I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
No way.
Morning, FUCK BUSH
This early bird is going to go back to bed.
Mornin' Freethinking types.
Mornin' DWD
There have to be Republicians sitting around the dinner table slapping their forehead and saying "how the fuck did I vote for that guy?"
Gimlet,
I gather from your post that you are not a fan of the North. Pity. As a northerner, born and bred, I tire of the silly Southerners pitying me for living in the land of endless forests, delightful rivers and streams, and twenty thousand lakes.
I have visited the south and the west and each time I could not wait to leave. The land of many seasons and unpredictable weather draws me like a magnet. The west with its beautiful vistas and endless brown earth; The South with the heat and humidity that drive me indoors seeking a seat near the air conditioner: all make me long for one evening on the shore of Lake Michigan watching the sunset.
Yes, we get winter storms. But storms are as delightful as they are annoying. For the storms of winter bring the comfort of the hearth and the security of slowing down to watch the world.
So, pity me if you want: wipe the sweat out of your eyes while doing so. Search your endless horizons for water; doubtful you will find any. Live there if you like, but do not deign to criticize the North for we are well-aware of what we have, and what we do not.
I got up early to listen to a tech house dj from Detroit that moved to New Zealand on a radio station from Australia.
Damn I love the internets.
HoneyBearKelly
No idea what you are talking about but glad to hear you are happy.
David Brooks really is a silly ass.
While his column is not something I totally disagree with: he missed the point . . . .
The failure of the CIA was not the problem with the Iraq War. The problem you dipshit was that these people in charge wanted a war and would do anything, say anything, lie about everything; to make it happen.
Certainly discussing epiricism as opposed to intuition is a worth subject to discuss, but now without condemning the fools who FORCED the CIA to their position.
Damn! Stupidity really pisses me off.
So, pity me if you want: wipe the sweat out of your eyes while doing so. Search your endless horizons for water; doubtful you will find any. Live there if you like, but do not deign to criticize the North for we are well-aware of what we have, and what we do not.
DWD
My posts are nonjudgmental just snarky. Sometimes these are a balance to romantic waxings. Othertimes it's a jab with a sharp stick.
My family was one of the pioneer families of TC. I grew up in Kalamazoo and spent the Summer holidays at Saugatuck.
Funny this North and South thing. Industrialized North, busy, busy, busy. Agricultural South, busy during the growing season, languid the rest of the time. Northern Italians complain bitterly about supporting the lazy Southern Italians. Northern Spaniards complain bitterly about supporting the Southern Spaniards. Sourthern Americans complain bitterly about being supported by Northern Americans.
Funny that.
Morning campers, fuck Bush!
Today's Mail
Oh, and just because I like the name...Captions dedicated to Spanish PM "All hands" Zapatero!
Thanks, Mr. Chimp, for inflation.
Thanks for your "views" on creation.
Thanks for Falseballs and Pat.
Thanks for the morons that
Fucked up the world's greatest nation.
Even Lime Rickey seems down today.
Taxes or quilting?
Taxes or quilting?
Taxes or quilting?
Aw, who am I kidding.
Hey the Spanish PM is kinda hot.
And Lime Rickey you rawk as usual.
Nothing like Lime Rickey on a chilly, rainy morning to make me smile. Thanks.
Did you hear that woman's voice on FOX say in a bored teenager voice, "Hello, hello, the Pope is dead, hello, is anyone listening?" She got cut off before she could say, "Well, duh?".
It was probably the only honest ten seconds of FOX news in the history of the network.
What mer & HoneyBearKelly sed.
Thanks for the A.M. lift, Lime Rickey.
Good morning all,
David Brooks really is a silly ass.
Amen to that - I still don't see how he, and for that matter all the msm, can dance around the fact that bushco is the reason we went to Iraq, not faulty intelligence. We all know it, and have known all along.
QL, you cracked me up. I have yet to start my taxes, and since I have to fill out a Schedule C, I'd rather clean my bathroom than pull out that mess of receipts. Also, the thought of what my taxes have been used for during the last four years makes me not want to pay them at all.
Is that allowed? Going to the outside?
Wait a minute, Brooks column has this little snippet...
"A new paper by a Yale undergraduate, Sulmaan Wasif Khan"...
WTF?
Is Davie grading fucking mid-terms or something?
Good morning. Just having come back from an inspirational Wolcott, I must ask the following questions. Is it just a coincidence that the first papal election in over 25 years will be held just months after the successful Iraqi election? Will the invasion of Iraq inspire brave Catholic cardinals from around the world to choose a new pope--even though such an election is a guaranteed death sentence for the winner?
Can the vast rightwing conspiracy that now controls the WH, the Congress and the corporate media be brought down?
Of course it can.
These greedheads and war criminals have benefited from their inscrupulousness and money so that they have smeared any and all rivals, while promising all things to all people.
50% of the American electorate are already on to the scumbags. It won't take much for another 1 or 2% to switch over and depraved morons like Bushboy & DeeeLay are making it easier all the time.
It's depressing that when I need a news headline from teevee my only choices are CNN or MSNBC.
The heinous repugs are trying to blame the appropriately tagged "Curveball" on Clinton. But we already knew they're shameless.
Hello? So going to the outside is okay? 'Cause, if it is, I'm going too. It's 6.30, the birds are yelling, it's already 63F and the orangeblossoms are blossoming.
Off to climb Piestewa Peak now - outside!
DWD--good morning and no idea what you're referring to. And my time in the North was a balance of six month of hell and six months of heaven. (While in Tennessee heaven lasts for about nine months). But I do agree ever so much with this sentiment:
For the storms of winter bring the comfort of the hearth and the security of slowing down to watch the world.
Very beautifully said.
I send emails regularly to all the major broadcast TV networks, including cable (except for FAUX NEWS, which would be futile).
I bitch about their lack of coverage of the Iraq war or of Iraq war protestors.
I bitch about their failure to alert people to Bushboy's fiscal trainwreck which was set in motion with his irresponsible tax cuts for the rich.
I bitch about the fact that they give 24/7 coverage to a handfull of religious nuts at Terri Schiavo's former hospice, while neglecting the tens of thousands of anti-war protestors who showed up two weeks ago all over the USA.
I bitched at Ted Russert for his mindless endorsement of Bushboy's SS scam before he even knew any details.
Maybe if they got more emails like this they might "get it!"
Adonis,
Referred to the thread below. I had posted an essay and Gimlet was particularly snarky. I was merely answering his criticism. (The essay is located near the end of the thread. Modesty forbids me from reposting 
)
Felonius--
bushco is the reason we went to Iraq, not faulty intelligence. We all know it, and have known all along.
I have said all along, that there are only two options with regard to the Iraq intelligence. Either I am a better intelligence analyst than the entire CIA, or the White House manipulated the intelligence process for their own political goals. There *is* no other option.
WTF are the networks thinking? This pope deathwatch is so fucking boring!!!! Usually I get up early, check the news on my computer and the cable news networks. Every single one INCLUDING cspan has all pope all the time coverage . Geez why not wait til he is dead. They have got to be losing viewers. What is the percentage of catholics in the U.S. anyway? I know that I don't care about the pope, no one I know gives a rat's ass about him. My husband was raised Catholic and he couldn't care less.
5 American soldiers have died in Iraq in the past few days, never mind untold Iraqis. Not a peep about them. What's all this obsession with the pope. It's ghoulish and boring and monotonous and I am so sick of it. So I have an old Michael Keaton movie on A&E as background noise.
DWD--I read it; very well written. There is something very compelling about a sense of place that inspires a body to consider that place an extension of his identity. That if you left, there is a part of you that would be left behind.
Morning.
Go out? Where? It's snowing with with 30 mph winds blowing in off the lake.
This endless winter is killing Independent Bob.
Adonis,
Thanks. Your compliment is truly appreciated.
Go out? Where?
i know, but i'm not telling
Adonais, right, and it's infuriating that the msm glibly goes along with this fiction. I'm tired of continually sending emails to these pricks as they ignore reality. But, I did like seeing those antiwar protesters outside the Michael Jackson circus yesterday. We have to be more creative in order to raise the veil of illusion being perpetuated.
This pope deathwatch is so fucking boring!!!!
In every interview I heard yesterday with someone who might know the bored questioner kept eliciting the "he gets hit three times on the head with a silver hammer" answer. I must have heard the question asked twenty or thirty times. Every time. That shows how desperate they were to fill time.
As a Catholic I was offended by CNN showing a mass while having Wolf B. and other idiots droning on. Either don't use the mass as a back drop or shut up and let us hear what is being said.
Please join me in prayer for a better pope this time. Non-Catholics should feel free to join in. A bad one is bad for you too.
Out!
Out!
Out on an outing, out in the sun, out with the birdies, out to have fun....
There. I said it. And I'm not sorry.
{Exits, stage left, whistling.}
If you're watching CNN and can see behind the talking mannequins you can see why I'm not going anyfuckingwhere today. It's torrential rain NYC stylie.
Out, out damned Spot!
Will somebody please let the dog out?
Enjoy the buffet.
{Exits, stage left, whistling.}
GWPDA, Irate Scholar
=========================
Well go then, git gone and quit squawkin' about it.
upyernoz...where is this place you speak of?
C'mon, I beggin'...beggin!
Posted this one thread down, but that thread seems to have trailed off...
I hate reading comment threads with my shoes on. Hold on - (long pause while he removes shoes, fetches cup of coffee and lights a cigarette) okay, that's better.
I think the thrust here (topic of previous thread) is that people will vote against their own interests only until they can't ignore that they are anymore. When they have to choose between Cocoa Puffs for the kids or a second mortgage for a tank of gas for the Excursion, the light bulb starts to flicker.
I voted for Kerry, but face it, he's a policy wonk. A damn good one and a damn fine prosecutor to boot. A very smart guy, with whom I'd be hesitant to sit down at a poker table with. But, he was too "wonkish" for the great unwashed. They didn't see him as "leaderly". Even though he understood the ins and outs of DC and politics far better than W could in two lifetimes.
People voted for Bush instead, I think largely out of fear, yes, but also because Kerry hadn't figured out how to appear "Presidential". In other words, they voted against their best interests based on appearances. Nothing more.
Rain like crazy today upstate NY, too.
Bush just killed off NASA today. Pretty much. It is in my homepage.
Seems everything is turning to shit now, isn't it? Interesting that Bush did more damage to the CIA than a million anti CIA activists. Good thing they named Langely after daddy.
It's a warm, sunny day in Austin, Texas.
Too nice to be inside. I hope all of you
have a terrific weekend. And fuck bush.
Big black stripe: people voted for Bush because he bribed them. This is why we are now running deep in the red. Bush said, "we will all be millionaires if we never pay taxes!" and then took BLUE STATE tax money and Chinese/Japanese loans and spent it all on the red states.
Whooopee. Now the party is going to wind down and the red states will be left high and dry. There will be significant blowback because of this.
upyernoz...where is this place you speak of? -cleveland bob
it's not cleveland
GD MRNNG!
MPCH BSH!
FCK BSH!
FCK DST!
HV NC DY!
Please join me in prayer for a better pope this time. Non-Catholics should feel free to join in. A bad one is bad for you too
Yea, I vote for that Honduras bishop/cardinal.
I think he is leading the pack.
The Associated Press brings this excellent news from Baghdad:
Influential Sunni scholars encouraged Iraqis to join the country's security forces and protect the country, issuing an edict Friday that departed sharply from earlier warnings against participating in the fledgling police and army. . . .
Friday's edict, endorsed by a group of 64 Sunni clerics and scholars, instructed enlistees to refrain from helping foreign troops against their own countrymen.
But Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samarrai, a cleric in the influential Association of Muslim Scholars who read the edict during a sermon at a major Sunni mosque, said joining the Iraqi security forces was now necessary to prevent the country from falling into "the hands of those who have caused chaos, destruction and violated the sanctities."
If heeded, the announcement could strengthen Iraqi security forces, who are trying to take over the fight against the Sunni-led insurgency.
Don't forget, back in January the doomsayers were urging the postponement of Iraq's election for fear of Sunni nonparticipation leading to a civil war. Their streak of wrong predictions remains unbroken.
Wankers.
Mr. Chimp, take a look at the past.
Clintonesqe values were hard and fast.
But your demonic group
Allowed them to droop.
Your fucking upturns will never last.
people voted for Bush because he bribed them.
The wealthy supported shrub because they knew it would continue to pay dividends for them. Oli and Lena voted for the chimperor because they were frightened.
Sign It. eMail It. Today. Now.
http://johnkerry.com/petition/us...on/
usatoday.php
[Big Black Stripe] ,
Point well taken,
Don't forget however to take that Chimp recipe and fold in a heavy dose of good ol' Amurkan anti-intellectualism. Kerry appeared aloof and elitist to the masses. They no likey.
They want their Texas hold 'em card games on teevee. They dig fake cowboys too. No more smart lawyers and career politicians. It's all over but for the celebrity.
That's why the GOP will have a ticket consisting of Arnold and Arnold in 2012.
That'd be Tom Arnold and the Gropenfuhrer as his veep. TBDPTE!
The Best Damn Preznit Team Ever.
no name, we'll see how that sunni edict works out, i guess.
"Mornin', Ralph..."
"Mornin', Sam..."
Fuck the Busheviks...
Fuck the Pope...with an infected crucifix...
People are such fuckin' pigs... Nobody knows the depths of the dirt in which people will live--indeed, seem to actually ENJOY--than a landlord...A tenant to whom I was doing a large favor by merely renting the place left me with TWO doors--one interior, and the other the main exterior--virtually destroyed...there was an inch of crap on the carpet in the bedroom... they had apparently never cleaned the shower in over a year, or the toilet...jeezis' dripping condoms, it seems true: no good deed goes unpunished...still more paint needed, one door hung, the other pending...three folks have spent about 15 hours each rehabilitating the place so far, an we're not done yet...
also: don't place any trust on alcoholics which you cannot afford to lose...
just sayin...
.
and no name, "civil war" is not a prediction. it is a description of the current situation.
Please join me in prayer for a better pope this time. Non-Catholics should feel free to join in. A bad one is bad for you too
Not for me. hee. hee. hee.
Fuck Bush and the Whore of Babylon with a pitchfork!
As former secretary of state Colin L. Powell worked into
the night in a New York hotel room, on the eve of his
February 2003 presentation to the U.N. Security Council,
CIA officers sent urgent e-mails and cables describing
grave doubts about a key charge he was going to make.
Wow Elaine.
That's fucked up about NASA. Of course not a word about it anywhere on teevee.
Pope death watch is much to important to miss a second of. I'm a Catholic and I don't give a shit. I guess I'm the wrong kind of Catholic.
On the telephone that night, a senior intelligence officer
warned then-CIA Director George J. Tenet that he lacked
confidence in the principal source of the assertion that
Saddam Hussein's scientists were developing deadly
agents in mobile laboratories.
Don't forget, back in January the doomsayers were urging the postponement of Iraq's election for fear of Sunni nonparticipation leading to a civil war. Their streak of wrong predictions remains unbroken.
Back in January, I also predicted Pope would die. Not when, just that he would. So my streak of wrong predictions remains intact, too, i guess?
That was one among many examples -- cited over 692
pages in the report -- of fruitless dissent on the accuracy
of claims against Iraq. Up until the days before U.S. troops
entered Iraqi territory that March, the intelligence
community was inundated with evidence that undermined
virtually all charges it had made against Iraq, the report
said.
Bush just killed off NASA today. Pretty much. It is in my homepage.
Elaine, this is bringing a deep saddness to me. Here you have a man who is anti-science to the core killing off dreams left and right, and whose only concern is making the rich richer. These people have no vision at all, and they're taking us down the tubes with them. Every day it's becoming more and more like something out of Steven Baxter's "Titan".
With the billions we're spending on Iraq we could have energy independent from space. After that it would be a small step to get all the resources we could want.
But no. Let's get those discounted eggs from WalMart instead.
I have nothing left but intense revulsion for Bush.
Uh, "Clintonesque ..."
Dear Dr. Atta J. Turk (world renouned sykiatrist),
Can you get CNN to cover the NEWS instead of endless death watches? Thaaank Keeeew.
In scores of additional cases involving the country's
alleged nuclear and chemical programs and its
delivery systems, the commission described a kind of
echo chamber in which plausible hypotheses hardened
into firm assertions of fact, eventually becoming immune
to evidence.
My take on media coverage today.
Pope death watch is much to important to miss a second of. I'm a Catholic and I don't give a shit. I guess I'm the wrong kind of Catholic.
With Pope Watch 2005 in full swing, this media event has officially become a SNL skit. How long can someone linger with organ failure? I guess we'll find out whether we like it or not.
upyernoz,
Isn't the weather crappy in Philly today too?
Bush just killed off NASA today. Pretty much. It is in my homepage.
So I guess there ain't gonna be no trips to "Mars, bitches"?
OTOH, NASA has not been anything but an arm of the US military Space Command for the last 15 years or so, anyway...
just sayin...
Within weeks of the tubes' interception, the report said,
Energy Department experts told the CIA that they matched
precisely the materials and dimensions of an Italian-made
rocket called the Medusa, a standard NATO munition. They
also pointed out that Iraq was building copies of the Medusa
and declared a stockpile of identical tubes to U.N. inspectors
in 1996.
BULLSHIT THE DoE was Cheney's stovepipe and a major cause of INTEL oversetimates... they are trying to make it look like Cheney's DoE partisan hack appointments were the turth tellers and whistleblowers.
I have nothing left but intense revulsion for Bush.
Oh, I bet I could up your revultion level. What do we expect from an anti-science preznit-wit? That flamming ass thinks "the jury is still out" on the theory of evolution. *Sigh.*
"The CIA asked the Army's National Ground Intelligence Center
for an analysis of the tubes but withheld the information about
the Medusa and the 1996 discovery. The Army analysts said,
among other things, that no known rocket used that particular
aluminum alloy -- disregarding not only the Medusa but also
the U.S.-built Hydra rocket"
Ohhhh so the Army was at fault and not Executive appointments from the DoE? Cheney's appointments told the trrrroooooooooofffff!
Oh, yeah, and by the way
Fuck Daylight Savings Time, too...
Even the Energy Department did not hold fast to its analysis. (IMPEACHMENT TIME!)
Although it dissented on the tubes, it went along with the CIA
and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in concluding that
Iraq had resumed a nuclear weapons program, based on
arguments the commission called insubstantial and illogical.
One analyst told the commission, "DOE didn't want to come
out before the war and say [Iraq] wasn't reconstituting."
Elaine Supkis
Interesting take. Sure, bribes. If they saw something better in Kerry, though, the bribes wouldn't have worked. The fact that he (W) had to bribe them at all kinda points to who the better candidate was. The sub-text of my point was Kerry confused them with honesty and facts.
OTOH - I miss the occasional shuttle launches. I got to watch Apollo 11 on a fuzzy B&W tv while my aunt chugged on a gallon jug of homemade wine. Watched all the subsequent ones, too. Space exploration always fascinated me, and I spent a large part of my childhood awed and imagining all the what-ifs out there in the universe. It's sad that retiring the Space Shuttle will be another notch in that dickheads belt.
Quiz Of The Day:
Who was the last man on the moon?
Oh, I bet I could up your revultion level. What do we expect from an anti-science preznit-wit? That flamming ass thinks "the jury is still out" on the theory of evolution. *Sigh.*
Yeah, I know. I don't know why he feels this way, though: every time he looks in the mirror it should be clear as hell where he came from. Sure as hell not Jah's loins.
Even after Powell's now-famous presentation in the
chamber of the U.N. Security Council, the CIA tried to find
out more information about Curveball, whose stories had
been relayed to the Pentagon through German intelligence.
Five days after Powell's presentation, the CIA sent an e-mail
to a senior defense intelligence official seeking more
information about the defector
Boosh also stabbed Trent Lott in the back by recess appointments to fill a panel with his personal choices that plan to close 2 military bases in his State. Hahaha. Lott had been blocking Booshes appointees.
A tenant to whom I was doing a large favor by merely renting the place left me with TWO doors--one interior, and the other the main exterior--virtually destroyed...there was an inch of crap on the carpet in the bedroom... they had apparently never cleaned the shower in over a year, or the toilet...
I am so sorry - that is truly disgusting. When we were renters, we always treated the places well, since we had to live there and had some semblance of pride. We mowed the lawns, planted flowers, kept the place tidy, did our own repairs and maintenance and refrained from putting hot pots on the countertops and kicking in doors.
Still, our experience with landlords was the opposite - when we left, no matter how imaculate the condition (and believe me, we cleaned because we needed that deposit money), the landlord always charged us some bogus "cleaning fee" and claimed they had to paint and so forth - and more often than not, they'd just keep our entire deposit.
Hopefully, your next tenants will appreciate a decent landlord. It's tenants like that who give renters in general a bad rap.
Last night, I saw an ad for the Equality Forum (I hope I have the name right) coming up in Philadelphia on Fox News last night. I wonder if they actually approved that ad or if my local cable company put it on...
I'm going with the latter.
"The defense intelligence division chief who received the
CIA e-mail forwarded it to a subordinate in an e-mail
that was inadvertently copied back to the sender. In it, the
division chief expressed shock at the CIA's suggestion that
Curveball might be unreliable. The "CIA is up to their old
tricks" and did not "have a clue" about how the source had
been handled, the division chief wrote in excerpts quoted
in the commission's report"
The pope will be making an appearance
soon --dressed as Mrs. Schiavo
The pope death watch is bad enough but all the American men in dresses keep bringing up the her death.
The Catholic Church has done nothing to advance human rights --just themselves. It took until this pope for them to take responsibility for
thousands of years and millions of acts of anti semitism. And of course the on going repression of women. And we are treated to hours of crap
How hypocrital to have the Mayor of Looneyville, a cheap chicken hawk talking about the Pope's role in promoting freedom when the Pope was opposed to the Iraq war and denounced the US treatment of Iraqi prisoners.
Now the British fascists are trying to repoliticize abortion politics in Britain.
It's called 'Dog-whistle politics'...
Sending political messages to selected groups through signs that are meaningful only to the target group...
so, read the press and watch who barks...
Quiz Of The Day:
Who was the last man on the moon?
Gene Cernan
Bush just killed off NASA today. Pretty much. It is in my homepage.
- Elaine Supkis
If that news were real, both Spaceflight Now and Space.com would already have it as their lead story. It appears some folks were snookered by another April Fools prank 'news' plant.
(also, there's nothing on Slashdot, either - space policy news that big would have made their front page well before this morning)
Maybe, the media conglomerates could run a death pool / death watch channel a la CPAM. That way the death watches wouldn't interfere with their other FAUX news stories.
Fuck Bush and his li'l doggies too.
From Elaine Supkis' blog:
We just told the Europeans we are abandoning the Space Station after 2012 if not sooner. ARE WE INSANE? Guess who is going to buy this real estate at fire sale prices? Heh. The Chinese.
Frankly, to me, it seems everything Bush and his crew do is in service to the ChiComs. Remember him crawling on his belly apologizing when the Chinese seized that super-secret spy plane and tore it apart? Bought and paid for, pure and simple.
“Whoever threatens to assault...or murder, a United States judge...with intent to retaliate against such... judge...on account of the performance of official duties, shall be punished [by up to six years in prison]”
http://johnkerry.com/petition/us...on/
usatoday.php
14 years of tearing up pictures of the Ho of Babylon finally paid off.
Fight the power and fuck bush.
PopeDeath 05 is entirely gruesome. We do not need a play-by-play of the man's suffering.
Maybe non Catholics can't understand, but the Pope is a tremendously influential person in the world. And in the U.S. it's estimated there are 61,000,000 baptized Catholics. (That includes kids, of course.) It's the 3rd largest "Catholic" nation in the world.
Lots of people vote based on what the Pope says, like it or not. (That does not include me; I am a "sinful" Catholic who doesn't hold with the dogma; I don't believe they get to tell me what is spiritually true for me. They hate my kind.) The one hope I have is that a more progressive Pope may be elected. It's doubtful, but I hold out that one last matchstick-sized hope.
And my time in the North was a balance of six month of hell and six months of heaven. (While in Tennessee heaven lasts for about nine months)
BINGO!!! I've lived in NE MD for the last 14 years after having lived the first 35 years of my life in central and NE AR. I will vouch for the fact that the winter starts way too early here and holds on way too long.
Big Daddy Mars 04.02.05 - 9:40 am
Ding!-Ding!-Ding!-Ding!-Ding!-Ding!-Ding!-Ding!-
Ding!
ARE WE INSANE? Guess who is going to buy this real estate at fire sale prices? Heh. The Chinese.
No, Elaine, but there is no shortage of STUPID out there. And Chimp boy is the CEO, the Commander-in-Chief of stupid. Stupid Cum Laude.
Anent: Space
I used to know Jack Schmidt pretty well. He was not a particularly poetic man, but his descriptions of the moon and environs were just gripping....
You've only got 1hr 24m to bid on the Pope Paul II figurine on E-Bay
Royal Doulton, $280, 25 bids.
Hold on, just jumped. to $305.13 on bid number 26.
If the pope passes, you could double your money overnight.
Funny this North and South thing. Industrialized North, busy, busy, busy. Agricultural South, busy during the growing season, languid the rest of the time
Um, yeah...and here in Texas, we all ride horses to work and school, wear six guns and cowboy hats, and have oil derricks in our back yards.
where we cook "bar-b-q" and swat mosquitos. 'Cause Lorry knows, we ain't got no industry down here....
Enough with the stereotypes, huh?
Enough with the stereotypes, huh?
Rmj, Dynamic Swami
Rmj: greatly, apt, WU-tag...
Coffee run today...
Fuck Daylight Savings Time, too...
Fuck DST, three.
Are there any photos of the moon landing sites taken from earth observatories?
RMJ
You didn't mention the cowboy boots.
RMJ
You didn't mention the cowboy boots.
Gimlet
well, I do wear those everyday! 
WGG--you're a gentleman and a scholar, I don't care what they say about you!
Here in Southern MD it's gray but not raining yet. I've loved gray Saturdays since I was a kid. I guess it's the Saturday part.
Cleveland Bob, both sides of my family were anchored in your town, I was born in Berea and despite having grown up all over the country, Cleveland was always the mother ship, mainly Westlake and Lakewood.
Anyway I like your posts and especially your handle, it always conjures up my soul's homeplace.
Space, redux
The US space commandos won't walk away from a working space station. There's just no way they'll abandon the literal 'high ground.' They'll scuttle it, first...gay-ron-teed...
Pope Watch 2005:
The Pope is seriously dying.
-
The next DeathWatch on the FAUX cable news channels --- NASA?
Fuck Bush and DST.
Lakewood...Sharkbabe -- 9:54 am
Where in Lakewood?
I spent a decade of my youth there, first on Arthur Ave, then in Clifton Park. The family moved away in 1960, and I've been back only once in the interim, in about 1989/90?...I remember thinking how domesticated it all seemed...
.
Fuck DST, four, five and six.
My least favorite day of the year. Screws my internal time clock up until it goes away again in the fall.
The media FUCKING SUCKS more exponentially by the day. In the past two weeks TV news has unabashedly given itself over to being a full-time PR arm of the religiously insane.
And now a smooth segue to being the full-time PR arm of the Vatican.
From Elaine Supkis' blog:
We just told the Europeans we are abandoning the Space Station after 2012 if not sooner. ARE WE INSANE? Guess who is going to buy this real estate at fire sale prices? Heh. The Chinese.
2012 is the end date of the Core Complete plan for the ISS. That doesn't mean it's being 'abandoned'. What it does mean is that's the year, in the current timeline, for the complete buildout of the Core station modules by the U.S. via the Space Shuttle (which includes the Japanese Kibo and ESA Columbus science modules). The other international ISS partners have their own committments for additions, especially Russia - they're still committed to adding at least 4 more modules for their own 1/2 of the station (a power tower with another crane, an additional docking module, a storage module, and their own science module).
As for China, if they committed to add a node of their own, or science stations, with the agreement of all the other ISS partners, I think they'd probably be welcomed. I don't know if they'd be able to get up speed in time to commit to components before the final 2012 Core Complete and timeline schedule cutoffs, though.
The next DeathWatch on the FAUX cable news channels --- NASA?
Fuck Bush and DST.
A Real Republickan
More like Social Security.
CNN = Catholic News Network
A day late and dollar short.
The April 1, edition of Why-you-should-never-have-dogs-AND-cats -in-the-same-house Friday Cat Logging[sic]
You didn't mention the cowboy boots.
Gimlet
Rmj: well, I do wear those everyday!
The dudes and pilgrims do not get it, that a good pair of boots is the MOST comfortable footwear on the planet. I toted my 2" riding-heeled, cowshit-encrusted Nakonas all over the world when I was in the war, 40 years ago...
In the past two weeks TV news has unabashedly given itself over to being a full-time PR arm of the religiously insane.
Great line, SB. And too true. heh...heh...heh...
Knew I was going to piss off some people. Actually, as Librarian used to point out almost daily, the country really is pretty much purple.
I just finished my taxes and we are getting a refund which I would gladly donate back to the government if they would use it buy voting machines with a paper trail. Count me in the camp that firmly believes the election was stolen.
OTOH, NASA has not been anything but an arm of the US military Space Command for the last 15 years or so, anyway...
just sayin...
WoodyGsGuitar/Happy Desparado
True.
But watching rockets going into space was one of the thrills of my childhood.
Sharkbabe,
Thanks for the thoughts.
Cleveland is a funny place. I grew up in Shaker and we're in Lakewood now.
I had lived in many places since I had left school. Upon my return in '97, my dad who had travelled all over as a salesman, told my wife,(a native South Side Chicagoan), that the nicest folks he ever met were from here.
She claims that he's right. I dunno.
I will say that strangers will chat with you in an informal way here that I've never experienced anywhere else either stateside or abroad. It certainly makes elevator rides more palatable.
Anyway, have a nice gray Saturday.
That's why the GOP will have a ticket consisting of Arnold and Arnold in 2012.
That presupposes, of course, that ~7 years is enough time to amend the Constitution. Oh, wait. W'll have suspended and replaced the current one by then, so there won't be any need to amend it. Never mind.
Minor correction-
Robin was me. But I'm not Robin.
Robin is my spouse who commented on another blog using this computer.
Oops.
Count me in the camp that firmly believes the election was stolen.
QL in NY -- 10:05 am
Well OF COURSE it was stolen.
That was the only certain way to assure the re-installation of the Chimperor...
And there will NEVER be another trustworthy election of any national or regional consequence that will not also be subject to the same criminal practices...
We're SOOOOOOOOOO fucked...
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The Pope is seriously dying.
As a Catholic, I find this very funny. The TV coverage is what offends me.
Galldangit! DST is comin' again tomorrow mornin' and they's nuthin' we'unz can do 'bout it. And they's nobody really all het up 'bout either. Wake up, sheeple! They say that Amurica when down the drain when they kicked god outta the classroom. They don't know shit. Amurrica start circlin' the drain like a turd in a toilet bowl when they imposed DST on US. Y'all know who gave US DST, don'cha? That goddamn space hippie, Nixon. That's who. Well, what if I don't spring forward Sunday mornin'? What are they gonna do 'bout it? It'll be just like that movie, "They Live." You just try it and see.
Fuck Nixon, DST & Bush.
Elaine's NASA post at her blog is must reading.
Are there any photos of the moon landing sites taken from earth observatories?
Nope, they're too small to be resolved via Earth-based optics (other than the laser light (and occasionally reflected sunlight) from the reflector stations left there.
Supposedly the ESA's Smart One satellite (now orbiting the moon) will try and get some pictures of any landing sites it passes over when it gets to its final low level orbit later on this year. It should be able to resolve at least the LEM landing stages and maybe even some of the rover tracks.
Please join me in prayer for a better pope this time. Non-Catholics should feel free to join in. A bad one is bad for you too
Thanks for the reminder, Goshawk. My fear is that the next pope will be worse--just as rigid and not as humane.
Arnold isn't even going to be re elected governor
His poll numbers are dropping faster than then Jesse Ventura
The Pope is seriously dying.
As a Catholic, I find this very funny. The TV coverage is what offends me.
Goshawk
I'm a non-practicing Catholic quasi-agnostic, but I know what you mean. The news media are a bunch of hounds who feed on tragedy. Leave JP alone and let him die in peace.
DST??? *lol* Not observed here... and in Arizona and certain parts of Indiana.
Though it does make keeping track of time differences between here and the States a pain. Oh well... back to the end of Fist of Fury.
Re: Popesicles/cycles
The last pope worth more than a reeking pile of shit was John 23, who was murdered by Opus Dei...
thay'll canonize this fascist Polish fucker as fast as they can...
just sayin...
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Arnold isn't even going to be re elected governor
His poll numbers are dropping faster than then Jesse Ventura
Liars for Bush
Don't be too sure about that. There aren't many viable Dems to run against him. He's got a powerful war chest too that Austro-Fascist bastard.
Friday Cat Logging[sic]
Mmmmmmm, terds! Glaaaaa-aaaaaaa-aaaaa!
Pope Watch 2005:
The Pope is seriously dying.
Mr. Praline : I wish to make a complaint!
Owner : (hurriedly) Sorry, we're closin' for lunch...!
Mr. Praline : Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this pope, what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
Owner : Oh yes, the, ah, the Polish Bluenose... What's, ah... W-what's wrong with it?
Mr. Praline : I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it.
The last pope worth more than a reeking pile of shit was John 23, who was murdered by Opus Dei...
Pope John XXIII was an old man already, but what's your take on Pope John Paul I? Just wondering.
As a Catholic, I find this very funny. The TV coverage is what offends me.
Goshawk
I'd have no trouble with extensive media coverage of the Pope if they asked serious questions.
1.) Just how involved was the Catholic church in campaigning for Bush against Kerry?
2.) Were there any serious threats to deny pro-choice Catholic politicians communion?
3.) Why didn't the church campaign against pro-war politicians the way they campaigned against gay marriage?
4.) Has the church gotten more politican since JFK made his speech in Houston?
5.) What about tax exemptions for religious organizations? It's readily batted about that the Democrats lose because they "don't understand people of faith". But why is it never followed up on. If religion is this involved in politics. Why are the churches tax exempt.
But I'm going to have a long cold wait in hell if I expect this. Even MSNBC's token liberal Keith Olbermann is doing the mysty eyed hagiography on JPII.
The media FUCKING SUCKS more exponentially by the day. In the past two weeks TV news has unabashedly given itself over to being a full-time PR arm of the religiously insane.
I agree. The half-wits in TV-land that make the decisions about what to air farking bought the meme that religious folks *elected* Boosh and are to be taken seriously. Hahahahaha. Look at all the crap they are heaping on us as a result. Oy.
When will Prince Rainier croak to make it a blessed trinity?
Why do we need NASA, when we have a space station program funded by US intelligence agencies?
Instead of scientific cooperation
we can continue with our program of world domination.
Owner : No, no, 'e's ah... he's resting.
Mr. Praline : Look, matey, I know a dead pope when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Owner : No no, h-he's not dead, he's, he's restin'!
Mr. Praline : Restin'?
Owner : Y-yeah, restin.' Remarkable bird, the Polish Bluenose, isn't it, eh? Beautiful plumage!
Mr. Praline : The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead!
What about that braying jackass Falwell?
When will Prince Rainier croak to make it a blessed trinity?
Don't know about that, but I can give you Frank Perdue, the chicken billionaire from MD. He died yesterday.
SWR,
Word! If they want to go 24/7 with death bed pope stories, a little context is in order.
but what's your take on Pope John Paul I? Just wondering.
mim -- 10:17 am
J-P 1 was pope for exactly 33 days. He too was eliminated, probably because of his sympathy for the reforms begun by John 23, for whom he chose his moniker...i don't know that there's much else to say about him.
It's 34 and snowing HARD in scenic, Trendy Blue Ridge GA. This sucks, as my weeping cherry had just bloomed...
Owner : Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!
Mr. Praline : All right then, if he's resting, I'll wake him up!
(shouting at the pope)
'Ello, Popey! Mister Polly Pope! I've got a lovely wafer for you if you wake up, Mr. Polly Pope...
(owner hits the pope)
Owner : There, he moved!
SWR,
Word! If they want to go 24/7 with death bed pope stories, a little context is in order.
bigvic | Email | Homepage | 04.02.05 - 10:23 am | #
The fact that Olbermann changed from his usual snarky self into a guy on the verge of tears (guess he's Catholic or something) tells you something about the chances of it.
Asking serious questions about this Pope's politics and the politics of the church will be interpreted as:
1.) A lack of respect for the elderly
2.) A lack of respect for Catholics
3.) A lack of respect for Polish suffering under Hitler and Stalin
The dudes and pilgrims do not get it, that a good pair of boots is the MOST comfortable footwear on the planet. I toted my 2" riding-heeled, cowshit-encrusted Nakonas all over the world when I was in the war, 40 years ago...
You said a true thing.
I don't wear 'em to look like a cowboy. Put a stetson on me, I look like a librarian in cowboy drag. Can't get away with the belt buckle, either. Even my Texas Flag shirt looks a bit wrong on me.
But boots; best thing goin'. Look good with anything, blue jeans to tuxedo. Comfortable, too, especially when they're broken down and look like crap. I've spent the price of a new pair over and over re-soling old ones. worth every penny.
I'm sorry, were we discussing politics and popes?
OTOH, NASA has not been anything but an arm of the US military Space Command for the last 15 years or so, anyway...
What would cause you to think that? The DoD (via first the Air Force, now Space Command) parted ways with NASA after the Challenger explosion. DoD uses it's own Earth observing and monitoring satellites as well as their own communication and data relay sat's. NASA does contract with the Air Force for expendable launches (the Air Force owns the expendable launch facilities on both coasts), but Space Command doesn't have any need to use NASA anymore.
Mr. Bill,
Your Cherry tree will be fine. Just make sure really heavy snow is swept off the branches so they don't break.
Owner : Y-yeah, restin.' Remarkable bird, the Polish Bluenose, isn't it, eh? Beautiful plumage!
Mr. Praline : The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead!
Well done, Sir Foxbat. Beats hell out of anything on the FAUX snooze channels this morning.
Fuck Bush.
Well, what if I don't spring forward Sunday mornin'? What are they gonna do 'bout it? It'll be just like that movie, "They Live." You just try it and see.
Fuck Nixon, DST & Bush.
Ol' Man Miller - 10:09 am
Who knew the Amish had computers?
Elaine, I think you seriously got taken by that web site. it did look good until the very end....
When is the Pat Buchanan death watch
What are you pissing and moaning about NASA funding for? The Greys do space-time travel better.
When is the Pat Buchanan death watch
I'd settle for him (and his pal Bill Donahue) being recognized for the racist thugs they are.
Hell, I'd settle for even one mild condemnation by the Catholic church of Donahue for his over the top anti-semitic rants.
But I'm going to have a long wait.
"There are Jews in the world, There are buddhists,
There are Hindus and Mormons and then,
There are those that follow Mohammud, But I've never been one of them...
Yes, I'm a Roman Catholic,
And have been since the day I was born,
And the one thing they say about Catholics,
They'll take you as soon as you're warm...
You don't have to be a six-footer,
You don't have to have a great brain.
You don't have to have any clothes on,
You're a catholic the moment... Dad came...
Because...
Every sperm is sacred, Every sperm is great,
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.
Let the heathen spill theirs,
On the dusty ground.
God shall make them pay for Each sperm that can't be found
Every sperm is wanted, Every sperm is good.
Every sperm is needed,
In your neighborhood.
Hindu, Taoist, Mormon,
Spill theirs just anywhere.
But God loves those who treat their Semen with more care.
Every sperm is sacred, Every sperm is great,
If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.
Every sperm is wanted, Every sperm is good.
Every sperm is needed, In your neighborhood.
Every sperm is useful, Every sperm is fine.
God needs everybody's
Mine... and Mine.. and Mine.."
What about that braying jackass Falwell?
Oh, please. Let's not encourage them. Can you just imagine that after the pope kickes the dust they start banging on about the *great* Rev. Falwell? Aieee!
Every sperm is sacred, Every sperm is great
Yeah, that one just keeps on running through my brain, too...
But boots; best thing goin'. Look good with anything, blue jeans to tuxedo. Comfortable, too, especially when they're broken down and look like crap. I've spent the price of a new pair over and over re-soling old ones. worth every penny.
Rmj, Dynamic Swami - 10:27 am
Not to mention the spurs and kinky sex. Penny loafers are just soooo yesterday.
I was going to ask about the big belt buckle, but you beat me to it. What about the string tie?
Ok, theological question...
Why are all these thousands of people "praying for" JP2? Isn't he, by definition, pretty much the holiest dude on the planet? You'd think if anyone were to get a free pass through the pearly gates, do not pass go, do not stop in purgatory, it would be him...
So what gives...?
"Do you get a refund if you overpray?"
Good morning, Liberal Elitists.
I'm listening to a re-broadcast of the Al Franken show. G. Gordon Liddy is a guest. When Franken introduced him, the audience applauded. What the hell is wrong with Americans? This guy is a freaking criminal. Franken shouldn't be giving him a forum and the audience should be booing him.
"First you get down on your knees
Fiddle with your rosaries
Bow your head with great respect and
Genuflect, genuflect, genuflect
Do whatever steps you want if
You have cleared them with the Pontiff
Everybody say his own kyrie eleison
Doin' the Vatican Rag
Get in line in that processional
Step into that small confessional
There, the guy who's got religion'll
Tell you if your sin's original
If it is, try playin' it safer
Drink the wine and chew the wafer
Two, four, six, eight
Time to transubstantiate
So get down upon your knees
Fiddle with your rosaries
Bow your head with great respect and
Genuflect, genuflect, genuflect
Make a cross on your abdomen
When in Rome do like a Roman
Ave Maria, gee it's good to see ya
Gettin' ecstatic an' sorta dramatic an'
Doin' the Vatican Rag!"
The fact that Olbermann changed from his usual snarky self into a guy on the verge of tears (guess he's Catholic or something)...
Yeah, too bad we won't be seein' Dead Pope Puppet Theatre on Countdown next week.
Fuck Bush and the Whore of Babylon.
Have a nice day.
I'm just waiting for the Terri Schiavo John Paul II kitch porn to go on sale. You get your Terri cufflinks yet
What about the String tie?
You probably ought to ask Incog about that; and don't be surprised if you get a stern rebuke... 
These guys are not going to stop, from the NY Times
....
The Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, and representatives of Concerned Women for America, a conservative Christian lobbying group, said at a news conference in Washington that they would push for laws to restrict the removal of feeding tubes from severely brain-damaged people who had left no living will, as was the case with Ms. Schiavo.
Mr. Mahoney also said his group would ask lawmakers to challenge judges who rejected the Schindlers' court claims. "Impeachment of federal judges needs to be put on the table and needs to be discussed," he said.
Amazing disconnect between the actions of this pope and the behavior of Buchanan and other Catholic loons
To listen to Buchanan's lying drivel on the Pope is truly horrifying
CNN is now the Christian News Network but NBC is NothingButCatholics
Pope John Paul I was a socialist who died unexpectedly about a month after he was made pope and a fascist who had ties to the CIA took his place. You think?
Does the Pope shit in the woods?
is this proof there is a god: taking the pope days after schiavo to get the msm's attention off the fundy wingnuts and deprive them of their forum?
is this proof there is a god: taking the pope days after schiavo to get the msm's attention off the fundy wingnuts and deprive them of their forum?
It also takes attention away from Delay's connections to the fundi wingnuts and his threats against the judiaciary.
I like 24 hour PopeTV. It gives the people a little taste of the future when every single one of their 187 channels will be filled with boring religious drivel.
i wear cowboy boots all the time too. they are really comfortable. here on the east coast people think you are probably gay if you wear them, but the hell with them.
I'm listening to a re-broadcast of the Al Franken show. G. Gordon Liddy is a guest. When Franken introduced him, the audience applauded. What the hell is wrong with Americans? This guy is a freaking criminal. Franken shouldn't be giving him a forum and the audience should be booing him.
Res Ipsa Loquitor | Email | Homepage | 04.02.05 - 10:35 am |
With all due respect, RIL, lighten the fuck up. Liddy paid his debt to society. Although, I will say that it's too bad he's still suckin' air. Unfortunately, he probably won't have a lingering, painful death. Hell, it won't even be a blip on DeathWatchTV.
Fuck 'im and Bush.
Lovely rain here! April showers, May flowers. And April mud which Hank the Lab has liberally smeared over all my newly washed floors. Yelling does nothing.
I'm scared of the Popes. I'm not a Catholic but what they say affects the lives of many who are not, especially in Africa where the ridiculous condom policy has killed people.
Good Morning....
the pope is still hanging on? Fine, no TV this morning.
Elaine Supkis 9:12 am
Cleveland Bob 9:23 am
Both of you point out just how shallow and superficial we've become. We'd (They'd?) rather be on the "Winning Team" than "Do What's Right". The hard choices we had to make are only going to get harder.
Stolen elections aside, (and I do think there was chicanery in OH and FL that is difficult to ignore), there are problems we need to face that can't be fixed with "Being On The Winning Team". When those problems become too big to ignore, and actually start flattening people, that's when people will start demanding something be done. There is an approaching nexus, of deficits, oil prices and cost-of-living, that might start the ball rolling. But, pessimistically, it's gotta get a lot worse before it gets any better.
Enquiring Mind...
He may have paid his debt. Doesn't mean that people should applaud him.
As for a blip on DeathWatchTV, I wouldn't count on it. Faux will probably cover the death of this "Great American."
dog-walking
about an hour of which will immediately ensue...
thence to rehabilitating that apartment, again, today, for door-hanging and the rest of the painting...
laiter, gaiters,...
.
What are the 3 biggest lies of a Wyoming Cowboy?
1. I won this belt buckle.
2. The truck is paid for.
3. I was just trying to help the sheep over the fence.
As for a blip on DeathWatchTV, I wouldn't count on it. Faux will probably cover the death of this "Great American."
Johnny Cochran barely got a blip on the radar.
Wonder which media conglomerate is gonna snatch up that all Cat Licker channel, ETWN or whatever the fuck it is? It ain't on our cable system down here. I use to live in an area where it was on. Is that crazy Nun Angelica still on?
Fuck Bush.
P.S. Enquiring Mind ...
Liddy did not really pay his debt. His sentence was commuted, after all. So screw him.
Liddy did not really pay his debt. His sentence was commuted, after all. So screw him.
Liddy's a seriously disturbed guy. He used to brag about how he'd hold his hand over a candle to show how he can take pain.
When teenage girls do this it's called self-mutilation.
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Since this is an open thread…I have a quick RSS question. I use Shrook on my powerbook and for most websites I want to syndicate I just click on the RSS link and then copy the webaddy of the page the link takes me to and enter that into Shrook. No problems.
But when I click on Delong’s XML link, I get a download. I don’t have a clue what I’m supposed to do w/ it. What am I doing wrong?
Any help would be appreciated.
He used to brag about how he'd hold his hand over a candle to show how he can take pain.
A little trick he stole from T.E. Lawrence.
RIL, I dunno. We should forgive, but not forget. After all, Timothy Leary shared the same stage with the fascist fuck.
Fuck Bush.
Johnson & Johnson --10:50 am
Speaking of Gordon Liddy, there seems to be another waste of cum, bandwidth, and protoplasm at large today which should have been stifled a long time ago...like at birth...
And last but not least, form Nine, the number made (in)famous by Anita Morris, recently revived by Jane Krakowski in the new production:
A Call from the Vatican
(Carla) Guido...
I was lazing around my bedroom
When an idea occurred to me
I thought you might be wondering about,
Guido...
Who’s not wearing any clothes? I’m not!
My darling,
Who’s afraid to kiss your toes? I’m not!
Your mama dear is blowing into your ear,
So you’ll get it loud and clear,
I need you to squeeze me here ...
And here ...
And here ...
(Luisa) Is something wrong?
(Guido) What? Oh, I’m not sure. It’s about my film. It’s
from the Vatican. Go ahead, Monsignor.
(Carla) Cootchie, cootchie, cootchie coo.
I’ve got a plan for what I’m gonna do to you,
So hot you’re gonna steam, and scream,
And vibrate like a string I’m plucking –
Kiss your fevered little brow,
Pinch your cheeks till you say “Ow,”
And I can hardly wait to show you how, Guido
Who won’t care if you come to me tired and
overworked?
I won’t! Bambino,
Who knows a therapy to beat what you can get from
me?
I don’t!
But this will have to be enough for now, Guido,
Ciao.
I love you, Guido.
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A little trick he stole from T.E. Lawrence.
Res Ipsa Loquitor | Email | Homepage | 04.02.05 - 10:51 am | #
Who probably stole it from some Catholic saint or another.
So we're back at the Pope again.
Ever read the Tennyson poem St Simeon Stylites?
Then, that I might be more alone with thee,
Three years I lived upon a pillar, high
Six cubits, and three years on one of twelve;
And twice three years I crouched on one that rose
Twenty by measure; last of all, I grew
Twice ten long weary weary years to this,
That numbers forty cubits from the soil.
Johnson & Johnson 10:50 am
WTF??
Is Liddy still on the radio? Our local yokel right wing jive ass AM radio kicked 'im off about five years ago. So, I haven't heard 'im since.
FYI Name stolen at 10:19. Comments regarding NASA, Space Station etc. not by me.
The Real
James Wolcott:
Fox New did all of us a service by providing a sneak preview of how the Pope's death will be politically spun to further a Culture of Life campaign intended to peel off more Democrats to the Republican side. Liberals shouldn't be lulled into letting down their guard after the poll numbers disapproving of Bush's and the Congress's barging into the Schiavo case. They're going to capitalize on the Pope's death and plug it into the Culture of Life crusade intended to save Tom DeLay's tainted bacon.
So don't be surprised if President Bush breaks recent precedent and personally attends the Pope's funeral to pay his respects, of course, and shore up his poll numbers.
Enquiring Mind ...
I don't know if he's still on. Franken invites all these Repukes with whom he is supposedly "friends" on the show and gives them yet another outlet for their views. Liddy was just babbling about "judicial tyranny." To his credit, Franken promptly pointed out that Liddy was a crimina. So I guess that is a mitigating factor.
I once read something that said that Americans can forgive a "comeback kid" before they can forgive a loser. Hence the embrace of trash like Liddy and the elevation of his boss, Tricky Dick, to "elder statemen" before his death and the near-universal scorn for Jimmy Carter.
Res Ipsa Loquitor 10:58 am
Nobody remembers who was pitching when Hank Aaron hit #715.
Liberals shouldn't be lulled into letting down their guard after the poll numbers disapproving of Bush's and the Congress's barging into the Schiavo case. They're going to capitalize on the Pope's death and plug it into the Culture of Life crusade intended to save Tom DeLay's tainted bacon.
Unfortunately I think Bush and the Republicans may have dodged the bullet after miscalculating on the Terri Schiavo issue.
Delay will still be in trouble but Terri Schiavo was only the warmup act for the Pope. And he's going to get full Reagan treatment for the next few weeks.
EMD - I don't doubt that Furious George will want to attend the Pope's funeral even after telling the Pope off over a pre=emptive war that's murdered 10s or 100s of thousands of people.
It's also important to note that they haven't rushed the Pope back to the hospital, because he asked to not go through the misery of artificial life. The important part of "culture of life" that the Busheviks are missing out of this is the "dignity in death" which the Democrats are for
and the Busheviks hate and sneer and despise dignity at every turn... (which explains Faux News )
Well, RMJ, as much as I respect you, and as much as I agree with the falacy of sweeping generalizations, I gotta say, I'm not a big fan of Texas.
My sister-in-law is a brilliant and accomplished women who just happens to be a professor at the U of T in Austin. She is, however, clueless about everything on a national political level, and pretty much everything outside her rat laboratory. She is alwys the last person to catch on to the subject of any conversation our family, when we get together at our annual Christmas homage to my dead mother, is engaged in.
And, about 10 years ago, when our family Christmas was in Austin, we were treated to a New Years Eve entertainment at the renowned Barton Creek "country club" that included a black face skit. When I privatly raised my eyebrows regarding the skit, my African-American wife (who happens to be a psychiatrist, consequently somewhat intelligent and accomplished) responsed: well consider the source.
So, while you all might not be ignorant hicks in cowboy boots, some of you aren't particularlly evolved individuals.
That, of course, can be said of any group or location or metropolitan area. All PCness aside, however, certain areas of the country are not parochial enough to assume black face is just a fun and games type of entertainment.
I'm surprised that MTV didn't jump on the Schiavo bandwagon - they could've aired an all new season of "Unplugged."
Hi--I've just listened to an album I've owned for years, "Painted from Memory," the collaboration of Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello.
It's a beautiful album, but my only criticism is it's too good for me. I don't have perfect pitch, nor am I a professional songwriter or arranger. It strikes me upon listening that only a true in-the-know pro would get all the things Burt and Elvis are up to.
I'm in a similar position with Arnold Schoenberg; his atonal "Pierrot Lunaire" is my favorite classical piece, lively and nutty, but once he went 12-tone, which requires perfect pitch to appreciate, he lost me.
Any Atriots wishing to respond on pop or 12-tone would be welcome
And he's going to get full Reagan treatment for the next few weeks.
No kidding. Last night, someone was attributing the fall of the Soviet Union to the Pope. Just last summer, it was all St. Ronnie's doing. I guess they count on us not remembering the last lie.
Mulva that is SICK! Me likey
Wait a minute, Brooks column has this little snippet...
"A new paper by a Yale undergraduate, Sulmaan Wasif Khan"...
Soon to be a right-wing icon and author of "Allah and Man at Yale". . . .
Draw an arbitrary line between El Paso and New Orleans, give everything south of it back to Mexico and rename the rest "Tex-sux". As a friend once said, Tex-sux would be a great place to raise dinosaurs, 'cause there's not much out there, with a whole lotta nothing in between.
What -- the Pope is nearing death and we the media is not covering the "injustice" of letting the holy pomptiff die? Where's a juggler when you need him (I understand, its a "God" thing...
Why aren't Delay, chimpy and jeb proclaiming we need to stick feeding tubes and use extraordinary means to save the Pope? Do they need to wait until his brain is more fully atrophic? Shouldn't someone be suing? Where are the mobs of people protesting? Why isn't congress taking action"? WHERE SHOULD I BE SENDING MONEY?!?!?!?!?!?!
WoodyGsGuitar/Happy Desparado it seems as tho you have been reading the right books. I agree with you.
Don't forget about this over the next week.
What -- the Pope is nearing death and we the media is not covering the "injustice" of letting the holy pomptiff die? Where's a juggler when you need him (I understand, its a "God" thing...
Why aren't Delay, chimpy and jeb proclaiming we need to stick feeding tubes and use extraordinary means to save the Pope? Do they need to wait until his brain is more fully atrophic? Shouldn't someone be suing? Where are the mobs of people protesting? Why isn't congress taking action"? WHERE SHOULD I BE SENDING MONEY?!?!?!?!?!?!
The way this seems so forced tells me in my gut that the Republicans dodged the Terri Schiavo bullet.
The image of Randall Terry serenading convicted pedophiles and white supremicists and of Tom Delay threatening federal judges is going to recede into our collective memory with the coming Popapalooza.
He used to brag about how he'd hold his hand over a candle to show how he can take pain.
That's nothing, what about Liddy eating a rat to prove how tough he was?
It's cold and wet in Manhattan.
And I have to go out.
Cue chorus of Eschatonians: boo-
fucking-hoo!!!!
So, while you all might not be ignorant hicks in cowboy boots, some of you aren't particularlly evolved individuals.
Nice stereotyping. I love it when folks visit an area once or twice for a short time and think they hae the complete take on the place.
Sad.
portia- ????
sorry, I couldn't post it. I'll try again later.
Nice stereotyping. I love it when folks visit an area once or twice for a short time and think they hae the complete take on the place.
Texas is a fucking cancereous boil on the American political ass.
I could meet nice, polite, intelligent Texans from now until doomsday but it wouldn't change the fact that the state is simply bad for America.
"Keep Pope Alive, Keep Pope Alive"
-- Jesse Jackson
Any Atriots wishing to respond on pop or 12-tone would be welcome
Draco | Email | Homepage | 04.02.05 - 11:09 am | #
don't know anything about that, but after years of led zeppelin being played to death on the radio, and after a forced 5 year hiatus of absolutely no led zeppelin, i am finally able to listen to a few songs again. stuff that wasn't generally played on the radio, like "presence"
not stairway to heaven or whole lotta love, though. not for a very long time.
Hello, I must be going!
Res Ipsa Loquitor
In about 1980, I was part of a small group of local reporters who interviewed Liddy when he came to Knoxville, TN to give a speech. He's the freakiest, scariest guy I've ever met. He was so tightly wound and intense, you could've expected him to explode at any moment. As a hypothetical in response to somebody's question, he talked about when it would be all right to kill me -- I think he picked me because I had the long hair and a beard. I've still got the audio tape I made around here somewhere.
The US military is planning to win the hearts of young people in the Middle East by publishing a new comic.
An advertisement on the US government's Federal Business Opportunities website is inviting applications for someone to develop an "original comic book series".
"In order to achieve long-term peace and stability in the Middle East, the youth need to be reached," the ad says.
"A series of comic books provides the opportunity for youth to learn lessons, develop role models and improve their education."
The comic is to be a collaborative effort with the US Army, which says it has already done initial character and plot development.
From the BBC
Yeah, that'll work.
portia- ????
her eyes spunky misund. genius | Email | Homepage | 04.02.05 - 11:17 am
Oh. I tried to link an article in from the guardian "Bush gets tongue lashing from the Pope". I'll try to lin k it again. It's something that the MSM will not mention over the next few weeks.
There is an approaching nexus, of deficits, oil prices and cost-of-living, that might start the ball rolling. But, pessimistically, it's gotta get a lot worse before it gets any better.
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You are correct, sir.
I predict street riots. Summers of '07 and '08 to be precise.
Sporadic outburts in the NE, Miami and up and down I-5 in the west.
Think of today as being approximately 1964 and we're right on track to repeat history.
I think the new "Unplugged" would've been a big hit - Terri probably would've gotten a record deal and her own edible underwear line. The kids love shows about vegetables who can't do anything for themselves - witness the popularity of Asslee, Jessica and Kelly "Hillbilly Heroin" Osbourne.
Nice stereotyping.
I can drive by a landfill and know it's a place I should avoid.
Nobody remembers who was pitching when Hank Aaron hit #715.
[Big Black Stripe]
Umm.. that would be Al Downing. Lifelong Dodgers fan here.
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The image of Randall Terry serenading convicted pedophiles and white supremicists and of Tom Delay threatening federal judges is going to recede into our collective memory with the coming Popapalooza.
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Ayup.
This story in The Independent UK has more explanation on the process of selecting a new Pope and lists 4 possibilities for the new Pope.
I'm curious if anyone has comments on these 4, if you've more info on the Church hierarchy. Salesian or Liberation Theology or traditionalist?
portia says:
I tried to link an article in from the guardian "Bush gets tongue lashing from the Pope"
yes, i'd be interested in reading that. thanks.
especially since bush will somehow turn the popes death into his own gain, so he comes up smelling like a rose to the blind faith followers.
have to wipe out the events of the past couple of weeks re: terry schiavo.
"DWD--I read it; very well written. There is something very compelling about a sense of place that inspires a body to consider that place an extension of his identity. That if you left, there is a part of you that would be left behind."
Adonais
I couldn't have said it better!
For me that place is the North Cascades,around Mt. Baker.Heliotrope
or Rainbow Ridge! See ya there...
You know that spiral 1200 year-old minaret in Samarra that insurgents bombed yesterday--US Marine snipers had been lodged in it.
A DoD without understanding, without respect, without humanity, without education and let's see, what else?...oh yes, sold out to Israel.
I wonder how much archaeological treasure the Poles have grabbed for themselves at their camp on top of the ruins of Babylon?
As a friend once said, Tex-sux would be a great place to raise dinosaurs, 'cause there's not much out there, with a whole lotta nothing in between.
There's a whole lot of nothing in far west Texas, but I think you'd find that for the rest of the state that is largely not true. There's not as much empty land here as there is in other southwestern and western states. The exception is the Big Bend and some other areas in west Texas. But if you have never been here, you probably have a very wrong idea about what it's actually like.
Here's the story on Furious George trying to ride the Pope's coattails to pull him out of the muck of the Schiavo fiasco.
Texas is a fucking cancereous boil on the American political ass.
The conversation was not about politics. It was about sweeping generalizations applied to the inhabitants of certain areas of the country.
[Liddy] was so tightly wound and intense, you could've expected him to explode at any moment
You don't think he regularly uses amphetamines, do you?
Nice stereotyping. I love it when folks visit an area once or twice for a short time and think they hae the complete take on the place.
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I spent six weeks in Pasadena, outside Houston in 1970. Worked as a waitress in some god forsaken diner. Was the first time I heard the "n" word in my life. I was shocked. Some cowboy in full reglia left me a quarter tip. The other waitress said something along the lines of "he must like you honey cause he never left me more that $.15." Do I know the town. Nope. Do I want to learn more. Nope. I'm sure a lot of people feel that way about NYC too.
Fux News: "Pope condemns Chimpführer:
'He's an asshole!'"
Your message is welcome, indeed.
This is just what we libruls need.
Your words will live on
Long after you're gone.
Even atheists wish you godspeed.
A link to something I had posted about in here the other day.
say what you will about this pope, he was loudly outspoken on two topics: 1) the war in Iraq; 2) the death penalty. For Bush and Fox News to try to hold the pope out as their kind of conservative is disgusting. See Wolcott on Fox and the pope - he's great, as always.
Tom-I don't know much about the contenders for Pope, but the Church is growing fastest in countries of the southern hemisphere, so it makes sense they would pick someone from South America or Africa.
Or they may just decide that 2 Popes in a row from outside Italy is to radical, and go with the favorite.
from Tom-Dai Tou Laam's link:
Bush normally tapes his radio address on Friday for its broadcast Saturday morning. He rarely delivers them live.
is this what most presidents do, or does the chimp do this because he is a moron and butchers the english language, and has to have his words fed to him?
Ba'al presents to you a letters to a newspaper in a big city in Texas.
Society deserves better
I was outraged to read the March 29 Chronicle article "Reviews give hope to Mexicans on death row," about the review being given to the cases of death row inmate Jose Medellin in Houston and 50 other Mexican nationals who are on American death rows.
If these criminals have been convicted for committing a heinous capital offense, they should be tortured and put to death as cruelly as they killed their victims.
To me, that is "true justice."
The disgusting possibility of giving these lowlifes a lighter sentence sends a terrible message to the criminal mind and a very upsetting one to society.
We deserve better.
C.A. HAAS
Houston
The conversation was not about politics. It was about sweeping generalizations applied to the inhabitants of certain areas of the country.
Billy B | Email | Homepage | 04.02.05 - 11:32 am | #
I was brought up in suburban New Jersey. I grew up with stereotypes about where I lived.
But for some reason, it never led me to the kind of right-wing, populist resentment that it seems to lead to in the South.
Honestly. Get over yourself. Southerners honestly deserve more shit than they actually get for the way they've fucked up American politics since the Civil Rights Act.
Arnold isn't even going to be re elected governor
His poll numbers are dropping faster than then Jesse Ventura
Liars for Bush |
WHy do think he is ousting the AG and redistricting vote precints?
I'm curious if anyone has comments on these 4, if you've more info on the Church hierarchy. Salesian or Liberation Theology or traditionalist?
Tom - Daai Tou Laam
Tom,
I'm no expert on Vatican matters, but it seems to me that the Cardinals will have an opportunity to decide whether they want an Italian Church, a European Church, a white Church, or a world Church.
At this point in history, I don't know that it will matter much.
Elaine Supkis,
Sorry for the log-winded post, but this is a pet issue for me...
RE:Bush just killed off NASA today...
Well, my first response to this was "Excellent! That will never be upheld by Congress, and it will erode his popularity even more!"
...but then I read through your whole homepage and got the gist of what is happening, which is that they're trying to retire the Space Shuttle.
However, my response to that news is also "excellent!", for a different reason....
Look, the bottom line is that the space shuttle is a dangerous, hyper-expensive, and only marginally useful boondoggle. The original design was for a fully reusable, single-stage-to-orbit vehicle that would have a large cargo capacity and save money relative to expendable launch vehicles. The actual space shuttle does neither. Basically, all that it really does effectively is to look cool, oh, and to kill the people who get on it. Until the shuttle disasters, no humans had died in space launches, and only three in the whole program. That total now stands at 17, thanks to the insanely complex design of the shuttle.
As to the shuttle's failure to do what it was supposed to do, First the reusability issue.... Fairly early in the process, the designers figured out that with current propulsion technology, such a vehicle is just flat-out impossible. You simply can't design a vehicle with enough thrust-to-mass ratio to orbit the whole thing and then bring the whole thing back to the ground. Not with a meaningful payload attached to it, anyway. So the designars had to start dropping pieces off during the boost phase in order to make a craft that actually had some payload capacity. Splish. Splash. The solid rocket boosters, while technically recoverable, are hardly a great deal, since going and fishing them out in a ship, bringing them back, and refitting them costs more than it would to build a new solid fuel booster from scratch. And the external tank, well, that's a complete writeoff. So basically what you have in the shuttle is a thinly disguised expendable launch vehicle with a very elaborate space capsule attached to it that you can (with the grace of God) land like an airplane.
The second issue is cargo capacity. The problem with the shuttle there is that between providing life support fo seven astronauts and the wings and all the other incredibly complex technology required to create a landable space capsule, you've made yourself a pretty heavy proposition without any cargo at all.In fact, the 176,000 empty, unprovisioned weight of the orbiter, at 175,000 pounds, is 3.5 times its cargo capacity. Does it really make sense schlepping that enormous 88-ton crew-landing unit into space every time you need to orbit 25 tons of cargo? Of course not! By contrast, the Apollo Command Module weighed in at only six tons, as did the service module, which packed plenty of thrust for orbital meneuvering and enough oxygen for quite some time in space. So with the same thrust on an ELV, you could have a 12 ton crew unit and a 101-ton payload. Doesn't that make more sense?
So does the capacity to land your crew vehicle get you anything? Well, it gets you one important thing, and that is that the shuttle cargo bay provides a reusable platform for very expensive stuff like the robot arm, which is just not an expendable item. But the thing is, now we have the ISS for that. So maybe the shuttle did provide some limited utility while the ISS was being built, but now that that has been dome it is a WORSE THAN USELESS piece of technology. Why worse than useless? because it is DANGEROUS and because it burns HUGE AMOUNTS of precious space funding that could be put to much better use.
What the space program needs right now is a really economical, reliable way to get lots of stuff and a few people on orbit. Right now, Soyuz is the best, most reliable solution in existence, despite its old technology. I have no doubt that with all our know-how and resources, we could built a substantially better solution than that, perhaps even with a meaningful RLV componenet, but let's face it, the STS AIN'T IT.
And before I go, I must say that for an Astronomer, your dad seems to have an inordinate fondness for manned spaceflight. Myself, having been very interested in astronomy since I learned how to read, I always think of allthe robotic exploration you could do for the price of one manned mission and sigh. I mean, with the amount of funds required for any conceivable manned mission to Mars, which would be extremely dangerous and provide only marginal scientific benefit, you could build a truly magnificent array of orbital telescopes, that could theoretically be combined to make an optical interferometer with a resolution equivalent to a telescope of an aperture of 50,000 miles! Now THAT would be something exciting. You could read a newspaper over someone's shoulder on Mars from Earth orbit, if that's what you wanted to do. In fact, with such a device, we could learn in a few years more about the universe we live in than we have with all of the ground observations, manned, and unmanned space exploration we have done to date.
Doesn't that make just a little more sense than continuing to fly the STS and then launching a crazy program to send people to Mars?
Ta ta...
Bill Hemmer in the Christian News Network the popes "earthen" journey
is that when he went around as a pot
...That's nothing, what about Liddy eating a rat to prove how tough he was?
bebe?
I wonder how much archaeological treasure the Poles have grabbed for themselves at their camp on top of the ruins of Babylon?
Nur al-Cubicle
After going through Angkor Wat and listening to our guide talk about the looting that happens there, the story about Babylon was just unforgiveable.
When you show no respect for other people's items (like archaelogical digs and major cultural relics), it demonstrates that you don't deserve the respect from respectable society.
Speaking of the misery of living in the cold wet Noath this time of year, but did anyone hear the story about the tragic decline of the Maple Syrup Industry on "All THngs Considered" yesterday. My wife found the sound file on the NPR site and played if for me this morning. [OF course, you know what date it was yesterday. Hate to promote anything on Nice Republican Radio, but it was hee-fucking-larious. The voices of the 'New Hampshirites' is worth it]:
http://www.npr.org/templates/
sto...storyId=4571982
Flood Warning until 10 PM here in the district. Not going anywhere I don't need to.
Daylight Savings time tonight.
Ummm, is the Pope dead yet?
I wonder how much archaeological treasure the Poles have grabbed for themselves at their camp on top of the ruins of Babylon?
Nur al-Cubicle
Yeah it's not like there are crime networks in Eastern Europe or anything or that a group of low paid soldiers from a relatively poor country will be tempted to lift a few trinkets.
That just won't happen.
Ba'al - Houston certainly has gotten reactionary. It's not quite so reactionary up here - or at least the Dallas paper doesn't print letters like that. There's been a lot of bitching about illegal immigration, but nothing that extreme.
When the Pope dies, is there some way we can blame it on the "culture of death" or Michael Schaivo or liberals or sumthin?
You don't think he regularly uses amphetamines, do you?
-- Nur al-Cubicle
No, I just think Liddy's a bat-shit insane sociopath.
When the Pope dies, is there some way we can blame it on the "culture of death" or Michael Schaivo or liberals or sumthin?
S. Hannity | Email | Homepage | 04.02.05 - 11:42 am | #
Watch for Pat Buchanan whining about those nasty liberal Jews in Hollywood who cheated The Passion of the Christ out of it's rightful place as Best Picture.
Again and Again and Again and Again.
Houston certainly has gotten reactionary.
It _got_ reactionary? The place was crawling with Birchers and fundies when I lived there 20 years ago! Sheesh, what's like _now_?
Morning, Moonbats! Raining like crazy here this morning.
...........Re: Suffering........
As the Death Cult of the Nazarene gathers to mourn the passing on one totalitarian leader and his replacement with another, i wonder if all the emphasis placed on the 'suffering' of the currently demising theocratic dictator isn't going to buttress the argument FOR torturing prisoners.
But first, i wanna see the Pope on a water board...
just a'sayin...
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The way this seems so forced tells me in my gut that the Republicans dodged the Terri Schiavo bullet.
Have you read this?
DeLay wants panel to review role of courts
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7351884/
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), under fire from Democrats for what they consider threatening remarks about federal judges, plans to ask the Judiciary Committee to undertake a broad review of the courts' handing of the Terri Schiavo case, his office said yesterday.
Ba'al - interesting, to me anyway, is that we just tried the first undercover police officer to be charged in the fake cocaine scandal here that resulted in a number of innocent immigrants being deported.
We convicted the son of a bitch. I think we'll likely convict all of the cops who were involved.
Pope Poopy Pants.
her eyes--
Thanks for replying to me. Even though I was born in 61, it wasn't until the late '80s that I learned to like Zep.
Why did it take so long? I didn't like their transparent macho posturing, nor their swiping blues riffs. Eventually I noticed they improved the blues riffs they'd stolen.
Morning, Moonbats! Raining like crazy here this morning.
Hecate. Modern Pict
and here too, we have a flood watch for the connecticut river valley.
but i have a crocus or two in the yard now.
Have you ever heard one of the president's weekly radio addresses? He sounds like a third grader reading his book report. He's awful.
Sometimes, I try to listen to them, just to make sure I'm not crazy. Every time I come away convinced -- I'M NOT CRAZY!!!!
SWR - I get a tad weary of people on the left embracing Pat Buchanan because he has criticized Bush and he's against the war. People seem to forget that Buchanan is not a friend to the left at all.
He's a racist, among other things.
Since I started the whole stereotyping conversation -
There are idiots everywhere. But what I find particularly gauling is that the taker states, mainly red and in the South, seem to feel that while they are taking my dime, they also have the right to tell me how to live my life. When and who to bed. When to have children. Whether I should work. How to raise my children. Even how I should die. Sorry for you enlightened red staters, but I don't make the rules.
The role of the judiciary
It is becoming apparant that there are two sides of the judiciary debate. Those that understand the role of the judiciary and do not intend to change it's constitutional role but realize that the controversy will fade once those who think there is a controversy are placated by different or new judges deciding in their favor.
And second. Those who truly do not understand the role of the judiciary and actually think it is a threat to democracy when it overrides the will of the legislature.
Those who would preserve the judicial system as it currently stands need to not drop back and allow the hard core necons to frame the issue and let everyone be bombarded with images and stories of judges flaunting the law, or acting like liberals when they are instead really moderates or conservatives merely doing what they were supposed to do by law.
A framework needs to be made showing that these very same judges have in the past decided against liberal and moderate demcoratic causes and yet libs, mods, and dems' did nothing more than voice their disappointment, not rail on about a crisis for which the many radio listening nutcases will think they have a mandate from god to start killing every judge in sight.
Democrats need to ensure that people begin looking upon these types as mere sore losers. People who can't stand to lose, but more importantly, think that the only way they can lose is when evil or liberals rig or corrupt the system against them. Radical religious extremism needs to be highlighted showing how the christian extremists now controling the republican party are no less fanatical than muslim terrorists in Iraq who kill moderate and liberal public officials because they are moderate or liberals and not like them.
MYOB'
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WHy do think he is ousting the AG and
Can the governor do that? I thought Lockyer was elected?
Draco-what is twelve tone?
There's not as much empty land here as there is in other southwestern and western states.
As gigantic as that...whatever-disparaging-metaphor-you-care-to-
use is, I find that just a little THAT side of believable. We'll just leave that aside.
I've been there numerous times, each one of them unpleasant at best. Each one, for different reasons. Asshole redneck deputies/police officers, plain-ole asshole rednecks a la QL in NY @ 11:32 am, shit-hole towns that smelt like a dung heap, shitty, oppressive weather, plus the fact that it takes at least 2 days to get across it.
Like I said, I can drive by a landfill and know it's a place I should avoid.
I'm no expert on Vatican matters, but it seems to me that the Cardinals will have an opportunity to decide whether they want an Italian Church, a European Church, a white Church, or a world Church.
At this point in history, I don't know that it will matter much.
Diane
Trust me, it would make a huge difference. There are portions of the Catholic Church which bear little resemblance to the Church in the U.S. And having moved from Boston and former Cardinal Law and his handling of the abuse cases, I can say that Bishop Zen is a breath of fresh pleasant air. (of course Zen's predecessor was a Cardinal and politics in Rome will keep Zen just a Bishop if the traditionalists keep their hands on the wheel.)
I'll give it another try.
link to the guardian article about Bush - June 5, 2004.
Nur al-Cubicle - well, I'm sorry if I mischaracterized Houston - I've never lived there. I never realized that it was so thoroughly extremist rightwing, I always thought that Dallas was the headquarters for that shit here.
I know the John Birch Society was huge here at one time. I guess I haven't paid that much attention to Houston.
News coverage of the pope reminds me of Chevy Chase's newscaster on the old S.N.L.
Dateline:8:45 Pac.time---This just in-Cnn has just learned--thePope is still almost dead.
Rocky Mountain Meteorology
Sunny, warm (about 45 @ 9am; 65 by this afternoon), breezy (NOT 'windy' yet), bright sun shining on snow in the Sandias; hawthornes and chinese elms budding like mad--along the ditch, it's like walking in a chartreuse cloud--the cautious cottonwoods a little behind 'em...
And the top comes off the MG today for the rest of the spring/summer...wahoo!
Wait a minute, Brooks column has this little snippet...
"A new paper by a Yale undergraduate, Sulmaan Wasif Khan"...
Soon to be a right-wing icon and author of "Allah and Man at Yale". . . .
Petronius |
HAHAHA She is a plaiguirist! I was backtracking the wapo author trail for the latest Boosh apologist(former rumor incducing enablers) and that Yale hack was praising them as balanced thorough critics.
Well of course- their latest piece blames the CIA instead of the Dep't of Energy and Cheney for the INTEL stovepipes. So of course they are healthy skeptics...
"The defense intelligence division chief who received the
CIA e-mail forwarded it to a subordinate in an e-mail
that was inadvertently copied back to the sender. In it, the
division chief expressed shock at the CIA's suggestion that
Curveball might be unreliable. The "CIA is up to their old
tricks" and did not "have a clue" about how the source had
been handled, the division chief wrote in excerpts quoted
in the commission's report.
Only in March 2004, one year after the invasion of Iraq,
did the CIA confront Curveball over his prewar claims."
"Despite the apparent failures in reportage, not all journalists covered the WMD arc of stories poorly. Reporters Barton Gellman...of the Washington Post... ...and Dafna Linzer of the Associated Press were prominent exceptions to the general pattern of WMD reportage."
We can't forget about the almost certain voter fraud. If we don't change that, the repugs can just increase the margin of cheating and get in again. We can't let this topic go by the wayside. Remember the exit polls!
Speaking of generalizations, the South, and Texas:
It has been my experience that most Southerners living outside Texas don't like Texans. They find them obnoxious braggerts with way too high an opinion of themselves. Make of this what you will....
Re: NASA STS etc
Ta ta...
Blerb |
Read Blerb's post above. He (She) has it exactly right regarding the STS.
Promised in the early 70s to reduce cost per pound to orbit to 1/10 of expendable launch vehicle. Actual cost 3 to 4 x more!
Dept. of Defense never ever wanted it but were forced by Congress in the hope of making STS look more economical (or even be more economical). Challenger disaster and resulting delays got DoD of the hook...and they ran.
I and Blerb could no doubt go on but...
The Lesson. The Shuttle, the Space Station both perfect examples of the "tail of science fiction wagging the dog of science and engineering reality."
[Big Black Stripe] -
Ok Mr. Expert, have it your way.
You know more since you've been here "several times." Never mind that I've lived here for 53 years and counting and have been from one end of the state to the other and from the southern tip up to Texline.
I couldn't possibly know as much about it as you do. Sorry for pretending that I possibly could.
it is a fricken beutiful clear sunny day in central ca- gonna be 80 degrees and the sky is so brilliantly blue that it hurts your eyes to stare-
how do i know, i can see it all from the dirty little window of my money changing hole where i will be stuck for the next 9-10 hours... arrgghh
who gives a rats ass about the pope?
people die, it's a good thing.
these bastards stole an election.
and there are no safe gaurds in place to insure they can't do it again and again.
texas is allright, florida is allright, they just have a lot of fucked up people living there. that crazy bastard from ocala the one proposing the bill so that 19 year old students can sue their professors is now proposing a bill that would allow gun nuts to shoot at will any time they feel threatened. "hey prof. whata ya mean this paper doesn't stand up to college standardS" BAM!
and tena, you were so right, i'm experiencing some serious jesus fatigue.
SWR - I get a tad weary of people on the left embracing Pat Buchanan because he has criticized Bush and he's against the war. People seem to forget that Buchanan is not a friend to the left at all.
It drives me batshit.
And that goes for people who are willing to cut the Catholic church some slack for their meaningless gestures against the invasion or Iraq.
The Catholic church puts time, money, energy and resources into preventing equal rights for gays and women. Pat Buchanan is an anti-semite.
They're not your friends.
Buchanan's also a dyed in the wool state worshipper. Right after Bush invaded Iraq, he took that position that it's not OK to criticize a war once it's started since you have to "support the troops".
I'm just so sick of his act....
DeLay wants panel to review role of courts.
We have us a Eugene McCarthy II. And we thought we'd gotten past that sort of thing. What fools were are.
I always thought that McCarthy was no loner--that he had tremendous backing from Congress and all wingers, plus a wink from Ike--until he attempted to purge the military.
The Judiciary won't let this happen and I believe they will radicalize against Bush because they cannot afford to have thier branch weakened...even with front man Gonzales. After all, he's only a cabinet secretary--and they come and go--.
It's one thing to harsh on academia, actors and playwrights...quite another to take on the Federal Judiciary.
Draco-what is twelve tone?
her eyes spunky misund. genius - 11:51 am
There are two ('Western') musical scales: One, called chromatic, is eight tones; the other, called achromatic, has twelve tones. Knowledge of the former will not necessarily transfer to the latter. 12-tone music is occasionally regarded as 'alienating' by the purists of a chromatic bent or habit of mind...
The report said the CIA's counterterrorism center was "purposely aggressive in seeking to draw connections" between Iraq and al Qaeda. The approach was opposed by the CIA's Near East and South Asia office, which was more conservative in its conclusions. That office's views were left out of a June 2002 report.
But CHeney's daughter was the State Dep't Near affairs coordinator in Powell's office at the time. Cheney's daughter (whose hubby the POTUS just appointed DoHS) railroaded the lie that made Tenet almost chuck before the UN.
Why is WaPo doing the Woodward method of apolgy for Executive branch? Let me guess- Bob-o will drop the bomb these two reporters initiate... just have to wait for the Pope-a-thon to end so he can spike book sales from it.
charley - by the time the pope dies, I think people are going to be lying in streets gasping from Jesus fatigue.
I need to go work on those t-shirts.
We have us a Eugene McCarthy II.
Don't you mean "Joseph McCarthy II".
I think Howard Dean might have been the Eugene McCarthy II.
Near East Affairs* 
dms ansd others
I was once married to an african-american woman. In Houston. The current mrs. ba'al is chinese. I have some experience with this matters, as I am sure you do.
I can tell you, Houston (and Austin) are not more racist than other cities in the US. Including northern cities, especially Boston, Chicago and NYC.
C'mon folks, get a grip. There are not red and blue states. There are red and blue counties and red and blue neighborhoods.
Some of your stereotypes about Texas are wrong because it is impossible to generalize about a place this big and diverse.
I can tell you this; Houston is incredibly cosmopolitan with a cultural life that makes that of many other large American cities (in which I have lived seem pitiful by comparison). My congresscritter may be the most liberal person in the House. (Of course her district adjoins Tom DeLays, but that almost makes my point). Hell, even the local Houston dialect doesn't sound particularly Texan.
Houston is often ugly (Pasadena is something out of Dante), the climate is not for everyone, and there are way too many goddamed trucks and SUVs on too many large freeways. The cops seem to kill unarmed people more often other cities (other than LA).
But I guarantee, it is not what you think it is if you have only visited briefly.
I know the Bush family comes from here, and Tom Delay is an alumnus of the university where I work. Yuck. But Santorum comes from PA; southern Illinois is just like the place that spawned Trent Lott and they sound more southern than almost any Houstonian; and one can argue that Ohio politics are about as weird as Texas plus it is the home state of Diebold.
"U.S. Suspects Al Qaeda Got Nerve Agent From Iraqis" (Barton Gellman, The Washington Post, 2002/12/12)
"The link" (Andrew Sullivan, The Washington Times, 2002/12/13)
"What to make of the anonymous leaked report that U.S. intelligence has picked up evidence that Iraq has transferred VX nerve gas to al Qaeda? The report, cited yesterday by The Washington Post, suggests that this could have happened as recently as this October. One obvious conclusion: If it's true, then the war against Iraq is now inevitable. Such a transaction shows that the Dec. 8 declaration that Saddam had no chemical weapons was a lie, and, as such, is an unequivocal material breach of U.N. resolutions, requiring the United States and other nations to act. More profoundly, it shows that an Iraq-al Qaeda connection is not a fantasy. It's real. We don't even need a a U.N. resolution for an attack on these grounds, since an alliance with al Qaeda makes an attack on Iraq a de facto act of self-defense after September 11." (See also: "U.S. Suspects Al Qaeda Got Nerve Agent From Iraqis" (Barton Gellman,
The Washington Post, 2002/12/12))
"The Bush administration has received a credible report that Islamic extremists affiliated with al Qaeda took possession of a chemical weapon in Iraq last month or late in October, according to two officials with firsthand knowledge of the report and its source. They said government analysts suspect that the transaction involved the nerve agent VX and that a courier managed to smuggle it overland through Turkey."
I find particularly gauling
Chirac might be considered gauling, for sure.
We have us a Eugene McCarthy II. And we thought we'd gotten past that sort of thing. What fools were are.
I think you are referring to JOE McCarthy, the fascist Senator who claimed there were communists under every table in DC in the start of the Cold War...
Eugene McCarthy's another whole different guy...
Curveball from the post?
"Knowledgeable officials, speaking without White House permission, said information about the transfer came from a sensitive and credible source whom they declined to discuss. Among the hundreds of leads in the Threat Matrix, a daily compilation by the CIA, this one has drawn the kind of attention reserved for a much smaller number."
Let me guess- the knowledgeable official also had some TANG documents, and was working with Karl Rove approval. Nice to carry water for them.
"The way we gleaned the information makes us feel confident it is accurate," said one official whose responsibilities are directly involved with the report. "I throw about 99 percent of the spot reports away when I look at them. I didn't throw this one away."
Nice cherrypicking. You don;t care to identify this "one official"?
"Like most intelligence, the reported chemical weapon transfer is not backed by definitive evidence."
Nice professional disclaimer. You want to change out sheets for wounded soldiers at Walter Reed with your squeaky clean integrity upheld?
'"We are concerned because of al Qaeda's interest in obtaining and using weapons of mass destruction, including chemical, and we continue to seek evidence and intelligence information with regards to their planning activity," said Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge. Johndroe was the only official authorized by the White House to discuss the matter on the record.'
Nice to know a stoolie will take a stand like this for you. Think you could hold someone with name value accountability to the same standard?
Nur al_Cubicle - The Judiciary won't let this happen and I believe they will radicalize against Bush because they cannot afford to have thier branch weakened...even with front man Gonzales. After all, he's only a cabinet secretary--and they come and go--.
It's one thing to harsh on academia, actors and playwrights...quite another to take on the Federal Judiciary.
This is the upside an an appointed federal judiciary with lifetime tenures. Once federal judges get that position, most of them take it very seriously indeed. You don't fuck with federal judges. It's going to be a saving grace in this battle. Delay is not going to be able to intimidate the federal judiciary.
Wow, nice, Pope jokes. Leave it up to the Eschaton regulars to kick a dying man on his death bed. You guys are so cool...
Elaine--I figured when Bush's appointee to head NASA was a person whose main involvement in 'science' had been missile defense, it was pretty much over.
I don't know that we so much had failures of intelligence re Iraq but a regime that simply would only listen to what they wanted to hear. While I agree that there are problems within the intelligence community, I think pushing the entire fiasco on them is hardly justified.
I already lost my $10 on the Pope Dead Pool--my time of death was 2.30 p.m. today, Rome time.
"Have they obtained chemical weapons?" Johndroe said. "I do not have any hard, concrete evidence that they have." Pressed on whether the information referred to a nerve agent, Johndroe said "there is no specific intelligence that limits al Qaeda's interest to one particular chemical or biological weapon over the other."
That should have been the headline...
'One official who spoke without permission said a sign of the government's concern is its "ramping up opportunities to collect more, to figure out what would be the routes, where would they be taking the material, how would they deploy it, how are they transporting it, what are the personnel?" The official added: "We're not just sitting back and waiting for something to happen." '
Well it sounds like someone from the Dep't of Energy after all!
"An official elsewhere said the message resulted only from an analyst's hypothetical concern.
Prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency, last week's "Turkey Defense Terrorism Threat Awareness Message" warned of a possible chemical weapons attack by al Qaeda on the Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey. Incirlik is an important NATO facility from which a U.S.-led coalition in 1991 launched thousands of bombing runs to force Iraq to withdraw its army from Kuwait. Turkey has given conditional agreement to its use in the event of a new war with Iraq. "
Hmmm, Turkee scenario.
Some of your stereotypes about Texas are wrong because it is impossible to generalize about a place this big and diverse.
It's impossible to generalize about any place.
But people make generalizations all the time. They make generalizations about New York and California. They make generalizations about "Massachussetts Liberals".
But only in the south does it seem that resentment over generalizations pushes people to the right politically.
Yes, you get your Bill O'Reilly, lower middle class Irish Catholic schmucks in NYC who hate the WASP elite and turn into fascists over their class resentment.
But I don't see it as quite the same thing as this overbearing southern right-wing populism that everybody in the south seems to embrace or at least acknowledge as legitimate.
Ba'al - I concur with you on Houston completely and the same can be said about Dallas, whether people want to believe it or not.
Mostly, they don't. I don't care. Let them continue to spout off about shit they know nothing about.
U.S. Suspects Al Qaeda Got Nerve Agent From Iraqis
Fuckling vichyiste liars. They pull this crap out of the bag once a year. They tried it back in April 2004.
We have us a Eugene McCarthy II. And we thought we'd gotten past that sort of thing. What fools were are.
Um, Nur... That would be Joseph McCarthy. Eugene was a Democrat Presidential candidate who opposed the Viet Nam war
'A U.S. government spokesman said the European ally offered little evidence and "the credibility of the report has not been determined." '
I see a pattern here. Plausible Deniability...
"The government is also uncertain whether the transaction involved a chemical agent alone or an agent in what is known as a weaponized form -- incorporated into a delivery system such as a rocket or a bomb. The latter would be a more efficient killer, but chemical weapons are deadly in either form. Among the reasons for suspecting VX was involved is that it is the most portable of Iraq's chemical weapons, capable of inflicting mass casualties in a quantity that a single courier could transport."
According to whom? Carry the neocon water for them once again...
"First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure. The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston Atoll, 825 miles southwest of Hawaii, in November 2000." Sadly, No!
I find particularly gauling
Chirac might be considered gauling, for sure.
Nur al-Cubicle |
And who was more gauling than Charles DeGaulle?
CNN:Pope John Paul II has slipped in and out of consciousness, the Vatican acknowledged today. "There has been an initial compromise in the state of consciousness, but we cannot speak of a coma," said spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls. He also said a "difficult compromising moment" happened around dawn.
Monty Python: "I'm not compromised yet!"
texas is allright, florida is allright, they just have a lot of fucked up people living there.
A friend of mine moved to Wash. from Kentucky. After a visit to Ocean Shores and some interaction with a few of our less progressive inhabitants, he was shocked, saying he thought he left all that "hillbilly shit" back home when he came out West.
I just laughed.
Leave it to the Eschaton regulars to kick a dying man on his deathbed.
Lighten up, Francis.
'"Psychologically, use of nerve agent in the United States would send people over the deep end, but it probably wouldn't kill very many people," said an official whose responsibilities have included the assessment and disruption of the threat. '
The above statement was not a story lead?
regarded as 'alienating' by the purists of a chromatic bent or habit of mind.
alienating? what does this mean? and thanks for the explanation, woodyg'sguitar.
portia--thanks for the link, it came up ok this time.
"Unconsummated plots by al Qaeda and its allies in Jordan just before the turn of the millennium, and in Britain last month, also involved cyanide."
Oh nobody cared to confirm such leads because millenium effective countermeasures would further magnify Bush failures?
"There are two ('Western') musical scales: One, called chromatic, is eight tones; the other, called achromatic, has twelve tones. Knowledge of the former will not necessarily transfer to the latter. 12-tone music is occasionally regarded as 'alienating' by the purists of a chromatic bent or habit of mind..."
Here's s stupid question: is 12 tone some type of 8 tone plus 4 tone? Why isn't there 13 tone, etc?
"Iraq Papers Hint at Past Arms Efforts" (Dafna Linzer, AP/Yahoo! News, 2002/12/10)"Iraq's arms declaration includes information on its past secret efforts to build a nuclear weapon and may list countries that helped it in its illicit arms programs, a nine-page table of contents suggested. The declaration also details Baghdad's efforts to build biological weapons, according to the listing distributed Monday by a U.S. official after Washington was given a copy of the full 12,000 page declaration. A former inspector who reviewed the table of contents said it appeared Iraqis were resubmitting old reports from the wake of the Gulf War more than a decade ago. Inspectors have said Iraq's previous declarations were incomplete. David Albright, an American who served on the nuclear inspections team in the 1990s, said the table "seems to confirm that on the nuclear side, the declaration has been recycled. A lot of this is pre-1991," he said."
Hmmm, why not lead with the summary statement. Going back to '91, no new indications... kind of sums it up in one sentence.
Draco,
RE: I noticed they improved the blues riffs they'd stolen.
That, I would say, is a bit of an understatement. I would say that tLed Zeppelin invented a whole new sound, with some amped-up blues riffs incorporated into it here and there. In fact, in all the years since their seminal early albums, I don't think they've never been improved upon at what they did. Certainly, these upstart grunge bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam never touched them.
I mean, I agree about the macho posturing, and certainly not everything they ever did was brilliant, but at their best they were real titans of modern music, something unique and worthy of study.
Leave it to the Eschaton regulars to kick a dying man on his deathbed.
I wish I could get a kick in for every woman who's ever had a botched illegal abortion, anybody in the third world who's ever been denied real Aids education, and any gay couple in the USA who wants to get married but can't.
The Pope is a public figure. Along with the 24/7 praise, let's also have some genuine criticism.
You're right BillyB. I've only been reading this blog daily for at least three years, so I don't yet have a take on what's socially acceptable to write here, or what the collective mindset is.
Your moniker does seem like a relative new addition, however. And you seemed to have missed or disregarded about 3/4 of my post.
No problem.
OL in NY
We can't use geographical dubdivisions the size of states to look at the distribution of resources and the flow of political thought. It doesn't show what is really happening, and it causes people to make really stupid generalizations.
In the US the political/cultural divide is mainly between urban and rural/sururban. It is not between north and south, or between red or blue state. Smaller college towns align politically with big cities.
Oo, hope it's not too inclement in Philly. It's pretty yuck in NYC.
Los Angeles weather report: sunny, dry, upper 70s today. Sandals required.
I'm fascinated by people's discussion of the mischaracterization of Texas. I've met as many liberal individuals residing in TX as in other states. I live in LA, which is characterized as very blue, and for the most part it is, but one only has to head for the western part of the San Fernando Valley and the 'I've got mine, screw you' crowd is plentiful. Head 30 miles north and the fundie crowd makes moving to the High Desert an unappetizing option (still LA County).
I think most areas are purple, myself.
Leave it up to the Eschaton regulars to kick a dying man on his death bed. You guys are so cool...
Scwha? -- 12:01 pm
Yo, Schwit?
Call me when the event involves you, and i'll gladly plant one of my pointy-toed, cowshit-encrusted size 10 Nakonas in your groin for ya...no charge...
No no friends- OLD STORY. But the CIA blame voices for WaPo were the VX gas pundits...
Remember they were innaccurate about nerve gas. They used it to justify the war when polls were against it.
But WHY are the voices of WMD lies now being the same media voices to anonymously blame the CIA?
U.S. Suspects Al Qaeda Got Nerve Agent From Iraqis
translation: bush fucked up again inserting his mindless puppet ass into the Schiavo family business
Tena- i thought you lived in the colorado rockies! 'mi bad!
Wow, nice, Pope jokes. Leave it up to the Eschaton regulars to kick a dying man on his death bed. You guys are so cool...
Scwha?
Fuck the Pope. He doesn't give a shit if women suffer from lack of birth control, or if little boys are systematically raped by his priests, or if gay people are discriminated against and beaten up by people who validate their beliefs with his words.
His death means nothing to me.
Off to see Sin City, looks good...
Ba'al - In the US the political/cultural divide is mainly between urban and rural/sururban. It is not between north and south, or between red or blue state. Smaller college towns align politically with big cities.
Dallas and El Paso both voted blue in November, in addition to Austin.
People just will not acknowledge that.
I understand Tom DeLay is outraged that the courts have not stepped in to rescue the Pope, in yet another example of an activist judiciary refusing to act.
Or something like that...
oops, of course, got McCarthys mixed up...at least I didn't say Paul~
News Flash:
The pope is still seriously dying.
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The Stranger has a very good in-depth look at how policies like those promoted by our esteemed pontiff helped bring about a beating of a Seattle gay man. Here's the lead to the story, which I hope sees widespread circulation. Full story, with pictures, at link.
GOD WAS WITH THEM
Last June three men from rural Washington jumped out of a pickup truck and, wielding a broken vodka bottle, attacked a gay man in Seattle. This week all three were found guilty of a hate crime, bringing an end to a story that has been covered here—when it has been covered at all—as a clash of opposites: rural versus urban, straight versus gay. But a look into the pasts of the victim, Micah Painter, and his three attackers reveals that a single force shaped all four young men: Evangelical Christianity.
by Eli Sanders
http://www.thestranger.com/current/
I think most areas are purple, myself.
Sallyh --12:08 pm
What I wanna know is "who's the purple mountains' Majesty?"
Fuck the Pope. He doesn't give a shit if women suffer from lack of birth control, or if little boys are systematically raped by his priests, or if gay people are discriminated against and beaten up by people who validate their beliefs with his words.
His death means nothing to me.
Normally I'd say that the over the top attacks on the Pope or the tasteless jokes would prevent anybody from offering any real criticism.
But fuck it. Nobody in the media's going to say anything negative about him. No American politician is going to criticize him. Nobody's going to offer an intelligent, nuanced, dissenting view. Does anybody think that John Kerry or Hilllary Clinton, or even Frank Lautenberg, Barbara Boxer or Ted Kennedy's going to get on the Catholic church's case?
So it really doesn't matter. Fuck the Pope.
I'm fascinated by people's discussion of the mischaracterization of Texas. I've met as many liberal individuals residing in TX as in other states.
Yep. I'm here to testify, live from TX.
The weather is lovely here today too, by the way.
Fuck the Pope. He doesn't give a shit if women suffer from lack of birth control, or if little boys are systematically raped by his priests, or if gay people are discriminated against and beaten up by people who validate their beliefs with his words.
and don't forget, he lives like a king in a palace, and yet a good portion of the world have babies they can't afford because of the "no birth control" policies of the catholic church and as a result are dying from disease and malnutrition.
morning all. /pouting/ my afternoon plans are actually happening tomorrow. i'm left with no clue as to how to enjoy this wonderful sunny day, and a passel of remaining friends who won't be up for hours.
suggestions?
i'll try to get thru this monster thread for a while.
fuck bush, of course.
What I wanna know is "who's the purple mountains' Majesty?"
I'd guess Richard Stands, the guy mentioned in the Pledge of Allegiance.
"Wow, nice, Pope jokes. Leave it up to the Eschaton regulars to kick a dying man on his death bed. You guys are so cool..."
That's because we don't know where to find you, if we did we would be kicking you instead.
suggestions?
the last beautiful day like this, I picked a book I had been wanting to read for a while, sat on my front porch in the sun with a mug of tea and a plate of pumpkin bread, and read for hours.
something about reading outdoors is very soothing. do you have a park nearby?
and don't forget, he lives like a king in a palace, and yet a good portion of the world have babies they can't afford because of the "no birth control" policies of the catholic church and as a result are dying from disease and malnutrition.
As I said, I'm going to buy a copy of the "Collected Works of Voltaire" and read it to commerate the Pope's dying.
Or maybe the "Selected Works of Voltaire" since the Collected Works might weigh as much as my car.
Oo, hope it's not too inclement in Philly. It's pretty yuck in NYC.
TheaLogie |
Bad here in Philly too. We're only 100 miles away ya know.
Ba'al
I was born and raised in K
klumbus ahia (that's how many locals speak). The former mayor used to brag that klumbus was a southern city in the north. He thought it was a plus. The state itself has gone from being rich and midly progressive to broke and reactionary all within the last 30 years.
There is a thin layer of respectability covers a cess pool of corruption. It makes me sad when I think about what could have been.
her eyes - I live in Colorado for about 4 months a year. I live there from the end of May until the first half of October.
Wish I did live there all the time, but unfortunately I can't and most likely never will. Mr. Tena doesn't like cold weather, and that's putting it mildly.
""who's the purple mountains' Majesty?"
Barney.
Did Atrios cover this Santorum interview? If so, I missed it.
AP: "I'm sorry, I didn't think I was going to talk about "man on dog" with a United States senator, it's sort of freaking me out."
http://greatscat.blogspot.com/20...-deep-
here.html
Wow, nice, Pope jokes. Leave it up to the Eschaton regulars to kick a dying man on his death bed. You guys are so cool...
Scwha?
If you hate us so much,why do you come here?Kinda like a monkey,schwa's fascinated by intelligent discourse--he can sit and watch it all day!
and this just in--Cnn has just learned---Schwa still brain dead!
C'mon folks, get a grip. There are not red and blue states. There are red and blue counties and red and blue neighborhoods.
-- Ba'al
Praise be to Ba'al and the truth He speaks. I will try to find the appropriate aromatic offering. Back before the (stolen) election, I posted here that we should remember that even in the reddest of "red states" between 30 and 40% of the population were blue. There's something about the human mind that seems to work in generalizations, but a generalization is just a crude. blurry snapshot and may not bear any resemblance to a specific instance. It's like talking about life expectancy -- even if it's 75 years, doesn't mean that you specifically (or the pope) won't die tomorrow.
suggestions?
on beautiful days, i like to take long walks or go on bike rides. bike riding to the ice cream stand defeats the purpose a little, but you only go around once.
and don't forget, he lives like a king in a palace, and yet a good portion of the world have babies they can't afford because of the "no birth control" policies of the catholic church and as a result are dying from disease and malnutrition.
her eyes
Something that has always bugged the shit out of me were these "Priests for Life" who have no idea what it is to be kept up all night for months on end by a screaming baby while trying to hold down a full-time job and take care of other kids still in diapers.
If they were in that situation for a week, their views on family planning would do a 180.
Alcor's having a special on popesicles all this week.
rorschach - Isn't it gorgeous? It's going to be in the 70's here all weekend, dry and cool at night. When it's like this, it is very nice indeed.
WGG - What I wanna know is "who's the purple mountains' Majesty?"
I was reading an article in the April Harper's about strip mining in the Appalachians. I knew that the east coast geology was ancient, but I didn't know that the Appalachians may well be the oldest mountain range on earth. I thought that was really interesting.
"I was concerned about him when he had taken over a country," Bush continued. "I was concerned about the fact that he was basically running Afghanistan and calling the shots for the Taliban. But once we set out the policy and started executing the plan, he became — we shoved him out more and more on the margins. He has no place to train his Al Qaeda killers anymore."
B,b,b,b,but John Kerry was wrong! Remember the so called straight media helped point that out!
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush's campaign announced Sunday its plans to use as the basis of a new commercial a quote from an 8,000-word New York Times Magazine article about Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry."
''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance,'' the article states as the Massachusetts senator's reply.
''As a former law enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise. It isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life.''
Kerry was a prosecutor before he got into politics, and made fighting organized crime a priority.
Bush campaign Chairman Marc Racicot, in an appearance on CNN's "Late Edition," interpreted Kerry's remarks as saying "that the war on terrorism is like a nuisance. He equated it to prostitution and gambling, a nuisance activity. You know, quite frankly, I just don't think he has the right view of the world. It's a pre-9/11 view of the world."
"Republican Party Chairman Ed Gillespie, on CBS' "Face the Nation," used similar language."
"And this demonstrates a disconcerting pre-September 11 mindset that will not make our country safer."
'The Bush-Cheney campaign also announced it was releasing an ad highlighting Kerry's comment.
Reuters reported that the new Bush commercial's script asks "How can Kerry protect us when he doesn't understand the threat?" '
Kerry campaign spokesman Phil Singer:
"The whole article is about how John Kerry recognizes that the war on terror requires a multipronged approach. It's not just the military aspect, but you need diplomacy to be able to enlist your allies. The Bush people have never understood that. John Kerry has always said that terrorism is the No. 1 threat to the U.S."
Kerry consistently has rejected assertions that he underestimates the threat of terrorism or views the battle against it as solely a law enforcement matter. He argues that law enforcement and intelligence are critical elements of the battle against terrorism, and that Bush has said the same thing.
Tena--one of my goals: to visit colorado rockies.
question: better in spring or autumn?
Something that has always bugged the shit out of me were these "Priests for Life" who have no idea what it is to be kept up all night for months on end by a screaming baby while trying to hold down a full-time job and take care of other kids still in diapers.
If they were in that situation for a week, their views on family planning would do a 180.
Or as the ancient juvenile joke says: You no playa the game, you no makea the rules.
John Kerry has always said that terrorism is the No. 1 threat to the U.S."
Then John Kerry's an asshole.
Hint. Maybe the fact that the Chinese hold all our debt is a bit more of a threat?
Or environmental degredation or the fact that industrial jobs are leaving the country?
Wow, nice, Pope jokes. Leave it up to the Eschaton regulars to kick a dying man on his death bed. You guys are so cool...
Scwha?
You are so Ted.
What's the difference between a dying old fart of a pope and a million children dying in the third world?
Republicans really, really do care about he dying old fart of a pope.
Why don't you drag out your photo of brain dead Terri and wank off.
I've met as many liberal individuals residing in TX as in other states.
Which other states...Wyoming? Arizona? Alaska? Mississippi?
Living in Texas for 8 years, I did meet a few admirable liberals (no idea why their homes weren't firebombed), but mostly they were extreme right-wing hard asses, and quite a few with money.
Pope still not dead yet.
Wait a minute, Brooks column has this little snippet...
"A new paper by a Yale undergraduate, Sulmaan Wasif Khan"...
Soon to be a right-wing icon and author of "Allah and Man at Yale". . .
Anyways the Yale talkies are trying their best to push Bush apoligst talking points.
Or help enable the reporters doing the WaPo's damage control...
Tena 11:55 am
I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. What I should have written was this:
"As gigantic as the state of Tex-sux is, I find that just a little THAT side of believable. We'll just leave that aside."
I was trying to say that since it's so frickin' HUGE, square mileage-wise, your statement that "There's not as much empty land here as there is in other southwestern and western states." sounded kinda wonky to me. That's all.
As for all the rest, it's a variation of the George Carlin Principle:
"You Like It, You Eat It."
You've been there for 53+ years, there's obviously something about it you like, otherwise you'd have left. Fine. I never said I was an expert in Tex-sux. Just that my collection of experiences there have always been unpleasant. For a variety of reasons. Whatever. No big deal. I reiterate:
"You Like It, You Eat It."
What's up with Deepak Chopra?
he's gonna be in Abq shortly, and the guru guys and gals are all gaga...
"The marriage of mysticism and money-making reached its consummation in Deepak Chopra (or rather, Deepak Chopra MD), a Harvard-trained endocrinologist who turned to transcendental meditation (TM) and ayurvedic medicine in the early 1980s. He began marketing TM herbal cures - and indeed praised them in the Journal of the American Medical Association without mentioning that he was the sole shareholder in the distribution company. Chopra's transformation from an obscure salesman of alternative potions to a national guru can be dated precisely to Monday July 12 1993, when he appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show to promote his book Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. His revelation that "love is the ultimate truth" was perfectly pitched for Oprah and her millions of fretful yet hopeful viewers. Within 24 hours of the broadcast 137,000 copies of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind had been ordered, and Chopra's publishers - the deliciously named Harmony Books - were reprinting round the clock. By the end of the week there were 400,000 copies in circulation.
Since then he has published 25 books and issued at least 100 different audiotapes, videos and CD-roms, in which Eastern philosophy, Christian parables and even Arthurian legends are distilled into a bubble-bath for the soul. (One video offers "Lessons from the Teaching of Merlin".) Like Covey and Robbins, Chopra understands the magic allure of numbered bullet-points: hence titles such as The Seven Laws of Spiritual Success and Way of the Wizard: 20 Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want. In public performances, the soothing effect of his Hallmark-card ruminations - "Everything I do is a divine moment of the eternal", "You and I are nothing but saints in the making" - is intensified by his mellifluous Anglo-Indian cadences and the mellow sitar riffs that often accompany them.
Those who want the full-immersion experience can book into the Chopra Centre for Well-Being in La Jolla, California - dubbed "Shangri-La Jolla" by the irreverent - where their "profound personal transformation can be customised for stays of one to seven days." The centre grosses about $8m a year, though Dr Chopra himself no longer attends to customers personally. "It wouldn't be in the best interest of patients," a spokeswoman said, "because of his writing and speaking engagements." Perhaps wisely, Deepak Chopra MD ceased renewing his California medical licence after the annus mirabilis of 1993 and therefore cannot be held professionally accountable for the consequences of his advice. "I don't consider myself a religious or spiritual leader," he has said. "I consider myself a writer who explains some of the ancient wisdom traditions in contemporary language."
Harold Bloom argued in his 1992 book The American Religion that many Americans are essentially Gnostics, pre-Christian believers for whom salvation "cannot come through the community or the congregation, but is a one-on-one act of confrontation". Clearly this does not apply to the more traditional churchgoing masses, but it suits solipsistic New Agers seeking the "inner self" - and high-achieving materialists who like to think that fame and riches are no more than their due, reflecting the nobility of their souls. Chopra is happy to oblige: "People who have achieved an enormous amount of success are inherently very spiritual ... Affluence is simply our natural state." Vain tycoons and holistic hippies alike can take comfort from Chopra's flattery ("You are inherently perfect"), and from his belief that the highest human condition is "the state of 'I am'": since we reap what we sow, both health and wealth are largely self-generated. Following this logic ad absurdum, he argues that "people grow old and die because they have seen other people grow old and die. Ageing is simply learned behaviour". Demi Moore was so impressed by this apercu that she named him as her personal guru, announcing that "through his teachings I hope to live to a great age, even 130 years isn't impossible". Chopra himself, rather more cautiously, says, "I expect to live way beyond 100." Why the longevity formula failed to work for Princess Diana, with whom he lunched shortly before her death, remains a mystery."
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on beautiful days, i like to take long walks or go on bike rides. bike riding to the ice cream stand defeats the purpose a little, but you only go around once.
Bike riding to an ice cream stand? I'd probably go around twice, at least...
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i know of a very catholic family that had seven children (!) and shortly after the last child was born, they had a house fire. they lost everything.
they went to the church, asking for help, clothing donations, or even some $ to try to put their lives back together.
the church sent them away. they gave them nothing.
the mother immediately went on the pill after that. she told me that if the church wasn't going to help her look out for her children, why have more of them?
the smartest priest i ever met told me never to have more children than i could afford. (goes against everything catholics are taught)
her eyes: I lived in Colorado for 12 years before decamping to So Cal. No question, Fall is the best time to visit the Rockies. Warm, dry days and cool nights. Spring is all mud and snowmelt and rain (given: the flowers are spectacular). IMHO.
Research question: So, did the Pope work for Farben selling Zyklon-B in WWII? I get the same passage on a bunch of paranoid militia type sites, but no facts to back up. Anyone?
Living in Texas for 8 years, I did meet a few admirable liberals (no idea why their homes weren't firebombed), but mostly they were extreme right-wing hard asses, and quite a few with money.
It's not really individuals that concern me but the way it coalesces into a coherent political strategy.
There are right-wing dickheads all over the NYC area. Most white people in the suburbs around NYC in fact are racist, reactionary, selfish idiots who would take a 10 dollar a year tax cut over a good system of public transportation.
I stopped counting the Boycott France and Support our Troops bumper stickers years ago.
But for some reason, it doesn't coalesce into a coherently corrupt and reactionary mainstream. It stays on peoples' car bumpers.
Hi Draco -
I have a wonderful book of correspondence between Schoenberg and Kandinsky, a really fascinating glimpse into the friendship of "two leading artistic personalities of the 20th Century, the founders of abstract painting and atonal music".
It's called: Arnold Schoenberg/Wassily Kandinsky - Letters, Pictures and Documents"
Thought you might be interested. I get so much from this kind of read...
her eyes - autumn. September is paradise. The tourists with kids leave, the aspens turn, the weather is perfect.
Spring - not a good idea. The wind howls for almost the whole month of June and it's cold.
If you mean it, her eyes, email me. I would love to have you come by and see me in Lake City.
Chopra himself, rather more cautiously, says, "I expect to live way beyond 100.
Anyone know a better reason to get drunk tonight?
Dave isn't awake yet, it would seem, so allow me to announce that you're in the middle of a "Ignore the Moronic Brownshirt Fucks Million Dollar Weekend!"
This segment brought to you by Archie McPhee's Emporium!
"Rubber chickens never go out of style!"
Research question: So, did the Pope work for Farben selling Zyklon-B in WWII? I get the same passage on a bunch of paranoid militia type sites, but no facts to back up. Anyone?
Of course not. Criticize the man for what he actually did, not what he did in somebody's imagination.
Hitler considered the Poles to be almost as subhuman as the Jews. They were set for extermination as soon as they cleaned out the death camps after the last Jew died.
And the Nazis were dedicated to wiping out the Polish intelligensia (which included the Catholic clergy) in the first round of gassings.
her eyes: I lived in Colorado for 12 years before decamping to So Cal. No question, Fall is the best time to visit the Rockies. Warm, dry days and cool nights. Spring is all mud and snowmelt and rain (given: the flowers are spectacular). IMHO.
Left Lane
Whatever you do, stay the hell out of Sterling, CO, unless you bring a gas mask.
Have a beautiful day, you gorgeous peeps!
Dallas and El Paso both voted blue in November, in addition to Austin.
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Frankly, it is the only thing that gives me some hope. And I'll bet the repukes on Long Island (from whence Bill O'Lielly and Sean Hannity sprung, not NYC) are every bit as close minded and mean as any repuke you guys got down South.
As for "gaul" instead of "gall" oh my. If my French grandparents were still alive they would be rolling their eyes and saying, Mon dieu! What a fucking stupid granddaughter we have.!
Captain Kirk:
"Jim, is he dead?"
Dr. McCoy, 'No, he is just in a compromised state of conciousness with some difficulties".
Nur-al--I needed to be more specific. I've met at least as many liberals from TX as I have from places such as NY, MA, and my home state of CA. Of course, being part of the university community means I'm probably running with a bad crowd.
the smartest priest i ever met told me never to have more children than i could afford. (goes against everything catholics are taught)
I still remember the day that, as a very young child, I found the spermicide hidden under my parents' bed. Very dedicated Catholics, they, but very smart as well...
thanks Tena! i may just take you up on that! it would be wonderful to meet you!
Woody G's Guitar--
wow. just wow.
Tena--one of my goals: to visit colorado rockies.
question: better in spring or autumn?
her eyes -- 12:23 pm
most folks'd say autumn, i think. Start in the valley of the San Juan mts and follow it south along with the gold in the cottonwoods...
one of my absolutely favorite vistas is along the Santa Clara road between the Los Alamos Hiway and Espanola, just west of Black Mesa on the San Ildefonso pueblo, when the first chill has turned the cottonwood leaves to a rippling stream of breeze-burnished gold. Black Mesa is huge and stark and near, and the Sangres stand out against a sky so blue you won't believe it possible...
just sayin...
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jftb--have a great day yourself. The Kandinsky book sounds fascinating.
later, moonbats. I have to go to the office on this beautiful day.
i can't stand texas and i'm not shy about admitting it. everything that is wrong with america is amplified in the south, and everything that is wrong with the south is amplified in texas. that's without even taking into consideration how nauseatingly self righteous they are about their bullshit "values". if i had to spend more than a month or so in texas at one stretch i would have a stroke. i am certain of that. the place is ghastly. people who live there don't notice it.
Salesian, did you say? Well, Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, the head of the Salesians, he's considered one of the top 4 contenders to be next pope.
Per the Guardian: Handicaps Has shown he can lose his cool. Said media coverage in the US of the paedophilia scandal reminded him of "the times of Diocletian and Nero, and, more recently, Stalin and Hitler". Could be too young. Could be too radical.
Last year the Dallas Morning News did an expose of how the Salesians shuffled pedophile priests around. At the time, this cardinal was quoted as saying: "For me it would be a tragedy to reduce the role of a pastor to that of a cop. I'd be prepared to go to jail rather than harm one of my priests." (pace Australia's The Age.
Uh hunh. Make that boy Pope. He'll drive the Catholic Church in the West into further irrelevance and possibly increase the contempt that already exists for an organization which had no problem playing a shell game with pedophile priests.
Sorry if I've offended anyone, but you know, harming children this way is evil.
Interesting stuff here.
Pope = moonies
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It has been a religious right cant that Hollywood, gays, teachers or some
other group "hates" America and its basic institutions; but the dubious award
of bashing fundamental American institutions may now be up for grabs in an
unlikely contest pitting the Vatican and Korean cult leader Rev. Sun Myung
Moon of the Unification Church against each other.
On Thursday at a gathering of hundreds of bishops from North and Latin
America held in Rome, speakers took turns denouncing American individualism
and calling for a new effort to "revitalize" the church.
Bishop Donald W. Wuerl of Pittsburg told fellow prelates that in the United
States, "Heavy emphasis on the individual and his or her rights has greatly
eroded the concept of the common good and its ability to call people to
something beyond themselves." He went on to denounce what he called "the
privatization of religion and morality" where "Both were seen by many as
matters of purely personal and private concern, such as a hobby or an
appreciation of music, but without a proper role in the public arena."
The prelates applauded another anti-democratic rant from Monsignor Dennis Schnurr, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. He told the gathering, "In our democracy, divergent political viewpoints are more often resolved by a facile reliance on the rule of the majority than by a genuine discernment of what is best for the common good." [note that Ba'al actually agrees with some of that statement] Schnurr singled out "unspeakable crimes," such as abortion and physician-assisted suicide which are "embraced in the name of individual rights and democracy." [Ba'al believes this is fund-o wack-o]
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Moon has shifted his rhetoric as well. Once demonizing international
communism as a satanic conspiracy, the Korean evangelist now focuses his wrath
on the United States. In a series of articles last week about the Unification
Church, the Washington Post noted that, "Today, Moon's sermons are filled with
derisive, angry references to America. 'God hates the American atmosphere'
Moon declared in a May 1 speech at his mansion in suburban New York. 'Satan
created this kind of Hell on earth... I don't like fallen America. It is
heading for destruction in the very near future. The country that represents
Satan's harvest is America.' "
Moon added that "America is the kingdom of extreme individualism, the
kingdom of free sex." [note that free sex is pleasing to Ba'al].
Sorry if I've offended anyone, but you know, harming children this way is evil.
IOKIYAC?
But for some reason, it doesn't coalesce into a coherently corrupt and reactionary mainstream. It stays on peoples' car bumpers
I couldn't believe it when I went up to Washington in January. I literally saw more W bumper stickers around Tacoma and Fox Island than I see around Dallas.
That's the truth, and I didn't expect it.
Tena
I once went on a trip to Grant Pass Oregon. Never saw so many scary wingnuts in my life.
Spring - not a good idea. The wind howls for almost the whole month of June and it's cold.
Last May, we drove from Moab through Denver and on to Omaha to bury my father-in-law's urn. All across Colorado, the weather was insane - freezing cold and snowing like crazy the whole drive. Couldn't enjoy a bit of the beautiful scenery I've heard so much about, and we didn't dare stop anywhere because we were so intent on getting ahead of the storm.
I couldn't believe it when I went up to Washington in January. I literally saw more W bumper stickers around Tacoma and Fox Island than I see around Dallas.
Yesterday, I saw some car with two full sized American flags on both sides, a "Proud to Be American" sign covering the back window and a "Boycott France" bumper sticker.
10 miles from Times Square. I seriously wanted to run the idiot off the road but I'm supposing that's what he wanted, to feel persecuted by "liberals" because of his "patriotism".
oops
I meant that the optimal Autumn Tour of the Rockies should start near the Headwaters of the Rio Grtande in the San Luis Valley and move slowly south with the season...obviously, senescence is making an early appearance...
Re: Led Zeppelin
John Paul Jones copied his drum licks right from James Brown's funky drummer.
Give them a listen.
her eyes - the color around Lake City is phenomenal in September and October. Just incredible, really. Please do get in touch - I do mean it.
May and June are pretty miserable, mostly, frankly. Until the snow is gone off the peaks, the wind blows hard all the damn time. Just when we all get to the point where we're going to go stark staring mad, it finally stops around the end of June, first of July. Then the tourists descend.
The fall is incomparable, however.
I still remember the day that, as a very young child, I found the spermicide hidden under my parents' bed. Very dedicated Catholics, they, but very smart as well...
rorschach |
Ant vat ver you lookink for under your parents bed?
Culture of Life soldier's resume
i confess, i'm hard pressed to think of a community in TX that i would choose, if i had other options in other states. austin seems conservative to my liberal northern viewpoint, and on the whole i didn't feel that the gay community was as protected as it is here in chicago. but that's just an impression after a couple of visits. everyone i met in TX was a liberal, or libertarian.
"the smartest priest i ever met told me never to have more children than i could afford. (goes against everything catholics are taught)"
Our parish priests are also active in the environmental movement, and advise their parishioners to respect and revere that which they consider God to have blessed us with. Couched in their references are admonitions not to overpopulate. I suspect most priests on the ground today have no problems with parishioners limiting their families to a small size.
Our priests are also outspoken advocates of economic justice. They never came out and said not to vote for Bush, but they did speak at length, before and after the election, about the injustice of wealth being in the hands of the corrupt few.
The US bishops who came out and advocated voting for Bush are probably not representative of the Church worldwide, and probably not even in the US.
Oh, and by the way, I've solved the Social Security "crisis." Privatize, sure, but make sure you invest in companies that produce surveillance equipment. We'll all retire millionaires...
The government requested and won approval for a record number of special warrants last year for secret wiretaps and searches of suspected terrorists and spies, 75 percent more than in 2000, the Bush administration disclosed Friday.
I have two questions, one a hypothetical.
According to reports (not that one can trust those), the Pope was apprised of his physical condition, which, to make it simple, was failing and the prognosis was not optimistic. He CHOSE to stay at the Vatican rather than being tranferred to a hospital. I realize that he is probably being afforded the best medical care worldly or other-worldly possible, but how is his decision different from the Schiavo case (other than we will never know what Terri said or instructed--that is, we have only Michael's word for it)?
The Pope obviously was refusing whatever extraordinary measures could be taken (e.g., kidney dialysis, ventilator) in favor of spending his last "hours" in his home.
How, considering his take on the Schiavo case, does he have the right to do that? Surely his life affects more people than that of Terri Schiavo.
Secondly, imagine if this guy hangs on for 4-6 months or years, relatively unconscious? No one would be in control of the Catholic Church. Do you actually think, at some point, those in control wouldn't euthanize him in a flash?
and don't forget, he lives like a king in a palace, and yet a good portion of the world have babies they can't afford because of the "no birth control" policies of the catholic church and as a result are dying from disease and malnutrition.
Worth repeating.
And the weather is miserable here in New Jersey. I can't even enjoy my crocuses.
Tena-thank you. that would be fantastic. and it sounds perfectly lovely. i would need to make more definite plans, and then i'll give you a shout.
WGG - too far south. Start up on the western slope, then move south from there.
The western slope is - well, mind bogglingly beautiful You come over the divide out of Creede, just on the other side of Wagon Wheel Gap above the San Luis valley, and once you drop off the summit of Slumgullion and it opens up - it's unbelievable. We have 5 14ers around Lake City.
I should just shut up about it - we're crowded enough these days.
Ba'al--you'll be intrigued to know that you were referenced in a Chick tract, but they referred to you as a Babylonian sun god. My first thought was, and you say this like it's a bad thing?
(I was under the impression that Ba'al was a Sumerian fertility god. Correct me on this if necessary.)
i confess, i'm hard pressed to think of a community in TX that i would choose, if i had other options in other states. austin seems conservative to my liberal northern viewpoint, and on the whole i didn't feel that the gay community was as protected as it is here in chicago. but that's just an impression after a couple of visits. everyone i met in TX was a liberal, or libertarian.
chicago dyke
in my experience, austin is by no means conservative, and the gay community is very well protected. But then, half of my friends are lesbians, and many of those are black belts or members of the local WNFL team or both...
No one would be in control of the Catholic Church. Do you actually think, at some point, those in control wouldn't euthanize him in a flash?
dms --- 12:44 pm
of course they would, in a New York fuckin minute...the last time there were two popes it was very bad for the Church...something about schisms, and captivity, and all kinds a shit...they won't let that happen again...
I couldn't believe it when I went up to Washington in January. I literally saw more W bumper stickers around Tacoma and Fox Island than I see around Dallas.
There are definitely hard-core, vocal conservative constituencies in Washington, even in western Wa and more specifically in King County which votes overwhelmingly Dem.
We saw that in our last governor's race.
Chi-Dyke - We have a huge, open, active gay community in Dallas. I mean it - it's one of the best things about this city. You've heard of the Turtle Creek Chorale, I hope? It's gained world status.
dial up is slow enough for me to believe that ba'al has already clarified that he is not, indeed a sumerian fertility deity.
but he's still worth pleasing aroma.
I couldn't believe it when I went up to Washington in January. I literally saw more W bumper stickers around Tacoma and Fox Island than I see around Dallas.
That's the truth, and I didn't expect it.
Tena
Tacoma-Ft,Lewis,Mchord A.F.B.,Fox Island-Monied Rethug enclave--
rest of western Wa,--Priceless!!!
Mornin, freethinkers
of course they would, in a New York fuckin minute...the last time there were two popes it was very bad for the Church...something about schisms, and captivity, and all kinds a shit...they won't let that happen again...
WoodyGsGuitar/Happy Desparado - 12:47 pm
I thought it was like Buffy. When one Pope dies a new one appears.
Well, you learn something new every day.
Yesterday, I saw some car with two full sized American flags on both sides, a "Proud to Be American" sign covering the back window and a "Boycott France" bumper sticker.
Yesterday I was behind a pickup truck with "NUKE 'EM" stenciled in big letters across the tailgate. It really raised my blood pressure. Luckily Mr. Karin was not with me, because he's prone to road rage.
ba'al has already clarified that he is not, indeed a sumerian fertility deity.
I thought Ba'al was a self-proclaimed Cana'anite fertility deity. Or is it just a matter of semitics?
Karin--miserable in ma today, too. i finally got a couple of crocuses (croki?) and not much else. the snow is barely gone, and i hear maybe more flurries next week.
Rorschach
Or you could invest in RFD tags that can be built into clothing, eyewear
shoes...
Then the government could track you everywhere.
Can they listen too?
Maybe they exist and they are tracking you now.
Just like the wormcams of Arthur C Clarke.
Atrios, 7/24/2005:
Berger
So, I've been watching CNN for a couple of hours and at least as far as I've seen they haven't yet mentioned that Sandy Berger was "cleared of all wrongdoing."
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potkettleblack?
(BTW, I'm further to the left than Atrios, just hate hypocrisy...)
tena- yes, but the men are so hairy in dallas!
actually, a friend of mine did whine about that after a trip to do the circut parties there. all the boys up here shave. it's kinda sad.
Whoops, that was 7/24/2004 of course...
" can't stand texas and i'm not shy about admitting it. everything that is wrong with america is amplified in the south, and everything that is wrong with the south is amplified in texas."
Well, they do keep claiming they are bigger then anyplace else.
There HAS to be a lower proportion of liberals in Texas then other places that are blue, or else they would be a blue state.
Whatever deity Ba'al is, I would like to make an offering of Lisa Daniels from MSGOP, she of the 'are you stupid?' fame.
I hope the aroma will be pleasing.
[note that free sex is pleasing to Ba'al].
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I am will to bet that every Eschatonian, north south east & west, pretty much agrees with this statement of Ba'al's. Long live Ba'al. A uniter, not a divider.
- the color around Lake City is phenomenal in September and October. Just incredible,
yeah, but you have spiders this big(extends hands in an obviously exaggerated dimensional display)
Or is it just a matter of semitics?
Your puns get Moor ridiculous every day...
Yesterday I was behind a pickup truck with "NUKE 'EM" stenciled in big letters across the tailgate. It really raised my blood pressure. Luckily Mr. Karin was not with me, because he's prone to road rage.
There are also those "911 Terrorist Hunting Permits" all cars over New Jersey.
I guess they make it OK not to enlist or something since you have a permit to hunt terrorists in like, you know, the Short Hills Mall.
The Stranger has a very good in-depth look at how policies like those promoted by our esteemed pontiff helped bring about a beating of a Seattle gay man. Here's the lead to the story, which I hope sees widespread circulation. Full story, with pictures, at link.
GOD WAS WITH THEM
Last June three men from rural Washington jumped out of a pickup truck and, wielding a broken vodka bottle, attacked a gay man in Seattle. This week all three were found guilty of a hate crime, bringing an end to a story that has been covered here—when it has been covered at all—as a clash of opposites: rural versus urban, straight versus gay. But a look into the pasts of the victim, Micah Painter, and his three attackers reveals that a single force shaped all four young men: Evangelical Christianity.
by Eli Sanders
http://www.thestranger.com/current/
flint - there's a lot of money on Fox Island on the water. Inland, not so much, I found. But it was my first time there, so I defer to those who live there and know more about it. But yeah, I realize that on the waterfronts there is beaucoup money.
Which follows - it is absolutely beautiful.
the color around Lake City is phenomenal in September and October. Just incredible,
yeah, but you have spiders this big(extends hands in an obviously exaggerated dimensional display)
And don't forget those Mormon invertebrates!
The Pope obviously was refusing whatever extraordinary measures could be taken (e.g., kidney dialysis, ventilator) in favor of spending his last "hours" in his home.
How, considering his take on the Schiavo case, does he have the right to do that? Surely his life affects more people than that of Terri Schiavo
Easy. Pope's a male and therefore entitled to control what happens to his body. Ms. Schiavo was female and thus, as we all know, not entitled to that same right.
Atrios, 7/24/2005:
Wow! Atrios can blog in the future! Cool...
woody- semitics, semantics, what's the difference?
Lo children of God, the End-times draweth nigh with the passing of the White Pope. This event, as prophesized in the bible, will lead to the rise of the Black Pope--the final Pope. Repent, for the battle of Armageddon outside the walls of Jerusalem is upon us.
focus - yeah, but you have spiders this big(extends hands in an obviously exaggerated dimensional display)
Yeah, that's the ticket - we have giant Rocky Mountain stalking spiders. You really don't want to come up there.
But a look into the pasts of the victim, Micah Painter, and his three attackers reveals that a single force shaped all four young men: Evangelical Christianity.
I call 'em (with no charity intended at all) "Talibangelists"...
Yesterday I was behind a pickup truck with "NUKE 'EM" stenciled in big letters across the tailgate. It really raised my blood pressure. Luckily Mr. Karin was not with me, because he's prone to road rage.
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Has anyone noticed in the last few weeks how so many of the "Support Our Troops" magnetic signs have turned white. Bleached by the Sun or old age but anyway they are starting to look like white surrender flags!
I'd say from 1/3 to a half have lost their Red, White and Blue or white.
Just noticin'
If those cardinals had any imagination, they would put the pope in a kayak and shove him off into the Mediterranean. Or better yet, launch him from the Vatican into the Mediterranean with the Holy Catholipaut. With some fireworks attached it would be one hell of a spectacle.
Morning, Hecate - Easy. Pope's a male and therefore entitled to control what happens to his body. Ms. Schiavo was female and thus, as we all know, not entitled to that same right.
But of course.
yeah, but you have spiders this big(extends hands in an obviously exaggerated dimensional display)
Oy. Try walking through a Louisiana swamp in the springtime. The spiders are almost as scary as the alligators and the cottonmouths, newly awakened from the winter, and hungry...
But for some reason, it doesn't coalesce into a coherently corrupt and reactionary mainstream. It stays on peoples' car bumpers
That's very true. I see more of the ribbon things on people's cars in NJ than I did down south last summer. But as far as the reps that Texas and those other states send to Congress, vs the NJ Senators & Congressmen-well, the thing speaks for itself.
ach. i should've bought some bread yesterday. the BLT just isn't the same without it...
Mike in Seattle--thanks for the link!
Yet another "me big lib" troll. Tiresome.
we have giant Rocky Mountain stalking spiders. You really don't want to come up there.
save yer threats Sister- the spider that would scare me hasn't been hatched yet or is stiil just a twisted smile on his daddy's mandibles... but of course we don't count those little hairy brown ones with the red eyes- other than that i am invincible ( to spiders)
I'd say from 1/3 to a half have lost their Red, White and Blue or white.
Just noticin'
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Damn, the last word was supposed to be yellow not white!
Just proof readin'
But as far as the reps that Texas and those other states send to Congress
May I just say once more, "Fuck DeLay and his goddamn fucking redistricting bullshit!"
Thank you.
I'd say from 1/3 to a half have lost their Red, White and Blue or white.
yes i've noticed they are starting to fade.
most around here are yellow, but once in a while, i see a bunch clustered together like some sort of wierd cattle brand. i see a lot in different colors. for instance, i see pink ones asking doctors for cures to breast cancer, and black ones for pow mia's and one time, i even saw one in camouflage print.
Morning, um, afternoon.
Sleeping hella late is an utter joy and should really be tacked onto the Bill o' Rights IMO.
That's very true. I see more of the ribbon things on people's cars in NJ than I did down south last summer. But as far as the reps that Texas and those other states send to Congress, vs the NJ Senators & Congressmen-well, the thing speaks for itself.
But you realize of course that NJ seems to be as gerrymandered in favor of the Republicans as the South is.
It's amazing how they draw some of the congressional districts. They skirt around Plainfield to include North Plainfield and Westfield in the same (white) Republican district and throw all the blacks and Jews in Essex and Bergen county into the same "safe" minority Democratic districts.
The Republicans in my district didn't even run a candidate. 100 feet away from me, in the next town (which is part of another district) the Republican won easily.
Thank you Christie Whitman.
Slept in really late this morning and woke to headline: John Paul ll Near Death. Like where was I in a cave? Seems there is some morbid facination with death lately. I know circumstances are such but I'm thinking to what someone called last week a death cult. It's a natural biological process people-DEAL.
And on that note I bid you a good day. I'm off to see Key Largo with my main squeeze! Happy Saturday Moonbats!
Bill Maher was outstanding last night.
Came back to waste more time in therapy here.
Monday 28 February 2005
Pope will die in March or early April. I tend to think close to March 20. South American likely the new pope.
Attempted or actual terrorist attack late spring near Memorial Day. Train involved? (I need to meditate more on this one) The number 5 is prominently involved. Phoenix….trains, subways seen as well. Multiple locales?
Unemployment will rise, as will inflation.
Expect AARP to become much more politically active, more like the Gray Panthers.
Dow, NASDAQ drop dramatically in late spring then rebound. By October there may be a widespread economic panic about another Depression, not just recession. Investing and saving habits may change for the better as credit becomes less popular.
Military’s handling of Iraq will come under scrutiny, especially in their clueless handling of the borders.
Desertions will begin as families left behind in the US are forced to go bankrupt. I heard the phrase “Reservist Revolt” very clearly three times.
Rehnquest leaves by July. I can’t tell if he leaves because of his illness or he dies – he’s just sick enough that I can’t tell the difference. Kennedy 3-1 of being new chief justice, Souter 4-1.
Dick Cheney will resign, allegedly for health reasons.
Very poor Christmas season. There will be bankruptcies of 2 major chains, possibly Federated Department Stores (which owns Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s and more) and Sears. I feel Lands’ End will end its Sears relationship, probably after very poor Christmas. Catalog sales will be much stronger.
12-tone music may be hard to enjoy because it is based on abstraction. One of the rules of 12-tone composition is that the composer has to create a "tone row", using all 12 notes of the chromatic scale, and then invert that row in various ways. That makes it difficult to find a harmonic center, which is what we are used to in our popular Western music styles. Some have been successful, but it's very much like abstract painting or sculpture, in that the reference points are much less obvious than in the older forms, which are highly representational. In spite of SWchoenberg, Hindemith and others of the 12-tone school, it's never really caught on.
And Led Zeppelin is extraordinarily overrated. Couldn't carry Hendix's empty roach clip.
Mr. Mahoney also said his group would ask lawmakers to challenge judges who rejected the Schindlers' court claims. "Impeachment of federal judges needs to be put on the table and needs to be discussed," he said.
Sounds like "Impeach Earl Warren" all over again.
Seems there is some morbid facination with death lately. I know circumstances are such but I'm thinking to what someone called last week a death cult.
Ghoulapalooza, Part Two.
And wasn't it just last Sunday when the Christers were carrying on about how "Christ Defeated Death" etc etc etc?
Hm. Just maybe even they don't take it seriously.
Sleeping hella late is an utter joy and should really be tacked onto the Bill o' Rights IMO.
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i second this. it will be a key platform of the revolution. if i have anything to say about it, at least.
focus - honestly - I've been badly bitten in and around Lake City. We actually do have some mean spiders, especially in mine dumps and I spend a lot of time in mine dumps. I got bitten 7 times on one calf around where my sock ended and was sick as a dog for days.
I tie my pants legs around my ankles now so that can't happen.
It really isn't all the far-fetched. What we don't have up that high are poisonous snakes. Rattlers do live there, at lower altitudes.
Well, if Cardinal Arinze becomes pope it will pose a problem for Catholic racists.
It's great seeing the Detrol ads during the CNN death watch. "Gotta go, gotta go"
Me....I'm sitting here shitting my Attends not missing a moment for a movement
Gotta go, the Nigerians just showed up.
Ghoulapalooza part 2 - good one!
note that free sex is pleasing to Ba'al
So, your divinity, you object to us PAYING for sex?
My kind of deity...
"The noblest work of Man is an honest God"- Samuel Butler
Speaking of various states and their political tendencies, Colorado just got a bit of black eye:
Two Colorado lawmakers got into a shouting match when one of them marched into a news conference the other was holding to denounce same-sex marriage.
Rep. Kevin Lundberg (R-Berthoud) and Rep. Jim Welker (R-Loveland) called the news conference to tout their proposed amendment to bar gays and lesbian from marrying.
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Paccione, who is half black, also reminded him that interracial marriage used to be illegal in Colorado. She said denying gay people the right to marry is no different.
Lundberg argued that they were two different issues.
Welker then interjected saying that gay marriage would open a "Pandora's box".
"Where do you draw the line?" he said. "A year and a half ago a lady in India married her dog."
"Heroic efforts" are being used on the pope to allow us to get teams into place for the next death.
Could all residents in the Renquist neighborhood park on the south side of the street?
Ronjazz or WoodyG--
is the twelve tone a sort of dissonant sound then? or is it complicated? i'm trying to get a sense of this. i have trouble following jazz-the music seems to go everywhere...is this the same of twelve tone?
CD, count on my support. How're you feeling today? I caught some of your not-feelin'-so-good comments yesterday.
But you realize of course that NJ seems to be as gerrymandered in favor of the Republicans as the South is.
I was in a ridiculous district, long and skinny, stretching across almost half the state, that was designed to include mostly wealthier suburbs and avoid towns with large African American populations, but a lot of good it did the Repugs, we went and Rush Holt anyway.
Hal Turner has lost his mind....
Hal Turner
TIME TO START ASSASSINATING JUDGES?. . . . .
If neither Congress nor State Legislatures will impeach them for their bad behavior on the Bench, then it falls to us, The People to to perform the necessary dirty work. I would volunteer!!
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RUMOR: CARDINALS MAY SELECT AN AFRICAN OR LATIN AS NEXT PONTIFF TO REACH OUT TO THE THIRD WORLD
If they do, it will rightly mean the total destruction of the Catholic Church
Non-Whites can never be Pope because they are not of God's Chosen; Jews have been trying to steal the title of "God's Chosen" for centuries, but those of us who understand the Bible know that only whites constitute God's Chosen. It says so in the Bible, Book of Genesis
Well SWR, Kerry was for balanced budgets , there goes your debt to China motif.
Kerry had the top enviro voting record in the Senate... not saying much but if you wanted to paint someone a land raper start with Petrochem DeLay...
rorschach - "Where do you draw the line?" he said. "A year and a half ago a lady in India married her dog."
Where do they come up with this shit? Is this just variations on Santorum's nonsense? Jeebus.
Yet another "me big lib" troll. Tiresome.
Hecate. Modern Pict
They're trolling Orcinus and most of the other blogs I've been on today too.
Do they think we can't tell a Republican troll when we see one?
I got name-stollen yestday for my first time. Do I get a medal?
that is, we went and elected Rush Holt anyway.
When one goes into septic shock it affects the blood flow and there is not enough blood for the brain.
And, if the pope pops a boner, the sudden blood loss should send him into a coma.
Where's Laura (fluffer) Bush when we need her?
Well SWR, Kerry was for balanced budgets , there goes your debt to China motif.
Yeah but I was commenting on Kerry's statement that "Terrorism is the Biggest Threat the Country Faces".
It's simply not.
I got bitten 7 times on one calf around where my sock ended and was sick as a dog for days.
Yikes! please invest in calf-high boots (not vinyl)and tuck yer pant legs therein- i like you and don't want anything bad to happen to you especially from those little buggers
Mornin' all you evil terrible popejokin' freethinkers.
So, I can't take the cablenewsmaroons on a beautiful Sat morning. Has anyone died yet?
Hecate:
Easy. Pope's a male and therefore entitled to control what happens to his body. Ms. Schiavo was female and thus, as we all know, not entitled to that same right.
B-b-b-but, she was married!!! Doesn't that mean her husband owns her? HOw come he didn't have final say?
And Led Zeppelin is extraordinarily overrated. Couldn't carry Hendix's empty roach clip.
Ronjazz
second that, and i don't think Zep out does pearl jam. don't get me wrong, great band, but not the only one.
jimi was one of kind.
dylan changed the way songs were written, jimi changed the way the guitar was played.
i actually once didn't hear john cages 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. awesome.
"A year and a half ago a lady in India married her dog."
Wasn't there a poll a few years ago that said English women would choose their cats over their husbands? What does the Church of England say about that?
And, if the pope pops a boner, the sudden blood loss should send him into a coma.
Where's Laura (fluffer) Bush when we need her?
Sanjay G-Will I do? I always wanted to suck on a popesicle.
-Liddy Dole
Ripley, I hope Turner has been reported to the appropriate agencies. Not going to that site again, but what you excerpted seems to be an actual threat.
Hal Turner says:
but those of us who understand the Bible know that only whites constitute God's Chosen. It says so in the Bible, Book of Genesis
I notice he doesn't cite chapter and verse.
Hecate, Tena:
Sadly, I must agree, but is that the only reason?
Damn, are we men so unevolved?
Well, duh.
Almost makes one want to be transgendered.
And Chicago Dyke, what is with all of this male shaving? I don't have enough money for the razors.
her eyes:
The 12-tone scale takes the standard 8-tone scale and re-divides it into 12, just like the piano does, with the black keys...
Check this out...
Caveat: I'm not a musician, nor a musicologist, just another dilettante...
"popejokin freethinkers!" --flory
focus - thank you. I do try to be more careful these days. If it ever happens again, I already made up my mind that I'll go to the medical center. I was pretty sick that time - had a fever for about 3 days.
Ripley--I think they need to get Hal back on his meds.
bebe- I take it that the Pope is on Liddy's life list?
It's past time to euthanize that crazy fuck Hal Turner. And when we meet in hell I'll kick his ass.
much better sill- thanks. a good night's rest and fluids do wonders.
Yeah but I was commenting on Kerry's statement that "Terrorism is the Biggest Threat the Country Faces".
It's simply not.
i believe Kerry sat on a comission regarding the tracking of missing or unaccounted Soviet nuclear materials- this may have influenced his prioritization-
that is, we went and elected Rush Holt anyway.
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It breaks down into six Republicans and seven Democrats. That actually is fairly representative of the population as a whole, I'll have to admit. I thought it was more biased in favor of the Republicans.
Republicans:
LaBiondo
Saxton
Smith
Garrett
Ferguson
Frelinghuysen
Democrats:
Andrews
Pallone
Pascrell
Rothman
Payne
Holt
Menendez
dms - Actually I don't think most men are like that. Just some men who are squash-headed. Most of the men I know are very much not that way.
and Hal Turner is a complete loon, apparently. Oy.
BTW. It's really hard to find the typical Congressman's party affiliation on his/her website.
Most of them don't seem to go out of their way to advertise what party they belong to.
Woody G's Guitar--thanks for the link.
Re: Hal Turner's threats against 'radical' judges
IOKIYAR?
I mean, folks get ALL distressed by even a passing mention of my wish to hear about the Chimperor taking a Dime-Sized Hole™ on on national tv...
I was pretty sick that time - had a fever for about 3 days.
que lastima- pero you are sure you don't have any special powers? and silk isn't coming out from anywhere it shouldn't right?
jimi was one of kind.
dylan changed the way songs were written, jimi changed the way the guitar was played.
Damn right. Jimi opened my eyes from the first moment I heard him...
Little known fact: Jimi actually had a hand in designing his guitars, and one of his favorites had a toggle switch built into the back of it that would change the sound; he flipped it with the motion of his hips... that secret is one of the many reasons no one could figure out how the fuck he did all that with a guitar...
SWR, Chris Smith is my pick for worst NJ Congress critter. What's yours?
dms- well, i think it's silly. a smooth chest is nice, and i suppose i wouldn't want too much fuzz on a woman, but getting all busy with the razor before hitting the bars seems a bit too much for beauty.
believe Kerry sat on a comission regarding the tracking of missing or unaccounted Soviet nuclear materials
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And Led Zeppelin is extraordinarily overrated. Couldn't carry Hendix's empty roach clip.
Well, yeah. But only because he never let it get empty.
Tena:
and I spend a lot of time in mine dumps.
Just out of curiousity - why?
t's really hard to find the typical Congressman's party affiliation on his/her website.
Around here, candidates don't put their party on campaign yard signs. Noticed this trend for the last 10 years.
Oh fuck, I knew this was gonna happen, but so soon?
Terri Schiavo Made for TV Movie to be Shown in May
I figured the parents were already making deals before she even kicked.
SWR, Chris Smith is my pick for worst NJ Congress critter. What's yours?
None of them really stand out to me. Smith seems OK in his defense of veterans rights, horrible in his views on abortion.
I really wish Brozac had unseated Ferguson but I think the real issue is going to be the governers race and Lautenberg's retiring.
1.) The Republicans can't beat Corzine but Rove can pour money into the state to damage him. The Democrats in NJ are pretty corrupt and hated. The only thing that gives them they're advantage is the fact that the Republicans are just too stupid for words. But Rove could use the governers race to damage Corzine and reinvigorate the party.
2.) Lautenberg's retiring. The Republicans could pick up the seat. Lautenberg is far, far more liberal than the rest of New Jersey. But he's popular because he's been around forever.
I mean, folks get ALL distressed by even a passing mention of my wish to hear about the Chimperor taking a Dime-Sized Hole™ on on national tv...
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woody, this is beautiful. it's the truth, all we so is watch our backs and worry that we've gone too far. the wingnuts know no such limits. i'd go so far to say that there are certain phrases we are in terror of uttering.
focus - que lastima- pero you are sure you don't have any special powers? and silk isn't coming out from anywhere it shouldn't right? Shoot, I wish.
flory - Just out of curiousity - why?
Rocks. That's where the mine tailings are dumped - the minerals that come out of the deep earth where I can't get to them otherwise. Of course anymore they've mostly been so picked over that you have to find dumps that aren't well known and that usually entails some trespassing...
Her eyes, if you can't grok jazz, you probably will have a tough time with 12-tone. Jazz has (generally) a song structure upon which to improvise, so once you're connected with that, you have a chance of at least knowing where the soloist is. A 12-tone composition will eventually reveal its structure, but it may take much longer than most have the ears for. It's a step-by-step process of education, really. You could improve your understanding of jazz (if you want to, maybe you don't) by finding a recording of jazzers playing a song you know well, and then following the improv while keeping the melody in your head, or even singing along. Interestingly, this is what most jazz players do when soloing anyway. If you can do that, you'd have half a chance with 12-tone. I've been playing and composing for over 30 years, and there is very little 12-tone music that I can get with. Mostly Hindemith, and some of the larger operatic works of Webern and John Adams (although Adams mixes styles and techniques). I would recommend (even though not asked) some of the later recordings of Wes Montgomery, a fabulous guitarist who recorded quite a bit of "pop" stuff like California Dreaming and Going Out Of My Head. If you are truly looking to expand your musical tastes, congratulations, and best of luck.
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wow-
Simmering Carne Adobada
infuses the air inside Casa WGG/HD today...
also a pot of beans (pintos; i'd decidedly provincial in the matter of appropriate legumes for chile) on the stove...
grub for a week...yummers...
just sayin..
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So CD, is there a drinking liberally thing going on in Chicago? I will be visiting this week for a while and am curious.
Texas was originally a model for Federalist rollback... but the big farm/beef, then big oil/petrochem/war lobbies took it over...
Tena:
and I spend a lot of time in mine dumps.
Just out of curiousity - why?
For the ambiance, silly!
this type, bacon is responsible for the typing error. i hope ba'al found the aroma pleasing, however.
I figured the parents were already making deals before she even kicked.
Somebody commented yesterday that, as her executor and heir, Michael has control of her name and image. I wonder if the evil 'rents can contract for movie without his permission.
DWD- i think so, but i'm on dial up and you can probably look it up faster. drop me a line if you find one that fits your schedule, and we can have a mini eschacon if perhaps driftglass and other area atriots are up for it.
Of course anymore they've mostly been so picked over that you have to find dumps that aren't well known and that usually entails some trespassing...
Reminds me of my old days hunting mushrooms... for purely medicinal purposes, I assure you.
SWR, Chris Smith is my pick for worst NJ Congress critter. What's yours?
Karin --- 1:31 pm
Heather Wilson, R, NM 1st District gets my vote...AND my recommendation for a D-S H™...
She's considered heir apparent to Domenici...I hope Pete kicks off while Richardson (D) still is Guv, and can appoint a Dem to the seat...Tom Udall'd be a great choice...
just sayin...
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Florey, good point on Jimi's roach clip. And never forget, "you can't dust for vomit".
For the ambiance, silly!
rorschach
Well, d'oh!! Of course.
sallyh - Jeebus - that ought to be one fascinating made for TV movie. First she's overweight, then she loses weight and has a heart attack and becomes brain dead.
That's pretty much it for her. The rest of the story doesn't have that much to do with her.
oy.
If you are truly looking to expand your musical tastes
always looking to do that, i had a lot of music classes in high school, but the teacher was into musicals and opera, and not much jazz or improvisational stuff. and of course, high school was a very loooonggg time ago...
i did take a music class in college, (again, a loooong time ago) which focused on classical music and one of the requirements of the class was to go to an orchestral performance. i was glad the teacher did this, as i wouldn't have done it on my own. turns out, i enjoyed it very much.
thanks for the recommendations, i'll be sure to look into Wes Montgomery and John Adams too.
Terri Schiavo Made for TV Movie to be Shown in May
I figured the parents were already making deals before she even kicked.
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And of course the TV Terri will be making guteral(?) noises that sound a lot like "Hi Mom", "I wanna live", "Don't let activist judges kill me", "I like Bush", "Vote for Jeb...
and so on.
DWD- here's what i found.
Every Wednesday night, from 8:30-?, the Chi chapter of a national org calling itself "Drinking Liberally" meets on the 2nd floor of the Red Lion (2446 N. Lincoln) for drinkin' and politickin'. Check out their site, drinkingliberally.org, for their manifesto and more info.
but I think the real issue is going to be the governers race and Lautenberg's retiring.
I'm sure Corzine will win the governorship, the R's are in disarray. They've got 6 primary candidates. But with no incumbents running for Senate, I hope the R's don't pick up one of the seats. I think Holt will run for Senate, but who's going to get the other seat?
Heather Wilson, R, NM 1st District gets my vote
Ach, but she is one vile creature, is she not? When I left ABQ, I was so glad to bid farewell to her...
Of course, then I met Kay Bailey Hutchinson. Ach.
WGG - I just worry about you WRT: the dime-sized hole thing. I've adopted the saying in private conversation with my friends and family. I just don't want the SS to come knocking on your door or Atrios' door.
That's the only reason I ever got upset with you over it. Just trying to be somewhat prudent.
Hecate, Tena:
Sadly, I must agree, but is that the only reason?
Damn, are we men so unevolved?
Well, duh.
Almost makes one want to be transgendered.
And Chicago Dyke, what is with all of this male shaving? I don't have enough money for the razors.
For your delectation, the last line of my living will reads, "If Randall Terry ever becomes involved in this situation, do exactly the opposite of what he advocates."
Past 500 posts...
a 'thread' becomes a 'chain'...
just sayin...
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