Open Thread – The Guys
Somehow it just seemed like time for some moose. It’s been a fairly moose-less winter so far, but these two young bulls were around earlier in the fall, just messing around in the yard. They had a high old time clonking antlers and nudging each other around. Just hanging out and being guys. Fun to watch.
Nice meese.
Have a great Sunday, AKM. Love the meese, too. Great pic!
Thank God for the moose! I use Safari and, as noted in a comment to your last post, I have an Apple Cinemascreen monitor. Safari has a feature called “Top Sites” and whenever you click it, the sites that you visit most regularly all show in miniature version on your screen, as last seen. So everytime I have clicked “Top Sites” there has been Levi with his towel and that other guy in Massachusetts. I got awfully tired of seeing those two, so I am glad you put the moose up.
Thanks AKM. They are beautiful. Im in Cali and have never seen these beautiful creatures in person.
What do small Alaskan villages and Haiti have in common?
Being insensitively over-run by MEGA- [and I DO mean MEGA] cruise liners:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cruise-bruise.com/labadee_haiti_2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://cruise-bruise.com/Wiild_Watery_Frontier_2.html&h=285&w=353&sz=18&tbnid=VlgPhh6jCWRPGM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=121&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlabadee%2Bhaiti%2Bmap&usg=__LOxpqLf360_WHFlkiMkDu47r3XM=&ei=CPVSS_egMZTjlAeii6CvCg&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=7&ct=image&ved=0CCAQ9QEwBg
ok, that was a large ‘cut and paste’, the gist is that ROYAL CARRIBEAN, and co-conspiritor lines in the ‘blue-rinse’ cruise biz is posting ‘reviews’ from POST-earthquake, and ships from RCC and other lines will continue to call this week at LABADEE the RCC ‘private island’ just outside the only other port in Haiti, on the north side of the island, from Port-au-Prince.
The ready fleet of shore excursion launches they maintain on standby at LABADEE will NOT be diverted to help unload relief supplies!
RCC gets an extra USD 60.- per head to go ashore. The Haitian government gets 10%, or USD 6.- per person landed. Nice work RCC!
follow up:
“Four Royal Caribbean-owned ships with a combined capacity for more than 13,000 vacationers are scheduled to call on Labadee in the next two weeks: Royal Caribbean’s 3,654-passenger INDEPENDENCE of the SEAS (scheduled to visit on Friday); Royal Caribbean’s 3,114-passenger NAVIGATOR of the SEAS (scheduled to visit Monday); Royal Caribbean’s 3,654-passenger LIBERTY of the SEAS (scheduled to visit Tuesday); and the 2,850-passenger CELEBRITY SOLSTICE (scheduled to visit on Jan. 22).
“We are extremely saddened to hear of the destruction in Haiti caused by the massive earthquake,” the line says…” [USA TODAY 14.01.2010]
QED
The picture is great! I’m a big wildlife lover. We have lots of roaming deer in this part of NC (unfortunately, some wind up as roadkill), but I love them, they’re such graceful creatures. Some are so small you think they’re dogs when you’re driving and you have to be extra alert. I would hate to hit one, well, any animal, really. They’re especially prone to move about when breeding, esp in the late fall here.
We’ve even had a couple of bears come down from the mountains and this hasn’t been their habitat for a long, long time. I suspect that was because we went through about a 7 yr drought.
What “civilization” has done to the wildlife of this country–to the world, actually–is horrible.
At this age and stage of my life, these two young guys thrill me more than the photos of the two young guys that graced the opening page of nearly every website I went to!
On another topic, I thoroughly enjoy reading Frank Rich. For a Republican, he is a pretty fair guy, and doesn’t just toe the party line. He calls it like it is. Today’s column is about Michael foot-in-my-mouth Steele. The best part is this following one and I’m sure Sarah Palin is mighty unhappy with not just the comparison, but with the put-down on her.
“His behavior is not anomalous. Steele is representative of a fascinating but little noted development on the right: the rise of buckrakers who are exploiting the party’s anarchic confusion and divisions to cash in for their own private gain. In this cause, Steele is emulating no one if not Sarah Palin, whose hunger for celebrity and money outstrips even his own. As many suspected at the time, her 2008 campaign wardrobe, like the doomed campaign itself, was just a preview of coming attractions: she would surely dump the bother of serving as Alaska’s besieged governor for a lucrative star turn on Fox News. Last week she made it official.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/opinion/17rich.html?
GreatGranny, I enjoy Frank Rich in the NYT, but had no idea he was/is a Republican. Are you sure? If you’re sure, is he sure?
DOONESBURY does Palin today… the full page version for Sunday 16.01.2010!
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/
Good morning Chaim. To be honest, I don’t know for a fact what his political designation is, or if he even has one. I’ve seen the occasional articles where he is mentioned as being ultra-conservative, so I made the *assumption* that he was a Republican…..and we all know that when we assume anything, it just makes an a## out of you and me. I think I read somewhere that a high number of Jewish people are Democrats, and Frank is Jewish, so he could well be a Dem. So anyway we look at it, he is a dang good writer and is a great deal more fair and balanced than FOX, eh? And thanks for getting me thinking and remembering not to assume anything.
Happy Sunday to all.
Thanks for the moose!
Love the mooses. We had one walk down our street once. Amazingly huge.
Bad news for our small community. Our church burned down this morning. No one knows why yet. No one was hurt.
Volunteer Fire Departments from 5 towns came and helped. They are wonderful. Support your local!
This from The Sydney Morning Herald .
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Fox adds a brunette to blonde weaponry against the President
In this context, last week’s announcement that Fox News had hired the former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, was significant. She is the most glamorous, high-profile Republican woman in America.
Did I mention chiselled chin-lines, big hair, radioactive lip gloss and glowing conservatism?
It also means Palin has a new patron: Rupert Murdoch. The publishing arm of Murdoch’s News Corp media conglomerate, HarperCollins, is her publisher. The Fox News Channel, another arm of News Corp, is her employer.
Palin is using her perch on Fox to campaign rather than analyse, which merely accelerates the network’s obliteration of the divisions between news, entertainment and partisanship.
In the process, Murdoch has also become the greatest patron of the Republican Party. Fox News, not the Republicans, is the leader of the opposition in America. Its most prominent and combative anchors, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, fomented the grassroots upswelling against the Obama Administration. The Republicans have been following Fox News, not the other way round.
oops….
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/fox-adds-a-brunette-to-blonde-weaponry-against-the-president-20100117-me9a.html
The Frank Rich column that Great Granny 2C referenced (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/opinion/17rich.html?) was great as is the Doonsebury strip that megacephalus posted (http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/). A great way to start the week.
I just noticed a clip posted on The Daily Beast: O’Reilly and Beck discussing Palin. It’s worth a watch…Beck doesn’t think she’s ready and O’Reilly questions her inability to name a founding father.
You can never have too many moose (meese!). I have collected moose for years so am always happy to come here and see great moose pics!
My copy of Game Change came yesterday (much to my surprise..I thought I bought it after the 1-3 week wait from amazon). I only just started it, but I have to say it’s a very engaging read. I have never been into politics AT ALL, until SP hit the national scene.
Ironically, now I find that I am becoming educated on a lot of topics I never had much interest in. To be honest, I really had no idea *why* (I had a vague understanding..I’ve watched M*A*S*H, of course) there is a N and S Korea either (I did know there were both N and S though..I’m not COMPLETELY out of touch). History, like politics, was not really my thing either.
So I goggled it and read a few articles and now I know (I’m sure SP still does not).
This is not the first thing I haven’t known that SP has also (too) not known. The difference is that I am not running for political office where I NEED to know them and once I discovered that I didn’t know something, I took the time to look it up and learn something new.
So thank you, Sarah, for helping me expand my educational and knowledge horizons!
Good morning all. I LOVE the mooses! I’ve seen them twice in Maine. Once was a pair of gangly-legged teen-agers who were so adorable in their clumsy, wobbly way. And, another time a full-grown GINORMOUS male walked across the road!
Here is some amazing news – Senegal is offering free land to Haitians. Wow.
http://www.americablog.com/2010/01/senegal-offers-free-land-to-haitians.html#disqus_thread
@Newfoundland Dogs Rule – that is very bad news about your church. Glad to know that no one was hurt. Buildings can always be rebuilt.
Doonesbury has been having a field day lately with Granny Palin. Today’s cartoon is especially good.
Re Frank Rich – he refers to Michael Steele and Granny P as “buckrakers”. I really like that appellation. It’s very suitable.
Sandra Bullock donates $1 million to Doctors Without Borders!
http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1068301
Sarah Palin donates _______________________ (crickets).
WOW !!
Fox’s Bill Shine , executive vice president of programming speaking to LA Times about sarah:
“Along the way, we’ll talk to her and have conversations and I’m sure everything will be fine,” he said, adding that the expectations that Palin will utter something controversial will likely drive viewership. “In the end, that’s probably going to help us in that that’s what people will want to watch.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/12/entertainment/la-et-palin12-2010jan12?pg=2
You’re going to love this folks… Who Does S’error work for?
Well, while S’error, Beck, Hannity, and O’Reilly pine away at how much they hate the President, the Democratic Party. and claim America has fallen. The biggest shareholder of News Corp, that parent of Faux News is a Saudi Royal, named Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
Alwaleed is also the single largest investor, in one of those bailed out Banks, Citicorp.
Palin has been very critical of the bail out of the financial sector and auto industry, claiming it is socialism. Obama has always said, he was fixing what Bush had nearly ruined and the tax payers would be repaid and made whole. Obama is working on legislation to tax the banks to recoup over $ 120 billion in TARP money. Alwaleed said he was opposed to the move, arguing that “I believe taxing the banks right now is not the right time at all.”
Would George Washington, work for a Saudi Prince? S’error, you are not the 2nd coming of George Washington, as Glen Beck, pretends.
That’s right Alaskan’s the former Gov of Alaska, quit to work of a Saudi Prince.
Sarah and Bristol holding Trig and Tripp on the cover of InTouch with the headline
” We’re Glad We Chose Life” tells me that if there was a “choice” they must have considered the alternative. Good for Them WingNut Hypocrites. They could try a little family planning so they don’t have to think about making any other choice other than life.I never thought about IF I was going to do anything other than raise my well planned children.
Out of one side of her mouth she said she gave her life to God and he makes her “choices” and then when its expedient ( or in this case she’s getting paid $100,000 for a magazine cover story) it’s all about Sarah in charge again making “her” politically motivated “choice”.
How are these children going to feel when they are old enough to see this magazine cover and ask Mommy and Grandma, ” What were the choices?”
Will someone tell Sarah Palin that she doesn’t get to choose for everyone and that by saying she’s happy with her “choice” she actually is saying she is PRO CHOICE?
I am truly ill at how these women use their babies as Weapons of Mass Reproduction believing it gives them “”Right to Life” bona fides.
Wolf Pack -
Thanks for the info. As long as the $$ flows , sarah could care less about the origin. Principles ?? Nah……..not sarah.
@ WolfPack: I found this interesting article about FOX/NewsCorp and it’s “extremist Saudi prince” shareholder.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/8331/rupert-murdoch-fox-news-parent-co-increase-ties-w-extremist-saudi-prince-seeking-share-of-arab-street/
megacephalus: RCC gets an extra USD 60.- per head to go ashore.
Small point, but I’m not sure that’s true. The last time I was on RCCL there was no charge to go ashore in Labadee because they consider it their “private island”, even though it’s not an island. I did hear the cruise line was sending at least one ship with supplies for the survicors.
A note from NJ: Went to my local mega Barnes & Noble and said “I’m looking for Game Changers.” The salesperson said, “You and everyone else–we’re trying to get more in here!” She predicted it will become a bestseller soon.
@16 OMG – Thanks this is great!
here’s the Daily Beast link http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/oreilly-and-beck-discuss-palin
When Beck and O’Reilly are chewing over your performance like carnivorous beasts, maybe you better rethink your approach to doing your homework.
I commented there about her unprofessional lack of staffing on this – Track (??) is doing her research?! Where are her FB ghostwriters, Meg, RAM — anyone who has a vested interest in propping up $P’s credibility?? Or did they actually hand her their briefing materials for the interview and she just blew them off?
The mooses are much more fun — great photo!
Here is a good thing.
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Former President George W. Bush pushed back Sunday against criticism — levied most prominently by talk radio host Rush Limbaugh — that his successor, President Barack Obama, was somehow politicizing the disastrous earthquake in Haiti.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/17/bush-pushes-back-against_n_426248.html
The Founding Fathers of the US were the political leaders who singed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 or otherwise took part in the American revolution and who helped frame the Constitution. Hmmmm Palin chose George Washington as her fave. Did she know that while he did sign the Constitution he did not sign the Declaration of Independence? Did she know that he was one of the farmers who did not grant his slaves their freedom when other signers did? Did she know that George Washington was a Mason who referenced “Great Architect of the Universe” but rarely reference Jesus or Christianity in his writings which made many during the period question his religious beliefs? Of course she didn’t–but she’s seen his picture lots of times.
She probably doesn’t even realize that President George Washington would not be pleased to hear Glen Beck compare him to Sarah Palin? None of the founding fathers would appreciate that comparison. These were education, committed men who studied and fought for the freedoms that they gained. I believe that her flagrant pandering to right wing extremism, disregard for the truth and total lack of intellectual integrity would appall all of these men.
Just read some good news over at Bree Palin (at least I think it’s good news).
Apparently our friends in the C for P are NOT happy with messrs. Beck and O’Reilly because they dared to criticize their Queen. Never mind that the criticism was completely fair, Beck and O’Reilly have unfairly attacked her.
I haven’t been over there in a while and will not go to drive up their traffic, so I am just taking Bree’s word for it.
But it sure does sound like something they’d do.
Morons.
Maybe little Johnny Zeigler would like to chime in too? Maybe John, just maybe, all the media criticism of Sarah Palin, or at least a good deal of it, had nothing whatsoever to do with Obama or was not all part of some plot to get him elected, but rather justified criticism of Sarah Palin’s capability to perform the functions of Vice President of the USA and to function as President of the USA at a moment’s notice should the President become incapacitated.
While a criticism is at its core opinion, the function of being critical is an important one. If I never took any criticism about my piano playing or my saxophone playing, I would never have been able to have become a professional musician. I would not be able to play any better than she played flute in the talent portion of the pageant. I would never have been capable of playing some of the great literature of our time (got to play “West Side Story” for the first time in my life last year – what a privilege, and how sad and wrong it would have been to have someone with no more than Sarah’s skills butcher Bernstein’s music?).
The point is … well, you get the point. Sarah has been given advice, good advice, about what she should do and has not taken any of it, that I can see. Beck told her his opinion of what she needs to do – take down those shields and go on the offensive. But we know (and I think he knows too) that will never happen because those shields HAVE TO be there or she will not face anyone. It’s not so much that she doesn’t trust people (which she doesn’t) but that she is afraid – of lots of stuff, but certainly the fear of being found out as a fraud is right up there.
Well, maybe this will make Sarah feel better – Sarah, relax. We already know!
Good picture of nice, healthy looking moose. Lot’s of meat on those animals. Good steaks, good roasts, good stew meat, good dried in the wind dipped in seal oil.
I petted (pet?) a moose over Thanksgiving. Ok, I petted a moose hide. My brother and father won the lottery in Maine and got to go hunting. My dad dropped one in place with one shot. Thank God he’s a good hunter. I hate when hacks go out and just injure animals. Anyway, my brother is a taxidermist in New Hampshire and had this enormous hide in his workshop. They are dusty and dirty animals, and the hair is very stiff au natural. He said once it goes to the tannery, it will come back all soft and plush.
And yes, I had some steak. I won’t eat commercially marketed meat, but I will eat 4-legged animals on the rare occasion where I know the animal lived the way it was meant and did not suffer in its passing.
Sorry Brian. And Brenda, and the twins. My confession is complete.
update to last post: Bree has a thread up about it with screenshots of comments from the Sea … they are astonishing.
Sarah Palin is a fraud. But, what I find disconcerting, is how her parents- support her. What kind of parent supports the downfall of their offspring? Sure, Sarah is an “adult” and there is nothing they can “do” – but they smile for the camera just as much as her. too weird.
OMG @ 29:
“Did she know that George Washington was a Mason who referenced “Great Architect of the Universe” but rarely reference Jesus or Christianity in his writings which made many during the period question his religious beliefs?”
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[Disclosure: I am the wife a Mason and the daughter of a Mason.]
Even today, people question the ‘motives’ and beliefs of Masons, precisely because Masons do not wear their specific religion on their sleeves [and/or trumpet it as the only 'religion'.] Masons were –and are– deeply religious/spiritual; they believe strongly, individually, in a “Great Architect of the Universe” (and/or similar terminology) but refrain from couching said in already in use (and, therefore, potentially divisive) terms/names/phrases. [ie everyone has their own concept of "what" G_d, is -- the "Great Architect of the Universe" presents an integrated wholeness of the various individually-held concepts.]
Yes, Mason have –and have always had– meetings closed to non-members, and they participate in ‘secret’ rites and rituals [because non-Masons are not included/present], but every single Mason I’ve ever met, exemplifies, to me, what a good, caring, compassionate, person should be. I’ve never met a Mason who is judgemental about anyone else’s religion and/or profession of Faith. Every Mason I’ve ever met has been accepting (and welcoming) of every one else’s “path” to/of personal religious expressions and ultimate understandings.
Sadly, folks oft tend to dismiss/disparage things based on what they’ve ‘heard’ about something/someone else; I believe this to be the case about views about/on Masons, as well. Folks have ‘heard’ Masons are ‘non-Christian’, are ‘a cult’, are ‘devil worshippers’, are ‘anti-religion’, have ‘sadistic/pronografic’ rituals, are, well, all sorts of things, and, without further investigation, those folks perpetuate those falsehoods.
[Members of one major religious group in this country, in particular, speak against Masons because of perceived 'interference' of Masonic rites, rituals, and understandings of a person's personal relationship with G_d being in 'conflict' with the hierarchy/teachings of said religious group. The hierarchy, itself, holds no truck with Masons and encourages such dissent - even forbidding members to join on penalty of dire, dire, dire!, things happening to them [the person thinking about joining and/or who is already a member.]
The Masons, the way I see it, were the original PC thinkers when it comes to religious freedoms, expression of religious beliefs, and the individual’s acknowlegement of an entity greater (much greater!) than their (individual) self; they continue to be inclusive and totally non-judgemental. They are good men and they do good works. beth.
GreatGranny2C – and the cherry on the frosting of that NYT piece by Frank Rich is the cartoon in the sidebar!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/opinion/17rich.html?ref=opinion
Thanks for the head’s up on Doonsbury. It was good for a laugh. I’m sure someone else must have said this, but I don’t read all the posts. Isn’t it obvious why $arah chose G Washington as her favorite founding father. His pic is on the dollar bill. That is her god- she cares for nothing else.
# 34 Polly Says:
January 17th, 2010 at 9:11 AM
Sarah Palin is a fraud. But, what I find disconcerting, is how her parents- support her. What kind of parent supports the downfall of their offspring? Sure, Sarah is an “adult” and there is nothing they can “do” – but they smile for the camera just as much as her. too weird.
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Yes, Polly,… A parent should ‘ support ‘ their own kids but most parents also need to realize that if their values or morals are all wrong….they have to just let them be. For example, If the Child did something wrong and had to go to Jail for it, the parent still loves the person, but not the act. Their children have to grow up and be responsible too.
‘ BUT ‘… why don’t the grandparents step in for the sake of their Grandkids?
The most recent Willow situation proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the lives of their grandkids are a ‘ mess ‘. There seems to be no structure or rules and boundaries for them to follow.
Speaking for all their grandkids….they really Suck as a Grandparent. There is no nurturing or compassion there at all. I guess THAT is what they have passed on to the next generation ( their grandchildren ) through Sarah.
They seem as detached from these kids as Sarah is. The grandchildren deserved better… much better.
They failed as a Grandparent.
Hope everyone views Fareed Zakria today on CNN. The show is excellent. First part on rebuilding Haiti. Second part on economy. Both discussion are some of the best I’ve heard anyplace.
Hope it is online later. Must see TV for Mudpuppies IMHO!
Maybe I’m being a little too picky, but did anyone else find Hannity’s response to Sarah’s backing of Scott Brown troubling? Just 2 days after the earthquake in Haiti he is referencing a Brown victory to a “political earthquake”.
http://palingates.blogspot.com/ Video in second story from the top.
Best response to Pat Robertson ever:
Dear Pat Robertson,
I know that you know that all press is good press, so I appreciate the shout-out. And you make God look like a big mean bully who kicks people when they are down, so I’m all over that action.
But when you say that Haiti has made a pact with me, it is totally humiliating. I may be evil incarnate, but I’m no welcher. The way you put it, making a deal with me leaves folks desperate and impoverished.
Sure, in the afterlife, but when I strike bargains with people, they first get something here on earth — glamour, beauty, talent, wealth, fame, glory, a golden fiddle. Those Haitians have nothing, and I mean nothing. And that was before the earthquake. Haven’t you seen “Crossroads”? Or “Damn Yankees”?
If I had a thing going with Haiti, there’d be lots of banks, skyscrapers, SUVs, exclusive night clubs, Botox — that kind of thing. An 80 percent poverty rate is so not my style. Nothing against it — I’m just saying: Not how I roll.
You’re doing great work, Pat, and I don’t want to clip your wings — just, come on, you’re making me look bad. And not the good kind of bad. Keep blaming God. That’s working. But leave me out of it, please. Or we may need to renegotiate your own contract.
Best, Satan
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/01/the_devil_writes_pat_robertson.html?sc=fb&cc=fp
Man_from_Unk Says:
January 17th, 2010 at 9:08 AM
Good picture of nice, healthy looking moose. Lot’s of meat on those animals. Good steaks, good roasts, good stew meat, good dried in the wind dipped in seal oil.,
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No! No! No moosies for you! No steaks, roasts, chops. Not fried nor dried.
No fat, happy, playful meese for you. Today you can haz no cheeseburger. You can haz only teh cheese.
Watching that sit-down with Beck/O’Reilly, I have to wonder if, sometime very soon, Billo WILL find himself ‘being eviscerated’ by Sarah.
I don’t agree with many of his views, or care much for his delivery, but I have a certain amount of respect for anyone that will go on Daily Show and manage to not look like a complete idiot.
But, if Rupert tells him to, will he bend over and grab his ankles so this woman can ‘earn’ some chops?
Polly@34 Says: “Sarah Palin is a fraud. But, what I find disconcerting, is how her parents- support her. What kind of parent supports the downfall of their offspring?”
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Well, first of all, I think mumsy and dadsy themselves are taken in by the fraud that is Sarah. And I can’t fault a parent for loving their child or supporting their child, but as others have said, we can love the child and still be critical of their actions.
SInce Sarah as an adult clearly has a problem accepting criticism, I have no doubt that this is tied into her upbringing, although exactly how, I really have no theories at this point. But insecurity and yet a dogged determination to ‘win’ I believe are definite factors.
While her and her family’s emotional issues being played out on a very public stage (thank you -NOT! – John McCain) is troubling, this aspect of ‘being under the microscope’ is not going to go away. Maybe it isn’t right, but it’s not going to go away. Welcome to the video age, folks, where everything you say and do is recorded, stored, and widely disseminated. There is nowhere to hide.
The only way to survive this is to be smart/skilled, well-informed, and honest. I think eventually we (the viewing/consuming public) will come around to being able to accept candidates ‘warts and all’, but right now everyone, including Sarah Palin is too afraid to say something for fear of alienating people. We can’t keep being so fractious a la Monty Python “I’m with the Judean People’s Front”, “I’m with the People’s Front of Judea” …..”Splitters!!!!!”
So to go back to the parent analogy, where we can be critical of the Heaths, if we want to, is that in their raising of Sarah they seemed to miss the boat on the ‘well-informed’ and ‘honest’ part – I mean well-informed in a global view (which one would expect of a presidential candidate) and honest in the sense of, well, telling the truth. Since so many of the things coming out her mouth have been proven to be factually inaccurate, the best Ms. Palin can claim is ignorance, the worst, yeah, I was lying.
Once again, not what I want in a presidential candidate.
#31 Man from Unk….
@35 Beth, I read your post about the Masons with great interest. The first woman Freemason came from a town where I lived as a teenager.
“It would appear that the father of Miss St. Leger, Arthur St. Leger, 1st Baron Kilmayden and Viscount Doneraile, together with his sons and a few intimate friends, were accustomed to open a Lodge and carry on the ordinary ceremonies at the family mansion, Doneraile Court, County Cork.
On one occasion, during a period when the house was undergoing certain internal alterations, Viscount Doneraile, with others, met for Masonic purposes. The Lodge was held in a large room on the ground floor of the house, and in front of this room was a small library, divided from the back room by a partition wall. From a plan of Doneraile Court kindly sent to me by a member of the family, it is evident that the rooms to the right, on entering the hall, are probably the ones in question, the doors of these two rooms both open into the entrance hall, and are not far apart. The alterations having required the removal of some of the panelling from the larger room, the wall was in places undergoing repair; a portion of this had been taken down, and the bricks loosely replaced, without mortar, in the position they were ultimately to occupy. Against these loose bricks the oak panelling had been temporally reared. On this particular afternoon Miss St. Leger had been reading at the library window, and the light of the winter afternoon having failed, fell asleep.
The sound of voices in the next room restored her to consciousness, and from her position behind the loosely placed bricks of the dividing wall, she easily realized that something unusual was taking place in the next room. The light shining through the unfilled spaces of the temporary wall also attracted her attention. Prompted by a not unnatural curiosity, Miss St. Leger appears to have removed one or more of the loose bricks, and thus was easily enabled to watch the proceedings of the Lodge.”
http://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/aqc/aldworth.html
We are seeing fewer moose here in the Interior of British Columbia this year also too. I wonder why is that? There are several large packs of wolves around, more than we usually see here. They have been moving into the country here for a while now, the ranchers are not happy about that.
So, AKM, the question is – Are you seeing more wolves up there this winter?
austintx -
“Former President George W. Bush pushed back Sunday against criticism — levied most prominently by talk radio host Rush Limbaugh — that his successor, President Barack Obama, was somehow politicizing the disastrous earthquake in Haiti.”
coming from the biggest disaster whore in the history of the world – ugh. all i can think of when i think of gw is he should be in prison with his many co-conspirators: rove, cheney, rumsfeld, rice, the list goes on and on. yet he gets a platform and is quoted as if anything he says has credibility after his record.
i don’t want to, but damn i do! hate republicans. politicizing is all they know and damn the consequences.
“…..Bristol — who gave birth to son Tripp in 2008 after a brief liaison with Playgirl-posing flop Levi Johnston — told In Touch the experience has made her a born-again virgin and announced, “I’m not going to have sex until I’m married. I can guarantee it.”
read it here: http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/sarah_easy_payout_SMfqvoGHYTM3ntx3fV6K7K#ixzz0cuIR9uDE
I believe once you have a baby pass through that region you can never be considered a virgin. Maybe she can use some of the $100,000 for the cover on In-Style to pay for revirginaztion surgery…
264 Crayons -
The procedure is called a hymenoplasty.
http://www.lasertreatments.com/hymenoplasty.html
“after a brief liaison with Playgirl-posing flop Levi Johnston”
Maybe it was too much time spent on the Cosmo/Playboy post yesterday but I found the choice of words in this quote amusing. ‘Flop’??? Clearly NOT the problem for young Levi!
I really cannot stop laughing at Sarah’s bad performance on her Fox premier. For the last year, Palin has been bashing Couric and blaming her for her own bad performance. The answer “All of them” to Couric’s question about what newspapers she reads is an all time classic. But, Palin just kept blaming and bashing Couric.
So, what does Palin do the next time she is asked a question she can’t answer?
Same replies, “All of them”. Bwwwwwhahahahaha!
Kind of makes her arguement that it was all Couric’s fault kind of weak, doesn’t it. What a moron.
I really cannot stop laughing at Sarah’s bad performance on her Fox premier. For the last year, Palin has been bashing Couric and blaming her for her own bad performance. The answer “All of them” to Couric’s question about what newspapers she reads is an all time classic. But, Palin just kept blaming and bashing Couric.
So, what does Palin do the next time she is asked a question she can’t answer?
Same replies, “All of them”. Bwwwwwhahahahaha!
Kind of makes her arguement that it was all Couric’s fault kind of weak, doesn’t it. What a moron.
trisha, I agree. FOX news has been her death knell. Even O’Reilly and Beck are not too sure of her. What a stupid woman she is. She repeated the same old sh*te for 3 programmes. I took a dip into the ocean of urine today…..(Snos will give me hell for that)…one commenter was adamant that she needed to bone up on policy, but the rest of them dismissed that point of view.
You can’t fix stupid.
38 A fan from CA,
I agree with you about Fareed Zakaria’s show GPS on CNN. It is one that I try not to miss. Fortunately they do repeat it later in the afternoon where I am.
There is no comparison to the majority of the other shows, stocked full of pundits with the same talking points and speculation. It’s like if you watch one, you’ve watched them all.
Having watched the other Sunday shows, the topic of course came up about the election in MA. On CNN State of the Union, the discussion turned to – if the Repugs won. Mary Matilan piped up that if they won and Dems hold up the confirmation of the election, they will use it against them. It will cost them. It was unfortunate that Carville sat there like a bump on a log as he should have tossed out asking his wife:
Might you recall the names ‘Al Franken”, ‘Norm Coleman” and “Gov. Pawlenty”!!
Karma’s a b|tch and if this did happen, it would look so good on Matilan!! She is the one that started the talking point of ‘Bush inheriting the most tragic attack on our own soil in our nation’s history’ and the other talking point quite often heard ‘we inherited a recession from Clinton’
The Maine State Museum has the locked horns of these guys on display… without the bodies. And quite dead.
Nice little moose antlers. Still last years antlers. Must be going to drop off soon to grow some new bigger ones this spring. Very cute photo.
@megacephalus
Great Doonesbury! Trudeau doesn’t have to show her face or mention her name, but the jibber-jabber is distinctively hers. hahahahahahha
Beth…I didn’t mean to say anything unkind about the Masons, many family members of mine have also been Masons.
@sauerkraut
Same thing at Denali National Park at the new Eielson Visitor Center. Sometimes the big ones get locked and die together. It’s quite sobering to see the results and imagine the scene.
@ Country Girl
The smart wolves are hiding out from flyover planes with high-powered rifles pointed out the window.
We usually see more moose in town when big snows in the woods drive them to plowed out roadways and tasty cherry tree limbs.
#7January 17th, 2010 at 3:57 AMGrandma68 Says: …We have lots of roaming deer in this part of NC (unfortunately, some wind up as roadkill),…when you’re driving and you have to be extra alert. I would hate to hit one…
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I like the “deer horns” from Small Mart – less than $5.00
I use them on my motorcycle, too – I do a LOT of driving in spring-summer-fall here in Alaska and Washington.
Moose get out of the way, even caribou in BC & the Yukon. Horses definitely react and sometimes cattle. Bears don’t, though, neither do Buffalo. the one and only lynx I’ve ever seen skedaddled out of the way.
Point is- it is a cheap & simple way to give fair warning to animals on the road of potential danger.
Bretta, I use the whistles too, I think they work. Antelope herds in Wyoming can be thick.
Okay, I hate to say this but I’ve been waiting for this type talk to start up, I knew it was coming. This is from a Tea Party Repub running for CA senate. They are such a caring group of people, snark.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/14/gop-candidate-chuck-devor_n_423460.html
“The communications director for California Republican Senate candidate Chuck DeVore tweeted on Thursday that America, the world and even charity organizations should immediately leave the island once immediate and limited recovery is done.
“[T]he best thing the int’l community can do is tend the wounded, bury the dead, and then LEAVE. That includes all UN and charity,” wrote Josh Trevino.”
Austin @ 14, Thank you! I really think Fake news needs to be fined or their FCC license be taken away.
I also think reporters should ask Brown or any repub candidate their answer on helping Haiti. It’s a valid question. Not a gotchya one either Scarah, ya know, ya need to actually think and know something about another country. Perhaps if she crams on this, she can get ahead of the game? ya think? nah, lazy is as lazy does.
Interesting new name being bandied about for a possible 2012 Republican run. Gary Johnson, a former 2 term governor of New Mexico, has launched a 501 non-profit group called “Our America”. He wants to spread his vision of fewer taxes and fiscal responsibility. An added bonus…he wants to legalize marijuana. He was a very popular governor on both sides and left the state in good financial shape. I believe there are a few fellow New Mexican’s on the mudflats. What do you think of him?
Please, please, take time to watch President Obama speak at Vermont Baptist Church. This is about the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., and also about where we are today and where we need to go tomorrow.
It is a thing of beauty and you will need a box of Kleenex
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/01/17/martin-luther-king-and-challenges-a-new-age
After reading what Beck and OReilly said, I’d kinda like to see the Palinistas go screeching after them- boycot books and gold and however else they can protest. Wouldn’t that be fun to watch?
Get ready Arizona mudpups…………
“It was thorough, and it was complete, and I am so proud that Sarah Palin agreed to be my running mate,” he said in response to a question about the vetting. “And the facts are stubborn things, as Ronald Reagan used to say. The fact is that it energized our party. It gave us a very much-needed impetus, and Sarah Palin’s popularity continues very strongly to this day. And the hysterical attacks from the liberal left are ample indication of the threat that she poses to the liberal left and especially the feminist, radical-left movement in this country.”
McCain said he recently spoke to Palin to congratulate her on her new gig as a Fox News political analyst.
“And she’ll be coming to Arizona, I’m sure,” he said.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2010/01/17/20100117politics-nowicki0117.html
Ah, John….the facts are indeed stubborn things.
The picture of the moose’s are awesome Great pictures
@ Moose Pucky:
Just home from town. Thanks, good point, Moose Pucky. Our snow is not so deep yet this year, even though we are way out in the country.
I’m commin’ up to Alaska this summer. I hope I can meet as many mudpups as possible. Probably first week in August. The ferry from Prince Rupert only goes to Whittier once a month.
Anyone interested in a meet with a lone Cariboo (BC) mudpup just get in touch with …can I do this? What are the rules about using real names here????…well, go to my very neglected web site http://www.movietraintour.com. You can contact me from there.
Mega.
Royal Carib has a press release dated 1/15 on their web site. $1 million in supplies to be donated, and all their ships that call at Laberdee are dropping off supplies for distribution for the next two weeks, as well as net proceeds from call at Laberdee…. seems to be a pretty good effort on their part ..as well as keeping their employees working in Haiti..
LOL, McCain needs help, he’s calling in Scarah, how very pitiful is that.
Desert Mudpup, from the last open thread, we definitely need to get behind the education ball asap.
And Terp, go for it! get on the school board! For the good of our country we need to get the crazies back out. BUT, do your homework, find out who is who on the current board, how long, where they came from, where they stand, how they vote, what they want, how they got there, who backed them, where previous ousted members came from and why they were ousted. Just dig, so you can prepare yourself for any opposition you may face.
The following article has a boat load of goodies in it, seriously, a boat load. The writer did a great job digging, seems to have spoken to both sides. One of whom had been a 12 yr. school board member in Wasilla, who left when the crazies got to big.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081013/goldberg
“Echoing Pat O’Hara’s account, he recalled that the area had been solidly Democratic until the rise of politicized right-wing religion. “Pat Robertson, when he organized the Christian right…that’s when this area really changed,” said Menard. “To my knowledge, I would say [Palin] was supportive of the movement,” he added, though he said she wasn’t at the forefront of it.”
(I also found this interesting considering the chat Scarah just had with Barbara Walters. BTW, the article was written Sept. 08)
“Hundreds of thousands of people are going to come to this state to seek refuge, and the church has to be ready to minister to them.” Palin’s current religious home, Wasilla Bible Church, is rather more moderate and low-key, but it, too, subscribes to a theology that includes a literal belief in a biblical End Times scenario.
In August, it hosted David Brickner, executive director of Jews for Jesus, who told the congregation, “But what we see in Israel, the conflict that is spilled out throughout the Middle East, really which is all about Jerusalem, is an ongoing reflection of the fact that there is judgment…there’s a reality to the judgment of unbelief.”
Brickner’s beliefs, said Menard, are shared by many at Wasilla Bible Church, though he said he couldn’t speak to the particulars of Palin’s faith. Whatever her original convictions about the Middle East–or anything else–they have likely stayed intact throughout her tutorials by the McCain campaign team. “Once she makes her mind up on an issue, it takes a ninety-mile-an-hour Alaska north wind to move her off course,” said Menard. Of course, he meant it as a compliment, not a warning.”
*** Irishgirl @ 46 – interesting stuff…even if it’s over a century and a quarter old. I chuckled at the repeated insistence that the Lady Elizabeth Aldworths ‘initiation’ was before the Grand Lodge was formed. Ahhhh… men.
*** OMG @ 58 – Aiiiiii! One of the things I hate about comments on the ‘intertubes’ is that it’s nigh on to impossible to convey what we all take for granted in our day-to-day interactions with each other: inference of word’s meaning from voice inflection/tone and (or) [those word's meanings] tempered/’enhanced’ by [visible] body language. My comment –more of a mini-rant– @35 wasn’t ‘directed’ at anyone in particular, it was a ‘toss out.’ Had we all been standing around in a group in front of a cozy fire, or sitting around a table with some fine libation and food in front of us, my response/comment/mimi-rant would’ve probably been seen as being made at the general assemblage… leastwise, that’s where it was intended to fall. I seem to have missed the mark. Badly. Sorry.
Damn… how I wish I had the talent of so many here -and of AKM, consistently- to convey ‘tone’/intent, with my written word. Alas and also alack, too. beth.
beth, I know what you mean
This weekend I too hit a Barnes & Nobles — out of Game Change !
But darn they had a group of Going Rogue.
I only turned a couple of them around.
Then found Going Rouge – and moved it up to the Rogue display –
just in case anyone was trying to find it ….
Hope they weren’t really paying attention – since I was wearing
my “Got Mud” sweatshirt.
I was in Borders today and thrilled to see Going Rouge in the front section, labelled “recommended”. The store was out of Game Change. Going Whacko, while still on a featured shelf, was as far back from the door as a book could be in the “front section”.
politicususa.com has an interesting post on Brown, the Republican candidate running for Ted Kennedy’s old seat. Part of the post:
“Stealth Candidate Scott Brown Is Lying about his Beliefs”
“Thinks extremist Sarah Palin has the right values? Check. Racist birther? Check.
But is he a teabagger? When asked about the Tea Party movement, Brown does the GOPPER dance of duck and dodge, asking what the interviewer is referring to. See, that’s how moderate and removed from extremism Scott Brown is! Oh, oopsie, Scooter…what’s this?
“For the 2010 Senate race, Brown is supported by the Greater Boston Tea Party group, which organized a January 2010 fundraising breakfast for him in Boston, which he attended. Eleven days later, the Boston Globe reported that Brown claimed that he was unfamiliar with the “Tea Party movement,” when asked by a reporter. The Tea Party Express has endorsed Brown’s campaign”.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/14/scott-brown-held-tea-part_n_423...
http://www.politicususa.com/en/node/7440
Corrected HuffPo link above:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/14/scott-brown-held-tea-part_n_423198.html