OK, so Arlen Specter. This is a bit like Chamberlain giving Poland to Hitler and declaring victory. Dead Man Walking Specter was about to lost to a wingnut in the Republican primary, paving the way for a Democrat to take the seat in the general election. So the Democrats “win” by promising Specter the support of the leadership (and no primary), in exchange for, um, well, in exchange for nothing.
Specter will continue to be a right-wing champion and vote against things like the rights of working folks to organize, and the Democrats get a mythical filibuster-proof majority on everything but the important votes, when traitors like Joe Lieberman, Arlen Specter, Claire McCaskill, Jane Harman, Dianne Feinstein, etc., will prove what “moderates” they are by caving in to the Republican talking points du jour.
Oh, not all of them at the same time and over the same issues, but under the limp-wristed “leadership” of Harry Reid, they all know they can act as they please (and against the will of those they claim to represent). Still, it’s fun to see all the wingnuts freak out over this.
Back to more normal temperatures today, thank goodness. It was 85 at lunch time yesterday, and down into the 50’s by the time I got the boys out to the park (and a slightly chilly 37 right now). I very much prefer the cooler temperatures for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that it keeps the goddamn bugs down.
Speaking of bugs, the swine flu bug is now blamed for the death if a Texas toddler. A shame, of course, but one has to wonder why we don’t get this kind of media attention for each of the 35,000 annual US flu deaths every year. I guess pigs are just scarier (though not as scary as birds, of course).
Oh well, better get ready for the Today Show. No doubt they’ll have some very, very scary flu news, and they just teased a story on a “pregnant woman who was hit by a car while being chased by a bear” in Colorado Springs (OK, it was a slow-moving car – perhaps being driven by a cartoon machine gun wielding man). Doesn’t get any better than that (unless either she or the bear had the flu). Sure, the story is, like, a week old, but it’s not like Today is a news program.
I feel like a zookeeper here. Now that I’ve inherited Suzy, my mother’s cat, I have 4 cats and 2 dogs. Too many pets!
Suzy, of course, agrees believing that one cat, Suzy, would be quite enough. She also likes having her own room with her own dishes and her own cat pan. I’ve given here the little studio hubby built for me on the roof. Up ’til today she has been hiding behind some canvases but this morning she ventured down the stairs into the office room and yelled her head off that breakfast at 6AM was late.
Clifford, head cat and head hincho around here, objects to Suzy’s situation and spends his time plotting to get into the room and eat her food.
Meanwhile, Lola turned 4 months old on the 25th. She was born Xmas day.
Gotta work.
Swine flu is being pushed by the MSM to get torture out of the headlines. We need to keep that from happening.
:tinfoil:
From Lizz Winstead
rerun on Green 960 at noon PDT
eya gang!
feeling a bit better, had a horrible night that i tamed with a combination of mentholatum, tiger balm and some acetomeniphrene (kick ass aspirin) still dealt with soggy sheets but i could breathe and swallow with less pain.
ack! that was like writing flu porn.
day seven still sick but slightly better, sore throat backing off about 80 %.
just seeing if this is survivable to satisfy my curiosity.
thanks for giving a shit gang, love y’all!
(cough, ack, spit)
Glad to hear you’re on the mend, SJ. Being sick sucks.
Fuck you very much, Arlen.
SJ, it’s awful being sick and there aren’t enough drugs, especially the kin d the doctor gives, to make it better. Take care. I’m glad you’;re mending.
With luck, some real Dem will win a primary against Specter.
Here’s Lintball demonstrating paranoid and stupid, all at the same time:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/27/725052/-Late-afternoon-early-evening-open-thread
It’s only audio, so you won’t have to warch him!
Get better SJ! :fire:
Hang in their sj. Sounds like you’re starting the downhill part of the illness.
re: #6 ditto
tanks gang!
(cough)
i felt good enough today to make an extra bee house for my beez’s!
:bee: :bee: :bee:
You can still get that aspirin in Canada that has the codeine, eh Jim? I like that stuff although I don’t do much caffeine but I know you do.
eya Vern!
ya, $ 5. 14 for a half pint or so. they did’nt have cherry so i got the blueberry. not bad atall!
Vern Gosdin has passed. I first got to know of him from his work with Chris Hillman and Gene Clark of The Byrds
🙁 :gate: