Comments on: Me on TV. Who for VP? http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/ America's favorite blog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:36:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Bonnie Yoder http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34338 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:52:25 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34338 Hey Susie - How about an out-of-the-box choice? Try our local Mayor: www.votegarner.com Sincerely, Bonnie Yoder Mayor's Secretary Hey Susie -

How about an out-of-the-box choice? Try our local Mayor:

www.votegarner.com

Sincerely,
Bonnie Yoder
Mayor’s Secretary

]]> by: Miss Piggy http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34321 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:50:38 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34321 I am waiting, Senator Obama. Do not disappoint me. I am waiting, Senator Obama. Do not disappoint me.

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34320 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:47:52 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34320 Much good karma to the young 'uns, cooper. Road trips are still the coolest, although now much better at 50+ mpg. But you gotta go with the vehicle you have. Ellie Holmes Norton is truly as good as they come. Love that lady and all she stands for. Much good karma to the young ‘uns, cooper. Road trips are still the coolest, although now much better at 50+ mpg. But you gotta go with the vehicle you have.

Ellie Holmes Norton is truly as good as they come. Love that lady and all she stands for.

]]> by: cooper http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34319 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:15:50 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34319 Ahh, there's nothing quite like spending a summer's evening attending a AAA minor league game with your soon-to-be 19 year old son who now knows more about America's favorite pastime than you do. This is how it should be; it certainly takes the pressure off of ol' Dad to feel like he has to have all the answers. (I absolutely don't, not by a long shot.) The Knights lost to the Buffalo Bison 5-0, with Charlotte leaving the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth. Still it was a good game, closer than the score would indicate. Next week the boy and my daughter will be driving to Maine, their first road trip together. Send good karma their way, if you happen to think of it and have a free moment. Ahh, there’s nothing quite like spending a summer’s evening attending a AAA minor league game with your soon-to-be 19 year old son who now knows more about America’s favorite pastime than you do. This is how it should be; it certainly takes the pressure off of ol’ Dad to feel like he has to have all the answers. (I absolutely don’t, not by a long shot.)

The Knights lost to the Buffalo Bison 5-0, with Charlotte leaving the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth. Still it was a good game, closer than the score would indicate. Next week the boy and my daughter will be driving to Maine, their first road trip together. Send good karma their way, if you happen to think of it and have a free moment.

]]> by: Jimmy, yeah that Jimmy http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34318 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:08:01 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34318 gillian certainly has made herself scarce this week. I went over several times early in the week, her car was there, but the house was dark and locked up tight. She wasn't answering the phone or the door. At least she's feeding her cat. I'll have to watch for her coming out at feeding time over the next few days. We need to talk. gillian certainly has made herself scarce this week. I went over several times early in the week, her car was there, but the house was dark and locked up tight. She wasn’t answering the phone or the door. At least she’s feeding her cat. I’ll have to watch for her coming out at feeding time over the next few days. We need to talk.

]]> by: Boomer http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34312 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:56:37 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34312 But I like this one even better. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/26/peace-activists-arrested-attempting-citizens-arrest-of-karl-rove/ But I like this one even better.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/26/peace-activists-arrested-atte mpting-citizens-arrest-of-karl-rove/

]]> by: Boomer http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34311 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:53:54 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34311 I love this photo of John McCain. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/26/open-thread-876/ I love this photo of John McCain.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/26/open-thread-876/

]]> by: Samuel http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34310 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:39:26 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34310 I was all set to be interviewed by Teri Gross last Thursday on Fresh Air (eat your heart out, pilgrims!) as John McCain's Deputy Assistant Head of Economics and happened to drop that little nugget into a phone conversation I had on Wednesday night with my latest high-tech maven, Gidget. She hung up and used the Google to drill through my numerous aliases all the way back to my birth certificate - my real birth certificate, not the 27 others I've used in the past - and found out my given name. With that name in hand, she hacked into one of the government's supercomputers through a back door she's rigged up and ran my plates, as it were. Five minutes later, she called me back and warned me off the interview. She spoke to me in the strongest terms that under no circumstances should I go on a national radio program. Apparently the NSA has new voice recognition software and they're using it to scan subversive media outlets for "terrorists". Noting that the NSA and I have a history and they're still pretty steamed about my last slight of hand, she suggested that I pass on this. Gidget said if I insisted on doing the interview, that she would have to be paid two months wages in advance - cash only - or she'd drop a couple of dimes on me to the Feds. I tell you, kids these days think the world is their oyster, especially these 15 year olds who have mastered graduate school level computer science, instead of playing soccer in the local church league. I don't currently have $7000 in my back pocket, so I said "OK, I'll take a dive." The next morning, I went into the office, into my cubicle, opened the middle drawer and pulled out my secret stash of Syrup of Ipecac. I held me nose, knocked back a sufficiently efficacious dose, stepped into Steve Schimdt's office and blew chunks of my breakfast all over his new carpet. "I'm sorry." I said, "I don't feel so good." From the looks of Steve, neither did he, but he held it together enough to call that wienie, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, to fill in for me. Damn, I wanted to do that interview, but I can't make nearly the money in prison that I can on the outside. I know. I've tried. Marlene was disappointed, but I promised her a trip to Burlington, VT and a cabin on Lake Champlain for 2 weeks in August, when it's hotter than 40 Hells down here. She said that would work. I was all set to be interviewed by Teri Gross last Thursday on Fresh Air (eat your heart out, pilgrims!) as John McCain’s Deputy Assistant Head of Economics and happened to drop that little nugget into a phone conversation I had on Wednesday night with my latest high-tech maven, Gidget. She hung up and used the Google to drill through my numerous aliases all the way back to my birth certificate - my real birth certificate, not the 27 others I’ve used in the past - and found out my given name. With that name in hand, she hacked into one of the government’s supercomputers through a back door she’s rigged up and ran my plates, as it were. Five minutes later, she called me back and warned me off the interview. She spoke to me in the strongest terms that under no circumstances should I go on a national radio program. Apparently the NSA has new voice recognition software and they’re using it to scan subversive media outlets for “terrorists”. Noting that the NSA and I have a history and they’re still pretty steamed about my last slight of hand, she suggested that I pass on this. Gidget said if I insisted on doing the interview, that she would have to be paid two months wages in advance - cash only - or she’d drop a couple of dimes on me to the Feds. I tell you, kids these days think the world is their oyster, especially these 15 year olds who have mastered graduate school level computer science, instead of playing soccer in the local church league. I don’t currently have $7000 in my back pocket, so I said “OK, I’ll take a dive.”

The next morning, I went into the office, into my cubicle, opened the middle drawer and pulled out my secret stash of Syrup of Ipecac. I held me nose, knocked back a sufficiently efficacious dose, stepped into Steve Schimdt’s office and blew chunks of my breakfast all over his new carpet. “I’m sorry.” I said, “I don’t feel so good.” From the looks of Steve, neither did he, but he held it together enough to call that wienie, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, to fill in for me. Damn, I wanted to do that interview, but I can’t make nearly the money in prison that I can on the outside. I know. I’ve tried.

Marlene was disappointed, but I promised her a trip to Burlington, VT and a cabin on Lake Champlain for 2 weeks in August, when it’s hotter than 40 Hells down here. She said that would work.

]]> by: Zee Man http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34309 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:45:25 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34309 Geez, that story Kenny tells in #20 above may have some legs to it. I checked my e-mail from work and I read an eerily similar story about one of our regional guys from the Southeast office telling this story from the other end of the gun barrel. He told the crowd that he was sorry, but he had left his speech in his motel room (they cheered), excused himself, dove into the back of his chauffeured government car and vamoosed. The Chief wants to keep this on the q.t. Good luck with that, Mikey. Geez, that story Kenny tells in #20 above may have some legs to it. I checked my e-mail from work and I read an eerily similar story about one of our regional guys from the Southeast office telling this story from the other end of the gun barrel. He told the crowd that he was sorry, but he had left his speech in his motel room (they cheered), excused himself, dove into the back of his chauffeured government car and vamoosed. The Chief wants to keep this on the q.t. Good luck with that, Mikey.

]]> by: Dale http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34308 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:30:25 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2008/07/23/me-on-tv-who-for-vp/#comment-34308 Sally, I feel your pain--I believe I have a very similar post somewhere back in the archives during an NPR pledge drive "week" (there are no winners in the groveling vs. crap debate). I can´t help you with Antiques Roadshow, but if you have a good broadband connection, check out the BBC 7 website--they rebroadcast a lot of awesome radio programs for free. Also if you have Netflix, you can watch on demand a lot of good British sitcoms and miniseries. Sally, I feel your pain–I believe I have a very similar post somewhere back in the archives during an NPR pledge drive “week” (there are no winners in the groveling vs. crap debate). I can´t help you with Antiques Roadshow, but if you have a good broadband connection, check out the BBC 7 website–they rebroadcast a lot of awesome radio programs for free. Also if you have Netflix, you can watch on demand a lot of good British sitcoms and miniseries.

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