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Marion Berry just makes itto the annual Gillett Coon Supper. Delayed by a late vote on Medicare Presciption Drug plan he went thru SIX reservations before getting a flight to Nashville then grabbing a charter into Stuttgart for the "Don't miss it" event.

Dale Bumpers offers a little diddy on the time he and Bill nearly didn't make it.

Story is here: http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2007/01/12/news/011307dcberryquest.txt#blogcomments

Oh, the Medicare Bill passed passed, 255-170. Seems some R's must have heard the outrage too.

"Dale Bumpers offers a little
diddy on the time he and Bill
nearly didn't make it."

Bumpers covers this thoroughly in his great book. It's a must read:

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Lawyer-One-Lawyer-Town-Memoir/dp/0375505210

Just an observation: I notice that Max can use hypertext again. Rather than saying "copy the link below and paste it into your browser" he can now just insert a clickable link in his posts.

We can't, but he can. That's a welcome improvement. Not sure what the problem was with us doing it, too, but I guess there was some problem there.

Just curious: has anyone who posts here ever, ever eaten racoon meat? How about O'possum?

Now I will own up to it but it's been milleniums ago when I was a lad and my grandfather took me hunting at night for those rascals. I recall when the possums were caught they were laid on the ground, an ax handle placed across their neck and while standing on the ax handle he would pull on the tail until the neck was broken. My grandmother would cook these game and as I recall I never had objections as to how they tasted. But I'm not going to refresh my memory any time soon if I can help it.

Democratic goings on in Washington County:

January 16-- Tuesday--Senior Democrats will hold their regular luncheon meeting at 11:30 at Western Sizzlin in Springdale. Lioneld Jordan, President of the Northwest Arkansas Labor Council and a member of the Fayetteville City Council will be guest speaker. His topic will be, "Martin Luther King's Lessons for Labor and the Democratic Party." Lioneld is an excellent speaker.

January 23--Democratic Women will meet at 5:30 P.M. for their regular dinner meeting at Western Sizzlin in Springdale. Professor Hoyt Purvis will be guest speaker. Professor Purvis is on the fauclty at the University of Arkansas. He is Director of the Fulbright Institute of International Relations. He is the author of several books and a well know newspaper columnist. For reservations call 582-5677. You will not be charged if you cannot attend.

Spirit:

I have found that I can paste links into the URL box above, and as long as I don't preview the post, my name will be highlighted and the link is active. If I do preview my message, the link is gone.

I've never eaten possum or coon, but I understand they both taste like chicken. I really would like to go to the coon supper one of these times, but I always seem to have a conflict. Maybe I'm conflicted about eating coon. Yeee.

Busy day, late comment...
I see Cummins finally owns up that he was asked to move aside for Rove's evil little elf. Any idea how many other states this was happening in?

Can y'all here me laughing at this conversation. Poly-coon chat! I love it. *s* Coon and opossum are far to dark a meat for me to ever think of chicken when eating it. fwiw.

Spirit - Thanks for reminding me of Senator Bumpers book. It's high on my wish list now.

Just a heads up..Hillary is in baghdad an says it's time for us to leave.

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral
/2007/jan/13/hillary_says_its_time_to_start_leaving_iraq

perobravo - Sitting in an ice storm browsing through blogs today...The numbers are rising hourly now. Evidently they were doing it to try and stop Duke Cunninghams investigation so this is an old tactic.

Some stuff here and in the comments
http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/01/12/the-theme-of-the-defendant/

Just received in attached email. Oldie but goodie

The Man in the Glass

When you get what you want in your struggle for self and the world makes you king for a day, Just go to the mirror and look at yourself and see what that man has to say.

For it isn't your father or mother or wife whose judgement upon you must pass, the fellow whose verdict counts most in your life is the one staring back from the glass.
Some people might think you're a straight-shootin' chum and call you a wonderful guy, but the man in the glass says you're only a bum if you can't look him straight in the eye.
He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest for he's with you clear to the end, and you've passed your most dangerous test if the guy in the glass is your friend.

You may fool the whole world down a pathway of years and get pats on the back as you pass, but your final reward will be heartache and tears if you've cheated the man in the glass.

"Spirit:
I have found that I can paste
links into the URL box above"

Yes, but we used to be able to put a web address right in the text of our post, or tie a string of text to a hyperlink like Max does. It was better than tying it to our "Posted by" name since some people miss that (and, as you mention, it gets lost if you preview your post).

I just wish we could post photos as I can on other sites without having to click on cato for this one.

A thing that makes me really mad is this:
During the past hour, I've seen three commercials, touchy-feely ones, encouraging parents to support their kid's decision to join the Army!
Fresh meat for the idiot in the White House? Not no, but Hell, no!

I have dined on coon (not haute cuisine, yet edible), but never possum, which was a dish of renown served by a man of a certain means back in my small hometown.

Menfolk of all race would flock to his humble establishment on Wednesday night (those who eschewed prayer meeting) for the delicacy, reputedly barbecued. I found out in my young adulthood that this fellow was also serving bootleg alcohol (in a very dry neck of the woods) and renting out ladies of the evening.

Won't get that at Gillett, I'll wager.

Photos use up site memory pretty quickly and you must have the site on 24/7 surveillance in case marylou shows up with a cucumber sorta thing.

I like the website so guys complain about something else.

>Evidently they were doing it to try and stop Duke Cunninghams investigation so this is an old tactic.<

Didn't work, fortunately. Any idea about what Cummins was pursuing that sent us Rove's evil little elf?

Any attorneys on here that will spectulate about the legality of using this technique to obstruct justice? Another reason Mark and gang should get the GODDAMN investigations going. Why bother with votes on whether you're going to let Bush mainline another 10billion $ and 22,000 troops, you will cause you're all , all of your gang of 14, are enablers.

"Won't get that at Gillett, I'll wager."

The bootleg whskey or the ladies for all night?

Anyone have a photo that can be posted of Lary Zeno?

I am curious to see the face behind the pussy quote -- the 63 year old ladies' man.

I wasn't aware people on
here couldn't complain about
anything that Lwood likes.

L Wood... so you want a photo do ya?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/45/179953459_cd3ce631f4.jpg

i think coon is kind of like beaver, the critter, not what some of you crude will think of, which i have had and is ok but not great, any of those are a dark meat and you chew and chew and look at the guy next to you and say "gee that is good". All dark meats tast somewhat the same just like all white meats taste similar. some are better like beef and venison and some are worse like coon and beaver. i feel sorry for our ancestors who had to live on whatever they could shoot and sometimes eat critter. although critter is better than no critter. maybe george bush should allow critter farms in the ghettos for the poor when they need food. they could raise opossums and armidillos and racoons in the south and the north could add badgers and wolverines. areas with water could raise mink and beaver and sell the pelts for the rich folk. feed the poor have a job program and clothe the rich, a win, win, win program.

Yea, I want a photo. I'm not a techojunkie but if I were I would have aphoto of Ann Coulter dress up over her back in doggie position with a Bushfaced elephant, red eyes, broad grin, trunk curled around her neck and 3 ft of you know what...Miss Ann's spewing something like "You said it wasn't going to be this way!" I would copy, print and put that pic on my wall.

Complain away Bold...never mind me, I'm a grouchy old fart who doesn't like to get the fly rod out anymore in bad weather and quit smokin mj too long ago and too lazy to go to booze store this afternoon and pissed off that SNL is a kiddie show now.

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Anybody with a telephone and a backbone in Arkansas should call the White House switchboard and let w know we don't like the way he has treated us in by-passing the confirmation of his political hack who is now the US Attorney for the Eastern District . I guess he simply forgot his oath of office to uphold and protect the Constitution. He should be impeached, but then we'd end up with Cheney, and then he would just kill all the lawyers. I hope all the people who voted for these bozos are happy with the state of the Union today.

Dang!

I just saw James McMurtry sing "We Can't Make It Here Anymore" on Austin City Limits, and I am blown away.

I found it on youtube and put the link in the URL box.

Best protest song in decades!!

Well, that didn't work, so here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTW0y6kazWM&mode=related&search=

Huckabee is getting fried on the the NYT political blog. DBI (outstanding post!) and yours truly got posted. You can click back to Max's post on it, use the blue hyperlink or copy/paste this url

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/2008-huckabees-hopes/

A poster by the name of james t mcclain is carrying water for the Rev bro-gov. New handle for James Boulder?

I'm like you Cato....it's been so long ago I don't really remember it. But my great grandfather and his sons used to go coon hunting. It was really an excuse to get away from the women folk and drink all night out in the woods...with dogs....and guns.

Now and then the drunk old fools would come home with some dead coons and Granny would fry it or them up.....Granny fried...that's all she did...fried....as I recall it tasted good and wasn't real weird.

About the same time I ate possum at my friend, Dallas Jeffcoat's house. They were like the Beverly Hillbillies without the oil money. Mr. Jeffcoat was the same age as my grandfather and had worn out his first wife after 12 kids and married him a young girl from the hills and started up family number 2.

You'd rarely see their car or truck without some dead critter tied to the trunk...blood dripping off the bumper. If it had a heart-beat they killed it....and really that was OK because they also ate it. So it was at the Jeffcoat house that I had me some possum and all I really remember is that it was pretty greasy stuff.

The Jeffcoat men were also into hogging or noodling, by which you go fishing by wading in the yucky still waters of the Arkansas River catching giant catfish by sticking your arm into holes in the bank. Once whatever was in the hole swallowed your arm up to the elbow, you'd yank it back out and hope like hell it was a fish and not an eel or a beaver or god knows what else.

I doubt I'll ever be hungry enough to resort to that. Recently I watched a documentary on the Documentary Channel on Dish called Okie Noodling....try to catch it...you won't believe your eyes. It will actually make you think eating coon and possum is pretty normal stuff.

These are always fun to watch.

Click on my name for a two minute video clip of David Letterman's, "Top Ten Bush Moments".

That was awesome, Hugh. I'm glad they were able to find ten moments when he wasn't doing something that actually was tearing down the country or getting someone killed.

"[Bush] simply forgot his oath of office to uphold and protect the Constitution."

Hmmm. Maybe. But the paranoid in me wonders if he or his handlers aren't consciously and deliberately circumventing it. With a 2007 or 2008 equivalent of the 1968 Pueblo incident/Tet offensive "dominos," what could Bush do politically? More specifically, what would the American people allow him to do?

I agree that James McMurtry's song "We Can't Make It Here Anymore" is one of the great protest songs. I first heard it when my sister (a Republican!) played it the CD for me last summer. The YouTube version makes it much more vivid with all the graphics. It's long but worth watching. Here is the link again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTW0y6kazWM&mode=related&search=

Yep, it's going to take a draft to get the sheeple to wake the F up and give us some good protest songs.

I mean, where's Country Joe and the Fish when we really need them anyway??

"Vice President Dick Cheney said on Sunday the United States must show it has the "stomach" to win in Iraq..."

Yeah, like he did during the Vietnam War. He had enough stomach that he got 5 deferments.

Funniest headline of the day:

"Shanghai cancels plan for world's largest ferris wheel; didn't want to taunt Godzilla"

Rev. Mojo Ryson,

Thanks for the James McMurtry url. I couldn't watch it until I got back to Little Rock and a high speed connection.

On the ride, I was listening to some "moldy oldies" and I carefully listened to the lyrics of the September 1969, Creedance Clearwater Revival hit "Fortunate Son" - Lead Singer/Composer: John Fogerty. They might interest you, also, especially the last verse.

FORTUNATE SON

"Some folks are born
made to wave the flag,
Ooh, they're red, white and blue.
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief",
they point the cannon right at you.

It ain't me, it ain't me.
I ain't no senator's son.
It ain't me, it ain't me.
I ain't no fortunate one.

Some folks are born
silver spoon in hand,
Lord don't they help themselves.
But when the tax man comes to the door,
Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale.

It ain't me, it ain't me.
I ain't no millionaire's son.
It ain't me, it ain't me.
I ain't no fortunate one.

Some folks inherit
star spangled eyes,
Ooh, they send you down to war.
And when you ask them,
"How much should we give?"
They only answer "More! More! More!"

It ain't me, it ain't me.
I ain't no military son.
It ain't me,it ain't me.
I ain't no fortunate one.

It ain't me, it ain't me.
I ain't no Fortunate Son."

Fogarty was very prescient about our "red, white and blue" leaders with the "star 'spangled eyes." You don't even have to ask Bush 'How much should we give?" He just answers "More! More! More!"