I got nothing. Actually, I have a lot, but I’m afraid to write it, because it’ll just make a big stink. And I wouldn’t want to do that.
I did break down and watch a little of “the convention” last night. Some animatronic-looking guy with a huge chin, and that guy – Barry Switzer or Albert Schweitzer or whatever his name is, with the funny tie – from Montana (kept thinking it was a Polygrip commercial), and the guy Casey who is apparently the kid of another guy named Casey, and I watched Clinton for a while, but by then it was getting late and I didn’t last long (appreciated her wearing the SU orange, though).
None of this political speechifying does much for me anymore. Might sound good, but it’s so far divorced from what they ever actually do, it’s kind of a joke. I think I prefer to read the recap the next day (let’s face it; the only thing that matters is what the media tells us matters).
Right now, I just wish I’d gone to bed earlier.
On your own blog? really?
Yeah, well, damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
On the bright side, I ordered a 1TB hard drive and an eSATA enclosure from Newegg yesterday (going to expand my DVR capacity; a terabyte should get me about 145 hours of HD), it shipped for free, and is going to be here today already. Can’t beat that. And the batteries for me to rebuild the Roomba battery should be here today, too.
Too bad I gotta go to work. Oh well, beats not working.
Hey…somebody Skype me! :knit:
I’m in the land of Skype :pup: :pup: :pup:
Druid doesn’t always comport herself with the utmost dignity we’d all aspire to have. I’d hope that seeing unkempt commentary here on the blog shouldn’t necessarily give enough of a reactionary spark to ignite untethered motion of disdain. It’s pretty easy to skim here, and even easier to ignore.
I have to go down to the basement and find the microphone. Should take a few…
No skype at work, I’m afraid. No microphone, for starters.
Not that I’d be much of a thrill to talk to.
Sorry T no strong connection here…
Yeah if you don’t like what someone says here just ignore it.
Meanwhile eat cake!
5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE…the most dangerous cake recipe in the world.4 tablespoons cake flour or all purpose (plain, no self-rising)4 tablespoons Splenda (you could probably use sugar instead)2 tablespoons baking cocoa1 egg3 tablespoons milk3 tablespoons oil3 tablespoons chocolate chips(optional)A small dash of vanilla1 microwaveable coffee mugAdd dry ingredients to mug, and mix wellAdd the egg and mix thoroughly.Pour in the milk and oil and mix well.Add the chocolate chips and vanilla… and mix again.Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts.The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don’t be alarmed!Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired. EAT!(This can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous).And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world? Becausenow we are all only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time ofthe day or night! :knit:
Check your email :sheep:
Although, calling michelle Obama a whore be there some fightin’ words! I think I may have skimmed that comment, though.
That works in multiple directions. Also, if you’re going to respond to somebody with hate and contempt, it might be nice to actually read what was written and make an effort to comprehend.
And, is it always necessary to shit on somebody else’s good time?
Didn’t we use to have a steaming shit emo?
Or am I getting that confused with the coffee :joe:
One usually leads to the other.
Heh, if calling Michelle a bitch and a whore is okay with everyone, I’m not here trying to set any MStionist’s standards. I certainly wasn’t trying to ignite untethered motions of disdain”
I think one is enough.
I thought somebody responding to…
“So, then you should should vote for McCain, then…. Because that’s your choice, Obama or McCain. Gore is NOT going to run, face it. Your choice is Obama or McCain. That’s it. Or, you can sit it out and that would be a vote for McCain too.”
…with hate and vitriol was uncalled for.
sorry I misinterpreted what was being referred to 😳
As for the Michelle thing, it reminded me of my mother’s mother. I remember her sitting in her recliner in front of the teevee in the 60’s, watching the civil rights stuff, and going, “look at them. They actually think they’re as good as we are.”
Oh, perhaps not for the same reasons, but the same rather inexplicable contempt.
Don’t mind me… I’m on the ugly american tour…
I’ll have to try that cake recipe.
Painting Girl wherever you are
:cake:
:hot: :hot: Whew!!! I declare! It sure got warm in here last night :hot: :hot:
“I’d hope that seeing unkempt commentary here on the blog shouldn’t necessarily give enough of a reactionary spark to ignite untethered motion of disdain.” — :bow: eloquently said, Travis!
Meanwhile, coverage of events in the Mile High City that MSM ignores.
I missed my dressing down last night because I was getting dressed up. :doh:
You haven’t been nice for months now and I don’t know how you’re getting insults from that post. Pray tell, which words constitute an insult? It seems you take offense when anyone disagrees with you. You yell(all caps) and accuse and either misread or misapprehend peoples posts. You’re bordering on trollishness, D6.
Painting Girl the Virgo, Happy Appy Birthday! :cake:
Jill is rockin’ over at Brilliant at Breakfast.
Gee, if she’d been like this during the primaries I might have even supported her
And yep, pj, it is a shame we have to self-edit to preserve peace and harmony. Actually, it sucks. Hopefully La Clinton will recede back into non-issue status here as she pretty much has been in the previous weeks.
Damn, I don’t think I have skyped since cnick was around.
Yesterday, America’s Mayor, Mr. Noun, verb and 9/11, not only went to a terrorism exhibit (what is a terrorism exhibit?) near the Dems but was then interviewed by NY1, the NYC local news channel. I didn’t watch the interview because I cannot stand Rudy, but I read that his rant was that Obama should have chosen Hillary. That is the seed the Rethugs are trying to sow as a way to defeat the Dems.
The Rethugs always amaze me because they have no compunctions about lying. Just look at Corsi. They all know that he’s full of :crap: but they air it anyway in the hope that there are people foolish enough to believe it.
I am also flummoxed by Druid who in all the things she has told us about, she s a person who cares about the environment and those less fortunate and yet she would rather see McGreed do even more damage than settle for someone about whom she has reservations,
If Obama has said he thinks nuclear power should be part of the energy solution, McGreed wants reactors everywhere. If M. Obama didn’t smile at the right places yesterday, Cindy McCain certainly won’t be an improvement.
How about having Rudy for attorney general, and Karl Rove as the political adviser again. I jut don’t get it. How can making things worse be the acceptable alternative to making things at least a little better?
Got kind of a Captain Queeg thing going on.
Hate to link to Politico, but…
OK, Pat, I’ll suggest it. McCain is a shell-shocked narcissist with the beginnings of dementia, if not Alzheimer’s. And he’s got a squirrel nesting in his cheek.
I see your Politico and raise you a FoxNews.
Well, at least he has a pet.
McCain Tops Presidential Hopefuls With Most Pets
McCain v. O’Bama
A cat named Oreo?! :billcat:
Yesterday’s Maron v. Seder VOD
I think li’l ol’ Benny Smith needs an editor. Russia’s relationship [with] Czechoslovaki.
Well, I’m certainly glad it’s not Obama with a cat named Oreo. 🙄 I’d rather have a cat named Kalamazoo, though.
It’s a cheap shot, I know, on Smithy. I Just feel like I’d better pitch-in on some of the slack here on the blog since we may have pissed-off our top poster, who’s reached the ten-thousand mark, enough possibly to never comment again.
Thanks for the :bow: ovation, RG. I’m pretty familiar with his brother, too :rant1:
If anyone is in the mood for some good speechifiyin’, check out Dennis Kucinich from last night. It should be on YouTube by now, but it’s my vacation and I’m too lazy to check. Killer stuff… the room wasn’t full at 6:40 PM EDT, but the people who were there were loving it.
Sounds like I missed quite the dustup last night. Just what Krista was wishing for on her birthday, no doubt.
Speaking of which, HFB PG!
:cake:
Also thought I’d mention that C-Span is running all the speeches throughout the convention, blissfully without commentary. I mostly watched there last night, flipping over to MSNBC only occasionally during a break in the action. Everyone on this blog is educated enough to not need Tweety and Tom Brokaw to take your hand and explain to you their version of what you just heard. Personally I found it a lot more enjoyable.
Not to mention much more informative. Media Matters this morning said that Norah O’Donnell was grousing that there weren’t enough red-meat speeches Tuesday, and that Claire McCaskill would have been an ideal person to give a speech like that.
Well, duh, Norah, SHE DID. But MSNBC didn’t see fit to cover it, and they easily could have because it aired between 7-8 PM Eastern. I remember it because it was right after Maria Cantwell’s speech, and I was still wiping up my drool. :hot: :hot: :hubba:
Seder is checking the sound
Yeah, but CNN was in Hi-Def. What a freakin’ dog and pony show. Very space age and all. For some friggin’ reason, CNN had a sound meter labeled “floor” or something on one side, and no matter where you went, it stayed there. They even kept this kind of frame around the screen with all their lights scrollers and blinky things while they ran commercials in the center. Real bizarro world stuff. Quite fascinating. Warner really fit in with the whole robot thing he has going.
Is that Mark Reilly there with Maddow?
I heard her or somebody mention Riley yesterday or Monday
Yeah, he was in the background behind Sam talking to her for a couple minutes there.
Anybody have, like, sound?
Is Sara Silverman twelve? She sounds like it.
LOGIC: (paraphsing) Hillary is a WHORE! WAS FIRST EXCLAIMED by Randi Rhodes-representing A.A.R. in SF !!!
…then WHORE was constantly used on-air by Stephie the RETHUG-from ‘SC Miller, then A.A.R. online personnel echoed, “Hill is a WHORE”! Then Nova M Joined in the “throwing” of the CRAP by also exclaiming. “Hill is a WHORE!
This Whore calling of Hill continued for DAYS to WEEKS now MONTHS… … go look up — I still have copies of some of the CRAP thrown, back then… not so much now since I care not.
— Now let me repeat this shite aka CRAP since most all seem to have short term memory problems…. and getting stoned is not the problem……eye-roll … read above — truly research … :sheep: pedestrians…
ALL IS OPEN WAR with the word WHORE — UNTIL AN APOLOGY and ONline STOPPAGE of such a DROLL remarks.
You folks could have STOPPED the use of that word, by calling for an IMMEDIATE stopping of calling Hill a whore and even stop using that word — but you all showed where honour is here….naught!
…AND I didn’t say WHORE yesterday until quite after VERNON DID, last night.
I wasted yesterday talking about this CRAP… I am not doing that today … or I hope EVER.
CRAP — now I have SEEN a bit SAID about me = real easy…don’t speak “about” me and I will be thrilled not to EVER check back here.
YOU ALL HAD a “shot” at me to debate……..no one took it, just solely to throw CRAP at me…and to just drone on about NOTHING of importance of the times, especially the continuance of Hill bashing.
Now I have to read if anything must be dealt with. Eye-Roll.
So, you’re a Christian?
LISTEN TO MARC … …and he is being called Bitter :rofl2:
HE IS A CARDINAL … LIBRA LIKE ME …
… & some people “just don’t get him” now it seems …eye-roll
and he is more SOCIAL than I am (NOW.. eye-roll) and not as radical as I was and am… … … so sad the many :sheep: ….
*POOF* (hope)
‘Whore’ is not a word I toss around except quoting. Don’t think it gets bandied about much here on the MS Blog. Maybe you can redirect your invective.
I started about saying in response to WHAT RANDI and Sephanie and NOVA M primarily then about 10 or 11 days AFTER they spoke…
IN …FEBRUARY … repeating F E B R U A R Y !!! Whore first….
B>L> … HOW MANY Bloody Times does this have to be said?
But Vernon, you did say first yesterday, I believe….whatever
AND I DO NOT EAT BEEF or Lamb — I did cycles of trying to STOP Meat in my 20s… — …and in late 20’s & early 30’s I liked…until “I HEARD” and changed eating MEAT to only Org. Chicken,…except SADLY I do still have a Wolf (she’s 3/4)– and FULL WOLVES did not understand and tested me, when I did not “smell of meat”. As Always, Organic Wolf-Dog Kibble (has beef & Lamb & chicken & moreso … but even as a hybrid, she needs meat…the compromise is chicken (AND reminds me of ANOTHER ACTION I have “gently” started to work to make it right for CHICKENS’ Lives…)
Miss the point, change the subject.
Were folks here calling someone (HRC) a whore? Maybe fred? Don’t see Randi or Steph or malloy around here. Redirect your ire.
Calling Michelle O’Bama a ‘whore’ is just undignified and sexist and misogynist and racist and totally uncalled for.
If memory serves, Randi used the word “whore” in her standup “act” and not on the air. AAR got wind of it and used it as an excuse to start the contractual mess that got Randi taken off AAR and her show moved to NovaM.
Most of the time when Randi and Stephanie use the word on their shows nowadays, it is in reference to each other rather than to Hillary or anyone else, for that matter. They are friends who enjoy calling each other nasty names. Yes, it’s juvenile, but Stephanie especially has no problem with her show going juvenile in search of laughs, because it’s a COMEDY show and not a scholarly debate.
Sorry if this puts a crimp in anyone’s victimization complex, but I thought a few facts might be nice. You know, for a change.
LET’S GET IT RIGHT THEN KEVIN!
… RANDI was representing A.A.R. …. in SF …
if she was not an ON-AIR PERSONALITY JUST a mere comic there would not have been a problem, AS MUCH!
WHORE IS A WHORE IS A WHORE… And I Am A Woman and stopped paying and listening to Randi, & Stephanie & even JEFF ( which I DID like) and Malloy and MANY ….. called H. a WHORE
LETS SPEAK TRUTH!
…
An Arch Bishop …… Christians WANT A DIVISION amongst faiths… it Appears!
And MEDIA showed mostly negative shots while Hillary was being nominated … typical tripe
AND first one to NOMINATE OBAMA is a RETHUG, then a rethug-dem out of a WOLF-KILLING STATE Montana!
That TELLS & SHOWS ALL…
Don’t Lie about TRUTHS & I WILL NEVER BE BACK!
*POOF*
Damn, the blog’s turned into a conflagration! :bong:
What did I just type? I can’t remember nothin’.
I misplaced my H key somewhere. Must be with my wallet, where ever that is. My car keys could be over there, too. I better start looking for them before I get all lazy and forget where I am.
New Media Stream Into an Old Tradition
Marshall McLuhan on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfS4HFcPJWU&feature=related
:ear: Pattern Recognition
Who you callin’ a poof? 😀
I think somebody needs a time out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEbZ5omMw_c
Yeah, sorry….I throw too much shit on the blog sometimes :joe:
Oh, no, I didn’t mean you Travis. Time outs are for cranky little babies.
Well, the Roomba battery rebuild seems to have been a success. Had to go out and buy a new soldering iron, though, since the one I had sucks.
So, your dogs don’t try to attack the Roomba? Maybe I should get one and dress it up like a dog to keep Nellie company. :pup:
No, they more or less ignore it, unless it sneaks up behind them. The cats seem blase about it, too, which is too bad because I thought it would terrorize them.
I love it when cats jump straight up in the air when they’re startled. :tongue:
Oh, yeah, it’s amazing the way they can do that. They’re pretty amazing little creatures (the good ones, anyway). Not as god as dogs, of course. I think you could live alone with dogs for years and be OK, but if you live alone with cats, you go kinda nuts.
Message from Mr. Earl
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Why I cannot vote for John McCain
Category: News and Politics
Yes, I respect John McCain’s military record. I’m not questioning his heroic service to our country. That should go without saying. In fact, I ask you, who among us would ever have the moxie to crash 5 jets and kill scores of innocent civilians thousands of feet below while they’re scattering about like ants? That takes the kind of courage and know-how I just don’t have. Watching all those little dots running around on fire must have been thoroughly annoying. Not to mention distracting. But even considering this great service, I cannot in good conscience vote for a man with a prison record. After all, no man is above the law. And that is why I cannot in good conscience vote for John McCain.
So, living with cats explains what is wrong with my head. :billcat:
The Rethug CSpan callers are all talking about how Obama dissed Hillary. One said he should have at least let her speak.
Do they all live with cats?
My cats are all liberals, I checked.
There is so little good economic news these days that we were cheered on Tuesday after the Census Bureau reported that in 2007 the income of the typical American household rose for the third year in a row. We weren’t cheered for long.
A closer look confirms what Americans already know: most families reaped none of the benefits of the previous six years of solid economic growth. Median household income last year was still 0.6 percent less than it was in 2000, when the last economic expansion peaked. Households led by someone 65 or under made an average of $56,545 last year — 3.4 percent less than in 2000.
The census offers the same mirage when it comes to health insurance. While the overall number of uninsured dropped — from 47 million in 2006 to 45.7 million last year — that still left the number of uninsured Americans 7.2 million higher than in 2000. The improvements were entirely attributable to an increase in the number of people enrolled in Medicaid and other public programs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/opinion/27weds2.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin
krisP,
for the record, I received my MoveOn O’Bama bumper sticker today. Now waiting for the button and the O’Bama-Biden sticker.
David Brooks :barf:
I got a bunch of Obama mail yesterday but no sticker. :tap:
5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE…!!!
superb! thanks bluesumpthin’
Happy B’day Painting Girl !
(ah! virgo sign here!)
Biden’s speech was great – not insulting McCain, but slamming his policies. Very emotional night.
Battery dying, gotta go to bed.
Hello, Everyone!
Today’s Maron v. Seder VOD is up and untested!
eya vernon!
making a huge pot of applesauce, canning tomorrow,
SJ, I always remember this time of year. My mother would put up lots of canned stuff, most notably chow chow and bread and butter pickles.