They’re warning people not to be bigots? Good luck with that >>

Tea Partiers, the Republicans are just a vocal minority, you don’t need them!

re: #2 jamesfirecat

yeah I admit, my first post was before I got to the end.

That was freakin’ brutal.

So of course, I approve!

Tea Party! Anyone wanna guess the size of the big Tax Day Tea Party tomorrow? 4-5,000?

re: #4 Killgore Trout

Tea Party! Anyone wanna guess the size of the big Tax Day Tea Party tomorrow? 4-5,000?

Fox suggests 12 billion, that’s right everyone on earth will show up, TWICE!

re: #4 Killgore Trout

Well, the Georgia guy from Tea Party Patriots claims they have 15 million members alone, so who knows how many total Patriots will show up tomorrow? 3 Billion?

re: #5 jamesfirecat

Fox suggests 12 billion, that’s right everyone on earth will show up, TWICE!

You forgot to count the Tea Babies— the babies that will be patriotically born at the event. That’ll be at least a billion there.

Bunning endorses Tea Party favorite Rand Paul for Senate

Republican Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky on Wednesday endorsed upstart Tea Party favorite Rand Paul to replace him in the U.S. Senate — a blow to Kentucky’s Republican establishment and its preferred candidate, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson….

re: #7 Obdicut

Well, given that each egg and spermatozoa are people-in-waiting, easily 1 Trillion might show up, no?

re: #7 Obdicut

You forgot to count the Tea Babies— the babies that will be patriotically born at the event. That’ll be at least a billion there.

Nor can we fail to count the Tea-Fetuses, who will be conceived at the event (truly it shall be a conservative Woodstock) and only a godless heartless liberal would dare deny the same equal writes as a living person!

oops, forgot the link.

miamiherald.com

re: #8 zora

Bunning endorses Tea Party favorite Rand Paul for Senate

Republican Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky on Wednesday endorsed upstart Tea Party favorite Rand Paul to replace him in the U.S. Senate — a blow to Kentucky’s Republican establishment and its preferred candidate, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson…

Bunning is a little “off” these days. But this is not good.

Looks like maybe 1,000 today in Boston.

Bird’s Eye View: Tea Party Rally On Common

re: #13 Killgore Trout

Looks like maybe 1,000 today in Boston.

Over at Hot Air they’re swearing up and down it was 13-15K people. I’ve spent a lot of time on the commons. That was maybe a thousand people.

Maybe.

re: #8 zora

Bunning endorses Tea Party favorite Rand Paul for Senate

Republican Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky on Wednesday endorsed upstart Tea Party favorite Rand Paul to replace him in the U.S. Senate — a blow to Kentucky’s Republican establishment and its preferred candidate, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson…

Sour grapes.

re: #13 Killgore Trout

Looks like maybe 1,000 today in Boston.

BBC gave them 5,000, but half of them seem to be snarky college spoofers.

Here’s a video that was shot and posted by someone over at Hotair. The same guy who was saying that he didn’t have room to move.

His own video contradicts him. It’s the delusion I don’t get.

re: #18 Sigma_x

Here’s a video that was shot and posted by someone over at Hotair. The same guy who was saying that he didn’t have room to move.

His own video contradicts him. It’s the delusion I don’t get.

[Video]

He must have been in the mosh pit.

re: #14 Killgore Trout

Here’s from a person who live blogged the event, just one portion:

Palin is on, but the microphone just cut out. Can’t hear a word she’s saying. Hand to God, she’s yowling into a dead mike, and I’m surrounded by sunburned white people asking each other “What did she say?” There is comedy, there is high comedy, there is sublime comedy…and there is this. Oh man. God is Love.

Truthout - Palin bags Boston

Organizer of ‘Crash the Tea Party’ receives threats

On his answering machine he received messages like: “Hey Jason, this is Robins Mitchell in Houston, Texas, again. … We’re going to (expletive deleted) you April 15 if you try to mess with the Tea Party.”

…
Conservative radio talk show host, Lars Larson, has gotten an earful from Tea Party supporters and said he doesn’t like Levin’s ethics.

“This is a man who thinks it’s legitimate to further your political goals by lying, by stealing and damaging somebody else’s reputation,” Larson said. “I don’t want a kid like that teaching kids.”
…
“He Twitters all day long while he’s on the public payroll,” Larson said. “Do you think that he would do something like this (the Web page) on the public payroll – sit there and type a document? I wouldn’t find that amazing.”

Levin denied that.

“That is absolutely incorrect,” he said. “The Web site was registered, created and maintained on my own time at my own home.”

Officials with the district and the state said they will investigate.

From the link I posted above

OK, this is Boston, right? You’d assume someone told the ‘Bagger organizers where they were, right? Wrong. They just closed the show with someone singing “New York, New York” by Sinatra, but with anti-Obama lyrics…except that’s the song the Yankees play at the end of every home game, and the crowd of Red Sox fans here knows that full well. People reacted to the song like scalded cats, and in seconds, the singer had the Common almost completely to himself. You really can’t make this stuff up.

The local Boston TV news says it was around 5000. Seems to be about right. Every five minutes she was on the news tonight. Her voice gets progressively more annoying each time I hear it. It’s like fingernails on a blackboard.

11:25 a.m. - OK, this is Boston, right? You’d assume someone told the ‘Bagger organizers where they were, right? Wrong. They just closed the show with someone singing “New York, New York” by Sinatra, but with anti-Obama lyrics…except that’s the song the Yankees play at the end of every home game, and the crowd of Red Sox fans here knows that full well. People reacted to the song like scalded cats, and in seconds, the singer had the Common almost completely to himself. You really can’t make this stuff up. Cheers, and thanks for reading.

No! They didn’t! Didn’t they learn anything from Brown’s election?

OT (so soon…), but since AGW-science-denialism is now a plank in Tea-Partism at least it’s tangential:

As has been widely reported, Lord Oxburgh’s committee report was made public. Here is a PDF of the report sent to the University.

The conclusion, in full:

1. We saw no evidence of any deliberate scientific malpractice in any of the work of the Climatic Research Unit and had it been there we believe that it is likely that we would have detected it. Rather we found a small group of dedicated if slightly disorganised researchers who were ill-prepared for being the focus of public attention. As with many small research groups their internal procedures were rather informal.

2. We cannot help remarking that it is very surprising that research in an area that depends so heavily on statistical methods has not been carried out in close collaboration with professional statisticians. Indeed there would be mutual benefit if there were closer collaboration and interaction between CRU and a much wider scientific group outside the relatively small international circle of
temperature specialists.

3. It was not the immediate concern of the Panel, but we observed that there were important and unresolved questions that related to the availability of environmental data sets. It was pointed out that since UK government adopted a policy that resulted in charging for access to data sets collected by government agencies, other countries have followed suit impeding the flow of processed and raw data to and between researchers. This is unfortunate and seems inconsistent with policies of open access to data promoted elsewhere in government. [Note inthe US a great deal of data is available at no cost.]

4. A host of important unresolved questions also arises from the application of Freedom of Information legislation in an academic context. We agree with the CRU view that the authority for releasing unpublished raw data to third parties should stay with those who collected it.

[my boldfacing]

Of course this story is working its way through the various media. For example, the UK Express story:
CLIMATEGATE TEAM FAILED TO GET WORK CHECKED BY EXPERTS
Which just goes to show that the writing of headlines is an art if there ever was one. Media bias? What media bias?

re: #20 Stanley Sea

I liked this earlier post.

10:15 a.m. - Wow. A guy wrapped in a yellow Don’t Tread On Me flag
just tried to use the “Render unto Caesar” line from the Bible to
justify not paying taxes, but he got the quote wrong. I gave him the
correct line, and said “It means pay your taxes.” He turned beet red
and fled into the crowd. I love this job.

re: #4 Killgore Trout

Tea Party! Anyone wanna guess the size of the big Tax Day Tea Party tomorrow? 4-5,000?

4-5, you say?

this may or may not be reliable, but it is hilarious:

Palin’s Discovery Channel show is a joke
huffingtonpost.com

Last week Discovery had its annual sales conference for ad buyers for all of its 13 networks. The presentation showcases all of their new shows across the different networks. That night the presentation was on Sarah Palin’s Alaska.
Our source says “the whole thing [was] comical.” Apparently the ad buyers were not impressed. This Discovery insider said, “When the promo was over, people (employees and buyers) were rolling their eyes, snickering, and even laughing. People were laughing and it’s not even a comedy. No one took it seriously.”
This person was concerned that given the lack of interest from ad buyers that Discovery would have to dump the show to “a crappy time slot” to cut its losses. They added, “Bottom line everyone thought it was a new all time low for Discovery. My guess is the show is going to tank big time.”

I’m imagining Brenda Dickson, but with hunting, tundra, bad grammar and stuff. Maybe Sarah will show us survival skills in her Neiman Marcus threads.

From that live-blogging page…

11:00 a.m. - Just took a long step back and climbed a hill at the back of this thing, and it is patently clear the anti-‘Bagger crowd outnumbers the Tea Partiers by at least three to one. This looks like an anti-war rally when you get away from the 2,000 people near the stage. Hilarious.

re: #25 Obdicut

No! They didn’t! Didn’t they learn anything from Brown’s election?

Please tell me there is video of that…

re: #8 zora

Bunning endorses Tea Party favorite Rand Paul for Senate

Republican Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky on Wednesday endorsed upstart Tea Party favorite Rand Paul to replace him in the U.S. Senate — a blow to Kentucky’s Republican establishment and its preferred candidate, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson…

When you look up ‘asshole’ in the dictionary, under the list of synonyms you find ‘Jim Bunning’.

re: #29 Vambo

Reality, more humorous than fiction?

Sarah Palin To Host Nature Show

“Oil drilling doesn’t cause any problem with the animals or the environment”, Palin stated. “I love to watch the furry little animals scurry away into the woods as we start setting up the drilling equipment!”

If only they could get Tina Fey to play the part.

re: #33 freetoken

Reality, more humorous than fiction?

Sarah Palin To Host Nature Show

If only they could get Tina Fey to play the part.

the caribou love the Prudhoe Bay pipeline….jus sayin

re: #33 freetoken

“Oil drilling doesn’t cause any problem with the animals or the environment”, Palin stated. “I love to watch the furry little animals scurry away into the woods, see them driven before us, and to hear the lamentation of their women as we start setting up the drilling equipment!”

I just made that quote so much better.

re: #33 freetoken

That’s not real, is it?

Man, the crazy is high today.

And people in the rest of the country think San Francisco is weird

re: #30 Sigma_x
The difference is, most of them probably can’t vote.//

I wonder if the deflection will work?

Cardinal’s Words Roil Abuse Scandal

Tensions rose on Wednesday over comments made by the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who called homosexuality “a pathology” and linked it to pedophilia. The comments came as the Vatican is making efforts to calm a scandal over sexual abuse by priests.

This song and dance looks like something is happening, but I’ve yet to see anything that tells me something really will come out of all of this, to change the status quo.

re: #36 Obdicut

It’s supposed to be humor.

However, reality is stranger.

re: #7 Obdicut

You forgot to count the Tea Babies— the babies that will be patriotically born at the event. That’ll be at least a billion there.

Wait a minute! Why are you leaving the blastocysts out? They are people too….

re: #36 Obdicut
No, they know SFO is weird. A beautiful city, but some strange politics.
The silver lining is, it’s snuggled next to a nuclear free zone, so in case of attack, they’re safe…. just beat it to Berkeley.
Ahh, Sanctuary.

re: #39 freetoken

Yeah, that’s what I meant: I can no longer sort out the real from the unreal. It’s like Poe’s law, but with ridiculousness.

I can’t get over the amazing stupidity of playing “New York, New York” on Boston fucking Commons! They’re lucky they got out of there alive.

re: #36 Obdicut

That’s not real, is it?

Man, the crazy is high today.

And people in the rest of the country think San Francisco is weird

there’s no woods up there, unless she’s talking about somewhere other than the North Slope

My favorite quotes from the NY Times article about the teabaggers:

“He’s a socialist. And to tell you the truth I think he’s a Muslim and trying to head us in that direction, I don’t care what he says. He’s been in office over a year and can’t find a church to go to. That doesn’t say much for him.”

When talking about the Tea Party movement, the largest number of respondents said that the goal should be reducing the size of government, more than cutting the budget deficit, or lowering taxes.
SNIP
But in follow up interviews, people said did not want to cut Medicare or Social Security — the biggest domestic programs – suggesting instead a focus on “waste.”

“I guess I want smaller government and my Social Security,” said Jodine White, 62, of Rocklin, Calif.

re: #42 Obdicut

Yeah, that’s what I meant: I can no longer sort out the real from the unreal. It’s like Poe’s law, but with ridiculousness.

I can’t get over the amazing stupidity of playing “New York, New York” on Boston fucking Commons! They’re lucky they got out of there alive.

The other important thing to keep in mind is that, as much as the Sox Nation hates the “Evil empire” and vice versa they still both hail from states (well Sox Nation is multi-state but its all up and down the North East) that tend to vote blue these days.

Blows your mind to think about doesn’t it?

re: #44 drcordell

He’s been in office over a year and can’t find a church to go to. That doesn’t say much for him

Oh, that says a lot for him to me.

Also, what’s up with the Muslim/Socialist connection? When did they become such a natural combination?

re: #44 drcordell

My favorite quotes from the NY Times article about the teabaggers:

But in follow up interviews, people said did not want to cut Medicare or Social Security — the biggest domestic programs – suggesting instead a focus on “waste.”

“I guess I want smaller government and my Social Security,” said Jodine White, 62, of Rocklin, Calif.

I agree wholeheartedly….who wouldn’t?

re: #44 drcordell

My favorite quotes from the NY Times article about the teabaggers:

I suspect he also wants his Medicare, and Medicaid if it came to that.

re: #30 Sigma_x
If we’re live-blogging with Truthout, there really should be counterbalance from another equally impartial site, like say, WorldNetDaily. //

Fuckin’ Discover Card. I’ve lived quite happily without a credit card for about five years now…about a month and a half ago, they start calling telling me I’m pre-approved. I tell them ‘no thanks.’ Two weeks later, I get a card in the mail. I don’t activate it. Now they call every day asking why I haven’t activated it yet. I should probably just activate it, buy something, then pay for it and close the account. Then maybe they’d stop calling. Fuckers.

re: #46 JasonA

Oh, that says a lot for him to me.

Also, what’s up with the Muslim/Socialist connection? When did they become such a natural combination?

because that’s what uninformed people are afraid of…there is an argument for his socialist tendencies already, but generally they are simply uninformed….I knew this would happen and said so before he was elected….and again, things will get even worse

re: #40 Naso Tang

Wait a minute! Why are you leaving the blastocysts out? They are people too…

yes, they are!

Congress urges baseball to ban smokeless tobacco

WASHINGTON — After hounding Major League Baseball and its players union over steroids, Congress now wants the sport to ban smokeless tobacco. “Good luck,” San Francisco Giants reliever Brandon Medders said. “Guys do what they do. We work outside. It’s been part of the game for 100 years.”

This isn’t what I want Congress to be concerned with. I cringe every time I hear the words “Congress” and “baseball” in the same sentence.

re: #50 darthstar
Seriously, don’t do that. It will play hell with your credit. Having a line of unused credit on an open card is better….. for some weird reason, closing an account, even yourself, knocks you down a few points.
However…… it’s weird that you didn’t apply for the card. Pre-approved offers are common, but they don’t generally set up the account. Check around and make sure no one signed your name……

COOKBOOK ALERT!

COOKBOOK ALERT!

I have the pdf of the entire cookbook.

The whole thing needs to be looked at for typos, etc.

If there is anyone here who can help out with a few pages, or even just a good look-over of the entire thing, please let me know! I can be contacted at the e-mail address in my profile information, OR at either of the addresses at the cookbook blog (click my nic or avatar, either one will bring you somewhere you can find my e-mail address).

re: #55 reine.de.tout

I’m good for a few pages (right after I put my taxes in the mail….)

re: #48 Naso Tang

I suspect he also wants his Medicare, and Medicaid if it came to that.

Maybe at some point in the distant past, he wanted his MTV too.

re: #53 JasonA

Congress urges baseball to ban smokeless tobacco

This isn’t what I want Congress to be concerned with. I cringe every time I hear the words “Congress” and “baseball” in the same sentence.

first they came for baseball…but I was not a fan..
etc

re: #55 reine.de.tout

I’ll ask my wife, she speaks Cuisine.

re: #58 albusteve

first they came for baseball…but I was not a fan..
etc

Good one!

re: #55 reine.de.tout

I’ll take a couple of pages too. After Friday! Will email you with info.

TEATANS???
Some one is obviously trying to hijack the tread to boobs!!

re: #54 tradewind

Seriously, don’t do that. It will play hell with your credit. Having a line of unused credit on an open card is better… for some weird reason, closing an account, even yourself, knocks you down a few points.
However… it’s weird that you didn’t apply for the card. Pre-approved offers are common, but they don’t generally set up the account. Check around and make sure no one signed your name…

Good point…I did confirm my name, address with a gal on the phone, but probably wasn’t paying attention when she said the card was in the mail…I usually tune these people out after about thirty seconds. Thanks for the advice.

re: #50 darthstar

Fuckin’ Discover Card. I’ve lived quite happily without a credit card for about five years now…about a month and a half ago, they start calling telling me I’m pre-approved. I tell them ‘no thanks.’ Two weeks later, I get a card in the mail. I don’t activate it. Now they call every day asking why I haven’t activated it yet. I should probably just activate it, buy something, then pay for it and close the account. Then maybe they’d stop calling. Fuckers.

Cut it up & mail it back to them!

re: #55 reine.de.tout

COOKBOOK ALERT!

COOKBOOK ALERT!

I have the pdf of the entire cookbook.

The whole thing needs to be looked at for typos, etc.

If there is anyone here who can help out with a few pages, or even just a good look-over of the entire thing, please let me know! I can be contacted at the e-mail address in my profile information, OR at either of the addresses at the cookbook blog (click my nic or avatar, either one will bring you somewhere you can find my e-mail address).

I’ll send you an email. I’d be happy to proof some pages and PDF them back to you.

re: #63 darthstar

Good point…I did confirm my name, address with a gal on the phone, but probably wasn’t paying attention when she said the card was in the mail…I usually tune these people out after about thirty seconds. Thanks for the advice.

You TALK to phone solicitors?
WOW!

re: #63 darthstar

Good point…I did confirm my name, address with a gal on the phone, but probably wasn’t paying attention when she said the card was in the mail…I usually tune these people out after about thirty seconds. Thanks for the advice.

you would not like my advice…good luck

re: #66 Floral Giraffe

You TALK to phone solicitors?
WOW!

exactly….first mistake

re: #55 reine.de.tout

COOKBOOK ALERT!

COOKBOOK ALERT!

I have the pdf of the entire cookbook.

The whole thing needs to be looked at for typos, etc.

If there is anyone here who can help out with a few pages, or even just a good look-over of the entire thing, please let me know! I can be contacted at the e-mail address in my profile information, OR at either of the addresses at the cookbook blog (click my nic or avatar, either one will bring you somewhere you can find my e-mail address).

My wife proofs her office’s work and she has little to do for 4 weeks so I’m sure she wouldn’t mind at all.

re: #68 albusteve

exactly…first mistake

Agreed.

re: #64 Floral Giraffe

Cut it up & mail it back to them!

Better yet…
Tell them your busy being a Mercenary in the Congo and will open your account as soon as your paid!!
…In person!!
Works every time!!!

re: #50 darthstar

Nah, Next time they call, tell them you didn’t ask for the damn thing and you shredded it. Also tell them to quit calling you. If they continue to call, tell them that you are on the National Do Not Call listing and that they are harassing you and you will report them to your State A.G. office for said harassment. Should bring it to an end. Least wise it did for the Wife and I.

re: #63 darthstar

Good point…I did confirm my name, address with a gal on the phone, but probably wasn’t paying attention when she said the card was in the mail…I usually tune these people out after about thirty seconds. Thanks for the advice.

I never say “yes” to anything, not even “are you having a nice day?” I’m pretty sure that one time they spliced a “yes” in where they wanted it and played it back to me as “proof” that I did sign up for something.

BBL

re: #44 drcordell

My favorite quotes from the NY Times article about the teabaggers:

The clue meter is still reading zero at the Tea Parties. They want lower spending without reduced services. In other words, they want what never has been and never will be.

re: #74 Decatur Deb

Where the hell do you think your going??
Oh….Sorry….

re: #72 Bubblehead II

Nah, Next time they call, tell them you didn’t ask for the damn thing and you shredded it. Also tell them to quit calling you. If they continue to call, tell them that you are on the National Do Not Call listing and that they are harassing you and you will report them to your State A.G. office for said harassment. Should bring it to an end. Least wise it did for the Wife and I.

yes, turn it on them…with extreme prejudice

re: #73 wrenchwench

I never say “yes” to anything, not even “are you having a nice day?” I’m pretty sure that one time they spliced a “yes” in where they wanted it and played it back to me as “proof” that I did sign up for something.

caller ID. done.

re: #70 darthstar

Agreed.

LOL!
I was a paid my way through college as a phone solicitor.
Now, I answer the phone, and if it’s not a friend, I say “what do you want?”
It can be repeated until I know what they want, then I say no & hang up.
Or, if I can tell it’s a solicitor or a robo-call, I just hang up.
It’s my time, I’ll spend it as I want to!
I did enjoy the couple of years I worked that gig, though.

re: #75 Dark_Falcon

Just get the gubmint hands off my Medicare!

re: #78 brookly red

Toll free ##’s answer/hang up!

re: #75 Dark_Falcon

The clue meter is still reading zero at the Tea Parties. They want lower spending without reduced services. In other words, they want what never has been and never will be.

the quote ended with a blurb about cleaning up federal waste….that’s a clue right there for somebody

re: #78 brookly red

caller ID. done.

I still have to answer the ones that say “unknown caller” at my retail location. No land line at home, so no problems there.

re: #79 Floral Giraffe

I always do a poll. Otherwise, no.

re: #66 Floral Giraffe
Roger that……

re: #72 Bubblehead II

Nah, Next time they call, tell them you didn’t ask for the damn thing and you shredded it. Also tell them to quit calling you. If they continue to call, tell them that you are on the National Do Not Call listing and that they are harassing you and you will report them to your State A.G. office for said harassment. Should bring it to an end. Least wise it did for the Wife and I.

LOL!
I have been known to keep “repeat offenders” on the line long enough to print the “do not call violation complaint form” and ask all the questions, to fill it out. I SINCERELY hope I cost each of them $1500.

re: #84 Stanley Sea

Poll dance??
Who knew!!?
Howdy! *giggle*

re: #87 reloadingisnotahobby

uh, uh…

Me: Hello?
Solicitor: May I speak to Racer X?
Me: No, this is his legal guardian. How can I help you?
Solicitor: Never mind.

re: #27 Bubblehead II

You really, truly, positively do not want me wandering into a lefty crowd trying to make them look stupid.

Really. You don’t.

All the sides have stupid. The rest? Don’t get reported.

re: #82 albusteve

the quote ended with a blurb about cleaning up federal waste…that’s a clue right there for somebody

True, but reducing waste will require working with the Obama administration, something that the Tea Parties are not set up to do. Even if they get the wins they want this November, how are they going to reduce waste while simultaneously trying to repeal the administration’s signature health care plan?

re: #90 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
You want stupid? This would be stupidly hilarious, but for the two little boys involved……
entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com

re: #55 reine.de.tout

The cover is awesome!

re: #69 b_sharp

If your wife decides she doesn’t feel up to doing all of it, let me know and I’ll take a few chapters.

re: #22 Killgore Trout

Organizer of ‘Crash the Tea Party’ receives threats

Wait, there’s a conservative talk radio host called Lars Larson? Along with conservative talk radio host Erick Erickson?

Is this secretly a Monty Python Viking skit or something?

re: #50 darthstar

Fuckin’ Discover Card. I’ve lived quite happily without a credit card for about five years now…about a month and a half ago, they start calling telling me I’m pre-approved. I tell them ‘no thanks.’ Two weeks later, I get a card in the mail. I don’t activate it. Now they call every day asking why I haven’t activated it yet. I should probably just activate it, buy something, then pay for it and close the account. Then maybe they’d stop calling. Fuckers.

Using then cancelling will affect your credit rating negatively. Having the card issued may also do that. Some dickhead got a commission from submitting your name, and having the card issued, even without activating, may also affect your credit rating.

Happened once to my daughter in college. Someone did that and she suddenly had several card arrive in the mail.

Call them and say you are calling the fraud police, or Obama’s finance regulation commission..

For those non-musicians who wonder what it must be like to be able to read music: It’s sort of like this….
Debussy, First Arabesque, Piano Solo (animation ver. 2)

re: #91 Dark_Falcon

True, but reducing waste will require working with the Obama administration, something that the Tea Parties are not set up to do. Even if they get the wins they want this November, how are they going to reduce waste while simultaneously trying to repeal the administration’s signature health care plan?

beats me…the feds are dysfunctional imo…waste is not waste, taxes are not taxing, spending is not spending….I see no reason to get too deep into it as I become more of an apolitical bystander…cleaning up the feds is a worthy notion, it just won’t happen

re: #91 Dark_Falcon
Any other party, tea, Republican, libertarian, you name it, should disabuse itself of the pipe dream that they would be working with POTUS.
He’s already shown no inclination to work with the other party, although he doesn’t mind a photo op/lecture or two if the time seems right.

re: #98 tradewind

You are so partisan and off base.

re: #98 tradewind

Any other party, tea, Republican, libertarian, you name it, should disabuse itself of the pipe dream that they would be working with POTUS.
He’s already shown no inclination to work with the other party, although he doesn’t mind a photo op/lecture or two if the time seems right.

Give me a break. I suppose you will then credit the “other” party for coming out and honestly saying they have no intention to work with this administration…

re: #89 Racer X

Me: Hello?
Solicitor: May I speak to Racer X?
Me: No, this is his legal guardian. How can I help you?
Solicitor: Never mind.

Oh dear …did”race X ” order some thing…oh dear..click!

re: #96 Killgore Trout

For those non-musicians who wonder what it must be like to be able to read music: It’s sort of like this…
Debussy, First Arabesque, Piano Solo (animation ver. 2)

[Video]

that’s pretty cool….an ensemble would look like an acid trip

re: #53 JasonA

Congress urges baseball to ban smokeless tobacco

This isn’t what I want Congress to be concerned with. I cringe every time I hear the words “Congress” and “baseball” in the same sentence.

you cringe, I get pissed off!! I was pretty angry when GWB talked about steroids in sports during his state of the union. Who started this anyway? Keerist!!!

re: #99 Stanley Sea
So he does have a record of working well with others… sorry, missed that.
As for partisan, we split tickets down here. I haven’t voted a straight one in……
ever. So hop back on your own base.

re: #101 reloadingisnotahobby

Oh dear …did”race X ” order some thing…oh dear..click!

Step two: PROFIT!

re: #56 wrenchwench

re: #59 Decatur Deb

re: #61 Stanley Sea

re: #65 marjoriemoon

re: #69 b_sharp

OK, EVERYONE.
Thank you!
It’s 200 pages, so this much help will be greatly appreciated.
Wrenchwench, I have your e-mail
Everyone else - just get in touch with me.
And thank you all.

Bagua’s Topical Music Break™

Clashly

re: #55 reine.de.tout

COOKBOOK ALERT!

COOKBOOK ALERT!

I have the pdf of the entire cookbook.

The whole thing needs to be looked at for typos, etc.

If there is anyone here who can help out with a few pages, or even just a good look-over of the entire thing, please let me know! I can be contacted at the e-mail address in my profile information, OR at either of the addresses at the cookbook blog (click my nic or avatar, either one will bring you somewhere you can find my e-mail address).

Reine, send it to me! I’m good at that sort of thing and you have my email address, I’d be happy to do the look see for typos! And I have time on my hands, too! :-)

re: #105 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Step two: PROFIT!

Step #3 call your credit card company…

re: #79 Floral Giraffe

LOL!
I was a paid my way through college as a phone solicitor.
Now, I answer the phone, and if it’s not a friend, I say “what do you want?”
It can be repeated until I know what they want, then I say no & hang up.
Or, if I can tell it’s a solicitor or a robo-call, I just hang up.
It’s my time, I’ll spend it as I want to!
I did enjoy the couple of years I worked that gig, though.

When I get a call and they mispronounce our last name - I hang up right away.
It happens frequently.

re: #96 Killgore Trout

KT, I had a neighbor, years ago, who was & is a very successful composer of film sound tracks. It’s a unique & special kind of talent.
We all use words, but being a writer is an extra gift.
Music is a gift, as well.

re: #108 Dragon_Lady

Reine, send it to me! I’m good at that sort of thing and you have my email address, I’d be happy to do the look see for typos! And I have time on my hands, too! :-)

Will do!
Thanks!

re: #104 tradewind

So he does have a record of working well with others… sorry, missed that.
As for partisan, we split tickets down here. I haven’t voted a straight one in…
ever. So hop back on your own base.

When you say lecture, I remember a Q&A.

Oh, and its time to remind you that we’re at LGF, which at least to me, is a center based place.

re: #106 reine.de.tout

Just send me the Illustrations!..”K”!
thanks!
Your servant…
Loader.

So, Just how do you turn your nick blue?

re: #111 Floral Giraffe

KT, I had a neighbor, years ago, who was & is a very successful composer of film sound tracks. It’s a unique & special kind of talent.
We all use words, but being a writer is an extra gift.
Music is a gift, as well.

Agreed. I love music and studied it seriously for many years. Unfortunately I did have the gift.

re: #115 Bubblehead II

So, Just how do you turn your nick blue?

By unblocking your email address!

re: #115 Bubblehead II
I think that’s an old wives’ tale.

re: #110 reine.de.tout

When I get a call and they mispronounce our last name - I hang up right away.
It happens frequently.

That’s funny!
I’m Dutch with a two part last name….
Mail our calls where they ask for…the last half??
“Who the hell are you ,and haven’t you ever heard a Yiddish name
before”??

re: #115 Bubblehead II

So, Just how do you turn your nick blue?

When you type a comment, click the box to “show email” it will allow the person to (via LGF, safely) email you. I think….

re: #116 Killgore Trout

Agreed. I love music and studied it seriously for many years. Unfortunately I did have the gift.

You unfortunately had the gift, or didn’t have it?
*confused*

re: #110 reine.de.tout

How does someone mis-pronounce TOOTS!”

re: #115 Bubblehead II

So, Just how do you turn your nick blue?

There’s a checkbox right next to the ‘email’ line of the comment area. Check that box and make sure your email is on the email line. Then your nic will turn blue.

re: #113 Stanley Sea
Sure, you may. Have you written a guidebook?

re: #120 Stanley Sea

Define “safely”!!!
It also means they now have your E-Mail !!
Kidding!
Anyone can have mine….except for Mandy!!

re: #124 tradewind

Sure, you may. Have you written a guidebook?

The guidebook, dear Trade, is regulated by everyone. Which I am very thankful for.

re: #112 reine.de.tout

Will do!
Thanks!

You are most welcome my dear! I’m looking forward to it! Not to mention trying out some of the recipes! Noms!

re: #116 Killgore Trout

Agreed. I love music and studied it seriously for many years. Unfortunately I did have the gift.

(missing the “not”?) or just didn’t cut the crust off?

Duh……..

Reine, Count me in.

Thanks to those who had the clue bat.

Hey Killgore! Is there anyplace to go that has all the “infiltrators” signs? I was laughing this afternoon.

re: #116 Killgore Trout

Unfortunately I did not have the gift.
/Ugh, Freudian slip.

re: #125 reloadingisnotahobby

She has mine…

re: #122 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

How does someone mis-pronounce TOOTS!”

You would be surprised!
LOL

re: #113 Stanley Sea

Oh, and its time to remind you

You actually set your watch? Really, that’s too much bother.

Cat vs Ipad

re: #132 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

She has mine…

You do know I was kidding??
..(Mandy may be lurking)!!
Shssh!

re: #134 tradewind

He sometimes you just know >>

re: #135 Killgore Trout

Your video is unhappy :(

re: #131 Killgore Trout

My sister in law took piano for fifteen years. I know five pianists who were better than her after their fifth years.

There is not such thing as “practice equals talent”. There is only “practice makes perfect”; but you’d better start with talent.

re: #125 reloadingisnotahobby

Define “safely”!!!
It also means they now have your E-Mail !!
Kidding!
Anyone can have mine…except for Mandy!!

I wouldn’t mind if Mandy had my email address…I don’t get your exception…

re: #135 Killgore Trout

Imbedded video link doesn’t work.

re: #135 Killgore Trout

There’s nothing there :(

re: #133 reine.de.tout

You would be surprised!
LOL

An opening I will not take…
Because I’m a GENTLEMEN!!!

re: #135 Killgore Trout
Couldn’t get it… who won?
My money’s on the kitteh.

re: #137 windsagio
/you’re breaking up////

re: #138 marjoriemoon

Your video is unhappy :(

Damn, I need to remember to preview those Liveleak videos
Cat vs Ipad

I heart Mandy, BTW.

BBL Lizardia, Keep Laughing! :-)

re: #147 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I heart Mandy, BTW.

I second that.

re: #139 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

My sister in law took piano for fifteen years. I know five pianists who were better than her after their fifth years.

There is not such thing as “practice equals talent”. There is only “practice makes perfect”; but you’d better start with talent.

the neighbors kid is learning to play the bass… if I can hold out till september he goes away to school.

The Times of London did a better job than the Express in reporting the results of the East Anglia Inquiry:

Climate scientists at East Anglia University cleared by inquiry

re: #146 Killgore Trout

I CAN HAZ PEEPEL GUTS?

re: #140 Dragon_Lady

I was kidding!
…Although I did receive a BAT in the mail with no return address…

re: #146 Killgore Trout

Damn, I need to remember to preview those Liveleak videos
Cat vs Ipad

hahaha! Screen protector?

re: #149 Bagua

I second that.

re: #147 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I heart Mandy, BTW.

Me three ! (Just had to do that before I split!) :-)

Clash Of The Titans

re: #126 Stanley Sea
How does one regulate a guidebook?
Really, this is silly. I get your point, and I’m sorry you didn’t get to be hall monitor in third grade.

re: #147 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

re: #149 Bagua

Does third count?

re: #153 reloadingisnotahobby

I was kidding!
…Although I did receive a BAT in the mail with no return address…

Oh! :-)

re: #146 Killgore Trout

Damn, I need to remember to preview those Liveleak videos
Cat vs Ipad

Oh cute kittah…. but isn’t he scratching the iPad? We frown on that in our house with the puters lol

re: #149 Bagua
and I third it, although probably third’s been taken by now….

re: #154 Stanley Sea

thinkin’ the same thing…

re: #139 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

My sister in law took piano for fifteen years. I know five pianists who were better than her after their fifth years.

There is not such thing as “practice equals talent”. There is only “practice makes perfect”; but you’d better start with talent.

here’s a gifted musician…12 yrs old

re: #52 reine.de.tout

yes, they are!

We don’t want to go there tonight.

re: #158 reloadingisnotahobby

re: #149 Bagua

Does third count?

All positive comments count!

Who’s dumber? Palin or the idiots giving her money?
Palin Spends More De-Icing Planes Than For Candidates

Ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin (R) spent more money to de-ice her private jets than she did donating money to candidates during the first 3 months of the year, according to new filings made with the FEC.

The filings show Palin’s political wing, Sarah PAC, paid a FL-based airplane service company $14K to de-ice a private jet. The PAC spent more than $16K — twice as much as it donated to individual candidates — on hotels from New Orleans to New York City to Richland, WA.
….
What’s more, there is no evidence that Palin has kept her promise to donate money she earned from a Tea Party convention in Feb. Amid controversies surrounding the National Tea Party Convention, held in Nashville, Palin said she would donate her $100K speaking fee to campaigns, candidates and issues.

Fiscal responsibility!

I have no idea if a gay person is possible for the Supreme Court this go round, but wouldn’t it be interesting if that was the basis of advise and “consent”?

re: #164 Naso Tang
You got that right.

Politics update from Texastan:

Should a Richardson school board candidate answer this question?

In an interview with me a few days ago, one candidate for the Richardson school board expresses support for the teaching of Creationism in science classes.So I ask an opponent of that first candidate for a position on that issue — “Are you in favor or opposed to that?” — and got an extended non-answer.

I’m not going to identify either candidate here, or even the Place, because I’m giving the second candidate a chance to produce a more responsive response. I may have been unclear in how I framed my initial query and/or the candidate may have misunderstood what I was asking. So I want to avoid any possibility of creating a wrong impression.

But am I out of line in thinking that the second candidate ought to 1) feel some obligation to give me (and the voters) a yes or no; and 2) not be surprised in 2010 that such a question might come up?

There’s Richardson context for this question: Back in the early 1990s, elections for several RISD board positions got tangled up with questions about religion and public education.

And given how this conversation has gone, and out of fairness, I’m going to raise the Creationism question with all of the candidates still running, So the rest of you are now forewarned…

They are not going to go quietly into the night.

re: #167 Stanley Sea

I have no idea if a gay person is possible for the Supreme Court this go round, but wouldn’t it be interesting if that was the basis of advise and “consent”?

You have no idea? False modesty is unbecoming.

re: #164 Naso Tang

We don’t want to go there tonight.

No, we don’t.
Just puttin’ in my .02

re: #98 tradewind

Any other party, tea, Republican, libertarian, you name it, should disabuse itself of the pipe dream that they would be working with POTUS.
He’s already shown no inclination to work with the other party, aalthough he doesn’t mind a photo op/lecture or two if the time seems right.

hahaha you don’t even believe this, this is obvious horseshit

At least pretend to be sincere!

No raisins for you….
The wife of the insurgent has blown up itself in front of the chamber

Warning: Disturbing but not graphic
Occurred in Russia last week

re: #170 Naso Tang

No really, who are you speaking of?

re: #166 Killgore Trout

Who’s dumber? Palin or the idiots giving her money?
Palin Spends More De-Icing Planes Than For Candidates

Fiscal responsibility!

I kinda don’t know about that… if you were flying out of Alaska you might find de-icing fiscaly responsible…

I just watched a whole bunch of different videos of today’s protest in Boston, and I couldn’t help but notice that out of everyone that was interviewed, not one of them had a Boston accent.

Homegrown, huh?

re: #96 Killgore Trout

For those non-musicians who wonder what it must be like to be able to read music: It’s sort of like this…
Debussy, First Arabesque, Piano Solo (animation ver. 2)

[Video]

That was really beautiful, & very much mellowed out, and otherwise hectic afternoon. Thank you.

re: #151 Dark_Falcon

The Times of London did a better job than the Express in reporting the results of the East Anglia Inquiry:

Climate scientists at East Anglia University cleared by inquiry

LOL, the Oxburgh Report.

Lord Oxburgh, the panel’s chairman, has links to low-carbon energy companies that stand to profit from efforts to cut greenhouse gases.

He is chairman of wind energy firm Falck Renewables and president of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association.

re: #167 Stanley Sea
I don’t think a person’s sexual preference should enter into his or her qualification for SCOTUS, any more than his or her actual sex does.
And I’d hate to see any group or person attempt to raise it as an issue.
Besides, who says this would be breaking any new ground?

re: #169 freetoken

Politics update from Texastan:

Should a Richardson school board candidate answer this question?

They are not going to go quietly into the night.

As a Christian I find the idea of teaching creation in “Public” schools WRONG! and the BIGGEST mistake EVER made by the (FAR RIGHT)!
Unc

re: #139 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

My sister in law took piano for fifteen years. I know five pianists who were better than her after their fifth years.

There is not such thing as “practice equals talent”. There is only “practice makes perfect”; but you’d better start with talent.

My first year of playing drums I was kicking ass. My third year of playing guitar, I sounded like I was playing the thing with oven mitts on :D

Talent’s a funny thing, it’s not always a straight line. I have talents in very specific areas of art, and no talent whatsoever in others.

re: #179 tradewind

I don’t think a person’s sexual preference should enter into his or her qualification for SCOTUS, any more than his or her actual sex does.
And I’d hate to see any group or person attempt to raise it as an issue.
Besides, who says this would be breaking any new ground?

Oh I agree completely, but there’s chatter that this could be an issue. I just think it would be crazy if in the Senate, the debate came down to it.

re: #172 WindUpBird
Maybe I just missed the part where he reached out to Republicans in an effort to smooth that health care thingy through, a year or so before it was finally rammed into law by one party.

re: #179 tradewind

I don’t think a person’s sexual preference should enter into his or her qualification for SCOTUS, any more than his or her actual sex does.
And I’d hate to see any group or person attempt to raise it as an issue.
Besides, who says this would be breaking any new ground?

Or color, or religion, or…

supper time @ The Secret Bat Cave

re: #175 brookly red

I kinda don’t know about that… if you were flying out of Alaska you might find de-icing fiscaly responsible…

She doesn’t have to use a private plane every time she flies. She’s just a celebrity now, celebs ride first class in commercial planes all the time.

re: #175 brookly red

I kinda don’t know about that… if you were flying out of Alaska you might find de-icing fiscaly responsible…

The problem is that all she’s doing is making herself and her buddies rich. All of her PAC money is spent on exorbitant salaries and luxury items. Only 2.3% actually goes to political causes.

re: #55 reine.de.tout

I just emailed you with my email address. I can do some proofing.

re: #185 Bagua

Ah Geeze…Not flys AGAIN!!!

re: #187 Killgore Trout

The problem is that all she’s doing is making herself and her buddies rich. All of her PAC money is spent on exorbitant salaries and luxury items. Only 2.3% actually goes to political causes.

a fast learner, that one

re: #182 Stanley Sea
I wouldn’t waste any time worrying about it.
It would be political suicide for whoever was that petty, especially I when there will likely be some real reasons to question a nominee’s fitness in many peoples’ minds.

re: #187 Killgore Trout

The problem is that all she’s doing is making herself and her buddies rich. All of her PAC money is spent on exorbitant salaries and luxury items. Only 2.3% actually goes to political causes.

Sarah Palin does things to make money for the Palin family, not for the GOP.

Gonna go to a HEAVY METAL show… my kid…

SAVE ME!

(he’s 25, and touring. really good, but I can’t stand this shit…)

re: #181 WindUpBird

My first year of playing drums I was kicking ass. My third year of playing guitar, I sounded like I was playing the thing with oven mitts on :D

Talent’s a funny thing, it’s not always a straight line. I have talents in very specific areas of art, and no talent whatsoever in others.

I have absolutely no talent at anything, except that I can appreciate (and I stand in awe of) true talent when I see/hear it.

re: #139 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

My sister in law took piano for fifteen years. I know five pianists who were better than her after their fifth years.

There is not such thing as “practice equals talent”. There is only “practice makes perfect”; but you’d better start with talent.

You also have to have a passion, with the talent.

re: #192 Dark_Falcon

As do I.

PIMF, eliminate superfluous ’ I ‘.

re: #188 prairiefire

I just emailed you with my email address. I can do some proofing.

OK, thanks.
How are you feeling today?

re: #195 Floral Giraffe

You also have to have a passion, with the talent.

True dat.

re: #193 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Turn your hearing aids off…
Oops…Sorry FBV!

re: #187 Killgore Trout

The problem is that all she’s doing is making herself and her buddies rich. All of her PAC money is spent on exorbitant salaries and luxury items. Only 2.3% actually goes to political causes.

Maybe… but 14k of their money for de-icing is is better than 100k our money for booze. Hey, that’s just me.

re: #193 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Two words:
Ear plugs.
You’re an excellent Dad, FBV.

re: #190 albusteve

a fast learner, that one

I think you’re right. She’s going to cash in on her 15 minutes of fame while she can. People are really going to be pissed when they figure out they’d been duped by an idiot.

re: #193 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Gonna go to a HEAVY METAL show… my kid…

SAVE ME!

(he’s 25, and touring. really good, but I can’t stand this shit…)

If he makes money and takes care of dad you might get over it…

re: #184 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Yeah. We’ve been there, done that.
Shouldn’t be issues.

re: #183 tradewind

Maybe I just missed the part where he reached out to Republicans in an effort to smooth that health care thingy through, a year or so before it was finally rammed into law by one party.

He reached out constantly, and anyone who isn’t willfully ignorant can see that. Problem is the Republicans were doubling down on Palin-esque insanity about death panels and socialism and completely untrue math. “Obama’s Waterloo”. does that sound like the words of a party that wants to cooperate? The object of the Republicans was to stake everything on destroying Obama’s HCR, and weakening his presidency. And they failed all over the place. No matter how he reached out, they’d deny him. Theyw eren’t honest, they weren’t willing to cooperate, negotiate, or even listen. This is settled, these are checkable facts.

Did you miss the part where Obama’s HCR is so much like Mitt Romney’s Massachussets system that it’s torpedoing Romney’s chances in 2012?

3 points, top of the arc, nothing but net. Swish!

re: #172 WindUpBird

I don’t think that either major party works with the other in any way beneficial for the country, anymore at all.

Down with them both.

Pffiibbittth.™

re: #201 brookly red

Maybe… but 14k of their money for de-icing is is better than 100k our money for booze. Hey, that’s just me.

Or hookers.

Eliot Spitzer Spent $100,000 at One Call Girl Firm Alone, Report Says

re: #203 Killgore Trout

I think you’re right. She’s going to cash in on her 15 minutes of fame while she can. People are really going to be pissed when they figure out they’d been duped by an idiot.

we had this figured out last year….wtf is wrong with people?…they hear what they need to hear…to me it’s similar to a traveling revival meeting, saving souls and raking in the dough

re: #207 Ojoe

I don’t think that either major party works with the other in any way beneficial for the country, anymore at all.

Down with them both.

Pffiibbittth.™

What do yo suggest (drum downbeat, flam, parradiddle) ta… ta… ?

re: #208 Racer X

Or hookers.

Eliot Spitzer Spent $100,000 at One Call Girl Firm Alone, Report Says

No video?

re: #150 brookly red

the neighbors kid is learning to play the bass… if I can hold out till september he goes away to school.

Could have been the trumpet or the drums…
Hang in there!

re: #207 Ojoe

I don’t think that either major party works with the other in any way beneficial for the country, anymore at all.

Down with them both.

Pffiibbittth.™

HAY I HATE EVERYTHING SO I DON’T HAVE TO PARTICIPATE MY PENIS HURTS BLURGH WIG PARTY MAKE MINE WITH PIGTAILS

re: #210 Walter L. Newton

Well I could suggest it.

re: #203 Killgore Trout

I think you’re right. She’s going to cash in on her 15 minutes of fame while she can. People are really going to be pissed when they figure out they’d been duped by an idiot.

Her best bet is to keep being sly about a 2012 run. Once she says no, the money stops. But maybe she will run, who knows with Sarah?

re: #180 reloadingisnotahobby
I spent my entire elementary and jr high school career in an academically excellent church-run school and I never heard or saw or was taught anything other than evolutionary science in any science class. Never heard the term creationism, never was taught that dinosaurs palled around with kids like their pet puppies.

re: #211 Walter L. Newton

No video?

You have to pay extra for that.

Visa or Mastercard?

re: #216 tradewind

I spent my entire elementary and jr high school career in an academically excellent church-run school and I never heard or saw or was taught anything other than evolutionary science in any science class. Never heard the term creationism, never was taught that dinosaurs palled around with kids like their pet puppies.

I would ask for a refund.

re: #185 Bagua

supper time @ The Secret Bat Cave

Nom Nom Nom!

re: #206 WindUpBird
Shhh, don’t let Mitt’s fundraising people hear about that. He’s raising money hand over fist…. close to 2 mil so far.

re: #211 Walter L. Newton

No video?

If you want to see his leading call girl, she’s in the new issue of Playboy. Ashley Dupree does look quite good in those photos, I must say.

/I’m a guy.

re: #218 Walter L. Newton
Why? We had religion classes for that. The two didn’t really mingle.
(I know you’re teasing, Walter.)

re: #194 reine.de.tout

I have absolutely no talent at anything, except that I can appreciate (and I stand in awe of) true talent when I see/hear it.

AHEM.
Bullshit.
You have lots of talents. Getting along with people, being kind, being friendly
and on & on.

re: #208 Racer X

Or hookers.

Eliot Spitzer Spent $100,000 at One Call Girl Firm Alone, Report Says

funny that these “firms” are illegal… yet no indictments?re: #211 Walter L. Newton

No video?

you wanna watch Elliot in action??

re: #221 Dark_Falcon

If you want to see his leading call girl, she’s in the new issue of Playboy. Ashley Dupree does look quite good in those photos, I must say.

/I’m a guy.

NSFW

blogs.villagevoice.com

re: #216 tradewind

Exactly!
I too went to a private school..K thru 12!
Science was Science!

re: #194 reine.de.tout

I have absolutely no talent at anything, except that I can appreciate (and I stand in awe of) true talent when I see/hear it.

You are talented at being humble and you are a talented parent.

re: #211 Walter L. Newton
Talk about your refunds……
Seriously, the people of NY state should sue him for damages and demand he repay his salary.

re: #225 Locker

NSFW

[Link: blogs.villagevoice.com…]

What does that tat across her stomach say? Government forever??

re: #221 Dark_Falcon

If you want to see his leading call girl, she’s in the new issue of Playboy. Ashley Dupree does look quite good in those photos, I must say.

/I’m a guy.

An air brush could put me in Playgirl!!
….Your point??
LOL

Oxburgh report, part II. No surprises.

realclimate.org

re: #229 Stanley Sea

What does that tat across her stomach say? Government forever??

althouse.blogspot.com

re: #208 Racer X

Or hookers.

Eliot Spitzer Spent $100,000 at One Call Girl Firm Alone, Report Says

Hurley spent 100,000 for a date with Libby last night on LOST. When he kissed his date, he was suddenly able to flip between two closed time-like loops. I bet Spitzer never had that happen to himself.

re: #226 reloadingisnotahobby
In comparison, the high school I attended, while all girls, was not church affiliated, and I can’t remember any difference in how evolution was approached in science class.
I guess it all depends what religion you’re talkin’. Mine doesn’t have a problem with Teh Science.

re: #210 Walter L. Newton

What do yo suggest (drum downbeat, flam, parradiddle) ta… ta… ?

Make mine Reinert:

re: #220 tradewind

Shhh, don’t let Mitt’s fundraising people hear about that. He’s raising money hand over fist… close to 2 mil so far.

That’s good news. Hopefully Mitt can raise enough money to keep Palin out. For once in my life, I’m grateful for party insiders and then invisible primary. They may be the key to the GOP running a sane candidate in 2012.

re: #233 Walter L. Newton
ZOMG……. not looking not looking/ too late, I saw.
Just getting ready to fire up the DVR, dammit.

re: #174 Stanley Sea

No really, who are you speaking of?

*shrug*

You have no idea?

re: #98 tradewind

Any other party, tea, Republican, libertarian, you name it, should disabuse itself of the pipe dream that they would be working with POTUS.
He’s already shown no inclination to work with the other party, although he doesn’t mind a photo op/lecture or two if the time seems right.

You are obviously the ‘away’ team tonight with the dinging assault on your stating the obvious. The lefty lizards really should put up some evidence of the President’s bipartisanship before going nuts. Otherwise the reaction is just, well, nuts. Silly too.

re: #236 Dark_Falcon

That’s good news. Hopefully Mitt can raise enough money to keep Palin out. For once in my life, I’m grateful for party insiders and then invisible primary. They may be the key to the GOP running a sane candidate in 2012.

the candidate will be someone we as of yet have never heard of…

re: #229 Stanley Sea

Somebody inform Varek, looks like the Weyland-Yutani logo to me >>

re: #231 Seltzer123

Oxburgh report, part II. No surprises.

[Link: www.realclimate.org…]

No… you’re correct… and I wasn’t surprised about this paragraph…

“CRU accepts with hindsight that they should have devoted more attention in the past to archiving data and algorithms and recording exactly what they did. At the time the work was done, they had no idea that these data would assume the importance they have today and that the Unit would have to answer detailed inquiries on earlier work. CRU and, we are told, the tree ring community generally, are now adopting a much more rigorous approach to the archiving of chronologies and computer code. The difficulty in releasing program code is that to be understood by anyone else it needs time-consuming work on documentation, and this has not been a top priority.”

re: #229 Stanley Sea

What does that tat across her stomach say?

“Totally Worth It”

re: #232 Locker

[Link: althouse.blogspot.com…]

Thank you, and oh, come on!!!

re: #239 The Shadow Do

Nice try at trying to reframe reacting to obvious lies as partisanship.

Guess it should be expected tho’.

re: #237 tradewind

ZOMG… not looking not looking/ too late, I saw.
Just getting ready to fire up the DVR, dammit.

Sorry… I didn’t even get to watch it until this morning. First episode I had to miss this season, but I was in training last night (Kroger)…

re: #236 Dark_Falcon
It’s not gonna be Palin in ’ 12. (NTTAWWT). Hell, why would she put herself through it and take the pay cut?
Gazillions in speaking fees and tv contracts combined with/ and security for her family is the best revenge, IMO.

re: #232 Locker

That would be considered kinda creepy in some places.

OK!
We’re going to watch…George Cloney in .”Men Who Stare at Goats”!
I’ll give the “Thumbs up,or Thumbs down” Tomorrow!!
Take care all!!
Loader out!

re: #220 tradewind

Shhh, don’t let Mitt’s fundraising people hear about that. He’s raising money hand over fist… close to 2 mil so far.

He can raise tons of money! That doesn’t help his negatives in the primary.

he raised more money than any other R candidate in 2008, and still lost out. Money is part of the equation, but it isn’t the whole equation. Obviously the candidate that raises the most money doesn’t always win.