Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Very cute! And I am thankful for Craig and Helen Thomas -- and all the Trailmixers! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving, Craig!

Thought for the day :
" Toil is most pleasant when done. "

" From out of the blue of the western sky ......... It's Sky King ! "

1911 Kirby Grant Butte MT, actor (Sky King)

Happy Thanksgiving from a very Thankfull Ping!!!

Best to all..... May your plates be bontifull and your week one of many blessings

C-Bob.... Sky King and Penny !! Like a Day in May... Sky King bit the dust on his way to see the Space Shuttle on a drive not far from Craigs old stomping grounds

"The Iraq war inquiry's public hearings have begun in London with top civil servants and a former spy chief giving evidence on the conflict's origins.
The investigation, looking at the whole period from 2001 to 2009, is expected to last months, with a report not out until after the next general election.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair will be among the future witnesses."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8375439.stm

"Rupert Murdoch is considering a tie-up with Microsoft which would see the technology group pay for exclusive rights to content from his stable of newspapers, including the Times and the Sun, to attract visitors to its Bing search engine.

As part of the deal, Murdoch would prevent stories from his News Corp outlets appearing on rival Google News, despite the fact that the service provides the bulk of web traffic for sites such as timesonline.co.uk.

The talks with Microsoft, which are at an embryonic stage according to News Corp insiders, are part of Murdoch's drive to create new online revenue streams and bring an end to what he sees as the theft of his content by large web companies such as Google"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/nov/23/news-corp-microsoft-deal

as lewis carroll warned:
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun. The frumious Bandersnatch!"

Understanding the psychology of authoritarianism

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/23/understanding-the-ps.html

christopher buckley enjoyed sarah palin's book so much he made an index for it:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-21/going-rogue-the-index/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsC2

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/opinion/24iht-edcohen.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

"Obama in His Labyrinth"

"HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Before coming up to Canada’s Atlantic provinces, where the nicest people in this nice country are said to live, I found myself seated next to Henry Kissinger at a New York dinner and asked him how he thought President Barack Obama was doing.

“He reminds me of a chess grandmaster who has played his opening in six simultaneous games,” Kissinger said. “But he hasn’t completed a single game and I’d like to see him finish one.”

I thought that wasn’t a bad image for Obama’s international gambits, and then here, at the first Halifax International Security Forum, I heard a similar observation from one participant: “We’ve had the set-up, but is there a middle game?” Or, put another way, can this probing, intelligent president close anything?

As an Obama admirer, I’m worried. He feels over-managed, over-scripted to me, to the point where he’s not showing the guts that prevailed at various difficult moments in the campaign. The ideas are good, but the warmth, cajoling and craft that make ideas more than that are lacking.

I find myself yearning for a presidential gaffe if only to reveal an instinctual human moment. Memo to Obama handlers: Give us a little more of the unvarnished. De-teleprompt the president for a few seconds!"

i'm staking out my mailbox.

I'm thankful for this blog and all those who post here, even when we disagree. I'm grateful I live in a country where we can openly disagree.

And last Sunday, after hearing George Will make a remark about extended unemployment benefits being responsible for keeping people unemployed, I am grateful that I am not George Will.

I am grateful that Chris Matthews went after "his-excellency" yesterday on Hardball, and for folks like Patrick Kennedy who stand up for their beliefs even when it costs them personally.

Good to see Mr. Satter on camera. I'm also grateful I got to meet him and all of those nice and interesting people in DC last month.

I'm grateful that the potrack appears to be holding up, although I didn't actually see it. : ) That was a good-looking bird.

CLIFF RICHARD - Devil Woman (1976)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yosCYE4vwlY

c'bob - Is that your ode to Sarah P?

chef craig reminded me of the muppet swedish chef roasting his turkey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-OFXUaMIv8

Sunken Canadian stern-wheeler is an underwater time capsule
The A.J. Goddard carried miners in the Klondike Gold Rush, then sank in 1901. Tools were scattered on deck and tongs remained in a forge, said the team of archaeologists that discovered the wreck.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-sci-sternwheeler24-2009nov24,0,3733461.story

Poor Andrew, the unsung hero around here, I adore the videos and my compliments always go to Craig. Sorry for overlooking you in the past Andrew. Your videos are very much appreciated.

I too am thankful to Craig for so much. I'm thankful that he maintains standards in journalism that have become so rare, for the many laughs, his invaluable help with the Liberator Status Campaign and for hosting this site where I been lucky to have cherished friends whom without this site I would never have met. You all compliment my life. Thank you.

mr dylan ...............idiot wind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1M2Fz0BM0E

1942 gibson belonging to buddy holly for sale at christie's......around harf a million....buddy was also a leather worker.........made a leather sheath for it......

NEW YORK (AP) -- The guitar that Buddy Holly customized himself as a tribute to Elvis Presley is going to be auctioned. Christie's auction house will sell Holly's Gibson J-45 guitar.

Holly did leatherwork as a hobby and he covered the guitar in leather because
he had seen Presley play a leather-covered guitar in 1955. It's expected to sell for $450,000 to $550,000. Holly's tweed stage jacket will also be sold, and it's expected to go for at least $3,000.

Original 78's of Presley's first five singles for Sun Records will also be on the block. The auction will take place in New York on December 3.

for one thing, thankful for all these guys:
* Bob Dylan
* Leonard Cohen
* Schnabel's Beethovan Sonatas
* Nyman Furr
* Buddy Holly
* Jennifer Warnes
* Lightnin' Hopkins
* Dean Martin
* Gene Pitney
* Buddy Rich
* Charlie Rich
* Burl Ives
* Mario Lanza
* Perry Como
* EVLIS
* Williamses Hanks Sr Jr III Don and Tennessee
* Sonny Bono
* Chucks Barris Berry and Jackson
* Roni Specter
* Roni Stoneman
* Ronnie Milsap
* Maria Callas
* The Tams and The Drifters
* Carla Thomas
* Timi Yuro
* Delmore Bros
* Isley Bros
* Wilburn Bros
* Statler Bros
* Gatlin Bros
* Ritz Bros
* Osborne Bros
* Everly Bros
* Step Bros
* Marx Bros
* Oak Ridge Bros
* Righteous Bros
* Osmond Bros
* Ames Bros
* Walker Bros
* Mills Bros
* Jackson Bros
* Karamazov Bros
* Neville Bros
* Cornelius Bros
* Sisters Rose Lennon Andrews Maguire and Pointer
* Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs
* Rachmaninoff
* Pinckard and Bowden
* Harlan Howard
* Mickey Newberry
* Chopin
* Mozart
* Cindy Walker
* Tennessee Ernie Ford
* Memphis Slim
* John Denver
* Tex Ritter
* Texas Todd Mason
* Anne Reno
* McKinley Morganfield
* Ramblin' Jack Elliot
* Tony "Little Sun" Glover
* The Chordettes
* Little Leon Payne
* Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee
* The Dan Band
* Lee Dorsey
* Eddie Raven
* Little David Wilkins
* Joni James
* Joe Savage the Snake Man
* Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
* Martha and the Van Dellas
* The Hully Gully Olympics
* The Ventures
* The Dixiecups
* Ernie K-Doe
* Huey "Piano" Smith and the Clowns
* The Vibrations
* Bobby Moore and the Rhythmn Aces
* The Amazing Rhythmn Aces
* Archie Bell and the Drells
* Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts
* Randy Newman
* Franks Zappa Sinatra and Sinatra Jr
* Igor Stravinsky
* Die Dreigroschenoper
* Doc Watson
* (why does snoop dogg carry an umbrella....fa drizzle)
* Merles Travis Watson and Haggard
* Chets Baker and Atkins
* Les Paul
* Mary Ford
* Buck Owens
* Buck Trent
* Porter Waggoner
* Dolly Parton
* The Band
* The Other Band
* Bela Fleck
* Ray Charles
* Freddie "Boom Boom" Cannon
* Gary "US" Bonds
* Roys Orbison Clark and Rogers
* Patti Page
* Theresa Brewer
* The Hampton Grease Band
* Mel Torme the Velvet Frog

damn........forgot townes van zandt

Dire Straits - The Bug

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjh7S_6-hB8

Birthday of Zachary Taylor (1784), 12th U.S. President

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

holy crap........and forgot the beatles......

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/24/MNP11AEM9D.DTL

For those of you who cannot abide the thought of no newspapers...

I am thankful for this particular corner of the internets

Andrew chows down on his turkey the same was I do...picking at it while still in the roasting pan. Why dirty up the extra plates?

(^_~)

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/what-im-thankful-for.html#comment-272084

The same way I do, the same as I do, the same what I do...anything but "was I do" (sorry, Bethy, you learned me better).

(^_~)

"And last Sunday, after hearing George Will make a remark about extended unemployment benefits being responsible for keeping people unemployed, I am grateful that I am not George Will."

Go Blue!!!

George Will the man who slept his way to mediocrity

Sky King & Penny gets a musical sing along

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn7l0FJMQD0

jamie,

that is a great and silly video. Thanks!

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/what-im-thankful-for.html#comment-272077

Sturgeon,

Mel Torme may have croaked, but he never sounded like a frog ... just a fine and mellow mist.

I'm thankful to Craig for creating this "safe" political spot filled with wonderful ladies and gentlemen (even the ones with which I disagree).

A big thank you to Andrew for creating the wonderful videos that actually should be features on MSNBC and making you both rich and famous. Hasn't anyone over there seen "Uncle Jay Explains the News".

http://www.youtube.com/user/UncleJayExplains

May all of the wonderful denizens of this magical land have a happy and healthy Thanksgiving filled with love and fun surrounded by those you value most.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/what-im-thankful-for.html#comment-272086

Patsi,

You know if those lazy bums living off 1/3 of their previous income weren't getting guaranteed money, they would be out there selling apples like people used to do when we had real standards in a Depression.

For all the dog lovers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkPNa4DBFHI

I'm thankful for my entire life.... including this blog and all of you.
I'm thankful for the day Ron Reagan decided to go on vacation from a now defunct tv show on MSNBC. It's how I came to discover and fall in love with Craig.

Mr. Satter you are one good looking man. And thank you for the videos.

ps.... that turkey looks YUM!

Oh, after the wail of helpless computer luddite from yesterday, I'm thankful I've figured out what I was doing wrong yesterday. Of course this means reloading everything I did yesterday ... but it's all beeoootiful now.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/what-im-thankful-for.html#comment-272076

Sturgeone,

This is the sort of thing that makes the elderly wail, "IF ONLY!!"

When I was 12 my mother dated a gentleman whose job was to distribute records throughout all the juke boxes in the Central Valley. Hearing of my affection for a certain Mr. Presley, he gave me the 78 of "Heartbreak Hotel" which I and some equally besotted friends played into the ground until one of them bounced on the bed on top of it.

For those who have actually never seen a 78 record (me168?), this action turned it into three pieces hanging from the paper title sheet in the middle. But he was only a fad and I could buy the 45 to replace it right? Right!!!!

I loved the Video Thanks Craig and Andrew.

And a Happy Thanksgiving to All, that was a really good looking bird.

I'm also thankful for a good husband who has now shown me which cables to pull and plug back in to the doo hickeys. Next time there's a power glitch and he's gone, I'm all set.

Flatus.... congrats on getting that car....

Mz Cracker,

one dog video back at cha. This is my friend Stephen DiRado who is an artist/photography teacher in Mass. This is his Jack Russell Terrier (Frankie) going for a walk down on the drag.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luJIjNbVF4k

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/what-im-thankful-for.html#comment-272092

HA! Exactly, Jamie.

jamie - Great idea. It would be wonderful if CQ would share Mr. Satter's work with MSNBC. It seems doable since Mr. Crawford is already there.

Hey gang, glad you liked the video. I'd just like to say, Craig makes a mean turkey. It was delicious (although he did make me share some of it with him).

I support this movement to get our videos on MSNBC (and especially the part about being rich and famous). Maybe if we promise Olbermann we'll make him dinner...

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Senor Dooty,
That is one funny dog and the video/song is great too.

Craig,

Thank you for the Blog, and for allowing a pushy Independent voter like me; have the opportunity to voice our side of the important issues to us all.!

andrewthevideoguy, craig, helen and blogmates --

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am very thankful for y'all!

Something not to be thankful for. The very high unemployment rate among Black Americans since the new administration took office.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/23/AR2009112304092_pf.html

Craig and Andrew,

Thanks for all your great work. Count me among those hoping you'll branch out and become rich and famous(er).

" Maybe if we promise Olbermann we'll make him dinner..."

andrew, better sweeten ko's deal with a turkey that looks like a certain tina fey character... can see him now drooling over a juicy leg, then tearing into it with insatiable abandon tom jones style.

btw, thanks for all your hard work in keeping us so well-entertained as well as well-informed.

Craig, Andrew,

I too am thankful for the opportunity you have given
all those who congregate here to share their views.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

KG & Mr. Dooty,

Thanks to both of you for those great doggie videos....
They are both on their way to my dog lover friends,
you can't help but smile when you watch them....

Mz Cracker,

I just got an email from the guy that drags Frankie and he says his brother who did the edit and wrote and preformed the sound has been contracted to do two videos. one for a dentist and one for a retirement home. All they gotta do is drag Frankie thru the office and lobby of the home and do the voice over and they are done.

Hi Coreen
Happy Thanksgiving.

Senor Dooty
A star is born!

yup, I think Frankie has a long career ahead of him.

here's a little something for all the cat lovers....

the best cat video you'll ever see....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvo-g_JvURI

here is something for you pig lovers out there....Paula Dean, butter chef, was hit in the face with a ham. She is all right and was making fun of it just a minute later. Maybe the first case of the Swine Flew.

http://blog.zap2it.com/thedishrag/2009/11/paula-deen-ham-tastrophy-in-the-face.html

george will, thief.

Mr. Sturgeone listed a whole bagload of Brothers, but left out Dr. Joyce.

I add my list to Mr. Sturgeone's but subtract
"EVLIS" and add Dave Van Ronk, Mose Allison, Cisco Houston, Leadbelly, Ella, Judy Holliday, Oscar Peterson, Wanda Landowska, Pavarotti, Sam Cooke, Hildegard of Bingen, Linda Ronstadt, Peggy Lee, Pinky Lee with Pearl Altshuler, Carmen Miranda, Rita Moreno, Ethel Merman, Cher, Placido Domingo, Beverly Sills, Rosemary Clooney, Yoselle Rosenblatt, Bobby Day, Theresa Brewer, The Shangri Las, Ronnettes, ABBA, Dusty Springfiel, Harry Nilsson, Mary Wells, Martha and the Vandellas,Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, The Four Tops, The Temptations, the Miracles, the Marvelettes, Bob Marley, Carl Perkins, Pinchas Zuckerman, Feidman, Josh White, Odetta, Miriam Makeba, Harry Belafonte, Kate Smith, J F Handel, John Phillip Sousa, & Philip Glass.

Craig, I hope that you have a lovely Thanksgiving.

Everyone else, you too.

Oops ! I forgot Frankie Lymon.

'Bye for now.

Instead of getting unemployment, maybe george will would prefer that unemployed people should start stealing other people's stuff.

Why not ? It worked for george will.

G'bye.

xrepublican,

I would have never picked you as someone that would know who Dave Van Ronk was. Well played.

idea borrowed from the classics to solve afghan dilemma on the cheap with fewer lives lost. we should withdraw but as we do we take with us any female who wants to go. offer all afghani women the opportunity to leave. provide an haven for them and their children under a certain age. what monies that otherwise would have been spent there militarily and for nation building would instead be used for their support. saves our troops lives, saves the women's lives. may even shorten the hostilities within.

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

please remind me again why we are still there spending precious lives and money.

dave van ronk's the one dylan "stole" house of the rising sun from.....

"You must be weird
Or you wouldn't be here"

The Cellar

Ft. Worth, Texas, Est. 1959

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A5BSzZIvLQ

"please remind me again why we are still there spending precious lives and money."

Because none of these clowns want to appear "weak." Insanity.

I'm thankful for my healthy family, especially five spectacularly beautiful kids.

I'm thankful that, 145 years after the 'official' end of slavery, a black man was elected to be president of our country.

I'm thankful that I'm not related to George Will and a whole raft of other people.

I'm thankful that my parents taught me to love and appreciate beauty of many kinds.

I'm thankful for Gloria Ferrarr Blanc de Noir champagne.

I'm thankful that I fell into this blog with all the varied personalities, experience, philosophies, and backgrounds led by a man with such integrity.

I'm thankful that I'm an American.

I'm thankful that I could go on and on because I have so much to be thankful for.

I hope you all have the kind of holiday you enjoy the most, quiet, lively,wacky,cozy,over-stuffed with the people you enjoy the most.

(Flatus, did you actually say you bought a Rolls???)

The Os look fabulous at the steak :)) dinner.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/state-dinner-will-highlight-american-and-indian-musicians/?hp

I'm also thankful for Willy Nelson, my soul sister Bonnie Raitt, Al Green, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, James Taylor, Diana Ross & the Supremes, Van Morrison, Tommy Makem, Cheryl Crow, Eric Clapton, Little Feat, Patsi Cline, Stevie Nicks, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole & Hooty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAIKznMPXUk
somewhere over the rainbow

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/what-im-thankful-for.html#comment-272123

Senor Fish,

thanks for that video on the Cellar . The place they are talking about was actually the 2nd location. The first place was actually in a cellar. Or at least below street level. It offered no liquor and had poetry and folk music. I was not old enough to go there when it was open. The second location was actually up stairs and down the street from the original location. Still no liquor but the waitstaff were babes in their underwear. Big attraction for me as well as the music had changed. Rock and Roll and blues. They had bouncers that had no issues with throwing some unruly person down the same stairs you had to climb to get in. Never saw any overt drug use thou I am sure it went on. There was single red light in the middle of the ceiling that was turned on when the cops started up the stair and all the naked chicks ran to the dressing rooms. There were only cushions to sit on and small low tables for your coke drink. When I got back to FTW after my tour with the Air Force the cellar was closed. A weird era had come to an end in FTW.

sea,

clerical correction to you post . It is Willie Nelson. I do like your list though.

Hey everyone, you all have a Great Thanksgiving. Too many things to be greatful for to list.

Jamie, this was what I suspected at the time: http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article/rr/9000/9593888/Police_Ky_census_worked_staged_death_as_homicide

That is why I said your favorite female over at MSNBC had it all wrong. Not only did she suggest this was something nefarious before the facts were vetted, but she started what she called an investigation of what she described as "right wing groups" that could be linked to such a "murder" and then went directly into a look at pot growing. Pretty shoddy reporting if you ask me. I wonder if she took that approach to Hasan or even these people:http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11787279&Itemid=343

(P.S. Dooty it makes no difference if Newt and others belong to Def o fDem provided the facts presented are true. I believe they are and even FA, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and others have had similar recent exposes about a touchy subject for many Democrats.)

I'll save the comments about the predicted impending conflagration of ticking clocks for after the Turkey and keep my optimism a bit longer.

Again, you all have a nice holiday and Craig, thanks creating the space for people to debate and share even if some are quick to the trigger and slow to the facts..........

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11787279&Itemid=343

Ah,,,too close to the colon.....

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/what-im-thankful-for.html#comment-272098

My insurance company insists that I have my head examined.

"Flatus, did you actually say you bought a Rolls???"

Yes, Bethy. I'm neck-and-neck with the guy who's selling it because he's too old.

"quick to the trigger and slow to the facts."

C'mon max, Don't be so hard on yourself!

Hey Sea, Funny we didn't get around to talking music last month. Too much emphasis on politics and magic. But BR,has gots to be one of my all time faves. Not so with Jenny. I see she did a tour this past year with Taj. Another of mine. We saw him in Seattle last year for his annual T-day gig.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTLR3zHxnr8

Hornsby's fantastic too.

Thanks for the video Rez! Got looking around and found one of my favorites from her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXVoOgwiYc8&feature=related

dooty.......the first guy on the video is a friend of mine, Jas......worked with him a good bit in nashville and visited a few times since in old foat wuth......