My 2nd Zed for the day?

Looks like, Demi…

so close!

whoa…maybe I should make a run for vegas, with this luck.

Drei!

Sex!

Thank you, TRex.

Wow! Congrat, Demi. Doubles!

CTuttle @ 6

Sex!

Oops, freudian slip!!!

The song’s not playing for me, TRex.

Miz Tex Betsy, where are you?

CTuttle @ 9

CTuttle @ 6

Sex!

Oops, freudian slip!!!

Would you like to lie down right here on the couch, CTuttle? *g*

Did anyone here see Tula’s thread about worker rights?
I shared this you tube link
She’s just SO awesome.

Hi again. Did anyone announce this on the last thread?

Loo Hoo. @ 10

The song’s not playing for me, TRex.

Oh, balls. YouTube had a “Doing maintenance! Some functions may not be enabled!” sign up. Maybe embedding is one of those functions.

Thanks, Loo Hoo!
We take ‘em where we can get ‘em.

TexB @ 14

Hi again. Did anyone announce this on the last thread?

CT did, Tex

Hey Suzanne, is it the length of comments or the quantity of comments that limit the discussion on any particular post. Sorry, you must get asked this a million times.. just curious.

Anything fun happen downstairs after I left?

Loo Hoo. @ 12

CTuttle @ 9

Oops, freudian slip!!!

Would you like to lie down right here on the couch, CTuttle? *g*

Thanks, however, I’m happily married! (With Wifey-Poo, looking over my shoulder!) *g*

do-si-do @ 18

Hey Suzanne, is it the length of comments or the quantity of comments that limit the discussion on any particular post. Sorry, you must get asked this a million times.. just curious.

On regular threads, we like for the subject of the thread to be discussed before going off topic. Certain posts, like Book Salon, or Q&A’s we like to keep restricted to the topic and off topic discussions carry on in the thread below.

Late Nite threads, however, encourage off topic discussions (but of course, we do like comments about the posts too).

TRex @ 19

Anything fun happen downstairs after I left?

Suzanne saved you a snack. Right Suzanne?

TRex @ 19

Anything fun happen downstairs after I left?

A lingering discussion about the Edwards’ new home and some bootie shakin’ on the smackdown of A/C.

Folks have been invited over…

TRex @ 19

Anything fun happen downstairs after I left?

I found today’s Froomkin post quoted a Helpless Dancer comment from the Lake.

I swear, after what the Supremes have done this week, the next time I hear a rightard utter the words “activist judges” there will be blunt-force trauma.

Doesn’t anybody on that side have any principles? Even one?

Stashed the downstairs thread’s snacks in the fridge, Tex. TRex, there are cookies and milk and a fruit/cheese tray.

Loo Hoo,
I might have to come lie down on your couch.
Ha Ha, but not really funny.
No spoons tonight.

I might be leavin’ LA.
Found a really cute little 3 bedroom on land with mature trees in Albuquerque for 104,000.

do-si-do @ 23

TRex @ 19

Anything fun happen downstairs after I left?

A lingering discussion about the Edwards’ new home and some bootie shakin’ on the smackdown of A/C.

Folks have been invited over…

I don’t know why people are picking on Edwards, the man was a great trial lawyer
and they should fear his snark, if they were smart enough ...

burnspbesq @ 25

I swear, after what the Supremes have done this week, the next time I hear a rightard utter the words “activist judges” there will be blunt-force trauma.

Doesn’t anybody on that side have any principles? Even one?

This is a good reason for me to keep the .41 magnum locked away, unloaded, in the closet.

And no they have no principles.
This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.

burnspbesq @ 25

I swear, after what the Supremes have done this week, the next time I hear a rightard utter the words “activist judges” there will be blunt-force trauma.

Doesn’t anybody on that side have any principles? Even one?

Members only.

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 596

Emanuel of Illinois Amendment (cut off Cheneys budget)

Cheney won the day by nine votes.. 24 of which were Dems.

Meanwhile, in the Granite State:

The poll also shows President Bush’s approval rating is a paltry 14% in the Granite State.

How low can he go?

-GSD

CTuttle @ 20

Loo Hoo. @ 12

Would you like to lie down right here on the couch, CTuttle? *g*

Thanks, however, I’m happily married! (With Wifey-Poo, looking over my shoulder!) *g*

I was being the psych, not the floosie!

Suzanne @ 21

do-si-do @ 18

Hey Suzanne, is it the length of comments or the quantity of comments that limit the discussion on any particular post. Sorry, you must get asked this a million times.. just curious.

On regular threads, we like for the subject of the thread to be discussed before going off topic. Certain posts, like Book Salon, or Q&A’s we like to keep restricted to the topic and off topic discussions carry on in the thread below.

Late Nite threads, however, encourage off topic discussions (but of course, we do like comments about the posts too).

Did someone say ‘Food Fight’!!! Yaay!!! (Ducking under Desk!) However, I’m not wasting my Pizza!!! ;-)

burnspbesq @ 25

I swear, after what the Supremes have done this week, the next time I hear a rightard utter the words “activist judges” there will be blunt-force trauma.

Doesn’t anybody on that side have any principles? Even one?

Term is done..I think gutting Brown was just a warm up to Roe.

Doesn’t anybody on that side have any principles? Even one?

No.

Spew Alert!
Colbert: “The country crying out for a hot freedom injection is…Iran.”

don’t make me put my hands on my hips, CT. no food fights at the lake. evah. nothing uglier than water with food in it – yeck

Loo Hoo. @ 34

CTuttle @ 20

Thanks, however, I’m happily married! (With Wifey-Poo, looking over my shoulder!) *g*

I was being the psych, not the floosie!

Wasn’t Sure!!! *wink* *g*

demi @ 28

I might be leavin’ LA.
Found a really cute little 3 bedroom on land with mature trees in Albuquerque for 104,000.

Wow, demi. Were you looking or just stumble on it?

Now, who was it that requested the strawberry shortcake?

And the silk pie?

Food fight?
Here’s some red gatorade in your faces!
Spelashhhhh

Suzanne @21

Gotcha.

I was just wondering if you all have to start a new thread every 200 or so comments. or whatever. not trying to hone my zed skillz.

totally get the on-topic protocol and vow never to be the first to wander off topic on any particular thread! Pledging allegiance to FDL protocol here…

Suzanne @ 39

don’t make me put my hands on my hips, CT. no food fights at the lake. evah. nothing uglier than water with food in it – yeck

mumble, mumble, Ooh alright then!!! :P

Loo
It’s been comin’.
He needs someone who Wants to help him pay that Alimony.

Eureka Springs @ 32

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 596

Emanuel of Illinois Amendment (cut off Cheneys budget)

Cheney won the day by nine votes.. 24 of which were Dems.

What is wrong with the dems?

TexB @ 42

Now, who was it that requested the strawberry shortcake?

And the silk pie?

Mine! Mine! Mine!

All that bike riding certainly hasn’t helped Dick Cheney’s organ grinding Chimp.

-GSD

Betsy, silk pie, that would be me…..mmm, silk pie…ahahahahahahaha.

do-si-do @ 44

Suzanne @21

Gotcha.

I was just wondering if you all have to start a new thread every 200 or so comments. or whatever. not trying to hone my zed skillz.

totally get the on-topic protocol and vow never to be the first to wander off topic on any particular thread! Pledging allegiance to FDL protocol here…

Late night is often off topic. Late, late night doesn’t even have a topic. So good luck with that allegiance thing.

Thanks for the strawberry shortcake, TexB!

GSD @ 33

Meanwhile, in the Granite State:

The poll also shows President Bush’s approval rating is a paltry 14% in the Granite State.

How low can he go?

-GSD

Haven’t you heard? He’s been “liberated by unpopularity” per David Brooks.

Had me some banana cream pie last nite.
Yum…
See, I Can Focus on the good stuff, even in hard times.

QQ at demido-si-do @ 44

Suzanne @21

Gotcha.

I was just wondering if you all have to start a new thread every 200 or so comments. or whatever. not trying to hone my zed skillz.

totally get the on-topic protocol and vow never to be the first to wander off topic on any particular thread! Pledging allegiance to FDL protocol here…

when making an off topic comment on a daytime thread, for example, i try to check the comment thread to see if (1) anyone else has already broken the news; and (2) where the current discussion of the thread is relative to being on topic.

Of course, breaking news of oh, say, Rove being perp walked, would of course, be the exception that kinda proves the rule.

The threads are actually scheduled by time and not comment number. Late Nite we keep an eye on the numbers because it will be several hours before Day Shift posts a new thread.

I don’t understand what you mean, demi. Costs too much in LA?

TexB @ 42

Now, who was it that requested the strawberry shortcake?

And the silk pie?

Thanks for the Shortcake, Betsy !!!

Thank you for the pie, Betsy.

Petrocelli @ 29

I don’t know why people are picking on Edwards …

He’s one of them. I love the guy’s positions on virtually every issue, but I will be God-damned if I’m voting for one of them for President of the United States of America. If that makes me small-minded, silly, and stupid, so be it.

If y’all are finding this confusing, TRex or Patrick can explain it. Their daddy is one of them. Or, there’s a book called “To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever” that will explain it.

TexB @ 51

do-si-do @ 44

Suzanne @21

Gotcha.

I was just wondering if you all have to start a new thread every 200 or so comments. or whatever. not trying to hone my zed skillz.

totally get the on-topic protocol and vow never to be the first to wander off topic on any particular thread! Pledging allegiance to FDL protocol here…

Late night is often off topic. Late, late night doesn’t even have a topic. So good luck with that allegiance thing.

Oh yeah, that allegiance thing, like a…what’s the word I’m searching for?…an oath, OATH, that’s it, like a covenant, a solemn promise to uphold uh uh…oh never mind.

demi @ 43

Food fight?
Here’s some red gatorade in your faces!
Spelashhhhh

Yee-Haw … it’s on !!!

demi @ 46

Loo
It’s been comin’.
He needs someone who Wants to help him pay that Alimony.

ouch! that sounds like it hurts on the insides. (holding out her arms, offerring a hug).

Loo Hoo,
I meant…if I wanna do it on my lonely…yeah…I can buy it outright and do my own thingy.

Petrocelli @ 61

demi @ 43

Food fight?
Here’s some red gatorade in your faces!
Spelashhhhh

Yee-Haw … it’s on !!!

No, it is off. don’t make me stop the car.

(ducks out the door.) You are NOT getting Gatorade in my silk pie!

TexB @ 47

Eureka Springs @ 32

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 596

Emanuel of Illinois Amendment (cut off Cheneys budget)

Cheney won the day by nine votes.. 24 of which were Dems.

What is wrong with the dems?

IMHO, Rahm was Nucking Futs to bring this to a vote … the Repugs will paint the Dems as grandstanding and trivial in a time of war …

Hi guys.

The YouTube thing isn’t working for me, either. Guess it really is down for maintenance or something.

Meanwhile, since the new rocker isn’t ready, here’s an old one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..p;search=#

It’s from John Fogerty’s “Long Road Home” DVD, which I just bought a few days ago. It’s terrific – much better than the 1997 effort, I think.

burnspbesq @ 59

Petrocelli @ 29

I don’t know why people are picking on Edwards …

He’s one of them. I love the guy’s positions on virtually every issue, but I will be God-damned if I’m voting for one of them for President of the United States of America. If that makes me small-minded, silly, and stupid, so be it.

If your are finding this confusing, TRex or Patrick can explain it. Their daddy is one of them. Or, there’s a book called “To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever” that will explain it.

I am confused. He is one of what? Christian white male?

Okay, Petro,
Duck…here’s some leftover plane peanuts…in your face.
Suzanne – that’s not too violent, is it?

The threads are actually scheduled by time and not comment number.

A hah! Watch out you zed seekers of daytime FDL!

Oh my, demi. YGM

Suz-
go ahead. pull over. Ha.

burnspbesq @ 59

Petrocelli @ 29

I don’t know why people are picking on Edwards …

He’s one of them. I love the guy’s positions on virtually every issue, but I will be God-damned if I’m voting for one of them for President of the United States of America. If that makes me small-minded, silly, and stupid, so be it.

If your are finding this confusing, TRex or Patrick can explain it. Their daddy is one of them. Or, there’s a book called “To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever” that will explain it.

I get it — am from the quintessential Duke family going back generations. My daughter did UG there and is now back in law school.

It’s a testament to how strongly I feel about John and EE that I support him. We just don’t discuss basketball.

Trust me….the first song I was taught as a child was the Blue Devil Fight Song — complete with the GTHC refrain.

You’re all welcome. Please bus your own tables and use those napkins I gave you. No chocolate mustaches!

TexB @ 47

Eureka Springs @ 32

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 596

Emanuel of Illinois Amendment (cut off Cheneys budget)

Cheney won the day by nine votes.. 24 of which were Dems.

What is wrong with the dems?

Just a few vertabrae short of a spine, I think.

TexB @ 47

Eureka Springs @ 32

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 596

Emanuel of Illinois Amendment (cut off Cheneys budget)

Cheney won the day by nine votes.. 24 of which were Dems.

What is wrong with the dems?

Good Question! One of my congresscritters didn’t vote, Ambercrombie, it had better be for geographical reasons!!! 8-(

burnspbesq @ 59

Petrocelli @ 29

I don’t know why people are picking on Edwards …

He’s one of them. I love the guy’s positions on virtually every issue, but I will be God-damned if I’m voting for one of them for President of the United States of America. If that makes me small-minded, silly, and stupid, so be it.

If your are finding this confusing, TRex or Patrick can explain it. Their daddy is one of them. Or, there’s a book called “To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever” that will explain it.

ROFL. Yeah, I wouldn’t want to be wrong by voting for the wrong guy who might be right on a lot of things.

Cujo359 @ 75

TexB @ 47

What is wrong with the dems?

Just a few vertabrae short of a spine, I think.

How many is a few?

TexB @ 74

You’re all welcome. Please bus your own tables and use those napkins I gave you. No chocolate mustaches!

That would be yellow, for banana, mustache.
And, by the way, did y’all survive the rain?

demi @ 72

Suz-
go ahead. pull over. Ha.

giving demi The LQQk

TexB @ 78

Cujo359 @ 75

Just a few vertabrae short of a spine, I think.

How many is a few?

All of them.

Suzanne @ 64

Petrocelli @ 61

Yee-Haw … it’s on !!!

No, it is off. don’t make me stop the car.

Maw-meeeee … demi’s splashin’ me with Red Gatorade !!!

Cujo359 @ 67

Hi guys.

The YouTube thing isn’t working for me, either. Guess it really is down for maintenance or something.

Meanwhile, since the new rocker isn’t ready, here’s an old one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..p;search=#

It’s from John Fogerty’s “Long Road Home” DVD, which I just bought a few days ago. It’s terrific – much better than the 1997 effort, I think.

I saw Fogerty on Austin City Limits a few months ago. He’s still got it, baby! I was blown away.

Petrocelli,

I think Rahm’s bill was just a way to get the dunderheads thinking that maybe there is a problem with this vice president.

Suzanne,
Ah, you ‘membered, didn’t cha?
You are just too cute!

demi @ 69

Okay, Petro,
Duck…here’s some leftover plane peanuts…in your face.

Oh, the ‘Hogtown hello’.

;>)

do-si-do @ 53

GSD @ 33

Meanwhile, in the Granite State:

The poll also shows President Bush’s approval rating is a paltry 14% in the Granite State.

How low can he go?

-GSD

Haven’t you heard? He’s been “liberated by unpopularity” per David Brooks.

Brooks is so tiresome – he ought to be kicked off the Newshour – so embarrasing.

You can get into the food fight going on over at Facebook.

burnspbesq @ 59

Petrocelli @ 29

I don’t know why people are picking on Edwards …

He’s one of them. I love the guy’s positions on virtually every issue, but I will be God-damned if I’m voting for one of them for President of the United States of America. If that makes me small-minded, silly, and stupid, so be it.

If y’all are finding this confusing, TRex or Patrick can explain it. Their daddy is one of them. Or, there’s a book called “To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever” that will explain it.

TRex, please explain … I am not reading any books until I complete mine.

demi @ 79

TexB @ 74

You’re all welcome. Please bus your own tables and use those napkins I gave you. No chocolate mustaches!

That would be yellow, for banana, mustache.
And, by the way, did y’all survive the rain?

So far yes, but 3 more days to go. Nephew in Nat’l Guard is up by the Oklahoma border coordinating trucks for rescue efforts and whatever else they’re doing up there. Son is still at summer camp. Hoping he got a top bunk this year. :) Snarky and I are safe and dry.

In my mind, Edwards is the only Dem who truly represents a threat to the system.

If y’all are finding this confusing, TRex or Patrick can explain it. Their daddy is one of them. Or, there’s a book called “To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever” that will explain it.

I’m not exactly sure what you’re saying about my father, there, but he is a great man who has never been anything other than an ethical, great-hearted, and brave gentleman every day of his life. Our country would be lucky to have a man like my father for a President.

RonD @ 91

In my mind, Edwards is the only Dem who truly represents a threat to the system.

Agreed.

Suzanne @ 80

demi @ 72

Suz-
go ahead. pull over. Ha.

giving demi The LQQk

Uhoh! That was in Bold! She means it!!! ;-)

Loo,
Yeah, you reminded me.
If they stop abortion, they get more troops for their wars.
I know, it’s sick, but still…

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Our current radar. Ugh!

demi @ 69

Okay, Petro,
Duck…here’s some leftover plane peanuts…in your face.
Suzanne – that’s not too violent, is it?

Um … demi … that red liquid you were drinking was NOT Gatorade … tee hee hee … jumps into front seat …

demi @ 95

Loo,
Yeah, you reminded me.
If they stop abortion, they get more troops for their wars.
I know, it’s sick, but still…

Not to mention more cheap labor.

TexB @ 97

Our current radar. Ugh!

Nasty, nasty. Looks like my son is getting socked as well. Hope he has his life raft handy, since he doesn’t live on a hill.

anything over about 200/ 250 comments stresses the FDL servers. On topic, not on topic. That is why new posts appear after a huge # of comments. Not bec. anyone has done anything bad… expect maybe participate too wildly!

Jane (nyc) @ 73

burnspbesq @ 59

He’s one of them. I love the guy’s positions on virtually every issue, but I will be God-damned if I’m voting for one of them for President of the United States of America. If that makes me small-minded, silly, and stupid, so be it.

If your are finding this confusing, TRex or Patrick can explain it. Their daddy is one of them. Or, there’s a book called “To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever” that will explain it.

I get it — am from the quintessential Duke family going back generations. My daughter did UG there and is now back in law school.

It’s a testament to how strongly I feel about John and EE that I support him. We just don’t discuss basketball.

Trust me….the first song I was taught as a child was the Blue Devil Fight Song — complete with the GTHC refrain.

Please tell Mr. Edwards, that this Canadian salutes all that he stands for.

newspaperbrat @ 87

do-si-do @ 53

Haven’t you heard? He’s been “liberated by unpopularity” per David Brooks.

Brooks is so tiresome – he ought to be kicked off the Newshour – so embarrasing.

ohh…you used a “Smith College word”, ‘tiresome’. Yeah, I used to like to listen to get a GOP pulse but jeez, listening to grown men justify a seven-year-old mentality IS tiresome.

RonD @ 91

In my mind, Edwards is the only Dem who truly represents a threat to the system.

Barring Gore entering, I whole-heartedly concur!!! My hometown adoration of Obama is fading with each press release!!! ;-)

Petrocelli

Don’t bother about the book. It’s about the Duke-UNC rivalry written from the perspective of a Carolina guy. It’s a bit of a screed and I couldn’t finish it.

I grew up in rural NC and the Carolina fans there are much more rabid (and some might say irrational) than the Duke fans.

Not saying that about JRE though. His UG is from NCSU — but he’s a big UNC basketball fan. However, EE is the truly hard core Heel.
As you would expect, she is classy in her fervor.

I think of all the people who are afraid of Edwards, and-hey!-it’s all the people who should be afraid of somebody:
Big Healthcare. Big Pharma. Big Insurance. Big Oil. Big Defense.
Anyone pissing off all of those people has something going for them.

do-si-do @ 44

Suzanne @21

Gotcha.

I was just wondering if you all have to start a new thread every 200 or so comments. or whatever. not trying to hone my zed skillz.

totally get the on-topic protocol and vow never to be the first to wander off topic on any particular thread! Pledging allegiance to FDL protocol here…

I’m more of a late night denizen so i don’t hold to topic much out of habit. *grins* Except for when i comment during the day. Which is happening more and more lately before i head off to work. But i still spend most of the time here on these threads.

While you’re dodging pie and waiting for Utoobs, check out Kristin’s ablog.

wish I could find some of those bootlegs from ‘87…

Gawd! More cheap labor and troops.
Now we are really talking about sum sh*t.
Dammit.
Okay, Petro, what would I be drinking that’s red?
Remember, I’m blonde. Spell it.
Suzanne, ya gotta cottage behind that cottage?
I could use some Redwoods rightabout now.
Why do you think I go camping?

DrDick @ 93

RonD @ 91

In my mind, Edwards is the only Dem who truly represents a threat to the system.

Agreed.

Ditto. I think this is why he garners so much badmouthing from the pundits – he’s a successful guy who actually realizes that part of being that successful is being fortunate, and having the support of others.

Jane (nyc) @ 73

burnspbesq @ 59

He’s one of them. I love the guy’s positions on virtually every issue, but I will be God-damned if I’m voting for one of them for President of the United States of America. If that makes me small-minded, silly, and stupid, so be it.

If your are finding this confusing, TRex or Patrick can explain it. Their daddy is one of them. Or, there’s a book called “To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever” that will explain it.

I get it — am from the quintessential Duke family going back generations. My daughter did UG there and is now back in law school.

It’s a testament to how strongly I feel about John and EE that I support him. We just don’t discuss basketball.

Trust me….the first song I was taught as a child was the Blue Devil Fight Song — complete with the GTHC refrain.

Petrocelli @ 89

burnspbesq @ 59

He’s one of them. I love the guy’s positions on virtually every issue, but I will be God-damned if I’m voting for one of them for President of the United States of America. If that makes me small-minded, silly, and stupid, so be it.

If y’all are finding this confusing, TRex or Patrick can explain it. Their daddy is one of them. Or, there’s a book called “To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever” that will explain it.

TRex, please explain … I am not reading any books until I complete mine.

See #73.

I was being somewhat facetious. I seem to have crashed and burned, quite ignominiously. I shall now slink away with my tail between my legs.

DrDick @ 93

RonD @ 91

In my mind, Edwards is the only Dem who truly represents a threat to the system.

Agreed.

Yes, I think HRC and OB are so business per usual…so far I like Edwards, and even Dodd, though I suppose some might consider Dodd too DC insider too?

TexB @ 47

Eureka Springs @ 32

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 596

Emanuel of Illinois Amendment (cut off Cheneys budget)

Cheney won the day by nine votes.. 24 of which were Dems.

What is wrong with the dems?

These are difficult times, and we can’t be too careful. They might start calling us “defeat donkeys” again, and then where would be be?

blog

Oh, it’s a UNC thing.

Okaaaaaay, never mind.

*hides butcher knife behind back and backs smilingly toward the door*

Jane (nyc) @ 105

Petrocelli

Don’t bother about the book. It’s about the Duke-UNC rivalry written from the perspective of a Carolina guy. It’s a bit of a screed and I couldn’t finish it.

I grew up in rural NC and the Carolina fans there are much more rabid (and some might say irrational) than the Duke fans.

Not saying that about JRE though. His UG is from NCSU — but he’s a big UNC basketball fan. However, EE is the truly hard core Heel.
As you would expect, she is classy in her fervor.

LOL !!!

I’m hoping my nephew gets into one of those two Universities on a Basketball scholarship … he’s cut from the same cloth as Edwards … both of ‘em … heart of gold and down to earth lad …

Loo Hoo. @ 84

Petrocelli,

I think Rahm’s bill was just a way to get the dunderheads thinking that maybe there is a problem with this vice president.

A cloud perhaps?

I am heading for bed. I can handle spending late nights with a 60 ft therapod, but not a therapod with a kitchen knife. Night all!

burnspbesq @ 111

I understand where you’re coming from — don’t go away! If JRE were to make it to the White House, I’d never hear the end of it. Am just glad a few of my old friends don’t read enoough blogs to know where Addington went to law school. *g*

do-si-do @ 112

DrDick @ 93

Agreed.

Yes, I think HRC and OB are so business per usual…so far I like Edwards, and even Dodd, though I suppose some might consider Dodd too DC insider too?

do-si-do @ 112

DrDick @ 93

Agreed.

Yes, I think HRC and OB are so business per usual…so far I like Edwards, and even Dodd, though I suppose some might consider Dodd too DC insider too?

My only problem with Dodd is that no one seems interested in him. He’s not flashy, that’s for sure, and probably isn’t as good a handler of the news agencies as he ought to be.

G’nite, Betsy!

Loo Hoo. @ 84

Petrocelli,

I think Rahm’s bill was just a way to get the dunderheads thinking that maybe there is a problem with this vice president.

Is it a problem that a leaky microwave oven couldn’t fix?

Night Betsy. Sleep well. We will do our best to keep the theropod away from the cutlery in the future.

TexB @ 118

I am heading for bed. I can handle spending late nights with a 60 ft therapod, but not a therapod with a kitchen knife. Night all!

Oh, he just wanted to slice another piece of pie, Tex B. nighty night!

“…watch out for that tyrannosaur…he has a knife!”

Night TexB. Ya know, if you focus on that mouth full of six-inch long teeth you won’t be sweating the cutlery as much.

Hey Demi,

Your comment was bifurcated, if you’ll pardon the expression.

Poor Dodd has to share duties with the Big Lieberpud.

Talk about a downer.

-GSD

CTuttle @ 104

RonD @ 91

In my mind, Edwards is the only Dem who truly represents a threat to the system.

Barring Gore entering, I whole-heartedly concur!!! My hometown adoration of Obama is fading with each press release!!! ;-)

Right on!

TRex @ 115

Oh, it’s a UNC thing.

Okaaaaaay, never mind.

*hides butcher knife behind back and backs smilingly toward the door*

Of course! Being a Bulldog you have an intense dislike for Tar Heels! 8-)

GSD @ 129

Poor Dodd has to share duties with the Big Lieberpud.

Talk about a downer.

-GSD

Think of the fun you could have, jerking the chair away right before he sits down, tripping him on the way up the stairs, farting noisily and then jumping up and saying, “Jesus Christ, Joe! Could you maybe do that outside?!”

Cujo359 @ 121

do-si-do @ 112

Yes, I think HRC and OB are so business per usual…so far I like Edwards, and even Dodd, though I suppose some might consider Dodd too DC insider too?

My only problem with Dodd is that no one seems interested in him. He’s not flashy, that’s for sure, and probably isn’t as good a handler of the news agencies as he ought to be.

Well…you have a point, for sure. Obama could use some help handling news too!

Hey, do you think Edwards could look the ayatollah in the eye and get him to dismantle his nuclear program? J/K. I like Edwards and getting macho isn’t my criteria…hear that, Hillary?

Do-Si-Do
I know, i saw that.
wtf
I was say’in sumthing to the Dr.
My thingy’s all messed up.
Gonna reboot..and be back.

Of course! Being a Bulldog you have an intense dislike for Tar Heels! 8-)

Dude, I could give two shits about college sports. If I had my way, the UGA Athletic Association would be forced to establish itself as a separate corporation from the university, pay massive taxes, and (in a perfect world) play all their games in Atlanta. Football weekends in this town are a fucking hell on earth.

TRex @ 132

GSD @ 129

Poor Dodd has to share duties with the Big Lieberpud.

Talk about a downer.

-GSD

Think of the fun you could have, jerking the chair away right before he sits down, tripping him on the way up the stairs, farting noisily and then jumping up and saying, “Jesus Christ, Joe! Could you maybe do that outside?!”

707! OK, you got me, you got me!

These are difficult times, and we can’t be too careful. They might start calling us “defeat donkeys” again, and then where would be be?

IMO, We need to come down hard tomorrow on the 24 Dems who let this nation down! Rahm for once did the right thing.

fyi, my 3 cents (for inflation)
I am watching a rerun of the debate on PBS right now. I have always had (and still do) a soft spot for Kucinich but I must say this is the best debate so far for the D team as a whole.

TRex @ 135

Of course! Being a Bulldog you have an intense dislike for Tar Heels! 8-)

Dude, I could give two shits about college sports. If I had my way, the UGA Athletic Association would be forced to establish itself as a separate corporation from the university, pay massive taxes, and (in a perfect world) play all their games in Atlanta. Football weekends in this town are a fucking hell on earth.

I’ve always wondered how you tolerate the influx into Athens for UGA athletic events. *g*

TRex @ 135

Of course! Being a Bulldog you have an intense dislike for Tar Heels! 8-)

Dude, I could give two shits about college sports. If I had my way, the UGA Athletic Association would be forced to establish itself as a separate corporation from the university, pay massive taxes, and (in a perfect world) play all their games in Atlanta. Football weekends in this town are a fucking hell on earth.

Amen, Brother, Amen. Having attended the University of Oklahoma, I developed a distinct loathing for college athletics.

demi @ 134

Do-Si-Do
I know, i saw that.
wtf
I was say’in sumthing to the Dr.
My thingy’s all messed up.
Gonna reboot..and be back.

You were waving to the guy behind me? (blush and slinking away and pretending to fix hair now)

TexB @ 123

Loo Hoo. @ 84

Petrocelli,

I think Rahm’s bill was just a way to get the dunderheads thinking that maybe there is a problem with this vice president.

Is it a problem that a leaky microwave oven couldn’t fix?

HA! Nighty night.

GSD @ 129

Poor Dodd has to share duties with the Big Lieberpud.

Talk about a downer.

-GSD

That’s misery on a daily basis, for sure.

Eureka Springs @ 137

These are difficult times, and we can’t be too careful. They might start calling us “defeat donkeys” again, and then where would be be?

IMO, We need to come down hard tomorrow on the 24 Dems who let this nation down! Rahm for once did the right thing.

fyi, my 3 cents (for inflation)
I am watching a rerun of the debate on PBS right now. I have always had (and still do) a soft spot for Kucinich but I must say this is the best debate so far for the D team as a whole.

Weird, Murtha and Obey voted against. They kind of stood out in that crowd from Texas and Florida.

TRex @ 135

Of course! Being a Bulldog you have an intense dislike for Tar Heels! 8-)

Dude, I could give two shits about college sports. If I had my way, the UGA Athletic Association would be forced to establish itself as a separate corporation from the university, pay massive taxes, and (in a perfect world) play all their games in Atlanta. Football weekends in this town are a fucking hell on earth.

I fully appreciate your disdain for sports, fosters undue hostilities! But, Football!, drool, wait, Hockey, Ya gotta love it!!! Did I mention my BoSox??? *g*

Dang, forgot what I was going to say…

Oh yeah, tomorrow. Gap up. Stay up. Go away for the weekend, close higher.

The tech rally is under way. Don’t let it get away. Things may look sleepy but they’re not.

Weird, Murtha and Obey voted against. They kind of stood out in that crowd from Texas and Florida.

Trying to remember as far back as this afternoon… wasn’t some concern expressed about the setting of precident in case there is a republicrook congress trying cut off funding for a dem vp?

or it could be those dayam cleaning fumes messing with my mind again (showing tomorrow morning with an alleged cash buyer)

Dodd: Smells like a Lieber-qweef in here.

Joe: If I weren’t so bi-partisan I’d tell you to go Cheney yourself.

-GSD

do-si-do – Vic Snyder out of Arkansas should have voted correctly as well.. Something has gone awry with him this year and I can’t figure it out.. He voted for funding on the last defense authorization and this amendment.. it’s so disappointing because it’s so uncharacteristic.

Unfortunately I live in the only Republican district in AR. (Boozeman)

A cash buyer? Go Suzanne!

GSD @ 147

Dodd: Smells like a Lieber-qweef in here.

Joe: If I weren’t so bi-partisan I’d tell you to go Cheney yourself.

-GSD

Bifartisan fricative?

Good luck with the showing tomorrow, Suzanne.

I’ve always wondered how you tolerate the influx into Athens for UGA athletic events. *g*

I live two blocks from the center of town, so every game day, my street is clogged with SUV’s with black and red streamers and paint and big plastic bulldog heads. Oh, and ‘W’ stickers. You don’t dare move your car because you’ll come back in twenty minutes and find a motor home jammed crossways into your space with three generations of drunken fuckheads pissing on the side of your house, while their wives, girlfriends, and daughters set up a grill and start mixing bloody marys.

They’ll stay parked there for, oh, ten or eleven hours, blasting Dave Matthews at ear-splitting volume UNTIL THE GAME COMES ON, when every radio in town gets tuned to the same channel.

And then they sit their on your goddamn lawn AND LISTEN TO THE GAME ON THE FUCKING RADIO!

I’m like, “The football game is JUST HALF A MILE THAT WAY! Get off your fat, polyester swathed asses and go over there and see it! You could have stayed the fuck in Gwinett County and listened to the game on the radio! What the fuck?!”

One time I did bake a batch of Ex-Lax cookies and cheerfully hand them over to the tailgaters in my yard. “How ’bout them Dawgs? Have a cookie!”

Then when they came pounding on my door pleading to use the toilet, I pretended I wasn’t home, and when one of them tried to take a crap in the yard, I called the cops and had him arrested.

Best day of my life.

Suzanne @ 146

Weird, Murtha and Obey voted against. They kind of stood out in that crowd from Texas and Florida.

Trying to remember as far back as this afternoon… wasn’t some concern expressed about the setting of precident in case there is a republicrook congress trying cut off funding for a dem vp?

If the dems have a VP who claims to be a fourth branch of government this might be the case. Dick is beyond anyone’s nightmare in terms of secrecy and corporate greed licking.

But, good luck with that cash buyer, Suz. I’ll be thinking positive thoughts for you!

or it could be those dayam cleaning fumes messing with my mind again (showing tomorrow morning with an alleged cash buyer)

RonD @ 149

A cash buyer? Go Suzanne!

alleged… won’t believe it until i get an offer for cash. but i got a positive feeling. the agent showing is from the same office as my agent – and has seen in before. the buyer is also interested in another house but who would not want to live in the little cottage by the creek in the redwoods?

Geez. this reloading thing takes some time
Do-Si-Do,
You still have hair
It’s good start!

Eureka Springs @ 148

do-si-do – Vic Snyder out of Arkansas should have voted correctly as well.. Something has gone awry with him this year and I can’t figure it out.. He voted for funding on the last defense authorization and this amendment.. it’s so disappointing because it’s so uncharacteristic.

Unfortunately I live in the only Republican district in AR. (Boozeman)

OK, my naivete will show but the other dems on the list I didn’t recognize.

Wow, surrounded huh? I thought I had it bad today when folks were dumping on our Governator (calif) et al but you know, we have Feinstein, Boxer and Pelosi. Not too shabby.

RonD @ 149

A cash buyer? Go Suzanne!

Another Nibble! Right On!!!

TRex!!!!!! 707!!! I think I love you!!

Suzanne-
you do real estate?
that’s right…we should talk.

Trex

Spew Alert!! I haven’t laughed that hard in an age. I’ll have visions of that now every time I hear a GA football score.

TRex you have an evil, twisted mind. No wonder we get along so well :)

do-si-do – sigh. yes, I know, lived in San Francisco for ten years… btw, also lived in Albquerque for quite a while.. It beats the heck out of LA..

demi @ 156

Geez. this reloading thing takes some time
Do-Si-Do,
You still have hair
It’s good start!

Jeez, I’ll say! Are you powered by Big Wheel?

Worth the wait though. TRex’s Tribulations are a hoot! I’m not trick or treating at his house…no wonder he eats all the snacks.

demi, i do not do real estate. i am selling my house and am going to move to oregon, somewhere between newport and nehalem bay along the coast.

Trex. LOL. I love that. Fortunately I live about a mile and a half from the university (we are a much smaller school and state – in terms of people anyway), so I don’t get the football traffic, but I do know where of you speak.

Eureka Springs, I think I’ll get my reggae CD tomorrow. Can’t wait!

Well, kids, I think I will head to bed. Take care and enjoy the snark. Oh, and don’t take any cookies from the theropod.

hello?
I lost my refresh button.
well…there’s always the other one.
Do-si-do, are you flirting?
Even if not, I could use it tonight.l

Eureka Springs @ 162

do-si-do – sigh. yes, I know, lived in San Francisco for ten years… btw, also lived in Albquerque for quite a while.. It beats the heck out of LA..

Well SF Bay Area at least on the Peninsula is really conservative. Kind Orange County-ish but understatedly so. My folks are paleo-cons. I haven’t come out of the closet yet, politically speaking. As a wise poster hear said just theother night, smile and nod.

Loo Hoo. @ 153

Suzanne @ 146

Weird, Murtha and Obey voted against. They kind of stood out in that crowd from Texas and Florida.

Trying to remember as far back as this afternoon… wasn’t some concern expressed about the setting of precident in case there is a republicrook congress trying cut off funding for a dem vp?

If the dems have a VP who claims to be a fourth branch of government this might be the case. Dick is beyond anyone’s nightmare in terms of secrecy and corporate greed licking.

But, good luck with that cash buyer, Suz. I’ll be thinking positive thoughts for you!

or it could be those dayam cleaning fumes messing with my mind again (showing tomorrow morning with an alleged cash buyer)

I wouldn’t put too much stock in what anybody voted on this measure. The point was to show strength, which we did. Actually carrying out that threat would have created an akward constitutional crisis that he could easily win by backing off on some of his claim.

The key is that this close vote served notice that we’re withing a hair of raising some real hell, on some really important issues. It was a very important vote.

Loo Hoo- Got mine two days ago (without asking for special expedited shipping)… it so good!

Suzanne @ 161

TRex you have an evil, twisted mind. No wonder we get along so well :)

Absolut !!!

TRex, I don’t know what book you’re writing, but you definitely have to write one with great stories like this … ROFLMAO !!!

Well, Suzanne, change can be a good thing…
What’s in Oregon for ya?

DrDick @ 167

Well, kids, I think I will head to bed. Take care and enjoy the snark. Oh, and don’t take any cookies from the theropod.

Nite, DD!!!

Pups…
G’night Dr.
I’m heading out myself.
The couch awaits…

TRex, I lived within a mile of the University of FL for 13 years, and your description is right on. The entire town comes to a stop-except for the bars. Tens of thousands of drunk Gator fans roaming the streets. BTW, I’m sure you know, the UF/UG game is known as, “The World’s Largest Cocktail Party”.

demi @ 173

Well, Suzanne, change can be a good thing…
What’s in Oregon for ya?

a cheaper cost of living. am retired and on a fixed income. lots of eye candy – the coast is beautiful and parts remind me of here.

TRex @ 152

I’ve always wondered how you tolerate the influx into Athens for UGA athletic events. *g*

I live two blocks from the center of town, so every game day, my street is clogged with SUV’s with black and red streamers and paint and big plastic bulldog heads. Oh, and ‘W’ stickers. You don’t dare move your car because you’ll come back in twenty minutes and find a motor home jammed crossways into your space with three generations of drunken fuckheads pissing on the side of your house, while their wives, girlfriends, and daughters set up a grill and start mixing bloody marys.

They’ll stay parked there for, oh, ten or eleven hours, blasting Dave Matthews at ear-splitting volume UNTIL THE GAME COMES ON, when every radio in town gets tuned to the same channel.

And then they sit their on your goddamn lawn AND LISTEN TO THE GAME ON THE FUCKING RADIO!

I’m like, “The football game is JUST HALF A MILE THAT WAY! Get off your fat, polyester swathed asses and go over there and see it! You could have stayed the fuck in Gwinett County and listened to the game on the radio! What the fuck?!”

One time I did bake a batch of Ex-Lax cookies and cheerfully hand them over to the tailgaters in my yard. “How ’bout them Dawgs? Have a cookie!”

Then when they came pounding on my door pleading to use the toilet, I pretended I wasn’t home, and when one of them tried to take a crap in the yard, I called the cops and had him arrested.

Best day of my life.

That’s one of the funniest stories I have ever heard.

Having lived in Lawrence KS, and not just as a student, I know what you mean about the RVers. I didn’t used to pay attention to the football schedule, and sometimes didn’t know it was a game day until I went downtown for breakfast and, in addition to the traffic, saw a sea of red on the sidewalks–middle-aged people from OK or NE crowding the sidewalks. When that happened, I usually just went home and went back to bed. Those were the kind of days when you were likely to encounter a drunken fan going the wrong way on a one-way street.

I will admit, however, that I sometimes got interested in basketball toward NCAA tournament time. As far as I am concerned, those two schools from NC deserve each other.

Good night, DrDick. All the best.

yeah, that money thing.
Why I’m lookin’ too.
Good night sweethear.

(waving to all the firepups headed off to dreamland)

if the refresh button is missing, try clearing your cache and then doing a hard refresh of the page.

do-si-do @ 169

Eureka Springs @ 162

do-si-do – sigh. yes, I know, lived in San Francisco for ten years… btw, also lived in Albquerque for quite a while.. It beats the heck out of LA..

Well SF Bay Area at least on the Peninsula is really conservative. Kind Orange County-ish but understatedly so. My folks are paleo-cons. I haven’t come out of the closet yet, politically speaking. As a wise poster hear said just theother night, smile and nod.

I’ve found it reasonably easy to make common cause with paleocons (Pat Buchanan types) and libertarians on matters of civil liberties and foreign policy. We part ways, however, on say healthcare, but even there, the smart ones have a lot of difficulty arguing against the data from other industrialized countries. IMHO, healthcare is the progressives’ battering-ram issue for the 21st century.

Suz, I may have found your 4th of July swimsuit. What do you think?

http://www.swim-shop.com/produ…..a64c96d9a0

You know, I like sports but I never understood the football

crowd

. Why do they go to a game and not watch what the hell is going on? It’s sort of this mob thing that scares the bejeebus outta me. I feel the same way about rock concerts. And the GOP.

demi @ 175

Pups…
G’night Dr.
I’m heading out myself.
The couch awaits…

G’nite demi !!!

clearing my cache?
If I had any cache, I wouldn’t be looking to move…kidding.
I meant Sweetheart. And thanks.

RonD @ 176

TRex, I lived within a mile of the University of FL for 13 years, and your description is right on. The entire town comes to a stop-except for the bars. Tens of thousands of drunk Gator fans roaming the streets. BTW, I’m sure you know, the UF/UG game is known as, “The World’s Largest Cocktail Party”.

South Bend used to be the same way.

The really sickening thing about Football People is that they don’t understand that any universe exists outside their own. I’ll be walking down the hall to the other part of the building at work and some fat, 65-year-old investment banker with a foam bulldog head under his arm will stop me and ask, “I say, son? What taahm is kick-awff tuh-marruh?”

“I dunno.”

“Whaddya mean yuh don’t know, boy? It’s HOMECOMING, tuh-marrah!”

So…what? I should have all the game schedules memorized? Does my shirt say, “ON-STAR” or “Ask me what you’d ask your wife if she was here?” No. It does not. Feck off.

Night gang.

-GSD

i think you found it, loohoo. the diagonal stripes are slimming too.

bookmarked and thanks for the hunt for the perfect 4th of july dive suit

Loo Hoo
That’s a nice suit!
And, good night to you Loo.
and to all.

GSD @ 189

Night gang.

-GSD

G’nite Brother !!!

Try living in San Francisco on a 49ers winning Super Bowl Day… geesh

Oh God Too sleepy to operate punctuation buttons correctly. I better pull over and find a place to sleep.

doog night. trex, you totally rock!

Good night, Petrocelli,
We’ll talk another time about the Asperger’s.
yeah….

RonD @ 176

TRex, I lived within a mile of the University of FL for 13 years, and your description is right on. The entire town comes to a stop-except for the bars. Tens of thousands of drunk Gator fans roaming the streets. BTW, I’m sure you know, the UF/UG game is known as, “The World’s Largest Cocktail Party”.

When I think of how many people are grievously injured at that event every year, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Not to mention alcohol poisoning, dehydration, venereal diseases, and DUI arrests. Ahhhhhh.

TRex #196,
I think of it as Darwin in Action.

Good Night Trex,
when you take your tail to bed, I hope you have sweet dreams.

Night sleepers.

OT-Here’s a little snapshot of Kennedy’s turn to the Dark Side! O’Connor’s prior role pales in comparison!

http://www.scotusblog.com/mova…..l#comments

Not being born with the ’sports gene’, which makes me the family pariah, it’s incomprehensible to me why my whole family dresses up whenever there’s a Gator game, or a Bucs game, and will pay good money to fly to see a college sporting event. But it’s the dressing up and the flags in the yard that really get me. As if they’re actually athletes or something.

Off to bed as well.. good night you wonderful firedogs..

CTuttle @ 9

CTuttle @ 6

Sex!

Oops, freudian slip!!!

The heck with Zeds. #6(Sex) sounds like more fun!

Bob in HI

Loo Hoo. @ 199

Night sleepers.

I’ll second that notion!!!

RonD – you know about the Gatormania!

Off to follow the herd.
Good night, everyone. All the best to you.

demi @ 195

Good night, Petrocelli,
We’ll talk another time about the Asperger’s.
yeah….

((((((((( demi )))))))))

Alicia-you know it. Game days in Gainesville are…all-encompassing. You know how it is.

Bob Schacht @ 203

CTuttle @ 9

Oops, freudian slip!!!

The heck with Zeds. #6(Sex) sounds like more fun!

Bob in HI

Ya liked that?! Aloha, Is Ambercrombie here in the Aina? He did not vote on Rahm’s amendment! Mazie Did!!! 8-)

Alicia @ 201

Not being born with the ’sports gene’, which makes me the family pariah, it’s incomprehensible to me why my whole family dresses up whenever there’s a Gator game, or a Bucs game, and will pay good money to fly to see a college sporting event. But it’s the dressing up and the flags in the yard that really get me. As if they’re actually athletes or something.

Yes. I kind of want to grab people and shake them and say, “These people you worship, they don’t care about you. They don’t know who you are and they don’t WANT to know. To them, you’re just a walking, baying wallet full of cash! Get a life!”

They don’t get it.

What I can’t get over is the personal stake such fans seem to have in how their team fares.

It’s a barbaric waste of psychic energy.

Alright, gang, that’s it for me. Time for bed.

Good night!

Ok-lemme try this again.
Good night, everyone.

Alicia @ 201

As if they’re actually athletes or something.

I finally figured it out — it’s tribal. Where else in modern culture are overtly tribalistic rituals permitted? Men are especially restricted in exhibiting tribal behaviors except with sports. Then it’s OK. That’s the draw — belonging to a tribe with rituals to promote continuity.

Hey, the video’s playing now.

Such a great song.

TRex @ 212

Alright, gang, that’s it for me. Time for bed.

Good night!

nite trex

RonD @ 213

Ok-lemme try this again.
Good night, everyone.

Nite, Ron and TRex!!!

Jane (nyc) @ 211

What I can’t get over is the personal stake such fans seem to have in how their team fares.

It’s a barbaric waste of psychic energy.

… barbaric is the operative word … gladiators … thumbs up or down … keep the choices simple …

In my little town there are high school Warrior Alumni fans that go back to the 50’s. Last year, turns out, the football coach had been taking the Booster Club money and going to Vegas for hookers. Did the Warrior Alums want his head? No. They wanted to keep him on cuz he’d had winning teams.

RonD @ 213

Ok-lemme try this again.
Good night, everyone.

G’nite Ron
G’nite TRex
G’nite John Boy

that’s it for me tonight too, folks. catch ya tomorrow night, same bat time, same bat channel

CTuttle @ 76

TexB @ 47

What is wrong with the dems?

Good Question! One of my congresscritters didn’t vote, Ambercrombie, it had better be for geographical reasons!!! 8-(

Hmm. “Amber-”crombie? Are you suggesting he was yellow? Besides, I thought Hirono was your rep; Abercrombie is mine, and I have no idea why he didn’t vote.

Bob in HI

Petrocelli @ 218

Jane (nyc) @ 211

What I can’t get over is the personal stake such fans seem to have in how their team fares.

It’s a barbaric waste of psychic energy.

… barbaric is the operative word … gladiators … thumbs up or down … keep the choices simple …

It’s sheer Patriotism, swells the chest!!! Sometimes it’s better than Sex!!! ;-)

Suzanne @ 221

that’s it for me tonight too, folks. catch ya tomorrow night, same bat time, same bat channel

Bon Nuit, Ma Cheri!!!

Suzanne @ 221

that’s it for me tonight too, folks. catch ya tomorrow night, same bat time, same bat channel

Goodnight and Good Luck !!!

… always wanted to say that … *g*

CTuttle @ 223

Petrocelli @ 218

… barbaric is the operative word … gladiators … thumbs up or down … keep the choices simple …

It’s sheer Patriotism, swells the chest!!! Sometimes it’s better than Sex!!! ;-)

You must be talking about Hockey !!! *g*

Bob Schacht @ 222

CTuttle @ 76

Good Question! One of my congresscritters didn’t vote, Ambercrombie, it had better be for geographical reasons!!! 8-(

Hmm. “Amber-”crombie? Are you suggesting he was yellow? Besides, I thought Hirono was your rep; Abercrombie is mine, and I have no idea why he didn’t vote.

Bob in HI

Doh! Another Freudian slip! Two on the same thread! Tut, Tut… They’re finally showing the Debate on PBS!!!

dream land awaits …
i got taken in by the scent of the fire and the lake … i was downstairs enraptured by the thread …
… i went to write something in the sand …
then things began to spin …

i awoke on the shore staring straight up into the night …

the stars spelled out:
“You Have Entered EPU!”

not the first time.
we would think i would learn.
i’m just slow.

Bad singing, bad music, bad and mundane lyrics, and really, really, cheap and shoddy instrumentation with NO grip for the instruments at hand other than to thrash shit without precision or cause.

This was HORRIBLE music.

Harumph.

Petrocelli @ 226

CTuttle @ 223

It’s sheer Patriotism, swells the chest!!! Sometimes it’s better than Sex!!! ;-)

You must be talking about Hockey !!! *g*

See my 144, I feel shamed! I said Football First! Will you ever forgive me? *g*

CTuttle @ 230

Petrocelli @ 226

You must be talking about Hockey !!! *g*

See my 144, I feel shamed! I said Football First! Will you ever forgive me? *g*

We Canucks are forgiving by nature !!! *g*

larue @ 229

Bad singing, bad music, bad and mundane lyrics, and really, really, cheap and shoddy instrumentation with NO grip for the instruments at hand other than to thrash shit without precision or cause.

This was HORRIBLE music.

Harumph.

Heh! Had to turn it off myself, Larue.

Loo Hoo. @ 219

In my little town there are high school Warrior Alumni fans that go back to the 50’s. Last year, turns out, the football coach had been taking the Booster Club money and going to Vegas for hookers. Did the Warrior Alums want his head? No. They wanted to keep him on cuz he’d had winning teams.

Loo Hoo … YGM

They’re dropping in Leiberman’s office.

http://cliffschecter.blogspot……es-in.html

Petrocelli @ 231

CTuttle @ 230

See my 144, I feel shamed! I said Football First! Will you ever forgive me? *g*

We Canucks are forgiving by nature !!! *g*

Toronto is nipping at the BoSox heels!!! Bwhahaha… :P

I missed the food fight, but it reminded me that its Lychee season here in Hawaii. So for the breakfast crowd soon to come, here’s some fresh Lychee jam for your toast, english muffin, bagel, or croissant!

Bob in HI

TRex @ 188

The really sickening thing about Football People is that they don’t understand that any universe exists outside their own. I’ll be walking down the hall to the other part of the building at work and some fat, 65-year-old investment banker with a foam bulldog head under his arm will stop me and ask, “I say, son? What taahm is kick-awff tuh-marruh?”

“I dunno.”

“Whaddya mean yuh don’t know, boy? It’s HOMECOMING, tuh-marrah!”

So…what? I should have all the game schedules memorized? Does my shirt say, “ON-STAR” or “Ask me what you’d ask your wife if she was here?” No. It does not. Feck off.

TRex @ 152

I’ve always wondered how you tolerate the influx into Athens for UGA athletic events. *g*

I live two blocks from the center of town, so every game day, my street is clogged with SUV’s with black and red streamers and paint and big plastic bulldog heads. Oh, and ‘W’ stickers. You don’t dare move your car because you’ll come back in twenty minutes and find a motor home jammed crossways into your space with three generations of drunken fuckheads pissing on the side of your house, while their wives, girlfriends, and daughters set up a grill and start mixing bloody marys.

They’ll stay parked there for, oh, ten or eleven hours, blasting Dave Matthews at ear-splitting volume UNTIL THE GAME COMES ON, when every radio in town gets tuned to the same channel.

And then they sit their on your goddamn lawn AND LISTEN TO THE GAME ON THE FUCKING RADIO!

I’m like, “The football game is JUST HALF A MILE THAT WAY! Get off your fat, polyester swathed asses and go over there and see it! You could have stayed the fuck in Gwinett County and listened to the game on the radio! What the fuck?!”

One time I did bake a batch of Ex-Lax cookies and cheerfully hand them over to the tailgaters in my yard. “How ’bout them Dawgs? Have a cookie!”

Then when they came pounding on my door pleading to use the toilet, I pretended I wasn’t home, and when one of them tried to take a crap in the yard, I called the cops and had him arrested.

Best day of my life.

Freshman year, I got put on the same dorm wing as the football team. At the end of that season, the school dropped football, and the footballers went on a rampage for the rest of the year, e.g., coming in drunk at 3:00 am, puking in the halls, putting turds in other guy’s beds, threatening anyone who turned them in, etc. I developed a prejudice.

Senior year, one of my housemates was an end for the Steelers who was working toward a teaching credential during off-season. He was a stereotypical knuckle-dragging neanderthal, unless you paid some attention to what he was saying. In fact, he turned out to be a very perceptive and intelligent individual, but he’d somewhat unconsciously revert to the knuckle-dragger mode when he was around football fans.

The football players I’ve mentioned were white. But first year of graduate school there was a black football star on campus whose knuckles indeed came several inches below his knees (or appeared to). He was talented but never appeared to be so all that bright. Here’s his web page.

CTuttle @ 235

Petrocelli @ 231

We Canucks are forgiving by nature !!! *g*

Toronto is nipping at the BoSox heels!!! Bwhahaha… :P

We’re only 10 games back … half our team has been on IR for the season, including starting pitchers …

Loo Hoo. @ 232

larue @ 229

Bad singing, bad music, bad and mundane lyrics, and really, really, cheap and shoddy instrumentation with NO grip for the instruments at hand other than to thrash shit without precision or cause.

This was HORRIBLE music.

Harumph.

Heh! Had to turn it off myself, Larue.

I come from the Land Of The Tubes, Leila And The Snakes, Romeo Void and more, since the mid 60’s.

And pre crap thrash music, players in MY town, had a command and a nuance of the intsrument at hand, be it a skin flute or a git, mando, drums, harp, harmonica, fiddle, violin, keys or what EVAH!!!!

Even Blondie, on the OTHER coast, with tonal control as her Key In Life, was on key . . .

Harumph. Gimme real music . . .

Bob Schacht @ 236

I missed the food fight, but it reminded me that its Lychee season here in Hawaii. So for the breakfast crowd soon to come, here’s some fresh Lychee jam for your toast, english muffin, bagel, or croissant!

Bob in HI

Ooh, you’re evil, Bob! I absolutely love to toss them in the freezer for a bit, peel’em, and suck on them!!! Better, and sweeter than any Popsicle I’ve ever had!!!

Bob Schacht @ 236

I missed the food fight, but it reminded me that its Lychee season here in Hawaii. So for the breakfast crowd soon to come, here’s some fresh Lychee jam for your toast, english muffin, bagel, or croissant!

Bob in HI

Never heard of the lychee berry before. Is it good, Bob?

My congressman voted with the Repubs.
I’ve heard there are 3 Goopers who want to vie for his seat. Have not heard of any Democratic challengers….

Petrocelli, I responded.

Petrocelli @ 238

CTuttle @ 235

Toronto is nipping at the BoSox heels!!! Bwhahaha… :P

We’re only 10 games back … half our team has been on IR for the season, including starting pitchers …

You’re better than the Damn Yankees!!! Bwhahahaha…… *g*

Margot @ 242

My congressman voted with the Repubs.
I’ve heard there are 3 Goopers who want to vie for his seat. Have not heard of any Democratic challengers….

2008 should be a democrat year, i.e., who gets the nomination stands a good chance of winning, evening without a lot of money and backing.

Loo Hoo. @ 243

Petrocelli, I responded.

me too …

Loo Hoo. @ 241

Bob Schacht @ 236

I missed the food fight, but it reminded me that its Lychee season here in Hawaii. So for the breakfast crowd soon to come, here’s some fresh Lychee jam for your toast, english muffin, bagel, or croissant!

Bob in HI

Never heard of the lychee berry before. Is it good, Bob?

Try them Loo Hoo … they’re one of the best foods you can eat … very high in energy and they taste great too …

i feel your pain trex:
we live in austin texas.

sports craziness came into my life late(r).
my nba thing came from my wife.
when we married she was a fanatic.
celtics, bird, lakers, magic.
i was forced to watch so many playoff games.
20 years later.
i am hooked on the nba and she only just tolerates it.

so i’m going in for Chess Boxing in retaliation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing

Loo Hoo. @ 241

Bob Schacht @ 236

I missed the food fight, but it reminded me that its Lychee season here in Hawaii. So for the breakfast crowd soon to come, here’s some fresh Lychee jam for your toast, english muffin, bagel, or croissant!

Bob in HI

Never heard of the lychee berry before. Is it good, Bob?

It’s not a berry, it’s a tree fruit, it has a coarse, thin rind with a smooth seed in the middle! It is sweet and succulent!!! *g*

CTuttle @ 240

Bob Schacht @ 236

I missed the food fight, but it reminded me that its Lychee season here in Hawaii. So for the breakfast crowd soon to come, here’s some fresh Lychee jam for your toast, english muffin, bagel, or croissant!

Bob in HI

Ooh, you’re evil, Bob! I absolutely love to toss them in the freezer for a bit, peel’em, and suck on them!!! Better, and sweeter than any Popsicle I’ve ever had!!!

… even better than those Mary Joanna ones ?!! *g*

Petrocelli @ 250

CTuttle @ 240

Ooh, you’re evil, Bob! I absolutely love to toss them in the freezer for a bit, peel’em, and suck on them!!! Better, and sweeter than any Popsicle I’ve ever had!!!

… even better than those Mary Joanna ones ?!! *g*

Coff, Hack, Kaff! What was that…???

Since the Lychee jam is all sold out, guess I’ll have to buy a tree!

Loo Hoo. @ 252

Since the Lychee jam is all sold out, guess I’ll have to buy a tree!

Try the fruit, they’re very popular with Asians and should be available in Asian grocery stores.

When oh when is Hillary going to let me be her fashion consultant?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19487919/

Loo Hoo. @ 254

When oh when is Hillary going to let me be her fashion consultant?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19487919/

Ouch, is she wearing a turtleneck?

She’s wearing frump, as usual. She needs to spice it up a bit.

Loo Hoo. @ 241

Bob Schacht @ 236

I missed the food fight, but it reminded me that its Lychee season here in Hawaii. So for the breakfast crowd soon to come, here’s some fresh Lychee jam for your toast, english muffin, bagel, or croissant!

Bob in HI

Never heard of the lychee berry before. Is it good, Bob?

Well, we just got CTuttle’s testimony! The meat of the fruit has something of the taste and texture of a grape. But it’s more like a fruit with a pit, than a berry.

Bob in HI

Loo Hoo. @ 256

She’s wearing frump, as usual. She needs to spice it up a bit.

Wow, she does not look … comfortable …

I pity the trolls who try to make sense of all our OT’s … *g*

Bob Schacht @ 257

Loo Hoo. @ 241

Never heard of the lychee berry before. Is it good, Bob?

Well, we just got CTuttle’s testimony! The meat of the fruit has something of the taste and texture of a grape. But it’s more like a fruit with a pit, than a berry.

Bob in HI

A White Grape! Hillo is answering her first question from Smiley!!!

Petrocelli @ 259

I pity the trolls who try to make sense of all our OT’s … *g*

They might look for greener- ah, clearer-pastures.

I’m off. Best, everyone (westies!)

Petrocelli @ 259

I pity the trolls who try to make sense of all our OT’s … *g*

Trolls…??? Pity us!!! We Do make sense of them!!! :-0

Loo Hoo. @ 262

I’m off. Best, everyone (westies!)

G’nite Loo Hoo
Time for me to hit the hay as well … G’nite all !!!

CTuttle @ 263

Petrocelli @ 259

I pity the trolls who try to make sense of all our OT’s … *g*

Trolls…??? Pity us!!! We Do make sense of them!!! :-0

G’nite CT !!!

Petrocelli @ 264

Loo Hoo. @ 262

I’m off. Best, everyone (westies!)

G’nite Loo Hoo
Time for me to hit the hay as well … G’nite all !!!

Alas, The Lake shrinks again! Dang, Global Warming!!! Nite, Sleepers!!!

Ah well, the crickets are competing with the frogs in a semi-symphony! Time to bid a fond adieu! Aloha Oe!!!

Kristen FTW!

But no love for her in the comments?

Dry, but a pretty mornin here.

Good morning pups!

Sup EG?

Hey raven.

I gotta at least pretend to wake up. Got coffee?

Good morning, pups. Paul Krugman is alone behind the firewall today, and he’s not amused by Rupert Murdoch.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

Coffee and tea are ready, and there are croissants too. Try the pear preserves — they’re delicious.

Mornin’ Raven, EG. Working from home today so I’ll be lurkin’ off and on. Predictions for the GOP Friday News Dump?

And hello Marion, too.

retirin’ in five @ 274

Mornin’ Raven, EG. Working from home today so I’ll be lurkin’ off and on. Predictions for the GOP Friday News Dump?

I got a good feeling about today. Something big is gonna happen.

mornin’ all!

Five U.S. soldiers killed in Baghdad

Five U.S. soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack on their patrol in Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Friday, bringing this month’s death toll for American forces in Iraq close to 100.

The deaths on Thursday in an apparently coordinated ambush that included small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenade attacks underscore the cost to soldiers fighting a war that is increasingly unpopular in the United States.

Vehicle in London packed with explosives

Police thwarted an apparent terror attack Friday, discovering a silver Mercedes parked in central London that was packed with gas containers and a large number of nails.
…
British police defused a bomb found in a parked car in central London on Friday, and the new government called an emergency meeting of senior security chiefs to investigate what many feared could have been a planned terror attack.

Hi egregious, raven, retirin, Marion,

I’m happy you think think something good’s going to happen, today, egregious. Yesterday got to me.

Good news – I got a new commuter bike after being inspired by Phoenix Woman. I even food shop and put the stuff in panniers and a softsided cooler with ice packs. By the time the school year starts up, I hope I can commute to work.

Oh dear twolf, I feel foolish after reading this news.

Boston—

Yay you for the bicycle! Now that is inspiring. Keep us posted on how it goes.

Thanks eg, I think it’s helping me to build up confidence which I hadn’t really understood that I’d lost, reaching my fifties and truly out of shape. Can’t do much about the age, but I can get back into shape!

Morning. I’m hoping that egregious is right and that this is going to be a good day. Twolf posts some pretty distressing news though.

Baby steps Boston, plus think how many of us are reading and going Hmmmm. I used to love to ride my bicycle and it would be great for my fitness program.

You are leading by example.

Brown moves into Downing Street and BAM! terror…

I’m a bit skeptical about the origins of that Benz bomb.

Blank – I hear ya on that. The timing is suspect.

Agreed, BK. There’s a certain Rovian aspect to it, I think. Of course, I’m a cynic……

Boo. Be afraid. Or not.

Good mornin’ folks.

Obit in today’s Globe:

John Todd, a pioneer in computing; at 96

By Los Angeles Times | June 29, 2007

PASADENA, Calif. — John Todd, a mathematician who was a pioneer in the development of numerical analysis for computers and played a key role in the development of some of the first large computers, died June 21 at his home in Pasadena. He was 96.

Also, the FTC is advising ‘caution’ before legislating Net Neutrality.

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybi…..with-.html

Josh Marshall has interesting video about the connection of Karl Rove to the trial and sentencing of former Governor of Alabama, Siegelman.

from yesterday so some may have seen it:

Impeach Cheney
The Vice Pres. has run utterly amok and must be stopped.
By Bruce Fein (Associate Deputy Attorney General under Reagan)

Boston1775 @ 280

Hi egregious, raven, retirin, Marion,

I’m happy you think think something good’s going to happen, today, egregious. Yesterday got to me.

Good news – I got a new commuter bike after being inspired by Phoenix Woman. I even food shop and put the stuff in panniers and a softsided cooler with ice packs. By the time the school year starts up, I hope I can commute to work.

Hey Boston

I’m going to be in Beantown for a conference in a couple of weeks. The last time I was there was the sunmmer of ‘70. We are going to be at the Sheraton Back Bay? Any tips for my bride who gets to play for 4 days while I gets edumacated?

morning!

i just started reading an excellent three part series that finished this week by Roger Morris at TomDispatch on the CIA and Robert Gates: one, two, three

Michael Schwartz wrote a good intro:

And there is one thing that the “family jewels” will not reveal: how this decades-long criminal history has impacted international politics. Here is a simple summary: most of the world’s current man-made disasters are in some way or another “blowback” from past crimes committed by the CIA and its brethren in the “intelligence,” “security,” or “defense” apparatuses of the United States government. Sadly, this includes (of course) the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, also the multiplex crises in the rest of the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, South Asia, East Asia and…wherever.

A good way to see this is to read Roger Morris’ beautifully presented history three part history of the CIA on TomDispatch, which focuses on the ways in which Secretary of Defense Robert Gates shaped and was shaped by his career in the CIA.

so far very good. important stuff, and important to know.

Boston1775 @ 280 –

that’s wonderful! you are inspiration.

raven,

First, you can’t miss the North End for great food and a walk to the waterfront at Rose Kennedy Park.

I need to check if Filenes Basement is still opened or if it will be closed by the time you get there. That’s a trip!

Take the train to Charles Street, walk the shops at the bottom of Beacon Hill, eat, at the end of Charles Street, find the Boston Public Garden and take a swanboat ride.

Although I have never taken a ducktour myself, I know many people who highly recommend a trip around town which finishes by going down a ramp and into the Charles River. (I think the Patriots did this after Super Bowl win.)

Quincy Market is near the North End – very old buildings including Faneuil Hall – now a marketplace.

Boston Public Library – a treasure.

Museum of Fine Arts. Again, a place to walk, soak it all in, have lunch. I’ve spent many an afternoon there.

Use the MBTA – get a copy of the map and find directions to each of these. Boston is truly accessible without a car.

selise @ 295

Boston1775 @ 280 –

that’s wonderful! you are inspiration.

Thanks selise, I’m tryin’

Good morning!

Everybody asleep? Come on! It’s MORNING!

Boston1775 @ 296

raven,

First, you can’t miss the North End for great food and a walk to the waterfront at Rose Kennedy Park.

I need to check if Filenes Basement is still opened or if it will be closed by the time you get there. That’s a trip!

Take the train to Charles Street, walk the shops at the bottom of Beacon Hill, eat, at the end of Charles Street, find the Boston Public Garden and take a swanboat ride.

Although I have never taken a ducktour myself, I know many people who highly recommend a trip around town which finishes by going down a ramp and into the Charles River. (I think the Patriots did this after Super Bowl win.)

Quincy Market is near the North End – very old buildings including Faneuil Hall – now a marketplace.

Boston Public Library – a treasure.

Museum of Fine Arts. Again, a place to walk, soak it all in, have lunch. I’ve spent many an afternoon there.

Use the MBTA – get a copy of the map and find directions to each of these. Boston is truly accessible without a car.

Thanks so much! Hopefully Filene’s will be closed! :)

One other thing, raven,

The Boston Harbor Islands are simply wonderful – Mr. 1775 and I sailed for years there. There are ferries, I think at Long Wharf, that are inexpensive and take you from island to island. I’ve spent time on most of them and the views are spectacular. Spectacle Island is now open (we visited while is was being fixed up for the public). Don’t miss the trip. (Google will give you everything you need.) The history that took place on these islands is astonishing.

My brother is one of the National Guard troops they mention. He is coordinating vehicles for North Texas.

Oh Cassie, is he safe? How’s your cousin doing?

Boston1775 @ 303

Oh Cassie, is he safe? How’s your cousin doing?

My cousin is in Hays County which has not had bad flooding. He has not called us so I think he is probably fine.

My brother is safe. He is sending the trucks places, not going there himself. He is mostly a mechanic when there is not an emergency.

I’ll be thinking of all of you, today. Hang in there, Honey.

She is really rocking..Thanks for the video.My favorites of her is Flipside,Listerine and Sno Cat..

Am I the only one who loves the fact that Kristin Hersh is making such ballsy, full-on music as a 41 year old mother of four?

Michael @307 – Check me out @ 268.

Still no love. Did no one HEAR that f&$**@% song? What’s the matter with you people?

VictorLaszlo @ 308

Michael @307 – Check me out @ 268.

Still no love. Did no one HEAR that f&$**@% song? What’s the matter with you people?

Dude! The video wasn’t working last night until midnight PST.

I came back … it kicks butt!

My kids give me a hard time for fully rocking out in the car when I drive them to school. I’m going to show them Kristen. Yeah! flickin’ my bic!

also love the b/w production. very cool.

Michael, somewhere in Boston @ 307

Am I the only one who loves the fact that Kristin Hersh is making such ballsy, full-on music as a 41 year old mother of four?

Throwing Muses Rule(ed) …Kristin Hersh continues to rule.

She started as a wee teenager, has continued since the mid-eighties (when many of us were younger, if I remember). I’m particularly fond of The Fat Skiier, myself. And David Narcizo kicks butt.

The Muses should have gotten as much credit as the Pixies, imho, as Boston 80’s bands go. It’s hard to listen to a band that came after, like Sleater-Kinney for instance, and not hear Kristen’s pathbreaking influence.