I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Ding!
Hey, maybe we can all make a move and not leave the us borders! A conversion state!
Pssst. Steve. We're the only ones here.
whip cream!
I'm here, too.
(Oops - sorry 'bout that.
Whisper drive -- activated.)
Looks like they have some REAL conservatives in Montana, not just hysterical buffoons from the Schiavo-worshipping loony bin
Bully for the Montana legislature. The bipartisan nature of this will help later, when the Democrats re-take Congress and work to repeal Patriot.
When Bushco pisses off Montana, you know they've gone too far.
Good on them.
Even a small victory like the Montana resolution bolsters my fading hopes that non-blog-reading citizens are going to wake up and take back our better vision of our country. But I don't know how they could have failed to pay attention while it was being trashed.
Real life gets in the way of blogging.
What will they do to Grover once they figure out that he has big government and small reversed in his head?
They do have so many guns, and traps, and things...
I would have liked to have seen Montana...
Boy, I sure am a useless fuck.
Boy, I sure am a useless fuck.
-- Duncan Black
Right sentiment, wrong name.
Is there such a thing as a useless fuck?
.
>I would have liked to have seen Montana...
The sad part is if bush was the preznut when that happened the capt would have turned his boat back to the USSR....
First they elect a Democrat as Governor and now they slap down the overreaching Busheviks.
So much for 9/11 changing everything.
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Real life gets in the way of blogging.
Sallyh, Countess Aerohen
...???
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Boy, I sure am a useless fuck.
[namestealer as] Duncan Black
You know what's cruel? Eating makes your belly bigger, it makes your ass bigger, hell, it almost makes everything bigger, but not Little Mastr Whipple.
You know what's cruel? Eating makes your belly bigger, it makes your ass bigger, hell, it almost makes everything bigger, but not Little Mastr Whipple.
kei & yuri
I need to drown my sorrows. Where are the cookies?
Buy Duct tape and plastic... buy duct tape and plastic... oh, wait.
Well, Johnny "Calico" Asscroft isn't the Attorney General, anymore.
well, that was just for "Duncan." (AM?)
The Vatican will oppose the Patriot Act under my Pontificate.
"...useless fuck..."
Is that anything like the "superfluous blowjobs" that the exceedingly hot Margaret Cho was dispensing during her blotto years?
Personally, a Margaret Cho blowjob would absolutely not be considered superfluous if I was the lucky recipient of one.
The sad part is if bush was the preznut when that happened the capt would have turned his boat back to the USSR....
Ah...a true Sam Neil aficianado!
chompf...snarf.... didn't there used to be ice cream in the freezer?
Youse guys don't know nothing about the west.
And I'm also downstairs.
We're at the auction scene now!
Hmmm... Maybe I should be moving the family to Montana instead of Colorado.
Good to see some states are speaking out against the Patriot Act (Montana just being the most recent and the boldest).
You can see from this quote though
Rep. Bob Lake, R-Hamilton.
Is it a sacrifice of personal liberty to not be able to take a gun on an airplane? he asked. Is that the kind of thing this resolution objects to?
That they do have some busheviks there. Nothing like spreading the fear and stupidity. Thankfully they're apparently a minority though.
Boy, I sure am a useless fuck.
-- Duncan Black
Right sentiment, wrong name.
My apologies, Toonscribe, you useless fuck.
I couldn't help but notice on the CBS clip of Bush being led up to the front pews of St. Matthew's Cathedral tonight (by the Monsignor who did pre cana for my wife and me) that Bush didn't look happy. I don't think he likes Catholics other than when they cast votes for him.
Anyone remember the photo of Laura kissing the Pope's ring, with George in the background rolling his eyes?
I don't think Bush likes Catholics other than when they cast votes for him.
"I would have liked to have seen Montana..."
Some day I'll tell you about GWPDA's wild ride from Montana to BC to Calgary and back again.... Chouteau is lovely!
>Ah...a true Sam Neil aficianado!
Until the end of the world.
Real life gets in the way of blogging.
I know, it is so annoying.
The next pope is sure to be from Montana.
Anyone remember the photo of Laura kissing the Pope's ring, with George in the background rolling his eyes?
Well, she did use the tongue.
The next pope will be a French fry cook. As in, a fry cook from France.
And there's always Dillon - white picket fences and a state university and proto-kobe beef - what could be finer?
too bad it can't be Wellstone (sorry SWR, I just had to repeat it...)
he
And the Archbishop of Boise will supply the potatoes (Quayle).
My apologies, Toonscribe, you useless fuck.
Every fuck is sacred.
Every fuck is great.
If a fuck is wasted,
God gets quite irate.
GEPDA,
hmmmm, what could be finer is what we have for dinner tonight. BBQ suckling wild boar, homemade bread, green salad and peach pie. Sorry, I couldn't help myself, I had to tell someone.
My apologies, Toonscribe, you useless fuck.
Duncan Black
Manhattan:
2.5 parts premium rye (or whiskey)
.75 parts premium sweet vermounth
The key is to stir (rather than shake) swirling over cracked, not crushed ice
pour in your favorite martini glass and garnish with a cherry
enjoy!
$
"Tom Jones" is on NYC PBS channel 13. The young great Albert Finney.
Buy Duct tape and plastic... buy duct tape and plastic... oh, wait.
Well, Johnny "Calico" Asscroft isn't the Attorney General, anymore.
oldwhitelady
The new mantra is... blame the CIA... blame the bureaucracy... give more power to John Negroponte. All your power should belong to Negropontius the 1st.
"I don't think Bush likes Catholics other than when they cast votes for him."
Don't the fundies refuse to accept Catholics as Christians at all? They will talk about "Christians" and "Catholics" as different religions.
They feel the same way about Mormons. They still have that film circulating about Mormons--"The Godmakers," or something like that--which brands all Mormons as polytheist heretics. It's apparently very nasty.
So, here they all are--fundies, the right-wing branch of the Catholic church, and Mormons--hell bent on keeping women from getting contraception, gays from getting any sort of acceptance, and brain-dead victims of horrible circumstances from getting the relief of a peaceful death.
Wish they'd go back to turning on each other and leave the rest of us alone.
Two weeks ago, we had a memorial service in our small town marking the second anniverary of the Bush's Illegal War on Iraq. One speaker in particular moved me, and I asked him if I might publish his address. Here are his words preceding a reading of the names of all Georgians killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
SHG Master Assassin - all good, and probably no better end for a small bore boar than bbq... The peach pie tho, nnnnnnnnmmmies.
GWPDA, I share recipits if you like.
Is there such a thing as a useless fuck?
There ain't nothing hotter than a useless fuck.
Seriously, you ever tried to have a useful fuck?
BORING!!
Lolly, word that, why can't they just police their own membership and not try o force their beliefs on the rest of us?
SHG Master Assassin - peach pie, yes, boar, not much, but thanks!
Use the address in this secret message....
Lolly,
The fundies like Catholics when they vote their way, but most fundies, deep down, believe we Catholics worship Mary and the devil. I've never cracked one of the Left Behind books, but I understand that in those books the Catholic church is portrayed as the devil's church and all Catholics were left behind after the rapture. But if you need a good abortion clinic boycotting, the Southern Baptists don't mind us Catholics coming around.
Evening, freethinkers
Otter, may I swipe that for my blog?
Well, first of all, fuck Bob Lake.....
I might be movin' to Montana soon
Just to raise me up a crop of
Dental Floss
Raisin' it up
Waxen it down
In a little white box
I can sell uptown
By myself I wouldn't
Have no boss,
But I'd be raisin' my lonely
Dental Floss
Raisin' my lonely
Dental Floss
Well I just might grow me some bees
But I'd leave the sweet stuff
For somebody else...but then, on the other hand I'd
Keep the wax
N' melt it down
Pluck some Floss
N' swish it aroun'
I'd have me a crop
An' it'd be on top (that's why I'M movin' to Montana)
Movin' to Montana soon
Gonna be a Dental Floss tycoon (yes I am)
Movin' to Montana soon
Gonna be a mennil-toss flykune
I'm pluckin' the ol'
Dennil Floss
That's growin' on the prairie
Pluckin' the floss!
I plucked all day an' all nite an' all
Afternoon...
I'm ridin' a small tiny hoss
(His name is MIGHTY LITTLE)
He's a good hoss
Even though
He's a bit dinky to strap a big saddle or
Blanket on anyway
He's a bit dinky to strap a big saddle or
Blanket on anyway
Any way
Tom - Daai Tou Laam
Personally, I blame miserable failure. Hmmm. that doesn't roll off the tongue as well as "I blame bush".
Tom - Daai Tou Laam
Why is Asscorft called "calico"? I have two wonderful calicos, and I hate to see them associated with such a horrid person.
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Movin' to Montana soon...
Gonna be a 'Patriot Act' buffoon.
Stand 'em up and smack 'em down
Put 'em in little boxes
And bury 'em outsidea town...
SHG, Master Assassin,
No, it was that Asscroft feared calicos as the cats if the devil or somesuch. I never heard that he was actually called "calico",
And, yes, them calico girls are loverly!!
Go Montana! Now if only you guys would stop voting overwhelmingly for the presidential candidate with the "R" next to his name . . . .
GWPDA
will send peach pie instructions asap.
too much happy juice tonight to make sense of a good recipit.
BNight!
ot, but who do you have in the pool for the next pope? third world for sure. I know you guys don't give a shit or even think its important, but I love the conclave. Its the fourth one in my lifetime. The conclave is a lot more interesting than the funeral. Love to all you moonbats.
Lolly--I honestly think the Catholic Church made a devil's bargain by aligning themselves with the fundoids. We're still not regarded as real Christians by their ilk, even though we were the first ones on the block. It wasn't even till 1959 that Catholics were considered to have parity with their Protestant cohorts in this country.
Fred - ZAPPA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Roccocco--I think the cardinal from Honduras is considered to be a front runner, and is considered a moderate.
...zircon encrusted tweezers.....
Buffalo gal wontcha come out t'night
Come out t'night
Come out t'night
Buffalo gal wontcha come out t'night
And dance on John Ashcroft's spitoon...
lolly you are right on all three counts. It would be nice as you say, if they went back to fighting with each other.
Otter,
Thanks for providing us with that address. I was moved.
Sarah D.,
Zappa is the answer.
UP AGAINST THE WALL, MUTHA F***ERS!!!
Ripley, sure! Just link back to me if you would.
Was there someone here who wanted cookies?
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.
So, what? Are we ever right about anything?
If cognitive dissonance is a 12-tone row, then the folks out west are discovering that maybe they prefer Earl Scruggs to Schoenberg.
Or something.
There was something on a thread this morning about atonality.
Canaanite fertility gods get into strange spaces sometimes.
ESPECIALLY WHEN DEPRIVED OF THE PLEASING AROMAS.
Otter--truly moving and amazing. Thanks so much for linking.
And how is Mrs. Otter this evening?
chica, not true, I've had a lovely useful fuck or two.
Depends on the definition, I suppose...
I can't take any credit. The words are not mine. Unfortunately, I can't fully attribute them since I'm still trying to maintain some local anonymity.
Give me a pygmy pony
oh, sorry. Impolite in the extreme.
Good evening, everyone.
More like this, please...
Was there someone here who wanted cookies?
No thanks, I'm waiting for the peach pie.
Is that a real poncho or a sears poncho?
.
Sallyh,
Mrs Otter is fine. I took Eleanor and we disappeared shopping all day to give her a break.
Thanks for asking. I feel like we have nationwide support in this pregnancy.
turn me looose, set me free, somewhere in the middle of Montana......
I've had a lovely useful fuck or two.
Depends on the definition, I suppose...
oh, yes indeed.
"ESPECIALLY WHEN DEPRIVED OF THE PLEASING AROMAS."
Ba'al
Uh-oh, someone didn't get their fix today...
That's why I'm goin' to Katmandu
That's really really where I'm goin' to
If I ever get outta here
I'm goin' to Katmandu
Sallyh:
The archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Cardinal Oscar Andros Rodriguez, is one of Latin America's most visible Catholic leaders and a leading candidate to be the next pope. President of CELAM, the regional bishops" conference, from 1995 to 1999, Rodriguez brought to the post a balanced theological perspective that contrasted markedly with the conservative bent of his predecessors. Asked by Pope John Paul II to take the lead on the issue of foreign debt, Rodriguez became the chaplain of the international Jubilee movement, speaking in favor of the poor who are victimized by the massive flow of resources out of poor economies into northern banks. At home in Honduras, he helped do away with the secret police and fought government corruption. Trained in theology, psychology and classical piano, Rodriguez holds a pilot's license and speaks several languages.
On topic: Montana has a v. libertarian streak, and has also been fucked over economy-wise. Still votes for Bush, because of the whole fear of gun control. But also hates the Fed'r'l Gubmint.
(There are some interesting parallels between Montana and Alberta, too.)
chica, well, by my definition (entirely personal, you unnerstand), I've just had some goddamn lovely useful ones. Made me smile. Perhaps even laugh with joy.
I hate to blogwhore and run, but I promised Mrs Otter that I wouldn't be at the computer all night. I ask one favor:
If you were moved by my friend's message, please leave a comment. I will then share them with him. He's a great guy and I'd like him to see how powerful his words were.
'Night, all.
That's my plan, Sarah... a wee cabin in the woods and mountains, far away from the crapfest....
Paypal?
FUCK NO!!!
NEPAL!!!
I'd like to offer nitwit reporter on MSGOP, Lisa Daniels, for the burnt offering to Ba'al.
The Associated Press brings this excellent news from Baghdad:
what? that the name-stealing twatflap is still around?
Well, far be it for me to stand in the way of anyone's joy!
I have always preferred the unplanned and "out of nowhere". I'm operating on the assumption that "useful" means, roughly, planned.
You guys think this is great, but think about how Bush feels, don't you think we should take his feelings into consideration?
HAHA!
-eric: Revolutionary
Ah, Rip...the planet is so small now. but I wish you the best in finding a way away from the C'fest.
It just seems so fucking EVERYWHERE, y'know?? May you get away.
"(There are some interesting parallels between Montana and Alberta, too.)
pseudonymous in nc "
Why yes. Yes there are. 
Personally, I blame miserable failure. Hmmm. that doesn't roll off the tongue as well as "I blame bush".
oldwhitelady
I lubs me some bush... but I hate Furious George and his clan of Busheviks.
and Sarah... cats act as familiars for witches... and I'll leave explanations about the rift between witches and Asscroft to Hecate.
Does anyone know how babies get infected with a roto-virus?
Otter, sheer poetry,, thanks
You guys think this is great, but think about how Bush feels, don't you think we should take his feelings into consideration?
Yeah, Eric, I'd like to. Then I'd like to trample them.
And "trample" is a really understated euphemism.
Huh.
a wee cabin in the woods and mountains, far away from the crapfest....
Ripley | Email | Homepage
Worked for the Unabomber. 
Speaking of our neighbors to the north, they think we're dangerous idiots.
From Republican to Radical
A criticism?
Okay... That's something I guess.
If they had passed a law mandating non-compliance with the "PATRIOT" Act at a state level, I would be more impressed.
Cats are most noble creatures, indeed!
And such superstition regarding cats as "familars" led to the Black Death in Europe...kill the cats, thrill the rats--get it?
Good evening folks -- OT but I just got email about the Confronting the Judicial War on Faith Conference in DC April 7-8, sponsored by the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration.
Speakers will include Rep. Tom DeLay, Sen. Sam Brownback, Chief Justice Roy Moore, former Vatican Ambassador Ray Flynn, Alan Keyes, Phyllis Schlafly and many more.
(Read text of the Constitutional Restoration Act at Thomas, here
Now I'm wondering if all the emphasis on the nuclear option isn't just a smoke screen, that what they're really hoping to do is pass this thing . . . Any thoughts?
Lots o' libertarians in Montana, methinks.
I'm going for more of a "monk in the woods", Toon. Well, a monk with a hot tub, but a guy's gotta have some creature comforts, y'know...
Tom - Daai Tou Laam.
I have two cats who are as familiar w/me as they can be. I adore them, and it seems, they love me back, in animal fashion.
We are familiar w/one anotrher, and Asscroft is a small, pitiful excuse for a human being. And, yeah, Asscroft would do well to steer clear of witches, who could/would curse him most creatively.
Ripley! Try either Choteau or Dillon. Dillon MT, first all high-speed cabled town in the country, home of Big Sky Net and other weirdly wonderful things. And a state university too. Great little microclimate, great fishing. Niiiiiice place.
Lighting the grill for Ba'al, that I didn't type "hot tubE"...
Ba'al is surely blessing his monks tonite....
Cats are most noble creatures, indeed!
And such superstition regarding cats as "familars" led to the Black Death in Europe...kill the cats, thrill the rats--get it?
Fred Woolsey
Fred, yeah!!! Reap...sow.
They didn't get it, and they died. Although, usually, the wrong people die. The ones who decree should die, yet they rarely do.
"Chouteau is lovely!"
GWPDA, Irate Scholar 04.02.05 - 9:42 pm
You know Choteau? Augusta? Sun River? I spent Christmas/New Year's week backpacking up in the mountains a few years ago outside of Choteau. The guy pumping gas when I pulled into town asked if I knew that it gets cold up in the mountains at that time of year - precious. He had that right - but I survived and had one of the best weeks of my life.
GW, I've looked at some MT property. I found 60 acres on a montain for $125k but I'm not ready to buy yet, unfortunately.
Two weeks ago, we had a memorial service in our small town marking the second anniverary of the Bush's Illegal War on Iraq. One speaker in particular moved me, and I asked him if I might publish his address. Here are his words preceding a reading of the names of all Georgians killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Otter
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Otter,
That was a very funny April Fools pic link on your friday baby bogging pic. It made me laugh even while doing my taxes!
hmmmm, what could be finer is what we have for dinner tonight. BBQ suckling wild boar, homemade bread, green salad and peach pie.
Where the hell do you get peach pie this time of year????
jimmyraybob I do know Choteau. as pseud/nc notes, there are some similarities between Alberta and Montana.... I keep looking at things around Pincher Creek, Alta - but the whole area is of a piece to me. Waterton would be a fine, fine place as well. There's this house just over the line I dream about, sometimes....
From Republican to Radical
Sallyh
Sally h,
well...I know this is no surprise to you, and it sure isn't to me.
Actually, I completely understand, Ripley. A nice cabin, some good books, an internets connection, a hot tub, and a decent winecellar -- what more could any sane person require, other than a charming companion of the preferred gender.
I frequently have fantasies of being some kind contempletive hedonist hermit (okay, maybe a bit tough to put all three of those together). Mountains, deserts, a windswept coast -- they all have their attractions. A simple life, but complete.
goping away for a while. gosh I like you all.
oops...goIng.
Ripley--I think you'd thrive on that sort of life, from what you've described. For some reason, however, I need the city. I've always lived near major metropolitan coastal areas, and the thought of being too far away from the 24-hour whirl is too weird for me to contemplate.
But, I also need the water, which is why I've never been inclined to move to a noncoastal state--and that was before the 2000 coup.
CS--I've been worried for some time that this is exactly their intent and purpose.
GWPDA, Irate Scholar
Good to have dreams of distant places.
I've spent many a night under the sky in Montana/Idaho/Wyoming but have never been to Alberta.
Are there any so-awful-they're-great movies on SciFi tonight?
"I've spent many a night under the sky in Montana/Idaho/Wyoming but have never been to Alberta."
It's pretty much the same place - just filled with people who don't move their lips when they speak.
My own! My native land! Or, mmmmyyy ownnnnmyyyntvelndddd...
Exactly, Toon. Me and a couple dogs (Whoa, Mr Santorum - back up!) and a peaceful life.
Here's my first entry for Monday Nite Cabin Blogging
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"...just filled with people who don't move their lips when they speak."
That cold, huh?
"That cold, huh?"
That too.
Night-night.
It's either that or living on a boat somewhere, Sally. I was born a water rat, so I could do the houseboat thing or a small sailboat in the islands.
Basically, I want out of the mainstream hustle and bustle....
Just Another Terrorist Organization Gone Terminal on Itself: "High-stakes freaks like David Duke and Manuel Noriega and John Poindexter and 'Redrum' Rumsfeld would be sipping pina coladas poolside, along with Gordon Liddy and Oliver North and Tommy Franks, shacking up together as one big delusional and happy family in a single - albeit monstrous - Mandalay Bay-like existence all tucked away forever, with a fully stocked open bar and satellite TV beaming Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous reruns and overflowing platters of tropical fruit and Don Ho yodelling Tiny Bubbles behind the Hawaiian organ and hordes of tanned topless servants lapping the grease and shards of meat from their fat fingers while others comb at the thin hairs on the backs of their necks, insulating them from all the struggles of the outside world."
[ New Photo of Jeb "Fredo" Bush available ]
Checked your blog, Ripley. Very nice cabins. I think I like the first one best. When I lived in Tennessee, I used to dream about living on a houseboat on the Tennessee River. Like Sallyh, I've always been partial to water, but a good lake or river system will do -- I don't need the coast.
I think I’m so sophisticated
’cos I’m living my life like a good homosapien
But all around me everybody’s multiplying
Till they’re walking round like flies man
So I’m no better than the animals sitting in their cages
In the zoo man
’cos compared to the flowers and the birds and the trees
I am an ape man
I think I’m so educated and I’m so civilized
’cos I’m a strict vegetarian
But with the over-population and inflation and starvation
And the crazy politicians
I don’t feel safe in this world no more
I don’t want to die in a nuclear war
I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an ape man
I’m an ape man, I’m an ape ape man
Oh, I’m an ape man I’m a king kong man, I'm a voodoo man, oh I’m ape ape man
’cos compared to the sun that sits in the sky
Compared to the clouds as they roll by
Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies
I am an ape man
In man’s evolution he has created the cities and
The motor traffic rumble, but give me half a chance
And I’d be taking off my clothes and living in the jungle
’cos the only time that I feel at ease
Is swinging up and down in a coconut tree
Oh what a life of luxury to be like an ape man
I’m an ape, I’m an ape ape man, Oh I’m an ape man
I’m a king kong man, I’m a voo-doo man
Oh I’m an ape man
I look out the window, but I can’t see the sky
’cos the air pollution is fogging up my eyes
I want to get out of this city alive
And make like an ape man
Come and love me, be my ape man girl
And we will be so happy in my ape man world
I’m an ape man, I’m an ape ape man, Oh I’m an ape man
I’m a king kong man, I’m a voo-doo man
Oh I’m an ape man
I’ll be your tarzan, you’ll be my jane
I’ll keep you warm and you’ll keep me sane
we’ll sit in the trees and eat bananas all day
Just like an ape man
I’m an ape man, I’m an ape ape man, Oh I’m an ape man
I’m a king kong man, I’m a voo-doo man
Oh I’m an ape man.
I don’t feel safe in this world no more
I don’t want to die in a nuclear war
I want to sail away to a distant shore
And make like an ape man.
The Kink's, ofcourse.
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Bless all of you who have the $$ to escape the maddENing crowd. I, and many, must live amongst them, ride the bus, etc. Get our hands filthy.
I so long to be free of my fellow humans that I wonder at the need in me.
Ripley--the cabins and settings look lovely. Just keep Santorum away from the pups, y'hear?
Sallyh -- Thanks for the response. I've followed the Constitutional Restoration Act off and on and mostly been poo-poo'd when I sound alarms about it. Now the bill's Senate sponsor, Richard Shelby, says there are enough votes to pass it!
Whoa, very strange, Ripley. I posted my houseboat fantasy before I read yours.
Once again: great minds think alike.
Women and blacks, can't do maths, according to the scientific facts.
I lived on a boat once. It was like camping out. (We were on a mooring and had no electricity or running water. But I became very good at rowing, and could parallel park a 16-foot dinghy.)
Must be nice to be able to buy one's way out of harm's way.
I hate the bastards.
That is all.
Sarah Deere,
It doesn't have to be terribly expensive to escape for a week or two. Within three days of anywhere is an adventure beyond description. Imagination and a willingness to escape the bubble can get you there.
a willingness to escape the bubble can get you there.
jimmiraybob
What if your definition of "doesn't have to ber terribly expensive"?
Imagination, I have. That means my vaca is a complete fantasy, not real.
SD
Fantasies are inexpensive and comforting. Reality is often a hard smack in the face. I have no money to buy my way out of anywhere. Unless one of the two major writing gigs I'm up for come through, my next address of reality may be a cardboard box beside the Ventura Freeway.
The Kink's, of course.
There's an even better version of Apeman by the Esso Trinidad Steel Bank.
I had been searching for this song for some time, and dave helped me find it the other night.
Evening, freebats. Not too suprising that folks in Montana would come up with this, as they seem to lean toward the libertarian side of conservatism.
What is suprising is that the party machinery didn't invoke chimpy's "cult of personality" chant in order to quash it. I'm sure the Schiavo circus didn't do them any favors there.
Flashing back to the post from the other day (Crystal on Soap), I happened to catch an old episode of Bonanza on TV. Must have been an old halloween episode, because witchcraft was invoked.
Much to my suprise, it wasn't completely demonized and ridiculed, and this was on a show that was very much mainstream family fare. Can you imagine the full diapers Wildmon and his crew would be sporting if they had witchcraft on "Touched by the 7th Angelic Priest" or whatever family dreck it is that they crank out nowadays?
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Off topic riposte: Cardinal Rodriguez is also the head of the religious order known as the Salesians. You may have heard of them, they were in the news last year for shuffling their pedo priests between countries. When asked about it, Rodriguez said, "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." (Per the Dallas Morning News.)
He also said some nasty things about journalists after this incident, comparing them to Domitian, Diocletian, Hitler and Stalin.
Yeah, bring this guy in and we know that Cardinal Rico Suave won't investigate anything.
Steel Band, that is, not Bank. You can listen to a sample at the link.
Toonscribe,
Yeah, I hear you. I have my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes (getting more threadbare, the more years I accrue), and I am grateful for them.
What irritates me, though, are those for whom fantasies are not neccesary, who haven't one fucking clue what it's like to live on the Other Side.
I honestly wish everone the best -- the only thing I ask in return is that they realize and acknowledge that their personal, priviliged reality is not the norm.
SD
"Much to my suprise, it wasn't completely demonized and ridiculed, and this was on a show that was very much mainstream family fare."
which just goes to show how far to the right the "mainstream" has shifted, or the extent to which we'll go to avoid offending the minority fringe theocrats.
Jack Germond is great.
Johnny Apple is fine.
Tim Russert is a stupid fuck.
Wow. I haven't read the comments here at Eschaton in some time and I have to say I really, really hope that Duncan shitcans this blogger crap.
To summarize what I have read so far.
You're a usless fuck. No YOU'RE a uselss fuck. Wait there are no useless fucks. AND there are no useless blowjobs, especially Margaret Cho is giving. A limerick or two, maybe a missed haiku. Something about desserts. Some song lyrics. Impossible to follow any conversation if there were one.
Does anyone have anything to say about the original post by Atrios?
Is this how all the threads progress here these days? Or is it a weekend thing?
Would you recommend this blog and the comments to someone who you'd like to convert to our side?
Perhaps Atrios should just post a progression of open threads with a random fortune cookie for the title... the conversation would probably be more enlightening.
End of rant, but this place has gone downhill.... way downhill.
Evening Moonbats.
The thing about basketball is that sometimes you have to put the rock through the net. Oh well, Go Illini!
as long as there are human beings, there will be no such thing as a "peaceful life".
We're not capable of it.
...my next address of reality may be a cardboard box beside the Ventura Freeway. -Toonscribe
On the plus side, I understand that the days are longer, and the nights are stronger, than moonshine there. Of course, you have to watch out for the alligator lizards in the air.
Sarah Deere
I've travelled from the midwest to N.Idaho and Boston on $10-$20 hitchhiking (fun but not necessarily recommended these days).
Also traveled in an old VW bug, VW bus, and Toyota Corrola ($100-200 vehicles & expendable).
Greyhound - not terribly pleasant and doesn't get you to the backcountry but can cover long distances cheap.
Amtrak - one of my favorites. Decent travel (take own munchies) and goes to a lot of great places and you get to meet a lot of people along the way. Not the absolute cheapest but a great way to go. My favorite is the Empire Builder (Chicago through Glacier National Park to Seatle).
And then there's just getting out of the city with a tent and a sleeping bag. Lot's of state parks well worth the visit.
Don't you people have lives? Reading blogs on a Saturday night, you should be out partying, like me (ya right).
James Wolcott has a post titled "The Lord Is My Shepard Smith." J.W. should have his own cable news show, he would kill.
OT, but I met Chuch Pennacchio(www.chuck2006.com) last night in Pittsburgh, what a guy. A true progressive democrat, in the mold of Paul Wellstone or Howard Dean (at least the 2004 version of Howard Dean). He's been running against Santorum, now he's running against his own party's annointed anti-choice cantidate, Bob Casey. I don't know if it's proper to campaign for a candidate in haloscan world, but this guy sure could use some help($).
Yeah, I can see the libertarian streak in MT, but not the 'hating the fed gvt' part.
Water subsidies, grazing subsidies, timber subsidies, electricity subsidies, blahblahblah.
They don't hate the fed, just those nasty welfare people.
I keep hearing that Montana is very very close from going from red to blue.
I think this is a big step in that process.
A toast to the State of Montana.
If anyone can tell a wolf in sheeps clothing it is Montanans. Vermont salutes them.
"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]”
Sign It. eMail It. Today. Now.
http://johnkerry.com/petition/us...on/
usatoday.php
I keep hearing that Montana is very very close from going from red to blue.
Would that be the ranchette vote?
"Jack Germond is great."
You think? I thought he was the only sane one on McLaughlin way back, but after reading his book didn't think of him as much more then a fat, lazy drunk.
Women and blacks, can't do maths, according to the scientific facts.
Ted Smith
Oh, c'mon!
You know real, true, loyal MURKANS aren't supposed to pay attention to librul 'litist stuff like that thar science!
Espumoso ,
what would you have people do>
Dispassionately debate one issue after another, point by point, and perhaps have judges at the end hold up cards wirh Numbers 1-5 to indicate how one poster performed over another?
How would you choose topics?
Who would you allow to debate?
The world is not so clean and neat, these days. It is instant, it demands an almost automatic response, off the top of one's head. The rift is real, the consequences of one's chosen "side" deeply telling.
You have tine for intellectual games?
Go ahead on, and best of luck.
I keep hearing that Montana is very very close from going from red to blue.
Depends on what kind of voting machines they have.
Epumoso,
Didn't really notice till you came around. (BWSEG)
Honestly, every once in a while someone will come here and post a message about how the blog has fallen on hard times and then leave again.
Well, if you think your presence could raise the level of discourse, then by all means contribute. If you just want to come here and feel all sanctimonious and shit: then don't bother.
I have seen the most erudite posts (and the most inane) given here. I guess the answer is somewhere in the middle. But I, for one, have never met a better group of intelligent people who are willing to state their beliefs so eloquently.
End of rant, but this place has gone downhill.... way downhill.
Espumoso
Dude, thanks for Totally helping me see the light. I was going to post a comment about what life in America means to ME but now I realize that I should tailor my comments to those savant critics of All Things Blog.
God, I feel like such a fool. Imagine, using the internets for expressing my selfish opinion when there are enlightened folk such as yourself reading my comments and being held down by my lack of concern for Your Life and interests.
Ba'al give me the strenth to stay awake, the wisdom to read the comments and the whateverthefuck to form my own opinions and occasionally type them here.
Notice the bitching commenter who doesn't have anything to say about "Duncan's" post either.
On second thought, don't.
Espumoso,
Thanks for dropping by. You should come by again on bad pun night. Have a good life.
jimmiraybob,
Okay, point made and taken!
SD
JeffCO
I have alligator lizards in my backyard right now. They don't fly through the air though.
Jack Germond died of a heart attack 5 years ago.
"Ba'al give me the strenth to stay awake, the wisdom to read the comments and the whateverthefuck to form my own opinions and occasionally type them here."
Too bad he missed the scintillating debate over Geddy Lee, or been enlightened by jazz hands. That woulda fixed him.
"Would you recommend this blog and the comments to someone who you'd like to convert to our side?"
-espumoso
And which "side" is that?
Hey espumoso? Go read Pravda or something willya? You obviously don't get the concept of Free Speech.
"Jack Germond died of a heart attack 5 years ago."
Wha? No way!
Jack Germond=RW Apple=Tom Wicker.
Sarah Deere,
I've found that "escaping" comes in fits and starts and I've been terrible at it lately (still dream though - any day now) - good luck.
Slap that puck-ass lightweight down, Ripley.
Yes!!
Score one for the home state.
If this keeps up, I'll have to move back.
Some regions of [America] will do better than others in the Long Emergency. The Southwest will suffer in proportion to the degree that it prospered during the cheap-oil blowout of the late twentieth century. ... I'm not optimistic about the Southeast, either...I think it will be subject to substantial levels of violence as the grievances of the formerly middle class boil over and collide with the delusions of Pentecostal Christian extremism. The latent encoded behavior of Southern culture includes an outsized notion of individuals and the belief that firearms ought to be used in the defense of it. This is a poor recipe for civic cohesion.
A little heavy for a Saturday PM. But do read the rest of this Rolling Stone article about living in America on the other side of the oil peak.
Elaine Supkis would love this one.
Breaking Op-Ed!
"When will Liberals stop killing Popes???"
Ann Coulter, post-production editing by Rush Limbaugh
Who wants to be second?
...but this place has gone downhill.... way downhill.
Espumoso
compared to what? the reverse progression of nostalgia... no, wait think as i think, not that...wait oh yeah if yer not being useful yer being useless...
The Eschaton comments threads are an acquired taste, that's true. One has to wade through a lot of troll crap, for one thing. But it has the sharpest minds that I have found on the liberal side of the blogosphere and some of the weirdest and nicest people, too.
In fact, I realized that I'm probably addicted to reading these threads, and that I should join a twelve-step program to cure my addiction. But I'm so weak!
jimmiraybob.
someone very wise taught me long ago the benefit of the "5-minute vacation". I have employed them often.
I lenghthen them whenever, however, I can!!
Today, I had about 10 hrs worth, and my husband and I had a lovely time, and kept worries at bay!!
Christ on a watercracker, Espumoso, lighten up.
Like life, the discussion ebbs and flows, all the way from the sublime to the profane and everywhere in between. Join a debate club if you need that sort of structure.
Shorter version: Lighten up, Francis.
Notice the bitching commenter who doesn't have anything to say about "Duncan's" post either.
*ding,ding,ding!* Just another troll tactic. Distant cousin to the "I'm a concerned lifelong Democrat but let's talk about Kerry's medals" strategy. Yawn.
You get people reluctant to comment, they don't come by as much, site traffic goes down, ad revenues diminish, site loses power. Troll economics.
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Epusmo, you said you were walking out. So why are you still here?
Has anyone else noticed that the Eschaton comments threads have totally gone to crap since 11:06 this evening.
Atrios should just quit blogging, obviously.
I took a glimpse at the RS article and decided to save it for a day when I'm manically happy and want to slow myself down...might be a while...
"When will Liberals stop killing Popes???"
Ripley, that's right! We killed the Pope! And Terri Schiavo!
How come it's not working for Jerry Falwell?
Btw, if you folks haven't checked out Elaine's blog, you're missing some damned fine writing.
Lainey's Blog
Cuz I'll bet she'll be pissed at me for calling her Lainey, but deep down I think she finds it endearing... no, way deep down... no, further... way, way de.. oh hell, she's not here and I gave her a blogpimp... god...
Smart people in Montana. Never been there, but I like them already.
The judicial war on faith? WTF? DeLay was just warming up. The modern day puritans have lost their freaking minds.
TOW
This vote in Montana will show its citizens who the real Americans are. The Bushevics will all be voting against it, of course, their true colors showing through.
"How come it's not working for Jerry Falwell?
Sallyh "
Evil Incarnate is a tough cookie to crack. However, we are searching for the touch stone for dissolution. The team in Africa should be back anytime now once they have dickered with an obscure mountain tribe and wedded each of the tribal chief's daughters. In the meantime, the best we can say is be patient and break out the popcorn if Falwell starts going downhill.
Ripley--indeed, Elaine gives very good blog.
Check out David Sirota's blog- he moved out to Montana recently, and is reporting on the populist trend out there.
http://www.davidsirota.com/
Eshatonia: What do you want?
Espumoso: Information
Eshatonia: Whose side are you on?
Espumoso: That would be telling... We want information...information...information
Eshatonia: You won't get it
Espumoso = The New Number 2
Bush: "America mourns the loss of Pope John Paul II... and the crisis of Social Security, which is why I've introduced Terri's Law, which privatizes all paychecks so that people have a choice in how they... well, how they feel about freedom and democracy."
Report Cites 103 Taser-Related Deaths
Fri Apr 1,12:26 AM ET
U.S. National - AP
PHOENIX - There were 103 Taser stun gun-related deaths in the United States and Canada between June 2001 and March 2005, according to an Amnesty International report released Friday.
Damn good thing they didn't shoot those people, huh?
Everyone here seems to be in agreement that Falwell should join Terri and the Pope, and hurry up and die. Sounds good to me.
Terri and the pope were human beings and also Catholics, and were prayed for.
Falwell, on the other hand, is a slime creature who crawled out from under a rock, and is not being prayed for by Catholics that I know of.
If we can get some Catholics to pray for Falwell, maybe he'll die soon and arrive in hell before the Pope.
Germond and Apple were just on The Tim Potatohead Show on CNBC. It'll be rebroadcast sometime over the next days.
Germond has vast political knowledge and insight, and I do not detect even a whiff of media whore about him.
There are almost no political reporters coming up like him and the other greats. A fat lazy drunk is not a totally bad thing to be, if you also serve the Republic as an honest reporter.
That said, I'll admit John Harwood at the WSJ is excellent and getting better.
Clark/Schweitzer 08
In all seriousness, is this just a weekend thing, or is it like this all the time these days?
Like others have mentioned, there are some of the most erudite, talented and insightful people posting on this blog and that is what I remember about Eschaton MMIV.
I guess I'll just lurk more and not post to get a feel for Eschaton MMV.
Happy posting.
"If we can get some Catholics to pray for Falwell, maybe he'll die soon and arrive in hell before the Pope."
Reality Check Bouncer
Falwell has his own special circle of hell reserved just for him, at least until Dobson, Phelps, Kennedy, DeLay and all the other nutjobs join him.
You talk of your reporters and journalists... feh!
There are none who can equal Rob Corddry and Ed Helms from TDS. Steve Colbert has surely taught them well....
It's the same as it ever was.
clean sheets upstaris, folks
Remember, the Million Dollar Weekend also means ignoring those who think humor has lost its place.
Where the hell is Dave? I'm getting tired of having to line up all the sponsors.
I may have missed the discussion, (I was napping earlier) but driftglass has a kickass blog. So much talent available in the blogosphere, and on the teebee it's a virtual wasteland. Why does the teebee hate 'merika?
Lisa Daniels, idiot MSNBC reporter that got bitchslapped by Dr. Cranford on Scarborough last week, has hosted a special "Schiavo, Lessons" (or something like that. It was supposed to run this afternoon but was preempted by the Pope coverage.
LOLLY:"Don't the fundies refuse to accept Catholics as Christians at all? "
Church cuts ties to food pantry because of Catholics
Associated Press Posted on Sat, Mar. 19, 2005
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com...al/
11177445.htm
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A church has withdrawn its support for a food pantry serving the needy because the pantry works with Roman Catholics.
Central Church of God explained its decision in a letter March 1 from minister of evangelism Shannon Burton to Loaves & Fishes in Charlotte.
"As a Christian church, we feel it is our responsibility to follow closely the (principles) and commands of Scripture," the letter said.
"To do this best, we feel we should abstain from any ministry that partners with or promotes Catholicism, or for that matter, any other denomination promoting a works-based salvation."
...there are some of the most erudite, talented and insightful people posting on this blog and that is what I remember about Eschaton MMIV.
Dear Penthouse, i never thought i would be posting here but... i am a psychiatrist at a home for wayward college cheerleaders and one night...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz
Espumoso: What do *you* have to say about Atrios' post?
Me, I read the article, and I'm glad to see Montana stand up to the Patriot Act, but like the R state rep who voted against it said, "so what?"-- it's too fricken late now-- cooler heads seem to rarely prevail in this media driven world.
Your turn.
Great article, Res Ipsa.
"To do this best, we feel we should abstain from any ministry that partners with or promotes Catholicism, or for that matter, any other denomination promoting a works-based salvation."
My god's better than your god,
My god's better than yours.
My god's better,
'Cause you face eternal dam-na-tion.
My god's better than yours!
"Germond has vast political knowledge and insight, and I do not detect even a whiff of media whore about him.
There are almost no political reporters coming up like him and the other greats. A fat lazy drunk is not a totally bad thing to be, if you also serve the Republic as an honest reporter."
Oh, I don't think he's a whore. It's just that after reading his book he seemed to want only two things: the way things used to be when he could drink with pols, and more drinking. Prett freaking sad to old, fat and drunk...spending all his time looking back and not forward.
Governor Schweitzer rocks!
Dear Jesus:
About your Fan Club in North Carolina, don't you think it's time to revoke their club charter?
Your pal,
Chris
Here's what's the matter:
Montana hates America.
pleased by the news, and i dislike the red states like montana as much as the next guy, but making fun of the helena circle k is the kind of thing that gets those yahoos' dander up and makes them vote against their interests -- and ours. we need to embrace the circle k
They've plainly lost their minds and succumbed to common sense. Hopefully this is the beginning of a Great Awakening (says a guy represented in the Senate by Inhofe and Coburn).
So Eddie Haskell's calling himself "epusmo" these days... well, a moronic brownshirt fuck by any other name...
Here in Pittsburgh snow has fallen.
This isn't right.
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"we feel we should abstain from any ministry that partners with or promotes catholicism, or for that matter, any other denomination promoting a works-based salvation."
the catholic church does not promote a "works based salvation". i can't imagine where this person got the idea that it does.
I have seen some of this in rural Missouri as well: gun-totin', Confederate-flag-flyin' commie-hatin' conservaties who ..... don't like George W. Bush and what he does. They seem to recognize better than the so-called "moderate Republicans" that once you let the tiger out of the cage it is very unlikely it will stop after eating the guy you don't like.
Cranky
I like works based salvation. Otherwise you can live a life of rapine and pillage and still go to heaven if you say the right magic words.
Isn't Montana where they're building all of the internment camps?
So does this mean they'll kick out senator Conrad Burns in 2006? He voted for it.
Oh, wait. So did Baucus.
Hello out there! Anybody ready to run against the weasels and thugs who either enthusiastically support, or collaborate with, the current fascist administration?
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