Keep looking upward for flying gopher guts and be watching out for those dollops falling from the sky. Those dropping gop-goose are the brown balls that splat on your head if you're not careful.

Wear a orange construction plastic troll hat. Take one for Mr radio spewer-stinky, Limburger cheese? Tattoo on the rump, "shooter 242 loves gop-poo." I doubt that will protect

you.

Also:

Beware for the flying tweety birds. It's been rumored they are armed in their talons, grasping those hard shell box turtles for a direct hit. Kapok! Plonk!

Nature has many tricks and guises. If it's not Al-Qaida comming...

Some Al-Qaida labeled turtle may plunk trolls on the nitwit empty cranial

noggin.

O, crock!

kick a tin bucket?

A hole may be in the head?

O, what crocks is RWA-right.

Susie Madrak at the Huffington Post supplies a link for signing a petition sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee:

Sign the DEFUND/REFUND Petition

Defund the war in Iraq

Refund human needs at home and in Iraq

The estimated cost of the first four years of the Iraq War is $1 trillion.

For what we have spent for just ONE DAY of the Iraq War, we could have funded:

* 95,364 Head Start Places for Children or

* 12,478 Elementary School Teachers or

* 163,525 People with Health Care or

* 34,904 Four Year College Scholarships or

* 6,482 Families with Homes

Please sign the DEFUND/REFUND petition below to shift war funding to support human needs here and real solutions in Iraq.

To Members of Congress:

U.S. military personnel continue to die in Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died since the U.S. invasion and 4 million have fled their homes. U.S. taxpayers have contributed more than $1 trillion to pay for the current and future costs of the first four years of war.

We, the undersigned, urge you to take action to bring the U.S. troops home from Iraq and take care of their needs upon return; to fund aid for the humanitarian crisis in Iraq and an eventual Iraqi-led repair and reconstruction; and to fund critical human needs here in the United States.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-madrak/what-this-war-costs-us-al_b_85273.html

http://support.afsc.org/site/PageNavigator/DefundRefundPetition

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_mueller/2006/11/john_mueller.html

To address the underreported and growing dire threat of bathtub drownings.

The disproportionate fear of spectacular events is well documented in the scientific literature. That it is being exploited by self-serving liars is also well documented. That folks like shooter are being played like violins is the inescapable conclusion.

Let's raise the thread level from the troll-black-slop pig-wallowing in a ground-puddle, sewer gutter. They get a splash but it's nationally sickening. What lowly and ruinous...Bad ilk-Glops ~

Those scum-people are neo-type-ilk,

who use to place a dead mule head,

on a front seat of their perceived,

"enemies" golf carts. It's vile-rude.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/11/perceived_risk_2.html

Armed with my trusty calculator and the state-by-state results at CNN (http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/dates/#20080205) as of about 9:30 am ET, I have totaled the votes by party in each state. I used only states where votes, rather than caucus results, are reported. The grand total is overwhelming: Democrats cast 14,435,174 votes to only 8,758,508 votes for the Republicans, or a Democratic win of 62 to 38%. Democrats turned out more voters than Republicans in 12 of the 15 states for which totals were reported. Here are my numbers:

_____________D_____________________R___

AL:________533,521_______________550,573

AZ:________368,828_______________439,347

AR:________273,449_______________199,679

CA:_______3,828,921_____________2,144,295

CT:________349,288_______________149,068

DE:_________95,978________________50,062

GA:_______1,040,873_______________959,500

IL:_______1,937,730_______________873,095

MA:______1,227,388_______________487,774

MO:________820,453_______________584,618

NJ:_______1,103,824_______________554,894

NY:_______1,717,857_______________601,265

OK:________401,656_______________331,796

TN:________612,791_______________548,783

UT:________122,617_______________283,759

I was amazed particularly by higher Democratic turnout than Republican in states such as Georgia, Oklahoma, Missouri and Tennessee. Alabama even would appear to be in play in the general election. If the Democrats can match this relative turnout in the general election, it will not even be close.

I see a strong need for the Democrats to be careful not to destroy the enthusiasm that is bringing so many to the voting booth. Real change could well be on the way.

Will the Democrats in Congress see and understand what happened yesterday?

I need to go bathe. Is you hinting 'smarting?

Do me a favor? Please sing acapella the song:

Ya's will never go down the drain? No, never...

Thanks for posting the numbers. I noticed that in general this morning and thought that it should be the biggest story of all of what happened yesterday. As you asked, let's hope that the Democratic Party understands the importance of that and helps to see it through rather than destroy it. Destruction of good news seems to be one of the more prominent abilities of Democratic Party insiders.

I agree that is the best news of all. There was some coverage of that last night, but not much where I was watching.

And, unbelievably, during the Florida primary, I read that MSNBC took it upon themselves not to bother reporting the the Democratic results... since they weren't going to count after all. That really peeved me, for precisely the same reason... the total number of voters alone would be meaningful. And it was. But, true to form, MSNBC was more concerned with poking Clinton in the eye than in reporting on the voices of Florida voters. So typical.

Sorry for the rant...

As Kitt said, thanks, Jim, for posting those numbers. Linking to your comment will make it much easier to share that news!

While the bath water is poured I can't resist acknowledging you love music and play instruments.

If you wish you may heat up some brandy, add sugar, add spices or sweet raisins and garnishes. (glogg glogg)

If you have a glockenspiel percussion musical instrument, you may strike the flat metal frame and make bell-like tones to cheer us up? We need happy moods. How does a person annoy YKW? I try.

I'll lend you a wood hammer?

I'm not particular. Dulcimer?

We need to avoid thee gulag.

We have had a busy night and have now a busy day ahead here in Tennessee, recovering from severe storms. I don't expect to be here much today, and have some thoughts looking back at comments of Sol Invictus and of others.

We who lament our current administration and congress do not say that a terrorist threat does not exist. We say that our government is mismanaging the true terrorist threat, as well as other important tasks, through a combination of ineptitude, political cravenness, cowardice, corruption, and war profiteering. We know firsthand whereof we speak. Some here (of which I am one) are trained to varying levels of expertise in domestic counter-terror response operations. In my case, it's part of my job - every day. I am considered by my jurisdiction locally, and by the Department of Homeland Security nationally, to be highly-trained and qualified, and additionally am considered a SME in some counter-terror and disaster-response discipline specialties. All this to explain why, in retrospect, I take offense at, and am saddened by, the comments of SI at 4:05 and others.

I had worked side-by-side with some of the fire fighters who died in the Towers on September 11, 2001. None of them wanted to die that day; of this I am sure. I am equally certain, because of our shared experiences in training and during responses, that they would not want to see the squandering of resources and energy taking place on this very day in response to the events of that day.

There is much that can be done that isn't being done, and there is no need to reinvent the wheel. Western Europe has been training, equipping, and responding to domestic terror since the Seventies. The events of September 11, 2001 awoke the US citizenry at large to things that "The Government" has been aware of for years. That's alright; we arguably had the luxury of believing that our geography gave us special protection. Now it's time to educate citizens for resiliency; prepare communities; enhance intelligence gathering (not interrogation techniques btw) and police work; secure the borders in a sensible, humane manner,; harden infrastructure; monitor and inspect incoming freight; et cetera.

Instead of these common-sense, field-tested, proven tactics, the Bush Administration and a feckless enabling Congress are playing around with half-measures relating to protection and resiliency. They are foolishly wasting precious lives, vast talent, billions of dollars, and our nations stature on "pre-emptive war," a ridiculously complicated unproven high-tech surveillance apparatus, unnecessary unconstitutional civil/human rights violations, and a knee-jerk inefficient pork-barrel spending spree.

The people who comment in these pages love their country dearly. Most are very capable of discerning the issues confronting our nation and our planet, and how to best - each in one's own way - move forward in facing them.

I wish all peace. Not necessarily in the ordinary transactions of modern life (though that would be nice too), but within the self. I wish that our drive to survive, prosper, and thrive would also drive us to be kind. I wish that we would all focus on the true threats we face and stop making accusations against our own. People who post in the manner of SI and other bad-faith actors should find a way to attain inner calm. One too-prominent regular should go find another hobby. I usually skip his posts, if I identify the handle quickly enough, but admit that sometimes I read before catching myself. I get enough of his bad-faith manipulation within the posts of commenters who engage him. I mention all this because another wish I have is that we could just leave him be. I know this won't happen; he's irresistible to some here, but I did want to express that wish.