I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Uh, eat me!
NYT News of the Bizarre considering that just this morning, the news was how great things were in Iraq:
The Army's recruiters are being challenged with one of the hardest selling jobs the military has asked of them in American history, and many say the demands are taking a toll.
A recruiter in New York said pressure from the Army to meet his recruiting goals during a time of war has given him stomach problems and searing back pain. Suffering from bouts of depression, he said he has considered suicide. Another, in Texas, said he had volunteered many times to go to Iraq rather than face ridicule, rejection and the Army's wrath.
An Army chaplain said he had counseled nearly a dozen recruiters in the past 18 months to help them cope with marital troubles and job-related stress.
no thanks
Good.
Who the hell are you peeps. Do I know you. No. Yet you beat me to it.
finally, the a-man has gotten back to pinel-lalalas park
fl-lalalalalalalala -orida!!!
i mean i love the site and all but its terry s. 24-7, c'mon now
Geeze, the army recruiters should tell their victims...er, customers about the joys of being in Bush's military!
"Only 13 soldiers (well, one was a Marine!) were blown up today! Join, see the world and even the universe as you disperse over the cosmos in tiny fragments!"
FLORIDA IS A FUCKING BUSH RED STATE. Why don't they all volunteer to fight in the military? Why are they distressing the poor recruiters so much?
Why are the recruiters in blue NY state? Eh?
Red voters: vote with your feet, join and be blown up!
Just a pathetic post-doc working on a paper nobody will ever read on a hot Saturday afternoon.
Maybe Bush will embark on a 6 week recruiting tour, y'know, since he has nothing else to do in DC.
Now that Florida has saddled us with TWO fucking Bushes, they get "buyer's remorse"?
Hell's bells, I have remorse....what motivated these tools to vote for two Bushes anyways?
To hell with them.
41% approve. Amazing. That's still a lot of people, statistically speaking.
One of the arguments for the elimination of the draft was that an all volunteer force would help to protect against an unpopular war. This one may have saved us from wars in Syria, Lebanon, Iran .....
The volunteer military is working just as it was touted to work.
Lets hope this fine functioning doesn't get screwed up with a draft.
Hey brent - if you love the site so much, how come I've not seen your name in comments before?
Now don't get all defensive, it's merely a question.
Bush: Misshion Accomphished! Join the Bush team and fight Afghani poppy growers!
Oops, sorry, poppy, didn't mean fight YOU, fight for Women's rights! That's it!
Last night on PBS Glen Ifill had someone on from Boston Globe presenting the hundred ways progressives would lose here.
Wrong! If we keep our mouths shut, this will stick to fundies. On the other hand, if idiots like moveon send tut tut petitions to our lawmakers, we'll look like the bad guys. And I wouldn't raise a fuss over Jeb's posse, either.
OT, I registered to read that Miami Herald story and got a nice email from Knight Ridder (they are) with links to all their pubs. Nice!
ot- but...
freedom is on the death march
So how do those same Floridians feel about Jeb Bush's role in all of this? You'd think calling out state agents to go snatch Terri out of the hospice and so on would earn him an approval question of his own in this poll.
Peeps-you're a postdoc? But you were Just Born!
My cousin's kid spent over a year in the U.S. army in Iraq. His reward for getting home in one piece (almost)? You guessed it, they made him a recruiter. Bastards.
tena
i'm a very random poster and admittedly usually
have little to add to things
or make silly comments, as above
but i have posted before
focus - freedom is on the death march
But but but...I thought Democracy was on the march in Lebanon. And freedom and oh yeah - PITME, Bush style.
Wait - this is PITME Bush style.
I'm getting tired of saying "I told you so," so very damned often.
I spent a looooooong time in the egg.
I have very little to add but I post all the time. I guess it's my love of typing... or something....
Tena, when the US is done with the ME there may be no more flower petals to toss, or anyone to toss them- but as long as that oil keeps flowing through cheneys vains and coffers, all is wells-lots of them. bloody pricks
I know it's grotesquely OT, but by now, Jeb just wishes Adam Nagourney would go away, because this tar-baby is not helping his "stature" a bit:
"We have not given up hope for a miracle," Randall Terry, an anti-abortion activist and a Schindler family spokesman, said Saturday.
Terry called on President Bush, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush or House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to intervene.
"These men have the power to save her. The question is at this moment if they have the will to save her," Terry said. "We're looking for people who have the power to save her to step in."
He said there were "frantic measures" going on in Washington, but did not elaborate.
"Every hour that Terri clings to consciousness is a testimony of her desire to live, and it's an indictment against those who have the power to save her and don't," he said.
it makes sense. given the number of elderly people in the state, a lot of them understand just how personal a decision something like this is
I have very little to add but I post all the time. I guess it's my love of typing... or something....
You make me realize that sometimes I think I just love the sound of my own fingers on the keys....
And how we suffer for our art, RMJ...
This isn't going to make one bit of difference if the "Consequence of Recession" is real. And I think it is.
We've known for at least a week and a half that the majority of people in this country are against the intervention of the federal government in this private matter.
I'd like to know what we are going to do about the condition of America, not just Terri Schiavo.
The worst day blogging beats the best day working in a public psychiatric hospital.
Elaine: I saw that article too.
Of course it's appalling that they should take any shit about it all, considering the situation. But you do wonder how many of them were masochistic enough to have voted for Bush.
(The article claims that suicidal ideation is common among recruiters. Which is understandable; I'm the least confrontational woman alive--a wimp, really--and in theory, I have nothing against recruitment, a difficult and neccessary job for a volunteer military service. But in practice? If they came anywhere near my son, encouraging them to kill themselves would likely be my focus until they backed off. And I suspect that I'm not alone in this.)
Peeps - whatcha's paper about?
OT
Don't know if any of you guys are interested, but here in the UK tonight we were able to watch the return of Dr Who.
Yes, the good old time traveller was back in a new show. It has been 16 years since the last Dr Who, so they have set it in today’s London. They wanted to appeal to both the old audience, but also attracted a new younger one.
I have to say that I thought it was a very good start.
Appolologies to those who have no idea what I am talking about
The desription of Randall's family life in one of the hundreds of threads below was a real eyeopener. Why would anyone take advice from someone who has so fucked up his own family.
it makes sense. given the number of elderly people in the state, a lot of them understand just how personal a decision something like this is
upyernoz
I think, upyernoz, that most of us old enough to understand mortality, realize what a personal decision this is.
Our erstwhile leaders understand only the aggrandizement of power. Following that siren song, they have overreached, perhaps fatally. Power is laughing it's a** off right now, because power could care less. Compared to power, Lady Luck is married for life.
Something DeLay and the Bushes are just now learning.
Ripley - And how we suffer for our art, RMJ...
Not so far off - I know there isn't going to be much cartilage left in my finger joints from pounding the keys all the time. Not to mention the carpal tunnel syndrome...
sally--
by coincidence I was on the BBC website today, and saw that Dr. Who was beginning again.
Glad to hear it's good. Probably be years before we get to see it here in the States. 
Dr WHO!!!!!
Very very jealous
sally -
I'll admit this to you, but no one else. BBC America used to have two hours of Eastenders on every Saturday afternoon. I spent many a contented afternoon, quilting and watching that show. It took a few weeks before I could understand anything that was said, but loved listening to the accent.
I was really ticked when they took it off. But please, don't tell anyone.
Say, Tena? the carpal tunnel syndrome... is a frequent indicator of hypothyroidism. Or, as AllThyroid.org notes, "Hypothyroidism may be associated with carpal tunnel syndrome because hypothyroid patients tend to retain fluid in connective tissues due to an accumulation of mucopolysaccarides, a substance that accumulates abnormally in hypothyroidism. This exacerbates the swelling and worsens the compression of the median nerve as it passes under the connective tissues overlying the wrist."
Just saying.
And how we suffer for our art, RMJ...
Ripley
...and our sanity [cue Don McLean and maudlin music]
Focus,
Did you read any of the Robert Fisk, S. Shazad or Pepe Escobar columns about Lebanon, following Hariri's assassination?
Every single commentator worried about the civil war starting over again, and now it looks like hotheads like Walid Jumblatt, and some of the Maronites are heading in that direction, in light of the UN report about Syria being involved in th4e affair.
However, the UN report has been roundly criticized within Lebanon itself, and you can guess what Assad has said.
One does not need to study history to follow Bush's "Inventive" policies around, just look for the trail of dead bodies to see the outcome of Bush-think.
I wish I knew what my paper was about. Then, I'd know I was finished.
Peeps, that doesn't bode well.
Eeep.
GWPDA - Yes, I know about the connection - I read about it.
I promise you I will take this up with a doctor when I go in. I will make an appointment as soon as I get some of my dental appointments out of the way, as well as my annual vision field appointment.
One does not need to study history to follow Bush's "Inventive" policies around, just look for the trail of dead bodies to see the outcome of Bush-think.
boilerman10
agreed they look at history as they look at the present cynically with an almost reflexive need to manipulate- he who controls the present and all that- but no i haven't read the Fisk art- would appricate the link. thanks
Robert M Jeffers - Our erstwhile leaders understand only the aggrandizement of power. Following that siren song, they have overreached, perhaps fatally. Power is laughing it's a** off right now, because power could care less. Compared to power, Lady Luck is married for life.
Something DeLay and the Bushes are just now learning.
I love this comment. It's brilliant.
We suffer from Light at the End of the Tunnel syndrome
Robert,
Who is playing the Doctor this time?
Will they ever beat the original old man or Tom Baker?
Also, they need new Dalecks and a new K-9.
Who will be Sarah Jane or Leela?
Peeps, trust me, even your professors won't know what your paper is about. This means, you win.
The fewer understand=greater success.
Ahh the angry seagulls are attascking the children.
Elaine - The fewer understand=greater success.
You know, this and my truly execrable handwriting actually did work in my favor more than once in law school.
Peep jousting!
Take 2 peeps, stick a toothpick in each so they stick out the front. Place them face-to-face in a microwave oven. Turn on microwave. As the peeps explode, watch closely to see which one's toothpick penetrates the other's tiny body first!
The birds just dicovered the chimney can't keep them out.
Peeps and others...bad news. Easter's Off Sorry, some liberal...probably. 
Is it whoring when it's not your blog?
Tippi Hedron,
Bird magnet.
Is it whoring when it's not your blog?
Nope. That would be "Pimping".
and you will be a better woman for it, Tena.
Ooooh look, all the birds came down the chimney!
Which reminds me that it's obvious the country itself is overwrought and tense - earlier this afternoon there were Inca doves fighting in my back yard (yes, I know the difference.) Weird.
Wrong, they are not losing. They have shown that they can manufacture an issue at will and the media will be aid them. They made a mistake this time but there will be other issues in the future. This week was more ominous than the run up to the iraq war.
shoot...end tag.
The birds don't like the undeserving rich.
Damn, I got promoted to pimp! They like me...they really like me...lol
Da issue blow up in da face time!
hey, i just realized something. first it was 'wankers', and now 'bugger off' has entered the lexicon. why's atrios so suddenly interested in brit slang -- is he getting ready to pack it up....
Weblacky is a pimp(le).
Yeah, trust Atrios to learn a foreign language so he can escape Bush!
Next: French.
Focus, here are two Robert Fisk Links
first link to an audio article, looks like you need RealPlayer
And
second Robert fisk link
"All the windows are broken, all the windows"
Robert,
Who is playing the Doctor this time?
Will they ever beat the original old man or Tom Baker?
Also, they need new Dalecks and a new K-9.
Who will be Sarah Jane or Leela?
Never let it be said I would disappoint a fellow Whovian.
You know, of course, Douglas Adams did some of his best work for Tom Baker's Doctor.
There's a really nice four room cabin on the market in Bodega Bay - it's asking 725, but I'm sure it's negotiable.
News from CNN:
Speaking earlier with reporters in Dunedin, Florida, on Saturday, Schiavo's attorney, George Felos, said, "I would hope that the parents' side realize that any further legal action will be futile. We can understand their desperate efforts in this case. But I would hope that at some point, they leave that behind and begin to cope with this on a more personal level."
Felos said that he had visited Terri Schiavo for 20 minutes at her hospice in Pinellas Park on Saturday.
"Frankly, when I saw her...she looked beautiful. In all the years I've seen Mrs. Schiavo, I've never seen such a look of peace and beauty upon her."
He refuted charges made by Schiavo's parents that her lips were bleeding, her skin was peeling and that she appeared in discomfort.
The Priest at the hospice will give last rites pretty soon.
focus, in case of difficulty with pages, go to ICH home page and use searchbox with word, Robert Fisk Articles and look for article 8065.htm
For the second one use search for article 8208. which I found quickly by typing in Lebanon civil war.
Both of these are archived, and may not directly open up.
Birds, coming down the chimney? All of the chicks never to be Just Born.
There's a really nice four room cabin on the market in Bodega Bay - it's asking 725, but I'm sure it's negotiable.
Would that be 725 times a thousand?
I wonder if they cleared up the bird situation, or did that resolve itself when tippi went back to san fran?
Oh, this isn't looking good. Outside, smoking, one crow arrives.... Children singing an incantation.... Run away!
CNN
Schneider: Schiavo case 'being made very political'
No fucking shit. They pay these guys?
Elaine - so it looks like she is going to die on Holy Saturday. May she walk on the path of light. May she be reborn as a Boddhisattva.
OOOOOOOOH. creepy crows filling up the monkey-bars, Tippi just now sees the Murder.
Its kind of freakin' me out.
Ten battalions of birds have assembled in the school yard and preparing for attack.
how is smoked crow
Never let it be said I would disappoint a fellow Whovian.
You know, of course, Douglas Adams did some of his best work for Tom Baker's Doctor.
Just realized that "Rose" has likely just aired on the BBC. Just hope someone here picked it up.
To all those Dr Who fans, I can tell you that they have made the new DR a young man from the north of England.
They wanted to try to appeal to a new group of fans. The trouble is that since the last Dr Who, there have been so many Hollywood Blockbusters with great special effects, that the modern kids just would no accept the large rubber monsters of the 70s.
Robert,
Thank you!
I just heard some idiot Republican congressman (kept the radio on after Pag) saying that the courts are out of control and ingnoring the constitution because they wouldn't kow-tow to the congress when it abridges the constitution.
When they are looking for Republican candidates, is stupidity or dishonesty a more important criterion? Or are they given equal weight?
Yes, that would be $725,000, but it's four rooms after all. Four whole rooms and one of them has a bathtub.
Lord, this reminds of me when Arthur let the raven into the kitchen.
The sky is black with crows on the attack, yeaaaargggh
Focus, back soon with Asia Times articles.
OT: NRA to America - Allow teachers to arm themselves.
I thought that I heard this on Faux earlier today but naturally assumed that I hadn't had enough coffee and was hallucinating. Just heard it again.
The car should be safe.
yeah right. I see the horn kinda attracts them crows.
Look! She's lost her hairpins!
To all those Dr Who fans, I can tell you that they have made the new DR a young man from the north of England.
I hope he isn't too slick. I hate it when Dr. Who gets too slick.
My favorite special effect was the baggie and gelatin monster in "The Horror of Fang Rock". If today's children can't appreciate that they've got no class.
Could never warm up to the Darleks (sp?) that ring modulation drove me up the wall.
guess it's my love of typing...
Nimble fingers do the devil's work ... best ...
[Where is Ba'al ...]
may I learn to spell "bodhisattva."
Peeps is the joy around the edges of this site the past few days...
And Brent, say nothing more often!
jimmyraybob, that'll work out well here in Arizona, where in a couple of weeks it'll be legal to carry a loaded weapon into a bar. So, teachers, packing from their work at school, can just amble over to the bar and grill and fit right in.
Look! pretentious English actress smoking!
Can someone tell me if a Peep is male or female? I'm giving my kids a Peep for Easter and need to know whether to name it Hamilton Spiked Python (M) or Mildred Campy Slammer (F). Thanks in advance.
Lord, this reminds of me when Arthur let the raven into the kitchen.
Did he arrange a play-date without prior authorization?
Oooh, latin taxonomy of birds, and discussion of brain pans, coool. What makes me think that the old lady is the next victim.
BBC website today, and saw that Dr. Who was beginning again.
The the three-part BBC adaptation of Sarah Waters' "Fingersmith" debuts this weekend too.
I didn't know there were so many Irish drunkards in Bodega Bay.
: NRA to America - Allow teachers to arm themselves.
Robert? Which way to Bedlam, please?
how is smoked crow
lb0313
harsh, unless you use a bong
Found Peep's research paper!
http://tinyurl.com/a582
When they are looking for Republican candidates, is stupidity or dishonesty a more important criterion? Or are they given equal weight?
Loyalty to their corporate and Republican Party masters trumps all.
I do like the family 'fine dining' and bar establishment tho. Bloody marys for the mother at Table 7!
A barroom full of bird experts, whoda thunk.
Mildred Campy Slammer, of course. Are you kidding?
Get yourself guns and wipe them off the face of the earth!
"are the birds gonna eat us"
"I have never known of birds of different species flock together."
We have reached our "what about the children" moment.
When they are looking for Republican candidates, is stupidity or dishonesty a more important criterion? Or are they given equal weight?
Stupidity is the more highly prized, IMHO. It is easier to sound believable if you don't know you're wrong. Plus, it provides plausible deniability.
Terry called on President Bush, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush or House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to intervene.
"These men have the power to save her. - RMJ
Wouldn't be suprised to see that show up on a banner at the next mini-Neuremberg rally.
W: The power to save.
Tena -
This may sound odd, but I thought I was flirting with carpal tunnel and a friend mentioned how posture at the computer was a factor.
I adjusted things so that my neck was straight, put the monitor exactly at eye level so I didn't have to tilt my head up or down (used phone books) and almost immediately I got relief. (I mean, I was in serious pain, my hands, wrists and arms were aching.) I also made sure while typing that my wrists were parallel to the keyboard.
Voila, in a day or two all the symptoms vanished. Seriously it felt like a miracle.
We have no genitalia. Kind of like Angels. But unlike Angels such as Christopher Walken in those killer angel movies he made. God, I love that guy! King of New York would tickle me pink, if I weren't already yellow.
It's like a giant flaming X, marking the target.
Thanks wee. I really don't have carpal tunnel. My right arm gets tired, but I spend an inordinate amount of time doing this, too.
I need to improve my posture anyway and I appreciate the tips very much.
The gas is flowing, downhill. now where is the fire. oops here it comes, and there Mr. somebody goes.
Nice areal shot, the gulls inexorable drawn to fire, oooh the phonebooth.
More explosions, must freak out now...
Oh! The bar is safe, there is alcohol and no birds.
Hope that fin family diner has bullet proof, oops bird-proof glass.
Don't ask Tippi, ask the Bird expert.
This is clearly a diatribe against post-war modern California architecture.
...no birds
'
...yet
These folks really seem to believe in some sort of royal intervention. I'm just glad the Bush clan aren't quite that far gone yet.
"The Army's recruiters are being challenged with one of the hardest selling jobs the military has asked of them in American history..."
Right now I bet that whole 71 virgins thing is looking like a stroke of genius.
Can someone please shove a feeding tube up Randall Terry's ass?
Focus, try these two on for now.
Pepe Escobar
and
Syed Shahzad
Hariri was a pure "cui bono" situation....who stood to gain more Syria or Israel when it comes to Hariri's demise?
Well, that does take care of the mother issues.
This is clearly a diatribe against post-war modern California architecture.
And a referendom on hats! Hats bad.
Oh crap, Pleschette is dead.
Yeah a stone will solve all your problems..
Rod sure has some fancy pantaloons.
They'd intervene, on national security grounds, if Halliburton made ventillators and feeding tubes.
Oh RIGHT, you idiot, drive a ragtop! Birds! Sharp beaks!
I was off chauffeuring the teens for a bit, so forgive me if someone already asked this question, but who the hell are these 33% of self-described Democrats who thought the intervention was just peachy?
did rod put any nails in those last two boards, or just use the hammer to "will" them into place
CLOSE THE FLUE!
And a referendom on hats! Hats bad.
It's all about the woman in the stilettos, people.
"The Army's recruiters are being challenged with one of the hardest selling jobs the military has asked of them in American history..."
Was talking to a late 30's Army guy at the park - Told me he use to be a recruiter, but those jobs are now being outsourced to civilians so the former recruiters can go to Iraq.
thanks boilerman,
call me tinfoily; but the timing seems strange given that, apparently, he freely traveled and spoke without incident many times in the past...
33% of self-described Democrats who thought the intervention was just peachy?
Must have been all those Dixicrats up north who never bothered to register as republicans, while voting for them for many years, maybe they have lincoln still stuck in their craw.
(back on topic, with veiled reference to birds - damn I'm good. [kisses own pinky ring])
Man... this still isn't over? I thought I finished this last night.
What ever happened in Iraq?
Niccccce birdies. Those birdies won't turn bad.
Found it interesting that Michael's atty (Felos) also volunteers at hospices and has knowledge of the situation. He said Terri is peaceful, not peeling skin or bleeding lips, and has not entered the last stages re breathing. But he did say an unforeseen thing ie heartattack could prevent passing on to the labored breathing phase.
Having myself experienced a four-day period at my husband's bedside prior to his death, that last stage only informs you death is imminent, but not how imminent.
It's all about the woman in the stilettos, people.
monica_nyc
Why, yes. At least it certainly is for me.
Nah, it was that cadre who when asked anything say, 'Sure, whatever.' and go back to watching the birds.
Was talking to a late 30's Army guy at the park - Told me he use to be a recruiter, but those jobs are now being outsourced to civilians so the former recruiters can go to Iraq.
That's just........sick. And wrong, and
I feel a draft, did anyone leave a window open.
Those birds are fine surgeons and carpenters.
Oh, the irony (from FR):
I am, nor ever will be, a party to unjustified murder no matter who does it. Murder should not go unpunished.
Death is impotent. That's why it where's a tux.
OT, but in keeping with the Peak Oil-commune remarks in the thread below, I found this "community solution" website very interesting.
Atrios, can you start up a post-Peak Oil community for the Eschatonians? I'd be willing to move to Philly or nearabouts.
"Even if George Bush IS the Anti-Christ - it is only because HE is the GREATEST Christian of all, he loves Jesus SO MUCH that he, and he alone is BRAVE ENOUGH to play this terrible part. AND, instead of vilifying him, I should thank God that he is my "Leader" and PRAISE HIM, Praise his name(!), and be grateful for all he has done to bring the world to the edge of Apocalypse!"
Had to share that again.
Since this topic has gone so far OT that we are lost in the Mojave, let's take a look at this latest uproar that the Bush Cartel is planning to trumpet to the public.....the tulip Revolution.
No, it isn't a new director for the festival in Holland, Michigan, it's about the coup de etat in Kyrghezia...Chimpy and crew are crowing loudly about this one, calling it a success when the questions of "What do we do now George, Wadda we do now?" are being asked over there.
Pepe Escobar article
: NRA to America - Allow teachers to arm themselves.
Robert? Which way to Bedlam, please?
Hey, I'm for this!
People in Texas can bring concealed weapons to church (try to get the Church Council to vote to put up a sign banning it!)
This way, I balance the scales where ever I go!
(follow me, Tena; it's this way...)
Arthur started barking real hard just then - he's had to leave now and go take out his fear on some robins.
kent:
best running commentary on a movie
ever.
God bless you, buddy!!!!
Quick, Tippi, there's a guy with a shutter camera on the stairs! Look out!
chris/tx,
Oh shit. Now Irony's Ghost, has shuffled its Mortal Coil™
I am now beginning to wonder if Irony has several lives, like a cat. If not it better develop some quick.
Uh Tippi honey, don't go up the stairs.
No, Stop.
Wow! That must mean that close too 99% of Floridians disapproved of the GOP intervention, since as we know a large number of Florida votes are never counted.
Eeeeek!!!!!!!!!!
I told ya Tippi, but you would not listen to advice made 42 years in the future in the comment section of a blog you would not have been able to read.
But I did warn you.
"...earlier this afternoon there were Inca doves fighting in my back yard (yes, I know the difference.) Weird."
GWPDA 03.26.05 - 5:06 pm
The Inca Doves that I've met have seemed so peaceful.
At least she'd had a booster to her tetnus shot.
For those of you playing THE BIRDS:
THE HOME GAME,
I would like to remind you that
TMC is running the original
INVASION OF THE BODYSNATCHERS
immediately following.
Rod, Tippi is just a little thing, she should be a lot easier to move.
Watch out with that "Lincoln stuck in their craw" talk. Drives the wingers up the wall to talk about Lincoln and "thingy".
Saturday & (Albuquerque) Pop Quiz
Quick, the brandy! That'll help to combat sepsis. And make sure to place the coal oil lamps as close to the lit fire as possible.
Seebach - Are you kidding? That is an actual comment from FR? That person is in deep deep trouble. Whoever it is needs to see a psychiatrist stat. And I mean a real psychiatrist, not an Eschaton psychiatrist.
I'm gonna go eat, then buy some Peeps.
Lincoln stuck in their craw....is this a car in mud?
Since this topic has gone so far OT that we are lost in the Mojave
Not to be pedantic or anything, but in the name of accuracy, the thread is in Badoga Bay.
Back to your regularly scheduled commenting.
foxblocker
Interesting dkos report on a $8.95 foxblocker device that goes in the back of your TV for blocking Fox news.
Sells at his website foxblocker.com.
The buyers can send emails to Fox and Fox advertisers through that website notifying that they bought the device.
Dkos readers are saying whether you use the device or not, just those emails may be worth the price.
The dkos story is based on and links to an AP report.
Nah, that's not Clear Channel.
SS,
Thanks.
TMC is running the original
INVASION OF THE BODYSNATCHERS
immediately following.
No, no, tell 'em to wait until I get home!
It's a good day for a 50's nostalgia paranoia trip (hey, it made me the man I am today!)
would like to remind you that
TMC is running the original
INVASION OF THE BODYSNATCHERS
Man, that's way too scary to watch while living through the invasion of the wingnuts.
TMC is running the original
INVASION OF THE BODYSNATCHERS
EEEEK!!
That is the second scariest movie I ever saw ("Night of the Living Dead" is number one).
I've avoided scary movies ever since those two.
I don't know if Michael Schiavo lives in Florida?
If he does, the minute Terri has breathed her last, it'd be a good idea for Michael to take his family and "get outta Dodge."
It wouldn't surprise me at all if those theofascist bastards tried to hurt his kids!
I'm gonna go eat, then buy some Peeps.
Seebach
I'm waiting until Monday, when they're on sale.
They keep forever, ya know.
I'm telling you Rod, you do not want to be out on the road outa Bodega Bay driving a ragtop while thousands of birds with SHARP BEAKS are attack. Just my opinion, but are you sure you can't find a hardtop somewhere?
I wonder if we could get Randall Terry's kids and Alan Keyes' daughter to form a therapy group. "Children of batshit insane right-wingers."
INVASION OF THE BODYSNATCHERS
immediately following.
No you didn't.
Folks, It will be steves fault, I am no longer responsible for my actions.
(now I know how the pubbies feel, relaxed)
re: Dr Who. It's a thing of greatness that Richard Dawkins is married to (the second) Lady Romana, Lalla Ward.
You guys slay me.
Seriously.
Who was it that said he would post
even if he had nothing to say?
RAGTOP!
Robert - I don't know what it's like in Houston, but it's sure not been a spring day up here. It's cold and it's dark and it has rained all day.
steve simels - think of it as unifying the community.
Birds, coming down the chimney? All of the chicks never to be Just Born.
Peeps
Don't think of them as potential chicks, think of them as actualized eggs.
BTW:
I'm a huge fan of Rod Taylor, or
as we refer to him at Casa Simels,
the thinking man's Mel Gibson.
He made one of the absolute best
action movies of the 60s, "Dark of the
Sun" with Jim Brown. It's about
mercenaries in Africa, and its
an absolute nail-biter.
Not on video, alas.
And I mean a real psychiatrist, not an Eschaton psychiatrist.
What? You mean you're not all real psychiatrists? Man, now I really have issues to deal with.
RAGTOP!
I hear you, just poor judgement all around.
Next Up POD PEOPLE, arrrgh.
I didn't know there were so many Irish drunkards in Bodega Bay
We're everywhere (burp!)
Robert - I don't know what it's like in Houston, but it's sure not been a spring day up here. It's cold and it's dark and it has rained all day.
It was supposed to be that way here, which means either it's coming tomorrow (yar boo sucks!), or we dodged it.
Did you see Christopher Hitchens rip apart that fuckhead Scarborough? God, Joe is such an O'Reilly ripoff! And who the fuck wants even one O'Reilly?!
I liked the first Romana, she was definitely more butch than the second one. Sort of like the first Lois Lane on TV. The second ones are always more fem. Like George II.
Now I must run out for potable carbonated beverasge. Don't want to miss
any of the action.
I'll try to make it past the roving packs of feral dogs.
Wish me lusk.
Just in:
The fucking Schiavos are filing another appeal with the Florida Supreme Court.
"She's fighting like hell!"
Fighting like hell - a carrot has more life than she does.
These people are crazy.
Spider Robinson once called Jeb! something like "the only man so cursed by God as to have George Bush for both a father AND a brother."
(But as a Jedi master once observed: "no...there is another.")
Likely voters schmoters. The GOP COUNTS the votes now, so what the fuck does it matter who we vote for or what they do?
It's a New American Century, kids. Learn to love it, or the next special congressional law may be outlawing you.
I wonder if we could get Randall Terry's kids and Alan Keyes' daughter to form a therapy group. "Children of batshit insane right-wingers."
BruceUncontrollablePronghorn
Get them to abduct Michael Reagan and reprogram him. You see his column this week? Sheesh!
On a lighter note, dark rum mixes well with pomegranite juice!
Boilerman
Events in Kyrgyzstan are part of the US move towards hegemony in former Soviet Central Asia.
This may be the most outrageous land grab since the Spanish-American war and as usual, we are all at the circus.
How long before we have a shiny new base near Bishkek?
Will this force China to play the debt and Taiwan card as they watch the US move into their western suburbs?
Washington must really think China is stupid.
"F"-Floridians... if they knew how to punch a G-damn ballot, none of this would be happening.
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Arthur's dinnertime. He's developed issues with his fancy-schmancy food, we're now working on Dog Chow which seems to be satisfactory. Arthur - the People's Dog. None of this sissy balanced stuff for him.... But, um, don't go into the basement, hunh?
I wonder if we could get Randall Terry's kids and Alan Keyes' daughter to form a therapy group. "Children of batshit insane right-wingers."
The GOP Rejects Club? Nice.
Good lusk, kent! (Watch out for that....!)
Terry C - It wouldn't surprise me at all if those theofascist bastards tried to hurt his kids!
I was rereading the story someone linked to earlier about the disruption of the hospice from the crazed people protesting outside. There's a woman in a wheelchair going back and forth in front of the place. She has a bullhorn and says "We're disabled, not disposable!" over and over and over. There are people holding signs that say "Murderer."
Every single person in that hospice (there are 70 patients) is there to die. The religious right wackjobs are making the experience into a nightmare for those people and their families.
What fine upstanding fucking christians these are. Such respect for others and for their families. Oh my yes, indeed, we should all definitely follow in their footsteps.
Agitprop invokes the Nukular Option!
http://agitprop.typepad.com/
..
GWPDA:
If you ever give Arthur Cycle 4,
make sure you don't let him see
the can. It'll depress him.
If Terry Schiavo divorced her husband and married Randall Terry, she'd be Terri Terry!
Ha Ha (burp!)
The Schindlers keep filing futile petitions they'll have enough episodes for syndication soon.
I hope those who are agin' cloggin up the courts with frivolous law suits are keeping a tab of this? What is it now 27 - 0 for Michael Schiavo?
If Terri Schiavo divorced Micael and married Randal Terry, she'd be the brains in that marriage.
Did you see Christopher Hitchens rip apart that fuckhead Scarborough?
I missed it. And the transcript won't be up until monday. scarborough is a world-class asshole of the smug frat boy variety (like cokehead). This is what he has posted on his "blog" right now:
I have always worked hard to understand the thought process of political opponents. (NOT TRUE.) And in most cases, I have grown to understand why reasonable people of good faith could disagree on issues as diverse as gun control, gay marriage, and abortion. On most issues, I have succeeded in walking in the shoes of those with whom I disagree.
But that's not the case with Terri Schiavo.
I can try to understand why many would side with the husband, but I will never comprehend why the same political activists that fight for the protection of the spotted oil and snail darter are so eager to see Terri Schiavo die.
The rest of it is even worse; he predicts that Terri will come back to haunt the Dems, because "Americans shocked by this macabre chapter in American politics will see the Democrats as the party on the side of death and see George Bush as the defender of defenseless."
He really needs to have that smirk wiped off his face. Really.
r-a-g-g t-o-p-p, Ragtop!
The lead in to Invasion said it was an allegorical look at the McCarthy era. WTF? Really.
Well, I believe it was Douglas Adams that introduced Lalla Ward to Dawkins. They have a very very nice house in leafy-north-Oxford, and a good friend of mine used to live next-door.
Just to get back to the topic here,
did anybody see Adam Nagourney's
NYTimes piece on Jeb yesterday?
Shameless. The headline and the
first couple of grafs are all about
how Jeb's decisive action in the
Schiavo case has made him look
like an even more attractive
presidential candidate, especially
to the religious right.
Then way at the end, it briefly
raises the possiblity that if he
doesn't kidnap Terri, his fundie
base will abandon him.
In the res ipsa loquitur category:
Terri Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler, questioned why cameras and video were not capturing her condition.
"It's sick, it's heinous what's happening to my sister," he said. "And I assure you, she's not dying peacefully and painlessly."
He called Felos' description of Schiavo as "the most absurd thing I've ever heard" and invited cameras to capture her condition, saying that it's been mischaracterized "today and for the last five years."
"I'm requesting my parents not to visit their daughter anymore," Schindler said.
RE: Dr. Who.
Best Story Ever: The Talons of Weng Chiang!
Why? Leela in wet, Victorian underwear. Hubba Hubba!
I found it interesting that The Doctor allowed Leela to pilot the TARDIS on several occasions. Smart girl, that Leela. Darn cute, too!
Also, Click Here for a pretty decently done Flash based Dr. Who adventure.
r-a-g-g t-o-p-p, Ragtop!
mnkid
r-a-t-t-f-i-n-k, Jeb Bush!
How long before we have a shiny new base near Bis
========================
I thought I read that we already have a base there. And so do the Russians. That's it folks, time for the wine.
steve simels--Wolcott has a whole post on the Nagourney fishwrap. It's good, go check it out.
That's it folks, time for the wine.
time for the wine? 2000 was time for the wine! 8 am was time for the wine!
it is past time for the wine!
Then way at the end, it briefly
raises the possiblity that if he
doesn't kidnap Terri, his fundie
base will abandon him.
And don't think Jeb doesn't know it!
r-a-g-g t-o-p-p, Ragtop!
Wow! Serious blast from the past!
GWPDA - We were given strict orders for our female canine to lose weight. No likey the low fat food. So now I boil a skinned big chicken every week in a five gallon pot with bouillon, etc, then debone it. Pour a little warm broth with some chicken in it over the low fat food, no problem. Of course our boy canine (on no diet) likes it too.
Wang Chiang was good.
"He put the 'fluence' on her,"
Quiltsquito:
Director Don Sigel, when asked if
Bodysnatchers was an allegory about
McCarthyism or Communism, said
no, it was about Hollywood.
Mr. Jeffers. Belive it or not I sang "Rat Fink" to one of my nieces last month as an example of how fleeting "cool" is.
Crap, I missed the beginning, Oh well.
Mr. Jeffers. Belive it or not I sang "Rat Fink" to one of my nieces last month as an example of how fleeting "cool" is.
Now, of course, I'll be singing it all night....
TJ:
Thanks for the tip!
BTW:
For those watching Bodysnatchers --
star Kevin McCarthy is the brother
of writer Mary McCarthy.
Talented family.
Speaking of Wolcott, his latest is just perfect:
Charles Krauthammer, who prides himself on the sardonic cut of his superior mind and drips with so much distaste that he requires an oil change every 50,000 words, is the latest to get into the act.
Not even waiting until Terri Schiavo is dead, he proposes Terri's Law to prevent future tugs of war over no-hope cases.
The column rises above Krauthammer's standard of bilious character-assassination. For once, he seems to have put his sneer in the denture cup to let it rinse. But the conservative agenda is still secure in place. "There is no good outcome to this case. Except perhaps if Florida and the other states were to amend their laws and resolve conflicts among loved ones differently — by granting authority not necessarily to the spouse but to whatever first-degree relative (even if in the minority) chooses life and is committed to support it. Call it Terri's law. It would help prevent our having to choose in the future between travesty and tragedy."
So if a wife believes her terminally ill husband would prefer to have life support removed, his parents agree, but (say) a sister "chooses life" and fights for custody, the sister's wishes should prevail over the wife's and parents'? There's never going to be an easy way to adjudicate these matters, and it would be characteristic of Republicans to pack something as Lifetime-cable sounding as "Terri's Law" with all sorts of mischief. Particularly since Krauthammer and his allies are rallying around Terri as if she were a large-scale fetus, which explains the use of the code phrase "innocent life" used by Randall Terry and others to describe her. As one of the vigilants, sounding tired and sad beyond his years, complained on cable news today, "Between abortion and euthanasia, it seems like they got you coming or going." Fostering a "culture of life" is just another way of trying to control women's bodies, which is what animates conservative mullahs, even to the point of trying yet again to subvert women's college athletics and Title IX.
He certainly was out of the car in a hurry.
Sorry, Mr Jeffers. At least it's not........
8 am was time for the wine!
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nah, her eyes I was good. I taught a friend how to quilt and got roped into putting her first venture together. Not a good thing. None of the seams match up and and avoiding ripples has been almost impossible. I had to pick a quilting pattern that reinforces all the seams as they all seem on the verge of coming apart.
Very important to all would be quilters. 1/4 inch seam. Repeat it about 1,000,000 xs and your product may be okay.
Bitch of a day, and I aint finished with it yet.
Well, if CNN could be blocked as well, I might subscribe to cable tv I got this through Kos' site.
The little ones always know when the bodies have been snatched.
Easter!
What a ridiculous idea for a holiday.To celebrate a science fiction idea that a man was ressurected is just plain foolishness.ANds yet million or even billions celebrate this idea.How is it the population can be so blind to see this charade that is christianity?
I can sort of understand christmas,where it is the celebration of one mans death,which is in reality a celebration of someones life.But to believe that somone could be brought back from the dead is to believe that faster than light travel is a reality,or even a possibility.This idea is utter hypocracy and yet we all live with it year after year.I tire of the insanity of this world,yet there is no alternative.
Easter is the most misunderstood of all the holidays.If you celebrate it,tell me what it is that makes you believe so ferverently in the reality of a "god" bringing back his "son".Ressurectioin is an impossibility,unless you live in a science fiction world.What makes a person believe a book (full of hypocracy and unrealities) written by man and yet reject any other book written by yet another man?
Also why would only one man in all of history have been reincarnated into the same body?Doesnt anyone even question authority anymore?
SOry for the rant,yet I have had enough of this religion,and this is as good a place as I can find to air my grievances on this paticular issue.
Damn, I wish I didn't have to go,
as you guys are really cracking me
up tonite.
Unfortunately, I'm booked for
a few hours of elitist Chardonnay
swilling with fellow Stalinists.
See you later!
Bitch of a day, and I aint finished with it yet.
Oooh I can't wait.
Uh oh, they got to uncle Ira.
See ya Steve, enjoy your comrades, comrade.
Huh...Bush's radio address spoke of the school shooting in MN but didn't mention Schiavo at all.
I am creating a living will in which I name Bill Frist my legal guardian with instructions to keep me alive no matter what. I am also decreeing that any treatment any physician or osteopath thinks helpful should be paid for by the federal government. If anything fails and I should die, it will be because Frist didn't try hard enough and murdered me.
Yo Doctor, Ira is "her Problem".
Something creeepy this way comes.
As an old Dr. Who fan from the very first series in the 1960s (Daleks vs. The Thaals) and who hid under a pillow whenever it was likely a Dalek would come around a corner...
Tried the grandkids out on one of the surviving episodes from the same series last year.
Same reaction.
That was helluva well-made sci-fi.
Scary as hell.
"An epidemic mass histeria"
No my friend Bodies are being snatched.
OT (Yentas from hell!)
Holy shit does this bitch need to get called a Nazi to her face. Something to knock out of her mind the niddah-wad-constellation posing as a precept that it's only hate when your kind are the target.
Huh...Bush's radio address spoke of the school shooting in MN but didn't mention Schiavo at all.
Very odd indeed.
I am creating a living will in which I name Bill Frist my legal guardian with instructions to keep me alive no matter what.
Now please, whatever you do remember that faith healers should be consulted ad nauseum if necessary.
Uh Oh, I think we are gonna see a pod.
"Quit acting like a writer, what's going on"
smallfish, I wasn't there, I didn't see it. I believe in the teachings of Jesus (those not obviously interpolated by various people with vested interests) and don't bother with those things I can't know anything about. It really isn't any of my business what Mary's sex life or lack of it was.
I don't pretend to understand what the early Christians meant by the resurection. It was obviously a very strong experience for them but it isn't possible to know just what they experienced. They obviously experienced something. Some modern scholars think it was an experience of continued engagement with the teachings and personality of Jesus. A complete identification with them that goes beyond intellectual engagement. That makes sense to me.
I am creating a living will in which I name Bill Frist my legal guardian with instructions to keep me alive no matter what.
Otter suggests on his blog that we all send copies of our living wills to Tom DeLay with the following cover letter:
"Dear Congressman DeLay,
Enclosed is a copy of my living will. If I should ever be diagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state, please allow my husband/wife to honor my wishes without being publicly vilified as a murderer for political gain. Thank you."
Hee hee. I love it.
Jack's 5'10" and weighs 140 pounds
Jack drops bottle, cuts self.
"An epidemic mass histeria"
No my friend Bodies are being snatched.
The best story on this topic is still Philip K. Dick's "The Father-Thing."
The best story on this topic is still Philip K. Dick's "The Father-Thing."
I will have to keep my eyes open for that one.
"You are a forward wench dragging me to a dark hole to be kissed"
cue creepy music, as dad comes up from the basement is he a pod.......
uh oh the pod Jack just opened his eyes. Seriously creeped out now.
oh, good, you're back.
I thought they'd gotten you.
Ahh liquor and or sedatives will solve all problems associated with a "woman's hysteria"
It's the Pod, people.
Ahh liquor and or sedatives will solve all problems associated with a "woman's hysteria"
Never worked for me, either.
"Why must everyone laugh at my mighty sword?"
I thought they'd gotten you.
Thankfully I am on to thier scenanigans.
That and a healthy fear of basements should serve me well.
It's the Pod, people.
You mean the Republicans?
NYT has an in-depth article up about the problems faced by army recruiters:
Two dozen recruiters nationwide were interviewed about their experiences over four months. Ten spoke with The New York Times even after an Army official sent an e-mail message advising all recruiters not to speak to a reporter, who was named. Most asked for anonymity to avoid being disciplined.
Can you smell that freedom now?
Kevin,
Stay away from there, Oh crap, he has just seen his ladyfriend's podified double.
Get thee to a nunnery toute d' suite.
It got real quiet. What's happened now?
That and a healthy fear of basements should serve me well.
No basements in Houston.
But still lots of Republicans.
No place is safe.
Can you smell that freedom now?
Dammit, somebody burned the freedom again!
I warned you people about that!
We'll never get the smell out of the carpet....
Tena: If you are still here: my right wrist was bothering me for a while and I thought it might be carpal tunnel syndrome or stress. I bought a wrist rest (Imak, ergo beads?) that is is a bag filled with pastic beads. The damned thing works. Pain went away. Costs under $10.
smallfish, not everyone agrees with my post above.
Schiavo Judge Attains New Fame, Infamy
2 hours, 50 minutes ago
U.S. National - AP
By VICKIE CHACHERE, Associated Press Writer
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Amid the pitched legal battle over Terri Schiavo that has been fought through his court, Pinellas County Circuit Judge George Greer has been under the protection of armed guards, and friends say his family also is protected.
Death threats have been made against him for allowing Michael Schiavo to remove the feeding tube that has kept his 41-year-old wife alive for the past 15 years, and the Southern Baptist church that Greer belonged to for years has asked him to leave the congregation.
old europe is on the march?
the Southern Baptist church that Greer belonged to for years has asked him to leave the congregation.
That's low.
Ahh liquor and or sedatives will solve all problems associated with a "woman's hysteria"
I, for one, say it's a darn good start.
(Gas man - hah!)
You mean the Republicans?
Um sure, that would explain alot.
Never worked for me, either.
The movie psychiatrist might dissagree with you. He sure is being contrary.
But I know better.
TJ, posted it at the top of the thread. Good to post it again!
OT, but Easter is tomorrow and even the unfaithful can appreciate Jesus' nice forgiving streak.
I'm sorry if I've insulted Atriots like GWPDA, agave and Atrios himself. Anyone else? It's really a nice grup here and I wish all except trolls a Happy Easter.
I hope anyone who recognizes my fake name will stay polite to me
Among Republicans polled, 56 percent say they disapproved of the intervention while 41 percent approved. Among Democrats and independents, 67 percent and 68 percent disapproved respectively.
So, does that mean you'll stop whining now about how the Republicans are supposedly grandstanding the issue to gain political ground? Either they are going nobly against the tide of public opinion, or this poll is full of shit. One or the other.
Found it interesting that Michael's atty (Felos) also volunteers at hospices and has knowledge of the situation. He said Terri is peaceful, not peeling skin or bleeding lips, and has not entered the last stages re breathing. But he did say an unforeseen thing ie heartattack could prevent passing on to the labored breathing phase.
Having myself experienced a four-day period at my husband's bedside prior to his death, that last stage only informs you death is imminent, but not how imminent.
kyork
That Felos volunteers at hospices says a lot. There has been so much insanity surrounding this. I also believe Felos has done the work for Michael Schiavo pro bono for the last couple of years. That also says a lot.
Seems to me there's sanity, reason and compassion on the husband's side, and freakish manipulation and husteria on the parents' side.
Just sayin'.
Time to switch to Deadwood.
Night all.
"Gonna get religon, gonna join the Baptist church.
Gonna get religon, gonna join the Baptist church.
Gonna be a Baptist preacher, so I won't ever have to work."
Son House
m-o-p-p.
Hitchens lost me over Lewinsky. Hate.
Must. Not. Fall. Asleep.
Death threats have been made against him for allowing Michael Schiavo to remove the feeding tube
Gee, are people threatening to starve the judge to death?
Would somebody bring me a martini? Before I pod?
So, does that mean you'll stop whining now about how the Republicans are supposedly grandstanding the issue to gain political ground?
No, ya moron. We're not talking about the little people. We're talking about the politicians.
Yes, Walter Cronkite. Actually, yes.
I hope anyone who recognizes my fake name will stay polite to me
[pointing at Draco] POD PERSON, POD PERSON!
"for drinkking purposes"
Pod in the greenHouse, stay outa there Kevin.
This movie really creeped me out as a kid, I had many dreams inspired by it.
oops, sorry, Elaine! feeling a draft in here yet?
and, for seebach and those keeping watch over the freepers, this post says it all:
Bob, my friend, I was suspended once today for using something called the wrong sidebar.
It was torture not posting for Terri's life. So, I'm trying to be as careful as my wits allow.
44 posted on 03/26/2005 1:50:58 PM PST by Matthew316
Oh. my. god. talk about your 101st Fighting Keyboarders.
Wait, I never got this before. His name is Dr. BANAL? Holy ordinary batmen.
Sarah Deere - Oddly enough, I have just posted something about that freakishness first-draft.
I don't blogwhore every often - I've decided that may have been a mistake. 
"My Father"
"We've got some phoning to do"
My spelling and grammar have been taken over by pod people. Tense disagreements and misspelled "very" s are their fault.
"The circuits are busy, Doctor." Hah! They've taken over the telephone lines - get the girls out!
Either they are going nobly against the tide of public opinion...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (stop, gasping for air, clutching chest) AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Would somebody bring me a martini? Before I pod?
Would you like that dry, shaken or stirred?
"If they have the Phone system, we're dead"
Hack it to death with the pitchfork quick-like.
and the Southern Baptist church that Greer belonged to for years has asked him to leave the congregation
But the BTK killer gets to stay a deacon at his church!
Folks, doesn't this tell us all we need to know about the state of organized religion in this country?
"Keep trying the call, Operator!" Stab, stab, stab, stab....
I don't blogwhore every often
don't beat yerself up about this one, very funny.
Damn hypocratic oath and its "do no harm " clause.
Either they are going nobly against the tide of public opinion...
Thinks he's Hamlet or something, he does.
The right is on to you guys (from Barone via DeLong):
a previously unidentified segment of the American electorate... a critical mass... a major force... the trustfunder left. Who are the trustfunders? People with enough money not to have to work for a living, or not to have to work very hard. People who can live more or less wherever they want....
These people... very liberal... have done nothing to earn their money... elite private or public high schools... colleges and universities... propagandized about the evils of capitalism and globalization.... Patriotism is equated with Hiterlism.... [T]hey are citizens of the world with contempt for those who feel chills up their spines when they hear 'The Star Spangled Banner.'...
Dry please, with an onion.
Stab, stab, stab....
Tee-hee- 'Put the gas on my bill, Mac!' Gotta go - wait, check the trunk, there are - PODS! Quick, to Sally's house!
If Terri Schiavo divorced Micael and married Randal Terry, she'd be the brains in that marriage.
EPTropy | Email | Homepage | 03.26.05 - 6:19 pm
Ooooh. Stab, twist, wiggle, yank.
Evening, freethinkers! Kent, GWPDA, love the running commentary. The Birds is one of my favorite scary movies. Mmmm... Tippi.
I hope Sally is still Sally, and that the payphone gambit works.
"he's not one of us" thinks the gasoline man.
Louisville beats West Virginia in Overtime.
Road Flare 2 Pods 0.
elite private or public high schools... Smile when you say that about Ulysses S. Grant High School.....
Oh. my. god. talk about your 101st Fighting Keyboarders.
From a freeper post:
Of all the Typists for Terri™ I've seen here, I know of only ONE that actually tried to do something, and I'm pretty sure even HE didn't put anything serious on the line.
Not down the dark alley of the car lot, you idiot! Wait, oh you're perfect, hide the car, they'll never find it there. Run, run!
kent walking bat flying moon -
Oh I see what you mean: "...this freakishness first-draft."
The right is on to you guys (from Barone via DeLong):
a previously unidentified segment of the American electorate... a critical mass... a major force... the trustfunder left.
damn, I wish....
Hey, the freakishness is Holden's fault.
Safe - they'll never check the janitor's closet again tonight. And with this grill we can see - here btw, take two of these uppers to stay awake.
These people... very liberal... have done nothing to earn their money... elite private or public high schools... colleges and universities... propagandized about the evils of capitalism and globalization.... Patriotism is equated with Hiterlism..
Projectile Projectitude at its very finest.
Irony must be narrowly clinging to its ninth life.
They truly are pod people.
Now everyone is on to the doctor and little missy. Just like my dreams.
I am usually starring as a combination of the two.
Road Flare 2 Pods 0.
kent walking bat flying moon. | Email | Homepage | 03.26.05 - 7:14 pm
... The night is young, human....
Quick - there's just time for a swift embrace.
Evenin' Tom.
"all of us a little bit we harden our hearts, grow callous....."
I wish I could see Dr. Who tonight. Saw the entire series over the years.
"moving in on the green, walking in unison, waiting for the transport vehicles - pods, the trucks are filled with pods!"
RMJ: I'm grateful to the Free Library of Philadelphia for offering science-fiction anthologies when I was beginning to read, c. 1960.
I found "The Father-Thing" in one such collection, and it stayed with me-- it was so deliciously creepy. (Wasn't it turned into an episode of "The Twilight Zone"?)
About ten years ago a co-worker recommended Philip K. Dick to me, rightly noting a potential affinity between my own warped world-view and PKD.
I'd seen "Blade Runner", and knew that "Total Recall" was (IMHO) a lame adaptation of his "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale", but didn't appreciate just how prolific Dick was.
After I became a fervent PKD admirer, I was pleased to find out that he was the author of "The Father-Thing"; so it was more a matter of rediscovering him.
"Relax. We're here to help you."
Tena, where do you live in Houston? Spent many yrs there, a thousand yrs ago.
Also...call me cynical (and, yes, I am), but I believe *someone* planned it so that Terri Schiavo would "die" on Easter. I really do.
I don't know if the parents were part of that decision, but I would not put it past them. They give fruitcakes a bad name.
a previously unidentified segment of the American electorate... a critical mass... a major force... the trustfunder left.
Oh please, there's nothing "previously unidentified" about it. It's the same old radical elite they've been talking about since the dawn of time. They just can't get out of their mental ruts, can they?
Sean/Kent - I could write something better than that piece in a coma.
Think I'm gonna sign up for that weekend journalism degree that Gannon got and write editorials for the NYT's.
The towns pod-ulation coalesces in the square, round-about, triangle, rondelet, or what ever.
Truck loaded with pods for distribution, oh shit it's getting deep.
Pantaloon soiling deep.........
She's the other woman in Michael Schiavo's heart
"... Schiavo's opponents have directed much vitriol toward Jodi Centonze, threatening her life and her two children. In dozens of letters mailed to the couple's Countryside home, some critics have called her a whore and her children bastards, relatives say.
Through it all, Centonze has remained quietly by Schiavo's side. She was there long before the television cameras, before Terri's condition became a national obsession.
Jodi Centonze has visited Terri, shopped for her, washed her clothes, relatives say. She has accepted her role as the other woman, and believes Michael Schiavo has enough room in his heart for both, relatives say. ..."
link in homepage
Kent --
Did you know that the gas company man down in the basement was played by later-to-be-famous-director Sam Peckinpah, who also adapted the script for this movie from Jack Finney's novel?
Hey, kent. I would ask what's up, but I think I figured it out. Almost wish I had cable currently, just so I could watch along.
... Although... who's doing a horror marathon on Easter Weekend, anyway? Not that I have a problem with that -- I just want to know how they're advertising it....
What a trippy thread. So has everyone here given up and taken some acid? I want some too.
"wait we're safe hear"
"Jack the whole town has been taken over by the pods"
"not quite, there is still you and Becky"
did I say pantaloon soiling deep, add a bit of crawling skin to the scenario.....you get the picture.
Well Tena, if they didn't have their strawmen, they would have nothing to write.
Jeebus H. Tapdancing Christ on a biscuit!
Why did I even try to watch the Capital Goons on CNN? Aside from feeling compelled toward one expletive after another, I was stunned at their falling all over themselves to condemn Michael Schiavo and to ignore all but the dopiest Rep plays (i.e. the memo). They even played a clip of Tom Delay's odious speech, but only the part where he says the liberals attack conservatives on personal issues. Somehow lost the part about his comparing himself to Terri and how she is a gift from God to them. Not a word about Jeb's attempt to circumvent the courts. Not even a veiled reference to the Texas law and W's hypocrisy. Not a goddamn thing but obsequious blather on behalf of the fringiest of rightwing chistofascists. Novakula congratulated Margaret Carlson on her right-thinking attitude.
CNN has gone from barely tolerable to vapid to worse than useless to actively misinforming the public. Congratulations, your Fauxification is complete. Tell me again how pro-liberal our multimillionaire multimedia whores are.
"Relax, we're here to help you"
I love both "Ragmop" and "Ratfink." Mindless stupid songs are the best and most timeless of all. e.g. Little Richard and Tutti Frutti.
I love bodhisattvas too. And little baby ducks. And Peeps.
Little Brother,
I just finished re-reading "Clans of the Alphane Moon" for the eleventh or twelfth time.
I guess it's time to go back and reread all of the books he wrote and I bought about fifteen years ago.
Sarah - I live in that part of Houston that is called "Dallas."
Sorry - couldn't resist.
Robert Jeffers lives in Houston and Holden lives in Austin. I'm in Dallas.
"Don't fight it Miles, its no use, sooner or later you will have to sleep"
Not if Miles can find the Amphetamines.
Ayatollah Dubya Issues a Fatwa and Cable TV News Becomes Al-Jahzeera:
And now back to Joe Scarborough for another breaking story on the Saint Schiavo vigil - "she still isn't dead!" - and perhaps another gratuitous Nazi death camp comparison brought to you by the people of Enzyte, Cialus and Levitra.
Amen.
"It's the same old radical elite they've been talking about since the dawn of time."
The circumcised wealthy liberal elite seeking to sap our glorious National Will. When you see the rage over Bolshevism decades after the fall of the Soyuz, you start to think they really aren't capable of new ideas (or ideas for that matter), but you do not know the power of the dumb side until you pick up on the truly ancient "Jews=Bolsheviks" clause.
But of course we're just going by what our doyenne of a professor told us while making us salute an image of Krushchev.
What a trippy thread. So has everyone here given up and taken some acid? I want some too.
Just a dose of Shiavo, "The Birds", and "The invasion of the body snatcher's"
"You are forgetting something Miles, you have no choice"
another quick embrace.
Semi full moon tonight.
No snow for once. What a miracle. There is a god (or maybe Ba'al).
Grrr...
So I went to visit my mom this AM (about a 45 minute drive). I was going a around a bend on a four-lane at 70+ MPH and futzing with my iPod. Only too late did I notice the State Trooper in the unmarked with a radar gun. (The annoying thing is I knew thay hung out in that spot.) After I was pulled over he walked up to my window and asked, "Why were you driving so fast?" "I don't have an excuse; I was just speeding." After he checked out the paperwork he returned and said because I was honest he was writing me up for a non-moving violation (I felt like saying, "Since I'm so honest how about leaving me with a warning" but that would have been stupid.) Anyway: $105 fine but no points.
On the good side I heard no news whatsoever until I got home a little while ago.
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Thanks, shycat, very interesting.
JeffCO, I hope this whole episode brings as much disgrace and disgust upon on the whore media as it does the whore repukes.
Jeez, what took 'em so long? They gave the "Bugger On" command way back in 2000, ennit?
JeffCo, an even greater mystery than the ressurection is why, when they can see and hear it, people take anything they hear on CNN seriously. The evidence is slapping everyone in the face every time they tune in that it is a pack of oligarchic lies.
Maybe it's all a bad habit that's hard to break.
No, Kent, it is the commune memories.
True story: I once dropped some acid and the FBI rang our doorbell and everyone ran out through the roof escape hatch except for me, I was too stoned.
So I invited him in and he tried to question me while I painted a freaky picture of a fox.
It was so much fun. He came by later to ask me out for a date. I was...18. He didn't know that.
Where can you find trustfunders? Not scattered randomly around the country, but heavily concentrated in certain areas. Places with kicky restaurants, places tolerant of alternative lifestyles, places with lots of art galleries and organic food stores and Starbucks competitors.
oh wow....this is some real wacked out shit. This is like Refer Madness-style propaganda.
Who is his audience, 6 to 9 year olds?
the. best. thread. ever.
Diane, someone either posted under the name "Lord Running Clam" recently, or used the name in a comment-- I can't remember which.
Was that you?
Toonscribe,
No I didn't.
Filkertom,
TCM
She hits podcop with hypodermic.
"our only hope is the highway"
JUST IN TIME FOR EASTER!
...It's Bruce Campbell Nite on SciFI!
"Keep your eyes wide and blank show no interest or excitement"
shycat--love your moniker, and thanks for that link. I guess her story is a little too nuanced for the cabloid news to cover.
Tena sez:
I live in that part of Houston that is called "Dallas."
"Dallas, we have a problem" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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She gave them away when she called after the dog.
What was She Thinking!!!!!
So has everyone here given up and taken some acid?
I'd settle for some decent doobage.
Where the hell is my trust fund? I'm librul as hell.
Little Brother,
Nope, wasn't me, but somebody started a mini thread about Dick a while back and that might have brought out a few name changes.
Eggbake, ewwww. Is it as bad as it sounds?
It would help the fundies' case immensely if they weren't part of the world in which they are trying to force Terri Schiavo to live.
So has everyone here given up and taken some acid?
No, this is pure benadryl intoxication.
Elaine,
You really should think about that book.
Seriously, nom de plum of course, if necessary.
Ahhh Safe at last.
nice work fooling the Pod-ophiles.
Is it just me or is that a proto wet t-shirt.
I've been missing Army of Darkness? Damn you to hell, media.
Where the hell is my trust fund? I'm librul as hell.
Guess you and I are the two that missed out.
Spork - Got my first one in years last week. Simple enough, take defensive driving. Wrong, $145 and about eight hours in all to get it dismissed.
klaatu varaada...
...nnnnn(achew)
Becky has fallen asleep, It's over.
Sharkbabe Tracy Regimented Cat - I'd settle for some decent doobage.,/i>
God, me too. My guy went out of town for Easter, and I'm bare. Talk about inconsiderate. I'm scrabbling around in the roaches. Luckily I learned young to never throw anything away. I've got about a year's worth.
Still, it's pretty gross and I wish the Easter Bunny still visited me. He could just give me the grass lined basket and skip the eggs.
The WaPo has an article about potential fallout in the wake of Congress' unprecedented intervention into the Schiavo matter. Two things stand out:
1. Some Republicans said they do not believe the vote to allow a federal court to examine whether any of Schiavo's constitutional rights had been violated will become a political issue, especially since 47 House Democrats voted for the measure, while 53 voted against.
Thanks a lot, DINOs.
2. Republicans are "going to get kicked around a lot," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. On the other hand, he sees a silver lining in the otherwise miserable polls: The minority that does back congressional action probably supports it intensely, while the majority that disagrees "won't remember this woman's name in a few months."
Do you guys think that's true? I just can't imagine that people will forget this. This has reached OJ proportion.
Anyway: $105 fine but no points.
spork-incident: I once got a ticket on the PA turnpike. They had a radar gun hidden in one of those orange construction vehicles parked way off the highway. Trooper stood in the middle of the road and pulled off groups of ten cars at a time, ticketing each and every one. I later learned that particular district in the middle of nowhere pulls in more fines than any other in the state. So much for keeping up with traffic!
kent--
By referring to Kevin McCarthy in the 50s Invasion of the Body Snatchers movie, you make a nice joke.
But it was never exactly clear in that movie if the "body snatchers" were the commies or the McCarthyites, or someone else. Director Don Siegel said he thought the commies, or maybe something more opaque.
But that movie has been remade twice, by Philip Kaufman in '78, who was worried about corporate propaganda; then by notoriously macho Abel Ferrara in the early 90s. AF said he didn't like the military definition of masculinity trumping his own rules of maleness ( I paraphrase).
But why is this movie theme so remade? There must be something in the culture that makes us worry about pod-people. I worry myself; they're in my family.
"He's in here, He's in here, Get him"
A moments sleep and the girl I loved was an inhuman enemy bent on my destruction, A moments sleep was death to her soul, just as it had been for Jack and Teddy and all the rest.
I am beginning to think that this pretty adequately sums up the Republican mindset. Now I am terrified.
I love the camera spliting the log effect in Army of Darkness!
and there was this tiny, tiny red spider crawing aroung on my back porch just a few minutes ago. Really red, the color of PMS 485, with a little white diamond on its back. I kid you not. I have never seen anything like it before.
Oh, I think people will remember last Saturday as a DeLay-Frist-Bush production. They'll gas about it being a bipartisan abrrogation of the constitution but it's got the unholy trinities fingerprints all over it. And there is that tape of DeLay to play everytime it is brought up and that note about knocking off Nelson.
I feel your pain, spork incident. Getting stopped by any cop anytime has always felt to me like being a child getting spanked.
My girlfriend is a cop (why I can't have doobage in the house and can't hardly ever smoke anymore, bummer) who's one of those radar-gun catchers. She's aware that just getting stopped puts the fear of god into people and she routinely knocks down tickets from the multi-hundred dollars to something still punitive that won't break people. And wouldn't you know, the ones she gives the biggest breaks to tend to be the very same ones who show up in court and lie their asses off, say shit like they weren't even driving that day, just amazing stuff.
I dunno, TJ. People forgot that whole "anthrax killer" thing pretty well.
TJ - No, I don't think so. I think this will stick with people. It's a story everyone can identify with, that's why the Repugs use these kinds of stories. The Democrats often make the mistake of being statesmen and talking about real stuff. Ha ha - no one listens, but us.
People will not forget this. Plus, the ongoing assault on social security and Medicare will remind them of it.
Bye for now. I think I heard something in the basement and better go check on it.
Tena...hee hee...sorry about that! (That=Dallas).
I actually went to Hockaday for a couple of yrs.
I also spent 10 yrs as a housecleaner.
Try to be well-rounded.
Oh, so that's what doobage is. I was going to ask but thought it was for straight people only.
I got nailed by a speedcam on my commuting route recently. It was in a car on the shoulder. All my fellow commuters musta got nailed too, because we all become Eddie Haskell greeting Mrs. Cleaver when we go by there now!
and there was this tiny, tiny red spider crawing aroung on my back porch just a few minutes ago. Really red, the color of PMS 485, with a little white diamond on its back. I kid you not. I have never seen anything like it before.
mer
nukular spider
Schiavo Judge Attains New Fame, Infamy
Sat Mar 26, 4:00 PM ET
By VICKIE CHACHERE, Associated Press Writer
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Amid the pitched legal battle over Terri Schiavo that has been fought through his court, Pinellas County Circuit Judge George Greer has been under the protection of armed guards, and friends say his family also is protected.
Death threats have been made against him for allowing Michael Schiavo to remove the feeding tube that has kept his 41-year-old wife alive for the past 15 years, and the Southern Baptist church that Greer belonged to for years has asked him to leave the congregation.
Greer — a conservative Christian and longtime Republican known for an easy manner — has become the public face of the judiciary in this internationally watched fight. But despite the mounting pressure, he has been steadfast in his rulings that Terri Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state and did not want to be kept alive artificially.
"There are very few people who have shown the will to stand up to raw power," said Stetson University Law Professor Michael Allen, who has studied the Schiavo case.
"Seed Pods? Where was the Truck coming from?"
"Santa Mira"
Now they finally believe him.
Draco,
I think in the preface or in the comments above, it was suggested that the movie was about Hollywood, Not sure I am buying that, but it would seem that the Republic of Moonicans, are following the script nicely.
Still, it's pretty gross and I wish the Easter Bunny still visited me. He could just give me the grass lined basket and skip the eggs.
hahahahahaha
Eddie Haskel became a cop. I saw it on TV late one night while manning the wonky sump pump.
I've got to go. Good night.
LumpenP,
No NO No, please don't go, I mean leave the basement alone.
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Sarah - The houstonians here are RMJ, Ba'al, Albert Champion, agave, and myself. Now that would make for a fun BBQ.
Whatever the GOP leadership says now, they thought the Schiavo thing would resonate or they wouldn't have done it.
If the governing strategeries of this administration can be summed up in two words, they are: unintended consequences. They are people who could fuck up a wet dream.
It is only their ability to win elections, through deceit and outright theft, that keeps them in power to continue to bungle one thing after another.
Maybe this Schiavo experience, combined with continued competence on the Social Security issue, will allow Democrats to one day feel the tingle of regenerating spines.
Hollywood always tacks on a happy ending, nomatter what. It's disgusting.
They bleeped "Ash"? The religious right has gone too far.
Nothing, and I mean nothing drives the right wing more crazy than liberals who have money. The corporate elite think that everyone with wealth should be on their side.
What is more, it happens all over the world. Here in the UK the Conservatives go mad when someone with money gives to the left. The usual one is that a liberal has paid for a private education for their kids. The right hates Hollywood and most ‘creative‘s.’ Because 1 they don't understand them. And 2, they have money.
Did anybody see the lastest at Hal Turner's
MAYBE I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THIS TERRI SCHIAVO THING THE WRONG WAY. . . . .
I've been proceeding from the assumption that she was merely a totally innocent, completely helpless woman being savagely deprived of life through slow starvation and dehydration. But on second thought. . . . . .
She was born a jew, but converted to Catholicism. But being born a jew makes one a racial jew no matter what religion they convert to. And seeing as racial jews are the lowest form of scum in the history of this planet, (They've been thrown out of more countries than any other race in history) maybe starving Terri to death isn't too bad a thing at all.
In fact, since there are so many other jews in Florida, doubtless many who are seriously ill from all their inbreeding and race mixing, maybe this Schiavo thing is a terrific way to set case law as an excuse to get rid of a whole slew of other jews!
I still think it would have been far more humane to simply gas her to death. But I guess after all the hoopla about "gas chambers" in Germany back in WW2, the powers that be are a bit squeamish about using that method again.
Oh well.
-- Hal Turner
Fucking sick.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH WAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
Freely translated from Lakota Souix (certainly a dead language) this means:
"I would talk so that people could really understand me, if Jeff Gannon were here asking me soft questions, like he did at the White House."
I think Bruce Campbell is much better physical comedian than Jim Carrey....and is much less creepy.
Absolutely, Tena. People will remember this episode, especially if they're reminded of it. Freedom in life's decisions should be a constant piece of the discourse.
Tena, I really hope voters aren't stupid enough to forget this.
G'night for now, and stay safe from the pod people.
HoneyBearKelly, it that for real?
Isn't it a little too late for Hal Turner to pretend like he's not going to get arrested?
chris/tx - so where in town do y'all live?
I lived in Montrose area. Worked at Houston Zoo, biked to work through Rice campus.
Good evening freebats.
Couldn't sleep last night, I clicked on CNN for the first time in months. My first encounter with the trainwreck named Nancy Grace....Oh, my God, how many of have seen this new addition to CNN's lineup?
>People will remember this episode, especially if they're reminded of it. Freedom in life's decisions should be a constant piece of the discourse.
I still remember Karen Ann Quinlan.
Well, I'm back and they really are here to help us.
OT, but I've never noticed this happening before -- hundreds of baby butterflies are flying over my house and across my backyard. They just keep coming every couple of seconds.
FL Supreme Court reject Schiavo's parent's appeal.
-- Hal Turner
Fucking sick.
I wonder if the LGF folks know about this. That guy is a monumental piece of crap.
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They bleeped "Ash"? The religious right has gone too far.
Yeah I noticed that too. Wierd.
Just sirfed a little when AoD went to commercial and saw Ian Fucking McShane as Judas on the History Channel!
Elaine - you should have a talk show or something. Your rich crazy life gets me in touch with how rich and crazy my own is.
I've been dipping into this thread here and there all day, and it is a lovely one indeed. Total absence of troll stench. Beautiful spring day.
I saw Nancy Grace for the first time last week. It was a couple of minutes before I realized she was serious and not working some parody routine.
Absolutely unwatchable. Whatever was simultaneously happening at FoxNews was better. I know. I checked.
How long before we have a shiny new base near Bishkek?
ibn steven
Actually the US (and the Russians) had a base near Bishkek, but seem to be doing nothing with this coup.
Last night's news here showed the Chinese pulling their civilians out of Kyrgyzstan due to the unrest and mobocracy.
Oh... and Happy Easter my moonbats!
Oh, my God, how many of have seen this new addition to CNN's lineup?
She is awful. And evil.
I clicked on CNN for the first time in months. My first encounter with the trainwreck named Nancy Grace.... -Hoyt C.
I feel your pain. I stopped on her whilst channel-surfing last night and was both disgusted and outraged within moments. Thank goodness my hand was still on the remote.
mer,
I just checked, every word os true.
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mer I copied and pasted it.
you can go there if you like but I thought I'd spare people and not give the sick fuck the hits.
Sarah - I'm off I10 (Katy freeway), just outside the inner loop (610). Think Ba'al lives in or by Montrose. My aunts house is so close to Rice you can walk. Beautiful, but you know that.
Hal Turner will be arrested, won't he? Please? The FBI can at least do that, can't they?
chris/tx sez:
Spork - Got my first one in years last week. Simple enough, take defensive driving. Wrong, $145 and about eight hours in all to get it dismissed.
Ah, heck. I'm guilty so I'll just pay. It's easier. The annoying thing is I was nabbed where I knew they hid. The iPod distracted me. I've contacted my solicitor about suing Apple.
JeffCO sez:
I once got a ticket on the PA turnpike. They had a radar gun hidden in one of those orange construction vehicles parked way off the highway.
I didn't know about the vehicles. Good tip, thanks! (PA is so...so...so... 19th. century.)
Sharkbabe sez:
My girlfriend is a cop (why I can't have doobage in the house and can't hardly ever smoke anymore, bummer)[...]
My heart goes out to you.
[...]who's one of those radar-gun catchers.
Sleeping with the enemy, hmmm?
Aw, anyway, no biggee.
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I don't know if it matters if anyone forgets or remembers this. As long as corporations own America, what can we do?
Well, I'm back and they really are here to help us.
Something doesn't feel right about you, I just cant put my finger on it.
Freethinkers, Deadwood's on HBO2 Now.
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The Supreme Court of Florida just denied another appeal. Oh my!
Apparently, as that tight-ass Santorum suggested earlier in the week, all these courts are not doing what Congress told them to do!
Can't understand why, huh?
HoneyBearKelly -- jeez, that's insane. Has anyone mentioned this yahoo to the Florida police who may not read blogs?
Absolutely, Tena. People will remember this episode, especially if they're reminded of it. Freedom in life's decisions should be a constant piece of the discourse.
Sidhra
I really kind of think it may well be our job to remind people when they seem to be in danger of forgetting. I don't think there will be any lack of opportunities to remind them, either. We have a lot of judicial nominations ahead.
Hal Turner will be arrested, won't he? Please? The FBI can at least do that, can't they?
How does one "file papers" on a Saturday, anyway?
I see some of you are watching Army of Darkness with me.
Give me some sugar!!!
(and yes, it's a hideous world when they bleep Ash)
What channel is Army of Darkness on?
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And the frogs are singing in their swamps at night again now. They're happy that Dubya can't torture them anymore, he's too busy killing Iraqis.
That Hal Turner creature is emblematic of all these energy creature hatebots. This Schiavo thing is really exposing them and will continue to.
Well the InstaParrot is trying to runaway from this fiasco as well.
Instead he tries to latch on to the coattails of the Taiwanese (along with Roger L. Simon) and gets it all wrong... again surprised?
(irritated me enough that I had to write about it before I finished my first coffee of the morning.)
chris/tx, yeah it surely was then, and w/trees ever bigger now, I'm sure it's just lovely.
Trying to remember the name of the wonderful deli - wait! Alfred's - in the Village. Best damned chopped liver thisd side of the east coast. El Patio (see, it really has been a thousand yrs) had frabjous chili con queso. They would double-fry the tortilla so they puffed up...and mugs of ice cold beer....ahhh.
There aalso was a terrific place downtown (can't remember the name) that had great cajun food. Murky, deliciopus gumbo, snapper Ponchatraine, and so forth. And, oh, my sweet god, Gulf shrimp. Piles of it.
I'm drooling.
Happy Easter, Tom DTL!
Sarah - The houstonians here are RMJ, Ba'al, Albert Champion, agave, and myself. Now that would make for a fun BBQ.
How can you possibly have a BBQ when you know you'd have to battle the giant flying roaches and the monster mosquitos?
Army of Darkness is on sci-fi.
What's this?
::leans into FBI secret microphone::
Hal Turner converts to Islam? Why, that's strange! And he threatened to kill people! Why, that's horrible.
I found this on another blog. Those Jaysus freaks are really starting to piss me off.
"PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - Jennifer Johnson, barefoot and in her pajamas, ran to her grandfather's bedside once a hospice worker said his death was moments away. She got there — one minute too late. Johnson said the chaos outside the hospice where Terri Schiavo is dying kept her from saying goodbye.
When Johnson arrived, a police officer demanded identification; she had none. And after a hospice employee cleared her, another officer halted her for a search with a metal detector.
The delays lasted three to four minutes — the last of her grandfather's life.
"It's a terrible, extra obstacle to put in front of a family. ... Everything is about Schiavo," Johnson said. "It's all about her and in my family's case, it cost us dearly."
Family members visiting patients must pass through a police checkpoint to park, then show identification outside the door before another security screening inside. They also must walk by scores of signs decrying Schiavo's "crucifixion," "torture," and "starvation," plus navigate around hordes of media who have been camped outside.
"To have to maneuver through all of this and have a hostile environment outside when all they want is peace and quiet and to enjoy those few days they have left with a loved one is a horror," said Dr. Morton Getz, executive director of Douglas Gardens Hospice in Miami.
"It probably has the same psychological effect on the residents' families as it does on someone who is walking into an abortion clinic and facing signs and aggressive behavior," said Elizabeth Foley, a Florida International University law professor who specializes in bioethics.
Relatives of hospice residents say the clamor — intended to rattle Michael Schiavo — rattles their patience.
Police and hospice officials say they are trying to minimize the intrusion on hospice residents and their families, and that the security measures are meant to protect the privacy and safety of all residents, not just Schiavo.
But Johnson, 24, said her 73-year-old grandfather, Thomas Bone, was restricted from moving freely around the hospice grounds during his final days. He died just hours after Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed and protests intensified.
"They've taken away hospice's greatest quality, that it is peaceful and serene and quiet and calming — and it's not fair," Johnson said.
El Patio (see, it really has been a thousand yrs) had frabjous chili con queso.
Los Tios still does their queso that way (with the puffed up tortilla). Delicious!
Kent- Sci Fi channel.
And next is a new Bruce Campbell movie called "Alien Apocolypse" where he apparently battles giant bugs.
I'm guessing it's set in Houston.
sgc - Ahem you could have found it here, as well.
Plus my analysis of it.
Guys - I'm going to go watch Kill Bill Vol. 2. Mr. Tena says it's a lot better than Vol. 1 and that I'll like it.
Happy Easter.
They give fruitcakes a bad name.
Sarah Deere | Email | Homepage | 03.26.05 - 7:22 pm
There are really only 3 fruitcakes in the entire world. They just keep getting re-gifted.
And next is a new Bruce Campbell movie called "Alien Apocolypse" where he apparently battles giant bugs.
I'm guessing it's set in Houston.
fourlegsgood
Only if it stars bug brain Tom DeLay as the evil "genius" behind the giant pests.
V2 is better, Tena.
Wait - how did Fred Astaire get into this picture?
Sleeping with the enemy, hmmm?
Guilty as charged, alas. But we need do cops. Such as those who stopped Jeb's goons last night. I'm changing the system from within - she's come to totally distrust the whore media and despise Bushco. It's a start....
Sarah - The houstonians here are RMJ, Ba'al, Albert Champion, agave, and myself. Now that would make for a fun BBQ.
How can you possibly have a BBQ when you know you'd have to battle the giant flying roaches and the monster mosquitos?
fourlegsgood | Email | Homepage | 03.26.05 - 8:13 pm
Don't forget the bees. Although you could use the honey to spike the barbecue sauce.
"...before I finished my first coffee of the morning."
--Tom - Daai Tou Laam
Just reminded me that no matter how badly I feel sometimes about the state of our nation, I still enjoy pleasures.
I love my morning coffee and listening to the birds singing out my back door.
There are really only 3 fruitcakes in the entire world.
And one of them is Liddy Dole.
Tena -- they're both amazing, but very different. Have fun!
Well, a friend from this blog just sent me a Morford piece. Synchronicity, from my perspective, because I've turned inward over the past few months. Haven't watched television, been reading very little political stuff, have just been trying to maintain some peace in my little corner of the world.
Here's a short excerpt that is really so great:
"The coming years are not going to be about friendship and repaired foreign
relations and a sense of our shared humanity, about equality and sexual
freedom and a renewed sense of human rights. To believe this is to believe in fairy tales almost as insidious and hopeless as evangelical Christians who are right now stuffing themselves with Cheez-Its and pink wine and praying for Armageddon.
So, you do what you have to do. You focus inward and work on the self and radiate as much love and open-hearted support as possible, grit your karmic teeth and hope you survive this dark house of mirrors without cancers or tumors or bloodshed...
So you pray your ass off to a forgiving and ambisexual and dogma-free pantheistic feminine god and you digest the increasingly nasty headlines as best you can, ever seeking that pinpoint, that tiny speck of light way, way down, at the end of this rank and desperate tunnel. Do you see it? Is it even there? It's one of those things you just have to believe.
... stupid stinger keeps falling off. Sigh.
Ooops, do need cops. Pinot grigio hour.
That's not Army of Darkness on SciFi channel -- it's bruce Campbell in something called Terminal Invasion (I think that's the name) -- unless of course the time zones are fucking with me and I'm two or three hours behind you.
"Wipe Santorum from Pennsylvania"
That ad makes me want to work for Chuck Pennacchio's campaign. We need people like him.
I love my morning coffee and listening to the birds singing out my back door.
mer
Moka Coffee from Vietnam.. and thankfully the birds, especially the rooster has been quiet this morning.
Nothing like trying to sleep in on a holiday morning and having the neighbourly rooster start up at 5am. Things like that make ya think about what you're gonna have for Easter dinner.
You folks are too uptight tonite.
here.... have som fun
http://campchaos.com/show.php?iID=647
I am looking at the Animal Planet network showing an animation of a "prehistoric" fire breathing dragon taking out a Tyrannosaur.
In the New York Times- and in the professional journal Science this week- there was a report of Tyrannosaur bones with soft tissue- and nucleated blood cells- preserved.
Folks, that's a fraud. I'm a molecular pharmacologist by training, and I've got to tell you there is no way soft tissues would be preserved after 65 million years.
And pictures of fire breathing dragons in prehistoric times? That's bullshit. Not in this corner of the multiverse.
What TheoCon is funding this crap?
I'm going back to watch Ash go in "Army of Darkness" now.
Oh yeah. And Hal Turner can just come get some.
Tena sez:
Guys - I'm going to go watch Kill Bill Vol. 2. Mr. Tena says it's a lot better than Vol. 1 and that I'll like it.
I ordered Kill Bill Vol. 2 from Amazon three weeks ago. "We're sorry, but your shipment has been delayed."
Dammit.
I wanna know what happened to Sophie!
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Mark Morford is almost as cool as Elaine.
Hey, Jenny! How you doin'?
That's a good piece. I may have to forward that to a couple of friends who've been really freaking out this week.
I just got back from seeing Gunner Palace - it's a MUST SEE...!
K&Y's
link upthread about the (yenta's from hell) is a terrifying read. Link
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What I think is odd is how QT goes out of his way to hide Bill's face during v1, and then v2 pays no attention at all to hiding it.
Anyone who believes in this constitutional republic and the enlightenment principles that are its foundation has an obligation to remind their fellow citizens that its liberties are rare and precious and easily surrendered to power and tyrrany. When law is overwhelmed by emotion and sectarian strife, liberty dies and freedom is diminished. When governments take to themselves the notion that they define the people's rights rather than assuming their own rights derived from the governed, they stray from the foundational principles of the American tradition. It is everyone's job to keep these principles alive.
Alien Apocalypse @ the Hour. Army of Darkness (in very small pieces between endless commercials) right now.
Loco Lobo -- love that video, and I haven't watched it for awhile. Thanks! In return, here's the Clapper Caper.
"They've taken away hospice's greatest quality, that it is peaceful and serene and quiet and calming — and it's not fair," Johnson said.
Bastards...
A little late, but did flikertom* single-handedly repellant-spray our friendly neighborhood brownshirt into oblivion a couple threads down?
(*And I ain't using "-squito" because that was TWO FUCKING WEEKS AGO and it's starting to look like Xmas lights in July, if you know what I mean...)
Thanks Shorty, FLG and anyone else who may have passed on information concerning an earlier inquiry of mine.
(had been watching Deadwood [you may have guessed], but seen it already so darkness it is)
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Hey Beautiful Peeps!
If you'd like to read the Morford piece in its entirety it's here:
http://tinyurl.com/eu5i
Happy Easter to you all from...
*Charlotte Mysterious Pants
Evening Moonbats
I've got a hundred bucks that says 'Hal Turner' is a psuedonym. Reeal name's probably something stirring like Myron Filkerdink, or something like that.
I mean, The Turner Diaries, and all that...
heavily concentrated in certain areas. Places with kicky restaurants, places tolerant of alternative lifestyles, places with lots of art galleries and organic food stores and Starbucks competitors.
North-Central Phoenix? We've got some really find dry cleaners, and John McCain, but for the rest - Trader Joe's, all the way.
A nice birthday kent-whateverthehellyou'
recallingyourselfthesedays. Going to go play with the short, hairy guy I live with, now. Night night.
i like threads like this, pass the doobage, acid may be a bit much at this late stage of the game. last time i tried it things got really scary and lots of thoughts of death and destruction occured. enuf of that in the real world these days.
and now for something different.
the UnHoly Alliance
The impasse is part of a larger tug-of-war between federal agencies that enforce U.S. nonproliferation laws and policymakers who consider Pakistan too important to embarrass. The transactions under review began in early 2003, well after President Pervez Musharraf threw his support to the Bush administration's war on terrorism and the invasion of neighboring Afghanistan to oust Pakistan's former Taliban allies.
did i mention arms dealers really piss me off? i hold them personally responsible for much of the worlds greif. they will tout national security all day, but it's big business, and everyone knows the US makes the best bombs.
Also today I went to visit my new baby goats that I'm buying from a nearby Amish farm. They're pygmy goats and now the size of say little beagles. God they're cute and silly. Alice, the girl, keeps jumping up on her mom's back and trying to balance there. Marlon, the boy, is trying to work on his headbutting skills with his amused elders.
I will goatblog before long and y'all will be uplifted.
He can still come get some.
Hal, Myron, whatever his racist bigot ass name is.
the bees
That would not be the bees that shoot out of a dogs mouth, during a confrontation between Burns and Homer on the stoop of Burn's manstion, would it.
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dave -- yeah, you're probably right. I should retire the stinger, and save up for the next costume extravaganza.
And, I just had had it up to here with his good cop/bad cop routine. Naturally, when I mentioned how he insults people all the time, he referred to me as a "nutcase". Has he shown up since this then?
I'd like to meet the folks that wrote Army of Darkness. Hell, that wildass scene in the windmill alone would be worth a long talk. I've got a decent imagination, but those guys just blew the doors off on that one.
Hal Turner = Paul Cerebral Hampster
Filkertom/Dave -
I've noticed people are starting to ignore him and this is heartening. Because he's a malevolent and especially ubiquitous troll, the likes of which we haven't quite seen here before (at least in my time) because he won't stop. He's entirely offensive and worse. I also am quite sure he's doing double shift as Ashley.
And pictures of fire breathing dragons in prehistoric times? That's bullshit. Not in this corner of the multiverse.
Relax, Kelly B. That show (I saw it on it's first broadcast) does NOT purport that dragons were real. It explores the "what if" question, as in how they could exist. It's actually good sci-fi, with reasonably believable science mixed into the myth.
My stepson, a big dragon fan, was enthralled. So was I.
Tom - Daai Tou Laam = Bruce Flammable Gorilla.
Which seems like a great name for a Sci-Fi Channel remake of "King Kong" meets "The Towering Inferno".
Thanks filter that was great had never seen it before
I'd like to meet the folks that wrote Army of Darkness. Hell, that wildass scene in the windmill alone would be worth a long talk. I've got a decent imagination, but those guys just blew the doors off on that one.
Lumpenproletariat | Email | Homepage | 03.26.05 - 8:34 pm
"Well, maybe I didn't say every single tiny little syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah... basically."
Anyone who believes in this constitutional republic and the enlightenment principles that are its foundation has an obligation to remind their fellow citizens that its liberties are rare and precious and easily surrendered to power and tyrrany. When law is overwhelmed by emotion and sectarian strife, liberty dies and freedom is diminished. When governments take to themselves the notion that they define the people's rights rather than assuming their own rights derived from the governed, they stray from the foundational principles of the American tradition. It is everyone's job to keep these principles alive.
Beautifully put, Sidhra, deserves repeating.
And what charley said about arms dealers. Special place in the worst kind of hell.
dave = squito swatter
"multiverse" sounds familiar.
toonscribe- I'm in CST.
Are you on the west coast? won't be on for you yet.
Unless I'm in an alternate universe.
Sharkbabe Tracy Regimented Cat -
Can't wait to see the goat-blogging. They sound precious!
"multiverse" sounds familiar.
shirty
Michael Moorcock.
GWPDA,
Night, enjoy your play date, it has been a good time.
Today happens to be ny sisters birthday,(born on easter actually), mine is not for another few weeks (I was born on a mother's day), but thanks all the same, and send some extra love to the king of the Table in the Round, translated to Bonemouth, if you would be so kind.
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I've noticed people are starting to ignore him and this is heartening. Because he's a malevolent and especially ubiquitous troll, the likes of which we haven't quite seen here before (at least in my time) because he won't stop. He's entirely offensive and worse. I also am quite sure he's doing double shift as Ashley.
Jenny from the Blog • | Email | Homepage | 03.26.05 - 8:36 pm
Seriously? That would explain a lot.
I simply do not understand why you'd walk uninvited into a party and start telling everyone how stupid they are. Even online. I mean, in the realy world, that's a great way to get beaten to a pulp before you're thrown in jail. But I can't imagine the jollies one gets, even virtually.
dave = squito swatter
Bad Moonbat Rising | Email | Homepage | 03.26.05 - 8:38 pm
Help me! Help m- *swack*
filk -
It's just a guess, but I feel it's true. I just hope he gets tired of being ignored and shuffles off to Buffalo, or Hades, for that matter.
Who ever above stated a preferrence for Campbell over Carey, Word.
Campbell can and often does elevate a really bad movie to something that can be stomached.
Toonscribe, you must be a couple hours behind.
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Clean sheets.
Which troll are we mocking?
chris/tx - one more restaurant...
is Maxim's still there?
I shoulda gotten into Deadwood, it seems the hot thing and HBO's current crown jewel. They keep showing it but I don't want to jump into the middle.
Meanwhile I keep waiting for Six Feet Under's return, it keeps never coming.
Of course, once I discovered L Word on showtime, now am totally into that. It was great to have missed the whole first season and rent it on netflix, no hanging for next week to see what happens.
Guess I'll do the same with Deadwood, it does sound too good to miss. HBO truly rox.
Jenny -- I know. It gets tiring after awhile.
kent - errrrhmmm.... It was um, {my} birthday.....
shirty -- Ted Smith.
Wherever Jesus Christ is this Easter weekend, as a Christian I'm absolutely confident of one thing.
He has a terrible headache over the ridiculous shit being done in his name.
Sharkbabe ,
DW is the real deal, you will enjoys it.
FT,Dave,JFTB,
which troll?
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Sarah - Maxim's is gone, I double checked in the directory. Maxim passed away a while back. So is the original El Patio (closed about two weeks ago). Alfreds appears to be gone also. The gumbo/seafood place I think is still there, but can't remember the name.
So much good food here, I eat out at least once daily.
I thought mebbe Toby.
kent - errrrhmmm.... It was um, {my} birthday.....
In that case [feeling the fool] A Verry Very Happy Birthday to You!!!
Seriously, between the undelivered memos, or the lack of reading comprehension skills, I really need to get on the stick.
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Time for a beer run, later folks.
shirty -- y'know something? Toby is a grade-A jerkface, but on several occasions over the past week he has made perfectly lucid remarks and asked perfectly intelligent questions. And then he'll mess it up with some obnoxious thing, but... I almost feel like there might be hope for the boy.
And if that ain't naive optimism, I don't know what is.
Beautifully put, Sidhra, deserves repeating.
Sharkbabe Tracy Regimented Cat
i agree and 3 times probably isn't nescesarry but i found this while looking up one of the many words i don't know how to spell. (cigarette, and i'm too lazy to look up necessary)
Civil Liberties- inalienable liberties guaranteed to the individual by law and by custom; rights of thinking, speaking, and acting as one likes, except in the interests of public welfare.
when the national government infringes these rights as they are proposing to do even now, in the supposed interest of public welfare, we had better be damn sure it is in the interest of public welfare, and from what i've seen these last 3 years i have no confindence that's the case.
by the way i love goats, goatblog, why didn't i think of that. you really have little goats? that's so cool.
Buckle up, bonehead, 'cause you're going for a ride.
Still, soft tissues from a T. rex bone? 65 million years old? Give me a break!
Might as well tell me they found Fred Flintstone in its gizzard...
4legs & Kent --
I figured it was the time zone thing. Right after I posted that last post of mine, SciFi ran an add for Alien Apocalypse so I realized you were ahead of me. I am indeed on the West Coast -- the San Fernando Valley. It promises to be a good night since I loves me some Bruce Campbell. I was introduced to him once -- he's really a nice guy.
Fresh air, kids.
You like multiverse? Try googling Fred Adams, physicist.
The multiverse is a natural consequence of physical cosmological theory.
And a good fantasy vehicle, too.
...ever seeking that pinpoint, that tiny speck of light way, way down, at the end of this rank and desperate tunnel... JftB
And you will know us by the faraway look in our eyes.
Thanks for the link, Jenny ftB. Though I certainly appreciate Morford's sentiment, I must disagree that we are moving into the darkness on the edge of the city on the edge of forever. (Ok, I just wanted to throw in a couple mixed allusions. )
The stakes grow ever higher, but so do our abilities. The Blue Meanies are upon us, but our capacity to come together is greater than ever in history. Even this little blog in a podunk corner of the blogosphere is global in its reach and population. The fascist barbarians are through the gate, but there have been forces gathering to counter them for some time now.
You know, a little leavening leavens the whole lump and all that. So far as I'm concerned, we'll eventually learn how to play nice one way or the other; it comes down to how long it'll take and by what path. Sometimes we just require a smack in the forehead with the old cosmic 2x4 before we decide to pay attention. Or, as our lugubrious friend Morrissey sang,
If it's not love, then it's the bomb
The bomb the bomb the bomb the bomb the bomb
The bomb that will bring us together
JeffCO -- indeed. Giving in to despair is easy, but hanging onto ourselves is worth it. We've done too much good and come too far to let the greatest experiment in human freedom be fucked up by a bunch of superstitious powermongers.
Thanks, kent.
Dylan comes up frm time to time, and since this thread's about done, seems like a good time to remind people of one of his that's been kicking around my head of late. Happy Easter!
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.
Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover
That you'd just be
One more person crying.
So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.
As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred.
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.
An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.
Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you.
You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
They really found you.
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not fergit
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.
Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him.
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in.
But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony.
While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False gods, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me?
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only
I've noticed people are starting to ignore him...
Always the best policy.
I also am quite sure he's doing double shift as Ashley.
It's been here before; it'll be here again...
...you're probably right. I should retire the stinger, and save up for the next costume extravaganza.
Just bustin' your chops, Squitoman...
Oh boo hoo Florida! You keep putting these asswipes in office. Republican legislature, predominately Republican county boards, and a Bush! Just what the hell did they think they were getting!
When you get in bed the Republicans, you get Randall Terry, David Duke, and Hal Turner all lubed up and ready for action.
Of all the Typists for Terri™ I've seen here,
____league
How did I miss this last night? "Typists for Terri" is brilliant. I'm impressed ____league.
But, by the time Nancy Grace, O'Whoreley, Insane Hannity and Fox gets done with the snot slinging praise of the Smirks courage in all this, the polls will once again show confidence in our fierce leader.
It must be any day of the week.
Liberals are citing a bullshit oll without even bothering to review the questions asked.
Pretty much nobody doubts that a number of Liberal organizations have skewed these polls hooribly in an effort to rush this innocent woman to her death.
Remember, when you kill her, you make her a martyr in the public's eye...your quaint little polls not withstanding.
This is SO not over.
good grief.
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