Im first......

You're a distant second to Howard Dean.

Im in2ThomasPaine

That pillow fight looked like fun HQ ;-)  Good on you!  Sometimes you just need to readjust or create a new-er frame of mind.  Deep breathes work, but you guys found a way to do more.   Cool.

Doh, Im n2 Howie, too.

Michael a distant second?? No. He runs real fast. Or so I am told.

 Were is the Mason-Dixon line, anyway?

Everyone outside of the southern state hate the old south, so the Dems should exploit that.  Maybe? ;-) 

The treasonous south said, "we're gonna to it again"

And George is from Texass. 

just above mason and just below dixon. and virginia is above it. so we really aren't in the southe except for the red necks in southwest va.

Thanks for the article on 'Cain, HQ.

Louisville vs. North Carolina

Go Cardinals! 

I see it all before me:
the days of love and torment;
the nights of rock-and-roll.
I see it all before me.
Sometimes my spirit's empty;
don't have the will to go on.
I wish someone would send me
energy.
Give me something.
Give me something to give.
Oh, God, give me something:
a reason to live.
My body is aching.
Don't want sympathy.
Come on. Come and love me.
Come on. Set me free.
Set me free.
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul.
He leadeth me through the path of righteousness for His name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me.
Hey, Lord, I'm waitin' for you.
Oh, God, I'm waitin' for you;
waitin' to open Your ninety-eight wounds
and be Thee, be Thee.
Lead me, oh, lead me.
Leave me something.
Leave me something to live.
Oh, God, give me something:
a reason to live.
I don't want no handout;
no, not sympathy.
Come on. Come and love me.
Come on. Set me free.
Set me free.
Come on. Set me free
Set me free . . .
Oh, I'm so young, so goddamn young.
Oh, I'm so young, so goddamn young.
Oh, I'm so young, so goddamn.
Set me free.
In the presence of my enemies,
Thou anointest my head with oil.
My cup runneth over.
Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life.
And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Ah, damn, goddamn, goddamn, goddamn.
Here I am.

Patti Smith Privilege (Set Me Free) lyrics

Everyone here knows you are not a Confederate, linda b.   You have the long-term interests of the Union in what you do for U.S..  Kudos and thanks.

I'm for the government of Iraq - not the malitias.  So, I want Sadr crushed.  I know, many want peace.  Me too.  Me too.

------

Emerson Lake & Palmer  Tarkus Medley   Atlantic  Live At the Royal Albert Hall  0:31:09 (Real | MP3 |

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26649

9:36 PM EDT

revenge is sweet:

N E Revs beat the Houston Dynamo

3-0

9:37 PM EDT

so, how many Eastern Time Zoners here participated the last hour 8-9 pm EDT in ?:

http://www11.earthhourus.org/

Ok

I read a good article in the NYTimes

And, I recall the audio tapes my father sent from Viet nam (1967-1969)

During the Tet offensive he had his last rites given when surrounded, but called home when he was able ... before which my mother nearly died herself.

which I ecourage you to read all 'til the last at page four (internet)

that I include here.  it is a  letter (you the kind, "if I don't make it home, then read)

but play Sylvia's Mother on the turn table

or listen to

Electric Light Orchestra - DoYa

or

ELO - Living Thing

 

(page four)

And then Specialist Gomez fell in love. An e-mail flirtation with Katy Broom, his sister’s close friend, gradually led to a cyber exchange of guarded promises about the future. Headed home for a rest break in May, the tentativeness lifted and they began to rely on each other to get through the day. The two joked about “the best sex we never had.”

...this R&R there is someone new in my life. Exactly what she is too me, and what I am to her is uncertain, but its not really important at the moment. Just the thought that I could spent a second of my life with her, before I have to come back here makes everything worth it.

Daniel Gomez, Myspace blog, May 9, 2007

Rest and relaxation in Georgia went better than expected. He fell in love with the love of his life all over again, this time in person. The couple shared one kiss during his leave.

“He was everything I expected and more,” said Ms. Broom, 20, who spent one week and two days with him. “It was kind of surreal when we met. It’s almost like a perfect love and war story.”

Not many soldiers leave behind a just-in-case letter. Specialist Gomez did. He handed Ms. Broom an envelope at the airport with the words, “Don’t read unless something happens to me.”

On July 18, 2007, two months after his leave, Specialist Gomez died in Adhamiya when the Bradley fighting vehicle he was in struck a roadside bomb. The explosion and flames also killed three other soldiers.

Ms. Broom waited three days after she got word to open the letter. She sat alone in the couple’s favorite spot, her apartment balcony.

“I was very thankful that he wrote it,” she said of the letter. “I have opened and closed it so many times, I’m surprised it hasn’t fallen apart.”

R+R 2007

Hey baby. If you’re reading this, then something has happen to me and I am sorry. I promised you I would come back to you, but I guess it was a promise I could not keep. You know I never believe in writing “death letters.” I knew if I left one for my folks it would scare them. Then I met you. We were supposed to meet, darling. I needed someone to make me smile, someone that was an old romantic like I was. I was going through a very rough time in Iraq and I was startin to doubt my mental state. Then one day after a patrol, I go to my facebook and there you were...

I can’t stop crying while I writing this letter, but I have to talk to you one last time, because maybe the last time I heard your voice I did not know it would be the last time I heard your voice....

I Love You. Go be happy, go raise a family. Teach your kids right from wrong, and have faith, darling. I think I knew I loved you even before I met. I love you, Katy. * Kiss * Goodbye

_________________

10:01 PM EDT

http://sports.yahoo.com/mls/news;_ylt=Ah18g8dAcUWy_X4w53O_qzhQ0bYF?slug=ap-mls-dynamo-revolution&prov=ap&type=lgns

7 minutes ago

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP)—Steve Ralston and Adam Cristman scored first-half goals Saturday as the New England Revolution opened the season with a 3-0 win over the Houston Dynamo in a rematch of the last two MLS Cup finals, both won by Houston.

...

*r

Love you man, but updates?  You can  express more.  I know though - we all do the same.  I am just tweaking you because of time and place.  Nothing personal...more a commentary on the state of the blog.

I find it hard to understand (but 4 $$$) plating soccer or baseball in March in New England. X

t s/b y

I think I have read that letter three times and have cried each time.  It is not often that I cry, so I am thankful for reality.

http://www.doctorhook.com/

video 

Dr Hook & the Medicine Show - Sylvia's mother.flv

+

 http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/gomez_letter.pdf

See, the brilliance of the blog (BFA - a wholly owned relevant subsidiary of DFA) once was that stupid hog blogging troll-isms like mine would fade ... into... the wind.

hi paine - I'll save the letter for a bit later, thank you.  I doubled my earth hour fun by dozing off for an extra hour!  going off the grid (mostly - I didn't turn the heat off - it's in the single digits tonight!) for an hour each day would be a good thing.  I try to keep things off when not in use but I am BAD about leaving my computer on all day when I'm home...  it seemed nice to shut down early tonight, but here I am, back online!

Daniel

of the HQ variety

when will the blog be unbroken? 

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

I'm for the government of Iraq

That's like being for Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy. 

Hi Joe.

I cried.

Sitka

is it always a response, or do you create vectors by other means.    

puddle

that makes my day, after crying twice already.  My eyes are irritated from crying. 

Texas:

TIMESTAMP - 9:50PM, 3/29/07

Clinton Delegates

Obama Delegates

TOTAL

of 7,649

Conventions Reporting

(of 284)

TOTAL

1,749

2,580

4,329

108

PERCENT

40.40%

59.60%

56.60%

38.03%

Lost my chart, lol!  That's Obama 59.60% to Hill's 40.40%

Sitka: you're against the tooth fairy?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...

British and US forces drawn into battle for Basra

.....The Sadrists-SIIC rivalry is behind the timing of Mr Maliki's Basra assault. Though he said it was aimed at all militias and illegal armed movements, the attack has only been against the Mehdi Army and not against the Fadhila party and the SIIC, which both control parts of the city. The SIIC is now the main support behind Mr Maliki.

---------

I don't know if America can stand a hundred years of this garbage as McCain says we're going to be subjected to. There isn't any rationale for what we're doing there. Its a disgrace.

Such a waste of time...one of the biggest nothings in American history.

Averitt Freemoney phillips, jr.

< what? 

Bean/Zappa '08?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OsphFdcAKTw

11:25PM

Oh, thanks for the release, Lenny.

OK, paine. You can check out this version too; should be same track different video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IlE8yAmW3E&feature=related

11:39 pm

I'm for the government of Iraq - not the malitias.  So, I want Sadr crushed. 

"...........Mr Maliki's confident prediction that he would crush the Mehdi Army is turning out to be a dangerous gamble that is fast eroding his authority. It is damaging to President Bush, who had claimed the US "surge" had brought about a turning point in America's five-year-old war to pacify Iraq. Mr Bush had praised the offensive as showing that the Iraqi security forces, trained and supported by the US, could at last stand and fight on their own. So far, the gun battles in Baghdad and the Shia south of Iraq are providing evidence that exactly the opposite is true............."

very good contribution, Lenny

sunlight

<I am OK with evidence of Bush's failure as CinC becoming ever more evident.  Let it be on the Republicans, but let us not support the those who are backed by Iran.  Not me, anywho. 

It's so strange to think that a country needs military bases all over the world to defend it's security at home.

When you look at China's history you know it has a different approach in trying to rule the world.

11:54 pm EDST

and I gotta rest/sleep/dream

night good folks. 

YouTubehttp://www.infowars.com/?p=1152

TX caucus convention threads.

 Wow.

 Go, Obama!

I admit, as a last resort China does as the US, use physical force.

Who will win?

The moral or the physical forces?
America will loose if it relies solely on physical forces.
That's what the Bush doctrine has been.
Rely on physical strength.

point of reference

1:03 am

Sadr won a place in the government, and had imposed a ceasefire on his followers so now we initiated a civil war and we can't leave because the surge is working or can't leave because the surge isn't working.

the American people see through this

that's why Obama keeps rising in the polls

McCain is tired old "100year war man" who will be lucky to carry 15 states

I find it hard to understand (but 4 $$$) plating soccer or baseball in March in New England. X  

Everywhere else in the world football (soccer) is a winter sport.  they would never dream of playing it in 100 degree weather like in the US.  They play all winter in Russia, Holland, Germany, Soctland, England, Belarus, Czech republic.  France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, every country has their own league.   It is a winter sport so playing in spring is really nice compared to 35 degree and driving rain in  Villa Park in December.

I'm for the government of Iraq

That's like being for Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy. 

the delegate allocation process allows for growth in numbers by the front runner as others drop out by holding multi-stage voting like in Texas and most other states and it is a slow motion IRV but is rolling towards an Obama nomination by a comfortable number (sorry Gore fans)

we had the meeting of the convention committees for our District today (activist leaders) and our rules allow a caucus by preference and may well have if it was close enough for the election of the committee chairs to matter but we declined and met as committees as a whole

our next reporting will very likely show additional delegate pickups for Obama just like Texas and as that goes forward in won't matter too much whether Clinton wins PA

I don't have any problem with the voting continuing because we need to organize those states for the fall election anyway, no reason for Clinton to drop out, the allocation of delegates process delivers that result anyway

If we had moved right to elections as Jay Garner wanted in Iraq they would have elected Sistani's pick and we would have avoided having to hunt down the sunnis before we have to hunt down the shias before we have to hunt down the sunnis before we have to hunt down the shia (before we switch sides again for a hundred years like McCain suggests)

we armed the sunni militia and called it a surge and now we are weakening the shia so the "right" negroponte death squads can go about finishing the ethnic cleansing neighborhood by neighborhood and our national guard can go around putting up concrete barriers street by street?

HUH!!!???? 

Patraeus is "brilliant" ???   lol

BTW Fox, Hamas won an election in Gaza.

who doesn't like elections? lol

I think I might have missed a pretty good basketball game during the blackout

I'm going to share a bit of our platform deliberations now that we have voted to adopt five out of six subcommittee reports, we finish next Sat.

nite all

Fox Mulder
I'm sorry, I don't get your feelings.

Sitka calling the Iraqi government the Tooth Fairy means he despises the electoral process?

Calling soccer a winter sport kind of disputes your credibility.

Just for fun:

12:38 am

 The thing that makes absolutely no sense to me is that this blog has no timestamp and no proper sequencing.

I know a kid who wrote blog software from scratch that has a timestamp proper sequencing.
He claims it took him 12 hours.

So, that's what I can't figure out: Why is this blog kept on a short leash by claiming it takes months if not years to make this blog work?

Another question:
Why are we tolerating this barely functioning blog and continue to blog here?

As always you depise the electoral process. Either in the primaries here or in Iraq. They voted and we are stuck with the results whether we like it or not. =========

As always, like most Republicans, Fox, you have a superficial understanding of the electoral process. Inherent in a democracy is a fundamental belief in the rule of law. Do you believe that most Iraqis believe, or even really understand the concept of a government of laws not men?!?!?!?!?

Please sign up at your community college for US History 101 or at least watch John Adams currently on PBS...you can sit on YOUR fat arse and, hopefully learn something.

Congressmen:   CDC punished doctor for good work

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun a process that could lead to the firing of an Atlanta scientist who tried to make public environmental dangers in the Great Lakes region and in trailers housing Hurricane Katrina's victims, congressional investigators said....

In an interview with the Journal-Constitution last month, De Rosa said he was demoted for insisting the CDC thoroughly investigate the long-term health risks of formaldehyde in trailers the federal government purchased to house victims of Hurricane Katrina. The CDC and the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced in February that thousands of Katrina victims need to be moved out of trailers because of dangerous levels of formaldehyde, a colorless gas used in the production of plywood....

http://www.ajc.com/gwinnett/content/news/stories/2008/03/28/cdc_0328.html

"...the fighting in Iraq is not what it seems. The central-government-versus-renegade-militias narrative doesn't fit neatly. Excellent point. Cluing into the power struggle dynamics is indeed critical to understanding what's going on.

But here's another reminder. Isn't the fact that the Center v. Militias story line doesn't fit itself highly significant?

I don't usually go in for simple binary good guy / bad guy breakdowns, but isn't this a situation where it should actually be appropriate? If a governing authority is legitimate, then the government should have a legal monopoly on force.

And if Iraq's rulers are one more set of contestants for power rather than truly being at the helm of the state, can I ask what the hell we're doing there?"

http://www.democracyarsenal.org/