your charms are wasted on me, maureenodonnell. "I am a drinker with a writing problem"

bah.

ps. I will acknoledge;

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

Brendan Behan

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

Brendan Behan

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

Brendan Behan

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.

Brendan Behan

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

Brendan Behan

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

Brendan Behan

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

Brendan Behan

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

Brendan Behan

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

Brendan Behan

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

Brendan Behan

that should do it.

Congressional gift regulations begin...

'Both houses of Congress have specific regulations concerning gifts that may be accepted by members and staff...

to wit; a widely attended event.'

"18. Free attendance at a widely attended event that is officially related to Congressional duties, or at a widely attended charity event.

An event is considered widely attended when at least 25 persons from outside Congress are expected to attend.

The event should be *open* to members from a given industry or profession, or >>>to a range of persons interested in an issue.<<<

Free attendance does not include entertainment collateral to the event, such as tickets to a sporting or some other purely recreational event.

The exemption also does not cover food or refreshments that are not taken in a group setting with substantially all of the other attendees.

Free attendance to a charity event that is substantially recreational may be accepted.

A ticket to a sporting or recreational event that is not a charity must come within the gift limit of $49.99 and the aggregate limit from the source of $99.99 per year. Even lobbyists, lobbying firms or foreign agents may sponsor >>>a widely attended event.<<< [House Rule 25 (a)(1); Senate Rule 35 1(a)(2)]"

Personally, I'm gonna party like it's 1999. That was about the time SunCom (now defunct) sold me down the ATT data stream. ...with not even so much as a by your leave, neither.

by your leave,

bah.

Well, I still love you Mooser.

I'm in a generous mood (contrary to what you may hear.), so I'll grant you'all a boon. (I wish William Timberman was here to explain it proper - but he ain't.) So,

After suffering humiliation at the hands of the town folks because he tried to tell them the water was toxic, Dr. Stockman (a character in Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People") is told by one of the citizens that 'the majority always has right on its side.' The good Doctor responds 'the majority *never* has right on its side.' So much for democracy.

And thus, like the fictional dystopias between 'left/right', 'liberal/conservative', 'democracy/communism', 'good/evil' dipicted in works like Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, most utopian dreams ultimately degenrate into rigid, inflexible and oppressive nightmares that enslave the very citizens they were devised to liberate.

Methinks, it is not entirely through intelligence, privilage, wealth, power - or even by dent of training or knowledge - that will effect a reprieve, much less a change, from predatory systems of governance.

It will be accomplished by people of goodwill. That is, people who have kind hearts and fair minds. Always has been, always will be, imo.

bah.

"Superb" nothing ... that was more like a sublime prayer meeting, Glenn.

I don't know if Barack will, in fact, answer my prayers but I'm pertty sure the Constitution (nor any other piece of paper) ain't gonna save me from the cluster-ducks-mucking-it-up for the last eight years!

Hell fire, everybody says they are for the Constitution - but its the holding of the Constitution that is so important.

Barack Obama at least has a working-knowledge of the Constitution. Barack knows perfectly well that retro-immunity law (among other things) is a bunch of crappola. I am convinced he went-along-with-it because most the big-wig Demorcrat Leaders were/are in it up to their necks. ... extenuating circumstances notwithstanding. I don't think mass impeachment is at the top of Barack's to do list right now. (... declare victory and come home, if were lucky, mooser.)

yes we can whatever,

bah.

ps. Pedinska. please inform bop o I must insist he get well soon.

bah.

~@C.O.

we are in total agreement about bop, blueberries and getting well. ... and you can't buy that for love nor money around here./

~@ Strangely enough re:

>"...I just don't foresee the great giving back of Congressional powers and oversight."

Well, technically, it wern't Bushs' to take and it ain't Obama's to give. I think I understand what you mean, but I don't think Obama is going to stand in the way if Congress wishes to exercise its Constitutional powers.

that's about all Obama can say.

@Strangely enough >"...any oversight would most likely be on themselves, if at all."

Yep, I don't they they are going to impeach themselves, strangely enough! President Obama can scream and bitch all he wants to. (Presidents can't impeach nobody can they?)

anyway, I find it very strange I agree with most everybody today.

bah.

(remember, it is a good deed to ignore a bad joke)

Yes, Glenn, there are millions, maybe zillions, of guns in the usa. About half of them, i believe, are in e. ky. I got to tell you, I don't think such po lice tactics would go over so ...smoothly around here?

Which begs the question, in my mind at least, what happens if (when) someone get hurts in these ...uh, raids?

happiness is a warm...,

bah.

in St. Paul! ... are like the terrorists in Iraq, Glenn. (Pre-surge) Don't say I never told you it was just a matter of time before Bush invaded Minnosota.

Urine and what! Dang, in Denver they were throwing high-class Parties (well, not so much for Glenn and Jane.), but in St. Paul they're whacking em' over the head, rounding em' up and throwing out the slop jars! (*For the record, I don't have a pot to pee in, nor a window to throw it out of.)

Rocky mountain high (and I'm stuck in St. Paul with you'all),

bah.

ps. Mooser, I don't know if you're the daddy. ...but i've got my eye on you. It's very suspicious.