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Cheers to BiPM!
Cheers to the Tiger, my playmate and sweetie.
Jeers to the high cost of prescription drugs. Cheers to generous doctors who offer me free samples of the ones I can't really afford until we renew our Flex in the fall. Not bad. Not bad at all.
Cheers to a fun game last night with Tiger, which she won!
Cheers and Tears for Mary Tillman, for her persistence and courage in searching out the truth about the killing of her son by those who knew better, and about the lies the military used to cover their asses.
Cheers to voters in Indiana and North Carolina. Let's wrap this up and send her home.
Cheers to Keith Olbermann, for a hil(l)arious summary of her metrics shell game. It would be really funny if it weren't really happening.
Here's to the demise of the lying, terrorist regime in the White House and the utter destruction of all its criminal accessories in Washington, DC, by torch, pitchfork, axe, and rope. May they all, every last one of them, refresh and manure the roots of the Tree of Liberty, and that right soon. sic semper tyrannis.
So long as men die, Liberty will never perish. -- Charlie Chaplin, "The Great Dictator"
by khereva on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:06:58 AM PDT
And to khereva and Tiger and all those who create a mighty splash! Cheers to our favorite employee
by UkieOli on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:08:36 AM PDT
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and cheers to actually catching cheers in jeers when there are few enough comments for it to load quickly.
Kelly McCullough - WebMage, Cybermancy, and CodeSpell available from ACE books (Penguin)
by KMc on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:11:09 AM PDT
should have been cheers and jeers...sigh. It's a good thing I don't actually try to work on books when I first get up.
by KMc on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:15:09 AM PDT
Dean DNC ka-ching! button
by x on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:27:54 AM PDT
granted, it make so much more sense once you click on the video above and it turns out to be a Countdown clip....but I thought it was going to be a Hillary clip, and there's that ghostly image of what looks like KO in the freezeframe of that vid....
Like he was looking over her shoulder fact checking or something....
by pmukh on Tue May 06, 2008 at 09:11:50 AM PDT
is here: Demographic (Election) Tuesday Edition: Worst Presidents?
click to learn about Single Payer Health Care
by DrSteveB on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:12:34 AM PDT
or a jeer? I can't tell.
[-6.25, -5.59] "The love you take is equal to the love you make." - J. Lennon, P. McCartney
by Phil N DeBlanc on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:39:15 AM PDT
going there this morning!!! One square inch of exposed flesh too many and it's Gitmo for you! Got it?!?
Support democracy at home and abroad, join the ACLU & Amnesty International http://www.aclu.org and http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org Your voice is needed!
by tnichlsn on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:12:34 AM PDT
heh
by khereva on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:46:00 AM PDT
Park Ridge, IL...
Scranton, PA...
Little Rock, AR...
Washington, DC...
Chappaqua, NY
She has so many, it's hard to keep straight.
January 20. 2009 cannot come soon enough.
by Crisis Corps Volunteer on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:16:07 AM PDT
always calls her that uppity Park Ridge b...ahem..
"Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do the cats" - Partner™
by Texas Blue Dot on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:17:22 AM PDT
I got my severely broken arm fixed in Park Ridge. I am grateful for the doctors who live there. But, we still kicked Hillary's alma mater, Maine South High School's arse in several sports. Let's hope Obama kicks her ass today too.
by behan on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:19:33 AM PDT
but I don't remember Park Ridge being all that special (no offense, to the good people who live there).
Snobby? Sure. But I recall my home town, Northbrook, liked to position itself as being on the "North Shore." Of course, it's like five miles inland at its nearest edge to Lake Michigan, so what did we know?
Park Ridge, where you got your arm fixed at Lutheran General probably, is where my sister was born. She, too, lists a dozen home towns. Curious.
dissent not only welcome... but encouraged
by newfie53523 on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:26:51 AM PDT
now, Parkside. If you ever need an ulna and radius bolted back together, Dr. Katz is your man. Lovely gent. At any rate, Northbrook boasts the huge watertower that John Hughes painted, "Save Ferris" on back in 1986,for the filming of "Ferris Buhler's Day Off." What more could a town need? Besides, I love that spaceage library that illuminates everything on Cherry Lane at night!
by behan on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:36:05 AM PDT
How do you hide a dollar from a Orthopedist?
Put it in a book.
How do you hide a dollar from a Plastic Surgeon?
You can't hide a dollar from a Plastic Surgeon!
by x on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:06:08 AM PDT
I went to Maple School Kindergarten (this was back in 1960-61; don't know if it even exists anymore), and lived on Farnsworth Lane. I have vague memories of the skating rink and how @#! cold it was in winter. Then we moved to Calif.
Book excerpts: nonlynnear; other writings: mofembot.
by mofembot on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:42:56 AM PDT
is that people who moved into the old houses there opted for tasteful extensions on to their New England style homes. They didn't completely rip down the houses in favor of erecting those horrible McMansions. I'm not sure if it was a preservationist thing on the part of Northbrook's fairly progressive village board. In my hometown Glenview, folks refer to McMansions as "Russian mafia houses." Don't know if that's fair or not, but that's what they call em'.
by behan on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:59:39 AM PDT
My kindergarten was at Greenbriar School.
We ended up moving to California too... San Diego.
by newfie53523 on Tue May 06, 2008 at 09:05:21 PM PDT
went to Wescott(?) Elementary.
We weren't in Northbrook very long -- a bit under two years, I think.
Are you still in San Diego? (My oldest daughter's at UCSD's Salk Institute.)
by mofembot on Wed May 07, 2008 at 04:43:10 AM PDT
UCSD is beautiful.
by newfie53523 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:04:36 PM PDT
When we moved out to the Western Burbs, all the Streamwood neighbors we had thought WE were getting uppity moving to DuPage and all. LOL.
by Texas Blue Dot on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:03:11 AM PDT
while attending NIU back in the early '90s. That area was booming even then.
Lunatics Anonymous, that's where I belong.... The Kings
by Schwede on Tue May 06, 2008 at 08:02:39 AM PDT
on IL-5, instead of I-88.
Now Elburn is the end of the line for Metra (The Way To Really Fly)...
by Texas Blue Dot on Tue May 06, 2008 at 08:29:39 AM PDT
...as long as I never see it.
by khereva on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:17:47 AM PDT
Wouldn't you like to see her in it?
Me, I'd like to see her back in her Scranton cottage home.
I've got nothing against Scranton -- I just wonder how long she could keep up her folksy front.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who know binary and those who don't. (-5.25, -4.97)
by JBL55 on Tue May 06, 2008 at 09:30:51 AM PDT
The Scranton home was too big to fit in the photo. It's a cottage like I'm a fluffy, little, white cloud.
by khereva on Tue May 06, 2008 at 03:19:37 PM PDT
Yankees? Cubs? Sox? Nationals? Phillies??
"I am the one who speaks for the spirit of freedom & decency in you." Hunter S. Thompson
by CityLightsLover on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:24:33 AM PDT
I used to love baseball at Wrigley Field. But then I found out that George Bush likes baseball, hell he even managed a team. Then, baseball became off limits for me. I just don't want to like what he likes, cuz, he sucks you know. I know it's childish. Then, one evening last month, I had this epiphany while back in Chicago. I witnessed the Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit Red Wings in action at the United Center. During the intermission, one of the Soprano Crime Family shot hockey pucks for charity, and they even introduced the Best in Show Beagle, winner of the Westminster Kennel Club Show this past winter. I sat back, and thought, this is a very civilized sport for me to get into.
by behan on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:31:05 AM PDT
What will do it, however, is if Wrigley Field gets renamed! That will be blasphemy!
by CityLightsLover on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:35:34 AM PDT
I could see it happening. A la Mile High at Invesco.
by Texas Blue Dot on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:09:14 AM PDT
Figuratively! I cannot take the vines on the outfield wall at [insert faceless corporation name here] Field!
by CityLightsLover on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:52:30 AM PDT
I mean, c'mon - they already did it with Tiger Stadium...
by Texas Blue Dot on Tue May 06, 2008 at 08:56:41 AM PDT
Go Wings!
by Texas Blue Dot on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:09:28 AM PDT
by UkieOli on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:11:50 AM PDT
a Wings-Flyers series.
That said, one of my favorite hockey players of all time both for his skill AND his looks is John LeClair. So the Flyers are A-OK in my book.
by Texas Blue Dot on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:25:34 AM PDT
back to Philadelphia to enjoy the off season while the Penguins are sipping from Lord Stanley's Cup. :-)
Gotta admit, the Flyers had a heck of a turn around this season.
by Scioto on Tue May 06, 2008 at 08:07:05 AM PDT
The Rangers had a good season--knocked off the Devils.
by melvynny on Tue May 06, 2008 at 09:20:07 AM PDT
Fortune favors the audacious. -Desiderius Erasmus
by Kyle the Mainer on Tue May 06, 2008 at 11:10:42 AM PDT
It's like a game breaks out in the middle of a fight.
by CityLightsLover on Tue May 06, 2008 at 08:38:18 AM PDT
It's a game that allows fighting, that's true...but a truly good hockey game won't have any fighting.
It's like soccer on ice.
by Texas Blue Dot on Tue May 06, 2008 at 08:40:56 AM PDT
Uh...hm...gee...how often do hockey players throw off their clothes?
by CityLightsLover on Tue May 06, 2008 at 08:48:16 AM PDT
they often take their "sweaters" off. Of course, there's still all that padding and the undershirts and everything else...
by Texas Blue Dot on Tue May 06, 2008 at 08:55:16 AM PDT
the trouble with ice hockey is that it's two sports: hockey, and fighting.
by khereva on Tue May 06, 2008 at 03:20:29 PM PDT
This space for rent.
by Danno11 on Tue May 06, 2008 at 08:57:55 PM PDT
all time was a Bruin for most of his career.
Raymond Jean Bourque!
by Texas Blue Dot on Wed May 07, 2008 at 04:47:16 AM PDT
Oh war....it's just God's way of teaching Americans geography...Jon Stewart
by Mom to Miss M on Tue May 06, 2008 at 08:20:53 AM PDT
The doc I went to for a year and a half was very kind to me, especially when she realized how expensive the prescriptions were and the fact that I was a college student. So I'll second your cheers for them. :)
by SundayHighway on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:17:21 AM PDT
I just finished popping 8 weeks of lipitor sample packs out of their foil and into my pill bottle. Working on the Fortamet now.
With luck, the one rx I'm paying for, my BP meds, will be renewed and ready at the pharmacy today!
And with luck, we won't have a repeat of Surreal Saturday, when we picked up Tiger's Rxx, only to find an additional bottle of someone else's meds in there.
From San Antonio.
As an index of how expensive these things are nowadays, when we called th eHEB to tell them, they didn't say "flush them down the toilet and thank you for informing us," but asked us to bring them back.
I shit thee not.
by khereva on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:25:38 AM PDT
After two mastectomies, my reconstructive surgeon gave me a free sample of a large piece of stickum which contained some kind of medication that we hoped would lower the profile of the post-surgical scarring.
He wasn't sure it would work, and he didn't want me paying for an expensive treatment that might not do a thing, as my health care policy was definitely sucking. Fortunately the stickum worked pretty well.
by JBL55 on Tue May 06, 2008 at 10:25:06 AM PDT
Cheers that I finally one a game of WarHammer against Khereva last night! Not an easy task. Sure it was a simple "Combat Patrol" of 500 points, but I won! I won! I won!
heh.
Cheers to all those voting today. I second Khereva's claim, Please end this primary season today!!!!!
Cheers to hopefully an easy day at work today!
Cheers to all y'all! Thanks for all the pics!
Congress, what else does this man have to do to get impeached by you?
by Texas Tiger on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:34:02 AM PDT
Jon Stewart had a good show last night. He equated Hillary's tactics with George Bush. Amazing, and it needed to be said.
by Kyle the Mainer on Tue May 06, 2008 at 11:12:46 AM PDT
wide narrow
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