It is oh-dark-thirty. T-minus twenty minutes to cosmo-thirty, I think. Off to do radio. And pump the BMT and Operation Yellow Feather in the process. No time to do this today. Hope some of you can help Manny, if you all decide tha there is more to do. Or to celebrate, if you decide to just declare victory since Rep. Schmidt has went into hiding, and Rep. Bupb has declared, “I did not say those words.”
Good luck. Great work.
I’ll pop in periodically until noon pst.
I’ll have server space set up for yellow feathers by 9 or 10 with no other use of 25 gigs of bandwidth. I’ll email manny with all the links.
BTW – how does it feel to be an activist leader??
Have a great weekend!
Jotter’s High Impact Diaries
Okay the breakdown for the BooTribbers / DailyKos Crossover posts from yesterday
rank nrec ncom impact Diary Author time
1 361 289 3.240 BREAKING: Bush/Cheney Knew No 9/11 – Saddam Connection Steven D 15:16 PST
3 219 130 1.955 The Cajun Republic of Color? blksista 10:48 PST
5 184 91 1.640 Operation Yellow Feather: Day Two BostonJoe 11:32 PST
7 151 108 1.352 Thai Turkey and Thanksgiving Redux Meteor Blades 13:57 PST
9 143 179 1.305 Day 3 with the homeless – Jeff’s having trouble Jeff Seemann For Congress 15:39 PST
11 137 139 1.238 Hope (The shittiest diary ever II) Carnacki 19:11 PST
12 122 111 1.099 Bernanke, inflation, China and the housing bubble Jerome a Paris 13:07 PST
13 106 80 0.950 Buy Blue Christmas 2005 SallyCat 13:59 PST
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Blog whoring works folks! Now go give Jotter some love for doing this stuff every day….
You should cross post this into any open threads or the FBC!
I know that some of those diarists get up there regularly, but I have never seen so many Bootribers have so much impact at one time.
I have to say that blksista’s diary is outstanding.
I am off for the weekend to visit family up in Montreal. If I find a computer I can abuse I’ll check back in on everything, BUT I am usually out with my friends causing trouble when I am up there! lol
[deep breath]
Holy Flying Spaghetti Monster!!! I BELIEVE!
BostonJoe, you have officially converted me with your snarky, sneaky ways to the status of Accidental Activist.
My friends, this protest proves that the blog communities can unite under a single movement, regardless of how small or snarky the feather thing has been; it is AMAZING. I believe we can pull off a major online movement for the scAlito nomination (but that’s for another day, back to feathers now)
Thanks again to everyone who helped out, whether it was with comments, recommends, 4’s, emails to new communities, etc. IT PAYED OFF.
So, what next… We could use some feedback on how to tackle the upcoming days. I figured today will be our last big push before the holiday, and then we can see where it leads from there.
Some ideas I have, nothing set in stone, just ideas:
Day 3 action:
The coming days:
What do all y’all think? Please give some feedback, that’s how this thing turned out so well: Participation.
Can I get a Ramen!
what do you think?
Bueller?
Bueller?
Bueller?
the yellow feather battle have been allowed a breather, time to rest up because I doubt that we won’t have to send anybody any yellow feathers after this. I looked up today what “showing the white feather” means. Pure blood game cocks have no white feathers, so game cocks displaying white feathers were considered inferior fighters…….to say that a soldier was showing the white feather was to say he was a coward.
My own personal definition of “showing the yellow feather”…..not only being a coward, but rally for others to fight your fights and die in your absence.
Oh, I think there are a lot of candidates for yellow feathers if we are basing Operation Yellow Feather on Admiral Charles Fitzgerald’s Operation White Feather.
In 1914 women were encouraged to hand out white feathers to any healthy young men not in uniform. This was intended to coerce men to enlist in the Britsh Army by suggesting that all able bodied male civilians were cowards.
While I would never encourage, let alone coerce or shame anyone into joining up, I despise those who profit by this illegal war, but don’t risk their own worthless hides to fight it.
Our yellow feathers should be going to any war supporter who has avoided military service. Let’s send SACKS of yellow feathers to the ChickenHawks, starting with Cheney.
feathers can be sent to:
Dick “Dick” Cheney
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Email: vice_president@whitehouse.gov
Go get him! He’s the biggest chicken hawk of them all!
I’m laughing too hard to type !
I LOVE:
Dick “Dick” Cheney
I’m buying real feathers and dying them yellow. The conflation of chicken hawk/feather merchant is too delicious pass up.
We have expanded our reach!
RenaRF’s blog entry is also gathering comments, and my site received a decent amount of hits yesterday. Someone pimped the campaign on a haloscan comment, don’t know from which site yet.
Great work, now the question is: where does all of this lead?
Cho, a friend from ePluribus, has graciously allowed us to use these two images from their server:
I checked but didn’t see this up at Dkos yet and scrolled back into the recent diary list a wys trying to find it to recommend but no luck. Has it been up yet?
I’ll be launching the Day Three diary here first, then we’ll send it over to Kos. Thanks for your help SS, every recommend and comment helps!
Also…sent a few of these off from the fax at work this am. Republican boss gave me a gentle evil eye ;o)
thanks to everyone who recommended this. If you’re lurking, I’d like to ask that you unrecommend and head on over to Operation Yellow Feather: Day Three Thank you kindly!
DKos DIARY IS UP AND RUNNING! Please recommend and comment!
a real solution. This isn’t a war of words. This is a war.”
What Murtha said on Monday in response to Schmidt. Was anything said about this whole Iraq mess more honest?
Check it out Folks!
http://joe-lebensrauman.dailykos.com/story/2005/11/23/204020/18