Rise up! Take to the streets! For freedom!
(I’ll worry about the end game once I’m flush with cash. Hope that’s okay…?)
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update: about 2/3 there. Thanks to all who have contributed. I promise to buy nothing but the finest cold and flu relief medication.
Thanks, JD!
Frist.
Second, but of course using my real name rather than my fakey internet name.
Thanks, cranky-d!
Sent. Spend it on a bottle of whatever makes the best Molotov cocktails.
When we take to the streets, if we’re wearing woad are we racist against Smurfs? ‘Coz if there’s no racisms what’s the fun in rioting?
Thanks, bh!
Thanks, geoffB!
Steady on there, Braveheart.
Thanks, John B!
Take to the streets?
Meh. There’s a bunch’a snow, it’s cold, I don’t have to work today & there’s booze in the house. Plus, it’s Friday.
Can I stay in, watch The First 48 marathon & just tag the donation “Freedom”?
I swear I’ll mean it (I am William Wallace, etc). But no way am I going out today.
Hell, I may even let the dog shit indoors.
You don’t already let your dog shit in doors?
Hm. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks Chris M!
Well… I don’t “let” him do it.
He occasionally plants a stealth bomb if I have a “The Judge can’t see you ’til Monday” type’a deal.
But always nicely coiled on the tile. Never on the carpet.
Beagles are very considerate.
I once saw an installation art exhibit that is eerily close to what you’ve described.
In fact, come to think on it, where do you live, exactly…?
(Oh. And thanks, by the way!)
I’m now a full-on Texas ex-pat Shanghaied in Arkansas.
Hey Jeff, I’ll try and catch you next month. I haven’t worked since the middle of November, but I just know that sweet, sweet stimulus money is going to hit all those “shovel ready jobs” soon!
Til then, my quick wit and sage wisdom in the comments will have to do.
Kinda like LYBD’s dog crapping on the tile, and you being happy it’s not on the carpet.
You’re welcome.
Thanks, BJTex!
Sorry to hear that, Lee. But no worries: I hear the unemployment rate dropped, and we’re to thank Barack. Also, look at the market. It’s up! So all is well!
Don’t I know it, baby! My pension plan is right back where it was two short years ago! Another year like this, and it might be back where it was three years ago! Woo-Hoo!
I heard about the 9% unemployment rate. If we add another couple of hundred thousand jobs, we outta be back around 5-6%!
Good times they are, good times.
Jonah, apparently drunk-Tweeting from Dulles:
Christ. I think Jonah brought “The Couch” on the plane.
“The Couch” in the Holy Land…this should be good.
I don’t speak “Twit”, can someone translate for me?
I assume the “@blah” construct is a response directed at Twitter user ‘blah’, but what does the “#foo” business mean?
A few sawbucks to the man with the blog. I have been remiss with the other fund raisers.
Thanks, Sears!
Strangely enough I’m having the best two months ever in the steel pipe business, all the while starting a 5 day/month chemo system for 6 months.
Business, blogging and chemistry: It’s what’s for dinner!
The check’s in the mail!
Pro-rated, of course, for the differently dayed month.
I may have a nice wad of stimulus cash headed my way. It would only be proper that I redistribute the wealth.
A couple of thousand jobs a month. For 5 years. If everything else goes right. Then maybe.
Meet the new normal. Bullets and beans, bitches. And meat, ‘cuz meat is tasty. You’ll want to keep a generator handy for the freezer.
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Jeff, I’m sending you a little something from the snows of Plano…
Thanks Don, MC, and Steve N!
Whoops! That should be a couple of hundred thousand jobs. Still, bullets and beans. You can’t go wrong that way.
Thanks, Patrick!
Pablo, I was being sarcastic. The 9% was down from 9.7 on the strength of 36,000 jobs. That’s what they were saying on FOX this morning anyway. I don’t know, I don’t keep close watch on the numbers, but I know what horse shit smells like.
I assume the “@blah” construct is a response directed at Twitter user ‘blah’, but what does the “#foo” business mean?
The @blah is where Jonah is responding to someone, unless the letters RT precede the @blah, in which case he’s retweeting something someone else tweeted. So
The #foo bidness is a hashtag. Ostensibly, you can click on a hashtag and see all of the other tweets that have the same hashtag. For example, the #hhrs is used by listeners to Hewitt’s radio show, so you can join the “thread,” as it were. Hashtags are also used in wit aggregation: right this minute, everyone is joining in on the #statefarmwasnthere “topic.” If you click that link within the next few hours, you’ll see everyone and their dog attempting to crack wise and in some cases succeeding.
In what I posted, Jonah is using the hashtags sarcastically, which is a common use, too.
Me too, Lee. :)
Mrs Cookies just put the minivan in a ditch. I’m guessing heat stroke, maybe she was distracted by a heat mirage, I don’t know. Anyway, she and the boys are OK, so we won’t be stealing any health cares from the poor today, but the Kia’s a mess. I just put $55 worth of gas in it too. I’ll pony up, but may be late.
Thanks Di, now I feel ‘l33t’ or ‘rad’ or whatever. Possibly even ‘amped’; there’s no telling!
Thanks, John S!
Thanks Charles W and di!
Jeff: did my Paypal transaction go through? It hasn’t cleared my bank yet, which is unusual for this length of time, but Paypal confirms.
Yes. Thanks, Lilida!
This is getting to be a habbit. Like almost every month or something.
The post is roughly half the height of a normal post, with curly hair on its feets?
Just sent my cart fees to you today since Mother Earth ain’t cooperating. It’s cold!
Thanks, Stephanie!
#45
wise ass
habit
happy now?
Thanks, Mueller!
Waddaya thanking me for? I haven’t done nuthin. this time I’m gonna have to sell a kidney.
Not one of mine, of course.
Thanks, Terry!
Anderson Spider silva is a fucking monster.
Jeff – You can have what’s left in my paypal account plus any money from a Steeler win over 14 points. It’s all I have to go on. Until my Big Ten picks succeed I’m left with little to offer.
Once again thank you for teaching me basic writing. They say Hemingway wrote the best in paragraph form and Joyce had the best sentence structure. I don’t know. You have some of the best sentences of all time.
Sunday – I hate the Packers (as a Bear fan), but love their quarterback, and their city and stadium; however, Pittsburgh has always been my playoff team during those rare years the Bears didn’t make it. Good Luck to all.
Thanks, Evan!
I’m a known and provable jinx to whatever team I pick.
GO STEELERS~!
Thanks, serr8d!
Hi boss, my payday is Wed, so a few bucks your way then.
Hopefully I can hang on to my job … there is a huge fight brewing between the state and counties since Brown’s idea of saving the state money is dumping programs on the counties. The question being whether or not the counties can just cut those programs.
Certainly the Feds are dumping stuff on the state but telling same states they cannot cut anything.
Isn’t Winning.The.Future fun?
If Obama gets a second term, he can thank his 3000 press secretaries. Whom I believe should be tarred, feathered, and run out into the wilderness on a [high speed?] rail.
Whom I believe should be tarred, feathered, and run out into the wilderness on a [high speed?] rail.
And then hunted by Rutger Hauer, like in that movie Surviving the Game.
I always liked Ice-T for some reason.
The actor/rapper what dates the white chick with the huge ass and moose knuckle, not the refreshing drink.
Anyway, I’m glad he survived the game.
He seems like good people.
Thanks, Jim!
You’re welcome! ;^)
Heh. You spilled the beans Spiny. From here on out you’re getting the, “I’m a doctor Jim, not a….”
And I’m calling you “Bones”.
I have a SuperBowl party I have to drive an hour+ to get to — in the snow.
So naturally, I’ve already started drinking. I figure I should be asleep about 10 minutes before I get to the party. Good thing I have programmable GPS on my iPhone.
That thing drives the car for you, right?
OnStar Jeff. That’s where the real money (ambulance) is at.
Thanks, LMC!
… William Holden in “Open Season“.
Your PayPal still doesn’t like my card.
Thanks, John H!
Thanks, Roger!
As an aside, usually these threads are troll magnets. Registration seems to be working.
Our last troll found it to be too much work to keep registering new names, I guess.
Jeff – Sorry to report that I have had no luck. My comments lack any substance and are very badly written. Still, I have hope. Maybe with a lot of work (and luck) I’ll have something to add to your site. Good Luck and God Bless. ——-
Thanks, Weslee!
You know what you never see on these threads? Screaming yellow electric hamsters.
Which seems like quite the statistical anomoly, given the sheer density of hamster-posts on every other thread.
Just sayin’.
zoinks!
Thanks, William!
I’ve paid my indulgence. Absolution, pretty please.
Thanks, Thomas!