Prime Time Thread

Not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present, again on the front lines are forced to, sitting here in these chairs, I can’t wait to switch to Daily Show reruns and, again to make these DVDs that I can play at work, with these people that I am working with, working hard to protect these freedoms that we as Americans can be proud of.

Just a quick rant on this fixation with filibuster proof majority. Yes, it would be cool, but in all reality, with a President Obama the filibuster is dead anyway. The only reason it held any sway for the last 2 years was because there was no way to draw significant attention to diffuse its power.Now that Washington is an Obamanation, the threat of filibuster is gonna be laughed at. The Reptiles are gonna have to put up or shut-up. And I look forward to the day that they try to actually lock up the Senate. Oh JOY! Cameras aplenty, reporters interviewing the movers bringing in the cots, and Republican Senators dropping from the caucus like flies as they receive overwhelming pressure from their constituents to SHUT THE FUCK UP.Ahhhh! Democaracy!

Jane – very funny – but Palin doesn’t use punctuation!

I will podcast C-Span if Al Franken gets in the Senate. Oh yes I will.

Last Bill Maher of the year. What is this a communist nation? I love his show. I really think his season was cut short because the election is over.

You will have to forgive me for a few moments UFC 91 weigh-in is on.

Bill Maher is on HBO? I don’t think I’ve ever seen the show. Anyway – I will be settling in for Sci-Fi Friday with SGA and Sanctuary. What can I say! QT

UFC…Ugliest Fucking Contestant? Uhmerica’s Funniest Corpulent? United (states’) Fattest Consumer? Hmmmmm.

Hi QT! You can youtube the Maher (shhhhh…)And I wonder how it fits in with your spirituality, but I dig the Most Haunted and the Psychic Kids and such as, for a Friday night decompression from the news.

Oh – nothing to do with my spirituality, and everything to do with being a ‘fraidy-cat. I can’t watch haunted houses and such as. I can barely watch Sanctuary! I’m even a latecomer to Joss Wheden, because, I don’t “do” vampires. I became a Wheden fan with Firefly, and even that can’t make me tune in to Buffy or Angel re-runs.I like Bill Maher, even when he’s being full of himself. I’ll see if I can find him on the tubes. Thanks!QT

Bill’s show has two seasons, it comes back in Feb I believe.It’s been the same length as always.

UFC–Cindy McCain has her own show?

I just wanted to officially note the date and time of the first NBC Nightly News cast (since August) that did NOT mention Sarah the Palin even once since August! It was a thing to behold.

Did I mention Since August?

DPCindy McCain’s show: Ugly Flucking CluntAm I correct?Is there a prize involved?

Unnatural Facial Characteristics?

Bingo, Cactus. A prize? Hmmm, I have a lot of doggy toys and biscuits–you have dogs, right? A virtual knuckle bone for each fur baby.

Uplifted Faces Conglomeration?

Newsflash:http://www.adn.com/front/story/589416.htmlNot ALL Alaskans are drooling morons.

Disclaimer: I in no way called Cindy this. Her own flucking husband did. In public.

Jane, some catnip seeds for the CCL for second prize in effort.Packy, we all talked about your drooling problem one night when you were away. (Go Begich!)

It’s too late, Packy.

Too All, Sorry for the UFC comment. I will never again mention those three letters. My PTSD requires me to watch people get hurt. It beats wrestling or boxing any day of the week.

QT – if you want, I will make it my mission to transfer Bill Maher onto DVD for you. You can send your mailing address via email – available on my blog (under my profile). Other than religion, I think you would appreciate his show.

Bill Maher is a religious leader!! My religion of insulting the faithful.

I’ll have you know I have a moosehorn spittle catcher hanging below my bewhiskered chin.

Carl- re the unions earlier: You explained why the Right is anti-union. That was my point. The Right talked about this bill as if it would make it harder to join the union or organize in private. The logical person should say, “Why would the Right be concerned about my ability to organize? I smell a rat. If the Right is against it, it must be good for the worker.” It was always misrepresented whenever it was discussed.

Packy, I’m glad. We were all chipping in on a plastic drool bucket–old SNL style–but that suits you much better. (It’s 27 fucking degrees in Anchorage? Shit, that’s cold–here I was complaining about a drizzly 50s).

DP: Yeah, 30F here in Kenai where I am, looks like it’s probably going to snow tonight.Jane: My daddy always said, “Anyone who carries a lunch bucket to work and votes Republican has ROCKS in their head.”

I want snow, too. all we got was drizzly rainy shit that makes all the leaves as slippery as ice.In other news, the young Alaskan male reports that Begich is now up by 1061!!

Packy, my only trip to AK (last August) was to Anchorage, Eagle River, Matanuska Glacier, Seward…Met some weird (transplant) racists and a lot of people who “loooooooove(d)” Stevens.We didn’t hold it against them.Fuck TypeKey also.

Carl – thanks! That’s very generous of you! I’ll find your email and fire off an email ASAP.Speaking of which – where is Bob with his instructions for Bobbing books?QT

Jane – I’ve lived in Alaska since 1958, and have been a voter since 1972 (proudly for George McGovern).To put it in perspective: The Bob Cesca was born the year I graduated from High School.I have never voted for Ted Stevens, OR Don Young.Alaska, unfortunately though, does represent the lunatic fringe of humanity.Especially after the mid 1960′s, when all the bible-thumping oilpatch hoopleheads moved here.Part of why my sister and her husband said “screw it” after Bush’s re-election and moved to Ireland.Fuck TypeKey too. Also.

Packy, I wanted to go before too much more construction and drilling and development happened. I’d love to see pictures of AK from when you were growing up. Got some? We down here would eat that stuff up.

Jane:I’ll see what I can dredge up. The Ireland sister wound up with most of the family-type historical pics, but she can scan & email them to me.It sure has changed here since I was a kid.Now, I’m thinking of semi-retirement in a few years… very possibly NM. Or Ireland.Alaska has gotten just too weird, and I’m getting tired of short summers and long, cold, dark winters.

I saw a picture of of Alaska once. It looked very white.

Back from watching Countdown. Oh Keith, why do you torment me so?Anyways, yes, DP, we have 3 hounds, Leetle Reeky Loo the rescued Chihuahua, Heidi Lou the Parti-poo & Toby Lew, the Yorki-Poo. As to the prize,– Heidi can’t have peanuts, Reeky can’t have carrots,and Toby isn’t allowed bones of any kind. Alas, they can’t have any foods, toys or treats from China, or anything virtual.How about something they would all enjoy..like a Nordstrom gift certificate? They’re going to need that in an X-Large.

ceu:White as in ice and snow, or white ethnically?During the winter, the first is true.The second is true year ’round.

Packy, it was a line from Five Easy Pieces. Jack Nicholson said it as explanation as to why he wanted to go to Alaska.I think he meant snow.And now I feel older than dirt.

I saw the movie, just didn’t remember the line.I’M older than dirt, you aren’t. See poat above regarding the Bob’s year of birth.

Damn, ceu, I’ve seen 5 easy a couple times but I didn’t get the reference.

Cactus – I could send my bank account transfer number but I’m afraid you wouldn’t feel “prized”. I’m such a sucker for dogs. I have plenty of coats not being worn. Lucy-the-lab-mix only wears her favorite fleece tie dye coat when it’s low 20s or so. Mona-the-Jack-Russell-mix has little hair and gets her fleece assortment out at first freeze. Lucy laughs at her when I put her pajamas on. Poor kid is almost naked this early in winter.

Chiming in from New England – fuck a bunch of snow! Snow belongs in the mountains, not on my driveway! Or up there, in Alaska. Also. Too.

Anchorage dropped 5 degrees since you posted that link, Packy. Whoa.

Oh mah gah!! You DRESS YOUR DOGS, don’t you, DP? I’m getting very suspicious of you–extreme dog lover, depleted bank account, smart-ass filthy mouth, irreverent sense of humor, left wing politics.DP, are you me, or are I you?

Alan I’m in NC’s foothills and I like the old average of 2 measurable snowfalls per winter, one of them worth getting the boots and shovel out for. With the climate weirdness we now go some winters with nothing (last year) and others with multiple icestorms one right after another. I don’t even know what to say “fuck a bunch of” any more, but it isn’t snow very often.

Ok DP, I don’t think I’m in NC, so I must not be you. But just to be sure, do you have a tattoo of John Lennon on your left tit?

So that’s why the login thing with Typekey is such a bitch. We are trying to log in at the same time.still pondering “are you me, or are I you?”, scratching headQuestion too hard!

Alan, bite your tongue. Think of snow as next summer’s water. Pack – McGovern was my first, too.If we’d had the internet then, he’d have won.

Nope, Cacti, I would love one though. I do have the Carolina Panthers Cat Logo on my right shoulder. And a rabbit popping out of a hat saying “23 Skidoo” on my left shoulder blade. And there’s that Eye in the Pyramid on my navel but I don’t show that lobstrosity. Just checked–no Lennon.

Holy crap–McGovern!! WE’RE ALL DINOSAURS!!!!

Separated at birth. Or later at a tattoo parlor.

Yup, Jane. Scary.

CEU: When I want water next summer, I’ll just turn on the faucet.Seriously, I just live in the wrong place. I hate cold and snow. Unfortunately, the job I’m in is virtually non-existant in places with warm weather all year long. Someday I’ll try to figure out why that is. Or maybe not, and I’ll just retire and live on the beach selling cigars to tourists.

Lennon was “My Beatle.” My best friend & I were going to run off to England, and she was going to marry Paul and I was going to marry John. If I hadn’t flunked algebra, I might have been the woman Lennon shit on and dumped for Yoko. Maybe it was for the best.

Guess who was “My Beatle”. Yup. I went into a 4 month funk when he was killed. Took a long time to shake that off and face the Reagan years without him.

Drooping, guys. Long day.G’night Grampa.

I THOUGHT I MADE IT CLEAR THAT JOHN LENNON WAS MY BEATLE.They didn’t have tattoos way back when I was a teenager. I carved his face into my tit with a butcher knife and a bottle of ink.You sound cool, DP. We should get together sometime. Where did you say you live in NC?HairPeace,CG

I just counted 41 comments but was promised 58…QT

GRRRRRRRRRRRR! And when I post – all the rest show up!Do I have the magic touch? DO the posts wait for me or something?QT

QT, have you tried refreshing when you go to a comment screen? Usually that works for me.

Try to refresh the page when you aren’t seeing the posts you think you should see. Hit F5, or the refresh button in your browser.I’ve found I need to do this all the time with typekey sites.

I’m with Alan. Winter has just barely begun here, and I’m already pissed off about the snow and cold. But more than that, the dark. Today, sunrise was at 9:00 am, sunset at 4:30 pm. I already am sick of the dark, and it’ll get darker.

Note to Bill Maher… Yes, California and Wyoming each have two senators despite California being much larger. But California also has 53 members of Congress, and Wyoming only has 1.See ‘The Connecticut Compromise.’I know. I’m a geek.

Besides yourself, Keith Olberman is my hero,especially when he talks about Bill-O the Clown. He ( Bill-O ) misidentified a teddy bear as a panda. I guess he just couldn’t accept that black and white could co-exist in a being. Could this explain his antipathy toward Barack Obama ?

Bob the Geek. I like it! Hmm. Was Bill Maher really asking about the number of senators? That would make the second television personality to ask odd questions about the make up of the US Congress. The other, a few months ago, was Chuck Norris. I hope Bill’s query was no where near as ignorant. Chuck took me by surprise with this doozy: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27529. The amount of ignorance of our system of congress it takes to make a proposal like Chuck’s is depressing. This should have been fair warning that Sarah Palin was about to happen. Also on this site you can get a FREE BOOK! that explains the difference between what the constitution means and what the supreme court says it means! Again – this represents a blatant, fundamental disregard for our government structure….Anyway, I came back on line to report that after going on and on about not liking vampires, guess what the subject of the Sanctuary episode was tonight? Some days you just can’t win.QT

For the record:John Lennon, since he is hand carved into Cactusgal’s tit, officially is her Beatle. I always got stuck with Ringo when I was a kid so I’ll gladly take him now. He’s kinda comfy.And QT, I had the same problem the night before. I could see that 10 comments were posted from the main page but only 2 would show when I came in. I hit refresh multiple times but for a half hour or so, nothing. Then it popped in at once. I might have even posted when it did, like you. But it’s posting blind just to fix it. Sometimes I think typekey is keeping up with how many times I curse it and getting me back.