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Thanks again AdLib & Everyone for the serious insights and the hilarious funny bits.
Adlib, you may want to copyright this stuff so it does not end up on the Late shows
or Bill Maher or worse- Cable News!
Vox Populi – Bring on the Latin, that will really confound them.
Good Night all…..
Bill Maher has been such a bore lately.
He has really gone downhill.
I know it’s shallow to be happy when the US economy loses ONLY 11,000 jobs in November but I have to admit I was surprised by that news today. Maybe the economy can actually gain some jobs next month. This is going to be a long tough recovery but I look for every positive sign I can find and this is probably the most positive.
I’m glad they are finally listing the underemployed number now to bring some reality to the situation we have not seen for a while. I guess the official unemployment rate is down to 10% and the underemployed rate is down to 17.2%.
I see our countdown clock is all set for next weeks debate…with that, I will bid you all a good night.
Thank you Adlib and all of you who participated, had a great time and learned some new and interesting things.
Sleep well and Good Luck e’cat with the new addition to your canine family.
Good night BDM. Sleep well and be safe.
Thank you BDM for helping make it such a success!
And we’ve renamed it now from Planet Chat to Vox Populi.
Just to sound like elitists. Have to run now to eat my arugula salad and put Grey Poupon on my broiled steak tartare (hamburger).
LOL. Real elitists never mention their elitism, they just ooze it.
Heh! I’ll leave HuffPo to take care of the oozing, they’re experts in ooze.
LOL…don’t make fun of mustard on a hamburger, that’s what I use, less calories.
Besides, only the little people and uninformed use ketchup on their hamburgers!
Night, and thanks again.
Weekly Planet, Talk, Chat and now Vox Populi. Make up your mind for fuckssake. It takes at least five minutes to make up these graphics.
But you are so darned good at it. 😉
Er…I just decided to change it to each week to that week’s winning Super Lotto numbers.
Hope you don’t mind.
Night BDM have fun fighting Baku for your dreams.
Thanks. Sleep well. It was fun!
Nighty night BigDogMom Thanks for the laughs
So, I dunno what we’re talking about, but anyone here into soccer/football? See the World Cup group drawings?
And, oh yeah, I know they do this yearly, but I saw this in the local paper today: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/us/02atheist.html?_r=2
I was out and about tonight.
I am amazingly ignorant about all team sports.
Alas I’ll probably just watch the WC final but I did play real football a couple of years in high school. I was the sweeper and my claim to fame was my one goal from 50 yards out.
A sweeper scoring! Awesome!
Well, you guys didn’t miss out on much, I just happened to catch it. Charlize Theron was drawing the balls lottery style and letting out more of her Afrikaaner accent than usual in announcing.
We’re in Group C with England, Algeria and Slovenia. A good draw, I suppose. England’s not the powerhouse it once was. Italy had better though – they’re already in round two for all intents and purposes.
I get fanatical about the WC. In addition to sport, there’s a lot of geopolitics and it is absolutely fascinating to me the way their respective team’s play styles reflect their cultural attributes.
That means the US shoots down opposing players with Predator drone aircraft and leaves it’s injured players on the field without healthcare I guess. Sorry I could not help my self.
We have problem with follow through and passionate struggle in our game. And, we generally rely on the European and South American powerhouses to soften other teams up before we play them.
I’m not kidding, soccer is poetry. Take this from someone who was more interested in music and books and who hated all sports for the longest time.
Hey guys,
It looks like I missed the chat — bummer.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have an opportunity to log on for quality internet time until now.
I am going to brows, read and try to catch up.
Hello beachchick. It was fun and stimulating!!
It worked. Thanks a bunch!
Restarting your computer worked?
Yes, I left a message in Chat. My computer usually gives me no trouble so it’s good to know in cases like this. Thanks again.
You’re welcome!
Hi, escrib –
I hope there is another one soon.
Every Friday.
Hey Beachchick we missed you. A few good stories to read on the Planet today so it’s a good time to catch up.
Thanks, KQ
I am off to kick some tires.
I’m glad you showed up!
Hi,Beachchick, hope to see you Friday on Vox Populi. Fast and fun.
OT MAJOR breaking news story out of Montana:
Montana Sen. Max Baucus ensnared in scandal in which he nominated his his mistress to a U.S. Attorney’s Office position.
Wow!
It never crossed my mind he was an unethical scumbag.
UH OH!!! Of course my first thought is how does this impact the health care debate.
EDIT: Doesn’t seem like a huge deal based on this story:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/1209/Baucus_affair.html
What a dillweed this guy is. First Conrad Burns and now this guy embarrassing Montana.
Yeah, he withdrew her name from consideration to save his bacon…
Whew – I can sleep tonight –Shocked, Shocked I am!
It never crossed my mind that any woman would get involved with this jerk either.
Props to KQuark for the cool image for this article!!!
Whoah nellie…that’s BIG!
Correction
Well with a quick look back I can see that I was trying to one of answer one of AdLibs’ earlier posts
with –AdLib – now thats what I’m talking about !
Not –AdLib – not thats what I’m talking about !
-Seeing Rush Hannity Beck with exploding heads is a good thing.
Oh!!! Gotcha now!
I’m going to say good night. This was very successful, AdLib — I look forward to our next chat.
Have a lovely evening everyone. Sweetest of dreams. And have a beautiful day, Kalima!
Good night nelli. Take care and be safe. Rest well.
Good day Kalima, how are you and your furry friends?
I have a young pup laying next to me in my office snoring his head off and running in his sleep! What a happy camper he is…
Hello BDM, you are up late.
We are all ok. Hubby is in Barcelona, it’s raining there too.
Aren’t they the cutest sight when they run or talk in their sleep?
Our black cat Nikkie doesn’t say much when awake, she never stops when she’s asleep.
My greyhounds yip and scrabble and sometimes growl in their sleep.
When are you getting your new foster tomorrow? Hope all goes well and it’s not too shaken up from the trip.
Yes. The truck is arriving in Denver in the afternoon. I just got her crate and bedding ready. She’ll be a mess I imagine, having been in a truck for many hours,plus having spent her whole life in a crate she will be completely bewildered…and then she will start to realize how wonderful and interesting the world is! I’ve been told she’s a “sweet three year old black and white cat safe female named Country Girl.” I’m already in love!
How sweet, you’ll have use a good southern nickname like, “Little Girl” or “Missy”…”Sister” is a good one too, with her since she’s from the south.
Because, lawd only knows, that’s what them hillbilly’s do!
I think that’s what is missing in my life, I need another cat, 16 after having 20 at the beginning of this year, is not enough. 🙂
LOL. Kalima…You have 16 kitties? That is 64 little cats feet.
THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
Carl Sandburg
That was cute escribacat.
Well yes 16 but only 6 of them inside the house, the rest, my refugees, live in our garage.
How’s your RA in the damp weather? Bothers my sister, her knee’s swell terribly.
We are supposed to have snow here this weekend, not much, only 2-3″. Can’t wait for the ground to freeze up, it a mud pit in my gardens for the boys to romp through.
Not so great, full of water every week but the humidity bothers me more.
How was your expected storm the other night?
Not as bad as they said it would be, just blew all night, not much rain.
My sister has her knees drained every once and awhile, very painful for her, but then seems to recover after a day or so.
I see the pain etched in her face these past few years, I know it must be awfully painful…so I feel you, because I see what it has done to my sister and my late Father.
Take care. I’ll speak to you soon.
Night nellie! You were part of the reason for its success! Sleep well!
Night nellie…sweet dreams to you too.
Great posts Nellie
Nighty night
I especially like hearing the ways people view elitists. I think it’s a word people run away from lately because the right has demonized it but it really depends on how you define elite whether it’s a positive or negative connotation.
For example I hope if we do send troops to go after Bin Laden they are elite squads and not mediocre troops.
It’s a very interesting point you bring up. It is really a neutral word, and we can put a positive or negative spin on it. Depending on the context.
When I looked it up in Merriam Webster during the chat, it said “Elitist” was created in 1947 and the original definition appears to be intended as derogatory.
Ah, the plot thickens….
Interesting.
As an etymological and social linguistic dabbler, I find this topic quite interesting. I think about such associations and usage histories often.
Agreed, that was very interesting, and I say that as an elite elitist.
As a word maven, I would point out that there is a difference between “elitists” and “elite”.
“Elitists” was created and has been maintained as a negative reference whereas “Elite” was not and is used often as complimentary of something.
But again it’s Republicans trying to conflate all meanings even elite to have a negative connotation. Worse they expended the definition of elitist to cover groups that are not necessarily bad. To teabaggers intellectual elites or intellectual elitists mean the same thing.
There are several meanings that people apply to elitism…educational, which the GOP have demonized; social, which would be the American Aristocracy, the top 1 or 2% wealthy of our Nation; or as you have used it, an “elite squad”, meaning someone or group that really knows what they are doing.
Like nellie says, it is how it is used in context to the subject matter.
What is everyone’s feelings on what Beck is up to, do you think he’s making a play, like Dobbs for some political office?
This man scares the hell out of me, more than Palin does. He know how to manipulate the masses the same way Hilter did. He plays to peoples fears and emotions.
He’s up to something, I just don’t know what….
Beck seems more likely to go off the deep end in a dramatic way than Palin, to me. But then, Hitler went off the deep end, too. Unfortunately he was in a position of enormous power when he did it.
There’s such a “big kettle of crazy” (to quote Dilbert) in the country right now, it’s hard to tell what’s going to float to the top when it gets stirred.
Beck is making too much money as a goofball, he may have aspirations but aside from running in a heavy Republican state, which have loonies as elected officials anyway, he has no options.
He’s like Arianna, just trying to amass power and wealth so they can be more “important” and bigger celebrities. He is not some Machiavellian genius, he’s a panderer to the lowest common denominator carnival performer.
He’s a geek. That is a carnival performer whose specialty is to bite the heads off chickens.
It’s a living, of sorts.
I used to use “geek” as an insult of choice back in high school…for all of these reasons it does seem to fit Beck like a geeky glove.
Now I knew some really nice geeks in H.S. so I don’t see him that way…I see him more of an asshole or jerk.
Thanks for talking me down, he just seems to be getting more and more exposure…even on my local new station their picking up some of his stories.
Let’s hope you and kesmarn are right…
In a weird way, I almost want him to run with Palin, though the prospect of the two of them actually winning is *terrifying.*
The guy would be an absolute gaffe machine…
Then again, I believe very strongly in the maxim of “be careful what you wish for…”
If anyone in the media even asked them a question regarding policy or experience, both would claim that the ‘elitist’ leftist media was picking on them…
But then again, the media is making a lot of money reporting on these two, so they may tread lightly.
I think it’s all just MSM hysteria to alk about Beck as being a legit choice as a running mate for Palin.
I mean, can you imagine everything that could be dug up on him about his past?!
That alone would be worth having this media fantasy come true.
Well that was fun. And stimulating.
You have to write, read and think a bit faster but you and everyone else were great. You can tell, I’m very pleased with how well it went!
Thanks again, AdLib.
Now, is that conversation stored somewhere where we can re-read it or is it vanished into the mists?
I hope it’s saved.
You can go back there right now to read it, I will archive them too so each week’s conversation will always be available for review.
Duh! Why didn’t I try that before I asked? Getting tired, I guess…
Good night, once more!
Aside from my feeling bad that Kalima wasn’t able to join in, this was a very fun and successful debut of this feature…thanks to the wit, wisdom and temperament of our fantastic members.
Thanks so much, looking forward to next week’s edition!!!
And thank you for your seemingly endless supply of interesting new ideas, AdLib.
My pleasure! Though I’m not the only one here coming up with new features. KQ, Kalima, Nellie and K7 have all come up with great new features too.
That’s part of what we’re trying to do here, keep innovating and developing a site that is the most fun and satisfying. We really want and listen to the input of our members…because that’s who this site is all about!
Cheers!
Thank but I’m ok now. 🙂
Did you try again, right now, to check? I have a feeling your Mac probably needed a reboot since you’ve used it on previous weeks and nothing has changed on this end.
Tried, still can’t send. I’ll log out and in again.
I don’t think that will help, it does sound like your Mac needs a reboot.
Ok but I’ve never had to do that with my first one or this one. What’s a reboot, do I give it a sharp kick with my boots on?
I’m on wireless.
Restart your computer. Usually works to clear up most problems!
Thanks, I was just looking for my “bother” boots.
It just happens every once in a while to all computers, your Mac still loves you.
I’ve taken to steel toed Bother Boots.
Why waste the effort with two kicks when one kick can get the job done?
Was that you lurking in my shoe cupboard, I’m relieved, I thought it was the “Shoe police” sent by hubby who always says, “You only have one pair of feet Imelda.”
Thank you, AdLib, for setting up such a great chat, having such great topics for us to discuss, and making the planet home sweet home.
nellie, you are the best! Thanks so much for the very kind words!
Thanks AdLib, I’m glad I stayed awake for this one…now there is no way I can go to sleep!
Heh! Does get the adrenalin going!
Did Mo sleep through this one in Germany? Or was he there earlier before I arrived?
Mo, we missed you, wherever you are!
Now it’s midnight here, and time to call it a day.
G’nite, friends!
Night kernsman, sleep well.
GN kesmarn, sweet dreams.
Heh! Poor Mo missed it again! Would have enjoyed for him to have jumped in on Afghanistan.
Night kesmarn, glad you got to join us!
That was very fast and furious, but fun.
Very fun!
Gotta go make Popcorn after all that popping
The chat was poppin’!