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Post by SpringSummers on Oct 18, 2012 21:42:38 GMT -5
I found this little video of the helicopter fleet landing at the University really interesting, though it doesn't have a lot of action, unless you count the flying leaves and overturned bench. I just didn't realize there were so many copters, and that they could maneuver quite as amazingly as they can maneuver, and then all those cars - what a show. And what a life it must be, to be President. It is hard to imagine how it feels.
There is one tiny glimpse of the Prez, at 5:27
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Post by SpringSummers on Oct 18, 2012 22:22:37 GMT -5
The Al Smith dinner - Romney just doesn't come off nearly as fun as I remember McCain being - much more political, and borderline caustic, like he can't give it a rest. Not enough laughing at himself, IMO, though he does have some great lines when he does do that, and is at his best in those moments:
ROMNEY:
Obama is more self-deprecating and trying to make everyone laugh, not nearly as political, or trying to get all the zingers in, IMO:
SEE NEXT POST
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Post by SpringSummers on Oct 18, 2012 22:25:50 GMT -5
OBAMA: Am having trouble making this show up - if you can't see it, here is the full youtube link:
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Oct 21, 2012 21:33:45 GMT -5
Spent the weekend at Oni-Con. The Queen is very popular at local conventions. Sadly I can only sustain her for two days. By the time the third one dawns the idea of wearing 30 pounds of costume is much too much. I gave my first panel. It was called "So You Want to Create a Character?" They gave me this huge room. Well, I'm not so well known and there were a LOT of competing events (including the costume contest) so I figured if I drew 20 people it would be pretty good. It was standing room only! My grandson attended. Bob assisted me by demonstrating my points on how to create a memorable character. Twenty years at TRF sure paid off. Even though I wasn't in Queen's garb today I was getting TONS of compliments and requests to do it again. I will. First at Maturicon and then at Dragoncon if they'll have me. Oh. And Bob and I got engaged. That is all. I'm so glad I checked this thread - Diane! Squeeeee! *hugs Diane, and please hug Bob for me* This made my day. No, this made my week!
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Oct 22, 2012 11:57:40 GMT -5
I must have been exhausted. I don't know how I put that post HERE....? I meant it for the main board. Going to copy it there.
Oh...and thanks!
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 22, 2012 20:12:29 GMT -5
Back to the proper off-topic-y ness: this comment from Metafilter needs more widely read: Julia, also voting for us, because we need the help.
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Post by Sue on Oct 22, 2012 21:02:24 GMT -5
Romney's use of the term "Democrat" rather than "Democratic" annoys the heck out of me.
Wish I could get past the fingernails on the chalkboard sense and listen to the debate but even Obama is affecting me that way because I hear the same stuff over and over.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 22, 2012 22:55:39 GMT -5
The internet is nothing if not efficient: Horses and BayonetsJulia, I would have been here earlier, but I also was watching a giraffe give birth on the internet: still no flying cars or teleportation, though.
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Post by Queen E on Oct 25, 2012 14:50:38 GMT -5
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Post by SpringSummers on Oct 26, 2012 12:46:22 GMT -5
Ellen is great. I loved Stephen Colbert the other night, advising any GOP candidates to stick a pencil in his eye, should he feel the desire to comment on rape - and to keep it in there, and twist it around, etc., until the urge passes. Great advice!! And that Donald Trump thing!! OMG, what an idiot. I read a quote from George Will, in which he was advising Romney awhile back, to distance himself from Trump. Anyhow, Will used the best phrase for describing Trump - he called him a " bloviating ignoramus." Oh, so perfect! And Colbert's outrageous counter offer - to give $1million to charity if Donald let him put his balls in his mouth - (hello to the imagery!!!) was horrible in the way it perfectly and succinctly skewered the Donald's "offer" to Obama. It is all too much. I just want the election to be over, and I want Obama to win. I liked GWB better than Romney, and I'm no GWB fan. But Romney - he's like Nixon/GWB combo - only without the experience and intelligence of Nixon, or the likeability and humanity of GWB. Not good. I know that both I and the country will survive a Romney presidency, but I don't want to go into survival mode.
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Post by Sue on Oct 26, 2012 14:12:48 GMT -5
Back to the proper off-topic-y ness: this comment from Metafilter needs more widely read: Julia, also voting for us, because we need the help. This comment interests me. "Yellow dog Democrat" is common expression around here (in the South, capital S). Is it elsewhere? It means "I'd vote for a yellow dog before I'd vote for a Republican," obviously back from when the South was firmly working class Dem. Any way. in the local primary in TN back in August if you didn't specifically declare your desire for a Democratic ballot (and if you don't say the poll worker is supposed to ask -- but let's be real people: poll workers are mostly retired or otherwise unemployed folk no smarter than anybody else) the new voting machines defaulted to the Republican primary ballot. Now, my opinion is: 1. If you think you know enough to vote you should be aware enough to notice that your guy(s) are not showing up on the ballot. 2. The machines should stay locked until a specific choice is MADE, not set on a default mode to either party. This was discovered when some local politicians complained after the fact about being given the Republican ballot (see #1 above). Anyway, I wonder if that is what happened to the commenter and what has caused them to now be listed in somebody's records as a Republican voter. I vote in whichever primary is most interesting (half the time folks in primaries are unopposed) so I am on both mailing/calling lists.
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Post by Sue on Oct 26, 2012 14:18:11 GMT -5
Ellen is great. I loved Stephen Colbert the other night, advising any GOP candidates to stick a pencil in his eye, should he feel the desire to comment on rape - and to keep it in there, and twist it around, etc., until the urge passes. Great advice!! And that Donald Trump thing!! OMG, what an idiot. I read a quote from George Will, in which he was advising Romney awhile back, to distance himself from Trump. Anyhow, Will used the best phrase for describing Trump - he called him a " bloviating ignoramus." Oh, so perfect! And Colbert's outrageous counter offer - to give $1million to charity if Donald let him put his balls in his mouth - (hello to the imagery!!!) was horrible in the way it perfectly and succinctly skewered the Donald's "offer" to Obama. It is all too much. I just want the election to be over, and I want Obama to win. I liked GWB better than Romney, and I'm no GWB fan. But Romney - he's like Nixon/GWB combo - only without the experience and intelligence of Nixon, or the likeability and humanity of GWB. Not good. I know that both I and the country will survive a Romney presidency, but I don't want to go into survival mode. And therein lies the difference between you/me and the bloviating ignoramouses at Fox and their worshipers. The language they use (well, heck, I just heard comments from Romney from a speech today, not nearly as hyperbolic but still "which America we will have" -- as if electing a good man from a different party will truly change the entire nature of our country. AARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGH) and the threats likening the election of Pres. Obama to the Apocolypse frost my buns. Yes, Colbert's imagery was disgustingly over the top but maybe that's what it takes to make the point. Jon Stewart also just gave up on the clever sarcasm and ironic commentary and went with video clips of animals flinging and eating their own feces.
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Post by Queen E on Oct 26, 2012 14:50:42 GMT -5
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 27, 2012 1:13:22 GMT -5
Just when I thought my opinion of Willard M. Romney could not get any lower, he comes up with the "Jeep is planning on moving all operations to China" scare-lie. And it's not even his lie originally: it's a right-wing blogger's backassward misreading of a Bloomberg article about Chrysler expanding automobilt construction to China to satisfy Chinese demand for Chrysler products.
What kind of business expertise is demonstrated by taking that BS at face value?
Julia, maybe that's why Bain had a 22% failure rate, compared to the 6% failure of businesses receiving federal alternative energy grants?
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Post by Sue on Oct 27, 2012 10:28:55 GMT -5
It is hard not to think that the upcoming weather will suppress voter totals. Folks will not early vote on those days (do all states have early voting?) and if electricity stays out for days voting will not be on the top of their to - do list.
This could affect outcomes in PA and VA.
I understand that NY is not a swing state, but I've been making the point to all my TN, IL and NY relatives that even if their states are a lock for one candidate or another the 3 most important reasons to still vote are:
3. It's the right thing to do. 2. Find out about your local candidates, voting in those races is IMPORTANT. 1. The overall popular vote remains hugely important. It's not just important that a candidate (candidly, Pres. Obama) win the electoral college but in this political climate it matters greatly that he ALSO WIN THE POPULAR VOTE -- so those votes in New York matter greatly.
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