Open Thread
In the news:
CIA faces criminal inquiry over destroyed tapes
Veteran Democratic congressman retiring after cancer diagnosis–Best wishes, Tom Lantos.
Violence Grows in Kenya
Pakistan confirms delay in election
U.S. diplomat is slain in Khartoum
Huckabee and Consultant Form an Uneasy Alliance
New Year’s Snowstorm Hits Michigan Hard
Lithium Batteries Banned From Checked Bags
N.H. same-sex unions: promise and reality
Oh, and there’s something going on in Iowa.
Something you want to talk about? Something bothering you? Just want to have some fun? This is the place! Carry on……
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:56 pm
i’ll start.
i went out this afternoon to get the mail, and i was freezing. we have an actual windchill factor!! woohoooo!!!
it’s cold here!! in floriduhhhh!!!
i hate olive garden commercials. the people are so damned happy and they giggle at stupid stuff that other people gigglingly say.
when is the writers’ strike going to be over? i need my office fix!
January 2nd, 2008 at 7:33 pm
I think everyone who hates America and isn’t going to do anything but talk bad about it should leave.
If you don’t vote, then don’t bitch.
If all you do is whine, then move out. I won’t stop you.
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Looks good, Nonnie!
It’s cold here, too. And I’m not liking it. For this I moved to Georgia? Uh uh.
I’m sick of the Countrywide commercials where they tell people whacked with high mortgage payments because they got into Adujstable Rate Mortgages to come to Countrywide for low interest rates.
Huh, interesting. It’s my understanding that people who used ARMs to buy their houses in the first place won’t be able to qualify for the tighter restrictions on mortgages and they’re likely not possessors of the highest credit ratings so they’ll never get those low rates anyway.
But that’s just me. It’s not Olive Garden.
And Wyld - I agree. If you want to complain, pay attention and exercise your right to vote, but I would never tell people to shut up. They can dissent all they want, but I don’t have to listen to them.
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:47 pm
i’m still trying to figure out if i have to leave the country, because i bitched about the olive garden commercials.
hell, it’s not even american food. i doubt that it’s really italian either, but that’s an argument for another day.
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Cold? You think that’s cold? Up here on Cape Cod, I not only can see my breath, I can hear the clunk as it hits the ground.
As an occasional blogger here, I welcome any additions, so I don’t have to listen to my brother’s (Kevin) rants all of the time. He has talent, but, geesh, I’ve been listening to him for almost 5 decades.
Where in Florida? Mom’s there, and has, most likely, spent the evening covering her frost intolerant plants with blankets in Zephyrhills. Let them go, Ma, and buy some new ones…
I’d like to know where Countryside can find the money for the ads, given their positively precarious position. “is on your side” my ass.
I’ve spent the evening watching Boston tv and seeing the ads that the candidates throw up there to hit southern NH. Here’s what I learned: Hillary is just a big head with enough pancake makeup on to make me long for maple syrup, Barak Obama is a college professor who imitates Rodney King (can’t we all get along) and is willing to compromise anything just so people think that he is nice, and John Edwards will kick ass and take names. On the Republican side, oh, why bother?
Georgia, huh? Well, at least it is a dry cold.
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
hi capemh!
down here in floriduhhhh (ft lauderdale area), we don’t have clothes for this type of weather. don’t get me wrong, i love it when it’s cold, but i have to guess a half-hour in advance of when i might have to pee. it takes that long to peel off 12 pairs of sweatpants. it brings back memories of snowpants and coats and sweaters and gloves and scarves and hats and boots when i was a little kid living in the catskills. remember that? your legs were unable to bend for all the layers.
of course countryside is on your side. how else are they going to be able to pick your pocket?
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Bunch of sissies in Florida. Up here we don’t even put the shorts away until it hits the high teens. If you are going to be outside all day you might put on long-johns under the pants if it get below that. And it is a big thing up here to do the midwinter dive into the water, just to get the blood going. We’re tough up here, have to be. We keep getting outvoted in the presidential elections and get slammed on the heating oil charges for it.
What’s up with Olive Garden? I went there once and was so unimpressed, I haven’t been back since. Very ordinary food. For the caloric hit you take eating there, it should be great. It just isn’t. And you don’t have to leave America because of your comments, but I’d be careful what I said on the phones.
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:42 pm
capemh,
as someone who grew up with 6 foot snowdrifts and icicles that reached the ground, i am ashamed of myself every time i put a sweater on when the thermometer dips below 70 degrees. that’s what happens when you live in this humid hell for a few decades.
i don’t know what the appeal is at the olive garden. the breadsticks and soup are good, but everything else is nasty. i have always thought that italian food is best at privately owned little restaurants. there are always a few in every city that stand out. the olive garden is like the mcdonald’s of italian food.
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:16 am
Planned obsolescence (or how to end the infernal whining)
Olives don’t grow in gardens
Florida’s not spozeta freeze
Voters rarely use logic
We need more killer bees.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:27 pm
My random statement of the day: I wish every day was hump day!
January 4th, 2008 at 10:39 am
This morning, on rhe TV news, there was a report that iguanas were so cold that they went into hybernation and fell out of trees in Florida. I guess I’m lucky that it is only raining water in California.
January 4th, 2008 at 11:32 am
oh no!! i didn’t even think to check. there is a huge iguana living in the tree in my backyard. i call him frederick. just last week, there was another smaller iguana back there. i haven’t named him yet, but i am thinking maybe lionel. perhaps nigel. i just looked, and there are no splattered bodies on the ground, so i suppose they are alright. i will be on the lookout for them.