metalpeter - 09/05/08 18:22
Hope you had a great time.

tinypliny - 09/04/08 20:42
Chill out and Rock out! I am sure you can dance and holler away work blues! :)
(Who is playing?)

Peace out \m/

tinypliny - 09/04/08 19:38
Is it an evergreen?

jim - 09/04/08 16:02
STUPID TREES I HATE YOU

dcoffee - 09/04/08 14:32
If you want to get the word out more, you can always post something on WNYmedia.net :::link::: they have good Alexa ratings and a lot of local viewers, anyone can post, and it could get picked up by local media. I agree with you, that's really bad. Changing the behavior of an institution like this is huge, it would eliminate a lot of waste. Finally my college SUNY Fredonia started a recycling program.

libertad - 09/04/08 13:51
So innaporpriate for me to be viewing at my desk! Seriously, I am put off that they made no response to our suggestions for the cafeteria. You should make a suggestion too since they ignored me and tinypliny.

heidi - 09/04/08 13:27
Where does the computer/electronics waste go? If they order 150-ish computers a week, there's a LOT of stuff being replaced...

tinypliny - 09/04/08 11:36
oops, didn't meant to post that empty. An IT person told me that they order 150 PC/Comp units every week and I suppose all the cardboard packaging is thrown away. :/ That is environmental homicide.

tinypliny - 09/04/08 11:34

tinypliny - 09/04/08 11:33
I feel SO STRONGLY about all this non-recycling havoc that A CANCER CARE institute is wrecking on WNY. I think we should start a site called "Roswell DOES NOT Recycle" and post pictures of wanton non-recycling behaviour on it, daily. Since Roswell cares so much about its image, people would be forced to sit up and take notice. I am sick of writing letters to random people in authority every month. In response to (e:libertad)'s cafeteria call to action, I wrote a well-reasoned (I think) long letter to the comments box, and signed it so they would send me a response. But they never bothered!

jason - 09/05/08 17:03
(e:Ajay), you should really slow down, especially after that AIP debacle from just yesterday.

:::link:::

jim - 09/05/08 16:39
And for McCain, 39 million, even more then Obama: :::link:::

jim - 09/04/08 16:07
37 million, almost as much as Obama: :::link:::

Everyone I know tuned in to see it.

ajay - 09/04/08 13:02
So hey, (e:joshua) : was she for the "bridge to nowhere" or against it?

And what about pork? Did she hire a lobbyist in Washington so that the metropolis of Wassilla got more pork, or not?

I could go on...

Nice to see that you're marching in line with the Repuglican line about "biased media". Read my earlier link: an independent study has shown that media has been biased against Obama more than against McCain. But you already knew that; you just wanted to whine about it.

jason - 09/04/08 11:16
(e:Jim) - insinuating that community organizers don't have a real job, or don't have any responsibility is clearly wrong. That's the one criticism that's been made that I think is over the top. Of course, it ain't executive experience, and it isn't even a close substitute, but apparently people can't leave it at that. And you're right, that is serving the country as well.

joshua - 09/04/08 11:13
Forgot the Atlantic link - internet rumor mongering at its worst. :::link:::

joshua - 09/04/08 11:11
For (e:ajay) regarding the debunked AIP lie the media perpetrated - :::link:::

CBS running with a lie - nahh, no bias. This was actually echo chamber material from Washington Monthly and The Atlantic. :::link:::

The source, if you can bear to read it. At least the guy from The Atlantic sourced where he got the news from - DailyKos "muckrakers." Note the "note" at the end.

:::link:::

Gotta love this seeming coordination between Kos, print media such as the Washington Monthly and The Atlantic, and finally with the alphabet networks.

jim - 09/04/08 11:00
!!!

joshua - 09/04/08 10:58
...

jim - 09/04/08 10:41
Oops, that's Tuesday never mind.

jim - 09/04/08 10:40
Actually these are the numbers I found on Drudge:

TUESDAY NITE CONVENTION RATINGS, 10 PM ET

FOXNEWS 6,179,000
NBC 4,468,000
CNN 3,220,000
ABC 3,098,000
CBS 2,928,000
MSNBC 1,590,000

(Total: 21,483,000)

dcoffee - 09/04/08 10:36
Politics, the best show on Television!

jim - 09/04/08 10:32
Biden is super boring in comparison.

jim - 09/04/08 10:31
Makes sense, we all wanted to see her :)

joshua - 09/04/08 10:21
I found the answer to my question - 30 million viewers, the most ever to have watched a VP acceptance speech.

paul - 09/04/08 10:01
Oh and as for viewership/rating. Its not really that surprising. I watched it and so did (e:matthew) and (e:terry) and I can assure you we only watched it to make fun of them and entertain ourselves the way we would watch George Bush speak - only sadly less entertaining as he is the ultimate idiot.

I don't want to give the wrong impression - I am not all that pro Obama/democrat. I really once again just don't like anyone so much - although then again I might vote for him unlike Kerry who I refused to vote for.

paul - 09/04/08 09:58
Just to explain myself, I did not mean it was an empty or fake gesture sending her kids to kill people in Iraq for oil. I just thought it was overly dramatic referring to that fact that he was being deployed on sept 11th to reinforce the fictitious Iraq/Sept 11 link.

jon - 09/04/08 09:57
Hillary vs Obama
now...
Palin

...so very entertaining. I doubt we'll have this much drama in an election year for decades to come.

All that is missing is a reality TV show staring the above.

jim - 09/04/08 09:43
How can you mock community organizing the day after making a big deal out of service? As much as this speech pumped up Republicans, it's energizing Democrats just as much. Net-wash in the long term is my thinking, although of course I wish she'd flamed out.

joshua - 09/04/08 09:22
Palin was extremely effective and served her purpose, which was to reassure the base and introduce herself to the country. I'll tell you the one thing I was most surprised about - not last night, but Tuesday night's overall viewership was only 3 or 4 million shy of the DNC convention nationally. I had assumed that the viewership would have been much lower... I was wrong. I'm curious as to what the ratings were for last night - I expect that they were very good.

re: the jewelry. I can't commentate on what makes good jewelry (this fact petrifies me if I ever pick a ring out for a girl one day) but (e:jason) pointed out the purpose behind it.

(e:ajay) - yeah, that stuff was debunked.

brit - 09/04/08 09:00
haha, I like the jewels dude, the price of them probably could have bought some body armour for a platoon in Iraq but hey..

anyway, I thought Palin did a good job with what she had to work with. I thought Guiliani came over as childish and jeering...like when he started laughing at community organizers. He should have just said 'he has no executive experience' then perhaps he wouldn't have insulted the millions of people who work for their communities in America. guy is a douche of epic proportions

I had an awesome class last night with one of the more respected forecasters in the country who is a die hard Republican and he is expecting his post convention model to project an Obama win. It was fascinating with regard to what affects an election and what goes into a model

btw, did anyone else notice that the baby daddy chewed gun in the most vile manner when he was onstage and shaking hands with McCain...I mean rep or Dem if he was your kid you would thrash his ass

jason - 09/04/08 08:46
I don't know anything about jewelry, but I do know Cindy McCain supports her kids. Jack McCain is in the Naval Academy, and Jimmy McCain is a Marine. That ain't an empty gesture on her part, and people who are familiar with this stuff don't think it strange, but as I said I can't comment on the tackiness aspect because I don't know what makes a good piece of jewelry.

(e:Ajay), that was an A+ rant, and others here have made that same case. Of course, the lies have already been exposed, Sarah Palin's voter registration records have been released, and the network bloggers who propagated the smear have already corrected themselves. This is called the "Anatomy of the Death of a Smear" - but the precedent has long been set that the truth doesn't matter, only the extent to which you can damage someone. I hear that Conservatives are still talking about the "fake birth certificate" and the "secret muslim" stuff as well.

This is from two days ago, just so everyone knows and accepts the facts as it pertains to her being a member of the party. It also gives a link to TPM, so you can get your next version of the company line.

:::link:::

Here is the link to the original ABC blogger:

:::link:::

mrmike - 09/04/08 08:33
yeah, the whole double standard thing is troubling. She opens the door to her family with the son's deployment then wonders why the media covers the prego daughter.

Cindy McCain is looking like what if the GOP was in charge of Barbie Doll production.

dcoffee - 09/04/08 08:09
haha, paul you are so right. I couldn't read the pin until now, that makes it even stranger. It's funny how John McCain has taken off his tie and jacket to appear like a man of the people, then he stands next to his billionaire wife with her couple thousand dollar outfits. it makes me chuckle.

libertad - 09/04/08 07:31
She has classic white woman lips. I could go on an on about why McCain should not be president just because of her alone.

ajay - 09/04/08 00:44
Giuliani the idiot set the stage with his "9/11" references. That guy has absolutely no shame.

And the contrived links to 9/11 by Palin? Puhleeze.

This is a woman who was a member of, and spoke at, the "Alaska Independence Party" convention; whose founder said, on the record: "The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government", and who refused to be buried in Alaska under the American flag.

Palin is a hypocrite of the highest order. But, what else should we expect from the Repuglicans, the party of hypocrites.

james - 09/04/08 00:13
That is so tacky.

tinypliny - 09/04/08 00:12
Hehehehe... I remember my high school English teacher. She was maybe 150 years old and she had flabs of skin hanging over her neck. That would have been okay had she not insisted on wearing multiple stacks of tight pearl "chokers" around all those skin flaps. It was most hypnotic - but not in a soothing way. More like a "OMG, I want to die now, having seen the face of ugliness" way.

paul - 09/04/08 00:58
This was the nastiest thing I have ever seen. It mostly seemed to happen over one afternoon.

tinypliny - 09/03/08 19:53
Hmmm.. I see you have graduated from dead squirrels and squirrels parts to rabbits. Can't wait to see the next dead-olution. LOL