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Shut Down Monday
Author: BobR    Date: 09/30/2013 11:22:16

Sorry folks - I was under the weather yesterday and neglected to write a blog. Just help yourselves to some donuts and coffee from the blog commissary, and I'll be sure to have something better on Thursday.


 

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Comment by Scoopster on 09/30/2013 12:35:02
Mornin' all & Happy Mondee..

Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 12:42:08
Good Morning! Speaking of shutdown -- I may add these two articles to the blog.

The first is an interesting piece from The Atlantic: Why This is not just 'Washington Breakdown'

But the second article is what really grasps the dysfunction in DC.

I think our own rabbit was on of the first people to start galling the GOP economic terrorists, and now he is far from alone.

The frauds on the Hill target Obama -- This was written by Roger Simon, of all people. (Not PJMedia Simon, Politico's Simon -- ) Not some radical crazy lefty...

Comment by wickedpam on 09/30/2013 12:47:15
Morning

Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 12:53:09
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) leaves the floor of the House in the wee hours of Sunday morning, having taken action that will probably shut down the government, and releases a statement saying, “It’s time for President Obama to rise above stubborn partisanship.”

Which is like an arsonist telling others not to play with matches.



Boom.

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/30/2013 12:58:20
Quote by Raine:
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) leaves the floor of the House in the wee hours of Sunday morning, having taken action that will probably shut down the government, and releases a statement saying, “It’s time for President Obama to rise above stubborn partisanship.”

Which is like an arsonist telling others not to play with matches.



Boom.



Project much, Eric?

Comment by wickedpam on 09/30/2013 13:06:31
Quote by Raine:
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) leaves the floor of the House in the wee hours of Sunday morning, having taken action that will probably shut down the government, and releases a statement saying, “It’s time for President Obama to rise above stubborn partisanship.”

Which is like an arsonist telling others not to play with matches.



Boom.



God he's such an ass.

Comment by velveeta jones on 09/30/2013 13:32:06
Sorry you're feeling bad. :hugs:

In a semi-related item: I've added "Ted Cruz" to the Urban Dictionary. :D

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/30/2013 13:34:13
Quote by velveeta jones:
Sorry you're feeling bad. :hugs:

In a semi-related item: I've added "Ted Cruz" to the Urban Dictionary. :D



Nuttin' for Ted Cruz, oh Cheesy One.

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/30/2013 13:34:31
VJ, what did you think of the finale?

Comment by velveeta jones on 09/30/2013 13:40:53
I encourage everyone to heat up Twitter. I've been nagging republicans about this looming shut down. We must keep up the pressure, many of them are on the line about this.

Comment by wickedpam on 09/30/2013 13:42:22
OMG - Obama's Keyser Soze!

Comment by Scoopster on 09/30/2013 13:47:03
Quote by Mondobubba:
VJ, what did you think of the finale?

I thought it was a bit Newhart-esqe..

Comment by velveeta jones on 09/30/2013 13:47:41
Quote by Mondobubba:
VJ, what did you think of the finale?


Spoiler Alert if you haven't seen it!
I was happy to see it END. I'm sick of wimpy endings. Walt is an evil person that destroyed everything he touched; every person he encountered suffered from meeting him! And to have him go out proud of what he did and how many lives he destroyed -- well, it was satisfying to see him go, but I'd have loved for him to atone at the last minute. Instead he loving fondled the vat the was used to make a drug that destroys the lives of thousands of people.


Comment by Mondobubba on 09/30/2013 13:51:30
Quote by Scoopster:
Quote by Mondobubba:
VJ, what did you think of the finale?

I thought it was a bit Newhart-esqe..



Yes, that was brilliant.

Comment by velveeta jones on 09/30/2013 13:51:43
Quote by Scoopster:
Quote by Mondobubba:
VJ, what did you think of the finale?

I thought it was a bit Newhart-esqe..

Wow.... can you imagine the outrage if that had been the ending? What a great, great prank on the viewers! 'Course, Vince would have had to hide in a foreign country for a bit...


Comment by TriSec on 09/30/2013 13:53:24
Why, Papageno is 222 years old today!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Papageno.jpg


Comment by Will in Chicago on 09/30/2013 14:00:34
Good morning, bloggers!

The shutdown is imminent.

Dr. Helen Caldicott, anti-nuclear activist, will be on the stat of Radio Or Not with Nicole Sandler.

Comment by TriSec on 09/30/2013 14:05:56
Bed is made. Waiting for the Republicans to lie in it.

Go ahead; shut it down, fuckers!



Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 14:06:14
Quote by Mondobubba:
VJ, what did you think of the finale?

Were you happy with the ending?

Comment by velveeta jones on 09/30/2013 14:16:33
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
VJ, what did you think of the finale?

Were you happy with the ending?

Yes, I would have been disappointed if he had gotten away with everything. I wanted to see him die, maybe his family can slowly rebuild a life for themselves.

^^ yes, I realize they are fictional..... hahahaha


Comment by Scoopster on 09/30/2013 14:17:13
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
VJ, what did you think of the finale?

Were you happy with the ending?

IMO it was pretty damn good. Very fitting end.

Salon compared it favorably to the endings of Cheers and S&TC.

Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 14:19:02
Quote by Scoopster:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
VJ, what did you think of the finale?

Were you happy with the ending?

IMO it was pretty damn good. Very fitting end.

Salon compared it favorably to the endings of Cheers and S&TC.

Buzz Feed said the ending was up there with Six Feet Under --- that is pretty high praise.

Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 14:22:46
Quote by velveeta jones:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
VJ, what did you think of the finale?

Were you happy with the ending?

Yes, I would have been disappointed if he had gotten away with everything. I wanted to see him die, maybe his family can slowly rebuild a life for themselves.

^^ yes, I realize they are fictional..... hahahaha


I have to admit I haven't watched one episode, but I have read every spoiler and learned who the characters were. The Buzzfeed article makes a good -- great point:
Of the shows we all talk about these days as new classics, there are few truly great series finales. The Shield has one; Six Feet Under had another. When I feel like weeping — it happens! — I go to this link to say goodbye to that show again. There are plenty of very good finales: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Wire, ER, and [insert your own here]. And we all know which ones caused people to freak out (Lost, The Sopranos, and, as of last week, Dexter).

Ending a television show is as hard as hell to do. But if one new business model for television is binging, it’s actually imperative that the show end well. Or all of that Netflix/Amazon/iTunes action the show was seeing during its life will fall off a cliff. Who in their right mind would tell someone now to begin watching Dexter? Better never to start. With The Shield, on the other hand, you could easily and truthfully say, “It is terrific the entire time and the ending is perfect.”
That said I am one of the people that really liked the ending of the Sopranos.


Comment by Will in Chicago on 09/30/2013 14:25:33
The ending of Breaking Bad was fitting. It was good to see Walt admit that he did everything for himself. Had he lived, I think that Walt would have been forced to come to terms with all the harm and death that he caused. Instead, he died after eliminating people no less evil than he had become. I felt sorrow for someone who had wasted his life and destroyed lives.

Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 14:28:12
IS this OUR Clint on the phone?

Comment by wickedpam on 09/30/2013 14:38:06
Quote by Raine:
IS this OUR Clint on the phone?



I missed it

Comment by TriSec on 09/30/2013 14:38:11
Meh. I don't watch much Teevee programming these days.

I did, however, catch up on some Netflix and finally watched "The King's Speech" last night.



Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 14:44:06
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
IS this OUR Clint on the phone?



I missed it
The person of the phone talked a little faster than our Clint -- so I;m not sure.


Comment by TriSec on 09/30/2013 14:50:29
Comment by Mondobubba on 09/30/2013 15:05:49
Quote by velveeta jones:
Quote by Mondobubba:
VJ, what did you think of the finale?


Spoiler Alert if you haven't seen it!
I was happy to see it END. I'm sick of wimpy endings. Walt is an evil person that destroyed everything he touched; every person he encountered suffered from meeting him! And to have him go out proud of what he did and how many lives he destroyed -- well, it was satisfying to see him go, but I'd have loved for him to atone at the last minute. Instead he loving fondled the vat the was used to make a drug that destroys the lives of thousands of people.


he did admit he'd done all of it, not for family but for himself to Sklyer. Walt was too much of egomaniac to atone.

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/30/2013 15:07:57
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
VJ, what did you think of the finale?

Were you happy with the ending?



At first I was meh, but then I thought about it. It was very fitting. I liked that he poisoned Lydia with the ricin, she deserved that.

Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 15:11:12
Quote by TriSec:
Nice work, asshats.

Something else isn't often talked about. Things like this.



Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 15:18:05
Quote by Raine:
Quote by TriSec:
Nice work, asshats.

Something else isn't often talked about. Things like this.

Read recursion's replies. They are very informative -- and then read about his stolen hot dog


Comment by wickedpam on 09/30/2013 15:24:37
Ghost dogs? yeah, um those are usually call Hell Hounds

Comment by TriSec on 09/30/2013 15:33:59
MHP had mentioned on Sunday morning's show that a government shutdown won't be funny when you can't get your gun permits processed, will it?

I wish the Dems would pushback on this - shut down the FAA and Air Traffic Control and see how long this lasted.



Comment by BobR on 09/30/2013 15:34:32
The one disadvantage with starting a new job? You don't feel like you can call in sick or ask to work from home when you've only been there 3 weeks...

Comment by Scoopster on 09/30/2013 16:14:49
THE BLOGGIE LIVES AGAIN!

Now, as I was saying before we were interrupted...CNN's doc about Hillary Clinton has been cancelled - by its own creator.

Honestly, it just sounds like the guy ran into too much adversity and instead of working with and/or around it, he decided to be a whiny bitch on HuffPo.

Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 16:31:37
The Starlings are gathering in a tree in the neighborhood....

Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 16:41:52
Scoop -- that article isn't just wining -- it's a damn hit piece filled with the bile of resentment.

I seriously doubt anyone will trust him to do a political documantary --ever.

Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 16:42:56
Quote by BobR:
The one disadvantage with starting a new job? You don't feel like you can call in sick or ask to work from home when you've only been there 3 weeks...


I THINK YOU NEED MORE SOUP.


Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 16:43:27
Apologies: my keyboard just got stuck on cap lock.

Comment by wickedpam on 09/30/2013 16:53:10
Quote by Raine:
Apologies: my keyboard just got stuck on cap lock.



are you sure you just aren't very emphatic about SOUP and are trying to cover it but with the old "my cap lock got stuck" ruse?


Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 16:54:05
Quote by Raine:
Quote by TriSec:
Nice work, asshats.

Something else isn't often talked about. Things like this.

Just to add to this, we have neighbors who left for Pakistan last year. HE was going to work in the US Embassy in Pakistan. She, as his partner went with him.

Essential or not -- I think we are forgetting that the shut down will effect a lot of Americans abroad.



Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 16:54:55
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Apologies: my keyboard just got stuck on cap lock.



are you sure you just aren't very emphatic about SOUP and are trying to cover it but with the old "my cap lock got stuck" ruse?
maybe -- you know I love soup...




Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 17:01:13
Quote by Scoopster:
THE BLOGGIE LIVES AGAIN!

Now, as I was saying before we were interrupted...CNN's doc about Hillary Clinton has been cancelled - by its own creator.

Honestly, it just sounds like the guy ran into too much adversity and instead of working with and/or around it, he decided to be a whiny bitch on HuffPo.


I read it again.

He's a coward. Something is wrong with his entire screed.
I would have loved to explore all this. But when I approached people for interviews, I discovered that nobody, and I mean nobody, was interested in helping me make this film. Not Democrats, not Republicans -- and certainly nobody who works with the Clintons, wants access to the Clintons, or dreams of a position in a Hillary Clinton administration. Not even journalists who want access, which can easily be taken away. I even sensed potential difficulty in licensing archival footage from CBN (Pat Robertson) and from Fox. After approaching well over a hundred people, only two persons who had ever dealt with Mrs. Clinton would agree to an on-camera interview, and I suspected that even they would back out.


Takeaway: The Clintons wield SO MUCH POWER that even the GOP is afraid of them?

(I smell a future meme -- a PAC funded meme. )


Comment by TriSec on 09/30/2013 17:22:00
Quote by Raine:
The Starlings are gathering in a tree in the neighborhood....



Didn't I see that in a Hitchcock movie?



Comment by wickedpam on 09/30/2013 17:30:40
Quote by TriSec:
Quote by Raine:
The Starlings are gathering in a tree in the neighborhood....



Didn't I see that in a Hitchcock movie?






Comment by BobR on 09/30/2013 17:45:28
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by TriSec:
Nice work, asshats.
Something else isn't often talked about. Things like this.

Just to add to this, we have neighbors who left for Pakistan last year. HE was going to work in the US Embassy in Pakistan. She, as his partner went with him.

Essential or not -- I think we are forgetting that the shut down will effect a lot of Americans abroad.

It's like a murder/suicide

Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 18:06:19
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by TriSec:
Quote by Raine:
The Starlings are gathering in a tree in the neighborhood....



Didn't I see that in a Hitchcock movie?




They kinda freak me out... this, however, is beautiful:


First time I ever saw them do this, I was freaked out. Now, it's just an amazing phoneme.

(as long as one doesn't get caught underneath... good luck my arse.)


Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 18:40:57
John Boehner hero chance.
Instead he will just drink Rye.
and smoke barclay's cigs.

My haiku attempt.

Comment by Scoopster on 09/30/2013 19:19:27
Boehner stands on cliff
His caucus runs around him
gleefully jumping

Comment by Scoopster on 09/30/2013 19:25:04
Ohh.. what's this? Because of Snowden & Greenwald, now all our intelligence & operations against Al Qaeda are FUCKED?

Of course, it seems the article actually gives you the impression that "this is worse than what Snowden did, so what Snowden did must not have been too bad!" HEY DUMBASSES THIS IS WHAT SNOWDEN DID.

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/30/2013 19:51:45
Since the GOP thinks Obama is a dictator why doesn't he act like one? You know armed troops locked and loaded in the visitor's gallery of the House would get this done right quick.




Comment by TriSec on 09/30/2013 19:54:42
Here comes the shutdown.
'Boehning' has a new meaning
When we're bent over.


Comment by TriSec on 09/30/2013 19:57:25
GOP screws us
No courtesy reacharound
and no lube, either.

(That's the winner today.)


Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 20:06:11
Quote by Scoopster:
Ohh.. what's this? Because of Snowden & Greenwald, now all our intelligence & operations against Al Qaeda are FUCKED?

Of course, it seems the article actually gives you the impression that "this is worse than what Snowden did, so what Snowden did must not have been too bad!" HEY DUMBASSES THIS IS WHAT SNOWDEN DID.
Didn;t we talk about this very scenario, Scoop?

Pisses me the phuck off.


Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 20:07:09
I;m going back to peeling apples -- and with every peel, I shall curse Snowden and Greewald.



Comment by TriSec on 09/30/2013 20:11:13
Apples!

TriSec made a luscious apple crisp this past weekend. Pie is up for next Sunday.

Comment by Scoopster on 09/30/2013 20:16:32
Comment by Mondobubba on 09/30/2013 20:21:01
Quote by Raine:
I;m going back to peeling apples -- and with every peel, I shall curse Snowden and Greewald.




Are you peeling them by hand or do you have a crank-driven apple whacker? The peels, cores and slices! Mrs. Mondo loved her's. Twas the shite!

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/30/2013 20:22:33
Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 20:37:48
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
I;m going back to peeling apples -- and with every peel, I shall curse Snowden and Greewald.




Are you peeling them by hand or do you have a crank-driven apple whacker? The peels, cores and slices! Mrs. Mondo loved her's. Twas the shite!
Hand peeled. I have an apple corer.



Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 20:41:24
Quote by TriSec:
Apples!

TriSec made a luscious apple crisp this past weekend. Pie is up for next Sunday.
This weekend we went to an orchard to get unpasteurized cider for the making of home made hard cider. Brought home some seconds so I could make applesause.


Comment by wickedpam on 09/30/2013 20:50:25
Quote by Raine:
Quote by TriSec:
Apples!

TriSec made a luscious apple crisp this past weekend. Pie is up for next Sunday.
This weekend we went to an orchard to get unpasteurized cider for the making of home made hard cider. Brought home some seconds so I could make applesause.



which orchard did you go to?

Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 20:58:42
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by TriSec:
Apples!

TriSec made a luscious apple crisp this past weekend. Pie is up for next Sunday.
This weekend we went to an orchard to get unpasteurized cider for the making of home made hard cider. Brought home some seconds so I could make applesause.



which orchard did you go to?
DLC. I wish their hard ciders were/are available in Virginia. They're amazing.






Comment by wickedpam on 09/30/2013 21:05:18
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by TriSec:
Apples!

TriSec made a luscious apple crisp this past weekend. Pie is up for next Sunday.
This weekend we went to an orchard to get unpasteurized cider for the making of home made hard cider. Brought home some seconds so I could make applesause.



which orchard did you go to?
DLC. I wish their hard ciders were/are available in Virginia. They're amazing.






ah, MD - we usually it Catoctin Mountain Orchard when we head up to PA - its in Thurmont


Comment by Raine on 09/30/2013 21:50:46
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by TriSec:
Apples!

TriSec made a luscious apple crisp this past weekend. Pie is up for next Sunday.
This weekend we went to an orchard to get unpasteurized cider for the making of home made hard cider. Brought home some seconds so I could make applesause.



which orchard did you go to?
DLC. I wish their hard ciders were/are available in Virginia. They're amazing.


ah, MD - we usually it Catoctin Mountain Orchard when we head up to PA - its in Thurmont
We took a short visit to harpers ferry...

We got out before it got dark. Harpers ferry is amazing architecturally and historically. That is it.

I'm glad we went there. (Seriously, I loved the historical feel)

So now I can Say I visited John Brown's death site as well as his farm and gravesite. One less thing on my bucket list.



Comment by TriSec on 10/01/2013 01:18:23
Quote by Mondobubba:



Are you peeling them by hand or do you have a crank-driven apple whacker? The peels, cores and slices! Mrs. Mondo loved her's. Twas the shite!


You mean a Yankee apple-peeling gizmo?

*miffed*


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