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Tuesday Morning Herd Check-in

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The morning check-in is an open thread posted to give you a place to visit with the meeses. Feel free to chat about your weather, share a bit of your life, grump (if you must), rave (if you can). The diarist du jour sometimes posts and runs, other times sticks around for a bit, often returns throughout the day and always cares that meeses are happy … or at least contented.

For those new to the Moose, Kysen left a Moose Welcome Mat (Part Deux) so, please, wipe your feet before you walk in the front door start posting.

The important stuff to get you started:

– Comments do not Auto-refresh. Click the refresh/reload on your tab to see new ones. Only click Post once for comments. When a diary’s comment threads grow, the page takes longer to refresh and the comment may not display right away.

– To check for replies to your comments, click the “My Comments” link in the right-hand column (or go to “My Moose”). Comments will be listed and a link to Recent Replies will be shown. (Note: Tending comments builds community)

– Ratings: Fierce means Thumbs Up, Fail means Thumbs Down, Meh means one of three things: I am unFailing you but I can’t Fierce you, I am unFiercing after a mistaken Fierce, … or Meh. Just Meh. (p.s. Ratings don’t bestow mojo, online behaviour does).

– The Recommended list has a prominent place on the Front Page because it reflects the interests of the Moose. When people drive-by, we want them to see what we are talking about: news, politics, science, history, personal stories, culture. The list is based on number of recs and days on the list. Per Kysen: “The best way to control Rec List content is to ONLY rec diaries you WANT to see ON the list.”

– Finally, the posting rules for a new diary: “Be excellent to each other… or else”

(Some other commenting/posting/tending notes for newbies can be found in this past check-in and, of course, consult Meese Mehta for all your questions on meesely decorum.)

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15 comments

  2. JanF

    One of the interactive displays is a computerized poll where people can vote for the most effective president.

    Ha!! Museums, I think, have a liberal bias. Probably because right-wingers heads explode when they walk past the exhibits that talk about the earth being hundreds of millions of years old.

  4. anotherdemocrat

    especially with 2 layers of cotton padding & 3 layers of ace bandages on my feet/calves. We might get some rain, probably won’t be that lucky.

    I don’t know why I’m painfully sleepy, I went to bed just after 10. Oh well. Eating my healthy breakfast & drinking tea – even though it’s mega-strong, I’m probably going to wish I had more.

    Triathlon group tonight is a bike workout. Unless I feel better, there’s no chance I’ll make it. I might ride my bike around my own neighborhood a little. I might go directly to bed after I eat dinner.

  5. Portlaw

    Am late on deadlines but will will check in later. Have to see my tax guy later this afternoon. Hope I survive!  

  6. DeniseVelez

    is resigning and won’t run for re-election

    Rep. Dave Camp won’t run again, another committee chair leaving the House

    http://politicalticker.blogs.c…

    Washington (CNN) – House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Michigan, announced on Monday he will not run for reelection this year.

    “This decision was reached after much consideration and discussion with my family,” Camp said in a statement.

    Camp, who is serving his 12th term in Congress, is the fourth House Republican committee chairman to opt for retirement after the November election.

    The others, all Republicans as well, are: California’s Buck McKeon of Armed Services; Washington state’s Doc Hastings of Natural Resources, and Michigan’s Mike Rogers of Intelligence.

    I’m not sure what this does for the math:


    Camp’s announcement raised to 23 the number of House members retiring this year. Thirteen are Republicans and the rest are Democrats.

    though the article says


    …major political analysts rate it as a safe GOP seat. Camp won it with more than 63% of the vote in 2012. And Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney carried Camp’s central Michigan district 53%-45% in 2012.

  7. bfitzinAR

    I’m still tickled about my email correspondence with my aunt (the one I wrote a diary about yesterday) but spent time I really don’t have this morning refuting a “Hillary defended a Black Panther torturer/murderer” thing she got last night. Yeah, right. Hillary was a law student at the time.  She probably was interested (heaven knows she was interested in practically everything), she may even have been a student intern on the legal team, but the lead defender no.  I wasn’t able to find a definitive answer in the time I had to look but I sent her the “unlikely” and thought I’d see if anybody here knew more about it.  I did tell her the main accuser in Alex Rackley murder was an FBI infiltrator so while we are absolutely sure the man was killed as there was a body to prove it everything else was suspect.

    Happy April Fool’s day.  {{{HUGS}}} to Moosylvania.  bf

  8. Diana in NoVa

    Howard Dean insisted that there are Democrats in every state. They may be hiding under bushes; they may be keeping their heads down, reluctant to inflame their Rethug neighbors by announcing their allegiance to a different political party; but they’re there.

    Of course the DCCC in its infinite, Rahm Emmanuel-fueled wisdom, abandoned the 50-state strategy. We’ve all seen what happened. That’s why I won’t give to the DCCC, whereas when Howard was DNC chair I gave as much as I could every month.

    We need that 50-state strategy. As people begin to stagger, befuddled, out of the haze of talk radio hate, out of the clouds of lies about “Obamacare,” away from the myth that all Democrats are evil, then we can begin to declare our belief in the 50-state strategy. We need a Democratic tsunami!

    Every little wavelet can grow into a huge wave.

  9. Diana in NoVa

    here in the Washington, DC, metro area. The birds were screeching with joy this morning when I set off for my son’s house. The sun was out too, but now it’s obscured by clouds.

    My apple trees in the front yard still appear to be sound asleep but the daffodils are flaunting their yellow frills in the front yard flowerbed. Miss Pink Cheeks has been inquiring anxiously as to planting time. She wants to help us harvest the fruit and vegetables. Guess we’d better get busy and plant!

    Had a really good day yesterday, crashing ahead on College Granddaughter’s birthday story. Only two more scenes to write, then, voila–I can clean it up, pop in the illustrations, and send it off on April 7 by e-mail.

    Year by year her birthday stories have become more elaborate. This one will be a good 5,000 words if not more.

    Everyone enjoy your day and skip to spring!

  10. princesspat

    I slept long and late this morning, and woke up thinking it was Sunday…..Tuesday Morning is coming down!

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