Jane!

Barr is still a jerk. Sorry, had to say that.

The politix in GA are er…. interesting.

g’evening everyone

Jane, loved the Kobe pix earlier!

Valley Girl!! Quick on the keyboard tonight you are!!!

Evening Suzanne

Everyone so far is VG and me!

and newton – we can’t forget newton

Barr/Borat 2008!

-G

Goooooooooooooooooooo Booooooooooooob!

You miserable git!

At least your mind does work. And…

Unlike many you can speak the truth about somethings.

Nicely done Jane!

Isn’t it past your bed-time, Jane?

i wanna hear the talking heads whining about how barr is siphoning votes away from mcsame

ola pups

i wanted to pop in and say ciao before mr and I head off tomorrow for Brasil. I will be online off and on tonight but did not want to forget to wish you all well.

bon voyage wobbly

Have a fun time.

-G

look’s like ya’ll are stuck with me tonight while jane sleeps

travel safe… weebits is going, no?

;~P

Enjoy the winter in Brazil!!! *g*

Wobbly, we’ll miss ya, but have a grand time, and for a bit, forget the insanity here in the north … enjoy!!!

Have a great time and stay in touch!
Chris

Ted Koppell on TDS

*cringing*

Have fun Wobs!

Mark Fiore cartoon – Candidate

Very, Very, Very Good!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes.

Say “hi” to Glenzilla.

no, she is at her new home (my aunt)

And?

That is great!

Happy birthday, grrrlll!!

jane, why are you not sleeping?

hippo birdy, LL

thanks for the well wishes everyone.

Suzanne – thanks *g*

AZMatt- We always enjoy the winters there even though in the Northeast winter means high 80’s to mid 90’s temp and a bit of rain.

DWBartoo- I’ll try to forget the insanity up here (not hard given the insanity down there)

Christine – I’ll try but i’ll only be home in Sao Paulo for about 6 days and after that, i’ll be vacationing in a really small town with no internet. We’ll see if I can sneak to the internet cafe the next town over *g*

Mary- thanks Mary, I plan on doing just that.

Jane- where is he in Brasil?

Sorry, Jane. That was an inappropriate “And?”

Sorry to interrupt sleepy-time.

Sweet dreams

;~P

Feliz Aniversário LL!!!!

WDD, Suz, wobbs, thank you for the birthday wishes! :-)

It looks like ya had a great conversation, Jane! I’m listening as I type…! ;-)

Safe travels, wobbly!

FunnyDiva

Ooh, Happy B’Day, LL! 8-)

Sometime, when you’ve the time, ‘twould be of no little interest to me to hear your thoughts regarding that particular ‘insanity’, wobbly …

thanks Funny. It is a long flight (12 hours) but it is routine travel for us.

Aloha CT, and thank you!

wobbs, I hope you and the mr have a fantastic time in Brasil :-)

might take years (*g). It is a mess down there (well the ususal mess and the whole threat of secession mess). I’ll get a better idea of what’s happening once I get donw there and read the papers, talk to my relatives, etc.

Starting another journey round then Sun are you LL?

Well, may you journey safe and successful, that we might mark you next launch date as well.

Great happys upon you!!!

;~D

thanks LL. It’s really going homw for us. We have our apartment in Sao Paulo but are only sticking around for a few days then we are heading off for the beautiful beaches in the Northeast and the North. It will be nice to get home and see how everyone is doing and give them news about stuff here (they are really interested in the presidential race–especially Obama)

Per http://www.phrases.org.uk/bull…..s/158.html

POLITICS MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS – “enemies forced by circumstances to work together; members of an unlikely alliance, often attacked as an ‘unholy alliance.’ ‘True it is,’ wrote Charles Dudley Warner in 1850, ‘that politics makes strange bedfellows.’ Warner, editor of the ‘Hartford (Conn.) Courant,’ was co-author with Mark Twain of ‘The Gilded Age,’; he might have taken the expression from Edward George Bulwer-Lytton’s novel ‘The Caxtons,’ published in 1849, which contained the phrase ‘Poverty has strange bedfellows.’ More likely the source for both was Act II, scene 2 of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’.” From “Safire’s New Political Dictionary” by William Safire (Random House, New York, 1993). Page 762-763.

Great Bad Reporter cartoon too!!!

Thank you so much! :-)

birthday hapday to you.
birthday hapday to you.
birthday hapday deeeeeeerrrrrr LL.
birthday hapday to you.

How old are you anywho?
I will tell if you will.

Hey LL;)

Hey Margot! Thank you for the birthday wishes and flowers; I am FB challenged these days, but hope to get back there soon!

Hey Mary! I’ve just reached 48, amazing but true ;-)

Many happy returns, LL!

FunnyD

Need a Big Cake and beer to celebrate the LL B-Day!

A Young One!

so young, LL

burfday cake

I need advice. Tomorrow I am going for a job interview. Now, I have had some significantly weird greetings when meeting people in the “New Media” line of work cause I am a little old lady. And forking proud of it. I am thinking about letting them know that that someone quite like their own mother is coming for an interview. I am so tired to the amazed looks on young men’s faces when I walk through the door. I want to drop the info with a little humor and let myself off of the hook at the same time. WDYT?

*ohmygosh, blushing because I sure didn’t mean to take over Jane’s thread*

Thank you FunnyD and AZ Matt!

Back to work tomorrow so I need to split. Good night all, and keep fightin’…

mmmmmm beer *drooling*

You young thing you~!

Oh yummy! Thank you Suz!

*poof*

I was gonna fb your birthday wishes, but then got all lost in some Joan Baez YouTube tunes.
I’ll do it in public, here. It’s more fun.
Put another candle on your birthday cake, Pretty Lady!
Hug and kisses to you.

That is the best forking lookin cake I have seen in a while. I can feel the L B’s slapping themselves against my thighs.

g’nite LL

Hey, Pups!

Haven’t had a chance to catch up on the posts here. Anybody know how Howard Dean and the DNC are defining “special interest PACS”? Does the new Money Bomb PAC qualify as “special interest”?

FunnyD

tis a google search special!

I kinda like the ’shock’ factor *g* but I can see where it would be tiring. I have no idea what to tell you. Ummmmm tell then that you know how to use the big box? Or umm that you are armed with teh google and aren’t afrid to use it? Or ummm tell them about the real cool DFH youtube videos???? I have no idea.

boa noite LL

“George Bush Worse Than Bill Clinton”?

Gotta say the answer was good.

Maybe Fitz is too dry. Would kenneth Star make a better copy writer?

Ooh, raspberries! Yummers…! ;-)

Send pics! Have a safe and wonderful trip.

Let’s tickle her.

Hey, yes! Happiest, LL.

FWIW
I would just smile sweetly and pretend you don’t notice your age at all. I can’t think of a graceful way to deliver a “heads up” that won’t sound defensive–or hand the employer the answer to an illegally discriminatory question. Guess I’m trying to suggest trying to re-frame the surprised responses as something positive. Heck, you’ve got an interview, girl! They’re clearly going by your resume/skills/accomplishments. That’s actually way cool. Maybe you can secretly think of yourself as a stealth stereotype basher and re-educator. Or something.

Best of luck, hon. All digits crossed for you.

FunnyD

Good stuff.

I’d buy Bob Barr a cigar for that lucid response.

what funnyd said, mary mc

thanks LooHoo

Well here is a pic of Sao Paulo (I need to post the one I took from our bedroom window) here is another one at night.

Now here is the beauty…this is where we are headed for vacation Sao miguel dos milagres. It is where Mr proposed to me (teehee) and then here to Natal. After that, it is back home to Sao Paulo for a bit then back here to the states.

I like funnydiva’s idea.

Thanks. You are right, of course.

Yeah, I will too… Impeach Shrub!

dugg

Thanks folks. Good advice.

Nothing in advance. Nice to meet you, hon. It’s my pleasure, dear. Be the mom. Everyone wants one. Then you get hired and can prove yourself.

I am good at being the mom. I was the mom to a ton of kids that were not my own.

well, you could also say “been there, done that/ this” “I’ve been at the game for a long time, and could I ever tell you stories”

you have a lot of experience to offer, mary

The cool mom, of course. Not Mrs. Cleaver. I will pretend that I am Susan Sarandon.

the bride used to bitch to her friends as a teen that it just wasn’t fair that her mom was the cool mom and would get zero sympathy for her point of view from them. (laughing) it was my secret weapon

Thanks Jane.

digg

*giggle*

Good evening firepups! Back home in Texas and glad to be in my own magic bed.

Are we talking Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham or more like Susan Sarandon in Stepmom?

or susan sarandon in witches of eastwick?

I love that idea.

hey tex

Barr stated it very well.

Tex, ain’t it nice to be home? Somebody ought to write a song…

Did everybody get to meet Kris?

welcome home tex. nothing like sleeping in your own bed

Or Thelma and Louise? Or the crazy lady in Enchanted last year?

Hiya Betsy!!

Bull Durham. One of my best friends was the production designer in Bull Durham. Armin Ganz.

Hey, that’s me! *waves*

hey krisinca – middle son of the cbl’s.. welcome to late nite

Homeward Bound

Show Me the Way to go Home

Lord How I Wanna Go Home…

One of my all time favorites.

No! Susan Sarandon. Not the characters she plays. geeeez you guys.

You got it! Special, huh? *Kris*

yeap…. another generation of dfh’s

Armin grew up with my first husband. Remember the baseball alter at Sarandon’s house? There was a picture of Bill and Armin in Little League together.

ya thinking more like meryl streep?

Howdy Kris! Welcome.

Hi all. Anyone hungry? I have some leftover cake.

Ola Kris

nice cake. too cool to eat *g*

That makes you one of my favorite people. You’re right up their with Feingold this week.

Don’t think so. I want to be more approachable.

I am going to project this:

I can create the best Flash forking animation in the universe and bake you an apple pie at the same time. Fucker.

Then help me unpack the suitcases!

or not.

Gee but it’s good to be back home.

Welcome back, Betsy!

Mary, you are teh awesome!!!!

Thanks Doodle!

I could unpack a slice or two of that.

tempting…..but the rate the wirlines are going now, they might try to charge me for more luggage (even the cake kind). speaking of luggage, I’m glad we’re done packing (not taking much). But I hat packing and unpacking

Who would have ever thought Bob Fucking Barr would be a voice of reason. It doesn’t dismiss what the republics did to the Clintons but it helps to know at least one of them has some common sense.

Today, for the first time EVER, TSA gave me a hard time about the ice pack belt I had. In the past, I’ve always had the belt in one bag and the ice packs in the lunch box, but today I’d already been wearing the thing in the car. Then they saw how much other medical equipment and medication I had with me, and the air pillow to protect my spine, and figured I probably WAS using it for pain relief and not to transport some nefarious terrorist gel.

Get my email re: ride Monday? Just want to make sure, I got a couple of bounce backs on some of the yahoo accts when I replied all.

Doodle, I am gonna keep you on hold. One of my teacher friends who can never help during the school year ALSO volunteered. But thanks! And I’ll keep you in mind as backup.

wankers. the lot of them..total wankers

Okey dokey, pokey.

Yummy!

Do It!!!

Bob Barr made sense to me a couple of years ago. Surprised the crap out of me.

boa noite pups. i’m off for a bath then bed, take care of yourselves and each other.

Night, Wobbly.

FIRST BATCH of Vacation Pix:

East Coast Firepups I met Sunday at eCahn’s

Assorted NY and NJ pix.

boa noite wobbly

You’re most welcome, my dear. I’m glad you asked, and glad that Late Nite at the Lake is a safe place to ask for advice. Hope I didn’t make you feel criticized…it’s just easier to see some of these things from the outside.

Tossing you the “just got a job” bouquet. You’re next!

FunnyD

that’s right, how’s your new job working out funnyd?

Oh, i love your mom’s taste in music. We both play old Freddy Fender YouTubes, lol.

Evening all. Lots happenin.

Hi Ya Kris
Welcome back TexB (sooo, is Cassie settled?)
Bon Voyage Wobbs
Happy Birdtree LL
You’ll be great MaryMac
Nice pic Kobe
Fab cake suz – raspberries due in here in a couple of weeks (BBs in and fab)

Lots happening… whew!

i had to stick around and see the pics but i only recognize you, betsy. who are the rest of the east coast pups?

Bizarre transformation enroute to the ACLU.

None have yet given me permission to attach their names to their pix.

gotcha

Nice place! I could SO garden there. Got a kick out of the tinfoil hat, too.

She’s been the greatest stepmom a kid could ask for. She and my father got together when I was 5, and she’s been broadening my taste in music, movies, food, and life in general ever since. Freddy Fender pwns. And thanks, all, for the welcome.

It was a very cool hat —- protected ALL of us from the spy satellites.

Good for you. One more pearl, if I may. Be the kind of Mom that has a great relationship with her grown-up chilluns as _adults. I’m envisioning 90% mentor and 5% Mom (the disarming spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down).

I’m with Suz. You’ve got a lot to offer. Go with talking about how you can help the employer with their specific situation (if that’s at all clear from what they tell you or what you’ve found out about them).

You go, Mary. I’m rooting for you.

FunnyD

They were still listening to your phone convos! *gasp*

Yeah, but I think we’re still the only group of pups with a pair of donkeys at the picnics. :)

Dugg.

Late to the party.

Have a great trip, wobbly.

Good luck with the interview, mary.

Glad to hear you are safely home, Betsy.

Nope. There was no phone service up there at the farmhouse.

Hi Sunny! LTNS.

eCAHN has good taste in wine, I see Ravenswood on the table. Good stuff!

…and the enn ess aaa just hates that!

everyone eat up the cake cause the enn ess aaa types don’t get any

Thank you!

Just got a text message. My folks are taking the kids up in a hot air balloon Friday.

Is this news here?

Obama Donates $4,600 to Clinton’s Debt
from ABC News: Top Stories
Barack Obama writes $4,600 check to help retire Hillary Clinton’s debt.

You’ll do fine. Best wishes.

Must be the max of $2300 for Barack and Michelle.

I heard $2300, max allowed. Maybe Michelle kicked in her half?

What kind of beverage do I owe you, Loo Hoo?

Jack, please.

Hi Loo Hoo! Been around, mostly trying to follow the DC sausage making.

I’ll drink to that.

Here you go!

That does look delightful, thanks! (I’d have to add a mix though.)

Yeah. Kielbasa for sure.

old number 7

Light weight. ; )

Worse than that. Chorizo for sure. I once read the ingredients on the package. Big mistake.

FunnyD

zed to claim upstairs

Suzanne’s upstairs: http://firedoglake.com/2008/06…..-the-house

Jane, you’re so funny, I love you so much.

bum link, Suz.

nevermind.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.