Bad Skydiving Joke of the Day: What are stu-dents?

Those little depressions in the ground made by beginning skydivers...

Cheers to the Innertubes! I have an acquaintance, a liberal, but a skeptic (all around), to whom I'd recently mentioned over lunch about the Bush family history as Hilter's financiers. He was quite, well, skeptical; he actually asked for some evidence - I told him the keywords to put into Google, but he wanted URL's. I only see him Wed-Fri most weeks. I'd forgotten about this until last night. So, about 11 PM, I plugged "Prescott Bush Harriman Thyysen" into Google, then "Bush nazi Hersch Tarpley". In 15 minutes I had 9 KILLER URL'S  (INCLUDING one from FOX NEWS !?!?!?). Also, Wikipedia, the Guardian, Tarpley's home page. WEE! I see him at lunch today, with any luck. And no, you CAN'T invoke Godwin's law - this is VERY MUCH IN context.  :)

Jeers to what I found, of course (nothing new to me, but...)

Cheers to, well, ME (admit it; I don't do this one very often). I've lived without sound on my computer for MONTHS. I burnt up a motherboard a few months back, and when I rebuilt my system with the board I'd used prior, for some reason, could get neither the on-board sound chip, nor the "trusty" old ESS Solo1 sound card I've used in every machine I've built myself for 5 years, to work. I've had a SoundBlaster Live Gold (or, maybe, Platinum - the contacts are purty, anyway), which I'd scarped from an old AMD/350 someone had FreeCycled to me, sitting next to me on my computer table for months. But I'd never even tried the thing because it seemed like a weird model - it had its own SPDIF (digital sound) Daughterboard (sortof - not physically attached; it used a specialized 40-pin IDE-like cable, which used, not another slot, but another opening). Anyway, in a fit of insomnia night before last (which is why I wasn't here yesterday), I fought the issue ALL NITE LONG. About 5 AM, I decided to try the SoundBlaster. INSTANT SOUND!!! I've been missing the point of most of the YouTube's you fine people have been putting up at DKos for MONTHS; NO. MORE. !!! I'm REALLY pumped that I'll actually get to HEAR the rest of the campaign (I don't own a TeeVee, so this is my only avenue for listening)! IN PARTICULAR, if anyone still has a linkee-poo to Obama's "Toward a More Perfect Union" speech, I'd REALLY appreciate it. I hated missing that one in a BIG way.

Jeers to being SO slow to try this route... {B}

Cheers to (G)Obama!!! Fine work, young man. Keep on rolling (I would suggest doing so drug-free...you're under considerable scrutiny, after all...).  :)

Jeers to trying to one-up the US response to Katrina. Get your collective heads back where the sun shines, Burmese Myanmarese officials. We tried "troops", also - didn't you learn ANYTHING from us?

Cheers to radishes popping up like weeds 10 ft from my front door! Radishes need "even moisture" to mature quickly and, thus, be extra-tasty (GOD I love radishes!!!). With a garden 10 ft out the door, that 30 seconds of near-daily watering is SOOO easy to do! No need to over-water to make up for the fact it'll be days before my return! Nice and easy does it. And I should have radishes in 2-3 weeks! A shit-load, at that - I figure I planted 200 on the 1st planting ALONE (you sow every 2 weeks as long as it's cool, and it appears we're gonna have an extended cool spring here). And I have TONS of seed....  ;)

Cheers to effective, affordable health care. I got a referral to an arthritis doc for my knee (and everything else that's stiffening up on me that shouldn't be) the other day. Less than 2 weeks from request to referral, and the date with the new doc is June 5th. They were even considerate of my knee - it's a 3-mile walk to my GP (and the buses just don't run that direction). The arthritis doc is 4 blocks away. Living downtown in a metro area has it's advantages.

Ah, brevity...  {D}