Kerry sighting on TV--well a few seconds anyway...

[ginnyinWI]

On Newshour tonight they showed a handshake shot of him with an official--sorry I don't know who--in connection with the Palestinian election. The first time I've seen it mentioned on TV. If you can catch a repeat (it's on PBS) it is in the first 15 min. of the program. I'm glad at least somebody in the media thought this was newsworthy!

[TayTay]

1. Well, ahm, he was on the news here

Not, like I want to rub it in or anything, but he was on the news in Boston tonight and they played whole sentences. 'Twas nice.

not sure if the Boston web sites have video or not
try www.bostonchannel.com and root around

[WildEyedLiberal]

2. Not that you want to rub it in or anything

Miss "I live in the same town as Big John, so nyah!"

It must be nice to see his beautiful face on a near daily basis.

[TayTay]

3. I haven't actually

He was in hiding, then went West (Idaho, I think. I believe Idaho is West of Worcester, Ma, so I'm not sure if I could find it on a map.)

Sen. Kerry was snowboarding and skiing and otherwise engaged in doing other kinds of manly sports while in Idaho. Hmmm, probably snowboarding in that nice outift with the wrap-around sunglasses and that hair flying out everywhere. Speeding down the hill, nicely making the turns and moving gracefully down the slopes. Hmmm, probably got back and had a nice rubdown. Oh dear!

Sat night, right?

Ahm, let me switch to my wonky hat. I will do a news search tomorrow and see if I can find anymore relevent stories on our esteemed Senator.

hmmm, I liked the snowboarding pics. Those were really nice. Sigh!

[WildEyedLiberal]

4. While you're searching

Try and find some HOT Big John pix for the Saturday night kink thread. I have about spent all my Hotness ammo, and have a limited supply of pics... more are always good.

I surely hope you can find Illinois on a map :P

[TayTay]

5. No Problem, IL has Democrats

thus I have a natural homing device that allows me zero in on heavily Democratic areas. Shouldn't be a problem.

Idaho though is one of those short 'I' states that are not heavily Democratic. I know it's not flat, I think that's Iowa. (That's where caucauses are held, I should be able to zoom in on that one.) Idaho hangs out with Montana, a bad influence on her in my opinion, and somewhere near the Dakotas. (Who are prudes, right?)

I will endeavor to find pics. I am not a good pic source, but I will do my best. Vektor is a very good pic source. We must entice her to attend.

[WildEyedLiberal]

9. LOL, I don't think too much enticing will be needed

Vektor is as Saucy as I am. And that's saying a lot!

And yeah, the rocky mountain states are kinda sad and freepy, and vote for Bush in epic margins. Beautiful land, though. Not that they care, if they vote for * :mad:

[ginnyinWI]

6. Give up on that Wild---

to them we're just the "fly-over zone!" LOL

A related antecdote: my husband is a service engineer, which means he takes calls from hospitals all over the U.S.--fixes their MRI scanners for them. So one guy he was talking to says, "you live in Wisconsin?? What do you guys DO there?? There's nothing there!" And he was only half-kidding! Yup, nothin' here but cornfields and cows!

[WildEyedLiberal]

7. Hahaha

Wisconsin is MUCH prettier than Illinois. Illinois is flat and yuck, except for southern IL, but when you get further south than Effingham, it's Freeptardville.

But, we are loyally blue (THANKS CHICAGO). Eh, I like the Midwest. People here are quirky but fun.

[Withywindle]

17. You're welcome!

I do have to agree that Wisconsin is prettier.

Madison was especially so the day I took this picture:






(hey, he had to work it in WI. Not with us, we were his already and he knew it.)


Stands out in a crowd, doesn't he?





(Note that, sadly, the other side does not have a monopoly on fools holding campaign signs upside down.) :D

[WildEyedLiberal]

19. Hahaha

But I bet all Dems can spell "Kerry" correctly:



WTF?? IT'S FOUR LETTERS!

[Withywindle]

20. "BUHS"?? Morans! n/t

[whometense]

21. THAT

is hilarious!!!!!!!!! What a bunch of morans.

BTW, anyone hear today's *ism? He was talking about the upcoming "erections" in Iraq. They kept playing it on the radio this afternoon.

[angrydemocrat]

23. LMAO

Is that really what he said or were they just making it up as a joke. If chimp really said that it would be surprising at all he is a illiterate dumbass. Remember the comment about OB GYN's during the campaign.

[whometense]

34. Honest-to-god

he said it all right. It was a lovely moment. We were discussing this particular faux-pas at dinner last night, and decided if he weren't so completely humor-challenged he could just laugh at himself, then everyone would laugh and it would be over.

But * only laughs at the expense of others.

[ginnyinWI]

41. OMG

With slip ups like this he could get us into an international incident or something. (Oh yeah, he already has us in one anyway)

Theories I've heard as to why he screws up so much:
1) never listens to himself, doesn't care, mental laziness,arrogance
2) congenital brain damage--dyslexia or similar affliction--since he doesn't read well, he doesn't know words by sight, only by sound, so confuses them a lot.
3) twenty years of alcoholism has rotted his brain
4) early Alzheimer's (maybe caused by #3)

[vinessa4freedom]

44. My theory is a blend

of the above. He started out with a real learning disability. Personally, I think he's borderline MR. (high functioning, as we used to say in the profession). Years of alcohol abuse seems to have complicated the problem.

[WildEyedLiberal]

24. I could make the most politically incorrect joke right now

But I won't, because I don't want to offend anyone.

[angrydemocrat]

26. Well Don't Leave Me Wondering

Send it to my inbox!

[ginnyinWI]

40. excuse me but....

the correct spelling is "morons"! (just didn't want you to look like one when you while you were describing others....) ;) ;)

[WildEyedLiberal]

45. OMG GINNY!

HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN THIS?

The origin of "MORAN":

[ginnyinWI]

51. hahahaha---perfect! n/t

[TayTay]

47. I heard that one the way home

and almost made my husband pull over so I could hurl. I don't ever, ever want to hear 'erections' and Rethugs in the same sentence again. Makes you want to go live somewhere in a convent with no human contact ever again. (Ewwwwh. I knew those people spawned somehow, but I do not want to think of them like that. Oh, gross.)

The things that come out of that nitwit's maw sometimes.

[whometense]

49. heh.

[angrydemocrat]

22. LMAO WILD!!

Where did find that crap picture at? It is funny as hell they can't even spell a simple four letter word. OMG what dumbasses LOL! Well I have said all along it would take another dumbass to vote for the illiterate dumbass that is a occupier at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This picture is proof I was right LOL!

[ginnyinWI]

39. here's one of mine, from when they were in Milwaukee

This is the rally where Theresa said, "They want four more years of hell!" On stage, Theresa, John, Andre. Sorry I couldn't get closer!

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[ginnyinWI]

27. I'll have to agree: Illinois is mostly flat and kind of grungy--

no offense! We go down to O'Hare from time to time, and hate the tollroad. Was just there Saturday seeing our daughter off on a trip.
But we do visit Chicago once a year for kicks. Wisconsin is prettier--the Northwoods, the Mississippi area, Door County. But yikes, we have higher taxes to make up for it.

[WildEyedLiberal]

28. The only pretty land in Illinois is southern freepland

And I don't go there. Central Illinois is so ugly. Unless you're into huge stretches of field, barns, FLAT TERRAIN, and, uh... corn, in the summer... and... occasionally some trees... and... hell, that's it.

Driving northbound on I-57 between Champaign and Chicago is the UGLIEST part of the United States I have ever seen, I kid you not.

[TayTay]

8. 'tis true, We East Coasters are insufferable

Hey, some of my family live in the 'flyover' states. (Colorado, Arizona, etc.)

It's not my fault I'm geographically-challenged. I can't find anything West of Worcester, MA. (Properly prnounced Wooster, btw, sniff.) It's just that, well, what the hell do you do anyway? All those big empty states kind of look alike. Do they have decent pizza? Can you get a latte at midnight? Do you know what 'culture' is?

(In a year-end artcile in the Bosotn Globe Magazine a writer commented that Boston shouldn't feel so bad about our Sen. not winning the election. After all, we would not have been able to live with all the smug, know-it-alls that would be in our midst. We would indeed be insufferable. Parts of that are true, alas! Harvard would still be insufferable.)

[WildEyedLiberal]

10. Nope, no culture here

I have a third grade education, wear bib overalls and flannel daily, and eat pork rinds and grits every night. Me an' my buddies have barn parties and go cow tipping to pass the time. My ambition in life is to marry me a farm boy and pop out baby boys to help their daddy bale the hay.

Anything else you'd like to know about us hicks from the sticks?

[TayTay]

11. And we sip expensive French wine....

in our fancy mansions and gripe about not being able to get good help these days. Then we devise ways to go down into our vaults and grab some musty old money and go out and buy Volvos with it. Our first stops are at cemetaries where we conduct secret ancestor-worshipping ceremonies that make us feel smug, cuz we were here first and the rest of you were univited but crassly decided to come anway. And we just had the country cleaned.

Later on we tastefully discuss with our maids what kind of present cook would like this year, because we don't actually want to talk to cook as she is kind of scary and we don't really like confrontation. Then we make arrangements to hold the annual 'Let's laugh at the Hicks' contest, because last year's almost, almost caused us to have a facial expression. (Heavens!)

Even yet?

[WildEyedLiberal]

16. Not quite yet

Because I forgot to mention that I attend a large, "nondenominational" fundamentalist evangelical church, where the pastor screams about JAYSUS and HELLFIIIIUH for 90 minutes while the congregation has fits and spasms brought about by the Holy Spirit. And also, I am incapable of using proper grammar. And of course, I voted for *, because he understands my values so well.

I find it hard to believe you upper crust aristocrats drive Volvos. Those are the treehugging Vermonters; I thought all self-respecting bluebloods drove Lexuses (Lexi?).

By the way, my father's ancestors actually did come over here in the 1600s. Granted, they were probably serfs who were drug along when their manor lord decided to pack up for the New World, but still.

[TayTay]

31. Volvo's are the winter cars.

Emminently practical, good gas mileage and great on hills. And they don't have fits when they go over frost heaves at the Lodge in NH.

Now, if you will excuse me, I have a luncheon coming up at the Harvard Club. I am going to have some boiled lobster, some boiled potatoes, boiled cabbage and some boiled pudding for lunch. (I don't trust food that cannot be boiled. Any decent food should stand up to boiling water for 4 or 5 hours on end and have the stamina to not go limp. Real New Englanders boil their food. It's a test of character and proves we have no taste buds whatsoever.)

Now, my dear foreigner, I really must go. I am meeting my editor and we are going to discuss weighty things like the state of the world economy, the frightful events in the Iraq area and how much my house has appreciated in 4 years. (I am so house-rich.) I am sure that you will not understand a word of it, and I haven't the time for remedial instruction at the moment. Have fun handling snakes at church or dating your relatives or whatever else it is you people do out there in the hinterlands. By the way, why is it that people say New Englanders are cold, stuck-up and distant anyway?

[TayTay]

32. Not to spoil a perfectly good prejudiced set of posts but...

I saw this thread on DKos about MA politics and had to steal this. It was much more of a 'flavor of Boston' than any stereotype about old musty rich humorless Yankees:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/11/0723/50053

The new speaker, Salvatore F. DiMasi, is an old school pol -- with progressive politics. He is, among other things, prochoice and pro marriage equality. Finneran, who was originally elected speaker eight years ago by a coalition of conservative democrats and republicans, ran the house with an iron fist. (DeMasi has promised to lead the House in a far more democratic, open and inclusive fashion.) Finneran was so despised by party activists that he was routinely booed at state party conventions. I happened to be present for one memorable such occasion. Finneran was hanging out in the back of where my delegation from Northampton was sitting -- high up and way back in the Worcester Centrum. I was sitting next to a friend who was the president of the United Auto Workers local. I said to him, hey look - there's Tom Finneran -- at which point he lept to his feet, whirled around, pointed at Finneran and shouted: "Get the fuck out of here you son of a bitch!" At which point, everyone around us saw who was there -- and started hissing and booing. Needless to say, Finneran fled.

Back to TayTay now! We are loud, obnoxious, passionate and swear a great deal. Honestly. It can be quite funny around here. There was an article in the Boston Glob last week about brains being stolen from dead Mainers and sent to a brain lab in Maryland. (Maryland needs B-R-A-I-N-S!) You cannot be from Boston and not have a knee-jerk reaction of muffled laughter to that story at first. (Okay, so I'm sometimes evil, so sue me.) This just gets the regional rivalries going. The story proves that 1) Mainers have brains, something we couldn't completely prove before in Boston, and 2) someone noticed when they were missing. (This is of course awful and we will lend them attorneys and stuff to get their dead brains back and sue the coroner and hahahahaha!).

Two days later a letter appeared in the Boston Globe that mentioned the missing brains from Maine. The writer suggested that we should get them back and send them to Washington DC, cuz they had an obvious shortage of them. Ah, Boston!

[whometense]

33. You mean

it's not like that everywhere???

'Scuse me. Time for my cappucino.

[TayTay]

36. What say you woman, as a fellow NE-er

I really have to laugh everytime I hear the 'New Englanders are cold, distant and aloof.' And I hate aloofs, they definitely have to be boiled for a very long time in order to get even the least little bit tender. I want some sympathy and some hugs. I'm not an 'aloof', I am a human being. (I'll take that cappucino now dear, any scones to go with it?)

[whometense]

37. oh, of course!

Scones. Unless you'd prefer a bagel with goat cheese and sun-dried tomatoes.

It's funny - I was born in NY, we moved to Acton when I was 3, and I still don't feel I can call myself a native. I am actually quite reserved, so at least that part of me is New England-y. What I don't get is the reserved / aloof connection. I am passionately loyal and ferociously protective of those I love - and not in the least aloof.

Edited for typos. Ack! Early morning fingers!!!

[TayTay]

38. Muffins, actually

with organically grown Maine wild blueberries and organic butter from Vermont. If it's not too much trouble, please.

I am not sure if I am an aloof. I have never quite figured out what the hell that means. No one I know has ever used that word in a real sentence in front of me, so I have no context from which to pull it. (And step on it and squish it reall good.)

So you moved here from NY when you were 3. Don't worry, your children's children will be natives. Sniff!

[ginnyinWI]

42. LOL--

And as someone from Wisconsin, I can only add:

You betcha! Up here we's guys allus like to go up Nort' and go fishun for some a dem Muskies...ain'a? Then we'll catch the Packer game and open a few.

Haha--really, I don't fish and I don't follow the Packers or sports. I hate fish frys and beer. I am a semi-vegetarian (no red meat) and drink wine!

I graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, BA in English. I like to attend the American Players Theatre in summer in Spring Green (they do Shakespeare plays on an outdoor stage),I attend arthouse films in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Art Museum, I like opera, poetry, biking, drawing. I also am a quilter and gardener. I am a voracious reader of all sorts of books--wonky political, classics, biographies, novels. I have been all over: England, France, Switzerland, Hawaii, and Canada, as well as north, south, east and west in the 48 states. I plan to retire to a West Coast state someday.

How's that for living in a flyover state?:)

[WildEyedLiberal]

46. Well

I am from a small farming town, but while I suppose you could call it provincial, we do have a theater. Every summer the theater produces five musicals, all directed and acted by Broadway veterans. There is a cute little bistro on my town square (I know, we have bistros in central Illinois!) and I currently study history at the University of Illinois in Urbana, sometimes referred to as one of the "Midwest Ivies." I have traveled to France, Switzerland, and Italy, and can speak a bit of Italian and Spanish. I read all the time, and I dislike most forms of trendy pop culture (ie reality TV :puke:)

So, even though I am from the "heartland," I do believe I'm sufficiently cultured to understand John Kerry, people from New England, and other highfalutin' things.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, pundits.

[ginnyinWI]

52. I would have expected no less of you, Wild!

:)
You are very thoughtful and articulate! My daughter's bf is also a History major, coupled with a Journalism minor. His dream is to own his own progressive newspaper.

I think this whole red state-blue state thing is bogus crap. There are both kinds everywhere! About one-third of my suburban street had Kerry signs out, another third had Bush signs, and one third had none. The Right tries to divide us and put themselves up higher than the Left. Yeah, just before they turn on Larry King and dive into the latest sleazy crime story. Hypocrites.
I'm not watching: I'm watching Cspan. :)

[Withywindle]

29. At least Illinois isn't 'flyover'

It's "layover." :D


Seriously, what percentage of the country has had to sleep on a cot at O'Hare at some point in their lives?

[WildEyedLiberal]

30. Ha

Well, my part of Illinois is definitely flyover. No one gives two craps about downstate. :(

[whometense]

12. You mean THIS outfit???

[New Earth]

13. wtf?

that is just wrong. :scared:

[WildEyedLiberal]

25. He's just snowboarding!

Or are you getting uncomfortably turned on again? :evilgrin:

[TayTay]

14. Oooooh,

Ahm, well, seems like you caught me.

I love that pic!

Sat. night, right?

:evilgrin: :evilgrin:
:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[whometense]

15. sorry!!

:evilgrin: :evilgrin:

I'm a sucker for that picture too.

[ginnyinWI]

43. I'm always surprised by how athletic he is

Speaking as someone over 50, I've gotta admire it. For comparison, just imagine Cheney doing the same sports! He's only two years older than JK!! It'd kill him.

[angrydemocrat]

18. OMG WHAT A MAN!!!!

Damn this man is so damn hot! And so damn talented! Damn oh mighty I was trying to behave myself today and there you go posting these cool pics of my hero looking so damn good and so damn SEXY!!! I tell you it is hard as hell for a women to behave herself around here you guys are determine to keep the hormones raging out of control LOL!

[TheDonkey]

35. He was on last night's Daily Show too

a clip of him. It wasn't very positive, but humorous.

[TayTay]

48. It was alright

He had to answer a boring question about the validity of the Palestinian election (yawn) and how it is going to affect (yawn) the Middle East peace proces and, ahm zzzzzzzz.

You answer the question you get, not the question you wish you got.

[whometense]

50. LOL

My two snotty children are making fun of me for using LOL. It appears the expression is uncool, and I am instructed to use hahaha from now on.

Properly chastened, I will only add that I can't stay mad at Jon Stewart for long - even though I show appalling lapses in my sense of humor when he's mocking JK.