Sunday, October 4, 2009

A little something to sleep on tonight.

From Rasmussen Reports.

Posted by Corre∫pondence Committee at 11:19 PM
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41 comments:

  1. I think I will sleep. ;-) Night C2ers.

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  3. Thanks, Vegas. I love this blog.

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  5. Hello all you lurking lurkers!

    Hi Pi Guy, CC, PBJ.

    G'nite, PBJ :-)

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  6. Hi Pinkie, and hi, Pi Guy! How about that visual aid up there?

    Even though he's gained a point back in the last month (though I wonder what will happen after this Olympics business), it's pretty dramatic when you see it like that.

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  7. Fail Mode, CC.

    /Who'da thunk it?

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  8. Correspondence Committee said...
    Hi Pinkie, and hi, Pi Guy! How about that visual aid up there?

    Even though he's gained a point back in the last month (though I wonder what will happen after this Olympics business), it's pretty dramatic when you see it like that.

    I always love a graphic that helps drive home a good point, and that one does it well!

    Somewhat related, I've been off watching Born Yesterday (the original 1950 version), and it fits in well with what's going on today.

    Check it out - it's loaded with great quotes that need to be used more today!

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  9. Dali Lama under the bus.

    Obama's Meeting With the Dalai Lama Is Delayed
    Move Appears to Be A Nod to Chinese

    In an attempt to gain favor with China, the United States pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama until after Obama's summit with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, scheduled for next month, according to diplomats, government officials and other sources familiar with the talks.

    For the first time since 1991, the Tibetan spiritual leader will visit Washington this week and not meet with the president. Since 1991, he has been here 10 times. Most times the meetings have been "drop-in" visits at the White House. The last time he was here, in 2007, however, George W. Bush became the first sitting president to meet with him publicly, at a ceremony at the Capitol in which he awarded the Dalai Lama the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress's highest civilian award.

    The U.S. decision to postpone the meeting appears to be part of a strategy to improve ties with China that also includes soft-pedaling criticism of China's human rights and financial policies as well as backing efforts to elevate China's position in international institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund. Obama administration officials have termed the new policy "strategic reassurance," which entails the U.S. government taking steps to convince China that it is not out to contain the emerging Asian power.

    Before a visit to China in February, for example, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said advocacy for human rights could not "interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate-change crisis and the security crisis" -- a statement that won her much goodwill in Beijing. U.S. Treasury officials have also stopped accusing China of artificially deflating the value of its currency to make its exports more attractive.

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  10. Pi Guy, I will watch that...I love old black and white movies anyway! Sounds good.

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  11. Thump thump thump...I think I just saw a flash of a saffron robe.

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  12. Check it out - it's loaded with great quotes that need to be used more today!

    No need. I know the whole thing by heart. Ask me anything! ;-)

    'Morning (Evening), all! :-)

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  15. Like sheeps in the night, CC! :-)

    If I'm allowed to have a signature on my posts at the new site, that will be it.

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  16. littleoldlady said...
    Check it out - it's loaded with great quotes that need to be used more today!

    No need. I know the whole thing by heart. Ask me anything! ;-)

    'Morning (Evening), all! :-)

    Good morning, littleyounglady!

    I love the line about people fiddling with the government machine in an attempt to try and hit the jackpot. Especially when Billie Holiday says, "When you're stealing from the government, you're just stealing from yourself!"

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  17. JUDY, Pi Guy! JUDY JUDY JUDY!

    ;-)

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  18. In my next life...I'm going to get a life.

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  19. littleoldlady said...
    JUDY, Pi Guy! JUDY JUDY JUDY!

    ;-)

    Sorry - Billie was the character's name.

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  20. I was doing my Cary Grant imitation (something he never actually said).

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  21. I'm still here, littleoldlady! I had to reboot.

    Goodmorning :-)

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  24. How did the football threads go today? The Eagles didn't play but we watched the last Phillies game. That was fun!

    Philadelphia is a tough sports town. The Eagles have been written off already around here.

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  25. littleoldlady said...

    I was doing my Cary Grant imitation (something he never actually said).

    I know. In his later years, Cary Grant always joked that he wanted to get revenge on Frank Gorshin for starting that, but he could never quite find the right way.

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  26. Do you know how many people wanted that role? Rita Hayward (can you imagine?) really fought hard to get it. The back story is that Katherine Hepburn pushed the studio to use Judy. They didn't want her because everyone in Hollywood thought she was "too fat", but Kate prevailed.

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  28. I could watch that movie over and over.

    Oh wait! I HAVE. :-)

    For about a month Comcast had it as a free movie in the on-demand area. I probablty watched it every other night.

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  29. littleoldlady said...
    I could watch that movie over and over.

    Oh wait! I HAVE. :-)

    For about a month Comcast had it as a free movie in the on-demand area. I probablty watched it every other night.

    Remind me not to play gin with you, then.
    ;)

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  30. My favorite scene of the whole movie! LOL!

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  31. This just in: Suicide bomb' at UN in Pakistan

    A suspected suicide bomber has attacked a United Nations office in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, killing at least three people and injuring at least six.

    A foreigner is said to be among those killed in the blast at the World Food Programme offices.

    Last week at least 16 people died in two suicide car bomb attacks in north-western Pakistan.

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  32. Courtesy of the blogfather:

    THE TUCSON TEA PARTY FOLKS WON’T BACK DOWN:

    The group has already proven to be a thorn in the side of the dominant local Democratic Party. Chairman Jeff Rogers sent out a scathing press release last week, his second in recent months on the topic, saying the Republican Party has been taken over by radical “tea partiers.” Robert Mayer, the UA marketing student who formed the Tucson Tea Party group with Trent Humphries, quickly turned the attack into motivational fodder for the upcoming rally and for campaigning in favor of the Republican candidates for City Council.

    “Jeff Rogers says that he is going to ‘call us out,’ ” Mayer said in an Internet message “I think it’s about time that we call him out, along with Nina Trasoff, Karin Uhlich, and their new candidate, Richard Fimbres.”

    The “we” Mayer referred to is a collection of residents who say they were mostly politically quiet in the past but were prodded from their living rooms by federal bailouts and stimulus bills of the last two years.

    Read the whole thing.

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    Sounds like time for a little Tom Petty/Traveling Wilburys to me!

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  33. What? Is everyone being quiet and good in anticipation of fruitcup?

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  34. I'm still here...was just reading your Tuscon story (and preparing stuff for the morning).

    Those pesky tea-partiers. They just won't keep their mouths shut, no matter how much they get demonized.

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  35. TUCSON. Sorry. And I have two friends there. I'll go flog myself now.

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  36. Well, it's just about time to move upstairs...

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  37. Ummm, lol - is it true that there's a judge and a makeshift courtroom somewhere in the football stadium in Philly? I've heard that a bunch, but I always thought it HAD to be a joke. A lot of disorderly conuct there, they say.

    Are they the ones that booed Santa Claus, or was that some other team's fans?

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  38. I gotta get an answer to this Eagles question, Pi. : ) (Maybe I need to drag it up there with me.)

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  39. That's us. Santa boo-ers. And yes, there's a court right in the stadium. Saves the trip uptown...

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  40. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...that is hilarious! I just looked it up and found out it was in 1968! I hadn't realized how long ago it was!

    Unruly bunch out there. LOL

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  41. Going to close this one so the overnight crew can hang on the fruit cup thread upstairs - in five, four, three...

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