HULK SMASH
number 1 and nothing to say
number 1 and nothing to say
And speaking of wankers.....
Juan Cole has an excellent smack down of Jonah Goldberg today. Right down to the very last line.
Isn't he like "Honorary Wanker of the 21st Century" or something?
Go Eagles!
Isn't he like "Honorary Wanker of the 21st Century" or something?
You're thinking of Russert.
Isn't he like "Honorary Wanker of the 21st Century" or something?
MisterX
Actually, Kristof isn't even in the top 50. He does excellent work on the international scene, and manages to get neglected issues a bit of exposure. However, he's bought into the myth of "we have to do something now or we're DOOMED!" which is one of the points BuschCo have been straining so hard to sell.
"First, do no harm."
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Hmm. On a somewhat related topic -- what would happen to a woman who lives in Bobo's world re: Social Security?
If she opts out of the work force until the age of 40 or so -- there goes the magic of compound interest.
Zero is right, Cole's smack down of Goldberg is terrific, and Lucianne's spawn whines prodigiously about it at the intersection of P-owned Street & Intellectually Bankrupt Avenue.
And what does it say about Kristof he can be Wanker of the Day at the same time Bobo writes his excrable column.
Meanwhile, another round of answered Letters from Dr. Atta J. Turk for what it is worth comedically.
sorry, that's a lame choice. i'm sure we can find someone even more wankerish...although it is saturday, perhaps most of our finest wankers are nursing a hangover and thus unable to babble foolishly.
Re: Corporate Media Fuckers at ABC
These mutherfockers...I'd link it but it was an e-mail
ACTION ALERT:
ABC's Assist to Campus Conservatives:
Were censorship stories too good to check?
February 3, 2005
On February 1, ABC's World News Tonight offered an uncritical platform to conservatives who complain that their free speech is being curtailed on college campuses across the country.
ABC anchor Charles Gibson introduced the segment by saying that conservatives "claim they are victims of a double standard on college
campuses," and seemed to boost that notion by saying, "There certainly is
evidence to suggest that colleges are bastions of liberal thinking. Seventy-two percent of faculty members in one survey identified themselves as left of center."
ABC correspondent Dan Harris ran down a series of examples to back up this
storyline, beginning with a community college that wouldn't allow a screening of the movie "Passion of the Christ" because it had an R rating.
Harris went next to a soundbite from David French of the Foundation for
Individual Rights in education: "You're going to get more
political and intellectual diversity at your average suburban mega-church than you are at an elite University." Harris prefaced that statement by calling French's group "non-partisan," seemingly an attempt to make an obviously
ideological soundbite seem less so.
Harris then moved on to Columbia University, "where Jewish students
complain about harassment from pro-Palestinian professors." ABC included
a clip from a documentary that makes a series of claims about allegedly
anti-Israel professors, but made no attempt to balance that with a source
who might challenge the arguments advanced in the documentary.
The New York Civil Liberties Union, for example, has concluded that "the
major Academic-freedom problem arising out of the current Columbia
controversy is that a film produced by a Boston-based advocacy group has
provoked public officials and others to demand the punishment of certain
identified Columbia professors based largely on the ideological positions
that these professors have advanced in their writings and lectures." (NYCLU letter to Village Voice, 2/2/05)
In a segment purportedly about free speech threats, ABC might have noted
these issues, which include death threats against pro-Palestinian
professors and the cancellation of at least one class because the teacher
thought its criticisms of Israel might be too controversial.
That Columbia instructor, Joseph Massad, has also publicly challenged
the accuracy of charges made against him in the documentary.
Including these aspects would have complicated the simple story ABC seemed to want to tell, however.
Harris also cited another case popular on right-wing websites: As he put it, this one happened "Foothills College, where this freshman says he
was told to get psychotherapy after refusing to write an ess
Isn't he like "Honorary Wanker of the 21st Century" or something?
I think he's the reigning Bring Me the Head of a Straw Man Wanker™!
Oh, good, ChiDy, you're here. I remember you as Ursa Corwin at TSC (used to post there as ChokeOnIt.) I need your input on a decision I have to make today.
Good Morning. I partially agree with that Billy Kristol fellow. Amurikans have the memory and attention span of a gnat. If the Democrats were heard again and again suggesting alternative ideas AND THEY HAD THE BALL TO TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WE CANNOT AFFORD THESE WRETCHED TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH, it would eventually sound like a more pleasant and logical form of white noise to the citizens than "Fuck Bush, Fuck Bush Fu..." 24 hours a day. Sure the Repugs will shoot it down, but if, for instance, they had kept Gore's message of the SS Lckbox" ringing in the people's ears for the past 4 years, then Bush would have some major 'splainin to do right now instead of being able to say his imbecilic scheme is the only one out there to 'save SS'.
Kristoff has spent too much time in brothels lately, writing about his attempts to rescue young victims forced into prostitution.
It seems that tragically, he caught a communicable disease by osmosis that rots the brain.
Hey beat it, at least you said it twice.
The Corporate Media is filled with whores.
What else can you expect from ABC?
CBS fires those who gave coverage to an important story about Bushboy's military cowardice.
The NYTimes refused to run the story about the cueing device Bushboy was wired with during the Kerry debates.
The mass media is one big whorehouse, run by the Gooper pimps.
Harris also cited another case popular on right-wing websites: As he put it, this one happened at "Foothills College, where this freshman says he was told to get psychotherapy after refusing to write an essay criticizingn the U.S. Constitution." The student, Ahmad Al-Qloushi, then appeared on ABC and said, "I was attacked and intimidated because I love America."
ABC apparently felt no need to check Al-Qloushi's claim-- an unusual
journalistic decision, given that he is making a serious charge against a
specific instructor. The network might have at least discovered that the name of the college is Foothill Junior College, not Foothills, as it is called on many right-wing websites that have taken up Al-Qloushi's cause.
ABC might also have done well to examine Al-Qloushi's essay, which is
available on the Internet (he did not "refuse to write" it, as Harris
mistakenly reports).
The essay is unresponsive to the
assignment-- an examination of a book which argues that the U.S. Constitution reflected the elite interests of those who wrote it. Even conservative blogger James Joyner (Outside the Beltway, 1/16/05), after reviewing Al-Qloushi's
work, called it "an incredibly poorly written, error-ridden, pabulum-filled essay that essentially ignores the question put forth by the nstructor."
"I'd have given the exam a failing grade, too," wrote Joyner, who edits the journal Strategic Insights at the Naval Postgraduate School.
It appeared that an attempt to balance these perspectives would
come from former university president Robert O'Neil. Harris reported that
O'Neil "says conservative students may be trying to protect themselves
from ideas they don't like." But O'Neil's soundbite fed ABC's storyline: "I think there's a sense that, well, liberals have had their way and they've advanced their views for quite some time. There should be
balance."
Actually, "balance" is not a major principle in academia, where professors are supposed to be chosen for the excellence of their scholarship, not for their ideological views. But it is a professed value of journalism, which
makes this an odd comment by Harris:
"Many academics say conservatives are blowing a few isolated incidents way
out of proportion in order to launch a McCarthyesque witch hunt, which is
designed to intimidate professors, limit academic freedom and promote a
sort of affirmative action for conservative professors."
If "many academics" are saying this, why weren't they included in the
report, rather than being paraphrased by the correspondent? If ABC did
not want to give the professors attacked a chance to respond,
the network as at least obligated to check the accuracy of the stories the
students were telling-- and note that the full story was more complicated.
ACTION: Contact ABC and ask them why their report on conservative complaints about free speech infringement did not evaluate the
validity of those complai
So what was the Bush's bulge
and still waiting for the true voter turnout figures for Iraq I guess it took awhile for Ken Blackwell to get there although from the lines and shorted of supplies one would think he ran the elections
MORE:
ACTION: Contact ABC and ask them why their report on conservative complaints about free speech infringement did not evaluate the
validity of those complaints, and did not offer any experts who might challenge those claims.
CONTACT:
ABC World News Tonight
Phone: 212-456-4040
mailto:PeterJennings@abcnews.com
Thread-jacking in progress. Atriots, I need your input. I am a member of the Minnesota DFL State Central Committee, and today we vote on our new chairperson. The candidate best qualified for the job has one major flaw - no support for gay marriage, which is a hot-button issue for me. The Minnesota Deaniacs have put up a candidate, openly gay, though less qualified in other areas. Now, I'm a Dean support from start to finish, but I need to make the best decision for this state and this party. Minnesota has a Rep Senate and a Rep Governor, and we need to stop the slide in that direction.
Your thoughts?
Thread-jacking in progress. Atriots, I need your input. I am a member of the Minnesota DFL State Central Committee, and today we vote on our new chairperson. The candidate best qualified for the job has one major flaw - no support for gay marriage, which is a hot-button issue for me. The Minnesota Deaniacs have put up a candidate, openly gay, though less qualified in other areas. Now, I'm a Dean support from start to finish, but I need to make the best decision for this state and this party. Minnesota has a Rep Senate and a Rep Governor, and we need to stop the slide in that direction.
Your thoughts?
ever wonder about who's reading your website? take a look at this:
FBI visits Green Party official
By ALLISON FARRELL
Gazette State Bureau
GREAT FALLS - Not every protester felt welcome on the public streets of Great Falls Thursday.
Paul Stephens, the 57-year-old secretary of the Montana Green Party, stayed home during President Bush's visit here after the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service paid a visit to his house Tuesday. A newsletter he sent via e-mail piqued their interest.
"They came to my house six hours after I e-mailed the bulletin,'' Stephens said in a phone interview Thursday. "They just wanted to know if I knew something.''
The newsletter, something Stephens regularly sends out on an e-mail list, warned Bush not to come to Montana. He said the FBI must have perceived a threat in the message.
More at the Billings Gazette
wassup, KR?
I email (harangues) to ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN daily. I keep hoping it will do some good.
No point in sending anything to FAUX NEWS. They are the American Deathstar of the Media.
Isn't he like "Honorary Wanker of the 21st Century" or something?
As I noted the other day, that would be the SCLM - or to be more precise, the "Washington Press Corp."
Kristof annoys the crap out of me. It's stuff like this Social Security rant that cause me to ask WTF? And then there is the whole ongoing episode with the young women he purchased out of a brothel, which he is milking to the max. Was it any surprise that a year later one of the young women had gone back to prostitution? Not to me, but apparently Kristof was surprised that his magnaminious Great White Father gesture was rejected. It never seemed to have occurred to him that the way to help these women would be to give them viable options for their livelihood, which doesn't seem to have occurred to him.
About the only thing that I have agreed with Kristof on is when he has taken on the Left Behind folks. He pisses off Tim LaHaye and the rest of the "Rapture Ready" crowd, so at least he's doing something slightly useful.
Kristof annoys me as much as Safire annoyed me. Except that Safire was a very strong civil libertarian and wrote some trenchant things in that regard (too bad he was sooo wrong about everything else). Kristof is just mush-mouthed.
Sorry for the double post - lazy fingers!
You forgot Brooks, Atrios.
How should Democrats respond to Bush's Social Security plan?
Take Nancy Reagen's advice.
"JUST SAY NO"
Bobo is a wanker, but naming him wanker of the day is a dog bites man story. Kristof deserves the title, in particular for blaming social security problems on the Clenis:
If it hadn't been for the Monica Lewinsky affair, Mr. Clinton might have achieved Social Security reform. But that didn't happen, and these days both parties are behaving irresponsibly.
Fuck Kristol. Clinton achieved the only meaningful social security "reform" of the last 25 years - by getting us out of deficit spending.
The entire social security non-crisis is one of Bush's own making.
KR- i don't feel remotely qualified to make the call there. i'd need to know way more info about them both, and besides, i'm registered in WI and don't really know what the people of MN would prefer. but anyone who isn't pro-gay rights isn't really that leftist, so i suppose if ideology is what matters most to you, you should go with the deaniac choice. in the end, it's about who will be the most effective in the process of ensuring dems are elected at all levels of office, and you're the one who can best tell which one that would be.
OT: Reports from Bobo's world
Pair accused of child torture arrested in Utah; Florida officials say 5 of 7 children suffered starvation, abuse
(CNN) -- A Florida couple accused of torturing and starving five of their seven children were taken into custody Friday night in Utah after detectives were able to track their cell phone signals, authorities said...
Capt. Jim Cernich of the Sheriff's Office in Citrus County, Florida, said deputies in San Juan County, Utah, apprehended Linda Dollar, 51, and John Dollar, 58, on a road after recognizing their gold 2000 Lexus sport utility vehicle.
The accusations include pulling out the children's toenails with pliers and keeping them so malnourished they "looked like pictures from Auschwitz," authorities said.
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Somehow, I don't think this story is going to make it into one of Bobo's many columns penned in a fancy Manhattan office extolling the morals and values of red state parents...
Kidranger: Politics is the art of compromise. Choosing what we believe in as opposed to something we can live with are two different things. The thing is, and I have stated this often, issues such as gay rights, gun control, and abortion will ultimately be decided by the courts. What is the best process for selecting judges who might take a more reasonable position? (I think you know)
That wanker is seriously getting on my nerves lately. He is too much in love with the sound of his own typing.
Hey, Woody - from our neck of the woods - those fun mums and dads of Norwood, Colorado:
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Parents censor high school literature and are allowed to burn books they find offensive
By Margo L. Roberts
“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart-1966.
Recently [story posted Thursday, February 3, 2005] a book that was being used as part of an English assignment was confiscated from freshmen at Norwood [Colorado] High School due to references of paganism and an alleged magnitude of profanity.
Here in Norwood, a small group of parents sent letters to Superintendent Bob Conder, expressing their concern over, "Bless Me, Ultima," a book being used in the classroom as a literature book. Conder said the books, about 2 dozen in total costing $6.99 each, were pulled from the classroom, and designated to be destroyed. The parents approached the superintendent and asked that they be able to burn the books instead of the school janitor destroying them."
Rodolfo Anaya is not amused. I doubt that Ba'al enjoyed the scent much either.
ChiDy, you've hit the nail right on the head. It is about who can be most effective at getting Dems elected at all levels of government. Thank you for that moment of good, clear thinking.
KidRanger- I say go for whomever will do the best job without selling out their principles. I see this as different than picking someone who is willing to compromise.
book burning, eh? right on schedule...
everyone heard that alan keyes threw his gay daughter out of the house, right? via americablog. people over there are saying that it's an open secret that keyes has his own 'issues.'
also, i just heard that ST:Enterprise is being cancelled. i can't say i'm sorry, i watched the first half of the first season and was deeply offended by what they'd done to my beloved ST universe. supergeeks: what are your thoughts?
hey! lookie here! the kids are allllright!
orwood chief hadn't read novel or board's policy
Norwood Schools Superintendent Bob Conder apologized to students, parents, staff and residents Friday for pulling about two dozen copies of the book Bless Me, Ultima from a freshman English class.
But 15-20 students still staged an all-day sit-in in the school gym, taking turns reading from the book, which has been recommended by first lady Laura Bush and was selected last year for Mesa County's community-read project, to protest Conder's actions.
"We stayed all day to prove the point and say it won't happen again," said freshman Skyler Hollinbech, 15. "It was a violation of our rights."
Conder said none of the students who demonstrated would be punished or counted as absent from class, and he offered to personally pay for repurchasing the books if a new committee to review content approves the book's reinstatement....
http://www.insidedenver.com/drmn...icle/
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via DU
Isn't he like "Honorary Wanker of the 21st Century" or something?
You're thinking of Russert
No you're thinking of The New York Times.
Ah, but not only bookburning - Bookburning and racialism and cultural hatred - all rolled into one! That's right, the folks in Norwood have achieved the trifecta of bigotry, in thought, word and deed! Gonna be hard to beat this one in the months to come.
Thanks, DWD. It is so easy for me to get wound around the axle of this or that issue. The need for justice is so great in so many areas; I have this chance to help put the best people in a position to see that it gets done.
I love the posters here for their firm commitment to our shared values, and for their clear vision about how we need to go forward.
Thank you!
enterprise got better. the 3rd season was more interesting, and in the 4th season they've been doing a good job repairing the damage they did to the universe.
But, still, I'd prefer they reboot the franchise and do something more interesting
enterprise got better. the 3rd season was more interesting, and in the 4th season they've been doing a good job repairing the damage they did to the universe.
But, still, I'd prefer they reboot the franchise and do something more interesting
It'll also allow Jolene Blalock to move on ahead with that career of Skinimax flicks we all know she was shooting for.
Attaturk,
If Nick Kristof approaches you and offers to "buy" you for a fist full of dollars, run like hell!
Close the loophole. Tax the rich the same as the middle class.
I realize that proposal (removing the cap) will not win the day, but something like it should be pushed with significant fanfare anyway. Make the R's say 'no' to it, make them refuse repeatedly to extend SS solvency, then let them stand with that record in '06. They've put SS on the plate but are being revealed as having no plan to actually help it. Make this a wedge issue between the WH and the R's on the Hill. Triangulation works both ways.
Technically, I also realize that removing the cap could push more fat cat compensation off the payroll and into other dodges, but smart law writers could mitigate that. Perhaps a simple threat to push for basing it on gross income as opposed to salaries/wages, etc. Again, that may not happen, but the player yells at the ref not to change the call, though it sounds like that, but for events coming up down the road.
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The columns in the Times this morning by Kristof and Brooks have to be two of the lamest that have appeared in the Times on the same day.
Kristoff has even less of a clue than I imagined (and I thought he was pretty clueless) in both his economic and political thinking. Apparently, he believes that the arguments on social security of Krugman are just the rantings of a shrill partisan liberal.
Brooks is channeling the roots of his nickname -- he's on the case once more of those crazy university town liberals. They are so unlike Republican elites in their lack of cross-class associations. My favorite line from Brooks'
"The Republican coalition still contains some cross-class associations, like the N.R.A. and the evangelical churches, which connect corporate elites to the middle classes."
Wonder if Little Nickie Kristoff has also freed BOY Cambodian sex slaves and fucked them like he probably did with those girl slaves.
He sees Safire has retired. He sees Bobo making mucho bucks. He wants part of the action.
Why...he's just another media whore!
So NYT: Free YOUR sex slave pundit whore and send him to The National Review, OK?
and some more (sort of) good news:
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The U.S. military has ordered three detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay to be freed and 25 others to remain as secret hearings were held into the cases of more terror suspects.
Hearings were held Friday for two detainees before the Administrative Review Boards, which can free prisoners if they determine they no longer pose a threat to the United States or hold significant intelligence value.
The decisions came as U.S. District Judge Joyce Hens Green ruled that the review tribunals were unconstitutional because detainees were not allowed lawyers and were not allowed to hear classified information against them. She then halted legal proceedings pending a government appeal because her order conflicted with another federal judge's in a separate case.
The decision to free three detainees "doesn't change the fact that the process is unfair, but it does highlight the need for a fair process to determine how many other mistakes have been made," said Steven Shapiro, the national legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites).
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news...y2&u=/ap/
2005...
GWPDA and WGG ~
I have a book censorship story to share with you. The teacher involved is one of my best friends.
book, teacher gain defenders
I haven't read the short story to which they are referring, "Telephone Man," but I'm headed over to my friend's house to get a copy.
Apparently, the teachers at this school must teach a 30 minute unit on "character" three times each week. The teachers got together and decided this story was worthy, and this is not the first time it has been taught in class. The story heightens the children's awareness of racism.
This woman is very progressive and did not mean to offend the NAACP. Apparently, the story uses racially controversial terms to make the point for inclusion and acceptance. She has experienced discrimination herself, on a number of levels I won't address here, and feels strongly about equality for everyone.
She's on a gag order right now, enforced by the GRPS, and can't talk about the incident.
I just think the whole thing stinks.
Censorship is alive and well. And sometimes, some members of the NAACP do not do the organization favors when they spout off on issues that they haven't thoroughly researched.
geez, atrios, i didn't mean to call you a supergeek.../blushing furiously/
but i agree. the first step is to kill Berman and Braga for destroying everything good that Gene and Majel had going. she produced the once very, very good 'andromeda' supposedly based on some of gene's old notes. when kevin whathisname took over production the show turned all sucky, but the old ST crew of writers still has talent and deserve another shot at bringing us a positive vision of the future.
looks like i'm going to have to get someone to get me some bitorrent copies of BG, everyone is so excited about it.
As far anything Star Trek goes, give us Spock's last story and have done with it. Everything since Voyager has been a waste of time, IMAO.
BTW, Doctor Who begins again starting March 26! 
: Contact ABC and ask them why their report on conservative complaints about free speech infringement did not evaluate the
validity of those complaints, and did not offer any experts who might challenge those claims.
Done, WGG. I asked them to do a followup piece showing the harassment of professors by Campus Watch.
8 a.m. on the left coast, and already, we've got a wanker!
CD- Yes, string Berman + Braga up by their fucking toes, sez I!! Beat them like pinatas!!
I'm going to start watching the 1st season of Galactica again soon, I'll keep you in mind if you like.
BTW, this would be a good time to repeat my offer of about a week ago. Anyone who has Divx installed and wants to check out the first ep of Blake's 7, e-mail and let me know.
Vicki - Looks to me that GR has pretty much won its own place in the trifecta awards -
"2000 Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner
(Young Adult Library Services Association/American Library Association)
Chris Crutcher, author of "Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes" (1994) and other popular young adult books, was named the 2000 recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring lifetime contribution in writing for teens.
The award, sponsored by School Library Journal, is administered by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). Crutcher will receive $2,000 at the YALSA Awards Luncheon (formerly the Margaret A. Edwards Awards Luncheon) during the ALA Annual Conference, July 6-12, in Chicago.
In addition to "Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes," Crutcher is being cited for "Athletic Shorts" (1991), "Chinese Handcuffs" (1989), "The Crazy Horse Electric Game" (1987), "Stotan!"(1986) and "Running Loose" (1983). All the books were edited by Susan Hirschman and published by Greenwillow. They are available in paperback from Bantam Doubleday Dell.
A six-time ALA Award winner, Crutcher writes novels that revolve around school, sports, friends and family. "His stories bring to life the contemporary teen world, including its darker side," said Joan Atkinson, Edwards Award Committee chair.
"Sarah Byrnes suffers facial deformity caused by her father's deliberate cruelty. Jennifer Lawless dreads the nights her stepfather forces his sexual advances on her. Louis Banks mourns the tragic and senseless death of his talented, understanding sweetheart/friend. Crutcher's themes include the power of friendships and connections to others and the necessity of taking responsibility for one's own life," Atkinson said.
"Crutcher takes teenagers seriously and cares about them. Readable, humorous, immediate and unforgettable, Crutcher's stories give hope to young adults struggling with the eternal questions of who they are and where they belong."
Born in Dayton, Ohio, Crutcher was raised in an Air Force family in Cascade, Idaho. His bachelor's degree in psychology/sociology ultimately led him to a teaching job in California and directorship of a K-12 alternative school for inner-city kids. After 10 years he moved to Spokane, Wash., where he now resides, to work as a child and family therapist. Crutcher began writing at age 35.
Members of the Edwards Award Committee are: Joan L Atkinson, chair, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Stephen Crowley, Putnam County Library System, Palatka, Fla.; Diana Tixier Herald, library consultant, Grand Junction, Colo.; Kathleen Isaacs, Edmund Burke School, Washington, D.C.; and Judy Sasges, Sno-Isle Regional Library, Lynnwood, Wash."
Just reading Juan Cole's great smackdown of Jonah Goldberg. it starts off,
I think it is time to be frank about some things. Jonah Goldberg knows absolutely nothing about Iraq. I wonder if he has even ever read a single book on Iraq, much less written one. He knows no Arabic. He has never lived in an Arab country. He can't read Iraqi newspapers or those of Iraq's neighbors. He knows nothing whatsoever about Shiite Islam, the branch of the religion to which a majority of Iraqis adheres. Why should we pretend that Jonah Goldberg's opinion on the significance and nature of the elections in Iraq last Sunday matters? It does not.
Cole goes on for quite a while, quite enjoyable to read, and then concludes:
So let me propose to him that we debate Middle East issues, anywhere, any time, he and I.
Otherwise he should please shut up and go back to selling Linda Tripp tapes on Ebay.
Exactly, GWPDA. The author, Crutcher, came to Patty's defense on local tv.
He said that the fact that she had the courage to share his story should be celebrated, and that she should in no way be punished.
However, just another example of why I hate this city.
I got an "opinion" for Jonah (extends middle finger).
That bit about the "Linda Tripp" tapes is funny! 
karin: ouch! don't mess with an expert unless you want your ass spanked, i guess.
I'm going to start watching the 1st season of Galactica again soon, I'll keep you in mind if you like.
Blak- you're very sweet. i'm a bit on the extra poor side (think one meal a day poor) and couldn't really offer you much more than my gratitude, but if you've got extra BG DVD's laying around that would work on a mac, i wouldn't say no to them.
Kristoff is your typical neoconstipated 5th columnist whose loyalties are with Israel and NOT the USA!
I was thinking more along the lines of file transfering if you have cable/DSL. I don't have any burned to disc yet.
It would require you to have AOL Instant Messenger or something similar.
And, of course, I require no payment. I'm more than happy to share with friends.
GWPDA - I had heard the books were pulled from the classroom, but I had not heard they'd been burned. What's not revealed here, except for the word "paganism" is that the parents who approached the superintendant were most likely some sort of fundievangelical Christians.
These people are idiots. _Bless Me, Ultima_ is a classic novel. When I worked in a college bookstore at the University of Texas at Austin, we sold tons of that book as it was a required text in all sorts of classes.
Gosh, if I were Anaya, I'd be more than ticked off. Glad to see the ALA is on the case.
a thought i've not seen elsewhere, though i'm sure it has come up, is that the toxic texan is willing (nay! eager) for the u.s. to go into massive debt for almost everything else...... why is s.s. different? aarp just may start stomping his pointed little head in.
one can hope.
-J.T.
alas, blak, my high speed connection is thru the university, and i'm not allowed to have IM of any kind, nor do i have sysadmin privs to be able to install it. but next time i'm in WI at my folks place i'll drop you a line, we'll see if i'm capable enough to figure out my end of things. thanks, friend!
And what does it say about Kristof he can be Wanker of the Day at the same time Bobo writes his excrable column.
Amen, attaturk. Bobo's column today was especially odorous, even by his extremely low standards. So GOOPer's reach out to middle class Americans through "the NRA and evangelical churches", while dem org's are "elitist"? What an asshole. Gee, where does he think all of those internet donations came from, fat cats? Duh, Bobo, they came in small donations from people who couldn't afford to give more. But I guess middle-class dems are still elitist.
Kristof sure is a wanker.
Any Dem proposal, no matter how brilliantly conceived, would never get any Rethug support at all and would only feed W's dishonest attempts to gin up a phony crisis to win support for piratization.
As for ST: Enterprise, it's time to bury it. I thought they did a piss poor job this season with the Vulcans, who with the Romulans are my favorite set of aliens in the ST universe. And, to betray my supergeek status, I could never figure how the technology and styles portrayed on the show would evolve into what we saw in the 1st TOS pilot, "The Cage."
A pox on Berman and Braga! 
Kevin Drum says:
HACK WATCH....Sorry, Atrios, but you're going to have to update your Wanker of the Day. Here is Fox News anchor Brit Hume today:
Full story at washingtonmonthly.com
if the folks at the alamo who were manning the walls had to constantly worry about being sniped from behind by 'one of their own', or if the greeks at thermopylae standing shoulder to shoulder in a narrow pass to repel xerxes and the persian army had one in their ranks who continually hacked at the legs of his comrades, wouldn't this turncoat be ever so politely be urged to be more comfortable in the opposing army?
i am thinking about you, joe lieberman.
If you don't vote for privatization then the terrorists will win
Sorry, Atrios, but you're going to have to update your Wanker of the Day. Here is Fox News anchor Brit Hume today
I suppose it depends how one uses the term "wanker." Is one more upset at someone like Kristof, who should know better, or Hume, whom I've tuned out for the past decade?
The "texans" at the Alamo had it coming.
They were fighting to preserve slavery.
Only one man who was alive inside the Alamo on the morning of March 6, 1836 was still alive on the morning of March 7, 1836: Travis's black slave, whose manumission was assured by SantaAna's victory and the death of the slavers inside the walls.
The "Texans" were seceding frpom Mexico because Mexico--an autonomous Nation/State--had signed the world-wide treaty banning slavery, in 182?(something), which forbade slavery throughout the country--and which included Texas...
This fact usta explode heads all over the south when it would find an occasion to be mentioned in a classroom full of dedicated "white folk."
Ah, Deana, Bless Me Ultima is about -Mexicans-. And the RCs. And witches too. And it's written by a -Mexican- and has rude words in it....
I'm waiting for the good people of Norwood to discover that -New Mexico- is part of the United States. Maybe one of the kids can mention that Anaya also wrote _Alburquerque_....
WGG-
"ev'rybody might be jus' one big soul, well it looks thatta way to me..."
thanks for that tidbit. perhaps my analogy was a trifle uncentered. i will use that info to good effect. the garbled thrust of my post is that there are those in our midst who do not wish us well. joe lieberman is up for re-election in 2006 and i want him gone the way of the dodo bird. a few days ago the prospect of paul newman as prospective primary challenger was mentioned, and i must say that the idea has resonance with me. to that end i repost this sentiment from the dept. of redundancy dept.:
"i can't eat 50 eggs, but i can send 50 dollars."
i'm off to work in the race and sportsbook. keep the faith or lack thereof.
"So GOOPer's reach out to middle class Americans through "the NRA and evangelical churches", while dem org's are "elitist"? "
To those fascists, anyone who thinks for themselves, expresses those thoughts in words with more than two syllables, in proper English and believes in equal rights for all is an "elitist."
MURKA where smart is bad and stupid is good.
Brit Hume is Wanker Of The Day, Ad Infinitum.
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