WOOT
Posted by: taggles on: September 13, 2009
I AM GAINFULLY EMPLOYED, ONCE AGAIN!
For the next six weeks, I will be in training. I’ll be around some, but my time will be limited.. 
So, in the meantime, cause Pat’s got jury duty, and la’s got some stuff and MB works, and I’m gonna be a bit distracted, we’re going to depend on you folks to keep things going here at The Widdershins for a little while!
I’ll be posting in the am and I’m sure there will be other posts from MB and all, but a thread might stay up for a while longer than usual. Please feel free to discuss breaking news or OT stuff!
Wish me LUCK! 
OPEN THREAD..
57 Responses to "WOOT"
September 13, 2009 at 7:08 PM
taggles, Stepping briefly out of Lukerville to offer mega-congrats and best of luck on your new gig!
September 13, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Thanks so much Roz!!!!!!! I am sort of excited about it. I need to make some $$, plus get the heck out of the house!!! LOL
September 13, 2009 at 7:46 PM
We will miss you a lot, taggles! And I will do my best to keep the conversation going! But this week I will have 5 rehearsals and services on top of my regular job.
September 13, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Congrats, taggles. That is funny: there is a character in 9-5 named “R0z” and Roz posted just before you posted the video. That’s the depth of my mind today. I’m going back to read the morning post. Just got my computer set up…once again. Arghhh.
September 13, 2009 at 7:59 PM
How wonderful, Taggles. May this be the start of something really great.
September 13, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Congrads Taggles!!!!!!!!!!!
you will be singing this song for next several weeks
Hopefully it will be many many years before you want to sing this song… 
and while I’m at it… come April 15th we will all be singing
soooo sorry spammy got me….. help!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 13, 2009 at 8:10 PM
thanks whoever unlocked the cell…. I had just began singing ” Please release me, let me go” and poof I was out!!
September 13, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Oh, taggles, you posted “9 to 5″? My fave!
I hope your boss is not a “sexist egotistical lying hypocritical bigot”! LOL
September 13, 2009 at 8:20 PM
I hope not. believe it, it’s mostly women bosses, I think! I didn’t meet one fella who will be my boss! LOL
September 13, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Here’s to you, Taggles!
http://www.universaldiscos.com/images/Champagne.jpg
September 13, 2009 at 8:43 PM
I’ll “try” to get out a couple more front page pieces before I go and I’ll finish some while I’m there. I realized I could go to the library to get internet access. That’s my plan anyway.
Hey, invalid why don’t you make a trip back home to LA also then we can meet. I know you can just drop everything to do that.
September 13, 2009 at 8:46 PM
actually La-t-da your wish is my ….. well kinda…. I’ll be there sometime before christmas
September 13, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Well, that’s a relief taggles! LOL
Here’s hoping you have as great coworkers as the ladies in the movie.
September 13, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Oh, bummer, invalid. We will probably pass in the night. I will back home (AZ) by the end of October. Oh, well, maybe one year.
September 13, 2009 at 9:00 PM
(insert eye roll here) perhaps YOU should drop everything and head south around thanksgiving, or so
September 13, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Congratulations! We’ll try to keep the fires burning until you get home.
September 13, 2009 at 9:03 PM
what is even funnier is that for the last two years I have driven down to Colorado for Christmas… I would have gladly driven over to AZ for a coffee.
September 13, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Now, invalid, why would I go home for a month, come back to AZ, and turn around and go there again. I was thinking of you though yesterday. I downloaded songs to my ipod for the road trip.
September 13, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Thanks for the vid, DYB! I love that song! That’s what we all work for, isn’t it! THE WEEKEND!
September 13, 2009 at 9:19 PM
It is a 20 hour drive, invalid. Also Cinie often post some really good songs over at her site. I downloaded a few of those too.
September 13, 2009 at 10:20 PM
It is a 20 hour drive, invalid.
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After La Cruces is a sorry drive through the ass end of Texas.
September 13, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Another F*ck the fundies…jeebus these morons are/have taken over the country.
“US snubs film on theory of evolution
ANITA SINGH
September 13, 2009
A BRITISH film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer.
Creation, starring Briton Paul Bettany, details the naturalist’s “struggle between faith and reason” as he wrote On the Origin of Species.
It depicts him as a man who loses faith in God after the death of his daughter, Annie, 10.
The film was chosen to open the Toronto Film Festival and has its British premiere today. It has been sold in almost every territory around the world, from Australia to Scandinavia.
(snip)
http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-snubs-film-on-theory-of-evolution-20090912-flkx.html
September 13, 2009 at 10:28 PM
OMG! There is nothing controversial about evolution.
NOTHING!!!
Insanity, bullheadedness and profound ignorance have taken over our country!!!!
September 13, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Insanity, bullheadedness and profound ignorance have taken over our country!!!!
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The fact that they can block the distribution of a documentary movie in the US by intimidation is f*cking unbelievable. Religious fundamentalism is the biggest threat to this country, that I can think of. In the “old” days when there was a surge in fundamentalism, it was hampered by being rooted in rural America and the lack of strong financial backing. Very different ballgame today…they have a sh*t load of money thanks to the billions of “Faith based ” $$.
September 13, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Late Night good news!!
“Amateurs report ‘common true katydid’ throughout NYC, despite none documented in 100 years ”
“Turns out, common true katydids were hiding in plain sight. It took an expedition paddling on the Gowanus Canal mere minutes in the field to report hearing the songs of common true katydids in Brooklyn, said Ken Kostel, Cricket Crawl NYC’s official blogger. Others common true’s were reported by groups in Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx. In total, more than 100 reports on the seven fairly easy-to-identify species came in from various expeditions, which were being processed well into the early morning hours of Sunday by Sam Droege of the U.S. Geological Survey, as well as Elizabeth Johnson and Louis Sorkin of the American Museum of Natural History”
September 13, 2009 at 10:57 PM
After La Cruces is a sorry drive through the ass end of Texas.
I go through El Paseo: it is pretty cool.
Then nothing from there to Dallas.
September 13, 2009 at 11:51 PM
My oldest and bestest friend from college/nursing school lives in El P. It’s a really cool town.
September 13, 2009 at 11:52 PM
SHV, I remember when orioles, fireflies and bluebirds were devastated by DDT. Thanks to the government (I believe it was Carter who did this?) forbidding the use of the toxic chemical, they have all come back. I have even seen orioles in Central Park!
I am glad to hear that the katydid is still around!
As for the fundies, the problem comes when they demand our respect for their religious beliefs, and we are intimidated into thinking we are the intolerant ones, not they.
The fact is that religion has no place in public life. As soon as they start respecting the law of our land, and stop trying to change it to reflect their hatred, ignorance and fear, then I might reconsider my opinion of them. But right now, their actions deserve nothing but scorn. Claiming evolution is controversial, killing doctors who perform abortions, standing in the way of marriage equality for LGBT, trying to make abortion and birth control illegal – these are the actions of profoundly sick and twisted minds.
And the oligarchy is amplifying their voices out of all proportion. Batshit insanity is being promoted as a viable alternate point of view.
It is truly a poisonous atmosphere we have going on. I’m just so glad we elected yet another President who bends over and kisses their asses every five minutes. That is SO change we can believe in!
September 14, 2009 at 12:31 AM
As for the fundies, the problem comes when they demand our respect for their religious beliefs, and we are intimidated into thinking we are the intolerant ones, not they.
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That is one reason why I am absolutely opposed to any form of “Hate Speech” law such as they have in Canada. Any criticism of their “religion” would end up in litigation.
September 14, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Congratulations! Excellent news. Hope you have fun in training!
September 14, 2009 at 4:21 PM
Congratulations, Taggles, on your new job. Your new employers will be getting somebody with a lot of courage and follow-through, and they’re lucky to have you.
At the risk of raising some Widdershinsians’ (all right, probably all Widdershinsians’) blood pressure, I should like to add something to a subject brought up yesterday, namely, the conscience clause in the Obama health care bill.
Naturally, it’s wretched that it’s in there, but if you think President Hillary would have insisted on taking it out, much less no-funding for abortion, I have to direct you to this article: http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-03-29/news/time-for-a-prayer-circle/
Political realities are often ugly; there are compromises, maneuvers, and machinations that politicians like both Clinton and Obama understand as necessary to get anything accomplished at all. This is one of them, and to think that President Clinton #44 would have let this clause shoot down HER healthcare bill, again, is dreaming, IMHO.
I am hoping that I won’t have to go through what I went through when CIGNA tried to weasel out of paying for my emergency appendectomy: who knew that appendicitis could be a pre-existing condition! True, I’d gone to a doctor in the past for a stomach ache….
September 14, 2009 at 4:28 PM
My understanding Mrs. Polly is that the Hyde Amendment the original conscious clause put in place shortly after Roe will always be there. The goal is to not have the Bush 11th hour conscience clause there. The one that HHS and Obama should just overturn outright instead they are “tinkering” with out rather just axing it. I might be misunderstanding something though.
September 14, 2009 at 5:55 PM
La-t-da –
The goal is to not have the Bush 11th hour conscience clause there. The one that HHS and Obama should just overturn outright instead they are “tinkering” with out rather just axing it. I might be misunderstanding something though.
You are correct. That is why NOW was so up in arms.
Mrs. Polly, please read the post before this one for clarification. Thanks!
September 14, 2009 at 7:02 PM
By the way, Mrs. Polly, claiming that Hillary would have thrown women’s reproductive rights out the window is a very old, tired tactic that the Obots used to beat on us with during the primaries.
It is baseless and utterly without merit. For example, you can thank Hillary and a few other intrepid women of Congress for the availability of the morning-after pill pver the counter.
But your article from 2005 trumps that, I’m sure.
September 14, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Madamab, that the article is from 2005 doesn’t dilute its point: it just shows that Hillary was working with what she deemed necessary for a number of reasons, including political expediency, then, just as she was when she sponsored a flag-burning amendment. That is the move of a politician positioning herself for a run at the expense of a number of considerations liberals hold dear. Anybody who can view that action and still believe that Hillary is an unbesmirched exemplar of progressivism rather than a pragmatic political actor upon a political stage is going to be disappointed in the end. That’s why it is a mistake to fall in love with ANY politician.
I have never claimed that Hillary would throw women’s reproductive rights out the window. But I do believe she would make this concession rather than lose healthcare for a second time, yes. The way she is invoked for what she WOULD have done reminds me of widowed spouses invoking the sainted departed to the new partner, who can hardly compete with the image in someone’s head. It’s entirely speculative. The real Hillary Clinton is right now working with, and apparently enjoying working with, the Obama administration. They are both centrist Democrats, faced with an unbelievable combination of disasters resulting from eight years of mismanagement. It could easily be argued that she has much the preferable job.
Name calling is a tactic that will not advance any argument beyond a temporary feeling of self-satisfaction. The word “Obot” seems to me to be used as a slur that shuts down critical, specific discussion. Generally, the Widdershins seems to be pretty free of this sort of thing. This past weekend saw a convulsion of particularly odious attacks on a cartoonish figure that the attackers believe to be the President. The term “Obot” seems to me a cartoonish construct that dismisses wholesale whatever the person so labeled has to say. I don’t think it has any place in a serious discussion.
I sent an Internet friend of mine who was once a PUMA to Widdershins, because I thought she’d feel at home, though Lord knows we disagree about the, well, you know. But there’s a positive pleasure in agreeing on our commonalities. I think that’s a much better employment of our energies than sniping.
September 14, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Mrs. Polly,
I have heard the same arguments you are making for the past year and a half. “But-but-but HILLARY!!!! WAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!”
You blame Hillary for what Obama does, you get called an Obot. That’s what Obots do.
You want to critique Obama from the left, you can hang out here. You want to go on and on about how awful I am and how I’m too stupid to understand that Hillary is “gasp” a politician, you can go fuck yourself.
Mmmmmkay?
September 14, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Thanks, Madamab, but if I want to critique Obama from the left, I can do it at my home blog,
http://www.rumproast.com/index.php/site/comments/mr_president_can_we_get_a_clean_blindfold_here_please/
where visitors with diverging viewpoints aren’t cursed at.
September 14, 2009 at 10:10 PM
LOL! RUMPROAST!!! Ah, yes, a model of civility.
Sorry but WOW. WOWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
Yes, why don’t you run along to RUMPROAST, the center of all that is pure and holy in blogdom. Good Gawd almighty. Talk about being completely delusional.
September 14, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Whenever someone shows up at RR who doesn’t agree, all that person has to do is stay civil, and that person is treated civilly. That does mean engaging in argumentation, but as long as that person defends her/his argument earnestly, we have a good debate.
However, should a visitor be incivil, snide, and try to score insult-points, I am not responsible for the shellacking s/he receives. Not entirely, anyway.
You’ll notice I have been nothing but polite here, and up until now, have been treated courteously. I don’t think your attitude is representative.
September 14, 2009 at 11:48 PM
For what it’s worth, when I went over to Rumproast to correct some commentators on a few points pertaining to the film I was working on at that time, I was treated with far greater courtesy than I had been at any PUMA site. The simple fact is that at Rumproast, a dissenting view stands a much greater chance of fair treatment than on either Confluence or PUMA PAC Org.
September 15, 2009 at 7:17 AM
Congrats on finding employment, Taggles! I know what its like suffering extended periods of unemployment. Its emotionally draining.
Brad is one of our favorite visitors. It took awhile, but we’ve come to love and respect him and his work. We’re really not all that bad and NONE of us fits what my mental definition of an obot.
September 15, 2009 at 9:15 AM
gimmeabreak,
We have been discussing how to separate Dems from obots. I have just started saying that not all Dems are obots. No one should take the term obot personally if they are not one. We had to get over being labeled racist and believe me that was not easy. I think we should all step back and examine our own behavior. JMHO
September 15, 2009 at 9:21 AM
Thanks, CNAK. I am an Obama supporter, but never really sure of what “obot” means. Trust me when I tell you that I’ll take Obama to task just as soon as the next non-obot for what I see as backing off campaign promises, triangulating or sucking up to duplicitous Republicans.
September 15, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Mrs. Polly,
I agree with carolinenotakennedy.
I do not think your action of coming in here with a year-and-a-half-old argument about how Hillary is no better than Obama and would have done exactly the same thing on health care, is a good starting point for a friendly dissenter to take. It is so 2008. Hillary is not the President. Obama is. How do you feel about his health care plan and what it is doing to women? Do you agree? Disagree? Do you care? If not, do you have another point to make about a different issue?
If you had some sort of real point to make, you would have been treated with a lot more courtesy.
September 15, 2009 at 9:39 AM
Ms. Polly,
I will agree that no one should ever put 100% faith in ANY politician. Speaking for myself, I have moved beyond Hillary. Hillary is not the President. I have criticized her in her role as secretary of state and the armor group debacle. She owns that along with the administration, imho.
So any discussion about what Hillary may or may not have done on healthcare, is moot. You and I will never know for sure the reality of a Hillary presidency. The only thing I think I know is that Hillary would have been more out front on the issue of healthcare and I do believe she was personally invested in that fight. Barack Obama was using harry and louise ads against Hillary, which has always made me feel he was not invested in true healthcare reform. But what does that really matter now? Except that maybe we can sit here and debate it and lose focus of the real issue, which is Barack Obama is screwing the Dems on healthcare.
Barack has not engaged in the debate until it looked like he might not get a bill at all. And to me it looks like he is going to back the Baucus bill, which is a travesty.
PS, thanks for the best wishes, everyone!
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September 13, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Wooooohoooooooo!
Congratulations, Taggles!!!