I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
fuck the convert
now what? (waiting)
Sounds intriguing. I just arrived in Phila for four days of conference, but I'll be back in the People's Republic of Carrboro before they hit the Cat's Cradle.
Owwww!
My eyes hurt now.
Four Legs--what, did you stare right into the microwave as you cooked the Peeps?
so we googled "bordello" and...
oh.
Four Legs--what, did you stare right into the microwave as you cooked the Peeps?
Sallyh
How else to test the urban myth? Will they explode, or not?
Great, they got the requisite Blonde Babe in Bondage now.
yes, San Buena-Ventura sounds tastey in july but i am seeing Willie Nelson right before that. so i might have an unreasonabley high threshold for best live show...
I hear their amps go to 12!
Just listened to a clip. I'll have to catch them in Seattle in July.
I wonder why I haven't heard them on my one of my local Clear Channel stations.
Well now, THEY look like FUN!
Hmmmm... Baltimore April 19th...
OK, I know it's 5 years old, but it's new to me; How many of y'all have seen the Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle? DiNiro, Quaid, Jonathan Winters, Carl Reiner, voices almost on, but irritatingly not quite...
I laughed, I cried, I did both at the same time. With this sore throat I had to watch it in segments, it hurt so much to laugh. In the $5 bargain bin, yet.
http://tinyurl.com/4jcaz
That's what Conservatives think of your precious rock and roll.
Best post on there is about Hanson.
EAt the chick! Eat the chick, you dumbassed snake!
I have got to stop taking music recs from Blogs. That was demented.
OT
TO COUNTERPUNCH, NOOBMATS!
JStC has a piece on extraordinary rendition, centering around a certain Dr Yoo.
Quote:
"
"Why is it so hard for people to understand that there is a category of behavior not covered by the legal system?" Yoo proclaimed. "Historically, there were people so bad that they were not given protection of the laws. There were no specific provisions for their trial, or imprisonment. If you were an illegal combatant, you didn't deserve the protection of the laws of war."
Of course, in the absence of a trial, who is to determine if the people detained as "illegal combatants" are either "illegal" or even "combatants"?
Even more brazenly, Yoo contends that the Bush administration is free to ignore US laws against torture.
"Congress doesn't have the power to tie the hands of the President in regard to torture as an interrogation technique," said Yoo. "It's the core of the Commander-in-Chief function. Congress can't prevent the president from ordering torture."
Yoo claims that if Congress has a problem with Bush flouting its laws, the solution is simple: impeachment. He also argued that the US public had its shot at repudiating Bush's detention and torture program and instead endorsed it. "The issue is dying out," Yoo told the New Yorker magazine. It "has had its referendum."
"
votre disco a besoin de vous!
thanks kei&yuri,
William Cook has a great article in the same issue, Glossing Over Israel's Human Rights Abuses.
Mrs al-J, we live to serve.
And how strange is it we're actually more pissed at the free conservative poster in love with Hanson ("they're beautiful") for digging Linkin Park than the mmm-boppers? Fucking otaku proud to have special effects ten times their content! Every lyric a selfish meaninglessly inverted whine! Finally a band for Shinji Ikari! God they fucking annoy us. We'll give them something to rap cliches, chitter about suicide, and scream about insecurity (insecurity? INSECURITY?!) about...
Drunkee--
that is pretty funny. Was this bit actually from a Hanson song, or could you tell?
Drug addiction and alcoholism used to be a sin, now it's a "disease."
Now, kids aren't ever dumb or lazy, they have "learning disabilities."
Easy women aren't sluts, they're "sexually expressive."
Little boys aren't energetic, they have "ADHD."
..."otaku" in a more specific sense than includes us, of course...
pots have straight handles and kettles have curvy ones...
TJ--
Showing how much I know about crap music, but that line sounds like DC Talk.
I worked with a girl who loved that group. Sadly, at that point in my life, I was too tired to smack her.
Little Duncan with the dirty asshole, lick my unwiped anus you poor, poor little excuse for a human being.
http://tinyurl.com/4jcaz
That's what Conservatives think of your precious rock and roll.
Best post on there is about Hanson.
it is after all "devil music"
man these people need lives not devoted to destroying every institution under the sun
"if the Stooges had been a klezmer band."
For some reason, this characterization scares me, as some things should really not be combined, like capers and ice-cream.
the pie/tena name thief fro m yesterdays threadtastic excitement is back ?
Wa-hoooo!
Tango & Cash is on!
"Mr. Tango is very eloquent..."
Hmm, just saw this at
http://www.securingamerica.com/?...118#comment-
561
COULD USE SOME HELP @ BOSTON HERALD FORUM
Hi Fellow Clark/WesPac Supporters,
If you are interested in debating some real right wingers who have been spewing lies about Gen Clark,ie Waco, Iraq, WWIII, etc come on over to http://www.bostonherald.com/ Register at the TalkBack Forum and go to National Politics. I could use some help for setting the record straight. My cut and paste skills are so primitive that I'm only able to provide links. There's gay bashers, rapture right, the Bush Kool Aid crowd, Coulterites, WorldNetDaily types, trolls and some moderates and some progressives. I'm posted as mrgoodfingers....Hope to see ya there.
By Anonymous at April 9, 2005 - 8:35pm | reply
Getting to be downright Dawn Of The Deadish it seems...
EAt the chick! Eat the chick, you dumbassed snake!
Careful dissing the reptiles. Echidne's hanging about, y'know.
Jimmy: It's called a vocabulary. You got one of those?
Joe Hallenbeck: Sorry, my subscription to JUGGS magazine ran out.
On Saul Bellow's Passing and why I will not mourn. My bitch, sorry.
(From the short story, PURGING SAUL BELLOW)
“I can’t say. You have any other experiences with established writers?”
“Saul Bellow.”
“The Nobel Laureate?”
“Yes. I was feeling despondent one night — not an unusual state for me — when I found an article that he had written in the newspaper about being a writer. I read the article, even tried to enjoy it. Contained in the article was a reference to a literary journal that he helped edit. I followed the link on the Internet and there was an email address for his co-editor. I wrote and asked for a kind word — that is all.”
“Did you receive it?”
“More than that. This man wrote back and said that they would be willing to read something and offer advice . I could not believe that they would take the time. Yet, he wrote back saying to send it on to the address he provided. I couldn’t believe it. The endorsement of a Nobel prize winner! I was ecstatic. I took the next day off work, wrote the necessary letters, made a fresh copy of a book, and took it to the post office. My eyes glistened as I gladly paid the money for postage to Boston and back. I knew it would be worth it.”
“So, what happened?”
“Nothing. More lies. He said that they would read it: they did not. I waited for their word every day. I checked my email several times a day just hoping for some word. I never received it. When I went to the mailbox after I returned home school, I trembled. The days passed with excruciating slowness. Finally the days blended into weeks and then the weeks into months. As the time passed, my hopes began to fade as well. In frustration, I wrote to the Professor in Boston. He had forgotten about saying they would look at the material. Forgotten! Didn’t they realize I could hardly sleep? Or don’t they care?”
“So, you reminded them. What happened?”
“Weeks went by and then the package finally arrived. I took it into the house, and placed it on the kitchen table. I stared at it for a long time — too scared to even look. As I cut away the tape, I was beseeching the Almighty for consideration. I looked at this thing: this thing I had spent more than a year creating, and felt an overwhelming sadness. On top of my carefully-crafted words was a scribbled note from some student assistant explaining that their journal did not publish book-length material. I couldn’t believe it. All that time, and they had not even bothered to look at it. I cried.”
“Why?”
“Because everything I am was contained in that box. They simply ignored it. If they had rejected the words, at least I would have had them considered. Oddly enough, this is what I am after. I cannot make people like what I write. But, I have a need for them to have the opportunity to judge for themselves.
Hey guys. What's up?
Sally, are you watching lizards?
Group hires Amirault for position as researcher
Amirault
By Casey Ross
An anti-tax group has hired paroled sex offender Gerald ``Tooky'' Amirault to be a researcher in its Marblehead office, saying Amirault continues to suffer unfarily from the senational Fells Acre case that resulted in his being sent to prison for chld rape.
W.T.F.
My comp was down during the Clark CSpan appearance, missed the AM showing, no replays at all this week of his appearance?
Brian lamb doing his usual best to hold the best appearances back. Time for Kos to call him out!
Everyone out, taking a powder tonight? I brought hedonia! Enough to share!
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Hey Moonbats!
What's up?
Did somebody die?
If today's cars are virtually emission-free, then so is Liddy Dole.
The Republican party is trying to deceive you about santorum pollution.
No but they are dancing in New Orleans to stay sharp in case someone does...
On Saul Bellow's Passing and why I will not mourn. My bitch, sorry.
(From the short story, PURGING SAUL BELLOW)
DWD:
I join you in fervent disdain for mr. bellows, the critical acclaim notwithstanding. I am no fan: worse than kvetching, it's belligerent special pleading...he always seemed dyspoeptic (a felicitous typo, ill leave it).
Hey! Where is everyone?
Bleh.
Meh.
Feh.
bebe ... please create a liddysworld.blogspot.com .... would be a killer for sure
Hey! Where is everyone?
The last thread is still going strong.
bebe ... please create a liddysworld.blogspot.com .... would be a killer for sure
syntallic
A fouler, filthier place would not exist...
Did you ever notice how short the threads are when the motherfucking trolls stay under their rocks?
I actually prefer it.
Later, skaters.
The world could use a joyously foul and filthy place.
Did you ever notice how short the threads are when the motherfucking trolls stay under their rocks?
Who you callin' "motherfucker" you cocksucker?
OT, but I'll get on-topic if anyone insists how fine and busy Atrios has ben all week.
I was just lstening to the Nirvana Unplugged alum, and was reminded how Kurt Cobain improved nearly every song he covered, from the traditional Christian song (he sounded faithless but wanting faith) to the Bowie song (he sounded like he knew why the man who sold the world did so, which is more than Bowie ever did).
Then there were the 3 Meat Puppets covers, where he affectionately imitated Kurt Kirkwood and improved on him in each case. Is that what that psychedelic lyric meant?
Which brings me to Cobain's only "failure" on the album, his cover of Leadbelly's "Who Did You Sleep with Last Night." The song requires him to bellow anger at an unfaithful woman, but Cobain can't quite do it, even in the final verse where he's yelling. Unconvincing, and very admirable.
I'm still sad he killed himself; I wish I could have held him close and stopped him, though I'm way too old for such adolescent fantasies.
shit, bebe, you gots the hard on for liddy like I got for michelle malkin .. michelle pajamaramalamadingdong got herself a nice skin job from the people of mattel .. now she looks like a "fuk yu/fuk me" combo platter right out of "austin powers: goldmember"
When I was young(er) and stupid, I made the joke "The only difference between Republicans and Nazis is that Nazis don't whine about taxes." I didn't really MEAN it though. I take it back.
hell yeah.
I opened for them a few years ago with my old band UncleFucker. Pardon the shameless nostalgia...
How else to test the urban myth? Will they explode, or not?
They just swell up. Most disappointing. Then I felt terrible for cooking the poor thing.
Then I bit its head off.
Hay, I just found Dean!
http://www.clothingoftheamerican...com/
photos.html
The poor guy is maybe simply exhausted 
But very happy 
Toonscribe--and i've got just the place for you!
Romance Novels Retitled!
Well, I watched the Snake King earlier!
For fucksake, will someone just step up and adopt Steve Gilliard, take him to raise, purchase him the most expensive, most durable computer on the market, provide him with groceries, rent, and walking around money, so that he can stop with his pathetic begging for money every four months.
Donations or no donations, Steve isn't going to stop blogging and get a real job. He should support his own habit.
It's like everyone went to the bathroom at the same time, and now they've all come back!
Hey, Sallyh. Whuzzup?
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Seriously, if you haven't seen Sally's romance novel cover site, go look right now. It's hysterical.
Was pondering the trolls a moment ago, after looking at some of the fine t-shirts on that Dean link. The pondering was not related by the way, different mental thread. Hmm, the memo is real and on top of that their people had a rally worthy of something at the Reichstag. I would stay under my rock too if I were them.
"It's like everyone went to the bathroom at the same time, and now they've all come back!
mena"
That is just a bit too personnel. Where did you put the cameras?
Quito: Donations or no donations, Steve isn't going to stop blogging and get a real job. He should support his own habit.
When I used to listen to NPR, I'd give it up during Pledge Weeks (one spring, one autumn). I was going to give what I was going to give, and that never changed. Heed my example if Steve's bothering you.
I will say that I'm somewhat glad Atrios doesn't try to respond to e-mails... if he did, he might be as abrupt and coarse as Steve has been with me. I don't remember if I saved the one where he responded to my telling him he could get a free, crappy LCD TV with something he had already bought... y'know, some kind of mail-in offer. I thought, "Gee, okay. I'll be sure and tell you about the next free thing, heh."
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er personal. Can't tell I had to write evaluations these last few days can you.
Ummm.....Quito?
I have a suggestion....
Don't visit Steve's blog.
Problem solved.
Hi all. Where's Ripley? We need to talk to him about definitions of masculinity.
Thanks, sallyh.
Those covers are hilarious.
Where did you put the cameras?
==
Eewww! What do you take me for?
Microphones only.
Thersites--out on his birthday date with Michelle Malkin?
We have no trolls. We only have heretics and traitors. To consider them trolls is to let them off too lightly.
Frenchy--Gosh, there were a lot of good-looking people in your band, including a woman. But I didn't see any link for actual music. Any advice on that?
And now, for the quotes...
Quotes, as You Haven't Quite Heard Them Before
mena LOL
and
Sallyh - absolutively.
In a bar at 2 am almost any woman looks desirable....and Liddy Dole. asleep on the floor in her own vomit, is as attractive as three-day old road kill.
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Plus, there's probably an intern under his desk."
flory
Guess I better move my desk then. I keep a blank wall in front of me so I can think. I can see where that activity could be mistaken.
Jeffraham:
As I see it, it is one thing to ask for donations to cover blogging expeneses, but Steve asks for donations to cover his day-to-day living expenses. It is one thing for a blogger to ask for help with hosting or server costs, which for Steve is nil, but asking readers to help pay for new computers, groeries, clothes, beer, magazines, books, etc. seems over-the-top. Does anyone think that if Steve had a real job - one that took him off the coach and outside of the house - one would see much of drop in the quality of his musings. I don't think so. Steve blogs for himself not for his readers.
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put on big man pants and strutted about the room."
-New Testament, Revolutions, X1II, 11
Thanks for another great link, Sallyh.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Plus, there's probably an intern under his desk."
-Or a senate page covered in my santorum.
-Liddy Dole
We have no trolls. We only have heretics and traitors. To consider them trolls is to let them off too lightly.
Hmmm. Myself, I'd argue that mostly they're just mouthbreathing idiots half-devoured with syphilis contracted from snaggletoothed first-degree relatives.
"Hmmm. Myself, I'd argue that mostly they're just mouthbreathing idiots half-devoured with syphilis contracted from snaggletoothed first-degree relatives.
Thersites"
We shouldn't be picky on who is or is not a traitor to the flag and constitution. We are liberals damnit, equal opportunity, all men are created equal and such.
bebe rebozo
You need to be fucked hard, don't you?
The disgusting crap you post only tells how you are.
Bend over, spread it, and beg me for it.
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Quito -- He's honest in his asking. If you don't want to give him money, there's no reason to feel bad about not giving him money. Make sense?
Hell, I don't have an income, either (going on two years!), but the only reason I don't rattle the PayPal jar is that I know people won't pay me for with I do on my blog. I can't say that about Steve.
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Jeffraham--but you can rattle the PayPal jar if you really need it. We empathize with the so called 'new economy.'
agave-
Understand, you are talking to a dead friend of Nixon. And both Nixon and I liked begging for it from Kissinger or other authoriative types. As do you. Now wipe the smegma off your lips.
Thersites--you could be right about that. The sort of behavior they engage in may be more common in those whose family trees do not fork.
what kind of board scores do you need to get into the college of cardnials? does it help if you are well rounded?
singe | Email | Homepage | 04.09.05 - 10:47 pm |
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you have to answer yes to the question 'is masturbation a sin?' -- [and a few similar] thus JPII filled the college of cardinals with total dinks, fools, the sexually immature, and the repressed --- and they get to pick the next pope
ECT:
Guess I better move my desk then.
I wondered about that smile...
Ah.. I was pondering the late night puns here. Thats it...
Artemesia--I suspect conclave is a lot like 'Reservoir Dogs.'
singe-
You need to take the CSATs. Kaplan has a program to prepare for it. For example:
Altar:Chalice:: Bed:__________
a. woman
b. robot
c. wafer
d. wine
e. hairless boy
Thersites--you could be right about that. The sort of behavior they engage in may be more common in those whose family trees do not fork.
Sallyh 1:37 am
ah, yes...the folx with only one set of grandparents...regretable, truly regretable...
Goodnight all. I'm more tired than I thought, tonight. Sleep well and be glad we have this place.
WGG
That must really screw up the yield at Christmas for the kiddos.
night mena....sleep well.
tomorrow just might be better.
We shouldn't be picky on who is or is not a traitor to the flag and constitution. We are liberals damnit, equal opportunity, all men are created equal and such.
Well, fair enough.
Ooooh, a Musical Youth video! Hot damn! VH1 classic rulez...
"Pass the dutchie, something, left hand side..."
I kind of liked, "I came, I saw, I visited the gift shop."
If you've ever been to Vegas, you'd understand
That must really screw up the yield at Christmas for the kiddos.
Not to mention birthdays, graduation..
oh, wait....
"He's honest in his asking."
Jeffraham:
I am not so sure. For example, he justifies this latest week long fund drive because he needs a new computer. You see Steve claims that his blogging is hard on his hardware, so he goes through computers quickly. Now now. Since when is tap-tapping on a keyboard hard on a computer. I mean hell given that 80% of the material on Steve's site is cut and pasting from other sources, there isn't a whole lot of tap-tapping going on over there in anycase. YOu are a blogger, would you say blogging is hard on your computer? How about commenting on blogs such as this one? Hard on your computer.
If you have to resort to asking for donations every 120 days to pay your living expenses, don't you think it might be time to rethink making a career from blogging.
Anyway, Steve's grift is coming to an end in a day or so. You will then have to wait a mere 120 more days for the grift to start again.
Anyway, enough tap-tapping for me this afternoon. Smoke is starting to poor out of my computer. I guess I need to do one of those fund drives.
quito:
I don't get it. If Steve's blog bothers you so much, why read it?
Save yourself the aggro and stay away.
what kind of board scores do you need to get into the college of cardnials? does it help if you are well rounded?
Quite a few get in on athletic scholarships. The heavily recruited Christoph Schönborn (DL-Austria), for instance, is expected to shore up a middle that has proved surprisingly soft against the run, though as a young 60-year-old he will have to "red-cap" for his first decade in the Vatican to maintain eligibility.
Repeating from last thread, because I am pissed:
Any Xian who does not compete for Bush's federally funded grants that are "faith-based" that will counteract the vicious anti-JC principles has't got a hair on their ass.
I'm damned sick of the anti-christs taking the lead here. You all who claim to be "real" Xians, get to work.
You got the tax breaks, you got the "faith". Get to work.
Anything less is bullshit, and I, for one, am fucking tired of it. Put up or shut up.
Get busy.
SD
Sarah Deere | Email | Homepage | 04.10.05 - 1:54 am | #
Sallyh: Jeffraham--but you can rattle the PayPal jar if you really need it. We empathize with the so called 'new economy.'
Well, thank you -- that's very nice. You're far too giving, perhaps... I just don't think I could be comfortable doing that (however, I'm not going to lay smack on those who do, as it's a value proposition, I think; no value? hey, don't donate!).
But of course I am still interested in setting up the anniversary project. That's honest work, for me. I'm amazed at how when the cupboard starts looking bare, someone will have a PC problem they need fixed, or a cheesecake that needs baked, or help moving furniture, or a TV that needs a jack soldered back in, from where the kids have abused it with unhooking a Playstation game, etc. I'm blessed, truly.
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Jeffraham--actually, at the moment, I may have a small one for you. For Dad's day, i'm compiling some photos from different stages of Randy's life. If that's cool by you.
Sarah--let's go easy on the grant applicants, okay? A lot of mainstream Protestant, pagan, Jewish, etc. groups have applied for grants, but all the money is going to those who practice a particular species of fundamentalist protestantism. (See Esther Kaplan, "With God on Their Side")
Thers:
What're you sipping? And you gonna share?
Thersites--what are the recommendations for writing the essay portion of the CSAT? And what about the statement of purpose?
Would 'leading young boys in the way of the faith' be too subtle?
oooohhhh...Sallyh
Now they got the snake good and pissed...
Sarah--many organizations apply, but right now, unless you are from a sect that preaches a brand of fundamentalist protestantism, you ain't getting anything.
Sallyh
Then, as I said ... raise a Big Fucking Stink.
Bring this to the forefront.
People of the Faith better have some fucking starch in their shorts.
Believe? Hey, show it.
Quito -- It's my personal opinion that he at least wants a new PC, and if folks want to help him pay for it -- or buy it for him, outright, even -- it's their money. If you think it's shameless, no one will make you give a dime. When everyone thinks it's shameless, Steve will do something else, I am sure, but you haven't convinced me of the shamelessness of it, yet. You've probably paid worse writers via subscription fees... worse artists via ticket stubs, etc. Don't pay if you don't want to pay -- Steve will even let you read him for free, I hear.
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Sarah--When I lost my NIH grant, I tried that tactic. Needless to say, things did not go well.
flory
I think Steve is on the grift. He holds a fundraiser that pays for his living expenses for 3 or 4 months and then when he runs out of money or needs a new computer he holds another fundraiser. He claims his expenses are $1,000 per month - these aren't blogging expenses these are his living expenses. Asking for donations to pay for toilet paper, chiclets, ketchup, soccer jerseys, seems unseemly.
As I recall when, Atrios or Josh Marshall engaged in fund raisers it was to cover blogging expenses. Not groceries, rent or new shoes for the baby.
agave-
Understand, you are talking to a dead friend of Nixon. And both Nixon and I liked begging for it from Kissinger or other authoriative types. As do you. Now wipe the smegma off your lips.
bebe rebozo
Oh, fuck off.
Your smegma reference means nada.
You have some thing to say, then say it!
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Sallyh: Jeffraham--actually, at the moment, I may have a small one for you. For Dad's day, i'm compiling some photos from different stages of Randy's life. If that's cool by you.
I am always at your service. Let me know the details via e-mail whenever you are ready.
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Sitting here in the Hermosa Beach bunker amongst the rest of the bizarro collection of defrocked preachers, wild animal tamers and federal tax abolitionists ... it is getting to be about that time to chill the jets.
Ciao 4 now
though as a young 60-year-old he will have to "red-cap" for his first decade in the Vatican to maintain eligibility.
realistically he should forego his senior years of synod and opt into the TBN draft... that's where the real money is...
"Taxpayers who made more than $1 million received an
average federal income tax break of $123,592 in 2004,
according to the Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the
Urban Institute and Brookings Institution think tanks. This
compared to $383, the average tax break in 2004 for
the two-thirds of taxpayers who made less than $50,000
per year." (clark supporters chain emails)
Something I said in an actual conversation a while back:
"Judy Tenuta is like Bonnie Hunt the way that Christopher Walken is like Robbie Benson."
Ain't it the truth.
Sarah--When I lost my NIH grant, I tried that tactic. Needless to say, things did not go well.
Sallyh
Sallyh,
All I'm saying is, I have had it up to my ears w/Xianity for all my life.
You guys think you've got an edge? Fine. You think you've got the answers? Fine. Deal with it.
You have to face off with people who claim to share your faith but you don;t quite agree and they're "winning"? Hey, maybe you ought to do something about that.
They're getrting grants but you;'re not? Yet you still get tax exempt status? You know what? I see it as being your responsibility to EARN that goddamned tax exempt status by standing on your hind legs and challenging the apparent inequities infunding that is the hallmark of the GW Bush administration. If you don't, who will???
Pardon me if I have no sympathy for your reluctance to engage the enemy.
Irony engaged.
Quito -- What you seem to be saying is that Steve doesn't write well enough that he is deserving of making a living from his blog. If he wants to make a living writing (as I imagine you imagining it), he needs to go to work for a paper (or whatever), and write what he's told to write, yes?
Guess what? You don't have to pay!
No cops will break down your door.
Do you subscribe to any newspapers or magazines, Quito?
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Good evening, Atriots. What's the rumpus tonight?
Hey, I did that when I was 17 - guzzled a 26er of Capt Morgan's, came to some time later behind a school, laying in a large puddle of one part water to one part vomit in a downpour, buddies nowhere to be seen. Good times!
Well, here's the latest Tom Tomorrow:
http://www.workingforchange.com/...fm?
itemid=18836
Florida, cauldron of craziness!
Rorschach--well, how about some Romance Novels, Retitled!
Quito:
Asking for donations to pay for toilet paper, chiclets, ketchup, soccer jerseys, seems unseemly.
Are you under the impression that the writers at the NYT and WaPo don't buy toilet paper with their paychecks?
Steve is trying to make a living blogging. Some of his readers - myself included - think enough of his writing that we're willing to pay him for it.
You don't have to - and guess what? - you can still read his blog.
Why, with your opinions, you would want to, is another matter entirely.
Good night, sweet dreams, no bedbugs.
Even for Xians. (Though, I am tempted by the bedbugs)
SD
Quito:
Asking for donations to pay for toilet paper, chiclets, ketchup, soccer jerseys, seems unseemly.
Well, I deem it unseemly that you should deem that this seems unseemly!
Quito:
...given that 80% of the material on Steve's site is cut and pasting from other sources, there isn't a whole lot of tap-tapping going on over there in anycase.
And that comment is pure, undiluted horseshite.
I cannot imagine the amount of time and effort he put into his series on colonialism. He may not be the best wordsmith on the internets, but he has a unique voice that's well worth paying attention to.
Maybe a little jealousy in your comments?
Funny stuff, Sallyh!
Good laughs are always in style, Rorschach!
And did you see Snake King?
i did not, Sallyh? Please to explain?
"Birds Like Crazy People" and "The Blind and Buttonless Horseman" were, I think, my favorites.
And if you thought the romance novels were funny...
Wheel of Fortune Puzzles that Never Made it On the Air
'Snake King,' an original movie on SciFi that aired this evening!
Large hungry reptiles, below average cast, miserable CGI. A good time was had by all. Chief complaint was insufficient cast devourage by said large reptiles.
Simels recommended SK.
sallyh:
I'm pretty sure I saw the episode with "Pat Sajak is a badly shaved chimpanzee"
He went ape-shit.
'Snake King,' an original movie on SciFi that aired this evening!
Large hungry reptiles, below average cast, miserable CGI. A good time was had by all. Chief complaint was insufficient cast devourage by said large reptiles.
Now you make me bitter. I have full satellite at my house--but of course my house is being rebuilt, so I'm in a hotel with limited satellite--no Comedy Central (and yes, I've had the Daily Show withdrawal shakes for a while) and no SciFi.
Alas...
Large hungry reptiles, below average cast, miserable CGI. A good time was had by all. Chief complaint was insufficient cast devourage by said large reptiles.
Reptiles win. Village is saved. Secret is kept.
What's not to like?
Rorschach--I'm so sorry! How are the kitties and the lovely Mrs. Rorschach?
Flory--the snakes needed to eat ALL of the cast.
rorschach:
but of course my house is being rebuilt
How goes the reconstruction project?
I think we need to come up with romance novel titles for wingnuts.
I sort of like, "Meet Me in the Little Boys' Room."
"She Had a Penis!"
Flory--the snakes needed to eat ALL of the cast.
Nuh-uh. Reptilian emesis - not a pretty sight.
Sally--The kitties are fine, better than we in adapting, I imagine. And the Mrs. is doing very well just at the moment, as she is in Minnesota, chairing a panel on Native American lit and hanging with friends.
I'm actually rather happy--the house actually has electricity again, and our new fridge and washer were just delivered... The end of this purgatory is nigh...
I did a double take on the headline for this post, so I just had to quote a little ...
Ivan Yakovlevitch donned a jacket over his shirt for politeness' sake, and, seating himself at the table, poured out salt, got a couple of onions ready, took a knife into his hand, assumed an air of importance, and cut the roll asunder. Then he glanced into the roll's middle. To his intense surprise he saw something glimmering there. He probed it cautiously with the knife -- then poked at it with a finger.
``Quite solid it is!'' he muttered. ``What in the world is it likely to be?''
He thrust in, this time, all his fingers, and pulled forth -- a nose! His hands dropped to his sides for a moment. Then he rubbed his eyes hard. Then again he probed the thing. A nose! Sheerly a nose! Yes, and one familiar to him, somehow! Oh, horror spread upon his feature! Yet that horror was a trifle compared with his spouse's overmastering wrath.
``You brute!'' she shouted frantically. ``Where have you cut off that nose? You villain, you! You drunkard! Why, I'll go and report you to the police myself. The brigand, you! Three customers have told me already about your pulling at their noses as you shaved them till they could hardly stand it.''
But Ivan Yakovlevitch was neither alive nor dead. This was the more the case because, sure enough, he had recognised the nose. It was the nose of Collegiate Assessor Kovalev -- no less: it was the nose of a gentleman whom he was accustomed to shave twice weekly, on each Wednesday and each Sunday!
``Stop, Prascovia Osipovna!'' at length he said. ``I'll wrap the thing in a clout, and lay it aside awhile, and take it away altogether later.''
``But I won't hear of such a thing being done! As if I'm going to have a cut-off nose kicking about my room! Oh, you old stick! Maybe you can just strop a razor still; but soon you'll be no good at all for the rest of your work. You loafer, you wastrel, you bungler, you blockhead! Aye, I'll tell the police of you. Take it away, then. Take it away. Take it anywhere you like. Oh, that I'd never caught the smell of it!''
Ivan Yakovlevitch was dumbfounded. He thought and thought, but did not know what to think.
"I'm pretty sure I saw the episode with "Pat Sajak is a badly shaved chimpanzee"
He went ape-shit."
I'm a Jeopardy! girl myself. If anyone doubts the existence of interactive TV, Jeopardy is living proof that it's alive and well in many living rooms across North America.
Thanks for the query, flory. Nearly done, or so I tell myself so as to avoid gouging my eyes out just for kicks...
Oy.
"He Stroked his Big Trunk"
"The Internment Camp of Love"
Oh just one little more bit, since the internet is generous ...
``Yes, but how, I should like to know?'' Kovalev thought to himself. Then, again taking courage, he went: on:
``I am, you see -- well, in point of fact, you see, I am a Major. Hence you will realise how unbecoming it is for me to have to walk about without a nose. Of course, a peddler of oranges on the Vozkresensky Bridge could sit there noseless well enough, but I myself am hoping soon to receive a -- -- Hm, yes. Also, I have amongst my acquaintances several ladies of good houses (Madame Chektareva, wife of the State Councillor, for example), and you may judge for yourself what that alone signifies. Good sir'' -- Major Kovalev gave his shoulders a shrug -- ``I do not know whether you yourself (pardon me) consider conduct of this sort to be altogether in accordance with the rules of duty and honour, but at least you can understand that -- -- ''
``I understand nothing at all,'' the Nose broke in. ``Explain yourself more satisfactorily.''
``Good sir,'' Kovalev went on with a heightened sense of dignity, ``the one who is at a loss to understand the other is I. But at least the immediate point should be plain, unless you are determined to have it otherwise. Merely -- you are my own nose.''
The Nose regarded the Major, and contracted its brows a little.
``My dear sir, you speak in error,'' was its reply. ``I am just myself -- myself separately. And in any case there cannot ever have existed a close relation between us, for, judging from the buttons of your undress uniform, your service is being performed in another department than my own.''
And the Nose definitely turned away.
Kovalev stood dumbfounded. What to do, even what to think, he had not a notion.
Flory--those are great!!!
"Punishment for Naughty Boys."
or so I tell myself so as to avoid gouging my eyes out just for kicks...
Its for times like these that goddesses invented chemicals.
'Love in the Time of Peak Oil.'
"Message Discipline"
*aw shucks*
{blush}
Its the bullshit "blogging is hard on my hardware" when I realized that Steve fund drive was a grift.
Steve should just be honest and say: "Look, I am trying to make a living out of blogging and while my output on a daily basis doesn't take 8 hours to compile, I am a self-professed lazy person who doesn't wish to work a real job like Billmon, Digby, Atrios, etc etc and blog. I am better than that, so give me some money."
As for all the comments regarding that the answer lies in my not visitng and reading Steve's blog, well, come on - this is not the answer given to Atrios or others when it come to attacking some right-wing blogger, news outlet or gadlfly who is believed to have strayed into shitheadery. No, Atrios and we on the left call them out on it. That is all I am doing here.
"Weekend at Camp David"
"Bobo's Bordello"
"The Hammer of Love"
"I Was Ravished by a Wolf"
"The Bugman Cometh"
Steve should just be honest and say: "Look, I am trying to make a living out of blogging
And when he tells you that he's using the money to purchase daily necessities - what exactly does that mean?
"The Bugman Cometh"
ka-ching!!!!!
(shouldn't it be 'cum-eth?)
'Love in the Time of Peak Oil.'
I'm doing research in energy conservation. We waste so much, it's mindfucking.
"Dead Interns Tell No Tales"
Steve should just be honest and say: "Look, I am trying to make a living out of blogging
And when he tells you that he's using the money to purchase daily necessities - what exactly does that mean?
Okay, that's enough. You are making just way too much sense!
Oh, and "Condi on a Hot Tin Roof"?
You guys are way ahead of me on the creativity scale. Delightful!
As for all the comments regarding that the answer lies in my not visitng and reading Steve's blog, well, come on - this is not the answer given to Atrios or others when it come to attacking some right-wing blogger, news outlet or gadlfly who is believed to have strayed into shitheadery.
False parallel.
Steve is not spreading lies that need to be counteracted - which is what Atrios and others do to winguts.
Steve has a lifestyle you don't approve of. And being good liberals our answer is to let Steve live his lifestyle and if it bothers you - don't watch.
"The Lump of Luv"
"A Streetcar Named DeLay" (pretty much sums up public transit in New Orleans when I lived there, anyway...)
You guys are great.
"Bagdhad Not Burning Enough"
"She Was Beautiful in a Burka"
"Dead Labial Mites Tell No Tales"
Liddy Dole
"My Smirking Studmuffin"
My infant daughter woke me up. That fink. She is damn luck she's cute. Nrrrrrgh.
"PVS - a handbook for fundie wives"
Oh sorry - I wandered over to non-fiction.
Thersites--is Mary asleep, or are you on call at this hour?
"As His Portfolio Shrank, So Did He"
Thersites--is Mary asleep, or are you on call at this hour?
Nobody's asleep... all right, back to bed, now.
Remember the rules, no fun on Eschaton while I'm away!
"Steve is not spreading lies that need to be counteracted"
Uh, claiming that blogging is hard on his personal computer because of the hours he spends cutting and pasting other people's material and photos, and tap-tapping his keyboard is bullshit that needs to be counteracted because some people will actually believe his nonsense.
She is damn luck she's cute. Nrrrrrgh.
Uh, huh. How tight did you say you were wrapped around her finger?
Flory--quite all right. We have a vast array of nonfiction as well!
If Thersites is typical of your average Abu Al-Barat, Rosie is fully in charge.
"Hot Chimp Love"
Sleep well, freemoons!
Uh, claiming that blogging is hard on his personal computer because of the hours he spends cutting and pasting other people's material and photos, and tap-tapping his keyboard is bullshit that needs to be counteracted because some people will actually believe his nonsense.
You have no idea how much wear and tear is on his machines. They're home built with cheap parts.
And, really, bit of a stretch isn't it that you've gone on this tirade because you're worrying about how quickly Steve's machines may or may not give out.
No one is being forced to give him money. If I choose to do so, he can buy soccer jerseys or motherboards with it - I don't really care. I'm paying for his writing - not his hardware.
Bye sallyh. Sweet dreams of hot fundie love.
Hen.
Well, the bar appears to be emptying out so its time to say g'night.
Sleep well any moonbatties still about.
Lord of the Tube Steak by Carly Rover
an audiobook narrated by a pile of poop left by Winston on a red & green states map
Oh, no -- I'm still here.
I was so inspired by Quito that I put a beggar's bowl on my blog, too. You probably won't see it until tomorrow, since ModBlog has to approve certain changes to their templates (to make sure it doesn't break the flow of the layout), but hell, it's my act of rebellion, tonight. I even lied on the graphic, just for Quito's sake -- called it "Curly's Kibble Fund," and I assure you, if any money ends up there, it'll be spent on whatever I need to keep Curly & Jeffraham up-n-runnin'.
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gogol bordello - nyc gypsy punk at its best. they do put on one helluva show...
You all have been forgetting the most ripe source...
"Hard Pass"
intricate cocoa . . .
crispy crunches of goodness
Fred Flinstone is god?
Can we post again?
Haloscam is majorly fucked today.
And why should today be different from any other day.
Haloscam is majorly fucked today.
And why is today different from any other day.
In Mozilla it said it rejected the post. So I come here to Explorer and repost and both show up.
Glad I have plans for today.
hi QLinNY and Quiltsquito!
helloscam does indeed suck.
looks like a lovely day. hope you enjoy.
Morning Her Eyes,
Thought I was holding the place alone. Good morning
SSSSSS
Quiltsquito and QL are one and the same.
pass it on
Listening this idiot on CSPAN trying to defend the Bolton nomination. Ayup, Iran is in the radar.
Morning, folks
Iran or Syria? And what role will Israel play?
So, QL, do you think that NOW the MSM has been awakened to the clear and present danger to this country that these fools represent?
(Me either, but I am naturally pessimistic - odd for a teacher, I know. I have often described myself as a cynical Pollyanna. I hope things will go right, but I just don't believe it.)
(Testing)
DWD,
I tend to share your stance as a cynical pollyana, but I must admit to being heartened by the rash of articles of DeLay, and a couple of recent columns from the likes of Frank Rich and Dana Milbank have lifted my spirits a little.
hi DWD!
QL- i knew you were the same, but i wasn't sure which handle you preferred.
btw, i don't know if i ever told you, but i tried to read the book yoou recommended, Parable of the Sower, and the first two chapters scared me so much, i haven't been able to pick it back up.
DWD - I thing the corporate media is our last gasp. Many of the programs advocated by the wingnuts will hurt big bidness so there is a chance the crazies will flame out. But now that they have been unleashed, who knows if they can be reined in? The fact that they are pushing a ban on birth control may just be their undoing. However, their lock over the media and Diebold makes me quite pessimistic as well. It's hysterically funny that over 40% of repukes are now looking to the dems to bring back some sanity.
btw, i don't know if i ever told you, but i tried to read the book yoou recommended, Parable of the Sower, and the first two chapters scared me so much, i haven't been able to pick it back up.
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I know, it scared the shit out of me too. The reason being is that it presents very clearly the logical conclusion to all the privatization nonsense. Before this last election, I really did have Pollyana faith in the American people. No longer.
i'm not sure if i want the religious crazies reigned in just yet. let them pull some other atrocities, hopefully just be fore the elections in 06, and then again in 08.
something the sheeple and media can't just say, "oh look, over there--(insert celebrity)"
Diane,
Yes, but there should be alarm bells sounding at this point and I do not hear them: only faint echoes of sensibility.
BTW, I read Brooks again today and he really and truly has nothing worthwhile to say. I read his article trying to figure out what his point was. Nearly as I could tell he was not lamenting the loss of civility and understanding we are experiencing but was, rather, embracing a sort of American hubris toward thinking and consideration. If this is the case, then it is a sad state of affairs.
Whatever we are at this point, we owe to those who came before us. The American Revolution could not have happened without the era of Englightenment. Now, according to Mr. Brooks, America no longer cares for much that is not American in origin. I would dismiss these ramblings as those of a child: but his lofty position precludes this. Therefore it is necessary to remind people of our obligation to those who came before and those who will come after us. We are not the point of the spear, we are merely travelers seeking momentary satiation from the spear's flight. We cannot control, nor can we dismiss our own responsiblity; but neither can we assume that we are the controllers of everything.
is it "reigned" as in used to be in charge
or "rein" which is part of a halter used to stop a horse
I think that NPR should just merge with Fox News, because it would make shilling for Bushco more efficient.
When NPR has another pledge drive we could just send the money directly to the RNC and eliminate the middleman. I wonder if Karl Rove spent the Kroc money wisely. I hope he used the money for a good cause like the Swift Boat ads.
Is this thing on?
updates @ lizz winstead.com!
I'M ALL LOST IN THE SUPER WAL*MART: Part 2
Lizz's contribution to today's NYT WEEK IN REVIEW
GREETINGS from MIDDLE MARGE, essays from the middle Winsead sister
enjoy!
Her Eyes,
The fundy pharisees' agenda is starting to become very clear, even to a milqetoast like me. What will be interesting to watch is how the Republican Congress deals with their demands. We've already seen the President distance himself a little on the judge issue.
I think we need to start hollering and insist the MSM do more on uncovering this bid to steal the government.
i read brooks last week sometime and i really believed that those were the ramblings of a nonsensical maniac.
usually, there is a point, maybe one you don't agree with, but a point nonetheless.
when i read it, it was just a bunch of incoherent ramblings.
Rein, QL. Homophones are a bitch.
homophobes and acronyms. bitches!
Diane- not an easy task when the MSM is owned by the people doing the stealing.
I thought the lust fest for the dead pontiff might have been the low point of the fundie's craziness.
Anyone who is even marginally familiar with the evangelical understands that they do not believe that Catholics are even Christians. They consider them to be Papists and idolitors. But for the power they seek, they will do and say ANYTHING.
To find anti-Catholic rhetoric from these folks should not be hard. Hasn't the MSM ever hear of doing a simple web search?
homophobes and acronyms. bitches!
LOL
I have come to depend on acronymfinder.com to survive on the blogs.
I have come to depend on acronymfinder.com to survive on the blogs.
sounds too much like work. i just usually ask somebody.
QL--i'm hoping to get up the courage to pick it up again, but to be honest, i have so many things keeping me awake at night.
sometimes i wonder if it would be a good idea for me to stay away from here for a while.
i know putting my head in the sand never solved anything, but sometimes i feel like i just have to, for my own sanity and sleep.
DWD - they could start by digging up quotes from Bob Jones.
sometimes i wonder if it would be a good idea for me to stay away from here for a while.
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I was feeling quite sanguine yesterday, then something got me going and I was in fine fettle by the time I logged off. I watched "Father of the Bride" and zoned out. Today there is a quilt show that I will go to, buy fabric, and admire my sisters work. It just can't be healthy to be so filled with hate. I even yelled at poor Kent yesterday for something he didn't even say.
OT: does anyone know a LEGIT literary agent looking for new clients? My publisher is okay, but she has so little money for promotion that the process, if successful in the way that I would like, will take YEARS.
I have all of this stuff ready to go and no where to put it. (sigh) I just would hate to be a posthumous success. That would suck.
QL--sounds like just the ticket.
i'm going to spend as much time as i can outside today, and enjoy the weather. and i'm going to try and not think about how they are raping the planet, or how i may not have ss, or the fact that there may not be any constitution left, or that war with islamospooky is inevitable.
not. going. to. think. at. all.
"Mornin', Ralph..."
"Mornin, Sam...M,/i>
Meteorological Report, Southern Rockies, Sun. Apr. 10, 7:10am:
It's fuckin snowing...yesterday it was near 75, and this mornin, there was snow on the ground, in the trees and in the air...(also in the MG, whose top i neglected to raise last night...shit...
mornin' beloved assorted moonbats, lurkers, goddesses, serpents, and humankindly folx...
morn WoodyGsGuitar!
snow? where you at? please tell me it isn't coming here!
Hey WGG.,
Kind of amazing how the mountains can change weather, eh?
My experience with your neck of the woods is simply wait for that sun to melt everything. (In Michigan we have little sun in the winter. But it is beautiful here today. Sunny and bright and going up to around 70. Spring is here for now.)
WGGs,
The last time I was in NM in April (I have a thing for Chimayo and that whole area), I drove through a snowstorm from Santa Fe until I reached the Posada de Chimayo.
I hadn't driven in snow in yarons, and, unlike bike riding, it's a skill lost with disuse.
G'day, her eyes...
I'm in Albuquerque, NM, North America, altitude 5000 ft. It wsa big fluffy flakes at first; now it's more like sleet...
there's more than 90 inches of packed snow atop our neighborhood (11,000 ft) peaks...
it hasn't frozen since mid-march (knock wood), but it probably will at least once more...
more than you needed or wanted to know?
more than you needed or wanted to know?
WoodyGsGuitar/Happy Desperado | Email | Homepage | 04.10.05 - 9:34 am
not at all. i enjoy your posts.
DWD--if i knew of somebody like that, your book would have gone right over to them. i'm sorry i can't help you. the only thing i can do, is send your book off to the schools around here, and maybe they can make it required reading for a history course or something? would i have your permission to do that?
Diane sez: (I have a thing for Chimayo and that whole area)...
Rancho de Chimayo was my family's site for celebrations from about 1968 until we left the area upon the demise of my folks (separately, about 5 yrs ago)...the family lived in Nambe for 40 years...
I (humbly) claim to have invented the Chimayo Cocktail (1.5 oz tequila, 1 oz apple cider, .25 oz creme de cassis, in a short hi-ball glass rimmed with cinnamon sugar, and an apple wedge garnish)...
meet me there for brunch?
WGG sounds good, but you would probably have to pick me up off the floor about midway into the second.
meet me there for brunch?
You bet! Now I just have to figure out a way to get from here (SoCal) to there this morning.
And that cocktail sounds very interesting... even at this hour.
WGG sounds good, but you would probably have to pick me up off the floor about midway into the second.
QL in NY == 9:43 am
With pleasure...and might I offer you some madiera, m'dear? (twisting his moustaches most suggestively)...
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Conn. Senate Approves Civil Unions Bill
Today: April 06, 2005 at 20:24:29 PDT
By SUSAN HAIGH
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The state Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that would make Connecticut the first state, absent court pressure, to recognize civil unions between same-sex couples. Senators voted 27-9 in favor of the legislation, which proponents say will likely clear the House of Representatives, possibly as early as next week. Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell has not taken a stand on the bill, but has said she supports the concept of civil unions.
"I believe that our most precious and important job is to make sure the rights of all our citizens are protected where they exist and expanded where they don't exist," said Democratic Sen. Mary Ann Handley, who is part of a group of legislators who plan to press for gay marriage in Connecticut. The vote came a day after Kansas became the 18th state to pass a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Thirteen other states passed such prohibitions last year, while Alabama, South Dakota and Tennessee plan elections next year on constitutional bans.
Gay rights proponents originally hoped to pass a bill similar to the Massachusetts law that allows same-sex couples to marry. But legislative leaders determined there was more political support this session for Vermont-style civil unions, which extend the same rights and privileges of marriage, but without the marriage license. According to the 2000 census, there are 7,400 same-sex couples in Connecticut.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbi.../
040601719.html
Wanker of the day.
Stephanopolis asking Spitzer if prosecuting big business for wrong doing is going to discourage big business from moving to New York. Sorry, but I didn't realize that obeying the law was a descretionary act.
WGG - Somebody beat you to it 35 years ago. Moustaches and all.
Conn. Senate Approves Civil Unions Bill
so that makes (what, five, six, seven states?) Mass, Conn, Vt. NY (?i thought i read), HI, OR, and CA?
only 4o or so to go...keep the faith, brother...
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when i read it, it was just a bunch of incoherent ramblings.
her eyes
I read that, too. Read like a bunch of wingnuttery talking points hastily thrown together before a deadline.
only 4o or so to go...keep the faith, brother...
I trying but goddamn, at this rate, I'll be 150 before I can get married.
Somebody beat you to it 35 years ago. Moustaches and all.
QL -9:49 am
curses, foiled again...
Could we have a new thread, please?
Morning Incog
How ya doing today.
Progress will come incrementally. Sounds corny, but two steps forward, one step back. Eventually gays will win the right to marry openly and freely. For my daughter and you and all my gay friends, I sincerely hope it comes sooner.
when i read it, it was just a bunch of incoherent ramblings.
her eyes
I read that, too. Read like a bunch of wingnuttery talking points hastily thrown together before a deadline.
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when i think of all the talented people out there....and this asshat raking in $ for spewing this crap! christ!
I think that NPR should just merge with Fox News, because it would make shilling for Bushco more efficient.
You must have heard the same story I heard this morning about faulty intelligence and the NSA blah blah blah.
C'mon, A, new threadee, please...
it's nearly 10 am your time...
hello?
anybody home?
(crickets whirrr)
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her eyes - surely you don't believe that America is a meritocracy?
Look at who we have as a president.
Look at what tops television ratings. (So-called "reality" shows featuring people you wouldn't care to know in real life.)
Look at who is a "celebrity". (Talentless and vapid "stars" like the Simp(son) sisters and Brittney Spears.)
The NYT is just following the old maxim of dumbing it down to appeal to the lowest common denominator, i.e. the widest possible audience.
This country doesn't care about quality, because the money is with crap.
Hey QL, doing great. How are you doing today in the Big Apple?
have a wonderful lovely day all you lovely wonderful moonbats!
Her eyes, please do. The only way for success to happen is for more people to read. I will be working this summer on that as well. But as anyone connected with a university or school will tell you: bursting into that market is devilishly difficult.
Professors at universities are sent oodles of books by publishers. It is doubtful they read many of them. School districts must choose books (if they want them subsidized by the government - as most do because they are broke) from a set list established by the government.
In K-12 districts, I have also believed that there are certain . . . nefarious . . . deals reached with administrators. (I hate to say that, but that is the only reason I can think of for the godawful texts we are given.)
clean sheets
I seriously could only get about halfway through the latest Brooks column before I bolted on to something else to read.
Stooges and klezmer, eh? Intriguing.
The Klezmatics are a more (ahem) orthodox possibility.
I (humbly) claim to have invented the Chimayo Cocktail (1.5 oz tequila, 1 oz apple cider, .25 oz creme de cassis, in a short hi-ball glass rimmed with cinnamon sugar, and an apple wedge garnish)...
WGG, have copied that into my recipe book - thanks!!!
SD
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