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The Hobbit Hole XXXI - Mawwage is what bwings us togethew today!
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| Sept 7 2006
Posted on 09/07/2006 10:11:42 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: TalonDJ
Maybe the plot gets un coverd by someone trying to do one of the 'rejects' sites we have talked about here. They start seeing a pattern to the rejects and get suspicious... hmmmm how to tie that to my 'main plot'....
To: TalonDJ
Maybe your hero decides to start the rejects site? Maybe he is a reject and got mad about that so decided to start his own.
Heh, funny song. When did the row of trees along the back fence lose their leaves? All of a sudden there's a house back there.
Right, about to leave for gym. As soon as I find the walkman.
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posted on
10/25/2006 3:20:14 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: JenB
They did? They had them yesterday... Might even have had them this morning. They did that last year. Just up and *poof* lost them all at once. When I moved in 1.5 years ago that tree was barely taller than the fence so that house was visible all the time.
He could start it... but there are only so many hours in a day and he is already doing SO much... I am thinking a friend of his or someone he met on a chat some place started it. Maybe they turn to him when they find the secret and he gets caught up in it.
To: RosieCotton
That cat ain't right.She's a scandal ;~)
To: Corin Stormhands
That is a great - wow, 'my beeber is stuned'. Excellent work there. OB
At least I finally picked my NaNo plot. Got some good plotting done today. First few scenes all laid out... probably the first week's worth... and figured out the overall plot of the first third of the story. Yay me.
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posted on
10/25/2006 4:34:40 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: JenB
To: All
Evenin' folkses... :-)
[sip]
To: Ramius
Evening, all.
Is it LOST yet?
To: Corin Stormhands
Then I have to figger out how to get paid to do this stuff.Put a Paypal button on your blogsite and ask for donations.
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posted on
10/25/2006 5:43:05 PM PDT
by
Bear_in_RoseBear
(Treason: giving aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war)
To: RosieCotton
Ack... LOST tonight? Gotta find out if the stupidvision in the room gets that channel... oh wait... it's just ABC, right?
To: Ramius
Yeah...nothing too tricky. ;-)
To: Ramius
Not on until nine, though. Ungh.
If I designed the world, most everything would start and end earlier in the day.
To: RosieCotton
Earlier? You mean like, Noon, right? :-)
To: Ramius
Uh...no.
This is why no one has voted me supreme ruler of the world or anything, I guess.
To: RosieCotton; HairOfTheDog; Ramius; osagebowman; ecurbh
Is it LOST yet? It is here...
I thought it was particularly interesting that they showed the scene where (did you really think I'd post a spoiler here?) and all that...
To: Corin Stormhands
To: All; HairOfTheDog; ecurbh; Corin Stormhands
OK... So I'm sitting in the lobby bar in this cheezy French-pwned hotel smack in the heartland of Leftern Ecotopia. I'm happily freepin' along on my laptop with my loyal turkey by my side... and I can't help but overhear the conversation happening next to me. Two men and a woman, apparently here for some business conference or other. They have name tags on.
There's some of the usual quips and cheap shots at Bush, Iraq, yadda yadda yadda... none of which arouses my interest much. It's the usual DU talking points. I don't care. But then this woman starts off on this rant about the economy, and how the U.S. has an "hourglass" economy. That is... that the U.S. is predominantly made up of the rich at the top and the poor at the bottom and a thin stretched middle class between.
OK, it's the usual class-warfare leftist stuff. But it is an interesting insight into leftism. They really believe that this is how it is. That it is so thoroughly and demonstrably untrue should be obvious to everyone (including themselves).
I muttered under my breath-- and did not engage-- that no, in fact it was pretty obvious that the U.S. is made up more like her figure: pointy at the very top, narrow in the upper part, very wide in the middle, and smaller again as you move very far down. [OK, my own shape isn't too far off either, but it's not as pointy at the top].
Aspersions aside: It is plain to see that the middle class is enormous in this country and is the driver for the entire economy. The "rich" are there, and sure they've got lots of money, but there aren't enough of them to make a meaningful difference in either tax policy or anything else. The "poor" are also there, but they are also -- indisputably-- a much smaller number. Not to mention that the U.S. has the richest "poor" in the entire world.
Hourglass my butt.
But I think it is an interest peek under the hood of how liberals see the world.
To: Ramius
I got into a few of those conversations at my conference. Of course those folk work with the poor almost exclusively, so they naturally believe the whole country is poor and it's hard to convince them otherwise. Sortof like cops, they need to go out into the real world on their free time too, or they think everyone is a criminal.
To: RosieCotton
Come on over whenever you want, BTW :~)
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