A bushel of red bells, yellow too, and a mix of pepper hots? I pledge, and I'll label- Danger Hot Jalapenos.

So- in other words, instead of quickly, totally emptying the McDonald's scrapped, recycled walk-in-cooler, I'll hold back my pledge. Maybe two-bushels of peppers to Dodd? I'm a conservative centrist. I don't like labels tho...

If someone pledges to smack each and every GOP neocon warped-persona, with a dash of hot-sauce salsa, in the eyes, I promise 2- bushels of assorted, multi-size, and tasty colored Peppers. Bake them. Yum for the tummy. They are so wonderful to smell baking.

Put them up for,

Winter at the hearth[!]

At the red berry Holley season.

_

My best friend said: You are never reachable. The phone line is always busy. I miss you. I say, "I miss you..." so much too...

Then: A unsolicited hug. A receive a fragrance of beautiful flesh. A look in my eyes, and we both have some 'quiet' flow of momentary tears.

I express: My desire is that the war ends. It is war time. We/me/you desire Peace? Yes. Try to understand? It's okay.

The rumor is: the blog-world (I no agree) has short-circuited something in me. A friend tries to tel-phone me. I say, "A cell-phone may give you a brain-stupor? And maybe a cell-tumor?"

I say, "I miss you. You miss me. Try to understand. The wonderful people out there- I understand- and they also long to end the war's travesty.

It is a time of war."

We long for a time of Peace.

Do you hear? "I feel it." The response.

_

Sorry- but my best friends are always expanding me. The most precious one I allude to, hugs me. I get to smell her innocent fragrant hair, touch her soft flesh, and hear her calm voice. I get to see her face to face. I see gentle tears. Then: I leave to say, other peoples's reality too, this reality expressed here.

Respectfully,

Art James

Don't know about "unfaithful": spent the last four hours blogging about Dodd, emailing about Dodd, emailing to Dodd, contributing to Dodd.

Maybe it won't work; maybe in 100 years no one will care.

But right now, it feels DAMN good.

I don't like labels either.
I think these things only:
Follow Your Dreams
Stand Up to Bullies
It's Better to Be Nice to People

That's All,
Gordon Ginsberg

It would get their attention immediately. If enough people participated, say a few million, and refused to pay not only their mortgages, their credit cards, but their utilities, rent and taxes as well, the message would be loud and clear.

Within my own circles exactly that action has been under discussion for a while, with the proviso that payments be made to an escrow account, to be disbursed if and/or when The Powers That Be figure out that they really do have to listen to and act on the Voice of the People. If corporate profits suddenly take a hit -- or one hit after another -- and The People persist in this form of protest (which large numbers have not done with regard to protests up till now), it would be impossible to ignore.

The man from Connecticut with the largest nutmegs in the Senate.

That may not be the compliment you think. Connecticut grows no nutmegs, and reputedly (by some accounts) got its name as the "Nutmeg State" from the propensity of Yankee peddlers to foist off wooden nutmegs on the unsuspecting.....:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut

Cheers,

As did mine.

Show him the love, folks, even if it's just a letter, e-mail or signature on the petition.

Cheers,

I am very pleased that Senator Dodd has shown some backbone. I just, per Glenn's suggestion, made a donation to his campaign.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trHere's a first for a

Senate presidential candidate: blocking a bill that doesn't exist yet.

Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) announced in a breathless press release this afternoon that he would block the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) "from being considered by the full Senate and from receiving a vote on the Senate floor." The statement came as the Senate Intelligence Committee met to consider the legislation -- and weeks before it is likely to reach the floor.

...The rhetoric got hotter with every paragraph. "It is unconscionable that such a basic right has been

violated, and that the president is the perpetrator," Dodd said. "I will do everything in my power to stop Congress from shielding this President's agenda of secrecy, deception, and blatant unlawfulness."

...Whenever that big day comes, Dodd -- as the keeper of the "hold" -- must return from the campaign trail to officially block debate on the bill. That entails standing around on the Senate floor, forcing procedural votes, avoiding the furious glares of colleagues who don't share the same concerns. The standard duration of such showdowns is about a week -- time that Dodd, who is trailing badly in early primary polls, can scarcely afford.

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All the comments excoriated Murray for her tone and missing the consitutional import.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/10/18/post_137.html?hpid=news-col-blog

"That may not be the compliment you think. Connecticut grows no nutmegs, and reputedly (by some accounts) got its name as the "Nutmeg State" from the propensity of Yankee peddlers to foist off wooden nutmegs on the unsuspecting...."

I know the story, or at least a version of it. It is said that yankee peddlers would carve fake nutmegs from hickory wood. They would then "cut" the pure nutmeg by mixing the fakes into the nutmeg casks. Over time, the fakes would absorb some of the smell, making it very difficult to tell the fakes from the real thing. Excellent way to increase the peddler's margins, and the victims had the benefit of adding connecticut hicory fiber into their diets, none the wiser. It really is an excellent wood...

Believe it or not, nutmeggers took a certain pride in the story, and when some marketing department changed Conn. into the "constitution state", we knew that move for the empty PR ploy that it was.

So it was indeed intended as a compliment, and to any real nutmegger, I'm confident it will be received as same.