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Thought best to move over here. HC BILL. McCain up now (AGAIN) and asking once again to send the bill back to committee. He wannts nothing less than to kill this bill. He didn’t even show up half the time in the committee meetings to work on the bill!
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It’s almost 2:30 a.m. where I am. I’m finally getting a chance to see what transpired in the “real world” (if DC can be called that) while I was at work, thanks to all of you here. Reading through the hundreds of play-by-play comments made it really come alive. Things are looking better these days. Hope Reid et al can pull it off!
But before I hit my new memory foam pillow, I have to say once more that AdLib is that rare combination of a very capable tech person and an amazing “people person”–namely a very calm, fair, even-handed and even-tempered administrator. You have no idea how much that is appreciated.
Are there ever nights when you go to bed with a giant headache?
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kesmarn, your very kind comments are soothing indeed, very appreciated!
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Goodnight. I hope you can get to sleep and feel better in the morning.
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Hello kesmarn.
I can’t and won’t speak for him but have a funny feeling that tonight could be one of those nights.
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I’m going to say good night as well. I have empty pages staring at me that must be filled with writing, or I’m in the dog house w my two puppies!
Today was another good day on the planet. Thanks everyone. Peace and pleasant dreams, all. And Kalima — have a great rest of the day.
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Good night nellie, don’t work too hard. Sweet dreams for after your pages are filled. Later then.
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I’m off too, night all…
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Good night BDM, take care and hope to see you later. *wave*
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Nite — today was fun. Thanks for all the good info.
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Good night all meds an beds time for me.
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Kalima, have a nice Tea Time
Nite, bito. See you here soon.
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Good night bitohistory, I wish you well and thank you.
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Hang on, hang on, hang on!
What? This is not the LAST cloture motion?
This business is killing me.
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I cannot believe not one republican female voted to proceed against a brazenly sexist insurance industry. Shameful.
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They are Republicans. That trumps having a uterus, apparently.
Or having had one. Most of them are rather mature.
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They might step up if they’re actually needed. I still have hopes for Maine.
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I really called Snowe wrong, but there is that senior chair they threatened to withhold from her. Still…maybe she knew her vote was not necessary today? I don’t know.
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I’m not giving up on Snowe. Or Cantwell. They knew the dems had 60 votes today. I think they both want health care reform. And it looks like the party of no coalition just might be weakening, what with Palin’s interference and her destructive impact.
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Palin is to womankind as Clarence Thomas is to the black man.
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Oh, I think Clarence deserves a skosh more credit than that, lol!
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All threads lead back to Sarah….Why Lord, Why us?
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Lord says you belong to the chosen few. lol
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I think that’s a good call, Nellie. It seems to me all the movement lately has been in our direction. I realize it could change …
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Keeping our fingers crossed. I do think Snowe has an independent mind.
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Snowe or Collins, nellie . It’s getting late
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Thank you, bito. But it’s only 8pm where I am. I always make that mistake.
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This was fun while it lasted,
Keven is going to be ban me,, so c’est la vie,
Bye
Am banned, so tyvm, and it was a good run
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javaz you are not getting banned. What the hell happened? I go away for a few minutes and all hell breaks out.
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She called me an asshole. Strangely enough, she though that that might have consequences.
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I’m thinking we should always follow a nerve-racking vote with a music thread. Last night’s was fabulous.
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Good Night, dear one. We will all find our civility on the morn. Sweet dreams.
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K7 can’t ban you javaz.
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You might want to drop the violin.
I am not going to ban you.
I am not certain that I could.
But you have no business calling me an asshole.
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Only Admin can ban here, meaning me and only for outrageous conduct, none of which has occurred to date.
Name calling is against the rules of conduct here for everyone who blogs here without exception or prejudice.
That includes me too.
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Doo doo head!
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You are not banned. Wish I could show you the thread 3 days after signing in here. K7 told me I was on probation for my conflicts at HP. Adlib set him and I straight.
Javaz, please don’t go anywhere. One thing I’ve learned over the last 3 weeks, that to disappear is not solution. I aborted 4 socks at HP, and I now regret it.
We must keep the fight for the correct going. And you clearly are an important member in that.
Good night sweetness.
See you tomorrow. Promise.
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javaz, Keven can’t ban you, I am the Admin and we don’t ban here. This exchange is very unfortunate but I guarantee all here that I will be working with everyone involved to resolve this, put it behind us and move forward positively.
As I mentioned below, conflicts happen between husbands and wives, parents and kids, best friends and the constructive response is to recognize such moments are inevitable between independently minded people but if they share most of the same sensibilities, it’s just the task of ironing out what happened and putting it behind them.
That’s what will happen in this case.
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Yes, it is unfortunate when people call others assholes.
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Or infants. And that’s all I’m going to say about this.
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Not quite as harsh.
But I did withdraw it.
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don’t forget silly.
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Now now. That was a description of her behaviour. Another thing all together.
Kind of like when I called you honest and mature. See?
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Yeah, it is a real pity.
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I don’t think any adult likes being called an infant.
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There is no banning here. Alors, a bientot!
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Nite javaz, take care.
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I have been here since early this morning. I have gone most of the day having many civil and thoughtful conversations concerning the HC vote. Nary a word about about HP or their posts and comments. It has been enjoyable. In the words of Bret: “Scarlet, I don’t give a shit about HuffPo”
May I suggest, with AdLib’s permission, that every one wanting to discuss the late HuffPo, that they open their own post. Speaker corner?
IMHO
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bito
Censorship?
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Nope, Speakers Corner is for non-news/issue-related articles. It’s open and public like every other category here except the articles posted under it just don’t appear as front page articles, like our Morning Blog which is there right now. It’s an editorial choice to feature POVs on issues of substance on the front page.
I appreciate bitohistory’s suggestion, we do strive to have important issue-based articles on our front page but Authors will always remain free to write articles as they choose.
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I can’t help but think about all the nail biting followed by really good news since Mr. Obama came on the scene. First the primary — my apologies to Hillary fans, but I was an Obama supporter. Then the election. Then Sotomayor. The House health care vote — another squeeker. And now the Senate Cloture vote.
I could get used to this nail-biting, happy sigh of relief routine if we keep making progress.
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Nellie – I also do the nail-biting/deep sigh thing! Thank you for making me realize I’m not alone. I agree though – unlike our narcissitic “progressive” allies on “the other post” that real progress has been made indeed. But I surely do agree – it would be a LOT easier on the nerves if it could be less perilous! Why do RW things seem to ease by but progressive reform is agonizingly slow? Oh. Right. The RW are the people paid billions to screw up the world. We volunteer to fix it. That’s why.
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I think your explanation is spot on.
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Anyway, where were we? Oh, yeah.
The Dem party’s primary initiative just passed the last hurdle, and we will have a bill to defend in 2010.
Me, I think it will go well. With a little luck, KSM will have been convicted by then. That would be cool.
(I passed on that straight line.)
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This is what the Dems need, some forward positive momentum to give them some confidence in standing up to those dweebs.
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Hi all – been out of touch much this week working the DC line to get this to this point. BUT, even though I’ve been talking to some Hill staffers, I’m not so sure this is a done deal. I fear the NEXT cloture vote to move it TO a vote – that’s where Lieberman et al. can screw us if this bill is actually good for people. For some reason, even some Dems don’t seem to think things that benefit people, that reflect our common humanity and responsibility for one another, are nearly so neat as things that make corporations rich. So – someone talk me down! I’ve been working on this daily for MONTHS, and I think I left many of my brain cells on a flight from east to west. Help!
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Well, choicelady, I’d like to congratulate you and thank you….so far so good anyway! The bill has “died” a thousand deaths already, and it still chugs along. I must be an eternal optimist. I think it would never have made it this far if it wasn’t going to pass. I think some of those slimebags are holding out for some more “candy” in exchange for their votes. I think we’re going to get it passed.
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escriba, that is how most legislation is done.
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However in my life, I don’t recall congress being so idiotically divided. Maybe close to it on passage of the first civil rights bills
We’ve had a question today — the next cloture vote — would that be on the conferenced bill, or is there another chance for a filibuster on the Senate bill?
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Both, thanks. The Senate bill that emerges from debate has to be moved to a vote and can be blocked. This will be the most dangerous moment. If that passes and goes to Conference and a new version comes out, it goes BACK to the Senate – and can be filibustered to prevent a final vote. Why the Senate permits this – it’s a rule, not a Constitutional mandate- is beyond me. Remember the Reeps on the “up or down vote”? That’s just for their issues…the right to filibuster should either be revived in full – you’re on stage 24/7 – or dropped. However, it exists, and we have to deal with it.
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I’m learning so much from all of you, thanks.
Question: Do you really think that the Republicans would try a filibuster?
I see them threatening it, but I don’t see them actually doing it.
Also, when was the last time there was an actual filibuster?
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The Rethugs absolutely will filibuster if they can.
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BDM, read this link:
http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Cloture_vrd.htm
It is a discussion on cloture/filibuster/senate rules and some history of them
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Thanks, copied it, too late to read tonight..
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Where someone actually talked? It’s been a while. Someone read from the phone book once.
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Yeah, the speedreader was hired to read the phone book…
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I do remember the one reading the phonebook…not recipes. That would be pretty good.
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LOL
I remember they hired a speed reader earlier in the year for some threatened filibuster.
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Now RECIPES would have been worth hearing. Better than the bs we had to sit through today!
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Recipes,bibles, hometown news papers…
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I here there are some good recipes in the old journals
Thanks nellie, this is so confusing to me at times.
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Wow, that is news to me. I did not realize the Senate bill could be blocked again after amendments.
What’s up with that procedure? It seems to be designed to get nothing done.
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Thank you, I did my best scouring my feeble memory and reading “senate rule 22″. http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Cloture_vrd.htm
The summery was not precise, to me.
I never really had to keep up on this rule until the election of 2006 and worse 2008.
Thanks
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bito
Are you certain of that?
I find Senate rules so obscure.
This is not the last cloture vote?
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Arrg! So we have TWO more knuckle-biters — 60-vote hurdles to get through.
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I don’t need undeserved shit from a poster who clearly has it out for me.
See you later kids.
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Let me ask Kevenseven, a question?
Or multiple questions?
Is it really necessary to correct people’s spelling?
Is it really necessary to correct people when you do your weekly seminar to tell them, in not so friendly terms, that they are off topic?
Are you one of the founders of this site?
Lighten up.
Or you are going to lose members.
Lighten up, or you are going to lose valuable people.
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Happy to answer your questions:
Is it “necessary” to correct spelling? No. Let me ask you a question: What sort of adult is wounded by simple corrections of spelling? I don’t write “what, were you home schooled”.
Is it “necessary” to tell people that they are off topic in a discussion that I am leading? (And I was perfectly civil about it) Yes. That is the whole point. To move toward an answer to a question. Answers to other questions do not advance the goal.
Yes, I am one of the charter members of this site.
I don’t know what you mean by “lighten up”. I was asking HITO if she could explain why it matters where I live? But if I hurt your feelings, I am sorry.
I don’t want anyone to leave. But I also don’t want people to challenge the validity of other’s opinions on frivolous and insulting grounds.
You are free to have a differing opinion. This is a political debate site. It is not a universal group hug. We need to be civil to each other, but if you need ointment on your bunions, I may not be the guy to ask.
And calling me an asshole is against the rules. You should not do that.
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Kev have you ever considered that the person who you chose to correct, could be dyslexic?
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Well, I suppose that is possible. And seeing as I am not throwing around insults with the occasional correction, I don’t know why it would cause so much pain.
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Correcting someone’s spelling on a public blog is demeaning to that person, just my opinion. Sorry.
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Anonymous or not, there are people like myself who find it unnecessary or even rude. Nothing at all to do with the thickness of one’s skin.
I’m sorry, I was brought up in Europe, maybe we view things differently there.
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My opinion is that one needs to have a very thin skin indeed to be wounded, as an anonymous person, by such a correction from another anonymous person.
But what do I know?
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Smoooooch.
And BTW, “Babe” is one of my favorite words.
Hey, I have a brother too…didn’t see him for 17 years, and he’s resurfaced recently. He looks amazingly like the Stockbrocker dude at Huffy.
Javaz, thank you very much for your compassion and understanding. Wasn’t trying to do anything but post relevant concerns relating to my state, which is very much in the shitter compared to bygone days. NY used to be a top contributor to the feds.
It is not permitted to refer to another poster here as an asshole.
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Now that is just naughty.
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I was worried about ol’fishlips Lieberman, but when I was over at HP, forgive me, the planet seemed to be stuck, then I saw this:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/21/806735/-20,000-pledgers-and-$1MM-pledged-if-Lieberman-filibusters-health-care
Gee, now I feel so much better…..
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I love Jon Stewart’s impersonations of him and his whinny mumbling.
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I love it, he really sounds like that at times…God, he’s my senator….you just can’t imagine how embarrassed I am to admit that.
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I have DiFi, so I think I can relate….
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Was amused in my visit to Never Never Land where the junior Rethugs were doing their standard lines. “Well, this is as far as it gets.” Etc. Somehow they need to learn to deal with their disappoints better. Will they all be in front of their altars to Sarah Palin praying for that miracle tonight?
They weren’t even worth commenting to. Of course, neither was much of anyone else there either.
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There are still a number of clever and thoughtful folks over there, wish we could convince more to liberate themselves from the unnecessary abuse and repression over there.
I know some think they’re fighting the good fight but I think many here believe that war’s already been lost.
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I just observe the patterns and don’t see many of them changing. It’s Huffington’s Desease, highly addicting and difficult to defeat. I think that some of our friends over there really do like the fast paced banter and questionable social behavior they cannot exercise elsewhere. I understand we’re working slowly towards a critical mass, but we aren’t providing some of the “juice” that it seems others crave. Personally, I can do without it here and am much happier. But I admit I go over to roll some heads on occasion.
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I confess I’m just as addicted as ever. My obsessive personality. But at least it’s better than some other addictions I’ve had in the past! Honestly, I’m more concerned at this point about the amount of time I waste. It’s interfering with other things.
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I think the good fight is better fought by leaving the site and sending a message that progressives are looking for something better.
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