Hey, if you’re out there in the LA area, you can head over to Hollywood to see Marc at the Comedy Central Stage on Santa Monica Blvd tonight. Tell him we say hello. Have a good Monday.
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Hey, if you’re out there in the LA area, you can head over to Hollywood to see Marc at the Comedy Central Stage on Santa Monica Blvd tonight. Tell him we say hello. Have a good Monday.
ahhhh!!!! i’m in the LA Area…and damnit! i’m going to be near Santa Monica!!!:fustrate::fustrate::fu: damn finals!!!:growl:
i need a Pashman Miracle!:menorah:
:joe::joe::joe::joe::eek::eek::eek::shock::shock::shock:
❓ whatever :sheep:le
New Dem House Intel chief can’t answer ‘fundamental questions’ about the Middle East
In an interview with the editor on national security for Congressional Quarterly, the incoming Democratic chairman for the House Intelligence Committee was unable to answer “fundamental questions” related to the Middle East, including which sects terror groups adhere to.
http://tinyurl.com/yentba
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Don’t you feel safer now??:eek:
Impeachment rallies held coast to coast
This Sunday’s Human Rights Day has been renamed “Human Rights and Impeachment Day,” as groups hold rallies across the United States calling for President Bush and Vice President Cheney to be impeached. This Sunday marks the 58th anniversary of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
http://tinyurl.com/yl4hyc
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I hope more people showed up than the five or ten that usually show up for peace marches .:rant1:
Arab countries mull nuclear cooperation
Al Jazeera is reporting that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a six country alliance that includes Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman, are now considering working together to acquire and share nuclear technology.
The program is not being kept secret because, the GCC says, the technology will be used for peaceful means only.
http://tinyurl.com/y56ap9
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And if you believe that .. :reaper::reaper:
hey Fred!!:joe::banana:
Clashes Break Out After Pinochet’s Death
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) – Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who terrorized his opponents for 17 years after taking power in a bloody coup, died Sunday, putting an end to a decade of intensifying efforts to bring him to trial for human rights abuses blamed on his regime. He was 91.
Violent clashes broke out between police and Pinochet opponents who threw rocks at cars and set up fire barricades on the city’s main avenue. Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd. Authorities said there were a number of arrests, but no immediate reports of injuries.
Hundreds of Pinochet supporters gathered outside the hospital, weeping and trading insults with people in passing cars. Some shouted “Long Live Pinochet!” and sang Chile’s national anthem.
Many Chileans saw Pinochet’s death as reason for celebration. Hundreds of cheering, flag-waving people crowded a major plaza in the capital, drinking champagne and tossing confetti.
http://tinyurl.com/ybzewc
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Chili seems to have that same 30% :eek::eek::reaper:
:banana::banana: Hey QG :banana::banana:
You are up late or is it early ..:joe::joe::shock:
arrrg….it’s too early to ponder why the hell there’s still a 30% at all :growl::yawn:
no, i’m up late….again:rant1::yawn:
Olympic bomber Rudolph unhappy with Colorado prison
Dec. 10, 2006, 3:24PM
Olympic bomber Rudolph unhappy with Colorado prison
FLORENCE, Colo. — Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph laments in a series of letters to a newspaper that the maximum-security federal prison where he is spending the rest of his life is designed to drive him insane.
“It is a closed-off world designed to isolate inmates from social and environmental stimuli, with the ultimate purpose of causing mental illness and chronic physical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and arthritis,” he wrote in one letter to The Gazette of Colorado Springs.
Rudolph wrote that he spends 23 hours a day in his 7-by-12-foot cell, his only exercise confined to an enclosed area he described as a “large empty swimming pool” divided into “dog-kennel style cages.”
http://tinyurl.com/w8mus
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He didn’t get much sympathy over on DU
http://tinyurl.com/y6dknp
Why is it that the CIA torture chambers are so terrible but our prisons are so great..:reaper::reaper:
What is QG majoring in ??
How is the job market from the college graduates standpoint ??
CSPAN Alert! Dennis Kucinich & Lancet Study on Iraq’s 650,000 Casualties 10:00AM Today!
c-span 10:00AM Eastern!
Good Morning :joe:
well i’m majoring in animation. Character Animation to be specific. i really love 2-d, but the industry is pushing 3-D right now, so that’s what my Reel (or thesis/ student film) is mainly on. well, the job market for animators is constantly growing. just turn on the TV and look at the commericals! most of the things on TV have some sort of visual effects or animation in them. so that’s a good thing. the bad thing is that the work isn’t really stable. once you finish a job or project, the company lets you go usually or say they’ll call you when they get another project. to get a stable job at a well known company, you have to be really good…..and that’s where all the pressure and competition comes in.:fustrate:
morning Krista!:banana:
Students to make biodiesel to run school buses
DUBLIN, Ohio – Students at a suburban Columbus high school plan to save their district money by converting their French fry oil into fuel.
For the past year, students at Dublin Jerome High School have worked on a project to make biodiesel fuel for school buses from the cafeteria’s used vegetable oil. If the project works, the district would be one of the first in the country to make its own pure biodiesel, said Robin Leeds of the National School Transportation Association.
Students got the idea after studying biodiesel in an earth systems class. They used grant money to buy the $8,000 machine needed to convert the vegetable oil to fuel and began collecting from school cafeterias last Wednesday.
“Everyone wants this to succeed,” said senior Arielle Babineaux, 17.
http://tinyurl.com/y2y938
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The big oil execs will get GW’s justice dept to find something illegal or dangerous about this:eek::crap::reaper::reaper:
:yippee::yippee:Hi Krista :yippee::yippee:
Hows things in AridZona ??
Hey QG, I’ve been working with someone who is an animater. She’s getting out of it because of the instability.
Hey Fred, we’re cooling off a bit today, only gonna get to 65 degrees. :cold:
I hope more people showed up than the five or ten that usually show up for peace marches .
Comment by fred — December 11, 2006 @ 6:06 am
We had about 50-60 people in St Pete. Some of them carpooled over to Tampa to wave signs at people coming out of the stadium after the Bucs game, as if the fans hadn’t suffered enough.
I went to see Borat instead. And felt old because I was the only one in the theater who caught the Laurel and Hardy reference. I hate when that happens.
:rofl2:
Its 40 right now 😯 supposed to snow later on .. maybe 😮
CU students think that someone needs to start an unemployment insurance program for new college graduates .. They are competing for the same Walmart jobs as the tech workers are.. :eek::eek::reaper::reaper:
re 19
i’m hoping i can get more stable work, being I live in the entertainment capital of the world. but i don’t blame her for leaving the industry 😐
ah, it’s 54 right now…but it’s been raining all weekend
When you are 20 something moving back in with your parents is pretty acceptable but when the 40 somethings who have their parents living with them have to use their social security to pay the mortgage things are shall we say not good ..:reaper::reaper:
very true Fred :nod:
Grrrr morning!
:yawn::hot:
:fu: loud trucks in Fred meyer parking lot:fu:
quiet girl…the show tonight is free:pup::dancers::banana:
:cry::smack::holla:
ahhh….that just makes it worse for me :fustrate:
That sux QG, I missed Marc when he was here in my town because my computer died and I didn’t get the allert til 3 days later.:holla:
uh!! that’s horrible Krista! but i still can’t believe that Marc lives in LA and I still haven’t seen him!!:fustrate:
that’s why i’m hoping for a Pashman Miracle to help me finish my finals so i can go to the show!!
why do i always kill the blog?
:paranoid:
G’Day All. I have been up for hours and I still have to reheat my tea:joe: — but I am tired and just happy to be sitting — :tongue:
🙁 ❗ This is the Bill Press Show (Bliss :sigh: — but only got to hear last 1/2 hout SNIF — but still have to heat tea :joe: :omg: up…AT LEAST NO ANTS (since I do not kill:reaper: ants — to my best ability … there are ways to catch and release mice and rats to (which I did in mountains :cool:) :banana::santacool:
AIV
I NEVER GET TO SEE MARC, but Hubby did by my pestering — and I got a note from him — 🙁 BUT NEVER GOT TO SEE HIM…
One day — when I have time :”Silent Scream”: — I will write him and tell him to come up to HSU :cool:. :pant out of breath:hot::
AIV
hi Druid!!!:banana::dancers:
okay…i’m going to get at least 30 minutes of sleep:yawn:
i have a little more work to do before my class at 12pm:fustrate:
Quiet Girl 😉 I sooooooooooo KNOW your hours, and I live on WORKER / STUDENT HOURS STILL :doh: wat up wit dat? 😉 Sleep Well :knit: Good Journeys (awake or asleep)
Kristapea, How is :pup: (giggle)? Mine was a Bad Bad (:no: )Monster this morning (she “wanted” my attention hhhmmmmm rats).
And how is you new job? :banana:
AIV
Interesting article on free speech here.
Goooood morning, bloggerini! It’s way to effing early for me to be at work. Well, it was when I got here a half hour ago.
I got to :knit: for two hours on the bus. Isn’t that special?
I haven’t gotten any information on pro-impeachment rallies here in Portland. Where would I go to find that? I doubt I’ll be able to go since they’re invariably during the work day, while I’m out here in bugf*ck, but I can try if there’s one on the weekend.
Here’s one, on January 1st:
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/ADS/event/distributedEvent.jsp?event_KEY=19816
Well, I just got back again. :tongue: Garbage happy, Danu whaterever hmmm (bad Danu :no:) :omg:
BUT I HAVE HOT :hot: TEA:joe: Yea :banana:I’m taking a break, AND I HAVEN’T Even Work my REGULAR work — and I miss MOST of EVERYONE On RADio — Sam Now SNIFF Bye
other than that Cheers 😉
AIV
Morning! Oh :paranoid: … AFTERNOON! :joe: busy morn, that went quickly.
things are not looking so good in Gaza. mr fk was there yesterday and said it was more tense than the last time we were there and that was when it was occupied. very disconcerting.
GYPSY, But I super feel for you. Again, sadly been there Gypsy, except hopefully you can breathe. I use to have to thru downtown to near where the family of Marc and Marc lives — he’s not rich AT ALL. I would make a lil “pillow” of Herbs just to be able to breathe. I have vehicle problems now BUT “I Am In Town Now,” (snap in a “Z”). Before, if certain things happen in mts I just excepted Death :reaper: if that was to be. Destiny. But I am here and we have a Dem Congress. :banana: So Life is Better 🙄 :wink:.
And you are one of the Conjure, Brew and Stew Masters. Good “Cooking” :pent: 😉
Travel Well, O’ One of Ye Knitters :knit: of Fate. 😉
:pent::knit: :gate: Good Travels awake or asleep
(I hope I am not being to personal 😮 😳 :spank: )
:fist::bow:Farmerkat, My Heart and Prayers are with YOU and Yours :bow:
I said before, “You’re a Better Man (Woman) Than I Gunga Din.”
:bow::fist:
:knit::gate: Good Journeys:!:
Farmerkat, if still there.. The e-Card that I sent to Marc was of your Ass’s Ass you took … :rofl2::rofl2: 😉 yesterday I remembered how much I wanted to tell you :rofl2: :yippee: :dancers:
AIV
Marc in for Sam all next week:
:pup:
a week or Marc!!! (I love Seder even more because of his Marc generosity.) :fire:
DRUID => :love:
oh blog wizard, do you know anything about this?
💡
It sould be PJ:!: If there is another then MANDITORY there needs to be East Coast (ie PJ) and West Coast “whatever” 😉 … with PJ running ALL (or what he wants to) when radio Takes Marc Back and he is in NY (like AAR is in NY). :nod: 😉 :pup:
AIV
No, not really. I’d heard that the first person didn’t work out, and that there was a new person doing it, but that’s about it. Sounds like the new guy is good. I hope it all works out well.
Hey everyone,
Anyone seen Sean? He said something about lunch today here in Birmingham. Tell him to skype me if he still wants to do lunch. I’m back in town now trying to clean this nasty apartment.
i dont have skype anymore:doh:
oh yep i do!
Remember to take some pictures!
:doh:where did the ovaltine go?:40:
ovaltine :fist:
lunch? it’s almost dindin time! :billcat:
i’m meeting my childhood cotillion partner for dinner tonight. mom tried to make me a “lady” but instead she got an independent woman who shouts this most of the time.
hey farmer hit the road now and we can all have dinner in birmingham!
Farmerkat , re 55
:cat::billcat::cat::wink::dancers: :boobs: :fist: 😎 😉
AIV
oh, I forgot Seanie. You’re an hour behind me there in Birmingham. Another night and I might have made the drive – what fun! :dancers:
:tongue:so is bush impeached yet? i have been listening to playboy radio……
Okay, these people scare me. I’m just scared. Words fail me.
:omg:
PJ, Hubby may be going to Marc’s … Thanks :santacool: :banana: 😉
And when I saw your post I went immediately to a certain email acct :banana: ( He sounds a bit down:cat :billcat:: 🙁 .)
For me, I get to hear him next week. 😎 :yippee: 😎
Quiet Girl, if you take a BREAK from Finals, let me know so I can let hubby know.
We are both a bit :omg: of the public now — but he passes as almost normal. 😉
Bill would allow legally blind Texans to hunt
AUSTIN — A state lawmaker wants to make sure no Texan is left out when it comes to hunting, even if the hunter is legally blind.
Rep. Edmund Kuempel, a Seguin Republican, has filed a bill for the 2007 legislative session that would allow legally blind hunters to use a laser sight, or lighted pointing instrument. The devices are forbidden for sighted hunters.
Blind hunters would also have to have a sighted hunter along with them, but they could hunt any game that sighted people can hunt in the same seasons and using the same weapons.
“This opens up the fun of hunting to additional people, and I think that’s great,” Kuempel said.
http://tinyurl.com/y9zfev
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:roll::roll::roll:
Ohio Rep. Kucinich to run for president
Democrats’ Iraq war plans cited as impetus for entering 2008 race
CLEVELAND – Rep. Dennis Kucinich, an Ohio Democrat who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2004, said Monday he is planning to run again because his party isn’t pushing hard enough to end the war in Iraq.
In a statement, Kucinich said he plans to formally announce his candidacy for 2008 on Tuesday at City Hall, where he served as mayor of his hometown in the 1970s.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16157918/from/RS.1/
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:yippee::yippee::yippee:
Yay, Dennis. I didn’t vote for him in the 2004 NYS Primary, though it was a tough call. I wound up voting for Howard Dean, instead. Dean got even fewer votes than Dennis did, though. I think politicians ought to pay me to vote for their opponents. My vote tends to be the kiss of death.
fred re 62 :barf:
AIV
Oil producers shun dollar
By Haig Simonian in Zurich and Javier Blas and Carola Hoyos in London
Published: December 10 2006
Oil producing countries have reduced their exposure to the dollar to the lowest level in two years and shifted oil income into euros, yen and sterling, according to new data from the Bank for International Settlements.
The revelation in the latest BIS quarterly review, published on Monday, confirms market speculation about a move out of dollars and could put new pressure on the ailing US currency.
Market liquidity is traditionally low in December, and many traders have locked in profits, potentially reinforcing volatility.
Russia and the members of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the oil cartel, cut their dollar holdings from 67 per cent in the first quarter to 65 per cent in the second.
Meanwhile, they increased their holdings of euros from 20 to 22 per cent, the BIS said. The speed of the shift may help to explain the weakness of the dollar, which recently fell to a 20-month low against the euro and a 14-year low against sterling….
http://tinyurl.com/wsw2q
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:eek::eek::eek:
I think Dennis is Wonderful. I just don’t know if he is tough enough for now. Sadly, I will probably vote Kerry before Dennis and regardless GORE For the Real :yippee: ❗
AIV
Evening all, another crappy day in the car rental business.
Re: 68 Is no one traveling yet ?? We shut down on like the 20th and resume on the 8 th of January . 😮
Yes, PJ just “sucking up” again, I guess 🙄 BUT Thank You for the Marc Alert. It might have been much later tonight when I would have checked. This gave me time to even Pester David to PLEASE seee Marcc ( and tell him the MSists said Hi. David said we sounded like stalkers. I laughed and said Marc and others already teased and called many here that already:rofl2:.)
AIV
We rent locally only. no long distance. It’s crappy because by and large the customers are a**holes.
Yahoo! News: Bark Beetles Ravaging Western U.S. Forests
A bark beetle epidemic is destroying millions of spruce, pine and fir trees in the Rocky Mountains. Global warming has eliminated freezing temperature periods that kept beetle populations in check. The warming climate has extended breeding season and has also allowed them to move into higher elevations where they were once unable to survive. Extensive drought, which has weakened the trees’ defenses against predators, is also creating an ideal situation for the beetles. Almost five million Lodgepole pines in Colorado and another five million in Idaho have succumbed to the beetles. Utah, the hardest hit, has lost half of its Engelmann spruce trees.
To read the entire Yahoo! News article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061208/sc_afp/usenvironmentbeetles_061208131027
Students to make biodiesel to run school buses
DUBLIN, Ohio – Students at a suburban Columbus high school plan to save their district money by converting their French fry oil into fuel.
For the past year, students at Dublin Jerome High School have worked on a project to make biodiesel fuel for school buses from the cafeteria’s used vegetable oil.
Wow, Amazing. We lived in Dublin, Ohio for what seemed like forever and a day until we moved to S. Florida a few years ago. This high school has been described as one where the kids come from the homes that “have more.” A very, very wealthy Republican area. (We lived on the “wrong side of the river” LOL) If anyone is into golf, this is where Jack Nicklaus has the annual Memorial Golf tourney. I can see the parents not being behind this kind of “subversive environmental” idea. It’s that bad.We actually had mothers say that if they had to have black little girls in their brownie
troop that they just wouldn’t have a girl scout troop. Shoot me, shoot me now. YIKES!!!!
And somehow I moved from this nightmare Repug situation to Mark Foley’s district. I guess it’s just the universe’s way of laughing hysterically at me.
I haven’t been around for a long time. Hope it’s OK that I join right in. You all are the BEST!!!! Pam
:yippee::yippee: Hi Spiritdancer22 :yippee::yippee:
The Pine beetles have been a problem for a long time in Colorado.. The forest fires in 2003 cleaned out quite a few along with a lot of 8000 sq foot homes .. Some ticked off forest service employ started the biggest one .:eek::eek:
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Sorry, I had to go to work. I’m always rushing as it’s time to go and hardly ever say bye. 😳
Hi Spiritdancer22 , 😎 :dancers: 😎 😉 Tea:joe: cheers
Sorry about your job Andy. It can really suck hard dealing with the public. I only like dealing with narrow sectors of the public with very specific interests. If I worked at a place where just anyone could walk in an give me hell, :tommygun: :nod::no: Ayup.
My new job seems okay so far. There are time cards, which I hate. And the breaks are all specified by law. I have to take the 15 minute break at a specific time. That break was made for smokers anyways. There’s not really anything to do in a 15 minute break except smoke and besides that it breaks my stride and momentum.I usually don’t bother with it. :jerk:
Thanks Krista. Sorry about the whining. Hopefully the yellowpages ad will boost the computer business.
This guy on PBS is trying to compare Obama’s popularity with Ross Perot’s short lived popularity. :jerk:
Too bad you didn’t live in the Phoenix market, Andy. I think the advertising time at Air America is pretty inexpensive.
Well the only reason I have the YP ad is they offered it SOOOO cheap. A 1/4 page ad for 45.00 per month. yp ads are notoriously expensive.
Okay, if you’re an old fart like me it looks like this. I don’t know if Obama will be a joke two weeks from now, but just off his N.H. speech playing on CSPAN, all politics aside, the guy has the JFK charisma, mit schmaltz. He’s got the Reagan communication skills too. People listen to him deliver a platitude, and they go freaking nuts.
Like Clinton, but cooler, and less wonky. Hillary’s got a huge problem here, folks. :sammy:
Trouble is Obama has zilch for experience. He’s unqualified.
I believe dubya has lowered the bar rather substantially on the whole “qualification” thing.
I know Obama’s bright etc etc. but he needs more experience.
I thought he was a sellout on Alito, personally. I kinda like Edwards, assuming Gore refuses to run. I can really see a Clinton/Obama ticket, too. Still don’t see Hillary winning, but it’s a long, long way to the nomination.
His whole statement, I didn’t vote for Alito, but I didn’t support the filibuster. Come ON!!
I am watching the News Hour now. Obama seems like he has Bobby magic to me. I was not entirely on board when he was killed but if Obama can deliver the eloquence and a message, who knows.
I still would prefer Gore and maybe Obama as a running mate. Edwards would be OK, too. Sorry if it sounds too DLC because I am not but we have to win this one.
Gypsy, they are scary. :omg: Jeezus.
I’m having a real tough time getting past that, myself. He’s an incredible orator (is he experienced enough to be called a statesman?), but man, I just can’t figure out why in the hell he did that. I still shake my head.
Welcome, Pam! The water is warm!
Oh, and my old dance partner brought to dinner tonight our yearbooks from 4th and 5th grade! :sammy:
Well, Hubby is on the way with the Greetings from us ALL MSists and PJ, The Conductor. 😉
AIV
Great news, Druid!!! That should cheer him up!
sorry to hear you had a crappy day, andy.
see ya’all later.
Farmerkat, :love: You Dance/Danced? :dancers: 😎 — So I do/did 😎 :dancers: Nice:nod: 😉 The Balance 😎
AIV
C-Ya Cheers All. 😉
AIV
Just a short note before I climb into bed. Sean and I met today here in Birmingham for lunch. After lunch we came back over to the apartment to hang out and talk. I recorded a brief bit of audio with my minidisc. The audio will be included in tomorrow afternoon’s podcast. Remember to re-subscribe to the podcast as the URL has changed. Go here to listen or subscribe to my podcasts. I enjoyed meeting Sean. You’ll have to ask him what he thought about me. :tongue: I think he had fun. On the way back to Sean’s truck we stopped off at Bestbuy. Browsed for Video gaming system’s. Sean had his eye on the new Sony Playstation and the Xbox 360. Plenty of 360’s, no Sony’s anywhere to be found. We both resisted the urge to splurge. Sean did pick up a comedy cd. I can’t remember the comic’s name. N e way, hope to meet up with all of my fellow bloggers someday. You are all welcome in Birmingham n e time.
Oh Farmercat, another twistyfaster fan?
:rofl2:
Here we go again!
Night all.
wow..another slow blog night:omg:
Did anyone go to see Marc tonight? I wanted to go – but having seen him a few times already – I was afraid that he might think I was his new stalker and my fiance already thinks I have a man-crush on him.
Any reviews from tonight’s performance?
Also, who wants to help me vent about Danny Goldberg for my podcast, Indirect Democracy. I am naming him as the recipient of this Week’s What a Weinie Award – any rants that I should remember to say or use this week?
Night all
:sammy: