The chat room just crashed.  Bwak and Dickday and Mum and Rowan and Ramona were all in there and suddenly....

*POOF*

It died.

For those of you who don't know the chat room, it's the place where we all hang out and talk about our lives and politics and what's happening at TPM and.....it's our second home.

I'd give you the link, but I've already provided it many a time.

And right now, the link don't work anyway, heh heh.

But for those of you who don't know how it works, I'll try to help you out.

You hit the link, and you get a screen that has a little rectangle with a built-in Mibbit nickname already there.  Now, you don't want to use that little built-in nickname, cuz it's generic.  What you want to do is type your own TPM USER NAME there instead.  And THEN hit the "chat" button.

Once you get in the room, it is scary cuz it looks like you're alone in there.  And if you come in with a mibbet generic nickname and don't talk for at least a minute, we try to help you out by telling you how to type.  But if you don't know how to go to the bottom of the screen to the long empty bar at the bottom of the page, and place your cursor there, and start typing and then hit enter, as we always instruct newbies to do, well....

Right now the chat room is down....disabled.....out of business....but usually, when it's not down, we're all friends there.  And we welcome new friends.

And....nuff said, I think.

When the link works again, I'll come back with it.  When you can join us there, please do.

Dick:
Pop.

Rummy:
War.

Karl:
Squish.

Gonzo:
Uh-Uh.

Paul:
World Bank.

Bush:
Wolfowitz!

Dick:
Pop.

Rummy:
War.

Karl:
Squish.

Gonzo:
Uh-Uh.

Paul:
World Bank.

Bush:
Wolfowitz!


All:
He had it coming
He had it coming
He only had himself to blame.
If you'd have been there
If you'd have seen it

Paul:
I betcha you would have done the same!

Dick:
You know how people
have these little habits that
get you down. Like Harry.
Harry liked to hunt birds.
No, not hunt. Pop!!
Well, I joined him this one day and
I am really irritated, and
looking for a little sympathy
and there's Harry layin' on
the lawn, drinkin' a beer and
poppin'. No, not poppin'.
POPPING!. So, I said to him,
I said, "Harry, you pop that
hawk one more time..."
And he did!

Dick:
So I took the shotgun from my aide
and fired two warning shots...
...into his head.

All:
He had it coming
He had it coming
He only had himself to blame.
If you'd have been there
If you'd have heard it
I betcha you would
Have done the same!

Rummy:
I met George W. Bush from
his dad many years ago
And he told me was serious
and we hit it off right away.
So, we started working together.
He'd talk about war, I'd talk about war,
I'd fix him a drink, and we'd laugh
like heaven in two and a half drinks...
And then I found out,
"Troop surge" he told me?
Troop surge, my ass.
Not only was he serious.
...oh, no, he had real plans.
One of those insiders,
you know. So that night
he came to visit.
I mixed him his
drink as usual.

Rummy:
You know, some guys just can't hold their Hellfire!

Dick, Rummy, Karl, Gonzo, Paul, Bush:
Hah! He had it coming
He had it coming
He took a country
At it's prime
And then he used it
And he abused it
It was a murder
And it was crime!

Karl:
Now, I'm standing in the White House
carvin' up the employees for dinner,
minding my own business,
and in storms one Valerie Plame
in a mad, mad rage.
"You been screwin' me in the papers,"
she says.
She was crazy,
and she kept on screamin'
"You been screwin' me in the papers!"

Karl:
And then she ran into my dick! She ran into my dick TEN TIMES!

All:
If you'd have been there
If you'd have seen it
I betcha you would have done the same!

Gonzo:
Mi madre and mi padre, o wherefore art thou
Mi corazons?
Yo tengo screwed up mucho big time, en cannot save
My Texan ass no more. Por favor?? Yo can only say, I do not remember
All those meetings, and what I said and what I read
And I can no longer speaka de Ingles, por favor....

Reporter:
Yeah, but did you do it?

Gonzo:
UH UH, not guilty!

Paul:
My girlfriend, Shaha, and I did this double act
and my buddy, Dubya, used to understand
us.
Now for the last number in our act,
we did these 20 financial tricks in a
row, one, two, three, four, five...
Promotions, raised salaries, back flips, flip flops,
one right after the other. Well, this one night
we are in the World Bank, the three of us,
sittin' up in an office, boozin' and havin' a few
laughs and we ran out of dough
so I went out to get some.
I come back, open the door
And there's Shaha and
Dubya talking World Domination
-without me...

Paul:
Well, I was in such a state of shock, I completely blacked out.
I can't remember a thing. It wasn't until later, when I was
reading my own Board notes, I even knew she'd gotten a raise.

All:
They had it coming
They had it coming
They had it coming all along.
I didn't do it
But if I'd done it
How could you tell me that I was wrong?

Bush:
I love Gonzalez, Wolfowitz
More than I can possibly say.
They are real fantastic guys...
Sensitive...they're pardners.
But they've been troubled.
They're always trying
to find themselves.
They go out every night
looking for themselves
and along the way
they find Ruth,
the truth,
Rosemary and Thyme.

Bush:
I guess you can say we'll break up because of artistic differences.
They see themselves as alive
and I see them dead.

Bush:
The dirty bum, bum, bum, bum, bum
The dirty bum, bum, bum, bum, bum


All:
They had it comin'
They had it comin'
They had it comin'
All along
'Cause if they used us
And they abused us
How could you tell us
That we were wrong?

All:
He had it coming
He had it coming
He only had
Himself
To blame.
If you'd have been there
If you'd have seen it
I betcha
You would
Have done
The same!

Dick:
You pop that gun one more time!

Rummy:
Troop surge my ass.

Karl:
Ten times!

Gonzo:
UH-UH

Paul:
The World Bank - the big promotion.

Dick:
Artistic differences.

All:
I betcha you would have done the same!

It's finally getting green and warm and sunny and breezy and light-rainy all around the NE part of this here country.

'Bout freakin' time.  I was beginning to think we'd just all suffer through a weird global warming crisis and never be in the same weather/time/life zone, and forever wander without knowing what season it is, other than silly season.

I also keep up with the rest of you, cuz US weather maps keep me interested.  It's always nice to know what's happening with a) friends and relatives in other states, b) weather that is gonna hit you in your ass the next day, and c) the overall feeling of how everyone's feeling.

I had a conversation in chat this week with a very lovely lady who hails from the NE but moved to CA three years ago, and she misses New England big-time.  I did too, when I lived there in California.

Same with Florida.  After living in the New England area all my life, and walking through woods that were dark and damp and lovely and sweet-smelling and my own personal playground, it was hard to live in area with no trees.....no hills......

After watching fall leaves change color and fall to the welcoming dying grass lawns and folding-up flower beds, it was hard to make the adjustment to Southern California (I still to this day capitalize that term, because so many Southern California residents stil want to secede from the State of California........and so many Northern California residents wouldn't care, lol,), yet I just remember living out there in the early 90's and seeing Orange County go bankrupt and the dot.com bubble burst.....

Keeping up with what's going on in other parts of our country help keep us united as a whole country....I don't think anyone could argue with that.

Katrina, Mt. St. Helens, the Earthquake that killed the Nimitz Freeway as we all know it, or knew it, or both.....

What goes around comes around.

So now this is Summer
and what have we gleaned?
Have we moved any closer
to just going green?

So now this is Summer
a mid-summer night's dream
the Smetana's is in Russia
and the Danube is clean

And so happy Summer
to the new and the old
I hope your lives are all happy
and you learn to type in bold

Music is a gift from our Creator
whatever the heck that is...
Happy 2009 to all of you
from your good friend Lis (rhymes with is)

Music tells a story, and so do we all.

xoxoxo,
Lis