Pink, I usually have a fiction and a non-fiction going at the same time. Upstairs, I usually have some escapist stuff so I don't have think real hard but I am also loving and highly recommend Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny.
I saw a "netbook" computer at Costco for about $300. It weighed 2.5 lbs and has a 10 in display. I'm not sure what niche it fills but it sure was cute. Anyone know anything about them?
I've seen those too, snowcrash - I think there are some drawbacks - Bare can probably think of them (he likes HUGE laptop computers - you should see his work laptop, it's like my desktop!). I like those super-portable things.
Snow, I almost got one just because of the price, but I'm glad I waited for my used laptop. It totally depends on what you want to do with it. For portability and quick wireless access, they can't be beat with the obvious drawbacks re: applications and no dvd.
I'm a big fan of the little Sony machines. The smaller they are, the more they seem to cost. I swear they market those things just for me. LOL
They sent out this mailer with one where the envelope looked just like a little leather envelope/sleeve clutch purse. I instantly fell in love!
Once I saw one in action, though, I didn't want it - I like a touchpad, and it just had that little nubby thing in the center of the keyboard. I hate those!
the NEW black Barbie doll - Michelle Obama effect.
Barbie from the block got mixed reviews Wednesday from city girls inspecting the newest spin on the old-school toy.
"So In Style" dolls, a fresh take on the black Barbie, hit store shelves this week, featuring a group of plastic friends sporting shiny bling, big earrings and fancy sneakers.
Many of the city girls liked the dolls - Grace, Kara and Trichelle - but some felt the Mattel toy company went too far with the rap-inspired details.
"Not all black people like hip hop," said Barbara Mootoo, 15, of Manhattan, looking at Kara's silver rope chain necklace. "They gave her a chain like a 50Cent video."
Tyaine Danclaire, 15, of the Bronx, liked Trichelle's straight, long hair because it looked like "a weave," but she thought the idea "was sorta racist."
"They say black girls are ghetto with the gold earrings, with the big bling; I don't agree with that," she said.
Mattel said veteran Barbie designer Stacey McBride-Irby, an African-American mother of two, created the dolls so her kids could have toys that look like their neighborhood friends.
Standard black Barbie dolls have been around since 1980 and are darker versions of their blond counterparts.
The new $30.99 dolls have "authentic-looking facial features" such as fuller lips, a wider nose ... and curlier hair," Mattel said.
The new black Barbies released by Mattel have fuller lips, curlier hair and other features that the company says more accurately represent African-American women.
Some have cheered the new dolls. Others jeered them, saying they're not black enough.
"I love the black Barbie. It's about time," Jua Simpson said on CNN's iReport, a user-generated news community. "But the hair is still a step backwards, since most of our hair is not straight and light brown."
Others disagree with critics who say the dolls should have had more natural black hairstyles, such as afros or braids.
Atilla, the Bratz Dolls from a while back definitely had mixed ethnic looks. Some had really slutty hip hop clothes too. Black dolls are no new thing attributable to Michelle O. and $30 seems way too high.
The largest resource available on the Web for viewing Free Internet Television. Live streaming TV, news, sports, music and videos from all over the world.
Atilla, the Bratz Dolls from a while back definitely had mixed ethnic looks. Some had really slutty hip hop clothes too. Black dolls are no new thing attributable to Michelle O. and $30 seems way too high.
Michelle 0bama has a once in a lifetime historic opportunity to address issues specific to her race such as disproportionate abortion rates, high drop-out rates, disproportionate crime rates and children being raised in single-parent homes.
She has an opportunity to shine and show some real leadership where it matters. Somehow I expect this opportunity to be squandered; I've seen nothing to convince me otherwise.
fortunately, the time in my life I was responsible for raising a (step)daughter the only doll craze to hit was those true-to-life baby dolls, the name I can no longer remember. They arrived with a name and a history and they were babies. (The one we got her was 'Beatrice', I believe).
Which is not to say I didn't play with Barbie dolls. But it was never about the doll.
It was about the clothes. My elementary home ec class did the sewing thing on making clothes for the Barbie dolls.
But ethnic stuff? Political correctness? My sister told me to send her daughter an American Girl doll for Christmas one year that was all about some political idea or another.
I gave her a telescope instead.
My very first doll?
Betsy Wetsy. She came with a bottle you loaded with water, shoved it in her mouth and voila! She peed.
Tomorrow, Pi Guy's Halloween Week Pub Series starts...and what I was hoping was that everyone would change their display name and avatar to their favorite character on the pub threads. See, that would have been fun, right?
But they still haven't fixed the avatar thing (though I know for sure they're aware of it and working on it) - are we going to have to go with mixed up screen names only, but no avatar fun?
Pink, what has been Michelle O's social platform? Laura Bush had literacy, I don't remember Hillary's except for trying to be the architect for health care reform in the 90's. Nancy R had just say no to drugs. Oddly, Michelle is a modern youngish woman and we haven't heard too much from her.
Atilla, I'll need to re-post that without the last line; I wouldn't want anyone to take it literally. I know you didn't mean it that way - but, just in case:
AtillaTheHoney said... Pink Somehow I expect this opportunity to be squandered
Ayatollah Ghomeini had a post the other nite deploring how she has been attacked, given that she is one of the most low-key first ladies we have ever had.
I responded, but it was the last post before the thread was closed, so I don't know if he ever saw it. Anyway - she's one of the most low-key FL we've ever had because she spent the entire campaign opening her fat mouth and alienating people.
I will NOT forget the woman who said in multiple speeches in the same day
"This is the first time in my adult life I have been proud of my country."
None that I've seen ...all empty, meaningless half-heated gestures. She doesn't seem to have her heart into anything (and unfortunately I include her own children here.) She appears to be a vapid, shallow, self-absorbed type of woman, lacking in conviction or foundation. I expect nothing of substance from her.
Brandy - Mmh, nice 'n refreshing! Thanks. Just the right poison for soothing my bruised ego after a night out at a 40+ party. How very desperate those folks there.
Here it is always good, cool and the best company one could hope for!
A Fox News executive refuted on Saturday reports that the White House didn't make the administration's "pay czar" available for an interview because the network didn't ask.
"Of course we requested the interview," Fox News Senior Vice President Michael Clemente said, responding to reports citing the White House as claiming it had excluded Fox News from a series of interviews Thursday with Kenneth Feinberg set up through the five-network TV pool.
Clemente also said that the White House had acknowledged that an employee at the Treasury Department made a mistake in initially excluding Fox.
I'm back from feeding the dogs and taking them out into the rain, but I'll be doing bills. Unfortunately, no alcohol for me tonight; my knee hurts from something (gout? I've had it in my ankle, so knee isn't out of the question) and I'm taking something that doesn't go well with alcohol.
An official at a Democratic-leaning organization sends on a memo the group Media Matters is circulating today to progressive groups, calling Fox "a lethal 24/7 partisan political operation" and rallying a coalition of groups to join the White House assault on the network.
"The danger to progressive causes and the institution of journalism has become too significant to ignore," says the introduction to a memo by Media Matters founder David Brock. "At Media Matters, we believe it is of paramount importance that progressive leaders have the information necessary to understand exactly what Fox News has become. We hope this brief memorandum will assist you in reaching your own decision on how best to engage this threat."
One of the group's conclusions: Progressive groups should join the White House's effective boycott of the network, and failing that, "any progressive who chooses to go on Fox News should understand that they will be debating the political opposition, not conducting a news interview."
Media Matters coordinates campaign against 'lethal' Fox
You know, JCM. I was doing SO WELL before you posted that.
This: "We hope this brief memorandum will assist you in reaching your own decision on how best to engage this threat" ...makes F-words bubble up in my throat.
Ok. I've got to go. In my peripetitic ramblings thru the newspapers, I've saved this and haven't found a good place to post it. So you guys are stuck with it.
this is an exclusive interview by the Asia Times (who publishes the priceless 'Spengler') with Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri. Al Queda leader in Pakistan.
He invited this correspondent to a secret hideout in the South Waziristan-Afghanistan border area, where drones regularly fly overhead.
This is Ilyas' first-ever media interaction since he joined al-Qaeda in 2005. He is a veteran commander from the struggle with India over divided Kashmir.
In the past few months, the militants have appeared to be on the back foot. A number of leading figures have been killed in drone attacks in Pakistan, including Osama al-Kini, a Kenyan national and al-Qaeda's external operations chief; Khalid Habib, the commander of the Lashkar al-Zil or the Shadow Army, al-Qaeda's fighting force; Tahir Yuldashev, leader of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan; PTT leader Baitullah Mehsud, and several others. [ ] Ilyas Kashmiri gave his views on what the upcoming battle will look like, what its targets will be, and how it will impact the West in relation to the destabilization of a Muslim state such as Pakistan.
The contact with Asia Times Online began with a call from the militants on October 6, inviting this correspondent to the town of Mir Ali in North Waziristan. No reason was given. The next day, I traveled to Mir Ali, a town that has been heavily attacked by drones over the past year. After over seven hours of continuous traveling, I was received by a group of armed men who transferred me to a house belonging to a local tribesman.
"The commander [Ilyas Kashmiri] is alive. You know that the commander has never spoken to the media before, but since everybody is sure of his death as a result of a drone attack [in September], al-Qaeda's shura [council] decided to make a denial of this news through an interview by him to an independent newspaper, and therefore the shura agreed on you," a person whom I knew as the key person in Ilyas' famous 313 Brigade told me as soon as I reached the safe house. The brigade, a collection of jihadi groups, fought for many years against India in India-administered Kashmir.
"You will have to stay in this room until we inform you of the next plan. You can hear the voices of drones above your head, therefore you will not leave the room. The area is full of Taliban, but also of informers whose information on the presence of strangers in a house could lead to a drone attack," the man said.
snowcrash: It should be okay in a couple of days. I iced and salted it fairly fast so it hasn't swollen much. I think I will get a picture of it tomorrow to show off the war wound.
snowcrash: It should be okay in a couple of days. I iced and salted it fairly fast so it hasn't swollen much. I think I will get a picture of it tomorrow to show off the war wound.
/Note to self, find some proper oven mitts.
I was gonna post the final X-ray with my pins still in my finger and ran off from work Friday without it. Look for it Monday night... Maybe I should wait for Hollows Eve.
Phil, oven mits are good, salting?? a burn sounds like a wives tale treatment. Cool water, OTC pain relief and cover with gauze to protect blister are best.
It's that time again!
ReplyDeleteHi Brandy! You're bright eyed and bushy tailed tonight ....you beat me in!
ReplyDeleteHi Pink! Good to see your face. What can I get you?
ReplyDeleteI got a head start on you though, I brought my drink over from the book thread.
ReplyDeleteHello Brandy and Pink! That blurb with "tentacled mayhem" grabbed your attention too, lol.
ReplyDeleteAvatar?
ReplyDeleteNo, Crap.
ReplyDeleteWhat can I get you?
ReplyDeleteIf you can find Squatch anywhere back there I'd enjoy seeing him. He's AWOL!
Hi Spenser, snowcrash - and howdy, Brandy. ; )
ReplyDeleteIf you've got nice bottled water back there, that sounds pretty good to me. Sparkling with a little bit of lime, please.
Let me know when you need a refill.
ReplyDeleteApollo 13 is an awesome movie.
ReplyDeleteThat blurb with "tentacled mayhem" grabbed your attention too, lol.
ReplyDeleteYep, I think I might find a place to use it here and there. LOL!
Yippee! A 1554 please!
ReplyDeleteSomething a little different.....
Yeah, where has Squatch been? I've seen him now and then during the day, but not as much as he used to be around.
ReplyDeleteHrmph. : (
Hey Spenser! How're you doing? Read anything interesting lately?
ReplyDelete"Snowcrash - you thirsty tonight? What will it be?
ReplyDeleteYeah, where has Squatch been? I've seen him now and then during the day, but not as much as he used to be around.
ReplyDeleteHaving problems with his home computer. Hopes to be back up soon. :(
Hi Brandy, I'll have a sparkling water with lime, too. Please.
ReplyDeleteHi everybody! When you get a minute, Brandy, could I have a Bombay martini with a lemon twist.
ReplyDeleteHey Pink. Yes, I'm loving Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva. Great book.
ReplyDeleteHi PBJ! We're on the lookout for some tentacled mayhem. Know where we can find any?
ReplyDeleteHere CC. I poured it for you.
ReplyDeleteRefreshing
How is everyone doing tonight? We are having a cold, wet fall here in MI.
ReplyDeleteHey Pink. Yes, I'm loving Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva. Great book.
ReplyDeleteThriller, right? I wish I had more time to read fiction ... I miss it! That's my genre.
Tentacled mayhem? I'll keep my eyes open though.
ReplyDeleteNow I'll serve it to you.
ReplyDeleteenjoy
I'm interested in ya'lls opinion on this H1N1 vaccine. Yes/No?
ReplyDeleteHey Spencer - what is your pleasure?
ReplyDeletePink, I usually have a fiction and a non-fiction going at the same time. Upstairs, I usually have some escapist stuff so I don't have think real hard but I am also loving and highly recommend Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny.
ReplyDeleteI saw a "netbook" computer at Costco for about $300. It weighed 2.5 lbs and has a 10 in display. I'm not sure what niche it fills but it sure was cute. Anyone know anything about them?
ReplyDeleteHere you go snow.
ReplyDeleteIt's really cold
Pink, we had H1N1 here for the past 10 days and you don't want it near you. If you have access to a vaccine, I would take it. Save yourself.
ReplyDeletePink Freud said...
ReplyDeleteHi PBJ! We're on the lookout for some tentacled mayhem. Know where we can find any?
Kosh's Shadow says -
Try R'lyeh.
But maybe it would be better to leave the place alone.
Thanks, Brandy!
ReplyDeleteI've seen those too, snowcrash - I think there are some drawbacks - Bare can probably think of them (he likes HUGE laptop computers - you should see his work laptop, it's like my desktop!). I like those super-portable things.
No CD drive in it, right?
Hi Brandy, maybe just a tonic and lime? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI'll be back in a while.
ReplyDeleteBombay with lemon twist
ReplyDeleteHow you doing tonight?
Snow, I almost got one just because of the price, but I'm glad I waited for my used laptop. It totally depends on what you want to do with it. For portability and quick wireless access, they can't be beat with the obvious drawbacks re: applications and no dvd.
ReplyDeletetonic with lime
ReplyDeleteWould you like some pretzels with that?
CC, I just noticed the portability and price. Oh yeah, and cuteness.
ReplyDeleteSnowcrash, I don't know a lot about them but I do know that you need to watch for operating systems ...some come with Linux.
ReplyDeleteI like cuteness. Cuteness works for me.
ReplyDeleteI'm a big fan of the little Sony machines. The smaller they are, the more they seem to cost. I swear they market those things just for me. LOL
They sent out this mailer with one where the envelope looked just like a little leather envelope/sleeve clutch purse. I instantly fell in love!
Once I saw one in action, though, I didn't want it - I like a touchpad, and it just had that little nubby thing in the center of the keyboard. I hate those!
I'm doing well, thanks, Brandy. The martini looks good.
ReplyDeleteOk, the idiocy of the day.
ReplyDeletethe NEW black Barbie doll - Michelle Obama effect.
Barbie from the block got mixed reviews Wednesday from city girls inspecting the newest spin on the old-school toy.
"So In Style" dolls, a fresh take on the black Barbie, hit store shelves this week, featuring a group of plastic friends sporting shiny bling, big earrings and fancy sneakers.
Many of the city girls liked the dolls - Grace, Kara and Trichelle - but some felt the Mattel toy company went too far with the rap-inspired details.
"Not all black people like hip hop," said Barbara Mootoo, 15, of Manhattan, looking at Kara's silver rope chain necklace. "They gave her a chain like a 50Cent video."
Tyaine Danclaire, 15, of the Bronx, liked Trichelle's straight, long hair because it looked like "a weave," but she thought the idea "was sorta racist."
"They say black girls are ghetto with the gold earrings, with the big bling; I don't agree with that," she said.
Mattel said veteran Barbie designer Stacey McBride-Irby, an African-American mother of two, created the dolls so her kids could have toys that look like their neighborhood friends.
Standard black Barbie dolls have been around since 1980 and are darker versions of their blond counterparts.
The new $30.99 dolls have "authentic-looking facial features" such as fuller lips, a wider nose ... and curlier hair," Mattel said.
"I like it," said Rachel Kahn, 9, of Charlotte, N.C., visiting relatives in Manhattan. "It is hip hop. It is Beyoncé."
Nikki Wright, 12, of East Harlem, showed off her braided hair extensions and gold hoops in her ears while holding a Trichelle doll.
"They look like people where we live," the seventh-grader said. "I wear big earrings. The weave. Things that we use."
here is the bullshit link
The new black Barbies released by Mattel have fuller lips, curlier hair and other features that the company says more accurately represent African-American women.
Some have cheered the new dolls. Others jeered them, saying they're not black enough.
"I love the black Barbie. It's about time," Jua Simpson said on CNN's iReport, a user-generated news community. "But the hair is still a step backwards, since most of our hair is not straight and light brown."
Others disagree with critics who say the dolls should have had more natural black hairstyles, such as afros or braids.
more bullshit at the link
Corre∫pondence Committee said...
ReplyDeleteThanks, Brandy!
Your welcome CC.
Hi Atilla - What can I get for you to wash down the idiocy of the day?
ReplyDeleteHi Atilla - What can I get for you to wash down the idiocy of the day?
ReplyDeleteBrandy, that brand of idiocy is going nowhere soon, I'm afraid. If anything, it's going in the wrong direction and only getting worse.
Bar Wench
ReplyDeleteHi darls,
Gin and tonic - no tonic, lotsa lime.
PBJ, hi!! Hi, Atilla!
ReplyDeleteAtilla, the Bratz Dolls from a while back definitely had mixed ethnic looks. Some had really slutty hip hop clothes too. Black dolls are no new thing attributable to Michelle O. and $30 seems way too high.
ReplyDeleteHere you are ATH.
ReplyDeletegin and tonic - no tonic, some lime.
Here's more lime
Who has been sleeping on my bar stool?
ReplyDeleteTVFREE4U.net
ReplyDeleteThe largest resource available on the Web for viewing Free Internet Television. Live streaming TV, news, sports, music and videos from all over the world.
/they're not kidding, it's awesome
Atilla, the Bratz Dolls from a while back definitely had mixed ethnic looks. Some had really slutty hip hop clothes too. Black dolls are no new thing attributable to Michelle O. and $30 seems way too high.
ReplyDeleteMichelle 0bama has a once in a lifetime historic opportunity to address issues specific to her race such as disproportionate abortion rates, high drop-out rates, disproportionate crime rates and children being raised in single-parent homes.
She has an opportunity to shine and show some real leadership where it matters. Somehow I expect this opportunity to be squandered; I've seen nothing to convince me otherwise.
Sounds cool, K/B. I'm going to have to check that out.
ReplyDelete/like I have time to watch television
Hi DEZ! Nice to see you! And thanks for ...well, thanks!
ReplyDeleteHi KB!
KB, really cool. I was just looking at Belarus TV. Small world lol. Thanks, favorited it.
ReplyDeleteYou like my pants Pink?
ReplyDeleteHi DEZ, honey. What will it be?
ReplyDeleteDEZ, I miss your avatar most of all, I think. : )
ReplyDeleteHow about an Amber Bock.
ReplyDeleteYou like my pants Pink?
ReplyDeleteActually, DEZ, I think green looks better on you. ;-)
/I thought that was an apron?
How are you doing tonight, Killian? May I get you a libation?
ReplyDeleteCC, its still there. ;)
ReplyDelete*Off come the pants*
ReplyDeleteCC, its still there. ;)
ReplyDeleteGood! Updings for you, DEZ!
LOL
ReplyDeletesnowcrash
ReplyDeletefortunately, the time in my life I was responsible for raising a (step)daughter the only doll craze to hit was those true-to-life baby dolls, the name I can no longer remember. They arrived with a name and a history and they were babies. (The one we got her was 'Beatrice', I believe).
Which is not to say I didn't play with Barbie dolls. But it was never about the doll.
It was about the clothes. My elementary home ec class did the sewing thing on making clothes for the Barbie dolls.
But ethnic stuff? Political correctness? My sister told me to send her daughter an American Girl doll for Christmas one year that was all about some political idea or another.
I gave her a telescope instead.
My very first doll?
Betsy Wetsy. She came with a bottle you loaded with water, shoved it in her mouth and voila! She peed.
What a thrill.
Who has been eating from my dish?
ReplyDeleteHi C²ers - DEZ ;-)
Blogspot is jacking with me.
ReplyDeleteTomorrow, Pi Guy's Halloween Week Pub Series starts...and what I was hoping was that everyone would change their display name and avatar to their favorite character on the pub threads. See, that would have been fun, right?
But they still haven't fixed the avatar thing (though I know for sure they're aware of it and working on it) - are we going to have to go with mixed up screen names only, but no avatar fun?
I sure hope they're fixed tomorrow.
Callahan! Howdy!
ReplyDeletePink, what has been Michelle O's social platform? Laura Bush had literacy, I don't remember Hillary's except for trying to be the architect for health care reform in the 90's. Nancy R had just say no to drugs. Oddly, Michelle is a modern youngish woman and we haven't heard too much from her.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy DEZ
ReplyDeleteI'll pour it in a glass
Nice and frothy
Hi DEZ, Hi Cal.
ReplyDeleteThanks Brandy!
ReplyDelete*BURP*
Hi {snowcrash} - How are you?
ReplyDeleteSnow! Callahan!
ReplyDeleteDEZ said...
ReplyDelete*Off come the pants*
Inter-galatic wars have started for less......
Hi Callahan!
ReplyDeleteDEZ - my mistake. Here, have a pitcher on me.
ReplyDeleteThe next one is on the house
JCM said...
ReplyDelete"Inter-galatic wars have started for less......'
There was supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!
What mistake Brandy?
ReplyDeletesnowcrash
ReplyDeletePink, what has been Michelle O's social platform
It apparently is going to be nutrition/healthy eating.
But she has to tread lightly there.
The various agricultral lobbies are quite influential.
The nanosecond she comes out against sugar.......
(DEZ) - {Pink Freud}
ReplyDeleteAtilla, I'll need to re-post that without the last line; I wouldn't want anyone to take it literally. I know you didn't mean it that way - but, just in case:
ReplyDeleteAtillaTheHoney said...
Pink
Somehow I expect this opportunity to be squandered
Ayatollah Ghomeini had a post the other nite deploring how she has been attacked, given that she is one of the most low-key first ladies we have ever had.
I responded, but it was the last post before the thread was closed, so I don't know if he ever saw it. Anyway - she's one of the most low-key FL we've ever had because she spent the entire campaign opening her fat mouth and alienating people.
I will NOT forget the woman who said in multiple speeches in the same day
"This is the first time in my adult life I have been proud of my country."
Callahan! You look very handsome tonight. What can I get for you? :)
ReplyDeleteThere was supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!
ReplyDeleteSo sad when the earth doesn't move........
Pink, what has been Michelle O's social platform?
ReplyDeleteNone that I've seen ...all empty, meaningless half-heated gestures. She doesn't seem to have her heart into anything (and unfortunately I include her own children here.) She appears to be a vapid, shallow, self-absorbed type of woman, lacking in conviction or foundation. I expect nothing of substance from her.
She is looking at you like a select cut of meat Callahan...
ReplyDeleteLucky Bastage.
Oh Brandy, so nice of you!
ReplyDeleteI'll have a nice and cool gin 'n tonic for a change.
DEZ said...
ReplyDeleteWhat mistake Brandy?
One is light, one is amber. I always want to make sure my patrons are served what they request.
Right you are Brandy.
ReplyDeleteDEZ, you look good too but it has to be uncomfortably sweaty sitting on a vinyl bar stool with no pants on. lol
ReplyDeleteCC
ReplyDeleteGot it.
DEZ, she may have my choicest ...
ReplyDeleteOops, you almost got me there! ;-)
Callahan23 said...
ReplyDeleteOh Brandy, so nice of you!
I'll have a nice and cool gin 'n tonic for a change.
Here you go
Michelle Obama's social platform?
ReplyDeleteHating Americans as far as I can tell.
Pink:
ReplyDelete'Pink, what has been Michelle O's social platform?'
/She wears platform shoes?
My wallet was in my pants SnowCrash, I am gonna be washing dishes again tonight.
ReplyDeleteHere's your gin and tonic Callahan, Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteMichelle Obama's social platform?
ReplyDeleteHating Americans as far as I can tell.
RACIST!!!
/unfortunately, I agree with you
Hi Nana! Would you like a Fresca?
ReplyDeleteHey Nana! How are you this evening?
ReplyDeleteMiss O, planted a garden...
ReplyDeleteOh BS.
She would never risk breaking a claw...
I mean nail.
I iz racist...
ReplyDeleteAnd living in area 51.
'Pink, what has been Michelle O's social platform?'
ReplyDeleteThe right to bare arms......
Brandy - Mmh, nice 'n refreshing! Thanks.
ReplyDeleteJust the right poison for soothing my bruised ego after a night out at a 40+ party. How very desperate those folks there.
Here it is always good, cool and the best company one could hope for!
DEZ said...
ReplyDeleteI iz racist...
And living in area 51.
GET A JOB!
Quit living off of the hardworking taxpayers.....
Jeeze you let an alien land and they immediate sign up for welfare.
JCM said...
ReplyDelete'Pink, what has been Michelle O's social platform?'
The right to bare arms......
As long as thats all she bares, my beer may stay in my stomach.
Get a job....
ReplyDeleteRACIST!
Wendy,
ReplyDeleteWhy thank you very much! Just what I need.
Here's a Fresca for you Nana, with a glass and ice.
ReplyDeletePink
ReplyDeleteDoing nicely, thanks. And you?
NY Nana, mind if I sit with you?
ReplyDeleteI'm good, Nana! Thanks :-)
ReplyDeleteTake one weekend off, and get belittled.
ReplyDelete*Sheesh*
Jukebox
ReplyDeleteWendy,
ReplyDeletePerfect! I don't know how you can remember what everyone prefers...what a memory! I can't remember breakfast, honest! ;)
DEZ,
ReplyDeletePull up a bar stool, and we can chat.
DEZ said...
ReplyDeleteGet a job....
RACIST!
Wouldn't that be SPICIEST?
Pink
ReplyDeleteStay that way!
Hi Nana, what shall we discuss?
ReplyDeleteJust in case you see reports saying that Fox News could not have been excluded from the pay-czar interview because they never asked to be included.
ReplyDeleteFox News Refutes Reports That 'Pay Czar' Interview Never Was Requested
A Fox News executive refuted on Saturday reports that the White House didn't make the administration's "pay czar" available for an interview because the network didn't ask.
"Of course we requested the interview," Fox News Senior Vice President Michael Clemente said, responding to reports citing the White House as claiming it had excluded Fox News from a series of interviews Thursday with Kenneth Feinberg set up through the five-network TV pool.
Clemente also said that the White House had acknowledged that an employee at the Treasury Department made a mistake in initially excluding Fox.
*yawn* Evening all. Just slowly getting my ass sorted out here. Brandy can I get a large coffee double double please?
ReplyDeleteJCM said...
ReplyDeleteWouldn't that be SPICIEST?
I do feel alienated.
DEZ,
ReplyDeleteNot Michelle the grump, please! /Think she is still proud of her country?
Hi Phil, goodmorning!
ReplyDeleteHow's the burned thumb? Did you take ibuprofen?
(Sorry, I'm a MOM.) :-)
Watch out Nana, he is not wearing pants!
ReplyDeleteHi Phil, coming right up!
ReplyDeleteNot Michelle the grump, please! /Think she is still proud of her country?
I don't think she ever was, even when she said she was.
I'm back from feeding the dogs and taking them out into the rain, but I'll be doing bills.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, no alcohol for me tonight; my knee hurts from something (gout? I've had it in my ankle, so knee isn't out of the question) and I'm taking something that doesn't go well with alcohol.
DEZ
ReplyDeleteI do feel alienated.
Now, now, let me buy you a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster!
Got it.
ReplyDeleteThank you, my friend. You rocketh. : )
NY Nana said...
ReplyDeleteNot Michelle the grump, please! /Think she is still proud of her country?
She is proud of her taste in clothes and art.
*Snickers*
Hey Pink, thumb is still a little sore but not as bad as earlier. No, I didn't take any Ibuprofen. Don't have any, but I did take some Acetaminophin.
ReplyDeleteJust in case you see reports saying that Fox News could not have been excluded from the pay-czar interview because they never asked to be included.
ReplyDeleteTHANK you! I've seen people trying to spread that one around.
PalidinPhil, I have a few pins to help hold your thumb on if ya need em.
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Hi Kosh!
ReplyDeleteDEZ - LOL! "Here, pull my finger" :-)
Media Matters coordinates campaign against 'lethal' Fox
ReplyDeleteAn official at a Democratic-leaning organization sends on a memo the group Media Matters is circulating today to progressive groups, calling Fox "a lethal 24/7 partisan political operation" and rallying a coalition of groups to join the White House assault on the network.
"The danger to progressive causes and the institution of journalism has become too significant to ignore," says the introduction to a memo by Media Matters founder David Brock. "At Media Matters, we believe it is of paramount importance that progressive leaders have the information necessary to understand exactly what Fox News has become. We hope this brief memorandum will assist you in reaching your own decision on how best to engage this threat."
One of the group's conclusions: Progressive groups should join the White House's effective boycott of the network, and failing that, "any progressive who chooses to go on Fox News should understand that they will be debating the political opposition, not conducting a news interview."
Here's your hot cup of coffee Phil.
ReplyDeleteNice to see you!
DEZ: LOL, it's not that bad. :)
ReplyDeleteHere's what I was taking out of the oven. Picture not up to my usual standard, I was in a little pain and all no thumbs. :)
Sorry about your knee, Kosh. Want a soft drink or something?
ReplyDeletePink Freud said...
ReplyDeleteDEZ - LOL! "Here, pull my finger" :-)
*FRRRRRT*
Phil,
ReplyDeleteSorry, no Tim Horton's here.
Those calzones look wonderful Phil. Hope your finger is feeling better.
ReplyDeleteAs Alfred would say, "Good eeevening."
ReplyDeleteHow's everyone tonight?
Thanks Brandy. I think I will take some coffee pictures for you to link to in the next couple of weeks. :)
ReplyDeleteThose look like fried pies Phil.
ReplyDeleteJCM said...
ReplyDeleteMedia Matters coordinates campaign against 'lethal' Fox
You know, JCM. I was doing SO WELL before you posted that.
This: "We hope this brief memorandum will assist you in reaching your own decision on how best to engage this threat" ...makes F-words bubble up in my throat.
GAK!
ReplyDeleteBrandy,
ReplyDeleteHe has a blanket on. I can see it from here.
jukebox
ReplyDeleteFine thanks - {gak}
ReplyDeleteThe Eagles!
ReplyDeleteWoot!
DEZ my friend!
ReplyDeleteHi Gak, good to see you! Whatcha dinking?
ReplyDeleteOk. I've got to go. In my peripetitic ramblings thru the newspapers, I've saved this and haven't found a good place to post it. So you guys are stuck with it.
ReplyDeletethis is an exclusive interview by the Asia Times (who publishes the priceless 'Spengler') with Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri. Al Queda leader in Pakistan.
He invited this correspondent to a secret hideout in the South Waziristan-Afghanistan border area, where drones regularly fly overhead.
This is Ilyas' first-ever media interaction since he joined al-Qaeda in 2005. He is a veteran commander from the struggle with India over divided Kashmir.
In the past few months, the militants have appeared to be on the back foot. A number of leading figures have been killed in drone attacks in Pakistan, including Osama al-Kini, a Kenyan national and al-Qaeda's external operations chief; Khalid Habib, the commander of the Lashkar al-Zil or the Shadow Army, al-Qaeda's fighting force; Tahir Yuldashev, leader of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan; PTT leader Baitullah Mehsud, and several others.
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Ilyas Kashmiri gave his views on what the upcoming battle will look like, what its targets will be, and how it will impact the West in relation to the destabilization of a Muslim state such as Pakistan.
The contact with Asia Times Online began with a call from the militants on October 6, inviting this correspondent to the town of Mir Ali in North Waziristan. No reason was given. The next day, I traveled to Mir Ali, a town that has been heavily attacked by drones over the past year. After over seven hours of continuous traveling, I was received by a group of armed men who transferred me to a house belonging to a local tribesman.
"The commander [Ilyas Kashmiri] is alive. You know that the commander has never spoken to the media before, but since everybody is sure of his death as a result of a drone attack [in September], al-Qaeda's shura [council] decided to make a denial of this news through an interview by him to an independent newspaper, and therefore the shura agreed on you," a person whom I knew as the key person in Ilyas' famous 313 Brigade told me as soon as I reached the safe house. The brigade, a collection of jihadi groups, fought for many years against India in India-administered Kashmir.
"You will have to stay in this room until we inform you of the next plan. You can hear the voices of drones above your head, therefore you will not leave the room. The area is full of Taliban, but also of informers whose information on the presence of strangers in a house could lead to a drone attack," the man said.
read the whole thing
And with that,Honey salutes the heroes as she leaves the house
weet dreams, all.
OMG, PIMF, drinking.
ReplyDeleteBe well AtH.
ReplyDeleteHere's what I was taking out of the oven. Picture not up to my usual standard, I was in a little pain and all no thumbs. :)
ReplyDeleteYum! What's in there?
DEZ: I was using my cast iron to bake in. No frying here. You should see the pizza
ReplyDelete:)
/was teasing JCM with it earlier.
{Callahan} Good to hear it. And good to *see* you.
ReplyDeleteDid someone say dinking?
ReplyDeleteHi Gak! How are you this evening!?
ReplyDeleteThanks Atilla. Sweet dreams.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I put my skillets in the oven when company comes.
ReplyDeleteSorry Pink....
ReplyDeleteThis might make you feel better....
G'nite, Atilla! Interesting stuff ...thanks.
ReplyDeleteBar wench - I would like a glass of Chardonnay, please.
ReplyDeleteAtillaTheHoney - Good night and wEEt dreams!
ReplyDeletePink, Brandy nailed it. Calzones are on the menu for tonight at work. :)
ReplyDelete/easily portable, microwavable, and eatable.
//it's all about simplicity for security work
Sorry Pink....
ReplyDeleteThis might make you feel better....
Aw thanks, JCM.
/so beloved ...
Hi Pink - I'm doing well. Thanks for asking.
ReplyDeleteGood night ATH.
Brandy, ice water with lime would be good.
ReplyDeleteThanks
DEZ said...
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I put my skillets in the oven when company comes.
Funny, so do I. Must be a guy thing. :)
Here you are Gak. Hope you like it!
ReplyDeleteThanks Brandy, just perfect. (Someone put a sawbuck in your tip jar).
ReplyDeleteHey, gak - go Pack! ; )
ReplyDeleteIce water it is, Kosh.
ReplyDeletePhil sorry about the burn. Are you taking Motrin or Tylenol? maybe some aloe gel from the pharmacy might help. Hope it heals quickly.
ReplyDeleteA sawbuck...
ReplyDelete*Whistling*
DEZ
ReplyDelete'She is proud of her taste in clothes and art.
*Snickers*'
/Hey, what did a Snickers bar ever do to you?
Ahhhh her taste in art and clothes....fake art, and Salvation Army-looking dresses and sweaters. She needs a Fashion Czar.
Thank you kindly, Gak.
ReplyDeleteFrom the Reagan clips I just linked.
ReplyDeleteTwo Russians talking.
Have we reached the pinnacle of perfect communism?
Oh, hell no, it's going to get a lot worse.
All jokes aside Phil, take liquid vitamin E and rub on the finger.
ReplyDeletesnowcrash: It should be okay in a couple of days. I iced and salted it fairly fast so it hasn't swollen much. I think I will get a picture of it tomorrow to show off the war wound.
ReplyDelete/Note to self, find some proper oven mitts.
NY Nana said...
ReplyDeleteAhhhh her taste in art and clothes....fake art, and Salvation Army-looking dresses and sweaters. She needs a Fashion Czar.
People in bowling alleys dress better.
I iced and salted it
ReplyDeletedried fish?
Corre∫pondence Committee said...
ReplyDeleteHey, gak - go Pack! ; )
Yes! go Pack. Please, go away. : )
Thank you, Brandy
ReplyDeleteNana, she needs more than a fashion czar. She needs one of those yellow banners that say Wide Load" pasted across her butt. lol
ReplyDeleteI'll put the After-Pub "bring your drinks" up early, guys - maybe Brandy would continue her shift over there.
ReplyDelete(Seems silly to put up another Pub thread with only 15 minutes to go, but this one is about to start paging.)
Your welcome Kosh. It's wonderful to have such great patrons here.
ReplyDeletePaladinPhil said...
ReplyDeletesnowcrash: It should be okay in a couple of days. I iced and salted it fairly fast so it hasn't swollen much. I think I will get a picture of it tomorrow to show off the war wound.
/Note to self, find some proper oven mitts.
I was gonna post the final X-ray with my pins still in my finger and ran off from work Friday without it.
Look for it Monday night...
Maybe I should wait for Hollows Eve.
People in bowling alleys dress better.
ReplyDeletePeople in alleys dress better.
/FTFY
: D
Phil, oven mits are good, salting?? a burn sounds like a wives tale treatment. Cool water, OTC pain relief and cover with gauze to protect blister are best.
ReplyDeletesnowcrash said...
ReplyDeleteNana, she needs more than a fashion czar. She needs one of those yellow banners that say Wide Load" pasted across her butt. lol
Thats not very nice...
Its not her fault she looks she should be pulling a plow.
Phil,
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I now use only silicone oven mitts. They are the best. Even my daughter was impressed and actually got herself some. ;)
And the 3-year old grandsone also loves them..he uses them as hand puppets. Hilarious!
Try them, you'll like them.
CC, go ahead and post that thread. I'll stick around until my shift is over.
ReplyDeleteYes! go Pack. Please, go away. : )
ReplyDeleteHahahaahaha...you wish! LOL
Are you having an okay night, gak?
New thread is up - grab your drinks and head on over, if you don't like the paging on this one.
I am'a gonna go upstairs --->
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