Mark Your Calendars Ladies and Gents…The View From Under the Bus Returns Wednesday, January 14th at 9:30PM EST.
Join Afrocity, Angienc, Madamab, Regencyg and me, StateofDisbelief to see who’s joining us under the bus (or getting a bus of their own!); who will be inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame and nailed to the Wall of Shame.
You don’t want to miss this episode Conflucians and PUMAs! Buckle up for a bumpy ride!
This is an Open Thread!
Filed under: General
I love the open threads! Because we all know we only stay on topic five seconds. Now we can start at one second.
Hi SOD! You’re a good PR manager!
Well, we know where the wanktards all went:
http://www.okcupid.com/forum?low=1&tid=7223997838631196585
This poor girl posted an embarrassing sexual event at okcupid and the misogyny sharks are having a feeding frenzy.
from the last thread cleaned up a bit:
Hey Pat how you been ready for a Sunny Florida Vacation…today it was a blamy 72F sunny not a cloud in the sky nice breeze.
From Natural Home:
A special call out to those smart guys and gals at MIT-specially Professor Marc A Baldo-
His team has made a major breaktrhough in Solar Technology. having created the first viable and economic “solar consentrator” that reduces the number of solar cells that are need to collect electricity.
This new process will increase the collective power of PV cells by a factor of 40. IT will greatly reduce the number of cells needed to power a home or office…and the cost too!
Also it can be retor fitted to exsisting sustems and improve there electric output by 50%.
This process uses dyes to concentrate the suns light on PV cells which will be placed around the edge of the collector panel. The technology will be availible with in the next 3 years.
I say this because:
there are 3 ways to end an economic down turn/crisis/panic…
1) you move away from it
2) you spend your way out of it
3) you Invent your way out of it
the above breakthrough could be the beginning of a resurgent american inegenuity in green energy technology that could lift us out of the current economic crisis.
Pampers Inc needs to put money in this type of reasearch not increase my paycheck $ 20 bucks so I can go to Micky D’s 2 more times a week…
Of course angie!
I really have nothing against mickey D’s but all things iin moderation!
Pat–Are you still here? I left to work before I could respond to you this am. I wish we lived closer too–and all my friends here.
I’m still reeling from the Travis Smiley tape. The AA editor at our paper basically said the same thing – let Obama have what he wants, don’t complain, and he will be a great president.
Joaniebone!!! {{{{hugs}}}} we don’t get to see you so much.
Take your coat off and pull up a chair…I’m serving JiffyPop off my head.
SOD, per your previous comment about putting forward an incompetent woman for the express purpose of…..I agree, sadly.
I love this place. I don’t comment often, but you, Myiq, BB, Madama, RD, Dakini, and Sm77 (where is she anyway) Cinie and all the rest of the posters are terrific. And don’t get me started on the commenters. This site has the most intelligent, erudite, wonderfully witty commenters on the internet. Who gives a darn about the Weblog awards. Just keep doing what you do, and people like me will keep coming back for more. Thanks to all of you. You make my day bearable!
hey Angie…!
SAT Question Analogies:
Hillary is to Healthcare
As Fuzzybeargville is to:
A) Bag of Chips
B) Pampers
C) Green Energy and Energy Policy
D) Serving you gests Passive Agressive Appitizers
sorry I can be such a wonk myself that is why I love Hillary so much!
SOD!!!!!! hugs to you! and you.. and you…
I took off work a half day early, and poured a cocktail!
Thanks HT! We love you too. De-lurk more often…We’re among friends.
Jmac, on January 9th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Now we only need Chris Rock to start tell BC how he should help make Obama a great president. First everyone has to help elect him and now everyone has to help him be a great president. When will he do his own job?
joanieboan-
I wish our friends at MIT would make some progress on the Star TreK transporter Technology…they we could all just be a “Beam Me Up Scotty Away!”
Angie — I get all excited when I hear that song now….it’s a really great track
BTW, about ABG on Wonkette, he tried to infiltrate Uppity’s today. I think TGW finally got tired of his invective and banned him, so he’s looking for another home where he can spew his barely literate, totally uneducated, but very mysognist opinions. Seem like a perfect fit – ABG and Wonkette – a marriage made in h3ll
Hi SOD!
I left work a half day early, and have already had a cocktail
I’ve missed you! Hugs back!!
(and a wicked squeeze to angie too!)
Never — weighing priorities I think eating waffles is ahead of that one.
My comments are being eaten:(
I cannot wait-I am sure my view from under the bus better get less obstructed since they shoved Bill Richardson under here I cant see Sh*t!
Can someone rescue Joaniebone’s comments from spam — apparently I can get from moderation but not spam.
Oh and Gov . Richardson hogs all the marshmellows and gram crackers for the s’mores!
third times a charm
I was saying SOD, that I miss you too! and all of you! I got off work early, and have settled in with a cocktail-yum.
Hugs to you! and a wicked squeeze to angie, and a sweet kiss to my fuzzy !
Fuzzy, if you’re close to BR, ask him how Howard Deaniac is doing.
SOD, I keep trying to comment about missing you guys, and it keeps getting eaten.
LOL..the “tin-foil” kitty is the best!!!!!!!!
fuzzybeargville, on January 9th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Gillian Anderson did a documentary about the future a few years back and there was this guy talking about teleportation. He said it would be a reality in the next years. Maybe in 10 years we will have a teleportation machine although what I really want is a time machine.
spam??
I’ve been gone too long.
If myiq or boomer are here I think they can get you out joaniebone.
Tina Tr0ll alert….Tina I suggest before you take on our satire you start with something for the simple minded…like Jon Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”…
Ok go now the big people are trying to play!
Spammy is very challenging sometimes
SHV — that’s my kitty Squeakers. (she squeaks instead of mews — sounds like a dog toy)
Tina Troll falls for a satire.
In the spam filter no one can hear you scream.
Alls well. How are things?
I keep getting here too late to comment. My windows have been so small.
SHV:
You obviously haven’t seen SOD’s tin-foil thong.
MYIQ, it’s so scary…dark…and alone!
Oh HT he and Deaniac are have a big pitty party Deans in real bad shape he keeps grabbing the chocolat for the s’mores and shoving it in his mouth saying:
” ….I dont know what went wrong here I just dont know…but something went really wrong here!”
then he shoves more chocolat in his mouth its really disgusting!
The thong! Legendary.
speaking of tinfoil — when is our next Tinfoil Hat Tuesday myiq?
It seems O’s supporters are already paranoid that he will fail and ready to put the blame squarely where it belongs – on the Clintonistas.
Well, they should be a little nervous. He hasn’t even started yet and already he’s tanking. He needs to remember that he does have that little ‘d’ behind his name.
Poor Tina-she is having her first Segournie Weaver experience!
Stateofdisbelief, on January 9th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
It is annoying how they insist he has to be helped do the job he was hired to do. They job he cheated to get. Obama is called the greatest orator. He is compared to FDR, JFK, Lincoln etc. He is already the best president evah but these so called journalists insist he has to be helped be a great president. They protected him during the primaries and GE and now they expect everyone to do the same. Will it ever stop?
joaniebone — I’ll join you in a cocktail. I’ve been quite smitten by Pomegranite and Asti spritzers. YUM!
Actually tin foil is reall aluminium foil….and when you recycle aluminium it only takes 10% of the energy to put in back into useful economic service as making new aluminium from bauxite.
Of course this is the opposite of Pampers….evry time he recycles some one elses Idea it takes 10 times more energy than the originator used to create it!
Check this out: MoveOn and Obama are relying upon the kool-aid brigade to force his legislation:
“it’s so scary…dark…and alone!”
That sounds like the first time I had sex
Just curious, but has PEBO ever had an original idea?
is it possible that we both had the SAME first—with eachother?
And will they ever stop hitting on Clinton and her supporters? Senator Harkin of Iowa, who called O’s economic plan more tickle down economics, certainly isn’t a Clintonite.
I just hope O hasn’t given her Sec of State just to take it away because of advisors who say she’s hurting him. I read they are already having a tug of war with her over the Middle East.
Whoa, SOD, that’s disturbing. Isn’t it up to Congress and the Senate to debate the pros and cons? Getting the Obamatroops riled up is rather premature – he hasn’t been sworn in yet…or maybe I’m naive?
“Just curious, but has PEBO ever had an original idea?”
Running for President without any work experience?
I hope you get the last comment…I am sure it went way above the Tr0llers heads!
Is angie still here?
State I had a 2 grey bloched tabbies just like yours mine wee sisters Miss MiMi and Musetta…they were complete opposites but both loveable….
Madamab as you can guess by their names Douglas and I were Patrons of the Opera…
Move On says:
Can you sign our petition to Congress to pass Obama’s economic plan right away?
Too late. They forgot to read the afternoon news. Obama is already changing his economic plan. In other words WORM.
jmac – lololol!
BTW – fuzzy brings up and interesting point; Obama’s idea of being “Green” is recycling everyone else’s ideas.
Jmac, on January 9th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
I hope he dares to fire her. I want to see what she does. I am afraid the longer she is a part of the circus the more kool-aide she will be taking. You can’t fight the kool-aide. Soon or later you become one of them
oK a comment about my cats just ended up in Moderation…spammy needs his/her bottom spanked!
please some one get me out of moderation!
Hillary will never drink the Koolaid…I am sure she is waiting in the wings for the hoard of armed disillusioned Obamabots that are sure to come after his Reagan a$$….
Of course Credit Card Joe O’Biden will also meet a simular fate when he chokes on all those visa cards that some poor folks will cram down his throat….
ABG seems to have a complaint for the TC management:
I guess he doesn’t like green eggs and spam
it’s out now fuzzy
myiq2xu — I left a plate of half-eaten waffles for him.
myiq2xu, OMG I went to that okcupid link you posted at the top of the thread. Those guys are such assholes! The guy who took advantage of her is STILL bitching about how she’s overweight. If he thought she was so disgusting, why did he sleep with her? And the rest of the thread is defending this jerk who took advantage of a young woman who was drunk and depressed over the way he treated her on their date. The jerk said later in the thread that he slept with her because he was watching porn before he got there and he was in the mood. So he only used her like a blow up doll? WTF is wrong with some people?
DV:
I really feel sorry for the girl but posting a story like that online is like wearing a “kick me” sign.
Fuzzy, can I do the spanking?
Note to Self: Never use OkCupid for online dating.
Fuzzy — Squeakers was one of two ’senior’ cats we adopted from the Humane Society. They were 13 years old, had lived together their whole lives and were surrended to the HS because the owner was disabled.
My daughter volunteered there and felt bad that they were spending their ‘golden’ years in a box.
I feel bad for Tavis Smiley. Even his own mother was getting death threats and he wasn’t a Hillary “supporter”, he was just trying to bring the black community back to earth and see Obama beyond skin color. He probably feels he has to get a dig in saying Clintonites to help restore his creds. Did anyone see Tavis on Bill Maher during the primaries where he was trying to talk sense to Maher and the other white liberals sitting around the table. They couldn’t believe what they were hearing and wouldn’t even turn and look at him.
SOD — OMFG! I just said last night that Obama is so smug because he knows all he has to do is crook his little finger at the fauxgressives (although he has d!cked them countless times & will again) and they will start the OUTRAGE.
It’s his “community organizer” strategy…create a cultish religious movement and the call upon them to ensure that his prophesies are brought to fruition.
Hell, Jim Jones got people to drink the kool-aid and die; and don’t get me started on Heaven’s Gate and the Halle Bop Comet. JEebuz these people are downright creepy scarey.
DV — I also read that okcupid thing (had never heard of it before) & one commenter got it right:
Both are more proof that 25 is the new 15.
I have two thoughts after reading it: (1) No wonder these a$$hats all voted for Obama and (2) WTF is wrong with this country?
SOD — I think they are more like Heaven’s Gate people — castration, all dressed the same, believe in the “ONE”
GAgal. BO skipping the State of the Black Union should have sent a strong message about the “historical” candidate. It should have reminded many in the AA community who has really been looking after them in DC. Travis and the Rev. under the bus.
wait till they start descending on the likes of Mitch McConnel and Robert Byrd….they’ll scare the bejeebus out of them.
Wish I could be a mouse in that corner…
Here’s the Smiley on Maher video. (I think)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip94fWVlBUU&eurl=http://binside.typepad.com/binside_tv/tavis_smiley/&feature=player_embedded
T4C:
The theory was that Obama had to diss the AA community to win the election but now he’ll be their BFF.
Reality check in 3-2-1 . . .
myiq2xu — it’s like watching a country-wide version of Naked Twister.
Angie the problem with this country is this….
when I pointed out Florida Won and Time Tebow bested the team of the Heisman Trophy winner OSU proving he should have one the Heisman back to back..
The response was – but isnt it nice to let someone else get the award?
My answer was “no it devalues the award when it is an awadfor “being the best” and it is awarded based not on the achievement of “being the best” but because it is some one elses turn!
No wonder we are in deep sh*t and Pampers is getting ready to occupy the Oval for four years!
It wasnt about who was best for the job it was about who’s turn it was…
load of crap if you ask me
angie — you’ve got mail!
fuzzy — it is a load of crap but it is a direct result of what our society has become — all the kids get a trophy just for showing up — no more winners, no one loses, no one gets any blame. It is pathetic.
must be hungry the spelling errors are adding up!
must be hungry the spelling errors are adding up!
angie I just love it hen 2 great minds think alike
angie:
Don’t forget the Jerry Springer/reality TV factor – human misery and humiliation is now “entertainment”
I talked to my semi B-friend today and he loves to tell me what he is getting at the grocery store to have in the house for us when I come up. It is always prepared food and junk. But he always asks me what I want. So today I said, get some fresh broccoli and Cauliflower… “Noooooooooo, I don’t want to get that”.
Now how the hell does he think I am going to lose weight before spring (a goal he says he supports) if he refuses to keep veggie in the house? Men!
angie — more in your mailbox!
I hope Harkin’s “trickle-down” comment goes viral.
Even the mooooove-on kids won’t help much.
Is anyone here involved in marketing btw?
I want my own avatar back
thats better!
I was in my first life.
Marketing copywriter. Got realllllly boring fast. What’s up?
I have this article on 14 passive agressive appetizers from the New Yorker….
I should serve some to a few of my Obot friends….
one of my favs is:
Blend fresh crabmeat with diced avocado scallions and a dollop of mayonaise for a canape’ so delicious that it will take your guests a full minute to realize they are eating it off dog biscuits.
Once they catch on, act morified and stammer that you must have “mixed up the boxes,” until everyone calms down.
Then start crying because the biscuits remind you that today marks marks exactly eight weeks since you put down your dog Bill, and you miss him so much!
Also joaniebone has a good brain for the more overall marketing process of concept thru to finish. Altho sounds like she’s been seriously overworked and underblogging lately!
“Is anyone here involved in marketing btw?”
You’re not a cop are you?
I was just thinking maybe a few of us PUMAs who have been ever involved in marketing could put our heads together and work out how to better promote the pumasphere. I have a few ideas to share and I think it would help? Not now, but in the next few days we could trade emails and chat. Someone has to do the boring stuff, if they know how!
DisenfranchisedVoter-
I’m so pissed over the culture at that site that I’ll be deleting my profile and writing a VERY nasty letter. It won’t do anything but make me feel better, but it’ll still be worth it. I can’t believe what kind of cruelty passes for funny on the internet, it makes me physically ill.
sorry I love that….dog biscuit canapes’
oh another one:
Did you ever notice how sun dried tomatoes and top-grade payote look the same I bet your guests will think so too!
or
Vegetarian friends:
try veggie rumaki wrap a strip of imitation bacon around a water chestnut spear with a tooth pick and broil…but instead of imitation bacon use real bacon and instead of a waterchestnut use veal!
Confluence Science Friday:
“Inside the Savant Mind: Tips for Thinking from an Extraordinary Thinker”
Daniel Tammet is the author of two books, Born on a Blue Day and Embracing the Wide Sky, which comes out this month. He’s also a linguist and holds the European record for reciting the first 22,514 decimal points of the mathematical constant Pi. Mind Matters editor Jonah Lehrer chats with Tammet about how his memory works, why the IQ test is overrated, and a possible explanation for extraordinary feats of creativity.
(He is autistic)
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=savants-cognition-thinking
Gagal. Maher was so full of it. Probably still is. Even when the good old reality check hits him square in the head, he will rationalize with a smile that politics is all lies anyway, and keep on going. You could really see who really gave a damn in the conversation.
myiq2xu, I think the biggest diss will be the day to day embarrassment of sloppy, amateurish government, and good old foot in mouth. A long four years for all of us.
It’s still crickets at TL about the Kaine appt to head the DNC. The Brennen comments are pretty good, tho.
myiq2xu — I gotta run…can you mind the store or put up a new post?
myiq2xu
This is the marketing police.
Put your hands up and step away from the meme.
Anyway I left marketing cos it sucked.
But I learned a few tricks and I think we can do better, is all.
SOD, I’m here too.
sorry but I feel like entertaining Obots now….
fun party suggestion:
remind your guests of there emotional and physical inadequacies then look mortified and and bust into tears realizing you just insulted your guest…(technically not an appetizer) ..repeat as necessary
It was just a wild idea, OTOH but now I am in moderation for it. Ok, you got me, but the police badge is about as valid as Oblahblah’s birth certificate. Will you let me out … please?
Thanks KB — can you take over or put up a post?
fuzzy — the passive-aggressive appetizers are killing me! LOL
well all this talk of food has made me hungry….
Marketing? Store?
Is there something you guys haven’t told me?
SOD, I’ll take over (while I eat) and work on a post after that.
Have a good time.
Thanks KB!
I’m meeting some friends for dinner — see y’all later!!
be good!
Angie I know here is another one:
top thick slices of country bread with goat cheese and sprinkle with herbs serve them to all your secure gfriends run out before you serve your most paranoid friend whom you invited just for fun…then say sorry I must have forgot you were comming
myiq2xu, its all a bit hush hush before the launch, sweetie.
Katiebird_
have the little buggers from “the sites that shall not be named” been makeing mischief?
ok that is it fuzzy is going to eat!
Alice R — put “lh” and “.” in place of my first two blogname-words, add gmail with it’s usual suffix at the end, and it should get to me.
I’m in the middle of a project for my present much more rewarding (morally but not $$-wise) career (healthcare) which will tie me up for a week or so, but after that I’m game. Would love to bounce ideas around, and us Pumas are such fun people for that!
Fuzzy — I am a vegetarian, and if even you gave me something alleged to not be meat and it really was — I’d projectile-vomit it back out at you.
I never did like the taste of bacon anyway. ; )
(crossing fingers) Fuzzy, It’s been pretty quiet, It think.
Oh.My.God. Has anyone else seen Heidi Li’s latest? I’m speechless.
http://tdg.typepad.com/heidi_lis_potpourri/
You are NOT going to believe this.
PumaInSeattle, great! Will be in touch soon, thanks!
bostonboomer, sadly I do believe it and it doesn’t surprise me as much as it should. Very little does now, but now I probably have seen enough.
Fuzzy,
I love the passive-aggresive appetizers! How old is that story? Maybe it’s on-line.
WTH? Blecchh. F*ck those wh*res at Ms Magazine. What is in the KoolAid? This is so f-ing….
Are the rivers running uphill now? Is the sky orange? Is misogyny freedom?
Yeah, I know I should not be verbally abusive to brainwashed sisters, but that Ms. cover is the work of traitors to women.
Wow, I went to that link too -How screwy is this world?
He was a jerk – so why on earth would she go to his place – and then have sex with him?
I just don’t get it. Really weird
bostonboomer, on January 9th, 2009 at 8:10 pm Said:
Oh.My.God. Has anyone else seen Heidi Li’s latest? I’m speechless.
http://tdg.typepad.com/heidi_lis_potpourri/
You are NOT going to believe this.
*************
Have they lost their f’ing minds??????
This is from their web site:
“On Dec. 31, 2001, the Feminist Majority Foundation, run by president Eleanor Smeal, assumed ownership of Ms. through Liberty Media for Women, LLC. A consortium of feminists — including Marcia Gillespie and Gloria Steinem, as well as businesswomen, students, philanthropist, and activists — had been publishing Ms. under Liberty Media since 1998. Gillespie and Ms. co-founder Gloria Steinem were thrilled with the partnership.
“This is the perfect marriage of information and action,” said Gillespie. “I cannot imagine a better gift for Ms. readers than a future strengthened by synergy with the Feminist Majority Foundation and the leadership of Ellie Smeal.”
http://www.msmagazine.com/about.asp
OT
seriously…
from Heidi Li
http://tdg.typepad.com/heidi_lis_potpourri/
check it out
Heidi Li is going to cross-post her piece soon, I think. I’m stunned.
MS.
How low can they go?
DWP,
Good question. My guess is, a lot lower. The women’s movement is dead except for outliers like us.
I just read that – I think we should all take the time to let Ms. magazine know what we think of their “feminist”
July 21 2008-Issue sorry all stepped out for a Jamocha Shake
I don’t know why I’m surprised, but that cover almost made me hyperventilate. Maybe they think if they call him feminist, he’ll be forced (or shamed) into being one. If I see one on a news stand I won’t buy it. I’ll just puke on it and run.
It’s an old issue?
Right now I’m thinking I’ll stab every cover I see.
pumaseattle- passive aggressive appitizers are for obots only
pumas get the real thing
I just went to Heidi’s. What. The. Fuck?
sorry bbthe hnew yorker issue was july 21 2008
I think MS magizine is afraid of being asked to leave the Kiddy table if they dont cow tow to chairman Pampers
the T-shirt should read:
“This is what a FRAUD looks like”
SOD,
Please check your e-mail.
Right on Dead Girl. Or even “This is what an A$$HAT looks like.”
Wow. I feel like Madeline Kahn in Clue. “Flames. Flames! Flaaaames…on the side of my face, breathing, breathless, heaving breaths.”
Obama leaves an awful lot of people under the bus. Now Howard Dean who sold his soul to the devil is under the bus too. Gee how much more can you do for a guy then Howard Dean did for Obama and still he disses you. Wonder if one day Howard Dean will come out and speak about those caucuses.
I think we should look long and hard at exactly what’s in Obama’s economic plan before making it law. We are still wondering where the Bail Out Bill money went.
Nice site, Thanks