heh

Zed again!?

Wohooooooo

Zed!

tap tap

Woohoooooo, cc!!

peanutbutter @ 5

tap tap

Footsies?

no

single digits?

zed to the eigth???

diez?

Damn you guys are fast…

Lost in the toobz, but posting now:

Iowa court rules same-sex couples can marry

Too late for Larry Craig, but still…

EPU’d

Usually 50 stories and posts daily.

TexBetsy @ 341

If anyone wants to see the news stories & blog posts I choose, I post to this at least 3x most days, often more than that.

Eighth* I guess 15th now

Since we are doing funny…link to Larry Craig cartoons

http://cagle.com/news/SenatorCraig/main.asp

OK, TRex - that’s just too funny.

EPU’d from downstairs:

OK, I’m wrong.

CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 2 VOTING, INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM, AND RECALL

SEC. 13. Recall is the power of the electors to remove an elective officer.

So any officer that’s elected to their position. Which would make them eligible. I would not be in favor of this (I was not in favor of Davis’ recall as much as I detested the man), but yes theoretically such a recall could be initiated. There are some variations in the rules about how many signatures are required to be collected depending on the office, but otherwise the procedure’s the same.

An interesting overview of Davis’ recall: Reflections on the California Recall

wangdangdoodle @ 7

peanutbutter @ 5

tap tap

Footsies?

Only if you show me your hand! *smooches*

Mutant Poodle @ 12

Damn you guys are fast…

Lost in the toobz, but posting now:

Iowa court rules same-sex couples can marry

Too late for Larry Craig, but still…

Was just musing about what would have happened in the straw poll had that ruling come out beforehand….

It would have been like a pack of wild dogs on a lamb.

heh — this IS teh funny ;-)

Weh teh funneh, TRex!!

Sick, truly sick.

I’m trying to imagine what my reaction would be if I were to duck into an airport restroom to take a quick pee while changing planes, and walked in on a U.S. senator in flagrante delicto.

I. Just. Can’t.

Shout out to Butch Otter!

I do solemnly swear that this will be My Last Larry Craig Post EVARRRR!!11!!11!!

I’m officially over this story.

(I know, now the clock is ticking inexorably toward the next funny thing I think of to say about it, at which point I will be forced to break my vow.)

We will be shooting the video this weekend.

Thanks again to everyone who gave to Poppy’s Cats Fund.

So far, it looks like I will be singing:

1. Valerie (Amy Winehouse)
2. Here Comes the Flood (Peter Gabriel), which was a request from Poppy.
3. One (U2)

Now, my pizza is here. I’m going to eat and watch “Lost in Translation”.

peanutbutter @ 18

wangdangdoodle @ 7

Footsies?

Only if you show me your hand! *smooches*

{{{MWAH!}}}

burnspbesq @ 22

Sick, truly sick.

I’m trying to imagine what my reaction would be if I were to duck into an airport restroom to take a quick pee while changing planes, and walked in on a U.S. senator in flagrante delicto.

I. Just. Can’t.

Even if it was the manly Fred Thompson?

ok– I know that I’m just an old woman, but can someone please tell me what the waving hand under the divider means?

TRex, this is great.

yay TRex! Can’t wait to hear “Valerie”!

yellowdog jim @ 9

single digits?

yes!

and three of us told them downstairs.
all in a row.

Christine Edmonson @ 27

ok– I know that I’m just an old woman, but can someone please tell me what the waving hand under the divider means?

Apparently, showing the gold band means AIDS-free.

I think.

Christine Edmonson @ 27

ok– I know that I’m just an old woman, but can someone please tell me what the waving hand under the divider means?

Prepare for a knee-jerk reaction?

burnspbesq @ 22

Sick, truly sick.

I’m trying to imagine what my reaction would be if I were to duck into an airport restroom to take a quick pee while changing planes, and walked in on a U.S. senator in flagrante delicto.

I. Just. Can’t.

See, that’s the problem. You can’t take a quick pee.

HEY!! Hurry up in there, dammit! I gotta go!!!

ooooh TRex, I luuurve “Lost In Translation”…

TexBetsy @ 13

EPU’d

Usually 50 stories and posts daily.

TexBetsy @ 341

If anyone wants to see the news stories & blog posts I choose, I post to this at least 3x most days, often more than that.

book marked.

Ok. I just thoroughly enjoyed that…I’m ashamed to say… lol

peanutbutter @ 17

EPU’d from downstairs:

OK, I’m wrong.

CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 2 VOTING, INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM, AND RECALL

SEC. 13. Recall is the power of the electors to remove an elective officer.

So any officer that’s elected to their position. Which would make them eligible. I would not be in favor of this (I was not in favor of Davis’ recall as much as I detested the man), but yes theoretically such a recall could be initiated. There are some variations in the rules about how many signatures are required to be collected depending on the office, but otherwise the procedure’s the same.

An interesting overview of Davis’ recall: Reflections on the California Recall

Umm, you forgot Sec. 14:

SEC. 14. (a) Recall of a state officer is initiated by delivering
to the Secretary of State a petition alleging reason for recall.
Sufficiency of reason is not reviewable. Proponents have 160 days to
file signed petitions.

It applies to state officers.

Mutant Poodle @ 26

burnspbesq @ 22

Sick, truly sick.

I’m trying to imagine what my reaction would be if I were to duck into an airport restroom to take a quick pee while changing planes, and walked in on a U.S. senator in flagrante delicto.

I. Just. Can’t.

Even if it was the manly Fred Thompson?

I know what my reaction would be if I walked in on Fred in flagrante delicto.

Projectile vomiting.

Mutant Poodle @ 31

Christine Edmonson @ 27

ok– I know that I’m just an old woman, but can someone please tell me what the waving hand under the divider means?

Apparently, showing the gold band means AIDS-free.

I think.

ok- new to me. Thanks.

Mutant Poodle @ 31

Christine Edmonson @ 27

ok– I know that I’m just an old woman, but can someone please tell me what the waving hand under the divider means?

Apparently, showing the gold band means AIDS-free.

I think.

that was clearly the impression that TSF gave us last night. or the night before.

Apparently, showing the gold band means AIDS-free.

I think.

Disgusting.

I’m sorry, but who can look at that ring and think anything other than, “There is a woman being wronged and possibly children, too, if I so much as make out with this guy. SOMEONE ELSE’S PROPERTY!!”?

Or that this is the first time he’s sucking a dick in a toilet, so he must be AIDS free?

WTF?

TRex @ 41

Apparently, showing the gold band means AIDS-free.

I think.

Disgusting.

I’m sorry, but who can look at that ring and think anything other than, “There is a woman being wronged and possibly children, too, if I so much as make out with this guy. SOMEONE ELSE’S PROPERTY!!”?

Or that this is the first time he’s sucking a dick in a toilet, so he must be AIDS free?

WTF?

Family values.

TRex, that is faaa-aaa-aaa–abulous! Gosh, I luv teh internets! Only on the toobz can you get the instant hilarity.

TRex @ 41

Apparently, showing the gold band means AIDS-free.

I think.

Disgusting.

I’m sorry, but who can look at that ring and think anything other than, “There is a woman being wronged and possibly children, too, if I so much as make out with this guy. SOMEONE ELSE’S PROPERTY!!”?

Or that this is the first time he’s sucking a dick in a toilet, so he must be AIDS free?

WTF?

Well, no one said it was logical… or smart.

Christine Edmonson @ 27

ok– I know that I’m just an old woman, but can someone please tell me what the waving hand under the divider means?

http://www.slate.com/id/2173033/

Larry’s recipe for tappin’ odd: olive your bases are belong to lust.

Steve-AR @ 15

Since we are doing funny…link to Larry Craig cartoons

http://cagle.com/news/SenatorCraig/main.asp

Thanks!

I finally figured out why I am Mr. Crabby tonight.

It’s Labor Day Weekend, and I’m not in Belmar or on Long Beach Island.

That’s. Just. Wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4e0WrBsXbE

time for me to split, y’all — thanks for all the YouTubes in the last thread, that was a gas!

Good night!

punaise @ 46

Larry’s recipe for tappin’ odd: olive your bases are belong to lust.

aaaaahhhhh! *kerplooie*
You owe me a new head.

Alicia @ 43

TRex, that is faaa-aaa-aaa–abulous! Gosh, I luv teh internets! Only on the toobz can you get the instant hilarity.

Hey Alicia…Venus update?

punaise @ 46

Larry’s recipe for tappin’ odd: olive your bases are belong to lust.

Craig: “It’s all Greek to me.”

LoudounLib @ 49

time for me to split, y’all — thanks for all the YouTubes in the last thread, that was a gas!

Good night!

Good night, LL!

LoudounLib @ 49

time for me to split, y’all — thanks for all the YouTubes in the last thread, that was a gas!

Good night!

Night, LL.

LoudounLib @ 49

time for me to split, y’all — thanks for all the YouTubes in the last thread, that was a gas!

Good night!

Sleep well…I’m not far behind you.

Sweet dreams, Lou!

LoudounLib @ 49

time for me to split, y’all — thanks for all the YouTubes in the last thread, that was a gas!

Good night!

Nighty!

peanutbutter @ 50

punaise @ 46

Larry’s recipe for tappin’ odd: olive your bases are belong to lust.

aaaaahhhhh! *kerplooie*
You owe me a new head.

would you settle for a slightly used French keyboard?

Alright, why am I in the Fifties when I was Zed material… Hmmm… Did I offend anyone…???

montag @ 52

punaise @ 46

Larry’s recipe for tappin’ odd: olive your bases are belong to lust.

Craig: “It’s all Greek to me.”

HA!

Mutant Poodle @ 51

Alicia @ 43

TRex, that is faaa-aaa-aaa–abulous! Gosh, I luv teh internets! Only on the toobz can you get the instant hilarity.

Hey Alicia…Venus update?

Still nothing. I”m holding out hope, but only because I’m not ready to give up on her. You know how these neighborhoods are around here. Thanks so much for asking, MP.

Alicia @ 61

Mutant Poodle @ 51

Hey Alicia…Venus update?

Still nothing. I”m holding out hope, but only because I’m not ready to give up on her. You know how these neighborhoods are around here. Thanks so much for asking, MP.

Well, I’ll have my boys send elusive cat thoughts her way till she gets herself home.

Am I evil? I wrote Senator Craig last night and told him that he had been a good foot soldier for the GOP and not to let the party elite push him around. I further advised him to ride this thing out and run for office next year. I told him that I hoped he would continue his service in the US senate for may years to come. I’m certain that letters of support are in the minority for him at the moment, and a drowning and reportedly stubborn man will cling to a straw. I’m happy to provide that straw, so who can we run against him if he refuses to step down?

Technicolouryawn @ 63

Am I evil? I wrote Senator Craig last night and told him that he had been a good foot soldier for the GOP and not to let the party elite push him around. I further advised him to ride this thing out and run for office next year. I told him that I hoped he would continue his service in the US senate for may years to come. I’m certain that letters of support are in the minority for him at the moment, and a drowning and reportedly stubborn man will cling to a straw. I’m happy to provide that straw, so who can we run against him if he refuses to step down?

Yer evil…
I like that in a firepup.

Israel owns our Media, Banking System, and Pentagon, plus Bush and Hillary.

Ron Paul would put an end to this nonsense.

If Craig doesn’t resign by tomorrow, news dump thirty, I think he will stick around to the vitter end of his term.

Technicolouryawn @ 63

Am I evil?

Yes, probably. :)

I’m happy to provide that straw, so who can we run against him if he refuses to step down?

Ronald Reagan’s corpse would give him a run for his money.

burnspbesq @ 48

I finally figured out why I am Mr. Crabby tonight.

It’s Labor Day Weekend, and I’m not in Belmar or on Long Beach Island.

That’s. Just. Wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4e0WrBsXbE

Thanks for the Jersey girl. Fantastic.

Technicolouryawn @ 63

Am I evil? I wrote Senator Craig last night and told him that he had been a good foot soldier for the GOP and not to let the party elite push him around. I further advised him to ride this thing out and run for office next year. I told him that I hoped he would continue his service in the US senate for may years to come. I’m certain that letters of support are in the minority for him at the moment, and a drowning and reportedly stubborn man will cling to a straw. I’m happy to provide that straw, so who can we run against him if he refuses to step down?

Yes, you are evil. That’s what I like about you!

ccmask @ 67

burnspbesq @ 48

I finally figured out why I am Mr. Crabby tonight.

It’s Labor Day Weekend, and I’m not in Belmar or on Long Beach Island.

That’s. Just. Wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4e0WrBsXbE

Thanks for the Jersey girl. Fantastic.

Jersey girls are the best.

Technicolouryawn @ 63

Am I evil? I wrote Senator Craig last night and told him that he had been a good foot soldier for the GOP and not to let the party elite push him around. I further advised him to ride this thing out and run for office next year. I told him that I hoped he would continue his service in the US senate for may years to come. I’m certain that letters of support are in the minority for him at the moment, and a drowning and reportedly stubborn man will cling to a straw. I’m happy to provide that straw, so who can we run against him if he refuses to step down?

Larry LaRocco is going to run.

I got kicked out of a Springsteen concert many years ago for jumping on the stage. But I snuck back in. What a hoot that was.

found it:
TeddySanFran at 201

The worst of it are the men with wedding bands who only “go” with other men with wedding bands, since they are known to be automatically HIV-free. (!!) And then there’s the subset of gay San Franciscans who think married men are hot and troll the toilets wearing fake wedding rings. (Long-time HIV prevention worker here.)

Which makes me wonder about the part of the police report where Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) waved his hand under the stall so that the officer could see his wedding ring, now that I think about it….

Man, the toobz are flaying me tonite…!!!

Steve-AR @ 70

Technicolouryawn @ 63

Am I evil? I wrote Senator Craig last night and told him that he had been a good foot soldier for the GOP and not to let the party elite push him around. I further advised him to ride this thing out and run for office next year. I told him that I hoped he would continue his service in the US senate for may years to come. I’m certain that letters of support are in the minority for him at the moment, and a drowning and reportedly stubborn man will cling to a straw. I’m happy to provide that straw, so who can we run against him if he refuses to step down?

Larry LaRocco is going to run.

Viva LaRocco!!!

a very heartwarming story

James Mulvaney: Surfing with Autism
from The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com by James Mulvaney

This is a story about a little boy who has autism who rode a dream to find a little bit of heaven on a New York beach.

Alex is eight years old and lives with his parents in Chicago. Each summer his mother comes to visit a college friend, who lives in Long Beach, a small ocean community a Long Island Railroad ride east of Manhattan. There is a varying entourage always including Alex and his younger sister Madeline.

Some time this past winter Alex watched a cartoon about the ocean. No one can put a date on it, but in the middle of a Windy City freeze, Alex said that he needed to go surfing. His mom smiled; children often announce their impossible destiny; one day to be a cowboy, another day an astronaut, a princess or a president. Although Alex’s midwinter prediction was preposterous it bore a heartening resemblance to “normal” behavior. Families affected by autism grasp at the thinnest of straws as handholds clinging to illusions of hope.

Alex is like many of the other kids ravaged by the autism epidemic: He speaks a few words, but rarely constructs sentences; he flaps his hands and has a tendency to “elope” (the technical term for scurrying away when mom has turns her back for half a second, resulting in a all-points-bulletins, posse formations and devastating damage to the parental central nervous system and cardio-vascular network that is indescribable to all of you lucky enough not to be in our “club”).

Because this is a story about a little boy, I’ll skip the larger debates about the cause and extent of the autism epidemic, except for a warning to the polluters who claim that autism is a only a “genetic” disorder — code for “bad parents, good industrialists” — “You will have a hard time convincing St. Peter that they really believed that mercury, lead and PCBs were safe.”

ccmask @ 67

burnspbesq @ 48

I finally figured out why I am Mr. Crabby tonight.

It’s Labor Day Weekend, and I’m not in Belmar or on Long Beach Island.

That’s. Just. Wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4e0WrBsXbE

Thanks for the Jersey girl. Fantastic.

Or any beach — I haven’t seen the ocean for a year, and even living in Cleveland I used to see it at my parent’s house in Lewes, DE. Miss the sea!! Especially on Labor Day Weekend.

linky for surfing story. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....62586.html

Good night all.

I am going to regret myself in the morning.

G’nite folks!

wangdangdoodle @ 79

I am going to regret myself in the morning.

G’nite folks!

So soon? We hardly got started! *blows kisses*

the Bay Bridge will be closed all weekend long for seismic work - traffic is going to be horrendous.

good night, Betsy!

punaise @ 81

the Bay Bridge will be closed all weekend long for seismic work - traffic is going to be horrendous.

The Nimitz and San Mateo Bridge should be a nightmare. I have to do this run on Saturday I think, coming from the Peninsula.

punaise @ 80

the Bay Bridge will be closed all weekend long for seismic work - traffic is going to be horrendous.

Wow.. both levels/directions?

Sleep well Jim.

TexBetsy @ 78

linky for surfing story. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....62586.html

Good night all.

Good night! Thanks for the linky…

Christine Edmonson @ 76

ccmask @ 67

Thanks for the Jersey girl. Fantastic.

Or any beach — I haven’t seen the ocean for a year, and even living in Cleveland I used to see it at my parent’s house in Lewes, DE. Miss the sea!! Especially on Labor Day Weekend.

I can see the ocean any time I want; Newport Beach is 20 minutes down the freeway. It’s just not the same. No humidity. No Boardwalk Fries. No large roving packs of Catholic high school girls. No ‘76 Eldorado convertibles. No baseball on the radio everywhere you turn.

SoCal beaches bore me.

TexBetsy @ 85

Sleep well Jim.

Thank you!
i shall.

punaise @ 80

the Bay Bridge will be closed all weekend long for seismic work - traffic is going to be horrendous.

I’m sure they mean making it more earthquake-proof, but, “seismic work” has a very ominous ring to it… like a government code phrase for “blowin’ shit up.”

montag @ 89

punaise @ 80

the Bay Bridge will be closed all weekend long for seismic work - traffic is going to be horrendous.

I’m sure they mean making it more earthquake-proof, but, “seismic work” has a very ominous ring to it… like a government code phrase for “blowin’ shit up.”

Well, you never know with this government!

Eureka Springs @ 83

punaise @ 80

the Bay Bridge will be closed all weekend long for seismic work - traffic is going to be horrendous.

Wow.. both levels/directions?

yep. Although, they did the same thing last year on Labor Day weekend and it actually went pretty smoothly - scared enough people away.

Night, Betsy.

::wanders in sleepily::

montag @ 89

punaise @ 80

the Bay Bridge will be closed all weekend long for seismic work - traffic is going to be horrendous.

I’m sure they mean making it more earthquake-proof, but, “seismic work” has a very ominous ring to it… like a government code phrase for “blowin’ shit up.”

my own entendre:
spouse and i have some
seismic work we need to do.
/1/2 snark

Hey, Liss.

burnspbesq @ 86

Christine Edmonson @ 76

Or any beach — I haven’t seen the ocean for a year, and even living in Cleveland I used to see it at my parent’s house in Lewes, DE. Miss the sea!! Especially on Labor Day Weekend.

I can see the ocean any time I want; Newport Beach is 20 minutes down the freeway. It’s just not the same. No humidity. No Boardwalk Fries. No large roving packs of Catholic high school girls. No ‘76 Eldorado convertibles. No baseball on the radio everywhere you turn.

SoCal beaches bore me.

I’ve seen the Newport beach. Nice, but not the stinky east coast ones we love.

Christine Edmonson @ 95

burnspbesq @ 86

I can see the ocean any time I want; Newport Beach is 20 minutes down the freeway. It’s just not the same. No humidity. No Boardwalk Fries. No large roving packs of Catholic high school girls. No ‘76 Eldorado convertibles. No baseball on the radio everywhere you turn.

SoCal beaches bore me.

I’ve seen the Newport beach. Nice, but not the stinky east coast ones we love.

There is something to be said for sitting on the upper level of Ruby’s at the end of the Balboa Pier sucking on a big strawberry milkshake. But other than that, the only good thing about Newport is that it’s where I get my car serviced. Town full of smug, rich, white-bread Republicans who don’t know the difference between luck and brains.

Christine Edmonson @ 96

burnspbesq @ 86

I can see the ocean any time I want; Newport Beach is 20 minutes down the freeway. It’s just not the same. No humidity. No Boardwalk Fries. No large roving packs of Catholic high school girls. No ‘76 Eldorado convertibles. No baseball on the radio everywhere you turn.

SoCal beaches bore me.

I’ve seen the Newport beach. Nice, but not the stinky east coast ones we love.

South Padre Island!
our 8yo insists every summer.
6 hour drive.
we share.
for us it is the closest ocean.
we go for the sand.
dig we must!

Christine Edmonson @ 95

burnspbesq @ 86

I can see the ocean any time I want; Newport Beach is 20 minutes down the freeway. It’s just not the same. No humidity. No Boardwalk Fries. No large roving packs of Catholic high school girls. No ‘76 Eldorado convertibles. No baseball on the radio everywhere you turn.

SoCal beaches bore me.

I’ve seen the Newport beach. Nice, but not the stinky east coast ones we love.

But this is the lowdown…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afBdFyE7PeE

burnspbesq @ 97

Christine Edmonson @ 95

I’ve seen the Newport beach. Nice, but not the stinky east coast ones we love.

There is something to be said for sitting on the upper level of Ruby’s at the end of the Balboa Pier sucking on a big strawberry milkshake. But other than that, the only good thing about Newport is that it’s where I get my car serviced. Town full of smug, rich, white-bread Republicans who don’t know the difference between luck and brains.

Ha ha ha, very true.

Laguna Beach’s more my style but getting in either via PCH or the 133 — not fun.

wangdangdoodle @ 42

TRex @ 41

Disgusting.

I’m sorry, but who can look at that ring and think anything other than, “There is a woman being wronged and possibly children, too, if I so much as make out with this guy. SOMEONE ELSE’S PROPERTY!!”?

Or that this is the first time he’s sucking a dick in a toilet, so he must be AIDS free?

WTF?

Family values.

open marriage?

peanutbutter @ 100

burnspbesq @ 97

There is something to be said for sitting on the upper level of Ruby’s at the end of the Balboa Pier sucking on a big strawberry milkshake. But other than that, the only good thing about Newport is that it’s where I get my car serviced. Town full of smug, rich, white-bread Republicans who don’t know the difference between luck and brains.

Ha ha ha, very true.

Laguna Beach’s more my style but getting in either via PCH or the 133 — not fun.

I’m sure you know the Newport/Laguna/lawyer joke.

here’s Gwin Zegal, the beach we frequent in Brittany.

burnspbesq @ 96

Christine Edmonson @ 95

I’ve seen the Newport beach. Nice, but not the stinky east coast ones we love.

There is something to be said for sitting on the upper level of Ruby’s at the end of the Balboa Pier sucking on a big strawberry milkshake. But other than that, the only good thing about Newport is that it’s where I get my car serviced. Town full of smug, rich, white-bread Republicans who don’t know the difference between luck and brains.

The only reason I know anything about it is that my sister’s husband used to be the head Chef at the Four Season’s Hotel. That was many years ago… but I visited there and found myself not wanted in a town full of rich