SEDER v MARON

you guys!

woohoo! best hour of the week

Soon as I finish listening to Maggie bell, I'll be hooking up to the Sammycam!

The world is more like it is now than it ever has been before. -- Dwight Eisenhower

how you doing with your pretty little self?

Everyone - hope ya all had a restful night.

we were all strung out last night
and of course war-dog being war-dog
took so much heroin that he o.d.
and died

p.s. before he died, he licked my balls

WAS THE NEEDLE IN THE PRICK?

New community site, Hubdub, allows users to bet play money on outcomes of news stories.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Wire/20125/?nlid=839

I've had better years...

You are great! Too funny

poor thing i feel bad for you--hope it gets better someday soon, i understand not everyone can be me!

YouTube - Southern California Shanty Town / Tent City

Here are some videos of a tent city / shanty town that has popped up in the suburbs of Southern California. I've never seen anything like this in America since the great depression.

minus Maronface

from my wonderful son-in-law...

She is now able to slowly get downstairs a couple of times a day. But she cannot bend, lift or twist for some time. I am learning how to do laundry, cook and do dishes the hard way. She is much better today than she was a week ago.

with Marc and trying to get his computer to work!

i see he is well trained like grover! GREAT NEWS!!

like arguing with my boyfriend...both Libras

and i am not computer literate at all, but by now he shuldve had this down packed....or wake up 7 hours earlier to work it damnit!!

and Im ready to listen to some good shit!

POOR MARC - He needs someone there to help him!

Subprime Obama
Max Fraser

Last year, forty-three states reported increased home foreclosure rates. Nevada led the way for eleven consecutive months; in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, nearly one in twenty homes is in foreclosure. Whole blocks have been foreclosed in Chicago. Nationwide, rates are nearing Depression-era highs--ravaging working- and middle-class neighborhoods that fell prey to the soft sell and outright chicanery of predatory lenders in the heyday of the housing boom. These lenders have targeted the most vulnerable--black and Latino borrowers have been twice as likely to receive subprime loans as whites; female homeowners, 30 percent more likely than male; black women, five times more likely than white men.

As the subprime mortgage debacle drives a recession that threatens financial markets around the world, the Democratic presidential candidates are pushing plans to address the crisis. John Edwards and Hillary Clinton are pledging substantial federal resources to stabilize the mortgage market and intervene on behalf of borrowers. Barack Obama's proposal is tepid by comparison, short on aggressive government involvement and infused with conservative rhetoric about fiscal responsibility. As he has done on domestic issues like healthcare, job creation and energy policy, Obama is staking out a position to the right of not only populist Edwards but Clinton as well.

Edwards's plan includes a mandatory moratorium on foreclosures, a freeze on rising interest rates for at least seven years, federal subsidies to help homeowners keep up with payments and restructure loans, and explicit measures to rein in predatory lenders and regulate the financial sector. Clinton's plan is weaker--a voluntary moratorium, a shorter freeze, less commitment to new regulations--but she has promised $30 billion in federal aid to help reeling homeowners and communities.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080211/fraser

Don't...feel bad for Maron ;P

if I was doing it! So, I relate.

is that the garage?

looks like George Carlin this morning.

oh word you werent lying

Marc about not being able to look at Hillary.

U.S. checking possibility of pumping oil from northern Iraq to Haifa, via Jordan

The United States has asked Israel to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa. The request came in a telegram last week from a senior Pentagon official to a top Foreign Ministry official in Jerusalem. Advertisement

The Prime Minister's Office, which views the pipeline to Haifa as a "bonus" the U.S. could give to Israel in return for its unequivocal support for the American-led campaign in Iraq, had asked the Americans for the official telegram.

The new pipeline would take oil from the Kirkuk area, where some 40 percent of Iraqi oil is produced, and transport it via Mosul, and then across Jordan to Israel. The U.S. telegram included a request for a cost estimate for repairing the Mosul-Haifa pipeline that was in use prior to 1948. During the War of Independence, the Iraqis stopped the flow of oil to Haifa and the pipeline fell into disrepair over the years.

frustrated. Sam should really talk with Marc prior to the show. It would make Marc feel better.

He is really frustrated.

i dont think anyone can make him feel better either than himself!! he is too funny though!

but it is a little bit funny. Just a little. I've been there, Marc...

Maron has a case of computerwhatsit.

Maron is firmly in crankie's school:

"I am NOT technologically challenged!"

*snark*

some of the responsibility to ask how to do things he doesn't know how to do. How would other people know what he doesn't know?

Marc seems a bit helpless at times.

who can help him with this for crying out loud!

send him cigars and money

(and one of the local geekettes)

Poor guy - he gets to stressed out.

This is outstanding "comic" relief!

I know, I know...."Take it on the road, Marc."

he knows people---he's just stubborn--and frustrated

Technitard---- awesome

Technitard---- awesome

Please someone set up his system.

HA!!

it's been

best connection ever!

Nothing makes me crazier than when I am mad and someone tells me to calm down or take a breath......

Marc! you're perfect now! and we love you including all your angst~~we feel it too and can so relate!

Sam, you're the best friend ever~~you take it on the chin and keep going.

we could hire-a-tech for him...

as to why I can't refresh the blog - the cam I can - but not the blog

it was never enough.

I found myself reaching 27 quite a bit.

Drinking coffee from Fiesta ware! Viva Fiesta Baby

His connection always works after 10 minutes or so.

You know, as soon as a democrat is elected, the republicans are going to pretend like the $9 trillion debt wasn't their fault, and instead it is the fault of tax-spend democrats. They're also going to say that Clintons are weak on defense, even though Bill Clinton totally kept bombing Iraq during 1992-2000 and maintained sanctions and intervened in Yugoslavia, plus he ended welfare and signed NAFTA

What Will the Recession Feel Like?
By Dean Baker | bio
Way back in mid-January, when the Washington policy herd had not yet determined that the economy needed stimulus, The Washington Post ran an editorial in which it held out the prospect that a recession may not be severe. This comment was intended to calm readers and slow the rush to stimulus. (The Post editorial board flipped the following week and joined the rush to stimulus.)

Still, the Post was right. We don’t know how severe this recession will be. My bet is that the loss of $4 trillion to $8 trillion in wealth due to the collapse of the housing bubble will lead to a serious recession. But perhaps the Post's optimism will prove correct; what will the world look like?

My colleague at CEPR, John Schmitt, did some quick calculations to remind people what happens in recessions.

The story is not pretty. He contrasted the economy’s performance in mild and severe recessions, with the last two recessions providing the basis for a “mild” recession and the 1980-82 recession being the model of a severe recession.

In a mild recession, we can anticipate that the unemployment rate will increase by at least two percentage points. This increase will not be evenly distributed. For blacks the unemployment rate will rise by three percentage points, for teens by five percentage points, and for black teens by close to eight percentage points.

In the event that the recession proves to be severe and looks more like the 1980-82 downturn, then we will be looking at an increase in the unemployment rate of almost three percentage points. The rise in the unemployment rate for blacks and teens will be close to five percentage points, and for black teens the increase will be nine percentage points. We still will not have recovered to current unemployment rates by the time of the next presidential election in 2012.

We can look forward to other bad things as well. The number of the uninsured will rise rapidly, wages and family income will fall, and poverty rates will rise. You can go the whole grizzly story here.

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2008/jan/29/what_will_the_recess...

on the cam! amazing!

You guys should give Kim Komando a call. She's a computer tech guru w/ a radio show, and a website.

http://www.komando.com/

Sam has nice eyebrows

with Marc

be fun!

to get the blog to work...

glitch city this AM.

we are IN a RECESSION - aren't we?

make your pictures smaller please

Oh, and that one is great! Luv it

G'day, gang!
Submitted by Liberal-at-large on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 11:18am.
*here*
---------------
I'll alert the media.
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The Media: "Who?"

goodun greenpagan!

Sunshine Jimmy????

greenpagen>>> where did you get that great statue (figurine) of Monkey Boy. LOL

is my pick for Super Tuesday

is my pick for Super Tuesday

how are doing???

I am not totally convinced about Obama. I want to be, but there are things he's said that I don't like.

In the end it will be Congress' job to legislate for the president's plans. That doesn't mean it will all pass the Congress.

If it wasn't for the social services the numbers would've actually been worse than those of the great depression as of four years ago and it's gotten significantly worse since then...So what's in a name?

what a big hole!!!

squinty old fart and hotrods:

http://www3.telus.net/Art-Adventures/65PontiacParissenne/

crankie: "1st or 3rd base?"

jumped 79% from 2006 to 2007. 79%!!

Do you know how much harm this will do to the economy?

Some are going past recession to depression.

doing good today.

Sorry to say I was 20 minutes late, so I'm not recording the audio today.
If someone else is recording, post a link and I'll host it online with my other recordings of Maron v Seder.

Layoffs coming, and in large numbers, survey finds

Corporate executives are poised to start making substantial cutbacks in their staffing, according to a new forecast by employment consulting and legal firm Career Protection.

In fact, the firm is predicting a 37% increase in layoffs this year over last, based on a survey of more than 1,300 corporate executives and senior level officials that was conducted earlier this month.

The layoff forecast registers as the worst in the last five years, according to Career Protection officials. They also indicated that the firm has already been “inundated” with inquiries from employees at a number of companies that announced layoffs earlier this month, including Bear Stearns, Chrysler, Citigroup, Ford, Covidien, General Motors, IndyMac and Sprint Nextel.

Marc has???

This is GREAT!

Sen.Larry Craig is on c-span 2

how can his colleagues even look at him??

multimaron!

ya same model I have...

Submitted by Liberal-at-large on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 11:49am.
crankie: "1st or 3rd base?"
------
You owe me a setup.

How u be, sensei?

Marc is in full sync on the cam -

POOR CRITTER

Coyote?

I wouldn't even think of paying someone to get it. $100 is alot of money to me.

was he describing the SOTU?

Who's on 2nd

I don't know's on 3rd

contemplative and longing for simplicity and finding only the complex at the end of my thoughts...

You?

is everything working for you today?

here

that isn't automagically hyperlinked?"

submitted by Cat Chew 5:43am previous thread 2282

***************

to me the internets & its tubes are all magic :)

we can hear him better through the computer, not the phone

we're all in it together

Submitted by Crank Bait on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 11:56am.

Submitted by Liberal-at-large on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 11:49am.
crankie: "1st or 3rd base?"
------
You owe me a setup.

*

I'll make it a double. *snark*

thank goodness for small blessings

it IS fun!

to the Clintons today. For the last hour MSNBC and to a lesser extent CNN have been concentrating on the Clintons.

There needs to be someone in CA to help Marc out.

yeah

why whats changed?

his name was Tom

we have synch!

its not in sync with the cam

it was perfect for me on the webcam...audio and video...so...

When Bush Says Al Qaeda "On The Run" In Iraq

Washington Times | January 29, 2008 09:50 AM
Read More: Clinton Obama State Of The Union, Warwire, Breaking Politics News
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From the Washington Times:

When Mr. Bush entered the House chamber at 9:05, Mrs. Clinton stopped clapping after a few moments. Mr. Obama, however, clapped for almost the entire four minutes that Mr. Bush took to walk down the aisle.

One of the few policy lines on which the two senators differed came when Mr. Bush said that Al Qaeda is "on the run" in Iraq. Mrs. Clinton stood and clapped, while Mr. Obama did not.

On his way out of the chamber after his speech, Mr. Bush shook Mr. Obama's hand and then Mr. Kennedy's, and made a few quick remarks to both, drawing a smile from Mr. Obama.

The Hill highlighted the same moment:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/29/clinton-claps-obama-refr_n_8380...

are we ready for prime time yet?

Iraqis claims 300 insurgents dead in battle near Najaf; violence persists elsewhere

Iraqi officials claimed Monday that 300 militants were killed in a fierce battle between U.S.-backed Iraqi troops and insurgents allegedly plotting to kill pilgrims at a major Shiite Muslim religious festival.

Andy Card on MSNBC last night after the SOTU.

Was he crying about what Mathews and Olberman were saying about the SOTU and Bush.

It was actually fun to watch him pissed off to that extent. They aren't used to that kind of treatment from the MSM.

Dr.'s appointment today. "Comprehensive Rheumatic Care" to try & find out what is going on
in this body of mine.

so when he makes that available I'll make an audio trac from it.

Scott Bloch, head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, wrote Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey last week, claiming that the Justice Department had repeatedly “impeded” his investigation of the politicization of the department under Alberto Gonzales “by refusing to share documents and provide answers to written questions.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-probe29jan29,1,19...

if someone were to send Marc the exact same system Sam has - but Marc can ONLY use it for the show. Like a little studio in his home somewhere.

In January, there were “twice as many combat casualties” in Iraq “than there were in all of December 2007,” according to analysis from Cybercast News Service. There have been 28 deaths through Jan. 28 in comparison with 14 in December.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200801/NAT200...

Post-xmas...a lot slower than a month ago but still way above average. Usually I'm near-hibernating by now. Can't complain. A lot of peeps are keeping (upgrading, repairing) their old stuff. My little girl & son-in-law visited from England for 2wks early Jan.

Just tryin' to stay on the high side & pay-off everything before the economy flushes.

It's good to read ya!

that Bush didn't announce his early retirement last night.

If Bush would have stepped down and announced that Cheney

was leaving for medical reasons, the economy would get an

instant shot in the arm and there would be a world wide

celebration that would be like no party ever seen.

The Bush administration’s use of the state secrets privilege to avoid disclosure of classified information in civil lawsuits in increasing, prompting legislation that would provide more congressional oversight of the practice. Rep. Jerold Nadler (D-NY) will hold a hearing on the issue today.

Some 9/11 responders were on-hand last night to listen to Bush’s State of the Union. “I’m fed up with how we’re treated,” said Queens paramedic Marvin Bethea. Ground Zero volunteer John Feal added, “You got $3 billion a month to kill people, you got $3 billion a year for health care.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/01/28/2008-01-28_sick_911_responder...

before the weather turns ugly.

Later

just left a comment on your open mic about flt 77

also thaks to Sunshine Jim for his 9/11 links

and no thwaks! :)

Re sizing pics

I would if I knew how. Any guidance?

I usually post pics on sites (including my own blog) that automatically scale-down over-sized art.

(I certainly don't intend to cause any disruptions around websites like Sam's towards which I'm highly politically friendly.)

Regards

-- GP

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Former spy chief confirms US waterboarding

(Adds advance Mukasey testimony, comment in paragraphs 13-14)

By Randall Mikkelsen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States used waterboarding in terrorism interrogations but no longer does, a former U.S. spy chief said in the Bush administration's clearest confirmation of the technique's use.

U.S. officials have been reluctant to acknowledge the CIA's use of the simulated drowning technique, which human rights groups call an illegal form of torture.

The remarks by former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte in an interview with National Journal magazine come as senators are expected Wednesday to grill Attorney General Michael Mukasey on a promised review of the legality of interrogation methods.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Former_spy_chief_confirms_US__0129.html

Marc is technologically tone deaf.

You know... to "run again"?

I know, I know, 'technically' it's for a campaign, but it's like a corporation, you expense everything you can get away with.

Or... it's like being Mayor of NYC, you expense it to the people... like the new emergency command center in the WTC, with the humidor and the love nest for your mistress, etc etc. etc....

I think he had to make a show of it to get people to keep giving him donations, and then he pretty much dropped out, parked himself in Florida, spent a lot of dough with no intention of ever winning or going the distance. It would be par for the course for a guy who makes a lot of money off 9/11 victims when he actually contributed to their death.

Marc is technologically tone-deaf.

plants. Thanks.

What's on 1st
Submitted by Kat-in-Manhattan on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 11:59am.
Who's on 2nd

I don't know's on 3rd

*

Who's On First?

I have been here once and that was a few months ageo and he STILL hasn't learned to do this????

Poor Marc, lolol!

Re "good bye Rudy tuesday"

Nice. But you know that...

Regards

-- GP

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Would probably strip naked and cover myself with movie blood in protest.

Just curious.

Simply Red

In the middle of the night, when the time is right
Sexily right, I'm gonna do the right thing
Gonna move you slow, much harder though
Sexily so, I'm gonna do the right thing
Feelin' hot, I ain't never gonna stop
To get what you got, you better take what I bring
Feel it now, much harder now
More than any old how, say you feel the pain

Feel I'm getting harder now, get off your back four
Get on top more owww!
Feel I'm sinking farther down, get off your back four
Get on top more

I told you to stop, "You're sleeping out a lot"
You told me get lost, where's your understanding
I feel it now much harder than I've ever done now
I'd better do the right thing

I'm gonna do the right thing
I'm gonna do the right thing

You're sounding a bit of the optimist to me but ok ;)

to resize a picture include the width parameter like this
<img src="XXX" width="YYY">
Where XXX is the url and YYY is the desired width of the picture. Aim for YYY<400.

I don't get why this nation is so wild about Obama. It seems to me that he is just more pro-corporate BS, so WHAT IS IT that people are freaking out about???

I can NOT understand why Edwards is not winning. HE's the only one, seems to me, that truly has the middle class in mind at all! How can we make this known and WHY is it that folks don't seem to be seeing it? Anyone understand what's wrong with this idiot country? I wish I did!

Tell me somethin'..........!

(grew up watching Abbot & Costello)

BUT i did get third base right. . .hmmmm :)

The impression that he's "different"...

He's not...in fact he disturbs me as much as any of the republicans...

That pic was OK in IE and Firefox but Opera blows it up. I use Opera for the Sammy Cam because it resizes the video windows on the .tv frames site whereas the other browsers don't.
Sorry if I snapped at you about that, the pic wasn't all that big after all.

As for Resizing tutorial try this. (without spaces before/after the < & >)
< img src="image url here" width="make numerical adjustments here" height="adjust here too" >

Hey is Sam talking now, cause I see a few remarks like this one but I don't hear anything.....I have NO IDEA how this site works, lol.

aint no 2 people the same!!!

That's the voices in your head.

Obey them willfully.

January 29, 2008 -- US reaction to Kenya crisis gives clue to AFRICOM mission

As the Africa Command (AFRICOM) gears up its operations by staffing its temporary Stuttgart, Germany headquarters with 1300 personnel, Pentagon operations in Africa in response to the post-election violence in Kenya provides some clues as to how the militarization of America's Africa policy will affect the future of U.S. relations with the continent.

Guam National Guard units recently completed training 60 Djiboutian troops who are part of a unit called the "Djiboutian Army East Africa Standby Brigade." The U.S. has established a major military base in Camp Lemonier, Djibouti, a former French military base. The base is the headquarters of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), a command that will be a major component of AFRICOM. CJTF-HOA makes deployments to Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Yemen. The command also has responsibility for Somaliland, Seychelles, Eritrea, and Sudan.

U.S. troops at Camp Lemonier train along with troops from Britain and France, two former African colonial powers.

Although the Bush administration maintains that CJTF-HOA is designed to combat "terrorists," American troops have been active in helping the Ethiopian dictatorship put down ethnic separatist rebellions in the Ogaden and Oromo regions. They have also been active in training Kenyan security forces who have brutally put down opposition protests stemming from the fraudulent election engineered by President Mwai Kibaki, a U.S. client.

There are credible reports that the US military coordinated the dispatch of Ugandan troops into the violence-plagued Rift Valley of western Kenya in support of Kenyan forces loyal to Kibaki. Troops with the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in southern Sudan being trained by Kenyan and U.S. forces were also reportedly sent to western Kenya dressed in the uniforms of the Kenyan paramilitary GSU security force.

Camp Lemonier is one of the proposed sites for the permanent headquarters of AFRICOM. Others include Morocco, Sao Tome and Principe, and Liberia.

The Bush administration recently announced that Rwanda would receive $7 in military aid. Rwandan troops are active in the neighboring Congo helping a pro-Rwandan Tutsi military rebellion against the central government of President Joseph Kabila and UN peacekeepers. The military aid to Rwanda is under the aegis of the Africa Contingency Operational Training Assistance (ACOTA) program, which will become a component part of AFRICOM.

AFRICOM will also subsume US assistance programs for Africa currently run by the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, and Justice. This includes Justice Department assistance for the dubious war crimes trials of Rwandan Hutus being held in Arusha, Tanzania.

There have also been credible reports of the movement of British military forces into Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, possibly to support the evacuation of British nationals from Kenya in the event that violence spirals out of control.

I'd like to take a stab at this one. Edwards, with all his

positives, SOUNDS like a goober whenever he opens his

mouth. Now, I know this is shallow and silly....but...to

quote a famous and boring Air America commercial..."you are

judged by the words you speak AND THE WAY YOU SPEAK THEM."

John Edwards is a wealthy lawyer. He can afford a top notch

speech and drama coach. He puts a lot of care into his hair.

He should have invested in his voice and speaking

mannerisms.

is where my brother was thrown in jail for 12years and tortured for going up against the apartheid regime!!

Pioneering Blackwater Protesters Given Secret Trial and Criminal Conviction

By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet. Posted January 29, 2008.

Protesters who re-enacted one of Blackwater's worst civilian massacres in Iraq got jail time, while the real killers remain free.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/75244/?page=entire

he tipped his hand.

he said Mischka used to do all the computer maintenance. Now that he has to work this out himself, it's just another reminder she split.

patience, my boy.

That's terrible, but Sadly not unique, Lucille...

Yeah, I've noticed........awfully good at sound bites......way to much like the publicans for me, at least right now.

The media is selling Obama and Hill while creating their own little race card fight and ignoring the real candidate. They are as pathetic as the pubbi-cons :o{

edit: I didn't mean the only real candidate, obviously because they are all real candidates....I'm just angry he's being ignored by the media.....

has a new layout. Not too shabby either.

nothing like a little more artifice for the pot...

[insert hollywood smile here]

Really why is it that we want our politicians to be Hollywood perfect and then we wonder why we get actors?

as a rabid edwards supporter i must admit that there is a lot of truth in what you say. when all is said and done he comes across as an angry wimp instead of a man whose anger has focused him on getting a job done.

Submitted by Peter Dragon on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 12:21pm.
I am really disappointed that Bush didn't announce his early retirement last night.
If Bush would have stepped down and announced that Cheney
was leaving for medical reasons, the economy would get an
instant shot in the arm and there would be a world wide
celebration that would be like no party ever seen.
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I agree. I, like you, have contemplated the ramifications of swift and unexpected exits of Cheney and Bush. It is odd and ironic that they could accomplish more positive and more rapid results across the board by bowing out.

In a different time frame their resignations could negatively stun the markets, the economy, and foreign relations because of the uncertainty factor. In the current time frame of a despised lame duck presidency with record primary voter turnout for candidates who generally advocate repudiation of the policies of the Cheney/Bush administration, I imagine a sigh of relief from all concerned.

Amen Nobs. Sad thing is...it's true.

who wants that? although eye candy has not decayed my sight yet!!

hartmann was just talking about that fine british tradition where the prime minister must show up once a week and answer questions from the oppostion. to survive you gots to think on your feet.

i doubt the monkey boy could get to the first round in mtv cash cab.

The MSM has made up the minds of the mainstream simps for them.

They are playing to peoples desire to see someone other than a White Male in the White House for a change.

Problem is, the best Democrat running this time just happens to be a White Man.

If more people would really look past gender and race they would see this.

IMHO

The way he fusses over his hair and the goofy Southern

accent, really don't work for me. As an old bald guy that

can speak clearly, Edwards seems mighty superficial to me.

The voices in my head tell me to do bad things to the Bush crew.........and their enablers...

could be fun!

"John Edwards is a wealthy lawyer. He can afford a top notch

speech and drama coach. He puts a lot of care into his hair.

He should have invested in his voice and speaking

mannerisms."

Wow. You really drank the MSM koolaid. Did you know he is a "trial lawyer" as in he is wealthy because he speaks for a living and wins? So... I can't imagine what you are talking about. He's not punching up boilerplate contracts. You know Obama is a lawyer too, right? And Clinton?

And as far as the "wealthy" bit, since when did you start believing the MSM on that one? Every candidate, except maybe Kucinich is "wealthy"; many more than Edwards. And the "hair"? Okay. You really fell for that one? That has been debunked forever.

Please tell me you were just imitating what the average MSM listening, uninformed person believes.

wonderful dad is backing Juliana, saw him out on the stomp with him on sunday!

I don't think that we can use artifice or the perception of it as a deciding crux since we all have our "public faces" and our real selves...

It's not that something is hidden...but what is hidden that matters.

Problem is, the best Democrat running this time just happens to be a White Man.

If more people would really look past gender and race they would see this.

IMHO
»

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I would love someone who is non-white, non- Christian, or female to be President, but it won't do anyone any good if it's the wrong person and they stick to the same old traditional male WASP corporatist policies.

Me? Yep, that's me...one of the happy, shiny people. *snark*

what? a non christian wouldnt be able to do the job?

hahaha...

Seeds store for a long time.

sorry but what does a "goober" sound like?

wouldn't be able to GET the job without lying his ass off and a slew of photo ops at some religious institution or another.

I edited it!

That's not what I meant, girl... and you know it.

whilst some dog sucks his dick under the pulpit...

man let go to lunch!! am shocked.."christian"???whilst we bomb the fuck out of innocent mothers and children..."CHRISTIAN" my clit!

phew---i was about to say!!!thank you!

did you forgive me yet?

Barbara Walters Bans Kathy Griffin From "The View" — Again

January 29, 2008 -- THERE'S a first time for everything, and for the first time in her career, Kathy Griffin was re-banned from a show. "I was supposed to be on 'The View' [today]," said Griffin, who performs her final sold-out stand-up show tonight at Madison Square Garden. "But then I get a call from [producer] Bill Geddie, and he says, 'You were too mean to Barbara [Walters] on your last special, so you can't come on.' Can you believe it? I've been banned before but never re-banned!" Griffin does a spot-on impersonation of Walters, but she didn't insult the TV legend any more than usual on her last special for Bravo.

HuffPo

Now I rarely engage in this sort of conversation but I don't even know how one would pull off that particular move...and if it has anything to do with a ring of thorns I'm not sure I wanna know...

Babs needs to chill for real !

And,remove the broom out of her butt !

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

its next to impossible to describe but like porn you know it when you see (hear) it.

Re to resize a picture include the width parameter like this
Where XXX is the url and YYY is the desired width of the picture. Aim for YYY<400.

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Thank you very much, Fernando.

Regards

-- GP

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I'm sick and tired of hearing folks "claim" they want some-one who will work FOR them and then complaining that they lack other things.....things that really don't matter anyway, like whether or not they can sing (Hillary) or that they are too short (Kucinich) - who gives a damn? Edwards "talks" just fine as far as I can see, and... c'mon, NO-ONE talks as badly as Bushboy so.........?

I don't care how he talks, I care how he thinks this country OUGHT TO RUN.

***
"CHRISTIAN" my clit!"

Submitted by Nobody on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 1:21pm.

Now I rarely engage in this sort of conversation but I don't even know how one would pull off that particular move...and if it has anything to do with a ring of thorns I'm not sure I wanna know...

***

No, I wasn't. Edwards doesn't HAVE to sound like a redneck

goober. He has control over that. It also isn't my fault

that people are judged by the way they speak. It's just

the way it is. Edwards is educated and has personal wealth.

If he wants to be president...fine...just lose the twang

and chances get better. It's just an opinion. People with

southern accents sound dumb. They might not be dumb but

they sound dumb.

Coming to a Open Mic soon ! ;)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

I can't even get the cam to work!

ooh. Going 'toe to toe' with the Lucille....!
Submitted by Catharine on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 1:28pm
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Toe to toe? You should be ashamed of yourself for stooping to the double whammy of punning with prurient slang.

Is the stupidity of America.....if so many weren't so stupid it wouldn't matter what they said.......

I have come to the conclusion that people believe what they want to believe....sadly

were from the South..Sorry,PD..

Edit..Bush,southern via the northeast.. :)
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Wanna hear what a goober sounds like? Come to Ohio and visit

an area known as Brimfield. Go to a tavern or a roadhouse.

Sit at the bar and drink a Rolling Rock with the guys in

overalls and hats on backwards. Listen to them speak. That

is what goobers sound like,

Peter Dragon: "...People with southern accents sound dumb. They might not be dumb but they sound dumb."
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Gah-ah-AH-lee. Where'd you get that idea?

Re:People with

southern accents sound dumb. They might not be dumb but

they sound dumb.

*****************

Hollywood has worked hard on programing middle American minds to believe this for the past century.

During pre-Civil rights era it was justifiable. The "Southern white powers that be" needed to ridiculed.

The nation has moved on to a new era, but the old stereotypes remain.

Oh, and Hollywood continues with the phoney southern accents any time a stupid character is part of a script. Old habits die hard.

is endorsing Obama for President.

What went wrong with Kansas?

(3% influence perhaps)

snobbish?

Wow. The cold front has arrived: From 65F to 40F in twenty minutes and still dropping like a presidential approval rating.

just a little south of kent state...

when they run out of rolling rock there's always:

Katarina, you can call me "Al".

*winks*

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al

That one had me ROFLMAO! Did you know there REALLY is a

Cleveland accent...and man...do they sound dumb!

The Cleveland Accent can only be achieved by consuming two

six packs of Stroh's beer...out of cans....and six

kielbasa and eight pirogi's. WOOF WOOF! Go Dogs.

Dennis Quaid in 'The Big Easy'

Dennis needs to be tortured for his crime.

After all, he tortured anyone who watched that movie.

I say, one year in Gitmo ought to do it.

temptation is a bitch!

Submitted by ottilie on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 11:34am.
His connection always works after 10 minutes or so.

[You know, as soon as a democrat is elected, the republicans are going to pretend like the $9 trillion debt wasn't their fault, and instead it is the fault of tax-spend democrats.]They're also going to say that Clintons are weak on defense, even though Bill Clinton totally kept bombing Iraq during 1992-2000 and maintained sanctions and intervened in Yugoslavia, plus he ended welfare and signed NAFTA

This list of Clinton criticism is true, unfortunately. Not nearly as bad as Bush, but criminally awful just the same. What can the progressive do to prevent similar outcomes when the Democratic candidate assumes the presidency? Start planning now.

I love it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOiVaE-pKqM

How about "Toity toid and toid..." ?

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5 hailmary's
2 our fathers
1 glory be to the father
6 hail holy queens

go in peace to love and serve the Lord! you are forgiven my child!

From: http://insurgelicious.blogspot.com
Posted by J A G U A R I T O

Don Imus got into an animated discussion this morning about former President Bill Clinton's comparison of Obama's South Carolina primary victory over Senator Clinton to Jesse Jackson. ''If I had made that comparison to Jesse Jackson,'' I have a feeling that I'd be talking to Al Sharpton again,'' Imus told Michael Graham of Boston's WTKK.

HuffPo

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Now, I'm no Imus fan but he nailed something there.

bamba clud---ifa mea man tellz u me tellz you ded maan wall-king!!! (my best jamerican accent)new york forever boy!!!

Sorry for the late reply. I was running around this morning so I wasn't on the blog - just trying to catch Sam and Marc while doing other stuff. Yes I was able to watch/listen to Sam today (because I did it from home.) Something happens when I have the laptop at work. I'm up to date on the players and all (you can tell I really know what the f--- I'm talking about.)
Anyway, thanks for asking -
Doris

http://zcommunications.org/zvideo/2488

11 of 11 parts (part 11 came out today)

funny how we SEE NOTHING from this wonderful Iraq ever since Bush"wa" started pushing his "the surge has worked" B.S!

Even funnier how the media doesn't even notice! The only one who has is Olbermann - thank GOD for him!

Now, you hit on something interesting there. The NY City

accent certainly wouldn't be charming on a prez candidate.

That being said....the country has tolerated Lyndon

Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Bush2...all of

whom had the Peckerwood sound down...pretty good!

My best guess at this point is that your company has filters that exclude things like streaming flash on their network.

Productivity first these days. Too bad M v. S wasn't like, 7-8 years ago, before the luddite curmudgeons caught on to what was really going on in the office.

Camp Hillary: Floridians Will Be Heard!
By Greg Sargent - January 29, 2008, 1:03PM

On a conference call arranged by the Hillary campaign just moments ago, her advisers rolled out some novel arguments to reporters as to why we should see the Florida primary as important despite the fact that no delegates are at stake.

The first: Because Floridians have been following the campaign through the national media -- and because Floridians are voting in huge numbers -- it's clear that they made an informed decision to be heard as part of the electoral process.

"Much to everyone's surprise, Floridians said, `You know what? We want to have a primary,'" Hillary spokesperson Howard Wolfson said on the call. He also said: "It's quite heartening and exciting to see record numbers of people saying that their choices matter."

Hillary's advisers also pushed the point even further, predicting that the votes of Floridians will in fact matter, in that Florida will eventually seat its delegation. Wolfson, for instance, suggested that the question of whether Florida seats delegates will be ultimately settled democratically.

"There will likely be a vote at the convention on whether or not to seat these delegations," Wolfson said of Florida and Michigan.

Of course, in addition to any long term strategy of actually getting any delegations seated, Camp Hillary is pushing the media to confer significance on the Florida results in the short term, probably to beat back the Obama-on-a-roll narrative.

AAAAAWWWWW i am so hurt!!! just kidding dont have one!

you are so right, IMO. It makes me furious the way the folks here vote against their own best interest, apparently because they're too lazy or too stupid to even read!

They want to be "told" what to think :o{!

UGH!

I think you're right. I can't even download legit stuff like Windows Media Player updates. Nothing can get through.
At home however I got to see Marc get angry (again) without a hitch.
Doris

who are making fun of us southerners and our accents are completely obtuse. I'll prove it too.

I went to Boston once for a stupid conference in Nashua. After leaving the airport through the big dig I got on the wrong free way and stopped to ask directions to Nashua (NH). So the attendant told me to stay on the road I was on and keep going for about an hour. I stopped 3 more times and each time I got the same response. Finally, in freaking North Shore I stopped again and asked for Nashua. The attendant told me I was there so I asked for the Sheraton. He told me there is no Sheraton.

Damn yankee's and their lack of R's. Nashua is not North Shore. Learn to speak freaks!

he's an idjit rightwinger!

Submitted by Lucille on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 2:01pm.
temptation is a bitch!

*

...Carmen playing in my head. ; )

having spent some time in boston, that is the funniest thing i have read today.

"You should be ashamed of yourself for stooping to the double whammy of punning with prurient slang."

*

What a complement!

aka l'Al

lost dan. The other thing that pisses me off about it is every road is called I95. Now I gotta ask. How messed up is that?

The story is actually quite funny but I don't have time to relay the stupid things that happened to me just looking for freaking Nashua.

Not sure I've seen a candidate lose because he had a southern accent before! Hmm...not anything I care about in my candidate.

I care about his take on corporations, which I like.

carmen? i thought you meant cartman.

check this out though--you were telling Fernando a while back about he rising and falling (what ever you call it star sign) mine is April 11---please read me!

that they all knew you were trying to get to Nashua and they

were just fucking with ya.....really. Every one of them

went home that night and joked about how they sent another

guy to the North Shore.

I still back Edwards even though I know he is not winning a nomination. If he gets to be AG or VP because of that support then I win big time.

It's NOT about Edwards corny accent.

It's about his ability to shed it.

and John Edwards starts to sound fantastic.

Showdown in Blackwater's Backyard

Washington Dispatch: Why the controversial private security company wants to run congressional candidate Marshall Adame "out of Dodge.

Marshall Adame is a Democrat running for Congress in North Carolina's 3rd District, a jurisdiction along the Tar Heel state's low-lying eastern coast that is home to the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Lejeune, Air Station Cherry Point, and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, as well as Blackwater Worldwide's 7,000-acre corporate headquarters and training facility. Adame is an underdog in the congressional race, where he will likely face seven-term Republican incumbent Walter B. Jones—who brought the term "freedom fries" to Congress—in the general election. Jones has since become an opponent of the Iraq war, atoning for his vote to authorize the war by writing letters of condolence to the families of dead soldiers—a "mea culpa to my Lord," he says. But the incumbent and his Republican party are not the only obstacles Adame will have to overcome if he hopes to take over the 3rd District's congressional seat. He also faces tough opposition from Blackwater.

http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/01/blackwaters-backy...

teeeheeheehee---wow, have not heard from him in a while!!

scratch that

too much barfing

Carmen who?
Submitted by Lucille on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 2:30pm.

*

...to say, "Who's on first!!" to perceptably hear crankie groan from Missouri, but I meant this one:

A Sibel Edmonds Timeline

"We Can't Afford to Let Them Spill the Beans"

By GARY LEUPP

I am not one to easily embrace conspiracy theories, and in particular have found the idea that 9-11 was somehow an inside job too incredible for serious consideration. On the other hand, there are some very fishy aspects to some officials' behavior pertaining to the attacks. Justin Raimondo has made a very good case for the fact that Mossad agents posing as "Israeli art students" were tracking al-Qaeda operatives in the U.S. before 9/11. Over 120 Israelis were detained after 9/11, some failing polygraph tests when asked about their involvement in intelligence gathering. But they were not held or charged with any illegal activity but rather deported. As former FBI translator and whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds has revealed, there was a curious failure of the government before 9/11 to act upon intelligence pertaining to an al-Qaeda attack. Most importantly Edmonds, defying the gag order that former Attorney General Ashcroft imposed on her in 2002, is implicating Marc Grossman, formerly the number three man in the State Department, in efforts to provide U.S. nuclear secrets to Pakistan and Israel. She suggests this was done through Turkish contacts and Pakistani contacts, including the former head of Pakistan's ISI who funneled funds to Mohamed Atta! Now there's a conspiracy for you.

Edmonds claims that during her time at the FBI (September 20, 2001 to March 22, 2002) she discovered that intelligence material had been deliberately allowed to accumulate without translation; that inept translators were retained and promoted; and that evidence for traffic in nuclear materials was ignored. More shockingly, she charges that Grossman arranged for Turkish and Israeli Ph.D. students to acquire security clearances to Los Alamos and other nuclear facilities; and that nuclear secrets they acquired were transmitted to Pakistan and to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the "father of the Islamic bomb," who in turn was selling nuclear technology to Libya and other nations. She links Grossman to the former Pakistani military intelligence chief Mahmoud Ahmad, a patron of the Taliban who reportedly arranged for a payment of $ 100,000 to 9/11 ringleader Atta via Pakistani terrorist Saeed Sheikh before the attacks. She suggests that he warned Pakistani and Turkish contacts against dealings with the Brewster Jennings Corp., the CIA front company that Valerie Plame was involved in as part of an effort to infiltrate a nuclear smuggling ring. All very heady stuff, published this month in the Times of London (and largely ignored by the U.S. media).

She does not identify Grossman by name in the Times article, but she has in the past, and former CIA officer Philip Giraldi does so in an extremely interesting article in the American Conservative. From that and many other sources, I come up with the timeline that appears below. But first, some background on Grossman. A graduate of UC-Santa Barbara and the London School of Economics, he was a career Foreign Service officer from 1976 when he began to serve at the U.S. embassy in Pakistan. He continued in that post to 1983, when he became the Deputy Director of the Private Office of Lord Carrington, the Secretary General of NATO. From 1989 to 1992 he was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Turkey, and from 1994 to 1997, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey. As ambassador he strongly supported massive arms deals between the U.S. and Ankara.

Thereafter he was Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, responsible for over 4,000 State Department employees posted in 50 sites abroad with a program budget of $1.2 billion to 2000. In 1999 he played a leading role in orchestrating NATO's 50th anniversary Summit in Washington, and helped direct U.S. participation in NATO's military campaign in Kosovo that same year. As Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from the beginning of George W. Bush's administration to January 2005, he played a bit role in the Plame Affair, informing "Scooter" Libby of Plame's CIA affiliation.
http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp01292008.html

the rethuglicans are stealing katrina recovery money:

this isn't about jobs and it isn't about building a port. It's about paying off Haley and his rich friends. There are priorities and then there are priorities. They'll be stealing from the taxpayers and the poor until the very last minute they're in office.

Nope. It was B.L. [Before Lucille]. [I know. It's hard to believe there was such a time.]

***

April 11th? Well your sun sign is Aries, as I am sure you know. [Wow. If ever there was an Aries, Lucille... you are one.] I have an Aries moon and find my brother sister and most of my friends are Aries. I like me some Aries.

Anyway, I am not a great astrologer by any means, but I think you are referring to your rising sign...? If so, I need your exact time, and place of birth and I could find out for you.

from a cincinnati political blog:

The morning after delivering the nationally-televised Democratic response to President Bush's State of the Union address, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius - the Cincinnati-born-and-raised daughter of former Ohio governor John J. Gilligan, hustled off to the Kansas town of El Dorado to announce her support for Barack Obama for president.

Why El Dorado? It's the home town of the Illinois senator's maternal grandfather.

The Obama endorsement came after a Democratic-response speech that many pundits thought had said Obama-like touches - lots of references to unity, working together for the common good, putting aside partisan politics.

Sounded to us like a rehearsal speech for an Obama running mate.

The weird thing about Massachusetts people is
new
Submitted by Peter Dragon on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 2:37pm.
that they all knew you were trying to get to Nashua and they

were just fucking with ya.....really. Every one of them

went home that night and joked about how they sent another

guy to the North Shore.

*

...to ask Fer if he asked for directions in "Mass" w/ a Texan accent.

If that were the case, he's lucky he didn't wind up in Cleveland!

Horse's Ass

NEW YORK — John McCain heads into Tuesday's Florida primary facing resistance from not only his fellow candidates, but also from the leaders of conservative talk radio, who some suggest have put their reputations on the line, as well.

Talk radio pioneer Rush Limbaugh said that if McCain or Mike Huckabee are nominated, "it's going to destroy the Republican Party." Mark Levin calls the senator "John McLame." On Monday, Laura Ingraham said she was "concerned about the mental stability of the McCain campaign" and had cuckoo-clock sound effects accompany his words.

"Sen. McCain is a great American, a lousy senator and a terrible Republican," Hugh Hewitt told The Associated Press. "He has a legislative record that is not conservative. In fact, it is anti-conservative."

Yet with McCain winning primaries in New Hampshire and South Carolina, and in a virtual tie with Mitt Romney for the lead in polls in Florida, the top radio personalities are facing the possibility that their words are having little effect.

Radio host Michael Medved said that the big loser in South Carolina was talk radio, "a medium that has unmistakably collapsed in terms of impact, influence and credibility because of its hysterical and one-dimensional involvement in the GOP nomination fight."

Its continued resistance to McCain will be ineffective and will hurt both the Republican Party and the radio industry, Medved said.

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Worth reading
Con't @ HuffPo

i dont know if mother can recall ever pushing me out!

that will work, i always knew that i was a "rising" star and not a falling or disastar!!

yeah someone told me being born on the 11th day makes me truly have 2 horns!!!

"Radio host Michael Medved said that the big loser in South Carolina was talk radio, "a medium that has unmistakably collapsed in terms of impact, influence and credibility because of its hysterical and one-dimensional involvement in the GOP nomination fight."

- Brett

"Wm Franklin was a dick"

Submitted by bibimimi on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 2:46pm.

**************

Could you post the link to that, I started watching then did a post, now it's gone. Thanks

you are breaking my heart here!

Next, a list of the individuals who contributed to the pro-Israel PACs in 2005-2006 was created. It was determined that those same persons contributed a total of $933,384 to Lieberman’s campaign. This tally, incidentally, includes only out of state contributions, those most subject to direction by some centralized financial planner (i.e., AIPAC). It has been alleged that the American Israel Affairs Committee (AIPAC) provides assistance to the pro-Israel PACs, such as guidance as to where they should direct their contributions based on strategic political calculations. If that is true, it is likely that the individuals who fund those PACs would also become aware of those instructions, helping them obtain the maximal impact from any additional contributions they may be inclined to make. It is therefore reasonable to conclude, based on these considerations, that instead of directing $156,593 to Senator Lieberman in his 2006 hour of need, the pro-Israel PACs and their supporters really sent him more like $1,089,977, the sum of the two amounts.

I have no accent unfortunately. I work really hard to sound Mexican and just sound stupid. I can't do voice tricks but I can make fart sounds with the palm of my hands....

do you hoard?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WME495PWWJE

I found it

http://www.funnyordie.com/drunkhistory/playlists/94888

Feingold: Iraq is ‘eviscerating our economy.’

Today, ThinkProgress attended a briefing with Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), at which he said that the war in Iraq is “eviscerating our economy and our military”:

FEINGOLD: The way I measured this is when I did these twenty-two listening sessions, this year. I went out to these counties, very conservative counties mostly. […] So, I purposefully don’t mention Iraq. I think at every single listening session several people got up and said, “When are you going to get the troops home?” I would say to them I purposefully didn’t bring this up. So, I think it’s a complete misreading. People know that this is eviscerating our economy and our military. […]

Q: Do you think the war is eviscerating the economy?

FEINGOLD: Oh, I think it has a huge impact. You talk about the resources, the ability to do things, programs that are actually stimulative to the economy. Everything is on the ropes. … You never want it to be the only argument, but it is accurate, I think. And I think, you know, it’s where the priorities are. Clearly it’s not. Twelve billion a month would be helpful to do some kind of stimulus.

only hoard cats

George W. Bush: "I Drank Too Much At One Time In My Life"

BALTIMORE, Md. — President Bush on Tuesday referred to his former struggles with alcohol as an "addiction," a blunt characterization of his less disciplined adult days before a reliance on faith help him turn his life around.

"Addiction is hard to overcome," Bush said in speaking at a faith-based center that helps former prisoners get job training and other help.

"As you might remember, I drank too much at one time in my life," Bush said. "I understand faith-based programs. I understand that sometimes you can find the inspiration from a higher power to solve an addiction problem."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/29/george-w-bush-i-drank-_n_83866....
Increasingly, Bush has reflected in candid terms about his days of drinking. Last month, he told some young recovering addicts to stick with their fight against drugs and cited his own experiences with alcohol years ago. He said then that "addiction competes for your affection ... you fall in love with alcohol."

Online users

* Brett
* Doris
* dan
* maggiesboy
* Lucille
* Part of the 97 ...
* Fernando

I can't wait! I expect Hillary to break to the front as the clear leader next Tuesday. And I expect Edwards to be left in the dust.

This might drag out for a while, but in the end Hillary will rise to the top. She and Bill deserve another turn on top.

Life is good when you are winning! And Bill and Hill love to win.

Sam should open a new business and call it 3% Video Productions.

House Votes in Favor of a $146 Billion Economic Stimulus Package

The House Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a $146 billion
election-year economic stimulus plan backed by President
Bush.

The plan includes tax rebates of up to $600 for individuals
and $1,200 for married couples, plus $300 per child. The
legislation also includes tax breaks to encourage business
investment in new equipment.

a faith-based program to deal with his addiction to war.

Can Jesus cure monkey-boy's insatiable blood lust?

I doubt it. According to GWB, Jesus is the reason for the carpet-bombing season.

you just gotta feel sorry for the bottom

now that kinda talk could get a doggie banned. just sayin.

see Brett your fault...a small little nudge and it comes running out pants down!!!

I'm on a teleconference with a chick who's name is Huckelberry. Poor thing.

is that her first name or last name?

if I do say so myself...

I think she said her first name is Daisy.

Here:

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

wsj - Federal investigators have opened criminal inquiries into 14 companies as part of a wide-ranging investigation of the subprime mortgage crisis, focusing on accounting fraud, securitization of loans and insider trading, among other areas

Ask her if she's from Maryland. I found this.

Summit Air Herbs , Hollywood , MD

Summit Air is a herb and livestock farm located way back in the woods on a hilltop. Owned and operated by Daisy Huckleberry, a herbalist, naturalist and animal lover. Ms. Daisy (known as the “Witch Doctor” around the community) organically grows all the herbs for her concoctions, raises dairy goats for the whole fresh milk used in her soaps and handcrafts all of her products in her knotty pine kitchen.
email: summitair@erols.com
address: 25066 McIntosh Road
Hollywood, MD 20636

for that Daisy Huckleberry in Hollywood Maryland. Living with nature, away from people (assholes) everyday. All while being an independent businessperson. Not bad.

WASHINGTON -- The government agency that enforces one of the principal laws aimed at keeping politics out of the civil service has accused the Justice Department of blocking its investigation into alleged politicizing of the department under former Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales.

Scott J. Bloch, head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, wrote Atty. Gen. Michael B. Mukasey last week that the department had repeatedly "impeded" his investigation by refusing to share documents and provide answers to written questions, according to a copy of Bloch's letter obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

The Justice Department wants Bloch to wait until its own internal investigation is completed. A department official signaled recently that the investigation is examining the possibility of criminal charges......

**- Mukasey will be in a Senate hearing Wed. Don't know if it will be on the SPAN.

Free Democracy

Bush Issues Signing Statement On Defense Act, Waiving Ban On Permanent Bases In Iraq

bushsi.jpg President Bush yesterday signed the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act after initially rejecting Congress’s first version because it would have allegedly opened the Iraqi government to “expensive lawsuits.”

Even though he forced Congress to change its original bill, Bush’s signature yesterday came with a little-noticed signing statement, claiming that provisions in the law “could inhibit the President’s ability to carry out his constitutional obligations.” CQ reports on the provisions Bush plans to disregard:

One such provision sets up a commission to probe contracting fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan. Another expands protections for whistleblowers who work for government contractors. A third requires that U.S. intelligence agencies promptly respond to congressional requests for documents. And a fourth bars funding for permanent bases in Iraq and for any action that exercises U.S. control over Iraq’s oil money.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/29/signing-statement-iraq/

House passes economy stimulus package

House Passes $146 Billion Economic Recovery Package; Future in Senate Is Uncertain

Staff
AP News

Jan 29, 2008 15:16 EST

The House, seizing a rare moment of bipartisanship to respond to the economy's slump, overwhelmingly passed a $146 billion aid package Tuesday that would speed rebates of $600-$1,200 to most taxpayers.

or does bush have the ability to hide them?

Kucinich postpones Bush impeachment effort
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Sabrina Eaton
Plain Dealer Bureau

Washington -- After promising to mark President Bush's final State of the Union speech by introducing articles of impeachment against Bush, Cleveland Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich postponed the effort.

Kucinich said Monday that he met with members of the House Judiciary Committee after making last week's impeachment pledge. He said he came away "hopeful there will be an inquiry by the Judiciary Committee."

"I will give them the opportunity to proceed before introducing articles of impeachment," he said in a statement. The committee's spokeswoman did not respond to requests for comment.

Bush Issues Signing Statement On Defense Act, Waiving Ban On Permanent Bases In Iraq

THINK PROGRESS

President Bush yesterday signed the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act after initially rejecting Congress’s first version because it would have allegedly opened the Iraqi government to “expensive lawsuits.” Even though he forced Congress to change its original bill, Bush’s signature yesterday came with a little-noticed signing statement, claiming that provisions in the law “could inhibit the President’s ability to carry out his constitutional obligations.” CQ reports on the provisions Bush plans to disregard: One such provision sets up a commission to probe contracting fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan. Another expands protections for whistleblowers who work for government contractors. A third requires that U.S. intelligence agencies promptly respond to congressional requests for documents. And a fourth bars funding for permanent bases in Iraq and for any action that exercises U.S. control over Iraq’s oil money.......................

home page does look nice!

well, I missed it again!...is there an MP3 or anything like that?

Melina
www.RIPCoco.com
www.BrilliantatBreakfast.blogspot.com
www.SweetJesusIHateChrisMatthews.blogspot.com

well, I missed it again!...is there an MP3 or anything like that?

Melina
www.RIPCoco.com
www.BrilliantatBreakfast.blogspot.com
www.SweetJesusIHateChrisMatthews.blogspot.com

lets see where this goes
new
Submitted by Lucille on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 4:11pm.

Kucinich postpones Bush impeachment effort

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Hasn't he said he was going to that (articles of impeachment against Bush) Also Cheney ...... for about a year now?

Bushboy can do anything he WANTS to do :o{!

No mp3 available yet. As soon as Sam puts up the VOD, I'll make an 11MB audio file from it. I should be fired from my non-payed position as audio recorder of Maron v. Seder for oversleeping and missing the first 20 minutes of todays show. I'm just awful.

Caroline Kennedy to speak at Obama rally

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, will be in Phoenix on Wednesday to introduce presidential candidate Barack Obama before he speaks at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

She announced her support for the Illinois senator over the weekend. A day later, her uncle Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts gave Obama his backing.

Wednesday's rally is free and open to the public. Doors open at 3:30 p.m., and advance tickets are not required. Obama is expected to speak at 5:30 or 6 p.m.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/president/articles/0129phx-obama0...

Rudy blues
Submitted by Lucille on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 4:31pm.

Optimism my ass, he's just plain nuts!

Peter's right about John Edwards' speaking voice. Like I said before - I live here in Chapel Hill, NC, near where John Edwards lives, and most people do not talk that way here. If you go out into the sticks, yes. But people in Chapel Hill, Durham, Carrboro, Raleigh, by and large, do not cling to that Gomer Pyle accent.

People in Arkansas talk like that a lot and when I lived there I could never take a doctor seriously.

And I'm sorry to say it but it's still true. People vote perception over issues. When people say they want their president to have strong leadership skills, a part of that means that they want someone they can be comfortable with listening to as a leader for the next four to eight years.

As I'm perceiving Edwards giving up on the race, I am more and more captivated by Obama as a potential leader. All this stuff about how he's too conservative, doesn't bother me at all. He doesn't seem conservative to me.

By the way, being able to work with the opposition is something to be proud of, not to shy away from.

republicans are starting to get desperate. investors business daily which is a decent financial paper but terrible when it comes to politics actually wrote an editorial saying how wrong she was to do this and closed with a paragraph that said:

If Caroline wants, as the title of her piece suggests, "A President Like My Father," it is not Barack Obama. Today, John F. Kennedy would likely switch parties and become a Republican.

What happend to your daughter?

oh but the heads were rolling about the ted endorsement...they could not spit out the big "L" Liberal..word fast enough this morning--

One voter was told by poll workers there was no Democratic primary today

On Florida Primary day, voters are reporting problems across Central Florida from Daytona Beach to Hunter's Creek. Among the precincts experiencing glitches was one in Orange County where voters were told by poll workers early on there was no Democratic primary today.

Phil Marjason said poll workers at precinct 145 in Hunter's Creek would not give him a Democratic ballot.

"I thought it was plain wrong," he said. "We need to get Florida straightened out."

Orange County Election Supervisor Bill Cowles confirmed that the clerk at the precinct made a mistake.

"I have learned that we did have a situation right at 7 a.m. this morning," Cowles wrote via e-mail to the Sentinel. "The clerk admits she made a mistake."

But Orange County officials said their records show Marjason was given a Democratic ballot and it was cast. Marjason disagreed.

"You sign a piece of paper then you walk over to the next table and they hand you a ballot," he said. "It probably shows that I signed for it, but they didn't give me a Democratic ballot."

Sheneka McDonald spent 10 minutes trying to convince poll workers at the same precinct that she should have a Democratic ballot. She questioned poll workers when she was handed a Republican ballot but was told, "this is the only ballot we have."

"I said, 'How can this be the only ballot,'" McDonald recalled. "That's when the guy chimed in from the back and said the Democratic primary was in March."...........

yourll!

Washington -- After promising to mark President Bush's final State of the Union speech by introducing articles of impeachment against Bush, Cleveland Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich postponed the effort.

How far to the right will Hillary go now that Ted endorsed Obama?

you wish. what you call a fizzle is a much larger effort to open a criminal investigation against the monkey boy

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WTF this sucks