I might have to change how I do these things. Originally, as the days of Morning Sedition wound to an end, I decided to put up a daily thread an hour or so before show time, which is where the 5 AM (eastern) post began. And it sort of became tradition from there on out.
Problem is, at 5AM, I generally don’t have much to say; I haven’t really looked at the news, I don’t know what’s going on, and I’m mostly on the brain dead side of things – way before coffee and a shower.
But, for now I’ll just say have a good Thursday.
Have you had complaints?
But seriously, you put a lot of time into this thing and if you feel like it is time to let it go, I don’t think anyone will not understand.
Of course, at that point in time, Maron will get a new 3 hour daily show on the air.
Thanks for everything you’ve done here, PJ! You can change it, archive it, or kill it and we will never be able to repay you for what you have done for all of us.
vernon- of course, I agree with all the positives about what pj has created for us but I didn’t get the impression he’s getting ready to give it up- just that he’s rethinking how to do things. :tinfoil:
Or am I just naively looking for some sunshine the only time of the day when I’ve come to expect any? :omg:
I always thought pj wrote something the night before and that it was set up to post @ 6am. Is that a possibility?
Actually, what I’m thinking of doing is making this more of a ‘portal’ site, where people can have their own individual blogs and can also contribute content for front page ‘stories.’ If that’s something that anybody would be interested in.
On the other hand, don’t feel self-conscious about being brain-dead first thing in the morning. I’m almost always in that state when I post before work. Hell, sometimes when I post AFTER work. 😀
Speaking of which, yesterday’s post was meant to imply that Grampa had no excuse. But if you want to interpret it as implying that he has no brain, I won’t argue.
Some things never, ever change 🙁
Inflation no chance
To increase finance
Bills pile up sky high
Send that boy off to die
Make me wanna holler
The way they do my life
Make me wanna holler
The way they do my life
Dah, dah, dah
Dah, dah, dah
Hang ups, let downs
Bad breaks, set backs
Natural fact is
I can’t pay my taxes
Oh, make me wanna holler
And throw up both my hands
Yea, it makes me wanna holler
And throw up both my hands
Crime is increasing
Trigger happy policing
Panic is spreading
God know where we’re heading
Oh, make me wanna holler
Front page story:
Bush to G8: ‘Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter’
After rejecting global climate-change targets, George Bush’s parting shot to the G8 summit
President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit.
As he prepared to fly out from Japan, he told his fellow leaders: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”
President Bush made the private joke in the summit’s closing session, senior sources said yesterday. His remarks were taken as a two-fingered salute from the President from Texas who is wedded to the oil industry…
Well, if anybody here unfairly disparages either of the Clintons, you are certainly free to defend their honor. But somebody posting a link to a youtube video that supports Obama shouldn’t really rate an attack post calling Obama a whore and making nasty remarks about the person who posted it.
Somebody saying something nice about Obama isn’t an attack on Clinton (or vice versa). Certainly, feel free to disagree (even better, disagree with specifics and link to facts to back them up; it’s much more powerful).
But I’d like everyone – no matter who they support or what they agree with – to at least respect everybody else’s right to a different opinion. Even if they support McCain.
And if we can just move forward in that manner – letting go of any past slights (real or imagined) – I, for one, would be a much happier person.
That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have lively debates. I enjoy those. I’d just like everyone to respect that saying “I like Clinton/Obama/McCain/Nader/Paul/whomever” isn’t an attack on somebody else.
Oh, and let’s all remember to have a sense of humor, too. Many things are said tongue-in-cheek; it’s sometimes hard to tell when somebody’s kidding (or semi-kidding) with text-based communication, and it’s easy to get pissed off at something that was unintended. Let’s just assume that we’re all capable of taking (and making) a joke. Certainly very little of what I write is serious. We don’t want to be a bunch of progressive Utopians with no sense of humor, do we?
I also know that it’s very easy to write something and have somebody take it in a completely different way, not even close to the original intent. It happens with me all the time (my fault for not articulating myself properly; but this kind of communication tends to be fast-paced, and it’s easy to not get every word right). So take it all with a grain of salt.
I think most of us here have the same core values. Argue a bit, sure (that’s what families do), but above all, let’s have some fun, ‘cuz the world’s going to hell, and we might as well all enjoy the ride together.
OK, enough of that then.
morning gang,
woke up to Ruzz licking my face at 5 am,
got up, figured out that she wanted a munchie, got her one.
she went back to sleep and i’m sitting here blogging and making coffee.
eya pj! THANK YOU! i appreciate being able to stay in touch with everyone here.
PJ, being a computer dork, I have no idea what you mean by portals nor do I want my own blog because I find everyone much more interesting than I find myself. But, the 5 AM thing, I do truly understand. I thought you wrote it at some reasonable hour and set it to post automatically. (Is that even possible?) Now that I know you actually do this in those wee hours before the sun rises, I wonder how the heck you think so clearly at such a foggy time. It is truly an amazing feat.
I’ve learned a lot reading this blog, laughed a lot, heard some great music on really lousy computer speakers, and found a group of lefties that I enjoy and, without truly knowing, care about. I am very grateful.
Whatever you do, is OK. No one can ask more from you than you have already done.
Well, OK, I confess I don’t get up and write these things. I generally write them the night before. But I try to avoid something topical that will be old news by the time 5 AM rolls around. And I often don’t have much to say, so I feel a little stupid writing “gonna be hot out again today” or “don’t have much to say” every single morning. And if I try to write carefully, it takes me forever to write things over and over again. The alternative is to just slap something up there and cringe when I read it again the next day.
Not that this has ever been about what I write. It’s always been about what the ever-dwindling commenters have to say. That’s the interesting stuff.
It’s just that in the olden days, there were so many comments, it rated a new thread every morning (sometimes even two a day). Now, not so much. Of course, I’d hate it to start looking totally lifeless around here. At least if there’s “something” new every day, it still looks alive.
Maybe I can find a ‘pithy sayings’ bot to start the day out with Ben Franklin quotes or something….
I’ve been thankful for this blog especially lately. I haven’t had much to say but I read. I tried my own blog but didn’t have the discipline that PJ has.
Maybe we should take turns doing the opening thread. Everyone can have a day of the week. Is that possible?
I don’t really have much to say myself but I try to check in regularly. I like the one main place to check in and hope you all will stay around. But I understand if it gets to be too much.
Right now I so disheartened about the FISA vote I don’t know if I can vote at all this Fall. Obama seems like he is turning into just another politician. Of course I don’t want McCain but I am so tired of voting for the lesser of two evils. It seems like maybe they are all business. How could Reid et al be so unskilled as to not be able to defeat this bill.
Re #9 — SueP — I have no idea what “portals” mean in geekese either and can barely get it together every day to just look through my email & the news & a couple of blogs. :tongue: I don’t get around to posting a whole lot here either because most days I can feel my brain liquefying from stress and I know I can’t produce anything coherent. 😮 😯
PJ has created a wonderful little refuge for this little ragtag group of Morning Seditionists and we will hold it together. This, too, is always one of the first places I go to in the morning. :joe:
KP, I really like your idea for taking turns contributing opening threads — it would save wear & tear on PJs brain :tongue: and could be really intresting.
How about it? What’s the consensus? :bee:
I think sharing the job of writing an opening thread seems like a good idea.
just go to a weekly thread post, take a vacation up here and let me stuff you with good food, booze and organic growth enhancers!
i have 3 computers, no waiting, and ultra wide bandwidth.
fisa finally got through to some of the uber-optomists. for that i’m grateful.
Where do you live, SJ?
Reid never even had to bring this version of the bill to the floor. There were two, and he could have brought out on the bill w/o Telcom Immunity. And the immunity – while despicable – isn’t even the worst part of the bill. This ‘compromise’ bill that came from Rahm Emmanuel (and others) that Obama decided was so necessary that he had to vote for immunity allows warrantless wiretapping as long as the DOJ comes to the FISA court and says “yep, we need this to fight the terr’ists, honest” without ever having to show any evidence whatsoever.
And how much you wanna bet the Bushies won’t even bother to to do that much (and still nobody will call them on it)?
:yippee: :yippee: :yippee: Hi Everyone :yippee: :yippee: :yippee:
I’m with Sue P (#9) and clodene (#13 para 1). I type/keyboard very slowly and badly. I enjoy this site immensely and come here first thing every day. :pup: :pup: :pup: Thank you pj :pup: :pup: :pup:
Dennis, at least, is still trying:
where i live?
Campbell Ave
Abbotsford BC
Canuckistan
Yeah, but which house?
Well gosh, this is a surprise:
And this, not so much of a surprise:
2530
the one with the Koi pond with
the 48 dodge and my restored 5 ton cabover in the driveway.
2 houses north of the lane on the right. just look for me waving
Impeach Bush and arrest Rove! What a delightful two-fer that would be.
Nice to see Pelosi coming around (hopefully) on impeachment, or at least hearings. That shoots holes in Hartmann’s conspiracy theory that she is preventing impeachment proceedings to keep skeletons from coming out of her, or Jane Harman’s, closet.
The one with all of the :bee: :bee: :bee: :bee:
From Gail Collins, NY Times op-ed writer:
We have to have a talk about Barack Obama.
I know, I know. You’re upset. You think the guy you fell in love with last spring is spending the summer flip-flopping his way to the right. Drifting to the center. Going all moderate on you. So you’re withholding the love. Also possibly the money.
I feel your pain. I just don’t know what candidate you’re talking about.
Think back. Why, exactly, did you prefer Obama over Hillary Clinton in the first place? Their policies were almost identical — except his health care proposal was more conservative. You liked Barack because you thought he could get us past the old brain-dead politics, right? He talked — and talked and talked — about how there were going to be no more red states and blue states, how he was going to bring Americans together, including Republicans and Democrats
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/opinion/10collins.html?ref=todayspaper
..none of G.M.’s management miscues was so damaging to its long-term fate as the rich pensions and health care that robbed General Motors of its financial flexibility and, ultimately, of its cash.
General Motors established its pension in the “treaty of Detroit,†the five-year contract that it signed with the United Automobile Workers in 1950 that also provided health insurance and other benefits for the company’s workers. Walter Reuther, the union’s captain, would have preferred that the government provide pensions and health care to all citizens. He urged the automakers to “go down to Washington and fight with us†for federal benefits.
But the automakers wanted no part of socialized care. They seemed not to notice, as a union expert wrote, that if Washington didn’t provide social insurance it would be “sought from employers across the collective bargaining table.â€
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/opinion/10lowenstein.html?ref=todayspaper
Dunno if you need to be a Founder but if you want to say something nice about Seder (or Maron) there is a thread over at NovaM that could use a comment or two.
Kevin,
The only problem with the “arrest Rove” part is the Attorney General is the one who servers the warrant when Congress issues one. And this AG already has said he refuses to do what this Congress wants. Otherwise, Michael B. Mukasey and his staff would spend the rest of eternity investigating everyone involved with President Cheney and his meat puppet.
Anybody know when and where a rebroadcast of today’s Stephanie Miller show might occur?
WebHT
Try here now for the last two hours. Just missed first hour.
Alright! Party at Sunshine Jim’s house!! :yippee: :40: :bong: :cake: :banana:
Evening all, I for what it’s worth I like the idea of sharing the duties of the oening thread.
Yeah, me too, maybe I can practice being disciplined once a week or something. :doh:
Vernon, where again? Last 2 hours are OK.
http://www.1490wkvt.com/
sorry, forgot link. on right now
We could each have our own day we do the blog thread opener, like a weekly show. You could even name it, like, Couch Rant or Krista’s Korner or whatever.
This just in
Subbing for Malloy Thursday
Submitted by SEDER on Thu, 07/10/2008 – 8:28pm
Guests:
Ray McCormack.. Filmmaker of A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
Marc Maron, some guy.
I am going to a b’day party so hopefully a bootleg will turn up somewhere.
Thanks Vernon, I went to Steph’s blog site and am downloading the Harry Shearer and Heather Thomas segments.
Whoa! Harry was on? I slept through the whole show this morning.
Harry Shearer was on?? I listened to the whole thing and missed it! Damn!
Quiz time. Phil Gramm repeatedly flunked out of grade school as a youngster. Guess which grades?
3rd, 7th, 9th grades
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE0DF1438F93AA25751C0A963958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
Gramm is basically getting back at all the kids that taunted him and called him dummy when he was in grade school.
How come flunkies are getting important positions?? I did very well in school, thank you very much, and I’m worried about making rent. Doing well in school doesn’t mean a fucking thing, that’s what I’ve learned in this life. :fu:
Wow, it’s been raining really hard here for a solid half hour or more. Cool, a good soaker rain, I don’t have to water anything for a couple of days. :dancers:
Still raining real hard. :pup:
Inspiring?
Tonight’s Seder on Malloy on VOD