Open Thread – Netroots Eve
Twas the night before Netroots…
And the packing is not yet complete. But I remembered back to a strange tale that I never did share from last year…
(everything goes all blurry and you hear harp music)
It’s the last day of Netroots Nation 2009 in Pittsburgh. It’s been a fabulous time, and I’ve met so many Mudflatters face to face for the first time. We’ve had an outstanding Mudstock Meetup, and everything is starting to wind down. Brian the Moose whom I brought with me on the trip has had his photo taken with many notables including politicos and bloggers, one of which was John Amato, the founder of one of my favorite blogs of all time Crooks and Liars, and fellow C&L blogger David Neiwert (left).
Well, standing out in the sunny parking lot of the hotel one morning, I see Mudflatter ‘EnoughWithTheTrainwreck.” I wave and smile, and she waves me over and holds out a moose that looks just like Brian. It’s a strang coincidence because the one she hands me is missing an ear, just like mine… A strange coincidence? Hardly.
It seems that ‘EnoughWithThe Trainwreck” (EWTTR) had overheard a conversation between John Amato, and someone on the other end of the phone. And she heard how John had mentioned how he’d ended up with a moose from the night before, and he didn’t know how to get it back to me. So, EWTTR offered to make sure Brian returned safe to me. She knew it had to be me, because how many bloggers are walking around Pittsburgh with a moose!?
Here’s where it gets hinky. EWTTR goes back to John Amato’s room to fetch Brian, and he decides that maybe he kinda likes Brian and maybe he just might want to hang on to him for a while. Well you can imagine EWTTR’s outrage at that! She swiftly sprang into action and descended on the hapless blogger, disengaged Brian, and returned him safely to his blogger. Disaster averted, through serendipity and brute force!
Thanks EWTTR for your courage, and for the best Brian photo ever. I’ll try to keep a tighter hold on my wayward moose. Just so they don’t have to rename it “Crooks, Liars and Moosenappers.”
Shannyn and Dave the Producer and Zach Roberts and I are all headed to Vegas in the morning. I’ll be checking in with updates!
Kilia so sorry for your loss my prayers and good thoughts are with and for you.
Kilia so sorry for your loss my prayers and good thoughts are with and for you.
Many of you may know Kilia from her posts to this blog for almost years. She has also been a member of the Mudflats Forum almost from the beginning. Her husband and beloved partner and companion passed away recently. A memorial in his honor will be held in late July, about 2 hours from Anchorage.
There is information especially for AK mudpups here: https://themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,10336.msg115845.html#new
As well as information for everyone here: https://themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,10307.0.html
Many of you may know Kilia from her posts to this blog for almost years. She has also been a member of the Mudflats Forum almost from the beginning. Her husband and beloved partner and companion passed away recently. A memorial in his honor will be held in late July, about 2 hours from Anchorage.
There is information especially for AK mudpups here: https://themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,10336.msg115845.html#new
As well as information for everyone here: https://themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,10307.0.html
if there was any doubts that the wheels are starting to fall off the wagon…….
http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2010/07/19/sarah-palin-bristol-palin-levi-johnston-chelsea-clinton-wedding/
Whew…what a contrast!
The Clintons parented while the Palins reproduced.
There’s a drastic difference between the two.
Nearly anyone can reproduce but not everyone can parent. For all the problems the Clintons have had during their marriage, there was never any doubt that their priority was always Chelsea. Like the Obama family, they took great pains to keep her out of the spotlight and keep her life as normal as possible. She turned out to be very grounded and clearly has her life in order.
So far, the Palins look like they’re 0 for 5.
Thank you, Benlomond. Even though the article pointed out the obvious, I’m so glad this topic is getting attention. But the poll! (I voted). How can 19% vote saying Sarah is the better parent???
…palinbots,,,,,just palinbots… fiction vs facts…
good one. but you know, a lot of Palinites wouldn’t understand the significance of Stanford and Oxford. like you have to be good to get in, and you come out great. a thinker. funny Rachel Maddow went to Stanford and Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar), too.
I enjoyed that!
if there was any doubts that the wheels are starting to fall off the wagon…….
http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2010/07/19/sarah-palin-bristol-palin-levi-johnston-chelsea-clinton-wedding/
Whew…what a contrast!
The Clintons parented while the Palins reproduced.
There’s a drastic difference between the two.
Nearly anyone can reproduce but not everyone can parent. For all the problems the Clintons have had during their marriage, there was never any doubt that their priority was always Chelsea. Like the Obama family, they took great pains to keep her out of the spotlight and keep her life as normal as possible. She turned out to be very grounded and clearly has her life in order.
So far, the Palins look like they’re 0 for 5.
Thank you, Benlomond. Even though the article pointed out the obvious, I’m so glad this topic is getting attention. But the poll! (I voted). How can 19% vote saying Sarah is the better parent???
…palinbots,,,,,just palinbots… fiction vs facts…
good one. but you know, a lot of Palinites wouldn’t understand the significance of Stanford and Oxford. like you have to be good to get in, and you come out great. a thinker. funny Rachel Maddow went to Stanford and Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar), too.
I enjoyed that!
Hey Biran is a social kind of Guy. He should be able to make his own friends.
Just lay a trail of frozen veggies for him so he can find his way back to your suitcase.
Or get him his own cell phone.
Hey Biran is a social kind of Guy. He should be able to make his own friends.
Just lay a trail of frozen veggies for him so he can find his way back to your suitcase.
Or get him his own cell phone.
Just a quick note.I found this while looking for another article about something completely unrelated. Enjoy http://www.newser.com/story/95978/palin-screws-up-geography.html
Just a quick note.I found this while looking for another article about something completely unrelated. Enjoy http://www.newser.com/story/95978/palin-screws-up-geography.html
Just a reminder: Many of the links that are posted fast n’ furious re: Palin or right wing news are collected over at my twitter account http://www.twitter.com/PalinTruthWatch
You don’t need a twitter account to view the posts and there are many links to really good articles and info. It’s kind of like the junk drawer most of us have where we keep all of the local menus and coupons only it’s more organized and ….well…. it won’t help you order a pizza or lo mein.
And, I thank you for that. I have to have just the tiniest bit more surgery Friday, and I can keep up via your twittering. After I have gotten all those drugs out of me. Last time, I apparently had a long conversation with the i.v. machine thing for three days. Nobody took pictures, so obviously my family is just makin’ stuff up!
Just a reminder: Many of the links that are posted fast n’ furious re: Palin or right wing news are collected over at my twitter account http://www.twitter.com/PalinTruthWatch
You don’t need a twitter account to view the posts and there are many links to really good articles and info. It’s kind of like the junk drawer most of us have where we keep all of the local menus and coupons only it’s more organized and ….well…. it won’t help you order a pizza or lo mein.
And, I thank you for that. I have to have just the tiniest bit more surgery Friday, and I can keep up via your twittering. After I have gotten all those drugs out of me. Last time, I apparently had a long conversation with the i.v. machine thing for three days. Nobody took pictures, so obviously my family is just makin’ stuff up!
Poor Sowah – she be having a bad week!
Another HuffPo fantastic take down of Grizzly Sow about
the Grizz Momma video.
snip] I cannot think of a more anti-woman candidacy than your vice presidential bid in 2008, which suggested that women’s assent to leadership can and should be based solely on cute looks and folksy sweetness rather than serious experience and competence equal to any man. The fact that there are hundreds of women far more qualified than you to be vice president of the United States of America but you emerged from the election as the new figurehead of women in politics undermines the fight of other women to be taken seriously in the public arena. [end snip
read more @
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sally-kohn/letter-to-sarah-palin-fro_b_653010.html
Poor Sowah – she be having a bad week!
Another HuffPo fantastic take down of Grizzly Sow about
the Grizz Momma video.
snip] I cannot think of a more anti-woman candidacy than your vice presidential bid in 2008, which suggested that women’s assent to leadership can and should be based solely on cute looks and folksy sweetness rather than serious experience and competence equal to any man. The fact that there are hundreds of women far more qualified than you to be vice president of the United States of America but you emerged from the election as the new figurehead of women in politics undermines the fight of other women to be taken seriously in the public arena. [end snip
read more @
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sally-kohn/letter-to-sarah-palin-fro_b_653010.html
I’ll post this on the “Refudiating” open thread as well. After you read what the developer of the community center has to say about his personal experience on 9/11, why don’t we explore what contribution Sarah Palin made to the people of New York.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/maggiehaberman/0710/Mosque_developer_refudiates_Palin_.html?showall
*thinking, thinking…*
I got nothing. New York isn’t part of her Real AmuriKKKa, is it?
Oh, wait. Didn’t she allegedly take Wallow and Toad to a ball game there…seems I remember David Letterman talking about it….
At least she took cookies to the starving, freezing villagers of Alaska…
I’ll post this on the “Refudiating” open thread as well. After you read what the developer of the community center has to say about his personal experience on 9/11, why don’t we explore what contribution Sarah Palin made to the people of New York.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/maggiehaberman/0710/Mosque_developer_refudiates_Palin_.html?showall
*thinking, thinking…*
I got nothing. New York isn’t part of her Real AmuriKKKa, is it?
Oh, wait. Didn’t she allegedly take Wallow and Toad to a ball game there…seems I remember David Letterman talking about it….
At least she took cookies to the starving, freezing villagers of Alaska…
AKM and Shannyn, have a wonderful time at Netroots.
AKM and Shannyn, have a wonderful time at Netroots.
And now for a little kulture (I think that’s how Sarah spells it), some readings from ShakesPalin:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/b/2010/07/20/palin-compares-self-to-shakespeare-after-inventing-word-refudiate.htm
(Sadly, she didn’t “invent” the word…she simple doesn’t have a clue as to what the word was supposed to be.)
And now for a little kulture (I think that’s how Sarah spells it), some readings from ShakesPalin:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/b/2010/07/20/palin-compares-self-to-shakespeare-after-inventing-word-refudiate.htm
(Sadly, she didn’t “invent” the word…she simple doesn’t have a clue as to what the word was supposed to be.)
it was amazingly good times last year at Netroots Nation in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh/NE muddies put together a wonderful mudstock and i have to say – each and every one was just like family.
AKM – i have clearance to attend Netroots Nation once again and will gladly serve as Secret Service to Brian the Moose.
the other side of that story is that i had no idea WHO john amato was at the time and told him “i don’t care how important you are – i WILL have that moose”. turns out he has a splendid sense of humor and of course an enlightening and important blog.
” I WILL have that moose” Isn’t that what Boris and Natasha used to say ?
Way to protect Teh Brian !!!
Brian’s very own Secret Service…how exciting! Do you get to wear one of those cool earpieces and dark glasses too???
spit shine those shoes, also, too!
i may need to stay incognito…….diverting potential moose-hostaging is a dangerous business
that was a splendid photo of you ENOUGH. you were not cowed by that VIP. you were magnificent and brave. well done pup!!!
it was amazingly good times last year at Netroots Nation in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh/NE muddies put together a wonderful mudstock and i have to say – each and every one was just like family.
AKM – i have clearance to attend Netroots Nation once again and will gladly serve as Secret Service to Brian the Moose.
the other side of that story is that i had no idea WHO john amato was at the time and told him “i don’t care how important you are – i WILL have that moose”. turns out he has a splendid sense of humor and of course an enlightening and important blog.
” I WILL have that moose” Isn’t that what Boris and Natasha used to say ?
Way to protect Teh Brian !!!
Brian’s very own Secret Service…how exciting! Do you get to wear one of those cool earpieces and dark glasses too???
spit shine those shoes, also, too!
i may need to stay incognito…….diverting potential moose-hostaging is a dangerous business
that was a splendid photo of you ENOUGH. you were not cowed by that VIP. you were magnificent and brave. well done pup!!!
On my way to work this morning I kept hearing about $arah’s ‘rufudiate’ tweet on the morning newscasts. And I though to myself, why oh why does (seemingly) every one of her tweets make the front page news cycle? I honestly can’t think of anyone in recent history who has had the ability to make news like this on a whim. I’m sure this has been hashed out here before but it is a truly disturbing phenomenon. And to think it’s enabled mainly by the very media that she puts down so frequently.
I think my only comforting thought was that she is only relevant as long as people pay attention to her. Maybe someday we will stop. (And yeah, I know this post is yet another (small) example of keeping her relevant even though it’s to criticize her).
I to find it amazing the attention she is getting. Then again she is really good for a laugh. In the sense of, “is this the best the R’s can do?” “Have they really fallen this low?”
Heh, good point! And yeah I have to admin I got a good chuckle out of her attempt to compare herself to one of the English language’s greatest authors. Nice try $arah, but no soup for you!
she don’t need no feckin’ soup!
She’s cornered the Kool aid market, and Lord knows she’s got plenty of (red) Bull. 😉
Yeah I heard the ‘Bat$hit Crazy Blueberry’ and ‘Real Amurikan Raspberry’ Kool Aid flavors are pretty hot sellers among the Tea Bagger set. 😉
On my way to work this morning I kept hearing about $arah’s ‘rufudiate’ tweet on the morning newscasts. And I though to myself, why oh why does (seemingly) every one of her tweets make the front page news cycle? I honestly can’t think of anyone in recent history who has had the ability to make news like this on a whim. I’m sure this has been hashed out here before but it is a truly disturbing phenomenon. And to think it’s enabled mainly by the very media that she puts down so frequently.
I think my only comforting thought was that she is only relevant as long as people pay attention to her. Maybe someday we will stop. (And yeah, I know this post is yet another (small) example of keeping her relevant even though it’s to criticize her).
I to find it amazing the attention she is getting. Then again she is really good for a laugh. In the sense of, “is this the best the R’s can do?” “Have they really fallen this low?”
Heh, good point! And yeah I have to admin I got a good chuckle out of her attempt to compare herself to one of the English language’s greatest authors. Nice try $arah, but no soup for you!
she don’t need no feckin’ soup!
She’s cornered the Kool aid market, and Lord knows she’s got plenty of (red) Bull. 😉
Yeah I heard the ‘Bat$hit Crazy Blueberry’ and ‘Real Amurikan Raspberry’ Kool Aid flavors are pretty hot sellers among the Tea Bagger set. 😉
$P is off and running again, via Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin
Calling it a “BOMBSHELL!” she’s having a meltdown over the postings on a discussion board for liberal journalists. Turns out that during the campaign in 08 a few of the journalists talked about how to combat the Rev. Wright insanity that was coming out of Fox and other rabid right outlets. These few journalists talk about how to best spin things.
She and the right are going INSANE over this and screaming Vast MSM Conspiracy , missing the points that 1) journalists are not the MSM and 2) She works for Fox News, which IS part of the MSM and they are unmatched for spin, distortion and outright lies that are driven by a political agenda!
And for a real treat, read some of the responses to her post: They go on and on about how they thank God that they have Fox news to tell them the truth. ENTIRELY Brainwashed !
Here’s the take at Gawker about the Journolist:
http://gawker.com/5591801/scandal-liberal-journalists-colluded-to-write-open-letter
Yeah cuz Fox News never distorts the truth and Palin never lies.
And yet, even with all the “conspiracy” of the MSM – the tape of Wright was looped endlessly for days on every cable channel until Obama had to literally address it specifically. You know, these lefty liberals really don’t know much about spinning a pre-conceived narrative, do they? Maybe Fox News and Roger Ailes can hold a Propaganda Workshop on the Glenn Beck show open to all journos?
Yes it was looped endlessly but not the whole speech which would or might have put a different spin on what was said.Just like they did with the woman who ws let go because of something she thought 20 years ago.We will always have both sides doing this.
$P is off and running again, via Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin
Calling it a “BOMBSHELL!” she’s having a meltdown over the postings on a discussion board for liberal journalists. Turns out that during the campaign in 08 a few of the journalists talked about how to combat the Rev. Wright insanity that was coming out of Fox and other rabid right outlets. These few journalists talk about how to best spin things.
She and the right are going INSANE over this and screaming Vast MSM Conspiracy , missing the points that 1) journalists are not the MSM and 2) She works for Fox News, which IS part of the MSM and they are unmatched for spin, distortion and outright lies that are driven by a political agenda!
And for a real treat, read some of the responses to her post: They go on and on about how they thank God that they have Fox news to tell them the truth. ENTIRELY Brainwashed !
Here’s the take at Gawker about the Journolist:
http://gawker.com/5591801/scandal-liberal-journalists-colluded-to-write-open-letter
Yeah cuz Fox News never distorts the truth and Palin never lies.
And yet, even with all the “conspiracy” of the MSM – the tape of Wright was looped endlessly for days on every cable channel until Obama had to literally address it specifically. You know, these lefty liberals really don’t know much about spinning a pre-conceived narrative, do they? Maybe Fox News and Roger Ailes can hold a Propaganda Workshop on the Glenn Beck show open to all journos?
Yes it was looped endlessly but not the whole speech which would or might have put a different spin on what was said.Just like they did with the woman who ws let go because of something she thought 20 years ago.We will always have both sides doing this.
The GOP nomination is Palin’s to lose. If she does run I expect her to win the nomination but what of the general election?
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/07/sarah-palin-human.html
I see what she is doing and I agree that it’s working. However – how long before this whole fake humanization of someone who doesn’t have the first clue about everyday humbleness gets old?
I know that her audience love it, why wouldn’t they? They love everything she does – she could steal from their wallets right in front of their eyes while stuffing a garbage bag full of clothes from their own wardrobe and have a tow truck haul away their car and they would STILL write her another check! But what of the rest of America?
Will Americans buy Palin’s schtick? I get that politicians have to do a certain amount of connecting with the electorate. But will Americans elect another feel-good commander-in-chief they can pal around with and feel cozy about? Or will Americans continue with the 2008 choice of electing someone with competence and actual policies?
It’s like those romantic comedies that I get sucked into all the time: the music, the setting, the loveable couple who are only too human. They baffle us yet we hope they get together in the end. All the while we know it’s an idealistic fantasy sold and packaged by Hollywood of another life that’s alien to the majority of the population. Love & romance is never this easy nor the solutions to relatioship problems so clear and straightforward.
Will Americans get sucked into the fantasy Palin is peddling? Not long ago, Alaska did. Will the lower 48 learn from Alaska’s mistake with its former flame? Time will tell……
People in Alaska need to organize now for a Palin reality show and not let her lie her way into a national election. She was in over her head as mayor and way in over her head as governor. She now plays the media for chumps and has shown that she knows how to Paris Hilton herself into the big leagues of media attention. Her fans adore her and many of her critics are praising her ability to push forward and be noticed. But she is still a fraud and is still the intellectually incurious demagogue that she has always been. Does that really sound presidential? Absolutely not!
She has played victim and is winning the understanding of too many people who agree that the media has treated her unfairly (a point to which I disagree–I don’t think the media has gone after her enough). How would she play the victim card as president? How would she handle the kind of criticism that Obama faces daily?
I think she’d instate FOX news channel as the official state-run news agency, abolish free speech, freedom of the press and attempt to transform the U.S. into a fundamentalist christian theocracy. Scary indeed!
And her supporters will cheer her on every step.
“People in Alaska need to organize now for a Palin reality show and not let her lie her way into a national election.”
Say what? People “in the know” have not opened up at all about Palin – although that will change with time like it always does. A reality show showing Palin to be an @ss, if ever created, would likely come after she’s already blown it big time with some scandal, or monstrosity of stupid so big it creates a black hole and sucks her in backwards to disappear from sight forever. I kind of like scenario #2.
Thank you for that… Thank you.
The GOP nomination is Palin’s to lose. If she does run I expect her to win the nomination but what of the general election?
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/07/sarah-palin-human.html
I see what she is doing and I agree that it’s working. However – how long before this whole fake humanization of someone who doesn’t have the first clue about everyday humbleness gets old?
I know that her audience love it, why wouldn’t they? They love everything she does – she could steal from their wallets right in front of their eyes while stuffing a garbage bag full of clothes from their own wardrobe and have a tow truck haul away their car and they would STILL write her another check! But what of the rest of America?
Will Americans buy Palin’s schtick? I get that politicians have to do a certain amount of connecting with the electorate. But will Americans elect another feel-good commander-in-chief they can pal around with and feel cozy about? Or will Americans continue with the 2008 choice of electing someone with competence and actual policies?
It’s like those romantic comedies that I get sucked into all the time: the music, the setting, the loveable couple who are only too human. They baffle us yet we hope they get together in the end. All the while we know it’s an idealistic fantasy sold and packaged by Hollywood of another life that’s alien to the majority of the population. Love & romance is never this easy nor the solutions to relatioship problems so clear and straightforward.
Will Americans get sucked into the fantasy Palin is peddling? Not long ago, Alaska did. Will the lower 48 learn from Alaska’s mistake with its former flame? Time will tell……
People in Alaska need to organize now for a Palin reality show and not let her lie her way into a national election. She was in over her head as mayor and way in over her head as governor. She now plays the media for chumps and has shown that she knows how to Paris Hilton herself into the big leagues of media attention. Her fans adore her and many of her critics are praising her ability to push forward and be noticed. But she is still a fraud and is still the intellectually incurious demagogue that she has always been. Does that really sound presidential? Absolutely not!
She has played victim and is winning the understanding of too many people who agree that the media has treated her unfairly (a point to which I disagree–I don’t think the media has gone after her enough). How would she play the victim card as president? How would she handle the kind of criticism that Obama faces daily?
I think she’d instate FOX news channel as the official state-run news agency, abolish free speech, freedom of the press and attempt to transform the U.S. into a fundamentalist christian theocracy. Scary indeed!
And her supporters will cheer her on every step.
“People in Alaska need to organize now for a Palin reality show and not let her lie her way into a national election.”
Say what? People “in the know” have not opened up at all about Palin – although that will change with time like it always does. A reality show showing Palin to be an @ss, if ever created, would likely come after she’s already blown it big time with some scandal, or monstrosity of stupid so big it creates a black hole and sucks her in backwards to disappear from sight forever. I kind of like scenario #2.
Thank you for that… Thank you.
This is an excellent article about the danger to American security that Palin represents:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/07/why-sarah-palin-endangers-american-national-security-and-israels-as-well/60088/
During primaries and “what not” she will say really stupid things about other countries that could cause serious headaches abroad and the GOP powers that really run things, will get rid of her.
I concur with the author, but that’s just 2 Jews’ opinions. It is important to remember that there is a broad range of Jewish opinion; I’ve heard it said that if you gather 3 of us together, you will often get at least 4 opinions! 🙂
I’m betting mudflatters can agree with this from the article above:
“…Sarah Palin is, by the evidence at hand, dangerously simple-minded.”
He made a point that’s concerned me, although he did it much more eloquently that I can. But the point is that opposing the building of this Islamic center—which is not even a mosque—gives the extremists even more ammo to use against us. How many times have we heard each other and our leaders call out to the moderate Muslims to do something to help. When they do, they get this kind of a backlash? Not right, at least IMHO, based on everything I’ve read and heard so far about the project.
This is an excellent article about the danger to American security that Palin represents:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/07/why-sarah-palin-endangers-american-national-security-and-israels-as-well/60088/
During primaries and “what not” she will say really stupid things about other countries that could cause serious headaches abroad and the GOP powers that really run things, will get rid of her.
I concur with the author, but that’s just 2 Jews’ opinions. It is important to remember that there is a broad range of Jewish opinion; I’ve heard it said that if you gather 3 of us together, you will often get at least 4 opinions! 🙂
I’m betting mudflatters can agree with this from the article above:
“…Sarah Palin is, by the evidence at hand, dangerously simple-minded.”
He made a point that’s concerned me, although he did it much more eloquently that I can. But the point is that opposing the building of this Islamic center—which is not even a mosque—gives the extremists even more ammo to use against us. How many times have we heard each other and our leaders call out to the moderate Muslims to do something to help. When they do, they get this kind of a backlash? Not right, at least IMHO, based on everything I’ve read and heard so far about the project.
AKM & Shannyn
Hope you have a fab gab time, you do AK proud & I thank you. I am really looking fwd to your posts & pictures. maybe Brian with an Elvis impersonater or chorus line ladies. if I was there, I might be tempted to show up at a light event in a blazing red jacket, bumpit & clutching a blackberry in 1 hand & a fictionary in the other….NOT! I will wait for a blueberry… have a blast!
AKM & Shannyn
Hope you have a fab gab time, you do AK proud & I thank you. I am really looking fwd to your posts & pictures. maybe Brian with an Elvis impersonater or chorus line ladies. if I was there, I might be tempted to show up at a light event in a blazing red jacket, bumpit & clutching a blackberry in 1 hand & a fictionary in the other….NOT! I will wait for a blueberry… have a blast!
Have a lovely time, can’t wait to hear all about it!
Have a lovely time, can’t wait to hear all about it!
I finally figured it out!
There has always been something that completely creeped me out about JD Hayworth (besides his generally skeevy personality, condescending manner and tendency to lie!). I have never been able to watch him speak for more than a few seconds, and there was something terribly odd about his mouth that just made my skin crawl.
I was flipping around the tv a few minutes ago while finishing my lunch and came across a debate between McCain and Hayworth. I forced myself to watch his face (probably NOT a good idea after just finishing a tuna sandwich!) and it hit me. The lower part of his face looks just like Howdy Doody!
I can just see Rove as the puppet master. With big belly hanging over the curtain.
LOL
I finally figured it out!
There has always been something that completely creeped me out about JD Hayworth (besides his generally skeevy personality, condescending manner and tendency to lie!). I have never been able to watch him speak for more than a few seconds, and there was something terribly odd about his mouth that just made my skin crawl.
I was flipping around the tv a few minutes ago while finishing my lunch and came across a debate between McCain and Hayworth. I forced myself to watch his face (probably NOT a good idea after just finishing a tuna sandwich!) and it hit me. The lower part of his face looks just like Howdy Doody!
I can just see Rove as the puppet master. With big belly hanging over the curtain.
LOL
I’m not a gambling kind a person and cig smoke in the casinos bothers me.
If your up late, can’t sleep and have sensory overload from just being in Vegas, well ya need to head on over to Fremont Street and enjoy the live music, over head light show and dance in the street! About midnight, you’ll be ready for bed. Worked for my family.
Oh yeah, last year, the Fremont Street sax player and my oldest son did a little jam session and ended up mastering the AK state song together.
Enjoy Netroots!
I’m not a gambling kind a person and cig smoke in the casinos bothers me.
If your up late, can’t sleep and have sensory overload from just being in Vegas, well ya need to head on over to Fremont Street and enjoy the live music, over head light show and dance in the street! About midnight, you’ll be ready for bed. Worked for my family.
Oh yeah, last year, the Fremont Street sax player and my oldest son did a little jam session and ended up mastering the AK state song together.
Enjoy Netroots!
Wonder if Netroots will get the National Attention that any group of teabaggers anywhere gets?
Wonder if Netroots will get the National Attention that any group of teabaggers anywhere gets?
I suspect that the collective IQ of Las Vegas will rise exponentially over the next few days as Netroots attendees descend on the city.
If, on the other hand, the Tea Party convention had actually happened, the collective IQ of Las Vegas during that period…well, we all know the result would not have been quite the same!
Have a super time, AKM and Shannyn, and tell Brian to behave himself (but not too much!)!
Ha! So true cleverly stated. 🙂
Insert “and” between true and cleverly. Geesh. Wish we had edit capability.
I suspect that the collective IQ of Las Vegas will rise exponentially over the next few days as Netroots attendees descend on the city.
If, on the other hand, the Tea Party convention had actually happened, the collective IQ of Las Vegas during that period…well, we all know the result would not have been quite the same!
Have a super time, AKM and Shannyn, and tell Brian to behave himself (but not too much!)!
Ha! So true cleverly stated. 🙂
Insert “and” between true and cleverly. Geesh. Wish we had edit capability.
I had a post go to moderation for no apparent, reasonable reason. this mudflatter is taking my show on the road. Good luck to you AKM. It’s been nice.
Ripley…don’t go. i the filter is acting up again. that’s all. i happened to me too. and Marnie and Austin and Irishgirl.
And me also, too!
Happens occasionally , Rip. Every so often it’s annoying but it does help to keep the board free of a lot of unwelcomed postings. From what you posted I gather this is just not a good time for annoyances for you. Don’t go for good. That’d be unfortunate.
Buff, I tried to send you a message on the forum. your inbox is full. Thanks.
Rip, from experience I know how frustrating it can be. Hang in there though.
I had a post go to moderation for no apparent, reasonable reason. this mudflatter is taking my show on the road. Good luck to you AKM. It’s been nice.
Ripley…don’t go. i the filter is acting up again. that’s all. i happened to me too. and Marnie and Austin and Irishgirl.
And me also, too!
Happens occasionally , Rip. Every so often it’s annoying but it does help to keep the board free of a lot of unwelcomed postings. From what you posted I gather this is just not a good time for annoyances for you. Don’t go for good. That’d be unfortunate.
Buff, I tried to send you a message on the forum. your inbox is full. Thanks.
Rip, from experience I know how frustrating it can be. Hang in there though.
My, my, my… tsk, tsk….
Seems as if Our Lady of the Perpetual Dumb needs to make another self-refudiation. Rather doubt she will, though…after all, what’s put online by $P/ghostwriter on FB is *fact*. Always! And if it isn’t, by her/their mere posting of it on FB, it becomes *fact* to her (and to her bots). So…
Welcome to your new status, Kodiak Island! Way to argue a SCOTUS win, Ms. Ayotte!
$P is an idiot. beth.
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Sarah Palin’s Endorsement In New Hampshire Senate Race Includes Geography Goof
CONCORD, N.H. — Sarah Palin incorrectly calls Alaska’s Kodiak Island the largest island in America in a Facebook post endorsing a Senate candidate in New Hampshire.
The Big Island of Hawaii is about 440 square miles larger than Kodiak, where Palin and her family were headed Monday.
In endorsing Republican candidate Kelly Ayotte (AY’-aht), Palin also strayed a bit from the facts in praising her for having “won” a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
As state attorney general, Ayotte defended a law requiring parental notification for teenagers seeking abortions. But it was repealed after the U.S. Supreme Court sent it back to a lower court.
Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/20/sarah-palins-endorsement_n_652370.html
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The SCOTUS sending back to the lower court is NOT a win. And I don;t think she argued it at the Supreme Court either.
I know that…you know that, lilybart… and anyone with half a brain knows that…
But $P? Pffft…once again, those pesky little things known as *facts* just don’t stop her, do they? beth.
there $he goes again, makin’ stuff up…
How can you tell when $owah is lying? Her thumbs and lips are moving.
Oy, vey!
My, my, my… tsk, tsk….
Seems as if Our Lady of the Perpetual Dumb needs to make another self-refudiation. Rather doubt she will, though…after all, what’s put online by $P/ghostwriter on FB is *fact*. Always! And if it isn’t, by her/their mere posting of it on FB, it becomes *fact* to her (and to her bots). So…
Welcome to your new status, Kodiak Island! Way to argue a SCOTUS win, Ms. Ayotte!
$P is an idiot. beth.
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Sarah Palin’s Endorsement In New Hampshire Senate Race Includes Geography Goof
CONCORD, N.H. — Sarah Palin incorrectly calls Alaska’s Kodiak Island the largest island in America in a Facebook post endorsing a Senate candidate in New Hampshire.
The Big Island of Hawaii is about 440 square miles larger than Kodiak, where Palin and her family were headed Monday.
In endorsing Republican candidate Kelly Ayotte (AY’-aht), Palin also strayed a bit from the facts in praising her for having “won” a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
As state attorney general, Ayotte defended a law requiring parental notification for teenagers seeking abortions. But it was repealed after the U.S. Supreme Court sent it back to a lower court.
Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/20/sarah-palins-endorsement_n_652370.html
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The SCOTUS sending back to the lower court is NOT a win. And I don;t think she argued it at the Supreme Court either.
I know that…you know that, lilybart… and anyone with half a brain knows that…
But $P? Pffft…once again, those pesky little things known as *facts* just don’t stop her, do they? beth.
there $he goes again, makin’ stuff up…
How can you tell when $owah is lying? Her thumbs and lips are moving.
Oy, vey!
AKM and Shannyn, have a fabulous Netroots! Looking forward to your dispatches. I see a safe journey and a safe return, with much learning and fun in between. Health and peace.
AKM and Shannyn, have a fabulous Netroots! Looking forward to your dispatches. I see a safe journey and a safe return, with much learning and fun in between. Health and peace.
The right wing’s perversion of patriotism : http://bit.ly/bzvHm8
Excellent piece.
*****How did Americans arrive at the obscene point where people routinely say, “If you don’t agree with me you aren’t a real Christian” or a “real American,” or a “genuine patriot”? By what measure of chutzpah did the Republican right challenge the patriotism of those who disagreed with their Iraq policy during the Bush years? That’s not American democracy. Rather it smacks of Europe’s bellicose totalitarian regimes of the past century.
Too often in recent years, the Republican right has smeared its critics as soft on communism and crime, timorous on defense, and only weak-wristedly engaged in the war on terror. The three Republicans I most admired in my lifetime were hardly liberals and two were personal friends: Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, and Bob Dole. But they never would have demeaned their fellow Americans for disagreeing with them on something as serious as war.*****
The entire “christian” BS is offensive to me. Look at their scandals. Look at their behavior. Look at their money grubbing. Look at their hypocrisy.(See C St and the clowns that live in that “house” for cheap and tax purposes.) Why should I listen to them with their track record?
There was a poster during the 2008 election who posted under the name “born ok the first time” or something like that. I liked that name. I like not having to live in a country that has freedom of religion where we aren’t forced to wear burkas or any other stupid thing. You practice your religion and I’ll practice my agnosticsm or my atheism. I won’t try to convert you, and I’d appreciate you not trying to convert me. You get a tax break from my tax dollars, so don’t abuse it.
There’s a old phrase that has stood the test of time for good reason:
‘Do as I say, not as I do.’
It should be the slogan for the Republican Party.
the tax break is the thing NSWFM. i want all churches ,temples, mosques to be taxed. i don’t think it is fair to have to support them. i don’t agree with most of their ideology and i am sick of having them interfere with political discourse.
Bubbles, my dear, waaaay back when (I think it was 1977) I started a campaign to end the tax-exempt status of religious organizations because they were so embroiled in politics, to the detriment of both religion and politics. Too bad it was a non-starter.
Fave part of this article – the most liberal state in the union is the one that has been teaching about patriotism and US history for years, way before it became “cool” to brag about being a patriot.
As I told my husband last night, I am so tired of all the bragging, the pompous windbags, all the sound and fury signifying nothing. So. Tired. Of. It. All.
Not only what you say but I have seen to often where people on stories about unemployment say dems get a job.What do they think only Dems are unemployed??? Them’s fighting words to me along with the them being lazy ect.Makes one wish a pox on those kind of people
The right wing’s perversion of patriotism : http://bit.ly/bzvHm8
Excellent piece.
*****How did Americans arrive at the obscene point where people routinely say, “If you don’t agree with me you aren’t a real Christian” or a “real American,” or a “genuine patriot”? By what measure of chutzpah did the Republican right challenge the patriotism of those who disagreed with their Iraq policy during the Bush years? That’s not American democracy. Rather it smacks of Europe’s bellicose totalitarian regimes of the past century.
Too often in recent years, the Republican right has smeared its critics as soft on communism and crime, timorous on defense, and only weak-wristedly engaged in the war on terror. The three Republicans I most admired in my lifetime were hardly liberals and two were personal friends: Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, and Bob Dole. But they never would have demeaned their fellow Americans for disagreeing with them on something as serious as war.*****
The entire “christian” BS is offensive to me. Look at their scandals. Look at their behavior. Look at their money grubbing. Look at their hypocrisy.(See C St and the clowns that live in that “house” for cheap and tax purposes.) Why should I listen to them with their track record?
There was a poster during the 2008 election who posted under the name “born ok the first time” or something like that. I liked that name. I like not having to live in a country that has freedom of religion where we aren’t forced to wear burkas or any other stupid thing. You practice your religion and I’ll practice my agnosticsm or my atheism. I won’t try to convert you, and I’d appreciate you not trying to convert me. You get a tax break from my tax dollars, so don’t abuse it.
There’s a old phrase that has stood the test of time for good reason:
‘Do as I say, not as I do.’
It should be the slogan for the Republican Party.
the tax break is the thing NSWFM. i want all churches ,temples, mosques to be taxed. i don’t think it is fair to have to support them. i don’t agree with most of their ideology and i am sick of having them interfere with political discourse.
Bubbles, my dear, waaaay back when (I think it was 1977) I started a campaign to end the tax-exempt status of religious organizations because they were so embroiled in politics, to the detriment of both religion and politics. Too bad it was a non-starter.
Fave part of this article – the most liberal state in the union is the one that has been teaching about patriotism and US history for years, way before it became “cool” to brag about being a patriot.
As I told my husband last night, I am so tired of all the bragging, the pompous windbags, all the sound and fury signifying nothing. So. Tired. Of. It. All.
Not only what you say but I have seen to often where people on stories about unemployment say dems get a job.What do they think only Dems are unemployed??? Them’s fighting words to me along with the them being lazy ect.Makes one wish a pox on those kind of people
Smart people of The Mudflats, you will enjoy this. Go see this blog!
http://www.williambanzai7.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
TO BE OR TOO NUTS TO BE?
WASILLA SHAKES BEER
To be, or too nuts to be–that is my question….
DEAR SARAH…(TO BE OR HOW NUTS IS SHE?)
“I Didn’t really Say Everything I Said.”
Yogi Berra
As a New Yorker, I am painfully inescapable of formaldahyding my own mental chowder on the dodgy subtext of whether it is “to be or not to be” a Republicamendable idea to erupt a Mosque near to the real estate development slight otherwise known in disturbative circles as Ground Spiro (as in spiroling construction costs, Agnewing protests, spiraling vacancies and spiraling political ineptitude).Enter Sarah Paleolithic…that irrefudably rapacious Wassilian twintellectable…Or in the words of William Shakes Beer, that droning common kissing political canker blossom, that unmuzzled tickle-brained disintellectual strumpet, …. Sincerely,
WilliamBanzaiShakespeere
Monday, July 19, 2010
DO YOU REFUDIATE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE? First Trailer Queen Sarah Palin does. And someone needs to refumigate Wasilla…
Smart people of The Mudflats, you will enjoy this. Go see this blog!
http://www.williambanzai7.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
TO BE OR TOO NUTS TO BE?
WASILLA SHAKES BEER
To be, or too nuts to be–that is my question….
DEAR SARAH…(TO BE OR HOW NUTS IS SHE?)
“I Didn’t really Say Everything I Said.”
Yogi Berra
As a New Yorker, I am painfully inescapable of formaldahyding my own mental chowder on the dodgy subtext of whether it is “to be or not to be” a Republicamendable idea to erupt a Mosque near to the real estate development slight otherwise known in disturbative circles as Ground Spiro (as in spiroling construction costs, Agnewing protests, spiraling vacancies and spiraling political ineptitude).Enter Sarah Paleolithic…that irrefudably rapacious Wassilian twintellectable…Or in the words of William Shakes Beer, that droning common kissing political canker blossom, that unmuzzled tickle-brained disintellectual strumpet, …. Sincerely,
WilliamBanzaiShakespeere
Monday, July 19, 2010
DO YOU REFUDIATE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE? First Trailer Queen Sarah Palin does. And someone needs to refumigate Wasilla…
I just have to share this blog post from one of our local writers. It is a back and forth about the Ground Zero community center debate. No screaming. No name calling. Great points on both sides. THIS is what we’re lacking in our media and our politics.
http://bit.ly/956kyS
Quite good.
As a citizen and as a Jew, I’m fine with the proposed Community Center, though many fellow citizens and members of the tribe have fear and doubt.
We are all in this together (though I “get” the sentiment behind the musical Stop the World, I Want to Get Off…)
One Family. One World. One Heart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xjPODksI08
First, it is NOT at ground zero but two blocks away with other tall buildings blocking the view to the site. And it has already been used for Friday prayers, they just want to build a community center with ecumenical outreach.
There just is no issue here.
I hear you crowwoman. zactly that !
lilybart – while it’s a non-issue for those of us that have critical thinking skills available for our use, the brain-washed rabid right is convinced it’s an issue. That’s why I liked the blog post above. All the points were discussed rationally and the guy that was questioning the building of the center had some comments that made me think. I’m always so thrilled when I come across rational debate. It’s like a long, cool drink of water. Yay for sanity !
I just have to share this blog post from one of our local writers. It is a back and forth about the Ground Zero community center debate. No screaming. No name calling. Great points on both sides. THIS is what we’re lacking in our media and our politics.
http://bit.ly/956kyS
Quite good.
As a citizen and as a Jew, I’m fine with the proposed Community Center, though many fellow citizens and members of the tribe have fear and doubt.
We are all in this together (though I “get” the sentiment behind the musical Stop the World, I Want to Get Off…)
One Family. One World. One Heart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xjPODksI08
First, it is NOT at ground zero but two blocks away with other tall buildings blocking the view to the site. And it has already been used for Friday prayers, they just want to build a community center with ecumenical outreach.
There just is no issue here.
I hear you crowwoman. zactly that !
lilybart – while it’s a non-issue for those of us that have critical thinking skills available for our use, the brain-washed rabid right is convinced it’s an issue. That’s why I liked the blog post above. All the points were discussed rationally and the guy that was questioning the building of the center had some comments that made me think. I’m always so thrilled when I come across rational debate. It’s like a long, cool drink of water. Yay for sanity !
Who knows what wonderful adventures await?! Y’all have fun now, y’hear? Keep cool and hydrated.
Your mandation, should you choose to accept it: refudiate all that stuff Sowa keeps making up so folks will realize that there’s Way More to Alaska than granny feckin’ fraud, eh?
We’ll be waiting here with baited:) breath if we’re not out rock climbing or hanging out in our backyards with toddlers strapped to our backs or, in honor of the troops, doing photo shoots and writing The New Sowah’s Commonsense Fictionary, Grifters’ Edition….
We love you and we’re proud of you and the difference you make in our world.
Safe home again when all is said and done.
Well, safe home, anyway, since it’s Never All said and done.
L’Chaim!
Who knows what wonderful adventures await?! Y’all have fun now, y’hear? Keep cool and hydrated.
Your mandation, should you choose to accept it: refudiate all that stuff Sowa keeps making up so folks will realize that there’s Way More to Alaska than granny feckin’ fraud, eh?
We’ll be waiting here with baited:) breath if we’re not out rock climbing or hanging out in our backyards with toddlers strapped to our backs or, in honor of the troops, doing photo shoots and writing The New Sowah’s Commonsense Fictionary, Grifters’ Edition….
We love you and we’re proud of you and the difference you make in our world.
Safe home again when all is said and done.
Well, safe home, anyway, since it’s Never All said and done.
L’Chaim!
BUFF !!! How’s dem kitteh’s ??? 🙂 no one’s ever in chat when I check !
Ben – tooooo many cats ! They’re much bigger now ( and two of them can fly ) When my daughter moves out your way I may just send a present for you !
{{{{{BuffaloGal}}}}} Do you know that classic children’s book Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag? If not, you should check it out (suggests the librarian). hahahaha caw Caw CAW! CAW!!!
any word from AustinTx? Maybe gone into the witness protection program to avoid kitties?
flying kitties! oooh, that would give my dear old daddy nightmares for sure.
I have a vague memory of that book and now I simply must have it !
And I was just thinking about AustinTx this morning. Where o where has he gone ?
Buff, I see him post at Palingates fairly often. Still the same Austin!
Austin is alright…he said to tell the pups he will be back in touch when he settles down. that pup got itchy feet.
BUFF !!! How’s dem kitteh’s ??? 🙂 no one’s ever in chat when I check !
Ben – tooooo many cats ! They’re much bigger now ( and two of them can fly ) When my daughter moves out your way I may just send a present for you !
{{{{{BuffaloGal}}}}} Do you know that classic children’s book Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag? If not, you should check it out (suggests the librarian). hahahaha caw Caw CAW! CAW!!!
any word from AustinTx? Maybe gone into the witness protection program to avoid kitties?
flying kitties! oooh, that would give my dear old daddy nightmares for sure.
I have a vague memory of that book and now I simply must have it !
And I was just thinking about AustinTx this morning. Where o where has he gone ?
Buff, I see him post at Palingates fairly often. Still the same Austin!
Austin is alright…he said to tell the pups he will be back in touch when he settles down. that pup got itchy feet.
Trivia moment : Air conditioning was invented in Buffalo ! And actually, the 108th anniversary was just a few days ago.
Happy Netroots !!
may the beloved person who invented it be praised. bless him. i just got a nice one yesterday from the kids. it will keep me comfy. i no longer am able to tolerate high temps so i was very happy to receive this thoughtful gift.
Trivia moment : Air conditioning was invented in Buffalo ! And actually, the 108th anniversary was just a few days ago.
Happy Netroots !!
may the beloved person who invented it be praised. bless him. i just got a nice one yesterday from the kids. it will keep me comfy. i no longer am able to tolerate high temps so i was very happy to receive this thoughtful gift.
Elsie, if only that were true. It has been about 150% humidity for the last two weeks. We have been languishing like lizards because the slightest expenditure of energy causes the entire body to bead up and drip. It is supposed to be better this week. And really, a dry heat is way better. I will take 105 of dryness to 90 with humidity any day.
AKM, best wishes for a great conference. As it happens, I will be in the airport Sunday picking up my sister and step-mom. I will keep a sharp eye out for you and Shannyn, but I don’t have high hopes. If someone walks by and asks, “Where’s Brian?” you will know your cover is blown. Have fun!!
hehehe WakeUp, welcome to My world! It’s the heat AND the humidity.
“They” tell me I’ll acclimatize, but it has been more than 20 years now, so I’m thinking maybe not in This lifetime. It took me a few years to finally “learn” how to sweat, but now I could teach a master’s class! 🙂 One of the many joys of living in the world’s largest outdoor sauna.
Actually, I’m fine with it…as long as I’m up to my eyeballs in the “humidity” of my big bag of water out back…but even it has been bathwater warm this week. I’ve mastered the fine art of floating with a book and beverage…DH Happy checks periodically to make sure I’m not like the proverbial frog/lobster in the kettle. Boiled/stewed crow…not a pretty thought!
On the upside, we’ve got a bumper crop of kiwis and peaches coming on strong. (thatcrowwoman…always searching for the silver lining, bless her heart…)
There are no pool heaters in this town either. In fact, the water often gets too warm from the sun. I too have lived in my town for 24 years and I’m still not acclimatized. I guess I should mention that I don’t live in Las Vegas. I’m in the Upper Mojave Desert on the west side of Death Valley. We have the same weather as LV though. Truly sucks in summer.
Nothing but rain, clouds and 55 degrees here in South Central Alaska. Maybe you could send some sun this way? 😉
trade ya! You betcha!
*wink*
Be careful what you wish for!
PEACHES AND KIWI!!! how wonderful. i wish i had them peaches. yummy.
Bless thatcrowwoman’s heart, indeed. Wow, did you just make me miss my mother’s peach tree (that’s now my sister’s peach tree; she lives in mom’s house). And I’ve never had a just-picked kiwi, I’ll bet it’s SO juicy! Love, health, and peace, thatcrowwoman. Caw!
also, too, read it as Laughing Like Lizards 🙂 the first time through…lovely visual!
Elsie, if only that were true. It has been about 150% humidity for the last two weeks. We have been languishing like lizards because the slightest expenditure of energy causes the entire body to bead up and drip. It is supposed to be better this week. And really, a dry heat is way better. I will take 105 of dryness to 90 with humidity any day.
AKM, best wishes for a great conference. As it happens, I will be in the airport Sunday picking up my sister and step-mom. I will keep a sharp eye out for you and Shannyn, but I don’t have high hopes. If someone walks by and asks, “Where’s Brian?” you will know your cover is blown. Have fun!!
hehehe WakeUp, welcome to My world! It’s the heat AND the humidity.
“They” tell me I’ll acclimatize, but it has been more than 20 years now, so I’m thinking maybe not in This lifetime. It took me a few years to finally “learn” how to sweat, but now I could teach a master’s class! 🙂 One of the many joys of living in the world’s largest outdoor sauna.
Actually, I’m fine with it…as long as I’m up to my eyeballs in the “humidity” of my big bag of water out back…but even it has been bathwater warm this week. I’ve mastered the fine art of floating with a book and beverage…DH Happy checks periodically to make sure I’m not like the proverbial frog/lobster in the kettle. Boiled/stewed crow…not a pretty thought!
On the upside, we’ve got a bumper crop of kiwis and peaches coming on strong. (thatcrowwoman…always searching for the silver lining, bless her heart…)
There are no pool heaters in this town either. In fact, the water often gets too warm from the sun. I too have lived in my town for 24 years and I’m still not acclimatized. I guess I should mention that I don’t live in Las Vegas. I’m in the Upper Mojave Desert on the west side of Death Valley. We have the same weather as LV though. Truly sucks in summer.
Nothing but rain, clouds and 55 degrees here in South Central Alaska. Maybe you could send some sun this way? 😉
trade ya! You betcha!
*wink*
Be careful what you wish for!
PEACHES AND KIWI!!! how wonderful. i wish i had them peaches. yummy.
Bless thatcrowwoman’s heart, indeed. Wow, did you just make me miss my mother’s peach tree (that’s now my sister’s peach tree; she lives in mom’s house). And I’ve never had a just-picked kiwi, I’ll bet it’s SO juicy! Love, health, and peace, thatcrowwoman. Caw!
also, too, read it as Laughing Like Lizards 🙂 the first time through…lovely visual!
I checked to see just HOW bad the temps are in Vegas about now.
From Weather Underground and Weather.com, I got numbers in a range between “Highs around 103 on the west side of the valley…around 113 on the east side. South wind 10 to 20 mph.”
The GOOD news in all that is the humidity is so low….in the teens….that the heat index will make it feel like it is ONLY between 103-113. Righhhhhhhht.
Of course, with a 20 MPH wind, it’s probably like standing in a convection oven instead of an ordinary one.
Yo, AKM—That’s what air conditioning was invented for…Use it, Hon!
And have a wonderful time. Las Vegas will be a better place because you, Shannyn, and the guys were there.
And Las Vegas should be all rooftop solar power for all that air-conditioning they need and will continue to need more as we heat up.
OT, but so obvious.
Also, too, painting every roof white saves lots of energy, simple and cheap.
Lost Wages actually came into existence because of the cheap, clean hydro-electric power created by Hoover Dam. Back in the day their was a big surplus of power created by the new dam.
Interesting, thanks!
Of course now, water is becoming a problem for the whole SW.
I checked to see just HOW bad the temps are in Vegas about now.
From Weather Underground and Weather.com, I got numbers in a range between “Highs around 103 on the west side of the valley…around 113 on the east side. South wind 10 to 20 mph.”
The GOOD news in all that is the humidity is so low….in the teens….that the heat index will make it feel like it is ONLY between 103-113. Righhhhhhhht.
Of course, with a 20 MPH wind, it’s probably like standing in a convection oven instead of an ordinary one.
Yo, AKM—That’s what air conditioning was invented for…Use it, Hon!
And have a wonderful time. Las Vegas will be a better place because you, Shannyn, and the guys were there.
And Las Vegas should be all rooftop solar power for all that air-conditioning they need and will continue to need more as we heat up.
OT, but so obvious.
Also, too, painting every roof white saves lots of energy, simple and cheap.
Lost Wages actually came into existence because of the cheap, clean hydro-electric power created by Hoover Dam. Back in the day their was a big surplus of power created by the new dam.
Interesting, thanks!
Of course now, water is becoming a problem for the whole SW.
Isn’t that Brian’s way!? I too, lost track of Brian at NYC Mudstock last August. Luckily, bubbles rescued him and returned him to me. That Brian… always looking for the party!
My Brian has a bite mark in one ear from my cat. Weird coincidences…
Have fun at Netroots. Represent.
I remember the photo of that incident (the cat bite!). Hope Brian is recovered from the injury (and hasn’t had too much to drink lately!).
Isn’t that Brian’s way!? I too, lost track of Brian at NYC Mudstock last August. Luckily, bubbles rescued him and returned him to me. That Brian… always looking for the party!
My Brian has a bite mark in one ear from my cat. Weird coincidences…
Have fun at Netroots. Represent.
I remember the photo of that incident (the cat bite!). Hope Brian is recovered from the injury (and hasn’t had too much to drink lately!).
Don’t forget to tie a string to Brian’s leg, so he doesn’t wander off again ….. those dang moose are SO hard to teach to “heel” !!
hahahaha caw Caw CAW!
Independent sort of fellow, Our Brian!
Don’t forget to tie a string to Brian’s leg, so he doesn’t wander off again ….. those dang moose are SO hard to teach to “heel” !!
hahahaha caw Caw CAW!
Independent sort of fellow, Our Brian!
Have a wonderful time! If you have a car and need a little peace, go out to Ethyl M’s factory and wander the cactus garden. Beautiful place, and the gray-water treatment facility is wonderful.
Have a wonderful time! If you have a car and need a little peace, go out to Ethyl M’s factory and wander the cactus garden. Beautiful place, and the gray-water treatment facility is wonderful.
have a great trip
have a great trip
Make us proud!
That’s one thing we can count on. AKM always makes us proud. =) Have a ball!
enjoy AKM. stay cool and keep that moose sober. you know how he is when he drinks.
Funny! PS to Bubbles: Netflix has ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo.’ I’ll be forever grateful for your review! I should get it by the weekend. Yea!
Make us proud!
That’s one thing we can count on. AKM always makes us proud. =) Have a ball!
enjoy AKM. stay cool and keep that moose sober. you know how he is when he drinks.
Funny! PS to Bubbles: Netflix has ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo.’ I’ll be forever grateful for your review! I should get it by the weekend. Yea!