Here’s some pretty pictures:
And this is Wally Lynn, who is attending NN:
Wally is from Pittsburgh and has a great Pittsburgh accent. He is part of Our Walmart:
We envision a future in which our company treats us, the Associates of Walmart, with respect and dignity. We envision a world where we succeed in our careers, our company succeeds in business, our customers receive great service and value, and Walmart and Associates share all of these goals.
Wally started his own organization for veterans within Our Walmart and that organization is called Our Vets.
I’m just back from Reverend Barber’s speech.
Briefly, he said we have to create a “fusion politics” that is grounded in our values and that we are in the middle of the third progressive uprising of the last 146 years. Obviously, this will have to be fleshed out a bit (he said much more than that) but that’s the general idea.
Baud
What are you doing outside? Shouldn’t you be working?
The Dangerman
What are you doing outside? Shouldn’t you be in jail? There are Balloon Juice reputations to uphold.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
Oh please. Everyone’s entitled to a smoke break once or twice a shift.
SiubhanDuinne
@The Dangerman:
What are you doing with pants on? Shouldn’t you be mopping naked?
Baud
@The Dangerman:
Kay needs to find some stray cats and start shaving their asses. Pronto!
The Dangerman
@SiubhanDuinne:
Longtime reader of Balloon-Juice; if it’s one thing I do fully clothed, it’s mopping (or, for that matter, cat ass shaving).
gbear
Are you going to go explore the ruins of Detroit?
SiubhanDuinne
@The Dangerman:
Our blog-master has taught you well.
Now about that mustard …
muddy
@Baud: Be easier to grab a blogger and shave his/her ass *signifying * a cat. Moar meta. More likely to find a
subjectvictim, as well as to be able to complete the task.Belafon
@The Dangerman: There are some things only the blog owner should do. Like losing mustard.
gbear
I sense some heavy John withdrawl going on…
Please, think of the front pagers.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Baud: This is a better level of debauchery.
Helen
Where are your pants? Where are your cats? and dogs? And where is Shawn? And that gorgeous student (Christion?) that Lily is so in love with?
Oh, wait this is Kay – not John.
Where is John? – Yeah I know – but I miss him more than I thought I would. I considered him the gatekeeper/traffic cop. But he’s kinda the boss. Go figure.
Violet
Kay, did you leave your Subaru in a field like a good Balloon-Juice representative? I hope so!
gbear
Did Reverend Barber hold back on the religious fervor when talking to the Netroots group? I loved that speech that was posted last weekend because he was using his religious stance to whack & whack & whack conservative christians on the noggin. Does he change his approach much when he’s preaching to the choir?
David Koch
Kay,
Tell us about Biden
muddy
@muddy: Bad tags, derp!
muddy
@David Koch: Seconded!
TooManyJens
@gbear: No, he hit the religious themes pretty good, despite the fact that there were probably more of us godless heathens in the audience than in his usual crowd. Got a great response, too. The refreshing thing was that even though he was a) calling for more moral politics; and b) coming from an explicitly Christian perspective, I never felt like he was saying that morality has to be tied to Christianity. Like, Christianity is the way that he comes to it, and that’s cool, but these are moral values we all share. Things like justice, and caring about the poor.
Roger Moore
@Baud:
Looking for the mustard. SATSQ.
gbear
@TooManyJens:
That’s the impression that I got when listening to him last week.Morality doesn’t have to be religion based, although he knows how to use religion to motoivate.
Old Dan and Little Ann
There’s no such thing as a great Pittsburgh accent. I love Pittsburgh and spent four years of college there but the accent is horrible. Yinz guys goin’ do da Sahth Side for an Iron ‘nthat? Go Stillers! Maaaarrrrioooo! : ) Hmmmmmm…..Primantis….
LT
I was just reading about that fountain! Hilarous story! Do you know it, Kay?
Helen
O/T Colbert talking to Steven Wise an animal rights lawyer “If Tommy” – the chimp – “wants human rights he should form his own corporation.”
Ha ah . No. I’m done.
LT
That fountain is the James Scott Memorial:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Scott_Memorial_Fountain
WaterGirl
@muddy: Mommy, tell us the story again about the time you met the vice president and he took you for a ride in his fancy car. We love that story!
BillinGlendaleCA
@David Koch:
And Kay, did Biden show you his new ink?
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@BillinGlendaleCA: Why do you think she isn’t responding in the comments?
Panurge
Hmm, so what were the first two of those “progressive uprisings”?
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Panurge: The Populist/Progressive era and the New Deal through Civil Rights era.
raven
@LT:
It was a chilling finish to hell of a film.
rikyrah
thanks Kay for the updates
ASV
I’m surprised they leave all that water lying around where some poor people could come and steal it.