It’s Friday. That means I’ve only got a few more hours to get my shit together, so I can relax for an hour or two. Carry on.
Posted by pjsauter on December 8, 2006
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It’s Friday. That means I’ve only got a few more hours to get my shit together, so I can relax for an hour or two. Carry on.
Omega and Alpha :rofl2: …Whatever … (wvmc3d 😉 ) :banana:
(because it was there.)
AIV
:joe::joe::joe::joe::eek::eek::crap::crap::yuck::yuck::shock::shock:
:?:Boo :sheep:le
America Before Pearl Harbor – Early Kodachrome Images
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/12/7/04913/9030
Future Dimming for Puerto Rico Telescope
ARECIBO, Puerto Rico (AP) – At the world’s largest radio telescope, astronomers searching for asteroids on a collision course with Earth are bracing for a more worldly threat: The steepest budget cuts and first layoffs since the observatory opened in 1963.
Managers are warning staff and outside astronomers to prepare for a leaner future, with fewer research projects and less telescope time available as they finish a costly repainting job amid a looming cut in U.S. government funding.
“This place will change dramatically,” Robert L. Brown, director of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, which includes the observatory, said in a recent interview.
http://tinyurl.com/yfpecl
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Rethugs only want to to research if it makes a profit
Rethugs are 👿
:gate::omg::jason::jason:
EPA May Drop Lead Air Pollution Limits
The Bush administration is considering doing away with health standards that cut lead from gasoline, widely regarded as one of the nation’s biggest clean-air accomplishments.
Battery makers, lead smelters, refiners all have lobbied the administration to do away with the Clean Air Act limits.
A preliminary staff review released by the Environmental Protection Agency this week acknowledged the possibility of dropping the health standards for lead air pollution. The agency says revoking those standards might be justified “given the significantly changed circumstances since lead was listed in 1976” as an air pollutant.
The EPA says concentrations of lead in the air have dropped more than 90 percent in the past 2 1/2 decades.
But Rep. Henry Waxman (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., the incoming chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform, called on the agency to “renounce this dangerous proposal immediately,” because lead, a highly toxic element, can cause severe nerve damage, especially in children.
“This deregulatory effort cannot be defended,” Waxman wrote EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson.
http://tinyurl.com/yn254l
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Rethugs want to kill Americans
Rethugs are 👿
:gate::omg::jason::jason:
McCain taps ‘Call Me’ attack ad producer to be campaign manager
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), regarded as a top presidential candidate for the 2008 election, has lined up a controversial attack ad specialist to be his campaign manager, RAW STORY has learned.
Chris Cillizza writes at The Washington Post’s political blog, The Fix, that “according to a source close to the McCain operation, the candidate has lined up Terry Nelson to serve as campaign manager,” once McCain’s campaign becomes official.
Nelson, along with Karl Rove protegé Scott Howell, produced a controversial ad in Tennessee’s 2006 U.S. Senate race between Democrat Harold Ford, Jr. and Republican Bob Corker in which a white woman seductively invites an “off-camera” Ford to call her. Ford, an unmarried African-American, and Corker, the white former mayor of Chattanooga who eventually won the open Senate seat, both criticized the ad. The NAACP said the ad was “a powerful innuendo that plays to pre-existing prejudices about African-American men and white women.”
It’s not the only controversy in the career of Nelson, who served as political director of the 2004 Bush-Cheney re-election team.
He was supervisor over James Tobin, the convicted New Hampshire GOP operative who schemed to jam Democratic phone lines in the 2002 election season.
http://tinyurl.com/y43h5q
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Rethugs are:evil:
:gate::omg::jason::jason:
U.S.-Bound Cargo to Be Screened at Six Ports
U.S.-bound cargo will be scanned for nuclear and radiological material at six foreign ports starting in February under a pact with host governments announced by U.S. officials yesterday, including a port operated by an Arab-owned company that ignited a political storm in Congress.
The Homeland Security and Energy departments next year will begin scanning all U.S.-bound containers at Puerto Cortes, Honduras; Qasim, Pakistan; and Southampton, England, officials said.
Limited scanning will also be done at Salalah, Oman; Singapore; and Busan, Korea, on a trial basis. The program will cover more than 7 percent of 11 million containers annually shipped to the United States.
http://tinyurl.com/yg2udq
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However
U.S. port security unlikely to stop nukes: experts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Bush administration efforts to screen U.S.-bound cargo for radioactive weapons are unlikely to stop a determined militant group from smuggling nuclear material onto American soil, experts said on Thursday.
Peter Zimmerman of Kings College, London, and Jeffrey Lewis of Harvard, who have researched the task of building an improvised nuclear device, said anyone hoping to hatch a nuclear attack on the United States would most likely build the weapon on American soil.
That would require them to smuggle highly enriched uranium from abroad. But packaging material as common as aluminum foil could shield the uranium from scanning devices meant to detect radioactivity.
“I am not presently optimistic that current efforts to inspect and scan will have any payoff against highly enriched uranium,” said Zimmerman, a nuclear physicist who is director of the Kings College London Center for Science & Security Studies.
http://tinyurl.com/yc28an
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Don’t you feel safer now:eek:
Oil groups dream of day they can enter Iraq
( snip)
The big groups are therefore seeking to prepare for the day when they will be able to enter Iraq, trying to create closer relationships with Iraqi officials and to gain information about oilfields in ways that do not require visits to the country. BP and Royal Dutch Shell agreed to provide free assessments of the geological, technical and other data on Iraq’s two main oilfields, Kirkuk in the north and Rumaila in the south. This has helped them catch up with competitors such as Total, which may have gained access to such data when they negotiated contracts with the Saddam regime. Others such as Chevron have forged relationships and gleaned information by organising training sessions for Iraqi engineers outside Iraq.
There has also been concerted lobbying, some of which came to light during Australia’s ongoing official inquiry into kickbacks the Australian Wheat Board is alleged to have paid during the Saddam era. Documents published by the inquiry of meetings among diplomats, business executives and lobbyists show that companies such as BHP Billiton, the Anglo-Australian mining and oil group, actively lobbied the US and UK after the invasion in the hope of securing contracts for Iraqi oilfields.
http://tinyurl.com/ye6u9s
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ONK ONK Squeal Squeal :bf:
Report says Saudis are major financers of Sunni Insurgents
CAIRO, Egypt – Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash.
Saudi government officials deny that any money from their country is being sent to Iraqis fighting the government and the U.S.-led coalition.
But the U.S. Iraq Study Group report said Saudis are a source of funding for Sunni Arab insurgents. Several truck drivers interviewed by The Associated Press described carrying boxes of cash from Saudi Arabia into Iraq, money they said was headed for insurgents.
http://tinyurl.com/y9rs2l
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Iran of course is causing all the problems :bf:
I also don’t believe the Sheea have an air force 😮
US air strike kills 20 ‘Al-Qaeda terrorists’ in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AFP) – US forces have killed 20 Al-Qaeda terrorists, including two women, in a ground assault and air strike northwest of Baghdad.
Troops raiding a cluster of buildings housing suspected Al-Qaeda members in the Thar Thar area, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, came under attack from a machine guns and returned fire, killing two suspects, a military statement said Friday.
“Despite efforts to subdue the remaining armed terrorists, Coalition Forces continued to be threatened by enemy fire, causing forces to call in close air support … resulting in 18 more armed terrorists killed,” it said.
http://tinyurl.com/yyfzqr
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WOW only another 99,980 +/-20,000 to go :bf:
:yawn::yawn::yawn:
Fred, hauntingly beautiful pixs
For now, an unofficial rivalry
Possible Clinton-Obama presidential clash has Senate abuzz
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16099863/
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My National Inquirer interlude for the day
WOW two DCL democrats..I think I’m going to be ill :barf:
:yippee::yippee:Its Druid :yippee::yippee:
Yeah those pictures were great..
How are the rats and the cats this morning ??
re 5 YEA Waxman :yippee:
:barf: :fu: bush and bush adm
gotta go “brew” :omg: … tea:joe: that is :rofl2: 😉
AIV
oh, BTW :yippee:Fred, I am up when you are, and before you go to meetings. :yippee: 😎 😉
(now I will :pent: :brew: :omg: ….. :rofl2: tea :joe: :nod: :wink:)
AIV
FBI: 1,000+ government employees convicted in last 2 years
http://tinyurl.com/yx5pfa
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That was federal, state and local ..A lot of people seem to see government service as
“profitable”…:bf:
I’m up reheating a witches brew to restart something for the weekend ..another failure of central planning .. I can see why the Soviet Union failed so miserably …:yuck:
re 16 :eek::omg::eek: :nod: that is why I trust no one anymore then add the stats about lying = a misanthrope (secretly hoping for hope.). 😮 :omg: :roll::paranoid:
AIV
Marc is not going to be on Sam’s today, right? 🙁
(But I am trying to stay on some type of schedule.) :yuck:
AIV
US “whistle blower” fears US has plans to attack Iran
Stockholm- American Daniel Ellsberg, famed for leaking classified documents on the US war in Vietnam in 1969, Wednesday expressed concern over possible US plans to attack Iran. Ellsberg was one the winners of the 2006 Right Livelihood Awards, often called the Alternative Nobel Prizes, to be handed out on Friday (December 8) at a ceremony in the Swedish parliament.
Ellsberg said it was key for US officials who had information and documents relating to plans to launch airstrikes on Iran to leak them in order to “avert a war” that may include the use of nuclear weapons.
“There is a much better chance of stopping an Iran war before it starts,” he said.
Information about the possible attack plans have been mentioned by unnamed officials, quoted among others investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, but documents would back up these reports, Ellsberg added.
However, ultimately the individual must weigh the personal price for such a discloure, Ellsberg said.
Speaking about the current US administration, Ellsberg said “we have seen them do things just as crazy in Iraq and you might hope they have learned, but all the evidence from the inside is that they have not learned.”
In an op-ed piece in Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, Ellsberg Wednesday urged US allies in NATO to leave the alliance if the US carried out the airstrikes or deployed nuclear weapons.
http://tinyurl.com/swbe3
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That would give the democrats a chance to provide some real over site and figure out how the SBR survives with no oil at the same time :bf:
I don’t know about Marc on Sam’s show..There is nothing on his blog about Marc.
Marc is not going to be on Sam’s today, right?
(But I am trying to stay on some type of schedule.)
AIV
Comment by Druid_666 — December 8, 2006 @ 6:52 am
I heard a promo for the show during Franken’s show yesterday, and Sam didn’t mention Marc, so I’m guessing he probably won’t be on. But I’m tuning in just in case.
Speaking of Franken, today is the live show from Minneapolis. Tom Davis and Katherine Lanpher are both scheduled, which smells like a farewell show to me. Al is off beginning next Monday for the USO tour, and won’t be back (if he’s coming back) until after the first of the year.
Note to Al: Please please PLEASE don’t do Mastication Theatre. Go out with a little more class than that. The Oy Oy Oy Show is OK as always. And don’t forget to miss all your cues when you go to hard breaks – we wouldn’t know how to act if you actually hit them more than once a show. 🙂
And good luck against Norm Coleman. Minnesota deserves better than him.
Al is to busy believing he is funny to listen to you Kevin..Hows Florida this morning ??
good morning :sheep:le
But I’m tuning in just in case. :nod:
Thx for reminding me about Al. I will make sure I am near computer.
:rofl2: re the rest that is said :nod:
Gotta go and do 🙁 😉
:banana::banana:Hi Melina :banana::banana:
How are you , the kid and the birds doing this morning ??
Melina, G’Morning 😎
How are you feeling? Anyone “to be gallant” yet, besides you? :parrot: :pirate: 😉
(Back in a wee bit)
Im OK…Will is taking the day off and the birds are still asleep….Just feeling still a bit under the weather and didnt sleep much last night
Parent teacher conference today….
just tuned in to the young turks and they’re talking about aar and talking calls; madison and DC are evidently changing formats and taking aar off.
17 degrees here this a.m. :cold: :yippee:
glad you’re on the mend, Melina.
17 in Hotlanta :eek::eek::eek::eek:
Well the head of the GAO just said on C-span that the SBR goes out of business in about 2010
The outstanding debt including social security and medicare will exceed 50 Trillion dollars this year and increases by 6 trillion a year ..In 2000 it was only 20 trillion dollars
The private debt is a mere 70 trillion dollars
Every cent you make will go to the federal government or to banks as interest payments .
Thank you George Bush :bf:
Good Morning
:joe:
Hey KP!
:joe:
shit damn the well pump isn’t working :rant1: I forgot to leave the lightbulb on in the well house so I’m going to hope it’s just frozen up. {fingers crossed} can’t remember the symptoms for a frozen pump…it’s been a few years since I’ve done that one. 🙄
Farmerkat, :cold: I keep seeing The Rats wrapped in sweaters :cold: :rofl2:
AIV
I can’t imagine anything in the south handling 17 degrees for more than a few hours..Nothing is designed for cold temperatures :cold::cold:
Nice work, Druid! The Left Coast has been a little sparse late night. I see a few folks elsewhere thinking they can land this thing.
Druid, Alpha and Omega be!
:rofl2::cold::banana::yippee::joe::joe::joe::bow:
Queen of the Emos:sammy:!
Good morning Farmerkat! It’s going to be 72 today. :hot:
Farmerkat, 😉 😮 I FEEL FOR YOU, FOR I KNOW IT WELL:!: :nod: Usually, I just leave [:no: WOULD LEAVE — I am “in town now”] a bit of water running (or light on) …but if not enough water, the pipes freeze 😮 :omg: :nod: ….. I waited until sun or boiled water … 🙄 but “I was way out there.” 😀
AIV
yeah, folks ’round here complain about the cold when it’s 40. I’m out for the great death of bugs. Fleas kicked up their unruly heads this fall. (your temps aren’t going to kill them, kp)
:tommygun:
Druid is Queen & Fred the King of Emos. :nod:
Okay, I have another problem with the blog and it’s the voice mail box that is flashing over top of PJ’s thread at the top. :smack:
Rub it in Krista rub it in ..:rant1:
Druid, did your pump when it was frozen? The sun is hitting the well house now. :pup:
Yeah, it would be nice to have a week of below freezing temps to kill the bugs. You know, I remember a time when I needed a coat, even during the day.
I know this has no place here but ‘roidal ARROGANT Barry Bonds is staying with the SF Giants.
Spinal Tap on AmEx ads?
Priceless!
Farmerkat, re pump not usually.
Kat is the pump down in the well or actually in the well house ?? If the pump itself was exposed to the low temps it might not have survived.:eek:
:nod: I like Barry 😥
:alc:
Barry! Barry!
:alc::bow:
Thx Fred…tis true…cuz I realize I did not have to have a pump but friends had pump. Careful with freezing — pump freezes and shatters.. 😮
One can “wrap” at pipe and some joints, but water in pipes would just freeze = I Boiled.
:dancers: :yippee: MARC 😎 :yippee: :dancers:
Barry Bonds :love:
(I’m hopelessly forever a Giants and Bonds fan so I consider that excellent news.)
The pump is down in the well. I just called the well man and he said to put a space heater in there and turn off the power to the pump, give it a couple hours and if it’s not working, call him back. He said it sounds like it’s frozen. Oh, I so hope. It’s a very deep well so I guess it’s the pipes the freeze. Our water main broke the other night and I had to call an emergency plumber. I feel like I’m living in a movie and I need chewing gum to hold the house together. It’s actually a well-built house, guess it is just time some things break. :omg:
Kat do you have plastic or copper pipe in the well house ??..Plastic usually is more forgiving than copper is to having the water expand inside it . If the pump is in the well it should be fine as long as the temperature does not stay below freezing for several days .
Oh MAN! :rofl2: Goyette is playing a clip of John Stewart. It’s a really good one!:rofl2:
Did Sam say that Marc would be on today ??
plastic at the pump house, copper at the house. (scary that I know this!). The break we had the other night was at the connection between the plastic and copper up at the house – it was a freaking river under the house. They’d put in a valve at the joint and then buried it three feet and it was at this useless valve that the pipe broke.
I am having trouble getting the stream at AAR but Sam not :sammy: Seder has Marc Maron on his list for today.
Kat Just don’t put the space heater to close to the plumbing. Plastic is not very forgiving to being melted .:eek:It stinks too .:yuck:.
I laugh. All Is Relative. Seriously. Owning = forever making the Plumber and “Roofer” and many more “house workers” RICH. :nod::omg::roll:
Farmerkat, I don’t know whether to :rofl2: (memories especially since “I am in town now” ) or 😥 since it is a “bitch”, :eek::omg::fu: 🙄 = then tea :joe: and 🙄 :rofl2: 😉 = :love: for you.
Morning eveybody. :joe:
you’re right, druid! The well guy has a huge organic garden, btw.
Fred, i’ll run up and check, thanks! It’s 20 now – supposed to be even colder tonight.
BUGS :tommygun: :banana:
Fred, again “GoodSpeak” :yippee: especially about plastic pipes, this time. :rofl2: laughing since it is SOOOOO Important and TRUE:!:
AIV
so tech peoples….I need some help and pj is busy on his projects…if any of you techy guys out there would help me it would be appreciated.
Seems that Monarch computer is going under and thats why they havent followed through…
I figure that for time’s sake I need to get another desktop because thats how I run things and what Will uses….
I might as well rebuild this PC over the holidays or right in the new year …just for fun…so I need to order new parts from somewheres like new egg or tiger…
But I want to tell you what Ive got and see what I should get because Im hearing that its best to invest in a better motherboard etc…
At this point I think I need ot replace the power supply, the motherboard and the HD.
The memory is pretty new…and Im sure that I dont want another ASUS motherboard because this one has failed 2 times and the forums at MOnarch are all full of failed ones…Id prefer ot spend a little more and get a better one….or the best one….
And I want to try to figure out how to build a computer…but I dont necessarily want to do all the settings if I dont have to.
I just wanted to put this out there and see if anyone has any ideas on what to order to replace the following:
ASUS K8V Deluxe Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (retail)…maybe dont need to replace this part?
Western Digital 2000 JB 7200 R
Liteon DVD LDW811S (r/rw…drawer sticks and I have to use a butter knife to get it to open)
Power is Antec true 380 (380 W max)
There is also ASUS Radeon 9600 XT 128 MB DDR
and Corsair 3200 512 cas 2 Meg ddr.
I am only just up to year 2 of this machine and its been alot of trouble…and the company started going down over the summer…now they seem to be going out of business.
I can probably get the parts replaced directly by the suppliers and then sell em on ebay or use them to build something else…but for now, I figure I should try to order some parts in the direction of trying to rebuild this thing just to see if I can.
Meantime, I have to load replay and my phone and palm stuff into the laptop that I rebuilt before…and load my ipod somewheres….
The new dell is so fragile that it crashes everytime I try to add software…I have to deal with that but for now have to get up and running so I have something to take travelling with me in a week…
any help will be appreciated…and there is no rush!!
I am only in
Kat…if you can plug in a space heater try that…also maybe a heair dryer on the pipe directly. The pump guys just use a torch!
I had my old pump house put underground last time I did big digging here…well, maybe 2 times ago…but anyway, the pipes in the studio still freeze if Im not careful and now I keep one of those tapes attached.
I guess you dont have to worry much about that down there, but it seems like the weather is going crazy…tornados in london, sudden cold bursts in this very hot fall….
Im happy that its cold today…wearing my coat new coat when I get out. I got 2 puffers from Gap…a long and a short. The great thing about Gap is that they have tall XL so things are really long!…not so great for most of the stuff I do that involves getting into and out of the car and hauling stuff, but good if Im just going to meetings and waiting rooms….
But I must go and get my seltzer from the car before this gets any worse….
see, your pump guy agrees with me…oh man, what Ive been through with this place!
Especially since when I moved here and grandpa’s ideas of upkeep became clear (7 layers of roof, totally rotted beams, holes through oldtime plaster through powder beams up through the broken stucco…with carpenter ants everywhere animals and vines growing up through the walls to pull the place down!!) I realized that he had a space heater plugged in in the old pump house, set at some low temperature so it kicked on if it got cold, and the pump itself heaped with old pink insulation completely infused with mouse poop and half on the heater, and mice everywhere…..and if the plug got knocked out the thing would freeze!
This is what happens when a boy from bronxville buys a country place…no clue!! What a nightmare…steep learning curve for me!
that’s pretty funny about your grandfather, melina.
:yippee: H2O :yippee:
(tonight I’ll remember to keep the light and heater on)
Yea Farmerkat :yippee: 😎 😉
Well, its not like it should freeze that often, right?
And Farmerkat now has even More info, even if she nevers needs.
(But now feeling for you since your pipes froze last week. 😮 :omg: 🙄 That’s a “bitch” too. :Singy: But you handled it ❗ :banana:
…and that leaves Melina 😉
Again, “You’re a better man (woman) than I Gunga Din”
venturing into The Secret World of The Computer 😮 :omg: but :yippee: to You and To Seeking!:
Melina, what’s your budget for the computer?
:love: 😎 :yippee: MARC:!:
The Good News Implied in Feingold’s Decision Not to Run
Earlier this year, when courage and clarity seemed dangerously rare among our politicians, many of us were heartened when Senator Russ Feingold stood up for the rule of law, proposing a motion to censure President Bush for his flagrant violation of both statutory law and the Constitution. Feingold quickly became a champion for many who hungered for someone in high places to speak the truth about the reckless criminality of this regime. We began to hear talk of a possible Feingold run for the presidency in 2008. And the idea had appeal to many, including me.
Link
:bong: :rofl2: 😎 :joe: :dancers:
Gooood morning, bloggren!
That first :joe: of coffee is coming in a little late today. Bodes poorly. 🙁
Jeanne Kirkpatrick just died. It’s always sad when a human being dies, even after a long and happy life. Kirkpatrick was too busy being a right wing tool to have one of those so it’s doubly sad that she had to die before she could realize how evil she sounded to sane people.
Speaking of low temps….two weeks ago we were getting warnings about a “Arctic cold blast” and temps dipped into the low twenties (Farenheit.) Everyone was shivering and complaining. My car is still on the fritz so I had to leave the house before 6 AM to catch the bus and then there’s the walking to and from bus stops… I started to get worried as I have a hood on my lighter jacket but not on my warm coat and I own no warm headgear. I hoped for the best, stuck on a baseball cap and my gloves and my warm coat and…damn, it wasn’t all that bad! I keep forgetting…I spent a year in Saskatchewan as a child, a year in Sweden while in college, half of my life in upstate New York or Massachusetts and the remaining quarter split between California, Denver, and Oregon/Washington. My body knows what cold really feels like and this wasn’t cold.
Nevertheless, my landlord (native to this area) panicked and came out to check the pipes…
:nod: to all you said :cold: my wish for you = :hot: and hot tea/:joe: 😉
budget?…Ha! I dont know…just gonna have fun with this…unless Monarch suddenly turns up and offers me the parts.
I need to phone the tech who I know that was working with them….
I will probably have to look at new dells for right away…
we’ll see
But for parts…probably a few hundred would be worthwhile…maybe more…if I dont screw it up!
Im still haveing trouble posting on sam’s blog…it just loads endlessly.
I can post everywhere else…and on the monarch boards they have someone actively taking down any questioning or negative posts….
I think Marc is going to be on-air soon, by his and Sam’s “games” (jokes).
AIV
Okay, the person sitting next to me is listening gleefully to the all-Christmas-all-the-time radio station. I’ve had to resort to sticking on my headphones and listening to Monty Python music. “Sit on My Face” is just….well, it’s tough not to giggle and snort.
well…I got the thing to boot finally but I had to take it apart and wiggle everything…so now if I leave it on I hope I can get things transfered somewheres….
Now it wont boot past the windows xp load screen but I was able to get my disc out of the dvd without breaking the thing apart….very important treo disc…
Possible Owner of AAR not able to afford Franken and Rhodes?
(snip)
According to two sources familiar with the negotiations, Air America is in the final stages of arranging a sale to a small media company, which they declined to name. “My understanding is that everything is done except for the final touches,” says one former Air America staffer. “It’s a media company—a very small one. I had never heard of it.”
Both sources expressed doubt that the new owner could afford to employ Air America’s two biggest names—Franken and Randi Rhodes. “There’s the question of whether this little company has the money to keep it going,” says one source.
“There’s no way that their current contracts will continue,” says the former staffer. “And the question is, will Franken and Rhodes compromise in order to stay?”
Franken insists he’s not paying attention to the turmoil—”I’m Zen-ing it,” he says—and he’s focused on his upcoming USO tour. And what will he do when he returns? “Fall asleep on the couch.” And after that? “I don’t know.”
http://tinyurl.com/y32ngb
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Re 75,
I am one of Feingold’s constituents and this is how I read it, too.
Feingold could not speak as plainly as he does if he were running for
President. I don’t see how he could appeal broadly and raise the
money and support a presidential run requires and still be himself.
I’d support a President Feingold but I don’t see how he can make a run without selling out – whether in the Wisconsin legislature or in the national Congress, Russ has always treated his constituents and colleagues with respect and honesty. He’d have to undergo some
kind of extreme makeover to run for president. His decision not to run seems to me to be an acknowledgement that he can do more good and best be true to himself and his constituents by concentrating on his work in the Senate. Frankly, this decision
shows how smart he is and how much he’s got his ego in check.
on his work in the Senate.
seems like Gore may also be opting for the same thing as Feingold…cant blame em really…and maybe there wll be someone who can be greatly influenced by them…and maybe they can be the mouthpiece of the heads of state who have to please a wide array of people…
Doesn’t Feingold have some baggage from his first marriage that might plague him with the possibilities of attacks from religious Reich too.:shock::tongue:
And how many of us would miss Franken, eh?
I’m sure this will be discussed endlessly on the reich wing blogs. And maybe someone sane will mention it on some news show that isn’t Faux…maybe Olberman or even the newly and (I suspect) temporarily sane Joe Scarborough.
Shultz is moving into Al’s time slot on Monday so if Rhodes leaves will she come back in the afternoon drive time from someplace else or will there be three hours of almost dead air ??
re baggage :nod:
re Gore, I ‘believe” he will run. :yippee: “I just think it is a long form of a dramatic pause”. 😎
the Art Institute of Los Angeles say hi bloggies!
:banana:
**lurk**:paranoid:
:yippee::yippee: Its QG :yippee::yippee:
December 8, 1980 – You can kill the man, but not the message.
Rest in Peace, John Lennon. May your true messages of peace never rest, but live in all of us.
:peace:
QuietGirl, :banana: :billcat: :yippee:
Cheers :bong: :alc: :40: Tea:joe: to all of The Art Institute of Los Angeles :omg: :dancers: 😎 :pirate: :parrot: :yippee:
I would like to see a Gore/Edwards ticket, I think it would definitely prevail. It would make me happy too!
Oh, I don’t know about Edwards.:roll:
I am not a gambler at this point in elections. If the Repiglicans (no offense to pigs) scored another victory, I would be tempted to make a one way trip to the Golden Gate. I like the fact that Edwards thrives on smacking down evil corps, and of course Gore for the Enviroment.
Do you like your job Travis?
:yippee: Al had Leo Kottke on. I wasn’t sure he was alive- thought he passed right after John Fahey.
Tom Waits :love: was on the Daily Show last week for Stewarts birthday. My ten-year’s younger wife thought it was a joke and laughed. I had to turn it off and watch later. She grew up on hair-bands in the eighties :bong:
Had to explain to her about jazz-poet-songwriters and Charles Bukowski. :slap:
Oh, uh….I can’t type about my job. Sorry.
On another note, check out the planetary triple play or whatever on Sunday, if you can.
Well I hope you like it . Later!
PS I will try to get up to see it. Thanks.
It’s just that I don’t have a job yet. Like Painting Girl, I applied for something that I am totally capable of doing, with one hand tied behind my back, and ended up getting the short end of the stick. Really upsetting, since I typed that I was getting it here on the blog a few weeks ago. Anyway, I’m going to go take some pics of Seattle, so I’ll try and post some later. Later!.
Re: Lennon … a haunting of an echo of de – nile. with love :love: but I have switched to a growl :growl:
Feingold is twice divorced now…and Jewish too. Though I haven’t heard anything ugly about either divorce or about any member of
his family, conventional wisdom says that these facts could weigh heavily against him as a candidate.
Re Franken, I always worry about him when he goes to Iraq. Not only is that a dangerous place to visit, but opponents of the Bushes have been known to have “accidents” from time to time. As a Minnesotan (Wellstone), I suppose he knows this.
Hey everyone. TGIF Ha!
Aiptek’s MPVE
Anyone (that means you Melina) in the market for an all-in-one digital recording device (video, pictures and audio recordings) should take a look at this. It’s very reasonably priced at $148.99 @ MacMall.
CNick :yippee: 😎 😉
AIV
Hey Druid! What’s up my lady?
Getting ready for month run at Costco :omg: saw artist pix of “””Dark Hole””” eating a Star :omg:, getting ready for the twine of 3 planets., and running crazy :billcat:
What’s Going on with You?
Did I tell you I like the way you say CNick :hubba: 😉
AIV
Just got in from travels a little earlier. Glad its Friday! :yippee:
Just wishing I could buy something without feeling guilty. I either want a Macbook Pro or a Sanyo VPC-HD1A Digital Camcorder.
How do I say CNick?
I saw in my Dreams, I wanted a “Digital Camcorder” for Solstice. 😎
AIV
I blame John Ong for making me want a new camcorder. His video podcast was so sweet.
This blog is fucking with me today! 🙄 What in the hell? It does not seem to want to load after a post! Damnit. Otherwise, life is good. I’m happy, happy, Dr. Smith.
Roommate did not come home for lunch. Kitchen is in a mess from his making breakfast this morning. Typical Friday afternoon. Glad I do not have to worry about doing a podcast till Tuesday. I can relax.
Okie, nothing really to report. So I’ll see what else I can get into. Travis take some good pix. I’ve never been out of the SE and would love to see the real Seattle!
Hey, I just realized…I forgot my recipe today. Anyone have any requests?
BTW, I’m looking for a reasonably priced mp3 player, preferably one with an FM receiver. Anyone have any suggestions? I don’t need anything big. I’m thinking 1G ought to do it.
Melina,
This motherboard will allow you to reuse all your existing hardware. I have no personal experience with DFI but generally hear good things about the brand. Unless your son is into PC gaming you can use the current video card. I would still replace the current power supply as I feel it is suspect. 400 watt minimum to allow for future upgrade. This would be your least expensive option. If you want to spend more dough, let me know.
Insert Prof. Frink emo here.
Hello Nick! :cold:
Hey Andy, its a cool 40 degrees here in Bham. I hear there is a freeze warning for tonight. Brr:cold:
It’s 31 now going down to 22 for the overnight.
Helping Melina with her computer woes? I wish all us Liberals would turn our backs on that big red machine and go blue with Apple Macs. They just work! I donno how many times I’ve read here of fellow bloggers computer probs only to find out that their running a Windows box. :billcat: And for those of you out there who must have your Windows XP just know that you can run Windows XP and the upcoming Vista on a Mac. Let’s support blue! Buy a Mac for Christmas!
freaking all i ask one little thing is that somebody post the link to the rollins early on todays blog so everybody can see it but nooooo nobody can do that one little favor for me!
Love hearing Oregon’s Republican Senator blasting Bush and his Iraq policy.
Yaeh but I like building my own machines. I also scavange parts from donated computers at the library and put together computers for the kids there. Can’t do that with a Mac.
The rollins?
I don’t know what Seanie is talking about either! 😮
:?:rollins ❓
yep go near the end of yesterdays blog there is a real nice rant from the rollins!
Funny how hardware problems are due to Windows.
then post the link once you find it……
Must go make dinner
Breaking News: It is now 38 degrees in Birmingham, AL., Zip code 35242
Yeah, that is funny isn’t it! :billcat: Do you have to always defend that Windows box PJ? He He!
So I’ve been eating leftovers today Andy. I’m prolly gonna charge a meal to my Company’s AmEx card this weekend though.
hint it might be post #203 ok im off to find meself a hotel room for tonight and tomorrow……
Sam Seder show was good this morning. Sam had someone on who really painted a scary picture of Bush and the Iraq dilemma.
I’m beginning to like Jim Baker! Ha!
Bush is 👿
CNick, I have run a bit more, but re 114 :rofl2: :omg:
:rofl2: 😎 😉
AIV
http://tinyurl.com/ycj3ot
Here is your link Henry Rollins link, Sean.
Sorry I missed the assignment.
HW was crying because he has come to the realization that W is insane and is destroying whatever legacy the Bush name held up to this point. This would all be funny if Bush was only destroying the Republican party. Unfortunately, he has also succeeded in destroying the reputation of this country and the US Military and he has the blood of our dead soldiers on his hands. Bush is 👿 and stupid at the same time. To many drugs in his youth have rotted his brain.
I fear that the Dems will find a way to be dragged into this Bush war. Let us just sit back and watch as the Rethugs self-destruct!
Cnick, you have to have a brain to rot in the 1st place.
:eek::omg::eek: I have windows 😮 and I have many times 22 plus Windows going on Windows :omg: … did you know that academia and writting and junk like that, only would use Windows.
I had to help in early ’80’s “feed” that ol’ Windows now info ( and I ain’t talking about shredding ❗ ) setting up a computer “acadamia” “stuff” :omg:
(Memories…:rofl2:)
AIV
Interesting interview by Lila Garrett here with Tom Hayden, Dennis Kucinich and Tim Carpenter
Or in the alternative we could rid ourselves of this madman by impeaching his ass. Then we end up with President Chaney. I donno. We are in a helluva mess!
Druid you can also run Microsoft’s Office on a Mac. And if you just :love: Windoz you can run the Windoz OS on a Mac. I do it myself and Windows run better on this Intel Imac than it does on any of two Windows boxes I now own.
wvmc3d re 145 :rofl2: shame on you :rofl2: You Bad :spank:
AIV
Good point Vernon Re: 145
The guy from the GAO said this morning that another two years of this war and the national indebtedness would be such that we would have to default. We would owe ourselves and our creditors more than 70 trillion dollars . :bf:
In defense of Windows: I cannot wait to get my hands on “Vista”. I want to see this new OS and run it on my Mac.
So Bush is destroying our country too? Who will rid us of this madman? (Fred RE: 152)
I think Cheney will step down ala Agnew before Bush is ever pursued for impeachment.
The guy from the GAO explained that in addition to the 10 trillion in the national debt we currently owe the Medicare and Social Security trust funds 40 trillion which the republican congress borrowed from them since RayGun.. it sounded like defaulting would mean a reduction in those programs rather than other places since they represent more than 50% of the budget. The interest payments on the this debt will be more than the 2006 federal budget if this continues . That would seem to rule out any national health care .. The thugs have created the perfect storm ..
I wonder if rethugs are good to eat.:bf:
This blog seems awful sluggish of late. Wonder if PJ needs more disc space?
BTW. I’m not surprised to hear that the bogus Senate ethics committee isn’t going to punish any of its Republican members for the Foley scandal!
CNick, clear cache?
Well I’m using Firefox and I haven’t been using it that long. Hmm
The server the blog is running on seems to be rejecting connections..The blog refresh has been stopping at various points all afternoon.
As for problems with Windows. It could be that Windows XP/Vista requires better hardware than most people want to purchase or can afford. So everyone tries to skimp on hardware., buying the cheapest motherboard, video card, so on and on. And so when it crashes we wonder WHY?
Franken today sounded like he may not be coming back so he was circling the bases. Original comedy partner, original co-host, old family friend who was a guest on his first show, live from the first place he performed with Davis. Big acknowledgments for his staff.
The show will be a highlights show while he is gone run by his staff live with possible phoners from Al on his USO tour.
It sounds 50-50 that he will be back.
I think I am here for a few-ish.
CNick, only recently, many pro(ish) folk had to “run” windows and have PC’s. Only recently PC and Mac/Apple could “coalesce”. And I am a Mac Whore (:oops: :spank:) , who lived in that “area” and dreamed to oneday have a Mac/Apple…Cuz so many ‘uper cool 😎 HAD BOTH…. and since “The Joining” now one can have it all…..Ha:!:
Sounds like from prior post of Melina that Franken and Rhodes both may bite the dust. I just hope there is something left after the storm.
Most of the Vista problems will be in the support of older hardware like video cards and sound cards.. I think it also requires a minimum of 1 geg of memory and 50 gegs of disk space.
A lot of the older computers ( like an Intel PIII 750 meg or something) can’t have that much memory on the mother board. The parts are cheap though. Hp has some desktops for under 300 dollars …I think its a conspiracy between the vendors to make people buy new stuff..They may be sadly disappointed this time around . .:bf:
Well I like Randi-, I hope she lands on her feet. Franken was going to leave anyway to run for Senate so screw him.
Druid . . . you can buy a Intel Imac for as little as $919.00. I have the 20″ first generation Intel Imac. Yup . . . early adopter. I have not been disappointed. I am craving 17″ Macbook Pro laptop.
Minimum supported system requirements
PCs that meet the minimum supported system requirements will be able to run the core features of Windows Vista with the basic user experience.
Windows Vista Minimum Supported System Requirements
Processor 800 MHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1
System Memory 512 MB
GPU SVGA (800×600)
Graphics Memory –
HDD 20 GB
HDD Free Space 15 GB
Optical Drive CD-ROM drive2
Audio –
Internet –
The good thing about the new Intel Mac’s is not only the fact that they can boot Windows XP and the upcoming Vista, but they come with Ilife which includes a host of programs that make it easy as pie to create a podcast and a website. Check out iLife, iWeb and Garageband they all come with every new Mac.
The reason I want the Macbook Pro is I can take it with me to Pride in Atlanta this coming summer and broadcast with Nicecast software from Piedmont Park. All kinds of hotspots in Atlanta! And I can do a podcast while in Atlanta. And not have to wait until I return to Birmingham to do the podcast.
So I’ve come so close to buying the Macbook. I’ve resisted up to now. I feel that resistance breaking down. If I were str8 and had a wife and kids I’d be in divorce court by now! 🙄
:eek:a live gay radio parade! :pup:
Yup :dancers:
PJ should get you a rainbow icon!
Every file is PC . And I do not have the Money or HEART to change everything. I am very selfish. (It’s not all about me, seriously 🙁 ):rofl2: And I am just not interested in things that take me away from my focus, my work. 😳 😀
AIV
Yes he should Sean.
:fustrate: Druid! Did you not hear me when I told you that Windows will boot on a Mac! I do it myself. You can run both operating systems on one piece of hardware.
I even boot Linux on this thing with a software program called “Parallels”.
Most hot spots are not very high speed connections compared to your cable modem at least and the more users on one node the slower it gets . They are mostly designed to be a public port with more like 56k modem like capabilities..:eek:
re 175 — but I am always “touching” very slowly, THE Computer Classes, cuz ultimately I love :love: computer stuff — I just may not be able to undersatand the language (yet:hubba:) Wanna Dance Computer :dancers:
AIV.
“Parallels” is amazingly fast for a virtual machine!
CNICK, I understand, but why waste TIME learning new manuals and “mdmfjgjghdhbsgwsgwgfwfg” :doh: :rofl2: — NOW –:!:
When done with one thing, I can spend TIME on getting to now, intimately, The Computer. 🙄
Re 179, Fred you are right. I may not be able to have to many listeners on a live broadcast. But it would be fun to try.
And Re 179, I can always record the live broadcast with Nicecast while at the park and upload it from the hotel later that evening to my site as a podcast.
I give up Druid! Keep your Windows box. Whatever! :slap:
I’m really hoping to get lots of interviews at Pride this coming summer. I need someone who could wag around my minidisc recording people around the park while I set up shop at one end of the park as a base. The Pride Committee allows one to set up tents in certain locations in Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta. So I should be able to get lots of interviews. Hopefully! Some of these gay guys have attitudes you wouldn’t believe! :slap: Alright bitch just talk into the mic!
There are versions of Linux for PPC MACs so a MAC that runs an Itel part should be the same as any other Intel based machine . You should be able to boot Windows, OSX and Linux on it ..Does parallels let you run Linux in parallel with OSX in other words you can switch back and forth without rebooting
Of course 183 and 184 would require that I purchase a Macbook Pro.
Macbook Pro. :sigh: :nod: :love: 😎 😉
AIV
Yes, I can run all three systems at the same time with Parallels.
Linux gives me a headache though. I do not currently have a Linux virtual machine setup on my Imac. But I have had it on here. I don’t remember why I deleted the Linux VM. I may use some of my time this weekend to create it again just for the helluvit.
NEVER RELENT!
i am the best person in the world!
I watched it Sean. “Never relent!” Here is Bush :tommygun:
I’m missing my target again damnit
i disavow all knowledge of post number 194
There is not much difference between Linux and OSX at the operating system level .. You can for example run X windows under OSX .. When we were playing with MACS the OSX and Linux file systems were not compatible . I got a patch to allow Linux to read the OSX file system but never achieved the opposite operation.. Having all three in memory at the same time would requires huge amounts of memory or it swaps a mempry image to disk which makes it really slow .
You can go here to watch a live feed if the Shuttle happens to launch tomorrow night.
I’ll create a Linux VM this weekend and run them at the same time with programs running and see what happens.
I have that Christmas party to go to tomorrow afternoon. I’d just as soon skip it.
Yeah Cnick you really didn’t post 194.. it does not exist .. only in our minds does this post exist ..
O hell I’m not worried about it. Let those assholes come after me! Whatever :crap:
um, someone’s knocking at my door! oh shit!:omg:
dude out the side!
Secret service prolly sick of Bush to. Prolly hand you a gun just to get rid of the tyrant.
Bush is toast! No one has to do anything to him. But watch (pop popcorn) as he implodes.
SeanMS :nod: :fist: NEVER RELENT! ❗
AIV
More interesting than anything on the TeeVee.
I wish I could find that letter I wrote to Bush awhile back. Let me look
ok, here is a letter I wrote way back when to bush at the whitehouse. I’m not so smart so excuse it please. N e way. also excuse the long post:
Mr. President, You say you had authority to listen in
on private telephone conversations of American
Citizens. Based on my understanding of the law you are
in error and have committed a felony offense under the
law. Thus you have disgraced the very office and the
laws your swore to uphold. When you came into office
you promised to be a “uniter, not a divider”, but
everything you have done since entering the office has
created more and more division within this land.
Anyone who disagrees with you is seen to be
unpatriotic. You used these words of division in your
news conference today when you called those you oppose
this war and seek its early end . . . “defeatists”.
You acknowledged that intelligence was faulty. Your
principal reason for going to war with Iraq was
because it was an “imminent threat” and its leader
possessed “weapons of mass destruction”. I agree there
is no easy fix to the mess you’ve made. Our standing
is diminished throughout the world, thanks to you. I
doubt you’ll ever see this letter as you have clearly
been insulated from day one from your critics. My name
will probably end up on some enemies list thanks to
this email. I’ll consider it a badge of honor. Perhaps
your thugs in the Secret Service or the FBI will do a
sneak and peek of my apartment. Of course, I’ll never
know. Its “Big Brother” in America, the end of
liberty, the beginning of the fascist states of
America. Geo W. Bush has all the proper answers and
anyone in opposition is the enemy. Right? Is this not
what you think, you and your cronies? I wonder if
Bill Clinton had made an end run around the court what
the Republican Majority would have done to him? You’re
a lucky man (Mr. Bush) that you are surrounded by a
government ruled by your own party. Absolute power
corrupts absolutely. If I’ve quoted this wrong I’m
sure you’ll excuse me since you seem to suffer from
the same affliction. Ha Ha. It is ironic that you are
destroying the very liberties that you claim to be
protecting. Perhaps to much pot smoking and cocaine
use in your early adult life has short circuited your
brain? Or maybe its just that you’ve got away with
every nasty thing you’ve ever done to those less
fortunate. Just repeat certain “keywords” to the
masses, your base and they’ll follow you to hell. I
hope Karl Rove is indicted and you’re ignorant war
mongering friends, VP Dick Chaney and Defense
Secretary Rumsfeld go down with all the other corrupt
officials of your Republican party. You should all be
indicted. You for thinking you possess extra ordinary
powers. I guess I shouldn’t expect more from a man who
did everything he could to stay out of combat during
the Vietnam war. Your granddaddy and you dad protected
you unlike those unlucky enough to serve in the
military under you and your draft dodging friends. It
makes me sick to see how you use our military as a
backdrop for your blonder during repeated trips to
military bases in hopes of improving your poll numbers.
We’re not all stupid out here. I hope you get whats
coming to you and this nation wakes up to your
criminal behavior and removes you or forces your
resignation. You deserve nothing better. And to
whoever reads this – thank you for allowing me to
vent. I’m not a threat to anyone. I just want our
country to be a beacon for freedom. Not for facists
run a muck and religious fanaticism. P.S. Merry
Christmas
That’s the Rollins. I’ve seen that before.
CNick 😎 :applause: ❗ C-Ya hopefully later 😉
AIV
Cool I wrote that letter back on Dec. 19, 2005.
Three days after the last Morning Sedition. 😥
yeah, I was prolly mad about that and didn’t give a damn what i said
I hope Marc makes it back to air. Maybe this AAR thing will work out such that it’ll bring Marc back to us. I hope. That would be my Christmas wish.
Rep. McKinney’s parting shot: Bill to impeach Bush
WASHINGTON (AP) — In what was likely her final legislative act in Congress, outgoing Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney announced a bill Friday to impeach President Bush.
The legislation has no chance of passing and serves as a symbolic parting shot not only at Bush but also at Democratic leaders. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, has made clear that she will not entertain proposals to sanction Bush and has warned the liberal wing of her party against making political hay of impeachment.
McKinney, a Democrat who drew national headlines in March when she struck a Capitol police officer, has long said that Bush was never legitimately elected. In introducing her legislation in the final hours of the current Congress, she said Bush had violated his oath of office to defend the Constitution and the nation’s laws.
read the full article here.
Starting to sound to me like it’ll be a low-budget production company to syndicate shows. If they get lucky with a couple of good shows, they may do well.
yup, you gotta watch out for us radicals
Breaking NEWS: It’s dropped 10 degrees since I last posted the current temp in Birmingham, AL., it is now 28 degrees!!! Brr:cold:
Oh, my wife is finally home. A mere 13.5 hours since she left for work. She ought to be in a good mood.
I guess Peter is SOL tonight. It is to COLD to get out. This southerner is not used to this kind of cold. This stuff is supposed to stay up in the NE or maybe the North pole?
Yeah, the Free Radicals. A militant biochemists’ group.
Yeah, it’s only 25 here, though it was 12 when I got up. We got some snow, but missed out on the heavy stuff. With Lake Effect, it’s all a matter of how the wind blows. Still, I shoveled the driveway for the first time this season. I rather enjoy it – especially while listening to “Suspense.”
Low tonight in Bham is supposed to drop to 20. We are well on our way.
Must be freakin’ people out down there. 20 is downright balmy for a low in December here, but not down your way.
I meant to say something this morning but didn’t have time. I hope John doesn’t rest in peace but comes back here to Earth to help us! :fire:
And Farmerkat’s pipes froze, even! I would say that that happens after a certain age, but of course I am not that crude.
“Imagine” is my favorite John Lennon song.
The complex posted signs “Freeze warning” and warned tenants to let the water drip. I don’t let it get that cold here in the apartment. I guess the Gas bill will just have to be high. I refuse to freeze.
Yeah, had I not been so busy, I’d have not forgotten this morning. I was just 20 then, in school at Oswego. It was a Monday night, and some of the guys were watching Monday Night Football, but I was listening to a Rochester radio station (which came in well, down Lake Ontario), when they announced first he’d been shot, and then he had died. I went down and told the guys in the lounge, and a moment or two later, Howard Cosell announced it to the MNF audience. I was stunned for days.
28 degrees! maybe you’ll get some snow Nick.
He had just released Double Fantasy (OK, Yokos songs sucked, but his were great), and he had another two albums planned out. He was back. Such a shame. He was only 40. Younger than I am now. Just too damn bad.
It’s 28 and clear as a bell Andy
Hey everyone…just got in and see Ive missed skype calls…trying to unload the car and eat some food and feed the animules.
Diane sawyer is doing a north korea story…very strange….
I was o a plane from NY to LA and when I got off, my sister came runnign up crying saying that John had been shot…Hi lives just 10 blocks north of there and …I love that building…but its so sad…I dont kow how Yoko could stand staying there…
its very cold here…really nice if youve got a good coat…
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen “Imagine,” the documentary (came out in 1988). I ran it when I was a projectionist, and bought it on video. I highly recommend it, if you haven’t seen it.
Hey Melina, Andy, Kristapea – join us here for a cup of hot coffee?
I don’t drink coffee often, but this would be the night for it. :cold:
Yeah, John Lennon’s death was a shock to me even though I had never paid much attention to The Beatles or him for that matter up to that point. But his new album was climbing the charts and I liked it. I really am not sure why it hit me so hard but it felt like something had gone terribly wrong in the Universe when he was murdered. 😥
holding at 28 in bham
Wonder if Travis got those pix of Seattle? Where are you Travis?
About a year or two before he was killed, John came to channel 6 here in Philly to do an interview with Larry Kane (John was also doing a charity fundriaser for WFIL 56 AM). Kane had travelled with the Beatles during a US tour around ’63? Anyway the interview was great, but he stayed and wound up doing the weather report as well. It was hilarious! Some time later some moron at the station recorded over the whole thing – lost forever.
Great story Andy. Did the guy keep his job after that f up?
It wasn’t long after that I went through my own little Beatlemania phase. At first I checked out all the Beatles records from the library. And then one of the radio stations was doing an all Beatles weekend and I stayed inside and taped everything. I used to hang out at the bookstore at the mall in the music section which was way in the back corner and I think I read all of their Beatles books right there on the floor. I got my best friend into them too and we would play The Beatles and dance around her house when her mean ole mother wasn’t there. I wasn’t supposed to be there.
It amazes me that I still know all the lyrics to all the Beatles’ songs. I can’t remember where I left the fucking remote, but I know all the words to “Hey Bulldog.”
The station was trying to save money, it wasn’t an accident. At least according to Larry Kane.
You know why I know all lyrics to Beatles songs is cuz I sat down and went through all the cassette tapes I had taped of The Beatlemania weekend and wrote out all the lyrics. :grin::bow:
I did that with American Pie too, so I still know all the lyrics to that one.
Hey! Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is on!! :pup:
Yay! Santa and Rudolph picked up the misfit toys! Yay! :pup::banana:
Oh GOODY! Now it’s Frosty the Snowman! I’m 8 years old again!
Krista are you going to watch Frosty next?
Hell Yeah, I’m watchin’ Frosty!:lol:
Woah, Frosty has 10 fingers. Not typical of a cartoon. :no:
I just finished watching 10 minutes ago. I think I’ll pull out “Merry Christmas Charlie Brown”
Wow, Frosty thinks he won’t melt at the North Pole. He’s sure in for a big surprise! the Xmas Cocacola polar bears have drowned and the North Pole is under 100 feet of icy warm water.:hot:
I do not watch Frosty, anymore, but I do watch Saturday morning cartoons — :banana: 😎 tea:joe:
AIV
Dru No Frosty? No Rudolph? You have watch Charlie Brown, right?
I totally forgot about the greenhouse of poinsettas :omg:
It also hasn’t come on in my area yet 😉 — you folk are telling the future :rofl2:
I like Santa Claus: The Movie with Dudley Moore
“Lead and Follow. Follow and Lead.”
AIV
Don’t worry, it’s Christmas snow!!
What happens to Christmas snow in a world of melting glaciers? 😕
See now Krista, you’re kinda spoiling the Xmassy(tm) mood here.
😀
:banana: Reality :banana:
AIV
There’s a new version of Frosty the Snowman on with John Goodman as Frosty and it looks like Charles Schultz has drawn it. 😯
Ah the choices tonight…frosty and rudolph vs. diane sawyer and Kim Ill jung….or whatever…there is something interesting and charming in that sort of mind control and how everyone is taught to smile and act a certain way….there must be a pretty strong insurgent wave there hidden in the prisons…..
Very strange computer problem…its in a loop of trying to start up and going through windows start up screen , motherboard screen, safety start up screen, back to motherboard screen….sometimes running through the whole setup on a black screen and then flashing the motherboard screen….then it gives an error of bios not found…eekkkk!
I know, I’m kinda Bah Humbug. I resent being forced into celebrating Christmas every single fucking year! Sheesh, same ole thing every year! And it starts earlier and earlier. If I had enough money I’d go to a place where Christmas doesn’t exist from mid October til the end of January. :pirate:
😎 (I like John — just wish he would lose weight to be here on earth longer. :love:)
AIV
The lights are pretty though.
re 266. It’s done by Bill Melendez, the guy who produced all the Peanuts cartoons.
I think John Goodman is kinda hot. :hubba:
He’s a logical choice for Frosty too. Except he can’t sing very well. :yuck:
Kristapea :nod: re 272 😉
AIV
Melina check 119.
Hey Nick….can one call in to a skype broadcast from a land line or a cell phone?
I don’t think so.
So, this one most certainly has leftist global warming overtones. They go into a big chorus of Snow is good or some such nonsense. I only applied them to the original Frosty in joking but it’s in this one for real!
Nick, why dont you do the live show on Sunday?
Andy, thanks for 119…I was just copying it to notepad…what if I want a better video card?…Will does do gaming and supposedly this computer has a good video card…?
But you can have a phone number on skype to give out to people…and you can call land lines for a penny a min…I got a coupon for 1.50 or something…I am now an account holder of skype credit….
Is a motherboard really that cheap?
Shouldnt it cost more?
Which hard drive do you suggest?
Which video card?
which power supply….should I just try for the same ones?
You can upgrade to a better agp card. I have an EVGA 7800GS CO. Very fast but still AGP so you don’t have do a Major upgrade. Kind of pricey though. about 300+
can one really buy an intel mac and have it run all windows programs and act like a PC but still exhibit the supposed stability of the Mac?
Well with this MB you can use everything you have. It’s similar to what you have now. As for power supplies any 400 watt unit from Enermax, Antec, Sparkle. All decent. If you curent HD is close to full just add another.
Unless you want to toss it all and start with brand new.
If Nick has a Skype number than maybe yes.
I’ve never used it myself, but to run any serious Win software like games and such you would need an incredible amount of memory, to feed the game, XP and OSX
Off to bed. Goodnight.
they won’t let Rudolph play in any raindeer games, but then he met “her” but when her father forbid them to ever see each other, he ran away. 🙁 Then the Abominable
Snow Monster or whatever and the Misfit Toys.
(but is background sound now since I have seen it about 10 years of my life)
andy aka Aquaman G’Night :knit: :gate: Good Journeys awake or asleep
Hey just back from din-din with gypsy!:love:
Thank you gypsy!:pup:
travis! I lost my edge! :smack:
and yahoo is down so i must go to microsoft and download..what is it called? messenger er…
:smack::knit2:
7 people
:barf:imagine? mines working class hero!
:doh:post sheeple!
:fu:well fine dont post then!
:cold:
this blog is acting funny…:spank:
am i really alone here?:paranoid:
SBlueHeron Yea :yippee: :!::nod: a few folk mentioned it was acting funny and slow, and was PJ working on it? Is that why?
:yippee::yippee::yippee::dancers:Druid!:dancers::yippee::yippee::yippee::tongue::bow:
when can you get a mac?
I was plotting a drive to your county from ashland..
maybe in May? With the LION:billcat:
As soon as I left gypsy’s house tonight I turned on KPOJ and heard the Maron. He is in therapy!:paranoid:
so he can cry at appropriate times.
:banana: When I am I Rich ❗ :doh: :tongue: :yippee:
AIV
The sound of four :cat::cat::cat::cat:’s
eating wet food is driving him :omg: bonkers.:tongue:
Which Lion :omg: :rofl2:
I would buy a MacBookPro but they are too big for me to haul around just now. Also I would wait for the new operating system.
Travis post your photy’s!
:rant1:
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, an unabashed apostle of Reagan era conservatism and the first woman U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has died.
One of the first innovators who tried to make San Francisco a slur, unfortunately one of the least of her offenses against humanity.
Which Marc? When? Huh? Huh?
The one who roars softly:love:
On Sam Seder this morning…did you catch it?
I think tomorrow I will dip my toe in the ocean and breathe some clean air:nod:
Pacific City in the a.m.
I am about to walk down the hall for some Cheeto’s.
Somebody talk me out of it!
“I” scared that one, me with a Leo Rising, a leo sister, several male Leo friends, whatever … he scared me :rofl2::omg::rofl2:
5 people on line and I am talking to myself is that it?
:boobs:BLOGGING FROM THE TUB……
Did you have a scare-fest?
:omg:
Seanie sean…did you get the nice jacuzzi room?
:jerk:
:pup:mmmmmm cheetos!
many Leo friend’s here but this one is the kindest….:billcat::nod:
:hubba:…… i mean no……
Hey Druid…methinks gypsy and I were at Costco at the same time you were.:yippee:
No giant bag of cheetos…I checked.
😐
:penguin:
^is evil!
I didn’t go but thought deeply and fought with hubby about it AND A LIVING TREE or a HOLLY Bush 😮
I was constantly thinking of it then though. And should start earlier :tongue: RATS :nuts:
Is Jeffy about to come out?:paranoid:
:penguin::tommygun:
No costco?:shock:
I am dragging travis there when i get back.
vernon snuck a post in…
How are you man?
Do we need a mourning rememberance?
SeanMS Only folks like me can do :boobs: :rofl2:
unless jeffy has been:bong::bong::bong::bong::bong::bong:
Costco has become a 2 day thoughtform
Did you send us there?:omg::paranoid:
Seanie- you OK? let us know you haven’t slipped under…
im going to go see some :boobs: now……
maybe you are shampooing?:tinfoil:
Don’t anybody tell us to get a hotel room:fu:
:knit: well have fun Seanie….
how about a late night invocation for the departed bloggers.?:cake:
I’m gonna go look for roxie…
:omg: SilverBlueHeron, I was told once that it “was girls like me that make guys like him have accidentsb like this slow head-on.
For many reasons I think I have the right — to say he looked 😎 in his “baggy short pants”. I know, since even in LALALAND, and “they” judge me, thus I know what “Is Hot” and :hubba:.
But he I have to remember he came from “slower” places and I was around many back then … recluse now. But I WAS “a-happin-n and was really “out-front” re much. 😮 But now I am a misanthrope, for real, especially dealing with folks “on my terms”.
Now you are beginning to see me. :omg::omg::omg: :shaken: or danc’n like a wolf.as a wolf
we all deal with folks on our terms.
I was going to start calling again starting Saturday — but close enough
But that can be right after Midnight. I notified Melina that I was to be putting a”A Candle In The Window.” And CNick … but that was awhile ago. And Pj never answered so …. 😮
But if you here NOW … I will do after Midnight :banana: 😎 :banana:
AIV
I have been really :fustrate:
with the goings on here. And so too the lion.
I wish i could say what I really feel. But the rage it incites is not worth it.
It is like never seeing my cousins at thanksgiving after something my sister-in law said.
Someone made a JUDGEMENT and some are banished.:knit2:
pretty harsh:holla:
strip clubs in memphis are open till 6 am!
But You are the weaver working so hard to repair the damage done:knit:
:love:
:hot: seanie sean…you are gonna be late!:omg:
late for what?
Comic relief is on…Where is maron!?:tongue:
the show?:boobs:
Or you could just go down the hall and get cheetos:nod:
over four hours still!
OK, now I believe it. Nothing and the gobs of posts all of the sudden
.:menorah::cake:
I am really bad at the maths…:rant1:
believe what?
:love:CHEETOS! did you get some?
The blog is messed up tonight or something.
It’s always something.
What’s the matter…wanna talk?
no seanie sean..I am trying to resist. I think they have some sort of addictive substance in them that causes these cravings. Or maybe I am just missing some crucial component in my life just now.:knit:
What do you mean V?
crucial component? you mean like cheetos!
I just want you to soothe lil Lion. I am from The City and LALALAND and I saved a 5 year old , when I was 5, from a 3rd grade bully. At 5 I stood between and I directed the whole event, telling one lil girl to get the teacher, and I told the 3rd grader he would have to go through me and not ever will he hit a “kindegarner” (sp) again.
In otherwords, I can be a bit gregarious :cool::omg::rofl2: :dancers:
Again, YEA for you 😉
AIV
:banana: The Computer aka The Great Complicator :banana:
Love:love:/ grrr:growl:
:rofl2:
im assuming believe theres something wrong with the blog or pj is messing around……
I am feeling guilty that the blog is slow due to My Emos
:eek::omg::eek:
:santacool::fustrate::paranoid::tommygun::billcat::dancers::menorah::mrgreen::neutral::penguin::tinfoil::yinyang::banana::parrot::pirate::priest::reaper::sdavid::tongue::yippee::blech::boobs::growl::holla::hubba::jason::jesus::knit2::nixon::peace::rabbi::rant1::rofl2::sammy::sheep::shock::smack::smile::spank::spank::???::barf::bong::cake::cold::cool::crap::cres::evil::fire::fist::gate::grin::idea::jerk::knit::love::nana::nuts::oops::pent::pope::razz::roll::slap::wink::yawn::yuck::alc::bow::cat::cry::doh::ear::eek::hot::joe::lol::mad::nod::omg::pup::-(:-o:-x:40::bf::fu::no::om::(:!::?:
:love:feel less guilty!
I was thinking of claiming my Omega but the resurgent West Coast makes me think it might be premature. Not to mention someone keeps doing placements for Cheetos so I may have to hit a Safeway soon.
Last? I doubt it.
:tommygun::tommygun::tommygun::40::40::40::omg::omg::omg::nod::nod::nod::barf::barf::barf::barf::barf::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::sammy::joe::sammy::joe::sammy::joe::sammy::joe::fire::fire::fire::joe::joe::joe:
SeanMS, awwwww 😎 :love:
re:360
I reached into a fight over a baseball hat and grabbed it and gave it to the rightful owner and got the wind knocked out of me in the 3rd grade.:slap:
SeanMS and wvmc3d are being gallant with all emos.
:Swashbuckling Emo:
:santacool::pirate::priest::reaper::jesus::rabbi::pope:
Hat wearing emos. Sorry, no baseball hats.
One more
:cold::cold::cold::cold::cold::cold:
I have to :knit: another :cold:
Night all…keep it burnin’ till you are #1:nod::peace:
re 368 But SBLUE you were the Hero for The Minute :yippee::wink:
Bye, bye, Blue:
knit2::sammy::bow::joe:
:fire:
wvmc3d A/O O/A :nod::wink:
I do not want to be stepping on any toes … BUT If not here where? Where we weird wonderful folk, centering on The Maron (who I hear gives great hugs 😥 One Day ….. Hubby got to see you but not me. RATS :nuts: ) where we Gather and Create.
MISS YA
— RoxieSeattle 😎 SBlueHeron is here missing you, and travis too.
— found one or two of the missing (or they found me)
— Susan Joy 😎 At least drop by every so often and say :pent: Cheers.
— NickiRose 😎 Where’s my battle partner. Huh? .
— {{{KAHN}}} guess who use to send to you this way? Now that’s your test 😉
*Tell me if any others are missing also. I will be running tomorrow night also and will add for then.
wvmc3d Sorry, I had written, but then you didn’t write 😥 and before I knew the time — it changed and I was Omega then I waited 11 minutes then posted Alpha.
AIV