Completely non-political, bordering on boring, as I expected.
So the woman *crying* on CNN about not wanting her children to see the speech was...what's the phrase?...insane?
What a shock.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
Steph L. - Sep 07, 2009 10:02:45 am PDT #7328 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Jesse - Sep 07, 2009 10:07:38 am PDT #7329 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have been going through my crap and taking pictures of things to sell. I have also made a small give-away pile and a larger throw-away pile. I guess I should keep the give-away stuff to see if anyone wants to buy it, but I doubt it... One potential issue is I may sell some furniture, but it depends on my new apartment, which of course I don't have yet! I sure do have a lot of crap. On the plus side (kind of), I found a suit I had gotten too small for, which will now fit again.
Hil R. - Sep 07, 2009 10:08:34 am PDT #7330 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Bits of the speech that I am positive someone will say are socialist:
And this isn’t just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. What you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.
We need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems. If you don’t do that – if you quit on school – you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.
Even though I've seen plenty of stuff from the fifties saying exactly that.
P.M. Marc - Sep 07, 2009 10:09:01 am PDT #7331 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Lovely, Nilly!
Laura - Sep 07, 2009 10:16:51 am PDT #7332 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
On the speech fears: [link]
Nilly - Sep 07, 2009 11:06:21 am PDT #7333 of 30001
Swouncing
you're really getting married
Oh, that's the exact ceremony we're going to have! Down to the bouncing penguins.
Shir - Sep 07, 2009 11:08:37 am PDT #7334 of 30001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Humm.
Not that I think it's even possible, and if it wasn't very rude thing to do at a friend's wedding, I'd do a watch-and-post here.
Trudy Booth - Sep 07, 2009 11:25:01 am PDT #7335 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Oh, that's the exact ceremony we're going to have! Down to the bouncing penguins.
I suspected as much.
And a cheerful assemblage of frogs and piggies, frolicking merrily with no fear of being eaten.
Nilly - Sep 07, 2009 11:30:56 am PDT #7336 of 30001
Swouncing
Shir, sweetie, you're more than welcome to anything that'll make you happy. That's the one principle guiding me when it comes to my guests.
And a cheerful assemblage of frogs and piggies, frolicking merrily with no fear of being eaten.
Is Big Bird kosher?
amych - Sep 07, 2009 11:36:26 am PDT #7337 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
if it wasn't very rude thing to do at a friend's wedding, I'd do a watch-and-post here.
Dude, has your week on Twitter taught you nothing?