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PHILLY! (none / 0)

Somewhere up there, Ben Franklin is smiling. Palin get "almost deafening" boos at Flyers hockey game.

Apparently chants of "Puck You, Palin" too, along with a few Obama-Biden signs.

Awesome.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 07:54:08 PM EST

Re: PHILLY! (none / 0)

It was hard to hear the boos on the youtube because they turned up the music so loud to drown it out.

Which is a shame.

by Maryb2004 on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 08:04:22 PM EST
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Re: PHILLY! (none / 0)

Unfortunately, YouTube isn't great for audio. But, as I understand it, it was pretty clear on television.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 08:18:19 PM EST
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Re: PHILLY! (none / 0)

Maybe an actual tv station will put it up with better audio.

by Maryb2004 on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 08:24:03 PM EST
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Re: PHILLY! (none / 0)

I'm still baffled at the fact that they thought her doing it would be a good idea.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 08:29:13 PM EST
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Re: PHILLY! (none / 1)

I think the thought of thousands of people in one place clouds the judgment of politicians.

I can't believe she thought bringing her daughters along was such a great idea. She was smilin' and wavin' but doggone it her daughers smiles, well, they looked a little frozen.

And I agree with Kos - she had terrible technique in dropping that puck.

by Maryb2004 on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 08:41:23 PM EST
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Re: PHILLY! (none / 1)

Supposedly the best footage:

Note the Obama/Biden signs in the background.

Barring a kook with a sniper rifle and a love of white bed linen, I think we have our definitive lock-in moment for this cycle.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 09:20:05 PM EST
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Re: PHILLY! (none / 1)

As Bill Maher said last night, "Sarah Palin lacks the gene that tells you when to be embarrassed."

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 09:21:07 PM EST
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Re: PHILLY! (none / 1)

hmmm. I'll have to look (listen) later. Firefox has once again decided that youtubes will load but won't play after 2 seconds. I don't feel like restarting.

by Maryb2004 on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 09:47:58 PM EST
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Re: PHILLY! (none / 0)

I had that problem constantly. The other day I reloaded adobe flash and then googled preferences section for adobe flash and lo and behold I was directed to the preferences which are located on the adobe web site (not on your computer.) I changed them and no more problems since!

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 04:34:30 AM EST
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Re: PHILLY! (none / 0)

any idea wht they were?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 06:21:56 AM EST
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Re: PHILLY! (none / 0)

Well I've wandered about and apparently the full fix turns up in flash player 10, and having gone against a lifetimes experience, removed flash player 9 and installed 10(important that you download the uninstaller and remove 9 first if anyone wants to try it) I can happily report that RG's sound diaries now work properly in firefox 3.0

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 06:42:24 AM EST
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Re: PHILLY! (none / 0)

I spoke too soon. Just lost it again. Will try your suggestion.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 08:07:22 AM EST
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Re: PHILLY! (none / 0)

Apparently the answer is to close all tabs in FF and do a clean restart.

You can then reload your tabs again, and it will work - for a while.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 09:51:08 AM EST
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Re: PHILLY! (none / 0)

I just tried ceeb's sugestion. Will see how that works. It's only happening on my recently acquired laptop which has Vista and a Pentium duo chip. It never happened on my old laptop, centrino with XP nor has it ever happened on my kid's desktop, an old dell with a celeron chip and XP.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 10:43:10 AM EST
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Re: PHILLY! (none / 0)

It happens for me in XP. I guess I'll try this.

by Maryb2004 on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 11:28:36 AM EST
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Re: PHILLY! (none / 0)

see, in my opinion that is part of the problem not an answer.

by Maryb2004 on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 11:27:56 AM EST
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