If you’re reading these words, it means I couldn’t come up with much of anything to say. So, I guess it’s up to you guys.
Posted by pjsauter on December 28, 2006
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If you’re reading these words, it means I couldn’t come up with much of anything to say. So, I guess it’s up to you guys.
5th worst blizzard of all time Volume II coming through Denver starting this afternoon:eek: Christ, enough with the white stuff.
God hates Colorado :cold::fustrate:
pj- you may start with the snowflakes again:joe::paranoid:……………and a belated :santacool: & :menorah: to the blog :cold: art
Morning / Evening, all :yinyang:
Cold front is on the way here. It may reach 51?F!! 🙄 Don’t mock, water nearly freezes here at that temp (or people act like it may).
The new guy in charge of PBS is a conservative who said the funniest woman wouldn’t rank ANYWHERE in comparison to male comedians. NICE.
And that’s so uplifting for me… who kinda wants to make people laugh for a living.
Comment by Painting Girl — December 27, 2006 @ 3:58 pm
I have two words for this idiot:
Sarah Silverman.
Two more: Margaret Cho.
Two more: Judy Gold.
Two more: Maria Bamford.
And let us not leave out: Mishna Wolff. :hubba:
And one more, although I know I shouldn’t really mention her here because some people get bent, but screw it:
Stephanie Miller.
So there. And to think I just donated to PBS. At least it was the local affiliate and not this podbrain.
My ex-father-in-law in FL would put on a sweater if it fell below 65F:paranoid:
But the FUNNIEST thing I heard last night was Chimpy attempting to wax eloquent over Gerald Ford, claiming that Ford restored honor and dignity to the presidency. As if this moron knows anything about honor OR dignity.
(I almost typed “dognity” instead of dignity, which is probably closer to the truth, but there are too many dog lovers on this blog for me to get away with insulting dogs by comparing them to Bush. Dogs are much smarter and much, MUCH more honest.)
:pup::pup::pup:
I also thought it was ironic (cue Alanis) that someone asked Cheney for a quote. “This is the guy who replaced a vice-president who resigned in disgrace due to scandal while he was in office. Right? Why would you think I would know anything about something like that? Go f-ck yourself.”
:rofl2:
The other thing I thought of watching last night’s non-stop Ford commercial was the overreaching statement that his pardon of Nixon was necessary to heal the country after Watergate and as Vietnam was winding down.
OK, we tried that once, and it sort of worked or sort of didn’t, depending on who you ask. (Although the “sort of didn’t” advocates were certainly nowhere to be found in the MSM on Wednesday.)
This time, when the Dems begin their investigations and the bugs start crawling out from under the rocks, NO PARDONS. NO MERCY. Let Justice take its course.
Life sentences for Bush and Cheney will demonstrate the greatness of democracy, and prove that no man or monkey is above the law. Lock them up and throw away the key.
:tommygun::tommygun::tommygun:
Good Morning :joe: I dunno Art, I break out the sweaters if it goes below 70 degrees. But then, i’m a desert rat.
Hey Fred, look at the bright side. We’ll have plenty of snow melt this spring. We sure have needed it
Yeah, no pardons. And who ever does pardon them will pay a heavy price. :no: The bloggers will make sure of that.:slap:
John Edwards is in:
Dear Friend,
I’m writing to you from New Orleans, where tomorrow I will announce that I am a candidate for president of the United States.
I’m announcing here because no place better demonstrates the two Americas I’ve talked about for a long time. But even more important, no place better demonstrates the power people have when they — not Washington — take responsibility and take action to build the America we believe in.
Click here to watch a preview on YouTube of what I’m going to talk about tomorrow.
I’m running to ask millions of Americans to take responsibility and take action to change our country and ensure America’s greatness in the 21st century.
And I’m asking you to play a crucial role in this campaign.
Last week I asked if you were ready to take our effort to change America to the next level. Thousands of letters have come in, and the answer was an overwhelming yes — we’re in this together.
That’s why I’m asking you to help spread the word in your area by holding your own local “Citizens’ Launch” event tomorrow. It just takes a few minutes to set up, and anyone can do it.
Click here to download a step-by-step guide and everything you need to hold your own Citizens’ Launch this week.
We know what we need to do. Changing our country means:
* Providing moral leadership in the world — starting with Iraq, where we should begin drawing down troops, not escalating the war
* Strengthening our middle class and ending the shame of poverty
* Guaranteeing health care for every single American
* Leading the fight against global warming
* Getting America and the world to break our addiction to oil
That’s not just my vision –- it’s our vision. And we can’t wait for the next president to take office to begin fundamentally changing our country.
And the truth is, we don’t have to wait. Since I left Washington, I’ve seen firsthand the power that ordinary people have when we work together.
We worked with thousands of volunteers to raise the minimum wage in six states – and we got it done. We’re making the first year of college free for young people in Greene County, North Carolina. And we’ve been working from the grassroots up to organize workers so they can stand up for their rights and earn a decent living.
And this week in New Orleans, I’ve been working with young people who gave up part of their Christmas vacation to work on rebuilding and helping those in need — just like the hundreds of college students who came here to work with me during their Spring Break earlier this year.
This is the kind of commitment to solving our problems that I’ve seen time and time again over the last two years – and it reaffirms one of the great lessons of my whole life. The power of America doesn’t lie in Washington; the true power of America is in the people of America.
That’s why we’re getting ready to launch a campaign that says to everyone who wants to take responsibility for our future: we can’t wait until tomorrow. We must act now.
Tomorrow begins today.
Your friend,
John
P.S. Please forward this email or the YouTube video to your friends and family and ask them to join us.
P.P.S. And join me Thursday for an Online Town Hall live from Des Moines, Iowa. Visit JohnEdwards.com to participate. The event begins at 6PM ET / 3PM PT.
This guy filling in for Bill Press really sux. This is a horrible week for radio, too bad Marc couldn’t fill in for EVERYONE!
Oh, BTW, I was talking to a friend of mine yesterdAY and he was saying that Randi gets calls from that gay guy, Fidel(?), who harangued Marc when he filled in for Sam, all the time. And his homosexuality is always offended for one reason or another.
Frontier airlines already canceling flights out of DIA 😡
Why would anyone book a flight through Denver if they could help it? :rant1:
Are we focusing on the Nixon pardon? :crap: What about the MUCH more important pardons? :priest: (hint: they didn’t become soilders)
You mean the conditional amnesty for Vietnam draft dodgers?
yeah, pj. It helped a reative and the kids of two families in my neighborhood back then.
Gale Norton, the former Secretary of the Interior has taken a job as council…hold your breath…to a giant oil company. Norton just quit Interior a few months ago when the Abramoff scandal got very near her assistant, Steven Griles.
Oops, forget to post the Gale Norton story link. The recovery from Christmas is not complete.
http://tinyurl.com/yk23wa
I guess the oil dudes offered her more money than going back to work for the (I’m not making this up) LEAD industry:growl::evil:
Enid Goldstein is filling in for Jay Marvin. She’s on fire:slap::slap:
Soooo much better than listening to Jay gargle marbles. He pimps for a used-car lot in Denver- it’s one of those ads that sticks in your mind like a piece of bad food :barf:
Yeah, there seems to be a rather lot of animosity towards Ford from some circles, that seems disproportionate to anything he did or didn’t do in his short time in office. I was fairly young when he pardoned Nixon (thirteen), but I remember being pretty pissed by it, since I wanted to see Nixon go to jail. Or at least tried and convicted, before being pardoned. Now, though, I dunno. I don’t know if anybody really would’ve been up for the years and years of litigation that would’ve ensued. And I don’t think you’ll ever see a former US president in prison, unless some country invades and “liberates” us.
But, either way, it’s not like Ford was Nixon. Hell, he wasn’t even Reagan, who I think might have deserved to go to prison more than Nixon did. By all accounts, he was was a hard working guy who knew how to get things done in Congress by working with people on both sides. A trait sorely missing. He also got unfairly tagged with “losing” Vietnam – something that our next president (whoever that will be) will get tagged with when it comes to Iraq.
Oh, and Ford thought Rummy, Cheney and Dubya fucked up Iraq, too.
They’ve moved the storm up to start at noon today :omg:
Exchanged cars with S so she could make it the 30 miles to work and back.on I-25. She just bought a Civic with about 3″ clearence:eek:
Instead, I’ll get it stuck in a snow-bank about 12 miles away on a sidestreet :doh:
And here, we don’t even have enough snow to totally cover the grass, and it’s supposed to be in the mid-forties today. We have a long way to go to make our 115″ average.
In covering the passing of Gerald Ford, Towleroad makes mention of Oliver “Billy” Sipple, the ex-Marine who thwarted an assassination attempt on Ford during a 1975 visit to San Francisco. From the Wikipedia entry:
The police and the Secret Service immediately commended Sipple for his action at the scene, while Ford thanked him in a letter. Unfortunately, Sipple became not only an instant hero but an instant victim as well. The media not only hailed and celebrated his deed, they also disclosed his private life. Though he was known to be a homosexual by various fellow members of San Francisco’s gay community, Sipple had not publicly “come out of the closet.” His sexual identity was something he had always kept a secret from his family. He asked the press reporters to leave him alone, making it clear that neither his mother nor his employer had knowledge of his sexual orientation.
Despite his wishes, gay activist and politican Harvey Milk, publicly proclaimed Sipple and said his act “will help break the stereotype of homosexuals.” Gay liberation groups petitioned local media to give Sipple his due as a gay hero. Then columnist Herb Caen published the private side of the ex-Marine’s story in the San Francisco Chronicle. Six other papers ran the column as well. After discovering her son’s secret, Sipple’s mother reacted to the public harassment she began to endure by cutting off contact with him.
http://tinyurl.com/y7jebg
Yeah, Malloy was really beating up on Ford last night along with Enid this morning. I place Ford along with Eisenhower as a fair-minded (now extinct) moderate republican. I was pissed but remember thinking that I too just wanted Nixon gone and to move on. Ford allegedly gave weapons to the wrong side in Indonesia but I think he just inherited a lot of foreign policies not his own. Just think of the cluster-fuck that the future democratic president is going to inherit from the bushevilempire:mad:
Yeah, I’m not sure it’s even possible to act in a totally benevolent manner as president (though I’d sure be up for seeing somebody try). US foreign (and domestic) policy is all such a fucking tangled mess. It’s a lot easier to be righteous when you don’t actually have to make any of the decisions. Hell, I know – I used to watch the West Wing.
S grew up in Rochester and went to school in Oswego so this is just like a ‘lake-effect’ storm to her :cold: According to channel 9 weather, this should be headed your way by next week pj, except that it’s coming in the form of rain… and we know how much you love the winter rain :billcat:
Hah, if it even is a Democrat. Might be Saint McCain. Of course, any Democrat will be thoroughly denounced no matter what she or he does, by both the Republicans, and “the Left.” Unless it’s Kucinich, of course. He’ll just get it from the Konservatives.
Hey, I went to Oswego for a couple of years, too!
Some nut-job is yelling at Enid now saying there’s no way that there’s 650,000 dead Iraqi’s because “where would they bury them all?”
:fu::fu:ing braindead rethuglicans :evil::growl::mad:
S was there back in the early eighties- doesn’t remember much except a lot of :bong: and :alc:. But at least she graduated which is more that I can say for me in the late sixties:spank:
No shit. I was there from about Sept 1980 to the day after I got my State loan check in the spring of 1982. Yes, a great deal of partying. It was a bit of a culture shock for me, coming from Buffalo, where they really didn’t give a shit if you went to class, to a place where they suddenly took attendance and gave you shit about not going to class. Which, frankly, only led me to miss more classes. I was in Oswego when Reagan got elected, and when he got shot. Was there when John Lennon got killed, too.
These rethugs are such assclowns- he kept asking where she got her numbers for Iraqi dead after she cited EXACTLY where she got her numbers. You can wear you arm out throwing facts and truth at a republican and watching them fall harmlessly to the floor off the teflon bubble they live inside :jerk:
S has never mentioned them taking attendence 😮 Just the aroma of the fungus growing on the ceiling in the student housing……………………and of course :bong::bong: and :40: and :barf:
I think she was probably a freshperson about ’82.
Well, you gotta remember, they just aren’t used to hearing the truth from the traditional media outlets. It’s as if you told them the sky was yellow and the sun was blue. And you knew without asking, they were into the blues.
Oops. All this Oswego talk triggered a flashback.
I actually lived up there over the summer I was there. I sold, um, commodities. It was great. Used to get wasted and then just kinda float around in the lake. It’s a wonder I never drowned. Used to be able to go out to Nunzi’s on the lake, and drink 10 cent beers. I’ll be damned if I know how I lived through all that. Didn’t get much learnin’ done, that’s for sure.
My freshman year Wichshitta State in ’67 we had mandatory physical ed. What I remember is having to carry each other on our backs for a distance so we would be in shape to carry the injured or dead when we went to ‘Nam. :reaper:
The next year I transferred to KU and discovered :bong: and :hubba:. I was already very committed to :alc:
I’ll ask S if she remembers Nunzi’s
re # 33, as Pope said, “Youth is wasted on the young.” But, I have to admit that I enjoyed being wasted.
Ah, the sweet transcendent intellectual atmosphere of the university:rofl2:
I must off to :yawn:
Yeah, if not Nunzi’s, no doubt the Wheel and the other bars down on Water St., where we used to hang out in the streets, until the Oswego Constabulary would decide to round everybody up enforcing open container laws (they never seemed to do that in the summer, when the college kids were gone, for some reason). I remember the guy I got my commodities from had an apartment directly across from the Oswego PD. Very strange to walk out of there, fully loaded, and say “evenin’ ossifer.”
Sue P- ‘wasted’ :rofl2:
:peace: out
:om:
Sometimes, I think being wasted is wasted on the young.
I hope I am not being redundant if this was brought up before on the blog. I couldn’t understand why the Boston Air America outlets were playing Spanish music.
With the holidays and all I thought maybe everyone was on vacation. Today I finally checked to find out that on December 20 they just switched. No more Air America in Boston: I guess it really is all over.
good morning everyone…..
clodene, I think that after reorganization and new ownership we will see AAR picked up again…but make your voice heard….its worked in other markets!
If AAR is around then its gonna be available for syndacation….I hope to god they get a better flagship than theyve got now in NYC…i cant get the signal at all…..
:peace: Pax Sue P and Art and PJ
(:rofl2:) … AIV :reaper: :dancers:
Hi Clodene. There’s a Yahoo group set up to Save Progressive Radio in Boston, and also a web page. They had a meeting last night, I believe, and the next one is on January 8th:
NEXT MEETING: Jan 8 7pm
Panera @ Arsenal
395 Arsenal Street/Watertown, MA
617-923-2918
Good luck.
Melina, how are you? and the rest of you?
AIV
Convicted Ex-Ill. Gov. Sues for Pension
CHICAGO – Convicted former Gov. George Ryan is suing to keep at least part of his $197,000 state pension, the third of it that he says he earned before the scandals that now have him facing 6 1/2 years in prison.
clodene and melina, Cheers,
Melina good advice. Clodene The good thing about your trauma is it continues to keep me on the “butt” of local radio in this state.
AIV
I do not understand this “love” of Yahoo. I thought “they” were
bad and I was just waiting for someone else to get here. I am so confused :doh:
AIV
Hey, thanks I’ll check out that web site. I already invested in an Ipod to get TMMS I cannot afford to subscrie to XM.
Yahoo groups are a very easy way to set up a means by which people can communicate and share information, ideas, and files. If one can make use of their offerings to do “good,” then one at the very least is – to certain extent – mitigating any “bad” that they may otherwise do.
andy aka Aquaman :fustrate: 46 :barf: :growl: :fist: Hiii Yaaa:wink:
AIV
😎 :love: Marc and Evan…:love::cool:
AIV
RATS it makes sense I guess — but they gave freely the e-info (:evil: whores) to Homeland Securities.:eek::nod::omg:
AIV
so, James Brown is getting a funeral procession that is better than Reagans was….better than Ford’s is gonna be…..probably not exactly Princess Diana’s, but he does have the horse drawn carriage
Well, I wouldn’t use them to transmit the time and place of the revolution, but I think organizing a meet up to save progressive radio will likely be safe. I don’t think I’d give them any of my money, but Yahoo e-mail is good as a spam catcher account.
I dont mind the yahoo groups, but I HATE that Yahoo keeps putting its toolbar in my computer. I tok the whole messenger thing out and I have a regiatry checker and all …if I fond any yahoo in my computer now I remove it…sorry to those of you on the messenger but Yahoo is just like spyware in that it tricks you into getting it back agains and again…and setting your preferences in your tools menu is not enough for them!
They freakin reinstate the thing after youve unchecked it…you have to remove the program completely and then it reappears again…I really dont like yahoo….
Skype and AOL IM are OK….I havent tried MSN
PJ Thx. 😎
aiv
I think the only “good” funeral procession is one where you’re not the guest of honor. As for me, I want my un-embalmed body, covered by a biodegradable shroud, to be dumped into a hole in the woods someplace.
re #3 and PG, yesterday: as a child, I adored Phyllis Diller. Don’t know what that says about me…
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I KNEW you lived in a funny place!
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continued whale killing and now this:
the yahoo groups are great….but they are an email in your inbox…no danger of clicking on something and installing the toolbar again if you arent careful…..you can also get them in digest….But doesnt google offer the same service?
hey I posted a few James Brown clips on ripcoco the other day and last night my feeligns about Ford and also Saddam hanging….and stuff
Gee, I have no problem telling it not to run whatever I don’t want. I don’t use the messenger much, but one in a while I use it. Googletalk is unsophisticated, but is encrypted, so I prefer that for planning subversive activity.
Re 58-I want that but I want Nate to be the one to bury me…can we arrange that?
careful driving artnorton & Fred.
It’s beautiful here this morning. clear, crisp, white stuff on the ground, river flowing….i’m still doggon snarflie (sp?), though. My Greek mother says it will last either a week or 7 days, depending.
Even the Diggnation guys were saying the other week that Yahoo does that to them… and forget their MOms….Anyone who will click on a button (like my Mom has no screen left because she has installed everything by accident) will have Yahoo…and I dont even do that….it just keeps coming back.
my only death request – no embalming crap, don’t care what else happens to the corpse.
my ultra-nra neighbor wants to be cremated, then have us shoot him out of shotguns.
I am sorry Melina :bow: but I was TOTALLY with you until AOL…I heard they too was ultimate evil. MSN and Hotmail and… are bad also but not Gates, who is better than “whoever” went before him. I am ultimately asking since I have to decide. Gmail? So many directions. Hmmmmm :dancers: I believe “the answer is — appear motionless”. 😉 Cheers. :alc: Thank You Counsel.
AIV
Greetings, All. Hope everyone is warm and dry. Denver, LOOK OUT!
Thanks, ex-ny’er, for the definitive statement late yesterday on the Tuesday night Marc Maron show. I knew you would do a better job and I thought you should gloat about the soup. FYI, if you don’t call it cheesecake, it is really good. Truth in advertising might be tofaux cheezecake or something like that. I would just rename it and run with it.
Big thank yous and appreciation and respect to John Edwards for bringing some more spotlight to the ongoing plight of New Orleans when it seems like everyone wants us to forget it so they can sweep it under the rug. I wish and hope that the new Congress will find their way to conduct serious oversight hearings on the whole thing and also find it in their hearts to start to take care of the restoration and rebuilding in earnest.
I encourage you to deliver this message to your representatives whenever possible. Whenever I communicate with someone in power on any issue, I always make a point of ending with a plea for New Orleans.
If anyone knows where I can find ‘liberated’ recent columns by Bob Herbert on the New Orleans, please let me know.
In and out. Cheers!
and lastly, why isn’t funeral home effluent regulated when the highly toxic chemicals they use are regulated by OSHA? Have you checked your city’s water supply lately? YOWSA.
Oh, yeah. #3
DeGeneres
Diller, SI!
Garafalo
Poundstone
Markoe
Boosler
Rudner
Leifer
Leibman
Diane Amos (Pinesol lady)
LaWanda Page
Ah Air Burial, where the bugs crawl throughout and the Eagles and Ravens perch.
aiv
Yea Chaos Theory discussed on Thom’s ….. String and …:banana: :billcat: :pirate: 😎 :pent: :dancers: :fist: :banana:
aiv
Funny, y’all missed the most obvious (IMHO). Or do they have to be living?
Lucy.
Whatever you see on TV (comedy wise, anyway), Lucy did it first.
But, why would anybody give two shits what some dolt from PBS had to say? The only funny shit on PBS is from the BBC. Speaking of which, Catherine Tate, Tracy Ullman….
There were no “good” ones. Not a one. FDR? Japanese internment. Truman? The bomb was only the worst thing he did. Washington? Slave owner and philanderer (lied to Congress about the condition of the troops, too, in order to get more supplies). Lincoln? Would’ve sold out the slaves to preserve the union (plus, he suspended habeas corpus). If a “good” president comes to mind, it only means that you don’t know enough about him.
“spoken honestly” and rarely humble… Bewitched if one is pedestrian (a joke=LBH=:rofl2:)Lara Croft or Johnny Quest Yaaa (HiiiYaaa). AIV
I also forgot Tina Fey, Gilda, all of the women of SCTV
ah…lucy…yes
joan rivers
Although they worked with male partners
Anne Meara
Elaine May
Jane Curtain …. black haired Mrs. Smith (or whoever)
But Jane … am I missing something :doh:?
AIV
:doh: wow “weird”. 🙄 t:joe:
aiv
well, I suppose all of them presidents were pretty foul ultimately. Maybe its the job…who would want it?
It implies some sort of craziness in its enormity really.
But the running theme of the cheneyrummy show is a bit much for me.
We never liked any repugs…And I had a poster of nixon in my room that said ‘would you buy a used ford from this man?’
We hated Nixon almost as much as I hate the Bushies now….it seemed big at the time….what did we know?
It would be interesting to see what Edwards would do as Prez.
couldn’t be worse than what we’ve got….
MSNBC said that Edwards is already polling better than Mccain.
I always wanted to be cremated and sifted out of the snow machine or shot out of the confetti canons at studio 54…ha….as if it would last forever…..
Catherine O’hara and Andera Martin from SCTV. Still alive. Anyone for nominating Moms Mabley (not alive now, far as I know). Carol Burnett? (still alive far as I know).
I saw Elaine Boosler at someplace in the Village in the 1970’s (same place I saw Jose Feliciano, I think). She was good, but my mind is like a sieve when it comes to remembering good jokes. Only thing I remember is her slapping different parts of her body and identifying which fattening dessert was responsible for that particular padding (she didn’t look too well padded to me, even by showbiz anorexic standards, but pants and shirts can conceal a lot.I know it sounds like internalized sexism, but I thought and still think she was early on the wave of white women comediennes (love that Frenchification feminized ending for the females) reacting to all the women’s lib house discussion groups. Long story, and I sense a spate of long-windedness coming on, so I’ll cut this one short. Gotta do some paperwork here in the cubicle, and keep listening to Rashid Khalidi being interviews on Arab Talk on kpoo radio on the computer (between kpoo and wbai and radio4all.net and youtube, and dougdowd.org, and mike malloy’s archives at nova m, there’s plenty of brainier online audio to listen than aar).
Wv, thank you for the semantic correction – I’m bringing the other pie to a New Years’ Eve party, and you have dubbed it. Tofaux cheezecake, I like that! The pralined pecans and instant diabetes frosting certainly help, I think :cake::omg:
Whew! I want to respond to more posts here (just finished reading all of today’s entries), but I’ll wait. :joe: – tea
:cold::cold::cold::cold::crap::crap::eek::eek::crap::yuck::yuck::paranoid::paranoid:
:cold::cold::cold::sheep: le
The blog is malfunctioning this afternoon:eek:
Happy pre-pre-pre New Years’ Eve greetings, all!
Are people’s posts not getting through? What’s the malfunction?
I missed that wv already mentioned “all the women of sctv”; there’s one other sctv woman, but I don’t recall seeing her in the episodes I got to see.
As for the body-after-death thread, I’ve signed that thing on the driver’s license that says I want to give my organs for transplants and/or cadaver for medical research. I don’t have any feeling about having to be cremated or buried. My mom has given me the paperwork for some society she shelled out a bunch of money to, to cremate her and give me the ashes. Then I am too (illegally) dump the ashes over the Golden Gate Bridge. I’ll do it on the bicycle, for a faster getaway (is DHS monitoring this blog? – Hey, just kidding!):eek:
PJ, I like what you said in 74, ditto.
The forecast for Denver for tonight calls for a WINTER STORM WARNING with heavy snow continuing. 7-14″ of snow overnight in the city with 12-24″ along the front range foothills. Lows in the mid teens.
:cold::cold:
:growl::growl::growl:The blog keeps hanging up when you refresh the screen . It displays a blank web page and says done in the status line:growl::growl::growl: .
NBC News: Saddam Hussein to be hanged within 36 hours.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
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Speaking of things getting hung up :yuck:
WSJ: Quake Damages Undersea Cables, Disrupting Internet Service in Asia
By JASON DEAN
December 27, 2006 7:42 p.m.
BEIJING — A big earthquake near Taiwan disrupted phone and Internet traffic across Asia Wednesday, highlighting the fragility of a global telecommunications system that still relies on vulnerable undersea cables to carry data. The magnitude 6.7 temblor that struck late Tuesday off Taiwan’s southern coast cut several fiber-optic cables that carry communications traffic through a key nexus in Asia, connecting Hong Kong and Southeast Asia with Japan and, ultimately, North America.
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International phone service was cut off or restricted in some regions. Internet service slowed to a crawl in much of China, while service to BlackBerries and Bloomberg terminals was temporarily halted in places. Some transactions in currency and other financial markets in the region were disrupted. Companies around the region for the most part said they found ways to work around the disruption. …
Still, the wide scope of the disruption — caused by a single natural disaster with limited physical damage — illustrates how vulnerable the systems are that support the global communications system. Telecom companies said that repairs to the damaged cables could take weeks to complete, although service will improve as companies find alternative ways to deliver service.
Nearly all the data that travels between continents does so over tiny threads of flexible glass, or fiber-optic filaments, that are bundled together and covered in insulation and other protective materials. Companies — usually consortia of telecom carriers that team up to share costs — then stretch these cables across thousands of miles of ocean, to rest on the sea floor or float above it.
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One would think there would be some redundancy ..probably managed by rethugs sooo..noooooo:eek::yuck::crap::rant1:
Dollar Declines; U.A.E. Selling U.S. Currency, Buying Euros
Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) — The dollar dropped the most in more than a week against the euro after the head of the United Arab Emirates central bank said it will convert some of its reserves of U.S. assets into the European currency.
The U.A.E. is among oil exporters including Iran, Venezuela and Indonesia that are looking to shift their reserves into euros or price the commodity in the 12-nation currency. The dollar also declined the most this month versus the yen. The U.S. currency pared some of its losses after government data showed sales of new homes rose more than economists forecast last month.
“The report is hard evidence that diversification is happening,” said Shaun Osborne, chief currency strategist at TD Securities Inc. in Toronto. “This is negative for the dollar in a broad sense as it reflects falling confidence in the currency.”
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The U.A.E. will switch 8 percent of its foreign-exchange reserves from dollars into euros before September, U.A.E. Central Bank Governor Sultan Bin Nasser al-Suwaidi said during a Dec. 24 interview in Abu Dhabi. The U.A.E. has started “in a limited way” to sell part of its dollar reserves, he said. The total value of the U.A.E.’s current reserves is $24.9 billion, 98 percent in dollars and 2 percent in euros, al-Suwaidi said.
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First we see signs of the wealthy elite taking to the boats then the people who loan us that 2 billion a day to keep the pumps running ..:eek::eek:
ny, you may mean Robin Duke but the other two , O’Hara and Martin were excellent. Catherine is a high point in For your Consideration.
Fred, it does not sound as bad as I heard originally but still a snow tsunami if the wind is traveling with it.. Just be wary if you see any unusual ashes in the mix.
Ford was likable enough and could reach across the aisle but too stupid to realize the future ramifications of what he did with the pardon. He would enable the mechanizations that have brought us to where we are today. They learned several lessons from Watergate and VietNam: burn tapes and destroy the evidence, restrict public access to information, lie/feign lack of knowledge or memory, pack the courts for favorable decisions, and if all else fails have your pardons or exemptions in place.. If he had let the system run its course and prosecutions happen, the nation would have survived and a better precedent set. Big surprise was the young Cheney was whispering in his ear. Ford was not bright enough to get it at the time but his interview with Woodward just released and his silence in recent years tell me he may have eventually.
Hmmm, I just thought of another lesson: install a fool tool in the office of president and do anything you want.
hey …here is something silly from my father’s girlfriend (the Camejo relative no less…) on Hillary…its clever at least….
I am behind that Edwards guy…..unless Gore decides to run I think this is where Ill be.
Very, what did you need from Times Select? Was it Bob Herbert on Katrina?….
re #87
If this goes down, it will be a monumental mistake. I would bet Saddam’s biggest ‘weapon’ is what he knows, esp. about what the US has been doing through the years in Iraq and the ME, thus the rush to execute. This will just make him a martyr and hero to many, a status he does not enjoy so much now, but it will silence him. I wonder if he will get any forum for some last words?
Calling Johnny K Street!
Melina, ( I can’t get that Ton Loc song out of my head), his NYT columns from 12/14 to today. Today’s is not about NOLa but JB and Ford but no NYT discards at the gym this morning.
OK Vern…let me know if you need anything more…I sent em all back till the 14th…he also filled in for Krugman apparently.
There are some heavy articles in there…Im glad you pointed them out because Ill have to go back and catch up once I get the bills paid…
and Im so behind in the frank rich , krug, and Dowd that I usually send to the..um…select few….heh heh….
I dont think that the death penalty pays…ever….
And not to mention that we conducted an Americanesque trial in Iraq and now want to hang him so soon in his jail cell…?
Its a little crazy….
They should jusy make him live in a little cell with no outside contact…let him have a TV with cable and books…but otherwise just keep him from any public contact.
He is gonna be one motherfucker of a martyr now….crap….
Engle looks harried and ruffled…I wonder whats going on over there…he needs product!
where is PJ?
Re #87, Amy Goodman reported this morning that in his farewell to the Iraqui people, Saddam Hussein told people they should not hate U.S. citizens, just their leaders. If true, good words.
I’ve been wondering too about the martydom ‘factor’ (hate to sound like one of those sleazoid Sunday morning armchair pundits, but don’t know what else to call it).
Another hour and I’m outta here, off to a meeting, and then four more days of freedom until wage slavery-time starts again.
Goodnight all, be back tomorrow or the weekend. :fire:
Actually, there’s an excellent objective review of Ford’s accidental presidency up at Juan Cole’s site from yesterday [informed comment] if anyone’s interested – his worst sin was birthing Cheney and Rumsfeld, but it was Bush who brought them back to pillage America. They did no lasting harm under Ford. I always thought Bush Sr.’s pardon of himself was far worse than Ford’s pardon of Nixon, as the first one has had lasting consequences, while Ford’s really didn’t.
Sorry to be such an old fart. but even as a kid Gracie Allen always made me laugh [Burns and Allen if you didn’t know.] And someone mentioned [Nichols and] Elaine May before. Andrea Martin is wildly underrated [2nd City TV].
Now Crissy Hitchens; there’s a funny woman. Nobody does a drunk act like that since Foster Brooks, or Tom Waits. :sammy:
How about Imogene Coca, a very funny lady who starred with Sid Caesar. She went on to do many other things and was always very funny.
carol burnette and vicki lawrence
Melina, Carol was mentioned but I don’t think Vicki was :yippee:
aiv
Yes, yes, yes Gracie! And since we are not limiting this to stand up, Mary Tyler Moore.
I am surprised no one has brought up Rusty Warren.
Hey! What about Janeane Garafalo! HELLO!
KP, #70 but I forgot Barr.
I missed yer list Vern!:oops:
Crap! there’ nothing on tv!
I just watched scrubs…I think there is an ER rerun…but I may go with my Attenborough Life of Birds….
Oh God…check the Woot…exactly sorta like what I want…but I want the better one with 100 gigs…eeeekkkkk!!
30 rock is on…since I never watched any of these theyre new to me…;-)
hey-Marc’s possum story is on the video clips page of comedy central….
It was cold this night and day. :cold: But it was great to see Fred’s posts :pirate: :yippee::omg: :yippee: :pirate:
re 110 :rofl2: 😎 :rofl2:
aiv
pj,
Hi, I’m Mrs. Artnorton… he tells me you went to Oswego from 9-80 until 82… I graduated in May 80, stayed there through Aug 80. Then I moved to Colorado. One year I lived in that big white victorian house right on Main Street – that is where the fungus curls hung from the ceiling. Another year I lived near the power plant’s smoke (or whatever they spewed!) stacks. What was that bar near there? The something shack? Anyway… I remember 132 bars in one town. Did you ever do the Bridge Street run? Drinking green beer starting at 8 a.m. on St.Patrick’s Day? Did you ever go to Barney’s? I dated the owner’s son for a while. 🙂
I am read’n (wurk’n) :tongue: 😎 and a lil bit of lurk’n :hubba:
aiv
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Mod Squad vs. Pep Boys
Mod Squad:
1. Obama
2. Hillary
3. Edwards
Pep Boys:
1. McCain
2. Giuliani
3. Romney
But I thought a super-collider was built in mid-west?
PJ, What is new fear and why, please?
{boys and girls with their “toys”:eek:}
AIV