I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
pardon me while I break with tradition:
B-rrr-uuu-ccc-eeeeee!
back later, with the mead
Mmm... mead. What brand, praytell?
Hello, all ye Moonbats!!!
early!
the mead is a local brand, hmmm, have to go and look at the label, it's not as grand at the meads I used to trade for at Pagan Gatherings, but it's pretty good.
Sullivan quotes Kennedy
via TPM
http://tinyurl.com/drjra
"I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote -- where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference ... I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish -- where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source -- where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials." - president John F. Kennedy.
From Sullivan....
"At the time, the speech was regarded as an attempt to refute anti-Catholic prejudice. Today, wouldn't the theocons regard it as an expression of anti-Catholic prejudice? Wouldn't Bill Frist see president Kennedy as an enemy of "people of faith"? Just asking."
MYOB'
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Benny XVI...man oh progress -- 1990 --
In a speech delivered in Parma, Italy, March 15, 1990, even Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger endorsed the opinion of philosopher P. Feyerabend against Galileo. Ratzinger stated:
“At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just”.
Damn, I should have just checked the http://www.ratemykitten.com Top 20 when I was looking for a Scottish Fold example...
steve,
Did any of those tracks come through?
It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
--Douglas Adams
Which is better, mead or grog?
I'm repeating myself because these people are disgusting.
Here's a link to the lates Friday night outrage.
Evening, Moonbats.
Happy Birthday Thers, if you're around or Mary to pass you the msg.
I deplore this smearing of the good name of Feyerabend!
“At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just”.
Cocksucker.
It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
--Douglas Adams
Shaw Kenawe
Care for a gin and tonic?
“At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just”.
Same with the Inquisition and Crusades. Same with Pius rolling over for the Nazis. It's all good, cats and kittens. Body of Christ, AMEN!
“At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just”.
Cocksucker.
Well, the thing is, back then the Sun really *did* orbit the Earth. Heliocentricity was still only in beta and had not been rolled out in production yet.
HoneyBK,
I am outraged. Fucking rat bastards. There is no justice from this WH.
Get your Family Research Council "Justice Sunday" preview here!
bill o'reilly.
the other day, this grand poofster discussed jane fonda and the vietnam war. not only did he get the history mostly inaccurately, but he styled himself as a vietnam war correspondent.
he talked about his years in saigon.
why is it that i don't recall this poofster being anywhere near a round fired in anger?
could it be that the poofster is fabricating yet another chapter in his fraudulent life?
anyone out there know if this poofster was ever receiving a paycheck as a correspondent, stringer, journalist in vietnam?
all ears.
NYMary:
My e-mail has frozen!!!
I've rebooted twice and nothing
seems to fix it.
Means I can't send stuff out,
either, which I was planning on!
Don't know what the problem is...
But its a bummer.
Anyway, happy birthday to you
know who!!!!!
Personally, I'm making Black Velvets: half Guinness, half champagne.
In a speech delivered in Parma, Italy, March 15, 1990, even Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger endorsed the opinion of philosopher P. Feyerabend against Galileo. Ratzinger stated:
Wait a minute. Pope NaziRatzinger's head would explode if he agreed with Feyerabend. Feyerabend's dispute with Galileo was not concerning who was more rational. Feyerabend threw reason out the window and said Galileo was more a story-teller than a Karl Popper null hypothesis testing scientist.
I am outraged. Fucking rat bastards. There is no justice from this WH.
I would have to be the teensiest bit surprised in order to be outraged.
"Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin."
FRC hypocrisy on celebrities in politics at leftbankblog.blogspot.com
It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
--Douglas Adams
I was thinking of that line while I was looking in the toshokan for HHGTTG today.
I think this story is important enough to repost on this thread.
Forgive me my enthusiasm:
Just to be serious for a (very brief, I assure you) moment: Some good news that yet has me pissed off.
A scientist has discovered a non-harmful bacterium that eats the sugar that coats HIV. This promises to be a cheap, easy way to limit the spread of HIV--and the guy is having trouble finding funding, because the primary beneficiaries are poor people...
Ach. The fuckers!
"The major roadblock in the development of this technology is the lack of financial support. Drug companies and venture capitalists are not interested because the beneficiary populations are infants and womenin poor countries," says Tao. He is currently seeking sponsorship from charities or philanthropists to develop this technology.
Rant over. Back to snarky fun!
It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
--Douglas Adams
Reminds of the time when Letterman asked Steve Martin why he didn't choose a career in music.
Steve's reply: "Because you will never hear anyone say this:
Excuse me, is that the banjo player's Porsche?"
Care for a gin and tonic?
rorschach
don't mind if I do.
Feyerabend threw reason out the window and said Galileo was more a story-teller than a Karl Popper null hypothesis testing scientist.
spinoza
Indeed. And Popper's full of crap anyway.
The major roadblock in the development of this technology is the lack of financial support. Drug companies and venture capitalists are not interested because the beneficiary populations are infants and womenin poor countries
Oh yeah, it would *totally* suck if they stopped dying of AIDS...
Wouldn't Bill Frist see president Kennedy as an enemy of "people of faith"? Just asking."
abfucked up clock's right twice per day, not twice per milennium... i await the next emanation, sometime in the next 995 years...
It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
Or "As pretty as Liddy Dole's auxiliary nipple."
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger endorsed the opinion of philosopher P. Feyerabend
Paul Feyerabend, author of "Against Method"? Fucking fundamentalists.
Indeed. And Popper's full of crap anyway.
Almost the perfect name, then...
rorschach, any chance you could put a diary up at kos or something? If someone hasn't already. That's a very interesting story.
"At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just”.
And all that torture and flesh burning was all to the glory of God.
Galileo got off light. Must have been liberal activist judges.
Just caught Young Thers with his hands covered in chocolate frosting. Oh, dear.
In the calculus of greedy self-interest
the people dying of AIDS aren't gonna ever cointribute anything to the global economy EXCEPT drug reciepts...
The major roadblock in the development of this technology is the lack of financial support. Drug companies and venture capitalists are not interested because the beneficiary populations are infants and womenin poor countries
Oh yeah, it would *totally* suck if they stopped dying of AIDS...
Eli
Sigh. Indeed. It's such a brilliant, and elegant, and non-profitable (in comparison with the present AIDS drugs) solution...
I pray for a philanthropist to step the fuck up NOW!
NYMary:
Personally, I'm making Black Velvets: half Guinness, half champagne.
I (don't) remember many birthday's celebrated with that necter. Happy b-day to Thers.
Personally, I'm making Black Velvets: half Guinness, half champagne.
Oh woman, you're clearly just in it for the fizz.
I meanwhile have beaten out and down a despicable competitor for possession of a superb Romweber blanket chest, from the New Mexico Museum collection. For $40 Hah!
Eli:
Those are the Cutest. Kitties. Ever.
Wrong thread, I know - but I WANT ONE. Waaaaah.
rorschach, any chance you could put a diary up at kos or something? If someone hasn't already. That's a very interesting story.
Seebach
I don't really frequent them parts of the internets, and am unfamiliar with the diary system.
Perhaps I could wander over there...
I pray for a philanthropist to step the fuck up NOW!
Or what about a charity? What does it take to set up a charity that could fund something like this? I don't know how workable such an idea would be.
Those are the Cutest. Kitties. Ever.
Wrong thread, I know - but I WANT ONE. Waaaaah.
We are in almost complete agreement, except that I want two.
Indeed. And Popper's full of crap anyway.
Well, most psyc intro stats texts buy heavily into his null hypothesis stuff. Bayesians are suspects. Some good work by Gigerenzer and colleagues though.
Mr Simels you have mail.
Evening MoonBats.
rorschach, I could do a diary of it for you. I suck at them, generally, but I know the basics. Perhaps someone better than either of us could do the job.
It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
except, as you've just demonstrated, in english, mebbe among pilots? then it could easily be a zoomie metaphor...
I know Noam Chomsky. You're no Noam Chomsky...
just sayin...
Over at Digby's
http://tinyurl.com/aef7z
'2 Evangelicals Want to Strip Courts' Funds: Taped at a private conference, the leaders outline ways to punish jurists they oppose.'
WASHINGTON — Evangelical Christian leaders, who have been working closely with senior Republican lawmakers to place conservative judges in the federal courts, have also been exploring ways to punish sitting jurists and even entire courts viewed as hostile to their cause. An audio recording obtained by the Los Angeles Times features two of the nation's most influential evangelical leaders, at a private conference with supporters, laying out strategies to rein in judges, such as stripping funding from their courts in an effort to hinder their work. "Very few people know this, that the Congress can simply disenfranchise a court," Dobson said. "They don't have to fire anybody or impeach them or go through that battle. All they have to do is say the 9th Circuit doesn't exist anymore, and it's gone." Both leaders chastised what Perkins termed "squishy" and "weak" Republican senators who have not wholeheartedly endorsed ending Democrats' power to filibuster judicial nominees. They said these included moderates such as Sens. Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska. They also grumbled that Sens. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and George Allen of Virginia needed prodding. "We need to shake these guys up," Perkins said. Said Dobson: "Sometimes it's just amazing to me that they seem to forget how they got here."
MYOB'
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Here's a link to the lates Friday night outrage.
Why do they even bother with the 'investigations'? Just clear them up front and be done with it.
(they're also very sweet-natured, affectionate kitties)
the people dying of AIDS aren't gonna ever cointribute anything to the global economy EXCEPT drug reciepts...
WoodyGsGuitar/Happy Desperado
Well, hell. If that whole globalization thing works out, they'll be sucking down McDonald's and Coke in no time.
It's time, people.
Time to hit the streets.
Time to stop traffic.
Time to shut down business as usual.
Time to clog the arteries of government and commerce and warmongering with millions of angry citizens standing up, sitting down, sitting in.
Now.
Before time is up.
He is currently seeking sponsorship from charities or philanthropists to develop this technology.
Calling Bill Gates. Boy could you make up some lost ground here.
Indeed. And Popper's full of crap anyway.
Well, most psyc intro stats texts buy heavily into his null hypothesis stuff.
The fact that any falsification can at some later date be subject to falsification renders Popper's ideas about empirical knowledge closing in on the Truth incremently rather inane... but that's just me.
But rorschach, I saw a white crow today!
I meanwhile have beaten out and down a despicable competitor for possession of a superb Romweber blanket chest, from the New Mexico Museum collection. For $40 Hah!
GWPDA, Irate Scholar - 9:55 pm
excellent acquisition...e-bay?
rorschach, I could do a diary of it for you. I suck at them, generally, but I know the basics. Perhaps someone better than either of us could do the job.
Seebach
To you or "someone better," I say have at it!
Rorschach,
A blot on you!
THIS is the kitty I want.
THIS is the kitty I want.
Watertiger-
So you see yourself as Sigfried or Roy?
Great quote Eli.
So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here - it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice
Could be why I'm SOOOOO angry. Going to protest fundie "people of faith" on Sunday with my sis-in-law. I've gone way past angry with the theocrats. They don't give a shit about anything or anyone but their own tight, narrow little world.
We are in almost complete agreement, except that I want two. Scottish folds? Yes, but there's a wee hazard. Some months back in San Francisco, a lady was actually investigated on a charge of animal abuse. ASPCA all were told she'd lopped off ears....
Rorschach,
A blot on you!
Fred Woolsey
Mind your typing. That should have read "A blot OF you!"
The fact that any falsification can at some later date be subject to falsification renders Popper's ideas about empirical knowledge closing in on the Truth incremently rather inan
But, solving the problem of induction is hard work. It's hard.
Hard.
Work.
The fact that any falsification can at some later date be subject to falsification renders Popper's ideas about empirical knowledge closing in on the Truth incremently rather inane... but that's just me.
bingo, bango, bongo we got a winner...
that's the most devastating critique of popper in the fewest words of any I can easily recall...reductio ad absurdum? sumpin like that...well done...i'd buy you a beer on the strength of that alone, rors,,,
/
That's just a capital boobie right there.
Some months back in San Francisco, a lady was actually investigated on a charge of animal abuse. ASPCA all were told she'd lopped off ears....
A risk I'd be willing to take.
nice ones Woot!
Thank you, WGG. I'll take you up on that, someday.
And thanks to monica for the Bushian analysis of Popperian empiricism!
Man, I wish I had some weed....
Getting old has SO many disadvantages.
NYMary,
Happy Happy Birthday fellow Toroid.
SS sorry about the email situation.
I was sending you a link to a place where some of the recordings of an old band of mine that had made it online.
Is nothing sacred?
(Oh, and WGG and monica: That little critique is why I used to refer to Popper as Thomas Kuhn's doorman...)
Ror,
This assumes falsification is boolean. In realiy, it is fuzzy...not all parts of a hypothesis are necessarily falsified by falsification. If falsification isn't fully false but fuzzily false, it follows that fuzzy false, while maybe mostly false, is partly falsely false. If fuzziness decreses monotonically over time, falsification finally finishes fully, thus giving way to finality. Fin, non?
I'm wishing for some beer myself. I was listening to The Dubliners all the way home from work.
Plus, I think a good beer bust is the only cure for the ramping-up of the fundie conquest this week. I blame "Revelations"...
Hey, Woot,
That Masked Booby is a beaut! Long time no booby viewing for me. I know that's not going to come off well.
If fuzziness decreses monotonically over time, falsification finally finishes fully, thus giving way to finality. Fin, non?
Fine, fine. Fin, fin.
I meanwhile have beaten out and down a despicable competitor for possession of a superb Romweber blanket chest, from the New Mexico Museum collection.
Damn,
GWPDA, let me know if you ever have a yen for ham radio equipment or machine tools and measuring equipment, and I will simply get out of your way.
Central,
I'd send ya a nip o' Calvados if I could... much more legal than weed, and results are similar (altough your mileage may vary).
I did it. Suckily, but I did it. Hopefully it won't sink to hell as my diaries tend to do.
Man, I wish I had some weed....
Getting old has SO many disadvantages.
Central Scrutinizer - 10:06 pm
if you was nearby, you'd be okay in the first instance...
i can only sympathize wholly with the latter sentiment...I haddda hang an exterior door in a 192os bungalow t'day...door weighs 75 lbs...opening far far far from square...much planing, chiseling, fitting, lifting, setting, removing, planing, etc...
gettin too old fer this shit...
but the reveals on all 4 sides are fuckin perfect!!!!
Plus, I think a good beer bust is the only cure for the ramping-up of the fundie conquest this week. I blame "Revelations"...
I'm waiting for the fundies to go after beer as their next chosed crusade. They can pry it from my cold, shaky hands.
Calvados + Weed = Fuzzy Logic
wow, chosed!
chosen. I swear.
Those bad apples at Abu Ghraib didn't fall far from that rotten tree.
I'd send ya a nip o' Calvados if I could...
Google time!
Thanks, friend.
If fuzziness decreses monotonically over time
preetty beeg eef, que no, senor??
I'm waiting for the fundies to go after beer as their next chosed crusade.
Yeah, 'cuz that worked out so well the *last* time...
i can only sympathize wholly with the latter sentiment...I haddda hang an exterior door in a 192os bungalow t'day...door weighs 75 lbs...opening far far far from square...much planing, chiseling, fitting, lifting, setting, removing, planing, etc...
gettin too old fer this shit...
No fun, that. Did it in my house under my dad's tutelage last year, and shall do it again this year. It's a huge pain in the ass...
And Seebach: Thank you. Here's hoping it garners all the attention it deserves (and here's hoping you linked to me over there!)
I'm waiting for the fundies to go after beer as their next chosed crusade. They can pry it from my cold, shaky hands.
Jay Carolina | Email | Homepage | 04.22.05 - 10:11 pm | #
I swear I'll leave the country before they'll get my beer.
"Sweet, life-giving beer." HJS
Howdy, kent!
Please excuse, playing with photobucket: can't figure how I sent a link earlier.
Round Dog & Wooly Booger
Si, Woody...
But as anyone with a freeekin beeeeg hangover can attest, fuzziness decreases alright...until the next zero-state response with impulse forcing occurs!
but the reveals on all 4 sides are fuckin perfect!!!!
That suprises me not one tiny bit.
Good on you.
"Sweet, life-giving beer." HJS
Samurai Sam
To alcohol! The cause of--and solution to--all of life's problems!
Oooo! We talking home improvement? The kitchen floor, as you know, but also the roof--2600sf worth. What a summer!
Hmm, I changed "could block HIV" to "can block HIV" since technically, it did. Maybe that will grab some attention.
To alcohol! The cause of--and solution to--all of life's problems!
My longnecked, beechwood-aged lover...
Howdy Mary,
BTW was the natal day this day?
Oooo! We talking home improvement? The kitchen floor, as you know, but also the roof--2600sf worth. What a summer!
NYMary
Resisting...desire...to...rant...
(and here's hoping you linked to me over there!)
I did, but maybe I should make the link more prominent.
Also too...
If each falsification is only partly false (if it were completely false, then we would have absolute truth, no?), then the degree of falseness must decrease with each falsification. We thus have a cut-and-try approach to truth that at worst approaches absolute truth asymptotically...
Hmm, I changed "could block HIV" to "can block HIV" since technically, it did. Maybe that will grab some attention.
Seebach
Very cool. Hope so.
Post a link to it here, why not?
THIS is the kitty I want.
Water-you're in a different league from us poor humans.
We knew that.
Some months back in San Francisco, a lady was actually investigated on a charge of animal abuse. ASPCA all were told she'd lopped off ears....
That could be a wee problem awright - since I live right across the bay.
Oooo! We talking home improvement? The kitchen floor, as you know, but also the roof--2600sf worth. What a summer!
NYMary
Resisting...desire...to...rant...
I put away my iron! Um, I think.
So you see yourself as Sigfried or Roy?
I don't look good in sequins. But boy, do I love marabou!
"The fact that any falsification can at some later date be subject to falsification renders Popper's ideas about empirical knowledge closing in on the Truth incremently rather inane... but that's just me."
Maybe that's why my social science students get so upset in my intro to stats class--I don't teach according to Popper's configurations.
We thus have a cut-and-try approach to truth that at worst approaches absolute truth asymptotically...
Oh, Woolsey. You and your hyperbole...
Though it's plane that you have a point.
kent,
Thers's was, yeah. Wings and black velvets, then chocolate cake to come, with more champagne.
Don't hold us responsible for anything else we say tonight.
I, of course, am a Scorpio. (Oh, like *that's* news...)
Oooo! We talking home improvement? The kitchen floor, as you know, but also the roof--2600sf worth. What a summer!
NYMary -- 10:15 pm
actually, i hung the door for a pal. (i know, i know...)
you aint gonna try to replace 2600 sq ft of roof all by yrsevves, are ya? Shingles? asphalt? tile? that gaudy tin/plastic shit? gonna strip or overlay? check yr local code, cuz sometimes there's s limit on the number of overlays ya can do...it's a matter of weight, actually...
just sayin...
.
Evangelical Christian leaders, who have been working closely with senior Republican lawmakers to place conservative judges in the federal courts, have also been exploring ways to punish sitting jurists and even entire courts viewed as hostile to their cause.
MYOB, Read a similar article in the NYT this morning. Heh. We have a Move-On protest and 3 others here on Sunday. I'm going to at least one. These slimeballs hiding behind the *Good Lard* are full of bile. Period.
flory,
i just dream big.
And furthermore,
Like Zeno, even though I can't ever get all the way to the beautiful buxom babe across the room, I can get close enough for engineering purpose...
Yay, Sallyh! It's so good to know that there are sensible folk teaching...
Ror,
I laugh in your general direction.
rorschach,
I feel your pain, my friend. Here's hoping your contractor takes the hint.
"Sweet, life-giving beer." HJS
You know that whiskey comes from 'uisce bega,' meaning, 'water of life.'
Don't hold us responsible for anything else we say tonight.
I, of course, am a Scorpio. (Oh, like *that's* news...)
Ah, to be drinking with NYMary and Thers tonight! The four of us (my wife being the fourth) have to get together at some conference sometime!
"sundown commission" something to be worried about?
http://www.rollingstone.com/
poli...sion=6.0.12.872
"Yay, Sallyh! It's so good to know that there are sensible folk teaching..."
Actually, I think my soc sci students get upset because I actually expect them to do the assigned homework. (Not all of them, by a long shot, but enough to aggravate the hell outta me.)
You flatter me, Rorschach. And BTW, how is the lovely Mrs. Rorschach?
rorschach,
I feel your pain, my friend. Here's hoping your contractor takes the hint.
NYMary
I have the feeling he might, given that he left me a message today asking for more money, and my reply tomorrow will be: Finish the job, you get your money.
Not my customary subtlety...
then the degree of falseness must decrease with each falsification.
frankly, no.
degree is an metaphorical 'quantum' illicitly introduced to quantify an unquantifiable abstraction.
Are there 'degrees' of truth?
Please specify...
or, if there are no degrees of truth, how can there be reducible degrees of falsehood which function to narrow the domain of truth to the limits of it's (is it immanent?) falsification?
"Evangelical Christian leaders, who have been working closely with senior Republican lawmakers to place conservative judges in the federal courts, have also been exploring ways to punish sitting jurists and even entire courts viewed as hostile to their cause."
OK, NOW can we revoke their tax exempt status? These people have no religious purpose anymore. They're just a big fairy tale lobbyist group.
WGG, we know about the limit and have reached it (3)--so a dumpster first and then asphalt shingles. I have lots of hale and hearty male relations, aside from Thers, and of course my carpentry skills outstrip his, so we should be cool. And there's no way we can afford a roofer.
"Sweet, life-giving beer." HJS
Amen! My favorite beverage. Our Drinking Liberally group meets at a brew pub and we take our vows seriously. "Promoting Democracy, One Pint At A Time."
Just when I'm ready to slash my wrists coming back from Digby's place at how despite the comfort of the internets we're all in Germany '38, woot drops in with a booby. OK, I'm good for living another half hour.
"Yay, Sallyh! It's so good to know that there are sensible folk teaching..."
Actually, I think my soc sci students get upset because I actually expect them to do the assigned homework. (Not all of them, by a long shot, but enough to aggravate the hell outta me.)
You flatter me, Rorschach. And BTW, how is the lovely Mrs. Rorschach?
I tend to have a similar experience when teaching writing/lit. I always threaten quizzes as the result of lifeless discussions, and they always seem so offended when/if it actually happens!
The lovely Mrs. Rorschach is lovely. Presently at a cultural studies conference in Tucson, presenting at a panel by the magnificent Lakota writer friend of ours who read at our wedding...
rorschach,
College English Association meets in San Antonio next March.....
In practice, however, the commission would enable the Bush administration to achieve what Ronald Reagan only dreamed of: the end of government regulation as we know it. With a simple vote of five commissioners -- many of them likely to be lobbyists and executives from major corporations currently subject to federal oversight -- the president could terminate any program or agency he dislikes. No more Environmental Protection Agency. No more Food and Drug Administration. No more Securities and Exchange Commission.
I would say yes, Jillian. But then, I am a mad prophet of doom.
Ah,the Irish!
Whooda thunk barley had within its soul
The sweet mystery of all creation
Hidden to all but those who listened to its whispers
And, hearing the word, made haste to bring forth its fruit
Malted, mashed and distilled
Thrice, if need be
To thirsty folk in all lands?
GOD BLESS THE HOLY TRINITY!
NYMary--I heard a rumor that Thersites is really, really, really, really old today.
BTW, he has to share--it's Prior Aelred's birthday as well. I will be meeting the good prior and the lovely Diane tomorrow!
hostile to their cause
Gee. I wonder, whatever could be their cause?
They're no Poppers.
rorschach,
College English Association meets in San Antonio next March.....
NYMary
A sense a plan coming together! Exciting!
Ror,
You STILL claning up from the flood? Sweet baby Jeepers contractors move slowly.
Peoples.... (^^^^^)
Woody,
Simple.
Degree of ~true = .5
Next generation degree of ~true = .5
Net now = .25
Next generation of ~true = .5
Net now = .125
BUT I'M JUST FUCKIN' WITH YA!!!
Rorschach, NYMary et al who engage in the task of teaching writing: I applaud you. Teaching kids to write is a far more difficult task than anything I ever attempt.
Oh it's a marvelous night for a moonbat....
(jus' singin')
Bad Moon(bat)Rising
Sallyh,
Well, he's older than 30, younger than 40.
And younger than me. 
Sallyh,
Please wish the good Prior a happy birthday for me and send him my best. And Dianne, too.
Top Ten list:
Top Ten Reasons Why John Bolton Is So Angry
"And there's no way we can afford a roofer."
NYMary, are you laboring in adjunct hell, too?
The tension between believing something (hint: we all do) and keeping an open mind is not a task for the faint of heart...
Ror,
You STILL claning up from the flood? Sweet baby Jeepers contractors move slowly.
bigvic
Almost done (how long have I been hearing/saying THAT?). One the trim's done being painted, the bathroom sink is reinstalled, the thermostat is put in again, and the door are re-hung, we're golden...
But we got the new oven, fridge, and washer installed today! Huzzah!
I'm trying to turn the screws on the contractor...
NYMary--wish him all the very best. Even if the cats are out to kill him.
Bigvic--I will pass along the kind words and wishes.
BadMoon,
Hope you
Got your shit together
Funny post, in any case...
"And there's no way we can afford a roofer."
Roofer Madness?
Ah,the Irish!
"As I came home on a Friday night
as drunk as drunk could be
I found a head inside the bed
where my own head should be
so I called me wife and I said to her
Would you kindly tell to me,
Who owns that head with you in the bed,
where my own head should be?
You're drunk, you're drunk you silly old fool!
If you cannot see,
That's a baby boy that me mother sent to me.
Well, this very day I've traveled
a hundred miles or more
but a baby boy with his whiskers on
sure I never saw before!"
"sundown commission":
Re-creating the Dark Ages in the name of George W. Bush!
Heywood--I think you captured the creature's anger quite adroitly
Y'know - you guys keep talkin' about Poppers and I have visions of drugs and sex.
So just cut it out, ok?
If each falsification is only partly false...
Ah, but what if each succeeding falsification is infinitessimally more false than the last, the series asymptotically approaching, (I love that word), but never reaching perfect falseness? Will the elusive Truth be forever just around a perpetually receding corner? What then , O Wooly One?
Fred-
I am..
quite prepared to die...
"Y'know - you guys keep talkin' about Poppers and I have visions of drugs and sex."
You have chanced upon our true nature
Rorschach, NYMary et al who engage in the task of teaching writing: I applaud you. Teaching kids to write is a far more difficult task than anything I ever attempt.
I doubt the latter part of the statement.
But it's true that it ain't easy. Like anything worth doing, it's at best equal parts infuriating and exhilirating. At best. And I'm torn where I want to end up: At a Research I university with a gaggle of brilliant grad students to discuss my research interests, or one of the universities I've taught at, full of poor, disadvantaged Hispanic, Native American, African-American, and poor white students...
Not that English PhDs have a huge choice in where they end up, usually...
Sallyh,
Yep, adjunct hell for me. 5 sections at two schools this semester. I have an interview next week for a tenure-track job in Thers's dept., but I'm ambivalent.
Which probably means I'll get it.
"Ah, but what if each succeeding falsification is infinitessimally more false than the last, the series asymptotically approaching, (I love that word), but never reaching perfect falseness? Will the elusive Truth be forever just around a perpetually receding corner? What then , O Wooly One?"
To use a technical term, you're kind of fucked.
Thers's was, yeah.
My Bad.
Happpy BBBirthday Thersites!!!!!!!
UMCFT loving funnyboy (among other secrets yer better half shared with me-doubtless it was you who sent little thers to mary with chocolated hand)
(Oh, like *that's* news...)
I must have missed a thread or three, and left my toroid detection spectacles (pronounce it in greek) at home when we met.
.
Y'know - you guys keep talkin' about Poppers and I have visions of drugs and sex.
Ah, good times!
"And there's no way we can afford a roofer."
Roofer Madness?
Eli
Somebody, slip Eli a rufie!
Ror,
Almost done (how long have I been hearing/saying THAT?)
A damned long time, my friend. Jeepers. Hope it goes fast.
Sallyh, Thanks!
Brace yourself, rorschach.
We chose where we wanted to live, came here. Now one has tenure and the other steady teaching. I live in the house I was raised in, and my kids see their cousins.
We're weird as hell, by academic standards.
excellent acquisition...e-bay?
Woody - you betcha. There were actually two - I won the first one, went down to back of beyond Phoenix on Wednesday to collect it - they'd lost it. So this second one I figured I'd just try for and see if they can find it. It is surely pretty. And $40 is less than $845, neh? I hate people who compete against me in these things.
NYMary--
Why ambivalent?
Moonbat, moonbat
on the wall
Watch the Wingnuts as they fall
Straight into the jaws of hell
There they fulminate, very well
As the devils poke they asses
And they brains, slow as molasses
Slowly realize their fate
And the outcome of their hate
Venomous bite, self inflicted
By the pope they be interdicted
Wonder why they be conflicted?
'Cuz they rectums be constricted.
Bill "Falafel Kugel" O'Reilly
Will the elusive Truth be forever just around a perpetually receding corner? What then , O Wooly One?"
did the good Zeno know the word "assymptotically"???
i reckon he had the idea, if not the very word, and he was pretty pessimistic (well, maybe not) about ever reaching the target...
NYMary--good luck on that. I'm adjunct at two institutions as well. I think I may be offered a tenure track position at the state university I'm at, but I think that's mostly because they don't have an overabundance of math instructors at the time.
Rorschach, it took our house 3 years or so to get rebuilt after our flood. Dunno how long you've been going.
Brace yourself, rorschach.
We chose where we wanted to live, came here. Now one has tenure and the other steady teaching. I live in the house I was raised in, and my kids see their cousins.
We're weird as hell, by academic standards.
NYMary
Witch! Witch! Burn her!
All right, now I really need beer and food.
Gotta go before Maher comes on.
G'night folks.
NYMary--don't laugh. I actually never left town to get my master's, PhD and my postdoc. We've lived in the same house for 18 years now, and will most likely retire here (since we'll own it in 8 years).
My husband never left town for his, either.
Liberals hate the USA, Freedom, God, Bush and the Free Market. I for one will be proud to see them all eliminated. Plus they offer aid and comfort to terrorists with their biased left-leaning media and the academy. Freedom cannot afford these traitors spitting in our face. Time to fight back, patriots.
GWPDA,
What I really hate about e-bay is getting beaten out by $5 with 30 seconds left to bid. Aaaiiieee! Gets the blood preasure going.
Oh my! We've got a parody troll! How cute!
Nite S. Sam.
Happy beering.
I hates me some eBay.
And younger than me.
NYMary
A younger man.
NYMary is my hero.
rorschach,
Well, I've been up for this job four times now: people keep getting hired over me. The last time, I was first coming out of committee, and the dean reranked thae candidates based on a bullshit one-on-one interview. (Bullshit = the new #1 (and only male) was hired because he had "innovative pedagogy," but I, and the other woman passed over, were asked no questions about pedagogy.) This committee is made up solely of people who don't teach writing, and who are convinced spouses can't/shouldn't work together. (Funny, considering Thers is my boss at this point.) If I don't get it, I get to keep working at the funky art school I also teach at, teaching an intro to postcolonial lit class, plus I may get to learn the eminently hirable skill of Writing Center administration.
On the other hand, it's a job.
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i just want you and your friends to eat shit and die...i've got four dogs, and need to dispose of a fair amount of crap...i'd be happy to feed it to ya, by the shovelful...
gimme a call if you're hungry...
Doozer,
Ah, but as Riemann taught Zeno, the infinite sum of infinitesimals is in fact finite, and so real quantities result from the piling on of next-to-nothings.
In other words, if you want to get all the way across the room to the bare buxom babe, aim for twice the distance, then stop at half way.
Eli & flory - the other thing about Scottish folds, bless their little hearts.... I was just now sitting in the rocking chair under the orange tree, watching the sun go down. Arthur was gnawing on something and I was playing with his ears - which tonight are hot and making him uncomfortable. See - Arthur's ears - the 'envelope ears' typical of the Shar-pei - are very similar to those of the Scottish fold. The problem is that the ear canal is consequently very, very short, and things get caught in it. There can be quite a few earaches as a result - Arthur likes very much rolling around and being silly on fresh cut grass, and that has mites.... It's not catastrophic and I can trick him fairly easily into having a nice shot of anti-earmite medicine into whichever ear, but it can be an issue if you worry greatly. There's no real solution other than noticing and taking action.
Sallyh
give the prior my best wishes for another happy, and enlightening trip around the sun.
.
A younger man.
NYMary is my hero.
flory
Flory--then so is Mrs. rorschach!
NYMary--That does sound like quite the quandary...
Heywood J,
Re Bolten: Hahahahahaha. That fucking treacherous cocksucker Voinovich is going to regret the day he crossed me. I'm gonna go through his garbage and climb up his fucking ass like a king-size gerbil.
Whew! Boy howdy that is a funny post.
Okay, posted at the verrrry end of the cat blogging thread, I ask again here, NMRed: Do you get your mead from Mr. Merr? Your ref to pagan gatherings makes me think you've at least run across it. The elderberry mead is divine, when you can get it. I think he's just moved to a farm upstate to broaden the enterprise...
Ror,
Almost done (how long have I been hearing/saying THAT?)
Didn't this saga begin in the last millenium? Or was it the one before that?
Sallyh,
I was a townie for the BA, which mean they'll now never hire me at the big research university here. There are lots of colleges in this area, but our state system only recently lifted a decade-long hiring freeze, so things are weird here. Thers and I are at a community college, and I also teach at a respectable four-year liberal arts school, mostly musicians and filmmakers.
Re Bolton:
Just what did he bolt on?
His head?
If so, do some comparison shopping, dude!
His mustache?
If so, ya never heard of Barbasol?
His prick?
Well, you are what you...
{boast}My house is covered, as from its origination with Johns-Mansville asbestos tiles. This is what is referred to as a '100 year roof'. No, it won't kill me unless I go up top and systematically cruble the tiles into powder and inhale it. They are no longer made. However, two years ago, Handyman was sent out to retrieve every single surviving tile in the city of Phoenix. He returned with enough so that, when I increased the house size by some 900sf, we were able to cover the roof with matching tiles. Finally, these are not the ghastly whitish/grey tiles of the 100 year roof - no, these are the rare, clay colored ones that match the brick of the house.(/boast)
I did it deliberately. You may stand in awe. Or not, as you like.
Ror,
Almost done (how long have I been hearing/saying THAT?)
Didn't this saga begin in the last millenium? Or was it the one before that?
flory
I blame Noah.
rorschach,
Yep, there's nothing worse than someone else's departmental politics. When the guy called me to set up the interview, he assured me several times I'd be "among friends". Scared the hell out of me.
Off to celebrate for a bit.
Yep, there's nothing worse than someone else's departmental politics. When the guy called me to set up the interview, he assured me several times I'd be "among friends". Scared the hell out of me.
Off to celebrate for a bit.
Regarding the first paragraph: Ick.
The second: Yay! Enjoy!
GWPDA,
Niiiiiiiice.....
And definitely going with the engineered wood. V. reasonable, all things considered.
GWPDA:
the other thing about Scottish folds, bless their little hearts...
That nearly toxic level of CUTE surely makes it all worthwhile.
Ror - you and Thers - understanding the true glory of the older woman!!!!
What I really hate about e-bay is getting beaten out by $5 with 30 seconds left to bid. Aaaiiieee! Gets the blood preasure going.
Just don't come up against me. I have no mercy. I took this blanket chest at 37 seconds before the end of the auction and I meant to.
GWPDA,
My parent's house was over a hundred years old when a tornado took off most of its original Spanish red tile roof in 1973. The insurance would not cover replacement tiles (not that they were made of similar quality at the time anyway)and they had to get a "regular" roof. It ruined the look of our family home as we knew it.
Just don't come up against me. I have no mercy. I took this blanket chest at 37 seconds before the end of the auction and I meant to.
And this is how you play the game.
.
Oh, and a hand up here for having married a younger man. We figured we'd just even out those actuarial tables. Besides, this one wasn't broken when I got him, and that was refreshing for me. Heh.
Re Bolton:
Just what did he bolt on?
Heh. Oh, I'd say logic, reason, decency, honesty. I could go on, but you get my point.
kent, it's the only time I play the game at all. I had a similar reaction to pong, as I recall. Somehow, all the civilisation, delicacy and honor disappear and I am left with bargain hunter genes, primary.... I do not however, practice the same skills in other facets of daily life. I've never cut off anybody whilst driving. I've never clawed my way to success over someone else.... Just E-bay and auctions....
Reba, I don't think I've met Mr Merr, but I'd be happy to meet any fine maker of meads and the like. Most of the best mead makers I know come from the KC area, and a few from Denver. I've got a few bottles laid down from a competition festival at a Pagan sanctuary I'm saving for celebrations. The local commercial mead maker has 3 or 4 types of mead in a indy liquor store depending on the the time of year. I don't go to Pagan gatherings anymore because I'm too old and too broken and bent to camp out on the ground, and I have yet to be able to afford even a little Puck to haul behind my compact car.
I do usually haul back some of the big bottles of Bunratty mead from the duty free in Shannon. Never once have I paid duty, I declare 'em - 'got 4 bottles of mead' -customs: 'huh? what's that? never mind, go through'.
ah, Shannon, and Leitrim, and Meath, just 3 months and one week before I return and rest again in the good green hills of Ireland.
I'll lift a few Guinness in belated honor of Thers and the good Prior's natal days while down inthe snug at Cryan's.
bigvic, that's a shame, a terrible shame. Those old tiles - formed over the thigh - are making a comeback in the Tucson area - but costly, costly. Mine are only vaguely 'tiles' - shingles I suppose in the vernacular, but tiles because of the way they're made and the system. It is a whole roofing system, where everything interlocks tightly and makes the seal. It's real beauty is it's color and the length of time it's expected to last. And I purely don't worry if a cinder from the fireplace falls on it.
I pray for a philanthropist to step the fuck up NOW!
rorschach
Rorschach, I posted some links which may be helpful along those lines over at No Capital.
GWPDA:
I did it deliberately. You may stand in awe. Or not, as you like.
awe here.
That's dedication.
How long did it take to find the matching tiles?
Here's the info, if anyone else is interested in organizing regarding the HIV thing.
Get this, Magic's upcoming events list one in Houston on April 27th. Know anyone who could get there and raise the issue, or at least ask embarrasing questions?
K, here's one for Elizabeth Taylor's group about Grant Opportunities.
Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation:
Correspondence may be sent to:
The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation
P.O. Box 55995
Sherman Oaks, CA 91413
Unfortunately it looks like Magic may have sold out, since his event's and stuff seem to be underwritten by GSK.
...and so real quantities result from the piling on of next-to-nothings.
Everett Dirkson, then, was quite the philosopher, eh?
Ah, eBay!
I picked up a primo Wacom 6 X 8 graphics tablet for my old PowerMac earlier this month via eBay.
Got it for the opening price of US$15.00. Mine was the only bid. The current equivilent from Wacom is in the US$100+ range.
I'm currently watching a few Pickett slide rules to add to my working collection.
Yeah, I loves me some eBay!
It's so windy and rainy here in Chicago that the big kitty thought there must be thunder coming and left for the basement hours ago. It's freaking *cold* too, and we already put up the screens, so our drafty old 1916 house is especially drafty. Damn. Wool socks & polarfleece jammies under the down comforter tonight. The big kitty would be helpful in my endeavor to sleep warm but he's down in the basement praying for the thunder not to see him.
Crazy weather.
Y'know - you guys keep talkin' about Poppers and I have visions of drugs and sex.
So just cut it out, ok?
flory
Yeah - or Benny Da Rat will send the Inquisition Squad after you selfish hedonists.
Beware of the PopenFuhrer!
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