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Late start today.
Author: Raine    Date: 10/11/2013 13:02:09

ICYMI: The government is still shut down. Boner still Orange, and truckers have been sighted on the beltway. And it's still raining.

Oh, The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons won the Nobel peace prize.
The award caught much of the world by surprise, as did last year’s prize, which went to the European Union. But the removal of chemical weapons from Syria has been viewed as an important step in bringing an end to a two-and-a-half year war that has killed an estimated 100,000 people.


Thanks Obama...
 

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Comment by wickedpam on 10/11/2013 13:14:00
Morning

Comment by Scoopster on 10/11/2013 13:43:55
Mornin' all..

HEY GAIZ YOU KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS?!

Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 13:48:15
Quote by Scoopster:
Mornin' all..

HEY GAIZ YOU KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS?!

Go home drunk, you're camel.

Comment by TriSec on 10/11/2013 13:51:32
Greetings, comrades.

File under "Shutdown bites FCHP". We have not received any CMS Coordination of Benefits files since the shutdown. It won't affect care, but it will affect claims processing and payment. Which means with no info, we won't pay anything. And you know how hospitals and doctors operate hand-to-mouth these days.

Baseball note: I'm actually more excited about the NL series than the Sox this weekend....Dodgers/Cardinals, featuring my #3 and #4 teams, is going to be an awesome series. I have my doubts about the Sox getting past Detriot.

I'd pay real money to see a blue-painted tractor trailer out on the Beltway today, emblazoned with "YOU ALL SUCK" on both sides.



Comment by wickedpam on 10/11/2013 14:00:40
fyi to my fellow Gleek - last night was devastating. Esp the scene with Sue and Santana and Puke and Bieste

Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 14:02:08
At one point, four tractor-trailers started driving side-by-side, across all four northbound lanes of the inner loop. That caused traffic to slow to 15 miles per hour. State police troopers stopped the vehicles and “warned them not to impede traffic,” Geller said. The drivers were not issued tickets and allowed to “proceed on their way.” (snip)

On parts of the Beltway, police said the group stood out because they had American flags draped on their vehicles, along with signs that said “#T2SDA” (Truckers to Shut Down America).

Bunch of douches that are just making people more miserable during Rush hour.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWS-r5UCUAA1clr.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWTIhCkCcAAbitH.jpg


Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 14:03:06
Quote by wickedpam:
fyi to my fellow Gleek - last night was devastating. Esp the scene with Sue and Santana and Puke and Bieste
I will watch it tonite. I saw some of the twitter feeds and I can see it's going to be really hard to watch .


Comment by wickedpam on 10/11/2013 14:04:58
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
fyi to my fellow Gleek - last night was devastating. Esp the scene with Sue and Santana and Puke and Bieste
I will watch it tonite. I saw some of the twitter feeds and I can see it's going to be really hard to watch .



I cried for pretty much the whole hour. Hell I cried last week when they tease it.

Comment by wickedpam on 10/11/2013 14:07:05
Quote by Raine:
At one point, four tractor-trailers started driving side-by-side, across all four northbound lanes of the inner loop. That caused traffic to slow to 15 miles per hour. State police troopers stopped the vehicles and “warned them not to impede traffic,” Geller said. The drivers were not issued tickets and allowed to “proceed on their way.” (snip)

On parts of the Beltway, police said the group stood out because they had American flags draped on their vehicles, along with signs that said “#T2SDA” (Truckers to Shut Down America).

Bunch of douches that are just making people more miserable during Rush hour.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWS-r5UCUAA1clr.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWTIhCkCcAAbitH.jpg




seriously I don't get that - what is the thinking?

"Hey I hate the government. The government is currently shut down. Let me go fuck up traffic for everyone else trying to get to work. Cause I hate government."

Really? WTF?

Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 14:08:57
WORST PROTEST EVER.

The “Truckers Ride for the Constitution,” which organizer Zeeda Andrews said could attract as many as 3,000 big rigs to the nation’s capital, only had about 10 participants as of 8:30 a.m.

Andrews insists the convoy is meant to be a peaceful protest rather than a traffic clog. The organizer said Thursday that reports of the trucks planning to take up three lanes of the Beltway were inaccurate, and that they should only occupy one lane of traffic.


Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 14:10:14
Geller said the organizers of the protest, dubbed “Truckers Ride for the Constitution,” plan to take shifts and drive around the Beltway throughout the Columbus Day holiday weekend. Extra Virginia troopers are on the road because of the expected uptick in holiday drivers, and because of the protest, she said.


Comment by wickedpam on 10/11/2013 14:14:24
Quote by Raine:
WORST PROTEST EVER.

The “Truckers Ride for the Constitution,” which organizer Zeeda Andrews said could attract as many as 3,000 big rigs to the nation’s capital, only had about 10 participants as of 8:30 a.m.

Andrews insists the convoy is meant to be a peaceful protest rather than a traffic clog. The organizer said Thursday that reports of the trucks planning to take up three lanes of the Beltway were inaccurate, and that they should only occupy one lane of traffic.


10? 10! At 8am WTOP was saying there were a couple dozen. TOP got duped.


Comment by TriSec on 10/11/2013 14:16:27
Pshaw.. Let a Boston Driver tangle with our Mother-Trucker friends. I can make them cry.

(I was playing cat-and-mouse with a rig with NJ plates on the Pike westbound this morning. I won - dusted him on the big hill past 495.)





Comment by BobR on 10/11/2013 14:17:50
If I ran into these fuckers, I would definitely pass them on the shoulder

Comment by wickedpam on 10/11/2013 14:20:19
Raine - have a kinda design/content question for you -

I want to enter an art contest for a charity with an original design. However, its my understanding that the winners will lose the rights to that drawing. What I want to know is if there is a large element to that design that I want to repeat am I no longer allowed to use it?



Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 14:24:50
Quote by wickedpam:
Raine - have a kinda design/content question for you -

I want to enter an art contest for a charity with an original design. However, its my understanding that the winners will lose the rights to that drawing. What I want to know is if there is a large element to that design that I want to repeat am I no longer allowed to use it?

Do you have a link to the fine print? (pm me if you want)



Comment by wickedpam on 10/11/2013 14:30:51
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Raine - have a kinda design/content question for you -

I want to enter an art contest for a charity with an original design. However, its my understanding that the winners will lose the rights to that drawing. What I want to know is if there is a large element to that design that I want to repeat am I no longer allowed to use it?

Do you have a link to the fine print? (pm me if you want)




There's not real fine print - Draw the Love

Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 14:40:37
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Raine - have a kinda design/content question for you -

I want to enter an art contest for a charity with an original design. However, its my understanding that the winners will lose the rights to that drawing. What I want to know is if there is a large element to that design that I want to repeat am I no longer allowed to use it?

Do you have a link to the fine print? (pm me if you want)




There's not real fine print - Draw the Love
They aren't specifying that you lose the right, they just have the right to use it as they wish.
Finally, we’ll have to make our relationship “official” – we’re going to ask you to sign something that gives Random Acts the right to reproduce your images for this purpose or other purposes.
I would ask them, to be sure. The contract should be made available before submissions are taken. I know that it's and org but there are some legalities that they would benefit themselves by clarifying. When they say the right to reproduce your images for this purpose or other purposes. -- that indicates fundraising. Will you get credit for the image?

Ask them for more details, that shouldn't be a problem unless they don't have details; then I'd have to say they are opening themselves up for problems.

The contest doesn't clarify professional or non professional artists -- and some pro's have very good lawyers/agents.


Comment by wickedpam on 10/11/2013 14:52:37
oh great now this songs going to be stuck in my head *heads to itunes to add to library*

Comment by BobR on 10/11/2013 14:54:42
Comment by trojanrabbit on 10/11/2013 14:55:18
Took today off to be with Lucky. I think the little guy is telling me it's time. He doesn't want to clean himself and won't touch any type of food. It's a major fight to get him to take any food and it comes right back up.

For now he's just loving getting attention and brushing.

Mrs. Rabbit is working today, I know she wants to be with him, too.

Comment by wickedpam on 10/11/2013 14:56:27
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Raine - have a kinda design/content question for you -

I want to enter an art contest for a charity with an original design. However, its my understanding that the winners will lose the rights to that drawing. What I want to know is if there is a large element to that design that I want to repeat am I no longer allowed to use it?

Do you have a link to the fine print? (pm me if you want)




There's not real fine print - Draw the Love
They aren't specifying that you lose the right, they just have the right to use it as they wish.
Finally, we’ll have to make our relationship “official” – we’re going to ask you to sign something that gives Random Acts the right to reproduce your images for this purpose or other purposes.
I would ask them, to be sure. The contract should be made available before submissions are taken. I know that it's and org but there are some legalities that they would benefit themselves by clarifying. When they say the right to reproduce your images for this purpose or other purposes. -- that indicates fundraising. Will you get credit for the image?

Ask them for more details, that shouldn't be a problem unless they don't have details; then I'd have to say they are opening themselves up for problems.

The contest doesn't clarify professional or non professional artists -- and some pro's have very good lawyers/agents.



Not sure how many pro's they'll get, its a very small charity that got created to channel the energy of a fanbase (much like Amanda Tappings Sanctuary 4 Kids) for good not evil

I really don't care if they use the image to fundraise. There just one element I want to be able to reuse. I'll ask if they have more deets.

Comment by wickedpam on 10/11/2013 14:57:10
Raine - thanks for all the info! You're so awesome with the knowledge and the stuff

Comment by BobR on 10/11/2013 14:59:54
Quote by trojanrabbit:
Took today off to be with Lucky. I think the little guy is telling me it's time. He doesn't want to clean himself and won't touch any type of food. It's a major fight to get him to take any food and it comes right back up.

For now he's just loving getting attention and brushing.

Mrs. Rabbit is working today, I know she wants to be with him, too.

aw man... so sorry...

Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 14:59:59
Quote by wickedpam:
Raine - thanks for all the info! You're so awesome with the knowledge and the stuff
not a prob. I;m sure they'll let you use the element but it's best to just make sure.


Comment by wickedpam on 10/11/2013 15:00:13
Quote by trojanrabbit:
Took today off to be with Lucky. I think the little guy is telling me it's time. He doesn't want to clean himself and won't touch any type of food. It's a major fight to get him to take any food and it comes right back up.

For now he's just loving getting attention and brushing.

Mrs. Rabbit is working today, I know she wants to be with him, too.






Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 15:00:31
Quote by trojanrabbit:
Took today off to be with Lucky. I think the little guy is telling me it's time. He doesn't want to clean himself and won't touch any type of food. It's a major fight to get him to take any food and it comes right back up.

For now he's just loving getting attention and brushing.

Mrs. Rabbit is working today, I know she wants to be with him, too.



Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 15:02:19

I think I read somewhere that sucker is bigger than KAtrina. This is gonna get ugly.

Comment by wickedpam on 10/11/2013 15:02:52
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Raine - thanks for all the info! You're so awesome with the knowledge and the stuff
not a prob. I;m sure they'll let you use the element but it's best to just make sure.


Definitely

Comment by wickedpam on 10/11/2013 15:05:04
Quote by Raine:

I think I read somewhere that sucker is bigger than KAtrina. This is gonna get ugly.



Ok, first off I read that as Hurrican Palin and did a double take.

But yeah, this is not going to have a good ending. Agency's and charity's should start preparing now.

Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 15:21:38
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:

I think I read somewhere that sucker is bigger than KAtrina. This is gonna get ugly.



Ok, first off I read that as Hurrican Palin and did a double take.

But yeah, this is not going to have a good ending. Agency's and charity's should start preparing now.
You know, we can't even help out because, shutdown.


Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 15:23:09
Anyone here from Mondo today?

Comment by wickedpam on 10/11/2013 15:26:20
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:

I think I read somewhere that sucker is bigger than KAtrina. This is gonna get ugly.



Ok, first off I read that as Hurrican Palin and did a double take.

But yeah, this is not going to have a good ending. Agency's and charity's should start preparing now.
You know, we can't even help out because, shutdown.



IKR, it all circles back to a bunch of jerks

Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 15:35:10
https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1376985_10153310242430244_293412033_n.jpg


Comment by wickedpam on 10/11/2013 15:35:30
Quote by Raine:
Anyone here from Mondo today?


come to think of it, not yet


Comment by Scoopster on 10/11/2013 15:40:11
Quote by Raine:
https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1376985_10153310242430244_293412033_n.jpg

Maybe you should lend him your bag, Raine..

Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 15:42:12
What part of *I will not negotiate until government is re-opened and the debt ceiling raised* does the GOP not get? A CR is a clean resolution to fund the damn government because they didn't pass a budget!



Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 15:42:36
Quote by Scoopster:
Quote by Raine:
https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1376985_10153310242430244_293412033_n.jpg

Maybe you should lend him your bag, Raine..
I should!


Comment by BobR on 10/11/2013 15:44:02
Quote by Scoopster:
Quote by Raine:
https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1376985_10153310242430244_293412033_n.jpg

Maybe you should lend him your bag, Raine..



Comment by TriSec on 10/11/2013 15:53:59
Quote by Raine:
What part of *I will not negotiate until government is re-opened and the debt ceiling raised* does the GOP not get? A CR is a clean resolution to fund the damn government because they didn't pass a budget!




Raine, did you see former Congressman Barney Frank on TRMS last night?

I can't do it justice, but he was openly wondering to the good Dr. Maddow what part of "shutdown" the GOP didn't understand WRT things like national parks shutting down, or goods and services not being provided.

To paraphrase: "They shut it down, what the hell did they think was going to happen?"



Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 15:59:46
I thought they were going to announce the new sexy liberal show today?

Comment by livingonli on 10/11/2013 16:00:12
Good morning, folks. Poor Lucky.

I wonder if it's an improvement that the Giants only lost by 6 points last night.

Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 16:01:01
Quote by TriSec:
Quote by Raine:
What part of *I will not negotiate until government is re-opened and the debt ceiling raised* does the GOP not get? A CR is a clean resolution to fund the damn government because they didn't pass a budget!




Raine, did you see former Congressman Barney Frank on TRMS last night?

I can't do it justice, but he was openly wondering to the good Dr. Maddow what part of "shutdown" the GOP didn't understand WRT things like national parks shutting down, or goods and services not being provided.

To paraphrase: "They shut it down, what the hell did they think was going to happen?"

I missed that, I was busy watching a shutdown of a whole different kind... Eli MAnning.


But Frank is right -- WTF are they thinking? Are they really that deep in a bubble?


Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 16:02:21
Quote by livingonli:
Good morning, folks. Poor Lucky.

I wonder if it's an improvement that the Giants only lost by 6 points last night.
Overall -- I think it is. They overall played good football last night. I can't deny this. The offensive line gave manning plenty of time to throw three interceptions instead of being sacked.


Comment by livingonli on 10/11/2013 16:07:49
I guess the Democrats numbers are low (but not as low as the GOP's) because of the mainstream media's blaming of both sides on this dispute and no one is really paying attention to the facts (besides us).

Comment by TriSec on 10/11/2013 16:15:17
It's times like this that I wish we were Parliamentary instead of Republic...wouldn't a "no-confidence" vote be a thing of beauty right now?



Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 16:16:34
I am pretty pissed at the ACLU right now.
ACLU National ‏
1/2 Tired of the #waronwomen? Think you could be the next Glenn Greenwald or Bob Woodward?

@ACLU 54m
2/2 Help us find out info that #abortion opponents dont want the public to know. Join the ACLU's Research Team http://bit.ly/17ihUix Team


Two MEN who never talk about the war on women, REALLY ACLU?


Comment by TriSec on 10/11/2013 16:22:38
Local school evacuated...but not because of a shooter.

It's almost refreshing to read about an old-school bomb threat, isn't it?



Comment by wickedpam on 10/11/2013 16:26:42
Quote by Raine:
I thought they were going to announce the new sexy liberal show today?



I think they had a technical issue with the box office and want that all set before they announce. I figure its in LA so they shouldn't have an issue selling out.

Comment by livingonli on 10/11/2013 16:32:25
Quote by TriSec:
It's times like this that I wish we were Parliamentary instead of Republic...wouldn't a "no-confidence" vote be a thing of beauty right now?


If we had proportional representation like many of them, the GOP wouldn't even be controlling the House.

Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 16:34:24
I was only half joking when I said 'Thanks Obama' this morning. I wanted to say more bout it, but Mr. David Corn is a real writer.

But Obama may well deserve a smidgen of credit for the Nobel peace prize that was handed out this week. The winner is the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Hague-based body created to enforce the U.N. Chemical Weapons Convention that bans such arms. The OPCW is now busy overseeing the cataloging and destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal. Hence, the Obama connection.

It seems fair to argue that the OPCW is destroying chemical weapons equipment in Syria because Obama took a stand after the regime of Bashar al-Assad presumably attacked a suburb of Damascus with chemical weapons in August and killed about 1400 people. After Obama threatened to launch a retaliatory attack on Syria with the aim of deterring Assad from again using these horrific weapons—a threat that resulted in a political kerfuffle in Washington—Russian leader Vladimir Putin brokered a deal under which Assad acknowledged he possessed chemical weapons and agreed to place them under international control. The subsequent negotiations are still under way, but, at least for the time being, Obama did achieve his aim—preventing the further use of chemical weapons in Syria. Moreover, he placed Putin on the hook for Assad's chemical weapons.


Comment by TriSec on 10/11/2013 16:39:12
Comment by trojanrabbit on 10/11/2013 16:50:52
So I go "whip up" a different batch of food for Lucky because he probably hates the prescription stuff. Who comes around expecting food, Cleo and Sophie. The LAST thing I need are two neurotic cats because they think they're being slighted.

This is just tearing me up. Raised him from a little kitten, because some asshole abandoned him and his littermates. At least the asshole abandoned him in the right spot.

There are still moments when he looks "OK" and I go, maybe he's turning it around. Then I see him struggle to climb down from a box barely a foot high and get brought back to reality.

Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 17:21:57
Quote by TriSec:
Because it's FOOTBALL!!

This goes back to what Bobber wrote a few days ago -- it lessens the effect of wht is happening.


Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 18:58:21
Comment by BobR on 10/11/2013 19:00:31

(plus a fixity)

Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 19:09:05
Quote by BobR:

(plus a fixity)
Danke dahlink.


Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 19:10:14
Officially, I'm a little worried about Mondo right now.

Comment by wickedpam on 10/11/2013 19:18:48
Quote by Raine:
Officially, I'm a little worried about Mondo right now.


yeah, he hasn't even been on BoF yet today - he at least drops a line there if somethings up.


Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 19:31:04
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Officially, I'm a little worried about Mondo right now.


yeah, he hasn't even been on BoF yet today - he at least drops a line there if somethings up.

Will txt him.


Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 19:42:12
Mondo is ok. He's having a bad day.

Let's get some heally vibes out there.


~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~

Comment by wickedpam on 10/11/2013 20:02:59
Quote by Raine:
Mondo is ok. He's having a bad day.

Let's get some heally vibes out there.


~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~



Definitely

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Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 21:25:39
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Mondo is ok. He's having a bad day.

Let's get some heally vibes out there.


~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~


Definitely

~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~



Comment by livingonli on 10/11/2013 21:28:36
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Mondo is ok. He's having a bad day.

Let's get some heally vibes out there.


~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~


Definitely

~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~


I'll do this the easy way.

Comment by Raine on 10/11/2013 22:23:06
Guys, if you are friends with Rabbit on FB -- send some love out to him and the Mrs.

Comment by trojanrabbit on 10/11/2013 22:31:24
Quote by livingonli:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Mondo is ok. He's having a bad day.

Let's get some heally vibes out there.


~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~


Definitely

~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~


I'll do this the easy way.

~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~


Comment by trojanrabbit on 10/11/2013 22:43:07
Quote by Raine:
Guys, if you are friends with Rabbit on FB -- send some love out to him and the Mrs.




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