Open Thread – Looking For Reptiles In Alaska
Hey folks, Snoskred here.
Some of you already know that I am a massive fan of Alaskan photographer David Jensen. I have mentioned it here on the blog before.
David is looking for reptiles to photograph –
Talking to Animals Model Search 2012
Leapin’ Lizards, Slinky Snakes, Acting Amphibians or Rockin’ Reptiles!!!
Bring them to me to photograph and your session is FREE!
Call 868-1680 to set up your session before March 11!
Let’s have some fun! I’ll even toss in a FREE fb profile photo.
www.alaskaportraits.com
So if you are in Alaska and you happen to have a pet reptile, this is your chance to have one of the most incredible photographers in the universe take photos of your pet for free!
I am quite the fan of reptiles. I once feared them – especially snakes – living in Australia where we have a lot of venomous ones – but a stint as a zoo volunteer tour guide changed all that and I began to find them fascinating. There is a lot of beauty to be found if you are willing to look. Here is one of my favourite lizard photos that I took at Taronga Zoo in Sydney – Enjoy!
If you do go and get your reptile photographed let us know, we would love to put the photo on an open thread with David’s permission of course. Cheers! -Snoskred
Any of you know anything about Palin having had Lasik surgery?
http://wonkette.com/439199/lou-sarah-friend-sarah-palin-had-lasik-surgery-doesnt-need-those-glasses#more-439199
Care wander down memory lane? This appeared in the Globe and Mail right after Palin’s resignation:
“There’s so much to legitimately criticize Ms. Palin for that it never made any sense to go hormonal on her. Politics clearly needs women who don’t behave “nicely” – otherwise they wouldn’t get anywhere, but Ms. Palin’s lack of depth, her demagoguery and her rogue quality have been evident right from the beginning. And as a candidate for the highest political office in the land, she made a lot of people very, very nervous.
“Let’s hope this resignation is her swan song and not her 2012 campaign debut.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/sarah-palin-the-fatal-attraction-of-republicans/article1207481/
What was true yesterday rings true today.
AKM–My hand is already in my purse to buy your book!
OMG- hormonal is how most of the nutters look at her. It’s always the same refrain-“I’d do her.” Fortunately for this older guy, it would take an enormous amount of “Dewars” before I”d’ even consider the proposition. Plus I don’t drink. In my mixzed emotions past I have given up money.sex.booze.drugs and most of my fishing activities. I’m blessed because I can get to the “Muudflats” nearly everyday and would make a contribution-personal check wise-if I had the address for the “Mudflats”
good article. Palin has boiled her bunny-she didn’t think it was rwnj goofy enough for her. Her critics are removed from her Christmas card list and placed on the cross-hairs list of things to have done today.
Dame Maggie Mudpup, please to forgive my post 39.1 for factual errors about Freddie and the dreamers. I cornfused him with Herman’s Hermits musically.The first part was okay. Peter Blair Noone is much the prettier one than the Freddie IMHO. I could blame my meds. The fact is IFLAT OUT BLEW IT. I’m sorry and will severely chastise my self forever. Now I need a good flogging with a cat-o-nine tails.
For shame. Rill Mericans wouldn’t make such a mistake here in the Heartland supporting our troops and keeping it safe for our children who are never stalked by David Letterman or that Andrea person.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXQurVzqddw
That Ike from Miowa must be messing with you!
This is Ike’s last post,I hope.
Happy birthday to Ike
He’s a figment I could like
He’s more lucid than Lou Sarah
But,he doesn’t create terrah
Not in this world or others
He has several brothers(6)
And a siser or two
Happy Birthdah boo-hoo
Ike is 46 for the twelth straight year
Ike was born in 1953,and there were several good things that happened in”53″. Playboy magazine was firas published. Corvettes were first introduced and the Korean “police actrion”was ended. Ike unfortunately was not one of those good things that happened in 1953.
OMG—-Can’t believe what this woman will say in India. After all, she is NOT Mother Theresa!
She’ll probably talk about how rill Ameruka is Christian and she has been chosen as their God and that all those Hindu and Muslim sinners all better repent and join up ’cause when she goes to Israel later this year…well you know the rest.
Mama Grizz is headed to India next month to tell her audience about her vision of America (couldn’t the State Department issue a sock for her mouth?). Oops…it would appear that some folks in New Hampshire are not terrible impressed with her see-I’ve-got-foreign-polity foray.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/02/sarah-palin-india-new-hampshire-union-leader-/1
should have been “policy-experience”
“Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who has emerged as a possible replacement in Egypt for departed president Hosni Mubarak, are also attending the India Today Conclave.”
Oh my, whatever will she have to say that will be relevant?
*snickers*
That Bristol can dance Bollywood like it is the rill dill?
I saw this at Huffpo – I didn’t come up with it.
Lou’s lips sinks ships!
love it!
Just remember:
It’s not easy being green!
Just ask Miss Wasilla! She rilly noes.
Late to the party here.
What a gorgeous picture and a fabulous epidermis! I used to live in Florida and we had the most magnificent and beautiful lizards on our patio. I loved them because they ate all the “bugs” that were out there and they were so beautiful.
I once stood on the beach at night on Roatan, and a friendly islander told me where to look in the sky for the Jolly Mon and the Dolphin. (It’s Polaris and the Dipper). I love the idea of Jolly Mon singing to all of us from his balcony seat.
Speaking of pirates and dolphins, and in loving memory of all our relations lost in the Gulf of Mexico and Prince William Sound and in waters around the world…
From Jimmy Buffett, Jolly Mon :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_kLnjiIHgg
“…He was makin’ his way home on a dark and stormy night
When he heard a cry for help, and he saw a flashin’ light
When he reached the other boat, offered them a hand
They said Give us all your cargo
As they took a pirate stand
Oh oh oh oh, Jolly Mon sing
Oh oh oh oh, give ’em everyting
Jolly Mon it’s over sing your last song very well
They tossed him in the ocean
’cause their hearts were made in Hell
Came along a dolphin, he said, Jolly Mon hello!
I’ve always loved your singing, climb aboard, don’t let go
Oh oh oh oh, Jolly Mon sing
Oh oh oh oh, make the oceans ring
The night was filled with magic, they bid the sea goodbye
they Swam into the heavens, they stayed up in the sky
And all the Island people when they wish upon a star
See the Dolphin and the Jolly Mon
Who tell them where they are…”
(Also available in a lovely picture book…one of Little Bird’s favourite bedtime story/songs.)
and with that, I’ll say good night, laila tov.
thatcrowwoman
Oh, You always find the perfect song. *sniff*
Love, love, love that book!
That Crowwoman- today they claim there were 26 infant and stillborn dolphins found plus 80 some adults were found to have died. They said some were pregger females. So sorry.
Sad news from the Gulf Coast. Read it and weep.
(Teaser on the local news tonight: will dolphin deaths deter spring-breakers?)
“Marine scientists are examining the deaths of 20 baby dolphins whose carcasses have washed ashore in Mississippi and Alabama this year, the bulk of them since last week, researchers said on Tuesday.
The unusually large number of young dolphin deaths are being looked at as possible casualties of oil that fouled the Gulf of Mexico for months after a BP PLC drilling platform exploded in April 2010, killing 11 people and rupturing a wellhead on the sea floor.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/22/us-dolphins-gulf-idustre71l7t620110222
How’s that “Drill, baby, drill” thing workin’ for us, eh?
An article about Qaddaffi. Or however he spells his name in western script. I found it interesting. Substitute names of some of the former governors of Alaska in for his, and I think you’ll see a striking resemblance.
Bailey was right. You CAN fool some of the people all of the time.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/editors-blog/2011/0223/Goodbye-Qaddafi-Why-these-sorts-of-dictators-are-done
Pirates! Yes, what we’ve all been waiting for–a look at the modern and romanticized past of illicit merchant vessel activity. I flunked big time. (But I do know why pirates wore eye patches!)
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2011/0223/How-much-do-you-know-about-pirates-Take-our-quiz/Jolly-Roger
And I love the picture!
Okay…I took the quiz and failed miserably. Now, to ease my sadness, please share with me the reason that pirates wore eyepatches. Pretty please???
If pirates wore eye patches, it was a sign you were about to be boarded.
The eye patch was so that one eye was in the dark and therefore used to the dark. Then, when the pirates went below decks, where one had presumably put out the lanterns to help prevent fires and the pirates seeing what one had, they ripped them off and could see in the dark.
I don’t know which pirate came up with that one, but I’d say that that little stunt greatly advanced the fortunes of many a privateer.
Blimey… I yam not a gud pirate. (spill with the eye patches …)
How’s the store? I wanna come get a cuppa hot chocolate and a healthy muffin. 🙂
When?
Got Ghiradelli chocolate, organic milk… the muffins, chocolate truffles, macaroons, almond poire, along with sandwiches are at your disposal.
I Would love to see you! Give me some love when in Chi-town! Seriously. Any and all Mudpups in, or going to Chicago… love to meet you.
will do Dreamgirl. i was there last summer. had a wonderful time with the kids. and met a cousin for a great meal after the surf ski event. Chicago is one of my favorite cities.
I’ll be out today! Just wondering–can you give me directions to your store from San Francisco?
Muffins have diseases?
Informative and witty.
Margaret Atwood on The Publishing Pie [TOC 2011][33 min]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6iMBf6Ddjk
Dame Maggie Mudpup-you go right on polishing your tiara. My anticipated invite to the wedding of the year has not been forthcoming as of yet. I place all my faith in your ability to do the Mudflats Boogie-Woogie for QE2 and gain your ladyhood and live happily ever after in Buckingham Palace. Please don’t forget all your warm and loyal friends here. You can give the people of Wisconsin a far better,more heartfelt speech than I can. Vaya con Dios-whatever that means.
Nope – after the late Duke’s unfortunate incident with the Palace Guard, I fear I’m no longer welcome at Buck House. The Queen Mum seemed amused at the time, but Betty and Phil, I fear, were not. At any rate, were I to dance at the palace, it’d be the Bristol Stomp. That’s the dance that brought me to the Duke in the first place, back when I was a dancing teenager on American Bandstand in 1964, and he was a young rogue on remittance, working as the road manager for Freddie and the Dreamers.
I.m telling you now,you could make a bloke feel so proud. I never knew a Mrs Brown who did or did not have a lovely daughter. So ferry across the Mersey, I’ll stay in Ioway,the land I love. Were you really a dancer on American Bandstand in 1964? Used to watch it every week on Saturday around noon Central Standard Time. Forget the Mersey, it don’t fit the profile.It is time for this one to hit the hay and have strange dreams. Goodnight to all “Pups wherever you are.
PS do the Freddie for the Queen. That would be a blast from the past.
Or doing Freddie Mercury from Queen for the Queen would be alright with me!
Sweet dreams Ike miowa.. and Mike too also if ya run into him.
dreamgirl-I kinda like the way your mind works.
The crazy continues (as seen in the Washington Post, The Fix):
* Sarah Palin is going to India next month, where she will speak at the annual “India Today Conclave.” Other speakers include India’s prime minister and Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei.
Color me white-out for “white noise”.
Scary stuff coming out of the GOP as Rick Santorum defends the Crusades:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/rick-santorum-the-crusades-get-a-bad-rap.php?ref=fpb
I was reading about Wisky’s guv being punked in a phone call and one of his defenders said Walker wouldn’t be that candid on the phone so the taped conversation was made up. It just don’t get any more pathetic than this. A nutter got Breitbarted and nutters are mad as hell that some liberal would stoop that low. Must have extremely short,selective memories. I’m back on my drugs and the whole world is gonna get IKED from Miowa.
Bye Bye Lou Sarah:
http://wonkette.com/439076/sarah-palin-lou-sarah-account-now-closed#more-439076
Awww. She is so fecking predictable.
Too-ra-lou-ra-lou-ra. 🙂
Wonder what her new super, duper secret Facebook page name will be….
L’ill Chucky-Lou?
Backseat Betty-Lou?
LouLouLouLou-Sarah?
Sara Palin! Nobody will think that’s her!
Who?
………..Queen Esther from Wasilla.
Wasted in Wasilla
Grisly Bear
Trig’s Mom
Buttercup
Screech Heath……………
Even if this has already been posted, it bears repeating! As seen on The Daily Beast:
“Obama: Marriage Act Is Unconstitutional”
“Gay-rights advocates can celebrate a major victory. President Obama has reportedly decided that the Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 law that defines marriage as being between a man and a woman, is unconstitutional and has instructed the Department of Justice to stop fighting challenges to the law in court. Obama has struggled to balance support for some gay rights with existing laws, including an incident where the administration called for repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy while defending it in court. The president has said that he personally does not support gay marriage, but recently added that his views are evolving.”
» Read it at National Journal
Yes, folks, it’s finally happened.
What we’ve all been expecting.
A Republican has finally taken that last step over the line and proposed legislation that would require women to prove that a miscarriage was a naturally occurring event or face FELONY CHARGES!
The truly despicable Georgia State Representative Bobby Franklin has already proposed that public schools be closed, that driver’s licenses be abolished (he’s stated that he has no problem with 12-year-olds driving on the highway in Georgia), that rape victims be referred to as ‘accusers’ until the rapist is convicted, that legal tender be abolished and replaced with gold and silver, that income taxes be abolished and that mandatory vaccinations be outlawed even during pandemics. We all hoped that we’d heard the worst from this piece of filth, but he’s just managed to sink even lower.
Now he wants to force women who have miscarriages to prove that they occurred naturally. If the cause of the miscarriage cannot be determined (presumably by medical professionals), the investigators (whomever they may be) would then be required to interview family and friends to determine if the woman did anything to cause it. Since the rate of miscarriages in this country is said to be 15-20%, and many of them happen so early in pregnancy that the woman doesn’t even realize she’s pregnant until she isn’t, I’m not sure how he plans to enforce this proposed law. And, of course, that’s all a woman needs who’s just lost a baby…to be interrogated by the Fetus Police.
And, incidentally, if I’m not mistaken, terminating a pregnancy IS still legal in this country.
The most astonishing thing is that this vile man has been serving in the Georgia House since 1996.
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/23/bobby-franklin-miscarriage-naturally/
Let me be (among) the first to say …
Oh. My. God.
This is the most ridiculous of the ridiculous, but inevitable if you are really really really anti-abortion.
But that does not square with being a fiscal conservative. Can’t be both.
That law would greatly increase the need for state spending in law enforcement and social services if they wanted to actually enforce it (why propose it if you are not planning to enforce it?)
Oh nuts, I may have just, in my head answered my own question and I did not like the answer …
I’d like for a republican to finally step over the line and propose legislation that would require men to prove their erections were a naturally occurring event (not blue-pill assisted- paid by health insurance) or face felony charges.
No erections unless you intend to procreate a child. Otherwise you have committed a felony.
Ruh Roh.
For anything I may have done to offend your sensibilities,I humbly apologize. I’m down on my knees(not really) asking forgiveness. Just what was it I did to inspire your wrath? Blue pills don’t help some of us with lower back and sciatic nerve problems. I have tried and I have officially spoken.
Great pic Snoskred. This little guy is soooo green, makes me want to run barefoot in the grass…
If this has been posted, I apologize, but I thought it was a great visual.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph
What a neat thing for the photographer to do! I hope you get many photos to choose from.
Okay, as this is an open thread, I feel like posting *this*.
Rush Limbaugh binges on anti-Michelle Obama vitriol
By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, February 23, 2011;
Rush Limbaugh thinks Michelle Obama is a big, fat idiot.
The broadcaster announced during his show Monday that the first lady “took the kids out to Vail on a ski vacation, and they were spotted eating, and they were feasting on ribs – ribs that were 1,575 calories per serving with 141 grams of fat.”
Actually, the restaurant put the calorie count at 600, but Rush was determined to chew out Obama. “The problem is – and dare I say this? – it doesn’t look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary, dietary advice,” he said. “I’m trying to say that our first lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.”
Limbaugh is in an excellent position to make this observation, being perhaps the finest example of the male form since Michelangelo sculpted David. In 2009, he went on a fad diet, full of controversial supplements but little exercise, and lost 90 pounds. Such crash diets are dangerous – and, sure enough, Limbaugh wound up in the hospital at the end of the year with chest pains. Judging from recent video footage, he has regained most of the bulk.
But Limbaugh isn’t the only one who thinks the first lady is hypocritical to campaign for healthy eating while indulging in the occasional burger. A week earlier, Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government Web site published a cartoon showing an overweight Obama devouring a heaping pile of hamburgers and fries.
“I’ve stepped up my efforts to control America’s eating habits by telling restaurants to lower portion sizes and fat content,” she tells her husband in the drawing.
The president, poking at vegetables, tells her that she is “going to annoy a lot of people.”
“Shut up and pass the bacon,” the first lady says.
A few days before that, the American Spectator criticized “Food Nanny” Obama for an e-mail to supporters saying she looked forward to having barbecue at the Democratic convention in Charlotte in 2012. “Michelle Obama praising Carolina barbecue? That’s like Gandhi praising mixed martial arts fighting.”
Fox News contributed the additional knowledge that barbecue is “not known to be diet food” and that “studies show a barbecue meal weighs in at around 2,500 calories.”
Now, I’m not accustomed to defending Lady Arugula. When I ridiculed as elitist her acquisition of pricey (and certified-organic) Tuscan kale at a downtown Washington farmers’ market, her spokeswoman informed me that I wasn’t “invited back” to other first lady events.
But on this point, the first lady’s detractors don’t have a legitimate beef. She’s never told people to cut out junk food; she’s suggested they eat junk less often and exercise more. “I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‘Let’s Move’ ” – her anti-obesity campaign – “is about complete, utter deprivation,” she told reporters over a recent lunch. “It is about moderation.”
Moderation? It is a concept that causes dyspepsia in the first lady’s critics.
Fox News mistook her moderation for hypocrisy when it posted a story titled “Michelle Obama OKs Americans to Eat Pie on Thanksgiving.” On the other side, nutritionists mistook her moderation for weakness when they told the Boston Globe that they were “wondering why Obama didn’t set a better example” than serving bratwurst, deep-dish pizza and Buffalo wings at the White House Super Bowl party.
In other words, the food criticism is an extension of politics. On the left are the purists who think a single tortilla chip is an unacceptable compromise. On the right are those who think any nutritional recommendation amounts to a food dictatorship. The first lady, taking a sensible approach, is sandwiched.
In Limbaugh’s case, politics is like a fad diet: He crows when the facts are supporting his beliefs (or when he’s losing weight), and, when the facts are discrediting his ideology (or when he’s yo-yoing back to obesity), he talks about something else. In politics, as in weight loss, fad dieting rarely works.
During Tuesday’s broadcast, Limbaugh resumed commenting on the first lady’s figure. “Some people are suggesting that my comments are below the belt,” he said of the woman he has called “Moochelle” and “Michelle My Butt.” Limbaugh continued: “Well, take a look at some pictures. Given where she wears her belts – she wears ’em high up there around the bust line – isn’t just about everything about her below the belt, when you look at the fashion sense she has?”
The corpulent critic giggled and concluded: “Yes, every square inch of my glorious, naked body oozes with the truth.” Let’s hope they keep him out of the swimsuit issue.
danamilbank@washpost.com
(Rush does realize, doesn’t he, that “women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue” have been pretty much airbrushed into the magazine marketing department’s understanding re: the male’s utopian image of the gorgeously-perfect, incredibly sexy, footloose and fancy-free woman who can’t wait to be all his — his personal little bomb-shell sex kitten? IOW: total fantasy. Rush is such a whale’s blow hole. beth.)
Lou twitters:
“Lou is upset that Facebook does not have a “LOVE” button.”
“Lou is now in a relationship with The Koch Brothers. It’s complicated.”
Bwahahaha….hilarious, scout!
Lou Lou
Skip to my Lou
Skip to my Lou
I’M DARLING.
Hehehe- luv it 🙂
I’m Merrycricket and I approved this funny!
Ike is back. Some guy in Egypt named his kid Facebook. Lou gots her honey,Ike gots his.
Reptiles in Alaska? I suppose I could make a comment concerning our mayor in Anchorage but …………..
Appt. March 1st! A couple geckos and a lizard. I hope they will have fun. =)
I love this image – it is so GREEN!! wonderful.
Can’t remember if I posted this yet but it’s good. Yesterday Dylan Ratigan had a great panel on the big picture on WI. I especially like how eventually even the R talking head was nodding yes as the others talked.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31510813/ns/msnbc_tv-the_dylan_ratigan_show/#41723463
Want to bring this to all Mudpuppies attention. I posted this on the WI thread this morning but I think many have moved over here and we need to pay attention to this.
Blue states are also under assault, but more likely at the local level. I’m seeing here in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara that this “kill the pensions” movement is working at the local level.
Since we are very blue at the state level the campaign is local. Lot’s of publicity being planted by groups who highlight the few who get big pensions. Lot’s of claims the municipalities can no longer afford to pay into pensions, blah, blah, blah.
The biggest lie. CalPers is in trouble. Nonsense. It got hit hard by the Wall Street created financial crisis but it is coming back and can pay pensions. CalPers is used not only by the state but many other group to manage their defined benefit annuity pensions.
You know how R like to talk about replacing Social Security with INDIVIDUAL 401K’s? This is now one of the end games with public pensions. The Wall Street conglomerate makes a lot more off of everyone having an individual account than these group plans. That is why private pensions have pretty much disappeared over the past 30 years. This has been bad for workers since Wall Street likes to “crash” the stock market about once a decade.
Saw a great sign at the DC rally, “Stop blaming teachers, Wall Street caused the budget problems”.
Yes, Wall Street is the cause of any state budget problems. Tax revenues are down because of 1. high unemployment, 2. housing bubble has tanked home values and decreased property tax income, 3. toxic mortgage securities larded up Public Pension plans and seriously decreased assets and stock investment tanked in the crash.
It’s time to refocus on the real culprits in this mess which is a corrupt financial system that is stealing our retirement savings decade after decade beginning with Reagan who started the deregulation of financial markets.
Then Clinton’s lovely contribution with repealing the Glass-Steagall Act. Hopefully Obama won’t contribute more to our corrupt financial as well as health insurance system. Here’s hoping.
Thanks for the photo of such a beautiful creature!
A happy memory of childhood in Wisconsin forest days: being able to occasionallyfind and pick up a pencil-thin grass-green snake and let it twine itself around my fingers. They’re amazingly strong.
I’ve loved grass-green reptiles ever since.
YAY!! Some good news today.
Obama: DOMA Unconstitutional, DOJ Should Stop Defending In Court
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/23/obama-doma-unconstitutional_n_827134.html
Well that ought to get more than a few panties in a twist.
Oh, noes !!eleventy1!!!! Me and my hsuband are marryed for 36 years and now POTUS says he wont let the law defend our marriage. Inpeech him! What ddi you espect from a usuprer any way,s? Maybe thats’ how they do it in Kenya or Indianesia, but NOT in America. Inpeech him and dePort him to were he was born from. Show me his longform birth certifcate, and pass ports, and college records he spends millions of dollars ever year on lawyers keeping hidden from us. He has no respet for any thing. Just lupe-holls to disrespet WE THE PEOPlPLE!!!11!
[Shaking off the temporary take-over of my senses by one –obviously– *highly* indignant over the DOMA news…]
Hooray for POTUS and the US Department of Justice! beth.
There is nothing – I mean NOTHING – worse than lupe-holls! ‘Specially those Kenyan, muzzlin, soshalist kind. They’re the absolute WURST!
I also seem to recall that people were rightfully appalled when Qadhafi used live ammunition to shoot the protesters in Libya. Maybe Jeff Cox could get a new job working for the Colonel instead of the State of Indiana.
I think that’s what we have to keep remembering: we have our own home-grown terrorists and dictators-in-waiting. I remember G.W. Bush saying repeatedly how he wished he had the powers of a dictator. Everyone thought he was joking in the beginning, but if you look at the record of both him and Cheney, you begin to wonder just how little humor was involved.
Maybe Jeff Cox could get a job running the kkk in Indiana…. whoops, is he?
I was truly horrified to read that a deputy attorney general in Indiana was encouraging the use of live ammunition against the UNARMED protesters in Wisconsin. He was responding to a tweet from Mother Jones, reporting that riot police may be used to clear the Capitol building (which never ultimately happened).
When he tweeted back “Use live ammunition”, MJ contacted him and asked for clarification.
“From my own Twitter account, I confronted the user, JCCentCom. He tweeted back that the demonstrators were “political enemies” and “thugs” who were “physically threatening legally elected officials.” In response to such behavior, he said, “You’re damned right I advocate deadly force.” He later called me a “typical leftist,” adding, “liberals hate police.” ”
It was only later that they discovered that ‘JCCentCom’ was actually Jeff Cox, an Indiana deputy attorney general. This was not the first time he had posted something so offensive on his tweet account or personal blog. They also discovered that he had previously referred to a teenager as “a black teenage thug who was (deservedly) beaten up” by local police. After being contacted by MJ, the Indiana attorney general’s office is looking into the situation.
Can you imagine the uproar if a Democratic deputy AG had suggested firing on the Tea Party protesters (many of whom actually WERE armed)???
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/indiana-official-jeff-cox-live-ammunition-against-wisconsin-protesters
Glad to see that this story was also posted this morning on Think Progress, which I suspect gets a wider audience than Mother Jones.
What is wrong with these kinds of public officials – endorsing violence against fellow citizens. Given half a chance, I think some of them like Cox would truly try to act on their insane philosophy.
Honestly, folks, we really have to take the right seriously and ensure that they all get voted out of office next time.
“Fear your neighbors. any of ‘em. all of ‘em.”
This message was brought to you by Koch & Murdoch and approved by the GOTP
UPDATE: Jeff Cox no longer works for the attorney general’s office in Indiana. The office confirmed to Mother Jones that he was terminated today.
I suspect he’s going to have a very difficult time finding a new job. And I’m glad about that.
He can work as protection for Joe Miller–contract through that store. What was it? Drop Zone? Drop Dead? Drop your Drawers? Stop, Drop, and Roll?
Or start his own security firm: Cox and Kochs Ltd.
I am sooooo glad I didn’t have anything to drink in my mouth when I read this, because it would have come out of my nose.
EWWWWW
That would be so painful!
And it’s so hard to clean keyboards! 🙂
Baker’s Dozen i love your wit.
What a monster of an attorney general. Hope this gets major coverage. I saw a picture of those “thugs” in the camping out in the capitol doing yoga. (probably the Ninja kind) Is this the Miss Wasilla of Indiana?
Oops… “thugs” camping out in the capitol…
I would make a terrible writer for sooooo many reasons. Got to love the good and great ones all that much more! (AKM side-glance)
What a gorgeous photo, Snoskred. Thanks for posting.
Buffalo Beast Poses as David Koch, Calls WI Gov. Walker
” Koch: [Laughs] Well, I tell you what, Scott: once you crush these bastards I’ll fly you out to Cali and really show you a good time.
Walker: All right, that would be outstanding. [*** Ethical violation much? ***] Thanks for all the support…it’s all about getting our freedoms back…
Koch: Absolutely. And, you know, we have a little bit of a vested interest as well. [Laughs]”
http://wnymedia.net/buffalopundit/2011/02/buffalo-beast-poses-as-david-koch-calls-wi-gov.-walker/
I haven’t listened to it myself yet, as I am swamped with house-cleaning and laundry today – but wanted to pass it on.
Buffalo Beast is totally irreverent and great! I think Matt Taibbi was one of the original founders, but he moved on.
“David Koch on line 2”
Got to crush that union!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/23/scott-walker-buffalo-beast-phone-prank_n_827058.html
I wish the part of the bill regarding the Governor taking over the publicly owned power plants would get more press.
What I have heard is that it gives the Governor sole authority to hand out no bid contracts to run the plant! No bid! Let’s him fire the workers to be replaced with ????? Oh yea, Koch Industries has a subsidiary that runs power plants.
Yes, that would be nice. I hope Wisconsonites are taking aim and collecting signatures to recall the 8 Republican Senators currently eligible for kicking out. They have to wait until the governor’s been in office for a year, but if there’s NOT a Repub. majority, blatant evil can be averted.
A caveat – I don’t think the Dems are angels, just currently preferable to the odious Rs.
I’d wear your caveat as a cravat.
She’s at it again. This time she’s harping at Obama for not supporting the protesters in Libya (even after she slammed him for supporting the one’s in Egypt ’cause them brotherhood guys were gonna take over and such). Doesn’t she realize that it was during “W”‘s administration (2003) and that all was forgiven with the Libyan government and the US made nice with their leader?
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/23/palin-upset-with-obama-again/#more-147910
Reagan gave K man all his power by making him a martyr by killing K Man’s son in retaliation, and W decided to welcome all his crimes with open arms. Why? Good for American bizzness.
Without these 2 he’s probably would have been gone long ago.
How do you create a terrorist?
All Middle Eastern/North African countries are not the same, Miss Wasilla, and there is no one way to respond.
The world is messy, democracy is messy and nothing is black and white.
She is so freakin’ stupid. There are a number of Americans still trying to get out of Libya. There is grave concern for their safety if K decides to go postal and start killing foreigners. Obama’s measured response is probably keeping people alive. The military took over Egypt. Our military had long standing, respectful relationships with their counterparts in Egypt. The safety of Americans wasn’t the issue there that it is in Libya. (Well, unless you are a reporter.) She is a walking, talking blithering idiot.
Excellent post.
Can you imagine how she would react if one of those Middle Eastern leaders started telling us how to run our country or which leader we should pick, or sending their troops into the US to achieve what they perceive as the correct end result? We can tactfully suggest, encourage and support but we don’t have the right to tell them what to do with their own countries.
Our President is walking a very shaky tightrope between supporting efforts towards democracy and supporting the overthrow of our former allies. She likely can’t even find Libya on a map (right near the country of Africa, isn’t it?) so she needs to keep her uneducated and ignorant opinions to herself.
(Then again, many of those Middle Eastern countries have theocracies where people who don’t agree with their radical uber-right wing policies are jailed or executed. She’d probably be all for that part of it!)
Twisted sister wants her nose in everyone else’s business –
Contrary to many former Presidents – President Obama is
willing to allow other nations to determine their leaders.
Part of the reason many countries are upset with the US
is we support or have supported some of the worst
leaders in other countries because they agreed to
“work with us”
Gee Sarah – remember Sadsam Hussein? Bush SR and
Ronnie Reagan…. THEY liked him ALOT! Iran-Contra?
Yes – the US has backed some great tyrants.
opps should be Saddam
Leenie17,
Please take this with the respect I have for you.
$arah doesn’t believe the current POTUS has the authority “to tell us (her, actually) how to run our country”!!!!!
Remember those magnetic poetry kits that came out a few years ago? Words you could randomly stick on the fridge to express yourself? I think that’s how $arah composes her statements.
Todd or Rebecca Mansour or someone gives her a handful every morning and off $arah goes!!!
I got some of those magnetic letters years ago on a birthday cake. There is an s,one e and a letter x and I can’t for the life of me figure out what it spells.
Perfect time to put my one reptile picture on my blog…. 🙂
When my chillun were young, they had a coiled rubber snake. (They are now in their late 20’s.) Two years ago, I was cutting back bushes along the steps behind the house, and all of a sudden, my fight or flight instinct was activated! After a few minutes, I realized it was the long lost and long forgotten, coiled rubber snake. I decided to leave it in its place for future landscapers. (:-))
That’s 🙂 !
Joe McGinniss has admitted to sending the copy of the book out. He said he sent it to some people in Alaska and media outlets.
http://tinyurl.com/4hu9oe2
What a piece of road manure. Like his book is the ONLY book that will tell the story of Palin. I think not!
He received it on the 16 -18th Feb and immediately distributed it. He admits it. Now can people stop questioning whether he did it or not. Sheezz.
How lovely to get such a hit of green on this cloudy morning! Thank you.
Notice to KANSAS mudflatters. Rachel M. will be broadcasting from Free State Brewery in Lawrence tonight!!!!!! (that would be why she was gone last night)
I kinda wish she’d be talking about Kobach instead of Kline, but maybe she’ll do that as well.
Wish I could be there. That’s a cool place if it’s in the same place it was 35 years ago. It’s an old 1800s building turned in to a brewery.
Thanks for the heads-up though I doubt I can possibly get there with the rain/snow mix forecast, plus I bet all the university students will jam the place – I know I would if I were them. How could you resist having Rachel essentially in your backyard! Wow.
Overthemoon, I too, wish she’d nail the dastardly Kobach, he of the AZ anti-immigrant law infamy. However, I think she will have cause to be back and deal with him and others soon. In my opinion, they are lying low, biding their time. Brownback, Kobach and several others are worthy of exposure. Their ambition, agenda and backward thinking can only hide for so long.
I am hoping that the turmoil in other states is giving these guys pause. We’ll see if and for how long they shelf some of what they’ve been planning.
Wow. Hope we get some mudpups on the ground for the play by play.
(((( Rachel.)))))
He (she?) is so cute! Thanks Snoskred! I wonder how big he is (o:
I wonder if it is a chameleon. Maybe Kermit’s 2nd or 5th cousin?
I just posted a comment on another thread and I hope AKM doesn’t mind if I repost it again here.
Joe has admitted that he sent copies out.
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PALIN_BOOK?SITE=JRC&SECTION=ENTERTAINMENT&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-02-23-01-28-36
Also, I like to make what I believe is an important point here. If AKM had found herself in the possession of Joe McGinniss’ unfinished manuscript, how many on this blog think that AKM would have emailed it on to the media?
There is no excuse for what he did. I think the people defending him are shocked and unwillingly to believe that he did forward on the manuscript to others – however, as I have just said above, he has admitted that he did.
Thanks for the post. I do not condone his action at all but I’m hoping that the continued buzz it has created will benefit the project. I’m eagerly awaiting the books publication and crossing fingers for its place on the Best Seller’s.
Great point about AKM and I can bet that NO ONE on this blog has any doubt that she would do the right thing.
He admits he sent it to just “a few people and media outlets”, as if the number makes any difference. The very first one he sent out was wrong and it doesn’t matter if he sent out one more or one hundred more after that.
As an experienced author, he certainly knew that what he was doing was morally, if not legally, wrong. He knew damn well that the agent had been unprofessional in not including a confidentiality clause, but you don’t steal a car and then use the excuse that there was no sign on it saying “Don’t steal me!”.
“He admits he sent it to just ‘a few people and media outlets'”
Hmmm….. kind of like deliberately pushing a “few” rocks off the mountain top and counting on gravity to recruit other rocks until a destructive avalanche is roaring down the mountain onto the heads of the people below.
Yeah. Joe understood the concept of a chain reaction. Instead of gravity, he was counting on human greed and lack of integrity as the recruiting forces.
Seriously? He sent it out and advised them they should check with the authors first? Why didn’t he check with the authors first. Did he really think that all those he sent it to would be ethical enough to do the right thing when he set the example for doing the wrong thing? Joe has lost all my respect.
My question is: What is the current story with the e-mails? Do the authors have the right to publish them or not? Andree McCloud has filed an ethics complaint about this. It seems the mud is deep on this one. Do the authors have to wait for the state? Is there a time limitation? Will we ever see this book? I want to read it. Most of all I want to see the results. AKM, I think you deserve to be paid for your work. It seems to be quite a mess at this point though. Sorry you are having to go through this.
My question: if the emails were between $arah and Bailey, could Bailey make them public without $arah’s permission as he was a party to them? Are emails that strongly regulated? And if they did contain info on state business (being conducted in a less than legal fashion) wouldn’t Bailey be covered under whistleblower statutes?
Oh, and WHY did Joe Mc send out this manuscript anyway?
Seems like malicious intent. Well see….
Falina WHY? who gives a flying fig WHY?
here is his publishing house. write or call them and ask “why?”
http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/authors/
he doesn’t have a site. i looked. so if it is important to you why the man did what he did try getting that info from the horse’s mouth.
Are you the wicked Falina that got Marty Robbins killed in a song?
Not wicked, just young and flirty. Would you like to live in El Paso???
No wicked, just young and flirty. Would you like to live in El Paso???
I”m not sure. Have never lived more than 25 miles from my birthplace. I am 100% Iowa born and raised. I would love to see some of the places mentioned in songs. Unfortunately my lower back and legs don’t travel well and tend to veto any decisions I make.
So, JMs ‘defense’ is threefold, eh?
1) Everyone *else* was doing it and he did tell those he sent it to, to check with the authors before passing it on/disseminating it further…(even though, he, himself, didn’t).
2) He doesn’t think the author has a (legal) right to the materials used as the backbone of the book (the emails), so he went ahead and forwarded it because, hey, Andree McLeod filed an ethics complaint against Bailey’s use of those emails…(he’s already privy to the verdict?)
and,
3) He, JM, *is*, after all, “one of the top investigative journalists in the United States,” he “wrote a magazine expose on Palin and her natural gas pipeline plans,” and “a best-selling author whose previous works include ‘The Selling of the President,’ about the marketing of Richard Nixon”…(these ‘creds’ automatically give him a free-ticket to ignore common decency; courtesy extended to fellow authors for protection of their works; and whatever journalistic –and personal– integrity and honor he (might have) had?)
C’mon, now…give me a friggin’ break! beth.
–quotes in #3 are from the linked article. b.
Excellent rebuttal, beth.
All good points, Beth. None of the justifications his Lawyer gave (in my mind) excuse him from what he took part in. And why is he just now concerned with the fair use of the Bailey emails?
Unless, of course, it was Ms Plum, with the candlestick, in the conservatory… beth.
Aha! That sneaky Ms Plum — of course!
Beth for Alaska or United? States Attorney General.Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! I submitted my own HD shriek.
Just read the letter that JM’s attorney sent over at IM and the article Irishgirl so kindly linked for us.
Well, it does seem that Joe sent the manuscript around asking people to respect the confidentiality of the manuscript, but who was he do this? He knew or should have known better. Apparently he did not check with any of the three authors. His defense is rather shallow. Then to add that the manuscript was already out there is not sufficient to cleanse his own hands. Parents don’t even buy the “but all the other kids are doing it” response, why should we? I am truly disappointed and denounce his actions.
That said, it was really remiss of the agent to send out any manuscript in toto to anyone without a written confidentiality statement. Granted, the authors retain their copyrighted status no matter what, but really, what practical good is that once the horse has left the barn as in this instance.
I think several people bear liability for this. Gross negligence springs to mind as a possibility. The authors put their trust in people they believed were professionals. Apparently, the people in charge of getting this project a publishing contract failed to meet basic standards.
Another point that disturbs me is McLeod’s call for an investigation and barring of the information Bailey gained while working in government. According to the article, the executive ethics act prohibits, anyone from “using information gained during the course of their work for personal gain if the information hasn’t been publicly disseminated.” Why McLeod is pushing this to bar Bailey now is puzzling to me because I thought she was all for exposing Palin. Not that she is doing anything untoward, but could it be that she wanted all the glory herself? Has she been planning a book? I’d sure like to know more about her motives at this point. Just saying, it worth thinking about.
How convenient. All the Parnell administration had to do was withhold those emails and no one could use them? Cute trick but I am hopeful that little strategy gets blown to heck and back soon. It is unreasonable for those email to be put on hold as long as they have. The law was not meant to be twisted back upon itself to prevent the public from knowing what its elected officials are doing when their actions could be against the public’s best interests. It is all a little too cute by half.
I am spouting my opinions based only what we know thus far. It could still be more complicated than mere professional negligence and poor judgment. I do denounce Joe McGinnis for his unprofessional conduct because, at the very least, he should have contacted Bailey, Morris and/or Devon.
What I hope they are looking into, though, is who in the chain of custody of the manuscript kick-started this whole mess. Apparently, Joe was just the most famous in a line of negligent actors that started before him if I understand the facts thus far based on what we’re reading.
Of course AKM would do the right thing.
I don’t understand why Joe didn’t contact her as soon as he received it and let her know what was going on. I understood (per Gryphen) that she was helpful to him when he was in AK.
(should have written ‘per a post of Gryphen’s @ IM’)
Malicious intent.
PG has a feature up about someone posting a link to the full manuscript in question. It’s my understanding the poster has been banned -but if there is an actual link to download the entire book, I fear the authors are done. Publisher-wise anyway… UGH.
Palin’s behind that, I’m sure. But I’m still interested in a book, and I’m the target audience. And there are many more who will be interested once the information is in book form, who don’t spend any time online at Palin-related sites.
Here’s hoping!
“…the book agent for Steinbeck’s clients, in sending the manuscript around, included no request for confidentiality.”
I fear your agent sucks bigtime.
One point to remember is that what is going around is a draft. The authors have also stated that it doesn’t include all the emails. So even if you download this you still don’t have the whole story. There is lots more juicy stuff to come.
I think the authors will be a hot property for a long time to come. Even if this is the end for Snowsnooki’s run for the nomination people will want the behind the scene story of how anyone like her could rise to prominence in the GOP.
Great photo, Snos. I was lucky enough to visit Taronga Zoo last December. It’s a fantastic place.
You good people have never heard of me. I am Ike from Miowa,I have been a lurker for awhile and decided to “out” muself. I am a huge fan of Mike from Iowa although we have never met. He is so classy and clever and has an unmistakable speaking voice(Fran Drescher unmistakable). I could gush about this manly man all day and I just might. I know of several reptiles here in Miowa. None are photogenic. Snoskred you might maybe could notice the difference between Amerikan reptiles and their distant relatives in Australia. In Amerika our reptiles have a conservative bent,they have developed legs although most still crawl on their bellies. They retained their fork tongues and are more rabid than strictly poisonous. By their actions shall you know them. Take time from your busy day to pile on goods reviews for my hero,Mike from Iowa. Sincerely.Ike from Miowa. Submit Howard Dean shriek-here.
Do you have a Facebook page Ike? 🙂
No, I don’t and I can tell you this,Mike bailed on his Facebook page for security reasons(or lack there-of). Have a nice day. I am shortly off to the doctor for drugs. I sometimes envision ny dear departed creators were brother and sister,Not.
Our biggest reptile in Ohio just so happens to be residing in the governors mansion. His relatives are hanging out in the state senate causing all kinds of problems.
must be some good drugs you got there Mi…uh Ike.LOL
I suspect MikefromIowa has put himself into a witless protection program.
Very good and funny. I have no idea who Ike from Miowa is and he will probably maintain silence now.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
LOL- be careful. The news media might start hinting that you’d make an interesting case study for some psychiatrist like they did with someone else we know. Best news story this morning. 😉
…either that, or the Tea Baggers might start heavily recruiting him to join their party. ‘Like minds’ and all that — the operative word being the plural: minds. 🙂 beth.
[Aiii – hit “submit” as guest came to the door…another case of premature posting]
*** the operative word being the plural: minds. In a single body. 😉 beth.
Pat, you have my permission to tell them rascals to bring it on. Want to make some money? Bet heavily on them and I will throw the fight. What’s the old saying” A rethug and his/her sanity are soon parted” or something like that.
scoot will like ike if ike will like scoot
also, let us not forget Mik, *wink*
☺!
Wish I had a picture of my mother’s two dachshunds (little dimwits) who had a Mojave green, the most venomous snake in California, trapped in an oleander bush. Sheesh, that was something to see. I had a heck of a time getting the little “morans” away from it.
Hey, those dachies were just doing their job: they’re breed to be hunters! I grew up with a black-and-tan standard, and Gretchen one year trapped a badger under our porch- yikes! Took three of us to get her in the house, and we need saw the badger again (smart critter).
Any reptiles here are either hibernating, or hanging out at the Denver Zoo. 😉
The only reptiles I know of in Alaska are of the two-legged or the belly-crawling variety. 🙂 I wouldn’t approach them with a ten foot pole, but if he has a super-telephoto lens, he might be safe snapping a pic or two…but it might break the camera!
hahahahaha caw Caw CAW CAW CAW!!!!!!
lots of little green lizards, tree frogs, toads and pond frogs here in my forest, and plenty of snakes, also, too.
L’Shalom,
thatcrowwoman
What a beautiful creature. We have several black snakes that live on our property, and we are glad to have them. They eat the bad guys. We have a lovely little toad that lives in the front garden, and is quite shy. He hides beneath the Japanese maple, but I have been lucky enough to see him catch a bug with a tongue that had to have been ten miles long!
Thank you for the picture. What lovely color.
I have a picture of a treefrog in the dogs’ water cup in the kitchen. Does that count?
I love him!
He can live in my swamp anytime!