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Wild Card/Monday — 11.15.10

Posted by DFO

Nov. 15, 2010 6:03 p.m. • 23 comments

Moscow Minidoka & Stacy are “write” that I have a case of the Mondays. Brain & fingers aren’t fully engaged as I prepare for my second cup of coffee. That’s why you see some typo bobbles below as I substituted “right” for “write,” etc. As the caffeine kicks in, I’ll credit any such bobbles to “bloggin at the speed of light.” Per usual. I suspect you guys enjoy spotting the bobbles. I consider that an added feature to Huckleberries Online. It isn’t easy inhabiting the middle ring of this 3-ring cyber circus sans net. But it’s almost always entertaining. Now, for your first Wild Card of the work week …

23 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

kamm on November 15 at 10:22 a.m.
The purpose of language is to convey messages. If you understand the messages, well, the spelling or the use of a not perfect word or inappropriate punctuation doesn’t really matter.
So blog on Blogmaster, I know what your messages mean.
Cindy_H on November 15 at 10:26 a.m.
TWO Phil Hart posts before noon?
nic on November 15 at 10:31 a.m.
@ Cindy - He has one more to meet his quota.
moscow_minidoka on November 15 at 11:03 a.m.
I enjoy the bobbles, and they rarely affect my comprehension of the HBO Conversational FunFair. However, I am required under the terms of Kage_Mann’s bestowal of the high honor of “Paper Professor” upon my person to point out at least two typos or grammar errors per month, or else I’ll lose the benefits of my title.
DFO on November 15 at 11:14 a.m.
@ Moscow Minidoka re: “However, I am required under the terms of Kage_Mann’s bestowal of the high honor of “Paper Professor” upon my person to point out at least two typos or grammar errors per month, or else I’ll lose the benefits of my title.”

Understood. BTW, has anyone seen Kage Mann? Has he morphed into someone else here at Hucks Online? Or was he so jazzed re: election results Nov. 2 that his head exploded … and Kage became no more?
DFO on November 15 at 11:17 a.m.
@ Cindy re: “TWO Phil Hart posts before noon?”

Phil Hart on Hucks Online is sorta like John & Kate Plus 8 (or the sequels thereof) on Entertainment Tonight. Gotta post every new angle. And there are 2 new ones today re: how the artful tax dodger is polluting politics in legislative District 1, too.
brentandrews on November 15 at 11:54 a.m.
Really enjoying the long string of comments on this fellow’s nasty encounter with the TSA and the police at the SF airport … http://johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/11/these-events-took-place-roughly-between.html
OrangeTV on November 15 at 12:03 p.m.
Oookay. I was holding off on going there, hoping that DFO would eventually get it out of his system but I have to get it off my chest: Election Day was two weeks ago and pretty much all I still see on this blog is politics, politics, politics. I am SO SICK of politics I could stick a lit Pall Mall in my eyeball. If this were a drinking game based on how many posts were devoted to that moron Phil Hart, I’d already have been checked in and out of the Port of Hope at least twice by now. Surely there are more stimulating subjects to ponder: make it stop! Thanks, I feel better now.
OrangeTV on November 15 at 12:08 p.m.
And sports, but I guess I can live with that. Out of the nearly 40 entries on HBO visible on the front page as I type this, only 7 have nothing to do with either politics or sports. That’s all, I’m done whining now.
Sisyphus on November 15 at 12:09 p.m.
Did you see the ap write up on Hart? It was in the Statesman over the weekend.

And way to go karma!

Shortly after finishing their protest at the funeral of Army Sgt. Jason James McCluskey of McAlester, a half-dozen protesters from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., headed to their minivan, only to discover that its front and rear passenger-side tires had been slashed.

To make matters worse, as their minivan slowly hobbled away on two flat tires, with a McAlester police car following behind, the protesters were unable to find anyone in town who would repair their vehicle, according to police.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20101113_11_0_McALES66946
blueeyes7594 on November 15 at 12:25 p.m.
Sis,

I wouldn’t put it past the Westboro church to have slashed their own tires. They like to play the victim even though they are the instigator of things like that. But if they didn’t, I’m glad karma is finally making its way around to them.
Sisyphus on November 15 at 12:30 p.m.
They found no sympathy in McAlester. That’s the karma part.

The things people do in the name of God would make her blush.
Stickman on November 15 at 2:55 p.m.
I love your rants Orange, makes for a more interesting day. Politics you can have, though you don’t want them, and sports as well. I like the reference to Pall Malls, something from my past that rang a bell but I doubt I would stick one in my eye.
Bent on November 15 at 3:17 p.m.
This is awsome!!!

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/11/15/quantitative_easing_explained.html
kamm on November 15 at 6:08 p.m.
Right wing (conservative) and left wing (liberal) sites preach their own agenda.
Non partisan sites, and there are many, cut through the BS and present you with the facts.
With facts you can make your decision without all the rhetoric shouting in your ear.

It’s a good thing.
Escapee on November 15 at 6:17 p.m.
Bruce Spizer, who has put together an excellent series of books covering the Beatles USA record releases, had a unique way of dealing with errors in subject manner…he awarded “no-prizes” to those who spotted gaps errors, omissions, etc.

He’s authored seven huge and heavy Beatle-books, plus a history of how Beatlemania got started. Already, two of his books are out-of-print, and they’re commanding huge prices on Ebay, as I found out the hard way.

Spizer’s other occupation: He’s a Lawyer.
hhuseland on November 15 at 7:50 p.m.
I too, applaud the karmatic ending of the Westboro Baptist Church’s protest with what looks like direct action. I also applaud the refusal of the town’s tire repair facilities in refusing repair. Having said that it is important to acknowledge that real Christians believe in loving their neighbors, and a whole bunch of other similar rules. These people are simply Nazis, not Baptists..
lew2nl on November 15 at 11:02 p.m.
Gonzaga played IUPUI last night. Not once did I hear the announcers mention the name of the school. Anyone know what IUPUI stands for? It wasn’t mentioned in the paper today, either.
stacyp on November 15 at 11:26 p.m.
Plink, tink, tink on my roof. Wish I had a fire tonight.
DFO on November 15 at 11:48 p.m.
@ lew2nl … Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis. You can read about it here: http://www.iupui.edu/ . Believe it or not, it has about 30,000 students.
Mr_Bloggy on November 16 at 7:00 a.m.
Mr_Bloggy staggers into the morning cowed and nearly broken by the pending furious and mighty show of power of the nation’s tea party conservative movement tonight when the supremely untalented and utterly embarrassing product of the new Ronson White Trash-o-Matic comes stumbling across the bright dance floor of “Dancing With the Stars” and being kept alive, zombie like, by the voting of the great unwashed moron collective who all have either a daughter or sister-daughter like Bristol, a cloddish baby spawnin machine, a likely grandmother by 35, a likely recipient of over a dozen Mother’s Day cards by the time she breaks the 40 year old barrier.

Yes, Mr_B is deeply frightened by the awesome and magic force and power of tea partiers flexing their once saggy senior citizen muscles and exhorting America thru their medicare and entitlement slurpin edentulous pie holes

GO BRISTOL WE LOVE YOU GET GOVT OUT OF OUR LIVES!
moscow_minidoka on November 16 at 7:24 a.m.
School is canceled in Moscow today due to widespread debris and power outages. We had power at my house, but the phone was dead. Tree limbs everywhere.
Linda_C on November 16 at 9:39 a.m.
Hey - let’s play the Hart/Rangel game. Quick, name three things in which they are alike and three in which they differ.
1.Both were summoned to ethics committee hearings
2. Both have tax evasion issues
3. Both have constiuents who keep re-electing them which robs the rest of us of the power of thought (temporarily)

1. They come in different colors
2. One is very smart …
3. One has a voice like gravel and the other . . .

Mr. Bloggy - please jump in here - you could make this really fun

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.