I think unvitation will be the “it” word of 2010: a request that you attend an event at which you either don’t belong, or shouldn’t go to.

Strange, can’t you just invoke (unvoke?) your PERL-hacker abilities and make cloture happen that way?

Oblomova, I’m afraid that Greater Evil than my own will be required to stand against the keyboarded prayers and Flash-animation candles of the Tea Party Express:

I’ll do my best to stay up.  Can’t say I’m workin’ up to much excitement either way for it, but I can see myself pulling for it at the end.

I’m in as I clean up the trim-the-tree mess.  I have a love/hate relationship with tinsel.

Pacific time zone checking in.

I’d rather go to sleep myself, but I’m working anyway, so I figure I’ll follow The Unfolding.

Besides, after all this time, I need some cloture so I can move on with my life.

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Hot single Blue Dogs are waiting for you! Call now!

I need some cloture so I can move on with my life.

You Blue Dog You!

Slightly OT (Is there a T?), but is anyone besides me kinda surprised at how much Arlen Specter has fallen into line? I guess he’s afraid of being primaried, and since that already happened to Lieberman, Holy Joe doesn’t care. But I really thought Specter was going to be more of an Olympia Snowe prima donna once he crossed the aisle, and so far, that hasn’t happened that I’ve noticed.

(Watch, now he’ll turn out to be a complete a-hole on this bill.)

Is “unviting” someone the same as “unfriending” them?

I think we should contact Webster and get the word uninvite - to unvite.  I mean it seems to make since.  Invite, unvite.  Depending on how the healthcare bill performs, maybe the can be the staple word associated with the bill.

Health Care reform for the United States “It’s Unvite”

But maybe it means this…http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Un vite

Judas, “unfriending” first requires “friending,” unlike “unviting,” in which “viting” is not assumed.

It is so much easier on both the unviter and the unviter’s cream-and-greige Aubusson carpet, on which the unvitee shall not now have a chance to spill refreshing, permanently staining, grape punch.

I won’t be awake but I do want to thank Strange for sharing pictures of his fabulous footwear collection.

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I’m sure that will be absolutely free.

I’m still wrestling with it, but I’m thinking “unvite” describes an indeterminate quantum state in which the person is simultaneously welcome and unwelcome at a gathering until he actually arrives, at which point everyone invariably wishes he hadn’t come.

-OR-

It applies to the situation where a man who loathes the only woman lonely enough to sleep with him leaves the front door unlocked when he goes to bed.

@HTP—Nothing is more revealing of a man’s true character than his choice of comfortable sling-backs.

Yes, Strange, but are they peep-toe slingbacks?

And could a peep-toe slingback in any way be classified as a mandal?

Opaa! Some GOP Senator just observed how tragic it is to be talking about federal funding for abortions on the eve of the celebration of the Birth of Our Savior.

@HTP—Nothing is more revealing of a man’s true character than his choice of comfortable sling-backs.

I now have to quote my favorite Christmas-movie moment—Dawn Davenport in Female Trouble:
I better get them cha-cha heels!

(I have a Divine cut-out doll book, and this page was my Christmas card one year. Please tell me you’re jealous!)

I suppose we should take a drink whenever baby Jesus is mentioned, but I have to work tomorrow.

Perhaps it would be safer only to drink whenever “robust private option” is mentioned. Such a thing would inspire me to eye a sherry bottle anyway.

OT, but the Alaskan Windup Golem’s 2nd-to-last tweet was sadly overshadowed by the stupidity of her latest tweet, but deserves a little attention on its own:

  Copenhgen=arrogance of man2think we can change nature’s ways.MUST b good stewards of God’s earth,but arrogant&naive2say; man overpwers nature
2:44 AM Dec 19th from TwitterBerry

So it’s arrogant to try NOT to damage the world which God made.

Since Begich is up, it’s not entirely OT. Just mostly.

Good catch, Polly.

PS: I caught godisayankeefan trolling down in the Hillary/Earth 2 thread. She should be up here any minute to tell us we’ve been “pwned.”

godisayankeefan must adore brutal corporations that water their fields with the tears of little ghetto children and build parking lots where their playgrounds used to be! I hope she enjoys every blade of grass that sticks its little pointy green tip above the soil at Ruthless Stadium, since it is fertilized with the blood of the poor.

Always easier trolling on an abandoned thread. Lord forbid an actual Rumproast denizen check that open door in the South Wing.

Must look!

Lovely, Strange. There’s not a thing I could add.

Just imagine all the fine reproductive choices women would have if the AK Frozen Cheesecake and her funny old cranky cancerous uncle had won!

1.Have the baby.
2.Have the baby and give away the baby.
3.Learn you’re pregnant, wait until you’re about to give birth, fly a thousand miles, give a speech, fly a thousand more miles, despite labor pains, pass up a modern hospital with an intensive, specialized prenatal unit, and drive hours to the general hospital in your podunk meth-lab-intensive home town and have the baby.

C-Span had those call in numbers, one if you are for the bill and one if you are against.  Now I’m having an identity crisis.

I’m waiting for this Tweet from Antler Annie:

Patriotic AK’ans don’t fear “Climate Change.” AK will ALWAYS b cold cuz of all the ice and snow God put here in His wisdom!

I’m not gonna make it gang.  Fought with snow.  Snow won.  See you all in the morning.

gimme, wake up! gimme! gimme!

Quick, somebody, a Saint Bernard!

Shee-it. And they told me gimme was a long-ball hitter.

I tried slapping her face, and chafing her wrists, but she just smiled and said, “so sleepy…feel warm now…Grandma! You cooked a turkey dinner just for me?”

If only there were some way to warm her…

Polly! The sled dogs! They’re her only hope!

You know what to do.

Balto! C’mere, boy!

Axel and Grayson!

Gad, getting her boots off was not easy—OK, dogs, LICK!

I’m going to kneel down and whisper in her ear:

“Joe Lieberman’s taking a train for DC tonight, just to sign the bill! Joe’s a comin’, gimme! Hold on!”

Polly, she’s dropped by once before

godisayankeefan has also commented here as theone. Seems overly fond of the word “tool.”

Senator McNasty is giving a foam-flecked tirade larded with “my friends” and John Paul Jones.

Jon Stewart must be pinching himself.

Yep, McQueeg was more incensed tonight than he’s been since the last time he thought he was losing his GOP street-cred.

Now he can go back to sleep for six months.

If only Rahmbama had threatened to leave Israel to the clutches of the murderous Ay-rab hordes,we’d never be in this position!

Perhaps the only proper reply to the nation’s greatest danger to Navy warplanes would be “Nuts!”

At least we’re getting down to the wire. I can’t take much more earnest fulminating just before bedtime.

Immediately after tonight’s vote, the Pentagon plans to issue an announcement that the US will sell surplus F-22 Raptors to the Palestinians, and that all military aid to Israel will henceforth be restricted to field rations and office supplies.

I’m sure Joe will get the message.

This is going to lead to some dicey situations in the nightly dreamscape, surely.

Quality healthcare for every unicorn…the doughnut hole! No! No!...Premiums for HARP, no, no, the National Association for the Advancement of Coloring Books….Trillion with a capital T that rhymes with P that stands for Payer….WHAT?
Surely you are just a bit of underdone potato..shake not thy gory locks at me!...

Voting from their desks like they do in Capra movies!

Lieberdouche voted Aye so I guess it’s a wrap.

Well! I can’t believe we managed to stay up to see the end of the beginning.

And there it is.

Indeed. Whatever just happened has well and truly happened.

Apparently I was following the roll call in my sleep.  I sat up just before I heard “Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Lieberman, Aye”.

I need to find a new hobby, lol.

The first thing we’re going to have to do, is get that thing about quartering British soldiers in our houses out of there.

The Jellied-Eel-and-Shako lobby is way too powerful. I really resent it sometimes.

gimme! Thank heaven.

You wouldn’t believe how we got your core temperature up. But this night is memorable for more reasons than one.

Yeah, well, I was so preoccupied with getting this thread to reload that I missed Lieberman’s “Aye.”

I guess I’ll have to wait till it comes out on DVD.

Amazing comments from David Gergen.  I didn’t know that it was possible to clutch one’s pearls hard enough to turn them into diamonds.

Allan, Aetna’s holding onto an especially sparkling couple, so I suppose it is possible!

Thanks to all who stayed awake for this. It’s the price we pay for being an Access Blog.

Or even semi-awake.

And thank YOU, Strange. We shall have to reconvene at the earliest opportunity and raise pousse cafes to your stewardship of this thread through this perilous process.

Polly, I can’t take the money if I don’t do the job.

Which is to say, you’re welcome! Go to sleep.

I will close now with an uplifting bit of poesy from Gov. Moosehat’s Facebook page:

Sarah our beloved beautiful girl
Like our flag that will unfurl
You inspire so many at this time
Opened eyes and exposed crime
Hatred is regurgitated with utter vile
You blast them back with gracious style
They have minions willing to defend
What we see they can’t comprehend
I, like the masses will stand by your side
We will conquer without breaking stride
Taking back what has given us grief
Come 2012 you will remove that Communist in Thief….

Swallowing the tincture of laudanum now….

....

(rabbit nostril)

@%#$^#!!

And from FreepVille, this obit which will be repeated endlessly in the days ahead:

It’s over. We can all say that in Nov 2008 America died. It was only a matter of time I suppose.

“Lieberdouche.” Heh. Why didn’t I think of that?