So, here we go again.
Looks like Timmy Potatohead just had a look at the election results, as he brings in new Senator-elects John Tester and Jim Webb to Press the Meat. Then it’s a “special” roundtable with SU Alum Ted Koppel, and Robin Wright (unfortunately, not the Robin Wright from the Princess Bride, but the one from the Washington Post).
Over at Faze the Nation, bush buddy Bobby Schieffer hosts little Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Charlie Rangel of NY, to talk about taxes and the failed Occupation of Iraq.
Irrelevant Fux News Sunday and its irrelevant Host, Chris “Fuxface” Wallace will have irrelevant former presidential candidate, John Kerry, and irrelevant former Speaker of the House, Newt “who stole” Gingrich. Plus we’ll “find out what it takes to be the commander-in-chief’s chef.” :yawn:
Over on the Goebbel’s network, George Snufalufagus hosts Maverick McCain and his straight talk express on This Weak, and new House Majority Leader, Horny Stoner of MD is in to talk about his “brusing battle” with Nancy Pelosi and John Murtha. Also, it’s Jimmie Johnson (not the Brylcreem® king and former coach, but apparently some guy that’s really good at driving around in circles really fast), and at the roundtable, it’s George :jerk: Will, Fareed “token” Zakaria and little Robby Reich. Gee, that NASCAR dude is pretty tempting, but I think my boycott remains intact for yet another week.
Over at Wolf Blitzer’s Late Emission, we’ll hear from Carl Levin of the Senate Armed Services Committee, batshit crazy Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, Samir “stem cell” Sumaidaie, the Iraqi Ambassador to the United States (good job, as long as you never have to go back to Iraq), two guys who will try to whip it good in the House, James Clyburn (new Majority whip – aka, “big whip”) and his kinky counterpart, Roy “smoke a ” Blunt (soon to be “little whip”). Also, it’ll be Ken Adelman (who had the pleasure of serving under Donny Rumsfeld, back in the day), David “squeaky” Frum (who is shocked – shocked, I tell you – that the wonderful words he wrote for dubya never amounted to anything), and rightwing schmuck from the rightwing American Enterprise Institute, Michael Rubin.
Later, on 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley goes to India to find out why people are murdering tigers into extinction, Bob Simon has a few cocktails with Joe Namath, and Steve Kroft does a story on Hazelton, PA’s, fight against those goddamn illegal immigrants (in Hazelton? Who knew?).
And of course there are all new episodes of the Simpsons, Family Guy, and American Dad, plus the Wire. Have a happy Sunday.
666!
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SBR Rules the World!
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NBA’s top single-game scorers
Player Date Opponent Points
1. Wilt Chamberlain, Phi. March 2, 1962 vs. New York 100
2. Kobe Bryant, L.A. Lakers Jan. 22, 2006 vs. Toronto 81
3. Wilt Chamberlain, Phi. Dec. 8, 1961 (3OT) vs. L.A. Lakers 78
4. Wilt Chamberlain, Phi. Jan. 13, 1962 vs. Chicago 73
Wilt Chamberlain, S.F. Nov. 16, 1962 vs. New York 73
David Thompson, Den. April 9, 1978 vs. Detroit 73
7. Wilt Chamberlain, S.F. Nov. 3, 1962 vs. L.A. Lakers 72
8. Elgin Baylor, L.A. Lakers Nov. 15, 1960 vs. New York 71
9. David Robinson, S.A. April 24, 1994 vs. L.A. Clippers 71
10. Wilt Chamberlain, S.F. March 10, 1963 vs. Syracuse 70 And he was competing against the Lakers’ record holder, Elgin Baylor, who had 71; David Robinson, also 71; David Thompson, 73; and Wilt, 72, 73, 73, 78 and 100.
And he beat them all.
Except for Wilt. On one night.
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:priest:
Im alone!!!! :omg:
ohhhhhh :spank:
fine. Just wait till later :peace::pent::pirate::parrot:
:yawn: back to sleep, it’s freakin Sunday
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Brooklyn:parrot:
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❓ whatever :sheep: le
Press Release Source: SEIU
Houston Crackdown on Right to Peaceful Protest, Freedom of Speech…
Friday November 17, 11:17 pm ET
44 Janitors Arrested in Non-Violent Civil Disobedience in Houston Held on Combined $39.1 Million Bond
For peaceful protesters charged with Class B misdemeanors, bond for each set at unprecedented $888,888 cash; For Harris County man recently charged with murder, bond set at $30,000
HOUSTON, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ — In an unprecedented transparent attempt to severely limit the right to peaceful protest and freedom of speech of low-wage Houston janitors and their supporters, a Harris County District Attorney has set an extraordinarily high bond of $888,888 cash for each of the 44 peaceful protesters arrested last night. Houston janitors and their supporters, many of them janitors from other cities, were participating in an act of non-violent civil disobedience, protesting in the intersection of Travis at Capitol when they were arrested in downtown Houston Thursday night. They were challenging Houston’s real estate industry to settle the janitors’ strike and agree on a contract that provides the 5,300 janitors in Houston with higher wages and affordable health insurance.
The combined $39.1 million bond for the workers and their supporters is far and above the normal amount of bail set for people accused of even violent crimes in Harris County. While each of the non-violent protesters is being held on $888,888 bail …
* For a woman charged with beating her granddaughter to death with a
sledgehammer, bail was set at $100,000;
* For a woman accused of disconnecting her quadriplegic mother’s breathing
machine, bail was set at $30,000;
* For a man charged with murder for stabbing another man to death in a bar
brawl, bail was set at $30,000;
* For janitors and protesters charged with Class B misdemeanors for past
non-violent protests, standard bail has been set at $500 each.
More than 5,300 Houston janitors are paid $20 a day with no health insurance, among the lowest wages and benefits of any workers in America.
Community activists and leaders expressed concern and dismay today at the police’s use of horses to intimidate and corral janitors participating in the non-violent civil disobedience Thursday night in downtown Houston. The police’s choice to use horses to stop the protest resulted in four people being injured, including an 83-year old female janitor from New York.
In a statement released today prior to the bonds being set, U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee said, “A protest is a sign of freedom in the United States and exercises our basic rights to free speech.”
Photos and video shot by people in the crowd during the incident are available on
http://www.houstonjanitors.org/
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Ahhh vestiges of 1912 in the Colorado Coal fields 21st centruy style :gate::omg::jason::jason::fist:
When individuals are brought into the court system in this way the cost of fighting the system is often to great ..The people either surrender the struggle or go the alternate route .. Maybe its is a litigation state rather than a police state. Meanwhile how many lives are destroyed.
Rethugs :tommygun::tommygun::tommygun:
Thousands of peace activists in Columbus, Georgia.
Edited on Sun Nov-19-06 02:56 AM by roody
Thousands of people who want the infamous School of the Americas to be closed began their vigil in front of Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia today. Sunday, thousands will walk in a somber procession to the closed gates of Fort Benning. As someone sings the names of persons murdered by militaries, the vigilers will respond, “presente,” and raise a name of someone killed by soldiers. They will leave crosses and other remembrances at the gates, and those who trespass will be arrested. http://www.soaw.org
Here’s a short history of the movement
http://tinyurl.com/uaudl
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They have held demonstrations there for almost twenty years .. As we can see it has done a lot of good ( insert sarcasm emo here)
Oaxaca’s Popular Movement at Six Months
Arrests, Disappearances, Assassinations and Human Rights Violations are Manifold but Have Failed to Stop the Struggle
http://tinyurl.com/yxy97m
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So far at least..:eek:
C-span seems to be having a lot of those crusty VFW members calling in this morning ( insert Koo Koo emo here)
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:banana:YEA :yippee::pirate: NickiRose is #1, #2, #3 😉 😎 :yippee:YEA
Are you involking again? :rofl2: 😉
Susan Joy, 😉 😎 Is #4(again), 5, &6 PLUS :yippee:
(You just have to try harder to get in top 3 (or not):rofl2:)
Fred, I just wrote you re 12 on to 15 but at 15 “the machine” Did It:rofl2: 🙁 (laughter thru tears) :smack:
I will try again…:yawn:
hey Druid! :pent:
Representative Barney Frank has proposed in a series of meetings with business groups a “grand bargain” with corporate America: Democrats would agree to reduce regulations and support free-trade deals in exchange for businesses agreeing to greater wage increases and job benefits for workers.
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“What I want to do is break that deadlock,” Frank said in an interview. “A lot of policies that the business community wants us to adopt for growth are now blocked. On the other hand, the business community is successfully blocking the minimum wage [increase] and created a very anti union attitude in the Congress.”
http://tinyurl.com/yaq85m
NickiRose and Susan Joy are obviously some form of strange creatures who never require sleep or perhaps their crystal meth addicts since they always seem to be blogging here. It’s to weird. I don’t have much of a life myself but this is almost sad. Whatever! :yippee:
Quick Version:
👿 Re 12 EVIL 👿 HaaaYaaa:fist:
re 13 :nod:, re 14 :yippee: 14 cont They have held demonstrations there for almost twenty years .. As we can see it has done a lot of good ( insert sarcasm emo here)
Comment by fred — November 19, 2006
This is why I became a misanthrope.
re 15 :scream: Of thee I pray. Blessings to all wounded or killed in battle, BUT :growl: :fist: HaaaYaaa and a bit of :tommygun: to the ones hurting the ones in Oaxaca.
and you’re obviously some kind of strange creature who says whatever mind fart remark comes to his mind without regard for hurting somebody’s feelings involved…whatever. Hope it gets you far in life.
You are welcome Susan Joy. I like you to! :crap:
You and NickiRose try to monopolize this blog and a lot of us here get tired of reading your bullshit.
CNick:yippee:Thomas, We have been calling out to you. I looked at your site and was going to write or call but 😮 just playing a bit of “catch up to life:eek:” :crap: ….. whatever
BUT :yippee: You Are Well. :yippee:
Now Yung’n wat happen’d. R U 😎 and :banana:. 😉
So I exercised my free speech right to tell you two what a lot of us here think. If that hurts so be it. I really don’t give a damn. I said my peace.
Hey Druid
You’re jealous that somebody posts more than you? And you have the nerve talk about pathetic? I’ve never heard anything sadder.
So far several Democrats in each chamber are taking up the matter. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) has prepared a bill correcting the worst problems in the Military Commissions Act, including its overly broad definition of enemy combatants. Incoming Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) will support a renewed effort to restore the right of detainees to bring lawsuits over their imprisonment; an amendment sponsored by outgoing Republican Chairman Arlen Specter (Pa.) failed in September by just three votes. Proponents of reform will have to take into account the possibility of a veto by President Bush — or the Senate filibuster they themselves declined to employ. But the restoration of the ancient right of habeas corpus is essential to bringing the United States back into conformance with international norms of human rights. It ought to be something a strong majority in Congress can agree on.
http://tinyurl.com/yhxsfb
Apparently you two don’t have a life since your always here. Do you work Susan Joy?
yeah, the friends who hide behind your back who aren’t brave enough to tell me how can’t stand me since I do such terrible things, and it looks like they found somebody who won’t be embarrassed to say something which is off the wall. Sorry, but I just don’t feel like an awful person because I talk to Nicki on the blog. With all the Jewish guilt I’ve been raised with it just doesn’t feel like I’m doing anything wrong. I have a pretty good idea what right and wrong is, and I’m pretty sure I’m a nice person to anyone who’s nice or even civil to me. It’s going to take more than that to get me to feel bad, sorry.
Who are you to judge what people do? Why are you so judgmental? I don’t have to answer to you. Were you beat up in school? It seems like you’re the type who would be. Or are you only brave online?
Maybe your a cripple and confined to your home. And the only Joy Susan gets out of life is to incessantly blog with NickiRose on this blog.
It seem like I personally attacked you judging your behavior, which I never did. Maybe you should do some intropective work on why you care so much about the fact that other people talk to each other, which seems like a flimsy argument for the hatred you express
Sue P , WTF :fustrate: :growl: :fist: HaaaYaaa re 22.
I am not amused. :crap:
Did you hear how Harry Reid is asking Congress for 75 BILLION dollars for the war:?: :barf:
and you’re the textbook definition of a bully
but I bet you wouldn’t say any of this to my face
Its a free country Susan Joy. Blog incessantly if you will. I don’t read the NikiRose and Susan Joy sub-blog.
because anyone can be a bully over the internet! It’s easy! Your anonymity hides you from the real reprecussion of facing somebody! Say anything you want! The schoolyard bully usually has more of a backup, by the way. I can’t see any faces hiding behind you.
I don’t hate you Susan Joy. I just don’t like you. And I do not like NickiRose either. Not hate. Just don’t like.
you DO read it obviously, or you wouldn’t be upset. Maybe you struck upon the solution! Yay! Not reading it. Gosh, you think it would have hit him sooner…
yeah, the eight year old kids I teach also use “it’s a free country” as an argument for talking when they’re suposed to be doing work, etc. It’s the typical elementary school response.
Hey Susan Joy. If you were in Birmingham, Alabama. I’d tell you to your face. So there. Get over it.
:peace: :kisses: you two. I get it…
sexual tension :rofl2: :yippee::rofl2:
….. It’s A Joke = LBH=Lead Balloon humour= It Just Doesn’t Fly
you need to look at your behavior. It’s not normal. Someone talking on the blog – me – who has nothing to do with you, who has NEVER attacked you, and it makes you crazy in the head. You need to examine that. Seriously. Save your ire for people who really do things that are hurtful, and I’m sure they’re out there.
I don’t back off from anyone, online or in person.
I’ll consider your advice to seek professional help Susan Joy. Now consider my advice to you and NickiRose. Get yahoo instant messenger so you and Nicki can continue your “lovefest” unabated.
Speaking about Rats (It’s a Joke since I :love: my Rats, whom I :love:), I have to feed. 😮 :winK:
Druid,
I have to hope that Barney Frank who is usually both smart and decent, has not morphed into a rethug. We shall see.
If two people who flirt lightly and express feelings for each other gets you nervous, then I can’t think of too many places on the internet that would make you comfortable. I don’t do anything remotely out of line. There are some more controlled blogs and mailing lists, message boards, etc where the conversaiton is strictly monitored and everyone’s suppsoed to stay on topic, that’s true. I didn’t think this was one of them. I also don’t see this as a place where people discuss politics 24/7 and every minute… because if it was Nicki and I would not be the only people who are breaking that rule, not by a long shot. Let’s face it, you just don’t like what we talk about, that’s really what this is about. So…don’t read it.
LONDON — Military victory is no longer possible in Iraq, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in a television interview broadcast Sunday.
In a wide ranging interview on British Broadcasting Corp. television, Kissinger presented a bleak vision of Iraq, saying the U.S. government must enter into dialogue with Iraq’s regional neighbors _ including Iran _ if any progress is to be made in the region.
“If you mean by ‘military victory’ an Iraqi Government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes
http://tinyurl.com/ye8mfc
The rats are deserting the sinking ship.
I don’t read it. But answer this question. Do you ever sleep? And do you have a job? I wish I didn’t have to work. I do like sleep though. If I did not have to work I could think of a million and one things I’d rather be doing than blogging.
If you’re going to have a private conversation in a public discussion area, then don’t be surprised if people comment on it. In fact, I can think of no other reason to have a private conversation in a public discussion area, than because you want other people to comment on it.
Sue P, :nod: He was even my congressman for many years. :growl: Now just watching his next step. :growl:
I think Barney Frank is making a tactical move. Politics is like playing chess. Just watch as the game plays out.
people have one-on-one conversations with each other all the time on this blog, especially at times when not many people are logged on. I don’t exclude people from my conversations. In any case, I never wrote anything which should subject me to be attacked my C Nick. I don’t attack him or anyone here but I don’t remain silent when he goes after me.
There is certainly a disturbance in the force this morning.:billcat: :no:
Folks are a little testy here. :slap: We really need to learn to play nice & try to understand each other instead of :slap:
Re # 14 — SOA — Fred — your sarcasm about the yearly peace demonstrations serves to imply that such actions are useless, when, indeed, persistence is what eventually wins out. Consciousness does not change if people give up and say that change is not possible because it doesn’t happen immediately.
Two of our Central New York Raging Grannies are at the SOA event — they have been going each year for at least the past 10 years. The actions of the peace demonstrators at the SOA are not a waste of time. The fact that people persist in exercising 1st amendment rights to protest and expose government atrocities is vitally important because SOMEONE has to pay attention to these things. To cynically dismiss these actions as useless serves to support the SOA and what they are doing our name. You are entitled to your opinion, as are all of us. It is just disturbing when people who go out of their way to actually speak up about injustice and terrorism are dismissed as useless. Sounds too much like the Dark Side rearing it’s evil head.:jason:
:jesus: :yinyang:
Everybody just take a deep breath now :gate:
Susan Joy, I never resaid Tea:joe:Cheers back :alc: :wink::
Did you ever get Hildegard von Bingen? Now that is the question! I have seen both ways, so is V capital or small? :pent: Or do I have to involk Nicki Rose :rofl2:
I do not consider what I have written here to you (Susan Joy) as an attack. I offered up what I consider “helpful advice” to you and NickiRose. I think Yahoo Messenger would be a better place to carry on your personal conversations. Enough said. But you can continue to do whatever you like. I’m certain you will. And I shall too. I only wish I had as much time on my hands as you and NickiRose. If I’m jealous . . . I am jealous of all the free time you two seem to have to blog incessantly.
Usually I get judgmental talk about what I should do with my life from conservatives, I don’t expect it here. My first instinct was to defend myself, but why should I? There’s nothing I do with my life that I’m ashamed of. I think I’m pretty good person, I spend a lot of time helping other people, and I’ve come pretty far in achieving some of the goals I set for myself this year, so I have nothing to be defensive/ashamed about.
what personal conversations? I do have instant messenger and yahoo btw.
Peace demonstrations during the Viet Nam war went on for YEARS. Eventually, the tide of events made getting out of Nam the majority opinion.
I quote a Jerry Springer promo, “If you don’t say it, how will they hear it?”
they’re not personal. Talk to me, if you’re reasonably nice I’ll talk back. although some of my topics may bore certain people, I’ll admit that…
LOL I’m “savagesuzie” on yahoo, but I rarely use it…
name was given to me on this mailing list that I belong to when I chased a troller off the list :peace:
Good to hear you have achieved your goals for this year Susan Joy. I guess I require a little more time to achieve mine. So blogging 24/7 is out for me. I wonder what miracles you could achieve if you used some of this blogging time to work on your other goals?
ah good mornign everyone…another beautiful day on the blog.
I was on late last nite for a few mins but because I too dont read the nicki suz sub blog…aka instant message in public….I just signed off…
This morning I went back to see if it got any better and I have to say that it really hasnt.
Suz, say what you will and I notice that Nicki, in his usual cut and run in the face of…well, anything….but you MUST go back and look at the blogs and see that you and NIcki use this place asyour personal instant message…often to embarassing extremes…and that alot of people here scan through what you say wihtout reeading it. Before you were here Nicki kept throuwin all of these articles in full and if he was asked anything about anything he shut down his computer. It was just a nuisance…now, its an ongoing soap opera and you two want to delve into your personal interest in judasim and and israel…but it has little to do with what others are trying to talk abotu and it doesnt leave room for anyone else to strike up much of anything.
WHY do you want to converse in public if its just you two? Is that not what instant messages, telephones, skype, and airline tickets are for?
today’s a weekend If you look at the archives you’ll see I don’t blog most of the day. I’m quite busy and I do a lot of work at home. A lot of my art is on my myspace page and I’m a published writer as well as a tutor. Also I’m not extrovert so I happen to like the internet.
and suz, I cant see why you would translate anything into you personally be ing a bad person or doing something to be embarassed about. Its just that when you meet someone on the internet and its an intense seeming bond, you sometimes go off on your own tangent. That doesnt mean that you are a bad person…but you dont need to do alot of this in public. Consider the hundreds of people who are lurking from time to time….after something like a year of the same sort of thread and the two of you flirting, it seems like maybe for all of our sanity and the health of the blog (and Id prefer to see a completely dead night than suz and nicki all night long) you two should meet in person and see if youre really gonna like eachother in real life.
sorry…was going to type a more involved answer (and probably will when I have a few minutes later)…Israel discussions are out of line here? Seriously?
going off on tangents is a bad thing. Ok, now we’re getting to the nitty gritty
Nick, how was the show yesterday?….I was running past and almost stopped and looked but we were SO late…which was good becaue this rabbi is incredibly repetitve and long winded (thoug him find him to be very caring towards the kids and community) When your ein the know in these certain circles you know which thing to come late for to just hit the end part that is tear jerking and makes you see what it might be like if …wel, if my family wasnt so dysfunctional in so many ways…incredible pride and love in these boys that Ive known carrying this old scripture round…but then the fresh sushi bar and sit down filet mignon and lots of nursery school friends…
So, late was goo…lost in westchester in the dark was not…
I found a suit for tall Will an hour before the party while running through lord and taylor…marked down and another 20% off coupon down to $50 for the whome thin…and he looked like a rock star!…a too cool to dance, dangrous rock star. I think he needs some narrow ties.
good thing I don’t involve myself in the personal lives of the people who attack me here and tell me what to do and how to behave. Yeah, I don’t think I’ll sink to that level
huh? Tangents?…this is months and months of the same thing. I am tangents…you are a pretty much one subject personal sub blog….
Tangents are great…give me cooking, pets, um…even politics not having to do with isreal and kill all the ….
Suzie this is like high school…it makes me want to blog elsewhere andbelieve me Im considering it.
I was on a list for many years and we even had a yearly music festival which I helped produce for the first two years (not in its 10th year) but a couple of people ruined the whole list and a sub list sprung up and left the few alone to self destruct….and now the messages are down to less than 10 per day …down from 1000+ per day with an active discussion all the time from 2500 members or so.
The people who broke away…I dont know how the list is now because Ive been out of the music circles for a while, but they formed a liat cale “fluff” because these few people had wanted to talk about pretty much one thing and learn and arguethis same thing over and over, reinforcing eachother….and the rest was just fluff to them…but really what everyone else wanted…so the whole list left and the few destructed the list.
It was all full of really smart musicology people who knew alot but they were just disgusted at the end …..whatever….
cause you know I can do that, spend free time reading over what people write here and being judgmental and telling them how to live and what to do.
personal lives? huh?
introvert, huh?
if you don’t like what I write don’t read it. What do you go around and attack people on internet blogs and delve into their lives? I’m not attacking you. I don’t care what you write about or what you do. I’ve been on the internet 10 years and I’ve never had anyone gaze into my inner workings and play shrink with me before.
people write here???? very few people write here much anymore suz….
Two hours is a bit long for a show. Next Saturday’s has been trimmed back to a one hour live show. Trying to find the right format. John Ong and some of his friends visited the show. John Ong and Andy (from here) called me on skype during the show. T’was nice to have a diverse audience. Wish more people from the blog would listen in. Next weeks show will be from 2 to 3 P.M., (Central time) if anyone here wants to listen in. Go to my site: nickthomas.org for instructions on listening to the stream.
first I go off on tangents, now I’m “one subject” Make up your mind, those things contradict each other, you know.
I DID NOT DO ANYTHING WRONG! Leave me the freak alone! I don’t bother you! LEAVE ME ALONE!
huh?…suz what are you arguing here?
nitpicking?
Im ready to take up a collection to fly you to nicki or nicki to you just to get this thing over with one way or another….
you are both smart but the delivery alienates alot of people….
ok, let me sit back and examine the minutaie of your messages and your life and how you live it and whether you stay on topic, etc… .no, you know what,, I can’t do it. I can’t freakin do it for the life of me. Because it’s not my business.
suz…calm down….if you put yourself in a public forum and do this for months and months, you have to expect some feedback at a point….
because the alternative for me is to just disappear off of this blog and go to another or start another…but I LIke this blog…or I liked what it was before it turned into the nicki and suz show. I am happy to move on if people feel like this is a good freedom of speech issue….but I think its a sort of tunnel vision view. Its not what youe tallking about, but that its to the exclusion of everyone else usually…only a few get in there with you anf they tend to fall away. Maybe its a stamina issue. I see the stamina here of a full blown flirtation that needs to either come to fruition in some way and grow past this first blush…so that the rest of the world can be involved…
If the rest of the world cant be involved in what you have and what you do, then why are you doing it on a public forum?
Am I the only one who wonders this?
the point is that there is no topic here…you guys are on mostly one topic….
for months and moths…a continuation of what Nicki was doing here before you were here!
suzie- what is your published work? Id like to read it….what does Nicki do? what is his band and all….what does he do for a living?
You must realize that it looks very much like you two hardly ever sleep…
I have lots of friends who aren’t “alienated” by me. My views are my views. I’m on a mailing list for 10 years with liberals, libertarians, conservatives, people of every political stripe. They talk about much crazier stuff than anything here, and they’re ok with it. In fact I started that mailing list, 10 years ago, because people were tired of AOL censorship (which is why I also eventually left AOL).
I’m not speaking for him. He can do that if and when he chooses. I’m a tutor, I’ve written a herbal encyclopedia and articles, mostly on herbalism and folklore ..created the newsletter for a church for a few years in the 90’s…most of the time during the week I’m not blogging during the day except very early in the morning before I go and do things, just look at the archives and you can see that.
Suz, you dont have to list your credits or explain your schedule….Im just wondering about how it is that you can live on so little sleep….and Im wondering of you and Nicki even care that there are many people out here or are just talking to eachother?
you could just as easily say that youre one of those people who need 4 hours of sleep per night as list your schedule….its just a little curious and people…or I…maybe just me…I wonder….why and how….
I’ve had illustrations published in small newspapers and so on …I stopped drawing for a few years after a fire in 2002 burned up all of my artwork but I started again this year
I probably lack for sleep on weekends but make up for it at other times. Like many people out there, I would think.
not tooting my horn. You were curious about what I do, or so it seemed.
I’m not just talking to Nicki. I’ll talk to anyone providing they’re nice or if what they write is interesting (same goes for them, they’d have to find what I write interesting). I seem to be talking politics with Fred a lot lately
Did he say the “satanic level of violence”?…who is watching mclaughlin…incredible!
Nicki has a band? I thought that was just his “Nicki Rose” schtick – does his real persona have a band, too?
What I don’t understand, personally, is why anybody would toil for hours reloading the page here, when IM is faster, easier, and more suited to the task.
But, mostly, I have to admit, I don’t read a lot of what goes on here. I use the spacebar to scroll past everything, and I mostly don’t give a shit what gets written here (within reason, of course). But I will say that I have had IM sessions with more than a couple of people here, who find certain things exclusionary. They feel as if they are intruding in private conversations, and just go away.
I’m not taking about “hey, how ya doin'” or “how’s the dog” or whatever, but some of the lengthy “insider” stuff, that seems to take place apart from and to the exclusion of others. Well, whatever. As I said, I mostly don’t give a shit.
I’ll try not to exclude people. I’ll make a special effort. I don’t want to be seen that way.
It would be a terrible shame, to me, if anyone were to leave this blog. I have found some great information here and a lot of interesting people. And, the best collection of emos.
BTW, my DVR caught an episode of “Comics Unleashed” hosted by Byron Allen (of all people) with Marc on it. At first, I assumed that it was some old show, but it turned out to be pretty recent. Marc was on with three other comics. Looks like a relatively low budget show syndicated out of Hollywood. Marc was pretty good (stuff we’ve probably all heard, but still good).
I’ll try to involve people in what I talk about. Although as I said earlier, my topics may bore certain people…
oh Sue, I LOVE your ecological topics. There’s simply not enough of that on any progressive blogs on the internet.
well, I realize that I miss quite a bit about you because it is buried there in NIcki’s agenda….I scan through and when you say something like “Well, my family came from Poland..” or whatever, I try to then read…but Nicki says something a little dismissive and is back on the material material material right away, and you say “oohhh, ahhhh…so interesting”…and then youre gone again.
I would love to hear more about your teaching and how it is and the bird and stuff….
Alot of whatever youre saying is just lost because its buried in there somewhere and no one is reading all of it…or much of it….
Maybe Im wrong, but I know thats true of me.
Ive spent eoungh time trying to fiugre out who nicki is, only to have him storm off when questioned at all, and Im rather finished with that. You cane into a situation where nicki had already worked hard to establish himself as a mysterious gremlin who posted a million articles regardless of if anyone was reading them. There were months when I just asked him to make a comment about what he thought about it all…and he just shut down…
There were months when he didnt want anyone to know who and what he was and was very secretive…until someone figured out that he was greg….and where his myspace page was.
I just dont like that sort of agressive posting of certain articles and then withdrawl if anyone asks you to represent what youre saying with opinion.
There were times when he would post every article from truthout….with no care for if they were being digested or even read…
Do you understand that you have buried yourself in who nicki workedhard to be before?…He came out quite a bit after you arrived, but still is passive agressive and seeimingly thinking hes in control.
Im always happy to hear what smart people think…but if its presented in a way that is not digestable and has no sort of human thread that shows how it relates to the person’s real life, there is a huge chunk lost.
Isnt that what Marc Maron does anyway? Isnt that why we love Marc? Because he is a real person….he is not dogmatic….
Im just thinking of jumping ship here….its not my thing…
ALL RELAX:!:
LIBRAs NEVER get enough sleep. I plan on going to sleep, but then “I must answer this one or write that one”. This Blog is saying (the person) and Libras always complete the CYCLE……No matter how long and however that Lib has to sacrifice ONESELF
Lib Su Joy write — but I am FINALLY going to sleep.
I am mostly asleep…….imagine my fustration when The Blog is :hot:Hot:omg: and I have to leave as everyone is talking to me and I try to answer. TALKING is an AIR Sign (Libra is one :rofl2:) “forte”.
hey PJ…. yeah, the spacebar….the refresh…something I forget about for long periods of time…heh..
Nice McLaughlin today…..Ilike this show more and more.
Grandpa always didnt like him much so when he would be here on the weekends I skipped it so as not to have to hear all the bitching….but it was a personal thing, not a content thing.
Oh, wow, this Comics Unleashed is a daily show (first aired on September 29th of this year, it looks like). They have a website and a myspace page. It was on one of our low-power TV stations here. The ReplayTV only caught it ‘cuz I have a “Marc Maron” theme channel set up. At one point, they had one segment, cut to a commercial, came back, and ran the same damn segment over again. Not a huge lotta production value. Sounded like somebody kept leaning in the “laugh” button, ‘cuz the audience kept laughing at odd times.
wow…PJ can we see it? Canyou transfer it to me on skype?
I don’t mind talking about teaching or my bird (or birds in general). I can do it ad nauseum unless someone tells me to shut up, and education is kind of a pet topic of mine.
the Comic Unleashed thing sounds awesome…
well, my sister is a libra and she sleeps…most of the time, though she has 3 kids so its sometimes hard….I dont know if I boil this down to sta signs before I explore the basic psychology that jumps out at me…from experience….
I’m not so much a talker as a writer…maybe Druid is the only one who will get this…my rising sign is Virgo and I have all kinds configurations that make me confortable with the written word. I do better in paper and I’m kind of shy in person until I get comfortable
I’ll have to transfer it to my PC, and then convert it to something a bit smaller, so it’ll take me a while. It wasn’t that great, though (other than Marc). George Wallace, Tom Green, Orny Adams (whoever the hell that is) and Marc.
Gang” Members, Susie Joy and Melina and …
But, But Melina I never would have learned of Parrots or dead frozen mice. Don’t jump ship My Rats Wouldn’t :rofl2:
A joke cuz Sue P wrote of Rats jumping ship (giggle)
Can we all go out for tea? I am a sleepy “bitch” or ‘”witch” or whatever. 😉 We can have a grand pic nic and we can have a grand bottle of (RED) wine or neet water and we can play civilized …. or “be wolfish friends” :growl: :KISS: online for now, BUT ONEDAY:yippee::dancers::slap::yippee: we will meet. :banana:
Marc’s a Libra. He doesn’t strike me as a “sleeper” type either. Me? I’m a sleeper wannabe. I wannabe sleepin’, but I never seem to be able to.
Melina, Re Libra’s there are also different types of Libra’s ( and other signs, depending on decan, on certain other things. Your sister sounds similar to my Aunt.
Marc is a creative Libra of the first decan, which tells even more.
BUT all is just ONLY A GENERAL, base read.
I am asleep (almost) so I hope I make sense.:love::cool:
sleep well beautiful druid….:love:
I love astrology, I can talk about it for hours…goodnight Druid
Good morning everyone (it’s still morning in CA, anyway)!
Marc’s show at the Punchline last night was great – he’s sporting the “Jesus” look – long hair, beard, etc. and he was in fine form. It was a full house, and 2 other comics opened for Marc. The first was some lame local guy, the other was a guy named Dan Gabriel, who was OK. I just wanted to see Maron! Some of the act wasn’t new to me, but every bit was funny and he had the crowd by the throat. I talked to him after the show and he is a great guy. (like we didn’t already know that!) I had brought my copy of “Tickets Still Available” for him to sign, and he went all over the club looking for a sharpie so he could sign it for me – so sweet! I asked him when he was coming back to the airwaves, and he said he’d been talking to the Drobnys but he doesn’t think that would be the right fit. He wants to have a show where he can continue to work with Jim and the other talented comedians as he has in the past. So, no good news on the radio front. I told him the bloggers sent their love, and that we all really missed hearing him every day.
This was the first time I got to see Maron perform live – if anyone has a chance to see him live, don’t miss it! :rofl2:
Mo thanks so much for the review…I love the Jesus look and of course he needs it through the season, at least, to do the mall thing….:santacool:
I was pretty sure the drobnys were not gonna work out…but hopefully something will soon. Did he say anything about filling in for springer and how that came about?
That has been of interest to me, as its almost like AAR is smart enough to wantot keep a good channel opene with Marc should they suddenly need a host or something….
even if the material is familiar, he still manages to put it a liottle differently in person every night…I saw him 3 times in a row and laughed all the tme…and he worries that people will get too used to the material. He is a gem of a human being…I just like him alot.
Id really like ot meet Mishna. I hope they come and do some shows in the NYC vicinity….Im also itchy to travel somewhere on the train…Providence looks good….
Have to agree. Marc is great in person when you meet him and very open and heartfelt in what he says.
That is what makes him great when you see him live. No faking that in the man.
Hey, Painting Girl! Good luck with the show tonight!
:sammy:
Long time lurker, sometime poster.
I like this blog a lot and most of the people here. I came here as I assume most did for the Marc Maron connections.
I check it rather often and read what is going on and check out the banter. Some of it does not interest me. For example, I am not much of an animal person, but I still find those elements interesting and scan through them. I am happy for the times I come by and see the posting count is up and people are on the blog. Once again, not always interested in the topics but the exchanges and information are fine. I usually look for Maron news and information direction to related stuff like what is going on at other talk shows, in the news, politics and , most of all, th the funny.
Yesterday was such a waste of time I was convinced I would not come back for a while but this morning I had to look and it is all about what at a waste yesterday was. I agree with CNick and Melina. There was a lot of posting going on that should have been IM or PM or as some would say, “Get a room”. There was no need for it to be here. Before he weighed in today, I think CNick made his point without comment last night. Even our host in his kind way seems to have said so today.
I notice that a lot of the regulars have been scarce lately and it looks like that they might sense that a hijacking is going on and have just disappeared rather than comment. A few other blogs and message boards I look at have an ignore feature or the moderators rule with an iron fist and kick off miscreants and trolls which would have made life a lot easier yesterday but I don’t believe in that, especially here.
I just hope that here (hey, why not everywhere?) people be a little less self-involved and more aware and considerate of the community or space they are in and those around them.
And as much as possible, play nice.
This appeared at the top of the blog. What does it mean? Sounds as if I did something to the blog:
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RAGING Granny:!: FINALLY:!: You have been missed. We wrote at the same time on “blog”. How’s Protests :?::wink: and then you “save lives” too. super:cool:
My husband knows so I might as well tell you. I have a “crush” on your husband:eek:. (Libras, in general, and Lions are NATURAL flirts.)
He, my husband, is a Cancer and we have been married 22 years. 😮 The longest I stayed with a man was 2 1/2yrs then I met my hubby, but he refuses to deal now with cats. He does have his good days though.
But any man that cleans up cat pee & poop, litter, and cat:barf: — I know that you do probably the most but for a man to do sometimes :omg: Then add all PJ’s “techie” “stuff”, adding all that sarcastic “stuff” he writes daily. WOW :hubba:
Shhhhhh Don’t tell your hubby :rofl2: 😉
I often tell my hubby it is a damn good thing I am a Libra and A WOMAN to put up with his frailties (not liking cats) I had 11 cats (and stray dog) when he met me :rofl2:
But PJ is married to a Lion :hubba::wink: :rofl2:
YOWZAH! what a blog today! :billcat:
KEV, for the record, i am also a Goebbel’s network boycotter hold-out.
re the nick/suz show. I, too, haven’t jumped on the blog when that show is in the thick of it. It is exclusionary. It would be much appreciated if that particularly long conversation were located on some private channel rather than here. I very much enjoy hearing about everyone’s lives and the conversations that often magically happen (including the stuff from those individual bloggers). However the long drawn-out N/S show is very personal, excludes others and better suited for another forum like instant messaging, imho.
PEACE! :gate:
Ciao!
P.S. I’m a Libra and I nevah get enough sleep. for what it’s worth.
Hey, Sue P, sounds like, for whatever reason, WordPress tried to insert an identical record into the db, which generated an error. Not sure why, but probably due to a hiccup somewhere between the web server and the database server. Anyhow, hopefully it was a one-off thing, and won’t happen again.
But I have a “crush” on Marc too and sometimes Fred:wink:…:rofl2:
and :cool:Melina and :cool:Susan Joy
AND :cool:RAGING Granny:wink: :pup::cat::parrot::nuts::billcat:
AIV Sue P :banana:
Quickly: As I fade away.:yawn: Farmerkat tea/:joe: Cheers :alc: :yippee: :dancers::yippee: Shoot, not enough time 24/7 :tongue: (I am still trying to change my sleep time…How did I ever stay awake when the Sun came up:eek:)
I am crawling away now, but one day I will “play”. (Play = WORK and at times play) .
:pent::knit::gate:Good Journeys to all
:slap: :slap: :slap: :slap:
look out guys, if pj has to stop this car we’re all in trouble!
so druid, how come you don’t have a crush on me? i feel so totally left out…
If you don’t like what I post, don’t fucking read it. Or use your connections to get me excluded. Because I am not going to change how I post, or what I post. Actually, I can’t believe the above conversation took place on this blog.
Sheeeez :shock::shock::shock:
I see this blog more like an on line Coed dorm ..The rule was that you had to leave the door open but other wise … :eek::eek:
It does not sound like a question of anyone not liking what you post, at least from yesterday.
The problem was that you were having a long conversation with one other person that did not need to be here . It could have been taken to another forum where everyone else wouldn’t have to sift through it to see if there was something they wanted to read or respond to.
Perhaps PJ can use his expertise to add a “ignore” button which one could use to exclude the posts of certain ppl. Then we could all live in the same blog peacefully. Just a thought! 🙄
They say that doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is an act implying insanity.
That seems to work in the case of the neocons to explain their use of force to solve problems but it also works for the peace movement thinking that demonstrations alone caused the end of the Vietnam war. Sociopaths only respond when their very existence is threatened and generally not in a positive way.:eek::eek:
my conversations are too long? Jeez, I don’t know if I want to be here. Seriously. I like some of you very much but I don’t know what the rules are anymore, or that I can follow them they seem awfully restrictive. It’s all a bit too much for me, I’ve been on the internet for 10 years and I’ve never seen anything quite like this.
I don’t think that an ignore button is in the true spirit of this place or its inspiration. I won’t speak for PJ but I am guessing he would agree..
Maybe a better test of his expertise would be how to install a “Get a room” or STFU function.
So what is wrong with seeing a bit of someones background , likes, dislikes and fantasies?? Blogs are as much about everyday life in the SBR as they are about news and views . Riverbend for example was a lot about everyday life and survival in Iraq.:eek:
“Get a room” would work I guess. STFU?
I guess I can continue to wade through the shit if I must. Or perhaps start a new blog.
Interesting info on the “WordPress” site.
Yeah, you can also look at Drupal, among others.
fred: what is “riverbend”?
Hello, hello??
Is it safe to come in?? 😕
Ohmigod, the Church of Maron with its first schism. Who wants to play The Albigensians?:sammy:
BTW:
if any of us were “normal,” we wouldn’t be:
marc maron fans
on this blog
progressives
etc
face it :sheep:le, we’re every one of us obnoxious in our own irritating but unique way.
You got that right, Ass-face. :sammy:
Just look around Nicki…fred…suz….just look at others…too long? Content? whatever…just look around.
Its like a cocktail party with other people in the room.
I cant imagine where youve been Suz, and I like to know…Ive been to many places and this sort of nonsense would never have been tolerated anywhere that Ive been inthe last 15 years….
Why do you want to go on about htis? Why not just look at it…
Its not a dorm…its a cokctail party full of GROWNUPS…and we look around the room and see who else is here….
If its a dorm then Im out, because I already did the dorm and Im past that. I also didnt need the lessons of the dorm, which are about living with others…..and closing the door sometimes, Fred.
case in point!
Hey Fred,
Has any of this news about the houston janitors been in the MSM?
$900,000 bail? It’s unbelievable!
Yeah, I saw that. I thought the arrests were disgusting enough, now this bail thing is just even more amazing. I suppose they’re just lucky not to have been declared enemy combatants and tossed into a dog pen at Gitmo.
i wonder how the older establishment unions are responding to this. time for a little solidarity folks.
Broke my rule and watched Plump Tim today – he’s afraid of Jim Webb, no doubt about it, because he didn’t try to lay a glove on him. Webb would have ripped his throat out, which might have had something to do with it. Webb helped a lot by mentioning his ‘thang’ for Pat Moynihan, allegedly Tim’s mentor. I’m getting a real man-crush on Web – he doesn’t put up with bullshit, and the contrast between his performance and that of hatchet-face Kerry on Fox was glaring. :sammy:
A national general strike, like what should have happened after Reagan fired the air traffic controllers.
:fist:
Hey cresttwo, both Webb and Testor were outstanding on MTP. Real honest to God liberals!!
Testor just seems like a really nice genuine guy with no pretensions about him. He kept deferring to Webb whenever foreign affairs were discussed – it was kind of funny. And he was in his kitchen!
Webb I think would destroy the GOP if the Dems ever got the brains to run him for president. I don’t see how it would be close. :sammy:
You’d think there’d be some solidarity there. This would be a good chance to come in and show the people what unions can do for you. Texas is apparently quite a hostile environment.
:fire::fire::fire::fire::fire:
Grand National Championship is on TONIGHT on FreeRadioSAIC.org 8 pm CENTRAL TIME
One hour of Marc Maron Show and Morning Sedition archived material plus talk, a chat room, my smiling face on the
hopefullyworking webcam, and me wishing that my new Democratic senator would STOP TALKING.Come and join me! Or I’ll kill you.
Actually, I won’t. I’ll just pout that Marc didn’t mention my show in his e-mail when he mentioned Seditionist Radio.
:fire::fire::fire::fire::fire:
It’ll be interesting to see who winds up running in ’08. The primary system seems to be designed to determine the very worst candidates possible – on both sides.
Houston is going to get
way more than it bargained for. It’s a union issue, a racial / civil rights issue, a political / class issue. woooeee! i see next year’s sundance festival on the horizon.
couldn’t happen to a nicer city and state.
To me, any candidate who can dominate the media whores, and skillfully bitchslap them down the way Webb does is automatically someone to consider [Cheney does this too, in his malevolent way] – He’s got the resume and the smarts too, and experience in the cesspool we lovingly call our government. I’m amazed that this hasn’t been mentioned more. Oh yeah. And his son is serving in Iraq.:sammy:
Of the big American cities Houston represents one of the biggest economic divides in the country..It is dominated by oil, bank and real estate interests with a vast underclass of poor Blacks and Hispanics. It is also terribly Southern Baptist which is very fundy in its nature..:eek::eek:
Plus, they have much of that New Orleans refugee “element” that Barbara Bush was so concerned about still living there.
The primary process is a farce.. You only get to vote for some small group of candidates prechosen by a small group of party elitists. If they decide the democrats will be moderates this year that’s all you will see running are moderates of various flavors . If one of their choices decides to break from the prechosen frame work they get assassinated in the media like Howard Dean did.:crap::yuck::rant1:
Here is a good site to test your net speed.
I recently upgraded my Charter cable service to 10 Megabits download and 1 Megabit upload. The upload speed was just about spot on. But the download leaved something to be desired coming in at 5.5 Megabits tops. So I called Charter. After hearing one excuse after the other they finally sent a technician over to troubleshoot. He had a defeatist attitude from the start telling me that it was prolly the wiring. So I asked him to install a new modem. All the while he’s telling me that a new modem wouldn’t make a difference. After the install of the new modem the tech ran a speed test at the above site. The first result was not good and seemed to vindicate the tech. Not so quick. Each successive test got a better result. I am getting from 8 to 9 Megabits download consistently. Moral of the story? Never believe anything a Charter technician tells you. The tech initially told me that he’d never seen anyone get 8 to 9 megs with Charter that if he were me he’d call Charter and downgrade the service to 5 Meg. I’m glad I didn’t give in or I’d still be surfing at 3 to 5 Megabits.
This is Riverbend a lady on the Tigris in Iraq in the thick of the war.. err…occupation .. err civil war… She was off line for quite a while and everyone thought “they” got her Turns out they got her power plant. :rant1:
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
answering my questions,
a magistate later reduced bail on houston janitors arrestested t $1000 each — still much greater than similar “crimes”
a strike fund of one million $ was set up by nat’l labor — didn’t say which orgs participating.
I had problems with my connection crapping out for hours at a time – not regularly, though. I assumed it was RoadRunner, but called them a couple weeks back when it was down. Turns out, the signal was weak, and they installed a signal amplifier. Before that, I was getting roughly 1 meg up / 4 or 5 megs down. Now, I still get the 1 meg up, between 9 and 10 megs down.
So many things can cause slow net speed. I just figured that if I was getting 1 meg up but having trouble with the package download speed it couldn’t be a wiring issue. So its nice having a big pipe. I did have to give up all my movie channels to be able to afford the faster internet. But I can always buy on PPV or drive down to the local rental place if I want to watch a movie.
I don’t know about a cocktail party it was more like a beer brawl today.. Being from the Bronx Susan probably will come back in even finer form :eek::rant1::reaper::reaper:
:40: pass the pretzels
The SEIU was one of the unions that broke away from the AFL/CIO but is also one of the nations largest unions. It might be able to afford the war chest .
When you look at the route list for your internet connection there may be two or twenty or more hubs involved .. Each hub is like a hamster wheel where the packet gets on and sometime later depending on the load and where it needs to go on that segment gets flung off .. There can be considerable delays at each hub.. When a major segment in the backbone goes down traffic can be auto rerouted all over the country before you get your packet.
so are the tubes in between the hubs?
The “tubes” are actually Fiber optics cables, satellite links and as you get into to toolies multiplexed copper wire… Some of those runs can be quite long like hundreds of miles for Fiber and obviously tens of thousands of miles for satellites.
169.
That’s a brilliant idea for a TV news- reality show – Beer Brawl. Pundits and political hacks, all cacked out and loaded, puking on each other and arguing, in slurred tones, the great issues of the day.:sammy:
So PJ have you ever considered adding MobaTalk to this site? It might be kinda fun! Just a thought
Go here to sign up to MobaTalk formerly MyChingo.
The variability of the speed over the internet is one of the things that confuses me about the net neutrality issue. Sites are already set up so that servers having video traffic for example have a faster backbone connection than servers supporting just typical HTML only web sites do. By the time your data goes a thousand miles or more who knows what kinds of delays it will experience just because of random changes in segment loading .:eek::eek:
Right now, you pay for really big tubes, and you can have more simultaneous connections, but once the’re in the tubes, your packets get equal priority with everybody else. If there are delays, the delays are equal.
Think of it this way. You build a store, and there’s only one road from the parking lot to the highway. The highway’s really fast, but only so many cars per minute can get in and out of your parking lot. So, you pay for four more roads to the highway. Now you can get five times as many cars in and out of your store’s parking lot. Once they’re on the highway, though, they can all only go as fast as traffic will allow.
Now, I make a deal with the State Troopers. I pay extra money to buy special bumper stickers to put on the cars of my customers. Any car with my sticker that hits the highway gets a police escort around all the other traffic. Cars without a sticker have to wait behind all that other traffic. Not only do they get slowed down when one lane is closed or the toll booths are only half open, but they get slowed down even more having to wait behind the “prioritized” traffic.
Next, things are going so well for the State, that they decide to build a nice shiny new road that goes really, really fast, but only the cars with the special stickers get to use it. In fact, they probably need different, even more expensive stickers to use that road.
The “regular” road? Well, it’s still open, but really the State isn’t making any money off that road, so guess how well they maintain it? Not so well. It once took 10 minutes for your customers to get to your store, but now it takes them an hour, ‘cuz you wouldn’t pay up. Wal-Mart, though, oh, they pay. And you lose.
Hmm. Interesting, Cnick. I’ll have to look a little closer at it.
Who knows PJ if you add it perhaps Marc Maron would leave a comment or Jim Earle? Who the hell knows!!! It would be fun to listen to audio comments. I wish I could add it to my site but as of this writing I haven’t found a way to imbed the html in a .mac site created with iWeb.
Oy, but imagine the what verbal commentary there might be!
that’s what would make it fun PJ!!! :yippee:
Actually, I was thinking of adding an Ajax chat box to the sidebar. Does anyone out there think that’s something that might be useful?
And I wanna hear what Jeffy the Penguin sounds like. So . . .
So do you have a link to Ajax?
AJAX = Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It’s a web development technique. For instance, I tried something out a while back that allowed user comments to magically appear w/o having to reload the page. It didn’t seem to go over well. I was thinking i could add a chat box, where people could chat in realtime w/o having to reload the page.
RoxieSeattle, You are my SoulSis, I could and oneday plan on telling you, how you and Sharma (may be spelt wrong, but I have also PICS and Spelling:banana:) have a special “psychic link” :love:
But I have “crushes” on the 3 of the Seattle 3. :dancers: There is you, Then there is SBlueHeron, who knits :knit: Danger 😉 :love: and “Life”.
And what about TravisDem_04 (=3:yippee:)? Did I miss an email? Can I call somewhere? :sniff: He just is having a “grand” time and forget about me 🙁 sniff, sniff but overall, I am tease’n ENJOY YOUR LIONHOOD :banana:
Time to “infuse” tea/:joe: :omg: :tongue::dancers::cool:
Just remember PJSauter is the DM and he can elliminate all:banana::rofl2: Power. Mwah HaHa.
SEANMS — He has Thhheeee Powwwwwer :wink::rofl2:
(Who said, “I have the …”teehee)
okay i tried it out. It’s cool, but I really think the voice message system would go over better. But that’s just me. Everyone try out the realtime chat thingy at the top of this page. Say “Hello” Druid
DM = Dungeon Master? Ay Druid
Well, it was just a thought. I’ll turn it back off again.
Happy Turkey week people!
Hello CNickie (don’t worry I will not call this normally–I do not really get into nicknames) C with a Celtic C (like a K), 3 syllables :banana:
I do not know (or keep in a tooo full brain) when everyones times are.
We have QuietGirl, you, and whatever. :omg: But I have to go run around like a MadWoman eek, clean Mega kitty boxes, and work out and GET FIRST TEA/:joe: :omg: and sooooo MUCH more 😮
maybe we can do a phone call again sometime soon to catch up on what you’ve been doing dru
I am noramally dark and morose and morbid … but here :rofl2: gosh :rofl2:
Oh that’s what I wanted to do
PLEASE READ AND REREAD RoxieSeattle’s 145:!: :love:
I would love to “play” sometime — but when you southern dude you. You have my not-so-secret email :eek::wink:
TEA/:joe: NOW with a touch of old scifi on regular TV 😮 ohhh do I want to call you teehee:wink: CNickie :lol::wink:
AIV even though not many want to believe
Silly druid . . . I guess I’m gonna surf around. Really need to drive up to the office tonight so I don’t have to do it tomorrow. Arrg. I wish I was rich so I did not have to work anymore. Waaaaaahhh
pjsauter, keep it up. A sidebar-thingy would be 😎 No one is here, “Let It Be” (:music note:)
AND re magically appear w/o having to reload the page
I liked it. I thought I was insane at different times, when things appear and then poof are gone.. I get it, you are “playing” (ie working. :wink:)
:pup::banana::pup:i got some booty i got some booty!
:hot:4 hours straight…… i fucking rock!:nuts:
it was like the bananas:bf: :yippee:
Wow, I went out to get some BEER and go to the gym and come back to find things getting back to normal and the 49ers about to win their third game in a row..
Since I do not do the emo, don’t even know how, perhaps I was a little misunderstood when I made the Get a Room or STFU function comment. I was being facetious but it was on the heals of a lengthy serious thing. However, I was thinking maybe we could use an emo for a motel and toungue firmly in cheek.
The anarchy and freedom is great. I was just asking people to check themselves and take a little personal responsibility lest someone had to impose some rules or smackdown.
PJ, I barely saw the chat thing but maybe you could turn it on for a trial period and see if people use it when more are around. Does the chat disappear into the vapor later or is it something you can review as archive like the blog if you are away for a while?
:pup:ok well i have a date in an hour and a half so i will be heading on my way now later sheeple!
you know before the election i would never be able to go out and have some fun without worrying that the world was gonna blow up or something!
:paranoid:still two more months of worrying though
Did anyone watch Fux News Sunday who will admit it?
I had it on in the background and it seemed to me that they were pushing Kerry on whether or not he was going to run in 08 but did not ask the same question of Newt who has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the unmentionables. I am guessing he wants to but will wait a long time to reduce the time he can be brought down when people are reminded of how much he was disliked.
I also heard some Rush last night, believe it or not, because nothing else was on that I could listen to on my kitchen radio and he was bragging about a trip he made to the DC area the other day and how he had dinner at the Cheney home the night before and had visited the WH and had 1.5 hour meeting in Rove’s West Wing office. Guess he was being fitted for his new water buckets.
Damn, I hope I don’t tune in Weiner-Savage tomorrow. I guess I will hear some Drudge while cooking dinner.
Attempted emo
http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/wp-images/smilies/throwup.gif
:barf:
See what I mean.
SeanMS re 198 :banana::yippee::banana::yippee: 😉 :pup::rofl2:
Hey everybody! I’m back on line! One of the artists I work for gave me her laptop that she wasn’t using :yippee: So, I took the dead computer in to Fry’s and got a power supply for it and it worked, but the problem is it doesn’t physically fit into the tower and no one has the mini power supply because it’s so old. :fustrate: So, i’ll try and call HP and see if they have one, although everyone seemed rather dubious that they would. So, I guess if they don’t have it I’ll try Ebay. Cripes! Just my stupid luck that I find a part that works but it doesn’t fit. Maybe I’ll just duct tape the thing to the side, maybe my friend won’t notice :paranoid:
Kristapea , Do you go sometimes to computer at library — that’s what I did in mountains. But things are brew’n for the future and hope one gets to you soon. :banana::yippee::dancers:
Danu wants in NOW… back in a bit.
Just don’t do it in the UCLA library or one that squeals to Homeland Security..
The library is fine in a pinch but I hate going there because the one near me smells like a friggin armpit and I hate it when 2 people use a computer next to me and one person is standing behind the other but they can see what I’m doing too. Plus they invade my space bubble.:fu:
:fire::fire::fire::fire::fire:
Going to be ON THE AIR ON FREERADIOSAIC.ORG in less than 5 minutes!!!
Join me, won’t you?
krista…for power supplies and parts for old computers you cant beat ebay… there are tons of parts there. Ive gotten even an old discontinued iriver car charger for $2…..
wvm, oh please let Newt run…The upcoming primary election season will be so much fun…especiall on the repug side. They cant seem to come up with anyone new and everyone is so tired of those old fucks….Rudy vs. newt….and Bush can endorse em all!!
pg- amazing race is on a bit of a football delay so Im sorta tied up soundwise….maybe Ill pop in to the chat . I just hate the reload time on that thing….
I actually agree. I got excited about rumors this week…Allencaca, Rudy Giuliwanderer, Frist…
Great crop!
QuietGirl I was on but it didn’t take my f@#$ing words :eek::omg: :fist: :Hitting or throwing computer out the window — IN THE RAIN :yippee:
AIV
and where is SBleHeron And TRAVISDEM_04 ❗
😎 cool Melina re 213 — the only reason I do not use Ebay is that it it is under rethug domain. :barf:
:eek:Gotta go exercise — It’s the Ye ol’ ’70’s Show :rofl2:
AIV YEH:!:
What does AIV mean, Druid?
well, Krista…I would suggest that you look and search for the item and you will probably find that the seller is a small company that buys and resells overstock and discontinued computer parts…so you can usually go straight to them….just find them on ebay.
I like ebay alot but its just a think shadow of what it was at the beginning. I didnt even know that the owners were red….
Yeah Melina thanks. At this point, i don’t care if I’m buying the part from terrorists, i just don’t want to have to come up with a whole working computer for my friend if i can find the part. Hmm, I wonder if that comment will flag me now. :paranoid: Oh well :jerk:
Krista, buy a new PSU if you can, a used one can be risky. What are the specifics on the machine, maybe I can find one for you.
I don’t know if you can get a new one. Everyone was telling me they don’t make the “mini” anymore and I would be lucky to get one from HP. I’m gonna call HP tomorrow to see if they have one but it’s a pretty old computer.
nite guys…..off to bed….another week ….
AIV: Arrest, Impeach, Vigilance
I just made it back :tongue: Travisdem_04 :yippee:
hey travis! you beat me to it…
Is everyone OK on the blog? :paranoid:
Hey Druid…the :love: is mutual:knit:
looking forward to throwin’ it down sometime soon.
travis!
where you been homie?
SBlueHeron too 😉 :yippee:
Oh, Travis re AIV, You got that right :nod: 😉
blue! druid!
all we need is oz, gypsy & nicki and we’ll have the whole Cascadia crew.
who am i leaving out?
Night 😉 :knit: :gate:Pleasant Dreams … Again, it appears that I seem to miss you in the morning and miss you at night. I have to focus on the middle section of the blog .. soft gooey center in the middle :rofl2:
AIV
krista? andy?
you still there?
i’m going to ask pj tomorrow, if we could have a “who’s online” box.
hmmm
i’ll be back in a bit.
roxieseattle 😎 :nod: good 💡 idea
AIV
Did Sue P leave, sorry always running in my tower. aka :billcat:
Travis said on 226 (and almost SBlueHeron) what AIV means.
Hey, i’m here just about to go to bed though. :yawn:
how’s it going dru
plans for thanksgiving? hubby still home?
Fred is probably asleep or are you watching the Broncos. They make me think of you in CO ( :cold: brrr) :eek::omg:
AIV 😉
sleep tight krista
good luck with the computer!
G’nite sweet Seditionists. :fire:
Roxieseattle Hubby is gone so I am good for some trouble. Probably get a new stray :billcat::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
I am contemplating Thanks …. :cool:,
Whatcha doing for Thanks:?:
AIV
Good night everybody
Kristapea Pleasant Dreams with thoughts for a new part (or New Computer) dancing :dancers: in your mind.
Blessings :knit: (My Prayers) :gate: A new part or new computer is the Call: for Kristapea wink:
working thanksgiving nite.
turkey teevee dinner for me. i kind of like working holidays tho. pretty quiet and lots of gratitude from anyone who needs to come in…
you’re a wild woman, druid! (adopt a new stray — live dangerously! my style too, as you know).
goodnight andy
liked your response earlier (is it safe to come in now?)
andy aka Aquaman,I didn’t even know you were there, since I hardly ever get to read “The Past” until much later :doh: Bah Humbug.
Pleasant Dreams :knit: :gate: Good Journeys (awake or asleep)
i seem to have tucked everyone in tonight.
goodnight all.
Night, Night Dear RoxieSeattle,
Pleasant Dreams . I was just setting back to talk. I use to “always” work on Holidays.
You are in my “thoughts” 😉 :knit: :gate: Good Journeys (awake or asleep)
Not me Roxie, I am still “around” 😉
🙁 🙁 I am “the blog” killer. I am the Omega Woman :eek:. :tommygun:
On Press the Meat, they had old newsreel footage of NBC newsman Bill Monroe interviewing Milt Friedman.
Strange but Monroe sounds a lot like our Jim Earl in his vocal mannerisms.
Hey Jim, what’s up with that?
WebHubbleTelescope , Hmmmmm “I wonder” 😉
hey earth lovers, tree huggers, crazy animal ladies and gentlemen:
just heard a great “New Dimensions” with John Seed of rainforest.org.au (australia).
you can listen (real audio) til or thru 11/27 at
http://www.newdimensions.org/program.php?id=3154
good stuff!
do they really have one deal a day (plus the side deal)?
when do they have woot-offs? do you have to check every 5 minutes or do you have a terminal on permanent woot, pj?
thus far i’ve only been tempted, especially by that itty-bitty computer you mentioned the other day..
druid: tis a mystery!
do they really have one deal a day (plus the side deal)?
when do they have woot-offs? do you have to check every 5 minutes or do you have a terminal on permanent woot, pj?
thus far i’ve only been tempted, especially by that itty-bitty computer you mentioned the other day..
druid: tis a mystery!
WITH WOOT?
do they really have one deal a day (plus the side deal)?
when do they have woot-offs? do you have to check every 5 minutes or do you have a terminal on permanent woot, pj?
thus far i’ve only been tempted, especially by that itty-bitty computer you mentioned the other day..
druid: tis a mystery!
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i can’t edit above in mobile (or if so, i don’t know how) & when i left mobile i couldn’t edit cuz it didn’t recognize that it was my post.
ignore everything after:
good stuff!
copy from old post that i thot i had overwritten???
Anyone know how to turn a Mac mic off?