Here are the director Brad May’s remarks about the trailer below:
It feels like a near-eternity since I first went to work on THE AUDACITY OF DEMOCRACY last July. After shooting for roughly seven weeks, I had just under one hundred hours of video tape to cut together. Even more daunting was the notion that I could fashion that footage into any number of story lines, utilizing any number of narrative framing devices. What I chose to do, in the end, was tell the sort of American story I used to love as a kid – the kind of story where one or two or three people set out to accomplish something they feel needs accomplishing, all worries about success or failure be damned.
That is what I decided to do with the film and that is, for good or ill, what I have done.
As I’ve been saying, the finished film will be ready by roughly the second week of January, 2009. I’ve sent Murphy a copy of my first official trailer for the film. If anyone’s name is misspelled, please let me know and I’ll post a revised version of the trailer this weekend on YouTube.
The trailer does not, of course, try to tell the whole story the film itself takes on, nor does it really try to capture the overall tone. What it attempts to do is get your attention, draw you in a bit. Give you a taste. It’s my hope that the finished film will be useful as a fund-raising tool for worthwhile efforts. For the record, I’ve had less than half the projected budget to work with, and the film has even set me back a bit. Still, I’m glad I did it and I’m grateful to Darragh Murphy, Riverdaughter, Marnie, Sherri and the rest of you for letting me into your lives during the production of our film. — Brad Mays.
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Pookie 12.20.08 at 6:20 pm
Ah Ha!
clintondemocrat 12.20.08 at 6:21 pm
Hello PUMAs. I just found two bizarre articles within minutes of one another that just enraged me. One basically insinuates in the title that sarah Palin is somehow responsible for the drug use of the mother of her daughter’s fiancee, that’s right, THE MOTHER of her daughter’s fiancee. The other article talks about how the Illinois governor’s scandal and sort of dances around the issue that Tony Rezko was deeply involved with the Governor’s campaign and major illegal actions that took place in that campaign and term in office but simply mentions that he was a bankroller for Obama. It is appalling to me that even now, Sarah Palin is getting the book thrown at her by the media over something as ridiculous as drug use of the Mother of her daughter’s fiancee (which the story also points out that this would be the grandmother of Palin’s daughter’s baby) but in another story printed at about the same time we can only read one comment intersperced into a sentence about Rezko’s simultaneous associations with Obama and Blogoyavich!
Read the stories at the links below. Im out. Have a nice holiday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20081220/pl_mcclatchy/3127930
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081220/ap_on_re_us/illinois_governor_charges
bqueen 12.20.08 at 6:42 pm
Yeah i feel like it’s been an eternity since i saw some of those shots!
off topic but check it out: gay protests tonite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li5fQZ7Tddk&eurl=http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/
thanks tennessee guerilla women for the h/t
jenniforhillary 12.20.08 at 6:45 pm
Well, thanks a lot murphy, making me sob thinking about what could of, would have, should have, and fucking will be.
I cannot and will not ever truly recover from the past year. I feel old, I feel sad, and I feel small. Puma is my connection to life, and it is relegated to my fingers, my eyes, and my heart.
America has shown me that there is no amount of dumb that will make misogyny appear real, that Hitler’s big lie did and will work work, and that women have so far to come that we are in the pre-born stage as far as equal rights.
I still refuse to believe that that man, who is not even an American, will be allowed to step foot in our house as our leader. And even if the idiots go on with the ridiculous event, he will only be a thug. just a thug. and the democrats will have forever earned WORST ever honors as far as political parties. GW Bush will become the ‘good old days’ and freedom will take on a more frantic nature.
I am proud to be a Puma, glad to be a woman, and sorry to be an American at this point. I think if this sham takes place, I will just be a puma girl in exile, looking for the country my great grandparents fled Hitler for–the country that would take THAT ONE and fling him back to the depths of hell he escaped from. the country that honors her heroes, and respects her women. I will keep looking for that country until I cannot look anymore. And I will keep fighting this evil until I cannot fight anymore. this is my new pledge of allegiance.
bqueen 12.20.08 at 6:57 pm
mmmm…I don’t like BJ being cut in like that. Her emotion is way too strong for a trailer and deserves more respect, time and dignity.
It should not be presented as “bytes” as it is here.
((((((BJ)))))))
bqueen 12.20.08 at 6:59 pm
jenniforhillary: Norway is the most progressive land in the world when it comes to gender equality. Move there! (seriously!)
gypsy rebel 12.20.08 at 7:08 pm
Murphy – you’ve got mail
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 7:10 pm
JenniferforHillary: I fight with you. We all do. We will not stop.
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 7:11 pm
7gypsyrebel: Hi, gypsyrebel …tripped over any camel turds today? Hope not!
KarenWI 12.20.08 at 7:14 pm
jenni, I’m not only standing beside you in this fight, I’ve got your back…
KarenWI 12.20.08 at 7:15 pm
I’m only one of how many?… just know Jenni that you have an army standing beside you… and we have your back…..
KarenWI 12.20.08 at 7:24 pm
I think Mountainsong mentioned downstairs about weathermen. Did you hear about the guy who said there was a 20% chance of snow? ..because only two of his toes ached. Hey, there’s more truth to that than joke!
gypsy rebel 12.20.08 at 7:27 pm
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 7:11 pm
Hey there! Been having puter problems….then I had to go over to Greta’s and sling some of that camel dung for you!! I just back online and ready!!
mountainsong 12.20.08 at 7:37 pm
I wonder what Jesus thinks about all this Christmas stuff.
Especially since he’s not a christian.
goofsmom 12.20.08 at 7:41 pm
jenni
I’m right there with ya!
mountainsong
lol
clintondemocrat 12.20.08 at 7:49 pm
Damn and the associations continue: DAVID AXELROD and Rahem Emanuel (But don’t worry about Emanuel, Axelrod and Obama will do a hachett job and when it’s all said and done, he will only be associated with Bill Clinton).
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081220/ap_on_re_us/illinois_governor_emanuel
Irlandese 12.20.08 at 7:53 pm
I have been waiting with a great deal of anticipation for Brad’s movie since he started working on it….back when Riverdaughter, Garychapehill, Mawm, Heidi Li, and Darragh were all still talking about going to Denver…So much has taken place since then, but my anger over what has happened has not abated ONE BIT. I am more firmly a PUMA now then I was then. Brad—you and Lori are true heroes.
pa dem 12.20.08 at 7:54 pm
Jenni: we’ve come this far. Don’t get depressed on me now. Pray for a miracle this Chanukah that somehow, some way, justice will be served.
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 7:56 pm
13gypsyrebel: Excellent. .. Keep fertilizing the blogs…..
Just went to meaningful life site…two wonderful essays on light and. on Chanukah…on home page.. where the pictures of a flame are and then the one with the word Chanukah..
I really like Rabbi Jacobson..very much…
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 7:57 pm
14Mountainsong: You are too funny…
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 8:00 pm
Jenniferfor Hillary: Go read the two essays on home page of meanginful life…on light and Chanukah…you, we..are light in the darkness of this Fraud Ojingo…and we will continue to be ….sparks…and we shall move and move again so that each spark continues through the darkness…and this is true.
jenniforhillary 12.20.08 at 8:00 pm
To all my lovely lovely puma friends…
I wish for justice for all this holiday season–ESPECIALLY for PUMAS, Women, Animals, Children, Seniors, and the like
(and my secret wish involves a certain man, a million pounds of pig poop, and a jail cell…and my secret secret wish is for somehow hillary to be my president)..
and for Louisa to come back 100%!
Cape Hatteras 12.20.08 at 8:03 pm
Watch the media talk more about the problems of Palin’s inlaws than Palin’s tax cuts .
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 8:06 pm
Jennifer: Thank you, Jennifer. I particularly like the pig poop wish!
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 8:12 pm
CapeHatteras: Yes, they must continue to continue to spew their own inner darknes over anyone or anything that is not as tainted as they.
sue66 12.20.08 at 8:14 pm
Thanks for the good wishes. My mom just got shook up, when she felt herself falling she sort of threw herself into a snowbank. The ambulance guys got her out and warmed up fast. The hospital is keeping her for observation overnight because of her heart problems. She is not a happy lady at this moment.
While I was at the hospital I ran into a friend and asked what this 4/15 scale meant because all I knew was that it did not sound good. It’s not, so all of us need to keep Louisa in our hearts and prayers. 3 is as low as the scale goes, and a person with a 3 rating is dead. If Louisa is rallying back from this level and still fighting I’m sure she can feel our prayers and most importantly, her mom.
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 8:14 pm
murphy 12.20.08 at 6:00 pm
dwp, when you say “desert,” do you mean like the real desert? are you painting?
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The real desert. It looks like Mars, the planet. No offense to desert fans… the beauty of teh desert is subtle… but that subtlety is lost on me, as are most subtleties.
If I were to paint the deserts… I’d use a roller and tan paint, and cover the entire canvas.
Funny thing on my way home. There was snow at the higher elevations… people parked on teh side of teh highway so their children could make experience “snow” and make snowballs. On my way home there was an suv with two large-ish chucks of snow on the roof… 12 inches in diameter when I saw them. Wonder if those snow chuncks made it home for “snow and tell”.
And, there was a pickup truck just ahead of me with a 4 or 5 ft standing snowman … with waterfalls streaming out of every open crevice of the truck bed. The truck bed muct have been flooded with the melting.
Southern Californians and their snow… too much!
pa dem 12.20.08 at 8:15 pm
We need some PUMAs to get in high level positions at FOX and CNN. That’s the only way we’ll get media fairness.
jenni: it’s my secret wish that the children I see everyday at work won’t perpetuate bigotry, misogyny or anti-semitism–as I have heard all three. We’re adults; we’re better able to handle those comments….but these children…
sue66 12.20.08 at 8:16 pm
Dances, I just got the visual of a pickup on a highway with a melting snowman, trying to make it home before “Frosty” melts away. I can’t help laughing and the cartoonist in me needs my pencil and sketchpad.
goofsmom 12.20.08 at 8:17 pm
Dances
On behalf of native californian’s… forgive us we get a little crazy cause we never shovel it… The Snow I mean…
Sunshinelvr 12.20.08 at 8:21 pm
I really, really , really wish this video would have been (or would be ready before 20 Jan) ready before the actual elections!!!!!
normapapuma 12.20.08 at 8:21 pm
#23 PALIN’S TAX CUTS, BUDGET CUTS…
Excellent point. The Tanning Bed Media is on the case! I’m begining to think many here will may be supporting her in 2012.
Hey, Jennifer, Kat, NOP-
LMAO with your posts. Chris Porter is sad, sad, sad. I bet he’s never met women like you and it’s CONFUSING him.
sue66 12.20.08 at 8:22 pm
goofsmom
to give you a little idea of snow, go to this link. The picture was taken about an hour after the snowsquall started and in the center of the downtown district where snow is usually trucked away. What you see on the ground fell in a little over an hour.
http://www.stratfordbeaconherald.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1356422
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 8:23 pm
Dances: Re Desert..Once for work I had to fly to Las Vegas and had never flown in that direction before. As we were flying..well into the flight I looked out of window and saw the most exquisite tones of pink and moss green and tones of tans…as I sat there..all of sudden it hit me..Oh..I thought..this looks like a Georgia O’Keefe painting…almost at the same time I thought this the pilot came on and said we were flying over New Mexico…I laughed outloud and said oh..it IS an OKeefe painting…only color I saw in desert around Las Vegas was kinda gray brown..but somewhere in New Mexico there is that pink and green at least from how many thousand feet up???
freddiebrown 12.20.08 at 8:24 pm
Dances – I was thinking of you when I heard that sunrise highway was closed this afternoon. Glad you are FREEEEE and the aircard is your answer to freedom – to blog anyway. I see what you describe all the time, low landers making a bee line to the snow and carting them back. You don’t want to tell the snow bound pumas that…especially KarenWI.
normapapuma 12.20.08 at 8:28 pm
HUCKABEE says “I hope we will be calling you Senator…”
Fran Dresher is running for Senator? The “Nanny”. Going to google her.
goofsmom 12.20.08 at 8:29 pm
sue66
Wow… I’d like it for 1 day… he he he…
I know I’m to thin skinned to take it for very long…
KarenWI 12.20.08 at 8:29 pm
You’re right freddie… we’ve had enough snow for the winter… we’re experiencing another blizzard right now. Snow forecast every other day for the rest of the next week (don’t know about past that)… sigh..
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 8:31 pm
32normapuma: He is not confused. He is po-ed by all of the emails he received from all of the women here who will not tolerate his initiation and continuation of his nasty arrogant self. Whenever men, even good ones, feel a woman is getting the best of them, many go into this…poor me…I was only…I would never…you just dont understand…give me a little break..crap…its flotsam from babyboy hood and mama is supposed to say..oh..thats ok baby…and women…who arent his and their mamas are also supposed to do that and unfortuanately, I have seen many a woman bite on that in a second…and when that happens…the point, the issue, the truth is deflated…and put aside….
Not here….not with these women…not regarding these issues..He can go vent with boys of his similar ilk at the bar or whereever and they can whine and moan their prenatal groans to each other!
taggles1 12.20.08 at 8:31 pm
we ought to try to get paterson to meet with a PUMA candidate for NY Senator.
He said he would consider anyone who approached him with interest.
are there any New York PUMAS who would like a crack at being a United States Senator?
EXPERIENCE IS NOT NECESSARY
goofsmom 12.20.08 at 8:31 pm
KarenWI
Stay warm…
taggles1 12.20.08 at 8:32 pm
It could be a terrific publicity stunt if nothing else.
freddiebrown 12.20.08 at 8:32 pm
Looking forward to Brad Mays documentary, Murphy. I wish we can put Denver, Obama etc behind us and move forward but they are what’s in front of us.
Truth be told, I am sadder to see Sarah Palin being treated in such a nasty way than Hillary. No doubt Hillary did not get it easy but she is seasoned and can let it roll off her back. Sarah Palin seemed so vulnerable in light of everything nasty that was hurled at her.
Jenni – I am with you if Palin runs again.
We need a woman pit bull to be our voices.
KarenWI 12.20.08 at 8:34 pm
goofsmom- staying warm is only part of it. We have winds 20-30 mph blowing the snow around into huge drifts.
By the way, my back still aches. I thought maybe I just needed a good cleaning out, but even after that my back still hurts. I still wonder if maybe it IS my heart…. (sigh)…
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 8:34 pm
freddiebrown 12.20.08 at 8:24 pm
Dances – I was thinking of you when I heard that sunrise highway was closed this afternoon.
I see what you describe all the time, low landers making a bee line to the snow and carting them back. You don’t want to tell the snow bound pumas that…especially KarenWI.
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Freddie, the sunrise highway warnings was one of the reasons I stayed out there for only a couple of hours,
that and the outside air was winter chilly in anza-borrego.
I lived in Manhattan, went to school in Albany, NY… did one and a half years time in Wisconsin… feel I’ve paid the dues to speak with wild abandon of warm temperatures and being at the beaches in January.
sue66 12.20.08 at 8:37 pm
Karen
We get it next, supposed to start around midnight.
Goofsmom, glad you liked the picture, it’s our city hall. I’m always ready to be snow free by the end of December, but alas, April or sometimes May is more realistic.
hillstheone 12.20.08 at 8:37 pm
Hi PUMA’s,
Big article in LA Times this weekend touting none other than FAUVRE.
I’ll try to find it & post a link.
p.s. Woot-woot! We’re all excited about “Audacity” & look forward to its release.
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 8:37 pm
32NormaPuma: In addition, lest I forget, what I describe above is precisely what The New Agenda did regarding Mr Cardboard Man…Faverlou…They got lashed and then the gee..we were just having fun…gee…give us a break by Carville and they bite on it…recommending visiting a place where women were abused as if that would make one bit of difference…they took the bait…and showed what I call..The Mamas Head Pat…oh…ok…well…how about …we do this…will that help? BS…never helps.
Sunshinelvr 12.20.08 at 8:38 pm
NYC councilman charged with assaulting girlfriend
Published: 12/20/08, 7:25 PM EDT
By ADAM GOLDMAN
NEW YORK (AP) – A New York City councilman accused of intentionally slashing his girlfriend in the face with a broken glass called it an “unfortunate accident” on Saturday.
http://my.att.net/s/editorial.dll?pnum=1&bfromind=7406&eeid=6283748&_sitecat=1522&dcatid=0&eetype=article&render=y&ac=3&ck=&ch=ne&rg=blsadstrgt&_lid=332&_lnm=tg+ne+topnews&ck=
normapapuma 12.20.08 at 8:38 pm
Well, what’d ya know. At least she has a good platform:
…throwing her hat into the ring for the US Senate seat being vacated by Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton.
“I feel like I could be a good senator – I’m every woman and the consummate New Yorker,” said Drescher from Miami, where she’s been partying it up with pals Rosie O’Donnell and Gloria Estefan.
“What you see is what you get.”
The divorced Queens native has some stiff competition – namely Caroline Kennedy and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. It’s up to New York Governor David Paterson to appoint the successor.
“I realise I don’t have a very good relationship with the governor and other contenders have his ear,” she says.
“But all he can do is say no.”
It’s actually not such a stretch to think of Drescher as a politician. She’s got a clean record, for one. “I won’t get arrested” she says, referencing Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, busted for trying to sell Barack Obama’s seat.
“I’m glad he got caught. We need to hold people in office accountable.”
Since Drescher’s diagnosis with uterine cancer almost nine years ago, she has also become an avid women’s health advocate. In September, she was appointed public diplomacy envoy for the State Department.
With that signature New York accent and lawnmower-like laugh, Drescher can even make cancer sound funny.
“It took two years and eight doctors for them to find out what I had,” she says.
“I got in more stirrups than Roy Rogers.”
Luck was on her side; the tumour was slow growing and after a hysterectomy and radiation, she is now “cured”.
Drescher thinks women too often neglect their own health to focus on the family.
“We have to recondition our thinking and to stop submitting to the old Victorian way – to grin and bear it,” she says.
“Caregivers are useless if they’re six feet under.”
normapapuma 12.20.08 at 8:43 pm
#50
http://www.smh.com.au/news/lifeandstyle/people/nanny-star-fran-drescher-eyes-hillary-clintons-senate-seat/2008/12/16/1229189575690.html
Sunshinelvr 12.20.08 at 8:44 pm
Monserrate was charged with two counts of assault and one count of weapon possession. A judge set his bail at $5,000 and barred contact between the councilman and Giraldo.
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$5000? do you suppose a woman would be let off thsi cheap???
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 8:49 pm
We need more women Judges as well as Senators and Congresswomen. We especially need them in the courts where abuse issues are heard.
KarenWI 12.20.08 at 8:50 pm
Jenni what are you talking about wishing it would be ready before Jan 20?
hillstheone 12.20.08 at 8:50 pm
Hi NewOrleans PUMA,
How ya doin’ tonite??!
hillstheone 12.20.08 at 8:51 pm
PUMA PROWL
Read it and Barf, then send an email!
Speechwriter, mind reader
Precocious aide is composing Barack Obama’s inaugural address
By ELI SASLOW Washington Post
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/6172146.html
~ * ~
You can email the author here:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/lois+raimondo/
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 8:51 pm
55hillstheone: Hi Hill..doing well…raisin hell!
normapapuma 12.20.08 at 8:51 pm
NOP
Oh, I agree!
I was thinking today, maybe we complain about men, but we usually call them MEN. People like Fauvre and Porter have to use derogatory terms when discussing females. Can you imagine if we commonly referred to men as DICKS and such. I was thinking we should, but that would be lowering ourselves to their wretched levels.
taggles1 12.20.08 at 8:54 pm
A woman with no experience in politics and not much money is the ideal candidate. As long as you will represent the fine people of new york with dignity and keep their best interests at heart.
is there anyone willing?
We could start a web campaign.
hillstheone 12.20.08 at 8:56 pm
Riasin’ hell, NewOrleans?!! Same here!!
(See my post 258 here & you’ll see why
http://pumapac.org/2008/12/19/who-were-your-heroes/ )
How’s the weather in New Orleans this weekend? We had snow for a week but now everything’s melted.
NewOrleans, if I could I’d wave a magic wand & meet you for coffee at Cafe DuMonde tomorrow morning! ;D
taggles1 12.20.08 at 8:58 pm
I would like to see if paterson would give a woman with no political experience and little money consideration.
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 8:59 pm
58normapuma: And that is the issue, isnt it, not just about this issue but about so many…people with a sense of what is and is not appropriate, is or is not good or any other version of ethical boundry always come to a place where if one goes too far beyond that boundry, you are as they are…at their wretched levels..evil will always have that edge which is why those who seek the good have tobe smarter and more imaginative with variety and a keen sense of what is enough and what is too much…evil just vomits itself out..with no boundries…the good must be presented as a challenge to evil but the vehicles are not and can not necessarily go the same easy route…which is why it can be tiring and exhausting ..but nevertheless ..necessary.
normapapuma 12.20.08 at 9:00 pm
#56
UGH!
His best friend is Josh Porter…any relation to Chris Porter???
taggles1 12.20.08 at 9:00 pm
you don’t have to answer, i’m just typin out loud.
murphy 12.20.08 at 9:05 pm
taggles #59, how about Harriet Christian??
Sunshinelvr 12.20.08 at 9:06 pm
ha! I brought the blog to a standstill..again!
ok bbl gtg watch AMW… 
tc Pumas.
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:07 pm
60hillstheone: Oh yes..I loved that you did that..wish I could have been there with you when you did it!
I would love you to raise your magic wand and we could both be down there eating the beignets and drinking that coffee.,
I so love them…since childhood…I have not been there in so long..it is ridiculous…I need to get there..
We could chant Caucus Fraud over the beignets and blow truth powdered sugar over everything….starting with each other!!!!
I love that! getting the powdered sugar all over me..I really do!
taggles1 12.20.08 at 9:07 pm
you think she would do it?
or madamab?
normapapuma 12.20.08 at 9:08 pm
New Orleans
Thanks for the commiseration-it really is painful for me, but I will confront this evil with all my might…Luckily, I’m an educator, so I have lots of those teachable moments, too.
Gotta get to bed for an 8am class tomorrow. Good night all.
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:08 pm
65Murphy: Harriet would be great…
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 9:08 pm
madamaB!!!!
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:09 pm
normapuma: Me too…Good night NormaPuma…
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 9:09 pm
They’d use the footage of Harriet (the only reason he’s here is because he’s black) and she’d be out in a nyc minute.
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:10 pm
hillstheone: Weather is cool and a bit gray…no sun…
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:11 pm
Dances: Right…she tells the truth…not a good thing in this political climate …..
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 9:12 pm
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:11 pm
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Dances: Right…she tells the truth…not a good thing in this political climate …..
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MadamaB… out of nowhere… no trail to trip her up or anything (anyone know if she’s a felon or anything?
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 9:13 pm
What about Murphy … she could be a carpetbagger candidate?
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 9:15 pm
“you don’t have to answer, i’m just typin out loud.”
© taggles1
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:15 pm
If Ted Kennedy wants Caroline,and clearly he does,. so does Barack. Paterson has to please those who hold the purse strings to any help financially for NY.
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:16 pm
Dances: Who is MadamaB?
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 9:18 pm
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:16 pm
Dances: Who is MadamaB?
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Regular at RD’s The Confluence…
feminist… writes plays in one act…
has a website but I dont know the name of it,
is one of the hosts of blog radio Under The Bus…
taggles1 12.20.08 at 9:19 pm
does one have to be a resident of NY to be eligible for consideration?
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:20 pm
Dances: Ok..Thanks.
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 9:21 pm
taggles1 12.20.08 at 9:19 pm
does one have to be a resident of NY to be eligible for consideration?
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I think Bobby Kennedy had an address there when he ran…
and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton had just moved there hen she ran… You or Murphy could use kat’s or Harriet’s address…
Just show a ConEd bill from 6 months prior as proof of residency….
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:24 pm
Dances: Clearly you have learned from Ojingo….how to craftally circumvent the residency requirements. Next thing you know you will suggest putting up the ConEd bill on a website as proof of residency.
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 9:24 pm
#81
Dang… what a way to distill a person’s entire life down to 3 or 4 lines!
Sorry, MadamB.
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:25 pm
DancesL Better yet…you will craft the ConEd Bill!
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 9:25 pm
“Next thing you know you will suggest putting up the ConEd bill on a website as proof of residency.”
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LOL. And a NY State drivers license as proof of birth.
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:26 pm
Dances: Sufficient summary for me…and the nature of my question..I dont take it as a distillation…
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 9:27 pm
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:25 pm
DancesL Better yet…you will craft the ConEd Bill!
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You can prove almost anything with a little assistance from Photoshop.
We’ll have to get an updated version as part of the campaign… I’m still using Photoshop 6!!
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:28 pm
Dances: There you go…got it made…Get your carpet bag packed, Murphy…
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:29 pm
Dances: Absolutely…we can not do a campaign with out the updated..whatever the hell number it is version!!!
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 9:31 pm
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:29 pm
Dances: Absolutely…we can not do a campaign with out the updated..whatever the hell number it is version!!!
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Here’s how old my version is… they don’t number the versions anymore…
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:31 pm
Dances: Ah for the old days… I used to really enjoy developing negatives and prints and those periodic highs of too much time in the darkroom…ah for the tactility of it alll!
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 9:33 pm
NOP
YUP. (I used to manage a community darkroom). Pixels have ruined me for painting…
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:33 pm
Dances: Oh..dat is old…it seems…
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:35 pm
Dances: I do not like pixels! I liked the craft of having to take the perfect negative and then bringing out all the shades and tones of black and white…in the print..
bqueen 12.20.08 at 9:35 pm
‘taggles #59, how about Harriet Christian??’
O yeah…!!!! A Dream Come True!!!!!!!!!
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 9:37 pm
NOP
One of teh downfalls of digital photography, as in snapshots, is the disposability of it all… snap a shot, preview it… if you don;t like it…delete. So all those weird assed accidental gestures of people are gone…never to be laughed at again.
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:38 pm
Dances: I studiend Photojournalism at the Univ of Missouri School of Journalism..and sometimes we would be in the dark rooms from daylight to sunset..with hershey bars for lunch and dinner…It was fun!
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:40 pm
99Dances: Iwould think a lot of junk photos would be taken as well…somehow…
antifish 12.20.08 at 9:40 pm
I had my own darkroom for a few years and loved it. I became, and still am, partial to black and white photographs. There is something naked and truthful, unembellished and raw about them. I’ve never gotten the same satisfaction out of color photos.
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 9:40 pm
NOP
I bought my first computer in 1992…
the painting I posted in the photos section was one of the last I painted…or completed… and it’s dated 1994!
By 1994 I was a full blown computer addict… I’ve attempted painting since then, but started only a few, and completed none.
:::shrug:::
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 9:41 pm
101 NOP nice…
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:42 pm
100Dances: It was fun because I was 30 and could eat hersey bars and smell chemicals until I started to stagger..so could everyone else!!
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:44 pm
102antifish: Oh that must have been wonderful to have your own darkroom. I quite agree..I still love the band w photos..
bmw60 12.20.08 at 9:44 pm
TAGGLES…… watched Huckabee tonight on Fox and they had Fran Drescher on wanting the seat in NY… she sounded very plausible and intelligent. A survivor of cancer and an advocate for women and early cancer detection. Huckabee did a great interview and I thought what a breath of fresh air. Huckabee seemed impressed too.
I see not many online right now but I wanted to jump in here and say hi. HOpe all you who celebrate Christmas have family to share it with or make family through your friends and enjoy the Christmas season. God bless you all!!!
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:45 pm
Dances: I hope at some point you will be able to get back to painting, because truly Ido love the painting you did and posted. I wish you could make prints of it…
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:47 pm
bmw60: Thank you bmw60!
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:48 pm
bmw60: I hope you also receive the blessings of the season…
antifish 12.20.08 at 9:48 pm
bmw60,
Thank you and I hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday season as well!
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 9:48 pm
BBL
KarenWI 12.20.08 at 9:50 pm
I know many of you don’t like World Net Daily, but check this out…
The Kenyan government has barred unapproved contacts between the media and President-elect Barack Obama’s extended family.
Family members will be required to receive permission from the government before making any public statements about their famous relative, according to the Nairobi Star.
“We are doing this because we want to ensure better flow of information,” Athman Said, an under-secretary in the Ministry of Heritage, told the Obama family in Kogelo.
“The government has decided that you should inform its officers who will be based here if you want to address the media.”
Journalists wishing to speak with the family must first be approved by the government.
…more at
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84172
KarenWI 12.20.08 at 9:51 pm
For those of you who want to see snow… check out this page. Apparently IA towtrucks are even ordered off the road; and MN is about the same… that’s what’s coming here overnight tonight and all day tomorrow, LOL:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/12/20/us.storm/index.html
KarenWI 12.20.08 at 10:02 pm
By the way… tomorrow is the official first day of winter.
Happy Winter 2009 everyone! (bah humbug)… LOL
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 10:07 pm
bqueen 12.20.08 at 6:57 pm
mmmm…I don’t like BJ being cut in like that. Her emotion is way too strong for a trailer and deserves more respect, time and dignity.
It should not be presented as “bytes” as it is here.
((((((BJ)))))))
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Gotta agree with you there.
mountainsong 12.20.08 at 10:11 pm
Gotta love that Hallmark Channel!! It plays the most wonderful Christmas movies, but I’m such a wimp~~~~Seems like I cry over them all.
So many memories. Will life ever seem so grand, again?
mountainsong 12.20.08 at 10:11 pm
Maybe if I listen to some Rock and read some good, negative political blogs, I’ll snap out of it.
KarenWI 12.20.08 at 10:14 pm
Mountainsong I cry over “It’s a wonderful life” everytime I see it…. I even cry over Charlie Brown Christmas, doggone it! I think I have leaky faucets beside my nose when it comes to holiday movies…
mountainsong 12.20.08 at 10:17 pm
KarenWI 12.20.08 at 9:51 pm I just went to read your link and this jumped out at me. I seem to have some weird luck with weather. Right after I finished my cabin, we got a 100-yr rain, with a 500-yr flood. In Michigan, we had several big tornadoes when I was there. Then, in Florida, went thru 7 hurricanes in 2 years. Now this: lol
“The National Weather Service said that conditions in Northwest Washington state are “extremely dangerous” and warned they could become “life-threatening.”
turndownobama 12.20.08 at 10:18 pm
I’m still thinking about ‘personal’ vs ‘political.’
Say you’re getting sexual discrimination or harrassment on the job. One way to react is to start your own damn business and be your own damn boss. Then you can hire other women and treat them right and encourage them in some political action and invest in other women’s businesses etc. Enough women doing enough of that will eventually build up a power/money base that can get some political results.
So is that personal or political or both?
BillieJo 12.20.08 at 10:22 pm
murphy
taggles #59, how about Harriet Christian??
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Harriet would be great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
murphy 12.20.08 at 10:22 pm
that’s personal turndownobama.
business owners also face discrimination and harassment too.
lots of it.
not that it’s a bad idea –it’s an excellent one.
murphy 12.20.08 at 10:23 pm
let’s ask Harriet and madamab if they’re interested.
hillstheone 12.20.08 at 10:26 pm
NewOrleans,
Just catching up. Powdered sugar and protests? No I don’t think they go together like a crowded bar & a protest, lol!! But we could gather PUMA’s together to march along that area where all the foot traffic is, or down where all the boats go by.
Then go to Cafe DuMonde for post-protest dessert! ;D
NewOrleans, my highschool sweetheart had a big house & a dark room in the very back. Some of my first real kisses & cuddling took place in that darkroom! He’d say “Mom! I’ve got to go develop some pictures for a while!” and off we’d go, lol…
KarenWI 12.20.08 at 10:31 pm
Mountainsong if the snow/ice/wind is in your area at all, and you don’t HAVE to go anywhere tomorrow, play it safe and stay in, ok? I’ll tell you, this is a terrible winter so far all over…. Even here 2 weeks ago we were already 14″ above normal snow for dec.; lots more now. Also, our local tv station names storms alphabetically…we’re already up to “g” with the 7th winter storm of this winter….. and it isn’t even Christmas. Don’t remember the names, they weren’t that important to me so I didn’t pay attention; but I took note at the letter we were giving this newest one…. “G”….
taggles1 12.20.08 at 10:34 pm
I’m a little slow sometimes. these are two shows I use to love to watch. I’m only 24 hours late in posting.
Maude
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3XVHIReifA
Alice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=423L76rzui8
antifish 12.20.08 at 10:41 pm
taggles,
Yes, for Alice! I’d forgotten that one. I didn’t get to watch Maude.
mountainsong 12.20.08 at 10:41 pm
Naming snowstorms? LOL I had some names for a few when I was growing up in Northern Michigan, but they prolly aren’t fit to print. I was 18 when i landed in So. California in 1962. I was so surprised there was place where it didn’t snow. I remember how shocked my Dad was when I called him ’stupid’ and wanted to know how any educated human being could CHOOSE to live in snow. But….that was long ago in the last century.
murphy 12.20.08 at 10:43 pm
i loved Alice.
maude was a bit frightening.
the character, not the show.
mountainsong 12.20.08 at 10:44 pm
KarenWI 12.20.08 at 10:31 pm Thanks for your concern. But, don’t worry. I’ll be fine.Hunkered down here in my cozy lil apartment, remembering other days. Besides, it’s pretty dreary wherever ya go around here right now. Except for up in the mountains. I hear, now that skiing is open it’s kicka** up there right now.
BrianH 12.20.08 at 10:44 pm
D/S;
NewOrleansPuma 12.20.08 at 4:47 pm
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In any case, I would think you might want to include some Muslim mosques in your protests…They have been at it a hellava lot longer and still are at it ….than the 2000 year institution of Christianity.
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Wups! Watch your timelines, there. Islam is about 700 years younger than Christianity. The Arab ‘Way With Women’ which carried on and over into Islam is Bedou nomadic tradition, of course, going back into the mists of time.
taggles1 12.20.08 at 10:45 pm
why frightening?
KarenWI 12.20.08 at 10:48 pm
Well I’m going to try to sleep tonight and hope I don’t have those spasm-like things in my heart area again. I only got maybe an hour sleep last night at the most…. good night everyone. Mountainsong and everyone else in storm area STAY HOME IF YOU CAN, AND BE SAFE!!
goofsmom 12.20.08 at 10:49 pm
Good Night Karen WI
KarenWI 12.20.08 at 10:54 pm
Well you stay away from “kicking skiing” up in the mountains this weekend Mountainsong! We need you in here and don’t want you stuck freezing to death in some snowbank or avalanche or something. Remember that article “life threatening”…. and we sure don’t want YOURS threatened!!!
((((((((((((Mountainsong))))))))))))))))
Now, that admonition being said, I’m going to turn off the ‘puter and try to get some much needed beauty sleep (NOT that it does diddly for my looks, mind you!)…
DeadGirl 12.20.08 at 10:57 pm
KarenWI 12.20.08 at 10:14 pm
Mountainsong I cry over “It’s a wonderful life” everytime I see it…. I even cry over Charlie Brown Christmas, doggone it! I think I have leaky faucets beside my nose when it comes to holiday movies…
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I almost started bawling when we took the kid to see Santa and get his picture taken with him. We were in line, and I started getting choked up. I was like, “Self! WTF???” I did not have many thoughts in my head, except for thinking about getting my hair done as we had just passed my hair stylists salon… it just came on out of no where. I think maybe there were thoughts about those kids out there who are not going to have a sit down with Santa this year, or any year. All the hurting families out there. That is basically the predominant thought coursing through my mind these days. Over 500,000 jobs lost in November. The Fraud is not going to help those people, even though so many think he is the Second Coming. it is only going to get worse for them, and many more to come…
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 10:59 pm
I was listening to NPR today… “wait, wait don’t tell me”, and someone asked why, when the shoe was thrown at Bush, why he didn’t leave the podium before the other shoe was thrown?
“He was still doing the math.”
DeadGirl 12.20.08 at 11:01 pm
OM& Murphy, I remember when Maude terminated her unexpected mid-life pregnancy… My aunt’s were “women’s libbers”
so it was not exactly breaking news to me… and I was a little kid…
DeadGirl 12.20.08 at 11:05 pm
Dances, I LMAO when I saw that video, georgieporgie actually tried to snatch the second shoe… that Iraqi journalist sure put some heft in those throws… if they played baseball instead of soccer there, george would have gotten clocked twice. Though I am not sure what it says about the security provided since the guy flung both before anyone reacted…
murphy 12.20.08 at 11:08 pm
geez — i musta missed that dead girl — she had an abortion on the show??
not literally of course.
hillstheone 12.20.08 at 11:08 pm
DeadGirl,
So right. AND, he ducked those shoes pretty good! Just like he ducked everything else…him & Cheny, that is.
antifish 12.20.08 at 11:09 pm
I don’t like Bush, never have, but I took great offense to someone from another country attacking our elected president in a manner considered extremely disrespectful in their society. He is an idiot, but he is still the person that the majority of Americans elected and I resent the disrespect shown to him. Maybe it’s an Army thing. I’m sure mine is a minority opinion, so don’t bother to attack.
mountainsong 12.20.08 at 11:09 pm
Others can say what they will~~~ I still think Anne Heche is just an incredible woman. HAWT!!!! OMG…she kinda looks like…….. (Don’t say it, Ashleigh)
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 11:14 pm
DeadGirl 12.20.08 at 11:05 pm
Dances, I LMAO when I saw that video, georgieporgie actually tried to snatch the second shoe… that Iraqi journalist sure put some heft in those throws… if they played baseball instead of soccer there, george would have gotten clocked twice. Though I am not sure what it says about the security provided since the guy flung both before anyone reacted…
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There was also some question about the shoe thrower’s bruises… they didn’t know if security beat him up for throwing the shoe at george b. or if they beat him up because he missed the target.
So much for being greeted with flowers…
The incident serves to inform americans that all is not as they would have us believe. I wonder how many other like kind incidents have occurred that we havent been told about? At least the shoe pitcher gave some another clue.
freddiebrown 12.20.08 at 11:17 pm
I can’t decide whether to get a kick out of it or be insulted…a few times, when we are at a trade show and a male vendor wanting to sell us something would head straight to my husband and start yakking his head off. Obviously it never occured to him to ask who he should talk to – like there is no way a woman could be the decision maker. Most of the time, I would let the poor idiot waste his time yakking up the wrong tree.
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 11:24 pm
When Caroline Kennedy married, she wanted to be known as Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg… now that she’s looking to be crowned Senator, she wants to be known as Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg Kennedy.
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 11:26 pm
Freddie,
I’d go with insulted.
murphy 12.20.08 at 11:29 pm
good one, dwp.
Freddie — I’d go with indifferent.
murphy 12.20.08 at 11:29 pm
or at least unsurprised.
DeadGirl 12.20.08 at 11:29 pm
Antifish, I was LMAO because George Bush had a bemused look on his face, he was about to crack up himself there. In fact, if I am not mistaken, he cracked a joke about it.
MKfromLA 12.20.08 at 11:31 pm
#31 Sunshinelvr 12.20.08 at 8:21 pm
I really, really , really wish this video would have been (or would be ready before 20 Jan) ready before the actual elections!!!!!
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On the same page, sunshinelvr.
Way back we were invited to contribute to Brad Mays’ film. I really thought my contribution would help get the news of Obama’s dirty dealings to a wider public while there was still time to affect the electorate. I feel like I contributed to Brad Mays’ career. What’s the point of a film release date of the 2nd week of January 2009?
DeadGirl 12.20.08 at 11:31 pm
Dances, I think the thrower is still in Prison, and not allowed visitation from legal representation even.
freddiebrown 12.20.08 at 11:32 pm
Dance – you must be joking… Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg Kennedy.
Is this like desperation or overkill or both. I hope she and her name gets sent back to her make believe castle.
murphy 12.20.08 at 11:32 pm
yeah I think he did crack a joke.
then the police cracked the guys ribs and face.
but then he ended up a folk hero,
so . . . who knows.
I had a feeling sort of like antifish’s. as much as i cannot stand the guy, it was sort of shocking to see –
it did lift the veil though on how lots of iraqis REALLY feel about the usa.
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 11:33 pm
freddiebrown 12.20.08 at 11:32 pm
Dance – you must be joking… Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg Kennedy.
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joking kinda sorta…
murphy 12.20.08 at 11:34 pm
still in jail?
ugh — that doesnt sound good.
DeadGirl 12.20.08 at 11:36 pm
I think he is still in jail because Al Maliki was standing right next to The Prez-Outgoing. Their security services consider it an attack on Al Maliki
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 11:36 pm
Considering that the US bombed the hell out of Iraq, killed, maimed, or mutiliated thousands of men, women, children, and armed services people… in a war that bush inc lied the US into… two thrown shoes doesn’t come close to what he deserves.
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 11:38 pm
Al Maliki didnt even flinch. I guess if you live in Baghdad, you don’t flinch unless a scud missile is heading your way.
DeadGirl 12.20.08 at 11:39 pm
Actually when I first read about the shoe throwing incident I was offended. Until I saw the video. It was George Bush’s reactions that had me on the floor. This was improv comedy at its best. I actually gained a little respect for George Bush because of it. But that’s just me.
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 11:39 pm
Caroline Kenedy Schlossberg Kennedy’s answers to where she stands on certain issues:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/nyregion/21kennedy.html?_r=1&hp
mountainsong 12.20.08 at 11:41 pm
Darn movies!!! FIGGIN MEN can be sooo STUPID. I’d give anything to love again.
DeadGirl 12.20.08 at 11:42 pm
Dances, I used to think of it as bush inc… but now I think of it as puppetmasters inc. The same string pullers behind bush are behind obama. I just checked out the video Iraq for Sale from the library. I am trying to figure out who the PuppetMasters are.
murphy 12.20.08 at 11:42 pm
how much did the PR firm charge to write those answers for Ms. KSK, I wonder.
scarlet 12.20.08 at 11:43 pm
I went to a Christmas party today. Someone bought me a Hillary First Lady Doll because they know how much I admire her. Tbe doll talks, too.
Another person gave me a card with Obama’s picture on the front. It says Merry Christmas and all the best. Barack Obama. Inside it says, “Thought this would really brighten up your table,” She signed it “You know you still love me.”
Then, another person, a Hillary supporter, gave me a souvenier (sp?) of something I can put on my car window with Obama’s picture on it and it says YES WE DID. They all know I don’t like Obama.
taggles1 12.20.08 at 11:44 pm
i am so tired of words. why is she even given this opportunity?
it’s such a farce.
DancesWithPumas 12.20.08 at 11:45 pm
MKfromLA
I think that question was asked early on… to my recollection the film wasn’t intended as an expose, but more as the story of the presidential primary and election of 2008, as well as includin the Puma story.
I could be wrong though, if so, this would be the second time for me.
freddiebrown 12.20.08 at 11:46 pm
Que MountainSong ?
Keep away from sappy movies, especially during Holiday time.
murphy 12.20.08 at 11:47 pm
what a bunch of non-answers.
this is surreal.
MKfromLA 12.20.08 at 11:48 pm
#49 Sunshinelvr 12.20.08 at 8:38 pm
NEW YORK (AP) – A New York City councilman accused of intentionally slashing his girlfriend in the face with a broken glass called it an “unfortunate accident” on Saturday.
http://my.att.net/s/editorial.dll?pnum=1&bfromind=7406&eeid=6283748&_sitecat=1522&dcatid=0&eetype=article&render=y&ac=3&ck=&ch=ne&rg=blsadstrgt&_lid=332&_lnm=tg+ne+topnews&ck=
#52 Sunshinelvr 12.20.08 at 8:44 pm
Monserrate was charged with two counts of assault and one count of weapon possession. A judge set his bail at $5,000 and barred contact between the councilman and Giraldo.
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$5000? do you suppose a woman would be let off thsi cheap???
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I read the article that you linked to, sunshinelvr – about how this guy was a former cop who helped to fight domestic assaults! Remind’s me of a case two years ago here on the street where I live – a fire captain murdered his girlfriend.
“A 23-year department veteran, Del Toro had been the supervisor of Fire Station 1 in Lincoln Heights and had trained firefighters in stress management and prevention of sexual harassment, despite a history of domestic violence allegations against him. The case highlighted the Fire Department’s failure to track domestic abuse within its ranks.
. . . (then comes a gruesome description of the murder) . . .
Homicide investigators followed a trail of blood from the body to Del Toro’s home, sources said.”
http://cms.firehouse.com/web/online/News/California-Fire-Captain-Accused-in-Brutal-Murder/46$51921
DeadGirl 12.20.08 at 11:48 pm
I read something about Joan Baez a long time ago, about her childhood in Iraq. This is what the wikipedia has to say about it.
“Joan, at the time only ten years old, was deeply influenced by the poverty and inhumane treatment suffered by the local population in Baghdad. While there, she saw animals and people beaten to death, and legless children dragging themselves down filthy streets begging for money. She later wrote that she felt a certain affinity with the beggars in the streets, and that Baghdad and the suffering of its people became a “part” of her.”
brad mays 12.20.08 at 11:49 pm
MKfromLA -
I remember you complaining in the chat section of the blog radio screen when I was on with Sheri and Darragh about two months or so ago. I never said that the purpose of my film was to be an attack piece to keep Obama from entering the White House. My film has ALWAYS been about telling the story of the PUMA movement. THE AUDACITY OF DEMOCRACY has done nothing for my career, really. My main project for this year just premiered in San Diego and will soon be touring the country. When all is said and done, I hope that the film helps PUMA in measurable ways. I’ve put many hundreds of hours into this project and have had to absorb the cost of paying crew members. In a few weeks, PUMA will have a full length feature film with which to answer media attacks. Perhaps in the fullness of time, you may come to regard this as a good thing.
I’ll promise you this. Get your address to me and I’ll circumvent some small portion of your donations to PUMA by sending you a free DVD.
And – really and sincerely – thank-you for at least talking about the film on this thread.
DeadGirl 12.20.08 at 11:50 pm
Scarlet, I think you should stay home sick from the next Holiday party you have to attend.
murphy 12.20.08 at 11:50 pm
scarlet, sounds like you’ll have 2 less christmas cards to send out next year. but the first friend’s a keeper!
scoring political points with christmas gifts? weird.
hillstheone 12.20.08 at 11:51 pm
There is some good stuff on this page:
Why Barack Obama should be indicted
http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/obama-next-obama-to-be-indicted-patrick-fitzgerald-december-15-2008-rezko-kickback-rezko-real-estate-deal-pay-for-play-kenneth-j-conner-fired-by-bank-fbi-land-appraisals-jerome-corsi-art/
Q – Do you think Rezko’s sentencing keeps getting delayed so that they can keep getting more info on him re-Oblabla & his court of corrupt fools..?
DeadGirl 12.20.08 at 11:52 pm
Brad, Thank You, from me, for putting this film together. I have been waiting patiently!
hillstheone 12.20.08 at 11:53 pm
murphy,
You wouldn’t believe it but one of my oldest friends who lives down in So Cal sends out an xmas letter each year. One year written by her cat, one year written by her dog, etc. Usually humorous & funny. This year’s letter said “Barack Obama helped me write this letter,” she thought he was great, I couldn’t get past the first sentence. Ugh.
But what do you do? I thought it was fine if she wanted to write a letter like that, but highly insensitive to send it to me.
antifish 12.20.08 at 11:56 pm
I can’t stand Caroline Kennedy! I’m so sick of these privileged people that can just walk into anything they decide they want to do on Monday morning while the rest of us cringe at what is facing us in the coming week. This country has no semblance of what our forefathers envisioned, it is a mockery of everything they stood for. A land where only those who have the money to buy power can rule. This is no longer a government of the people for the people, it is a government of the money for the money for a few people.
murphy 12.20.08 at 11:57 pm
it’s sad how people REALLY want to believe.
so empty and shallow.
hillstheone 12.20.08 at 11:59 pm
“This is no longer a government of the people for the people,” right on, antifish!
Another thing, anti. Honestly I STILL cannot get over Obama inviting Warrens to the inauguration. It’s so sickening. But check out the above link, maybe Obama will pay his dues yet.
brad mays 12.21.08 at 12:01 am
Irlandese, Dancesw/PUMAS, and Dead girl -
Thanks a million.
Dances, one question: How did you like the pie?
Brad
DancesWithPumas 12.21.08 at 12:03 am
obama used mavis staples’ song as a theme for so many of his rallies… but didn’t invite her to participate or sing at his installation ceremony.
freddiebrown 12.21.08 at 12:03 am
If anyone knowing how much I hate Obama, sends me anything pro Obama as a gift, that would be the last they hear from me and that is no joke. I guess I have a low tolerance of disrespect from “friends”.
antifish 12.21.08 at 12:06 am
(((Hills)))
Hey, Obama choosing Warren as his pastor in chief has already cost him millions of bot defections. We can only hope that he will continue to act like the idiot that we all know he truly is. Bush was and is a total idiot, but, I’m convinced that Obama, sans teleprompter is not much better.
murphy 12.21.08 at 12:07 am
me too freddie, same here.
what pie?
can i have a piece?
overnight funnies posted,
take it upstairs!
MKfromLA 12.21.08 at 12:07 am
#173 brad mays 12.20.08 at 11:49 pm MKfromLA – I remember you complaining in the chat section of the blog radio screen when I was on with Sheri and Darragh
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Yup that was me.
I do wish your film all success.
My point – it’s a steeper climb today that it was yesterday.
DancesWithPumas 12.21.08 at 12:07 am
brad mays 12.21.08 at 12:01 am
Irlandese, Dancesw/PUMAS, and Dead girl -
Thanks a million.
Dances, one question: How did you like the pie?
Brad
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…the pie… the pie…
hiya brad, what pie??
Oh crap! Wasn’t there pie in the frig for me to take on th edrive home from Denver??
murphy 12.21.08 at 12:08 am
wonder if it’s still there.
hmmm.
think it’s still good?
mountainsong 12.21.08 at 12:09 am
Ok, nuff sappy movies. It’s more entertaining reading about what someone told Caroline Kennedy what she thinks about political issues.I wonder what it’s like to be so famous you don’t even have to think for yourself. No, I don’t.
brad mays 12.21.08 at 12:18 am
Murphy -
I bake. Bread, cookies, cake. But most of all, I bake sugar-free pies. I baked an apple pie at hippie house in Denver, along with a last-night dinner for Lori, Dances and Steve. The menu consisted of Chicken parmesian with stuffed mushrooms, and fresh apple pie. Most of the pie was left for Dances to take with her on her long road trip back to CA. Guess the family who rented the house would up with it.
Along with all that wine.
DancesWithPumas 12.21.08 at 12:27 am
brad mays 12.21.08 at 12:18 am
Murphy -
I bake. Bread, cookies, cake. But most of all, I bake sugar-free pies. I baked an apple pie at hippie house in Denver, along with a last-night dinner for Lori, Dances and Steve. The menu consisted of Chicken parmesian with stuffed mushrooms, and fresh apple pie. Most of the pie was left for Dances to take with her on her long road trip back to CA. Guess the family who rented the house would up with it.
Along with all that wine.
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Oh yeah…all that wine!!
I can’t believe I forgot to take the pie. Dang!!
Murphy,
Brad is an amazing chef… What a spread he created for The Hippie House’s Last Supper!
The chicken parmagiana (hey, paisan’), stuffed mushrooms to die for… an amazing apple pie for dessert.
Fantastico!!
geez, now I’m hungry all over again.
lori 12.21.08 at 12:43 am
MK -
In point of fact, a great deal of the film was released before the election. We released two several minute trailers, and in Denver, we showed the press a 40 minute cut that detailed the PUMA complaint with Obama. Both CNN and Fox used footage from our film – Fox more than once. The film’s subject was written up repeatedly in newspapers across the nation. Before the election in November, we again sent footage out to the media at their request for use in their coverage of Obama.
We cannot control what the media does with our footage. We also didn’t have a way to get it to people on our own. We could have rented a theatre in Manhattan or LA, mounted a PR campaign and hoped to get some coverage – but nothing is guaranteed, and doing so would have cost $25k or more per week. Money PUMA did not have. Most documentaries get very little press. Michael Moore and Robert Greenwald are the exceptions. And both of them take a lot longer to make a documentary than the time frame that you propose we work within.
In the end, our documentary will hopefully tell the story of the PUMA movement, and now that he is president, help shape the narrative that surrounds his election. PUMA is to Obama as Ohio and Florida are to Bush. He’ll never escape the tar of misogyny because of us.
I have no idea how you think making this documentary, in Hollywood, would help anyone’s career – I really don’t. Just think about it.
BrianH 12.21.08 at 1:21 am
lori;
Please. He has just finally reached the official status of President Elect now that the Electoral College has met. And there’s more to go before Jan.20.
lori 12.21.08 at 2:17 am
Brian
You read that whole post and all you get out of it is that I leave out the word “elect”? for real?
Geez.
Stray Yellar Dawg 12.21.08 at 6:12 am
Linking to my Team Sarah page here:
http://www.teamsarah.org/video/audacity-of-democracy
Thanks for getting this out! I know how much work must have gone into it.
HP Boston 12.21.08 at 11:42 am
I loved MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN! Anyone remember? Great show part of my WTF moments!
Illinois Gal 12.21.08 at 3:16 pm
WorldNetDaily.com (http://www.worldnetdaily.com)
To view the entire article, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=83984
As KarenWI commented regarding Obama’s involvement in Kenyan politics and now his Kenyan relatives are forbidden to talk to the media, this information must be forwarded to the public forum. Mr. Corsi was arrested in Kenya when he went to Kenya to publisize his book the “ObamaNation”. I don’t understand why Mr. Corsi has not shouted this from the rooftops in the United States. I hope that PUMA supporters will spread the information to the public before the inauguration in January.
boogieman7167 01.25.09 at 1:31 am
The Audacity of Democracy im glad if finnaly came out im ordering my copy now .
pumacrat power & JSND
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