Overheard at Table 1: Laptop fingerpads

and imgettin SO mad i can't standit annymore why does my cursor keep flippin back to the beginning of all my tweets n facebookins, i mean, like, each - time - i try it just jumps into the middle of the sentence a few lines up

i dunno i think it has something to do with the touchpad thingy, like, something about when ur typin i think the grease from your thumb like activates it or something, i think like i googled that somewhere

no man, lissen it can indicate a real bad virus that, like, everybody's got it, so really there ain't nothing you can really do

no no, dude, seriously you can, i mean i just checked this answer chat blather and they say there are fixes out there, free downloads, dude, like, here's the link . . .

Overheard at table 2: Making Movies

Sylvie: Heard they was makin a movie about those miners what got trapped down there in Chile last year:

Huge: Da's about a year too late. I expected 'em to havvit out by last Christmas. Who's gonna wanna see it now? Das' like - las' year, n'all.

Josiah: Yah, roight. B'sides, what movie I'd rather see is that one you KNOW they're gonna make about the Norwegian psycho killer. I can jus' see it. A kid, down on the ground, peekin out from under 'is hoodie, combat boots walkin toward him slowly, crunchin on the tiny rocks (behind him some pine trees of the mainland in the distance, y'know, across the fjord, so close you could touch, but so too far t'swimmit!) and then the feet stop, right in front of 'im. He's list'nin to his own breath - then - BANG! Black screen - movie title pops up! "Coming soon to a theatre near you!"

Huge: That sounds brilliant! Now I'd go t'see that!

Sylvie: Technically, he's not a psycho killer. He's a mass murderer. There is a difference, both what in reasoning and methodology.

Josia: Aw, Sylvie, don't go all specifics on us, now! People just want to see blood, carnage, and death! Nuffin' more!

Sylvie: Not the Chilean coal miners movie. That'un will be about life, and redemption, and hope, and salvation.

Huge: Like I said - BOR-ing!

Overheard at Table 3: London Burning

Joe: Man, did you hear what's happening in London?

Java: Yeah, the place looks like it's been turned into The Clash discography!

Overheard at Table 2: So who's running the show?

Billy: So.

Joe: Yup.

Jim: Un-huh.

Bob: Standard and Poors downgraded the US.

Billy: Like they had planned to all along.

Joe: But that those thick-headed dipwads in Washington said they were trying to avoid.

Jim: Debt ceiling.

Bob: For weeks upon weeks, and weeks after that. That's all they said, "We gots to reach ourselves a deal, American people! Or they's goan DOWNGRADE the US! Oh, lawdy mama, that can't be allowed to happen!"

Billy: Each and every one of 'em. Preaching fire and brimstone.

Joe: Doom and gloom.

Jim: And then the ratings agency goes and does it anyways.

Bob: Only two possible conclusions.

Billy: Our leaders are stupid.

Joe: Or liars.

Jim: Third option . . .

Bob: They're both.

Billy: On both sides of the aisle.

Joe: Our elected officials only have one true skill, you know. Only one true talent, only one field of expertise. They are experts at only one thing, and one thing only, and they know absolutely zero, nil, null, nicht, nein, nada about anything else.

Jim: And that is?

Bob: Getting elected. Beyond that one skill, they are worthless at everything else.

Overheard at Booth 5: If Dr Deuss Wrote Christian Poetry

from 365

221.

It may seem Sad-u-cee
and not quite Phar-i-see,
that Jesus died for me,
but now He lives in me;
now can you see the
joyous dichotomy
of Christianity.

Overheard at Table3: Jekyll

Just finished watching Jeckyll, on the BBC

How was it?

Brilliant! The only thing about it is I kept expecting the Torchwood team to come breaking in any minute.

Don't they just work with aliens?

Yeah, you're right. S'pose so. But this was some class A sci-fi, nontheless. With a bit of gothic horror thrown in. They tied it back to the book and such, and had swtiches in loyalty, surprise twists, good people turning bad, and a bad guy turning not so bad.

Sci-fi at its best, then?

Absolutely. You've got to check it out. It's only six episodes. The wife and I were just going to watch one before knocking off to bed, but we got so hooked we just kept going to each episode after next. Didn't get to sleep until three a.m.

That explains your fourth espresso.

Dang'roight!

Overheard at Table 3: Because those two-year-old illegals are taking your jobs . . .

. . . this man wants to keep them locked up. Not really because he really gives a smelly bowel movement about the mistaken ideal that "we need to keep America safe from the brown invasion" no, that's just the line he uses to make stupid people - and by stupid people I mean 90% of the American population - yeah, that's right, I said it - because this man, see this picture right here? I made it my cellphone background so I will always remember what evil looks like - this man is behind the Arizona Immigrant Law that SAYS it's going to 'keep America safe' but in reality just builds new holding facilities to hold INDEFINITELY those people who are here illegally - yeah, sure, I said illegal. So what? So we hold women and children, that's what these prisons are built for. These guys have already done the cost analysis and they figure that they can keep women and children for much longer than men, because men are easier to deport and women and children are much more complicated - because you gotta prove if the babies are born here or not, and you gotta take into consideration the culture shock of sending back an eight-year-old boy who doesn't even SPEAK Spanish, much less know what Mexico is like - no, THIS guy wants to build those facilities, because it will make him MONEYMONEYMONEYMONEYMONEY - incarceration is BIG BUSINESS, and this man pushed through the Arizona immigrant law telling the people that it was to fight drugs, crime, 'stealing your jobs' - and that is a load of crap! It was all a freaking snow job, because these guys are going to build HUGE jails for immigrant women and immigrant children. And they know that we Americans won't give a damn, because these women and children are not US, they are THEM, and these a-holes are banking on that!

Take a look at this man. This is the face of evil. And this is the reflection of all Americans if we don't stand up and DRAG our politicians out of the deep pockets of Big Business like the Private-Prison industry.

There? 'Nuff said?