In the absence of Tunch photos…
Mr. Whipple’s Punkie is shocked to discover that he has competition in the World’s Largest Domesticated Feline Hassock trials!
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Open Thread
You guys keep filling them up so fast.
Friday Night Early Bird Open Thread
So what is on the agenda for everyone this weekend? It is snowing here, so I think I am going to give ME2 another shot.
BTW- I had the weirdest craving today. For some reason, I was just dying for pineapple, so when we went to the store, I picked up a fresh pineapple and some frozen pineapple juice. I have a friend who is pretty convinced that when she craves something, it means she must need the nutrients in that item, so maybe I needed some vitamin C. Do any of you have any first hand experience with research that attempts to explain cravings?
No Mas
It is snowing again, and I think we all pretty much feel like this:
Just make it stop.
I hope this “Coffee Party Movement” catches on…
The Washington Post had a story up today about a sane response to the TeaBagger movement: The Coffee Party Movement.
As I pour yet another cup this morning I found myself nodding in agreement to this post on the Coffee Party blog:
Our focus is on the democratic process. We want to encourage everyone–no matter their positions on issues–to participate in the process in a civil and responsible way.
We want the political process broken down into three steps:
1) open and respectful dialogue
2) thoughtful and informed deliberation
3) competent and decisive execution.
A grassroots populist movement that seeks to channel frustration, anger and the energy of engaged Citizens in a useful direction–now that’s unusual in our politics and worth supporting. I’m going to an eye on this because statements like this make sense. It is an invitation to the sane among us (so I guess that means it will be a small movement).
Even if a group of Citizens having reasonable conversations to try and solve problems and improve our Government can’t compete with the teevee ready craziness of the astro-turf corporate funded TeaBaggers of Wingnutopia, it is still an effort at real Citizenship that is worthy of support (IMHO).
Cheers
dengre
and yes, feel free to use this as an Open Thread…
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Early Morning Open Thread
One last HCR snark…
I wonder if we could put 45,000 protestors in zombie masks on the Washington Mall? And if we did, would any of the Media Village Idiots bother to cover it?
Amazingly bad coverage…
For all the talk that these HCR negotiations needed to be on C-Span it was odd that when it happened the event was only on C-Span 3, which is not even offered as an option by many teevee delivery systems. The cable news shows were basically hacktacular in their coverage. CNN decided to only show Republicans and MSNBC was just as bad. The “liberal” network broke into the summit every few minutes for commercials or to let folks hear spin from proven corruptionists like Armstrong Williams.
Thank the FSM that I have broadband.
There was decent coverage online, but the teevee coverage was amazingly bad. The only aspect they seem to be able to cover is that John McCain still thinks that he is President.
OTOH, is you do get a chance to watch the full event online (or whenever C-Span decides to actually broadcast it on their real network) I thought it was an amazing event (this highlight reel from the GOS is a good sample of why). It is just too bad that most folks will never sit through it.
So it goes.
Cheers
dengre
and yes, this is an Open Thread…