Open Thread 11-28-15

Submitted by JtC on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 9:08am

Good morning 99percenters!
Just a quick reminder that we are currently asking for suggestions for a new site name. We'll take suggestions one more day and then tomorrow, Sunday, I'll aggregate all the suggestions and we'll take it to the next step. So, if you have some spare time, review the selections and add some more.

Just to let you know, I hunted down the bug that was preventing twitter images and videos from displaying, they now work as they used to, although you'll still need to manually embed them by visiting the tweet page and clicking the embed link and copy/paste the embed code here.

Instagrams should also work in the same manner as twitter, but I have yet to test them.

Thanks everyone for participating.

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Music by Fleetwood Mac during their blues period featuring Peter Green and also before their commercial, more pop style era. IMHO, Peter Green is one of the best, if not the best white blues guitarists ever.

Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman (Live Boston Tea Party) 1970

Fleetwood Mac - Doctor Brown

Fleetwood Mac - Shake Your Money Maker

Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well (Part 1 & 2)

Fleetwood Mac - Albatross

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 9:12am

Like Joe we had Thanksgiving dinner two days in a row and I currently have a turkey hangover. How ya'll doing today?

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 9:23am

I see quite a bit of interest in RisingBlueTide, but also quite a bit of disinterest in the word Blue. So I suggest RisingWorldTide, or some derivative thereof.

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Submitted by dkmich on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 2:51pm

The home of the Evening Blues.

  • The name is established and has recognition - many people know who and what it is.
  • It speaks to the music and the blue mood of our politics and country.
  • Since you and Joe plan to co-share this blog, Joe would likely be ok with this. You even have the graphic.

This name makes it an established blog, instead of something brand new no one's ever heard of and that has to be explained. That's my thought.

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Submitted by gulfgal98 on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 10:39am
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No Peace vigil today. Both of the guys are ill. Today I am decorating. Yes, i am one of those who likes to do a tree and all.

My husband over dosed on turkey and all the accompaniments on Thanksgiving Day, but promptly recovered to eat it twice yesterday and I guess it will be twice again today (both lunch and dinner). I am not big on turkey, but that is the price I have to pay every year at this time. I think it is going to take forever for us to finish that bird. I will probably scream "uncle" before it is gone. Maybe tonight! Lol

JtC, I remember seeing Fleetwood Mac some time in the early 70's when they played at FSU. I think it was post Peter Green but before Nicks and Buckingham joined. Christine McVie was in the group because I remember how impressed I was with her. They opened for Black Sabbath. The concert was held in the gym and Black Sabbath about broke our eardrums. My ears rang for days afterward.

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Submitted by JtC on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 11:07am

remember the episode of Seinfeld where Kramer got to spreading butter all over himself and fell asleep while laying out in the sun, they then visualized him as a butter basted, well browned whole turkey on a platter? Well, that's how I feel right now.

I saw Fleetwood Mac in the early 70s also, in Chicago, also post Peter Green. It was their Bare Trees, Future games, Kiln House tour. They were great but I sure wish I had caught Peter Green. He quit the Mac and joined a religious sect and got all weirded out for several years.

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 7:38pm
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They're very slick and smart and you can get them as handouts when you're on the street.

There are lots of topics to choose from. They are produced by Occupy:

http://www.occucards.com

They'll even figure out a way to get them to you free if need be. Or, they'll produce one just for you with your talking points.

Yay, Occupy.

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Submitted by gulfgal98 on Sun, 11/29/2015 - 8:39am
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I was not aware of these. They are great! Thank you for sending me this link.

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Submitted by lotlizard on Sun, 11/29/2015 - 8:58am
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Submitted by wendy davis on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 10:35am
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you said tweets will embed: 'you'll still need to manually embed them by visiting the tweet page and clicking the embed link and copy/paste the embed code here.'

is the embed link different than clicking on the time stamp, causing the tweet's stand-alone url to display, or something different?

i tried this one, both hot and not in the compose box, and it failed to reproduce. i assume you didn't mean to use the 'inert link' feature above the box, or did you?

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/669955555067363328

hot version:
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/669955555067363328

signed,
buffaloed in mancos

p.s. again after Preview, the Save button disappeared. do i just have bad mojo?

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 10:55am

to manually embed a tweet go to the tweet page and below it you'll see an icon that is a series of three small dots, click on the dots and then click "Embed tweet", you'll then see a dialoque box with the embed code, highlight the code if it isn't already, right click and copy, then paste into the editor and that's it. It's much the same to embed an instagram.

I have a problem though, dammit, I just embedded the tweets you linked to and the image doesn't appear. I had it working last night so I'll have to review it again. But embedding the link shows the tweet without the image and it's a simple one click for folks to view it, until I can get it troubleshooted again.

I don't know why the save button disappeared, that's never happened before. What it could be though is after you preview a post the original post that you are replying to shows up under the editor, scroll down further and you'll find the save, preview and cancel buttons again.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention that the tweet images aren't displaying again.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 11:13am
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all five button were still in place after i'd previewed this tweet with the embed quote. lotta code, eh? but the media is there, and was the default choice by checkmark.

thank you, but still... i' reckon i'll stay away from cross-posting Storifies here, rather than have to recreate all the tweeties. save button is here again this time. odd-bodkins. yep, questionable mojo here.

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 11:29am

I see the tweet image displayed after all, must be I have to tweak a setting in my browser, glad to see it working.

To have a tweet or instagram embed automatically like worpress does just by inserting the link takes installing a widget on the Drupal platform, which involves opening a twitter account which I have not done. Evidently wordpress incorporates that function as a default, Drupal does not. Hopefully with the upcoming upgrade we'll include that automatic widget function, whereby you'll only have to link to the tweet page as you are used to blogging with wordpress. Keep in mind, wordpress does all the heavy lifting for you with the behind the scenes coding, here it's all done by moi.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 11:49am
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it's a feature at wordpress, although i did buy an upgrade so that i could find ways to alter the css code (with their help) to resize tweets and videos a third smaller.

@dancingwascallywabbit: oh, ish, hope my bad mojo ain't spreadin' here. but srsly, thanks for un-gaslighting me.

gotta join twitter to get the widget? ay yi yi! that's evil doin's indeed. they say twitter rots yer brain; mine's rotten enough, thanks.

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 12:02pm

check out this draft I created with the Easy Copy extension. It did an exact copy, that by far will be your easiest solution. If you need help with Easy Copy, just give me a holler, it's really pretty easy..

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Submitted by wendy davis on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 6:59pm
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i'd missed this JtC. it worked, except for keegan's tweetie. i'll contact you about attempting your instructions for using Easy copy on my part I climate change series. i was finally a least partially rewarded after (apparently) misinterpreting your instructions to start with. but for one thing, even though there seems to be tweet embed code in there somewhere, the tweet didn't embed.

gadzukes, i suck at this stuff.

for your troubles, a fave:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0hr2HWOohM]

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 7:46pm

Easy Copy is so easy to use that I did that draft in a total of about five minutes, including going to your site, copying the piece, and then transferring it here. I had to delete the title header from the pasted code and put it in the title box here, and then delete the menu from your site directly below the title. I don't know why that tweet didn't transfer, I went to the tweet page it was from and for some reason there was not an embed link included, so that may have some bearing on it.

If you'll just go ahead and post the first part of your climate change series, I can correct any changes and let you know what I did. That may be a good way to pick up on it all.

Thanks for the vid, Derek and Susan are one my faves too.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 8:17pm
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but thank you. i'll email the whole show tomorow, and the tweet's url, plus the embed code, and a few other odd issues.

for tonight, i need a hot bath, a scotch and soda...and a motrin...in the worst sort of way.

bless your heart; i feel like the drama queen from drama, new york.

do ya know lou ann barton? she used to gig w/ stevie ray. whatta voice.

guess my fave of hers might just be...(oh my; that video crashed, sorry_

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrvjokCl-08]

tomorrow, tomorrow, etc. sleep well, dream well. the gemini twins castor and pollux are shining bright in the northeastern sky, even with the waning full moon.

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 8:29pm

It's not that much of a hassle. Yes, I love Lou Ann and have a couple of her CDs, thanks.

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Submitted by gulfgal98 on Sun, 11/29/2015 - 8:41am
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Thanks for the vid, Derek and Susan are one my faves too.

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Submitted by dancingrabbit on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 11:34am

When I selected Preview then scrolled
down to Save, the Save button and
others were nowhere to be found. So, I
just quit using Preview and used the
edit function to correct my posted
comment if my mistakes were
egregious enough to warrant it.

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 11:44am

that's weird. I wonder if Wendy was posting from a mobile also, that could be the prob, haven't heard that one before.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 11:50am
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just a regular laptop. on firefox.

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 11:28am

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Afghanistan, battered by worsening security, is reaching out to an old ally and patron—Russia—just as the Kremlin is seeking to reassert its position as a heavyweight on the world stage.

President Ashraf Ghani has asked Moscow for artillery, small arms and Mi-35 helicopter gunships for his country’s struggling military, Afghan and Russian officials say, after the U.S. and its allies pulled most of their troops from Afghanistan and reduced financial aid.

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 11:32am

we just had, or was it Groundhog Day?

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Submitted by lotlizard on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 2:16pm
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If Afghanustawney Phil sees his shadow, do we get six more years of war? Or worse yet, nuclear winter?

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 11:41am

Now we are saying something else

As a number of outlets have reported, the Second Circuit last month upheld the government’s effort to keep a March 29, 2002 OLC memo pertaining to targeted killing secret; the opinion was unsealed yesterday. The government is probably doing so to keep changes in their rationale for why assassinations don’t violate the prohibition on assassination in EO 12333 secret.

The judges on the panel — especially Judge Jon Normand, who wrote the opinion — had pushed during an ex parte hearing in June to release language in that earlier memo because the dog & pony show around drone strikes in 2012 to 2013 had used closely related language. But after some more secret briefing, the court decided the application of EO 12333 was different enough such that it remained properly protected.

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Submitted by gulfgal98 on Sun, 11/29/2015 - 8:43am
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is especially insidious. It should be called the assassination of unknown human beings program.

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 2:46pm

Syria

The Syrian army said on Saturday that Turkey had recently increased supplies of weapons, ammunition and equipment to what it described as terrorists in Syria, and accused its northern neighbor of firing shells at Syrian army positions

Russia

In another sign of tensions after its shooting down of the Russian plane on Tuesday, which resulted in the death of one of the pilots, Turkey's foreign ministry advised people on Saturday to postpone all non-urgent travel to Russia.

Peskov said the crisis had prompted Putin, whose ministers are preparing retaliatory economic measures against Turkey, to "mobilize" in the way an army does in tense times.

"The president is mobilized, fully mobilized, mobilized to the extent that circumstances demand," said Peskov.

"The circumstances are unprecedented. The gauntlet thrown down to Russia is unprecedented. So naturally the reaction is in line with this threat."

United States

The Obama administration is pressing Turkey to deploy thousands of additional troops along its border with Syria to cordon off a 60-mile stretch of frontier that U.S. officials say is used by Islamic State to move foreign fighters in and out of the war zone.
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Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 2:58pm

Blackwater again

The United Arab Emirates, as reported in today’s New York Times, has hired foreign mercenaries, from a program launched by Blackwater’s head Erik Prince, and secretly sent them to the fighting in Yemen. This is not a good sign. Blackwater private security alienated Iraqis against the United States. Now the use of foreign mercenaries will signify to the “outs” in the Middle East that the rich will buy guns-for-hire to use against them.

This program gets laid out in a New York Times piece entitled, “Emirates Secretly Sends Colombian Mercenaries to Yemen Fight.” It explains that this is “the first combat deployment for a foreign army that the Emirates has quietly built in the desert over the past five years.” The Emirates had a brigade of 1,800 soldiers from Latin America which provided 450 troops now arriving in Yemen. It seems there are also going to be hundreds of other foreign mercenaries — Sudanese and Eritrean soldiers — brought into Yemen.

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Submitted by lotlizard on Sat, 11/28/2015 - 4:55pm
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The Saudi and Gulf tyrants have more money than anyone, so these super-Trumps get to be the most powerful killers.

That's a natural result of the crazy system the West has built in line with the dictates of Washington DC.

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