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Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, other key Democrats and advocates of new revenues in this state were pleased - and surely relieved - by Oregon’s vote yesterday

SondraK, Lympian Slayer SondraK, Lympian Slayer
01/27 at 09:16 PM •
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tonight’s assignment

Speaking of prayers, I need some help.

My friend Sgt. Brian was wounded while in a HMMV gun turret in 2006 in Iraq. The Army flew his wife to Germany because they didn’t think he’d survive. He was in a coma for three months, had several surgeries and has been in recovery and rehab up until Oct 2009.
He’s a big strapping fellow again, and except for the scars on his head and a little stammer, you would not know how badly he was injured, but when he gets his white cane out you know.

A few minutes ago he had a seizure and was taken to the hospital in very serious condition, and his wife asked for prayers for him. Will you help me pray for Brian, please? His wife an children need him back.

---dick, not-quite-dead white guy

SondraK, Lympian Slayer SondraK, Lympian Slayer
01/27 at 08:28 PM •
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SOTU/STFU Open Thread


THIS THREAD IS NO LONGER ACCEPTING COMMENTS....THEY SHOW UP IN EXCERPTS ON THE SIDE BAR BUT FOR SOME REASON THE BLOGGING SOFTWARE WON’T ACCEPT MORE THAN 101 COMMENTS HERE ON THE POST. WE’VE TRIED TO FIGURE OUT WHY IT DOES THIS TO NO AVAIL. SORRY! :(
( especially Blue Max :)
THE THREAD IS CONTINUED HERE.
--SK

is it over yet?

I just came in from chores, I’m about to eat a wonderful fried chicken ‘n’ mashed yams dinner and I’m not about to ruin the first relaxed moment I’ve had in 12 daze with that big dork and hiz totus.

Fill me in if I miss something, ‘k?

[and by something I mean --
spontaneous combustion;
Michelle wearing sleeves;
singing of any kind;
Nancy + gum + choking;
Nancy sticking used gum on Biden;
TOTUS hacked by Porchers / actual unicorns / ChiComs
scratch that last—how coulja tell about the ChiComs

Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite
01/27 at 06:01 PM •
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RIP Zinnfidel

Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose book “A People’s History of the United States” became a million-selling leftist alternative to mainstream texts, died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87 and lived in Auburndale, Mass.
The cause was a heart attack, his daughter Myla Kabat-Zinn said.

~ * ~

Eager to help wipe out the Nazis, he joined the Army Air Corps in 1943 and even persuaded the local draft board to let him mail his own induction notice. He flew missions throughout Europe, receiving an Air Medal, but he found himself questioning what it all meant. Back home, he gathered his medals and papers, put them in a folder and wrote on top: “Never again.”

goldstar.jpgdick, not-quite-dead white guy in comments

SondraK, Lympian Slayer SondraK, Lympian Slayer
01/27 at 05:33 PM •
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ToDaZeD *scrape*scrape*scrape*

that’ll mess up Teh Perfect Crease

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Vanderleun has the Hhistory:  *clicky*clicky*

Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite
01/27 at 05:17 PM •
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a quaint and curious culture

As has been previously noted, there is on the far side of the sea - somewhere around Middle Earth - a nation of people who insist that reliability is NOT a valid prerequisite for employment.  This idea seems alien to our backward puritanical notions of “work ethic”, but theirs is an older and (as any one of them will tell you) far more evolved culture.

However, that’s not to say they don’t allow SOME employment standards to be enforced.  For example:

For the last four years, Scott has been working at RSVP, a call centre in east London that employs only artists, taking calls for Which? magazine and WeightWatchers. Shifts are available in the day, evening, or at weekends, ­allowing artists to plan their work around shows, rehearsals or auditions (one of the biggest problems for ­performers is not being able to get to auditions, which often come up at short notice).

Artists, as this article goes on at some length to explain, have a terribly difficult life in the Old World.  Unlike the situation on the continent, where artists are granted government stipends for their “contributions to the culture”, the artists of the British Isles often find themselves in the miserable position of

stacking supermarket shelves, waiting tables or writing ­advertising copy by day, and acting, dancing or sculpting by night.

...the HORROR!  Can you imagine?  The Bard must be rolling in his grave at such a thought; if Shakespeare had been forced to hold down a job during his formative years, how would he have found time to plagiarize all of Francis Bacon’s work?

What a day job inevitably means, of course, is spending the majority of your waking hours not doing the thing you love: making art.

Obviously, this situation is completely intolerable.  Which led, in this case, to the rise of a business which employs only artists, specifically tailoring its business model around the needs of the employees.

So: it’s illegal to require a prospective employee be reliable, but it’s perfectly acceptable to require them to be artists; presumably, artists whose body of work isn’t popular or lucrative (or reliable) enough to support them.

H/T David Thompson, who has a much broader take on the whole “artist entitlement” gig.

apotheosis, unrepentant milkaholic apotheosis, unrepentant milkaholic
01/27 at 05:30 PM •
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today’s Laffer laugher



Obama is a fine, very impressive person. He really is. Unfortunately, everything that he is doing in economics is exactly wrong. He is a crappy president…

The rest is really shitty....

SondraK, Lympian Slayer SondraK, Lympian Slayer
01/27 at 04:21 PM •
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todaze Lympian quote o the ding dong d’oh!

It doesn’t take a genius to know that governmental employees are not bonused.

SondraK, Lympian Slayer SondraK, Lympian Slayer
01/27 at 10:48 AM •
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TotUS onna roll!

Here’s Obama dropping in for a chat with his middle-class task force…

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goldstar.jpgEricC

SondraK, Lympian Slayer SondraK, Lympian Slayer
01/27 at 10:43 AM •
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Obama onna roll

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Are you pumped? I am so pumped. Obama is going to make a speech! Woooo!

He’ll probably talk about all the things he’s done right in the past year. Like…

Um…

Er…

Um…

Er…

FIFY

SondraK, Lympian Slayer SondraK, Lympian Slayer
01/27 at 10:04 AM •
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ToDaZeD NOT PS’d
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite
01/27 at 09:41 AM •
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Images from America

devotees of Teh Narrative baffled

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Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite
01/27 at 09:35 AM •
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high 5!
SondraK, Lympian Slayer SondraK, Lympian Slayer
01/27 at 08:51 AM •
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she’s a man, ba-by

Ellie Light’s (the serial letter-to-the-editor writer) real identity is ... fruitcake.
Well, maybe. (I already got had once this week, so I’m cautious.)

This is an update to an earlier post.
via Nice Deb

DougM (commissarophobe) DougM (commissarophobe)
01/27 at 05:07 AM •
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Lympians need not apply

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When it comes to hiring staff, there are plenty of legal pitfalls employers need to watch out for these days.
So recruitment agency boss Nicole Mamo was especially careful to ensure her advert for hospital workers did not offend on grounds of race, age or sexual orientation.
However, she hadn’t reckoned on discriminating against a wholly different section of the community

SondraK, Lympian Slayer SondraK, Lympian Slayer
01/26 at 09:46 PM •
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Wesley said:

Hole, you say? Mud, is it? Oh, heavens no! I was just back in the studio throwing pots. I made an ash tray and coffee mug matching set, just for you!

in 'what hole?'.
~~~~~
Melissa in Texas.. watching and waiting said:

Gene pool deterrent

in 'todaze Lympian'.
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SondraK, Lympian Slayer said:

DICK! No shit! The other night Smurphy must’ve gotten into one of the compost bins (one needs some straightening out ) and hurled about 6 different times. We have no carpet but a few rugs here and there and he found each and every one to barf on.

in 'what hole?'.
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MikeG said:

WHoohooo!  Stick a fork in Babs!  She’s DONE!

in 'todaze coveted endorsement'.
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Gully "Shoes" Borg said:

he is the exact same shade as the floor

and my cat is the exact same shade as the carpet!

http://gullyborg.typepad.com/weblog_archive/2007/11/caption-this.html

in 'what hole?'.
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Hog Whitman - Escaped Mental Patient said:

Nope. Not mine. Wish it was, though.

in 'teh olde plotte starts to stumble'.
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Merovign said:

Most people will never know about this, or any of the hundred (or thousand) similar ideas he’s expressed.

We tried to tell them during the campaign, but between Oprah and The View they stuffed their ears with cotton.

If we lose this nation because of all this bullcrap, which is possible (even without a revolt - the economic damage alone may do it), and IF there are historians in 200 years, they’re going to absolutely PILLORY ignorant Obama voters for the horrific consequences that will follow.

I’m just sick to death of it.

in 'todaze Constitutional scholar'.
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dick, not-quite-dead white guy said:

Peggy - actually, I fibbed a bit. Our big tom leaves muddy footprints if it’s wet outside, then flops on the rug and cleans up.
Speaking of rugs, all of our cats have a specialty. When it’s chuckahairball time, they all stand on the hardwood floor, and then lean as far as possible over the oriental rug and barf. If I catch them in the act and spin them around to face the wood floor, inevitably, infallibly, they scamper to the next room, stand on the wood at the edge of the rug and heave their guts out on the rug. Never on a cheap scatter rug either. Always on an oriental.
Our cats have good taste. No cheap rugs for them.

in 'what hole?'.
~~~~~
Merovign said:

Hey, good news. About time we got rid of her.

in 'todaze coveted endorsement'.
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Merovign said:

Oh, that’s not Grade-A childhood nightmares creepy. Not at all.

in 'todaze Lympian'.
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Merovign said:

Claire - I know that the topic of water wars in the Western HEMISPHERE has not been unusual in military circles.

As to this event, yes, blackmail, plain and simple. But the MSM will never hold the left accountable, and the government will never hold itself accountable.

Pretty God-damned depressing. This is a grave threat to the Republic, and I have no idea what to REALLY do about it.

in 'Ichthyus sapiens'.
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Gully "Shoes" Borg said:

Claire, that’s because once upon a time, California had free market leaders who were willing to let entrepreneurs use the land.  Now if you want to make money, you are better off going to Nebraska.  Or Chile.

in 'Ichthyus sapiens'.
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dick, not-quite-dead white guy said:

Those same dirtbags were there trashing the Mall in 1968. Why won’t they leave?

in 'she's all yours now'.
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N.O'Really said:

Designed by Planned Parenthood, by any chance?

in 'todaze Lympian'.
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Gully "Shoes" Borg said:

That pic looks EXACTLY like one of my law school class mates.

in 'is it Spring yet?'.
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mojo said:

That is one seriously twisted picture, Hog.

in 'teh olde plotte starts to stumble'.
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mech (discriminating characterist) said:

Who issued them a permit?

Aren’t there some sanatation violations that require cleansing with fire?

in 'she's all yours now'.
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mojo said:

Can I get one painted with lead paint?

in 'todaze Lympian'.
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geezerette said:

Larson--- sure miss his cartoons.

in 'what hole?'.
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mech (discriminating characterist) said:

It’s proto chuckie!

in 'todaze Lympian'.
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