Clapton and Cale, singing us all home safely
A little Friday evening traveling music to see us all on our way out the door. Grab your lunch bucket and skedaddle, fool, the boss man ain’t paying you no overtime.
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I Report/ You Whine
March 13th, 2009
5:50 pm
Duh duh duh, da, duh, duh, duh, if you wanna get down, down on the ground, cocaaaaaiiiiine.
What was I just saying, hahaha.
Perfect performer for the libs.
I Report/ You Whine
March 13th, 2009
5:52 pm
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie, like Oblahma do, cocaaaiiine.
The Corporal
March 13th, 2009
5:54 pm
HEADLINE: BOSTON (AP) – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told law students there could be an opening on the Supreme Court soon but didn’t hint at who might be leaving.
This is what is truly so scary and why a President who does not believe in judicial oligarchy should be in the White House whenever one of these openings occur.
The Corporal
March 13th, 2009
5:58 pm
HEADLINE: DOJ Drops Use of ‘Enemy Combatant’ Language
Government Reiterates Its Power to Detain as Needed
By JASON RYAN and ARIANE De VOGUE
March 13, 2009
“The Justice Department today told a federal court that it has the power to detain those who “substantially” supported Taliban or al Qaeda forces after Sept. 11 but is dropping the legal use of the phrase “enemy combatant” to describe such detainees.”
Hummmmmm ……… not sure what to think about this yet.
“Dulce Bellum Inexpertis”
Paul
March 13th, 2009
6:05 pm
Thanks, Jay. We needed that.
Hilbilly Deluxe
March 13th, 2009
6:12 pm
The Skynyrd version is probably more well known but it’s interesting to hear the writer’s version of the song. I like the groove of this one.
RW-(the original)
March 13th, 2009
6:39 pm
Is Obama snubbing another foreign leader?
After the Gordon Brown debacle, you would think the White House would put a little more thought into planning for visits by visiting heads of state. But Brazil is already grumbling about the treatment of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who will sit down with Obama this weekend and is the first Latin American leader to visit the White House under the new administration.
Silva aides said the trip was pushed forward from Tuesday because of the St. Patrick’s Day holiday – making Latin America once again look like an afterthought. Then, the White House announcement misspelled his name as “Luis Ignacio” and put “Lula” – a nickname that decades ago became a legal part of the Brazilian leader’s name – in quotes.
When Obama gives this guy his Weekend at Bernie’s DVD collection let’s hope he at least gives him the Portuguese version.
Joey
March 13th, 2009
6:53 pm
Please Jay tell me it is not true that Bob Barr is the AJC’s choice for its conservative voice. This is the worse betrayal of your conservative subscribers ever. Balance? Balance?
You’ve known Barr for as long as you have been here. You know what kind of person he is. How could you support this move? Disgusting!
RW-(the original)
March 13th, 2009
6:55 pm
Corporal,
I read over at HotAir that Obama was probably thinking of changing “Enemy Combatant” to “Undocumented Protagonist”
Eleanor Rigby
March 13th, 2009
6:57 pm
Another excellent selection. If I may, I would like to suggest The Traveling Wilbury’s for next week. (Still missing George.
) Maybe next Tuesday we could hear some of The Tiller’s Folly, in honor of our Celtic friends. Just a suggestion. Now, let’s all get out there and eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow….
@@
March 13th, 2009
7:18 pm
Can’t wait till next week.
Giorraionn beirt bothar.
(ISH)
DB, Gwinnettian
March 13th, 2009
7:23 pm
With the headline, I was hoping for John Cale but, ok.
(and now I’ll go google away my curiousity–did Clapton and John Cale ever do anything together?)
DB, Gwinnettian
March 13th, 2009
7:33 pm
“This is the worse betrayal of your conservative subscribers ever.”
You sure it’s not worser?
DB, Gwinnettian
March 13th, 2009
7:34 pm
“This is the worse betrayal of your conservative subscribers ever.”
alternative punchline: “All six of them?”
Jay
March 13th, 2009
7:34 pm
Just got home, y’all. No, Joey, Barr is not the conservative columnist to replace Wooten. He is merely resuming the column he was writing for us before his presidential run.
And Mike, I agree, those are not stimulus-related. I included them in the hypotheticals in the belief that they are a major part of the Obama policy package that Limbaugh and others refer to when they say they hope he fails.
DB, Gwinnettian
March 13th, 2009
7:34 pm
Guess everyone else has a life. Well, me too. Later, all, enjoy your Friday.
BDAtlanta
March 13th, 2009
7:34 pm
great Irish music:
Planxty, especially “Raggle Taggle Gypsy” from the self-titled first album. The song is a story too about an adulerous woman i believe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRjaTChJu5U&feature=PlayList&p=57015A4BB2ECD573&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=94
The Pogues’ album Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash with “A Pair of Brown Eyes”, “Dirty old Town”, and “The Old Main Drag”
The Corporal
March 13th, 2009
7:35 pm
To RW (the original):
That was good but how about “terroristically challenged” ?
mike
March 13th, 2009
7:48 pm
” I included them in the hypotheticals in the belief that they are a major part of the Obama policy package that Limbaugh and others refer to when they say they hope he fails.”
No offense, but you really should have spelled that out instead of giving us the false choices you provided. The way the questions read is if the intervention (what should have been labeled the bank bailout, stimulus) failed than Obama’s ideology would be discredited. The intervention and Obama’s ideologically driven policies should not be equated, as they have nothing to do with each other.
getalife
March 13th, 2009
7:52 pm
Looks like Andy has moved up from booze to the rock.
Midori
March 13th, 2009
7:55 pm
hey DB!!
Look at what I got in the mail today!!
http://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Science-Theater-3000-XIV/dp/B001G8SX04/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1236988533&sr=8-1
TnGelding
March 13th, 2009
7:57 pm
The Corporal
March 13th, 2009
5:54 pm
It’s beyond me how a member could be labeled liberal or conservative. Is the Constitution really that vague? OR ARE JUSTICES REALLY THAT IDEOLOOGICAL? Wonder if Harriet Ellan Miers is still available? Or maybe Kenneth Winston Starr?
Midori
March 13th, 2009
7:57 pm
what do you mean “moved up” Getalife?
Ray
March 13th, 2009
7:57 pm
Let’s be politically correct and call them “Misdirected Sons of Allah”. Of course The Annointed One could not bring himself to call them sadistic, coldblooded savages. That might hurt their feelings.
TnGelding
March 13th, 2009
7:59 pm
The Corporal
March 13th, 2009
5:58 pm
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE…
Jay
March 13th, 2009
8:01 pm
I agree Mike, but that is a distinction lost on many on the right and I was trying to honestly reflect that perspective in the question.
The Corporal
March 13th, 2009
8:11 pm
Republican wants WH candidates to prove citizenship
Posted: 07:45 PM ET
From CNN Political Editor Mark Preston
WASHINGTON (CNN) — “Rep. Bill Posey, R-Florida, introduced legislation this week requiring candidates to produce a birth certificate to be eligible to run in future presidential elections, triggering a sharp reaction from Democrats who accused him of “questioning President Obama’s citizenship.”
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. POSEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
A BILL
“To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to
require the principal campaign committee of a candidate
for election to the office of President to include with
the committee’s statement of organization a copy of the
candidate’s birth certificate, together with such other
documentation as may be necessary to establish that
the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to
the Office of President under the Constitution.”
SPECIAL NOTE: President Obama is the president and will continue to be the president. No court, including the Supreme Court would rule otherwise now (even if he was born overseas) because of the chaos that would erupt. However, the truth of his birth location needs to be clearly established so we know where to put the historical marker.
In the above news article it states that President Obama’s campaign provided a “certified” copy of his birth certificate from the Hawaii Department of Health. It is my understanding that is incorrect. Instead, they provided a certified copy of his “Certification of Live Birth”; an “umbrella document” separate from his actual “Birth Certificate”. Under Hawaii law, a parent could have a child outside the United States and file for a birth certificate upon their return to Hawaii if they had lived there for one year prior. If provided, the actual “birth certificate” (which has much more information including his hospital of record) would settle this matter.
The absence of a certified copy of his “Birth Certificate” vs. his “Certification of Live Birth” begs for an answer.
If that is wrong, I will stand corrected.
The Corporal
March 13th, 2009
8:12 pm
TnGelding:
Read “Men in Black” by Mark Levin and then get back to me.
TnGelding
March 13th, 2009
8:13 pm
The Corporal
March 13th, 2009
5:54 pm
WHO WOULD MAKE A GOOD NOMINEE THAT CONSERVATIVES COULD ACCEPT? I thought it would be Hillary before she took state.
The Corporal
March 13th, 2009
8:13 pm
Sorry:
Here’s the article…………….
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/13/gop-congressman-wants-presidential-candidates-to-prove-citizenship/#more-43796
The Corporal
March 13th, 2009
8:15 pm
To TnGelding:
Good question. I really don’t care who it is as long as they are an “originalist” and believe in interpreting the Constitution instead of making law (which is the job of the Congress).
TnGelding
March 13th, 2009
8:17 pm
The Corporal
March 13th, 2009
8:12 pm
Thanks for the tip.
The Corporal
March 13th, 2009
8:20 pm
TnGelding:
It’s a great read. Hard to put down.
RW-(the original)
March 13th, 2009
8:22 pm
Jay B may think the right isn’t sophisticated or intelligent enough to understand the false choices he presented to us downstairs, but can you imagine what he would’ve had to do for the left.
A) Bush sucks
B) Follow the shiny ball
Which would you on the left prefer?
TnGelding
March 13th, 2009
8:24 pm
The Corporal
March 13th, 2009
8:15 pm
Agreed.
RW-(the original)
March 13th, 2009
8:26 pm
Gelding,
I bet Hillary would give up State for a seat on the Supreme Court as long as we had reached a point where there would be no viable way to present herself as an alternative to a failed Obama in 2012.
The Corporal
March 13th, 2009
8:36 pm
TnGelding:
Great! I can’t believe we agree on something ……….
)
Chad Harris
March 13th, 2009
8:40 pm
Ironically Norm Coleman sponsered a bill to make credit card info abuse violation of federal law. The bill didn’t pass, but he has violated Minnesota law and his donors are drying up.
The loser in the election court has to pay the substantial litigation fees for the 30 something days of litigation that will end in a week. That means either party can demand the other put said money in escrow.
That goes for the money to litigate an appeal to the Minn. Supremes.
A big shoutout to the Rethug party in Jawjaw who has in one day run biotech and medical grants out of Jawjaw with its insane ban on emb stem testing.
This will not only curb infertility practices as physicians back off using implanted embryos, but it will drive researchers out of Georgia and ultimately force Georgians to get treatments out of state when they develop rapidly in the coming years unless the bill before Congress is worded to supercede Georgia’s law.
Franken has it. Coleman doesn’t.
If Franken wins the Election court, and demands Coleman show him the money, and Coleman can’t.l game over and certification will take place and your new 59th Senator will be Al Franken.
All you wingnuts who want to donate to Coleman won’t be able to do so with a credit card, and I’d get your money in fast because in a week there won’t be any Coleman cause to contribute toward.
Chad Harris
March 13th, 2009
8:47 pm
Hillary won’t be considered for the Supreme Court. Her Hillary facade does not overcome the fact that Hillary is not much of an attorney and has very little real littigation and next to no appellate experience.
What most people don’t know, and now you do, is that a year out of Yale law school Hillary flunked the D.C. Bar, and she never had the guts to retake it. Almost no one out of Yale flunks the D.C. bar, but Hillary managed to accomplish it.
Dawn Johnsen who is soon going to be confirmed as Chief of OLC which makes the major policy for DOJ after Specter is forced to remove his hold on her confirmation in SJC has considerable appellate experience and is one of the most respected con law professors in the US.
No one considers Clinton to have a chance to be a Supreme or that she has any qualifications whatsoever.
Obama is as worried about Hil in 2012 as he is Jindal, Alaska Ditzbrain (ah kin see Russshhha), Stanford, and all the other dead white people walking the wingbutts have to offer.
BDAtlanta
March 13th, 2009
9:02 pm
That’s not Hillary’s area. She needs to be in front of the cameras.
Harriet Myers…hehehe. Even Ann Coulter called Bush a dumb arse after he pulled that one.
The Amazing GodHatesTrash
March 13th, 2009
9:08 pm
Me mother’s mother’s mother was from the Emerald Isle… For all you Irishmen and wannabes…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EADUQWKoVek
mike
March 13th, 2009
9:27 pm
Jay –
“I agree Mike, but that is a distinction lost on many on the right”
Please don’t tell me that you are among those on the left who think that conservatives are not equally able to grasp reality as are liberals. Give me a break.
Dave R
March 13th, 2009
9:31 pm
Let’s just say that Chad Harris shouldn’t be waiting up for the phone call from President Hope & Change for his nomination to either the Supreme Court or Surgeon General.
And Dawn Johnsen doesn’t have a chance of being appointed, unless Hope & Change wants someone on the Supreme Court as inexperienced as he was going into office. (which would be par for the course in the administration, anyway) I don’t see any judicial experience in her resume. Regardless of her (somewhat light) background in Constitutional law, it is a theoretical background, not a court-tested one.
But when has experience stopped Hope & Change?
I Report/ You Whine
March 13th, 2009
9:40 pm
getalife March 13th, 2009 7:52 pm Looks like Andy has moved up from booze to the rock.
And if I did, Mr. Sedative Eater, what would be wrong with that?
Just kidding, speaking of rock, Eric Clapton ain’t got squat on the kings-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Sxxy0ynXk&feature=related
Now that’s what I’m talking about.
The Corporal
March 13th, 2009
9:45 pm
This is just how far we have descended into the abyss …..
HEADLINE: “ACLU Urges California District to Let Kids Leave School for Medical Treatment Without Parental Consent …”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509171,00.html
I don’t have to worry about it now, but I would “pity” the school administrator and doctor if my daughter went through this prodedure without our knowldege or permission; was sent home that afternoon; and died in her bed overnight from surgery related hemorraging because we weren’t aware of the situation or monitoring her condition for symptoms.
Sad, sad, sad ………….
Chad Harris
March 13th, 2009
9:54 pm
Let’s just say Chad Harris doesn’t want political posts but he’s infinitely more qualified for either nomination than morons who post about commenters but not issues because they are too dumb to discuss them.
G
March 13th, 2009
9:57 pm
Sonia Sotomayor, federal judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, would be a great Supreme Court pick.
And the fact that Pillboy attacked her on his radio show just makes her all the better.
Chad Harris
March 13th, 2009
9:58 pm
Dawn Johnsen is at the top of the list for a Supreme Court appointment, and her work at OLC will qualify her.
The cretins here who are wingnuts never heard of Dawn Johnsen until I brought her up. As a wingnut, you and your party will have no say on most of the issues decided for this country for years, and if you’re a bookman wingbutter, you will be too stupid and poorly read to even know what the issues are.
Dawn Johnsen is one of the most respected con law professors and one of the most prolifically published law professors in history.
Obama is showing that judgement as well as his seven years in the Senate are paying off.
Cretins thought that a moron like Palin was experienced enough to have the launch codes and how’d that workout for ya?
The Corporal
March 13th, 2009
10:12 pm
Mr. G:
Depends on whether she is an “originalist” or a “breather”.
RW-(the original)
March 13th, 2009
10:19 pm
And the fact that Pillboy attacked her on his radio show just makes her all the better.
It occurs to me that Rush really could shape our government if he played his cards right. He could just attack the next Clarence Thomas and the next CT would be the hero of the mindless sheeple.