Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

"His poll numbers."

Shout out to Ivy -- love it!

Interesting commentary, Craig -- I wasn't sure how that worked.

oh.....

As Cbob says atta boy! You're on top of your game here Craig. Infinitely more informative and thought provoking than what other journalists? are focusing on.

Interesting video. So, the healthcare bill is bigger than a physics book and more confusing.

Wouldn't watching the GOoPers do an endless loop of rollcalls make good fuel for Dem campaigns?

By trying to get 60 votes behind the scenes, the Dems look divided and weak.

A filibuster would be good for Dems. Either the Repubs might say something that could be used against them later, or, it would show they were the ones who were stopping the wheels of democracy from turning by a series of do-nothing rollcalls.

A "do nothing" Congress. Now where have I heard that term before?

".....the way i see it, this is the king hell death match......imus against rupert and his little fox, and I'm telling you that like imus or hate him this is going to get REALLY good......"

forsooth, sturgeone, the soothsayer and foreseer

Is Oprah leaving at the end of 2011 to open up a spot for Palin in talkshow world and keep her away from a run for the big house? Brave, brave, Oprah. Throwing herself on a sword for her country.

"Wouldn't watching the GOoPers do an endless loop of rollcalls make good fuel for Dem campaigns?"

blue, so true. and if they did a daily count (a la how cbs ticked off the time hostages were held) and how much taxpayer money and trees were wasted on each noper-goper rollcall, it would be a drip, drip, drip strategy that may finally shame them into working toward a solution.

zounds

"I have a new name I will not mention, a certain woman people are paying WAY too much attention to."

bethy, good idea. i'll add her to my list which includes he-who-shall-not-be-named (rhymes with "heinious" without the "ous").

and, bethy, please don't hesitate to burst forth with your opinions as they grab you. to hell with rewrites! we usually get the drift and even if not, the ensuing arguments with those who don't are fun to read.

i know i misspelled heinous, but correct spelling would ruin the joke

patd..... congress critters feeling shame?.... they'd have to be human first...

it feels good to be back online.... a slight power glitch kicked me off the internet around noontime yesterday. We used to have one router that had 2 cords and I knew which one to unplug and replug whenever something like that happened.
Now we have super duper fast internet with three doo hickeys.... all with at least 3 cords. I didn't know which cord to pull from which doo hickey.

Thank god Rick flew back in last night.

and as for those assholes that say they'll filibuster....

I'm with sturg.... let 'em....

Well, at $16,000 per gallon, we can just get lipo-ed and fix the economy.

"Signs of "an international network trafficking human fat" first surfaced about two months ago..."

http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/beauty/human-fat-in-cosmetics-20091120-ipqu.html

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I would be more than happy to refer to "her" as Valdemort if it helps you out. Why allow her to shill her book at bases? Now she gets to spin "no media" coverage as being silenced. Who is in charge???

"Army officials plan to prevent media from covering Sarah Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg on Monday, saying they fear the event will turn into political grandstanding against President Obama..."

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/19/806106/-Palin-holding-anti-Obama-rallies-on-military-bases

Media or no media, Faux News can just run file footage and tell viewers she had a big turn out.

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...that stuff is all schtick.

patd - Let's hope the DC Dems read this blog & follow through with it. They're not gonna figure it out on their own. They must be in "the bubble."

DL........you have to look beyond and behind the schtick......

He's ___ his bosses _____ if they were in the same room.

i've been listening to his show since ' 94......it's possible to separate the wheat from the chaff..........

"He'd"; sorry.

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can't make sense of that.....can you give me a hint?

oh.....of course he would

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/tyranny-of-the-silent-filibust.html#comment-271607

...something vulgar.

...and I don't think Murdoch would mind if one vulgarly disparaged his own mother, if it made him a buck.

Sturg,

If you are still around, the other day on Imus they
played a version of 'over the rainbow', which they have played before, if you know who was singing that version

Here's a good one:

SUSAN BOYLE - WILD HORSES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjAkq5iMHZw

coreen....vaguely remember hearing it but don't recall whose version it was......

The problem with forcing a roll call is that the voters for the 40 Republican senators would be thrilled and ditto heads from around the country would probably send them more money. Let's hope Lieberman and Nelson step up, though I don't hold out a lot of hope.

There are several ideas Republicans have that I'd like to see in the final bill, but they won't get in just because they're Republican ideas, so that's cutting both ways here.

sturg, thanks anyway, I should remember who it was,
but it has bothered me since then...because I don't!

coreen, was it this one, israel k's?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltAGuuru7Q

coreen, here's another version. also has words to sing along for those who feel like it. and wonderful world thrown in for good measure.

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

"......you have to look beyond and behind the schtick......"

sturge, too spooky what may be lurking there.

so long, tony blair. didn't get the eu prez job

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/

mornin'

Well, I've been out of pocket for a great portion of the last couple of weeks and will be further out for the next week (not work, Mexico, ay carrumba). Dangerous hotel location - across the street from the premier shopping mall in Cancun - and Mrs.P & LP know how to use credit cards,- in fact they have raised that to an art.. But most dangerous - the hotel is directly across the street from an old distillery turned into a restaurant & bar with 150 brands of tequila - and killer huge margarita specials every day. Living dangerously and loving it.

blue, between the events that Palin doesn't allow the press and those that the hosts don't allow the press, combined with the fictitious Fax coverage of her events (if they actually happen at all) Palin could cease to exist and we'd never know it.

your lordship....
thanks for the Susan Boyle song....
I swear every time she opens her mouth to sing, she is channeling God....

"Now we have super duper fast internet with three doo hickeys.... all with at least 3 cords. I didn't know which cord to pull from which doo hickey.

Thank god Rick flew back in last night."

LMAO! It sounds like you and I have the same tech minds, Renee!

Pat,

Thanks for trying...can't seem to get them to play here,
will try at the office later.

Pogo

My sympathy. I know the agony of being related to someone with a black belt in shopping. May you and the credit card wielders return nicely tanned without facing bankruptcy.

This is a leftover for XR as I think he left before it posted and I wouldn't want him to think Hoagy went undefended :-)

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/afghan-endgame-is-it-the-end-o.html#comment-271572

PS -- also ditto what Renee said about the Susan Boyle ink. Thanks, Blog....

Yesterday brought one of those "You've got to be kidding" moments.

My favorite rabbi met in Santa Monica, CA in 1977 after many travels all over the nation finally retired to Tennessee which was not his home state and called with the new address.

My best friend in the world met in Santa Monica, CA in 1977 after many travels all over the nation finally retired with her husband to Tennessee which was not her home state and called with the new address.

These two people who haven't seen or contacted each other in over a quarter of a century now live a half hour apart.

Who needs six degrees of separation when you can do it in one?

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Blue,

Authors often have book signings on bases at the PX. I was bothered by the admission of the public as these signings, at least at Fort Lewis, are usually only for personnel and their families living on the base.

After the events at Fort Hood it strikes me as the height of stupidity to admit any of the public. How are they going to screen them? I can't imagine processing a huge crowd through the base office with sponsors and IDS for a temporary pass.

Are they going to close off a special section near the gates and just how would they know who was media if all they chose to do was film it with a cell phone and report on the event after the fact?

Fun article: The 26% Solution

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/The_26_Percent_Solution.html

Thanks, jamie, I will do my best to return tanned - as to the bankruptcy angle - I'll leave that to the ex tax attorney - Mrs. P. AS for me, I'll handle the detailed inpsections of La Distileria. Black belt in shopping? LOL I will steal that line and use it without attribution at every opportunity.

"I belong to no organized political party; I'm a Democrat." Will Rogers

It makes no good sense for anyone to oppose healthcare reform. It seems some are more worried about Insurance companies being crowded out due to competition and lower costs than the Health of the people. Or the fact that they are more concerned for the Insurance Compaines that the small businesses who have to pay high premiums for their employees, forcing some out of business or some to set up shop somewhere else other than the United States!

It is too bad that we have a certain group -- the Party of No and Fear -- who are Advocates of Can't, Won't, Shouldn't, Distortion, Fear, Hatred and Divisiveness. They are a dark group, a bitter group. For too long we have been spoon-fed a bunch of lies and fear by these powers who want to immobolize us, paralyze us and confuse us and to keep us circling the Yellow Brick Road!

It is a sad fact that the Afghanistan War too is a false war. These terrorists do not stay in one place or in one country, they are all over. And we are not at war with any one country, this is a fallacy. WE are in a "struggle" with an ideology, yes or evil, yes, but we are not at war with any country. WE have terrorists in our own country who are not Muslims, does this make us at war with the United States?

Oh, if we only had a Brain....., Courage....., Heart/LOVE!

"After the events at Fort Hood it strikes me as the height of stupidity to admit any of the public. How are they going to screen them?"

No kidding!

"It is too bad that we have a certain group -- the Party of No and Fear -- who are Advocates of Can't, Won't, Shouldn't, Distortion, Fear, Hatred and Divisiveness. They are a dark group, a bitter group."

Hear, hear!

OK, adios amigos & amigas.

Nov. 20: anniversary of the sinking of the whaling ship ESSEX by a whale

http://redmudinn.blogspot.com

Appropriate, no, since HCR seems to have turned into something like Captain Ahab chasing the whale--

Good morning, BTW.

Adios, Pogo--you, the missus & LP have a safe trip--

If you remember correctly, the events at Ft. Hood were created by someone with full access rights. Admitting the public would have made no difference.

The public can usually gain access to posts or bases. I've taken night classes at the on base campus. Even if I couldn't drive in it would be easy to ride in with someone with a sticker or walk across the golf course. They can't guard it that carefully.

They're letting people on at 9:30 am, her book signing starts at 11. I can't buy a copy on post though. Hmmm, what should I do?

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Pogo,

Feel free to omit the attribution as I stole it eons ago when it was laying around unattended.

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Don 1

Pretend you are 21 again and have someone buy the illegal stuff for you.

Patd,

You did it! And watching the video while listening....it is just such a beautiful version of over the rainbow.

Thanks so much for taking the time. I can assure you
I will not forget his name, Israel Kamakawiwo 'ole IZ',
unfortunate that he is no longer alive to provide more.

Don

I know you can gain access to a semi closed base, but I was thinking of the crowds involved. My car has stickers that allows it admittance at Fort Lewis and I have base ID to show at the gate. Anyone riding with me, must have proper ID to show to the gate guard.

Now if I were just a member of the public, I would have to pull over to a building at the entrance and be screened, stating my reason for being on the base and under most circumstances have a sponsor who would meet me at that building or who would have called them ahead of time to expect me.

It surprised me that crowds would be admitted and I was questioning the location and how after the recent events there didn't seem to be active security.

Fair

Your suggestion is up on Take This Tune. It will be interesting to see if we get a similar vibe from it.

Pogo.... enjoy your vacation.... don't drink too many margaritas.... you don't want to be seeing double when you open your credit card bill.... :0)

Patsi...... I think it has something to do with that right brain vs left brain stuff....
technology is too rigid for us creative types to contemplate....

Coreen..... I LOVE IZ's version of Over the Rainbow....
unfortunately.... he and many natives of Hawaii are examples of what happens to native bodies when they meet with all the processed foodstuffs in the standard
American diet....

jamie - Thanks for the info on the PX events. Good point on security, too.

pogo - You mean she could be like the light from a distant, former star and we are just the recipients of her twinkling wake? Even I am feeling all Sarahed-out today. Too much publicity. Safe travels.

If any of the ladies have unused business clothes in your closets, this is a great idea of what to do with them.

http://www.dressforsuccess.org/whatwedo.aspx

So, if after the whip count, it's clear that the 60-pct won't be achieved, why not have the Dems filibuster, dredging-up every dirty deed legislators did with big Pharma and the insurance industry and their assorted, sordid, camp-followers?

Seems to me it should all be read, excruciating detail by excruciating detail, into the public record. With everything being broadcast verbatim on c-span2.

Do no other business until enough Repubs jump ship enabling the 60 votes that will allow floor debate of the bill.

As you all know, I will be making my annual Thanksgiving week trek to Mexico next week. In the past this has been a vacation, but this year, given the severity of the global H1N1 pandemic in the US and its likely impact on our country in general, and on the Trailmix bunch specifically, at great personal expense and inconvenience I plan to visit the likely place of origin of the pandemic and conduct a thoroughgoing inspection and investigation of the area to try and determine its potential role in the H1N1 global pandemic. No, don’t feel compelled to thank me – I am more than willing to take this one for the team.

I also plan to do a thoroughgoing inspection and investigation of La Destileria – a tequila distillery across the street from the hotel I will be staying in that has been converted to a restaurant/bar and has 150 brands of tequila, to say nothing of huge daily margarita specials.

http://www.ladestileria.com.mx/cancun/about.html

In the extremely unlikely event that anyone needs to contact me before I return to the US on the big silver bird on November 29 (assuming I can force myself to do so), you can leave a message for me with the barkeep at La Destileria, 011 988 885 1086. He won't know who the hell Pogo is, but that's OK, I won't ask if anyone left a message for me, so it should all work out fine.

Adios, amigos and amigas,

(blue, would that that were the case. :-) )

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Patsi,

Thanks. You may shout me out anytime.

(^_~)

Twitter fun topic for the day: Things that are too long for the GOP. My favorite so far: The Constitution

http://twitter.com/home#search?q=%23otherthingtoolongforgop

After all of their yowling about the 2000 pages, someone pointed out that in regular type without all the spacing to allow for writing in changes and amendments, it is only 500 pages.

Of course, I still prefer my two sentence reform package.

Medicare for everyone.

Send premiums here.

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Pogo --

I thought you'd be the type to go for the other ruins at Chichen Itza.

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

Ivy, been to almost all the ruins - actually visited Chichen Itza (the guide liked to call it chicken & pizza - to make the kids laugh) my last visit there when they still let you climb the pyramid (they said they were shutting it down for climbing purposes a few years back). It is magnificent. Tulum is smaller, but the setting is terrific - on a bluff overlooking the Carribean. There is so much of archeological interest there, I could go on forever, but now, I've got to go - and since I have never been able to actually log in to openID successfully, I'll be looking over your shoulders but not saying anything for the next week.

Pogo,

As Rene said already enjoy your vacation.....having margaritas, tequila sunrises,or whatever you like at La Desteleria.....muy bien! (where's Solar)

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Hey Pogo --

If you can lurk, you can post! Surely, there's wireless in La Destileria, and it sounds like you'll have plenty of time to kill there while the family is hunting and gathering.

Seems like 'what happens in Vegas, does not always
stay in Vegas'.....

"Drugs, booze & Vegas"

http://www.cnbc.com/id/34054105

Pogo --

There's still that "ghost posters" fall-back plan you used when you got shut out last spring.

Pogo...
Ivy's suggestion of using "ghost posters" is a good one..... that time you used me as one.... just FYI.... I'll be gone for the 4-day weekend. We're going away to a local inn and bringing Rick's parents with us. His father's Alzheimer's is progressing and we think this will be one of our last chances to do anything with them. Enjoy!

Started trying to watch the US Senate on C-SPAN. Lasted through about 30 seconds of Republican distortion, lies, and vindictive crap before switching to prevent hard object going through TV screen.

Will check back in at regular intervals as the sides are alternating every hour all day today.

Coreen,

Right here, can't you see me. Actually I just got back to my office; and had to catch up on some paper work.

Dang Pogo, You beat me to the lunch call all the way from Mexico> With all of the Mexican food that you eat; your pobably as much Mexicali as I am....and another thing...don't be sellfish; yeah I said selflish...take the club with you to a virtual lunch..while your down there....
\
.we would all like to sample some of the original foods....and myself...with a little budwiesr on they side...I could get thru those 150 different types of Tekill-ya....a few each night when no one was looking....hint; hint. Pics please.....and post when you come back.....buena surte and have a lot of fun pops.

Don 1,

Hey, it's about time you got back to me...you just walk right by as if you didn't know me......just kidding...seems like your still traveling a lot...by plane or car..which do you like best...I would like the car traveling...but probably be late getting to some place where I had to be; b/c there would always be some place of interest or person; that held me back...buckle the seat belt.

Hi Solar,
I posted a response last night, but Craig has been doing these drive by posts so fast you probably didn't see it.

Been busier than a one legged man at a butt kicking contest, as Dolly would say. Just wrapped up a 2,600 mile drive, still a bit punchy. But I'm back on east coast time and will try to drop in more often. Thanks.

Jamie, still has nothing to do with the fact that most threats have either been internal or not based on public access. Yeah, I would have trouble driving a truck of something onto post, but not going in with a couple of hand guns. Fortunately, the threats have usually been caught long before that's necessary. For the ones that haven't been caught almost no security would have prevented them.

Posts open up all of the time to public access. Fairs, air shows, open bases, and lots of other things. The biggest problem is drunken civilians being around drunken soldiers. Sometime interesting in red-neck-ville.

Thought about seeing a doctor for a 'special' prescription while I was in California. he he.

Sound the economic recovery is just a Friedman unit away...

The latest evidence was a report Thursday that a rising proportion of fixed-rate home loans made to people with good credit are sinking into foreclosure. That's a shift from last year, when riskier subprime loans drove the housing crisis.

The report from the Mortgage Bankers Association also found 14 percent of homeowners with a mortgage were either behind on payments or in foreclosure at the end of September. It was a record-high figure for the ninth straight quarter.

The data suggest the housing market and the broader recovery will remain under pressure from the surge in home-loan defaults, especially as unemployment keeps rising. Lost jobs are the main reason homeowners are falling behind on their mortgages.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20091120/BUSINESS/911201118/1036?Title=Foreclosure-crisis-grows-even-worse

And unemployment is at an all time high.

KGC,
Wait until all of the defaults on credit cards that have skyrocketing rates hit the big three. I think I saw Citibank has already written off $1 billion in defaults.

Citibank raised my 76 year old mother's rates to 24.9% because she wasn't using it. Or at least tried to, she closed it this time. Good thing Congress took away state's rights to limit interest rates.

solar, sorry to be so late, but happy mexican revolution day!

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

pogo, take care they might still be revolting when you get there.

don1
Citi and Chase and especially greedy. Chase is trying to pretend they are community minded but they are among the worse at driving existing card holders into untenable positions.

Ya, friedman units. Good memory, Ms, Cracker. There was hardly anything that pleased friedman and nixon as much as high unemployment, because it meant that they could claim that environmentalists, peaceniks, unions, workman's comp, and unemployment insurance were all "killing jobs". There was nothing those devils liked better than beating up working people, using unemployed people. Then the corrupt and murderous republican UMW and Teamsters bosses would nag all their members to vote for dirty dick.

Posted by: Flatus | November 20, 2009 1:01 PM
"Seems to me it should all be read, excruciating detail by excruciating detail, into the public record. With everything being broadcast verbatim on c-span2.

Do no other business until enough Repubs jump ship enabling the 60 votes that will allow floor debate of the bill."

Flatus for Majority Leader !

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/tyranny-of-the-silent-filibust.html#comment-271632

baca, it's beyond nonsense and more like the twilight zone than the world of oz when conservatives come out against competition and weep elephant tears over big insurance not being allowed to screw small business. if they cared about small or even medium weight biz they would pass medicare-for-all and get the healthcare benefits burden off the backs of those folks and let them concentrate on doing business.

Pat,

Thanks, The..PRI...party was started at that time of the revolution...was a very good party for them for a long time..but got to Greedy, and Greed brought down a lot of good that blood and money could buy. The best Mexican president Bentio Juarez reformed Mexicao for a while...but Diaz after him took it back down....

KGC,

Thanks for that link about foreclosures. Like I said yesterday. If Obama, and the Dems want to stay in office...They should get Elizabeth Warren to direct the remaining Tarp money, and get it into hands that can get this economy going fast....and that is small and biz owners right now..Immediately, if not sooner...

direct=re-direct

dark/champ, cern tomorrow at 0600 gmt! are you ready for the big rebang?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8368417.stm

solar, more bad news of israelis and neighbors border issues.

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/11/20/gerbils_with_borders

and the gerbil shall lie down with the ant lion

anybody know a good irish curse?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/8370764.stm

Hi XR

Did you see my link up at 9:39 AM above?

Nice 1947 version of Skylark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGLJ3AnwQ7w

Will ham terrorist sandwiches foil cern again ?

Tune in tomorrow, boys and girls, for the next exciting episode.

Thanks X2, Jamie. For perky, I like Skylark. For romantic, it's Stardust; for goofin' around it's Lucky Old Sun, and for fun, it's Buddha's Bong. But, for fishin', it's gotta be Up the Lazy River.

Gotta run and get a turkey and some butter for Sweetie. 'Bye for now.

here's another video of the "wild horses" song but with pretty scenery and displaying the lyrics while boyle is singing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR83mG3Ojp4&feature=related

A whole slew of Irish curses

http://web.ncf.ca/bj333/HomePage.curses.html

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Jamie -- I once got all my old business suits etc rounded up and boxed, and called that group here in Nashville, and they said size 14 was the smallest they accepted! I was really surprised. Because I've never thought of myself as an unusually small person.

xrep -- I just gotta ask. Do you really call your significant other "sweetie" -- as her name? For example, if you are speaking with someone she works with....

Matthews has a very severe case of tweetyitis today. I swear if some fate worse than death ever landed me on that show I would come with a sign:

Let me know when you are finished talking to yourself!

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Patsi,

That does surprise me. Still, as you are probably well aware, poverty is fattening. Most of the women trying to drag themselves off the bottom are larger than the norm.

A good alternative is family homeless shelters as they often need clothing for men, women, and children.

Reminder for folks doing Toys for Tots or Christmas Star style charities, don't forget the tweens and teens. They are often overloaded with toys for the youngsters but come up short for the older kids.

Yes -- I know that cheap food is fattening food. But I also was surprised to have the clothes rejected! They were some very good suits! (And I'm so OVER wearing that kind of stuff in my old age...)

Patsi,

Your still a young chick. Here:

Talking Women's Lib

A male friend, an Engineer at an aircraft company, works for a women supervisor. An active member of women's lib groups, she often shows up at work wearing buttons featuring feminist slogans. One day her latest button, "Adam was only a rough draft," proved too much for my friend. The next day, he showed up sporting his own button: "Eve was no Prime Rib."

A retired preacher was at the airport when he ran across one of his former parishners. The man ask the preacher what he was doing and he explained that since his wife had passed on and he had retired things were too quiet around the house so he thought he would travel.
"Oh , said the parishner, Where to"
"vegas", he replyed
"Well, brother, you know there is a lot of drinking and dancing"
"yes" the preacher replyed, "i know"
"and young women running around near nekid"
Yes , said the preacher,"I've heard that to be true"

The parishner looked at the preacher standing there with his suitcase in one hand and his bible in the other.
"Brother, I was just wondering. Why are you taking your bible?"

"Well as you said there are a lot of wild things out there.
If it is half as much fun as I think it is, well,
I think I will stay over for Sunday"

The wife and I are heading out for a well earned vacation. We are headed to Vegas don't look for me for a few days. See everybody come thanksgiving.

Jack

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/tyranny-of-the-silent-filibust.html#comment-271690

Save some for the tribal joints. :-)

If we have any British lurkers (or hopeless anglophiles):

Pudsey Bear needs you

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/donate/

Strangely enough without counting the people praying at the tables and in front of one armed bandits,
Las Vegas is one of the more religious (by church attendance) cities in the US

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/tyranny-of-the-silent-filibust.html#comment-271694

Large hispanic/latino pop., maybe?

Jack....
here's to you and the missus having a great time in Vegas.....

Rick took me there 5 yrs ago for my 50th birthday.... we gambled just a little...
I find it mostly boring.... but there was plenty to do and we had a blast...

Rez

That and a major Southern Baptist / Evangelical community. There are close to 250 churches within the limits of Las Vegas alone.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/tyranny-of-the-silent-filibust.html#comment-271697

LDS are close too.

a little friday night traveling music with Dinah.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb5itmzLJAQ&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div

Patsi,

I frequently call Sweetie, Sweetie, to her face, and in front of our friends and relatives. Sometimes, I refer to her as my Sweetie to others. I recognize that I don't own her, the "my" in my Sweetie, being a convention.

She calls, and I must away.

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Jamie --

Too funny and too true! He accuses his guests of "not answering" but, really, who could??

Imagine, only two typos in the whole thing.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/even-god-used-earthly-scribes-to-write-the-bible/

Eureka!! Successfully changed password and am online - I am doomed.

Uh oh, we're going to get Pogo'd all day and all night.

(^_~)

jack, Mrs. P and LP loved Vegas when wew visited there @ 3 yrs ago. I can take or leave it - mostly can leave it. I don't gamble except when I'm on the road taking my life in my own hands - and really never with money. Have a great time - hot there now or has it cooled off to the 90s?

Ivy, not tonite - gotta hit the hay - early flight. (*_*)zzzz

g'nite.

Rachel was great tonight. Nothing like showing the guys how to conduct a "Panel" so that everyone speaks. Nobody shouts over the other person. Everybody stays on subject, and people have a good time learning something.

She is absolute proof that doing your homework and knowing your position in space is actually entertaining TV.

Having said that, I am in love with Elliot Spitzer. Same reaction as to Bill Clinton. How can anyone so brilliant and necesarry to the welfare of the nation fail to find a mistress who knows how to keep her mouth shut?

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Pogo --

Guess you won't be needing those "ghost posters" after all.

Pogo

looks like light jacket weather in the morning high 60's afternoon. should be great.
We will probably spend our evenings playing around Las vegas but do some day trips out into the deserts. We aren't much on gambling, we are more rock and stick types. give us a wide spot in the road to pull off and a bit of a trail and we are happy.

Bed time we are out of here at 7;30.

Jack
Jack

Sturgeone,

If you are going to do Romburg and New Moon, then we have to go to Rachmaninoff and

Full Moon and Empty Arms

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

rachmaninoff and wild horses are two of my favorite songs.......

them and beethovan/mozart

and artur rubinstein

"Citibank raised my 76 year old mother's rates to 24.9% because she wasn't using it. Or at least tried to, she closed it this time. Good thing Congress took away state's rights to limit interest rates"

Don -- I remember years ago when my sister got charged $25 or thereabouts, for not using her credit card. She did the same as your mom and cancelled.

it was larst week when robert informed me that i might be the recipient of a big fat elk vest.....on the saturday morning after that i got an email from my artist friend in rapid that he was sending me a stone carving by Darryl Little White Man from the Pine Ridge reservation......my friend said that Darryl was doing time cause he drinks a bit.........but that he would definitely want me to have one of his carvings........

I said, "fuckin' A"..........so these things happen all the time....no big ardfo-delian........so I have this vest coming from a big fat elk and I got this stone carving of an eagle in the mail on tuesday....but then.......right after don's email.....I came upon a full blooded hawk busted all to shit just off the road......

I can only conclude that i must me somehow terminally ill.

be

"How can anyone so brilliant and necesarry to the welfare of the nation fail to find a mistress who knows how to keep her mouth shut"

HA! I thought exactly the same in both cases, Jamie. Especially when both men had to know they were right wing targets.

and i figure........terminally ill is no big scraunchous..........I mean, what the fuck, eh?

I wouldn't read it all like that Sturge. The dead hawk didn't come to you.

We're up to 102 signatures. If anyone hasn't signed the Petition for Liberator Status for Patton's Army, please do. We need your help.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Liberator-Status-For-Pattons-Army

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sturge, sea is right. there's another message there. just haven't broken the code yet. and remember, you did rescue trail male which allowed not only you, but the medic and the wildlife shelter folks and all those of us here to bask in some good feelings.

sturge, here's some interpretation from the zuni to ponder:

The medicine of Elk is about brotherhood and sisterhood, stamina and standing in your power.

Eagle medicine is that of extraordinary vision, of seeing the whole picture. Even though Eagle can see the smallest of details from a great distance, it maintains a comprehensive view. Eagle helps us to remember that one’s journey is spiritual as well as physical.

To the Zunis, Hawk is the younger brother of Eagle. More earthbound than Eagle, Hawk carries messages among people and animals while Eagle’s connection is with Spirit world.... It is a sharp reminder to pay attention to the signs around us. It can signal an omen or simply be telling us to be mindful of the obvious.

http://www.keshi.com/categories/animal+medicine

tony, while looking for omen meanings for sturge, found this on 'dillos for you. some other neat info in the entire article link.

"In Native American symbolism, the medicine or power is that of the three-banded species. Keynotes are empathy, personal protection and discrimination. The armadillo’s cycle of power is year-round.
Armadillo teach people to place boundaries. People learn from the armadillo, who, by rolling into a ball, is protected from attack. This teaches people how to consciously define emotional and physical boundaries. The medicine includes understanding one’s personal boundaries, respecting other’s boundaries, carrying one’s protection all times and using it as necessary for one’s well being and understanding one’s own vulnerabilities.
Other lessons that the armadillo teaches involve how to protect oneself, when to let defenses down and when to let others into one’s space. Another closely related lesson is adjusting one’s rhythms and senses to know what’s safe and what’s not. Empathy, discrimination and being grounded are also part of the armadillo’s symbolism."

http://paganismwicca.suite101.com/article.cfm/armadillo_pagan_symbol_of_boundaries

meanwhile back at the big bang. buckle your seat belts. it may be a bumpy ride this weekend.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8371662.stm

Cool, thanks for the backup Patd! Maybe Rez can help us here with the interpretation, but I'm going with the spirit hawk did not appear to him , just the one driving the car that hit it.
Sorry I missed the trailmale saga, just dropped my cousin off at the boat so will be able to keep up with you all again.

Catching Up...

So on the Video - Good info on the rules....

How about some content on the Hairy Healthcare Tax Bill?

Go ahead Congress - Pass it... Make the independents day... Mid term is coming

sturg....
you had good luck come your way.... then you were given a test.... most people would have felt sorry for the hawk, but would not have taken the time away from their busy day to get involved.... you took the time.... you passed the good luck onto a helpless animal.... you passed the test....

I can only conclude that i must be somehow terminally ill."

That's a universal part of the human condition. All the more reason for following the path.

Ya think you're that special that the Gods kill stuff just to send you a message?

We're all that special dark lord, even you, you just got to watch and listen.

Well, the possum Gods must be trying to tell me something, then...

Should clarify- I don't think they get killed to catch your attention. Just appear, Possums hmm, maybe you need to roll over more? ;)

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patd

Thank you for that Zuni site. The animal meanings were very interesting.

Vineyard Nantucket game cancelled and made the front page of the Globe today. I posted a video here one year of the victors getting off the ferry.http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Liberator-Status-For-Pattons-Army

Nantucket SUCKS!
Nantucket SUCKS!

Young Will is a senior and waited for years for that game. Not only did they cancel the game but the team got swine flu and the new principal cancelled the bon fire and decorating the school which we were going to do instead for Homecoming, which is today. I sure feel bad for all those kids.

Vineyard Nantucket game cancelled and made the front page of the Globe today. I posted a video here one year of the victors, Vinyarders, getting off the ferry.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/11/21/for_islanders_this_was_the_game/

Nantucket SUCKS!
Nantucket SUCKS!

Young Will is a senior and waited for years for that game. Not only did they cancel the game but the team got swine flu and the new principal cancelled the bon fire and decorating the school which we were going to do instead for Homecoming, which is today. I sure feel bad for all those kids.

Ooops, sorry the first link was wrong- thought I caught it in time.

All of these years following the Beatles and somehow never knew about Paul McCartney's brother until today.

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

Thought for the day :
" The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our change. "

sturg's hawk isn't dead....

I believe that one does have to listen.... but the message is simple....
as interesting as the stuff patd posted is.... IMO, one doesn't need a PHD in Native American mythology to get the message....

Sea.... I feel bad for those kids too....

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I read it as if there is a 2nd hawk he encountered.

dark, here's a link giving the 'possum lesson:

Opossum medicine uses a great deal of strategy.
Instead of fighting, the supreme strategy of
diversion is employed by playing dead.
Opossum teaches you to rely upon your instincts
for the best way out of a tight corner.
Also, he teaches you to expect the unexpected

http://www.uc2enter.com/animalomens.html

"he teaches you to expect the unexpected"

like avoiding speeding cars on the highway

craig, harry should bring out strom's emergency bucket today in the chamber and set it down beside mitch. might get a few laughs. or groans.

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That site is hilarious.

mitch could well use a chamber pot. well, at least some pot. might mellow the ole goper.

I don't know how many people will be watching the debate on whether or not to debate, but someone needs to hammer home the message that the party of NO cares so little for the American public that they won't even talk about the subject of health care.

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sea, don your mickey and judy hats and put on fund-raiser. ok too late for that. but how about a virtual game? get the kids on both islands to fight the good fight with their computers. maybe set up a big monitor in the respective school gyms. at least the whalers can't whine about being beaten the last 10 yrs... the techies would play on a level field. no home advantage.

Good suggestion patd, someone suggested the same on the Globe site too.

Australia issues 'catastrophic' alerts as fires rage

"It has never been this hot, dry or windy in combination in November ever before," said New South Wales state premier Nathan Rees.

http://www.terradaily.com/2007/091121073322.hszie04k.html

venerable history of nantucket vs. vineyard games since 1953.

http://hhsbmhsfootballhistory.110mb.com/mvvsn.shtml

go martha!!!

Here's my video from last year. Marvelous mayhem!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HiSixhVgnM&feature=PlayList&p=694EE4EAF1292FF5&index=4

The Party of NO to a Tax Bill should just say No!

Where is the real healthcare reform driven by and for the people?

Not here !

Where is the one that was to lead?

The debate should go on - but careful on the rules... it is possible to shift to a simple majority?

This bill needs to be vetted again with the American people.

I dare say those that are pushing this bill have NO CLUE to the real impact

Go Ahead Congress- Make my Day !!! Mid terms come soon !!

A nice video about the game from the former coach, this was on a national channel, can't remember which one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3uBolzX9qg&NR=1

Ping

If we can talk about it here, they should be able to talk about it there. Talk about lily livered cowards.

They had decades to do healthcare reform and preferred handing out cash to the insurance corporations. Now when something might actually benefit the American people, they are screeching like stuck hogs.

Even now, with all the foot dragging and paying off of contributors, we have this mish mash that has darn little reform in the reform, but at least it is a start.

I doubt it will change our standing in the world as the best medicine money can buy at twice the cost with health rankings that should make politicians curl up in a fetal position from shame.

Vick's Sinex nasal spray recall

http://consumerist.com/5409530/vicks-sinex-nasal-spray-recalled-due-to-bacterial-contamination

Advice from an Eagle

~Let your spirit soar
~See the big picture
~Cherish freedom
~Honor the earth and sky
~Keep your goals in sight
~Bald is beautiful
~Fly high!

http://www.nature-watch.com/advice-from-an-eagle-t-shirt-p-991.html?cPath=160_194

Pew quiz. I got all 12. How will you do. The number of people who didn't know anything is scary

http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/opinion/21herbert.html?th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1258818352-5Vtyp16gzLcKWd6iWIDbtA

"An American Catastrophe"

"In many ways, it’s like a ghost town. It’s eerily quiet. Driving around in the middle of the afternoon, in a city that once was among the most productive on the planet, you see very little traffic, minimal commercial activity, hardly any pedestrians.

What you’ll see are endless acres of urban ruin, block after block and mile after mile of empty and rotting office buildings, storefronts, hotels, apartment buildings and private homes. It’s a scene of devastation and disintegration that stuns the mind, a major American city that still is home to 900,0000 people but which looks at times like a cross between postwar Berlin and the ruin of an ancient civilization.

Detroit was the arsenal of democracy in World War II and the incubator of the American middle class. It was the city that taught mass production to the rest of the world. It was a place that made cars, trucks and other tangible products, not derivatives. And it was the architect of the quintessentially American idea of putting people to work and paying them a decent wage. It’s frightening to think seriously about what we’ve allowed to happen to this city and what is now happening to the middle class and the American economy as a whole."

Good morning all,
This piece makes me sad!! As a kid we used to go on field trips to Henry Ford Museum and the city of Detroit was bustling and vibrant, but a few years ago when i took my niece, the city looked like a bomb had went off..I swore I would never go back,too depressing...

Buzz Flash is doing a series of Corporate Christianity as preached by C Street. Funniest so far:

Who would have the corporate naming rights to the manger where Jesus was born: Virgin Records?

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Jamie,
Thanks for that! I got all 12 correct,now I feel real smart....

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Pat,
Thanks for the read on the dillos and other animals,fun ad informative..

You beat me on the quiz, Jamie...I got both unemployment and the Dow wrong.

Why talk about a failed program - only if open opportunities to drop the destructive elements.

It is like having two options Bad or Worse.

They should vote to debate - then the American People find out the fundamental failure of Spend, Tax and Spend more policy.

Hope we do not have to live it

Patsi

Yep the Dow and unemployment hit 10 together. Amazing what mass layoffs do for profits.

Here is how I feel about this Health Reform Bill....it's a bad deal: There are a couple of things in there that are good for most of us, not all of us..and it is meant to pacify us....but still a BAD deal:

Yesterday I was offered a bad deal. There is a group of investors that offered to finance my construction projects. They said that they would put up 1/2 mil dollars so we can get them done.

For this they wanted to control the paper work from the projects. Than means to me...that they want to bill for work done..and recieve all monies for said work.

They also wanted to have a % of the profits from these projects...60% of the money that is gained from the hard work that has to go into them..I thought about it for a full minuete before I told them ..NO way...I didn't even look at the fine print yet, and I was giving 60%...did some fast math...and came up with a fore-mans pay...I would be working for them.....

The same can be said for this ins plan.....the tax payers...the fkn middle class people will be working for the Ins Corps, and dragging along the ones that can't pay anything....

We should spread this all out amongst us...let the rich pay for single payer as well as those who can pay...and then drag the ones that can't ....we should all have the ins that our Military, the congress; the Senate, and all government employees; all state, all city....all have.

Why is so difficult for the Dem's to keep saying this until the stupid public understands it...they just repeat talking points that hurt themselves..D's should just let it ride, leave things as they are....the stupids will wake up and discover that even some, city and Government people will be laid off, have more taken from their paychecks..and come too see that it won't be long before they are in the same position as everyone else....

When are we going to stop choosing the lesser of two evils?

This is why we are where we are no? both party's are just one huge con artist.....

Health care tweet page ... lots of angry people squabling in cyberspace

http://twitter.com/search?q=%23hcr#search?q=%23hcr

a song to start off the senate's great debate in style:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qWyvQMTO-Y&feature=related

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Yep Ping, That's what happens when you exhaust a surplus in favor of an unnecessary war that only benefits corporate cronies while killing our soldier and the men women and children who never did a damn thing to us.

Now thousands die because your crowd exhausted the money to take care of them on insider trading and bonuses while destroying the middle class.

Thanks loads.

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I missed the number of troops in Afghanistan damn it all.

Jamie re: "How can anyone so brilliant and necesarry" http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/tyranny-of-the-silent-filibust.html#comment-271708

The problem is that in writing and enforcing laws they often come to think they're above them.

Patsi,
The sad thing is that by cancelling her credit card she doesn't have access to a line of credit in case of emergency.

I firmly believe that the main reason for the exorbitant rates is so executives can continue their current lifestyle, not because it's better for the company.

I agree, Don -- that's exactly why they are jacking up the rates.

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Ha Dooty,
I almost missed that one. I just read a piece that said if Mckrystal gets his way we would have 130,000 troops in Afghanistan....

Then there is the matter of what are "troops". The mercenaries are a scandal. I realize the all volunteer army is short of personel, but having the government pay out millions to Blackwater et al is disgusting.

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