Open Thread – The Quilt Part II
1 11 2009Onward through our tour of the amazing gift I received from the super secret cyber quilters last week. Here are the next four blocks:
Upper left is the “What Could He Have Been Thinking?” square, meant to show us the nicer things about Arizona. There are tiny little beads everywhere on this block – all along the suede boots (which have real fringe!) and in the center of the flowers, and even little blue beaded eyes on the snakes that are so cleverly camouflaged in the blue wavy fabric.
Then the Puss in Boots square! Couldn’t have a Mudpuppy square without a Mudkitty one. And I’m actually one of those rare “dog people” who is also a “cat person.” Three of the fabrics in the background have cats in them, again, one with beautiful beaded eyes. And the center block was signed by three of those attending the Pittsburgh Mudstock – Deep Blue, Lila, and Sky!
Next is…Word Salad! Awesome! The fabric in the background is vegetables on three sides, and words upon words upon words on the other. Here’s what Quince had to say about this one in her letter:
OK; I really got carried away with this one. Yes, I cut up an entire yard of printed-word fabric to find just one “also” and one “too” to applique onto one corner. And if you look carefully at one corner you will see a fabric consisting of literally, a jumble of words tossed over other silk-screened words. This was one of my first sample blocks of my boot pattern, and I was so pleased with it that I set out on a mission to have just the right Mudflatter sign it… This of course ended up with my chasing down the considerably tolerant retired English teacher Mudflatter CO Almost Native, who not only carefully inscribed it but express-mailed her contribution back to Cyber-Quilt Headquarters.
Wow. The inscription around the edge of the center block says, “Punctuation tangoes the reader into the pauses inflections, continuities and connections that the spoken line would convey. T. McCormack. And a cute little carrot bead adorns the lettuce fabric.
And finally, “Desert Style Stompin’”. This square has all sorts of things going on. A little denim square with a tiny pocket, a little suede heart with orangey stitching, and between the boots is peeking a little lizard with beaded eyes. All the little cactus flowers are beaded too, and the background is a beautiful desert landscape with all kinds of critters.
And here’s something whoever made this lovely square does not know! It includes my favorite animal! (Don’t tell Brian!) Yup, it’s an armadillo! I’ve loved them since I was a child and saw a picture of the hairy armadillo from South America. I mean, come on. Look at this guy. What’s not to love?
And that’s it for now. Another four blocks will be coming soon!
Meanwhile, enjoy the open thread!
November 1st, 2009 at 3:01 PM
Here’s a copy of the lyrics from Levi Johnston’s blues:
http://www.thesuburbs.org.uk/Board/index.php?topic=5773.msg82074
November 1st, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Palin’s touch of death remains intact, as the republican she railed against, dropped out of the race only to endorse the democrat….lol:
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Dede Scozzafava endorses Democrat challenger in New York race.
State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava (R), who dropped from the special election in Upstate New York yesterday, has now thrown her support to Democrat Bill Owens.
“It’s not in the cards for me to be your representative, but I strongly believe Bill is the only candidate who can build upon John McHugh’s lasting legacy in the U.S. Congress,” said Scozzafava in a statement released moments ago.
Well THIS is an interesting new wrinkle.
Now the only question remaining is do the New York Republicans dislike the Democrats MORE, or LESS, than the crazed Teabaggers that have hijacked their party?
This could be the most important vote for NY Republicans in the whole 150 years that they have voted in this district. This could well set a precedent for the many races to come in 2010.
Update: If you have not yet read election prognosticator extraordinaire Nate Silver’s take on this race than I suggest that you do.
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/
November 1st, 2009 at 3:36 PM
Palin blows it again. She posts on FB in response to an accusation from Daggett of NJ that she did not suggest he drop out of the race with this:
“Despite what candidate Chris Daggett is claiming, I have never contacted him or his campaign. I have never asked him to drop out of the NJ Governor’s race. Now, if a politician is going to play loose with facts like this, the electorate needs to know it.
So, to the good people of New Jersey, please know that Daggett’s claims are false. I’ve never even suggested he should drop out of the race. But, come to think of it…
- Sarah Palin
via talking points memo
THEN, if you go to the website that she used to “find” the Daggett claim, here’s what’s posted there now:
UPDATE FOR ALL THE PALIN SUPPORTERS
Chris Daggett is not affiliated with this blog. Sarah Palin needs to get her facts straight, when she links to this blog to provide evidence that Chris Daggett is lying about her. I am an independent blogger that is fed up with the corruption and the politics as usual in New Jersey. If Sarah Palin really is an advocate for the people, she should have done her research on the candidate she is endorsing. That same reason that she is endorsing Hoffman, ending politics as usual, are the same reasons she should not endorse Chris Christie.
November 1st, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Alaskan Librarian
Abortion Provisions in House Health Bill
Posted on November 1, 2009 by alaskanlibrarian
The US House has released HR 3962, its final version of a health care reform bill.
“Despite what you may hear in the anti-reform press and blogosphere, this bill will not force abortions or abortion coverage on anyone. It won’t preempt existing state restrictions on abortion. In fact, there are explicit protections in the bill to prevent this. Here are the relevant provisions”
http://alaskanlibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/abortion-provisions-in-house-health-bill/
November 1st, 2009 at 4:16 PM
51 Seagull Junker Palin Says:
Palin blows it again.
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Keeping in mind that this was long before she quit as Gov., believe the following opinion still stands:
By Peggy Noonan- Conservative writer and columnist for WSJ
In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn’t say what she read because she didn’t read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn’t thoughtful enough to know she wasn’t thoughtful enough. Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence. “I’m not wired that way,” “I’m not a quitter,” “I’m standing up for our values.” I’m, I’m, I’m.
Sarah is a Disgrace
In another age it might not have been terrible, but here and now it was actually rather horrifying.
What she is, is a seemingly very nice middle-class girl with ambition, appetite and no sense of personal limits.
“She’s not Ivy League, that’s why her rise has been thwarted! She represented the democratic ideal that you don’t have to go to Harvard or Brown to prosper, and her fall represents a failure of egalitarianism.” This comes from intellectuals too. They need to be told something. Ronald Reagan went to Eureka College. Richard Nixon went to Whittier College, Joe Biden to the University of Delaware. Sarah Palin graduated in the end from the University of Idaho, a school that happily notes on its Web site that it’s included in U.S. News and World Report’s top national schools survey. They need to be told, too, that the first Republican president was named “Abe,” and he went to Princeton and got a Fulbright. Oh wait, he was an impoverished backwoods autodidact!
America doesn’t need Sarah Palin to prove it was, and is, a nation of unprecedented fluidity. Her rise and seeming fall do nothing to prove or refute this.
“Now she can prepare herself for higher office by studying up, reading in, boning up on the issues.” Mrs. Palin’s supporters have been ordering her to spend the next two years reflecting and pondering. But she is a ponder-free zone. She can memorize the names of the presidents of Pakistan, but she is not going to be able to know how to think about Pakistan. Why do her supporters not see this? Maybe they think “not thoughtful” is a working-class trope!
“The media did her in.” Her incompetence or lack of any appropriate modesty did her in. Actually, it’s arguable that membership in the self-esteem generation harmed her. For 30 years the self-esteem movement told the young they’re perfect in every way. It’s yielding something new in history: an entire generation with no proper sense of inadequacy.
November 1st, 2009 at 5:45 PM
50 Martha Says:
November 1st, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Palin’s touch of death remains intact, as the republican she railed against, dropped out of the race only to endorse the democrat….lol:
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Dede Scozzafava endorses Democrat challenger in New York race.
State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava (R), who dropped from the special election in Upstate New York yesterday, has now thrown her support to Democrat Bill Owens.
“It’s not in the cards for me to be your representative, but I strongly believe Bill is the only candidate who can build upon John McHugh’s lasting legacy in the U.S. Congress,” said Scozzafava in a statement released moments ago.”
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This endorsement by Dede Scozzafava coming on the heels of Palin’s patronizingly magnanimous comment on her Fakebook yesterday that she “personally” wants to thank Scozzafava for being so “selfless” in dropping out of the race…..
The narcissistic implication of Palin’s statement is that Scozzafava was bowing out in deference to Palin’s superior moral and political judgment in endorsing Dede’s rival. Palin is such an unlettered and politically naive jackass.
Hope Palin enjoyed that big slap across her face as much as I did……
November 1st, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Gag, I missed the FB post yesterday.
November 1st, 2009 at 6:48 PM
I love that Peggy Noonan piece but she could have saved herself a whole lot of typin’ and stuff if she just would have spit it out in the first sentence:
Palin is a boob that doesn’t realize she’s dumb.
Noonan was trying to be wayyyy to nice about it.
November 1st, 2009 at 10:51 PM
It almost seems blasphemous to post anything that mars the beautiful awesome quilt moment…but it is an open thread.
Good news, kids. Possibly we might have a glimmer of understanding about the business name “Pie Spy”. Maybe.
It appears that it’s all about the metaphorical references to pie/American Pie/gettin’ our piece of the pie, etc., from the McCain campaign trail.
First – an excerpt from an Oct 2008 Huffington Post piece by Leo W. Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers International: When It Comes to Slicing the American Pie, McCain Serves Only the Rich
Though McCain and Palin clearly don’t understand, it’s time for everyday Americans to share in the American pie. At a rally in Florida this week, Obama talked about how the policies of the Bush administration have shrunk the pie and permitted the wealthy to grab the few remaining crumbs. He told he crowd he has no desire to reapportion the pie, as McCain keeps accusing him wanting to do — as a Socialist, you know. Also, Obama objects to the McCain-Palin policy of continuing to feed the rich all of the crumbs, which is particularly evident in the GOP tax plan.
Obama told the group that his goal is to expand the pie to ensure that all Americans get a piece. The crowd responded with a spontaneous chant of, “We want pie!”
Then, there’s a Free Republic post also in Oct 08 with a bunch of interesting but stupid responses:
(This is meant to be a transcript of McCain’s speech; I have no idea if this is really what he said. The responses posted are verbatim.)
The Pie We Need (McCain’s Closing Argument)
10/30/2008 | freedomfighter1013
Several months ago, my opponent was talking about pie. Apparently he likes pie very much because in one speech he mentioned it something like 25 times in the space of a minute and a half. It’s taken me some time, but I think he really hit on the perfect metaphor for the difference in our two approaches towards the economy. Senator Obama and the Democrats believe there is only one pie and that the pie is fixed and the only way to give someone some pie is to take it away from someone else.
I think that’s a waste of time. When you do that, you start arguing about who’s got a bigger slice. You raise it up in the air and look at it from different angles. You waste so much time and effort on weighing and measuring, the pie gets stale while some accountant figures out how much pie each of us should have.
I like pie too, but my approach is different. I think we should bake more pies.
But in order to bake more pies, you have to have an environment conducive to the baking of pies. You can’t have bean counters and bureaucrats in the middle of the kitchen measuring slices and arguing over crumbs, they have to get out of the way so mom can bake more pies.
You’ve got to have a tax system that enables farmers to grow more apples and mill more flour. You have to be able to hire workers to harvest the apples, or send you boys out to pick some themselves. And someone’s got to have gas in the car to bring the apples home.
And mom needs help to roll out the dough and cook the apples and fill the shells. And, you need cheap electricity from a nuclear plant or natural gas from the north slope of Alaska to heat the oven. And, when mom makes too many pies for the house, you need to bring them to your neighbors or put up some signs telling everyone that you have extra pies, so you need electricity to design and print your flyers and people need sneakers to run to your house to buy your excess pies. And, you know what, the more pies she makes, the cheaper each pie becomes, so more people can afford her pies. It’s just a fact.
My point is, the idea that the pie is fixed is a fallacy. But that fallacy lies at the heart of my opponent’s world view.
Let’s not argue over who gets what crumb, let’s bake more pies so everyone can have some. That’s my approach, that’s why you should vote for me, because I believe we should bake more pies.
That’s why I want your vote, so we can all have more pie.
October 30, 2008 8:51:16 AM by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
Mmmmmm… pie.
8:51:57 AM by GulfBreeze (McCain/Palin 08 (It’s about CREATING wealth, stupid! Not spreading it.))
I love that. And that about sums up the difference between the two of them.
McCain/Palin/Piemakers ‘08
9:10:13 AM by ladyvet
You’ve got to have a tax system that enables farmers to grow more apples
But I want Key Lime pie!
9:52:02 AM by Salamander
There is a commandment against coveting things which belong to our neighbors. Instead of wanting what our neighbors have, we should do what we can to get our own stuff.
That’s how the government can assist — by keeping our American freedoms and liberties intact, so that we have the OPPORTUNITY to make more pies.
9:59:35 AM by keepitreal (Obama brings change: an international crisis (terrorism) within 6 months)
Good article. Barack Obama, however, has made me hate pie. And, you know, if he gets into office and gives everyone free pie, they’ll only start clamoring for free brownies too, because pie won’t be enough anymore.
10:04:39 AM by MrB (0bama supporters: What’s the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
And the chants of the audiences sums up the difference in the supporters’ ideologies:
“USA! USA! USA!”
vs
“WE WANT PIE! WE WANT PIE! WE WANT PIE!”
What does this mean? Sarah is the Pie Spy.
“The Pie”, “Other People’s Money” – some of you will recognize this stuff as pure Amway Speak, straight out of Amway motivational tools.