Y’all haven’t been posting much lately. I think you need to try just a little bit harder.
Posted by pjsauter on October 6, 2007
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Y’all haven’t been posting much lately. I think you need to try just a little bit harder.
:pirate: :yippee: :bong: 8) :pirate: A!I!V! :dancers:
:40: too busy preparing to kill terrorists………
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❓ ❗ ❓ ❗ ❓ ❗ Whatever :sheep: le
:tap: :nuts: :paranoid:
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Maron must like pain….Maybe he will ask for Cash on Delivery before he does the Rachel Maddow show for AAR :reaper: :reaper:
Its to bad that FAUX News isn’t a subscriber service. One could then hack their data base and get all their names and addresses :gate: :omg: :jason: :jason: :fist:
:rant1: and raise you :rant1: :rant1:
C-span also needs to keep a relational data base of their callers Caller Id’s so one could hack that and find the names and addresses of these IDIOT MORONS who call it.. :yuck: :crap: :paranoid: :paranoid:
Draft Gore
I’m thinking if Al Gore jumps in, it will hopefully derail Hillary. The media is pushing her on us and I don’t like it one bit. :tap:
Good morning, :joe: :joe: . It’s nice to read a Roxie report. Hope she’s doing OK.
Yesterday, Hubby and I had to pick up some doors we had ordered from Lowes (pre-accident of course.) Hubby, reluctantly, took advantage of those motorized carts that the stores maintain for folks who can’t get around. It was very nice because we could get around the store together. One of th workers put them in the truck where they remain at the moment until I figure out how I’m going to unload them. We should have taken that Lowes employee home with us.
I keep hoping that maybe the Greens have looked at what Sam and Marc are doing, and the interest thereof, and are thinking that they have a shot at redeeming themselves at least somewhat.
The Lionel “experiment” has turned out to be a bust. Sam isn’t keeping the vidcast a secret; he’s promoting it on the show. Rachel (I just listened to Marc’s call from yesterday’s show) says point-blank “I want you back.” AAR needs a shot in the arm, Maron needs more structure in his life, the technology is there so he doesn’t have to move back to New York, and there we are.
Now if I’m Marc, and there’s an offer for even a segment on another show coming, I make damn sure that I have the flexibility to do my own thing as well…because it sounds like he’s got the ideas flowing, he’s got the following, and if he plays this just right, the world is his oyster.
As for Rachel….I’ll be her nose is different when she comes back. If it is, you’ll know she’s getting ready for the move to MSNBC. I think it’s coming. I really do. She’s on a lot of the time and Dan Abrams’ ratings are somewhere below Tucker Carlson’s. So unless Abrams is doing an ego thing by letting Olbermann lead in for him, if he’s smart, he’ll give Rachel the hour after Olbermann; perhaps even to do what she’s currently doing on AAR with Kent Jones.
And then guess who gets the 6-8 PM slot? “The S&M Show.”
It’s so beautiful a scenario I could cry. :yippee: :nod:
:nixon: oh come on hill will be a great president………
I think KPHX has Rachel on after Malloy. It will be super cool to hear Marc on terrestrial radio again. I can listen at home or in the car! :banana:
So what’s Jim Earl up to these days?
It sounds like Brilliant at Breakfast has been in the Whiskey Before Breakfast :40: but one can always hope.
Guess I am steeped in the Bluegrass right now.
I don’t think there is any Repig candidate who would do more harm to everyone than Giuliani. As mayor he had the same idea that Bush has: don’t talk to your enemy. Giuliani defined enemy as black and/or Latino. He was the “law N order” mayor and he made sure that his efforts fell heavily on those populations. Black and Latino kids were constantly stopped and searched. There were two killings of unarmed, innocentl black men. There was Abner Louima who was sodomized with a broom stick in a police station and almost died. And, there were countless incidents that didn’t make headlines but were known in the neighborhoods.
He made headlines by cleaning up Times Square and banishing the porno places by sending them into minority neighborhoods. He closed the Staten Island landfill (Freshkills) and then sited privatized garbage collection stations in (now don’t be surprised) minority neighborhoods. Staten Island, then was the borough with the least number of minorities was his biggest supporter.
He could work only with people who agreed with him absolutely (sound familiar? ) and harassed from office anyone who didn’t.
He placed snipers at public events with their guns trained on the people.
He placed barriers and guards around City Hall and restricted the public for the first time.
And, while he was hectoring us all to behave properly, he was busy making his wife and kids miserable with two affairs which provided the only fun of his administration.
There’s much more, but you get the idea. A Giuliani administration would be worse than the malignant moron who’s presently in charge.
:barf:
Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut.
That’s the theory from surgeons and immunologists at Duke University Medical School, published online in a scientific journal this week.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/10/05/appendix.purpose.ap/index.html
I guess it’s not a vestigial organ, after all.
SueP, what is better? That the repug xtofascists take out Rudy before he becomes the candidate or take him on in all of his flaws later and hope for the best? Kind of the same argument many on all sides have about Hillary (and I am not a Hillary hater). Unload the guns now in a preemptive strike or hold back for a more lethal and devastating take down in the election?
I have no preference for the way in which Giuliani is taken down, except that I want it to be complete and public so that I, my neighbors and his ex-wives can enjoy the fall.
A law that bars political candidates from deliberately lying about their opponents is unconstitutional, a sharply divided state Supreme Court has ruled.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/10/06/ban_on_lies_candidates_tell_gets_overturned/
Isn’t telling a knowing falsehood, slander?
It seems like Giuliani could be easily taken down. But I wouldn’t want to under estimate the diabolical Repug cheat and steal machine. And I wouldn’t want to under estimate the moronic media entranced masses.
I was lookin for Rachel in iTunes- she is there under Green 960 not air america- So what exactly does my premium subsc :yawn: ription cover?
I forget?
Gotta go hang with 200 :knit: :knit2: :knit:
Explanations are required when you are a conservative Republican, your friend is a Democrat, and you tell people you are running a joint campaign to unseat Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (Wis.), one of the longest-serving Republicans in Congress and the very definition of an entrenched incumbent.
First, there is the matter of the joint campaign.
Jim Burkee is the Republican, the one wearing the red tie in the publicity photos. Jeff Walz is the Democrat, in the blue tie. The fellow professors at Concordia University, just north of Milwaukee, are raising money jointly and promising 100 debates in 300 days before the September 2008 party primaries, whether Sensenbrenner shows up or not.
Odds are, he won’t.
The concept of a joint candidacy is so novel that the Federal Elections Commission doesn’t even have a policy on it; the idea is that if one doesn’t get Sensenbrenner, the other will.
If Burkee knocked off Sensenbrenner in the primary or Walz toppled him in next year’s general election, it would be earthshaking in this picturesque slice of southeastern Wisconsin.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/05/AR2007100502223.html?wpisrc=newsletter
IT’S NOT THE money, President Bush says, it’s the principle. He vetoed the expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) not because it cost too much, but because it was a march toward government takeover of health care. “I happen to believe that what you’re seeing when you expand eligibility for federal programs is the desire by some in Washington, D.C., to federalize health care,” Mr. Bush said on Wednesday after vetoing the measure.
Somehow, we don’t recall such lamentations over the “federalization” of health care when Mr. Bush pressed for the most expensive new entitlement program in decades
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Under SCHIP, states have flexibility to design their own programs; most SCHIP recipients are covered by managed-care plans that bid to offer their services and are selected by states. Isn’t this the kind of free-market competition the administration purports to support? Moreover, these sorts of plans offer the potential for coordinated and preventive care that can help control health-care costs; that’s why the administration supports using them for Medicare.
The measure’s opponents toss out a different red herring each day. They say the SCHIP bill would provide coverage for children in families earning up to $83,000; in fact, only one state, New York, could arguably get to that level. They complain about adults being covered, but adults now on SCHIP — almost all through programs the administration approved — would be shifted off within two years. Meanwhile, the opponents omit the most salient facts, such as that 78 percent of the children covered would be eligible under existing guidelines. Such critics would be more credible if they stopped making overblown or phony arguments and started explaining what they would do to help cover more of the 9 million children in America who are without health insurance.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/05/AR2007100501769.html?wpisrc=newsletter
Roxie Had said (but I feel asleep writing since I am also “typing” other writings). :yawn:
Regarding SCHIP one of many possible reasons why DEMS did not sign because of the TOBACCO Tax added. She feels THE DEMS SHOULD JUST SIGN IT……..the Tax is just a way to pay. Her thoughts, I agree, and I also am for the H. P. WAY. :pirate: :yippee:
— cuz Roxie would be able to “speak” again. :dancers: A!I!V! :tap: :pirate:
Druid, what is the H P WAY?
There were only 8 Democrats in the House that voted against SCHIP (including Kucinich). They need 25 more votes to override the veto in the House (it passed easily in the Senate). So, even if the 8 can be convinced to switch their votes, they need 17 more Republicans.
NY asked to raise the limit to $82,600, and that was denied by Bush (Eliot Spitzer is suing over it). Even the new, vetoed law doesn’t allow the level to be raised more than 300% of the poverty level w/o the preznit’s approval (that’s roughly $62,000 for a family of four).
Also, SCHIP is used to pay for private insurance, and has nothing to do with “socialized” medicine. The Republicans are just lying bastards who hate any kid that isn’t a fetus (except their own kids, of course, who they want to protect from paying any estate taxes).
Interesting iPhone information.
The H. P. Way is the Hewlett-Packard Company in a Box :yippee: A!I!P!
PJ and others do you think (I hope) the Representatives will overturn the Veto? A!I!V!
Schoolchildren in the US state of Ohio were left bemused after images of nude women were shown in a politician’s lecture on the legislative process.
State representative Matthew Barrett was giving a computerised presentation at Norwalk High School when the images flashed up on the screen.
He said he had no idea where the images came from, adding that he took them down after a few seconds.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7028389.stm
Of course, this guy is a Repig. If he were a Dem the Repigs would be screaming. Instead, this was reported on BBC.
My guess is that enough loyal Bushies will toe the line for their loser of a preznit. I figure the Tobacco lobby must really be putting the squeeze on the congresscritters they own. But the Democrats are postponing a vote until they can get some teevee advertising out there, so who knows?
Actually, Barrett is a Democrat.
Draft Gore
I’m thinking if Al Gore jumps in, it will hopefully derail Hillary. The media is pushing her on us and I don’t like it one bit.
Comment by Kristapea — October 6, 2007 @ 9:44 am
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, for which Gore has been nominated, will be announced on Friday. When Gore wins (I’m thinking positive), what a great opportunity it would be for him to announce his candidacy. If not at that moment, maybe the following Monday or Tuesday in the afterglow.
I agree with Krista that Hillary is largely a media creation. The Repigs think her candidacy would bring the Hillary-haters out of the woodwork and tip the election for Mussolini, I mean Giuliani. Since the MSM is controlled by the right, they’re not only playing along, but working full force to advance Hillary’s run.
As much as I would love to see the Dems come to their senses and support Kucinich, I have to be realistic. Gore is probably the only thing standing between Hillary and the nomination, but he has to get up and stand there first.
But on to more important topics, like Syracuse vs. West Virginia. The Mountaineers can be had, you know. USF did it just last week!
And how about those Indians? I wasn’t going to mention it, but someone brought up the Yankees in yesterday’s thread. Tee freaking hee.
:banana:
My apologies to Barrett. I read somewhere, this morning, that he was a Republican. It was probably on Rawstory but it isn’t there now and I’m not positive that’s where I saw it.
Yeah, Kev, but SU sucks. Gettin’ whomped on 41-14 right now (this despite Orleans giving a free concert before the game).
Yeah, I just switched it on to catch the score. Sorry about that.
Orleans didn’t recreate that nude album cover, did they? Nothing personal against John Hall, but it just doesn’t seem wise. 😀
Excuse my interruption BUT:
I Just Finish One Project that is a New Start … and am soooooooooooooooooooooooooo :dancers: :dancers: :dancers:
Thrilled and Happy that A Tankard of Tea is in Order’d for a Brew.
…and I have been advised I have committed grievous Comuter Etiquette error Again :smack: but I “may” deal after Tankard of TEA :joe: :banana: A!I!V!… sorry all :bow:
The growing availability, and declining cost, of high-tech DNA tests are giving dog owners long baffled over the makeup of their mutts something to do besides shrug and speculate.
The tests, which cost as little as $65, are the result of several years of work by scientists who gathered a large pool of DNA samples from thousands of dogs to create a sort of genetic roadmap of breeds.
http://www.livescience.com/animals/071006-ap-mutt-dna.html
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Fiscal. Discipline.â€
When Rudy Giuliani wants to make a point, he frequently opens his eyes very wide, eyebrows arched. The effect is eerily like Norma Desmond announcing that she’s ready for her close-up. He was in full Desmond mode this week in New Hampshire, explaining why he should be the next president of the United States.
People who live in New York tend to be a little stunned by the fact that their former mayor is the front-runner for the Republican nomination. Honestly, people, we thought you would have gotten over it by now. That the pictures of him in drag as Rudy/Rudina would have been enough all by themselves. Yet here he is, the leader of the pack. Obviously, the fishnet stockings went over better in South Carolina than we had anticipated.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/06/opinion/06collins.html?ref=todayspaper
Gail Collins is one of my favorite editorial writers and she knows the Rudy years well.
I’m ready for my close up Ms. Sue P. (teehee). :pirate: :dancers:
A!I!V! ….. I have to go to Cosco … :omg: but first tea :joe: :yippee:
Hmmm Should I “heed” Fred’s “warning”? :nana: … :nana: A!I!V!. LBH
:billcat:
drive by snork!
weldin and grindin today!
ACK!
weldin and grindin today!
Comment by Sunshine Jim — October 6, 2007 @ 6:52 pm
Is that what the kids are calling it these days? :hubba:
Speaking of welding and grinding, or wishing I was…
Katrina vanden Heuvel on Snuffelupagus tomorrow. :hot: :hubba:
Bill Richardson too.
weldin and grindin today!
Comment by Sunshine Jim — October 6, 2007 @ 6:52 pm
Is that what the kids are calling it these days? :hubba:
Speaking of welding and grinding, or wishing I was…
Kevin :no: :rofl2: … :rofl2: :hubba: :spank: :hubba: :rofl2:
Great J.J.song huh Roxie :nod: ❗ A!I!V!
PJ, really nice to hear Janis, this morning. Made me regret what cheap speakers I got for the laptop.
Truth of my football lack of knowledge: do not think me tooo pedestrian…..Since USC lost and is now #2 now they can never make one, correct and why?
Sue P- great image of Rudy as Norma :rofl2:
Colorado in run for sports capital of ‘fly-over land’
‘Rocks in the run for NL Title :banana: :banana: :dancers:
won’t have to listen to the TBS Phillies homer announcers again :fu:
Methinks the mighty Mountaineers were a little ticked about losing to SoFlo.
D6, when you lose at home to a winless smart school down HP way that was a 41 point underdog, your #1 hopes are diminished greatly. However, given the way this season is going they could still end up in the running for the national championship by season’s end if no one remains undefeated. For the life of me I can’t understand why they might even still get ranked #2. Stanfoo will be doubly happy if bitter rival oak tree killer Cal did not ascend to the second spot.
Geaux, Tigers! :billcat:
At the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival today, I missed the :knit: :knit2: :knit: :knit2: but did see Teddy Thompson, Country Boz Scaggs, Gillian Welch, Nick Lowe, utility players Buddy Miller and Greg Leisz, T Bone Burnett, Los Lobos, John Prine, and y’allternative music’s Henry the 8th Steve Earle and Mrs. Earle #7 Allison Moorer. Before Steve’s encore he brought out Cindy Sheehan to make a little anti-war and campaign speech.
Also appearing were the irritating Blues Angels here for Fleet Week. Since when are we selling military celebration sponsorships to an enema maker? :crap:
btw, still no vidcast up for this week’s Maron/Seder show but tomorrow on Seder on Sunday we have guests on the Show
The Panel:
Digby
Glenn Greenwald
Christie Harvey
And
Bryan Bender from the Boston Globe on Blackwater
I’ll be back at GGP to see Dave Alvin, Ned Sublette, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, and Emmylou Harris :love: who was also buzzing around like a :bee: singing with a number of folks today.
Not that there’s anything wrong with it
FUBAR
Apparently I was wrong and if you go to this link at a little after the 32 minute minute point you can see this week’s Marc and Sammy Show. You can’t really tell from looking at the page unless I was out in the sun too long today.
If anyone cares, perhaps someone will drop this into the Booblehead thread Sunday.