Not that I mind getting an extra hour of daylight after work tonight, but, damn, why does one stinking hour of sleep seem to really kick my ass? I always wondered why they have to do it on Sunday mornings, too. I mean, why not spring ahead on Friday afternoon at like 3 o’clock? And in the fall, why not set the clocks back an hour on Monday morning, at like six? In fact, why not spring ahead every Friday afternoon, and then fall back again on Monday morning? The first freakin’ candidate that promises that gets my vote, and I don’t care whether they voted to authorize president dummy to invade Iraq or not.
:joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: 😮 😮
AAARRRRGGGGG
:omg: No :sheep: le out there yet
I never figured out how daylight savings saved any energy Most people get up in the dark , goto work and by the time they get home at night it is dark again. .. I’m sure it was invented to help out some capitalists bottom line. and doesn’t save anything :reaper: :reaper:
It was dark when the alarm went off. :omg:
In one of the schools I work in, the clocks automatically reset themselves the reflect standard time. Unfortunately, we started standard time later this year so the clocks were wrong. Principal Dunderhead decided to reset them to correct them, but once he did the clocks didn’t work, so he only reset some. It is the “guess what time it really is” school. What will happen today?
And the dogs…..perfectly happy to eat an hour earlier. Happiness to them is simple. They need jobs!
So has anyone heard anything official about Tucker Carlson’s departure yet? I can’t find anything posted online above or beyond what PJ had on Sunday’s thread. Maybe MSNBC is waiting for the final results from the Texas caucus to come in.
Today Tucker, tomorrow Tweety? One can dream.
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Spoke with Dad last night and he told me something that surpirsed even me. He has a new temporary job. He will celebrate his 79th birthday this summer working in Yellowstone National Park. The job is from April 14th to November 3rd. Wow! It is something he wants to do, even if they pay only $7.00/hour.
Other interesting comment he had. He has an adjustable rate mortgage readjusting to a new payment of $233/monthly. That is for a 2800-sq-ft house with six bedrooms. He also has less than 50 payments to go on his 30-year mortgage. He and Mom moved into this house from a 5600-sq-ft Victorian in 1988. He is hoping to finally pay off one house in his lifetime, but not at $7.00/hour plus $8xx in social security.
Fred, the old daylight savings time period actually does save energy. The new period the Republicans imposed on us three years ago does not. Energy consumption actually increases during the added weeks at both ends of the period. If the Democrats in Congress were smart – sorry, too early in the DST AM to be making jokes – they would repeal the new weeks of DST and go back to the original period that works.
Everybody, on three let’s all hold our breath until that happens. One, two…
Rumor has is that rachel will replace him.
And I get an extra hour of dark … 8) :banana: ….. :nixon: sorry folks/(I like saying gang but people get weird). :rofl2: :pirate: :yippee: A!I!V! :dancers:
Personally, I’m very happy about the extra hour of daylight after work. Sunset tonight is 7:06 here, which means it’ll be light until 7:30 or so. That means that instead of feeling I have to rush home and rush to the park, I can take it a little bit easier. Sunrise this morning was 7:25, which is about the time I leave the house, so it’s daylight when I leave and daylight when I get home at 5:00 or so. As far as I’m concerned, they could set the clocks ahead two hours, and I’d be fine.
I read someplace that there’s less electricity consumption with more daylight at the end of the day, but that there’s more gasoline use (probably because people will venture out more in the evening, instead of just staying home).
….and PJ you have a new :pup: …… so 8) …. ANY NAMES :pup: ?
This time period just “feels” natural. And eventually I can even sleep a bit. :dancers: 😉
Names? His name is Fritz. Since we named Siggy after my father-in-law (Siegfried), I figured we’d name this guy after my dad (Frederick).
Sounds like a German joke.
Fritz und Siggy gehen in den Hofbräuhaus. Siggy dreht zu Fritz und sagt, „verlässt mich allein oder ich werde abbeißen Ihren Kopf, Sie kleines Arschloch“!
“Ya Vul” or vhatever :doh: …. :rofl2: …… 😉 Siggy and Fritz … and great German… and joke “sounds” funny too :rofl2: 😉 :nod: A!I!V!
New Yorker article about Hil’ry
This is an excerpt that is bouncing around blogtopia.
Penn pushed this idea last week when he told me, “People want to have a nominee that’s going to win. So a lot of the things they accepted initially may not hold up. Independent and Republican support is diminishing as they find out he’s the most liberal Democratic senatorâ€â€”a reference to recent rankings by the National Journal. “As they get more of a sense that he’s not ready to be Commander-in-Chief, a lot of Independents who were supporting him are disappearing.â€
Too librul? Isn’t that a repug saw? :jason: Why would he dignify some contrived rating from the conrag national review?
Mark Penn is slime.
I don’t think Siggy would refer to Fritzi as the formal “Sie” , he would be a big “DU kleines Arschloch!” :pup: :slap:
Yeah, pj, DUh.
NPR Morning Edition report on ‘murica’s favrut shurf’.
Jamie Lee Curtis in HuffPo
Lady Haden-Guest would have brought a lot to Roller Derby. :hubba:
Look Down, Go Down
You’re welcome, Kevin.
Entschuldigt mir. Meine Grammatik ist scheusslich.
:rofl2: … :fist: A!I!V! :fist: … 😉
Lincoln’s photos are always good, but he has some special ones, today.
http://www.palemale.com/
David Gregory Headlines New Show in Tucker’s Timeslot
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/10/david-gregory-headlines-n_n_90763.html
The House Judiciary Committee filed suit Monday to force former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten to provide information about the firing of U.S. attorneys.
The lawsuit filed in federal court says Miers is not immune from the obligation to testify and that she and Bolten must identify all documents that are being withheld from Congress.
In a statement announcing the lawsuit, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers said, “We will not allow the administration to steamroll Congress.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/10/house-sues-exwhite-house_n_90745.html
Holy Shit!
Damn, Spitzer could have been prsident. I don’t see him recovering from this.
Nope. Too much hypocrisy for a Democrat to overcome. Plus, it’s pretty stupid. I mean, the man’s been pissing people off for years now, he had to know they’d be after him.
I wonder how many diamonds he sprung for.
Got him on a wiretap, too. Not good, with a wife and three daughters.
Wonder where the wiretap came from? I heard some caller last night on the new show that replaced druck say that Hil’ry would begin the troops home immediately to declare martial law using the war on turrah as her excuse. They must be crapping their pants thinking of what life will be like with all of those new powers if she takes the presidency.
If New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is forced to step down over his involvement in the prostitution ring Emperor’s Club VIP, Lieutenant Governor David Paterson is set to become the state’s 59th Governor — and the first African American to hold that position.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/10/david-paterson-new-york_n_90774.html
Fox has him indicted and resigning. It’s Fox, so I have no idea how true. If it’s an indictment for soliciting prostitution, it doesn’t sound like a very serious charge. I wonder what Sen.Vitter thinks.
According to the Times story:
I think if Larry Craig can hang in there, so can Spitzer. Hell, high-priced hookers are at least a helluva lot classier than sex in a public rest room.
At least he wasn’t wearing a diaper or seeking sex in a public bathroom. But, I think the Rethugs are going to teach us how to be outraged. They are so good at it.
You can tell Spitzer is a Democrat. He was having sex with women!
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Hey, if everyone else is going to make snarky remarks, I wanna play too. 😀
Spitzer’s wife looked really pissed, though. He should probably consult Kobe Bryant as to the appropriate gift of jewelry.
ABC News:
By BRIAN ROSS
March 10, 2008—
The federal investigation of a New York prostitution ring was triggered by Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s suspicious money transfers, initially leading agents to believe Spitzer was hiding bribes, according to federal officials.
It was only months later that the IRS and the FBI determined that Spitzer wasn’t hiding bribes but payments to a company called QAT, what prosecutors say is a prostitution operation operating under the name of the Emperors Club.
As recently as this past Valentine’s Day, Feb. 13, Spitzer, who officials say is identified in a federal complaint as “Client 9,” arranged for a prostitute “Kristen” to meet him in Washington, D.C.
The woman met Client 9 at the Mayflower Hotel, room 871, “for her tryst,” according to the complaint. Client 9 also is alleged to have paid for the woman’s train tickets, cab fare, mini bar and room service, travel time and hotel.
The suspicious financial activity was initially reported by a bank to the IRS which, under direction from the Justice Department, brought kin the FBI’s Public Corruption Squad.
“We had no interest at all in the prostitution ring until the thing with Spitzer led us to learn about it,” said one Justice Department official.
Spitzer, who made his name by bringing high-profile cases against many of New York’s financial giants, is likely to be prosecuted under a relatively obscure statute called “structuring,” according to a Justice Department official.
Structuring involves creating a series of financial movements designed to obscure the true purpose of the payments.
Prosecutors reportedly have a series of e-mails and wiretapped phone conversations of Spitzer.
In a interview two years ago, Spitzer, then-attorney general, told ABC News he had some advice for people who break the law. “Never talk when you can nod, and never nod when you can wink, and never write an e-mail because it’s death. You’re giving prosecutors all the evidence we need,” he said.
A friend says that it was the bank, under the guise of protecting the gov, that turned on the feds to the suspicious money transactions. Spitzer was trying to hide his payments to the prostitutes. My friend says he was using a phony name, too.
Spitzer made a lot of enemies. He acted very stupidly. I hope Paterson is a decent guy.
The international petroleum markets are dollar-based. The dollar is worth half what it was worth three years ago. Yet no one speaks of this as the driving force in the rising crude oil prices. Why? I think there is a major failure here in the United States when reporting on oil prices. Even some Arabic OPEC officers have commented on the U.S. fiscal irresponsibility and lack of honest reporting on the subject.
I always thought Spitzer was going to go down hard at some point. I just never thought it would be like this. I am sure he is negotiating. He knows the drill, but I hope he actually resigns and shows the repugly a**wholes what a semblance of honour looks like.
Randi likes Paterson, fwiw.
Those are good falcon pictures.
Related anti-topic. The creep Hugh Hewitt was complaining that now that they found a rare Wolverine living in the California mountains, now they will put all sorts of environmental restrictions on development … in the Sierra Nevada range. Hewitt is a talk-show blowhard and a pro-development lawyer who apparently works on these cases.
:banana: hey everybody!!!!! im alive……… been very into my game playing as of late waiting for pj to get gold so we can kill terrorists together……… you gonna get rainbow six vegas 2?
Seannie Sean is back.
No connection, but suddenly I am very not into Rachel Maddow. Her laugh reminds me of the SCTV character William B. Williams, played by the late great John Candy.
Kind of a cross between Popeye and someone with a bad case of goiters. Sounds kinda like:
“hua, hua, huaga, .. hua, hua, huaga”
Ugh. Kent Jones we need some humor !!!!!!!!!!
:fist: so we are all supporting obama right……… :tap:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080310/sc_space/realdeathstarcouldstrikeearth
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SammyCam in for Hartmann show Tuesday morning and Maron v. Seder at 3:30 EDT just after. Maron preview.
And here is some good Maron tour news for all friends Washington and down under
Upcoming Gigs
Mar 13 2008 7:00P
The Comedy Store La Jolla CA
Mar 14 2008 7:00P
The Comedy Store La Jolla CA
Mar 25 2008 7:00P
First Freedoms First Live Simulcast: Separation of Church and State Event Washington DC
Apr 4 2008 7:00P
Giggles Comedy Club Seattle WA
Apr 5 2008 7:00P
Giggles Comedy Club Seattle WA
Apr 15 2008 7:00P
April 15 – 26 Sydney
Apr 30 2008 8:30P
Improv Washington DC
May 1 2008 8:30P
Improv Washington DC
May 2 2008 8:00P
Improv Washington DC
May 2 2008 10:30P
Improv Washington DC
May 3 2008 8:00P
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May 3 2008 10:30P
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May 4 2008 8:00P
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