Going, going —FOUND! December 15, 2009
Posted by judylobo in Animal Videos, Photography, Politics, Videos, Zoos, wildlife.Tags: Chimpanzees, chimpnzees, Joe Lieberman, Jonathan Turley, Keith Olberman, Rahm Emanuel
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Going, going —FOUND! 22,000,000 Bush administration e-mails have been found. It is astounding how many laws these thugs broke, bent and spat upon while we sat watching in despair. Listen to Keith Olbermann discuss this with Jonathan Turley on last night’s Countdown. Raise you hand if you think this criminal act will just fade into the night just like all of the others. Aurgh.
- Joe Loserman (oops, I meant Lieberman) has done it again. Is there anyone more irritating than this selfish son of a bitch? And once more, the Dreadfulcrats are appeasing this guy. If you want to get even more nauseous from the health care meltdown read this article entitled The Appeasement of Joe Lieberman
- There is also a breakdown of this surrender of everything we have been yelling about for months in Talking Points Memo. The finger points directly at Rahm Emanuel. The Administration is so desperate to get this vote finished and move on to other items on their agenda (which also will be watered down to an unrecognizable point) they have given away the farm.
- Here is a fine summary and funny photo of the thinking of Joe Lieberman by ‘watertiger‘ of FireDogLake.com.
“Friends, Beltwayans, countrymen: I come to bury health care, not to praise it. The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with health care. Ambition for reform should have been made of sterner stuff, and liberals have lost their reason. Behold, for I am your new leader!
Oh, and I have a few demands. This list is not inclusive and is subject to additions and amendments, depending on how I feel in that particular moment:
1. You shall hereinafter refer to me as “Josephus Imperator”. Alternatively, if I am in the mood, you may address me in the familiar as “Rex Senatorium”. Only my family and close friends are permitted to call me “Shivmeister”.
2. My birthday, February 24th, shall henceforth be observed as a national holiday. However, I have so decreed that only insurance company and pharmaceutical industry employees shall be allowed to take the day off in celebration of my nativity.
3. Caricaturists depicting me as the cartoon character “Droopy Dawg” or the father in the 1980s television sitcom “ALF” shall be summarily executed.
4. Web revolutionaries Jane Hamsher and Markos Moulitsas are hereby banished from this country to a faraway land where there is no Internet by which to foment rebellion against me or my wife, Hadassah Regina.
5. I will remain at liberty to attend the Senate Democratic Caucus meetings at my pleasure, despite my undocumented registration as a Republican.
6. I reserve the right to remain the key swing vote on every vitally important piece of legislation passing through either House of Congress.
7. I will not only retain my current chairmanship, but am now claiming the gavels for the Judiciary, Appropriations, and Finance committees.
8. We begin bombing Iran in 5 minutes.
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Wherever you are, Senator Kennedy, I hope you’re not watching this desecration of your life’s work. It is absolutely shameful.
- This is how I sounded this morning while writing this post:
Slam Spam, Thank You Ma’am December 9, 2009
Posted by judylobo in Photography, Politics, Videos, Zoos, wildlife.Tags: Slam Spam, Thank You Ma'am
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So yesterday morning, I was doing my usual pre-dawn e-mailing when suddenly my outgoing mail ceases. A very annoying and persistent drop down dialog box kept telling me I cannot send any mail. I performed the usual tasks of restarting the computer, unplugging all of the connections, loud cursing and then directly on to obsessing.
I used my woefully inadequate judylobo@gmail.com as a back up. It is inadequate because my address book is out of date and I do not like the aesthetics of the program.
Deciding there were more important things to do I went off to a movie. Upon returning late afternoon, my mail program was still not working. I bit the bullet, sat down with a beverage (non-alcoholic) and phoned the Time Warner Road Runner help line.
Did you know that if you cough while speaking to the automated voice they immediately transfer you to a live person? The live person needed to know everything all over again but sadly, the Bangalore office could not help me and he switched me over to another live person – this time out of the Philippines.
After umpteen efforts, this lovely young man tells me I have been flagged as a spammer by the Road Runner security team. Spammer, I yammer? Huh? He says that anyone who sends thousands of e-mails out a day is flagged as a spammer. I laughed and said that all of my e-mails were either personal or a subscription based list that was surely not in the thousands – not even close.
Now what? He has me fill out a security team form which ended up immediately telling me that this ‘issue’ would be resolved within two business days.
The poor young man was more upset than I was when I told him what type of e-mail I send out. It almost seemed as if he wanted to be on one of my lists. He thanked me profusely and wanted to know if there was anything else he could do for me. Oh, where should I begin, I thought.
I shut down, walked the dog and when I came home – guess what? My mail program was functioning just fine. So – is it an NSA, CIA, FBI plot? Or does shit just happen.
Catch a Tiger in a Lie November 30, 2009
Posted by judylobo in Animal Videos, Dogs and cats, Politics, Videos, Zoos, wildlife.Tags: Moxie the lion cub, Tareq and Michaela Salahi, Tiger Woods
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Raise your hand if you think Tiger Woods is a lying’ sack ‘o shit. The stories and rumors that have surfaced since his uber-embarrassing one car in his own driveway accident are hilarious. The latest one I heard this morning was that they think his wife went after him with one of his golf clubs. How karmic is that? Oh boy – Tiger is not out of the Woods just yet, but this story has me chuckling.
- Speaking of liars – what about those Obama State dinner party crashers? Is Barbarians at the Gate a good call? Apparently Obama’s death threats are up 400% over George W. Bush’ (which makes me scratch my head) and yet the Secret Service is not on their toes. Shame on them. I would be most happy if the ‘media’ had a black out over the gate-crashing couple, Tareq and Michaela Salahi. Now THAT would be karmic justice for this celebrity obsessed couple.
- I am also about to have my head explode over tomorrow night’s Afghanistan speech by President Obama. I do not like what he is about to do at all – no I do not.
Speaking of lyin’ – here is a one year old lion, named Moxie. Below the photo montage is the cutest little surprised kitty ever.

Here’s to Your Health! November 22, 2009
Posted by judylobo in Animal Videos, Photography, Politics, Videos, Zoos, wildlife.Tags: Frank Rich, health care, Sarah Palin, Stupak
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I believe all of the Sturm und Drang over this seemingly never ending health care debate has damaged my own health. When the storm first broke about health care reform, I actually understood the breadth of ideas. With the wrangling, horse trading, giving up long held tenets of the Democratic party (see Stupak amendment) to get to this stage of the debate – I not only am sick over the debate – but sick and tired of the politics and utter bullshit.
Between the media insanity over Sarah Palin’s book tour (which is reminiscent of the coverage of Michael Jackson’s death) to the media coverage of health care – I am afraid I have developed a pre-existing condition called chronic nausea. Every opinion column is now devoted to the Palin death march book tour and her importance or lack thereof. Even Frank Rich chimes in today.
It seems to me that Sarah Palin’s motto should be ‘Take the Money and (Not) Run.’ She is enjoying every second of the theater and the money she is raking in. By the way – do her children ever go to school?
The vote to actually debate this morphed health care bill was settled down party lines last night (60-39 with Ohio’s George V. Voinovich (R-Ohio) missing the vote). Can anyone tell me why we are even having a discussion with the Repugnants when it is clear that they are in lock-step as the party of ‘NO’ as an agenda?
Sadly, we have many more weeks of all-Sarah/all-healthcare before we can turn to the most important things for the re-election Democrats in 2010 – the economy and jobs. If the Dems can figure out how to make those employment figures look better, the free-floating rage across the land (or at least the land that the media is covering) will abate. It was true then and it is true now – ‘it’s the economy, stupid’.
One more thing – how about getting out of Afghanistan, Mr. President?
When times get tough – there is nothing like a fun video to ease the pain. My pal, Mary has made a video about an adorable little orangutan.
Why I am not voting for Mike Bloomberg October 28, 2009
Posted by judylobo in Photography, Politics, Zoos, wildlife.Tags: Clyde Haberman, David Dinkins, Mike Bloomberg, Rudy Giuliani
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‘I know, I know — but’ - is the response I have been getting from all of my friends when I tell them that I am not voting for Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Some friends look away with a momentary guilty look. Some hang their heads down and say ‘but I don’t like the other guy (Bill Thompson).’ Some just say ‘ well, he cannot be bought.’ To all of them, I say, as Rachel Maddow always says, ‘Bull Hockey.’
Here is why I am not voting for Mayor Mike.
1. I am still angry that Bloomberg brought the RNC to NYC in 2004 and even more angry at the illegal arrest and detention of over 1800 individuals by the authorities during the Republican Nation Convention. The 1800 arrests and detentions were a record for a political convention in the U.S. Many people were detained longer than 24 hours on relatively trivial charges. However, 90% of those charges were eventually dropped. I have ranted about these arrests before and also ranted about the fact that I can never GET arrested while demonstrating. I definitely will have to try harder next time. There are a slew of details here.
2. I hated his trying to shove the West Side Stadium down our throats in 2005. Luckily, he lost that battle.
3. However, it is his overturning of term limits that put me over the top. Long story short, in the fall of 2008, Bloomberg successfully campaigned for an amendment to New York City’s term limits law, in order to allow him to run for a third term in 2009. There was plenty of time for him to pay for (about $40 million) a special election so that the people, who had already voted twice on this issue, could decide if Bloomberg could run for another term. He decided not to go that way – and essentially bought the City Council and overturned the law. He thought we would forget. Well, most have – or just do not care. I have not. (For the record – I voted NO to term limits two times but that is beside the point. It was the LAW).
Clyde Haberman, says that Bloomberg Is Betting on Voters With an Elastic Approach to the Law. “The mayor used to believe fervently in a two-term limit — until it became inconvenient for him. His “complete and utter disregard for the democratic process,” Mr. Thompson said, “was a defining moment for all of us.” “Does the richest man in New York City get to live by one set of rules while the rest of us live by another?”
4. Obscene amounts of his own money have been spent on his campaign. Bloomberg, the richest man in New York City, has spent $85 million on his current re-election campaign — a U.S. record for most personal money spent in a campaign for public office. The election is less than a week away and Bloomberg may wind up spending up to $140 million. This is plain wrong. I do not care if it is his own money. It is offensive.
5. He can’t be bought, some say. When a man has billions of dollars, he doesn’t need to be bought. He can do all of the buying and that is just what has happened in the last eight years. New York Magazine, in a lengthy piece. details how and why Bloomberg has become as successful as he has, in this uncontrollable City. ‘A remarkable number of dominoes have fallen Bloomberg’s way. The city’s ethnic politics are at a transition point: Black activists trained in the civil-rights model are fading, and though the city’s Latino and Asian communities have rising population numbers, they have yet to coalesce around any leaders, though the primary victory of John Liu is perhaps a sign of things to come. The speaker of the City Council is usually a mayoral antagonist. But the current speaker, Christine Quinn, decided that the best way to be elected mayor herself was to ingratiate herself with Bloomberg. Then Quinn was further neutered by the council’s slush-fund scandal’.
6. He brought Rudy Giuliani in to campaign for him. Did he really need to do that? There is no one who is more divisive than Rudy. He still makes most of us shudder whenever his punim shows up on TV or in the press. Rudy then did what he does best – he pulls the fear factor out of his ass and goes for broke. He invokes those code words and we all get nauseous. Yesterday, the New York Times’ Michael Powell revisited the Dinkins years that Rudy was brewing and stewing about. The record gets straightened out and Dinkins gets some of the credit he deserves.
- As Rudy Giuliani comes to town to campaign for Mayor Bloomberg, remember that Republicans stick together.
7. And why oh why is it that Bloomberg cannot decide whether he is a Democrat, Republican or an Independent. Is that such a hard thing to do?
- Did Mayor Bloomberg do a good job as Mayor for the past eight years? Yes. He did some fine things – but you know what? That is what we elect people to do – their job. And when it is time to go — it is time to go. As far as I am concerned, the best thing about Mayor Mike was his bringing The Gates Project to Central Park in 2005.
- Will Mike Bloomberg win a third term? I would be crazy to bet against him. The only thing Bill Thompson has going for him is the fact that many people will not go to the polls. Only 7% of eligible voters turned out for the run-off two weeks ago.
- Mayor Michael Bloomberg was bitten by groundhog, Staten Island Chuck during the Staten island Zoo’s annual Groundhog Day event.





Talk about strange overlaps. While walking my dog Benny (who does not yet acknowledge the fact that we turned the clock back an hour last night), I noticed the Halloween revelers were still walking home while the NYC Marathon buses filled with anxious runners, were headed to Staten Island to await the start later this morning. I guess that there are both party marathoners and running marathoners, right?
- Since people are taking part in both activities at the same time I decided I can write about the Marathon and still be celebrating Halloween. So, the above photo of Benny is my little Halloween greeting to you and yours.
First – Do No Harm December 17, 2009
Posted by judylobo in Animal Videos, Photography, Politics, Videos, Zoos, wildlife.Tags: Harry Reid, Howard Dean, Jon Walker, Keith Olbermann special commentary, Nancy Pelosi, Nate Silver, obama, Progressives
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‘Progressives’ is the term du jour for ‘Liberals’. Okay – I will not argue over titles. The most frustrating and the best part of being a progressive is that there is dialogue. You could send the entire day reading progressive opinions for and against the health care bill in its present form. Here is a good summary from FireDogLake. com as Jon Walker answers Nate Silver’s 20 questions.
For the policy wonks out there – Nate Silver has responded to Jon Walker’s responses here.
Keith Olbermann gave a Special Commentary on last night’s program on this issue:
Part 1-
Part 2:
After all of these mind exploding issues, who does not need a smile or two?