Yeah, this blog has pretty much been a wasteland lately – no new posts of any great shakes, and a whole lot of “weekly tweets” auto-posts… BOR-RRING! So based on something ***Dave said the other day, clearly it seemed like a good time to look at getting a better process for doing more actual blog posts here, even if they might be shorter. This all stems from the change in my ability to blog from work during “slow time” or times when I’m not busy and just waiting for an incoming call. As I think I’ve blogged earlier it’s really…
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I think Duckworth in Congress would be very sweet, Lynn Sweet.
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Good whatever local time it is to you! # Hmm. Is it wrong that I want to get a tiny possum avatar in Second Life? They are SO CUTE in frilly dresses. http://is.gd/kcVLyd # In totally unrelated political news, Michelle Bachmann still gives me the heebie-jeebies. # RT @JimGoodrich "In Illinois we don't have Death Row, we have Governor's Row #BlagojevichGuilty quot; # RT @dvnix "RT @emokidsloveme: So I guess Blagojevich won't be making any more Not Guilty Pistachio commercials." # Several of us here just made the Blago face: long upper lip, pouting lower lip. # Tammy Duckworth making…
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The LAN went BZZT! and died about an hour ago but we’re back up, business as usual.
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Ha! Image is everything: "Need to change term from "big oil" to something more tempered." @gdnpalin #palinemails http://j.mp/iEHQNj # Tornado sirens going off in Hoffman. We're in the basement. Probably nothing. #fb # Christ, what an asshole: Southwest pilot rants inflight about "gays, grannies, and grandes" on hot mic #WNpilot http://is.gd/rjpXfT # Just booked a corporate business traveler into the Best Western Precious Moments Hotel in Joplin MO. Advzd him chance of cute overload. # Just in time for #FF @cluttercleaner @RileyWaggaman @HoardersPossum @rodvik Thanks for the follows, will attempt to be interesting. # Saturday at last… No plans today…
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The tornado horns went off a while ago but stopped; we went to the basement with Riley in the cat carrier for a short time but felt unprepared… And silly. Tornado warnings in most of the Chicago area have expired, but a tornado rning remains in effect until 9:30 p.m. for easternLake County, Illinois.An earlier another tornado warning declared for northwestCook County,DuPage County, Grundy County, Kane County, Kendall County, western Will County, and eastern De Kalb County also has expired.A severe thunderstorm warning for Cook County, eastern DuPage County, northeastern Kane County,Lake County, southeastern McHenry County, eastern Will County, northern…
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Kerupa Flow’s "Invisible" at SL8B — Want to try out Second Life for yourself? Sign up at secondlife.com/?u=6395dec01960473ab77b057758989f9f Via: Flickr Title: Invisible By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 21 Jun ’11, 6.30pm CDT
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RT @StNickEpiscopal ""O Comforter, draw near, within my heart appear, and kindle it, thy holy flame bestowing." Hymn #516 for Pentecost" # The Teaparty/GOP want to reconstitute the nation in their fantasy image, and Frank Luntz wants to be the Framer of the Reconstitution # Just Desserts: RT @TLW3 "Harold Camping Suffers Stroke http://is.gd/lJH2Nd / Irony " #p2 #p21 #dems #tcot" # I predict the wackiest one wins. RT @NewsHour "Seven GOP presidential hopefuls take the stage tonight http://ow.ly/5gpzx (Morning Line)" # RT @chicagotribune "Crews responding to 'incident' involving WWII bomber in #Oswego http://trib.in/m9poSh" # It's Mitt Romney and the…
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After some discussion tonight watching the feed from Netroots Nation, I realized that I don’t want to give my money to Target anymore. Too bad I already started wearing the underwear. I’ll just let it get really… ripe before I wash it, so there. Workers at a Long Island Target store have been attempting to form a union, an effort which comes to a vote on Friday. Target has been waging a pretty standard corporate anti-union campaign—which is to say, lots of intimidation. But now it’s taken a turn for the humorous. Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan, who has been doing stellar…
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That not-so-veiled threat the Chamber guy made was so dumb. It’s so much easier to just wish that Teabagger Joe doesn’t just get redistricted, he gets defeated handily in the upcoming election. Drat, that’s a Flash embed, won’t be visible on iPhone/iPad. Ah, fooey. From Think Progress, it looks like there’s a GOP civil war erupting after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Tom Donahue made some not so veiled threats to Republican freshman House members who don’t want to raise the country’s debt ceiling. Illinois Representative and resident blowhard Joe Walsh and the Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler appeared…