Comments on: Blue America: A Huge Thank You To Everyone! http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/ Firedoglake weblog Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:30:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-340061 Adie Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:48:01 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-340061 <p>Funny thing about Ohio’s blue tilt rover would like to deride… *g*</p> <p>Our local newsp. editors (Akron Beacon Journal) let us down, big time, last Sunday, by endorsing DeWine for Senate.</p> <p>I’ve worked since then trying to frame decent, printable language around my disgust so I could fire off a letter to the editor.</p> <p>Opened today’s edition &, lo & behold!</p> <p>EIGHT FINE, FURIOUS, ARTICULATE THUMPS upside the editors’ heads, and no doubt there will be more! (NO letters agreeing with the endorsement)</p> <p>Go Blue! Go Sherrod Brown! - who builds his lead as we speak. Go Jennifer Brunner for OH Secy of State! Go Ted Strickland for Governor!</p> <p>GOTV & get ‘em counted fairly… And I think we’ve got it headed up and moving right along. ;-></p> Funny thing about Ohio’s blue tilt rover would like to deride… *g*

Our local newsp. editors (Akron Beacon Journal) let us down, big time, last Sunday, by endorsing DeWine for Senate.

I’ve worked since then trying to frame decent, printable language around my disgust so I could fire off a letter to the editor.

Opened today’s edition &, lo & behold!

EIGHT FINE, FURIOUS, ARTICULATE THUMPS upside the editors’ heads, and no doubt there will be more! (NO letters agreeing with the endorsement)

Go Blue! Go Sherrod Brown! – who builds his lead as we speak. Go Jennifer Brunner for OH Secy of State! Go Ted Strickland for Governor!

GOTV & get ‘em counted fairly… And I think we’ve got it headed up and moving right along. ;->

]]> By: carolyn urban http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-340060 carolyn urban Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:46:04 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-340060 <p>marksb, good luck with your treatment. If you don’t have a juicer, this would be a good time for one. You can throw together some powerhouse drinks that will help you feel better.</p> marksb, good luck with your treatment. If you don’t have a juicer, this would be a good time for one. You can throw together some powerhouse drinks that will help you feel better.

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-340056 selise Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:44:54 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-340056 <p><a href="#comment-340046"><em>marksb @ 88</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>hi’ya kiristinejoy…thanks for asking…Ya’ know, I’m OK. I’m on my way to UCLA med center Thursday to get a confirmation of my treatment. At the moment it looks like intensive radiation with some limited chemo, all aimed at my throat. The biggest drag is (gulp) a F’ING FEEDING TUBE ’cause I’ll be too sore to swallow—they tell me I’ll have God’s own sore throat for about two months and some. Oh, and I can’t run for three or four months. That sucks. In fact, the whole thing sucks. But, hey, the docs use the word “cure” multiple times in a conversation, and the care I’m getting is top-drawer (these guys are thrilled at my state of health and fitness), and I’ve got health insurance, so, all in all, it would seem I’m damned lucky.</p></blockquote> <p>sending good thoughts your way… for strength as you make a different kind of run… and when it’s over i hope you have gained new friends and new wisdom. please take very good care of yourself…</p> marksb @ 88

hi’ya kiristinejoy…thanks for asking…Ya’ know, I’m OK. I’m on my way to UCLA med center Thursday to get a confirmation of my treatment. At the moment it looks like intensive radiation with some limited chemo, all aimed at my throat. The biggest drag is (gulp) a F’ING FEEDING TUBE ’cause I’ll be too sore to swallow—they tell me I’ll have God’s own sore throat for about two months and some. Oh, and I can’t run for three or four months. That sucks. In fact, the whole thing sucks. But, hey, the docs use the word “cure” multiple times in a conversation, and the care I’m getting is top-drawer (these guys are thrilled at my state of health and fitness), and I’ve got health insurance, so, all in all, it would seem I’m damned lucky.

sending good thoughts your way… for strength as you make a different kind of run… and when it’s over i hope you have gained new friends and new wisdom. please take very good care of yourself…

]]> By: marksb http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-340046 marksb Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:33:04 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-340046 <p>hi’ya kiristinejoy…thanks for asking…Ya’ know, I’m OK. I’m on my way to UCLA med center Thursday to get a confirmation of my treatment. At the moment it looks like intensive radiation with some limited chemo, all aimed at my throat. The biggest drag is (gulp) a F’ING FEEDING TUBE ’cause I’ll be too sore to swallow—they tell me I’ll have God’s own sore throat for about two months and some. Oh, and I can’t run for three or four months. That sucks. In fact, the whole thing sucks. But, hey, the docs use the word “cure” multiple times in a conversation, and the care I’m getting is top-drawer (these guys are thrilled at my state of health and fitness), and I’ve got health insurance, so, all in all, it would seem I’m damned lucky.</p> hi’ya kiristinejoy…thanks for asking…Ya’ know, I’m OK. I’m on my way to UCLA med center Thursday to get a confirmation of my treatment. At the moment it looks like intensive radiation with some limited chemo, all aimed at my throat. The biggest drag is (gulp) a F’ING FEEDING TUBE ’cause I’ll be too sore to swallow—they tell me I’ll have God’s own sore throat for about two months and some. Oh, and I can’t run for three or four months. That sucks. In fact, the whole thing sucks. But, hey, the docs use the word “cure” multiple times in a conversation, and the care I’m getting is top-drawer (these guys are thrilled at my state of health and fitness), and I’ve got health insurance, so, all in all, it would seem I’m damned lucky.

]]> By: kristinejoy http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-340028 kristinejoy Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:15:58 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-340028 <p>Hey marksb–how are you doing?</p> Hey marksb–how are you doing?

]]> By: marksb http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-340017 marksb Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:09:37 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-340017 <p>I know I sound (read?) like a broken record (my eight year-old asks, daddy, what’s a record?) but…anybody here ever been in the control room of a newscast? There are no minds thinking through the impact of ideas, the articulation of clear thinking, the quality of presentation. The director and producer and the corporate bozos who hold the keys are concerned with technical smoothness, looks of the host, pithy sound-bite-type commentators, what audience the guests bring to the broadcast, and if the subject is punchy. They will go with entertaining pseudo-conflict every time, as speeches scare them. People might turn the channel. Advertisers might get bumped. They hate speeches and reluctantly broadcast even the SOTU speech. No, the news is that Clinton gave a speech. Now we turn to a quick word from some know-it-all about the speech or about Clinton, and then four commercials.<br /> Oh, I do go on. Sorry. Lost in the end of a thread anyway.</p> I know I sound (read?) like a broken record (my eight year-old asks, daddy, what’s a record?) but…anybody here ever been in the control room of a newscast? There are no minds thinking through the impact of ideas, the articulation of clear thinking, the quality of presentation. The director and producer and the corporate bozos who hold the keys are concerned with technical smoothness, looks of the host, pithy sound-bite-type commentators, what audience the guests bring to the broadcast, and if the subject is punchy. They will go with entertaining pseudo-conflict every time, as speeches scare them. People might turn the channel. Advertisers might get bumped. They hate speeches and reluctantly broadcast even the SOTU speech. No, the news is that Clinton gave a speech. Now we turn to a quick word from some know-it-all about the speech or about Clinton, and then four commercials.
Oh, I do go on. Sorry. Lost in the end of a thread anyway.

]]> By: Christy Hardin Smith http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-339993 Christy Hardin Smith Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:49:00 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-339993 <p><a href="http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/getting-to-the-heart-of-things/#comments">Fresh thread</a>, gang.</p> Fresh thread, gang.

]]> By: John Casper http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-339992 John Casper Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:48:17 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-339992 <p><em>Yeah, punaise, named in an official post. What a rock star!</em></p> <p>Back stage passes to <strike>insert you favorite rock star</strike>, fine.<br /> Reading punaise at Firedoglake, priceless.</p> Yeah, punaise, named in an official post. What a rock star!

Back stage passes to insert you favorite rock star, fine.
Reading punaise at Firedoglake, priceless.

]]> By: punaise http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-339990 punaise Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:45:12 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-339990 <p><a href="#comment-339989"><em>MayDaze @<br /> 82 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p><a href="#comment-339979"><em>punaise @ 72 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p><em>(So to speak…I feel so punaise.)</em><br /> I feel so adjectival today. :~)</p></blockquote> <p>Yeah, punaise, named in an official post. What a rock star!</p></blockquote> <p>“if I can make a difference in just one life…”</p> MayDaze @
82

punaise @ 72

(So to speak…I feel so punaise.)
I feel so adjectival today. :~)

Yeah, punaise, named in an official post. What a rock star!

“if I can make a difference in just one life…”

]]> By: MayDaze http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-339989 MayDaze Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:42:38 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/18/blue-america-a-huge-thank-you-to-everyone/#comment-339989 <p><a href="#comment-339979"><em>punaise @ 72 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p><em>(So to speak…I feel so punaise.)</em><br /> I feel so adjectival today. :~)</p></blockquote> <p>Yeah, punaise, named in an official post. What a rock star!</p> punaise @ 72

(So to speak…I feel so punaise.)
I feel so adjectival today. :~)

Yeah, punaise, named in an official post. What a rock star!

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