{"id":101,"date":"2008-10-08T23:59:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T03:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/08\/twitter-digest-2008-10-08\/"},"modified":"2008-10-08T23:59:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T03:59:59","slug":"twitter-digest-2008-10-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/08\/twitter-digest-2008-10-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Digest – 2008-10-08"},"content":{"rendered":"

mccain has skeletons in his closet. sure, he has the scandal kind, but also there’s all the people he’s outlived and stored for safe keeping #<\/a><\/li>\n
@acarvin are these #dialtest ratings based on our current opinions & perception, or are they supposed to be grounded in something objective? #<\/a><\/li>\n
horror movies now start out, (movie voice) “it was a quiet town, until a man named _GEORGE W. BUSH_ moved in next door…” http:\/\/is.gd\/3G57<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
testing out plodt… *politicRage 0* #<\/a><\/li>\n
during the debate, if you catch them lying, tag it with #factcheck. also, rate them at any given time using #dialtest like this: *Obama 5* #<\/a><\/li>\n
(that last via @acarvin) #<\/a><\/li>\n
#dialtest *mccain 5* #<\/a><\/li>\n
#dialtest *obama 5* #<\/a><\/li>\n
obama priorities: energy. (he knows the gas price. good move) #<\/a><\/li>\n
obama makes emotional links to jfk #<\/a><\/li>\n
healthcare priority 2, education is 3 #<\/a><\/li>\n
ok, examining bureaucracy is good… eliminating waste is good… living in the pocket of lobbyists is bad. #<\/a><\/li>\n
did obama just suggest seizure of private property? i hope i just heard that wrong. “if you don’t use it, you lose it” what did he say? #<\/a><\/li>\n
my friends. my friends. it’s the new “george bush’s” #current #<\/a><\/li>\n
don’t tell me what i know, mccain. #<\/a><\/li>\n
a timebomb that eats us all up. thanks brokaw. #current #<\/a><\/li>\n
BINGO. #current #<\/a><\/li>\n
my friends #<\/a><\/li>\n
so mccain is against lobbyists now? lobbyists work for him. what? #current #<\/a><\/li>\n
mccain’s “my friends” again #<\/a><\/li>\n
but if you impose paperless hospitals, they have to spend a ton to stay hipaa compliant, so shaft the indvidual, already struggling hospital #<\/a><\/li>\n
mccain = tanking state’s rights. #dialtest *mccain 2* #<\/a><\/li>\n
obama = profligate socialism. complete governmental control #dialtest *obama 2* #<\/a><\/li>\n
mccain: healthcare = responsibility (for whom? the government? he’s nervous, but maybe still?) #<\/a><\/li>\n
obama: healthcare is a right. (so you have it already, like freedom of speech?) #<\/a><\/li>\n
@wilw no, no… the new phrase of choice is “my friends.” maverick is old hat. #<\/a><\/li>\n
yes! thanks for bringing up darfur. #dialtest *obama 4* #<\/a><\/li>\n
godwin’s law! #current #<\/a><\/li>\n
stop saying “my friends.” seriously. stop. *politicrage 6* #<\/a><\/li>\n
mccain fought at waterloo, carthage, and jericho. he’s been in war his whole life. man does that ever make me want to elect him. yum yum war #<\/a><\/li>\n
@tofermoran seriously. if he says “my friends” or “my hero” again, i’m going to sit on my couch ineffecutally and grumble at the tv. #<\/a><\/li>\n
how many times has mccain said “my friends”? has anyone counted? #current #<\/a><\/li>\n
i hate our 2 party system. brokaw just said one of the two of them WILL become president… while i know that’s true, it’s still terrible. #<\/a><\/li>\n
are those prop mics? b\/c mccain is pointing it at his pocket. #<\/a><\/li>\n
that was the most awkward hug i’ve ever seen, and i was a nerd in middle school. #<\/a><\/li>\n
also, mccain walks like the penguin. waaarrrk #<\/a><\/li>\n
so wait, we have sovereignty over other countries? we can allow or disallow their sovereign weapons programs? who is allowing our programs? #<\/a><\/li>\n
this just in: mccain admits he is not clairvoyant. in other news, he remains condescending. #current #<\/a><\/li>\n
america is all about throwing your neighbors back into the fight #<\/a><\/li>\n
i’m so glad it’s over #<\/a><\/li>\n
@tofermoran as misty-eyed girls are taking obama’s picture with disposable cameras. #<\/a><\/li>\n
there are a lot of disposable cameras in there… the security guys probably took the audience’s real cameras & handed disposables out #<\/a><\/li>\n
the past five minutes have been entirely focused on obama. did mccain leave the hall, or what? #<\/a><\/li>\n
i guess he did. they just did an wide shot of the room, and he was nowhere to be found #<\/a><\/li>\n
(update: mccain & trollop did leave a few minutes ago, that’s why the camera is on obama the whole time) #<\/a><\/li>\n
@tofermoran i don’t know, man. even gervais would have a hard time making this less of a travesty. think: the next 4 years will be all this. #<\/a><\/li>\n
@tofermoran they keep a massive box of grave dirt in a cadillac outside for him to rest in. he needs it, he was looking rough tonight. #<\/a><\/li>\n
guys in suits in the background on c-span are throwing bits of scenery around. one is folding sheets into airplane shapes. good metaphor. #<\/a><\/li>\n
watching the muted video… when they’re not talking they both turn off. they go blank-faced & stare. what are we doing, as a country? #<\/a><\/li>\n
and i’m done for tonight. #<\/a><\/li>\n
terry pratchett on dementia. very scary disease… he says it “slowly steals you from yourself.” http:\/\/is.gd\/3FeE<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
Just saw a tiny girl riding a very large bike. What’s our country coming to, that a girl has to peddle her own bike, my friends? #<\/a><\/li>\n
loving yma sumac, found via stephin merritt. crazy range, really beautiful music. #<\/a><\/li>\n
discovered a new instrument: the sistrum. it’s an ancestor of the tambourine; used by ancient cultures (egyptian, sumerian, etc) in worship. #<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
mccain has skeletons in his closet. sure, he has the scandal kind, but also there’s all the people he’s outlived and stored for safe keeping # @acarvin are these #dialtest ratings based on our current opinions & perception, or are they supposed to be grounded in something objective? # horror movies now start out, (movie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}