KOEB thread: Thursday

Ha, Ha beat you to it!

Did you all get on a bus to Secaucus and storm the MSNBC studios? How come I did'nt gat the memo?

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

Hiya Gogi !!!

:hi:

:hi: Missed cha!

We were asking about you last night. Keef did a little call out to you. :) :hi:

I watched the rerun, he did not.
I would just plotz if he did.

:evilgrin:

On edit, it was deadly bunnies

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=328261&mesg_id=328414

What about deadly bunnies? That sounds scary, even to me. We don't allow deadly bunnies on the bunny planet.

I can't even remember. The old short term memory loss, something about deadly rabbit fangs :scared: I think it was a bit of snark.

So how have you been?

show next week and need to finish stuff up, deliver and hang it. After that it should be a little more relaxing. I just added some classes to my teaching schedule and some of them are at night so that's why I've been absent from the estrogen hang so much. That and my kids' hijacking the only cable tv set to watch the Idols.

How's by you dahlink?

I hope your show is great. Not much happening here, between work and the dojo, I am very busy these days. I try to squeeze in my nightly Keef fix and share it the delightful company here.

I did not know that you were also a teacher. :yourock:

involves using swords or sticks? Is it Kendo? I would like to start my son in a discipline, and he is very interested in swords. I studied gojuru (sp.) karate for a couple of years. I've forgotten almost everything. I loved doing kata, and hated sparring so I quit. If I could have just done kata I would have still been doing it. It is so beautiful. My best friend teaches Chi Gong (I don't know how to spell it).

Kenjutsu is the art of Japanese swordsmanship. It is difficult to find traditional Kenjutsu schools. Kendo is the sport form of Kenjutsu. It is practiced more widely. Iaito is another Japanese sword art which focuses more on the art of drawing the sword.

As far as stick fighting, the Philippine and Okinawan arts such as Kali and Escrima would be good.

Here is some information on Kenjutsu http://www.reddragonjujitsu.com/kenjitsu.htm

When I studied Kenpo, I enjoyed doing Kata. I don't really do them much anymore. They did a lot for developing the little bit of grace that I currently possess.

Is it Aikido (sorry about my terrible spelling on all these terms).Yes, Kata is so graceful. I loved it.

I will check out the site you mentioned. My son likes sticks and swords equally. I thought about fencing for him too, since he is quite the actor as well and there is a fencing school in my town.

It is a 5-6 foot stick. Aikido is a derivative of Ju-Jitsu. They incorporate the sword into their training. Many martial arts offer weapons training as part of the art, but it usually comes after the student has trained for a year or two. Some martial arts, such as kenjutsu and kendo are specifically sword arts. You start out with a wooden or bamboo sword.

Thank you so much Seito.

I teach teenagers and adults. One of my classes is called Adult Mixed Media Drawing and Collage, I just think that sounds hysterical, the Adult added on sounds like it's X-rated or something (actually when I book a nude model, sometimes it is).

an exhibit? Are the different avatars your work? The bunny cavalry ones? They do rock.

slip in a sigpic with my work in it too, if the image fits the conversation. There are lots of anthropomorphic figures in my work (lots of bunnies too, they are my symbols for vulnerability among other things). Yes I am having a solo show next month at Fairleigh Dickinson University. It should be fun. I love the chance to show lots of work together, and I love talking to people at the openings. Working in the studio gets kind of lonely sometimes so it's always great to exhibit and get the chance to talk to people about the work.

This is my fifth or sixth one-person show, most of them have been in College galleries and public spaces, one in a commercial gallery to date. I'm having a show at my Nashville gallery in June. That's really going to be fun. Never had one in a NYC gallery yet, but have been in a number of group shows in NY and I've curated two shows in the city. I'll keep trying to get representation there, have gallery representation in a couple of other places around the globe.

Thank you, I'm glad you think my avatar rocks. I actually didn't make it myself, someone in the Graphics group on DU helped me make it. I don't know how to make my own avatar otherwise I would have put a new one up for a change. How do you make them if you are not going to use the ones provided by DU?

in Hartford or Boston, or above NY city, I'd love to see it. Wow, I've always loved seeing the different ones you've posted. To me, the shapes and colors emote warmth, and safety, so it surprised me that it's a symbol for vulnerability. Of course I have no artistic talent so it's not surprising. : )

For avatars, in your preferences where it asks if you want DU smilies or your own, just click the upload button with the url of the pic you want and type in the box on the right what they tell you. The pic should be 48x48. I just did mine the other day, after many attempts. Most all the ladies here are pros at it.

Thanks for the info. You really are good!

them proposals for shows a couple of years in a row and they've not chosen the shows but encouraged me to reapply with the same theme or a different one. My co-curator and I might propose one by this years deadline and if it gets accepted I'll pm you with the where and when (that is if they haven't shut down the internets by then).

I've tried to do that upload of the avatar image from the url but I can't get it to be the right size and it doesn't show up. I know I must be a numbskull about this, I'm a whiz in photoshop so this is embarrasing. How do I get the pic to be 48 x 48 (is that pixels btw)

Here's another of my strange creatures. Enjoy.

Oh my, that must be awesome in real life! There's no real words, just a feeling! Thank You!!

I'm not familiar with photoshop, I use photosuite 7, a much cheaper version. There should be a place to resize, usually under the transform, or crop tab. Yes, it's pixels.

If you have a problem resizing, PM me the pics you'd like and I'd do them for you this weekend and send them back.

Thanks again for sharing.:loveya:

meant to make the viewers have emotional reactions so yours is very gratifying. Thank you.

If I have time I'll pm you the pics this weekend. I would love to succeed at posting a home made avatar and figure it out though. I did try when I first joined DU back in November, haven't tryed to do it since. I kept messing up. I like a challenge though so I might give it another whirl.

There is something vulnerable about them, yet I don't feel that they're threatened... it's as if they're vulnerable, yet they know someone's going to take care of them. Okay, that made no sense at all, so I'm going to shut up now. Anyway, I enjoy your work too, so please keep putting it out there!

;-)

I'd buy that but probably can't afford it.Besutiful work

I was afraid I'd have to make bail for you all and I don't have that much money to my name. Can't get my linux machine to use the floaty heart
icon...............so

(100 floaty hearts for Keef go in this space)

in the smilies lookup table or you can simply type loveya between colons. I'll do it here with an extra space so it won't translate...

: loveya :

I've got a Linux box and it works with no difficulty.

Somebody's eager this evening!

Hi, Gogi, Catchawave and seito! :hi:

Gotta get my Survivor fix. I know I'm a dork. Have fun and give Keith a hug for me!

:loveya:

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For KO: :loveya:

:hi:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240

"It was a bad enough that somebody let in a guy with no media experience, an alias, and a background as an on-line escort — but why did they let him in if he wasn't even pretending to represent a news organization of any kind? We saw videotape tape of Guckert/Gannon, peeking out from behind reporters, at the White House briefing on February 28th, 2003 — so long ago, that Ari Fleischer was still President Bush's press secretary. It was so unlikely that — as first reported today on the website Salon — Guckert, under his pseudonym Gannon, "boasted on-line" at a chat room called “Winds Of Change” about asking Fleischer a question at that briefing (the return address that pops up when you scroll over his comment is www.gopusa.com)."

I knew he'd pick this up sooner or later... glad it was sooner!

The anticipation is so hard to deal with <thump thump thump thump> ...

But here are a few items which will come in handy:

:loveya::loveya::loveya:

I need them to float me to NY for the Central Park Serenade under KO's window! :-)

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<< here are a few items which will come in handy: :loveya::loveya::loveya:

like "My Funny Valentine" or "The Nearness of You"? Betcha he's a big softie.

...try "Blest Be the Ties that Bind" :evilgrin:

the fellowship of Christian minds...

"Blest be the ties that bind our floaty hearts to Keef;
The estrogen of vixen's minds will sweep you off your feet!"


This performance brought to you via the KOEB DUDQ's.

in the lounge last nite. She was belting out the tunes.:toast:

Did she dance, too?

but I stayed up just in case she did.:evilfrown:

I was soooooo tired but it was so worth waiting for!

during the barry white number. and it was cigarette induced.
i haven't sounded that good since before the election. Damn, i enjoyed that.

... I think he is a very tender man. I'm wishing him a good, good woman!

Can't be me, I'm taken. However, my Central Park Serenade to blunt the effects of the dreaded orange wickets has my husband's blessing :-)

Did you hear tonight where he said he actually walked THROUGH them?!!

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<< how about singing some of the old classics like "My Funny Valentine" or "The Nearness of You"? Betcha he's a big softie. >> gkhouston

and I wondered for a split second whether he'd yielded to the temptation to "mark" them but then decided that he probably hadn't had enough privacy to act on that impulse. }(

I was surprised he wanted to be anywhere NEAR them after all his ULULATING about them!!!

Besides -- he's supposed to be up in his apartment so I can serenade him and make him FORGET the miserable things. :loveya:

You watch -- KO will be first in line for the shower curtain concession when they break the exhibit down. And then he'll present it triumphantly on the show slashed to ribbons (or perhaps do what you said to it, privately).

man if you think he demolished the Coulter doll...

This was a reference to an exchange which took place after the regular meeting last Thursday. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x323461#323643

The exchange ran as follows, playlist included (and I'm still looking for back-up singers!):

WhirlyGirl
250. Hey, gang -- we're rounding on 250 posts... and the midnight re-air is still 2 hours and 45 minutes off! This is gonna be another monster meeting!!!

KO, let these floaties float me to Central Park so I can serenade you under your window!
<sigh> :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:
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Miami Liberal
259. Oooh a serenade! But what will you sing? Ya think KO likes the love songs? I think he's too snarky to have a romantic side, but maybe I'm wrong.
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Sydnie
264. "Why don't we do it in the road"? I think that would about sum it up! LOL
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Miami Liberal
267. LOL Okay that one might work. :evilgrin:

I was thinking of something more innocent such as "Take me out to the ball game" since he's such a sport nut but I like your suggestion better.
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WhirlyGirl
277. Ah, I've noticed a very tender side to our guy, Mi-Lib. :-)

I'm going to wear a red rose behind my ear and perfume so delicious that one tiny molecule
wafting into his window will make his olfactory nerve do a little olfactory dance
all around his apartment!!! :bounce:<--KO's o-nerve

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<< Oooh a serenade! But what will you sing? Ya think KO likes the love songs? I think he's too snarky to have a romantic side, but maybe I'm wrong. >> Miami Liberal
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Miami Liberal
282. You go girl! Thank him for wearing our tie while you're there. :P
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WhirlyGirl
297. Strumming my guitar ever so softly...
I'll begin with a ravishing rendition of Stevie Wonder's "OLBER-joyed." :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

The middle song, I haven't quite settled on -- perhaps the old standard "Somewhere, OLBER the Rainbow."

And of course, in honor of KO's favorite music, my final selection will have to be the Chuck Berry tune that the Beatles resurrected so successfully: "Roll OLBER, Beethoven" -- creating a joyful party atmosphere!

By the time my concert concludes, the rockin' in the park will have caused all those wretched "gates" to fall down and KO will fall asleep peacefully, knowing his beloved park is back to normal.

How's THAT for a scenerio? :-)

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<< Oooh a serenade! But what will you sing? . . . >> Miami Liberal
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Miami Liberal
298. WG, your post really made me LOL!

Very nice medley. I hope you don't use one of those tacky karaoke machines. You must go all out and hire a small orchestra to accompany your vocals and guitar.

:nopity:
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WhirlyGirl
312. Central Park Serenade, continued...

You are right, MiLib -- prerecorded accompaniment would NEVER be good enough for OUR Keith! :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

To be truthful, I'd envisioned only yours truly delivering the Central Park Serenade due to the considerable amount of floaties needed to convey just me from Ohio to NY. I was a mere slip of a girl years ago when I moved in with my husband-to-be, but I've become quite a little lap-ful in the interim. (I was about to postulate something about living with a man making you fat -- but maybe we better not go there...).

How in the world the KOEB would be able generate enough floaty-hearts to float a WHOLE ORCHESTRA to NY, I confess I do not know.

Rather than a band, you know what would REALLY be good?-- BACKUP SINGERS!! Can'tcha just imagine close harmony charming KO right out of his Size 14s!!!

Any experienced hallway singers wanna volunteer? :-)

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<< Very nice medley. I hope you don't use one of those tacky karaoke machines. You must go all out and hire a small orchestra to accompany your vocals and guitar. >> Miami Liberal
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I'll help with the hearts tonite.

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

I think it is going to be gooooood tonight.

You always have great smilies. You gave the link once, but I was a newbie and didn't know how to link. Could you give me the link sometime? I'll send more of these.:loveya:

:yourock:

Here's some for you right back!

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

What a sweetie.:loveya:

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

This Jeff Gannon story is great for satirists! I wasn't sure what I was going to do for this week's grandtheftelectionohio.com comic, but then Heaven presented me this uber media-whore, and so I have done the "Propangandistas." My Jeffie looks very vulnerable.

I'm sick of the spit and sputtering.
He should be called "Sylvethhhhhhter."

African. Tweety on the other hand would have a hard time convincing us he was African, being melatonin challenged even for a Caucasian. I hate when I catch the end of his show.

Did he really say that to Don? How gauche!

about the movie. I wonder if he knows how stupid that comment sounds, guess not.

You need some of this:



Some of these:

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

And of course, all the good news, here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3129586

I see you were having something of an insecurity complex in last night's thread. You shouldn't worry about getting fired. Although it's true that we'll be forced to discuss some sort of disciplinary action at your next performance review if you miss too many nights tending bar, we'd never terminate you; it just wouldn't be the KOEB without you.

And here, these are for whoever you are tonight, and not for Keef:
:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

Those second-hand floaties are kind of grimy; you deserve some clean ones now and then. :D

Thank You.:) I just belive in doing a job right.

News just doesn't get any better than this!

:loveya:

And, um, aren't we missing something in the OP? :evilgrin:

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet, Guckert right off the bat! Wooo! :loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya:

:loveya:

Greetings, good people of the KOEB!

Afraid it's the same deal as last night: my husband needs the system for his work. Just nipped in long enough to say

:hi:

Will return for midnight re-air, or whenever I can get the computer back. (Sparky, if you would be so kind: please leave a Seagram's and 7-up for me; it's okay if the ice is melted.) --

Peace, love and floaties! :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:
-- WhirlyG

:toast:

... there it is -- and there's still some ice floating around in it. Thanks, Sparky! :-)

Keef -- You look GOOOOOOOOOD! :loveya:

I would have!

:eyes:

four years ago, in order to keep their jobs. It's the only explanation I can come up with. How they manage to control the smooth muscle reflexes that control gagging is a bit more involved than I'd really like to think about, thank you very much.

That became necessary whenever the blivet went "off script."

like she wants to roll her eyes, she's moving them back and forth alot and shifting in her seat.

There are at least two others as we type, and there were a bunch earlier... DU loves KO!

:loveya:


ed: subject/verb agreement

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

Hi Patsy :hi:

Yep, I think he definitely knows where the ties that bind are. :)
:loveya:

Cheers everyone :toast:

All that matters is that gagman was in-dah-room, day after day, and as I've told oh so many folk these past few days, whatever photoID the dude was wearing, you know that the guys and gals with the big guns at the gates and the entrances to the WH knew he was 'kool'!!

Think I'm joking -- hang any ol'photoID around your neck and just try to get onto the White House grounds, let alone into the building. :evilgrin:


Peace.


TBO;24/7

:hi: Nice to see ya!

:hi:

Nice to see you sweetie! :) :loveya:

:hi:

Cheers :toast:

quick, I'll post that in LBN!

Did you SEE the expression on that reporter's face, sitting right in front of him, when "Gannon" asked his question? Too fecking funny!

RIGHT ON, KEEF! WHO LET HIM IN!!!!!!!!?

Hi crispini :hi:

Keef, just it case you didn't know :yourock:

Hi seito! :hi:

I can point him in the direction of a lot of ladies who'd be thrilled to change THEIRS to Olbermann!

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

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<< LOL, "if that really is your name!" >> crispini

(like the presidential campaign)

I'm remembering Murphy Brown and how GHWB had her banned from presidential news conferences.

I can't believe they would ever rig their press conferences.B-)

He wouldn't let Reagan get away with crap.

Hiya, Sparks! Can I have some grapefruit juice, please? (and if you slip in something else, I probably won't know anyways)

For our favorite bartender/bodice-ripper: :loveya::loveya::loveya:

in any way I can.O8)

(I ain't that holy!) You can call me cheese...just not swiss, please.

I'll have to hit a packers game sometime. Extreme football fan.

... what your avatar is! :shrug:

a pic of my dad when he was 17, in the navy.

O8)

Stupid me for picking my screen name. Just like IRL, the guys get all funny when you flirt. (like you're boinking Jesus or something)

Too funny! :evilgrin:

and hey, do they think male ministers are celibate? (Even in the denominations where they're supposed to be?

officially, only married clergy are permitted to have sex. And the poor closeted gay clergy - they can't marry, and can't be gay.

Someone needs to go to General Conference and give them a few updates on dating in the 21st Century.

it's classy. Now....if you're boinking Jesus, we need to have a talk.:)

;-)

That's so wrong. Better not let the fundaholics hear you talking that way.

I've been in Heaven.

Now there are three shows I watch: KO, "The Daily Show" and "MB."

I love the Murphy/Dan Quayle feud. The midnight delivery of potatos on the VP lawn is one of those classic moments!

... and then a minute later said he thinks the press corps "resent it when the briefing gets hijacked... but... the solution is worse than the problem," and they can sort of work around these ringers, I don't think KO was ready to hear that.

(Was KO thinking the same thing *I* was when the guy said anyone can get a day pass? Like maybe he'd like to take a run at it some time? :-) )

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<< do y'all get the feeling the WH press corps is cherry-picked? >> RevC

Maureen Dowd popped the prostitute, too!

This has more legs than a millipede!

Keith, :yourock:

:hug:

What's it going to take to get them to cover the story???

reason, another three card monte scam. Look over here, so you don't look over there. I just get paranoid. The 52 warnings to the FAA about Al Qaeda should have been on the front page a little longer. I want them to chase down the Gannon story don't get me wrong, just get nervous that a bigger, scandal will slip by unnoticed. But wait, that's happened already several times, so maybe it really is best to have this story snowball into the straw that broke the blivet's back.

So many scandals, so little time.

-- is the answer I usually offer when an abjectly unqualified person is given a choice spot: "He's probably bl*wing somebody."

If this turns out literally to be true, the reasoning which enabled Kenneth Fudd to leverage the Paula Jones civil case to a criminal investigation also obtains here since it would have given Gannon a leg up -- oh, I *am* sorry for that choice of words! -- on other would-be WH reporters.

This would make it paramount to go into the sexual histories of all those involved in approving reporters, in addition to those the reporters questioned; those supervising those questioned; friends of those supervising those questioned; etc., etc.

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<< This has more legs than a millipede! >> Clark

That was a great column by Ms Dowd.

Imagine her outrage at discovering that she was cut out of the WH press corps to make room for this dork.

:yourock: He is ON FIRE!

Raise your glasses for a true patriot willing to tell the truth!

:toast:

:toast:

:toast:

:toast:

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<< A toast to Greg Mitchell!
Raise your glasses for a true patriot willing to tell the truth! :toast: >> Sydnie

:toast: to 'em both.

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Grovel has been here almost every night this week! :loveya:

I couldn't stop laughing! Did anyone save it? (the pic, I mean - grovelbot can't drown)

:hi:

but I have no idea what "flavor" I am.

Vermont Cheddar. (I LOVE Vermont Cheddar):loveya:

Vermont - Wisconsin: it's all at the end of the alphabet, right?

could you be beer cheese? Or is that too pedestrian?

I don't know what that is. But we do have various cheese shapes for the tourists (a cow, the state of WI, a football, a beer mug).

My all-time favorite souvineer gift for friends is a "Wisconsin Cow-Pie." (Chocolate-Peanut-Caramel cluster).

think cheddar that actually has some beer in it... hopefully some good KOEB brew and not Wisconsion weasel-piss!

Here we are:

journalistic experience, if editing a high school paper counts.

Heck, I'd put those eleven issues of the Falcon Flyer up against Gannon/Guckert's web site photos anytime.

:hi:

:toast:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3132897

:hi:

Too. Funny!

Hiya, Pats.

:hi:

I don't think even J. Lo is that tacky.

O8)

when I was in college to pose for the Girls of the SEC (I horselaughed and told them I expected to HAVE a future).
I think I gotcha beat, Bleev.
;)

:wow: (how's the knee doing?)

I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow. My regular doctor has some X-ray equipment and won't charge me an arm and a leg (or, in this case, a knee) and will allow me to pay on time since I've been a patient for 10 years.

you've got an appointment. Hope you get better quick.:hug:

he'll probably be able to treat you unless there's been some sort of tendon damage or something like that. I know how bad knees can hurt so you're in my thoughts girl. Keep us posted.

Ok, time for a drink. Um, Shiner? Here's one for you, too, Clark2008! :beer::beer:

I don't have work tomorrow (took the day off with my kid who's out of school for an in-service day) and my doctor's appt. isn't until nearly 4 p.m.

Yeah! I can sleep late!

:toast:

:toast:

What a great story!

:hi:

Looks like the WH briefing room is open for the asking.

Just find your old HS hall pass, that should work.

:hi:

Not.Hiding.Nuffin

complete with certain photos and necessary information.

Bleev - can you manage to wink at Pickles? It would help.

It's not REALLY funny, tho. The AUDACITY of these Bushies!! If only the Dems would put everything on a roll of the dice once in a while.

"Clever men and grocers -- they WEIGH EVERTHING!" - Zorba

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<< Looks like the WH briefing room is open for the asking. Just find your old HS hall pass, that should work. :hi: >> seito

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3133084
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3133053
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x106936
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3133121

Here are four -- without even trying.

Also, NBC Nightly News apparently covered it.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3133069

so did my local TV NBC news station

and for Keith

:loveya:

and what do you know-they weren't trying to cover for Jeffy-boy either. This story has legs and who kicked it to begin with??? Our KO! Kick ass baby!

:mad:

I hope George Soros hires her.

Obligatory floaty hearts for Keith. :loveya:

w. buffet..and hires keef as the top dog..thats what i think is in the works..soros bought all the stock in cnn..to put turner back in charge..turner lost too much money before and couldnt afford to buy it back..so soros bought it..and will i assure you put turner back at the helm!!

soros didnt buy 2 1/2 million shares to leave it the way it is!!

and buffet didnt buy comcast to leave it the way it is!!

yeahhhhhhhhhhhh..now soros..make keef top dog!!

woof woof...

fly:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

especially as Keef does make me think of some large and amiable breed of dog...

Keef is looking fine tonight!

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:
See you during commercials.

Glad to be here in real time.
I missed you all.
Especially you Sparky!
I hear you give good foot!!!!!!!:loveya:

and I don't cost much. For you, free.:hug:

:silly:

I still remember the exercises from my knee days. :(

There ain't enough o's in smoooooth for you Sparky!

Thanks bunny.:)

Maybe I can get in line after Bunny? I'm willing to wait! Pleeeeeze? And are you making frozen margaritas tonight? I could stand one of them too, no salt please. I hope I didn't come too late, 'cuz I sure would like some Sparky-style KOEB TLC.

BTW, I PM'd you about moving the "Preserving Internet Freedom" thread to a new site. It's here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=109x18717#18761
I was going to try to PM people and start trying to drum up support tonight, but I'm just too pooped. And if I get the foot rub and the frozen margarita, that should just about do me in. Bliss!
O8) :boring: O8)

put you to sleep tonite. Usually I do that by just talking.:)

I did post on the thread. I need to look into some of the sites that were posted when I'm not tired. You is a smart cookie.:7

Thanks so much for your support, not to mention the promised foot rub and margarita. Hmmm... perfect! I love the fragrance and zest of the fresh lime juice in it.

And I'll bet you've never put anybody to sleep talking in your life!

I'll get back to work on that new "Preserving Internet Freedom" project tomorrow; I'm hoping some of the other KOEB who weren't in the thread where it was first discussed will be interested as well. For tonight, I'm too sleepy to do much besides check in and promise to return.

Good night to you and to all the other KOEB friends!

To The Ties That Bind!
:toast:

:hug:

but I couldn't miss the whole KOEB thread again and still smile.

So good to hear KO has been staying on message in full snark/outrage gear - the JimmyJeff GuckertGannon scandal is not going to be silenced while our Keef rides the TV waves.
GO KEEF!!! :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

I hope he does an even MORE THOROUGH job with NEROponte, whom the blivet** wants to appoint as Emperor of Secret Sleaze & Criminality in this country. His appointees just keep downing the ante on horror. Even Barack Obama said some unkind words about this soulless thug.

Sounds like you've earned both the 'rita and the foot rub. We've missed you. So glad to see Keith staying on top of Gannon/Guckert (no pun intended).

I can't remember another story with more PUN POTENTIAL than the JimmyJeff GannonGuckert saga. There are double, triple and probably some quadruple "entendres." In my current weakened condition, with that yummy margarita on board, I really can't resist pointing out that this story is REALLY OVER THE "TOP"! (**Ducks flying Guinness glasses and a couple of ripped bodices**)

Actually, I suspect "Gannon" of being an agent working for the administration. It would explain a lot of the odder aspects of the situation and it would also fit the fine espionage tradition of using homosexual prostitutes to entrap powerful closeted gay or bisexual men in order to blackmail them into compliancy with policy objectives and silence. This was discussed in some of the posts in this thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=307x49#73

There are also a lot of disturbing parallels with the 1989 gay prostitution ring scandal, which is mentioned with a link to a scan of a contemporary news article in that thread. Creepy stuff, and that investigation was derailed by the administration -- Figurehead Reagan and Poppy Bush, with his CIA experience. I think they are running the same rackets now.

Now I'm going to try to think of something else, or I'm going to have horrible dreams in spite of Sparky's wonderful rita and footrub.

I saw the thread you started. I really hadn't thought about a lot of it before. You really started me to thinking. Thank You.:thumbsup:

and see what else I can do to think through some of the questions and organizational issues in that thread this weekend. Then we'll if there's enough interest around to move toward setting up a Group.

For now, good night and thanks from me and my feet for the 'rita and good company.
:pals:

Very discouraging that the WAPO woman KO interviewed tonight seems to think John 'it's not my deathsquad' Negroponte might get confirmed without much of a protest. So we have to just bend over for liars, torturers, and death squad murderers as nominees now. When will this madness end? It seems the Blivet gets perverse pleasure from nominating one miscreant after another, almost like he's giving us the evil rasberry, 'yeah and this one's a murderer, what are you going to do about it?' It makes me so furious!!!!!!!:mad:

It's a form of dominance mind game for him, I think.

You say: It seems the Blivet gets perverse pleasure from nominating one miscreant after another, almost like he's giving us the evil rasberry, 'yeah and this one's a murderer, what are you going to do about it?' Yes, that's exactly right. And he's also renominated the worst judges that the Democrats had successfully blocked.

NEROponte is a new low, and in this administration that is really saying something.

If JimmyJeff GannonGuckert ISN'T an agent (which I think he is), then I'm betting he's a lover of the blivet** and the little turd thinks it's funny to put him ahead of all the real journalists in the press conferences. He really is capable of this kind of "joke," I think. But I do believe that "Gannon," with his very odd longtime security access and roles in Plamegate and Rathergate, is a professional agent with one goal being to gather useful blackmail evidence to help keep selected key closeted gay men in positions of power or with the ability to expose corruption compliant and silent.

You know, my very first record was of Gene Autry singing "Here comes Peter Cottontail, Hoppin' Down the Bunny Trail." The fact that I am thinking of that now after so many years probably relates both to your username and that Sparky margarita!

Good night!
:boring:

I tend to agree, all is not as it seems. They would not have been so stupid as to let him in with that easily found out history unless they had him there for other reasons, perhaps the ones you suggest.

Too creepy for words.

At least it was among the first two or three.

Right up there with "Teddybears' Picnic" and "how Much is That Doggie in the Window?" :-)

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<< You know, my very first record was of Gene Autry singing "Here comes Peter Cottontail, Hoppin' Down the Bunny Trail." >> NWH

of my Gene Autry record with "Here Comes Peter Cottontail." That feels right, and I recall the doggy one being sung in a voice like his. I didn't hear Teddy Bear Picnic until I was in graduate school, surely a deprivation that explains all my imperfections!
;)

Didn't know Autry hadda version, too.

ageism, like sexism and racism, don't stand as an initial barrier to mutual understanding. It's one of the great strengths of internet-based activism, I feel, and is often overlooked as the factor that it is. We talk basically mind-to-mind and many of the unconscious prejudices that would otherwise undermine the sense of commonality and community are bypassed. For this reason, I do NOT look forward to later developments when web camera and microphones become standard and expected. That will bring back baggage we are far, far better off without.

As for dating ourselves, I find I don't mind all that much. Besides the deeper well of experience to draw upon for insights, age doesn't really doesn't have to matter much in internet forums. Friendship and common purpose aren't prevented by difference in age and other visible marks as they often are when people meet face to face. In real life there is a powerful instinct to sort ourselves into groups that we "fit," whether we realize it or not. That instinct is the enemy of understanding and trust.

I'm not CERTAIN it was Autry with the "Doggie" but it feels right as the reverse of the "Bunny Trail." A nice memory to share. I recall Pattie Page too, and I'm pretty sure I have heard her singing the Doggie song.

into vogue, but then I'm still holding out against cellphones, believe it or not. I'm not a Luddite; I just don't feel a powerful need to have one simply because everyone else does and I'd rather spend the money on books.

Truer words were never spoken about the ageism thing. Back in the late '80s, I "met" a guy at Cornell via a BITNET mailing list and we became fast friends, even though I was 27 and he had just turned 17. There's no way he would have ever crossed my path in RL, yet we had a lot in common and have remained friends over the years.

And yes, I believe I grew up with the Autry recording of "Bunny Trail" but I don't remember what was on the flip side. :-)

part of the reason why internet-based activism can be so amazingly powerful. United we stand, divided we fall, right?

I won't be going for the webcam/microphone either. I like my privacy and despise the automatic sorting/ranking that divides people who can see each other when they meet. Your friendship is a good example of what can happen when these artificial barriers between souls and minds are bypassed. On these DU boards you have the complementary strengths of all the different age groups and other societal sets working synergistically. This hugely enhances the more talked-about advantages of internet communitcation like its speed, reach, and mass of resources. There might be a 65-year-old gay white college professor in Brooklyn in a deep discussion with a black 17-year-old female student in Fresno and a heterosexual 40-year-old computer engineer in Chicago -- or Sao Paulo. They can value one another's perceptions and ideas without being distracted by the differences and distances that would otherwise prevent any kind of communication at all.

This ability to "hyper-communicate" is so amazingly powerful, I think it can change the course of human societal evolution if it is allowed to proceed without suppression by the fascists in power or worldwide calamity.

And I don't think you're a Luddite -- after all, here you are on the internet! It sounds like you don't embrace new technology automatically but only when you perceive a NEED for it that is not satisfactorilly filled by what you already have. What's wrong with that? I have an ancient cell phone that I got for emergencies while away from home; I hardly ever use it and most of the time don't carry it with me. I won't go for the webcam/microphone either, as I consider them an invasion of my privacy as well as a destroyer of the wonderful "hypercommunication" I described above; it would be a giant step backwards. But I do think the time will come when NOT to use them will be seen as a message in its own right--"What are they hiding?" -- unless something is done to change preconceived notions by then.

but I'll see it as "my words speak for me, not my appearance or voice". I have blonde hair, which used to be quite a bit lighter when I was young, and my speaking voice leans more toward the soprano than the contralto side, so you can imagine the first impression most people got at work, especially when I was young -- and how I enjoyed the looks on their faces when I chopped them off at the knees, not by being coarse (I save that for here :evilgrin:) or cruel but simply by making a timely and appropriate remark they hadn't expected.

I was in science -- first in academics then in biotech -- and very, very good at it. So good, many men got advancements based on taking credit for my ideas and my work. It was a theme. As long as I let them do this without making a scene, I was left alone. Not advancing, always asked to do MORE for them, but left alone. I finally got totally fed up and made some waves, going to Human Resources and complaining when no one else gave a damn. Well, to make a long story short, HR was in cahoots with the bosses and they framed me with lies and backstabbing treachery. Just after I finished a major paper on a project I was successfully completing -- one that I had worked on 60 hours a week, busted my head and heart over, and had saved a major product line of the company --I was laid off. One of the boss's pets (male, of course), who had no idea of what the project really was, gave the big presentation on its success to the appreciative senior management 10 days later.

I saw similar things happen to other women. The competent ones were resented and tolerated only if they allowed their male colleagues and bosses to claim their ideas and work as their own. Any woman who stood up for herself was slandered, shunned, and if she persisted, thrown out of the company. I am not petite and blond and my voice isn't soprano, but I am female and therefore can never be allowed into the club.

This made me stop enjoying working in science. To this day I'm not sure what I am going to do with the rest of my life.

sometimes I think "boys have cooties" is merely the base case of the induction proof for "men are scum". I've met some decent ones, but they're pretty thin on the ground and usually not willing to speak up when they seen somebody getting screwed.

It's a downwards spiral. When women are excluded from leadership and their insights are ignored, this is what happens. And of course, the men-clubs in power want to perpetuate their supremacy and feel threatened by the talented women. Since they themselves are so greedy and insecure, they assume that women must be motivated by the same things and go on the attack when a woman dares to speak up.

Same thing has happened on a national level. It's endemic and is one more appalling symptom of a society hugely out of balance. EVERYONE loses, even the few powerful men who have grabbed everything for themselves. No way they're happy or secure.

... in his brown suit & chocolate-stripe tie.

UH-OH... palpitations coming on again! <thump thump thump thump thump>

And Monica is ALSO in brown... Is this earth tone day at Countdown -- or is she just expressing her solidarity with our Keith? (I'll pencil my eyebrows in real dark if it will help! :-) )

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<< Keef is looking fine tonight! >> bunny

I know that you have be treated rough to be prepared for war, but, my God?!

Poor family. :cry:

We are creating a nation of legal thugs! Just what will they do with all that emotion after the war(s) are over? They will bring it back to their local communities and bully everyone they encounter.

It's more than shameful what happened to that boy. :cry:

how hard is it to ask who can swim and who can't, and pull aside the ones that can't, and give them real swim lessons?

especially since I have a nephew at Parris Island right now. I have to say this scared the hell out of me when Keith started talking about it.

My nephew has been in a strength building class since he first arrived back before Christmas. I wasn't real thrilled that he joined, but that's another story.

He might be let go because of a broken arm he suffered as a kid. The recruiter told him not to say anything. Apparently he should have told them.

God! After this I hope he gets sent home now. I'm shaking right now because of this story. I'm sick to my stomach.

:cry:

I'm sorry to hear that. Wish your whole family well.:grouphug:

I hope they will let him come home too. :hug: for you.

... every day things happen under this administration that leave me heartsick. And the People just sit there.

I'm beginning to think America is suffering from some kind of mass psychosis.

if the bosses like it just think what signal that sent to the underlings!!

fly:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

I may be wandering in and out for a while; I'm still chasing after the demon spawn, er my darling child...

He looks so haggard in that video, like he's been being abused like that for the whole 5 weeks. The drowning seems so suspicious happening the next day, not that it was deliberate but something is so wrong....
Difficult to watch. His father's grief was heartbreaking.

Keith does a good Homer.

"Things that would blow up real good."

:)

He blowed up good. Yep, he blowed up real good!

Also, o/t, it's Gene Pitney's bday:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2654471

Hi, bleever. :hi:

Lady wins a stuffed animal.

Would you like a bunny, a bear, or a badger?

:hi:

Favorite of mine.

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<< it's Gene Pitney's bday >> Patsy

My treat!

They could make a fortune off the ten year old boy crowd.

Hi, Thumper! I've missed ya! :hi:

:hi: