Comments on: Pull Up A Chair… http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:13:18 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Marnie http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1653178 Marnie Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:47:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1653178 <p>As a pasionate singer of classic choral music. Who has such Beethoven’s 9th a number of times.</p> <p>GOD I LOVED THAT CLIP.</p> <p>Jim Henson was a genus.<br /> You just made my day.</p> As a pasionate singer of classic choral music. Who has such Beethoven’s 9th a number of times.

GOD I LOVED THAT CLIP.

Jim Henson was a genus.
You just made my day.

]]> By: Punkster http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1652851 Punkster Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:09:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1652851 <p>I met Paul Newman years ago, back in the 70’s, not long after Butch Cassidy and The Sting. My BF and I were camping in our VW microbus and it threw a rod and penniless DFH’s such as we were, we had to rebuild it in the backyard of some DFH’s in Fairfield, CT. I had to hitch to a foreign car parts place, and there, grimy with grease and somewhat disheveled, I met Paul Newman (a well known gearhead).<br /> He took amused pity on my situation (spending my vaca fixing a freaking car) and gave me a ride back in the 1967 VW Beetle he had that had a Porsche 912 engine. He was utterly charming to a grubby, starstruck kid, and I have dined out on that story for 30 years…</p> <p>I heard they closed down Limerock racetrack in western CT for him a few weeks ago, so he could take some last laps. Damn. Damn…</p> I met Paul Newman years ago, back in the 70’s, not long after Butch Cassidy and The Sting. My BF and I were camping in our VW microbus and it threw a rod and penniless DFH’s such as we were, we had to rebuild it in the backyard of some DFH’s in Fairfield, CT. I had to hitch to a foreign car parts place, and there, grimy with grease and somewhat disheveled, I met Paul Newman (a well known gearhead).
He took amused pity on my situation (spending my vaca fixing a freaking car) and gave me a ride back in the 1967 VW Beetle he had that had a Porsche 912 engine. He was utterly charming to a grubby, starstruck kid, and I have dined out on that story for 30 years…

I heard they closed down Limerock racetrack in western CT for him a few weeks ago, so he could take some last laps. Damn. Damn…

]]> By: Bluetoe2 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1652787 Bluetoe2 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:35:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1652787 <p>Has anyone heard anything about the mock press conference and mock debates that McSames campaign has run with Palin? Thought I heard that they were complete disaters. Palin’s not ready for prime time. Disgusting that ABC refused to interview Biden after the debates because they couldn’t interview Palin. I just wish there were a broadcast network that would make the corporate media the story. Stick a microphone in Gibson’s face and ask point blank why ABC made the decision to snub Biden just because the Republiclans are keeping Palin under wraps. Not only is the Republican Party America’s biggest problem but a complicit, cynical and corrupt corporate media.</p> Has anyone heard anything about the mock press conference and mock debates that McSames campaign has run with Palin? Thought I heard that they were complete disaters. Palin’s not ready for prime time. Disgusting that ABC refused to interview Biden after the debates because they couldn’t interview Palin. I just wish there were a broadcast network that would make the corporate media the story. Stick a microphone in Gibson’s face and ask point blank why ABC made the decision to snub Biden just because the Republiclans are keeping Palin under wraps. Not only is the Republican Party America’s biggest problem but a complicit, cynical and corrupt corporate media.

]]> By: Bluetoe2 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1652777 Bluetoe2 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:31:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1652777 <p>Not to worry. Palin is waiting in the wings. Just hope McCain has a food taster with Palin on deck.</p> Not to worry. Palin is waiting in the wings. Just hope McCain has a food taster with Palin on deck.

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1652772 SouthernDragon Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:27:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1652772 <p>I can’t ignore ‘em. Personality trait. I can’t resist stickin’ it to ‘em. This guy wears nothing but silk. He draws me like a fly to a corpse. Plus I really want to turn this guy. He says he wants to cry every time he talks to me. Reality is a hard master.</p> I can’t ignore ‘em. Personality trait. I can’t resist stickin’ it to ‘em. This guy wears nothing but silk. He draws me like a fly to a corpse. Plus I really want to turn this guy. He says he wants to cry every time he talks to me. Reality is a hard master.

]]> By: SueTheRedWA http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1652771 SueTheRedWA Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:26:02 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1652771 <p>Katymine,<br /> The Spokesman-Review reported today that JP Morgan Chase will continue to process mortgages the same as has been occuring. All indications that unless you had stock in WaMu or have a WaMu and JP Morgan Chase bank near each other, you may not notice much of anything.</p> <p>Looks like our mortgages will just continue as they have been.</p> Katymine,
The Spokesman-Review reported today that JP Morgan Chase will continue to process mortgages the same as has been occuring. All indications that unless you had stock in WaMu or have a WaMu and JP Morgan Chase bank near each other, you may not notice much of anything.

Looks like our mortgages will just continue as they have been.

]]> By: perris http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1652762 perris Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:21:58 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1652762 <p>the alternative energy industry is the pathway to our economic recovery, it can be our new deal, it can be our space program, it will energize the economy, investment, ouor infrastructure and it will bring QUALITY jobs back home</p> <p>we have to also bring back protectionism, we CANNOT allow products sold in this country that come from slave and child labor, that come from countries that allow industry to dump their cancer in my kids air</p> <p>those products MUST be tariffed and we NEED to create an equal playing field if our economy is to recover</p> the alternative energy industry is the pathway to our economic recovery, it can be our new deal, it can be our space program, it will energize the economy, investment, ouor infrastructure and it will bring QUALITY jobs back home

we have to also bring back protectionism, we CANNOT allow products sold in this country that come from slave and child labor, that come from countries that allow industry to dump their cancer in my kids air

those products MUST be tariffed and we NEED to create an equal playing field if our economy is to recover

]]> By: foothillsmike http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1652755 foothillsmike Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:19:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1652755 <p>From the positioning of the lecturns it appeared that he didnt have to turn that much.</p> From the positioning of the lecturns it appeared that he didnt have to turn that much.

]]> By: KayInMaine http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1652754 KayInMaine Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:18:43 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1652754 <p>Over the years in owning my housecleaning company, I’ve had some customers treat me like dirt so they can make themselves feel better. Almost always it’s done by people who THINK they’are rich (maybe a combined income of $80,000 with tons of bills), when really, they’re just wannabees who are part of the problem today: MATERIALISM CREATES DEBT. </p> <p>Just ignore people like that, SD. In the end, those of us who have had to survive each week to keep afloat will be the ones who will actually be able to survive. It’s the ones who have been keeping up with the Smith’s who will be mortified to have to survive and will have a hard time doing it! We’ll just laugh at them. ;-) I know I already do.</p> Over the years in owning my housecleaning company, I’ve had some customers treat me like dirt so they can make themselves feel better. Almost always it’s done by people who THINK they’are rich (maybe a combined income of $80,000 with tons of bills), when really, they’re just wannabees who are part of the problem today: MATERIALISM CREATES DEBT.

Just ignore people like that, SD. In the end, those of us who have had to survive each week to keep afloat will be the ones who will actually be able to survive. It’s the ones who have been keeping up with the Smith’s who will be mortified to have to survive and will have a hard time doing it! We’ll just laugh at them. ;-) I know I already do.

]]> By: foothillsmike http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1652752 foothillsmike Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:18:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/27/pull-up-a-chair-117/#comment-1652752 <p>No one seems to be asking what are we going to do when it is gone just drill here dril now screw tomorrow. btw has anyone seen anything on oil spills as a result of Ike</p> No one seems to be asking what are we going to do when it is gone just drill here dril now screw tomorrow. btw has anyone seen anything on oil spills as a result of Ike

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