Bears 29 October 2009
Posted by marisacat in Afghanistan War, DC Politics, Democrats, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, WAR!.trackback
San Diego Zoo Bear [photo from this site]
Asked by a reporter if his visit to Dover Air Force Base would impact his decision on the war in Afghanistan, POTUS replied:
“It was a sobering reminder of the extraordinary sacrifices that our young men and women in uniform are engaging in every single day, not only our troops but their families as well.”
“And obviously,” he said, “the burden that our troops and our families bear in any war time sit is going to bear on how I see these conflicts. And it’s something that I think about each and every day.”
hmm… Better script writers needed. However, probably plenty good enough for the general population.
Obama sends letter to 300K new VA voters, Obama voters in 2008, on behalf of Creigh Deeds. Seems a little chancey.
Shorter version: “No.”
I’ll say it again, a little trained service monkey could do the job. A selection of responses on manual hold-up-in-the-air signs… wouldn’t matter which one the little monkey chose at which point, either.
Remember, one of the campaign mantras, “he listens”.
Listenin’ is hard werk.
hmmm From Sully. I would suggest he hold his breath, pray to the Catholic statuette of Jesus AND to Reagan and to M Thatcher… AND to Obama… and it will come true.
Ruby slippers would help too.
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hmm i had not been to Daily Dish/Sully for a while,so I wandered thru.
Lordy so confused. He says the LBO :: M&A moves from Benny are to gather in all the old queens (his words). Under one roof.
hmm I still say, it is just counting heads. With an added benefit of being able to make… ah… er… penetrations into areas of Africa where Anglican / Episcopal were holding off Catholics. Benny wants more African priests, churches and congregations.
My guess would be if Benny could he’d merge (more than he has) with the worst of the rural witch doctors in Africa.
Go for it.
(He does mention that he thinks there soon will be women bishops in the Anglican/Etc church… and this will speed the moves to Holy Roman Empire.)
hmm I am hearing (KGO afternoon show) the so called “Public Option”, should it come to pass, will run 10K a year (or so) for the ever discussed “family of 4″.
GOOD LUCK!
A slice on the Detroit raids… could be looking pretty thin on the ground.
The pic up top inspired me:
Aww, Lyle is such a gallant gent. Free lunches for bears!
Hey, MiTM – I saw the Playing for Change band live in concert a week or so ago, and they were absolutely brilliant. (No, catnip, this has nothing to do with Obamaluv – it’s a touring ensemble of international street musicians who were featured in the now-famous video project.) They’re headed west and north next, and I notice they’ll be stopping in Milwaukee. Clarence Bekker (of Suriname/Amsterdam/Barcelona) and Titi Tsira (of South Africa), in particular, were just riveting. Tour schedule here: http://www.playingforchange.com/band
oh that is connected to the people who did the music documentary on ‘Stand By Me”… I loved that (reminds me to list it at Netflix!).
I recognise GrandPapa Elliot from NO, LA
Grandpa was great, too. I wasn’t sure what to expect of the live event, but it was the real thing – an incredible, high-energy show – with no multimedia filler whatsoever. The musicians and singers were all outstanding individually, and together, they just soared.
Here’s a vid with Clarence Bekker and Grandpa Elliott (and a smaller, slightly different line-up than the current tour band), doing “A Change is Gonna Come” last April at one of their first live concerts in NO. (It was some kind of Starbucks event, apparently, and I gather that they and Norman Lear have now gotten involved in some media distribution aspect or other. But I don’t even care.) All of the artists just radiated with talent, soul, and joy, and the entire hall was blown away again and again.
I saw they were coming, unfortunately I’m not gonna be able to go.
Meet the Press: David Plouffe, Treasury Sec Geithner
Face the Nation: David Axelrod, Sen. Lieberman
State of the Union: House Minority Leader Boehner
Fox News Sunday: Rush Limbaugh, Carl Cameron, Major Garrett
Deal Reached in Honduras to Restore Ousted President
Dozens in Congress under ethics inquiry (aka When Crickets Chirp in the so-called Progressive Community)
On and on it goes……………………….
Colombia and US sign bases deal
Sure…mmm hmmm…
Yikes: Wal-Mart starts selling coffins
As long as they’re selling guns and ammo, might as well work both sides of the trade. Are they gonna build (Eternal) Home and (Memorial) Garden Centers to handle the new product line, or will they just stack them one aisle over from the Rubbermaid bins?
I liked the line from the funeral director about Wal-Mart lacking the human touch. But hey, just flip that “Greeter” nametag, and a designated “Griever” can be arranged. Since most of those are impoverished seniors, they probably have plenty of experience coping with the recently bereaved.
Get a grip honey. He’s tossed you all the bones he plans to…. (and, may I say, GOOD LUCK! Keep clapping!)
http://www.americablog.com/ (it is down a couple)
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I got treated to very distasteful bucket of luv for Nancy this am… None other than Pete Stark (who is in the pocket of health care industries and has been for a long long time) slobbering for Nancy… what a “great job” she did (on what else? HC)… ‘cuz, remember now, she has to “juggle her bishop and all those people who want abortions paid for”.
SO if John Aravosis and Sully think, that with the Democrats actively fellating the Catholic Church (from head to foot) they will get much more (nor will women)… then double good luck.
And Buona Fortuna. With a splash of Holy Water. Or some drenching effluvia.
He’s obviously learned nothing…nada…about Obamalama “The Listener”™
they want to be fooled.
Today’s Headline du Jour:
B.C. police seek serial groin-kicker after series of attacks
Jeepers. The victim quoted sounded amazingly reasonable, considering. If the unknown perp is really a random kicker, she’s inaugurating new chapters in the annals of “rage disorders.”
Fleshing it out (literally)
Meet the Press: Geithner, David Plouffe. Roundtable: Jon Krakauer, Jim Miklaszewski, Andrea Mitchell
*Airs 8 am ET in NYC due to marathon
Face the Nation: David Axelrod, Sen. Lieberman
This Week: Valerie Jarrett. Roundtable: Ron Brownstein, Dee Dee Myers, Ed Gillespie, Rev. Sharpton, George Will
Fox News Sunday: Limbaugh, Fox’s Carl Cameron, Major Garrett. Roundtable: Brit Hume, Mara Liasson, Bill Kristol, Juan Williams
State of the Union: Rep. Boehner, Gov. Barbour
This item is a couple of days old, but just in case you missed it out there, Marisa, I thought you’d enjoy knowing that one of your Gubbernator’s veto memos made it to the political blog of the Albany Times-Union. That Ahnuld is such a card!
Apparently the chances of that letter configuration leading off so many lines is 1 in several million/billion/trillion/gazookillion…..
Thanks for that I had not followed any links to see the actual memo.
The back ground is that Arnold came a couple weeks ago, to speak to a local Democratic, heavily gay, club. He was intro’d by Willie Brown. But he got boo’d and cat called (and strangely for him he looked quite uncomfortable) and Ammiano, who used to be a city Supervisor here, but won an election to represent in Sacto not too long ago, yelled out
Kiss my gay ass!
Funnily enough when Arnold surfaced in the early oughts… and a story came out that in the late 90s he and his has systematically bought up all the film tape around from Gold’s Gym in the 70s…. apparently at the old Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach the cameras were on round the clock. Better viewing thru chemicals. Or something. Apparently a ton of raunch, sex, naked display, whatever was on those old tapes.
And, as a gay friend said to me, Arnold was likely just into “flesh”… anything that moved. In that Roman, gladiator way he’s got.
Fun in the sun.
I was impressed that the T-U included the graphic with red-outlined blow-up.
Yes, I’d heard that about Arnie snapping up the Gold’s Gym tapes. Suspect he’s got any number of reasons to secure episodic video of extreme body-worship.
well… and you just know no matter how they canvassed, how much money, they did not get all the film.
lol…that’s priceless.
One of the most practical (as in common-sensible) and succinct e-mail forwards I’ve ever received . . . it concerns swine flu prevention:
The only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/throat and eyes. In a global epidemic of this nature, it’s almost impossible not coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is not so much of a problem as proliferation is.
While you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of H1N1 infection, in order to prevent proliferation, aggravation of symptoms and development of secondary infections, some very simple steps, not fully highlighted in most official communications, can be practiced (instead of focusing on how to stock N95 or Tamiflu):
1. Frequent hand-washing (well highlighted in all official communications).
2. “Hands-off-the-face” approach. Resist all temptations to touch any part of face (unless you want to eat, bathe or slap).
3. *Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (use Listerine if you don’t trust salt). *H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. In a way, gargling with salt water has the same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infected one. Don’t under estimate this simple, inexpensive and powerful preventative method.
4. Similar to 3 above, *clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water. *Not everybody may be good at using a Neti pot, but *blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with cotton swabs dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population.*
5. *Boost your natural immunity with foods that are rich in Vitamin C. *If you have to supplement with Vitamin C tablets, make sure that it also has Zinc to boost absorption.
6. *Drink as much of warm liquids (tea, coffee, etc) as you can. *Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction. They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm.
Pass this on to your e-list; you never know who might pay attention to it – and avoid the flu because of it.
For what it’s worth!
Thanks for that Ib…………. I use the little bottles of nasal spray, a saline solution.. it helps a lot.
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AND, … but…. the CDC says ”too few are seeking vaccine”.
And I wonder, how do they know?
San Francisco, for one, just got it’s initial supply in yesterday. Available at Public Health depts from 4 -7.
So how does CDC know anything.
Gavin Newsom has dropped out of the Cali gubernatorial scam game.
One speculation is that with new wif (from a very very rich family) new baby… he does nto need the old scandals (inside City Hall romance, at least one big one) to come up again. Or other rumors, I would guess.
And no money was coming in……… ooops.
hmmm apparently the union money is flowing to Jerry, who has not declared…
and as of now, Gavin got all of 5k from union coffers.
ooops.
Speaking of bears, Polar bear plus grizzly equals?
Thought it sad, too, that the hybrids were soon separated from their mixed-species parents. Would have been interesting to see a study about if and how each bear type attempted to school the young ‘uns.
it should have been left how it would be in the wild…
Insult to injury… word came down today that the Bay Bridge tolls will go up.
When people can use it again, of course.
gah.
until it collapses.
hmm we’ll see what happens. I am hoping for another non lethal “accident” of something weighing 5000 lbs falling…
Maybe then they really DO something.
Otherwise we just limp along, til smacked to death by falling roadway.
like everything else in this society, I doubt anything real will happen until a catastrophic failure.
Man, I’m so damned pessimistic about everything.
well raising the tolls on the Broken Bay Bridge may reinforce some peoples’ already stated reactions that they don’t trust the entities speaking to us about it…. AND they plan to really raise the tolls for trucks, up to 10.00 “per axle”.
Trucks are kind of stuck.. no options, not really. Come in from the Northern areas using a central route, or toward the coast from the inland, gotta use the most direct, time efficient bridge to reach the coast. One of which is the biggest, the BBB – Broken Bay Bridge.
the general area of the oil spill from the Dubai Star… a couple miles south of the broken Bay Bridge… has been declared a “security zone”.
Normally half asleep media found that interesting.
Ugh. Hope it’s not too bad and they really have “secured” the spill zone.
I think I’m tripping the mod fantastic. . . .
NYT’s Bay Blog is reporting the spill at 2 miles by 200 yards, with an estimate from Newsom’s office of 800 gallons. Hope the numbers won’t follow the exponentially increasing patterns of previous leak-outs. . . .
so far there are strong comparisons. Somehow (maybe they were copied) a local TV channel has the earliest assessment from the CG at 5 gallons. CG disputes that means anything as it was “internal”.
LOL…..
It happened at 6:45 am… CG got to the spill at 9:50…
on and on it goes.
I cheerfully admit I did not know there were refueling spots inside the Bay, the Dubai Star was docked at one, south of the Broken Bay Bridge… gee that strikes me as effing dumb. — AND I am reminded that one of the excuses for the Cosco Busan post leak mess is that there had never been staging, planning, training for a big leak INSIDE the Bay!
I think I’m tripping the mod fantastic. . . .
sorry!
I had fallen sound asleep…
LOL
South Carolina Republican Caught With 18 Yr. Old Stripper, Sex Toys and Viagra In Cemetery
… and Viagra…
neue hoo hooo….
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