It’s funny, dubya’s supposed strong point was that the “average Joe” would want to “have a beer” with him (despite the fact that dubya was supposedly on the wagon, and, as far as I remember, he never had as much as an O’Douls with any average Joes). Now Obama goes and has a beer (a Bud Light, too, which, sadly, is both disappointing and appropriate; woulda been funnier if he’d had a Colt 45 and lit up a Newport) with “average Joe” Biden, “average Jim” Crowley, and of course Big Man on the Harvard Campus, Henry Louis Gates, and Fux News makes fun of it. Go figure.
I thought Gates had the best line of the day, discussing how he enjoyed meeting Crowley at the White House:
“We hit it off right from the beginning. When he’s not arresting you, Sergeant Crowley is a really likable guy.”
So hopefully we can all put this incident behind us, and get back to more important things, like the fact that Michael Jackson is still dead. Oh, President Obama, by the way, if you’re planning on inviting me over for a beer, I’ll take a bottle of Cave Aged Three Philosophers. Light beer is for old men.
Just as I was considering trading in my old clunker of a van for something more fuel efficient (something with a gas tank that doesn’t leak would be a good start), it turns out that the “Cash for Clunkers” program is out of money and is being suspended. Well, shit. Hey, I don’t need $4500 for a new vehicle; just give me a few hundred bucks for a new gas tank.
Had some heavy rain and thunderstorms that ran through the area at about 2:30 this morning, which got the dogs all shook up. Just as we’d recovered from that (and I’d finally gotten back to sleep), Granny got home from her trip to DC at about 3:45 or so.
She came in, knocked over the step ladder in our bedroom (did I mention the house is a bit on the disheveled side?), picked it up and dropped it a few times (sounding a bit like Fibber McGee opening the closet door in the process), said “sorry” a few times, and then turned around and walked out. So I wound up with a terrified, 60 pound panting dog sitting on my chest. As we all got calmed down (and back to sleep) again, the alarm went off, and it was time to get up and face the day.
Should be a great one. I wonder what’ll fall off the car today?
sounding a bit like Fibber McGee opening the closet door in the process
You make me feel so young… :rofl2:
My grandfather told me about this radio show when I was a kid. That’s why I get the reference. Honest.
Although I remember when Rickey Henderson was a rookie. Now Rickey Henderson is in the Hall of Fame. Shit. When did Rickey Henderson get that old?
Rickey Henderson would be pleased that I keep repeating Rickey Henderson’s name, though. Rickey Henderson would want it that way. That’s how Rickey Henderson rolls.
Well, “Fibber McGee and Molly” (played by Jim and Marian Jordan, childhood sweethearts who married in 1918) was on the air from 1935 until 1959 (spawning the spinoff “The Great Gildersleeve,” originally played by Harold Peary, and then Willard Waterman, also starring Walter Tetley – who also played obnoxious grocery delivery boy Julius on “The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show,” and would go on to play the voice of Mr. Peabody’s “boy” Sherman, among other things – as Gildersleeve’s nephew Leroy), so it was over before I was born.
But I got hooked on Old Time Radio from the local NPR station, which played OTR from 8 to midnight every night of the week. Now I fall asleep listening to OTR on the Chumby most nights.
Poor Marian battled cancer for many years (she was unable to appear on the show for a while, and the show was whittled down to 15 minutes for a time as well, to accommodate her illness). She finally died in 1961, but Jim lived until 1988, passing away at the ripe old age of 91.
Oops, sorry. Sometimes I forget nobody cares.
“Tenure? Ricky’s got TWENTY years!”
My luck I probably can’t get Three Philosophers around here. It sounds good and I like the bottle. (That’s how I buy wine) I’m having enough trouble finding Philadelphia Pale Ale.
Anyone harboring doubts that the institutional Church is riding shotgun for the system, even regarding heinous sin like torture, should be chastened by the results of a recent survey by the Pew Research Center.
Who but the cowardly crew leading the “Christian†churches can be held responsible for the fact that many of their flock believe torture of suspected terrorists is “justified?â€
Those polled were white non-Hispanic Catholics, white Evangelicals, and white mainline Protestants. A majority (54 percent) of those who attend church regularly said torture could be “justified,†while a majority of those not attending church regularly responded that torture was rarely or never justified.
Here ya go, Vernon, if you need a little free parking.
Oomegang has a distributor in PA, Andy, so hopefully you can get it. They sell it at the Wegmans in Downington, which doesn’t look too far from you.
But you’ll probably need to hop in that Smart Car and head up to the Oomegang Brewery in Cooperstown to buy the cave-aged stuff (or buy online). On the plus side, while you’re there, you can visit the Baseball Hall of Fame, go see the Cardiff Giant at the Farmer’s Museum, and view death and life masks of many of our presidents and other luminaries, plus American and Native American art works and photographs at the Fenimore Art Museum.
Can beer be shipped to a non distributor? ’cause I definitely want the caved aged stuff.
Wegmans eh? They’re the competition but I wonder what they’ll pay a top notch maintenance dude.
Yeah, the regular stuff is good, but the cave aged is noticeably better.
Sorry, looks like they’ll only ship it to a NYS address.
On the bright side, when you’re in Downington, you can go visit the Victory Brewery. I’m might partial to their Hop Devil.
Wegmans has been in the top five of the Forbes best 100 places to work list for years (#5 this year, #1 a couple years back), so they probably pay pretty OK (assuming they don’t outsource their maintenance, that is). They aren’t union, but seem to remain non-union by paying and treating their workers very well, rather than by intimidating them.
One of my bestest friends has a father who works for the Weis chain. Thay sound like they are OK to me.
Yesterday I inadvertantly ended up having beers with a friend of another race in the spirit of the day. They had a limited tap beer from one of my favorite breweries, the Lagunitas Brewing Company.
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I could go for a little sumpin sumpin right about now, the hop devil is just a tad too hoppy for me. Makes it taste almost bitter.
PJ, you’d better go car shopping this weekend:
The House approved a bill Friday afternoon to provide $2 billion to continue the federal government’s week-old “cash for clunkers” program, which has proven so popular with consumers that it was almost out of cash. The 316-109 vote split Republicans but attracted the support of nearly every Democrat in the chamber.
The money will come from funds in the already-passed economic stimulus package that were intended for energy loan guarantees. Congress will seek to replenish the energy program at a later date.
“If you were planning on going to buy a car this weekend, using this program, this program continues to run,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday. “If you meet the requirements of the program, the certificates will be honored.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/31/AR2009073101173.html?hpid=topnews
We’re right in the middle of a nasty storm with very heavy rain and it looks like the creek in front of my house may finally blow its’ banks. It’s starting to look like an Irwin Allen epic around here.
I never like a lot of hops until I started brewing my own beer. Now, I can’t get enough. In fact, I used to really like the heavier malt types, and now I don’t really care for themas much. Most lagers taste like water to me now.
I love my IPAs. Also, Ithaca Brewery make a red ale with lots of Cascade hops in it called Cascazilla that I like, too. And I like the Belgian style ales, too.
But Bud Light? Bleh. If I’d known Obama drank Bud Light, I’d have voted Green. Oh well, at least it wasn’t Coors Lite.
When I was living in Colorado we called it Rocky Mountain snake piss.
You insult snakes everywhere.
Five years after he put his money behind the Swift Boat ads that helped tank John Kerry’s presidential campaign, Senate Democrats gave T. Boone Pickens a warm welcome at their weekly policy lunch Thursday.
Or at least most of them did.
Kerry skipped the regularly scheduled lunch; his staff said the Massachusetts Democrat “was unable to attend because he had a long scheduled lunch with his interns and pages.â€
Sen. Al Franken managed to make time for the lunch — but then let Pickens have it afterward.
According to a source, the wealthy oil and gas magnate and author of “The First Billion Is the Hardest†stepped up to introduce himself to Franken in a room just off the Senate Floor after the lunch ended
Franken, who was seated talking to someone else, did not stand when Pickens said hello. Instead, Franken began to berate him about the billionaire’s financing
of the Swift Boat ads in 2004.
According to a source, the confrontation grew heated.
Said Franken spokeswoman Jess McIntosh: “It was a lively conversation
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25667.html#ixzz0MsX4krbA
Hooray for Franken
Alright, Al! :banana: :slap:
Former Philippines president Aquino dead at 76
🙁 :gate:
Good for Al, and good for Media Matters:
Read the full transcript of the ad here.
Freakin’ FCC