I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
ahem
Wooooooooohoooooooooooo
meow
Mind if I put my feet up? Where's that ottoman?
ask your cats where it went! nuk nuk nuk then look in all the chair cushions.
You're having a hell of a week technology-wise, aren't you?
thanks! of course, i'm going to dinner now and won't be online again until tomorrow...
*gasp, gasp*
New thread....can finally breathe.
I am waiting (not so) patiently.
String-like USB cable? Cats?
Check under the couch - or inside any recent hairballs.
I had exactly the same problem with Babyblogging this morning. Mine was in a basket next to the fireplace, if that helps.
(Another graceful, deft blogwhore. Click homepage.)
Did it ever occur to you that the cats may have taken the cable? That maybe they don't like all the attention?
Now, as I was saying...
AAAIIIEEE!!!
...ok on't panic - just visualize shapened balls of colored fur whistfully lazing about...either that or gigging under their whiskered breath about how they hid the USB cord
It's nearly beerthirty. Ahhhhhhhhhhh.
I'll betcha Wiley ate the USB cord. He's most likely sick of all those "what a fat cat!" comments from the insenstive hairless monkeys...
Man I need to upgrade my cats, they are still all RS-232.
Did it ever occur to you that the cats may have taken the cable? That maybe they don't like all the attention?
Or maybe they are borrowing it so they can upload their human pictures to their blog on the Cat internet.
[inhales deeply]
So nice in here without troll-funk.
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Cats took the cord. Tired of being exploited by The Man. Put your own damn picture up there. You lay on your back and look cute!
chicago dyke,
Cool! What are we having?
This is a goddamn catastrophe.
Is Powell leaving the FCC because of the Paige/Williams scandal?
Perhaps like some, they swore off cable?
Or maybe they are borrowing it so they can upload their human pictures to their blog on the Cat internet.
LOL.
The cats are holding the usb cord hostage. What are their demands? Catnip? Food? The bed all to themselves from now on? No catblogging with their approval of the pics?
Why, If i ever get my paws on whoever took your USB cord...
kent,
It's only 3:00pm west coast time. Let me know when you start and I'll join you.
Somewhere it's wine o'clock.
tonight the gang is going to chinatown; one of my friends is fluent in the major languages and he gets the 'chinese people' menu- yum!
then it's off to a black tie affair in 'honor' of the coronation. lots of liberals and queers, plenty of booze and smoke, probably not a few tears and angry words.
well, shift's over. everyone have a great night!
NYmary, beautiful child!
You can go to my homepage for some hot pussy!
Rizzo practices some cat kung fu.
What- no cats! As I have bith a Sony camera and PC, I just insert my memory card into my PC and voila- no messy cables.*
* Oddly enough, most of the photos on my card are my cats...
Somewhere it's wine o'clock.
YAY! :D
Thanks, Shaw Kenawe, for the reminder.
a cataclysm, I tell ya!
(going away in shame now...)
Or maybe they are borrowing it so they can upload their human pictures to their blog on the Cat internet.
LMAO!
Nah, cats are more technologically advanced. They probably use a wireless system.
You wouldn't lose your USB cord if you had a mac.
I think the felines are upset over the gross exploitation of their weekly dallying.
Where's their compensation?
Where's their reward?
Is this mindless victimization their only reason to exist? For the asinine amusement of downtrodden bloggers?
Sad... just sad.
The cats are holding the usb cord hostage.
Weren't someone's cats being disciplined recently for crimes against man?
Hmmmmmm.
Man I need to upgrade my cats, they are still all RS-232.
EkCenTriK
I switched to cat-5 a while ago and haven't looked back.
You wouldn't lose your USB cord if you had a mac.
Oh no. Not again.
*warning klaxons*
*red lights flashing*
Take cover!
Cats don't need the net. They communicate by telepathy. Ever notice how the cats are always staring at you when you look especially silly? There are thousands of cats logging in via Fluffy's eye cameras and laughing their asses off.
Here, kitty kitty kitty kitty!
Man I need to upgrade my cats, they are still all RS-232.
I switched to cat-5 a while ago and haven't looked back.
That one-two punch caused me some serious pain.
You probably find it in a huge hairball under the sofa one day.
Well I'm Analog so I find my friends in a CATalogue.
I wonder which pro-media lobbying group Powell will join?
Boy, Atrios sure comes up with the lamest excuses. First the cats were "bad", now his USB cable is "missing". I think there's something else going on that he's afraid to tell us.
Alas, I just got home myself so there's no catblogging for a while, but I do have a picture of a cedar waxwing cavorting in subzero weather...
Felis Catus,
But Atrios has made them stars!
This is a goddamn catastrophe.
No, it's the *absence* of catastrophes everybody's complaining about.
Until the cats appear, did you all hear about the Wisconsin high school student who filed a lawsuit against his school for summer homework?
God bless America!
Elementary students try to hijack school bus
IRANIAN BLOGGER ON BUSH SPEECH
>>>READ IT AT REVOLUTIONREPORT.BLOGSPOT.COM
Boy, Atrios sure comes up with the lamest excuses. First the cats were "bad", now his USB cable is "missing". I think there's something else going on that he's afraid to tell us.
Maybe it's something of tectonic importance.
Oh, wait....wrong blogger.
Shaw Kenawe, 
I am fixin' to head to the fridge during the next commercial break or, right... about.....now.
Always nice to have some company.
Now, as I was saying...
AAAIIIEEE!!!
BlakNo1 | Email | Homepage | 01.21.05 - 5:48 pm | #
Dude -- I know the feeling, but
nicely put!
That one-two punch caused me some serious pain.
BlakNo1
Truly, it was a twisted pair of puns.
Can anyone verify the "voices in my head" or "message from beyond the grave" or "orders from beyond the stars" or whatever thing it was I swear I heard Bush say? I caught a snippet of it on BBC Radio or somewhere and I can't confirm it anywhere.
Someone said cat blogging?
No cats were harmed in the 1.5MB WMV file above. Note purring, and announced intention to bite.
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I hope Philatles shows up with some hot nudibranch action.
I really like that mixed with all of this hot pussy
The first thing out of the white house after the coronation?
We're Killing Hubble!
I cannot believe the gall these freaks have.All of the scientific community is for repairing this and the freak is having a feild day in pissing them off.
We can spend 200 Billion on a useless war,but we cant spend a Billion to fix one of the greatest scientific instruments in the history of mankind?
All you bloggers should catch this and broadcast it far and wide.It is a sticking point that the public has come to know and love,it can be used as another needle in the chimpos eye.
Heres the link,Astronomers Surprised by White House Plan to Scuttle Hubble
I hate this fucking president,he is so much a thorn in humanities side it cannot be said enough.
Ah, a little salt for those wounds, OUCH!!
Are the cats real? Did anyone check ther kerning on the earlier photos?
surfdork, thanks, BTW. That kitten isn't really yours, is it? Tell me you cribbed it from a black velvet painting.....
rmj, on your advice i invested in a bottle of laphroaig. the stuff really is amazing. it has some flavor which is familiar, but i can't identify it. maybe it is cocaine. it is making my tongue numb for some reason.
Kitties! With an extra yummy hidden kitty treat this time.
Love, love, love kitties!
I see sweet liberty is on the rise in Iraq! Boy the wonders of george work quick!
"We will arrest him (Chalabi) based on facts that he wanted to malign the reputation of the defense ministry and defense minister," Hazim al-Shaalan told Al Jazeera television.
Is that not fucking hilarious!
Olaf,
That taste would be old Scottish sweat socks.
(Just kidding!)
TSA Yanks Terrorist Off Plane -- The One That Was Deporting Him
See homepage for link. (Yeah, I'm pimping. What's it to ya?)
Ha!
Some of us have grownup systems that are -fixed-. Allowing us to, gratuitously, post examples of Aspiration, Valour, Ecstasy (freshly mown grass) and Belligerance.
Now, it's time for DINNER.
BGK,
You have the best action shots, that one is priceless.
Shaw, cracking tab now. (hoists in your direction) Heres to you.
RMJ, sorry again about thinking one of your posts on the earlier thread was the name stealer. There was so much stuff going on I couldn't figure out who was who.
"Man I need to upgrade my cats, they are still all RS-232.
EkCenTriK
I switched to cat-5 a while ago and haven't looked back.
wÒÓ"
Think wireless...Hot Spot Cat Blogging. Trend of the future.
I don't need to actually see the cats.
"That gray one is up to no good--he's thinking up ways to beffoul your expensive {item in background}."
"Tuxedo-boy is so cute.I had one just like him who choked on a chicken bone."
"They really love each other; I wish mine would stop being so jealous. Whenever I pick one up, the other feigns illness or a limp."
Athenae emailed me this afternoon and told me that from now on if I send her cat pics on Thursday nights she'll post them for me until I get it figured out. Yay!
Too late for this week and I'll be gone next week. But after that it's going to be serious cat blogging!
smalfish,
Thanks for the day ruining news. (Not that I didn't see it coming)
Jesus, these bastards are gonna have to kill off anything that threatens to erode the Fundimentalist belief system. You know it just kills them when those Ivory tower science guys try to claim the universe is 13 billion or so years old.
Next we'll have the department of faith based Geology.
arachnae,
That's great! I feel so safe! (Aside friom the fact that the IRA's not all that interested in the States, of course....)
NYmary, yes those are ALL my kitties. The white kitty, BoBo died.
Dang. BGK was good enough to offer to post cat pics for me and I can't find my farkin' cat pics CD. Replaced my hard drive this week so I don't have them there. Maybe it's hiding out with Artios' USB cord.
It's a plot against catbloging, I tell ya.
I had exactly the same problem with Babyblogging this morning. Mine was in a basket next to the fireplace, if that helps.
THE BABY was in the basket next to the fireplace?????
EkCenTriK: Think wireless...Hot Spot Cat Blogging. Trend of the future.
SCENE: Parisian sidewalk bistro
CHARACTERS: Two suited nerds
AUDIO: Klezmer music
Suited Nerd #1: Ah... love is in the air.
Suited Nerd #2: Love? That's what you see? I see fur.
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the truth comes out...
yeah, it's definitely cocaine. i'm tasting peat, smoke, and cocaine. i can't believe this stuff is legal.
THE BABY was in the basket next to the fireplace?????
Hey, it's cold in her neck of the woods.
She's a doll, NYMary. Getting so big!
Yasonyacky,
Better than buried in the reeds, I guess.....
bullrushes. Damn, I hate it when I almost get it but not quite. Bullrushes.
Or floating down the river in a reed basket, like Mythological Moses(TM)!
If you'd played the "Coronaugural Drinking Game" yesterday with "freedom" being the trigger, you'd have taken 27 drinks in just over 20 minutes...guaranteed catatonia, just so you don't think i'm OT, or anything...
"DWD, you fail to understand that Tena values her personal comfort over liberty. She comes here to whine and spew, but when push comes to shove, she's just another docile do-nothing sheep. Don't expect anything from her except an endless display of arrogance, stupidity, self-esteem issues, and kneejerk/panicky antics."
Shit, I'm never had any beef with Tena, but I can tell you this, she's not a spewer, nor a sheep, and is never arrogant, never stupid, and shows little signs of knee jerk antics.
She, frankly, seems like a regular old nice person.
And Dearest Vicki, you finally fragged me! Suggesting that I was NP's Dooshbag? That was some cold shit.
As for NPD's last stand, (see tail dragging retreat) at least he got one thing right...
"You might be surprised that there are plenty of conservatives that don't like Bush"
which kinda explains why i am here. And there. And everywhere. (see Sybil)
GMT- why, you, you, you cad!
You've been cheating on us, spending all your time over at KOS and such.
Olaf - yeah, it's definitely cocaine. i'm tasting peat, smoke, and cocaine. i can't believe this stuff is legal.
What, your gums are getting numb?
Quitting Time!!!!!
Time to head to hearth and home.
GWPDA,
Thanks for the rescue from the hubble inspired funk. I think I could watch 30 minutes of Arthurian adventure TV a day.
Maybe you and the Scrutinizer could pitch a show starring Arthur and Trout.
Now that, I'd watch.
i thought $40 a bottle was kind of steep. didn't realize how much cocaine it had in it. it's a bargain. in fact i don't know how they can even turn a profit at that price.
smallfish,
I am so disgusted about Hubble too. Bu$h destroys everything good.
Mars, bitch.
tena, yes. my gums and my tongue. seriously.
NYMary,
Babe-o-licious. Are you sure that's the same baby I saw a month ago? Heh.
now it is spreading to my lips.
GWPDA:
Is your email link intentionally dead?
I mailed your Albucareque package today...on the house, thanks for the tech tips...
Olaf - Whoa - this is the Laphroig?
bigvic,
Thanks! The kid is growing alarmingly fast. I tried her on solids three full months before my other kids, and she's voracious! I guess she's feeding that head of hair.
Must buy some laphroaig. It's pricy but sounds like it's worth it.
NYMary-
My favorite pic is the one of Rosie in her Christmas finery. SO adorable.
Olaf-
Laphroiag makes a CASK STRENGTH (same stuff, but not diluted with water). Mr. TJ loves it.
In a time that is not now, in a place that may have existed once, but does no longer . . .
The word spread as if wildfire. Kids shot. Protests called. Moratorium. Four dead. I remember that as well as I remember this day. I had left my room and was walking across 12th street on my way to class. A girl I knew, a senior I believe, came to me with tears streaming. “The bastards opened fire on kids at Kent State. Four dead!. Oh, my God!” she screamed as she melted into my arms. I comforted her as best I could. After a moment’s embrace, she broke away and said, “School has been canceled. They are asking all students to attend a memorial service at the Dimnent Memorial Chapel at 11.”
I assured I would be there.
I walked into the campus coffee shop to see if my friends were there. The place, usually so ebullient, was still as death. A pall shrouded the nooks and crannies of the ancient structure and hung as a listless curtain of solitude and solace. Four dead! I could not stop thinking of it. Four dead, at least one young girl! How could they? Where is the love that is supposed to supplant hate?
The sun shone that day, but its pale light did not dispel the ghosts that wandered the campus. Instead it only served as counterpoint to the darkness brought upon us all.
You have the best action shots, that one is priceless.
As I'm on a G.W. Bush fellowship (i.e. self-employed, but in name only), I'm around the cats all day most times. I keep my camera handy and powered up when they seem at all frisky, which, despite the old saw about cats being lazy, is much of the day.
re Hubble: I guess they don't like the constant reminder that the earth is a sphere and goes around the sun. Watch for the 'spherical earth' theory to be banned in Kansas school system texts next.
yes. laphraoig. i have only had 3 small sips and it really is numbing my mouth exactly like cocaine would.
Bu$h destroys everything good.
His supporters would beg to differ, but really, look at what's been destroyed since he took over.
Whether you believe he's responsible or not, look at the deaths and destruction that have occurred.
And of course, he IS directly responsible for much of it.
fyi; In Los Angeles, at Trader Joe's Laphraiog is $29.99 a copy!!!
yeah tj. i just got the regular 10 year old. they had cask strength and 15 year old. i just got the cheapest one to try it. maybe i will try one of the others next time. and there will definitely be a next time.
DWD:
That morning Nixon was on the phone
with the governor of Ohio, obviously
to give him the go-ahead to shoot.
Never forget it.
Special Tena edition of catblogging
....and that as well as Lagavulin (app. $45-55 a copy) are my faves!!!
Remember, the bastards who opened fire at Kent State and the assholes who applauded them are now in charge of everything.
What will you do? That is the question, isn't it?
It's about time that darn Hubble was put out it's misery. All that thing does is promote our understanding of the universe. And has it ever seen God? No! So fuck it. I hope it hits Hilary Clinton on the way down.
Eve bit an apple from the tree of knowledge, getting all our sorry asses tossed out into the grimness that is planet earth. That Hubble is just like a branch on that tree. They should send a friggin wood chipper up in the next shuttle to get rid of it.
That being said, check this out, the coolest snap ever shot.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter...leases/1995/44/
I have little doubt that the Great Gullible One (Bush) would get rid of all Science if could.
Quiz; what happened on October 23, 4004 BC?
Answer. Creation! Goddamn Hubble.
Burn it! Burn the Hubble!
olaf, maybe you're having a stroke. It could happen...
The cats promote the homosexual lifestyle-James Dobson
I feel like one of the rebels in Farenheit 451. What book will I memorize?
What book would you memorize?
DWD - The only thing darker than those times are these times, I think. Kent State was terrible.
The present bunch scare me worse than anyone in the 60's did. When George Will, of all people, is moved to compare an inaugural parade to a parade for a banana republic dictator who is afraid he'll be met with tank, then you know it's worse.
Okay, no comments on Curly vs. Jeffraham. How about Curly vs. Cardboard Box?
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The more I think about it, the more this Hubble thing pisses me off. Years of work, buckets of money, tossed into the ocean because he needs to toss a bone to those who disdain learning? It's unconscionable. Plus, it's a good metonym for the entire admin: blowing the investments of a generation because he needs to placate irrationalists.
laphroaig...i thought that was what you were describing...it was my pop's absolute favorite...he mostly quit drinking when he went on oxygen, but he wouldn't start oxygen or stop drinking til he'd finished his last bottle of Laphroaig...
it's an acquired taste...
raw oysters are appropriate fare for accompanying finger foods...in fact, i'll bet i last had laphroaig sitting in one of the bay windows of the Monteleon OysterBar on Rue Royale...
bon appetit
What book would you memorize?
The Five Chinese Brothers
That morning Nixon was on the phone
with the governor of Ohio, obviously
to give him the go-ahead to shoot.
Do you remember what the locals had to say about the shootings (before the innocence of the dead was learned)?
Love? Four young people were killed and the hatred they spewed was astounding.
Stupid, ignorant morons. And it could happen again, and you'd see the same exact reaction from that segment of the population.
That cat was just sniffing the cardboard box. You cut out the part where he jumps in and chases his tail around
The present bunch scare me worse than anyone in the 60's did. When George Will, of all people, is moved to compare an inaugural parade to a parade for a banana republic dictator who is afraid he'll be met with tank, then you know it's worse.
George Will said this?
Gee, suddenly I feel a bit better...
despite the old saw about cats being lazy
BGK, my cats explained to me that what appeared to be sleep was actually work, and that according to union rules they had to put in at least 14 hours a day on "the clock".
Yeah, I had one of those "Fellowships" for a bit longer than I was comfortable.
Got a bunch of blogging done though. I am just glad that you do make such hilarious and productive use of your time on the "'ship"
Oh Kenosha - thank you so much. I was talking about that kitty earlier. What's it's name again?
I love that cat.
funny story about the hubble:
it is controlled from johns hopkins university. the main office is a small nondescript building on a side street near the university. until a few years ago anybody could walk into the lobby and watch real time video of what it was looking at on a huge monitor. it was displayed like a piece of art.
this being baltimore, nobody had any idea that it was there.
Here's an odd question....
Anybody here ever see a UFO? Or
what they thought might be a UFO?
Don't need to wait for cat blogging for my kitty fix..
http://www.ratemykitten.com/
rate...141592653589792
laphroaig...i thought that was what you were describing...it was my pop's absolute favorite...he mostly quit drinking when he went on oxygen, but he wouldn't start oxygen or stop drinking til he'd finished his last bottle of Laphroaig...
Who? Describing where?
Damned workday!
Your father and I would go the same way...have to finish the Laphroaig first....
Remember, the bastards who opened fire at Kent State and the assholes who applauded them are now in charge of everything.
What will you do? That is the question, isn't it?
DWD | Email | Homepage | 01.21.05 - 6:28 pm | #
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Well, I got out into the streets yesterday along with 10,000 others and it felt great. There were my fellow moms in tennis shoes, seniors, kids, you name it. Naturally the corporate media said there were only 2,000 but I have it all on tape and we filled at least four city blocks at the peak of the protest. I recommend it for all eshatonians. Next up: March 19th peace marches across the nation. Will you be there?
When George Will, of all people, is moved to compare an inaugural parade to a parade for a banana republic dictator who is afraid he'll be met with tank,
Will did indeed say that. ABC ran it several times yesterday. I was stunned.
I cannot fathom the greif I feel over the loss of the hubble.Its images have fueled my imagination since its launch and subsequent repairs.Scientists say itis working better now than at any time in its history.
It is slated to last for another 2 years before it fails completely in 2008.I imagine lame duck will see its destruction long before it needs to be deorbited.
How much more of this anti science can we take?How much will be lost to this religious fundamentlaism?How much futhre back in time are we required to go before the wingnuttery is satisfied?How can I believe for even a minute that this government has my best intrest at heart any loonger,when I rely on technology like the hubble to allow me to escape the reality that is todays society?
I mourn and I offer no hope to anyone.
That cat is "Junior." So named because it is about half the size of "Buster," from the previous Friday Catblogging. It's the only one left from that litter. Buster was adopted and the other one (never given a name) disappeared.
Robert M Jeffers - Apparently, George Will did say something very close to that - I'm paraphrasing. You'll have to take it for what it's worth without any source backup until I can find it. I didn't hear it myself - several people heard it yesterday and talked about it. Then I saw it someplace - but where...?
Request for Hubble money, reported yesterday.
HARDING TWP Township Committeeman and noted scientist Louis J. Lanzerotti is expected to testify before Congress next month about why the Hubble Space Telescope needs federal money to replace some of its monitoring equipment.
“Just like when you service your car after 30,000 miles by getting the tires replaced or your engine checked, the Hubble Space Telescope needs to have some of its equipment checked and replaced, like its batteries and its gyroscopes. The microprocessors may need to be replaced, too,” said Lanzerotti.
Readings from Hubble not only discovered “adolescent,” or young growing galaxies, but actually allowed scientists to step back in time to look at old galaxies, especially since what astronomers see is billions of years old and many billions of light years away.
Goodbye Hubble. We barely knew you.
Here's an odd question....
You're right. It is an odd question.
Why do you ask?
Kenosha - I like the name.
Is he as sweet as he is handsome?
If we assume, as I think we must, that the lowest point of any blog is its trolls, then I have the smartest blog on the web, because RMJ is my troll. Trying to talk me into jazz, now really. Olaf listened to your advice, and look what's happened to him. He's all numb and stuff.
In other news, I'm off to fetch Thers; we are having now the fourth major automotive mishap in three days. This time, a tire blew out, and the bolts are frozen, so he can't change it. Wheeee!
Later!
dwd, the bastards who opened fire at kent state were also actively avoiding service in vietnam. i'm sure you know that but many people don't.
"GWPDA:
Is your email link intentionally dead?"
Nah, just off-license. I got very, very tired of being harassed by the little thug out of Florida. It wasn't benign, it was decidedly the kind of thing that, were it to occur in town, I would refer to my compadre Sgt Ray Arvisu. However.
It is comforting to look at Arthur gazing skyward, in aspiration.
Here I am, unthreading QuiltLady's sewing machine. Boy, will she be pissed.
You'll have to take it for what it's worth without any source backup until I can find it.
After I posted that comment, I saw that bigvic is backing me up. Stunning, kind of, isn't it?
smalfish, the demise of the hubble is old news, really. after bush's mars speech it was obvious that the hubble was doomed.
My kids had a software program that ran the most amazing beautiful pics from Hubble a few years back. We all loved it. Sick bastards that would kill this off and blow a gazillion dollars on Star Wars and Mars, Bitch.
You'll have to take it for what it's worth without any source backup until I can find it.
Crap. Screwed the tags.
Anyway, Tena--
Even with a name stealing troll about, your word is good enough for me.
Interesting. Very interesting.
Too soon to turn out the lights, but this party is winding down rapidly.
Next up: who they wake up next to. The screams will almost be...delicious....
I knew somebody who was at Kent State and saw the whole event. After the shootings, he and the president of the student government decided to leave town because of the tension. They decided to leave town by hitching a ride on a boxcar and were apprehended by a group of yahoos with guns who were patrolling the area. They were rescued by the Ohio National Guard. He said that they were more afraid of the crazy yahoos than the Guard.
Next up: March 19th peace marches across the nation. Will you be there?
ErinPDX
Who is organizing them?
olaf.
yeah, they were national guard, like Chimp, no?
i'm sure you know that but many people don't.
They were in the National Guard, right?
Hmmmmm. Who else do we know that was a Guardsman when it suited him?
Why do you ask?
Curiosity?
an appropriate thing on an open thread preceding the appearence of the Atricats.
Steve,
I have spent a considerable amout of time watching the sky (born with part of a soul of an astronomer), and I have yet to see anything "interesting" and unidentifiable.
Coke, NYMary.
I didn't hear it myself - several people heard it yesterday and talked about it. Then I saw it someplace - but where...?
Steve at No More Mister Nice Blog posted it -- nomoremister.blogspot.com.
Come on now smalfish. Stiff upper lip. Hubble is still up there. There is still some hope that the current situation will change. This isn't the first pronouncement of Hubble's demise.
Rm Jeffers, we don't know that bought-and-paid-for Rethug PR man George Will did not say that, but according to the invaluable cursor,
James Wolcott says "It's ridiculous" for TV commentators "to wax patriotic about presidents and inaugurals past as if there were some heartening continuum at work when there are snipers perched on the roof of the White House and enough riot police to protect a Latin American dictator."
this lophraoig is kind of spicy too. and a little bit sweet too. i'm tasting something new in every sip. there seems to be a point where your mouth does not become any more numb.
I just heard a rumor that pencil pee-pee Bush is scuttling the Hubble because he had a vision of Jesus riding it down from the heavens and getting the whole smite and smote thing out of the way once and for all.
Will Slim Pickins stand for this?
Damn, I thought Bush had run out of ways to fuck up!
If we pyramid up enough Iraqi prisoners, maybe we can get the Hubble
pushed back into orbit.
But seriously, how could a man, the President, be so disdaiful of humanity?
And that speech last night?
The bigger the fuck up, the bigger the contrived vision to cover it up I suppose.
Belive me this though peeps. There are a lot of old line conservatives. Clinton Reagan conservative, like myself, who much prefer to piss on Bush's coffin than see him rule over the this country for four more weeks.
Oh, shit, four more years?
You will be seeing more and more conserves go against Bush. Forgive them, and welcome them to your side.
Next stop, 2006! Atrios for Senate.
Junior is an affectionate cat who doesn't mind posing for pictures.
Don't worry about the Hubble. According to the fixed earth website someone turned me on to in the Billie Miller blog, it's just a virtual reality machine that fools people into accepting NASA's secular humanist, evolutionist, Satanist agenda. That site is a scream.
Olaf glad and big! Right now! It's necessary to eat something. Something with a nice bit of Cheddar would be good. Trust me. Born Scottish.
Eat something now.
RMJ, Tena,
Yep, Tena had the phrasing exactly the way I remember it. He positively used the words Banana Republic. Will is right, of course. That whole ugly scene looked like a police state, complete with Militaristic Nationalism thrown in for good measure.
this lophraoig is kind of spicy too. and a little bit sweet too. i'm tasting something new in every sip. there seems to be a point where your mouth does not become any more numb.
It moves up from there.
And down...
Pie and Kent:
Oh yeah, totally, just curiosity.
I also wonder if anybody has ever
seen or thought they've seen a
ghost.
der uberscheisse, the hubble can't be maintained without the shuttle. ditching the shuttle automatically ditches the hubble too.
Sorry I meant the Billie Miller thread.
That whole ugly scene looked like a police state, complete with Militaristic Nationalism thrown in for good measure.
The pictures at First Draft amazed me.
None of that visible around the reviewing stand on CNN, of course. No fences, no riot police, no pepper spray.
Hooray for the web.
gustavus!! link?
I also wonder if anybody has ever
seen or thought they've seen a
ghost.
Have a CD at home full of pictures of "ghosts" taken at the graveyard and church I used to pastor.
Just across from the house I lived in there. Some of them around my daughter.
Ixnay on the ostghay as well, but I like to keep my eyes open on both accounts.
"this lophraoig is kind of spicy too. and a little bit sweet too. i'm tasting something new in every sip. there seems to be a point where your mouth does not become any more numb."
enough with the likker porn already.
your driving me to want a drink.
I saw a UFO once. Fortunately I was with a group of people who also saw it. So you know I'm not crazy.
Google ads have right wing advertisements here? There's an ad condemning democrats and offering 'W' ketchup halfway down Atrios's front page.
I also wonder if anybody has ever
seen or thought they've seen a
ghost.
Only on teevee.
http://www.fixedearth.com/nasas_...hanky-
panky.htm
The whole site is hilarious, and it's huge. Lots of laughs to be had here.
k & y
Wolcott, of course, is absolutely right.
And the TV chattering classes are absolutely clueless.
The revolution will not be televised.
None of that visible around the reviewing stand on CNN, of course. No fences, no riot police, no pepper spray.
I was watching ABC at work and they showed everything..the cops pepper spaying the protestors and the protestors threw snowballs back at them. Terry Moran was in a truck in front of Pez'z "car" and he said that stuff was being thrown at the motorcade. George Will was on ABC and he did say the Bannana Republic remarks. All of our mouths dropped when he said that.
so drink, lumpen.
Here's the exact quote, stolen from (as I said above) nomoremister.blogspot.com:
"The parade is supposed to be spontaneous, cheerful. This looked like a banana republic worried about a restive tank regiment at the edge of town. It was unworthy of the occasion."
--George Will (yes, George Will) in a story broadcast on ABC last night about security at the inaugural parade back to the White House
Steve S,
yeah, they might want to work on the bot that places them ads. References to many republicans does not a republican loving site make.
I tuned over to CNN when Hecate posted yesterday about the helicopters, the noise, the "riot," etc.
They were on the reviewing stand, and weren't gonna budge or show any of the parade route. If they did earlier, I don't know it.
But good for ABC. Hope springs eternal....
On May 4, 1970, a company of New Mexico National Guard were ordered to clear the Mall at UNM of students and others who were staging an impromptu, 24/7 sit-in strike and occupying or obstructing some surrounding buildings. The University had cancelled classes, for the rest of the semester (it was only a week away, but in the uproar around the Kent State and Jackson State killings, the campus was seething).
The Governor was out of of the state, and so I believe was the LT. Gov, and the Abq. Mayor. The power vacuum left the chief to hte State Police in charge of the State, and he got pissed off and called out the Guard.
They advanced with fixed bayonets northward along the mall from Central Ave., where their convoy parked.
The VVAW had been active in the demonstrations, but in the capacity of marshalls. We were wearing arm-bands, and tried to stay between the Gurard guys and the kids in the crowd, trying to keep tensions down. but the kids and the Guard got too close a couple of times, and in one of them, I was standing next to a kid who got bayonetted in the upper leg, cut his femoral artery just above the knee.
Another VVAW guy ad I got a tourniquet around the leg and got the kid out of the crowd and off to an aide station.
There were a bunch of townies around, watching. We were spat on, and they told the kid they wished the Guard had killed him...
My estimation for the 'average Murkin' has never quite recovered from that experience....
Robert MJ - Too soon to turn out the lights, but this party is winding down rapidly.
Next up: who they wake up next to. The screams will almost be...delicious...
What's your opinion of Will? Besides the obvious that he's extremely conservative, I mean. I haven't paid that much attention to him, but the few times I've noticed, he's seemed a bit smarter than some pundits.
Don't hesitate to tell me that I'm crazy if I'm dead wrong about Will.
steve--I have seen a UFO in 11-92 while visiting my long-lost half-brother in San Diego. Not quite a UFO. The news reports that night said so many people had seen the UFO that the US Air Force wanted to shut the whole thing up. Yes, it was one of ours. It was almond shaped and moved right and left from a hovering position. It did not shoot any kind of rays, despite the wild tales we hear now. Those were exhaust fumes that looked like glowing rays to you ignorant peasants. Stop talking about it for the good of the USAF and its secret weapons.
I paraphrase, but that was really on the local news.
steve--I respond to you Zevon-wise on the lower thread if you care
Bush was like the teacher on the old Peanut's cartoon yesterday:
Waa-wa-waa, wa, wa-wa, liberty, waa-wa-waa, wa, wa-wa, freedom, waa-wa-waa, wa, wa-wa, liberty, waa-wa-waa, wa, wa-wa, freedom, waa-wa-waa, wa, wa-wa, liberty, waa-wa-waa, wa, wa-wa, freedom.
The fundies are afraid, aren't they? They are so afraid of the science. They're not smart enough to reconcile it with their belief in God/the bible.
It's a losing battle. If only someone could help them do it. There's room for both. They wouldn't have to swim against the tide, and they'd be a whole lot happier.
I feel sorry for them.
For all their religion, they're nothing more than frightened children.
The man needs a Sony Mavica - it writes to mini-cd. No need for a chord if you have a CD drive.
RMJ,
Are you sure those "ghosts' weren't the Laphroig talking?
cord.
Damn childhood piano lessons.
Refusing to fund the Hubble must be what- number 666 in the ways BushCo is bound and determined to turn this country in a third rate quasi religious backwater? Our kids and grandkids are going to pay for his pandering to business interests who want things to stay just the way they are so they can make $ and his pandering to wackjobs who see the baby jebus in a wad of used kleenex. But Dear Leader *is* "strong on terrar"
arrrrgh
I was in a reputedly haunted house
once in south jersey. Dated from
before the civil war.
It definitely had a creepy vibe, but
I didn't see anything.
Next up: March 19th peace marches across the nation. Will you be there?
ErinPDX
Who is organizing them?
TJ | Email | Homepage | 01.21.05 - 6:41 pm | #
I think it depends on the city. Here we have a coalition of groups that do it and you can always find stuff out on indymedia.org. There is another website listing them and if I find it I'll post it.
Mnemosyne,
Thank you. And RMJ, I flipped through channels to see what was going on after reading Hecates post and even C-Span had the exact camera angle as all the other stations. There is no excuse for the sorry press corp we have today.
I'm just coming to this thread but I asssume the "Tena" pretending not to know Geroge Will is dogshit beyond contempt is a time-wasting name-stealer
Tena--
Will had his moments, way back when. But he became enamored of Reagan (and of power; the aphrodisiac of the Presidency), and frankly was nuts about Clinton-bashing.
He can be intelligent when he wants to be. But he's no Cal Thomas, or Sean Hammity. And I think, for reasons unclear, that all but the most rabid right-wing pundits are going to start waking up and realizing who they slept with...
...and it's not gonna be pretty.
tena, my impression of will is that he rarely makes any sense at all. most of his commentary is apparently written in some kind of conservative code that i cannot decipher.
Tena - Will is the most perfect opportunist there could be imagined. In every element of his life and expression. If he's turning it's only because he perceives it to be of value to George Will to turn.
As for ghosts and UFO's - the Phoenix lights, a few years ago - nobody's every splained those and they were genuinely wild. Saw 'em, dunno what to think.
Actually, Tena, George Will is one of the few conservatives I can stand. I disagree with him on damn near everything, but he's not a knee jerk conservative who parrots the party line. He gives reasons for his opinion, using reasonable logic. He comes to different conclusions than I do, but he's not an empty suit by any means.
Tow
Draco:
I answered your query about Ferry
on the other thread, but with a little
bonus thrown in for your amusement.
RMJ,
Are you sure those "ghosts' weren't the Laphroig talking?
I'm not even sure they are ghosts. The people taking the pictures say they are.
What appears are blobs of light, that don't seem to be lens flashes or reflections or much else. But could be, of course.
I don't have a definitive, one way or the other.
On the other hand, I'm probably not conversing with Tena, either. So "Tena" may or may not be a ghost, in some sense of the word....
May I be rude and blogpimp for a moment?
I suggest you check out a new blog, Stormed Blue Sands, at gcollins.blogspot.com
I think it's great, and I'm not only saying that because the guy who writes it is also my live-in boyfriend.
If it helps, I am pressuring him to do some catblogging, but right now there's only Cathedralblogging and Disney Hallblogging.
/Blogpimping over
Why does the name-stealer steal someone's name and then act resonable? It's really weirding me out.
Bigvic
My impression of the ABC coverage was that they were very intent to show the protests and what was happening. They cut numerous times to it when anything happened and kept going to Moran to ask what was happening. At one point the commentators went quiet to just play the sounds of the protestors.
pie,
your on a roll today.
"The fundies are afraid, aren't they? They are so afraid of the science. They're not smart enough to reconcile it with their belief in God/the bible.
I feel sorry for them.
For all their religion, they're nothing more than frightened children."
Weren't the Phoenix lights flares dropped by the miltary to light some operation they were doing on the other side of a mountain ridge?
um steve simels? old house in new jersey? creepy? is this not a given?
I once read, years ago, that the Florida Panhandle was the home to the most alleged UFO sightings. Also happens to be home to the USAF special operations wing. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.
I saw a UFO once. Fortunately I was with a group of people who also saw it. So you know I'm not crazy.
I was working at a neighborhood home last summer,here in Dallas.We were taking a break,me and my associate.We were smoking and looking at the cloudless summer day and my brother says to me whats that thing up there?
I looked up and spotted what looked to eb an airplane,but it was much too high.Planes are frequent around here,what with three (or many more) airports within 20 miles of each other.We watched this objecty that was as smal as a speck move from southwest to northeast in a slow flight and then stop for quite some time.When I say this thing was too high,I mean it had to have been near the limits of space it was that high.I wondered if it could hav ebeen the shuttle ,but no,the shuttle wasnt flying then.I thought it might have been the space station,but it was moving in the wrong direction for this part of its orbit,and it managed to stop for some time.
What it was I cannot say,as I'm sceptical of UFO's I cannot rule that thoery out.It was a very intrestinmg sight,and I'm glad I got to see it,I looked at the news reports that night and nary a word,of course.
At this point in our history it seems as if UFO's with occupants are our only salvation,as we are fucked without outside intervention.
But as the book Chariots of the Gods lays out for us.We will not recieve any intervention untill we absolve ourselves of wars.
Good luck on that front.
P.S.
If there are any aliens reading this post......
HELP!!!!!
.
What surprised me about yesterday's coverage was they kept mentioning the egg hitting the prez limo in 2001, despite the fact that hardly anyone showed or talked about that before F911.
Came across a reader comment on FreeRepublic that is so jaw-dropping in its stupidity that I had to pass it along:
Thank God Bush opted for Allawi instead of Chalabi. Something about Chalabi just reeks of corruption.
(snicker.)
Robert MJ - See, I didn't follow things that closely when all the Clinton bashing was going on - I was so disgusted by it.
Like I said, I haven't paid that much attention. I've read Friedman, and the other wankers so much that I know they're stupid.
Should have figured Will was too. It was an interesting statement, never the less.
By my watch Atrios has been looking for that USB cord for and hour and a half.
Time to call on St. Anthony.
I looked up and spotted what looked to eb an airplane,but it was much too high.Planes are frequent around here,what with three (or many more) airports within 20 miles of each other.We watched this objecty that was as smal as a speck move from southwest to northeast in a slow flight and then stop for quite some time.When I say this thing was too high,I mean it had to have been near the limits of space it was that high.I wondered if it could hav ebeen the shuttle ,but no,the shuttle wasnt flying then.I thought it might have been the space station,but it was moving in the wrong direction for this part of its orbit,and it managed to stop for some time.
That's just swamp gas.
GWPDA:
Good point.
Check out my own personal troll.
Check out the comments - comments by rlrr are mine - the others are by Rev. Mikey.
The last comment from TJ Burke (one of Mikey's pseudonyms) is a real trip.
a long time ago a friend of mine had a job as a caretaker in a house in rockport massachusetts. it is one of the oldest woodframed houses in the country. the earliest parts of the house were built in the 1630s i believe. it is known locally as "the witch house".
anyway, my friend was living there for free and myself and another friend were staying there too.
at night i would here faint music coming from the attic. faint enough so that i could easily have been imagining it, especially since we were all smoking quite a bit of weed at the time. it was dixieland jazz.
i mentioned it one day and they had been hearing it too, but had thought that they were imagining it.
so anyway, one night we creeped up into the attic thinking maybe we would encounter a spectral dixieland band.
it turned out there was a shortwave radio up there that must have been on for years. it was tuned to a station that only broadcast at night i guess.
that's as close as i can come to a ghost story.
Came across a reader comment on FreeRepublic that is so jaw-dropping in its stupidity that I had to pass it along:
Thank God Bush opted for Allawi instead of Chalabi. Something about Chalabi just reeks of corruption.
Meanwhile, a little, very little, light in his brain is blinking red.
I hope.
there's a surprisingly good segment on religion on hardball with don wallis and newsweek's writer jon meacham.
scout prime,
Wow. I saw Peter Jennings report and saw a few bits and pieces on protests on ABC a few times during the day, but NONE of the cable stations showed a thing. The most CNN covered was the Preznut limo speeding up as they passed the free speech cages on Penn. Ave. Oy.
Olaf:
Great story.....
never the less
heh.
it was tuned to a station that only broadcast at night i guess.
beautiful
Here's a suggestion for Allawi-Grab Chalabi. Put him on a plane. Fly to Jordan. Push Chalabi out. With a parachute, of course, he needs to live long enough to serve his 22 year sentence. 
I saw Peter Jennings report
That makes his comment (pre-commercial break) about the coronation speech even better.
This is why I heart you pie.
Meanwhile, a little, very little, light in his brain is blinking red.
I hope. Heh. Good one.
Here's a suggestion for Allawi-Grab Chalabi. Put him on a plane. Fly to Jordan. Push Chalabi out. With a parachute, of course, he needs to live long enough to serve his 22 year sentence.
That's close to what they have in mind, I think, as they claim they'll be handing him over to Interpol. And since there's only one place on earth where he's wanted (well, I don't count his handlers in Iran), that's code for "we're sending him to Jordan."
that's as close as i can come to a ghost story.
Olaf glad and big
I've got a couple, but...I don't know. They're almost too weird and vague to explain.
The man needs a Sony Mavica - it writes to mini-cd. No need for a chord if you have a CD drive.
Remember when you could take pictures of your cats on this weird material called "film"? And then you went to the drugstore and dropped off these little canisters containing the weird "film" and the drugstore guy gave you a claim stub which you promptly misplaced. And then, like a week later, when you found the stub the drugstore guy gave you, you'd go back, stop in the Q-Tip aisle for the value-pak of Q-Tips, then head over to the developing counter and the drugstore guy would give you an envelope containing, of all things, photographs (or slides, if you were that type of person). Then you would show your friends and family all these photographs of your cats, and they'd "ooh and aaah," pause, then ask what was for dinner.
This way is so much better.
Thanks, bigvic.
I do what I can.
Meanwhile, watertiger's in the house!
She so rocks.
Anybody here ever see a UFO? Or
what they thought might be a UFO?
I have, twice. But not recently.
Ghosts? those too. Actually, frequently. Not nearly as fun as the UFOs.
"there's a surprisingly good segment on religion on hardball with don wallis"
I wonder if they will mention the surprising increase in the worship of Ba'al that is especially notable among Eschaton devotees and other right-thinking humans?
If not, they should be offered as a sacrifice. Such a pleasing aroma!
bkny
I think that Don Wallis is pretty good. I think he's really trying to take on the Crazy Cracker element of the religious right.
by right-thinking ai meant, of course, correct thinking.
The other connotation is not pleasing to Ba'al.
Here's an odd question....
Anybody here ever see a UFO? Or
what they thought might be a UFO?
I saw something when I was a teenager that the newspapers later called an UFO.
I used to have these big fights with my father, and then I'd go and sit in my room in the dark. I was sitting at my desk and the curtains were not drawn. There was a railway track in front of me, and it was quite dark that night.
I saw this round light moving very slowly slightly above the treetops. And yes, it was hovering. It made no sound at all (I opened the window to check), but I thought it might have been a hot-air balloon.
The next local newspaper had a story about other people seeing the same thing and calling it a flying saucer.
"that's code for "we're sending him to Jordan.""
Since Dr. Zadora is apparently happily unaware that most of the Saudis in Saudi Arabia are Wahabbi, rather than Sunni, I would wonder if she or her ilk ken that the Jordanians, under the last Hashemite Royal, are less than keen to act as Wahabbist enablers?
Oh goodness, but Dr. Zadora has a PhD which must mean. Well, if must mean. Surely someone knows everything, right? She can have a nice briefing.
I've never seen anything UFO-like myself, but in his book "Screams of Reason," David J. Skal talks about a strange aircraft he once saw that hovered above him on a deserted street late at night.
He said he was pretty sure it was NOT a UFO, though, but an experimental aircraft from the nearby Air Force base.
Why?
It had red-and-green landing lights on the bottom, just like any other airplane.
("Screams of Reason" is a book about science in American culture, mostly movies, since Skal is a movie guy. Highly recommended.)
Here's a suggestion for Allawi-Grab Chalabi. Put him on a plane. Fly to Jordan. Push Chalabi out. With a parachute, of course, he needs to live long enough to serve his 22 year sentence
Your words to Ba'al's ears
Iraq to Arrest Ahmad Chalabi After Eid -TV
sorry it is Jim Wallis
By the way, totally OT (wait, is there a T to be O of?), all Portland,Oregon Atriosites (or Eschateers) need to mark down 2/18/05 on their calendars: Steve Earle live at the Crystal Ballroom.
Aw, yeeah.
Bonus Rizzo pic, just because he's been such a good boy lately.
Then you would show your friends and family all these photographs of your cats, and they'd "ooh and aaah," pause, then ask what was for dinner.
============================
Some don't even bother saying ooh and aaah, apparently.
Thank God Bush opted for Allawi instead of Chalabi. Something about Chalabi just reeks of corruption.
Oh, wow. That's just amazing.
Christ, he's the architect of the Iraq invasion, and the inventor if Saddam's WMD. Doesn't calling him "corrupt" count as sedition with these guys?
Ya gotta love that binary thinking, too: If Chalabi's corrupt, Allawi isn't.
Yo, PIE!!!
Woooooo!
I'm sorry, I think I just stepped on woowooboi's line.
My bad.
What a cool story, Olaf.
Why does the name-stealer steal someone's name and then act resonable? It's really weirding me out.
They want to start out reasonable, then later they'll say something asshattish, hoping you'll think it's the real poster and start hating on them.
It's a stupid plan.
Dave J. - thanks for the tip!
watetiger sez:
Remember when you could take pictures of your cats on this weird material called "film"?
As a photographer I still remember film. Still use it exclusivley. But no drugstores; I roll my own, so to speak.
.
I'm hoping you clever Eschatonians can help me out...
I sometimes find myself wishing I had a concise, decriptive term to describe flaming moderates (see, I suck at this, I can see you scratching your head). You know, those people who think one side must always be just as dishonest and nasty as the other, regardless of evidence to the contrary. They often think that this supposed neutrality puts them on a moral high ground, above the fray.
I'd like something like "Oval Earther", but more clever and without a required explanation. You're all familiar with the "if a Repub says the Earth is flat and a Dem speaks the truth, yada yada..." hypothesis, well, according to these guys, the truth is ALWAYS somewhere in the middle - hence they would be Oval Earthers.
Something that illustrates the moral relativism inherent in such a position would be nice, too. ("The right has Hannity, but the left has Franken" shit makes me puke.)
I'm reasonably certain that Whitley
Streiber has never been abducted
by aliens.
"We can spend 200 Billion on a useless war,but we cant spend a Billion to fix one of the greatest scientific instruments in the history of mankind?"
i bet it's cause they don't want anyone to take pixs of the moon and the missing flag and lander...are there any close-up shots of the moon btw?
March 19. I will be with wherever it might be. It is time to leave the comfort of our homes and head into the streets again. We did it once, we can do it again.
WGG, those were tremulous times, weren't they? The feeling of being important and having a say has never been duplicated.
If my memory serves me correctly (Which may be suspect) there was a massive protest concerning both the Jackson State and Kent State killings scheduled for the next day. We left the dorms and marched through the police barricades and through the main street of the college town. Not violent: but very agressively non violent.
If they would fence you in, bring boltcutters. (Once you have seen a decent set of boltcutters work, you lose all respect for locks and fences) Do not acquiesce to their vision of what you should be. "Non violence, violently strong," was the phrase that King used.
The more you force them into confrontation, the weaker their position becomes. Protest is the mother's milk of democracy. Tyrants hate to be confronted by the evil they present.
They want to start out reasonable, then later they'll say something asshattish, hoping you'll think it's the real poster and start hating on them.
It ain't gonna work. They just don't get it.
Somebody*, i forget who, remarked that the term "UFO" was a perfect example of 'petitio principii' (aka, 'begging a question'), in that such a phenomenon is merely imputed to be, but is not necessarily, "Unidentified", nor "Flying," nor an "Object." All those remain to be demonstrated, which are presumed by their previous definition...
*some pedant somewhere, doubtless
Bonus Rizzo pic, just because he's been such a good boy lately.
BGK
===============
That was my cat fix for today.
Thanks!
Tena not knowing George Will?
Absurd on the face of it!
there was all kinds of stuff in that attic too. we used to spend quite a bit of time up there. the woman who owned the house had a son who apparently had killed himself, and the attic must have been sort of his area. we called it the mad scientist's club. there was an elaborate electric train layout and just tons of quirky stuff. we found a manuscript of a fetishy erotic sci fi novel he had been working on. also a huge stack of teenybopper magazines. all from 1978 and all with a picture of shaun cassidy on the cover.
Self important blowhards always worked for me.
Something huge, triangular and silent flew slowly over me when I was a kid.
About twenty years later...
Nah, I'm not going to tell you. The hell with it. I have no desire to be perceived as crazier than I actually am.
Bonus Rizzo pic, just because he's been such a good boy lately.
"You cannot possibly think that I care."
"What, you want a piece of me?"
"Ach, what now?"
About UFO's?
I don't doubt that it's very possible they exist, because we're not the only planet that has life.
The universe is too fucking big.
But most sightings can be attributed to super-secret government projects, people who are drunk or drugged, and wackos.
It's just another way to control a segment of the population, too.
Surprised georgie hasn't tried it...yet.
I'm reasonably certain that Whitley
Streiber has never been abducted
by aliens.
Even Whitley Streiber now admits that he doesn't think it ever happened. A combination of a very vivid dream and some very bad therapy.
If a "therapist" tells you they're going to help you "recover" memories through hypnosis, run fast and never look back.
And, as I said before, Christopher Buckley's Little Green Men deals very humorously with UFO's.
Greeat post pie, I agree wit ya 100%.
Something that illustrates the moral relativism inherent in such a position would be nice, too. ("The right has Hannity, but the left has Franken" shit makes me puke.)
BerwynIrish
Ooh, I hate those people too. They're so goddamn smug, and they never realize that they cling to their "centrism" as robotically and irrationally as any extremist holds on to any form of extremism.
Don't know what to call them, other than "smug, know-nothing assholes."
Or wait...how about "extreme moderates"?
BGK,
Wow. Stunning beautiful cats you have! And you are a fine photographer.
It's retaliation for not cat blogging a couple weeks ago.
Philal--
Please!!!!
Quiltlady, your cat is cute!
Philalethes, you must tell us. It's not fair to hint.
"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 reason" making anyone worried and wee bit paranoid? I say we liberals go full throttle into "conspiracy theory" territory and make them prove their innocense.
[/blogwhore]
Jesus, these bastards are gonna have to kill off anything that threatens to erode the Fundimentalist belief system. You know it just kills them when those Ivory tower science guys try to claim the universe is 13 billion or so years old.
Next we'll have the department of faith based Geology.
Sort of like the National Park Service having to put up signs at the Grand Cannon saying there are people who believe it's only 8,000 years old, or some bullshit like that.
"Yeah, I'm the Science President. 'Course, Thomas Aquinas is my science adviser . . .."
Asshole.
their blog on the Cat internet.
Can an ethics conference be far off?
I'll scratch your eyes right out! ::kitty-with-a-whip-snap::
I have no idea if this report by some very conservative folks is true but if it is, it sure has some serious implications.
By Sherrie Gossett
Doing the job of the media, Elaine Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness (CMR) broke a significant scoop. Donnelly had obtained information, including official briefing documents, indicating that the Pentagon is moving to force female soldiers into new land combat brigades. If this is because of shortages of male combat soldiers, then the Pentagon is not telling us the truth that the Army has enough troops to win the war in Iraq.
The documents indicate that the Third Infantry Division based at Fort Stewart, Georgia was ignoring a Department of Defense rule exempting female soldiers from support units that "collocate" or mix with land combat troops.
The division is scheduled to deploy to Iraq soon. Donnelly pointed out that the move also violated a law requiring prior notice to Congress over a period of 30 legislative days when both Houses are in session. In addition, CMR emphasized the 2002 Defense Authorization Act also requires an analysis of potential impact of such changes.
Donnelly sounded the alarm because she also saw the potential for the Third Infantry action to affect all land combat units. "Female soldiers should not be forced to participate in deliberate offensive or defensive actions on land, under conditions where they do not have an 'equal opportunity' to survive, or help fellow soldiers survive," said Donnelly.
[quote]Somebody*, i forget who, remarked that the term "UFO" was a perfect example of 'petitio principii' (aka, 'begging a question'), in that such a phenomenon is merely imputed to be, but is not necessarily, "Unidentified", nor "Flying," nor an "Object." All those remain to be demonstrated, which are presumed by their previous definition...[/quote]
I forget where exactly, but it was on some tabloid-style presentation in a semi-respectable forum (I think it was one of those History Channel's investigations into the unknown) made a reference to a "confirmed UFO sighting." I had a chuckle over it, and I don't *think* I'm overly-pedantic.
Come on Philalethes, spill. Have you been picking up signals?
I've got a couple, but...I don't know. They're almost too weird and vague to explain.
That's the beauty of ghost stories: no explanation necessary. They're about mood, the uncanny, the other. My mother's home has ghosts; no one who has spent time there doubts that.
There was a good diary earlier on Kos about the protest warriors. I guess they confronted some Bush protesters yesterday on a street corner in DC yesterday. A bunch of anarchists came out of the crowd, ripped up their signs, and proceeded to beat the shit out of a couple of them. The warriors ran to the DC cops for protection, for the rest of the day.
I love it, big tough guys until someone confronts them. If only the Dems would realize the same thing about the Repubs.
Stand up to these fuckers and it proves they're nothing but a bunch of cowards.
Re: your pleas, the story's really not important. It's confusing, and not that interesting.
I'll tell you one really odd thing, though. I met a woman who could actually read palms. She didn't read them, really...she just touched them. She knew things like car colors, license plates...and most shocking of all, she knew about things you'd thought about doing, and decided not to without telling anyone (e.g., "earlier today, you almost bought a book on ants, then decided not today"). And even that wasn't as specific as she could get. Terrifying beyond belief.
Perhaps not surprisingly, she had brain tumors, epilepsy, and MS. She got progressively redder in the face while reading, and would run a fever for a while after. Just terrifying. No idea what happened to her in the end.
"You cannot possibly think that I care."
Absolutely not. I know I lack the learning to refute many of the objective statements by other Eschatonians, but in this you are quite wrong. Rizzo is the picture of credulity and sweetness, which makes him, despite the fact that he's a very smart boy, the target of frequent tomfoolery by Jack and Ava. He takes this quite good-naturedly, though, and gives back in good measure.
Maybe with the spring it will be time to resurrect Martin's tent city on the mall. Lord knows there are enough unemployed people around.
How about forming a human chain around the damned White House and standing with our backs to the asshole. The first day it might be a novely, the thirtieth day it will be taken seriously, by the sixtieth day it will become a cause.
Try to get the networks to embed a reporter with the peace movement. Let them see what is being done in the people's name and report on the same.
Do not give them the satisfaction of ever supporting their position. Placation does not work, only confronting the evil will bring it into the light of day.
Never stop caring. Believing that their movement is based in ignorance is the first step. Knowing that it is racist to its sick core is simply Un-American. People need to understand the hatred they espouse and vote to condone.
Philalethes - Did I miss nudibranch blogging? I didn't see it scrolling down...
I think there is definitely a troll-of-one infestation.
Why he seems to want to do this, pretend to be others, is really quite sad.
It's a Friday night, and he's on a computer.
It's a big world. Go out and find someone to love.
ndicating that the Pentagon is moving to force female soldiers into new land combat brigades.
My question:
Do women get combat pay if as it stands now that women are not to be in comabat?
What the heck. Even though he's been bratty this week, he's my buddy, so here's a bonus pic of Jack.
That's the beauty of ghost stories: no explanation necessary. They're about mood, the uncanny, the other. My mother's home has ghosts; no one who has spent time there doubts that.
monica_nyc
I lived in a house that everyone agreed was somehow "wrong." A few odd things happened in it, and there was one very odd series of events that ended up with a triangular light striking me on the arm, about a month after I'd had three different dreams about seeing triangular flashes of light in the house. Then, I was going down the staircase, and something light physically struck me, and vanished.
No idea what to make of it, have drawn no conclusions, and basically don't believe it myself.
I don't believe any of this stuff, actually. Must be why it keeps happening...
Tena,
Yes, sorry...the nudibranch is up and running (literally!). Just check my homepage.
No sex this week, Surfdork. But I'll get a triple-X extravaganza going soon, just for you.
I'm not a troll, but a regular poster on LGF. I know that Iron Fist, LGF postings get mentioned here and other places. I just want to say the man is an idiot and more than a few of us have been emailing each other how to get rid of him. Don't judge LGF by what Iron Fist posts. Thank you.
A bunch of anarchists came out of the crowd, ripped up their signs, and proceeded to beat the shit out of a couple of them.
AWESOME.
That is what ALL of the College Rethugs/Protest warriors deserve.
That is some of the best news I've heard!
Most of these rethug blowhards are wimps.
Off for dinner and drinks with pals,,,
don't let the trolls bite you!
If they are really putting women in combat situations, we are very truly fucked. How long before the fundies blame feminists for this. How many orphans will be created before even the fundies become disgruntled. When people start waking up, there very likely will be blood in the streets. I so remember Kent State. I can only liken the mood to 11/3.
Thanks for the feedback Ech - glad someone noticed. Oh well, it was fun learning how to embed a link.
And NY Mary, if you're back from rescuing Thers - your baby is gorgeous. My younger daughter weighed 12 pounds at 12 months, and was nearly bald. I bet your daughter already has her beat.
BGK,
I dunno. That photo makes him look like a wiseguy.
They're both gorgeous.
Hoyt C. - I've always thought the modern model must surely be the Wobblies, and not the later period labor movement.
(Hmmm, don't I have a copy of La Bandera Rosa somewhere? Arthur?)
Philatles,
Count me in I will do the following as well.
Instead, I think that from here on out, I'll post positive stories on Fridays...things that give me a bit of hope for the future. I wouldn't mind if the idea caught on; I think most of us could stand to go into the weekend with a bit of good news, or at least not-so-bad news.
I'm going to shoot for cat/irrevrerent/hope and humor.
That nudibranch is amazingly beautiful.
Enough of this cat nonsense. I present for y'all two photos of the world's best DOG. (Hint: he's mine.)
Photo 1
Photo 2
Don't judge LGF by what Iron Fist posts
I dont judge by what one man says,I judge by the collective insanity of that "group"
Why are you even here to defend that idiotsavant site?
Get back to your hell hole where your welcome,here is not that place.
I think there is definitely a troll-of-one infestation.
Why he seems to want to do this, pretend to be others, is really quite sad.
It's a Friday night, and he's on a computer.
It's a big world. Go out and find someone to love.
That would mean finding someone of the opposite sex. I'm assuming the troll is a guy, and I know you're not suppose to assume, but I'm seein' someone about 350 with a bag of Doritos on one side of the monitor and a 2 liter bottle of Mountain Dew on the other side, and he's trying to come up with pithy things to say while surfing for Yu-Gi-Oh fanfic porn.
All of this could explain why they're a troll and not out looking for someone to love.
Don't judge LGF by what Iron Fist posts. Thank you.
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Okay.
DWD said "If they would fence you in, bring boltcutters. (Once you have seen a decent set of boltcutters work, you lose all respect for locks and fences)"
Last night two of the bolder protesters chained themselves to Chevron pumps in protest of the oil machine and Conningsleezyliar having a ship named after her. Cops used boltcutters to remove them.
Right now I prefer sticking to the marches with permits, but the closer they get to drafting my sons, the more bold I'll get. But I can also see how the cops egg you on. The front of the permitted march accidentally went the wrong direction last night and a truck immediately pulled up and about 20 of them donning riot gear jumped off. Intimidating. I tried to film it but was too chicken to get very close.
Lawrence Scmerel sez:
I'm not a troll, but a regular poster on LGF. I know that Iron Fist, LGF postings get mentioned here and other places. I just want to say the man is an idiot and more than a few of us have been emailing each other how to get rid of him. Don't judge LGF by what Iron Fist posts. Thank you.
Considering that anyone who tries to post anything that isn't "me too" Squeaky Johnson bans them, pardon me for not believing you. Thank you.
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I don't believe any of this stuff, actually. Must be why it keeps happening...
. They're trying to convert you! Be careful.
I can feel some things about people's energy, like if someone is ill. But I can only do this after years of qigong and not all the time. The point of this is that maybe you were sensing odd energy patterns in the house, and that those same energy patterns made you uncomfortable.
There are places in Europe which people avoid and tell eerie stories about, and when you go there the feeling is somehow different. My guess is that it has something to do with energy, but then believing in energy is equally hare-brained.
WHERE'S! THE! CAAAT!!!
I was just reading The Toronto Star and they had an article on psychopaths. This may require a sub. If so, and you don't want to register, e-mail me and I'll send it to you. However, I'd urge you to reg with The Star anyway, and read it, because it's a really good paper. No, I don't work for them.
The money quotes are:
Asked for a lay definition of a psychopath, Hare suggests someone "who lacks a conscience but (is) otherwise is intellectually intact, so knows right from wrong, but simply feels that the rules don't apply to them," he said.
Mr. Justice Casey Hill called Campbell an "incurable, untreatable psychopath" in his judgment, which followed Campbell's conviction two years ago in the "thrill kill," hit-and-run death of 65-year-old Frank Groves as he cycled to a Brampton coffee shop.
A passenger reported the Windsor native smirked when the car hit Groves.
This was just making me shiver as I was reading it. (Sound like anyone?)
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Otherwise, I've seen something I'd define as an "unidentified flying object," as it was an object that was flying, but neither I nor my dad (who is an ace at aircraft ID) could figure out what it was. I think they were testing something, or else it was someone taking their Avro Aerocar out for a spin... I don't believe that "UFO" automatically equals "alien vessel," because while I think I'd love it if there were aliens like, say, in Star Trek, the Universe is a really big place, and the odds of life happening are staggeringly large...so if there is any other life out there, it's probably way far away, and not necessarily in a position to communicate with us or come to visit.
How long before the fundies blame feminists for this.
Kristoff will surely let us know when it's become the fault of feminists.
BGK,
Your boy Jack is a beauty. And so is your photography. Glad you post even when the kitties are *bad*
Oh great, women in combat. I'm sure any US female prisoner will be treated really well, just like we treat other prisoners.
The pentagoon better give these women suicide pills cuz capture will be worse than the death of 1000 cuts.
Wingnuts, that's what you get when you throw out the Geneva Conventions.
Philalethes - Lovely nudibranch.
surfdork - bad news. I finally heard back from cosmic and he purged the addy and information from his files. Damn it. I wish I remembered who else communicated with me about it at the same time as cosmic. Maybe it'll come to me.
Can I make a protest suggestion?
Given that the Emperor has no clothes, then why should the protesters?
I'd pay good money to see a naked march down Pennsy Ave. Each and every protester carrying the same sign,
"In honor of our naked Emperor."
nothing like a subtle smack and some skin to get the Bushies raving mad.
that would get press till the cows came home.
Dave J., your dog is gorgeous! I love the dark nose and eyes against the honey color.
Dave J.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
s/
Arthur
Hey Tena, what's the name of Cosmic Grappler's new book? I told him I'd read it. Thanks
All right, all right... here's a picture of my little cutie pie. Her name's Snowball...
Echinde--thanks; we love that about him too.
GWPDA--nice! I envy the ability most dogs have to just plop down and sleep wherever they are, whenever they want.
Most of these rethug blowhards are wimps.
Yeah, you tell 'em.
Let's see. rethugs...blowhards(that's new)...wimps.
Well, at least he spelled it correctly.
The only ghost story I have is this one. Before I had a place in Colorado, I used to rent the same cabin on a ranch for the month of August. I hated the cabin because it creeped me out, but it was the only one I could get for various reasons. It had 2 bedrooms; one had twin beds, the smaller back room had a double.
I decided to sleep in one of the twin beds. I had a hard time sleeping in that room - I was anxious. I thought it was just because I was alone. Then one night I was asleep, and I felt someone get into the bed with me and I woke up screaming: "Get away from me, you're dead."
True story. I moved into the little room immediately. I slept fine in there. But that place really gave me the creeps the minute the sun went down.
Phila,
Where does one usually find nudibranches?
Never saw a UFO. I DID get to see the Stealth Bomber mockup in Palmdale back in 1986.
Helps when stepdad and mom are whores for the Military Industrial complex.
Oh man I was chugging the kool aide back then.
IMHO most "ufo" are military black projects like "Aurora".
Remember all of the Stealth fighter misinfo.
Heck testors even came out with a model of the stealth fighter that was WAY OFF (actually it was an intelligence op, disinfo), looked nothing like the real thing.
MisterX, nice grumpy dog! The tapir is nice, too.
Can I make a protest suggestion?
No.
I'd pay good money to see a naked march down Pennsy Ave. Each and every protester carrying the same sign
Nothing like a true leader. Do you also cheer on the local polar bear club?
Geez. Seems I'm the only one without any interesting paranormal stories. Maybe I'd prefer it that way, though.
I do have quite a thing with synchronicities, though.
Rizzo is the picture of credulity and sweetness, which makes him, despite the fact that he's a very smart boy, the target of frequent tomfoolery by Jack and Ava.
Tell Jack and Ava to cut that out or I'm comming over there.
Chopper
Hey Tena, what's the name of Cosmic Grappler's new book? I told him I'd read it. Thanks
Under a Panamanian Moon. by David Terrenoire.
I think if you google his name, he has a web site where you can order the book. I got mine through Amazon (mea culpa)
That's a scary looking black cat over there, surfdork. Last nite John Stewart's show was excellent. Bush used the word freedom 27 times and used the word liberty 15 times in his speech. At the exact same time people were getting pepper sprayed (they were behind a fence), people were getting arrested for holding up signs, and there were snipers on the rooftops of all the building surrounding the protestors. WTF????
We are truely living in interesting times, where is the press? where are the Democrats? What the fuck is happening to my country?
Women in infantry combat zones?
Now I am truly confused because David Brooks has decreed that they should be having (white) babies instead.
Perhaps this means that only non-white women are going to be cannon-fodder, in which case all is well with Bobo's world.
Rats. That should have been Snowball.
See, humor is all in the ti MING.
lawrence schmerel, don't worry about it. iron fist didn't cause us to think any less of you guys than we already did anyway.
Aw shucks Tena, I was getting psyched for unleasing a whole slew of dirty tricks.
Regarding ghosts:
Never seen one but have had psychic events like predictive dreams.
GWPDA,
Damn! You must be a liberal: You actually have BOOKS! Amazing.
In the Call Me Ishmael bookstore in Saugatuck, MI they have (or had - have not visited lately) a sign posted, "Walls lined with books are the best insulation against ignorance." My thoughts precisely.
Jeeper H. Christmas, Tena.
Dave J. - Arthur's ability to sleep is a lesson to us all. Complete, utter, total offness. There's a switch somewhere under that dogsuit, I know it.
That photo makes him look like a wiseguy.
When Rizzo was a little kitten, he was quite scrappy. I think his scrappiness was because he was tormented by a yappy dog at his first home, and the couple that adopted him returned him to the shelter (!!!) as a result. Once he was in more calm environs, he mellowed out almost immediately.
This was Rizzo on the day I brought him home.
"Do you also cheer on the local polar bear club?"
nah, their units are too samll to ogle at that point.
tena, thanks
UFOs
Ever expanding Universe
Speed of Light
Wormholes
Wrap your head around this: the odds are better that the UFO you see is from the the future Earth (maybe thru a wormhole) than by an alien planet. Think about it.
Our only way to travel great distances in space is by manipulating space/time (maybe wormholes?). If we have the technology to that, why not also go back in time on this planet?
Watertiger,
They live in coastal waters, pretty much everywhere. The most colorful ones tend to be in the tropics, as you might expect. The one currently on my site is from Australia, I think.
It's not the prettiest one by any means, but it's so strange with all those...what are they? Toes? Beats me.
final thought-
I happen to be the whitest guy I know, but the pictures of the Republican parties this week?
Lebensraumian whiteness.
Thanks Hoyt, he's a weird longhair black cat.
You should see him prance around after we give him a lion cut, he knows he's pretty.
Rizzo's a cutie.
BGK,
ohmigod. that's too farkin' cute.
I'm heading out to the movies again. Have a nice night, everyone!
Yoshimi, how do you think a Canaanite fertility symbol (me, Ba'al) ended up posting on Eschaton? I mean, check the map. There's no place marked Canaan anymore.
I do have quite a thing with synchronicities, though.
My boyfriend and I met through an internet dating site, only to discover:
- We were both from the suburbs of Chicago
- We both went to USC
- We both went to film school at USC
- We had at least one film class together (we compared transcripts)
- And we were in the same film school graduation ceremony (shown in the commencement program)
And yet we met for the first time four years ago on an Internet dating site.
That's some fierce synchronicity, I think.
surfdork - well, you can always try Atrios.
I used to have predictive dreams, but I haven't had one for years. I had a really strong psychic connection to my mother. Rather it was between us, because she was the same about me.
I was in a car wreck in high school. It was a bad wreck, though we got lucky, no one was badly hurt. I was in the passenger seat, and this girl was driving. It suddenly came to me clearly that we were going to crash. I turned the girl and said her name, and we went off the road. Turned over 5 times, knocked a light pole down. We landed upside down - we were in a beetle. We kicked a window out and got out.
It was so fucking weird, but I swear I knew it was going to happen before it did. And after it happened, I realized, I couldn't have stopped it - it was totally out of my control. I was very calm the whole time we were rolling over and over.
Wrap your head around this: the odds are better that the UFO you see is from the the future Earth (maybe thru a wormhole) than by an alien planet. Think about it.
Of course, given a future where time travel has been made common-place, that's pretty much the same as coming from an alien planet, isn't it? Just look at what's happened to this dump in the last four year.
And you gotta watch out for those wormholes. Unrealized Realities, you know.
surfdork,
is the kitten really yours? my god! those eyes! that coloring!
Yoshimi
Time travel is impossible. In fact there is no such thing as time.
Our only way to travel great distances in space is by manipulating space/time (maybe wormholes?). If we have the technology to that, why not also go back in time on this planet?
Alot more talk about this kind of thing lately.Seems science is embracing that fact that Einsien said time travel was not impossible.
Science seems to be looking into this theory closer now than it seems they did in the past.
Tell Jack and Ava to cut that out or I'm comming over there.
Awww, don't worry. Rizzo looks up to Jack, and he's very sweet on Ava. Jack loves his little "siblings" to pieces, and is very protective of them. Ava generally tolerates her "brothers," but sometimes gives them grief disproportional to her size, which they eat up.
It's more fun than TV.
I want cats, I want cats! Thanks for filling in for Atrios, BGK. I heart little Rizzo. And BTW, I can't imagine anythig more cruel than RETURNING an animal to a shelter. There are better alternatives. I've fostered many animals.
Great cats, BGK
AYou know, I could have driven down to Philly with a USB cord by now.
You know the way everybody is into weirdness right now? Books in all the supermarkets about the Bermuda Triangle, UFO's, how the Mayans invented television, that kind of thing. Well the way I see it it's exactly the same. There aint no difference between a flying saucer or a time machine.
People get so hung up on specifics, they miss out on seeing the whole thing. Take South America for example. Every year in South America thousands of people turn up missing. Nobody knows where they go. They just disappear. But if you think for a minute, realize something, there had to be a time when there was no people right? Well where did all these people come from? I'll tell you where, the future. Where did all these people disappear to, the past. How did they get there? Flying saucers, which are really, yeah you got it, time machines.
I Think a lot about this kind of stuff. I do my best thinking on the bus. That's how come I don't drive. See I don't want to know how. I don't want to learn. The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.
Repo Man rules.
T, I found it, it's Beneath a Panamanian Moon, silly bean!
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Yoshimi,
Time travel to the future is a given as per relativity.
The backwards part is where it gets difficult.
Of couse if you can control spacetime then who knows.
I'll have to put my sciene geek hat on to discuss further.
Enough of this cat nonsense. I present for y'all two photos of the world's best DOG. (Hint: he's mine.)
finalamente! he looks way cute, what's his name?
maxine is here and here. she got all her annual shots today.
her housemates were not amused by her distemper.
Wrap your head around this: the odds are better that the UFO you see is from the the future Earth (maybe thru a wormhole) than by an alien planet. Think about it.
I totally believe that, actually. I also hope it's true, because that would mean that at least some portion of our species was able to survive the next four years.
Time travel is impossible. In fact there is no such thing as time.
Time isn't holding up; time is an asterisk.
Yea!
Stargate friday is back!
"time travel is impossible. there is no such thing as time."
-hoyt c.
seems to me that if there were such a thing as time travel, it would have to be invented at all points of time simultaeneously.
Got a 500 error posting this the first time, so here comes attempt 2. sorry in advance if I get a hell-o-scam double, which isn't quite like a Belgian double.
I just noticed that due to Yahoo, if you go to foxnews.com and type in a search for "boston chinese terrorists", the first link for the web is some lie-brul ridiculing the Chimperor and his minions. The FBI are ranked number two behind this "traitor".
When did Fox News become a bastion for spewing evil lie-brul propaganda against Warren Terra and the Great Christian Cultural Revolution? *evil laughter* *SNORT*
watertiger, yes she's mah kitty a pixie bob.
Big Daddy,
Sweet ref dude. Same as it ever waaaaaassssss! And thank God, that is my beautiful wife.
I totally believe that, actually. I also hope it's true, because that would mean that at least some portion of our species was able to survive the next four years.
Well, the other possibility is that people are jetting in from alternate dimensions/realities. So, we could snuff ourselves in the next four years, but people from other realities are coming over to check us out. Trying to figure out why we were such morons. Wouldn't that be a bitch?
Mister X - Repo Man rules.
Ok - I've gotten this wrong before, but I'll try again:
"Normal fucking people, man, I hate them."
Repo Man does rule. God I haven't seen it in years and years.
Ba'al used to keep pets, but he ended up rolling them up and smoking them like joints when the burnt offerings from mortals got a bit thin, as they did for a few millenia.
I need that pleasing aroma.
"Once in a Lifetime" - Talking Heads
And you may find yourself
Living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself
In another part of the world
And you may find yourself
Behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house
With a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself
Well
How did I get here?
Letting the days go by
Let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by
Water flowing underground
Into the blue again
After the money's gone
Once in a lifetime
Water flowing underground
And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife
Letting the days go by
Let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by
Water flowing underground
Into the blue again
After the money's gone
Once in a lifetime
Water flowing underground
Same as it ever was (x
Water dissolving
And water removing
There is water
At the bottom of the ocean
Under the water
Carry the water
Remove the water
At the bottom of the ocean
Water dissolving
And water removing
Letting the days go by
Let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by
Water flowing underground
Into the blue again
Into the silent water
Under the rocks and stones
There is water underground
Letting the days go by
Let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by
Water flowing underground
Into the blue again
After the money's gone
Once in a lifetime
Water flowing underground
You may ask yourself
What is that beautiful house?
You may ask yourself
Where does that highway go to?
And you may ask yourself
Am I right?
Am I wrong?
And you may say to yourself
My God, what have I done?
Letting the days go by
Let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by
Water flowing underground
Into the blue again
Into the silent water
Under the rocks and stones
There is water underground
Letting the days go by
Let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by
Water flowing underground
Into the blue again
After the money's gone
Once in a lifetime
Water flowing underground
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Look where my hand was
Time isn't holding up
Time is an asterisk
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
[?] to the [?]
Same as it ever was
Yeah, here a twister comes
Here comes the twister
Same as it ever was / And the days go by
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was / And the days go by
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was / Once in a lifetime
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was / And the days go by
Same as it ever was
soory, couldn't resist
Hi folks, I didn't get the protesting out of my system this week, forgive me.
What do we want?
CATS!
When do we want them?
Friday!
Fuck stargate, they stole my McGuyver.
If time travel IS possible, then why the hell hasn't someone traveled back and time and prevented the George H W Bush - Barbara Pierce marriage?
God dammit, now y'all got my noodle spinning on the origin of the universe, string theory and a bunch of other concepts that I can barely wrap my head around.
didn't the Boston Chinese Terrorists put out a few 7" LPs back a few years ago? got scant radioplay, went nowhere?
That wasn't really my choir...they're off tonight.
Fuck stargate, they stole my McGuyver.
Give it another season and they'll be calling it "Fargate."
'Yeah man, like, lets go get some sushi and then not pay for it!'
Ba'al used to keep pets, but he ended up rolling them up and smoking them like joints when the burnt offerings from mortals got a bit thin
Ba'al must not be allowed any more pets. Ever. Must put Ba'al on Pet Homeland Security Terrorist Watch List.
Lumpen II - Did I say Under? I keep doing that. Sorry - it is stuck in my head as "Under a Panamanian Moon." Please don't tell cosmic grappler!
I haven't read mine yet - I'm looking forward to it. I got my brother in law a copy for Christmas.
Weblacky, What a beauty. Kitty Friday PM is the best. Thank you all.
Ah the little pissant from the Shruburb is back. How charming.
Night all.
didn't the Boston Chinese Terrorists put out a few 7" LPs back a few years ago? got scant radioplay, went nowhere?
50 Cent bought up their shit and sunk it in the East River. He didn't want the comp.
I can't imagine anythig more cruel than RETURNING an animal to a shelter.
If you can believe it, I was the second adopter for all three of my cats. Jack got sent back to the shelter after an indeterminate time because his mistress was moving into a place that didn't take pets (sure). Rizzo went back because he didn't get along with the aforementioned yappy dog. Ava had a home for two weeks with a woman who neglected to check with her landlord about his pet policy, and when she found out she had to pony up a large security deposit, Ava went back to the shelter.
Despite all that, each took not more than a few hours to make themselves totally at home with me.
dinner beckons.
lay-tuh, fine peeps.
Under a Panamanian Moon. wasn't that a richard dreyfus movie?
Where are the fucking cats?
If time travel IS possible, then why the hell hasn't someone traveled back and time and prevented the George H W Bush - Barbara Pierce marriage?
According to the theory,if you were to travel back in time and alter it in any way it would create a new alternate universe,thus shorting out any hope of reversing course here.
Evening Moonbats.
I just posted the following on LGF. I'm getting a great response from the Lizardoid Minions.
Last post, and we are really debating tactics. I'l close range, check their gun-hand, and cut off their fore and middle fingers on their gun hand.
Then we play femorals, carotids, and eviceration in no particular order. Maybe brachials if they get in the way. Hell, I'll cut anything that gets in the way.
Chop, chop, chop, engine of destruction. At 2 ft (if I live to get there), your chances of survival begin to approach 0 even if you kill me as well. I get the femoral strike, only G-d can save you.
OTOH, if I had a gun, I'd open range, and start shooting. I used to do drills where I'd start chest-to-chest with the target and shoot running backwards.
Dude's more likely to survive the latter.
And he gets to keep all his fingers
Remember - "Fire and Force, Fist and Faith".
Give it another season and they'll be calling it "Fargate."
In Shrek III?
our third cat was adopted when the previous owner just left her, without telling us anything about her. Porch Kitty. I argued that she was sick, underfed, a danger to Molly and Bella. maybe the shelter would be a good idea.
sweetest wife would have no part of it. brought it to the vet and all set, etc... "Shelter's equal Death" were her words, if I remember right.
What surprised me about yesterday's coverage was they kept mentioning the egg hitting the prez limo in 2001, despite the fact that hardly anyone showed or talked about that before F911.
TheOtherWashington
Not all that surprising. Are they supposed to remember every story they bury? Dogs lose a lot of bones, ya know. Besides, whem you're doing a parade, it's like doing sports color commentary; you have to constantly come with something witty that has something, however tangential, to do with what's on the screen. And parades are deadly boring. Well, to me, anyway.
OK, before y'all start speculating on time travel and come to wacky conclusions please read Hawkings book.
You have to be wary of the BS pseudosciene that you may hear so a good foundation is necessary.
He has been proven wrong for one of his theories, that no information can leave a black hole. In fact the energy that eminates from a black hole is called Hawking radiation.
Sci Am recently had a great article on how a black hole could be used to process data, ie a computer.
Oh an Einstein freaked out on the concept of "entanglement" which he said was spooky.
Why?
It implies quantum teleportation.
Jeepers H. Christmas.
Olberman just ran a report about the insane, crazy amount of trucks, tanks, military, police, etc Shrub employed yesterday. None of the footage he showed turned up on the MSM. Gag.
I'm proud to bea moonbat flying in th enight leavign my gifts of guano on your doorstep.
Oh, does Moonbat mean Monibot as in George Monibot?
So must be the French soundign thing right.
So iron fistula you are in LA and its Friday night.
My excuse is I'm at work and yours is?
bigvic,
the alternative is a steady supply of that pleasing aroma.
:D
"Olberman just ran a report about the insane, crazy amount of trucks, tanks, military, police, etc Shrub employed yesterday. None of the footage he showed turned up on the MSM. Gag."
Just wait till the May Day parade! We'll be displaying our new nukes.
Olberman just ran a report about the insane, crazy amount of trucks, tanks, military, police, etc Shrub employed yesterday. None of the footage he showed turned up on the MSM. Gag.
Banana Republic, what the fuck is schrub so afraid of, there were no terrorist warnings in DC yesterday. Insecure, little limp dick despot.
You know legally I can say your post is a threat Ms Iron Fistula.
And since we have your REAL name and address.
I'm going to copy and paste that post and send it to the LAPD and DHS.
Enjoy!
I did however keep a pet hedgehog succesfully for 8 years.
According to the theory,if you were to travel back in time and alter it in any way it would create a new alternate universe,thus shorting out any hope of reversing course here.
Yeah, we'd still be stuck with Bozo even then. Other people would be free, though, so it might be worth it.
In a way it makes be happy to think that in another reality George was drunk one night and managed to wrap his car around a tree and ended up doing a Chris Reeves, while Chris himself is working hard on projects that help other people. One can only hope.
Maude came to me from the shelter, with a letter from her former people. They had lived in teh country, she was used to being an outdoor cat, then they moved to the city and she was not street smart and they didn't have the "heart" to make her an indoor cat.
She has been an indoor cat since I got her, showing absolutely no interest to go outside. She is content with the two screened in porches. She is even more content with the bed.
"MY paws touch grass -- surely you jest!"
Lumpen II - Did I say Under? I keep doing that. Sorry - it is stuck in my head as "Under a Panamanian Moon." Please don't tell cosmic grappler!
I haven't read mine yet - I'm looking forward to it. I got my brother in law a copy for Christmas.
Tena | Email | Homepage | 01.21.05 - 8:12 pm | #
Your *brother in law*?
Learn punctuation, please, troll.
Our children is not learning.
Many years ago, in the early evening in the Ozarks, I saw a gold-colored light traveling against the wind across the sky. It appeared to be trailing a sparking cord; it did not look saucer-like, so much as teapot-like, if teapots rode on inverted serving plates. It made the radio and local paper. No one has ever explained *that* to my satisfaction; some years later I was taken to see the famous "Spook Light" ... it was not nearly so memorable, but you can google it.
Lumpen II - Where Dreyfuss stood in for a banana republic dictator or something? That was called Under a Panamanian Moon. Maybe that's why - or it could just be something about my brain. I do that with beneath and under. I never can remember if it's beneath the apple boughs or under the apple boughs in the first lines of Fern Hill
Dunno.
For completeness's sake, here's one of Ava. She should wear a t-shirt that says, "here comes trouble."
Curly is cute. Atrios has good people who substitute their dogs and cats when he's late or has some lame excuse. I like to start my weekend with adorable animals after reading about the REAL animals all week on these blogs!
And now, off to an apple martini.
"Moonbat"? "Moonbat"? Did something say "Moonbat"?
Fucking Gourdhead.
And a pussy, to boot, so it REALLY IS Catblogging Friday!
Ba'al,
a weird black potbellied pig roams the streets here. our local animal lady lets her run free for an hour every morning, scaring all the dog walkers. pigmeat: tasty treat or too tough for offerings?
Tena, Raoul Julia was in the movie, Moon over Parador IIRC.
Olbermann just ran a report about the insane, crazy amount of trucks, tanks, military, police, etc Shrub employed yesterday. None of the footage he showed turned up on the MSM.
Where's that big, brave, red-stater that was whining about the supposed lack of protestors yesterday?
Fucking trolls.
pie - honey - it's me, not the troll. When have I ever punctuated perfectly? I'm eccentric with it at best.
right shoulder, left ankle.
see? it's me.
Our senior cat cooperated this evening...
For completeness's sake, here's one of Ava.
What a glamourpuss!
Lumpen II - Where Dreyfuss stood in for a banana republic dictator or something? That was called Under a Panamanian Moon.
Just to set the record straight:
"Moon Over Parador (198"
Dreyfuss was the dictator/actor, and Raul Julia was in it as well.
see? it's me.
That's her.
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffrey
For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For is this done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant
quickness.
For then he leaps up to catch the musk, which is the blessing of God upon his
prayer.
For he rolls upon prank to work it in.
For having done duty and received blessing he begins to consider himself.
For this he performs in ten degrees . . .
For having consider'd God and himself he will consider his neighbor.
For if he meets another cat he will kiss her in kindness.
For when he takes his prey he plays with it to give it chance.
For one mouse in seven escapes by his dallying . . .
For the English cats are the best in Europe.
For he is the cleanest in the use of his fore-paws of any quadrupede.
For the dexterity of his defense is an instance of the love of God to him exceedingly.
For he is the quickest to his mark of any creature.
For he is tenacious of his point.
For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery.
For he knows that God is his Saviour.
For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest.
For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.
For he is the Lord's poor and so indeed is he called by benevolence perpetually -- Poor Jeoffrey! poor Jeoffrey! the rat has bit thy throat.
For I bless the name of the Lord Jesus that Jeoffrey is better.
For the divine spirit comes about his body to sustain it in compleat cat.
--Christopher Smart
BGK,
Ave Ava. Beautiful. You take the best cat pics ever. Rock ON.
surfdork - I loved Raoul Julia so much. That was it -
It broke my heart when he died.
He narrated a series on PBS many years ago, about South and Central America and Mexico. It was in 4 parts and was one of the best things I've seen.
The first time I saw him act was in King Lear on PBS - Shakespeare in the Park. He was Edmund. I fell in love with him at once.
Mmmmmm, apple martinis.
OT, just got home and wish to brag about the 13-year old (my wild child). A few months ago, I steered him towards drama as a good outlet for his high-energy, look-at-me traits. He tried out for his school's traveling drama troupe, was accepted, and learned today that he will be playing the lead in The Fantasticks.
He also asked us tonight if we would take him to see "Hotel Rwanda" because he was tired of stupid "potty-joke comedies." How cool is that?
I liked him as well Tena.
TJ you are lucky to have a kid like that, I hope I get so lucky.
Tena, I had a predictive dream once too. Of course, I only knew it was predictive once I realized I was living through a dream I had had a few weeks prior. Never had anything like that happen to me before or since.
pie,
It blows my mind to witness the level of denial and downright insanity in this country right now. I guess Bu$h will have to blow everything apart, right down to where the red staters live before we can restore sanity to our government and country. *Deep, heavy sigh.*
see? it's me.
Check your email.
I will write back about the other one.
Tena- I saw Raul Julia live-he played Mack the Knife in a production of the Three Penny Opera in New York, back in the late 70's.
Beautiful Rizzo looks very tired today but very contented with his lot in life.
All the cats are wonderful.
Awwww, senior kitty. My Chopper is 17 and a little confused at times. I get really sad about him these days, even though he gets good check ups.
surfdork, with a dad like you, your future son or daughter is going to be terrific.
pie - I'll check.
Karin - now that had to be very cool indeed.
Man, if I was in Fallujah, I would frickin' WASTE those terrorists! Pow, one in the tibula, how you like me now, terrorist? Bang, right in the snoot, take that Hajji! Yeah, if only I didn't have asthma, yeah thats it asthma, I would be in Fallujah right now and that war would be over in like a minute!
Not UFO or cats.....
But recently a couple of women called a local police dept in a town close to where I live in WI saying they'd seen a Kangaroo. Of course the police thought they were crazy. And everyone around here was talking about The Kangaroo. Then one day an elderly woman walks out of her farm house and there was a snow covered Kangaroo hopping around. The police came and caught it. They gave it to the zoo. It's called Roo and No-one has the slightest idea where it came from.
All the people who first saw it felt vindicated.
Hey Tena. I notice that you are a Talking Heads fan. Lately I've been listening to a tape I dug out that I made years ago that contains the following song. I think it's from "Remain in Light"... the damn thing's just been floating around in my head for weeks.
LISTENING WIND LYRICS
Mojique sees his village from a nearby hill
Mojique thinks of days before americans came
He sees the foreigners in growing numbers
He sees the foreigners in fancy houses
He thinks of days that he can still remember...now.
Mojique holds a package in his quivering hands
Mojique sends the package to the american man
Softly he glides along the streets and alleys
Up comes the wind that makes them run for cover
He feels the time is surely now or never...more.
The wind in my heart
The wind in my heart
The dust in my head
The dust in my head
The wind in my heart
The wind in my heart
(come to) drive them away
Drive them away.
Mojique buys equipment in the market place
Mojique plants devices in the free trade zone
He feels the wind is lifting up his people
He calls the wind to guide him on his mission
He knows his friend the wind is always standing...by.
Mojique smells the wind that comes from far away
Mojique waits for news in a quiet place
He feels the presence of the wind around him
He feels the power of the past behind him
He has the knowledge of the wind to guide him...on.
The wind in my heart
The wind in my heart
The dust in my head
The dust in my head
The wind in my heart
The wind in my heart
(come to) drive them away
Drive them away.
Ring any bells? For some reason it just resonates right now...
Gourdhead
Always wondered if this was true.
My brother told me, way back, that Gourdhead came from a shortening of 'Go Ahead'. Like 'we need to do so and so' and the response is 'go ahead'.
So, when a action was needed someone would say "I'll be the Gourdhead" or "Why don't you be the Gourdhead".
Supposably a military thing.
In any case he came to my door with an orange ski mask on, one cold winter day, and said "I'm the Gourdhead!"
I thought that was funny.
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It blows my mind to witness the level of denial and downright insanity in this country right now. I guess Bu$h will have to blow everything apart, right down to where the red staters live before we can restore sanity to our government and country. *Deep, heavy sigh.*
Right now it's like when you come down off a week-long binge and you realize you've pissed away everything in your bank account, you crashed the car, you knocked up some teenage hooker in Vegas, and you've got a rash you can't explain. You want to pretend all this happened to someone else, but there's no fuckin' way you can. The sad part are the assholes who think about what happened and go, "Damn, that was really cool, you know?"
supposedly ?
Ba'al,
I met several nice folks in London who kept hedgehogs as pets and claimed they were wonderful pets who loved to roam around their gardens. Is that your experience? Oh, and they said they would fold their little spiney things when being held.
Come on bigman where's that fucking USB cord? this thread is getting way too long.
MisterX: I think it's from "Remain in Light"...
It is, indeed, but I do not know the name of the tune. I do know that the incomparable Adrian Belew is all over that album.
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Mister X - That's a great song. It does seem to resonate - and I'm not sure which album it was on. I was really into "Speaking in Tongues." And then "Stop Making Sense." We used to have all of them before we got rid of all our vinyl. But that's been 8 years ago, damn it. I haven't heard any of the early albums now in a long time.
There's no way we'll ever replace that collection on DVD. I don't know where we would have put all those albums, and a lot of them were unplayable. But still...
I will never stop regretting my Dylan collection and the Bowie european album I had. With "Heroes" in German. I could cry.
One last cat post.
Cats have a history of being symbols of our side.
I present to y'all SABOCAT
Paul Krugman is kicking Dick Armey's ass on PBS's "Wall Stree Week With Fortune"
Big Daddy,
We have become the "Lost Weekend" USA under a so-called recovered drunk. Thanks, Chimp.
week-long binge and you realize you've pissed away everything in your bank account, you crashed the car, you knocked up some teenage hooker in Vegas, and you've got a rash you can't explain. You want to pretend all this happened to someone else, but there's no fuckin' way you can.
DAD, is that you?
I"m going to watch a DVD, everyone. Pie can vouch for that. Anyone who shows up in the next couple of hours for certain isn't me.
I don't know that I"ll be back tonight. If I do, I'll try to figure out some way to verify.
Tena
Did you ever see the "Stop Making Sense" video? it's awesome
Tena,
I will never stop regretting my Dylan collection and the Bowie european album I had. With "Heroes" in German. I could cry.
You snoopin' on my album collection? Always been a great fan of both, although they both made some real dogs here and there. "We could be heroes."
I thought that was funny.
agave
HAW HAW HAW! That's pretty much where I get that. I worked as a surveyor in the swamps of Florida, and that was our standard response to the lazy-ass do-nothing bums back in the office when they would call us on our truck radio. As in:
Office: (Truck number) 512... 512...
Us, in truck number 512: This is 512, Gourdhead...
And then we would giggle. Every time.
To me, a gourdhead is a worthless type of person, who's head rattles when you shake it.
A
McGuyver would have made a USB cord out of paper clips and pipe cleaners by now!
Dick Armey and his cousin Penis Navy (stolen from SNL)
'Cover' bares CIA flaws
By Karen Algeo Krizman, Special To The News
January 21, 2005
As if the CIA weren't already dodging enough bullets, now former spy Lindsay Moran is firing a few of her own.
A Fulbright scholar who graduated from Harvard, Moran was a case officer for the government agency from 1998 to 2003. While training near Williamsburg, Va., and recruiting intelligence sources in Macedonia, she also was gathering fodder for her memoirs, Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy and Other Misadventures.
...
Ultimately, though, many factors led to Moran's resignation from the CIA.
"I wanted out of the Agency for a number of reasons, not least of which was my conviction that invading Iraq was one of the most misguided courses of action our country could follow," she writes.
"The war, and the CIA's role in bringing it about, seemed to me a disgracefully concocted diversion, intended to obscure the fact that we still hadn't caught Usama bin Laden and that, truth be told, we'd accomplished little in our efforts to eradicate the terrorist networks that had caused September 11 in the first place. . . .
"A colleague who worked in the office covering Iraqi counterproliferation reported to me that her mealy-mouthed pen-pusher of a boss had gathered his minions and announced, 'Let's face it. The President wants us to go to war, and our job is to give him a reason to do it.'
"When I heard that, I'd been appalled. At that point, I knew I had to get out."
Why does Lindsay hate our freedom?
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We have become the "Lost Weekend" USA under a so-called recovered drunk. Thanks, Chimp
Drunks are never happy until everyone is shitfaced. Or miserable. Or both.
Sorry 'bout that link to CIA lady - this should be right
It is, indeed, but I do not know the name of the tune. I do know that the incomparable Adrian Belew is all over that album.
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Jeffraham Prestonian
WOW! That reminds me of "BIG ELECTRIC CAT" by Belew... great song, great video.
See, it IS Catblogging Friday.
Cool, Quentin. I heard her get interviewed on NPR a couple weeks ago. It sounded like a fascinating book.
One of the greatest movies ever: True Stories with and by the Talking Heads... I pull this movie out about once every six months.
"I met several nice folks in London who kept hedgehogs as pets and claimed they were wonderful pets who loved to roam around their gardens. Is that your experience? Oh, and they said they would fold their little spiney things when being held.
bigvic"
Dinsdale!
MICHAEL JONAS, BOSTON GLOBE - On the eve of the presidential inauguration, US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton embraced an issue some pundits say helped seal a second term for George W. Bush: acceptance of the role of faith in addressing social ills. In a speech at a fund-raising dinner for a Boston-based organization that promotes faith-based solutions to social problems, Clinton said there has been a "false division" between faith-based approaches to social problems and respect for the separation of church of state.
"There is no contradiction between support for faith-based initiatives and upholding our constitutional principles," said Clinton, a New York Democrat who often is mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2008.
Addressing a crowd of more than 500, including many religious leaders, at Boston's Fairmont Copley Plaza, Clinton invoked God more than half a dozen times, at one point declaring, "I've always been a praying person." She said there must be room for religious people to "live out their faith in the public square."
McGuyver would have made a USB cord out of paper clips and pipe cleaners by now!
Bzzz! Wrong answer. He would've needed a stick of gum as well. Geesh...
In this week's Friday administration (bad) news dump:
Bye bye Alaska North Slope
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news...t_pe/
alaska_oil
Dinsdale!
LOL!
the Hillary quote made me lose my lunch.
off to dinner. nice weekend to all...
I also wonder if anybody has ever
seen or thought they've seen a
ghost.
steve simels 01.21.05 - 6:47 pm | #
Was hanging out a friend's house. He said the person who lived in the house before had died there. We started goofing around as if talking to the ghost. "Come on out" and stuff. Then a door slammed on its own.
Please no Hillary in 2008, we have better candidates.
Jon Stewart and George Clooney.
Through our daily newspaper, I was asked to participate in an "Associated Press Managing Editors Credibility Project" (ooooooo!), which asked 2,400 readers and 400 journalists where (or if) they would place pictures of recent events in their newspapers.
One was of a grieving mother and dead children, victims of the tsunami. Another was of soldiers, medics probably, treating an American soldier (who later died of his injuries) in Iraq. Another photo from Iraq was of the murder, in broad daylight, of election officials. There was one of flag draped coffins (remember that one?) in the hangar. The last was of Nick Berg just prior to his beheading. None of the photos were any more graphic than your average horror movie.
Most of us surveyed thought the pictures should be printed, whether on the front page or inside, and/or available on the paper's website.
Here's the thing: Between 21% and 30% of the readers surveyed would not show the photos from Iraq or the tsunami AT ALL. 12% would not show the flag draped coffins and 55% of the newspaper readers would not print any photos of the beheading, even those taken beforehand. Right there we find our Bush voters.
Denial, it ain't just a river in Egypt...
What book would you memorize?
Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas
Anybody here ever see a UFO? Or
what they thought might be a UFO?
steve simels | Email | Homepage | 01.21.05 - 6:33 pm | #
No, goddammit. Never seen a ghost, had an out-of-body experience or met a psychic that didn't reek of third-grade, low-order horseshit. And I've spent the better part of my life studying this nonsense, too, and not a sausage. Dammit.
I don't know what anybody else thinks but I think Hilliary Clinton is starting to morph into a repug and methinks it's going to come back to haunt her. Big time.
MisterX: WOW! That reminds me of "BIG ELECTRIC CAT" by Belew... great song, great video.
I've never seen the vid, oddly enough. Love the album, though -- Lone Rhino. Too bad the whole thing isn't available on CD... just pieces of it on Desire of the Rhino King.
Belew lives near me, btw... saw him about a year ago at a Bears reunion gig. I always miss his gigs with King Crimson that're here regularly, oddly enough.
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Dick Armey and his cousin Penis Navy (stolen from SNL)
surfdork
Dick Army is the collective name for the Texas Dept of Public Safety, iirc
Terry C.,
Dinsdale? I guess I'm missing something here. Care to clue me in?
She said there must be room for religious people to "live out their faith in the public square."
Please provide her actual quote.
It always seems to lose something in translation.
If you don't provide this, you're fucked.
When I first came to Dallas in 1983,I somehow got tickets to see the Talking Heads.4th row center.Best seats for a concert I ever got.Got to see the band us very close.
Not all was grand tho,near the end of the show David Byrne started spitting into the crowd.
Never liked the Talking heads since.
WGG that was FUNNY!
Woman loses insurance coverage for her politics
The Providence Mutual Fire Insurance Co. sent her a letter last month notifying her it is not renewing her $1 million umbrella policy next month because of "the political positions the insured holds."
"If she was just a retired doctor, it wouldn't be an issue," said Dale Groves, vice president for underwriting for the Providence, R.I., company.
Johnston is vice chairwoman of her town's Democratic committee and a member of the Hillsborough County Democratic Committee. She helps campaigns by distributing posters and making calls, and she held a get-out-the-vote session for Howard Dean at her house.
Groves said that's enough.
Hillary must really want to be president. Fuck that. No more dynasties. And especially not from Republican-lites.
sorry, I'm not over the Dobson, SpongeBob thing. Dumbass Dobson = Muslim Cleric
Dinsdale? I guess I'm missing something here. Care to clue me in?
bigvic |
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It's a Python reference.
Like da Bishop.
Hoyt C., sob.
Shiat, I remember that 83 tour in Seattle.
Me be old...
Don't judge LGF by what Iron Fist posts. Thank you
Debating how to get rid of him at the mother ship of the Little Green Raelians?
*SNORT* Banning him and deleting all of his posts and keeping registration closed? Nah. Not an option ever used at the mother ship of the Little Green Raelians, huh?
Yes, Hillary's been running to the right. I don't know what some find so wonderful about her.
I saw some suirrely quotes from Hillary the other day on Raw Story.They were'nt very good for our side.Hillary has started drinking the kill aid.
My 79 year old Ukrainian grandfather says, "No lika da Booooosh".
Friends if y'all like good rockabilly go to www.kexp.org and listen to the stream.
The show will be on for 3 more hours, it's hosted by the self proclaimed proctoligst of rock n roll, Leon Berman.
Enjoy
Dinsdale? I guess I'm missing something here. Care to clue me in?
Not a Python fan, eh? Know nothing about sarcasm, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes, and satire?!
Please provide her actual quote.
Pie, Hillary said it at "at a fund-raising dinner for a Boston-based organization that promotes faith-based solutions to social problems". It's legit.
Hoyt,
Bush piezdietz, damn wish I had cyrillic.
If you don't understand that please don't say that to granny, she'll blush.
So Atrios gets the TIVO and loses the USB cord.
Such is modern life!
She said there must be room for religious people to "live out their faith in the public square."
WTF? I'm sick to death of the whining, fake Christian martyrs out there getting up in everyone's faces sputtering about how abused they are.
We have Mega Churches! Go to them and shut up already.
100% guaranteed work-safe
Laughed my ass off.
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My 79 year old Ukrainian grandfather says, "No lika da Booooosh".
I like the way your grandfather thinks.
WTF? I'm sick to death of the whining, fake Christian martyrs out there getting up in everyone's faces sputtering about how abused they are.
We have Mega Churches! Go to them and shut up already.
So are you saying religious people don't have a Constitutional right to speak of their faith in public?
NTodd, so what?
NTodd, so what?
Well, you asked!
She said it, that's what. She was speaking to a group of religious leaders and made some pious statements. She's a politician, and that's what they do.
I don't really like Hillary, and think she's part of the problem with the Dems as an effective oppo party. But she's still infinitely better than that faux pious bastard in the WH.
WTF? I'm sick to death of the whining, fake Christian martyrs out there getting up in everyone's faces sputtering about how abused they are.
We have Mega Churches! Go to them and shut up already.
So are you saying religious people don't have a Constitutional right to speak of their faith in public?
NTodd
Sarcasm?
Ofcourse they do (Constitutional right).
But pretending to be so down trodden is rediculous.
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post
surfdork, thanks for the rockabilly tip.
Okay, it does work.
Hey.
By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) is readying a new budget that would carve savings from Medicaid and other benefit programs, congressional aides and lobbyists say, but it is unclear if he will be able to push the plan through the Republican-run Congress.
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Ofcourse they do (Constitutional right).
But pretending to be so down trodden is rediculous.
Who was pretending to be downtrodden? That's my confusion.
From reading the post again, I think Atrios is just waiting for the USB cord to "appear."
Fundamentalist Christians pretend to be downtrodden. People on the street corners who pass out bibles getting ready to call their legislators to urge passage of Christian hate crime protection laws, because you refused their offer of eternal salvation brusquely.
From reading the post again, I think Atrios is just waiting for the USB cord to "appear."
Oh, he's engaging in faith-based catblogging. If he wishes hard enough, he'll be greeted by USB cables showering him in rose petals...
Check out my own personal troll.
Check out the comments - comments by rlrr are mine - the others are by Rev. Mikey.
The last comment from TJ Burke (one of Mikey's pseudonyms) is a real trip.
Fundamentalist Christians pretend to be downtrodden.
Okay. So I'm still confused: what does that have to do with Hillary's quote. And why would saying, "We have Mega Churches! Go to them and shut up already" not be an admonition to not exercise the right to profess faith in the public square?
More satanic ritual bush fun, they excuse this pretending they are football fans.
The New Scotsman (Scotland):Bush Family Greeting Mistaken for Satanic Salute
"PA"
Many Norwegian television viewers were shocked to see President George Bush and his family apparently saluting Satan during his inauguration yesterday.
And deaf American viewers were equally as surprised because to them it was a sign language obscenity.
But in reality, it was just a sign of respect for the University of Texas Longhorns sports teams, whose fans are known to shout out “Hook’em horns!” at games.
The president and family were photographed lifting their right hands with their index and little fingers raised up, much like a horn.
But in much of the world those “horns” are a sign of the devil. In Scandinavia, the hand gesture is popular among death metal and black metal groups and fans.
“Shock greeting from Bush daughter,” read a headline in one Norwegian newspaper above a photograph of Jenna Bush, smiling and showing the sign.
Well, he could just be looking for something the way my daughter does. She
waits for the lost object to appear too.
something new?
how about the subject of conspiracies?
i always marvel at how so many assert that they don't exist. and who attempt to assert that anyone who expresses a believe in conspiracies is at best a conspiracy theorist, at worst a mentally ill individual.
in my experience, as a business person, commercial conspiracies are formed daily. for motives that i cannot identify concretely, the pr agents for the establishment go to great lengths to those of us who mention the formations of, the actions of conspiracies.
perhaps the reason that so many are ignorant of these consortiums is because they go so undiscussed...
for example, in yesterday's WSJ, page A10, there is this very small squib headlined as follows...
DuPont Dow Elastomers LLC
Price-Fixing Case to Be Settled As US Cartel Probes Continue
the lede is that a $84million criminal fine will be paid for conspiring to fix prices in the synthetic rubber market. "the fine is the latest in a string of criminal price-fixing prosecutions in the chemicals industry involving a half-dozen major companies. the investigations of alleged international price-fixing cartels are continuing, said R. Hewitt Pate, the asst ag for antitrust."
do you find it as interesting as i do that these instances of conspiracies go unreported? and that the governors of the news continually assert that the claims of the existence of conspiracies are the claims of paranoiacs?
slanz
NTodd,
Either you have had your name stolen or you need to sleep it off. I mean this as a kindness.
Ah, so we have Chimpy referring to things calling from "beyond the stars" and Jenna flashing the bang-yer-head devil sign. I think I've seen enough.
We've been sold out to the Interstellar Bankers, kids. Our souls are gonna be roasted like crack rocks.
NTodd,
Either you have had your name stolen or you need to sleep it off. I mean this as a kindness.
Nope, this is me in all my Friendly skepticism. I'm honestly trying to figure out what you guys are saying. Consider me a crucible for your beliefs, and mine, and Hillary's.
And I'm saying this as someone who doesn't, as a Quaker, dig public piety. But as I read the 1st amendment, people have a right to live faithfully in the public square. And Hillary was speaking of this at a meeting with religious leaders, so it seems apt.
And again, I don't really like her, but I'm having a hard time understanding what's wrong with what she said.
Now, I might not be able to respond for a while because Galctica is on...
albertchampion--
I heard all I ever wanted to know about this, when This American Life did their piece about Archer-Daniels-Midland being busted for price-fixing in the (IIRC) market for lysine or some other food additive.
I'm sure it happens constantly, and the reality that I feel no power whatsoever to stop it, leads me to think about it as little as possible.
FWIW, is Dr. Black EVER going to start a new thread here?
You know, if I was convinced I was saved, it was my duty to minister to other people, and that genocidal abortion mills were running around the clock, I would feel compelled to actually do something.
I'd feel guilty even sleeping, what with people dying at any moment, cast into hell. It would be horrific.
I'd be down on my knees begging people to convert and doing more than just write letters to congress and voting every four years.
But in much of the world those “horns” are a sign of the devil. In Scandinavia, the hand gesture is popular among death metal and black metal groups and fans.
Elaine, Keith Olberman, and I think Jon Stewart have been making great fun of this. Boy, Howdy. Any word from the SpongeBob demonizing crowd on this? Tinky Winky? These halfwits (I'm a generous soul)are SO selective with their outrage. Not to mention ridiculous.
Bush has made the same sign of the devil with his hands, and he didn't even get into UT. There goes that explanation.
In 1988, when Bush 41 was elected, there was a front page newspaper picture of him doing the same thing.
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BTW, it's -22.4F at my house right now. The cats and the dog refuse to go outside. As they say, it's cold enough to freeze the ticks off a moose...
Some conspiracy lore states that H.P. Lovecraft actually stumbled onto some dark secrets of the Satanists, which inspired his writings. He was later killed for it. If we put together the hail Satan salute with the Lovecraftian "message from beyond the stars" and "the hunger in dark places" we get a pretty good Antichrist vibe going here.
NTodd,
So sorry. It's a pleasant 63 degrees here in SoCal. But every other fucking car has a W sticker on it, so maybe I'd prefer to be where you are.
Captain,
"This American Life" is one of the few shows left of NPR worth listening to. (I have a deep need to end all sentences with prepositions.) That Juan Williams and others from NPR went to Faux, and Bob Edwards got dumped has forever ruined me on them. Whores! Not one thin dime to NPR. I got so mad at them, I tore up my pledge form and mailed it back to them. Sometimes it just feels good too be petty.
Peace
In lieu of Atrios' defectiv Catblogging, allow me to paint a verbal portrait of my late cat Vogue, a stray given to me by an ex-girlfriend (ex at the time) just to see if we were still compatible as exes, not that she asked me whether I cared. Typical ex-girlfriend behavior, but she's married now to a Libertarian and we're stil; in touch; I guess I passed the cat test.
Vogue was an all-black stray with near neon yellow eyes; she had small everything--small legs, neck, trunk, short tail, small head. Very pretty features; she was named Vogue not just for her beauty but for Vogue editor Diana Vreeland's dictum "Black is always in style."
She was a very quiet cat, her stray background having immuned her from expecting much from humans. On the rare occasions she was annoyed, she had a short "myeh" to indicate such. Once per annoyance.
The weird exception was her allure to tomcats. She'd have zero to do with them except for moaning in the window in a loud basso tone worthy of the Temptations' bass singer or some Friday Night Horror Movie host. Visitors, upon the rare times the sound was heard, said "I can't believe that's coming from that little cat." Visitor were too tactful to mention how lustful it sounded.
I had to give her up when I left FL to supposedly find a ob in DC in 92. That didn't work out for me and Vogue died in her new carekeeper's care soon after.
I leave out the part where Vogue deserted me to live on the porch of two old Haitian sisters runored in the neighborhood for voudou. The sisters advised me to bring cat food and let her live where she liked--with them. But Vogue came back just as mysteriously as she left, carrying a red plastic 7-point star (!?!) in her mouth as I sat on my steps.
That many W stickers in SoCal?
D
Free memory card reader w/ USB cord included.
http://www.freeafterrebate.info/...ndex.php?
page=2
ok?
J.T.
SoCal. But every other fucking car has a W sticker on it.
Where do you live, in Orange County?
Yes. Yes. Yes. And if when there is no W sticker, there is a Jesus sticker.
Jesus and W.
BlakNo1,
At least 41 was elected, unlike his worthless son.
I'm on an extended vacation in SoCal, Orange County. Dubya country.
All your favorite conspiracy theorys under one roof.
Secret Societies and conspiracies
I was reading Sam Harris's interesting diatribe on why faith is the most evil thing in human history, and he communicated one point very well. Faith is hard to destroy. There is no reasoning. Some of red America will eventually "wake up" to Bush, but we're going to have to deal with the fact that there will probably be movements to put him on Rushmore, on the dime, all sorts of horrid things. The cult thing is real.
How about some democracy blogging?
(No, I'm not link-whoring - it's not my page.)
Tena, "normal people" line from Repo Man. Where I work, the young folks took a Friday a while back to decide who everyone would be if they were someone "famous" of the opposite sex.
To my lasting pride, they voted me the Harry Dean Stanton of us all.
Re: ghosts, after my most wonderful friend tortie Manx Krittikas died, a month later I was in bed in twilight kind of sleep, and I felt her jump on the bed, where she always did, and snuggle down behind my knees.
It was so strange.
I believe it really was her.
She's come back a couple of times, though not for the last year and a half.
Yeah, so, I'm nuts.
Remember
Only You Can Prevent Freedom Fires!
So sorry. It's a pleasant 63 degrees here in SoCal. But every other fucking car has a W sticker on it, so maybe I'd prefer to be where you are.
That sucks. I live in a town that went 57% for Kerry, and most of the farmers don't have campaign stickers on their tractors.
Free memory card reader w/ USB cord included.
http://www.freeafterrebate.info/...ndex.php?
page=2
ok?
J.T.
JohnTomato
And in case nobody else has said it, they do sell USB cables at Walgreens, OSCO and the like nowadays. Just sayin'. But *sigh* if our host wants to give us Atri-kitty blueballs until next week, I guess that's his prerogative.
NTodd,
What part of mission creep are you not getting? Hillary is whoring for the 10 commandments inthe fucking public square crowd. I have a huge problem when zealots interfere with my right to be left alone. Lots of schools are trying to teach creationism, junk science and undermine a free society with hooey. Some American value, that.
I'm on an extended vacation in SoCal, Orange County. Dubya country.
Shaw Kenawe
==========
I'm sorry. But don't feel too bad. Up here in Blue WA, I found myself today behind a behemoth covered in idiot stickers, ribbons, and flags, the most prominent, centered on the back window:
Stop Global Whining
I would have paid a great deal for a rotten egg right then.
Too much to read on this thread. I'm getting dizzy.
If it makes you feel any better, Shaw Kehane, I'm from Tom DeLay's distict.
This Paul Craig Roberts column really is good if you haven't read it.
It should be the homepage, but my HTML is about 8 years old.
Our only way to travel great distances in space is by manipulating space/time (maybe wormholes?). If we have the technology to that, why not also go back in time on this planet?
Yoshimi
This has been well addressed, but the basic principle formulated by John Titor is that once you leave yours timeline's normal vector into the future you can't land back into it, precisely.
Michael Moorcock's made a career out of this marvelous silliness- go read some of his stuff if you haven't.
Instead, "time travellers" enter at similar point in an alternate timeline in another bubble in the multiverse. Often indistinguishable.
No clues about how to do it or control it. The procedure's supposed to involve mini black holes that twist space. Although Titor said in his timeline it's being developed in the EU right about now.
Sounds like a damned dangerous thing to develop, though.
Not to mention the software involved...
Ghosts generally don't believe in me, although it feels like my great-grandfather seems to say cynical things to me. I still haven't figured out whether that's the melange talking or a symptom of my psychosis. Either way, most Wrepublicans- and many DINOcrats- consider me an Abomination.
Still, his advice has managed to keep me one step ahead of the law, whether it's the Feds or speed traps.
Ah, UFOs. Of course. Any really intelligent visitors aren't going to let us know anything about who they are or what they're doing. Like cats.
Remember that: any aliens that kidnap you are likely to be no more intelligent than you are. They're just trying to impress you.
Why stir up the locals? They're much more amusing when they think they aren't being watched.
The Bush family has a long history going back several generations, doing satanic rituals. Evidently, they also possess Geronimo's skull and use it for various ceremonial purposes.
The right wing Christians don't want to hear about all of this. They want to pretend he is a Jesus figure who executes many people and wages illegal wars, the perfect American AWOL hero.
They are all stark raving mad, of course. This is unfortunate for us for they have an iron grip on a huge arsenal of nukes.
If you've ever had a hankering to see a self-bombed car, second picture down.
All your base . . .
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Have you been to President Boxer blog? It was started by Mad Kane. (Full disclosure, even though I wasn't paid by Chairman Dean, I am one of the blog's many contributors.)
"In the ranks of the new conservatives, however, I see and experience much hate. It comes to me in violently worded, ignorant and irrational emails from self-professed conservatives who literally worship George Bush. Even Christians have fallen into idolatry. There appears to be a large number of Americans who are prepared to kill anyone for George Bush."
Dr Roberts, former Wall Street Journal assistant editor and alum of the Reagan Administration.
Harry Dean Stanton??
Sarah...your buds obviously hold you in HIGH regard.
bigvic...peace back at ya.
No doubt public radio has been a major disappointment of late, but occasionally I see some heartening signs, the continuing brilliance of TAL among them (produced by PRI, not NPR).
And as much as I miss Bob Edwards, I don't have a major problem with Steve Inskeep...I have a suspicion that there is an ongoing factional war playing out at NPR News, and given some of the pieces he's been responsible for, I have a faint hunch that Steve might be one of the good guys.
OTOH, every time I'm dumb enough to tune in "Day To Day," I feel like throwing up or falling asleep. Mindless fluff at best, nauseating conserva-lite suckup pap at worst.
the governors of the news continually assert that the claims of the existence of conspiracies are the claims of paranoiacs?
What else are they gonna say, albert?
"Good morning, we're taking you dupes to the cleaners again."
I would have paid a great deal for a rotten egg right then.
mena
Rotten egg? How about a fresh tire iron?
"American liberals called the Brownshirts "conservative," because the Brownshirts were obviously not liberal. They were ignorant, violent, delusional, and they worshipped a man of no known distinction. Brownshirts' delusions were protected by an emotional force field. Adulation of power and force prevented Brownshirts from recognizing implications for their country of their reckless doctrines."
Sound familiar to anyone?
Hillary is whoring for the 10 commandments inthe fucking public square crowd.
Hey, the fucking public square is a legit place for all forms of speech! We're not talking about the courthouse. The minute YOU start putting restrictions on THAT, the mission creep becomes just as bad.
Guys, this is why we lost. Check out God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It, written by the founder of Soujourners, which was featured on the Daily Show and Terry Gross. It's time to find common ground.
Sarah, my dear,
You must be quite a *character* HDS is a master of the awesome minor character that steal the show. Would that describe you?
the governors of the news continually assert that the claims of the existence of conspiracies are the claims of paranoiacs?
Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't stealing elections.
As they say, it's cold enough to freeze the ticks off a moose...
NTodd | Email | Homepage | 01.21.05 - 10:17 pm | #
Or, as Willard Scott used to say when he was the local weather guy here in DC: "You'll wanna bring all your brass monkeys inside tonight."
shirty:
Reference, please? That one looks like a keeper.
Don't forget, my typos are to be ignored from infinity and beyond. It's a law, I swear.
http://www.zmag.org/content/show...=76&
ItemID=7056
It's always good to hear from conservative stars who are now loathed for daring to be apostate.
I mean, really. When someone associated with the Wall Street Journal, even if it was a while ago, starts sounding like David Neiwert, that is an alarm bell.
Still not cats?
Wow!b
I felt freedom's fire when Strom, trying to be be cool and eat me while holding a cigar, accidentally set my pubic hair on fire. You ever smelled burnt hair, rotten fish, and santorum all at once?
-Liddy Dole
Elaine Supkis,
This is why I heart you. You are a wit.
The right wing Christians don't want to hear about all of this. They want to pretend he is a Jesus figure who executes many people and wages illegal wars, the perfect American AWOL hero.
Sharp.
It's always good to hear from conservative stars who are now loathed for daring to be apostate.
shirty
People who are either has-beens, never-wases, wanna-be's or just plain no-talents.
Although Titor said in his timeline it's being developed in the EU right about now.
kelley b., you just reminded me about something else that Titor said was going to begin this year.
I wonder if it was you who made a post or two here about Titor a while back that resulted in me spending days reading all of that stuff. Quite a fun ride, I must say. If it was you, thanks.
Since when did Jesus become an action figure, the GI Joe of the 21st Century?
I saw Raul Julia as Edmund in King Lear in Central Park, and the same summer, before that, I saw him as Orlando in As You Like It, also in Central Park. I was so sorry when he died.
I was the second adopter of my own cat, of blessed memory. She ran away from her previous owner and returned to her birthplace, the house of a friend I was visiting. She did that every time my friend tried to return her. The next morning my friend said, "I think this cat will be good for you." And she was.
Brace yourselves, people. Andrew Sullivan has an amazingly rational review of Danner's "Torture and Truth," and the Strasser-edited "The Abu Ghraib Investigations" in this Sunday's NY Times book section.
It's Sullivan, so he can't avoid a little self-justification at the end, but all in all it's a remarkably honest piece of work.
Go figure.
Please check out my first attempt at Friday cat blogging. It'a great idea, glad to add one of our 3 cats to the effort tonight.
Don't forget, my typos are to be ignored from infinity and beyond.
not tryin to nitpick but the word "from" in the above sentence presumes a beginning of infinity which as we have thus, this thread, proven is a fallacy. I think "for" infinity and beyond to its end is more appropriate...
Anyone read Krugman today? He nails it again as usual.
Bebe!!!!!!
What took you so long? Don't tell me you have a "life" or any other such nonsense. I know you were lurking for just the right moment to interrupt this shitty thread with some snark.
Peace.
We need a new thread. And Atrios-cats.
Steve simels, I've never SEEN a ghost. HEARD .. something.
OK, nearly 40 years ago. Parents, 5 sisters, brother and I were living in a rented house not quite big enough. My mother started claiming she heard someone moving around at night when we were all in bed, or hearing heavy footsteps coming up the porch steps and no-one there. At first we figured she was dreaming, or hearing noises from the houses next door - side yards were narrow. But gradually the rest of us started hearing steps, and other things started happening. We got very creeped out by the basement; nothing happened but nobody would stay down there without getting nervous. We had to lock the basement door or it would open up by itself.
Ok, cut to a night sometime that winter. I was in the 8th grade, and had procrastinated on some homework, then stayed up late to get it done. Everyone else had gone to bed. I got done, and headed up the stairs, shutting the door at the foot of the stairs behind me. I got about halfway up, and thought I heard the door open behind me. I turned and looked, expecting to see one of my parents (their bedroom was on the ground floor). Door was closed. No one there. I could hear loud slow footsteps, sounding like they were on bare wood steps, though the stairs were carpeted.
I flew up the remaining steps, then stopped and looked again. I couldn't believe it was happening. Slow steps kept coming. Ran again, into the bedroom I shared with 2 or 3 sisters (can't remember for sure how we were divvied up). Slammed the door and stood listening. The steps continued to the top of the stairs, then stopped. I got ready for bed.
The light was still on in the upstairs hall, and at the crack under the door I could see a couple of shadows. I told myself that whatever I'd heard, I hadn't seen anything. If I opened the door, I'd see shoes or toys or something like that casting the shadows. Got myself psyched up. Opened the door.
Yep, toys or shoes or some such. But I shouldn't have opened the door. I could'nt see, hear, or feel anything but there was something very hostile - I was straining my eyes tryng to see something invisible as it moved into the room. this time I dived for my bed, pulled the covers up over my head, started praying. The presence stayed awhile, then left or dissapated or something. Eventually I went to sleep.
I don't know what the hell was going on in that house but it still creeps me out.
NTodd:
Guys like Wallis do give me some hope...but I don't think we can ever expect to find common ground with the current flock of fundies. I do think there is a viable, liberal train of thought that is not hostile to religion, and I am a practicing mainline Protestant.
But I also think that what liberal ideas need most is respect--and that respect has to be earned by (among many other things) its proponents being forthright and stubborn in their public demeanor.
Progressive ideas are a laughingstock because the leaders that profess to hold them have assumed for too long that their rightness was a given that everyone would see, given enough time. But IN that time, the RW echo machine has been saying over and over and over and over and over....
...that we are worthy of scorn and derision. And as Stan Lee said in Spider-Man #1 (or was it #2?), "If you say something often enough, sooner or later, people are going to start believing it..."
I would love to see the left become more identified with religious causes. But I think that if not being identified with faith is a problem for us, the FAR BIGGER problem is being identified with WEAKNESS. And I don't think we'll get anywhere unless we beat THAT image problem, faith notwithstanding.
threadus newus.
Since when did Jesus become an action figure, the GI Joe of the 21st Century?
Terry, you're not familiar with Jesus' General A fine leader in the Great Christian Cultural Revolution. Red Guards go forth and do His snarking.
And anything you can say about the Brownshirts you can say about the Red Guards.
focus,
Read the nitpic part. Heh.
Terry C, check out the site at homepage.
Sarah D,
I've had that happen to me. Could swear I felt little paws push the blanket into the back of my knees as Theo would settle down for the night.
Creeped me out.
bigvic,
you mean that you... and that I didn't... and that all along...
no way?
We need a new thread. And Atrios-cats.
Why the fuck do you need Atrios-cats? His cats are boring. There are plenty of damn cool little peon bloggers who have cats that could kick Atrios-cat ass from here to Sunday.
I would love to see the left become more identified with religious causes. But I think that if not being identified with faith is a problem for us, the FAR BIGGER problem is being identified with WEAKNESS. And I don't think we'll get anywhere unless we beat THAT image problem, faith notwithstanding.
Fair point.
The biggest prob I see is that the left has been reactive, not proactive, in framing any debate in this country. And a big part of that is because the Dems really fucking suck at being an oppo party. Shit, the Dems suck at being a majority, but that's a lesser sin. If we can't depend on them to fight aggressively against GOP-domination, then really the American people are right not to trust them in defending our nation. Quite frankly, they can't defend America from the GOP threat within--how can they possibly defend us from threats from without, God or no?
Usually I hijack threads with dumb
music stuff. Tonight I did it with
the paranormal.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
BTW: Still no cats?
Hey, the fucking public square is a legit place for all forms of speech!
NTodd,
What would your opinion be about the following scenario (besides "move somewhere else"):
Here in Chicago, in order to "busk" you need to buy a public performance license, and are restricted as to where you can perform. Outside the "L" stop by my house, however, I will oftentimes see a group of people, one with a guitar, singing religious songs. They have no p.p. license displayed. Being that the license thing is a city ordinance, over which I have no control, should I call the cops on them (to make sure everyone is treated equally)?
Maybe to some regular buskers, music is their religion. But since they are not part of an "organized" church, they are given a hassle if they step outside the law. Should it be any different for these buskers for Jebus? They are, after all, looking to recruit tithing members.
watertiger-
Now that we are alone, I have to tell you the only thing I remember from some of your earlier posts are your saying you have wonderful breasts. What do you want to name our first child?
Talking Heads story: I worked for a radio station back in 1978 that sponsored them in concert, right when "Take Me To The River" was a hit. Lived in a smallish town with a dearth of concert action; they sold out the hall and no one was sitting by about the 2nd song in. After the concert we got to hang out with them. Byrne was brilliant but odd, Chris Franz and Tina Weymouth were really nice folks. We all talked about music and art until way into the wee hours. They were some of the coolest people in the music business I ever met.
"Why the fuck do you need Atrios-cats? His cats are boring"
NTodd
I agree, I am a peon blogger with 3 cats, two are way cool including the one at the top of my homepage. He is a korat.
Just today I was wondering exactly where a person who believes in the Divine "fits in" in the left. I don't believe the Bible stories I grew up with; I don't believe in a big mean scary God who watches everything we do and punishes us if we don't live exactly according to some set of laws supposedly "written" by "Him."
But I believe in something bigger than us. A power, a presence, a continuing...a something. I guess you could call it God. I don't think of "God" the same way I used to...but I haven't discarded my whole belief system, either. Yet there seems to be only scorn and derision in these threads for anyone who poses the remote suggestion of a hint of a belief in God. And it's as though belief in God automatically drums you out of the club...because the fact that you believe in something, and freely express that belief according to the laws of our Constitution somehow allegedly "interferes" with others' right not to believe.
And I have previously only lurked here, because often, as soon as a newbie goes out on a limb, along comes some nasty commenter gleefully sawing the limb off at the trunk of the tree.
Not really tolerant, in my opinion.
Here in Chicago, in order to "busk" you need to buy a public performance license, and are restricted as to where you can perform. Outside the "L" stop by my house, however, I will oftentimes see a group of people, one with a guitar, singing religious songs. They have no p.p. license displayed. Being that the license thing is a city ordinance, over which I have no control
Maybe to some regular buskers, music is their religion. But since they are not part of an "organized" church, they are given a hassle if they step outside the law. Should it be any different for these buskers for Jebus? They are, after all, looking to recruit tithing members.
Lovely. I see we now engage in the same shit the Right does. So we get pissed when they arrest one of our folks wearing an anti-war t-shirt in the mall, but golly, we can't have them religious types speaking in the public square. That would be just awful!
Folks, I'm a self-identified agnostic Quaker, and I think it's dreadful that we might consider shouting down the other side. We lost and we're pissed, and we still stand for the good side of America. Don't take it out on religion, take it out on the theocrats.
, should I call the cops on them (to make sure everyone is treated equally)?
No, you should fight the fucking wrong law.
Went to a big party once
at an artist friend of mines
loft (in the late
70s) and Talking Heads were there.
Tina Weymouth sat in a chair the
entire night and not one guy --
including me -- had the guts to
go up and talk to her.
And man, was she gorgeous. Like
Mini-Marianne Faithfull.
So Terry C, is there no redemption for conservatives? Is being a rt-winger the unforgivable sin? The Right, at least, welcomes ex-leftists, so in its own way it believes in redemption.
Sentenza, nroouwww.....!
So Terry C, is there no redemption for conservatives? Is being a rt-winger the unforgivable sin? The Right, at least, welcomes ex-leftists, so in its own way it believes in redemption.
mim | Email | Homepage | 01.21.05 - 11:17 pm | #
So apparently you've never heard of
David Brock or Arianna Huffington?
Stop insulting our intelligence.
I agree, I am a peon blogger with 3 cats, two are way cool including the one at the top of my homepage. He is a korat.
That's what I'm on about!
...but I haven't discarded my whole belief system, either.
i believe that most of us here support your continued faith in whatever non-imposed beliefs you may hold, however "a system" is a set of "logically related facts" and if you expect those of us sceptics to embrace ANY theory we will probably resist until we see facts, but you I assure you - you will not see us folkj attacking churches, mosques, or Temples- so you keep yer faith in yer way and let us keep ours in ours.
OT,
If I need to tell you folks I've been name stolen, you don't know a thing about me. And my trust in you guys is solid. You know who I'm talking about.
Thank you, SteveLG, for bringing up Andrew Sullivan's review. I too thought it was very good. The evidence for rampant torture of "detainees" is piling up every day, and if Sullivan, of all people, acknowledges it, those who still maintain that the miscreants of Abu Ghraib are just "a few bad apples" are IMO almost like Holocaust deniers.
Haaaahhhhhhaaaaa.
There is nothing more pathetic on the face of the Earth than than a rank, idiotic, painfully sad *human* being than one who would troll a fucking cat bloging site on a Fri. night.
You just can't make this shit up.
There is nothing more pathetic on the face of the Earth than than a rank, idiotic, painfully sad *human* being than one who would troll a fucking cat bloging site on a Fri. night.
You just can't make this shit up.
Amen.
bigvic, I steal no shows, fer shure. But, I am...odd. And, comfortable in my oddness, at my advanced age Used to it, if you will.
Capt. Gota, yeah, humbly pleased. I love young folk. And perhaps the only reason they like me well enough is that I am not the usual Old Person.
watertiger, yes. I believe it. I know it happened/. I wasn't asleep, wasn't dreaming. It was my kritti, come to check in. Had - and have - no problem *knowing* that.
We know so much more than we "know."
No, you should fight the fucking wrong law.
NTodd
I'm sorry, NTodd, I was just fucking around, dude. Didn't mean to get your dander up so. I mean, it is a law in Chicago (which met with a good deal of opposition at the time--and this is a "Democratic" city--as long as yous wants what da Mare wants), but uh, late night, been drinking...sorry.
I'm sorry, NTodd, I was just fucking around, dude. Didn't mean to get your dander up so.
What, now you're saying I have dandruff?! Fuck you, I use Pert "normal hair". I don't have flakes, you fucking heartless troll. Damn you. Damn you to Hell.
Now where'd I put that bottle...
What, now you're saying I have dandruff?! Fuck you, I use Pert "normal hair". I don't have flakes, you fucking heartless troll. Damn you. Damn you to Hell.
B-b-b-but...
Sarah Deere - I've had what seemed like visits from a couple of my dear dead cats. No problem with those ghosts.
B-b-b-but...
Don't give me that shit, you dandruff-bigoted puke. You suck. Your "perfect hair" sucks. I hate you and your shampoo.
NTodd, for whatever it's worth, I agree w/you.
Ahianne,
Yes, they are welcome, these kitty visits. I miss her so.
SD
NTodd, for whatever it's worth, I agree w/you.
About the dandruff thing? I appreciate it, because I earnestly feel we must fight bigotry whenever we find it...
No, about the Hillary thing.
hee hee...
Don't know much about dandruff. Don't want to.
Have enuff probs just being old. Mercifully, dandruff is not one of those probs. Bad News: dandruff would be preferable.
No, about the Hillary thing.
Ah, I thought so, but that wasn't as fun to play on.
Don't know much about dandruff. Don't want to.
I don't know much about dandruff, either, 'cept what I've seen on TV. I was serious when I sais I use Pert "normal hair".
well, I'm using Silver Brights so I don't have that "piss in the snow" grey/white hair.
I am consciously eschewing purples, pinks, and blues.
well, I'm using Silver Brights so I don't have that "piss in the snow" grey/white hair.
Piss in the snow is grey/white? Now I'm worried about what my dog...
NTodd, no...that would be formerly blonde hair gone grey/white...and it can get ugully piss-in the-snow "yallow-white", so you use blueing (sp?) to take out the yellow. To make it more white.
Damn, it gets complicated.....
You can shapoo your dog in blue shampoo, too. Maybe make him purtier, ya know??
If it was you, thanks.
joycamp
Thank you, joycamp.
Watch out for the blue blooded people with their blue hairs up their asses, and always have sympathy for the devil.
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