Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Is it my imagination, or did I see a photo of J.D. Hayworth next to the word "tool" in the dictionary?

By the way Craig, if you have an extra $60 grand or so laying around, you should buy up copies of "Listen Up."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/01/sarah-palins-sarah-pac-sp_n_444656.html

Trail Mixers have raised $71,523.57 US dollars for ShelterBox supplies to Haiti. More info, how to give.. http://bit.ly/5qXEBC

Buying them herself and giving them to donors may be the only way Sarah P &/or her publishers can get rid of that tome. It's not exactly flying off shelves around here--even with Wally World's fabled discount. And the last time I was at Hastings, they had them shelved down next to the floor at the back of the store--by which I infer nobody's much interested there either.

Maybe if it was big enough for a doorstop--

PS...Who Dat!

Sleep that knits the raveled sleave of care is poking me with its needles--

Good night. For real.

I'm rooting for the Colts, Patsi--;)

Sen. McCain, during his appearance on Imus last week, said that Palin was coming to Arizona to campaign for him.

Fair -- I had no particular team so i'm rooting for the City of New Orleans primarily. :) I love it when a much maligned team finally kicks in.

I do like Payton Manning a lot.

Wha Dat..
Palin might be helpful now in a Primary but she should fade away when it comes time for the General.....
And Marco don't need no Palin in Florida
Marco...
And the People respond .... Rubio

JD Hayworth: Victim of Life's Circumstances

Douglas Brinkley will be on Imus at 6:30, am hoping Imus will ask for his opinion regarding the 94th .

The O-riginal "Who dat man?" with Harpo Marx

(it's history, that's all)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2f9dFrvBr4

Glad you posted this Sea -- I just tuned in...hope they talk about it!

It didn't happen. Was surprised as Imus had said himself in the past that he would ask Brinkley but who knows,maybe Brinkley didn't want to comment publicly before looking the issue over. I have all the faith in Imus and Bernie anyways, they have done a phenomenal job responding to Craig's SPECTACULAR appearances.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/opinion/02iht-edcohen.html?th&emc=th

"Obama’s Halfway House"

"Like it or not, we are witnessing the relative decline of the West. It’s going to be a long, slow movie but I don’t think the plot is going to reverse itself.

This transition prompts a couple of reactions. One is “To heck with the world.” Many Republicans (and Sarah Palin comes to mind) are in this my-way-or-the-highway place. The other is: Let’s adjust to the new reality through outreach and a new modesty. Obama is somewhere in that zone.

The thing is the president needs some results. I see him caught in a kind of halfway house. His gut tells him the world has changed and demands new policies but Washington politics keep him stuck in the conventional. His first year on the world stage has offered innovative speeches but largely unoriginal policy."

the republicans are the party of Peter Pan. they don't wish to grow up, and only seem to wish to turn back the clock to "happier times" when the country was "theirs".

when the country was "theirs" and everyone else "knew their place".

the gop symbolic animal should be the Armadillo.

a cheer for the gop: "Go back---go back---go back into the woods.......you haven't got---you haven't got---you haven't got the goods."

"their place"

sturge, a place of one's own far from the mad crowd?

today's guardian has a nice piece, a respite of sorts

"The joys of solitude
It's now a week since Phil Daoust saw another human being, but he's not lonely – and he wouldn't have it any other way"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/feb/02/joys-of-solitude-lonely

btw, have we seen our shadow yet? will winter while away a while without?

O'sea....... do you have any idea why whoever it is is so reluctant to grant the liberator status? It seems so cut and dried. Who is in charge of giving the designation?

"the gop symbolic animal should be the Armadillo"

And Tony knows how to keep them in check!

BTW, this looks like an excellent deal for anyone needing a notebook. From its specs should be a quite competent machine:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834146705&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL020210&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL020210-_-Notebooks-_-L0A-_-34146705

Phew.... it's great to be back online. Someone hit a pole and we had no internet and phone for a couple of days.

CBob... good job over at Shinbone.... LOVE the red picks...

Sarah who?

GO SAINTS!

mornin'

Flatus, the DOES strike me as an insanely good deal. That is about what the netbook I have cost, and it ain't wuth a dayum. Of course if it's not the mobile dual core processor that 4.6 hour battery life is a figment of Lenovo's imagination - or at least I'm told the non mobile PDC processor can be a power hog, but still....

McCain may be a minor political figure these days but Palin is not. The GOP is torn between embracing her and casting her out. "Be gone vile temptress!"

It's great fun watching her because she's so unpredictable.

What is frightening, though, is that she could be our next presdident. Really. I'm not kidding, folks. Deal with it.

"the gop symbolic animal should be the Armadillo"

more like hyenas nowadays

"In packs hyenas are formidable hunters..... They are also talented scavengers and have no fear when protecting a kill from other animals..... Their jaws have bone-crunching strength and their digestive systems are adapted to digest bone and skin, animal parts that other predators cannot handle.....
.... shows submission to other members of the pack by emitting a variety of sounds, the most famous being the hyena's laugh"

picture in link reminds me of mr. boner
http://animal.discovery.com/mammals/hyena/

Is it just me, or is the new senator (and nude model) from Massachusetts a bit of a dope?

He's reminds me of guys in MA that you see hanging around convenience stores arguing with the store clerk about sports, after they buy their daily fix of a dozen lotttery tickets.

patd: The GOP is not a "pack" these days. It's divided into TWO packs: the traditional Wall Street/country club elites, and the unwashed masses of teabaggers that the GOP leaders created, but now can't control.

By the way, in most species of "pack" animals the females are dominant. (Palin).

New Chutzpah definition: Ten Best Picture Oscar nominations in a year that didn't really have one.

Global warming in Aroostook County, Maine.

-11 degrees in northern Maine this AM.

I'm still waiting for it to get really COLD this winter. I don't even plug in my truck's engineblock heater until the forecast is for -20 or below.

Down at the Dunkin' Donuts, all the potato farmers (they've got lots of free time in winter) have mixed feeelings about the fact that they don't have as many snowmobilers tear-assing across their fields this year.

"Damn recession. They say it's over but I don't see it. I'll have another low fat blueberry muffin."

As you have posted in the past, Craig. How much are these endorsements worth? They all can be magic bullets when the conditions are right, but look at NY.

I suspect Palin and McCain signed the equivalent of a pre-nup -- always support me as I will support you. It doesn't explain crossing-out his name on the cap, however, Mrs. Palin can be bought.

Nash...
I bet Sarah won't give up the big bucks to become president.... and I don't blame her. Now she's free to roam wherever she wants.... why would she want the secret service dogging her every move. Now she gets to buy (and can afford) the clothes she wants.... no handlers. As a media star she can influence politics without the responsibilities. Seriously.... she has all the advantages now and none of the headaches.

Sturge- It is the stupid cretin bureaucrats & historians at the US Center of Military History that have screwed everything up so much that thousands of soldiers and victims have died during the last 2 years that they have been denying LS, which was not the procedure that should have been followed. Yesterday was a HUGE day- sorry can't remember if I posted this or not, was writing and sending letters all day into the night- Dr. White at the Holocaust Museum confirmed to Sen. Kerry's aide that the role of the USCMH is to only verify the location of the Army unit, not to make all the decisions- that is for the Holocaust Museum. He also told that it is possibly a sub camp of Buckenwald that the 94th liberated.

They have such little understanding of WWII and the 94th (which lead the Drive to the Rhine) that they wrote a letter explaining "One reason for the lack of official documentation may be that the 94th always moved into areas other divisions had occupied for a week or more- time when any camps in the area already may have been liberated."
Fucking idiots.

Damn, ain't this the cheer-leading section this morning......

Palin sides with Tea Baggers because she sees her support coming from the Ultra Conservatives (despite her coming from Alaska). The only problem is that Ultra conservatives don't represent the majority of polled Tea Baggers or the GOP and will not amount to much more than a publicity pitch.

Whether they say it or not, many centrist conservatives and even people like Newt are not impressed with Palin for President. Goldberg and O'Reilly last night said clearly last night that the ultra Right is hurting their Party with absurd rants about the Democrats and Obama. They will not come down on the hard Right Side in the GOP civil war. Of course Bill doesn't explain why he would tour with the idiot Beck, but we can clearly see the fault line and Palin is making a strategic error in thinking Ultra Liberal is the way for her to go......

Stewart was good again last night. You can see Fox and the Comedy channel pushing for more "engagement" between Obama and the Republicans. -for ratings alone and to give center some needed media exposure.

Colbert was particularly bad in that he suddenly had a serious attitude with his guest Ford. Gee, I wonder why? Colbert didn't seem to remember Gillibrand's flip-flopping or Clinton the carpet bagger. He simply looked like a cheer-leader for Gillibrand. Ford kept his spirits up and didn't let Colbert rattle him. If Ford wanted to be nasty he could have asked Colbert if he had bought Edwards all those gifts he promised.......and why Colbert continues his masquerade when he is just a Liberal cheer-leader stoking the DNC talking points.

I wouldn't characterize the GOP exactly like patd, but the fault line is there and a REAL engagement and bipartisan negotiation will widen the split and perhaps win Democrats some success getting work done. Now in round two, Obama needs to admit his prior exaggerations or mistakes in the last Q and A and show the audience whether Republicans are willing to do the same. Indies will be watching.....this critical game of chess.

Also Sturge- I was told by someone who didn't want to be named that they had been told that the Army has decided that they will accepts any more requests for Liberator Status. Period. Didn't believe it at first, but sure looks to be the case.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/02/palins-paperthin-mccain-endors.html#comment-283146

OSH, have you gotten any support from the Israeli government? Their historians and clout on capital hill might help.....

LOL....above should have read (a mistake for Palin to think) Ultra conservative is the way for her to go......my bad

Not enough coffee...

She can be a populist without playing to the lowest denominator on the Right Side.....

watch her flip flop later if Democrats win the engagement war.

Good idea Max- wouldn't know where to start though. Now that Sen. Kerry understands that this request should have made it to the hands of the USHHM, I think he'll see to that and once in their hands , things should go smoother.

OSH, of course Obama would be a great person to contact. We all know the problem he had when describing his uncle's liberator role. He had actually been part of liberating a sub camp and not Auschwitz as he first implied. This would give his story more clout in explaining that chasing out Germans from the many sub camps and facilities was indeed liberation....

O'sea....... are there "entitlements" or is there money involved somewhere along the line.......somewhere where declaring liberator status results in some sort of change in the money status quo?

Rush Limbaugh...........Jackie Gleason wanna be......

"Buying them herself and giving them to donors may be the only way Sarah P &/or her publishers can get rid of that tome."

Just another petty criminal, laundering money.

Knowing where one really is during wartime can be really difficult because such mundane things as road signs vanish as do cultural features such as that big building at the intersection.

And there were maps made for 'public' consumption that were deliberately altered from reality just to confuse invaders.

When dealing with ground 'truth' we would sometimes go back to Nazi aerial photography. It was meticulously cataloged and very high resolution.

People in good faith could say that they were at point X when they were, in reality, miles away from that point.

FWIW, I believe Sea's father's account to be totally accurate and reliable; it should be accepted or rejected based on its merits, not where somebody else says they were.

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Pogo--tax deductibility of the gifts made through the local link to the British charity assembling and emplacing the shelter boxes.

An absurdly strict interpretation of the law seems to say that these gifts will not be tax deductible despite a separate declaration that gifts to Haiti will be deductible through the end of March.

I say claim the deduction as it is in the spirit of the declaration permitting deductibility.

If you disagree with my sez, would it be possible to get a private ruling from the IRS?

No, it's not for me--I give based on the need, not the deductibility.

1959 Buddy Holly's last performance

Thought for the day :
" Share your happiness with others today. "

No Sturge, this isn't for money. I started researching this about 7 years ago, trying to find the name of the camp that was liberated so my children could put a name to it and tell their children what their grandfather had done. My father had only spoken of that day once to me, when I was in Jr. High working on a paper about the Holocaust. He said something close to "the people were lying in their own excrement and dying". That sentence was enough for me to know the subject was not available for any further conversation. So as I said about 7 years ago I contacted the Center of Holocaust Studies in Spring Valley NY and spoke with Rabbi Gisser. I told him that my father had been to a concentration camp during WWII and his response was "He is a liberator", which was a term I really didn't fully understand. He told me he would try to help and asked for my father's Batallion etc. I spoke with my Dad, got his information and told him that Rabbi Gisser called him a liberator. My Dad, so humble adamantly said, "We weren't liberators, there was no battle at the gates. I called Rabbi Gisser back and repeated what my father said. He explained that of course there was no battle at the gates, it was the battle that they fought to advance which forced the guards to flee. He then told me in a choked voice "Yes, he is a Liberator and to thank my Dad for him, for if not for the actions of those soldiers he and his family wouldn't be here now" I periodically continued my research, staying in touch with Lisa Stenchever in NY who encouraged me to contact with the USHMM where a wonderful librarian, Ron Goldman assisted me. In the fall of 2007 I found the box of letterstmy Grandmother saved, tucked in a closet. In one letter my father wrote home about the "atrocities". I called Ron and told him about them, within minutes there were a number of people gathering in his office as I told him of my find. It was then that they told me that this letter should b sufficient documentation to start the process of Liberator Status. My father's first reaction was "no, of course someone knows about this" and many heartfelt conversations back and forth with Ron and repeated to my Dad allowed him to see the great impact of their actions. When he finally heard that the flag of the 94th would be flown at the USHMM and annually paraded in the Rotunda he agreed to pursue LS and gave his first ever full account of that day. So to answer your question of why or what entitlements I would say that my Dad is doing this for the 94th and his fallen comrades. I'm pursuing it for my Nana, who would have raised holy hell in DC if she had known that her son and his comrades had gone unrecognized for their actions, family and our own family history, for Thomas Manthey's family history, for history itself to be properly recorded, for the soldiers of WWII whos experiences, sacrifices, patriotism and courage have always been a source of fascination for me, for the Victims of Holocaust and their families , to recognize the horrors they suffered and the acknowledging and remembering the Holocaust to prevent it form happening again, and for my Mom and Dad, whom I love and adore and am so proud to be their daughter. With all this study I still can't fathom all of the sacrifices they made and difficulties they lived through during the War and then put it behind them and went on to give my brothers, sister and me such a wonderful life.
I think about all of these people and reasons for doing so all the time while working on this, sometimes finding myself lost in another time and place. I cry a lot too.

The chance of another big earthquake in Haiti in the near future is great enough that people in Port-au-Prince should sleep in tents - not even in buildings that survived the January 12 quake apparently unscathed, geologists say.

A report by the United States Geological Survey says the probability of an aftershock of magnitude seven or greater in Haiti in the next 30 days is three per cent, the probability of one magnitude six or greater is 25 per cent, and of one magnitude five or greater is about 90 per cent.

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/more-quakes-may-strike-haiti-experts-20100202-nagz.html

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/02/palins-paperthin-mccain-endors.html#comment-283163

Sea, your poignant narrative means much more than any letter responding to a bureaucracy's challenges. Well done to your father...and to you, his faithful daughter.

Letter from Haiti
Neighbors’ Keeper
A woman feeds her community in Port-au-Prince.
by Jon Lee Anderson

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/02/08/100208fa_fact_anderson#ixzz0eOcRcN1Q

Ooops, forgot one more person I'll carry with me, Ole blood and guts himself, Gen. George Patton. My father and I often wonder how it is possible that the famous Patton's Army could have been overlooked as Liberators? Then just yesterday my father said "Well, if Patton had survived..." The cog turned, the light went on. Patton wasn't here to see that the 94th was recognized when they were handing out Liberator Status. Sometimes my lapses in thought are absolutely terrifying.

Max Beauvoir, Haiti’s preëminent houngan, or vodou priest -

" He said he was upset about remarks made by the American evangelical preacher Pat Robertson, who had blamed Haiti’s tragedy on a pact with the Devil. “I feel that Pat Robertson missed a very good opportunity to close his mouth,” Beauvoir said. "

from The New Yorker story above

Cbob- that should be the quote of the day!
Flatus- glad you liked it.

On a 'lighter' note, Beetle Bailey was pretty good this morning!

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/comics/beetlebailey.html

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/02/palins-paperthin-mccain-endors.html#comment-283172
The times they are a changing!

US carrier leaving Haitian waters

http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1102ap_cb_haiti_earthquake_us_carrier_leaves.html

Old Sea -
As you push on with your endeavor, when your spirit may flag, remember this ;
" Nobody can eat 50 eggs "

" I want you to get mad at them eggs "

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