Vox Populi – 11-28-2014

Buuuurp! (‘scuse me!)

A tad too warm here for turkey, but we did have nice salads!

I don’t think so, Tim!

BRB getting some of that! actually a coffee!

Hey Ad, no shopping today. Cleam

ned up from yesterday

It’s chilly in LA?

Totally agree. I usually wait til next weekend when things have calmed down.

We got a bit of Thanksgiving snow, freezing until Sunday when it goes back into the 50s

Exactly!!

So who cooked?

Sounds nice. Yes, I cooked for myself and my man and also cooked for my landlord and his sons.

Two kitchens, two meals, slept like a baby last night.

Without a doubt.

Of course, money is all they care about. What a sad statement about society…

State elections here in Victoria today. Liberal (GOP) incumbents will probably get thrown out by Labor ( dems) as a protest at the Federal Bunch of eejits

Evening Glenn, survive Thanksgiving?

I’m in a safe GOP seat but I’ll still vote Labor.

Evening, Silly, Ad, and PPO. Yes, I did have a nice Thanksgiving. Sounds like yours was nice, also, SLM.

Ad – seems like we are backwards from the rest of the fully developed democracies…

Yes, ad, but it is only one state, and the gerrymander is alive and kickiing! But the demographics are starting to change, so….. we live in hope.

PPO–your situation sounds like mine. I’m in a red state, but still vote Dem.

Glenn – I had a lot of fun cooking!!!

At least we do get a large voting turnout, due to it being compulsory!

SLM–good on ya for cooking. Luckily, I rely on my son-in-law and daughter to do most of the cooking nowadays. My son-in-law made baked ziti, as well as turkey and all the trimmings. Lots of leftovers!

PPO – wish that we had compulsory voting…

fix that, Ad by making it an honorable duty to vote.

Glenn – yum, nothing better than a man who knows his way around the kitchen…

SLM, yes it’s really no impost, especially when the elections are held on Saturdays and it only takes a minute or two. Plenty of booths, few queues.

Ad – if it were compulsory, then apathy wouldn’t be tolerated,

All-I am so pissed off with all those lazy ass Dems who didn’t vote, and I really don’t care what their reasons for not voting were. I’m going to sound like a tbagger here and yell, “I want MY country back!” Rude, disrespectful repubs are talking about NOT inviting the President for the State of the Union address. WTH is wrong with these people? They’re sore losers and even sorer winners!

Glenn – couldn’t agree more, want MY country back to sanity and sensibility

Ad – of course, because they’d never have another seat in any position

ad, you’re probably right, but couldn’t the US at least vote on a weekend?

Glenn – who do they think will give the SOTU address?

SLM, David Letterman’s Top Ten!

BRB

SLM–They want the President to give it in writing; they just don’t want him to be able to speak in Congress.

PPO – even if it was on a weekend, so many people work weekends it wouldn’t alleviate the problem

Glenn – so they want people to read it?

Ad–you haven’t heard that one? Yes, some repubs are saying that they will NOT invite the President to Congress to give the SOTU address. They want him to put it in writing–in other words, they don’t want to show bipartanship! They just want to show their buffoonery.

Ad – more like puppet presidents need only apply…

Glenn – who specifically is pushing this tripe?

SLM–I guess it’s okay with them if people read it, they just don’t want President Obama in Congress. I’m going to look for the link now.

Ad – he should lock them out

From the article in Salon: As best we can tell, its genesis is a Breitbart News column, because of course it is. Breitbart’s Joel Pollak writes that Obama can just turn in his State of the Union on paper and members of Congress can read it into the record:

Glenn – they’ve obviously completely lost their minds. Sounds like some charges of treason are warrented…

SLM–There you go! Do you believe those assholes? I usually don’t cuss this much, but I canNOT believe these people. They are such babies and brats as Ad says.

SLM I tried to copy the whole quote, but it didn’t make it. However, it seems it began with a writer at Breitbart.

SLM–And…members of Congress can read it into the record. So..if they try this,.does boner get to read it? Will they read it in its entirety without “editorial” comments? Assholes!

I’d love if President Obama gave the shortest SOTU speech in history:

They are no longer to be considered adults. I would go further and call them puckered, gaseous assholes

” The Union is in a state of total meltdown, and it’s all your fault!” End of speech

PPO – he should say the state of the union is crap and especially those who sit before me, tasked with creating laws they instead create chaos.

SLM–I like the adjectives you added!

PPO–No, I think he should give the LONGEST speech. Let the puckered, gaseous assholes listen for an hour or two. And, where are the Dems condemning this move? Why isn’t every Democrat in Congress calling out these bastards for this stunt?

Ad – if we ever have another R president, the Ds should stand as one and moon him/her…

All–Maybe President Obama should read “Green Eggs and Ham” for his SOTU speech. After all, it “worked” for rafeal cruz, didn’t it?

SLM–Ooh, I like the way your mind works!

Glenn – he should read the Lorax then announce that Keystone is dead…

Nice Ad!!

SLM–LIke that one, too!

Ad–Good one!

Ad – can you imagine if he dressed that way? That would be the headline, not what he said…

Ad–Definitely he should pull a Bulworth and do rap! Love it!

All – Verizon in MA has dropped the local Fox affiliates because Cox Communications wanted to increase the rates. Suffering Comcast customer here, but its nice to see corporations going at it!!

SLM, wish everybody dropped FUX

SLM and PPO–As far as I’m concerned, all of the anchors at Fox should be tried for treason.

PPO – unfortunately they didn’t drop Fox News as that is national and not owned by Cox.

All – 400,000 customers cut off with just a couple of days notice. Most were upset about losing access to football…

never having had cable, glenn, I can’t say, but from what I gather elsewhere, you have a point.

PPO–I don’t watch fox, but all you have to do is read on other sites what they say.

SLM, typical, osn’t it that the upset is over football, but warped news still goes on. sigh

All – bringing back the Fairness Doctrine puts a stop to it all.

Hey Kalima, are you with us tonight?

Oops, guess Kalima pushed the wrong key.

BRB

Glenn – she’s with us in spirit…

SLM–The puckered, gaseous assholes will never let the Fairness Doctrine become law again. It would put a stop to foxso-callenews, and probably even MSNBC, which sometimes, IMO, wouldn’t be a bad thing.

All – Cox Communications is another of Romney’s “projects”, guess that car elevator is costing more than he thought to run…

SLM–saw her name momentarily on the side.

Glenn – it would cause all of the corporate media to be broken up, and that wouldn’t be a bad thing

SLM–I agree. What is it now? Only about two or three corporations own all of the news outlets?

Ad – basically what most were commenting, its always the customers that get squeezed.

Glenn – I think there are a few more than that, there are still some regional news corporations, but you’re point is well taken

Hey Sabreen

Happy belated Thanksgiving everyone! I just wanted to stop by and say I hope you enjoyed the holiday.

Ad – I want to attach an image from Facebook that sums up your feelings on the subject. What do I have to do to post a picture…

Hey Sabreen!

SLM–That about says it all.

Ad–SLM’s link worked; I could see the picture.

Glenn – not everyone has a Facebook account…

slm – Thanks a great sign and so true. People were protesting Walmart all over the country. But retail companies like Macy’s are just as guilty. They pay min wage and then didn’t close for Thanksgiving so their employees could spend the day with their families. It’s just so disgusting. But on the other hand, people were lined up for blocks waiting to get into Walmart. So hundreds protested, but thousands shopped.

AdLib et al – Yes I enjoyed the day very much. At least I was able to close my mind to all the crap going on.

Sabreen – agree and those who shopped are so wrapped up in themselves that they don’t see the disgusting treatment of those who have to work. Attended a Veteran

Sabreen–I guess the good news is that some people did protest.

‘s Thanksgiving dinner and sat next to someone who thought the Waltons were entitled to all of their billions. He also was anti-union.

glenn – Yep. But the only way real change is going to happen is when enough people get fed up.

Sabreen–I agree, but I’m afraid that’s going to take a very long time! Hell, people aren’t fed up enough to even vote, let alone protest!

Sabreen – so agree, but that will take a hell of a lot of people to get po’d

slm- Of course there are people like that. If not, then the unions couldn’t have been decimated. We can always count on people who don’t care about other people.

Hey Kalima, how

‘re things in Tokyo

Sabreen – as my man said, he is retired so he has his can’

t be bothered with anyone else

I’m not on the Chat but working somewhere else, so please don’t think that I’m ignoring you.

Sabreen – that didn’t stop him from wrapping up a couple of plates to take home to his wife. He didn’t see the irony…

Well folks I wish I could stay, but I must go. Have a great and safe week.

Okay,folks, time for me to call it a night. G’night everyone. Hope you all have a good weekend. Peace!

G’night Sabreen. Take care.

Nite Sabreen and Glenn, have a happy and healthy weekend.

Hope you are had a great Thanksgiving. Bye for now and take care.

All… Had a ….

I’m signing off, too. Gotta go vote. take care, everybody.