KOEB Meeting: 6/12/06 -- Ben! Wear a Frickin' HELMET Wouldja? Edition

Hi, Pats!

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I have a login. :)

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I never realized it was so much like DU (well, not exactly like DU). I heard part of one of the sessions the other day where they were talking about people arguing, trolls, etc. Just another day on the Internets -- we all have the same tsuris.

We should all meet up there next year.

and then I came here.

They are waaaay too serious sometimes, and they don't play. We're much more entertaining. And we believe the elections were stolen.

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I at least would have thought that they believed that.

We are definitely more fun.

wanted no part of it. Barely let us entertain the notion. I found DU and realized there were others who thought something smelled.

I'm shocked, I tell you. Glad I found this place first and just stayed.

I always thought DailyKos was more of a blog, not really a discussion forum like DU, but I guess it's more than I thought it was, without being as broad as DU is. I'll have to nose around a bit once my 24 hour waiting period is over. Do you use the same screen name over there?

Patsy Stone now and forever.

It's more of a bloviating kind of place. A lot of self-important essayists. :)

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OK, I have to add to this:

Dear Keith,

I know you realize now that it upsets some of us so when you go on vacation that you don't even like to warn us about it anymore. But damn, that way it just hurts all the more.

Please, from now on, let us know. Give us time to get used to it. Especially when you decide to take a WEEK off.

That way, we'll all have time to try to acquire lives. Or at least I will.

I know. Maybe you're moving THIS week. I can understand that. Or maybe this is the big week of your traveling baseball-game tour. If so, I hope you enjoy it. You deserve it.

But still.

Waaaaah.

via mail order, and there might be a backlog. Why not order one now and avoid the September rush?

the less appealing I find him. :(

:loveya:

with no tie. :loveya:

glad he's covering YearlyKos!! What I saw of YearlyKos was great especially the plame panel. For those of you all that didn't see it C-Span has some videos of it. :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

Nice to see you this fine Keith-less evening. :hi:

I'm too demoralized. Good night folks... :-(

It was great. I would haved loved to have been there. Nancy Skinner wound up going -- her staff convinced her at the last minute that she should be there.

a $480 million slush fund for the White House. Here's the link- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1410905
:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

right now, with Alberto bearing down on it.

We are, if you believe it, actually thankful for the rain. Maybe not all of it, but most of it.

kettle of alligators.

It's not spinning enough to really make a huge dent. Also, from this satellite shot, at least it looks like it's quite a bit above Tampa.

Press. :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

here yesterday. Only place in the country, I think.

:woohoo: Let the party begin! Where the hell is Keith?

dg

Missed you! Welcome back.

Do you have your supplies ready? My god, it is way too early in the season for even a tropical depression!! No such thing as global warming my foot!

dg

It didn't even rain all that much today. The scary thing about hurricanes is the circulation. This doesn't seem to have all that much, rendering it a "rain event". :eyes:

Did you sully our reputation?

They tried to put the squeeze on me to roll over & vote for the party favorite for state party chair. I said "I AM NOT A RUBBER STAMP!" I mean, really, these folks haven't won an election in 10 years & they want me to vote for their guy? harumph.

But damn that vote dragged out for 4 hours. Crispy & I were dead on our feet afterwards, depressed that our guy lost :cry: but we did hang out with some other DUers later & had a really good laugh at the whole day.

dg

convention. It would be a blast!

I would love that.

ago. A DU convention might be a lot of fun. :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

Do you have a link? I missed the thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1397924
:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

Looks like it didn't get much traction.

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

:woohoo: :woohoo: You'd get the Texan DUers for sure & we're hard as hell to keep up with.

dg

Although flights to Vegas are usually pretty cheap.

I'm sure they'd appreciate the business.

Of course if we were all together, I guess it wouldn't really matter where we were. I was thinking maybe something more like Chicago.

Let's see what he says.

We don't help win or lose elections? Then what the hell are we doing here?

Markos or Brian? I missed it.

That's my problem with Daily Kos. His way, or the highway.

I appreciate the logic and the thought over there, but I like the circus feeling over here which often leads to the logical conclusion. I like that we all work through the issues, even with the tin foil hat theories, and arrive at the facts through discussion and humor. I don't mind that we're conspiracy theorists, I don't mind that sometimes we're wrong. I like the process here. It more accepting and free. There, you have to write a whole thing and sit back and get yelled at. Here, you don't have to write all that much to get yelled at.

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No wonder they have so many fights over there == not that we don't over here. They sounded like they have all of the same problems we do -- they fight and disagree with each other all the time and lose sight of what the issues really are, they have a major troll problem, etc. etc. etc.

Although it's not as user friendly. You can't really post things like: RFK, Jr. on C-SPAN NOW!

And, like the WSJ -- no pictures.

Also, you can rate responses. I don't know. What's the point?

It's so organized here. Everything has its place.

I probably won't hang out there much.

That last line sums it up pretty well.

Also, the election fraud issue was a dealbreaker for me. Hell, it's the reason I'm doing this at all!

:hi:

Welcome to DU! :hi:

I found DailyKos first, but stopped going there after election fraud became The Scandal That Dare Not Speak Its Name. DailyKos has always reminded me of a bunch of college freshmen sitting around having "deep" discussions to show how intelligent, cynical, and hip they are. ;-)

No room for the beer bong there. :hi:

Never used a beer bong, but I used to have beer practice in the spring. Nothing like chugging 4 or 5 warm, flat beers in about 30 minutes to get the old puke reflexes going. :silly:

I can't be.

Someone must have thought of it, but I'm glad you said it first here.

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

:hi:

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tip or a shoutout to The Wisconsin Countdown fans?? :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

good luck via phone, and they lose.

Who thought the US would win? We suck at soccer.

Go ENGLAND! :)

for her infant before Shiloh's existence. She was very upset to find out that Brangelina bought the same brand. Don't ask me why.

Don't know if this helps your friend.....

But thanks, and :hi:

It's a running joke with us. She'll buy something and the next week it's in all the magazines as the "next big thing". She thinks they're following her. :eyes:

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:hi:
I'm just doing a drive by to say "hello."
I'm not watching the show right now, but I'm assuming it's Brian filling in. I was hoping someone would fill in this person on General Discussion:

Markos (KOS) was Fantastic but who's that Jerk who's filling in for KO

Edited to add the link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2675213

Sheesh. Some people. :banghead:

Brian Unger. Formerly of the Daily Show. :hi:

If I never hear Brian Unger refer to Angelina Jolie as "pillow-lipped" again, it will be too soon.

See, this is the problem. Brian is OK but he doesn't bring the snark to the celeb crap that I need if I'm going to have it thrown in my face night after night. Personally I couldn't care what little Soolaimon My-Name-Means-Pretty-in-French Zazu Pitt wears. I certainly woudn't run out and buy it after hearing her pillow-lipped mommy put it on her. But if I have to listen to this garbage, let me hear about it from someone who will give it all the honor it deserves (none) and all the snark it deserves (every kind imaginable).

Honestly, I have nothing against the kid, but she really isn't the messiah--of Pretty or of anything else (although that was a good zinger, Keith)--and I'm really quite sick of hearing about her, her parents, Suri Cruise, her parents, etc.

Please. Enough already.

You know it's bad when you're happy because Matt Damon had a kid and it was so low-key.

Agree with you totally, Berry.

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From now on, I intend to refer to this child by every name other than what she has. :rofl: