Yay old people?

Big Five OH here

looking at the big five four next month myself

Suzanne!

Where’s my walker, damnit.

You kids get off my lawn, dagnamit.

I’m at the point where I don’t disclose my age unless I absolutely have to.

Pam Anderson is not a fan of Sarah Palin.

Roger Daltrey sure got old

How old do you have to be to be a geezer?

Where are you Suzanne?

And are you still diving?

The Zimmers – Welcome To My Generation (h/t Eureka Springs for the video).

Love it – sent it to my mom months ago.

(she didn’t really get it)

Oh well.

Neat article at the linky. they read my mind:

Old people have lots of free time, an unhealthy obsession with their bodies, and arcane hobbies. They’re practically teenagers.

My dad uses his computer to look up his medicines,check the side affects and bingo he suddenly has side effects. He likes to check for cross reactions too. Takes a lot of his time. He does not know what firedoglake is. Drinks lots of koolaid. :

Pam Anderson for VP!!

Just passed the big five four . Geezer-in-training? Embryonic geezer? (My daughter has to help me find this site on a daily basis because you guys keep hiding it.)

its a self proclaimation, ecahn.
i’m in the newport area of oregon until october 1 when i move into the new place. pictures at my place (ones from my camera today)

Just a young chick my dear…… My mother will be 87 in October….. I’m 30 years younger than her…….

hahahaha

how ya doing things?

More uplifting Venezuela news.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez ordered the U.S. ambassador to leave Venezuela within 72 hours on Thursday, accusing the diplomat of conspiring against his government and saying he would also withdraw his own envoy from Washington immediately.

.Earlier this year, when John McCain confessed that, with respect to the Internet, he’s “an illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get,” he proved himself to be an anomaly for a college-educated 65-plus white man. Seventy-five percent of his peer group can drive a browser.

I’m guessing McCain has always had a secretary to type for him. The ultra powerful of his age group can’t type.

How old do you have to be to be a geezer?

dunno, but I’m pretty sure that early membership in a ‘Young Republicans’ group speeds it up by a few decades…

boing boing reverse one and a half somersaults with three and a half twists, in the free position, no splash (natch)

EPued!! Ding ding ding she a loser! Sarah’s song

Oh, and I love that video! good night pups! Good night Suz.

PS Have you guys seen Good Night Bush, the parody of Good Night Moon? Hilarious!!! (and sad, too, cuz the message is painfully true)

gtg

so how is everyone doing tonight?

g’nite dosido

Doing fine my cat put a hex on me everytime he gets sick and I have to give him medicine which he hates my back seems to give out…but I’m onto him now!

I actually love to tell people how old I am……most are usually shocked…. was sitting in a restaurant after one of my DFA meetings and said “Oh I can order off the senior menue” and I had a table full of owl eyes looking at me……

actually had a co-worker tell me I wasn’t old enough to be a grandmother ……hahahaha….. don’t ya know they do that to you without asking?

Ya better ask that Bulgarian judge over there behind his desk about that splash thingy you brag about!!

What kind of repug can we cage de vote? Oh, that’s right repugs don’t like change and never move.

Lincoln Chafee calls Palin a ‘cocky whacko’.

-G

i thought the bulgarian was visiting his cousin, ct. i think that’s just his body double – they are real popular in that region.

They’re practically teenagers.

When my mom (in her 80s) went to live in a nice new apt bldg for seniors, meaning women:men ratio of 9:1, she made a lot of new female friends. The lone male took up with on of her new female friends. The way my mom spoke about this sounded just like the kinds of catty conversations we had as teenagers. I then realized that, though we grew up, had families, careers, paid our bills, our emotional age was stuck in adolescence.

the tip of my tongue is still numb and I am still eating “soft” food but the lump on my jaw is gone….. even had a great excuse for my manger why I didn’t get something done……..

My cat Gus climbs all over me and the keyboard around this time every night. Very Annoying. At least neither Mc$tain or Palin have that problem. He is computer challenged and she is afraid of cats!

Thats good my mom identified with and made me turnoff the film “Serial MOM”

Gee, not feeling sorry for you. Verrry nice!

ouch ouch ouch and yeah to the lump being gone.

Can this spring chicken join in on the fun? ;-)

Heh, I are a Geezer.
I routinely get mistaken for being Sixty, I got my very first Senior Citizen discount when I bought this used Laptop, the young ladies always have ‘EWWWWW!” on their faces anymore.
I live on Aleve and Ibuprofen, and I am 48.
Living the hard life takes its toll.

Wow. Great dive!

i’m still pinching myself – and wondering if i am up to winters right on the coast. that bump in the distance across the bay is the spit, separating the bay from the pacific. the north end of the bay is where the jetty is. it is fed by tidal action and has no rivers draining into it – only creeks.

That would be “character”. For women it is just wrinkles.

gravity is not my friend

yo CTut – driver’s license please…*g*

gravity is not my friend

Sir Isaac Newton was a serial geezerer…

My first senior citizen discount was the day after my 55th bday. Was in Palm Springs, CA with my son, a college freshman on the West Coast. We were taking the tram up to the top to do a mild hike. I bought 2 regular tickets. While waiting, he read the fare sign, pointed to it, and I immediately demanded my refund, as senior rates applied to 55+.

Wha? What? Speak up, you young whippersnapper… can’t hear ya, dag–nabbit!

(All of 48 here.)

I used to be young. I can still remember.

I swear everyday I am going to get rid of that magnifying mirror but it still holds sway over me.

I never thought I would mind getting old. Well, I don’t. I just mind getting saggy, not being able to remember shit and not being able to lose 35 pounds.

i’ve riden that tram – shortly after my mom moved down into sun city, palm desert. she got her discount, baby girl got the kid discount but i was full price. i’m looking forward to next year when i double nickle and get discounts.

Heh, EVERY generation is MY GENERATION!!

Them folks, 70’s and up!!!

And racous!!!!

Suz, I blogwhored that and you and FDL a LOT of places I frequent.

It was . . . . . MAHVELOUS!!!!!!! *G*

Seriously, for us 50 something’s, that’s only a decade or two away.

And I sure damn well hope we are smashing perfectly good guitars in anger then, too!!!! *G*

Course, I’m hopin in a decade we will all have progressively changed a few things, too . . .

I was SO hopin for the line:

“Why don’t you all just fffffff*uck off!”

But alas, I’m sure they were raising money and had to keep it clean . . *G*

Hella musical pick, and let’s all fight for the progressive betterment we believe in that our parents tried for. It’s on OUR backs now . . . and we’ve only 10 years or so to make it happen.

Who knows, the Grey Panther might be the one that breaks the gutter lined insanity of the 1% who’ve ruined our lives and the planet for the past 40 years while we were sleeping.

We crawl on . . .*G*

Kudo’s Suz . . GREAT pick!!! *G*

Is the MSM going to ask Bush if its true?

Speaking before a crowd in Miami on Cuban Independence Day, he pledged that, if he is elected U.S. president, he would keep the embargo against Cuba, prevent Bolivia and Venezuela from taking the same road as Cuba and strengthen ties with Brazil, Chile and Peru.

McCain’s position will reinforce the wild desire of President Bush to go out of office with a bang.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/…..wid=122373

Newly released CIA documents show the Bush administration—at the very least–knew about the plot to overthrow Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez weeks before the April 2002 military coup and did nothing to stop it.

Until now the Bush administration has claimed it had no role in the failed coup and didn’t know one was being planned.

The CIA documents, which were heavily censored before being released, were obtained by Venezuelan-American attorney, Eva Golinger. One of those documents, dated April 6, 2002, says explicitly “dissident military factions…are stepping up efforts to organize a coup against President Chavez, possibly as early as this month.” The document adds the groups: ” may bungle the attempt by moving too quickly.”

http://www.democracynow.org/20…..sh_knew_of

For women it is just wrinkles.

That’s why god invented botox & plastic surgery. Have you noticed how great Palin looks for her age? Just wondering.

Surely I’m qualified — can’t remember how old I am.

(All of 48 here.)

On the advice of, umm, me, I refuse to admit a goddamned thing…. *g*

Where are the youngsters tonight? Are they out partying or sleeping?

Sure, I just got it last week…! ;-)

“You throw it on my porch? I KEEP it!!!!” *G*

The area between Bandon to Florence are know as the banana belt of Oregon….. as you go north, the weather gets worse and it depends on if you live on the coast side or the inland side on the kind of weather too….. It is a good thing that you don’t have one of those big rivers coming into Newport….. Florence and Tillamook had huge flooding in the past especially the 1996 flooding…..

I swear everyday I am going to get rid of that magnifying mirror

Can’t get rid of it. Necessary for pluking the beard.

WTF is confession and ya have tell everyone your age???

(((Gnome de Plume)))
‘night, all. The best of all possible tomorrows to you all.

the bride calls me a 17 year old trapped in an old woman’s body.

tis a pretty forking acurate description. before my total knee replacement, my orthopedist told me i had the knee of an 85 year old. my eye doctor told me i had old eyes and needed bifocals.

i don’t feel old – just have an old body.

Yea. Nobody told me about the hair thing.

The Sweetie turns 50 exactly 2 days before the election. Her AARP application arrived yesterday. It’s not been particularly pretty.

g’nite rond

Lincoln Chafee calls Palin a ‘cocky whacko’.

Normally, I’d consider it heart warming and humorous that a former GOP senator found the GOP VP candidate “cocky whacko.” But Sarah Palin is a fundamentalist of an Abrahamic religion who believes that some wars (e.g., Iraq) are missions from God and that the world will end in rapture for her during her lifetime. I seen nothing heart warming or humorous about such a person in possible control of dooms-day weaponry. It’s fucking crazy and irresponsible that anyone would even consider voting for such a ticket. This shit is no longer merely a political game.

Hey, I are a Geezer.
Gave up meds for yoga neti pot
Work like crazy at a 9-5 job.
Still in love with Mr. CE
Graduated two adult kids with prospects…

hey larue – do ya double dog dare them to try to come get it?

I have not had knee replacement yet, just can’t bend them very much. Can’t jog anymore, but still good to bicycle with only 1 ibuprofen/day.

Words fail me.
Nice words, that is.
And you’d move from THERE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

$%&^*&(*@#$#@%^&

Yer killin me . . . ;-)

Ya’ll should take a look at the top graphic over at crooksandliars. But come right back.
True and scary.

The Sweetie turns 50 exactly 2 days before the election.

My birthday is one day *after* the Election – and I’m expecting Obama to give me a LARGE present….

I saw that earlier. It is discomforting.

Driveby:

Tell any old geezers who find the text on a site too small to:

* Hold down the ctrl key.
* While holding down the ctrl key hit the + repeatedly to increase the size of the text. (Control plus)
* Holding down the ctrl key and hitting the minus (ctrl -) key repeatedly reduces the text size
* Holding down the ctrl key and hitting the zero (ctrl 0) key repeatedly reduces the text size brings text to whatever size the site designer had in mind.
* There are several sites that I need to do this on and my eyesight both for reading and screen use is perfect.
* Last point if you wear glasses make sure you get the test for working with a screen it could well be that the glasses you normally wear are NOT the ones you need for the screen.

Actually not the last point. … … … Get a petition going to have a large cast iron zimmer frame equipped with chains built in every city, town, and village in the land. On conviction of owning a website with ridiculously tiny text any site owner guilty of the said offense to be chained into the damned thing like they used to do with stocks and pelted for at least 6 hours with rotten eggs.

Erdla

*poof*

Liar, you can’t DO that from the low springboard!! *G*

I know what you mean!! My sweetie turned 50 on the 3rd and her AARP stuff came in the mail. She said she wouldn’t join herself and for me to just add her to my membership… Ya gotta love her moxie:>) It was a whole lot worse when she turned 40… ho boy whata time that was!!

So I was walking a couple of blocks to take my son & 2 male friends to a steak dinner in Manhattan, about 4 years ago. They were all ragging out some older woman with facial hair. Didn’t think it would gain me any mileage if I revealed the great lengths I went to to avoid such mockery.

Well a year ago today I started that fun and exciting medical odyssey which lead to my cancer surgery last year in October….. sure been a fun filled action packed year hasn’t it?

Since you awsked?

Pissed, but hopeful.
In a guarded fashion.

And ya know what?

JOKE em if they can’t take a *uck!!!

*G*

That tell it all?

gravity is not my friend

There’s a law that should be repealed.

Just popped in to say Hi and Bye and thanks for the vid, it was a hoot. Daltrey is 64 and Townshend is 63, so they’re still about a generation behind the one in the video. I liked the end the best.

Cya all.

The IRI engages in what it calls “consolidating democracy.” That is, it facilitates the coming together of splintered opposition parties, civil society organizations such as churches, human rights organizations, worker unions, women’s organizations and student unions– hence consolidation. This becomes a formidable force that is then either able to vote the incumbent out of office or when that fails, overwhelm the incumbent into submission through mass action.

Outside issues of international law and sovereignty, this may sound well and good. For example the so-called color revolutions in former Soviet Union republics toppled bad guys and replaced them with stalwarts of the free-market economy and Western-styled democracy. Hence in Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, the IRI-backed candidate, defeated Viktor Yanukovych, who was representing old decrepit Soviet style authoritarianism.
Controversial Actions

But IRI activities in countries like Haiti and Venezuela are more controversial. In Haiti, even those opposed to Jean-Bertrand Aristide would agree that he was democratically elected. Yet the IRI consolidated democracy against him leading to his violent ouster. Mother Jones reported that “several of the people who had attended IRI trainings were influential in the toppling of Aristide.” Today, Haiti is more poor, divided and violent, and less democratic than it was at the time of Aristide’s ouster.

In 2002 the then-IRI president George Folsom is reported to have applauded the failed Venezuelan coup against President Hugo Chavez. “Last night, led by every sector of civil society, the Venezuelan people rose up to defend democracy in their country,” he said in a statement the IRI released.

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5330

John McCain is the Board Chairman of this group that supported the last coup his wife Cindy runs a charity that aside from providing her with pills operated in El Salvador it might be a CIA front I wonder if her charity worked in Venezuela?
Is the MSM just going to let this pass again! Hugo trades oil to Cuba for Doctors and the GOP can’t stand the example it sets!

i’m moving to there dood. that is where my where is gonna be starting october 1.

LOL!
Hi/Bye, Erdla!

Digg it now, Geezers!

hi and bye erdia – thanks for the tips

Not out partying. Trying to figure out how to move me and my few belongings out of this apartment, so i can rent elsewhere without having to hire movers. >_

The 2004 Presidential election was on my birthday….. this year it will be two days before the election day….. as you…. I had hoped that both times I would get that same present….

Hugs Chris!
I just saw Conan and a funny comedienne demonstrate a neti pot.

Aloha, Erdla! Bye, Erdla! 8-)

who said i was on the low springboard

My cat Gus climbs all over me and the keyboard around this time every night. Very Annoying. At least neither Mc$tain or Palin have that problem. He is computer challenged and she is afraid of cats!

She has every reason to be afraid Halloween is coming up

Finally getting to pack and leave for nine days. I weaned myself off years of meds for allergies. DO THE NETI POT! Yea!

and Number One Son’s b-day is on the 3rd.

Somehow, mine just sort of disappeared after that – who’d-a-thunk I’d be pretty happy about that now? *g*

People who are afraid of cats are control freaks. imho.

I love being 58. Beats being dead.

yikes alias – but i’m glad to hear you are moving out

where ya headed this time christine e?

My cat Gus climbs all over me and the keyboard around this time every night

When I found out my cat could type better than I can – he had to go…

My mothers joke over mine is that she missed Halloween by two and All Saints day by one….. so what is she?

i’m a forking survivor of almost 54 years.

Hi Suzanne! I’m driving by, but I thought you might find this a *Late Late Nite* kind of Magical Coincidence:

A famous historical Impostor known as Princess Caraboo.

…from a ‘faraway island’ and fooled everyone for ten weeks…

I LIKE being 54. I can do slightly illegal things like not coming to a complete top at a stop sign and get a warning, if not ignored,by the cop staring at me. In the younger days it meant getting a complete car search with the back seats removed.
I am invisible to most of society and that pleases me.
Considering the alternative…getting older is good.

11/2?

hahahahahahaha (gasp) hahahahaha

thanks radiofreewill

Depends on who’s prez.

This Monday Night Football game is going to be interesting…..it is in Dallas …. Elmore flies out tomorrow morning…..

I have achieved Oneness with the Thud.
Gnite y’all.

TGIF.

I think she was implying the saint and devil kind of reference….

Night, Busted

I’ll be a year older than you next month and I feel the same way. Little invisible woman in a little station wagon.

Edinburgh, Scotland. Mr. CE has a meeting of the European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Science. Hey, this is such a great group.

i had totally forgotten about princess carabo

My hair started going grey when I was in high school. I used to look ten or so years younger than I was. But during the last five years I got older looking. But the grey hair thing got me prepared. Even when I was in my thirties I was invisible. When I dyed my hair people treated me differently. Blond or brown didn’t matter.

I made the decision about a week or two ago. I knew in the next month or so that something’s gotta give. My primary bank account is nothing but zeros or negative numbers. i’ve got to get the hell out, because i’m not going to be able to get away from that staying here. >_

I’m too small to move most of this myself, and movers would likely cost more money(even for the full hour it’d take to get my out of here to some apartment 5 miles north of here). Finding friends that can help me for a day would be best, but work hours being so different? that makes it difficult.

double crap.. wrong link.. this is the correct one

g’thud busted

As an almost 64 year old little white woman with blond hair, I get positively profiled frequently. The latest was today. My branch library in NYC closed and I had to return audio books to a branch several blocks farther away. I scootered (manual), as I usually did to old branch, only to find that this one would not allow me to carry it (folded up) inside, nor leave it in the lobby at my risk. I asked to see the supervisor, asked him sweetly for a one-time dispensation, and (after a few demurs), voila.

Nah . . . it’s the need of both genders, and a good need, to partner to face the world.

It’s what humans do . . . they partner up.
And I don’t think there’s any adolescence involved in that need.

It’s as old as thumpin on hollow logs to communicate.

I like that about hoomans, the need to bond with another to face it all . . . it’s very human at any age . . .

My parents were bonded like that until time came knocking on their door as it will for us all, and as my mom quickly faded from Alzheimers, my pops kept up the bond till she died, as he was falling from Parkison’s . . . and after Mom passed, in the rest home he was in he kept that bond but still had a few ‘women friends’ he sure liked to spend time with . . . . they passed before him . . . he was always faithful to his bride, and still always wanting that human bond with someone . . .

I’m like that, as is my better half after 24 years (we met later in life and I’m 55)

And we both want each other to have that should either of us pass on before the other . . . nurture with nature . . .

Here’s to hoomans bonding to each other . . . coupling up is a good thing . . . I assume as we all get older, there might be a revisionist growth of communal cohabitation . . . for survival, sure, but also for ‘couples’ and singles to bond together for greater quality of life . . .

OUR generation (boomers) sure has seen things change, be challanged, and well . . . to beat a tiger, one needs a brother’s and sisters help . . . here’s to humans bonding, in one form or another . . . without that need and drive, we’re all gonna fall prey to things we shouldn’t have to fall prey to.

Harumph (a gentle harumph). *G*

I am not afraid…but seriously the cat is magic

I’m going to take some pain med and get to bed…… thankfully no conference calls planned tomorrow……

Edinburgh, Scotland

ooh – need somebody to go along – carry suitcases, what have you?

I love Scotland.

And she sold leeches to Bristol Infirmary?! lol!

yo, nahant! did last night’s double-Digg scare you off from Digging tonight? I was shocked to arrive here late and find no one had Dugg yet.

g’nite katymine

you gonna bring back pictures so i can travel vicariously through them, christine e?

We are looking forward to hearing traditional music!

Bonding is one thing. Others obsessing about it is quite another.

holy cow – it got late somehow.

time to break out the walker and follow it to bed.

Nite all.

g’nite jayt

Is this a reminder that I still haven’t posted this years vacation pictures?
Need to get one of those round tuit….. Nite all

Mr. CE on the spot — Canon will show.

Students must supply their own lightsabers.

The UK’s first Jedi course teaching personal development through a Star Wars syllabus will open to students at Queen’s University in Belfast from November.

Nah just got distracted by The movie 1936 classic “Reefer Madness”

I was talking about Sarah Palin being afraid of kitties. silly.

py pups…. sleep well:>)

You got me beat 39 almost completely grey

ha – an attorney i used to work for in sf had an original reefer madnes poster in his office. did you see the musical they did on hbo of reefer madness about 5 years ago or so?

g’nite nahant

I’m calling it quits, too. See you around tomorrow for more Princess Caraboo Barbie tales.

py pups…. sleep well:>)???
You have read good night sleepy pups… sleep well!

These people had the best lawyers ever.

The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.

I’m going to be blond until the day I die.

I did ask my colorist to let me know when I got too old for it to look OK, but somehow I don’t trust her to do so. My gray is silvery, so you can’t tell when it’s growing in.

g’nite gnome

I know and I don’t have control issues…really I don’t, you do believe me don’t you?
But I do over act on occasion :)

no color here i figure i’ve earned every forking silver/white hair i’ve got and, in fact, should have a whole lot more (laughing)

BUSTED!!!!

Dude, I know how the wrenching kills the legs and back.

But I spent 24 years on my feets in kitchens, in restaurants and in hotels (15-39) AFTER blowing out my knee in senior hi school in baseball (hooked a spike at home plate, snap, crackle pop in ‘71).

And ya know, Ibruprophen is still occasionally my best friend!!!

So I got 7 years on ya, but you got the wrenching.

It’s a toss!!! LOL

And still, we ain’t old, and we ain’t disabled, and we can function.

Hoss, here’s wishing you and I someday, meet in our 70’s.

And toss a few, laugh, and disparage the politics of the day.

And eye comely lasses, flirt with same, and hope we don’t get smacked by our better half’s for it!!! *G*

Hang in there hoss . . . and keep a postin!!!!!

Woman jailed because a dealership was too stupid to verify her check.

Terri Harrison Robbins, 48, wrote a check of $24,072.47 to Toyota of Goldsboro for a 2008 Toyota Camry in early April, Goldsboro police said. The check was returned because the bank account on which it was drawn was closed.

You go with what you got.

I beat Sarah Palin believes reefer madness would be a great movie to show teenagers the horrors of smoking pot.

Can you image her and McCain sitting around the “straight” talk express and smoking dubes? Sarah hands John a joint in that squirrely voice-”here. here.”
John fails out of his seat reaching for it as Cindy walks in the room.

Leech Seller is an occupation one doesn’t hear much of these days.

That’s all ya got to complain about?

707070707087

*G*

Hey whatever works for you. Me I’m a shorts and T-shirt guy

Classic LOL

I’m a shorts n tshirt gal.

feeling spry tonight larue? you musta been doing some cooking (laughing)

Insult the pope, go to jail.

An Italian comedienne who said that Pope Benedict XVI would go to Hell and be tormented by homosexual demons is facing a prison term of up to five years.

Gotta go watch John Stewart.

judas forking priest

That’s the best laugh of the night.

Leeches are being re-introduced into the OR these days…! ;-)

replay of R convention

hey ct – you up on the mt yet?

Missed it and I was just trying to say good night to those pups who were leaving. Or maybe you are just sending me to the bed for the Bulgarian comment??

That might explain McCain’s skin color although I’m partial to the McCain is undead theory myself, Bush is brain dead, and Cheney is hmmm… missing a heat and a soul that makes him?

Cool

sorry dood, thought you were poofing for the nite

(sucks hard on cigarette, makes sure curlers don’t fall, closes dirty bathrobe, stubs out cig, puts hands on hips and squares up on punks who tossed frisbee on MY porch)

Uh, bring it on!! (SNL) *G*

dood, i hate to tell ya this but that robe has some extra ventilation hoss.

Maybe the joke loses something in the translation, because it’s just not all that funny:

But then she got religion, and after warning everyone that within 20 years Italian teachers would be vetted and chosen by the Vatican, she got to the punchline: “But then, within 20 years the Pope will be where he ought to be — in Hell, tormented by great big poofter devils, and very active ones, not passive ones.”

Daily show is a rerun. Funny though.

They delayed the orientation again… 8-(

I’m looking around for another job, in the meantime… Pretty slim pickings without a specialized degree… Not much for Poly Sci. majors…!

yeah – dammit, i can’t watch foghorn leghorn and droopy dog toons no more tho. dayam rethuglicans

Hey, as a 50 year lapsed RC, thought of Pope being consigned to hell is funny however you translate it.

dayam

dood, you know that the minute you get hired elsewhere, they are gonna schedule the orientation, this time for realsies.

Affordable medicine for the masses..

sucks that she faces prison for ‘defiling his holiness’ sacred person’

Some truly fabulous Knights of the Dark Ages film just up on USA.

OOH! OOH! OOH! OOH! OOH! OOH! OOH! OOH! OOH! OOH!
OOH! OOH! OOH! OOH! OOH! OOH! OOH! OOH! OOH! OOH!

(still phrellin jealous)

*G*

They had movies back then. in color?

Dam CT I been waiting to hear all kinds of exciting things from you about the new job(:>( Could be the cut backs that Bush is doing accross the board to try and make the whole government more broken than he already has done!

Richard Owen in Rome

An Italian comedienne who said that Pope Benedict XVI would go to Hell and be tormented by homosexual demons is facing a prison term of up to five years.

But then she got religion, and after warning everyone that within 20 years Italian teachers would be vetted and chosen by the Vatican, she got to the punchline: “But then, within 20 years the Pope will be where he ought to be — in Hell, tormented by great big poofter devils, and very active ones, not passive ones.”

The joke may have gone done well with her crowd on the Piazza Navona in Rome, but not with Italian prosecutors. She is facing prosecution for “offending the honour of the sacred and inviolable person” of Benedict XVI.

The Christian world may have been dismayed, even outraged, at the Muslim reaction in 2005 to Danish cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammed, but Italian law enforcement appears to have had its own sense of humour failure. Giovanni Ferrara, the Rome prosecutor, is invoking the 1929 Lateran Treaty between Italy and the Vatican, which stipulates that an insult to the Pope carries the same penalty as an insult to the Italian President.
Dario Fo, the Nobel prize-winning playwright, said that applying the treaty more widely would even have led to the prosecution of Dante, since “he put a Pope in the Inferno as well, namely Boniface VIII”. Marco Travaglio, a left-wing writer who also addressed the July rally, said: “At this rate Aristophanes and Rabelais would have ended up in prison for being satirists.”

Even certain sections of the Church are unimpressed. Father Bartolomeo Sorge, a Jesuit scholar, told La Repubblica the move to prosecute Ms Guzzanzi was incomprehensible. “We Christians put up with many insults, it is part of being a Christian, as is forgiveness. I feel sure the Pope has already forgiven those who insulted him on Piazza Navona.”

Condemned to Hell by Dante

Dante’s Inferno condemned Boniface VIII to Hell even before his death. As Dante approaches the circle of those sinners who have committed simony – the buying and selling of church offices – the soul of Pope Nicholas III mistakes Dante for Boniface:

“Shame of the Papal Chair! and art thou come,
Hollow and dismal from the fiery tomb,”
He cried – “a later doom the Prophet told –
But come, Seducer of the Spouse of God,
Who rul’d the christian world with iron rod,
Come! thine eternal revenues behold!”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t…..732048.ece

Bush is taking notes as is Jesus Camp Sarah didn’t the religious nuts close down Shakespeare’s theater?

It sounds weird but I have the opposite hair problem. My family genes on both sides don’t gray. No graceful salt and peppering. Just the color you were born with until you hit 80.
Sometimes I feel like I’m never going to be the adult I’d hoped to become. Most people I know start reconsidering their lives as they get the first gray hairs. More dignified, more introspective.
Not me. Pedal- to- the -metal until the first gray happens.
If I don’t get gray hairs soon I might burn out!!!

Well yes. But I don’t spose that will hold up on appeal in Italian courts? If is does, we’re truly in the Dark Ages.

Well then where the hayally WERE ya lassie? LOL

True and he might enjoy the Poofter Demons

Sorry my Bold at 178

It’s better to PLANT daisies than push them!!!

You GO MaryMC!!!! *G*

Um, count your blessings and kick up your heels. There’s nothing redemptive about feeling mature. *g*

No wonder I am so damned confused. Early greys combined being a left handed, southern scorpio has caused much weird personality shifting. aaarrrrggg. meow. ya’ll.

on the high board dood. not the platform – not the low board – the 3m board

True, but, most of the tourism has also dried up too…! Not a pretty scenario here in the Isles!

Gee, yer a cheerful lot . . . the human condition must have ground you down . . .

Early greys

Perhaps Earl Grey Tea will solve the problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Grey_tea

my mom is in her 70’s and has a gray hair here, a gray hair there but still has tons of dark brunette hair hiding her gray. my younger sister is dying her hair because she don’t like all the gray she has. my dad didn’t start to really gray up until he was in his 70’s. its all a genetic crapshoot.

Both gray hair and left handedness are signs of possible autoimmune issues. And, of course, extremely high IQ-ness.

hit and run for me tonight. Just back from a ‘living room performance’ by Billy Harvey and now off to sleep. He’ll be doing another living room performance Friday night in Eugene. listen for the drum circle or look for lights in the sky to find it, or something. cheers.

Some of us with longevity genes have been trying to ruin our livers in the last 8 years.

I may need to ask for help when my LAN crashes, but you young’uns are going to be in big trouble if punch cards ever come back.

nor here in the valley unemployment @ 6.9 percent. Although Tesla is looking to construct a plant to produce 20,000 electric cars a year!! Dealership is just down the street, Roadster only cost $110,000, mere chump change don’tcha think??

The best evidence of high IQness is hanging out at FDL. And I challenge O’Reilly on that very subject.

More evidence that blogosphere criticism is getting to the MSM, per TPM:

As a special bonus, here’s the lead sentence from the [AP] analysis piece: “The ‘Straight Talk Express’ has detoured into doublespeak.”

Emphasis mine. But imagine that from AP.

I remember taking boxes of punch cards to the computer center. I also worked for John Hancock when they still had a vacuum tube computer running programs. How old is that?

Roasted chicken breasts split ribs (home made seasonings from home grown herbs and store bought seasonings/McCormic Montreal Chicken).
Red baby taters.
Green beans.
Quartered white shrooms.
Baby carrots.
Fennel bulb.
Celery root.

All roasted at 475F . . . in various home grown basil and rosemary, EVOO, Balsamic, garlic and a sweet chablis concoctions.

Different pans for different things at different times.

Big Yum. *G*

Gotta go . . . life beckons as does the sleep . . . *G*

*poof*

hi by muzzy

what about those of us with mixed lateral dominance?

not really I worked for an insurance company while in HS and yep there were punch cards.

Not TOO old /s

ha! and those magnetic cards too. folks looks at ya strange when ya start talking about a floppy disc

Cheney is hmmm… missing a heat and a soul that makes him?

prototype republican vp?

Does that make you a Bostonian?? And did you get your weather from the lights on the top of their building?? Old one not the new one??

all those letters to the editors about the horrible right slant to the ap posts appear to be having an effect.

I’m still here, but not

g’nite !

Cigarette burns, and all on the sides . . . nothin to see here, move along . . .

Now stop it, I need to sleep . . ;-)

How old is that?

IIRC, IBM was all solid state by 1964.

Shit I used to fix those readers on them early word processors. And a 10 mb hard drive that was the size of a shoe box, the 29MB was weighed fifty pounds and the size of a small car tire!!

Another John Hancock story. I worked on payroll programming. We got “dummy” tapes to debug our programs until the final debug when we got to requisition real records. Naturally I requistioned my own department for final debug, which told me that I was not in line for max salary increase. I used that info to my advantage and no one was ever the wiser. LOL.

Tonight I went to the grocery store and bought two pastries and mac and cheese. Ate the pastries in the car while I rubbed the foil off of four scratchers. There I was stuffing my face and gambling in the parking lot of the Belaire in Gold River. I had forgotten my reading glasses so I had to wait to find out if I was a gazillionaire until I got home. Wasn’t. Damnit all. Ate the mac and cheese later. I still cannot believe I did that. Arrrgggg. I am full.

nice to have your grumpy voice hanging out on the lake hoss.

perhaps next year we can have a nor cal meetup in the sac area (dropping hint)

My brother has mixed dominance. Is that the same kind of thing? It is a vision/perception problem, isn’t it? I know I have some kind dyslexia but it is not official.

Yes but I was looking for something more undeadish:)
Nite Folks

Wellesley ‘66. Worked for a year at Boston City Hospital, then JH roughly from mid-67 to mid-68

Mary. i’m the youngin’ of the group tonight.

31,Early grey(salt and pepperish at this point), left handed, double virgo, and girlgeek with a tendency to disregard social ‘norms’ if i think they’re stupid. I’m still kind of going ‘huh’ that my normal pursuits tend to totally amaze a coworker of mine. I’m weird by most standards, but normal in other countries. That’s the way i think of it. But the mixture of being in a science job and a musical job is worth it. *evil grin*

i bought a digital camera – i really shouldn’t have but… i needed one since mine died a few years ago – and there is all this eye candy around me.

i picked up a canon powershot s51s – is what i used up at the new place yesterday. i should not have bought that – shudda got a cheaper one – but am telling myself that i am worth it and that treating myself every now and then is a good thing. i used to do the same thing when i would occasionally get a lotto ticket or scratchers.

i am left eyed, right handed, and left footed. i was probably a lefty who switched over on my own at a young age – my mom didn’t believe in forcing a kid to be a righty. my shooting instructor at the academy discovered it. if shooting anything scoped, i have to shoot left handed and i have to adjust for my left eye being dominant when using a handgun with my dominant hand, the right.

This from Glenzilla yesterday killed me:

My self-righteous, dour hectoring in shrilly raising such humorless and overly-earnest points is certainly one of the reasons why — as the media gossip site Jossip recently (and, for me, quite painfully) noted — I “often get trashed talked in pundit circles and at media parties.” As Atrios reminded me yesterday via Twitter about Ambinder’s pronouncement: “Do not question the rites of the high priests. The mass is in Latin for a reason.”

(Glenn later explained that the word “painfully” was sarcasm.)

If MSM journalists are obsessing about Glenzilla at their parties, he and the rest of us are getting their attention, big time. Witness the fact that later in the day Ambinder wrote a righteous expose of Palin. The worm is turning.

g’nite things

IBM may have been solid state by 1964 but older computers were still running programs well beyond that date. Vacuum tubes had condensation problems. I can still hear the reduction in roar when they took the computer down to replace the tubes, then the roar when they brought it back up.

You did the right thing.

That was the year me and uncle Sam became bosom buddies. He took three years to let me go, but when I got home I ended up ay some farm in upstate NY along with 100 to two hundred other nice people… Real good for my re-education to the USA!!

Yes,one would think so. But my uncle Nealo,another wild child, loved my brother’s pierced ear with earing. Nealo was in his late 60’s and it was 1976ish-era of the glamrock boys. So he goes out and has BOTH his ears pierced with diamond studs.
Imagine a feisty old guy with 2 earrings in the 70’s!!!
It could happen to me.

You ARE worth it Suz. My rule is always buy the very best you can and don’t just settle for something lesser.

Agree. DFH lefty analysts getting more prime time coverage. This could be noting better than good.

i hope so. i think tweety is starting to show the effects of smelling a change in the wind. i think he is testing the waters to see if there is payback from the r’s. if not, then i figure he will do more pushback.

and i don’t think tweety is the only one. i think the veepstakes lie that caused some of them to lose faith – while losing face professionally.

i am left eyed, right handed, and left footed. i was probably a lefty who switched over on my own at a young age – my mom didn’t believe in forcing a kid to be a righty. my shooting instructor at the academy discovered it. if shooting anything scoped, i have to shoot left handed and i have to adjust for my left eye being dominant when using a handgun with my dominant hand, the right.

Translate all that???

thanks mary mcc and nahant *blushing*

i am ambidextrous sorta kinda

I am eternally grateful both for my female gender and for my centrism. Both have kept me from going over board in any direction, perhaps until 08.

Tweetie is also likely to feel miffed about losing the anchor gig along with KO.
Its twue. its twue.

now that explains a lot…. which side of your brain do ya think with?? /s

Welp. Me. I am going to go lie on the sofa and watch the teevee for awhile before bed. Good night everyone.

g’nite mary mcc

i think with all my brain nahant (laughing)

night Mary, sleep well when you get off the couch and get to bed. ABC has the Sarah testing on late night. She has failed so far…

Tactful woman drivers at drivers license bureau asked me what color my hair is. I said brown w/grey. That wasn’t an option.

So I now have state-certified brown hair.

Gotta get up in 5 hours so night all.

(laughing) according to the ca dmv, i’m still a redhead (auburn) and not faded into mouse brown

g’nite ecahn

While watching Sarah answer ???’s Julie noticed she kept saying Charlie’s name, he hasn’t used her name yet… We think she is trying to do a little dancing on the answers… She doesn’t know the subjects…. Failed again!!

burp…
that was interesting
suz?

i hope so. i think tweety is starting to show the effects of smelling a change in the wind. i think he is testing the waters to see if there is payback from the r’s. if not, then i figure he will do more pushback.

and i don’t think tweety is the only one.

Exactly!! I have a strong sense that we may be at a tipping point wrt the MSM.

But, if I have that sense, Karl Rove will have it much more intensely and will unleash the dogs of war against journalists who step out of line. What happened to Tweety and Keith was just a warning shot. This could get very ugly very fast.

ouch! uck fay the enn ese aye
that hiccup hurt

yeap, time to buckle up and hunker down. gonna get interesting – i’m gonna stock up on popcorn.

Man that WAS a BAD one!!

Nite Mary, hug the dogs for me;)

Me too.

But for now, I must crash out. G’nite all.

*standing on chair clapping for the best tech crew on the toobs*

g’nite wigwam

What happened to the up time of 99.99999 % up time??? The company I last worked sold THEIR servers with that guarantee??

I’m OK, I suppose.

Ya know, I remember a time when you didn’t have to log into this place. They had this thing called Haloscan, and you just typed whatever was on your mind. Why make things so complicated?

Are any geezers still here besides me?

that’s what i call them dood. they work hard, cuss a lot, and scare lurk with rugby stories.

What’s on my mind? 15-hour work day. Had all my classes hold a moment of silence.

Let me be clear – It was not my idea to unionize the hamsters.

ya know I am just funnin them Suz

I’ll have to find a color chart to see what grayish-brown works out to. Here it is:

grayish brown grayishbrown #635147

(That’s hexadecimal, 635147, BTW)

So, it is too a real color.

hey cujo – i remember those haloscan days – some called them hell-oscan (laughing).

For Sarah??? /S

lurk, you anti-union? *hands on hips*

i know dood (laughing) i was tweaking your chain back

Did that mean that 99.99999% of the time one of their servers was operational? Seems to be how that usually works out in practice. Oh, plus the “Guarantee? What Guarantee?” afterward.

et! how goes it in your formerly quiet little spot of paradise?

Not at all. However, hour lunch breaks for rodents? Who are these creatures – prison guards?

Took me several times before I learned not to reload a page after posting a comment.

prison guards are standing up to ah-nold lurk.

Go Hamsters!

and the old school way of replying – cut and pasting and blockquoting and typing name and time of comment

and the busted margins…. and stuck italics and bold…

Sorry, forgot the link for when you have to talk to the DMV again.

Hi. I’m late for the Geezer party, but am de-lurking long enough to identify my geezerhood (I’m 65 next week). Unlike McLame, I think I was born for the Internet. E-mail is my preferred method of communication, along with blog communities like this one. So John McLame just doesn’t get it.

Bob in HI

Nope was a clause in the contract!! Of course they had to be in a server room with complete back up power systems. Only down time was always scheduled. All file systems were raid five(up to 66 Tera bytes)Had two completely separate system mother boards one was just for the I/O of the file systems, the other did the rest including managing the up to eighteen Ethernet connections. Of course they weren’t exactly cheap, maxed out with all the file space cost $250K..

… starting every post with </A></I></B> and then realized the last guy who didn’t match tags used the STRONG tag …

hi bob in hi

hippo birdies in advance

yeap… is how i learned html – rbg still teases me about my saying i don’t know html

I’m justa bit younger and it feels like I grew up on the internet.. of course I did work for Xerox in the early days when they were the only one’s who made computers and OS to be on the Network…

So, I take it they’re out of business now? ;-)

Actually, it should be possible to be up that much. It’s just so unusual for anyone in the industry to actually deliver on what they promise anymore. Too many fast-buck artists these days.

I really do sound like a codger.

Why can’t we spend time vetting Karl Rove? Has anyone done that other than Wonkette exposing his stepfather’s love of strange piercings,complete with photos?
Why is it we know nothing about the Karl in Karl Rove? Is there anyone here who can see a picture of his wife and recognize her? What are his children’s names, if he has children.
Fuck it, let’s find out the “mystery” behind this major player.
With his shit- eating grins, I’m betting there’s a lot more there than we liberals are usually willing to pursue. If we want Obama to be more aggressive, maybe we should lead.
I’ve never, in all my compulsive reading, read a thing about the REAL Karl.
Fuck his privacy. Oh shit, I hope I don’t wind up hanging in my mother’s shed for blogging this……

I’ve go 273 students this semester, I’m falling way behind in writing incidental music for Shakespeare’s As You Like It (opening in 30 days), and I’m pondering that our Governess fucked up so bad on Charlie Gibson this evening, we need to keep pressing. I’d stay up all night, but only got three hours sleep last night, and another long day coming up…

yep they be gone, they started the business of network attached storage… in the end they sold their technology to Nettapp( former engineers)

ouch et.. thats busier than busy. you gotta take care of yourself too dood.

As a matter of fact, Phoenix Woman did a piece here on a Saturday morning about Rove’s fathers pud-accessories.
You don’t want to go back there, I promise.

I’m trying to remember… EMC? Nope. They’re still around.

Thanks, but not gonna duke it out w/DMV over my hair color. Might decide to declare me a true geezer and pull the license.

’sides, I’m thrilled to have brown hair again by legal fiat.

you are officially a brunette. no matter what them folks’ lying eyes are telling them (laughing)

Must be pretty exciting up there, though. I keep imagining all those photographers trying to catch the governor in her automatic shotgun/bikini ensemble.

[For those not in on the joke.]

There ya go. But if you ever decide to fight it, I can give you color equivalents in HSV, RGB, or FS.

fake photo. even more fake governess.

I think that’s why it looked so right.

very impressive:-)

this what you were talking about newt?

I spend entirely too much time staring at the things. You’d think you could just tell the computer “grey like this bit over here”, but no …

T’anks!

Bob in HI

P.T. Barnum – demographic genius.

ok, pups, i’m gonna go outside and stare at the bright moon for a while. the skies up here are so forking clear – i’m seeing stars that i never saw down on the mt. the flat has a spotting scope that i can use until i get my telescope outta the pod.

Funny. A lot of guys find her attractive or very attractive. I first met her in her late 20’s, and thought her bright and prepared, but didn’t give her the old second glance I can’t keep from giving to a woman I find attractive.

It wasn’t the glasses. I think it was the voice.

Well, it’s time for this old fella to wander off toward the sleep chamber. Have fun, ya’ll.

Happy Birthday, BobSchacht.

that would be the one
nite suz, cujo

It’s often that way for me. High pitched, squeeky voices in particular. Of course, there’s also the content of that vocal communication …

Well time to hit the sack!! Night Pups Sleep well when ya get ther!!

Yes, I do. I want to know about the details of this man who’s thrust himself into US politics and world history in the most aggressive manner imaginable.
He is personally responsible for so much suffering. Ask Don Seigleman[sp],Jill Simpson, and countless others whose lives he’s destroyed in his sick ambition.
Isn’t it time we got the full scoop on who Karl is, what he does for entertainment, what foods he likes, where he shops, what hobbies he has, what church [if any] he attends, who are his influences, does he have pets, what exactly is his new job, where does his money come from……
Enquiring minds want to know the master behind the machine. How else will we know who HIS masters are. And he does have masters.

I think he is trying to overcome his feelings about his very gay dad (step?) who was really into piercing his genitals.

~~~ModNote: Edited for content.~~~

I detest the vile turd as well. He has literally wrecked our political system, but with all due respect, if it wasn’t him, it would have been another Lee Atwater disciple. And I want him imprisoned.
But his fathers prick would not seem germane to his rancid politics, but here’s PW’s piece from a year or so ago. It is very funny.

If we could find this information without the art, it would be helpful.

I only count as middle aged. 40 is just 6 months away for me.

For those of us about to cross the 50 yard line, you’re just a kid.
And welcome, duncanjames, as I haven’t made your acquaintance.

Sorry, LurkingMod.
But a prick’s a prick no matter how you accessorize it. I’m thinking there’s many things in Karl’s life that wouldn’t make it past the mods on FDL.
Of course, I have no proof, since Karl’s life is magically devoid of scrutiny.

LOL!
Think “Gannon.” Say it over and over again.

The Rude Pundit wrote side splitting funny shit about karl and gannon when the guckert story broke. Being of the geritol set I don’t seem to be able to do a link thing. (Besides, Mod might go into full melt down if I did.)

I’ll be 62 the day before Obama is elected.

Attaturk is upstairs!
Celebrity Wannabee

I have a vague memory of almost ruining a keyboard while reading that!

nite pups

duncanjames, you are not middle aged. Forty is the new thirty!! You have years to go before taking on the ”middle aged” mantel.
Goodnight all. My computer is so slow I can’t stay awake between comments.
1 1/2 more months to go on my pledge to donate to progressive candidates the money it would cost to go on high speed every month. God, I hate being morally righteous! Can’t wait til Nov.4.

Just had my Medicare birthday – sucks not to have universal health care, so let’s have Medicare for everyone.

Strange…you look older in your photos.

My ageometer turned over to 62 in April, followed by my young and vivacious wife in May.

I always ask folks what year they graduated from high school because that says a lot about how they look at the world in general. Those of us in the Class of 1964 were the sort of leading edge of the Boom, but we still had one foot in the ’50s. It’s always been interesting to me how the HS classes before and after us have such different collective personalities.

One more geezer checking in. How old are you (I asked myself)? I am so old I am within five years of being John McCain’s age. I am already way too old to handle being Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

I am 62, served in Viet Nam. I even was with John McCain for a couple of days once over there.

I retired after 9/11. Since then I have taken classes in Final Cut and do a little video editing on the side.

I am very smart with computers and have always understood them. You just need to figure out teh magic words, like Help.

Recently I got curious about websites. So I taught myself how to create one. See http://www.davelara.info.

Remember, I am old and even surved with McCain. How is it that I get it and he doesn’t. Maybe he is not fit to be president?
Dave
Viet Vet

Gee Dave I am 1 year younger and I live by computers and the internet. McCain is just an old war dog who should have been retired long ago and not running for an office he will never be able to fathom or run.

Does 59-1/2 count for geezerdom? There’s no excuse for McCain…