Eureka Springs!

hi ES

My first Eureka Springs thread…

ES

tne super bowl’s on my mind but peope don’t wanna talk about it and i need to get to bed.

Heh, we never you see you up this late, Biodun…!

sleep well.

What’s on my mind? Just how great FDL is, and how I’ve made lotsa nice friends here since I first came here in June 2006… Some I’ve met IRL, as we used to say in Web 1.0…

thanks Eureka, i’ve loved that song for a while now.

*ndfg waves at Biodun* my you’re up late!

Sorry ES, but i’m EPUing this for cinnamon ape: TRex is over at the treehouse these days. If we’re lucky he’ll direct his attention to Atlas this week

Thrilled to see you here.

You’re right there. But we now live in different times…*g* (of course HI for you, you guys are still in late afternoon, eh?)

I’m over there too doing a news post on Saturdays.

speaking of meetups

bear creek firepups meet up
sunday march 2
starting at 1pm
ending by 6pm

central texas meetup is feb 16 mid afternoon in austin.

Hey ES and Biodun

NIce!
See you then!

Well in the spirit of ES’s song here is one I feel says a lot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlGLuRlhW3c

*ndfg waves at Biodun* my you’re up late!

I usually am. Just not at FDL…*g* Usually get to bed around 1:AM CT, sometimes as late as 3 AM CT…

This is what’s on my mind.
Obama draws 5,600 in Santa Fe, NM.
That is just mind-blowing.

Hey there…

that’s right, our Betsy has done several great posts - Digging through the Trash, and we hope it becomes a regular feature.

snack time

Well well.. we have a daytime celebrity with us this evening. Great post earlier today, Biodun.

Be there unless comes in town.. but now that you have set a date I will work to make sure there will be no conflicts…. gotta make that chili and apple pie ya know!

any non sports themed food tex?

i’m not much of a football fan but i have no objection whatsoever to football cupcakes. Yum! Thanks, betsy.

Great cupcakes!

house-shaped cake for suzanne

ct, we’ve been scratching our heads backstage trying to figure out why that link would not work

for now, we suggest you embedd any du links - they do work when embedded but not when cut and pasted for some strange reason

Thanks, my friend. But please don’t think of me as a celebrity. I’m just a regular fella…*g* As for daytime, see my 18…

Does anyone have any polling data on a McCain-Obama matchup in the general?

Greetings, Late Late Nite folks.

I just got home from the second hockey game I’ve ever seen in my life.

But I’m not going to talk about that here!

Forgot “FAMILY” comes in town…

thank you (((tex))) queen of snack

my two 20-something daughters were among the approx 20,000 that showed up in Minneapolis today for Obama. Youngest daughter (21) has been a supporter/volunteer since he announced candidacy.

My my. So things get heavy (or deep) in night threads? *g*

Sorry, Bio. Kind of a carryover from the last one…McCain scares me, because I think he’ll be tough to beat.

Re: Superbowl:

Mr. Redd will be watching it. Christy implied that on a thread earlier in the week. Said she walked around the block pissed during the Mukasey hearing instead of throwing something at the teevee, which Mr. Redd wouldn’t have appreciated given the upcoming Superbowl…

Biodun, things get very deep in Late Late night, which is why I recommend hip waders. *g*

sometimes ya gotta get weedy to get down to the good stuff

Full re-breather unit also helps at times

Yeah I missed that. Was otherwise occupied. And my 17-year-old son who will be 18 in April is hoping to have a chance to vote for Obama in general. Doesn’t surprise me, since he looks like Obama, without going into details…

Per an earlier-today post by Phoenix Woman:

The latest Rasmussen head-to-heads now show McCain beating Obama by six and Clinton by eight. Other polls show similar results. The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, conducted about a week ago, has McCain beating Hillary Clinton by 2 points, 46%-44%. This is a three point improvement for McCain, and a 3 percent dip for Clinton. Obama ties McCain at 42%, after having led him by 6 in the previous poll. And in the latest USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted two weeks ago, McCain beats Clinton by 3, 50% to 47% — even though Clinton had led him by 6 in the previous poll. Obama loses to McCain by 5, even though he had led by 3 in the previous poll.

The latest set of national h-2-h polls from RCP are, when averaged out, slightly kinder to the Dems as they include the Dem-friendly LAT and CNN polls, but still show McCain edging both Hillary and Obama.

Hey Suzanne…

PW’s post this morning probably has what you are looking for.

baby girl (19) called me last night to say she was voting for mccain because she (sob) likes his war policy.

i’m blaming her father.

Thanks wigwam. That’s exactly what I’m talking about.

I Got A Name

Happy to help, doood!

nephew is voting Obama. doesn’t like the clintons and would never live it down in this family if he even considered voting repub. this is his 2nd pres election.

Let me go further. The fact that McCain is outpolling both Obama and Clinton nationally scares the shit out of me.

Wow, folks, thanks for the PW link.

We’ve talked about this. Yep.

Speaking of FDL meetups… We need to have one of these again soon for MN. Some of us have had two. Tonight after my thread I had dinner with a DFLer, John Forde (who has had emptywheel live on his show), and we talked about having a Twin Cities meetup soon.

Don’t tell Pam at Atlas Shruggs, she’ll have fodder for a new smear on Obama.

-G

yup,, GOPers on Arkansas blogs are calling themselves Progressive Republicans for supporting McCain.

GAK. my condolences on baby girl’s choice suze. My kids’ dad is for McCain, they give him mega shit about it. *ndfg pats self on back*

Biodun, my youngest & my mom are both for Obama, tho they both said they will cheerfully support anyone not a Rethug. Errm, except of course if Ron Paul goes independent. They despise him as well.

i’d be up for an upper midwest FDL meetup, just let me know.

Ironic…while the right-wing is screaming that McCain is destroying the Republican Party, he might actually be the one to save it.

Ironic…but bad for the country.

McCain has always scared me. He has his war/POW record, and this incomprehensible ability to create the impression that he is a “maverick” and an “independent” despite his record of rubber-stamping most of what Bush has tried to get away with. If he gets the nomination, the Democrats will have to pay special attention to countering these factors.

time to get some sleep.

night all

Night, TexBetsy.

Time to dig up old records on McCain and the Keating five.

g’night TexBetsy, sending you wishes for painfree sleep.

pain free sleep wishes tex (hand on monitor)

Yep, me as well…goodnight, all. The best of all possible tomorrows to you all.

g’nite rond

thanks y’all. your wishes did the trick last night :)

Another daytimer at night? Aren’t you in NH? My my. How many hours do you sleep in 24 hours? (Note that I didn’t say “at night” since I recognize that in globalization, work is dispersed 24/7, ‘coz someone’s always awake somewhere in the world, to twist Trueman’s words of wisdom “It’s always noon somewhere in the world”)…

news update, after Obama rally today, oldest daughter just signed up as an Obama supporter on facebook. Now both kids plus my mom are Obama supporters. Sigh. Me … first Gore, then Dodd, then Edwards. I do not have good luck with men.

btw, I love facebook, i can keep track of my kids *g* (don’t tell them!)

or else took a 5 1/2 hour nap this afternoon (like me)

Sleep tight, as they say…

I am kind of all over the map as far as time on FDL.

But, now that the Bowflex infomercials are on, time is nigh.

-G

ES—those are some mighty powerful images to go along with some mighty fine Colin Meloy.

Nice find.

McCain is going to have a touhger time once the media is compelled to do some, some due diligence.

Don’t forget, Bob Dole was a WWII vet with injuries and he suffered a harsh defeat at the polls.

I am not pooh-poohing McCain in the least, but he’s got lots of liabilities to go along with his finer points.

-G

I missed the earlier discussion of the general election polls, but I think it’s too early for those to be terribly meaningful. We’ll know more after the first debate between the nominees. No doubt McCain is the toughest to beat, though.

Big problem is that the press loves and adores McCain. That’s why Clinton’s negatives make me nervous.

btw, I love facebook, i can keep track of my kids *g* (don’t tell them!)

Me too! My 19-year-old daughter and 17-year-old son are on there as my friends. I check in on what they’re up to maybe once a month. I figure if they can tell the world then they might as well tell me…*g* My daughter is the only one who’s curious about how often I do that. Well, they did accept my Facebook friend request. Is it a great techie world or not?

ct, we’ve been scratching our heads backstage trying to figure out why that link would not work

for now, we suggest you embedd any du links - they do work when embedded but not when cut and pasted for some strange reason

Wilco, Suz, thanx! I was over at the treehouse chatting with Persi, earlier…

Hillary is no match for McCain when it comes to causing orgasms among the imperalists and/or to scaring the bejezus out of the pants-pissers who adore their courage.

Similarly, Obama cannot out-bipartisam McCain, who has serious bipartisan credentials.

I don’t like McCain, but I respect the fact that he is a dangerous adversary, and the work-a-day press loves him.

tell persi next time ya see her, i’ve got bridesmaid dress picture but she’s gotta come here to see it

Thanks.. I had to watch it a few times just to get the full impact of the kids. Mighty power stuff.. I hope Colin sees it someday.

I am too. But not on FDL. Sometimes I deal with clients in Europe or Southeast Asia, so I have to up to engage different time-zones… Kinda fun, but can be exhausting, especially for an old fogey like me…

Heh, make her jump back into the Lake, eh? ;-)

bear creek on the west coast?

Tweety has been sizing up McCain for a new codpiece since July ‘07.

hehehehehehehe

In the redwoods

hi Biodun, and all who are still here. sweet dreams to TexasB and other sleepy heads. it’s early morning here in Dresden. a jet overhead leaves a vapor trail shining in the sun which has brightened the sky but hasn’t cleared the horizon. i’m still not over the defeats of the week but a few hours in bed helped.

i’d rather McCain look good now than later. five or ten points in a poll in February is like five or ten points in a basketball game at the beginning of the third quarter. a lot can change between now and late October. McCain looks like he may get the Repub nomination.

Obama and Hillary aren’t sorted out yet. until it’s clear who the Democratic nominee will be we won’t get good polling data so don’t let polls rattle your cage. do we have work to do? we always have. the polls are a good wakeup call. McCain will probably be hard to beat. i felt that was true weeks ago. it’s a good thing he got our attention now. for months some people around here have been talking like a Democratic victory in November is almost a foregone conclusion. well? smell the coffee. we’ve got a bar fight on our hands and it will start up real soon.

my little cottage by the creek in the redwoods above santa cruz, mary mcc

Hey! I think I have been there.

Ron Paul ended up third in Maine with 19% of the vote.

His book is selling third best on Amazon.com.

Rudy Giuliani freely admits that Ron Paul won all the debates.

Hang in there folks. Ron Paul, our candidate of quality, is doing just fine.

Sure glad that some are taking McCain serious….

Wave to RGB…. Elmore says he is really tired of the Super Bowl…

McCain in a dangerous maniac. But I feel that when he is contrasted with
our candidate his lack of stability will shine through. Our candidate will have to push the bastard towards a cliff and then let him do the jumping.

yes you have - you have the token seal of approval

Rudy Giuliani freely admits that Ron Paul won all the debates.

Not sure I’d mention this as a selling point…

i’m probably a close second behind elmore in my dislike of the superbowl, katymine

Superbowl-b. . .o . . r . . i . . n . . g……..

TLM, have a bite chocolate pecan brownies

Ya but he has to work it tomorrow….. at least his part is the talking heads shows…. in snotsdale …

Suzanne,
Is it blowing like a mother over your way?

i’ll be working it too - just in a different fashion backstage katymine (groaning) why on earth all these sports fans start off nice chatting but then devolve into my dick is bigger than yours contests is totally beyond my understanding.

TLM, have a bite chocolate pecan brownies

Bribes… I wonder what deviousness Margot is up to!

raining like one

am hoping the little valley protects me some from the winds - winds plus wet ground plus big trees usually means i lose power at some point

i’ll be working it too - just in a different fashion backstage katymine (groaning) why on earth all these sports fans start off nice chatting but then devolve into my dick is bigger than yours contests is totally beyond my understanding.

*clears throat*
Really?

IMHO, McCain is vulnerable on his flip-flopping on all of the key social-conservative issues. That won’t cost him fundamentalist support, which he can buy with a promise of the next Supreme Court appointee, who will kill Roe v. Wade. But it will make the rest of the country realize what a pandering, flip-flopping, deceitful jackass he really is.

The other thing is his militarist/imperialist stance on foreign policy, which is 180 degrees out of phase with the U.S. voters.

I, personally, like big dicks.

*waiting for camels and/or clowns*

Male primate bondage rituals. Okay?

Guys? This thread just became a foul-mouthed FemBlog hen party. Best strap on our pads and helmets!

Good night all good firepups I am calling it an early night…. see ya all at the next late late late late night at the Lake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sjSHazjrWg

g’nite nahant

Bribes!~
It’s a nice plate of brownies, that’s all.

Male primate bondage with camels and/or clowns rituals. Okay?