Open Thread – Birds of Homer Continued…
Here’s another in the infinite series… a juvenile bald eagle hanging out at the harbor. Not quite in focus, but such a great bird!
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Here’s another in the infinite series… a juvenile bald eagle hanging out at the harbor. Not quite in focus, but such a great bird!
i’ll be letting ye know there if dublin lass favors more the floozie in the jacuzzie or the tart with the cart.
tomorrow it will be for sure. g’nite all.
Waiting here for your update…
Hoping the ‘tart with a cart’ knows now what she’s in for in trying to keep up with you 🙂
Have fun!
now THAT name has the spunk and energy of the Irishgirl we’ve all come to know and love !!! 🙂
Mag, I am leaning towards the floosie in the jacuzzie.
Give me a chance!
With white hair!
I was under pressure. May have to think a new name. 🙂
DublinLass might be an alternative…DublinDame sounds so…so..so.. boring ( mental picture of woman tottering down the street with monster handbag, muttering to herself as everyone passes by ) !!!! and you are NOT boring !!!
Ben – your mental picture of a woman tottering down the street and muttering could easily fit one of me , any day of the week !
But I will say that I do like the name, DublinLass. Very much ! If you need to choose a new name for now , I vote for that .
Buff !! I NEVER think of you tottering down the street !!! wellllll,,,, maybe when you’ve closed the bar down for the nite !!!! 🙂 you’d be holy he l in Ireland !!! smacking everyone with your brolly and protecting the kitties from the mad cyclists !!
i so want a smackin’ brolly !
I’d never smack with it but there’s something to be said for knowing that you COULD.
Off to look for “da_smackin_brolly.com “
Thats me.
…and here I thought we’d get a report of you teaching fawnskin how to clog and put pints away !! aaaahhhh , and sure naow, you’ll not be lettin’ the likes of a Yank , and a wee lass at that, be puttin’ the shame on the auld country , now will yae ?
There’s a great statue of two old gals with their shopping bags down on Moore Street in Dublin. THEY are true Dublin Dames, and are locally known as “The hags with the bags”. Dubliners are notoriously irreverent about public statuary: A buxom, low-cut-bodiced Molly Malone wheeling her barrow down at the end of Grafton Street is “The dolly with the trolley” or “The tart with the cart.” And the long fountain sculpture of Anna Livia Plurabelle (Joyce’s human personification of the River Liffey) is referred to by Northsiders as “The floozy in the jacuzzi” or “The hoor in the sewer”. My point is that Irish Girl is quite capable of coming up with a new name all on her own. Slan to the Dublin mudflatters.
ok…i just talked to the person formerly known as irishgirl and we are all set to make our own little mudstock here in dublin.
i’ve informed mz dublin dame that her new moniker sounds like a saloon dancer in some old john wayne movie and that she simply must go back to her former glory as our own gal of erie.
we are intent on keeping you all informed of the goings on next saturday as we meet and greet so stay tuned.
Fawnskin ( newly landed on Eire (sp?) soil ) I ask … are you SURE Irish Dublin Dame wishes to go back in name?? I think she sounds fair and fine by both.
You’ve landed in Dublin and taken over, ye have!
( Stand yer ground lass Dubliny-Gal-Irishy-Mudstuff ! )
I love that you’re there together. Big smiles.
Oh lucky Dutch One, are there any kitty pics anywhere?
nswfm – there are pics of the kitties when they were biddy that are still stuck in my daughter’s cell phone. And then there are pics that I took today on a disposable camera . My son promised he’d take them up to the corner store tomorrow.
The little things are growing so quickly that I’m kicking myself for not having more photos of their kittenhood. ( what kind of kitty mother am i ???)
Fawnskin, please take lots of pictures!
From the Toronto Star: Palin Adds Oil to the Fire
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/825059–palin-adds-oil-to-the-fire
That is a great read. The Canadian Press does a better job at exposing her nonsense than our newspapers do.
I saw this referenced on immoral minority (a press release by The Kingdom of the Netherlands):
“Dutch to Provide Assistance in Clean Up of Gulf Oil Spill”
Press release | 28 May 2010
“At the request of U.S. authorities, the Dutch Minister of Transport, Camiel Eurlings, has offered three sets of sweeping arms (6 arms in total) and auxiliary equipment to be used to collect oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon incident, in the Gulf of Mexico.”
“The U.S. and the Dutch are working closely together on water related issues. Immediately after Hurricane Katrina and Rita struck, the Netherlands provided assistance in battling flood waters in New Orleans. Senator Mary Landrieu and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson recently visited the Netherlands to discuss these issues. The Dutch and American collaboration continues to evolve and makes the Netherlands the U.S. go-to partner for water management solutions, working together on flood protection in Louisiana and other states, mitigating the impact of rising sea levels on America’s coastlines and developing partnerships that prepare our economies for short and long-term water challenges.”
http://dc.the-netherlands.org/News/Press_Releases/Dutch_to_Provide_Assistance_in_Clean_Up_of_Gulf_Oil_Spill
Wait a minute that news was released weeks ago…didn’t Sarah read about it?
She doesn’t read! 🙂
Why would she read it? It isn’t about her.
but she reads ALLLLLLLL the newspapers !!!!! she doesn’t live in the sticks, y’know !!! no.. wait… they testified they DO live out in the woods…..I’m sooooo confused !!!
Woohoo!! Glad to hear Fawnskin has arrived safely and that Dublin Mudstock is headed your way. We know you will show her a fabulous time Irish ! Be sure to keep us posted as the weekend unfolds.
::: waving to Fawnskin :::: ENJOY !!!!
I’m still laughing at your post from yesterday. 🙂
Fawnskin has made it to Dublin. I just talked to her on the phone. So there will be a Dublin Mudstock over the weekend! 🙂
aka Irish
Some really good stuff on Andrew Sullivan’s today about Obama’s success with BP and how the right is now ripping into him because of it.
He continues on the O’Reilly conversation with some posts from readers AND Mudflats!
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/06/oreilly-pwns-palin-ctd.html
Here’s another good article about the Palin /Thatcher meeting.
The point is that all this Sarah Palin business has gone a bit too far. We put up with her for a little while during the Presidential campaign, a great many of us hoping that she would eventually disappear, but she hasn’t – and now she seems to have been let loose on the wider world. If she is granted official meetings with some of the most respected former Western leaders, her presence on the political scene is immediately, and, in my opinion, inappropriately, legitimised.
http://www.varsity.co.uk/comment/2374
(I forgot to mention that I am Irishgirl, I’ve have had some computer issues).
Thanks for posting that link! The author nailed it and the article should be sent to everyone we know!
Great Article…REALLY loved the title !!!!!!! snark,snark !!
From that Varsity article named:
The Iron Lady and the tramp
….Why Sarah Palin doesn’t deserve an official meeting with Lady Thatcher “Palin is weak and unschooled in comparison with the battle-tested, four-hours-of-sleep-per-night turbo-politician that was Thatcher in her prime. I hope that, if their meeting occurs, Thatcher has enough edge left in her to recognise Palin for what she is: not the real thing, but a very, very poor imitation.”
I’m hoping it doesn’t take place.
I hate spitting, but if it does, I hope Thatcher spits in Palin’s face. She doesn’t even qualify as a “very, very poor imitation.”
Alan Grayson is one of my favorite Dems. Check this out:
http://www.actblue.com/page/whentheylie2
Health and peace.
BBC radio has picked up the Palin/Thatcher meeting and is comparing the two…have a listen:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/06/100617_thatcher_palin_wt_hs.shtml
“The influential political group Tea Party Express has sided with Sarah Palin in opposing the reelection bid of Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the Anchorage Daily News reports:
The Tea Party Express is pledging to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost little-known Joe Miller’s bid to defeat U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The group, funded through a California-based political action committee, said it will have staff in Alaska and make the race its top priority until the Aug. 24 primary.
The support could make a big difference for Miller, a Fairbanks lawyer and former state Republican Party official. The Tea Party Express, one of the most visible factions of the tea party movement, promises a wave of television and radio ads supporting Miller and opposing Murkowski in the coming weeks.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/06/tea-party-express-joins-palin-in-opposing-murkowski/58307/
The “small people”
Leave BP alone! “It is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown, in this case a $20 billion shakedown.”
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/06/great_national_tragedy_is_the_escrow_account.php?ref=fpblg
Amazing. The GOP doesn’t get that there is a Moral and Ethical responsibility to the people of the Gulf even if Legally, the President cannot compel them to pay. So, legally they could skate, but even BP didn’t try t stonewall, even BP knows they are responsible.
Aren’t the Gulf states generally “red”? They want to piss off their own voters just so they can please their corporate donors? Did they ever have brains or did they just get the lobotomies recently?
Whenever I need a lift, I go to barackobama.com and read the blogs. Here is a post from yesterday:
Dear Mr. President:
You just keep on doing what is in the best interest of the American people. Never mind the haters – they have a job to do which is to keep the American public distracted and misinformed.
You will never do what they “expect” you to do. You are your own man. You are intelligent, compassionate, honest and sincere. We get that!
Silly season is here to stay, it seems, but you have been prepared all your life for times like these. Be encouraged and know that you are loved.
Be strong, be patient and be YOU – that is all we ask. The rest will take care of itself.
One love!
😀
Thanks, Polly for this. I was disappointed that several folks (KO and Racel to name 2) jumped on the President’s speech. I was quite impressed with it.
I think of myself as an emotionally level person, but I actually got mad at people getting mad – ha ha – at President Obama’s speech. Even if it were lousy — It’s not mature or kind to beat up someone who is carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. Especially someone who is trying hard; he doesn’t need heat from his own “family.” It’s not like he is some kind of jerk president. sheesh…
But you know what though? It’s their job to keep him accountable. At least Rachel and Keith have a large helping of integrity, versus those morons at Fox News. I don’t think criticism is necessarily bad, I think we all need a nudge now and then.
Better than that idiot Gretchen Carlson (Rhodes Scholar? Really? What a waste) who just HAD to slam the President for saying he is praying for the people of the Gulf and just HAD to judge him like she is some sort of perfect saint and even went as far as suggesting that he was disingenuous to say that and can we really trust that coming from someone who “doesn’t regularly go to church”. Now THAT I object strongly to.
Most presidents don’t go to Church, no Bush, no Reagan, Clinton did more than most.
Here is some sanity (on President Obama’s address)-
Positive feedback from focus group:
–David Binder Research, a former Obama for America pollster, with white, independent men in Columbus, Ohio: “Ohio focus group participants reacted very positively to the President’s address. Voters expressed an especially favorable reaction to: Obama’s conviction and sincerity in communicating the urgency of the issue … Obama’s determination to do more than just talk about alternative energy like previous administrations, but to put in place a plan to achieve it … For many participants, the President’s speech crystallized a decision that they were already coming to on their own that now is a time to act on energy reform legislation.”
What’s this? Sanity?
I just read an article about this:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-17/obama-oil-mess-speech-panned-but-research-suggests-trouble-for-gop/?cid=hp:exc
Good Morning Mudpups! I had a wonderful day off yesterday. Drove up to Johnstown to spend the day with my Dad. I am still amazed at how well he is dealing with the chemo. He had another round of tests done and they weren’t as thrilling as the ones that showed is cancer had reduced by 85%. These tests showed not much change from the last so Dad is going through 3 more rounds of chemo.
He is still in fairly good spirits though. We drove into town to eat lunch at the Main Street Cafe and I had the best club sandwich I have ever eaten. The staff and customers at the diner we friendly, down home folks and we had a pleasant chat with one of the other patrons.
I spent some time trying to figure out why Dad’s printer wouldn’t work right and when we went to test it, we used the Kenyan birth certificate generator and made a certificate for my right wing, nut job brother. He was coming over later and my Dad had a giggle fit just thinking about giving it to him. My brother was not amused. LOL
I have a terrible case of poison ivy from clearing weeds from behind my backyard fence. I killed it a few years ago and hadn’t thought about the possibility that it might come back, so there I am weed wacking away…. Anybody got a sure fire cure? It’s all over my arms and legs. I’m outta here for now. Working closing shift tonight (ugh) .
Merrycricket, there are some great salves available by rx. Dries that mess right up. Also, too. A shot might be in order. Signed, the mother of a child, aged 34, who still can not walk w/in 10 feet of one stinking plant w/o getting a dose.
Oh…this is very important. TRIM YOUR NAILS. The oil gets under them and you find yourself spreading it all over your body.
You have my sympathy. Poison ivy and poison sumac rashes are terrible things.
Darn, no edit feature.
http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/Baltimore-Oriole.html
S’error wants northern Europe, socialist nations to solve the Gulf mess. Wouldn’t that come with strings attached?
By jove, you’re right!
Birds of the Gulf Coast, juveniles and otherwise, need our help.
Cornell Institute of Ornithology
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/netcommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1478
National Audubon Society
http://www.audubon.org/
L’Shalom
Yeah…it’s too true. My state bird is in trouble.
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/unpave/oriole.html
Palin might have been told about Dutch frustration but she had no idea what that frustration was, all she could remember was something about dikes. She has no knowledge beyond simple talking points that are fed to her; she has no knowledge of complicated maritime laws or why they exist.
I just saw this (it might have been posted earlier) on Andrew Sullivan’s blog: Palin’ s Next Prop. Loved Andrews comment at the end….
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/06/palins-next-prop.html
I love that eagle! Bald eagles winter here along the Mississippi. We get up earlyearly some mornings and drive down through the bottoms and up on the levees to watch them. Magnificent creatures. Have never seen a teen-ager. Look at him/her. Hanging out down by the dock, waiting for a buddy perhaps?
Sheesh – I hate to admit it, but SP might have been on to something about the Dutch. This following is from Radio Netherlands Worldwide:
Three days after BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, the Netherlands offered to help. Ships could have set about clearing the oil using Dutch sweeping arms, but the US government didn’t take up the offer. Dutch Consul General Geert Visser in Houston told Radio Netherlands Worldwide he was disappointed.
The US response, says Mr Visser: “‘Thanks for your help, but at the moment we can manage ourselves.’ And that was it.” He puts the reticence down to pride.
Late
Weeks later the pride was forgotten and the US came to the Dutch for help after all. “Almost a month later – a month too late, of course – Washington did make a request to send the sweeping arms to Houston in Texas,” says Mr Visser. “They arrived in three 747s, ten days later. They were then transported to Louisiana to be mounted on ships.”
US ships are now fitted with the arms and should be operational within a few days. Each pair of arms can clear around 20,000 tons of oil a day.
Experience
Mr Visser thinks Dutch experience with water management and dyke construction may have played a role in the change in US attitude. “They evidently realised that the Netherlands has superior equipment that can work quickly and efficiently.”
The US also initially turned down another Dutch proposal. The Dutch knowledge institute Deltares and dredging company Van Oord put forward a plan to build a sand dyke stretching for dozens of kilometres within three weeks. And here too, Washington came round in the end.
Jones Act
Not only capricious US decision-making has made life difficult for the Dutch companies, but also protective US legislation. Consul General Geert Visser’s pet hate is the Jones Act: “It means that Dutch ships, or whatever other ships not under a US flag, can’t operate in US waters.” According to the Jones Act, all goods in US waters have to be transported by US ships.
On Wednesday it was announced that oil company BP is increasing its capacity to capture the oil escaping from the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico. The company has installed a cap over the well. From next week it hopes to increase the containment capacity from around 15,000 barrels a day to 28,000.
Now, if only she had mentioned these facts instead of all that stuff about dikes, I might have been impressed!
“Now, if only she had mentioned these facts instead of all that stuff about dikes, I might have been impressed!”
Her hands aren’t that big and she didn’t want to have to lift up her shirt, push over her new Sarah Pac Rack and read her tummy.
She might have referred to “The Jones Act” (of 1920) as “The Smith Act” so it was best to keep her mouth shut. By the way, this piece of maritime legislation was nicknamed The Jones Act after its sponsor: Senator Wesley Jones, Republican from Washington.
History buffs are hot!
The technology didn’t meet the EPA standards. Standards which, in this case, were too strict. Pumping still polluted water back into the ocean wasn’t OK with EPA standards. But if the water is 80% cleaned up, that’s better, right? It took a while, unfortunately, to get past our own environmental regulations.
Interesting read, tigerwine.
I’d suggest, though, it gives a false impression of what *circumstances* surrounded the intial hours and first days of the catastrophe; it makes it sound as if everyone was privy to the extent of the disaster from the get-go. That was not the case.
What *was* known was there had been an explosion on the rig, a roaring fire ensued, there were workers injured, missing, and some presumed dead from the explosion and fire, and the rig was sinking. Those things were easily confirmed — they were visible to the eye.
It was also *logically* presumed there had been damage to “the pipe” [the one between the ocean floor and the rig], BUT, with the pipe being ‘hidden’ from view by the ocean’s depths, there was no way to know *independently* the exact and precise nature of the damage. All information about what was going on down there, was coming *from* BP! They were the only ones with ‘eyes’ at the location.
The US government had no choice –no other option– but to rely on BPs accounting of the matter(s) on the ocean floor. For DAYS and DAYS (possibly even the first couple of weeks!), what BP was reporting about the *extent* of the break and subsequent uncontrolled oil release, was the sum total of what anyone knew! By virtue or their’s being the only ‘view’ –literally– of the site, BP had *total* ‘control’ of the information from which decisions about steps to take, were made. It wasn’t until that guy [and I, shamefully, can’t recall his name right now or recall where he was from/located] sat down in front of the BP video/stream and mathmatically figured out flow rate and whatnot, that everyone realized: WHOA!, the numbers BP is giving us are totally bogus — they are downplaying (by orders of magnitude!) the REAL size of the gusher.
For $P, the Dutch Council General, or anyone else, then, to suggest the US govt was somehow lax, uncaring, dismissive, and/or negligent in its initial response, is, to my way of thinking, not only greatly misleading, but totally disingenous. In hindsight we know the size (maybe!) of the break; at the time this catastrophe *first* began to unfold, [and to which the finger-pointers are *now* harking] we did NOT!
I would suggest, in contradiction to Mr Visser’s assertion, that it was *not* “pride” that compelled the US government’s decline of the kind offer for assistance with equipment, it was the fact that, given the *knowns* about the size of the underocean spilling, the Govt had made its assessment and had concluded there was/were ample resources already available –on or near at hand– to meet the need. Hell, three days after the explosion, the ‘spill’ was only 5,000 bbs a day — *that* was an amount that *could* be ‘managed’ with ‘local’ resources…no doubt about it. Only problem: the 5,000 figure was coming *from* BP. We know *now* that that figure was totally and utterly bs, BUT, at the time…
There is a reason events in history are often portrayed in the form of a timeline; one thing necessarily comes before another OR co-occurs with another. I’ve no patience with revisionists who, to ‘support’ their own, personal agenda, would ignore the factual, verifyable sequence of events of history; those who present *their* hindsight revision as if it were how things actually and truly unfolded. Hindsight is NOT insertable into the *facts* of history. I wish people would stop acting as if it is. beth.
First things first:
Nice shot of the youngster. Juvenile bald eagles, like adolescents everywhere, are clearly hoping to cadge a free meal.
Also, I posted this on the BOR vs. $P thread but I wanted to re-post it here. It kind of hangs with my comment above:
Dagian
June 17, 2010 at 4:57 AM
“Come to the Dark Side…we have cookies!”
(picture of SP with her cookies)
In a wet white t-shirt, wearing a black gel-enhanced push up bra.
Just sayin’
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Free cookies, hopeful bird, mooching teenagers and…wait for it…$arah Palin!
It’s not easy to get juveniles to focus, AKM, but they’re really good at hanging out.
I should know; I spent 20 years in 6th grade! 🙂
Did they finally pass you up to 7th when you grew too tall for the desk or what? Sorry. Couldn’t resist. I am in awe of those who teach upper elementary and middle school. Third grade was just right for me for years. Have a great day!
Just finished my tenth (non-consecutive) year in high school, thank you very much. 🙂
Looks like 10 more years before I graduate, er, retire. Oy, vey.
(My first year teaching was a 4th grade class, though, and we learned a lot together. That was the year DH Happy and I got married during spring break. It was a good year.
Sixth graders, oh my, with their energy and curiosity and newly raging hormones and exploring their independence and making their own decisions, and also, too, a heaping helping of drama…
when I could focus that, could guide that, it was interdisciplinary team magic (well, science and ancient history, anyways…)
10 more years in my high school library? Sounds like my kind of briar patch.
I finished my teaching career in HS, teaching drama. Oh, what a joyous time we had. I loved every minute of it. Built the program, and was in on the hiring of the teacher to take it over. Just a wonderful experience. Loved my kids.
Andrew Sullivan has a good piece here.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/06/yglesias-aw.html
Indeed.
After a tiring day yesterday, I sure got a nice hour of laughter over yesterday’s post and all the great comments. ‘pups were in rare form yesterday. Thanks! Ah-h-h, Sarah. She can still “light up a room!”
I agree, the comments were hysterical. Buffalo gals was my favourite.
mine also, too.
I always love the comments. I try to (and usually do) read them all. Don’t always have time to respond the way I’d like, but just thought I’d throw out a big thanks for laughs and links and thoughtful conversation. <3
This article dissects the Newsweek “Saint Sarah” issue and suggests that Palin is not the leader of the religious right.
http://www.getreligion.org/?p=36055&loc=interstitialskip
One by one, they’ll all disavow her.
I hope you are right. I’ve seen some disturbing examples to the contrary though, even in my own church. So again, I hope you are right!!!
She needs to be gone from public discourse, she is just poison.
This is an outstanding commentary by The Young Turks regarding the banking laws being sorted out. I HIGHLY recommend watching. So simple & common sense, I just hope Al Franken prevails! He’s truly been a dynamo working for all us the regular people.
Barney Frank Fighting Al Franken – Why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZJzy_BzRoI
Fantastic column by Gail Collins in the NY Times today (please read the whole article):
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/opinion/17collins.html
I do believe she is right.
That was a good article and I agree with her as well.
Thx, that was a good read! Actually, kind of refreshing after all the moaning and gnashing over President Obama’s Oval Office speech.
Somewhere I read some poster saying President Obama, during his speech, simply looked “tired”. Heck yeah! After spending a couple of days listening to heartbreaking stories and seeing the devastation first hand on the coast, how could he possibly produce It’s A Wonderful World super duper speech like everyone was anticipating?
Instead, he kicked ass the next day in dealing with the oil company execs – when it counted. I will take action over words any day of the week!
Yeah it’s amazing how so many people criticise the President from both ends – he’s not tough enough! He’s got too much on his plate, he won’t able to handle it!
I mean – seriously – it IS possible to tackle more than 1 issue at a time, be GOOD at it AND get a little overwhelmed at times!
It’s amazing how people bash his supporters for thinking he is superman then turn around and wring their hands about how he HASN’T saved the world yet!
Geez, we all gotta get a GRIP.
Yes, reasonable article. – When I think of President Obama, I don’t see an egotistical man. He isn’t like the boxer who goes out in the ring showing off some fancy footwork and being Mr. Cool, and then during the actual fight gets creamed. He is smart, that’s why we elected him. We can sleep at night because he is the White House, instead of so many others with only half of his wisdom and intelligence. President Obama is a great orator. He knows it, and knows how and when to use this skill. It would be plain stupid in my opinion to make some great pushy speech about BP’s lack of responsibility. That’s staging and serves no purpose.
I agree with you – I much prefer a President who can be realistic and truthful about his strengths and weaknesses than a poser. When did it become a emblem of “strength” to posture and strut around like a vain peacock?
After eight years of Bush doing JUST that, you’d think these pundits would have learnt SOMETHING. But no, the “conventional wisdom” still think they know it all.
I mean, yeah I wish there was more detail about energy policy but the point is – he already said inaction is not an option, what more do we want? If he had sat down and set out details of an energy policy, Palin and the Congressional GOP would have been on TV all day every day hammering away at the policy details i.e. playing politics. The focus now needs to be on BP and how they will manage the spill and pay for damages. There will be time for the politics – right now, it’s about getting accountability.
i am still too angry and feeling rude towards the fecklessness and just plain stupidity of our citizens and the know-it-all know-nothings that pollute the national news media to be objective. so i am counting on the pups to speak for me today. we are still posting on yesterday’s thread. i wasn’t kidding when i told AKM yesterday that i was hurting. the muscles in my legs and feet were giving me a bit of bother so i got only a few hours sleep.
i will try to nap for a while but i will come back later to enjoy what you have written.
AKM your post yesterday was wonderful. i forgot to thank you. mea culpa.
onealaskan wrote on 06/16/2010 05:36:29 PM:
I got my Palin laugh of the day early with this gem from yesterday I spotted at ADN:
Kooshdakhaa wrote on 06/16/2010 04:39:00 PM:
Pullleeeaaase make her stop!!
Can we like, disown her, or something?
………………
Why not? She disowned us.
Read more: http://www.adn.com/2010/06/16/1326311/palin-headlines-call-the-dutch.html#ixzz0r6KZZzkx
most of the comments are solidly anti-palin. i find that encouraging.
Shannyn and AKM have won their Netroots Nation scholarships. Ian Ross (aka Mudpup Jr.) is also running again this year. You can read at the link how he has put his increased knowledge to work in his community. Please vote for him! http://www.democracyforamerica.com/netroots_nation_scholarships/951-ian-ross
congrats to the winners, thanks for letting us know
Rachel Maddow tonight. ‘As long as benefit is accrued to a company and risk is assigned to the public, oil drilling should be suspended.’ Paraphrased.
I thought, Yes. Can someone send that thought to the WH.