Elsewhere in Illinois.
The alert went up on the website at 2:17 and I just now received the email alert.
Dawn: Any luck? Willow: If you define luck as the absence of success--plenty.
'Touched'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - Apr 17, 2008 10:51:09 am PDT #2454 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
tommyrot - Apr 17, 2008 11:06:01 am PDT #2455 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Fred Pete - Apr 17, 2008 11:08:17 am PDT #2456 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Be careful, sumi and co-workers!
sumi - Apr 17, 2008 11:10:34 am PDT #2457 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
They've got bomb-sniffing dogs working on it now.
tommyrot - Apr 17, 2008 11:12:10 am PDT #2458 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Be careful, pooches!
hippocampus - Apr 17, 2008 11:22:23 am PDT #2459 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
thanks sox! How's your little one's cold?
up until 1 hour ago, apocalyptic.
now? she seems fine. I'm waiting for 6pm, when the fever usually hits. Then I'll wait for the 2am one. No sign of either? Tomorrow, same? I will kiss the mailman.
lisah - Apr 17, 2008 11:27:03 am PDT #2460 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
frak, it looks like my co-worker just got fired. but they haven't said anything to us yet. now I'm freaked out!
hippocampus - Apr 17, 2008 11:45:34 am PDT #2461 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
lisah! How weird! Completely out of the blue?
Strega - Apr 17, 2008 11:46:24 am PDT #2462 of 10001
Obama did not say that middle class = less than $75K. He said this:
And one of the centerpieces of my economic plan would be to say that we are going to offset the payroll tax, the most regressive of our taxes, so that families who are earning -- who are middle-income individuals making $75,000 a year or less, that they would get a tax break so that families would see up to a thousand dollars worth of relief.
And then the next question clarified that he seems to basically agree with Clinton's defiinition:
MR. GIBSON: Senator Obama, you both have now just taken this pledge [not to raise taxes] on people under $250,000 and 200-and-what, 250,000?
SENATOR OBAMA: Well, it depends on how you calculate it. But it would be between 200 and 250,000.
Full transcript here: [link]
tommyrot - Apr 17, 2008 11:50:13 am PDT #2463 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Obama did not say that middle class = less than $75K. He said this:
That's what I get for quoting a blogger.
Actually, that's what I get for quoting a blogger I'd never heard of before....