color codes

Thanks for the new thread.

MSM today filled with the Castro story. He's resigning.

4th longest ruler of a country.

you got that right, as long as it isn't mukasey jones at the throttle.

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"What we are trying to do is make sure the bad guys know we're out there but don't know where we'll be, or when,"

I love new threads in the morning!

you guys gonna do call ins?

it? not fair!

becoz we have a fucked up legacy this is our chance to rush in to cuba and democratize the dam immigrants!!

government. Why put protection where it is needed!?!

How about the ports? The borders? Oh! The wall they are kinda building on our southern border will keep the terrorists out. yeah, right!

More of the same from the right.

but, a bomb going off in Grand Central while the train is waiting could cause some serious shit. How secure is the cargo on some of these trains - they get loaded up in Montreal and trek right on down the Hudson to NYC

do people still believe this crap...you know about 21/2 years ago if not more when the war was something cute still..Keith Olbermann called these punks out on this game that they play...i was shocked that someone else was thinking like i was....and no i was not here so you guys were probably saying the same thing..dir!

"I would expect nothing less from this screwed up

government. Why put protection where it is needed!?!"

they would welcome an attack.

thinking they want to "protect us" is delusional.

Awwww....

A tribute to our own little bedwetter right on this here blog. Thanks, Sammer. :)

Morning everyone. :)

Protect America Act! ha what a fucking joke!

Submitted by maggiesboy on Mon, 02/18/2008 - 9:11pm.
Meg - My only advice is to avoid any company with a name that end in "R-US" !
------
...unless it's a pirate company.

The point is to make you think they are doing something and have you believe that level of intrusion is required because the risk is so high.

That's why they are bed wetters.

Teh tehrist wen he you scared goofy.

thus we will let you know that we torture but will not let you know how we torture!

is it getting any weirder where you are?

the bush family is in solid with the mob.

torture, extortion, rape.

old gang tactics.

Dingel's office seem to be running this. And the regulatory commission. c-span 1

The 3% has no plan to protect the United States. But the 3% has a plan to bitch, piss, and moan after we get attacked.

The Dems might be weak on Defense. But the 3% cheers for the terrorist to win. Same here in the States as it is in Iraq.

The 97% wants America to be safe! The 3% wants anything bad to happen.

Hating America will never work out for you!

I would expect nothing less from this screwed up
new
Submitted by toniD on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 10:20am.
government. Why put protection where it is needed!?!

How about the ports? The borders? Oh! The wall they are kinda building on our southern border will keep the terrorists out. yeah, right!

More of the same from the right.

...with exception of small labor force and limited media accessibilty, people don't hang out at the ports or borders.

There is no drama without an audience.

thanks toniD--now where is my black cloak?

RR is another one! she acts like she is speaking well of Obama, but let a someone call in say anything negative about Hillary...you could hear a pin drop--she all of a sudden is at a loss of words..weird!

My 17 year old so far has only gotten an 18 on her ACT. And she has had 2 wrecks in the van (er, tank) that we gave her to drive. I LOVE Windstars. Every teenager should drive one...

Damn kid don't know what red means.

But she's a good kid. She spends alot of time at church, and when she's not doing that, she's in FBLA, Key Club, FCA, taking pictures for Yearbook, doing all the school things.

Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano penned an op-ed in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times arguing that the Protect America Act is unconstitutional. “The government should be required, as it was until FISA, to obtain a 4th Amendment warrant to conduct surveillance of anyone, American or not, in the U.S. or not,” he wrote.

http://cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/2008/02/fox-news-top-law-analyst-says...

huh?

A McClatchy analysis finds that “jobless Americans are spending more time looking for work and that those who can’t find work now make up a greater share of the unemployed.” As of January, “almost one in five unemployed workers” had been jobless for six months or more.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/28014.html

The high court's action means that Bush will be able to disregard whatever legislative eavesdropping restrictions Congress adopts as there will be no meaningful judicial review, the ACLU attorneys said. - Yahoo

Supreme Court decides to not roon on eavesdropping program. 30 min ago.

Unilateral attack on al-Qaeda commander called a model for operations

In the predawn hours of Jan. 29, a CIA Predator aircraft flew in a slow arc above the Pakistani town of Mir Ali. The drone's operator, relying on information secretly passed to the CIA by local informants, clicked a computer mouse and sent the first of two Hellfire missiles hurtling toward a cluster of mud-brick buildings a few miles from the town center.

The missiles killed Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior al-Qaeda commander and a man who had repeatedly eluded the CIA's dragnet. It was the first successful strike against al-Qaeda's core leadership in two years, and it involved, U.S. officials say, an unusual degree of autonomy by the CIA inside Pakistan.

Having requested the Pakistani government's official permission for such strikes on previous occasions, only to be put off or turned down, this time the U.S. spy agency did not seek approval. The government of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was notified only as the operation was underway, according to the officials, who insisted on anonymity because of diplomatic sensitivities.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23228197

The Supreme Court sided with the administration and rejected the appeal without any comment.

That is why we need a Dem as President. We cannot afford another conservative on the Supreme Court. They are helping to give the pres more powers and take away our liberties.

The court, right now, has too many fascists.

Roberts
Alito
Scalia
Thomas
and now I think Kennedy

And Scalia should be removed for his stance on torture if not other things. He's mad! By mad, I mean mentally unstable.

A landmark day for bloggers -- and the future of journalism

The George Polk Awards are kind of like the Golden Globes of American journalism . Not as well known as those Oscars of the news business, the Pulitzer Prize, the Polk Awards are nevertheless probably a close second in terms of prestige, and this year I am especially blown away by the quality of the work they honor.

The winners include Leila Fadel, the Baghdad bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers, a 26-year-old woman who reports from some of the most dangerous regions of Iraq, as well as journalists who peeked under Vice President' Cheneys veil of secrecy, toxic river pollution in China, unsafe cribs, infant mortality in Mississippi, the Blackwater scandal, human rights abuses in Burma, healthcare scams, and the courageous work of Oakland's Chauncey Bailey, who was slain as he investigated drug dealers in his hometown.

http://www.attytood.com/2008/02/a_landmark_day_for_bloggers_an_1.html

Next week, the Senate is planning to vote on a cloture motion on Sen. Russ Feingold’s (D-WI) bill “to set a timeline for withdrawing combat troops.” They are also planning to take up a second Feingold bill, “which would require the Bush administration to develop strategies to limit repeated deployments of troops and defeat al-Qaida.”

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_96/news/22168-1.html

Nine of 10 current and former military officers say the war had stretched the military “dangerously thin,” according to a survey conducted by Foreign Policy magazine and the Center for a New American Security. Sixty percent of the 3,400 officers said the military is weaker today than five years ago.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/eb734b9e-de59-11dc-9de3-0000779fd2ac.html

but deal would have been done already...gw would have gotten away with something no living person should!!!

and on his game!!

on the cam

Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr “is expected to announce his decision in the next few days about whether to maintain the ceasefire he ordered six months ago. There has been pressure from the rank-and-file members of his militia to call off the truce.”

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19157773&ft=1&f=3

mornin GBC
Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 10:31am.
is it getting any weirder where you are?

It's always weird here, Sunny. ;-p

AGAIN!!!

is so hilarious! He's in charge, man!

Ive heard this show! AWESOME :D

BTW, Good MOrning Bloogers :)

what time is it over there?

Meeting with U.S. senators in Pakistan today, President Pervez Musharraf conceded electoral defeat. During yesterday’s parliamentary elections, “[a]lmost all the leading figures in the Pakistan Muslim League-Q, the party that has governed for the last five years under Mr. Musharraf, lost their seats, including” Musharraf.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/world/asia/19pstan.html?ref=world

Oh well....at least I'm still adoreable.

am staring at marc's tush!

GO Maron!

silly HA!

on clothes that are already out of style.

Whatever, Marc. Eclectic dressers love those sales. Like me.

I have no idea how marc's ass came into conversation since i have no powers of audio.. but niice

ass?

"The Clinton's are nasty motherfu***rs"

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

A nice overview of it.

I lost them for awhile.

Just came back.

Trouble Marc has is he watches Cable TV

Just cancel Cable TV

period.

Your brain will thank you

What if Bush and all the scumbag leaders are REALLY reptilians and the reason they kill all those people like in Iraq and Afghan and NO is to keep a fresh supply of Human meat to eat.

Its a disturbing Idea, but entirely plausible

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wrfh1Jp--Tw

off guard...

Sam used to have when he was on the morning daily show a dude that read the news, this guy brushed Obama off without even knowing about him, that pissed me off right there...YES WE CAN!

of the status quo wealthy White Male slave owner type!

Ha! That would mean giving up The Daily Show and the Colbert Report and Weeds and Keith. No thanks. Not today.

The media doesn't like it when they can't control the people.

If we elect Obama, maybe the rest of the World will stop laughing at us.

I NEEDS my sitcoms! :D

Church urges hanky panky among members

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120ap_odd_sex_challenge.html?sou...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

YBOR CITY, Fla. -- A southwest Florida church issued a challenge for its married members: Hanky panky every day. Relevant Church head pastor Paul Wirth issued the 30-day sex challenge to take on high divorce rates.

"And that's no different for people who attend church," Wirth said Sunday. "Sometimes life gets in the way. Our jobs get in the way."

The challenge doesn't extend to unwed congregants, however

and that is why i kept saying "Hussein" that makes a great difference right there...its only the US that is afraid of that name...the whole world cannot see why?

when i asked my my sister if she knew that his name is "barack hussein" she looked at me and she said yeah and?

Just cancel Cable TV
new
Submitted by Peter Dragon on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 11:28am.
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Download them for free

Problem Solved

Scientists find 'Devil Toad' fossil

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120ap_giant_frog.html?source=myp...

By LAURAN NEERGAARD
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

WASHINGTON -- A frog the size of a bowling ball, with heavy armor and teeth, lived among dinosaurs millions of years ago - intimidating enough that scientists who unearthed its fossils dubbed the beast Beelzebufo, or Devil Toad.

But its size - 10 pounds and 16 inches long - isn't the only curiosity. Researchers discovered the creature's bones in Madagascar. Yet it seems to be a close relative of normal-sized frogs who today live half a world away in South America, challenging assumptions about ancient geography.

The discovery, led by paleontologist David Krause at New York's Stony Brook University, was published Monday by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"This frog, if it has the same habits as its living relatives in South America, was quite voracious," Krause said. "It's even conceivable that it could have taken down some hatchling dinosaurs."

Krause began finding fragments of abnormally large frog bones in Madagascar, off the coast of Africa, in 1993. They dated back to the late Cretaceous period, roughly 70 million years ago, in an area where Krause also was finding dinosaur and crocodile fossils. But only recently did Krause's team assemble enough frog bones to piece together what the creature would have looked like, and weighed.

The largest living frog, the Goliath frog of West Africa, can reach 7 pounds. But Krause teamed with fossil frog experts from University College London to determine that Beelzebufo isn't related to other African frogs.

It seems to be a relative of South American horned frogs, known scientifically as Ceratophrys. Popular as pets, they're sometimes called pacman frogs for their huge mouths.

Like those modern frogs, Beelzebufo had a wide mouth and powerful jaws, plus teeth. Skull bones were extremely thick, with ridges and grooves characteristic of some type of armor or protective shield.

The name comes from the Greek word for devil, Beelzebub, and Latin for toad, bufo (pronounced boo-foe).

The family link raises a paleontology puzzle: Standard theory for how the continents drifted apart show what is now Madagascar would have been long separated by ocean from South America during Beelzebufo's time. And frogs can't survive long in salt water, Krause noted.

He contends the giant frog provides evidence for competing theories that some bridge still connected the land masses that late in time, perhaps via an Antarctica that was much warmer than today.

Submitted by Bob26003 on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 11:30am.
I NEEDS my sitcoms! :D

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Just Download them and watch them anytime you want. Save $800 a year.
Plus avoid the Corporate pollution.

I'm so inspired by this show every week! Intelligent arguments given with humor.

Has anyone else been sent the letter reported to be written by Jay Leno in 2007? It's all about how we're spoiled brats who don't appreciate the good in America. His answer is that we should stop reading and listening to the media. We should be LESS educated? Jeesh.

Another Bush Ally Faces The Wrath Of Voters
By: Blue Texan Tuesday February 19, 2008 7:10 am

Aznar, Blair, Miller, Berlusconi, Howard...Musharraf?

Pakistan's opposition parties won national parliamentary elections yesterday as voters sought an end to President Pervez Musharraf's eight years of military rule.

...

``This is a verdict against Musharraf and his policies,'' Pakistan Peoples Party spokesman Farhatullah Babar said in a phone interview. ``Musharraf himself had promised that if parties opposing him came into power he would resign. Now he should honor his promise.''

Proving, yet again, that if you're in bed with Bush, you're toast.

http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/another-bush-ally-faces-the-wrath-of-v...

Sorry Red...I have HDTV and really nice surround sound.

Watching TV on my laptop is not an option. Besides that,

I am not an all or nothing at all type of guy any more. I

spent a lot of my life living like that and gave it up. I

find that "a little of this...and a little of that" works

better for me.

Hillary---Elian

What are they supposed to do now?
By: Attaturk Tuesday February 19, 2008 1:59 am

In the last year and a half when rumors of Castro's death came around many of the Cuba emigre population of South Florida had impromptu parades and waived their Cuban Flags with Che's Gloria Estefan's picture on them. I might be a bit off on that last part.But now, Fidel Castro is retiring (as President) and his brother Jeb Raul, at the spritely age of 76 will ostensibly take over,

http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/what-are-they-supposed-to-do-now/

“I come to quote Caesar, not to reference him”
By: Attaturk Tuesday February 19, 2008 5:00 am

From Jonathan Alter’s excellent, “The Defining Moment: FDR’s First Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope”, pg. 210-11 (paperback ed.):“The origins of [FDR’s first] Inaugural’s most famous line – “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” – remain unclear…Eleanor Roosevelt [claimed] one of her friends gave FDR an anthology of Henry David Thoreau’s writings…one of his line’s was “Nothing is so much to be feared as fear”…

http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/i-come-to-quote-caesar-not-to-referenc...

I think you have to be all or nothing with Cable TV.

If you have it in your house, it controls your life and you worship it 6 hours a day. every night you have a date with cable TV.
You wont realize how zombified you are until its gone. People actually have Cable TV withdrawl syndrome.

Castro steps down as Cuban leader
Fidel Castro has not been seen in public since his operation in July
Castro's career
Cuba's ailing leader Fidel Castro has announced he will not accept another term as president, ending the communist revolutionary's 49 years in power.
The 81-year-old handed over power temporarily to his brother Raul in July 2006 when he underwent surgery and has not been seen in public since then.

Cuba's new parliament will meet on Sunday to elect a new president.

Washington has called for Cuba to hold free elections, and said its decades-long embargo would remain.

This should be a period of democratic transition for the people of Cuba
US President George W Bush

President George W Bush said the US was ready to help the "people of Cuba realise the blessings of liberty".

A senior US state department official, John Negroponte, added that the 1962 embargo would probably not be lifted "any time soon". (MSM rporting this now)

The European Union said it hoped to relaunch ties with Cuba that were almost completely frozen under Mr Castro, while China described Mr Castro as an old friend and said it would maintain co-operation with Cuba.

Mr Castro has ruled Cuba since leading a revolution in 1959.

The BBC's Michael Voss reports from Havana that most Cubans will be saddened by news of their leader's retirement, but many hope the political transition will bring economic improvements.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7252109.stm

nothing goes to waste at the maron residence. try the shrimp.

Submitted by toniD on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 11:35am.
...Proving, yet again, that if you're in bed with Bush, you're toast.
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Beds, kicked-out-of's, and crumbs come to mind.

My addiction is not cabel, it's this damn blog that controls my life right now.

Just remember, if you have an addiction and try to stop it, you become addicted to something else.

Red...I think you're engaging in a little hyperbole here.

I don't worship anything. Not part of my scene. I'm not

afraid of a woman or a black prez...not even a black

woman prez. A TV is much like any other valuable utensile.

You use it when you need it then put it away. The zombie

quote is absurd. Are you putting us on or are you serious?

dry toast = pretzels

bush + pretzels = um, choking, passing out & stuff

But you have to be aware of the BS......

Thats true.

to marc!

Maron + cooking show -

the new Nigella, with philosophical ramblings

could not exist without FEAR.
Fear will cause law abiding citizens to forfeit their constitutional rights.

One election at a time...

I am so glad to be back on-line.
Seder withdrawal is a real beeotch.
One election at a time...

:)

Get your butt out in the kitchen and whip us up some cookies

woman!

Submitted by Peter Dragon on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 11:49am.

I think you're engaging in a little hyperbole here
--

Im not trting to be offensive or pis you off.... I just know way too many people who sit infront of their TV all night even if their fav show isnt on. Its a bad habit.

Youre a smart liberal dude who can see through corporate bullshit, but what about half the country who arent that smart. Just my opiniojn, but Cable TV is brainwashing people to be pro Corporate/Facist.

Did you see this Scary Religious video From C&L ?

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/02/18/why-we-do-what-we-do/

is the laundry done yet?

Jesse James Film was really great... amazingly beautiful and thoughtful. great acting.

Diving bell and the butterfly a.k.a.

Le Scaphandre et le papillon

also very good

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401383/

Amen PD. Just because I have cable doesn't mean I kneel at the TeeVee alter and worship it exactly six hours a day.

I DVR most shows I like and then catch up on the weekends if I so choose. Hell, my TeeVee isn't even on during the week most times.

It's called balance. I read, blog, do Yoga, attend book studies at the library, work, jog, AND (gasp!) watch TeeVee every once in a while. Who knew one could do all that all that even with cable in the house! ;-p

~-~-~

Expect a whole lotta ugly from a never ending parade of stupid. - Motormouth Maybelle (Hairspray)

hour!

marc is talking about? anyone?

hey sweetie, jez so you know i DID miss you being around! how is the afghan coming along?

At the airports and the train stations there are soldiers walking around with Patent leather hats and guns hung on their shoulders.

This has been that way since WWII. The Europeans are used to it. When I first saw this, as a tourist, it bothered me. After having travelled to Europe many times, it no longer bothered me.

i did too truly enjoy today...

what is the name of the movie
new
Submitted by Lucille on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 12:07pm.
marc is talking about? anyone?

--

Diving bell and the butterfly a.k.a.

Le Scaphandre et le papillon

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401383/

»

plan?! I wanted to hear more!

I finished one afghan, and have enough granny squares for another.
I am on a borrowed computer, but, I'll try to get a picture of the finished one soon.
(need to find my software disks) ;-)
One election at a time...

Red
Submitted by toniD on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 11:49am.
My addiction is not cabel, it's this damn blog that controls my life right now.

Just remember, if you have an addiction and try to stop it, you become addicted to something else.

Thanks everyone!

{{{bear hugs to all}}}

No Rachel last night? Off for President's Day?

Thanks for all the great info. on buying houses & loans.
That was really great of you to do that.
Thanks again - - - :)

tap-tap-tap----im waiting....

you @ work ?
How ya doing???

probably not tonight neither...mark green will be on talking about the todays voting....he loves that!

another best of...

i don't know about everyone else but i find talk radio warmed over just doesn't cut it. whether its a best of or a simple delay, it loses its feeling of spontaneity and interactivity. for example when a show is delayed 3 hours and its talking about breaking news, long after the news has broken.

There ya go Charlie. I spent a lot of life living the other

way. Since I got on the more balanced life style...little of

this...little of that....things have really smoothed out.

Submitted by GBC on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 12:05pm.
...I read, blog, do Yoga...
---------
Yoga? Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

hell yeah baby and working very very hard too....sometime soon am gonna holla at you about cats (dont like them, but your love for them has kinda sorta changed my mind---gift for my baby)..later though the questions are going to come rolling out!

I'm hungry.

home....shortage of bra's in that neck of the hood!

you on a roll this am....leave my girl alone there is only so much she can do, jeez!!

Bowen to the Rescue: CA's SoS Calls on L.A. County Registrar to Count Thousands of Still-Uncounted Super Tuesday Ballots
Asks for 'Precinct-by-Precinct Reconciliation' of Poll Rosters to Begin Accurately Accounting for Tens of Thousands of Non-Partisan Voters Who Cast Machine-Unreadable Ballots

California Sec. of State Debra Bowen wants Los Angeles County's acting Registrar of Voters, Dean Logan, to check the poll rosters of thousands of precincts in order to help accurately count tens of thousands of currently uncounted ballots cast in the Super Tuesday Democratic Primary.

As The BRAD BLOG pointed out last week, tens of thousands of currently uncounted ballots cast by Non-Partisan voters who chose to cross over and vote in the Democratic Primary, but who failed to ink in a second bubble meant to instruct voting machines to count the ballots as Democratic votes, can be counted accurately, as per the voters' intent, if Logan bothers to check those poll rosters.

Bowen, who sent a 3-page letter [PDF] to Logan after our article pointed out that he was simply wrong, in his own report [PDF] to the County Supervisors, when he claimed that it was "impossible" to determine the intent of the voters on those ballots.

It's not, and Bowen clearly seems to understand that, as evidenced by both her letter to Logan and comments she made last Friday on Northern California National Public Radio affiliate KQED, where she said she was "shocked" to hear that the debacle had happened in several elections previously...

--- Click here for REST OF STORY!... ---

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5709#more-5709

Sibel Edmonds' Charges of Nuclear Treason Crack the U.S. Mainstream Media
Dallas Morning News Runs Edited Version of Phil Giraldi's Detailed 'American Conservative Magazine' Report on Former FBI Translator's Corroborated Allegations Against High-Ranking U.S. Officials...

Kudos the Dallas Morning News for becoming the first U.S. corporate mainstream outlet to run coverage of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds' startling allegations of high-treason and the sale of U.S. nuclear secrets to the foreign black market, with the cooperation of high-ranking U.S. officials, originally published weeks ago by UK's Sunday Times, and papers in virtually every other country --- except for this one.

Today, the Morning News runs a lengthy version of former CIA officer Phil Giraldi's "Found in Translation" essay, originally published at American Conservative Magazine several weeks ago. Though the Morning News version is labeled as "Commentary" and replaces the named identity of former #3 at the State Department, Marc Grossman with "high-ranking official," along with other edits, the piece succeeds in breaking the U.S. media silence on the bulk of the details recently revealed in this remarkable story.

This version of Giraldi's story is sub-headlined, "Why is her story being covered up?" and begins as follows...

Most Americans have never heard of Sibel Edmonds, and if the U.S. government has its way, they never will.
...
And if she is to be believed, a treasonous plot to embed moles in American military and nuclear installations and pass sensitive intelligence to Israeli, Pakistani and Turkish sources was facilitated by figures in the upper echelons of the State and Defense Departments. Her charges could be easily confirmed or dismissed if classified government documents were made available to investigators.
Go read it. Then take five minutes to write a letter to your local papers and/or news stations (Dem-based web tool, Rep-based web tool) to ask them why they are not investigating and/or reporting this story.

The BRAD BLOG's extensive, years-long catalog of too-frequently-exclusive coverage of the Sibel Edmonds story can be read here.

http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=58

No rolls! They are for supper. We want our cookies!

Making a cake with crushed pineapple and "Mousaka". Look it up!

Believe it or not but..... until a few years ago I never had any cats in my life.
I grew up with dogs. Its not that I didn't like them - just very, very allergic to them.
About 2 years ago we adopted 2 cats whose mom had died. Lou Gehrigs disease, & for some
crazy reason Im not affected by their dander anymore. Its just plain weird. Thats not to say that
I can be rubbing my eyes and such after I pet a cat. I do have to wash my hands.
My point is that I always thought that I would have more pups in my life and never kitties.
Now I have more cats than dogs. Weird thats all I have to say. Weird.
I would be more than happy to help you out as far as cats or dogs go. Just let me know.
If you would like -send toniD your e-mail address & we can write to each other that way as far as
kitties go.
Gotta go in the garage & take care of those that live in there. trying to trap mom & dad cats so we have no more kitties.
Wish me luck. I'll let you know the outcome. Oh by the way.... cats are a little easier than pups. As far as care. :)

Josh Marshall and Talking Points Memo win a Polk Award for their reporting of the political firings of U S Attorneys. What great news!

http://tinyurl.com/32jgc7

hartmann says minneapolis st. paul police have ordered several hundred of the almost non-lethal* weapons to arrive in time for "crowd" control at the rethuglican convention this summer.

*current taser death rate is one per week, but who's counting.

Hey there lady...old PD ain't no Irish rookie. I've et a

few eggplants and lamb along the way. You really think I

never had a Greek girlfriend? Don't forget to make it nice

and juicy...OK?

Submitted by dan on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 12:36pm.
...current taser death rate is one per week, but who's counting.
---------
dan: [Zzzzzzap] "Yeow! What'd you do that for?"
Bait: "You were counting."

Democracy in Pakistan, Despite Bush Policies
By William Hartung - February 19, 2008, 10:53AM
If it was ever truly sincere about promoting democracy, the Bush administration has clearly abandoned that policy at this point. In Iraq, the administration has backed an incompetent, quasi-democratic regime that was imposed at gunpoint. In the Palestinian elections, it didn't like the results, and has joined Israel in refusing to even speak to Hamas. In Lebanon, the presence of elected members of the Hezbollah party in the government was used by Bush policymakers to justify giving the green light to Israel's use of U.S.-supplied weaponry to dismantle large parts of the country's infrastructure and inflict large-scale civilian casualties. Not exactly "democracy promotion."

And in Pakistan, where opposition parties have overwhelmed the ruling party of Pervez Musharraf in this week's elections, this step forward for democracy came despite Bush policies, not because of them. When Musharraf imposed emergency rule and jailed opposition figures ranging from the head of the Supreme Court to leading players in the parties of Benazir Bhutto to Nawaz Sharif, the Bush administration made critical noises, but took no action. Calls to suspend military aid were ignored, and State Department spokesperson Richard Boucher described Musharraf as "indispensable" to U.S. interests in the region, as reiterated in an article in today's New York Times.

Now that Musharraf is for all practical purposes about to be dispensed with, the Bush administration needs to take a new approach.

A good start would be to adopt Sen. Joseph Biden's proposal to triple U.S. economic aid to Pakistan to $1.5 billion per year. A second step should be to acknowledge that flooding military aid into the country -- to the tune of $10 billion since the beginning of the Bush presidency -- has done more harm than good. In this administration -- if possible -- and certainly in the next, the United States needs to shift from "democracy promotion" to "democracy support." Instead of trying to impose pro-U.S. regimes by force, U.S. policy should involve supporting indigenous democratic forces with non-military assistance, taking its cues from the needs of these movements rather than trying to manipulate the results.

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Good News for Obama and Clinton

Last week, the Economic Policy Institute released an important analysis of Jacob Hacker’s Health Care for America (HCFA) plan by the respected health economics team at the Lewin Group. As you can read in the EPI press release, Lewin found that HCFA would cover everyone in America, while saving the US economy over a trillion dollars over the next decade. And the efficiencies achievable primarily through Hacker's public health insurance plan would save enough money that, after modest premiums from employers and individuals, the new system would cost the US government only $50 billion more than what we are paying now for a system that leaves millions uninsured or badly insured.

Don't forget to make it nice

and juicy...OK?

Always!! and creamy!

The eggplants were on sale at the local grocery, so I couldn't resist. I also like to slice eggplant circles, bread them with seasoned breadcrumbs and fry them. Soooo good!

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Submitted by dan on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 12:45pm.-

you caught that huh---still leave her alone, she is feeding me the news!

http://www.samsedershow.com/blog/395?page=1

birth of the sub-prime fiasco
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Mon, 11/26/2007 - 8:48pm.

President Bush Signs American Dream Downpayment Act of 2003

Remarks by the President at Signing of the American Dream Downpayment Act
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Washington, D.C.
http://www.americandreamdownpaymentassistance.com/whsp12162003.cfm

When George W. Bush first spoke of "the ownership society," he led most Americans to believe, and many did believe, that he was talking about them. Now, four years later, it's easy to conclude that the president, his party and conservatism itself has failed to deliver the ownership society.

But the very crises now being described and decried in both the new media and the old can actually be taken as signs of conservatism's success, depending on one thing: identifying who really belongs to the ownership society. Because conservatism, depending on how you look at it, has successfully built the ownership society — albeit a very small, narrowly defined one — and strengthened it by building or expanding its essential support: the society of the owned.

and that is why i am considering one...i live on the 17th floor (not quite the penthouse but close)and i will be damned if i have to disturb my beauty sleep to walk a damn dog...

i was not raised amongst cats at all...probably coz someone was too busy cooking them who knows? and as kids we used convince each other that was because they cannot be around babies (momz having one every 9months) coz they smell the milk on baby's breathe and end up sucking out the brain thru the nose...oh and that they are evil..

if ever a black one crossed your path, you go straight to bed crying the hell out of you pillow (ofcourse in some cases your pillow was a brick)

dip them in egg first...even better!

...Niel Boortz is on Thom's show now...

My ears just started bleeding.