I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
first - sweet dreamies
Mmmmmm Babies.... so tired, m u s t s l e e p...
Awwww. I wish my kitties would cuddle like that.
How sweet...look how calm they are now that they have plotted your demise.
OT: Our Worst Blog Awards
*Note, not the worst blogwhore awards.
I wish I had kitties that cuddled. Freakin' adorable.
kitties!
Kitty cat porn,
and I don't care.
Kitty cat porn,
and I don't care.
Aww!!
A panel including Zephyr Teachout? Now, that sounds like it might be interesting.
Enjoy.
And my cat thanks you for the bonus catblogging. She is, however, entirely pissed that she can only spoon with our dog. Now, I'll have to spring for tuna tonight.
it's like they fell asleep mid-catfight...which I can completely believe owning (or being owned by) two cats myself.
Awwwww.... pwetty kittie....
In NYC? I shall have to look up whereabouts from that linkie.
Wow, 3 pictures today! That is too precious...why you are away they will play!! How lucky are we to see the kitties...now why can't we all get along like that? Oh yeah, that's because these are democratic kitties. 
Our friday cat blogging will be up later.
Have fun. I wish I could go. I want to meet you folks sometime.
Hit Zephyr with the chair, A man.
How to extricate myself from dinner tonight...
Now that is adorable. My cats won't do that. They're too busy fighting. But then, my Ana is the cuter tuxedo kitty, so that makes up for it.
Atrios,
Some of your best work yet! A bravura performance by the cats as well as the photo journalist!
Kudos!...or should that be Kittieos!
Hit Zephyr with the chair, A man.
Speaking of which, is Zethyr still equivocating on her Quislingisms?
Typical sleeping cats while Rome burns.
OK, dad's gone .
Break out the booze and porn!
It's FRIDAY!!!!!
I received today an email from a friend in Iraq with a song attached, apparently it was made by some of our currently serving national guardsmen. It is sung to the tune of Margaritaville, and takes some swipes at Rummie, Cheney, and Bush. It does not show up anywhere yet in a google search.
IMO it probably deserves wider play - Any of you guys have song hosting capabilities on your website and can handle the traffic?
I've got one of my own- still deciding whether she needs a friend or if, like my parents cats, that would only cause cat-antipathy.
At any rate, she's pretty cute.
Dogs rule!
chris/tx
Perhaps you can email it to Attaturk. It would certainly be a prime blogwhore opportunity.
OT but interesting. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Settlers who came to Australia 50,000 years ago and set fires that burned off natural flora and fauna may have triggered a cataclysmic weather change that turned the country's interior into the dry desert it is today, U.S. and Australian researchers said on Tuesday.
Their study, reported in the latest issue of the journal, Geology, supports arguments that early settlers literally changed the landscape of the continent with fire.
Wittle kitty witties?
They've got the cutest fuckin' paws!!
I was scrolling down, enjoying your cats Atrios, and came to the third one. Then I realized you didn't get a third cat, that was Cheney!
Christopher - I was thinking Attaturk and Holden, I'll send it to them this afternoon unless someone else comes up with a better idea.
At any rate, she's pretty cute.
I think "adorable" should suffice.
reminds me that my aunt used to have a dog and cat that would nap this way too. awwwwww...
Efforts underway to limit class action suits against corporations
President Bush, Sen. Frist and the Republicans are pushing a class action bill to limit the ability of consumers to have their day in court. Bush will talk about it next week during his state of the union address, the bill will be voted on Feb. 3 in Senate Judiciary Committee without even a hearing on it, and an opportunity for consumers to testify, and then it is scheduled to be the first bill voted on in the Senate on Feb. 7.
Consumers will have a much harder time suing large, out of state corporations under this bill because the Republicans are shutting off the state courts and insisting that all consumer class action cases go to federal court where the judges are much more industry friendly.
A coalition of over 90 consumer, environmental and civil rights groups, the Coalition to Preserve Access to Justice is fighting this bill, and we need your help. Please get the word out to the online community to email your senator, urge him/her to vote against S. 5, the so-called Class Action Fairness Act, on Feb. 7.
chris/tx
Perhaps you can email it to Attaturk. It would certainly be a prime blogwhore opportunity.
And with that, the party begins!
Efforts underway to limit class action suits against corporations
President Bush, Sen. Frist and the Republicans are pushing a class action bill to limit the ability of consumers to have their day in court. Bush will talk about it next week during his state of the union address, the bill will be voted on Feb. 3 in Senate Judiciary Committee without even a hearing on it, and an opportunity for consumers to testify, and then it is scheduled to be the first bill voted on in the Senate on Feb. 7.
Consumers will have a much harder time suing large, out of state corporations under this bill because the Republicans are shutting off the state courts and insisting that all consumer class action cases go to federal court where the judges are much more industry friendly.
A coalition of over 90 consumer, environmental and civil rights groups, the Coalition to Preserve Access to Justice is fighting this bill, and we need your help. Please get the word out to the online community to email your senator, urge him/her to vote against S. 5, the so-called Class Action Fairness Act, on Feb. 7.
chris, I'd be happy to take a look at 'er.
HEY, ATRIOS!
Here's another entry for your "Bobo's World" series:
Student sues charter school over paddling-related injuries
By Sonja Garza, Express-News Staff Writer
Express-News, January 12, 2005
A former student at the School of Excellence in Education is suing the charter school, alleging that an administrator used excessive force by disciplining her with a 4-foot-long wooden paddle known as "Ole Thunder."
Attorneys for Jessica Serafin, 18, filed the personal injury lawsuit Monday in state district court against the school and Brett Wilkinson, who her attorney said served as a summer school principal.
According to the suit, Wilkinson summoned Serafin to the principal's office on June 18, restrained her with the help of two employees, and struck her repeatedly on her bottom, hip and leg.
At one point, Serafin tried to shield herself from the blows using her hand, and Wilkinson "smashed her hand with the paddle," the suit alleges.
The lawsuit contends the beating was so severe that Serafin began bleeding and was taken to a hospital emergency room for treatment.
Serafin's attorney, Dan Hargrove, said his client was called to the principal's office because she left the campus before school started to get a breakfast taco. He maintained she was not tardy to class. Serafin is no longer a student at the charter school.
A key element of the case, according to Hargrove and law partner Cyrus Rea, is the fact that Serafin was an adult at the time of the incident. Under state law, a parent is not authorized to use corporal punishment against an adult child, and therefore the school is not authorized to use corporal punishment against an adult student, Hargrove said.
He added that Serafin did not consent to being paddled.
Touted for offering a "private school education at a public school price," the School of Excellence in Education is San Antonio's largest charter school.
This is not "an anti-charter school case. It's not an anti-corporal punishment case," Hargrove said. "This case comes down to an excessive use of corporal punishment against an adult."
The suit also alleges civil rights violations.
Wilkinson, currently vice principal of the charter program's Saenz Junior High, could not be reached for comment. Superintendent Ricky Hooker said, "The school’s comment is no comment."
Wow! I bet that was one nice ass!
Had to be.
.
Attaturk - Coming your way in a minute, see what you think.
OT- another helicopter crashed in Iraq. My time stamp on that news is 12:36 but haven't heard about it elsewhere yet.
my husband sent me the link to your kitty photos because we have two cats that look just like yours.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketlass/2699737/
golly!
Wow, they do look alike Stacey.
it's in French only
www.cyberpresse.ca
12h36 Un hélicoptère s'écrase en Irak
froggie-- search for "helicopter" news.google.com and you'll find it. It seems to have had a short cycle so perhaps there are no casualties.
"Q: How many Bush Administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb?
"A: None. There is nothing wrong with the light bulb; its conditions are improving every day.
Any reports of its lack of incandescence are a delusional spin from the liberal media. That
light bulb has served honorably, and anything you say undermines the lighting effect. Why do you
hate freedom?"
as sent by a republican freind of mine.
this post never happened....
Hi all ~
Special hi to my sweet krsaz!
I snuck away for a few minutes! Going to check out my site for the cocktail party tonight.
Things are going great so far in San Antonio!
Dogs rule!
no, it's always like this. Agence France Presse gets it early, and www.cyberpresse posts it quickly, and it takes a while for the English language press to catch up.
Awwwww, these guys are the sweetest couple. I want to reach through my screen and hug them.
Vesta,
I've got one of my own- still deciding whether she needs a friend I had disasterous results trying to get a pal for one of my cats a long time back. They had piss wars all over the house. They detested each other. However, I have a sweet old kitty and I got a couple of smallish dogs a few years back, and after the initial shock wore off, they became great friends. Then I got another dog and that was not big deal. They all pile up together, but not as cute as Atrios's babies.
Bonus kitty blogging!!
We're not worthy!
WHy are all these helicopters crashing? it's creeping me out.
Jesus, the helicopter crew is unknown, but apparently we lost 5 other soldiers in Baghdad alone today.
Totally OT (I keep doing this): In theaters soon..
Totally OT (I keep doing this): In theaters soon..
GIBLET'S OF DEATH
President Bush, Sen. Frist and the Republicans are pushing a class action bill to limit the ability of consumers to have their day in court.
How interesting that will be.
Someone will have to sue the federal government to have the law overturned, so they will then be permitted to sue the corporation that has wronged them.
It's almost enough to make me hope that there is some sort of special afterlife punishment for the likes of Bill Frist.
OT
wait
Is there a topic?
Anyway I need help finding a quote.
On AAR's Unfiltered they played a clip of Bono speaking at Davos yesterday. He quoted Tom Lantos and it was very moving. I've been looking all over for a link and can't find it. I asked them but they didn't post it.
Thanks in advance.
HBK
Someone will have to sue the federal government to have the law overturned, so they will then be permitted to sue the corporation that has wronged them.
And what's interesting is that one favorite GOP rationale against government regulations is that fear of lawsuits is the market's way of regulating itself.
Sigh. we had three cats--one named Blazer, formerly part of a firefighter's family, and two kittens. Two kittens walked over and ate the neighbors' rare songbird and then started parking themselves outside the neighbors' door each morning, looking for breakfast. So we had to get rid of them. But cat cuddling is tres cute.
Sigh. we had three cats--one named Blazer, formerly part of a firefighter's family, and two kittens. Two kittens walked over and ate the neighbors' rare songbird and then started parking themselves outside the neighbors' door each morning, looking for breakfast. So we had to get rid of them. But cat cuddling is tres cute.
Such shiny pelts these beauties have.
Our feline looks like it sleeps in a molasses jar. Brushing is not an option.
Atrios, your cats must be some of the most cooperative cats in existance.
eek. pisswars.
I think I may remain a one-cat woman . . . being single, it makes me feel less like a crazy bike-riding spinster if I only have the one cat.
OT
wait
Is there a topic?
I had the same moment of self doubt..Why do these keep occuring with increasing frequency and longer duration..
Sigh.
Two kittens walked over and ate the neighbors' rare songbird
You mean they borrowed your credit card, slid it under the dead bolt, entered the house, stacked up some chairs to stand on, used their little paws to unlatch the cage, and then shared it between themselves?
Cat blogging is a social event. No topic other than cat goodness and whatever it is you want to bring to the table!
I want one!
Vestal,
Sorry I spelled your name wrong. You have a very glamorous cat!
I like cats. But my last one was twice eaten by coyotes, the last time fatally. (All I found was the tail, which received a solemn burial ceremony).
Stock market down today big time. More great news on Chimpy's economic front, as US GDP declined during the fourth quarter of 2004. Has the WH idiot succeeded at anything he has ever been in charge of?
Wow. A conference about blogging and politics and they invite some bloggers? What a novel idea.
zephyr teachout!!!!!
who invited her? how is it possible that she is still welcome at an event like that?
I like cats.
four legs, seriously, I'm starting to think we should come up with a better way to cart people around.
A.
HoneyBearKelly
Check CSPAN for the quote cause they carried that yesterday.
the left rev. kitty, Pixie the Maurading Death Machine, has taken to getting her paws trapped between the bars of the door to the parakete cage. While trying to make those fantasies come alive, she winds up in a very vulnerable position which the large male parakete subsequently takes advantage of. He perches just above her snagged paw and proceeds to peck the crap out of it until she manages to twist free.
Two hours later, the whole drama plays out again until the 'ketes are moved into the "no-kitty zone."
Score thus far: 'Pixie the Maurading Death Machine 0; 'ketes 4.
I should try to get pix of this, but I have no where to post them.
Oh, are we discussing something else now? I missed the memo.
"has the wh idiot ever succeeded at anything he has ever been in charge of?"
-st. patrick
interesting question. and it deserves a full answer. so here it is:
no.
US helicopter crashes in Baghdad
It is not clear what caused the helicopter to crash
A US Army helicopter has crashed in south-west Baghdad but the fate of the crew was not immediately known, the US military says.
US military officials do not think the helicopter was hit by hostile fire, but are still investigating, Lt Col James Hutton told the Associated Press.
The Kiowa observation craft normally carries a small number of people.
On Wednesday, 31 US troops died after a helicopter came down in bad weather in western Iraq.
This was the biggest single loss of life in Iraq since the beginning of the US-led invasion in March 2003.
This type of helicopter is thought to normally carry a crew of about two or three people.
www.bbc.co.uk
I told you the English always get the news after the French!!
Vestal,
Sorry I spelled your name wrong. You have a very glamorous cat!
bigvic | Email | Homepage | 01.28.05 - 2:31 pm | #
He he. She certainly thinks so . . .
Jeeze. Y'all abandon threads faster than you abandoned Howard Dean after the scream incident. 
Ot, but Strom's shaved his scrotum daily, then used lipstick to decorate it.
-Liddy Dole
WOW, CHECK IT OUT!
Guardian article today, US & UK EXIT STRATEGY! The report by Gen Luck, remember him?
Go here
http://tinyurl.com/5xaca
I should try to get pix of this, but I have no where to post them.
Of course you do.
Thinking Twenty Moves Ahead
by Jason Gooljar
I was recently talking to a political operative that has been in this game for over thirty or so years about the current field of the DNC chairman race. If there was anything that I got from this conversation, it was something that I had never really thought about enough and that was compromise. In the aftermath of November we are divided in more ways than one. Besides the soon to be cliché red and blue, you have divisions inside of political parties and groups that can be just as destructive.
The way the media portrays debate in the post crossfire world is to set up direct confrontation between to warring factions. They both scream at the top of their lungs and the one who looses their voice first from being the loudest, and most arrogant wins the “debate”. But, does this type of environment really discuss the issue? Do we as a nation want to be divisive or progressive? We can either remain divided and the issues that concern us will never get done justice, or we can instead try to look at things from a new perspective.
This operative I spoke to yesterday used a term that I think best sums up the new direction we may need to take. That term was “we need to start looking at the things that unite us, instead of divide us”. It is true that no one will ever agree on things all the time. However does that mean we should just ignore one another and stay within a clique of our own beliefs? As Democrats or Republicans and the left, right, or moderate leaning in those parties, we are all going to have core beliefs that we will never veer from. For those core beliefs democracy must be utilized to settle our dissagrements. For these issues we should start to look at things that lead to progress and that is compromise. Within an issue what can we all agree on?
If we don't start to look at this I do fear that there will be those that will start to look at different population segments and look for an issue that will split that segment and turn it against one another. We have seen a strategy that now uses issues to influence elections. For example a candidate who realizes that there is a split in the nation concerning gay marriage can take the side of being for or against it and if the population is divided 60/40, if they take the right side it could possibly mobilize people for a win. However, what good does that do for the population? There is now 40 percent of that segment that is now jaded and will not work with the other side on anything.
So now as a result of this we have a President of a divided nation and eleven or so states with referendums that passed prohibiting gay marriage. But what if we had done things differently? What if we saw that division and looked at a way to find some common ground. Would not progress have been made? Instead of division? For instance we could have looked at the sides that were for and against and came up with some alternatives using legislation. We could
Bush: US will pull out if new Iraqi leaders request it
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US troops will pull out of Iraq if the new leaders to be elected on Sunday requested it, President George W. Bush said in an interview published by The New York Times, although he added that he expected the Iraqis to ask US troops to remain as helpers, not occupiers.
"I've heard the voices of the people that presumably will be in a position of responsibility after these elections, though you never know," Bush said.
"But it seems like most of the leadership there understands that there will be a need for coalition troops at least until Iraqis are able to fight."
Asked by the daily in its 40-minute interview, carried out on Thursday, if the US troops should be withdrawn if the new Iraqi administration requested it, Bush said: "Yes, absolutely. And this is a sovereign government -- they're on their feet."
See whole article for more bilous quotes.
Did anyone catch the Daily Show last night? They showed a clip from Bush's press conference, where a "reporter" asked some sort of fawning question condemning Bush's critics... I can't find a transcript, want to know what that was all about. Who was that idiot?
By the way if you're interested the new 35mm print of Raging Bull is playing on NYC's largest movie screen at the Ziegfeld theater on 54th and 7th.
Gorgeous new print, remastered sound that the did for the special edition DVD coming out on Feb 8th.
Eben Cooke-
Scroll down.
Same old catblogger!!
But with a bonus: A pic of my home, utterly wrecked by a flood!
The Syrians say that they'll leave Lebanon if they're asked nicely.
That's a lie.
Bush says we'll leave Iraq if we're aksed nicely.
Sure.
blog whoring
Our Brothers The Syrians
There it is, thanks.
But with a bonus: A pic of my home, utterly wrecked by a flood!
rorschach
What happened?
Central Scrutinizer
Photobucket, eh?
I'm not just computer illiterate-I'm computer incompetent. My mouse threw itself into the jaws of Pixe the Maurading Death Machine and my wireless keyboard hung itself on a phone cord. It took me twenty minutes to find the "on" switch when I first got my laptop and "dongle" still means nothing to me except a way to involk a giggle. Once I figure out how to successfully do links, I'll have a new way to entertain/bore/torture my distant family members.
They may not thank you, but I do.
How very nice. It seems our government is developing its own tourist "tag and release" program.
Kitty cat porn,
and I don't care.
Kitty cat porn,
and I don't care.
Focus on the (Feline) Family
I kum'd.
How very nice. It seems our government is developing its own tourist "tag and release" program.
watertiger
I dunno watertiger, but I think the "release" part may be a little optimistic.
left rev.,
You're welcome.
Honestly, it's very easy to use. Believe me, if I can figure out how to use it, anyone can.
I dunno watertiger, but I think the "release" part may be a little optimistic.
Yeah, you're probably right. More like "tag and detain and torture and cover up and then blame Clinton" program.
wt: oy. Does that mean Green Carders/permanent residents will similarly have to upgrade their documents to include RFID?
Rorschach-Eek, sorry about the house flood thing.
thealogie,
i want to know if they're attached to the body in any way. and what's to keep someone from ditching a tag?
I wish you had mentioned this event earlier. I would have recruited some people to come down.
When we first got our pooch, the vet offered to stick a little bar code chip under his skin so that if he was picked up by animal control, they could scan him and give us a call.
Sounded like a good plan at the time. Now I feel like I've violated his civil rights.
What's next, I wonder...
I was scrolling down, enjoying your cats Atrios, and came to the third one. Then I realized you didn't get a third cat, that was Cheney!
There's a cat who lives in my parent's neighborhood who has a slanted, sneery mouth. They "named" the poor thing Dick Cheney.
so, it goes without saying that pie and others with the privs will post some open threads if the A-man is gone all weekend, right?
want to know if they're attached to the body in any way. and what's to keep someone from ditching a tag?
Well RFID technology in animals has them planted under the skin. I can't imagine they would be allowed to do that with humans, but.... some people have suggested tagging newborns so they can be tracked if kidnapped. It's already done with pets (the chip is about the size of a grain of rice).
Oh Atrios - flip Zephyr the bird for me, will you? Thanks.
But with a bonus: A pic of my home, utterly wrecked by a flood!
rorschach
What happened?
Holden Caulfield
The rains came. Late November, Austin, as you will recall. I woke up around 2 AM and reached down to find my glasses so I could see the clock, to see how much more time I had before work demanded my consciousness.
Reaching down, I found the bedroom in four inches of water.
The entire house, in fact, was in such a state.
Most of my books were on shelves, but hundreds on the floor were lost.
And presently, I am living in a hotel, while asbestos tile is removed from my house, and while workers are actually digging underneath the concrete slab foundation so as to raise the entire structure eighteen inches...
That's the short version.
Chris, can you email it to me? i can put it up on a couple of sites. blogspot does have song posting abilities, in most cases, but atrios is away...
spinoza,
i can't imagine that tourists would agree to have chips implanted.
So not only is Bush killing other facets of the economy, he's going to kill tourism, as well?
Rorschach-
Post a list of some of your lost books. I'll be glad to send you one.
Wow.
Cross 1984 with The President's Analyst and you just about have Reality, 2005.
Except that Analyst was considered a comedy back in the day.
KevinNYC,
This just in from the "Please God don't do it files" comes this:
Screen legend Robert DeNiro has reunited with iconic director Martin Scorsese to work on a sequel to their classic movie "Taxi Driver" reports Contact Music.
The Oscar-winning actor, who starred as disturbed Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle in the 1976 film, has confirmed the movie veterans are mulling over script ideas for a follow-up to the gritty original.
With the exception of the "Meet" films, De Niro has starred in a series of flop films and critics are hoping Travis Bickle's resurrection will restore his reputation.
De Niro says, "I was talking with Martin Scorsese about doing what I guess you'd call a sequel to Taxi Driver, where he is older."
It wasn't a flood; it was simply a case of the water exercising its new-found freedom and ranging beyond the arbitrary limits imposed upon it by its banks.
[/scottie]
I posted on the US-VISIT thing (don't they come up with the cutest names?) the other day, and as I understand it, it's a matter of checking folks as they enter and leave the country. No need to implant a chip in the body, I think they are just implanting it in the visa or passport.
Here's the snippet I posted:
The US Department of Homeland Security has decided to trial RFID tags in an effort to make sure only the right sort of people get across US borders.
The controversial US-VISIT scheme for those visiting the US from abroad already fingerprints holidaymakers on their way into the country and is now adding RFID to the mix in order to improve border management, the department said.
...
RFID chips will be used to track both pedestrians and vehicles entering the US to automatically record when the visitors arrive and leave in the country.
So far, over 400 people have been turned away from the country or arrested as a result of US-VISIT checks.
US Under Secretary for Border & Transportation Security, Asa Hutchinson, said in a statement: "Through the use of radio frequency technology, we see the potential to not only improve the security of our country, but also to make the most important infrastructure enhancements to the US land borders in more than 50 years."
It is so painfully obvious that Bush is just going to pull troops out, do nothing to ensure that Iraq does not descend into a terrorist hellhole, and the wingnuts will declare victory and say that anyone who says otherwise is trying to "recreate Vietnam." The wingnuts actually believe that we won in Vietnam, but that 30 years of naysayers in the press have convinced most people otherwise.
So, with their logic, the key to winning in Iraq is just believing that we won, not actually winning.
beautiful kitties. dreaming of catnip and fish and Atrios's leg no doubt.
Wildly OT,
Just watched "A Passage to India" for about the 10th time in two weeks. Talk about topical as far as the "white man's burden" and those disgusting brown people.
And is just me, or does anyone else think that movie is one of two that was much better than the book (the other being "The Hunt for Red October")?
Granted I read "A Passage to India when I was a senior in HS, didn't know squat about this Raj business, and grew up in podunk city, Illinois, but the joke was that nothing happened in that book until the absolute middle, when someone fired a gun. Of course, our book group had to read "Portrait of the Artist..." and "To the Lighthouse, and I had no idea what those two books were about either, so you must forgive me.
-de niro says, "i was talking with martin scorsese about doing what i guess you'd call a sequel to taxi driver, where he is older"
???
i think it would be out of character for travis bickle to get all that much older. he struck me as someone who is just sort of destined to die young.
This RFID chip is probably similar to the ID card I have as a civilian employee working on a US military base.
The card has a small, maybe 5mm chip on the card itself which can be read by a card reader attached to my computer which allows me to log into the network and send secure mail. This chip contains all my pertinent data, including the company for whom I work, my address, phone number, and complete military history, among other things.
It's 3:08 here in the east, the office is blessedly quiet and I'm counting the minutes until 5:30 when The Weekend Begins.
This has been one hard flippin' week.
Who's with me:
WEEKend, WEEKend, WEEkend...
(Obviously, I'm getting delerious.)
i think it would be out of character for travis bickle to get all that much older. he struck me as someone who is just sort of destined to die young.
Interesting. I thought Travis actually died in the shootout in Iris' room at the end of Taxi Driver and the rest of the movie was a dream sequence kind of thing.
I thought Travis get everything expunged, and ended up as POTUS.
Rorschach-
Post a list of some of your lost books. I'll be glad to send you one.
spinoza
you are a kind soul, spinoza. The wish list is posted over on my site, here, if you are interested. I appreciate the kind thoughts!
I'm watching the Auschwitz Commemeration and so far not any mention of the tens of thousands of homosexuals murdered by the Nazis. They're talking about the Sinti and Roma gypsies, though.
I thought Travis actually died in the shootout in Iris' room at the end of Taxi Driver and the rest of the movie was a dream sequence kind of thing.
No, that was "Dallas."
The card has a small, maybe 5mm chip on the card itself which can be read by a card reader attached to my computer which allows me to log into the network and send secure mail.
Seems to me that anyone who wanted to do harm would be able to get rid of that/forge it fairly easily.
But then again, I tend toward conspiracy theories.
When you get bored looking at Atrios' felines, our senior cat is out and about...
-de niro says, "i was talking with martin scorsese about doing what i guess you'd call a sequel to taxi driver, where he is older"
???
i think it would be out of character for travis bickle to get all that much older. he struck me as someone who is just sort of destined to die young.
Olaf glad and big | Email | Homepage | 01.28.05 - 3:13 pm | #
well, let's remember that (male) hollow-wood is aging, and rather obviously. how many of the last ten year's worth of summer blockbusters have had guys starring in them that we've been seeing since the 80s and before? not that i really keep track, but the impression i get is that mainstream/corporate movies are all about massaging the egos of the elder shareholder-actor types, who get to fuck increasingly less age-appropriate women (zeta-jones and connery, for example).
i'd add that it seems like fresh ideas are also pretty rare in LA. i've heard about so many "sequels" and rewrites and "updates" and so little about new stories that are suited for our time alone. which is probably another reason why F9/11 did so well.
ickle kittie-wittie snugglies!
Can't think of anything less appealing than Travis Bickle as a senior citizen.
i'd add that it seems like fresh ideas are also pretty rare in LA. i've heard about so many "sequels" and rewrites and "updates" and so little about new stories that are suited for our time alone. which is probably another reason why F9/11 did so well.
New stories?
You a very funny lady.
I'm watching the Auschwitz Commemeration and so far not any mention of the tens of thousands of homosexuals murdered by the Nazis. They're talking about the Sinti and Roma gypsies, though.
Ô¿Ô | Email | Homepage | 01.28.05 - 3:17 pm | #
incog, i'd be curious to know if they have ever made mention of us in one of these big commemerations. i can see why they wouldn't do it if they were trying to please all the american fascists there, although i wish someone had pointed out how gays were treated when cheney was suiting up to play nazi guard.
The Poop in Rome is having his message read at Auschwitz now. Hey Poop, stop encouraging our genocide, will you?!?!
A taxi driver sequel? That's just plain fucking stupid. I refuse to believe that Scorsese would even bother.
although i wish someone had pointed out how gays were treated when cheney was suiting up to play nazi guard.
chicago dyke
It's bigotry. They've always fought any mention of it.
i didn't get the impression that travis died in the shootout at the end. he didn't strike me as the kind of person who was likely to live another 30 years though.
a sequel to taxi driver, where he is older
I'm with chicago dyke on this one. Let's see: Travis now owns a fleet of cabs and has a pentouse overlooking Central Park. Natalie Portman plays his wife...
BTW, I think what was even grosser than the Connery/Zeta-Jones pairing was the Paltrow/Michael Douglas one in "A Perfect Murder."
What's even grosser is that he's her godfather or something like that. Well, at least I thought it was gross.
i just don't feel like working...
Seems to me that anyone who wanted to do harm would be able to get rid of that/forge it fairly easily.
honey, that's not the point. if we wanted to actually catch terrorists, well shucks! i guess there's just a whole list of proven and effective techniques that we've yet to try. but i won't bore you with that, i'm sure you know them and that bushco will never try them.
no, this is just like political RFID use anywhere- to collect info about folks like us for a big database that will later be used to prosecute, persecute, harrass and embarrass us for being opposed to the neo-con agenda.
make fun of me all you want, i'll never get an I-pass.
SHUT UP POOP!! GET HIM OFF OF THERE!! DON'T YOU HAVE A LITTLE BOY TO MOLEST??
incog, i'd be curious to know if they have ever made mention of us in one of these big commemerations.
Queers are always the silenced other at these things, but at least in SF, and in Italy, that silence is being broken:
A bouquet of flowers lies at the foot of the Holocaust memorial in Pink Triangle Park marking the extermination of gays and lesbians at the hands of the Nazis.
The park, in San Francisco's Castro district, includes 15 triangular granite pylons, each marked with a pink triangle.
The Nazis required "sexual deviants" to wear the pink triangle.
Under Paragraph 175 of the German penal code, which banned sexual intimacy between members of the same gender, an untold number of gays were rounded up by the Nazis and send to concentration camps where they were subjected to medical experiments including lobotomies, and forced to work in labor camps.
The number of gays sent to the camps ranges from 5,000 to 15,000, many of them sent to the gas chambers.
In Italy today, a black marble plaque surmounted by a pink triangle will be unveiled at the site of the only Nazi concentration camp in Italy.
The unveiling at San Sabba is the first public recognition in Italy of the suffering of gays under the Nazis. The memorial, proposed by Arcigay, Italy's largest LGBT rights group was backed by the city's mayor and council.
"The plaque is important," says Sergio lo Giudice, president of Arcigay, who will do the unveiling. "It's a sign that something in Italy is changing."
watertiger,
What about the Zeta-Jones/Michael Douglas marriage now that's gross.
I've got my camera and it's sunny outside and full of snow, but the dogs don't budge. They just snore louder.
I should have taken pictures yesterday when they were hopping up and down in the deep snow like bunny rabbits. And squatting down to poop so that only the snout was visible above the snow. It's very snowy here.
I thought they had a sequal during the 70s of Taxi as a sitcom with Danny DeVito?
After Scorcese gets his first well-deserved Oscar for "The Aviator" he won't go into re-tread land. Why should he?
if they remake taxi i want nardo?
Meow.
No catblogging for me today, too much work.
I've been taking care of a sick wife for the past 3 days which is why I've been gone.
Just found out my senators voted to confirm Condiliar, farking great.
Anyway chack out my blog.
See y'all next week.
UF -
Michael Douglas is gross. Period.
marilu henner. my teenage heartthrob.
What about the Zeta-Jones/Michael Douglas marriage now that's gross.
Unrepentant Fenian | Email | Homepage | 01.28.05 - 3:30 pm | #
ok, i'll make myself look like an ass and contradict what i just said- i hear that douglas is 1)really, really powerful and 2)quite liberal and outspoken. if i liked guys, i might be able to find a way to think of that combo as attractive. i'm sure she had a wide range of options to choose from, including plenty of younger and prettier boys.
No one ever mentions mental health patients or people with deformities who were killed by the Nazis either. No one is there to champion their cause and remember what happened to many of them.
They were the first victims of the Final Solution, by the way.
Ba'al wishes we had a free press here, as well as the energy to translate all this. The bottom line is that Le Monde actually writes about the latest Bush attrocities, and even covers the response of the opposition. In this case, the demand of Terry McAullife that Bush clarify his position on race and gender as a factor in determining SS benefits.
Ba'al likes France a lot. Sigh.
Etats-Unis : tollé sur l'éventuelle modulation des retraites selon le sexe ou la race
LEMONDE.FR | 26.01.05 | 10h34
L'évocation de possibles modulations des retraites américaines selon le sexe ou la race a soulevé un tollé, mardi 25 janvier à Washington, des démocrates, qui demandent au président George W. Bush de prendre position publiquement contre cette hypothèse.
"Il est scandaleux de prétendre que le montant des retraites doive être basé sur la race", s'est indigné le président du Parti démocrate, Terry McAuliffe.
"Les républicains de Washington essaieront de faire valoir que les hommes noirs ont une espérance de vie plus courte que les Blancs, et donc que le système actuel est injuste, mais cet argument est, au mieux, malhonnête", a ajouté M. McAuliffe dans un communiqué.
"Si les hommes noirs ont une espérance de vie plus courte, ce n'est pas un problème de retraite, mais un problème de santé, d'éducation, de nutrition et d'inégalité de revenu", a-t-il ajouté, appelant le président Bush à "rompre son silence" à ce sujet.
Ask the NewsHour
The NewsHour (PBS) is taking questions for an online forum on press credibilty:
Two experts* take your questions about specific cases of journalistic misdemeanors and how the news organizations in general can improve their credibility.
*Michael Getler, ombudsman for The Washington Post and former executive editor for the International Herald Tribune, and Jay Rosen, chairman of New York University's journalism department and blogger of pressthink.org.
One question that occurs to me is why the NewsHour would have Tony Blankley, columnist and editorial page editor for the Washington Times on, billed as a "media expert" to discuss the case of marriage expert Maggie Gallagher’s possible conflict of interest -- without mentioning his boss-- Washington Times owner Sun Myung Moon, known for conducting mass marriages in sports arenas as well as subsidizing the Washington Times, specifically to promote the agenda of the Unification Church.
Got a question of your own?
all my teenage horndog friends were smitten with one or another of charlie's bony-ass angels. not me.
marilu henner.
Gosh those cats are cute. They look so calm, but I know they probably were fighting earlier. I know mine do that before they curl up together.
re zeta jones & douglas - ageism?
Merci Baal!
Monsieur Bush, le gros petard.
surfdork, I chak your blog all the time.
Hope everything is ok with mrs. surfdork.
La sange conduit l'autobus.
Sorry, Ba'al. That's all I got.
What, no dog blogging?
Ahh, the life of the apex predator!
Ba'al,
Will immolating my French/English create a pleasing aroma for you?
I only recognized about 1/5 of the words in that article. Was it a good one?
all my teenage horndog friends were smitten with one or another of charlie's bony-ass angels. not me.
marilu henner.
Do you mean the Angels of yore, or today's angels?
I've not seen the movies, though I do feel that Lucy Liu is hot, and Drew Barrymore too--but all my dyke friends have just drooled over these films...
Sorry: "French/English DICTIONARY"
Know what one is burning before one burns it.
Fact check his ass?
President Bush, in an interview with Brian Lamb of C-SPAN that was released Friday, talked of life in the White House:
Lamb: ``The longer you're in this White House, with all those that have gone before you, do you see ghosts of past presidents?''
Bush: ``Well, I quit drinking in '86. ... It's just really hard to project back into somebody else's shoes. So, no, I guess I don't see ghosts.''
From AP
1986---does this sound right?
all my teenage horndog friends were smitten with one or another of charlie's bony-ass angels. not me.
I was no teenager, but even at six years old I knew she was *gooood-lookin'*
Although she couldn't hold a candle to Wonder Woman in my affections.
Ba'al
The Le Monde article just reports what Terry McAuliffe said: pension benefits should not be based on age, race or expected lifespan based on these criteria. If black men have a lower life expectancy, this is a public health issue, not a pension issue, and should be addressed, not compensated for.
Hey, there's a gathering sure to put you to sleep.
I love this:
“If [the Japanese] do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth.”
– President Harry S. Truman, August 1945.
On the other hand, there’s this:
“The U.S. military presence [in Iraq] has become part of the problem, not part of the solution.”
– Senator “Whiskey” Ted Kennedy, January 2005.
No, Virginia, it sure ain’t your father’s, or your grandfather’s, Democratic Party. Not now. Not anymore.
Speaking of Taxi, Judd Hirsch is in a new CSI like TV show called Numbers which aires tonight on CBS. I caught it after the NFL playoffs last week and it wasn't too bad. It also stars Rob Morrow and my pretend girlfriend Sabrina Lloyd. UF is a big Sabrina Lloyd fan.
DMS
If you like Passage To India I think you'll love "The Jewel In The Crown".
Great old mini series from British production company Granada. The books by Paul Scott were pretty good as well.
Although she couldn't hold a candle to Wonder Woman in my affections.
Yup.
Lynda Carter was like Fisher-Price's My First Bondage Kit for young viewers.
I was no teenager, but even at six years old I knew she was *gooood-lookin'*
Jaclyn Smith of course I mean. She's the only Angel worth discussing.
Ba'al, I'll give it a shot.
"It is scandalous to suggest that the tax be based on race," said an indignant president of the Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe."
"The Washington Republicans are trying to make the case that black men's lifespans are shorter than whites', and that the system we have is unfair, but that argument is bad, is dishonest," argued MacAuliffe.
"If black men have shorter lifespans, it is not because of race, but a problem of health, education and an inequality of income," he added, calling on President Bush to "break his silence" on the subject.
OT, but there's a funny "review" of Christine Todd Whitless's whiny new tome at Salon:
That was then, this is now. Bush's narrow victory in November completed the Republican Party's transformation from a vehicle for principled conservatives into a debt-fueled pimpmobile for crony capitalists and religious hucksters...And even as Bush and his backers are doing doughnuts on the National Mall, Whitman steps up to ask, with a cluelessness that borders on the sublime: "Will the GOP interpret the president's reelection victory as a mandate, even a requirement, to continue to cater to the demands of the far right on a series of key wedge issues?"
"a debt-fueled pimpmobile for crony capitalists and religious hucksters"... ahhh the perfect description, minus the mention of the reinstatement of the MI complex as America's raison d'etre. And the Bush juvies doing doughnuts on the National Mall... LOL.
i think it would be out of character for travis bickle to get all that much older. he struck me as someone who is just sort of destined to die young.
Olaf glad and big
Or it could turn out this way:
Travis has to retire from driving due to a nasty case of 'roids, but he just can't leave the cabbie world behind. New from Columbia/Tristar: "Taxi Dispatcher". Oh, the wacky situations that would unfold from this loner being cooped up now with a crazy cast of characters in a smoky garage office. Don't forget the cameo appearances by Jodi Foster (now running a service that helps teen prostitutes get off the streets) and Cybill Shepard (as the new mayor of NYC who's on a crusade against strip clubs and porn shops, but who's secretly into S&M--the irony!).
Although she couldn't hold a candle to Wonder Woman in my affections.
Oh, man, you just triggered a massive memory. I used to wait table at the Louisiana Pizza Kitchen in New Orleans right by the french market, and our manager at that time (the next manager fired my ass) was a pushover, and so he let us design and carry off a "Linda Carter/Charlie's Angels special" every Tuesday night.
Three of the female waitresses would come in as the angels, and an incredibly butch black, shaved-head gay man was Wonder Woman, and I conveyed orders and such to them via stylish 70s walky-talkies...
Good times...
"et le singe. . . le singe est disparu!"
The Beslan massacre was an inside job. They're such quick learners.
watertiger--
If I were you, I'd check sur la branche.
But that's just me.
Lynda Carter was like Fisher-Price's My First Bondage Kit for young viewers.
John | Email | Homepage | 01.28.05 - 3:46 pm | #
oh, what sweet memories i have of that wonder....sigh.
Lynda Carter was like Fisher-Price's My First Bondage Kit for young viewers.
John
-snicker-
ok-that's funny
er, ms. carter and my childhood, that is.
Thank you watertiger. Ba'al atually lived in France for some time. He did not have the gumption to type all of that as he has burnt himself out a bit at work today. It is easier to cut and paste.
This was on pg 2 of the print version.
Hiya surfdork,
Sorry that the missus has been under the weather. Hope everything is all right.
I, too would like to know why my Senator, Mary Landrieu, voted to confirm the incompetent liar. Alas, no matter how often I call or write, I never get an answer. Let me know if you hear back from either of yours.
Give Ms. Teachout our "love".
It's bigotry. They've always fought any mention of it.
Ô¿Ô
Here in MN there was a wingnut state goverment figure who denied that gays were persecuted by Nazis. At least his feet got held to the fire.
Lynda Carter was like Fisher-Price's My First Bondage Kit for young viewers.
John | Email | Homepage | 01.28.05 - 3:46 pm | #
oh, what sweet memories i have of that wonder....sigh.
chicago dyke
Heh heh. I haven't questioned my sexual identity much, but even I found a tied-up wonder woman to be pretty, er, exciting.
By the way, rorschach, I might pony up for one of the books on your wish list, but not Meridian. Walker phoned that one in, I suspect.
rorscach,
ouai, et maintenant, le singe est fumee une cigaret.
Lynda Carter was like Fisher-Price's My First Bondage Kit for young viewers.
Nice to see that I wasn't the only young pervert out there. There was that episode with the blonde Nazi vixen who has Wonder Woman in cuffs...
And Jaclyn Smith would have made a great Wonder Woman.
Unrepentan Fenian:
Sabrina Lloyd. Sigh.
She was the only reason I watched
that piece of shit Sliders.
Ba'al,
Les accents grave, aigu, et circonflexe would do me in. I just figured out what keystroke combination gets me ™.
Right1
Yeah, except that Truman fired MacArthur, accepted a negotiated draw in Korea, created the Marshall Plan, and thought that Joseph McCarthy was a fascist pig.
Only a complete fucking moron would fail to make a distinction between WW2 and Iraq. But being a wingnut with a diseased mind, you scrawl this bullshit undoubtedly wearing a t-shirt soaked with the semen you spattered about after viewing some sick kiddie porn site before logging on here. You dream of Irak nuked. Iran too. Because it would be "kewl". Hell, you think we should nuke the pussies in France.
You and your kind should be forcibly medicated for the good of society.
Fuck off and die.
HBK,
Watched all of the "Jewel" series and consequently and subsequently read all but about 100 pages of "The Raj Quartet."
Thanks for responding.
I hate to leave just when this thread is heating up...
Have a great weekend!
Two words. Kate Jackson.
Has the tuxie been listening to Taj Mahal?
Throw that big leg over me, mama... :D
antiphone
thanks for that link. I had a question of my own regarding the, um, chummy relationship between Ifill and Rice and a certain interview about 16 words.....
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rorschach,
Mon bad. fumant.
wonder woman
Ba'al also liked wonder woman.
What, no dog blogging?
Your wish is my command.
Ba'al especially likes Catherine Deneuve
Thx for all of the support. Wife VERY sick but the baby is OK (so far).
Murrays response was posted, very fucking lame politico speak.
And WHY did I vote for her?
No response from Cantwell yet. Shit if I can gather enough money I should run against Cantwell in 06, she is rethug lite and AGAIN has voted on the wrong side of an issue.
I heard form Murrays staffer that she is the target of "phone banking".
Anybody familiar with that?
From what I understand ti's when wingnuts target a legislator and clog up their phones.
If this is true then people in Red land MUST call their rethug asswipes CONSTANTLY.
Make them defend their BS just like they go after us.
Back to work and keep on fighting!
Sabrina Lloyd. Sigh.
She was the only reason I watched
that piece of shit Sliders.
Steve Simels
Your not the only one. She was great on Sport's Night and Madigan Men.
Baal, I must burn offerings to you after that thourough smackdown of the wingnut.
"and jaclyn smith would have made a great wonder woman."
-swifferboat
no no no no no
wonderwoman has much bigger boobs than jaclyn smith.
marilu henner could have done it in a black wig though.
Ba'al especially likes Catherine Deneuve
Liberte!
Tanya Roberts was the best Angel,
IMHO.
There was something wonderfully
vaguely sleazy about her.
On a terrifying note, yup, it sounds like they're starting to shoot down our planes. There is no official explanation (lie) yet for the one down today in Iraq.
Just wait till they get their hands on our soldiers. It'll make Abu Ghraib look like a party. And by our example, our leadership, there will be no mercy.
Hey, cat lovers: Cat question...
we have a 3 year old cat, and decided against getting two kittens at the time. Now we regret it, and I think our cat might be lonely. Should we get a kitten now? Will an older female cat (fixed, indoor/outdoor) accomodate a new kitten? Experiences?
no no no no no
wonderwoman has much bigger boobs than jaclyn smith.
I knew someone was going to raise this objection.
Okay, Jaclyn Smith with a swimsuit model remake.
Or Raquel Welch circa "Fathom" era.
Remember when Debra Winger was Wonder Girl. Hubba Hubba.
Natalie Portman is almost enough to make Ba'al forgo burnt offerings.
She is not to be BURNT. Repeat. Not Burnt.
Ba'al has spoken.
[homer] marilu henner, auuughghghgh [/homer]
There was one episode of Taxi where the premise was each character's fantasies -- somehow this led (wonderfully) to Marilu Henner in a Vegassy outfit -- fishnet stockings up to HERE, and a lowcut top with cleavage down to HERE...
Obviously, the producers' fantasy, not hers....
Liberte!
Sororite!
Hey, cat lovers: Cat question...
we have a 3 year old cat, and decided against getting two kittens at the time. Now we regret it, and I think our cat might be lonely. Should we get a kitten now? Will an older female cat (fixed, indoor/outdoor) accomodate a new kitten? Experiences?
Ty Lookwel
Since she's fixed, you have a good chance. Get a very, very young kitten, and her maternal thing may well kick in. I think it will work out, but be prepared to keep a door between them for the first week or so, until they begin to accept that they are sharing space.
cats usually like hanging out with other cats, ty. that has been my experience anyway.
Atrios is going to a thingie with Zephyr Teachout? That babe with the Kos issues? Man, I wish I didn't already have plans.
This is not offtopic - I'm talking catfight.
Quick... someone burn something in offering.. Ba'al is getting testy!
There's a topic??
Sue: erm, sorry, a bit newbish, but what's the issue with Zephyr Teachout?
Liberte!
Sororite!
Hey, y'all, this is not the time to start shouting out the titles of French porno films.
Tanya Roberts was the best Angel,
IMHO.
And who could forget her Shakespearean turn in "Sheena"?
we have a 3 year old cat, and decided against getting two kittens at the time.
Now we regret it, and I think our cat might be lonely. Should we get a kitten
now? Will an older female cat (fixed, indoor/outdoor) accomodate a new kitten?
Experiences?
Ty Lookwell | Email | Homepage | 01.28.05 - 4:09 pm | #
My sainted cat Murray was not thrilled
when we decided to keep
his daughter Claire. Barely tolerated
her for about two years, and then one
night we came home and found them cuddled
as in the picture above.
It all depends, I guess is the answer.
f
we have a 3 year old cat, and decided against getting two kittens at the time. Now we regret it, and I think our cat might be lonely. Should we get a kitten now? Will an older female cat (fixed, indoor/outdoor) accomodate a new kitten? Experiences?
3 years old? Probably less of an issue that our 17 year old when we took in our youngest.
You need to keep the new ones in a closed room for a few weeks so the incumbent can get used to the interlopers' smell. You might also need to spray feliway to help reduce stress.
Saffron, the old one, has gotten used to Sam the Action Kitten, and holds her own when he gets into annoying mode (batting at her, biting her on the neck).
Will an older female cat (fixed, indoor/outdoor) accomodate a new kitten? Experiences?
Depends on the kitten.
We had two female cats the same age, lived together most of their lives. Got along alright (minor fighting once in a while, but otherwise placid, flabby fur babies).
Then one of the cats developed a brutally fast cancer and had to be put down a couple months later.
The remaining adult female got lonely (as well as her owners) and we decided to get a kitten. A few months later we brought home a 10-week boy kitten. At first the adult female kept him in line, but the boy got playful and still (10 months later) pesters her step-sister by jumping on her and going for her scruff. He can be sweet or vicious, and we know he'll grow out of it. When he's not an insane baby balrog, they get along fine and the adult female has been known to be visibly worried about him when we humans trim his claws.
We were told to get a kitten of the opposite gender, because there are less issues. Perhaps, when kitten shopping, you look for the more most docile one in the group.
Hope this helps.
Hey, I don't think anyone's maentioned this here, but re: Cheney's attire, there's a poll on CNN.com. At least the "No, he wasn't dressed appropriately" response is winning, 75% to 25%.
Sue: erm, sorry, a bit newbish, but what's the issue with Zephyr Teachout?
You missed the Great Zephy Sellout Debacle?!
David E - that's too cool.
Tanya Roberts was the best Angel,
IMHO.
There was something wonderfully
vaguely sleazy about her.
Steve Simels
That's like saying that Tara was better than Mrs. Peel.
Hey, y'all, this is not the time to start shouting out the titles of French porno films.
Debbie Fait Dallas
Kittycatporn - wasn't he Khmer Rouge?
On a terrifying note, yup, it sounds like they're starting to shoot down our planes.
They've been shooting *at* them since the beginning of the operation. Only now are they apparently beginning to *hit* them.
Worst Dressed Statesman tells the truth for once Big Time
in my experience, cats enjoy having humans give them food and we are fun to annoy now and then, but they prefer hanging out with other cats. they think they don't, but really they do.
Le Monde reports that only a few dozen Iraqis have voted in France today.
surfdork,
Warm thoughts going out to your wife. Hope everything is ok.
True story, I swear:
I was living in Fayetteville, AR, with my future ex-wife and our female cat Calypso. White, with a black spot on her back.
We got her fixed, just before the landlord decided to do massive renovations on the house.
This rendered our house screenless, during an Arkansas summer, so we had all the windows open all the time regardless. Calypso was an indoor/outdoor cat anyway, so no worries.
here's the thing: Two days after the screens came down, this scrawny, starving wastrel version of Calypso--white, with black spot--came in through the window, and stayed.
And I swear Calypso looked at me with a gleam in her eye that said: "Try to fix me, will you? I've reproduced anyway!"
We named her Kafka...
Natalie Portman is almost enough to make Ba'al forgo burnt offerings.
She is not to be BURNT. Repeat. Not Burnt.
Ba'al has spoken.
Yeah, she's grown up a bit since The Professional.
Wonder what happened to Jean Reno? What a great flick. BTW, in honor of your troll smackdown I just burnt some toast.
-
all my dyke friends
great band name
RCSanders -
Not to nit pick, but I did write shoot down, not at.
Surfdork, I'm sending good energy the way of your wife.
Let's not forget Agent 99.
That's like saying that Tara was better than Mrs. Peel.
HoneyBearKelly | Email | Homepage
Good lord, no.
No one ever wore a cat suit like
Mrs. Peel.
Corrected link?
Wish this thing had a preview function - I hate to piss off Ba'al.
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No one ever wore a cat suit like
Mrs. Peel.
I love when conversations come full circle.
Steve, John, NTodd, everyone else, thanks very much for the kitten advice -
all my dyke friends
great band name
focus
Actually, great Austin rollerderby team name...
Let's not forget Agent 99.
I will NEVER forget 99.
Surfdork,
Positive vibes being sent from NY.
Looks like Safire got a head start on disposing of all of his old files at the Times.
Massive Manure Fire Burns Into Third Month
Ty
No problem. Good luck.
And Surfdork, warm thoughts your way.
Kafka was, by the way, killed by bastards in New Orleans, and I buried her at the foot of a grand old oak in City Park, just by Bayou St. John...
i will never forget 99 either. she wasn't even all that hot, but there was something about her.
I can't believe anyone liked the movie "The Professional". I can't bear watching it after she dresses up to try to make him laugh. It's just too contrived. I think it's really one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
As for Jean Reno, he just made his first comedy with Gerard Depardieu. I think it was called "Ta Gueule (Shut the fuck up)" or something like that.
Et parce-que vous avez demande, voici. Jean Reno.
rorschach,
Very sorry about kafka--new orleans is a tough city on cats. Were the bastards of the human or roving pack dog variety?
Driving down Broadway near Tulane yesterday, a pack of about 6 wild dogs had completely stopped traffic while they leisurely crossed the road. And they cut funds to Animal Control again.
kaos alway had sexier lady spies than control.
I was pretty close. HIs movie with Gerard Depardieu wasn't "Ta Gueule" it was "Tais-toi". I guess they decided to be polite.
I think this is why it's called a 'cuddle of kittens'...
Fielding,
Ba'al was unaware she had made a film after the Professional
(not really)
rorschach,
Very sorry about kafka--new orleans is a tough city on cats. Were the bastards of the human or roving pack dog variety?
Driving down Broadway near Tulane yesterday, a pack of about 6 wild dogs had completely stopped traffic while they leisurely crossed the road. And they cut funds to Animal Control again.
My God. That's the stupidist thing they could do. That city is rife with feral animals! I used to have occasion to walk from the Quarter out to Bayou St John, so believe me, I know!
The bastards who killed my cat were human. It was near Halloween (of course)--and I found her, stiff, and still soaking wet, on my doorstep...
I never realized that "ta gueule" was that strong, i thought it was more just "shut up"
I can't believe anyone liked the movie "The Professional". I can't bear watching it after she dresses up to try to make him laugh. It's just too contrived. I think it's really one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
i found it deeply offensive, and borderline pederasty. when she sings "like a virgin" and prances around at him...well, i stopped the VHS player then and there.
Surfdork:
I'm thinking good thoughts for you
and yours.
I'm a birder and have noticed that the American Bird Conservancy has a "Cats Indoors" campaign to try to convince cat owners to do so to protect both cats and birds. ABC says that cats that live indoors live, on average, 2 or 3 times as long as outdoors cats. Sounds like a good deal for both the cats and the birds.
That's awful, rorschach. I hope karma exists.
Having gone thru multiple illnesses big & small in 2004, I echo the warm thoughts, Surfdork.
And a good weekend to everyone here!
David McCallum as Ilya Kuryakin. Sigh.
Inquiring minds want to know, is Atrios working on a book called The Illustrated Kitty Sutra?
Inquiring minds want to know, is Atrios working on a book called The Illustrated Kitty Sutra?
I don't know but I am working on one called "The Illustrated Santorum Guide to Strom Thurmond's Shaved Scrotum."
-Liddy Dole
Yea, I found that bit with the dressing up a little . . . unsettling. Also, when she's downstairs at the hotel desk, and she "confesses" to the guy that Reno isn't her father.
Aging female:
McCallum was on some TV show
recently and he looked amazingly
good.
Can't remember what show it was,
but I remember thinking he must
have an oil painting in his
attic that looks really awful.
I never realized that "ta gueule" was that strong, i thought it was more just "shut up"
More like "shut the fuck up, you mother-fucking pig."
Very rude to refer to a human's mouth as the gueule instead of bouche in French. Gueule is an animal's mouth.
Although, they do call the cute snack before the starter at dinner the "amuse gueule" sometimes. So there you go.
Karma may or may not exist, Echidne. I'm far too stupid to know anything about that.
(And in retrospect, it's entirely likely that the woman with whom I was living the time killed Kafka... that's a thought that is far too plausible to bear much rumination)
What I do know, however, is that I laid my Kafka to rest in City Park (breaking I don't know how many laws, but I did it in broad daylight), and I now have and love two beautiful kittens, presently living with me in a hotel room.
(Anyone who wonders why or wants to see the kitties, just click on the homepage...)
Again, thank you, Echidne.
Have I mentioned lately how much you rock?
Liddy,
Aaack,hork,phhtp - Bill the Cat
Macallum is the doctor on Navy CIS or whatever it is called.
those are the most beautiful kitties in the world.
except for mine, of course.
Roll Call breaking news:
"The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has declined to endorse Alberto Gonzales in his bid to be the first Latino attorney general."
Poor little Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Repug Hispanic task force, must be so sad. WAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Olaf big and strong: my sweet Omar prefers my company. There aren't any other kitties in the house, but he sure does dote on me. And for Texan Embsd by Bush, that same sweet Omar hilariously sits under the tree where I feed the birds while they carry on completely unconcerned by his presence. He's such a creampuff now that I'll bet a bird could land on his head and he wouldn't react.
To all those Charlies Angels fans ,I was researching that girl that plays number 6 on Battlestar Galactica and found out she is going to be staring in NBC's new movie Charlies Angels.SHe is going to play the part of Farah.It's supposed to be a behind tyhe scenes look at the people who were involved in the series.
Not that I really care,I just thought I would share that info.
Duty calls and must return to work....
those are the most beautiful kitties in the world.
except for mine, of course.
Ahem.
Naveen Andrews as Sayid on LOST! HAWT!
bebe, this one's for you:
Liddy practices the BushCo. greeting
It was near Halloween (of course)--and I found her, stiff, and still soaking wet, on my doorstep
Sorry, but I can't pass it up:
Spring for the good candy next time.
Really, I'm sorry about the cat. No cat should die, ever.
Naveen Andrews as Sayid on LOST! HAWT!
Yeah, as my wife regularly reminds me.
watertiger-If you look closer, Liddy is gesturing a shocker-one of the favorite things Strom did to warm her up.
RCSanders--I understand, but not funny.
chicago dyke, I agree. there was something very wrong with that scene. It was weird beyond belief. The whole premise must have come from a deranged person as well. As a film noir, it may have worked, but that's not how they chose to spin it out.
Ba'al found this on MSN.COM
Discuss.
"My son is an army reservist and he returned from Iraq last March. He was ordered to attend one of the inauguration parties.
I am prior service myself, so I felt very proud that he was chosen from all the people in his group. This particular gathering was to honor many of the soldiers and their families who have been to Iraq.
A group of five drove down from Long Island to Washington last Monday morning, and they were to return Tuesday evening.
Around midnight on Tuesday, my son returned home, looking tired from the drive. The next morning, he told me he didn’t have a good time because they basically stood around and watched the president say a few words. He said there was no food provided for them, so they ate after the event at some fast-food restaurant. They spend all this money for this celebration and can't feed my son? He stayed at a local military base with the rest of the group, but they made him pay for the room.
Apparently, there was a mix-up, or they were short a room.
I don't care what the problem was, he was told to go, this was not an option, orders were cut for this excursion! I am disgusted and horrified that he had to even show his wallet for this event.
snip
I am angered at the way he has been treated. People need to know how some heroes are being treated by their own government. —Rebecca Lawson, West Babylon, N.Y.
Thanks friends for all of the support!
My favorite sexy French actress?
Michèle Laroque!!!!
I'm a birder and have noticed that the American Bird Conservancy has a "Cats Indoors" campaign to try to convince cat owners to do so to protect both cats and birds. ABC says that cats that live indoors live, on average, 2 or 3 times as long as outdoors cats. Sounds like a good deal for both the cats and the birds.
After having 3 indoor/outdoor cats die prematurley we no longer have outdoor cats.
Our kitties stay INSIDE and only veture out on leash.
Yes, kitties have fun outdoors but they also die.
Sickos like to target cats, especially black ones around haloween.
The cats are keeping the wife company copany while she recovers.
I'll post a good hospital story once I catch up at work.
Cheers and thanks again for all of the LOVE.
bebe,
ah. Here's a lovely snap of Liddy warming up for the Great Suck 'n' Smack.
Naveen Andrews as Sayid on LOST! HAWT!
Yeah, as my wife regularly reminds me.
Damn right he is hot! As is, of course, Merry...
surfdork--
I am right there with you, my brother. And I know it'll all turn out well.
Stay strong, and give Ms Surfdork all my best wishes...
and the give my good wishes to the cats, too.
watertiger-Thanks for the picture of Liddy. She looks like she could star in "Sunset Boulevard."
Naveen Andrews as Sayid on LOST! HAWT!
Yeah, as my wife regularly reminds me.
Damn right he is hot! As is, of course, Merry...
My wife's second boy-toy on Gilligan's Island of the Damned.
The only female I like is the South Korean wife, if only because she's so poised and subtle.
And I groove on Locke and Hurley, in a completely hetero way, of course.
http://wwww.thisisrumorcontrol.o...l.org/node/
1527
"Canadian Clobbers Coulter: How to Talk to a Fool (If You Really Must)
At last, Ann Coulter had to face a journalist who is more than a blow-dried, talking-head-news-thingy -- someone who actually knows about history -- and Coulter totally flamed out.
Last night, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's excellent investigative news program, "the Fifth Estate," broadcast a one-hour special on the hijacking of the American media by conservative bullies -- whose knowledge of foreign policy seems to run the gamut from A to B and tends toward scream-o-ramas in which dissenters are accused of being unpatriotic.
Of course, it included Coulter who gloated to correspondent Bob McKeown about how her side is "winning and they're loosing." But in the next segment during a rant about how Canada is disloyal for not sending troops to Iraq -- Coulter was finally exposed -- it just isn't clear from the exchange if she is genuinely confused or purposefully misrepresenting the truth. We'll report so you can decide."
After our wonderful beautiful kitty Iris was killed by feral dogs, we have opted to keep Zulu indoors. He goes in the backyard only while supervised. When I catch him sitting in the windowsill staring outside at the birds, I feel very guilty, but I know that in this city it's the best thing for him (he's a black cat too).
and rorschach, I second echidne's comment about karma. catkillers are a special breed of evil.
Example:
Frist.
cats that live indoors live, on average, 2 or 3 times as long as outdoors cats.
It's even more true for birds.
ba'al, i hope that letter turns out to be bogus. not putting any money on it though. i hope bush never decides to "honor" me.
Speaking of older women, always had a thing for Beverly D'Angelo. That little space between her front teeth just makes me melt, and the slightly funny eyes...So I'm a weirdo, mkay?
The Taxi Driver thing may be a bad idea, but it doesn't really hit me so bad. One of the odd, but fascinating things about the original movie was you wondered what happened between the shootout and when he meets Cybil Sheppard again in his cab. He seemed almost at peace.
DeNiro has been criticized for taking safe roles recently. It would be interesting to see him get back to the kind of visceral cinema he and Scorsese started with. If I were them and I wanted to pursue this movie. I would go with the idea, but but change the character's name and don't give his history.
I think the movie would open with Travis Bickle watching the O'Rielly Factor. He would probably be an anti-porn crusader now.
I'm not advocating a pure sequel, but a similiarly themed movie with an older character could be interesting. Perhaps an ex-con. In other news, I wonder how Bernie Goetz spends his day.
christ on a cracker, watertiger, she looks like the undead: When Plastic Surgery and Dyejobs Go Bad, part 31784.
Damn right he is hot! As is, of course, Merry...
My wife's second boy-toy on Gilligan's Island of the Damned.
The only female I like is the South Korean wife, if only because she's so poised and subtle.
And I groove on Locke and Hurley, in a completely hetero way, of course
Hurley, it must be said, kicks ass.
Locke is among the coolest of all the characters, IMHO.
Merry is certainly among the hottest, although I have to admit that the hottest characters on the show are Sayid and, oddly enough, the evil bastard he tortured...
At any rate, my fiancee and I have an agreement about certain celebrities, so that doesn't become an issue...
(Ahem. Johnny Depp, you better be careful, because you are number one on both our lists...)
And finally, bebe, Liddy shows us her special, loving gaze that she used to give Strom just before pinning her legs behind her head.
cats that live indoors live, on average, 2 or 3 times as long as outdoors cats.
so is there hope that my indoor cats (now 10 and 9) will live to be 40-60 years old? (My outdoor cat lived until 19!)
I am angered at the way he has been treated. People need to know how some heroes are being treated by their own government. —Rebecca Lawson, West Babylon, N.Y.
Ba'al
Mrs. Lawson just her wake up call.
I've read some of the stories about our wounded and the treatment they receive and it's sickening. Making them pay for hospital meals and such. I hope there is a special room in Hell for the people who perpetrated this war.
should have read,
Mrs. Lawson just got her wake up call.
rorshach:
To quote one of the foremost American philosophers of our time:
"Comedy is not pretty."
Steve Martin
I'm really, really sorry...
Re: Outdoor cats
I used to build 'kitty condos.' It's not too tough, and easier the warmer your seasonal ambient temperatures are...You can get cat-doors that you can mount in a window, granting egress and ingress to a structure of 2x4s, plywood and chickenwire attached to the side of the house...a nice southern exposure is appreciated, cuz you can never get too much sun to sleep in...
Mrs. Lawson just her wake up call.
She doesn't go into detail about what makes her son a "hero".
What was it? Finding his way home from the airport?
I'm sorry ror--and yes yours too.
cats that live indoors live, on average, 2 or 3 times as long as outdoors cats.
It's even more true for birds.
Very true. I know this will sound most improbable, but I used to have a cockatoo.
And they live to be fifty! Fifty years old!
When indoors, of course. I finally had to give the poor dear up, but Thurgood now lives happily in a sanctuary, mating as she will....
ba'al- sounds par for the course to me. remember, he had to pack his 'spontaneous' events on the campaign trail (ah, remembering that confidence that he just couldn't win...bitter); he did a similar "you're ordered to watch the preznit!" thing for thanksgiving; he's screwing vets coming back left and right in practically every way, and they are paranoid enough to want as many soldiers around whenever he's out in the open as possible.
remember- bush is inhuman, and cares nothing for anyone but himself, and mr. ashe. oops, i mean condi, his wife, i mean...oh, never mind.
Thank you, RC and her eyes...
Let's not get all maudlin. I've been back to that very tree several times since (I don't live in NO anymore) and have sat there and had a beer and reflected upon her.
I'm an atheist, and not given to such statements, but...
Kafka hasn't died.
Hurley, it must be said, kicks ass.
When he screamed to the Korean man, "Pee on my foot," I nearly blew Diet Pepsi out of my ears. I'm absolutely looking forward to his backstory.
Locke's great for so many reasons, and you know he's gonna get cult leader-evil somehow someway.
the evil bastard he tortured...
Whenever The-Hick-Who-Should-Not-Be-Named comes on screen, my wife and I utter, Rocky Horror-style, "and then a polar bear came along and ate him. The end."
As for celebrity crushes w/spouses, I let my wife know that if either Audrey Tautou or Shirley Manson show up, she should get worried.
nope, they (we) don't die. and when they (we) do, we're all together again, and its all good.
And finally, bebe, Liddy shows us her special, loving gaze that she used to give Strom just before pinning her legs behind her head.
watertiger
Jumpin' Jehosephat--She looks like a blowfish about to puff up.
My outdoor cat lived to 21. I know they say to keep them in for a long life, but he did very well in the neighborhood and was a really happy guy. He came home every night to sleep and every afternoon for a nap...
Olav - 99 was Barbara Feldon, incurably sexy - mostly because she had almost no sight and didn't wear any corrective lenses. That wonderful, foggy drift, eyes sort of vaguely untracking.... What could be sexier?
There is a tuxedo cat living in my eucalyptus tree, trying to perfect its Cheshire act. Arthur doesn't know it's there - it's in the front yard. I have told it that I am not going to feed it and that if it crosses the line into Arthur's territory it will, briefly live to regret it.
Surfd...
Bro, I am way sorry/sad about your sore afflictions...
Can't be there for ya in person, but am here, if it's any comfort...
Am aiming all postive energy towards MsDork and child...
anything i can do...
I have a bunch of cats and a dog. the cats find the dog amusing and they look at her with an air of disdain.
A Taxi Driver sequel will probably
be at least bad as The Two Jakes.
Re: Cheney's Auschwitz Costume
I laughed my ass of when I saw pictures of Cheney at Auschwitz. Only the VP of Amurka would attend a solemn memorial to the holocaust dressed like one of the Mackenzie Brothers, eh?
watertiger-Thanks for the picture of Liddy. She looks like she could star in "Sunset Boulevard."
bebe rebozo
"I AM big. It's the Bob Dole's erections that got small."
Oblivous - :dressed like one of the Mackenzie Brothers, eh?"
Be careful. We already did the HBC blanket coat joke.
Hein.
She doesn't go into detail about what makes her son a "hero".
What was it? Finding his way home from the airport?
Being in the military during a Republican crusade makes you a war hero. In fact, it appears to be the only thing that can perform this service.
Saving the lives of your charges, purple hearts, silver stars, carrying around chunks of enemy metal and scars and debilitating muscle damage - none of that counts if it's not by or for a Republican. Ask John Kerry and Wesley Clark and Max Cleland.
I had Strom's scrotum bronzed, and keep it on an apartment wall. It's quite a conservation piece.
-Liddy Dole
I have a dog who wants a cat of her very own. She spent three or four years in the company of a large pride of cats, and was endlessly entertained. Dixie's her name. Sometimes we visit a friend who has cats, and Dix'll spot a cat and stop stock-still and stare for long minutes at a times...
Ba'al that just sickens me, but its all about the appearance, except if you are chain-dicky and you were a ski parka to a somber memorial service. then its who gives a flying fuck.
It's after 5:00 on Friday! Yippee! Two more working days to Monday!
Thx WGG.
I finally got a responde form Cantwell RE: her Condiliar vote:
Dear Mr. ___:
Thank you for contacting me regarding the confirmation of Dr.
Condoleezza Rice as the Secretary of State. I appreciate hearing from
you on this issue.
As you know, on November 16, 2004, President Bush announced that he
nominated National Security Adviser Dr. Condoleezza Rice to succeed
Colin Powell as Secretary of State. She was confirmed on January 26,
2004, with my support, by a vote of 85 to 13. Dr. Rice is the first
African-American woman, and only the second woman, to be confirmed
as the nation's top diplomat.
I vote for Dr. Rice because I appreciate her diverse professional
background as a Professor at Stanford University specializing in Russian
affairs, her experience as National Security Advisor, and her
demonstrated understanding of world affairs and diplomacy.
However, my support for Dr. Rice does not come without reservations
about the direction this Administration has taken with regard to foreign
policy. The individual charged with running the State Department will
set the direction for our country's policies around the world and will
have the power to decide whether to nurture and develop, or halt our
Nation's great diplomatic efforts.
I hope Dr. Rice works to promote democracy throughout the world, not
just by employing our ample military force, but that we seek to develop
democracy organically, where it has not taken hold. I am placing my
trust in her that she will embrace her duty to take into account the future
and foreseeable consequences of her actions, and that she will be guided
by the knowledge that this Senator will raise those consequences at all
appropriate occasions.
Well she did respond correctly RE: Torture boy, she will not vote to confirm.
however her stated reasons for voting for Condi are PURE BULLSHIT.
Point by point:
Dr. Rice is the first
African-American woman, and only the second woman, to be confirmed
as the nation's top diplomat.
So she is saying that because of her color and gender she deserves the vote. BULLSHIT!
I vote for Dr. Rice because I appreciate her diverse professional
background as a Professor at Stanford University specializing in Russian
affairs, her experience as National Security Advisor, and her
demonstrated understanding of world affairs and diplomacy.
Lets see regardign Russia, she failed to see the breakup of the eastern block.
She FAILED as NSA. Cantwell "appreciates" her foriegn policy expertise?
Another farking LIE.
Damn, must stop outrage overload.
Can yo see why I despise Cantwell so much?
Only the VP of Amurka would attend a solemn memorial to the holocaust dressed like one of the Mackenzie Brothers, eh?
Oblivious Fool
Beauty. Good one, eh?
-
WGG aka kono-- you bring dixie on up to MA--we're pretty liberal up here, a bit on the cold side, but plenty of room and plenty of kitties to terrorize , er, play with.
Can yo see why I despise Cantwell so much?
You and me both, surf.
new thread up
granting egress and ingress to a structure of 2x4s, plywood and chickenwire attached to the side of the house
So YOU'RE my next-door neighbor, WGG...
Dr. Rice is the first
African-American woman, and only the second woman, to be confirmed
as the nation's top diplomat.
So she is saying that because of her color and gender she deserves the vote. BULLSHIT!
Not bullshit. It's the repugs who are anti-affirmative action, isn't it?
I just spoke with Michael Hill, staffer to Cantwell.,
1.He says that Cantwell really believes the following:
"I vote for Dr. Rice because I appreciate her diverse professional
background as a Professor at Stanford University specializing in Russian
affairs, her experience as National Security Advisor, and her
demonstrated understanding of world affairs and diplomacy. "
When I stated that her failure in predicting/recognizing the Soviet breakup shows how incompetent she is he stated that's only an opinion.
He also said that he could care less what bloggers did regarding this issue.
Folks, I'm copying this to other threads.
I'm declaring WAR on Cantwell, will y'all join me?
Call that little asshat staffer who could care less about bloggers/constituients and give him a tase of the blogosphere.
We can't afford to have assholes like this on "our" side.
Call: Michael Hill
717 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
202-224-3441
202-228-0514 - FAX
Time for smackdown!
Ba'al said it already for me IRT that asshat Right1.
All praises to Ba'al!
Check out this freak's bumper stickers.
click on homepage for link to Tom Tomorrow's site.
MYOB'
.
I noticed quite a few Texans in here. My mom lives in Fort Worth. She recently made friends with a wonderful artist named JT Grant. He debuted The Blasfemous Dream of Crawford Bush just before the election.
I didn't know if anyone here had seen it.
.
Well that didn't work. Try this instead.
The Blasfemous Dream of Crawford Bush
So YOU'RE my next-door neighbor, WGG...
RCSanders
True story:
The last (in all respects) MrsWGG bought a house on a large lot. We had a large collection of cats, and MrsWGG desired that the cats should have access to the yard. The yard was fenced with a 6'-high wood stockade. High as it was, it wouldn't keep in a determined cat.
Cats, as you may know, scale fences and the like by launching themselves at the obstacle, hooking claws at about 4', and then propelling themselves upwards and over with the traction from the leap.
To cat-proof the fence, I built an inward-cantilevered screen at the top of the fence. Worked fine. For about two days...until the neighborhood standards folks called me on it because the screening was visible above the top of the fence.
I heard the guy next door objected to it, called it "Stalag Kitty."
I lowered the cantilever screen beneath the top of the fence and all was well...
Shit!
Cut and paste http://tinypic.com/1h8nyf
I didn't know if anyone here had seen it.
.
Aaron in NM |
Bad link, Aaron...
Great title, though...
Only the VP of Amurka would attend a solemn memorial to the holocaust dressed like one of the Mackenzie Brothers, eh?
Oblivious Fool
Dude, totally. Check out the evidence--donut jelly in the corner of his mouth and everything.
surfdork, the reply i got from sarbanes (d-md) was almost exactly the same as cantwells. a little less detailed. his is sort of the abridged version i guess. i got nothing from mikulski so far.
I'm a bit late to the party today, but here's some more raw and nasty extreme uncensored nudibranch action!
Click the link with your free hand...if you dare!
I'm also continuing with my new tradition of Friday Optimism Blogging...you know you want it!
Per CNN, Former Clinton Aide, Harold Ickes, backs Dean for DNC Chair. Cool.
"What can the netroots to better reach out to the core constituencies of the Democratic Party? How can the Democratic Party better tap into the netroots? "
Not to pick nits, but one thing the netroots could do is to give their press releases the once-over and make sure it's comprised of actual sentences. Spellcheck is great, but first you must write all of the words.
Chris
Being in the military during a Republican crusade makes you a war hero.
Give me a fucking Silver Star. I served from 82-85. 519th MI BN, Ft. Bragg, NC.
I'll take one for my son, too. He's a PFC in the 1st BN 155th Brigade Combat Team. In fact, give him mine.
joycamp: That's a much better shot, even without the donut box, beer, and jelly drip. Cheney is looking away, distracted, fidgeting (look at the position of his left foot), wishing he was anywhere else. And look at the guy off his right shoulder, with the brown hat. Staring dead at The Dick with a look of confused contempt.
I like this picture
I have always been able to see kitties in the past, tonight it is just little X's-no pics-wht does it mean?
Can't get pictures, what's happening? Cannot survive without catblogging.
blueinok
Surfdork, wishing you all the best for you and your wife.
Atrios need to host his kitty pictures on a professional server because he gets so many hits...
All I get is a red X instead of a cat picture 
It's Sunday and I can finally see the kitties..
AWWW. The saddle-shoe tuxedo cat looks almost exactly like my late cat Temme.
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