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Well if we’ve met you know I have 2 big passions besides electing more & better Democrats – AIDS Walk Austin (for which I have been the top fundraiser) and the Hill Country Ride for AIDS, which I’ll be participating in for the 14th time in  – gulp – 5 weeks. I’ve been the top fundraiser for the Ride before & both the Ride and I had big fundraising goals this year. I wanted to be the top fundraiser, but that was disrupted by numerous trips to visit my mother in the hospital, so now my goal is to make it over $1,000. The Ride has a goal of $500,000. If you want to skip my cheesy U2 worshipping diary, here’s my Hill Country Ride for AIDS page.

Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday. Friday on my mind. Fried-day. Yes, it’s here. I no longer look so forward to the possibilities of a Friday night, but this week I am very much looking forward to the end of this work week. Enough already!

Interrogatories

What is the closest you have ever come to fearing for your life? What is the closest you have come to wanting to make someone else fear for their life (at your hands)? What once-favorite thing have you totally lost interest in? What is your favorite season? What is your favorite Spring seasonal food?

The Twitter Emitter

GOP outreach is mostly into the uteri of American women. #edshow

— Steve Weinstein (@steveweinstein) March 21, 2013

#GOPConfessions We don’t really believe life begins at conception; It begins when your portfolio hits $1mil #tcot #p2

— Jason Rowe (@Aqua_Buddah) March 21, 2013

#GOPConfessions We are NOT anti-science!!! We’re just pro-ignorance!

— Jason Rowe (@Aqua_Buddah) March 21, 2013

Shorter Chambliss: I’m not sure why people who aren’t me should have the same rights I do, that’s super weird

— AdamSerwer (@AdamSerwer) March 21, 2013

I’m glad the Paul Ryan budget gives billions in tax cuts to millionaires instead of letting that money go to elites.

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) March 21, 2013

Speaker Boehner says new gun laws are not needed unless guns develop uteri or demand health care.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) March 21, 2013

its like we have an entire class of people in dc who are always wrong about everything but yet suffer no penalty for it.

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 21, 2013

Sen. Saxby Chambliss says he opposes gay marriage because “I’m not gay.” Will he now oppose the death penalty because he’s not dead?

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) March 21, 2013

Philosophy is about questions that can’t be answered. Religion is about answers that can’t be questioned.

— Peter Flom (@peterflom) March 21, 2013

It’s true that you can’t fix stupid. But you can tell it its guns need cleaning.

— David Waldman (@KagroX) March 22, 2013

Nice to see Harvard guys threatening to wreck brackets rather than the global economy.

— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) March 22, 2013

  Make sure you let your peeps know where to find you!  

Welcome to Thursday Coffee Hour. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new in your life. What’s for supper? Currently I am concocting recipes that will use up the corned beef from St. Patrick’s Day. Spring is peeking around the corner here in North Carolina. A few of the trees are blooming but it looks like the rest are waiting to make sure winter has really gone away. I managed to get a few picture the other day.

Editor’s Note: Crossposted by permission … to restore the universe’s proper balance of Pooties and Woozles

From triciawyse:

Those of you who already either know me or know of me know that I am a massive pootie person. We  moved into an apartment and now have a pootie, named Jenny; however I grew up with both cats & dogs and I love both. I do not discriminate against any animal & love animal photos of all kinds. Please enjoy the following and add any photos that you think the community would like to see. Now, enjoy the photos & have some fun.

Happy Thurthday, Bomberth! What a week it’s been, between work (memorable events) and Washington Warmongers (Holy Hubris, Batman!)… and then there’s Hamm’s salami, but let’s not go there…

Interrogatories

What famous person have people told you (at any point in your life) that you resemble? Do you agree? Did you learn any life lessons the hard way? How many hours would the day have to have for you to be able to do all you need to do? What would be worth going to war over? What is your version of the American Dream? What is the longest lasting earworm (song stuck in your head) that you ever had?

The Twitter Emitter

Shorter GOP: just coincidence that most minority voters never vote for us

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 20, 2013

Why won’t Obama LEAD and come up with a budget that the House of Representatives is constitutionally required to create?

— Thanks4 Sharing Jerk (@Thx4SharingJerk) March 20, 2013

#YouMightBeARepublican if you voted to invade Iraq in 2003 and to cut disabled veterans’ benefits in 2012

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) March 20, 2013

As soon as Obama & Netanyahu started in on @chucktodd, you just know Bob Woodward headed straight for is panic room.

— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) March 20, 2013

If thinking about the awfulness of the Iraq War gets too depressing, the right says you should remember how much worse Benghazi was.

— Danielle(@DCPlod) March 20, 2013

Boehner says that new gun laws won’t work because criminals don’t follow them, which is why all laws should target law-abiding women & gays.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) March 20, 2013

Guns dont kill people… politicians who refuse to pass sound guns laws do

— United Liberals(@UnitedLiberals) March 20, 2013

If I had Jon Hamm’s problem, I wouldn’t drive a big SUV or own so many guns bit.ly/WKFMei

— Gen JC Christian (@JC_Christian) March 21, 2013

Boehner says gun laws won’t work because crooks never follow the law. For example, look at the banks

— Justice Putnam (@justiceputnam) March 21, 2013

Good Morning Purple People!

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It’s time to wake yourselves up.

There’s no snoozin’ for the Moozin’.

cassandracarolina and I will be hosting the

Thursday thread so scribble a few thoughts and

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Violets in the rain, under the rosebushes, my front yard.  

Twice a year, on the Solstice holidays, Basement Cat and Ceiling Cat are locked in mortal combat over the Light. At Winter Solstice, Ceiling Cat prevails and the light starts returning … gradually the memory of basement cat fades until finally the light and dark are equal on Spring Equinox.

Merry Wednesday, first day of Spring, etc.!

For the first couple of questions I want to revisit that one from yesterday where lots of people said, “I’ll get back to you.”

Interrogatories

What musical event from any era in history would you like to be able to witness (as a fly on the wall or a human in the crowd). This could include anything from opera premieres, Mozart composing something, or the Festival Express, as long as it involves music.  What historical political event would you like to be a fly on the wall at? What sounds can you absolutely not tolerate? What is your favorite feeling? What is your favorite memory of your parents?

The Twitter Emitter

Great nickname for Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz with his crazy antics —> RT @limeylizzie: Carnival Cruz.

— The Fighting Liberal (@texyellowdogdem) March 19, 2013

Isn’t it cute when the party that wants to tell you when to give birth and whom to marry thinks it’s for smaller government?

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) March 19, 2013

Republicans are right. Spending is the problem. We spend way too much on subsidies to Big Oil and giveaways to corporate jet buyers

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) March 19, 2013

Lets take a moment to honor the brave men and women who supported the Iraq war without moving from their news desks.

— Jamie Kilstein (@jamiekilstein) March 19, 2013

If Voldemort and the Crypt Keeper had a child, it would look like Rick Scott.

— Karl (@JerryMander) March 20, 2013

2003 was also a year that conservatives didn’t give a crap about spending.

— Oliver Griswold (@originalgriz) March 20, 2013

John McCain: “I’d love to invade Iran, but I’m not unreasonable. I’ll settle for a quagmire in Syria if that’s the war that’s available.”

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) March 20, 2013

Yes, the Iraq War was sold to America based on lies, but Democrats are at fault too– it takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen.

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) March 20, 2013

Even braver than Bush’s decision to invade a country that didn’t attack us was his decision to cut taxes to not pay for it.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) March 20, 2013

DID YOU KNOW? 63% of Republicans believe we found WMDs in Iraq, while only 33% believe we found Obama’s birth certificate in Hawaii

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) March 20, 2013