I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Mornin'!
Hiya, moonbats!
If you live in or around the 7th District of New Jersey and want to elect a Democrat to Congress there, we're starting a new PAC called Blue 7th PAC. Right now we are represented by Congressman Mike Ferguson, a right wing conservative Republican who has a reported 94 percent pro-Bush voting record. He also has the largest fine in FEC history and is the largest recipient of money from Tom DeLay.
We've launched a website at http://www.dumpmike.com and will be launching http://www.blue7th.com in a couple weeks. (We need some web help, particularly when it comes to design, if anyone is interested.)
If you live in the 7th, please sign up and get involved. The more active people we have the more likely we will be to take back the 7th in 2006!
(Crossposted on Kos)
I taught Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave" last night. We kept coming back to the media as the shadow puppeteers, the resistance to enlightenment (and the murder of the enlightened, that too).
It didn't cheer me up.
Well, off to work in a moment. This time of year is among the hardest for teachers (and students.) The weather is fine and everyone seems to want to do "something" but no one is quite sure what it is . . . .
I am down to my bag of tricks for the duration. (Yesterday I did the entire history of the great civilizations of the world in twenty-five minutes -- I left some stuff out.)
Morning all...
My picture captions
And
...someone else's superb use of photoshop
I can't believe they will try and pass this estate tax repeal today, it's so easy to slam.
Just runa commercial with Paris Hilton holding her dog, explaining how this tax has helped her, and thanking the US for funding it with cuts in Social Security.
Attaturk, I really didn't *need* to see Jeb as St. Sebastian.
Really.
The Paris Hilton Tax Relief Bill...
Greetings, fellow freethinkers! How you been? I've been stupidly busy lately (a trend which isn't going to change for the next month or so), but I'll try to poke my nose back in more often.
Attaturk, those captions are good, but the trading cards are scary.
Nick Kristof pens the understatement of the year:
"[W]e will have to work much, much harder to win back our credibility with the public."
...that realization... priceless.
called chafee's washington and rhode island office numbers. mailboxes full.
The end of the estate tax is just another indication that in Bushboy & the Goopers we have people who should be inmates at an asylum for the criminally insane running the government.
While the cost in revenue to the US government for the loss of the estate tax will run $20 to $40 billion/year, it is chump change compared to some of the other more egregious "tax breaks" the Bushboy regime has enabled.
In figures released recently by the IRS, it was shown that the Bushboy/Gooper "government" has adamantly refused to crack-down on huge, corporate tax cheats. In 2001 it is estimated by the IRS that the cost of corporate tax cheating was $300 to $500 billion!!!!
And that does not include the "off shore" scams for tax evasion used by many corporations.
This years projected deficit, incidentally, including Bushboy's "off budget" expenditures, will run about $500 billion!
Which all of us will eventually have to pay for because the rich, criminal corporations refuse to pay their tax bills.
Rudy: This is the true cost of becoming a banana republic. Corruption is expensive... and contrary to the "free market" conservatives claim to hold dear.
Morning Moonbats!
I see Dr. Atta J. Turk is up and whoring bright and early. Hardest working hooker in all of America. Heh.
Tommy Friedman is yammering in the NYT this am about why we haven't been attacked since 9/11 and why that may be coming to an end.
Tommy sheds light on the situation thusly:
The reason things may be getting more dangerous now is that the formation of a freely elected government in Iraq may signal that the Baathist-Jihadist insurgency is being gradually defeated.
Do tell, Tommy? Neither Polyanna or Candide have anything on this guy when it comes to rose colored glasses.
Last year, someone one this board nailed it when they commented on Tommy and his theories:
"We could have some ham and eggs if we had some eggs. And some ham."
And so it goes.
Morgen.
It is noted in the Boston Globe editorial today that John Bolton, the mustached incompetent and recent appointee by Bushboy as UN Ambassador, was the key screw-up in blocking Sec. of State Powell from reaching some kind of agreement with N. Korea on the developement of nuclear weapons.
Powell had an opportunity to reach some kind of quid pro quo with N. Korea (economic aid in exchange for their plutonium stocks, etc.) but Bolton raged to Veep Cheneychins to block these efforts.
The result: N. Korea is now thought to have a half dozen nukes with more coming and available "for sale" to anyone with the purchase price!
With Bushboy and the neocons giving us lies about the status of the Iraq war and Bolton & Cheneychins enabling N. Korea to go nuclear, you would think that the corporate media might make mention of these facts...
but that would be very naive.
Billy B -- word. They sure are acting defeated this morning.
NTodd,
I liked your podcast. What are you doing about music/rights? Or should I not ask?
NYMary - thanks, I'm glad you liked it. As for music rights, you should listen to yesterday's podcast! Bottom-line: fuck 'em if they can't take a joke... 
But my new Mac came with GarageBand installed, so I might start creating my own soundtracks. We'll see. It turns out that my time is actually finite. Who knew?
I cannot read Freidman anymore. He's too full of shit.
What is most alarming about the Busboy regime is that it can consistently act against the best interests of the American people and get away with it.
In fact, thanks to the corporate media which is controlled and dominated by rightwingnuts in the Executive positions and as media Talking Heads or pundits, our information is so laced with their poisonous lies and distortions that alarming behavior and egregious blunders by Bushboy & the Goopers is either ignored or justified as having some beneficial effect for America (like the war in Iraq) and anyone who disputes this is castigated as "liberal" or some other rightwing epithet.
Eventually there will be a price to pay for all of this criminal malfeasance, lies and gross negligence and it may come in the form of a massive new terrorist attack on America with severe economic consequences or we might also collapse into economic chaos from the sheer weight of Bushboy's fiscal insanity and the crushing debt he and the Goopers have created.
There's no "free lunch" although Bushboy & the Goopers seem to think this irresponsible behavior can go on forever!
Good morning to all daylight-flying moonbats.
"I cannot read Freidman anymore. He's too full of shit."
you must have an extremely high threshold for pain to have lasted this long...maybe a little masoschism in there - beware.
Rudy -- I saw that the NYT also ripped Bolton a couple new ones this morning. If we can keep on these frickin' psycho goofs, I think we can wake up the American people, or at least help them wake themselves up (as with, e.g., the Schiavo circus).
Mornin', bigvic!
filkertom,
The attacks come a day after U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made an unannounced visit to Baghdad, praising Iraq for its fledgling democracy and noting improvements in the country's security forces.
Ya just knew that was going to happen. Rummy made sure the pesky questioners were barred from his *press conference* yesterday.
Wonkette is coming up on Imus, who sez she is going to be the 'Reliable Source' at the WaPo. I hadn't heard that, but Bernard sez it is old news.
I hardly ever watch these freaks, but I am curious about an audio-only Anna.
For those who still hold out the faintest hope for the "moderate" Republicans, from Maine Politics:
I wish I had a Senator who didn't have to choose between voting against someone like Bolton, stopping terrible judicial appointments, and saving Social Security. I wish I had a Senator who could do all three.
If you think Snowe and Collins couldn't possibly vote for a man like Bolton, then you weren't paying attention to the Gonzales nomination.
http://mainepolitics.blogspot.com/
Cue, Olympia throws a softball to Negroponte on NPR. A coincidence? I think not. Especially with people like David Wellna (sp. ?) throwing snow at us.
filk:
I keep wondering when the Bushboy/Gooper scandals (Iraq lies, record deficits, Gannon/Guckert, Custer/Battles, Halliburton, Schiavo madness, Bonehead Bolton to UN, etc. will reach the "tipping point" and the American people will have their long overdue epiphany and see that this regime is rotten to the core!
I sure hope it's soon, although if and when it does occur, it will not be because the corporate media had anything to do with it!
bigvic -- I just keep hoping. One of these days, Dubya, Dick, Condi, Rummy, WOlfie, Perle, Scottie, maybe even Colin and Ari are gonna find themselves in their own private oubliettes for the rest of their misbegotten lives....
Zippy the Pinhead just about any day of the week has more journalistic content than Tom Friedman in just about any one of his columns. And Friedman is a heavyweight compared to Brooks.
Rudy -- again, word. Although the NYT is showing some signs of life. But I had the chance to watch some CNN this past weekend (having voluntarily giving up TV two years ago and not missing it to this day), and they're as awful as ever, if not actually worse. And I can't even look at Faux's damn web site.
NTodd,
I only get 46 seconds from yesterday--not enough to piss anyone off....
Hey filkersquitotom!
Screw all this whining about Bolton. Don't you know that Britney's preggers?
EPTropy -- God, I haven't read Zippy in awhile. I am pretty fond of I Drew This.
bigvic -- Bzt! Bzt bzt bzt bzzzt, bzzt? Bzzt bzzzzt bzt bzzzt bzzt.
I only get 46 seconds from yesterday--not enough to piss anyone off....
Only 46 seconds? Weird. It's about 7 minutes all told--4.5 meg or so. Are you using a feed reader to load it, or just the direct link to the MP3?
filk:
FAUX NEWS is a joke, except that it's painful to laugh at them because they do so much damage. I can't watch them for long but I do peek in occasionally to see what lies Hume is selling or what bullshit O'Lielly or Hannity are pushing.
As for network TV it's basically lame and becoming more irrelevent all the time.
I watch Democracynow with Amy Goodman, which is on Cambridge Community TV here in the Boston area.
And the program NOW on PBS is invariably excellent, even though it has been cut in half so that PBS could put on the editor of the WSJ to sell their deceptive crap!
NTodd -- save for my general disgust that someone that stupid is allowed to breed, I really couldn't care less. It may just be a sad commentary on me, but my most prominent fantasies about Britney involve her being marginally intelligent, in a desperate hope to make her actually attractive.
All the coverage of Bolton's nomination hearings focused on one man, Ford, to discredit Bolton. I did not hear 1 single talking head mention that 7 others were prepared to testify that Bolton intimidated and pressured analysts to cheyney up intell under threat of firing but the RePugs barred their testimony. Not one.
Rudy -- yeah, I heard about the NOW shortening. On the other hand, they're already getting rid of Bowtie Boy, come June.
I find that Media Matters keeps me abreast on O'Lielly, Hannity, et al., without me actually having to raise my blood pressure by tuning in.
filkertom - Culture of Life! Culture of Life!
NTodd,
Downloading from the link.
bigvic:
It's like the Clarence Thomas hearings before that fool was put on the USSC.
There were two other women besides Anita Hill waiting to give testimony about Clarence's sexual proclivities when the Goopers prevailed against the weak-kneed Democrats to not allow these two to testify.
It was funny to me that a Gooper Senator asked Ford if the "one incident" that Ford witnessed of Bolton's tyrannical behavior against subordinates was sufficient to deem him unfit.
As if there was just one incident!!!
Chafee is a pathetic little man who apparently likes to puff up his "moderate" credentials by making empty statements or lame little acts of grandeur like voting for Bush I instead of putting his balls on the line and actually taking a stand against an administration that he obviously disagrees with when he has the power to do so.
I can't wait until his pathetic carcass is spattered on the road by whatever Dem gets the pleasure of kicking his ass out of the Senate in 2006.
Culture of Life! Culture of Life!
NTodd | Email | Homepage | 04.13.05 - 8:37 am
Easy, Polly! Here, have a cracker.
NYMary - strange. I'm downloading it just fine and it even works as a stream in Netscape with the QuickTime plugin. But you were able to hear all of the Book Meme 'cast.
[scratches head]
Good lord. The Times is reporting that the Cardinals in Rome are feeling heavy pressure to declare John Paul ll a farking SAINT. Oh, my head hurts.
Easy, Polly! Here, have a cracker.
BRRRRRRACK! Filkertom Rules! Filktertom Rules! BRRRRRRACK!
As a non-religious person I actually pray for the great American epiphany where most Americans will realize that Bushboy is not only incompetent and deceitful but corrupt and rotten as well.
If this does happen, it will have to overcome our corporate media's gross negligence, the Goopers rich and powerful lying machine and the Red state's naivete' that the Bushboy regime is "on their side!"
Easy, Polly! Here, have a cracker.
BRRRRRRACK! Filkertom Rules! Filktertom Rules! BRRRRRRACK!
NTodd | Email | Homepage | 04.13.05 - 8:41 am
There, now, that's a good la- wh- POLLY! What'n'th' blue blazes did y'do t'me good pirate suit!?
Arrr. Anyone got a napkin?
Good lord. The Times is reporting that the Cardinals in Rome are feeling heavy pressure to declare John Paul ll a farking SAINT. Oh, my head hurts.
He must be spinning in his grotto. Has he been dead long enough to perform the requisite 3 verifiable miracles?
bigvic, Rudy -- we have to face something. Our country, our world, is populated largely by superstitious people. They just don't think of themselves as superstitious; they think of themselves as religious. What scares me is how willing they are to promote their superstition above facts, evidence, and the law.
We've got to watch our asses the next few years, so as not to get into a real shooting war with these goofs... at least, not until it's on our terms (which, I'd prefer, would not be a "shooting" war at all).
Rudy,
Amen. One incident my ass. Did you hear any Senator challenge that? Didn't think so. Since our intrepid press corp doesn't cover important hearings anymore the average joe only sees the bland crap TV gives them a 15 second clip of.
Just imagine a young lady's dread,
Should a Repuke sneak into her bed.
Its repellant hide,
With its pimpled backside,
Support a cock with a pinlike head.
Bolton will be confirmed just like Negroponte will be as Wolfowitz was. I guess you guess are so political blind you can't see it. Face it, the left is a limp force on the political landscape. The politics of "No!" are getting you nowhere. The best part for the Republicans is that the left will never realize this and just keep it up.
Thanks!
filkertom,
Arrr. Anyone got a napkin?
Try club soda.
POLLY! What'n'th' blue blazes did y'do t'me good pirate suit!?
Shit on filkertom! Shit on filkertom! BRRRACK!
NTodd -- yeah, I had no idea until I saw it the other day about the "stringent rules" for sainthood. How anyone can possibly determine that a dead person performed a miracle, let alone that a particular dead person performed a miracle, is beyond me.
Bolton will be confirmed just like Negroponte will be as Wolfowitz was. I guess you guess are so political blind you can't see it. Face it, the left is a limp force on the political landscape.
Uh...it's not surprising that the nominees will be confirmed. That's kinda what should happen when you control all the levers of power in DC. But the worm just might be turning all the same. That's the beauty of hubris, and our political system.
Shit on filkertom! Shit on filkertom! BRRRACK!
NTodd | Email | Homepage | 04.13.05 - 8:49 am
Yer lookin' ta be a sandwich, ye blamed army-issue pigeon! Get over here....
Chafee is a pathetic little man
Sean
All of the "moderate" Republicans disgust me but Chafee, my two queens, and Chris Shays are the ones who make me run for the ipacac most often. That is if we aren't still pretending that Specter is passing as one anymore.
Little Chafee with his most serious boy in the 11th grade act makes me want to put a 'kick me' sign on his back. But his second face would see me do it. He'd tattle.
filkertom, I never saw I Drew This before, it's good. Thanks.
NTodd,
3 miracles? Hahahaha. I could list at least 3 atrocities. Will that do?
NTodd -- looks like you're not the only one flinging shit around here. Difference is, yours was funny.
EPTropy -- you're welcome. Only found it a few months ago myself.
Arrr. Anyone got a napkin?
Try club soda.
NYMary | Email | Homepage | 04.13.05 - 8:49 am
Methinks I'd rather club the damn parrot instea- OW! Hold still, ya cursed bird! OW! Me shoulder! OW!
the requisite 3 verifiable miracles?
NTodd, you're behind the times. Near the end of his reign JPII sped up the connonization conveyor belt he had installed. It only takes one these days. If you're from the Pope's country of origin I supect 1/2 a miracle will do.
Let's hope they don't elect another show boy. If he thought he could have gotten away with it JPII would have cannonized Lucy for the added TV coverage. The lime light was his first love.
For those who want some of the True Faith:
http://www.bettybowers.com/
How anyone can possibly determine that a dead person performed a miracle, let alone that a particular dead person performed a miracle, is beyond me.
Well, if their image appears in the sandwich you were choking on, for example, you'd know who saved you. Either JPII or that guy who knew the Heimlich...
Good morning, my fellow LIEberals! Here's a little ditty to get you going for the day... It's not particulary work safe...
Keep Your Jesus Off My Penis
... BUT, it says what needs to be said.
Cheers!
Tony B.
I guess you guess are so political blind--
Not even the moronic brownshirt fucks believe the scripts anymore... "Doesn't make sense to me, but shit, I'm just paid to type..."
aaaaeeeeeeeeehhh!! the lights! it hurts its eyeses!!
BAH!!! Here's the url:
http://jesuspenis.ericschwartz.c...eo/
JP_Full2.wmv
Tony B
funny thing is, the guy testifying against Bolton is very conservative--but sure to be labelled as some sort of "liberal" in three, two, one...
dave -- but... but... thou must applaud the works, the nominations, the very being of thy neopsychowhackoconservative masters! And that of their minions, whom they hold in especialy regard and esteem, and whom they allow to share in the fruits of their victories.
Now, still thy tongue, and return to thy labours. Mickle rich patrons are to pass away anon, and thee and me must take up yon slack.
... OW! ...
Morning, Oh Sane Ones,
I have never waited this late to do my taxes, but for once, procrastination seems almost thoughtful. I am so fucking sick of the rich, rancid motherfuckers skating on their obligations, while my paltry wages must go to kill Iraqis, Palestinians and whomever else the fascist overlords deem untermenschen.
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!
OT we have for your viewing pleasure
15 NYSE specialists charged with fraud
Alleged to have improperly traded ahead of orders
By SHAWN MCCARTHY
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Updated at 8:51 AM EDT
NEW YORK -- Still smarting from past scandals, the New York Stock Exchange suffered another blow to its credibility yesterday when 15 current and former specialist traders who operate on its trading floor were indicted for allegedly defrauding investors.
The criminal charges, which cover trading activity from more than two years ago, came at the conclusion of a lengthy investigation by the U.S. Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission into complaints that specialist traders were fattening their own accounts at the expense of Big Board customers.
The NYSE -- which was hammered just 18 months ago over outcries of cronyism under the leadership of former chairman Dick Grasso -- was itself censured by the SEC and ordered to institute thorough and independent audits of its trading system.
In a news conference in Manhattan yesterday, U.S. Attorney David Kelley said the 15 traders improperly traded ahead of customer orders or positioned themselves between buyers and sellers. By doing so, they bilked investors of $32-million (U.S.) over three years, he alleged.
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The accused, many of whom held supervisory positions, worked for the five leading specialist firms that execute the bulk of NYSE trading through a system of verbal bids and offers on a hectic trading floor.
Virtually all other exchanges, including the TSX, have moved to electronic trading, and the NYSE is under enormous pressure to automate its systems.
Mr. Kelley said the traders had taken advantage of their special access to investors' trading information -- bid and offer prices and size of orders -- to either trade ahead of an order or position themselves between buyer and seller.
"They had a duty to those investors to execute the trades fairly and to put the investors' interest above their own," Mr. Kelley said.
Seven of the traders worked for Van der Moolen Specialists USA LLC, while others worked for Bear Wagner Specialists, LaBranche & Co. LLC, Spear Leeds & Kellogg Specialists LLC and Fleet Specialist Inc., now known as Banc of American Specialist.
If convicted, they face penalties of up to 20 years in prison and fines of $1-million (U.S.). The five specialist firms agreed last year to a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission concerning the same improper trading charges and paid a $245-million penalty.
"Van der Moolen Specialists continues to co-operate with all government investigations and the NYSE, and has taken steps to put these past matters behind the firm," said Robert Giuffra, a lawyer representing the firm.
The New York Stock Exchange itself has agreed to conduct regular independent audits of its monitoring systems to ensure specialist floor traders are acting above board.
In a statement, the NYSE's chief regulatory officer, Richard Ketchum, said the exchange has already addressed many of the investigators' concerns. Among other things, the NYSE separated business operations from enforcement, beefed up its monitoring and introduced new technology that tracks trading information more effectively.
"Our board and entire organization are committed to take whatever additional steps are necessary, including carrying out the undertakings contained in the settlement agreement, to meet our surveillance and enforcement obligations," Mr. Ketchum said. "Specialist firms have changed, as have we."
Prosecutors face a daunting task in securing criminal convictions against the individual specialist traders who operate in an arcane world in which oral orders were not always recorded instantaneously.
However, John Coffee, a professor of securities law at Columbia University, said federal prosecutors have succeeded in winning convictions in complicated white-collar cases, usually on the strength of co-operating witnesses.
Mr. Coffee said yesterday's indictment is another black eye for the NYSE, which has battled to recover its reputation battered by Mr. Grasso's excesses while fending off competition from electronic exchanges. "It is certainly an embarrassment for the NYSE," he said.
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the SS specialists
yes, you must admire the "accomplishments" of our wingnut controlled government. wingnut nominees are almost always confirmed by the wingnut congress.
such amazing accomplishments.
Hey, the tags work!
Question - Why is Victor Kamber put on CNN as a representative of Democrats? I've watched him several times, and everytime he's:
1 - gotten his butt kicked
2 - not bothered to make a coherent argument
3 - not tried to rebutt the Republican argument
When he's on the TV, I usually end up yelling my point-of-view because Kamber fails so spectacularly. Anyone know why CNN keeps throwing this joker on there, besides some possibly lucrative contract that states they'll only put on Dems who suck?
Good lord, we need real Democrats defending our principles, not losers like Kamber.
BTW, Gilliard slaps down That Idiot Amy but good here and here.
I must away for a bit. Back later.
... OW!
Mr. Coffee said yesterday's indictment...
How does that guy find the time to teach classes at Columbia and make my morning brew? God love ya, good sir!
Mr. Coffee said yesterday's indictment is another black eye for the NYSE...
Wow, these appliances are getting smarter and smarter all the time. Creepy, really. Now if Mr. Coffee would bring me my coffee this AM, that would be something. Stop doing financial analysis and brew, damn it!
dave - GMTA.
oops guess it really isnt off topic on an open thread..social security will be real safe with these banditos!
Oh, and I'm planning to write "Fuck Bush!" in the memo line of my check to the IRS. Fuck him.
Christian Coalition have sex with Alabama pooch
What would Jesus do?
The Coalition’s glaring hypocrisy has made them today’s version of the Scribes and Pharisees that Jesus warned about and drove from the temple. If Jesus were here today, I do not think he would have advocated or condoned distorting an unsuspecting widow’s position on gay marriage in order to win an election any more than He would have condoned taking illicit gambling money while calling yourself a Christian group opposing gambling. Furthermore I suspect that Jesus, whose mission on earth was to feed the hungry and heal the sick, would have been on the side of poor Alabamians in 2003’s tax vote that would have taxed the wealthiest Alabamians in order to help feed, heal and educate the poorest in our state.
These actions, by a group calling themselves Christian, have led to a loss of credibility. In recent weeks the bill to require the Christian Coalition to reveal their finances has passed the Senate overwhelmingly. Also, when one of the Coalition’s leaders testified during a House committee meeting he was met by irreverence and derision and openly mocked by the committee for hypocrisy.
uh, CNN is nothing but a den of whores, and part of a giant, pro-republican corporations, employee highly-paid "journalists" who want their tax cuts. I would no sooner expect CNN to host intelligent Democrats than I would Fauxnews.
Liar.
Blake,
Victor is a *new* democrat which means his is a worthless wimp who tries to make nice with the folks who are stabbing him in the back. I want Dean to get a new crew for the he said/she said shows. I want BALLS for a change.
Bah!
Christian pooch-screwers:
http://
www.democraticunderground...ess=132x1720507
< The reason things may be getting more dangerous now is that the formation of a freely elected government in Iraq may signal that the Baathist-Jihadist insurgency is being gradually defeated. >
Daily average number of insurgent attacks on coalition forces in February 2004: 14
Daily average number of insurgent attacks on coalition forces in February 2005: 70
.
I would pay someone quite a bit to have them sneak into my house and make coffee every day at about 7:15
EPTropy's quite right about the "fast track" sanctification. In fact, JPII has created more saints in his one regnum than all the previous popes in all their previous papacies over the last however-many-hundred years... put together.
So it's not surprising that they'd want to beatify the saintmaker...
NTodd, just listened to your podcast.
Well done, and the music (and two cups of coffee) banished all thoughts of returning to the comfy bed.
One lousy miracle is all it takes to be a saint now days. Just one! Hey, lets play find the pope in the pizza!
I would pay someone quite a bit to have them sneak into my house and make coffee every day at about 7:15
How much are we talking here?
The best part for the Republicans is that the left will never realize this and just keep it up.
Schmeg? -
You are dumber than two bull fucking.
Look at the polls, cockalicky. That's all you need to know. We will and will continue to feed you your dick, you simple son of a bitch.
A, you don't like the coffee makers with the timers?
I've talked about the Saeco machine before. It grinds coffee beans and then brews one cup of coffee at a time. All you have to do is add water to the resevoir. It holds one-half pound of beans.
pie - thanks, I think!
Now, can I count on the Eschaton community to post bail for me when the entire recording industry has me thrown into the Pit of Despair?
reservoir. More coffee.
atrios..coffee-makers are automatic now...just set the clock and wake up to your favorite brew..try target,they have many models.mine was 20bucks american enjoy!
NTodd, I'll bake you a cake with a special surprise inside.
BTW, I'm going to podwhore here and note that if anybody is using a feed reader to access podcasts (or blogs), I have an RSS feed--thus far there are three whole 'casts posted, and it will now be a semi-regular feature. Listen to me violate copyright law and pontificate on stuff in high fidelity!
NTodd, I'll bake you a cake with a special surprise inside.
Yay! I like surprises. I hope it's a pony...
Oh, and all you people telling atrios about timed coffee makers: shut up! I might be able to get a paying gig out of this...
"Same thing we do every day: Try to keep conservatives from taking over the world ...."
As a non-religious person I actually pray for the great American epiphany where most Americans will realize that Bushboy is not only incompetent and deceitful but corrupt and rotten as well.
I AM a religious person and I'm praying for the same thing.
I am still fuming about Kristof's NYT column yesterday. He never once hit upon the fact that the media folk are plainly not doing their jobs. He never said that the right questions are being left unasked. He never stated that the media is not holding wrong-doers accountable. He did not admit that it's a he said - she said operation these days.
He also seemed to put a lot of emphasis on the "fact" that the right does not trust the media, saying only in us liberals' defense that we trust the media even less. Good grief -- it must be his definition of "trust," but, I thought most righties believed every word Rush and Bill said, and Wolfie is doing a pretty fine job of carting the Prez' story line. What more do they want?
Kristof is delusional.
yes, I know about automatic timers and such, but I need one that does absolutely everything, including cleaning itself...
Yay! I like surprises. I hope it's a pony...
If you can get it through the bars, I'll give you a pony, but it's going to get a little crowded in there.
Heh. Atrios, look into the Juan Valdez pod coffee maker.
Seriously. It's saved so much time in the morning for me. I got mine at Target.
Unforunately, I'm outta pods right now, so I've got to make coffee the new-old-fashioned way (as opposed to RMJ's old fashioned way, which involved roasting and grinding the beans by hand).
including cleaning itself...
Then get yourself a cat that makes coffee.
yes, I know about automatic timers and such, but I need one that does absolutely everything, including cleaning itself...
They let ponies in bars in MI?
"Revelations" has been distributed to "Christian" bloggers to "talk it up."
(Check links on my blog today.)
They seem to think that's a good thing...
Smitty - I got one of the coffee pod makers a month or so ago. I got a Melitta. The problem we have with all makers that use pre-measured coffee is that it is never strong enough for us.
You can get coffee pods through the mail, Smitty. At least, you can get Melitta coffee pods through the mail - order online.
Huh?
Next thing you know, Atrios will be wanting me to bake him cheesecakes and send them.
That'll cost ya, Pal.
Opened up my little daily news to Page 2 and what should appear but a tiny article about how if "Arnold's" kids (ages 7-16) fail to launder their own clothes, he either hides or burns said clothes as punishment. Also, according to Maria "If you don't turn out the lights, he takes the lights out of the ceiling!" I always thought he was crazy, but this takes the cake.
BTW, Biden did ask for the others to testify, but Luger ignored this request.
I dunno, a Bunn coffee maker can't really be beat. 3 minutes to coffee in the morning is pretty hard to complain about.
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Barndog - I generally let Arthur start the coffee while I get the paper and open the house for the day. It's ready when I'm finished - Krup system, takes him a little more than three minutes but it's early morning, we're all a little stiff.
Dead Pool updates here.
re arnold,
the latimes had an article with maria last week where she proclaimed she 'wanted him home' apparently putting the kibosh on any presidential ambitions he may have. but i'm also wondering if she isn't laying out word to enable him out of a 2nd term since she must be seeing his declining support.
It looks as tho A is yearning for a Teasmade for coffee.
Tena,
Yeah, I know about the mail thing. I'm just, you know, lazy and stupid.
Negroponte, Gonzalez, Bolton, Rice, the congress rolls over, plays dead, installs these traitors, and the right thinks they are winning? Putting a new meaning to deluded.
Although I gotta tell you... we have this stainless electric percolator. Got it for a wedding present from someone. Takes maybe 10 minutes - it's a fast heat unit, and it works very well.
There's nothing like a pot of freshly perked coffee, I'm tellin' ya.
Get a Chemex. And an electric coffee grinder. Best coffee and easy to clean. Straight into the dishwasher. Also, if you have an electric (vs gas) stove, they sell this little coil thingy to set on the burner to keep your coffee warm.
Tena,
Also, there's a Euro style one (Philips makes it, maybe?) that has slightly stronger Euro style coffee. It's also a little more expensive. I haven't seen them in stores in the U.S., but you can probably find them online.
You know, thinking about this - isn't what A really describing is, um, a wife? Who makes the coffee, brings it to him at 7.15, takes it away and then washes up?
I thought he had one of those.
Nah, a wife is somebody who posts a new open thread when there's 800 posts on the old one.
"perhaps you would like me to scrub your dick for you too sir?"--Arthur
think of how spoiled we've all become over the past 20 years. I want a coffee maker with a timer, a self-cleaner, and one that puts itself back in the cupboard when it's all done.
The Philips maker is called a Senseo. We have one--I love it. The coffee is definitely strong enough (and I like mine to stand a spoon straight up). They are available at Target for about $55.
Just finished reading a good book:
Joe Conason: "Big Lies."
It's about how the right wing plays fast and loose with the truth and distorts it.
Does anyone know whether kidnapped contractor Jeffrey Ake is the same one that shows up in a Google search as being CEO of Equipment Express Liquid Packaging Machinery - "We Are Bottled Water Specialists"? - They are described here as being an Indiana company.
that's about the extent of my Junior Google Detective talents, such as they are...
Tony Blair Pelleted With Eggs by Protesters!
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