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come on! Did ya lose your sense of humor somewhere?
John McCain, 100 years in Iraq "fine with me"
by taylormattd on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:43:46 AM PDT
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bored with whiners.
My sense of humor is quite fine.
"The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels." Al Gore, 7/17/08
by TomP on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:45:34 AM PDT
please only use comments you've actually made before.
by Kagro X on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:46:26 AM PDT
coffee spewing, giggle until your gut busts, comment! Thanks for the exercise.
Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is understood.
by Granny Doc on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:47:58 AM PDT
I don't get it KagroX.
Okay, I'll only use comments I've made before.
I appreciate your reply.
by TomP on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:49:50 AM PDT
"Step out of the hole you're in, and keep your hands visible."
The revolution will not be televised, but we'll analyze it to death at The Next Hurrah.
by DHinMI on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:50:56 AM PDT
For once, I like you.
That's got to be scary.
You may be alright after all. :-)
by TomP on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:54:53 AM PDT
Will wonders never cease? :)
(Go blue, btw.)
Happy little moron, Lucky little man.I wish I was a moron, MY GOD, Perhaps I am!-Spike Milligan
by polecat on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 11:30:30 AM PDT
by Delaware Dem on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 12:53:08 PM PDT
He made fun of every camp equally.
Grow a fucking funny bone.
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by Eddie in ME on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:55:15 AM PDT
I can't WAIT to use that on someone!
Thanks
Never confuse kindness and patience with stupidity and weakness!!
by Joes Steven on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:45:11 AM PDT
that isn't exactly the PRESCRIBED use for a funny bone...
by polecat on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 11:31:57 AM PDT
by Joes Steven on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 11:37:57 AM PDT
But I had the urge to rec it anyway.
by Eddie in ME on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 11:47:49 AM PDT
The Dutch children's chorus Kinderen voor Kinderen (= “kids for kids”): is a world cultural treasure.
by lotlizard on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 12:41:34 PM PDT
your words say your sense of humor is fine, but
your actions say it's not.
which one should we believe...???
give us some guidance, here, 'k...?
-8.38, -7.74 lern gud werds and feed the hungry!!!
by condoleaser on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:08:24 AM PDT
and is a bannable offense.
So we cannot ever write new content, or you only get one original comment when you create your new UID?
by polecat on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 11:29:41 AM PDT
you know it's a light-heared joke, right? I mean, did you see the titles he gave to Bob Johnson and Geek's diaries?
by taylormattd on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:46:45 AM PDT
You can lead a horse to funny, but you can't make 'em laugh.
Stressed out? Have a baby sloth.
by droogie6655321 on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:48:24 AM PDT
this might have to become my tagline - thx
"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake." - Jeanette Rankin
by PeaceNerd on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:43:13 AM PDT
As long as it's attributed! (Hey, a writer's got to have his byline)
by droogie6655321 on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 10:08:34 AM PDT
I'm not angry.
My comment was not made with anger.
Everyone wants to react, but this is primary season.
If not here, where would people argue politics.
by TomP on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:50:57 AM PDT
I think it's a tribute more than anything else, Tom. It's all good.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
by MBNYC on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:54:10 AM PDT
I was just being cranky.
Some people may be amazed, but I'm not perfect.
:-)
Okay, a few Obama and Clinton and even Edwards supporters might not be amazed, and even my girl friend knows better, but somewhere, somebody will be amazed.
by TomP on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:57:14 AM PDT
... this?
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. -- Bruce Springsteen
by Plutonium Page on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:02:50 AM PDT
He keeps pushing the right things.
Whatever happens, the movement goes on.
We simply cannot afford coal anymore.
Al Gore publized it, but there is so much more work to do.
Every time someone who has a megaphone like Edwards or Gore his speaks the truth, it brings us a little closer to change.
The problem is, the planet literally is running out of time.
Even here, environmental diaries get minimal support. They die so fast. I combine environmental issues with a candidate diary at times, and that spreads the word a little.
Meta and snark often sells better here.
But we have to keep fighting, like you do with Greenpeace and your posts here. There is no other choice.
by TomP on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:08:05 AM PDT
... the pro-nuke talking points hitting the media more and more. In some articles, it's just reporting (because of the provisions in the energy bill). But in a lot of them, it's just repeating the stuff about the inevitability of a "nuclear renaissance", which is by no means inevitable. It's unclear if it'll happen in the US soon or not. Obviously, it's happening in the UK, though.
by Plutonium Page on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:11:32 AM PDT
No nuclear plants, no coal plants.
What are we going to do until the solar and wind farms ramp up? Sit in the dark eating melty ice cream?
"When the President does it, it's not illegal" - Richard Nixon, 1974; US Congress, 2008
by nightsweat on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:20:13 AM PDT
that's ALL i do!
"In political discussion heat is in inverse proportion to knowledge." J. G. C. Minchin
by LucyMO on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 10:00:52 AM PDT
We'll have to go out in the wild and hunt and kill our own fresh organic ice cream.
--- Fight the stupid! Boycott BREAKING diaries!
by VelvetElvis on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 11:56:32 AM PDT
That's why there's no Steve at Steve's anymore...
by nightsweat on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 12:41:23 PM PDT
was freaking hilarious.
"I can't come to bed yet! Someone is WRONG on the Internet!" - XKCD
by SingularExistence on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 03:25:40 PM PDT
You and I can have a battle about nuclear power. (NOT!)
Daily Kos used to be worthwhile.
by andgarden on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:43:04 AM PDT
long time to get here, busy day?
by Oke on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:45:06 AM PDT
by andgarden on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:45:37 AM PDT
that was written with a friendly, positive tone.
by Oke on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 11:08:26 AM PDT
I'm somewhat biased, but I personally like your enthusiasm and your generally positive work. You're a good man, TomP. Don't let the cynics drag you down.
by MBNYC on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:03:18 AM PDT
Barack Obama Respects Your Opinion
by DJShay on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:09:33 AM PDT
I probably should not have commented, but it added to the thread and made it fun for others.
It was just a quick reaction without thinking.
What I find interesting is how a few front pagers don't like candidate diaries. Not all of them. It may only be a small number of them. A couple expressed it to me personally last summer. I devine it from the comments of others.
I believe in empowerment, not puniditry.
It is far more important to me that an "ordinary" person write a comment or diary expressing her or his political views and hopes, then the best analysis available.
Both coexist here, and I do not seek to change that, but I prefer empowerment. So I think candidate diaries are great. Regular people care and get involved. They give a shit.
Itis not abstract, erudite opinion. It is argument and emotion.
Even the angry ones. I prefer civility, but at least they care.
It really does matter.
Just my preference, so I likely overeacted.
No big deal.
by TomP on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:15:22 AM PDT
and absolutely no disrespect intended, but many of us, FPs or no, hate candidate diaries by now, and are counting the days until the convention. Too much of a good thing, perhaps.
by MBNYC on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:21:58 AM PDT
There are a lot of them, and lately the fights over race and gender have been off putting.
It's like anything else. Balance is good.
It's also important to remember that there are many good diaries, including good candidate diaries, that make the rec list.
Your point is fair. Last summer, however, there were many fewer. I recall being so surprised when I realized after Ykos that, for a few, it was not about empowerment. I had been idealistically mistaken and caught up in Ykos fever. I believed.
It's why the left side of the page is what kept me here after November 2006. No disrespect ot the right side, and there is good stuff there often, but the intereaction on this aide of the page is why I stayed. And that was long before I chose a candidate and started writing diaries.
When I first came here, I never intended to write diaries. I was quite happy as a commenter.
And after primary season, I likely will go back to commenting far more than I write diaries.
by TomP on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:28:44 AM PDT
up: I think I mean right side of the page. In addition, I missed a not.
There are many good diares that do not make the rec list, but they are worth reading.
Somedays, I get few things right.
by TomP on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:51:29 AM PDT
trillion times if I could right now.
~~insertobscurereference,pretentiousquoteORsalientaphorismhere~~
by shayera on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:31:25 AM PDT
'the other candidate is a weiner' diaries get real old real fast.
But in the end, it's up to the community.
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx
by DemFromCT on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:31:20 AM PDT
Change is a foreign policy that doesn't begin and end with a war that should've never been authorized and never been waged. Obama 6/3/08
by Lipstick Liberal on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:40:13 AM PDT
positive diaries were great. They got old rather slower than the negative ones, but they got old. Except the pro-Gravel ones, I'm still waiting to see one of those.
One can't spell MEAT without EAT and ME.
by leberquesgue on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:41:08 AM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/...
now at the left coaster and docudharma
by Turkana on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 04:51:33 PM PDT
Thanks for pointing that out! Very good work, I'm so glad it made the Rec List. That pond video is priceless.
by leberquesgue on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 06:19:07 PM PDT
"the other candidate is a weiner" diaries...they often inspire me to expand my culinary horizons and figure out how many ways there are to actually prepare a weiner. Thus far, I have utilized them in spaghetti and macaroni and cheese, barbecued them, chopped them up and used them in stir fry, and deep fried them.
"Truth never damages a cause that is just."~~~Mohandas K. Gandhi -9.38/-6.26
by LynneK on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 02:31:38 PM PDT
The comment was made about what FPs seem to think, so I was simply answering. ;-)
by DemFromCT on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 03:37:46 PM PDT
I'm amazed that people can't simply get a good laugh out of this.
Political Expediency: Its The New Black!
by BentLiberal on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 02:58:25 PM PDT
what about this "i repent" claim of yours?
all for nothing?
have you no sense of decency man, at long last. have you left no scents of decency at all?
you just invoked the onerous and feline onanistic word, dammit.
and i believed you. i threw out all the extra Bounty paper towels.
you lied.
why, oh why. gear gawd, where is the humanity?
_______________
it's their screen name because they couldn't figure out how to spell "moran."
-9.75 (e), -7.18 (s)
by dadanation on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 10:42:32 AM PDT
by MBNYC on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 10:56:28 AM PDT
by dadanation on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 11:39:27 AM PDT
... it's a tribute to prolific diarists, as well as primary wars. Your diaries are more positive, at least. Which everyone can appreciate.
by Plutonium Page on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:49:40 AM PDT
Busy day at work.
I apologize to the author if my comment was off putting.
Besides, I maxed out a long time ago. I cannot donate anmore. But you can donate for me. :-)
by TomP on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:52:10 AM PDT
deep breaths....just a fun break of inside daily kos baseball to break up the serious business of primary season.
2008 National Champions. Rock Chalk Jayhawk.
by Scout Finch on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:57:48 AM PDT
But I'm not going to allow you to take credit for it. :P
Now if we can get our field back to the issues, we might have an actual Primary.
by polecat on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 11:33:52 AM PDT
And I suspect of your name was included in Frank's diary in an extremely negative way you'd have a different reaction.
by Bob Johnson on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:54:08 AM PDT
How is this not funny? Geek took the shot at him just fine . . .
by taylormattd on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:55:45 AM PDT
Now. My name was not included on those fake lists. I'm pissed now.
by Plutonium Page on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:01:17 AM PDT
I left when I got word Frank was thinking about writing this, and leaving me the fuck off it.
by condoleaser on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:10:32 AM PDT
Frank didn't even think enough of me to purposely omit me.
The preknowledge of this glaring omission is what kept me from signing up for a username for so long.
The way to win is not to move to the right wing; the way to win is to move to the right policy. -- Nameless Soldier
by N in Seattle on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 10:22:52 AM PDT
You're sleeping with the author and yet, nary a mention...man, what does it take anyway?!
"Raybin is not a lying maniac. I've found this person to be an extremely clever and devious lying conartist, but never a maniac."--RElland on Daily Kos
by Raybin on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:28:12 AM PDT
Enough with the "Heh"s already, ya magnificent bastid!
Michael Musing's musings
by musing85 on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 10:16:13 AM PDT
and indeed as well! So there. ;-P
by shayera on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 10:17:52 AM PDT
As long as you're the one cleaning up after the kittens!
by musing85 on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 10:26:25 AM PDT
kittens aren't old enough to masturbate. ;-)
But I'm pretty sure logic and kittens don't go together.
by shayera on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 10:29:11 AM PDT
There's no age requirement. Babies do it in utero...
by musing85 on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 10:30:22 AM PDT
um, a productive result. I think.
::backing away slooooowly from topic:: and also laughing hysterically.
by shayera on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 10:32:45 AM PDT
if so, good.
if not, why not.
reckless disregard for my linoleum floors and shag carpeting -- that's what this all amounts to but who cares?
so who does care? to date, only musing85. to whom i offer major props.
by dadanation on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 10:52:04 AM PDT
do you have running around your place? I'll spring for a roll of Bounty. ;-) Apparently, musings85 is much more sensitive and caring than the rest of us. But we knew that.
by shayera on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 10:55:57 AM PDT
but when the word-that-should-not-be-invoked-on-a-blog is thusly invoked, the apartment is overrun with kittens, just engaged in an orgiastic masturbatory frenzy. on my linoleum and shag carpets. and then once they come they go.
by dadanation on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 11:24:59 AM PDT
OMG. I'm pretty sure it's in the faq that dogs are not allowed here. lol I bet you don't even have shag carpeting!
by shayera on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 11:45:56 AM PDT
not allowing me the space to be as tangential and irrelevant as i want to be.
i cry censorship.
by dadanation on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 12:47:13 PM PDT
dry your eyes one one of those masses of kittens running loose around your shaggy house.
by shayera on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 12:58:40 PM PDT
hate is not a family value. we love the same way you do, we bleed the same way you do; we just cover our floors differently than you.
is that such a crime?
by dadanation on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 02:30:34 PM PDT
free to be you and me, after all.
but have you considered a nice Berber?
by shayera on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 03:01:11 PM PDT
by dadanation on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 04:47:07 PM PDT
mention it, since you brought it up yourself...
by shayera on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 04:53:44 PM PDT
Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Now The Dog Is Looking At Me Strangely.
by dadanation on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 04:58:32 PM PDT
Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Now My Staff Is Looking At Me Strangely
this is way more fun than work. ;-)
by shayera on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 05:06:40 PM PDT
Make Him Stop Laughing And Get Off The Floor And Feed Me I Am Hungry
the dog
by dadanation on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 05:21:03 PM PDT
There's Not Much I Can Do I Went To The Movies
sorry
by shayera on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 09:30:57 PM PDT
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