• AdLib : Sounds good! Take care!

  • choicelady : Will do – not much to tell about HOPE, but we will catch up. I’m back Monday afternoon and then plan to have down time before we gear up in July for the health care project. I’m needing that rest for sure! Be well!

  • AdLib : Thanks so much, CL. Maybe we can catch up next week? I know HOPE is on hold until August so we can catch up on everything else. Have a great weekend and get some rest!

  • choicelady : Hi- I think you probably need rest. Even a week later, jet lag has its impacts. I hope you can tell more about your wonderful trip – and I sure hope it bore fruit in terms of projects etc. Write when you can? I am here tomorrow and half of Sunday then off to ANOTHER conference on alternative banking complete with too many people from the Divine Left but with some GREAT ones, too. So feel free to shut the bar down, know we had ‘last call’, and we’ll pack it in. Good fun tonight, thank you! Hugs to the X People.

  • AdLib : Well…just you and me CL. Guess it’s about that time to close the Vox bar for the night. Can I get you one for the road?

  • AdLib : CL – Yep, sometimes Stewart misses the mark and those rare times I wish I could call into the show and say, “Nope, Jon’s totally wrong about dissing Obama on that.” But he still has an amazing batting average for taking down the Repubs, corporations, etc.

  • AdLib : Night Funk, enjoy the hike, sounds like a lot of fun!

  • choicelady : funk – oh that IS great news, funk. Do let me know details! Thank you!

  • AdLib : No worries, Murph, first things first, take care of yourself and the homestead! Look forward to hearing back from you once everything else is under control. Take care out there!

  • choicelady : funk – good luck!

  • funksands : Oh hey! Choice, I’ll email you about my son’s school resolution. Ad heard all about it last week, I’ll shoot you an email. It went very well.

  • choicelady : Murph – take care and stay on the healing path. Hope to see you next week, and hope it’s NOT RAINING when we next meet. Good luck with the plantings. I hope some have survived.

  • funksands : Murph, Choice, Ad, have a fabulous weekend. I have my annual Mt. Si hike on Sunday. (delayed due to rain). Wish me luck

  • choicelady : funk – have a lovely weekend. Go make wifey happy – she earns it daily. As do you!

  • AdLib : Wait, let me try that again…Funk – I don’t think there is a good cable news channel right now though I would hope Al Jazeera might evolve into that. Otherwise, I do agree, no one is as insightful and principled as Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. They are brilliant, I marvel at the regularity of such wit and wisdom behind the very funny material they have every day.

  • choicelady : AdLib – even Stewart can fall into the pit of indignation without substance. Colbert? Never.

  • funksands : Well folks, I should toddle off. Wifey makey facey.

  • MurphTheSurf3 : Well….one and all….bed calls and the dawn will be upon me soon. Ad Lib, I still owe you a return e-mail- it is in draft form from before my sick days….get back to you soon.

  • choicelady : funk – LOL!!!

  • MurphTheSurf3 : Bourne – good advice. Thanks for the spirited debate AND your own little digs…you are sharp, very sharp.

  • funksands : CL, not for MSNBC. Its worked pretty good for me so far though.

  • choicelady : funk – you mean coasting on not being a douchebag is not a winning strategy?

  • funksands : MSNBC can only live on “Hey, comparatively we’re not total douchebags like everyone else” for so long.

  • choicelady : Bourne – sweet dreams, and have a great weekend! Disagreeing about Kevin and arenas is not important to our friendship!

  • AdLib : Night Bourne, you have a great weekend too!

  • AdLib : Murph, thanks for reminding me. Luke Russert and Chuck Todd, not to mention Andrea Greenspan Mitchell make MSNBC such a hack-filled network. Yes, there are good hosts but so many hacks!

  • funksands : Night Bourne!