palin's perky voice chirruping insouciantly about killing everything from moose to Iranian foeti drives me nutz. How can any sane person be so invincibly cheery about slaughter ? I doubt that she had any qualms about signing Alaska's Death Panels into law.

She's too long in the tooth to play the chirpy daughter in Married with Children, but put 25 years on her, and she'll be perfect for one of the Aunts in Arsenic and Old Lace. Actually, it's not her bloodthirstiness that appalls me - I've known many norman bates wannabees - it's that damned perkiness.

Of course, it is this sunny executioner aspect that endears her to rapeblicans.

A cunning political assassin like rove could gut palin's campaign in a day on her Alaskan Death Panels alone.

My money is on palin to act like a potential candidate through the 2012 Iowa Caucuses, all the while pushing her books, eyewear, fragrances, couture, exercise videos, weight loss system and food brand, talk show, signature paramilitary paraphernalia (tent, snow shoes, fishing tackle, life jacket, flamethrower, bowie knife with double blood gutters, full auto 12 guage shotgun with 25 shot drum magazine, grenade launcher, cruise missile, stealth fighter, HBomb, yaddayaddayadda).

I think money, not power, is the big palin motivator.

I have a feeling that my love of robust red wines, and grilled beef , mutton, and duck, would not meet with the neighbors' approval, were I to move to Bhutan.

Anyone here ever cook yak on a spit ?

Alas, man does not live by lox and caviar alone. At least, this man doesn't. Man must also have bbq'd brisket with a big-nosed shiraz or an earthy plavac.

Right now, this man needs a pillow. G'night.