Too funny! Really... LMAO @ the chicken!

Mark, Domenico & Ali thanks for another fabulous week here at FR! The upgrade came as quite a surprise but after our learning curve seems to be well received over all!

You guys/Ali sure can keep a secret...

Now if you could just publish a tutorial or something on the Newsvine link it would be most appreciated! ;0)

Well... it's just about time for happy hour and the Blackhawk's will be on in less than 2 hours to kick some serious Philly booty!

Go Blackhawk's bring this thing to a close Sunday! This is our time...

Best of luck Feisty to the Blackhawks. Have a beer or two for me, but more importantly, have fun and enjoy the game.

Cheers!

A good weekend to all. I will not be here most of next week, but more on that later. This is a huge parent marker coming home to roost, but very exciting all the same. Thanks to our hosts, and now that I have adjusted to this a bit, I'm not so cranky about the change, except I agree with a previous poster. Should be in black, easier to read and not so tiring.

Thanks Domenico, Mark and Ali for serving us at the First Read Bar and Grill. We love to grill each other and Katie bar the door once the comments get going! Hey Chuck - figure out a way to post on both Twitter and your FB page, will ya? You still have people hanging around over there waiting for you to show up.

Let's keep reminding each other to bold our posts so everyone can read them, until Newsvine figures out a fix.

Have a good weekend and to all who are so inclined, please pray for the Gulf!

Despite Tuesday morning's surprise, once I figured things out, I like it! I second the idea of a Netvine tutorial for those of us who are internet-challenged. What I like is the ability to add comments even after everyone at FR is probably long gone home. Instant gratification. Oh, no, isn't that why we are so impatient, the computer world has us thinking everything should happen fast, now, yesterday including fixing oil wells a mile deep via robot.

Have a fun weekend everyone, keep safe.

Feisty said she wasn't even born the last time the Blackhawks won a Stanley Cup. So here's to them! Every fan in every city deserves a title. No matter what sport.

First apologies to You Mr. Montanaro for jumping on you'll a little bit over the "bam" thing early in the week. I'm going to plead Jody's excuse( lack of enough coffee) and throw in a little bit of you'll already had an old guys head spinning with all the other changes so what did you expect. Seriously while I am kind of excited about the new circumstances here and learning how to use the capabilities I am very glad to see that you'll over there in the manor still have the capability to interact with us. I think most here would agree with me when I say that our relationship with you'll is just as important to us as the relationships that we have built with each other. It is one of the unigue aspects that we have here and I really appreciate it and all the hard work and time that you'll have and still put into making this a unigue and gratifing place for discusion and debate. Hopefully this change will give you'll a little more time to step back and enjoy the fruits of your labor as much as we enjoy the opportunity you give us. Red I'm one of those oldsters that remember that before Gretszy and others Bobby Hull was the face of hockey. Used to listen to the Blackhawks play on AM radio after the sun went down and I could catch a skip. Since Grimey's and my Caps went down in flames real quick and Steeler Fans Pens let us down I'm hoping that the 'Hawks come through so I don't have something else to have to hear about when the Phillies fans invade down here when they play my Natinals. Good luck

Well, there's a first time for everything. . .

I'm with Fiesty. . .

as a Devils fan, (3 Stanley cups), I say. . .

LET'S GO BLACKHAWKS!!!!!!

The Republican Party continues to just fault and obstruct everything, without having any answers or solutions. They use subterfuge to appeal to people’s self-interests and scare tactics to excite emotions. They focus on their political ambitions above all else and concentrate on benefit only for Special Interests and the influential, powerful and extremely wealthy few, their strong supporters. As ‘puppets’ for those few (less than 5%) they offer the majority (better than 90%) only apathy, the costs and subterfuge to rationalize everything and to manipulate public opinion. What they say is empty of any real promise and only critical of the Democrats as they deceptively hope to con the people into accepting a return to ‘more of the same’ that facilitated all of the problems. The Bush-Cheney years are a despicable example of that focus as they stubbornly and arrogantly supported Bush-Cheney in using their offices and America’s resources for their costly private agenda. They would like us to forget that and not realize that returning to ‘more of the same’ would again be costly and even more so than the current necessary costs of fixing what they have already contributed to. The con is their game and should the voters be excited and fooled by their deceptive efforts, we could end up with the catastrophe of ‘more of the same’. The Republicans just don’t currently deserve any consideration as they completely fail to honestly and responsibly be sincere to consider the people instead of just focusing on their political ambitions.