Had some problems with my internets yesterday, but the dude from Time Warner hooked me up, and RoadRunner is even faster than it used be, so it looks like I’m all set to obsess on the election for the next few days (maybe even longer, depending on how things go). Speaking of obsessing on the election, whattya suppose the boobleheads have in store for us today?
It’s about a week late for Halloween, but that won’t stop Timmy Potatohead from having one scary goodamn show, as he hosts an “exclusive” with all four campaign committee chairs. Yes, it’s the return of Chuckie and Liddy, plus Lame Rahm Emmanuel and Terrible Tom Reynolds. But hey, you New York City viewers are in luck, as WNBC will air coverage of the NYC Marathon instead. If you actually wanna see these yo-yos, you’ll need to stay up until Midnight or so – until after football and local news. Somehow, I don’t think this worth being tired on Monday morning.
Over at Faze the Nation, it’s more midterm elections, with Bill the catkiller Frist and Senator MBNA, Joe Biden. Plus, Bush booby Bobby Scieffer also has Stuey Rothenberg, on to tell us who’s gonna win, and what excuses he’ll be using on Wednesday after he was wrong.
Speaking of hollow weenies, over at Fux News Sunday, Fuxface Chrils Wallace pulls a Boehner, and then he and empty suit Michael Steele will tag team Missouri Senate Candidate Claire McCaskill (I wonder if they’ll ask her why she and Michael J Fox hate unborn babies).
Over on the Goebbels network, it’s the disgusting cyborg himself, Darth Cheney, on to snarl and sneer and no doubt tell us that if the Democrats win, it’ll be the end of the world as we know it (which, come, to think of, might not be such a bad thing). Then George Snufalufagus goes “one-on-one” with Howard :omg: Dean. Plus, it’s a bunch of square pegs at the roundtable, with George :jerk: Will, Gore campaign mastermind, Donna Brazille, and Republican lackey (and major league hack) Mark Halperin. Looks like I’ll be staying the course on my ABC boycott.
Over at Wolf Blitzer’s Late Emission, it’s – you guessed it – election talk, with little Petey Hoekstra, Maxine Waters, limp Lindsey Graham, Barbara Boxer, Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister, Barham Salih (maybe he can give us some advice on how to run an election), Max Cleland, Lucky Louie Dobbs, the Cook Report’s Amy Walter, Time schmuck, Joe Klein, Barney Frank, Candy Cow – oops I mean, Crowley, John King, Dana Bash, and Bob “call me Al” Franken. Jeezus H. Khrist, Wolfie – you think if you have 500 guests on, nobody will notice you suck?
Later, on 60 Minutes, for some unknown reason, Steve “sealsen” Kroft interviews Russell freakin’ Crowe (why?), Bob Simon reports on Bangladeshis who risk their lives for a dollar a day, scrapping old ships, and Morley Safer talks to some Republican Flake from Arizona.
Of course, what’s really important today is the Simpson’s Tree House of Horror XVII (seventeen years? when did that happen? come to think of it, when did it get to be f*ckin’ November already?), plus all new (as they say) episodes of the Family Guy and American Dad. Then you can go back to obsessing about the election.
The Nutmeg State: Nutmeg, the powder used for seasoning foods, is ground from the seed of the fruit of the Nutmeg Tree, Myristica fragans. A couple of stories exist as to the origin of this nickname. One story has it that this nickname came about as a comment on the ingenuity and shrewdness of the citizens of the state.
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Planet Goth… election season snacks… pumpkin bread … Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger into another bowl …
Greater Danbury News Endorsement:
http://www.newstimes.com/opinion/edit.php?id=1021250
mm nutmeg
NUTMEG (Myristica fragrans, Myristicaceae)
Planet: Jupiter Element: Fire
Parts Most Often Used Magickally: Dried Kernel (Seed) of Fruit
Powers and Uses: Banishing (Negative Thoughts), Clairvoyance, Divination, Dream Working, Fidelity, Gambling, Health, Love, Meditation, Money, Prosperity, Psychic Powers, Sleep, Sexuality (Lust), Yule
Nutmegs have been carried as good luck charms and gambling talismans. They are used in money and prosperity workings. Ground up into a powder form, they can be sprinkled on or around green candles, in wallets, or anywhere to bring in the bucks. Nutmegs are thought to keep a mate from straying. According to Draja Mickaharic, in the book “Spiritual Cleansing” nutmeg baths bring luck because they remove the negative thoughts that cause luck to go bad. Nutmeg baths help keep a person in a positve frame of mind. Nutmeg is sometimes added to formulas to encourage sleep and vivid dreams. Considered an aphrodisiac, it can be used in lust spells. Add ground nutmeg to mixtures and incense to open the psychic centers, especially before divination or meditation. Nutmegs are tradtional Yule herbs and can be used as tree decorations. They are naturally protective
The evergreen Myristica fragrans tree (from which nutmeg and mace are both harvested), is believed to be indigenous to Southern Asia, especially a chain of islands in Eastern Indonesia called the Moluccas. The tree grows from 20 to 25 feet high. Most nutmeg now comes from either Indonesia or Grenada.
Is there any nutmeg wildly growing by where you live?
that’s from my herbal book. No, I think it’s a tropical tree
I must go back to the canvas.
Right. Hell I don’t know. Are oranges native to Florida and California?
Oranges are from Asia I believe. Did you get a lot of painting done?
GOTGV!
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No. Drawing. I got very tired. Now I am wide awake and raring to go.
:jesus: if you say so
well drawing counts as creativity
Grenada. So it is too cold to grow nutmeg in the Nutmeg State and vicinity?
Ever listen to Bach’s “Coffee Cantata”? (Kaffee Kantata.)
maybe I’ll draw today, and watch the marathon
I don’t know..I know a lot of his songs but not by name
Connecticut gets its nickname (“the Nutmeg State”, “Nutmegger”) from the legend that some unscrupulous Connecticut traders would whittle “nutmeg” out of wood, creating a “wooden nutmeg” (a term which came to mean any fraud).
I don’t like that legend. Vote that wooden nutmegger Joe out of office.
Did they grow coffee in Germany?
400+ :omg:
it’s a strange state nickname
Speaking of coffee, I am dead out. Maybe I will make some sawdust coffee.
I thought they grew it there.
do they grow white castle hamburgers in the Bronx? Bagels in Brooklyn? Oy
I saw nutmeg trees growing wild in Hong Kong. Totally different climate.
Shaka.:rofl2:
Those damn Brits can do things we cant. tea is Asian also though
I always assumed that Hong Kong would be rather mild, and therefore not conducive to nutmeg. Anyone try to plant a nutmeg grove in Hartsdale?
there is a small farm in Hartsdale (actually the only one left in Westchester I believe). I haven’t seen nutmeg. If I need nutmeg I’ll get some elsewhere. I’m looking for a good herbal supplier over the internet actually
there’s a beautiful zoo in Hong Kong which is also a botanical park, has trees like that growing wild, cinnamon, nutmeg….
:joe::joe::joe::omg:
Buyuk! Buyuk! Kafe yok.
goth yuppie DLCers :nod:
Goth the Vote!:omg:
yay, we’re going to create today
:joe::joe::joe::joe::yawn::yawn::yawn:
:eek::eek::eek::crap::crap:
❓ whatever :sheep: le
::feeds him coffee which he obviously needs::: :joe:
Fred!!!! :omg::nixon:
Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging
http://tinyurl.com/yhsomk
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:banana::banana: Susan :!::!::!::banana::banana:
Buyuk buyuk baska yok mu dersiniz?
I can’t get over that exchange that the Hartford Courant reporter had with Cenk. “I want Turk Techno Pop! Buyuk! Buyuk! Bashka yok.”
A rough translation is ” [I want]Big (hits) big (songs). No substitute.” Something like that. “We want Brittany; she ain’t no whore.”
“They’re selling postcards at the hanging…” What a scam. There is no way it was a fair trial.
So when do Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld go on trial?
:tommygun:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez vowed to win the upcoming Dec. 3 election and warned on Saturday night that Venezuela could halt oil exports to the United States if his opponents, joined by the US government, attempt to destabilize his leftist administration.
Chavez also reiterated that government opponents are not welcome in the military or the state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA. A day earlier, he suggested those who do not like his leftist policies should go somewhere else, like Miami.
“If they try to destabilize PDVSA, if the empire and its lackeys in Venezuela attempt another coup, ignore the outcome of the elections or cause election or oil-related upheaval we won’t send another drop of oil to the United States,” Chavez told oil workers Saturday at PDVSA facilities in the coastal city of Puerto La Cruz, 240 kilometers east of Caracas.
Chavez said that US President George W. Bush “had better tie down his crazies here in Venezuela” to prevent a possible end to petroleum exports.
http://tinyurl.com/yl2h43
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This will give the DLC demodorps something to argue about..:bf:
yeah, that’s the big story in the Times and so on. I don’t think I’ll dwell on it, though.
ok, I didn’t understand your Turkish! :jesus:
Turkish pop, I’m surprised Cenk doesn’t spend hours talking about that.
war trials for the neocons! :growl:
+Saint of the Day+
Dominatrix of Bronxia B (Shekhinia)
The 14th Domina of Bronxia in Grand Concoursio. Tolerated heretics; backsliders personally meted harsh treatments. Tributes accepted and expected. Much respected (and feared) by subjects. Provided for poor souls.
(Shemanskia, Encyclopedia).
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No. He is cool. The Courant guy was playing a joke. (I was the one who obsessed on it.)
:sdavid::rofl2::pent:
:joe:
I am going to attack that canvas. Have you watched the Pollock movie yet? I am going to Pollock that canvas.
yeah! Great movie
ok be creative 🙂 I’m glad you’re painting.
Great subject matter – and that will inspire you to do more paintings in the near future! :joe:
I was thinking of when he was doing no painting (although he had a commission) and then all of a sudden he began painting frantically.
that kind of thing happens to artists. I think this will start a creative volcano eruption
Colorado Pro-Marijuana Ads Target Bush, Cheney
AP) DENVER A group that claims marijuana use is safer than drinking ran newspaper ads Saturday mentioning allegations that President Bush once drunkenly challenged his father to fight and Vice President Dick Cheney’s accidental shooting of a friend after drinking.
SAFER Colorado, which put a measure on the Colorado ballot to legalize possession of marijuana, placed an ad in a newspaper in Greeley, where Bush made an appearance on Saturday.
The ad in the Greeley Tribune had a photo of Bush accompanied by text that read: “In 1972, this man tried to fight his dad when he was drunk. Just one more reason to vote ‘Yes on 44.'” The ad was referring to published reports that in 1972, a 26-year-old Bush had come home drunk and challenged his father to a fight. The matter was reportedly settled without violence.
The group ran the Cheney ad in The Gazette of Colorado Springs, a day after he spoke to troops at the nearby Fort Carson Army post and attended a campaign rally. The ad said, “Shot his friend in the face after drinking. Just one more reason to vote ‘Yes on 44.'”
Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a friend while hunting in Texas in February. The vice president said he had one beer several hours before the shooting.
“They were both in town … and we are simply taking this opportunity to draw attention to the fact that alcohol contributes to far more problems than marijuana,” said Mason Tvert, the group’s campaign director.
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EL CERRITO, Calif. – A man was arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon after police found him outdoors — naked — and he told them he had a tool in his rectum, authorities said.
http://tinyurl.com/yava6m
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Well it is kind of another slow news day..:eek:
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An abortion doctor plans to ask for an investigation of the state attorney general and Bill O’Reilly over comments by the Fox television host that he got information from Kansas abortion records, the doctor’s attorneys said Saturday.
Dr. George Tiller said he will ask the Kansas Supreme Court on Monday to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate and take possession of the records of 90 patients from two clinics.
http://tinyurl.com/ydzbv6
Apparently being a blowhard can actually get you in trouble.
Pastor Ted gets his ass fired, presumably among other things.
Pastor Haggard is just like the rest of the delusional Rethugs. They keep assuming that the problem is external to their policies but they NEVER examin their policy.
Phone banking was really interesting last night. We were in a trailer owned by the union where the computers do the calling and you wait for a name to pop up and then you start talking. It’s completely automated. Everybody is stationed at a computer laptop with headphones. Scary, in a way. A couple guys said during the Kerry campaign they didn’t have this and they had to make all their calls on cell phones. Yep, the dems are really organized in this state. 😥
We had four hours available (Taylor for gov had the slot before us). The trailer sits on the Union’s parking lot. YAY SEIU!
today phone banking will be on regular land lines and we have to actually dial the calls ourselves. :cat: (did that before, but now that I have a taste for efficiency, it seems so archaic!)
wastemoron evidently made 10 million while in congress. no wonder he’s the do-nothingest of the do-nothings. he was busy enriching himself, the bastid.
good morning neopinkos
amazing story kat. it’s great to see the level of coordination going on this year.
must be cause the stakes are so high. I sense a “dean effect” too.
hope your candidate is getting thru. mine’s in a dead heat but hopes are high.
Good Morning FK, Andy, Sue P, Fred, PJ, SJ and NR and whoever else has gotten up this morn.:joe:
Hey Andy, your link goes to a Phoenix systems page.
fred
they should show some pics of auto accidents caused by drunk drivers…”wouldn’t you rather have these guys smoking pot and driving too slow?”
Actually, there are studies that say that people that smoke a half a joint drive better than people who didn’t smoke. Makes sense, after a half a joint you don’t really care that someone cut you off. :bong:
That was fun last night, except I wonder what is wrong with my brand new headset that the mic cuts in and out. I wonder if I should take it back. Maybe next week I’ll be organized and bring something to the table.
:joe:
Malloy! podcasting :fist:
Yay, Malloy! Actually, I haven’t had a chance to check him out yet, but it’s nice to know he’s there.
cut and run
a friend said he’d heard bill clinton’s resonse:
STOP AND THINK!
I wonder why this hasn’t been picked up and repeated endlessly?
Hey everyone….
Krista, Im wondering the same thing about my brand new headset..is it a plantronics?
Maybe the twit from TWIT was WRONG!!
Nicki- you paint too? Can we see some of your work? Is it on myspace?
Stop and think!
Roxie, thats great! Thanks for bringing that here…
Do you have a link? Im gonna try to search it out and start to spread it.
Hey Melina, didja ever hear back from the Lamont campaign re: his supposedly changing his position on Iraq? All I could find was some BS propaganda from Lieberman’s campaign (but I’ve found that certain “journalists” out there, if you actually check on what they write, you find them a bit “soft” on the facts).
Hey Kat! So, did you find that people had been called already? Did you find that people were leaning one way or another?
Ive been very sucessful in talking to people and Im thinking of going to the train station and talking to people. I like the face to face better than the phone.
Also, in Stamford, which is relatively organized, if a little scruffy, people are using any phone jack they can find and cell phones, computers, whatever…..
For me , its almost better to talk from home so I dont have all the noise….but then, there is thr problem of the candidates lists being the same as move on and whatever other groups are calling…
Is Mr gonna have to go back soon? I saw cutie Engle on Timmeuh’s show today and they seem to have put him back in Iraq for now…
I hope they keep him there and Mr gets his own MSNBC show!!
He could do so much better than these bloated wackos that they have on (except Keith, of course!!:love:)
As if Israel etc…wasnt happening….
I feel like we’re missing alot of world news lately.
Oh God…My boy, has decided to listen to “music”….slipknot…
eeekkkkkk….hes drumming along!
:banana:slipknot!!!!!
no:no:
post:rant1:
here:nana::smack:
:nana:
hey- the main pagekeeps putting me on the seditionist meetup page and I saw CK’s name and thought that she had come back…then I realized that it said January…but each time I tried to click back here I was there…it was a Dream Diary occurance…
OK, I have to run out…
later guys…
Seditionist Radio isn’t working for me…. 🙁
:fire::fire::fire::fire::fire:
Grand National Championship Pre-Election Rub Down tonight.
8 pm CENTRAL TIME on http://www.FreeRadioSAIC.org.
I missed you last week Melina… and at least Slipknot isn’t Insane Clown Posse.
Yeah Melina, I got a pantronics. Should i take it back?
I couldn’t get Seditionist Radio to work this morn either.
I forgot about Clinton saying “Stop and think”! Some journalist I’d make! :doh:
I tried Seditionist Radio all afternoon yesterday to no avail. Thanks for making me feel less of an idiot.
:oops:where the hell are the krista-clinton pictures?
Anytime I can point something out that everyone else has been thinking about… then my job has been done.
Go here to listen or download last night’s first ever Morningseditionists LIVE broadcast.
melina: stop & think!
don’t know where or when bill said it. my friend thinks he saw it on cnn last week — part of a q&a after an address but not sure.
kristapea: did you see it on the teevee?
“Do I want a new direction in Iraq? Absolutely,” Clinton said. Democrats, he said, are “not the cut-and-run crowd. We’re the stop-and-think crowd.”
For one…
Google “Clinton stop think”
Sixth Megamarch Organized by APPO Underway in Oaxaca
With Military Troops Arriving in the City Under Cover of Night, Another Face-Off Between the People and Government Forces Looms
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article has a good summary of all the contested national races:
http://tinyurl.com/ybptth
This might help clarify Lamont’s current position on Iraq:
A darker spot is a new version of a Lamont commercial in which a young man somberly reads the names of U.S. troops killed in Iraq. The names are used with the permission of their families. It has a new, harder-hitting tagline.
“A vote for Ned Lamont brings real change and accountability to Washington,” Lamont says. “A vote for Joe Lieberman means more war.”
Lamont is calling for setting a 12- to 18-month deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, a move that Lieberman calls a “recipe for disaster.”
Hartford Courant, Nov. 2.
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-senate1102.artnov02,0,7386105.story
most of the public think being in Iraq now IS a disaster…
You have pointed out the usual limits of debate in our political system.
Here is Lamont’s position on Iraq:
The War in Iraq
Three years ago, President George Bush rushed our country to war in Iraq and Senator Lieberman has cheered him on every step of the way. No, there was no imminent threat to America, there were no weapons of mass destruction, and we were not greeted as liberators.
Today, America is no safer, Israel is no safer, Iran is more dangerous, Osama bin Laden is still at large, and our brave troops are stuck in the middle of a bloody civil war. I believe that those leaders who got us into this mess should be held accountable.
Looking forward, I salute the patriotism and wisdom of Congressman Murtha and others who emphasize that “stay the course” is not a winning strategy for Iraq or America. Our best chance of success requires that the Iraqis take control of their own destiny. America should make clear that we have no designs upon their oil and no plans for permanent bases. While we will continue to provide logistical and training support as long as we are asked, our frontline military troops should begin to be redeployed and our troops should start heading home.
I saw the local candidates debate on a local TV station but they didn’t mention let alone debate with third party candidates, of course
Lamont’s position of a gradual, strategic redeployment is better than the “stay the course” of the Republicans. Was strategic redeployment always Lamont’s position on Iraq? Perhaps his position was more radical earlier. Does anyone know here? Did Lamont ever call for an immediate withdrawal? (If so, thatcould be why the writer who I posted earlier said that Lamont now supports the war, or words to that effect.)
It would be an interesting thing to find out – maybe I’ll do a search of CT newspaper archives to see if i can anything from a few months ago
Prospects for the Anti-War Movement:
http://www.counterpunch.org/grossman11022006.html
I am sure that is what the writer was talking about. Lamont no longer supports immediate withdrawal. (I cannot find the original article.)
then he’s moved closer to the center on this issue because that’s where he thinks it’s at… he’s still a better candidate than Lieberman
so far I haven’t come up with anything that talks in detail about his stance several months ago or longer
The Lamont (And Dem) critic is Joshua Frank. Here is the original article: http://brickburner.blogs.com/my_weblog/2006/11/its_2004_all_ov.html#comments
Frank implies that Lamont went from a “reasonable position” on the war to being a war hawk. I am puzzled because, as we can see by lamont’s position paper, he supports gradual withdrawal. Anyway, there is a comment page to the article linked above.
it’s possible that when this article was written lamont either had a different position or had not clarified his position….
” Instead they’d rather throw their energy into campaigns like Ned Lamont’s disaster in Connecticut. Since Ned defeated Sen. Lieberman in the primary he has changed his tune on Iraq from reasonable opposition to all-out war hawk.”
Joshua Frank
I find that writers sometimes are overly critical, even exaggerate, in the hope that those criticized will turn things around.
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here’s another blog (this from June) that talks about Lamont’s switch from supporting immediate withdrawal to phased withdrawal
http://connecticutlocalpolitics.blogspot.com/2006/06/lamont-joining-ranks-of-flip-flop.html
That is what I was thinking. Perhaps Lamont seemed to be slipping in his position for a reasonable withdrawal. Not anymore, though. Check his position statement on Iraq.
that’s a good point…he could fear that if he moved his opinion somewhat he’ll move it even more…he’ll keep changing and soon his position will be the same as Lieberman’s…
seems like there were a lot of Lieberman ads on TV when I was watching the news and marathon earlier. They were good, slick ads. A couple of Lamont ads that I saw were not as good. That shouldn’t be.
He had better beat that son of a gun. Do the Danbury walk. GOTGV!
Do the nutmeg, yeah yeah :fist:
Norwalk Goth Walk for Progressives! :omg:
don’t inspire me so much, I’ll start writing a sequel to that last story!! :omg:
Getting rid of lieberman would be a huge orgasm for everybody, but its of much lesser significance than winning Mo., Tenn, NJ or Va. Jo-Mentum has no reason to switch parties, since he would become a powerless, too-liberal member of a crippled GOP with no future. By contrast, he can be a loathsome extortionist with some power as the unchallenged leader of the shithead branch of the Dems, and he is safe on stuff like environment and the other things that don’t effect Israel. There are worse than Lieberman out west, where we seem to like them fine.
He’s got to be soiling his Depends to see the race tightening, because a lot of the old folks just plain aren’t going to see his name at the bottom of the ballot, but even if No-Blow Job Joe survives, he’s a small pebble in the shoe at this point. Meanwhile, he’s running this pathetic radio ad with a guitar player singing some tuneless ditty about looking for the bottom line for his name. Just on musical grounds, he deserves to lose.
Once again, PJ has preserved my ample stomach lining with his prize-winning sunday morning tv summaries, and i spent the time pleasurably with intrepid dog, raking leaves, the catchy strains of “throw George down the well” going through my brain the whole time. [Its eery how well the lyrics of this mock-anti-semitic song work if you substitute “George” for “Jew”].
So after we get subpoena power on Tuesday, and save the world, can we all get cracking on getting our Morning Sedition back? Somebody buy a radio station out there. :sammy:
How is it taking a hawkish position to say you’d support both of those amendments?
I want a clean sweep. I want it at least 55-45, Dem. Lieberman is bad on more than just his positions on Israel–which is fairly mainstream. Just ask Sam Seder.
Lieberman becomes problematic if the Senate goes 49-49-2 (Sanders caucusing with the Democrats). The Republicans will offer him whatever seniority he wants, and plum committee assignments (and he’d get to be chairman), because Cheney gets the tie-breaking vote. A Lamont win takes Joe out of the equation completely. Picking up 7 seats (assuming a Lieberman win) also allows the Democrats to strip Lieberman of his seniority, as punishment for throwing the party under the bus and running as the Lieberman for Lieberman candidate.
Sorry, the “Stop and think” answer was lacking. I thought I had included a link. Clinton was in FL yesterday.
In Pompano Beach, Clinton said the government should be working toward energy independence, cheaper prescription drugs for seniors and a new direction for the war in Iraq.
“We’re here at a school reminding us that our obligation is to look to the future,” he said. “Do I want a new direction in Iraq? Absolutely. Do I think that means cut and run? No.
“We’re not the cut and run crowd,” Clinton added. “We are the stop and think crowd.”
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/05/america/NA_POL_US_Florida_Democrats.php
Maybe Frank felt that Lamont was slipping from the phased withdrawal to stay the course. Hey. Make a comment about it on his page.
OK, but we still have to make it through the lame duck session, where they will try permanently kill Net Neutrality, among other things.
listening to rerun of Ring of Fire (loving it)
How does 49-49-2 breakdown? Are the two (2) Sanders and Lieberman? If so, and Lieberman caucuses with Democrats, then it is 51-49, Dem, unless …
Kotex inventor. Bet he is a rich bastard.
I wonder if he’ll caucus with the Democrats….
Lieberman said he would, didn’t he? One way to not have to face that potential turncoat problem: Nutmeggers, get out that vote!
Hey Krista! Phoenix Systems is my computer repair business.
:fist:
Yeah two independents would be Sanders and Lieberman. 49-49-2 would make it 50-49-1 with Sanders voting w/ the Dems. If Lieberman caucuses with the Republicans, that makes it 50-50, Cheney casting the tie-breaker.
I just don’t see Lieberman jumping on board the Titanic. Mind you, he’s stupid enough to do so.
Hope we’re not all jumping the gun here. Recent polls show a GOP surge in the last two days, because the dirty tricks machine has launched into high gear [talkingpointsmemo.com has some particulars.].
Remember, no one has ever gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.:sammy:
I win!
jesse and I managed to canvass about 2/3 of a precinct. this one mostly those pricey “townhouses” with lettered buildings & about 6 units per building on a ridge overlooking issaquah. (lots of beautiful native american place names in the northwest which often get mispronounced by national media or talk show hosts, especially the town of Puyallup.) we came back to burner hq for a rally with sens. patty murray and maria cantwell, and cong. jay inslee. outside in the rain, of course.
before the rally started, I dropped off a check for $250 that i’d worked some overtime for last month.
during the rally, darcy burner announced that 10 minutes before, the campaign had just topped the 3 million $ mark. I checked with the finance director after…AND IT WAS MY CHECK THAT DID IT! so very cool to hear. my little piece of campaign history.
off to pick up some pizza for the worker bees.
later.
Oh, no, they may not even take the House, let alone pick anything up in the Senate. I’d just like to see Lieberman gone, his head figuratively placed on a pike in the village square, as an example for others. I’d like them to see that running to the right has harsh consequences – especially as we start the 2008 campaign (which should commence on November 8th or so). If Joey wins, and the Dems don’t have a majority in the Senate, I want him stripped of seniority. Give him a seat on the Senate Sewer Cleaning Committee. If the Dems take the Senate, then I want it to be free and clear of Lieberman – either because Lamont wins, or because they have enough seats w/o Joey. The tie concerns me, because it will give Lieberman a great deal of leverage – and he doesn’t deserve that kind of power..
Oh, BTW, yeah, since my Internet connection was down, so, too, was Sedition Radio. And I had everything shut off ‘cuz, well, it was kinda nice and quiet (and cool) not to have all these damn computers running for a couple of days. But, it’s back up now.
I heard Billy Frank, leader of the Nisqually people, pronounce it [piyalip]. Short “a” sound.
God vs. science: Can religion stand up to the test?
Editor’s note: The following is a summary of this week’s Time magazine cover story.
(Time.com) — It’s a debate that long predates Darwin, but the anti-religion position is being promoted with increasing insistence by scientists angered by intelligent design and excited, perhaps intoxicated, by their disciplines’ increasing ability to map, quantify and change the nature of human experience.
Brain imaging illustrates — in color — the physical seat of the will and the passions, challenging the religious concept of a soul independent of glands and gristle. Brain chemists track imbalances that could account for the ecstatic states of visionary saints or, some suggest, of Jesus.
Catholicism’s Christoph Cardinal Schönborn has dubbed the most fervent of faith-challenging scientists followers of “scientism” or “evolutionism,” since they hope science, beyond being a measure, can replace religion as a worldview and a touchstone.
It is not an epithet that fits everyone wielding a test tube. But a growing proportion of the profession is experiencing what one major researcher calls “unprecedented outrage” at perceived insults to research and rationality, ranging from the alleged influence of the Christian right on Bush administration science policy, to the fanatic faith of the 9/11 terrorists, to intelligent design’s ongoing claims. Some are radicalized enough to publicly pick an ancient scab — the idea that science and religion, far from being complementary responses to the unknown, are at utter odds.
Finding a spokesman for this side of the question was not hard, since Richard Dawkins, perhaps its foremost polemicist, has just come out with “The God Delusion” (Houghton Mifflin), the rare volume whose position is so clear it forgoes a subtitle.
The five-week New York Times best seller (now at #8) attacks faith philosophically and historically as well as scientifically, but leans heavily on Darwinian theory, which was Dawkins’ expertise as a young scientist and more recently as an explicator of evolutionary psychology.
Dawkins and his peers have a swarm of articulate theological opponents, of course. But the most ardent of these don’t really care very much about science, and an argument in which one party stands immovable on Scripture and the other immobile on the periodic table doesn’t get anyone very far.
Go here to read the article.
remember remember the 5th of November….
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Shite!! Ican hardly believe it. From the pages of the Ameican Conservative
OK, I can’t find the link for this, but it was forwarded to me in the international Raging Grannies E-vine via e-mail: :slap: :doh: (Colorado Springs Gazette)
October 31, 2006
Peace a hot-button idea at poll
Rita Ague was told to take off her button, which says, ?Grandmothers for Peace,? or leave a polling place after she turned in an absentee ballot Monday at Centennial Hall. But Ague wants to argue her case: ?They did this to the wrong woman,? she said. (JERILEE BENNETT, THE GAZETTE)
County clerk says pin is electioneering
By PAM ZUBECK THE GAZETTE
Rita Ague likes her ?Grandmothers for Peace? lapel button because it reflects her belief.
She said she wasn?t trying to convince anyone of anything when she wore it to vote Monday and got kicked out of Centennial Hall because of it.
The button, El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Bob Balink said, could be viewed as improper electioneering.
?We?re trying to be safe so as not to offend somebody,? Balink said.
He cited the state?s electioneering law as grounds for having Ague, 63, a grandmother of four, escorted from the building by an El Paso County security officer after she refused to remove the button.
?We have to make judgments every single day as to what actions are electioneering,? he said. ?It happens all the time.?
Balink could not provide other examples, however.
Ague said she and her husband went to Centennial Hall downtown to cast their ballots Monday morning. She decided to use an absentee ballot.
?As I finished my ballot, I walked up to the desk and I was told that I either had to remove a button I was wearing or leave the building,? she said.
?I wear this all the time,? Ague said of the 1?- to 2-inch-wide button she got in Florida 10 years ago.
?So I said, ?I?m sorry. I won?t take this button off any more than I would take off a cross or religious medal, because this is really my religious belief. I believe in peace. I pray for it. I work for it. I suggest you talk to the clerk and recorder himself.? ?
After accepting Ague?s ballot, the worker consulted with Balink, who agreed with his employee and ordered a security guard to show Ague the door.
?His take on it was that I could possibly bring to mind the war in Iraq by wearing something that referred to peace,? Ague said. ?That is probably the most blatant violation of rights to free speech that I?ve run into in my lifetime.?
State statute defines electioneering as campaigning for or against any candidate who is on the ballot or any ballot issue or ballot question that is on the ballot.
Balink, a Republican, said pushing for peace might be interpreted as an anti-war message in an election in which congressional candidates are taking positions on the Iraq War.
Ague said she was able to deposit her ballot in the box before getting escorted out but still may contact the American Civil Liberties Union.
?They did this to the wrong woman,? she said.
Ague has hardly shrank from controversy in the past.
A registered Democrat who has worked as an election judge and poll watcher, Ague demonstrated in January against the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
In 1998 she protested the militarization of space at the National Space Symposium at The Broadmoor hotel.
Three years earlier, Ague, an advocate for minorities and the disabled, claimed then-Colorado for Family Values director Kevin Tebedo struck her and threatened her after they appeared on a TV program to talk about the city?s controversial Human Relations Commission.
Tebedo denied the claim, and the charge didn?t stick because a prosecutor said the case would be hard to prove in court.
David Lane, a civil rights lawyer in Denver who has taken on several highprofile cases, including that of Colorado University professor Ward Churchill, said Ague probably doesn?t have a case, even though, in his opinion, Balink was out of line.
?Had they not let her vote, they would have been in federal court so quickly that their heads would have spun,? Lane said.
Lane said he doesn?t believe Ague?s button violated the state?s electioneering law.
?I didn?t realize peace was on the ballot,? Lane joked.
CONTACT THE WRITER: 636-0238 or
pam.zubeck@gazette.com
VOTE, BUT KEEP YOUR OPINION TO YOURSELF
Under Colorado election law, electioneering is not permitted within 100 feet of a polling place.
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Is it 1938 Nazi Germany yet? :omg:
Are we living in the Wayback Machine? 😮
Dudley DoRight, where are you when we need you???? 🙁
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I’ll be on the air in less than 10 MINUTES….
http://www.FreeRadioSAIC.org
Grand National Championship featuring work from Marc Maron
ON THE AIR RIGHT NOW!!! (almost)
He’s out with Ted Haggard, trying to score some meth.
PJ, are you going to be on skype next weekend during Cnick’s conference:?: Maybe Nick could change his hours to accommodate your schedule. I think it’ll be 10:00 pm your time, otherwise.
Okay. You don’t have to answer anytime soon.
Hey Travis. Yeah, 10 o’clock is a bit late for me. I’m generally retired to the laptop by then.
Well, PJ, me too!…..so I downloaded skype to the laptop and I hang out in my room and talk.
Its a little late but I think that nick is trying not to overlap with his favorite podcaster’s live show (John Ong?…I still have to listen to him…just have so much to hear at this point)
Krista, Im wondering about the plantronics headsets myself…but this is what Leo Laporte likes. I have to try this one on my desktop or the other laptop sometime this week.I havent had time to look into it today.
Im watching a show on CNBC abotu a company that collects personal data about Americans (Axium?) this show is called Big Brother Big Business….really scary since Bush and Cheney took over and sent their tentacles out over everything…..and then how much information can be had just on google…..
PG- Sorry to miss your show. I had to do a bunch of stuff and by the time I can up here and got the ocmputer on there were only 5 or 10 minutes left…maybe next week.
Hey, I got this just NOW.
YAY!!
Well, I did some more phone banking tonight. It’s quite amazing HOW MUCH Moveon memebers are doing. I was calling people to confirm that they were going to make some phone calls and most of the people I actually talked to were doing a few different phone banks, canvassing, working at the polls, organizing school votes etc etc. Amazing! :fist:
According to the folks running MoveOn in Bryn Mawr, they broke 3,000,000 calls on Friday.
You all saw????
Yay!!
This is such great news.
Hey-
Jim Earl and I will be guest hosting Springer on the Radio again tomorrow, Monday, Nov. 6th. Tune in if you can. Sorry about the late notice.
Borzou Daragahi, Brad Friedman, Lawton, the Cardinal, Mort, Jeff DiCarlo, will all be there.
http://www.airamerica.com/springer/
Maron
well. this cheers me up a little….I cant blog live but oh well…..
time for bed….nite nite everyone
Night Melina. :yawn:
hey! i just got the email!! woo!:fist::yippee::banana::banana::nixon::nixon::dancers::hubba::alc:
Man! is that exciting or what? I’m so glad I have the day off tomorrow!
let the funny and the hostile banter begin!
Marc on the day before the election is fantastic, maybe he’ll get Tuesday too. That would be AWESOME!
This promises to be a great show. But is Lawton still Sam Seder’s friend too? You know, Sam’s been getting a lot of callers who sound a lot like Lawton. 😮
You know, say what you will about Springer, he’s saying a giant f*** you to AAR every time he has Marc sub for him. Good for Jerry!
we can only hope. i better finish up my project and get to sleep at a reasonable hour.
lawton called in once at least. the regular guy who sounds kinda like lawton is david cross, though.
Hey Brilliant, Nick has a link to his website on this page and it has all the details about the Saturday call-in show. I think of it as the Mcglaughlin Group, only liberal, hip and much better looking.
Are you still here Krista?
I’ll miss the end of it of course. 🙄
The end of Marc on Springer?
Yeah, some will tape it though :love:
I know I’ll miss the last hour.
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I’m gonna miss it live (damn ed-ju-ma-cation) but HOLY SHIT WOW!!!
I was just talking about listening to Springer during the show!!!
SO HAPPY!!!
You think these guest hosting gigs are test slots for Maron and Earl’s reintroduction to radio????
I think Springer ‘s just trying to stick it to AAR for dropping him.
Goodnight everbody.
Wouldn’t “sticking it” to Air America be more like Springer CONTINUING to broadcast?
I will NEVER listen to a Springer show with Springer on it.
Well, I just did a bit of freeway blogging. Hopefully it will stay up at l;east thru rush hour. It says “VOTE DEM”.
HOORAY FOR ME!!
Hooray for Kristapea, too. Well done! I was just pleased with myself for finishing a project that had me banging my head on the keyboard in frustration.
Maron before the Election – Despite what people say – THERE IS A GOD!!!
I hope he will be broadcasting something after the election. His voice was the first calming and rational voice after 2004.
I’m not being pessimistic, but I would love to hear his reaction if we win!
Go Maron – Have a Great Show!
Long live the Fluffernutter!
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i’m thrilled. gotta go find somewhere bearable for a quick drink now. it’s peanut butter jelly time!:banana:
Left button…
LEFT BUTTON????
Is this the person who I bonded with over the Ricky Gervais Show joke about the Monkey pushing the LEFT BUTTON?????
If so… I love you.
And HURRAH for Kristapea! That’s fantastic!
And AMEN about hearing Maron before the Election! I was thinking during my show about how SAD it was that I wouldn’t hear Maron before the Election… or hear him talking about it FULL-ON. I wanna hear Wednesday morning coverage from Maron… Oh dear Lord do I want that!
Tomorrow the local station changes their schedule and I was a little sad about losing Franken right before the election amongst other changes but now I can get up early and hopefully stream Marc.
Good shows this weekend from CNick and Painting Girl.
Sedition Radio is back, too! Life is good!
I’ll sleep when I’m dead.