Great Night

*****

Fuimus!

Leaking mushroom soup halts plane

A Ryanair plane was forced to land in Germany after a passenger had an allergic reaction to mushroom soup.

The soup leaked onto the man from a jar in an overhead locker on a flight from Budapest to Dublin on Monday, the airline said.

His neck reportedly swelled up and he struggled to breathe, forcing the plane to divert for emergency medical help.

On the same day, another Ryanair flight had to make an unscheduled landing in France after losing cabin pressure.

A spokeswoman for Ryanair said the jar contained "a vegetable oil/mushroom soup type substance".

"It is procedure when a passenger requires medical attention to divert to the nearest airport," she said.

"The cabin crew and pilot take that decision."

The Boeing 737 landed at Frankfurt Hahn Airport where the man was treated by doctors.

The plane was delayed for two hours before continuing its journey to Dublin.

The episode was one of a series of high-altitude incidents in recent days.

On Monday, oxygen masks were deployed on a Ryanair flight from Bristol to Barcelona Girona when the cabin depressurised.

The plane was forced to land at Limoges Airport in central France and 16 people were taken to hospital suffering from ear pain.

Then on Tuesday, a Thomsonfly plane to Gatwick had to turn back to Croatia just seven minutes after take-off when a fire broke out in an oven.

A spokesman said the fire was "immediately contained" and there was "no danger to passengers or crew".

Passengers were delayed for eight hours while a replacement plane was flown from Manchester.

Rottweiler fights dog to save boy

A South African Rottweiler has helped rescue a two-year-old boy who was being mauled by a pit bull terrier.

The pit bull attacked Tshepang Taeli as he was walking with his grandmother in Oakdene, south of Johannesburg.

The dog was dragging the toddler down the road and would not let go, despite being kicked and beaten by residents.

One of the neighbours, Ricky Veludo, came to help and then went to fetch his dog, Blade. "He fought the other dog to free the child," he told a local paper.

"Blade is very protective," Mr Veludo told Die Beeld newspaper.

The boy was then rushed to hospital where he is recovering from bites to his face, legs and stomach.

"I have never felt so much pain in my life. The dog was attacking him and I was trying to release him and I could not," the boy's grandmother told The Star newspaper.

Police have opened an investigation into the attack.

thanks for the new sheets!

they're still working on the electric...should be done soon, but will have to pass inspection before life is back to normal...

should be soon!

On last night's Colbert Report Bob Barr said he thinks the free market should be responsible for fixing global markets...

the free market & lack of regulation caused this problem...

What I'd like to know is what would their incentive be to fix it?

powering my computer with psychic powers is really putting a drain on me...

iPhone ad rapped as 'misleading'

A television advert for the iPhone misled consumers, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled.

Two complaints to the watchdog noted that the advert said "all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone".

But the ASA said because the iPhone did not support Flash or Java - two programs that form part of many webpages - the claim was misleading.

Apple had argued its claim referred to availability of webpages, rather than their specific appearance.

The iPhone employs a web browser called Safari, which is built on freely available software. Many webpages, however, employ small software programs like Flash and Java to display graphics and animations.

Those programs are proprietary software, and Apple opted not to enable them on the iPhone. The result is that pages viewed with Safari may look different to those same pages viewed on other browsers.

The ASA said the advert "gave a misleading impression of the internet capabilities of the iPhone".

It must therefore not be aired again in its current form, it said.

"Because the iPhone doesn't support Flash or Java, you couldn't really see the internet in its full glory," said Olivia Campbell, a spokesperson for the ASA.

"They made a very general claim that you can see the internet in its entirety, and actually that's not quite true - so we've upheld."

Apple said it did not want to comment on the ruling.

what a hassle, glad yer on the tail end.

making a huge pot of applesauce.

ready to fade pretty soon.

What? no Seder Show on iphone?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Crank.

May your colostomy bag break at the mall.

>>>On last night's Colbert
new
Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 11:48pm.
On last night's Colbert Report Bob Barr said he thinks the free market should be responsible for fixing global markets...

the free market & lack of regulation caused this problem...

What I'd like to know is what would their incentive be to fix it?

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"The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it." attributed to Einstein..

now back to your blogging..!

good to read ya!

making applesauce,

canning tomorow, how are ya

>>May your colostomy bag break at the mall.

while I was on hiatus in the "pen" one of the guys, a rather thuggish black man, had a colostomy bag. I thik he had been gutshot?

anyway, I had to fight off the constant impulse to call him `C-Bag'...

Hiya, SeaCat.

I hope all is well and the rain a couple days ago didn't flood your basement, if you have one.

>>making applesauce,

Sunshine Jim to B-Gurl: How'd ya like them apples?

i'll use that line when she gets in!

night gang, love you all!

Roma's struggle for fair education

The BBC's Ray Furlong examines what impact the landmark judgement has had.

here is no sense of victory in Berta Cervenakova's small flat.

The four children, aged 13 - 18, still share the same bedroom they did eight years ago, when she first began her ultimately successful law suit against the Czech state. The dilapidated tenement block is now a condemned building.

Last year the European Court acknowledged that Berta's daughter, Nikola, now 18, had suffered discrimination by being sent to a special school for mentally disabled children, even though there was nothing wrong with her.

"They took her in for a psychological test. I was told to wait outside."

"Then they gave me something to sign, and I signed. It said she was mentally retarded - but I had no idea what that meant," she recalls.

She has received 4,000 Euros compensation. "But that doesn't make up for the years she's lost - the years when you learn to read, write, and count. I can't even send her shopping. All she can do now is manual work."

But the verdict was seen by Roma groups as an important tool to fight a practice that is found across Europe - lawsuits have followed in Greece and Croatia, while other countries have taken steps to desegregate classes.

Despite this, real change is slow to filter through. The Czechs abolished special schools in 2006 as criticism surrounding the court case grew.

Critics say the only change was on the nameplate by the door - and a visit to one former special school in Ostrava seemed to confirm this.

the SEDER vs MARON via the convention are great- abeit the technical woes- I hadn't seen jenk for a bit-maron and the Clinton close-up reference..Money!! I enjoy watching you pursue your media endeavors! informative and fun.
thanks again- for the blog too!
P.S. try your giant flag pin out at the convention
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Fuimus!

I feel a little bit more hope already.

Good speeches, positive messages,and hope for the future.

We should all have good dreams tonight, I hope you all do!

I'm about ready to take off to work for the night, sweet dreams all.

Been out of the loop here today..
Just catching up..
But,did see most of the C-Span coverage..

Bill & Biden did a good job..

VOD up..I'll have to check that out soon..

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

they're still working on the
Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 11:44pm.
they're still working on the electric...
*******
It Sounds like whose ever working on your electric problems

might be part of Blackwater/KBR ! ;)

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

Brian Wilson-Heroes and Villians

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3337

Just scroll down to the "B's"..

Sorry,just got tired of posting them twice.. :)

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

best wishes mire (and all Gulf Coasters!)--stay safe, please!; plus, Bob, I'll answer you more in depth later, but, in brief, it's only fruit, veggies, nuts (which I prefer rosted and salted), and sashimi-grade tuna, plus oysters that I eat raw :) Well, I've munched on Irish oats; tasty but I prefer them cooked.

I'll miss the Thursday show (boohoo), but will catch the VOD. If you see me online, don't expect me to reply--this POS puter's keyboard has a mind of its own so I have to use an "online" one--MAJOR PITA--almost as bad as a trip to the puter store where they'll steal all my passwords :(

Be well Sederites and Maronites!

>>Brian Wilson-Heroes and Villians

My fav-or-ite veg-a-table...

I got home from the job early. I had to take off because I tweaked my elbow a couple nights ago. I thought I could work through it, it didn't seem too bad until I started working. I got sharp pains whenever I used it and it strated to swell up.

ouch.

There was some question of where was Alice today. I hope she's alright, I am sure she is. She's such a fixture here it's easy to notice the absence. Everyone needs a break from the blog once in a while, and I think she picked the perfect day.

We were all in such good moods that Obama is the nominee w/out the drama from Hillary some of us feared. I'm glad she didn't blog with her usual anti-democrat attitude, raining on our parade on this near euphoric day.

Soon, it'll be politics as usual and Shell be back.

And I'll try to not let her irritate me, because deep down I still do like her despite all the things she says that piss me off.

this place is dead at four-thirty in the morning Pacific time...

But it IS seven-thirty on the east coast.

Where is everybody?

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Arctic ice 'is at tipping point'

Arctic sea ice has shrunk to the second smallest extent since satellite records began, US scientists have revealed.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) says that the ice-covered area has fallen below its 2005 level, which was the second lowest on record.

Melting has occurred earlier in the year than usual, meaning that the iced area could become even smaller than last September, the lowest recorded.

Researchers say the Arctic is now at a climatic "tipping point".

"We could very well be in that quick slide downwards in terms of passing a tipping point," said Mark Serreze, a senior scientist at the Colorado-based NSIDC.

"It's tipping now. We're seeing it happen now," he told the Associated Press news agency.

Under covered

The area covered by ice on 26 August measured 5.26 million sq km (2.03 million sq miles), just below the 2005 low of 5.32 million sq km (2.05 million sq).

But the 2005 low came in late September; and with the 2008 graph pointing downwards, the NSIDC team believes last year's record could still be broken even though air temperatures, both in the Arctic and globally, have been lower than last year.

Last September, the ice covered just 4.13 million sq km (1.59 million sq miles), the smallest extent seen since satellite imaging began 30 years ago. The 1980 figure was 7.8 million sq km (3 million sq miles).

Most of the cover consists of relatively thin ice that formed within a single winter and melts more easily than ice that accumulated over many years.

Irrespective of whether the 2007 record falls in the next few weeks, the long-term trend is obvious, scientists said; the ice is declining more sharply than even a decade ago, and the Arctic region will progressively turn to open water in summers.

A few years ago, scientists were predicting ice-free Arctic summers by about 2080.

Then computer models started projecting earlier dates, around 2030 to 2050; and some researchers now believe it could happen within five years.

That will bring economic opportunities, including the chance to drill for oil and gas. Burning that oil and gas would increase levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere still further.

The absence of summer ice would have impacts locally and globally.

The iconography of polar bears unable to find ice is by now familiar; but other species, including seals, would also face drastic changes to their habitat, as would many Arctic peoples.

Globally, the Arctic melt will reinforce warming because open water absorbs more of the Sun's energy than ice does.

The families grieving in Kashmir

The Muslim-dominated Kashmir valley has been beset with violence as Indian security forces confront huge rallies by Kashmiris calling for independence from India. The BBC's Soutik Biswas speaks to families and friends of some of the victims.

As his friends tell it, Imran was an average young Kashmiri man, working hard, playing cricket, and watching Bollywood films.

He also exemplified those in the region's new generation, trying to make the best of opportunities thrown up by a modest economic boom during the years of relative calm since Indian and Pakistan signed a ceasefire in Kashmir.

Imran recently quit his job as a field officer with a mobile telephone service company to work as a building contractor in his hometown, Srinagar, which has seen a frenzied real estate boom.

His sisters were on their way to what looked like promising careers: Aniza, 27, had begun work as an engineer in the irrigation department; and 22-year-old Shabila, was working as an accountant.

In his middle-class Baghibehtab neighbourhood, Imran's big ambition was to finish constructing the family home.

All that was before 13 August, when Imran died, shot in the chest by Indian security forces. He joined some 26 others who were shot dead as the forces battled to restore order in the troubled Muslim majority Kashmir valley.

What began as a reaction to a controversial row over transfer of land to a Hindu trust has now snowballed into a fully-fledged nationalist uprising in the valley.

Look at the bricks, look at the stone chips. These are the last things he bought," says his friend, Sheikh Suhail, 24, standing on the dusty second storey of the house.

Two unfinished rooms, some bricks, a heap of stone chips - that's what are left of the last memories of his friend.

"He was a sportsman, he was a good worker. He was never interested in politics. But he had to die," says Suhail, his eyes welling up.

Why did Imran Ahmed Wani die?

Truth in Kashmir is often subjective - it is home to a conflict which is, as foreign policy analyst Stephen Cohen says, "a clash between identities, imagination, and history as it is a conflict over territory, resources and peoples".

Shots rang out

Imran's friends and family say that he was standing on the side of the main road that skirts their neighbourhood. He was watching retreating protesters who were being chased by soldiers.

Then the shots rang out and Imran slumped. He lay on the road bleeding till an ambulance arrived.

Sheikh Suhail and a few others dragged him inside the ambulance. On the way, they say, it was stopped by more troops, its passengers hit by them, and oly then allowed to proceed. Imran had bled to death by the time he reached the hospital.

Imran's friends show local newspaper photographs of the ambulance surrounded by security forces - it is obvious that there is a scuffle going on - with the dying man's legs dangling outside the vehicle.

The security forces tell a different story.

A spokesman for the federal paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force, Prabhakar Tripathi, says that its soldiers retaliated after somebody in the mob had fired on them.

And no, he insists, the forces have not attacked any ambulances.

"Of course, some innocents can get killed. When mobs attack us and we are forced to open fire as a last resort, some people who get killed may not be militants," says Mr Tripathi.

So the circumstances of Imran Ahmed Wani's may always be disputed.

Did you hurt your elbow at work ?

Did you file a Workman Comp.Claim ?

Just checking because,your our Chubbs ! :)

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

>>Did you file a Workman Comp.Claim ?

it's a little early for that, but I did fill out an accident report.

I don't really think the elbow strain is going to keep me out of work long enough for worker's comp.

but I will see a doctor if it doesn't feel better soon.

actually, it may be a back problem, a bad lower back can cause pain in the shoulder and elbow when bad enough.

but, yes, I was at work when I tweaked the elbow.

Watching the AM news...How the hell do those anchors looK so damned perky at five AM?

2 hikers stranded on narrow ledge in N. Cascades

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3653#comment-246742

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. -- A Skagit County sheriff's spokesman says two hikers have called for help, saying they're stranded on an 18-inch ledge on a mountain in Washington's North Cascades.

Sheriff's Search and Rescue spokesman Joel Pratt said the men called Wednesday night to say they were stranded at about 6,000 feet on the Spire Point along the Ptarmigan Traverse hiking route.

Pratt says the unidentified men are tired and cold but have no major injuries.

A Navy helicopter reportedly tried several times Wednesday night to reach them but deteriorating weather conditions forced the crew to return to Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.

Pratt says rescuers could set out in the morning, weather permitting. The men reportedly have one sleeping bag and part of a tent.

Marc Maron and Jeaneanne Garolfola will be at Bumbershoot (4 day music festival) this weekend...and I am so damned broke I can't afford to go.

Wouldn't it be great if they comped me?

and then they'd take me out to dinner...and we'd be best pals forever!

yeah, right...like any of those things could happen.

ranks right up there with taking my glove to the ball game just in case the manager looks up into the crowd and asks me to play.

Do we ever outgrow such absurd fantasies?

It must be time for bed...the very idea of getting comped proves I'm already dreaming.

Ya never know.. ;)

G'Night Chubbs.. :)

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

three years ago -- Katrina.

Those were some of the blog's best days.

I still am proud we helped, or at least tried.

At the time I managed to dig up some phone numbers and contacted the make shift airport. I relayed the information and I was later told it helped relief planes arrange landings.

I still kinda wonder if it really happened like that...

Nite, MM, I hope to wake up in time for the next Seder/Marion show,

HeeHee..

Who says ya can't write great songs all drugged out.. ;)

Not recommended though..Unless your rich & have a personal
live-in Doctor..

When was the last time he wrote a great song ?

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

three years ago --
Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 8:16am.
three years ago -- Katrina.

Those were some of the blog's best days.

I still am proud we helped, or at least tried.

At the time I managed to dig up some phone numbers and contacted the make shift airport. I relayed the information and I was later told it helped relief planes arrange landings.

I still kinda wonder if it really happened like that...
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The Bloggers here all have Big Hearts..

Samsedershow.com Bloggers Rule ! :)

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

Celebrate this dream on every single step.

How's Everybody?

Sorry if this was posted before..

LTR:

It sounds like an idea so obviously stupid-proof that it almost couldn't possibly have come from the executive office at Air America Media.

Exiled hosts Marc Maron and Sam Seder re-launched their video podcast program last Friday, and to celebrate, offered up a big announcement. The two will be posting a new show every day between now and the November 4 election, as well as from this week's Democratic National Convention in Denver. And both hosts also stated that they have also been offered a new show on Air America - working as a team.

According to Rebecca O'Malley at The Resilient Rabbit, Maron claimed that the new show, which will supposedly begin in September, will included a number of creative humor elements as well as straight political commentary. Maron may even bring back some of his classic team from his old Morning Sedition show.

So far, that is all that is known about Seder vs. Maron. No time slot has been disclosed, though the most obvious shift would be morning drive, 6-9A ET, which is currently airing previous day replays of other Air America programming.

Link:
http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2008/08/seder-vs-maron-comeback.html

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

so nice to see a long slow steady rain. This area was starting to look like Az.
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bluerootsradio

Fernando,
I think you have me confused with cent who quipped that you might be in an emotion-induced coma after watching the Democratic Convention. (I AM guilty of thinking that it was a funny joke at your expense.)
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Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 11:44pm.
they're still working on the electric...
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What was the problem? (Spare me the "No electricity" answer). I ask because residential electrical problems are usually in a single circuit and/or device and are pretty simple to repair...or the residential electrical problem burns your house down. One or the other.
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Submitted by MMRules on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 8:22am.
Who says ya can't write great songs all drugged out.. ;)
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I read a recent "news" article stating that Mackenzie Phillips was busted in possession of coke and smack whilst (not) clearing security in an airport. It reminded me of an SNL shtick called "Really!?!" in which it was pointed out that you can score dope at your destination, which makes smuggling dope through airport security as stupid as packing heat through airport security.

http://www.broadcaster.com/clip/8800

He is such a Clinton sycophant that you could almost pity him. Frankly, I think John Kerry was the one who really delivered last night.

Looks like it might rain here to. I know my joints are screaming.

Chubby, I can relate!

Edna,Crank,and Fernando..Toni too..

Bill Press is a wuss..

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

Can you take anything for the pain?

set where Obama will speak tonight and I believe it was the Governor of Colorado that had the picture of Bush standing in front of Columns in 2004 acceptance speech on his Iphone.

That was great timing. Seems the Repubs were making fun of Temple Obama. And the MSM were making fun too.

We should email that photo to Olbermann!

I have yet to take my medicine. I can now take the anti-inflams because I am off the blood thinners. And I can drive again!!!

The meds take about an hour to work and take the edge off.

A ilttle dreary in East Sederville.

But!

It's all good.

MSNBC prez defends convention team

By MICHAEL CALDERONE | 8/27/08 7:40 PM EST Text Size:

Joe Scarborough got into an on-air tiff with David Shuster.
Photo: AP

DENVER — Amid a spate of awkward on-air conflicts among MNSBC anchors at this week’s Democratic convention, some staff members say there are sharp internal disputes at the cable network over whether its opinion and personality-driven political coverage has crossed the line.

“The situation at our channel is about to blow up,” a high-ranking MSNBC journalist told Politico on Wednesday.

Two other MSNBC sources said some of the testy on-air exchanges between Keith Olbermann — whose quick-witted and often caustic commentary has fueled ratings growth — and other network personalities were a public glimpse of much more intense behind-the-scenes turmoil.

As replays of the conflicts became YouTube hits, MSNBC President Phil Griffin gave his first public defense in a Politico interview.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12900.html

a 6.1 earth quake in Vancouver Island.

Scroll down to "G".
Sorry,just got tired of posting them twice..

Music Oasis - Part Quad

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

Submitted by toniD on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 9:24am.
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You're driving Toni?

You go girl!

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

Happe Talk

The quake was on Vancouver Island. I think SJ lives outside of Vancouver City but that's on the mainland.

Proof that the "liberal media" was a myth before Olbermann proudly started presenting his forceful humor/snark/evidence/science/pragmatic-based card carrying Democratic perspective on MSNBC. All of a sudden right-wingers started fidgeting in their catbird seats. Now that it's proven to have unquestionably boosted MSNBCs ratings to the point that Republicans are being called more often for their ridiculous views and blatant hypocrisies, they're downright agitated and crying foul.

If there had always been an actual liberal, fact-based, presence in the MSM anchors, outside of the panel screaming matches, wouldn't we be used to the "tensions" by now?

Now someone please do us all a favor and replace Mika with Naomi Klein so that I can see Joe's head explode for reals!?!

coffee anyone?

Rachel slams Uncle Cracker!

Forgot to post the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIthlM2WkaI

We saw the end of the Clinton era last night and tonight we will see the start of the Obama era. It's time to leave the Kennedy and Clinton influence behind and never look back. If Obama wants to win this thing he needs to find his own people and not let "The Party" run the show but find people who will help him put some meat on the bones of his vision of the future.

I don't know who's the biggest concern troller at MSNBC Buchanan, Scarborough or that jerkoff Mike Murphy. I loved Murphy's suggestion that he's convinced both Bill and Hillary are going to secretly vote for McCain. Buchanan is right on that bandwagon and, well, Scarborough now calls Hillary his "girlfriend". Hillbilly (no pun) reverse psychology at work!

Leave it to the nutjobs to spend 15 years tearing down the Clintons, attacking them from all sides, portraying them as the most evil leftist scourge to ever hit the planet, and then spend this entire election cycle dry-humping them to try and turn Democrats against each other.

As if we can't do that ourselves ;)

Rove ‘Waffles’ On Whether He Asked Lieberman To Drop Out Of VP Consideration
Politico’s Jonathan Martin reports that Karl Rove called Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) “late last week and urged him to contact John McCain to withdraw his name from vice presidential consideration.” Citing three unnamed sources, Martin writes that Lieberman “dismissed the request” from Rove.

This morning on Fox News, host Megyn Kelly asked Rove to confirm the Politico’s report. Rove responded, “Sen. Lieberman’s camp denied it and so did my camp last night, so I guess Politico.com was wrong.” “Is that a non-denial denial?” Kelly asked. Rove said the Politico story “is not right,” but he refused to say whether he did indeed call Lieberman and what they talked about:

KELLY: Did you call him [Lieberman]?

ROVE: Uh, uh, the report is absolutely incorrect.

KELLY: Now you’re waffling. Did you call him?

ROVE: Uh. Look, I’m not going to get into who I call and don’t call. But this report that I called Senator Lieberman and told him, you call Senator McCain and withdraw from the vice presidential, is incorrect.

Growing more uncomfortable by the moment, Rove refused to answer Kelly’s repeated question about whether he talked to Lieberman. “Okay, not gonna go there,” Kelly finally conceded. Watch it: At Link

Rove ‘Waffles’ On Whether He Asked Lieberman To Drop Out Of VP Consideration
Politico’s Jonathan Martin reports that Karl Rove called Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) “late last week and urged him to contact John McCain to withdraw his name from vice presidential consideration.” Citing three unnamed sources, Martin writes that Lieberman “dismissed the request” from Rove.

This morning on Fox News, host Megyn Kelly asked Rove to confirm the Politico’s report. Rove responded, “Sen. Lieberman’s camp denied it and so did my camp last night, so I guess Politico.com was wrong.” “Is that a non-denial denial?” Kelly asked. Rove said the Politico story “is not right,” but he refused to say whether he did indeed call Lieberman and what they talked about:

KELLY: Did you call him [Lieberman]?

ROVE: Uh, uh, the report is absolutely incorrect.

KELLY: Now you’re waffling. Did you call him?

ROVE: Uh. Look, I’m not going to get into who I call and don’t call. But this report that I called Senator Lieberman and told him, you call Senator McCain and withdraw from the vice presidential, is incorrect.

Growing more uncomfortable by the moment, Rove refused to answer Kelly’s repeated question about whether he talked to Lieberman. “Okay, not gonna go there,” Kelly finally conceded. Watch it:

Rove repeated throughout the interview that the Politico story was “incorrect,” but he never explained what those inaccuracies were.

Yesterday, columnist Robert Novak, one of Rove’s long-running propaganda peddlers, reported that “influential McCain backers, plus McCain himself, would pick the pro-choice liberal from Connecticut if they thought they could get away with it. But they can’t get away with it — and this has been made clear to McCain by none other than Joe Lieberman himself. ”

“Rove is pushing Romney so aggressively some folks are beginning to wonder what’s going on,” grumbled one veteran Republican strategist.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/28/rove-lieberman-2/

“The United States is spending more money than ever on private security contractors in Iraq as thousands of troops return home amid steady declines in insurgent attacks.” Over $1.2 billion will have been spent this year on “contractors, who protect diplomats, civilian facilities and supply convoys.”

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-08-27-contractors_N.htm

A Washington law firm “filed a lawsuit yesterday against KBR, one of the largest U.S. contractors in Iraq, alleging that the company and its Jordanian subcontractor engaged in the human trafficking of Nepali workers.” The firm says 13 Nepali men were recruited for kitchen work in Jordan only to have their passports seized upon arrival and “told they were being sent to a military facility in Iraq.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR200808...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM2AGuCz88k

According to a new survey, 65 percent of American workers believe that this is a “bad time to find a quality job,” matching “the level of the 2001 recession.” In addition, “one third of workers said they often don’t have enough money to make ends meet.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/28/business/main4391088.shtml

CNN reports that the number of people and businesses heading to bankruptcy court has spiked. “Bankruptcy filings surged 29% in the 12 months that ended June 30, according to government figures released Wednesday.”

http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/27/news/economy/bankruptcy/index.htm

The Iraqi Embassy in Beijing said “China and Iraq have signed a $3 billion deal revising an earlier agreement for China’s biggest oil company to help develop the Ahdab oil field.” The deal was signed yesterday by Chinese officials and Iraq’s Oil Minister and restores “a project canceled after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121990403465579209.html

the rightwingers grasping at air, literally contradicting themselves in the same sentence like "Uncle Cracker". (thanks for that one eep).

Everyone has been saying what will the liberal media talk about when Obama is elected? Simple. Policy.

The real question is what will the right wing media talk about? Are they going to slam the government for fixing this cesspool their shameless promoting has gotten us into?

Get me my broker!
Dump the NewsCorp now!

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good morning yourll

no time for one self anymore i guess, just work work work....sorry just got to the office and again its "Lucille, Lucille, Lucille" no respect whatsoever around here..can i collect myself to myself first please? oh no not around here girl!!!

jeez!!

sorry it feels like rain here in the city...it sometimes gets me down
no offense to no one

“Private contractors account for more than one-quarter of the core workforce at U.S. intelligence agencies,” according to new numbers released by the government. The figures illustrate “how much of the nation’s spying work has been outsourced” since 9/11.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cia28-2008aug28,0,2...

How can you trust outsourcing Intelligence?

I disagree, respectfully, Hope. I'm def for Obama, but I have a great admiration for what the Kennedys and Clintons have accomplished for this country as much as I have deep disagreements and anger with many of their policy decisions. Obama will do well to keep his head and acknowledge and reimplement the successes of past Democratic administrations, while being mindful to avoid their mistakes. I hope he allys himself and seeks the advice of the Clintons, Kennedys, Carters, as well as the Kucinichs, Sanders' and Franks, who are going to be demanding real Progressive change, rather than try to reinvent the wheel under the auspices of "Change".

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Looks better bigger. I had to shrink it to 400 wide, it will download full size

Sore Spot
Guess we shouldn't be so surprised that John McCain got hot under the collar with Time reporters when they pressed him to define honor in a political context.

--Josh Marshall

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/prickly_mccain_r...

I figured the horns Nando put on you were meant for me. 'splains why my colostomy bag exploded at the mall this morning. What a mess. I ain't gonna pick on Fernando anymore, he plays too rough.

It was only slightly wicked, but funny and I couldn't resist. What made it even funnier was watching you get hit with the pie that was meant for me. Two birds with one stone. YES!!!

Democracy — sponsored by corporate America
By Ralph Nader

When people ask why I am running for president, I often offer a long, detailed answer about my belief that, in a democracy, the government should serve the interests of the people, not corporations.

This week, I can simply point to the long list of corporate sponsors of the Democratic and Republican national conventions: AT&T, AFLAC, Boeing, Comcast, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Wells Fargo, not known for their charitable giving.

Nowhere will the sellout of our democracy be more brazenly on display than in Denver, the site of the Democratic National Convention, where a historic barrier-breaking candidate will be named the Democratic nominee at, of all places, the Pepsi Center — the taste of a “new generation” indeed: a corporate generation.

Case closed.

As the Democratic and Republican candidates argue about how many houses each of them owns, their parties are vividly demonstrating that they have replaced the “demos” in democracy with corporate logos.

Nader is an independent candidate for president, longtime consumer advocate and best-selling author of Crashing the Party, Unsafe at Any Speed, and other books. He is hosting two “Open the Debates” rallies in Denver and Minneapolis during the DNC and RNC.

http://thehill.com/op-eds/democracy--sponsored-by-corporate-america-2008...

I believe that to change you must chart a new course. It's fine to respect those who came before but at some point you have to leave the nest and move forward. If we wanted Hillary we could have had Hillary, and Bill in the bargain. The Kennedy's decade was the 60's. That was 40 years ago. I contend those old war horses are dragging Obama down. The more they organize "The Party" the lower Obama drops in the polls. Gore and Kerry lost. Kennedy and Hillary lost. Bill is the only one who finished first and I just can't really trust him any longer. I want to see Obama win or lose on with his own ideas. That's what I think - but then again I could be all wrong.

We'd all like to see that. But we can't afford to lose this time. Even 4 more years of republican rule will completely destroy this country.

We are dealing with politicians here. Just as diplomats bargain for what we can live with in foreign countries, politicians are diplomatically trying to get their points and bills passed. It's give and take even within one party.

Right now it's even more severe with the old rule Dems and the new young Dems. There aren't enough progressives in leadership and the ones we have are lucky to be there.

Vote progressive local and state wide and maybe we can get more in office.

Until then we are stuck with this back and forth play.

Submitted by toniD on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 10:41am.
Sore Spot
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He can't define honor because he doesn't know what the hell it is?

Why are those records about his POW capture- classified for ever?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFM1xqqTX_g

Submitted by cent on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 10:49am.
...What made it even funnier was watching you get hit with the pie that was meant for me.
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I gotta admit, you scored a twofer...and you didn't even have to duck.

Apparently Fernando was only able to identify the "c" in cent through his tears. I got the smack-down by default.

Fernando's theory is: "When in doubt, blame Bait. He'll deserve it eventually."

http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/2008/08/columngate.html

They are the fookin' Lincoln Memorial. Get it!?

Thanks, Jill.

..I learned this week, from not watching tv pundits argue about what they are talking about, there are 2 major reasons:

1. People can't afford to miss working at any of their 3 jobs to go protest

2. Most people realize the majority of Americans are already against the war, so why bother

I would also add

3. Those unidentified stormtroopers they are putting on the street scare the bajeezus outta me.

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Hope she gets back but I got the impression the other night she was voted off the island. Too bad but the tribe has spoken.

It is getting worse.

They are beating down and arresting credentialed reporters now. If they can get away with that, what chance do the rest of us have?

"Everywhere I hear the sound of marchin chargin feet boy..."

so they are going with the repub meme about the columns!

And now they are also saying on CNN that McCain may announce his VP pick today.

Anything to take away from the glow of this Dem convention.

I guess he will announce his VP at 11 AM tomorrow. Wants to take away from Obama;s speech. Abrams at MSNBC just announed this.

They are talking about a possible Kay Baily Hutcheson pick to stick it to Obama for not choosing Clinton. But she's iffy on pro life/pro choice thing.

Is she blond and 30 years younger?

Well, Hope, I certainly wish Obama well, but he has a lot to prove to me, and I live in his neighborhood here in Chicago, deep in the heart of Obamania. I hope you're right and that this is an actual change in course, but it doesn't look it, so far. He's got a lot to prove and so far, he's on a very Centrist path.

Obama's own document Blueprint for Change doesn't deviate much, if at all, from the Clinton foreign policies, especially if you read the section on Israel in which he mentions very little about supporting the plight and inherent rights of the Palestinian people. In other issues, he sided with the Republicans on the no-brainer that is opposing the FISA bill and has also said he would consider compromising on offshore drilling, another no-brainer. I don't see very much change in those statements. Hopefully he's planning on repealing both of these with new legislation in 2009.

His rhetoric on the "War on Terror" is no different than those of the Clintons in respect to Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan. I don't see him as any less War Horsey, at least, rhetorically. What he puts into practice remains to be seen, and judged.

I voted for him for two reasons: he is young and inspirational, just like Bill Clinton was in '92, and people (including me) love the magnetism of what he represents and that power alone should secure more seats in Congress this time around as politicians unite under the banner of "Change" led by an African-American activist. And, secondly, his being African American will finally bring racial struggles to the forefront in American politics and keep them there for at least four if not eight years, and beyond, effectively ending the era of "ethnicity" being on the fringes in a country that is supposedly a melting pot. This will also hopefully force the inanity of the "anti-immigrant" racist crowd into the backwaters of America with the KKK and NeoNazis where they belong.

I'm definietly for Barack, but, again, he has a lot to prove. Hopefully, he gets it right, gets a Congress he can work with and has more successes than failures.

I think with Alice it was not that she was voted off the island. I think she chose to leave.

Alice and I have been here from the start of Majority Report Radio blog. I really, really like her. She really is a great person and has a good heart.

Alice has been arguing for third parties since day one and has taken heat for it. So I know that's not the reason because we've been doing it for 4 years.

I think it was more personal than that.

I'm hoping she will return also.

If it isn't Condi or Powell, he's got nothing.

From what I have seen of Hutchinson lately, her powers are in fuller retreat the McGrumpy's.

I hope they play the 'I have a dream' speech tonight.

Shortly after the special election victory, Travis County authorities, led by Democratic district attorney Ronnie Earle, raided Hutchison's offices at the State Treasury looking for proof of allegations that Hutchison used state equipment and employees on state time to help with her campaign. She was indicted by a grand jury in September 1993 for official misconduct and records tampering.

The case against Hutchison was heard before State District Judge John Onion in February, 1994. During pre-trial proceedings, the judge announced that he would make no rulings on the admissibility of evidence prior to the trial. The evidence was to include data from tapes maintained by Treasury employees. Hutchison had allegedly given instructions that the data be deleted from the department's computers (during the course of the trial, these data — enclosed in a pizza box — were turned over to the Travis County DA's office).

This was a ruling DA Earle considered critical. Earle felt that it was a technique designed to torpedo his case, because Onion could rule mid-trial that certain important evidence was inadmissible under the Texas Rules of Evidence.

Following Onion's ruling, Earle declined to proceed with his case. Though he had intended to continue the case later, Onion declined to give Earle that opportunity. The judge instead swore in a jury and immediately ordered the panel to acquit Hutchison when no evidence had been presented to them by Earle. The acquittal barred any future prosecution of Hutchison. [5] Later that year, Earle granted reporters access to the files he had amassed to make his case against Hutchison. [6]

fix your post please. If you don't, you could be banned. Not for what you post but how you post it!

Heh!

How could I forget this! So far, Obama's shown himself to be an amazingly effective campaigner. His team is confident and self-assured and that speaks volumes for what sort of team he'll be able to put together once in office, exactly like Bill Clinton.

Retribution sought for Lieberman
By Alexander Bolton
Posted: 08/28/08 01:15 AM [ET]

DENVER — Connecticut delegates are demanding that party leaders punish Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democrat-turned-Independent, because of his support of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the Republican nominee.

For many of them, Lieberman’s plan to speak at next week’s Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., is the latest offense from the man who represented their state as a Democrat in Washington for 18 years.

“There has to be some kind of penalty for this sort of thing,” said Martha Aasen, a delegate from Westport, Conn.

“He’s a traitor to his party,” said Jennifer Just, a delegate from Woodbridge.

But Democratic senators’ anger toward Lieberman has been tempered by the tens of thousands of dollars he has given to their fundraising committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC).

Lieberman still heads the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and sits on the prestigious Armed Services Committee by virtue of his association with the Democratic Conference. Although Lieberman now considers himself an Independent, he still sits in on Democratic caucus meetings.

Democrats have been leery of punishing Lieberman because it is only his informal allegiance that gives them a majority in the Senate by one vote. If he caucused with the Republicans, there would be a 50-50 split in the chamber and Vice President Dick Cheney as Senate president would tip the balance of power to Republicans through his tie-breaking votes.

But because Democrats expect to pick up five seats or more in the November election — in which case they would not need Lieberman so much — many think the time has come to dispense with him. Rank-and-file Democrats expect their leaders in Washington to dish out retribution once the majority is secured.

“I can’t wait until we expand our majority in the Senate so he can be stripped of his committee,” said Just, the Woodbridge delegate.

Just accused Lieberman of making “an end-run around the political process” by running as an Independent in the 2006 general election after losing to businessman Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary.

“It smacked of being a sore loser,” she said.

A Lieberman aide declined to comment.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/retribution-sought-for-lieberman-200...

For stretching the thread. Maybe you can fix the post or someone can request you be removed again for screwing up the blog. You obviously know what you are doing. Maybe you can photoshop a penis on Sam and take us all out of our misery.

As for Alice, I think it was personal. She was attacked and bullied on a personal level. It has happened here before. I hate to see intolerance and ignorance but of course I have been tagged as a troll so everyone can start spitting now.

Next year everyone can wax nostalgically about Alice and what a great blogger she was.

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R,TX) - Traitor to the American Worker

Voted in favor of motion to invoke cloture on S. 2611 to increase overall immigration numbers and reward illegal aliens with amnesty in 2006
Sen. Hutchison voted in favor of a motion to invoke cloture on S. 2611, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006. The motion to invoke cloture was a procedural move to ends debate on S. 2611. If the motion had been rejected by at least 40 Senators, Majority Leader Bill Frist, MD (R-TN) would have had to choose between continued debate on S. 2611 and moving on to other legislative business. If the motion had failed, Sen. Frist was expected to move on to other legislative business, thus effectively killing the bill. S. 2611 provides an indirect path to citizenship for illegal aliens. S. 2611 also provides for major increases in temporary worker visas and permanent immigrant visas. It provides for at least an additional 100,000 H-1B visas annually; an additional 325,000 new guestworker visas (H-5A/H-2C visas); a one-time-only permanent increase of 310,660. In addition, the S. 2611 includes amnesty for an estimated 10.2 million illegal aliens (about 6.7 million illegal alien workers and 3.5 million illegal aliens spouse and/or children). The cloture motion passed by a vote of 73 to 25.

con't

http://archive.redstate.com/blogs/danarothrock/2006/oct/15/senator_kay_b...

THE NEW GOP PLAN

Republicans Adopt Platform That Plays to Conservatives

Republicans adopted a slimmed-down, conservative-leaning platform Wednesday night in a unanimous committee vote, peppering it with provisions that mesh with John McCain's political objectives. The platform will come before the full convention for a vote on Monday.

GOP delegates devoted a significant amount of time to crafting an energy section that addresses environmental issues, such as global warming, in greater detail compared with past platforms.

While the platform advocates expanded oil and gas drilling to meet the nation's energy needs, the 112-person committee agreed to omit language calling for drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a plank in the party's 2004 platform. McCain has voted both ways on the question of drilling in ANWR, but has said this year he believes it should remain off-limits to energy exploration.

snip

Above all, the platform asserts presidential authority. The document makes it clear that the president, not Congress, should determine how war is waged in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also calls for an end to all "earmarks," provisions in which lawmakers specify federal funding for specific projects -- a position McCain has championed. In one controversial vote, the platform committee approved a total ban on embryonic stem cell research.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR200808...

The bolded part is the most scary and the WaPo doen't highlight it as such.

Vancouver, BC
Vancouver WA
Vancouver Island

Different places. I hear the quake was way out to sea

at 11:30

so I guess he's okay.

http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/08/26/brad-friedman-the-sr-qa/

Great interview with Brad Friedman about

-our corrupted voting system;
-why Colorado will probably be counted for the thugs:
-and the nearly complete corruption of the democratic leadership
(read the comments section at the bottom also)

well, you've just been promoted to concern troll, congrats.

I have yet to see debates with Alice here that weren't reciprocal in both substance and tone...she has convictions and so do others and from what little I know as a latecomer, many here would go to bat for her much more effectively, honestly and thoroughly than you are right now...

there's a difference between mutual respect and bitter egotism and you'd do well to keep that in mind...you're not as opaque as you think

earthquake was early morning,

about a hundred miles west of the tip of the island.

no other info here yet. no shaking here,

but we were another 100 miles east of it.

woke up around then thought a train

was rumbling through.

I get the message. I will try to follow the dotted lines better in the future.

News-Press Mason-Dixon Florida Poll of likely Florida voters shows Democratic nominee Barack Obama and Republican pick John McCain in a statistical dead heat. If the election were held today, 45 percent would vote for Obama and 44 percent would vote for McCain. The poll's margin of error is plus or minus 4 percent, so either candidate could be in the lead.

The election will be decided by the 11 percent of undecided voters, and in Florida the key will be in the central part of the state along the populous Interstate 4 corridor that bisects the peninsula from Tampa through Orlando to Daytona Beach.

"Once again, the battle for Florida appears to be at the political epicenter of another presidential race," Coker said.

McCain polls well with older North Florida men -- more than half of each of those demographics said they'd vote for him.

Obama gets support from younger South Florida women -- greater than 50 percent of those groups said they'd vote for the Democrat.

The survey of 625 likely voters on Monday and Tuesday revealed that Obama's pick of Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate made little difference to Florida voters.

http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080827/NEWS0107/8...

Submitted by toniD on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 11:43am.
THE NEW GOP PLAN Republicans
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ToniD,

I watched some of the footage on Cspan of the Republican's platform. It was depressing. Guess who was there contributing to the dialog? Why, it was Bud McFarlane? Remember him from Iran Contra? It was he who urged Reagan to make the arms deal with the Iranians. It was also McFarlane- that advocated strongly for the Central American policy.

From the Nixon Administration to now, we are dealing with 40 years of unchecked, never prosecuted criminal behavior.

Dead heat in Florida
Submitted by toniD on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 11:58am.
..."Once again, the battle for Florida appears to be at the political epicenter of another presidential race," Coker said...
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I am doing other tasks and speed reading the blog now and then.

I misread the quote in toniD's post as "...Florida appears to be at the political sphincter of another presidential race."

Evelyn Wood would be proud.

How is ya??
maggiesboy - just sent you an e-mail. (Defenders of Wildlife)

mhappennow - I have your e-mail somewhere around here - would you,
could you give it to me again??

Happe Talk

I'll send it to you to!

How're you doing?

Crank, I think you are reading what you think, rather than what is written. But I think the two words, in this case, are interchangable.

Here's a stirring Boston Globe op-ed from master lexicographer Erin McKean, presenting the humane case for a dynamic English language in which speakers are allowed to coin neologisms and new usages without grammar tightasses insisting that language is not a user-modifiable technology.

More at Boing Boing:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/27/english-is-a-usermod.html
Or go directly to Boston Globe article:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/08/03/chillax/

of Chicago. I can't believe that summer is almost over.
Say it ain't so.

everyone!!!

excellent blog from Carol Davidek-Waller

http://resetnow.blogspot.com/

If you were wondering why "No Impeachment"?

"According to Cindy Sheehan, her opponent in the upcoming election, Pelosi is in hot water over the Bayview Hunter’s Point landgrab, along with two of her nephews, Gavin Newsome Mayor of San Francisco and Lauence Pelosi who was VP of Acquistions for a slimy developer Lennar. It’s one of the dirtiest land deals ever. It isn’t her first landgrab and an investigation would problaby end her career.
Pelosi was the one who nominated Emmanel for leadershsip within the Democratic Party. Pelosi’s grandfather was a German Jew who escaped to Argentina. Emmanuel has duel citizenship with Israel. These two keep the Democratic Party kowtowing to AIPAC whose interests are not the interests of the US or even American Jews. They are the interests of Israel’s Likud Party who fund and advise AIPAC.
Sheehan tolld me Pelosi cut a deal with the White House. She promised Bush that Democrats wouldn’t impeach if Bush would keep the DOJ off her back. So far both seem to have kept their promises.
It has been widely reported that Pelosi has threatened to remove Conyers as head of the House Judiciary Committee if he went against her."

tonight. It would be a perfect end to the convention

Happe Talk

Cat Chew,

Erin McKean does not make a distinction between words created to substitute for words expressing ideas that already exist (e.g. funner replacing more fun) and words created to express an idea for which no word exists (e.g. bicyclish).

One would think that a lexicographer would note the difference.

Creating a synonym for an existing word isn't adding much to the language. The verbization of nouns falls into the same category. It usually does little more than eliminate one or two words in a sentence (e.g. "I shopped" versus "I went shopping") in conversational English.

Language evolves for two reasons: Ignorant misuse and intentional creativity. Lightning is found in storms but lightening is also now found in storms because of persistent misspelling. Bytes and quarks are so-named because the ideas came into existence and needed names.

My opinion is that we are all supposed to follow the rules of language so that we can communicate accurately. When the mistakes and new creations are persistently used, they enter the language under adjusted rules.

If you know how to use language correctly, you should. The evolution of language will take care of itself.

And if you know how to use language correctly, you stand on firmer ground when creating an affixed form like "bicyclish" (or verbization) to express an idea for which no word exists.

I think you're correct and so does my inner nun (I sometimes manage to beat her unconscious but she refuses to give up the ghost), but I'm also in favor of making folks feel less self-conscious about the way they express themselves on the fly while they continue to learn to express themselves more accurately.

By the way, I enjoy the way you make gentle sport of goofy useage without being a language nazi or the grammar cop or a knuckle-rapping penguin.
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I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I say to you, “If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college. —Kurt Vonnegut

Semicolon Appreciation Society at Erin McKean's Dictionary Evangelist.

Submitted by Cat Chew on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 1:44pm.
...By the way, I enjoy the way you make gentle sport of goofy useage without being a language nazi or the grammar cop or a knuckle-rapping penguin.
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If you refuse to testify for the defense, we will issue a subpoena.

(...and it's "usage.")

No, it's not that.
I'm too busy congratulating myself for
remembering that knuckle has two Ks.
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Hello, poetry lovers

Why 2 Ks?
Why a duck?
A Rove by any other name would still stink.

It's cool. Pretend you're living your last day of life here and this isn't so big...
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