Why can't we all just get along?

Monkey and Tigers lay together, play together.
Tiarra Tip: The Royal Spouse

What's for dinner?

NOTHING if there are no bees!

UPDATE: Owen, Cleo and Mzee

Good looking out on Queenie's part brings us this great site that tracks our favorite interspecial friendship - the rhino Owen, his lady friend Cleo and the 130 year old tortoise Mzee.

Boo Hoo Only Hippopotamuseses will do!

I'm a lonely little petunia in an onion patch...

Tiara Tip Queenie.

We have the bestest Maman!

Today in the Scooter Libby Case

The museum curator offed the jury with "The Google."
UPDATE: ONE JUROR HAS BEEN DISMISSED

Today in Court
the Libby Trial
by Mickey@13
The day began with a big bruhaha. A juror, a seventy year old Art Curator [the one who didn’t wear a Valentine’s Day tee-shirt last week] either exposed herself to or was exposed to information about the case over the weekend. She was excused [been there, done that, no tee-shirt]. The issue became plodding ahead with eleven jurors or bringing in an Alternate. Wells was happy with the decision to plod ahead. Fizgerald was not.

Then Jane Hamsher was reconnected with the blue/grey glasses she lost earlier, but subsequently lost her phone and wallet in the bathroom. That was right before the power went out in the whole building. The jury deliberated by window-light. The Media watched as the UPS lights started to wane on the WiFi and their lap-top batteries began to drain. But then the power came back on around 4:00 PM and order was restored to the kingdom. So then, someone turned in Jane Hamsher’s wallet and phone to the lost and found. All’s well that ends well.

Oh yeah. Zipola from the jury…

***BREAKING From FDL: There has been exposure of at least one of the jurors to media coverage of the trial. There is discussion going on in chambers with Judge Walton and counsel for both sides as to how to proceed. There will likely be individual voir dire (discussions) with each and every juror now to determine if there is a taint to the jury process. We won't know anything about whether things will proceed until that has concluded. There is a possibility of a mistrial being declared but, again, we will not know anything unless and until the judge and attorneys speak with the jury foreperson and all of the jurors, and make their determination as to how things will or will not proceed from there. More news as we get it.***
Source: firedoglake

We are wondering in this age of email if it isn’t something like an email from some lefty source … our inbox is full of Truth Out/Media Matters/Move One etc etc.

Late Friday, we were so afraid this would happen but the MSM seemed to be ignoring this trial in favor of the BREAKING NEWS of A N Smith and the Oscars, so we were hoping that that for once the sloppiness of MSM would work in our favor.

Ugh … It’s like when Lucy pulls the football away from Charlie Brown … every time we get close to the truth we get PUNKED.

while we were nairing our mustache...

Maman was on the case!

Beloved Cherie:
Maybe there will be a mutiny, please God!
US Generals "will quit" if Bush orders Iran attack

And I found this by accident...

And this is an easy one: We are Not Buying It!

And from the we are not at all surprised category:
"How Archer Daniels Midland cashes in on Mexico's tortilla woes..."
(Did you know: The author of this article used to live
in Park Slope.)

Enough for now,
All my love
Maman

Waiting for the Verdict

Here we are waiting for the jury to come back with a verdict in the Scooter Libby trial. We are trying to keep busy or at least stay distracted. To that end we checked out our extended horoscope and were delighted to find this....

"Art and love will have one element in common during this time; that is, the experience of them will transport you out of the commonplace into the extraordinary, for that is what you are seeking. Art and love should have a considerable impact on your life now and affect your future for many years to come."

Finally. FINALLY. For the past few years we have felt like we were Sisyphus pushing the rock up that damn hill. The whole world has felt hard and unyeilding. We have not slacked off, we have pushed our rock dutifully knowing not what we were being punished for...but lately...we have had glimmers of a new world. We have felt like this year of the golden boar will some how be a little magical. That perhaps the pendulum is swinging and instead of being STUCK in the MUCK we will be free and unfettered.

This is a fire year and we are a fire sign. We do not fear challenge or change but we are terrified of ignorance and lies.

Maybe this year the scales will fall from folks eyes and they will realize that the Decider is a Deceiver and that the proces is often far more important than the end result.

Today we are sort of tempted to let the rock fall down the hill and smash into little tiny bits and then carry those little bits up the hill and over and beyond.

Today we sort of feel like anything is possible.

Happy Anything:)

Nemesis

"DONT YOU THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
ARE ENTITELD TO ANSWERS?

If as a result Joe Wilson's wife had a job,
Valerie Wilson worked at CPD,
Valerie Wilson gets dragged into newspapers.

People want to find out was a law broken when people want to know, who did it.

What role did Scooter Libby play.

What role did Vice President Dick Cheney play?

Scooter Libby told you he may have discussed this with Vice President Dick Cheney.
Don't you think FBI deserves straight answers.

When you go in that jury room, your commonsense will tell you that Scooter Libby made a gamble.

Scooter Libby threw sand sin the eyes o fthe FBI.

Scooter Libby stole the truth of the judicial system.

You return guilty you give truth back."

Amen!
(bog tiarra tip to firedoglake!)

The Fighting Irish

"We all know, when you're angry at someone, you remember.
Whether you're a chief of staff, whatever you do for a living,
He was angry about Wilson.
What Wilson said is that country got lied into war.
One of the people he blamed was defendant.
ANd VP.
Don't for a second believe, that the defendant wouldn't get pissed if someone said you lied the country into a war."

source: FDL

If you think it's important, when you're focused on it, when you're angry about it. You know the things you forget and the things you remember. You know how to tell the difference. It's actual common sense.





Fitz!

This is the most exciting Mardi Gras we have ever had! The Royal Sister is Representing in the Big Easy, and we are trying desperately to get into firedoglake but the lake is full of Fitz revelers!

And no wonder. From what we have read of Marcy's awesome notes it is clear that Patrick Fitzgerald has lived up to all expectations.

"THE WIFE" (thanks emptywheeler!)

"What was important was who sent him. Waht was the answer. The Wife, A fact, an argument. Was she important as a person, no. Don't buy into this split. Oh, Wilson was hugely important, Wilson's credibility was important. Karl Rove talking abotu it at meetings. But the wife argument was separate. Let's talk about that."

Yeah. Let's talk about that...

There is a cloud over the VP. He wrote those columns, he had those meetings, He sent Libby off to the meeting with Judy. Where Plame was discussed. That cloud remains because the denfendant obstructed justice. That cloud was there. That cloud is something that we just can't pretend isn't there.

Laissez bon Fitz temps roule!

Happy Mardi Gras!

Laissez le bon temps rouler!

What a week! Chinese Lunar New Year, Presidents Day, Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday, the wrapping up of the Scotter Libby Trial, blessed warmer weather and a "free" weekend with no plans!

Let the good times roll, indeed!

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

I got really lucky last thursday and I got put in charge of everything.
The first thing I did was to make all the tires concrete and all the roads rubber. That way there would never be another flat tire again.

from Maman

This little story strikes me as actually a really big story.
Love to all,
Queenie

Here's a piece of it:

"Effectively immediately and until further notice, it is the policy of KSFR's news department to ignore and not repeat any wire service or nationally published story about Iran, China, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia or any other foreign power that quotes an "unnamed" U.S. official."

Queenie and her daughter have been swimming in firedoglake these past weeks, wading through the Libby Trial. We realized early on that the implications of the trial trail are widespread and slow to reveal themselves.
This little story in E&P is a peep in the right direction.

Snow! Fish! Love! Tango!

Happy Valentine's Day

Snow?

We have recently engaged in a preemptory strike against snow.
We have taken Wednesday off.
What's that you say?
It's Valentine's Day.
Hurray! Hurray!

In February it will be my snowman’s anniversary,
With cake for him and soup for me!
Happy once, happy twice, happy chicken soup with rice.

Sweet Justice Harvard Style

Ha
HA HA
HA HA HA HA HA Lawrence Summers
Look what is happening at Harvard now.
The new president - a woman! After your ohsoscientific observations about the biological inferiority of women this is what happens!

Now if only somehow your ugly words on "dirty industries" could be erased. Remember those words Mister Summers?

'Dirty' Industries: Just between you and me, shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?

Oh well ... one step at a time - but we'll keep our eyes on you....

Bloggonit

Fair and Balanced what?

Rupert Murdoch confesses that Fox News is not so much news as opinion and propaganda slightly dressed up as journalism...

Asked if his News Corp. managed to shape the agenda on the war in Iraq, Murdoch said: "No, I don't think so. We tried." Asked by Rose for further comment, he said: "We basically supported the Bush policy in the Middle East…but we have been very critical of his execution."

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