I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
YO
Nobody in the media ever cares when ShrubCo is in clear violation of the law. They're patriots!
tres!
How's ignore the trolls Friday going?
IOKIYAR!
Will they declare cat blogging illegal?
Tinfoil Hat--its going great. they get even more pissy when you ignore them. 
Where are the cats?! I need to see them!
Okay, now I have read the link posted. I would just like to point out that as a regular reader of this site, and an infrequent poster, I love the threads. Smart people juggling many topics all at once (even the trolls are amusing in the main). For some reason, the people who feel the need to be the first commenter irks me. Could the fristers and unoers and primoers please stop? I realise I will be flamed for this, but damn. And for the record, I have many many beers in me.
Bush breaks a law.
Back in the good ole days, he was arrested. Repeatedly. Then most of the arrests were purged.
The USA press seems still to be mostly uninterested in his crime record.
Hitler went to jail, too. Birds of a feather....
I had a conversation with WH'ho about this, and s/he thinks that williams is a really isolated case. i confess i'm less believing in the morality of our jounalists today, and i suspect the reason it's not a major story has to do with additional guilty parties not wanting this to be looked into in detail, for fear of where else the trail may lead.
The Atrios Firsters are just as boring and annoying as America Firsters.
Frankly, this story hasn't gotten enough coverage -- and for some reason no one seems too concerned about the Bush administration's clear violation of federal law.
Oh bloody hell. Why start being concerned now? I mean, if Enron, vote fraud, and the faux Wars on Iraq and Terra haven't led to people taking the red pill by the ladleful, just what will do it?
The "Atrios I Hate Fristers"-ers are just as annoying as either :P
Seriously... scroll on by.
I mean, you're already practicing doing that with trolls, right?
Didn't take long for Godwin to show his little black moustache. THB likey!
I remember operation Mockingbird when Nixon had the CIA put reporters on the payroll. Evidently, he overlooked a few..heh.
As for the press pretending this is isolated; FUCK THEM. Why would they reveal who is giving them money? They dare not tell...
Hi,
I'm Tinfoil Hat Boy. Would someone please pay attention to me???
I always end up on a "cutting" jag when the other kids snub me at recess and then mom makes me go back on my meds.
Oh, and pass the X-acto.
Well, I don't hate them. Just find it annoying. Which, I realise, some might find equally ennoying.
Atrios may be holding out on the catblogging,
but
I'm
not!
Shameless blogwhoring...
for some reason no one seems too concerned about the Bush administration's clear violation of federal law.
Well, it's not like it's the first time. No one's concerned with their violations of international law as well... not concerned enough to do anything of substance, anyway.
I think the "first" thing is like being the first tracks in a freshly fallen snow.
or the first footprints on the beach
or the first words on a page
or ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz......
teee heeee!
bring on the kitties.
If Bush can violate the principles of the Nuremburg tribunal and engage in argessive war what crimes can't he get away with? The President can only commit a crime if the House of Representatives is controlled by the opposite party.
Tomorrow, the Mockingbird press will return to the real scandal: how bloggers are not NEUTRAL and might get pennies from their readers. Oh, the mercy.
Lima: Where are the cats?! I need to see them!
Curly vs. the laser pointer
vidcatblog wmv
.
Frankly, this story hasn't gotten enough coverage -- and for some reason no one seems too concerned about the Bush administration's clear violation of federal law.
Wow. The SCLM is in full gear this week. With the Unbalanced pundit coverage of the innauguration and Michael Powell leaving the FCC, maybe it is time to restore the Fairness Doctrine:
http://www.fairnessdoctrine.com/
yes, the kitties. christ compels you.
that's 250,000 of your tax dollars that we absolutely know was spent
why aren't all the crack investigatives looking into this
Okay, gang, I must take my leave. Gig this weekend, and I want to get there before the snow hits. Here's some blatant whoring:
Mandate, My Ass
Mandate, My Ass Shop at Cafe Press
Tom Smith Online (for the musically inclined)
Take care, folks. Catch you Sunday night.
America has been committing war crimes and crimes against humanity for a LOOOOONG time, ask Kissinger about this.
the power of God compels you....
rock on, filkertom. take care on the roads.
The "first post" phenomenon is redolant of a ceremonial geekism. Which is very likely never going to cease. Ignoring them or conversly becoming the first poster on a thread with something other than the standard cliche' quickies will most likely have the greatest effect in ameleorating the condition.
Now, take two asprin, pay the nurse on your way out, bring me my scotch and lock the door, I have serious mourning to attend to.
Oh, and wake me when the Atrikitties arrive.
the power of christ compels you...
your turn chicago dyke...
The "first post" phenomenon is redolant of a ceremonial geekism. Which is very likely never going to cease. Ignoring them or conversly becoming the first poster on a thread with something other than the standard cliche' quickies will most likely have the greatest effect in ameleorating the condition.
Well put. There was a previous rash of fristings that eventually died under its own momentum. I really am personally more annoyed by the 4 or 5 posts per thread complaining about the fristers.
ok, my dubiously named alma mater marched in the cornholenation yesterday. It's time to blow that place up like we always wanted to.
Remember folks, if Bush does it, it's okay. Sadly, nothing short of a meltdown will shake loser Bush supporters from their hold on Bush as a "savior."
Cue, Tim Graham whining to his Cornermates how cruel the meany "liberal" press is to him, and let the NRO circle jerk sniveling begin!
filkertom, yes, be careful out there. Where I am, we're expecting 8-15 inches just tonight and more over the weekend.
the power of christ compels you...
your turn chicago dyke...
her eyes on herizon | Email | Homepage | 01.21.05 - 1:38 pm | #
the power of Ba'al compels you!
When did the preznut become "above the law" ???
oh yeah, when he stole it in 2000.
the power of Echidne compels you!
But but but but but but Dan Rather used fake documents to buttress a true story!
bring on the Ba'al!
Whoa! What did Jeff Greenfield get paid for and by whom? That putz is so busy kissing GOP ass on CNN that my guess is that the WH has him on the payroll.
int argc, couldn't let me off the hook with equally annoying? Sorry I brought it up.
OT -
Has Peggy left the reservation?!
"Peggy Noonan on President Bush's inauguration speech: "It left me with a bad feeling, and reluctant dislike ... [He] left this Bush supporter yearning for something she does not normally yearn for, and that is: nuance." (Wall Street Journal)"
"Peggy Noonan on President Bush's inauguration speech: "It left me with a bad feeling, and reluctant dislike ... [He] left this Bush supporter yearning for something she does not normally yearn for, and that is: nuance." (Wall Street Journal)"
Just pining for the glory days when she was a Reagan speechwriter.
But it's delicious to hear she has buyer's remorse.
A bush supporter yearning for nuance? Dear Lord.
Grotesqueticle,
Sorry, didn't mean to lambaste you there
I'm just trying to encourage people not to waste posts on the topic of fristing, and here I am causing more (!)
Since you are an infrequent poster, I hereby declare you off the hook (as if I had any authority to put you on the hook anyways ) in the hopes that you--and other lurkers--will post more without fear of being smitten by regulars.
Nor will the Louisville Courier Journal article--about the administration's prohibition against outreach by VA staffers to promote veterans enrolling for medical benefits--receive much attention.
See today's Alterman.
Break law for partisan purposes--but no to legitimate efforts to inform vets.
Before Tim Graham writes another one of his patently disingenous letters in support of Armstrong Williams
What Williams and the FARKIN WHITE HOUSE did is indefensible. Period. Frankly, I'm more disgusted by the lack of outrage at what Bu$h is doing with taxpayer money than Williams taking the dough for his whoring.
I'm smitten WITH regulars, but I don't make a big deal about.
Hi water tiger!
Tbogg has some more asshattery from Tim Graham:
Tim Graham reminds us of why The Corner is the natural habitat of nitwits:
"LAVISH" MORNING AMERICA [Tim Graham]
ABC's Good Morning America really hit hard this morning on the notion that the Inauguration is too "lavish" for the times. ...[snip]...
PS: Just for added fun, GMA also interviewed Cindy Sheehan, who's protesting the Inauguration because her son died in Iraq last April. (my emphasis)
[snip]
You've got to hand it to Tim, for a tone-deaf fat fuck, he sure has a way with words.
Frankly, I'm more disgusted by the lack of outrage at what Bu$h is doing with taxpayer money than Williams taking the dough for his whoring.
bigvic
Bingo.
Williams is but the pawn. Why are we not blaming the player?
Tim Graham reminds us of why The Corner is the natural habitat of nitwits:
Vile.
I still say the url suffix for The Corner should be .wanker
I had to go and highlight a mis-spelled word. Sigh.
hey? where's my post? wtf?
int argc, just visited your home page (which I actually saw a while back) and speaking as a southern boy, I have to say... Damnit, I agree with you. We do have a abnormal amount of idiots down here. I was born in New Orleans, and grew up in La, Fla and Va, and have lived in GA for the last 20 years and I am moving. Seriously.
You know what's really weird? I saw Danny Schechter on a Boston PBS program called Beat the Press, where they talked about this, and the whole conversation was about A Williams's ethics and how that compared to Kos and all that crap. Danny was good, of course, but even he never mentioned that it's outrageous for the government to be secretly buying the opinions of commentators with taxpayer money, for chrissake! That aspect of it seems to have escaped even him, for some reason. I sent him an e-mail about it but he didn't respond. Also John Caroll and Mark Jurkowitz. Weird.
Has Peggy left the reservation?!
Must you ask? She is either mentally insane or has a substance abuse problem.
What bigvic said. I think that's the main gist of what the A-man's link was intending.
Wowsers, a Father Merrin sing-a-long! Word.
I'm telling you, trolls are far more amusing when you picture them all as Regan McNeil.
rorschach,
Excellent point, that I haven't seen brought up often enough.
I had to go and highlight a mis-spelled word. Sigh.
If you're referring to "indefensible," no you didn't.
With the corporate talking heads in full drooling kow tow yesterday amid the tanks, fences, spyplanes and wall to wall to wall to wall police does anyone seriously think there will be any press advance of Armstrong's commonly practiced crime?
As "our youngest citizens" scramble to die for Brian Williams and his sniveling ilk and as Europe recoils in shock from freedom's bushfire we few free thinkers need to knoe deep in our bones that we are exiles in a land stolen before our stunned eyes.
It was an icy day.
We buried the cat,
then took her box
and set fire to it
in the back yard.
Those fleas that escaped
earth and fire
died by the cold.
wcw,1919
Maybe.
int argc, just visited your home page (which I actually saw a while back) and speaking as a southern boy, I have to say... Damnit, I agree with you. We do have a abnormal amount of idiots down here. I was born in New Orleans, and grew up in La, Fla and Va, and have lived in GA for the last 20 years and I am moving. Seriously.
Grotesqueticle | Email | Homepage | 01.21.05 - 1:55 pm | #
This happens every so often, and I have to come out and admit that while I admire the writing, that is not my work. Also every so often somebody cool from the south (like you) crops up and I have to make sure they understand it's not them I'm talking about
Nuance? AS IF! The inaugural pigfeast made me ill. When Ike and Nixon were busy screwing up their wars they had big blow-outs, too. FDR had the class to go modest, and we won. I think it's cause and effect. Pigs who blow big bucks on their own selves serve neither the troops nor the people.
Oh, and on-topic, that $250K that went to Williams could have armored a humvee, I'll bet.
Nuance? She's looking for nuance!
How about looking for something intelligent out of chimpy's mouth, or better yet, something akin to the truth.
Nuance! hah!
Mr. Atrios--
the power of Hecate compels you!
there. that should bring those kitties.
Jeffraham Prestonian,
Loved the movie. "Who me? I wasn't chasing that silly light. I just wanted to sharpen my claws on this door jamb. This is soooooo boring...see ya."
Humans are such inferior creatures.
Could the fristers and unoers and primoers please stop? I realise I will be flamed for this, but damn. And for the record, I have many many beers in me.
I will congratulate you!! on having many beers that is.
The fristers annoy me too.
The best letter was from Olbermann, being snarky as always. Gotta love that.
He] left this Bush supporter yearning for something she does not normally yearn for, and that is: nuance." (Wall Street Journal)"
Isn't "nuance" a dirty word?
cervantes,
That kind of indifference to the WH crimes gets me boiling mad. Bu$h doesn't feel the need to even respond to these crimes, and it's obvious why that is. Not a single journo bothers to find ask for a response.
Here's a twist: Friday Cthulhu squid blogging!
They're all in it together, they are all on the take one way or another and they don't care if we know-because if they were in Bush's place they'd behave more or less the same and they think we would too.
Oops...sorry for the dead kitty chunk of walter carlos on a, as of yet, feline-free Friday.
We do have a abnormal amount of idiots down here. I was born in New Orleans, and grew up in La, Fla and Va, and have lived in GA for the last 20 years and I am moving. Seriously.
Me too. Lots of idiots in Texas. And they're breeding.
Jeffraham- when I tried to play the video all I got was a black screen with sound effects.
He] left this Bush supporter yearning for something she does not normally yearn for, and that is: nuance." (Wall Street Journal)"
Isn't "nuance" a dirty word?
Sounds French to me...
the dow is glub glub glubbing again.
send out the cat signal for "los gatos locos".
as far as outrage that the media is a pack of roundheeled whores and/or smarmy pissant quislings...
FIRST!!!
Jeebus! He actually said "calling from beyond the stars" ?
Wow, I just don't know what to think about that.
Isn't "nuance" a dirty word?
Yoshimi
It's French.
Quislings + Wankers = Quiswanks and/or Wanklings
int argc,
My parents are HUGE bush people. So are all the people I work with. Can't talk to them about it. Both my brothers, (nashville and Vegas) are not and the biggest liberal I know is my grandfather (LA old union guy). I get kind of starved for conversation with sane people. Which is why I love this site.
Williams is just the most egregious example because he took money. We have no idea how many journalists have been co-opted by the lure of special access or how many news organizations have allowed themselves to be bullied into less than critical coverage. You can bet that an administration that has worked so diligently to stifle dissent has also worked to manipulate the media.
I know I sound like a broken record on this, but until Chimpy is caught on tape ethier having a Man-date or Condi riding him like a show pony or storting coke off the desk in Oval Office using pages torn out of the Bible (or a trifecta of all of the above). The media WILL not care.
Enron, lack of WMDs, lying about air-quality post 9/11 or any of the other 34 scandels, the media doesnt think that we can wrap our fat little heads around. They dont sizzle and its too easy for the GOP to bring out the pundints and through chaffe in the air and inslute the man.
We are not going to bring down this adminstration playing gotcha. I think that We have to concentrate on getting the fairness doctrine reestablished, and rebuilding the Democrats from the ground up- cause the gang there now is so used to losing, they have no interest in winning.
four legs good: Jeffraham- when I tried to play the video all I got was a black screen with sound effects.
Prob'ly some codec issue. Windows Media Player 9 plays it fine, but I can't remember where to look for installed codecs. I'm guessing I just have the ones that came with WMP9, since this is my laptop, and I don't do a lot of tricky stuff on it.
.
int argc & Grotes:
i have a bunch of relatives who are Bush supporters (even in this very blue state)!! you can't tell them anything. One even has a son in Iraq. !! But he thinks Bush is King!
King Shit of Turd Mountain!
rorschach,
Cthulhu for President. Why choose the lesser evil?
BlakNo1:
(On a quick break...god I'm addicted to this blog, this is not good, not good at all...)
Yes, Bush really did say that. A friend sent me the transcript yesterday afternoon, couldn't believe it myself.
And then I watched the pursed lip pecker speechify last night...truly horrifying.
I think he pissed off half of the world.
And nothing about his domestic agenda.
It was an awful speech, regardless of what the fellating pundits had to say.
Grotesqueticle,
I feel your pain. I live in Ohio, which is at least purple, but I work at a small business, so we've got a lot of Bush koolaid types here.
Jeebus! He actually said "calling from beyond the stars" ?
... he meant the Texaco Star, when it calls the war puppet and his oil rag of a VP jump!
Jeffraham, vid played fine for me. I would suggest crystal player, it has handled EVERYthing I have ever thrown at it. Including those pesky RealOne files.
I get kind of starved for conversation with sane people. Which is why I love this site.
Grotesqueticle
Are there any support groups in your area?: DFA or Democracy Meet-ups, "Liberal Drinking" is a good function too.
If not, think about starting one.
Okay, Jeffraham- I'll try it again.
In the meantime, someone just sent me this- it's inane but funny.
What's taters precious?
sean-
thank you for 'wanklings'.
i'm off to work with a smile on my face.
Clone Wolf- Not even then. Dubya would simply go on TV with Swaggart-esque crocodile tears begging for forgiveness and he will get it. Fundies are addicted to forgiving their own.
You'd also get weeks and weeks of the various talking pinhead TV shows babbling about how adultery and cocaine use were among the highest of human virtues in certain situations.
I would love to live in a purple state. Does anyone realise how demoralising it is when - literally - every third car you drive by has a W sticker on it?
Clone Wolf -
Are you a new incarnation of "coneclone"?
Grotesqueticle: Jeffraham, vid played fine for me. I would suggest crystal player, it has handled EVERYthing I have ever thrown at it. Including those pesky RealOne files.
I'm the wrong guy to ask about this kind of thang, as I'm a bit of a Luddite where it comes to installing software which I suspect will hose my computing needs. In my blinkered view, if it's not WMV or MOV, I don't need to see it.
.
Hey Vicki!
I just can't believe he said something so overtly Lovecraftian. The conspiracy theorist part of my brain is doing handsprings over that one.
grote: over at democraticunderground.com, they have state meetup groups and the like on their boards. you may find some friends in your area there.
Prob'ly some codec issue.
To be fair I don't know what this means.
I'm on a mac, so I don't have to deal with messy tech issues.
BTW, speaking of tech, Michael Dell gave $250,000, personally, to the chimpy coronation. Do not ever buy anything from dell. Ever.
I would love to live in a purple state. Does anyone realise how demoralising it is when - literally - every third car you drive by has a W sticker on it?
Grotesqueticle | Email | Homepage | 01.21.05 - 2:13 pm | #
That's the kind of "purple" Ohio is lately. And I live near Toledo!
You'd also get weeks and weeks of the various talking pinhead TV shows babbling about how adultery and cocaine use were among the highest of human virtues in certain situations.
don't forget the drunkeness.
Grotesqueticle- Massachusetts is calling you...
Does anyone realise how demoralising it is when - literally - every third car you drive by has a W sticker on it?
Yep. New Orleans, here. Kos had a link to a site where you can buy stickers that look exactly like the black "W the President" stickers, but say "F the President."
I would love to live in a purple state. Does anyone realise how demoralising it is when - literally - every third car you drive by has a W sticker on it?
Umm, yeah. Actually I do. Ick.
Yoshimi, actually my county is "blue". Small city, and ain't it amazing how cities vote blue?
TJ--I hadn't realized you were in NO, my old home town, beloved by me...
Whereabouts to you live? Just curious.
Krugman has a good piece today on the privatization of S.S.. He refers to it as the "giant free lunch". I like the sound of that, maybe we should just start calling it the Giant Free Lunch Plan or G.F.L.P..
Luved Taters!
Last year, here in rural Bush country, I was in a grocery check out behind and elderly woman and her toe-ringed trashy 'billie daughter. As they left the line, the 'billie daughter turned, pointed to a bag still at the check out and said, "Oh, Maw, look, you fergot yer taters!"
I gagged on my JuicyFruit!
He] left this Bush supporter yearning for something she does not normally yearn for, and that is: nuance." (Wall Street Journal)"
That would be akin to a frat boy being disappointed that his Mad Dog doesn't taste more like Stag's Leap Cellars.
Oh yeah, never forget the drunkeness. That is also a great virtue when practiced by our glorious Son King, but an unforgivable sin when indulged in by the common rabble.
Luved Taters!
For some reason I really loved that scene in the movie.
I should probably email that link to Echidne, though she's probably disposed of her excess taters by now.
Ugh, MD 20/20. I can't believe I was ever young or stupid enough to drink that shit. 
OT: TBogg has a link to an article by Nooners. Here is the first paragraph:
It was an interesting Inauguration Day. Washington had warmed up, the swift storm of the previous day had passed, the sky was overcast but the air wasn't painful in a wind-chill way, and the capital was full of men in cowboy hats and women in long furs. In fact, the night of the inaugural balls became known this year as The Night of the Long Furs.
'The Night of the Long Furs?' WTF is up with this kind of reference?
four legs good: I'm on a mac, so I don't have to deal with messy tech issues.
Aaaa-heh. Not dealing with it is the problem, in this case, I suspect. You might need to download a later codec (compressor/decompressor) for your video player of choice, likely available at microsoft.com, or get the latest version of Media Player for Mac, also at that URL.
I used to use only QuickTime for web vids, but it's a bit glitchy at times (abruptly clipping the last few frames, or adding audio glitches at the end of the file), so I've been using WMV lately. Sorry.
.
today I heard the news say something about how the prezistump only stayed a grand total of 46.3 minutes at the inaugural functions yesterday, and then went home.
Obviously that 8 o'clock bedtime beckoned. And when you are done up on cocaine all day, you have to rest because it is no joke to your heart at that age. 
Yoshimi, actually my county is "blue". Small city, and ain't it amazing how cities vote blue?
Grotesqueticle
I live in a big very blue city. I only see the "W" when I leave the comfy confines. My problem is that I feel helpless in the political process - if you think the Republican party has a stranglehold on politics, you haven't seen the Chicago Democratic machine. I have to venture out into Red land to make a difference.
Clone Wolf...good points. Enron and the other stories you mentioned are complicated and hard to tell, particularly on television. That's why TV goes ape over a story like Scott Peterson. As for print, its share of the public's attention continues to decline. Most cities have only 1 newspaper now, and chances are its owned by a chain bent more on maximizing revenue and stock prices than journalism.
'The Night of the Long Furs?' WTF is up with this kind of reference?
Snow | Email | Homepage | 01.21.05 - 2:22 pm | #
Wow, they just Godwinned themselves!
[and yes, I know that's not ACTUALLY what Godwin's Law says]
FLG- That is definitely the new Badgers Badgers Badgers.
"There's no question that liberal loathing of black conservatives was part of the liberal media recipe for front-paging Armstrong."
What's this? Does this quarter wit mean to suggest that liberals loathe black conservatives more than white, or say alien (see Ashcroft) conservatives?
I think that's one of the beauties of today's poltical battlefield. Hate is universal!
Spongebob Rules!
chicago dyke, I will check that out, seriously. four legs good, don't get me started on dell. Best support in the industry my hairy yellow butt.
Jeffraham, I have WMP, realone player AND quicktime.
Maybe I just need to update- it usually tells me if it can't play something.
Taters Taters Taters...
GOLLUM GOLLUM!!
Lumpen...Krugman has had a whole series of good columns on SS. I think he pretty well has the scam sussed. Remember, this is the guy who in 2000 said Miserable Failure's
tax cut program was wrongheaded and the numbers Miserable Failure was using during the campaign totally bogus. Krugman had this administration nailed before it even took office.
"the power of Ba'al compels you!"
Hey, didn't the Enterprise destroy the power of Ba'al?
Just askin'
Don't assume because nothing new has been written about Williams and anyone else involved in the Payola Scandal, that reporters are giving up. Williams and the DOE were busted because of a FOIA request. There were many more filed after that one came out, but these things take a little time. What's it been, 2 weeks? There will be more, since there's no way in hell these corporate thugs only bought off one guy. Ain't no way.
Tow
four legs good: Maybe I just need to update- it usually tells me if it can't play something.
Yeah, me too... except I still run across the occasional MPEG file of which WMP will only play the audio portion. I know I'm missing a codec for something, but I don't care enough to look into it, heh.
I'm guessing an update to WMP on yer Mac will set the Curly vid isse right, though.
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hi, gob!
just back from long lunch. And I say:
Donnez moi les chats. Maintenant.
Liberals don't hate Armstrong, nor do they hate all black conservatives. They disapprove of his behavior, i.e., being a paid flack for the administration without disclosing his conflict of interest which, BTW, violated his contract with Tribune Media Services and possibly violated FCC regulations regarding payola and plugola.
Adm. Komack- That would be the copycat deity Vaal. He's no fun. He wouldn't know a pleasing aroma if it bit him in the ass (or whatever deities have that passes for one)
What watertiger said.
Kitties please.
OT--but i really feel that this story must not be buried:
A Boulder Roman Catholic church's plan to bury the remains of fetuses from a local abortion clinic was assailed Thursday by the clinic's director, who called it "a cynical exploitation of private grief for political purposes" by the Catholic Church and the mortuary that gave the ashes to the parish.
Dr. Warren Hern, director of the Boulder Abortion Clinic, issued a scathing statement in response to Sacred Heart of Mary Church's announcement that it would stage a ceremony Sunday morning to bury the ashes of what Hern describes as surgical tissue from abortions and what the church describes as babies. The event marks the 32nd anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.
On Thursday, the reaction split along the expected lines, with abortion-rights supporters calling the burial a devastating invasion of privacy and abortion foes framing it as opportunity for wounded women to grieve.
A state health official said the arrangement between the church and Crist Mortuary doesn't violate state laws.
The mortuary, which says it has an agreement to retrieve the tissue from the abortion clinic and cremate it, has been delivering the ashes to the parish without Hern's knowledge since 2001.
Fed up ..Yeah, I've been reading him for quite a while, but "Giant Free Lunch" just struck me as a good catch phrase.
WAAAA! i want kitties before i go away for the weekend. toute-de-suite, s'il vous plait. Merci!
'The Night of the Long Furs?' Those are some mighty big merkins.
And here: every sane person's fantasy, these days. From American Leftist.
or los gatos, por favor, gracias!
Lumpen...no doubt it is a good term. The financial services industry stands to make billions of dollars, and given the relatively lax prosecution of violators, the maladministration's SS plan is a license to fleece.
watertiger: can we get posters of this?
Lumpen,
can I have your name when you bail. I friggin live that. Lumpen. Wonderful.
not to be didactic, but...Websters..
"of or relating to dispossessed and uprooted individuals cut off from the economic and social class with which they might normally be identified "
nice pull
it is becoming obvious to me that bush's social security "reform" plan is really an attempt to steal soc sec money to pay for his next adventure in iran.
Fed up .. Maybe we can get Lou Dobbs to obsess over it. You never know with him.
'The Night of the Long Furs?' WTF is up with this kind of reference?
Snow | Email | Homepage | 01.21.05 - 2:22 pm | #
Well, wearing knives on your jacket prolly would get you held up in the security line...
her eyes,
go to amleft.blogspot.com. Scroll down a little on the right side. You should be able to download the pic to your computer.
Good, innit?
Tim Graham? That mouth breather thinks the 90s were a liberal plot to make America forget the Reagan era ([shaking fist at sky] Damn libruls and their time-altering devices).
Does anyone take him seriously?
The GOP has always been able to find a few self-loathing blacks to pimp for their policies by massaging their egos (and in Armstrong's case, pad a wallet). The latest laughable effort in the conservative PR minstrel show is known as Project 21. Sad and embarrassing.
It's a race to the bottom between the self-loathing queers, sell-out blacks and the wingnut women of the Concerned Women for America ilk when it comes to getting in bed with the GOP.
Pam's House Blend
Hey, didn't the Enterprise destroy the power of Ba'al?
nope. check it out.
It was the God of Abraham. Whose lost some muscle mass over the years I'd venture-
"Then Jehu called a meeting of all the people of the city and said to them, "Ahab hardly worshiped Baal at all compared to the way I will worship him! Summon all the prophets and worshipers of Baal, and call together all his priests. See to it that every one of them comes, for I am going to offer a great sacrifice to Baal. Any of Baal's worshipers who fail to come will be put to death." But Jehu's plan was to destroy all the worshipers of Baal. Then Jehu ordered, "Prepare a solemn assembly to worship Baal!" So they did. He sent messengers throughout all Israel summoning those who worshiped Baal. They all came and filled the temple of Baal from one end to the other. And Jehu instructed the keeper of the wardrobe, "Be sure that every worshiper of Baal wears one of these robes." So robes were given to them"
"Then Jehu went into the temple of Baal with Jehonadab son of Recab. Jehu said to the worshipers of Baal, "Make sure that only those who worship Baal are here. Don't let anyone in who worships the LORD!" So they were all inside the temple to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had surrounded the building with eighty of his men and had warned them, "If you let anyone escape, you will pay for it with your own life."
"As soon as Jehu had finished sacrificing the burnt offering, he commanded his guards and officers, "Go in and kill all of them. Don't let a single one escape!" So they killed them all with their swords, and the guards and officers dragged their bodies outside. Then Jehu's men went into the fortress of the temple of Baal. They dragged out the sacred pillar used in the worship of Baal and destroyed it. They broke down the sacred pillar of Baal and wrecked the temple of Baal, converting it into a public toilet. That is what it is used for to this day." 2 Kings 10:18-27 NLT
watertiger,
It sounds so much sexier in french, doesn't it?!
It is becoming obvious to me that bush's social security "reform" plan is really an attempt to steal soc sec money to pay for his next adventure in iran.
Bush has little artifice in this dead horse. He leakeda memo that said knocking out SS would be the greatest victory over liberlism of the new millenium. They see a welfare state. But that's okay. He's gonna fall on that sword. Just like all his other efforts. SS reform is DOA.
vicki,
everything sounds better in french, n'est-ce pas?
Or Italian. That's pretty gorgeous.
Anything but Dutch. Man, that is one odd language.
Der Bingler ..I actually only pick the name in the last week or so. It was in a story the esteemed Mr. Black linked to. Just loved the sound of it.
He's gonna fall on that sword.
I wanna watch.
grote: over at democraticunderground.com, they have state meetup groups and the like on their boards. you may find some friends in your area there.
chicago dyke
I have been deemed persona non grata at du, aspparently for being neither democratic nor underground enough (and for proclaiming that Bill Clinton was the best GOP president of the 20th century, in terms of that part of the GOP agenda he was able to enact...that was never a popular assertion); same at bartcop...i guess my sense of humor was not pleasing in the ears of bart...and i have been banned forever at Slate, too, it seems...
hell i was banned here, too, for a while...i guess it is a mark of some distinction...like being 86'd at the La Fonda Bar in Santa Fe, which honor I earned at least three times: NOBODY ever got 86'd at La Fonda...
Bartcop's a dipshit.
watertiger--that is the best pic. it is now my new screensaver!
bye all! have a great weekend!
watertiger,
They speak Dutch in these here parts.
I live in the Dutch stronghold of America. Lots of them were Bush voters, too.
It's the god, gays, guns thing. But mostly god and gays.
Anything but Dutch. Man, that is one odd language.
How could a language that named a city "Hilversum" be all bad? They give good radio. http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/
"the power of Ba'al compels you!"
Well alright you big whiners.
Let the kitty blogging begin!!
That's Zachary, my maine coon who died 2 years ago, as a baby. Cute little fucker wasn't he?
her eyes- See you soon.
Lumpen...I don't know what to make of Dobbs sometimes, but once he gets on something, he tends to stay on it. My question is if Dobbs will get into something that really matters.
Hey, didn't the Enterprise destroy the power of Ba'al?
I thought that was Va'al.
flg,
sooooo cute. maine coons. 'nuff said.
Since everyone is still bashing each other for being PC or Mac on the thread above, I'll post this little bit of "Huh?" here:
Outgoing Democratic Party chairman Terry McAuliffe sent a defiant message to members as Republicans celebrated Mr Bush's inauguration.
"Today... Republicans are hoping that we'll fade into the background," he wrote. "They're hoping that for the next two years we'll sit on the
sidelines, and let them ram their agenda through.
"But we Democrats will never step aside. While Bush tries to build his
legacy on a series of attacks against working families, the middle class and seniors, Democrats will be there to stand up."
Outgoing Democratic Party chairman Terry McAuliffe sent a defiant message to members as Republicans celebrated Mr Bush's inauguration.
Terry, finally. That's a bit unfair but if all Democrats don't stand up and keep giving them hell we will fade away.
Every day in every way make a Republican sorry.
OT, but:
I have an
advance draft of a Cheney speech
in which he refers approvingly to "The
Black Goat of the Woods With a Thousand
Young."
Anybody know what that means?
Vicki...yep, the GOP trots out the Lord, Uzis and the specter of gays every election cycle, and the tactic almost always works. Then the GOP mostly forgets what it promised. Miserable Failure, who just last summer was all atwitter that gays might marry, now says he won't pursue a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage as long as the Federal Defense of Marriage Act is constitutional. Oddly, DOMA wasn't sufficient to the task during the campaign. Lincoln was apparently right; you can fool some of the people all of the time.
"The
Black Goat of the Woods With a Thousand
Young."
Anybody know what that means?
steve simels
They ride on goats and worship the anti-Christ. It's a secret Muggletonian thing.
The reason Bushboy is never held accountable for his crimes:
Pre-POTUS: 1) Daddy was a congressman when Bushboy violated military law. 2) Daddy was POTUS when Bushboy violated SEC rules & regs at Harken Energy.
Post-POTUS: 1) The mass media is owned and operated by the corporations and they never sensationalize Bushboy's lethal crimes the way they did Clinton's
blow-job. 2) The American people stupidly elected a Gooper congress which wouldn't impeach or indict Bushboy if he was caught banging the cows on his ranch!
In fact, the night of the inaugural balls became known this year as The Night of the Long Furs.
'The Night of the Long Furs?' WTF is up with this kind of reference?
Snow | Email | Homepage | 01.21.05 - 2:22 pm |
Living here in DC, I can tell you...it's all the friggin' fur coats that descended upon the town for the inauguration. Happened 4 years ago too. I'm surprised minks aren't extinct by now.
On Armstrong Williams, more should come out -- eventually. That FOIA request was based on another back that was released back in October by the People for the American Way. That lovely FOI request revealed the VNR on no child left behind and how the Ed Dept was rating reporters on their coverage.
And Tim Grapham is a putz.
Der Bingler,
How about what Elijah did to the Ba'alists in 1 Kings 17? Ba'al if you're listening, where were you? On the can, asleep, drunk, with your consort?
Totally OT but has anyone seen this before? Oy veh...
Conservative Match.com
"Sweethearts not bleeding hearts"? Jeebus, they can even be snarky when it comes to romance....
Oh lord... there's a Rush quote on there, too... Lmao
"despite the liberal lads you've been dating, there is hope out there." Is that straight out of the 50's or what?
"Gee, Wally - that Barbara Boxer sure has some crazy ideas about the economy, her body, and religion. I think Dad's gonna be sore at you if you ask her out again."
"Sweethearts not bleeding hearts"? Jeebus, they can even be snarky when it comes to romance....
That's probably because no romance is involved there.
They're only looking for compatible breeding partners, since, of course, good conservatrons never, ever, ever have sex for pleasure or happiness: only for making more wicked hellspawn.
Adm. Komack- That would be the copycat deity Vaal. He's no fun. He wouldn't know a pleasing aroma if it bit him in the ass (or whatever deities have that passes for one)
BlakNo1
Thank you; just wanted to be sure. 
Frankly, this story hasn't gotten enough coverage -- and for some reason no one seems too concerned about the Bush administration's clear violation of federal law."
aren't all these "for some reasons" making anyone worried and wee bit paranoid? I say we liberals go full throttle into "conspiracy theory" territory and make them prove their innocense.
"Frankly, this story hasn't gotten enough coverage -- and for some reason no one seems too concerned about the Bush administration's clear violation of federal law."
There is something very childlike about the Bush administration. Like children, they manage to make very unequal things equal. Like children, they cry that so-and-so did it too! And besides, everybody else does it! And, like children, they came into office thinking they were older than they really were. And, like children, they can't possibly do anything really serious or damaging or hurtful to anybody.
Makes you just want to spank them.
So now that Michael Powell is leaving the FCC, who's gonna ramrod the investigation of the Williams payola case?
And who's gonna report on the scope of the remaining payola activity that no doubt is still going on elsewhere?
I'd love to see the income tax returns of every broadcaster and talking head in the business, just to see how they really make their money.
You think Novak makes his dough on Capital Gang? Ha. But I wouldn't be surprised that a few so-called 'libruls' were on somebody's payroll, too, at least part-time.
We need to purge the entire opinion industry of this kind of corruption. But how to do it? I sure have no idea, without instituting some kind of totalitarian state 'media police'.
Just have to weather it, folks, and develop a sharper sense of bullshit and lies. Not that we don't have pretty good BS detectors already.
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