I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
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freedom! thanks, atrios.
Premiere!
Frist!
No Social Security Piratization!
rats, troisieme!
I think I shall play the lottery tonight!
bah! holo-scam ate my lead off entry, again! bah!
-J.T.
Unjust Treatment of our Iraq War Vets
Reiterate: Blue bunny ice cream worship: is it wrong?
Enquiring minds want to know 
well tomatoes are tasty
haloscan hates all of us equally, jt. i could've sworn my post was first the first time it loaded, now i come back to see i've been demoted to second. sigh.
Sallyh
you may eat the ice cream, as much as you want whenever you want.
You should worship Ba'al who gives you these glad tidings.
Goddamn I wish people would ignore the fucking trolls!
Hello CD,
Have not been around at the same time as you lately.
I hope all is well.
Troll free thread so far! Weee!
chidy- it's luck of the draw baby-i was getting out of here and puter antics made me come back one more time. hoping shitheads don't follow.
haloscan is a cruel mistress...but I always come back to her.
The trolls are acting like sharks in a chum line. Let them be and they'll swim away.
New thread and guess who's first.
Be back later. As it says in the good book, "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you..."
I don't think that Blue Bunny ice cream merits worship, personally.
Sorry, but I think it's crappy. It's the prevailing brand in western Colorado and I just don't like it.
Now BlueBell ice cream is worthy. The homemade vanilla actually honestly tastes like homemade vanilla ice cream and has none of that chemical aftertaste that is present in almost every other vanilla ice cream you can buy.
hello, Lord of All Moonbats! yes, i've been busy with this thing called 'work' and 'school' and thus posting irregularly. but look what i found for your potential offering list:
Sen. Jeff Mullis (R-Chickamauga) successfully urged his colleagues to pass a bill authorizing the state motor vehicles department to offer a license plate with the anti-abortion message.
Mullis and other Republicans resisted an attempt by some Democrats to amend the bill by adding a "Pro Family, Pro-Choice," plate as an option for motorists.
Sen. David Adelman (D-Atlanta) unsuccessfully argued that denying the abortion rights plate, while approving the anti-abortion plate, amounted to a violation of First Amendment rights to freedom of expression. "Let's stay out of the courts," said Sen. Gloria Butler (D-Stone Mountain). "Because if you pass one and don't pass the other, we're going to court. Let's let both sides have their say."
Sen. Ralph Hudgens (R-Comer), noting that the state has wildlife support license plates, asked Adelman if that means legislators would also have to provide plates reading "I support raping and pillaging the environment."
via DU
tena- every had Stroh's ice cream? it's a MI thing mostly, but it's pretty damn good if you like that stuff.
me, i prefer sashimi to sweets anytime. wasabi tabiko, mmmm!
chicago dyke - there was an article in the Dallas Morning News this AM about how women are losing rights all over the planet. They really are making war on us. They want to stuff us back into the kitchen and the nursery.
Hey, all!
CD, I'm not sure, but is ice cream all that left of Stroh's? Not being a drinking man, I don't pay attention to the rise and fall of beer brands. But, yeah, it's pretty darn good stuff -- nearly as good as Graeter's in southern Ohio.
"I support raping and pillaging the environment."
That should be required on the plates of all offical Bush administration vehicles.....
Tena ... It was someone named Kenneth Copeland that bought the his 'n her jets. Do you know him?
Go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal!
On Becoming the Next Paul Newman
My now-perpetual quest to usurp Paul Newman's crown as the-sexiest-blue-eyed-paleskin-over-60-years-old-
in-the-movies continues apace, in slow steps. I am inching up on it a scene at a time.
Yesterday, garbed elegantly, as the proprietor of the local whore house, i gained a moment of face-time in a scene involving giving succor to stragglers escaping with Maj. Reno from the fight at Little Big Horn. A small column of battered, and wounded, soldiers troops wearily through 'town.' I walk out into the street and hand my walking-stick to a soldier with a bad limp, stand back and salute the valiant troops as they pass by...
I asked how much my costume might cost, from a period-movie costumier, and was told between $400-$500, for a black frock coat, elegantly brocaided vest, period short, wool pants, period shoes and a good bowler...
We had relatively civilized call-times the last two days, but monday, we're back to 5:45 am--which means i gotta leave home at 4;30...
The film company has set up a nest of very authentic-looking plains-style tipis on the banks of Galisteo wash. When you come over the hill from the south, it almost makes your heart stop, it looks surreallistically real...
"I support raping and pillaging the environment."
That should be required on the plates of all offical Bush administration vehicles.....
Problem is they don't stop at the environment. They aren't happy until they've fucked up the whole show for everyone.
chi-dyke - never had Stroh's. I love ice cream, and dislike Blue Bunny so much that I broke down last summer and bought an ice cream maker in Colorado. It was my only option - Blue Bunny is ubiquitous up there.
Tena ... It was someone named Kenneth Copeland that bought the his 'n her jets. Do you know him?
Res Ipsa Loquitor
Another really egregious Talibangelist fuckstick... All over the fuckin cable...unctuous to a fault...you wanna slap him just to see if that hair would move...really detestable...
that Kenneth Copeland?
filk- you may be right, i wouldn't know anymore. i don't drink beer much and as we discussed some forgotten thread back, i'm a solsun drinker of old.
chicago dyke - there was an article in the Dallas Morning News this AM about how women are losing rights all over the planet. They really are making war on us. They want to stuff us back into the kitchen and the nursery.
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i go back and forth on this one, tena. some days, i think 'well, history is replete with example of traditions and political movements which suppress and uplift women, there is no 'direction' in history.' other days i think that the meta analysis of all this leads us to a conclusion that reactionary tendencies in this age are the last gasp of the previous form of civilization, and that we're on the verge of a significant social paradigm shift.
of course, that latter only comes after really horrible war and destruction, so i'm not really looking forward to living thru it.
Tena, CD -- well, certainly David Brooks wants to. I can't figure it out myself -- all the women in my life are doctors, scientists, artists, writers, mathematicians... why do they want to restrict their own mates and partners so?
Gaaah.
"invader zim" will rule, you have all been warned.
otherwise..... i'm overdue for spring and trout fishing and tromping along nice clean streams. oh.... i hates winter.
-J.T.
bah! to holoscan.
that Kenneth Copeland?
Yep. That's the one.
Recently, a call for donations appeared on Copeland's Web site: he and his wife require his-and-her Cessna Citation X jets, valued at twenty million dollars apiece. "When God tells Kenneth to travel to South Africa and hold a three-day Victory Campaign, he won't have to wait to make commercial travel arrangements," the Web site explains. "He can just climb aboard his Citation X and go!"
tena- homemade ice cream is the best! mom bought one recently, and i think she and dad put on ten pounds before they slowed down on the late night butter pecan sessions.
woody- your life sounds so cool. just had to say that.
Fire-brewed Stroh's beer...Was a local, Cleveland product, iirc...undrinkable, once, because it used Lake Erie water...which i understand is now improved somewhat...
i think the same brewery once made Old Frothingslosh, "The Pale, Stale Ale--wit the foam on the bottom."
Paul Newman - I still have his gatorade cap from his bottle at one of the first Detroit Gand Prix's. I was an EMT with some time on my hands so I spent it oggling him. Ah...think I'll go make some popcorn.
why do they want to restrict their own mates and partners so?
are we all pretty much on the same page here, and believe that it's basically fear and insecurity that makes our wingnuts hate (everyone not them) so much? because if so, the question isn't "why do they want to restrict their women" but "what can be done to make them perceive women as partners and equals who are not to be feared?"
"When God tells Kenneth to travel to South Africa and hold a three-day Victory Campaign, he won't have to wait to make commercial travel arrangements," the Web site explains. "He can just climb aboard his Citation X and go!"
If God can tell 'ol Kenneth to go to South Africa, why doesn't he/she/it just throw some mojo and BANG!, there you are, Kenneth's in Africa. God seems like a cheap prick if he/she/it is makin' Kenny's dumb ass followers help pick up the tab on those beauties.
Is this any way to run a religion?
"Old Frothingslosh" made by iron city brewing, promoted by jack bogutt on kdka as a yearly fund raiser for children's hostital. years ago.
trust uncle tomato
-J.T.
chi-dyke - that's funny - I go back and forth the same damn way.
WGG -- I agree with CD. Your life sounds pretty darn fine, my friend.
Stroh's used to have several breweries, including the largest in Detroit. The water wasn't a whole lot better at the time, from what I understand....
stroh's is a detriot beer company, originally woody. it's now pretty much defunct, and stroh's was never much more than a workingman's beer in the first place.
although i'm sorry to see so many corporate beers do so well, it's nice to know that microbrews have significantly improved the palate of many beer drinkers. it's nice to be able to get good beer in dives and cornerbars, that wasn't always the case.
And James Dickey is rolling in his grave...
WGG- Cleveland might have had a local Strohs plant but I think it's Detroit. It was a big deal a few years ago when they demolished the old plant near Detroit River. Course it could be we just had a plant...
chicago dyke - and i think she and dad put on ten pounds before they slowed down on the late night butter pecan sessions.
That's exactly why I put off buying an ice cream maker for as long as I did. And I don't want to bring it down here. In the first place, you can get wonderful ice cream here, including gelatto. In the second place, I don't put weight on at 9200 feet, no matter how well I eat, and I do. The altitude makes you hungry. And then it burns it off.
And James Dickey is rolling in his grave...
That woman gets more hideous every time I look at her.
EASON JORDAN WAS FIRED FOR TELLING THE TRUTH!
CD -- I know we're close to the same page, at least. I still wonder how much of it is the vestiges of patriarchal frickin' feudalism, how much is religious, and how much goes all the way back to the cavemen.
All I know is, every woman who has been important in my existence has been at least as smart and as well-read as me, has more education, and makes more money. And the idea of being involved with someone who was not a dear and close friend drove me out of two relationships when I realized we weren't and would never be close friends, and it was only the physical stuff.
How deep does machismo go?
chicago dyke and tena-My soon to be 85 year old Aunt is one of the most liberal women you'd ever meet and she knows she is going to be able to vote for Hillary in '08.
watertiger - man, that is foul. Is all her evil coming to the surface or what?
footloose- i don't know about that yet. so far, the vast majority of sources of claims that hillary wants to or is planning on running are from SCUM right wing sources and blogs.
i've read she said she has no plans to run in 08, but that doesn't stop the talk.
Good Christ, watertiger. Is that an outtake from Michael Jackson's Thriller?
Ah, Tena, Blue Bunny does something that very, very few commercial ice creams do.
It melts. It melts completely, sloppily, utterly. It ceases to be other than what it is made of.
And it's cherry chocolate variety is a darn good copy of the hallowed Baskin-Robbins burgundy cherry. It's okay in my book. The only thing in Kansas that I could stomach, anyway - literally as it happened. Those last six months in beautiful Leavenworth, the longterm stress made it impossible for me to eat anything else....
Unfortunately, in her new position as The Camp Matron, we have to see more of her.
damnit, you'd think I were a troll. "it's cherry chocolate "/ "its cherry chocolate "
watertiger you are one sick puppy. i don't know how you can bear to have that on your site, but thanks for reminding us that George Bush is still gay- no straight man would sleep with any of the "women" in his life.
("hags" seems a better word, don't you think?)
In December, somebody from one of South Korea's veterinary schools did what hundreds of virus-hunters do the world over: he or she e-mailed to GenBank the genetic details of newly identified viruses. In this case, the posting said, six new strains of influenza had been found in local pigs. Each of the strains were genetically manipulated and contained genetic bits of an avian virus unlike those now prompting separate bird flu concerns.
Worse, there were large segments of a flu bug dubbed WSN/33, a human flu virus altered in 1933 in a laboratory by infecting mice, resulting in a strain that kills mouse brain cells. The original 1933 human virus was related to that which caused the 1918 pandemic flu, killing an estimated 50 million people. Nothing even remotely like the WSN/33 flu has circulated in the world since 1956, and this particular WSN-avian flu combination is not known to have ever occurred naturally, so most of the global population would have little or no immunity to the virus. Since neither the particular bird flu strain nor the WSN/33 flu were known to exist outside of laboratories, one Internet journal concluded that "these sequences could represent a military experiment that resulted in an unplanned release. Moreover, at this point, bioterrorism cannot be ruled out."
bird and swine flu musings.
i dunno-anybody that can put together that walk the carpet look with groove girl boots and all should be be a tad more adept at choosing makeup.
why i hate the dog fucker, part 23567:
CUTTING OVERTIME PAY: The amendment abolishes the 40-hour work week and replaces it with an 80-hour, two-week work period. Today, those who work 50 hours in one week and 30 the next receive 10 hours of time-and-a-half overtime pay. Under the amendment, such workers would no longer get overtime pay, making mandatory overtime cheaper for employers. This change encourages employers to overwork employees in busy periods and cut their hours when things are less busy--leaving workers less able to control their work hours and to balance work and family. Construction workers, for example, whose work hours often vary from week to week, will be particularly hard hit. Currently about 100 million workers are eligible to receive overtime pay.
Also:
No more actual wages for tip workers - if the aggregate tips can equal minimum wage pay, the employer no longer has to pay a tipped worker anything at all.
via Kos. it's ricky's addition to monday's vote apparently.
i'm outta here- i have date with much older boyfriend (it's his birthday!) and I don't need to go looking like Cheney.
well i guess i'm talking to myself today. from the DReport:
A state judge in California heard arguments on Friday in a lawsuit brought by Apple Computer to force three Web site publishers to reveal the names of confidential sources who disclosed to them Apple's plans for future products. The outcome of the lawsuit, which was filed in December, could have far-reaching ramifications for the ability of bloggers to maintain the confidentiality of unnamed sources, which news gatherers often depend on for information.
Judge James Kleinberg of the Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose, Calif., told the lawyers in the case late Thursday that he was leaning toward permitting Apple to issue subpoenas to the three publishers, Powerpage.org, Apple Insider and Think Secret. He is expected to issue a formal ruling as early as next week.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group that filed a motion last month to block the subpoenas, argued in court on Friday that online publishers have the same legal protections as traditional journalists, who are shielded under state law from being forced to divulge the names of confidential sources. "If this ruling goes in favor of Apple, it will have a chilling effect on the use of confidential sources," said Kurt Opsahl, a staff lawyer with the foundation, which is based in San Francisco. Once the judge rules, the defendants will have five days to decide whether to appeal. After that period, Apple can issue the subpoenas.
chicago dyke,
The Santorum drivel is some serious anti-worker bullshit. Employers would pretty much be forced to screw over employees, wouldn't they? I mean, wouldn't they benefit from monkeying with the hours so they paid less overtime? And the no-salary-for-tips thing would be disgusting if the whole tip-getter set-up wasn't completely screwed anyway.
Re: Life and Beer
the two are of course inextricably intertwined.
We are blessed here to be fairly near a whole bunch of good, independent breweries...you can never have too many, imho
in the movies, it's life in the background, in the most literal sense. Everybody out there is a ham and a wanna-be principal (if for no better reason than for the money, really)...the competition to do the cool shit, and to thereby stand out a little from the herd is intense...
a couple of weeks ago, we were shooting the meeting of the transcontinental RR. An AD (asst. dir) said he wanted more people on the UP engine. I was close, and i scrambled up the wheels of that old steam engine with the alacrity of a man many years my junior, finally getting in position to be the 'edge of frame on that side, and thereby assuring my visibility in the shot...
My beard is very long, but i can gather it up and stuff it inside a shirt without betrayig its real length; or I can go with it out, as i did when portraying a saloon gambler in still an earlier shot...
in toto, i shall have been in two--and possibly a third--of the six films being made...
scuttlebutt around the set sez we may get nominated for an Emmy, too...it is fun, and pays about the same as McDonald's...the thing is there are a lot of like-minded individuals, almost like a little club, and you get to know one another, and the casting peeps, too...i think after this, whgerein i've made my chops, I can stay working as much as i want to, within the limitations of my face...(somebody once said i had a great face for radio; but on the other hand, the make-up gal on this film said the camera loves me, too...)
chi-dyke - that's funny - I go back and forth the same damn way.
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What bothers me is that so many young women have no idea what they are throwing away with both hands.
WGG-Have any groupies yet. If not, that'll be what comes next.
Congrats, it sounds like fun.
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WGG,
Where are you filming, if you don't mind my asking? Old Tuscon?
When my parents were in AZ a dozen or more years ago, visiting family, they got to see Dub Taylor filming a commercial at Old Tuscon.
Sen. Ralph Hudgens (R-Comer), noting that the state has wildlife support license plates, asked Adelman if that means legislators would also have to provide plates reading "I support raping and pillaging the environment."
More proof (as if we needed it) that they're insane and they don't even care about hiding it anymore. They're like sociopathic 5-year-olds who have been given a chainsaw and a truckload of kittens.
Wile - WGG is in Alburquerque, not AZ. Old Tucson is pretty much defunct these days. Or rather, all of AZ is pretty much 'Old' - altho I'm told that the AZ film board is making great strides and someday hopes to once again host the filming of Paladin in the studio outside Cave Creek....
Quicktime Video of Ward Churchill's appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher and Ari Fleischer's appearance on the Daily here
GWPDA,
Thanks. The only "Old West" shooting location in the Southwest I know anything about is Old Tuscon. Sorry to hear it's closed these days.
I wish they would bring Paladin back. Hell, I wish TV Land would bring Paladin back.
"Hell, I wish TV Land would bring Paladin back."
Me too, but I understand there are some major ownership problems.
When I was little, my Mum used to gather us all up to go to church, so that afterwards she could take us all out to Cave Creek and watch Richard Boone. We would sit and eat our sandwiches - she was watching Boone....
Jeezus:
If I were a man, no amount of Viagra in the world would induce me to get it up for Condi.
Eeeewwwwwwww!
"chicago dyke - there was an article in the Dallas Morning News this AM about how women are losing rights all over the planet. They really are making war on us. They want to stuff us back into the kitchen and the nursery.
Tena |"
Why do right wingers HATE women so much?
Repost:
My English prof is making me write from Bobo's perspective.
I have to add a chain of logic to his fallacious arguments. Like that's possible.
One could only wonder if David Whore-o-witz is full of shit about dem librul prufessers.
The St. Patrick 4
They are being charged with Conspiracy to Impede an Officer of the United States for their March 17, 2003 act of nonviolent resistance to the imminent invasion of Iraq.
The arraignment will be at the Binghamton Federal Courthouse in the 1st floor courtroom. The arraignment is the point at which the defendants plead guilty or not guilty and subsequent proceedings may be scheduled
More about the St. Patrick Four:
This will be the second trial for the four for their act of nonviolent civil resistance at the local US Army/Marine Recruiting Center on March 17, 2003. Their first trial ended in a hung jury, with nine jurors voting to acquit. After prayer and discernment the four poured their own blood sacramentally in the vestibule of the center, thereby making visible the blood that is shed by the work of the center. They went there in the spirit of nonviolence, knelt in prayer and in no way threatened or used force. The charge they are facing is a felony and carries up to six years in prison
“We can’t help but wonder whether the timing of these charges are politically motivated to stifle dissent and resistance to war making as we approach the second anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq and the March 19, 2005 international call to action to resist the ongoing war” said Peter De Mott.
“We take note that, as a direct result of our US invasion, over 100,000 Iraqi civilians and 1,500 coalition soldiers have been killed. Wide areas of Iraq are now contaminated with depleted uranium, poisoning the people in these areas and the land permanently. While a few people and corporations make billions from this war, many in our nation are homeless, have no healthcare, living wage jobs, assurance of social security or adequate education” said Teresa Grady.
Clare Grady stated further that “we stand by our actions, believing that they are just, moral, legal, and required as the great crimes of mass murder, grand theft, and torture are perpetrated in our names.”
“We are being prosecuted by the office of a man, Attorney General Gonzalez, who has worked to institute the use, by the United States, of torture, an international crime,” Danny Burns noted. Burns went on to say, “Our nation’s young people are being targeted by the military to participate in this illegal war. They are being promised jobs, education and a future. Instead, they are getting illness, death and deep trauma from participating in killing innocent people.”
The four take full responsibility for entering the vestibule and pouring their own blood. They maintain that they are innocent of any crime because citizens have moral and legal obligations to take action to prevent greater crimes.
Clare Grady said, “We are heartened by people all around the world who are rising up for a just and peaceful world and we remember the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who said, “the moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
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