In what states is an anti-lynching provision "bad politics." Shit, I never want to go there.
Res Ipsa Loquitur |
06.13.05 - 7:58 pm | #
What can we do to expose the senators who refused to have their names associated with this resolution?
Would doing so offend The Two Bad Joes' sensibilities about bipartisanship?
James E. Powell |
06.13.05 - 7:58 pm | #
A resolution condemning lynchings based on race is a pretty radical thing; I can see why a lot of Senators might not want to spend their political capital on such a wild-eyed thing.
Let me guess which party they're from.
Nim |
06.13.05 - 7:58 pm | #
In what states is an anti-lynching provision "bad politics." Shit, I never want to go there.
makes ya kinda glad to live in NY, no?
watertiger |
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06.13.05 - 7:59 pm | #
Just change all the "Democrat" references to Rethug, and nothing has changed. Sprinkle on some Jesus, season lightly with homosexuals, and, Viola! 2005 in Amurka.
Virginia |
06.13.05 - 8:01 pm | #
spinoza,
lieberman really wanted to, but he was torn.
watertiger |
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06.13.05 - 8:01 pm | #
makes ya kinda glad to live in NY, no?
Yeah. I'm guessing they're all Repukes?
This is the party that is making "inroads" into the black community?
Sheesh.
Res Ipsa Loquitur |
06.13.05 - 8:01 pm | #
In what states is an anti-lynching provision "bad politics."
You know how that "Mississippi Burning" trial is starting?
NTodd |
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06.13.05 - 8:01 pm | #
In what states is an anti-lynching provision "bad politics." Shit, I never want to go there.
next thing you know, those uppity nigras will be able to vote and sit anywhere they want on the bus and marry white women.
It's a slippery slope. You gotta make a stand somewhere.
But seriously... would it be THAT hard to suss out who the Pro-Lynching 12 are???
They would likely come from southern states.
Most (hopefully ALL) would be Republicans.
Shouldn't be hard to make an educated guess who they are.
renato |
06.13.05 - 8:02 pm | #
You know how that "Mississippi Burning" trial is starting?
ay-yup. you think The Lynch Mob of 12 don't want to sway potential jurors?
watertiger |
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06.13.05 - 8:03 pm | #
How much you wanna bet Crazy
Andy Sullivan is against the
resolution?
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 8:03 pm | #
And what a tactful response to the disinterrment of Emmett Till! Boy howdy our representatives are some pickins....
GWPDA, Irate Scholar |
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06.13.05 - 8:03 pm | #
Former Secretary of Defense Cohens wife was on teevee talking about this.
I wonder if there's a way somebody can ask her who it is. I bet she knows. She looked mighty pissed.
HoneyBearKelly |
06.13.05 - 8:03 pm | #
Let me guess which party they're from.
Nim -7:58 pm
they'da likely been southern Democrats, mebbe one or two from a border stade like indiana or kentucky...
WoodyGuthriesGuitar (aka...) |
06.13.05 - 8:04 pm | #
I'm sure the pro-lynching 12 were just standing up against activist judges.
renato |
06.13.05 - 8:04 pm | #
in 50-60 years the senate can apologize for the sarcastic patronizing of minorities to attempt to help raise their abysmal approval ratings.
Stan |
06.13.05 - 8:04 pm | #
Perhaps we could just ask. Or ask some journalists to ask. Couldn't hurt. So give your Senators a call, please.
Something Polish |
06.13.05 - 8:04 pm | #
You know how that "Mississippi Burning" trial is starting?
Ah, Mississippi. Law school friend from Mississippi would cringe every time we read a con law case about something doing something horrible to black people and/or women. SHe was worried it would have happened in Mississippi.
It usually had.
Res Ipsa Loquitur |
06.13.05 - 8:05 pm | #
They are guaranteed to be Republicans, because if they were Democrats the news would have already leaked to FOX News by now, and we'd be listening to 24/7 of Hannity lecturing the Dems on how racist they are.
The fact that this is being kept hush-hush is a good indicator of what party the perps belong to.
Dave J. |
06.13.05 - 8:06 pm | #
dear friend of mine's from Mississippi. i always say that the day he left Jackson (which he did as soon as he hit 1, the cumulative IQ dropped precipitously.
watertiger |
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06.13.05 - 8:07 pm | #
Gonna stick my neck waaaay out here and guess that Thad Cochran is on that list.
Nim |
06.13.05 - 8:07 pm | #
OT
Nancy Grace’s head just exploded into a million particles of light. Then a creepy looking monster, just like in Alien, poked its head out of the large hole in Nancy’s throat. It screamed at the guests, and then ran across the desk and disappeared for ever.
Ok, I’m lying, but you know you want to see it happen.
sally |
06.13.05 - 8:07 pm | #
The picture of Mary Landrieu shaking hands with a descendant of a lynching victim is hung upside down. Quite symbolic for the particular story.
aahpat (Pat Rogers) |
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06.13.05 - 8:08 pm | #
Ah, Mississippi. Law school friend from Mississippi would cringe every time we read a con law case about something doing something horrible to black people and/or women. SHe was worried it would have happened in Mississippi.
It usually had.
Back in Ye Olde College Days, a friend of mine was talking to a fellow student, who was black, about where they might head to graduate school. The guy mentioned that he wasn't looking at any southern school. My friend asked why not. His response: "Because I'm black, you idiot!"
Eli |
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06.13.05 - 8:08 pm | #
they'da likely been southern Democrats, mebbe one or two from a border stade like indiana or kentucky...
The War Between The States ended a while back. GET OVER IT.
Unlike you Klan assholes the honorable Senator Byrd has repudiated those days and associations.
Butt fuck the Klan with a splintered plunger handle!
aahpat (Pat Rogers) |
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06.13.05 - 8:13 pm | #
It's from Mississippi. That state's political integrity carries the same weight that Monopoly money does at the WalMart checkout.
Zach Wheat |
06.13.05 - 8:13 pm | #
accountability is the new Black
More like accountability is the new plaid bellbottoms.
Eli |
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06.13.05 - 8:13 pm | #
The guy mentioned that he wasn't looking at any southern school. My friend asked why not. His response: "Because I'm black, you idiot!"
That is so not funny, but I laughed anyway.
Res Ipsa Loquitur |
06.13.05 - 8:13 pm | #
accountability is the new Black
Does this admission of guilt make me look fat?
Steve(NS) |
06.13.05 - 8:13 pm | #
Ah, piss. My :15 of freedom is up.
Back to the (BORING) books.
Res Ipsa Loquitur |
06.13.05 - 8:14 pm | #
"Pastoral tale
of the gallant South..."
I was just listening to the quite phenomenal Siouxsie & The Banshees cover of "Strange Fruit" earlier today and now see this post and its subject matter
Yeah, and once the Democrats decided they didn't want to be the party of racist assholes any longer, all those racist assholes ran straight to the GOP, who welcomed them with open arms, so suck it, trolls. I'm so sick of this bullshit meme.
Who led the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Speaking for over 14 hours straight to prevent its passage? Anyone? Anyone?
Schwa? |
06.13.05 - 8:14 pm | #
Unlike you Klan assholes the honorable Senator Byrd has repudiated those days and associations.
By 'you', I assume you don't mean 'me', right?
NTodd |
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06.13.05 - 8:15 pm | #
i, for one, do not want my name associated with any legislation in defiance of our blessed alien reptoid masters.
With the publicity coming to Philadelphia, Miss. about the trial of the former head of the KKK in the Schwernder, Chaney, Goodman case, why do we not hear that Ronald Reagan opened his 1980 campaign for President by campaigning in Philadelphia, MS. Odd choice, unless. . .
Jim |
06.13.05 - 8:16 pm | #
spinoza guessed the dozen without including the other Mississippi Senator?
hueyplong |
06.13.05 - 8:16 pm | #
back in a bit, peeples. have a nice time stormin' the castle.
watertiger -8:12 pm
hey, we'll wait...
it wouldn't be as much fun withoucha...
besides, somebody needs to do captions...
WoodyGuthriesGuitar (aka...) |
06.13.05 - 8:16 pm | #
Teaser box on the ESPNews ticker:
"AHEAD: Baseball and Bozo the Clown"
Eli |
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06.13.05 - 8:17 pm | #
Who led the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Speaking for over 14 hours straight to prevent its passage? Anyone? Anyone?
Schwa?
If it was Strom Thurmond, he probably found time to squeeze in the moral code that comprised the fabric of his integrity:
The pecka knows no bigahtrey!
Zach Wheat |
06.13.05 - 8:17 pm | #
Does this admission of guilt make me look fat?
No, no, no...yes.
NTodd |
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06.13.05 - 8:17 pm | #
The fact that this is being kept hush-hush is a good indicator of what party the perps belong to.
Dave J.
No kidding. If this was gonna embarass Dems they would've insisted on a roll call vote and prolly invited Fux and CNN to carry the vote live.
flory |
06.13.05 - 8:18 pm | #
Ya know, if we wouldn't have alienated those old reactionary crackers dems in the 'old south' we'd still be a majority party.
Fuck 'em to hell, they were wrong.
Look where they went.
jdw |
06.13.05 - 8:19 pm | #
Spinoza-
You left off that pus-infested gin-soaked racist piece of shit, Liddy Dole. As a teeenager, she had her special poodle dress she wore to the local lynchings.
bebe rebozo |
06.13.05 - 8:19 pm | #
"The fact that this is being kept hush-hush is a good indicator of what party the perps belong to."
Fuckin A Bubba.
Goddamit I thought I was totally burnt out on outrage...
I want to know who they are. And then I want them to have to explain themselves. Yeah I'm dreamin, so what?
Wtlodge40 |
06.13.05 - 8:19 pm | #
By 'you', I assume you don't mean 'me', right?
NTodd -- 8:15 pm
i am of indifferent mind about this one...i think (brief, contingent) benefit of the doubt...possibly too dense to note the implicit sarcasm, attributable to your persona, not the prose...
I meant it openly, honestly and without any regrets for any and all Klansmen and women. Experience has taught me that the only people who bring up the distraction from the issue rant of Byrd's KKK youth are KKK mambers casting aspersions toward an honorable American who they consider a race traitor.
If you were being sarcastic it went over my head. I apologize. Otherwise I meant EVERY SYLLABLE!
aahpat (Pat Rogers) |
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06.13.05 - 8:21 pm | #
Schwa?
See Athenae's post above.
Then go stick your head a little further up your ass - I can still see your ears.
flory |
06.13.05 - 8:21 pm | #
WGG - are you saying I compose dense prose?
NTodd |
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06.13.05 - 8:21 pm | #
Just got back from work, and might I say that Drum is an idiot. Jeez-o-pete.
I wonder if there will ever be a day when we stop fighting the civil war...
Kent™ Embigulator |
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06.13.05 - 8:22 pm | #
WGG-areyousayingIcomposedenseprose?
NTodd - I see that slow baud rate problem has cleared up, eh?
GWPDA, Irate Scholar |
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06.13.05 - 8:23 pm | #
WGG - are you saying I compose dense prose?
Maybe you should try decomposing a little?
Eli |
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06.13.05 - 8:23 pm | #
WGG - are you saying I compose dense prose?
NTodd -- 8:21 pm
QED:
If you were being sarcastic it went over my head. I apologize. Otherwise I meant EVERY SYLLABLE!
aahpat (Pat Rogers) | Email | Homepage | 06.13.05 - 8:21 pm
WoodyGuthriesGuitar (aka...) |
06.13.05 - 8:23 pm | #
Who led the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Speaking for over 14 hours straight to prevent its passage?
A young Bill Clinton, right before he had sex with Mrs. Kruschev on the White House lawn.
Thersites |
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06.13.05 - 8:23 pm | #
Why did you write this post
Because that's what the wingers always say. The clue was the fake stuttering--and if you click through to my homepage, I think you'll get a sense of just how fucking cool I am, though smetimes I'm just too fucking subtle for my own good.
NTodd |
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06.13.05 - 8:23 pm | #
Schwa is apparently still bitter that Byrd remains the only former segregationist not to become a Republican.
I guess that's because Byrd is a FORMER segregationist.
hueyplong |
06.13.05 - 8:24 pm | #
Who led the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Speaking for over 14 hours
straight to prevent its passage? Anyone? Anyone?
Schwa?
Like you support the Civil Rights
Act?
It is to laugh.
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 8:24 pm | #
NTodd - I see that slow baud rate problem has cleared up, eh?
Nah. I've just had a lot of coffee and hit the bottle really early today. I AM CORNHOLIO!
Maybe you should try decomposing a little?
I won't be Bach.
QED
Don't you try that fancy Latin shit on me.
NTodd |
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06.13.05 - 8:25 pm | #
A young Bill Clinton, right before he had sex with Mrs. Kruschev on the White House lawn.
"Your lips say 'nyet', but your eyes say 'da'."
SteveNS |
06.13.05 - 8:26 pm | #
Isn't there a procedure in the senate that can force a roll call vote? I would think that Reid should say he isn't going to do it then do it and catch them all with that 'got caught fucking the neighbor's cat' look on their face when they have to give their names and votes.
That's it Reid. Screw them to the wall if you can. No more Mr. Nice guy shit.
NTodd - the clue is probably in the number of clauses you stack in a typical sentence..... Maybe? Kinda keeping in mind that on the net things are easy to misunderstand?
"The clue was the fake stuttering--and if you click through to my homepage, I think you'll get a sense of just how fucking cool I am, though smetimes I'm just too fucking subtle for my own good."
GWPDA, Irate Scholar |
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06.13.05 - 8:27 pm | #
Anyone know what the rules are on requiring a roll call vote? I think all it takes is one Senator to request it.
If the Senate is not willing to have a roll call vote on this resolution, it is hardly reassuring. The Senate is coddling members who don't have the courage to apologize for past Senates not having the courage to pass an anti-lynching legislation. Real exercise in courage.
Ben Brackley |
06.13.05 - 8:27 pm | #
Who led the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This is not 1964 last I looked.
pie |
06.13.05 - 8:27 pm | #
Who led the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Speaking for over 14 hours straight to prevent its passage?
A young Bill Clinton, right before he had sex with Mrs. Kruschev on the White House lawn.
Thersites
Lessee, now - that would be after his stint on the grassy knoll, right?
flory |
06.13.05 - 8:27 pm | #
Back in Ye Olde College Days
What like last week?
.
Kent™ Embigulator |
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06.13.05 - 8:28 pm | #
You better behave, NTodd.
I swear I'll break out the shit on a shingle...
Ba®ndog |
06.13.05 - 8:28 pm | #
Isn't there a procedure in the senate that can force a roll call vote?
I honestly am too buzzed to figure out Rule XXII, but I think that would require a unanimous consent agreement. Or an Act of God.
NTodd |
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06.13.05 - 8:29 pm | #
Wasn't it 16 years AFTER the 1964 debate that Saint Ronnie kicked off his campaign in Philadelphia, MS?
As I recall, it was not a predominantly black audience, but I'm sure Schwa can clear that up (assuming, of course, that Limbaugh gave him talking points on this subject; otherwise it's back to the drool cup).
hueyplong |
06.13.05 - 8:29 pm | #
I need ice cream.
Fortunately, I know where it hides.
GWPDA, Irate Scholar |
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06.13.05 - 8:30 pm | #
So Bill Clinton was on the grassy knoll fucking Mrs. Kruschev? Ah now I understand what is meant by the "second shooter." Somebody should check those stains on Jackie's dress.
spinoza |
06.13.05 - 8:31 pm | #
1991.
Eli
Whoop! Whoop!
Class of '91 in the hizzy!
Represent!
(Um, I graduated in '91, too.)
SteveNS |
06.13.05 - 8:32 pm | #
Honestly.
If the dems can't see this as an excellent election year topic and exploit it by doing everything they can to embarrass the rethugs then they deserve to lose.
Maybe Dean should walk the halls and cheerlead them on? Perhaps he should call a press conference at the senate chambers while they are having the vote and then as the senate rethugs are leaving he can rush up to each of them while the cameras are rolling and ask them all how they voted?
Someone should damn well take advantage of this for some cheap press but valuable press!
Dean should see this as a chance for donors to see who they are donating to. It's also the chance to add up the tally sheet and throw at the fundies the fact they're supporting a bigot who endorses the murdering of african americans.
Time to go for the throat Dems!!!
A bunch of Jim Crow crackers who dominated the DNC as much as they dominated the GOP in the 1960's. Slowly, ever so slowly that is changing.
For the Democrats the old crackers, like Byrd, repudiated the white racist days. For the Republicans, like William Rehnquist, they got jobs for life on the courts back in the racist Nixon era and so we still suffer their debilitating effects on our great nation.
This puts the Democrats one step ahead of the Republicans on the social evolutionary scale of American politics. but their continued support of the Jim Crow Drug War keeps them from leaping ahead of the GOP and evolving into civilized homo-sapiens.
aahpat (Pat Rogers) |
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06.13.05 - 8:36 pm | #
Who led the filibuster of the Civil Rights blah blah blah clinton got a blow job blah blah 9/11 changed everything blah blah howard dean's mean blah blah something about negroes blah Marla ruzicka worked for the insurgency blah blah blah kerry threw his medals blah blah global warming is a liberal plot blah blah blah michael moore is fat blah blah blah kerry got bad grades blah blah blah
Colby 91. Currently in the shameful position of being 19th ranked in Useless News and Wanker Reports, but it has a lovely symmetry, doesn't it?
NTodd |
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06.13.05 - 8:37 pm | #
Schwa this idiot hasn't been the same since -ing split and left him holding -tzel
civiler |
06.13.05 - 8:37 pm | #
I don't know. I don't know anymore. What century are we living in?
I see this reverse universe in motion. And it's making me dizzy.
mer |
06.13.05 - 8:37 pm | #
I'm shocked that the notorious sack of treasonous pigshit Zell Miller was left off of the list of 12.
Gary Frazier |
06.13.05 - 8:37 pm | #
"...an interesting 22-year career in the theUS Army...served in many places around the world and during that time drove some very famous while serving as a military driver."
"For Example he drove Five-Star General Omar Bradley and remembered meeting the Wolrd War II hero on several occasions."
Just had to put in an old timer's name, this one goes out to WGG and the all atriots who served...(local legion newsletter)
"He drove for Saddam Hussein when Hussein came to visit several Iraqia who were training here in the united STates."
Hmmm. Interesting. Indeed.
The soldier served from 64 to 86. of course Jimmy Carter put Saddam on a no-trade list for his human rights record.
The only other POTUS he served under were (gasp) Republicans.
You don't suppose that was the 80s leg of his Saddam Chauffer assignemnt?
Mr.Murder |
Mr.Murder |
06.13.05 - 8:37 pm | #
Speaking of Truman, some advice to Dems who think we can win elections by being mealy-mouthed "Republican-lite" centrists:
Give the people a choice between a Republican and a [Democrat who acts like a] Republican and they will choose the Republican every time.
Even when a GOP-lite moderate wins (e.g. Clinton), it doesn't build the party in the long term ... and more likely voters will prefer the genuine article to the fake.
We Dems. are always gonna be labeled as liberal even if Zell Miller is the face of our party (and zig-zag-Zell's a flip-flopper, too) -- so we might as well embrace our brand and sell it: let's stop trying to embrace the center and get the center back on our side!
DAS |
06.13.05 - 8:38 pm | #
How the hell do I know how many clauses I stack in a typical sentence? I'm making this shit up as I go.
You do need to sharpen your clauses. Just sayin'.
Thersites |
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06.13.05 - 8:38 pm | #
Fortunately, I know where it hides.
Does Arthur know?
Kent™ Embigulator |
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06.13.05 - 8:38 pm | #
I understand it is flory's birthday, and I say: happy birthday!
I don't understand what you are saying at all.
NTodd |
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06.13.05 - 8:38 pm | #
In 2005, as opposed to 1964, it is the Republicans throwing a white sheet over the vote so as to shield a dozen guys who find it politically awkward to apologize for lynching.
And even in 1964, only one party's presidential candidate was against the Civil Rights Act. Seeing as how LBJ signed the Act, guess which party that was.
hueyplong |
06.13.05 - 8:38 pm | #
For some reason I was under the impression that you were early twenties.
Youthful enthusiasm?
No, I don't think I've had that since I was three...
Eli |
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06.13.05 - 8:38 pm | #
steve,
it's off of Siouxsie's "Through the Looking Glass" album
other covers on the album are
"This wheel's on fire"
"The Passenger"
and something from Disney's The Jungle Book, "Trust in Me" to which she gives one of the most sinister and seductive takes ever given to a Disney tune
The Crapture |
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06.13.05 - 8:38 pm | #
Jews forced labels- 1930-1945
Black lynching- 1960
Gay labels- 2005
Times never change do they.Only the faces.
smalfish |
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06.13.05 - 8:39 pm | #
I'm shocked that the notorious sack of treasonous pigshit Zell Miller was left off of the list of 12.
He is a sack of pigshit, but no longer a senator.
spinoza |
06.13.05 - 8:39 pm | #
Well done, HoneyBear!
Res Ipsa Loquitur |
06.13.05 - 8:43 pm | #
BTW -- those who say that a party has no credibility or chance of power if it can't be an active playwer in all the states forget that the Rethugs totally dominated national govt in the Gilded Age without having any party organization at all in the Sullied South (just sayin' -- I'm actually in favor of HoHo's campaign in every state principle -- but a party CAN run things without the South)
Prior Aelred |
Sadly, No. They voted one way for national tickets, the other way locally...
Mr.Murder |
06.13.05 - 8:44 pm | #
oy, fucking Rick Kaplan hired Rita Cosby to pollute Olbermann's show after fox dumped her.
Atrios |
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06.13.05 - 8:45 pm | #
"So Bill Clinton was on the grassy knoll fucking Mrs. Kruschev? Ah now I understand what is meant by the "second shooter." "
So when Kruschev was in the UN building banging his shoe upon the desk screaming "We will bury you!" It was Bill Clinton on the grassy knoll burying his into Mrs K'?
I gotta say that I admire a man who doesn't discriminate against ugly russian women.
Truman, one forgets what a great president he was. I guess FDR had to throw a bone to the progressives when he dumped Wallace.
Truman led the wartime Senate committee investigating war profiteering. Truman integrated the military. Truman fought for universal healthcare, and compromised by getting Medicare. the fact that Dean thinks of himself as a Truman Democrat is great and good news. Truman didn't give em hell, he spoke the truth to power and it sounded like hell to them.
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari |
06.13.05 - 8:45 pm | #
we might as well embrace our brand and sell it: let's stop trying to embrace the center and get the center back on our side!
and something from Disney's The Jungle Book, "Trust in Me" to which she gives
one of the most sinister and seductive takes ever given to a Disney tune
The Crapture | Email | Homepage | 06.13.05 - 8:38 pm | #
Was that on Hal Willner's Disney
album?
The one were the Replacements
did Cruella DeVille?
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 8:45 pm | #
or is that "Quaka"?
Da Quake's in da hizzy,
You mothafucking Papists
got me in a tizzy
I'll fuck yo shit up
when you confess that
you smacked my ho up
Throw yo rosaries in the air,
and ev'rybody say
Pie Iesu Domine
dona eis requiem,
mothfuckahs
NTodd |
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06.13.05 - 8:46 pm | #
Youthful enthusiasm?
No, I don't think I've had that since I was three...
That might be a lie, I suspect. I think this crotchety bastard still has some laying around.
Kent™ Embigulator |
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06.13.05 - 8:46 pm | #
Who led the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of...
blah blah blah something about negroes blah cadillacs! welfare queens! blah blah blah affirmative action is racist blah liberals are racists blah blah janice rodgers brown is in no way insane and/or unamerican blah blah some more about negroes blah blah blah cadillacs! they drive cadillacs! blah blah lynching never happened blah blah blah church bombings never happened blah blah it is not true that young black males are being preyed on by miliary recruiters blah blah blah
/Tribute to pro-lynching Republican senators™ Edition
Res Ipsa Loquitur |
06.13.05 - 8:46 pm | #
Well, sho' nuff, Miller is no longer a Senator.
I stand corrected.
I'm sure he'd be one of the ones opposed to the apology, though.
Gary Frazier |
06.13.05 - 8:47 pm | #
oy, fucking Rick Kaplan hired Rita Cosby to pollute Olbermann's show after fox dumped her.
What?
Like a co-host?
Central Scrutinizer |
06.13.05 - 8:47 pm | #
Oh, Youa canna foola me. There sa noa sucha thing asa Sanity Clause."
love a Marx Bros. reference.
Tena |
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06.13.05 - 8:48 pm | #
oy, fucking Rick Kaplan hired Rita Cosby to pollute Olbermann's show after fox dumped her.
smalfish |
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06.13.05 - 8:48 pm | #
Res:
Your best ever!!!!
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 8:48 pm | #
Hawthorne Wingnut is probably pretty close to the mark.
hueyplong |
06.13.05 - 8:48 pm | #
or is that "Quaka"?
I want to see the "Pimp My Ride" episode where they tackle the hay wagon.
SteveNS |
06.13.05 - 8:49 pm | #
Big wooden wheels with spinny rims.
SteveNS |
06.13.05 - 8:50 pm | #
Fortunately, I know where it hides.
Does Arthur know?
Kent™ Embigulator - If I tell you, you'll tell him. That's no way to keep a secret!
GWPDA, Irate Scholar |
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06.13.05 - 8:50 pm | #
Res:
Your best ever!!!!
You're a big flirt, steve simels.
(Please keep it coming!)
Res Ipsa Loquitur |
06.13.05 - 8:50 pm | #
Mrs ILJ-
Truman also fired that insane whacko, MacArthur.
spinoza |
06.13.05 - 8:51 pm | #
ARRG!
I cant stand that cosby bitch.Of all the teevee "anchors" hers is the most vile personality I can think of.Her voice sounds like grated metal in a fucking tunnel to me.
SHoot me before I turn on any news shows again.Please!
smalfish |
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06.13.05 - 8:51 pm | #
I want to see the "Pimp My Ride" episode where they tackle the hay wagon.
Probably more like "Churn My Ride" or somesuch...
Eli |
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06.13.05 - 8:52 pm | #
Black Quaka hats, brims way down low.
Got the puffed wheat, ready to go.
Hitting the streets, looking for chicks,
Can't find hoochies, we'll fuck up some hicks!
That's right, G, we say "Thee" and "Thou",
Step to us, dick, and you're gonna say "OW!"
Black Quaka hats, brims way down low.
Got the puffed wheat, ready to go.
Hitting the street, making the scene,
"Passive Resistance", yeah, you know what that means!
Chris Tucker |
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06.13.05 - 8:53 pm | #
AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!
We've got gangsters, war criminals, and theocrackpots running the fucking country into the gaddamned ditch and the fucking Liberal media is non-fucking-stop Michael "freaking" Jackson.
I'm shvitzing.
It's too hot to flirt.
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 8:53 pm | #
spinoza
yes, re-affirming the Constitutional supremacy of the elected C-in-C. Truman turned out to be a great and good president. too bad we don't prosecute war profiteers anymore, or even hold them in the utter contempt WWII citizens did.
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari |
06.13.05 - 8:54 pm | #
too bad we don't prosecute war profiteers anymore, or even hold them in the utter contempt WWII citizens did.
Don't most countries have, like, a national memory? Or am I romanticizing?
Eli |
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06.13.05 - 8:55 pm | #
Vinnie
Whoa big boy....
Put the remote down and turn away from the television S L O W L Y.
but I wonder what America would be like if Wallace had been the VP when fdr died?
Our troops would paint themselves blue before battle?
Eli |
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06.13.05 - 8:58 pm | #
Res Ipsa - I just love that.
"So Bill Clinton was on the grassy knoll fucking Mrs. Kruschev? Ah now I understand what is meant by the "second shooter."
That made me laugh like Pilar Ternera. [I can't wait to see if anyone gets that.]
Tena |
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06.13.05 - 8:58 pm | #
It's too hot to flirt.
Sounds like a Dead Kennedys song...
I'm in... no... condition... to flirt.
Eli |
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06.13.05 - 8:59 pm | #
Amish motherfuckers, watch your back,
step on our turf, you get our boot up the crack
of your ass. Last thing you see, before you die,
Quaka puffed wheat. that ain't no lie!
Black Quaka hats, brims way down low.
Got the puffed wheat, ready to go.
Hitting the street, looking for cooch,
Step to us Mennonites, you'll screw the pooch!
Chris Tucker |
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06.13.05 - 8:59 pm | #
Visitors. I had visitors, people. Anybody want to catch me up? ( oh god, just wait for it now, mena)
mena |
06.13.05 - 9:00 pm | #
Meanwhile, here I sit and it's 45 deg F outside, and that's pretty much where it's been since Sunday evening. The 5-day forecast doesn't show us getting even to 60 degrees this week.
"even money that Biden is one of the 12, because he doesn't want to piss anyone off.
watertiger | Email | Homepage | 06.13.05 - 8:00 pm | #
"
Biden doesn't want to piss of the beltway whores or the beltway party circut. Ordinary folk? He couldn't give a good god damn less.
Joe D. |
06.13.05 - 9:00 pm | #
or is that "Quaka"?
I want to see the "Pimp My Ride" episode where they tackle the hay wagon.
SteveNS
Queer Eye for the Quaka' Guy.
Black hats. Homespun. Suspenders.
There's a need here.
flory |
06.13.05 - 9:01 pm | #
No, I have AC, it's just not
always as effective as I'd like.
I have a window unit that keeps the Res boudoir cool, which is very important.
I grew up in a meat locker. My dad kept the joint at about 60 degrees year-round. He'd call from work sometimes, about two hours before coming home and say, "Crank that thing up, Res." Now I am addicted.
Res Ipsa Loquitur |
06.13.05 - 9:01 pm | #
The damp chill has already taken a toll on my closing HTML tags.
SteveNS |
06.13.05 - 9:02 pm | #
Sadly, No. They voted one way for national tickets, the other way locally... - Mr.Murder
Actually, the bigger problems are (1) thanks to the New Deal (which the Southern Conservatives hated, even as they tried to take advantage of it) the South was brought into the first world, more or less, so now more people live there so it is harder to win the Presidency / control the House without it; (2) the progressive/populist Midwestern vote has disappeared -- either because we are too socially liberal (as the Heathers claim), because we need to be more economically liberal (Frank's thesis?) or simply because the kind of person who lived in the Plains/Midwest when it was still somewhat of a frontier is different than the kind of person who's living there now; and (3) the Republicans had the money and political prowess to be a regional party controlling the national government then but we Dems. don't have the same support of big money (although, as some have pointed out, there are many within the Hollywood/Silicon Valley wing of the Dem. party that sound an awful lot like Gilded Age Republicans in political terms) and good political hacks to do so now.
Even if we cannot win in the South, we'll need to rekindle some serious Prairie fire and get some serious money and logistical support on our side to win. A fair share of the media actually being on our side would help too!
DAS |
06.13.05 - 9:02 pm | #
Pilar Ternera
why, you! you haven't been alone more than a couple of days...100 years??? ha!
WoodyGuthriesGuitar (aka...) |
06.13.05 - 9:02 pm | #
Kent™ Embigulator - If I tell you, you'll tell him. That's no way to keep a secret!
GWPDA, Irate Scholar
Arthur knows. He told me he cut a deal with the feral burros.
flory |
06.13.05 - 9:03 pm | #
DAS --
Long time no contact -- but we still agree on everything (Jesus was aliberal Jew) -- I have ALWAYS loved that quotation from Truman -- I quote it more than any other (closely followed by the story of his telling the WH press corps that the way to get good roses was to use lots & lots of manure -- so one of them said the Bess, "You ought to get him to stop saying 'manure' & say 'fertilizer'" & Bess said, "You don't know how hard I worked to get him to say 'manure'!"
Prior Aelred |
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06.13.05 - 9:04 pm | #
In 1948 at the Democratic Convention, Hubert Horatio Humphrey gave an empassioned speech called "A Plea For Civil Rights" Excellent reading today. (From memory so likely a bit off)"It is high time for the Democratic Party to get out from the shadows of state's rights and into the bright sunshine of human rights."
Essentially, if we want to proclaim ourselves to be the leaders of the free world, than we had better get our house in order.
bill |
06.13.05 - 9:05 pm | #
Our troops would paint themselves blue before battle?
And go commando under their kilts?
NTodd |
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06.13.05 - 9:05 pm | #
Is the current Jacko-related frontpage at Drudge a not-so-subtle implication that a lynching is in order, or am I imagining things ???
brucds |
06.13.05 - 9:06 pm | #
Arthur knows. He told me he cut a deal with the feral burros.
flory - Did UPS make their delivery to your place yet?
GWPDA, Irate Scholar |
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06.13.05 - 9:06 pm | #
Sorry for everyone stuck in the heat.
Tena |
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06.13.05 - 9:07 pm | #
I saw a feral burro on St. Johns. Another incidence of where I thought of you guys.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere |
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06.13.05 - 9:07 pm | #
my apologizes to Senators DeMint, Burr, Vitter Graham & Frist. They are many things but at least they signed on asco-sponsors. Ok so lets revise the list:
America, the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Oh, wait... that's just lip service. My bad. It's still important in a few places to be pro-lynching if you want to be elected.
Have I mentioned lately how much I hate these people?
TheOtherWashington |
06.13.05 - 9:10 pm | #
Is the current Jacko-related frontpage at Drudge a not-so-subtle implication that a lynching is in order, or am I imagining things ???
I knew that the "Heathers" and other sludge, would have their collective panties in a bunch, when I heard the verdict at work.
I think I might be able to take 37 seconds of the Nancy Grace show, anyone know when it's on?
Kent™ Embigulator |
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06.13.05 - 9:10 pm | #
"I'm shvitzing.
It's too hot to flirt."
Too hot to fuck, maybe, but too hot to flirt? Never!
Sallyh, La Poissoniere |
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06.13.05 - 9:10 pm | #
Rollin' though the hood, lookin' too good,
bling ain't our thing, though some think we should
represent, we ain't down with that,
only thing we need is a black Quaka hat!
Black Quaka hats, brims way down low.
Got the puffed wheat, ready to go.
Hitting the street, makin' some money.
Gonna spend it all, on some honey.
Not the kind you find in the cereal box, no,
the honey I eat is a real fox, YO!
Chris Tucker |
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06.13.05 - 9:11 pm | #
Too hot to fuck, maybe, but too hot to flirt? Never!
I think you may have that backward...
Eli |
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06.13.05 - 9:11 pm | #
Sorry for everyone stuck in the heat.
Tena
Ish. I'm on my way back to Dallas tomorrow. I envy you.
GWPDA - no deliveries. What am I waiting for - cilantro? Shank of feral burro?
flory |
06.13.05 - 9:12 pm | #
Res Ipsa--I have lovely vanilla sugar and lovely vanilla vodka! Mix with caffeine free Coca Cola, squeeze in a touch of lime, you'll relax and stay cool!
Sallyh, La Poissoniere |
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06.13.05 - 9:12 pm | #
I saw a feral burro on St. Johns. Another incidence of where I thought of you
guys.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere | Email | Homepage | 06.13.05 - 9:07 pm | #
Did you see any mongeese?
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 9:12 pm | #
Eli--I live in the San Fernando Valley. Trust me, i don't have it backwards
Sallyh, La Poissoniere |
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06.13.05 - 9:12 pm | #
Did you see any mongeese?
And were they flying north with Cobra's in their mouths?
Kent™ Embigulator |
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06.13.05 - 9:13 pm | #
Happy Birthday Flory!
RIL you actually did what I thought not possible.
You improved the blah blah blah.
It was fucking blazing when I got out of work.
It's 85 now.
Not quite so hellish.
HoneyBearKelly |
06.13.05 - 9:13 pm | #
keeps them from voting to close guantanamo as well.
Stan |
06.13.05 - 9:13 pm | #
Thanks, Steve S.
Piling on by the Atriot boyz always welcome.
flory |
06.13.05 - 9:13 pm | #
Eli--I live in the San Fernando Valley. Trust me, i don't have it backwards
Well, clearly I've never experienced that kind of heat...
Eli |
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06.13.05 - 9:14 pm | #
Res Ipsa--I have lovely vanilla sugar and lovely vanilla vodka! Mix with caffeine free Coca Cola, squeeze in a touch of lime, you'll relax and stay cool!
Sallyh ... Sounds good, but is more elaborate than I can concoct in the library. ANy essential oils I can sniff while here?
Res Ipsa Loquitur |
06.13.05 - 9:14 pm | #
Steve--we saw two mongooses on St. Johns, skittering across the road, one after the other--i believe it's mating season. Lots of iguanas and geckos, too!
The only other time I happened upon a mongoose was at the Mongoose Junction, a pretentious and overpriced shopping plaza on St. Johns, but we recovered at the West TX Shoreline BBQ, which is the epitome of what a dive should be, right down to the chickens cruising the yard.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere |
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06.13.05 - 9:15 pm | #
Don't laugh!
Stand up and place your right palm over your bellybutton. Take your left hand up to your neckline. Place your index finger under one collar bone and your thumb under the other. Rub along the bone line just below in that soft area. Breath evenly and deeply while you do so. Keep it up for about three minutes than switch hands and go for three more minutes. Once done raise your right knee up and touch your left hand to your knee. Alternate hands and knees for about three minutes. Drink a bunch of water and if you begin to get tired again, go with the bellybutton thing agian. Sound nuts, it works.
bill |
06.13.05 - 9:16 pm | #
Res Ipsa--i am combining some vanilla sugar with some lavender, rosemary and almond oil. Breathe deeply!
Sallyh, La Poissoniere |
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06.13.05 - 9:16 pm | #
RIL:
Rosemary is refreshing and good for alertness.
flory |
06.13.05 - 9:16 pm | #
Ish. I'm on my way back to Dallas tomorrow. I envy you.
Oh, damn, I have to go call 'em and delay.
I -knew- I should have gone for the 'shanks mare' option for delivery. Just didn't want you to have to deal with four little tired hooves right off....
GWPDA, Irate Scholar |
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06.13.05 - 9:17 pm | #
Sallyh:
St.John was beautiful when I
was there. Is it still 80
percent national park and
undeveloped?
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 9:17 pm | #
y'know, i seem to recall new yorkers bitching about the cool weather we had two weeks ago. and if i recall, i said: "enjoy it while you can."
Any essential oils I can sniff while here?
Res Ipsa Loquitur -9:14 pm...
a piece of ginger root tucked into the cheek??? i think i heard somewhere that'd work...dunno, fer sher...
WoodyGuthriesGuitar (aka...) |
06.13.05 - 9:17 pm | #
-i am combining some vanilla sugar with some lavender, rosemary and almond oil. Breathe deeply!
and hope you don't lapse into glycemic shock.
watertiger |
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06.13.05 - 9:18 pm | #
Steve S--it is indeed! The only areas that are developed are Cruz Bay and Coral Bay, and Cruz Bay is still less than a 2 minute walk from the ferry dock to the edge of town. The national park remains, and we were fortunate to be able to swim and snorkel at Trunk Bay--killer wonderful coral.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere |
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06.13.05 - 9:18 pm | #
HoneyBear, Spinoza - thanks to you guys as well.
Smalfish - I know. Trust me, I'm not looking forward to the trip. But the frackin' mortgage won't pay itself for some reason.
flory |
06.13.05 - 9:18 pm | #
In this case, I have to rely on wardrobe.
Eli |
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06.13.05 - 9:24 pm | #
Sallyh:
Stayed in Cruz Bay myself.
It was the most disastrous vacation
I ever had, but god knows the
island
was gorgeous.
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 9:24 pm | #
i>Re: Lavender
Next weekend (june 26), if you happen to be in the Albuquerque, cruise out to Corrales for the lavender Festival...my dulcet baritone has been requested to provide the public address reminders, as invisible but audible master of ceremonies...
there are lots of arts n crafts booths, food, personal development stuff...a fund couple of hours, anyway...
proceeds to a good cause...last year, Cuidando Los Ninos;
Oh boy, This should be goood.
Kent™ Embigulator |
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06.13.05 - 9:24 pm | #
Eli,
will this do?
watertiger |
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06.13.05 - 9:25 pm | #
GWPDA - I should have gone for the 'shanks mare' option for delivery
'shanks mare of feral burro'?
Oh wait - that doesn't work for burros does it?
flory |
06.13.05 - 9:25 pm | #
I grew up in Pasadena, Texas, a suburb of Houston and the home of Gilley's. When I was in junior high, there was a KKK bookstore with a huge sign down the street from the only X-rated drive-in in the Houston area. Guess which one had protesters out in front of it every night?
squid696 |
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06.13.05 - 9:25 pm | #
Steve--I'm sorry it was disastrous, but the white sand and turquoise water in photos are not exaggerated.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere |
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06.13.05 - 9:25 pm | #
Anyone have any recommendations for something to make me *not* horny?
Anchovy daiquari? They really suck. Kind of takes your mind of other stuff
bill |
06.13.05 - 9:26 pm | #
Hecate - where do you live, I want to move. My fondest memories of childhood was the thousands of lightning bugs. I had not seen any in years and then I saw one - I bawled!
Nancy |
06.13.05 - 9:26 pm | #
What??? Not passing nearly 200 anti-lynching bills in the first part of the 20th Century???
But wasn't this Tom Brokaw's "Greatest Generation"?
everyonelovespete - 9:21 pm
nope, it was their parents...
WoodyGuthriesGuitar (aka...) |
06.13.05 - 9:26 pm | #
Interesting post, Atrios. Might just link to it.
Toby Petzold |
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06.13.05 - 9:26 pm | #
Oh wait - that doesn't work for burros does it?
flory - Just let your neighbors know so they can be on the qui vive for a little guy with a birthday ribbon (you ever try to wrap a burro?)
GWPDA, Irate Scholar |
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06.13.05 - 9:27 pm | #
the Virgin Islands are amazing. glad you hads a good time. we want to visit Trunk Bay next fall.
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari |
06.13.05 - 9:27 pm | #
Anchovy daiquari? They really suck. Kind of takes your mind of other stuff
Are there virgin anchovy dacquiris? Can I make one with Dr Pepper?
Eli |
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06.13.05 - 9:27 pm | #
there was a KKK bookstore with a huge sign down the street from the only X-rated drive-in in the Houston area. Guess which one had protesters out in front of it every night?
Ummm,that one is a toughy.
Neither,cause the lawd knows racism and p0rn go to gether?
smalfish |
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06.13.05 - 9:27 pm | #
Bill:
Anyone have any recommendations for something to make me *not* horny?
Just think of Barbra Streisand's face. I swear, that chick gives me a hard-off!
Toby Petzold |
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06.13.05 - 9:28 pm | #
Anyone have any recommendations for something to make me *not* horny?
My college sweetie was a
Republican somewhere to the right
of Attila the Hun.
Nonetheless, she was totally
sex drugs and rock n roll.
I always found that puzzling.
Reese Witherspoon type, visually.
She broke my heart, of course,
but karmically she got her ass
kicked years later.
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 9:28 pm | #
Eli--just close your eyes and think of JimmyJeff.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere |
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06.13.05 - 9:28 pm | #
um...make you *not* horny.
Maybe if you hadn't been the one to provide the link.
*bat eyelashes at while coyly sipping anchovy daiquiri*
Eli |
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06.13.05 - 9:29 pm | #
Hey toby! wher ya been?We thought your ass was so tanned you'd never come back!
Did you get a talking point from your higher ups yet on the question I asked?
You know,what one issue would cause you to leave your pary ?
I need an answer for a paper I'm doing.
smalfish |
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06.13.05 - 9:30 pm | #
flory - Just let your neighbors know so they can be on the qui vive for a little guy with a birthday ribbon (you ever try to wrap a burro?)
GWPDA, Irate Scholar
I hope he'll be ok on the balconey.
And if he eats all the cilantro and tarragon, I'm gonna be upset!!!
flory |
06.13.05 - 9:30 pm | #
I lived in Charlotte Amalie for a while when I was a kid.
Toby Petzold |
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06.13.05 - 9:30 pm | #
These are all good suggestions. I shall mull them over for potential synergies and then formulate an action plan.
Eli |
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06.13.05 - 9:30 pm | #
Hecate: I'm dialing in from home and I see you changed the access code. I need the new access code.
IP Guy: I'm not supposed to give out the code. Don't you have your security access card?
Hecate: How about if we pretend that I gave you some piddly-ass excuse for not having my card, then we pretend that you gave me the lecture about needing the card, and then I'll pretend to act contrite and promise to find my card tomorrow if you give me the code tonight?
IP Guy: Ms. Demetersdatter, you're supposed to . . .
Hecate: And then tomorrow, I'll pretend not to get you fired.
IP Guy: Do you need it for work?
Hecate: Yes, I have a huge pleading due first thing in the morning for a very important client.
IP Guy: OK, Ms. Demetersdatter, I'll give you the new code, but this is really the last time. You're supposed to use the security card. The code is >>>>>
Hecate: Thanks.
~types www.atrios.blogspot.....~
I fight authority and authority DOESN'T always win, I fight authority....
Hecate |
06.13.05 - 9:30 pm | #
Hey Toby "Mohammedan Menace"
Petzold:
Stop babbling about Barbra
Streisand and your dick and
finally tell us why you're in
bed with the official party of
racism, homophobia, theocracy,
torture and murder.
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 9:31 pm | #
Hey Eli, Toby just got here. That oughta do it for ya.
bill |
06.13.05 - 9:31 pm | #
Eli--just close your eyes and think of JimmyJeff.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere
Thanks, salyh. You've just ruined the sex lives of an entire generation of Atriots.
flory |
06.13.05 - 9:31 pm | #
They gave us the day off from school when Bob Marley died.
Toby Petzold |
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06.13.05 - 9:32 pm | #
Simels, the only one who babbles about my dick is your wife.
Toby Petzold |
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06.13.05 - 9:32 pm | #
Nancy,
I live in Arlington, VA. The trick is to have lots of bushes and trees for the bugs to hide in during the day. And feed the birds, so they don't want to eat the bugs. I love lightening bugs!
Hecate |
06.13.05 - 9:33 pm | #
Hey everybody:
Did I mention that Toby
"Mohammedan Menace" Petzold
said earlier today
that Michael Jackson's
fans -- ie, the forty million
people that bought "Thriller" --
were more morally reprehensible
than Jackson himself?
In other words, worse than
pedophiles?
I've got the quote to prove it.
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 9:33 pm | #
Hecate,
Standin' up to the MAN! Woo hoo.
bigvic |
06.13.05 - 9:33 pm | #
Here: In context.
Bleh. Think it's too late for him to salvage a legacy as Mediocre Leading Man, and not Insane Cultist?
Eli |
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06.13.05 - 9:34 pm | #
I lived in Charlotte Amalie for a while when I was a kid.
Toby Petzold
And the good citizens of Charlotte Amalie thought TP was stupid and ugly. And nobody liked him.
I fight authority and authority DOESN'T always win, I fight authority....
Hecate
smalfish, you don't really listen. Again: your premise is false. You don't get past that. You get stuck there.
Toby Petzold |
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06.13.05 - 9:34 pm | #
Toby the Putz is still stupid, ugly, and nobdody likes him. given his penchant for our continual barbs he also has a masochistic streak, just like his momma.
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari |
06.13.05 - 9:34 pm | #
toady petzold making dick jokes.... what is there left to experience?
Simels, the only one who babbles about my dick is your wife.
Toby Petzold | Email | Homepage | 06.13.05 - 9:32 pm | #
Sorry,Toby "Mohammedan Menace"
Petzold:
I'm way gay (blow me,by the way).
And then answer my question:
Why are you in bed with the
official party of racism, homophobia,
theocracy, torture and murder?
It's a very simple question.
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 9:35 pm | #
~types www.atrios.blogspot.....~
Tee Heee.
I presume you are working this eve Hecate
Kent™ Embigulator |
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06.13.05 - 9:36 pm | #
Woody - You got it! It's because Pilar Ternera's laugh was so loud it scared the doves.
Tena |
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06.13.05 - 9:36 pm | #
Simels, why don't you give us your own judgement of Jackson? Or is it that not cool to criticize The Other and be a drag, man?
Toby Petzold |
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06.13.05 - 9:36 pm | #
I'm dialing in from home and I see you changed the access code. I need the new access code.
How 'bout instead you have one of the nice young nerds here re-write your dial-in to include the access code so you don't have to worry about it?
GWPDA, Irate Scholar |
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06.13.05 - 9:36 pm | #
Bleh. Think it's too late for him to salvage a legacy as Mediocre Leading Man, and not Insane Cultist?
Eli
Insane Cult Leader.
He's taking Katie down the path to perdition, y'know.
flory |
06.13.05 - 9:36 pm | #
the only one who babbles about my dick is your wife.
OOOh! Shrewd move by Toby. What will we ever do against such brilliance? Such originality! Wow.
I'm really impressed. Surrender Steve. Your in over your head and it is getting deeper all the time. Lots deeper.
bill |
06.13.05 - 9:36 pm | #
I may have known that at some point, Simels. Sorry I forgot. Just substitute mother or sister or whatever will get the most rise out of you. As it were.
Toby Petzold |
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06.13.05 - 9:37 pm | #
Liberal Democrat Ralph Yarborough from Texas was the only Senator from a State in the CSA to vote for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Conservative Republican John Tower of Texas voted against.
squid696 |
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06.13.05 - 9:37 pm | #
He's taking Katie down the path to perdition, y'know.
How would you know? Are you a psychiatologist?
Eli |
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06.13.05 - 9:38 pm | #
How 'bout instead you have one of the nice young nerds here....
We have nerds? I thought this was geek central.
flory |
06.13.05 - 9:38 pm | #
We have nerds? I thought this was geek central.
No, no - I can't even *remember* the last time I bit the head off a chicken.
Eli |
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06.13.05 - 9:39 pm | #
Toby is just bitter because he has ZERO commenst on every single post on his blog for the last two weeks. zero.
No, I'll cop to being a nerd. Bit of a geek as well, but mostly nerd.
And happy birthday, by the way.
SteveNS |
06.13.05 - 9:40 pm | #
Ralph Yarborough is practically a saint to Texas Democrats.
I wish we still made them like that.
Tena |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 9:40 pm | #
How would you know? Are you a psychiatologist?
Eli
And before you ask - Yes, I'm a psychiscientologyist.
flory |
06.13.05 - 9:40 pm | #
Simels, why don't you give us your own judgement of Jackson? Or is it that not
cool to criticize The Other and be a drag, man?
Toby Petzold | Email | Homepage | 06.13.05 - 9:36 pm | #
Listen, Toby "Mohammedan Menace"
Petzold:
You're the idiot who said Jackson's
fans were worse than him, thus
implicitly condoning pedophilia.
Now stop evading the question and
tell us why you're in bed with
the official party of racism,
homophobia, theocracy, torture
and murder.
Because until you do, we justifiably
assume that you like racism, homophobia,
theocracy, murder and torture.
Come on, it's an easy question.
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 9:40 pm | #
Nerds and geeks, one man's Mede is another man's Persian.
Just look out for the burro.
GWPDA, Irate Scholar |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 9:40 pm | #
When did Toby master the post and sniff halitosis technique.
bill |
06.13.05 - 9:40 pm | #
On the other hand, *everyone* has nerds. It's just a matter of opening up and letting yourself acknowledge and indulge those nerds, even carnal ones.
Eli |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 9:40 pm | #
Mrs. Ibrahim--if you're on St. Thomas, hit Coki Beach. Amazingly cool fishies. Trunk Bay on St. John's has cooler coral, but for fishies, Coki Bay was fantastic. Coral World, a tourist trap you won't mind getting caught in, is there. I didn't get to Magens Bay, but it's supposed to be the premier beach of St. Thomas.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 9:41 pm | #
Simels, why don't you give us your own judgement of Jackson? Or is it that not cool to criticize The Other and be a drag, man?
Tobes, Don't you have a Klan or Aryan Nation meeting to attend.
you don't want me living in your neighborhoods where you have the best of services
you don't want me going to your schools with your kids where you get the best of education
you don't want me to be a fireman, cop, bricklayer, or any of the blue colar jobs traditionally held by white males because they belong to white males
you don't want me to have any white colar job which might get me anywhere in this world because all those things belong to white men
you don't want affirmative action because it takes away slots white kids might get, which is why you keep me in the ghetto with its' poorly performing schools
and you expect me to accept an apology for not protecting me from possibly seeing or hearing of relatives lynched
what use would your damned apology serve towards erasing more than a hundred plus years of whites stomping out the culture of blacks, of keeping us down and continuing to do so? You all didn't tell that fox bastard exactly why the sweet, prideful and dignified hispanic could get the work did you? You didn't tell that bitch that whites have been responsible for all the above situations of blacks in this country, that whites have kept them out of jobs, housing, schools, and higher education now, did you? And that you still do?
Well, my attitude is this; fuck a damned apology and damned horse it rode in on.
Hey, nerds and geeks are the best. Monsieur is a metrosexual geek-nerd
Sallyh, La Poissoniere |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 9:43 pm | #
Hey Toby "Mohammedan Menace"
Petzold:
On your piece of shit blog
today you called Michael
Jackson a faggot.
What's the matter -- I'm not
good enough to call the same
thing?
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 9:44 pm | #
GWPDA,
I would do that, but the guys in the IP dept change it at irregular intervals just to make my life difficult. We have a long-running feud that stems from the time they "upgraded" my computer one night in the middle of a pleading-drafting frenzy and I, well, I threw a few things. So far, I've always managed to outsmart them. They know I'm lying about needing it, but they don't know WHEN I'm lying. Cheating them out of their ability to control things gives my poor life meaning....
Think Ashley Judd in Ya-ya Sisterhood tricking the gas station guy.
Hecate |
06.13.05 - 9:44 pm | #
VOODOO TOBY PETZOLD!!
TACITUS TITTY POWER
Tacitus's Left Titty |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 9:44 pm | #
Either call me a faggot and be
done with it, or
else
answer the question:
Why are you in bed with the
official party of racism, homophobia,
theocracy, torture and murder?
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 9:46 pm | #
oven-baked chicken or lemon fish ?
xegar |
06.13.05 - 9:46 pm | #
Simels:
You're the idiot who said Jackson's
fans were worse than him, thus
implicitly condoning pedophilia.
I said that Jackson's greatest crime was being what he is to others who are too stupid and brainwashed to realize that he's a fucking satanic sack of shit. If he is the leader of that cult, I say he's more cuplable than them, but not by much and in no way that really matters. They deserve each other.
And you still won't pass judgement. That is to be disrespected.
Toby Petzold |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 9:47 pm | #
kent,
Nope. Not doing a lick of work. However, please don't tell the IP guys.
Hecate |
06.13.05 - 9:47 pm | #
Too hot to fuck, maybe, but too hot to flirt? Never!"
Ha!Too damn hot to work. But for fucking and flirting? Nevah!
jdw |
06.13.05 - 9:48 pm | #
I said I was not using that term lightly. Because it is a major slur and I reserve it for moral freaks like him.
Toby Petzold |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 9:48 pm | #
"And you still won't pass judgement. That is to be disrespected."
WTF ever happened to "judge not, lest ye be judged"?
Sallyh, La Poissoniere |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 9:48 pm | #
Nope. Not doing a lick of work. However, please don't tell the IP guys.
What if they should happen upon the comments here? 'Cuz, ya know, sometimes IPs dally.
Eli |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 9:48 pm | #
SallyH
are you sayin YOU and your NUBILE, BLONDE TEENAGE, WHITE-GIRL DAUGHTER were on a Caribbean island, in the very eye of veritable hurricane of missing, blonde white girls, and you didn't immediately return to the safety of the land where missing white women matter more than life itself???
So I'm right.
You're saying that people who
bought "Thriller" are worse
than pedophiles.
Fucking comedy gold.
No answer the goddamn question:
why are you in bed with the official
party of racism, homophobia,
theocracy, torture and murder?
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 9:49 pm | #
Toby,
Could you please go home now and let the grown-ups have a conversation? I'm asking nicely. And, don't use the word "satanic" when you don't understand what it means. Now, shoo, go home.
Hecate |
06.13.05 - 9:49 pm | #
Toby, do you ever put that skull jelly of yours to good use? Maybe you could donate it for scietific experiments or something.
You are utterly fascinating, in a frozen-turd-falling-from-the-sky kind of way.
.
TelltaleHeart |
06.13.05 - 9:50 pm | #
Eli,
Unless Atrios posts pics of naked girls, I'm in no danger of our IP guys lurking here. Just sayin'
Hecate |
06.13.05 - 9:50 pm | #
Unless Atrios posts pics of naked girls, I'm in no danger of our IP guys lurking here. Just sayin'
Are they FrIPers?
Eli |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 9:52 pm | #
I said I was not using that term lightly. Because it is a major slur and I reserve
it for moral freaks like him.
Toby Petzold | Email | Homepage | 06.13.05 - 9:48 pm | #
T"Mohammedan Menace"P:
So you're saying you reserve the
term faggot for pedophiles?
You realize most pedophiles
are heterosxual.
Now answer the goddamn question.
Why the fuck are you in bed with
the official party of racism,
homophobia, theocracy, torture
and murder?
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 9:52 pm | #
Hecate,
Discression, just happens to be my middle name.
No worries dear, and I am happy that you have fireflies.
Well, my attitude is this; fuck a damned apology and damned horse it rode in on.
I have to agree.What does the government think its getting when it "makes an apology"?Do they think they get relief from all the black voters?Do they think the blacks will "forgive and forget"?
Just what IS the motivation here?
smalfish |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 9:56 pm | #
Sunset over Mars' Gusev Crater
I'm pretty tickled that sunset on Mars would be blue.
Eli |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 9:57 pm | #
Simels:
You realize most pedophiles
are heterosxual.
I believe that's true. So why are you unable to pass judgement on Jackson?
Toby Petzold |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 9:57 pm | #
'Cuz, ya know, sometimes IPs dally.
Simply, wrong. And I am sure someone will be on about the stopping of someone fairly soon. And he just might be raising an army.
...........child abuse, gawdamn it...guards, impale that woman...
And now, I'm off to my birfday dinner. Ya'll behave. I'll see you later.
flory |
06.13.05 - 9:59 pm | #
And he just might be raising an army.
I think my girlfriend might be joining it soon. She was quite appalled at my choice of title for the above-blogwhored post.
Eli |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 9:59 pm | #
I'm pretty tickled that sunset on Mars would be blue.
blue sunset, red planet
blue planet, red sunset.
that is prettty cool.
watertiger |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 10:00 pm | #
I have trouble with the whole idea of a "voice vote" in Congress for anything but procedural matters, and sometimes not even then. The secret ballot is for us, not them. Congress is, in so many ways, America's place where the sun don't shine.
Doozer |
06.13.05 - 10:00 pm | #
fortunately for me, all the geeks here are way into comics, so I get lots of leeway with bandwidth usage, stupid questions from students, forgotten passwords, etc.
one of the very few benefits of doing comics scholarship.
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari |
06.13.05 - 10:00 pm | #
jeebus, eveyone is clearing out.
Alone with my thoughts in my teenage room...
jdw |
06.13.05 - 10:00 pm | #
blue sunset, red planet
blue planet, red sunset.
that is prettty cool.
Planets is red
Sunsets are blue
I'm a great big loser science geek
And so are a lot of the rest of us.
Eli |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 10:01 pm | #
steve's right; I was there. Toby's quaking in his boot over the "Mohamadean Menace."
Toby's father looked under the bed every night for Reds. Toby's grandfather worried about the Yellow Peril, and Toby's greatgrandfather was scared of the Irish Immigrants -- Papists! Back in the day, Toby's ancestors were also terrified of the marauding Huns, the witches, and the gypsies.
The Petzolds have always been easily controlled by the leaders of their day -- just throw up a boogie man and the Petzolds quake in fear and salute.
Toby, funny how they never run out of boogie men, isn't it?
Hecate |
06.13.05 - 10:01 pm | #
You are utterly fascinating, in a frozen-turd-falling-from-the-sky kind of way.
Back on thread y'all. Those 12 Southern Senators are worthless motherfuckers. God, what is this 1950?
Unrepentant Fenian |
06.13.05 - 10:01 pm | #
This one's for the nerds and the geeks.
Sunset over Mars' Gusev Crater
If I like the pic,does it mean I'm a geek or a nerd?
smalfish |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 10:01 pm | #
*Planet* is red. As is my face.
Eli |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 10:01 pm | #
blue sunset, red planet
blue planet, red sunset.
This is because very small dust particles in the Martian atmosphere appear blue when they reflect sunlight.When the Sun is lower in the sky, there are more bits of dust for the light to get through, so it appears blue.
"I have trouble with the whole idea of a "voice vote" in Congress for anything but procedural matters, and sometimes not even then. The secret ballot is for us, not them. Congress is, in so many ways, America's place where the sun don't shine."
just had a thought: if reid can't force a voice vote, maybe tomorrow he can have a little sunrise event on the steps...wherein everyone that claims to have voted yes can show up and say a little prayer for the wicked bastards that didn't.
jdw |
06.13.05 - 10:02 pm | #
I have trouble with the whole idea of a "voice vote" in Congress for anything but procedural matters, and sometimes not even then. The secret ballot is for us, not them. Congress is, in so many ways, America's place where the sun don't shine.
Fortunately, we have the Patriot Act, so the privacy thing more than averages out.
Eli |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 10:03 pm | #
watertiger:
every seen any of the 3D mars
photos?
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 10:03 pm | #
one of the very few benefits of doing comics scholarship
Ummm...if you ever dump Mr. al-Jafari, look me up.
Captain Goto |
06.13.05 - 10:03 pm | #
one of the very few benefits of doing comics scholarship
GASP!
[claps hands over ears]
Don't SAY stuff like that!
SteveNS |
06.13.05 - 10:03 pm | #
"Mohammedan Menace" ranks up there with "Saddamite" (my personal fave) and "Islamist" as the coolest made-up-synonyms-for-"boogeyman"-pulled-from-some-
republican-spindoctor's-ass-to-scare-jumpy-
cowards-like-Toby...
.
TelltaleHeart |
06.13.05 - 10:04 pm | #
every seen any of the 3D mars
photos?
Ooo, I remember those! I worked in the government documents library at college - NASA and FBI were my favorite sections!
I also liked the How To Speak Swahili guide in the Peace Corps section, starring Rip and Moondog.
Eli |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 10:04 pm | #
Could a knowledgeable parliamentarian explain something to me?
I understand that some of these jerks do not want a roll call vote where their names are recorded as voting for the anti-lynching resolution. However, doesn't a vote still have to take place and if so if the resolution passes unanimously then those fearful of offending the kkk will have obviously voted for the resolution. Right?
So does someone move to pass it by unanimous consent, someone else seconds it and nobody objects so the resolution passes without there being a real vote?
"oy, fucking Rick Kaplan hired Rita Cosby to pollute Olbermann's show after fox dumped her".
(no clue how to do italics)
Rita Cosby aka Petunia Pig.
She's horrid. Her voice and condensending tone is hideous. I cannot imagine what MSNBC was thinking by hiring this Faux reject. I saw her on Olbermann and she seemed almost embarrassed to be seen on MSNBC.
EarthMerm |
06.13.05 - 10:05 pm | #
damn, it lost my faux tag that said "sleazebag-otaku".
Captain Goto |
06.13.05 - 10:05 pm | #
Now that I have found frc.org, I plan to go read my most important DC update email newsletter, all about the Pro-Homosexual Groups and their Escalated Attacks on Christian GOP'ers,,, after that, I get to pray!!! Pray for the death of the SPLC!!! Joy!
Back on thread y'all. Those 12 Southern Senators are worthless motherfuckers. God, what is this 1950?
Unrepentant Fenian
And here I thought it was pathetic enough that it took 100 fucking years to apoligize in the first place. And 12 cowards are going to run away from this vote? Amoral assholes.
bigvic |
06.13.05 - 10:05 pm | #
Boo hoo! Wahhh! Listen to the young Republicans whine and cry about how they're so discriminated against on campus (and brag about their Heritage Foundation summer gigs).
Res Ipsa Loquitur |
06.13.05 - 10:06 pm | #
I have trouble with the whole idea of a "voice vote" in Congress for anything but procedural matters, and sometimes not even then. The secret ballot is for us, not them. Congress is, in so many ways, America's place where the sun don't shine.
Doozer
Word, Doozer. We need a record.
Diane |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 10:06 pm | #
pibbles, country fresh bread. . . I mean, thread. . . awaits you upstairs.
watertiger |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 10:07 pm | #
I believe that's true. So why are you unable to pass judgement on Jackson?
Toby Petzold | Email | Homepage | 06.13.05 - 9:57 pm | #
You called him a faggot
because he's a pedophile.
Most pedophiles are heterosexual.
Therefore you called him
a faggot because
you're a homophobe.
Which leads us back to the
big question:
Why are you in bed with the
official party of racism, homophobia,
theocracy, torture and murder?
Is it because you like all those
things?
It's a simple question -- why
can't you answer it>
Appalling. Simply appalling.
four legs good |
06.13.05 - 10:08 pm | #
Back on thread y'all. Those 12 Southern Senators are worthless motherfuckers. God, what is this 1950?
Unrepentant Fenian |
WTF? What is her job there? It's bad enough that MSGOP is rotten with repukes, and now they go and ruin the ONLY moderately liberal program? I hate MSGOP.
bigvic |
06.13.05 - 10:09 pm | #
bigvic, the way Strom and Jesse went on about how it wasn't right to have a MLK Day, I'm amazed that they're not backing lynching outright on the House Floor.
Captain Goto |
06.13.05 - 10:09 pm | #
George Allen, GOP Senator (VA) and presidential hopeful, enraged the Avenging Angel this week with his cynical racial politics.
Allen is sponsoring a resolution apologizing for past Senate obstruction of anti-lynching laws. Allen's dual purpose? First, to atone for the Confederates in his own attic, including his own past display of a noose and the Stars and Bars. Second, to tar Democrats as the party of the filibuster against civil rights then and judicial nominees now.
Allen's so-called apology, the Angel notes, is like Bill Frist opening a cat shelter.
Jon |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 10:11 pm | #
capt goto
Ibrahim and I are very happy, but thanks for the offer.
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari |
06.13.05 - 10:11 pm | #
Where's the outrage? More than 1700 dead in Iraq, Afghanistan is nowhere near under control, Abu Grahib, Gitmo,SS,Buget Deficit, Plame, Gannon, 9/11, Osama STILL not in jail or dead. Now this lovely bit of polical manuevering. I need a drink.
Unrepentant Fenian |
06.13.05 - 10:11 pm | #
"and, yes, oh trolls, this is the "Democratic Ballot" because the Mississippi Democratic Party put Dixiecrat Thurmond on the ballot instead of Truman"
Maybe somebody pointed this out already...But these Dixiecrats can't really be described as Democrats. The ONLY reason these pols are Democrats is because Lincoln was a Republican(of course in no way shape or form did Lincoln's politics resemble the current thug party)and he freed those g.d slaves. They hated him for that. After LBJ signed civil rights legislation these same pols all became republicans. The politics is absolutely the same.
bobk |
06.13.05 - 10:12 pm | #
For more rebel yells from the Republican Men O' the South, see:
"It's a simple question -- why
can't you answer it" - Steve Simels
Several possibilities:
1. Toby is too all-consumed fearing the "Mohammedan Saddammite Islamist Menace" to answer your "simple" questions. Don't you know "they" are... everywhere?
2. "Simple" is still too complicated for Toby.
3. The answer to your question is incompatible with Toby's delusional system.
.
TelltaleHeart |
06.13.05 - 10:13 pm | #
I understand that some of these jerks do not want a roll call vote where their names are recorded as voting for the anti-lynching resolution. However, doesn't a vote still have to take place and if so if the resolution passes unanimously then those fearful of offending the kkk will have obviously voted for the resolution. Right?
Actually, I suspect that the dozen or so senators involved don't want their names on the Resolution as co-sponsors. They can always cop to "Hey, the vote happened late at night. I wasn't even there, so I couldn't have voted on the Res."
Diane |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 10:14 pm | #
Allen's so-called apology, the Angel notes, is like Bill Frist opening a cat shelter.
Jon
I believe that's true. So why are you unable to pass judgement on Jackson?
In my case, I know of, and care for none of the particulars, was not on the Jury.
I also have had the unpleasant experience, of having been accused of a crime I did not commit, and dealing with the burdon of police scrutiny on the basis of a detectives conviction, that I was in fact guilty
I have always (from long before my personal experience) committed myself to the prosumption of innocence, period.
Judge not lest Ye be judged has also resonated with me.
But go ahead and feel free to presume that everything the "distracting heads" on the TV tell ya, and keep working on that cross you and yer buddies gonna burn, when you make your rightgeous pilgramidge to Neverland.
Hey, Bill, I was going to try your method of staying awake, but I fell asleep reading it. The question is, does it keep you awake after or only while doing it?
And ya know, pledge or no pledge (Toby-Ted), this Toby must be a namestealer, or the Real Toby is sitting in Dr. Lector's seat of honor at the head of the table, whilst the doc shaves more and more of his brain away to flambé and serve the guests. Reaching somethin' awful, that one. Pitiful, really. I love the wingnut logic of Faux News' decline being slower than the other fascist outlets proof of the public buying the wingnut fantasies of MURKAN POWER. Nuthin' like a Good German on a hot night.
ronjazzhands, antiLieberman |
06.13.05 - 10:16 pm | #
OT--
but I wanted to 1. direct people who may have missed it to Kos's discussion of core values for progressives/Democrats. half a year ago I was on that and this board arguing that we really need to talk about WHY we believe what we believe, and it's nice to see that Kos has taken a little time out from bashing John Kerry for not being Howard Dean to take up this question and 2. Eric Alterman mentions--in passing!!-- that more congressional ballots were cast for Dems in 2004 than for Repubs. Anyone know where to get the source for that, and for similar info from 2002 and 2000?
Allen |
06.13.05 - 10:19 pm | #
the way Strom and Jesse went on about how it wasn't right to have a MLK Day, I'm amazed that they're not backing lynching outright on the House Floor.
Those vile, rascist POS haters make my skin crawl. I read something yesterday about Helms' new book. He is still totally unwavering about his racist past. His only regret was blaming AIDS only on homos and amoral foricattors. And that only came after some nice, straight, white folks became ill.
bigvic |
06.13.05 - 10:20 pm | #
I love you all more than
food.
Except you know who......
steve simels |
06.13.05 - 10:20 pm | #
more congressional ballots were cast for Dems in 2004 than for Repubs. Anyone know where to get the source for that, and for similar info from 2002 and 2000?
Allen
I can't remember the source, but it is true that 8 million more votes were cast for Dems than Thugs. The reason is that each state gets 2 Senators and the Dems represent states that have a lot more poeple in them then, say, Montana, S. Dakota, etc. that voted ReThug. Sad, isn't it?
bigvic |
06.13.05 - 10:25 pm | #
I understand that some of these jerks do not want a roll call vote where their names are recorded as voting for the anti-lynching resolution. However, doesn't a vote still have to take place and if so if the resolution passes unanimously then those fearful of offending the kkk will have obviously voted for the resolution. Right?
Actually not all senators have to vote. They can simply let the rest vote and abstain.
This way they can let the others vote while they neither vote 'aye' or 'nay'. This way at the end of the day if the vote is say 88-0 there are still 12 voters not present. Nobody will ever know who those 12 are.
"the way Strom and Jesse went on about how it wasn't right to have a MLK Day, I'm amazed that they're not backing lynching outright on the House Floor."
I don't remember what rightwing blog it was, but Atrios linked to it for a separate topic. When I drifted down further onto the site I noticed a comment in the threads which suggested that Strom Thurmond was now a somewhat detested figure for being a 'nigger lover' in the literal sense. They also called him a coward for hiding his 'half-breed daughter' all these years. But I think their animosity had more to do with the fealing foolish having spent so many years admiring a man who was a coward and hypocrite. Some even mentioned their fathers being supporters of Stroms during the the dixiecrat years and would never have supported him had they known he was dipping his wick into the inkwell.
But in regards to this issue I think Trent Lott and so many others should be questioned as to whether they aren't all Strom Thurmonds with bastard children they fathered in acts of adultury with their colored housemaids, etc. This kind of questioning, bringing Thurmond into the question itself would definitely cause some eyebrow raising.
Perhaps my parliamentary slip is showing. Is "voice vote" not the system where they just dig out Ted Mack's old applause meter and say "the ayes have it"? Or am I totally off here?
Doozer |
06.13.05 - 10:45 pm | #
I don't think Rick Kaplan has been with CNN for a number of years.
Sweet Sue |
06.13.05 - 10:49 pm | #
Writing from Mississippi, mouth full of grits and bagel, I'll point out that James Chaney was a fellow Mississippian. There's all kinds of people down South, like anywhere, but there was a particularly awesome bunch of souls around back then. At James Chaney's funeral in '64 Dave Dennis said this, about today, about the Senate, about us.
"But what I want to talk about right now is the living death - that we have right among our midst, not only in the state of Mississippi, but throughout the nation.
Those are the people who don't care.
Those who do care, but don't have the guts enough to stand up for it.
And those people who are busy up in Washington and other places, using my freedom, and my life, to play politics with."
You left off that pus-infested gin-soaked racist piece of shit, Liddy Dole. As a teeenager, she had her special poodle dress she wore to the local lynchings.
bebe rebozo | Email | Homepage | 06.13.05 - 8:19 pm | # "
I'm caling her and the other one for NC tomorrow. I want a stragiht answer and whatever they say is going straight into the N&O.
Use George Bush's logic against them: if you're not anti-lynching, then you must be pro-lynching.
dissenter |
Homepage |
06.13.05 - 11:25 pm | #
well, if we had some real journalists in the MSM, they would ask every senator that they interview from now on whether they supported this resolution.
then it shouldn't be hard to figure out who the dirty dozen are.
the worm |
06.14.05 - 12:05 am | #
The South will fall again.
ronjazzhands, antiLieberman |
06.14.05 - 12:32 am | #
Thanks goes to Truman and LBJ for purging the Democratic party of racists, bigots, and their off-spring du jour, the homophobes. Truman did so when he integrated the army, and LBJ ramrodded the Civil Rights Act.
The South will surely fall again. However, it'll only happen when Scaife, Coors, Moon, and Murdoch run out of money.
Sorry, but I fear we're in for a long battle, folks.
eLad |
06.14.05 - 12:51 am | #
Why the problem with trolls Atrios? Isnt that the mission statement for your blog? To do you part to f the Democratic party for moderates?
Cog |
06.14.05 - 12:52 am | #
The GOP must be so proud that Strom and company all switched to the GOP...
exgop |
06.14.05 - 2:32 am | #
The Bush administration had Condoleeza say a few words on the issue, presumably because she is the token black represents the State Department.
"Better late than never..." she said.
Of course, that implies that it *WAS* too late for many Blacks, who were victims of rascism perpetuated by Southern lawmakers for so many years. Of course, one of those rascist-coddling lawmakers was George W. Bush.
In 1998, James Byrd, Jr., a black Texan, was beaten, chained to the back of a pickup truck, and dragged for three miles. Byrd was alive for most of this horrific act, dying only when he was decapitated after his body hit a culvert. When Byrd's family came forward and begged Governor Bush to pass a hate crimes bill, he told his family no. He even refused an invitation from Jasper County, Texas, to make an appearance in support of the local community. Bush, under pressure from Democratic lawmakers, later made a halfhearted, last-minute declaration indicating he was willing to support the bill, but it was little more than a publicity stunt, and the bill was never passed, thanks to Republican lawmakers. It was only after George W. Bush left the governor's office that the Byrd family was finally able to get the new governor to strongly back and pass hate crimes legislation.
It could've been one of your relatives, Condoleeza. Hell, it could've been a fellow human being that you should naturally have empathy and compassion for. No matter what color your skin, you should have zero tolerance for hate crimes, but you've made a career out of supporting racist policies cloaked in conservative ideology.
Just imagine how sick it is to grow up proudly New-Deal Democratic in the South and watch the fucking Republics wink and lift their skirt at the racist bastards until the whole damn county is red with their stupidity. My only consolation is some northern Republican must be huddled in their closet today sick to their stomache and shivering as they wonder what became of the party of Lincoln.
Terrier |
06.14.05 - 10:25 am | #
Mark - Bush and Rice are of the same stripe, ignorant racist lying whores.
Louis Lemire |
06.14.05 - 11:25 am | #
Kennedy, Schumer, Clinton are also racist poverty-pimping asswipes.
Filthy McNasty |
10.20.06 - 12:56 pm | #
Kennedy, Schumer, Clinton are also racist poverty-pimping asswipes.
Filthy McNasty |
10.20.06 - 12:56 pm | #