So, why is it so damn hard for them to tell us how long Marc’s new show is going to be, what time it’s going to be on live, and whether or not KTLK – or some other radio station(s) – is going to air the show live? I mean, surely they’ve figued that out by now, right? I mean, they try and tout their “premium” service by telling me that Marc’s going to be part of it, but they leave out any details?
SeanMS
…ughhh i hate my local dnc i think im going to just go in there one day and take the place over in the name of real democrats everywhere!!!!! viva la revolucion
FILIBUSTER NOW!!!!!
Comment by SeanMS — January 26, 2006 @ 2:40 am
Yeh. SeanMS Please Do:!: I Believe…:!:
Yea Ni Neart Go Cur….. Book of Kells
In Unity There Is Strength:!:
If anyone has not sent E-MAILS (preferably) or call these folks please send E-MAILS /or Call:!:
January 25, 2006
NOT OVER
from DKOS DIARY
BREAKING: FILLIBUSTER WITHIN REACH – CALL NOW!!
by DerekLarsson Wed Jan 25, 2006 at 05:41:44 PM PDT
Folks, this message just in from Progressive Democrats For America (PDA).
_____________________
The Fillibuster is within our grasp!
Call now and let them know we mean business!
Fillibuster here we come…
No Retreat, No Surrender!
Senate Democrats refuse to signal whether or not they will filibuster Alito. They appear to have 41 votes, since Ben Nelson (D-NE) is the only one of 44 Democrats who supports Alito. Jim Jeffords (I-VT) should oppose Alito, and 5 Republicans – Lamar Alexander (TN), Lincoln Chafee (RI) Susan Collins (ME), Olympia Snowe (ME), and Ted Stevens (AK) – are undecided.
We’ve called and called, but we need to call our Senators again and DEMAND A FILIBUSTER: TOLL FREE – 888-355-3588 or 888-818-6641
For extra credit, use the same numbers to call all the 2008 Presidential candidates who are sitting Senators – Evan Bayh, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Russ Feingold, and John Kerry – and tell them to either LEAD THE FILIBUSTER or FORGET ABOUT YOUR SUPPORT. You can also send that message to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (202-224-2447) and the Democratic National Committee (202-863-8000
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Comment by Druid_666 — January 26, 2006 @ 3:42 am
:nod::tongue::doh::wink: ….:fire:
Morning. Man, i spilled my coffee and got some on the computer and freaked :billcat: but we’re working a-ok.
phewwwww
Riley has mentioned several times this morning that he has a blog starting today. I went to aar and there’s no link to riley’s blog. it was depressing to be on the aar home page. it looks like you have to pay to stream aar shows. i thought you had to pay only to podcast. this is the first time in a week i’ve listened to riley. he sounds like he’s settled into his show. it’s not what i want to listen to when i wake up in the morning.
got an email from randi rhodes. she has extremely good ratings in san diego as well as new york city.
i’ll bet anything that morning sedition had good ratings too, but we’ll never hear about them.
why doesn’t aar start promoting marc’s new show? still no time slot, no start date, no nothing. idiots.
:spank:
time to get back to fighting the alito.
I saw the link to Riley’s blog. It had two comments and it did feel weird to be there. As an antidote, I went over to Maron’s website and watched a few clips. Damn, I miss that man….
Mornin’, everybody. Farmerkat, watch out with that coffee!!
Rainbow Push has a petition to filabuster HERE:
morning farmerkat. that’s a tough way to start the day, spilling coffee on your computer.
a few years ago we had to evacuate from our cabin because of an approaching wildfire. everyone in the community here was on alert for a week before evacuting. we kept making trips taking our valuables out. on the very last trip when we actually left our cabin behind for a couple of weeks, we took our cat and our computer. our computer was how we kept in touch with where the fire was, who was doing what to fight it, where the fire crew was, etc. (by the way, the flames stopped one quarter mile away and no one lost their homes so people-wise everything went ok but of course the animals and the forest suffered greatly.)
this is the long way around to say that i’m glad your computer survived the coffee spill because computers are important for whether we’re fighting wildfires or alitos or just saying hi.
Becky, the scary thing is = it isn’t MY computer! I’ve put off getting a new computer – I’m procrastinating as I don’t want to spend that much cash!
Do ya think Jenna & Barbara might be next?:
Prince Harry could be sent to Iraq
Farmerkat, I’m thinking of getting a new computer, too, but I keep putting it off…the money issue is daunting.
I know that there are many more important things than Michael Jackson but this is freakin’ weird:
http://tinyurl.com/dhmng
(Hmmmm…I’m having trouble making the link active….)
ok, foggyblue, you’ve humbled me in to spending the money! So glad you ducked that fire – those things are very frightening. one of mr farmerkat’s emmy’s is from the fire storm fire story on 11/93 in calif. YIKESSs :billcat:
++
must sign off blog warriors – have to head in your direction, becky.
Vigilance!
ps gypsy, i din’t see that link over on the right either. should have known pj had it on here, he hasn’t missed a trick yet!:razz:
Foggy, there is a Mark Riley blog today. At the moment (6:39 am EST) there are four comments posted.
Question: You a Foghead? I’ve been one for 12 years.
So does Michael Jackson have to walk five paces behind the men when he dresses like that?
Not to mention that it’s gotta be a bitch to moonwalk without stepping on the hem of his skirt.
I gotta million of ’em this morning, sheeple…
:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
Coffee into computers. Hmm. That reminds me of a couple stories.
I worked for IBM years ago. The help desk for PCs. The first day of training the instructor intentionally poured a soft drink into a keyboard. People gasped. I expected sparks. No problem. He shook the drink out and went right on with what he was doing. Moral of the story: IBM keyboards are waterproof, spillproof and spark resistant. Its that microchannel architecture holdover.
Second story. While working the help desk one night a man called with a sad story. While flying to the Bay Area for a business meeting the woman beside him spilled polish remover on his laptop. The keys started dissolving. He wanted to know if that was covered under the warranty. Uh, no. I told him where he could find an identical computer and move his harddrive from one machine to another. He called back later and said that worked, but he was still out $3,000. I thought the woman who spilled the chemicals should have replaced the machine.
I went over to check out what Rachel and Mark had scheduled for their programs today. Didn’t see a mention of the fact that the NYTimes this morning is pleading with the democrats to filibuster, that buzzflash has the report that there are 8 democrats that do not want to filibuster. They call them the “Alito 8”. Thank goodness for Randi and Sam Seder (I don’t know if any other AAR hosts are being activists this week). Randi and Sam are keeping the focus on Alito. These are the final days to whether we see the democrats stand up and fight for something very important. ❗
NCBlue, I guess the short answer is no, i’m not a foghead. Do you mean listening to KFOG in San Francisco? How in the world do you listen to that station when you live in North Carolina? Or do you mean something else by foghead?
Woo-hoo, Kevin! 😆 😆 😆
Fogheadedness.
Foggy, I have lived in Napa, Santa Cruz and Boulder Creek in the last 15 years. Almost moved to Albany but the dot com bomb blew me back to the east coast. However, I can still listen to KFOG – which I do most weekday mornings – simply by going to http://www.kfog.com and clicking the oval thingy at the top of the page.
A caller last night to Seder’s show said she and her husband contacted 16 senators each yesterday. She said her husband wasn’t aquainted with all the politicians, but she heard him tell Lieberman to go to “Spines R Us” and buy a spine. 😀
I got nothin’ today. I’m drawin’ blanks.:40:
http://www.buzzflash.com
“Report: Are Just 8 Dems Holding Up a Filibuster of Alito? Surrender After Surrender, The Dems in the Senate Promised Us They Were Holding Their Fire Until Someone Like Alito Was Nominated — And Then They Would Hold the Line. Did They Lie to Us? Why Won’t Harry Reid Put Pressure on Them to Filibuster? Because Harry R. Ain’t No Harry Truman.”
NCblue, we’ve lived in foggy areas since 1969: palo alto, los altos hills, eureka, and now in the coastal hills south of eureka. when we lived in the bay area we visited santa cruz regularly and spent three thanksgivings with friends in boulder creek, so we’ve trekked similar paths. you were probably in the bay area because of silicon valley, as we were.
definitely my head is foggy and always has been. so i guess i am a foghead after all.
we have a home office with solar panels providing energy, and with all the rain in the wintertime, we don’t have a lot of electricity, so we have to confine our computer use to mostly work-related tasks. thus we don’t have enough electricity to stream kfog. maybe in the summer i will. blogging here in the rainy winter is an expensive treat for me.
Morning bloggers
Eating lunch with the keyboard in your lap can cause all sorts of typing related problems. Liquids like coffee are not bad but Pepsi is a death sentence. Dorito fragments under the keys make all sorts of strange things happen. The IS manager does the same thing so she just makes you fix the problems you cause and/or buy a new keyboard.
We have a lot of computers in a potentially corrosive environment so they are in a positive pressurized cabinet and you run them from a control room of sorts ( or my desk) by means of Virtual network Computing ( VNC). That’s a software package like PC anywhere except that its open source and is free.
http://www.nytimes.com
NY Times Editorial
Jan 26, 2006
“A filibuster is a radical tool. It’s easy to see why Democrats are frightened of it. But from our perspective, there are some things far more frightening. One of them is Samuel Alito on the Supreme Court.”
Eureka! I looked into Humboldt State for graduate skool but they didn’t teach computer anything on the gradiet level. UCSC, USF and SFSU do. I just couldn’t afford that so I went into a third-world state – Alabama. But I got better and left after two terms.
Fred, the Dorito™ problem is actually a salt problem. Unsalted Doritos™ don’t conduct electricity while Salted Anything™ does.
while we’re fighting alito, here’s an easier fight that won’t take much to win. sign the petition to ban horse-drawn carriages in new york city. here’s the last paragraph of a short letter describing the problem:
go to indefenseofanimals to sign the petition at link
Humboldt State university! my husband taught undergraduate computer/math classes at humboldt state for 14 years before we figured out how to live in the hills and do consulting work and eek out a hand-to-mouth existence. amazing we travel in such similar worlds as you do ncblue.
i grew up in texas until my 17th birthday. it’s a lot like alabama. when i first came to california and saw berkeley i thought finally i’m home finally i’m surrounded by sane people.
Foggy, they have horses down on the Embarcadero. too.
Another question: Ever been to the Mendocino Brewing Company? My current favorite beer is their Eye of the Hawk.
Thanks, foggy.
Foggy from Texas? My partner grew up in Denton where her dad taught history at the University of North Texas, made famous in the award-losing movie Necessary Roughness. Dog I hate Dallas. Spent a lifetime of hell there (May-Sept 1998).
Wow! Berzerkley and “sane” in the same sentence? Obviously you never walked down Telegraph on a Saturday evening. Cody’s is an okay bookstore, but getting there from the campus could be a trip into the opium dens of Shanghai.
How about this one: Hamas is the big winner in the Palestinian elections. How does that fit into Fearsome Leader’s campaign to bring democracy to the middle east…
Resident nut checking in: foggy, any reports of Bigfoot around Eureka lately?
this is getting to be funny, ncblue. i grew up in north dallas, very close to denton. we kept moving further and further north and ended up in mckinney texas, which is very very close to denton.
i think all that texas heat and sun has made me a fog-lover for life. i don’t even mind three months of heavy rains every winter and the threat of floods. water is good. drought is bad.
i don’t drink beer very much but i like red tail ale when i do.
Red Tail is good ale.
I finally found a California wine that I like – Smoking Loon Syrah, the 2003 vintage.
Mornin’ Seditionatos! :fire: With Rumsfeld in the news, I posted a classic War on Brains here. Click on “He’s an Army Man!” Listen to the funny that’s comin’ back February 13th…..:banana::sammy:
Good morning all. I miss Morning Sedition:-(
Mornin’ Krista…..I do too…:cry:
becky, no signs of bigfoot yet, but we have a black bear that walks past our cabin every three or four days and we have a friend whose nickname is bigfoot. that’s as close as we’ve gotten to the real bigfoot so far.
fred, you can’t just say “We have a lot of computers in a potentially corrosive environment” and not tell us more. what kind of corrosive environment? do you have to accompany the computers that are in that environment?
ncblue, “Wow! Berzerkley and “sane” in the same sentence?” maybe my reaction to telegraph avenue in berkeley was because i was foggy? it sure looked sane to me compared to texas! that was 1969. i’ve heard berkeley’s changed since then.
I’m in the middle of a new book ‘Confessions of an Economic Hit Man’ by John Perkins. Man, it’s depressing. Anyone here read it? Makes you wanna :mad::rant1:
Me too, Krista and Jason! Rachel is good but you can’t beat Marc and Earl….
I’m off to work. Have a good Thursday, y’all.
Later Becky…:peace:
i read confessions of an economic hit man. wow. it was such an eye opener. i thought i was cynical before. whew.
john perkins has been on lots of talk shows the last two weeks. he uses the newly elected leftist presidents in south america as examples for how he was trained to soften them up, $$$millions in one hand and a virtual bullet in the other, and if they didn’t accept his offer, in would come the jackals to kill the guy. he said that’s what happened to one of the south american presidents who died in a plane crash shortly after refusing an offer from the economic hit man. perkins is clearly worried about hugo chavez, etc.
i hope all this recent publicity that john perkins is getting helps people realize how the system really works. not that we can do anything about it.
not too long ago jeaneane garafalo had john perkins try to convince her dad, a former executive/engineer at some oil company, that syriana had some truth to it. her dad was so reluctant to give an inch. just couldn’t believe it was true. but it is.
:billcat:
Good morning everyone!
Im able to stream from AAR’s page….who was just saying that it seemed like they were gonna charge for the strem?
If they ever did that I’d be finished with them!
Im going to call senators today but it seems like a bad situation.
The local newspaper published a letter that I wrote to the senators, and which was somehow sent to newspapers too. I got a call and they asked if they could publish it. Anyway, its a totally sucky letter…way too flowery and overwrought…but its pretty much about how our senators represent us and that its their job to work for the american people and not worry about their job security or power in Washington….
Anyway, maybe Im wrong about the mainstream of America…maybe people want the constitution to be changed…maybe people are so afraid that they cant even bear to know whats going on….
I have a theory that alot of everything that drives most people is fear of death…which doesnt have to be overt at all….more like a reflex or something…
Im tired…
wheres the funny?
thanks foggyblue…I’ve been reeling all day from this book. You know, the freakin’ conservative republicans will just stand there and say America “We’re # 1”, and they just don’t realize what has been going on with this country. We really gotta change things…or soon it’ll be too late! 😡
Jason, I believe the rethugs DO know what they have done to our economy. They just don’t care. They believe the bad shit will happen after they are dead and gone and another generation will clean up the mess. They traded our future for a decadent now.
SEARCH YOUR CONSCIENCE AND CALL FOR A FILIBUSTER.
Yeah, you’re right. The rethugs in the know. But there are a lot of dumbed down :sheep: who haven’t a clue…
I think Americans just don’t realize the consequences of Judge Alito’s appointment to the Supreme Court. They won’t feel it directly or anytime soon. Plus the M$M is not telling people how important this is. I just wrote my mom in Nevada and gave her all the tools she needs to call Senator Reid.
Melina, way to go with getting your letter published!:banana:
I think people are just too busy to have time to dig into the issues of the day and the fact that almost all of the media refuse to give the public the facts leads to an uninformed public. With today’s climate democratic senators need to do a better job of informing their constituents of the importance of such issues as Alito.
Wow, Krista I guess we were on the same wavelink.
Hey one of my blog friends has posted a comment on his site about AAR’s new pay to play. And, I never knew he was a big fan of MS! He mentions this site…here
😳 I should have said wavelength!
melina, i got the idea that you had to sign up for the aar premium pkg in order to stream because on the aar home page they have a box for you to sign up for premium where they say “join now to stream the full show.” i guess they just want to mislead people or something.
I stream AAR without paying a penny. I haven’t read anything about it being a pay service. But then again I am from the south and can’t read.
:priest:
Danny Goldberg = Ignominious
SharkAlito!
ISI pulled a Homer. That’s good stuff, right there.
I’ll check that link Jason. Give me a few minutes.
SinkAlito!
Springer is talking about Impeachment and polls that favor doing so.:rofl2::omg:
Oh. I see: Nobody wants to talk.:rant1:
Hey Travis! Yeah, I wonder if he blogged on the old MS site once or twice and I never knew his real name…funny blog world..:doh:
I’m talkin’ Nicki! :sammy:
You know I only kid, come on. Don’t be mad. I’m the king of smrtness.
I’ll talk Nicki, but I ain’t got much.
Hey Nicki, have you read ‘Confessions of an Economic Hit Man? I’m in the middle of it now and it’s really shocking! Not surprising, and that’s shocking too! :omg:
Hey travis, thanks for the plug.
– Homer
Travis, don’t be self depricating dude! You got stuff man…:alc::fire:
Thanks Druid for the numbers-used all my free time this am to make the calls.
Read Muareen Dowd’s column yesterday. It’s great.
Will sign the horse petition later as I have to get back to work.
ISI pulled a Homer?
Did he go on an Iliad or an Odyssey?
Can’t help it. I live in the south and I have to check the quality of my ‘shine so I get silly sometimes. One of the drawbacks from the job of being a southern male, grading the shine (faux-vodka, faux-tequilla, faux-borbon). Heck, if I lived in NorCal I would have to smoke my product to grade it’s quality.
Life is a bitch when your job has been outsourced to a third-wrold state like South Carolina.
Ha! NcBlue…I’d be for the job in NorCal! :bong:
I’m outta here folks. Gonna do the news and watch the Daily Show…See ya’ on the flip-side…:peace::fire:
Ill never pay those f**ks for radio. I gladly pay XM because I get a TON of programming for a little more than DG wants for a couple of shows! What does he think hes got there, gold???
And XM sells players that allow you to save content and play it later….sorta like a …um…podcast….BUT you get hundreds of channels and great quality.
I dont want DG to make enough off of the pay per podcast deal to even pay the maintenance guy who has to set the computer to spit out the passwords after you enter your credit card. How are they even gonna make enough to pay the technical support?…oh, maybe they’ll outsource that to india! It IS a business afterall!
I spilled wet coffee grounds all over the kitchen, down my only clean jeans and into the dishwasher…even the dogs stood back!
A wonderful start to a great day! I can tell
Call sentaors folks…
Im off into the world to drive around for a while.
Melina
I just typed a bunch of stuff and erased it all. I thought I’d share that with you, so you know I’m still here.
Okay, I looked up a bunch of these senators’ local office numbers as I am finding their DC voicemail to be full.
FILIBUSTER ALITO NOW
Harry Reid met with progressive lobbyists on Tuesday and told them he has nearly 44 votes against Alito, but there are 8 Democratic Senators who will not support a filibuster.
Only 41 votes are needed for a filibuster. If Reid has nearly 44 votes against Alito, every one of those Senators should support a filibuster or their vote against Alito is meaningless.
So call the Democrats who are leading this battle and demand a united Democratic filibuster:
Senator Harry Reid
Carson City
600 East Williams Street, #302
Carson City, NV 89701
Phone: 775-882-7343 / Fax: 775-883-1980
Senator Dick Durbin
Chicago
230 S Dearborn St. STE 3892
Chicago, IL 60604-1483
(312) 353-4952
(312) 353-0150 – fax
Senator Chuck Schumer
New York City
757 Third Avenue
Suite 17-02
New York, NY 10017
Phone: 212-486-4430
Fax: 212-486-7693
TDD: 212-486-7803
Senator Debbie Stabenow
Mid-Michigan Office
Senator Debbie Stabenow
221 W. Lake Lansing Road, Suite 100
East Lansing, MI 48823
Phone: (517) 203-1760
Senator Pat Leahy
Burlington office
199 Main Street, 4th Floor
Burlington, VT 05401
(802) 863-2525
1-800-642-3193
Use these toll free numbers to call the Capitol: 888-355-3588 or 888-818-6641. If you can’t get through, look up the Senator’s District Office number in your phone book or here:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt?command=congdir
Reid would not name the “Alito 8” who are blocking a Democratic filibuster – so we need to identify them and tell them not to betray the Democrats who funded them and voted for them.
The most likely suspects are the “Red State” Democrats:
Tom Carper (DE)
Wilmington, DE
1 Christina Center
301 North Walnut Street
Suite 102L-1
Wilmington, DE 19801
302-573-6291 phone
Kent Conrad (ND)
Toll-free Phone: 1-800-223-4457
Minot:
U.S. Federal Building, Room 105
100 1st Street SW
Minot, ND 58701
Phone: (701) 852-0703
Fax: (701) 838-8196
Byron Dorgan (ND)
Bismarck, North Dakota
U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan
312 Federal Building
PO Box 2579
Bismarck, ND 58502
Phone: 701-250-4618
Fax: 701-250-4484
Tim Johnson (SD)
Rapid City Office:
405 E. Omaha Street, Suite B
Rapid City, SD 57701
Phone (605) 341-3990
Fax (605) 341-2207
Mary Landrieu (LA)
New Orleans
Hale Boggs Federal Building
500 Poydras Street
Room 1005
New Orleans, LA 70130
Voice: (504) 589-2427
Fax:(504) 589-4023
Blanche Lincoln (AR)
Little Rock Office
912 West Fourth Street
Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: (501) 375-2993
Fax: (501) 375-7064
Mark Pryor (AR)
Little Rock Office
The River Market
500 Clinton Ave
Suite 401
Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: (501) 324-6336
Fax: (501) 324-5320
Also call these “Blue State” and pro-choice Republicans:
Lincoln Chafee (RI)
Susan Collins (ME)
Lisa Murkowsky (AK)
Bob Smith (OR)
Olympia Snowe (ME)
Ted Stevens (AK)
For extra credit, call all the 2008 Presidential candidates who are sitting Senators – Evan Bayh, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Russ Feingold, and John Kerry – and tell them to either LEAD THE FILIBUSTER or FORGET ABOUT YOUR SUPPORT.
You can also send that message to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (202-224-2447) and the Democratic National Committee (202-863-8000).
Share what you learn with Democrats.com members here:
http://www.democrats.com/alito-8
one more thing….the letter I got published about Ailito yesterday came from the little box on the http://www.nocrony.com
site….so those petition/write your newspaper sites really do work!
Don’t you think Marc would be proud of us for taking action on Alito? 😀
:!:CLOTURE – a motion or process aimed at bringing debate to a quick end. If a senator has said he will vote no on Alito but votes yes on cloture he is essence voting against a filibuster. That’s the weasel way not to stand up against Alito.
http://www.opednews.com
“So we ask each of our individual senators in turn. Is there not one of you who will vote their conscience to START a filibuster? If your putative leader has in fact freed your hands. If you concede that your constituents are strongly opposed to this appointment. If you concede that YOU are opposed to this appointment. And if you recognize that there is nothing that will ACTUALLY stop Alito BUT a filibuster. Then you must call for a filibuster as a matter of conscience.”
by the pen
Jan 26, 2006
Senate Floor Debate/Alito
Today
CSpan2
c-span.org
Debate alternates every hour between democrats and republicans. The democrats start out in the 10:00 AM ET hour.
All Jon Stewart has to say to make people laugh is
“The Busch Administration…”
The darkest moments in American history, the destruction of the world’s greatest society, and all we can do about it is laugh.
Thanks for sharing that Melina, I’ve often wondered if I was wasting time with those kinds of replies.:grin:
Have a great day of calling everyone!
Thanks to all who tried to fill me in last night. I fell off the blog almost as soon as I got on. But I do appreciate it!
😉
Hey Melina, I hear ya re: the pay-to-play (the Replay A/V seems to be working out very well for us, and has the added advantage of being able to grab a whole lot of other stuff, too). Actually, they wouldn’t even have podcasts (let alone the archives) if it hadn’t been for Bob starting Air America Place (and the other volunteers who help with recording and mp3erating the shows).
There was a time when AAP was taking donations to pay for bandwidth (and that to me seems so much better than the corporate beast coming at you with its hands out) but (I have to give them credit) AAR did start paying the bills after a while. According to Bob, they are currently paying about $4,000 a month for bandwidth to host the podcasts.
So, this is obviously an expense that they aren’t able to recoup via advertising (nor is the streaming, based on the amount of truly insipid and annoying filler muzak they play). While $50 grand a year is a lot of money to those of us who aren’t Republicans or DLC’ers, it seems like a pretty small amount for a player in the radio business. Especially to keep the “brand” out there for those of us who don’t yet have an affiliate ($50,000 was about 0.625 second’s worth of ad time during last year’s Superbowl).
I got used to the ad-free podcasts after the Sirius thing. The one thing I really missed was waking up at six past the hour – even when I didn’t actually have to get up – but the lack of commercials was great (got the stream going for a second last night and heard “one eight hundred sixty eight happy” for the first time in months, and shut it off).
Now, if there was an affiliate here, I’d have AAR on all the time (except for the 9 – noon Eastern period), at least in the background. I’d have it on at home, in the car, for the dog (yeah, I do that too; he used to be an NPR fan, but now he can’t stand most of their programming anymore. He’s switched to the classic rock station) – pretty much 24/7.
So, I don’t mind AAR offering a premium service providing something a little better than you can get for free. Keep a week’s worth of shows at a lower bitrate available for on-demand streaming (with ads) for free, maybe, but don’t completely shut out those unwilling or unable to pay.
Oh, and don’t take off the best show on the radio and then expect me to pay for what truly pales in comparison. And then make a big show of how you’re going to give me the honor of paying for the guy you didn’t think was good enough to keep on the air in the first place (ya bastids).
Oh, re: liquids and computers, as Fred and NC Blue say, black coffee, water, stuff like that – not so bad. Soda, coffee with lots of sugar, and that kind of stuff – not so good.
Wine + cats + laptop? Still too soon for me to talk about. 😥
In my flu-some stupor last night, I dreamed about having to pay for podcasting Marc. I’ve only scanned today’s comments so far, but I have to say DG’s arrogance and incompetence are truly mind-boggling. He takes the greatest thing that has happened to radio in more than 50 years, fiddles with it, waters it down, fires its stars, and then has the gall to charge for the privilege of listening to it? Why, oh why, don’t they fire his sorry ass already?!?!?
http://www.buzzflash.com
“This isn’t a “vote of conscience” concerning a filibuster; it’s a vote to save democracy. And if Reid can’t cajole and bluster 41 Democrats into saving democracy, he should resign his position.
Period.”
Jan 26, 2006
via Armando at http://www.dailykos.com
re: Press release by Sen Landrieu (D-LA) yesterday opposing a filibuster.
“You see, the lifetime appointment of a SUPREME COURT JUSTICE is no big whoop to Sen. Landrieu. It is one thing to be against a filibuster, but to pretend the confirmation of a Supreme Court Justice is no big deal is offensive. I don’t know what Senator Landrieu believes she is accomplishing with this idiotic and downright offensive press release, but it tells me that she really is not up to the job of United States Senator if she can not understand how important this is. No one has made me angrier in this process. Not even Specter.”
If the Democraps ignore all these inputs and fail to Filibuster Alito I think the party is going to self destruct at a moment in time where this would be really bad news. This is liken to the Bismark sinking the Hms Hood during the beginning days of WWII. In this case most Americans are apparently going to sleep though this one.
❗ Tim Johnson (D) South Dakota
Will Vote YES on Alito
-ABC News
My email to Tim Johnson and Ben Nelson, Democrats in name only:
My email to my two rethug senators, Elizabeth Dole and Richard Burr:
I added this part for Mr. Burr:
RE: Ousting Alito….I just emailed Ben Nelson-D NE using my old address from 20yrs ago when i lived in NE to lend it a lil’ more weight to my conviction.
breaking news: KERRY ANNOUNCED HE WILL SUPPORT A FILIBUSTER BY HIS PARTY OVER ALITO
terrific news about kerry supporting a filibuster!:banana::nixon::cake:
RE: Kerry filibuster of Alito…Thom Hartmann Show just called Kerry’s office to verify it and it’s true. I don’t see anything on the web about it yet though.
:!:Woo-Hoo Beat around the Bush has the SCOOP of the day!! What great news is that?!
Way to go NCBlue 🙂
Woo-hoo!!!!! Finally showin’ some spine!
:banana:
Pardon me, but I’m not throwing any parties for John Kerry. :jerk: If he hadn’t been such a wuss during the campaign, we couldn’t be in this mess. :-(:growl:
The election was stolen, man. come on, get with it.
Read on
I understand, Brilliant. But at this point, it’s all we’ve got.
Joe Lieberman (D-CT)
Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)
Jim Jeffords (I-VT)
Will vote NO on Alito
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
Will Vote NO on Alito
you guys are getting this message from marc in your mailboxes right about now, too:
:bow::banana::banana::peace:
Cool. Just ordered the CD. I’m happy to be able to get it from him, and not from Amazon. Now, will somebody tell us when it’s gonna be on, and for how long?
Wow man. You’ve got what I’ve got. It’s almost scary, isn’t it?
Robert Byrd (D-WV)
Will Vote YES on Alito
I’m running out the door, but got this email just now. is there any sliver of hope of a filibuster? let’s not give up calling.
Subject: Daily Kos: Kerry wants filibuster – CALL
>> SENATORS to Support him!
>>
>> http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/26/123745/548
>>
>> Little out of character for Kerry – maybe he’s
>> growing or maybe it’s
>> just one of those triangulation things – but in
>> either case it’s a good
>> move.
WTF? It’s starting to look like the Democrats will be lucky to get 41 votes against the nomination, let alone enough for a filibuster.
I just heard Byrd on the Senate floor. He prefaced some of his remarks by saying he was a registered democrat. He said he was from a conservative state and he liked conservative judges and Alito told him personally he didn’t believe in giving the president more power than outlined in the constitution. I guess that was good enough for Byrd. 🙄
Even though Salazar will vote No on Alito he told the RockyMountainnews that he would not support the Filibuster… :growl::spank:
Oh, and pj I didn’t know we could order Marc’s CD directly from him or I wouldn’t have ordered it from amazon.
It’s very strange noone tells us when the show will be on or how long it will be. Blogging at a new site will probably have a different feel to it, huh?
I just ordered the CD direct from Marc’s site. Valentine’s Day is coming and it’s the perfect give for that special snarky man in your life. :banana:
huff puff huff puff trying to catch up on today’s events & blog….
:rofl2::rofl2:
byrd is a huge disappointment – huge. :spank:
this shocked the hell out of me:
thought Fatah was ahead when I left this am. guess the palestinians want change…wonder how many truly believe israel should be destroyed… so much for peace
did i see filabuster mentioned on the blog? yes, make it so kerry! :banana:
thanks for all the info on food and computers. i spilled the coffee in the keyboard of an apple powerbook g4. husband said it wasn’t working “for some reason” and he had to reboot it but now it’s fine. I guess i better come clean….. :yuck:
Spector just called for a vote what ever that means.. Rhodes is in BS mode.. Really helpful…
I’ve been in a :crap::doh::rant1::-(:mad: meeting all morning and just now got to a computer. And I tried to check the old MS blog for recipes. And I don’t know if anyone else gets this when they go to the blog but I’m seeing some really scary keywords referenced. Was the blog hacked or is this Crimmins’ idea of a joke or what?
Repeating this post by dlp67 — January 26, 2006 @ 2:42 pm
Subject: Daily Kos: Kerry wants filibuster – CALL
>> SENATORS to Support him!
>>
>> http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/26/123745/548
>>
>> Little out of character for Kerry – maybe he’s
>> growing or maybe it’s
>> just one of those triangulation things – but in
>> either case it’s a good
>> move.
Comment by dlp67 — January 26, 2006 @ 2:42 pm
The Case Against Israel
by Michael Neuman
What matters for an understanding of the Israel/Palestine conflict is what the expression ‘a Jewish state’ would mean to any reasonable person. What, in particular, could the Palestinians reasonably expect when they heard that such a state was to be established in Palestine?
The state itself–the human community–is, everywhere in the world, an absolute dictator bound neither by morality nor by law. Even in the most impeccable democracy, there are ways to institute anything humans can do to one another. Frequently, as in the case of the democratic Weimar Republic of Germany, just invoking emergency legislation is quite enough to open the gates of hell.
For the Zionists to demand a state, any state, was therefore no small thing for anyone–like the Palestinians–falling within its proposed boundaries. But what the Zionists demanded was a Jewish state. Whether this was racism is not of any immediate concern. For one thing, to say that something is racist is not, for many people, immediately to say that it is unjustified: there are those, for instance, who accept affirmative action as ‘reverse’ racism yet still defend it. For another, the project might have begun as racist yet outgrown its racism by instituting sufficient protections for non-Jews. Or it might not have outgrown it altogether, but exhibited a form of racism that, though reprehensible, was not particularly virulent. It, therefore, does not seem particularly fruitful to examine whether Zionism was racism.
bby Michael Neuman
When a state is described in relation to the territory it controls, its ethnic character is open. The French state is not necessarily a state for some ethnic group called Frenchmen, just as the Belgian or Yugoslav or Jamaican state weren’t states for ethnic groups of that name. But a Catholic state would be a state run by Catholics; a black state would be a state run by blacks; a heterosexual state would be run by heterosexuals. This could hardly be clearer: what would be Catholic or black or heterosexual about a state not run by at least some members of those groups?
When, as in the post-World-War-I era, the ideology of self-determination added to the picture, the expectation develops further. . .
http://www.counterpunch.org
That was goddamn Nixon!:nixon:
:rofl2: hey farmerkat, did you come clean?
I haven’t yet, isi. I’m thinking that I’ll wait until after the cocktail hour begins and we have a couple friends over and i can oh so innocently spill the beans! If I wait long enough, I can tell him when he’s back in Iraq. Life seems to have a different perspective then.
Byrd is voting to confirm! That creep voted for the Bankruptcy bill, too. It is this sort of politician that exemplifies our political system. “We are not a democracy; we are a republic.”
Are we fukked?:omg:
i fear, yes we are. i’m thinking of canceling my democracy bond. I’m going to support individual candidates. 😯
Randi Rhodes just now got the word about Kerry’s intention to filibuster. You people here are way ahead of the curve.
:nixon::rofl2:
Fukked? I think it’s nothing that benign. I think we’re rammed up the butt without lubricant.
Yeah, I’m in a pissy mood today. Meetings do that to me.
I got sidetracked by this.
Submitted by peasantwitch on September 9, 2005 – 4:20pm
ROTFLMFAO!!!
I’m always up for a Gilbert & Sullivan parody. Especially when it rhymes a word like “labia.”
Submitted by Kevin M on September 9, 2005 – 4:47pm. | email this comment
I checked out the old blogs.
I believe that the blogs were hacked with by some necrophiling pedophile or something. There has been weird stuff there for a while, but not that creepy.
Preserve those old blogs!:nixon:
yes, We have entered it. Now what:?:
Byrd is voting to confirm! Ah, crap! Damn it!
:40: To alcohol! That’s what.
Drugs too. We can’t forget those.
What Good is the Filibuster, If You Don’t Use It?
Extraordinary Alito
By MICHAEL CARMICHAEL
“He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
At the end of last week, Senate Minority Whip, Richard Durbin informed the press that there was intense Democratic opposition to the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
Furthermore, Senator Durbin stated that he would vote against Alito and that the Democrats might have enough votes to sustain a filibuster. There are forty-four Democrats in the senate plus Senator Jim Jeffords. Almost all of them oppose Alito.
In the senate, it takes forty-one votes to sustain a filibuster. At this point in time, no Democratic senator has stepped forward to announce his intention to filibuster the Alito nomination, but it is still too early to announce such plans. As Senator Kennedy clearly stated two weeks ago when he was bombarded with questions about a filibuster, the parliamentary tactics will take care of themselves, and there is little to be gained in discussing them openly at this time for that would be tantamount to sending a telegraph to the Republicans revealing the anti-Alito strategy.
Today, I propose that the Democrats are in a win-win situation vis a vis the Alito nomination, but they must oppose him with every ounce of the vigor they used to defeat the unacceptable Supreme Court nominees of previous Republican presidents. . .
http://www.counterpunch.org
I just ordered the CD direct from Marc’s site. Valentine’s Day is coming and it’s the perfect give for that special snarky man in your life.
Comment by brilliantatbreakfast — January 26, 2006 @ 3:06 pm
I couldn’t agree more, so I ordered it for myself.:banana:
:banana:Travis, thanks for providing audio for our blog!
No problem. I’d be sleepin’ if it weren’t for this blog.:banana:
:!:Ralph Neas, People for the American Way coming up in the next segment on Randi
Bush Calls Hamas Kettle Black
Talkin’ About Chutzpah!
By DAVE LINDORFF
Talk about chutzpah!
President Bush has told Hamas, which just managed a stunning upset of Fatah in the Palestinian elections, that the movement must “renounce violence” if it is to be bestowed the blessing of having the U.S. recognize it as the government of the Palestinian people.
Of course, the Israeli government doesn’t have to renounce violence in order to have U.S. recognition.
One can argue about the tactics Hamas has employed, which involve blowing up Israeli civilians, but then, that’s exactly what the Israeli government has its military forces do–blow up and gun down Palestinian civilians–only Israel has bigger weapons.
I’m no advocate of violence by anybody, but the idea of this president, who thumbed his nose at the Nuremburg Charter and committed the number one international crime–a “Crime Against Peace,” as the charter puts it–and who has been leading a war against Iraq that a new report in the British medical journal Lancet claims has killed between 150-250,000 Iraqis, to lecture Hamas on the need to renounce violence is simply beyond the pale.
Bush, remember, is now pushing for major violence against Iran, and maybe Syria too. the truth is that violence is the only real policy this administration has when it comes to international affairs. “Do it our way or we’ll blow you up” is the Bush foreign policy credo. . .
http://www.counterpunch.org
Oh Oh Rhodes just said she was considering lowering the lifeboat and abandoning ship.. well at least leaving the democrapic party.:fustrate::fustrate::40:
:!:Ralph Neas says this is a Watershed Moment in our country’s history.
He wants us to inundate the senate with calls, emails, and faxes to tell the senators to get on the senate floor and TALK, TALK IN ORDER TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE ISSUES INVOLVED IN THIS SUPREME COURT NOMINATION. That addresses the issue of what we were talking about earlier on this blog. That the public is unaware of the consequences of Alito on the Supreme Court. I hadn’t thought of extending the debate for the purpose of educating the public. Great point. He even said, if the public eventually becomes aware of what’s going on they have the power to change the minds of senators who have already said they will vote yes!
randi is doing great today. hardly ever repeats herself. very funny. great humor. good information. she sounds confident and bouyant and easily rips into anyone who threatens america. maybe her unexpectedly high ratings in the san diego market (beating the right wingers in a very conservative area!) gives her a real confidence boost. i don’t think it’s easy for her to work for an “organization” like aar. she’s a major force for aar. she certainly outperforms franken.
January 26, 2006
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. John Kerry has decided to support a filibuster to block the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, CNN’s Congressional Correspondent Ed Henry reported Thursday.
Kerry, in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum, was marshaling support in phone calls during the day, Henry said.
He announced his decision Wednesday to a group of Democratic senators, urging they join him, Henry said. Kerry also has the support of his fellow Massachusetts senator, Democrat Edward Kennedy.
Some senior Democrats said they are worried that the move could backfire.
Republicans need 60 votes to overturn a filibuster.
Senior White House officials said the move makes the Democrats look bad, and Republicans already have enough votes to overcome any filibuster attempt.
In who’s eyes would a filibuster look bad ?? Is it the corporatist owners of the rethugs and dems perhaps ??.
41 votes are needed to sustain a filibuster. CNN’s congressional correspondent reports Kerry is calling on party and internet activists to support the filibuster. “I can’t do this alone,” he’s telling them.
http://www.dailykos.com
:fustrate:I THINK I MIGHT GO TO CANADA AND NEVER COME BACK I SHOULD BE ABLE TO FIND A CANADIAN STRIPPER THAT WILL MARRY ME OR SOMETHING YEAH IF ALITO ISNT FILIBUSTERED I WILL HAVE LOST ALL FAITH IN THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP AND WILL HAVE TO MOVE TO CANADA ITS ONLY FIFTEEN MINUTES FROM WHERE I WAS BORN SO ITS ALMOST LIKE I AM CANADIAN ANYWAY NOT TO MENTION MY GREAT GRANDFATHER SNUCK INTO AMERICA FROM CANADA SO I ALREADY HAVE A HISTORICAL CONNECTION TO THE GREAT WHITE NORTH
:rant1::cry::-(
IF THE FUCKING FILIBUSTER LOOKS BAD WHAT THE FUCK WILL THE NUCLEAR OPTION LOOK LIKE? FUCKING SPINMEISTER BASTARDS 😡
SinkAlito! Keep up the pressure.
Swim with the fishes, you Freeper Bastard!:omg:
Seanms, IN THE HOUSE!
Cloture!
No thanks, Frist.
Crucify Frist!:omg::omg:
Apparently they voted to schedule the vote on cloture for Monday at 4:30 pm. That will be the time we see if the dems have any gonads :mad::mad::omg::omg::no:
There are 139 messages, and I’m posting before I read any of them, so sorry if I repeat anything already said.
But why do I have to subscribe to DG’s GD AAR premium to get Marc’s show? Can’t I get it from another site.
Thank the gods for White Rose Society! They have mp3’s of many left-wing talkers. Any more, I listen to Rachel (with clenched teeth) for the news, then got to WRS for last night’s Randi and Malloy.
Next topic:
Why are the Dems so scared of Alito? How many of them have had family members threatened?
Life sucks. ‘Nuff said.
Fucking traitorous Democrats!
How did Lincoln BlueBlood vote on Alito!
Yeah! White Rose Society does not play games with people. I wish that they would take over the Morning Sedition archives.
Donate $1 to White Rose Society.
Not to change the subject, but it’s always entertaining to read what His Buttcheekness has to say TODAY about this spying program….
:fire::fire::fire::fire::fire:
Bush Says No New Law Needed for NSA Spying Program
Questioning the need for Congress to codify authority for his warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens, President Bush today said he would oppose any measure that risked revealing information about how the program is conducted.
“My concern has always been that, in an attempt to try to pass a law on something that’s already legal, we’ll show the enemy what we’re doing,” Bush said.
The president spoke at a White House news conference a day after Senate Democratic leaders urged him to tell them what new legal tools he needs for counterterrorism efforts.
“I want to make sure that people understand that if the attempt to write law makes this program — is likely to expose the nature of the program, I’ll resist it,” Bush said.
The president again defended his National Security Agency surveillance program as legal and necessary to protect Americans from more attacks. He vowed to continue the wiretapping, and bristled at questions about its legality.
randi says that frist is trying to do an endrun to prevent the possibility of a filibuster by demanding a cloture vote and not waiting until tuesday. she’s counting votes and thinks they have only 58 (including spineless dems who voted yes to alito) and they need 60. the whole process seems to be speeding up.
caci is suing randi for $10 million for saying on her show that caci contractors tortured prisoners in abu ghraib.
The problem with listening to yesterday’s programs is that I miss what’s happening today. (And confuse the crap outta myself to boot.) Which vote was going on yesterday? What was today? What’s Monday and/or Tuesday?
:bong: yep! Hey, this is great
The senate proceedings the last two days were a debate which defined the most probable vote and allowed each member of the senate to say whatever they wanted concerning the Alito nomination.
Three dems Byrd, Nelson from Neb and Johnson from South Dakota said they would vote YES.
The senate voted to have the vote on cloture on Monday at 4:30 pm.
:paranoid: Oh, no.
Bill Crowley just said on the news that Frist wants to have a cloture vote on Monday. If he gets 60 votes for cloture (to end debate)they will go to a vote on Tuesday the same day as the State of the Union. How great it would be to have a filibuster going on when he’s giving the state of the union.
Randi just had a caller that said she called Kerry’s office and they suggested contacting democratic members of the Judiciary would be a good idea.
This was posted at DU. I created a page (over there on the right, titled Filibuster Contacts) with the contact info, for those so inclined to call.
It’s all goin’ down hill, from here on out.:40:
I’ll end on this last song.
Travis, that last song was a blast from my past. I know, I’m old. Sean said on a post the other day that people on this blog remember WW II. At least I can’t remember WW II.
pj, thanks. Glad to hear Reid is on board. I will add Landrieu, Salazar and Johnson to my judiciary committee contact list. Momentum is so important. We need to somehow maintain it over the weekend.
Wow. I take a three-hour nap and look what happens!
But, yes, gypsy–it looks like the blog was hacked but our old posts are still there. I noticed it before the demise of MS, I think, when I was trying to go back and find some old posts.
Much to do re: filibuster! (And great news from Marc, of course!)
Well, I broke down and ordered Marc’s CD. I was gonna hold out for at least a week (like, til payday) but I just couldn’t help myself.
And this may be repeating something others have already mentioned but this commentary made me feel good while making me sad all over again at the loss of MS.
Susan Collins (R) Maine (pro-choice)
Will Vote YES on Alito 🙄
❗“Over the Past Few Days, BuzzFlash Has Relentlessly Called on John Kerry to Keep His Promise to Lead a Filibuster Against a Supreme Court Nominee as Anti-Constitutional and Partisan as Sam Alito. He Must Have Heard Us, And We Give Him Credit for Living Up to His Word. Now, It’s Up to Us to Help Him Persuade the Democrats Who Would Betray Our Constitution to Support Him. Call Them, Fax Them, Let Them Know You Will Not Forget Their Betrayal of America. Congratulations, John, You Kept Your Word!”
January 26, 2006
http://www.buzzflash.com
Isi, do you think that people like Susan Collins (R) Maine (pro-choice) or Sen. Leahy (and others) have made a final choice? I think they (and others) are stating their LEANINGS so “PLS A ZILLION E-MAILS / CALLS could persuade them to CHANGE her/their vote”.
I HOPE and I PRAY!!!
:pent::priest::sdavid::rabbi::jesus::yinyang::mrgreen::pent: :billcat: and crazy pup/dogs 😉
AND THX ISI FOR YOUR POSTS:!: ….:fire:
Hey all, just a drive by. YAY!! On Marc’s message! Can the bloggers get a lock of Marc’s hair with their CD?:tongue:
Okay, so I called Tim Johnson too and told him I was not a constituent but I wanted to let him know he had my support for a filibuster and his secretary took my info anyways and said they were keeping track of all calls. So what happened? By the time I got to Dorgen’s office the secretary said something that made me think it was over and Alito was confirmed. I tried listening to Randi but I can’t take her Bush impersonation and my hand automatically goes for the tuner. 🙄
I don’t think Collins has made her statement on the floor of the senate yet. But, apparently she told the press she planned on supporting Alito. However, it’s not written in stone until the final vote.
A caller on Seder’s show said she called Hillary Clinton’s office and the staffer said that there are 5 senators who don’t want to filibuster and Hillary doesn’t want to make it difficult. The caller, who is a NY activist and supporter, went nuclear and told her she can forget about support from here on out.:rant1:
Heh. The US Senate contact information page is currently experiencing “technical difficulties.”
Too many people trying to contact their Senators? Or are they just tired of hearing from us?
if there is a filibuster and hilary does not vote for it, then all true dems have to unite to prevent her from becoming the 2008 nomination. god, I’m so tired of this pathetic excuse for a party. :fustrate::fustrate::fustrate::fustrate:
oh, there was one thing that just made me smile. as I tried to sneak a look at this blog, my 3 year old came over and started fixating on the smileys. he pointed at the :banana: and said, “why is he doing that?” then he pointed to :fustrate: and said, “why is he so sad?” when he started to try to mimic the :fustrate:, I knew it was time to log off!! :rofl2:
Hey everybody…Ive been working on emails to senators and my new little baby blog
The whole Alito thing is just horrible…but I guess its not over till its over.
My Mom is afraid of the nuclear option…saying that if the filibuster goes through that the repugs will go nuclear and change the laws in the senate so we cant get anything done. I told her that shes speaking as if we ever are getting anything done anyway…and that anything done now can be undone by mid-terms or worse case sceneario, 2008. I think that the repugs would look bad if they went nuclear now…and if they keep control and/or get in again then we deserve it. Look at these freaks we have representing us.
This whole thing shows that any system that is based on the honesty or goodness of people is bound to fail. There is no pure experiment in government because of the barbarism of man (heh heh…bernard henri levy? is that who that is?)
Anyway, we are pretty screwed…
Maybe it is canada time. I was sorta thinking of vermont. Its not much further up to canada. I just like America so much…or I used to anyway.
Im tired…got all twisted up in HTML, which I havent even tried to read or write for quite a few years. I mamaged to change my blog from a black template to white…huh?…and I cant figure out what I did. I also scrambled it to death…but I somehow had saved it…
I want to add a counter and some bells and whistles but I barely got past the Sesame St Terror Alert buttons…
Oh well. I guess I have to give myself some time.
Im off to bed, hopefully…
TGIF tomorrow!!! This week has been too long!
OOPs…nevermind right now…I guess I did scramble it up quite a bit…Ive got to go back in and have a look….
Ill post later when its ready…
dlp67 :rofl2::banana::rofl2: …….:fire:
:paranoid:ha ha ha malloy is LIVE tonight i was worried the nazis came for him
OK…I fixed it
Damned HTML….But at least I fixed it!
If the ‘Thugs use the nuclear option, all the Democrats plus Jeffords should turn their backs on Bush during the SOTU speech, and walk out just as he approaches the microphone. For once, in unison.
I believe the nuclear option is only a threat…it will be just as bad for the ‘Thugs as the call to filibuster has been good for the Dems.
I’d still love to see a Molotov-cocktail throwing emoticon. Please? I’d make it myself, if only I know’d how…
JP
Hey Sean, you sure Malloy is live? Our local affiliate is playing a best of. Weird.
So, the jig is NOT up yet on Alito. Okay I’ll keep pushing. Do you think it does any good to call my repug senators? I feel like I should focus on the Dems at this point.
:doh:well the idiots have taken over all hope is lost have i mentioned yet today how much i hate these people?:mad: ugh ok well im sure nobody heard it but the commander in chimp was at a college speaking the other day and someone asked him an unscripted question about the cuts in funding for student aid you should of heard him it took the girl about three times repeating herself before the dumb bastard could compose himself and come up with a lie:rant1:(why does this fuck get to lie all the time and clinton gets blown and its impeachable) he said they didnt cut money they just had to move the money around and make it work better i guess its all good as long as the money goes into his cronies pockets i cant wait till impeachment hearings finally start and i get to change my screenname to impeachment now!!!!!!!!!!
:growl: FUCKING SCUMBAGS
Well, I think there’s a pretty good chance that both houses could be taken over by Dems and if they do the nuclear option they’re the ones that will have to live with it. But they’re gonna try to cheat like hell, you know it! Already here we had some of those Diebold touch screen machines approved in a sneaky manner with no public accounting for it. It’s We the People who are to blame for what is happening. I take full responsibility because I was asleep in the eighties and nineties when I should have been awake(I thought I was). We are the ones who have to hold our government accountable. We can’t expect them to do it. And now it’s so easy to make your voice heard, there is no excuse at all, at all. So, keep callin’ Seditionists! :banana:
Oh Man, I wish I would have heard that question Sean. I was a victim of that policy. I couldn’t finish engineering school because I couldn’t find enough money to get through a friggin 2 year program. :fustrate:
yeah damn old people what the hell sleeping through the 80s and the 90s what the hell now i have to work extra hard to pick up the slack!!!!!:mad: anyway its time to hit the road again that was a weird post huh i started full of despair that all was lost and ended excited about impeachment wow im some kind of manic motherfucker huh?:roll:
:priest:the bibles book of revelations portends that elves will crawl out of george bushes ass and apologize for leading us into fascism saying “they were just having fun and seeing how far they could take it” and take it they will
bloomberg news has a story re most americans don’t believe bush when he says the economy is getting better.
link
sean, you’re not the only one out there with your nose to the grindstone. a lot of us old folks are still putting in the same hours we did twenty and thirty years ago.
Kristapea Yea:!: :banana: 😉
SeanMS the bibles book of revelations portends that elves will crawl out of george bushes ass and apologize for leading us into fascism saying “they were just having fun and seeing how far they could take it” and take it they will
Comment by SeanMS — January 26, 2006 @ 11:23 pm
= :rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
:bow::alc::bow: foggyblue Yea:!:Yup:!:Yup:!: :banana: 😉
:love::love::love: …:fire:
LIVE ON AIR FILIBUSTER ❗
Watch and listen as The Young Turks http://www.youngturk.com/xoops filibuster right now until 41 senators support a filibuster of Sam Alito. They will stay on-air until they get democrats to join the fight!
Carpe Filibuster, Senator Feingold!
Stand up, start talking, and don’t stop.
You’re smart and eloquent, you’re on Judiciary, you’re the Senate champion on civil liberties, you’re facing off against an anti-choice nominee who believes in the so-called “unitary executive” but couldn’t remember what he thought about the fraud of Bush v. Gore, and you know Scalito will let Bush & Cheney run roughshod over the Constitution.
So lead the fight. A lot is on the line, and a nation is waiting for leadership.
When the GOPs invoke cloture, take your filibuster out on the road.
(Don’t forget to mention Dr. Lani Guinier, and Bill Lann Lee…)
And paint your top 3 reasons on your garage door.
This is your moment.
Steve Cobble
Jan 27, 2006
The Huffington Post
(This doesn’t take the place of contacting senators but it is a quick,easy thing to do.)
Filibuster Alito
Yesterday, Senator Ted Kennedy and I told our colleagues that we supported a filibuster of Judge Alito’s nomination for the Supreme Court. And we weren’t alone. But the bottom line is that it takes more than two or three people to filibuster successfully. It’s not “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” If you want to stop Judge Alito from becoming Justice Alito, use your own email list and organize. We can’t just preach to our own choir. We need to prove to everyone – from our friends and neighbors to our fellow Senators – that the American people know Judge Alito will take our country in the wrong direction, and they expect something to be done about it.
So I’m asking you to join Senator Kennedy, me, and concerned citizens across America who are signing this petition to support a filibuster. If there was ever a time to forward an email on to friends and family, this is it. One way or another, we’re going to find out in the next few days if Judge Alito is going to become Justice Alito. You know where I stand. The time to make your voice heard is now. So please sign this filibuster petition and get as many friends as you can to do the same.
Sign filibuster petition at
http://www.johnkerry.com
Isi, If you are still there? So they will be there — can u explain further? I am listening THX TO YOU:!: What’s neet is that I was planning on staying up since at 6am my time it is 9am EST. NOW THEY WILL BE UP THAT WILL ASSIST IN KEEPING ME UP:!: THX AGAIN:!:
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Isi, as You Said: Carpe Filibuster:!: ….:fire: