Nice day yesterday (well, the weather’s kind of clold and sucky, but not everwhere in the world can be as warm as Anchorage), and it’s supposed to warm up a little today, which is should be nice. Mostly, I’ll be spending the day continuing to try and get my shit together, and maybe hoping for a Rove indictment when the Grand Jury meets later on.
It was freakin’ nice yesterday, man! Man!:shock:
oh ok, number two :grin:(I can’t decide if i should stay up or go back to sleep for awhile). There’s a grand jury meeting today? I suppose this could be interesting…
Travis, I kept meaning to ask you if you were in Alaska, it seemed like you were but I wasn’t sure…now I know… 🙂 Silly me! I know. Glad you had some warm weather there!.
It’s been about 10 degrees too cold here in NY’s Hudson Valley. The pool in my condo is opening this weekend but it’s not been much above the low 60’s during the day, so that nixes swimming unless it warms up fast!
:banana: Yea Travisdem_4Yea:banana:
and how did it get warmer there than here:?::eek::rofl2:
TLC to Mr. Farmerkat and Will
and Farmerkat and Melina — Be Well and Safe To All
Hi and Cheers to Mrs PJSauter, travel well and be well and safe and same to you pjsauter:wink:…I used a MALE :eek::rofl2:Frat House :eek::rofl2:for the summer before last year of school, and I lived (barely:smack::rofl2:)
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:banana:YeaSusan JoyYea:banana:Number 2:!:
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I’m just hangin’& wurkin’, mostly 🙁 till Rachel..but what time is grand jury and is it on c-Span hmmmmm
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Hi Druid :joe: (picture that as hot chocolate, not coffee! LOL)
There’s a senate session at 9:30 AM eastern time and a house session at 10 AM EST, according to the C-Span website. I’m looking to find info on where the Grand Jury fits into the schedule
:wink:What ya doin’ awake woman” …(that I think is lead balloon humour::smack:)
My darlin’ rat, Ruby, is clawing my neck — ouch:!:
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well now, feeding my bird because he’s waking up with the rest of the birdies outside. Im dozing back to sleep for an hour or so…catch youse guys later
Susan Joy, Sleep Well 😉
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“Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”
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I saw that clip three times yesterday before Riley played it this morning. The thing I like about it the most is just after Bentsen says it, when the audience goes apeshit with cheers and laughter, and Quayle has this look on his face like someone just peed in his cereal. Perfect.
RIP, Senator. We remember a time when great men came from Texas. (Other than Kinky Friedman.)
Morning / Evening :yinyang:
Hey everyone-was it a full show last nite?
Ive got 2 files, one of which seems full and the other seems to be tiny.
Where are Seanie and nick…?
we seem to have lost a bunch of people here lately…I miss CK!
Hi Melina. Sorry I don’t know about the show. (15 hours ahead of TMMS) How are you?
I missed the show again, will have to wait till Quiet Girl puts it up…
Good Morning all,:joe: Our local guy Dr Mike Newcomb is doing a whole show this morning on “Loose Change”. If you want to catch it go here
I have 3 files for the show last night. 1:23, 10 and 19.
Hi Kristapea. Thanks for your link 🙂
(too bad it’s a Bill Gates :spank: program user )
Melina, I keep thinking that she is just being a great example in getting her Children’s Book’s done by being monofocused (or monocular, if you will).
How are You and Will? :banana::wink:
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So you can’t listen to it, KK? I’m recording it because I’ll miss the last hour.
Im doing pretty crappy KK…but just slogging through what has to be done.
I put Dowd up on RIPCoco
I record everything on replay…its just easier that way
I love Replay, but I have to figure out how to get this stuff on disc to get it off my computer.
Kevin M . re #11, DITTO
RIP, Senator. We remember a time when great men came from Texas.
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This is rich…Bush to Hurricanes-We’re ready!
I sure wouldnt bet my life on that …or the lives of my child and animals!
Thanks for the link, Krista 🙂 How are you? Melina, King Kong, Druid…Melina, have been thinking about Will a lot and I know everyone here is…are you going to see him today?
🙁 to hear Melina. What’s the trouble?
(how about a kiddie joke? Wjy was 6 afraid of 7?)
this means they admit they weren’t on the ball during the last hurricane season, so let’s not let them get away with sticking up for themselves in that regard anyway :no:
flights are too expensive!
:nod: SeanMS :(:wink:
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because 7 ate 9……
My son is in the hospital and its very tiring and hard right now.
Can’t take a flight? How about shoveling coal on a steamer.
Oh, yeah, they don’t really have those any more, do they?
Sorry, Melina, I didn’t know. I hope the best for him.
(why don’t clams share?)
ooh save 400 dollars flying to jackson ms instead of monroe la! then i can rent a car and drive over to monroe because its only 120 miles away!
that seems like a lot of money to save Sean, if you don’t mind driving the 120 miles. I wonder why it’s so much cheaper, except maybe Jackson is not considered a major airport?
ummmm me mind driving 120 miles?
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A dreary raiiny muggy day here.
Melina-healing thoughts to Will and to you.
Last night’s show was strange–no stream for about 30 minutes and then it died again about 8 minutes before the end
right…I didn’t think so
Inner Sanctum, The Thin Man, Radio Mystery Theater…and then some 😎
So can he receive a postcard or cards — but I only do environmental, but for him — gosh I would even get the other kind :nod::eek: 😉
What kind of snake is that:?:
(why don’t clams share?)
They’re shellfish.
:banana:going to a HUGE party!
Teehee KK 😉 (shellfish indeed)
Melina, Wanwenxia speaks the truth…. Now I don’t feel so alone since Wanwenxia’s “stream” was weird to go on and off — but mostly off…:growl:
but it sounds like Kristapea has it … :banana: good for her…:banana: me, the solution is “throw the horrid computer (love/hate relationship) out the window” :growl::banana::wink:
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Thanks for the teehee, Susan!
Hope Melina can have a smile.
King Kong I’ve got to give a teehee, too…..They’re shellfish. :rofl2::banana:
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Well, I will be signing off soon, since I do not see Grand Jury to be on the Span anymore :growl: Whimps…
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Melina, :wink:I THINK GORE IS OUR ONLY HOPE. :banana:
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The GJ meets every Wednesday, but you won’t see it on C-SPAN. None of that stuff is open to the public. You won’t see anything until Fitz holds a press conference after the indictment is filed (and only if it’s not sealed for some reasoon).
Why are the Dems so splintered already:?: The Dem Strategist on Marc’s show last night (-luckily, kinda, it was the ONLY thing I heard-) said Hillary looks like she, the turncoat, may just be the Dem choice. That is the FIRST time I heard that :crap:. And if Dem’s are going that way — they are going without me. I am reading bush on the couch HE’S Insane and the DEMS NEED TO ELECT AND VOTE THE slime O U T…but they are acting like whimps and will LOSE the presidency again. But there is NO solidarity.:no:
At least Stephanie Miller speaks the truth.
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THX pjsauter ❗ :wink::cool:
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But truth is, ALL, rethugs and dems, should just remove this whole (asshole) administration. But no one stands for HONESTY :doh:
I think I am awake for the rest of the day…My brain does not understand.
“Illogical! Does Not Compute!”
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…and this illogical behavior is also happening regarding local issues. The City Council is having a meeting regarding one of many important issues…and they are trying to sneak this meeting around the public, so MANY cannot attend. And I was to work this late afternoon/early eve…but now I have to go to another meeting.:fu:
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have to run…be back later…Dru- Its a rat snake, I think…. Ill have to get better pics next time I can catch it.
Cheers All. I have to get Rat food. — 😮 Although, beautiful (and I was born in the Year of the Snake — which is a “good thing”), no Rat Snake please Melina. 😉
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rat food! :omg:
I am working WAYYY too hard today. Somebody rescue me. :doh::smack::tongue::(:rant1: :::sigh:::
:banana::40::bong::alc::barf:ha ha have a fight booked out of newark for tomorrow afternoon! party!
:shock::smack:oh crap this party is going to be wall to wall retarded redneck conservatives! well as long as nobody talks politics with me i should be ok
Wait…What’s the deal with Monroe La. again?:doh:
Why wasn’t I invited to this party:mad:
big party everybody sleeps in tents been going on for 20 years lots of alcohol and rednecks!
uh you can come youre invited to come party with the scary rednecks
That’s cool, man. How did you hear about it in New York?:ear: Have you gone before?
my best friend/roommates dads party i have been invited for years never went before though
last year the flag for the party was the confederaqte flag my roommate protested and wouldnt sign the flag because he said it was racist his dad wasnt very happy with him his dad doesnt think the flag is racist for some reason
Wow, man! Uh, my dog is spazzin’ out, so, uh, I have to do something about that. Yeah, um, later.:mad:
so i am renting a car to drive from jackson ms to monroe la
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yep im out of here to need to go to my works office to print the itinerary
itinerary is that the right way to spell it ok well im out be back tuesday or something with the next part of my journey to maronland!
:nod:seancrest out!:peace:
So, last night’s podcast seems to end abruptly, and comes up about 11 minutes short. Wussup with that?
Enjoy the party, Seanie. Think of it this way, even if they’re mostly rednecks you’ll have a funny story to tell us when you come back …
:bong:High on the hills with a lonely goat. Yoda lay, yoda lay, yoda lay he-hoo. (Or something like that)
Yeah, man, that sorta popped into my head when I read the last installment of Sean’s trip to Maronland. Crazy!
Damn Franken and whatever that other person’s name is!:mad:
One of my students was just looking over my shoulder (typing from work) and just read your Goat Song, travis…now I have to explain… I’ll be back later! :jesus: Peace out sisters and bros
I put down yoda instead of yodel:doh: That’s great!
Good luck explaining that one! I wouldn’t know where start.:knit2:
Butterflies have started coming to my garden. Today the butterfly was the Eastern Comma.
Has no relevance to anything except I love the butterflies and bees and insects.
Travis Uh, my dog is spazzin’ out, so, uh, I have to do something about that. Yeah, um, later.
You have a dog or are you talking about your foot?:knit:
Am I the onlyone worried about your hot weather =global warming.. eat some potassiam for those foot cramps.
Back from NYC
And back to the grind with a break this weekend at the Folklife festival.
Seanie Sean- have fun but be careful with those rednecks:mad:
:smack: ok never mind everything answered in Tuesday’s blog.:fustrate:
I put down yoda instead of yodel That’s great!
Comment by travisdem_04 — May 24, 2006 @ 2:40 pm
It’s the Star Wars version! :rofl2:
This blog is a bit like reading the comics backwards..
:doh::doh: what’s a yoda ( star wars comes to mind) ?? Is this yodel like that one finds in Switzerland ??
Butterflies have started coming to my garden. Today the butterfly was the Eastern Comma.
Comment by isi — May 24, 2006 @ 2:54 pm
There’s a butterfly named after punctuation? :?::?::?:
Kevin, here’s the question mark butterfly
via firedoglake
Referencing the vote in the Intelligence Committee yesterday on General Hayden, Glenn Greenwald writes:
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I stand corrected. Two butterflies named after punctuation. Thanks, isi.
Mike Farrell’s review of “Baghdad ER”
via crooksandliars.com
So Rhodes is going to wait until they come for her before she decides this has gone to far ?? :eek::omg::mad:
I would think that would be a bit to late..:rant1:
If the Bushevics are actively intimidating the “media” and that’s why they fail to report what is going on are they attempting to intimidate the left sided media too or is it so insignificant they treat it as a joke ??:eek::mad:
Hmm. No wonder Denny was so agitiated by the FBI raiding Jefferson’s office.
:crap: Uh-oh!
Its good to know that the FBI is still working to some extent for the people and not just the thugs.
Gale Norton is gettin’ busted, too, right?
Alright, never mind.:doh:
The Politics of Paranoia and Intimidation
Why Does the NSA Engage in Mass Surveillance of Americans When It’s Statistically Impossible for Such Spying to Detect Terrorists?
By FLOYD RUDMIN
The Bush administration and the National Security Agency (NSA) have been secretly monitoring the email messages and phone calls of all Americans. They are doing this, they say, for our own good. To find terrorists. Many people have criticized NSA’s domestic spying as unlawful invasion of privacy, as search without search warrant, as abuse of power, as misuse of the NSA’s resources, as unConstitutional, as something the communists would do, something very unAmerican.
In addition, however, mass surveillance of an entire population cannot find terrorists. It is a probabilistic impossibility. It cannot work.
What is the probability that people are terrorists given that NSA’s mass surveillance identifies them as terrorists? If the probability is zero (p=0.00), then they certainly are not terrorists, and NSA was wasting resources and damaging the lives of innocent citizens. If the probability is one (p=1.00), then they definitely are terrorists, and NSA has saved the day. If the probability is fifty-fifty (p=0.50), that is the same as guessing the flip of a coin. The conditional probability that people are terrorists given that the NSA surveillance system says they are, that had better be very near to one (p_1.00) and very far from zero (p=0.00).
The mathematics of conditional probability were figured out by the Scottish logician Thomas Bayes. If you Google “Bayes’ Theorem”, you will get more than a million hits. Bayes’ Theorem is taught in all elementary statistics classes. Everyone at NSA certainly knows Bayes’ Theorem.
To know if mass surveillance will work, Bayes’ theorem requires three estimations:
1) The base-rate for terrorists, i.e. what proportion of the population are terrorists.
2) The accuracy rate, i.e., the probability that real terrorists will be identified by NSA;
3) The misidentification rate, i.e., the probability that innocent citizens will be misidentified by NSA as terrorists.
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http://www.counterpunch.org
Criminalizing Eco-DefenseToday
The silence coming out of Green Central on this assault on grassroots activism and dissent in general has been deafening. And, when they do speak, it’s larded with self-serving inanities and guilt by association. Echoing Poor Richard, Dominick DellaSala, the grant farmer assigned to the World Wildlife Fund’s Ashland, Oregon Biscuit Fire grant plantation, has dismissed the activists as “This is a fringe element–it always has been. Nobody is going to win the hearts and minds of people by doing criminal acts.” (Not quite how history views the Tea Party.)
At least DellaSala has pride in his misplaced convictions. Most other Big Greens are running from the question like Republicans fleeing Duke Cunningham and Jack Abramoff. The Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society each have long histories of condemning even non-violent Civil Disobedience in defense of Nature, so their lack of support for activists caught up in the Backfire dragnet is expected.
But back Greenpeace – the recipient of so much support from the grassroots when it was under attack for non-violent dissent; Greenpeace’s Passacantando has joined the chorus condemning and convicting (without trial) those under arrest. Yes, John, our government IS criminally prosecuting an entire movement for the free speech activities of its supporters. Where are the NAACP, American Friends Service Committee, People For the American Way and the entire Big Green establishment now?
At the Eugene witch hunt, just the Civil Liberties Defense Center, the Northwest Constitutional Rights Center and the international group Forest Ethics stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Hogg and his supporters.
janane’s phone routines are hilarious.:rofl2:
Yenta instad of yentel.:?:
I wonder how that explanation went with that student of Susan’s.
I never explained, I changed the subject :omg:
Who’s a Yenta? Does that have anything to do with lentils?:omg:
yeah, I don’t like yentas or lentils
13 hours till i fly out of newark!
yay! from joisey to rednecksville, the newest adventure in the Sean diaries 🙂
will not be as extensive as the to maronland one though!
probably not…but you never know what could happen… 😮
oh i am sure it could be way longer but uh i just wont end up writing that much!
:paranoid:uh where is everybody?
So Rhodes is going to wait until they come for her before she decides this has gone to far ??
I would think that would be a bit to late..
Comment by fred — May 24, 2006 @ 6:45 pm
So Randi is offering herself up as the canary in the mine shaft. What a patriot! :nixon::banana:
So my recording of the show last night got a bit of a Sparks?? basketball game. Did someone forget to switch it over?
whats a sparks?
buffalo is gonna win the stanley cup!
just in case somebody was wondering!
:nixon:i kill babies!
:nixon:
A husband emerged from the bathroom naked and was climbing into bed when his wife complained, as usual, “I have a headache.”
“Perfect,” her husband said, “I was just in the bathroom powdering my penis with aspirin. You can take it orally, or as a suppository, it’s up to you.”
:omg:
I love chocolate
I mean since random one liners are all the rage right now! :nixon:
:evil:well i was just powdering with chocolate…………
:spank:Sean, WTF, man?
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Well, I have to watch a crazy hippie movie called “The Same River Twice“:billcat:
Well that sure is a weird picture on that website…
:banana:
This should be fun
-Atrios
It wasn’t really crazy, man.:roll:
Uh, well, I have some sunlight still left over here, so uh, I guess I’ll catch up with you guys later.
Wow, Travis, sunlight at 11 pm! :banana:
“Put on your rubbers and watch the sky!”
-Lawton Smalls
:fist: Imagine this, Jim and the Simbionese Liberation Army!
Night all :yawn: