I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
I saw the original D:
Man, now I'm freaked out. Thread go 'way.
Goodbye, cruel comments.
Toby is stupid and ugly and nobody likes him.
Huh?
Is Google gone? Isn't loading.
According to the French registrar for the domain, this is Whois info:
domain: USALONE.COM
owner-address: Steve Angelica
owner-address: Box 35022
owner-address: 90035
owner-address: L.A., CA
owner-address: California
owner-address: United States of America
owner-phone: +1.3102811176
owner-e-mail: jb@icsfm.com
admin-c: SA1329-GANDI
tech-c: SA1329-GANDI
bill-c: SA1329-GANDI
nserver: x1.elogic.cc 219.150.118.12
nserver: x2.elogic.cc 219.150.118.22
reg_created: 2004-06-09 14:41:12
expires: 2006-06-09 14:41:12
created: 2005-01-29 13:55:36
changed: 2005-02-10 22:03:06
person: Steve Angelica
nic-hdl: SA1329-GANDI
address: Box 35022
address: 90035
address: L.A.
address: California
address: United States of America
phone: +1.3102811176
e-mail: dc@usalone.com
lastupdated: 2005-02-10 14:58:00
Is Google gone? Isn't loading.
Dang. These usalone people have CLOUT.
I may have my wizard take a nonbillable look at this.
Please don't feed the trolls
I think Guckert is behind them.
Somehow I think I missed something. What's up?
Good evening moonbats!
Well done Tarek!
Whois running the country?
I found a form claiming it'll remove you from their list;
here.
usalone.com is hosted in texas. Google reveals some interesting 1st page results:
http://civicspacelabs.org/home/n...home/node/
11040
http://drupal.org/node/19158
http://www.kucinich.us/phpBB2/vi...opic.php?
p=1392
http://www.thepen.us/
-a
Jeebus, Tarek, remind me not to piss you off!
Google appears to show a so-named Steve individual whose name must be on many, many pieces of 8 1/2 x 14 inch paper. Cut.
Further, Mr. Angelica owns the patent for something he invented that appears to be some kind of
">web advertising service.
A real address is included there, at 954 Palm Ave., #103, West Hollywood, CA, 90069, US.
USALONE.COM
72.21.39.226
Record Type: IP Address
OrgName: Layered Technologies, Inc.
OrgID: LAYER-3
Address: 18816 Preston Road
Address: Suite #100
City: Dallas
StateProv: TX
PostalCode: 75252
Country: US
ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.layeredtech.com:4321
NetRange: 72.21.32.0 - 72.21.63.255
CIDR: 72.21.32.0/19
NetName: LAYERED-TECH
NetHandle: NET-72-21-32-0-1
Parent: NET-72-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.ALLNEO.COM
NameServer: NS2.ALLNEO.COM
NameServer: NS1.LAYEREDTECH.COM
NameServer: NS2.LAYEREDTECH.COM
Comment:
RegDate: 2004-12-08
Updated: 2005-01-13
OrgAbuseHandle: LAT-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: LT Abuse Team
OrgAbusePhone: +1-972-398-7998
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@layeredtech.com
OrgNOCHandle: LIT-ARIN
OrgNOCName: LT IP-Network Team
OrgNOCPhone: +1-972-398-7998
OrgNOCEmail: ipnet@layeredtech.com
OrgTechHandle: LNT3-ARIN
OrgTechName: LT NOC Team
OrgTechPhone: +1-972-398-7998
OrgTechEmail: ipnet@layeredtech.com
You already have the WhoIs info thanks to Tarek. I'd just add that the fact the organization isn't mentioned anywhere else on the net plus the look of the page makes me think it might be a front for harvesting E-mail addies. Are these the folks behind your spam assault?
-
Look at Tarek, the coward that researches.
Let's say I publish your info Tarek?
Fascinating...
Not sure if it's the same guy, but a Steve Angelica got whacked for stealing software by Novell:
http://www.novell.com/news/press...04/
pr98045.html
Again, not sure if it's the same guy, but it isn't exactly a common name, I wouldn't think.
Address: 18816 Preston Road
Address: Suite #100
City: Dallas
StateProv: TX
why does that sound familiar? damn organic brain....
Atrios, we're happy to help you, but please get rid of GtM's IP.
sounds like a ghost, is this steve angelica of "TS" fame, maybe?
usalone.com (or "The People's Email Network") is/was also part of a coalition of groups known as debtslavery.org to fight the recent bankruptcy bill. There a bunch of legitimate groups listed in that coalition. See here:
http://www.opednews.com/
swanson_...bill_action.htm
Address: 18816 Preston Road
Address: Suite #100
City: Dallas
StateProv: TX
why does that sound familiar? damn organic brain....
chica toxica | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 12:38 am | #
And what are you going to do with it, Chica?
Nothing.......
You're just another coward that posts shit on the web but doesn't follow through.
120 emails an hour! He must really like you!
Tarek--he's operating out of his apartment. I wonder if he can be found in the LA County business tax database.
Check this out
http://www.aa419.org/fake-banks/...ew.php?
key=3214
Damn, Tarek, you're fast! Excellent work! 
I get a lot of advocacy email and that's part of the job. But, this is something different entirely. It's just spam. LOTS of spam.
Gordon-- thanks for re-posting it, maybe it will jog my memory of where I heard of that address before.
By the way, what do you know about it? You seem kind of jumpy, girlfriend.
No, it's not the address for the Grassy Knoll.
Atrios, we're happy to help you, but please get rid of GtM's IP.
Sallyh, Poissoniere | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 12:39 am | #
Hurry up Atrios, you might upset SalyH's right to freedom of speech.
But you pay for the site, so what.......
This Steve Angelica? Mentioned in a FoxNews story in 2001? Maybe he's a bitter has-been...
"Meantime, absent from Wednesday's proceedings will be one of Diane Warren's few collaborators, Steve Angelica, who co-wrote several songs with her early in Warren's career. He is said to be working for a limousine company in Los Angeles these days."
Something about a fake bank
http://tinyurl.com/8u7tm
Shorten Address sorry for the above
Toby is STILL ugly and stupid and nobody likes him. Huh.
what's that smell?
oh yeah, fat fish gordo.
does anyone like this porcine phucker? living under a bridge is all good and fine, but Gordo, he smells. bad.
phunk.
Unlike the president, I have nothing to hide, Gordo.
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari,
Shouldn't you be off cleaning your camel-toe?
Feed not the lessers.
Hey, Gordo is in the house!
Steve Angelica:954 Palm Ave., #103, West Hollywood, CA, 90069, US
EkCenTriK: thanks for the link, I think I came across that address when I was trying to root out a bank that was sending me loads of crap via email.
Unlike the president, I have nothing to hide, Gordo.
Tarek | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 12:44 am | #
Thnaks Tarek,
the whole gang apreciates your feeble attempt to draw attention to your fishwrapper.
Mrs. Ibrahim--you do know what poissonieres do, don't you?
Gordon, go home now and wash. Your smegma has reached sentiency. I think it is posting under your handle now.
I'm not an internet sleuth--has Atrios contacted SusanG of dKos? I'm serious--she's good.
Did anyone else just see Ludacris on Letterman? I'm not qualified to evaluate his music, which sounds mediocre to me, but I got a laugh from him rhyming "I'm respected highly" with "Hi Mr. O'Reilly," accompanied by a fluttery spastic wave of the hand.
Seems that "The People's Email Network" is both a plugin module for Drupal and a web email service. Looks like someone has either hacked a legit website or has set one up specifically to torment AMan.
A: Can you post the headers from one of those emails, perhaps redacted for your address and the senders address, but leaving the rest intact?
Steve Angelica:954 Palm Ave., #103, West Hollywood, CA, 90069, US
des | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 12:46 am | #
And what will any of you peckerheads do with this?
It's just spam. LOTS of spam.
Atrios
SPAM was the "miracle meat" that helped the allies crush the Nazi axis of evil.
Hey, 60 years later we still have spam and an axis of evil.
We suck at getting rid of spam and axes of evil.
Agreed the headers would be interesting.
Atrios, welcome to the 21st century.
Hey, Gordo is in the house!
Man, that cat can PLAY! Didn't he grow up to be Johnny Winter?
They starve if no one feeds them. It's ok, it's nature's way.
USALONE.COM
72.21.39.226
Record Type: IP Address
OrgName: Layered Technologies, Inc.
OrgID: LAYER-3
Address: 18816 Preston Road
Address: Suite #100
City: Dallas
StateProv: TX
PostalCode: 75252
Country: US
ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.layeredtech.com:4321
NetRange: 72.21.32.0 - 72.21.63.255
CIDR: 72.21.32.0/19
NetName: LAYERED-TECH
NetHandle: NET-72-21-32-0-1
Parent: NET-72-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.ALLNEO.COM
NameServer: NS2.ALLNEO.COM
NameServer: NS1.LAYEREDTECH.COM
NameServer: NS2.LAYEREDTECH.COM
Comment:
RegDate: 2004-12-08
Updated: 2005-01-13
OrgAbuseHandle: LAT-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: LT Abuse Team
OrgAbusePhone: +1-972-398-7998
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@layeredtech.com
OrgNOCHandle: LIT-ARIN
OrgNOCName: LT IP-Network Team
OrgNOCPhone: +1-972-398-7998
OrgNOCEmail: ipnet@layeredtech.com
OrgTechHandle: LNT3-ARIN
OrgTechName: LT NOC Team
OrgTechPhone: +1-972-398-7998
OrgTechEmail: ipnet@layeredtech.com
Google results for "Steve Angelica" are.. interesting. Lots of fraud.
-
They starve if no one feeds them. It's ok, it's nature's way.
And their way is Fresh Garbage! (Just trying to get in the Spirit!)
Guess Eddie's dumped all his other IDs and is just gonna stick with Brownshirt G for the duration.
Nobody's interested and nobody cares, motherfucker... but it does sound like he's pretty nervous, doesn't it?
954 Palm Ave., #103, West Hollywood, CA, 90069, US
you mean that block of Palm 3 blocks
south of where Holloway Drive meets W. Sunset? that Steve Angelica?
Mrs. Ibrahim--we tried your lovely soda bread this evening. Delicious! And easy to make! We had it with dinner.
Pre-Release Notice
"Nipple Rings of Justice: My Two Tours of Iraq" by Gordon T. Magnificent
Regnery, Spring 2005
Gordon recounts his first hand experiences in war-torn Iraq as a veteran of the 101st Fighting Keyboarders.
"It compared remarkably with my own combat experiences"
--- Bill O'Reilly
"We have a smear campaign ready for any veteran who contradicts Mr. Magnificent's accounts"
--- Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
"I call them "Freedom Rings""
--- Rush Limbaugh
"It brought a lump to my throat"
--- Ann Coulter
The author has signed photos available upon request.
Mrs. Ibrahim--Palm's all residential now. But yeah, that would be the location, I'm positive.
you mean that block of Palm 3 blocks
south of where Holloway Drive meets W. Sunset? that Steve Angelica?
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari
No, no. You're thinking of the Steve Angelica who lives on the north northeast side of the street.
The other one.
The author has signed photos available upon request.
FeralLiberal | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 12:53 am | #
your link doesn't work dumbass.
No, no. You're thinking of the Steve Angelica who lives on the north northeast side of the street.
That sentence would work so much better if it included the word "motherscratcher"...
954 Palm Ave., #103, West Hollywood, CA, 90069, US
you mean that block of Palm 3 blocks
south of where Holloway Drive meets W. Sunset? that Steve Angelica?
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 12:52 am | #
Yeah, right by the dude that sells clay jars.
JeffCO--what's up? Got any teaching horror stories?
18816 Preston road is in north dallas, just south of the Pres. George H W Bush Turnpike. (no shit, really)
It's a fairly new toll road, not a bad road really, except for the name. I hate when I have to drive on it, just gives me the creeps.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=18...10664&t=k&
hl=en
Someone a little more computer saavy than I might want to check out Drupal - they're the open source project providing usalone.com with their email engine.
Frankly, I wonder if usalone is responsible for this, or if someone has hijacked their tools...
Sorry about those 120 emails per hour, Atrios. I pushed the wrong button on this puter. Gah, all this technolgy is soooo confusing.
18816 Preston road is in north dallas, just south of the Pres. George H W Bush Turnpike. (no shit, really)
It's a fairly new toll road, not a bad road really, except for the name. I hate when I have to drive on it, just gives me the creeps.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=18...10664&t=k&
hl=en
some guy in Austin | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 12:57 am | #
--------------------------------------------------
------------------------------
And what are you going to do about it, Austin?
FeralLiberal 12:53 am - LOL!
mary cleary al-Jaafari Soda Bread ™ will set you free. simple and easy way to stick it to the man
Happy fucking Hooligans spamming from West Hollywood,
sounds like a bad nightmare. maybe the Ted Smith LIberation Front can help?
I did an open relay check on the address, but I have to admit I am a bit fuzzy this eve. None so far.
The location did have hits on a few blacklists, but that was some time back.
BTW, a guy named Aaron Welch is listed on the Drupal site as being the developer for People's Email... he lists work with Dem groups and Dean.
Here's his homepage... maybe he can shed some light on what's going on.
Be nice to him, because I get the feeling People's Email is being used.
OK, I keed, I keed.
Scratch that I did screw it up.
That sentence would work so much better if it included the word "motherscratcher"...
Eli
I will quite convincingly play dumb on that one.
And what are you going to do about it, Gordo?
I know you are but what am I?
sounds like a bad nightmare. maybe the Ted Smith LIberation Front can help?
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 1:00 am | #
Ted Smith? WTF will he do?
Nothing...........
He'll tlak a big talk... make a big presentation but he won't do shit.
I will quite convincingly play dumb on that one.
See Raising Arizona. Immediately.
18816 Preston road is in north dallas, just south of the Pres. George H W Bush Turnpike. (no shit, really)
It's a fairly new toll road, not a bad road really, except for the name. I hate when I have to drive on it, just gives me the creeps.
some guy: from what I can tell, that road is loaded with real estate companies, banks and mortgage lenders.
Is it some kind of bankruptcy mall?
Gooooogling the address gets you
this
this
and this
WTF is the HYIP World?
JeffCO--what's up? Got any teaching horror stories?
Just having to read students' research papers, required to be written in APA style, that start like this (actual quote):
Competitive sports lie in a world that is constantly swirling in a pyre of controversy and always teetering on the brink of extremity, both physically and mentally. A third variable in the relationship between mental stability and physical prowess is the interjection of performance enhancing drugs and the discussions which ensue regarding the psychopharmacology of this phenomenon and the overtones that it leaves upon the world of sports.
Multiply that by roughly 30 and feel my pain.
but it does sound like he's pretty nervous, doesn't it?
dave
The only way that guy could be tied in to a scam with any sophistication is in the role of Vice President For Pizza Acquisition and Delivery.
-
See Raising Arizona. Immediately.
Eli
Whose line was it? Hi's, Tex Cobb's?
I know you are but what am I?
Super Milk Chan | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 1:02 am | #
The motto of the modern liberal.
drupal is OSS pedagogy ware, so I hope this is a bug, not a feature.
Whose line was it? Hi's, Tex Cobb's?
No, the M. Emmet Walsh character at the beginning.
The motto of the modern liberal.
Gordon the Magnificent
What, Gordon, after taking charge of all things 'lo these elongated years, is the conservative motto?
You liberals are incorrigable.
My finger smells like my ass.
BTW, if Atrios gets ahold of Aaron Welch, could he please ask him for a copy of this:
troll.module provides troll management tools for community sites including:
- user tracking by ip address
- bans IP addresses forever or for set duration, by ban I mean redirect, and by redirect I mean complete site blocking not just account creation and login
- advanced user account searching
- easy user blocking by role
discussions which ensue regarding the psychopharmacology of this phenomenon and the overtones that it leaves upon the world of sports
cherist! s Big Pharma going back to get an actual degree?
Impressive discipline, moonbats. The result is your reward.
In other news, of course, now that I've got a net whiz looking over my shoulder, I cannot make the EschaPageLoader problem present itself. A few minutes ago, I could duplicate it repeatedly on cue, with a simple cache clear. Now I cannot make it fail no matter what. There is still a minor centering annoyance, but I accept that as a mozilla fee in a windoze world. Bah!
No, the M. Emmet Walsh character at the beginning.
Eli
One of H-Woods's most neglected talents. He was magnificent in Blood Simple
I guess we gotta make room for Jessica and the rest of Papa Simpson's spawn.
Homeboy.....
Congratulations Gordo! The word of the day is Motto!
You are a winner! Those kids at school didn't mean it when they called you a fetid sack of buttholes - they're just jealous.
I really really really got to figure out what drupal can do. I hear nothing but good things, just been too busy to really examine it as a writing tool.
thnaks dave.
FeralLiberal - 
- Perfection. Of course every time I think about the "two tours" claim I laugh my ass off anyway.
Disappointing segue (calm down chimpy, I didn't mean "Segway") is when PBS switches from a Brit sitcom to Fucker Carlson. Yech.
-
One of H-Woods's most neglected talents. He was magnificent in Blood Simple
Yep. And everything else. But his Blood Simple character was one of those great force-of-nature types, like Albert Finney in Miller's Crossing.
Interesting... here's a site using Drupal that's also been under spam attack:
The frequency and severity of attacks has increased dramatically over the past several weeks. Whereas the garden variety port scans are forever vexing us, the new breeds are of the denial of service and DCE bind attempt sorts, and these are potentially destructive.
The DCE binds to vulnerable ports are often times associated with variants on the Blaster virus. The denial of service attacks are from several breeds of malcontents.
You must beware: although your firewall software might appear to be successful in stopping the attacks, it is possible that damage is still being done cumulatively.
Be sure to maintain logs of attack details so that you can trace back along the "hops" the attacker made to get to your site. You'll find all sorts of interesting information once you've worked your way back to the point of origination. Using a WHOIS service to get the owner of the IP address, you'll get some names; and with names in hand, you'll have options for recourse and response.
One way or the other, it would appear that enemies of free speech would like to go to war, now...
Based on the links and the overwhelming number of quickie banks and mortgage lenders around them, I bet "LayeredTech" is involved in some pretty shady financial deals.
Yep. And everything else. But his Blood Simple character was one of those great force-of-nature types, like Albert Finney in Miller's Crossing.
Eli
Much like Anthony Hopkins before he became a "Sir".
Cocksuckers.
I saw Left of the Dial on HBO tonight and here's what I thought of it.
"I don't know! It had Yodas and shit all over it!"
I saw Left of the Dial on HBO tonig.....
Who cares?
Toby showed up here and everyone thought he was ugly and stupid, and nobody liked him.
Toby showed up here and everyone thought he was ugly and stupid, and nobody liked him.
Same as it ever was....
Yep. And everything else. But his Blood Simple character was one of those great force-of-nature types, like Albert Finney in Miller's Crossing.
Eli
"She saw me rolling a cigarette and thought I was a swinger."
-
BTW, based on his portfolio, I'd say Aaron Welch's credentials are impeccable, having worked for CFA and Trippi, among others...
I saw Left of the Dial on HBO tonight and here's what I thought of it.
zzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz
(and a tip o' the cap to Dave)
Observer, why be such an ungracious sack of shit?
Maybe one of our "friends" has set up their own Action Center to flood Atrios' email box with spam?
Oh Toby, I'm sorry you're such a prick. It must've been hard on your parents, not having any human children.
If there are any ethics questions, Republicans helpfully gut the House Ethics Committee, while DeLay & Co. try to gut the New Deal.
MoDo wants to know why Cokie is such a whore? what are her familial connections to the New Deal the Chimperor wants to diseemble. Enquiring Minds Want To Know, how does Boggs fit into all this privatization stuff?
that's gotta leave a mark, to cite mena.
Based on the links and the overwhelming number of quickie banks and mortgage lenders around them, I bet "LayeredTech" is involved in some pretty shady financial deals.
OK, well duh. Obviously "USALONE" is supposed to resemble "USA LOAN" for people who need loans but can't spell for shit.
Making money through the christian practice of predatory lending. It's what Jesus would do.
But, Chan, shouldn't you save your insults for after you have your ass handed to you? Or do you know yourself well enough to realize you have no hope of making any decent arguments, anyway?
JeffCO--I ache for you. Really, I do. I had my own incident this week.
Students need to constantly be reminded that a happy grader is a generous grader. So make the instructor happy, dammit.
USALONE sounds sorta like that settlement up in Montana, Justus.
OT: Charles Johnson's bleatings that he's not a racist and doesn't run a racist site comes totally unglued tonight. Under a pic of some Palestinian kids at a Jihad rally (what the fuck else do they have to do?) his Lizardoids post 'exterminate them' remarks. It's really something....
Great recruiting material for terrorists, BTW, they can point out this popular website and say: look how the Americans feel about us...
Johnson is a fucking disgrace. He needs to be hounded at every opportunity, just like any other hate group....
M. Emmett Walsh could carry the background tension in a movie without a Chechnian missile hijacking or 18 '71 Grand Torinos exploding in midair.
He was the real thing, and should get the Irving Thalberg Lifetime award for creepiest sonofabitch in a motion picture.
Mrs. Ibrahim--Cokie is the spawn of Cong. Hale Boggs.
Gordo has been eating too many fish caught at the discharge pipe from the local nuke plant.
Ya just gotta love that yellow glow.
Atrios, there are some interesting cases about interference with contract- you have a contract with your server for your site. It's like when protesters impede your customers from reaching your commercial establishment toand for solicited business, thus your livelihood (that seems the paramount of protected of rights these days) a TRO may work here and for similar affronts,. ask yer lawyers to research Penn. Law.
There's been some discussion of Bushie's musical tastes. Here's one for his iPod:
"When you find yourself in danger
And you're threatened by a stranger
And it looks like you will take a lickin'
There's someone waiting who will hurry up and rescue you
Just caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall
For SuperChicken!"
Jeebus was all about predation.
ask US Senator Bill Frist about Usury and he'll tell you it's all god/goode.
no matter where and when you break down in the great and good State of Tennesseee jeebus and his minions, those who offer non-usorious rates of interest, will be there to help you. it is written, right there, in Paul's Letter to the Ephesians. look it up, infidels.
I hate it when that happens.
Ya just gotta love that yellow glow.
So make the instructor happy, dammit.
Whoa. Why couldn't *I* have any teachers like that?
Chan, [it's Milk, but I'll let it slide] shouldn't you save your insults for after you have your ass handed to you? Or do you know yourself well enough to realize you have no hope of making any decent arguments, anyway?
Tobes, I know me good - I know me real good.
Why be such an ungracious sack of shit?
Toby Petzold
Man, how many times do we have to go over this? Because you're ugly and stupid and nobody likes you.
Oh, I'm sorry. Did I interrupt you while you were hanging out, longing for Gordo to come back so you can once again play little yappy dog to his big stupid "Spike?" Pray, continue.
-
So, would Queen Elizabeth have a wePod?
Hmmm, Gordo doesn't seem to like people linking to his photo. Not to worry, there's workarounds.
http://tinyurl.com/b8hxs
Stick it to the man, Atrios!
"Whoa. Why couldn't *I* have any teachers like that?"
You mean ones that demanded legible papers?
Headline: 15 April 2005:
The House Ethics Committee has taken up, in detail, the allegations of graft and corruption on the part of Representative Delay of Texas, and have summarized their findings as follows:
None...none more black.
person: Steve Angelica
nic-hdl: SA1329-GANDI
now that's just wrong. Holloway and Sunset steve angelica/ gandi
the h is silent I guess. la tigra will clear all this up in the am.
You mean ones that demanded legible papers?
Well, no. That's the last thing I'd need...
None...none more black.
You can see yourself in *both* sides...
Barry from Alaska--I'd leave the poisson alone and gut le troll.
Hmmm, Gordo doesn't seem to like people linking to his photo.
Barry from Alaska
Who's the other ugly guy holding him up?
-
Gordo's proud of that?
We call that bait where I come from.
phat phuckers have a phriendly phreak with phishes.
plus, he smells bad. even Paul, in his letter to the Ephesians, mentions the body odor emnating from it.
what a phunk he has.
Hey, how come no-one ever refers to the miracle with the fishes as The Poisson Of The Christ?
Eli--I should've seen that one coming a mile away
Hey, how come no-one ever refers to the miracle with the fishes as The Poisson Of The Christ?
Eli
Groan. You were way off bouillabaisse with that one.
-
Groan. You were way off bouillabaisse with that one.
Perchance I shad have left that one abalone.
ok, waiting up for Moby dates me, but since Momk is on hiatus one takes one's cheap thrills where one finds them.
lame tds rips, but Moby is gonna be on.
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari,
you find a cure for that camel toe yet?
you find a cure for that camel toe yet?
smells like fish.
"ok, waiting up for Moby dates me, but since Momk is on hiatus one takes one's cheap thrills where one finds them."
This is where Reptile/Insect Night on SciFi comes in.
Perchance I shad have left that one abalone.
Eli
That gives me a ray of hope, Eeli. Any more punning and I would have had to muskellunge at you.
-
Fighting trolljers from the sky!
Fear-filled men who like to lie!
They will type the night away -
For the war, they drool and bray.
-
man boobs are so gay. as a hetero I subjectively object to Phish Phunk Phriendless Boy's man boobs.
when does Moby come on? soon I hope.
That gives me a ray of hope, Eeli. Any more punning and I would have had to muskellunge at you.
It takes a mighty big manta whale on *me* successfully.
Very nice, Mellish. That should be the theme song of the 101st Fighting Keyboarders.
Very nice, Mellish. That should be the theme song of the 101st Fighting Keyboarders.
Funny, he left out the "Back at home, a young wife waits" part...
Il y a poisson dans votre biblioteque.
"as a hetero I subjectively object to Phish Phunk Phriendless Boy's man boobs."
Shit, wears a bigger bra than I do.
"Funny, he left out the "Back at home, a young wife waits" part..."
Wives? Who'd even date these losers, let alone marry them?
You're just another coward that posts shit on the web but doesn't follow through.
Gordon the Magnificent
I love it when Gordo talks big ...
"Keep barking all day little doggie, but are you gonna bite? Were we face to face dorkboy, I'd be rubbing your nose in my dog's shit. That's a fact, not like your talk.
As for Iraq, I've already been there twice so stuff it you cowardly bitch. You just sit back and enjoy the free ride with the rest of your liberal freeloading friends and welfare cheats.
Gordon the Magnificent | Email | Homepage | 03.04.05 - 5:30 pm |"
Tell us again about what you did in Iraq Gordo?? We're sitting around the fire just waiting for you to tell us about all the Ay-rabs you wasted
It takes a mighty big manta whale on *me* successfully.
Eli
Ah, but you've probably noticed that I have a Largemouth and am no pike-r. I could use some work on my mussels, though.
-
hee hee. "un"
Tell us again about what you did in Iraq Gordo?? We're sitting around the fire just waiting for you to tell us about all the Ay-rabs you wasted
Islamofascist is the current descriptor. the inhabitants of Maale Ahdumin would appreciate it if you keep up. 'mkay?
Hey, how come no-one ever refers to the miracle with the fishes as The Poisson Of The Christ?
Oh brother.
Ah, but you've probably noticed that I have a Largemouth and am no pike-r. I could use some work on my mussels, though.
Bass what *you* say. How do I know you're not just salmon saying that to pike me out? Wall, eye guess there's only one way to find trout...
Il y a poisson dans votre biblioteque.
Why isn't it in pond where it belongs?
Damned cheeky fish.
I guess we should just be thankful it wasn't in a discoteque.
Oh brother.
Yeah, I've shad it with that crap myself. I mean, Good Scrod! Eli beluga it a long time ago.
Funny, he left out the "Back at home, a young wife waits" part...
Eli
You asked for it -
Back at home, a poster waits -
sadly stained from virtual dates.
close as it gets to an actual bride,
in the land of the double-wide.
-
I guess we should just be thankful it wasn't in a discoteque.
And it went... wherever Thers... did go.
Look, it ain't MY library.
Frickin' Big XII library fish-having bastiches.
Eli beluga it a long time ago.
Caviar emptor, dude. This is what happens when my endolphins start pumping.
Humpback! Wanna kiss myself!
Frickin' Big XII library fish-having bastiches.
Hey now!!
I thought you wanted to come do research in mon bibliothéque?
We'll make the fish behave.
Mellish is in rare form tonight. Next verse, please.
Frickin' Big XII library fish-having bastiches.
Do they have microbastiche?
Just got a call from my ISP, something about stinking up my space with an ugly fish. Told them I'd get rid of it as soon as the next copy of the NY Post shows up.
Back to music, ... "Salmon Enchanted Evening....
Humpback! Wanna kiss myself!
(Rolling eyes)
Right, you're a whale...
Blow it out your hole. You're krilling me...
I hate puns.
You guys always start in on the puns on a friday night when I'm dead tired from trying to get my stupid new boss to understand basic simple arguments and logical courses of action.
NOT FAIR!!
I thought you wanted to come do research in mon bibliothéque?
We'll make the fish behave.
Su biblioteca es muy peligrosa para nadar. "Hay estan llamas."
Are any of you guys bald?
And if so, are any of you that freaked out by people who aren't bald?
You guys always start in on the puns on a friday night when I'm dead tired from trying to get my stupid new boss to understand basic simple arguments and logical courses of action.
Hit him over the head with a haddock.
4Legs--did you see the treat NTodd gave us today! Many many pictures of Sam!!!
We have llamas?
How come nobody told me?
Blow it out your hole. You're krilling me...
You expect me to shrimp on puns just on your cray-so? You think I'm your prawn?? You can't just crab people and tell them what to do like some petty lobster.
Llamas are much larger than frogs.
"I'm dead tired from trying to get my stupid new boss to understand basic simple arguments and logical courses of action."
Is your boss a former College Republican?
Hit him over the head with a haddock.
I'm ready to hit him with the chair I just reupholstered for my office.
Now he wants me to help him with his new house (that he's paying for with his vastly inflated salary that they created by using the salary that should have gone to hire a replacement for my colleague who left a fucking year ago, meaning I continue to do TWO FUCKING JOBS for one fucking salary) to which I replied, "what do I look like? fucking Carson Cressly?"
Sheesh. (and yes, I know that was the worst sentence ever)
I would bet that someone signed you up for one of their lists. The AUP and TOS are pretty open for list spamming and _anyone_ can fill out a form.
First, try and have your name removed via the opt-out option on the usalone.com site.
Can you post the email headers? If it's really a malice issue, I would sign that guy up for pr0n email somewhere since your email will probably be circualted to other lists, etc.. (That's _if_ it's real malice.)
...I guess I'm kidding about that.
thanks for the riverrun picture of Gordo, in all his manboob splendor, Barry.
wayback, we're going wayback, that's where the fun is, waybacj.
right after this, moby.
color me old testament, butt, finalamente, right after this Vegas ad I get moby.
hahahahahahahahahahah
coming down the mountain:
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas; hence of the relationships which make the one class the ruling one, therefore, the ideas of its dominance. The individuals composing the ruling class possess among other things consciousness, and therefore think. Insofar, therefore, as they rule as a class and determine the extent and compass of an epoch, it is self-evident that they do this in its whole range, hence among other things rule also as thinkers, as producers of ideas, and regulate the production and distribution of the ideas of their age: thus their ideas are the ruling ideas of the epoch. For instance, in an age and in a country where royal power, aristocracy, and bourgeoisie are contending for mastery and where, therefore, mastery is shared, the doctrine of the separation of powers proves to be the dominant idea and is expressed as an “eternal law.
give it up for moby
4Legs--if you looked like Carson Kressley, well...
Never mind. I'm not his type, anyway
I thought I smelt a troll here. Do they just perch here all nite, waiting to bait the good folks and lure them into conversations with another sucker?
Are any of you guys bald?
I'm not bald.http://www.thepoorman.net/wp-images/images/
johnbolton.jpg
You think I'm your prawn?? You can't just crab people and tell them what to do like some petty lobster.
Oh, you'll roe the day you gave me squid! I'll have you squalene for mercy!
Brain... had enough... Shutting down nonessential circuits...
Nightcha, everybody.
Ripley--bait? Did you say bait?
Bring me one, and I'll clean, gut and filet it.
Is your boss a former College Republican?
You'd think so, but no.
He's just your basic development schmuck who is completely full of crap.
He seems fairly smart when you first talk to him, but he's actually not very bright. And I'm not very patient these days.
And sadly for him, my former boss was like the cadillac of bosses- a first class mind, and that rare combination of people who could think strategically and retain detail.
I just hate working for people who are dumber than I am.
he wants me to help him with his new house
I suggest you piss in it. tell him that in Texas, it's good luck.
Next verse, please.
Sallyh, Poissoniere
I hate to disappoint you more than almost anyone, oh former aerohen, but I am dead tired. Night, batties.
-
Od Man fishing in the greek to younger man who arrives to start fishing also: "Where yu bin the last week son?"
Young man: "I got me married."
Old man: "Who'd ya marry son?"
Young man: "I married Mary Lou".
Old man: "Why she's so ugly, why d'ya marry her, is she a good cook?"
Young man: "Nope."
Old man: "Is she good in bed?"
Young man: "Nope."
Old man: "Is she pregnant?"
Young man: "Nope."
Old man, still watching his float: Why in tarnation d'you marry her for then Son?"
Young man, baiting his hook: "She's got the worms."
Do they just perch here all nite, waiting to bait the good folks and lure them into conversations with another sucker?
I lampreying the GUPpy will bugger off and not carp bothering us.
Okay, really going now. Hoping this is recognizably in English...
look at us
we're beautiful.
4Legs--if you looked like Carson Kressley, well...
Well, no, I don't.
I'm just frustrated because I spent 15 minutes explaining something to him that he should have gotten in 2.
For something that's not even his decision anyway- it's the dean's.
The dean, BTW, WILL get it in less than 2. But we have to keep the newbie in the loop so he feels like he's important or some shit.
Feh.
Sorry to vent.... I know it's boring.
Ripley! I've a dueling prettylady for you at my place. beneath the, uh, hay.
I saw that, Thers..
Curse you... cuuuuuurse you!
4Legs--neh. Vent away. And have some elitist Chardonnay, while you're at it
I suggest you piss in it. tell him that in Texas, it's good luck.
Ha!
There's an idea.
Unfortunately he's stupid enough he'd want to be neighborly and come piss in mine.
Then I'd have to kill him.
Thers, indeed, who does not like hay?
Your child is wise.
"Then I'd have to kill him."
He might be all right if we sautee him with a bit of lemon butter and fresh black pepper.
Unfortunately he's stupid enough he'd want to be neighborly and come piss in mine.
Then I'd have to kill him.
So it's a win-win!
I don't really have a "boss." Which is good, because I could never abide them. Even the good ones were kind of annoying.
Thersites--are you the dept. chair?
You guys always start in on the puns on a friday night when I'm dead tired from trying to get my stupid new boss to understand basic simple arguments and logical courses of action.
NOT FAIR!!
Er, do what I do in such situations...
Drink heavily.
barren riverbanks be me and ibrahim, I retire, a rootless cosmopolitan without a cosmopolis be that other I.
hahaha
I don't really have a "boss." Which is good, because I could never abide them. Even the good ones were kind of annoying.
You are a lucky man. I've begun to ignore mine- we went without one for a year and did just fine.
He's taken to bleating plaintively, "but I'm the director! you should ask me!!"
are you the dept. chair?
No, but a coordinator. Hard to explain. The way it works for me is that I'm bothered by nobody less than a VP level, and all they care about is avoiding me as much as I want to avoid them. So 's cool, on that level.
"He's taken to bleating plaintively, "but I'm the director! you should ask me!!"
Perhaps you should give him the gift of an inflatable sheep...she's baaaaaaaaaaad.
He's taken to bleating plaintively, "but I'm the director! you should ask me!!"
That's why he gets the big bucks. Ask him, and then do it anyway.
Thersites--avoiding and being avoided--that sounds quite lovely
He might be all right if we sautee him with a bit of lemon butter and fresh black pepper.
Somehow I don't think so.
On the bright side, there's some strange, fenced off biological facility behind my building where I think they raise 3-eyed fishies and god knows what else.
We can always dump his corpse there.
Hey kids!
What the fuck is happening?
Google appears to show a so-named Steve individual whose name must be on many, many pieces of 8 1/2 x 14 inch paper. Cut.
QuentinCompson |
8.5' cut?
Fourlegsgood said:
On the bright side, there's some strange, fenced off biological facility behind my building where I think they raise 3-eyed fishies and god knows what else.
You live in Springfield? Doh!
Springfield!
Ah, Maison Derriere!
Perhaps you should give him the gift of an inflatable sheep...she's baaaaaaaaaaad.
That's the first thing I've laughed at all day.
The sad thing is that in general, at my college both the faculty and staff are extremely competent and pleasant people. Shocking, eh?
Even my fundie co-worker is nice- she's just annoying because of her fundiness.
The faculty are going to slice and dice this guy.
Ask him, and then do it anyway.
That's what I've been doing. Actually I just inform him and go on my merry way.
Ah, Maison Derriere!
Isn't that in the Hammock District?
Well, you all seem to be dead drunk, so I guess I'll finish up my mediocre hummus and watch SCTV.
I finally got around to getting String some toy mice. They come in a package of 12. They're made with real rabbit fur with a little leathery tail and little pink fur eyes. They're also these bright green, pink, orange and blue. She knocking one around in the kitchen right now. I put a couple out on my bedroom floor in here
What the fuck is happening?
Not fucking much.
I'm just bitching about my stupid new boss.
How's this for outrageous.... we were chatting about our undergraduate degrees and I was explaining how my major allowed me to take nearly half my credit hours in "related studies" which could be just about anything you could get your advisor to sign off on.
Being the geek that I am, I took most of the hours in English, history, and astronomy. Like more than 30 hours of astronomy.
My new boss said he thinks astronomy is worthless and boring.
Ba'al would smite him.
avoiding and being avoided--that sounds quite lovely
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be left alone was very heaven...
My new boss said he thinks astronomy is worthless and boring.
He knows the difference between astronomy and astrology, uh, right?
I finally got around to getting String some toy mice.
Good job!! my cats loved those things.
She might also like the lambswool mice they make. The really big ones.
She'll like to tackle it and lay on her side and while raking it with her back claws.
Kitties are such charming creatures.
She's crazy about it knocking it around. She wouldn't even come when I filled up her food bowl. I should have got these before now but..but...but, I didn't know....
He knows the difference between astronomy and astrology, uh, right?
hee.
He thinks astronomy is just about looking at the night sky. Forget all that shit about black holes and stuff.
Astronomy is where you use the Hubble, so you can tell your future farther into the future.
I should have got these before now but..but...but, I didn't know....
You shoulda listened to four legs.
Now will you believe us when we tell you to get a laser pointer?
That's why he gets the big bucks.
That's kind of pissing me off.
I'll look for those four legs next time I'm in there. I just stopped in Wal-Mart to grab a couple things on my way home from work tonight including cat litter. Yeah I know, Wal-Mart, but it's the only thing open late at night.
I just stopped in Wal-Mart to grab a couple things on my way home from work tonight including cat litter.
You are officially her slave. 
I'm sure you welcome your furry little overlord.
WooHoo, another kitty claims a pet!
That's kind of pissing me off
I find humming Motorhead's "Eat the Rich" a potent salve.
Ô¿Ô, there are some wonderful mylar balls, all crinckly (sp) Hidey just loves to play fetch with them.
I remember ya'll saying get the mice but I was thinking they would be grey and not the bright neon colors. I picked up something with feathers as a toy for her and was just about to walk away, and I came back to the mice. Ya'll were right, she's crazy about the one she's knocking the shit out of in the kitchen right now.
"Like more than 30 hours of astronomy".
"My new boss said he thinks astronomy is worthless and boring."
I am guessing your new job does not include a lot of looking up into the night sky ...
My gawd 30 hours of astronomy sound like, well, a lot for someone not working, you know, in the area of astronomy. Just an amatuer stargazer or were you thinking of making a career out of it in some way.
testing:
:-( :-|
My gawd 30 hours of astronomy sound like, well, a lot for someone not working, you know, in the area of astronomy. Just an amatuer stargazer or were you thinking of making a career out of it in some way.
Only one class had anything to do with the night sky. The rest was physics and other stuff. 9 hours fullfilled my science requirement, the rest of it was electives.
It's interesting. All science is interesting.
Anyway, old job, new boss. New clueless boss.
I am guessing your new job does not include a lot of looking up into the night sky ...
It doesn't, but I work in academia where intellectual curiosity is normally considered a good thing.
I remember ya'll saying get the mice but I was thinking they would be grey and not the bright neon colors.
I hate to break it to you, but the neon colors are for you.
She can't see them.
They are festive little fuckers aren't they?
Fourlegs, I used to chat with Dean on Whole Wheat Radio quite a bit. He is involved a bunch with optics for NASA. Quite an interesting guy if you ever hit that site and run across him in chat.
was looking at the stars from a hot tub earlier tonight... damn cd in the player had a scratch... libertarian relatives can spoil you, until you hit a bump in the road driving home.
cd players built into hot tubs, no james brown or even eddie murphy playing james brown in it- what a letdown...
He is involved a bunch with optics for NASA. Quite an interesting guy if you ever hit that site and run across him in chat.
Cool!
I'd love to go to outer space. It's criminal that they're going to let Hubble go down.
Ignorant fucking backward ass fundie retards.
It doesn't, but I work in academia where intellectual curiosity is normally considered a good thing.
In the rest of the country, of course, it immediately puts you under suspicion of being an elitist, or, perhaps, a rootless cosmopolitan ...
-- Stu (who is bald but generally gets along well with nonbalders, except for those whose hair and moustaches are freakishly unmatched colors)
In the rest of the country, of course, it immediately puts you under suspicion of being an elitist, or, perhaps, a rootless cosmopolitan ...
Guilty as charged.
Hey, they gotta let Hubble down, God is getting pissed at us peeking up his undies. Stupid Fundies.
Ignorant fucking backward ass fundie retards.
As a historian, and granted, the U.S. is not my specialty, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the above will be the title of Chapter 39 of the future version of Houghton Mifflin's revised U.S. History textbook (19th ed.).
Let us hope that the subtitle is only:
"2000-2008"
-- Stu
Some people cannot see or fathom past what they see, hubble to them is waste.
There is much to learn from that, we will have to expand beyond this planet one day and learning at this stage can save much wasted developmental staging and planning later.
"I work in academia where intellectual curiosity is normally considered a good thing."
Yes, well, then this would make your boss's comments even more ridiculous than, say, if you were a coal miner.
I hate haloscan.
Stu, you're probably correct.
The subtitle will be, "what were they thinking?"
American technology at the forefront: they let the Hubble die, but we'll always have halsocan.
American technology at the forefront: they let the Hubble die, but we'll always have halsocan.
Arghhhhhh!!!!
I think haloscan is a portent of the second dark age.
Yea, we have Haloscan, but they let the < blink > tag die. That's progress!
I never should've had those 2 double cappuccinos: my latest podcast.
Podcast! AAAARRGGGH
If Peak Oil is real, I don't think we're ever getting off this rock. If not for monotheism, we would be about 1000 years more advanced. I think it's going to be our undoing in the end and humankind's greatest folly.
It's not that we wont have the rocket fuel to lift off. All the technology and the advances in science we've made only came with cheap energy. We can't have scientific advancement using firewood.
Thread creap, holy jeebuz. This thing started out as trying to track down a spammer aim at Duncan, had a troll who wanted to know what we would do with the info on the spammer once we had it, had fish, cats, stars, Pointy Haired Bosses, podcasts, and the puns.
Glad to see we're all on topic here!
.
Well, obviously we lack he requisite genitalia to do anything.
We're shifty liberals.
What's the podcast music NTodd?
Oh, our being coy about it. never mind.
Scientific advancements using firewood? Yep we can have them. Example:
Three days ago, some kids drove up the road in a pickup truck, one kid in the back with a baseball bat. He managed to take out every mailbox on the road.
Same day, I began reconstruction of my deck. So with my new mailbox, I took some of the discarded wood, and lined the inside of my new replacement mail box with 2x6 timbers. (It's mostly decoration, I get my real mail at the Post Office.)
Now the discarded wood would have just ended up in the fireplaces of my neighbors and myself, but some of it is going to give some scientific education/advancement to the next guy who wants to take out my mailbox.
Scientific advancements using firewood? Yep we can have them. Example:
Three days ago, some kids drove up the road in a pickup truck, one kid in the back with a baseball bat. He managed to take out every mailbox on the road
Wow! I had no idea delinquency technology had advanced so far
Well, the wood was handy and free. Steel would have cost me some after tax dollars.
Glad to see we're all on topic here!
Topic?
What's the podcast music NTodd?
I posted the refs because I'm still wide awake in America. No more caffeine. Ever.
One thing about them little mice, Ô¿Ô...
Make sure you pick them up when you see them laying on the floor. One of them in the foot will really straighten up your back in the middle of the night, trust me.
You get this yet?
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,27198,00.html
"Meantime, absent from Wednesday's proceedings will be one of Warren's few collaborators, Steve Angelica, who co-wrote several songs with her early in Warren's career. He is said to be working for a limousine company in Los Angeles these days."
the wood was handy and free
Heh. You said 'wood' and 'handy'...heh, heh.
Hee hee NTodd, Podcasts are a particular thorn with me. I'll have to give you a listen, sorry about shooting before I heard.
I did say wood and handy, yep. But not furry palm or Guckert.
Need Wood?
Where have I heard that?
Hee hee NTodd, Podcasts are a particular thorn with me. I'll have to give you a listen, sorry about shooting before I heard.
Heh.
So, um...what did podcasts ever do to you? Seriously, I'm curious, since I've just started playing with them and am trying to figure out how they parallel blog evolution whilst being different and all that jazz.
I did say wood and handy, yep. But not furry palm or Guckert.
That whole "you'll go blind" thing is a myth, right?
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON pens a masterful "I told you so," aimed at the predictably-wrong trio of Scowcroft, Brzezinski, and Albright, among others.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON pens a masterful "I told you so," aimed at the predictably-wrong trio of Scowcroft, Brzezinski, and Albright, among others.
Yeah, VDH is always right. And the moon is made of green cheese. Now pull the other one...
Of course most could be wrong according to the Peak Oil disputer. He believe the deep below, our planet creates a limitless supply of hydrocarbons. His fundie bio blurb includes that, "George Crispin is a retired businessman who heads a Catholic homeschooling cooperative in Auburn, Alabama." So who knows...
Eugene Island is an underwater mountain located about 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. In 1973 oil was struck and off-shore platform Eugene 330 erected. The field began production at 15,000 barrels a day, then gradually fell off, as is normal, to 4,000 barrels a day in 1989, Then came the surprise; it reversed itself and increased production to 13,000 barrels a day. Probable reserves have been increased to 400 million barrels from 60 million. The field appears to be filling from below and the crude coming up today is from a geological age different from the original crude, which leads to the speculation that the world has limitless supplies of petroleum.
Podcast, for NTodd.
I used to listen to Whole Wheat Radio all the time, it was a wonderful place on the net.
Then Jim discovered podcasting. That's fine, if you take it on face value, subscribe and listen at your leisure.
But JimBob used to make all of us who just wanted to listen to music listen to every one of his stinking podcasts. Things got nasty, lots of regular listeners left and stopped contributing to the upkeep of the site.
He finally took a long hike and realized what he had done.
Podcasts DO have a place, but JimBob permanently jaded me on them by "forcing" me to listen to them.
.
Podcasts DO have a place, but JimBob permanently jaded me on them by "forcing" me to listen to them.
Yeah, that's some fucked up shit. The whole point is to let the listener have control over, you know, listening! Damn JimBob...damn him to hell!
Thanks Barndog, but I tip-toe around at night in the dark.
NTodd, Whole
Wheat Radio, and in Arios' words, torture Terri.
Barry in AK - Maybe I'm starting to crash, but I find that site disorienting!
It is tough site for sure.
as a guest, ya can't do squat but listen.
Try login : Zeno Egg
Password : yolks
Kinda because I now listen to eggradio.com
NTodd, I think you're just tired and maybe had a few. I sailed through that site.
NTodd, I'm just trying to point you at why I got bent at podcasts.
Sailed thru Ô¿Ô ? Cool. Escaped unharmed.
Barry from Alaska, what's the weather there this morning, if you're still there?
Alaska is one of the places I'm looking to relocate.
NTodd, I think you're just tired and maybe had a few.
A few? No, several!
NTodd, I'm just trying to point you at why I got bent at podcasts.
I got that part! I agree that the situ was bogus, although I've "had a few...er, several". My cat is really annoyed with me at the moment...
Alaska is one of the places I'm looking to relocate.
Look out for the giant, mutant mosquitoes!
Spring is here, as well as I.
Low 50's in the daytime. Just beautiful days.
I've got a weather station on my house:
http://www.alaska.net/~babyrne/vws/
if ya really want to know.
I've had several and I'm tired, too. You couldn't have missed my post at 4:21. Jeez...
Of course most could be wrong according to the Peak Oil disputer. He believe the deep below, our planet creates a limitless supply of hydrocarbons.
Those high temperatures are an abberation, the sensor isn't placed very well at the moment, deck construction ya know.
Spring is here, as well as I.
Low 50's in the daytime. Just beautiful days.
Barry from Alaska
And that's not unusual this early? We're getting news that it's coming earlier in the more extreme areas. I know when I was a kid growing up here in the 70s, we had snow in winter that stayed on the ground for a least a couple of weeks. Now, for the last decade or more, not even snow.
I saw your 4:21 post, and having grown up in West Texas, and having worked for oil companies in the 1970's, I have to just shrug. Yea, that's way it's gonna be.
It blows.
http://www.alaska.net/~babyrne/vws/
Hey, you use VWS too! I've got a station at the house, and one at our camp...
Whoops, here's our camp with webcam (dark now, duh).
Not really unusual temps, but I've only been here 13 years, so no long term analysis of AK weather.
I've seen in that time though, lakes that haven't cleared till June, and February's that the kids were skateboarding in shorts.
Ok, the kids reference is bogus, they never dress for the cold up here.
Anyways, I've got to go, I've got an expo in San Francisco this weekend.
What the fuck am I doing up at
this hour?
Also -- what the hell is this thread
about? Anybody want to give me the
short version?
Ô¿Ô, goodnight.
Us Vws'ers gotta hang, huh NTodd?
Steve, turned into open thread.
Barry -
You've made me nostalgic for my old job in Naknek/Ketchikan. I worked for some douchbag of a fishing company that operated a salmon processing boat that I worked on during summers in college. The frontier-like setting in Naknek really thrilled me, the 16-hr days on the boat did not.
Having said that, I want to go visit Bristol Bay again very soon.
Barry from Alaska:
I thank you......
Pearland TexasMan, some of come up here and don't leave.
I was born and raised in El Paso, worked Fort Stockton, San Antonio, Houston, College Station, Wichita Falls, and Texarkana.
I'm a pilot, now a Captain on a 747, and I don't think anyone is gonna move me out of Alaska, for anything. ANWAR, we're gonna keep it protected, once Frist goes Nuklear on Judges, you can kiss all legislation over for the year, and the budget will fall, with it's little ANWAR addendum.
Alaska is a wonderful place, and I'm thankful to the guys on the east coast that want to keep it that way, our elected whores want to pave it all.
Bastiches.
.
Barry -
I sure hope the dicklicks in congress don't get their ANWAR bill passed (a symbolic token if there ever was one) and I sure hope the frontier nature of Alaska never changes. I'm stuck in a white-collar/slave-labor job in downtown Houston working for the very same fuckers that want the ANWAR token to sail through congress (and, holy shit, what a token it is . . . nothing more, nothing less).
I can't wait to go back to Bristol Bay, I remember on the boat that we were catching halibut the size of surfboards.
PTM, I spent some time around Lisa, appointed family senator (lower case intentional I'm not Skippy).
She's a whole bunch of nothing. Only does what she's told, not a grey cell in that whole noggin.
This state, in spite of what you see in numbers in polls, is ripe for a shift. We've got conflicting numbers slapping us in the face all the time.
We have to allow aerial kills of wolves, so hunters can get more moose.
Road kill of moose is at an all time high.
I hate rethugs.
I'll end this thread the way it started:
Toby is stupid and ugly and nobody likes him.
and that's the word of the Zeno Egg.
I've hit a couple deer in my life. I'd sure hate to hit a moose with a vehicle.
Holy batshit. That'd leave a mark.
Are we making fun of Toby?
Wow -- that'll wake me up!!!!
Steve: How can you be up so early when you went out drinking elitist chardannay last night?
Morning moonbats
So I am not the only one who is left completely completely cold when contemplating w. Which is odd, cause usually powerful men radiate masculinity. Not our w!
So I am not the only one who is left completely completely cold when contemplating w. Which is odd, cause usually powerful men radiate masculinity. Not our w!
QL in NY | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 6:18 am | #
Just goes to show that chicks are more likely vote based on which candidate is more good looking! I read some study the other day by a PR firm that showed that females are far more susceptible than males to their image-manipulation antics i.e. voting for the politcal candidate with the fuller head of hair, the deeper voice, more masculine appearance etc etc.
Not saying this applies to all women, but a definite statistical trend is there. And people say that it's guys who think with their reproductive organs...
P.S. Didn't Paula Jones report that Clinton had a really really small cock? I guess that discredits my theory somewhat
morning glorious, wonderful moonbats.
how refreshing to know you are in the world today. imagine! sane, logical thinking people in this topsy-turvey bush-world!
Steve: How can you be up so early when you went out drinking elitist chardannay
last night?
QL in NY | Email | Homepage
| 04.16.05 - 6:12 am | #
Wow -- I have no idea.
I'm still here.
started reading the thread from the beginning, but it was so troll infested!
they must tend to come out at night more often.
In case no one has said it as the sun comes up:
FUCK BUSH
FUCK FRIST.
there, first. Finally.
Oh Barry, Fuck Bush has become my mantra. QL, if you found anything about the frat boy attractive I would suggest you seek therapy - immediately and perhaps in-house.
i hope Atrios stopped getting all those emails.
Local, state and federal law enforcement officers announced Thursday they have arrested more than 10,000 fugitives across the nation in what the U.S. Marshals Service said was the single largest sweep of its kind.
The dragnet saw 3,000 officers from 960 police agencies fan out in the last week to track down felons wanted on a wide variety of charges...
Code-named Operation FALCON, for Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally, the sweep was aimed at concentrating police resources and sharing information across jurisdictional lines in a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day push to round up fugitives, said Marshals Service Director Benigno Reyna. He announced the results at a Washington news briefing with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales...
I hate having these paranoid flashes.
If you had a list of the 10,000 most politically dangerous individuals in the country, and you wanted to grab them all at once, wouldn't it be good to have a practice run?
Just to sort of get the framework of the system in order?
well here's some good news:
Official Mourning Period for Pope Ends
3 minutes ago
By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writer
VATICAN CITY - The Roman Catholic Church was completing its official nine-day mourning period for Pope John Paul II on Saturday while its cardinals made final preparations to select his successor.
didn't want to post the whole thing becasue the rest is a bunch of hooey about how they pick the pope, blah blah blah.
Attractive? Ahem, not likely, not in your lifetime DWD.
I certainly didn't mean it in a personal sense, more in the 5000 feet of drill pipe sense. With a Hughes Drill Bit at the end.
kelley b--unfortunately, the most politically dangerous people are already in the white house.
ƒƒ€® €ÿ€§ --- agreed. Word.
It is kind of nice to be up this early and awake. After the concert on Thursday, I was so pumped I could not get to sleep up 3:00 AM. Spent yesterday in a fog and finally crashed about nine last night.
But that does not mean I have lost my righteous anger. This may seem a piddling thing - and it probably is - but it is endemic of what I perceive as the problem we are facing.
My wife and I enjoyed the concert. It was an excellent show. Out of curiousity I wanted to read the review in the Grand Rapids Press. The article, while overall complimentary, was filled with misperceptions, snide remarks, and outright lies.
Now, this is not that important in the scheme of things: or it is. We should be able to depend on the news media for the truth - at the very least. The article, for example, said the arena (for old left wing Mellencamp in right wing GR) was two thirds full. That is not correct. It is not even close to being correct. I was curious myself as I waited for the show and I calculated between 90 and 95% full. Why should such a number be in question?
The reviewer went on to say the audience reacted cooly. That was a lie as well. And on and on.
So, if we cannot trust the media to ever tell us the truth: or that everything they write is tainted by lies; how in the hell are we ever supposed to be informed enough to make the correct decisions?
(actually, I know the answer to my question: we are not supposed to be informed enough to make correct decisions: we are supposed to follow - without question - the LEADER)
the munbers are in question cause the reporter gets a chceck from Murdoch.
It seems they may have over played their hand with Frist going to the 2d hate convention. What surprised me was how quick they are beginning to try and demonize all Democrats. Since a majority voted for Kerry, the 2d most liberal senator and a Northeastern elite at that, it may very well be time to pass the popcorn. God I hope so. I just can't keep on walking around in a rage.
ƒƒ€® €ÿ€§ - Kewl
DWD--what concert? who did you see?
and isn't it funny how you read something you know to be untrue, and you ask yourself "was this person even there?"
what i find most alarming about the media is the stuff they *don't* tell you. the stuff they omit.
like the protestors at the coronoauguration. not a murmer about those people.
WTF? I've been searching my refigerator for 15 minutes and all I can find is decaf?
Grrrrr.
chica extra-toxica
Grand Rapids. Feh. The raving asshole of Michigan's common sense.
Chica........ that's the worst news on a morning.... unless is's still night where I am. lol
ƒƒ€® €ÿ€§ - Kewl
somebody put this up last night...
ascii
ƒƒ€® €ÿ€§: John Mellencamp and Donovan in Grand Rapids, MI. An excellent show, btw.
If anyone keeps track of such things, this weekend all over the world they are celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps. If anyone is interested, I could post a first hand account of this. (But modest forbids me just foisting it on an unsuspecting world BWSEG)
chica toxica--
i am so addicted to caffeine i get a headache if i don't have any.
i'm an addict and i need detox.
Detox is for quitters.
Detox is for quitters.
(Hell, I will be modest later)
I was silently screaming in my mind and doing everything I could to get loose. Suddenly there was the sound of many explosions. These explosions were not in the distance; they were right here. The building rocked wildly in response to the blasts. In between the explosions, I heard the sounds of automatic gunfire. At this moment the door to my room burst open, and Helga came running in carrying a big knife and a bag.
She took the knife and quickly cut the straps that were holding my feet. She reached into the bag and retrieved a long white rag and wrapped it around my right foot tightly. Moving up the bed she cut the remaining straps holding me in bed. Without communicating, she retrieved a pair of pants and warm jacket from the bag. She put the pants on me and tightened a belt to hold them up because they were too large. Retrieving a pair of boots, she forced my feet into them and helped me from the bed.
When I stepped on the floor, I could hardly move. She pulled me along to the open door. We stopped at the doorway and looked. I could see that one of the buildings was on fire. The watchtower with the searchlight had been knocked down, and people were running everywhere. Everyone was searching for a place of shelter away from the hail of bullets. The camp was in chaos. Helga thought for a moment and then pulled me along.
She looked toward the main gate, which lay in ruins because of the bombs, and headed that way. The thick bars of the gate were twisted and wrecked. They looked like pretzels in the wan half-light coming from the rising sun and the remains of the light fixtures. I knew Helga was trying to run to the trees, but I was slowing her down. I felt badly about this.
We continued moving toward the gate, and when were almost there, the blonde guard started yelling, “Halt! Halt! Or I will shoot.” We did not stop but kept moving as quickly as we could toward the gate and the forest beyond. He took his pistol and began firing toward us. Helga was hit and fell to the ground. She screamed, “Keep going, Mitch; you can make it!” The blonde SS man took his gun and leveled it at me. At that moment an army vehicle was backing up really fast and ran him over. His gun fired wildly into the air as he was crushed.
I kept moving as best that I could. I entered the forest and tried to get as far away from that camp as fast as I could. By the time I was clear of the compound, the sun had risen
DWD--
i remember that part of the book.
a very frightening story. i don't know how that man survived or how he even wanted to.
I just wanted to see how that worked.
Morning crew has it, amf ya buds.
In hibernation till next Friay and cats.
†£
(does this work?)
very frightening story. i don't know how that man survived or how he even wanted to.
I know how; he had some farking coffee.
OK, I'll leave you all in peace and go to the store.
A few years ago I was sick in bed for two weeks. About the end of the first one I developed the most splitting headache I've ever had. I was sure that it was because I'd had my head on a pillow and tried everything to fix it.
The morning I was finally strong enough to very slowly drag myself into the kitchen I made myself a cup of coffee. Five minutes after drinking it my headache was entirely and dramatically gone.
Coffee is a gift of the goddess.
Speaking of which I listened to Tom Ashbrook's program while doing the dishes. That Revelation program is going to be a big problem. Especially for those of us who are not Christians. It's time to stand together against the oncomming pogrom. Who doesn't believe that that Religio-fascist shindig wasn't timed for the airing of this program?
Chica, I would offer you some of mine: but it would probably be cold by the time it got there. (Wherever that is)
Barndog, you are right: GR is a wart on the ass of Michigan.
G nite, nest friday dcat blogging will see Magoo. The tiny cat.
Atriosans, kosavians, love ya all.
Fuck Bush.
Thanks anyway, DWD. I'm just hitting the psychopharmacological limits of what the internet(s) can do for me sans caffeine.
bye Bary from Alaska!
I started to say boil, DWD. But, I woke up at 3 a.m., and there was no way I was going to manufacture something funny out of that given my ill-functioning brain housing group.
EPT: thanks for the story, that is getting me out the door to Dunkin'Donuts. I don't like being a corporate whore, but the better locales won't open for an hour.
DWD- i can't find any ascii symbols for DWD.
I have a red pencil box.
You know, I am beginning to have a definition for this crazy place we call America.
I think I will simply call this willful ignorance. It is not so much that people are stupid: for they surely are. The problem is a deeper one. The answer to ignorance is knowledge. The problem I am perceiving is willful ignorance. It is not so much that people are naive; it is that they are purposefully this way.
Instead of weighing and measuring information, people seem to be only perceiving information that coincides with their world-view. If you are doing with willful ignorance, then knowledge is not the cure for any information that is perceived as challenging their world-view will simply be dimissed without consideration.
Therefore no matter how many times you explain something, and regardless of whether the proof to your argument is available; it will make little difference.
Think about it: if we assume that people cannot consider information it makes the world a more understandble: if a little scarier place . . . .
OT?
Pleae stop shopping at Wal-Mart. (It) is in the process of destroying my small town.
I'm just saying.......
Atrios,
I live in the 90035 zip code in Los Angeles. The post office for this is called Preuss Station, it's one block east of La Cienega and Pico, about two miles east from my address also off Pico. I'm going to go look for the P.O. Box 35022 (to see if it even exists), and see what I can find out for you. I'll report back tomorrow afternoon.
maybe he should buy space on your blog instead of spamming you.
/sorry if someonelse said the same thing.
//i don't have time to read all 370 comments.
Hey.
Good one from Joe Conason. Somehow this whole island thing escaped me.
DWD-why not write a letter to the editor?
and chica toxica, why not buy a coffee pot?
(I'm just full of advice this morning)
Pleae stop shopping at Wal-Mart. (It) is in the process of destroying my small town.
I'm just saying.......
RPHWA
They've closed down a store in Quebec because their employees there tried to form a union. No one who belongs to a union should shop at Wal-Mart.
RPHWA, I have never bought something at a Wal-Mart. Being able to stop shopping at Wal-Mart is the only reason to wish I shopped there.
Besides, Wal-Mart is seriously Stepford creepy.
QL - Thanks for the Conason link. Good column.
Appears the chickens may be coming home to roost. Let's hope so.
DWD:
Anti-intellectualism, anti-science, anti-women's choice...yeah - it's willful ignorance, but the will behind the ignorance is RACISM, SEXISM and RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE.
the bottom-line of all FUNDMENTALIST thought...
the problem for progress always has and always will be the willful ignorance of the majority - shit let's even temper it with the problem of 'fairness' will always be the willful ignorance of the majority...look at germany in 1939!
This sentence stood out to me from the Conason article:
Promoted by Mr. DeLay and Mr. Abramoff as a libertarian utopia, the [Marianas] islands were actually a sinkhole of indentured slavery and sex tourism.
Joe--that's precisely a libertarian utopia.
5:42 here in PDT. What the hell am I doing up?
==
Detox is for quitters.
==
Oh, there we go.
G'morning all.
Yes, good Joe Conanson as always.
Still though, when oh when will the scales fall from the eyes of the general public regarding these buggering thieves and they begin to realize that they've been had?
I've been waiting for a tipping point for a long time now and yet...."crickets chirping"
No WMD...nothing
Val Plame...nothing
Abu Gahrib...nothing
Delay...nothing
PNAC...nothing
Bolton...nothing
Sure the media is to blame, but they're a symtom of a larger disease. It's the disinterst of the masses that frightens me to the marrow.
I guess that we're all still too interested in Jessica and Ashlee breasts and Terri Shiavo's stool sample to be annoyed by stories of bad govmint and the preznit's trangressions.
That's okay. I'll bide my time for now.
Joe--that's precisely a libertarian utopia.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
For guys. I still don't see what being a sex slave for for fat, sweaty, smelly, limp dicked, drunken, stupid, lying, cheating, shitfaced fuckers does for women.
Can Atrios find ut about the wacky Spam names? Phallus S. Kerosene sent me an email yesterday.
Joe--that's precisely a libertarian utopia.
Draco
Draco scores a bullseye. Libertarianism is what Republicans would set up after they've decided that they can make more money through sex slavery. There's no real difference between Republicans, libertarians and the Mafia. It's just that the Mafia didn't have philosophical pretentions.
If anyone catches me feeding a troll today, slap me across the face so I'll wake up. If that doesn't work knock me out.
Mary, I suppose you could mail him back and offer him a match.
I've never set foot in a WalMart and the only time I've been in a Starbucks was to pee. (I used the bathroom.)
Unfortunately where I live all of the independent bookstores have been driven out of business (save for used and genre beeksellers) so it's borders, B&N, Amazon, etc. At least Powell's is pretty much local even if "local" means 3,000 miles from me. Also, there are few hardware stores left and none in my area.
.
precisely a libertarian utopia.
It's missing the drugs. Add that to the mix and you're all set.
Good morning DWD--agreed. And the willful ignorance is ideological armor I think. The conservatives have so demonized the Left that to them agreeing with us has become tantamount to ideological treason. And since any rational debate would bring them in alignment with our point of view, they have long ago ditched any pretense of actually attempting to make sense.
EPTropy,
We'll just slip you a roophy instead, okay? I'm not a violent person.
Good Morning Freethinkers,
Was the malfeasant, venal, hypocrital, fascist administration swept out of office by a roaring mob of indignant, righteous Constitutional-loving citizens while I was sleeping last night?
Or was that just a recurring dream?
I've never set foot in a WalMart
spork_incident
If you ever do, go in with the intention of viewing it as a sort of educational experience. Wal-Mart is truly one of the more disturbing experiences if you go in with open eyes.
Leave your money outside if you have a weakness for cheap junk.
NYMary, do anything. The urge to mock them is stronger than I am. Is there a twelve-step program?
Wouldn't that be fun to come up with?
Spork, we have a good independent bookseller in my town, although I'm convinced their book business is a loss leader so they can sell lifestyle crap. Margins are so razor thin that the market just can't support this kind of business.
If I didn't have to worry about money I would run an antiquarian bookshop. But it's just not feasible.
Walmart - I went once. (Hangs head in shame) Two years ago. Bought a coffee maker, filters, and hey look, dish towels on sale, let's buy some of them. And, oh wow, look at this thread. I must buy some of that. And look over there, a lap top. Cheap.
That was it. Never went back.
Adonais,
And I'd run an antiquarian Constitution shop right next door.
We could send each other our customers.
Mornin', beloved moonbats, and assorted deities, serpents, and sundry other members of the reality-based community...
Busheviks SUCK, and Bush eats shit with a spoon...
Remember, don't blame YOUR government for the actions of the Regime.
Everywhere in the world, if you describe the "Regime," ordinary folks know you're talking about the pig-fuckers...
We must NEVER call the Busheviks anything BUT the "Regime."
just sayin...
.
EPTropy, agreed. Every once in a long while I'm forced into mine. 11:00 on a Friday night and you have dozens of obviously poor people lined up to buy their groceries, young 'uns in tow and only two lanes open. All for the phantom promise of saving a few cents and a false sense of convenience.
We must NEVER call the Busheviks anything BUT the "Regime."
I usually say Junta but Regime is good too. I'll change for solidarity sake.
I find WalMart disturbing, not because of the cheap crap or the fact that every time I go I see dozens of students working there, but because it makes me claustrophobic.
Sometimes, I have no choice, but I avoid it as much as possible. Plus, I really hate shopping.
Wal-Mart is trying to put another store here as they continue (been a good year) to fight to try to put another one within less than 5 miles of this new proposal. It's disgusting.
----
I wish the neo-cons had done some drugs and got laiud back in college. I think things would have turned out better for us all.
I made a T-shirt for myself:
Front: Drive the neo-cons crazy
Back: Be a hippie
Peace brothers and sisters
"Mornin Sam.."
Yeah, I can go for *Regime*.
For when the company just won't allow *Pigfuckers*.
Cleveland Bob: Except for 'No WMD' they're all non starters. That's why no one pays attention.
Good morning (softly, aware of surrounding hangovers of various stages). Would one of you lovelies please try to access www.gwpda.org and report back to me?
try to access www.gwpda.org
It's down.
GWPDA,
Nope, not working for me.
GWPDA - no can get to.
Yes why go to Wal-Mart when you can buy the same cheap crap at Target and feel better about yourself.
"Good one from Joe Conason. Somehow this whole island thing escaped me."
They were talking about this yesterday on Franken's show. Besides the sex trade, the owners of the plants there make women who get pregnant get abortions.
Now, where are all the Xtian whackaloons about this? Why aren't they stringing up duhlay?
GWPDA -
"Safari can't connect to the server."
I'm reverting
The only Wal-Mart experience I ever had was performed while inebriated.
As we were trawling the aisles I started ranting about the sheeple in the store and how Bush sucks in full voice to Mrs. Cleveland Bob.
Before she could get me outta there I stole a Rand McNally map of Cuyahoga County. I woke up the next day to find it in my jacket pocket not sure of its origin.
That map is still in my car's glovebox four years later.
Thank you - I thought it was just me. I shall now berate the hosters.
GD MRNNG!
MPCH BSH!
FCK BSH!
HV NC DY!
OT -- But does anyone here use bloglines? I can't access my account this morning and it's driving me nuts.
All I get is the sign-in page which I normally never use because I have my browser set to open to my blogs list.
Has this happened to anyone else?
The sign-in page won't accept any of the email addresses I use. And when I sent them a query at their contact page the response said I'd hear from them w/in 2 biz days! AARGG . . .
cs
Same thing when I went to bloglines.
Have to go work. Have a good one folks
Morning, moonbats. I made coffee.
Disregard bloglines question. I decided to just try and sign up for a new account and got a "data-base problem" message so I imagine it will be cleared up eventually . . .
Good morning (softly, aware of surrounding hangovers of various stages). Would one of you lovelies please try to access www.gwpda.org and report back to me?
GWPDA, Irate Scholar -- 9:34 am
from here, it says you aren't there...
just sayin...
gwpda: can't get there from here..
And oh yes - the reason why Bugman was chasing Texas legislators into New Mexico....
gwpda -- I get the "connection was refused" message.
Lord, we're hangin' by our fingernails.
The fundies are constructin' new jails.
They wanta herd us in,
To cleanse us of sin,
And deprive us of fuckin' females.
A fresh thread awaits all.
Over at Kos, George Lakoff is promoting "Social Justice Sunday" next weekend with these guys.
And in about half an hour, you'll be able to get a full assortment of "Democracy NOT Theocracy" merchandise here...
Sad to say but true
be it Muslim, Christian, Jew
They're gonna get us killed
And oh yes - the reason why Bugman was chasing Texas legislators into New Mexico....
GWPDA,-- 9:44 am
i heard some guy describing the thing as the Tyranosaurus Rex of the Pennsylvanian...(or something). A fearsome critter...
GWPDA
Tried to access. Get Yahoo search results instead.
Still not working, GWPDA.
so it's borders, B&N, Amazon, etc.
I've heard that Amazon contributes heavily to the Repugs. (and that B&N is a "blue" company.
If Steve turns out to be involved in gemstones...
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=c...gelica%22&
hl=en
Now Travel Back Ten Years
In August 1983 the FTC filed a complaint against Kimberly International Gem Corp. The complaint also named Frank Kimball, founder and former president of Kimberly; co-presidents Stephen Small and Steve Angelica; the firm's chief gemstone appraiser, International Gemological Society (IGS); IGS' president, Harvey Levitt; and three salespeople: Robert McCallum, Rene Dupont and Jean Paul Pierre. Kimberly and Levitt filed for bankruptcy.
The complaint charged the defendants with a variety of misrepresentations in the telemarketed sale of gemstones, including false claims that they sold at wholesale prices when their prices were actually many times greater than those retailers charge, that customers could easily resell their gemstones for a profit and that there was little if any risk in the investment. They also delivered gemstones inferior in quality to those ordered, kept consumers' gemstones and replaced them ones of lesser value.
IGS in turn prepared certificates of evaluation for the gemstones which gave false evaluations of their worth inducing individual consumers to purchase them for from a few thousand dollars to tens of thou sands of dollars.
Under the settlements, a $280,000 fund will be divided among Kimberly's customers who request redress, with the refund for each depending on the amount invested. Kimball will pay $125,000 into the consumer redress fund. The remainder will be paid by Angelica ($40,000) and Small ($35,000), who bought Kimberly in 1982, and Kimberly's insurance carrier, Mercury Casualty Co. ($80,000).
The injunctions and default judgments prohibit the officers, the salesmen and IGS from misrepresenting the types, characteristics, quality and retail value of gemstones and other investments.
The settlements require Kimball, Angelica and Small and the three salesmen to disclose on the front cover of every sales brochure and in every sales contract that gemstones are a high-risk investment, that they are not as easy to sell as other investments and that appraisals may not reflect the actual amount consumers may get when reselling the gemstones. 8/28/85
Civil Action No. 83 5268 JMI - FTC File No. 832 3206
And what are you going to do about it, Austin?
Gordon the Magnificent | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 12:59 am | #
Does anybody else think that this guy probably resembles "Kip" from Napolean Dynamite?
This kind of shit shows what cowards they are.
They're gutless!
Characters Remaining:
Commenting by HaloScan
