I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
FUCK BUSH!
I second that.
You can't make me.
the filth that is bugman live on fox - fucker
It's Saturday. Here's a poem:
The Man Born to Farming
--Wendell Berry
The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming,
whose hands reach into the ground and sprout,
to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death
yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down
in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.
His thought passes along the row ends like a mole.
What miraculous seed has he swallowed
that the unending sentence of his love flows out of his mouth
like a vine clinging in the sunlight; and like water
descending in the dark?
My wife doesn’t understand me- she’s Greek.
Sorry, that’s a little off-topic. Does anyone want a fight?
Sorry, that’s a little off-topic. Does anyone want a fight?
Harry Hutton
No thanks, I already have one!
Fuck Bu--
Do you think flyswatters with Squash the Bugman Tom Delay would sell for $4.00?
Listening to DBT, Where the Devil don't stay.
I'll fight you all!
So!
Come on ye childhood heroes!
Won't you rise up from the pages of your comic-books
your super crooks
and show us all the way.
Well! Make your will and testament. Won't you?
Join your local government.
We'll have Superman for president
let Robin save the day
-IAN ANDERSON
Don't Delay
Indict Today
BWAAaaahahahahahaha!
http://www.chron.com/
Pics
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I'll fight you all!
Harry Hutton
Besides, aren't you in Hong Kong? It would take me days to get there.
Crazy lady next to me in the coffee shop, muttering to herself after seeing a "FUCK BUSH" bumper sticker:
Osama bin Laden is a Democrat...
Thank you Hecate - you good girl, you.
There are whole days and months and years when I think the only thing there is, is making sure the tomatoes are happy....
h e d o n i a !
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I have a catalog for schwag. $40.00 for 250 ballpoint pens with my choice of words.
Leave a URL (bartcop.com, gregpalast.com, suggestions welcome)?
Leave a witty phrase?
I think this could be fun, cheap activism, people use pens. Look at any cube, you'll see a cup full of pens.
Beck is on "SNL" tonight.
Since I had my usual great timing of diving into a big, long dead thread, i'll repost my Fundie Conundrum™:
If you have a religion that says that not belonging to it will send you to Hell for all eternity, why in the world would you want to regulate the behavior of unbelievers?
If the youngster is a filthy Commie atheist, or a drugged-out New Age hippie, or a wild-eyed Islamofascist, or better yet, a dirty Jew--that's enough to send them to Hell right then and there.
So why try to keep them from having sex?
So why not ban the vaccinations only for believers? Then those assured of going to heaven won't be tempted to throw away their salvation.
Seems to me all this emphasis on sexual behavior smacks a little too much of works as opposed to faith, n'est-ce pas?
Ann Hedonia could never climax...
Hecate,
Thank you for the Wendell Berry. There is something about planting that shouts the optimism of even the most hardened cynic.
pbg...they want virgins. now.
Call any vegetable; call it by name.
I made some anti-Bush stuff on Cafepress, and since I'm a whore, I thought I'd link to it here. Link!
Anhedonia is no laughing matter.
Get it?
runs from room
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Crazy lady next to me in the coffee shop, muttering to herself after seeing a "FUCK BUSH" bumper sticker:
Osama bin Laden is a Democrat...
Old Hat | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 10:52 pm | #
The irony is that AQ attacked heavily democratic NYC and not some fucking white trash, god-boggled, dirt bag, redneck trailer park in Jesusland. I fucking HATE the motherfuckers in Jesusland.
To quote my father, "Ian Anderson is a GOD!"
That Jethro Tull guy rocks!
So why try to keep them from having sex?
Penises and vaginas are yucky.
Duh.
Hedonia! Hedonia!
Get some awn ya!
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Ahh, Hecate, I do love Wendell Berry.
Goin' off to follow the Mad Farmer's advice now, and practice resurrection.
I made a CafePress shop for GWPDA. The pitchers were done by a real honest to goodness designer, a while ago. They're pretty.
To quote my father, "Ian Anderson is a GOD!"
That Jethro Tull guy rocks!
HotMonkeyLove | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 10:57 pm |
Tull still tours as much as they did in the '70s. I saw them on their Aqualung Tour in 1971. Great show!!!
The couch on which I crash tonight comes with HBO. I thought I heard the promo for Maher's show say that it repeats tonight at 10p EDT, but some Charlie's Angels-like movie is on. WTF?
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David Frum is a bland paper bag of feces.
I just can't seem to have any fun tonight...
/got nothin
The funny (ha-ha-not-really) thing is that we already vaccinate against Hep B from birth which is predominantly a sexually transmitted disease, required to get into Kindergarten in most states. I don't hear a lot of people getting up in arms about that one. I actually declined it, I'll get it for my daughter around the age of 12 (same as I would for the HPV vaccine).
I have HPV. It's no joke. You can get it from your first boyfriend, from your "christian husband"...my gyn told me that they were not always 100% it was just sexually transmissable - there were elderly women who had it, virgin nuns...so they were concerned it was community-acquired possibly as well. It's very easily transmissable (most men would never know they had it) - and women pay the price.
Night all - my evening sandwich calls. There's Durkee's Dressing on it!
surfdork,
need new sexwax
My first concert ever was the "20 Years of Tull" tour, 4th row at the Mann Music Center outside Philadelphia. Opened with Cross-eyed Mary. magnificent, it was.
I just can't seem to have any fun tonight...
Crack open a nitrous oxide whippet and crack open the fun.
W Wimps Out When It Comes To Fighting Terra (warning blogwhore link)
Shorter NYT Op-Ed page -
Rich: Genius.
Brooks: Idiot.
Wesley was good on Maher. Called out the wingnut boil (speechwriter, asses of evil, don't know name) when nuke proliferation was brought up.
Total bitchslap.
Assertive, strong, clear. Damn I wish he ran against chimp. Maybe 08.
I prefer Mrs Palmers...
Robert M. Jeffers
Let me repeat, from the thread below:
you and I are natural enemies.
SD
Just say NO to the American Taliban!
The couch on which I crash tonight comes with HBO. I thought I heard the promo for Maher's show say that it repeats tonight at 10p EDT, but some Charlie's Angels-like movie is on. WTF?
There's about 7 HBOs. And time zone fun. And if the cable box is hooked up the couch instead of the TV, it's hard to get a good picture.
The related question was one raised by friends upon watching the (original. please!) Bedazzled:
The whole Doctor Faustus myth presupposes that nearly everybody gets into Heaven, and that it's rather hard to flunk out.
By Fundie precepts, Satan, instead of offering eldritch powers and fabulous prizes, could just send a hooker up to Faust's room.
Via First Draft, didn't I see this pose on the cover of an old "Iron Man" comic book?
dave, you crack me up!
"No way to slow down,
no way to slow down..."
Thersites: There's about 7 HBOs. And time zone fun. And if the cable box is hooked up the couch instead of the TV, it's hard to get a good picture.
I thought he'd done something wrong with that couch/TV thang, but after what happened with the last host, I didn't want to say anything...
Maybe titantv.com will straighten this out for me... as if I won't have more fun here, jawbonin' with y'all...
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Crack open a nitrous oxide whippet and crack open the fun.
Man, the stories I could tell you about the 4' bottle(s) 'o that that I was was fortunate enough to purchase back in the day.
82 was a funny year.
Speaking of dead threads: "lavender majora"
I have always relied on the santorum of strangers.
-Liddy Dole
dave: Via First Draft, didn't I see this pose on the cover of an old "Iron Man" comic book?
Heh! Reminds me more of the South Park epi where Cartman cons his mom into letting him enter the Special Olympics. And he loses. At everything.
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"Call any vegetable; call it by name."
And the chances are good, the vegatable will respond to you...
"Hedonia! Hedonia!
What makes your big head so hard?"
Jesus, bebe rebozo, not when I'm eating my mayonnaise and chocolate chips, please!
Oh, and that jihadist naming app y'all been going on about? My name was Brother Joyful Sword of Truth.
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GWPDA -- if you've finished your sandwich ... What's with your fascination of World War I? What caused your fascination of the War to End All Wars?
From MSNBC:
The report shows the Cheneys owe federal taxes for 2004 of $393,518 on taxable income of roughly $1.3 million.
Throughout last year, the Cheneys paid $290,855 in taxes through withholding and estimated tax payments. When they filed their return on Friday, they paid the remaining $102,663.
Well, I hope he also paid the subsequent penalty for having paid less than 90% of his tax liability (74%) at the time of filing, though the article mentioned nothing about it.
Fucking tax cheat.
" What's with your fascination of World War I?"
Great cast? Compelling story? The feel good event of the summer?
On a note free of impotent anger and its resulting hopeless despair, Chicago (my adopted home town) is full of archectural gems. I took the pic below last weekend.
Deco Details
Evening, freethinkers
Yo Rip, 'sup?
Bloody hell, CS... my eyes ! I'm not supposed to get ASCII in them !
I always wanted to do that.
Now that I have, I promise that it'll never happen again.
Evening Moonbats.
Just watched Hotel Rwanda. We truly are doomed, you know?
ASCII pr0n rulz!
Great pic...love Deco. You ever been here?
none of you know anything about antique watches do you? english/irish, 19th century, fusee movement? i know it's a longshot, but you never know.
none of you know anything about antique watches do you? english/irish, 19th century, fusee movement? i know it's a longshot, but you never know.
Olaf glad and big
I may know someone who knows.....
DWD,
You can scream in terror as you plunge headlong into the chasm or you can enjoy the scenery on the way down.
It's really that simple.
From a link on . . . (ick - Drudge)
The Oxford documents form part of the great papyrus hoard salvaged from an ancient rubbish dump in the Graeco-Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus more than a century ago. The thousands of remaining documents, which will be analysed over the next decade, are expected to include works by Ovid and Aeschylus, plus a series of Christian gospels which have been lost for up to 2,000 years.
Maybe they are all doomed, eh?
When I die, I wanna go quietly in my sleep, like my Grampa.
Not screaming and crying like the 35 people on the bus he was driving.
"Julie Andrews !"
The Liberal Avenger,
Nice Michelle "Mattel" Malkin spin .. did a blogwhore on you with it.
" . . . white trash, god-boggled, dirt bag, redneck trailer park in Jesusland."
And I hate these kinds of stereotypes.
jdw,
Never been to Cincinnati, no. Cool building, tho.
Deco is the world as it should have been. And we should all be flying around those ringed spires on personal anti-grav belts.
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Oh hell I may be old but I ain't going without a fight. Besides my two boys are not old and overweight. They look like pretty damned good specimans at 6'3" and 200 lbs of well-toned muscle. (And the younger one has his daddy's temperment)
Ripley-You old greyhound!
sarah, have them email me if you can. olafglad@hotmail.com.
Here's a better pic of the same place.
Greyhound? moi?
Today's numbers:
Whup some raghead ass, 36%
Put 'em on the glass, 34%
Death and Taxes, 29%
Abstained, 1%
or just ask him if he has ever heard of "jn. burke of dublin".
RMJ,
engage.
SD
We may surprise one another.
But, let's talk, by email, so we do not bore the others.
I know antique watches are generally older. Other than that . . .
"and your new shoes are worn at the heels,
and your suntan it rapidly peels,and your wise men don't know how it
feels,to be thick as a Republican."
Sorry,Ian.
Life is like a box of chocolates...
thanks, mike. that's what i was wondering about!
Tom DeLay opening on SNL
Don't Enlgish/Irish watches run on metric time?
I met God one night thanks to nitrous oxide mixed with mushrooms and mary jane.
He is a really loving but overwhelming white light.
OK, drugs are bad.
Old watches often lack "Indi-glo" technology.
For only the bravest among us. I am afraid my mind has already been made up, but to any of you thinking that this will all pass. . . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/
1...NSTITUTION.html
"Cool building, tho."
If you ever get down there make sure you see it...it's a very impressive example.
"Deco is the world as it should have been. And we should all be flying around those ringed spires on personal anti-grav belts."
Haha. Yeah, what ever happened to those anti-grav belts were were all gonna own? And the cars that drove themselves, or just took off and flew over traffic jams?
But being there last year really made me wonder: that great building and all the great art inside was built during the depression to put people to work. You see similar examples all over the country. Seeing that the economy is pure shit, why can't we put people to work on projects like that anymore?
Crack open a nitrous oxide whippet and crack open the fun.
Man, the stories I could tell you about the 4' bottle(s) 'o that that I was was fortunate enough to purchase back in the day.
Wandering through supermarket, stoned, taking whip hits off the inventory.
Too bad the kids these days will not be able to experience such pleasures.
ripley, this one is pretty old. i think was made several kilodecades years before metric time was invented
Old watches often lack "Indi-glo" technology
And the lasers aren't very reliable, nor are the walkie talkie/poison dart functions. Well, the Swiss ones, sure, but....
*geesh* I wake up and check the InstaParrot to see what he has to say on the march in Shanghai and the perfidy-fessor finds the local blogger totally unconnected to the China-Hong Kong blogosphere that can parrot the anti-China Bushevik party line the best.
How does the perfidy-fessor have such skill to find the bloggers with the least connection to reality?
Details for the curious here at my blogwhore
Just trying to be helpful, Olaf.
GWPDA's fascination with World War I?
Well, 8-1-14 changed everything.
I have a digital sun-dial, but I'm always forgetting to wind it.
DWD, did you transpose the color and country of the folks while watching Hotel Rwanda?
I did when watching Sometimes in April (forget title, new HBO movie).
The Rwandan DJ egging on the slaughter.
I hear Rushbo.
Sacry.
Olaf, now is your watch on the decimal system? If so, I've got a hunch it's probably from 2026.
-- Stu
why can't we put people to work on projects like that anymore?
-- jdw
Because Georgie gave all the money to his rich friends.
The government is broke.
On another topic altogether, something that i find oddly compeling is to go to "tinypic.com" and keep hitting "random." Sort of a cross-section of what the digital camera owners of the world choose to put out there. It can be very distressing. It is usually mundane. Often stupid. Occasionally indescribable.
How do you guys feel about Dem chances in 2006 so far?
Years ago, Swatch had a clock you could download that kept daily time by 1,000 beats. I forget if it counted up or down.
GWPDA's fascination with World War I?
Well, 8-1-14 changed everything.
It's funny cause it's true.
[/homer]
Actually is true, unlike say, some stuff some guy named Luntz wants you to think ...
Fuck religion. It's been male-based for too long, and is, therefore, both destructive and useless.
Don't eat this shit - it's not good for you.
kc, depends what happens between now and then, really.
Surfdork,
Absolutely. I saw the unbelievers being killed in the name of "Jaysus" all over this country. It is not that much of a step, is it?
If I were a writer and I had the time, I might actually write some long screed accusing the Xians (Fundies) of being servants of the devil (Which they are) But I am not sure it would do any good.
G-7 Vows to Limit Fallout From Oil Rates
which officials said could help control price fluctuations and make companies more willing to expand production.
Problem is, production cannot be increased, we're peaking.
Energy prices were a concern at the last G-7 meeting in February and the one before that, but little action has resulted
So true, and how is your Hummer doing sir?
http://news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=...inance_meetings
It's still available...
Swatch Internet Time
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Tom,
I've seen/heard news reports on the Chinese 'demonstrations' against Japan. I know that our media are not terribly trustworthy, but are the incidents as large as they appear to be?
Also, is the Chinese government at all concerned by this activity, which would seem to suggest some political organizing that has gained popular support?
How do you guys feel about Dem chances in 2006 so far?
Ask Diebold.
I miss Curly
Coping strategies welcome.
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It is not that much of a step, is it?
Unfortunatly, no. I don't know what would trigger it. I don't know if such madness is enmergent, someting that baloons from a seemingly trivial event.
Real-Money Pope Pools... get in before the conclave begins.
Dear Sarah Deere,
I am not sure what your beef with RMJ is but remember, we are all together. Those people who are practicing hate in the name of Christ are sinners according to the scripture. To condemn anyone because of their beliefs is probably not a good thing.
I honestly wish no ill of the fundies and such: I just wish they would crawl back under their rocks and leave us alone. But hate? Nope.
JP, I'd suggest a motherlode of beer and loud 80's music. But I'm funny that way...
sdf
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. 8-1-14 really did change the world.
Actually, I think 9-11 changed everything, too -- just not in the way the Bushies want us to think. It changed everything by giving them a get-out-of-jail-free card so they could more effectively loot the country, crush all dissent, and engage in empire building.
Also, is the Chinese government at all concerned by this activity, which would seem to suggest some political organizing that has gained popular support?
Diane
Read the last week's entries from The China Herald, a Dutch honest-to-goodness authentic journalist (specialising in econ reporting, no less) living and working in Shanghai. (always a big tip of the hat to Fons.)
When I posted the above, I was waiting for his write up on his eyewitness account, which is now up.
"Because Georgie gave all the money to his rich friends."
True enough, but to a larger point: The place I was referring to was a train station....a public place. Todays modern counterpart would be an airport. So why is it that something like that station was built so beautifully and the Cleveland Airport looks like a fucking total piece of shit...it's sort of a stylistic cross between a greyhound station and a methadone clinic. Everything is chessy chintzy crap, no style.
Diane,
Thoug you just don't hear about them much in Western media China has very large riots regularly. Do a search.
Frickin' "H" key...
Haha. Yeah, what ever happened to those anti-grav belts were were all gonna own? And the cars that drove themselves, or just took off and flew over traffic jams?
jdw
What, you mean THIS?
I've been asking for one of these for my birthday for acouple years now, but so far no dice. I figure if each of my friends chips in $42,500...
rmj is not a fundamentalist.
I've got a question.
What's a contributing editor for Rolling Stone doing trashing the memory of Hunter Thompson in the New York Times?
Damn skippy I'm pissed about this.
Don't Enlgish/Irish watches run on metric time?
Pete: look O'Mally i got good news and bad news;
the bad news is- the English just landed on the moon and ther'll be no livin with 'em now
O'Mally: shit- well what's the good news
Pete: all of them
I went to Plagiarist.com & used their random poem function.
It came up with The gleam of an heroic Act, by Emily Dickinson:
1687
The gleam of an heroic Act
Such strange illumination
The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination.
It's a fun function. I think I may have found my activity for the night 
The Japanese did horrible things to the Chinese, on the level of what we did to first peoples, Nazis to jews.
Nasty nasty shit during WW2.
I'm sure the memories still simmer...
I still love that Freedom Motor, Mister X... hehehe
Pretty steep Mr X. Checked the prices:
Delivery Position Minimum Deposit
Amount List Price
25-100 $100,000 $995,000
Ain't gonna be getting one soon. And what about those robots that were gonna do my laundry?
Tom,
Interesting article. Thanks.
Sounds like things are heating up on the China-Japan issue. I'll try to keep up on this (with your guidance and help, which is greatly appreciated).
Thoug you just don't hear about them much in Western media China has very large riots regularly. Do a search.
ακι
Or drop by homepage regularly.
But it says a lot that the InstaParrot would go to this unknown rather than China Herald. And what's worse and more telling is that one of the commentors at the guy the InstaParrot linked to publicly doubts the veracity of Iris Chang and the data on the Rape of Nanking. Wow!
am not sure what your beef with RMJ is but remember, we are all together. Those people who are practicing hate in the name of Christ are sinners according to the scripture. To condemn anyone because of their beliefs is probably not a good thing.
I honestly wish no ill of the fundies and such: I just wish they would crawl back under their rocks and leave us alone. But hate? Nope.
DWD
DWD,
I have had it Up to Here w/christers.
All of them. Even you, if you are one.
You believe in jc? Fine, act on it. Do something.
Do something that would actually reflect what Christ believed and said.
I'm fucking sick of lip sevice.
And, yeah, I have called RMJ out, to discuss his POV in email, me and him.'
I have that right, eh?
SD
Gee, guys, I love history, too. I just don't run across many people who are so enthusiatic about WWI. I was just curious if GWPDA has a family member or friend who served in that war.
jdw: it's sort of a stylistic cross between a greyhound station and a methadone clinic. Everything is chessy chintzy crap, no style.
One of my favorite photos is this one, by friend chuckdarwin, of his daughters, taken in Glasgow Airport (I think).
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Surfdork,
China lost more people in World War 2 (10.45 million) than Germany (5.5 million) and Japan (1.9 million) combined.
Jeffraham--I just sent Curly a bit o' something. Perhaps you'd like for him to see it.
How are you tonight? Hope things are well.
pol
My great uncle Jack was a doughboy in France in WWI. Regretably, that's about all I know about it, however, and he's been dead about twenty years.
Besides, aren't you in Hong Kong? It would take me days to get there.
MisterX
I thought Harry left Hong Kong. Though the rumour is that he keeps threatening to come back to liven up the place.
Mister X, no, I’m in Bogota. But let’s not fight. War is such a, like, waste. We should take a leaf out of Limbaugh’s book and say it with blow-jobs.
riot involving some 30,000 people Nov. '04
thousands of villagers rioted in eastern China Apr. '05
Central China riot involved 10,000 people Nov. '04
nearly 50,000 people riot in Guangdong province Dec. '04
Etc, etc. Huge riots happen all the time there.
aki
Those aren't rioters in the streets. Those are just Chinese focus groups.
Now, Harry Hutton, I don't know what the protocol is in your part of the world, but WE don't say those sort of things until the other person has, erm, swallowed. His beer, that is.
Now mine is all over my monitor. My beer, that is.
Sarah, Absolutely, you have that right and I will defend your right to tell anyone they are wrong with everything I have. Hell, I am in agreement with you to a certain point. Religion or lack of it should be an individual decision.
But can I say that these Fundies have my blood boiling as well? I am NOT defending them in the least. But hate diminishes us.
I have never quite figured out my own position though I tend toward agnosticism. I am what is described as a Pascal Christian. (Pascal argued in the sixteenth century that he doubted the existence of God, but living by those standards is a decent way to live anyway - so why take chances?
I doubt very much the veracity of the gospels or the existence of God, but I choose to live my life according to the principles that Jesus delineated.
But I will not hate in the name of Lord. I just have had enough hate and jealousy and the rest to last me a lifetime. I simply want people to be able to live in the best way that they can and leave private matters to the individual.
Langston Hughes,
PERSONAL
In an envelope marked:
PERSONAL
God addressed me a letter.
In an envelope marked:
PERSONAL
I have given my answer
Oops, Munged the first link
riot involving some 30,000 people Nov. '04
Was thumbing through the thread on the last post. Very disturbing, to say the least. We have got to gut and bone these people, and soon.
""We're going to use Terri Schiavo later on," Dean said...
sarah, have them email me if you can. olafglad@hotmail.com.
Olaf glad and big
will do.
Sarah Deere,not all Christians are fundies. I'm a Christian and I'm sick of the Falwells, Frists, etc. I'm really sick of what they've done to my religion, to the point that it is hard to go to church anymore. I am a United Methodist, by most standards, a very moderate denomination. However, I live in No. Virginia, where it's military as the eye can see. Military people fall in behind the prez, and my congregation was no exception. Last year, I had several political skirmishes with my pastor, who I think is a very smart, intelligent man. I gave him articles to read, that if he had actually read them, he would have seen what total liars Bush and the Fundies are. After Bush stole the election, I grieved, but I am finding satisfaction in the fact that there are going to be people, very soon, who will remember what I told them, and wished they'd acted differently. These are not fundamentalists, they're just ordinary people who can not believe that our government would commit these crimes against its own people.
Ignore the Useless Timewaster™, by the way. Is this the one that's ugly and that nobody likes?
Politics and religion should never mix, imo. Ever.
ah, DWD,
who knows?
I am just sick to death of religion.
I'd just as soon as believe in jalapenos.
SD
Ignore the Useless Timewaster™, by the way. Is this the one that's ugly and that nobody likes?
MisterX
Thety're all ugly, nobody likes any of 'em, so who gives a fuck?
they're just ordinary people who can not believe that our government would commit these crimes against its own people.
and don't read history.
So, is EVERYBODY in a good mood this evening?
...hm.
Is this the one that's ugly and that nobody likes?
Aren't they all?
I'm doing ok, Silleigh. The weather is gorgeous here, I have some beer, some CDs, Comcast is functioning and tomorrow's another day off.
"We have got to gut and bone these people, and soon."
I'm so glad Dean has said he will all but completely abandon the gun issue.
I love the second amendment and can't wait to use it for the protectional purpose it serves when these threats are finally attempted.
One of my favorite photos is this one, by friend chuckdarwin, of his daughters, taken in Glasgow Airport (I think).
JeffP lovely photo of lovely children!
Same here, ether. Don't come creepin' on my land, friend.
Sallyh: Jeffraham--I just sent Curly a bit o' something. Perhaps you'd like for him to see it.
Bless you, Sallyh -- I'll share that with Curly on Monday. I'll consider that advance payment for your DVD, and credit the balance for either of the photo/video things we discussed.
How are you tonight? Hope things are well.
Pretty good, after a cup or two of instant coffee. I may be awake for a while, now. Just glad not to be tired... I'm getting better sleep now, after a few rough days. Working with NES to get the electricity on in the new place, which ought to all be greenlighted by Monday or Tuesday, latest. Unfortunately, I can't even sleep in the floor there until the power's on -- I have to have electrical assistance to sleep (CPAP). Anyway, thank you again -- I don't know how I'd make it without my friends.
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and tomorrow's another day off.
Lucky, lucky bastard....
At least I don't have to get up too early.
Jeffraham--no crediting allowed. I already told Curly he could have it for cat treats.
"Last year, I had several political skirmishes with my pastor, who I think is a very smart, intelligent man. I gave him articles to read, that if he had actually read them, he would have seen what total liars Bush and the Fundies are."
The question is why, considering his position, didn't he read them? I would expect apastor, when dealing with this sort of issue to take time to understand the person's viewpoint he is contending with.
And as I said previously, we need to define who we are talking about. Fundies versus Christians. Separate the two since I feel the former does not represent the latter. Lingo is important in these times, semantics are critical in convincing someone of your point versus simply and broadly insulting them.
I notice the trolls are all afraid of Howard Dean lately. Pretty cool.
YEEEAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGHHH!
Heh heh heh.
JP, do you have a new place? Need anything?
Rip -- Comcast functioning, from the scuttlebutt, sounds like a miracle!
I have a roomful of teenagers-and-older alternately watching creepy movies and sleeping, and figured this'd be a good time to check in.
Also some wine. Life is good, for the mo'.
"Politics and religion should never mix, imo. Ever."
Unless you're trying to poison someone.
Sarah Deere,
I think we have reached an understanding: it is not that hard if reasonable people are meeting.
My best friend from college is a Reformed CHurch Minister on Long Island. We have had many discussions about the obligations of the rational Christians to speak against the fundies. The problem is that the Fundies do not reason: they scream and condemn.
But I guess I lied, when I read an article like the one that A posted about Fundies opposing vaccines to prevent cervical cancer: I do hate. I cannot help myself. But I still believe that as intelligent people we should reason FIRST.
Fighting is what we do when there is nothing left to say. I still have lots of things to say.
Toonscribe, don't you wish you knew then what you know now? Don't you wish you'd asked him about the war? Both my parents are deceased, and there are so many things I'd like to ask them that I was too self-absorbed to ask about when they were alive -- but it sure would be nice to know now.
My uncle fought in the Ia Drang Valley under Hal Moore in the Vietnam War. Lucky for me, the 1st Cavalry holds an Ia Drang reunion in Arlington, VA each year (I live nearby.) and I've attended the last several years. I'm a history nut, and, along with the personal connection, I'm enthralled with the story. I go and ask lots of questions.
Naked is as naked does.
So, is EVERYBODY in a good mood this evening?
Silleigh - Personally I'm in a great mood. A beautiful day in SE Wis, my daffys are in full bloom, I had steak on the grill and am enjoying a nice Merlot at the moment. Yeah, Bush is still screwing everything in sight, but I can't dwell on that all of the time.
Pol, it's great that they will talk about it. My father in law was a gunner at Guadalcanal during WWII. He does not like to speak of his experiences.
Hey anybody know about the pineta of ft. darby, near pisa, and what a whorehouse fuck riot that little forest was in wwwii between gi's and signorinas?
or even the number of hide-a-ways where the wwii generation went to drink, dance and frolic til dawn when they got back?
how is it that the children and grandchildren of these avid pleasure-seeking survivors--of which there were millions--turn into snivelling bible-thumping abstaining nation o' fundies? did i miss a wave of savonarolas or something...or was it that 'born again' crap of the seventies?
All things considered, in a pretty decent mood. My family and I did get to visit the Getty Museum today, which is always a pleasure, especially on a beautiful day.
DWD |
Yeah, In know Pascal's CWA argument for the existence of god, it's just that I, personally, don't buy it.
Which is my beeswax.
People who think differently are entitled to their OPINION (which is what it would be).
So much harm has been done in the nane of religion, that I am inclined to eschew it, completely.
my daffys are in full bloom
Ahh, I miss those! we had beaucoups in Virginia -- not so much in Florida.
If we were to dwell on the ka-ka portion of the program all the time, we'd have all jumped off a cliff by now.
I go and ask lots of questions.
pol
My mother is German. Her mother was engaged to a fella who went off to fight early in the Great War. He was killed in the trenches in 1916, so she married his brother, my grandfather. My mom's one brother fought in the Second World War with the German Army in the Russian Campaign, losing his legs and some fingers to freezing; he died in 1946 from those wounds. My mom's youngest brother was shanghaied by the French Foreign Legion and died fighting the Vietnamese at Dien Bien Phu in the early 1950s.
I learned all this in the last 15 years or so from mom... it's very hard for her to talk about. They were bombed during the war and then nearly starved afterwards.
Our family is no fan of war.
"We have got to gut and bone these people, and soon."
. . .
"All things considered, in a pretty decent mood."
Psychosis anyone?
What moral theory do you identify with Sarah?
Psychosis anyone?
Cocksucker.
Sarah, And that is your RIGHT and I will FIGHT for you to have that right.
At this point our rights are severely in danger and I am afraid for our future.
All I guess we can do is confront the hate and call it what it is: evil.
(And start the day by cursing Bush as loudly and frequently as possible)
You like the Langston? I teach his writing to my classes: a very wise man and an excellent writer.
Cocksucker.
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pol
Yeah, I wish I had made the time to get to know great uncle Jack, but I really only met him a few times at family reunions. My father told me once that his father (my grandfather) said Jack was "different" after coming back from WWI. He wasn't as friendly and outgoing as he had been. He kept more to himself and minded his own business. When I met him at the family reunions, he was a quiet little old man.
Ripley: JP, do you have a new place? Need anything?
I'll have the place soon -- it's one of two condos that another friend of mine bought at auction for a song last year. Build in the '70s, but they're in good shape, and it's in west Nashville, which is where the home I used to own was -- in fact, it's about three blocks away from there. I really like the west side. It's almost next door to the Rock Harbor Marina, too.
As for needing anything, I think a shower curtain, rod, and electricity will get me moved in. I think I can handle all that (thanks to Sallyh, my bank just grew to just over $300!). I just hooked up to be an affiliate with another firend of mine who's selling this Hoodia Gordonii diet supplement stuff... she's been selling it for four months now, and last month, after expenses & taxes, she cleared $10K for the month. Wow. She has one affiliate, aand she says she gets enough business from him to have to pay him $200-300/week, so I'm hoping that will help out some, too. And then, there's the upcoming DVD I'll have available for sale... all the Curly and other Jeffraham stuff anyone could ever want. I just realized that it'll take me a couple of weeks to put it together -- I have to re-capture most of the stuff from tape, as I always capture the Curly vid @ lower resolution, since it was always intended for Internet use.
And, I saw a couple of job postings today in one of the local indie rags that I'm going to check out on Monday. I think I can make all this work. I'm gonna be hustling some, but I might not have to fight off the other area homeless for aluminum cans just yet.
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My parents were kids in Belfast during WWII. They remember sometimes not being able to buy food sometimes. That's their most prominent memory.
Morals bred by religion are the result of fear. True morality comes from innate respect and compassion for our fellow humans, animals and the Earth.
Jeffraham--regrettably, I have no coping strategies for missing Curly. You'll be unhappy (and so will he) until you're together again.
DWD--I've always appreciated the poetry of Langston Hughes.
Let me know if you need help, brother. E-mail's on Moose Lips right now, I'll add it to BlogSquito.
Still waiting for a delivery from Ikea.;-(
(((((Jeffraham)))))
Sallyh: Jeffraham--regrettably, I have no coping strategies for missing Curly. You'll be unhappy (and so will he) until you're together again.
Monday, 8:00 a.m.
I'm just being whiny.
Friday afternoon, I made sure he'll have plenty of food and water, but I doubt he'll have much affection over the weekend, and I hate that. He'll be okay, though. The reunion will be soon, and all will be well, again.
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Surfdork--is IKEA in your neck of the woods as insane as our local one? You can barely move in the Burbank store; ergo, I gave up going there.
Andy Griffith was the liberal on the old Andy Griffith Show.
Barney Fife was the neocon.
If anyone is interested: I posted a thousand word essay on Willful Ignorance It is located at 12:16 PM on the Scarborough thread: it is decent
Don't all collapse at once, but Poissonier and Poissoniere are watching 'Hotel Rwanda' tonight.
Hi Sally!
Ripley the podsqito was great.
Your voice comes across clearly.
Thanks, surf. It was mostly a test run while I try to find my voice. too much radio guy in me, I think.
Ernest T was a libertarian.
Morals bred by religion are the result of fear. True morality comes from innate respect and compassion for our fellow humans, animals and the Earth.
Well stated Ripley. When faced with the arguement that morals have to be based on a particular religious viewpoint, I always counter with the fact that there are many moral equivalents all over the world regardless of religion or culture.
Ain't Bee was a supporting actress.
Wine sez "go night-night" and I obey.
Love each other, as any number of smart folks have said at one point in history or another.
Via First Draft, didn't I see this pose on the cover of an old "Iron Man" comic book?
This one perhaps?
http://www.comics.org/graphics/
c...1867_4_0021.jpg
For comparison, here's the Bush picture again...
http://us.news1.yimg.com/
us.yimg...r4294342175.jpg
Opie was just a kid stuck in a world he didn't understand.
That fucking Fife bitch didn't help matters much.
Clara was a theocrat. What a bitch.
I too hope you will have a lovely evening, Been a long and somewhat fruitful day.
Sarah Deere,
I as not trying to be confrontational: just reasonable
Night night and I harbor no ill feelings about you whatsoever.
Lol Richard...
helen didn't really love Andy.
She was lookin' for a free ride.
Sallyh: Jeffraham--no crediting allowed. I already told Curly he could have it for cat treats.
Ah, but you should have read the rules more carefully! I'm even more sensitive about the whole bum mentality, after the e-mail I got from the former host on Wednesday. So, you have to let me do this in an "in-kind" manner, please.
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Howard Sprague?
Don't get me started...
Juanita from the Diner watches those Jackson trial reenactments on E! every night.
Sally,
Ikea visits are traumatic events for me,the wife has more patience than I. Most of the crowd rambles around in a trance like zombies from Dawn of the Dead.
Aggressive shopping cart drivers, not as crazy as devil mart yet still a hazard.
Loading up the car, lady next to our car let it run idling while waiting, 15 minutes.
What is a polite way to adress this behavior?
Assembly is heck as well, I derive no pleasure from it the chore it fails to stimulate the intellect after a couple of repititions.
Ack wife just called, they will be here in 30 minutes.
I'll be lucky to have the bed assembled by 23:00.
If people are sharing their parents' war stories, I'll share this.
My father fought in WW II to liberate Manila from the Japanese. The inner city from Spanish colonal times was called Intramures (Within Walls).
My father's army division had to scale these walls with lots of Japanese shooting down on them. All the time they were asking "Where's the air support?" and "Where's the naval bombardment?" Many died and ny father was eventually shot in the foot (sounds trivial, but the missing bones affected him the rest of his life). He also got a Bronze Star for carrying off a wounded comrade with his shot-up foot (cue the Swifties).
Only later did dad find out that Douglas MacArthur owned plenty of property within the old city of Intramures. So that's why it wasn't bombed and bombarded, cutting down Japanese resistance? Oh, I'm sure there's a real better reason.
jdw -- interesting story you may or may not know about Cincinnati's Union Terminal ... because it's located in prime real estate within the city limits, Cinci City Council wanted to tear it down somewhere back in the seventies. They'd already lost one architectural landmark to development -- the Albee Theatre, which was a real modernist/Deco beaut, and from which the few details that were saved now are in a restaurant located on Fountain Square -- and the guy who was mayor at the time decided losing the Albee was more than enough. He started a PR campaign to save Union Terminal, and ultimately it survived the wrecking ball and the fate of becoming a parking garage or a glass-and-metal monstrosity.
The mayor, by the way, was Jerry Springer. To this day, as much bad as I can say about the guy, I have to credit him with leading the campaign to save Union Terminal. I've had online acquaintances come to SW Ohio to visit over the past decade, and every single one of them asked to go there while they were in the area.
Ripley,
No, not too much radio guy. You are gifted to have such a clear voice. I could understand your words clearly.
That bitch Clara......
Of course, she claims to be Ain't Bee's friend.
I wouldn't trust her any further than I could throw her.
Ripley -- I don't think I understood what you were sayin' in that last post... but I did go listen to Podsquito -- heh! That's a talent I wish I had. Alas, I sound like a hillbilly (which is not an affectation -- I really am a hillbilly).
Tom Jones... heh.
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Not to trivialize Draco's story, but it reminded me of something.
Tenet, et al rec'd the Presidential Medal of Freedom before the Columbia crew was even nominated.
Fuckin heroes, those guys (Tenet, et al). Bush is subhuman.
Actually, this one's probably a better match, though it looks like Karl Rove or Dick Cheney is wearing the Iron Man outfit...
http://www.comics.org/graphics/
c...1867_4_0142.jpg
Once again, for comparison, here's the Bush picture again...
http://us.news1.yimg.com/ us.yimg...r4294342175.jpg
Ward Cleaver, Democrat
Fred Rutherford, Republican
Morals bred by religion are the result of fear. True morality comes from innate respect and compassion for our fellow humans, animals and the Earth.
Ripley
This is what I believe. This is all I need to believe. Everything else is just....else.
Sorry, JP, I meant my e-mail is on Moose Lips but I need to add it to BlogSquito. If you need help, let me know.
I was sort of half-watching SNL. Tom Brady has no future in Hollywood.
He'll continue in football and beat the Eagles in the Super Bowl again.
Ward Cleaver, Democrat
Fred Rutherford, Republican
Yeah duh.
And June was a socialist, she just hadn't realized it yet.
Let's see:
"I hate all them fucking niggers!"
I'm a racist.
"I hate all them fucking kikes!"
I'm an anti-semite.
I hate all them fucking Christians!"
I'm Sarah Deere.
Anyone else notice how thick and smelly the hipocrasy is.
Sarah, meet Incognito. Incognito, meet Sarah.
As you two make sweeping condemnations of people you've never met, I'm sure you two will get along quite well.
Jeffraham Prestonian,
Glad I caught up with you. I wanted to thank you for the nice things you said about my blog on your blog.
Really great. We appreciate all supporters, so again, many thanks.
I don't know who the quotee is but I found this in a book and liked the sound of it.
“Yes, there is a heaven. We create it every day when we protect a child, help an adult and revere our home, the earth.” – George A. Erickson
Chris Tucker
bite me, and, as you might expect from someone "like me, fuck you, sideways.
So, what's Lumpy doing these days?
I'm guessing 10 to 20.
and, Chris, what kind of Xian are you? the kind that can't take questions or criticism?
Anyone else notice how th--
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Good eye and good call, dave
How's our little chat room tonight?
Eddie Haskell, Sean Hannity
Lumpy Rutherford, Rush Limbaugh
I love the second amendment and can't wait to use it for the protectional purpose it serves when these threats are finally attempted.
Hey, why wait? Plenty to shoot at here!
Send us a postcard, cowardly motherfucker...
"in-kind" manner, please."
That would be a Petco shopping spree.
I'd just as soon as believe in jalapenos.
That's just silly. How could anyone doubt the existence of jalapenos?
Ripley: Sorry, JP, I meant my e-mail is on Moose Lips but I need to add it to BlogSquito. If you need help, let me know.
Oh, okay -- not sure I was ever acquainted with Moose Lips, but now I got it figured out.
In the next few days, I'll have the pre-order page for the Curly/Jeffraham DVD ready, and hopefully, also a page explaining the whole "tribute video/photo montage" service I've talked about (and Sallyh was interested in); if you know of anyone who'd like to hire that kind of work done, I'll be really reasonable -- $0.50/photo (that I scan; less if the photos are transmitted electronically) for quantities of 200 photos or less, with another price break at 201+.
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Toby, I posted a blog on this - what exactly did George Bush do in 2002 that would have qualified him for a Nobel Peace Prize? Seriously, I'm waiting for an answer....
Ever wonder what the brownshirts REALLY have in mind?
I'll buy that, Laszlo.
Aw, nutz, going to bed, thanks for allowing me to hang around.
SD/apostate
Great pix, Ripley.
genoasail: Glad I caught up with you. I wanted to thank you for the nice things you said about my blog on your blog.
Really great. We appreciate all supporters, so again, many thanks.
Think nothing of it. I like to spread the word about those who're doing good work, and you folks @ Democracy Cell Project are certainly doing that.
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Ripley--I doubt you triviaized my late dad's story, because I'm not sure the connection to your post.
Do you mean that the Pentagon can hand out medals like confetti when it suits them? That was certainly the case in the ultra-wowsa Grenada campaign, which appalled my still-living dad. But that cynical scenario was less applicable to WW II when there were many real heroes to go around (my father quite minor among them).
But what's your connection to the Columbia/Tenet story? That the medals are planned before the event happens?
Perhaps I'm dense, but I don't get your message.
Oh, and did I advocate a Nobel for Bush? What answer are you expecting?
All the brownshirts are fascinated with manly love. Just like the movie Fight Club, only sexier.
Toby Petzold,
Cocksucker.
Ward Cleaver, Democrat
Fred Rutherford, Republican
Yeah duh.
And June was a socialist, she just hadn't realized it yet.
Do socialists vacumn in pearls?
"Ward,don't you think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night?"
Priceless!
Olaf:
You might want to check out 'Revolution in Time' by David Landes--great history of clock and watch making.
Sounds like a beauty.
Who knew that the Left was so rife with homophobes?
Draco, you just reminded me of the medal issue.
No, it wasn't planned ahead of time, I don't believe. I just find it disgusting that Tenet and co. can receive>/b> the medals before the Columbia crew is even nominated.
Taoism: Shit Happens. If you can shit, it isn't shit. Shit happens, so flow with it.
Hare Krishna: Shit Happens, Rama Rama Ding Ding, She-it happens, happens, happens, she-it, she-it... (Repeat until you become one with the she-it). Please, this flower and buy our shit.
Confucianism: Confucious say, "Shit Happens", Confucious says, "If shit
has to happen, let it happen PROPERLY"
Buddhism: If shit happens, it isn't really shit. If shit happens, it really isn't really happening TO anyone. Shit will happen to you next time.
Zen: What is the sound of shit happening?
7th-Day Adventism: Shit happens only on Saturdays.
Hinduism: I've seen this shit before. This shit is not a religion, it is
a way of life. This shit happening IS you.
Protestantism: If shit happens, it happens to someone else. If shit happens, praise the Lord for it.
Calvinism: Shit happens because you don't work hard enough.
Episcopalian: If shit happens, hold a procession.
Lutheranism: Shit happens but as long as you are sorry, it's OK.
Anglicanism: It's true, shit does happen -- but only to Lutherans.
Catholicism: If shit happens, you deserved it. you were born shit, you are shit, and you will die shit.
Charismatic Catholicism: Shit is happening because you deserve it, but we love you anyway.
Judaism: Why does shit always happen to US? Why does shit always
happen just before you close the deal?
Reform Judaism: Got any laxatives?
Islam: If shit happens, it is the will of Allah. If shit happens, take a hostage. We don't take any shit.
New Age: That's not shit, its feldspar. A firm shit does not happen to me. This isn't shit if you really believe that it's chocolate. I create my own shit. If shit happens, honor and share in it! We are all part of
the same shit. For $300, we can help you get in touch with your own shit.
Wicca: If shit happened once, it will happen twice more. The Goddess
makes shit happen.
Jehovah's Witnesses: No shit happens until Armageddon. There is only a
limited amount of good shit. Knock, knock "Shit happens", Here we insist you take our shit. Shit happens
door to door.
Secularism: Shit evolves.
Darwinism: Survival of the shittiest.
Christian Science: When shit happens, don't call a doctor - pray. Shit doesn't happen and I am not up to my eyeballs in it. Our shit will
take care of itself. Shit in your mind.
Atheism: I don't believe this shit. It looks and tastes like shit, so I'm damned if I'm going to taste it. Shit is dead. No shit!
Religion from an Atheist's point of view: I haven't smelt, seen, touched or tasted it, but it's shit.
Agnosticism: It looks and smells like shit, but I haven't tasted it, so I'm not sure whether it's shit or not. What is this shit!? how can we
KNOW if shit happens? you can't prove any of this shit.
Rastafarianism: Let's smoke this shit! Hey, this is good shit mon.
Mormonism: if shit happens, shun it. Excrement happens (you can't say shit
in Utah). Our shit is better than your shit. Shit happens again
& again & again...
Energizer Bunny: Shit happens and keeps going and going and going...
Baptist: You are shitting and you'll be punished for it. We will wash the
shit right off you.
Southern Baptist: Shit will happen. Praise the Lord.
Iraqi Bathist: Oh shit!
Voodoo: shit doesn't just happen - somebody dumped it on you. Let's stick some pins in this shit! This shit's gonna get you.
Televangelism: Your tax-deductible donation could stop shit from
happening.
Unitarianism: What is this shit? We affirm the right for shit to happen. Go ahead. Shit anywhere you want. It's not the shit that matters. It's the process.
Orthodox: St. Sergius found his faith in deep shit.
Greek Orthodox: Shit happens, usually in three's.
EST: I am the cause that shit will not happen. You're responsible for all the shit that happens.
Fundamentalism: There's no shit in the Bible. If shit happens, but don't
publish it.
Twelve Step: Shit happens one day at a time.
Amish: Shit is good for the soil. This modern shit is worthless.
Shintoism: You inherit the shit of your ancestors.
Moonies: Only happy shit really happens.
Zoroastrianism: Shit happens half the time.
Bahaism: Why do you keep shitting on us?
Mysticism: This is really weird shit.
Paganism: Shit happens for a variety of reasons.
Rajhneesh: Give us your shit and put on this orange suit.
Rosicrucianism: What is this AMORC shit?
Witchcraft: Mix this shit together and it will happen.
Scientology: All this happens to be shit. If you leave us, bad shit will
happen.
Shamanism: Whoaa...Holy Shit!
Sikh: Leave us alone.
Dianetics: "Why does shit happen?" (p. 157)
Got it!
Bush 2002 - Introduced the preemption doctrine against potential threats.
Cocksucka!
On Leave it to Beaver they were all republicans except Gus the fireman.
From the Toby blog...
Not only did I not give a good goddamn that the wretched recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize (that was explicitly awarded as a slam against George W. Bush) didn't go with the others,
Yuppie Shit: It's my shit! It's all mine! Isn't it beautiful!?
An Employer: Shit happens and rolls down hill.
An Employee: I've done my shit, can I take the day off? This shit's not part of my contract.
Environmentalism: Shit is biodegradable.
Heisenberg: Shit happened, we just don't know where.
Quantum Shittydynamics: Shit happens only in well defined quantities.
Einstein: Shit is relative.
Reaction to your Moth-in-Law: Relatives are shit.
Washington: I cannot tell a lie - shit happens.
Lincoln: Four score and seven shits ago...
Nixon: Shit didn't happen and I didn't know anything about it.
Reagan: I do believe shit happened, I was just taking a nap.
Bush I: Read my lips: no more shit! Wouldn't be prudent at this juncture. This looks like foreign shit. Let Baker handle it.
Quayle: Whye doe peopl treate mee lik shite?
Clinton: I didn't inhale this shit. I tried it before and I didn't like it...
Perot: I'm sorry if I dropped you guys in this shit.
McCarthyism: Are you now or have you ever been with Martin Luther
King: Black and white shit CAN coexist...
Julius Caesar: I came, I saw, I shit. (Veni, Vidi, Shitty)
John Paul Jones: I have not yet begun to shit.
James Tiberious Kirk: ..to boldly shit where no one has shit before!
Computer Science: There's a bug somewhere in that shittttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
Macintosh: (Enough said)
UNIX/C: Core dump... shit!
IBM/DOS: It's shit but at least it's compatible.
Communism: It's everybody's shit.
Marxism: The rich shit exploits the poor shit, but deep down all shit is alike. Dictatorship of the shit.
Capitalism: Shit happens and it will cost you! If your going to sell that shit, at least make a profit.
Cannibalism: Don't eat that shit.
Vegetarianism: If it happens to shit, don't eat it.
Hedonism: there's nothing quite like a good shit.
Stoicism: This shit's good for me.
Existentialism: Shit doesn't happen, shit it. Shit happening is absent.
Realism: I think I need to take a shit.
Denialism: What shit?
Purists: If shit is to happen, let ONLY shit happen.
Procrastination: I'll take care of this shit...tomorrow.
Avoidanceism: With all this happening, I think I'll go shit.
Repressionism: I think I'll hold this shit in forever.
Fatalist: Oh shit, it's going to happen!
Surrealism: Fish!
Moilanenism: Smells like shit of Finnish fish.
Nihilism: Let's blow this shit up!
Fetishism: I love it when shit happens.
Masochism: Do shit to me!
Sadism: I will shit on you!
Freudianism: Shit is a phallic symbol.
Toby is ugly and nobody likes him.
And he smells bad.
dave,that's an amazing article. Quite a read--I'm utterly engrossed.
Oh, okay. You do know it was Carter who got that prize, right? And that he got it as a rebuke to George W. Bush by the assholes on the committee?
Philosophers
Thales: Earth, Fire, Air and Shit.
Epicurious: If shit happens, enjoy it.
Socrates: What is shit? Why is shit?
Aristotle: The essence of shittiness...
Descartes: I think, so why am I in this shit? Shit, therefore I am.
Lebnitz (As interpreted by Voltaire): The best of all possible shit in the
world is made for shit.
Thoreau: I wanted to live deliberately to suck the shit out of life.
Sartre: Shit is meaningless! What is shit, anyway?
There we go, Toby. WTF did Bush do to even be nominated for a NPP in 2002?!?
Mathematician: Shit happening is just a special case.
Statistician: There is a 87.3% chance that shit will happen... Maybe.
Physicist (Theoretical): Shit SHOULD happen.
Physicist (Experimental): To within experimental error, shit DID happen.
Engineer: I hope this shit holds together.
Chemist: I hope this shit doesn't blow up. Gee, what'll happen if I mix this and ... SHIT!!!
Biologist: Is this shit alive?
Economist: I hope nobody figures out that I really don't understand this shit.
Bureaucrat: I'm sorry, but we can't do this shit until you fill form XJ-
314159 to make an appointment with our Assistant Sub-Deputy Manager to obtain form ZN-271828...
CEO: (1980's) I've got all the shit I want. (1990's) Oooh SHIT!
Lawyer: For a sufficient fee, I can get you out of ANY shit.
Doctor: Take two shits and call me in the morning. yes, it is definately a
case of shit. $99.95, please... Shit, where's this organ supposed to
go?
Psychologist: Shit is in your mind. Everything that happens is shit, some of it is just repressing its subconscious shittiness.
Anyway, the Nobel Peace Prize is no great shakes except to people who write questions for Trivial Pursuit.
"Bring em on!" doesn't sound like a peacemaker to me.
Tom DeLay doesn't want gay americans ramming their homo agenda down his throat and coming up in his face with their demands for special treatment.
Ripley,
I'd like to hear the buzz of a mosquito or mansquito
http://www.rigoler.com/wav/boite...ux/
mosquito.wav
Nothing, Ripley. He was busy making war. As he was expected to and for every good reason.
Bush's Peace Prize will come some other day. But not right now when he's got war to wage.
Jimmy Carter is a real man.
Junior isn't fit to lick Carter's toejam.
Discuss.
Mel Cooley, Ari Fleischer
Fucking Richard Deacon.
Tom DeLay is jealous of Bill Gates' money.
Yeah Ripley, he was busy being a good "Christian".
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. [Matthew 5:9
Bush's Peace Prize will come some other day. But not right now when he's got war to wage.
Toby Petzold
Bush's Peace Prize will come some other day. But not right now when he's got war to wage.
Toby PetzoldBush's Peace Prize will come some other day. But not right now when he's got war to wage.
Toby PetzoldBush's Peace Prize will come some other day. But not right now when he's got war to wage.
Toby PetzoldBush's Peace Prize will come some other day. But not right now when he's got war to wage.
Toby PetzoldBush's Peace Prize will come some other day. But not right now when he's got war to wage.
Toby PetzoldBush's Peace Prize will come some other day. But not right now when he's got war to wage.
Toby PetzoldBush's Peace Prize will come some other day. But not right now when he's got war to wage.
Toby PetzoldBush's Peace Prize will come some other day. But not right now when he's got war to wage.
Toby Petzold
At some point, you people are going to have to concede the obvious: a democratized Iraq is a strategic masterstroke.
Tom DeLay is jealous of Jimmy Johnson's hair. And his proximity to young male champions.
Sarah, stop being a crazy jagoff, please.
Bush's Peace Prize will come some other day. But not right now when he's got war to wage.
Toby Petzold
Bush's Peace Prize will come some other day. But not right now when he's got war to wage.
Toby Petzold
Bush's Peace Prize will come some other day. But not right now when he's got war to wage.
Toby Petzold
Bush's Peace Prize will come some other day. But not right now when he's got war to wage.
Toby Petzold
Bush's Peace Prize will come some other day. But not right now when he's got war to wage.
Toby Petzold
Bush's Peace Prize will come some other day. But not right now when he's got war to wage.
Holy Christ flippin flapjacks at Denny's! Toby, read that sentence again.
His Peace Prize (note the Peace part?) will come but right now he's got war to wage?
President Sparkle Pony doesn't deserve to look at someone else's Peace Prize.
Please ignore the troll.
I'm off to bed, lovely moonbats.
Peace, ya'll.
Jimmy Carter's authority with you people is a mystery to me. He sounds more and more un-American every day.
Observer--okay, let's see.
Carter is a professor of nuclear physics and the longest serving member of the Armed Forces of the ex-Presidents.
Carter is a devoutly religious man who claims no special grace, but applies his faith in his activities around the world, from building homes for the poor to monitoring elections.
Carter believes in the separation of church and state. His faith is not threatened by that which he does not believe in.
Carter believes in equality for all people. He is not afraid of the moral high ground. He is also not afraid to admit his lack of knowledge in areas and to willing to learn.
Yeah, I'd say Carter is a real man.
Sarah, stop being a crazy jagoff, please.
Toby Petzold |
Sarah, stop being a crazy jagoff, please.
Toby Petzold |
Sarah, stop being a crazy jagoff, please.
Toby Petzold |
Sarah, stop being a crazy jagoff, please.
Toby Petzold |
Sarah, stop being a crazy jagoff, please.
Toby Petzold |
Sarah, stop being a crazy jagoff, please.
Toby Petzold |Sarah, stop being a crazy jagoff, please.
Toby Petzold |Sarah, stop being a crazy jagoff, please.
Toby Petzold |Sarah, stop being a crazy jagoff, please.
Toby Petzold |Sarah, stop being a crazy jagoff, please.
Toby Petzold |Sarah, stop being a crazy jagoff, please.
Toby Petzold |
You know toby, you've got a very short memory.
First it was: Cause the place is a 'hotbed' of terrists... Failed
2nd: We need to liberate the people.. Failed
3rd: WMD..Worked
4th: Lie uncovered
5th: See number two
Toby's ability to not kill himself is a mystery to me.
Toby is stupid and ugly and nobody likes him.
Not even the twits at LGF, where Toby goes to snivel about the meanies at Eschaton.
Excuse me people. Tryin' to work here.
President's currently very busy. It's fucking baseball season yo.
Sarah, stop being a crazy jagoff, please.
Toby Petzold |
Toby, stop being an asshole. Please/
Ask TR and Kissinger how crazy what I just said is.
dave--why do all the guys in the pics in the NY Times article look as if they're constipated?
Masterstroke...
Economy? Gas prices? Casualties? Health care?
I couldn't give a flying rat's ass about Carter. I'm just amazed at the people who think his Peace Prize was a snub against Bush. come fucking On..... Bush, the self-proclaimed War President?
Lucy Van Pelt, Peggy Noonan
Linus Van Pelt, Paul Krugman
Steve Dallas, Tom DeLay
Bill the Cat, Ozzy Osbourne (ack-k)
"masterstroke"
Pfft
You're a Masterstroke.
Carter: "the longest serving member of the Armed Forces of the ex-Presidents."
Since when does that count for anything around here?
Ripley, have you ever noticed that Toby is stupid and ugly and that nobody likes him?
Ripley, if you'll read the link on my post, you will know for a fact that Carter's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to him as a rebuke to the current President.
How do you not know that?
The word "masterstoke" is definable as "Toby is stupid and ugly and nobody likes him," and "has already been banned once by Atrios for being a stupid asshole."
Ripley--Now I get it, I hope--you mean that the careerists in the military/industrial complex think of themselves first, with little regard to the subordinates they put at risk?
Whether it's MacArthur protecting his property in Intramures, or Tenet and Pentagonians awarding themselves honors before the Columbia cracks from their ambitious negligence.
I'll remind you, if necessary, that Bradley (especially) and even Eisenhower were widely considered halfway sympathetic to the grunts in WW II; it's not inevitable that bigshots are fiendish assholes.
It just tends to happen that way.
Ripley, you must recognize that Toby is stupid and ugly and nobody likes him.
I have indeed, Thers. Thank you for reminding me.
sally:
Carter believes in equality for all people.
Which is all the proof you need of his idiocy. People are inherently unequal. Honest people know this. Weasels pretend otherwise.
In hungarian, 'Toby' is slang for 'shy young man of easy virtue."
Thersites, were you one of the people threatening me with physical harm this summer?
And now my ears are occupied with the glory that is Handel. Cuz nothin says "Saturday Nite" like Handel and a cold Miller Lite. Miller Lite, brought to you by the fine folks at Troll Chow™.
Troll Chow™, that's some goooood shit, freeper!
Oh, just ignore it.
Or not, I don't care. I'm out of here for real.
Be well Moonbats.
Waging pre-emptive war on false pretenses = deserving of Nobel Peace prize.
Brilliant, Toby.
When Sean Hannity nominates you, it's gold. gold!
Toby, were you aware that you are stupid and ugly and nobody likes you?
sweet dreams, no bedbugs, and that includes no TPetzolds.
G'night.
SD
Laszlo Panaflex,
Nancy, Karen Hughes?
Ah, Thers, I'm once again humbled by your ability to stick to a talking point.
/gracious bow
People are inherently unequal.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, except Toby, who is really, really fucking stupid, and ugly, and disliked by everyone.
I just don't have the self-control.
All I'm trying to say is that Dick Cheney is a damn fine handsome man for his age.
Feral:
Waging pre-emptive war on false pretenses = deserving of Nobel Peace prize.
The reason why your formulation is stupid is because it is better to destroy potential threats on our own terms and when we have the advantage than to wait until we are forced to respond to these threats on our enemies terms and when we are on our knees.
One of the things that our hegemony guarantees is the protection of an idiot's right to not understand anything about what it is that enables to him to express his idiocy.
I think several of the current Republican officals may, in fact, be vampires. I'm still tracking down evidence, of course, but...
I just don't have the self-control.
But your soul is pure. So you have been granted the higher initiation.
Be at peace, my son.
People are inherently unequal.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, except Toby, who is really, really fucking stupid, and ugly, and disliked by everyone.
The man who used those words owned slaves. Therefore, what he said was not what he practiced. There's a name for that, I'll wager.
All I'm trying to say is that Dick Cheney is a damn fine handsome man for his age.
With a package that's to DIE FOR!!!
One of the things that our hegemony guarantees is the protection of an idiot's right to not understand anything about what it is that enables to him to express his idiocy.
Toby Petzold | One of the things that our hegemony guarantees is the protection of an idiot's right to not understand anything about what it is that enables to him to express his idiocy.
Toby Petzold | One of the things that our hegemony guarantees is the protection of an idiot's right to not understand anything about what it is that enables to him to express his idiocy.
Toby Petzold | One of the things that our hegemony guarantees is the protection of an idiot's right to not understand anything about what it is that enables to him to express his idiocy.
Toby Petzold | One of the things that our hegemony guarantees is the protection of an idiot's right to not understand anything about what it is that enables to him to express his idiocy.
Toby Petzold |One of the things that our hegemony guarantees is the protection of an idiot's right to not understand anything about what it is that enables to him to express his idiocy.
Toby Petzold | One of the things that our hegemony guarantees is the protection of an idiot's right to not understand anything about what it is that enables to him to express his idiocy.
Toby Petzold | One of the things that our hegemony guarantees is the protection of an idiot's right to not understand anything about what it is that enables to him to express his idiocy.
Toby Petzold | One of the things that our hegemony guarantees is the protection of an idiot's right to not understand anything about what it is that enables to him to express his idiocy.
Toby Petzold | One of the things that our hegemony guarantees is the protection of an idiot's right to not understand anything about what it is that enables to him to express his idiocy.
Toby Petzold |
yeah, well, I'm really off to bed now. Just had to highlight this idiocy.
What a maroon.
it is better to grab all that oil on our own terms and when we have the advantage than to wait until we are forced to respond to really high gas prices and we have to re-evaluate our American lifestyles and possibly give up some profit.
Thersites, I was a bit curious what you meant by higher inspiration...alas, not my type. Ripley may feel otherwise.
Wouldn't it be far more moral to sterilize undesirables than to fight all those unwanted pregnancies in the streets years later? Liberals believe in pre-emption, too, see.
One of the things that our hegemony guarantees is the protection of an idiot's right to not understand anything about what it is that enables to him to express his idiocy.
Indeed, which explains your utter stupidity. You are even free to be ugly. And everyone else is free to dislike you.
Thers, all I can say is... mommy...
Ooooh, we bad...
"...your formulation is stupid is because it is better to destroy potential threats on our own terms..."
I'm sorry I said that. There was no threat. I'm a fucknozzle. This never had anything to do with threat.
Yeah, I'd say Carter is a real man.
Sallyh
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Yet Carter gave us the epitome of a failed presidency.
The man who used those words owned slaves. Therefore, what he said was not what he practiced. There's a name for that, I'll wager.
The name is "Toby: stupid, ugly, and universally disliked."
it is better to destroy potential threats on our own terms and when we have the advantage
Iraq = Uncontained potential threat in the 90's that could have disadvantaged the US.
Brilliant, Toby
I don't think Republican officials are vampires. But I think the president is LIKE a really dumb german shepherd.
Let's see. We have all the basic responses on show, don't we? The asshole who repeats himself, with variations he believes to be clever. The asshole who repeats herself, with no variations whatsoever. Misplaced homophobic hostility. Historical ignorance. The inability to concede a point. The inability to recognize one's own hypocrisy.
Did I miss anyone?
and...
Sluggo, Bill O'Re-aally
I'm just here desparately trying to drive up my site traffic so I can look legitimate.. Please click my link..... Please.
I've come up with a way to end judicial tyrany.
Thersites, I was a bit curious what you meant by higher inspiration...alas, not my type. Ripley may feel otherwise.
Higher initiation. Yours is vouchsafed here.
And we have the Republican Talking Points addict.
Blow up the dolls, Pa, it's a party!
I'm a fucknozzle.
yes, you are.
Thersites,
Are you saying that Toby is Stupid and Ugly, and that nobody likes him?
Thanks for the heads up.
Toby, don't get crazy now.
Did I miss anyone?
Yourself to a T for Toby! Stupid and ugly, and nobody likes you!
With an emphasis on "stupid."
What was that, Toby is what?
Thank you Gen. JCC, I've added the link and will be waiting in non-lusty breathless anticipation come (not the dirty kind) Sunday.
Sorry for troll-feeding, but this is either too classic to ignore, or a fake Toby meta-troll. I can't tell any more, discombobulated by the Age of W.
But give me the logic by which Carter's historic peace activism--mocked soundly at the time by future neocons when Toby was in diapers--is now compromised by W's promise of "war for a generation"?
W and his band of thieves will indeed deliver on "war for a generation" until either the nation sickens of it or the money runs out--I predict the latter first.
Oh yes, W for the Nobel Peace Prize--You can have former recipient Henry Kissinger reading something like this in his sophisticated way:
"Though his accent is merely as phony as mine, W's policies are far more conducive to peace...."
Toby? Isn't he that stupid, ugly guy who nobody likes?
Thersites--apparently my love of sweets is well known
Are you saying that Toby is Stupid and Ugly, and that nobody likes him?
Yes, indeed.
But top scientists at Cal Tech have revealed that Toby may in fact be INCREDIBLY stupid and ugly, and that ABSOLUTLEY nobody likes him.
What a breakthrough!
George Bush, Feb 13, 2004 - Meet the Press
I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign-policy matters with war on my mind. Again, I wish it wasn't true, but it is true.
Someone get me a pen so I can write a nomination letter!
Thersites--first study was just a significance study. But then we studied effect d and found the magnitude was skewed heavily to the right.
Surprise, surprise, suprise!
[Gomer Pyle, Lynndie England]
The administration knew there was no Iraq-Al Qaeda link.
"These documents are additional compelling evidence that the intelligence community did not believe there was a cooperative relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda, despite public comments by the highest ranking officials in our government to the contrary."
http://www.theaustralian.news.co...%
5E1702,00.html
Did somebody say "threat"?
Ripley--but how do you pen in the gesture where he points at his head? That was priceless.
But top scientists at Cal Tech have revealed that Toby may in fact be INCREDIBLY stupid and ugly, and that ABSOLUTLEY nobody likes him.
Yea; the mind boggles.
Science is the key to The Future.
Okay, peeps -- I'm off to couch, now. Cache y'all tomorrow.
.
And Creationism is the key to the Past.
Who among us can doubt the power of Zeus?
"Science is the key to The Future."
Try telling that to the Fundoid Fascists.
General, you are quite right. I myself hope fervently that JUSTICE SUNDAY (sunday sunday ay ay ay) becomes a weekly event in manner of wrestling and monster truck events.
I myself will not miss it unless I am dead or in jail. And if I am in jail, I will break out...
But then we studied effect d and found the magnitude was skewed heavily to the right.
Indeed. That and the fact that during the first study Toby was caught choking on one of his own toenails. TWICE. His only explanation was a mumbled, disjointed rant to the effect that his toes were "racing."
Iron Frist vs Science and Reason in an all-out match to the Deeeeeaaaaath!!!
This Sunday is Halliburton Stress Ball Day. Bring the kids!
SUNDAY!!!!!
Thersites, Ripley--our next study will be to determine at what levels those whom I shall not name become dangerously toxic to those in their immediate environment. We shall use as our methodolody measuring the content of sulfur in the farts of said subject.
Sally.... too late!
Fresh numbers just in:
Hot teen oral action, 47%
Blood 'n guts 'n veins in mah teeth, 27%
Tom Goes to the Mayor, 21%
Who gave you this number?, 5%
Ripley--I do realize that the smell is becoming overpowering, but at what point does it cease to be simply odious and start to induce respiratory failure? Enquiring minds want to know.
SUNDAAAY! SUNDAAAY! SUNDAAAY! See Bill Frist and his nitro fueled heart go against godless judges!
Thersites, Ripley--our next study will be to determine at what levels those whom I shall not name become dangerously toxic to those in their immediate environment. We shall use as our methodolody measuring the content of sulfur in the farts of said subject.
Great Scott! I will happily jump on the grant gravy train, but yeeeeerrgh... I am in the humanities. I know not of these measuring techniques, aside from some Chaucer references....
General--I will be there with my fish knives in hand.
Bill FRIST, in his NITRO BURNING FUNNY CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY CAR....
JQ Public--and this is in reference to a push poll or Saturday night movie classics?
Judisticator: "I thought I had him until about the 2nd round. That's when he pulled the Fristolama on me. I'm not saying I gave up but... He's got this weird way of lookin at ya... and ya just know you're a goner."
Reporter:"Could you have finished this match?"
Judisticator:"I don't know, man. It's like he looked inside my soul and saw who I really am. Plus, the guy really needs a shower. Whoa!"
Bill FRIST, in his NITRO BURNING FUNNY CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY CAR....
You win!
Ripley--are you sure you never emcee'd pro wrestling?
Thersites--you think PIs ever do that kind of crap? That's what grad students are for!
Anthony THE GAVEL Kennedy in the FIGHT OF HIS LIFE against THE IRON JESUS.
THE GAVEL: "Jesus, Jesus... you are going DOWN!"
(Seizes huge wooden cross, hits THE IRONJ JESUS from behind. Crowd shudders.)
Breaking news!
Sen Rick Santorum proposes bill that would allow pharmicists to deny birth control to married women if they don't have a note from their husband.
A rider on the bill requires all vehicles to meet emmissions requirements or sport a yellow ribbon magnet.
you think PIs ever do that kind of crap? That's what grad students are for!
Egads. Not in Irish studies. The worst I ever had to do was buy the cheese platters and the booze. Mostly the booze.
Thersites--in the sciences, the PI grovels for dollars. Once the grant is funded, the general attitude is, "My work here is done. You do the fucking experiments."
SallyH, there are no ethical issues in the humanities. All here is sweetness and light.
Or would be, were I allowed to shoot about 20, 25 people out of hand, none of whom would actually be missed.
I'm off to bed
Nite, freethinkers
Thersites, hope the baby sleeps, because it looks as if you're the only one awake...
In case of emergency,
Break glass.
So, the Nobel Peace prize was awarded to Carter as a fuck you to Bush by the Nobel prize comittee, who will then turn around and award the Peace Prize to Bush once he is done with the war in Iraq.
Makes sense to me.
But then again I'm ugly, stupid and nobody likes me.
I just had the horrific experience of listening to AM radio from Lynchburg VA to Harrisonburg VA. Lars Larson was ranting on about how liberals were attacking the honorable Tom Delay and that none of it made sense to him. I'm sorry I just threw up about a thousand gallons in my mouth! What a fucknut. How did this skidmark get a job? Please explain, I'm really frustrated.
I'm off to bed too. If the baby wakes up, Carpbasman, you'll have to get her.
SHHHHH!
Boo!
From Hoffmania, Game for the Weekend.
Just keep the guy upright.
http://www.wagenschenke.ch/
Carpbasman wrote:
But then again I'm ugly, stupid and nobody likes me.
No, if you were all of those things you'd be Toby.
Carpasman - boo isn't going to scare anyone here. Now if you told Thersites, that you knew some guys named Frist and DeLay and Dobson that were willing to take care of his baby, that would put the fear of FristChrist in to him.
Watched the new Showtime musical version of "Reefer Madness" tonight. It wasn't up to the level of, say, "Chicago" but was pretty good for a premium cable channel original movie.
The production numbers were fun and generally tuneful and Jesus's scene (!) would send the wingnuts, especially the fundies, into permanent apoplexy if only they subscribed to Showtime.
Which is probably why it's a good thing this wasn't on sister network CBS. The howls of manufactured outrage would've been the wingnut frenzy heard round the world.
Some folks may complain that Christian Campbell, the actor playing the 16-year-old juvenile male lead, is well into his thirty-something era -- he has crow's feet, fer chrissakes! -- but that's in keeping with the 1930s propaganda movie it's based on, where IIRC some of the actors playing teens were actually pushing forty and maybe even forty-five. Campbell reminded me a bit of Matthew Broderick and does a wonderful job chewing the scenery, as do Alan Cummings and Kristen Bell.
Are there yellow loopy car magnets out there that state "Support Chinese car magnet magnates"?
I also like the suggestion of an Eschaton poster for a bumper sticker that says "I support the seperation of church and hate" Whoever you are, if you make it I will buy it.
Is this locality the only one where the locals are turning their loopy ribbon magnets horizontally so that they resemble Jesus fish?
Fer chrissakes...where's my soma?
Fer chrissakes...where's my soma?
I think that there is still time to buy some at the 7-11, at least on the west coast.
Yet Carter gave us the epitome of a failed presidency.
Dave | Email | Homepage | 04.17.05 - 2:15 am
Dave -
You stupid dicklick.
Carter did more in one decision by appointing Paul Volcker to the Fed than Reagan, Bush, and Shrub combined as far as the economy is concerned. Carter knew Volcker would do the unpopular thing by jacking up interest rates to stop the runaway Republican inflation. As much as anybody, I think Paul Volcker set the the stage for the Clinton era prosperity that Cokehead Bush is now destroying.
I sure wish Nutsack Petzold was still around so he can school me on how Bush is going to win a Nobel Peace Prize for killing 1500+ of our soldier's to transform a neutered Middle-Eastern dictatorship into a full-fledged American-hating theocracy.
To boot, Nutsack is a liar who claims he is from Texas when he has stated on other message boards that he is from California.
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I'm hosting an afterparty @ Blog City Diner. Come on over. The coffee's hot.
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Bushwick Bill,
You hit that right about Volcker!
If it weren't for him, the big expansion that took place under Reagan would never had happened.
He had to do what no republican president, Nixon and Ford, were brave enough to do. Ratch credit so high that people would back off using it....cooling off.
I was taking economics 101 and 102 at University of Maryland in Europe at the time and we were discussing what could be done to bring the economy under control. I suggested doing what Volcker did do later and was attacked like a rabid dog by everyone in the class, including the instructor. Seems that history proved both Volcker and me right.
And what is odd, everyone gives reagan complete credit for the economic recovery in the 1908's just because it occured during his watch. Kinda like its all those liberal justices that are ruining our court system, yet those liberal justices they are refering to were all nominated by republicans.
regards
.
I don't think so, dave.
One is Fantastic.
The other definitely isn't.
Did I miss anyone?
Oh, yeah - the moronic brownshirt fuck who posts under other people's names, then appears as still someone else outraged at the opinion expressed in the fake post.
Sound familiar???
One is Fantastic.
The other definitely isn't.
You mean one is invincible!
Moad-Dib: My husband says that eventually they'll be crediting the Clinton economy to Herbert Hoover.
Must be that exercise in sleep deprivation that gets people wound up so tightly at night.
Me, I just don't sleep so well is all.
Barndog: I sleep great, I just happen to start doing it at around 10, so I'm generally Amazing Awake Woman around 5.
And what is odd, everyone gives reagan complete credit for the economic recovery in the 1908's just because it occured during his watch.
regards
Moad-Dib
Well Reagan, like Furious George, pumped a huge amount of Keynesian priming in to the US economy via massive deficit spending.
Of course it would have been throwing fuel on to the fire if Volcker hadn't done his thing and cleaned up the 70s inflation mess by 82.
(Ford's Whip Inflation Now slogan would probably receive a Dobson no-no from the Bushevik version of the Republican Party, cuz it might lead people in to S&M)
British general election: Internet guide for anti war voters and other news at http://dearkitty.modblog.com/?sh...&
blog_id=558624
Stupid rheumatoid arthritis. Must be a front or rain moving in. I woke up at 4 a.m, with my back screaming at me.
Brain is fully functional, until the drugs kick in - then it melds into a quasi-ooze state for a couple hours. Sort of like, I can feel a neuron fire every so often. Maybe. Like watching a really bad B&W movie in slo-mo.
Rumsfeld offers advice to Iraq … and offends its new PM
The US defence secretary’s reputation for speaking his mind is intact, if without tact, writes Diplomatic Editor Trevor Royle
... Rumsfeld pitched up in Baghdad intent on reading the riot act to the new administration over its plans to purge the country’s security forces. No sooner had the new prime minister Ibrahim Jaafari been sworn in than he was facing a dressing down and being told to be “darned careful about making a lot of changes”.
Rumsfeld does not want the administration to get rid of members of the security forces who either served Saddam Hussein or were members of the Ba’ath Party. Most are former army or police officers and are considered by the US to be the pick of the fledgling security forces. As professionals they should clearly remain in their posts but, because they are Sunnis, the Shia-dominated administration wants to bring in its own people.
By telling Jaafari to re consider before making any changes, Rumsfeld probably thought he was being helpful and pragmatic. The US has invested heavily in training the new security forces and the loss of key personnel could undo all that good work. Instead, Rumsfeld caused offence.
Since he last visited Iraq, an election has been held and a new government elected. The umbilical cord to the US has been cut and the new order does not take kindly to being governed in the way that they were when the US administrator Paul Bremer reigned supreme in Baghdad.
If Rumsfeld wanted any evidence that things had changed he only had to look at last weekend’s demonstrations, in which tens of thousands of Shias took to the streets of Baghdad to demand the withdrawal of the US coalition garrison.
http://www.sundayherald.com/49147
Ford's Whip Inflation Now slogan
That little talk with the American People and the one when he ripped pages off of a calandar may not have been intellectually brilliant but I remember them much more than I do any Talks with the American People made by Reagan or the two Bushes. Even Clinton, brilliant as he was, didn't use props to the same comic effect. Bush II regularly says things stupider than anything Ford said but his penumbra of impunity even extends to the middle level of his appointed posts (see above).
Let's see: the stock market is tanking, oil is sky high, the housing bubble seems to be busting, the insurgents in Iraq are insurging, N. Korea has the bomb and is willing to sell it to all takers with cash, and so on. And what are our leaders doing? W, in classic flim flam man mode is using tax payor money to try and sell the gutting of SS, Frist is saying anyone that doesn't believe in ending the filabuster is waging war on people of faith, and Delay is fighting ethics violations.
Is anyone minding the store?
EPtropy: Who would'a thunk the Iraqis would use their new-found Freedom(tm) to try to run their own country? Demonstration? They're not booing, they're shouting, "Boooosh! Boooosh!"
QL -- bread and circuses, baybee!
Barn -- Sorry you're hurtin'. Here's to the blessed numbness, in spite of the brain-dulling side-effects.
This was posted upthread, but is worth repeating. So many repeating. I read an article about this crew several years ago, then forgot about it with all the xtian hoopla. Arguably, these guys are the bigger threat. With so many nuts to choose from, it is hard to focus. Maybe that is there master plan?
"there"="their"
I do know the difference. Uhm, haloscan did it.
Can't open the NYT article, unfortunately; no sub.
Haloscan took my shoe!
QL - To defend North Korea for a second, they've given NO indication that they'll ever sell nuclear technology to third parties.
They've sold yellow cake to Pakistan, who already had the technology, but no evidence of selling even nuclear resources to anyone who didn't already have nuclear weapon capabilities, let alone nuclear energy capabilities.
On the other hand, the North Koreans will sell their missile technology to anyone with cash, but that's primarily because the Busheviks have limited the North Koreans capability to have anything else to trade. Cripple an economy via blockade and threaten it with war and push an arms race, you get a country hustling to make a buck via arms sales. (though the Busheviks hate the competition in that market as well.)
Virginia, it's not all that surprising when you consider the kind of 'democracy' they've set up in the United States. I remember when Reagan was just coming into office Erwin Knoll, editor of the Progessive said that it wasn't any surprise that Reagan wanted to set up a despotism here when he was so supportive of despots around the world. Guess it works both ways on the right.
I was just looking at the Griswold thread below. It's never crossed my mind but while they're railing against contraception for it's contribution to extra-marital sex, does anyone know of the religio-fascists railing against geezer sex drugs?
It would be interesting to know what Dobson and others on the cusp of the Dole generation have said about Viagra and it's little pals. It would also be interesting to know if women took a kind of geezer sex drug how the religio-fascists would view it. Bet it would be covered under the old double standard.
"The mayor, by the way, was Jerry Springer. To this day, as much bad as I can say about the guy, I have to credit him with leading the campaign to save Union Terminal. I've had online acquaintances come to SW Ohio to visit over the past decade, and every single one of them asked to go there while they were in the area.
Philostopher"
Thanks for that story, P...didn't know that!
"One of my favorite photos is this one, by friend chuckdarwin, of his daughters, taken in Glasgow Airport (I think).
.
Jeffraham Prestonian"
Nice pic, JP...thanks!
See ya moonbats, going fishing for a few days! Yeaaaaargh!
EP -- A couple of folks in the Griswold thread pointed out that it's all about unmarried women having sex without consequences. Also, I haven't heard anything (could have missed it) about pharmacists refusing to fill Viagra prescriptions. Presumably most men who are old enough to need a little help in the erectile area are not having marital sex (missionary position only, in the dark) for procreation. So I'm thinking maybe, just maybe, this is another little turd on a huge pile of stinking hypocritical shit, but I could be wrong about that.
We also don't hear complaints about the marketing of Viagra, et al. Imagine if they were a selling a drug guaranteeing a woman an orgasm even if Johnny is quick on the trigger?
a drug guaranteeing a woman an orgasm even if Johnny is quick on the trigger?
I remember in the early 70s when everyone was always talking about mulitple orgasms. Sooooo many men seemed to think it was sooooo unfair. Some refused to believe it was phisiologically impossible. A lot of that conversation was great comedy.
If any of this comes about I most certainly don't want to hear about it in terms of Phyllas S.
Can't quite figure out why I'm up
this early, but I seem to be in
good company.
Did I miss anything?
4:oo in the goddamn morning, migraine from whatever is beneath hell.
Anybody else up for a chat?
funny thing about the ED drugs...i signed up for the "one million moms" websites so i could see what kind of crazy crusades they were on. sometimes i wrote to their targets telling them thanks for supporting free speech and not yielding to the radical right. anyhow, i noticed marked absence of any talk of putting pressure on shows to remove the ED sponsors and one million moms asking if i'd missed that particular campaign and what, with the power of all the people in the organization could be done about the "offending" ads. i was sent a letter back saying they "were working on it in congress". uh-huh. i wrote back several times saying so should people be writing their congressmen? write the station? never another reply. i figure they don't want to upset big pharma. better to go after red lobster (probably not a big source of funding for them) for advertising on desperate housewives and medium. hypocrites? indeed.
I remember in the early 70s when everyone was always talking about mulitple
orgasms.
That's one of the best opening
sentences in history.
It's almost better than the first
line of "Fear and Loathing in
Las Vegas."
Seriously. EPtropy -- think about
writing a book!
'morning Steve, Mena! (Sorry about the head!)
I'm waiting for Lowe's to open so I can go give them the rest of my money.
I seen something yesterday about the marketing tactics of Levitra. I don't remember if it was the FTC or whoever.
Ba(r)n: It was a 15-second ad they had that doesn't include the side-effect warnings. They're supposed to be allowed to do "awareness" spots without the disclaimers, but this one makes claims about its effectiveness. I think it was the FCC. (!)
Anybody here from New Jersey?
I have a reason for asking......
And remember Virgina - Lowe's blowes.
I ran my own handyman/building company for 7-8 years & been a carpenter most of my life, sans the military.
You would be suprized how much work I got repairing items purchased or installed from the 'big 3' -Home Depot, Lowe's & Menards.
And remember Virgina - Lowe's blowes
Another interesting opening line!!!!
Fortunately I have a very smart and talented husband who does great things with the raw materials we get there.
I mostly buy gardening stuff and things for little projects that involve making old stuff look presentable. And mistake paint! I love mistake paint!
I hate to agree with anyone atthe moment, Virginia, but the barndog is right. Have you got some indy hardware/buildingsupply people near you? They could sure use your money.
Back in the seventies when multiple orgasms were the thing, I remember thinking "Gee, doesn't everybody?". Which brings me to the startling conclusion that sex has been around for a long time, and is not going to go away. Think about it, if AIDS isn't enough to scare people away from sex, why do the fundies think they are going to have any luck. This is really silly stuff.
Have you got some indy hardware/buildingsupply people near you? They could sure use your money.
mena
We don't. We have one very small hardware store that we patronize whenever possible, but for most stuff we end up at Lowe's. (But not Home Depot, ever.)
Actually there is a local company that handles lumber and building supplies. They're open business hours only, for the most part; they are also major local Republican contributors who have made great strides in paving paradise to put up a parking lot right in our back yard, so we wouldn't be any more comfortable with them.
Wow....I totally picked the worst
time to hang around here.
Back to bed......
Morning Moonbats
Virginia, sounds like you're stuck then. I can still get snarly about the state of "Capitalist" competition under the Pissant Regime. Fuckers.
Shouldn't the loser senators be listed prominently, just like the House members? Maybe I'm missing something.
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Byrd (D-WV)
Carper (D-DE)
Conrad (D-ND)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reid (D-NV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Not much good news this day, eh?
Iraq sounds like a mess. (Civil war with everybody fight us?)
Steve????????
Anywho, I've got the Eggs Benedict (creamed spinach and artichoke hearts -- yum!) about ready to assemble, and then I've gotta go . . . um, never mind . . . so I'll talk to all you lovely folks later.
Have fun!
Good morning Moonbats:
and Happy Birthday to me
Time for a little blogwhoring. I think it was Friday, I posted a picture of my eyes. Yesterday, I got the mail and my birthday presents, to myself, were in the mailbox. One was a book called "The Lies of George Bush". Oh, hell. The cover picture of that book is a shot of his eyes, similar to mine (and the other bloggers that posted their eyes). Luckily, they look nothing like mine.
Virginia:
Sounds good to me!
Morning, everyone.
I'm fron New Jersey, steve.
Happy Birthday oldwhite lady! Many happy returns of the day.
Eggs Ben. I'm suddenly starving.
Sorry for part of my last post.
"Some refused to believe it was phisiologically impossible."
Should read "phisiologically possible".
And better make that Phyllis S. while we're at it.
Late night listening to records, Ysayse's solo sonatas. I'd better go try to take a nap soon or I'll make a total fool of myself. I won't be dreaming about Phyllis S's sex life though.
Any trolls trolling this can snark that as they will. I don't care, I won't see it. I'll be too busy undermining the Bush regime off line.
Good morning, friends.
OWL, HAPPY BIRTHDAY and may your next one be greeted with better news than this day. Still, it is lovely to take stock of our lives: best wishes.
Happy birthday, oldwhitelady.
And fuck Bush.
Happy Birthday Olwhitelady! Go have a big cinnamon roll!
I came here to point out the last 2 paragraphs of this article.
But perhaps the most surprising news came from the editor who introduced Rice, saying the secretary of state once held the title of ''Disco Queen of South Bend, Indiana."
''You've got quite a research department," Rice responded in the opening sentences of her address. ''I want to assure everybody, it's actually not that hard to be the disco queen of South Bend, Indiana," Rice said. ''There's not that much competition in South Bend, Indiana."
In honor of oldwhitelady's B-Day:
(((FUCK BUSH!!!!!)))
Good lord mena, are you up this early or just not gone to bed yet?
Good Lord, from Dallas Morning News:
"It is unfortunate in our electoral system, exacerbated by our adversarial media culture, that political discourse has to get so overheated that it's not just arguments, but motives are questioned," Mr. DeLay told the National Rifle Association.
The majority leader, who has been dogged by ethics questions, opened a spirited address to the NRA annual convention by saying "when a man is in trouble or in a good fight, you want all your friends around you – preferably armed."
PREFERABLY ARMED?
"From the Terrace" on Turner
Classic Movies right now.
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
at their young and most beautiful.
Frightening, really.
"BloodSport"
http://theblogwarrior.blogspot.com/
Good God
karin:
From Emerson?
Hey bigvic - up since forever, trying to calm a pounding head and generally spreading cheer. Hows bayou?
JoJoBeans,
We were talking about the slaughter of seals at Drinking Liberally this week. WTF is wrong with people that call that *hunting?* Sick. The media need to get off their asses and report on this cruelity. It is savage and WRONG.
Aww, sorry mena.
I'm OK except for the fact that I'm in the *great* state of TX for a wedding. Damn, there are fundies galore here.
''You've got quite a research department," Rice responded in the opening sentences of her address. ''I want to assure everybody, it's actually not that hard to be the disco queen of South Bend, Indiana," Rice said. ''There's not that much competition in South Bend, Indiana."
As someone who's worked in South Bend, I make the following observations:
(1) I'd have to say that back when Disco Sucked (the late 70's) she probably had a lot more competition in South Bend than she wants to admit. So being the Disco Queen was probably hard work. (Where have we heard that one before?)
(2) Trying to imagine Condi in her disco queen outfit--perhaps topped off with a Cleopatra Jones-style 'fro--is making my head hurt. Need more coffee, stat!
The sheets they be clean.
.
I am simply going to have to give up reading the news. It is simply a fantasy world created by the cynical for the uninformed with the intent of diverting the light of truth.
Hell! Ann Coulter on the cover of TIME! The WaPo explaining that they are in favor of the Nuclear Option. Only three more families forever devastated by their son's deaths. (That is seven in the last three days, right?) Rick Santorum actually being published in the WaPo.
Oh Hell, let's just get the revolution going now. I am ready.
You loved me as a loser but now your worried that I just might win
You know the way to stop me but you don’t have the discipline
How many nights I prayed for this: to let my work begin
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
"From the Terrace"
Liked the book, hated the movie.
Happy birthday old white lady! Sometimes just living is the revenge, eh?
Nope, born and raised in Passaic Cty, now living in Monmouth Cty.
You're from Teaneck, right?
Our girl Condi isn't afraid of HARD WORK. That gal scares the shit out of me in buisness clothes, so the thought of her in a disco getup is most upsetting.
Hey, remember when you were a kid and had little tricks you thought could induce illness, the better to get out of school?
The thought of Condi out on the town, doin the Hustle is sure-fuckin-fire. I'm going to try it tomorrow. I'll let you all know.
if AIDS isn't enough to scare people away from sex,
Humans would be so much easier to deal with if they weren't so damn...human. With human nature being the way it is, and all, it would be so much easier if we all thought like, oh, say, James "Squarepants Is The Anti-Christ!" Dobson.
But no. We all have to be stubborn, willful, arrogant, pride-full free-thinking fucking machines, bent on satisfying our every whim. And making everyone around us bend to our will. And smacking them in the back of the head with various sizes and types of hammers when they don't.
Damn humans. We're doomed to a life of stubborn, willful, arrogant, pride-full free-thinking fucking. On second thought, that actually sounds pretty good. Excuse me...
The thought of Condi out on the town, doin the Hustle is sure-fuckin-fire. I'm going to try it tomorrow. I'll let you all know.
To this day she probably gets that secret smile ever time she hears ABBA. Out on the floor jammin' to "Shit, Goddamn, get off your ass and jam!"
Karin:
Reason I asked is do you know
a seafood joint in Emerson
called Fricke's?
These days it's called Fricke's
Old Hook Inn.
Sorry, steve, don't know it. My usual eating places are in towns like Newark & Paterson.
Happy birthday old white lady! Sometimes just living is the revenge, eh?
QL in NY | Email | Homepage | 04.17.05 - 8:34 am
Thanks QL! It's a good day for a birthday
Oh, wow! Thanks all - mena, Lindsey, DWD, QL, bigvic.
bigvic says:
(((FUCK BUSH!!!!!)))
indeed!
Annthrax on the cover of Time???? Aaaarrrggghhhh!
Think about it. If some liberal had said something Coulteresque -- e.g. "My only regret about 9/11 is that the hijackers didn't fly their airplanes into the Fox News building" -- not only would that lib not be on the cover of Time, but also they would never again be invited to appear on TV or any other supposedly respectable public forum. That liberal would be persona non grata in the so-called "liberal media."
Crazy lady next to me in the coffee shop, muttering to herself after seeing a "FUCK BUSH" bumper sticker:
Osama bin Laden is a Democrat...
Old Hat |
Yeah - I'd say that old cunt definitely represents DUMBya's core supporters.
You have to be an idiot to be a Repuke!
Sarah Deere, I'm likely the most hard core, stone cold atheist you're ever likely to meet.
But, you see, I'm an atheist that doesn't hate people who believe in a God.
And I am most particularly an atheist who doesn't hate everyone of a certain class, based upon the actions of a minority.
For every Jerry Falwell (as an example), there are a thousand Christians who takes Christ's words to heart and go and do for the less fortunate among us.
But, of course, it's EASY to hate. It's satisfying to hate. Hate can give your life meaning and direction.
Enjoy the Dark Side, Sarah. Until it destroys you.
I'd like to know if others (besides me) have gone to the FCC web page and filed a complaint about Rush Limbaugh's on air language.
(I wonder if Howard Stern has gotten on this bandwagon...)
love - and latenight
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