I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Wow, perfect timing....FIRST!
Don't forget, kids - tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day!
Oh, and some sort of horse thing is happening, too...
And about damned time too.
Segundo?
Spain is so boring...
/ennui
Nice thread you got here.
I am still mad about the morning topic: why in the hell doesn't our media go after the errant frat boy over his cooked intelligence for Iraq?
On another subject, this is just an idea that occurred to me: with all of the bloggers saving their favorite Bush is an asshole stories, why not put them together in a book. We could call it, THE UGLIEST AMERICAN and then post it first on the web and then look for a publisher.
Nice thread you got here.
Jay Carolina | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 8:08 pm
[with sudden ferocity grabs thread by lapels and throws it up against the wall]
wouldn't want it to get all WRINKLED now, WOULD we??!
No cats tonight, but Miscellaneous Lifeform blogging goes one with a horsey, Georgie can get a good grip on
12th?
Vietraq isn't boring.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7721003/
270 dead in nine days.
wooooooooohooooooooo.
did I mention 4 day old Puppie blogging
Oh and Buckeye's Crazy Cat
wooooooooohoooooooo
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clean sheets
270 dead in nine days.
Pitchforks and Torches
Yes, but only ONE Runaway Bride.
God, I hate our 24th Most Free Media!
And while we are at it, Miscellaneous Beautiful Galaxy Photo
This NC church thing is KILLing me.
Fuckin' redasses.
A bit of catblogging to celebrate Friday. Click homepage link.
Olbermann is covering the north carolina church bullshit.
God but i hate chimpy.
Congratulations to the mother Kent.
Even K.Olberman is into Fri. Kitties. He just showed a clip of a cat using the toilet.
Another Random Scene From Peng Chau the Dragon Mother Temple {Lung Mo Miu} edition
Guess the folks associated with this temple won't be able to give a US Legislative Convocation anytime soon.
Attaturk--I was thinking that a Sparkle Pony might be about his speed.
Very cute, mag!
Some Friday quote & cat blogging of my own...
Gu ni khon Lao stand tall and proud.
Hell, all media is corrupt.
Our local paper spiked my weekly column because it criticized a city councilor whose business just happens to buy a fair amount of advertising. I was informed that it was publisher's call. (Publisher works for a huge conglomerate that likes to pretend that it's papers are small and local.)
Very beautiful galaxy!
Want to know what finds me perplexed? Job hiring goes down, job hiring goes up. Unemployment rate remains the same as always. Makes no sense to me.
Well, maybe, since the books are being cooked. But still.
Attaturk,
You have inspired me to go look for M-104 with my 10" newtonian. That is if the wind ever stops blowing. Hopefully the wind will take the cumulus with it.
Cute babies, Kent. In case no ons said this yet....
FUCK BUSH!
Eli--you brought Ms. Eek today! I love Ms. Eek!
wouldn't want it to get all WRINKLED now, WOULD we??!
thread noir.
Attaturk--I was thinking that a Sparkle Pony might be about his speed.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere
True but he might choke on it...
...excuse me, must room from room screaming!
mer--that's because the unemployment numbers reflect nothing resembling reality. Remember that those whose benefits have run out are no longer counted, for starters.
Eli--you brought Ms. Eek today! I love Ms. Eek!
I love 'em both. I may start throwing in some Swee'Pea pictures as well (my mom's friend's cat).
I'm all for the book idea. We could donate the proceeds to the DNC.
I'll start:
One day, this guy shows up at my barn. He says I'm here to help you with your horse. Next thing I know, this guy's covered in horse spuge and all giddy and bouncy. Then, with this shit-eatin' grin, he says, "Whew, that was HARD WORK."
Turned my horse gay, so, of course, I had to put him down. Man, I'll miss that horse.
Attaturk,
I will send your blessings to the tiny bitch. 
And let her owner know that the puppy porn is on the internets.
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Attaturk--you're right, Sparkle Ponies are not recommended for children under 3.
Attaturk,
You have inspired me to go look for M-104 with my 10" newtonian. That is if the wind ever stops blowing. Hopefully the wind will take the cumulus with it.
Der Überscheiße
Good luck, I'd like to go look at it again in my 8" Celestrong SCT, but it is looking cloudy here tonight.
I hope it's clear before Saturn sinks to low in the eastern horizon for my scope.
I love the Spring and the galaxy hunting in Virgo.
The "officials" (that's U.S. gov't employees) who can't account for $100 million missing in Iraq have this excuse: no file cabinets. Let's remember that April 15. Sorry. No file cabinets.
You nailed it bigvic.
This NC church thing is KILLing me.
Fuckin' redasses.
Jay Carolina
Well, I look at it this way, we've always had the Church of Christ (COC) and the Faith Ass-embly of God (FAG), why not go for the trinity?
mer--that's because the unemployment numbers reflect nothing resembling reality. Remember that those whose benefits have run out are no longer counted, for starters.
Never really understood the rationale of using *that* as the standard measure of unemployment. Just 'cause you gave up looking, doesn't mean you're any less unemployed. Hell, I'd say you're *more* unemployed.
oops, Celestron, not Celestrong
is it possible to impeach bush and cheney at the same time?
Here's how the bu$histas are planning ahead for their years in the wilderness:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article....516210&
from=rss
ID card to do anything?
The credo of thread noir: "Down these mean threads a man must go who is not himself mean."
The "officials" (that's U.S. gov't employees) who can't account for $100 million missing in Iraq have this excuse: no file cabinets.
File cabinets are like fuckin' kryptonite to this administration.
The "officials" (that's U.S. gov't employees) who can't account for $100 million missing in Iraq have this excuse: no file cabinets.
File cabinets are like fuckin' kryptonite to this administration.
oops, Celestron, not Celestrong
But is it cut?
OOOOOOOh. Boosh tells N. Korea not to test its weapons. That'll scare them. Asshole.
This NC church thing is KILLing me.
Fuckin' redasses.
Jay Carolina
Religion is irrational by nature.
The more fundamentalist the more irrational.
Not sure I get the outrage tho.
If a buch of wackos wanna believe a bunch of wacky shit and kick anyone out thier church that doesn't believe their wacky shit, so be it.
(puting on flame retardent suit, just in case)
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Magnolia, No! We impeach Bush and simply arrest Cheney for a variety of charges. After he is in prison, we impeach him and remove him from office: therefore Nancy Pelosi becomes president.
Eli--yes, but according to the Bush Regime, you cease to exist once your benefits are exhausted, except for taxation purposes.
oops, Celestron, not Celestrong
But is it cut?
Eli
No ground and polished.
*ouch*
what does thread noir have to say about trolls? "When you're smacked down, you'll take it and like it."
What, they don't have cats in Spain?
The "officials" (that's U.S. gov't employees) who can't account for $100 million missing in Iraq have this excuse: no file cabinets. Let's remember that April 15. Sorry. No file cabinets.
You go to war with the file cabinets you have...
Anyway, our troops should be resourceful enough to fashion serviceable file cabinets out of scrap metal and ballistic glass.
But is it cut?
I will never look at telescopes in the same light again.........Thanks Eli.
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Wow DWD-REALLY-Pelosi as President would be fantastic.
Joe--they have lots of them, but in the cities, they tend to be indoor kitties. Anyone who has experienced Spanish traffic can readily understand why.
Sparkle Ponys
Why do they get used so much when deriding some one.
What's wrong with mine, I mean, them?
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Kent,
At least I know that the link for the Smudge photo works (still getting the hang of this linky thingy). Mini pins! Would that make the puppies mini mini pins?
GWPDA,
do you really have pomegranate trees in your yard?
Want to know what finds me perplexed? Job hiring goes down, job hiring goes up. Unemployment rate remains the same as always. Makes no sense to me.
Well, maybe, since the books are being cooked. But still.
mer
mer, It's the new entrants into the job market, immigrants and young people "coming of slave age."
And... I forgot, the millions who were no longer being counted who went out and found work.
Agave and Melissa--I don't think the point is that the church spewed out certain members--that's the province of any church--but the reasons as to why it was done. The minister, in combining religion and politics, overstepped the line.
Magnolia, No! We impeach Bush and simply arrest Cheney for a variety of charges. After he is in prison, we impeach him and remove him from office: therefore Nancy Pelosi becomes president.
That would be a beautiful thing - only problem is that the Republicans would decry it as a coup, and we would never, ever hear the end of it.
Too much cooking. I like things raw.
Agave--we're trying to find safe toys for those who need them.
Eli, Jay - filecabinetgate. Gotta love the one guy who repays *exactly* the $1 million and change he's accused of stealing. "Wait just a minute, I'll go get that. Um. Can you make change for $2 million?"
Buckeye, they're actually bushes and grow quite well in the furnace-type Arizona climate.
Heh. Three quick Atrios posts in a row. Perchance they're going out for the evening? Hope they have a really good time. God knows, I could use one.
That would be a beautiful thing - only problem is that the Republicans would decry it as a coup, and we would never, ever hear the end of it.
Eli- We'll just take over the media, and say "we can't hear you"
Buckeye, they're actually bushes and grow quite well in the furnace-type Arizona climate.
Fuck bushes!!!
Um, sorry, got a bit carried away there...
Wow DWD-REALLY-Pelosi as President would be fantastic.
magnolia
J LO!!!
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is it possible to impeach bush and cheney at the same time?,
Can we throw in DeLay, too? I'm up for it. There was an article in the Times today about Delie and Abramoff ripping off the Marianna Islands and the former Gov. of said Islands slipped up and admitted that Abramoff paid for the trips. Hahahahaha.
Buckeye,
Thanks for Sharing.
Hmmmmmmm mini, mini, pins.
Now if we can get someone who has a mini cooper, I think I can see a commercial in a few weeks.
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I like Magnolia's plan.
Nancy Pelosi has a great rack.
Evening folks. Work didn't suck today (actually, it doesn't suck most days). In fact, it was fun. I had a conversation with a Bush-worshipping co-worker who is actually fairly perceptive, just bamboozled - she commented to me that she thinks I'm a bit unique because I'm both analytical and creative. Of course, I took this as an invitation to round about get a political point across, just by saying, "yeah, you know, that's why I won't accept any labels, because I DO think about everything, and after I think about it, I believe what I believe because it's what makes sense." Which seemed to resonate. So maybe next time I can push it a bit further, as to why this or that thing that Bush said or did simply didn't make sense.
Just chipping away at it day after day, one person at a time. It's not enough, but it's all I can do.
Nancy Pelosi has a great rack.
So does that mean you're in too toby?
Want to know what finds me perplexed? Job hiring goes down, job hiring goes up. Unemployment rate remains the same as always. Makes no sense to me.
The rate is a bogus gauge. About 400k people re-entered the workforce and thus the added jobs came out in the wash.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere
See your point about the church
And I see I misinterpreted the SP thing.
Jennifer--it's enough. Because it's all you can do.
Magnolia:
So does that mean you're in too toby?
Sure, sure, whatever...I'm just feeling too randy to be partisan right now.
Good job, Jennifer. One rational statement at a time...
Agave--NTodd has a pony!
AttaTurk,
The sombrero often holds court as my desktop image. One of my faves.
Off to Hubble site to dress up the new 'puter.
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Nancy Pelosi and Her Great Rack for President!
mer--that's because the unemployment numbers reflect nothing resembling reality. Remember that those whose benefits have run out are no longer counted, for starters.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere
Sally, agreed. In my 20's long ago I was unemployed more often than not (what the heck, it was the 70's) and maybe only one time was I even counted, and only for a couple of months. My unemployed periods easily exceeded that by 10 times.
I'm just feeling too randy to be partisan right now
And how does Randy feel about that?
I admire you Jennifer, out in the trenches like that, without making enemies.
"yeah, you know, that's why I won't accept any labels, because I DO think about everything, and after I think about it, I believe what I believe because it's what makes sense."
Oh, you liberals. Always thinking and stuff.
I don't think these employment figures take into account the [unofficial economy].
Did Harry Reid really call Bush a "loser" then phone the Whitehouse to apologize?
Driftglass:
And how does Randy feel about that?
He's cool like that.
Driftglass--my darling daughter is off limits to everyone, but when it comes to the trolling types, we've got restraining orders. And nail guns.
Agave--NTodd has a pony!
Sallyh, La Poissoniere
I wanna pic
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Did Harry Reid really call Bush a "loser" then phone the Whitehouse to apologize?
And did he say, "Mr. President, I'm so very sorry you're such a loser?"
Magnolia, No! We impeach Bush and simply arrest Cheney for a variety of charges. After he is in prison, we impeach him and remove him from office: therefore Nancy Pelosi becomes president.
You're forgetting the necessity of prying Denny Hastert from the all you can eat special at Sizzler.
What a fat putz.
Welcome back Toby, you balance out the room, being the token heterosexual quasi-neoconservative tit-man troll.
And did he say, "Mr. President, I'm so very sorry you're such a loser?"
I'm not sure what I think about him yet. He seems to be a minor upgrade from Daschle (not saying much since Daschle was a "Loser").
At present, only about 65 percent of the employment aged population is working. I realize that teenagers are included, and others that would be more intermittent workers, but it would seem that there are not that many stay at home moms to make this a figure that we should take pride in.
I don't think these employment figures take into account
Screw the unemployment numbers, the only numbers that matter are the labor participation rate which has fallen from about 67% to about 64%.
You have a valid point, though, agave- it doesn't take much to drive some normally good people to act irrationally. Seems like a failure of leadership here.
Interesting because in that part of the state you do have to be a Dem to win some local offices. Just bananas.
Reid really did say chimp is a loser. Hardly a lie. Then he apologzed to KKKarl Rove.
"You're forgetting the necessity of prying Denny Hastert from the all you can eat special at Sizzler."
We could just leave him there. He'd never know the difference.
Don't forget, kids - tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day!
Speaking of comic books, I wonder if this Batman cover is a preview of future Republican campaigns...
http://tinyurl.com/8ptc6
Buckeye,
You have any opinions about the Justin Zwick vs Troy Smith QB controversy this year?
I'd go elsewhere to find more uptodate information but I was banned from the O-Zone for responsding to the juvenile behavior of some of the site's so-called 'adult' posters.
MYOB'
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You're forgetting the necessity of prying Denny Hastert from the all you can eat special at Sizzler.
What a fat putz.
Well, realistically, any scenario involving a successful impeachment pretty much presupposes a Democratic majority in the House...
chris tx--great minds think alike...and then there's us
Ahhhh, thats more like it
Get yer
Sombrero Goodliness Wallpaper.
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Did Harry Reid really call Bush a "loser" then phone the Whitehouse to apologize?
SWR
Is apologizing for telling the truth the same as lying?
chris:
Screw the unemployment numbers, the only numbers that matter are the labor participation rate which has fallen from about 67% to about 64%.
I don't know about that category. Is that from the Krugman Institute for Crypto-Socialism?
Reid really did say chimp is a loser. Hardly a lie. Then he apologzed to KKKarl Rove.
I would have preferred, "America, I'm sorry your president is a loser."
Welcome back Toby, you balance out the room, being the token heterosexual quasi-neoconservative tit-man troll.
Let Denny Hastert's fat fucking ass eat until he explodes.
Someone tell Petzold these are from the BLS, which is an agency of the US government.
Pitchforks:
Welcome back Toby, you balance out the room, being the token heterosexual quasi-neoconservative tit-man troll.
Well, it's good work if you can get it.
Just bananas.
Jay Carolina
Sums it up.
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Well, realistically, any scenario involving a successful impeachment pretty much presupposes a Democratic majority in the House...
You know, a mock impeachment trial might be kind of...interesting. Get Aaron Sorken or August Wilson.
to script it. Job it out to the BBC. Buy it back through PBS.
Hmmm.
thread noir.
driftglass | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 8:21 pm
i sat behind my desk with the lights off, staring at the bottom of another empty whiskey bottle, when who should walk though the door but 5'4" of nothing but trouble, mostly legs, and a little black dress.
"hello, r@d@r," he said.
"hello, jimmy. or is it jeff now?" i pulled a drag off my cigarette and blew it in his face. "blown any preznits lately?"
jimmyjeff pouted. "you know even i don't swing that way, r." he sat in my guest chair and crossed his legs. "i'm strictly top."
"then what's with the dress?"
she got up and took one of my cigarettes, and looked at me for a second. i didn't move. she lit it herself from the big lighter on my desk. "i just got back from a funeral," she said through the smoke.
"another one of your boyfriends kill himself for being outed on drudge report?" i asked, coldly. i wasn't forgetting that weekend on fire island so long ago. it had left me bitter. i used to be such a twink before my run-in with jimmyjeff and his young rethuglican crowd. now i was jaded, and old, and had no time for sob stories in cocktail dresses.
"you think you're such a hard case, r@d@r, but i've fucked the most powerful man on earth up the ass. i've heard him whinney like a sick nag. you don't know what it is..." he broke into a sob, the usual histrionics. "...to feel real loss."
i laughed, and threw my cigarette butt out the window. as i grabbed my hat and got up to leave, i said, "that black car that's been following me. wouldn't be some trained monkeys with earplugs would it? working for the Big Trained Monkey?"
jimmyjeff looked worried and bit his fulsome lower lip. "i'm worried r@d@r. there's been some things i've been hearing...awful things. like they're done with our kind...they're going to round us all up. after all we've done for them..."
i sneered. "what do you mean 'our' kind?" i handed him the empty bottle. "here, maybe this'll keep you company. so long, toots." i didn't hold the door open for him as i walked away.
"i'm scared r@d@r! they're not bluffing this time!" he cried out pathetically at my back.
"neither am i," i muttered under my breath. as i headed for the 125 stop, i knew just the man i had to see. a man who lived across the bridge; a man with a strange name like mine; a man who had a lot of friends, with torches and pitchforks.
Tell Sallyh thanks for the info.
Sally - That's one of my pet peeves, not including people in the unemployment numbers because they have been unemployed for over six months or whatever. But that goes with the "just make shit up" administration.
"Welcome back Toby, you balance out the room, being the token heterosexual quasi-neoconservative tit-man troll."
Mrs. Ibrahim gets the iced tea up the nose award for this hour!
Turns out the runaway bride's husband to be turned into a born again christian and a born again virgin. No wonder she looked bugeyed and ran away.
Screw the unemployment numbers, the only numbers that matter are the labor participation rate which has fallen from about 67% to about 64%.
chris/tx
chris, do you happen to know what the labor participation rates were, under the Clinton Admin?
damn haLOscan.
meant to comment on Toby Putz's blog post celebrating War Crimes and the LGF monsters who celebrate them.
alas
Let Denny Hastert's fat fucking ass eat until he explodes.
Ba®ndog
Might I suggest a wafer-thin mandate?
Well, realistically, any scenario involving a successful impeachment pretty much presupposes a Democratic majority in the House...
Eli-Doesn't anybody think that once republicans think it is safe to be reasonable they will go along?
My wife and I think she didn't just run away.
That was her escape from the asshole.
Chris--wasn't labor participation up in the 70+percent range under Clinton?
Well, realistically, any scenario involving a successful impeachment pretty much presupposes a Democratic majority in the House...
Eli
And so much else the should have/be happening.
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You have any opinions about the Justin Zwick vs Troy Smith QB controversy this year?
I don’t know what controversy you speak of but as a Michigan Man I hope whatever it is ends in Zwick starting ‘cuz Carr and staff never change a frickin’ thing. Running QBs have always killed us. Idiots!!
r@d@r,
Those are harsh words to throw at a man, especially as he's walking out of your blog.
So how's that JimmyJeff Scandal working out for y'all? Has it ground this Administration down yet?
The "officials" (that's U.S. gov't employees) who can't account for $100 million missing in Iraq have this excuse: no file cabinets. Let's remember that April 15. Sorry. No file cabinets.
Reminds me of that bit from Steve Martin's "Comedy is not Pretty" album, How to be a millionaire and not pay taxes - first, get a million dollars, second, don't pay your taxes, third, when the IRS comes to your door say "I FORGOT to pay my taxes".
Sorry about the previous link not working... *grumble grumble grumble* looks like haloscan no likey the linky with the semi-colon in it.
take two on the Dragon Mother
If this doesn't work, scroll down and it's the third story on the front page right now... *grumble grumble grumble*
Somehow, I keep hoping that an overnight coup will happen as we keep tallying those on our side, from the Spanish, Russians, Venezuelans and the GOP.
"Turns out the runaway bride's husband to be turned into a born again christian and a born again virgin. No wonder she looked bugeyed and ran away."
My advice for Ms. Jennifer:
1. Dump the bastard. For good.
2. Eat something. You're too thin!
Remember that those whose benefits have run out are no longer counted, for starters.
Me! Me!
Turns out the runaway bride's husband to be turned into a born again christian and a born again virgin. No wonder she looked bugeyed and ran away.
I have wondered many times whether she just couldn't bear the thought of having sex with him.
And so much else the should have/be happening.
agave
I the much so you with agree.
I'm with you, Barndog. I'd run away from a fundie anyday.
yup... definitely a haloscan issue chomping the url in the link. *grumble grumble grumble* Sorry bout that.
r@d@r- more, more!
Eli-Doesn't anybody think that once republicans think it is safe to be reasonable they will go along?
I guess anything's possible. But right now, we'd have a hard enough time getting *Democrats* to vote for it.
Turns out the runaway bride's husband to be turned into a born again christian and a born again virgin
Er, how do you put the toothpaste back in the tube? Damndest thing...
eli,
likely a wafer thin margin in the House (one way or 'nother) after 06 elections, but a dem majority in the senate isn't necessarily unrealistic.
stranger things have happened
I have wondered many times whether she just couldn't bear the thought of having sex with him.
Eli
You might be onto something there, Eli. She doesn't appear to be such a catch herself.
'tween driftglass and r@d@r, we're getting a Raymond Chandler vibe going...cool.
Do those stats include the whole eBay thang? Drug dealers? Trophy wives?
I think what's happening is that our economy is having a hard time adjusting to the increased efficiency [problem]. And the dime-a-dozen Mexican leaf-blower issue, too.
Turns out the runaway bride's husband to be turned into a born again christian and a born again virgin. No wonder she looked bugeyed and ran away.
Turns out, however, that "born again" thingie doesn't even get you a dead-cat-bounce in the IQ area.
r@d@r - I like it, I like it....think about fleshing it out into a feature length...
Sally & Pitchforks - Going from memory, the Clinton peak in labor participation rates hit the high 60's% (67-68%). Don't think it ever made it to 70%.
Toby - Yes, matter of fact, I think the esteemed Dr. Krugman wrote about this. But the numbers have been out there if you look for them on participation rates.
Bigvic--if the girl would just sit in my kitchen for a day, she'd look a hell of a lot better...some nice chili, tri tip, steak and mushrooms, roast chicken, homemade rosemary rolls, cheesecake, strawberry shortcake, genoise...
Might it be that if you are no longer receiving unemployment payments, you are not offically unemployed?
So cut off all unemployment payments, and wal la! 100% employment.
No, that can't be right or they would have already done it.
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blog whoring alert
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"The Blog Sleep" -- Original novel by r@d@r. Screenplay by William Faulkner.
Allawai Possibly Dead/Injured by Resistance Attack
Unconfirmed reports from the Resistance indicate that collaborator Iyad Allawi may dead or critically injured after a Resistance attack. The attack may explain the absence of Allawi suddenly from all media outlets as well as his absence from the oath ceremony given by the new collaborator government in recent days.
http://www.albasrah.net/
maqalat_...aher_050505.htm
my darling daughter is off limits to everyone, but when it comes to the trolling types, we've got restraining orders. And nail guns.
Don't I know it...
Sally, that was actually me. Sorry about the ice tea up the nose.
Toby needs sex right now, it's obvious. It being Friday night is not going to help him here.
Toby, come over to OUR side, we have hedonistic chicks!!!
Driftglass - brilliant title.
Do those stats include the whole eBay thang? Drug dealers? Trophy wives
No, but you can buy a cheese sandwich that looks like Jesus on e-bay.
Reid really did say chimp is a loser. Hardly a lie. Then he apologzed to KKKarl Rove.
I would have preferred, "America, I'm sorry your president is a loser."
Eli | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 8:45 pm | #
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Well he kind of had to apologize. But it was kind of funny.
And then we'll masterfully re-imagine is as "The Blog Lebowski" a generation later.
Unconfirmed reports from the Resistance indicate that collaborator Iyad Allawi may dead or critically injured after a Resistance attack.
I didn't know Jane Fonda was writing for the Arab language press!
Hiram Hover--Simpson is a greasy fuck. Thanks for the link.
So cut off all unemployment payments, and wal la! 100% employment.
No, that can't be right or they would have already done it.
No! No! Don't say it!
Oh, fuck.
Turns out the runaway bride's husband to be turned into a born again christian and a born again virgin
Wouldn't it have been easier, in the long run, if she had just given him the "it's not you, it's me" speech, like Snow was telling us about in an earlier thread?
How about "The Blog Dahlia"?
I didn't know Jane Fonda was writing for the Arab language press!
Toby Petzold | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 8:57 pm
I've pretty much concluded that anybody who discusses politics in terms of Jane Fonda is too fucking stupid to breath.
Oh Toby, it's you.
NTodd--you should know it. Larry's still at work, so you're in charge of the nail gun.
I think Haloscan got into mom's liquor stash again.
Allawai Possibly Dead/Injured by Resistance Attack
beingqreus
English, please! Your link went to some nation we seized who don't have the goddamned decency to learn American.
It's all oogly-moogly.
sally:
No, but you can buy a cheese sandwich that looks like Jesus on e-bay.
I tried, but Pope Ratzinger outbid me at the last moment. It's for his curial cabinet.
I didn't know Jane Fonda was writing for the Arab language press!
Why not reference cave paintings?
Sally & Pitchforks - Going from memory, the Clinton peak in labor participation rates hit the high 60's% (67-68%). Don't think it ever made it to 70%.
That's right. It hovered around 67% at its height. Highest level: 67.3% in January, 2001.
How about "The Blog Dahlia"?
Eli
That is so steal-worthy.
Is it out there yet?
Unconfirmed reports from the Resistance indicate that collaborator Iyad Allawi may dead or critically injured after a Resistance attack. The attack may explain the absence of Allawi suddenly from all media outlets as well as his absence from the oath ceremony given by the new collaborator government in recent days.
Wow. Just last some friends and I were wondering what the hell happened to him. I kind of figured he wouldn't die of old age.
what is randy?
is that like a 19th century word for horny?
"The Blog Sleep", original novel by r@d@r, screenplay by William Faulkner.
there should be one murder neither author can explain
SWR:
I've pretty much concluded that anybody who discusses politics in terms of Jane Fonda is too fucking stupid to breath.
Well, I was only trying to think of a Viet Nam-era traitor on the fly. Do you have any other names I could have used instead?
Eli,
Toby - Aren't you in Austin? And you can't get laid on Friday night?
I think NTodd got nailed.
Have I alreddy ask this?
Is it
N Todd
or
NT odd
?
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Is it out there yet?
I hope not...
what is randy?
is that like a 19th century word for horny?
For when you want to Fop till you Drop.
Pitchforks--sorry for not attributing properly
Bush is a loser.
He said that he has to remind Putin to be nicer to his neighbors.
Loser. Douchebag. Zipwad.
Chauncey:
Why not reference cave paintings?
Oh, ho! How very much you'd like for her example to be prehistoric news. But, as it is, it's very current.
>Well, I was only trying to think of a Viet Nam-era traitor on the fly. Do you have any other names I could have used instead?<
Richard M Nixon Robert S. McNamara
Toby Putz, supporter of war crimes, admirer of Charles Johnson and his Lizard Minions, racist coward and mysoginist; do we really want someone as stupid and ugly as that on our side?
Well, I was only trying to think of a Viet Nam-era traitor on the fly. Do you have any other names I could have used instead?
Toby Petzold
In other words you're a brainless automaton demagogue, who can only regurgitate the talking points and bogeymen of his crybaby masters.
And I always liked Cornell Woolrich's "Blog Alibi."
Well, I was only trying to think of a Viet Nam-era traitor on the fly. Do you have any other names I could have used instead?
Dick Cheney (dodged the draft). George Bush (same).
You get the message.
Toby. We were wrong in Vietnam. Even McNamera apologized for it. You're apologizing for mass murder.
And you're white trash.
Fuck you.
chris, thanks for the stat check, I don't know where to find that kind of thing (shame on me).
The country is dealing with wage erosion bigtime. Laid-off workers find work again at much lower pay, plus the horrible inflation in medical costs, plus the tripling of home prices in some areas have just about killed any hope for a future among those who weren't established before 2000. Of course, Bush and Greenspan love asset inflation, it makes their millionaire friends look richer.
NTodd--you should know it. Larry's still at work, so you're in charge of the nail gun.
I'm on it!
What's the matter with Kansas?
The hearings in Topeka, scheduled to last several days, are focusing on two proposals. The first recommends that students continue to be taught the theory of evolution because it is key to understanding biology. The other proposes that Kansas alter the definition of science, not limiting it to theories based on natural explanations.
Ya know, if you want to observe natural phenomena and attribute them to supernatural causes, you don't need a scientist - you need a witchdoctor.
chris:
Toby - Aren't you in Austin? And you can't get laid on Friday night?
Yes and no.
'Randy' is a British term for 'horny.'
In the US, however, it is the name of my beloved daughter...use at your peril. Remember, NTodd currently has custody of the nail gun, and he's not afraid to use it.
NTodd - Thanks, I guess I got a few firing brain cells left. BTW, do you know what it is now, 63-64%?
sallyh:
it is the name of my beloved daughter
Please don't tell me you named her after the harridan on Air America!
Wow, they're selling Ratzinger's old VW on Ebay in Germany!
188,000 Euros.
Golden Palace.com
what is randy?
is that like a 19th century word for horny?
M
Think so.
Kinna like being a bounder or rounder, or something.
A Ner'dowell?
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'Randy' is a British term for 'horny.'
The Brits should receive a good rogering for that.
No sorries, Sally, Mrs.Ibrahim just had a speck of trouble with Haloscan.
what is randy?
watched Meet The Fockers last night, where Gaylord introduces his nephews, Randy and Orni.
tea up the nose. sequels usually don't make me laugh, but that one sure did.
Nota,
The real scientists refused to cooperate in that Kangeroo court. Good for them. Their lawyer got to chew up the fake scientists for them. Heh.
Toby Putz, supporter of war crimes, admirer of Charles Johnson and his Lizard Minions, racist coward and mysoginist;
Have you looked at JC Christian's little slideshow of "Cox and Forkhum".
Holy Sh--t.
You know I used to think that anybody who said "Arabs are semites so people who hate Arabs are anti-semitic" were pretty silly, but by God it's true.
The anti-Arab bigotry by Cox and Forkhum trashes the Palestinians for having Semitic and not Northern European features.
So the hard left was basically right.
Chauncey Gardner,
Veddy nice. Veddy quick.
"The hearings in Topeka, scheduled to last several days, are focusing on two proposals. The first recommends that students continue to be taught the theory of evolution because it is key to understanding biology. The other proposes that Kansas alter the definition of science, not limiting it to theories based on natural explanations."
Do you think a cheese sandwich that looks like Jesus has a natural explanation?
And since Theristes hasn't said it yet,
Toby is stupid, ugly, and nobody likes him.
Take 3 on Dragon Mother Temple this time using a tinyurl that doesn't have the semi-colons
Toby - Aren't you in Austin? And you can't get laid on Friday night?
Yes and no.
Toby Petzold
Yes, he lives in Austin, NO, he can't get laid.
Thanks for the footnote, Pitchforks.
I'm so glad N. Korea is on the verge of testing a plutonium bomb. It provides relief from having to hear about that goddamn runaway bride.
The country is dealing with wage erosion bigtime.
Yes, that's far bigger than the drop in labor participation rates. I've lost count of the number of friends that have gone from jobs paying $100k plus to $50-60k. Nephew graduated cum laude in Architecture from top university, two years earlier his starting salary would have been at least $50k, now making less than $30k and no health benefits.
Ayn Rand just called me. She said she would love to go out with Toby tonight to initiate her implants.
what is randy?
rent Austin Powers
chris/tx - oops, it was 67.3% in April, 2000. 67.2% in January, 2001. Now it stands at 66.0%, which is up a smidge for the year, but 0.2% off the lows for Bush's tenure.
Damn, Chauncey beat me to it.
Vietnam era traitors Nixon and the whole Watergate crew.
"Kansas alter the definition of science, not limiting it to theories based on natural explanations."
If you can't give it a naturalistic explanation, it's not science.
I so need a drink now.
The fundies apparently have the vote on the Board of Education. These people are not likely to be swayed by some tricky lawyer. They know what they know.
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari,
That movie wasn't as funny as Meet the Parents, but still had some hilarious moments.
LGF's a great site, SWR. So's Cox & Forkum. What's your point?
Ayn Rand just called me. She said she would love to go out with Toby tonight to initiate her implants.
Ayn Randy?
NTodd--you should know it. Larry's still at work, so you're in charge of the nail gun.
I'm on it!
NTodd
Oh Jeez,
The wolf guarding the sheep!
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that Dragon Mother temple photo is ok, but I like your photos on the Dead page. the 1994 show at the Boston Garden!
good job. and let's all remember, besides being ugly and stupid and offensive in many other ways, Toby Putz supports War Crimes.
Do you think a cheese sandwich that looks like Jesus has a natural explanation?
I think John Rhyse Davies explained on "Revelations" that the odds of Jesus appearing on a cheese sammich are so ass-tro-nomical that only the presence of an interventionist God cold explain it.
Oddly, Jesus on a tuna melt is statistically highly probable...and Solomon-Rye-hold-the-mayo approaches near-certainty.
I used to say DeNiro was my favorite actor, but he's just a fucking sell-out to me now. I can't stand his schtick. At all.
And Streisand? That chick gives me a hard-off.
Ayn Randy?
Eli
Your an inspiration.
.
That movie wasn't as funny as Meet the Parents
I really did not like the scene with Dustin on the toilet with Robert in the shower-ugh.
LGF's a great site, SWR. So's Cox & Forkum. What's your point?
Toby Petzold | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 9:10 pm | #
That you're white trash.
This is what Toby considers great.
After seeing months and months or photos of these almost-human bottom-feeders I have to wonder out loud "how in Christ's name is it possible for one race (i.e., Arabs) to be so hideously ugly?!"
...They have got to be THE single most unattractive group of beings to ever disgrace the planet Earth. What's in their genes that makes them so terribly, grossly ugly?...
And speaking of Middle Eastern chicks, have you ever seen ONE truly attractive Arab woman? And let's not count the recent spate of Lebanese hotties that've been popping up on this and other 'net sites lately. There's a lot of European blood in Lebanon, which explains the light hair and eyes of many. But as for the rest, puke-city! I truly believe that they're cursed by God, and with good, no...great, reason."
Toby's a redneck bigot.
"The wolf guarding the sheep!"
If you'd ever met Randy, you'd know it was the other way around.
From WGBH Boston Emily Rooney (the little whine maker's daughter) declared that "we all know that it (PBS) has a liberal bias".
Oh, do WE, Ms. Emily? Put your list up of just where the "liberal bias" resides. On The New Hour? Watch that one FAIR has studied it. On Gwin Ifel? Condi's best bud? On Tucker Carlson, WSJ? You know the replacement for that raving radical on Wall Street Week? On Frontline?
Certainly not on "Greater Boston" with Emily "the liberals fired me from ABC" Rooney.
Pretty soon you're going to be down to Miss Marple and The Old Junk Show.
So Ms. Rooney, you've said it and allueded to it for years. Put up your proof of where the liberals of PBS are or the world has every reason to believe that they are in exactly the same place as the "liberals of ABC". In your mind and the eye of FOX, another of your former employers.
In re Randy, when I was 10 or 11, I ran across a diary of a colonist in which he said he "rogered the servant in the stairwell." I sat there trying to figure out what that meant. What it that he was saying "roger" to her, like "Roger, over and out"? Was talking to a servant called "rogering"? Took a while to figure it out.
Toby, you're just too easy a target. You're in the coolest city in all of Texas... you should've picked up on life by now.
Get one!!!
i don't think arabs are semites. anyone who speaks arabic and/or is from the arabian peninsula is arab. iranians are semites, as are others, but I don't think you can be arab and semite.
I tried to read The Fountainhead at a youth hostel in Athens one night, but there were better things to do.
You know, Nietzsche can be taken too far.
"Oddly, Jesus on a tuna melt is statistically highly probable...and Solomon-Rye-hold-the-mayo approaches near-certainty."
The odds of not getting Jesus in your pastrami reuben are infinitessimal.
swr,
love Jesus General. first blog I read every morning.
I so need a drink now.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere
Here's a virtual Blue Marg for you.
.
Actually, I am past despairing with these Christian idiots. If they want to bring their children up stupid, I don’t fucking care any more.
What did you learn today in school today jimmy?
I learned that Jesus invented the combustion engine, and that Jesus flew the first plane at Kitty hawk.
And then Jesus Armstrong walked on the moon before anyone else.
Kansas alter the definition of science, not limiting it to theories based on natural explanations.
To paraphrase Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar:
But what is science?
Is science a changing law?
We both have science.
Is mine the same as yours?
M:
iranians are semites, as are others, but I don't think you can be arab and semite.
Iranians aren't Arabs; they're Persians. And Arabs are descended from Shem, right? Just like the Hebrews, I think.
I read We the Living and really liked it a lot.
i don't think arabs are semites.
Look at the Cox and Forkum anti-arab hate cartoons.
They're engaging in classical anti-semitic images.
As I said, I never used to buy the line that people who hated Arabs are anti-semites but by God it's true.
Sallyh,
Apparently, the Kansas whacos tried this once before but didn't have the board on board, it seems. So, they plotted to get more fundie board memebers and, voila! I wish they would spend their time more productively.
"The wolf guarding the sheep!"
If you'd ever met Randy, you'd know it was the other way around.
You *sure* you don't want to bring her to EschaCon?
What about Jesus in the coleslaw?
Agave, thanks. I needed that.
NTodd--sorry, but JC Superstar SUCKED.
Allawai Possibly Dead/Injured by Resistance Attack
beingqreus
English, please! Your link went to some nation we seized who don't have the goddamned decency to learn American.
It's all oogly-moogly.
Pez | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 8:58 pm
Scroll down the page to click Enter. Take a look at America's newest history book.
No, Toby... Arabs did not descend from shemp.
"The wolf guarding the sheep!"
If you'd ever met Randy, you'd know it was the other way around.
Why do you think I took the job?
The odds of not getting Jesus in your pastrami reuben are infinitessimal.
Jesus will actually bring that order to your table. (And don't joke about the stigmata even quietly. He's got ears like a bat.)
"What about Jesus in the coleslaw?"
Jesus only likes the peanut slaw at Wood Ranch barbecue.
JC Superstar SUCKED.
Not if you were in high school and chorus!
I ... read The Fountainhead at a youth hostel in Athens one night, but there were better things to do.
Toby Petzold
LIAR! In One Night?!
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Leftists should do better arguing with Christians since the latter are so reverent towards Christ's historicity and Leftists (being sympathetic to Marx) are so attuned to precedence as authority. Just turn on some Gnosticism and take 'em to school, beeyotches.
Eli--I'd bring her, but then I gotta pay for Misha, too. Tres expensive.
Besides, someone's gotta take care of the cats and Monsieur.
And speaking of Middle Eastern chicks, have you ever seen ONE truly attractive Arab woman?
That's total horseshit. Two of the prettiest women I ever dated was when living in the ME (one Kurd, one Shia). And the Sunni girl that worked in our office was jaw dropping gorgeous. Send the guy that wrote this to a night club in the ME and he would never say that.
The odds of not getting Jesus in your pastrami reuben are infinitessimal.
Jesus will actually bring that order to your table. (And don't joke about the stigmata even quietly. He's got ears like a bat.)
Do not ask for "the special sauce". Similarly, I would also avoid the wine.
NTodd--sorry, but JC Superstar SUCKED.
The movie certainly did. Stage productions can be hit or miss (like the last one I saw in 2003 which blew chunks), but I dig the soundtrack to the original stage show (which I was a bit too young to catch live).
FOX News: the Elip...cal News Network.
Leftists should do better arguing with Christians since the latter are so reverent towards Christ's historicity and Leftists (being sympathetic to Marx) are so attuned to precedence as authority.
This is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadd writing. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaadddddddddddd. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaddddddddddddddddd.
Sally... I've had peanut slaw before. It rocks.
Well, Ibrahim and I are off to the movies. Ridley Scott has important things to tell us about the Seige of Jerusalem. fun to one and all, and please to not forget yesterday's historic election.
PS: don't waste too much time punching the Neofascist Putz, he's not worthy of your time or energy.
Hello? The Protest Babes of Lebanon are smokingly fine.
The fundies apparently have the vote on the Board of Education. These people are not likely to be swayed by some tricky lawyer. They know what they know.
Nota
The board is barely sentient. That means they know next to nothing, but worse, don't want to know anything. Willful ignorance is making major decisions for Kansas children...sigh.
Leave the place for a few minutes come back and there it is, a dump in the corner.
Jeez louise, would somebody mind cracking a window?
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Toby you've surely had enough deprogramming (and abuse) here to know what to say and what NOT to say to pick up a cool chick in Austin. Leave now, the night is young.
For those who were inquiring whilst I was away at happy hour:
The sheep is a friendly fellow met whilst I was walking from a pub in New Mills to a pub in a nearby village, in England. At said pub, I met an older leftist couple and we bought each other pints until I had to call the friend I was staying with to come and get me.
And no, I am not moving to Germany, but am travelling there for 3 weeks, on the "hey, here's Miriam's new hubby" tour--many of her family members live there, and her friends as well...
I once saw Mary Mother of Jesus' vagina on my auxiliary nipple. But I was pretty fucked up on gin and quaaludes.
-Liddy Dole
That's total horseshit. Two of the prettiest women I ever dated was when living in the ME (one Kurd, one Shia). And the Sunni girl that worked in our office was jaw dropping gorgeous. Send the guy that wrote this to a night club in the ME and he would never say that.
chris/tx | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 9:19 pm | #
Did you see those cartoons. Holy Fuck. Sorry but never accuse me of exaggerating again when I call LGF a "white supremicist" site.
They're arguing that Lebanese women are attractive because they've got "white blood".
These people are pigs. Just absolute pigs.
Se·mit·ic: adj.
Of, relating to, or constituting a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic language group that includes Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic.
Persians(Iranians) are not Semites.
Thanks for the critique, SWR. I didn't know these exchanges were part of the final exam.
Rectal probe.
Do not ask for "the special sauce". Similarly, I would also avoid the wine.
He's a wizard in the kitchen, however. Makes a wicked good loaf of sourdough bread.
Takes three days to rise though...
Of course Arabs and Jews are both semetic peoples. They both trace their lineage back to Abraham. Whether Abraham is fact or amalgam of many common forbears for both groups, there's too much shared history and even custom to think there's not a close relationship there.
Any chance of Jesus doing a driveby this weekend? His dad was a lot of fun last time he dropped by.
Hello? The Protest Babes of Lebanon are smokingly fine.
Toby Petzold | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 9:20 pm | #
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Yes. Unlike your fat white trash female relatives. That's my whole point cracker.
Be honest Toby. Any women in your family under 300 pounds.
Did you mom call your sister into the house with hog calls?
Ever date outside the family?
Why is Mag so hellbent on pimping me out tonight?
Thanks for the critique, SWR. I didn't know these exchanges were part of the final exam.
Toby do you honestly not get how much I genuinely dislike you?
Leftists should do better arguing with Christians since the latter are so reverent towards Christ's historicity and Leftists (being sympathetic to Marx) are so attuned to precedence as authority
Jesus was a leftist, told people to give to the poor, love one another, etc. I'm left and I think Marx was a bozo. So much nonsequitor in America, if some fundie spin doctor said over and over again that Nixon was communist, people would believe it. This country is a disaster.
"He's a wizard in the kitchen, however. Makes a wicked good loaf of sourdough bread."
The corn rye he bakes, it's to die for.
Of course Arabs and Jews are both semetic peoples. They both trace their lineage back to Abraham.
Semetic or semiotic? I cannot tell the differance!
Sorry... Derridean joke.
Hey Toby
I hear your pushing for a change in the law down in crackerville, that will allow you to marry your sister.
Semite: n.
A member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Near East and northern Africa, including the Arabs, Arameans, Babylonians, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians.
>I once saw Mary Mother of Jesus' vagina on my auxiliary nipple. But I was pretty fucked up on gin and quaaludes.<
Patron Tequila does not feel good going out of the nose.
"What about Jesus in the coleslaw?"
--Ba®ndog
What about Jesus in bed?
Toby, are you there?
Of course Arabs and Jews are both semetic peoples. They both trace their lineage back to Abraham.
Nobody's getting the point because nobody clicked the link.
It's not that Arabs and Jews are "semitic". Who gives a fuck.
It's that Cox and Forkhum are classically "anti-semitic".
Look at the fucking cartoons. Right out of 1930s German propaganda about Jews.
I hear your pushing for a change in the law down in crackerville, that will allow you to marry your sister.
Sally, if you're going to be insulting, could you at least be good at it? Thanks.
That's total horseshit. Two of the prettiest women..........
Now I did not ever date either of them, but I can say that a couple of sisters I know of Middle Eastern heritage, are gorgeous, living in the neighborhood of Drop Dead.
Yoooza
The pile of Doo Doo is still an incomprehensible Idjit.
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Outside the family? I can't picture the trolls dating outside their body.
Isn't tonight ignore the TP troll night?
Did you see those cartoons.
SWR - Just went and looked at the rest of the cartoons, sick, sick, sick.
Will never understand how someone can hate just because of ethnic group. Good and bad people in every culture.
To be antisemetic you'd have to be anti Palestinian.
Just sayin'
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SWR:
Toby do you honestly not get how much I genuinely dislike you?
If I cared any less, it would be sociopathic of me.
Toby (def): a small cup used to hold santorum
SWR - Just went and looked at the rest of the cartoons, sick, sick, sick.
Will never understand how someone can hate just because of ethnic group. Good and bad people in every culture.
But even I didn't buy that line about how people who hated Arabs were "anti-semitic" but it's true. It's really true. Unbelievable. Every time you think those people can't sink any lower they surprise you.
"Patron Tequila does not feel good going out of the nose."
Most things defying gravitational force in the digestive tract don't feel quite like they should.
ayn rand, the embodiment of evil, sings to toby. "I don't know how to love him-what to do -how to move him."
ror, have a good trip to Germany.
Hey! FOX News just posted my comment with their nick!
FUCKERS!
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ror, have a good trip to Germany
Ditto
If I cared any less, it would be sociopathic of me.
Toby Petzold | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 9:28 pm |
I want you to think about it Toby. Think about it good and hard.
You're trash. You're an ignorant, redneck bigot. You're the kind of filth who would have been against blacks voting in 1964. You're the kind of filth who would have guarded slave laborers in Nazi Germany.
You have no fucking idea just how worthless you are, do you?
You hear about the troll who asked a leftist for a date?
He had to his right hand turned him down flat.
Every time you think those people can't sink any lower they surprise you.
The Rachel Corrie material coming from their site made me want to vomit.
Although what canya say, now maniacs and assholes have a place to publicly declare themselves.
Thank you, Karin! Assuming that I get the rest of my Kerouac paper written tonight, after going and drinking vast quantities of sangria with a friend on her birthday in about 3 minutes...
I will...
Barbarella is looking for a date. I told her toby didn't like her.
Rorschach
Good point, and where the hell are you?
Just askin', heard you be a travelling.
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Hey, you know you can get "white blood" out of a stallion if you do it properly....
Thank you as well, Footloose...
I was looking at y'alls mugshots and I was suprised at the ---shall we say?--- homogenous aspect of the group.
I wonder what accounts for that.
Austin is not crackerville, but Toby's hometown must be somewhere else.
I was looking at y'alls mugshots and I was suprised at the ---shall we say?--- homogenous aspect of the group.
I wonder what accounts for that.
Toby Petzold | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 9:33 pm | #
God how I'd love to look down into the pit of hell and see a gang of devils ripping your guts out with pitchforks.
Toby, come over to OUR side, we have hedonistic chicks!!!
Pitchforks and Torches
I some some of them in San Diego!!
You have no fucking idea just how worthless you are, do you?
Why are you so angry? Don't let your physical impotence govern your intellect so much, dude. Just admit that you're not up to snuff and let it go. We're all bested by someone every day of the week, so just relax and enjoy the natural order of things.
Toby, come over to OUR side, we have hedonistic chicks!!!
We also have blowtorches, pliers and gimp suits.
Barbarella is looking for a date. I told her toby didn't like her.
magnolia
Oooh, that scene with her in that sex machine really did something to me as a kid.
As an adult, kinna, whatever.
Jaded.
.
"Never really understood the rationale of using *that* as the standard measure of unemployment. Just 'cause you gave up looking, doesn't mean you're any less unemployed. Hell, I'd say you're *more* unemployed."
Eli
Simple mathmatical Prevarification
Invented during the Reagun Years
to hide the real size of the problem.
I think it was invented by someone named"Welfare Queen."
BREAK BUSH LIKE A RUSTY REMINGTON!!!!
And Fuck him with his favorite book.
No, not the Goat book!
The one they should beat that
Cristo-Facist in N.C. to death with.
Toby, come over to OUR side, we have hedonistic chicks!!!
Ah, yeahhh: I likes 'em good and librul.
The trolls are trying to unionize. They want nine to five jobs. If they can't get nine they'll take five.
Rorschach
Good point, and where the hell are you?
Just askin', heard you be a travelling.
Today, in my house (finally!) in Austin. Tomorrow, Houston. Sunday, Amsterdam, then Germany... Koln, Berlin, Wuerzberg, the Alsace, perhaps France...
TCM showing Ship of Fools at 9:45 eastern.
mmmmmm...Oskar Werner.
Why are you so angry?
You can actually look at those Cox and Forkkum cartoons and not be angry?
You're the one with the problem you piece of fucking filth.
I'm angry because my country's been taken over by redneck bigots and haters like you. I'm angry because you fucking exist.
You'll have to ditch the hatred and delusional right-wing social fixes first. The chicks see right through you, that's why you're not getting laid.
SWR, I do get it, I know it's ugly. I would just simply call them racists, or white/Aryan supremacists.
I understand what you mean by anti-Semitic, using the dictionary definition of Semitic you are right, but let's face it, in the common usage of the word nowadays, it is meant to refer to Jews only.
Well. Here I spot a comment about hawt Middle Eastern chix and scroll up, up, up looking for the first comment on it only to have my worst fears realized.
*sigh*
Doesn't ANYBODY on this thread know that if you don't attribute all internetzites lose?
Just wait until Bobo hears about this.
I understand what you mean by anti-Semitic, using the dictionary definition of Semitic you are right, but let's face it, in the common usage of the word nowadays, it is meant to refer to Jews only
LOOK AT THE FUCKING CARTOONS.
God are you people stupid.
They're classically anti-semitic images. Right out of Der Sturmer.
Is everybody too fucking dense to get it?
No, it's because I keep voting against my own socioeconomic interests, Pitchforks.
I *love* to watch Toby eviscerated by SWR.
Toby's too stupid to see that his guts are piled on the ground in front of him already.
1watt
Has anybody answered your ? about why Holoscan cuts off the comments, and what to do, if anything?
I wanna know, too, but have been waiting for an answer to you, so I could act like I knew.
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No, it's because I keep voting against my own socioeconomic interests, Pitchforks.
Toby Petzold
explain please
From Las Vegas Review Journal, May 6,
via dailykos.
"The man's father is a wonderful human being," [Sen. Harry] Reid said in response to a question about President Bush's policies. "I think this guy is a loser.
"I think President Bush is doing a bad job," he added to a handful of chuckles.
"He's driving this country into bankruptcy," Reid said, referring to the deficit. "He's got us in this intractable war in Iraq where we now have about 1,600 American soldiers dead and another 15,000 injured."
[snip]
After the statement was released, Reid phoned the Review-Journal to acknowledge he thought he crossed the line.
"You know the president is in Europe, probably sleeping," Reid said in an interview this afternoon. "But I called (Karl) Rove and apologized for what I said."
God are you people stupid.
That's not terribly polite, now, is it?
SWR:
I'm angry because my country's been taken over by redneck bigots and haters like you. I'm angry because you fucking exist.
Well, have you ever tried fucking off? That might be just the thing to help you through your rage for me.
Oh, wait a minute. I'm just the proxy here. You're not actually angry at me as a man, but as a symbol of the Rethuglikkkan/Talibangelist menace. Well, then! Fire away!
nuts
The other proposes that Kansas alter the definition of science, not limiting it to theories based on natural explanations."
So now when the fundies don't like the rules they get to make up their own language to get around the rules?
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wife"
Fundie english - 'Covet' actually means dance naked with under a waning moon.
Anything else is ok.
All right then, I'm off to go party.
Alcatraz, bitches!
explain please
I was just being glib, Magnolia. It's actually because I'm fat and poor.
You're not actually angry at me as a man
Got *that* right...
ror, Strasburg(in Alsace-Lorraine) has a fantastic cathedral, great food. Because it's a mixture of French and German, you can get good beer and wine.
Home of Gutenberg.
Berlin is a great city too.
Well How is Reid going to sleep after talking to Karl Rove. Ick!
The trolls are trying to unionize. They want nine to five jobs. If they can't get nine they'll take five.
EPT
Can' help 'um.
I only organize exploited workers.
Not delusional Facists.
Just admit that you're not up to snuff and let it go.
Toby loves nature in spite of what it did to him.
No, it's because I keep voting against my own socioeconomic interests, Pitchforks.
Toby Petzold
explain please
magnolia | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 9:41 pm | #
It goes kind of like this. About 200 years ago, Toby's ancestors came to the USA from Scotland or Belfast or wherever your basic southern white trash hales from.
They spent the next 175 years inbreeding and staying precisely where they were 200 years before, at the bottom of the food chain.
Then comes Toby. And Toby, even though he's fucking fat, stupid, and nobody fucking likes him, gets to see a fucking moronic ignorant piece of white trash in the White House.
So he feels validated. 200 years of ignorance, inbreeding, burning crosses, and obese females in housedresses suddenly makes him qualified to lecture "you libruhs" on what "y'all" got to do to win elections.
So he comes here and revels in the fact that a good percentage of the population of 'Merka has sunk into the primordial oose with his corrupt and inbred DNA.
Thank you George Bush...
ror, Strasburg(in Alsace-Lorraine) has a fantastic cathedral, great food. Because it's a mixture of French and German, you can get good beer and wine.
Home of Gutenberg.
Berlin is a great city too.
Karin
I think we may be going there. Or Karlsburg. We shall see...
This is the "haul rorschach around the country so the family and friends of Miriam can have a look-see" trip, so I'm just letting the wife take care of the details...
Ror,
That is all, very jealous making.
You lucky dog, I hope that you have a great trip.
.
agave | Email |
Still having problems sometimes less than others. I've notice my baud rate is down 40% lately.
SWR, my genealogy is freely available to you, so why are you telling lies about my ancestry?
Are you some sort of yankee?
Toby, Everyone here knows you come here to be contrary and gain the attention that you so richly deserve. But you just don't get it, have no values, and not much is sacred to you.
I don't understand why voting against your own socioeconomic interests would result in you NOT getting dates.
Try concentrating on what people are saying, it makes communication a bit more real.
"myob:You have any opinions about the Justin Zwick vs Troy Smith QB controversy this year?"
MYOB: my wife is an alum and a big fan....I can take it or leave it but watch a bit myself. I think it'll be Smith, but they may have this thing going where if one struggles the other will come in to take over. Smith looked better last year, but he's gotta stay outta trouble. I ain't holding my breath.
mag: great cat story!! They are beautiful!
Eli: can the cat turn the water on?
so-you're fat and poor and you blame libruls?
SWR is right on.
Still having problems sometimes less than others. I've notice my baud rate is down 40% lately.
My bawdiness rate is directly proportional to how much beer I've had. We're halfway up the curve at this point.
.
That's not terribly polite, now, is it?
No it's not. Especially since I(and the rest of us, except Toby) agree that LGF are racist assholes. I don't need to go there to find that out.
Anyway, I'd like to know why so many of the Ariots are white. It's interesting to me in a way that most of you, as individuals, are not.
SWR, ignore Toby's last comment. He just enjoys angering people, it's a disorder.
Thank you, kent. I haven't been to Europe since I studied at Oxford way back in 95... (well, one trip to England two years ago to present at a conference, hence the sheep picture at my blog!)...
I'm looking forward to it, since when I was there last, I hit Amsterdam, Paris, Florence, but never made it as far East as Germany...
Ror, sounds like fun. Bring us back some beer and sausages.
Eli: can the cat turn the water on?
I don't think so. Eek was terribly sweet, but not, um, super-bright.
Are you some sort of yankee?
This is it. Some of the less progessive (the less genetically endowed) just can't get over it.
so-you're fat and poor and you blame libruls?
No, I don't blame anyone for that. I blame liberals for their intellectual dishonesty and their culture of cynicism.
Oops. I meant "Atriots."
Have you all noticed about Toby, that he's ugly and stupid and nobody likes him?
No, I don't blame anyone for that. I blame liberals for their intellectual dishonesty and their culture of cynicism.
Toby Petzold
Yawn.
Time to go party in my optimistic fashion...
For real this time.
I'll pop back in later, and will try to blog from Europe...
magnolia:
Some of the less progessive (the less genetically endowed) just can't get over it.
So there it is: Magnolia is a crypto-eugenicist. Interesting. So were a lot of the progressives at the turn of the 20th Century.
Toby, Everyone here knows you come here to be contrary and gain the attention that you so richly deserve. But you just don't get it, have no values, and not much is sacred to you.
You know why I hate Toby and those jerkoffs at LGF?
When I was 10 years old, my parents took me to my grandparents after we had gone to McDonald's. So I'm eating what's left of my french fries and my grandmother looks at me and says "why are you eating food niggers touch with their hands?"
That's child abuse. And what I see when I look at Toby or Charles Johnson or Cox and Forkum or any of them is the fact that I'm never, ever not going to stop hearing that voice. We're never going to be free of this fucking crap, ever.
And what really fucking breaks my heart every time I see those evil hateful animals post another Rachel Corrie pancakes joke is the fact that they're mocking someone who in her own way tried to rebel against that voice, considered people with brown skin to be worth risking her life over.
And not, it's not really Toby. It's just that he's one of the millions and millions and millions of herde animals who thinks just like a lot of my family does. They're everywhere.
Especially since I(and the rest of us, except Toby) agree that LGF are racist assholes. I don't need to go there to find that out.
Toby is an LGFer. Atrios also banned him, but he slunk back, because he is ugly and stupid and nobody likes him.
"I don't think so. Eek was terribly sweet, but not, um, super-bright."
Sounds like Frankie sack o'hammers. My old cat, geezerman, figured out how to turn the water on. I had this old clawfoot bath tub and he was able to nudge the handle with his head. I was watching teevee one night, heard water and sure enough there he was.
He always wanted to drink from running water. Never could get him to turn it off, tho.
I was looking at y'alls mugshots and I was suprised at the ---shall we say?--- homogenous aspect of the group.
Sorry, I don't understand your bigoted code. Could you decipher for me?
Anyway, I'd like to know why so many of the Ariots are white. It's interesting to me in a way that most of you, as individuals, are not.
Toby Petzold
Many who post here are minorities. You just aren't paying attention.
Really? I was trying to get you a date with Barbarella.
Hey Thersites, what can you, a Noted Toby Putzold Scholar, tell us about the man, the putz, the troll? Just a few fundamentals so that we lay people might know a little bit about him.
Thanks.
I'll pop back in later, and will try to blog from Europe...
Seems to be a lot of that going around...
Sounds like Frankie sack o'hammers. My old cat, geezerman, figured out how to turn the water on. I had this old clawfoot bath tub and he was able to nudge the handle with his head. I was watching teevee one night, heard water and sure enough there he was.
My girlfriend's cat could be Eek's shorthaired evil twin. Diabolically smart, apparently. One of those cats you're sure is plotting to take over the world. And damned cute.
While Tedby, ah, Toby gets wound up for three days of screaming that we are all racists you might want to take a couple of minutes for rudeness. If Tedby, oh, sorry, TO-BY goes to see it might take him the rest of the night.
5/6/2005
Christ Weary of Creationists:
Here's a tale of the Young Rude Pundit: Back in his high school in the South, the Rude Pundit caused something of a stir with his science fair project: "Evolution vs. Creationism - Which One Is the Truth?" In front of his wooden triptych, which was covered in pictures of Charles Darwin and images from non-Biblical creation myths, like a turtle with the Earth on its back, oh, and naked people and a stray ape or two, the Rude Pundit had made two displays. One was a cardboard box Garden of Eden, with lots of fake shrubbery, a tree with a clay snake wrapped around it, and two naked little white-skinned dolls he had stolen from his sister. The other was a piece of plywood with carefully crafted clay figures showing the development of humans from amoeba-like things to lizardfish to, eventually, us.
The Rude Pundit's presentation, given to students, judges and teachers, came down unequivocally on the side of evolution. Mostly the Rude Pundit did this project to piss off his churchgoing classmates, who kept shoving creationism in his face. And piss them off, he did, with students coming up to the Rude Pundit and asking him if he really, really believed he came from an ape and if he believed in God (that question was generally met with a "Yeah, why not" answer, which, strangely, pissed 'em off even more).
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2...ists-
heres.html
I wish the Rude one had been at my highschools.
Good night my native land. Good night.
Oh, BTW, Sam's still outside but I posted a shot from a coupla mornings ago...
SOMBRERO galaxy?? Does Ahnuld know how porous our galactic borders are? I mean, SPACE SPICS???? We need starships full of intergalactic Minutemen right away!
jdw, don't tell me Frankie boy is stupid. I'm in love with him. I want to catnap him and Punky.
Have a great time, Rorschach, you lucky bastage.
Even on a slow night I can't keep up. Did I miss cake-with-cream-cheese-frosting? Bexause that would suck. And why are you all talking to someone with bad intentions?
I demand answers to all these questions and more!!
Then, wine!
He doesn't anger me, he's simply piteous.
Note the delusional generalizations: liberals are "intellectually dishonest" - no clue that he even understands what the term means or examples forthcoming of course.
By the way, Toby, as we all know, rightwingers are not intellectuals, so I guess for your crew, we're just left with "dishonest".
As for the "culture of cynicism," again who knows what you mean, one can assume that anyone who is reality-based these days is to be labelled a "cynic." I'm sure I speak for all of us here when I say that it's better to be a cynic than to be a punk and a tool. I don't want smoke blown up my ass, no matter what pretty shade of purple it comes in. People who know who they are don't need pretty pictures painted for them to prop up their feeling of worthiness.
Anyway, I'd like to know why so many of the Ariots are white. It's interesting to me in a way that most of you, as individuals, are not.
Atrios gets what, 100k hits a day? And there are just over 100 pictures, some of which you might note are not, well, real. So does that small, self-selected sample really tell us anything about the racial makeup of Atriots, or just the Atriots who feel compelled to submit pictures?
And why haven't you sent me yours yet? You're as much a part of this community, whether we like it or not, as the rest of us. I'm serious.
I blame liberals for their intellectual dishonesty and their culture of cynicism.
Toby, are your parents siblings?
Sorry, I don't understand your bigoted code. Could you decipher for me?
He means that some of the pictures look Jewish.
I'm angry because my country's been taken over by redneck bigots and haters like you
I'm really way past sick of bigots, greed mongers and the just plain stupid people of this country being in charge. They bring us nothing but ruin. They have shot their wads. Party's over.
NTodd:
And why haven't you sent me yours yet? You're as much a part of this community, whether we like it or not, as the rest of us. I'm serious.
Because I don't want my face to become the [focus] of a popular line of hospital bedpans.
He means that some of the pictures look Jewish.
Ohhhhhhhh! I guess I should've photoshopped all the matzoh and piles of Christian babies out of the pictures. My bad, folks.
No, I was just looking at the mugshots and there's only a couple of non-white faces. It's just an observation to which I was looking for an explanation. Don't be so defensive!
Moronic brownshirt fucks... nobody's interested and nobody cares.
Who likes Sun King in the Derby?
Because I don't want my face to become the [focus] of a popular line of hospital bedpans.
Toby Petzold
You're not going to find popularity even there.
No, I don't blame anyone for that. I blame liberals for their intellectual dishonesty and their culture of cynicism.
Toby Petzold
And exactly how can cynicism about
REthugs be intellectually dishonest?
Just when would a cynical attitude
about what you facists have been up to for the last 5 years been the wrong attitude to have?
I just haul out the worst case
scenario.
I look positively psyhcic.
BREAK TOBY LIKE A MOSSBERG!!
(Insert(ha!) penetration joke here).
And why haven't you sent me yours yet? You're as much a part of this community, whether we like it or not, as the rest of us. I'm serious.
Because I don't want my face to become the [focus] of a popular line of hospital bedpans.
You are either a liar, a coward, or both. Submit and I promise I won't even write a snarky caption.
Hey Thersites, what can you, a Noted Toby Putzold Scholar, tell us about the man, the putz, the troll? Just a few fundamentals so that we lay people might know a little bit about him
Well, it cannot be pointed out often enough that Toby is not at all bright, unattractive enough so that dogs throw up at the sight of him, and so disliked that his tapeworms make fun of him.
Toby Petzold
Oh For Christ Sakes!
I'm getting all caught up in the stupid Toby Petzold thing.
You don't want to hear his shit, DON'T FUCKING RESPOND.
YOU are the reason he is here, YOU!
God, the moronity of it just pisses me OFF!
I know, "I just like kicking his ass", whatever.
Jeez, I think I got some SWR on me.
/rant
Who likes Sun King in the Derby?
dave
I'll take 10-1 odds that Bush is seen scampering out of the paddocks in the early a.m.
Right. Under Nazi law, I would have been eligible for the gas chambers, you incredible dumbasses: I'm a second-degree Mischling.
And proud of it.
"Anyway, I'd like to know why so many of the Ariots are white."
I can only speak for myself, but I'm 'white' because my ancestors were 'white'. It's an accident of birth...I had no say in the matter.
mena,
And why are you all talking to someone with bad intentions?
I demand answers to all these questions and more!!
Not I, my dear. I like talking to the fun people here.
It's interesting to me in a way that most of you, as individuals, are not.
I'd like to see things from Toby's point of view but I can't seem to get my head that far up my ass.
I believe Creationism should be taught in schools--believe metaphysics should be taught in schools. Along with logic and rhetoric.
The problem, of course, with that route is that it might generate people who think for themselves. We can't, of course, have that.
(And we also might see fewer of those folks who say that Science disproves the existence of God, too.)
Tony Blankley is a lying fuckface. On McLaughlin Group he just said we tried the 55 mph speed under Jimmy Carter and it did not work. One, Tricky Dick Nixon instituted the double nickle limit, and two, it saved fuel and lives. Of course, no one called him on it since lies and deceit are par for the media course.
Dig that I ain't necessarily saying we should go back to it, only that Blankley is a scuzzy, dishonest bastard. And the rest are lazy retards.
Toby - I'll type slowly so you'll understand:
The reason there are only a couple of "non-white" faces posted is that only a couple of "non-white" people elected to send a photo. From the set of facts you've presented, no other conclusion can be supported.
See, this is what we're talking about when we point out your poor grasp of logic and reason.
No, I was just looking at the mugshots and there's only a couple of non-white faces. It's just an observation to which I was looking for an explanation. Don't be so defensive!
Toby do you ever say anything that doesn't come straight out of a Republican press release? Honestly? Would you have ever even noticed that if you weren't brainwashed into spouting it (along with 100,000,000 other herd animals) as a way of saying "I know you are but what am I" to "liberals".
Anyway, what color's Steve Gilliard? Does he fit your stereotype? How about Kos? He's Salvadoran. Does he fit your stereotype?
Fucking brainwashed loser. Just kill yourself and fuck the body, OK?
Oh god. Friday Night Psychodrama. My bad.
No, I was just looking at the mugshots and there's only a couple of non-white faces. It's just an observation to which I was looking for an explanation. Don't be so defensive!
And you clearly saw my response. So, you really think this means anything? No, of course not, you're just being an asshat. Ooh, that gives me an idea for a stand-in picture since you're too chickenshit even to send a photo...
Because I don't want my face to become the [focus] of a popular line of hospital bedpans.
That'd be step up for Toby, who is stupid, widely held in contempt, and ugly.
...Submit and I promise I won't even write a snarky caption.
NTodd 10:04 pm
noy you, mebbee, todd...
but some of us wanna ride him like a stump-broke heiffer...
just sayin..
.
Speaking of the mugshots, there's no question that the hottest babe is GWPDA. She looks a little bit like Ava Gardner to me. Very pretty.
Right. Under Nazi law, I would have been eligible for the gas chambers,
And you would have lovingly guarded them until it was your turn to jump in.
Baahaaaaaahhhaaaaaaaaa.
jumping in: evening, freethinkers! my duties are done for the day, which feels nice.
as i missed the action on that thread, i take it people found it eerie/nifty that the cats on that building resemble atrios' cats.
"they pay hommage to him abroad." /awe/
Well, we won't be hearing from GWPDA tonight. She's going to be in the shower all night, scrubbing and scrubbing and scrubbing...
I think Mr. Whipple is white, but I'm definitely orange. The tungsten interior light above my head doesn’t match the daylight film in the camera that took the picture.
Sorry bigvic. I didn't see you over there being quiet and Not Feeding Trolls. 'Hem, just pointing out.
I'll take 10-1 odds that Bush is seen scampering out of the paddocks in the early a.m.
Todd:
Ooh, that gives me an idea for a stand-in picture since you're too chickenshit even to send a photo...
Well, there's a baby picture of me at my home page, if you wanna riff of that. It'd be an honor, actually.
Well, it cannot be pointed out often enough that Toby is not at all bright, unattractive enough so that dogs throw up at the sight of him, and so disliked that his tapeworms make fun of him.
So let's see if I can translate from your Scholar Speak into words we Garlic Eaters can more easily comprehend. If I understand this--and I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm wrong--it would appear that Toby is stupid, ugly and nobody likes him. Would that be fair to say, or am I missing something? Thanks in advance.
Eli:
Well, we won't be hearing from GWPDA tonight. She's going to be in the shower all night, scrubbing and scrubbing and scrubbing...
Heh, heh...
Hi Chi dy,
Thanks for changing the subject. It's boring the shit out of me to see so many people give thread to the troll. Waste of time.
Sorry bigvic. I didn't see you over there being quiet and Not Feeding Trolls. 'Hem, just pointing out.
That's what's so annoying about the troll wars - the non-troll pickins tend to get pretty slim.
Toby loves playing the Nazi identity politics.
Stupid. Ugly. Nobody likes him.
Well, there's a baby picture of me at my home page, if you wanna riff of that. It'd be an honor, actually.
Post or e-mail me the direct link and I'm on it. Really.
jdw, don't tell me Frankie boy is stupid. I'm in love with him. I want to catnap him and Punky.
Karin"
Sorry, Karin, but frankie sack o'hammers is the stupidest animal I've ever ever had...and I had a turtle once!
That doesn't mean he ain't lovable...he's very much so.
Hey mena,
I so agree with you.
Eli,
WTF is nutty aunt GWPDA scrubbing off? Heh. I must have missed that one.
That doesn't mean he ain't lovable...he's very much so.
I'm pretty sure stupid cats are almost always very sweet.
Bit more hit & miss with people...
It's boring the shit out of me to see so many people give thread to the troll. Waste of time.
Something about the herd animal mentality makes it even more irritating. I've met neo-nazis who I knew (deep down inside) could be turned. But that's because they had some kind of anger that was twisted from something good.
But with Toby you really don't get anything, do you? Everything he says is simple cut and paste from whatever the Republicans are saying at any one particular time.
Liberals are white. Oh wow. How original.
It's like there's nothing there. It's just a conduit for the collectively reactionary brain, an empty vessel it all gets filtered through.
Okay. But be nice.
Here. I think that'll work.
You could put little Hitler moustaches on my face, maybe.
If I understand this--and I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm wrong--it would appear that Toby is stupid, ugly and nobody likes him.
Indeed. Toby is stupid and ugly, AND nobody likes him.
True story!
WTF is nutty aunt GWPDA scrubbing off? Heh. I must have missed that one.
You probably ignored it - Toby said she was hot.
Excuse me, I phrased that poorly. Toby *noticed* that she was hot.
SWR:
Liberals are white. Oh wow. How original.
No, the point was why are so many of the Atriots who've sent in their picture white? It's disproportionate and only a dumbass would deny that.
but some of us wanna ride him like a stump-broke heiffer...
Woody - I hear tell that cows back up to the fence every time Toby shows up.
Until I get a picture of Toby, this one will have to do. I'm in instant gratification mode (and shit, I only had one double-shot cappuccino today during Friday Coffeeblogging!).
Always with the race card, that's Toby -- stupid and ugly and unlikeable.
That'd be step up for Toby, who is stupid, widely held in contempt, and ugly.
Thersites
That Thersites!
Always pointing out peoples best qualities.
BTLASAFHL Santorums dog.
NTodd:
Oh, BTW, Sam's still outside but I posted a shot from a coupla mornings ago...
'bout time. you have heavy responsibilities in the absence of the atrikitties.
haha..nice, N.
BTLASAFHL
Am I the only one who has no clue what this stands for?
Eli,
I did miss it. I wisely scroll past that shit.
No, the point was why are so many of the Atriots who've sent in their picture white? It's disproportionate and only a dumbass would deny that.
And now watch him run it into the ground.
The problem Toby is that you can't see how people of the same race or religious group or nationality have widely varying experiences.
For you, skin color or religion is destiny.
That's why Charles Johnson can't admit Arabs are individual human beings. That's why a Klansman can't admit blacks are individuals and that's why you're hung up on skin color.
You don't see experience, imagination, thought. You see DNA.
It's only your KKK style Southern racism hammered into a Republican press release designed to bait liberals.
Now watch him repeat "but all of you are white" again and again.
Fuckhead.
BTLASAFHL
Am I the only one who has no clue what this stands for?
Eli | Email
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No, me too.
"I hear tell that cows back up to the fence every time Toby shows up."
yup, they mooed away.
Dammit, My neighbors are screaming at each other. The anger and pain in her voice!
Damn, it's Fri.
Be happy.
Life is short and you're not gonna fix all the shit tonite.
(i gotta work tomorrow, tho. only 6 hrs)
.
Evening Moonbats. Is CD here? I have a question for her.
BTLASAFHL
I'll take a stab, correct me flint.
"Break (Toby) Like A Shotgun And Fuck Him Like..."
works nice.
Evening Moonbats. Is CD here? I have a question for her.
I think I just saw her...
hmmm. i guess this is the part of daddy not being home that isn't any fun. who invited him over?
anyway, i'm probably going to be making snide observations about the 'burbs for the next few weeks, i'm adjusting to life here. so many contrasts with both real urban and rural living, which i've done.
observation one: people have waaaay too much space. not that there's anything wrong with it per se, but the energy costs for such space must be crippling.
Am I the only one who has no clue what this stands for?
Sorry, don't you mean AITOOWHNCWTSF?
Good evening, losers. So Toby notices what a bunch of self hating little bunch of middle class palefaces you are and you clowns go into paroxysms of denial. HAHAHAAA!!!
Ah, I think that's it. Thanks, Jay!
Night Ror,
I don't want smoke blown up my ass, no matter what pretty shade of purple it comes in.
Jennifer,
I Adore you. The rest was fantastic, but the above....damn.
.
No, the point was why are so many of the Atriots who've sent in their picture white? It's disproportionate and only a dumbass would deny that.
Years of white oppression means it's economically not as feasible for black people to own equipment suitable for submitting digital photos?
That came completely from my ass, but now I'm going to do some research...
SWR, you can try to wrench what I said into your usual bunch of self-serving and self-conscious moral and political correctness, but no one who's paying attention will buy it.
Anyway, I don't know what ethnicity these people's fucking cats and dogs are, but so what? It's an interesting question, regardless of how you twist it.
CD: CF is kinda on the upper income protion of the scale. We gots lot les space here on the west side.
Bigvic, did I tell you. The crisis passed, I'm keeping my job. I should be out celebrating, but I'm about hammered flat from worrying all week. So I stayed in to talk to you folks.
Though not every one.
SWR, you can try to wrench what I said into your usual bunch of self-serving and self-conscious moral and political correctness, but no one who's paying attention will buy it.
Let's count how many times Putzhold repeats himself.
That's one.
NTodd:
That came completely from my ass
Or well-paid Democratic consultants. Take your pick.
"I Adore you. The rest was fantastic, but the above....damn."
That was sweet...I even got a visual..
It's interesting to me in a way that most of you, as individuals, are not.
So, Tobe, I'm trying to follow the logic here - if we're so fuckin' uninteresting - why do you spend so much time with us?
More good news from world telling conservitives to piss off. Colombia busted 2 US soldiers running guns to drug terrorists and are up in arms that they got diplomatic style immunity.
Conservitives in Canada fail in their effort to topple the Liberal Government. Politicians all over the world are winning electiong by running anti Bu$h campaigns. There's hope yet we'll return to sanity. Can't happen fast enough.
Anyway, I don't know what ethnicity these people's fucking cats and dogs are, but so what? It's an interesting question, regardless of how you twist it.
No Putzhold. It's not. Unlike a redneck, racist white trash cracker like you, most of us don't reduce people to their skin color.
But let's see you repeat yourself, again.
Mena--carrot cake just popped from oven; now to cool for cream cheese frosting.
if we're so fuckin' uninteresting - why do you spend so much time with us?
And vice fucking versa...
CD, I have a question, if you do not mind. I have two nice, handsome young sons. One is 21 and is about to score a 4.0 at MSU raising this from a 3.78 last term. The other is a high school junior. My question is this: since the older one did a 27 on the SAT in Math and it averaged out to a 22 and the younger one apparently is about to get a 27 on the language section and average out to a 22 - do universities look at scores in relation to the subject matter the student is aiming for? i.e. older son might have been better in math and engineering and the younger one is an arts or Social Science curriculum. (My feelings are that they give these tests so that people like me can be broke for a decade since a twenty two makes them ineligible for merit scholarships and all)
the annoying child in the room has a point, i brought it up earlier. we're a white group in terms of who is willing to post their photo. that doesn't mean that we're all white (obviously) or that we don't have readers of color, i know several that i've personally invited to the blog. but it's a dimension we need to start working on, it'll matter in the coming turbulance, especially for your urban and near urban people. make a friend of color soon, someone out of your usual social circle. if you don't already know it, most of america's communities of color, right down to people like my grandma and admin asst., are utterly in the know about Chimpy and What's Really Going On.
Toby hates whitey.
Toby is also ugky and stupid, and nobody likes him.
Putzold,
Not even sure why I bother, but go here:
Global Beauties
And just scroll along to Miss Egypt.
Must be the white blood, eh Tobe?
The thing I noticed about the pageant (except realizing again that bigots really do miss out on so much of the human smorgasbord, the morons) is how few Arab countries participate.
Score one good-taste point for Islam!
Thersites, TISAUANLH.
SWR:
For you, skin color or religion is destiny.
No, that would be one's tax bracket.
Running behind as usual....
He means that some of the pictures look Jewish.
I thought he was referring to the obviously Irish nature of the bunch.
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Toby - again, dimwit, all that can be concluded is that fewer "non-white" (as you refer to them) people sent in pictures.
That's it. There's no other conclusion that is supportable. And referring to "proportional" in the context of 100 photos out of a pool of tens of thousands - perhaps even 100,000 - people - is also unsupportable. It's not a meaningful sample because it's a) self-selected and b) less than 1/2 of 1% of the people who visit this site.
What is it about those two simple concepts that your dumb ass cannot grasp?
they are a different people in the United Kingdom.... I was watching Blair's comments in front of No. 10, and he promised to find ways to make society more polite and respectful in 'our cities, towns and villages'...
Nice link, Cory, but surely they can find a hotter Japanese woman than that!
No, that would be one's tax bracket.
Toby Petzold | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 10:26 pm | #
That's two. Keep it up loser. Keep proving to yourself that you're nothing but a bot designed to repeat two or three things over and over again.
BTW, it appears congratulations is due to the blogosphere and activists in general.
Microsoft, faced with unrelenting criticism from employees and gay rights groups over its decision to abandon support of a gay rights bill in Washington state, reversed course again yesterday and announced that it was now in support of the bill.
http://www.nytimes.com
You know, I really do not understand the sound of the ocean and why it appeals to me. There are reasons possibly, but at the core, it is something that is intangible, that connection between the ebb and flow and myself. The same is true for me when I have been alone on a bright day in woods that are heavy with snow and quiet. The intangible is what in my mind's eye keeps faith and love alive. Why people have to allow their faith and love to spiral down to coarse acts and children's stories and not see the complex escapes me.
The crisis passed, I'm keeping my job.
((((mena!)))) So glad to hear that. It is a soul crusher being out of work. Very hard on the self esteem. Relax and unwind from the stress!
NTodd--Randy's ex in jail on armed robbery charges. Bail at 150K.
She wants you to break him out so he doesn't get butt raped or contract staph. Then, she wants to knife him in the groin for betraying her.
She wants to know, are you man enough?
Barring that, she'll take ice cream, and she prefers Ben and Jerry's Rocky Road.
Okay, legit picture of Toby is posted in the Atriots album.
mena:
The crisis passed, I'm keeping my job.
Congratulations!!!! Have a drink or six.
NTodd--Randy's ex in jail on armed robbery charges. Bail at 150K.
Jebus.
That came completely from my ass
Or well-paid Democratic consultants. Take your pick.
About the same, actually. Democratic consultants are absolute fuckheads and Reason #372 why I'm not a Democrat.
Yum, cake!
chicago dyke has a good point. Who do you think is going to stand by you when the chips are down? Where do you think the leftist academics got jobs when they were blacklisted during the McCarthy era?
I thought he was referring to the obviously Irish nature of the bunch.
The revolution will wear SPF 35 at all times, even inside.
Bigvic - thank you, my dear.
D&B troll beats for your Friday evening...
http://www.gruwelijk.com/sets/
26...0205_noisia.mp3
do universities look at scores in relation to the subject matter the student is aiming for? i.e. older son might have been better in math and engineering and the younger one is an arts or Social Science curriculum.
Most colleges use the SAT as a cutoff. It's not hard and fast and other factors may be considered but as a rule of thumb you need a certain score to get past a cutoff.
But, Todd! You only promised not to snark on the caption! You could've at least put a swastika armband on me. Or made my Momma's ring into an Illuminati signet.
Anyhow, if I get brave, I'll send you something more current.
Sallyh - I'm sorry, but the boy needs to learn consequences within the confines of law. I'll just have to take Randy out for Ben and Jerry's, but only if she promises to stop hanging out with losers...uh, wait. Nevermind, I'll just buy her ice cream and leave it at that.
DWD- email me. i like to give specific advice and would need some details to help you best.
that said: in general, the rule of thumb to follow in college admissions and standardized test scores is that is varies. that sucks, and i'm sorry to say it. but some schools will totally ignore a score under certain circumstances, i've personally admitted kids into a top 20 school with and act of 18. i've also tanked kids with scores of 34. the scores are soooooooooooo much less important than parents think they are. where they matter: scholarships specifically tied to scores, schools that employ strict cutoffs. the latter aren't too common these days; no school can afford to turn down a rich legacy, star athlete, brilliant yet one dimensional genius, etc.
and for yourself, always remember this: scientifically, the scores only and ever correlate to the following: parental education, socioeconomic class, and geographic location. i've seen morAns from NH get 32 on the act, and true superstars utterly bomb, from other areas of the country. standardized tests are shockingly biased, imho.
But, Todd! You only promised not to snark on the caption! You could've at least put a swastika armband on me. Or made my Momma's ring into an Illuminati signet.
Yes, but I am true to the letter and the spirit of my promise, which carries over to any current pic you send. That's just how I am.
I don't know what ethnicity these people's fucking cats and dogs are, but so what?
Toby Petzhold and his butthole buddy Assvestus.
Living proof that Indians had sex with buffaloes.
"Okay, legit picture of Toby is posted in the Atriots album."
They're all pretty cute before they learn ugly shit.
Jennifer:
It's not a meaningful sample because it's a) self-selected and b) less than 1/2 of 1% of the people who visit this site.
It's self-selected by those who are most actively involved, don't you figure? As for your numbers, have someone here explain to you their inherent inflation under the metrics of blog traffic.
NTodd--I told her, girl, let it go. Run with the Ben and Jerry's.
Theresites, And that is my point. My oldest was a 3.93 student in high school. National Honor Society, All State Academic in two sports and a great kid. Got a 22 and got screwed. Now he has managed three years of college with a (GASP!) 3.89 average. So WTF are we doing basing anything on that test? I look to my university brothers and sisters for an explanation.
36 Minutes until Maher, Sullivan is on tonight.
OVER/UNDER on another Ass Scratch?
They're all pretty cute before they learn ugly shit.
Really? I was expecting him to look like a lizard, like that human-alien baby in V...
"The revolution will wear SPF 35 at all times, even inside."
Et tu, Jay C?
Okay, Todd. I can respect that. And you. But have your fun, either way. I've got nothing much to hide and only my dignity to aspire to.
NTodd--I told her, girl, let it go. Run with the Ben and Jerry's.
Menage a troicolate?
Okay, legit picture of Toby is posted in the Atriots album.
funny - there appears to be a glimmer of intelligence in that child's eyes.
Microsoft did the right thing. It's over at America blog.
It's self-selected by those who are most actively involved, don't you figure? As for your numbers, have someone here explain to you their inherent inflation under the metrics of blog traffic.
You see. This is what I mean by how Toby reminds me of how that voice will never stop.
Even on an electronic text machine, he's categorizing people according to their skin color, economic background, etc.
There's no freedom in Toby's mind. Everything is determined. That's why nothing he says is from his heart, from himself as an individual. He can't think of himself (or anybody else) out of categories.
Really? I was expecting him to look like a lizard, like that human-alien baby in V...
No, no, he's that guy who was an alien wannabe and ended up working for them.
Trusting that this really is an open thread, let me recommend the current New Yorker, "The Climate of Man—III Why is the Bush Administration ignoring the dangers of global warming?" by Elizabeth Kolbert.
On second thought,don't. Enjoy your Friday night. Read it maybe Sunday afternoon after the caffeine spike.
But we truly do ignore this at our peril, especially those of us with kids and/or who kind of like this planet.
OVER/UNDER on another Ass Scratch?
Sullivan is always an ass scratch.
It's self-selected by those who are most actively involved, don't you figure?
Come on, SWR! Aren't you gonna gig me for my tautology?
DWD,
That's good news about Microsoft. Dhame on them for pulling that stunt in the first place. What an unethical operation they run.
if you don't already know it, most of america's communities of color, right down to people like my grandma and admin asst., are utterly in the know about Chimpy and What's Really Going On.
chicago dyke --10:26 pm
i participate in two or three different 'communities.' En mi barrio, and here, and at the theater, and elsewhere...i have acquaintances in every stratum of the local culture...every one from homeless all the way up to millionaires, stars, and the Mover/Shaker crowd...
but that's just me, i reckon...
BTW, it appears congratulations is due to the blogosphere and activists in general.
Microsoft, faced with unrelenting criticism from employees and gay rights groups over its decision to abandon support of a gay rights bill in Washington state, reversed course again yesterday and announced that it was now in support of the bill.
http://www.nytimes.com
DWD
Unfortunately, DWD, the vote in the Washington legislature on gay rights was last week, and it went down by one vote.
If MS had kept the pressure on, it might have passed.
Way to go, Ballmer! A day late and a dollar short.
DWD--can't tell you how many times I hear the same story. The SAT was developed for rich white boys, and it remains so.
God, at the pearly gates, looking through your file: "Do you want to know how much world and time you spent argueing fruitlessly with trolls?"
You, hanging head: "No, thanks, Lord; I get the drift . . . . . . . I was only trying to help them, really." (faint smell of ozone, growing) "OK, OK, maybe not - hey, I'm sorry, OK?"
Yes, but I am true to the letter and the spirit of my promise, which carries over to any current pic you send. That's just how I am.
NTodd
Doesn't matter, we want to meet Chicago Dyke...even if we have no shot, she obviously gets invited to better parties than most of us.
So WTF are we doing basing anything on that test? I look to my university brothers and sisters for an explanation.
DWD - 10:37 pm
Ask me this again, another night when i am not en route to getting fleeced in a 'friendly'texas hold-'em game...
later gaiters, and wish me luck
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Way to go, Ballmer! A day late and a dollar short.
Yeah, I can't help thinking that they're going to be pro-gay as long as there's no actual legislation on the table.
Come on, SWR! Aren't you gonna gig me for my tautology?
Toby. These other nice white middle class people might be nice to you after awhile.
But you don't get it. I'm not middle class. I know the ugly side of people like you in a way they don't.
That's why you will never get a kind word from me, ever. You think everybody here is a nice white middle class hippie because that's your class aspiration, those are the people you want to hang out with.
I'm not. I understand you. I know you. And that's why I hate you.
Woody--my students represent a vast array of nationalities and ethnic groups. The problem is that the young ones are being conned in too many cases. But thankfully, it's not the case for all.
And why haven't you sent me yours yet? You're as much a part of this community, whether we like it or not, as the rest of us. I'm serious.
Because I don't want my face to become the [focus] of a popular line of hospital bedpans
Surely, you flatter yourself with the adjective "popular."
Toby, that was hilarious. I still may not like you, but that was good humor despite the direction and intent of the sarcasm.
Also, it was genuinely cynical. There may be hope for you when your life changes and you realize you're one of us.
And good evening, reasonable people (and some questionably reasonable people)
It's self-selected by those who are most actively involved, don't you figure?
It is true that when you really consider the typical blog sociology, there's always an incredibly small subset of visitors who respond to ANYTHING--not just comments, but also anonymous things like surveys. But judging from many of the e-mails I've gotten, there's a surprisingly high number of people who say "I'm a lurker" or "I don't post very often, so can I still participate?" So really, I'm not sure you can draw any lesson about ethnicity here. You can, however, perhaps learn something about which *individuals* are the most extroverted. Tell ya what: you write up a 10-page analysis of what we can really learn about the Eschaton population from this little interaction and send it to me and then we can discuss this further.
chicago dyke has a good point. Who do you think is going to stand by you when the chips are down? Where do you think the leftist academics got jobs when they were blacklisted during the McCarthy era?
Karin | Email |
thanks Karin for the elaboration, i agree and hope that people remember that time and the good that came from such evil oppresion. the civil rights era was seeded by american refusniks and the like.
that said: white folks, let me tell you a little secret. communities of color make fun of you, and sometimes deliberately look menacing to you, but deep down inside, we're all really just waiting for you to come in the door. don't stand outside so afraid! together, we can overcome the few, lame (when you think about it) wannabe lords that make all our lives such a mess. plus- we'll teach you how to cook and dance, and you can explain that whole white culture thing to us. the parts that just seem silly. we know there's beauty in what you do, let's do some together.
i think i'm pushing the race thing a lot tonight b/c my sis and her hubby are the very obviously only black family in this town.
Okay, legit picture of Toby is posted in the Atriots album.
Ntodd, I liked the one I sent you better- it shows more of toby's personality.
Microsoft:
After looking at the question from all sides, I've concluded that diversity in the workplace is such an important issue for our business that it should be included in our legislative agenda,'' Ballmer wrote in an e-mail.
Doesn't matter, we want to meet Chicago Dyke...even if we have no shot, she obviously gets invited to better parties than most of us.
I think any party she's at automatically becomes better than any party I've been to...
"Here's a little-known fact." Tom Friedman of the New York Times looks just like Cliff Claven from "Cheers."
The similarity doesn't end there either, if you think about it.
So WTF are we doing basing anything on that test? I look to my university brothers and sisters for an explanation.
Well, the writing part is new so I'm sure a lot of schools won't even know what to do with it. CD knows more about this than I do, but I should think your son doesn'y have too much to worry about if his application is strong in other ways.
Did anyone dare click my mp3 link?
I'd like an opinion.
http://www.gruwelijk.com/sets/
26...0205_noisia.mp3
Hey Chi Dyke, i occasionally stop in for a beer at T's on N. Clark and Winnemac. If yer ever, first beer is on me.
Always get, always get, always get my way, HEY!
Incog? What happened, did you break your glasses?
No, no, he's that guy who was an alien wannabe and ended up working for them.
What, the guy who ends up being framed and served up on a platter?
"Steven...nooooooo!"
Aw, come on, guys. Look at poor Tobe. He comes over here to do the classic flaming-bag-of-shit-on-the-front-porch trolling, and realizes that we're a lot more fun than the LGF crowd. Sure, we might be on the wrong side of history, but we tell more and better dirty jokes--and besides, our hot babe quotient is immensely higher than Freerepublic.
Like I said before, come for the trolling, stat for the smut.
(there's also much more cake on this site.)
So, in honor of mr being nice to Tobe, I'm going to give the Petzatollah a real answer to his observation.
Tobe, there's good reasons why so many folks posting pictures are white. While the ratio of folks with Internet access is pretty high, posting a photograph requires not only a computer, but either a digital camera or a conventional camera and a scanner--and it's kind of insane to do it without broadband. That narrows down the socio-economic profile a bit.
The other part of it is that if you're a minority (and particularly if you're a minority with progressive political leanings) you're far more likely to think that posting photographs of yourself on a site routinely critical of the government is pretty fucking stupid to the point of being dangerous. One of my best friends and artistic collaborators has told me precisely that. ("you white boys just never stop thinking that nothing's gonna happen to you," he said.)
So that's some of it.
Mena,
Glad to hear it.
I've been laid off a few times.
It sucks major.
Boss calls you into her/his office ~ 2 pm Fri.
Tells you "You've done a good job for us, but as you might know, business hasn't been good lately. I hate to tell you this, but we have to let you go. Actually, you can leave now."
You walk out with cold blooded fear.
What am I gonna do?
I have no big bank account.
Fuck, I hate even thinking about it.
But, you know, it really did work out for the best, everytime, in the not so short time and in the long run.
.
Tell ya what: you write up a 10-page analysis of what we can really learn about the Eschaton population from this little interaction and send it to me and then we can discuss this further.
Silly rabbit. Toby doesn't do analysis.
It makes his teeny little brain hurt.
it shows more of toby's personality.
Let me guess -- stupid, ugly, and with nobody liking him?
Karin, I'm at work.
NTodd:
Tell ya what: you write up a 10-page analysis of what we can really learn about the Eschaton population from this little interaction and send it to me and then we can discuss this further.
Sure. I'll get right on it.
If I were the pop-psychologizing kind, like so many of the hippies here are, I'd probably say that the reaction to my observation is indicative of some deep-seated insecurity about their crackerness. I mean, they presume to speak for the various minority communities, but they are not joined by them.
A lot of Flying Pygmalions, this lot.
Ya'll don't realize how big this is. Microsoft caved to us.
heh.
While becoming one with my heating pad, I surfed into that little ferret-faced Tucker Carlson loving up the execrable Jimmy Dobson. After Dobson spewed his standard fume about Christians being "persecuted" in America, Carlson opined that "many people" don't like George Bush because he is an evangelical Christian.
Horseshit. Utter, unadulterated, prime horseshit from the say-anything crowd.
PBS. Doing it without my money.
PBG:
He comes over here to do the classic flaming-bag-of-shit-on-the-front-porch trolling [...]
Hmmm. There's an interesting term for that activity down here in Sisterfuckerland, but I'm not going to share it.
I wouldn't want to play into y'alls prejudices.
Microsoft came down on our side and against the fundies. Everybody is watching this. It's over at America blog.
CD, Actually I have worked in the black community for most of my adult life. After three decades, I have not learned anything I did not learn when I was a kid: I like some people better than others. Some people like me better than others. SOme people don't. Race has nothing to do with it. Those who play the race card are generally inexperienced and consequently ignorant. They assume that there are differences and the seek them. If, however, you look for commonality: you will find this. (And it is easier and more rewarding to do so)
Ya'll don't realize how big this is. Microsoft caved to us.
After it was too late. I'll believe after they rack up a consistent record of pro-gay legislative pressure for the next few years or so. As opposed to folding and then saying, "Okay, we're back now, sorry about that! What'd we miss?"
Theresites, And that is my point. My oldest was a 3.93 student in high school. National Honor Society, All State Academic in two sports and a great kid. Got a 22 and got screwed. Now he has managed three years of college with a (GASP!) 3.89 average. So WTF are we doing basing anything on that test? I look to my university brothers and sisters for an explanation.
DWD | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 10:37 pm | #
some points about your post:
school groups like NHS or the Spanish Club (if you're not Latina and President) don't really impress officers like me. i worked (now volunteer) for a top 20 school and got to see plenty of apps with extracurriculars like NHS and SADD, even scouts. the bottom line: what did the applicant do?
being part of a club that meets once a week in homeroom isn't such a big deal, although compared to most american teens it's "significant effort." that will get you into a good state school, perhaps even consideration for some minor scholarships. but if you want Harvard on a full ride, it's a lot more. a lot more.
my advice: start early if presitigious college admissions is important to your family. conversely, accept that elitist institutions of "higher learning" are in fact social laboratories for the idle rich, they bring in the rest of us for entertainment. either way, you realize that knowledge and learning aren't the same thing, and everyone has to follow their own path, no matter what the family wants. we're (still) not china.
Good evening, Moonbats!
" I've got nothing much to hide and only my dignity to aspire to."
Keep aspiring...yer a long way from there.
DWD:"So WTF are we doing basing anything on that test? I look to my university brothers and sisters for an explanation."
I have no fucking idea. I took the ACT. Before the test a friend and I sat on the curb and got very high. He bombed and I did very well....so well, that college recruiters figured that with the low gpa I had in HS I musta been a fuck off...which I was, but they wrote that off and went with the ACT score. It has no relation to academic acheivement or as a predicter of success in life....and like I said, I was stoned to the gills.
you can explain that whole white culture thing to us.
I don't get it myself, actually.
Hippies?
Did someone publish a new definition of that word and it escaped my attention?
Brain fizz.
If I were the pop-psychologizing kind, like so many of the hippies here are, I'd probably say that the reaction to my observation is indicative of some deep-seated insecurity about their crackerness. I mean, they presume to speak for the various minority communities, but they are not joined by them.
If I were the pop-psych kind, I'd definitely say that you're projecting. Nobody claims to "speak for" minority communities here. It's ain't the same as fighting discrimination and protecting rights.
Anyway, I'd like to know why so many of the Ariots are white. It's interesting to me in a way that most of you, as individuals, are not.
Anyway, I'd like to know why so many people (damn near all, in fact) at the RNC convention last year were white? It's interesting to me in a way that a cross-section of real-photo submitting Atriots out of 100 total submitted pictures out of 100,000+ visitors a day is somehow even close to indicative of the racial mix that visits the site, is not.
No, I was just looking at the mugshots and there's only a couple of non-white faces. It's just an observation to which I was looking for an explanation. Don't be so defensive!
Anyone care to take a gander at how many visitors of LGF are black? Well, I'm sure they get a few black visitors every now and then, who then leave, never to return again once they've read of a few of the "reader" comments.
Oh, well, it's only $100 million:
US$100m 'missing' in Iraq
Christian Miller
May 6, 2005
United States federal investigators have opened a criminal inquiry into suspected embezzlement by American officials who failed to account for almost US$100 million (HK$780 million) they disbursed for Iraqi reconstruction projects.
(snip)
PBG:
if you're a minority (and particularly if you're a minority with progressive political leanings) you're far more likely to think that posting photographs of yourself on a site routinely critical of the government is pretty fucking stupid to the point of being dangerous.
So you're saying that your average caucasoidal Atriot is braver than his brown brothers? Scandalous!
Megisi, One with Heating Pad--actually, one of the reasons I don't like Bush is because he's an evangelical Christian, but it's the specific flavor of 'christianity' that he practices that I despise so much.
Got any ice? I pulled out my knee.
A lot of Flying Pygmalions, this lot.
Toby Petzold | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 10:49 pm | #
Toby. The funny thing is that you're right in a way. These people tolerate you because they are white and middle-class.
There's a kind of vanity going on in their minds. They think they can turn you if they're nice to you.
But take someone like Steve Gilliard (who's black). He's not into wasting his time with bigots. I doubt he'd waste 5 minutes arguing with you.
Toby. The reason you get pure hostily from me is the fact that, once again, I'm not middle-class. And if everybody on this site were black or working-class or (god forbid) Arab, you wouldn't be here.
They're slumming you and you're enjoying their company whether you like it or not.
I think any party she's at automatically becomes better than any party I've been to...
Me too. Sigh.
But hey!! she's coming to EschaCon right? Eli- our partying life just got better!!!!
Oh wait. I'm stuck at the ugly kid's table. 
Sad, sad I am.
When I was a kid we used to play
"Wolf,Wolf." Like hide and seek
on a grand scale.30 or more kids,outdoors,on a warm summer night.
The "wolf is it and everybody
hides all over the neighborhood.
The wolf searches until he finds one
kid who hollars "wolf!wolf!" and everyone races back to base ,last one being wolf next turn.
When nobody liked a kid we would make him "wolf".....And then disappear......
It really bugged 'em.
Just Sayin'...
Microsoft came down on our side and against the fundies. Everybody is watching this. It's over at America blog.
Incog
What happened?
Don't have them book marked.
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Greetings Hecate lifeform. Join the parade.
Just Sayin'...
flint
I hear ya.
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DWD--can't tell you how many times I hear the same story. The SAT was developed for rich white boys, and it remains so.
Actually I think it's developed for kids who are good at taking tests.
I know, having benefitted from this dubious talent.
There may be hope for you when your life changes and you realize you're one of us.
Pitchforks, if it weren't for y'alls resistance to democratizing the Middle East by means of war, you wouldn't even know I wasn't a fellow traveler. Probably.
that "many people" don't like George Bush because he is an evangelical Christian.
Oh. I get it. Persecuted whinning christians again. Nobody detests Preznit-wit cause he lied about invading Iraq, cauisng mass graves, again. Who the fuck cares about the massive, crushing debt due to tax cuts for corporations and billionares? It's cause he's a farking fundie. Boo hoo hoo! Everybody's picking of the christian natzis.
Hecate, a blessed evening! more so now that you're here
The similarity doesn't end there either, if you think about it.
uncadave
Ain't that God's own truth.
thanks Karin for the elaboration
I know these things because I'm a red diaper baby. The place where I grew up, people like Pete Seeger and Paul Robeson used to hang out together.
Ya'll don't realize how big this is. Microsoft caved to us.
I just ordered a pizza in your honor.
Seriously.
Hippies?
Did someone publish a new definition of that word and it escaped my attention?
Well, to be fair, I am in serious need of a haircut.
4Legs--I think economics has more to do with it than anything, and talent nothing. I took it when I had mono and did fine, which to me speaks more to my surroundings and luck than to any inherent ability I may have had.
Pitchforks, if it weren't for y'alls resistance to democratizing the Middle East by means of war, you wouldn't even know I wasn't a fellow traveler. Probably.
There's a great deal more resistance to democracy imposed by force coming from the Middle East than from the visitors to Eschaton.
SWR:
The reason you get pure hostily from me is the fact that, once again, I'm not middle-class.
Don't wag your wealth in my face, hater. Just because I don't live in your kind of neighborhood doesn't mean that my perspective isn't legitimate.
Is that Jeffers?
Let me guess -- stupid, ugly, and with nobody liking him?
Exactamundo!!
DWD-i assume everyone here, including you, has nonwhite friends. toby is just too think to get that we're familar like that; no eschatonican is so shallow as not to have some. i'm just encouraging folks to do more, and to bring their friends to this blog.
you're far more likely to think that posting photographs of yourself on a site routinely critical of the government is pretty fucking stupid to the point of being dangerous. One of my best friends and artistic collaborators has told me precisely that. ("you white boys just never stop thinking that nothing's gonna happen to you," he said.)
So that's some of it.
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conversely, the people of color here like me say to themselves, "fuck it! it's not like it matters. an-non-whaddayacallit? they know who, where, what and when we are better than we do, if they care."
the simple fact is few of us here say or do anything on this board/blog that "matters" enough for them to 'come get us.'
although soon, that may change.
This is a big celebration for all of us. It's not often the good guys win big these days. And four legs, when I get off, I'm going to pick up a pizza for you, too.
Carrot cake soon to be cool enough to frost.
NTodd, Randy's headed out for a Ben & Jerry's run...wants to know if you want any. Specify flavor, please.
Don't wag your wealth in my face, hater. Just because I don't live in your kind of neighborhood doesn't mean that my perspective isn't legitimate.
Oh, that better be a lame attempt at humor - I'd hate to think that any one person could be *that* obtuse...
People are responding to the moronic brownshirt fuck because exactly why???
If you're that fucking bored, take a walk around the block, for Christ's sake...
the simple fact is few of us here say or do anything on this board/blog that "matters" enough for them to 'come get us.'
I'll come get you, darlin', but only in the very nicest of ways
SWR:
I'm not. I understand you. I know you. And that's why I hate you.
Jesus! I thought that guy who was stalking Bjork had killed himself!
Incog,
I am glad Microsoft caved to us, but they never should have caved to the fundies to start with. I get angrier and angrier at the theocracy that some traitors are trying to turn this country into. It's treason.
If you want to do something constructive, go give this story at Yahoo a five rating.
Shove it down the brownshirts' throats.
Incog--i'm grateful they caved, but it really didn't cost them anything, which bugs me. Still, in your honor, some lovely Australian Chardonnay.
Pitchforks, if it weren't for y'alls resistance to democratizing the Middle East by means of war...
That is the stupidest fucking thing you've said in a while.
Bring democracy by means of war. Think about that for a minute.
Jesus fucking christ.
There's a great deal more resistance to democracy imposed by force coming from the Middle East than from the visitors to Eschaton.
I think you mean "democracy."
Well, to be fair, I am in serious need of a haircut.
NTodd
Not me.
Little known fact, to me once anyway.
The length your hair will grow is genetic and gets shorter with age.
I haven't cut my hair in decades, and it's still the same length.
.
First shots from the Westboro Baptist Church protest in Durham, NC
"Oh wait. I'm stuck at the ugly kid's table. Sad, sad I am."
Ah, don't fret 4lg. We can sit together and watch the beautiful people. Would you like a cigar?
NTodd, Randy's headed out for a Ben & Jerry's run...wants to know if you want any. Specify flavor, please.
Vanilla. Seriously.
I remember as a kid having my grandmother take me to Baskin Robbins and ask what I wanted. "Vanilla." She'd give me such a smack on the arm. "They've got 31 flavors here, and you want VANILLA?"
Yes. I like vanilla. If I'm feeling really adventurous, B&J's Cookie Dough. Because it's mostly vanilla.
Congrats Incog, I know this issue drives you to fits sometimes and it's nice to see progress towards the just.
This fundie self-righteous garbage only serves to bring the injustice of the current situation to the light.
While these battles may suck for you personally to endure, they serve a greater purpose.
At least today you don't have to talk about massacring heteros.
A plus for all of us.
What was that line from Catch-22? "Let's keep our supernatural episodes to a minimum, shall we, padre?" Ha, ha!
Don't wag your wealth in my face, hater. Just because I don't live in your kind of neighborhood doesn't mean that my perspective isn't legitimate.
Everyone! Look at Toby being "intellectually dishonest"!
He knew SWR meant that SWR is in less than middle class, not more.
He just pretended otherwise, or "lied."
Megisi, One with Heating Pad--actually, one of the reasons I don't like Bush is because he's an evangelical Christian, but it's the specific flavor of 'christianity' that he practices that I despise so much.
Got any ice? I pulled out my knee.
Well, that's the thing, isn't it, Sally? I don;t care what religion the president is as long as he doesn;t use it as a wedge to divide us and to assault our freedoms. Jimmy Carter was an evagelical, too. Didn't matter.
As for your knee, I started taking glucosamine/chondroitin soon after I had my car accident. I can't prove it, but I suspect it's really helped heal the tissue damage, especially in my wonky knee. My recovery has been much faster than I would have guessed it would be.
My wife found a cold wrap that's helped, too. It's made of some sort of weird, stretchy, foam-based space age material that doesn't need to be re-frozen.
Ted, read what I said like Bill Clinton had said it.
Would you like a cigar?
Cohiba?
Oh wait. I'm stuck at the ugly kid's table. Sad, sad I am.
fourlegsgood
Oh, stop it. You get a seat at the beautiful peopl table no matter what.
sallyh:
Got any ice? I pulled out my knee.
Ow. What happened? Chasing NTodd with the nail gun?
Why does it smell like Ted Smith in here?
Sally, back on the test thing, I think you're right to a large extent. But then again, I scored almost 500 on the math portion of the SAT, which for me is almost miraculous.
For those who haven't heard of my math deficiencies, I needed to get extra help to pass business calculous with a D.
Can't fucking add and subtract without a calculator.
Then again, I do recognize an asshole when I see one. Or see one posting. 
I know it's low-rent, but I use old pint containers of Cherry Garcia for storing thumbtacks and paper clips and such. Isn't that delightfully trashy? Y'all?
Yes, Toby, I am saying that, because my friend's right. Despite all the crap of the last 5 years, we white folks still tend to think America is our country, deep down, that it's still basically free. Our cultural indoctrination takes a long time to overcome.
It was another one of my black friends who, oberving my depressed mental state after the November elections, said, "Now you know how we feel every day of our lives."
So, yeah, brave's a word for it. But it's that eighteen year old I'm immortal brave that comes from assumptions so deep they don't go aaway until you actually get shot at.
Have you all noticed the attempt to pretend that there is such a thing now called "The Bush Doctrine" and it involves "spreading democracy"? It used to mean "hooray for preemptive war." But they fucked that up, so now it's back to happy pretend time...
If you want to do something constructive, go give this story at Yahoo a five rating.
What have they done to Yahoo and when did they do it? It doesn't look like it used to, and it doesn't seem to like Firefox all that much. I rate a story, it invites me to sign in, I GET signed in but it just throws up a blank window instead of the "you have rated this story." Bah.
Incog
Thanks for the link
'After looking at the question from all sides, I've concluded that diversity in the workplace is such an important issue for our business that it should be included in our legislative agenda,'' Ballmer wrote in an e-mail.
Wow.
Wow, indeed.
(as the bloggers say)
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Everyone! Look at Toby being "intellectually dishonest"!
He knew SWR meant that SWR is in less than middle class, not more.
He just pretended otherwise, or "lied."
Ted | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:05 pm | #
Nope. I think he made an honest mistake. The reason he so irritatingly hangs around this site is because he gets to hang around with people who he sees himself as aspiring to.
Isn't it a little creepy the way he noticed everybody's race? I think it is.
So he doesn't see how I'm looking at his white trash attitudes from the inside, that I'm the dark skinned black guy who walks up to the light skinned white guy and says "hi brother. Passing?"
Because remember, he outed himself when he noticed everybody's race. He probably lives in a less than white neighborhood or works the graveyard shift at the recycling plant or stands behind a cash regiser at Walmart. And he hates everybody around him because they're not white.
Just my guess anyway.
A plus for all of us.
Who's "us" cocksucker?
Got a mouse in your pocket?
Ow. What happened? Chasing NTodd with the nail gun?
Nonono, I'm in charge of the nail gun right now!
Arrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhh. Gotta stop eating over the laptop. My keybord could feed a small nation. Keys are sticking all over the place.
the simple fact is few of us here say or do anything on this board/blog that "matters" enough for them to 'come get us.'
although soon, that may change.
chicago dyke
===
I've been thinking along these lines myself. I don't like thinking about it for too long, frankly, because the logic leads to some unpleasant prospects.
He just pretended otherwise, or "lied."
That's why we say: Toby is stupid and ugly and nobody likes him.
Incog, yes!! pizza all around.
only one thing
i did wrong
stayed in Microsoft
a day too long
(channelling Olaf)
4lg:
Oh wait. I'm stuck at the ugly kid's table. Sad, sad I am.
fourlegsgood
Mom is NOT going to let you sit at any ugly kids table.
'sides, we're chardonnay swilling, elitist liberals. we don't do 'ugly kids tables'
The Brits should receive a good rogering for that.
Or maybe a knee-trembler, or a bit of slap and tickle...
So let's see if I can translate from your Scholar Speak into words we Garlic Eaters can more easily comprehend. If I understand this--and I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm wrong--it would appear that Toby is stupid, ugly and nobody likes him. Would that be fair to say, or am I missing something? Thanks in advance.
NTodd
Old quote but good nevertheless.
Stupid? Yes, in some ways, smart in others. He uses what intelligent he has to "support" his baseless thinking. Oxymoronic.
Ugly? Who knows. The infant picture is cute, but adults almost never look like their youth face. He doesn't post because it might be dangerous, as noted. I don't even put my email up because of that. We're being watched.
Nobody likes him? No. Nobody here really likes Toby. I guess that fits. I like his sometimes humorous comments, even if they are flippant and meant to insult.
Toby, that's what makes us different than you. We can appreciate both sides, but rationalize and observe enough to know that the right is wrong. Too bad you weren't raised in Vermont, obviously your past has poisoned your present.
"Ow. What happened? Chasing NTodd with the nail gun?"
Probably tripped running after steve and his damn movies. She probably could use a good rub now, but I gotta wash my hair.
Ah, don't fret 4lg. We can sit together and watch the beautiful people. Would you like a cigar?
Dude. I saw YOUR picture. You don't belong at the ugly table.
But you can stop by and have a pity drink with me.
Todd, If you're a true hippie, you'd just let it grow until it stops by itself.
Just like the song says. Plus it looks great flowing out behind a flying biker.
Freak flags for everyone!
Oh, and Ben & Jerry's is now owned by Unilever, the same company that fired Whoopie Goldberg for insulting Bush.
'sides, we're chardonnay swilling, elitist liberals. we don't do 'ugly kids tables'
Unless the trolls show up.
sallyh
Hiram Hover--Simpson is a greasy fuck. Thanks for the link.
You're welcome.
I had to do a double take on your message--at first I thought it said "Homer Simpson is a greasy fuck"--which maybe also is true, but in a beer-soaked and much more lovable way.
I'm the dark skinned black guy who walks up to the light skinned white guy and says "hi brother. Passing?"
My Scot-Irish/Cherokee ancestors passed so they were never enrolled. Meant they didn't need to live on the Res, which all things being equal was a good thing. Bet Toby never would've known that if he just looked at my skin color.
"my wife is an alum and a big fan...."
You are a lucky man Mr. JDW.
My Wife only watches latin american Futball.
Futball?
What the foock is a 'futball'?!
Of course I jest but being married to a latino means lots of arguments as to what really consititutes a 'football' game.
"I can take it or leave it but"
jdw | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 9:48 pm | #
Booooo! Hissss! Buckeye football is almost as great as sex where I come from. Beating Michigan is better than a multiple orgasm!
If someone told me I could choose between screwing every Playboy playmate for the last 10 years or seeing Ohio State beat Michigan in Columbus to win the NC it's be no contest. GO BUCKS!
I'm an irrational bastard when it comes to Ohio State Football. Really! Don't let my calm sense of logic and reason fool ya.
MYOB'
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♪Don't cry for me, Barceloooona♪
flory, hey!! I think you may be right.
Though, being a proper elitist, I prefer a nice french bordeaux.
1990 was a good year.
"Dude. I saw YOUR picture. You don't belong at the ugly table."
I told ya it's all in the megapixies and such. Always been a dork and a wallflower, always will be. Once I accepted that, I was pretty cool with myself.
We will enjoy a drink together.
4LG: let me make this very clear. at my parties, there is NO table of unfun people. you are all fun, it's so obvious it's painful. the whole point of the Eschacon (for me) is to meet, wine & dine, and get down with the coolest people on the Internet(s). never forget that. you may not have the $, clothes, connections or CV of the Beautiful People (of whom i am one and who i despise) but you are very interesting, fun, and worth hanging with. that goes for everone here. even, in a sadly ironic and appropriate way, our trolls.
So cool it had to be repeated:
Tomorrow is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!
Stop by your participating friendly neighborhood comic book shop and pick up some FREE COMIC BOOKS!
Oh, and ignore the Useless Timewasters™. You know who they are.
Ah, don't fret 4lg. We can sit together and watch the beautiful people. Would you like a cigar?
Dude. I saw YOUR picture. You don't belong at the ugly table.
But you can stop by and have a pity drink with me.
How 'bout a table for the bitterly anti-social?
CD's a self-hating beautiful person!
Mena:
I've been thinking along these lines myself. I don't like thinking about it for too long, frankly, because the logic leads to some unpleasant prospects.
Why? Because it's appalling to be so self-important?
Face it, kids: if the G wanted you, you would have already been had. As it is, keep up the good work here. Y'all are satisfying the very definition of hiding in plain sight.
CD, Nope: not really worrying about prestigious Eastern universities. (Public school teacher, remember? No money)
Oddly enough I went to pretty well-regarded college. I have also gone to four other schools. The very best teacher I had was at some podunk community college in Stanton,MI. Go figure. (Had only a BA in EEngineering but had been in on the computer thing from the beginning. Knew everyone, had worked with everyone: had been a lead systems programmer with IBM in the mid sixties. Got tired of traveling, went back home to Stanton and offered to teach computer. (Did not require a salary as his programs were paying him royalities and such - and he did consulting work on the side. He is also on the State of Michigan technology board) Simply a great teacher and a great man. But Montcalm Community College is hardly a household world in the scheme of academia
Education is the one activity where the more you put into it, the greater your rewards will be. You can receive a good education damned near anyplace and going to a prestigious school is no guarantee of receiving intelligence. (Bush went to Yale and Harvard, right? I would rescind his degrees if I were them)
Arrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhh. Gotta stop eating over the laptop. My keybord could feed a small nation. Keys are sticking all over the place.
And I gotta stop drinking over my keyboard. Took a sip of Shiraz and there had to spit out a large bug. Ah, Spring in Vermont...
Ben & Jerry's is now owned by Unilever, the same company that fired Whoopie Goldberg for insulting Bush.
Yes, they are. Retains a lot of the good qualities of the original company, though it is clearly not the same it once was. The Waterbury plant is still the biggest tourist draw in the state.
Oh, and Jerry lives about a mile down the road from my folks. They've even had Thanksgiving dinner at his place. I almost hit him with my car once when he was out for his morning constitutional. That would've sucked.
Oh, and Ben & Jerry's is now owned by Unilever, the same company that fired Whoopie Goldberg for insulting Bush.
megisi | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11
Man, I hope Laura never tries to get a job with them...
My pizza is here.
What was that line from Catch-22? "Let's keep our supernatural episodes to a minimum, shall we, padre?" Ha, ha!
Yes. Let's. In that vein, can you please send your "base" a message to stop believing the Earth is 6000 years old, and that 9/11 was a sign from "god"? Can you also explain to them that stars are not little light bulbs in the sky? While you're at it, could you please let them know that females were not created from a rib from a man, and that in fact are genetically the more significant sex? I know they (along with you) will not warm to this concept, the subjegation of women as breeders being one of your top priorities and all.
Also, can you please tell your "base" to stop trying to dupe other people by putting grilled cheese sandwiches with the likeness of Mary on them on eBay to make thousands off of stupid people, who are also part of your "base"?
One more thing: can you tell your "base" to stop believing George W. Bush was "appointed by god"? Those of us who wouldn't want to live in Iranian style theocracy are gettinga little nervous.
I know it's low-rent, but I use old pint containers of Cherry Garcia for storing thumbtacks and paper clips and such. Isn't that delightfully trashy?
Did you ever eat a big ol' spoonful by mistake? And it shredded the hell out of your throat...and you said to yourself, "Hey, that's pretty tasty. I'd like some more of that!" And then ate another spoonful, and another, and another until every dump you took looked like a dollar sale at Office Max?
'Cause if you did, that whole "Go, Go, GOP!" thing starts to make a whole lot more sense.
MYOB - Um, I'll take those Playmates if you don't want 'em, dude. Just doing my part.
Can't fucking add and subtract without a calculator.
fourlegsgood
Who can anymore.
I mean really. I've seen a software engineer reach for a calculator to do simple multiplication. The guy was confused about long hand division!
Young uns!
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Eli:
Unless the trolls show up.
If we don't tell them the secret password, they can't get in the door.
Randy sez they can do vanilla. We also have hot fudge, nuts, cherries and whipped cream if you're into decorations.
BTW, I always asked for vanilla, and B&J make a really good one.
"Booooo! Hissss! Buckeye football is almost as great as sex where I come from. Beating Michigan is better than a multiple orgasm!"
Well, maybe I wasn't sufficiently clear...I've grown to like it a lot, and watch most of the games...see more then she does as she gets so nervous she usually has to pace or iron or scrub the floor...it's really comical.
When they won the national championship we were in a hotel room in denver watching the game...she was jumping on the bed, screaming,crying...I never had that effect on her, that's for sure. Never saw her so happy.
fourlegs:
America you fuck.
Hello, moonbats!
I'm having a loverly evening with hubby, sitting on the couch, researching our city council candidates and propositions to be voted on in tomorrow's general election.
We're voting on a property tax freeze for anyone over 65. Guess what? Old people already get a school tax freeze and a $65,000 homestead exemption. So who would this tax freeze benefit? You guessed it. The rich. (However few there are in San Antonio.) I was surprised to find out that my Express News did not endorse the tax freeze.
How y'all?
Agave--every now and then, I'll do a long division problem just to make sure I can do it. The last one involved decimals...and I inserted one extra place to the right.
Sad.
Jeebus! WTF is that smell in here?!?
Ugly? Who knows.
For the record, "ugly" refers to the contents of the fetid soul.
Toby is also stupid, and nobody likes him.
'Cause if you did, that whole "Go, Go, GOP!" thing starts to make a whole lot more sense.
PhfffFFTTTT!!!
all over the frickin' keyboard....
only one thing
i did wrong
stayed in Microsoft
a day too long
Burma Shave!
Jeebus! WTF is that smell in here?!?
des
Sorry.
I had Mexican food tonight.
for your knee, I started taking glucosamine/chondroitin soon after I had my car accident. I can't prove it, but I suspect it's really helped heal the tissue damage, especially in my wonky knee. My recovery has been much faster than I would have guessed it would be.
i second this. it worked wonders for my dog after her ACL surgery.
Beating Michigan is better than a multiple orgasm!
If someone told me I could choose between screwing every Playboy playmate for the last 10 years or seeing Ohio State beat Michigan in Columbus to win the NC it's be no contest. GO BUCKS!
I'm an irrational bastard when it comes to Ohio State Football. Really! Don't let my calm sense of logic and reason fool ya.
MYOB'
MY: we are now enemies for life. Hail, Hail, to you know who...
Tavis Smiley on PBS now continues from last night his study of that movie, "Crash" - tonight with some actors, last night director/writer etc.. Interesting review by David Denby in the New Yorker, also. Guess I may have to drag my ass to the cinema yet once again.
sallyh:
Randy sez they can do vanilla. We also have hot fudge, nuts, cherries and whipped cream if you're into decorations.
waitaminute!!!!
NTodd is decorating Randy with hot fudge and cherries?
Does Monsieur know? Does Mrs. NTodd?
I almost hit him with my car once when he was out for his morning constitutional.
Jeez. You have to learn not to pick up your car and throw it like that.
I'm an irrational bastard when it comes to Ohio State Football. Really! Don't let my calm sense of logic and reason fool ya.
We'll have our customary welcome mat ready when you and the rest of Buckeye Nation visit Ann Arbor this fall.
Somehow, it is human nature to define the intangible, circling it with analogies and parables to explain that which we cannot. As in the case of faith and love, we fail to truly construct the essence of the troll. We describe the troll in terms both vulgar and with warning, attempting to show those who have never tripped across these foul and vapid denizens. "Beware the troll" you say, but the uninitiated simply blink, believing surely nothing is so crass. Hence we move forward in the spiral, ramping up each moment, flailing for words. Until we finally succumb, admitting we are human and still with many questions. And then we take that last resort against that intangible troll, and define succinctly their spirit and content. Bullshit we say, simply bullshit. And then all is known, understood and agreed, for we all understand that no one wakes in the morning, thinking how wonderful the bullshit smells today.
And I gotta stop drinking over my keyboard. Took a sip of Shiraz and there had to spit out a large bug. Ah, Spring in Vermont...
Eeeewwwwww. That sucks. And stay away from Jerry. I need my daily dose of rich, creamy ice-cream.
The very best teacher I had was at some podunk community college in Stanton,MI
jesus christ, DWD. my father's business was in stanton, i was born in sheridan. fooking amazing, these internets.
what what his name? we regularly had teachers at our house for dinner, they loved my exotic folks being in the county.
So cool it had to be repeated:
Tomorrow is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!
Last year, I picked up a way cool "Hellboy"...
My wife works in a shopping center with a pretty good comic book shop in it... I'll try and stop by there after I put down my Derby bets (me and some friends are already lined up for a tri box with four horses, but I wanna put a couple bucks on some longshots, like the Baffert-Lukas horses)...
NTodd is decorating Randy with hot fudge and cherries?
Shhhhhhhhhhh! We're supposed to be studying...
Jeebus! WTF is that smell in here?!?
des
Sorry.
I had Mexican food tonight.
lol no, I thought Ted was here. Looks like the coast is clear.
Sally, what happened to your knee?
Oh, I'm -9% republican. How unrepublican does it go?
Night, Moonbats. Keep up the good fight. Being fifty five and an elementary teacher and rising early lead to . . . . zzzzzzz
cd, Are you a Michigan alum?
I knew there was something about you I liked ...
If someone told me I could choose between screwing every Playboy playmate for the last 10 years or seeing Ohio State beat Michigan in Columbus to win the NC it's be no contest.
Take the playmates. Two Big Ten schools cannot play each other for the national championship, which requires playing a team from another conference and then getting a lucky bullshit call in overtime.
des,
May I be so bold as to tell you you are very lovely? Looks like I just did anyway.
I think it's time for Ek to get a blog...
Bullshit we say, simply bullshit. And then all is known, understood and agreed, for we all understand that no one wakes in the morning, thinking how wonderful the bullshit smells today.
Well, except maybe the other bulls.
And the flies. But flies eat shit, so, you can't go by what they like.
'night DWD.
Dream of the beautiful civilization to come.
nite, DWD-bob
for we all understand that no one wakes in the morning, thinking how wonderful the bullshit smells today.
Ah, but the absense of bullshit...Surely no flower e'er smelled so sweet.
Is there a bigvic pic forthcoming?
Todd, If you're a true hippie, you'd just let it grow until it stops by itself.
megis
Yeah, despite the true hippie part, what she/he said!
(not falling for that again)
You fucking short haird freaks.
Peer pressure my ass!
Gotta look right.
Keep those Hair cutting places in Business!
$35 bucks, and you look so cool and proper now.
Fuck, jest let it grow.
.
"Ah, but the absense of bullshit...Surely no flower e'er smelled so sweet.
flory"
Nice...
What was that line from Catch-22? "Let's keep our supernatural episodes to a minimum, shall we, padre?" Ha, ha!
Toby
I like the part where the old man explains why Italy is strong by being weak."You will be gone,we will still be here"
We are not heeding the old mans' warning.
BREAK BUSH etc.
But Montcalm Community College is hardly a household world in the scheme of academia
I just had dinner a bit ago with some Montcalms. Seems there's more folks around here with MI ties than I thought.
And the flies. But flies eat shit, so, you can't go by what they like.
Little fly,
Thy summer’s play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.
Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?
For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.
If thought is life
And strength and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death,
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
"And the flies. But flies eat shit, so, you can't go by what they like.
Rmj"
Now we are getting a bit picky...
But flies eat shit, so, you can't go by what they like.
Dang! Why didn't someone send me the memo?
Is there a bigvic pic forthcoming?
jdw
I was about to say I didn't think I'd seen one.
Education is the one activity where the more you put into it, the greater your rewards will be. You can receive a good education damned near anyplace and going to a prestigious school is no guarantee of receiving intelligence. (Bush went to Yale and Harvard, right? I would rescind his degrees if I were them)
DWD | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:17 pm | #
except One and Only One Thing. networking.
the sad fact is, most of us here are way more smart than the 'elite.' of any kind. seriously.
it's all about the clubiness of things. i'm part of so-and-so group and you're not. all the rest of it, (is it an elite group? no, ick~) doesn't really matter. colleges, learning, a free mind- they aren't so connected for everyone. elite univerisites are just another way of saying "restriced grounds." state schools often have (especially internationally) the smartest researchers and students.
Now we are getting a bit picky...
EkCenTriK
This late at night, it's a reflex....
mea culpa
May I be so bold as to tell you you are very lovely?
Thank you very kindly, but, you tol me that last time I 'saw' you. You can stop now, 'k?
NTodd is decorating Randy with hot fudge and cherries?
Shhhhhhhhhhh! We're supposed to be studying...
SALLYH:
Get that icepack off your knee and pay attention to the children!!!!
it's all about the clubiness of things. i'm part of so-and-so group and you're not. all the rest of it, (is it an elite group? no, ick~) doesn't really matter. colleges, learning, a free mind- they aren't so connected for everyone. elite univerisites are just another way of saying "restriced grounds."
I went to a pretty "elite" school. Did me absolutely no good at all. Had to claw my way up from night-shift data entry temp.
bigvic's scanner is on the fritz (not frist) and the daughter has lost my camera's battery. Pic is forthcomming. Ah, joy! Rapture!
Could have sworn I closed...
...oh, well.
It got a poem out of Thersites, so it wasn't a loss after all.
Fuck, jest let it grow.
Used to. My aunt used to have a picture of me that she stopped showing people because they would say "oh, what a beautiful niece you have!" I finally abandoned the shoulder-length hair back when I was about 7 wile my folks and I stayed at a campground on Sanibel Island that had a rule requiring males to have short hair. Mom wasn't concerned, but I demanded she cut my hair, and I've had it more or less short ever since.
OK, I just scrolled real fast through this thread and saw the word "NTodd" "cherries" and "ice cream."
WTF is going on in here tonight?
And does anyone need some whipped cream?
Last year, I picked up a way cool "Hellboy"...
My wife works in a shopping center with a pretty good comic book shop in it...
dave
We plan to be very busy tomorrow... every year it gets bigger. Last year we gave out over 3500 comic books. This year we have 4500 to give away, plus another 1000 we provided for local libraries to give out. There's also a neato Batman "Heroclix" figure that we're handing out to the first 200 people... it's a great little thing to stand on your computer.
Wheeeee! Geek heaven is May 7th!
lol no, I thought Ted was here. Looks like the coast is clear.
I hope you weren't referring to me!
It's ok. I know you meant "Ted Smith."
I just wish that extreme OCD case hadn't come here and shit on my good (albeit stuffy and stodgy) name.
Oh, I'm -9% republican. How unrepublican does it go?
mena
Mena, it goes to -27%. I took the test and purposely checked the most outrageous answers.
flory - Ixnay on the ecorationday! I'll give you my cake and ice cream if you keep quiet.
thanky, Ek.
I was inspired by your poesy. FWIW, i second Eli.
Ah, joy! Rapture!
"O Brave new world, that has such creatures in it!"
OK, I just scrolled real fast through this thread and saw the word "NTodd" "cherries" and "ice cream."
WTF is going on in here tonight?
Atrios is in Barcelona, and the ferrets got loose.
"I was about to say I didn't think I'd seen one."
This is important to me because I thought for the longest time bigvic was a guy...and I had therefor formed a certain mental image I think she found most unflattering.
As for eveyone that did post pics, no one looked at all like the metal picture I had of them.
what's the link to that test?
i am in trippsville right now. montcalm fucking county. damn.
um, i'm sure at least one of you knows my dad, he taught you computers, no?
"O Brave new world, that has such creatures in it!"
I was thinking it was more like being in Gilliam's Brazil, but Brave New World works, too.
And does anyone need some whipped cream?
Is it the kind in the spray can? If so, I do! I do!
wow bigvic isn't a guy?
I imagined big puss from Sopranos for some reason.
And does anyone need some whipped cream?
san antone rose
Herb? Herb Alpert?
(I think I was 12 when that album came out. It changed my life. Well, the cover did....)
no one looked at all like the metal picture I had of them.
Prolly because we're all T-1000s and made of liquid metal alloy, thus enabling us to take on the appearance of anyone we touch.
I went to a pretty "elite" school. Did me absolutely no good at all. Had to claw my way up from night-shift data entry temp.
Eli:
I went to a no-name school undergrad and made a point of only applying to "elite" schools for b-school. Figured if I was gonna get my ticket punched, I might as well go for the big-ass hole punch.
NTodd:
It's a deal if I get seconds as well.
So it's come to this.
Pastor Chan Chandler of the East Waynesville North Carolina Baptist Church in North Carolina ejected nine members of his congregation because they did not vote for George Bush for President. 40 other congregants left his flock in protest.
Welcome to the perversion that is George Bush's vision of faith America.
For more, see:
"Faith-Based Intimidation."
Is GWPDA around? Tomorrow I'm planting tarragon just for you.
"I imagined big puss from Sopranos for some reason."
Bwahaha...that's what I thought. Big, pot belly, rosy face from high BP and too much booze, cigar chomper, dishelved...
flory - you drive a hard bargain, but there's a lot at stake, so okay.
The Earth's future looks bright--and that's bad news, according to "global warming" enthusiasts, reports Nature.com:
Our planet's air has cleared up in the past decade or two, allowing more sunshine to reach the ground, say two studies in Science this week.
Reductions in industrial emissions in many countries, along with the use of particulate filters for car exhausts and smoke stacks, seem to have reduced the amount of dirt in the atmosphere and made the sky more transparent.
That sounds like very good news. But the researchers say that more solar energy arriving on the ground will also make the surface warmer, and this may add to the problems of global warming. More sunlight will also have knock-on effects on cloud cover, winds, rainfall and air temperature that are difficult to predict.
You just can't win with these freaks.
Thank you very kindly, but, you tol me that last time I 'saw' you. You can stop now, 'k?
I hope that didn't seem rude. I didn't mean to sound rude.
OK, I just scrolled real fast through this thread and saw the word "NTodd" "cherries" and "ice cream."
sallyh hurt her knee and isn't paying any attention to what the children are up to tonight.
As for eveyone that did post pics, no one looked at all like the metal picture I had of them.
jdw
Well, those metal pictures are never very flattering.
They add pounds and always make you look sick and gray.
"Prolly because we're all T-1000s and made of liquid metal alloy, thus enabling us to take on the appearance of anyone we touch."
I take it this is some sci-fi reference I don't get?????
wow bigvic isn't a guy?
I imagined big puss from Sopranos for some reason.
You're projecting like an octoplex.
I heard on Air America Radio today that they are privatizing Los Alamos. Can you imagine how very dangerous that is to privatise this weapons lab where there will be no government oversight, records kept, etc.?
At the end of every day I am more and more horrified. There is no end to the destruction that this mob is up to.
Is there nothing to be done?
ejected nine members of his congregation because they did not vote for George Bush for President. 40 other congregants left his flock in protest.
Welcome to the perversion that is George Bush's vision of faith America.
He's a uniter, not a divider, my ass.
I think GWPDA is an early bird.
I was going to work on my garden tomorrow too, but they're predicting rain in NJ. Today I picked up bags and bags of mulch from our town recyling center.
"sallyh hurt her knee and isn't paying any attention to what the children are up to tonight."
And we had a troll, and too few cat pics, and flg went to eat pizza.
We're dealing with some heavy shit.
we ought to welcome signs of true political diversity in Congress, to wit, as the Washington Times reports: "Congressional Black Caucus members no longer vote lock step with each other and the Democratic Party, reflecting a significant change in the economic status and demographics of their constituents and their own political aspirations."
The CBC is entirely Democratic, but significant numbers of its members voted with Republicans on such matters as estate tax repeal and bankruptcy reform. But Charles Rangel of New York, the caucus's second most senior member (after Michigan's John Conyers) isn't happy:
"Why any member would be voting for the bankruptcy bill or estate-tax repeal or for making the tax cuts permanent or any of those things is just stupid, but it doesn't tear us apart because whether it is a speaker or a member, we only have one vote," he said.
"We have to be very, very tolerant of a person that votes stupid, because they may think they have a good reason and they are the ones who come down here, so you may think the vote is stupid but they know what they are doing," Mr. Rangel said.
Maybe Rangel should start wearing one of those I'M WITH STUPID T-shirts on the House floor
Anybody else seen this?
http://www.pbs.org/
Everybody's favorite SpongeBob hating whack-job is being profiled on the New and Improved, "Republican PBS." Can't wait until the Cookie Monster weighs-in on the Senate filibuster against people of faith.
Is it the kind in the spray can? If so, I do! I do!
In our household, getting caught standing with the refrigerator door open, shooting Ready Whip right out of the can was cause for major punishment. I think I'm techincally still grounded for the last time I was pinched doing it ...
NTodd - just don't tell sallyh I sold her out for carrot cake and ice cream. she was counting on SOMEBODY to be the grown-up tonight.
I went to a no-name school undergrad and made a point of only applying to "elite" schools for b-school. Figured if I was gonna get my ticket punched, I might as well go for the big-ass hole punch.
Did that work?
Is GWPDA around? Tomorrow I'm planting tarragon just for you.
Petzold expressed admiration of her picture. I think she may be too traumatized to show up.
Is GWPDA around? Tomorrow I'm planting tarragon just for you.
No. But [T]oilet [P]aper is. Aren't you glad? I know we all just love his presence and definitely don't wish him to take his rotten, five year old soul over to freeperville to be with his own genocidal kind and keep his ass there.
[/snark]
"Prolly because we're all T-1000s and made of liquid metal alloy, thus enabling us to take on the appearance of anyone we touch."
I take it this is some sci-fi reference I don't get?????
Uh, apparently, yes. Terminator 2.
Bwahaha...that's what I thought. Big, pot belly, rosy face from high BP and too much booze, cigar chomper, dishelved...
Hahahahahahaha. I thought I'd die laughing when I read that the other day. I'm actually 5'7 and a size 4. My pot belly is not that great and I hate cigars. Hoo Boy. Don't worry, I think a lot of folks will get a real kick out of the reality based bigvic.
"Uh, apparently, yes."
haha...told ya I know nothink. I'll be beck.
Moonbats, troll: good evening.
I am writing a 20 page note on the state secrets privilege & Sibel Edmonds case . . . that and my usual dicking around on the Internets.
In our household, getting caught standing with the refrigerator door open, shooting Ready Whip right out of the can was cause for major punishment. I think I'm techincally still grounded for the last time I was pinched doing it ...
lol Mine too. Being able to do it now is one of the many great things about no longer living with your folks.
Prolly because we're all T-1000s and made of liquid metal alloy, thus enabling us to take on the appearance of anyone we touch.
So if I touch myself...I go into some kind of Borg-killing feedback loop?
Good lord: the Catholics were right.
Eli - it only matters for the first job. After that, its up to you.
Yeah, it worked. The b-school had a fairly robust alumni network that got me my first job
flory - oh, don't you worry. My lips are sealed. And I'm being very grownup.
By the way, here's a nice picture of me...
"Hahahahahahaha. I thought I'd die laughing when I read that the other day."
There are troubled times, and I'm glad to have brought you a laugh
driftglass - the Catholics *invented* SkyNet!
I went to a pretty "elite" school. Did me absolutely no good at all. Had to claw my way up from night-shift data entry temp.
Eli
Never got a degree, some college, but just lot's of OJT.
But one of my layoffs set me back major.
I went to a pretty "elite" school. Did me absolutely no good at all. Had to claw my way Took the opportunity to go from CT to NM, where I really wanted to be. Went from making $16/hr in CT to $10 in NM.
At 41 I'm once again clawing my way up.
Doing better now, but damn, the struggle.
Fuck, it could be a book!
Or a short story anyway.
.
Eli - it only matters for the first job. After that, its up to you.
Yeah, it worked. The b-school had a fairly robust alumni network that got me my first job
Yeah. It was a nice feeling when I suddenly realized I really didn't *need* an MBA anymore.
My networking was, well, non-existent. None of my friends were in any position to get me a job. Hell, I don't think any of them are even now.
My lips are sealed
Mine too!
Can you hear them? They talk about us. Telling lies, but that's no surprise.
One Herb Alpert whipped cream delight coming up!
I have a friend that owns ferrets. One day she came home to find that they had clawed open her bean bag and were hiding inside. When they finally came out, they were covered in little white foam balls. She said they looked really cute trying to play innocent.
Much the same look that NTodd probably gets.
NTodd:
My lips are sealed. Uh, huh - to what portion of the young lady's anatomy?
And I'm being very grownup....
And that's *exactly* what worries me.
Sallyh made carrot cake? Are you still here Sally?
Today I picked up bags and bags of mulch from our town recyling center
Ah, Karin, that stuff is brown gold. I haul it home by the truckload. After things are up in the veg garden, I smother every bit of bare ground in about 3 inches of it. Little to no weeding for the rest of the season.
jdw,
I kid you not. I had a serious crack-up over that. It was hilarious.
Jeez, san antone - don't give the boy any ideas!!!
"One Herb Alpert whipped cream delight coming up!"
Wow thanks for posting that! My parents had that and played it over and over on the little low-fi in the paneled basement, which sat next to the bar with the funky red lights. They had cha-cha parties. It was a bad time for good taste.
By the way, here's a nice picture of me...
wouldn't ya know it - another white boy.
Time to walk the wookie and get some well-deserved sleep.
'night all.
damn i hate it when i love a band too much. just now, it's interpol. "it should be me." sigh.
it sucks when someone else has made millions off a song that is essentially your pain. 'cause i know i dance better.
love, can you love me babe. oh yeah.
flory - we're studying, I tell you...STUDYING! I swear, I've kept one foot on the floor at all times. I am, if nothing else, always a gentleman.
Sweet dreams, moonbats!
I have a friend that owns ferrets. One day she came home to find that they had clawed open her bean bag and were hiding inside.
Which reminds me, A. didn't post ferret blogging here this week. *Sigh* Her babbies are too cute.
Time to walk the wookie and get some well-deserved sleep.
Yeah, I find 'walking the wookie' always relaxes me and helps me get to sleep...
night karin
"Todd, If you're a true hippie, you'd just let it grow until it stops by itself.
Just like the song says. Plus it looks great flowing out behind a flying biker.
Freak flags for everyone!"
After the Army I let it grow down between my shoulder blades.
Then I got a job putting insulation in attics.I had to slide on my back,
and my hair would get caught under my shoulders.Ouch!! Off it came.
It's easier to sneak into Republican gatherings this way.
They'll never know what hit 'em!
I've kept one foot on the floor at all times.
There's a Blogging Hayes Office Code?
Man, am I ever in trouble.
Anybody else seen this?
http://www.pbs.org/
Why does this recurring vision of Linda Blair spring to mind when I look at this page?
Any thoughts, folks?
Cheers,
DES & megisi, you got in trouble for doing whippits, be honest.
I find 'walking the wookie'
You crazy kids. In my day we called it, um, well, never mind....
Yeah, I find 'walking the wookie' always relaxes me and helps me get to sleep...
and it's a lot easier than jerking the Jabba.
Anybody else seen this?
http://www.pbs.org/
Everybody's favorite SpongeBob hating whack-job is being profiled on the New and Improved, "Republican PBS." Can't wait until the Cookie Monster weighs-in on the Senate filibuster against people of faith.
Nite, Karen Ellen.
Choking Yoda
NTodd, sweetie - its not your foot that worries me.
I am, if nothing else, always a gentleman.
NTodd
Then I'm sure you used a regulation "bundling board" also...
bigvic - but A did do Friday Ferretblogging. She's just not as much of a whore as Holden "Look At Me, I've Got A Pony" Caufield.
NTodd, Larry has to translate a tech manual into French. He's handed off nail gun duty till further notice.
The good news is that the current bf is working tonight. The bad news is that her best female friend is here. The noise level in my house has increased logarithmically.
On the other hand, they're not bad as slave labor.
Ba'al gets a mention over at Rude Pundit! I know he/she/it is crude, but damn, I just love the writing. Here's a piece of rant on the Kansas evolution case:
What combination of desperate economic times and religion-induced dementia is making us fight this battle over and over? In Kansas, starting yesterday and continuing today, is a debate over whether or not to require the teaching of "intelligent design" alongside evolution. "Intelligent design" is such a cutely ironic name, in the "Clear Skies Initiative" school of obfuscative rhetoric, because you have to be a complete fucking moron to believe in it. It's Christianity without mentioning Christ, because, if, say, the universe was really just shat out of the anus of a dark Baal-like deity, it'd totally fuck-up the whole "intelligent design" thing (but, goddamn, what a laugh we could all have, no?). And speaking of obfuscation, the members of the Kansas Board of Education who called the hearing didn't even have the balls to say that the true purpose was to put some kind of god back into the science classrooms. They claim they simply want to ensure that "criticism" of evolution is mentioned. Huh. Wonder what you'd use to criticize it, other than fake science, flawed axioms of desperation, and the Bible.
Yeah, I find 'walking the wookie' always relaxes me and helps me get to sleep...
and it's a lot easier than jerking the Jabba.
oooh, my little light saber just flared to life!
des--I am here, and the cake is frosted.
Carrot cake, anyone?
" i am a scavenger."
and on that note, i think i'm going to say goodnight. freethinking moonbats, i love you all so. tonight's project: make a friend of color. men- pick up a black woman online. she'll make you so happy. women- take a walk on the dark side, your choice. you know the ahem, "odds" online. either way- practice your liberal values today, and love someone for The Cause. you'll thank yourself in the morning.
nite, y'all.
You know, it's a really good thing that I've got the nail gun. I think I'd better hide it before sallyh gets back.
Great Muff Porkin'.
"After the Army I let it grow down between my shoulder blades.
Then I got a job putting insulation in attics.I had to slide on my back,
and my hair would get caught under my shoulders.Ouch!! Off it came."
When I quit my day job, I let my hair and beard grow because for decades I had to wear a coat and tie and loved the freedom of not having to shave.
It got longer and longer until I looked like zz top. Every Tuesday we'd get subs. One wednesday morning I found a pickle in my beard, and that was the end of that.
exercising the ewoks
Yeah, I find 'walking the wookie' always relaxes me and helps me get to sleep...
NTodd
Do you...make that sound?
Sally, how's the knee? What happened?
SallyH - Monsieur is translating from the original Japanese into French?
Oh, and rest assured, I've just been here minding my own business. I'll gladly hold onto the nail gun. You can go ahead and turn in if you want. Everything's under control. Nothing to see here. Oh, and I'm not all that hungry right now, so you can give my cake to flory.
stuffin the stormtrooper
jerkin' the jedi
Tube Skywanker
Me. X:
You look exactly as I imagined you wouuld. I'm guessing the chicks heart you for your manliness.
is walking the wookie anything like spankin the monkey? lol
NTodd--scroll up. Your continued services are required.
Do you...make that sound?
Nah, I sound more like Darth Vader when I'm alone.
Oh shit, I just fell for the Jedi Mind Trick again, didn't I? Stoopit!
Shit. I need a typing/editing class. STAT!
NTodd:
The best friend as well? what exactly are you studying?
bigvic - click here for Friday Ferretblogging.
Almost forgot my catblogging for today:
http://greatscat.blogspot.com/20.../05/
please.html
De-helmeting the Vader.
Deploying the Probe-Droid.
Makin' the Kessel Run in five parsecs.
That' it, I'm outta here...
Mena--I was running up the stairs to class, hurrying as on Thursday I have two classes back to back--in different buildings. I was toting the standard laptop and backpack. The backpack slid down, and in my attempt to rescue it from its dangerous slide, I seemed to have twisted my knee.
Oh, and I'm not all that hungry right now, so you can give my cake to flory.
NTodd
==
Uh oh!
I'll have his ckae.
Also, if you haven't listened to this yet:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/20...5/
04.html#a2775
Written & recorded by C&L, it's awesome. Really.
"Almost forgot my catblogging for today:"
Thanks, des. And btw, that pic on your website......(ducking and running away at the speed of light)
One wednesday morning I found a pickle in my beard, and that was the end of that.
jdw
Haaahaha! Mmmm....pick-le...
/Homer
sallyh:
yummy carrot cake. you don't need to read the thread - really. there's nothin important going on.
Flory--you're more than welcome to the cake. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that NTodd's problem isn't lack of hunger, but some covert attempt to appear more sylphlike for Eschacon.
stuffin the stormtrooper
Grabbin' the Greedo.
Shooting the blaster.
Slaying the Emperor.
Blowing up the Deathstar.
Thinking about Princess Leia on Jabba's Barge Oh My God!!!!!
Me. X:
You look exactly as I imagined you wouuld. I'm guessing the chicks heart you for your manliness.
bigvic
That, and I don't sleep due to the drugs. Keeps things interesting.
By the way, that FakeNtodd picture on the Atriot list appeared in a nightmare I had last night.
Disturbing.
des- too fooking cute! why we can't all be cats is why i flirt with athesim. nice photo.
Is that a Moon in you pants, or are you happy to see me.
Wait a minute
"That's no Moon..."
D'oh!
Me are two spel gud!
mena:
Uh oh!
I'll have his ckae.
hey.....that's MY cake!!!!!!
The best friend as well? what exactly are you studying?
Um...French?
Makin' the Kessel Run in five parsecs.
LOL! I can do it in four.
Nite, Mr. X-bob.
Ferallib,
Oh, thanks for that!
Diary One of Mr. Athenae's work friends brought him a stuffed ferret from IKEA for Christmas last year. We decided to see what the boys made of it. Fox doesn't give a damn about it, but Stripe?
Heh, heh.
NTodd--When I was in my wee years I had a crush on Princess Leia. Damn she was hot in Return of the Jedi.
An kwiq onn draw!
Great cake girl. I'm gonna get fat.
Flory--why would I expect anyone to be a grownup here?
"I'll have his ckae."
Is that like boo-ckae?
THESE are the droids you're looking for, big boy.
des:
verrrrry cute kitty.
but - kitty muggings? Yikes!!
NTodd you beat me by a mile. Long threads and dial-up are an ugly combination.
driftglass - heehee!
Uh oh, I feel a disturbance in The Force. I must go practice my Jedi mind cleansing rituals.
Miscegenate now!
Or, at the earliest feasible opportunity.
Mena and Flory both get two pieces each, because they're always extra special good.
Mena, hope the Beajolais was helpful.
spelling. fascism. "what's the difference?"
interpol rocks. i'm old.
"it's way too late..."
I have a sneaking suspicion that NTodd's problem isn't lack of hunger, but some covert attempt to appear more sylphlike for Eschacon.
I really need to get my ass on my bike. Right now my allergies are killing me.
[Note to flory: remember our deal.]
Uh oh, I feel a disturbance in The Force.
As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in orgasm, and then asked, "where's the Kleenex"?
why would I expect anyone to be a grownup here?
Sorry, I don't follow.
e-helmeting the Vader.
Deploying the Probe-Droid.
Makin' the Kessel Run in five parsecs.
That' it, I'm outta here...
MisterX
Yes, but can you pull out in time?
"That's no Moon..."
That's Driftglass' Mighty Muscle of Love!
sallyh:
ok, long as you know I tried; but, y'know - he offered me SECONDS...
still - i'd check out what's going on in the basement if i were you
Activating the Nav Computer
Navigating the trench
Riding the Tauntaun
Shooting the harpoon gun
Swinging the light saber
Interpol, nice!
des--I am here, and the cake is frosted.
Carrot cake, anyone?
Yippy! Toss some this way please.
Dial up?! Good lord man. Get your ass over to Toshi station and pick up some power converters.
Flory: what sort of deal did you and NTodd make, or will I live a long and healthy life not knowing?
Big slice of carrot cake for Des...
But she needs to stop mugging kittens
Jeepers H. Christmas! It's one thing for my keyboard to have sticking keys, but you'd think I'd at least read what I type before I post. Oy. I'm hopeless.
My favorite of the night is Me X.
flory - I'll never trust you again.
Great, now I'm going to have to "fix the vaporator" when I was hoping to "go to Tashi station". Sigh.
Flory--LA homes don't have basements. Hell, we don't even have an upstairs.
But yes, I should probably check on the girls.
Carrot cake, anyone?
Yes, Please, and may I offer you some Riesling?
Oh Sally, the beaujolais, and all the rest, helped more than you know this week. I think I might be developing feelings of patriotism about this blog.
Thanks, des. And btw, that pic on your website......(ducking and running away at the speed of light)
What?? Don't tell me I'm the board bitch all a sudden?
sallyh:
not knowing is good. ignorance is bliss. the thread you don't read is the thread you don't need....um...or...something
news flash:
WASHINGTON - Military criminal investigators received 1,700 reports of sexual assault in 2004 involving at least one member of the military, the Pentagon said Friday
.
What, no one laugh at my boo-ckae crack?
Sheesh. Tough crowd. G'night, you've been great. Really.
Feral Liberal--Riesling is more than a fair exchange for carrot cake! Gladly, and enjoy.
What a wonderful wretched hive of scum and villany we have here tonight.
How's things in Mos Eischaton Cantina?
Kelley B--we at Mos Eischaton are behaving with great sobriety, maturity, and dignity...
NOT!
NTodd:
one day you'll thank me.
Night jdw. Appreciate kitties!
"Sheesh. Tough crowd. G'night, you've been great. Really."
And don't forget to tip your server!
More:
Bull's-eyeing my womp rat
Crash langing on Degobah
Yankin' on Yoda
Oiling my droid
Cleaning my landspeeder
Okay, I got nuthin'.
I am making Paradise Cake!
des- too fooking cute! why we can't all be cats is why i flirt with athesim. nice photo.
cd-I think I was a cat in another life.
Evening moonbats. Fuck Bush and fuck the East Waynesville Baptist Church. If I were standing outside the place right now, and there just happened to be a brick handy...just sayin'...
Nur-al--what's in Paradise Cake?
As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in orgasm, and then asked, "where's the Kleenex"?
I knew I shouldn't come back this late at night.
NTodd--it's going to be a tough next couple weeks till Star Wars gets out, isn't it?
I really need to get my ass on my bike. Right now my allergies are killing me.
Jeepers H. Christmas. The allergy season is killing me. My face is so puffed up in the morning it is not funny. I have to quit playing tennis outdoors every time the grass mowers come along. I have a raspy voice and constant sore throat. It's hell, I tell ya.
Bull's-eyeing my womp rat
Crash langing on Degobah
Yankin' on Yoda
Oiling my droid
Cleaning my landspeeder
Okay, I got nuthin'.
NTodd
==
Thank you for preventing me from ever developing a crush on you.
RMJ--that was Thersites, and we know you're always pissed at Thersites.
Now come have some carrot cake.
Don't tell me I'm the board bitch all a sudden?
It rotates. Last week it was Jeffers.
Really, you have to read the memos.
but - kitty muggings? Yikes!!
But, I didn't mug the kitten -- it's the repugnicans I tell ya!
NTodd--it's going to be a tough next couple weeks till Star Wars gets out, isn't it?
The bummer is I was hoping to go to a Thursday midnight showing with my crew, but I have to go teach in New Jersey that week. Prolly see it with Dad when I get back. I expect it to suck, but I must go, being a weak-minded fool...
The allergy season is killing me. My face is so puffed up in the morning it is not funny.
So we won't be getting a picture for the Atriots album any time soon?
Bigvic, NTodd--I've had a freakin sinus infection for two weeks now, and it's all due to allergies. I love spring. Now can we just isolate the pollen into its proper place?
Aren't you a little... short for a stormtrooper?
g'night salacious moonbats. Off to the bed thing.
Maaaybe a little "dissolving the Imperial Senate" first.
I knew I shouldn't come back this late at night.
Rmj, Wandering Aengus
It never fails, does it?
that was Thersites, and we know you're always pissed at Thersites.
You know, I am human and need to be loved, just like anybody else does.
Thank you for preventing me from ever developing a crush on you.
I'm here to help!
Buzz Bomb--I don't have a brick, but would a jagged fish knife suffice?
Nite driftglass-bob.
Aren't you a little... short for a stormtrooper?
See, I've always wondered how she could tell when he was dressed up in all that armor...
And don't forget to tip your server!
I tipped my server, and now the hard drive keeps making this grinding noise.
"You know, I am human and need to be loved, just like anybody else does."
Yes, but unlike RMJ, no one is making barbecue jokes at your expense.
The general demeanor is as appropriately dignified as it should be, Sallyh.
Listen to the esoteric exotic music the band is playing... it's makes those long nights in deep space avoid imperial entanglements worth it.
Goodnight and sweet dreams, moonbats!
Thank you for preventing me from ever developing a crush on you.
More mena for me... now.
See, I've always wondered how she could tell when he was dressed up in all that armor...
I always thought, wow, guess he was lucky he shot a really short stormtrooper, then.
Buzz Bomb--I don't have a brick, but would a jagged fish knife suffice?
Sallyh, La Poissoniere
Not sure I could shatter a stained-glass window with a fish knife, but I might be able to, I don't know...maybe hack up their shrubs or something?
So we won't be getting a picture for the Atriots album any time soon?
Hahahahahahaha. Not an early morning shot, that's for sure.
Okay, Eli, i set myself up for that one.
Of course, anytime I open my mouth around you, I've set myself up for something...
I hear you, Thersites. Myself, I would go out tonight, but I haven't got a stitch to wear.
Don't tell me I'm the board bitch all a sudden?
It rotates. Last week it was Jeffers.
Really, you have to read the memos.
Damn. That must be what I just spilled merlot on . . .
Of course, anytime I open my mouth around you, I've set myself up for something...
You could say that.
I always thought, wow, guess he was lucky he shot a really short stormtrooper, then.
Maybe the armor has cuffs.
Nite Kelly b-bob.
ntodd- go to bed. seriously. you don't sleep enough, by my standards. which is bad.
c'mon baby. let's snooze.
but unlike RMJ, no one is making barbecue jokes at your expense.
Mmmm, barbecue...
More mena for me... now.
Sure, Eli, like you've never "danced with the Ewok"...
Thanks, I have to pass on the carrot cake, for I am old with wandering, and besides, its late where I am.
Flies inspire Thers to poetry, but "Star Wars" inspires him to....well, that's alright, every time somebody mentions "Flash Gordon" I remember the first porno film I ever saw, "Flesh Gordon." It was really pretty good, too....
Madame La Poissoniere has that lean and hungry look in her eye again, and seems to be going for the Kingsford. Perhaps it's time for me to go....
More mena for me... now.
Eli |
Awww, Eli.... (batting eyelashes)
Buzz Bomb--fish knives are best at penetrating...well, protein substances. But shrubbery desecration might work, too.
c'mon baby. let's snooze.
Oh, I am *so* there!
Sure, Eli, like you've never "danced with the Ewok"...
No, I just blow my motivator every once in a while.
Awww, Eli.... (batting eyelashes)
*moonbatting eyelashes back*
des:
But, I didn't mug the kitten -- it's the repugnicans I tell ya!
oh yeah, of course. the gun's in the right hand.
d'oh!
No, I just blow my motivator every once in a while.
That's what happens when you "deal with the Jawa".
Geesh, chidyke is right. I need to come to, er...go to bed.
c'mon baby. let's snooze.
NTodd has just passed out facedown into the keyboard.
Did someone say Riesling?
One of the three type of liquor I voluntarily ingest.
Awww, Eli.... (batting eyelashes)
When I bat eylashes I hit about .273
NTodd has just passed out facedown into the keyboard.
What a lovely I dream I had...
NTodd--sleep well, but remember, you have nail gun duty.
Just a gentle reminder.
Nite jdw,
I'm laughing.
c'mon baby. let's snooze.
NTodd has just passed out facedown into the keyboard.
Now, passing out facedown into CD would be a bit of all right...
c'mon baby. let's snooze.
Oh, I am *so* there!
bye NTodd. Don't worry. I won't tell sallyh anything she doesn't need to know.
The thread gets longer and the night gets shorter and I have a new light fixture to wire and much gardening to do tomorrow. Sleep well friends!
NTodd--sleep well, but remember, you have nail gun duty.
Oh, don't worry, Sam will wake me up if there's anything amiss. And if there isn't.
Goodnight, you damned anti-faith, pro-abortion, crazy communists. See ya on the flip side.
Night, Feral-boy!
Nite feralLiberal,
And happy Derby day to you all.
Nightcha, NTodd-Boy!
night, undomesticated leftist
My haloscan counter stopped at 784, like a worn out marathoner. Does anyone have any idea how many posts are really on this thread?
No, I just blow my motivator every once in a while.
That's what happens when you "deal with the Jawa".
Geesh, chidyke is right. I need to come to, er...go to bed.
lol, walk that wookie ntodd!
Mmmm. Eli batting his lashes. NTodd eating cake. Des enjoying whipped cream straight from the can. Thersites and barbecue.
OK. I think I have enough elements for some really interesting dreams tonight.
My haloscan counter stopped at 784, like a worn out marathoner. Does anyone have any idea how many posts are really on this thread?
*begins stamping feet*
And night you guys!
NTodd--sleep well, but remember, you have gun duty.
Since My UU name is bigvic, nailgun of loving intent, I take my duties seriously.
Does anyone have any idea how many posts are really on this thread?
Yes.
Nite mena-Ellen. So glad you kept your job. Peace.
Nightcha, mena!
Man, y'all are geeking out on Star Wars tonight...
RMJ, you are fixated on the Whipped Cream album cover, I think you mentioned it last night. I'm doing some knock-offs of those arrangements for a local trumpet player, and every time I write a chart, that cover picture sits right in the middle of my head. Funny as hell. I inherited some old vinyl, I might have that around here somewhere...hmmmm...
My haloscan counter stopped at 784, like a worn out marathoner. Does anyone have any idea how many posts are really on this thread?
Okay, I swear this is really my last post. A quick peek shows about 920 comments.
And with that, I'm going to feed the Sarlacc and go to sleep.
night mena. happy dreams of continued employment.
Man, y'all are geeking out on Star Wars tonight...
No, we're wanking on Star Wars.
And now that's my last comment on this thread. Really.
Wait I can do this, too...um...there'll be no escape for the princess this time...
Man, I suck at this
lol, Nite everyone. Sleep well, and pleasant dreams. XOXO
Hi, All,
I worked late, home at 8:30 PST, an hour ago. May I ask what's going on w/you guys?
SD
I love this place, and you all. Sweet dreams.
Thanks, I have to pass on the carrot cake, for I am old with wandering, and besides, its late where I am.
Nite, dear RMJ. You are neither old or wandering. Peace out.
I worked late, home at 8:30 PST, an hour ago. May I ask what's going on w/you guys?
Trust me, you do not want to know. Whatever you do, don't scroll up...
Nite dear mena-ellen.
and now we wait for the overnight contingent to make themselves known
Nightcha, des!
Oh, jeez, eli.....I haven't the strength and you throw temptation down like an ugly gauntlet.....
Hi SD:
good to see you.
working late on friday? Yech. that sucks.
We've just been engaging in the usual - foolishness, silliness, and utter nonsense.
what's up with you?
Hmm, ugly gauntlet... Yes, that could work.
Get well soon sally!! Hope you get lots of pampering! I'll send you a virtual fuzzy blanket.
Night all!
Sarah, my dear,
Way too much troll baiting, if you ask me. Getting better now. Tired. Going to bed soon.
Nightcha, Charlotte!
They're dropping like mansquitos around here...
hi flory,
as is common throughout the land, productivity is up among workerbees if'n we want to keep our jobs, so I did my part today to earn my meager keep.
I have also offended my child and g'kids by having completely forgotten it's Mom's Day this weekend, curses be to Hallmark.
"news flash:
WASHINGTON - Military criminal investigators received 1,700 reports of sexual assault in 2004 involving at least one member of the military, the Pentagon said Friday"
The way I read that is at least one member of the military was involved. Busy fellow.
Nite Charlotte, love the nee Beavers thing. Heh.
eli, the ugly gauntlet of cruel temptation.
Best I could do this evening. Not that I could exceed it on a good night...
bigvic, sweet dreams when you go. Rest well.
I was thinking more along the lines of "throwing down the ugly gauntlet", or maybe "oiling the ugly gauntlet"...
SD:
as is common throughout the land, productivity is up among workerbees if'n we want to keep our jobs
there was a long discussion upthread on why the unemployement rate wasn't rising as fast as it should be. i believe you've just tossed in another theory.
I have also offended my child and g'kids by having completely forgotten it's Mom's Day this weekend, curses be to Hallmark.
aren't they the ones who're s'posed to remember? you can sit back and be surprised.
They're dropping like mansquitos around here...
Hahahahaha. Amen. All the Ellens and bobs are killing me, I tell ya!
EkC,
Can you say document dump Friday? It get's worse.
eli, throwing up the ugly gauntlet...?
It's not even 1AM on a Friday night! If we don't stay up until at least 3 coming up with Star Wars masturbation euphemisms, the terrorists will have won!
Oh, that's a good one, SD.
I have also offended my child and g'kids by having completely forgotten it's Mom's Day this weekend, curses be to Hallmark.
aren't they the ones who're s'posed to remember? you can sit back and be surprised.
flory, well, that's what happened, except I had intended to work on Sunday to catch up on some deadline driven stuff, which I mentioned to them, and they were horrified I had forgotten about The Day. They really are wonderful to me, and I have absolutely no complaints. Just sometimes I think they're better at this stuff than I am, and I am a lousy parent, g'parent!!
I have also offended my child and g'kids by having completely forgotten it's Mom's Day this weekend, curses be to Hallmark.
Sarah Deere
The sweetest thing in the world to me is the fact that my daugher's boyfriend has gotten me a mother's day card. I love that boy like a son and his real mother is the big loser here. Makes you wanna weep.
Hmm. Eating some Corn Flakes from the new Star Wars box, and they don't seem nearly as tasteful as usual.
It's official: George Lucas can fuck up Corn Flakes.
("tasteful"???)
SD - I guess 'Murica's productivity can suffer for one day while you partay with the fambly.
And, I hate to mention it - but we more mature ladies do have that short-term memory thingy, y'know....
If we don't stay up until at least 3 coming up with Star Wars masturbation euphemisms, the terrorists will have won!
Hahahahhaha. Whew! Hahahahahaha.
bigvic:
The sweetest thing in the world to me is the fact that my daugher's boyfriend has gotten me a mother's day card.
they're not trying to tell you anything - are they?
oh, eli, you are either mocking me or being kind!
I suspect I need to go toss down three strong drinks in rapid succession to sterlize the...well, hell, I lost my train of thought. Perhaps I imagined for a moment there that I was Liddy Dole.
Anyway, a lovely evening to those of you retiring soon. If I still have any brain cells left, I will check in later.
Seems strange, doesn't it, that I, who do not *know* any of you, yet admire you so very much, feel a comfort in just being able to check in.
Anyway, for whatever it is worth, thank you all very much.
SD
Eli:
what time zone?
Sarah Deere--whats' even worse than forgetting it for myself is that I forgot about it related to my own mother, who will probably shoot me for being late.
Neither, SD, that actually was quite good; I wish I'd thought of it.
Eastern Insomniac, flory.
bigvic--I seem to have several adopted kids on Mom's Day. Truly a blessing. I love them all.
Nite, assorted Ellens and Bobs. Resting my head for another day of battle.
Peace out.
sallyh:
I forgot about it related to my own mother,
major negative karmic points
I am completely neglected on Mother's Day, but curiously, this bothers me not at all.
Central Insomniac. Can we ping the west coast, please. Is there a Pacific Insomniac guarding us?
Nightcha, vicula!
Eli--wouldn't you rather have some nice carrot cake instead of tasteless corn flakes?
If Samuel L. Jackson was President Of The World, would Sunday be Motherfucker's Day?
night bigvic-ellenbob
Damn, I suck. I forgot to have my 3 year old make a Mother's Day card this morning and also forgot to find a place for brunch on Sunday (which we planned to do because it turned out my wife's mom will be out of town and mine can't eat all day due to a, uh, routine exam scheduled for Monday). My lovely wife can, however, enjoy the new motion detector security light and wet location outlet I installed for our new back deck over the past two evenings.
(No, I guess that would be Father's Day, actually...)
Mag--I'm a proud member of the left coast, but can't claim the insomniac label--it is only a bit past 10.
I am completely neglected on Mother's Day, but curiously, this bothers me not at all.
we'd be worried if you were getting father's day cards.
Eli--wouldn't you rather have some nice carrot cake instead of tasteless corn flakes?
You've talked me into it.
Is it *Star Wars* carrot cake?
Joycamp--it's just wrong that Mom's Day is so early this year. It's as if i'm not ready or something.
Mostly I'm worried that my mother the banshee will be screeching at me.
joycamp:
My lovely wife can, however, enjoy the new motion detector security light and wet location outlet I installed for our new back deck over the past two evenings.
this is right up there with the diaper pail my father gave my mother for their first anniversary.
we'd be worried if you were getting father's day cards.
Yeah, me too. Unless maybe I had pets. My girlfriend gets crudely written birthday and Christmas cards from hers.
Eli--I can put my Boba Fett Pez dispenser next to it. Or my Stormtrooper one, if you prefer. Does that qualify it as Star Wars carrot cake?
Sorry, Eli, no one gets my Princess Leia Pez dispenser. My baby brother gave it to me when Empire Strikes back came out.
It's mine, all mine. But I'll share any of the others.
Eli--I can put my Boba Fett Pez dispenser next to it. Or my Stormtrooper one, if you prefer. Does that qualify it as Star Wars carrot cake?
Boba Fett is totally cooler than stormtroopers, although I suppose that might really be a false distinction...
Can I put pezzes *on* the carrot cake? I used to put smarties in ice cream, and that worked out all right.
Eschaton - and the rest of you collectivists...you will lose. You've already lost the argument and now you're going to lose the votes in Congress.
America will be saved only when the likes of you have been cowed into acceptance of the ten commandments and the rule of law - rather than the rule of judges.
I can't wait for America to return to its roots: faith, the work ethic and individual liberty.
The government is NOT the answer unless you work for it.
My prayers are that you all wake up to the chorus of Liberty again swelling throughout the union of these states.
Otherwise, we'll have to kick your asses...again. Too bad you people don't believe in gun ownership.
Ha ha!
It's mine, all mine.
sallyh is having an Only Child moment
did anyone else notice that smell all of a sudden?
Flory--I'm the eldest of six. I feel entitled to the occasional Only Child Moment
I seem to be fading unexpectedly rapidly. Perhaps Sallyh has spiked the carrot cake...
Eli--a man after my own heart. I loves me some Pez. Pez is good with anything.
Flory--I think something farted in the room, but I suspect it will soon float off.
Eli--a man after my own heart. I loves me some Pez. Pez is good with anything.
Too bad he didn't stick around to hear you say that...
Anything major happens while I was away? Seas run red with blood? Antichrist appear? Frog rain?
So, this is what its like.
Antichrist appear?
That was last Thursday.
Seebach--on the bad side, Bush is still in power, Congress has not attained a Democratic majority, we're still killing Iraq and its citizens and the economy still sucks.
On the good side,there's fresh carrot cake. Have some.
Antichrist appear?
He's been around a while now. Hear he's good with the horses.
Carpbasman--yep, this is what late night looks like. Just a few sleepy barflies relaxing.
Gotta call it a night, I'm drifting off.
I feel like such a lightweight...
Nightcha, fizzy bone mats!
You know, XTC can be entirely too chirrupy to be as simultaneously cynical as they are.
Sometimes.
I need some of that fancy food uploading and downloading technology you folks got. Whenever I try to pour you folks some drinks, I end up needing to run out for a new keyboard.
What?
Nostradamus did speak of 3 great tyrants: Naupolon, Hister, and Mabus. Mabus could be Bush, since he came in 2000, when the Great King of Terror was supposed to appear. But "Terror" has a different meaning than expected, it seems.
Carpbasman--yep, this is what late night looks like. Just a few sleepy barflies relaxing.
Not too many of us leftcoaster Eschatonians. Some nights you can end up having conversations with yourself.
I mean, on the computer as well as out loud.
night, eli.
we'll TRY to keep the terra'ists at bay
Frog rain?
not lately. but i think i saw some exploding earlier.
we'll TRY to keep the terra'ists at bay
Or at least at arm's length...
That was my last neuron firing. Really going now...
Carpbasman--yep, this is what late night looks like. Just a few sleepy barflies relaxing.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere | Email | Homepage | 05.07.05 - 1:42 am | #
Oh not that, I frequently lurk around here. Even if my peculiar muse doesn't spoke me to comment.
This is what it looks like not to be so oppressed by deadlines that you feel guilty about even lurking
BTW Senses Working Overtime is a piece of confectionary genius.
Seebach, perhaps "Great King of Terror," has turned out to mean "master of manipulating the idea of terror to achieve entirely unrelated political ends."
Whenever I try to pour you folks some drinks, I end up needing to run out for a new keyboard.
What?
One hint I've found useful.
I pour my drink last.
Too bad you people don't believe in gun ownership.
Ha ha!
voolfie -- 1:32 am
don't get 'cocky,' cully...
'night, eli. I was only able to down one stiff one. But, it helped.
Sallyh, any of that choc fudge left, perhaps? I sure could use a piece right now.
And I do have the barfly quals down pat, especially now!
this is right up there with the diaper pail my father gave my mother for their first anniversary.
flory
Thankfully, she doesn't really care too much about the Hallmark holidays. We've had a crazy 3 months doing a bunch of rehab/restore work, so it's pretty much enough for her to take a break and spend time together with the kids. A lot of the places in Chicago that have Mothers' Day brunch charge crazy bucks anyway--like we're gonna pay $30 a plate to watch our 13-month-old throw a waffle on the floor. I'll come up with something, though. Involving mimosas, of course.
Hi, Eli in Pittsburgh and ... good night from Autralia!
Barfly's an interesting movie. I found the Charles Bukowski (Hank Polishsomething) character to be completely unbelievable, but apparently Bukowski identified with the portrayal.
Involving mimosas, of course.
Well, yeah. The bare minimum.
joycamp - mimosas!!!
Or, champagne cocktails: relatively decent dry champagne in which one has dropped a sugar cube infused with a few drops of angostura bitters.
Pretty damn good!
Eggs gently scrambled w/butter and cream. Really good toasted eng muffs and/or bagels (Noah's, e.g.), some good fruit, some lovely preserves, excellent bacon.
Ahhhh, heaven.
Quiche also good w/freshly squeezed oj.
Another lovely meal is sourdough waffles w/dry roasted walnuts, reduced fresh apple cider (makes lovely syrup). Butter, of course.
And excellent coffee!!!
Sarah--but of course! Enjoy!
Hey, sallyh - you still around?
Did you see the scifi stoopid saturday movie has 42 foot mummies next week?
hey all
i'm watching maher's show and sully is making the show really boring because he isn't arguing. he's outraged about bush and torture and agreeing with the libs about everything. just saying
Another lovely meal is sourdough waffles w/dry roasted walnuts,
that sounds loverly. i don't suppose you have a recipe you'd be willing share - do you?
Flory, the waffles you just make as usual w/sourdough starter. I'll have to look for the dry fried walnuts recipe, but will do so.
The "syrup" you just take fresh cider and boil down and down and down until it is thick and sweet and lovely.
Also, we would top w/creme fraiche accented a bit w/good real vanilla and a sprinkling of fine-grained sugar.
I'll find walnut recipe and send to your email, sometime tomorrow.
Flory--it's a don't miss!
I found the Charles Bukowski (Hank Polishsomething) character to be completely unbelievable, but apparently Bukowski identified with the portrayal.
"Fuel! I need fuel!"
Sarah D - yummy - i'll be checking my inbox. and i'll be going to the farmers market on sunday - fresh organic cider!!!
sallyh-how many cast members can one 42 foot mummy devour?
And excellent coffee!!!
Sarah Deere --2:00 am
oh, sarah (sally 
) dear... what a delightful culinary portrait you paint...you had me at the champagne cocktails...i am as peanutbutter on your muffin...
My wife's trying to get a diss chapter done and off to her advisers; if I were to try to suggest we take the kid and go out for brunch on Sunday she'd look at me like I'm nuts, I think. I'm not sure that she'd even have remembered it was Mother's Day if I hadn't had her sign the card to my mom. I'll have to think of something sweet that does not interfere with her laser focus, like me and the boy making her a quirky but delicious breakfast (quirky because as soon as you involve a 4 1/2 year old in making mom breakfast, something strange is going to happen).
Actually, Sarah's menu (the first one at any rate) sounds like something I could handle pretty well and would be very much appreciated ...
sdf - long as she doesn't end up having to clean up the mess - its the thought that counts.
just a thought - maybe take the 4 1/2 yr old out for the day so she isn't disturbed?
My wife's trying to get a diss chapter done and off to her advisers; if I were to try to suggest we take the kid and go out for brunch on Sunday she'd look at me like I'm nuts, I think.
bubba, give her a rain check!
seriously...
let her know you're (both) there... if she's really focussed, let her work it til she's ready to stop...
congrats! serious props to y's all, btw...
grad school is hard on relations... cuz everybody's in grad school all together, whether you planned on it or not...
you sound like a sound damn fella, sdf...
.
y'know, i think '753' is the absolute end of the known universe of integers, for HAL-o-scan...
Sarah Deere, you got the breakfast thing goin' on!
My only "fancy" breakfast is stuffed French toast--sugar, vanilla and grated orange peel in the usual egg/milk/cinnamon mixture, mashed banana between two slices of good, light bread. Well, that and crepes (for anyone who's tried and f'd 'em up--use less batter and swirl it out to the edges. Same goes for omelets, less is more).
With that, I bid you all sweet dreams...
I just turned a 7 page paper into a 13 page paper, almost entirely by cutting and pasting from another thing I wrote previously!
And that brings my semester to an end!
Flory--never enough. There's never enough cast devourage. Which disappoints me greatly.
WGG:
y'know, i think '753' is the absolute end of the known universe of integers, for HAL-o-scan...
mena's counter was up to 784; mine's stuck at 753 as well
sdf--thank the gods for men like you and my husband. Without Monsieur Poissonier's unwavering support, the doctorate would never have happened.
Hell, make some silver dollar pancakes and a lot of good coffee, and call it Mom's Day.
rors - congrats. now get some sleep. you're going traveling, 'member?
sallyh - cast devourage might not live up to your high standards, but this one, we've got human/angel miscegenation going on.....
The mention of the 42 mummies makes reminds me that maybe for Mom's Day, we can see the King Tut exhibit. It's either that, or she wants to take me to see 'The Smartest Guys in the Room.'
Flory--I'm so there on that
hmmm....tough call....i think i'd go for tut.....he's pretty timeless.
ok, kids. the caffeine withdrawal headache is reaching volcanic proportions, so i'm off to a chemical induced sleep.
nightcha
It's either that, or she wants to take me to see 'The Smartest Guys in the Room.'
Sallyh, La Poissoniere -2:32 am
if Mom's political enough to want to get riled up over the batshit corporate hubris and false-consciousness of which ENRON has become the enduring emblem, by all means go together...hit 'em widda chayah!!!
WGG--when the name 'Enron' is mentioned in our house, it's immediately followed with 'motherfuckers!' I could handle seeing the flick--I know the daughter wants to see it--but I think Monsieur Poissonier feels his blood pressure would reach dizzying new heights were he to view it.
okay, beloved moonbats, assorted deities and the rest of the rational universe, the mothership beckons...
rest ye well with thy dreams and let thy wishes grant thee rest...
I'm dozing. Night, insomniac batses--if we have any
Whew, was SWR frank with Toby or what?? I guess sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.
The Daily Outrage
Well actually, there are several daily outrages. So perhaps there should be the one that's a little more jaw-agape brain-spinning WTF kind of outrage.
Like today there's...
Leaked memo shows US catered intelligence to fit justification for war. Outraged, right...
Chairman wants to turn PBS into the Propaganda Broadcast System. Outraged, of course...
Republicans threaten Crybaby option to pass uber-activist judges. Outrage, count me in...
Korea is testing missiles, and we're playing stubborn (or it is it they who are stubborn? Someone needs quiet time.) Typical outrage, yes...
Bankruptcy Bill, Religious control, Halliburton mismanagement. Outrage, outrage outrage...
Rubber stamp Congress pushes through Energy bill with millions in handouts to already bloated Oil companies. WTF !#?* Isn't everybody fed up with high gas prices and mad about Bush doing nothing? Doesn't this kind of outrage hit home with even the most apolitical folk?
Is Outrage Fatigue so ingrained into our psyche, that we blindly accept the next step toward corporate control of government? What happened to the time when it was common knowledge that you can't trust politicians?
I'm going to pull this car over, I swear that's what I'll do.
I like how when Reid offered a deal on filibusters, libs crowed that it was just a ruse so that the Republicans would turn it down and Reid would look diplomatic and comprimising, but when Senator Frist offered Reid a deal that all nominees in future would get an up-down vote with no filibusters or holds you claim its the sign of a weak hand. Actually Senator Frist offered a much more reasonable deal than Reid did. I don't think the issue is important to the average citizen, but it is to both bases, and going by the 2004 election the Republican base is bigger. I'm guessing the filibuster is toast and you'll have Reid to thank for his intransigence and fear of Ralph Nees and People for the American Liberal/Socialist Way
just a thought - maybe take the 4 1/2 yr old out for the day so she isn't disturbed?
Done and done. Alas, I haven't been doing this enough, since I've had papers to grade (this is where blog addiction harms not only just yourself ...)
bubba, give her a rain check!
Yeah, we have one of those once in a blue moon dates tentatively scheduled for when she's done this chapter and I'm done the latest stack o' papers.
Of course, I'd be making myself out to be more of a hero than I am if I didn't add that she did more than her share of picking up the slack when I finished my diss when the boy was about a year old. So we know where each other is/are, which can help through a lot of other things.
Saying all this is making me feel very guilty about the excessive blogging; I may have to ban meself (both work and office IPs) from Eschaton for the remainder of the weekend.
We'll see if I'm strong enough.
Hey, I have a nominee for "Wanker of the Day" for tomorrow, where some idiot says something really moronic, which makes himself look stupider than his target, plus this has the added bonus of a lame apology to make the wanker look even more idiotic!
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvr.../news/
reid.html
here's a taste:
Harry Reid should start thinking before he speaks. He is having to apologize for calling Bush a loser.
"The man's father is a wonderful human being," Reid said in response to a question about President Bush's policies. "I think this guy is a loser.
"I think President Bush is doing a bad job," he added to a handful of chuckles.
"He's driving this country into bankruptcy," Reid said, referring to the deficit. "He's got us in this intractable war in Iraq where we now have about 1,600 American soldiers dead and another 15,000 injured."
Now, Reid has called Karl Rove and apologized. I guess that calling the President a loser is not considered polite. Or accurate since that "loser" just defeated Harry Reid's candidate and extended the Republican Party's hold over both houses of Congress in two elections. Who's the real loser, Harry?
Reid seems to have a problem with insultingly dismissing those with whom he disagrees. First he went on Meet the Press and criticized Clarence Thomas.
I think that he has been an embarrassment to the Supreme Court. I think that his opinions are poorly written. I don't--I just don't think that he's done a good job as a Supreme Court justice.
Later, when pressed on which decisions were poorly written, he came up with this decision as an example.
Oh sure, that's easy to do. You take the Hillside Dairy case. In that case you had a dissent written by Scalia and a dissent written by Thomas. There--it's like looking at an eighth-grade dissertation compared to somebody who just graduated from Harvard.
Scalia's is well reasoned. He doesn't want to turn stare decisis precedent on its head. That's what Thomas wants to do. So yes, I think he has written a very poor opinion there and he's written other opinions that are not very good.
When researched by James Taranto, it turned out that Thomas's decision was only one paragraph long. Here it is, in full.
I join Parts I and III of the Court's opinion and respectfully dissent from Part II, which holds that §144 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996, 7 U.S.C. §7254, "does not clearly express an intent to insulate California's pricing and pooling laws from a Commerce Clause challenge." Ante, at 6-7. Although I agree that the Court of Appeals erred in its statutory analysis, I nevertheless would affirm its judgment on this claim because "[t]he negative Commerce Clause has no basis in the text of the Constitution, makes little sense, and has proved virtually unworkable in application," Camps Newfound/Owatonna, Inc. v. Town of Harrison, 520 U.S. 564, 610 (1997) (Thomas, J., dissenting), and, consequently, cannot serve as a basis for striking down a state statute.
And Scalia was in the majority on this decision. Even the Democratic Congressional Black Caucus chastised Harry Reid.
Obviously, Harry Reid is not the brightest of bulbs. Perhaps, he should just keep his mouth shut.
after all atrios' crowing about what a genius this guy supposedly is and how politically canny, it would be nice for escaton to acknowledge his stupid moves as well. I think Reid has a tin ear and has mismanaged and lost the filibuster issue for the Dems, when a more seasoned leader would have made some kind of backroom deal advantageous and face-saving for both parties. Taking it to "nuke" actually shows Reid's weakness. After they do it, what will he have left? Dems sure aren't succeeding in Borking these nominees with the public. Bush will have carte blanche to seat any judge he (and his constituency) want without let or hindrance. Pretty good for a "loser", eh Reid?
vibrating the vader?
puppets, that's annoying when you do that and everybody just skips right past what you posted.
Hey, yoo hoo, over here, past your ignored post!
Anyways, my lazy butt was going to stop at the all-night market to pick up a few things I'm low on after work but blew it off. Just didn't want to deal with it. I'll swing by early Sunday morning after work when it's not so crowded. And that's about the extent of it.
I'm thinking about going into the part-time exorcism business to make a little money 'under the table' to help make ends meet. I don't guess it matters if you're an atheist or not. All you really need to know is a few bible verses and maybe have some 'holy water' or something around. If you believe you may be possessed or if a close friend or relative may be possessed, I can help. I do house calls, too. I think it'll be a growth industry in the future, especially after the Rapture.
I happen to think Reid "apologizes" after having tagged his targets with the slam. This has long been a Repug tactic Reid is using to advantage.
Gets the "message" out there.
Puppets, you're an idiot, or manipulative, and, either way, well-named.
KG, hang tough. Keep your sensitivity, it's uncomfortable, but that's the way it goes, and, really, the only wau we're motivated to do anything about that which makes us uncomfortable.
I have an empty Windex container I could use to hold the 'holy water.' Of course, I would have to adjust the nozzle from 'spray' to 'mist.'
Well maybe, the best route is a combination of both spray and mist of holy water on the possessed, come to think of it.
Incog, do you have enough to spray the troll?
Perhaps puppets wears a black dress, has flying monkeys, and melts when you throw water on him/her (depending on who's at the keyboard bullying us).
And the broom. Don't forget the broom.
Sorry we dropped that house on your sister, puppets.
While Incog works out whether it's the mist or spray that is more effective, I'm pretty damned tired of being painted, as a homo, as all that is wrong with this country.
I'm now armed. I hate it. I always said that if I had to be armed, I wouldn't want to live in such a society.
Well, it ain't always what you want, is it?
I'm thinking about going into the part-time exorcism business to make a little money 'under the table' to help make ends meet.
Incog, Windex it is!!!!!
Incog, do you have enough to spray the troll?
Pitchforks and Torches
I think she left.
S in Mich, you can always join "Gays for guns."
Sarah, you've got your work cut out for you, the fundies are all probably possessed.
Too bad you people don't believe in gun ownership.
My wife has a rifle, a shot gun, and a .45. Come on over sometime.
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