Conservative thread: We're still smiling!

[Decorated_Dust]

Has this thread been quiet for 7 hours? Am I seeing things? Did the rapture happen or something?

 

[#1hockeymom]

I couldn't find us! I know I could have done the user cp/subscribed threads thing, but I guess I was in the mood for a quest?

Morning everyone! Watch out for squirrels! *DH is so tired of me doing squirrel jokes, and it has only been one day!*

It looks like winter here again, and it's sunny. In Michigan speak that means COLD! *too cold for clouds to form over the Great Lakes... our little version of grey skies!*

I'm wondering if we can have a new rule about banning anyone from Chicago into an office higher than mayor? What a mess!

Nineteen days until Glenn comes back to television!

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

I couldn't find us! I know I could have done the user cp/subscribed threads thing, but I guess I was in the mood for a quest?


Morning everyone! Watch out for squirrels! *DH is so tired of me doing squirrel jokes, and it has only been one day!*

It looks like winter here again, and it's sunny. In Michigan speak that means COLD! *too cold for clouds to form over the Great Lakes... our little version of grey skies!*

I'm wondering if we can have a new rule about banning anyone from Chicago into an office higher than mayor? What a mess!

Nineteen days until Glenn comes back to television!

HI All,

I have not been on in a month so I am sure I missed quite a bit. I just wanted to wish all a Happy New Year!

Hockeymom
Have you had any lasagna lately? What's up with the squirrels? I HOPE you do not have one in the house. Ihad it happen twice and it was horrible!

 

[#1hockeymom]

HI All,

I have not been on in a month so I am sure I missed quite a bit. I just wanted to wish all a Happy New Year!

Hockeymom
Have you had any lasagna lately? What's up with the squirrels? I HOPE you do not have one in the house. Ihad it happen twice and it was horrible!

Just clarifying.. you don't want recipes this time, right? LMAO!

squirrels... Just my weird sense of humor. This is my new wallpaper after posting it on the Palin thread. I have no idea why it is throwing me into giggling fits! I can tell you that my backyard is filled with squirrels; many have this look on their face.

 

[MeghansMommy]

HI All,

I have not been on in a month so I am sure I missed quite a bit. I just wanted to wish all a Happy New Year!

Hockeymom
Have you had any lasagna lately? What's up with the squirrels? I HOPE you do not have one in the house. Ihad it happen twice and it was horrible!

Glad you're safe Bella. Been wondering how you've been doing.

HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!! Hope you all have a wonderful day today. I'm busy doing digital scrapbooks. Only four more to get done today. Wish me luck.

 

[Soarin08]

Nineteen days until Glenn comes back to television!

Can ya tell I'm EXCITED???????????????

HI All,

I have not been on in a month so I am sure I missed quite a bit. I just wanted to wish all a Happy New Year!

Hockeymom
Have you had any lasagna lately? What's up with the squirrels? I HOPE you do not have one in the house. Ihad it happen twice and it was horrible!

Gah.... leave it to me to cut the snooze off on my alarm and fall back asleep till 11am!!

 

[blestmom]

I'm home! And was welcomed with a balmy -31.

Guess what? My daughter gets to sing for Governor Palin on Saturday!

Whoo hoo!!!!

 

[studentmom]

Hi Bella!

I'm home! And was welcomed with a balmy -31.

Guess what? My daughter gets to sing for Governor Palin on Saturday!

Whoo hoo!!!!

Whaaat?? That's awesome! Details, please!

 

[debbieandroo]

I'm home! And was welcomed with a balmy -31.

Guess what? My daughter gets to sing for Governor Palin on Saturday!

Whoo hoo!!!!

Welcome back! And way cool about your daughter! Is this the same daughter who was in the chorus over Christmas?

And I'm a little worried about the tendency of winter weather to follow you around -- I mean, how often does it snow in Vegas! Yet it did twice - once in anticipation of your arrival and the second time because you had arrived!

So what's going to happen when you go to WDW? I love snow but that is not the reason I'm going to WDW!

How is your step-dad doing?

 

[debbieandroo]

HI All,

I have not been on in a month so I am sure I missed quite a bit. I just wanted to wish all a Happy New Year!

Hockeymom
Have you had any lasagna lately? What's up with the squirrels? I HOPE you do not have one in the house. Ihad it happen twice and it was horrible!

Welcome back Bella! We missed you - every time I hear about something weird politically happening in Mass, I think of poor conservative you. How was your Christmas?

 

[Tink & Goofy]

We got back from CA on Monday, four days after we were originally scheduled to be back. Long story.

We need prayers as on Christmas Eve DH got a call that he and all the drivers for his job had been laid off until at least Jan 5th. They have a conference call today and we're praying that it goes well and he can get back to work.

I haven't been on this thread as the only net access we had was if DH took his sim card out of his phone and stuck it in my laptop, and even then it was as quick as molasses and everyone wanted to use my laptop.

Happy New Year, everyone!

 

[wonderlanne]

I'm home! And was welcomed with a balmy -31.

Guess what? My daughter gets to sing for Governor Palin on Saturday!

Whoo hoo!!!!

KEWL!!!!

 

[Soarin08]

I'm home! And was welcomed with a balmy -31.

Guess what? My daughter gets to sing for Governor Palin on Saturday!

Whoo hoo!!!!

Glad you made it home safely!! And WOW cool!! You'll have to tell Gov. Palin we said hi!

We got back from CA on Monday, four days after we were originally scheduled to be back. Long story.

We need prayers as on Christmas Eve DH got a call that he and all the drivers for his job had been laid off until at least Jan 5th. They have a conference call today and we're praying that it goes well and he can get back to work.

I haven't been on this thread as the only net access we had was if DH took his sim card out of his phone and stuck it in my laptop, and even then it was as quick as molasses and everyone wanted to use my laptop.

Happy New Year, everyone!

I'm so sorry to hear that T&G. I'll be keeping you guys in my prayers.

 

[blestmom]

Welcome back! And way cool about your daughter! Is this the same daughter who was in the chorus over Christmas?

Yes, it is the same daughter. She will be singing with the Alaska Children's Choir for the Alaska Statehood Celebration 50th Stamp Ceremony. Governor Palin is scheduled to speak. Initially, our flight was coming in just hours after the event, but since we've returned home early, she can go.

And I'm a little worried about the tendency of winter weather to follow you around -- I mean, how often does it snow in Vegas! Yet it did twice - once in anticipation of your arrival and the second time because you had arrived!

So what's going to happen when you go to WDW? I love snow but that is not the reason I'm going to WDW!

Um...yeah...about that...well, I'll really do my best to leave all the cold and snow at home!

How is your step-dad doing?

He hasn't improved, so they are flying to the Mayo Clinic tomorrow.

 

[debbieandroo]

We got back from CA on Monday, four days after we were originally scheduled to be back. Long story.

We need prayers as on Christmas Eve DH got a call that he and all the drivers for his job had been laid off until at least Jan 5th. They have a conference call today and we're praying that it goes well and he can get back to work.

I haven't been on this thread as the only net access we had was if DH took his sim card out of his phone and stuck it in my laptop, and even then it was as quick as molasses and everyone wanted to use my laptop.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Tink - welcome back, we missed you, too! But, with what we heard from Michelle, you are probably glad you missed all of WA's crazy snowy weather.

about your DH - we'll be praying....

 

[debbieandroo]

tryin' to keep us on the front page -

sooooo, now that we're winning in Iraq, the MSM is pulling all of their journalists out? [this is probably good for the soldiers, though]

Quietly, as the United States presidential election and its aftermath have dominated the news, America’s three broadcast network news divisions have stopped sending full-time correspondents to Iraq....

ABC, CBS and NBC declined to speak on the record about their news coverage decisions. But representatives for the networks emphasized that they would continue to cover the war and said the staff adjustments reflected the evolution of the conflict in Iraq from a story primarily about violence to one about reconstruction and politics.

In Baghdad, ABC, CBS and NBC still maintain skeleton bureaus in heavily fortified compounds. Correspondents rotate in and out when stories warrant, and with producers and Iraqi employees remaining in Baghdad, the networks can still react to breaking news. But employees who are familiar with the staffing pressures of the networks say the bureaus are a shadow of what they used to be. Some of the offices have only one Western staff member.

The staff cuts appear to be the latest evidence of budget pressures at the networks. And those pressures are not unique to television: many newspapers and magazines have also curtailed their presence in Baghdad. As a consequence, the war is gradually fading from television screens, newspapers and, some worry, the consciousness of the American public.

One result is that, as the war claims fewer American lives, Iraq is fading from TV screens. The three network evening newscasts devoted 423 minutes to Iraq this year as of Dec. 19, compared with 1,888 minutes in 2007, said Andrew Tyndall, a television news consultant.

In the early months of the war, television images out of Iraq were abundant. “But clearly, viewers’ appetite for stories from Iraq waned when it turned from all-out battle into something equally important but more difficult to describe and cover,” [former CNN and NBC correspondent Jane] Arraf said. She recalled hearing one of her TV editors say, “I don’t want to see the same old pictures of soldiers kicking down doors.”...

Mike Boettcher, a Baghdad correspondent for NBC News from 2005 to 2007, said nightly news segments and embed assignments with military units occurred less frequently as the war continued.

“Americans like their wars movie length and with a happy ending,” Mr. Boettcher said. “If the war drags on and there is no happy ending, Americans start to squirm in their seats. In the case of television news, they began changing the channel when a story from Iraq appeared.”

“Like it or not, the country is at war and there is not a correspondent to cover it,” he said. “Sad.”

 

[Soarin08]

tryin' to keep us on the front page -

Oh yes, we must never let us slip beyond page 1.

 

[debbieandroo]

Worst quotes of the year by the MSM [all by Chris Matthews - who knew?]:

Keith Olbermann: “For 42 minutes, not a sour note and spellbinding throughout in a way usually reserved for the creations of fiction. An extraordinary political statement. Almost a fully realized, tough, crisp, insistent speech in tone and in the sense of cutting through the clutter....I’d love to find something to criticize about it. You got anything?”
Chris Matthews: “No. You know, I’ve been criticized for saying he inspires me, and to hell with my critics!...You know, in the Bible they talk about Jesus serving the good wine last, I think the Democrats did the same.”
— MSNBC live coverage of Obama’s Democratic convention speech, August 28.

“He’s come from a white family and a black family, and he’s married to a black woman, and they’re cool people. They are really cool. They are Jack and Jackie Kennedy when you see them together. They are cool. And they’re great-looking, and they’re cool and they’re young, and they’re — everything seems to be great....He may not win this thing because everybody in America is not going to be in a room with him somewhere....[But] if you’re in [a room] with Obama, you feel the spirit. Moving.”
— MSNBC’s Chris Matthews talking about Democratic candidate Barack Obama and his wife on NBC’s Tonight Show, January 16. [31]

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: “You know what? I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work, and I think that-”
Host Joe Scarborough: “Is that your job? You just talked about being a journalist.”
Matthews: “Yeah, it is my job. My job is to help this country....This country needs a successful presidency more than anything right now.”
— MSNBC’s Morning Joe, November 6. [29]

“A speech worthy of Abraham Lincoln....What I personally view as the best speech ever given on race in this country....I think this is the kind of speech I think first graders should see, people in the last year of college should see before they go out in the world. This should be, to me, an American tract. Something that you just check in with, now and then, like reading Great Gatsby and Huckleberry Finn....One of the great speeches in American history.”
— MSNBC’s Chris Matthews talking about Obama’s speech on race relations, March 18 Hardball. [27]

Chris Matthews: “What are you looking for tonight?”
Unidentified college student: “I’d like, I’d like a display of knowledge and expertise.”
Matthews: “So you’re on the Obama side, right?”
— MSNBC’s Hardball, before the October 2 vice presidential debate. [19]

 

[debbieandroo]

More notable quotes - this time about us conservatives:

Reporter Deborah Solomon: “You helped re-elect Bush in ’04 when you gave $3 million to the Swift Boat campaign to discredit John Kerry’s Vietnam service. Do you regret your involvement?”
Businessman T. Boone Pickens: “Why would I?”
Solomon: “Because it’s such an ugly chapter in American political history.”
Pickens: “Oh, I see. Well, it was true. Everything that went into those ads was the truth.”
Solomon: “Really? I thought it was all invented.”
— From a “Q&A” exchange published in the New York Times Magazine on Sunday, August 3. [72 points]

“[For Obama] the real test is yet to come. The Republican Party has been successfully scaring voters since 1968, when Richard Nixon built a Silent Majority out of lower- and middle-class folks frightened or disturbed by hippies and student radicals and blacks rioting in the inner cities....It is a sure bet that the GOP will try to paint Obama as ‘the other’ — as a haughty black intellectual who has Muslim roots (Obama is a Christian) and hangs around with America-haters....The real question is whether he [McCain] can — or really wants to — rein in the merchants of slime and sellers of hate who populate the Internet and fund the ‘independent expenditure’ groups who exercise their freedom in ways that give a bad name to free speech.”
— Richard Wolffe and Evan Thomas in an eight-page cover package touting “The O Team,” May 19 Newsweek. [64]

“I’m sorry it’s necessary to say this, and I wanted to separate myself from the others on the air about this. If, at this late date, any television network had of its own accord showed that much videotape, and that much graphic videotape of 9/11, and I speak as somebody who lost a few friends there, it, we, would be rightly eviscerated at all quarters, perhaps by the Republican Party itself, for exploiting the memories of the dead and perhaps even for trying to evoke that pain again. If you reacted to that videotape the way I did, I apologize. It is a subject of great pain for many of us still and was probably not appropriate to be shown.”
— MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on September 4 after his network aired a less than three minute 9/11 tribute video shown at the GOP convention. A week later, MSNBC aired more than three hours of 9/11 news coverage as it originally aired on NBC back on September 11, 2001. [42]

“[F]rom John McCain and Sarah Palin....attacks that stoked the anger at Republican rallies, where there have been reports of attendees yelling things like ‘terrorist’ and ‘kill him.’ [to Biden] Are you at all concerned in this home stretch for Senator Obama’s safety?”
— Co-anchor Terry Moran profiling Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden on ABC’s Nightline, October 13. [34]

 

[debbieandroo]

More quotes from Krazy Keith O:

As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats....When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.”
— MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann in a “Special Comment” on Countdown, May 14. [80 points]

“If you believe in the seamless mutuality of government and big business, come out and say it! There is a dictionary definition, one word that describes that toxic blend. You’re a fascist! Get them to print you a T-shirt with fascist on it!...You, sir, have no place in a government of the people, by the people, for the people. The lot of you are the symbolic descendants of the despotic middle managers of some banana republic to whom ‘freedom’ is an ironic brand name, a word you reach for when you want to get away with its opposite.”
— MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann addressing Bush in a “Special Comment” on Countdown, February 14. [63]

So, besides urinating on the Constitution and the rights and freedoms every American soldier has ever fought to win and protect, the Bush administration has now decided that when its victims have actually served their sentences, doled out under its own medieval, quote, ‘justice,’ unquote, system, it still might not choose to set them free, thereby giving that Constitution and our country a second pass on the way out.”
— MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, August 7 Countdown. [55]