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Happy Birthday Jane!

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[Captain Hate]

Jane, your own thread. WOOT!!

[Janet]

Our famous You Too, Congress blogger & the founder of the powerful Sturbridge Tea Party!
Snark blogger extraordinaire too!
What can't she do?

Happy Birthday, Jane!!!!

[DrJ]

I didn't give my congratulations early, and now there is a separate thread!

Happy Birthday Jane!!

[Janet]

The Sturbridge Tea Party video by Caro.

[centralcal]

Greetihgs from my deck in Cambia! I am sipping a Manhattan in honor of Jane,

[centralcal]

Oops, that would be Cambria.

[Ignatz]

--Oops, that would be Cambria.--

Ooh, We love Cambria. What place you at, cc?

[rse]

jane-

Are you on the 2nd martini by now?

[Rocco]

What a great video...well done Caro! Is there anything you can't do?

[rse]

RL apologizes to famed bleep may be the funniest headline.

And gets the focus back where it needs to be. On the absurdity of what she was seeking.

[Mark Folkestad]

Happy Birthday, Jane! I already posted a greeting on Facebook, but you deserve a second one.

[Extraneus]

Rush apologized.

Sure, I'm a simpleton, but at least I'm smart enough to want DoT as my lawyer. And MarkO, too.

[clarice feldman]

Pass the dip please.

[centralcal]

Iggy, I am at the Cambria Pines Lodge. Typing on an iPad sucks!

[Captain Hate]

Jane I've just about drained the local watering hole of their supply of Corsendonk Christmas Ale (one of the brews I had on tap with the great jimmyk) but I have one queued up for tonight.

[Not Sara]

Whew!! So glad all the bashing of Rush Limbaugh is over, and now we can celebrate Jane's b'day. It is so amazing to me, a lurker, how close all of you are and how you eliminate anyone else posting on this blog. I don't care, but I do think it is amazing. What does it take for any of you to "accept" another poster? It seems you have accepted AliceH, but all of you are ignoring Gus and others. Sad.

[glasater]

So since I spent Jane's birthday morning going to our precinct caucuses and will spend the evening going to our local Lincoln Day dinner, I'm writing and reporting on this thread:-)

In all the years I've been going to precinct caucuses I have never seen a turnout as we had this morning. There were so many people it took awhile to get everyone signed in/registered and since the delegates had to be elected by noon there was quite a rush to cover all the territory needed for state rules.

There was quite a Ron Paul contingent and a bunch of lapel stickers for Rick Santorum. Our precinct voted for Mitt Romney so the delegates going to the county convention are basically pledged to follow through. I was elected as an alternate delegate to the county convention. I could mount a campaign to be elected as a delegate to the state convention but since I've done that several times in past years I will leave that duty to others.

There is a large population area North of us called the Tri-Cities. It is the home of Hanford where the nuclear material for the bomb of WWII fame was produced. Anecdotally, the turnout for that part of the state at their local convention center (which is pretty large) for caucusing was so overwhelmed they had to turn away fifteen hundred people.

It was so gratifying to see the people in my county show up for the caucuses and to share their concern for our country you just don't know. It was a very much shared concern that the guy occupying the WH has got to go.

So Jane, we had a party of sorts for you this morning and I'll be doing some sincere partying this evening with you in my thoughts!

[Captain Hate]

I've welcomed Gus every time he shows up.

[Neo]

Happy Birthday Jane

[Neo]

From ThinkProgress …
From 2006-2011, up to 60% of Syria’s land experienced, in the terms of one expert, “the worst long-term drought and most severe set of crop failures since agricultural civilizations began in the Fertile Crescent many millennia ago.” According to a special case study from last year’s Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR), of the most vulnerable Syrians dependent on agriculture, particularly in the northeast governorate of Hassakeh (but also in the south), “nearly 75 percent … suffered total crop failure.” Herders in the northeast lost around 85% of their livestock, affecting 1.3 million people.

So I guess the entire “Arab Spring” is caused by “Global Warming” (forget that there hasn’t been any warming in at least a decade), which makes even “The Won” a spectator. As Elizabeth Warren would said, we all added to the pollution that caused Global Warming which inspired the “Arab Spring.”

[Ignatz]

--Iggy, I am at the Cambria Pines Lodge. Typing on an iPad sucks!--

cc,
Our friends always stay there.
We like to be right on Moonstone.
You should go kayak Morro Bay.

[Neo]

Stopped down to see the #Occupy folks down at Finsbury Square here in London this evening.

[Ignatz]

--What does it take for any of you to "accept" another poster? It seems you have accepted AliceH, but all of you are ignoring Gus and others. Sad.--

I'm not sure what you mean, Not Sara.
I and many others welcomed Gus and respond to his posts. It was practically old home week between him and henry.
As for you, I kinda thought you were one of the regulars posting under a different name possibly to needle Sara. Since you're not, welcome, Not Sara.
The only people that get the cold shoulder are aggravating and provocative trolls and even some of them hang around.

[Danube of Thought]

I've welcomed everything I've seen from Not Sara (the name itself is somehow endearing, though I'm not sure why). Comeback often and stick around.

Happy birthday again, Jane--you're a mainstay.

[Thomas Collins]

Hell, I've invited Gus to email me (he hasn't, which shows good judgment).

[sbw]

"Pass the dip please."

Who would that be?

Happy Birthday, again, Jane!

[Danube of Thought]

These Plumlee fellas are fresh outta the piney woods, ain't they?

[Not Sara]

Well, Iggie, I am not a troll, but I do find it unusual that some of you meet up with each other like people do on Match.com or those other websites. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but it is sorta strange. I can see how you would want to meet people you talk to every day, but it does seems strange to me that some on this website seem to be on JOM all day every day. As if they have nothing else to do. Not that I mind, I find the conversations most interesting but am just amazed that the people on this blog seem to have no other things they need to do during the day. BUT, I love the conversations!

[mockmook]

Mostest Happiest B-Day Jane!!!

[DGS]

Happy Birthday Jane.
I was good to see Caro's clip of the Sturbridge Tea Party. Are you planning any additional meetings this year?

[Not Sara]

Well, Dot, I think I know why you think my nom de plume of NotSara is endearing! Heehee.

[Ignatz]

--Not that I mind, I find the conversations most interesting but am just amazed that the people on this blog seem to have no other things they need to do during the day.--

Well, some are retired, some post from work, some work at home, some of us are a might housebound for various reasons temporarily, etc.
I think you'll find most people take very long breaks and it just seems like they're around more than they are because there are so many people carrying on the conversation.

--I do find it unusual that some of you meet up with each other like people do on Match.com or those other websites--

Well I've never actually met any JOMer in person but have missed three or four meetups for various reasons. If I ever do manage one, it will most definitely NOT be like Match.com. Eww.

[Jack is Back!]

Hey.

Duke is doubled up by the Heels. Hows those red apples?

Jane, you, like Janet, Clarice and the others here are true warriors and there is a special place in JiB heaven for you - lots of wine, great food and an island only you are in charge of.

Jane Rules!

[Not Sara]

Well, Iggie, I don't mind at all--I think it's the most interesting blog around! BUT, I don't frequent many blogs. Heehee.

[Thomas Collins]

Oh, c'mon, Not Sara, live a little. You should be there to enjoy the fun we have when we go to the bondage and discipline clubs!

[sbw]

Not Sara, that comment sounds like archeology, not participation -- not that there is anything wrong with that, and not that I mind.

[MarkO]

Those Plumlees are Wodehousian.

[Ignatz]

--BUT, I don't frequent many blogs.--

Me neither.
Most of them seem remarkably like that area between the trenches of WWI known as 'no man's land' where sticking ones head up usually led to getting it shot off, although most blog denizens seem rather less sporting and rather more hostile than the Kaiser's snipers.

[sbw]

And, Not Sara, I think what you'll find -- and durned few JOM commenters come through Rome, NY -- is that the advantage of a personal connection is a tremendous increase in bandwidth because you have audio and visual cues not available in type.

[Ignatz]

--Those Plumlees are Wodehousian.--

Been rereading the Earl of Emsworth and Empress of Blandings cycle recently.
Interesting to see the prototypes of so many Bertie and Jeeves characters taking protean shape.

[narciso]

Well it's interesting about that region, maybe they might have been too clever by half,
then again one thinks of the plight of the Marsh Arabs;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khabur_River

[Jane]

Wow! Wow, wow wow! Thanks TM. We love you for bringing us all together.

Thanks to my fabulous neice for A SPECTACULAR dinner.

And thanks to my JOM family who I truly love. I feel older than is humanly possible but you all make it worth it!

[Not Sara]

Sorry, TC, not into bondage--not that there is anything wrong with that--it's just me.

[Not Sara]

Wow, Jane, your neice(sic) must be wonderful!

[Ignatz]

--I feel older than is humanly possible but you all make it worth it!--

Now, now, 32, and not a day older.
Don't make me post another shot of you in your leggings. :)

[Porchlight]

Jane gets her own thread - and very deserved it is. Happy birthday Jane - and thanks TM! ;)

Not Sara, I can see where it might seem a little strange. But after reading someone's comments for several years, you really do feel you know them. I used to hang out on a music-related BBS/listserv and I met dozens of the folks from it over several years. Almost to a person, they were just as they were online and very pleasant. Several became close friends who I now spend lots of time with in person.

[Sue]

Happy birthday Mom.

[Jane]

Not Sara,

I'm on my third martini but let me take a shot at your question. Many of us have been here for many years. The first time I posted I asked a fairly stupid question and Clarice answered it. She didn't mock me, or make fun of me, she answered the question. I stayed realizing she was my kind of people.

Everyone who comes here and posts honestly and earnestly gets the exact same treatment, including you. People here are interested in tapping the unbelievable expertise of all the people here. And it is broader than anything you can ever imagine. And no one ever thinks you are stupid for asking a honest question.

When people come in and help our understanding of the things we care about - like Henry did to help us get a bead on Wisconsin many months ago, or Marlene did recently about Maine we all feel like we have been given a present. We love them for coming out and joining our army (we are all Breitbart's now) and we love them more for staying.

You missed a raucous welcome because of your name. No one knew you were new. But I for one appreciate your participation and I'm pretty sure I am not alone.

And we all are eternally grateful for our intrepid host, who writes like Hemingway (I'm not well read enough to pick the right author) and constantly amazes us with his ongoing an never-ending indulgence to those of us who are so dependant on the next new thread.

At the same time, I am very intolerant of people who ridicule what we are about as a group and who disrespect our host. I don't expect that to ever change. I disagree with my friends here all the time, especially about all things gay, but I love and respect their opinion.

From what I can tell you fit in perfectly. You don't have to meet us if you think that is odd. To me it is the most natural thing in the world.

Welcome. Hang around. We like having you here.

[Thomas Collins]

Since this is Jane's thread, it's a good time to acknowledge that Jane does her radio and TV show and runs the Sturbridge Tea Party while engaging in her chosen occupation full time. This of course is in the American tradition of the citizen activist.

[Extraneus]

And let's not forget, she also has a blog. Go Jane!

[centralcal]

All of us were new commenters once, Not Sara. Buta, years of commenting, celebrating, births, illness, job loss, and even death, has forged a strong, unbreakable bond between us.

We have welcomed with warmth many new commenters in this early 2012, already. Gus, for instance.

If you come to find friends, you will. If you come to find an argument, you will. Whatevere it is YOU are looking for, you will find here. It really is up to YOU.

Going to dinner pretty soon, so will check back in later. (still hate hunt and peck on the iPad)

[rse]

not sara- I thought your name was simply a reaction to all sara's romney cheerleading. Sorry if you lacked a proper greeting.

I spend most of my days figuring out how to describe difficult things in an easy and accurate way that will not be offputting to the reader. Taking a break to come here is my socializing.

Many of us know a good bit about the expertise that can be tapped here so it's a nice sounding board and means for disseminating worthy links.

Plus jane has officially invited you and we must honor her wishes today. Especially on her special dedicated thread.

[narciso]

Jane is in the best tradition of citizen activist, the Paullette Revere of Sturbridge.

[Jack is Back!]

Where CC is now:)

[daddy]

1:48 remaining

82 to 67

197 over 108, pulse 83

[Jack is Back!]

daddy,

Its all over but the crying. Now, how about an ACC tournament?

Can you believe it - they are going to go over this all over again:)

[Danube of Thought]

I'm on my first, Jane, but trust me: it's huge.

[Thomas Collins]

Wow, daddy, you are getting real excited about the UNC-Asheville men's basketball team wrapping up an invitation to the Big Dance by winning the Big South Conference tourney.

[daddy]

At 77-64, it was ---221/124 pulse 93.

Now at 87-69, 48 seconds remaining, lets take another reading:

174/102---pulse 81. Whew. Moving in the right direction:)

[Barbara]

Happy Birthday, Jane!

[Jack is Back!]

DoT,

Have you tried Tito's vodka? Just tried it and its not bad but not something to put a bite in your palate.

[centralcal]

Waiting for the dinner bell, just have to say belatedly, what an honor to be able to participate on the Jane thread while on a mini-vacay!

Isn't technology wonderful? Isn't JOM wonderful?

LIfe is good (even if typing like a Neanderthal isn't)!

[MaryW]

Jane,

Happy Birthday! My sister, my husband and Jane all have birthdays in March. It must be the month for the best people.

Not Sara,

I have 2 monitors. It is easy to keep on eye on JOM on one monitor and work on the other. But it is also possible to use my laptop, phone or nook if the second monitor is in use for work. It is a much better use of my time than waiting for a process or a remote connection.

[MarkO]

daddy, that's some team you've got there. I think it's clearly Final Four material and we should never have won the game in CH. But, it looks like that win will have to be my season. Congrats. Stay warm.

[Laura White]

Okay, I have not posted since the dreadful Libby trial but read here every other day or so (and backtrack as not to miss anything). Be that as it may, THIS has propelled me into speech: Ignatz, as the most recent author of a biography on Wodehouse in the DLG, I can assure you that the Jeeves/Wooster cycle was being worked out only slightly ahead of the Emsworth/pig saga, and concurrently throughout. Gally is not that far from Psmith who is not that far from Bertie, though really with Bertie we do have a quotation-mangler on whom the trophies of heaven should be laid.

[Extraneus]

Didn't Swift say the most delicious babies were born in March?

[MarkO]

Instead of the Duke/Carolina game, could we debate contraception?

Hope you are having a wonderful night, Jane. Best wishes, again.

[MarkO]

Tell Laura I love her.

[Porchlight]

Enjoy, centralcal! That hotel looks delightful.

[Jane]

JIB,

wasn't it DOT who introduced us to Tito's?

BTW if the bar does not stock Tito's what is the best vodka for a martini? Kettle One?

[daddy]

For Xmas Santa gave me a Blood Pressure monitor that hooks into your Iphone.

Caught about the last 5 minutes of the Ball game just stepping in after a hard slog thru a blizzard with the dogs, and thought I'd hook it up and see what the heck my heart was doing. Yikes!!!

Thankfully its dropping back to non-cardiac arrest range.

Jane,

Think I'll give the old ticker a rest today and take a rain check on the SouthWestern Patty Melt if that's okay with you---heart healthy, etc.

Think I'll do a beer instead. Cheers:)

MarkO, You guys scared the dickens out of me starting about the 5 minutes.

It's a wonder that any hard core Duke/UNC fans live as long as breitbart.

As Jack sez tho', lets do it again next week in the ACC Tournament.

Ka-thump, Ka ThUMP, KA THUMP THUMP THUMP!

[jimmyk]

Happy Birthday, Jane!

Welcome, Not Sara!

I suspect that if you tracked our posts, you'd find a lot of us disappear for chunks of time and then reappear and try to get caught up. But with at least four time zones it stays pretty active, especially with daddy on the late shift.:)

[Captain Hate]

I think I've said before that daddy's Holes have enough talent to run the table, including the Calidago's MethCats and Syracuse. I'd like that because it would elevate Roy over Saint Deanie in much less time.

But enjoy it this year because next season it's Fear the Turtle time.

[clarice feldman]

We come here a lot because we love eachother and TM.

[Porchlight]

Hi Laura - welcome back! Despite the Libby outcome, those days were good times on JOM. That's when I first began to comment and everyone was very nice, esp. Rick Ballard and Elliott who made a special effort to welcome me.

[narciso]

What strikes me Captain, is I had an unrealistic assumption that college and professional sports , was played at something
above minimum standards. I don't know why I thought that would be different from other institutions

[Jane]

As always, Clarice nails it.

[daddy]

TM,

Good News for you.

Channel 709 up here is showing I think a live Exhibition game from Clearwater Florida, betwixt the Yanker's and the Phillies.

I can almost hear the fungo's through the falling snow. Can shots of pre-season Yankee girlfriends be far behind?

[Ann]

Laying in bed with iPad. Really sore throat. Can only toast with a hot mug of green tea but hope you had a wonderful day, Jane.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, love you.....Kim Ann

[Porchlight]

Feel better soon, Ann. xoxoxo

[clarice feldman]

Ann, get better soon. We need your fashion tips.

[sbw]

Laura, pleased to hear from you. Any Wodehousian insights are welcome.

Since I was snooping. Any Welsh authors in your 19th century expertise? Daniel Owen?

[Thomas Collins]

OK, Ann, I'll raise a glass of merlot to cyberclick your green tea mug. Hope you're feeling better soon.

[Ignatz]

--Be that as it may, THIS has propelled me into speech: Ignatz-

I'm glad I helped you find your voice again Laura. :)
Has been several (maybe ten or more!) years since I'd read the Blandings stories and it struck me anew how much of Bertie there is in Psmith and Hugo Carmody and Monty Bodkin and how much Jeeves there is in Beech, not to mention the gawd-help-us aunts cluttering the place up.
Two Qs;
1.Displaying my profound ignorance, what's the DLG and,
2. How might I find your biography of Wodehouse?

[narciso]

Get well soon, Ann.

[MarkO]

Hey. I was first to tell Laura I loved her. It's, as my kids would say, way cool to have an expert on Bertie in the house.

I want to belive that Pelham would have liked the Plumlees. He was called Plum by his friends, no?

[Jane]

Love you back Kim Ann

[Gmax]

Cardinal Dolan today quoted the following:

“President Johnson said, ‘As an American I look to the church — I look to religion as a beehive. If you leave them alone they’re going to give you tons of their honey. But if you stick your head in there, you’re going to get stung bad.’”

So I ask again, sound like a guy who is folding? Not to my ear.

[Gmax]

Since you're not, welcome, Not Sara.

Since I am sure I could get the punctuation as precise as that, I just say, what he said.

[AliceH]

Happy Birthday, Jane.

And to all JOMmers; I do agree with this comment: "It seems you have accepted AliceH" Thank you for helping me get over my stage fright!

[henry]

Jane, great party! HB.

[Ignatz]

--Hey. I was first to tell Laura I loved her.--

Settle down, dude.
My wife doesn't mind the occasional callipygian picture post but does draw the line, a not unreasonable one I admit, at me telling other women I love them.

[Porchlight]

I feel somewhat ashamed that I've never gotten into Wodehouse, even though I've been an Anglophile since I could first read and named my firstborn after a favorite Dorothy Sayers character.

What am I missing?

[sbw]

"What am I missing?"

Well, Porch, first things first. Since you are a Sayers fan, google "Lost Tools of Learning" and read! read! read! it.

Then, if you listen to books on tape or CD, buy "Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit" read by Jonathan Cecil and enjoy! enjoy! enjoy!

[narciso]

LOL, you have a point there, Ignatz,

[AliceH]

Porch: there's no charge to dip a toe in the water - see if you like it.

on Amazon - search p.g. wodehouse free kindle books

Also you might try Netflix for a series with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry - search on Jeeves and Wooster

[Porchlight]

Thanks, sbw. Many of my homeschooling friends love Sayers' education work.

[Porchlight]

AliceH, thanks, that's great - since I just inherited my dad's first generation Kindle. I love having early adopters in my family - I always get the castoffs. :)

[Ralph L]

Peggy's ex husband is on CSPAN right now.

[Caro]

Oh,dear Ann, feel better right away.