I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Yessssssssss!
woooohoooo
um?
The repubs are ruining my trollishness with their last 3 weeks of idiocy.
I must hide.
p.s.-
I'm watching Cuomo on Bill Maher's show and it seems he should be the one explaining the Democrat position on religion.
He's a good talking head.
Well said. I shudder that anyone - ANYONE - would make use of that chilling comment.
They want the world and they want it now.
They'll settle for a xtian theocracy in the U.S. with Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson as the leader.
I was listening to that panel earlier today. These people are cherry picking info from disparate sources and putting it together to form a new whole. Basically, they are saying that judges need to be held answerable to the people. Since judges have lifetime appointments they are pushing for impeachment. Fuckwits. They are recommending that any judge that believes in a "living constitution" should be removed from the bench. The fundies will not be happy until we regress two hundred years.
Another day, another outrage.
QL,
did you yhrow yer arms in the air?
And, btw, "Advocating" is misspelled in the header.
if you don't kill some of 'em, they aint gonna learn nothing.
sick
The fundies will not be happy until we regress two hundred years.
QL in NY
And then their next crusades will include repealing the Magna Carta and The Enlightenment.
"i doubt that any of the people doing the advocating actually plan on following through themselves. . ."
i don't doubt it at all.
btw, where is the outrage over eric rudolph not getting the death penalty?
I guess a lifetime appointment cuts both ways.
Who shall reconstruct our country?
did you yhrow yer arms in the air?
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No way - I am taking these ratfucking mofos very seriously. The world kind of ignored them being all polite and not daring to comment on someone's religion, and look what has happened. They have taken over my country and I want it back damnit.
Excellent point. I'd like to echo Atrios from below. God, I hate these people.
"Ms. Lane, the art teacher, said that when Heritage High first learned that immigration agents had picked up the girl, one of her best friends asked if someone from the school might have denounced her as an illegal immigrant. "I remember telling her the government doesn't go after 16-year-old girls," Ms. Lane said. "And in the last few days, I'm wrestling with the fact that, yes, it does.""
These fuckers need to have their rage redirected right back at them. In my eyes they are no better than pedophiles. They sure can dish it out, but I'd bet not a one of them could handle the scrutiny if it was directed back at them.
Again, the valedictorian to a dying thread
i posted this at the end of the previous conversation...
I remember telling her the government doesn't go after 16-year-old girls," Ms. Lane said. "And in the last few days, I'm wrestling with the fact that, yes, it does.""
Seebach - 4:50 pm
this raises a REALLY salient point, folx...
We have to be careful to discriminate, rhetorically, between the 'government' and the 'regime'!
Cuz if we bring the Bushevik REGIME down, but in doing so, are seen to have also finally destroyed 'government,' then they will have won, in despite of us...
...just sayin...
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WoodyGsGuitar/Happy Desperado | Email | Homepage | 04.09.05 - 4:54 pm
and i want to re-iterate that.
We must never blame 'government' for the actions of the REGIME.
i have said often that i believe these folks see themselves as scavvengers at a shipwreck, awaiting--in not inducing--the wreck of a rich prize...
if that be so, and evidence seems irrefutably to suggest it, then the end of popular respect for 'government' at all would suit their designs all too well...
yes, i was born at 4:20 am, 4/20/194(something), into a family whose surname, in it's original toungue, probaably would be now translated as "Hempster..."
just sayin...
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I hear there are some new camps opening up. Oh, I like camps.
Re-education camps? Well, I suppose I could earn another degree.
Speaking of crazy, check out the 3rd grader acting world leaders (via RawStory):
Iran denies contact with Israel
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has denied speaking to Israel's president at the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
Moshe Katsav says they exchanged words, but Mr Khatami told Iranian media the "allegations are false" and that they had not shaken hands.
Syria has confirmed that its leader shook hands with the Israeli president, but added that this did not change Syria's position on the Jewish state.
Cooties?
"According to a government document provided to The New York Times by a federal official earlier this week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has asserted that both girls are "an imminent threat to the security of the United States based on evidence that they plan to be suicide bombers." No evidence was cited, and federal officials will not comment on the case."
yeah baby, "bring it on!"
The Culture of Death.
damn, atrios hates alot of people today. me too.
No way - I am taking these ratfucking mofos very seriously.
Sorry, I meant about the first comment.
I was attempting to bring a small amount of levity into a rather horrendous day on the theocratic front.
I had a picture of QL with arms extended and you said Yeeeeeeeeees, is all.
Carry on with the outrage.
If one good thing comes out of Bush's re-election, it may be that it's emboldened the ninnycons to say out loud what they actually think. And hopefully that will set their cause back twenty years.
Afternoon, freethinkers
Delay canceled to attend the Pope's funeral?
An independent judiciary lasted a surprisingly long time in the third reich, but when it went, the game was up. This Viera character may insist that he did not really mean that judges should be killed, but what they are explicitly advocating - wholesale impeachment based on opinions rendered, not malfeasance - is the next closest thing. And, some weak-minded wingnut (is there any other kind?) will at some point take Stalin's advice literally. As Steve Gilliard says, these people are beyond the GOP's control now.
I really, really hate these fuckers.
There's no doubt that they're trying to intimidate the judiciary.
So what do we do about these assholes? They aren't going to be happy until we're all living in the united states of jeebus.
And you know what? none of the republicans I know are going to be happy living there.
Carry on with the outrage.
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Sorry Kent - I just see things spiraling out of control. Nothing much gives me pleasure since last November. One bright spot - Franken was talking about one of the recent polls that said something like 40%+ of repukes want the dems in congress to hold the repukes back from enacting their more egregious laws. Then why the fuck did they vote for them?
As my good friend Bill Moyers recently stated: "The delusional is no longer marginal."
Think about that. Let it sink in. The delusional is no longer marginal.
Delay canceled to attend the Pope's funeral?
Apparently he spoke to them via video link.
I hate that fucker. Hate him.
Carter was stunned when he was showing Reagan around the White House and Reagan mused about wishing he had the North Korean doctator's powers. We've had near a quarter century of experience with these people since then -- we should no longer be surprised.
think as i think or you are a toad... a dead one.
So what do we do about these assholes? They aren't going to be happy until we're all living in the united states of jeebus.
Does that mean we can go back to usury prohibition?
but...but...but... there are no men in the gop. Does that mean there's no problem?
I'm confused now, will somebody please take me home?
How bad are things when the repukes are alarming ether?
I mean, damn!
Carter was stunned when he was showing Reagan around the White House and Reagan mused about wishing he had the North Korean doctator's powers.
No kidding? Well, that explains a lot.
Did Ann or Michelle ever contact you Ripley?
You know, that "no man, no problem" phrase can cut two ways.
They should be careful there.
False flag, those girls were no threat. Just another excuse for nazi stronghand tactics.
We've been attacked multiple times since 9-11. A jet plane crash in Jersey. An explosion "like Lightening" heard at the niagra damn and a blackout thereafter. Oil refinery fires at several locations and a series of domextic chem storage facility fires all after 9-11 and several in a proximity development line to suggest a logistical trek across southern and southeastern states.
All we have to show for it is Tom Ridge's soy oat smile, Chertoff's coverup of the 9-11 money trail including wall street selloffs and Al Qaeda fund diversion from his client, an HMO scam artist.Anthrax targeting people opposed to the war.
Demand answers for other incidents from you representatives.
And you know what? perhaps we should start calling for the impeachment of these congressmen and other asshats who push for unconstitutional measures.
Delay would be at the top of my list.
I doubt any of the people doing the advocating actually plan on following through themselves, but they're probably hoping they'll inspire others.
Just like their fellow radical fundamentalist, Osama bin Laden.
QL in NY,
no problem at all, I understand perfectly. Sometimes I feel like the lady in Fahrenheit 451 who stays in her house while the firemen torch the place, correction, while she drops the match and goes up with the books. Between that and fits of homocidal anger, I am just doing swell.
They aren't going to be happy until we're all living in the united states of jeebus.
And you know what? none of the republicans I know are going to be happy living there.
Yes, but the Commanders in Gilead had special privileges to do whatever the fuck they wanted, remember?
"Well?" he says. "What do you think of our little club?"
I look around me again. The men are not homogenous, as I first thought...
"It's a club?" I say.
"Well, that's what we call it among ourselves. The club."
"I thought this sort of thing was strictly forbidden," I say.
"Well, officially," he says. "But everyone's human, after all."
They'll just make the rest of us live by their fucked-up bible rules. They won't have to.
Welcome to Gilead.
Demand answers for other incidents from you representatives.
Oh, right.
My representative is Lamar Smith, a man who gets his jollies from licking Tom Delay's asshole.
san antone rose- that's a bummer they are denying incident. It was the one positive thing (bush being booed was sublime) I considered coming out of the popeathon.
Mr. Murder:
Don't forget the fake moon landing.
Those bastards!
OT
Pictures at an Exhibition
A many-layered cakewalk.
Oh my! Have y'all SEEN the cardboard cutout of Bush with fangs that the Iraqis were carrying through the streets of Baghdad today?
Here
Down in Mexico they have great papier mache likenesses. The Iraqis turn him into a vampire. Why can't our protestors have such great arts n' crafts?
Does the Secret Service protect judges? If they do, they should investigate these dangerous morns.
i don't usually bother to read the book reviews at Bzflsh (seeing as i can't afford books), but today i did.
Crumbling Empire?
The main thesis of Todd's book is that America is posturing, playing the role of the leader of the "free world" and head of the new American Empire, when, in fact, we are militarily, economically, and morally bankrupt -- and the rest of the world knows it. In fact, he suggests, much of the posturing is for the consumption of the domestic American audience, as the rest of the world (with the exception of a few dependent Third World nations) knows we're already in decline and perhaps even ready to implode.
Stay Calm... Be Brave... Wait for the Signs
this is not the America i grew up in.
Between that and fits of homocidal anger, I am just doing swell.
I am with you there kent. I mean, how often can you have these frenzies of rage without it beginning to affect your health?
I can't watch tv at all anymore, because if I even see Bush's face or hear his voice, I lose it.
They'll just make the rest of us live by their fucked-up bible rules. They won't have to.
I think it's more likely the revolution will consume them too.
For examples of how things can spin out of control, just go spend an afternoon reading accounts of the Terror during the french revolution.
Almost all of the architects found their own necks caressed by the guillotine.
Does the Secret Service protect judges?
Federal marshalls, IIRC.
Why can't our protestors have such great arts n' crafts?
san antone rose |--5:19 pm
Here you'd get arrested for showing that much lese majesty...besides, the Secret Service prohibits any puppeteering at Bushevik appearances... too easy to hide a weapon inside 'em, i spoze...
Hahaha yes!
Paper mache warriors unite!
Whenever I think progressive change for humanity, I always remember the fundamental importance of paper mache.
This is beautiful, you guys are handed Delay on a silver platter and we have paper mache envy instead.
I wonder why Democrats are powerless.
Oops, tag tipo.
I got nuthin'.
I don't know if it's the cheesecake or the post-victory depression of The Great Molar Rebellion of 2005, but I'm just not feelin' the spirit, today.
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Holy shit!!
chimpy the vampire!
Actually that's not an apt comparison. Don't they know he likes to go to bed at 9:00 pm?
What self respecting vampire isn't a nightowl?
A brain sucking zombie would make more sense to me.
If America really is doomed, the trick is to be the last one on the boat. Long enough to stay and fight, but not long enough to end up in the camps.
This is beautiful, you guys are handed Delay on a silver platter and we have paper mache envy instead.
Hey moron, he's fucking YOU over too.
Are ya gonna just sit there and take it?
oh-oh. Just realized if you're seeing it on tv it's cos bushco wants you to so they can?...take heat off falling poll numbers by rallying patriots against those ingrates in Baghdad. Or, take heat off dumbass congressmen talking stupidly and catching fire? Or...
Between that and fits of homocidal anger, I am just doing swell.
TJ dearest, i hope ol' incog's not around and in his cups, cuz that hilarious neologism would shirley set off the rockets...
I think it's more likely the revolution will consume them too.
As long as our side is doing the consuming, I'm all for it.
Between that and fits of homicidal anger, I am just doing swell.
kent, Excessive Wanderer - too many words, evil words, words that make you feel.
I heard on NPR whatthefuckherfirstnameis Montayne interviewing a Catholic priest and she asked him about deletrious effects John Paul's prohibition against condoms in Africa. His fucking answer was that the Africans are promiscuous and need to take responsibility for their actions. Fucktard.
Then Atrios posted the post about Karen Brauer. I swear these asshats won't be satisfied till all women are barefoot and pregnant. But I promise you, there will be lots of unhappy men if they manage to do away with birth control and abortion. No more nooky.
They'll just make the rest of us live by their fucked-up bible rules. They won't have to.
One of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. Make those in power live according to their own rules. They can never do it.
Hecate
TJ--awesome blog! Keep whoring it up, and I'll pimp it whenever possible.
ether?
nope
nether
Eric Rudolph is a hero to these people, the people who kill doctors and shoot up women's clinics are heros to them. AfuckingBC is making excuses for people who murder gay people. Tim McVeigh is a hero to the more extreme of them. It's not a matter of when it's going to start, it's what is happening right now.
They are already killing us. And they are already targeting judges. The media ignores the news that is slapping the country in the face every day. They aren't ignoring it by accident.
His fucking answer was that the Africans are promiscuous and need to take responsibility for their actions.
That's outrageous.
I wonder if old Karol is dancing on the coals about now? Saint my pink ass.
Hecate, still posting at someone else's computer - didja get your package?
TJ dearest, i hope ol' incog's not around and in his cups, cuz that hilarious neologism would shirley set off the rockets...
LOL!
but seriously, if incog shows up, I blame kent.
"No fundamentalist, no problem."
The main thesis of Todd's book is that America is posturing, playing the role of the leader of the "free world" and head of the new American Empire, when, in fact, we are militarily, economically, and morally bankrupt -- and the rest of the world knows it. In fact, he suggests, much of the posturing is for the consumption of the domestic American audience, as the rest of the world (with the exception of a few dependent Third World nations) knows we're already in decline and perhaps even ready to implode.
Stay Calm... Be Brave... Wait for the Signs
this is not the America i grew up in.
charley
.....
I think we've got about 20 years before this country becomes know as The Sick Man of North America.
Ffor years, China's run a trade surpuls against us , but deficit in its trade with the rest of the world. That changed this at the beginning of the year. They are now a net exporter to the rest of the world, too.
WGG, you're probably right.
These tactics are no damn better than that damned Nuremberg Files site, the one that featured greyed-out and stricken-through names of doctors providing abortions whom Horsely (or whoever it was) wanted murdered (or who were murdered). "They're probably hoping they'll inspire others." You betcha.
I'm waiting for my opposition party to grow some balls and abort this motherfucker.
I'm in it for the big picture, its your job to reign in our anti-buggery wing.
And your sucking at it.
We're spoon feeding you hits on Delay and instead we get revisionist-Pope-history and um... you know, I can't even remember any other shots from your side this week.
Most of the Dems are half-playing the judiciary threats, if even touching them at all.
Fucking spineless.
The moderates in our party can't control the power of Jeebus without some help from the opposition party.
Do your job.
Fuck paper mache.
known - damn finners
For - dittto
The moderates in our party can't control the power of Jeebus without some help from the opposition party.
Clean your own damned house.
TJ--awesome blog! Keep whoring it up, and I'll pimp it whenever possible.
Why thank you, sally dear. I finally fixed all the little blogger glitches that were driving me nuts, so I feel more comfortable attaturking now.
Compromise.
TJ,
I can't watch tv at all anymore, because if I even see Bush's face or hear his voice, I lose it.
I get you. I watch TV all the time (fahrenheit 451 on TCM at present) but stay far away from any news or pundit pap. Otherwise I might become inclined to act on some of those rages.
BTW you are carrying some pretty scary water on yer blog, but then, I guess someone has to do it. Before I lost my will to blog, I covered quite a bit of that ground myself.
Dear GWPDA,
Still at borrowed computer. Out of town for a few days but have housesitter brining in mail.
Did you ever get your phone fixed?
How's Arthur?
Hecate
Really, what pathetic whining.
"our zealots are out of control and it's all your fault!! you didn't rein them in for us!!! boo hoo hooo!! now look what's happening."
It's like the guy who invited the werewolf into his house and then was pissed cause EMS didn't show up in time to stop the bloodshed.
It's like the guy who invited the werewolf into his house and then was pissed cause EMS didn't show up in time to stop the bloodshed.
That's very good. I may need to steal it.
My dad used to live in Texas, where there were "wet" (you can sell and buy alcohol) and "dry" (can't sell/buy alcohol).
He opined that, if all people in dry counties couldn't drink, then all people in wet counties should be compelled to.
Made sense to me. Still does.
Steal away, oh goddess of the tarot!!
I heard on NPR whatthefuckherfirstnameis Montayne interviewing a Catholic priest and she asked him about deletrious effects John Paul's prohibition against condoms in Africa. His fucking answer was that the Africans are promiscuous and need to take responsibility for their actions. Fucktard.
Priests molesting children,
The "Magdalen Laundries"
The Duplessis orphans (look it up, it's awful),
The Banco Ambrosiano scandal,
Turning Oscar Romero away,
Appointing friends of fascist dictators in Latin America as bishops and cardinals,
Elevating Opus Dei and its crooked founder to special status,
Sheltering Marcial Maciel Degollado, Bernard Law, Bishop Marcinkus, ....
And this asshole and his ilk think it's a moral outrage to use a rubber to avoid infecting your partner. Morally retarded.
Sarah Deere-
Buy me a drink!
"If America really is doomed, the trick is to be the last one on the boat. Long enough to stay and fight, but not long enough to end up in the camps."
--Seebach
But how do we know which is the last boat?
I've thought about this alot lately. Mid 50s here. Not independently wealthy. Probably could sell the house and take the meager savings.
Actually, I can't even believe I have started thinking about leaving this country. But I have.
These people think they can remake our imperfect democracy into God's Kingdom On Earth™. To me it looks more like Hell. The most charitable things I can think of them is that they all flunked civics and are batshit crazy to boot.
This is beautiful, you guys are handed Delay on a silver platter and we have paper mache envy instead.
WTF are you talking about e. With yer trotskyite theocons holding all the reigns of power in government, buttressed by a compliant corporate sponsered media, we are supposed to "get Delay?
Sorry hon, while they most certainly listen to us, they just might take your sychophantic call.
"... there really is no doubt that invoking Stalin's "no man, no problem" phrase is an explicit advocacy of the murder of judges ..."
Actually, there is considerable doubt.
You just lied again.
TJ,
I can't watch tv at all anymore, because if I even see Bush's face or hear his voice, I lose it.
Knew a guy in Berkeley that blew away his TV in the Nixon era. Think I'm getting close, myself.
In the meantime. Off topic:
"U.S. Citizenship of Ex-Nazi Guard Revoked"
http://tinyurl.com/3tfhv
Bush cries foul cause act could be applied retroactively to grandfather, Prescot Bush.
"The grand ol' nazi(GONad) would have to have his body exhumed and thrown across the boarder into Mexico." Said liberal hardliners.
The coyotes can chew on him! The guy's nothing but cardboard now anyway. Should give them extra fiber before they end up choking on it!
MYOB'
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Atrios sweatshirt nominated in the Worst Blog Merchandise Contest
hat - you are pathologically incapable of discerning the difference between truth and falsehood.
You make that painfully clear every single time you show up here an post.
The more I think about it, the more I'm wondering, where's the Attorney General of the United States? These asswipes have gone way beyond mere wankness, and entered the realm of seditious acts.
Sedition is punishable by death.
Oh, snap - these guys are the "cult of life" crowd...
Last night Mike Malloy was saying that the Pope had told many people that he regretted not being younger and stronger because the anit-Christ had arrived and he no longer had the energy to fight him effectively. It was hinted that the Pope was referring to w.
I'm waiting for my opposition party to grow some balls and abort this motherfucker.
ether,
honest question, who did you vote for? congresscritter/senator/president?
WGG,
Glad I made you laugh.
GWPDA,
I can't help myself sometimes.
But how do we know which is the last boat?
My absolute last straw would be the murder of a judge for political reasons. Then we'd know it was over. The murder of the judge's family and the courtroom killings by a rape suspect don't count.
Actually, I can't even believe I have started thinking about leaving this country. But I have.
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In a fucking heartbeat. The only thing keeping us here is health insurance. If the Canadians would have us, we would be gone tomorrow.
And for the more obtuse and stupid amongst you: the doubt arises from the fact that he was almost certainly referring to the impeachment of judges (as were others at that meeting), rather than their murder.
"atrios" of course knew this. But he lied.
They really are out of
the Republicans'
control.
This is a real Rubicon moment.
I'm thinking Sinclair Lewis.
And it's not cheering me up.
I was rereading "The Crucible" recently. These assflames would have fit right in with that bunch.
It was hinted that the Pope was referring to w.
Why am i not suprised. Maybe this is one of the reasons he decided not to go back to the hospital, to hasten the arrival of a fresh pope.
he was almost certainly referring to the impeachment of judges (as were others at that meeting), rather than their murder.
cite the quote "no man, no problem" in full including its original source and then say that, you idiot.
Unless, of course, you find Stalin's tactics agreeable.
In Apres l'empire, a runaway bestseller across Europe and in Japan, Todd points out that many of the same demographic and historic indicators that led him to boldly predict the looming collapse if the Soviet System can now with some variations that are even more alarming, be applied to the US.
mer - Actually, I can't even believe I have started thinking about leaving this country. But I have.
I have too. Since November. My problem is that I don't think I'll be able to persuade my husband to leave. I seriously have drawn a mental line past which I cannot stay - I'll go without him if we cross it.
We keep inching closer to that line, too.
Anthony Kennedy turned me into a newt. Burn him at the stake!
hat, you fuck. The full quote is "Death solves all problems: no man, no problem."
Priests molesting children,
The "Magdalen Laundries"
The Duplessis orphans (look it up, it's awful),
The Banco Ambrosiano scandal,
Turning Oscar Romero away,
Appointing friends of fascist dictators in Latin America as bishops and cardinals,
Elevating Opus Dei and its crooked founder to special status,
Sheltering Marcial Maciel Degollado, Bernard Law, Bishop Marcinkus, ....
Organized religion destroys everything it touches.
And I'm still glad the Pope is dead. Just wish he could have suffered half as much as the tens of thousands of children who died of starvation last year as a direct result of his policy against birth control (which has no biblical foundation). Asshole.
quiltlady--the antichrist article (in counterpunch) is here.
Last night Mike Malloy was saying that the Pope had told many people that he regretted not being younger and stronger because the anit-Christ had arrived and he no longer had the energy to fight him effectively. It was hinted that the Pope was referring to w.
Oh fuck him. He gave chimpy his little photo op and helped deliver the catholic vote to the repukes.
He can chew on that while his dancing in hell with all the aliens.
hat, a fan of Stalin, who knew?
hat, a fan of Stalin, who knew?
Who's surprised?
hat and his/her ilk would thrive as little tatle-tales in Stalin's regime.
Ya know what I'm gonna do when I'm elected president? Schlaffly, Vierra, and the other speakers at this thing will get their citizenship revoked. They'll get loaded on a boat, shipped to Afghanistan, and turned over to the first Taliban warlord we can find who wants them.
If they hate America so much, I want to make sure that they get the very best opportunity to sign on with Al Qaeda.
My advice. Let them continue on with this insanity. Let them start impeachment proceedings against Kennedy. Suggest to Kennedy and O'Conner that they should hire bodyguards.
Let the nutcases be exposed in all their full glory: The GOP/700 club.
"We call the first one pride, the other one predjudice, I don't think they like it very much"
I'm thinking Sinclair Lewis.
And it's not cheering me up.
steve simels
I'm reading Sinclair Lewis.
And I don't feel so good myself.
Who's surprised?
Dr. Rhetorical, I presume.
Seebach - It follows, really, that if one of the superpowers falls, the other won't be far behind.
I would find it very restful to live in a country that was not the major fucking superpower on the planet. This could be such a wonderful, eccentric country if it wasn't the superpower. Everyone would think America was one of the funniest places on earth if the stupid things we do that are funny weren't so goddamned deadly at the same time.
Now that I think about it, hat's post must be a joke. No one would defend that phrase if they understood it.
Unless of course......
Shorter rethuglican: "What death threats? I was just kidding! Geeze, can't you take a little joke? I mean, I was quoting Stalin fer crissakes, wasn't that a giveaway?"
According to this Todd book, we look so... so... so... stupid, I would be ashamed to be in another country at first.
Gee ::looks around:: where'd (Empty) Hat go?
Don't you like the way hat hedged his bet?
==
he was almost certainly referring to the impeachment of judges
==
Well we can "almost certainly" say that it was about killing also.
If they hate America so much, I want to make sure that they get the very best opportunity to sign on with Al Qaeda.
Scooter
Oh Scooter, I so wanted you to be the president.
The Duplessis orphans (look it up, it's awful)
EPTropy, I lived in Quebec and studied there. In the 40's and 50's, DuPlessis and the Catholic Church ran Quebec like a concentration camp.
What came after DuPlessis - the Quiet Revolution in the 60s, the rise of the Parti Quebecois in the 70s and the sovereignty movement - are completely fascinating subjects of study.
I would find it very restful to live in a country that was not the major fucking superpower on the planet.
I hear that Denmark is pretty cool.
If only we could get some of that Krusty the Clown chewing gum with the spider eggs and Hanta virus into the right candy dishes.
Then we might not have to contemplate moving.
the name is hat, ass hat
Yes, I noticed hat has not responded. Perhaps s/he followed the link and decided it wasn't worth defending.
Or, perhaps s/he is waiting for talking points from a higher authority.
"You just lied again." hat
Uh no he didn't - you did. he surmised, he inferred - you lied. You're a liar. You're an asshole and a liar. You're ignorant, an asshole and a liar. Have a nice day you ignorant lying asshole.
oh shit hat
I gonna go watch Clash Of The Titans.
btw-since we're talking who's reading what. I'm reading Catch-22 based on your recommendations and my favorite line so far: Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than eveyone else.
Is Haloscan eating anybody else's
comments?
ether,
No compromise.
No appeasement.
chica, hat never responds. He's a one-hit *wonder*.
He's soooooo jealous of Atrios.
Or, perhaps s/he is waiting for talking points from a higher authority.
In other words, Stalling.
I don't know if it's the cheesecake or the post-victory depression of The Great Molar Rebellion of 2005, but I'm just not feelin' the spirit, today.
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Think happy thoughts. Like A denist invented the electric chair.
Footloose - Catch-22 is God. It is the Bible. I refuse to finish reading it, because then it will be over and I will rot.
ya know if i were to say "bush? no man, no problem!" i wonder how long it would be before the feds were at my door.
Hello all.
I've never posted song lyrics here before but geewis, this is a gorgeous tune I'm listening to. It's by Mary Gauthier, kind of a slow, rhythmic country/blues, heartwrenching kind of slow movin' tune. You could download from iTunes - it's worth a listen.
Well, it's just beautiful and expresses how I feel today. Here goes:
MERCY NOW
My father could use a little mercy now
The fruits of his labor
Fall and rot slowly on the ground
His work is almost over
It won't be long and he won't be around
I love my father, and he could use some mercy now
My brother could use a little mercy now
He's a stranger to freedom
He's shackled to his fears and doubts
The pain that he lives in is
Almost more than living will allow
I love my bother, and he could use some mercy now
My church and my country could use a little mercy now
As they sink into a poisoned pit
That's going to take forever to climb out
They carry the weight of the faithful
Who follow them down
I love my church and country, and they could use some mercy now
Every living thing could use a little mercy now
Only the hand of grace can end the race
Towards another mushroom cloud
People in power, well
They'll do anything to keep their crown
I love life, and life itself could use some mercy now
Yeah, we all could use a little mercy now
I know we don't deserve it
But we need it anyhow
We hang in the balance
Dangle 'tween hell and hallowed ground
Every single one of us could use some mercy now
Every single one of us could use some mercy now
Every single one of us could use some mercy now
ya know if i were to say "bush? no man, no problem!" i wonder how long it would be before the feds were at my door.
Never. They wouldn't get it.
ya know if i were to say "bush? no man, no problem!" i wonder how long it would be before the feds were at my door.
Never. They wouldn't get it.
Well then, here is a happy link (via TPM) about congresscritters (even republicans) taking Perle the swine down a few notches.
How do we know the last boat?
Genetic programming. I've had four generations get the last boat - one, my grandfather and his brothers snuck out of Prussia half an inch in front of Cossack equivalents desperate to draft them - were refused by the US, but surPrise! Montreal! My grandfather then grabbed the last 'boat' out of eastern Canada for Western, half an inch in front of mad Hun-hating rioters and landed on his feet in Calgary. Meanwhile, back in Prussia, the family left behind finally realised all hell had broken out and grabbed the last boat (literally) from Germany to Cuba in '39(?) - ending up in the US. On Mummy's side, we only started in this country in 1749 when a nice young lad named MacDonald took a look around, weighed his options, and jumped ship off the coast of Georgia - the English would have killed him had he not. Last boats? I know when the last boat is leaving and I'll let you know. It isn't yet. Maybe soon. Not yet.
Tena I had already started making plans to go to Mexico. I can't take the cold of Canada.
Now V. Fox is playing nasty down there. Guess he's just another bush.
Dentist scare us half to death anyway 1Watt, so they weren't happy with just half?
Jesus TJ - I don't know if I should thank you for the link or not.
Footloose - Catch-22 is God. It is the Bible. I refuse to finish reading it, because
then it will be over and I will rot.
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I'm told the sequel, while not up
to the original, has long sequences
that are completely brilliant.
“The Constitution is not what the Supreme Court says it is,” Schlafly asserted.
She's truly losing it mentally OR she is clueless about the idea of seperation of powers OR both.....
besides, the Secret Service prohibits any puppeteering at Bushevik appearances... too easy to hide a weapon inside 'em, i spoze...
WoodyGsGuitar/Happy Desperado |
probably b/c there's too much truth in the whole puppet thing.
Hecate, using someone else's computer "have housesitter bringing in mail.
Did you ever get your phone fixed?
How's Arthur?"
You'll have a treat then - black lentils and lots of them. (Black lentils, with black beans and sweet onions, and a dab of sour cream - nummy.) The phone guy finally came - turned out the problem was first reported about 1959, but it's okay now. Arthur had irrigation last night so he's pretty tired from having to shout the alarm.
Jesus TJ - I don't know if I should thank you for the link or not.
Sorry, perhaps I should have warned you. It's a freaky article isn't it. I got the link from somebody here ages ago, but unfortunately cannot for the life of me remember who.
Darn--Here I'd spent the last 5 years getting ready for fascism, and now we've got Stalinism.
Classic bait and switch--you can't trust the Bush administration.
And talking about losing it:
Not to be outdone, lawyer-author Edwin Vieira told the gathering that Kennedy should be impeached because his philosophy, evidenced in his opinion striking down an anti-sodomy statute, “upholds Marxist, Leninist, satanic principles drawn from foreign law.”
Ominously, Vieira continued by saying his “bottom line” for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. “He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: ‘no man, no problem,’ ” Vieira said.
The dumbfuck attacks Marxism while quoting Stalin....
Fucking Bobo: "Democrats are all educated elitists from New England College towns who follow Dean. They believe their outrage is a sign of righteousness. Their party is in a death spiral. It's a time for tortises, not hares. The Republicans are really the party of 'new ideas', but they just tried to move too fast."
Riiiiight, Bobo. Whatever you say there sport. And nice toupe, by the way, you brown-nosing maroon.
Couldn't possibly be that all the freely expressed plebian outrage you find so distasteful has anything to do with the fact that our country has once again been plunged into crippling debt a scant 5 years after the Democratic leadership piled up a record Trillion-Dollar Surplus in 8 years, rescuing it from 12 previous years of "supply-side" (read: Corporate welfare) gobbledygook now could it? Nahh. We prefer to bitch, and actually enjoy living in the shell of what was our great country until you and your fellow scribes enabled this latest siege on actual traditional American values.
Fucking Woodruff: "Dubya has emerged as a strong foreign-policy preznit".
Oy. That line is straight out of a Tom Tommorow cartoon, and rings so hollow even Judy herself can't possibly believe she's saying it, yet say it she does. And now a word from our sponsor. Oh yeah, that were it.
Sorry, folks, we'll just go right back to the "news".
Thugocracy has overstepped the final bounds of reason, the People have had enough, and the weasles are now in for a severe toppling in the midterms. They know it, they can smell it coming, and all they can do is set their whores spinning so fast the lies can't be kept straight any more, but these aren't fibs about blue dresses; they directly involve everyones lives, Constitutional Rights, children, social security, energy independence. You know, Issues. Remember them?
Sorry to have to break it to you Dick and Jane, but you had your chance. Everyone, especially working-class Republicans, clearly see just how "new" these brilliant "ideas" are, and a highly questionable 51% can only be flogged as some sort of "mandate" for so long.
Just keep prattling away calling sow's ears silk purses, but word on the street is the Citizens are once again going to roll up their sleeves and clean house bigtime in 2006. If you're smart, you'll start preparing for that by edging a bit closer to the Reality-Based Community, and a bit further away from your corporate masters in the allegedly free media. If you do, you might be able to hang on to your meal-tickets in '08 when the People finally end this nightmare and take our Nation back to the real values that made it great to begin with.
We keep inching closer to that line, too.
Tena
and that's the saddest part of this moral fuckwit of a president. i have not talked to my fundie asshole brother since the election. not going to either.
most divisive president ever.
i'd be gone if i had the means. it's getting harder and harder to pretend it's not happening.
Blue Dragon - I'd love Canada - I've always wanted to live someplace where it snows. But Mr. Tena would hate it and I've lately started thinking that I could handle going south.
I am a little concerned over Mexico's stability at the moment, and so I think maybe a little further would be better. Bolivia is beautiful and has lots of altitude. I love altitude.
OT- John Assclown is on CSpam, the former AG
When it's time to run, my bet is that we will be able to pick up this property for what will amount to a song. It's been on the market now for nearly a year and a half - think of it as Eschatonia.
Some 15 years ago someone, now I wonder if it was Todd, said "Watch Russia, for as Russia goes, so goes the U.S." Indeed.
While the peeling off of regions into separate countries seems unlikely, the oligarchy grows stronger daily and economic meltdown seems imminent. Not the same chronological order as Russia, and I've never heard that they had anything akin to the Domionist's nonsense rushing things along, but it's become all too easy to imagine American grandmothers hawking the family treasures on the streets to pay for food and medicine.
I've always wanted to live someplace where it snows
Bolivia is beautiful and has lots of altitude
Indeed. And I'm pretty sure you can find some snow in Bolivia, too...
Jenny from the Blog:
Nice one, but remember in the
immortal words of Fran Leibowitz:
It is usually a mistake to try to
figure out important issues in life
based on the lyrics to popular music.
Excuse me, now I have to Google
the lyrics to Richard Thompson's
"The End of the Rainbow."
Adovcating or advocating?
the last boat?
those Cubans should write a book about 'rigging your pickup for blue water'.
steve simels -
Ha! Actually the lyrics don't stand up all by their lonesome. That's the thing about music. It's the haunting melody and the way the words tangle in and out that's got me. And I'm a long way from figurin' out anything... based on a song lyric or even a melody that breaks your heart in two.
*smooch*!
charley - most divisive president ever.
In a lot of ways, I think that's the real key to Bush - that is what he is - a polarizer. And that's why I think the zeitgeist right now is so edgy. [if that sounded pretentious, I'm sorry but I couldn't think of another way to say it - I'm banal]
And as a pole himself, he's drawn all the loonies to him and I think it may be what sinks the whole damn ship. I hope, anyway. I think people are really weary of the tension that Bush has brought to this country. The fundie xians are not "people" for the purposes of the above sentence.
I'd love Canada - I've always wanted to live someplace where it snows. But Mr. Tena would hate it and I've lately started thinking that I could handle going south.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Vancouver aint cold. Lovely city. We checked it out last year, even visited some real estate agents and quilt shops. Unfortunately, Canadians don't want people over fifty unless you have $750,000 and a first degree relative to sponsor you. Can't say that I blame them for not wanting us to suck up their medical care.
The dumbfuck attacks Marxism while quoting Stalin....
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Noticed the irony, did ya?
And BTW: Speaking of Clash of the
on TCM right now -- Maggie Smith
could have had me if she played her
cards right.
Just saying.
It's actually right there in the wapo article:
"... Edwin Vieira told the gathering that Kennedy should be impeached ..."
This person was recommending that a judge be removed by constitutional means. "atrios" knowingly and falsely distorted this into an accusation that a fellow citizen was inciting murder.
If you do, you might be able to hang on to your meal-tickets in '08 when the People finally end this nightmare and take our Nation back to the real values that made it great to begin with.
Nice rant. But we've gotta make it to aught-8 first.
Ffor years, China's run a trade surpuls against us , but deficit in its trade with the rest of the world. That changed this at the beginning of the year. They are now a net exporter to the rest of the world, too.
Add to that the fact that the US now imports as much food as it exports. Farm exports used to be the main reason why this country's trade balance stayed reasonably balanced. Now you can kiss that goodbye too.
OT- John Assclown is on CSpam, the former AG
He was picked as the AG, 9/11 *happened*, he willingly did his masters' bidding, georgie was *reelected*, and Johnny was canned.
Then we got AbuGonzales.
Aiiieeeee.
GWPDA, Irate Scholar, that is indeed a lovely piece of land. Still too far North for me tho. Perfect for the summer tho.
Actually this song, I could swear, was sung by Robert Duvall in "Tender Mercies" but I can't find anything on Google. The scene in the bedroom where he takes his guitar out and sings one of his long-stashed and hidden songs to Tess Harper. Although that film is how many years old... and I think this is a new tune (but I still swear it's a cover!)
I love that film in its simplicity and profundity. It's just about near perfect.
Maggie Smith
could have had me if she played her
cards right.
++++++++++++++++++++
I said the same about Oscar Werner. Alas he never came acourting.
He's soooooo jealous of Atrios.
I think his first name is Donald.
Maggie Smith
could have had me if she played her
cards right.
Steve, tell me someone who couldn't have you. *no repugs, please, that's too easy...
What came after DuPlessis - the Quiet Revolution in the 60s, the rise of the Parti Quebecois in the 70s and the sovereignty movement - are completely fascinating subjects of study.
Stinky
I agree that Quebec is fastinating. They've got real politics there. I've been wishing I could find out more about the Archbishop who DuPlissis had deposed for supporting the unions in the 50s or early 60s. I can't remember his name. There was a book about him L'histoire Boulversant de Msr. __?__ or something like that. Do you know the name?
I remember when the PQ first gained prominence people where shocked at how anti-clerical some of them were. These were mostly people who didn't know anything about Quebec.
Nice piece of property GWPDA, is it in Canada? Alberta I see. Yes a fine compound for freethinking.
Belize might be an option as well.
hat, dearest, Viera's comments were not the only ones made.
How you do pick and choose.
GWDPA, that is a beautiful property.
I like me some snow too.
And mountains.
QL in NY -
Ah, Oskar Werner. I mean, my heart goes pitter patter just thinking about him in Interlude. What a fucking great film. Sexy, sexy, sexy.
I don't know why the Bush administration
brings this song to mind.
END OF THE RAINBOW
By Richard Thompson
I feel for you, you little horror
Safe at your mother's breast
No lucky break for you around the corner
'Cause your father is a bully
And he thinks that you're a pest
And your sister she's no better than a whore.
Life seems so rosy in the cradle,
But I'll be a friend I'll tell you what's in store
There's nothing at the end of the rainbow.
There's nothing to grow up for anymore
Tycoons and barrow boys will rob you
And throw you on the side
And all because they love themselves sincerely
And the man holds a bread knife
Up to you throat is four feet wide
And he's anxious just to show you what it's for.
Your mother works so hard to make you happy
But take a look outside the nursery door
There's nothing at the end of the rainbow.
There's nothing to grow up for anymore
And all the sad and empty faces
That pass you on the street
All running in their sleep, all in a dream
Every loving handshake
Is just another man to beat
How your heart aches just to cut him to the core
Life seems so rosy in the cradle,
But I'll be a friend I'll tell you what's in store
There's nothing at the end of the rainbow.
There's nothing to grow up for anymore
How you do pick and choose.
His nose, mostly.
Alberta I see. -
Just about an hour over the border, but tucked away in such a fashion that getting to it is a challenge. Snow? Certainly, but it's a sheltered valley, and not the prairies. It's just about the safest place I can figure, for now.
It's also part of the rural Alberta co-operative which is right now running on wind energy.
The Duplessis Orphan story caused every hair on my body to stand up. If that isn't pure fucking evil, then I'm very confused. I read something like that and all I can think is religion is a force for evil. It's fucking scary.
simels -
Okay. Richard Thompson wins the lyric competition, but I'm going with mine for an all-around music/lyric nobel prize.
And yes, I am a musicologist!
"When it's time to run, my bet is that we will be able to pick up this property for what will amount to a song. It's been on the market now for nearly a year and a half - think of it as Eschatonia."
--GWPDA
And did I mention my husband is an architect? and a carpenter, and knows how to do plumbing, and electrical wiring?
And I've always been his helper.
We could build many adobes. Maybe install a windmill?
Jenny from the Blog
Do you remember the name of the French movie where his best friend takes up with his girlfriend and she kills them all. It is just out of reach of my poor addled brain.
Welcome to the Gilead, indeed. But it's a lovely day here in the Sodom of America, also known as Massachusetts. I suspect that the other critters will still be around after we self-destruct.
I'm probably going to use my EU passport in the near future, though. Certainly before they take my bank account and driver's licence away.
You know I sometimes advocate burning famous people so that I can enjoy the pleasing aromas of the burnt offering.
But my claim to be a 4,000 year old Canaanite fertility deity is a JOKE.
These wack-os are serious when they advocate killing people.
The distinction between the mainstream GOP and what we used to consider the dangerous lunatic fringe is getting harder and harder and harder to see.
Jenny from the Blog:
Not counting Republicans,
I'm pretty much persuadable.
I probably would have drawn the line
at Margaret Rutherford, though.
Although she was pretty funny....
"It is usually a mistake to try to
figure out important issues in life
based on the lyrics to popular music."
Fran L. has a point there, but I'd sooner run my life on the lyrics of Beck and Brian Eno than on the editorials of this nation's newspapers. Or the commentary of any "senior analyst" other than Steven Colbert.
Wow I just picked the first asparagus of the season, shouldn't have come up for 3 more weeks.
Yup. The short version was bad enough, but clarifying it that way leaves no doubt at all. Shame we don't have a DOJ that cares about this kinda thing. I mean, where's the freakin' outrage?
I'm going to go eat soon. Do I want to read the Duplessis orphans story or not? Because now I'm really curious. But if I'm gonna be all disturbed, then I don't wanna.
Kent===Belize might be an option as well.
That is now what I'm thinking also.
From the WaPo article:
Ominously, Vieira continued by saying his "bottom line" for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. "He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: 'no man, no problem,' " Vieira said.
The full Stalin quote, for those who don't recognize it, is "Death solves all problems: no man, no problem." Presumably, Vieira had in mind something less extreme than Stalin did and was not actually advocating violence. But then, these are scary times for the judiciary. An anti-judge furor may help confirm President Bush's judicial nominees, but it also has the potential to turn ugly.
A judge in Atlanta and the husband and mother of a judge in Chicago were murdered in recent weeks. After federal courts spurned a request from Congress to revisit the Terri Schiavo case, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) said that "the time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior." Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) mused about how a perception that judges are making political decisions could lead people to "engage in violence."
Jenny from the Blog:
You have an iPod, right?
Keep in mind that I'm a mad prophet of doom and regularly watch Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. So I'm not unable to take it.
My 1st grader was crying himself to sleep last night because his schoolmates told him when he dies he is going to burn in hell with the devil because he isn't sure if he believes in god.
Nice kids these Christian Fascists are raising.
Stalin, a man probably as stupid as George W Bush had so much power because no one ever dared stop him. Stalin had no real education and no talent for identifying talent. He was only skilled in murder and terror. He surrounded himself with lap dogs that never disagreed with him. Even the lap dogs got killed. We are well on our way to a totalitarian state. Stalin had foreign saboteurs and wreckers to scare his subjects, Hitler did it with Communist Jews. Bush has Islamic Terrorists to whip up the fear in the USA.
My kids have EU passports and they will be gone when the time comes. It may be sooner than later.
The fundies will not be happy until we regress two hundred years.
QL in NY
And then their next crusades will include repealing the Magna Carta and The Enlightenment.
BING!BING!BING! We have a winnah! Yes, they'd set us up with a nice feudal theocracy, and a rigid class system. Keepin' them peasants down!
Tena - I would find it very restful to live in a country that was not the major fucking superpower on the planet. This could be such a wonderful, eccentric country if it wasn't the superpower.
Once upon a time it was just that, a wonderfully eccentric country. WWII spoiled everything.
Not to worry. We'll get back there. China, India and mebbe a few others will take care of it.
My 1st grader was crying himself to sleep last night because his schoolmates told him when he dies he is going to burn in hell with the devil because he isn't sure if he believes in god.
That's horrible. If I were still a Christian, I'd realize that was no way to make converts.
Draco:
Right on, as the youngsters say.
That is now what I'm thinking also.
Blue Dragon
If it ever comes to that, I'll buy you a beer, we can swing in hammocks, and grumble about the hurricanes and humidity, and before long "those damn american tourists".
The distinction between the mainstream GOP and what we used to consider the dangerous lunatic fringe is getting harder and harder and harder to see.
They've let the loonies start driving the bus and they haven't a clue about how to take the car keys away.
I'm probably going to use my EU passport in the near future, though. Certainly before they take my bank account and driver's licence away.
(sigh) An EU passport. I'm so jealous.
OT- John Assclown is on CSpam, the former AG
Mr. Murder
"Leadership in Times of Crisis"
Students asking questions of a pompous, strutting ass. What's he think he is, a tent carrying preacher? His gestures suggest as much.
My 1st grader was crying himself to sleep last night because his schoolmates told him when he dies he is going to burn in hell with the devil because he isn't sure if he believes in god.
Gee. That's exactly the stuff I heard when I was in school.
In those days they waited until I was in high school to tell me I was going to "burn in hell in torment for all eternity."
And they wonder why I think they're asshats.
It's also part of the rural Alberta co-operative which is right now running on wind energy.
More to reccomend it. Hmmmm next youll be telling me that the creeks turn into fountains of chocolate on demand.
From the WaPo article:
Ominously, Vieira continued by saying his "bottom line" for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. "He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: 'no man, no problem,' " Vieira said.
Omniously. People have been talking about this assault against the judiciary for months. The Schaivo debacle created by Republicans, DeLay and company and John Cornyn fueled the fire.
The thugs are responsible for ANYTHING that happens.
BTW, it truely boggles my mind that any of the wingnuts would quote Joseph Stalin in a manner indicating agreement with him.
Then again, "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."
Damn, I just hate when that man is right!
How appropriate -- Ashcroft is in a moot court at Regent Univ.
Which brings back the greatest rock n roll lyric of all time:
I wanna tell her that I love her but the point is probably moot...
Ashy is waxing philosophic about being endowed by the creator for the fundamental need for freedom and respect. We're not perfect, but we must seek freedom for others.
My 1st grader was crying himself to sleep last night because his schoolmates told him when he dies he is going to burn in hell with the devil because he isn't sure if he believes in god.
Nice kids these Christian Fascists are raising.
Bluto: First, I would take some names. Second, I would kick some ass. Yes, the order is usually reversed, but in this case it might be helpful to schedule a conference with the teacher and the no-doubt charming parents of these budding shits.
We DON'T live in Fundyville -- yet. Some people apparently need to be reminded of that.
QL- Jules et Jim
We're not perfect, but we must seek freedom for others.
Long as that freedom doesn't include 'em doing anything we don't want 'em to do!
Or calico cats. No freedom for calico cats!
Okay... Duplessis Orphans, fucked up, but the distance the wikipedia provides makes it digestible.
Stalin was right about the numbing power of statistics. Unfortunately.
- P.S. - With the incomparable Jeanne Moreau.
san antone rose:
I love you for not thinking Jesse's
Girl is camp.
I have long said that it's Othello
with guitars.
Great record, no matter who did it.
zeitgeist right now is so edgy
pretentious? why no, wouldn't want to be a liberal elitist now would we?/joking.
a good vocabulary is nothing to be ashamed of. and your right he's set the tone, and he did it (or handlers more adept than i can give mr. moral fuckwit credit for) on purpose.
we might survive it, then again we may not. it was, is, a dangerous tactic. it's only purpose could be a raw grab for power. that's not good.
Ashy has an answer for youth apathy:
"There are lots of things that government can do. We've driven down drug use, crime is at a low, gun crime at lowest point...but I want to take a different tack. This is something that doesn't belong in university, but in the nursery.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall...(he then asks for students to recite with him).
The King (the govt) can't necessarily fix things. Govt needs to encourage good families."
What an assrocket!
Ominously, Vieira continued by saying his "bottom line" for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. "He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: 'no man, no problem,' " Vieira said.
My favorite thing about this article is its tone. "Ominously." Someone is starting to take these lunatics seriously. It's about time.
Now, since Dana Milbank of the WaPo reported it, maybe some other "reporters" will pay attention. Couldn't hurt.
Duplessis Orphans - way more than "fucked up".
lobotomizing orphans without their consent - way more than fucked up.
My 1st grader was crying himself to sleep last night because his schoolmates told him when he dies he is going to burn in hell with the devil because he isn't sure if he believes in god.
Bluto, when my grad school daughter was in second grade and in religious ed at a Catholic parish in Ohio, she came home and told us that the teacher said that anyone who wasn't baptized would never go to heaven.
Her father is Jewish.
That was the last straw for me.
lobotomizing orphans without their consent - way more than fucked up.
Ah, that tidbit was not included.
I revise. What's more fucked up than fucked up?
I love you for not thinking Jesse's
Girl is camp.
I always thought it was hilarious. The lyrics.
And I've been looking in the mirror all the time /
Wonderin' what she don't see in me /
Hey, I been funny, I been cool with the lines /
Ain't that the way love's supposed to be?
And the way he reads off that "I just KNOW it" line...
steve -
No iPod, but it's on my list.
Funny you should quote Fran L. I just heard her the other night on AAR and she made a point of saying that the only way this country will see change is through popular culture. Music and literature. She compared the Bush supporters to the OJ jury and their nullification of his guilt.
So, which is it, Fran?
crime is at a low, gun crime at lowest point
You know what? I have about decided, based on his truly bizarre handwritten resignation, and his statement that terrorism had been solved that he isn't lying. He is honest to god crazy.
Haloscan told me that I posted something already when I didn't.
The distinction between the mainstream GOP and what we used to consider the dangerous lunatic fringe is getting harder and harder and harder to see.
I don't think there is a distinction anymore. My great-uncle, a life-long Democrat, who died in the mid 1990s would not believe today's political situation. His ashes would fly straight into the windpipe of Tom DeLay. He was some fighter.
Funny seeing the lyrics to "End of the Rainbow" upthread.
A few years back I saw Richard Thompson at Starr Hill Brewpub in Charlottesville, and the Asylum Street Spankers were opening.
While Richard was playing "End of the Rainbow," the toddler son of Cristina, the Spankers' female vocalist, came trundling up the aisle, carrying his bottle. He stared at Richard for the longest time before shuffling off.
I'm sure if he had understood the lyrics he would have cried.
Best RT show I ever saw, although that may have had something to do with the fact that I was front row, center, basically looking up the man's nose.
(in reference to hat)
How you do pick and choose. His nose, mostly. - fourlegsgood
I was thinking more like, his clingons before he ate them like raisinettes.
The King (the govt) can't necessarily fix things. Govt needs to encourage good families."
Now wait: the gov't can't fix things. The gov't can fix things.
I'm confused, Mr. Ashcroft. Which is it?
OT Neither swift nor vets nor...Iran experts?!!
Remember Jerome Corsi? If you can't put your finger on it, but feel sick, then you do. He's got a new book out; read about it at
Gorilla.
Last boats? I know when the last boat is leaving and I'll let you know. It isn't yet. Maybe soon. Not yet.
GWPDA, Irate Scholar, 04.09.05 - 6:12 pm
I'm not leaving, but thanks.
On both sides of my family there are branches who've been here since the early 1700's, some perhaps even earlier. We'd fought the Bushies and their kin for centuries back in Old Europe. We've fought them here before now. (U.S. Civil War, anyone? Some of us marched all the way back from California to fight on the Union side.) We can fight them here and now, too.
And we will win. You can bet your bottom dollar on that.
BTW, it truely boggles my mind that any of the wingnuts would quote Joseph Stalin in a manner indicating agreement with him.
Not so boggling, really, when you realize the USSR was less Communist than it was merely Totalitarian. This is another argument, I think, for a two-dimensional Political Spectrum, ala Jerry Pournelle, and others. In that view, both the USSR and Nazi Germany are on the far right, indicating Statism, with one at the "top" and the other the "bottom"--I forget right now which is which, but it hardly matters.
What is boggling is the sheer stupidity of saying that in a public forum. That's not a brainfart, that's total mental incontinence.
My favorite thing about this article is its tone. "Ominously." Someone is starting to take these lunatics seriously. It's about time.
I hope so, Robert. But we are seeing more evidence of it.
You think America would ever get rid of sex, lies, and videotapes?
Especially sex. Sex is big here.
Fran explained that no matter what our media does or says at this point, the fundies and stupids and greedheads will just give a blank stare and continue about their business. And I think she's got a winning point there too.
These people get scarier every day. I keep saying to myself that it will backfire against them, but I'm always dissapointed. It seems that there is almost no amount of craziness that a good portion of our fellow citizens won't enthusiastically support.
Send this link to any fundie you know"
Earth's Oldest Thing Ever
I wonder how the Institute of Creation Science will take the news?
If it ever comes to that, I'll buy you a beer, we can swing in hammocks, and grumble about the hurricanes and humidity, and before long "those damn american tourists".
Kent I'm already bitching about those damn merkins. LMFAO
Tecata is better than 2Xs imho
Ba'al, you really mean you are not for real?? You have ruined me for life.
oh wait bush ruined everything
You know what? I have about decided, based on his truly bizarre handwritten resignation, and his statement that terrorism had been solved that he isn't lying. He is honest to god crazy.
Scary, isn't it?
Wonder if he did anything about the calico cat problem?
Here is a quote from this Viera character that gives a pretty good idea of how he thinks the government should run and what he thinks these judges should be doing (in order to keep from getting killed, I suppose).
Imagine, for instance, that for ... a single shining moment ... We the People actually gained control of Congress and the state Legislatures and pushed through a new amendment. An amendment that allowed states and localities to ban pornographic writings, theatrical performances, movies, lewd displays, whatever. I don't have to specify any more. All the elements of the sexually degenerate cutting edge of the cultural revolution that the Establishment is waging against this country. Would the courts interpose the doctrine of political questions to prevent the peddlers of smut from stripping that Amendment of its validity?
Or imagine that this new Amendment allowed or even required the states to ban abortion. Would the courts energize the doctrine of political questions to suction the abortions out of the courtroom doors?
Or imagine this new Amendment prohibited the national government from owning any wilderness areas, parks, or other lands or facilities, other than those specified in Article I, Section 8, Clause 17, of the Constitution, and required the government to sell what it holds to the private sector. Would the courts snarl at the radical environmentalists to stop badgering the judges and instead hunt for relief from Congress?
Or imagine that this Amendment reaffirms, in utterly clear terms, that the Second Amendment absolutely guarantees and protects the private ownership of all types of firearms suitable for people's militia, from handguns to fully automatic rifles and submachine guns. Would the courts unholster the doctrine of political questions to shoot down the lawsuits of the gun control fanatics? Would Rosie O'Donnell be told to go to Congress, or some other place where she ought to go? [Audience laughter and applause]
It seems that there is almost no amount of craziness that a good portion of our fellow citizens won't enthusiastically support.
Sad, but true.
We're deep into the age of ignorance.
fuck, would the last free thinker to leave america please turn off the jesus-lamp...
And the way he reads off that "I just KNOW it" line...
Silleigh | Email | Homepage | 04.09.05 - 6:56 pm | #
The contemporary equivalent is
Fountain's of Wayne's "Stacy's Mom."
The teen protagonist is just so wonderfully
deluded....but god, does it ring
true.
Ba'al, these people are crazy beyond belief.
I've said it a million times before, they can't sleep at night- they sit up late wondering what nefarious sinning we're all up to.
It seems that there is almost no amount of craziness that a good portion of our fellow citizens won't enthusiastically support.
Sad, but true.
We're deep into the age of ignorance.
Sorry, but that's just SOP.
Frankly, it's a wonder we've lasted this long. And that tall trees aren't layin' down.
One in the same, the sense of wonder those two provoke.
It seems that there is almost no amount of craziness that a good portion of our fellow citizens won't enthusiastically support.
Ah. But how do we know what the *portion* actually is?
Yes, and watch out for the flying bibles too.
I wear my hard hat daily.
We're going to war with Iran, aren't we, dirty pair? I knew it, but there's always a continuum of knowing.
Hello all. How stands the Republic?
BTW, it truely boggles my mind that any of the wingnuts would quote Joseph Stalin in a manner indicating agreement with him.
I use to to a thing on usenet where I would compare quotes from conservatives to a list of 73 Soviet slogans. There were a lot of stylistic similarities.
That's also why I like to compare the Chinese and American cultural revolutions. I see that Bilmon has taken to doing the same thing lately.
I don't think this is the age of ignorance anymore than any other age has been, but it definitely is the "age of ignoring" (Margaret Atwood's term). People are too busy and too passive and too something to care. Also too scared of the bogeyman that Bush has set up: fear.
Tuna burgers nicoise are ready to be grilled.
Later.
I've said it a million times before, they can't sleep at night- they sit up late wondering what nefarious sinning we're all up to.
Just curious. Is that LITERAL, or just very close-to-reality metaphor? Because I'd believe you either way.
Hello all. How stands the Republic?
Not well, my friend.
I fear the crazies are running amok.
Hello all. How stands the Republic?
on one bad leg, wounded, and up against a firing squad...
Ba'al | Email | Homepage | 04.09.05 - 7:00 pm
Damn Ba'al, I outa here, if that happens.
I've said it a million times before, they can't sleep at night- they sit up late
wondering what nefarious sinning we're all up to.
fourlegsgood | Email | Homepage | 04.09.05 - 7:04 pm | #
I forget who said it originally, but
the definition of a Puritan is
somebody who stays awake at night
worrying
that other people are having a good
time.
I fear the crazies are running amok.
Is the muck also running a-crazy?
I'm probably going to use my EU passport in the near future, though.
I'm hoping that Blair gets a big enough kick up the arse to send him into retirement. Makes it much easier to give a hearty fuck-you to the Untied State of Gilead.
Just curious. Is that LITERAL, or just very close-to-reality metaphor? Because I'd believe you either way.
I think it's true in both senses.
One upside for this story is how the GOP is fighting internally. Here's a bit from a Boston Globe article I saw at Smirking Chimp:
"All this blabbing about a culture of life, and they allow this murder," said John Lofton, an activist who distributed his column condemning the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank with longstanding White House ties, for failing to support efforts to keep Schiavo alive.
I never thought I'd see the day when the Heritage Foundation wasn't sufficiently wingnut. A lot of the assembled kooks were also mad at Jeb Bush for failing to send in the police. They didn't like his "legalistic" explanation for what a governor can and can't do.
QL- Jules et Jim
Thank you sooooooooooooo much. And with that I am off. All night and most of the day and no TS. Hmmmm. Did he get banned?
Footloose - Catch-22 is God. It is the Bible. I refuse to finish reading it, because then it will be over and I will rot.
Seebach - 6:11 pm
it can be read again and again, with profit...and the movie is quite a faithful adaptation...maybe Alan Arkin's best work ever...w/Orson Welles, Jon Voight, Martin Sheen, Bob Newhart, and Anthony Perkins...
(me, too; i was a piece of the background--it was shooting in Mexico, on a beach near Guaymas, and they scavenged the town for gringos to be background, when I was down there soaking up rays, shrimp and tequila...)
The left was particularly angered by an issue of The Koala called "Jizzlam," in which Barton published his fantasy of killing a Muslim woman, raping her dead body, and then eating it.
How can you sleep at night, patriotboy, knowing about all this? I can barely take what I get.
Is the muck also running a-crazy?
Yes.
And in other news, damgerous pumas wearing moose disguises have been spotted in upstate NY.
You should be on the look out. I think it's a sign of the end-times.
These fuckers need to have their rage redirected right back at them. In my eyes they are no better than pedophiles. They sure can dish it out, but I'd bet not a one of them could handle the scrutiny if it was directed back at them.
chris/tx
when do we start....???
This Vieira wack-o apparently thinks that paper money is going to send us all to Hell in a hurry and is the source of much that is wrong.
I suspect he is a bit like the Mat Groening College Professor in a Life in Hell Strip (the one where one answer works for all of his questions -- "The nation that controls magnesium controls the universe!"
A fiat money is a medium of exchange composed of some intrinsically valueless substance which the issuer does not promise to redeem in a commodity or a fiduciary money. Because a fiat money has no direct legal connection to a commodity money (in terms of redemption) and, therefore, no real economic cost to its production, the supply of a fiat money can never be self-limiting; and the value of a fiat money is always largely a matter of public confidence in the economic or political stability of the issuer. For these reasons, historically every major fiat money have self-destructed in what is popularly called "hyperinflation" (that is, extreme decreases in purchasing-power) caused by either unlimited increases in the supply of that fiat money by the issuer or accelerating loss of public confidence in the currency.
FLG,
Thanks for the tip on the 4.4 billion year old piece of Zircon.
but you know that 4.4 billion is just shorthand for 5000, right?
I'm hoping that Blair gets a big enough kick up the arse to send him into retirement.
Would be nice to see, but I'd bet against it. The quality of Blair's domestic opposition is not terribly impressive.
Oh, I see... that's pronounced "Jizz-lam" like "Islam." Oh, well, in that case... it's even stupider.
Jenny from the Blog:
Hey, that was my song first! Copy-catter! Just kidding.
I posted a comment on Kos, not too long ago, quoting from "Mercy Now."
I love it! Sounds so peaceful, but haunting. Then, when you think about how urgently we really do need some mercy, makes me sad.
Also, the Rapture-Ready Republicans, devout Christians that they are, have no mercy. They have no compassion. They want everyone to look the other way at their lies, but show no mercy to children, to the poor,and to anyone who is not rich like them.
I'm going to have to go buy that cd. Thanks for reminding me and spreading the word.
Every living thing could use a little mercy now.
Tuna burgers nicoise are ready to be grilled.
Darn you, pie -- don't torture us!
Seriously, what's in 'em?
Besides tuna, of course.
All night and most of the day and no TS. Hmmmm. Did he get banned?
Maybe he spontaneously combusted.
Gotta go to work, but I have to repeat that joke from Conan last nite: Bush looks to Condi and says, What's boo mean in Itailian? hahahahah. Peace dudes.
How is the right that rejects fiat money and the right that wants unbridled capitalism ever going to get along?
Is the muck also running a-crazy?
Not so much, (pssst they're hiding from the rakes).
otta go to work, but I have to repeat that joke from Conan last nite: Bush looks to Condi and says, What's boo mean in Itailian?
Any troll who shows up defending this crap is no longer a troll, he is an agent of a totalitarian movement. A troll who defends this bullshit is an enemy to Flag and Constitution. An enemy of the common man, a usurper of Democracy, Freedom and Justice. Frame these people as they are, the fifth column, the menance come to steal the rights granted to you as a citizen of this country. These people are the insurgents on us as a culture and a people. They will not burn our flag, but they will ensure there are many bodies available to be swathed within our flag.
Seebach - they're sick bastards, aren't they.
Kent & Blue Dragon
If I can't raise the money to make it to Ireland (and that seems increasingly doubtful every day), me and my family will join you in Belize. I've been thinking about Belize for a while, too.
damgerous pumas wearing moose disguises have been spotted in upstate NY.
It is hardly a surprise. My warnings of this menace have long gone unheeded, despite the fact that I had better evidence for it than many another did for justifying a stupid-ass war.
Seebach: actually, on this we are with the invaluable Xymphora, who has the following to say about Iran:
--Farsi-speaking and Shia Iran is outside the Arabic-speaking and Sunni sphere of most of Israel's neighbors: this alone is enough for a realpolitiky bit of snuggling, but then you also have Israel's history of relations with Iran under Shah and Ayatollah. The worst-case scenario of Greater Israel makes Iran a future neighbor.
--Several more reasons
here, link by way of xymphora.
--This distracts from the real enemy, Syria or Lebanon, which are of course subject to destabilization in the present (demands to end a certain occupation but not two others, anyone?), and might be on the menu for invasion later.
It begs the question: would Kennedy or Nixon have stopped with Vietnam if he could've consolidated it? There is no reason to think so. Americans/Israelis are so fucking hungry once they start devouring.
We aren't in Syria already because of the trouble we've been having in Iraq (in this the insurgency is almost helping our country), so the thing to watch is this talk about vietnamization, accelerated normalization, transfer, stability, et cetera. Supposedly they're cranking out Iraqi cops and talking about really finding a sort of stop point. Then a garrison force will withdraw to the 14 bases from which they can protect the oil and occasionally slaughter a neighborhood, freeing up more than enough people to do other things.
steve--Tuna nicoise is like anything nicoise--you just put the anything on top of a nicoise salad
Ingredients
4x100g/4oz pieces of fresh tuna
olive oil
salt and white pepper, freshly ground
For the nicoise salad:
100g/4oz small new potatoes
75ml/2½fl oz vinaigrette
12 stoned black olives
8 anchovy fillets
100g/4oz thin French beans, cooked
3 tomatoes, skinned, seeded and cut into strips
2 hard-boiled eggs
50ml/2fl oz balsamic vinegar
4 sprigs chervil
Still seems awfully tasty though
>Ominously, Vieira continued by saying his “bottom line” for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. “He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: ‘no man, no problem,’ ” Vieira said.<
Hat the troll isn't too quick at absorbing facts.
Stalin killed 30 to 40 million Soviet citizens. Anyone suspected of being an an enemy was killed. Hat's political associates are quoting Stalin when Stalin talks about how he eliminated his enemies. Stalin didn't hold impeachment trials. Stalinist Christians can't rehabilitate Stalin so easily despite what their leader, the reverend Moon claims. I'll bet he's a typical self loathing GOP homosexual too.
(OT: Anybody here ever popped the bottom off a regular ol' upright vacuum in order to get in and replace the beater-brush belt? Is this something I wanna mess with or do I have to bat eyelashes at the next helpful handy-guy who waltzes in the door? These instructions are helpful IF you have 2 screwdrivers and 3 hands.)
All night and most of the day and no TS. Hmmmm. Did he get banned?
He's still on one of the dead threads, posting every five minutes or so that he's leaving.
I gotta go do shit. But just a reminder. Don't forget about the two 16 year old girls in NY locked up by the government for being an imminent threat to the United States.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/20...4/9/15376/
67014
I never thought I'd see the day when the Heritage Foundation wasn't sufficiently
wingnut.
Draco, I never thought I'd live to
see the day when Richard Nixon and
Ronald Reagan weren't sufficiently
wingnut.
Or as somebody said way up thread,
the delusional is now mainstream.
Depends on the model, Silleigh. It's fairly easy do do with our Kirby.
Toonscribe,
come on down, the water is nice.
Blue Dragon
First we corner the Hammock market, then we get the women /homer j
Every living thing could use a little mercy now.
fm
fm - That is so cool, and I'm going to get the CD myself. Gauthier is a seriously wonderful songwriter.
Really interesting that you mentioned the song on Kos. I don't visit that site very often...
And yes, the message of Mercy Now just hits me hard these days.
Lots of love to you!
And why don't you ever comment at my place anymore?
What the fuck is a french bean? You mean, a french cut bean?
Any fund-o trolls here? I would like to enjoy the explanation of this apposition.
The very simple question is, which guidance whould we follow.
This....
James 2:24 "You see that a man is justified by works, and not by faith alone."
or, alternatively, one of these.....
Romans 4:6 "God reckons righteousness apart from works"
Ephesians 2:8 "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not as a result of works, that no one should boast."
Because this is all so very confusing. What are we supposed to teach the children in this new theocracy?
Patriotboy, I had a Kirby once. That made sense. I'm not even sure we had to pop the bottom off to replace the belt. There was a twisty-thing in front.
This is a cheaper Hoover thing, and makes no sense. I'm going to practice eyelash-batting for awhile; no screwdriver required, although one of the OJ & vodka variety might help. There is a helpful handy-guy due over around 9 or so.
Is this something I wanna mess with
Are you feeling adventurous, or sultry?
Ba'al - which quotes are actually from Jesus in red? Because if there are any of those, you want to ignore them. He didn't really understand the gist of Christianity. Go with Paul. He had it going on.
Far as replacing that belt - junk that piece of shit and buy a Dyson.
"12 stoned black olives"
I had to reread that a few times before I grasped what it really meant.
And why don't you ever comment at my place anymore?
Me??? 'Cuz frankly I'm outclassed there. You have seriously funny commenters!
Silleigh: Re: Vacuum brush beater belts...
unplug
the bottom otta pop right off...
insert a small screwdriver between the belt and the pulley and lever the belt away from the pulley...meanwhile, with other hand, move belt around pulley...belt should pop off...install new belt around one pulley, and stretch it toward the other...with screw-driver, lever the new belt into second pulley grooves while also moving the belt around the pulley and screwdriver til it settles in the groove...
got it?
describing sex is easier, probably...
Silleigh -
I actually perform a tracheotomy on my vaccum cleaner about once a month. I have duct tape covering a hole in the hose and when it gets stopped up (which it does frequently because it's poorly designed) I just open up the tape and pull out the dust and stuff. I actually made the hole myself for just this reason.
It's obviously goofy and I should just buy a new one -- but I like my mickey mouse solutions to household problems sometimes. Kinda fun.
Dear Mr. Wack-o troll., I have decided to hom school my child to keep him out of the clutches of libruhls and guarantee a properly Biblical education.
Should I teach little Earl and little Pearl this one....
Matthew 5:17-18 "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law, until all is accomplished."
or this one....
Romans 10:4 "For Christ is the end (the abolishment) of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes."
You see Mr. Wack-o, if I tell them one, than the other can't really be right. But if I teach the other than I am going against the first one.
Maybe there is nothing but turtles all the way down....
Draco:
Merci for le tip nocoise.
Sounds delightful......
"And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
Matthew 25:40
hat tip to prior A.
Kent, you're quoting the Jesus dude again. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. He knows nothing about Christianity. Go with Paul, man.
describing sex is easier, probably
and more fun
A Dyson will suck 70 year old spar varnish off oak floors.
Seebach,
I just got the memo, sorry man.
One day when I was feeling really, really depressed, I was eating alone and some Christian study group people came to harass me. They invited me to Bible study, where "we mostly watch sports and stuff."
You're going about this the wrong way, Ba'al.
Are you feeling adventurous, or sultry?
Um, gearing up for all that later. 
Right now, though, my hands are kinda gross and I am wondering why the instructions on this belt refer to an "agitator bar" like the thing's a washing machine. These are some dumb fucking instructions, and it doesn't help that they're in mice-type with incomprehensible diagrams.
Yeah, fuck this. All the Furball-hair on the carpet's gonna have to wait awhile longer, and I can appear nicely, femininely helpless as a prelude to... nevermind.
Just for the record, Ted Smith can't
be banned here, for two reasons.
1)Well known: He posesses
superhuman debating skills that
no one here can compete with.
2)Less known: Long ago in the
Orient he learned a strange power
to cloud men's minds so they
cannot see him.
Dear Ms. Schlafly, following your example, I have decided to teach my children about Jesus. But maybe you could explain this part, I am a bit confused about his early life, and the children are truly curious and want to know.
There is this:
Matthew 2:13-14 "Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise and take the Child and His mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is going to search for the Child to destroy Him." And he arose and took the Child and His mother by night, and departed for Egypt;"
But then there is this:
Luke 2:21-22 "And when eight days were completed before His circumcision, His name was then called Jesus, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb. And when the days for their purification according to the law of Moses were completed (40 days), they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord"
So, Ms. Schlafly, the question I have for you is, did Joseph and his family flee to Egypt or stay in Bethlehem for 40 days and then proceed to the temple in Jerusalem?
Or maybe the answer is that Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus were in two different places at the same time.
I'll bet that's it. I think that is what I should teach the children.
You see, Paul, the guy who was Saul beforehand, and hated Christianity and persecuted Christians, and had a seizure on the way to Damascus and changed his mind... that dude more about Christianity than Jesus, clearly.
Who are you going to listen to, the Son of God, or the original David Horowitz?
Barndog--"French cut bean" is a US marketing term because a lot of people get confused by "julienne."
A French bean is a "haricot vert," which can take many forms
The Common bean or haricot is Phaseolus vulgaris of the family Fabaceae. Many common bean varieties belong to this species, and there are also many terms which apply to all or part of the species depending upon variety and treatment
It's a string bean.
Silleigh
got it?
describing sex is easier, probably...
That dude KNOWS more about Christianity. Damn, a perfectly fine David Horowitz and Paul comparison ruined by a typo.
"agitator bar" like the thing's a washing machine
Are you sure it is not a washing machine?
I kid.
These are some dumb fucking instructions, and it doesn't help that they're in mice-type with incomprehensible diagrams.
Hoover- check, got a model number?
Seebach,
You are right of course, but this is fun for me.
kent - "More to reccomend it. Hmmmm next you'll be telling me that the creeks turn into fountains of chocolate on demand."
How'd you find out about THAT? Little bit of re-engineering the Brethren upstream prayed for - you know, excess dairy production, milk chocolate, all that.
Also Labatt's on ice.
Arthur's just brought me the Yellow Ball. (Today he received his licensure papers - he is now officially allowed to practice being a DOG, in Maricopa County anyway.) I must go PLAY.
drat it, my sexually suggestive, brilliantly funny post, eaten alive by haloscan.
nevermind.
Listen to Seebach, he is wise.
John 8:14 "Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Even if I bear witness of Myself, My witness is true; for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from, or where I am going."
John 5:31 "If I alone bear witness of Myself, My testimony is not true."
See! Jesus was very confused. Pay no attention to him Christians!
Um, gearing up for all that later. Right now, though, my hands are kinda gross and I am wondering why the instructions on this belt refer to an "agitator bar" like the thing's a washing machine. These are some dumb fucking instructions, and it doesn't help that they're in mice-type with incomprehensible diagrams.
Heathen.
The only way to fix a broken vacuum cleaner is through faith. Pray that the demons possessing it might be CAST OUT!
These are some dumb fucking instructions, and it doesn't help that they're in mice-type with incomprehensible diagrams.
Hoover- check, got a model number?
You might be able to find better instructions somewhere in the wonderful worlds of the internets.
Krusty The Clown: "Kids, we need to talk for a moment about Krusty Brand Chew Goo Gum Like Substance. We all knew it contained spider eggs, but the hanta virus?! That came out of left field! So if you're experiencing numbness and/or comas, send five dollars to antidote, PO box..."
[gets interrupted by a newscast]
Kent that Homer is on a roll.
Tell you what tho, you get the women and I'll get the hammocks. Yor look a little better than I and younger also.
Jenny, that's funny, and highly inventive. Jimmying shit like that always makes me feel VARRY good.
WGG, you lost me at "the bottom oughta pop right off." Ain't happenin'. I'll probably feel REALLY stoopid watching someone else accomplish this feat in two seconds flat later.
Sorry to suck up the thread with this nonsense.
I'm spackling right now. And I feel very adept at it too.
Heh, are we having a gender transfer day? The girls are fixing vaccums and the boys are fussing over nicoise.
sadie hawkins nite
Hoover- check, got a model number?
Hm. U5070-930. It is a Hoover Elite because, of course, I'm one o' them thar elitist libruls.
* * *
Thersites, faith-based home appliance repair COULD be a nice cottage bidness, but right now I'm thinkin' Stalin. No vacuum, no problem.
Look at the bright side...
Thanks to the repugs' policies, the USA ultimately will have no trouble meeting the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol (should it ever sign on...)
Fun fact:
If the Beach Boys had been French,
their name would have been
Les Garcons de la Plage.
Heh, are we having a gender transfer day? The girls are fixing vaccums and the boys are fussing over nicoise.
Damn itchy nylons.
I'm spackling right now. And I feel very adept at it too.
Honeychile, your spackling intellect and wit are part of what keeps us all coming back here!
Heh, are we having a gender transfer day? The girls are fixing vaccums and the boys are fussing over nicoise.
good point. the boys should be fixing vacuums and dinner.
Silleigh
*
Tell you what tho, you get the women and I'll get the hammocks. Yor look a little better than I and younger also.
Tell you what, we'll share. Any images you may have seen of my likeness are from long before I took to wearing feathered bangs to hide my incipient horns, and the odor.......lets just not get into that.
GWPDA,
yellow ball, license to DOG, obvioulsy you have no choice but to attend to the wishes of your canine overlord - enjoy.
Silleigh,
Thread sucking nonsence helps keep the monsters *under* my bed, which helps me not think of them.
Or for that matter the Farrah hair and the horns.
Now back to daydreaming about cornering the Belizian Hammock market.
I do the vast majority of carpentry and home repair around here.
Just sayin'....
Silleigh, I have an old Hoover and concur with the Desperado.
I will say, though, that whenever I've had to replace the belt I have a hard time telling if the orientation of the installed belt conforms to the little diagram stamped on the inside of the metal cover.
I usually have to walk away after struggling with the thing because it starts looking like some kind of tubular Mobius strip. Once my head clears-- or at least gets as clear as it can, more like translucent mud than crystal-- I can come back and tell if I got it right.
I think the assembly was designed by MC Escher.
Vacuums suck.
But I DO love y'all.
Okay, I should go start gettin' girly wid it.
I have this little portable vacuumn
cleaner called a Mighty Mite.
I love it because it looks like
Astro from the Jetsons.
Silleigh,
quick search of the internets reveals nothing pertainent to your situation.
Batting eyelashes will have to do.
I just thought that there would be some nutjob vaccuum cleaner site, Hoover Hagiography maybe. But alas, if such a site exists, it is not yet on google radar.
I do the vast majority of carpentry and home repair around here.
Just sayin'....
I think the assembly was designed by MC Escher.
There, another reason to give this up. If I do it wrong, y'know, cat hair and dust bunnies could spew forth, or antimatter, or something, 'cuz doesn't nature abhor a vacuum and all that?
Okay, I'm really off to the girly-stuff THIS time.
Oh yeah, new threads.
my buddy wrote a manuscript featuring 'ma's spiritual vacum cleaner' called it 'everyman'. mostly it's unreadable, but portions of it are brilliant, and prescient. it ends badly. hell, even charlie manson gets face time on the newly morphed johnny letterman show.
yup, it's true, america has officially gone batshit crazy.
i don't have any money but i'd like to put my bid in for GWPDA's eschatonia. i can chop wood. i'm a good wood chopper. fixing vacum cleaners is gross, i don't do vacum cleaners.
Calling any one of the dozen or so Law and Order spinoffs:
"If anyone were to murder a judge at this point and “justify” his act by relying on the noxious kinds of ideas offered at this conference, Vieira could legitimately be viewed as guilty of incitement, certainly in moral terms, if not in strictly legal ones. And the same would be true of anyone else who heard those remarks, and who did not make his objection known in some form." From Atrios' LOR link.
Sad, isn't it, when the only way a reasonable contrary point of view makes it to prime time television is through fictionalization.
But somebody needs to do it, do it very soon and do it really well.
charley - 78 acres gives plenty of wood to chop. You're on.
However, in the matter of the Hoover? Screw it. Take your Sears card and buy a Eureka. With plenty of attachments!
Alternatively, find yourself a Harper broom. A Harper broom (horsehair!) will clean up anything. I have two, one large, one small - both, various helper-people have pretended to think they are theirs - yeah, right.... Saltillo? A Harper push broom will clean microdust off of grout....
Much less former-Arthur off of carpet.
Gotta go - Yellow Ball is in progress.
Silleigh
If you don't have it the owners manual is at:
http://assist.hoover.com/Media/M...elPDF/
U5063.pdf
page 23 describes how to replace the belt
Oh yes - Harper brooms are made in IOWA! Wow! Something that works that's made in the United States!
____league,
That was some fine work there, I guess I didn't look too hard.
Jenny from the Blog:
(I had to run the kids to Saturday night at the rec center.)
Back atcha! I really appreciate your closing. Living in Texas, I don't get much love from my Rightie neighbors! I think I'd go nuts if not for: music and blogs.
kent
Like you I thought that there would be a vacuum cleaner site somewhere. That found me a site that would sell a manual (shipped by UPS) for 7.95. Then I tried 'hoover vacuum" (and maybe "belt replace" [I can't remmeber if included these]) and got the hoover site.
Watching the right these days is like watching a Jack Chick comic come to life.
OMG. I stopped in for a peek while my hair air-dries a bit... ____league, THANK YOU (and you, too, Kent, and everybody who tried to help and those who kept me amused in the process).
This is the best place, ever. Best people, ever. New religion: When I die I wanna go to Eschaton and never leave.
So, Ms. Schlafly, the question I have for you is, did Joseph and his family flee to Egypt or stay in Bethlehem for 40 days and then proceed to the temple in Jerusalem?
That's easy. Jesus was about two years old when his family had to flee to Egypt. The tip-off was that King Herod gave orders to kill all the baby boys under two years old, based on the information the wise men had given him. So he had time to be circumcised and redeemed (N.B. the rite of redemption of the firstborn is still practiced among Jews).
I'm thinking Sinclair Lewis.
And it's not cheering me up.
In case any of you haven't heard, _It Can't Happen Here_ is back in print. Thank you, New American Library.
Let's ask Joe Klein what he thinks about killing judges......I'm sure he'll hesitate ever so slightly.
I join spinoza:
NO FUNDAMENTALIST, NO PROBLEM!
I'm no lawyer, but couldn't these comments advocating the murder of judges be prosecuted as acts of conspiracy under Federal law?
collectivism was the essence of communism (and of socialism, and of fascism too)
buzzzz. try again.
A lovely photo of Edwin Vieira
Via Cleanup on Aisle 13
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