Now you can keep up with Sarah Palin’s daily life by following her new personal Twitter site.
I’ll stay in touch w/whomever wants via personal twtr site;launch July
26; in meantime it’s pleasure to update interested folks on State biz!
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zombie Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:39:26am |
I no more want to follow Palin's minute-by-minute activities than I do those of Ashton Kutchor or Ozzy Osborne.
Get out of my life, people!
Twitter is for crazy folks.
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Fenway_Nation Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:40:36am |
re: #2 zombie
Or Iranian 20-somethings trying not to get their asses beat by the Basjdi...
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:41:21am |
I think she would be better served by a longer-form blog, where she would have space and time to explain what she was saying or supporting or trying to do.
Just me.
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Picayune Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:41:43am |
Sarah's taking a page form BHO to access her audience, and side stepping the MSM in the bargain. Twitter on!
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Crimsonfisted Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:41:57am |
I am there. It's a nice way to filter out the noise the moonbats make that live with me.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:42:00am |
re: #2 zombie
I no more want to follow Palin's minute-by-minute activities than I do those of Ashton Kutchor or Ozzy Osborne.
Get out of my life, people!
Twitter is for crazy folks.
It is very important I keep in touch with Courtney Love.
/ just threw up in the back of my throat.
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Vicious Babushka Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:43:08am |
re: #8 zombie
..unless of course, it includes things like:
#tweet - Can't unfasten bra. Anybody in Wasilla know how to handle these new fasteners?
#tweet - Damn the curtain in the bathroom is broken again. And I need to take a bath. Oh well -- what're you gonna do?
Now you know why Nancy Pelosi doesn't have a Twitter page.
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apachegunner Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:43:18am |
re: #1 rightside
Palin twittering, men's hearts pitter-pattering!
is there something like cybertwittering?
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Russkilitlover Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:43:35am |
And for all those who thought that Palin was too inexperienced and not up to the VP job, I give you this gem of current VP brilliance:
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Kosh's Shadow Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:43:49am |
re: #2 zombie
I no more want to follow Palin's minute-by-minute activities than I do those of Ashton Kutchor or Ozzy Osborne.
Get out of my life, people!
Twitter is for crazy folks.
Twitter is for Twits.
(Except for those Iranians who can't communicate any other way.)
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Charles Johnson Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:44:16am |
First smiley face or LOL, I'm outta there.
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Kosh's Shadow Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:44:23am |
re: #7 Cannadian Club Akbar
It is very important I keep in touch with Courtney Love.
/ just threw up in the back of my throat.
In touch with Courtney Love? ANTIBIOTICS, STAT!
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realwest Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:44:25am |
re: #8 zombie
Hi zom - posted this on prior thread - do you think you could e-mail me (nic's in blue)? If you can, great, if not, I'll understand.
Thanks.
Now I gotta go!
Hope to get the chance to see you all down the road!
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SasquatchOnSteroids Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:45:40am |
re: #2 zombie
I no more want to follow Palin's minute-by-minute activities than I do those of Ashton Kutchor or Ozzy Osborne.
Get out of my life, people!
Twitter is for crazy folks.
I have shit to do.
Well, not today, but you know...
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subsailor68 Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:46:40am |
Guess I'm too old, because I just don't get the twitter thing. It's like e-mail truncated to an absurd level of brevity. It seems to me that:
twttr s fr ppl wh dn't lk vwls.
Bleh.
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realwest Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:46:55am |
re: #17 Salem
Oh, well I guess she doesn't just want to be left alone.
Nope, guess not! Just wants her family to be left alone; you know when candidate Obama told the MSM to leave his family out of it (the campaign) and they did?
That sorta thing.
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Noam Sayin' Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:47:58am |
Perhaps if she were a single gal...
But then, I'd have probably already received my cyber restraining order by now.
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Fenway_Nation Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:49:21am |
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MrSilverDragon Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:50:29am |
I don't "Twitter", I don't "MySpace", I don't "Facebook".
I have an e-mail address. That's enough. If you ask and I don't give it to you, tough cookies. There's a reason. Deal with it.
Inconspicuousness, it's a way of life.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:50:32am |
Gives me an idea for Halloween.
Trick or Tweet.
I'm saving money here.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:51:30am |
Twittering is now considered a job skill.
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CommonCents Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:51:50am |
re: #2 zombie
re: #3 Fenway_Nation
There is a use for just about everything. This "I'm going to take a leak now" twittering is what I think zombie is referring to. It's worthless wasted bandwidth. Think of the amount of things one could learn that could actually make a difference if less time was spent reading the play-by-play of someone else's life.
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descolada9 Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:51:52am |
I can't stand the concept of Twitter and I sure as heck am not going to go there just to see what snippet thought of any politician or celebrity is. The place sounds to me like a great place for breeding snerts. Like we need more snerts.
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Kosh's Shadow Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:52:46am |
re: #24 MrSilverDragon
I don't "Twitter", I don't "MySpace", I don't "Facebook".
I have an e-mail address. That's enough. If you ask and I don't give it to you, tough cookies. There's a reason. Deal with it.
Inconspicuousness, it's a way of life.
The only networking site I use is LinkedIn.
Someone just found me there and asked if I was interested in working there - and they're my company's main competitor.
I declined. (To keep from burning bridges, my official reason was that I didn't want to relocate, but I'd probably want to stay away from a direct competitor for a while.)
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CommonCents Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:53:14am |
It's obviously not a contribution to curing illiteracy.
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Kosh's Shadow Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:53:55am |
re: #26 Cannadian Club Akbar
Twittering is now considered a job skill.
Celebrities could hire professional Twits who would send out tweets to their fans telling them all the details of their days. False, of course, to send the stalkers to the wrong place.
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HelloDare Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:54:32am |
This will open up all kinds of new jokes for comedians and critics. "Hey, I just got a tweet from Palin. She just shot a moose."
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Racer X Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:54:57am |
Hmmm...
Biden
or
Palin?
It was a tough choice.
One was projected to be a bumbling moron who constantly says and does stupid shit. He aint letting us down.
The other was projected to be gun totin' Barbie doll with no brains, who was intent on cramming her religion up our asses. I don't see that at all.
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scottishbuzzsaw Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:55:00am |
re: #24 MrSilverDragon
Inconspicuousness, it's a way of life.
Indeed.
My first response to my son's invitation to join his Facebook 'community' was "No no no no! You can't make me, you can't make me, you can't make me!" Or something like that...
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Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:55:23am |
re: #32 Kosh's Shadow
Celebrities could hire professional Twits who would send out tweets to their fans telling them all the details of their days. False, of course, to send the stalkers to the wrong place.
If I owned a restaurant I would tweet daily specials to old people and college kids with no money.
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KenJen Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:55:36am |
She is definitely up to something. Can't wait to find out what it is.
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MrSilverDragon Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:55:39am |
re: #36 scottishbuzzsaw
Indeed.
My first response to my son's invitation to join his Facebook 'community' was "No no no no! You can't make me, you can't make me, you can't make me!" Or something like that...
Yours was certainly more verbose than mine. I just said "No."
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lawhawk Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:56:04am |
I'd probably follow, just because I think she's going to use it to alert the masses before the media as to any important decisions down the road. Other than that, I haven't checked twitter in weeks, other than to see if anything new is breaking out of Iran (and speaking of which.... time to go check).
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HelloDare Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:56:15am |
re: #35 buzzsawmonkey
Sorry, but every time I hear "Tweet" all I can think of is "I thought I saw a puddy tat."
Tweety tweets. Silvester is on Facebook.
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scottishbuzzsaw Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:56:53am |
re: #39 MrSilverDragon
Yours was certainly more verbose than mine. I just said "No."
LOL! Since his wife is expecting their first child, I thought I'd give him a taste of toddlerhood. ;>)
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Killgore Trout Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:58:25am |
10 dys til less politically correct twitters fly frm my fingertps
OMG! WFT?
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apachegunner Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:59:14am |
I have a twitter account and I am being followed by several prostitutes it appears after looking at their semi nude pictures. guess it's all business huh?
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SasquatchOnSteroids Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:59:40am |
I do use texting to set up tee times with my hacking buddies.
Nothing more.
It still gets annoying when the damn phone beeps constantly because one of them is scrambling to go
beep- im in
beep - crp
beep - its cool
beep - may b lt
beep - dunno yet
Power button.
I'll see ya if I see ya.
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debutaunt Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:59:45am |
re: #42 scottishbuzzsaw
LOL! Since his wife is expecting their first child, I thought I'd give him a taste of toddlerhood. ;>)
Two-year-old kids are great. "Do you want a pony?" "NO!"
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Kosh's Shadow Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:59:50am |
re: #41 HelloDare
Tweety tweets. Silvester is on Facebook.
tweet: ITITAPT
(I thought I Taw a Puddy Tat)
tweet: ID
(I did)
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Dianna Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:00:45am |
re: #2 zombie
I no more want to follow Palin's minute-by-minute activities than I do those of Ashton Kutchor or Ozzy Osborne.
Get out of my life, people!
Twitter is for crazy folks.
That's precisely how I feel.
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subsailor68 Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:00:54am |
re: #43 buzzsawmonkey
John Travolta and Nicolas Cage are locked in an epic online battle to see who can gather more friends in the upcoming release Facebook-Off.
I love the classic movie about the breakdown in communication between Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine - "The Lyin' in Twitter".
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justabill Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:01:43am |
re: #27 CommonCents
re: #3 Fenway_Nation
There is a use for just about everything. This "I'm going to take a leak now" twittering is what I think zombie is referring to. It's worthless wasted bandwidth. Think of the amount of things one could learn that could actually make a difference if less time was spent reading the play-by-play of someone else's life.
No, for that kind of info, I think a live stream would work better./
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scottishbuzzsaw Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:01:54am |
re: #51 subsailor68
I love the classic movie about the breakdown in communication between Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine - "The Lyin' in Twitter".
LOL! "...but it would shock the children!"
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Fenway_Nation Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:02:16am |
re: #51 subsailor68
Let's not forget the perils of the stranded spacefaring Robinson faminly in Lost in MySpace.....
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Lincolntf Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:03:17am |
re: #50 Dianna
I laughed out loud at the conclusion of one of the Sunday News shows last week. The "sign-off" consisted of three different personalities lamely telling people to "follow me on Twitter". I think Stephanopolous was one of them.
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Killian Bundy Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:03:41am |
Ma and Pa Kettle marathon on TCM tonight.
/stretching "classic" to the limit
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AuntAcid Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:03:46am |
"Zelaya himself, speaking from Nicaragua, told Venezuelan state television late Thursday that the weekend talks hold out a moment of hope for a solution, but said he was keeping up preparations for a return.
"I am preparing various alternatives: by air, by land, and others," he said."
"Beam me up, Senor Scott."
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:04:04am |
I really can't think that that many people would care what I was doing minute by minute. My four year-old, maybe, if food was involved.
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A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:04:42am |
How did we live without Twitter? BTW Megan Fox had a nice salad with no dressing for lunch today.
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KenJen Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:04:43am |
re: #55 Lincolntf
I laughed out loud at the conclusion of one of the Sunday News shows last week. The "sign-off" consisted of three different personalities lamely telling people to "follow me on Twitter". I think Stephanopolous was one of them.
Oh brother. I wonder if he tweets about his daily phone conversations with Rahm.
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subsailor68 Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:05:35am |
Richard III: "Now is the twitter of our discontent made tedious banter by this giant dork."
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JarHeadLifer Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:06:01am |
Palin should worry more about building her bona fides and less about teenage communication implements (yes, I know about Iran). If she has another wrongly attributed Plato or MacArthur quote, it could be all over.
Stick to "The Economist" and the "Wall St. Journal", Sarah. Birds "tweet", serious presidential political aspirants build a library of published works and speeches.
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doppelganglander Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:07:08am |
Is it possible to make Twitter private, or members only? My husband had the idea of using it to broadcast text messages among a group of people working at a conference, but he doesn't want the whole world to know so-and-so is needed at the information booth.
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Killian Bundy Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:07:58am |
/Sunday, in Chicago, still time to make plans
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SasquatchOnSteroids Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:08:03am |
*tweet - OMG jst lt dog out 2 pee Im awsm
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fluffy bunny Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:08:37am |
All the little birdies on Jaybird Street, love to hear Palin go...tweet, tweet, tweet...rockin robin...TWEET.
Wasn't that a tweet!?
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KenJen Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:09:01am |
There is a site caller Tinker. It helps u discover events people are Twittering about. This is getting out of control./
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A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:09:18am |
I wonder if Micheal Jackson ever tweeted?
I think I'll create a bunch of fake posts from him...The idea's are just flooding my mind.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:09:38am |
re: #64 JarHeadLifer
Palin should worry more about building her bona fides and less about teenage communication implements (yes, I know about Iran). If she has another wrongly attributed Plato or MacArthur quote, it could be all over.
Stick to "The Economist" and the "Wall St. Journal", Sarah. Birds "tweet", serious presidential political aspirants build a library of published works and speeches.
Actually, young people have to be reached this way. (I was pleasantly relieved to see that my niece refrained from texting for her entire graduation party.) I would hope she would be working to go about it in a very savvy way. She should also be working on longer-format messages, for those of us that have thoughts longer than 140 characters.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:09:43am |
re: #66 Killian Bundy
/Sunday, in Chicago, still time to make plans
All that AND the weekly shootings!!!
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scottishbuzzsaw Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:09:49am |
re: #51 subsailor68
I love the classic movie about the breakdown in communication between Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine - "The Lyin' in Twitter".
I had to go look up that scene..."What a Desolation"
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apachegunner Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:09:52am |
re: #65 doppelganglander
Is it possible to make Twitter private, or members only? My husband had the idea of using it to broadcast text messages among a group of people working at a conference, but he doesn't want the whole world to know so-and-so is needed at the information booth.
I believe you can block all and be visable to only your followers
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Lincolntf Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:10:06am |
re: #64 JarHeadLifer
If she didn't do it, she'd be described as "too stupid to use modern technology...".
I started an account for Iran, so I'll check in on her tweets at some point (if I can remember my name/pw). I'm sure I won't comment, but it'll be kind of like lurking on her favorite discussion board. Could learn a lot about her.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:10:24am |
re: #70 HoosierHoops
I wonder if Micheal Jackson ever tweeted?
I think I'll create a bunch of fake posts from him...The idea's are just flooding my mind.
Ugh. You ARE Ornery.
LMAO.
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lawhawk Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:11:13am |
Well, it counts as a job qualification.
Somewhere around 2024, we're going to have a presidential candidate whose top credential will be Twitterer. /sad but true?
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apachegunner Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:11:58am |
re: #77 buzzsawmonkey
Sounds like a violation of the Terms of Service. They should be on Twat.
lets not get X rated here buzz
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Eowyn2 Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:12:21am |
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doppelganglander Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:12:50am |
re: #74 apachegunner
I believe you can block all and be visable to only your followers
Thanks, I'll look into it.
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A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:13:08am |
re: #76 SasquatchOnSteroids
Ugh. You ARE Ornery.
LMAO.
Speaking of Micheal Jackson... The best time for a celebrity to fuck up was 72 hours after MJ's death..
Seriously..Me Gibson could have got a DUI, blamed the joos, Threated to kill the pope and cheated on his new girlfriend and not even made it on Page 6 of the NY Post.. You blew it Mel...
/
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zombie Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:13:13am |
re: #69 KenJen
There is a site caller Tinker. It helps u discover events people are Twittering about. This is getting out of control./
I need to know what EVERYONE in the WORLD is saying at EVERY MOMENT, in REAL TIME! ! ! !
Give it all to me! I am All Knowledge!
...
/[Head explodes with a deafening Fooom!]
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Eowyn2 Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:14:33am |
re: #64 JarHeadLifer
Palin should worry more about building her bona fides and less about teenage communication implements (yes, I know about Iran). If she has another wrongly attributed Plato or MacArthur quote, it could be all over.
Stick to "The Economist" and the "Wall St. Journal", Sarah. Birds "tweet", serious presidential political aspirants build a library of published works and speeches.
How many of those teenagers will be eligible to vote in 3 years?
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Kragar Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:14:39am |
All these social networking sites have got me thinking about the next big idea, the anti-social networking site. Its a site where people can meet, be vaguely disgusted with one another, ignore them and mind their own business.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:15:10am |
re: #83 HoosierHoops
Speaking of Micheal Jackson... The best time for a celebrity to fuck up was 72 hours after MJ's death..
Seriously..Me Gibson could have got a DUI, blamed the joos, Threated to kill the pope and cheated on his new girlfriend and not even made it on Page 6 of the NY Post.. You blew it Mel...
/
Who says he didn't ?
//
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subsailor68 Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:16:22am |
This film was a searing indictment of a woman whose need for attention drove her over the edge:
The Three FaceBooks of Eve.
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saberry0530 Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:21:56am |
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Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:23:37am |
re: #78 lawhawk
Well, it counts as a job qualification.
Somewhere around 2024, we're going to have a presidential candidate whose top credential will be Twitterer. /sad but true?
That's more qualified than our current president!
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IslandLibertarian Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:24:16am |
Sara Palin is redefining political behavior.
She gets more press than Biden, Hillary, Michelle(maybe), McCain.......
/ but, but, isn't she a wacko Christian?...?...
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debutaunt Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:24:32am |
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Kragar Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:27:44am |
re: #94 debutaunt
Did you ever hear of a company named TLA ?
I've worked with their subsidiary, ETLA
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JarHeadLifer Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:27:59am |
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scottishbuzzsaw Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:30:19am |
The End of Solitude
What does the contemporary self want? The camera has created a culture of celebrity; the computer is creating a culture of connectivity. As the two technologies converge — broadband tipping the Web from text to image, social-networking sites spreading the mesh of interconnection ever wider — the two cultures betray a common impulse. Celebrity and connectivity are both ways of becoming known. This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible. If not to the millions, on Survivor or Oprah, then to the hundreds, on Twitter or Facebook. This is the quality that validates us, this is how we become real to ourselves — by being seen by others. The great contemporary terror is anonymity. If Lionel Trilling was right, if the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility.
[Link: chronicle.com...]
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drcordell Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:34:07am |
Twitter should suit her perfectly. All of her policy "ideas" are bumper sticker slogans that should fit under the 160 character limit quite easily. Drill baby drill!
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Picayune Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:37:37am |
re: #64 JarHeadLifer
Palin should worry more about building her bona fides and less about
teenage communication implements (yes, I know about Iran). If she has
another wrongly attributed Plato or MacArthur quote, it could be all
over.
Stick to "The Economist" and the "Wall St. Journal", Sarah. Birds
"tweet", serious presidential political aspirants build a library of
published works and speeches.
Except for this one: "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."
Thomas Jefferson
Perky Katy set a trap NP question for Palin. I am sure she is well read, you know, like "Moose Hunters Monthly" (he he), and "The Oil and Gas Journal".
One does not propose and conclude a Continental pipe line without a sub to O&GJ.
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drcordell Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:42:52am |
re: #99 Picayune
Conclude? Kindly refer me to a source for that assertion? As far as I know that pipeline doesn't exist.
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Picayune Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:45:41am |
re: #83 HoosierHoops
Speaking of Micheal Jackson... The best time for a celebrity to fuck up was 72 hours after MJ's death..
Seriously..Me Gibson could have got a DUI, blamed the joos, Threated to
kill the pope and cheated on his new girlfriend and not even made it on
Page 6 of the NY Post.. You blew it Mel.../
Bingo! Wanta bet Gov. Sanford is cursing his sense of timing on his confessional press conference, just one day before the Icon of Icons scooped All coverage, everywhere for about 17 days (and counting)?
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Picayune Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:48:57am |
re: #100 drcordell
True, it's still in the pipeline. Who else is actually acting to help create more US energy independence, with use of US sources? Obama? The DEMS?
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tedzilla99 Fri, Jul 17, 2009 11:51:47am |
Her twittering has been pretty good - quick hits on the projects she's been involved with, bills signed, etc. If I lived in AK it would be a good resource.
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drcordell Fri, Jul 17, 2009 12:01:51pm |
re: #102 Picayune
You do realize the proposedpipeline would be from the US to... Canada. How that helps the U.S. further energy independence you'd have to explain. Either way, the only true way to ensure our energy independence is to use technology to reduce consumption. Something Palin has been loathe to support.
Alaskan oil production peaked at 738 million barrels/year in 1988. In 2007 it was only 264 million barrels/year. The U.S. uses approximately 7.5 BILLION barrels/year. Do the math. Alaska has no chance of ever making our nation energy independent as long as we use 25% of the world's production.
Source
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Picayune Fri, Jul 17, 2009 12:03:44pm |
re: #105 taxfreekiller
Yea, they cool. That's why Treasury's Dept. of Dept has been running a want ad for an on staff Cartoonist. Got to keep that moral up, you know.
(see top of Drudge, it's no joke)
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haakondahl Fri, Jul 17, 2009 12:07:43pm |
re: #2 zombie
I no more want to follow Palin's minute-by-minute activities than I do those of Ashton Kutchor or Ozzy Osborne.
Get out of my life, people!
Twitter is for crazy folks.
And blogging will never amount to much.
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haakondahl Fri, Jul 17, 2009 12:08:59pm |
re: #11 Russkilitlover
And for all those who thought that Palin was too inexperienced and not up to the VP job, I give you this gem of current VP brilliance:
MSM ridicule and derision in 3, 4, 5...
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haakondahl Fri, Jul 17, 2009 12:23:59pm |
I'm pretty surprised by the disdain shown here for Twitter as a whole, by an online community. most blogs are shitty collections of things that nobody will listen to the proprietor go on about in person. Some are outstanding.
Those of you shitting on Twitter sound like the vi-edited, W3C-compliant, HTML-without-heretical-frames zealots who shat all over blogs.
I didn't see any point to Twitter until the Iranian Revolution (which is not over, and which will end unhappily for the current regime). I didn't see any point to Facebook until I came to Afghanistan. I didn't see any point to blogging until I came to LGF.
Be careful where you shit. You may be standing there sooner than you think.
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drcordell Fri, Jul 17, 2009 12:24:40pm |
re: #110 taxfreekiller
Earth First,,, eat dirt.
I'm not a crazy, stupid, hippie, I'm a pragmatist. Energy independence is a national security issue. We consume 25% of the world's oil, and don't have anywhere near 25% of the supply. That means unless we want to continue being Saudi Arabia's bitch, we'd better get on the ball and figure out a way to wean ourselves from their teat. Why Republicans can't seize upon this issue in any other way besides chanting "drill baby drill" I don't understand.
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Picayune Fri, Jul 17, 2009 12:32:11pm |
re: #106 drcordell
So, that's why we should legalize pot in broked*ck Cali to bump state revenues, instead of spudding in with semi-subs off the coast from Bab's multi-million $ abode? Do that math. The kooks are headed full speed for the cliffs.
Sure, let the boobs on the Gulf Coast (TX, LA, MS) & AK do all the dirty work, right? Most of our O&G imports come from Canada/MX, so how does Palin's efforts to supply AK's resources to Canada hurt us, exactly?
Until that Utopian Technology is actually up, running, and feasible (affordable), our industrial based society will continue to run on fossil fuels.
When sh*t finally hits the fan, living in energy producing states is going to be the ticket, unless, of course, you're ready to enjoy the lifestyle of a pre-industrial revolution society, living in AlGore's wonderful world.
For the time being, it's fossil fuels, until we can produce better alternatives with proper incentives - not penalties. Happy trails.
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haakondahl Fri, Jul 17, 2009 12:46:23pm |
re: #113 drcordell
I'm not a crazy, stupid, hippie, I'm a pragmatist. Energy independence is a national security issue. We consume 25% of the world's oil, and don't have anywhere near 25% of the supply. That means unless we want to continue being Saudi Arabia's bitch, we'd better get on the ball and figure out a way to wean ourselves from their teat. Why Republicans can't seize upon this issue in any other way besides chanting "drill baby drill" I don't understand.
Nuclear power. Plenty of seaside reactors which A) produce copious amounts of electricity, B) desalinate massive amounts of seawater for drinking and other potable use, and C) separate water into oxygen and hydrogen for distribution in a fuel cell system.
If we can just convince the no-nukes hippies and the corn-burning special interest idiots.
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drcordell Fri, Jul 17, 2009 12:47:32pm |
re: #114 Picayune
"Proper incentives - not penalties" How exactly does that work? By definition an incentive to reduce oil consumption would require making oil relatively more expensive than alternatives. Since oil almost assuredly will be the cheapest energy source in the near future, that requires making it more expensive. The incentive IS a penalty.
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drcordell Fri, Jul 17, 2009 12:49:30pm |
re: #115 haakondahl
I'm right there with you man. I can't understand why the hell we haven't built a single nuclear reactor since the 1970's in this country. It's electricity with zero carbon emissions that in essence is magically created from a few rocks. And the only downside is that some shithole mountain in Nevada gets filled with radioactive goo? Fucking a.
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jvic Fri, Jul 17, 2009 12:52:50pm |
re: #64 JarHeadLifer
Palin should worry more about building her bona fides and less about teenage communication implements (yes, I know about Iran). If she has another wrongly attributed Plato or MacArthur quote, it could be all over.Stick to "The Economist" and the "Wall St. Journal", Sarah. Birds "tweet", serious presidential political aspirants build a library of published works and speeches.
Exactly.
re: #38 KenJen
She is definitely up to something. Can't wait to find out what it is.
She is definitely up to something. Can't wait to find out what it is.
I hope she lies low for a year--and then emerges to support 2010 candidates with the caliber of material that JarHeadLifer talked about.
What I hope & what I expect are two different things.
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Picayune Fri, Jul 17, 2009 12:53:08pm |
re: #113 drcordell
"...I'm a pragmatist. Energy independence is a national security issue."
Totally agree, it is. That's one of the reasons we maintain at Huge cost that our allies do not bare, the USN - got to keep those sea lanes open for oil tankers, etc..
Since about 1976 when Carter started his efforts to hamstring US energy Independence, then aided by Ted Kennedy in the early '80s, we have seriously needed a cogent debate on this issue. Ever since, the DEMS have blocked all attempts to move in that direction, a true shame.
Most, if not all Rebus I hear or read of late are calling for this debate now, including tech R&D, as well as, greater deployment now of "all of the above" energy sources - not just "drill baby drill". The DEMS are hell bent on CAP/TAX and destroy our economy in the process - primarily, IMO, to achieve total Gov control of all resources/aspects of our society.
Sooner or later, by necessity, this debate will be front and center. For all of our sakes, cool heads had better prevail.
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Picayune Fri, Jul 17, 2009 12:55:45pm |
re: #117 drcordell
Bingo! The USN has yet to seriously mismanage nuke power for about 55 years now, and neither has France, that derives about 80% of its energy needs from same. Now you're talking.
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Greengolem64 Fri, Jul 17, 2009 1:06:17pm |
re: #117 drcordell
I'm right there with you man. I can't understand why the hell we haven't built a single nuclear reactor since the 1970's in this country. It's electricity with zero carbon emissions that in essence is magically created from a few rocks. And the only downside is that some shithole mountain in Nevada gets filled with radioactive goo? Fucking a.
Well...except Yucca Mountain is no longer going to be the repository for the radioactive waste...
...But, I'm with ya on Nuke power...guess we can thank Jane Fonda for that one too...meaning why we haven't had a new plant built in 30 years. I grew up next to Seabrook...my only worry there is that my brother worked on one of the crews that dug out the cooling tunnels... 8^)
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Picayune Fri, Jul 17, 2009 1:20:01pm |
re: #116 drcordell
"By definition an incentive to reduce oil consumption would require making oil relatively more expensive than alternatives. Since oil almost assuredly will be the cheapest energy source in the near future, that requires making it more expensive. The incentive IS a penalty."
R&D does not have to be a penalty on the $/bal. Why not employ a US Energy policy goal, funded with current US Gov taxes on $/bal of O&G, to achieve energy R&D innovations for the future sources? Allow some of that funding to go to the private sector, along with a NASA type effort to get us there. Make it a competitive process.
The US Patent office records are proof of what is possible when the process is properly designed and implemented, and no other nation on earth has our record in this regard. It has been tried once here, but not funded properly (oil shales, etc.).
The DEMS will never divert the current tax revenues from fossil fuel usage, which is a big number, for this purpose. They have to many debts to pay to their voting blocks - mores the pity. Any constructive ideas? I don't have all the answers, just a few thoughts.
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ladycatnip Fri, Jul 17, 2009 1:41:43pm |
When I was growing up it was always said of someone getting their face on the news, "They just got their 15 minutes of fame." Now with Twitter, Face Book, MySpace, etc., everyone can be famous all. the. time.
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Cheechako Fri, Jul 17, 2009 2:32:08pm |
re: #106 drcordell
You do realize the proposedpipeline would be from the US to... Canada. How that helps the U.S. further energy independence you'd have to explain. Either way, the only true way to ensure our energy independence is to use technology to reduce consumption. Something Palin has been loathe to support.
Alaskan oil production peaked at 738 million barrels/year in 1988. In 2007 it was only 264 million barrels/year. The U.S. uses approximately 7.5 BILLION barrels/year. Do the math. Alaska has no chance of ever making our nation energy independent as long as we use 25% of the world's production.
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