I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
FUCK BUSH
Finally.
The GM crisis is the same crisis for the US: rising health care costs.
Der Pope ist noch ein Nazi.
Fresh air and sunlight!
Haloscan ist auch ein Nazi.
Let the horses fuck Bush.
The Papal propaganda machine pooped all over the press.
Has anyone read this from Novakula:
"DEAN'S DEBACLE
Democratic National Committee (DNC) fund raising under the chairmanship of Howard Dean shows a disappointing $16.7 million raised in the first quarter of 2005, compared with $34 million reported by the Republicans.
That tends to confirm dire predictions by old-line Democratic fund-raisers of a fall-off in money if Dean became chairman. He had promised to bring in heavy individual contributions, as he did in his 2004 campaign for president. But the DNC in the first quarter received only $13 million from individuals, compared to $31 million for the Republican National Committee (RNC).
A footnote: A recent DNC fund-raising appeal promised to send field workers to North Carolina, which does not have a major statewide election until 2008. "
Can anyone confirm this? Or is this just another case of "no facts" Novak strikes again?
I just bought my lottery tickets, if I win I'm making a huge donation to the DNC.
No word on whether any Derby horse owners pursued a restraining order against the president.
No hanky-panky on game days, as coach used to say.
Bill O'Reilly, the pompous windbag, now wants that Marine who shot the unarmed wounded Iraqi in Fallujah to get a promotion!
That sick bastard.
Bush and Condi are a disaster team.blogwhore here to read about diplomatic disasters.
Bush und Condi sind auch Nazi.
Time to mow the lawn. Fresh air! Healthy exercise!
Yeah, yeah. C'mon, Arthur, let's get it over with.
OK, this is weird. There was a second open thread a minute ago, and I said good morning to everyone on that thread....and now its gone?
WTF is up with hell-o-scan?
OK, I'll repost. If you didn't get a chance to read the New Yorker's three-part series on global warming, please head to your local library NOW. Amazing article that should scare every sentinent being on the planet. The second part, dealing with global drought, was the scariest.
"The GM crisis is the same crisis for the US: rising health care costs."
doug
And GM is going to do exactly what the U.S. gov't has been doing. They're going to simply dump a bunch of people off the insurance rolls. Mostly retirees.
Elaine--what is Benny da Rat up to now?
Our gut corporate rulers in between raping the working class are pouring vast funds into the GOP who in turn are giving them huge tax cuts even now as we go bankrupt.
These two entities will burn and fall in flames when our economy goes kaput.
Pot Head--I think there are 2 things going on here:
1. health care costs are rising, but instead of attacking insurance carriers, as they should, businessess complain about the employees/retirees being at fault.
2. In order to accomplish this, illness is being increasingly moralized. If you fall ill, it relates to moral deficiencies and not to natural-world cause and effect.
Ratzi just removed the Bishop in DC and replaced him with a Nazi one who won't give Kerry communion.
And he also fired the Jesuit in charge of a semi liberal papal newspaper.
ON A ROLL. Seig Heil, pope.
the Popemobile is being replaced with a Panzer Tank.
Pot_Head, what Novak says may be true. I suspect a lot of individual contributors are like me. They want to see some moves in the right direction by the party leadership before they contribute again. It's not as though I can afford to throw my money away.
If you didn't get a chance to read the New Yorker's three-part series on global warming, please head to your local library NOW. Amazing article that should scare every sentinent being on the planet. The second part, dealing with global drought, was the scariest.
Hecate
You can find the first two parts here.
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Choirboys in the Vatican will audition singing, "Tomorrow is Our Day".
Speaking of things that should burn in flames, here's a modest proposal:
I think Gonzales, who once again is arguing that the "abuse" inflicted upon our detainees at Gitmo is not "torture," should be subjected to all these practices that are not torture.
He shouldn't be allowed to testify as an expert witness without doing his research first...
Dear Leader's daily thought is on the liberation of Europe:
http://dearleadersdailythought.b...t.blogspot.com/
"The GM crisis is the same crisis for the US: rising health care costs."
doug
And GM is going to do exactly what the U.S. gov't has been doing. They're going to simply dump a bunch of people off the insurance rolls. Mostly retirees.
Being a glass half full kinda girl, I'm gonna say the other possible outcome is that GM and the rest of corporate 'Murica with huge legacy costs are gonna finally realize that universal health care is fucking GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY - as well as good for their effing stock prices.
Wankers.
the Popemobile is being replaced with a Panzer Tank.
Tiger or Panther?
So long as rich Americans are pandered to, and they are MUCH richer thanks to Bush, they will swamp our system with millions of dollars in BRIBES.
This is what fund raising is all about. Raising bribe money which is fed into the media to corrupt them. Remember: the media protects whoever buys the most commercials.
orbitron,
I had wondered about that. I know I haven't donated to the DNC either. I have help with some fundraising for the local dem party in my county though. We have actually had some success on the local level here.
David Ray Griffin on BookTV/c-span2 now, with his take on 911, etc.
ymmv
The Pope will have a Micropanzer Tank. Jawohl.
Elaine - here's hoping that the Ratz' latest moves simply serve to disenchant even more US Catholics and drive them from the church.
Doesn't the church get the lion's share of its money from US Catholics? I thought I had read that somewhere.
Elaine:
Ratzi just removed the Bishop in DC and replaced him with a Nazi one who won't give Kerry communion.
Is that the archbishop? If I'm not mistaken he was hugely popular. This should help the Sunday collections....
He's not just a nazi, he's a stoopid nazi....or is that redundant?
flory,
It's nice to see that kind of optimism, and I wish I shared it. I really think that GM is about to shut down some lines and split the company up and outsource tons of their products. They will also dump their retirees on the fed pension program like United did a couple of weeks ago.
They'll just drop the health ins. for retirees and make drastic cuts in ins. for workers. If the UAW strikes, they'll just shut plants down and move production to Mexico.
Sounds like the Church is making all kinds of smart moves these days...
Here's another:
Archbishop Harry Flynn has told gay-rights supporters they can't receive Holy Communion while wearing rainbow-colored sashes because it is seen as a protest against Catholic teaching and unacceptable to the Vatican.
Flynn's decision, conveyed in a letter this week to the Rainbow Sash Alliance USA, reverses his four-year policy of not interfering with sash-wearers receiving Communion at the Cathedral of St. Paul.
Re the 274K new jobs: I'm looking at the time of year, and it seems to me that this is when hiring for seasonal work is heavy. Great jobs, too--amusement parks, restaurants, hotels, retail.
It's my suspicion that the 'growth' in jobs, seasonally adjusted, is utterly artificial.
Re: GM and health care:
Other companies won't go broke over healthcare costs, because they aren't unionized and can't be forced to provide it. They'll simply drop coverage for their workers.
GM's fate will be used as another example of the "evils" of organized labor.
It's all unfolding right there in front of our eyes.
On the plus side, I've been thinking for at least the past 12 - 15 years that the only way our healthcare system will be "fixed" is if the majority of the population no longer has coverage. At that point, it will return to a market-based system. If you go to the doctor and only have $35 to pay for the visit, he'll take it or forgo feeding his family.
Lots of people will be hurt by the crash of the system because they won't be able to get any care. On the plus side, a lot of HMOs, hospital conglomerates, insurance companies, CEOs, and doctors will go belly-up too. And when it's all over and done, people won't be willing to accept a for-profit healthcare system anymore.
Archbishop Harry Flynn has told gay-rights supporters they can't receive Holy Communion while wearing rainbow-colored sashes...
What about latter day saints underwear?
He's not just a nazi, he's a stoopid nazi....or is that redundant?
Alas, it's not redundant. There are smart Nazis. That's why they almost won the war.
What about latter day saints underwear?
spinoza
Heh. I can see it now. To receive communion, you have to genuflect, then open your fly or hike up your skirt, to prove you have no heretical undergarments...
Oh, hey, I already whored this below, but I might as well give attaturk a run for his money: my latest podcast responding to the Bush radio address is posted.
just to brighten your day...
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~...g8c/
4600399.htm
To receive communion, you have to genuflect, then open your fly...
I think that ritual involves na[i[ve boys getting it in the apse.
I think that ritual involves na[i[ve boys getting it in the apse.
spinoza
Ach! Punnery already? How arch!
Well, these are pretty benign puns. They don't really altar anything.
Sallyh,
You are right. A lot of the hiring is seasonal. I live not too far from Branson MO. (God I've got to escape!) And the local papers are just full of want ads for the hotels, resorts, theaters and amusement parks up there. Nothing over $7.50/hour. And, those are the only jobs listed.
With such great puns, we should really protect our rights by getting a patten, lest some cassock run off with them.
Kiss my buttress
Sorry if I'm angering you. I don't mean to incense anyone.
Ach! Punnery already? How arch!
Another Vatican cloisterfuck, I see.
Hecate and Moose Pudding--
Thanks for promoting the New Yorker Climate series.
We could use a serious discussion on this topic here. By serious, I don't mean irony is dead or that lime rickey can't write a racy limerick or woot can't post new boobies or the like. But this issue is a big umbrella casting a shadow over most other topics, ma nature batting last and all that.
And let me say preemptively to any trolls out there who want absolute certainty on the fact and consequences of an overheated planet--get to your house of worship and start praying because what you add to a dialogue on solutions we better get off our butts finding is exactly nothing. And that I can say with certainty.
PotHead--around here, I'm not seeing nearly as many help wanted signs for even seasonal establishments.
"An African Lion much like this is responsible for the death of 28 Cambodian Midgets" is definitely my Caption Of The Day...
"An African Lion much like this is responsible for the death of 28 Cambodian Midgets" is definitely my Caption Of The Day...
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glad to be of help, you who have helped ruin many of my keyboards..
Oh, pew...church puns.
What about latter day saints underwear?
spinoza
I always think of those as Mormon tsitsis.
It's nice to see that kind of optimism, and I wish I shared it. I really think that GM is about to shut down some lines and split the company up and outsource tons of their products. They will also dump their retirees on the fed pension program like United did a couple of weeks ago.
Um, at least part of the Plan is to move production to Windsor. Gotta love the Ontario Provincial Health Care Plan....
They will also dump their retirees on the fed pension program like United did a couple of weeks ago.
If I'm not mistaken United's still in bankruptcy. GM would have to declare bankruptcy before they could unload their pension obligations.
Not that it isn't a possibility.
Archbishop Harry Flynn has told gay-rights supporters they can't receive Holy Communion while wearing rainbow-colored sashes because it is seen as a protest against Catholic teaching and unacceptable to the Vatican.
Oh yes. Musn't protest. Mustn't dissent.
WHY the hell do people STAY in that church?
Oh, and FUCK the Vatican!
now, don't you folks get too chalice of my host of punning skillz. convent ional wisdom says you mat church yourself.
sorry
perry neum aka Asthmatic Enemy of God
Wow, I can't remember the last time Eschaton was this deserted.
Not likely this is attributable to the Rapture, I spoze...
Star wars Revenge of the Sith spoilers below:
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If you rewatch 'Attack of the Clones' you will see the basic premise of Revenge of the Sith. It all takes place in the conversation Anakin has with Padme on Tattoine right after the funeral of his mother.
Anakin realizes that his fear of losing those he loves the most has made him willing to embrace the dark side. In the scene with Padme he asks why did she have to die. He then talks about Obiwan holding him back, that he is more advanced than the others, and then expressing a desire and a boast that he will be able to stop people from dying.
This is the key to the finale.
Now that Padme is pregnant Anakin has a dream of her dying in childbirth. This dream reocurrs and is causing him severe anguish. Anguish which Darth Sidious knows and decides to take advantage of. At the point when Anakin discovers that the Chancellor is the Sith Lord, Sidious, the chancellor had just spoken of a sith lord who discovered the way to stop death. This tempts Anakin who is eager to learn this skill of which Sidious informs him does not come from the good side of the force.
Anakin, still noble at this point tells Windu(Samuel Jackson) who then goes to arrest the Chancellor. By no the Chancellor has been filling Anaking tails of the Jedi's lust for control which makes Anakin more concerned. He orders Anakin to stay behind while he and two other Jesi confront Sidious. Anakin worries that Windu is going to kill Sidious before he can tell him the secret of stopping death. When Windu confronts Sidious Sidious easily takes out the other two jedi before Windu eventually overpowers Sidious. With Sidious being injured by his own electricity attack, Windu is about to kill Sidious/Chancellor when Anakin comes in an pleads with Windu not to kill him, cause he needs him. Not fully aware of what Anakin is whining about he prepares to strike when unawares, Anakin uses his own saber to cut off Windu's saber hand trying to prevent him from killing Sidious. The Chancellor/Sidious, severly warped by his own power into the disfigured image we see of him in Return of the Jedi, uses his electric attack sending the disarmed and shocked Windu off the ledge to his death. It is at this point when, in need of that secret of stopping death to save Padme, he swears his allegiance to Sidious and the Sith, becoming Darth Vader.
MYOB'
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Not likely this is attributable to the Rapture, I spoze...
Little Brøther
They took my shoes and socks and left me.
ohhhh...open thread...
1) health care costs keep going up, and controlling the costs would mean cutting all the damn middle men out the process. Those of us who can't get insurance pay retail prices, and I have yet to find one doctor or dentist here who will give me a discount because I can pay by check or credit card and there's no insurance filing costs incurred. Hell, I can't even get a price qoute on most screening tests middle aged folks need like colon cancer screening.
2) Is David Ray Griffin for real? I mean, he appears to be a soft spoken, intelligent professor/Lutheran pastor, and my brief Google check doesn't raise any immediate 'wacko' flags. If half of what he is saying on C-Span is true, it's time to pack and get out of Berlin, if you know what I mean, if you get my drift...
3) I gave $100 to the DNC when Dean was elected to chair. I've given small amounts to various requests coming from the DNC since.
Never, ever believe anything Novakula writes. How do the receipts compare to what the DNC raised after the 2000 and '02 cycles?
4) the upcoming schism of the Catholic Church in America is going to be bloody, with lots more lawsuits over property etc., and is long overdue.
5) It's a beautiful day here in Santa Fe, and as soon as the sun gets a bit lower in the sky, I can safely go out and plant some more sunflowers and the marigolds I couldn't resist at the nursery, even though I only needed a new hose sprayer thingy.
Hope you all have a good weekend too. If you still got a Mom, and you love her, be nice to her this weekend, just because she's your Mom, ya know?
Latest FaBlog: Larry Kramer Saved From Drowning
If you still got a Mom, and you love her, be nice to her this weekend, just because she's your Mom, ya know?
NMRed - 5:12 pm
Mom's gone on to the next apparatus; dad, too...you're never too old to be an orphan...it doesn't hit, exactly; it's more like an unsubtle reminder...
David Ray Griffin:
wow...he used to hang around in some of the same academic circles as i... he was a renowned 'post-modernist', in the anti-rationalist ('stop-modernism') wing of that movement... if he's become a connect-the-dots skeptic (how i read it), it's a transformation for him--not in terms of critique, per se; but in terms of world-view...
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you think the US RCC is gonna split off? a real schism? wow, i'm gonna LOVE watching that...
WGG, my Dad died when I was 23, my Mom ten yeaers lateer, so yeah, you're never too old be an orphan, and days like Mother's Day sometimes bring up a bit of missing them. Plus I planted some lilies of the valley and they bloomed this week, and the scent reminds me of May and Mother's Day when my world was young and kinder.
"he was a renowned 'post-modernist', in the anti-rationalist ('stop-modernism') wing of that movement."
Ok, my head hurts now. I knew I shoulda finished high school....
Yes, I think the RCC in the USA could schism, or maybe the already occuring schism in the Episcopalian Church will attract enough disaffected liberal Catholics to become an important Xian denomination.
It would be fun to watch, but I just read the first part of the NYT series on global warming and the upcaoming disasters like the loss of the snowpack in the Interior West, and I can't get much joy out of smaller crisies at the moment.
Damn, wish I hadn't drunk up my lifetime qouta of tequila almost 20 years ago....
damn, typos abound, I really gotta get to anceint city with the new eyeglass prescription real soon now...
Hale Stewart gives George Bush an F
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