I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Get outta town.
Launderizing dangerously:
The evidence is there. The robins are starting to chow down on the the pyrocantha berries then spend some time digesting while perched in the avocado tree that overhangs the clothslines. Fortunately, they leave before I hang the wash, but it's time to start bringing a couple of wet paper towels to clean up the lines before I hang the wash. Not keen on wearing psiticoccus-laden skivvies.
If I'm not second, it's obviously because of anti-semitism.
Now on to the 2nd Ave. subway.
See -- what did I tell you?
No more Frank Lautenburg/Seacaucus transfers.
Zionist!
Infrastructure I can believe in.
But don't forget to tax the rich.
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LIONS AND TUNNELS AND BEARS... OH MY!
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From below:
I figure that's pretty useless, and so far, nobody can find a use for a bowl of sand. - Barndog
They were called ashtrays.
Despite (or perhaps because of) my father's two wheel experience, my parents were quite adamant thta I was NOT getting a bike.. they didn't trust North American drivers near motorcyclists.
I did have a street bike (a ratty Yamaha XS 650) for a while, though.
The evidence is there. The robins are starting to chow down on the the pyrocantha berries then spend some time digesting while perched in the avocado tree that overhangs the clothslines.
It's interesting how Robins seem to flock up in winter and invade berry bushes of one sort or another as a group.
Why don't they just fly south?
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atrios is just jealous i'll be having spanking-related sex activities instead of freezing my arse off at the inaug festivities, natch. that's why he keeps dtd me.
I figure that's pretty useless, and so far, nobody can find a use for a bowl of sand.
Barndog,
pound it up Cheney's ass with a hammer?
Barca just scored a beautiful goal.
Then the shop called and asked her when was the last time the oil was changed. Turned out she'd only done it once, because she was convinced it was a scam to make the dealership money.
Yep, just like brakes...
all a scam.
My 'puter won't let me see Curly. 
I wonder if there's an existing tunnel that connects Penn Station to the subway/PATH station at Sixth Avenue (a/k/a "Avenue of the Americas"), b/c if not, THAT would be a major infrastructure project in itself.
psiticoccus!
I have no idea what that is.
K-Lo
At some point last month, I wrote somewhere about George W. Bush as a bit of a St. Joseph—a loving, protector.
And a deadthread coke to JP servant of LE&C.
Why don't they just fly south?
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Agent Orange
They hate going through Homeland Security
Gromit! The package arrived! Thank you.
Ali
Yay, and you're welcome!
Willendorf Venus: My 'puter won't let me see Curly.
Did you try refreshing 60-80 times?
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Oh, K-Lo. Will you ever learn to love again?
George W. Bush as a bit of a St. Joseph—a loving, protector.
P O'Neill
Braaapbarf.
George W. Bush as a bit of a St. Joseph—a loving, protector.
P O'Neill
Oh. My. Gawd.
Ali,
What it is, is probably misspelled, and a nasty pathogen often carried around in bird poop.
First they came for the bowls of sand,
then for the cans of water,
then I knew -
only teh sink was safe.
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George W. Bush as a bit of a St. Joseph—a loving, protector.
P O'Neill
Braaapbarf.
Willendorf Venus |
George Bush more as a need for a jar of St. Joseph baby aspirins.
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George W. Bush as a bit of a St. Joseph—a loving, protector
In case you haven't noticed, these people aren't actually in the same universe as reality.
man, don't listen to callers on cspan very often, but it sure seems like at least 1/4 th of the callers are certifiable loons.
The Season Of Drunken Robins.
Because I'm feeling juvenile:
So long Bush and Cheney, you cocks!.
and on topic: $9B? um. ok. i'm sorry to be a bitter flatlander and all that, but i can't help but wonder what nine billion dollars could buy out here in the newly non-automotive industry flatland of MI, in which there is NO public transportation supertrain to speak of, even in our most densely populated areas. nevermind, i guess we "deserve" it. but really, it's not like it's "that hard" to get around right now as is, in the NY/NJ area. i guess you all are more important, or something.
man, don't listen to callers on cspan very often, but it sure seems like at least 1/4 th of the callers are certifiable loons.
jdw
Whadya mean "the callers"? Look at Washington Journal.
Why doesn't Atrios blog about Myoscolex being reclassified as an Opabinid?
The Season Of Drunken Robins.
plantsman |
Actually it's the ripe berries on my junipers that cause 'gin soaked' robins.
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it's not like it's "that hard" to get around right now as is, in the NY/NJ area.
/falls off chair laughing
K-Lo should take a swan dive into a deep, empty pool.
The cspan callers have to be insane. There's no way there are that many drunk people so early in the morning.
Actually it's the ripe berries on my junipers that cause 'gin soaked' robins.
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Agent Orange
Share the recipe?
In Phoenix, it was fermented pyracantha berries, and no picture window was safe.
the ripe berries on my junipers
Good for backache. I found out by drinking gin but the berries work too.
SUPERTRAINS!!!1!!
at least 1/4 th of the callers are certifiable loons
Sounds about right. 22% polled approve of the job done them by the worst motherfucker ever.
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George W. Bush as a bit of a St. Joseph—a loving, protector.
P O'Neill
The New York Times has a different take.
The Season Of Drunken Robins. - plantsman
Doesn't happen that often. Gotta get the right combination of rain, sun, and overripeness for a real berry baccanal.
But when it happens, hoooo boy.
Sounds about right. 22% polled approve of the job done them by the worst motherfucker ever.
There was a cartoon in the Thatcher years, Britain as a schoolboy and Maggie applying the cane. The caption was, "Please don't stop".
Sheesh, what's the deal with jalapenos these days? I'm like eating this enchiladas and I can't take it anymore. Fuck, I like jalapenos for cooking because of the taste, not especially the HEAT. If I wanted the heat without the peppery taste, I would have gotten cheyenne pepper's heat, instead. Is it just me or have jalapenos gotten almost unable to eat anymore because of the pepper heat? It's like, all the Mexican farmers got together and said, "yeah yeah, these are from the very hottest we have."
Because I'm feeling juvenile:
Me, too.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT! We won the election! We control both houses of congress! BHO won freaking Indiana! GWB is three days away from unemployment! Condi Rice is three days away from obscurity! Sarah Palin is the future of the GOP! And the next president is a black guy! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!
I have the same reaction to most brands of "chipotles en adobo."
Virginia and North Carolina turned BLUE!
But when it happens, hoooo boy.
bo | M
You're right! Hollies too. My neighbor has a 30 foot holly that's always red with berries this time of year. Suddenly I come home one day and the berries are all gone. I ask my neighbor and he says - robins!
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Okay, I'm outta here.
Talk to all you fine folks much later this evening.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!
I get the feeling it's all gonna hit me around noon on Tuesday. It might even get a little dusty in the office at that point.
Lots of frozen/booze-fueled revelry and reminiscing with some of my New Hampshire political peeps last night, tho. I even used one of Simels' jokes and got a laugh.
Say! Has anybody noticed that this young man of color is going to be made President of the United States in a couple days? Interesting!
plantsman: Virginia and North Carolina turned BLUE!
I made a few hundred calls to NC voters.
I like that.
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Virginia and North Carolina turned BLUE!
Goddamn if that doesn't make me want to climb onto the roof and yell every time I read that. NC in 2004 was not a happy place. 2008 really makes up for bad times, at least on that score.
I admit, Kay Hagen unseating Liddy Dole (especially after the "There Is No God!" crap), warmed my heart
"Actually it's the ripe berries on my junipers that cause 'gin soaked' robins."
oh sure, that's what they *say*.
but my guess is that robins go to secret 'robin bars' where they imbibe in all manner of intoxicating liquors.
(didn't you ever wonder why 'thrush' sounds almost like 'lush'?)
Liddy was sitting front and center for Bush's delusional goodbye speech on Thursday. LOL.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT! Liddy Dole got bounced! Ted Stevens got bounced. Norm Coleman got bounced! Al Franken is a senator! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!
Liddy was sitting front and center for Bush's delusional goodbye speech on Thursday. LOL.
LIddy and Jocelyn Wildenstein are sharing a (bad) plastic surgeon.
Gordon Smith outtathere!
whoo hoooooooooo!
No, the attendant diarrhea makes it clear it's the berries.
Doesn't happen that often. Gotta get the right combination of rain, sun, and overripeness for a real berry baccanal.
Does here. Just about this time, on the front yards of houses throughout North Central, drunken robins cover their ears and stagger off to throw up in the tall grass. Funny!
Well, there isn't a god.
drunken robins cover their ears and stagger off to throw up in the tall grass.
I think I saw the Hungover Robins open up for Wilco a few years ago.
I was laid by a gin soaked robin queen in Memphis
The bonks on big windows as robins fly into them resound in my mind.
/falls off chair laughing
res ipsa loquitur
forgive me, but you Bold Eastern types are really spoiled. yes, i've been to london, princeton (NJ), big apple, DC. london is the best, so clearly, all money we have must be spent on eastern US corridors which already have lots and lots of trains. those shiftless former automaking people in the midst of a depression that's been running for several years already, in which millions are very soon going to be unemployed, and there is no meaningful transportation b/w soon to be unused industrial sites like detroit, it's suburbs, toledo, and in which tens of millions live? feh. fuggedaboudit. i mean, it's not like any of that industrial capacity should be used for union grade manufacturing jobs. better to let them starve, and it rust. /deep snark, dear one/
On election night, Tom Edsall wrote at HuffPo: "If Obama carries either Georgia or Indiana, look for a big Democratic night all around. If he carries both (along with Virginia), Republicans should consider turning on the gas and closing the windows."
We'll have to take Georgia next time.
"Just about this time, on the front yards of houses throughout North Central, drunken robins cover their ears and stagger off to throw up in the tall grass. Funny!"
they really should consider some booze busses for them. flying while drunk is very dangerous.
Good afternoon....
I think I'm going to watch the inauguration on Fux News. Hopefully, they'll be doing live blogging with the messages scrolling at the bottom of the screen. I'm just going to keep typing "Fuck You, Sean Hannity!" a 1000 times until the asshole intern filtering the messages screws up and let's one through. Then I'm going to post the clip to every website in the world.
I can dream, can't I....
Thank Jeebus the reign of terror is finally over.
forgive me, but you Bold Eastern types are really spoiled.
/still laughing, tummy in knots now
(didn't you ever wonder why 'thrush' sounds almost like 'lush'?)
jdw | 01.17.09 - 2:55 pm |
And what about a 'tit'mouse?
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Whether there is or isn't a god is immaterial; LIddy Dole recorded a woman who sounded like Kay Hagen, but was not, saying that. Voters hated it.
Nix pix of Obama SUPERTRAIN at HuffPo.
Agent O.,
We've got a holly tree, too. (looks pathetic this year.) When my grandmother was alive, the berry crop was prodigious one year. My aunt was witness to the frantic and futile efforts of my grand mother to save it when a hoard of robins descended on it. For a few minutes, it was a spectular tree of fluttering wings, with the this old woman going about it flailing and crying "shoo! shoo!". In minutes, raiders had bared the tree and left.
/deep snark, dear one/
Let us be thankful that we are about to swear in a gov't that can walk and chew gum, etc.
they really should consider some booze busses for them. flying while drunk is very dangerous.
You gotta be where the pyrecantha iz, mang....
here come da train!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the train stop crowds sang "Happy Birthday" to Michelle. That's very cute.
The next to last pic, of Michelle Obama, is particularly nice.
I admit, Kay Hagen unseating Liddy Dole (especially after the "There Is No God!" crap), warmed my heart
plantsman |
ah, yes. now that's a happy thought i need to revisit. /basks in the pleasing warmth of the FSM's love/
One of the train stop crowds sang "Happy Birthday" to Michelle. That's very cute.
Jay C., left of the dial
You want cute? Check this.
And what about a 'tit'mouse?
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Agent Orange | 01.17.09 - 3:00 pm | #
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Just what it says. It's a mouse with only one tit.
In minutes, raiders had bared the tree and left.
bo | 01.17.09 - 3:00 pm | #
You ain't seen a bird berry raid until you've seen European starlings envelop cedar bushes. It's nothing but bird until all the berries are gone.
Little wonder our native cedar waxwing population is going down.
In minutes, raiders had bared the tree and left.
bo | 01.17.09 - 3:00 pm |
That perfectly describes how I've seen robins pluck a holly tree clean in 15 minutes. The tree limbs are vibrating with robins everywhere.
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The election of Kay Hagan was god's way of telling Liddy Dole to go to hell.
This train thing is making me cry. I can't believe we will soon have a sane, intelligent president.
ChiDyke, NYC & the entire East Coast is in desperate need of infrastructure overhaul. Not much has been invested in the past thirty-fifty years. Considering how much NYC sends in taxes to both the state government and the feds, it's really not unreasonable for some of it to come back.
The gop was scared and desperate. They went all out to terrify voters, and it was an epic fail. The country made a LOT of progress this election. It's stunning when you think about it.
I'm going to be giddy and giggly all day Tuesday. :D
Meaning: the mouse is so small, it only has one tit, whether it's male or female.
People along the train route are whooping and hollering like crazy!
Braking: another man becomes preznit /bahumbug
i'm getting all verklampt watching the train.
Is anyone else choked up, or am I just being silly?
This is truly something else.
Little wonder our native cedar waxwing population is going down.
Gindy | 01.17.09 - 3:02 pm | #
I only ever hear it once or twice a year but the collective warbling of a passing flock of cedar waxwings in my Black Walnut trees is just a wonderful sound of nature.
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Thank you, ql. I couldn't breathe I was laughing so hard.
Meaning: the mouse is so small, it only has one tit, whether it's male or female.
May I suggest Gaylord Focker's excellent book on the proper methods for milking a mouse.
i'm getting all verklampt watching the train.
rootless-e,
Good, then I don't feel so crazy.
The gop was scared and desperate. They went all out to terrify voters, and it was an epic fail.
And the lesson? They need to be even crazier next time!
/flies away on LOLlercopter.
res, i invite you to take public transportation to come out and visit me, and my place of work, and go to the factories to see where union workers will be fired from, shortly.
oh, that's right. you can't. not unless you want to spend 1/2 your day getting to all those places, while standing in the cold, waiting hours between cnx and paying more than you'd make working there to get to them. now, why don't i think i'd have the same problem if i were in NYC, visiting your home, workplace, and center of your local economy? i bet i could even do all three of those in less than a few hours. like the last time i was in NYC/NJ area, and parked my car in princeton NJ and didn't move it until it was time for me to come home.
No, Vicki; the Magic has returned.
Just turned on CNN. OMG, this is fabulous! I'm getting giddy already!
Considering how much NYC sends in taxes to both the state government and the feds, it's really not unreasonable for some of it to come back.
Michigan sends more than we get in return, as well.
This is exciting. Train festivities and college basketball to watch.
Have a nice afternoon you "real wackjobs" you.
Gindy,
The huge flights of starlings up in Oregon are enough to make Hitchcock's "The Birds" very credible.
last feed was great!
people chanting 'yes we did' and 'no more bush'.
i'm getting all verklampt watching the train.
rootless-e, ur peasant
Now if they could just tie Shrub and Dick to the tracks.......
May I suggest Gaylord Focker's excellent book on the proper methods for milking a mouse.
macacawitz | 01.17.09 - 3:05 pm | #
I'd prefer your experience and Clifford Notes.
Chic Dyke,
What does that the fact that you NEED SUPERTRAINS have to do with the fact that MY SUPERTRAINS need fixing/expansion?
Why are you making it an either/or proposition?
With all due respect, you don't live here and I don't think you have much an idea of how hard it is to get around here on a day to day basis. The tourist experience is quite different from that of the locals.
Now if they could just tie Shrub and Dick to the tracks.......
macacawitz | 01.17.09 - 3:08 pm | #
Thanks God someone is keeping a practical head in this situation.
"Good, then I don't feel so crazy."
i'm recording all this.
i am a dork.
people chanting 'yes we did' and 'no more bush'.
jdw
Oh, now that is very fucking cool.
OMFG!
The Cylon/giraffe hybrid is BACK!!!
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"With all due respect, you don't live here and I don't think you have much an idea of how hard it is to get around here on a day to day basis."
i love my car, and my little house in my little suburb.
Deep Thought: This time 4 years ago, the media thought the Black Tie and Boots inaugural ball was cool.
Scooters also rawk. Y'all.
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i'm recording all this.
i am a dork.
jdw
Could I possibly buy a copy from you when it's all said and done?
I have to work on Tuesday, and since I've taken so many days off so far this year due to "the crud," I can't take the day off.
This whole thing is, as I'm sure it is to you, very meaningful to me, for so many reasons.
What a wonderful tribute to george bush and his presidency
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K...l.blogspot.com/
"people chanting 'yes we did' and 'no more bush'."
Returning from an extended vacation in which many Pina Coladas were consumed, the United States is back at it's desk and working on the business of the people.
Considering how much NYC sends in taxes to both the state government and the feds, it's really not unreasonable for some of it to come back.
ql |
i understand this, actually. i endorse big money for improving all eastern corridor areas/public transportation options. but you know, we don't have *anything* approaching what you have out there, and it's sort of like when i have to listen to my rich, upper class suburb sister bitch about the "totally run down parks" in her 'hood. you know, the ones littered with flowering cultivars and attached to miles of unspoilt riverside beauty that the residents who live near by ride their horses over, on the way to the state sponsored polo-field. yeah, you all have got it "so bad." meanwhile, recalling one of Moore's early films, the mom of that kid who shot that kid in Flint who's on welfare has to ride 4 hours each way to her state mandated "job" in order to receive her welfare benes.
i'm not wholly inexperienced with life in eastern cities. it really is much, much better there. and while looser flatland states like MI pay less to the southern state welfare program than Wall St states like NY, we still pay "out." anyway, i hope someone above is right and the Obama admin can 'walk and chew gum' at the same time on this issue, and won't make us fight like starving dogs over a tiny pie.
[passes macacawitz tow generous length of rope.]
Here, I bought this for the 'Thuglicans of the CA lege, but I'm sure I can spare some for a good cause.
Boy, the water's cold and it's deep too. What every home needs.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3...c405da5.jpg?
v=0
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The Season Of Drunken Robins.
plantsman |
Actually it's the ripe berries on my junipers that cause 'gin soaked' robins.
As a kid in Alberta we had a mountain ash tree in the backyard which had its berries fermenting all winter. When the birds ate some they got the full bacchanalian experience. Heck, I remember one bird even flew into the garage...it lived
I was laid by a gin soaked robin queen in Memphis
Blue egg
I've always operated under the assumption that it was a gin soaked bar stool queen in Memphis, it was a gay bar, and the barstool was upside down.
i hope someone above is right and the Obama admin can 'walk and chew
gum' at the same time on this issue, and won't make us fight like
starving dogs over a tiny pie.
AMEN!
when I took Seymour Melman's class at Columbia in 1976, he pointed out to us how pathetic it was that NYC still had steel wheeled subway trains. Amazing that in 30 years, the NYC subways have only gotten more and more behind the times.
Vicki, it will be aired on radio and there's more with that the radio brings to the 'imagination of the mind.' You can see video later recorded everywhere.
I may or may not listen.
Obama going to DC is really surreal - hard to believe its actually happening.
Atta seems to have found the ultimate commentary on the Bush years. Via WT.
http://www.dependablerenegade.co...h-
memorial.html
The Trans Hudson Express Tunnel, known as THE Tunnel received a Record of Decision (ROD) last week. This is an environmental hurdle that has nothing to do with funding other than no one will give you any without one. So the ROD doesn't give the project any money, but it does make it viable to be on Obama's infrastructure list and puts in the "shovel ready" status.
BTW, the ROD for THE Tunnel took 5 years to get. By comparison in 1902 they started work on the IRT subway system in New York and in 1904 they were running trains from the Bronx to the lower end of Manhattan - 2 years start to finish.
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Sitting here in Vermont, I am very happy to support major transportation projects in both Michigan and NYC/NJ.
We do need special support for places like Michigan where people have been screwed for a long time. Some sort of a national manufacturing project for green energy and transportation, methinks.
What's with all the goofy hats on CNN?
Incog, I can't listen at work, sadly.
I did schedule "Obama's Inauguration" on my calendar, though. I just wanted to remind people it was happening.
Seymour Melman's class at Columbia in 1976, he pointed out to us how pathetic it was that NYC still had steel wheeled subway trains.
I'm missing something. What's the alternative???
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Sitting here in Vermont, I am very happy to support major transportation projects in both Michigan and NYC/NJ.
I like the way you think. All inclusive: that's good.
Amazing that in 30 years, the NYC subways have only gotten more and more behind the times.
This morning I saw a stalactite and stalagmite in my station.
What does that the fact that you NEED SUPERTRAINS have to do with the fact that MY SUPERTRAINS need fixing/expansion?
your initial response to my initial post was "falls off chair laughing" (and if i don't know from NYC, well, i could suggest the reverse is true for you, dear) and so far, i'm not really familiar with any proposals to install a SUPERTRAIN in the tri-county corridor in which tens of millions live and will shortly be unemployed, nor have heard anyone proposing such. other than our gov, who is mocked and derided daily by both federal officials and the republicans that more or less control the budget of this state, even while in a minority. i sincerely hope i'm wrong, and there are plans to bring "Big Rail" here. if i've missed that, i'll happily take a link and shut up. until then, know that people like me are forced to be dependent on cars and long drives just to get to the few jobs that still do exist here. but like i said, perhaps the Obama admin can "do both," and make us both happy at the same time.
I'm missing something. What's the alternative???
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Agent Orange
Didn't you learn in sex ed never to travel without your rubbers.
Sitting here in Vermont, I am very happy to support major transportation projects in both Michigan and NYC/NJ.
I really don't understand why it's either/or.
It will be recorded everywhere for posterity.
IIRC, the last time they did composite wheels on a train a lot of people died.
SUPERTUNNELS!
"Oh, now that is very fucking cool."
cspan.org has a live feed from a handheld camera on the train.
i'm concluding that living next to the tracks isn't highly desireable, and that what we see in terms of people at the stops is small compared to people lined up elsewhere to wave.
Didn't you learn in sex ed never to travel without your rubbers.
macacawitz |
So galoshes was a form of code language? What a dope I was!
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I'm missing something. What's the alternative???
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Agent Orange | 01.17.09 - 3:17 pm | #
Paris adopted rubber tires in 1949 - so you don't get the bloodcurdling screeches.
Have had two flocks of wild turkeys roosting directly behind the house. The decks & car are heavily splattered with large droppings.
Atta seems to have found the ultimate commentary on the Bush years. Via WT.
Installing at least one of those in every public restroom is an infrastructure project most worthy of consideration.
It will give Bush the proper legacy that will live well beyond him. No longer will a guy say, "I gotta see a man about a horse". The phrase will be, "I gotta go share my beer with George."
Paul Blart should win an academy award for his portrayal of a Mall Cop.
This morning I saw a stalactite and stalagmite in my station.
res ipsa loquitur
You have a Station? Lucky!
I live 50 miles from Philly, and for at least 2 decades people have talked about extending Septa out to us. And talked. And Talked.
Everything needs fixing and upgrading everywhere. If only regional squabbling can be held down, hopefully some of it will get done.
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BushCo Drops All Charges against Andy Card’s Cousin
By: emptywheel Saturday January 17, 2009 11:53 am 10
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digg it
Just five days before the end of his term, Bush's DOJ has dropped all charges against Andy Card's cousin--Susan Lindauer--whom they had accused of being an unregistered agent for Saddam Hussein's Iraq. By dropping the charges at this time, the Administration:
Prevents Lindauer from proving at a trial that she was an intelligence asset working on behalf of the United States (though she says she'll sue for damages)
Declines to try to prove that she was working on behalf of Saddam--and not the US--when she warned against invading Iraq
Succeeds in preventing embarrassing information (both because of the link to Card, and because it included solid warnings against Iraq) from coming out while Bush was still in office
Basically, this appears to be a story about an intelligence op that got too emarrassing, so the Administration first accused Lindauer of working for Saddam, and then, when she talked about her ties to US intelligence, they accused her of being crazy and got her committed. And now, they are attempting to avoid a public trial in which she could prove her case."
http://firedoglake.com/
rootless,
How do rubber tires become orphans?
in 1902 they started work on the IRT subway system in New York and in 1904 they were running trains from the Bronx to the lower end of Manhattan - 2 years start to finish.
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pluege |
And they're still using some of the same switches. Or nearly so. It's like the built it and have pretty much ignored it ever since. Sorry MI doesn't have more transit that is not based on the automobile, but I don't run MI and have never had any say in what should or should not be funded. It's kind of hard for me to get het up about it. One state decided to invest in mass transit, another didn't. Fifty years from now the positions may well be reversed.
And btw, the roads in NYC suck, big time.
Some subways, like Montreal and DC, have rubber tires, which makes both the ride and the arrival at the platform a lot easier on the ears and psyche.
Chic Dyke,
I'm laughing at you suggesting that it's not that hard to get around here. It's a gigantic pain in the ass and it's getting worse every day. On top of that it's about to cost a lot more.
I don't care if you want SUPERTRAINS. If you want them, have them. If you need them, get the money from the feds. But to suggestion "NY already has! doesn't cute the mustard when millions of peole here are already dependent on the things to get around.
"Could I possibly buy a copy from you when it's all said and done?"
freebie. be happy to.
Paris adopted rubber tires in 1949 - so you don't get the bloodcurdling screeches.
rootless-e, ur peasant |
Thanks. You ain't heard nuthin' until you've heard the Broad St. subway in Philly make the turn around City Hall.
It's like Godzilla in Sensurround!
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There's serious talk of high-speed rail between the Twin Cities and Chicago (with stops in Madison and Milwaukee).
House Transportation committee chair is Jim Oberstar, from Northern MN. He's pretty jazzed about rail.
This morning I saw a stalactite and stalagmite in my station.
res ipsa loquitur |
lol. but what about the carnivorous insect-humanoid hybrids? my fav line from that movie: "mr. funnyshoes."
biggest rat i ever saw was in chicago, tho. and i did manage to see some whoppers in no. m'tan while there. i think there's less radiation, or something, in chicago, so they can get bigger.
IIRC there was a plausible explanation as to why there isn't public transportation in Michigan due to GM decisions back in the 20's or 30's (so people would have to buy their own cars...)
Paris adopted rubber tires in 1949 - so you don't get the bloodcurdling screeches.
rootless-e, ur peasant
There is one station here -- one -- that installed this experimental ceiling material to absorb the sound. It works, too.
(It's the 49th Street N/R stop.)
You think the roads don't suck in Michigan? Seriously. Pot hole hell here.
Chicago Dyke said it upthread, and she's absolutely correct: Our governor gets fucked every way but upside down by the Republican controlled congress here. She has been treated so very poorly, despite the fact that she's bright, capable, and optimistic.
This state's politics are an embarrassment.
Oops. Forgot to mention that was in Fast Food Nation book.
IIRC there was a plausible explanation as to why there isn't public transportation in Michigan due to GM decisions back in the 20's or 30's (so people would have to buy their own cars...)
footloose | 01.17.09 - 3:23 pm | #
As late as the 1950s, you could go by tram/rail from small towns in the midwest to NYC, Chicago, Cleveland very easily.
If there is any place that could use high speed rail it is Texas. Houston, Dalls, San Antonio, Dallas, Lubbock, El Paso and onwards.
Oops, said Dallas twice.
lol. but what about the carnivorous insect-humanoid hybrids?
I'm serious about the stalactite/stalagmite.
The CI-HHs are there, too, in the form of them commuters from Long Island and NJ.
TOW, do you have to work Tues? i'm gonna take it off
BushCo Drops All Charges against Andy Card’s Cousin
Why am I not surprised?
Chicago Dyke said it upthread, and she's absolutely correct: Our governor gets fucked every way but upside down by the Republican controlled congress here. She has been treated so very poorly, despite the fact that she's bright, capable, and optimistic.
This state's politics are an embarrassment.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 01.17.09 - 3:23 pm | #
One of my classmates back in the 1970s went on to do civil engineering on the theory that "they can't postpone modernizing the trains and subways much longer". Wonder what happened to her.
It was an enlightening experience riding the Paris metro for the first time. There were vending machines selling rubbers....on the platform.....not selling rubbers along with a host of other things....just rubbers. I took an immediate liking to the Paris Metro.
And if you want to "win' the "We have bigger rats" war I will surrender to you, b/c I try not to look at those things. They give me the creeps.
Sitting here in Vermont, I am very happy to support major transportation projects in both Michigan and NYC/NJ.
Me too, in Arizona. It should be pointed out tho, that while about 25% of the Light Rail was paid for out of Federal funds, the remainder came from self-taxation in the City o' Phoenix - and the next expansion, which starts in a few months, is being paid for entirely out of City, County and State monies.
Didn't GM buy up a bunch of street car companies around the country in the 50s? I know they did it here.
The metro trains in Montreal also have rubber tires, and the passengers wear rubbers on their feet because the weather sucks most of the year. They're always trying to emulate the Parisians, but not quite able to pull it off.
As late as the 1950s, you could go by tram/rail from small towns in the midwest to NYC, Chicago, Cleveland very easily.
Very sad that we have so far to go to get back to where we were during the Depression.
chicago dyke, Bridges, Chicago needs about 375 new ones. The rail system looks like an old coaster at some old amusement park, scary.
Pa. is in dire need of Bridges,.
NYC will be underwater in ten years and they need a few bridges also. Every state in the union needs infrastructure badly. Fuck Trains.
Installing at least one of those in every public restroom is an infrastructure project most worthy of consideration.
I dunno, there could be a problem with your penis retracting into your body as you approached it.
Oops, said Dallas twice.
Ekcentrik, I hope Texas (and AZ) has its collective eye trained on the brand new, old, rail between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, that went into business mid-December. That sixty mile trip is the major road trip in NM, and the tracks were just waiting.
Noise level of an SF cable car can be pretty impressive on the right angle turns. Not only is there the screech, sounds like every thing is going to fall apart becuase the car is freewheeling around the turn. gripman has to let go of one cable before the turn, then catch the other after the car's around the bend.
you can see the structural problem of state reform nationwide by looking at the career of that asshole sheldon silver who will never be dislodged from power as long as he dribbles a pittance back into his district.
i've also concluded from the traincam that obama can employ a shitload of people just to pick up trash along this amtrack route.
shame, america.
The metro trains in Montreal also have rubber tires, and the passengers wear rubbers on their feet because the weather sucks most of the year. They're always trying to emulate the Parisians, but not quite able to pull it off.
Are you implying that poutine and smoked meat sammiches do not measure up to Parisian cuisine?
Yes, ErinPDX, I have to work. If I called in sick they'd be suspicious. Probably.
AndyMN, shovel-ready
Yes, I remember that specifically. Downtown Detroit still has the old rails. Kids here don't know what the hell they're for though.
BushCo Drops All Charges against Andy Card’s Cousin
Why am I not surprised?
TOW-has coffee | 01.17.09 - 3:25 pm | #
I will be so glad to see these facist fucks out of office
Didn't GM buy up a bunch of street car companies around the country in the 50s? I know they did it here.
Big Red Rail Line, in Los Angeles - from the ocean straight into downtown. The tracks are still there in many parts of the line, buried under macadam and asphalt.
This state's politics are an embarrassment. - Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Want to trade Legislatures?
NYC will be underwater in ten years and they need a few bridges also.
Spoken like a man who's driven over the Williamsburg in a snowstorm. (Fucking scary)
None of this is going to happen, you stupid self-centered sons of bitches.
You want cute? Check this.
Don't know where #4 got the glasses from but that's the cutest.
but really, it's not like it's "that hard" to get around right now as is, in the NY/NJ area. i guess you all are more important, or something.
NY/NJ is more than just the five boroughs of New York City. Upstate New York has no more mass transit or jobs available to its inhabitants than do parts of Michigan.
Are you implying that poutine and smoked meat sammiches do not measure up to Parisian cuisine?
Gromit
I understand the cafes on the Champs Elysee have begun to sell Pepsi and Mae West.
I have this picture hanging in my living room. It's the Selby Ave. tunnel (now buried on that end) near the Cathedral of St. Paul.
great crowd in baltimore...gospel choir keeping the crowd jammin.
Don't know where #4 got the glasses from but that's the cutest.
HoneyBearKelly
I know! That kid is very talented.
Tax money for tax cheats.
It's hard to otherwise describe the continuing federal bailouts that major US companies are enjoying in this woeful era of fiscal disaster, especially when--as a scandalous new report reveals--many of the key players aren't paying taxes.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress' investigative watchdog, has found that "a majority of America's largest publicly traded companies and the U.S. government's largest federal contractors use multiple subsidiaries in offshore tax havens to conduct business and avoid paying U.S. taxes," writes Carol D. Leonnig for The Washington Post.
The culprits include some corporate giants who are receiving countless millions in bailout money, Leonnig notes.
Democratic Sens. Byron Dorgan and Carl Levin, who released the report, say that companies such as Citigroup and Morgan Stanley have set up "hundreds of tax haven subsidiaries" in such inconspicuous nations as Luxembourg, Mauritius and the Cayman Islands.
Our taxes for their tax shelters.
Must go plant the pansies and the stock.
It's 73F. 
Do teh Iggles know how to play in the sun?
I've switched to MSNBC. Less offensive headwear.
But to suggestion "NY already has! doesn't cute the mustard when millions of peole here are already dependent on the things to get around.
And people who work for minimum wage and ride mass transit in the boroughs are going to have it rough when the fares are raised again.
Hudson tunnel!!
fucking A!! that's awesome
and it will provide a wonder conduit for all the zombies
If you want scary take that NJ Transit train to Perth Amboy and points south.
Damn, still only 18°, it was supposed to go up to 20° today.
I love trains
trains are awesome
If you want scary take that NJ Transit train to Perth Amboy and points south.
Oh yeah.
"If you want scary take that NJ Transit train to Perth Amboy and points south."
got a friend that takes it from there into nyc every day.
obama/biden are the first representatives of the industrial north to take power since FDR.
Amazing.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress' investigative watchdog, has found that "a majority of America's largest publicly traded companies and the U.S. government's largest federal contractors use multiple subsidiaries in offshore tax havens to conduct business and avoid paying U.S. taxes," writes Carol D. Leonnig for The Washington Post.
Financial press broke that story several years ago.
And people who work for minimum wage and ride mass transit in the boroughs are going to have it rough when the fares are raised again.
HBK and I were just discussing this last night.
On another note, how does fuckface Schwarzenegger expect welfare recipients in California to EAT after February 1st? Is he TRYING to provoke a revolution? Asshat.
I wish we had a decent train system.
We have what I guess you'd call a "dead spur" near HCA's HQ. The tracks cross Charlotte Ave., and go off on either side to fenced-in properties.
Yet because of state law, all buses have to stop there, both directions.
.
MSNBC chatted with the crowd already gathered on the Mall. People from all over the country, a man from Tanzania, a guy from Poland, all totally blissed out.
HBK,
I bet some dude that kid looks up to wear glasses and so she thinks all the cool guys wear glasses.
That's my theory, anyway.
Last time I was out east, I took the PATH into the city and got off at the WTC station. It was weird looking up and seeing the outside.
On another note, how does fuckface Schwarzenegger expect welfare recipients in California to EAT after February 1st? Is he TRYING to provoke a revolution? Asshat.
The crazy thing is that all those big mansions in California?
the taxes on those things are crazy low. No wonder the state is out of money.
On another note, how does fuckface Schwarzenegger expect welfare recipients in California to EAT after February 1st? Is he TRYING to provoke a revolution? Asshat.
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 3:36 pm | #
All the zero tolerance assholes who loaded the state down with billions in prison expenses should have prison populations dumped in their districts.
I wish we had a decent train system.
fourlegsgood
Sorry. No train for you. We are more important here.
I bet some dude that kid looks up to wear glasses and so she thinks all the cool guys wear glasses.
That makes perfect sense
Texas is perfect for high-speed trains, and has all of T. Boone's wind to power them.
Hey,
when's the last time El Gato Negro has been scene in these parts? Have we been putting out the wrong kitty treats? Switch to a different (wrong) brand of litter?
every state can be embarrassed about the dominant industry there, and how it's fucked the state in terms of keeping back progressive stuff in favor of protecting industry. cf: wall street and the bailout. it's very hard not to point out that wall street types are getting trillions right now, and some of that is going to stay in the state, while GM et al are barely keeping enough going to lay off 2/3 of our state's auto industry workers.
here's the deal, res: assuming i could afford to live there (another pissing match we could have, and you'd "win" that one, natch) the problem is that if i lived in say, the bronx, i could likely get around to shops, jobs, culture, etc., without owning a car. you just can't do that in this state. is that "our fault?" i suppose. but what, has there ever been a state which has consistently voted legislature against the wishes of its biggest industry? and hey, it's not like the automakers sell cars only in MI. lots of rich NY folk keep a car (perhaps not american made these days, but once) and so lots of "outstate" money kept the automakers firmly in charge of policy here for decades, even as people like my folks begged and protested and pleaded for better options for the poor, and those which were more long term in scope. plenty of us knew that cheap oil would come to an end some day, but we're just little people, yo?
in this state, i'm "very fortunate." right now, i can walk or bike to a grocery store, library, university campus, massage parlor, and booze emporium. suck in the winter, but whatever. what i can't do is take a train across the populated corridor, or grab a cab without making a phone call, or ride a bus outside my smallish sized city to somewhere else in less than four transfers/lots of money. and my situation is much, much better than someone who lives in detroit, but has a job in north oakland country. seriously- getting back and forth b/w those places without a car? no way.
like i said: you all deserve your improvements. i don't doubt that at all. but what annoys me is that those with nothing will continue to have nothing, while those with something, not paris or london, but something workable, will be lots of money, money which shortly will be positied as "limited," and which will run out before the massive improvements to other areas are even begun. life is unfair, meh. i should move back to DC, i guess.
Sorry. No train for you. We are more important here.
But I'm SPECIAL!!! and ELITIST!!!
okay, I'm gonna cry now - is your bosom available?
On another note, how does fuckface Schwarzenegger expect welfare recipients in California to EAT after February 1st?
Food supplied by soup kitchens and other charitable organizations. Volunteers. Kindness of strangers.
plantsman,
Do you use the street car system in Portland? They're thinking of building one in Minneapolis that's pretty similar, but there's no federal money for trolleys and such.
Texas is perfect for high-speed trains, and has all of T. Boone's wind to power them.
It is.
And there is lots of open spaces to put train track in.
I love that drawing.
I have to save it somewhere.
In other news, bwah hahahaha.
22%
And Cheney is at 13%. (As tristero would say, "who are those people?")
I don't know how many people in CA relying on welfare to eat, but I doubt he wants a bunch of desperate and hungry people roaming around. What a douche.
Streetcars have been running in Kenosha, Wisconsin for more than 100 years through a variety of companies and routes.
At the turn of the 21st century, Kenosha constructed a modern electric streetcar system utilizing historic PCC streetcars in coordination with the HarborPark development on the shores of Lake Michigan. The line has become a model project studied by urban planners worldwide, and is used by thirty percent of visitors to Kenosha.
I haven't used the street car, it travels between the tony South Waterfront and the tony Pearl District Shopping Area, two places I rarely frequent. Our light rail rocks and I've seen the street cars -- they look very cool.
RIL,
Saw this this morning in the SF Chron and wondered if CA is far behind
Riots in the Baltics
In other news, bwah hahahaha.
Wow.
what annoys me is that those with nothing will continue to have nothing, while those with something, not paris or london, but something workable, will be lots of money, money which shortly will be positied as "limited," and which will run out before the massive improvements to other areas are even begun
So you propose that the government invest in MI infrastructure before investing in infrastructure in NYC. Is that it?
I don't know how many people in CA relying on welfare to eat, but I doubt he wants a bunch of desperate and hungry people roaming around. What a douche.
Did U noes that there are already vast numbers of homeless and people sleeping in their cars there? shanty towns have already sprung up over the past year.
doesn't get reported much, but things are already desperate or a lot of people
Kenosha Wisconsin has been served by rail service to and from Chicago since 10:30 am on Saturday, May 19, 1855, when the predecessors to the Chicago and North Western Railway, the Milwaukee and Chicago Railway Company (originally the Illinois Parallel Railroad) and the original Lake Shore Railroad (later the Green Bay, Milwaukee and Chicago Railway) were officially joined with great ceremony just south of today's 52nd Street. Passenger service began on May 28, 1866 and continues to the present day.
Kenosha has the only Metra station in Wisconsin, with nine inbound and nine outbound trains each weekday, although not all Union Pacific/North Line trains terminate and originate in Kenosha; most terminate at Waukegan, Illinois to the south.
okay, I'm gonna cry now - is your bosom available?
fourlegsgood, darkside bishop
My bosom is available.
cd just needs a spanking, it'll mellow her right out.
/snark
I've seen the street car in Kenosha.
Kenosha's motto used to be "Kenosha: We're Going Places!". It was painted on a RR bridge with a stalled train.
what annoys me is that those with nothing will continue to have nothing, while those with something, not paris or london, but something workable, will be lots of money, money which shortly will be positied as "limited," and which will run out before the massive improvements to other areas are even begun
Chic Dyke,
They're two separate issues, and I know you of all people can see that. We rely on this existing system to get us to work -- and everywhere -- every day. Letting it go to (even more to) pot isn't an option. And that NJT tunnel is just fucked up six ways until Sunday. I know, I use it quite often.
Wasn't Kenosha the home of American Motors?
If they would only listen to me I'd put people in Michigan to work on building supertrains for NY.
Win.
Win.
Profit!
like i said: you all deserve your improvements. i don't doubt that at all. but what annoys me is that those with nothing will continue to have nothing, while those with something, not paris or london, but something workable, will be lots of money, money which shortly will be positied as "limited," and which will run out before the massive improvements to other areas are even begun. life is unfair, meh. i should move back to DC, i guess.
chicago dyke, ungeeked | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 3:39 pm | #
It's fucked, but why is it that Michigan, a state 100% dependent on big industry and academic/research has had a state government dominated by rf pinheads and suburban morons for so long?
OT--
Clowns are indeed scary.
Your sex education tax dollars at work.
So the Palins are blaming Simple Sarah's loss on Levi's family?
I'm going to fall off my chair laughing again.
Keep talking, Sarah. Please, for God's sake, keep talking.
My bosom is available.
racymind
Hope there's room for kittehs.
“Having sex before you are married is just like juggling machetes!”
“Sex before marriage will destroy all of your life’s dreams!”
What if your dream is to juggle machetes?
Clowns are indeed scary.
I can't help but think about that HBO sex special where people had sex parties dressed as clowns... it looked like fun.
Texas is perfect for high-speed trains, and has all of T. Boone's wind to power them.
plantsman
it's a wonder wind wagons never caught on.
Wasn't Kenosha the home of American Motors?
Janesville, maybe? Not sure.
Did U noes that there are already vast numbers of homeless and people sleeping in their cars there? shanty towns have already sprung up over the past year.
I didn't know it, but I believe it. I see a lot more homeless people here, too.
rorsch,
that's another reason why Tuesday is going to be a great day.
What if your dream is to juggle machetes?
metropole
bo,
i don't see how you have a couple of million hungry people wandering around and don't wind up with riots.
Being diagnosed as HIV positive in 1991 was scary;
being told after never having been medicated for HIV that I had "no detectable viral load" in 1998 was a relief, once I got used to it. Still being alive in 2009 is pretty sweet.
NY/NJ is more than just the five boroughs of New York City. Upstate New York has no more mass transit or jobs available to its inhabitants than do parts of Michigan.
metropole
that's sort of exactly my point. do you live in upstate NY? if so: how would you like that state's 9B to be spent? or rather, what programs are proposed for non-City places, in terms of public trans? let's assume there's more than 9B in the pot. what have you heard about, to make life in the distant upstate region make the transition from car to something else? if i'm bitchy, that's why. i don't hear so much out here, except about how overpaid autoworkers are and how much we deserve to suffer for providing the nation and world with its preferred method of transportation during the last century. for that sin we should suffer, but perhaps you deserve better?
and let me say, having lived in chicago, practically the only economically vibrant flatland city left, it's an interesting contrast, no? detroit, toledo, st. louis, the quad cities...all sinking to their knees and turning into 3rd world hellholes before our eyes. chicago holds on largely due to its much-inferior-to-eastern-cities pub.tran system, and remains a place where young, hip, employed people want to live. interesting contrast, that.
feh. fuck atrios for turning me into the euphronious of transportation posts. i hope he chokes on some sardines while watching the game tomorrow, the fucker.
The land of the ballot initiative is about to become Ground Zero for the revolution.
Nobody could have predicted....
RIL,
I'm pretty sure it will happen. Why the damn unions haven't organized a HUGE protest in Sacramento is beyond me.
Texas is perfect for high-speed trains, and has all of T. Boone's wind to power them.
If there was a way of generating power from dumbassery we could find a use for all those republicans.
I can't help but think about that HBO sex special where people had sex parties dressed as clowns... it looked like fun.
What...sticking stuffed animals up their asses wasn't kinky/creepy enough anymore?
To each their own, I guess.
res ipsa loquitur: i don't see how you have a couple of million hungry people wandering around and don't wind up with riots.
If I'm not mistaken, it was that exact scenario that got Ahnohld invited to be a contestant on Richard Dawson's other game show.
.
and let me say, having lived in chicago, practically the only economically vibrant flatland city left...
*cough*Twin Cities*cough*
the horror!
yet another "progressive" douche rag heading south!
"Less than a month after Pew Research published its finding that Americans now get more of their news online than from newspapers, the Boston Globe has announced further staff cuts. The slashing of up to 50 jobs from the current full-time staff of 379 will be the fifth major staff reduction for the paper since 2001. The last round came in November of last year when 42 layoffs were announced meaning there has been a 20% reduction in staff over only 3 months. The paper now has only 60% of the full-time jobs that it had in 2000. In another sign of the trouble that the paper is in, the paper has offered buy-outs to all of its full-time employees...."
who will p-p-p-p-p-propagandize for p-p-p-p-p-p-progressives?
how will our g-g-g-g-glorious message g-g-g-g-get out?
the horror!
For footie fans: Barca 5, Deportivo La Coruna 0. Still 3 minutes left.
feh. fuck atrios for turning me into the euphronious of transportation posts. i hope he chokes on some sardines while watching the game tomorrow, the fucker.
chicago dyke
Can ANYONE discern what Luby's point is?
What...sticking stuffed animals up their asses wasn't kinky/creepy enough anymore?
To each their own, I guess
I must have seen a different episode.
disrupting us, plantsman.
Can ANYONE discern what Luby's point is?
plantsman | 01.17.09 - 3:54 pm | #
That he (a) hates america and (b) is a dimbulb.
Atrios,
Thanks for putting up the link to the WaPo article. i sent it to my Randian Princess of a sibling, who blames the whole housing and bank mess on poor people getting loans to buy houses.
ChiDyke if it was up to me I'd tell the banks to give me back that $500 billion they've gotten and give it to the people.
And I work for one of them.
doesn't get reported much, but things are already desperate or a lot of people
fourlegsgood, darkside bishop
my wife knows a guy, salesman for clear channel, yeah, he needs to start looking for a new job. good luck.
i used to think i could have made it, i probably do have the native talent, but no damn way i'd ever have the energy. chase jarvis, it's worth clicking the chase button too.
Performer in SF used to juggle a bowling ball, a machete, a lit torch and an apple, which would take a bite out of and put back into the rotation.
Saw the schtick one-uped on TV by a guy who used a running chainsaw in lieu of the machete.
My bosom is available.
I can't help but think about that HBO sex special where people had sex parties dressed as clowns... it looked like fun.
racymind
Damn, I miss all the good stuff.
Wilmington just started running their buses on Sundays. Driving through some nearby towns the poverty and hopelessness is quite a revelation for someone who grew up in NYC. There are no jobs in these towns and there is no mass transit to get to places where there are jobs. So yeah, I understand CD's plaint, but again, these were decisions that legislatures made back in the day. Obama can't be held responsible for not fixing everything that needs fixing. It has taken a lot of years to get in this mess, it's gonna take more than just two terms of an Obama presidency to turn it around. But it is a good start.
Oh God - potty talk - jeesh
feh. fuck atrios for turning me into the euphronious of transportation posts. i hope he chokes on some sardines while watching the game tomorrow, the fucker.
chicago dyke
poor baby.
Laws, you turn on the news and the good feelings are undeniable and palpable in the crowds.
I don't know why mass transit construction has to be either/or.
The BBC covered the tent cities story last March.
Even MORE and NEW pix from the Obama SUPERTRAIN at HuffPO.
Even MORE and NEW pix from the Obama SUPERTRAIN at HuffPO.
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 3:56 pm | #
excellent!!
How the fuck did Ambinder get on that train?
RIL,
Between Sunday and Wedsday there were at least 3 reported cases of murder/murder suicide over personal financial problems in the SF Bay area.
That Pullman Coach is gorgeous, looks nice and sturdy, too.
Michelle Obama and Jill Biden both look fabu.
Yeah I know, thank you for avoiding the drooling thing.
HuffPo really is the ugliest website on the internets.
But nice photos.
I don't know why mass transit construction has to be either/or.
fourlegsgood, darkside bishop | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 3:56 pm | #
It turns out that the US government has huge amounts of money just sitting around for troubled industries.
RIL,
Between Sunday and Wedsday there were at least 3 reported cases of murder/murder suicide over personal financial problems in the SF Bay area.
bo | 01.17.09 - 3:58 pm | #
I'm not surprised.
I wish I could go to DC this weekend. It looks like it's gonna be a lot of fun.
I mentioned last night that I was offered to relocate to Rapid City, SD if I wanted to keep my job. I did a little googling, and found out that they, indeed, have a bus system.
But they're all short buses. That's a pretty tell-tale sign.
So you propose that the government invest in MI infrastructure before investing in infrastructure in NYC. Is that it?
metropole
i hate that game. but yes, if you're asking me "who is about to be more desperate? urban dwellers with shitty but workable pub.tran systems that will get them to jobs that are available, vs unemployed workers from a dying industry with no way to get to the unemployment office, let alone what few jobs exist?" i'll take the latter.
i can't stress enough how much this is all tied in to destroying the union movement in this country. i hate to see progressive feed that evil (and i'm not accusing anyone here of doing that, absolutely not). union workers are ready, rested and willing to make MI, and any rural or semi-industrialized region into the New Green Supertrain Example of the Future. but what do we get? a few billion in chump change and some execs who now have to fly first class instead of private jet. anway, i'm done now. sorry to be a bore, but as you may have heard: the union/autoworker thingee out here is 'in your blood,' if you come from that. i do.
go eagles!
There's a photo of Michelle aboard the train in her black coat that is so flattering!
I can't help but think about that HBO sex special where people had sex parties dressed as clowns... it looked like fun.
racymind
I'm firmly convinced that that HBO Real Sex show is meant to turn people off forever. It's the ultimate abstinence education, showing us just how ridiculous we are when it comes to sex.
Oh, money manager missing in Florida - left suicide note.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
20...e_n_158723.html
we're gonna be seeing a lot of this
Between Sunday and Wedsday there were at least 3 reported cases of murder/murder suicide over personal financial problems in the SF Bay area.
And this is the really serious stuff. He does this and smaller-time stuff is going to increase, too (muggings and the like). Then this asshats are going to scream that so-and-so is "soft on crime" and they'll make mandatory minimums of 150 years for stealing a loaf of bread instead of saying, "Well Arnold cut off their fucking source of money to pay for FOOD!" at which point my Randian Princess of a sibling will say, "They were using the welfare money to buy PEOPLE magazine" and on and on it will go.
It's been a long time since there was anything close to this to celebrate in DC, or, for that matter, in the country.
Been a long time coming, and, even if it's only the end of the beginning, at least it's all that...
I don't know why mass transit construction has to be either/or.
fourlegsgood, darkside bishop
I think the government should just give us all jetpacks and be done with it.
Man...what I would give to ride on a Pullman.
We have a park here in St. Paul named for one of the men that organized Pullman workers. Also the first AAs to be appointed to something (can't remember what) by FDR.
Somehow, we managed to have fairly decent bus and rail transit over a fairly wide area that is home to around 3 million people.
OMG! It's a FAKE! Just started the CSPAN.org feed and it says Copyright 2008! It's the lunar landing charade all over again.
[/Malkin
It's the ultimate abstinence education, showing us just how ridiculous we are when it comes to sex.
rorschach, golden white trash
Some people are more comfortable with ridiculous behavior than others.
i can't stress enough how much this is all tied in to destroying the union movement in this country.
I don't think Obama is interested in destroying the unions.
racymind: Some people are more comfortable with ridiculous behavior than others.
Witnesseth: Middle-agers who have a Star Fleet uniform.
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I think the government should just give us all jetpacks and be done with it.
rorschach, golden white trash | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 4:02 pm | #
Now UR talking
Wow...I just got shivers. That guy, is our President in three days.
RIL-- Is there a point in her life when your sis became Randian? I have a fundie brother and SIL, so can empathize.
res: well, all crime is merely a reflection of character flaw and innate evil, and has nothing whatever to do with social circumstances, desperate economics or hopelessness.
Clarence Darrow once pointed out, addressing the inmates of Sing Sing prison, that a perfectly reasonable, civilized country, Australia, was founded in large measure by criminals sentenced to transportation to what was then a penal colony...
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. What happens when privatization is complete. Great and scary read.
bblbbqbblbbq
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I always figured if I had a jetpack I'd manage to burn my ass.
Obama about to speak.
Damn. Did U guys think this day would ever come? I had my doubts.
I thought the bad guys just might keep winning.
i'm actually a little sick of listening to the train story. not that i mind, it just seems a little gay.
at least it's not the plane story, which is also a great story, but there are other stories.
I hate heights. I don't want a jet pack or a flying car.
George Pullman designed his Palace Car too big to fit under some railroad bridges. They transported Lincoln's body home in one. They had to raise some bridges...
Andy, YES!!
I think the psychic mood of the country is going to change radically on Tuesday
Why does the train story seem "gay", if I may ask?
Knockoffs of that coat are going to single-handedly revive the fashion industry. Want!
i'm actually a little sick of listening to the train story. not that i mind, it just seems a little gay.
Awww, let us wallow in our happytude
it's been a long time coming
RIL-- Is there a point in her life when your sis became Randian?
Honestly, she always had those tendencies, but things really got rolling when she mad her first $1MM. Have I mentioned that she lives in a rent controlled apartment?
I understand why Michelle wore the dress she wore on election night. It was a statement: Kill my hushand and you have real problems.
I thought the bad guys just might keep winning.
I was thinking today how hard it's gonna be for me to disassociate myself from thinking the President = Bush.
Man, he burned us real good.
what's wrong with gay?
oy I can't take this
Michelle & Jill are color coordinated.
How cool.
That coat is so elegant.
4LG, someone posted below that people along the route were chanting "Yes we can! and "Get lost Bush!"
Knockoffs of that coat are going to single-handedly revive the fashion industry. Want!
Me too!!
Actually I have a coat a little like that. A Searle swing coat - it's at least 15 years old, but it still looks current.
Sadly, it's not cold enough to wear it here that often.
Knockoffs of that coat are going to single-handedly revive the fashion industry. Want!
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
They're still flogging those Sarah Palin glasses.
Michelle & Jill are color coordinated.
How cool.
They both look nice, but Michelle is ravishing. And it's SOOOOO nice to see women in politics in something besides blue and red.
Have I mentioned that she lives in a rent controlled apartment?
Oh, the hypocrisy! But kinda
AND GUESS WHAT???!!!!!
Michelle & Jill look like they are awake & alert!!!!!
i'm actually a little sick of listening to the train story. not that i mind, it just seems a little gay.
But we are objectively pro-gay!
Being gay, I find nothing wrong with it -- if one ignores the lack of equality.
what's wrong with gay?
Ali | 01.17.09 - 4:08 pm | #
I had quite an altercation with a student last semester because she used the term "gay" as a slur. She was a piece of work.
4LG, someone posted below that people along the route were chanting "Yes we can! and "Get lost Bush!"
awesome!
Hey, you know what I'm hoping? that Barak single handledly does away with the "baggy ass pants" thing the kids do.
Really, if you care at all about fashion, that coat is amazing. And you can never imagine Laura Bush wearing it in a million years. I really, really love it.
Jill, Joe, Barack, Michelle ...
WHERE ARE YOU HATS?
Michelle & Jill look like they are awake & alert!!!!!
The end of the Xanax First Spouse era? I never thought I'd see it.
Michelle is like a movie star remniscent of Grace Kelly or Audrey Hepburn. After 8 years of dowdyism.
Can ANYONE discern what Luby's point is?
plantsman
No, but he apparently still has the vibrator inserted...
let us wallow in our happytude - flg
Words worthy of a prophet.
I think we all could be a little more gay.
And witty and pretty as well.
yes, I guess they don't want to mess up their hair. But I would be wearing a toque in that weather.
Hey, you know what I'm hoping? that Barak single handledly does away with the "baggy ass pants" thing the kids do.
fourlegsgood
Aw, they're kids. They'll just come up with another fad that we find equally obnoxious. It's what kids do.
WHERE ARE YOU HATS?
res ipsa loquitur
RIL = GWPDA
HaloScan is flapping in the breeze.
The crazy thing is that all those big mansions in California?
the taxes on those things are crazy low. No wonder the state is out of money.
I thought my property taxes in CA go to city and county gov't, not the state.
Where can I see this fabulous stuff?
I was really, really hoping for some top hats being sported.
Oh well.
now the pants are tight in the legs, but still baggy in the ass. So they both ride up and fall down, simultaneously.
I love purple and that cornflower blue.
The apartment I saw this morning has the living room painted in this beautiful darkish blue that would be perfect with my couch.
Alas, too expensive.
Where can I see this fabulous stuff?
ProfWombat | 01.17.09 - 4:12 pm | #
cnn.com live
Hecate, speaking of coats - have you seen the "on the street" multimedia things that that one fashion photographer does at the NYTimes (I'm sure Res has).
He had one last week about how, in these times, women were pulling coats out from years past from their closets and how fabulous they all looked.
Israel declares ceasefire in Gaza
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...ast/
7835794.stm
fuckers. over a 1000 palestinians dead.
i loathe the israeli govt.
ProfW, there's at good slideshow at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Alas, too expensive.
HoneyBearKelly
You could paint your place.
women were pulling coats out from years past from their closets and how fabulous they all looked.
Love the 50's
Painting is not recommended during winter cold spells.
Some folks like huffing.
Hundreds of thousands gathered in baltimore waiting for obama's train.
It wasn't me. I deny it Was somebody else. Not me.
Nearly 1,200 Palestinians have been killed since the violence began on 27 December. Thirteen Israelis have died.
what a ratio
LOTD in the Strib yesterday:
An inaugural address for President-elect Barack Obama: "My fellow Americans, I am proud to be your new president. Over the next four years, I promise to end all wars, lower gas prices, lower taxes by 20 percent, protect all living things, and lower food prices. "I think these issues are important because people rely on me to help make their lives more easy because I am the president of the U.S.A. "I will accomplish these goals by doing them at the right moment and that moment is NOW. "In conclusion, I will like to say that I would try to be the best president of all times."
YOUSUF SIDDIQUI, FRIDLEY; FOURTH-GRADER, AL-AMAL SCHOOL
Very sweet.
okay, I don't see them - I'm watching on teevee - where are you guys seeing them? they haven't come out in Baltimore yet
Ali this was the landlord's son's apartment.
I'd have to paint mine back and I'm hoping to move out of here this year.
Michelle's coat is fabulous
Nearly 1,000 to 1. "proportionality" Right.
C-Span has the Baltimore rally on - live
O'Malley is speaking now!
"In conclusion, I will like to say that I would try to be the best president of all times."
Put that kid on the 2016 ticket.
4lgs
I have CSPANII on
The mayor of Baltimore just asked the crowd how they were feeling. I think they said Coooooold.
Israel declares ceasefire in Gaza
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Didn't want to have the humiliation of leaving under the steely gaze of Hillary Clinton.
But Canadians have little room to complain.
I understand hedge fund managers are being forcibly relocated to Manhattan.
From which they never return! (Poor old Charlie!)
Even Barack's simple black greatcoat is wonderful.
I am looking forward to seeing clothes that grown up women can wear in the stores again.
note to self: how often would you come here really if it weren't for them snorgtee chicks?
NYT photo show or Huffington Post
People look so happy.
I think I'm going to cry.
Damn, I don't think 12 hrs goes by without a request of $ from either Obama or Hillary.
O'Malley is speaking now!
Yes he is.
http://video.google.com/videosea...num=4&
ct=title#
Awww, let us wallow in our happytude
it's been a long time coming
fourlegsgood, darkside bishop
believe me, i'm happy too.
i thought the bad guys might just keep winning too.
i hope he does a good job, 'cause sarah palin is not out of the question...
have you seen the "on the street" multimedia things that that one fashion photographer does at the NYTimes (I'm sure Res has).
No, I'll have to go look for it.
You know what I'd love? I'd love to be able to spend time on fashion and restaurants and fun stuff and not on worrying about habeas corpus. Goddess, I am glad to see the Republicans go.
people seem to have a wee bit of a crush on Michele Obama.
ql, same thing on CNN in HD
Thanks
Jeez. Smart, happy, great-looking people who look as if they like each other. Speaking their native tongue. Individuals comfortable in their own skin. I could get used to this.
And where in the universe of those bleating so tiresomely about family values is there room for the manifestly happy, decent Obama family? I look forward to my youngest being appointed to the Supreme Court in the second Sasha Obama administration...
Nearly 1,200 Palestinians have been killed since the violence began on 27 December. Thirteen Israelis have died.
what a ratio
plum p,better democrats please
I've been told this is a subtle complaint about Israeli efficiency.
It's not the kind of efficiency I admire, no matter who is responsible for it.1
But Canadians have little room to complain.
rootless-e
hell no. Harper is scum. My only hope is with neighbor Obama, he'll have no choice but slow down. I loathe my prime minister, dammit!
Even Barack's simple black greatcoat is wonderful.
plantsman
And I dig that the kids look like they're kids and not little fashion plates.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. What happens when privatization is complete. Great and scary read.
ql
top ten sci-fi list, for me. sequel wasn't as good, but on the first read...mang. frightening. i loved the part about the backyard gardens, and the brother's addiction to the pyro drug. and she wrote it before meth was endemic, yo.
No, I'll have to go look for it.
He did one on the streets of Paris around the time of the fall shows there.
As far as I'm concerned they should be rounded up, trucked out to the southwest, dumped in the desert, and nuked in plain sight.
Did the BHOs get the dog yet?
I look forward to my youngest being appointed to the Supreme Court in the second Sasha Obama administration...
ProfWombat
DYNASTIES!!!! AAAAGGHHH!!!!!
Class warfare is one thing, but there is no doubt who is winning the "classy" warfare anymore.
Harper doesn't have near the power constitutionally that an american president has. We can keep him more contained.
i would place some of those protective glass shields on top as well. just saying.
people seem to have a wee bit of a crush on Michele Obama.
Ali
The whole family for me.
The whole family for me.
footloose |
You have to be pretty cynical not to squee at the girls.
Can ANYONE discern what Luby's point is?
"Globe" is BAD elitist newspaper. Even though they've imported a house wingnut who makes The Herald's Howie Carr look like Eugene V. Debs. BAD, BAD newspaper.
(Good sports ection, tho...)
people seem to have a wee bit of a crush on Michele Obama. - Ali
The thought of a real, live woman in the White House after 8 years of a 'bot is ... ummmmm, stimulating.
Yes, excuse me for a few.
believe me, i'm happy too.
i thought the bad guys might just keep winning too.
i hope he does a good job, 'cause sarah palin is not out of the question...
charley | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 4:18 pm | #
I think people might get used to having competent people in charge.
And that will be the end of white trash Sarah. She can't stop talking. The more she talks the more people want to barf
The Obamas wanted to get settled into the White House before getting the dog, I believe. Cannot at all say I fault the logic,
i loved the part about the backyard gardens, and the brother's addiction to the pyro drug. and she wrote it before meth was endemic, yo.
chicago dyke,
My fave was the gangs living in deserted cities who could operate any of the electronic doodads they had stolen because they couldn't read.
Jeez. Smart, happy, great-looking people who look as if they like each other. Speaking their native tongue. Individuals comfortable in their own skin. I could get used to this.
This is a great moment, indeed. Hate to think that fuckwit-in-chief is still lurking behind the proverbial hedge somewhere.
Jill Biden's great, too. She should have more of a public role.
I'd guess Biden will be a better VP than he was a Senator...
And, oddly, the Obamas and the Bidens don't need to constantly tell rural Americans that they're not "real" Americans. That was the nastiest part of a nasty McCain campaign.
Did the BHOs get the dog yet?
Nope. Narrowed down to two breeds.
BBL.
The video feed on CNN.com is very good
Jill Biden's great, too. She should have more of a public role.
WaPo says she's going to continue teaching and my go to Univ of DC, which, Goddess knows, could use something like that.
This seems appropriate for this moment:
Peggy Noonan, November 4, 2004:
I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten for it is Barack Obama. Let us savor.
here they are!
The Bidens seem to greet the Obamas with real warmth and vice versa.
Jill Biden's great, too. She should have more of a public role.
I wonder if she's going to continue to teach? It would be mega cool if she'd work on the community college issues.
And if she'd take a teaching position in a CC in DC
Nope. Narrowed down to two breeds.
fourlegsgood
What kind?
NYT photo show or Huffington Post
footloose
if you're talking about those photos that josh marshall linked to the other day, i'm going with NYT
obama's people
She's FANTABULOUS!
okay, goddamned if I didn't tear up just now
shit, this is real
we won!!!!
World-famous and highly respected American actor and director, Orson Welles, was born in Kenosha Wisconsin on May 6th, 1915.
Oh, I see: Labradoodle and Portuguese Water Dog.
Harper doesn't have near the power constitutionally that an american president has. We can keep him more contained.
Regretably I had to tone down my bnotes for them. I wonder how that shit went down.
I suspect I will know soon enough.
Jill Biden teaches at the U. of DE, IIRC. I don't know if she is gonna give that up. Joe has said they are still gonna commute back to Wilmington. I'm guessing just on the weekends. We'll see.
I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten for it is Barack Obama. Let us savor.
res ipsa loquitur
Can't say much but Suck. On. This.
Jesus, People in the audience crying....
On such a cold, Winter's day.
I am looking forward to seeing clothes that grown up women can wear in the stores again.
fourlegsgood,
AMEN, SISTER/BROTHER/HYBRID-SEXED PERSON!
it'll be nice to see fewer blonde, heroin addicted 12yos on the cover of fashion mags, as well. i miss the 90s, when 'the colors of beniton' or whatever were becoming more and more common. dood, we all saw 538's graph about rethug voter strongholds. hint: hillbilly chic is over, ya know? over as in 'the hill,' and 'old and dying.'
What kind?
labradoodle and some kind of irish water dog or something (I'd never heard of)
Ah here he is! - Obama on c-span now.
It's like Elvis, the Superbowl, Christmas Day and 4'th of July all at once!!!!
Yet another example of the GOP showing they do not give a damn about we the people or our country and only care about themselves. (From Think Progress)
Blackwell: GOP Must Defeat Job Creating Stimulus Package Because It Will Ruin GOP's Election Chances.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01...ll-blocks-jobs/
I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten for it is Barack Obama. Let us savor.
I always love that one.
shit, this is real
we won!!!!
fourlegsgood
YES!
We won presidency.
We have both houses of congress.
We bounced Ted Stevens.
We bounced Norm Coleman.
We bounced Liddy Dole.
Al Franken is a senator.
Bush is almost unemployed.
Condi Rice is on her way to nowheresville.
Sarah Palin is THE face of the Republican party.
The president is smart.
The president is cool.
The president is a black dude whose middle name is Hussein, which is driving the wingnuts insane.
Life is GOOD.
so the canadians here loathe their govt and the americans are about to like theirs.
how weird is that?
"To the people of Maryland"
That includes my G/Son, Mr. Obama. You better be good to him.
hint: hillbilly chic is over, ya know? over as in 'the hill,' and 'old and dying.'
/hides ironic "trucker hat"
I always love that one.
AndyMN
Never gets old.
Heck of a day eh? Its going to be a long, happy weekend.
GOP must destroy the country to save it.
Mission Accomplished.
The president is a black dude whose middle name is Hussein, which is driving the wingnuts insane.
Heh.
Portuguese water dog.
Dat's right, as one of my little guys would say.
GOP must destroy the country to save it.
It's what they did to the unions.
Irish... portuguese...
what's the difference??
I keed
Lives, forturnes, and sacred honor.
Those lines always get to me.
his speeches are written by a 27 years old.
a new day indeed.
Listening to Obama now...
Happy, happy, joy, joy!
Happy, happy, joy, joy!
Happy, happy, joy, joy!
Life is GOOD.
res ipsa loquitur
Indeed it is
I am a happy centaur
Peanut butter threat widens
FDA says avoid all products with peanut butter
http://recallnotification.blogsp...ducts-
says.html
Irish... portuguese...
what's the difference??
I keed
fourlegsgood, darkside bishop
Irish do better wiskey, Portuguese do better wine.
I have heard "Portuguese Water Hound" from Obama's own lips.
Star Spangled Banner - Good Baltimore reference.
Crap. I have to go. Enjoy the speechifyin'.
You're all smart, fabulous-looking, and utterly captiviating.
Fuck Bush forever and a day!
his speeches are written by a 27 years old.
a new day indeed.
Well, to be fair, the 27 year old writes the first draft, but Obama pretty much writes the final draft
Bush is probably having his daily nap right now
I love you back.
Can't imagine Bush saying that.
"I love you back"!
Irish do better wiskey, Portuguese do better wine.
Barry fom Alaska 01-20-09
true
just couldn't remember what kind of dog
how is our Hidey?
plum p; I don't mean to be rude, but I'm glad our "turn" of hating our government is about to be over.
I love you back! Well that got me.
Fuck, I just wandered over to Freeperville to gauge reaction to our joy.
Even the shittest student in creative writing 101 could have penned their collective reaction.
Can't imagine Bush saying that.
Bush doesn't love like the Ob/Gyns...
Wow that's pretty good.
evening moonbats from a very wet, windy Britain
the weather is horrid
but you all seem in a very upbeat mood, which is good!
Bush is probably having his daily nap right now
plum p,better democrats please
He's signing the Scooter Libby pardon.
his speeches are written by a 27 years old.
a new day indeed.
The guy who grabbed the cartoon cutout Hillary's breast?
Bush is probably having his daily nap right now
he's probably fucking DRUNK right now
and high
Fact is, if Obama succeeds, or even presides over success, he'll have done far better than the loathesome Bush and Cheney did. The Republicans, to ever see themselves win again, desperately need Obama to fail. They've been saying for decades that government's the problem; they'll have a hard time being taken seriouslyif it's demonstrated that government, in competent, caring hands, can be the solution. They could care less that Obama's failure would be America's, and the world's, and have devastating consequences.
Recall, for instance, that Republicans frankly opposed Clinton's health insurance because they couldn't risk the entire country being grateful for a government working effectively on their behalf, and especially not a Democratic one. Recall the sabotage of the VA medical system. On and on.
Obama pretty much writes the final draft
And then delivers it in comprehensible English.
Yay!
Bush is probably having his daily first drink right now
I fried your tomato.
History people.
We're soaking in it.
plum p; I don't mean to be rude, but I'm glad our "turn" of hating our government is about to be over.
plantsman
it's okay
oy vey i can't believe we're getting to trade Bush for this guy.
your so lucky, we're stuck with that awful man Gordon Brown
The nice thing is that when he speaks, it's not just slogans
he believes this stuff
he means it
how do you blog when good ADULTS are in the White House?
This is just so fucking excellent.
Gordon Brown sucks
Labour sucks
Tories suck
British politics sucks
Moon, we're witnessing history. It's a wonderful, joyous thing.
how is our Hidey?
fourlegsgood, darkside bishop
Napping. She's feeling pretty good, had some play/chase time with Magoo last night.
So naturally, now that she is feeling good, its time to take her back in for another treatment.
I like the theme of perfecting our union
He's tired, I imagine he will be tired for eight years.
your so lucky, we're stuck with that awful man Gordon Brown
Moonbootica
our Stephen Harper is worse, dammit.
how do you blog when good ADULTS are in the White House?
plum p,better democrats please | 01.17.09 - 4:32 pm | #
Easy. U talk about the good stuff
and post kitteh pictures
Fuck Bush forever and a day!
I'll drink to that! (But not 'til Tuesday....)
how do you blog when good ADULTS are in the White House?
sex for the single girl
best food recipes
how to save the world
yada yada
"I love you back"!
great great great
Hidey is a brave cat.
Once he gets back on the train, it's less than half an hour to DC.
Bush is probably having his daily nap right now
plum p,better democrats please
In fairness, I would be too, if the kids weren't so noisy.
Napping. She's feeling pretty good, had some play/chase time with Magoo last night.
that's good
glad she's hanging in there.
Moon, we have waited so long, and endured so very much -- with more yet to endure -- waiting for this day.
We're soaking in it.
Feels good, I'm now ageing backward.
and post kitteh pictures
fourlegsgood
like this?
http://thedailykitten.com/
"There's a new kid in town" Mo'Do's next column?
You know what this means, right? There's gonna be a liquor cabinet back in the WH. No more flasks hidden in the ficus.
I am just sitting here crying like a baby. I am so glad to see a grown up president.
Hidey is a brave cat.
plum p,better democrats please
I don't know how much bravery is involved , she doesn't have much choice when I grab her and take her in.
I'm not letting her go.
I wonder what MoDo's new schtick will be? Probably being nasty about Michelle.
We're going to bring back Oh Noes!!
gonna be making fun of Boner, et al all of the time.
the american revolution did not end when the british guns fell silent
cheese wars - They were left battered by farmer Jose Bové's attacks on McDonald's and bruised by the birth of the "freedom fry". But yesterday the French and the Americans proved they had the stomach for another gloriously messy food fight.
Less than a week before it leaves office, the Bush administration has sparked anger across the Atlantic by tripling the import duty rate on roquefort cheese to 300%, a move which the US hopes will "shut down trade" in the sheep's milk product by making it prohibitively expensive.
The decision, part of Washington's attempts to force the EU into dropping its ban on hormone-treated beef, was greeted with disbelief by the French government and by farmers in the south-western Aveyron region who depend on the industry for their livelihoods.
"Maybe the Bush administration indulged itself by taking this decision just before it leaves," Robert Glandieres, president of the roquefort producers' group, told Reuters.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/...-import-
tariffs
gosh only a few days left and the Bush Junta still continues to piss of people
The ongoing American Revolution
Perfecting our union
Great theme.
MoDo will find something to piss on about it. It's her raison d'etre.
plum, yes
Barry is a good man.
Each of us being involved in making it more perfect -- I adore it, too!
As long as there's a Cornyn, Kyl, McConnell, and Bachmann, there will still be a blog.
gonna be making fun of Boner, et al all of the time.
fourlegsgood
that's a very good idea
I wonder what MoDo's new schtick will be? Probably being nasty about Michelle.
I guess it's too much to hope that Obama and Rachel would have smacked upside the head the other day.
He didn't endorse the Ravens.
Press Release from Sarah Palin:
"I coulda done that speech!"
Moon, we have waited so long, and endured so very much -- with more yet to endure -- waiting for this day.
plantsman | 01.17.09 - 4:34 pm | #
yeah I know am not begrudging (at least I hope not. I am happy that your happy
I just don't feel very optimistic about my own country these days
they all seen to like each other so much
Pretty cool, anyone got a linky?
And this, this is what America denied herself for centuries when she made it impossible for African Americans to play their part. What a stupid, self-hating thing to have done.
wowi
Just like the day after election, the song that keeps coming back to me is, "Can't You Feel a Brand New Day" from the Wiz
Hecate: I rather liked Richard Rorty's book 'Achieving America', though he was an unapologetic Cold Warrior and I can't go there with him.
Perfecting the Union is rather a long-standing idea amongst the decent folk of this country. It's the stuff of someone who's studied our history, and wants to walk the path trodden by people we're proud of. It contrasts rather well with mindless militarism, private enrichment, appeals to fear rather than courage, a shredding of the social contract, and rendering Reagan's notion that Americans fear government's attempts at helping them a thoroughly justified self-fulfilling prophecy...
Ray Charles , Yes.
Where's John Waters?
"If I woulda been the Vice-Presnitzial candidate from the Democrat Party..." As If.
He didn't endorse the Ravens.
McNulty's gonna be pissed.
America the beautiful.
yes
It doesn't look like Michelle's sense of style is going to give MoDo much material.
they all seen to like each other so much
plum p,better democrats please
The Ricardos and the Mertzes!
Ray Charles , Yes.
bluesman
thinking it's so sad that Ray is not here to see this day
Yo.
Enroute to DC!!
M curently taking 5 in a Barnes and Noble near Harrisburg.
All is well.
and of course different political systems yada yada yada
god dammit i should be more positive but my damn Britishness gets in the way lol
Saw Ray Charles do that song live the Summer before he died. It was something else.
As long as there's a Cornyn, Kyl, McConnell, and Bachmann, there will still be a blog.
Cornyn is my senator.
I'm gonna make him a special project. He's a huge asshat.
Oh shit...I've gotta find that video of those folks from The Wire doing an GOTV ad. That was awesome.
thinking it's so sad that Ray is not here to see this day
Rosa Parks. I just wish that Miss Parks were here to see it.
A note about the dogs thing.
There is a group of Portuguese Water Dogs in California called the Baseball Aquatic Retrieval Korps (B.A.R.K.). The dogs retrieve baseballs from the bay at the San Francisco Giants games.
As long as there's a Cornyn, Kyl, McConnell, and Bachmann, there will still be a blog.
AndyMN, shovel-ready | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 4:36 pm | #
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Heh! My brainwashed, republican sister told me that Chris Matthews 'trapped' her idol Michele Bachmann into saying what she said on Hardball. *sigh*
Sarah Palin has driven the word "also" from my vocabulary.
I'll never forgive her for that.
BBL.
You're among friends who value you and want you to be happy too, Moon.
thinking it's so sad that Ray is not here to see this day
You don't think that man is present?
Hecate: yup. And women, Asians, gay folk, Jews, Hispanics, atheists/agnostics, on and on. What the hell do we have to be afraid of, precisely, opening our hearts and minds to these splendid people who are just a bit different from us? Growth? Change? Food, music, literature? Rediscovery of a common humanity that lets me read a 2500 year old Greek play with astonishment?
who sings this hope song?
I'm gonna make him a special project. He's a huge asshat.
fourlegsgood, darkside bishop | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 4:40 pm | #
He is significantly worse than Kay Bee and not every moron can say that.
I see a hedge fund manager hiding in the junipers.
There is a group of Portuguese Water Dogs in California called the Baseball Aquatic Retrieval Korps (B.A.R.K.). The dogs retrieve baseballs from the bay at the San Francisco Giants games.
awesome!
Rosa Parks. I just wish that Miss Parks were here to see it.
Hecate
Would that we might be able to knock down that last rail before I die: a woman elected president.
thinking it's so sad that Ray is not here to see this day
and Duke and Lester and Charlie and Miles and Martin and ......
Rediscovery of a common humanity that lets me read a 2500 year old Greek play with astonishment?
I just read a pre-Islamic Persian poem by a woman who stated that she's happy if she has a man to love and a relative to hate....
The crowds on The Mall today are so mixed, and look comfortable and happy being racially mixed, it's so cool!
I'm gonna make him a special project.
fourlegsgood, darkside bishop
Yer gonna git all No Country For Old Men on him?
The better half and I went to the Newark, DE train station and saw Obama's train go by this afternoon. About 1000 people were there to see it.
The whole thing was impressive and was also moving.
ecate: yup. And women, Asians, gay folk, Jews, Hispanics, atheists/agnostics, on and on. What the hell do we have to be afraid of, precisely, opening our hearts and minds to these splendid people who are just a bit different from us? Growth? Change? Food, music, literature? Rediscovery of a common humanity that lets me read a 2500 year old Greek play with astonishment?
Seriously. Listening to Obama just now I can't help but think how much poorer we made ourselves for so long. Damn. Now that man is a PRESIDENT.
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again! - Langston Hughes
http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/...a-
Again1938.htm
Would that we might be able to knock down that last rail before I die: a woman elected president.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Oh sure, and every 28 days the world would have to fear.
Gotta go!!!
bye for now, going to pub with my brother and his g/f
So mote it be, Vicki.
Yer gonna git all No Country For Old Men on him?
racymind | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 4:42 pm | #
I'm going to mock him endlessly.
Would that we might be able to knock down that last rail before I die: a woman elected president.
I hope our turn is next. I'll be disappointed if it's not.
I really wish that guy who worked in the WH who's wife died a few days before the election were here for this.
That was an awesome story.
Labradoodles and Portuguese Water Dogs are very similar in looks, with those short curls. Both are fairly large (medium to large) dogs and both are very high energy levels.
Once he gets back on the train, it's less than half an hour to DC.
He's in your home state!
He's eating up the (Amtrak line)!
He's in your home town!
He's on your street!
He's at your front door!
Oooooh, Lord! That's when I started smearing Jello and set the sofa on fire...
Portuguese Water Dogs are great. Someone has one near us. Like a poodle on steroids, sort of...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Por...guese_Water_Dog
The crowds on The Mall today are so mixed, and look comfortable and happy being racially mixed, it's so cool!
plantsman | 01.17.09 - 4:42 pm | #
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This is what enrages the hateful, racist, knuckle dragging neanderthals on the reich.
The better half and I went to the Newark, DE train station and saw Obama's train go by this afternoon. About 1000 people were there to see it.
The whole thing was impressive and was also moving.
billy b | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 4:42 pm | #
Ooooh!!
LUCKY!!
I hope our turn is next. I'll be disappointed if it's not.
I'm imagining the First Gentleman in a flowing velvet cape.
Listening to Obama just now I can't help but think how much poorer we made ourselves for so long.
I think Gore would have been a great president; much better than Bill Clinton.
Only thing is, I think in order for him to have been a great president, he'd have had to have gone through everything he's gone to to get to the point he's at today.
He's a shitty politician, unfortunately.
How cool, billy b!
I'm imagining the First Gentleman in a flowing velvet cape.
Echidne
He's Dracula?
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I think all things are possible now.
Oh sure, and every 28 days the world would have to fear.
Gotta go!!!
Arrrrgggghhh!
Jesus, fuckin' great music for the next four years!
He's a shitty politician, unfortunately.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
That's all I ever really meant. I'm sorry I was such an asshole about it.
I'm imagining the First Gentleman in a flowing velvet cape.
Echidne
I don't think Bill Clinton could pull off that outfit
Those poor fuckers on FauzNoize are just as somber as can be.
Cue up the tiny violins.
US Airways Plane Crash Video Released By Coast Guard (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
20...h_n_158754.html
The dogs retrieve baseballs from the bay at the San Francisco Giants games.
How doe they stand a chance agians those guys in the kayaks with fish nets?
So, just what the hell is up with peanut butter?
Israel Announces Cease-Fire in Gaza
i feel so lucky
I don't think Bill Clinton could pull off that outfit
We are talking in the abstract here, about a day when that long list of presidential heads has a female head added to it.
I hope our turn is next. I'll be disappointed if it's not.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Me, too. I'm just kinda wondering who it might be...Could it be Hillary?
Claire McCaskill? Hecate?
billy b, I envy you. What a great time in our history.
Those poor fuckers on FauzNoize are just as somber as can be.
Cue up the tiny violins.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I don't think Bill Clinton could pull off that outfit
bill
If it's on a female, he'll manage to pull it off.
We are talking in the abstract here, about a day when that long list of presidential heads has a female head added to it.
Echidne
A prospect near and dear to my heart.
Israel Announces Cease-Fire in Gaza
virgotex
3...2...1
mrs. jaafari declares victory.
I know two Portuguese water dogs well. Good dogs with kids, cheerful dogs, no major problems. But need a lot exercise.
Me, too. I'm just kinda wondering who it might be...Could it be Hillary?
Claire McCaskill? Hecate?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 01.17.09 - 4:47 pm | #
Hilda Solis.
That's all I ever really meant. I'm sorry I was such an asshole about it.
Adam Hominem
Thanks. Apology accepted, but you were forgiven long ago. I likes you. And you were right about that, btw.
Keep fucking w me Haloscan and you'll live to regret it
I know two Portuguese water dogs well. Good dogs with kids, cheerful dogs, no major problems. But need a lot exercise.
Echidne | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 4:48 pm | #
I imagine with those two girls that won't be a problem.
If it's on a female, he'll manage to pull it off.
macacawitz
Thank you. He'll be here all week.
The white Portugese Water Dog looks more like a big poodle than the black PWD.
Vicki, your FB status:
Keep fucking w me Haloscan and you'll live to regret it
I got more memory for my machine as a present. Now nothing works.
Ooooh!!
LUCKY!!
I hate to admit that I got choked up when the train came by. It was moving pretty fast. I think Joe and Jill Biden were standing on the back platform waving as the train went by.
The crowd cheered pretty wildly.
Here's a pic of me before the train got there.
It would be very cool if the first female president had a First Lady.
No velvet capes required.
Cue up the tiny violins.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
fourlegsgood, darkside bishop | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 4:47 pm | #
Snort.
Being a mean-spirited, greedy, stupid, ugly slimeball isn't cool anymore.
We are talking in the abstract here, about a day when that long list of presidential heads has a female head added to it.
Amen. That picture from the lunch of presidents was both inspiring for finally having an African American face and heart-breaking for the way it excluded half of the human race.
So, just what the hell is up with peanut butter?
Salmonella. Many are sick and several have died. Mostly from ready made snacks.
"I hate to admit that I got choked up when the train came by. It was moving pretty fast. I think Joe and Jill Biden were standing on the back platform waving as the train went by."
getting choked up watching cspan.
thanks for going...wish i coulda made it!
and Duke and Lester and Charlie and Miles and Martin and ......
devopsych
jimi
The crowd cheered pretty wildly.
Here's a pic of me before the train got there.
Thanks for posting that!
It's okay to choke up. Don't know how I'm gonna make it thru work on Tuesday, frankly.
Here's a pic of me before the train got there.
U look cold
US Airways Plane Crash Video Released By Coast Guard (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ 20...h_n_158754.html
pigboy
One hell of a piece of flying. And landing, too.
It wasn't designed to land anywhere but on a runway without falling apart.
Here's a pic of me before the train got there.
U look cold
U look mysterious
That picture from the lunch of presidents was both inspiring for finally having an African American face and heart-breaking for the way it excluded half of the human race.
The most hated picture in my memory is the one of Bush signing the Partial Birth Abortion Ban surrounded by a gaggle of old, white men.
I hate to admit that I got choked up when the train came by
Don't hate it. Shows you're a patriot. Difficult to watch what's happening and not get choked up.
BTW, they've got Union Station in DC so decked out in r, w, and b bunting. It's gorgeous. Welcome to town, Obama family!
It's okay to choke up. Don't know how I'm gonna make it thru work on Tuesday, frankly.
I took the 20th off. Not only will it be a 4 day weekend, I knew I'd be useless at work that day.
It's okay to choke up. Don't know how I'm gonna make it thru work on Tuesday, frankly.
I've got to dig our old b&w portable tv out of storage in the garage for Mrs Toons to take to work Tuesday.
BTW, they've got Union Station in DC so decked out in r, w, and b bunting. It's gorgeous. Welcome to town, Obama family!
I love Union Station.
I took the 20th off. Not only will it be a 4 day weekend, I knew I'd be useless at work that day.
Me too.
Fuck it.
Vicki, your FB status:
I just found it amusing, is all. "Don't tell..." Know what I mean? A Who Down in Whoville is Hurting...
(don't mean to be cryptic, but you grok.)
My wife tried to take a picture of Obama's rail car and only got a portion of it.
Obama's car is the blue one.
May the Goddess bless and keep him, and may the damned Secret Service do their job to perfection.
billy b, I is does hate you. History you'll never forget. Great.
Fuck...I'm doing my damnedest to not let anyone, of any blogger persuasion ruin this moment for me.
But hell if they're trying (nobody here, just some other "left" blogs).
Jeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvaaaaaaaaaannnnnnn!
Have the men's rooms at Union Station been swept for senators like Craig?
Somehow, we managed to have fairly decent bus and rail transit over a fairly wide area that is home to around 3 million people.
plantsman
well, orygun decided in the 70's it wanted to minimize californication. These things tend to be locally driven. It is a bummer that the People can't get control of some of these states, i.e Michigan. Really sad.
Ya know, I wasn't going to take off Tuesday for the Nomination, but I worked today from 6AM till just a little bit ago, and am working tomorrow about the same time.
I might take of Tuesday as a PTO, and watch Obama being sworn in.
billy b
Must have been so exciting. Was there a big crowd?
U look cold
I was. It was in the low 20's with a 15 degree wind chill.
Keep fucking w me Haloscan and you'll live to regret it
It's not alive! It has no heart, no empathy, no compassion. The only reason for its existence is to torment users.
Pull the plug!
DAVE! DAVE! ..... take me out to the ball game...... give me your answer dooooooooooooooo
Maybe everyone on the left shouldn’t be so quick to condemn Karl Rove. He is, after all, willing to deliver your mail. Really.
This is the last message posted to his Twitter account:
Send a farewell letter to President Bush—Email gwbfarewell@gmail.com [no attachments] and I’ll give him your note on January 20.
Another note says the deadline to send in the letters is 6 p.m. ET on January 19th.
Fuck...I'm doing my damnedest to not let anyone, of any blogger persuasion ruin this moment for me.
But hell if they're trying (nobody here, just some other "left" blogs).
AndyMN, shovel-ready | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 4:54 pm | #
Just say, "not listening precious!... not listening!!"
I'm sick of that bullshit too. DOAN WANT. DOAN WANNA HEAR IT.
just let us be happy for once.
Jeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvaaaaaaaaaannnnnnn!
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
My new haloscan slogan (sorry if you've already heard it):
Haloscan! Not just a piece of shit, it's the whole turd!
I took the 20th off.
I'm jealous. I've had the chest crud since the New Year, and I've had to take 6 days off so far...
so it makes it kind of hard to take a day off to celebrate.
It's my misfortune, but what you gonna do?
The one night I have been out all month, I met some Obama supporters who got my drunker than hell on Sambucca (I don't know how to spell that)...weird, that.
I'll just stay home and drink tea this week.
U look mysterious
Thanks.
I think I look fat...
It was in the low 20's with a 15 degree wind chill.
billy b | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 4:55 pm | #
NEVER mention the wind chill.
One hell of a piece of flying. And landing, too.
It wasn't designed to land anywhere but on a runway without falling apart.
Adam Hominem | 01.17.09 - 4:51 pm | #
I was very impressed with the passenger ferrys that came to the rescue. They did an excellent job too.
DAVE! DAVE! ..... take me out to the ball game...... give me your answer dooooooooooooooo
pigboy
I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that.
I think I look fat...
Nonsense!
it's the layers!!
I'm off, since our office is in the thick of stuff. G/Son is staying w me. We're going to eat the Obama cupcakes I got at the bakery today and watch it together.
I hate to admit that I got choked up when the train came by. It was moving pretty fast. I think Joe and Jill Biden were standing on the back platform waving as the train went by.
The crowd cheered pretty wildly.
Here's a pic of me before the train got there.
billy b
turns out you are my husband's long lost twin brother
just let us be happy for once.
No shit. And it's the same fucking culprits.
I'm so jazzed right now...I don't even care that I was laid off right now. This whole brings out the good that's been taken away from us for 8 fucking long-ass years. Who knew Americans could be happy about politics again? I just love it.
Hahahahaha! Spa Special, say goodbye to Mr Bush!
I was very impressed with the passenger ferrys that came to the rescue. They did an excellent job too.
pigboy | 01.17.09 - 4:57 pm | #
No one should be surprised. New Yorkers are very good people.
I knew that they'd be there to help instantly.
I think I look fat...
billy b
Powerful. You look powerful.
At this moment, Allen is quaking, I have no doubt.
We're going to eat the Obama cupcakes I got at the bakery today and watch it together.
My mom's birthday is tomorrow, and I'm having a birthday party for her (smallish, just family).
I'm doing the Obama logo on the carrot cake I'm baking for her. She'll love it.
The only Republican will be my uncle.
DAVE! DAVE! ..... take me out to the ball game...... give me your answer dooooooooooooooo
pigboy
I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that.
Adam Hominem | 01.17.09 - 4:57 pm | #
Ahh! and my helmet is still in the ship.........!
CSpan call in is looking for Obama to prosecute you know who for former war crimes.
He might not wanna, but it will be an elephant in the room later on I think.
Must have been so exciting. Was there a big crowd?
I figure about 1000 people were there.
Lots of local law enforcement was in attendance. State boys (including two bomb squad vans) and Newark cops. As the train went under bridges, the police were stopping traffic both ways.
I'm doing the Obama logo on the carrot cake I'm baking for her. She'll love it.
G/Son can't really read, yet, but he recognizes the word "Obama" and always points it out.
May the Goddess bless and keep him, and may the damned Secret Service do their job to perfection.
Adam Hominem
Fark. Yes. I don't want the storyline with the train going home slowly. It would kill us.
I may has to make me some Obama cupcakes for the day.
Why are fucking college basketball games on every channel I receive. One game is on two channels.
I am just sitting here crying like a baby. I am so glad to see a grown up president.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
me too
"I was. It was in the low 20's with a 15 degree wind chill."
wind chill?
No one should be surprised. New Yorkers are very good people.
I knew that they'd be there to help instantly.
fourlegsgood, darkside bishop | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 4:58 pm | #
I am tired of the news focusing on what people did not do. All it does is reinforce sterotypes.
NEVER mention the wind chill.
That was for euph.
I'm very happy (you can see by the slight rise of the lip tips). But I have a sinus infection and so my happiness is filtered thru grump
"Why are fucking college basketball games on every channel I receive. One game is on two channels."
Gave me a thought on how to bump up televised tennis.
One station takes one side, another the opposing. Then you can have two sets on simultaneously.
Probably going through the metro station about now
four day weekend.... WOOO HOOOO!!!
and at the end of it... NO BUSH!!!
The Top 43 Appointees Who Helped Make Bush The Worst President Ever»
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I am just sitting here crying like a baby. I am so glad to see a grown up president.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
me too
ErinPDX, snow month | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 5:01 pm | #
Me three
turns out you are my husband's long lost twin brother
My wife kept fucking with me because I had sunglasses on.
I think I look fat...
billy b
you look small.
Sorry Echidne
feel better
I don't want the storyline with the train going home slowly. It would kill us.
I think it could be our death knell
you look small.
charley
About 30 pixels by 20, only.
Letterman Presents Final "Great Moments In Presidential Speeches" Montage (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
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ce n'est qu'un Au Revoir...
Live view from the train here:
http://www.c-span.org/politics/c...ration-
hub.aspx
3rd feed down.
looks at teh peoples!!!
What,
are Obama cupcakes?
That's it. 44 degrees and sunny. No excuse not to wash car. Damn! Wish me luck
I am trying to figure out how to covertly provide video to our lunch room. A lot of folks would like to watch him take his oath. But I am pretty sure the powers that be will shoot down any suggestion.
I am considering moving a unit on a cart with a wireless connection out there and running video from there. Suggestions on sites that would provide the live feed without getting overwhelmed?
I only hope, comin down off this New drug, is as great as it was getting up there.
Gloria
charley
fab!
When they brought Franklin Roosevelt home to Washington, thousands and thousands lined the tracks, and wept.
My Grandpa told me about it, he was there.
Thanks for the link, jdw.
Here's a pic of the Newark train station and part of the crowd.
plum p,better democrats please | 01.17.09 - 5:04 pm | #
I about busted my gut laughing at the baffoon..... Thank you Dave Letterman
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
20...l_n_158705.html
Are they (the cupcakes) decorated with a cartoonesque picture of Obama's face?
CSpan call in is looking for Obama to prosecute you know who for former war crimes.
Don't think this is going to happen. I do believe they will investigate and prosecute crimes related to the U.S. Attorney scandal.
That's it. 44 degrees and sunny. No excuse not to wash car. Damn! Wish me luck
pigboy
but it is so windy!
makes it 32
My wife kept fucking with me because I had sunglasses on.
The Earth is slightly closer to the sun in the Northern Hemisphere winter than summer.
Or were you just pretending to be Secret Service?
I sinply have no idea and I wish I did. Personlly, I'd push back humanity by at least a couple generations. Fuckers are getting too smart for their own good.
If I assert that, which I am specifically not you might as well do a grand or two.
the Israelis make their client status utterly clear by scurrying out of Gaza before the Obama administration can pick up the leash and drag them back to the kennel.
Are they (the cupcakes) decorated with a cartoonesque picture of Obama's face?
No, the Obama logo
Funny...Obama talking about feeling guilty for the traffic delays.
but it is so windy!
makes it 32
ErinPDX, snow month | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 5:06 pm | #
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I didn't think about that! You may have saved me from a fate worse than death!....... now please, nobody suggest wearing more clothes.....
Okay I am outta here... enjoy the sunshine Erin
you look small.
About 30 pixels by 20, only.
heh.
"Funny...Obama talking about feeling guilty for the traffic delays."
No problem, the country can wait. Traffic delays compared to 8 years of stunted and reverse growth are trivial.
Tweety doesn't worry about "the regular people." He worries about the people sitting in the front rows.
I wish I had one of those Obama bumper stickers in Hebrew. I see a lot of them around my neighborhood.
Gloria
charley
no, sorry, it's REALY REALY FANTASTIQUE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=e...feature=related
Or were you just pretending to be Secret Service?
I just wanted to look like a badass.
damn, lost the feed. that was cool!
Tweety interviewing Cheryl Crow- awkward and lame.
also, this just in, per Tweety: black people have had a hard time, but white people really seem to like Obama too. huh.
glad I'm not watching all three hours of him.
Just got back from the Edgewood Train Station in NE MD. Huge, wonderful crowd! The trained slowed and Barack and Joe waved from the back deck- great signs, cheering and comradery. Also excellent gumbo in the nearby restaurant! Just saw myself on the TV- I am now officially the "Hope Hon" woman!(that's what was on my sign!)
Usually the ginks are hopped up, this time they nailed it.
I've got a shiny new web site.
Just saw myself on the TV- I am now officially the "Hope Hon" woman!(that's what was on my sign!)
lovepat
fantastique!
also, this just in, per Tweety: black people have had a hard time, but white people really seem to like Obama too. huh.
Oh, the humanity.
I've got a shiny new web site.
Moe Szyslak
fantastique!!!
Helllloooooo, Arlington!
Woohoo woohoo woohoo!
lovepat, all these stories are giving me goose bumps. Even without a wind chill factor. I am so excited.
You leave the Pennsylvania Station 'bout a quarter to four
Read a magazine and then you're in Baltimore
Dinner in the diner
Nothing could be finer
Than to have your new President send that sad sack of shit packing.
Thanks, plum. It's been over a year in the works. Designers, programmers, geeks, management, little people like me, a gazillion meetings and training sessions and mid-course corrections and etc.
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VforVirginia,
You lucky girl you!
If John Lennon were still alive, he'd quip that Obama was more popular than the Beatles.
Hecate!
Are you coming out tonight? Or do you have a fine young gentleman to keep you company?
Hello lovely people. Dad wants you to put on your new
SHOOOOOZZZZ
and ride the Supertrain.
Er, did that woman just wipe her lips after kissing Michelle?
he "Hope Hon" woman!(that's what was on my sign!)
You go!
True
S
h
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s
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'how you getting home tonight?"
"I'm taking the SULLY!"
You know it's coming. Embrace it--they guy done good.
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