Please. Do what you can to keep protein wisdom the barely relevant voice of classical liberalism it pretends to be. After all, your throwing good money after bad month after month is what keeps alive what should be a dying site that offers little in the way of intellectual worth.
Thanks in advance. Suckers.
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Sunday update: Thanks to those who contributed. I’m at about a quarter of my target amount just now — but who knows? Maybe I’ll be eligible for a bailout if I can’t make my nut this month.
Monday update: Nearly half way there. Thanks all.
Tuesday update: Not much movement yesterday. A little over half way there. Posting will be light today, what with my son barking like a harp seal. Looks like I’ll be watching a lot of Nickelodeon. God help me.
Friday update: Just about there. Will run the fundraiser through the weekend, then begin sending out the personal notes. Thanks to all who’ve contributed and to all those who continue to support this crazy little template for seething outrage.
Saturday update: Thanks again to all who have contributed. I’ll begin sending out notes tomorrow. I’ll leave this post at the top one last day, should anyone else wish to contribute.
Better you than the Feds…
Hey, I bought software from that link you provided a couple of days ago. Do you get a cut of that?
Heh.
Oh sure, try to make me feel all guilty…
Unfortunately, the Feds got to me first… and utility bills had to wait a bit.
Southern California Edison doesn’t much like having to wait, I’ve found out.
finally hit the tip jar. Thanks so much for all you do, Jeff, and hang in there
I believe in you Mr. Jeff you are my favorite one even if I disagree sometimes about the immigrations and the abortion freedoms and the Sarah Palin but not Kyoto.
Lots of great posts. Thanks for the stimulation. Which sounds gay but isn’t. I swear.
Whud de fug.
does paypal work around here, or not?
Just worked for me, Wm.
If you get that confirmation email, it went through.
Yeah, OK, done.
In a universe of read-alike political & humor blogs, PW is the only one whose best-of I’d pay to own in dead tree form. Hanging out here makes me feel so edgy I have to bathe myself wearing oven mitts.
Jeff. Right now the vig is more than the juice I owe the Guidos, and the loot I’m supposed to be fencing just isn’t moving. I can get you a hot ipod, but I’m have a serious shortfall of cash. Unless I can get some rightous citiczens to cut loose some benjamins, you’re sol.
Brownie, microwaved.
Ice cream, with chocolate chips.
Caramel.
OT: Steve Jobs would appreciate it if you would all just quit whining.
Rusty
If by “righteous citizens” you mean “clients”, I know exactly what you mean.
o_O
Didn’t they stick a few bucks in your hand when they let your out of the “hospital”, ‘cleo? What exactly about a Paypal button reminds you of substance abuse? Is it the fact that you’re all cleaned out?
Crown Royal is very tasty.
Plus it’s Canadian!
‘cleo, you do understand how small and petty you look trying to fling shit in this thread, don’t you?
Even monkeys do it with a far greater sense of class and dignity.
Why do the trolls feel a need to comment on fundraiser threads? Can’t they control themselves at all?
Yeah, I know, they can’t.
Yep, unter-affe.
So is that a “no, I won’t be contributing,” cleo?
Because you might have accomplished the same thing by, you know, not contributing.
Delete it’s nonsense , Jeff. You’ve already asked it to leave.
All right, I sent in my tithing for this month, but if that little armored rodent blows it all on Benadryl and Thai lady-boy hookers again I’m going to enclose a stern letter with next month’s donation to the ‘Dillo Sanctuary. He’s forced my hand.
Yeah. I think cleo is about to disappear from the thread.
Say goodbye, everyone!
wahsatchmo, I sort of assume that the panzer rat has first cut anyway….. imagine what it would be like unmedicated… shudder!
True, but we’re trying to avoid recidivism here.
That we encourage and live vicariously through it is merely unwelcome noise amongst the whirring of tassels upon expertly twirled nipples.
here is a happy song and as you can see they are profoundly european much like other europeans you may have seen in the past and thought my they look european, those ones do
Here’s a Steve Goodman happysong.
Gimme til Friday?
My son is quite ill all of a sudden, and my wife is out of town on business. Don’t know if I’ll be posting tomorrow.
Thanks to all who’ve contributed. I’m a bit over half way there.
Hey, hope the boy’s better soon. I see tonight’s Jimenez’s start, so good luck to him too — blank ’em man, at least for a few innings anyhow.
Good luck with that, Jeff.
Dropped a few shekels your way, Jeff. Hope the lad gets well soon!
And tell that panzer rat to stop patronizing Thai lady-boy hookers; even Ted Kennedy had more class than that.
I hope and pray your son’s illness is not serious and he gets better soonest.
Give you money? Bwahahahaha! I hope you break out in little a**holes and s**t yourself to death.
You wouldn’t be the first, Steppin Fetchit.
By the way, thanks for using the asterisks to hide the profanity. When wishing someone a filthy death, it’s always nice to do so in language that won’t offend those sensitive to the occasional vulgarity.
Priorities.
I’ll throw a few bob your direction as soon as the checks start coming in again – I should be back at work before too long but I haven’t since I got out of the ICU. No shit, that was fun.
Oh, also, I could throw in a few extra if the ‘Dillo bites Nishi again. ‘Cause last time was hi-larious.
Enh, I spent $100 on Amazon Grocery, I can spare a few bucks for an Outlaw!
Also, I saw an off-topic Nincompoop post deleted, which made me happy.
So you became exceptionally staunch?
You’re damn right ‘not much movement tuesday’. I had two bowls of rasin bran this morning. Something’s gonna move!
Hope and Change, baby! Yeah!
oh, I’ve been meaning to tell you about an encounter I had with the little guy a few weeks ago… I was driving home from the theater and saw him scurrying across the hwy, so I picked him up and we went to Wal-Mart, but it was after midnight so we couldn’t purchase alcohol anymore. Fortunately I had enough at home cause I’d stocked up for a party. The less said about the “secret ingredient” in the frozen margaritas, the better.
Leprosy?
Hi, Jeff.
My girlfriend says I have the biggest nuts she’e ever seen. I am very proud.
Work is returning (much to Obamalongadingdong’s displeasure), so I am hoping to be able to help you out within a couple of weeks.
If not for PW, I’m pretty sure I would be in jail by now. Sometimes I think my real name is “Fester”.
SSSSST! SSSSST Steam heat!.
Thanks for carrying on when this whole deal must have slowly morphed into a pain in the butt.
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Comment by bh on 5/2 @ 10:39 am #
“‘cleo, you do understand how small and petty you look trying to fling shit in this thread, don’t you?
Even monkeys do it with a far greater sense of class and dignity.”
And they will also rip cleo’s deceptively stupid face off, should they desire to.
My guess is that when cleo has to support itself, reality will strike.
Right now, it appears that “cleo” is being supported by you and me…
Watch “Avatar: The Last Airbender”. Good show. Really.
Jeff;
Want to contribute, but Mr.HF and his/its libertine British BS about the “so-cons” such as myself, and the continued suport he gets on this site
do not warrant my fiscal support. As a conservative with libertarian leanings at times, you da man, but HF is an embarrassment. No dollars
this time around. . . . .
If I had to guess I’d bet you’re one of those white evangelical Christians nishi’s been telling us about.
Close?
hey ya’ll
didn’t know if anyone has heard about this but over the weekend we had a little flood here in middle tennessee, only killed 19 people, 10 in Nashville alone….anyway this next is from a local writer who tells it much better than me…
Allow me a moment to step away from the usual voice of this website.
What I am about to write has absolutely nothing to do with hockey.
If you live outside of Nashville, you may not be aware, but our city was hit by a 500-year flood over the last few days. The national news coverage gave us 15 minutes, but went back to focusing on a failed car bomb and an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While both are clearly important stories, was that any reason to ignore our story? It may not be as terror-sexy as a failed car bomb or as eco-sexy as an oil spill, but that’s no reason to be ignored.
The Cumberland River crested at its highest level in over 80 years. Nashville had its highest rainfall totals since records began. People drowned. Billions of dollars in damage occurred. It is the single largest disaster to hit Middle Tennessee since the Civil War. And yet…no one knows about it.
Does it really matter? Eventually, it will…as I mentioned, there are billions of dollars in damage. It seems bizarre that no one seems to be aware that we just experienced what is quite possibly the costliest non-hurricane disaster in American history. The funds to rebuild will have to come from somewhere, which is why people need to know. It’s hard to believe that we will receive much relief if there isn’t a perception that we need it.
But let’s look at the other side of the coin for a moment. A large part of the reason that we are being ignored is because of who we are. Think about that for just a second. Did you hear about looting? Did you hear about crime sprees? No…you didn’t. You heard about people pulling their neighbors off of rooftops. You saw a group of people trying to move two horses to higher ground. No…we didn’t loot. Our biggest warning was, “Don’t play in the floodwater.” When you think about it…that speaks a lot for our city. A large portion of why we were being ignored was that we weren’t doing anything to draw attention to ourselves. We were handling it on our own.
Some will be quick to find fault in the way rescue operations were handled, but the fact of the matter is that the catastrophe could not have been prevented and it is simply ignorant beyond all reason to suggest otherwise. It is a flood. It was caused by rain. You can try to find a face to stick this tragedy to, but you’ll be wrong.
Parts of Nashville that could never even conceivably be underwater were underwater. Some of them still are. Opry Mills and the Opryland Hotel are, for all intents and purposes, destroyed. People died sitting in standstill traffic on the Interstate. We saw boats going down West End. And, of course, we all saw the surreal image of the portable building from Lighthouse Christian floating into traffic and being destroyed when cars were knocked into it. I’m still having trouble comprehending all of it.
And yet…life will go on. We’ll go back to work, to school, to our lives…and we’ll carry on. In a little over a month, I’ll be on this website talking about the draft. In October, we’ll be discussing the new Predators’ season with nary a thought of these past few days. But in a way, they changed everyone in this town. We now know that that it can happen to us…but also know that we can handle it.
Because we are Nashville.
thanks for letting me vent rol
Hang in there, RofL. I’ve heard reports and have seen some pretty unbelievable pictures around the blogosphere.
Got some friends in your area, RofL, and they are doing fine. You just told me one reason why.
For what it’s worth, I dropped some other shekels with the Salvation Army, and asked them to spend it in Tennessee. God speed, and God bless.
RofL,
You are lucky that you live in a city like Nashville. It is one of the friendliest places I have ever lived, and I love the people there. They are REAL (except for the minority Nash-Vegas crowd).
I love your city, and have no doubt that the wonderful people there will pull together to pull the chestnuts out of the fire.
It is a pity, though, that such a wonderful town was stricken by this load of trouble.
I have been in touch with some of my friends down there, and they say it is beyond awful.
Good luck.
Lost Dog
you da man, but HF is an embarrassment.
Yes, but he’s OUR embarassment so quit with your lameass excuses and cough up some sheckles.
Besides I might need a job soon and HF knows people, or maybe borrow some money, or score some drugs.
Rusty thank you I logged in cause of I need to remember to google youtube for these “friends of distinction” peoples and the email isn’t working
Wait, ‘feets is holding? Uhhh, sorry about busting your balls, dude. Wanna come over and play Madden?
(That one dude was a fucking prick. Because if he thinks hf is British, there is no way he’s been around enough to be offended by anything. We all know ‘feets is from Wales. To tie that lie to a fund-raising drive? Dick move.)
Hot Air!
Has anyone heard from serr8d? Isn’t he down by/in the floods?
He was on the failbotting thread just a while ago.
This hangs in our bedroom. I’m a Brit but my better half is Welsh-Irish. Don’t mess with either part.
*, and not just because that’s a great coming down song.
Flowingdata.com
Some sections of that site are very beautiful.
here is the song I come home to be googling the youtubes for
bh you survived the MARKET VIOLENCE I am happy.
this is the in particular context of what that site was mentioned for
can you dig it I can dig it she can digit he can digit can you dig it baby cause of digging in the grass is a gas
how beautiful is that? It is very America is how beautiful it is except for it’s yooropian
*grazing* in the grass is a gas I mean not that I care what you do in the grass have at it it’s all good and sunshine and sprinkles and shit
Sorry I can’t help this time, Jeff. I hope I can make up for it next time.
This post is many different flavors of cool.
It makes me feel like I should up my game on this sort of thing. I’m more from the “strip down and highlight the relevant data, graphics are mostly a distraction” school. But, that site gives just so many strong examples of graphics actually motivating the viewer to think about the relevant data.
The mo’ you write, the mo’ I’ll give. Word.
This video is great! The No Apology Song: http://mittromneycentral.com/2010/05/07/no-apology-song-the-case-for-american-greatness/
The more people that hear this, the better. It’s not too late to wake up Americans so we can bring America back! Let’s spread this everywhere we can!
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JG – Sorry I’m late to the party. Ugly week. But I’m always here for ya. Half a Benjamin on the way (other half stays here – I need a coaster).
We all know ‘feets is from Wales.
I say hasannyfeet’s from hunger.
Late, sorry. Had to buy motor mounts.
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