BREAKING: Breaking

Yeah, just rec it up so we can have four, yes FOUR, "BREAKING" diaries on the rec list.

Nothing is breaking.  Well, maybe the Democratic Party is breaking, according to some people.  I say we're a little tougher than that.  We're not gonna break.

This is all I have to say.

•  Except...

  this is not a diary.

  by Mr X on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:35:21 PM PDT

  •  You missed the point.

    Also, I believe there was a blank diary that made the rec list last week.

    Literally... blank.

    by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:36:34 PM PDT

    •  That wasn't a diary either....

      but anything goes these days.

      by leftbird on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:37:26 PM PDT

      •  In olden days a glimpse of stocking

        was looked on as something shocking,
        Now heaven knows...
        ANYTHING GOES

        That was a fun musical.

        by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:39:43 PM PDT

        •  Ah yes - Cole Porter

          One of my favorite gay composers.

          by internationaljock on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:19:27 PM PDT

        •  That's not how it goes

          Anything goes in!
          Anything goes out!
          Fish, bananas, old pajamas,
          Mutton! Beef! and Trout!

          by Big Tex on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:39:20 PM PDT

      •  What's the story on that diary?

        I missed that one.  Did that really happen?  An all blank diary on the rec list?
         
         
         
         
         
        Peace

        by noddem on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:55:04 PM PDT

        •  Yeah, I can't recall who did it, otherwise

          I'd link to it.  It got on the front page rec list.

          by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:09:33 PM PDT

    •  It was the most cogent political analysis

      I've ever read on these diaries ;-)

      by Greasy Grant on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:45:22 PM PDT

    •  Why not take a break and step away?

      by jhutson on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:46:28 PM PDT

    •  yeah...

      how were we supposed to open that to read?

      (serious question)

      am I missing something?

      by dad2jac on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:49:00 PM PDT

      •  You are only missing

        the most cogent analysis ever recorded (or not recorded, as the case may be) at DailyKos.

        by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:54:56 PM PDT

  •  But It Can Be Turned Into A Hillbash

    Quickly. Don't pass up an opportunity. The diary list requires it!

    by Ky DEM on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:37:23 PM PDT

    •  :'(

      by Pegasus on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:42:56 PM PDT

    •  Or a BarackAttack

      Then again... let's not.  I'm here for a bit of non-bashing fun.

      For more fun o' the day, try this diary.

      by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:43:33 PM PDT

•  Thanks for the update!

  Glad someone's still keeping tabs on the nanosecond by nanosecond news releases.

  by SteamPunkX on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:36:08 PM PDT

  •  I've just been handed a late bulletin...

    BREAKING!

    by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:48:37 PM PDT

  •  It's now attosecond by attosecond. nt

    by Bob Love on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:04:08 PM PDT

•  Please Take This Down

  by dpc on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:36:22 PM PDT

  •  Oh lord, the diary police are here. nt

    by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:36:52 PM PDT

    •  See below for my diary....

      .

      by leftbird on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:38:58 PM PDT

      •  Pithy!

        by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:40:15 PM PDT

        •  Huh? Don't you like it?

          You're not the "Diary police"

          by leftbird on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:41:21 PM PDT

          •  I love it! That was a compliment!

            by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:44:27 PM PDT

            •  Thanks, if you like that you'll really like this

              .................................................................................................... ........................................................

              by leftbird on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:47:26 PM PDT

              •  Somewhat less pithy and a bit punctilious

                but extremely well-expressed, all the same. :)

                by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:49:36 PM PDT

                •  No Roman punk rocker citations

                  allowed.

                  ...

                  by Little on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:50:48 PM PDT

              •  I Do Like The Dots...

                by dpc on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:09:33 PM PDT

          •  LOL nt

            by marchmoon on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:50:08 PM PDT

        •  Where's your tip jar?

          So I can drop a doughnut into it.

          by fcvaguy on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:59:02 PM PDT

          •  If you truly feel that way

            just put it in any comment.

            by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:07:43 PM PDT

    •  That's The First Time

      I have ever posted anything like that. Your non-effort was just a pointless waste of time - and not even amusing. Are you hoping that after awhile people won't click on the word "breaking"? I just don't get it - it made me feel the same way as when I see some ridiculous spray-painted stuff on some poor bridge or rail car.

      by dpc on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:49:54 PM PDT

      •  Stay

        away from the brown acid. Stay away from the...

        by Little on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:55:00 PM PDT

        •  Gotcha

          Thanks for the tip.

          by dpc on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:10:40 PM PDT

      •  I apologize for offending

        Honestly, it's very hard for a Clinton supporter to have any fun at DKos these days.  But like an accident on the side of the highway, I'm having trouble looking away from the rancor that happens on both sides.  So I thought this might be way to have some fun with others here at DKos.  

        There are a lot of things that strike me as funny, like all the "Breaking" diaries.  The blank diary was funny, too, in a snarky way.  We need to act a little crazy now and then; it's healthy.  It's like dreaming - to keep ourselves sane, every night the world falls asleep and goes insane.

        Then we wake up and get back to work.

        by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:00:39 PM PDT

        •  OK

          I rec'd you for the explanation - but I had no idea from the "diary" that you were a Clinton supporter.

          by dpc on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:08:38 PM PDT

          •  My point was fun, not candidate diary

            Thanks!

            by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:10:42 PM PDT

•  You know what broke????

  Kos rules/regulations/guidelines. This "diary" is a great example of that.

  by leftbird on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:36:36 PM PDT

  •  I'd say the rules broke awhile back

    Just sayin'

    by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:37:29 PM PDT

    •  So you thought you'd join in? eom

      by cdsmith on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:39:57 PM PDT

      •  You betcha

        by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:40:34 PM PDT

•  I'll Call Turbo & Ozone

  

  by Rimjob on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:36:39 PM PDT

  •  Electric Boogaloo?

    I've gotta get me some of that.

    by Grass on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:37:47 PM PDT

    •  and in the lower left:

      if you can't beat the system...BREAK IT!

      by internationaljock on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:22:01 PM PDT

      •  Rawk on. nt

        by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 03:03:34 PM PDT

•  LOL

  I remember in 2004 it got so out of hand there was a community backlash with everyone screamng down anyone who used "breaking" for regukar news.

  Alas most of the people here are new and don't remember.

  It is getting hysterical.

  by GregNYC on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:37:57 PM PDT

  •  I miss the regukar news. nt

    by marchmoon on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:45:07 PM PDT

    •  Good eye!

      That was a funny moment in recent history...

      :-)

      by Samwoman on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:48:35 PM PDT

•  BREAKING!!!

  No, I really am breaking. I am trying not to post so much while I am working. But I am on a break, so I thought it would be alright to post this comment. I suppose it would have been better if I actually had something to say, but I didn't want my fifteen minutes to go by with out saying something.

  by se portland on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:41:58 PM PDT

  •  That's the spirit. nt

    by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:45:02 PM PDT

•  FORMING!

  Wait - UNITING!

  Yeah, that's it.

  by Little on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:47:36 PM PDT

  •  Mmm-hmmmm.

    That's what it's all about.

    by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:11:24 PM PDT

    •  The Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about. nt

      by Rogneid on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 03:01:35 PM PDT

      •  I can neither confirm nor deny that. nt

        by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 03:05:52 PM PDT

•  BREAKING!!!!!!.......

  WIND!!!

  (phew...someone open a window or somethin'!)

  by reahti on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:47:50 PM PDT

  •  [holds nose]

    LOL.  Why am I thinking of Spinal Tap now?

    by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:11:54 PM PDT

  •  Mom always said,

    "Light a match!"  Made the smell go away...

    by luckylizard on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 06:30:03 PM PDT

    •  Weirdly, it works. nt

      by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 07:07:02 PM PDT

•  Already diaried n/t

  by DemocraticOz on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:48:31 PM PDT

  •  Nyah

    You win.

    by Little on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:49:46 PM PDT

  •  ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!

    You win.

    by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:50:40 PM PDT

    •  :-) n/t

      by DemocraticOz on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:52:12 PM PDT

•  Yawn...

  Since you're writing about annoying DKos cliches, I thought I'd include my own least favorite.

  by HairyTrueMan on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:49:34 PM PDT

  •  ::sigh::

    by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:51:10 PM PDT

    •  Tip jar

      </snark>

      by Little on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:53:31 PM PDT

      •  asdf n/t

        by MKinTN on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:10:14 PM PDT

•  Just my opinion

  This could be the last week of the campaign. There is alot of breaking and interesting news in a rapid fire way.

  I see people putting up some good diaries and they are geting scrolled off the list by diaries like this. Please don't take this as an attack on you, but, I like perusing the list for substantive stuff.

  Thanks.

  by fcvaguy on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:53:36 PM PDT

  •  My response

    Most of what's scrolling by is either repetitive or, frankly, crap.  Yes, including this.  The substantive diaries are there, but in the minority anyway.  The lack of my diary wouldn't make the substantive ones stay up.

    I hear what you are saying, though, and appreciate the comment.

    by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:03:29 PM PDT

•  This isn't a Seinfeld joke

  "What's the deal with those BREAKING diaries, anyway? What's really BREAKING?"

  Please delete.

  by mihan on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:55:03 PM PDT

  •  Thanks, but no. nt

    by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:06:37 PM PDT

•  Thanks for this post! It's helping me get over

  my feeling badly about a post I did early this morning about Clinton's leaks to drudge--well, evidently there were, at the very least, some cranky Kossaks here at that hour, and I got hit with

  "not much of a diary"
  "stupid diary"
  "yawn"

  I ended up deleting the diary and later discovered several rec's for it--shouldn't have been so sensitive.

  Anyway, thanks for creating a moment to shake it off.

  :-)

  by Samwoman on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:55:35 PM PDT

  •  One woman's trash is another woman's treasure

    Ignore the diary police.  Have your say.

    by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:06:22 PM PDT

    •  many kind thanks to you...

      by Samwoman on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:10:54 PM PDT

•  subject

  comment.

  bold

  italic

  link

  blockquote

  by Turkana on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:56:40 PM PDT

  •  Silly me

    I actually tried clicking on the link.

    [is shamefaced]

    by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:05:28 PM PDT

•  I wish when people wrote BREAKING

  that they themselves were actually BREAKING a story. It's not BREAKING if you just diaried something you saw on TV. Thats called REPEATING.

  I really wish we could stop with the BREAKING, unless the diarist has actually conducted some investigative journalism.

  by brooklynbadboy on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:57:48 PM PDT

  •  Amen. nt

    by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:04:05 PM PDT

•  I Saw Breaking and thought you meant the Clinton

  Campaign

  by GB1437a on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:01:05 PM PDT

  •  I was waiting for that comment...

    Knew it was on the way.  Thanks for not disappointing me. :)

    by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:04:47 PM PDT

•  FIX IT!!!

  by GB1437a on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:02:10 PM PDT

  •  Done

    by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:04:22 PM PDT

•  Broken?

  Use epoxy!

  by JeffW on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 02:25:33 PM PDT

•  Thank God.

  I thought CB radios were making a comeback.

  by labradog on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 03:19:04 PM PDT

  •  Catch you on the flip side, good buddy. nt

    by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 05:33:38 PM PDT

•  What's breaking here

  is I cannot watch the debate, just can't.  So-o-o am watching some crocodile show on PBS.  Well, not actually watching, but it is on...

  (Is this useless enough to post in this diary?)

  by luckylizard on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 06:33:37 PM PDT

  •  Of course it's useless enough!

    Welcome in.  I can't watch the debate, either.  Literally because there is no cable hookup in my house.  Even if there were, I wouldn't watch it because it would get me too riled up.  Politics is so TENSE these days!

    by Montague on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 07:05:14 PM PDT

    •  Thanks for "politics"

      in the singular.  Dictionary says either is correct but "politics are" sounds too strange to me.  "Politics" is one thing, albeit with lots of crazy people performing...

      by luckylizard on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 07:23:54 PM PDT