Comments on: Friends who do Stuff http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/ America's favorite blog Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:35:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20380 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:41:14 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20380 Those baseball Tigers are pretty damned awesome. My Mets took a hit yesterday. Hoping they rally. I want Tigers-Mets in the World Series. No wonder NC 5 is represented by one Foxxed up wingnut. Be wonderful if enough whiteys, especially Yadkin County (I've always loved that distinctive name) folk, would come to their senses November 7th. But Old Money Republicans...ouch! Those baseball Tigers are pretty damned awesome. My Mets took a hit yesterday. Hoping they rally. I want Tigers-Mets in the World Series.

No wonder NC 5 is represented by one Foxxed up wingnut. Be wonderful if enough whiteys, especially Yadkin County (I’ve always loved that distinctive name) folk, would come to their senses November 7th. But Old Money Republicans…ouch!

]]> by: dee http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20371 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 04:12:52 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20371 The NC 5th is half of Winston-Salem (the white half) and the northwest piedmont into Yadkin county. Lots of Old Money Republicans and rural voters. But more importantly, the Detroit Tigers are one game away from going to the World Series. Perhaps that should be more appropriately noted in the "October Surprise" comments. The NC 5th is half of Winston-Salem (the white half) and the northwest piedmont into Yadkin county. Lots of Old Money Republicans and rural voters.

But more importantly, the Detroit Tigers are one game away from going to the World Series. Perhaps that should be more appropriately noted in the “October Surprise” comments.

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20370 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:26:38 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20370 It's a thing with me, too, Ann. I hate seeing it be wasted as a synonym for "compose" in "comprised of." Did you ever see the English teachers' coffee mug that said "Linger over language"? I'm not so much a stickler in the pejorative sense as I am someone who just loves language and hates to see a word misused in a way that wastes a member of our wonderful lexicon. It’s a thing with me, too, Ann. I hate seeing it be wasted as a synonym for “compose” in “comprised of.” Did you ever see the English teachers’ coffee mug that said “Linger over language”? I’m not so much a stickler in the pejorative sense as I am someone who just loves language and hates to see a word misused in a way that wastes a member of our wonderful lexicon.

]]> by: Ann http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20364 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:57:52 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20364 David, Thanks ever so much for using "comprise" correctly! David,
Thanks ever so much for using “comprise” correctly!

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20351 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:17:01 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20351 Roger Sharpe, my kind of Southerner. What towns/cities does NC 05 comprise? Roger Sharpe, my kind of Southerner.

What towns/cities does NC 05 comprise?

]]> by: Dale http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20320 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:07:06 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20320 Jim Leyland for President! Jim Leyland for President!

]]> by: Siobhan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20318 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:36:55 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20318 Okay. Talk politics. (but: YEA!!!!) Okay. Talk politics.

(but: YEA!!!!)

]]> by: Siobhan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20317 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:10:54 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20317 DEE! How can you be talking politics when it's 7-5 going into the 9th?!?!?! Oh, right. The future of the country is at stake. Still. DEE! How can you be talking politics when it’s 7-5 going into the 9th?!?!?!

Oh, right. The future of the country is at stake.

Still.

]]> by: dee http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20313 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:18:48 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20313 Roger Sharpe is taking on Virginia Foxx. He had a very nice write-up at <a href="http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/09/blue-america-roger-sharpe-nc-5/#comments" rel="nofollow">firedoglake:</a> Now we’re taking on an even tougher race in North Carolina than Larry’s. In fact, Roger Sharpe is probably Blue America’s longest shot of the election year. And he’s running against the only woman in the House of Representatives with a more extremist voting record than Mean Jean Schmidt, Rep. Virginia Foxx. Please click that link and look at the Foxx voting record. You will gasp! Every horrible thing you have heard about the Bush Regime involving itself in sounded like a great idea to Virginia Foxx. Far right Republicans like Tom DeLay, Steve King (the male Ann Coulter), Colbert’s friend Lynn Westmoreland, Roy Blunt, Barbara Cubin and John Doolittle almost look semi-sane compared to Foxx. Talking with Roger on the phone a few days ago made me feel I was in the Old South. He reminded me of the kind of guy who would welcome a stranger with a tall glass of ice cold lemonade on a hot day. He seemed to be a real gentleman with old school values straight from Sunday School — but from the Sunday schools that teach about Jesus’ love, not about Pat Robertson’s and James Dobson’s hate, Sundays schools that teach about lending a hand to your neighbor, not about using the middle finger salute to celebrate your bigotry and human failings. And Roger has committed himself to a life of community service, having served as a state senator when he was still in his 20s and as an educator and seminarian. During President Carter’s Administration, he worked as a special assistant to the Director of the U.S. Office for Civil Rights (negotiating higher education desegregation plans) and under President Reagan, he was appointed executive liaison to the White House for the National School Boards Association. Roger Sharpe is taking on Virginia Foxx. He had a very nice write-up at firedoglake:
Now we’re taking on an even tougher race in North Carolina than Larry’s. In fact, Roger Sharpe is probably Blue America’s longest shot of the election year.

And he’s running against the only woman in the House of Representatives with a more extremist voting record than Mean Jean Schmidt, Rep. Virginia Foxx. Please click that link and look at the Foxx voting record. You will gasp! Every horrible thing you have heard about the Bush Regime involving itself in sounded like a great idea to Virginia Foxx. Far right Republicans like Tom DeLay, Steve King (the male Ann Coulter), Colbert’s friend Lynn Westmoreland, Roy Blunt, Barbara Cubin and John Doolittle almost look semi-sane compared to Foxx.

Talking with Roger on the phone a few days ago made me feel I was in the Old South. He reminded me of the kind of guy who would welcome a stranger with a tall glass of ice cold lemonade on a hot day. He seemed to be a real gentleman with old school values straight from Sunday School — but from the Sunday schools that teach about Jesus’ love, not about Pat Robertson’s and James Dobson’s hate, Sundays schools that teach about lending a hand to your neighbor, not about using the middle finger salute to celebrate your bigotry and human failings.

And Roger has committed himself to a life of community service, having served as a state senator when he was still in his 20s and as an educator and seminarian. During President Carter’s Administration, he worked as a special assistant to the Director of the U.S. Office for Civil Rights (negotiating higher education desegregation plans) and under President Reagan, he was appointed executive liaison to the White House for the National School Boards Association.

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20312 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:05:50 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/10/07/friends-who-do-stuff/#comment-20312 I sent my very modest donation to the Friends of Tony Barr via snail mail, but it is my second donation, and it felt good both times. dee, Who is the Democratic challenger to Virginia "What is she on and can I have some, please" Foxx? I'm pulling like hell for Heath Shuler to unseat Charles Taylor, although Hendersonville is my second home, so I still have primary residency and vote in FL 24, which means I get to vote against Tom "The Delay Protege" Feeney. I just happen to spend a lot of time at my sweetie's on the Edge of the Green Swamp. How's that for info overload? I sent my very modest donation to the Friends of Tony Barr via snail mail, but it is my second donation, and it felt good both times.

dee,

Who is the Democratic challenger to Virginia “What is she on and can I have some, please” Foxx? I’m pulling like hell for Heath
Shuler to unseat Charles Taylor, although Hendersonville is my second home, so I still have primary residency and vote in FL 24, which means I get to vote against Tom “The Delay Protege” Feeney. I just happen to spend a lot of time at my sweetie’s on the Edge of the Green Swamp. How’s that for info overload?

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