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Saturday May 17, 2008 · 7:39 PM PDT

2008/05/17 · 19:39

The Primary Season is winding down, all the gifts are bought, wrapped, and under the tree. How many UIDs over 80000 will go inactive when the wrapping paper goes to the recycle bin?

Senator Kennedy is doing well. More power to the Last Living Liberal Lion!!

Arnold is down with the CA SC ruling. The wingnuts are going nuts. Life is good.

We have excellent chances to make inroads in traditionally Red Zones. We will pick up lots of seats in both houses.

It's been a few days since the last Hunter Rant Diary. It was a great one, meta potential dripping from every adverb.

^However...

More or less below the fold.....

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Which is best?

45 votes Vote Now!

Which is best?

teh

19 votes

you're

0 votes

your

2 votes

yore

3 votes

hoar

2 votes

wh*re

2 votes

their

1 vote

there

1 vote

they're

0 votes

too

1 vote

two

1 vote

0 votes

"Casablanca"

11 votes

Trinidad

1 vote

Cape Lookout

1 vote

Nice Generic Questions

teeb

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Saturday March 08, 2008 · 6:30 AM PST

2008/03/08 · 06:30

A diary aimed at the coldly analytical among us, the members of a website ostensibly dedicated to the election of Democrats. At no point do I mean to praise, impugn, malign, nor endorse any candidate or supporter. My person is on hold, campaign-wise, and I am going to vote for the person who I deem most likely to win based on the hard numbers alone, as long as there is a (D) after their name.

When it all boils down, a Democrat in office is better than a Republican. Even if some policies might not change much, most will improve dramatically. And Dems do respond to pressure from us. Imperial Repubs respond not at all to the electorate, us or otherwise. There are vast differences even if some don’t see them all.

More Below the fold.

teeb

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Tuesday March 04, 2008 · 4:39 AM PST

2008/03/04 · 04:39

Super Tuesday, Jr. Edition of Cheers and Jeers From The Very Middle Of Central Carolina.

You all look beautiful this fine morning. Temps are expected to be in the 70s, with cloudy skies and late day storms here in NC. The exceptional drought continues.

Cheers to the cities who are realizing that clean water is precious.
Jeers to the people who had rather water their lawns than have something for the kids to drink this summer.
Cheers to BiPM and CSM. In KW. I'm jealous. Really.
Cheers to Andy and the fine batch of Stand-ins. May the snark flow like water. (That can't be right. We have no water.) Make that: May the snark flow like lies from the White House.
Cheers to the Pool and the Kiddies who splash in it each morning.

Continued below the fold.

teeb

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Friday August 10, 2007 · 12:51 PM PDT

2007/08/10 · 12:51

I need to read a good rant. Too damn hot to write it myself.

We are suffering through the third atraight day of plus 103° temperatures in Central Carolina. Brains are frying out on the sidewalk. People are stunned, stunned I say!

Folks are getting hard to impress anymore. Actual Canadians have to burst into flames and disappear in a puff of vapor before attention is paid. It has happened already. Don't laugh. The town gossip has a sunburned tongue.

More below the melted fold.

teeb

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Monday April 30, 2007 · 8:21 PM PDT

2007/04/30 · 20:21

'Evening Folks.

I have a few personal thoughts to share.

We are here to get Democrats elected to public office. That is the only way to start the healing process and minimize the scarring resulting from the wounds inflicted by the NeoCons and their enablers. On that point we can agree. I hope. We cannot create change until we are in a position to make changes happen. That should be our mantra.

But we seem to get distracted quite easily, to the delight of the very NeoCons we hope to defeat.

We like to fight/snipe/get snippy among ourselves. While this might be satisfying, it does give ammo to the enemy. There is no sense in getting nasty. We agree on far more issues than not. We should concentrate on those points. We should lean on the candidates to define themselves to us. Not let our squabbles define us to the NeoCons. And allow the NeoCons to define us to the greater public.

We can be very "one-issue" to the detriment of the larger picture. Everybody is entitled to their priorties. Of that there is no question. Then again, we can allow more Republicans to get elected because our nominee did not come out strongly on our pet issue. We lose sight of the goal.

Danger Below The Fold.

teeb

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Sunday April 01, 2007 · 6:18 AM PDT

2007/04/01 · 06:18

Good Morning on this April First. And it's Palm Sunday. Is this some cosmic metaphor born out of the Chocolate Jesus brouhaha?

Not late breaking news.
Sitting around, waiting for the noon hour when the teebs have to be in town for a monthly street fair (waiting also for the scattered showers perdicted today), drinking coffee, listening to the local info-stream on TV. A normal small-town Sunday morning at the teeb cabin.

Anyway, I took a look at the birthday list for today. What stood out was that some of the bouncing babies should have been posting in this forum.

More beneath the fold.

teeb

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Saturday March 24, 2007 · 7:38 PM PDT

2007/03/24 · 19:38

I was sitting around, watching my basketball pool selections get unselected this evening. Naturally, out of desperation for something of substance to do, I log on to Dkos. No new Front Page stuff since this afternoon. Must be watching the games, too. Some pretty good diaries to read. OK. Some really damn great diaries.

So, I looked at the usual sources for birthdays and various anniversaries, stuff generally reserved for C&J. Just to see who might get overlooked. But something else struck me. Several of the people who have influenced my life, through words or action, appeared in the lists.

More below the fold.

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What was the main influence in your intellectual growth?

91 votes Vote Now!

What was the main influence in your intellectual growth?

Teachers

5 votes

Parents

3 votes

Books

11 votes

Movies

1 vote

Curiosity

7 votes

Poetry

1 vote

Famous spokespeople

0 votes

Experience

2 votes

Sudden awareness of the world and your place in it

0 votes

Voices from your head/outer space

0 votes

Divine/Devine enlightenment

0 votes

That old girl-/boyfreind

0 votes

Older sibling

1 vote

Law enforcement

0 votes

Other

2 votes

Fifteen Minutes Of C&J Thursday

teeb

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Thursday February 22, 2007 · 5:00 AM PST

2007/02/22 · 05:00

Selflessly Throwing My CyberBody On The Kiddie Pool Grenadine So That Others My Have Time To Prepare A Proper C&J For Your Edification During The Long Night Of Bill in Portland Maine's Key West Debauchery. Oh, and from the fog shrouded Central Carolina STMCbOTKPGSTOMHTTPAPC&JFYEDTLNOBiPMKWD© Headquarters.

Good Morning, Kossacks. Hope you enjoyed your respective evenings. Consider this space an escape zone from the Anna Nicole Smith, Britney Spears, miracle baby, local horror-story-of-the-day and Australian-Gets-Bitten-By-Shark news barrage. (Although the Australian guy was pretty cool on Letterman last night.)

First Things First. Give it up for Number One: Had George Washington nailed that corporeal immortality thing, he would be 275 (that's 1925 in dog years).

More C&J below the fold.

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What's the best quickie breakfast?

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What's the best quickie breakfast?

Egg McMuffin?

5 votes

Cold Pizza?

13 votes

#4 at the local Greasy Spoon/diner?

4 votes

Bojangle's Bacon Egg Biscuit?

0 votes

Croissandwich?

5 votes

Cereal?

16 votes

Whatever, at home?

3 votes

Ensure?

1 vote

Coffee, strong?

12 votes

Piece of fruit?

5 votes

That huge thing at Hardee's?

0 votes

Leftovers?

0 votes

Shoney's Buffet?

0 votes

Other?

5 votes

Tuesday C&J

teeb

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Tuesday January 16, 2007 · 5:13 AM PST

2007/01/16 · 05:13

Good Morning From The Substitute C&J Bunker In Central Carolina.
(I can't believe they took out Valencia. That's gonnna leave a mark.)

First Up: Cheers to Bill, Andy, and All of ~~you borderline crazoids~~ Lovely and Talented Kossacks who splash in the Pool.

Jeers to Condi's Three Way in the MidEast. Is there any reason to believe that this trip will be more productive than the others?

It's a lucky break that the Traditional Libation here in the Pool is Rum 'n Coke. Screwdrivers are gonna get real expensive. According to the AP and everyone else, the citrus growers in the West are feeling fresh frozen.. Jeers to that. Sympathies to the growers.

More ~~Swoosh/Gong~~ ~~Pure. Comedy Gold.~~ Stuff Below The Fold.

teeb

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Monday January 08, 2007 · 4:56 AM PST

2007/01/08 · 04:56

Good Monday from Central Carolina©. The Pool Is Open!!
(Substituting for Andy, who normally does Mondays, who normally would be substituting for Bill.)

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. -Elvis

Cheers: Elvis Presley hit the ground Jan. 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Miss. You might think he's watching TV in that Great Jungle Room In The Sky, but I happen to know that he is working undercover at a convenience store in Siler City. If you can't find him there, you can always go to Graceland. Or here, where the residents are more subdued.

Cheers: Stephen Hawking was born today in 1942 (Black Holes and Baby Universes). Scary Smart. And he has the snark gene, too:

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

More Cheap, Generic C&J below the fold.

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Who's records would you subpoena first?

169 votes Vote Now!

Who's records would you subpoena first?

Bush?

6 votes

Cheney?

44 votes

Rove?

14 votes

Rice?

3 votes

Snow?

1 vote

Gonzalez?

12 votes

The Secret Service?

0 votes

The FDA?

0 votes

The EPA?

0 votes

The Defense Department?

8 votes

Homeland Security?

2 votes

Energy Department?

3 votes

All of them at once?

57 votes

The Paper Shredding Contractor?

15 votes

The Newly Self-Aware ThreadBot?

4 votes

Saturday Mileposts

teeb

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Saturday December 16, 2006 · 6:30 AM PST

2006/12/16 · 06:30

In the normal course of dKos events, lists such as this would get posted in Bill's C&J [or in the diaries posted by his assorted minions (Andy, etc.)]. But today is Saturday. So the question becomes: How do we aknowledge the people and events who/which represent the mileposts of history and culture? On an off day?

The answer: Publish a diary. What else?

teeb

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Friday November 24, 2006 · 12:35 PM PST

2006/11/24 · 12:35

Just a quick note to let you'll know we are out there and quite blue!!

I know a lot of folks think the whole region is beyond hope. Not so to those who live in the areas growing and growing bluer.

As a white, male Liberal Southerner, let me tell you this: When I lived in the Big Apple some decades ago I was shocked at the level of racism I found. Maybe some of the shock was because we in the South been slammed so hard over the years for the conditions here that we naturally assumed that other regions were damn near perfect.

It ain't so.

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Southlanders' Roll Call: Where are/were you?

117 votes Vote Now!

Southlanders' Roll Call: Where are/were you?

Virginia

9 votes

North Carolina

9 votes

South Carolina

3 votes

Georgia

14 votes

Florida

10 votes

Alabama

11 votes

Mississippi

1 vote

Louisiana

5 votes

Texas

23 votes

Arkansas

5 votes

Tennessee

10 votes

West Virginia/Kentucky/Maryland

5 votes

From the South but somewhere else now.

3 votes

Wish I was there

9 votes

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