Login HereThis early James Taylor, with Carole King on piano, is dedicated to old and new friends at the Northern California pup meetup from this afternoon.
We struggled bravely thru an enormous amount of appetizers, entrees, and desserts including one which we dubbed The TRex:
Thanks especially to the wonderful Suzanne who shared her redwoods, her creek, and Token, the cutest dog in the world with us.
The firepups:
Mary McCurnin
punaise
Teddy
spurious
newtonusr
egregious
newspaperbrat
writer/musician Sahra
and the one, the only, Freeway Blogger: scarlet p.
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eGregious!!!
hi egregious!
Late Late Nite! Par-Tey!
NoCal pups rule!!
:::singing::: you’ve got a friend
We rocked!
Mary! Glad you’re home safe!
Loo Hoo. @ 4
wow, high praise from a socal - thanks loohoo - you gonna be able to come to the january meetup (assuming the place doesn’t sell by then)
he-nah, he-nah!
(hey! SoCal pups can also rule! but we failed to make a movie!)
Mary McCurnin @ 6
and ate and rocked some more - mary, newton was taking MOVIES and posted them to utube
Hey!
To friends, old and new, wishing you all much happiness.
texas firepups posted a million pics and had a pair of donkeys at the party!
Dang I like that James Taylor.
Suzanne @ 10
Famous. We are going to be frickin famous!!!!
newton you gotta post the utube movies on this thread too
Nite, everyone. See ya tomorrow.
OMG you had the FREEWAYBLOGGER?!?!
Scarlet P. you are my hero!
egregious @ 11
Cheers! Love your laugh, egregious!
Suzanne @ 5
My office door is closed and locked, and I too, am singing…
Smgumby @ 17
Funny, too.
I’m hoping newt can get a still from YouTube #1 so we can get names with faces. Did anyone else take pictures?
Smgumby @ 17
(buffing fingernails on bazoom)
yes, scarlet p came (with signs)
teehee. a lone voice from the base has shown up in Rove’s comment column at Newsweek.
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Posted By: nomeski @ 11/18/2007 12:14:17 AM
Comment: well,well karla rove at it again or shall i call him Elmer FUDD. Haven’t you done enough damage to the GOP. WHAT A LEGACY! Shame on you rover.
Posted By: nomeski @ 11/18/2007 12:27:34 AM
Comment: remember the alomo that is your south carolina primary where you on drydock a great GOP CANDIDATE. GO TO it MR ELEMER FUDD. shame on you, karla rove, again and againnnnnnn!!!!!!!!
Posted By: nomeski @ 11/18/2007 12:38:00 AM
Comment: mr karla rove question ???? can you say ”Wascally Wabbit. ” as ELMER FUDD DID…….Dont sink the GOP AGAIN, please.
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(ndfg heads out to kitchen to look for popcorn)
Suzanne @ 15
will do…
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isn’t it funny how you are looking at a bunch of faces you do not recognize at the meetups, but you still just know each other? I dunno - “recognized the voice” comes to mind as a way to describe it…
great party movies!
Loo Hoo. @ 21
Hi Loo Hoo!
last frame, left to right…
punaise
spurious
MaryMc
newtonusr (holding Token)
newspaperbrat
egregious
suzanne
teddy
newdealfarmgrrrlll @ 23
that’s hilarious! I wonder how long they will stay posted? poor little karl isn’t getting any support? at all?!?
selise @ 26
selise, they were accidents. I had the camera in movie mode. They were as candid as it gets.
LooHoo - oo! I just read about the brawl over signs at the big dem meeting…
well, if they don’t want the fight, then they need to find a way to be better Democrats.
newtonusr @ 29
that’s what makes them so special!
Congrats on such a great SoCal meeting — thanks for sharing, and share MORE on UTube or here please.
OldCoastie @ 30
what did the sign say?
oc, this is EPU’d from last thread
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Posted By: Georgus101 @ 11/18/2007 12:19:35 AM
Comment: These comments are proof Newsweek is a liberal rag. Nothing but liberal comments. What a bunch of kool-aid drinkers.
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this is Rove’s only support so far. Kinda reminds me of an athletic supporter *snap!*
from the last thread:
Loo Hoo. @ 285
OldCoastie @ 30
Were these DiFi signs?
OldCoastie @ 35
was eden injured when assaulted by john?
What would Freud say about the TRex cookie?
Mommybrain @ 36
Apparently, the sign said, “Courage Campaign”… the people who put the up censure petition…
Good night egregious!
Eureka Springs @ 38
It looks a little firm?
Eureka Springs @ 38
LOL!
Eureka Springs @ 38
Eat it
i’m getting jealous. I’ll have to get in touch with Biodun and see if we can get a upper midwest Firepup meetup going. He started a FireDogLake Minnesota group on fb. I know there’s gotta be more than 4 of us around!
sounds like it was a shoving match, Suzanne… no mention of injury.
sleep well, eg
Eureka Springs @ 38
Bite me
Eureka Springs @ 38
i waiting for a ruling before i eat mine - don’t wanna get in trouble by starting at the head or the tail.
I know about that wrestling over somethin’ stupid… when that kid tried to yank the clipboard outta my hands, it really flipped my stubborn switch - I wasn’t about to let go…
I don’t know what that is but its pretty primal.
Suzanne @ 46
Thanks for everything Suzanne. It was wonderful to see you.
OT: Every Sunday from 11:00 to 1:00 PST, Ian Masters streams live from KPFK interviews with experts on current topics of interst to the progressive community: tomorrow’s lineup.
Here’s the story from Julia Rosen of the Courage Campaign on the censure.
OldCoastie @ 49
And what a real American patriot does without hesitation! (((((OldCoastie)))))
California Penal Code Section 242 states:
A battery is any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another.
(((eg)))
Ca. fire documents conflict with reports (AP)
from Yahoo! News
In this photo supplied by Greenpeace, Greenpeace activists on a rubber boat buzz the ‘Front Driver’, cargo ship, some 15 miles off the coast of Valencia on the closing day of the 27th Plenary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Valencia, Saturday Nov. 17, 2007. Greenpeace claims the ship is carrying 153,000 tonnes of coal destined for the Spanish port of Tarragona. Greenpeace banner reads ‘burning coal destroys the climate’. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Pedro Armestre)AP - Several aircraft were able to fly in strong winds on the first full day of last month’s Southern California firestorms, contradicting officials’ earlier claims that the weather had grounded virtually all aircraft, according to documents released Saturday.
OhOldCoastie @ 49
Oh, I got to jump in here. My organizing career at a factory was ended once by grabbing a petition from the hand of a supervisor, who had taken it from a worker I was trying to get to sign it. There was a hilarious NLRB hearing where the security head of the place, who witnessed this testified as somewhat of an expert witness, as well as an interested party. Seems he had had a show busness career where he snatched flying arrows from the air. He told the jedge I snatched that petition right quick.
selise @ 33
It said The California Coalition to Censure the Senator. And Julia kept reposting the number of people signing the petition. It was up to about 34,000.
there - fixed it.
newdealfarmgrrrlll @ 44
Phoenix Woman and Balrog.
Loo Hoo. @ 58
i guess somebody thought that 34,000 dfh don’t know their place
nite ‘pups. gonna try to get some sleep…
selise - tell me that the “zipped” v-card is expandable by Windoze users…
John Hanna sounds like an authoritarian
prickperson.selise @ 61
i guess somebody thought that 34,000 dfh don’t know their place
what’s dfh? I come up with Defense Family Housing and Dynamic Frequency Hopping.
on the advice of counsel:
I don’t know nuttin’ about nuttin’
Loo Hoo, were those your comments in the Rove comments section? If so, thank you!
jc inOR @ 65
difihaters
Dirty Fucking Hippies.
Night Selise and EG.
punaise @ 66
Dude!
newdealfarmgrrrlll @ 67
Yes. Left some at Markos’ too.
I’m gonna bail early tonight too. I usually get up at the crack of noon but that was when the party started today. I had so much fun meeting all the pups - some known to me already like eg, newspaperbrat, and spurious. it was a great mix of old and new faces but it felt like family today at the little cottage by the creek in the redwoods.
and i must say, the sight of us all out front, holding scarlet p’s impeach sigh certainly appears to have upped my status at the compound. guess a republican cop can fit in with santa cruz hippies.
newtonusr @ 70
yes indude
Loo Hoo. @ 69
Nasty bad dirty fucking hippies.
Punaise! Tell us something we don’t already know about today’s meet-up!
‘night Suzanne - great party even if we were there only in spirit.
Suz - that was great fun - thanks for hosting!
sleep well to all the tired ones!
OldCoastie @ 9
We’ll have to take care of that next time ;-)
pun, it was so good i’m thinking another one in january - after new years.
Mary McCurnin @ 68
Well I’m glad. I thought this was going to be a slur of the Clampets, who have also moved to Anaheim.
punaise @ 66
Punaise!
Suzanne @ 72
Cool Suz! Did Scarlot leave you the sign to post with pride? Night.
Loo Hoo. @ 75
well, I’d have to read through the comments first, but…
1) had to convince my wife this wasn’t some sort of cult meeting
2) forgot to show off the collector’s item firedoglake.blogspot.com T-shirt that I was wearing
pb, I’m looking into it…
;-)
now, if we were all very ambitious, we’d put together a CA gathering somewhere on the central coast so No and So could meet up…
newtonusr @ 63
i think so (can’t test it myself), but i read that outlook can’t use a single vcard with multiple contacts - so i changed it to a folder with 101 vcards in it (one for each senator and one for the toll free numbers that katymine found)…
if anyone can test it for me, that would be very helpful. when we’re pretty confident it’s working, we can spread the word to share it with whoever is helping lobby congress.
Loo Hoo. @ 71
i didn’t see your handle in that column - doesn’t seem to be refreshing correctly, hmm. time to clear my cache.
hey VG - you were there in spirit I’m sure
peanutbutter @ 79
My place. Early March.
punaise @ 84
nooooooooooooo
typing in my sleep now…
punaise @ 84
And, Punaise, I bet you forgot to tell the story about how you found the $20 bill on the sidewalk and contributed to proceeds to FDL/BA.
Is my memory correct, as least vaguely, as to that episode?
i’ve always wanted to see an fdl blogspot tshirt and you forgot to show us it pun?
dang
night selise
link for senate vcards
selise @ 86
No Outlook here. Will get it and try mañana.
punaise @ 88
I very much hope so, in that some of my absolute fave firepups were there, including you, who I have known for a very very long time via FDL.
Suzanne @ 93
I think I showed it to spurious…
my bad for not disrobing
selise @ 96
TY!
VG - I had forgotten about that - except it was a real $100 bill!
ok, really leaving this time… pun, looking forward to you disrobing next time - do you think that will help convince the lovely mrs. punaise that we are not a cult?
selise @ 96
It works! Nice!
TexBetsy @ 56
There’s no such thing as “clean coal.” Coal is mostly carbon: the only way to get energy from carbon is by oxidizing it, i.e., turing it into greenhouse gas (CO2).
Someday we may have economic ways to sequester CO2 underground. Until then, we must using fossil fuel, and expecially coal.
OldCoastie @ 85
True. That would still be Monterey. We could get a room with two queens and put up Peanut Butter, Demi, you and Mommybrain. A sleeping bag works for me!
Suzanne @ 101
prolly not advisable, huh? bonne nuit!…to Suz
Niters selise. Thanks for leading by doing for I must tear myself away from da lake too and get some sleep.
Heading to SF early in the morning to join the fan base of 75-year-old Michael Grbich, the Oakland-based painter at the south end of the Golden Gate Bridge to cheer the artist on his celebratory tap dancing his way across the GGBridge from the Marin County north end. Be there or be Square!
Best weekend evah! Saturday pup meetup at Casa Suz in the Redwoods and celebratory tap dancing on the GGBridge. Happy weekend to all you dear intrepid late late niters!
newdealfarmgrrrlll @ 87
Could be the server was overloaded with Kossacks. Didn’t seem like there was much expertise on the part of Newsweek for this online business!
Blue America Cult
selise @ 91
Somebody ought to write a song…
punaise @ 100
Oh wow! I got the denomination wrong! I knew you found a bill on the sidewalk. But, I only find pennies, so the idea that it was a $100 bill was way past my memory. I was trying to recall the denomination. I guessed at the amount, knowing that $20 would have been pretty amazing for me. Then again, I have found plenty of watches in my time. My fave is the pink cinderella watch I found on a beach in Maine. Not that would have done much to help the FDL cause. ;)
g’nite Suzanne & other leaving tired pups. Glad the meetup was a success! (i’d have been surprised if it wasn’t)
have fun tap watching, npb…
punaise @ 100
Dang! I just find quarters. Can I like, hang around you for a day or so? ;-)
No Outlook here. Will get it and try mañana.
How’d you do that n? enyaaa
punaise @ 112
Do you think he will still have to pay the toll?