I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Egads.
Fuck Bush with Frist's fist.
place your bets on when DeLay's going down.
Stop the crazy christians! And what the hell ever became of that chicken that Bryan Adams ran over in the Summer of '69 video?
Why Does Batman Hate America?
Cup O' Joe - Blog Of The Working Man!
Dammit. I have a friends wedding to attend today.
I should be at the Kentucky Derby.
Why is Atrios not interested at all in the Franklin arrest?
i have a short question for all of the religious fanatics
what about the godess?
Ummm, nominating John Tierney as "Wanker of the Day".
Here's my longish LTTE (which of course won't be published):
John Tierney fesses up that his critics are half right when
they think he's a superficial nitwit (column "Place Your Bets",
May 7th 2005). Tierney is too modest; his critics are correct
on both counts. Tierney trots out in this column once again
the long since flogged and dead horse that "Congress spent
our [Social Security] money, leaving the Social Security trust
fund with a file cabinet full of i.o.u.'s in the form of Treasury bills."
In fact, had Congress opted for a pillow case rather than investing
the current surplus funds in conservative and risk-free bonds -- which
Congress fully intended to be used at a later date for making up
shortfalls in taxes against revenue -- they would be doing a fiduciary
disservice. In addition, had Congress not invested in treasury bonds,
"spend[ing] our money", they would have invested in other financial
instruments instead, simply rearranging allocation of fungible assets
(in which case others would have bought the same treasury bonds
needed to be sold to run the government, possibly at a higher price
and resulting in a larger deficit).
Tierney moans that the government will face a problem when
the Social Security trust fund will no longer be a ready investor
of $100 billlion a year in new government debt. But this is
hardly the fault of social security, and Tierney is a complete
nitwit when he thinks that Social Security is to blame for a
government that has gone from the surpluses of the Clinton
years to the most massive deficits ever under Bush, racking
up far more debt each year than Social Security is capable of
financing even now. What is sillier yet is that "fixing" Social
Security does nothing to remedy this "problem", and in fact
may make it worse.
-- Arne Langsetmo
Why is Atrios not interested at all in the Franklin arrest?
Ben Franklin was arrested?
Ben Franklin was arrested?
His mouse Amos bailed him out, though.
GD MRNNG!
MPCH BSH!
FCK BSH!
FCK TH YNKS!
HV 
NC DY!
Only one more week until the Grand Canyon Sweet Onion Festival.
It's nice to lead such an exciting life.
OK, smart-asses ... I'm only going to 'splain this once: I have a 120-pound retriever I sometimes refer to as a "wookie" because she has long shaggy fur about the same colour. Thus, "walking the wookie" is taking my dog outside for a stretch and a piss.
Sheesh.
Yankin' the Yoda indeed ...
"But it ain't."
a 120-pound retriever I sometimes refer to as a "wookie"
Boy, that wookie'd make two of me!
/Arthur
Is it true that eating an apple in the morning would wake you up better than drinking a nice cup of hot coffee?
I second Arne Langsetmo above, but I think Tierney should just be labeled "Wanker of the Week" until proven otherwise.
I In fact, John Tierney may turn out to be the worst columnist the NY Times ever decided to give such valuable editorial space to. Considering the history of Safire and Brooks, that's saying something. I can't tell if he really is just a shameless shill, or a true believer, but his last few columns might as well have been written by Rove's most wheedling cousin.
Note his language of half-truth and propaganda:
In theory, there is a trust fund to cover this shortfall.
...
Instead, Congress spent our money, leaving the Social Security trust fund with a file cabinet full of i.o.u.'s in the form of Treasury bills.
...
the Social Security shortfall will force Congress to find new taxes or make spending cuts that are more than half the size of the Pentagon's budget.
...
President Bush offered a progressive compromise last week to Democrats: protect the poor while moderating the growth of benefits for higher-income workers.
It gets worse, and if you didn't know anything about Chile's Social Security system it might even sound attractive. But ignorance is exactly what Tierney is counting on.
According to Bush, working three jobs is "uniquely American." Give him time, he'll make it the norm.
She's a two-tennis-ball retriever, G-dub, a a hunka burnin' love. Arthur, OTOH, probably sheds a lot less, thus not forcing his owners to buy one of those $500 purple-handled vacuums.
Two tennis balls at a time? Wowza! Arthur of course will go get Orange Ball, when it's flung, but he doesn't believe in giving back. You're right - no shedding for shar-pei. A coiffeur like a Marine Corps drill sergeant, that's my boy. All we need is a big old Harper's push broom (made of horsehair!). A fine, big Girl then.
Some good news via Roger Ailes:
USA Today has canned that old Clinton-bashing hand, Tom "Squit" Squitieri, for lifting quotes without attribution in his Pentagon reporting...
hee, hee, hee, haw. 
Arthur of course will go get Orange Ball, when it's flung, but he doesn't believe in giving back.
... which, of course, is his right under the Canine Hegemony Act of 1951.
... which, of course, is his right under the Canine Hegemony Act of 1951.
Exactly so. The Act also covers Yellow Ball, but does not extend to Baby Bear, Bubba or Bubba Baby. Shar-pei are exemplary in their observance of law.
My nominee for wanker of the day goes to Adam Nagourney. He does a "news analysis" of the election results in Britain...which is like having Karl Rove doing their "news analysis"...
According to him, there was a much larger anti-war sentiment in Britain because a February 2003 demonstration in London had over one million people. Uh, Adam, HELLO? New York saw over one million people demonstrating against the war, but the New York Times chose to virtually ignore it since it was out of step with their warmongering. It was relegated to a back page...and even then there was more coverage of the demos in Rome and London.
Most probably Nagourney wasn't even in New York then...when the subways were choked with people like it was rush hour when it was 1PM on a Sunday afternoon...when the entire east side of New York had all the avenues filled with people marching uptown because they were not allowed to join the throngs around the UN. I traveled from Chicago to New York and thousands of others did too. My friend and I stopped to eat. We had a leisurely meal, and then rejoined the
vast crowds of people who were STILL marching by.
Also, Nagourney claims again (falsely) that Kerry "voted for the war." (so that allegedly gave anti-war people no choice.) [Karl must have liked THAT line.]
He and Elisabeth Bumiller, Jody Wilgoren, Katharine Steelye, Sheryl Gay Stohlberg, and John Tierney sure have put one over on all those folks who think that the NYTimes has a liberal bias.
Oh yeah...I forgot to mention David Brooks and William Safire
(and Bill what's his name...the exec. editor who promoted Brooks and Tierney)
G-dub ... 'lot of 'literation in your household, I see ...
'lot of 'literation in your household, I see ...
That's why all those plastic bags from the grocery come in so handy.
Call N.C. "pastor" Chan Chandler and tell him what you think of him kicking the Dems out of his church:
828-456-2830
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