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Twit Tweet, around 3am:

@Johngcole John Cole
Fuck you. I have cobloggers that can deal with tomorrow. I’m chilling pedialyte and doing shots.

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Nancy Pelosi, according to a Slate article titled “They Used To Cane Each Other and Have Duels“:

… She also waved off discussion about the construction of the new supercommittee, tasked with finding another $1.5 trillion in savings. “It is a victory for [Republicans] if we spend a lot of time focusing on the who, what, when, where of this commission,” she said. But she admitted exasperation with it, noting that she had heard it described as a “characterization of food, but not at the beginning of the digestive process.”

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So, how’s the peristalsis process going, on this Saturday morning, in your neighborhood?

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  2. 2.

    Mustang Bobby

    I’m in Perrysburg, Ohio, visiting my parents for ten days. It’ll include a trip to Stratford, Ontario, to see some plays and try to sell copies of my own script ($10 a pop if you’re interested). Stayed up to watch the Tigers beat KC in 10. Need more sleep.

  3. 3.

    Lysana

    @jeffreyw: Oh, how neat!

    I’m prepping for a house-sitting trip to (gods help me) Bakersfield. It’ll be paid, I get fed, I get dog time. Can’t really complain on the overall. Just that it’s Bakersfield in August.

  4. 4.

    MikeJ

    @Lysana: Well, it *is* the home of the Bakersfield sound, so it’s got that going for it. Of course all the practitioners of said sound got the hell out of town too.

  5. 5.

    Nicole

    Taking the baby to his “swim lesson.” Considerably more fun for the parents, judging from his usual reaction.

  6. 6.

    Alwhite

    Dr removed a golf ball sized tumor from my throat yesterday so at the moment nothing but cool liquids are going in.

    I wish I were a teabagger because I could then believe that putting less in means I would get fatter & put more out.

    I also wish I had ever smoked or dipped then at least there would be a reason for that damn thing.

    I have radiation treatments scheduled for next week.

  7. 7.

    Keith G

    @Mustang Bobby: I have fond memories of P-burg. I grew up in the Waterville/Whitehouse area and I had summer jobs mowing lawns there in the 70s.

    Now in 2011, woke up at 3 AM finding that my A/C has died (Houston in record heat). So I quickly got dressed an walked to my place of employment so I could quickly get my Saturday stuff done, then go home and deal with what will be a shitty day. Being out and at work at 3:30 AM is strangely satisfying.

  9. 9.

    demkat620

    @Alwhite: Best wishes and prayers your way.

    I have to take the kids to the mall for BtS clothes and supplies.

    My 13 yo son goes through 6 or 7 pairs of sneakers a year. He is wearing me out.

  11. 11.

    Cat Lady

    @Alwhite:

    Good luck Alwhite! Apparently pedialyte is one of those cool things you can drink. Who knew you could put it on the rocks? Why would you want to know you could put it on the rocks? I guess we won’t be hearing from our esteemed bloghost today.

  12. 12.

    RossInDetroit

    My neighborhood is 75 degrees at 8:00 am with a high of 85 and a 50% chance of thunderstorms.
    I guess I can tolerate that.
    Just woke up so I’m not sure what the weekend holds in store but I’m sure it’s plenty.

    Oh, BTW, did S&P cause the world to end over night? I guess not.

  13. 13.

    Phyllis

    Braves beat the Mets. In other redundant news, off to breakfast and Saturday errands. Which will be done swiftly, due to encroaching heat and desire to avoid tax-free BtS shoppers. Because what SC needs is less tax revenue. /snark.

  14. 14.

    Aimai

    Alwhite, I’m so sorry for what you are going through. Hope you have a steady supply of sorbet and great ice cream.

    Aimai

  15. 15.

    Emma

    @Alwhite: It’s been six years since they removed one of those (tho smaller) from my breast. Radiation, too, low-level, every day, M-F for five months. Sucks majorly. Whatever good karma I gathered during those days, consider it on loan.

  17. 17.

    RossInDetroit

    @Alwhite:

    Best wishes for a fast, full recovery. Surgery of any kind is traumatic and getting better is slow and frustrating.

  18. 18.

    Josie

    @jeffreyw: What a great shot! That mouse is toast.

    @Alwhite: Best wishes for a swift recovery and as little misery as possible from the treatments.

    @demkat620: My oldest son was like that. The shoes would literally fall apart after a couple of months, and they weren’t cheap shoes.

  19. 19.

    harlana

    @Alwhite: very sorry about your current situation – wishing you all the best for a speedy recovery and all good news in the future, at least, no chemo(?)

  20. 20.

    harlana

    @Emma: It will be 5 years for me this Feb – I didn’t have a mammo this year in order to save $ but I hope to have one around Feb when I am finally covered by insurance, here at the 5-year mark.

  21. 21.

    Southern Beale

    Did y’all watch Bill Maher last night? It was good, the lone conservative was that idiot who made the Sarah Palin movie. He mostly kept his mouth shut. But of course we talk about the economy and he says how Obama has proven the failure of Keynesian economics, we just had the largest Keynesian exercise in U.S. history and it failed, the stimulus spent $1 trillion dollars and blah blah.

    And I’m thinking: SEE what he did there? SEE! He took the stimulus, which was watered down and filled with failed Republican ideas like tax cuts, and labeled it “Obama’s” and poof! it’s a failure. See how that works? See how easy it was? And other than Maher saying, “No it wasn’t the largest Keynesian experiment, take out the tax cuts, that’s not Keynesian,” you didn’t get much countering of that argument.

    This is why Obama and the left need to really fight and scream and holler over the stuff that they want, instead of just show up already conceding the big stuff. Not just because it’s bad negotiating, which of course it is, but because you lose out on the opportunity to educate the public. No one really knows that the stumulus was loaded up with Republican ideas to get it past a filibuster and all that. They just think what they hear from idiots like this.

    We never got to DEBATE our ideas and therefore we never got to EDUCATE the public and when the program inevitably was not as successful as everyone wanted, the blame is unfairly placed on us, when we were the ones who negotiated away our best ideas.

  26. 26.

    harlana

    @Southern Beale: Yah, I think it is past time to stop adopting republican interests as dictated by the media, not giving one fuck whether any JOBS proposal has a snowball’s chance in hell of passing, propose one anyway; and YES, use the bully pulpit for the love of all that is holy, what else do we have? – no better time to get out the bullhorn and tell the American people, here’s what we want to do for you, we have a plan, we want to create jobs, but the republicans do nothing but obstruct our efforts, they don’t care about you. And, look, they tanked the economy and almost made us go into default! Who do you want working for you in 2012?

    If they don’t do that, they just don’t deserve to be re-elected. I’m still going to vote of course, but I will despise them all the way.

  27. 27.

    Mustang Bobby

    @Keith G: We probably have friends in common. I spent a lot of summers in the ’60’s and ’70’s mowing lawns and painting houses in the heat and humidity of NW Ohio.

    When I got here yesterday afternoon, the cicadas were in full volume. That was enough to take me back 40 years. We don’t have them in Miami.

    As for the downgrade, I’ll bet that this was exactly what Boehner and Cantor were counting on so they could foist it off on Obama. And I’ll bet there will be the usual suspects on the Dem side who will go along with them. Argh.

  28. 28.

    John O

    In honor of our national drain circling, I’m making myself one of the great all-time decadent breakfasts: Bacon and cinnamon rolls.

    Then golf. Shaping up to be a good day.

  29. 29.

    Jewish Steel

    Fuck you. I have cobloggers that can deal with tomorrow.

    I read ‘tomorrow’ in a particular sense here, as a metaphor for the the future. He is charging you, Anne, and your cohorts with handling what ever challenges the coming decades present.

    Good luck Dealing With Tomorrow!

  30. 30.

    RossInDetroit

    I just scanned JC’s Twitterrants from last night/this morning. Looks like he conked around 3:45 am. I give him 11 hours to get back in the saddle. First post at 2:45 today +/-.
    Over – under?

  34. 34.

    Ahasuerus

    Did something happen to the site? The layout is all bollixed up, with a single column of text in the middle, nothing on either side (blogroll, ads, etc) and no banner at top of page. This is with the same browser/OS combo which rendered it perfectly last night.

  37. 37.

    jeffreyw

    Finishing off breakfast-breakfast links (the li’l sausages), and some eggs over easy, with buttered toast. Gearing up for an expedition to the farmer’s market and then to the nearby Asian International foods store to pick up on a few items, peppercorns, Greek yogurt, onion nan bread and some other items that I have been recording in the memo app on my trusty iTouch. Breakfast was down ‘n dirty this morning, so no pics, but here’s a nice sammich for ya.

  38. 38.

    Ahasuerus

    @RossInDetroit:
    And it looks fine on Safari (Intel Mac w/ Leopard, problem browser is Firefox 5)

    @MikeJ:
    That’s gotta be it. No idea why, though; my browser should be sending out an ID string for Firefox 5 on Intel Mac.

    Anybody else out there using Firefox on a Mac? And do any of you know whether Cole was tweaking the innards of this WP installation during his recent boozefest libation incident?

  41. 41.

    Skepticat

    I’ve always liked Olympia Snowe, and I liked a lot of this interview. The intimation that Obama could have changed things irked me, but she basically had me right up until she started wooing the teabaggers at the very end–this proving the point she was making.

    http://www.pressherald.com/news/snowe-says-u_s_-senate-is-paralyzed-by-politics_2011-08-06.html

    Not sure how this election will go, but though I’m registered independent and I like her, it’s becoming difficult to vote for anyone with an R because having Republicans in the majority is intolerable. And having Ds in the majority doesn’t mean a thing, as they simply cede to the Rs.

  42. 42.

    Jewish Steel

    Cole Update

    @Johngcole
    John Cole
    My head hurts. A lot.
    3 minutes ago via TweetDeck

    Ah, the wages of sin.

  44. 44.

    Ahasuerus

    Oh f*ck me with a chainsaw; immediately after my last “all clear” comment the rendering went back into mobile browser mode, but now it’s that way on both Firefox and Safari. Now I’m definitely going to start drinking.

  46. 46.

    nancydarling

    @Alwhite: Bless you and godspeed.

    Gonna be another hot one here, but Alwhite’s woes put it all in perspective.

    Cole, How long til you are 50? That’s when I stopped getting shitfaced and suffering for it.

  56. 56.

    Svensker

    Also too, missed all the tweet action here last night (watching a dreadful Jennifer Garner movie, really bad). Cole certainly gets saucy when he’s sauced. Very amusing. I’m happy that he was listening to George Clinton — bow wow!

  58. 58.

    opie jeanne

    Alwhite, here’s to a full recovery at record speed.

    Today we’re going to watch the Blue Angels put on a show over Seattle. A friend has offered their roof and porch and the promise of bbqed bratwurst; I may stay on the porch. Last night I roasted some beets from the garden for a salad for today, and in a few minutes I will make some Italian chocolate meringue cookies so that my gluten-intolerant daughter can have some.

  59. 59.

    opie jeanne

    @PurpleGirl: I try not to look, I swear I do, but somehow the mouse ends up clicking the link.

    I have told him that he is a very bad man.

  60. 60.

    dww44

    @Alwhite:

    Gosh, I wish you the best with your radiation therapy and will be sending you get well wishes over the next few weeks.

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