Thanks to the work of longtime regular Colorado Bob, Trail Mixers can help buy a lifesaving ShelterBox that supplies survival equipment bound for Haiti. Each box contains enough gear to shelter and hydrate 10 disaster victims for six months, and will be tracked to its delivery point. Donate Now
UPDATE: As of Feb. 8, we’ve raised over $76,000 (US Dollars)
ShelterBox started in 2000 as a Rotary Club project in the United Kingdom. Donate Now (Donations are in British pounds, Currrency Converter: $10=£6.30)
For Haiti, each box contains a 10-person sleeping tent, water purification tablets; insulated sleeping bags, collapsible 2.1-gallon water carriers; collapsible trenching shovel, rope, hatchet, jack-knife, screwdriver, hammer, hoe-head; multi-fuel stove; ponchos, mosquito-resistant nets, eating utensils, cups, plates, even a children’s activity book. Donate Now
Many thanks to Keith Olbermann and Don Imus for your support. On to the next box! Donations are calculated in British pounds (Currency Converter – $10=£6.30).
Thanks to Colorado Bob for organizing this little cyberthon. He’s our George Clooney. (See photos of ShelterBoxes in Haiti)
Miami Herald:
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This is embarrassing. I just said I was going but had to peek at the new thread and I’m first!
The Hope for Haiti concert is wonderful, but I’m not buying the ITunes album until our Shelter Box is on its way.
The concert/telethon is great. My sister called me and we are trying to figure out who some of the entertainers are.
We are from the Frank, Dean, Sammy, and Judy generation.
Coldplay, Keith Urban, Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen, and Jennifer Hudson but that’s about all I knew at one glance. I had more luck identifying the celebrities handling the telephones.
Oregon……..check ‘em out…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwNsEYDhujE
The most-read newspapers and the largest audience for broadcast news have been easily lured to the “widows and orphans” approach of tax-cutters that resulted in unfair shifting of financial burdens from corporations and the wealthy to ordinary tax payers. Beginning with the Reagan administration of the 1980′s, tax-cutting members of congress and many state legislatures campaigned to cut income taxes, claiming that they caused outrageous harassment of people like poor widows and small-business people, who were intimidated by ruthless auditors of the IRS. Year after year, the cases were highly publicized, all overblown. As a result, drastic cuts were made in the staffing and appropriations of the IRS. The campaign was successful. It crippled the operation of the most efficient and fairest tax, the income tax. (All other methods, like sales taxes, ask the least affluent of the public to pay the highest percentage of their disposable income.) In 2002, the IRS said it lacked auditors to review complex accounts of large corporations, so they had to limit their audits to the returns of middle-class and low-income people. The largest corporations had won the battle to get away with their riches and let working people pay their bills. The media share responsibility in the resulting gross unfairness by reporting uncritically the tax-cutters’ horror stories. The “widows and orphans” technique had worked again with the major media, who seem uneducable on the issue of taxes.
By 2002, workers, shareholders, and the national economy were shaken by the dozens of firms like Enron and major banks that collapsed or were weakened when their undetected use of fraudulent practices and theft shook the economy and left workers unemployed. Some studies suggest that the earlier cutbacks in the IRS contributed to the corporate scandals.
--bagdikian
Thanks Sturgeone..that was great..
I wish I could help out on those boxes,but what little I could send was through the Red Cross before I ever knew about the box project. Hope the Red Cross actually uses it for Haiti.
Inthe last thread Bethy posted this, and I completely concur: “I get very tired of [Olberman's] long involved convoluted sentences, and Rachel’s also. They themselves get lost in them and I suspect a good many of them aren’t really sentences.”
I too have at times tried to picture Olberman’s sentences in diagram form, and come up short.
jean simmons dies…. imho her best role was as sister sharon in elmer gantry but angel face was a close second.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8476400.stm
171.60 pounds of trail mix fish caught….we’re at 34%. this morning’s favorite bait is bacon… as in bring it home, not chew more fat.
“The U.S. military is gearing up for a possible influx of Haitians fleeing their earthquake-stricken country at an Army facility not widely known for its humanitarian missions: Guantanamo Bay.
Soldiers at the base have set up tents, beds and toilets, awaiting possible orders from the secretary of defense to proceed, according to Maj. Diana Haynie, a spokeswoman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay.”
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/21/haiti.guantanamo/
the dawg is everywhere
http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nba/news/story?id=4850804
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YES! Jean Simmons in Elmer Gantry was just stunning!
Charles Blow has a good piece in the Times today:
http://tinyurl.com/yj3uzz5
patsi, thanks for the blow article. really liked this line:
“‘He underestimated the mob, and his agenda will suffer now that the emperor has no cloture.”
here’s a peek at tomorrow’s book review:
Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann
The Sunday Times review by Sarah Baxter
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article6995450.ece
patd
Jean Simmons was a wonderful actress and Elmer Gantry a great movie, but I love her singing and dancing through Guys and Dolls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfpTKNwWrgE
This was the number last night that I mentioned. Kid Rock, Cheryl Crow, and Keith Urban all playing unplugged and harmonizing on “Lean On Me”. Playing and singing like this on short notice showed just how good they really are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCi9X4btx38
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/opinion/23sat3.html?th&emc=th
“A Good Fight”
“Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton picked the right battle this week, calling for an end to Internet censorship and naming governments that suppress the free flow of information including China, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Tunisia and Uzbekistan.
Her speech, at the Newseum in Washington, had pointed echoes of the cold war, including a warning that a new information curtain is descending across much of the world. Anyone who finds that overheated should remember how hard Irans government worked to shut down the Web during last summers bloody, pro-democracy protests and the power of the images and words that managed to get through.
Mrs. Clinton also placed the Obama administration squarely on the side of Google in its fight with China over Internet censorship and cyberattacks. She called on the Chinese government to conduct a thorough and transparent review of Googles accusations that Gmail accounts used by Chinese human rights activists had been hacked into from the mainland. And she called on other American companies to challenge foreign governments demands for censorship and surveillance.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/opinion/23herbert.html?th&emc=th
A good piece by Herbert.
“They Still Dont Get It”
“While the nation was suffering through the worst economy since the Depression, the Democrats wasted a year squabbling like unruly toddlers over health insurance legislation. No one in his or her right mind could have believed that a workable, efficient, cost-effective system could come out of the monstrously ugly plan that finally emerged from the Senate after long months of shady alliances, disgraceful back-room deals, outlandish payoffs and abject capitulation to the insurance companies and giant pharmaceutical outfits.”
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/sherrod-brown-still-no-health-care-reform-strategy.php
“Sherrod Brown: Still No Health Care Reform Strategy”
“Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is engaged with House progressives, trying to tease out a solution to the health care reform impasse--but he says that at the highest levels of the Senate and the White House, there’s still no plan, and he doubts whether President Obama will insert himself forcefully into the process.
Brown, who traveled with Obama today in Ohio, tells me “I’ve talked to Reid, I’ve talked to Obama. Unclear yet what the strategy is, but clear interest, strong interest in getting as strong a bill as we can get.”
Good post on Hillary Tony. Interesting that she is a lone voice at the moment regarding China. It is rather sad the Liberal Press isn’t giving her much passionate backing, but then they backed Chavez because Bush denounced his abuse of the Press. And Craig might back me up on this. The elite liberal journalists claimed that there is a “code of journalism” that the Press had violated that is as important than the 1 st Amendment. Chavez took one station off the air because it didn’t report news of the attempted coup. If it was FOX, Bear might have agreed with Chavez too. How many Liberal pundits have lambasted the Chinese characterization of our Free Press as “information imperialism”.
On another note: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8475004.stm
Seems the view off what is happening here from Europe is completely missed by all the talking heads here. I think the BBC is going with my suggestion. If I Axelrod, I would be very careful how he crafts Obama as the populist. If he thinks he can FIGHT the GOP on who is the populist and allow the bone-heads like Olberman to tar Brown worse than Beck and Rush, he will once again steer Obama in the wrong direction and the Democratic into utter defeat in November.
You just can’t teach old dogs new tricks sometimes…..
http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/01/2012-presidential-poll.html
“2012 Presidential Poll by Public Policy Polling”
WTF,Republican’s doing well on standing for NOTHING!!
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Thanks for the link, Jamie. I missed it last night, channel surfing and napping. Keith is such a good guy. I haven’t talked to him since he hit rock star status…but on the way up he was a peach. Used to come to our house for our big summer barbeques…and he was NEVER truly aware of his “hottie-ness.” If I wanted to — as they say in the South — embarrass the dog out of him, I just brought up his cutie factor. Dumb thing about trying to establish an artist like him at radio: you had to downplay what a guitarist he is. He had to be known as a singer first and a musician second.
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Yep,Max,
Was nice to see Hillary hammering the Chinese on their BS.I was glad, especially as I’m sure it pains Hill that she really can’t say much these days regarding China and human rights,woman’s rights etc.
At the very time the label was playing down his guitar work, guys like Garth were having him play on records as a special guest and raving about him.
Yes, Tony! Ain’t that the dumbest damn thing? Republicans stand for nothing and people love it.
My GAWD I am sick of my fellow hillbillies shoving the MASS vote up my butt as proof the country is conservative.
There is a great site called Everyday Citizen that I like to read…lots of opinions. And I LOVED this one:
http://networkedblogs.com/p25319930
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Patsi,
Its amazing to me,even after 8 years of Bush that their BS sells.I still here from Republicans at my gym that Carter was much worse than Bush?I say have you ever sat down and looked at the statistics,so Carter had high interest rates.There weren’t two wars,huge spending and the biggest financial meltdown since the 30′s..
My favorite comment in the above piece was this:
“We were already suffering under a system in which money had too much influence. Now the fix is in. The Supreme Court decided that we would no longer be a Democracy; we will be a plutocracy, instead. We will have government by, of, and for the wealthiest. We have been headed that way for a long time. But I did not expect it to become explicit and official so abruptly.”
Oh sure, Tony — the Republicans still hold Carter out as the Devil.
Patsi….
really good article by Charles Blow. In it he mentions that Democrats thought people would be patient. I think they would be if they saw true leadership…. someone fighting for his values. Only an idiot would have expected Obama to turn around the economic mess that Bush left in a year. Only an idiot would have expected him to recreate all the jobs loss by this point. But it’s Obama who’s the idiot if he thinks he can fight for Wall Street and let the average citizen fend for him/her self. Obama is the idiot if he thinks he can pass healthcare reform without fighting for it. Obama is the idiot if he thinks he can get any meaningful legislation passed without a fight in these hyper partisan days.
Obama is proving to those who dubbed him “Obambi” during the primaries that he deserves that moniker. He needs to change that…. and change it fast.
Tony, let’s just take some glaring observations that the Press in general have not noticed as most important: 1. There is still no HC Bill to audit or publicly debate 2. The HC process started with Obama secretly cutting deals and ended in disaster with democrats secretly trying to write a final HOUSE BILL 3. Brown didn’t have the word REPUBLICAN anywhere near his stage and rejected attempts by the Press to get him to knock the President 4. A number of Liberal pundits from Krugman to Axelrod called for a response that seems rejected by the American people 5. The leadership on the Left engaged in a secret hit job with the Press as cover to dump Hillary with operatives as pathetic as Edwards who Dem bosses suspected of lying 6. The most important things like (jobs, credit lines, financial regulation and mortgage help), (lowering costs on health care and covering all), and ( really working across the aisle through compromise and smarts) were never pounded home by the Press. As I said, this mess has broken trust with the Indies who will use their clout again along with those Reagan Democrats in the coming elections. I did predict exactly what would happened without some divided government as simple as Democrats not having that bogus supermajority they could never really count on. Obama couldn’t make it work even with 60 votes, Bill got er done with a Republican Congress.
I can think of at least five regulars here who supported Hillary that predicted this would happen. It is nice to know that they never backed down while doing their best to be good Liberals and be patient with Obama.
Obama would have been better served reading TM from time to time. I think some here are not shocked at what is happening no matter how likable Obama is. Yes, he is more likable than Hillary, which many saw as an asset her her, not a reason to betray her flaws and all and watch as Democrats snatched defeat frm victory as some predicted they would do.
Ironic Brian supported Edwards, eh?
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Patsi,
Spot on comment..
A comment from Stubborn Facts Submitted by brian.shapiro on Sat, 01/23/2010 -- 12:59am.
Well I have researched some of this, and I can dig up some quotes from the founders ,if anyone cares, that show that they were very concerned about the ability of wealth to influence elections.
Gouverneur Morris, for instance, raised the issue at the Constitutional Convention. He argued there on the floor that one of the reasons for a republican form of government is for the institutions of government to be protected from wealthy interests. If demagoguery would hold sway, he said, it would always lead the rich to have power over everyone else, because the rich could spend the most money on political speech. But not only did he see this as a reason for the Constitution, though--his argument went on to state that one of the duties of the legislature, when constituted, should be to guard against encroachments by those wealthy interests.
Morris was one of the signers of the Constitution, and I would guess, the Bill of Rights, and I think he would disagree with Scalia’s interpretation.
Before everyone gets bent out of shape with the SCOTUS ruling I do not like personally, please read the history of what is going on before vilifying the Robert Court. This decision did not happen over night and has been a debate ever since our country was founded. Two options it seems 1. Pass a Constitutional Amendment or perhaps the Congress can 2. demand a vote of shareholders before contributions (as I suggested yesterday).
Here is a legal view from the right we might begin with to get familiar t least with the legal problems….
http://volokh.com/2010/01/21/corporate-rights-and-property-rights-are-human-rights-why-its-a-mistake-to-conflate-a-right-with-the-means-used-to-exercise-it/
Sorry by MY comments begin above with “before everyone gets bent…” above that sentence is Brian’s quote from SF I forgot to put quotation marks around…
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I’m not a conservative, but most polls show far more conservatives than Liberals, so missing that fact steered Obama in the wrong drection after preaching bipartisan to Hillary and Bill (hillbillies….)
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-280877
WHEW! Renee — SPOT ON!
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No, that came from much of what Carter has done since. It was under cater that Brez baited the Soviets into Afghanistan and then armed the militants. Carter pulled the rug from the Shah and left in place a regime far worse and more dangerous than the Shah. I could go on, but Carter was a real downer, though he does have some very admirable traits. Calling what happened in the Sudan “not genocide” but Gaza a replica of the concentration camps makes many want to retire him ASAP. And of course, there was the Carter Doctrine, Bush used to remove Saddam….lol.
Later people, have a great day…..
Renee — your post reminded me that during the primaries I got into so many back & forth deals with dog’s eye because I said we needed a fighter, and she said no, that she was sick of fighters. At one point she said that she thought the whole difference between the Hillary people and the Obama people was who wanted a fight. Well, I understand being sick of squabbling — but the Republicans will steamroll over someone who isn’t capable of bare knuckling it.
Hi guys,
Sorry I havent been on in a long time. Ive had Mid-terms already, and now Im getting into Pre-algebra, Animal science, and Orchestra. I also have an idea on what instrument Im playing, VIOLA!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and I wrote my first book. YAY!!!
Obamas first year was not . . . . . That good. And thats amazing for me to say that. I was pro-Obama from the start and I still think he was the better choice, but man, he had some BIG promises that we need to see if they will happen. Personally I think that are whole mess was Bush. But Regan or Clinton started are downhill spiral. Bush got us all the way up to 5 trillion dollars. Hopefully we will pay it all of if where lucky.
The earthquake in Haiti was horrible. But a lot of buildings may have been destroyed because they werent up to code, because (If Im correct) its the poorest country in the western hemisphere, so they could not get the materials to get there buildings up to code. But I still wish that it had never happened.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-280878
“Obama would have been better served reading TM from time to time. I think some here are not shocked at what is happening no matter how likable Obama is. Yes, he is more likable than Hillary, which many saw as an asset her her, not a reason to betray her flaws and all and watch as Democrats snatched defeat from victory as some predicted they would do.”
Max,
I agree with your comment,except I never thought Obama was more likable than Hillary! I guess i was just to focused on who i felt had the experience and stamina to get things done.The way President Obama has governed doesn’t surprise me.The thing that surprises me his poor treatment of gay people and their core issues.I mean again,at the risk of being told “I’m moaning and bitching” he could have righted some of the wrongs against gay people with a stroke of a pen.I realize though to most these gay issues are of little consequence,but to me they are sacrosanct..
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There is a big difference between fighting (Bill Clinton over Newt) and just fighting. BIG difference. Hillary would get things done with her fighting. Obama has flounder-fought using many as proxies.
It is all in the results….and manipulating youe opponent is a big part of fighting Obama is clueless about.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-280887
Bill Clinton agrees with you Tony. I think the Black community is a bit against gays and I wonder if Obama was worried. He also didn’t want to give the GOP more ammo, but whatever he thought, it didn’t work out. Obama is not one who REALLY admits mistakes and re-calibrates. What he’s doing now as Solar said is obviously forced. Now Obama is the person people say needs to “change”. How ironic is that as Hillary just being herself seems up to any task set before her.
Experience and a fighter who gets er done. Yes, she was much more likable after the primary to me despite the hit job of Game. A lesser person would have told the Democrats to fuck off……
oops I’m late…
Patsi….
that’s because dog’s eye mistook fighting for name calling. I recall seeing the movie Cool Runnings…. based on the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team from 1988. Everyone made fun of them. But they believed in themselves. When their sled came apart on their last run, they picked it up and carried it over the finish line. Because they fought for their right to be there by finishing the race, they were respected…. even though they came in DEAD LAST in the competition.
People will respect someone for fighting for what they believe in. Even if they get knocked down.
Oh RR, thanks for wishing me a happy birthday. You obviously know when Ben was born…..
Hope you’re doing okay.
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Renee,
The best comment I’ve read in a long time! Oh and then you follow up with this brilliant one.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-280890
Love this:
“People will respect someone for fighting for what they believe in. Even if they get knocked down.”
Hillary Clinton to a tee…
“He also didn’t want to give the GOP more ammo, but whatever he thought, it didn’t work out.”
Max,
You might be correct! The President didn’t seem to worry to much about cutting all the deals on healthcare,but then look what it got him,NOTHING..I said when he cut the deals with the Unions on the healthcare excise tax,what a dumb thing to do,you just gave the wing nuts more powerful ammo…
Max…
I will confess that when you said you shared Franklin’s birthday, I googled him.
And I’m doing fine. My father was very sick his last 3 yrs. His death was equally sad and a blessing.
Tony…. you’re gonna give me a swelled head… :0)
We’re past the halfway point to a shelterbox.. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
Wow, Ping Pong just upped the ante (good goin, mister). We’re at 74% toward a shelterbox.. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
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Patsi
I’ve only become a major fan recently after discovering how well he could play. Initially I just viewed him as another one of the mass produced country rockers with a better voice than most, and it came as a big surprise at the depth of his talent. I genuinely hope there is an unplugged album in his future. As it is, I’m going I Tune shopping for the songs that highlight the guitar.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-280896
As we keep saying, Ping is a real gentleman even when we disagree rather forcefully. Our resident Conservative is a good person.
You’re almost at 400 Craig. Good work Bob…..
Hey Patsi
How about trying to get a book out of Keith? You could always call it “Urban Legend”
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-280898
Many are Jamie, many are……
Target: £500.00
Raised so far: £368.60 -- 74%
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5197440.stm
I guess this was what Edwards had in mind, better health.
Max,
That is one of those “Oh Duh!” studies. Visitation rights and a good night’s sleep are wonderful things.
CBob is the George Clooney of our Trailmix Cyberthon!
“When their sled came apart on their last run, they picked it up and carried it over the finish line. Because they fought for their right to be there by finishing the race, they were respected…”
YES! I remember that Renee — it was an amazing moment!
Jamie — Keith probably did seem like a manufactured artist to the casual observer. But he had a big history in Australia before he came here, and he put together an edgy, kickin’ band early on — Capito signed them but radio threw them to the dogs. So Keith had to jump through the hoops.
Looks like ShelterBox is going viral pretty fast.
ShelterBoxes! 150 boxesGoal! Filled box 102. box 103-$413 Hotlist
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/1/23/829058/-ShelterBoxes!-150-boxesGoal!Filled-box-102.-box-103-$413
Craig -
I look forward to the young babes on my elbow, and the villa in the Lake Como District.
Here’s Keith’s band, The Ranch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEIsGtQ0ep0
When Capitol released this, radio acted like they’d handed them a pipe bomb. And Capitol decided he shouldn’t be playing that guitar so prominently.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-280905
And Ping is the Leonardo di Caprio
Jamie -
Ping is the Leonardo di Caprio, yes he is .
hey can ping be James Cameron…. Maybe Criag will see it??
Four year-old Carlos had his leg amputated on Wednesday. He is now recovering in a ShelterBox tent and is pictured using one of the childrens packs sent in the boxes. Photograph: Mark Pearson
http://www.shelterbox.org/news.php?id=239
Ping
Leonardo dropped a million of his own dollars on Haiti. The percentages work out about the same.
Oops….I must have missed this one.MSNBC clamping down on hosts badmouthing each other.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/23/phil-griffins-memo-to-msn_n_434117.html
Heav’n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn’d,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583653,00.html
TIR
Naturally Fox News has to emphasize that the man is an “OBAMA ADVISOR” as if the guy’s dumped mistress has anything to do with government. Maybe MSNBC should put up photos of all the Republican shags.
The roberts SCOTUS give more political voice to kim il sung’s banks in Macao than to me.
There are 5 arschlochen on the SC who deserve ultra aggressive cancer of the mouth.
I just had a time slide. I meant kim jong-il
The installation of the new bathroom has begun complete with saw cutting cement so I am fleeing the noise, dust, and aggravation. Have a good afteroon.
Thought for the day :
” Beware the man who can’t be bothered with details. ”
Pro Phetball
Fillies over planes in double overtime. Manning gets in touch with Mother Earth -- a lot. A long field goal wins the game.
Barbarians over Religious Fanatix in overtime. Favre and Brees both get several chances to look at the ceiling. Fumbles decide the game.
I expect 2 exciting games.
1556 Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shansi Province, China
1812 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
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xr, speaking of corps that are not 100% usa owned/managed, your comment does raise that question.
wonder if scotus will now see fit for ahnold to run for pres….. argumentum ad absurdem
Go Vikings’ anybody want to make a little wager’ loser to donate to cbob’s shelter box fund
tm fishcamp’s hauled in 383.60 pounds of fish as of 2:30…. we’re at 77%!!!
I was just thinking about Jean Simmons, remembering her excellent work as a kid in Ceasar and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Great Expectations, and Blue Lagoon. In Ceasar and Cleo she was just 15 years old as they were filming, and she was just as believable as anyone on the set.
She was good in Spartucus, although the role didn’t give her much chance to stretch her skills. Where she really in her maturity were the fillms Clouded Yellow, Angel Face, Desiree, Guys and Dolls, Elmer Gantry, and The Happy Ending.
From murderous scheming psycho to frightened, hunted waif, to a cheery and artless teen, to a very serious soul saver who does song and dance routines -- nothing she ever did was mediocre. Simmons was a great WOW of an actress.
Tea-baggers that fueled MASS vote may be weakening: Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/id/232165
Patd,
Why stop with ahnold ? Why not run Exxon ? It’s a person, after all. Argumentum ad aburdem in excelsis.
PS — that’s a Morning Joe article….
COPAKE, New York -- An upstate dairy farmer shot and killed 51 of his milk cows in his barn before turning the rifle on himself, state police in New York said.
State police discovered the body of Dean Pierson, 59, in his Copake barn on Thursday. A visitor found a note Pierson had left on the barn door that said not to come in and to call police.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35029724/ns/us_news-life/
With Goldman Sachs as it’s running mate.
CBob…
that story about the upstate NY dairy farmer is heartbreaking. I’ve heard several programs on NPR about the desperate straits that plague small dairy farms. On one show done several months ago, a farmer stated that he was being paid 12 cents for every gallon of milk that was costing him 17 cents to produce. With an equation like that I imagine it doesn’t take long to go bankrupt.
Bristol Palin files for child support. I guess that she can’t find a high paying job in radio.
New jersey’ Virginia ‘ now Mass.’ as we have seen ‘ one pissed off tea-bagger vote counts the same as one progressive liberal vote ‘ now ain’t that a bitch
Dairies may be suffering because so many parents feed their kids soft drinks.
My sister and I were lucky to get a mug of root beer twice a year. To us, Pepsi and Coke were merely names that appeared in colorful magazine ads.
When former Senator norm coleman was mayor of St Paul, he ‘forced’ the school board to allow Coke machines in the schools. The dirty sumbidge. The school board caved, the dirty sumbidges.
Mqw,
Expect buyer’s remorse by this time next year.
X. Buyer’s remorse? Sort of what the democrats got right now
X. Buyer’s remorse? Sort of what the democrats got right now
I say two great games with Vikings and Jets squeaking it out. My head tells me that the Colts will prepare for the Blitz, but Jets O is due a good day. Farve shows up and shows some magic.
Now that is not realism talking…….
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Jamie, given the conservative disdain for gay marriage, it always makes me laugh when some GOP gets busted on line or in a men’s bathroom.
I wonder what the cheat ratio is for politicians when compared to the population at large.
mqw,
I’ll take the Saints for £6.30/$10.
Jamie, enclose bathroom area with plastic. Have contractor really vacuum as concrete dust is not good. I actually use vacuum grinder for concrete cutting. Also I hammer drill concrete cut-outs when possible to lower dust levels. If you see workers breathing in concrete dust or cutting without glasses ask them how stupid they think they are.
mqw….
com’on…. buck up like the rest of us Hillary supporters and just give a donation to CBob’s shelter box…. I LOVE football… but wouldn’t let a score let me stand in the way of doing the right thing….
Rez’ Got you down for ten ‘
Good deal! It’s fine RR. I was going to add to the pot anyway for my broke nephew (I hit him up yesterday) and besides I’m an Okie AD Peterson fan, so I hope I lose. Either way the fund gets the dough.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/01/22/google.china/index.html
Note that CNN avoided repeating China’s description of our Freedom of Information as “information imperialism”. It seems Hillary might win this one with a bit more support from Democrats and Republicans.
Note that Goggle says if you’re not serious and yield to demands, the other side thinks your weak. Goggle seems prepared to walk away from 100 million in business to bring consistency between what they say and what they do. Kudos for that…..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8477221.stm
More alive in Haiti
Target: £500.00
Raised so far: £389.90 -- 78 %
Buyer’s remorse, only a year from today, it’ll swing to your side.
http://stubbornfacts.us/law/money_isnt_speech#comment-20353
I leave this for NewPogo and other lawyer types. In light of Obama’s political use of the SCOTUS decision to bolster his move toward populism, we should give some weight to the legal history of money is speech.
I have argued as Brian does in his comment. The way I see it, shareholders must decide if their “organization” uses corporate funds to “speak”. Newpogo, would the court strike this down?
“Bristol Palin files for child support. I guess that she can’t find a high paying job in radio.”
XREP — One more effing time, we sink to sexist BS! So women should find those high paying jobs so the baby-daddy can be a deadbeat dad? Can you say anythingthing more stupid? OR offensive? I don’t give a shit what Bristol Palin’s mother’s politics are. I am damned sick of middle aged men making sport out of her. AND I might add — you are making spot of every woman who ever asked for child support., So STFU…yes, I am pissed.
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Patsi, I read the piece you linked and then noticed it’s author. I got a chuckle and thought wtf , then I saw your follow up post.
correction: “making sport of”
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max , What if the shareholders are foreigners (non-citizens)?
Did you See J Steven’s dissent comments.
GO REZDOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE THE SAINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Farve needs to make up his mind if he will retire or not, and the saints, Even though they lost to the bucks, redemed themselves agenst the cardnils. LETS GO SAINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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That is a great question and I don’t have an answer. Maybe this WILL allow foreign countries through corporations to “speak” to voters in OUR elections.
Hi me, Guess you didn’t see my next comment. Sorry, I really want Purple to win.
max , here’s the part that got a few chatting about on the radio.
From the dissenting opinion, J Stevens;
“If taken seriously, our colleagues assumption that the identity of a speaker has no relevance to the Governments ability to regulate political speech would lead to some remarkable conclusions. Such an assumption would have accorded the propaganda broadcasts to our troops byTokyo Rose during World War II the same protection as speech by Allied commanders.”
uh oh…. Xrep…. I knew you were going to get a tongue lashing for that Bristol comment. I know you were just being funny and I’m not pissed. But go Bristol… you go girl! No matter what Bristol does for a living…. that’s exactly what Levi Johnston deserves for using his “johnston”. I know that teenage boys are gonna do it no matter what…. but when a baby results they’d better be prepared to pay up.
me 168….. let me echo it….. GO SAINTS!
oh yeah…. and GO JETS!
Renee — I knew he was “joking” too. Just another gender-based yuk-yuk.
Maxtrue,
Perhaps I’m misreading the link you just provided, but I am confused why there is a fear of unions using dues to argue or advocate in the political arena, but there is a no concern for a corporation to use general funds for the same purpose.
As I understand the purpose of a labor union, it’s to allow employees in the same industry to pool together for the purposes of collectively bargaining for favorable employment terms.
If the union sees fit to support certain legislation or candidates in order to achieve that goal, and they were duly elected by the membership, why is it a problem? Especially if it’s not a problem for corporations to do the same thing…
Target: £500.00
Raised so far: £389.90 -- 78 %
Posted by: Colorado Bob
C’mon folks, I challenge you to reach the goal by the end of the weekend.
Ok RRenee’ got your point ‘ donated already’ but I got another 100′ minus 10 I can give’heck just trying to make it interesting tomorrow’
Craig….
it’s now up to 91% thanks to mqw’s recent support…..
thanks mqw… CBob is donating the first shelter box in honor of my father who passed away Monday.
gotta go…. a friend is making dinner for Rick and I tonight…
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Max,
Fame, Power and money always means a higher percentage of shenanigans simply due to opportunity and finances.
As the old saying goes: Politics is sex for ugly people.
Renee, I am so sorry to hear that you lost your father. Hope you and your family are doing alright. Please let us know how you and your mother are doing, as well as everyone else.
Target: £500.00
Raised so far: £454.90 -- 91%
http://media.causes.com/611645?p_id=44185871
Jamie,
“Maybe MSNBC should put up photos of all the Republican shags.”
Actually that story first appeared on ABC several days ago.
TIR
It still doesn’t matter. This business of scandal having something to do with Obama is just so much ratings garbage. It isn’t the President’s mistress putting up a billboard in Times Square, and even if it was other than the screams from the 2nd floor of the WH, what would it have to do with government.
Powerful men have had mistresses just about as long as there have been marriages. Somehow they managed to run countries often with the assistance of those women and when crying was done over their coffin it was often the widow and mistress holding each other together.
Dynasties just aren’t what they once were.
Bob should be showing 100% now.
One other thing there Westie, the question you need to ask yourself is this. First it wasn’t FOX who put up thos billboards, it was the scorned female.
Second, if MSNBC did put something like that up, who would see it? MSNBC viewership is almost non-existing. Have you seen the ratings lately. FOX has 5 times as many viewers even with their non-primetime shows as does MSNBC. I am beginning to think they, NBC/GE, just keep MSNBC on the air as a tax write off. Kind of like keeping a few negative income rental properties to help offset the income obtained through profitable rentals. It is only a matter of time before MSNBC goes the way as Air America. The country is center right, not center left.
TIR
Fox has those ratings because the right wing nut jobs only have one channel to watch while everybody else gets spread out all over the networks and cable.
MSNBC has its problems but while they may exagerate, they rarely outright lie which is a FOX stock in trade.
Oh somebody toss in the last 20 cents so we can get the box on its way.
http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
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For the hundredth time!.
It is not just powerful men that have mistress, it is men in general. Men who who forgot or wish they weren’t married. Like I said before if you lie and cheat on your significant other, just think how much easier it is to do with people, the voters, you don’t even know. Of course there are 2 types of mistresses/girlfriends. Those who the wife is aware of and tolerates them up to a point, and those the husbands try to keep in closets. But eventually those closet doors get opened and that is when the s*** hits the fan. Tiger, Edwards…
They’re calling it 100% Jamie. I would have thrown in something past the decimal, if I had known it was needed.
a huge challenge, mr color-raydo………..Im sending the cash to you wit de snails mails in that I am unable to pursue the thought of it in any other way…..I’m telling you in hopes that by telling you i will influence myself to accomplish said deed……..i did find out there is a new post office deal involving boxes and shipping which makes it easy-peasy……so check the cardboard cause there is a double sawbuck in there with the sculpture…….”The Wave”…….if you contemplate the wave for a bit you can figure out how there is something one-eighty out involving perspective…..
I’ll clean it, but go and get some Teak Oil and rub it down from time to time……
also comes two books……..picked ‘em up in the french quarter pre-katrina for a nickel apiece……them i send to craig and helen…..i couldn’t get, somehow, their address so i know you have it from the scorpiobolo and maybe you can forward…….one of them is a slim 10″ x 14″ volume of Robert Osborne cartoon drawings and the other is the biography with pictures of Lelia……prima ballerina and teacher in 20th C. New Orleans and Paris…….of roughly the same size…….I envision the Osborne drawings for CC and the ballerina history book with pictures of the little new orleans girl for ms. thomas……but the fact is that they may decide amongst them as to who likes what……..and if they get in a fight not a problem…….it’ll sell more books.
FOX News has never had to retract a story. Correct, but not retract, big difference.
FOX continually beats MSNBC, CNN, and some other cable news associated with CNN combined in every time slot, except maybe weekends. But MSNBC never comes in first in any time slot. FOX of late has even been beating ABC.
For the record, the make-up of the FOX’s viewership is 40% R, 20% D, and 40% I. Wonder how many of those who elected Brown would classify themselves as Teabaggers?
What is odd about that, the (R, D & I) are who helped Brown, the “R” candidate, the boy from left field win the MA Sen. seat that was held for 50 years by D Sen. Ted “The Lion of the Senate” Kennedy. Think about that for a moment, a unknown R wins the Senate seat in one of the bluest of blue states. The writing is on the wall, wake-up and smell the coffee. The US has always been a center right country, not a center left country.
One of my major problems with Obama is that he ran on a pretty center platform, although I think in his heart he never planned to carry through with that agenda, then after elected to office handed the car keys over to Reid and Pelosi. And the actions of those 2 are part of the reason why Obama’s poll rating are so low. Yeah I know, personally people like Obama, they just don’t like what he is doing as POTUS, and he is weakening everyday.
BTW, do you know who gave old Ted that moniker, Lion of the Senate? Was that John Kerry?
fox never has to retract a story because they do it all by nuance……..duh…….
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TIR
I was mainly referring to the known by the wife type. The others are like any other hidden things. They tend to see the light of day in the most unpleasant fashion imaginable. i.e. the Billboard.
Plausible deniability.
It only works for so long until the people become informed, then they will takeout their anger at the voting booth. Nov. 2010 justice will be served, and the Teabaggers will get their pound of flesh.
Nuance: I was so much more nuanced then……I’m Jungier than that now…….
If the teabaggers get a pound of flesh they’re going to be persecuted as cannibals……
when plausible deniability becomes “plausible” it becomes a “lie”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/opinion/24Rich.html?
“After the Massachusetts Massacre”
“Does health care matter? Not as much as youd think after this yearlong crusade. In the Post/ABC poll, the issue was second-tier at 24 percent. Obama has blundered, not by positioning himself too far to the left but by landing nowhere frittering away his political capital by being too vague, too slow and too deferential to Congress. The smartest thing said as the Massachusetts returns came in Tuesday night was by Howard Fineman on MSNBC: Obama took all his winnings and turned them over to Max Baucus.
Worse, the master communicator in the White House has still not delivered a coherent message on his signature policy. He not only refused to signal his health care imperatives early on but even now he, like Congressional Democrats, has failed to explain clearly why and how reform relates to economic recovery or, for that matter, what he wants the final bill to contain. Sure, a president needs political wiggle room as legislative sausage is made, but Scott Brown could and did drive his truck through the wide, wobbly parameters set by Obama.
Ask yourself this: All these months later, do you yet know what the health care plan means for your familys bottom line, your taxes, your insurance? Its this nebulousness, magnified by endless Senate versus House squabbling, that has allowed reform to be caricatured by its foes as an impenetrable Rube Goldberg monstrosity, a parody of deficit-ridden big government. Since most voters are understandably confused about what the bills contain, the opponents have been able to attribute any evil they want to Obamacare, from death panels to the death of Medicare, without fear of contradiction.
Its too late to rewrite that history, but it may not be too late for White House decisiveness. Whatever happens now good, bad or ugly must happen fast. Each day Washington spends dickering over health care is another day lost while the election-year economy, stupid, remains intractable for Americans who are suffering.”
Sturgeon nicely said, but can you provide me one story FOX news had to retract? Not correct, but retract, pull down. Let me know when you find something to support your accusation.
“Pope: On FNC, Shep Smith Declares Pope Dead — Then Retracts It”
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/the_pope/pope_on_fnc_shep_smith_declares_pope_dead_then_retracts_it_20057.asp
TinR…..sir, you mistake my motives should you suspect the merest diaphonous presence of the denotations and connotations of “accusation”……..perish the thought……Fox has never retracted a story.
Ever.
because they take the stories as they find them and deliver them with nuance. (Not that there is anything inherently wrong with that.)
Nuance.
I was nuance.
then i was old…….and wore the bottoms of my trousers rolled…….
TIR
It is the way they “weight” stories that make them so offensive. Somehow with Fox, some underling at ACORN possibly (no charges no convictions no payback judgements) misusing $100,000 is somehow a cause celebre.
A Blackwater or a commercial hospital conglomerate wasting or deceitfully appropriating billions (with charges, convictions, and paybacks) barely ruffles their feathers and the message never reaches the pitchfork crowd with their N word witchdoctor signs on the mall.
FOX is just plain abhorent. Even when they might issue an actual news story you have to have a vomit proof stomach to listen to the lead ins and anchors.
i go now to make one frojourne hell of an omelette……it in-as-it-were-volves deer, eggs, havarti, bell peppaire und les pommes-de-terre frite….
i just came across the most amazing website…….they say they have original documents to prove that the original title was “Hey Dude”
“Worse, the master communicator in the White House has still not delivered a coherent message on his signature policy. He not only refused to signal his health care imperatives early on but even now he, like Congressional Democrats, has failed to explain clearly why and how reform relates to economic recovery or, for that matter, what he wants the final bill to contain.”
If I didn’t know better I would have thought some R wrote that piece, but it was non-other than Frank “The Butcher of Broadway” Rich.
If Obama’s daughters were old enough to drive this health care bill may have passed, but that would have meant Obama would to have to had some hands-on control through the process. He didn’t, and the bill is dead.
It wasn’t just that, but the 2,400 pages that were hard to get your arms around, all of the numerous references pointing to this section of law, to this treaty, to this regulation, to that agreements, and this doesn’t even take into account all the backdoor meetings, special preferential treatment to various organizations, purchasing of votes with tax payer money, and the list goes on and on.
When the Congress can’t explain what it is in the bill, when they provide contradicting statements as to what will and what won’t this health care bill do, when Obama only wants to sign anything so he can take credit for a health care plan he had little contribution into forming, when they point to CBO numbers which never are correct, why is anyone surprised when 65% of Americans don’t the government to come anywhere close to their health care plans.
Has anyone ever looked at the differences between the health insurance plans afforded to Congress and those Congress refer to as the Cadillac health care plan? How far apart are they in both coverage and cost? Or did the Congress exempt themselves from this bill?
The days of the, “I know what is better for you” Congress is nearing an end. They will either start listening to their constituents, or they will be seeking new employment come this Nov. K.I.S.S. It is really that simple.
One thing about MA election the voter won’t put up with foot dragging when it comes to the economy.
Which means the party of NO is vulnerable in their districts too.
Jack
Craig, you’re so prolific today.
Yes, go with your gut re: these political people. And I agree with, “…somehow you knew that Clinton was fooling around but it didn’t seem phony because it was so damn obvious. ”
I still like Bill, & I still think he’s fooling around. And I just don’t give a damn.
tt
Ok The elctorate is in a populist mood.
This can’t be bad for Democrats, They are the masters at it, or at least they used to be.
Jack
After all, all any one wants is a seat at the table and a chance to play a good hand. But the folks in washington are stacking the deck against the working man. It is time for a fresh deck,
Let’s have a new deal.
Jack
Jamie, I SO agree with you!
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tt
Jamie,
Keep on listening to Keith, Blondie, and Rachel for now until the lights get turned off. They are certainly fair and balance. I loved the coverage they provided Brown, the WINNER, to that of Coakley, the LOSER. Had I not known better I would have thought Coakley won. I actually watched Matthews and Rachel that night just for the sheer enjoyment of it all. Poor Rachel, who I actually like, but she is such denial. Matthews looked like someone told him he was about to die and there was nothing that could be done. Shock, fear was plainly written on their faces, yet that didn’t stop them from trying to spin the results. Did anyone record how fast it took Coakley to get thrown under the bus. I guess no one could as it happened way before the official results were announced. Those stories I’ve heard about Libs eating their are true after all, and here all this time I thought they were just old wives tales. Just kidding…well sort of.
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Tiptoe
My sentiments exactly and I strongly suspect Hillary may feel the same. As long as the dawg comes home and you still like him, you might as well ignore his rambling around to visit the neighbors.
TIR
They may be blatantly liberal but at least Keith and Rachel do have more than two brain cells to rub together which is more than you can say for most of the crew at FOX who don’t seem to have ever accidentally bumped into a history book much less read one.
I’ll exempt Major Garrett. He keeps things to pretty straight reporting. Unfortunately, I almost never see him because that would mean listening to the other dolts.
BTW, TIR
I actually watch more CNN. While I catch Tweety’s lead ins if he’s spitting I change channels. Keith is in the just barely forgiven for 2008 column and a lot depends on the issues, but I do catch Rachel most nights if only for the Moment of Geek and bartending lessons.
Patsi,
You’re going to give yourself a heart attack over zilch. Of course, johnston is a bum. How many times do I have to make slighting references to him, his selfishness, and his immaturity before you and everyone else recognizes that I piss (metaphorically) on him ? I also piss metaphorically on palin and her campaign crowd for- not just allowing, but precipitating this event. mama gets a $MM/year sinecure, and her child and grandchild have to beg the court for redress ??? WTF kind of family is that ???
For 150 years, no woman in our family ever had to beg succour from the goddam court. The big shots in our family always made sure that the little shots had jobs, and had what they needed. WTF is wrong with this palin bitch ? First she USES her children as props for her f-ing campaign, and next she lets her teenie bopper daughter go w/o support ! It’s unconscionable.
So, go ahead and be pissed. Work yourself up into a stroke over nothing. Take your maoist censorship and shove it up to your tonsils.
“mama gets a $MM/year sinecure, and her child and grandchild have to beg the court for redress ??? WTF kind of family is that ??? ”
So if I knockup a rich girl then she shouldn’t expect me to pay child support?
LOL
I don’t think the judge will buy that one.
Jack
It would make a lot more sense, and be a hell of a lot more dignified, if Bristol’s attorney sued for johnston’s share of the oil money. Every Alaskan gets a bail of welfare annually from the state’s severance tax on oil pumped out of the North Slope. It’s there, it’s available, and it wouldn’t make Bristol look like a gal who has no support, no job, no family, and only the county & the kindness of strangers to provide for her.
Skrew the palins, especially their alpha dog.
I mean, can you imagine a teen age Chelsea having a baby and then having to ask the County to help her out ??? Republicans would throw the party of the century over that pr coup.
Mr. Jack,
What an average fella may owe morally, ethically, and financially, is not likely going to be pursued by rich people who don’t want to see your name in print, don’t want other people to see your name in print, and don’t want you or your lawyers around.
Except in the rare cases of the palins and the Gabors, rich people tend to cover their errors and the errors of their children with $$$. They don’t launch suits that bring attention to the horrid johnstons in their lives.
I mean. Cheeses Cries, what multi-millionaire is going to seek the state’s help to squeeze $$$ out of an indigent, semi-literate, high school dropout, hunter/gatherer, beefcake ???
…lotta thinkin’ ’bout Bristol Palin you’re doin’ there.
I tried to pay my fine, but I can’t on that UK site.
Just to put things in perspective: One woman on twitter relaying messages for help out of Haiti. She’s got a backlog of over 1200 messages to post.
BTW if anyone speaks French or the haitian patois, they need translators
http://twitter.com/Natalija_L
So instead of taking young Levi to court, the normal way it is done, The Palins should do it the rich folks way. Like hire some one to knee cap the lad?
Jack
Serfy,
Go to my site. http://jdurward.blogspot.com
Now that our box is paid for, I’ve put up a link to Shelter Box USA and they can take a donation and there is info on last nights Hope for Haiti Concert with those numbers.
Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints? I’ll take the Saints for $200, mqw. I’m sending mine anyway but if you lose, you can match me.
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Dang! That too strong for me, Carol, even in my better days. I’d damn sure insist on the points (4) if I was playing.
Saints are going to win tomorrow Rez.
You’re probably right ct ‘ but I got 90 of your 200′
Cbob, Get your thinking cap on, do we need a second box/goal or what?
Obama endorses the plan for a 18 member bipartisan panel to study the deficit problem for a year ‘ then they’re going come up with ways to deal with the spiraling debt ‘ that’s just great ‘ I got a better idea’ get some 1st grade kids in there to teach congress some basic math ‘ be a lot quicker and cheaper’
“For 150 years, no woman in our family ever had to beg succour from the goddam court.”
XREP — You have just said everything anyone need to know your attitude. Paternalistic, elitist and moronic. “Beg succour” indeed.
Whereas you are bitter, truculent, and despotic.
I’ve been watching all the bullshit rationalizing of MA vote and the return of the isms. Evidently it is easier for many to blame the stupid white democratic, racist, sexist, tea bagger voters. MA was the bluest of the blue states and has one of the most educated electorate in the US. Wake the fuck up people! Obama sucks and so did the HC bill. I won’t stop fighting for you? Ha,he never started fighting. And don’t be throwing Kennedy in my face, he never would have let it get this bad, he would have reached across the aisle and done what he could to get this HC bill through. You all should be thanking us for having the balls to think beyond Party lines.
X -- your ignorant remarks regarding Bristol Palin are revolting. Child support is the law of the land for every noncustodial parent. You ain’t so X.
Cbob- send me the bill.
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Jamie, fox means never having to say you’re sorry
“…squeeze $$$ out of an indigent, semi-literate, high school dropout, hunter/gatherer, beefcake”
xr, hope they leave him enough at least to buy condoms.
btw, what have you against high school dropouts? big thinkers like eric hoffer come to mind….
“A collision between an oil tanker bound for Exxon Mobil Corp.’s (XOM) Beaumont refinery and an outbound vessel towing barges resulted in a major crude oil spill in the port of Port Arthur, Texas on Saturday.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100123-700963.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines
later story by wapo reported:
“PORT ARTHUR, Texas — The Coast Guard said a crude oil spill in a southeast Texas port had been contained to a two-mile area and was not believed to have hurt any local wildlife.
It was unclear exactly how much oil spilled into the water when an 800-foot tanker collided with a towing vessel pushing two barges near Port Arthur on Saturday, but the Coast Guard said it could be as much as 450,000 gallons. The Coast Guard said the crash left a 15-by-8-foot hole in the tanker and damaged one of its oil tanks, resulting in the spill.”
“I mean, can you imagine a teen age Chelsea having a baby and then having to ask the County to help her out ???”
Truth is out, X. You see child support as welfare. One more truth. You are STILL a Republican.
OSH — You are certainly right about Ted Kennedy — he would never have allowed the Senate to get this far out of control with his lifelong issue. Of course, it does no good to think this way, but I keep thinking about the one-two punch Ted and Paul Wellstone would have delivered.
“not believed to have hurt any local wildlife”
ridiculous! spill almost 450,000 gallons and not hurt anything? only way that could be is if there weren’t anything there (from plankton to pompano) left to hurt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtD8l5Kp0uA
it’s been awhile since I’ve heard a rooster.
“Women looking for a Mr Right should give up after 30 and settle for a Mr Second Best or a Mr Right Now.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/24/women-stop-looking-mr-right
most men i’ve met were mr. rights….and their first names were “always”…. at least that’s what they claimed.
you can’t house train a rooster
OSH, I thank the voters in MA. I don’t however, think this obvious for Axelrod to understand…..
Bear, is this what you suggest for Fox?
http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article/rr/9000/10124599/Anti-Chavez_channel_removed_from_cable Let’s see if our Press protests.
And far as the Union ads allowed by the SCOTUS ruling, I know many in the Union that don’t toe the line. They would be forced to pay dues going toward a candidate they don’t like or an issue they don’t agree with. I see no greater problem with Unions than with corporations that don’t get the approval of their stockholders. My biggest problem at the moment is not that Unions or corporations are now allowed to fund elections, but the theory this is speech by people organized into “groups” is not true. It is the HEAD of such groups using money that the “group” did not approve. I suspect disclosure will be required and I hope that those in the group must approve donations.
My Union friends say good luck counting on members standing up to bosses. In this regard, it seems stockholders would be more likely to protest their CEOs giving money to a campaign. I rather doubt that most holding stock in Exxon are in fact Republicans.
WTF is wrong with this palin bitch ? First she USES her children as props for her f-ing campaign, and next she lets her teenie bopper daughter go w/o support ! It’s unconscionable.
X,
WTF are you thinking? I disagree with S.Palins politics,but calling her a bitch, for what? We don’t know really anything about the family dynamics.If it was my niece,i certainly wouldn’t let the child go without,but i would encourage her to rise to her responsibility and seek support from the father.S.Palin is I’m sure doing the best by her daughter.Its best sometimes for a parent or in my case an uncle to stand back and let the young adults fight their own battles..
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281004
Olberman is a damaging force on the Left Jamie. He is a buffoon who can talk. Maddow has a condescending streak that Stewart has made fun of on more than one occasion. They are both so full of themselves.
I don’t know why Fox is relevant in discussing MSNBC. O’Rielly is closer to the center than Olberman and incredibly, less of an ass.
Beck is a pathetic actor who I reargrd as comedy. Hannity is a cheerleader, but neither run a news show. It is just editorialism focused in on the day’s worst behavior by Democrats. He doesn’t try to hide his slant, does he? And fo course more bad acting. Neither tries to imitate a journalist as Maddow and Olberman do every day. Fox has thousands of affialted news programs on TV across the country. Their cable station is a different beast. It is a mixture of partisan op-ed and reporting. MSNBC tries to look more like CNN, but is more op-ed often blathering aginst the interests of Democrats by recycling the same rhetoric on the Right in Liberal clothing.
Perhaps ABC runs close to center. CNN is a patchwork of everything.
sarah palin……..something tells me that she’s going to be media fodder for a long long time…….
i hate voyeuring into other families’ problems, but i guess if their problems hit the news machine it simply has to be discussed by everyone to see what must be done……maybe there’s no other way……but then i guess i know enough to know that gossip can be really fun…..especially malicious gossip……..lol
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. .
--Count Leo
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Paying fines on the UK site.
Before it will accept payment against fines levied in the US, you must find, and accept, the block acknowledging that collection of any fines are subject to the British Common Law.
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Tony, X has a deep dislike of anything Republican. I let it go because I see it is more emotional than rational AT TIMES. I am sure X never intends to vent more than some anger and is hardly sexist. He can be an Olberman at times, but usually calms down. I understand the point he was making which got butchered in his momentary manicness. I am sure Palin’s gender has NOTHING to do with his contempt which gets the better of him sometimes. He just had an Olberman moment………
Max…..the problem isnt fox vs. msnbc or abc or any of them other “c’s”—--it’s all of them put together in a corporate bag of moosh…….
and all that so-called “competition” between them is more moosh……
and the great un-washed call out for “More Moosh!”
Sturg, did XR’s comments on public assistance, etc., strike you as being quite similar to the sentiments express by our distinguished Lt Governor?
Let’s see if I can find a link. Ah, here’s one:
http://politicsplus.blogspot.com/2010/01/gop-sweetheart-1242010-andre-bauer.html
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281024
“Wake the fuck up people! Obama sucks and so did the HC bill. I won’t stop fighting for you? Ha,he never started fighting.”
Katheleen,
The Senate bill does suck and the President has been missing in action.I think all he ever really wanted was any bill to call it a win.The president showed only verbal support for the Public option and made so many back room deals to screw the every day person.The deal with the unions(I’m a UAW 598 member) was the last straw for me.I hate to see the Dems have such a big loss,but its a win for the American people and the Dems in the end.If the Senate version had become law with the mandated taxes funneled to those thieving Insurance corps, it would have been damaging politically for the Dems forever..Yep, the old Dem in me hates to see another Republican in the Senate,but i think the people of Mass. did us a big favor..
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281035
Nicely said, Tony.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281021
Another pussy foot idea sure to ripped apart by Indies and Republicans. Actually Congress doesn’t want to give up the power of the purse and I rather doubt Obama can stand up to both Parties.
Maybe he should give his wife a chance……I sense a certain “HIllary” in her.
maybe the palin saga will go along the lines of “A Star is Born”.
from flatus’ linkus on Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer
My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. Youre facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that dont think too much further than that. And so what youve got to do is youve got to curtail that type of behavior. They dont know any better, Bauer said. [...]
Later in his speech, Bauer said, I can show you a bar graph where free and reduced lunch has the worst test scores in the state of South Carolina, adding, You show me the school that has the highest free and reduced lunch, and Ill show you the worst test scores, folks. Its there, period. [emphasis original]
man that ain’t nothing but cold. just who he think he is?
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281038
flatus, maybe serfy meant cbob’s fine for cursing on the trail… as i recall an agreed amount was never set nor exactly which words were established more offensive and costly than others or by how much.
did we ever make the last 10 cents?
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Can you margin Tony, if Democrats don’t get the message. I suspect that Axelrod will be in denial this morning and Puff (is that his name) is now hired to turn the O-team harder to he Left. Was that the message?
The Day of the Nelson deal, what happened in MA? That was the beginning of the end for Coakley.Look, it’s one thing Hillary Clinton to come out of talks and have a moderate Bill endorsed by Republicans. I think she could have done that including lowering costs, reforming waste and fraud, covering almost all, ending the ban on pre-conditions and maybe co-ops. That’s okay because she got the GOP on the train. To come up with ZIP, ZERO Republican endorsement and pathetic deals, unvetted details after six months is absolute crap. What Obama didn’t want to do was WORK beyond cheer-leading.
Let me put it another way: How many articles did he write when he was editor of the Harvard Review? You really think he wrote all the stuff in his books? The Clintons, Kerry, Spitzer and others are real wonks. I am beginning to think Obama is an intellectual light-weight who sounds far more intelligent than he actually is.
i guess andre likes to call that “tough love”…….but i bet his hero is jesus christ, esq. who got a kick out of feeding the poor and stuff like that…andre’s worried about test scores being lower amongst one group than some other in south carolina? LOL like finding a difference between that gooey stuff in the bottom of the barrel and all the other stuff below it………
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281040
Very true….they ALL SUCK. That is why I have to hunt many sources before I get a clue about what is going on.
LOL…And now the NYT wants to charge on line.
“Can you imagine Tony, if Democrats still don’t get the message.”
Haha…spell check out of control
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281050
i maintain that any clue…..gleaned from any source…….is bogus buncombe, and probably belated balderdash as well………
ie………weez all in the dark and likely to stay that way……..
But, hey………gimme another draft and I’ll tell ya bout it………
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281052
Funny Sturg…..here is an example:
Reports that an Iranian plane caught fire say how old the Iranian fleet is. And many have crashed lately. These reports imply that sanctions somehow are the fault. This BS was also done in regard to child death reports from Saddam sanctions which were also bogus given the billions Saddam was stealing from”deals”.
However: the planes crashing and burning are RUSSIAN. So Iran will get their Russian reactor started soon, but can’t fix their Russian planes? If you check out aviation weekly and other sources, you get a much better picture of reality. We must all wear anti-bias filters, check multiple sources and use our brains. Then a better picture arises. That is why I post multiple sources here that get filtered from the usual Press. Yes, they have their bias too, but in the blender, they have an important place…
We must do our work to stay informed.
GO JETS…..
http://stubbornfacts.us/law/money_isnt_speech#comment-20364
Update for NewPogo. I would love to hear your legal opinion.
i was borned ignorant to a couple of ignorant people…..spent a whole life trying to become un-ignorant only to find that the more i figured out, the ignoranter I got and so I expect to remain ignorant until I hear that clarion call and cross over the river jordan to the other side to be with Ev-lis and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ……. and Hank……..
and that’s why i like fishcamps……..
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281051
“What Obama didn’t want to do was WORK beyond cheer-leading.”
Good morning Max,
I knew it was supposed to be imagine,ha you funny! I think your spot on,Obama did cheer-leading.If you really pay attention to what many of the Dems in the Congress had to say,yes, rather delicately then you know its true! I’m more inclined to think the President is very smart,but doesn’t have much in the way of common sense..I love being an Independent,don’t feel the need to be partisan.I see just supporting a Dem just because he or she is a Dem as stupid.I still can’t vote Republican,their party platform SUCKS! In my lifetime the Clinton’s stand out,its not partisan,they deliver..
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Sturge — those quotes are mindboggling.
“We must do our work to stay informed.”
Yep,Max,
That’s what the Dem primary did for me,made me work to stay informed.I turned away from the talking heads at MSNBC and got online and worked to educate myself.I will admit,it was very peaceful and lazy just being a partisan Democrat.
it was sunday morning in the little church and the preacher was sweatin’ up a storm and giving ‘em holy hell to stand up and confess their sins…..the congregation were on their feet all swaying to the holy beat and one parishioner after another would stand up and testify to his sins, after which the congregation would cry out “Hallelujah” and the preacher would exhort some others to get it all out……one guy confessed to lusting after the widow woman down the street…..”Hallelujah” the congregation would stamp and shout………..”I took the Lord’s name in VAIN” “Hallelujah” came the shout and jubilation…….”I went to see a nudie MOVIE!” “Hallelujah” “Hallelujah” the joint was in a pandemonium…..finally Wilbur gets ate up with the spirit and jumps up and shouts, “I had sex with my neighbor’s GOAT!”
Every person in the house is frozen in place as a complete and utter silence follows Wilbur’s outburst……
Finally the preacher leans in close to Wilbur and says, “Ah don’ b’lieve I’da told that one, Wilbur…….”
Throw a nickel on the drum, save another drunken bum…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foXs9bZq-vg
tom waits……brudder can you spare a dime?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVE72Ae82Tw&feature=PlayList&p=ECC9BA48D8280CBB&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=12
Follow The Fold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCuoLomxdcY
(also known as the Sparadigm song……..)
Father Dear Father
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl0AiuiqP-E
Show Me The Way To Go Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97RSuv8hroc
http://www.taylormarsh.com/
“Obamas Guru Sends a Message: No Bed Wetting”
“Its not Obamas fault, not a referendum on him, it was simply an omen. Because if people like the president but dont like his agenda, with the countrys wrong track numbers off the charts, its no problem. Analysis like this belongs with the comics.
Pep talks for everyone!
David Plouffe, Obamas Audacity to Win engineer, even writes an op-ed and the last piece of advice goes like this:”
Taylor’s piece is spot on,hope the President isn’t listening to Plouffe..
We were so poor we couldn’t afford to buy a kite…….we had to hire one…..I have a picture of my father outside the local tavern, hirin’ a kite…
--wc fields
Sturge,
Sure have enjoyed you this morning…
You folks are barking up the wrong tree. I have always known that child support is a right rather than welfare.
It seems to me that sarah palin, having made two multimillion dollar book deals, plus having secured a multii-million dollar employment contract with faux news, should be able to provide a gainful career opportunity for her daughter, who just turned 19. I do not mean a handout from momma -- but actual work.
As the father of the child is from a petty crime family, and seems to have neither the education nor the inclination to support his child, the court will have the county pay that support, in the hope that the dad will eventually reimburse. That’s the way things work in cases where the dad is a selfish, ignoramous, with no marketable skills. Considering that sarah palin is now a multi-millionaire several times over, it seems to me that taking support from the county just adds to the public burden, when it isn’t necessary considering the family’s new found fortune.
Re my Clinton comparison, I can’t imagine that in a similar situation Bill and Hillary wouldn’t have provided a secure future for teen and baby, including career opportunities. I meant to draw an invidious comparison. I can’t believe that wih their millions, they would have Chelsea go to court to get money out of a cad who has no visible means of support.
And Tony, if you look back therough the record, I have only recently begun to fault palin. However, having heard palin call nearly everyone in the mccain campaign and Dem Party names, and read her quotes, finding fault with nearly everyone who partakes of modern life -- what she has called “the liberal Culture of Death” -- I don’t think any word fits her quite as well as ‘bitch’.
I’ve never read “Don Quixote”, but I think that’s a pretty good example of “tilting at windmills”.
Thought for the day :
” Nothing beats reading a good book when there is work to do. ”
I wrote ShelterBox asking about how they receive our donations -
Dear Bob,
Thanks for your email and fundraising efforts -- £500 is great! The way that we receive donations from JustGiving means that the money you have raised may be spread across several boxes. This is because we receive a payment from them once a week (rather than all in one go when the page has expired) so the money you raise may come in bits and bobs. However, if the £500 was raised all in one week, it may still go to just the one box as we would have received it in one go.
Does this make sense?! I hope so! No matter how the funds you’ve raised are distributed we will still inform you of what boxes they’ve gone towards/ covered.
Best wishes and thank you for your support.
James
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Sturg, here’s another excellent version (among very many fine versions)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7j7oDN1VGk&feature=related
CT is sending me check for $200.00 , It doesn’t appear yet on our donation page. I will add it to Sturg’s saw bucks, and make a PayPal donation in their names when they arrive.
Those numbers added to Mqw’s pledge puts us at over $300.00 into the second box.
Or , over $1,100 in 6 days either given or pledged.
I was worried that these small donations of less than the full box cost would make it so we couldn’t follow where the donation went , but it seems that concern is unfounded.
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PS
This isn’t my deal, this is Our deal ………. I’m just the web monkey.
Cbob- aren’t we just going to continue getting boxes?
Craig -
The U-Tube clip won’t play for me .
OldSea -
That was my hope , and we’re nearly half way into box #2 .
I read some where yesterday , that ShelterBox also puts together boxes that are targeted to schools. Each box has the supplies for a class 35 students. How they work this , I didn’t see. If anyone has more on this let me know. I forgot to save this bit of info, and it’s currently lost in the web surf.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281078
Thanks and thx for the updates.
1947 Warren Zevon Chicago IL, rocker (Excitable Boy)
1848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter’s Mill in Coloma CA
Warren Zevon Lawyers, Guns and Money
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5puAN1PGQw
C-Bob, the video works for me, but for those having trouble here is direct link to the video describing what’s in a Shelterbox.. http://bit.ly/jtYaV
We’re on our way to a second box.. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
Hey X, I didn’t think your Palin comment revealed a sexist X……
And before Solar can post that Netanyahu today claimed “a South Jerusalem settlement” Israel’s land “fore eternity” as AP reports, let’s please see through this slanted reporting.
1. Netanyahu announced the building on Gilo months ago.
2. The following shows why even Bill Clinton recognizes Gilo as part of the Israel map he handed to Arafat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilo
3. Hillary Clinton rescued Obama’s failed strategy and demanded both sides to consider the new map of resolution. Netanyahu did respond by halting some settlement construction but affirming plans at Gilo. If he doesn’t do this given his following the US lead on Iran and Syria, his domestic support is a mess.
4. What the AP doesn’t report is that until Hamas executes a sniper that killed and Egyptian guard, Egypt is holding off unity talks and building its ultimate security wall with the French and US help.
The following are the things so far that “surprised” Obama:
1. Opposition to Cap and Trade
2. Bank bonuses
3. Middle East opposition to peace talks
4. Lebanese election
5. Iranian election
6. Unemployment rate
7. Security failures
8. Gitmo not closing
9. Chicago not getting Olympics
10. His getting the Nobel
11. Climate Summit failure
12. Election in New Jersey
13. Health care mess and halt
14. Election in MA
15. SCOTUS ruling on money is speech
16. SCOTUS ruling on 4th
17. Blago mess
18. Edwards mess
19. Failure of Kennedy in NY
Of course, not all of these surprises Obama hand a hand in, just saying……..
I’m sure I’m leaving some out, but as I said, its not such a good thing our President is so surprised all the time….
Good work Bob….
20. Failure to exit Iraq in 10 months
21. Failure to sign landmine treaty
22. Failure to pass green energy bill
23. Drop in public approval rating
Authorities give priority to the most immediate needs, Dyer said.
Water comes after rescue and medical supplies.
“And because we [have] water purification, that qualifies our boxes to get in.”
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1442896.html
The units are 10 feet in diameter and 8 feet high, he said; similar models are designed for to serve as schoolhouses, and include books and chalk. Kuby said he is hoping to build makeshift cities out of ShelterBoxes — there are currently 3,300 on the way to the Caribbean, but they will have to be distributed one plane-full at a time.
http://www.pioneerlocal.com/deerfield/news/2000648,deerfield-rotarybox-012110-s1.article
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The Google News search page for ShelterBox -
http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=shelterbox
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We are not alone, lots of folks banding together to buy a box.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281034
Max,
I wouldn’t do any such thing with Fox News. I firmly believe that if a network is engaged in lawful behavior, let them be. My only problem with Fox is that they claim to be fair and balanced when they obviously aren’t.
To say they are fair and balanced is like saying that the Polish Cavalry, on horseback, had a fighting change to stop German Panzer divisions during the initial blitzkrieg.
I like to use the expression, “If you’re going to burn a cross on my lawn, have the balls to take off the hood” In other words, don’t hide behind a mask to be who you really are.
As for the union vs corporation question, at least each union member knows that their vote counts and is no more important than the next member.
With a corporation, votes are apportioned by the number of shares you own so in theory, one person with a 50.1% stake in the company can decide how to spend the $$$ and that’s why corporations will have a significant advantage.
I plan to get in contact with our local Rotary Club, and have them set-up a table at our next Art Market on Feb. 13th.
Max,
“And before Solar can post that Netanyahu today claimed “a South Jerusalem settlement” Israel’s land “fore eternity” as AP reports, let’s please see through this slanted reporting.”
U fleahead, now U R doing pre-emtive posting…like your twin Cheney did over at Iraq.!! I have gone back to mainly lurking, so don’t worry about me posting the theft of a country by the Israel’s …..they are stealing it from the inside, and the outside…with our help……U remind me of the when the Irish were busting heads when someone disagreed with them about what was going on in Ireland, and they wanted donations for killing people …I called them chicken shit little s, and that is what im calling you…..U can stop trying to convince the people here at tm…I don’t give a shit what they think about me…regarding this issue…..
Nothing like having a fundraiser in the middle of couple gun fights in the street.
“Nothing like having a fundraiser in the middle of couple gun fights in the street. — Posted by: Colorado Bob”
HA, it’s the Trail Mix way, isn’t it? We’ll just have to duck now and then as we collect change under the table.
How’s this? For every personal attack and curse word, you have to donate toward a ShelterBox.. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
The bake sale at the drive by ……..
there’s a song in there some where.
As I shave my head, I rather doubt it has fleas….behavior is usually predictable.
And as I said, Plouff the magic dragon…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012204216.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
Seems like the same old, no details and actually quite unbelievable from the guy that brought you the Great Election.
Just thought I’d up your game and get past the first level cut and pastes.
Go Jets….
I can’t decide whether or not “fleahead” counts as a personal attack. That’s a new one.
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Hi Solar,
I think your opinion regarding Israel is helpful in forcing us to look at the bigger picture.I respect you and your opinions very much! The Middle East is very complicated, not good guys vs bad guys and you have helped me to see that.Hope your doing well,what’s with all this lurking,come on get your feet wet..
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281091
True Bear,
The issue of how individuals give fair expression to what the corporation ends up saying or giving seems the place where Congress might act. There seems sound Constitutional grounds for government to see that elections are fair. I think in the weeks to come this issue will be kicked around. Maybe a Constitutional Amendment is in order. Ironically, Dems ought to ask what our founders intended. Ironic yes? The issue of the wealthy influencing elections was a debate at the time. McCain says campaign reform is dead and I’m sure Obama is surprised by this.
Obama has his narrative (or Axelrod and Plouff). Fox certainly has theirs. Both will cherry pick and exaggerate the facts. CNN goes back and forth. The idea of imposing some balance referee would make Franklin laugh I suppose, but I rather doubt George Washington would have liked future elections controlled with Press bias, Corporate and Labor capital pushing the average citizen further from deciding their own future. At the moment I have no answer other than that the present situation is worrisome.
We’re at 14% toward a second ShelterBox. Sure would be great to get there by midnight.. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
Solar,
cabeza de la pulga
Craig, fleahead is a personal attack, if it is followed up by calling that person a shit also..and he just admitted it..so he should be the one fined….
I made a deal with my workers, that we will send $1000.00 to Haiti and have sent it already. Unfortuneatly work is still very sparse, and I will watch where we spend our $. I don’t see it getting any better for the average person for at least a cpl of yrs more……not the way that we have been left out of the equation so far….I haven’t bought Pats’is books yet, or yours or even some of Sea’s delicious candy, b/c we have decided that all of the $ spent will be towards our families, I have a few that needs help from time to time, when we are not working…..food alone for them is a struggle sometimes….so as much as I would like to contribute to more to worthwhile ideas, I won’t be able to………we made these rules that we have kept since 2007 when it started to get bad for the construction trade……I yelled and screamed about it…and now Mr. Obama wants to establish a commission on how to help us find work……….another fn fleahead imo……….
“Nothing like having a fundraiser in the middle of couple gun fights in the street.”
We all have our own way to help out the ones that need them…I train some of them for construction work, so the can get jobs, when they can….some of them are even union workers that are working now……stick the the good work, and leave these comments out of it….they are just as bad as 95% of the thought for the day ones…….
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281098
It must be a military term of endearment,,,
really Craig, ………I don’t mind, I find it funny.
What’s a cyberthon without some tunes..Shakira “I’ll Stand By You”.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr058Vb95A0
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281103
Admitted what Solar? I got so used to your posting about the evil Netanyahu that I Pre-emptied you this time based on your past behavior. I was right, wasn’t I? . Was that being a shit? I noted how AP played the story and posted a Wkli on Gilo before you posted the story here. I kills you that I challenge your anti-Zionist narrative. I’ll leave aside your rather rude claim that my intention is to see Americans killed, or get America to fight Israel’s war.
Chill out dude.
haha spell check can be funny..
Fair coming in under a white flag:
Guys, love the idea of continuing the telethon. I will donate for Mom & me at the first of the month, by which time I hope we’ll be on our third, fourth, or maybe even higher number of Shelter Boxes.
Gimme five minutes to ride out of town--then the Gunfight at the Trail Mix Corral can proceed.
PS In the knobs, “fleahead” would be considered an endearment for our beloved hound dogs.
Fair,
That’s right, an fleahead can be a term of endearment wheh goofing around with young uns, and hound dogs. When said to an adult, it is calling them not too smart…..or just plain dumb. Now he say’s that it is a term that is used by the Military as a term of endearment……that is just what I mean……Max join up to find out what the Military and war is really all about….don’t be a pusher for the wars that even most of the kids dying and fighting for them don’t know why they are getting killed..One thing that I can say about your…..HERO….Netenhayoo…..he does know what it was like….
Go Jets, and go Saints…….A Saint and Sinners Super Bowl is just what the country needs right now…….Hope, and Change…..
Sea,
Games on, but I just want to say that I have really been enjoying all of your post’s latley……I want to say that this one is and excellent one:
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281024
For those who didn’t see it when I was raving about how well Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow, and Keith Urban showed what you could do with three guitars and great harmonies: Lean On Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCi9X4btx38
What I’ve learned about profanity here -
Ole Sea Hang really does live on the Vineyard , cause she swears like a sailor.
Solar,
Thanks for the post’s..NO More lurking! ha,your feet are wet! I’m glad…
Craig -
It would be cool to suggest to someone in the media to do a story about this box we seem to have worked our way into. Not us, but all the high schools and Rotaries here that are doing this , and what effect this is having on ShelterBox. Know any working TV producers ?
If anyone with a blog wants to play with Fairweather and me, the new Take This Tune is up now
Try That Aain
Take This Tune
Well phooey!!
http://takethistune.blogspot.com
CBob
CNN ran a segment on Shelter Box showing all the uses for them.
I don’t know what kind of volume out of the ordinary that SB might be dealing with, but assume it is way beyond their normal level of operation.
Here’s the CNN story
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/01/21/intv.nr.shelter.box.cnn?iref=allsearch
Humble request:
Set up a donation page on a US based site.
“Firstgiving” and “Justgiving” take a %5 cut, but ShelterboxUSA has a higher operating margin (%15), so I don’t know what’s better, just that I can’t donate on “Justgiving”.
Does CNN rip-off all their content from this board?
Also, keep the personal attacks coming: it’s nice not being the biggest tool on the board these days.
Just a sample of the search results for this topic. Small town American chipping in for their boxes. -
Plymouth Rotarians reach out to earthquake victims Mirror
Racine Rotarians send relief shelters to Haiti Journal Times
There are opportunities to help Salina.com
Water World -- Times Herald-Record
Robinson continues Haiti ShelterBox aid
NorthFulton.com -- Bob Pepalis -- ?Jan 22, 2010?
The Alpharetta Rotarian is part of a three-member ShelterBox team that is coordinating delivery of the boxes, which are filled with emergency supplies. …
Calaveras Rotary Clubs Send Shelter Box to Haiti Pine Tree
Rotarians helping Haitians Lexington Clipper Herald
ShelterBox, Rotary and Help for Haiti Gateway FM
The Union of Grass Valley -- Prairie Post
Rotary lunch meeting garners funds for ShelterBox program for Haitian relief
Peninsula Daily -- Marcie Miller -- ?Jan 21, 2010?
Communities rally to help Haitians Pioneer Press Online
Falmouth joins Haiti relief effort with Shelter Box event
Falmouth Bulletin -- ?Jan 22, 2010?
24 at 4 pm, local children’s service organizations will be camping out at Peg Noonan Park on Main Street in Falmouth in a Shelter Box identical to those …
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I seems we picked a great way to help . It doesn’t get down to the blades and roots of grass roots like this very often. A real force multipler is work here.
Who U callin a tool
I figured that everyone is a little bored, specially since they letting Max get away with asking for the return of Brian, about three times……
Tony,
Looking good, all of your posts….except the weather report ones…those are not cool…..It is going back to being in the 20′s here with snow on it’s way…….
Serfy
There is a direct link to the USA Shelter Box on my site, but maybe CBob can switch over to them through just giving.
“Also, keep the personal attacks coming: it’s nice not being the biggest tool on the board these days.”
Champ,
This is no shit,your the brightest and a lot of times the funnest tool! Ha,ha, I like you!
I agree serfy-joe, the 15% “administrative cost” on the USA site gave me pause. Prefer what we’re doing with the original UK site, unless C-Bob finds otherwise.
Everyone loves serfy-joe.myopenid.com! Woooo!
Happy Sunday.
“build makeshift cities out of ShelterBoxes”
today a city, tomorrow a country…. pretty soon we’ll have built a world.
” For every personal attack and curse word, you have to donate toward a ShelterBox.. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob“
any parameters? can we buy futures? proxies? some of us are better at this than others…. more colorful in their eloquence.
serfy -
I had that British page up and running before I stumbled across the American side. As I understand it our donations being American, are not paying a fee to the British fund raising platform. They are taking the British Tax credit in lew of a fee. I was thinking about adding that American version for that solar project in the north of the island.
They finally up dated the page which reads as follows -
Help Us Help Haiti
Sun Ovens International has been working in Haiti for the past 11 years. During that time the deforestation has increased the need for an alternative to cooking with wood and charcoal. The recent earthquake has intensified the need for solar cooking and water purification. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians are homeless and camps will need to be opened to provide food and shelter for Haiti’s Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Plans are under way to provide Sun Ovens to the IDPs in Haiti. We are partnering with the Friends of Haiti to provide Sun Ovens to the IDPs in Haiti. We are partnering with the Friends of Haiti Organization (FOHO) to send as many Sun Ovens as we can to Haiti. On January 28, 2010, FOHO, in partnership with Feed My Starving Children, will be sending a shipping container with 270,000 meals and Sun Ovens to Port au Prince, Haiti. There is room for additional Sun Ovens to be included with this shipment and additional shipments are being planned.
Donations of any amount will be greatly appreciated. Checks should be made payable to:
Friends of Haiti Organization
PO Box 222
Holland, OH 43528
(Please note the donation is for the Sun Oven project.)
FOHO is a 501C3 nonprofit organization so all donations will be tax deductable. 100% of the donation will go directly to sending Sun Ovens to Haiti. No administrative expenses will be deducted. FOHO has been working in Haiti for 45 years and has sent over 1,400 Global Sun Ovens and 12 Villager Sun Ovens to Haiti.
http://www.sunoven.com/international/haiti.php#
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I’ll set-up a page for these guys as well, using the American platform We can start buying ovens, and put some people to work, in a place were the quake didn’t destroy everything :
” Assembly
The GLOBAL SUN OVENS® are being assembled at a vocational school located at Evangelical Baptist Church (EBC) in Lambert. The tooling and training required to assemble the ovens in Haiti has been provided, this will reduce the final cost of the ovens by more than 50%.”
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I’ll drop them a note, and find out just what one of these ovens costs.
I know zero about these guys mentioned above :
Friends of Haiti Organization
The other thing I noticed is that, unless I’m missing something, donating to the UK site we are using gets one ShelterBox for under $800 US currency, but on the USA site it takes $1,000.
Looks to me like what we’re doing gets more bang for the buck.. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
more questions on bad word buying
can we set a price, a value… 1 pound a simple slur, 6.3 pounds ($10) a scatologic/erotic nasty, multiples of that for personal attacks?
what is our goal here, to raise as much money as possible?
do trail maintenance?
professionalize the entertainment?
all the above
see, this is why legislatures come up with complicated progressive taxing and not flat tax.
“All the above” works for me, patd. Whatever gets the most help to Haiti.
“donating to the UK site we are using gets one ShelterBox for under $800 US currency, but on the USA site it takes $1,000″
kind of like going to canada for prescription drugs.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281117
Ah--I’m not the only one having trouble with links today!
(Although my troubles were in part because my danged server kept kickin’ me off)
Fee costs -
I found one once for artists that charged 10% , but 15% is what the other 2 online projects cost as well.
This British version , with the tax credit, and the waving of their fees seemed to be the best shot.
We’ll see what happens here tomorrow , they pay once a week to the fundee.
This is the 6th day we’ve been running, I’m not sure when our funds get released. I’m sure an email is forth coming soon.
Time to sqweeze 2 people each of us knows for $10.00.
This is the way Republicans do it.
And they ain’t asking for just $10 bucks.
In lovely downtown Knobite Corner it’s raining. Hard. Creek is out and still rising, we have a rainy-day lagoon in the pasture at the foot of the hill, and Blackadder is pondering the wisdom of spending the next few days in the junkroom, his favorite flood-stage hideout.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L62yfGrI_xo
Thinking of starting a ballot initiative that would officially, but temporarily, change the name of our fair metropolis to Soggy Bottom.
Tell Imus what we’re up to , that’s a lot of boxes folks, plus we’ll get a wave of fresh fish heads for the floor around here.
An other plus for the this site was the weekly payment . They work the float for a much shorter time period.
We’re at 24% toward a second box. C’mon gang, one more box by midnight.. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
Here’s the tally tonight -
Target: £500.00
Raised so far: £534.90 107%
Plus another $220.00 coming via snail mail.
And a football bet of some kind.
This just in --
Target: £500.00
Raised so far: £640.80 — 128%
Ok, it’s Open Curse Night — Curse all you want so long as you give at least $10 (that’s £6.3 for each word).. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
Sorry old refresh -
Target: £500.00
Raised so far: £640.80 -- 128%
Plus £136.50 snail mail
640.80
136.50
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£777.30 -- 155 %
I get a free one in exchange for my regular banana .
I’m so proud of you fucking people.
It’s rolling in, keep those yank dollars comin..
Target: £500.00
Raised so far: £680.80 — 136%
Ha, yes C-Bob you’ve definitely earned cursing privileges.
This Cyberthon needs the opening act for the evening, and here they come -
The Magnificent Seven -- Elmer Bernstein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45KAjt7v4t4
Stevie Wonder -- Higher Ground
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wZ3ZG_Wams
cool yul
Ok ct and Rez ‘ I went ahead and paid up just in case the Vikings lose tonight’. That’s 10 for Rez and 90 for ct’
We’re halfway to our next ShelterBox! One more box by midnight. We can do this.. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
58% to our next ShelterBox. Give it up now.. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
Our ShelterBox drive now on Huffington Post.. http://bit.ly/8rn7nq
Just added some pennies to the cause! Thanks to C’Bob and Craig for the opportunity to do something that will really help the people of Haiti! Trail Mix rocks!
Bob, Craig , way to go!!!!
I really like the shelterbox concept. Showed it to the wife and told her what you were doing.
She is going to setup a page for her company office, using the Brits because, as we figure it, we get more bang for the buck.
So it looks like your shelterbox ideas are going viral.
Jack
Thanks so much Harborman and Whskyjack. As far as I’m concerned. anyone who uses this blog to speak their peace ought to ante up whatever they can — right now or forever keep their peace.. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
C-Bob, nice job! Craig, you too.
tt
sending mine to cbob overnight, first thing in the morning……..
Ok I am playing hardball people. I want a second ShelterBox by midnight. This is serious.. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
I don’t post but I do read and I want all of ‘us’ readers of Craig’s Trail Mix site to donate for the Shelterboxes! I had not donated to any fund for Haiti yet because I didn’t want my money to go to anything but to the people of Haiti. Colorado Bob found, what seems to me, to be the perfect donation for the people of Haiti. Thank-you Colorado Bob and Craig!
cbob and CC……found a way to do it on line…….it’s a fine thing……bob….never mind the overnight mail thing i got it on line…..the box is still coming with the Wave…….
Who Dat, Who Dat?
My check is in the mail C-Bob. Now how many of you guys lost tonight?
Our Academy here was opening after the game if the Saints won to sell the Championship stuff.
Sorry, I wrote that on the wrong blog. I must stop this multiblogging. I’m getting confused.
Almost there..
Target: £500.00
Raised so far: £936.60 — %187
Not far to go, %200 be midnight, let’s do it.. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
Carol
Laissez les bon temps rouler!
Jack
Thanks Jack! We’ve waited a long time for this one.
Target: £500.00
Raised so far: £981.60 — %196
C’mon folks, we’re just some $30 short of a second box and then some.
We did it! At ease, folks. back to normal Our second ShelterBox is in the bag:
Target: £500.00
Raised so far: £1,011.60 — %202
Target: £500.00
Raised so far: £1,056.60 — %211
On to our third ShelterBox.. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
Ok, ok, I gave again an hour or so ago -- jeez, You’d think it was an emergency or sumpthin’!
Cbob, Do you just troll the internet looking for good stuff, or do you have an idea of exactly what you want to find?????
Sturgeone, I really get a kick out of your vignettes……..
Mika’s dad was on something and he so revolted me that I turned him off. What a mean nasty envious dangerous little man he is.
Get ready guys, we in CA are gonna send you another storm when we get finished with it. This sucker tonight and tomorrow and Tuesday could make the cricks rize up hiyer n’ hiyer.. Cracker and I are gonna get wet. So far over 6 inches in january, and that’s a lot for us.
Who knows who wrote that song Hallelujah justin
timberlake sang? I was beyond impressed with the telethon -- I kinda would like to see George in charge of the whole Haiti situation -- Darfur, also.
My asthma is giving me fits!
Robert Parker of Spenser fame died -
I am SO happy for the Saints and New Orleans!
“Ok, ok, I gave again an hour or so ago -- jeez, You’d think it was an emergency or sumpthin’! — posted by: bethyboo”
ya think?!
Ct’ congrats on them saints’ y’all are long overdue for the superbowl I reckon ‘ already paid before the game even started ‘good luck to ya
Doesn’t seem too much to ask for anyone who enjoys this bog to contribute $10 (£6.30) toward 10 Haitians surviving for six months.. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
Craig’s right everybody can come up with 10 dollars or something’ look under those sofa cushions ‘ in the car seats ‘ dig a little deeper in those pockets ‘ I’m sure there’s a way’
Craig, And I’m feeling kinda warm since the world seems to recognize it!
Who dat giving to help the Haiti Nation…
Dat be U
didnt see what song Just Tim Tenderlake did but there is one “Hallelujah” written by Leonard Cohen…….they used it in “shrek” also.
End of O’s cowardly lyin’
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/end_of_cowardly_lyin_mRWfJbYLRlOqRxirNUoCxO/0
Tim Geitner to America: If you don’t keep Bernanke, the terrorist win.
I’m sure the markets would go haywire if they lost their best friend…and then, being self-serving, things would “correct” to the degree that regulations will let them.
Making money off of money doesn’t work unless that money is out there helping another business that actually produces something/keeps the masses employed.
Pull your heads out DC, pull your heads out…that ain’t perfume Timmy is puttin’ out.
Thought for the day :
” While forbidden fruit may be sweeter, it spoils faster. ”
been musing about our box city abuilding. with 2 boxes (20 people), it could be tho’t of as an enclave or whistlestop trading post sort of place. with 3, it’s a veritable hamlet or small town community. maybe even a chatauqua for haitian artistes settled in the countryside or a secluded inlet, diversely composed of passionate thinkers, creators and craftsmen much like our own trail mix mix.
wonder what they’ll call it?
mélange montagnard?
mélangetopia?
Reading more of the reports from small towns -
Owensboro, KY,
“It’s a very organized process and can instantly address the needs of people who are trying to survive,” Smith said. “It’s a beautiful thing.”
http://www.waterworld.com/index/display/news_display/140365621.html
camp de poissons artistes
mélange a trois times ten?
Animal Groups In Haiti To Control Rabies, Protect Livestock
“The concept of pets is quite foreign to Haitians,” said Karen Ashmore, executive director of the Lambi Fund agricultural group in Haiti. “Most Haitians can barely feed themselves, much less a pet.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/23/animal-groups-in-haiti-to_n_434343.html
Bethy
Just to confirm. It was Leonard Cohen’s “Halelujah”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJTiXoMCppw
And the Timberlake / Matt Morris version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpfLDRULi0k
mornin,
Bob, great job with the ShelterBox project -- just went over and made a donation -- I’ve given to about 4 other Haiti relief efforts who have approached me, but this one feels the best. Probably something about knowing how it will help how many people for how long. Kudos, kimosabe.
Bethy…..the vignettes are fun but you oughta see the castnettes…….
sturg, poissons artiste indeed. If you’re looking for aplace to swim upstream, we got over 1 1/2 ” of rain last night and the West Fork is a-rising.
Haiti has lots of doctors now but a nurse shortage
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/25/haiti.doctors.nurses/index.html?eref=edition&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
How high’s the water, Papa?
--J. Cash
and with that ahora voy a trabajar en el jardin del sawdust……
Muchissississimo congrats on the Boxes…….
“Bob, great job with the ShelterBox project”
pogo, can you believe it? we almost built a village while you were gone.
gracious host on imus wednesday
If this menage a whatever gets any larger, we are going to need crowd control.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281057
Max, I was trolling upthread and saw your queston. Nothing like a hot topic with no certain answer to start the day. I have usually taken the position that money indeed is not speech, but then I have taken the position that the War on Terror is not was (at least not in any conventional sense of the word). I do come and go on the issue, and all I can say is that the Supreme Court has decided that money is speech when it buys political speech. That issue doesn’t give me heartburn or cause me to lose sleep nearly as much as the idea that corporations are afforded the constitutional right to freedom of speech as if they are citizens of the US. Now THAT does give me heartburn and causes me to lose sleep (well, figuratively at least) -- and here’s why -- on the one hand I hear arguments that GM (or WalMart) is entitled to contitutional rights, and on the other that prisoners who have been accused of plotting, planning, participating in, etc. terror activities should NOT, irrespective of whether they are US citizens or not. I find this deeply troubling.
Target: £500.00
Raised so far: £1,106.60 -- 221%
I just posted a link of this page at Firedoglake.
As you folks move around the web , pass the link along.
pat, and I was just gone for 3 days, fuhchrissake. I’m glad to help add a few living spaces to the village.
oh, I meant to type “the War on Terror is not war” -- sorry for any confusion.
C’mon gang, get us a third box and i’ll start a new thread.. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
good morning (I actually first typed good moroning.)
Rough weekend…the financial squeeze continues. A few thoughts away from Haiti (congrats on the amazing effort for the boxes).
1) I was so surprised how quickly President Obama yanked away our lovely Christmas Eve gift of health. Took back the box before we could even open it! Sure pissed away a lot of money on the gift and no returns!
2) The dems complain about Sarah Palin being a quitter and they have already given-up on health care. They are bigger quitters. Na-na.
3) I have thought about Massachusetts and why Ted wasn’t grooming or mentoring a replacement? Then I heard the news about Biden’s son and maybe that is the reason.
4) I am a registered independent and pulled a surprise focus group on myself this weekend. I have always voted democratic only to keep out the republicans. This is flawed, of course. I do not think a third party candidate can make it in America. At this point, the weak dems aren’t any better and if they think the meek shall inherit the earth, who the wants it after the republican’ts are done trashing it! I feel somewhat doomed. Tossed away votes.
Hubby’s hours have been cut and he is in danger of losing his health insurance. I was up most of the night worrying like that dog on the Travelers Insurance commercial…
Ha,like that Craig. I understand that you have many, many daily hits here. Why don’t you add that statement to your post for the ones who don’t read comments? You could also add you open curse statement for them too.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Settlements
Port-au-Prince is now a city where most people are sleeping outside at night (estimates put it at 80 percent of the residents). I drove back to our camp just after dark a couple of nights ago, rushing to meet our own night-time curfew. At street corner after corner, people had blocked access to their blocks by placing stones in the way. They didn’t want vehicles rushing blindly in and injuring sleeping families. I looked up these blocks and saw winding ribbons of re-created bedrooms, demarcated with bedsheets and string, as far as my eyes could see in the dark. So many homes were destroyed or severely weakened, and the fear of aftershocks remains palpable.
http://inportauprince.blogspot.com/2010/01/settlements.html
I figure Frank Rich’s column was posted yesterday, but being too lazy to look that far back, I’ll put it here -- I fugure there is a contingent here who’ll enjoy it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/opinion/24Rich.html
Blondie -- sorry to hear that about your hubby’s cutback and potential loss of insurance. But we don’t need universal heathcare -- oh no, you might, but we don’t. (Idiots who make that argument seem to forget that “we” can become “you” in a heartbeat.
pogo…in a society where health care is provided by employers and the unemployment rate is over 10+% and the underemployment rate especially for the 50+ demographic is a lot higher, health care collapses. Underemployed folks and self-employed folks have a harder time affording insurance. Why is Washington so slow to understand this?
Just $635 to got for our third ShelterBox (and a new thread).. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
Bw- sorry about your troubles. And good question- guess all they really understand is that their numbers are done or one would think that they would bring someone onboard other than a campaign manager.
Blondie, I don’t get it (government’s lack of understanding of the problem) either. But I think the argument goes something like “why should I have to pay…” well, because there are those who can’t whose needs for the same are as great or greater than your own -- (like your parents, asshole). Sounds too much like socialism for their delicate sensibilities. Stupid assholes (dispensation for the donation, Craig). Almost EVERY US citizen ends up in universal healthcare if they live long enough to retire. I guess it’s only socialist if the participants are younger than 65. Did I say stupid assholes?
Target: £500.00
Raised so far: £1,171.60 -- 234%
Blonde -
What does Bart do ?
Renee -
We’re going to need to name that first box .
Did your father have a nickname ?
Simpson’s episode the other night from New Hampshire interviewing voters at the ” Live Free or Dinner”.
cbob, thanks for that huffpo link on pets in haiti. surprised that there were any dogs left given the lack of food supply for humans let alone for pets. dogs, insects and even rodents are eaten as delicacies in some parts of the world…. again, it surprises me there’s anything on four or more legs left there outside the stew pot.
In 2007, Bart went to work for a department store to qualify for health insurance. He could not afford the out-of-pocket cost. He started in sales and transferred to the dock when the sales staff was getting salary cuts, work week cuts and termination. He is 57 and his job is very physical, but not much of a mental challenge for him. He is an amateur musician and actor…that keeps him alive, so-to-speak.
On the border, jobs are tough. I have my degree and pristine pee….but, my age is beginning to limit me and I an not bilingual…almost a must for many government jobs. I feel bad because my parents worked so hard to send me to the university where I did very well…only to end like this.
‘Chemical Ali’ executed in Iraq
Ali Hassan al-Majid
Profile: ‘Chemical Ali’
Ali Hassan al-Majid, a former Iraqi official known as Chemical Ali, has been executed by hanging, a government spokesman has announced.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8479115.stm
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Adios Ali
off to work, for me…I am looking for answers as I really do not know what to do. Thanks for input.
Blonde -
I have a friend here working for the census , try that to fill in .
The mileage is pretty good , plus pay.
BW…. my heart goes out to you and Bart….
CBob…. my father was always know by his name, Gerry…. but I really LOVE the nickname the nursing home gave him…. Piano Man….
the Diane Rhem Show is doing an hour on the recent SC ruling on corporations and speech…. must go listen to it.
RR..how great for the short time your Father was in AL that he had such a reputation..The Piano Man!
C-bob…thanks for the suggestion…must be bilingual and the jobs are filled. My FIL worked for the census when he lived here…he was bilingual from his days as principal in Colorado….he was a friend to many a migrant worker family.
Now I am late!!! Have a safe day, all!
“A remedy for Mississippi’s health blues
The political hurdle could be high for a Delta doctor looking for low-cost rural healthcare solutions in an unlikely place: Iran………
……Iran has 17,000 health houses, essentially rural medical outposts staffed by community health workers. The proposed Mississippi version calls for training nurses’ aides in each community, and then sending them door to door to help with basic needs, such as taking blood pressure and improving sanitation. The health workers would refer patients to clinics or hospitals for more advanced care and follow up with home visits.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-mississippi-iran25-2010jan25,0,6937777.story
didn’t we try the visiting nurses concept during the depression and why isn’t it still being done here?
Renee -
For Gerry the Piano Man
The TM Fish Camp traffic map -
http://24counter.com/vmap/1264102750/
Craig / Jamie -
Working on the site, I will send both of you author / admin. invites so be on the look out. That way if a comet hit’s this keyboard you guys can still post up dates there.
If anybody else wants to post on the TM Fish Camp , please drop me a line in the comments here :
http://tmfishcamp.blogspot.com/2010/01/gerry-piano-man.html
Ok I’ll give it a couple more hours to raise enough for a 3d ShelterBox, then we’ll have to move on to a new thread.. http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob
Good work, C-Bob.
CBob…
thanks so much…. you are truly a good friend….
OK, I just donated 50 Pounds.
Given the way the US dollar is dropping, that’s probably about $9,000.
It’s good Karma to donate. And , once the corporations totally dominate campaign funding, the Haitians may be sending “shelter boxes” to us.
Just send me a tarp and a six-pack.
This is way more fun that watching an Ebay auction -
Target: £500.00
Raised so far: £1,221.60 -- 244%
Go ahead Craig -
We’ll get that third box, by night.
Back to fire fight the bake sale.
Thanks for comments NewPOgo. I thought that maybe you could join the conversation from a legal advantage, even discussing the matter with Simon. From what I gather so far, Congress would be on solid ground were it to set up a “fair” way those “people” organized into Unions and Corporations have a say in what THEIR corporations does )as an extension of free speech). I think people reacted harshly to the idea that the few at the top get to use their company’s assets to support their personal agenda. This wouldn’t be the corporations talking, just those at the top. If such money then skews the election process, government has a role in keeping speech and elections fair.
I brought up the hot topic because I do not have a solid understand of the Constitutional issues as you often seem to have.
As for fleahead…lol. I see Gibbs can take it and dish it out: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31957.html
I guess there is some war going on now, but I don’t think “centrists” are the ones walking away from Health care. Housing is down 17%. I am sure Obama is surprised. One thing is sure…Indies see both bases beefing up their populist credentials. It would be compounding past mistakes to let reform become hostage for political theater some more.
http://stubbornfacts.us/law/who_benefits
Democrats or Republicans?
One thing the S. Court did with it’s latest ruling, it gave the left their court fund raising club. Now, the left has their ” Roe v Wade “. Activist right wing judges , etc., etc., etc.,
Hope For Haiti Now benefit album on Amazon now.
Justin Timberlake & Charlie Sexton
P.S Kudos Colts, Manning;s mind was quicker that the Jet’s defensive coaches. Key injuries didn’t help either.
Kudos Saints, but Favre’s decision not to run 5 yards out of bounds and the Vikings inability to hold on to the ball doesn’t beat the Saints.
As I said Friday, my heart said vikings and jets, but that wasn’t realism talking. Mine betting ended last weekend.
Yes, Bob, I asked some Republicans if they thought this would hurt them. Ironically, some pointed to the link above at Stubborn Facts and explained it might even hurt their campaign chest beyond the anger with the public this ruling “appears” a victory for conservatives. Simon argues it ironically does not, but as you said, it gives fire to Left activists.
Latte partiers v the teabaggers….oh Good Grief……
Max,
Never mind run, Favre had a receiver open on the sideline at the 30 yard line…
I wonder how much longer these people will be happy with their insurance…
http://newsblog.projo.com/2010/01/blue-cross-seeks-health-insura.html
Nearly 100 tonnes of additional aid is being flown to Haiti this week as thousands of people who lost their homes in the devastating earthquake are being given the chance to start rebuilding their lives in ShelterBox tents.
Emergency shelter for more than 20,000 people is now in Port au Prince and surrounding areas with small camps already set up in Delmas, Petion-Ville, Carrefour and Leogane.
Hundreds more ShelterBoxes containing disaster relief tents and other life-saving supplies are being sent to the city in the next few days from Miami, Curucao and France, meaning another 11,000 people will be given emergency shelter.
On Friday, ShelterBox is chartering a 747 aircraft with 1,800 boxes to fly from Stansted Airport to the Dominican Republic where they will be taken overland to neighbouring Haiti.
http://www.shelterbox.org/news.php?id=240
The ultimate example of Caveat Emptor…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35061439
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281212
Amazing isn’t it. Bring in the architect of the betrayal over-promise campaign anchored to the promise of bipartisan change and civility with complete transparency and vetting of financial numbers. Instead we get more of the same misguided crap that brought us our present mess.
O-team is presently a deer caught in the heads lights. Now I understand their repeated use of the word surprise. I have never seen an administration so surprised. Next there might even be a symbolic sacrificial lamb. Gibbs v Shultz…….incredible.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281240
Bear, yep. He will be replaying that play for years…..
My Blue Cross went up $30 per person as of January 1, the first day of my new coverage. Not huge, but let’s see how many more increases. Klaus File at Slate has some interesting tweets. Seems Progressives are dumping HC, not centrists. Rather than Plouff, Dem’s need a triage specialist, or doesn’t THEIR Health care plan cover that?
I wasn’t impressed at the calls regarding hitting the QB. Cheap shots galore, but dems the breaks.
Well, I gave a bit just to be part of the project; I give support through UMCOR. I have to say, it freaked me out giving to someplace unfamiliar. Ditto Nash’s comment.
Target: £500.00
Raised so far: £1,227.90 -- 246 %
http://people-press.org/report/584/policy-priorities-2010
Now this wasn’t a surprise, was it?
Bear, this gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, “Let them eat cake”…..
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/weird/Wedding-Cake-Is-Rich—-13-Million-Rich-82459577.html
Re: Supreme Court hands control of US govt to big business.
U.S. Corporations are a recent (1850s) legal creation that were designed to permit the concentration of large amounts of capital (from millions of stockholders). This allowed the undertaking of massive capital-intensive projects, like the Erie Canal or, later, inter-state railroads that would not have been possible for proprietorships or partnerships. (We allowed corporations to come intoi existence because they served a useful purpose.)
Since the 1850s corporate boards have unceasingly sought to use their economic power to exert political power. Until now, the legal system has been blocked them.
If nothing is done about the Supreme Court’s decision allowing unlimited campaign ads by corporations, you can just take the U.S. Constitution and throw it in the toilet because corporations WILL use their economic power to control who gets elected. (They will be COMPELLED to do this because if they don’t their competitors will do it, in order to gain an advantage in the market.)
The USA will become a radical experiment: a government controlled by some kind of dominant coalition of big businesses. Who knows what will happen? The only models we have of such a society are offered by science fiction. And they are NOT attractive prospects.
If you think the current crop of politicians are bad, wait until you see what corporate CEOs give us. In all of human history, you couldn’t find a more greedy, ruthless, elitist, amoral, bunch of pirates. (OK the ancient Roman aristocrats were pretty bad.)
The Romans had a “republic” but the aristocrats controlled the voting of ordinary citizens through economic domination.
So perhaps ancient Rome is a good model of what’s ahead for us.
Sorry about the typos. (I’ve had too much coffee to be bothered with proof-reading.)
As the USA morphs into ancient Rome I guess I’m lucky that I’m too old to be a gladiator.
I’d probably be one of those poor bastards who got stuck with a trident and a net. They were routinely slaughtered by the guys who were given swords.
(For all you youngsters out there, keep this in mind if you get a choice of weapons.)
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Nash, you might want to check out links above as to the history and options dealing with the ruling. Seems to me Obama loves the corporate head at Smart Materials. Lincoln had to execute a slave trader before the Liberal Press in New York got in line with the agenda. We have witnessed far more corporate greed and inhumanity in the past. Just read Zinn’s History of the United States. But then there are the other systems. Between communists, facists and Islamists, how many died?
And this is a gem today: http://blogs.news.com.au/couriermail/andrewbolt/index.php/couriermail/comments/mahathir_jews_had_to_be_periodically_massacred/
My favorite gladiator movie, by the way, is “Barabus” with Anthony Quinn.
It got me through college because whenever I wanted to drop out I’d say, “OK, this sucks, but it’s better than gladiator school.”
Max, I’m not going to get involved in legal discussions online at sites run by folks with more knowledge of the issues than I have and with their own slant on the issues. Lawyers and their ilk seldom get very far toward solving issues -- they just like to talk them to death. Like I said, I think the core of the problem is giving citizen status to corporations. (Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific RR -- 1886). As Nash pointed out, they became a creature in the US because they were useful for certain purposes. The road to hell being paved with good intentions, we’re a long way down that road now.
Here’s a (slanted) history of corporation in the U.S.
http://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate_accountability/history_corporations_us.html
Click on Corporate Personhood in the left column for some interesting reading on the subject.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/trail-mixers-for-haiti.html#comment-281243
More of the same, isn’t that what he kept talking about during the campaign? Guess he really meant it. And regarding the ma vote the pols and talking heads are talking over, around & upside down the one factor they just don’t want to bring up, guess they want to keep working. Hillary won MA primaries with a 26 point lead.
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5 days before the Kent State shootings, I broke my ball point in a bio -- lecture, and jumped on one of the only 10 speed bikes on the campus of Texas Tech, rode to the admin. building , and dropped out of college.
There were 200 people in that room, just like a Greek theater, except we had the miserable little wooded seats with the drop down writing surface.
I looked down the row to my right. and saw all these Bic pens flying across the spiral notebooks. I looked left to the same view, I broke my Bic, and stood up and said, ” That’s it, I’m done here ! ”
It broke my mother’s heart, one of 10,000 breaks I gave her heart ….
That’s why I was working on her garden on Jan 5th. The 3rd season on this garden.
Peggy Chapman’s Garden -
http://www.youtube.com/coloradobob1#p/u/66/hLAFeNPu8vU
Fame is a fickle dish upon a shifting plate (Emily Dickinson)
Isn’t that great. I’m watching my dvr of the Imus show and Dick Cavett just mentioned this quote.
Is it famous? I’m a Miami Hurricane so I probably never learnt it in college.