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Via Paul Constant. Look at it this way: If you needed an excuse to start drinking, you’ve got it.
Apart from that, what’s on the agenda for the start of the weekend?
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Via Paul Constant. Look at it this way: If you needed an excuse to start drinking, you’ve got it.
Apart from that, what’s on the agenda for the start of the weekend?
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Baud
I debating between freaking out over projections based on 3 day old pols in which Obama is still ahead in the EC or doing something productive to help the campaign.
Thoughts?
Just Some Fuckhead
I knew we’d eventually come to regret this whole internet thing.
Ding dong
Anybod else think romneys four more weeks sounds really really dumb. When I hear it I think of yeah, four more weeks of Romney.
redshirt
PsyFighter34 +42
Just Some Fuckhead
@Baud:
Get a big ol’ carton of ice cream and curl up in front of a Meg Ryan movie until the urges subside.
KoolEarl
UGH. Silver tweeted RMoney still gaining and near 40%. Hopefully Biden stanched the bleeding
cyntax
Three more essays to grade, then I can start drinking.
gbear
@Just Some Fuckhead: Really. I want that 38 seconds back.
SatanicPanic
Apart from drinking? I got nothing.
PurpleGirl
Going to two crafts fairs tomorrow with some friends. We’ll have lunch between the two fairs. I’m looking forward to getting out of the house and away from politics for a few hours.
jwb
@redshirt: I seriously wonder whether PsyFighter’s liver will make it through the election.
gogol's wife
@jwb:
Okay, now you’re getting PsiFighter mixed up with Psy of Gangnam Style.
I can’t believe I just typed those words.
redshirt
I think the internet is home to many drunks, it’s just that PsyFighter34 is more up front and/or boastful about it.
gbear
@redshirt:
They just have to keep a spare keyboard handy.
MikeBoyScout
Paul Constant …. just one more demonstration of how much of a live wire the Pacific Northwest has become.
hilts
How about a FUCK THE GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING NY YANKEES thread?
redshirt
@gbear: Designated Keyboard.
It’s my new Synth band.
wrb
@KoolEarl:
It’s up.
38.9%
That was fast.
I hope Sully & Mathews are pleased.
Flying Squirrel Girl
Tomorrow morning I’m loading my dogs onto a flight from Costa Rica to Houston to begin new lives which I will shortly join (Mr. FSG is meeting them in Houston). But tonight I’m just a big ol’ ball of anxiety about the whole thing. My babies!!!
ETA: FSG +2ish (don’t judge, we had a 20 second earthquake this week too!)
redshirt
@Flying Squirrel Girl: Wow! What was Costa Rica like?
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@hilts:
You got that right. Arggh. O’s loaded ’em up in the 8th and stranded them all. Argghh again.
OTOH, what a series. Five nail-biting pitcher’s duels.
Flying Squirrel Girl
@redshirt: Fantastic and incredibly frustrating! I’ve been here 5 years and a lot of the shine has worn off, but doesn’t that happen anywhere? We have lived very rurally, and although what I wanted was to be off the beaten path, I misunderestimated the education gap and cultural gap that comes with living OTBP in a third world country. But I wake up to howler monkeys almost every morning, which has never ever lost its awesomeness.
red dog
Going to see the 49ers kick the lucky Giants ass like they should of last Jan.
WaterGirl
37 seconds. That’s as long as I could take that video.
Edit: I see gbear made it one second longer than me. gbear, I hope you’re okay.
Southern Beale
Just heard something about shots fired outside an Obama campaign office in Colorado, anyone else hear about that? Don’t know the details.
WaterGirl
@Ding dong:
Thank you! I actually laughed out loud at that. It’s been a long 10 days or so since the Obama-Romney debate, so I needed that.
redshirt
@Flying Squirrel Girl: Wow again! Sounds incredible. More details? Why were you there? Why are you leaving? For Houston, of all places.
Suffern ACE
So Europe won itself a peace prize today. Next year, I think it goes to Doctors Who Don’t Leave Home, and other valiant groups.
JPL
@Southern Beale: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21761706/shot-fired-at-obama-campaign-headquarters-denver
Southern Beale
@JPL:
Thanks just now saw it. Geeeeeezussss…….
JPL
@Southern Beale: I’m sure it will be all over the news.. yup
wiscomom
@Baud: So I got tired of freaking out at the polls and seeing the daily RNC mailers and getting their daily “calls”. Instead of donating more money I signed up to do “something” on the ground. Not sure what that means. Maybe doing something positive/tangible will help.
beltane
@Southern Beale: Here’s a link:http://www.denverpost.com/obama/ci_21761706/shot-fired-at-obama-campaign-headquarters-denver
Flying Squirrel Girl
@redshirt: Came here in 2007 after many wonderful vacations to the same area. Close friends were already living here and making it look easy and we thought, “If they can, why can’t we?” It looked like everyone was making killer money buying and developing/selling land and all the services that go along with newly created infrastructure. But we moved here just as things started REALLY tanking in the states, and from then it has seemed like a good place to weather the storm. As things got worse in the states everything dried up here: building, property management, etc. (we are at the end of the road at a somewhat famous surfbreak in CR — Playa Negra).
As for why Houston of all places (believe me I know), Mr. FSG and I are both from TX and that’s where the contacts, family, jobs and low cost of living are for us; in short, lots of support and opportunity.
I will miss this pace of life and am immensely grateful to have been able to have heard the ocean every day for 5 years. And the monkeys too.
TexasMango
@wrb: I know fuck them. You don’t see GOPers beating up on Ryan like liberals did on Obama. It’s really disgusting. No matter what happens, Sully, Mathews, Shultz, et al will be on my shit list forever.
beltane
@Suffern ACE: It was toss up between that and Feed the Full so they just went with the EU bankers & plutocrats benevolent association.
beltane
@TexasMango: Before the debate these same f*ckers were saying all Obama needed to do was avoid any major gaffes. Well, he avoided any major gaffes and it was the end of the f*cking world. We have no real allies in the media, none.
Southern Beale
Also notorious voter registration fraudster Nathan Sproul has closed up shop at Strategic Allied Consulting and reopened his crooked operation under the name Issue Advocacy Partners. And I’m sure the RNC will fein shock — SHOCK! — that crooked voter registration operations are being conducted on its dime.
Yes indeed.
Baud
@wiscomom:
It’ll be great. Enjoy the experience.
Hill Dweller
Granted, there are tens of millions of ignorant, hateful people in this country, but I still have a hard time believing Willard is going to be elected President. Perhaps that is naievete or stupidity, but I just can’t believe a failed one-term governor can beat an incumbent.
piratedan
@Southern Beale: i’m sure it’s just an isolated incident, it’s not race related and its probably related to all of those gun restriction laws that have been passed and second amendment remedies and surveyors symbols and FREEDOM!
jwb
@TexasMango: They all thought they were polishing their independent judgement cred, but all except Matthews ranted their way out of a job if Obama loses. Sully probably cut his audience in half if Obama loses, Schultz even more.
TexasMango
@jwb: They are all dead to me either way.
TooManyJens
I keep trying to find out when How I Met Your Mother season 7 will be available on Netflix streaming, but I have absolutely no idea where to get that kind of information. I’ve looked all over. Netflix has a list of what’s coming out in the next 2 weeks or so, but if it’s not on that list, I guess the customers just don’t get to know?
TexasMango
@Hill Dweller: I don’t either. And I’m not going to freak out over a bunch of polls showing what we already knew: that Romney is going to blow Obama out with white Southerners and this will make the popular vote very close.
Gee………….I wonder why?
Every racist cracker is going to be voting against Barack Obama, but the media won’t talking about that shit.
burnspbesq
Phew.
Antigua & Barbuda 1-2 USA
WaterGirl
@TooManyJens: I bet Steeplejack would be able to find it, if anyone can.
jwb
@TexasMango: Me, too, though I can’t say that I followed any of them closely. I used to read Sully, but gave that up long ago.
James E. Powell
Obama/Biden and the Democrats need to open a new front against Romney/Ryan, an issue that hasn’t been done to death in ads and press/media coverage.
They need to have something swirling in the mix before the next debate, something that Romney has to answer for or respond to. It would be a mistake to wait until the debate, itself, to spring it.
For some reason, everyone let Romney’s secret tax returns fade into oblivion. I am guessing that if you asked the ‘undecided’ voters, they would tell you that he already did.
I don’t know what it could be or should be because my views are such that what matters to me are things the ‘undecided’ voters care about.
You guys got anything?
trollhattan
@red dog:
I understand the Niners have committed to not napping on third down for the rematch. Should be interesting.
Don’t know if I get to watch it here, but the #1 offense (Patsies) play the #1 defense (Seahawks) Sunday. Talk about a style clash.
piratedan
@James E. Powell: immigration….. Latinos want it, full fledged support of the Dream Act. Work out proper treatment of “guest workers” that allow proper treatment and benefits while still allowing a game plan for citizenship and for agriculture to come to grips with what is a fair wage. Because if immigrant workers start getting minimum wage, you can expect to see dramatic increases in prices in your grocery stores.
Chris
Apropos of nothing, I had previously never seen the Internet phenomenon (which I’m told is fucking ancient) “LEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOY… JJJJJEEEENNNKIIINSSSSSSS!” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVZ50qAQrpc) until now.
This egregious hole in my pop culture having been filled, I am now cracking up in the empty library where I should be doing my homework.
That is all.
PsiFighter37
@redshirt: Is this supposed to be some kind of compliment? I can’t really tell, this DFH beer absolutely crushed me in a belated fashion.
ETA: After reading a bit more – I think the election has caused me to drink more. There was a time not so long ago (namely, earlier this year) where my tolerance was absolute shit. Tuesday night, I went out for drinks with the team and did shots, drank beer, and woke up the next morning with zero hangover.
If Obama pulls this out, I think I’ll be able to calm down. Otherwise, the liver is in for punishment for 4 more years.
redshirt
@Flying Squirrel Girl: Sounds exotic. Except the Houston part. ;)
Linda Featheringill
@TooManyJens:
http://watchseries.eu/serie/how_i_met_your_mother
All of season 7 and some of 8.
redshirt
@PsiFighter37: More honest assessment than compliment, though I think it was somewhat complimentary, in that you are revealing what others are probably hiding. Honesty – if that’s what it is – is usually cool.
redshirt +2352.39
TooManyJens
@Linda Featheringill: Thanks for the link. I’d prefer to watch legally if I can, but this bullshit makes pirating tempting. The season is out on DVD; it’s stupid that it’s not available on Instant.
Mike E
Yours truly doing the phone thing 6 days a week up until Election Day, doing my part here in Mayberry.
TooManyJens
@Mike E: My hat is off to you. I knock doors when possible, but I can’t take much phonebanking. Six days a week is amazing.
tam
I voted today! That’s one in the bank for the Pres.
ThresherK
@burnspbesq: Thanks for the update.
On my antique Edmonton Drillers banner, I can’t believe the USA is sweating at this stage of pool play.