I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Hello I must be going!
Peace all!
Harry Reid is a freakin' douchebag.
Remember all those folks who said there is nothing wrong with having a "pro-life" Senate Leader?
Big tent my ass.
Happy last night of winter, Moonbats and freethinkers!
Tjey have already taken into account that judicial review will probably uphold the husband's argument.
If not, then the reinforcement of health care provider costs will be reinforced via this...
If you have to concede something, make a gain for the common good in its stead.
Evenin' Freebats and Moonthinkers.
Evenning, free thinking moonbats
Winter must not be allowed to end. Call DeLay and get a bill passed. I must not be allowed to expire. I will be exiled to the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro or some such.
Look to NTodd's blog tomake you a moonthinker.
A beautiful shot today.
http://dohiyimir.typepad.com/
blo...o.html#comments
Harry Reid did not do that. ((((NOOOO)))) Shit. Fuck.
Annoying news that might matter:
U.S. Misled Allies About Nuclear Export
N. Korean Material Landed In Pakistan, Instead of Libya
By Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 20, 2005; Page A01
In an effort to increase pressure on North Korea, the Bush administration told its Asian allies in briefings earlier this year that Pyongyang had exported nuclear material to Libya. That was a significant new charge, the first allegation that North Korea was helping to create a new nuclear weapons state.
But that is not what U.S. intelligence reported, according to two officials with detailed knowledge of the transaction. North Korea, according to the intelligence, had supplied uranium hexafluoride -- which can be enriched to weapons-grade uranium -- to Pakistan. It was Pakistan, a key U.S. ally with its own nuclear arsenal, that sold the material to Libya. The U.S. government had no evidence, the officials said, that North Korea knew of the second transaction.
Mr.Murder | Email | Homepage | 03.19.05 - 11:31 pm | #
Don't get me wrong. I didn't expect Senate Dems to fight this bill to the death. IMO, the correct course would have been to quietly vote against it, stay out of the way, and let the GOP show themselves for the assholes they are. The overwhelming majority of the American public is against them on this.
But, no. Harry Reid had to make common cause with the Religiously-Challenged/GOP.
So what riders will be attatched to the Emergency Legislation on the Schiavo Case?
Happy last night of winter, Moonbats and freethinkers!
Hecate
==
Isn't it beautiful?
There is something going on we are not aware of WRT Democratic support of that bill today.
Tom Harkin, and now Harry Reid have made a point of saying it is up to the house to respond.
I wonder if there is something happening in the House that we are not aware of just yet?
Hey, hate Reid today! Great for the GOP. Will work wonders.
Geeze. Powerful. Good stuff. We will be so fantastic after hating him for dealing with the shit dumped in his lap.
Feel better?
Good,
NEXT: hate Dean. He will not do what you want all the time! Hate hate hate. Hate me too, while you are at it. Tiresome Elaine, asking you to hate.
Scaramouche,
GWB as President-for-Life?
Last night of winter? Whoopie! Now if the weather will just co-operate.
Hey, hate Reid today! Great for the GOP.
Today, Reid and the GOP were one and the same.
NTodd,
That shot of the moon is one of the most beautiful pics I have ever seen, even better that the "Fire Department" b&w shot.
Damn, you're good!
FUCK BUSH
Hey, hate Reid today! Great for the GOP.
Today, Reid and the GOP were one and the same.
Elaine:
We don't have to agree with anybody all the time. To do so is to be nothing more than a party hack.
About winning in Congress: we are the minority party and the vast sea of people around us don't care about what we care about. We have to make them care.
This will be difficult, to say the least.
Hating Reid won't pull along too many boats here. It is what I call "venting" and is pretty useless unless you want to remove him. And replace him with whom?
If you hate all the Democratic Senators who chose him, well.
Third parties can be started. It is hard work. Even here, it is like herding the legendary cats.
Mr Murder, did you get my email? If so, I hope it helped. The details are pretty difficult for my poor skills.
so bush and delay have gone thru stacks and stacks of moaning bodies of children half dead from hunger or aids, of iraq civilians with limbs blown off, of american soldiers with bodies pock market and burned from roadside bombs and they have pushed all these aside and latched onto this poor brain dead woman and said this is who needs us now...to the barricades... there is no punishment too severe for these boys...none.
I have to say, I've been pleasantly surprised by Reid. This is obviously a complex case, but the complexities were solves in the mid-90's, conveniently. Admitting there's moral complexity here is not the same as saying the grandstanding Frist is right.
What was that Tom Petty song where he danced with a corpse?
Now if the weather will just co-operate.
Had many signs of spring here in WI today, lots of migratory ducks on the little river in my back yard. Mergansers, Wigeons, and the Wood Ducks are back, although the weather has been less than encouraging.
Singe:
You forget the salient point: One dead WHITE woman.
Ntodd,
Big tent my ass.
Your ass is a big tent?
Stupid Malaysians! having their own time and all. If they were on Murcan time the Formula One race wouldn't be on in the middle of the night. Stupid foreign people.
I don't hate Reid at all. I fail to see how the rank and file Dems can go along with this. Or Reid. It's an abuse of power and an abuse of the courts. Talk about your frivolous lawsuit. As the Goopers are fond of saying, "it's been settled again and again. Get OVER IT"
What bothers me is how bothered everyone is tonight.
Why?
Seriously, why? This was a trivial affair the GOP whipped up and want to emote over and you want the Democrats to expend capital on it and it benefits them not even slightly! If letting this woman die is so fricking popular, then there is no danger in allowing her family to go to court yet again.
See?
It strengthens our hand for defending Medicare and Medicaid! A big plus. You all think I am tiresome for pointing this out but it seems to not enter the brain, eh?
IT IS GOOD FOR US. Geeze.
What was that Tom Petty song where he danced with a corpse?
Last dance with Tom Delay, one more time to kill the pain...
I see Frist is creepin' in, and I'm tired of this town again...
Today, Reid and the GOP were one and the same.
There is no bottom to this insanity and my denial is completely running out of space. I've got to move to Canada or start shooting heroin directly into my brain.
Last Dance with Mary Jane, NYM. Creeepy...
Thanks Charlotte. That's the one.
Ah, at last a clean thread!
[passes out and pukes on everything]
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Oh, and JeffCO--nice to see you, man.
Feral,
I have crocus blooming but they are pale. Birds returning, and I like that a lot. I'm waking up to noisy birds again and I like that. Now I want sunshine. I'm greedy, I guess.
Peggy Noonan at her absolute worst... on the Schiavo case:
Oddly enough anyone who sees the film and tape of her can see that her brain tells her lungs to breathe, that she can open her eyes, that she seems to respond at times and to some degree to her family. She can laugh. (I heard it this morning on the news. It's a childlike chuckle.) In the language of computers she appears not to be a broken hard drive but a computer in deep hibernation. She looks like one of those coma cases that wind up in the news because the patient, for no clear reason, snaps to and returns to life and says, "Is it 1983? Is there still McDonald's? Can I have a burger?"
Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the Nooner is wrong about Schiavo's condition, because she believes in miracles:
Life is full of surprise and lightning-like lurches. The person in a coma today wakes up tomorrow and says, "Is that you, mom?" Life is unknowable. Always give it a chance to shake your soul and upend reality.
[snip]
Again, life is mysterious. Medicine is full of happenings and events that leave brilliant doctors scratching their heads.
For more, click here
Time to watch MadTV and SNL...
U.S. Misled Allies About Nuclear Export
Put that one next to
"Spain lied to Germany about ETA's role in subway bombing"
Oh, but Spain knuckled under to al Qaeda, right?
If you're a fucking inbred, that is.
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GMT:
You're lucky you didn't get that on my boots. Besides, the sheets weren't so clean when you did that, anyway.
I'm with Elaine on this one. I think the whole thing is a sham smokescreen which will eventually boil down to what it really is: a family problem.
The fact that congress got involved is nothing more than a distraction like the stupid baseball/steriod hearings.
The difference here is that the whackjob x-tian fundies are getting their nerve-rich tissues stroked with this news cycle.
Ignore it and the rethiglicans will over-reach and we can sit back and pass the popcorn.
I submit that it would be a good thing for a Dem to not be around to vote on it, that's all.
But relax, all, there is no winning solution for the Rethugs.
The bankruptcy bill: I see no rage about it. I don't see anyone storming congress about it. I don't see massive demonstrations about it.
Indeed, it is awesomely silent, isn't it?
Why did this bill pass?
Simple: the banks are scared and want security and the politicians don't see any downside to reassuring the banks!
When a depression comes, then we will see action, not one minute before. Hating our own party for some of them voting for this is a waste of time, in my books.
See? Targets: aim to hit the ones that really matter.
Hey, everyone, the cult leader who owns the Washington Times and claims that he's a replacement for Jesus is really upset that his paper isn't publicizing Republicans' relationship with him. Blogs can help...
Thanks NYMarisquito!
So, has High Priest Xenos done any one-handed pushups yet? (It's been a while since I've seen it...)
hola chica toxica!
Good to see you! Besos from the communidad!
2 years since shock & awe!
Freedom is on the march!
The Old Man From Scene 24:
Stupid Malaysians! having their own time and all. If they were on Murcan time the Formula One race wouldn't be on in the middle of the night. Stupid foreign people.
Thank you.
I totally forgot about this race.
Got it set up for tivo incase I fall asleep.
Damn thing runs until 3am
Elaine, wherehave you been? Plenty of people beat their breasts about the bankruptcy bill. Lots of other sites are addressing it still. What can we do about it now that we aren't doing? For now, all we can do is hammer the Reps about it. Sheesh, what are you, hall monitor?
You're lucky you didn't get that on my boots. Besides, the sheets weren't so clean when you did that, anyway.
[chthonic belch that includes a three-winged bat spiraling out of the pit of hell]
Wha...?
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Anyone catch the lead in to SNL?Especially the Zell Miller bit.
I'd really like to see the same thing turn up on Sundays excuses for newsprograms.
Thank you, chica.
Only once in a while do I stick out my neck and hammer away about something.
I notice people here want to despair. This is OK with me, there are many things to despair about like the rattling earthquakes that have been happening with amazing frequency for three months, California is way overdue, it will be hideous when the San Andreas blows out.
The oil crisis that will be the Eternal Dark Ages is something to really get worried about.
But it seems to irritate many people. They don't fear it at all, just like the earth going through an amazing revolution of changes that are pretty violent.
Life is full of surprise and lightning-like lurches. The person in a coma today wakes up tomorrow and says, "Is that you, mom?" Life is unknowable. Always give it a chance to shake your soul and upend reality.
A more-deeply-bruised-on-prose I have never seen.
Medicine is full of happenings and events that leave brilliant doctors scratching their heads.
And what of science, dear Peg?
Terry doesn't care... everyone cool their jets... She's looking at the pretty lights and thinking of pie.
The debate about family medical rights is an important one, whether the decision should be societal, medical or personal. I want the decision to belong to the docs and the next o' kin, and the repukes want to make the goverment the decision maker. Let the bullets fly, may the best notion win and stop worrying about Terry. PIE IS GOOD!
bigvic
Nothing blooming here yet, but squill and daffys are showing green. Lots of redwings singing in the marsh, and had a magnificent male Blue Heron on the riverbank this afternoon. Despite being cold and overcast it was a great bird day today.
hola a ti, NYMarisquito.
Been away for awhile. Nice to be back.
Sheesh, what are you, hall monitor?
Yes!
She is the hall monitor of doom! You will kneel or she will run you over with the Buick of dispair!
No, wait. That's the first lady.
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JeffCO,
This is one of MST3K's finest, IMHO.
"Day Five: Missed call. After five days of shooting finally got script, and guess what? I'm not playing Thomas Aquinas! I'm supposed to be some sort of freaking wizard!"
They won the Peabody for this one,. justifiably.
This is one of MST3K's finest, IMHO.
Oh no, they're doing it clown style!
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Been away for awhile. Nice to be back.
En Barcelona?
I am talking about Americans off the web being uninterested in the bankruptcy bill. The liberal parts of the web are gnawing at it fruitlessly.
We just have to wait for the carnage. This is what reality is all about. You can't fight until there are really serious bodies litering the landscape like in...IRAQ!
Well!
Not one person has been hit by the bankruptcy bill. Wait until there are victims. This is reality.
Hating Reid is pointless as well as fruitless.
[urp]
[chokes on own vomit]
[dies]
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I totally forgot about this race.
Got it set up for tivo incase I fall asleep.
Damn thing runs until 3am
Have you seen the grid for this race?
It is not business as usual... did you know that Toyota driver Ralf Schumacher (qual P5) has a backmarker brother in F1 for instance?
free thinking moonbats
Moonbats and freethinkers!
Freebats and Moonthinkers.
Ah, the possible combinations and permutations...Next up;
Freemooning Thinkbats! As soon as Toby shows up...
I only harp on this stupid boring shit when a new person comes and does the same song and dance.
Once it ends, I stop.
Simple? No? Heh.
I ain't as smart as the people kicking Reid are. just stubborn and boring.
Media question.
Now, I'm off to watch MadTV and SNL..
[spetre of grandmoffedness seeps into high-alcohol fluid everywhere]
[you cannot resist]
[you're becoming an asshole]
[and somehow...you like it]
[everything you were afraid to say]
[oh, shit; there it goes]
[man, that feels good]
[an enema for the soul]
[fuck you, you're what's wrong with this country]
[you will be destroyed or we will]
[aaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!}
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Elaine,
"Stubborn and boring"?
No!
"Informed and principled."
That's my read.
Or Freebating Thinkmoons?
Stupid news:
Car bomb targets theatre in Qatar
The bomb went off during a performance of Twelfth Night
A suspected suicide bomber targeting a theatre near a British school in Qatar has killed one Briton and injured about 12 other people.
The car bomb blast occurred at the Doha Players theatre outside the capital, Doha, where Shakespeare's Twelfth Night was being performed.
No group has said it carried out the attack. Western embassies rank the threat from terrorism in Qatar as high.
Al-Qaeda has threatened to target Westerners living in the region.
bin missing Laden strikes again. Unimportant news for Americans to ponder.
Howdy, y'all.
I have not seen one single story in the US press about the worldwide protests of the Iraq invasion. Read the Times, watched a bit of CNN and my local late news. No one dammed word. BBC is where I got the only information about it all day. Filtered news, indeed.
News for dummies strikes again:
More than 30 people have been killed and many injured in a bomb blast at a Muslim shrine in southern Pakistan.
The explosion occurred as thousands gathered at the site in the village of Fatehpur, about 300km (185 miles) east of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the bombing.
Balochistan has a history of violence between Shia and Sunni Muslims, and has seen increased attacks by tribesmen fighting for more autonomy.
But correspondents say Fatehpur is in an area which has not seen sectarian violence. Officials said it was too early to attribute blame.
Ah, shift change at McDonalds.
Woohoo.
It is nice to see Ferrari near the bottom.
I just looked at the grid. Other than Coulthard being 11th, it looks good.
NYMarisquito - thanks for the pimping. I think that means I owe you a cut, right?
And with that, I wish you all a hearty good night, moonbats!
Or Freebating Thinkmoons?
FeralLiberal | Email | Homepage | 03.20.05 - 12:00 am | #
[freebasing moonthinkers]
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Okay, it's the day of the Rugby Sevens World Cup where they start competing for the trophies.
In the Plate (consolation hardware) Quarter-final:
Georgia 24, USA 0
And that ain't the US state of Georgia.
Are Hong Kongers bad as well for not holding their sporting events on MurkanTime?
Damn you, doozer!
Good news: People who actually work hard to change things!
There is still widespread opposition to the Iraq war
Protests have been taking place across the world marking two years since the start of the war in Iraq.
Thousands turned out in Japan and Australia to complain about their countries' involvement in Iraq.
Protest marches took place around Europe and similar events occurred in cities across the US.
In a radio address, US President George W Bush defended the war, saying it took place "to disarm a brutal regime, free its people, and defend the world".
More than 4,500 people marched in Tokyo during a visit by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
"The Self-Defence Force [Japan's military] should withdraw from Iraq immediately... and the occupation of Iraq should be stopped," said Ken Takada, a member of civic group World Peace Now.
The bomb went off during a performance of Twelfth Night
Thank goodness they weren't performing Henry VIII. I think the Globe burned down during a performance of that play.
Been away for awhile. Nice to be back.
En Barcelona?
Oooh. Wouldn't that be nice? No, I am going there this summer. I'm still been in NH, but I've been a full-time single mom for a week. That means I gotta sleep when the child sleeps or else I'm useless. So no time to check in on blogs last week or so.
I take my christmas tree down on the first day of spring.
I have not seen one single story in the US press about the worldwide protests of the Iraq invasion. Read the Times, watched a bit of CNN and my local late news. No one dammed word. BBC is where I got the only information about it all day. Filtered news, indeed.
It was on local 11:00pm news here, on ABC, NBC and CBS.
This is one of MST3K's finest, IMHO.
Mine remains Manos, The Hands of Fate. Torgo reminds me of every shuffling toadie slouching through DC.
BTW, it's Jim Mallon's birthday today!
Other than Coulthard being 11th, it looks good.
DC is in 8th. Should be a good race 
bigvic:
I have not seen one single story in the US press about the worldwide protests of the Iraq invasion.
Watch your local news. They've been running stories on that horseshit all day in my neck of the woods.
Brandi Swindell, from Boise, Idaho, joins members of clergy from
numerous Christian faiths in candlelight vigil and prayers services.
TEN COMMANDMENTS REFERENDUM
... A coalition of Christians, churches, politicians and Boise, Idaho townspeople
... Christian Defense Coalition and Brandi Swindell of Generation Life, ...
prayeralert.org/alertarchives
Conservative groups denounce "Kinsey" as too favorable toward ...
... transmitted diseases, pornography and abortion," said Brandi Swindell, ...
Swindell, interviewed by telephone from Boise, Idaho, said the planned ...
www.freenewmexican.com/
Pro-lifers protest Olympic condoms: "A plan to provide free condoms to Olympic athletes at the 2002 Winter Olympics is facing passionate protests from various pro-family groups. 'I thought it was absolutely appalling that the Salt Lake Organizing committee, in the name of public safety, would push condoms on the athletes,' said 25-year-old Brandi Swindell, leader of Generation Life, a Boise, Idaho-based pro-life group.
If you live in Idaho, the tax deductible status of her charitable groups should be examined in full.
Idaho State Legislature - 2004 Senate Judiciary & Rules Committee ...
... He worked in Washington DC with the Republican National committee, and then
was campaign ... Brandi Swindell, National Director of the Generation Life, ...
www.legislature.idaho.gov/
Idaho site cites her. Why should public dollars do her free PR and sanction it officially?
She's a secessionist also!Adam's Blog - August 2004
... The booth was a Combined after with the KTCC found Brandi Swindell's ...
In Idaho, this is much worse, as the Republican Party (or what passes for it) ...
David (Austin Tx)
Who's on the pole?
Elaine,
I read all the stories you typed about @ 12:01 on (((The Farking BBC)))) as well.
We aren't getting news here unless we dig dig dig.
OK, here is really bad news.
You have to take this very seriously! Seriously!
Australia Frog Hospital to Close!
By Phil Mercer
BBC News, Sydney
Frogs are considered to be environmental barometers
Australia's only frog hospital is closing down due to lack of money.
For the last six-and-a-half years it has treated hundreds of amphibians struck down by illness and injury.
Researchers have said public apathy towards the plight of Australia's frog population has been an important factor in the hospital's demise.
The frog hospital has been operating out of a small flat in the tropical city of Cairns in Queensland.
It has been mending broken legs and treating various ailments.
It can be an expensive exercise.
Call Frist!
Okay, it's the day of the Rugby Sevens World Cup where they start competing for the trophies.
Does Fiji still fo well in 7s ?
'night, NTodd. Flights of angels and all that jazz. As a fellow insomniac, I wish you dozy peace.
I take my christmas tree down on the first day of spring.
I always shave my beard off on Good Friday.
JeffCO,
I once went as Torgo for Hallowen. Thers went as Mitchell.
I feel for the frogs.
Bush used to blow them up for fun, the little twit.
Toby is stupid and ugly and nobody likes him.
Watch your local news. They've been running stories.....
Bullshit.
Prove it, Troolboy.
Speaking of Ferrari, the team is sounding just like Joe Lieberman.
All of the F1 teams are trying to bring costs of running a F1 team under control. Ferrari refuses to abide by any agreements between the teams to limit testing, as a measure to control costs.
Ferrari says that's not fair. The other teams are stating (right now privately) that F1 would be better off without Ferrari.
Much like Democrats are grumbling (only not so privately) that the Democratic party would be better off without Lieberman
Ack. More about the frogs!
BBC:Frogs as barometers
The hospital's curator, Deborah Pergolotti, believes that Australians are far less willing to show compassion and generosity towards sick frogs than koalas and kangaroos, those iconic marsupials.
Over the years more than 1,500 frogs have been treated at the clinic.
Many were attacked by cats and dogs, while it is believed that some were tortured by school children with sticks.
Others were accidentally squashed by flower-pots or choked by pesticides.
Only 100 dollars a frog. Cheap! Not one is brain dead, either. Even a tadpole deserves to live.
What really burns me is, koala bears get more sympathy than poor froggies.
That sucks, big time.
Who's on the pole?
Alonso
followed by Trulli, Fisichella, Webber, Ralf Schumacher & Kimi.
Ferraris were 12th and 13th.
MIIIITTTTCHHHHEEELLLLL!!!!!
Joe Don Thersites?
I suppose I'm thankful you're not watching The Brain That Wouldn't Die. That would be too much, wouldn't it?
Ferrari controlling costs::lol;
Provisional pole is Fernando Alonso (Renault). Final qualifying session is happening in 30 minutes.
With Jarno Trulli (Toyota) in second
I will put up the final qualifying results on my blog (see homepage) when the results are finished.
I will also put up the race results, and my notes if I can stay up for it, or in the morning, after I watch it.
You guys can't deny that Bush is actually the most pro-choice president we've ever had. Zell Miller really has his head on straight here. You guys ought to take his example, leave the far left, and come back to sanity.
inal qualifying session is happening in 30 minutes.
Its already over, the Speed TV coverage is tape delayed.
Keith, before you go fuck yourself, remember that it was bigvic's comment that Big Media is burying the anti-war protests going on today that's the real bullshit.
More news from Elaine (gads!)
CNN:NEW YORK (AP) -- Anti-war activists marched in the streets of U.S. cities large and small Saturday, stopping traffic and lying down alongside flag-draped cardboard coffins to mark the second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq.
Some of the demonstrators were arrested in New York as they demanded that U.S. troops be brought home.
"This country was founded by acts of civil disobedience," said David McReynolds, 75, of New York, as he marched along 42nd Street. "We have an obligation to make our resistance public and to say as clearly as we can that the war is illegal."
In San Francisco, California, hundreds of protesters rallied in Dolores Park in the city's Mission District, holding up posters with photographs of dead U.S. soldiers. The protesters then marched to San Francisco City Hall for another rally.
No frogs at the rallies.
All Hail the Governator...the rap song you should call and request from your local Clear Channel radio station...
http://arnoldwatch.org/assets/
go...ernator_rap.mp3
Alonso
followed by Trulli, Fisichella, Webber, Ralf Schumacher & Kimi
Looks like it's starting out to be a pretty competitive season. May have to take my options on the Indianapolis race this year!
oonay edthray.
I didn't know that speed was tape delaying the qualifying session, though it makes sense, as it takes longer than 30 minutes.
I just checked http://www.formula1.com and see the final qualifying results.
I am glad that DC was able to pull things up from 11th. I have been a big fan of his since the Damon Hill days.
May have to take my options on the Indianapolis race this year!
I gop every year. What? Speak up sonny! I can't HEAR YOU! :lol
I have not seen one single story in the US press about the worldwide protests of the Iraq invasion.
You know, the more I think about it, the more ridiculous a statement this becomes.
Every once and a while, the forums go through a melt down.
Usually when we don't get our own way. Since the GOP runs things, this is pretty often. Thus the joking that goes on here and there and everywhere.
But seriously, don't get bent too out of shape over forums. It isn't worth it (and people like me are not easy to shut up! heh. I am an old loud mouth...many of us are, here...yoiks)
So goodnight, goodnight, sleep tight and don't let anyone pull your plug or whatever...peace.
Toby, before YOU go fuck yourself, please remember that no thinking person around here gives a FUCK about you or your opinions.
Thas' all.
So goodnight, goodnight, sleep tight and don't let anyone pull your plug or whatever...peace.
Since NTodd has gone, I will refrain from inserting his obligatory onanistic comment here.
Nite JeffCo
Good nite Elaine. You are a wit. Peace.
Toby, you see, is stupid and ugly, and nobody likes him.
I don't even understand what there is to protest. Good things are starting to happen for the future of democracy in the Middle East ---and we have our troops to thank for it.
So, as I see it, protesting a war that is bringing hope to tens of millions is both anti-democratic in its attitude and contemptuous of the brave men and women who are making it all possible.
What? Speak up sonny! I can't HEAR YOU! :lol
The Old Man From Scene 24
You must have been in the grandstands near the start/finish lines. I've had seats near turn one, not bad! There's nothing that sounds like an F1 motor though!
Elaine:
I know a cement contractor who works the DC/Baltimore area. He said there has been more cement poured since 9/11 than ever before. He said "they" were building bunkers all over DC. Your statements about "them" preparing for nuclear war are prescient.
Good things are starting to happen for the future of democracy in the Middle East ---and we have our troops to thank for it.
Such as? and how are "our troops" responsible?
The Liberal Media haven't reported these wonderful happenings, so I rely on you for fair and balanced information.
Keith:
Toby, before YOU go fuck yourself, please remember that no thinking person around here gives a FUCK about you or your opinions.
So you're saying that you're pissed off because you made a stupid demand of proof that could not possibly be more superfluous and got called on it? Okay. Better luck next time.
Toby, you see, is stupid and ugly, and nobody likes him.
Thersites
Begob, is that the way of it?
What is this? You don't think that the Iraqi election of 30 January 2005 will be one of the greatest moments in the history of the early 21st Century?
The Left have become shockingly unimaginative.
You must have been in the grandstands near the start/finish lines.
HAHAHAH yes you are 100% correct. My seats are directly opposite the #1 (Ferrari) pits and the first 4 grid positions with a good view of the podium.
I love the sound of those cars, but the start makes it feel like my ears are bleeding...
There are a lot of smart people here. Why not talk to them and skip talking with bullshitters? Makes the thread much more entertaining and enjoyable.
Peace.
Well, AP has a story. With the usual SCLM lying:
In San Francisco, hundreds of protesters rallied in Dolores Park in the city's Mission district, holding up posters with photographs of dead American soldiers. The protesters then marched to City Hall for another rally.
Meanwhile, the San Francisco Chronicle (hardly known to be friendly to the anti-war movement) says:
Several thousand anti-war protesters chanted slogans and carried signs in a high-spirited, mostly peaceful march Saturday in San Francisco to mark the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq...
Though some participants fretted that the threat of rain had deterred would-be marchers, others were pleased with the size of the crowd, which snarled city traffic and at times stretched for about 15 blocks.
AP Editor: "Just how many fingers do you want us to say, you're holding up, Mr. Rove?"
SNL sucks out loud. They need another turnover. I havn't so much as chuckled a single time. (Didn't see the scary Zell part)
Dear Moronic Brownshirt Fuck,
Nobody's interested and nobody cares.
End of discussion.
You don't think that the Iraqi election of 30 January 2005 will be one of the greatest moments in the history of the early 21st Century?
Bit early to tell don't you think? No government in place yet, no constitition written much less approved.
Having an election under the circumstances the Historic Iraqi Elections ™ were held under is not exactly a template for democracy anywhere. PLenty of countries have had "One Man One Vote One Time". Democracy does not equal simply having an election.
You don't think that the Iraqi election of 30 January 2005 will be one of the greatest moments in the history of the early 21st Century?
You don't mind if we wait and see, do you? I mean, I know the hip thing is to declare complete and total victory two seconds into an issue's existence, but I sorta think there's a whole lot to consider before I give it the nod either way.
Just curious, why do you think it will be considered "one of the greatest moments of the early 21st Century"?
Oh hi Toby. I was hoping you'd be around. Yes, the Iraqi election will most certainly be one of the greatest. What would be your other top 10 so far?
SNL sucks out loud.
For 25 fucking years. When the fuck are they gonna pull that plug?
dave,
All I'm saying is that it was not covered at all on the local, CNN or newspapers I read
Whatever coverage there might have been has been too remote for me to catch. It's appalling.
Still, the first rule is, "everyone eats".
If we are fortunate enough to exist in a society where no one is actually starving (no Schiavo comments, please), then everyone at the able gets enough to eat.
After that, the debate begins.
Hahahahaha. Tags? What tags? Hoo boy.
The Old Man From Scene 24
I've sat there for qualifying, the sound is unbelievable in that "canyon".
OK, bigvic! Got it!
Dave,
Word. Who is writing this shit for SNL? They need to GO.
I've noticed an occasional lull in posting on Saturdays about the time SNL does the "newscast". SNL may be on the skids, but it seems that alot of us (including me) watch the "news" (even though it's been pretty lame lately).
Yeah Weekend Update is still worth watching even if SNL is sucking more than usual recently.
Several thousand protesters marched from Harlem to Central Park for a rally where Representative Charles B. Rangel declared, "What we are doing here today is not popular, but it's the right thing to do." In Brooklyn, 300 people from two rallies that began miles apart converged on a military recruiting station at Flatbush Avenue near Lafayette Avenue. And in the Bronx, a vigil was held at a recruiting office.
In Midtown Manhattan, 350 protesters rallied at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the United Nations and, carrying simulated coffins to the beat of a snare drum, marched in silence to Times Square. More than two dozen - apparently volunteers for arrest - kneeled outside the recruiting station, then moved into the middle of Broadway between 43rd and 44th Streets and blocked traffic.
I once reviewed a resume from a woman for a job as QA director in a Pharma company who claimed she was a writer for SNL in the early 90's. She went from there to study phrenology and massage in Hawaii and other similar strange jobs. Eventually musta figured she was qualified to be a good QA person with that background. Total whacko but the most entertaining resume I read that week.
just for putting it all into perspective, let us costume the government of israel as a fundamentalist islamic government...
and let us costume the palestinians as jews.
now, tell me, where do your allegiances reside?
just so that you understand, i want to emphasize that i consider israel a gangster state...one that had no legitimate reason for being that was created by stealing the ground from the legitimate inhabitants of palestine.
oh, those israeli terrorists. if they were muslims, wouldn't we be seeking them out to incarcerate them in gitmo, exposing them to extraordinary renditions?
i care to remember the terrorist acts of the stern gang and the irgun. and the palmach. how many were murdered by ben gurion's bombing of the king david hotel? how many palestinian women, children, old men were exterminated by those jews 40-50 years ago?
i also want to impose on your memory banks the cluster bombs that were furnished the idf by the reagan-bush regime via the dod's good friend, carlos cardoen. the armaments' partner of that gangster general, augusto pinochet ugarte. and i want you to reflect on how israel used those cluster bombs...as if stukas over warsaw, amerikan-supplied f16's, amerikan-supplied[via a chilean cut-out] cluster bombs were dropped on beirut. for days. for weeks.
the pictures of this atrocity were never aired in the jewish-controlled amerikan media. they did air elsewhere, however. and it was an ugly bit of aerial bombardment imposed on a civilian population. reminded me of ah and franco and their condor legion in basqueland in the 1930's. gernika as pablo painted it. as kofi removed it from the un. at the request of the bushits.
somehow there is this idea that is floated that jews are so hallowed that they are forces of enlightenment that always oppose oppression.
candidly, what a crock of shit.
when jorge videla was throwing his opponents out of choppers over the atlantic, his counselors were soldiers of the idf.
when the gangster general, augusto pinochet ugarte, was promoting his operation condor, a pogrom to exterminate leftists and trade unionists throughout south amerika, among his counselors were members of the idf.
in honduras, in guatemala, in salvador, in nicaragua, during the reagan-bush era, the substitutes for the amerikans trained at the school of the assassins were israeli idf soldiers, mossad acolytes, shin bet criminals.
one of these days, you are all going to have to wake up to the fact that the israel government is a very nasty bit. and a very energetic destabilizer of the middle east and a friend of most fascists running countries.
i shall conclude with how israel has punished mordecai vanunu. for telling the world what? that israel has a nuclear arsenal that may be larger than amerika's and russia's.
and then, there is the story of how israel intell services murdered karen silkwood.
oh, you don't think it happened that way? well, aren't you ignorant.
it's so odd. israel gets a bye no matter what. for reasons that i shall never understand.
and never forget pollard. an israeli spy. what did he know that has caused him to become the man in the iron mask? what did he know that caused that energetic zionist casper weinberger to renounce the agreed-upon plea bargain[7 years imprisonment] and force the judge to sentence pollard to forever in prison?
i shall tell you what pollard knew. and why he had to be bastilled, chateau d'iffed.
he knew that weinberger, reagan, bush orchestrated the seizure of the amerikans in tehran. he also knew that those fascist bastids arranged to prevent the hostage release so as to prevent the re-election of wee jimmy.l
i conclude by telling you that arik sharon, in concert with the amerikan republicans, were responsible for assassinating itzak rabin.
but, if you don't want to recognize any of this, then, of course, i am, a pariah.
some of you, perhaps, understand, that what i have said is reality.
slanz.
Latest FaBlog: All About Gucky
Just finished watching Sometimes In April, and will probably spend a great deal of time trying to digest it all. Jesus.
Creationist hooey stifling science documentaries:
Push Comes To Shove
40% of Republicans think they still want to kick some ass:
Lapdogs Of War
albertc, please come to the eshcacon. please. we'll have so much fun.
I don't consider myself a religious wingnit by any degree...but I can fully understand keeping the FEEDING tube in this Florida woman in order to keep her alive.
Yes, she is technically brain dead, with, according to the best medical opinion, no chance of any type of cognitive recovery. But, it is a FEEDING tube, simply supplying nutirents to sustain life. The woman is breathing on her own, she is not on any heart/lung or other life support system.
Taking the tube out is not humanely "pulling the plug". Her organs will continue to work until she slowly starves to death (estimates are a week to ten days).
This, to me, is wrong. Regardless of her condition, she should not face death by starvation.
That said, I read her parents are devout Roman Catholics. As such, their zeal to keep their daughter breathing at all costs is puzzling.
I would think as believing christians they would rejoice in allowing her to escape her obvious human suffering and join god in heaven. At peace. For eternity.
It is a very tough moral, ethical and (to some) religious question with room and need for personal belief.
Of course, Congress should not have been involved. This is not something for them to decide. But beating up on Democrats who in the end - because of what they were forced to consider - supported the "compromise" is foolish. It is not something to "go to the mat over" one way or the other.
It is, however, sad that a family's personal grief and torment has become the latest dish in America's insatiable appetite for public spetacle.
BB, this kind of death is not as horrible as has been painted. Do a little googling.
This woman deserves to die w/dignity and peace, as we all do.
Don't buy into the media hype and bullshit.
SD
ok. i have to go to bed. my sis and her baby are here, i can't blog and aunt at the same time. this is annoying.
anyway, dad called earlier. he wanted to know the good boards. leave 'em here, if you know them. i'll forward them on, he's a golfer and a judge and can get some fun people to contribute.
night all. i'm a tired, moonstruck freebat, thinking all too freedom-esque. let me go find that cute swiss woman again...
WTF? From cnn.com:
"At the Florida hospice where Schiavo is being cared for, three people, including former militia-movement leader James "Bo" Gritz, were arrested Saturday because they refused to stay back from a police line. The three apparently were trying to get water to Schiavo.
Other activists at the scene said they had plans to attempt to get bread and water to Schiavo, but said they would wait until Tuesday to see what happens in Washington."
What, are they gonna chew the bread and force feed her like a baby bird? Jesus Christ on a cracker, these people are insane. Never mind. I don't want these radicals taking notice of all the other cases like this that are out there. At least other people in the same situation can die in peace.
Wassa matter with you guys? Reid is a POL-uh-TISH-un. He's making deals with the Republican leaders. God only knows what he traded for on this one.
I like Reid. He seems strong and wiley. I don't like what he's done in this matter, but then again, I have no idea what is going on behind closed Senate doors.
He's playing the game that must be played. Let's just hope he pulls something brilliant out of his ass on some other issues. ANWR, anyone? Nuclear option, anyone?
Pick your battles.
Egads. Just finished half-watching half-gagging to Starship Troopers on cable.
Unbelievably crap-TAC-u-lar.
Brain sucking bugs report to D.C. immediately!
If you're all up so late, get some sleep! The Sunday morning shows are on in a few hours and I wouldn't want you to miss them.
The main topic of the week? The 2nd Anniversary of the Iraq War. Wolf Blitzer is live from the Persian Gulf... The shows have Generals, retired generals, wannabe generals in pundit panels, Donald Rumsfeld hits This Week and FOX News Sunday... Why, it's a good 'ole hoedown over the war.
Check it out!
Rory
Sunday Morning Talk
http://www.sundaymorningtalk.com/
(weekly guest line-ups, transcripts and the odd rambling thought)
Does Fiji still fo well in 7s ?
The Old Man From Scene 24
Sorry to get back to ya so late... but yes, Fiji is the odds on favourite to win the 7s this year.
They beat Argentina, who's been getting better and better, in the quarters. Fiji faces England in one of the semis, with New Zealand facing Australia in the other.
As for Georgia, who eliminate the US in the consolation bracket (Plate rather than Cup), Portugal 29 - Georgia 5.
Back with another 7s World Cup update. In the Cup semis Fiji 24 - England 10, New Zealand 24 - Australia 20.
So it'll be Fiji vs. New Zealand for the World Cup Championship in about 40 minutes.
Can't blog about this, so I dump on y'all, sorry...
My best friend and his girl broke up three weeks ago. She and I were fast friends from the start. In fact, I did a video thing for her brother's birthday just a few weeks ago. She called this week; wanted to have beers this weekend.
Okay -- ground rules:
* No talk about the best friend and/or what he's up to now.
* No "water carrying" back to the best friend about unfinished business.
Agreed -- so we meet up tonight.
Man, that woman (she's 36; I'm 41, so it's not like we're kids, for cryin' out loud) seemed to do everything possible to cause me to walk around 2nd Avenue with a prominent erection (suggestive dancing at a bar where, admittedly, the women are somewhat expected to dance suggestively on the bar; intimate caresses and talk of sex, et al). It ain't right, and I told her so. I do have a code under which I try to guide and live my life, and screwin' friends' ex-girlfriends is not part of that code. In the end, she was respectful, but still stole a more personal kiss than I'd planned at the end of the evening.
I think she's a wonderful friend, a great person, and a joy to be around -- which makes it suck all the more that she's my buddy's ex, but that's how it is. It just kills me that she's such a cool person... and knowing that I have no business exploring this. I have to wonder if she's going through a low self-esteem thing right now, since I'm not all that much to look at (oh, she's WAY out of MY league!), but I'm a easy ear, and a pleasant enough conversationalist.
I just wish the situation was different, is all. Sorry for getting personal, but I'm feeling... quite... conflicted...
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Wish I had some more alcohol.
drp -- I hear ya, brother. After my evening out, I'm wanting to drink or jack off... but I'm leaning towards the drinking thing.
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(then again, my last serious fling ended in June, 2000, so I probably feel due a bit of amour...)
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Sorry. Didn't mean to imply that anyone should actually watch SNL as it exists today. Just happened to catch the beginning before I could get up and change the channel.
The special from a few weeks ago showing the early years reminded me of the days when it was funny and worth watching. But that was then. It's totally worthless now.
SNL's premiere season was when I was in 7th grade. I remember how cool I was considered that I was allowed not only to stay up that late on Saturday night, but also allowed to watch such subversive and mature programming. Heh.
"Jane, you ingnorant slut!"
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Eh, "ingnorant," "ignorant"... it's all the same, dammit. There's no one reading this, is there? Whew.
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Wish I had some more alcohol.
Oops. Accident. Didn't mean to repeat myself, I hit the "refresh" button and resent it. Pardon me.
and to conclude our Rugby 7s World Cup coverage, Fiji wins the championship by beating New Zealand 29-19.
holy crap. bo gritz has crawled out of the woodwork? it's the wingnut jubilee! hey dave, isn't it time for another Million Dollar Ignore the Brownshirt Fucks Weekend?
Just wondering.....
Latest news update:Two people were killed Friday in Pensacola,Fla during Jr's and Mommy Dearests' "60 Day Tour of the Downtrodden".Sources say 2 persons drowned after they fell down into the drool soaked carpets,in places close to the stage the the drool was estimated to be almost 10 inches deep!Bush and Babs were given lifejackets just in case the crowds drool reached them!
Jeffraham Prestonian - no one's reading this of course. But there's every indication that you're the rebound target. It can be fun or not, mostly not for the target. Often, not so much for the rebounder. Learn to say thanks, but no thanks for this one. Your code is correct.
/signed, been there
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